mecatui: prioritize and expand dynamic card help
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Since Sep 7, 2026.
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Description
Problem
Dynamic card help/footer text currently has no semantic priority model. A rebound key label can make a one-line hint exceed its available width. The short-term sentinel renderDynamicCardChromeLine truncates one Subagent-roster footer with ...; it deliberately does not solve help discoverability.
Follow-up
- Represent card-help hints as ordered semantic items with explicit priority.
- Pack items into the available display-cell width, dropping lower-priority items rather than truncating an opaque joined string.
- Provide a context-scoped
?help modal that lists the complete live/rebound key bindings and can scroll. - Define narrow-terminal fallbacks and preserve terminal sanitization/display-width correctness.
- Audit and migrate every
renderDynamicCardChromeLinesentinel call site deliberately; do not apply it to prose/content rows.
Context
This follows the card-layout work in PR #1105, which fixes padding-before-wrap and introduces the single-line sentinel for the Subagent roster footer.
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