rich

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SKILL.md

Rich Knowledge

Enables writing correct Rich terminal UI code — markup, styled output, tables, progress tracking, live displays, logging integration, and custom renderables.

Scope

Consult ../python3-development/references/python3-standards.md when applying shared architecture, typing, testing, or CLI rules; full standards, graphs, and amendment process are documented there.

TRIGGER: Activate when writing Python code that imports from rich or when asked to add terminal UI, colored output, progress bars, tables, syntax highlighting, or pretty printing to a Python CLI.

COVERS:

  • Console class, markup syntax, style strings, color formats
  • All renderable types (Panel, Table, Tree, Columns, Layout)
  • Progress bars (track(), Progress) and Live displays
  • RichHandler for stdlib logging and traceback installation
  • Text class and programmatic style building
  • Syntax, Markdown, Pretty / pprint, JSON
  • __rich_console__ and __rich_repr__ protocols for custom objects
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