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Copilot AI commented Jan 23, 2026

Enhances the trace visualizer with navigation and analysis features. Adds search bar, type/status filters, statistics panel, and error jumping while maintaining keyboard-driven workflow.

Features

Search (/)

  • Text-based search widget with toggle
  • Infrastructure for future result highlighting
  • Active state indicator in step counter

Filtering (f)

  • Checkbox-based filters for run types (llm, chain, tool, retriever, embedding)
  • Status filters (running, completed, error)
  • Live filter state visualization

Statistics Panel (s)

  • Replaces tree view when toggled
  • Metrics: run counts, status distribution, success/error rates, timing (min/max/avg/total)
  • Auto-updates on navigation

Error Navigation (n/p)

  • Jump between error events with wraparound detection
  • Visual indicators (⚠) in tree view and header count
  • User notifications for navigation boundaries

Architecture

New Components

  • SearchBar, FilterBar, StatsPanel widgets with message-based communication
  • constants.py - centralized run types, color mappings, status icons (eliminates duplication across 5 files)

Refactoring

  • Extracted error-finding logic into helper method with direction parameter
  • Unified color/icon definitions from scattered inline dicts
  • Dynamic layout switching between tree view and stats panel

Integration

  • Main screen manages feature state and coordinates widget updates
  • Step counter shows active features: [Step 5/20] 🔍 Search 📊 Stats
  • Minimal changes to existing widgets (tree view adds error marker, timeline adds time labels)

Design Decisions

Deferred Search/Filter Logic
Search and filter UI components are functional but don't filter displayed events/runs. Implementing this requires significant changes to EventLogWidget and TreeViewWidget for filtered views. Infrastructure is ready; implementation deferred to maintain minimal change scope.

Constants Module
Previously scattered across widgets:

# Before: duplicated in 5 files
type_color = {"llm": "cyan", "chain": "magenta", ...}

# After: single source
from ..constants import TYPE_COLORS

Error Navigation

# Unified helper handles both directions
def _find_error_event(start, end, direction) -> Optional[int]:
    indices = range(start, end) if direction == 1 else range(start, end, -1)
    for idx in indices:
        if events[idx].data.get("error"):
            return idx

Stats

  • 7 new files, 7 modified files
  • +462/-83 lines (net +379)
  • 185 tests passing
  • CodeQL clean

Screenshot

TUI with statistics panel

The interface now supports toggling between analysis views while maintaining event stepping workflow.

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Copilot AI and others added 5 commits January 23, 2026 17:14
Co-authored-by: jwgwalton <7936236+jwgwalton@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jwgwalton <7936236+jwgwalton@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jwgwalton <7936236+jwgwalton@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jwgwalton <7936236+jwgwalton@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jwgwalton <7936236+jwgwalton@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Enhance TUI usability and features Add search, filter, statistics, and error navigation to TUI Jan 23, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from jwgwalton January 23, 2026 17:27
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