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Terminal program status standard toolkit

Create developer tools implementing the new OSC 7501 terminal protocol. Help adopt this standard for program status reporting.

Why now

New terminal protocol proposal could standardize how CLI tools report their status.

Who for
CLI tool developers
Business model
Paid support contracts
Effort
A few weeks

Developers building CLI tools lack standardized ways to report program status to terminals.

Build libraries and tools that make it easy to adopt the new OSC 7501 standard in various programming languages.

Open source maintainers and enterprise dev teams might pay for well-supported implementations.

Start with reference implementations in popular languages like Python and JavaScript.

Risk: Protocol may not gain widespread adoption quickly enough.

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