CLI Harness Design
People trying the qcontrol demo saw a bare terminal. Nothing told them their AI agent was now being watched, or that this was a Cisco and Qpoint product.
A finished welcome screen for the demo terminal, drawn in block characters with a Cisco plus Qpoint logo, and notes for Jon to build it. The toolkit behind it became qpixel.
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What changed
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The demo terminal now opens on a designed welcome: the co-brand logo, what the demo does, and a live prompt.
A welcome screen for the demo · came from Jon Friesen and Mark Parson
- Small tools turn a pixel drawing into block characters, stitch logos side by side, and preview them in a terminal. New in this cycle
- The toolkit became qpixel, a block-art editor and project of its own. New in this cycle
- Jon got a ready-to-paste welcome file and notes on placing it in qcontrol. In words
How we got here
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The demo terminal now opens on a designed welcome: the co-brand logo, what the demo does, and a live prompt.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Owned the CLI the screens were made for
The record says Jon owns the qcontrol implementation; the welcome file and the embedding notes were written for him. The before screenshot is his qcontrol terminal.
Designed the welcome screen
His prompt set the job as text designs for Jon rather than code in qcontrol; the eight versions and the updated screen are his commits.
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The pairs
Everything captured · 5
The full record 0 decisions · 7 key-change entries · 354 words · 0 captures
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