Issue: duplicated terminal support code

[nborodikhin]

When Claude Code executes a child process it does so without allocating a PTY which revdiff, being an interactive program, requires.

There are workarounds for this issue that use a custom per-terminal approach to create a new pane or overlay and launch revdiff in a new environment. The issue is that there are many places that start revdiff and per-terminal workarounds have to be updated manually every time a new terminal support is implemented:

• revdiff diff review at .claude-plugin/skills/revdiff/scripts/launch-revdiff.sh |
• revdiff codex skill at plugins/codex/skills/revdiff/scripts/launch-revdiff.sh |
• revdiff plan review at plugins/revdiff-planning/scripts/launch-plan-review.sh |
• external projects, such as cc-thingz planning plugin

[umputun]

thx, but this is a deliberate design decision, not a bug.

Claude Code skills are supposed to be self-contained — unifying scripts across skills doesn't work reliably, at minimum you hit permission prompts on every invocation, and it also raises the question of how a skill with a "common" external dependency gets distributed and updated. Same story for the codex skill and the revdiff-planning plugin — each needs to stand on its own.

In practice what we have works well enough. Agents are aware of the duplication and CLAUDE.md has explicit instructions for keeping the copies in sync when terminal support changes. Not ideal, but the alternatives are worse.

Also per CONTRIBUTING.md, general ideas and brainstorming belong in Discussions, not Issues. Moving this to Discussions — pls continue there if you want to explore a concrete shape.