Colorful agent activity

Colorful agent activity replaces Paseo's public reasoning and agent tool-call rows with compact, icon-led cards. It keeps the latest thinking block and latest tool call open, shows useful details on demand, and uses Shiki for shell and code output.

Requires Paseo >=0.8.0.

Screenshots

Thought process and shell activity:

Expanded shell command with command/output sections:

Interactive agent question row:

Expanded file read with syntax-highlighted content:

Paseo tool calls use purpose-built cards with readable prompt, configuration, result, and status sections:

Features

• Color-coded reasoning and tool-call cards with Lucide icons.
• Markdown reasoning support for headings, inline bold/italic/code, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, blank-line spacing, and fenced code blocks.
• The newest thinking block stays open until a newer thinking block starts, including while tools run.
• The newest tool call stays open until a newer tool call appears.
• Shell commands and terminal output highlighted with Shiki.
• Extension-aware file icons for reads, writes, edits, and search results.
• Edit statistics such as +8 / -0 with colored diff rows.
• Detail views for shell, read, write, edit, search, fetch, worktree, sub-agent, plan, plain-text, and unknown tool payloads.
• Vivid, soft, and high-contrast palette modes using the active Paseo theme.
• Status indicators for running, completed, failed, and canceled calls.
• Specialized Paseo cards for agents, workspaces, terminals, schedules, providers, permissions, and browser automation instead of raw JSON.

Install

From the public repository:

paseo plugin add mcowger/paseo-plugins:colorful-agent-activity

For a local checkout:

cd /absolute/path/to/paseo-plugins/colorful-agent-activity
npm install --legacy-peer-deps
npm run typecheck
npm test
paseo plugin install "$PWD"

Setup

Disable reasoning-display while this plugin is enabled. Paseo gives the first matching timeline transformer ownership of a source row.

Set Paseo's Tool call detail setting to Detailed. In Overview mode, Paseo groups consecutive tool calls before plugin transforms run, so the plugin cannot recover each individual call.

Choose a palette under the plugin's Colorful activity settings screen:

• Vivid — stronger category colors and tinted surfaces.
• Soft — quieter accents and backgrounds.
• High contrast — stronger borders and status colors.

Reload after installation or source changes:

paseo plugin reload colorful-agent-activity

Limitations

• The plugin sees public agent tool calls, not internal orchestrator calls.
• Detailed tool-call mode is required for one card per tool call.
• Paseo's native detail and syntax components are private, so this plugin renders its own details.
• Shiki uses its JavaScript regex engine in the plugin bundle. It is not a terminal emulator.
• Unsupported or oversized output falls back to plain monospace text.
• Unknown provider payloads use a generic JSON fallback.
• A transformer that claims the same source row in another plugin can win before this plugin runs.
• Disable reasoning-display when using this plugin because both transform reasoning rows.

Development

npm run lint
npm run typecheck
npm test

The plugin uses separate Paseo v0.8 client and server entries. The server entry only registers the host-scoped palette settings; timeline rendering runs in the client bundle.

paseo.cafe submission

The registry entry belongs in the separate paseo-cafe/paseo-cafe repository. This plugin's entry would be registry/colorful-agent-activity.json:

{
  "repo": "mcowger/paseo-plugins",
  "path": "colorful-agent-activity",
  "categories": ["developer-tools", "productivity"],
  "caveats": [
    "Requires Paseo Tool call detail to be set to Detailed",
    "Disable reasoning-display while this plugin is enabled"
  ],
  "submittedBy": "mcowger"
}

The public repository, manifest ID, README sections, screenshots, test script, typecheck script, and license are all present for the registry health checks.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.