interactive-shell

You can supervise interactive CLI sessions by using headless dispatch mode to run fire-and-forget tasks, monitor progress hands-free with periodic updates, and reattach to background processes without losing control.

The best way to monitor long-running terminal commands hands-free is by using an interactive overlay that provides periodic updates while the agent watches the process, with an optional auto-exit feature that triggers when the output goes quiet.

Yes, you can run foreground subagents in an observable overlay UI where you can directly interact with and steer the interactive CLI session as it executes in real time.

Yes, interactive-shell relies on the pi-coding-agent environment, node-pty, and @xterm headless libraries to orchestrate PTY sessions, render overlays, and manage transfer and detach capabilities.

You can transfer terminal output for downstream processing by using the dispatch and background modes, which support reattach workflows and allow you to move the output from the supervised PTY session to other systems.

You should avoid using an interactive overlay for CLI tasks when you need pure fire-and-forget execution without observation, in which case headless dispatch is more suitable for running the background session silently.