Feat: Add abctl [l] localhost connect and [?] key-help overlay - #846
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Add two abctl keybindings: - `[l]` on the Namespaces pane connects directly to localhost:9094, skipping the cluster. Probes /v1/sessions first so a dead endpoint stays a picker error instead of an empty session view. Esc returns to Namespaces since no pod was selected; `e` is unavailable, same as --endpoint mode. - `[?]` opens a modal key-help overlay from any pane, with the current pane's bindings emphasized. Makes `P` (plugin catalog) discoverable — it worked in every session-view pane but appeared in no footer. The body scrolls, so the full reference is reachable on a short terminal; the close hint is pinned outside the scroll region. Suppressed during a pipeline edit, whose overlay already owns y/N. Also collapse the picker footer strings, which were duplicated between View() and helpView(), down to the helpView() source. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe TUI adds a localhost:9094 direct-connection path and a modal key-help overlay. It updates navigation state, pane footers, README content, rendering, keyboard handling, and tests for connection, scrolling, resizing, and modal behavior. ChangesTUI navigation features
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new [l] shortcut can preserve a previous pod selection and potentially allow edits using stale pod context while connected to a local session. The PR should not merge until direct-local mode clears picker identity and explicitly disables editing. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant handleKey
participant connectLocalCmd
participant LocalSessionAPI
participant Update
User->>handleKey: Press l in Namespaces
handleKey->>connectLocalCmd: Probe localhost:9094
connectLocalCmd->>LocalSessionAPI: ListSessions
LocalSessionAPI-->>connectLocalCmd: Sessions or error
connectLocalCmd-->>Update: localConnectedMsg
Update->>Update: Enter Sessions or show picker error
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participant User
participant handleKey
participant syncHelpViewport
participant helpViewport
participant View
User->>handleKey: Press ?
handleKey->>syncHelpViewport: Build help body and reset scroll
syncHelpViewport->>helpViewport: Set content and dimensions
User->>handleKey: Press scroll or close key
handleKey->>helpViewport: Update viewport or close overlay
View-->>User: Render pane with modal help overlay
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/app.go`:
- Around line 691-694: When entering direct mode in the transition assigning
m.endpoint, m.client, and m.localDirect, clear selectedNamespace, selectedPod,
and statusURL. Update the edit guard to explicitly reject m.localDirect, and add
a regression test covering the prior-picker → Namespaces → [l] sequence.
Apply the same fix in `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go` around lines 524 - 527:
The footer currently advertises editing even though direct-local sessions must
reject it.
In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/help_overlay.go`:
- Line 38: Update the help overlay key hints so q is listed with the fixed close
controls alongside Esc, and remove q from the quit entry while retaining Ctrl+C
as the quit shortcut. Use the existing help hint definitions around the quit and
close entries.
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| m.endpoint = msg.endpoint | ||
| m.client = msg.client | ||
| m.localDirect = true | ||
| m.pane = paneSessions |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Prevent stale pod context from enabling edits in direct-local mode.
After a pod-backed session returns to Namespaces, selectedNamespace, selectedPod, and statusURL remain populated. Pressing [l] preserves them, so the edit guard can allow an edit using the previous pod context even though the active session is local. Clear picker-only identity when entering direct-local mode, make the edit guard reject m.localDirect, and suppress [e] edit in the footer for local sessions. Add a regression test for the pod → Namespaces → [l] sequence.
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/app.go` around lines 691 - 694, When entering direct
mode in the transition assigning m.endpoint, m.client, and m.localDirect, clear
selectedNamespace, selectedPod, and statusURL. Update the edit guard to
explicitly reject m.localDirect, and add a regression test covering the
prior-picker → Namespaces → [l] sequence.
Apply the same fix in `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go` around lines 524 - 527:
The footer currently advertises editing even though direct-local sessions must
reject it.
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| {"p", "pause/resume stream"}, | ||
| {"g / G", "jump to top / bottom"}, | ||
| {"b / f", "page up / down"}, | ||
| {"q · ctrl+c", "quit"}, |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document q as a help-close key.
Line 38 says that q quits the application. The modal path consumes q to close help, as TestHelpOverlayClosesOnEscAndQ verifies. Remove q from the quit entry and add it to the fixed close hint.
Proposed fix
- {"q · ctrl+c", "quit"},
+ {"ctrl+c", "quit"},
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- const closeHint = "[?] or [esc] close"
+ const closeHint = "[?], [esc], or [q] close"Also applies to: 251-251
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/help_overlay.go` at line 38, Update the help overlay
key hints so q is listed with the fixed close controls alongside Esc, and remove
q from the quit entry while retaining Ctrl+C as the quit shortcut. Use the
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The `?` open-gate ran before the m.filtering block, so `?` could not be typed into an active filter — session IDs and hosts can contain one, which made those values unfilterable. Gate the open on !m.filtering. Also correct handleKey's doc comment, which still claimed the filter input takes precedence; the help overlay, picker panes, and in-flight edit all claim the keyboard ahead of it now. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Well-built change. The overlay's modality is correctly checked ahead of every other handler, all eight paneID values are covered in paneKeys/otherPaneOrder (and TestPaneKeysCoverAllPanes locks that in), and the picker-footer de-duplication is safe because backToPodsPane resets m.filtering before the picker can render helpView(). The zero-value helpVp is fine too — bubbles v1.0.0 lazily calls setInitialValues() in Update, so the default keymap (jk/bf/ud) really does match what the README claims.
Verified against HEAD: l was previously unbound in the Namespaces pane (it fell through to the table, whose keymap doesn't use it), 9094 is the session-API default (authlib/config/presets.go), activePF is always nil on entry to [l] so nothing leaks, and both corrected README claims were genuinely stale — P does return early for the picker panes, and ? was still documented as reserved.
No blocking issues: two suggestions and three nits inline.
One thing outside the diff, just in passing: [l]'s port is fixed, so demos that forward to a non-default local port (finance-sparc uses 19094:9094) still need a restart with --endpoint.
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suggestion — localConnectedMsg applies unconditionally, but case "enter" in the Namespaces pane (keys.go:67) has no m.loading guard the way r and l do.
During the probe window (up to localProbeTimeout — hit whenever the port is black-holed rather than refused) the user can walk Namespaces → Pods → Enter and start a pod port-forward. The late message then overwrites m.client/m.endpoint, forces paneSessions, and sets localDirect=true, so Esc skips the pod they actually chose.
One-liner either way: add if m.loading { return nil } to the namespaces enter case, or bail here when m.pane != paneNamespaces.
(portForwardReadyMsg is equally loose, so this matches existing style — but l is the first key that arms an async transition the user can outrun from the same pane.)
| case localConnectedMsg: | ||
| m.loading = false | ||
| if msg.err != nil { | ||
| m.pickerErr = "localhost:9094: " + msg.err.Error() |
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nit — "localhost:9094: " hardcodes what localEndpoint already holds, so this error string goes stale silently if the const ever moves.
msg.endpoint isn't usable here (the error return leaves it empty), so either localEndpoint + ": " + msg.err.Error(), or populate endpoint on the error path in connectLocalCmd too.
| if w < 1 { | ||
| w = 1 | ||
| } | ||
| h := height - helpOverlayFrameH |
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suggestion — h is height - helpOverlayFrameH regardless of body length, and bubbles v1.0.0 viewport.View() pads to Height. So the panel is always exactly height rows tall, which means overlayCenter's vertical centering can never fire — top is always 0.
The body is ~24 lines, so on a 50-row terminal this is a full-screen box with ~25 blank rows under the text. Fine if a full-height help page was the intent, but then the centering math and its comments are dead weight. If a floating panel was the intent, cap h at the body's line count.
Worth noting TestOverlayCenterPadsShortBase exercises the centering path with a hand-built 2-line panel — a shape the real overlay never produces, so the test doesn't catch this either way.
| {"?", "this help"}, | ||
| {"↑↓ / jk", "scroll this help"}, | ||
| {"P", "plugin catalog (session views)"}, | ||
| {"p", "pause/resume stream"}, |
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nit — p is dispatched after the picker panes return early in keys.go, so it's inert in Namespaces/Pods — the same scoping that earned P its (session views) qualifier one line up. Worth the matching qualifier here, since accurate key docs are the whole point of this overlay.
| nothing listening surfaces as a footer error and leaves you in the | ||
| picker rather than dropping you into a silently empty session view. | ||
| `Esc` from a session entered this way returns to the Namespaces pane | ||
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nit — behaviorally accurate, but the flash the user actually sees is pipeline editing requires the picker (no --endpoint), which reads oddly after [l]: they did come through the picker. The real gate is the empty selectedPod.
Consider branching on m.localDirect for something like "pipeline editing requires a pod (pick one from the picker)".
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Two new abctl keybindings.
[l]on the Namespaces pane connects directly tolocalhost:9094, skipping the cluster — useful with an existingkubectl port-forward, in-mesh, or when your kubeconfig can't list pods. Probes/v1/sessionsfirst, so a dead endpoint stays a picker error rather than dropping you into a silently empty session view.Escreturns to Namespaces (no pod was selected);eis unavailable, same as--endpointmode.[?]opens a modal key-help overlay from any pane, with the current pane's bindings emphasized. This makesP(plugin catalog) discoverable — it worked in every session-view pane but appeared in no footer. The body scrolls (↑↓/jk,b/f,u/d,g/G) so the full reference is reachable on a short terminal, and the close hint is pinned outside the scroll region. Suppressed during a pipeline edit, whose overlay already ownsy/N.Also collapses the picker footer strings, which were duplicated between
View()andhelpView(), down to thehelpView()source, and fixes two stale README claims (Pwas documented as working "from anywhere" including the picker;?was listed as reserved for a future overlay).Testing
go build,go vet,go test ./...clean. 28 new test cases covering scroll movement per key, the conditional scroll affordance, resize, reopen, modality, and isolation from the detail pane's own viewport. Overlay rendering verified visually at several terminal sizes.Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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New Features
?from supported panes, including scrolling and contextual shortcuts.lshortcut.Documentation
abctldocumentation with key-help, local connection, Catalog, navigation, and exit behavior.