Sparkle effects make terminal update, difficult to track agent progress. Can we disable the sparkle effects?
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI
What feature would you like to see?
I had been relying on whether a tab had anything actively changing in it to determine when my agents had finished. Now that the bar sparkles at all times when using Astra, everything appears as if it's updating all the time, and this makes it very difficult to use Codex. What was initially a harmless cosmetic thing has actually severely impacted the UX of this for me, so I'd like an option to turn it off.
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Research direction
Start at the CLI's terminal rendering path and locate the Astra sparkle effect and its existing configuration or option handling. Confirm how the effect is triggered, then add a user-controlled way to disable it while preserving normal agent progress updates. Done means the sparkle can be turned off and the terminal no longer appears active solely because of that animation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100