Rich UI overlay: file tree, diff viewer, git widget

[nthh]

Summary

Layer a structured UI on top of the terminal — file browser, diff viewer, and git status — turning remolt from a terminal wrapper into a lightweight web IDE.

Panels

File tree sidebar

• Watch filesystem via periodic polling or inotifywait
• VS Code-like tree view of /home/dev/workspace
• Click file to view in a read-only viewer panel
• Show file status (modified/new/deleted) via git status

Diff viewer

• When Claude makes changes, show them in a proper side-by-side or unified diff
• Parse git diff output or watch for file changes
• Similar to GitHub PR "Files changed" view

Git status widget

• Current branch, changed files, commit history
• "Create PR" button that runs `gh pr create` with pre-filled fields
• Commit graph visualization

Architecture

• These panels augment the terminal, not replace it
• Terminal stays as the primary interface, panels are optional sidebars
• Data can come from: exec commands in the pod, filesystem watching, or parsing terminal output
• Consider a lightweight agent/daemon in the sandbox that serves file/git data over a sidecar API