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# claudbg-ut9q
title: 'TUI: terminal setup, event loop, and teardown'
status: todo
type: task
priority: normal
created_at: 2026-03-30T04:45:32Z
updated_at: 2026-03-30T04:49:03Z
parent: claudbg-i6l2
blocked_by:
    - claudbg-nq36
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Implement terminal initialization, the main event loop, and graceful teardown.

## Responsibilities

1. **Setup:** enable raw mode (`crossterm::terminal::enable_raw_mode`), switch to alternate screen (`EnterAlternateScreen`), create `CrosstermBackend`, instantiate `ratatui::Terminal`.

2. **Panic hook:** install a panic hook that restores the terminal before printing the panic message (prevents garbled terminal on crash).

3. **Event loop:** `loop { terminal.draw(|f| render(f, &state)); if event::poll(Duration::from_millis(50))? { handle_event(event::read()?, &mut state); } if state.should_quit { break; } }`

4. **Teardown:** disable raw mode, leave alternate screen.

## Entry point

Replaces the stub in `src/commands/stubs.rs` (the `Tui` command handler). The `tui()` async function should call into a synchronous `run_tui()` function since ratatui is sync.

## Notes

- Use `crossterm::event::Event` for keyboard input — no mouse needed for this milestone.
- The 50 ms poll timeout gives ~20 fps without busy-spinning.
- Teardown must run even on error: use a RAII guard or wrap in a closure.

## Blocked by

- ratatui deps (claudbg-78xt), app state (claudbg-nq36)