Terminal Theme or Mode

[william-square]

Please explain the motivation behind the feature request.
My teammate and I were playing around with Amp and found that while Goose was more useful, Amp felt cooler to use and the only reason was that the ascii theming in terminal format were cool. I think for engineers, terminal and IDE customizing and being used to those tools have always made the common chat interface of most AI tools feel dull.

Describe the solution you'd like
Goose with some terminal theme mode.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I considered switching to Amp but without all the Block specific plugins it sucks. Also you know, we wanna use Goose cause it's ours.

Additional context
Amp has somehow made their little terminal feel like a living tool... like how a younger me would've imagined Cortana while playing Halo and being disappointed when msft released Cortana assistant and it was bad. Some of this feels like it has to do with the "worldbuilding" -- naming their code search agent "Librarian", etc.

• I have verified this does not duplicate an existing feature request

[michaelneale]

yeah I think this is interesting - have been attempts in the past and then people were "oh can we turn that off" but maybe people are more open to it now?

I'm not sure how to turn this into concrete actions, there is also claude code (actually codex looks similar, tui and all that) as to what this would be, how far to go, but yeah, I like this idea.

[michaelneale]

work going on here: #5831

and quite innovative here: #5847 - the second on runs right in your native terminal!

First one is more classic "TUI" feel.

[michaelneale]

closing due to WIP and changes