# Enhanced CLI Experience with Rich UI

LocalArgo now provides an enhanced command-line interface using [Rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich) and [rich-click](https://github.com/ewels/rich-click) for beautiful, responsive terminal output.

## Overview

The enhanced CLI includes:

- **Styled Help Output**: Richly formatted help text with colors and panels
- **Progress Step Logging**: Multi-step workflows with status indicators
- **Table Rendering**: Responsive tables for status displays and lists
- **Key-Value Panels**: Clean presentation of configuration and status data

## Help Output

The CLI now uses rich-click for enhanced help formatting:

```bash
localargo --help
```

This produces styled help output with:
- Color-coded command groups
- Rich formatting for options and arguments
- Better visual hierarchy

## Progress Step Logging

Multi-step operations like cluster creation now show progress with visual indicators:

```bash
localargo cluster apply clusters.yaml
```

**Example Output:**
```
Starting workflow with 4 steps...

✅ loading manifest (manifest_path=clusters.yaml)
✅ creating clusters
✅ configuring contexts
✅ finalizing

All 4 steps completed successfully in 12.3s
```

### Step Status Indicators

- ✅ **Success**: Green checkmark for completed steps
- ⚠️ **Warning**: Yellow warning for steps with issues
- ❌ **Error**: Red X for failed steps

## Table Rendering

Status information is now displayed in responsive tables:

```bash
localargo cluster status
```

**Example Output:**
```
┌─ Cluster Status ──────────────────────┐
│ Cluster Context │ test-cluster        │
│ Cluster Ready   │ Yes                 │
│ ArgoCD Status   │ Installed           │
│ Namespace       │ argocd              │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
```

### Responsive Design

Tables automatically adapt to terminal width:
- Columns are sized appropriately
- Long content is truncated when necessary
- Layout remains readable on narrow terminals

## Key-Value Panels

Configuration and status data is presented in clean panels:

```bash
localargo cluster status-manifest clusters.yaml
```

**Example Output:**
```
┌─ Summary ─────────────────────────────┐
│ Total Clusters    │ 3                 │
│ Existing Clusters │ 2                 │
│ Ready Clusters    │ 2                 │
│ Success Rate      │ 2/2               │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘

┌─ Cluster Status ──────────────────────┐
│ Cluster │ Exists │ Ready │ Status     │
│ dev     │ Yes    │ Yes   │ Ready      │
│ staging │ Yes    │ Yes   │ Ready      │
│ prod    │ No     │ No    │ Not Found  │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Verbose Mode

For more detailed output, use the `--verbose` flag:

```bash
localargo --verbose cluster apply clusters.yaml
```

This enables verbose logging alongside the enhanced UI output.

## Compatibility

The enhanced UI works with:
- All major terminal emulators
- Different color schemes (respects terminal settings)
- Various terminal widths (responsive design)
- Existing LocalArgo workflows (no breaking changes)

## Configuration

No additional configuration is required. The enhanced UI is automatically enabled when using LocalArgo with Rich and rich-click installed.

## Troubleshooting

If you experience display issues:

1. **Color not showing**: Ensure your terminal supports colors
2. **Layout problems**: Try resizing your terminal window
3. **Unicode issues**: Some terminals may not display emoji correctly

For minimal output, you can pipe to `cat` or redirect to files, which will strip the Rich formatting and show plain text.
