Composer foreground terminal behavior

Agent terminal processes that don’t expand, and punishes you if you try… stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

So here’s a thing.

I’m running Q&A processes like vitests or debugging or eslints… whatnot. The agent opens up a terminal to run the test and doesn’t reveal what’s happening. Okay, fine, I appreciate the space efficiency in chat.

Hmm, well that seems to be hung… I should expand the terminal and find out.

Oh! ■■■■, no it isn’t hung here comes the long running respons… wait what is it doing? There’s a problem? Let me try another approach?!? NO YOU HAD IT YOU SILLY MACHINE!!!

Post hoc ergo propter hoc… please fix the behavior to better handle my curiosity about what’s hidden under a foreground terminal that is in process. Doing so shouldn’t be read as “cancel and resume” by Composer.

Thanks for the suggestion, I agree popping out the terminal should allow the terminal to continue as normal, but just let you see more!

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