Heuristic for error activity
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Description
When a tab becomes active, at the moment we show it in blue:

We do this by simply capturing new data to write to the terminal. What we can do: if /error/i matches the data we pass along, we can make that label red instead.
A red tab is orders of magnitude more interesting in terms of prioritization of attention than a blue tab.
There are opportunities for false positives, but I can't think of many.
Do you think this is too obtrusive and error prone for us to ship with, and therefore should be an extension?
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Research direction
No file or test is named; first trace tab activation, the blue active-tab rendering, and the terminal data capture path. Confirm the proposed behavior and its extension-versus-core placement with maintainers; done would mean a tab becomes red when the captured data matches /error/i, with false-positive handling agreed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100