nodecode-progress-squash
Progress Squash: a progress bar's redraws shown once, not once per frame. A Nodecode rewrite of pierrenode/hermes-progress-squash by pierrenode.
A bar redraws its one terminal line by writing a carriage return and the next frame. Your terminal shows the last frame; a captured stream keeps every one of them, so a 300-step tqdm loop reaches the model as 300 copies of the bar. This cell advises sh — the function behind every (sh "...") call — and keeps only the frame a terminal would show:
Receiving objects: 0% (1/11886)\rReceiving objects: 1% (119/11886)\r … \rReceiving objects: 100% (11886/11886), 67.61 MiB, done.
becomes
Receiving objects: 100% (11886/11886), 67.61 MiB, done. [progress-squash: 396 overwritten progress frames removed]
Two frames belong to the same progress line when the text before their first digit or bar character matches (epoch:, Receiving objects:). Anything else written between redraws, such as an error, keeps a line of its own. The footer tells the model how many frames were dropped.
Get it
Tell the agent "add the progress squash cell", or run nodecode add nc://progress-squash.
Use it
Nothing to configure: the folder is on as it stands, and every shell result goes through it.
/progress-squashreports what this run has squashed — how manyshresults it saw, how many it rewrote, how many frames it dropped./progress-squash resetclears the counters.(help 'progress-squash)says the same in the manual, including what is left alone.
Settings, in the progress-squash section of the config (see config.example.jsonc):
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
footer |
true |
end a rewritten output with the line saying how many frames were dropped |
min_frames |
1 |
how many overwritten frames of one line before that line is collapsed; 2 keeps a single overwrite |
keep |
[] |
progress-line stems left as they are, such as epoch: |
Left as they are, byte for byte: output with no carriage return; Windows line endings (\r\n); a line with a single frame, or with no two consecutive frames of the same progress line.
The advice sits on sh itself, so the organism's own shell calls go through it too. Output with no progress frames is never touched, so nothing that parses a command's answer sees a difference.
Licence
MIT. The original plugin is Copyright (c) 2026 pierrenode: see LICENSE and NOTICE.
