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[FEATURE]: Better active/background terminal and bash management #6375
Description
Feature hasn't been suggested before.
- I have verified this feature I'm about to request hasn't been suggested before.
Describe the enhancement you want to request
So currently in OpenCode TUI the way that a terminal can spawn is via a simple spawn() with piped stdio rather than a full PTY.
Some current issues:
- the default timeout is 2 minutes (this is not optimal for long running processes), the tool sends a
SIGTERMto a long running process which would kill it. - the maximum output for terminals are 30,000 characters, some processes show a lot of loading characters that can fill up context
What I propose:
As I said in this thread, I think the bash/terminal management should be a suite of tools.
When a terminal process is initiated we can keep the timeout and character limit the same, but when the timeout is reached rather than sending a SIGTERM it will just move that terminal to a background terminal (accessable via some TUI keybind).
Then once a terminal has moved to the background the agent should have some tools like grep and executeCommandInTerminal so that it will not fill up a ton of context that isn't needed.
This would allow the agent to start/manage/modify/delete sessions a whole lot better than what it does currently. I think a POC might be achievable via a plugin but I want to see what others think of this and other points of view.
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github-actions commentedon Dec 29, 2025
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Techie5879 commentedon Feb 9, 2026
Codex now has background terminals with polling and I can indeed confirm that it has been very useful for long running tasks whereazs opencode has to terminate and rerun with a longer timeout (unless I remember to tell it that this is going to be a long running thing)
github-actions commentedon Apr 11, 2026
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LPFchan commentedon May 1, 2026
this would be very nice to see. it's probably one (and only) thing i miss coming from cc/codex!