ui: SUMMARY panel treats every user message as an objective, causing visual clutter
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli
Research direction
Start with src/tui/app.tsx, especially TranscriptPane and buildTranscriptItems, then trace goal extraction in packages/core/src/agent/conversation-memory-transcript.ts and the /goal handling. Decide which summary behavior to implement from the listed alternatives; done means ordinary user messages no longer create noisy summary entries while explicitly created goals remain appropriately represented.
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Description
Problem
The TUI renders a SUMMARY panel at the top of the transcript that shows "Current Objective" and "Superseded Objectives". After a short conversation it already looks like this:
SUMMARY Current Objective:
- 你去读取一下README的文件内容。
Superseded Objectives:
- 你是谁？
Every user message is automatically promoted to an objective, so the panel quickly accumulates superseded entries and consumes vertical screen space. This feels noisy in normal chat usage where the user is just asking follow-up questions, not declaring long-lived goals.
Current behavior
ConversationMemoryextracts goals from user messages (conversation-memory-transcript.ts).TranscriptPanerenderssessionData?.summaryas a sticky SUMMARY block above the transcript.- Each new user message supersedes the previous one, so even trivial greetings become "Superseded Objectives".
Expected behavior (one or more of the following)
- Only objectives explicitly created via
/goalare shown in the SUMMARY panel. - Superseded objectives are hidden by default and can be expanded on demand.
- The SUMMARY panel is collapsible (similar to how tool/reasoning output is collapsible with Ctrl+O).
- Alternatively, the panel is removed from the main transcript view and moved to a status line or
/statusoutput.
Context
The /goal slash command is already documented in the welcome hint, so users have a way to set real objectives. Automatically treating every prompt as a goal makes the feature feel like visual noise rather than a helpful summary.
Related
src/tui/app.tsxTranscriptPaneandbuildTranscriptItemspackages/core/src/agent/conversation-memory-transcript.ts/goalslash command handling insrc/tui/app.tsx
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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- 54
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- 20
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
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