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platform/todo/sudo-terminal-modal/a-modal-carrying-a-terminal-emulator-for.md
pastilhasandClaude Fable 5 6071ded175 todo: one file per item, grouped by theme, with a generated index
TODO.md had reached 1050 lines and 72 open items across 28 sections, read mostly
on a phone. It is now a directory: todo/<theme>/<item>.md, one card per file, with
frontmatter carrying id, status, created date and order, and the prose body copied
across verbatim. TODO.md becomes a generated index (bun run todo:index).

Dates: where an item's prose stated one it is used; otherwise its old section's;
otherwise 2026-08-20, floored at the day before the split rather than invented.
date_source records which.

Shaped for a two-way Kanban board, filed as todo/tooling — a card is a file, id is
the identity, frontmatter is the machine's half and the body is the owner's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 05:42:39 +00:00

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sudo-terminal-modal/a-modal-carrying-a-terminal-emulator-for A modal carrying a terminal emulator, for anything that needs `sudo` sudo-terminal-modal open 2026-08-21 stated 1

A modal carrying a terminal emulator, for anything that needs sudo. Wanted 2026-08-21. Anywhere a command needs sudo, the modal opens with a live terminal session, the command runs in it, and the user types his password into the terminal himself — the password goes to the pty, never through the platform or an agent. Plumbing exists: the pty sidecar already serves ad-hoc sessions, and xterm.js is already in the terminal panel; the new part is the modal surface and an entry point ("run this with sudo") that other surfaces can invoke. Needs an affordance (capabilities/affordances/) so chat agents know the mechanism exists and reach for it instead of attempting sudo non-interactively or asking the owner to paste a command.