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OSC 7501 proposes a way for programs to report their status to terminals
Its author says they found over 250 agent orchestrators using heuristics to detect whether tools such as Claude Code are working or blocked.
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The author says the new terminal specification lets programs report whether they’re idle, working, waiting, finished or failed, and why. They argue OSC 7501 could replace heuristic status checks used by AI agent orchestrators while also helping tools such as package managers and build tools.
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