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#1866 `--server` list commands render the TUI picker into a non-TTY pipe

Opened by magistr · 8/27/2026· Shipped 8/27/2026

What happens

swamp model list --server <url> renders the interactive TUI picker even when stdout is not a TTY. The same command run locally correctly detects the non-interactive context and falls back to JSON, so the --server path appears to skip the TTY check the local path applies.

Two consequences when the output is piped or captured (scripts, CI, agents):

  1. The pipe receives the full-screen picker — box-drawing characters, ANSI cursor-movement escapes, and repeated repaints — instead of parseable data.
  2. React emits a duplicate-key warning into that stream whose key is itself a stack-trace line:
Encountered two children with the same key, `    at recursivelyTraverse​PassiveMountEffects
(file:///.../react-reconciler/0.33.0/cjs/react-reconciler.development.js:12934:11)`.
Keys should be unique so that components maintain their identity across updates.

(That frame name is recursivelyTraverse + PassiveMountEffects joined — it is split above only because this tracker's secret scanner flags the joined form as a credential and redacts it.)

A stack-trace frame being used as a React key suggests the remote path is feeding diagnostic/log lines into the same collection the picker renders, where two frames from one trace collide. That part is a hypothesis — the TTY-detection difference is the directly observed behaviour.

Reproduction

# Local — correct: emits JSON when piped
swamp model list | head -3
# {
#   "query": "",
#   "results": [

# Remote — wrong: renders the TUI picker into the pipe
swamp model list --server wss://<serve-host> | head -3
# ─swamp──────────────────────────────────── models search ──
# > ▏                                                  4 / 4
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# The React warning, once per invocation:
swamp model list --server wss://<serve-host> 2>&1 | grep -c 'same key'   # 1

Expected

--server should honour the same non-TTY detection as the local path and emit the default non-interactive output when stdout is not a TTY, without --json having to be passed explicitly.

Scope

  • Reproduces on swamp model list --server and swamp workflow list --server.
  • Reproduces against two independent swamp serve instances, so it is client-side, not a property of one server.
  • Consistent: 1 warning per invocation across repeated runs.
  • Does NOT reproduce on the same commands run locally.
  • --json is a complete workaround — the remote call itself works correctly and returns the right data.

Environment

  • swamp 20260827.012103.0-sha.89734f5f (client, macOS 14 / Darwin 23.6.0)
  • serve reached over wss:// through a Traefik TLS terminator
  • react-reconciler 0.33.0 (bundled in the compiled binary)

Impact

Low severity, since --json avoids it entirely. Worth fixing because the failure is silent for anyone scripting against a remote serve: the command exits 0 and the pipe fills with escape sequences rather than data, so a naive parser sees garbage rather than an error.

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✓OPEN✓TRIAGED✓IN PROGRESS✓SHIPPED+ 1 MOREASSIGNED+ 2 MOREREVIEW+ 7 MOREPR_MERGED+ 2 MORESESSION_SUMMARIZED

Shipped

8/27/2026, 7:31:19 PM

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03Sludge Pulse
stack72 assigned stack728/27/2026, 6:38:26 PM
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stack72 commented 8/27/2026, 7:31:29 PM

Thanks @magistr for reporting this! The fix has been merged and a release is on its way. We appreciate your contribution to swamp.

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