CLI Symbols Glossary

The Mibyan terminal interfaces speak a compact visual language: dots, chevrons, braille spinners, and status glyphs. This page is the decoder ring. It covers the TUI (where most of these render) and notes the pieces shared with the Classic CLI.

Skins can restyle some of theseGlyphs marked themeable below are brand defaults — a skin can override them (for example tool_prefix and the prompt symbol). Everything else is fixed in the renderer.

Transcript symbols

What you see in the conversation flow while the agent works.

Symbol	Meaning
`❯`	Input prompt — where you type. Themeable (skins set their own prompt symbol).
`●`	A tool call. The bullet precedes the tool name and its arguments.
`┊`	Tool-activity rail shown with tool lines. Themeable (`tool_prefix`).
`✓` / `✗`	Tool result: succeeded / failed. Appended to the end of a completed tool line.
`▸` / `▾`	Collapsed / expanded section chevron (thinking, tools, subagents, banner sections). Click to toggle.
`▍`	Streaming cursor — blinks while the model is still emitting text.
`│` `├─` `└─`	Tree rails — connect a parent (a delegation, a journey) to its child entries; `└─` marks the last child.
`◈`	Display-only timeline event (session notices rendered inline, not user messages).
`◇`	An injected reference block, e.g. `◇ Reference 1/2 — <label>`.
`↳`	The sticky prompt — echoes the user message the agent is currently working on.
`☐` / `☑` / `•`	Markdown task-list items (open / done) and plain list bullets.
`▶`	Collapsed `<details>` summary inside rendered markdown.

Status-bar symbols

The single line at the bottom of the TUI. Segments appear only when relevant and drop off first on narrow terminals.

Symbol	Meaning
`⠋⠙⠹…` (braille patterns)	Busy spinner. Thinking and tool phases use different braille animation sets.
`☤ 🌀 🤔 ✨ 🍵 🔮`	Frames of the `emoji` busy-indicator style (`/indicator emoji`). The default style rotates kaomoji faces instead.
`\| / - \`	Frames of the `ascii` busy-indicator style.
`⏱`	Per-prompt elapsed time while the turn runs, e.g. `⏱ 12s/3m 45s` (turn time / session time).
`⏲`	The same timer, frozen after the turn completes.
`cmp N`	The session has been auto-compressed N times.
`▶ N`	N `/bg` tasks currently running.
`⚠ YOLO`	YOLO mode is on (auto-approval). Also shown in the startup banner.
`⛓ N`	N subagents currently active.
`↩ resumes when subagent finishes`	Reassurance shown while you are idle but delegated work is still in flight — the result returns on its own.
`● REC`	Voice mode is recording.
`◉ STT`	Voice recording stopped; speech-to-text is transcribing.
`◉ focus`	Focus view is on (reduced output). Pinned so it never drops off a narrow terminal.
`♥`	Affection flash — Mibyan noticed you being nice to it.
`⚡` / `🔋`	Battery indicator (opt-in): plugged in / on battery, with percentage.
`N bg`	N background terminal processes tracked in this session.
`N live sessions`	Open TUI sessions in this process — click to open the session switcher.

Notices

Short-lived status-bar notices carry their own leading glyph, set by severity:

Symbol	Meaning
`✓`	Success notice.
`•`	Informational notice.
`⚠`	Warning (also used for credit warnings).
`✕`	Error notice.

Approval and confirmation prompts

Symbol	Meaning
`⚠ approval required`	A tool wants to run something that needs your explicit yes (bordered panel with the command preview).
`⚠` / `?`	Confirmation dialog title: dangerous action / ordinary question.
`🔐`	Sudo password prompt (input is masked).
`🔑`	Credential/secret input prompt (input is masked).

Subagents overlay (`/agents`)

Symbol	Meaning
`●`	Subagent running.
`○`	Queued.
`✓`	Completed.
`■`	Interrupted.
`✗`	Failed.
`⌛`	Timed out.
`⚠`	Errored.
`⚡N`	N currently-active agents in a rollup row.
`▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█`	Activity sparkline — recent event volume per branch.

Session switcher (`Ctrl+X`)

Symbol	Meaning
`✓`	Session idle.
`…`	Starting.
`?`	Waiting for input.
`▶`	Working.
`✎ draft`	The composer in that session holds an unsent draft.

Pickers and hubs

Symbol	Meaning
`▸`	Current selection row (model picker and friends).
`*`	The currently-active model / provider.
`●` / `○`	Provider authenticated / not authenticated (model picker); plugin state fallback (plugins hub).
`✓` / `✗`	Plugin enabled / disabled (plugins hub).
`↑ N more` / `↓ N more`	More rows above/below the visible window of a list.
`┃`	Scrollbar thumb on scrollable overlays.

Goals

Goal lifecycle notices (from goals) lead with their state:

Symbol	Meaning
`✓`	Goal complete.
`↻`	Goal continuing — another iteration was scheduled.
`⏸`	Goal paused.

تطبيق ديسكتوب

البداية

استخدام مبيان

الميزات

منصات المراسلة

التكاملات

الأدلة والدروس

دليل المطوّر

المرجع

Transcript symbols

Status-bar symbols

Notices

Approval and confirmation prompts

Subagents overlay (`/agents`)

Session switcher (`Ctrl+X`)

Pickers and hubs

Goals

See also

​Transcript symbols

​Status-bar symbols

​Notices

​Approval and confirmation prompts

​Subagents overlay (/agents)

​Session switcher (Ctrl+X)

​Pickers and hubs

​Goals

​See also

Transcript symbols

Status-bar symbols

Notices

Approval and confirmation prompts

Subagents overlay (`/agents`)

Session switcher (`Ctrl+X`)

Pickers and hubs

Goals

See also