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Summary

  • persist model, reasoning effort, thinking display, and detailed usage preferences across CLI sessions, with /model, /effort, /thinking, /usage, and /status controls
  • reduce routine chrome with a one-line status display, compact startup text, non-blocking compaction feedback, repaired history/autocomplete navigation, and cohesive terminal colors
  • make Bash results a single interleaved text stream with a minimal nonzero-exit wrapper and explicit truncation marker
  • adopt Wonton v0.2.1 throughout the repository and use its input text styling support
  • document the implemented settings contract and the next CLI parity priorities

Behavior changes

  • settings resolve in flag > environment > settings file > default order and interactive changes are saved to ~/.dive/settings.json
  • the status line shows model, effort, repository, branch, context use, and total cost; the full token table is opt-in
  • Bash calls remain stateless across invocations while filesystem effects persist
  • inline literals use periwinkle instead of warning amber, and the brighter palette keeps semantic success, warning, and failure colors distinct

Validation

  • go test ./... in the root module and every affected nested module
  • go test -race ./... in experimental/cmd/dive
  • go vet ./... in experimental/cmd/dive
  • go build ./... in experimental/cmd/dive
  • go run . --help in experimental/cmd/dive
  • git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added persistent settings for model selection, reasoning effort, thinking display, and detailed usage.
    • Added /effort, /thinking, and /status commands.
    • Added asynchronous /compact with progress, summaries, cancellation, and error reporting.
    • Added dynamic provider tool behavior when switching models.
  • Improvements

    • Refreshed terminal styling, startup display, status lines, footers, autocomplete, and history navigation.
    • Bash results now merge output streams, clearly report exit-code failures, and show truncation markers.
    • Improved Bash timeout handling by terminating descendant processes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved hidden-file autocomplete filtering, whitespace handling, model propagation, and tool-error formatting.

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📒 Files selected for processing (8)
  • experimental/cmd/dive/cli_settings_test.go
  • experimental/settings/settings.go
  • experimental/settings/settings_test.go
  • toolkit/bash.go
  • toolkit/bash_process_other.go
  • toolkit/bash_process_unix.go
  • toolkit/bash_process_windows.go
  • toolkit/bash_test.go

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The PR adds persistent CLI settings, asynchronous compaction, updated terminal rendering and navigation, revised Bash output semantics, dynamic provider tools, OpenAI error-envelope preservation, documentation, and wonton dependency upgrades.

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CLI settings and compaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persistent settings and command controls
experimental/settings/*, experimental/cmd/dive/cli_settings*, experimental/cmd/dive/cmd_settings.go, experimental/cmd/dive/main.go
Settings resolve across flags, environment, user settings, project settings, and defaults. New commands update live state and persist supported preferences.
Asynchronous compaction and runtime propagation
experimental/cmd/dive/app.go, experimental/cmd/dive/main.go, experimental/cmd/dive/providers.go, experimental/cmd/dive/*_test.go
Manual compaction runs asynchronously when supported, reports progress and errors, blocks conflicting actions, and records summaries. Model changes propagate to subagents, provider tools, and compaction.
Terminal rendering and input navigation
experimental/cmd/dive/app.go, experimental/cmd/dive/render.go, experimental/cmd/dive/screen.go, experimental/cmd/dive/*_test.go
The UI uses shared semantic colors, compact startup output, revised status and footer layout, scrolling autocomplete, corrected history recall, and hidden-file filtering.

Tooling and integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bash output and execution semantics
toolkit/bash.go, toolkit/bash_process_*.go, toolkit/bash_test.go, docs/guides/tools.md
Bash returns merged stdout and stderr as text, preserves output order, wraps non-zero exits in error envelopes, truncates combined output, isolates shell state per invocation, and terminates descendants on cancellation.
Provider encoding, module updates, and planning documentation
providers/openai/*, */go.mod, docs/plans/*, CHANGELOG.md
Explicit OpenAI error envelopes remain unchanged. Module requirements use wonton v0.2.1. Planning and changelog documents describe the CLI and tooling changes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0c6df

Bash commands can hang well beyond their timeout or exhaust the host’s memory, so the execution changes should not merge until process cleanup and bounded capture are implemented. Windows test isolation should also be corrected.

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Inline comments:
In `@experimental/settings/settings_test.go`:
- Around line 289-290: Use a platform-independent settings-root test hook
instead of setting only HOME: update experimental/settings/settings_test.go
lines 289-290 and experimental/cmd/dive/cli_settings_test.go line 240, covering
all six CLI test sites. Ensure UserSettingsPath resolves within the test
directory on Windows by configuring the package-level hook, and guard the 0600
permission assertion on non-Windows systems.

In `@toolkit/bash.go`:
- Line 297: Update the command execution flow around mergedReader.Read to run
the shell and its descendants in a cancellable process group or equivalent job,
terminate the entire group when the context is canceled, and close or otherwise
unblock mergedReader before returning so inherited pipe writers cannot delay
timeout handling.
- Line 300: Update the read loop that writes chunks to merged so retained output
never exceeds t.maxOutputLen, rather than appending all data before
truncateOutput runs. Continue reading and draining the pipe after the limit is
reached, and ensure the returned output contains the bounded content followed by
a single truncation marker.

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  • CHANGELOG.md
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  • demos/colosseum/go.mod
  • demos/noodleville/go.mod
  • docs/guides/tools.md
  • docs/plans/2026-09-03-cli-parity-roadmap.md
  • docs/plans/2026-09-03-cli-settings-persistence.md
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  • experimental/cmd/dive/app_test.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/cli_settings.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/cli_settings_test.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/cmd_settings.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/go.mod
  • experimental/cmd/dive/input_nav_test.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/main.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/main_test.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/providers.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/render.go
  • experimental/cmd/dive/render_test.go
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  • experimental/cmd/dive/screen_test.go
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