Feature: cloud CLI context bar (AWS, GCP, Azure active profile and region)

[KrisPowers]

Summary

Engineers working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) need to know at a glance which account, project, or subscription they are operating in. A mistake in the active context can result in running commands against the wrong environment. Currently, the app provides no visibility into cloud CLI state.

Proposed scope

A configurable status indicator in the terminal info bar (or as a sidebar panel) that shows:

• AWS: active profile name and region (from ~/.aws/config or AWS_PROFILE / AWS_DEFAULT_REGION env vars)
• GCP: active gcloud project and account
• Azure: active subscription name

The indicator updates when the current working directory changes (since some engineers use per-directory env var files to set the cloud context).

A quick-switcher lets the user change profiles/projects/subscriptions without running a terminal command.

Implementation approach

For a read-only first version, parse the relevant config files directly:

• AWS: ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials
• GCP: ~/.config/gcloud/active_config
• Azure: ~/.azure/profile

Switching contexts would invoke the respective CLI (via shell.exec) only when the user makes a change.

Who benefits

• DevOps engineers who maintain multiple cloud environments (dev, staging, production)
• Platform engineers who manage infrastructure across multiple accounts or projects
• Data engineers accessing cloud data warehouses and storage

Files

• app/frontend/src/apps/cloudcontext/ (React panel or status bar component)
• cpp/src/fileops.cpp (read cloud config files, or reuse existing fs.readfile IPC)
• Register in sidebar if implemented as a full panel