glory-to-protocol 0.1.2

Deadpan state-bureau TUI library for Typer CLIs — framed forms, decision stamps, themed help, ASCII header, live jobs ticker.

СВОДКА · TL;DR

A Python TUI library for Typer CLIs that wraps your commands in a deadpan, state-bureau aesthetic — framed forms, four decision stamps (approve / reject / order / review), themed --help, an ASCII logo header, and a live ticker for background jobs. Built because useful tools and funny tools rarely overlap.

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ · Index

• СВОДКА · TL;DR
• ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ · Index
• ПОЛЕ № 1 · Purpose
• ПОЛЕ № 2 · Installation
  • pip
  • uv
  • poetry
• ПОЛЕ № 3 · Usage
  • Configuration
  • Typer CLI integration
  • Components
    • Form
    • Logo
    • Palette
    • Wrap
    • Stamps
  • Background jobs
• ПОЛЕ № 4 · Status & Roadmap
• ОТКАЗ · Disclaimer
• ВКЛАД · Contributing
  • Для граждан повышенного допуска · For citizens of elevated clearance
• КОДЕКС · Code of Conduct
  • Для граждан повышенного допуска · For citizens of elevated clearance
• ЛИЦЕНЗИЯ · License

ПОЛЕ № 1 · Purpose

A Python TUI library for Typer CLIs — forms with framed borders, four kinds of decision stamps (approve / reject / order / review), a themed --help renderer, an ASCII logo header, and a live ticker for background jobs. The library ships a ProtocolTyper subclass and make_app() helper so the bureau frame shows up on every command and sub-app without extra wiring; see Typer CLI integration below.

I built this because I kept reaching for libraries that were either useful or fun, and rarely both. I wanted my own CLIs to feel like an artifact — printing REJECTED with a timestamp instead of Error: invalid input. The fact that it doubles as a perfectly serviceable TUI toolkit is a side effect.

The aesthetic — Cyrillic accents, bureau titles, deadpan stamps — landed where it did because I'd been deep into Papers, Please at the time. The lib doesn't reuse a line of code or any asset from that game (see the disclaimer), but the vibe is unmistakably from the same shelf.

A note on the Russian: I speak some, and a few terms here are bent on purpose for the bureau-comic effect, but I'm nowhere near a native speaker. If anything reads as accidentally wrong — or, worse, accidentally offensive — please open an issue and I'll fix it.

ПОЛЕ № 2 · Installation

pip

pip install glory-to-protocol

uv

uv add glory-to-protocol

poetry

poetry add glory-to-protocol

ПОЛЕ № 3 · Usage

Configuration

The library exposes a single ProtocolSettings singleton that holds every piece of bureau-level branding. Defaults render the NIRVYTEKH look out of the box; override them when wiring the lib into your own CLI.

Field	Default	Effect
app_name	"Protocol"	Generic application name (used as fallback).
logo_text	"Protocol"	Text rendered as the large ASCII logo (header).
small_logo_text	"Protocol"	Text rendered inside the small bordered logo (stamps).
bureau_title	"БЮРО NIRVYTEKH · Bureau of Computational Technology"	Subtitle line under the large logo in the header.
director_name	"Норман"	Director name shown in the header meta row.
director_signature	"Подписано: Норман, Директор NIRVYTEKH"	Signature line at the form footer.
ascii.allowed_alphabet	uppercase A–Z, 0–9	Characters allowed in logo_text / small_logo_text.

logo_text is validated against ascii.allowed_alphabet — passing characters outside the set raises InvalidASCIICharactersError.

Programmatic override (recommended)

Use configure(**overrides) at startup, before any component renders. This is the canonical coupling point when embedding the lib into your own Typer CLI.

import typer
from glory_to_protocol import configure, make_app

configure(
    app_name="MyBureau",
    logo_text="MyBureau",
    small_logo_text="MyBureau",
    director_name="Ada Lovelace",
    director_signature="Signed: Ada Lovelace, Director",
)

app: typer.Typer = make_app()

Calls layer: each configure() updates only the fields you pass; unspecified fields keep their value. For tests, reset_settings() clears the singleton.

Typer CLI integration

The lib ships a ProtocolTyper subclass and a make_app() helper that wire the bureau's themed --help renderer into every command and sub-app. See examples/showcase.py for the full reference.

import typer
from glory_to_protocol import configure, make_app
from glory_to_protocol.tui.forms import Form

configure(app_name="MyBureau", logo_text="MyBureau", small_logo_text="MyBureau")

app = make_app()


@app.command()
def status() -> None:
    with Form(title="status") as form:
        form.line("All systems nominal.")

Reference points in examples/showcase.py:

• Typer app + subcommand registration loop: examples/showcase.py:150 and examples/showcase.py:165-173
• Single-shot run helper (Console + Form + optional save): examples/showcase.py:122
• Composing components inside a Form: examples/showcase.py:109

Components

Form

Context manager that draws the bureau form frame (top border, header, divider, body, signature, bottom border). Every other component renders into a Form.

from glory_to_protocol.tui.forms import Form

with Form(title="version") as form:
    form.line("Consulting bureau records...")

Constructor parameters:

Param	Type	Default	Purpose
title	str	—	Tab label on the top border (e.g., "version").
console	Console | None	None	Inject a Rich Console; auto-created if omitted.
show_header	bool	True	Render the large logo + bureau title block at the top.
signature_text	str | None	None	Override the footer signature; defaults to settings.

Methods: line(text, style=None, *, wrap=True), divider(), stamp(...), run_pending(jobs).

Logo

Two ASCII logo renderers driven by logo_text and small_logo_text:

from glory_to_protocol.tui.logo import logo_large, logo_small

print(logo_large())            # uses settings.logo_text
print(logo_small("ARCHIVE"))   # explicit override

Both accept an optional text: str | None; passing None reads the current settings. Results are memoized — configure() invalidates the cache.

Palette

The theme module exposes named Rich Style objects for consistent typography across components:

from glory_to_protocol.tui import theme

form.line("Default report body.", style=theme.BODY)
form.line("Side note.", style=theme.MUTED)
form.line("Official accent.", style=theme.CYRILLIC_ACCENT)
form.line("Footer signature.", style=theme.SIGNATURE)

Other roles in the palette: theme.HEADER, theme.BORDER, theme.STAMP_APPROVE, theme.STAMP_REJECT, theme.STAMP_ORDER, theme.STAMP_REVIEW.

Wrap

Form.line(text) cell-wraps to the form's inner width, handling Latin, Cyrillic, and mixed-alphabet content correctly. Pass wrap=False to disable wrapping (the line is then truncated to fit):

form.line(long_text)                # default: wrap to inner width
form.line(long_text, wrap=False)    # truncate to one line

Stamps

Four stamp variants encode the bureau's terminal decisions on a request. Each takes a required label and an optional detail:

from glory_to_protocol.tui.stamps import (
    stamp_approve, stamp_reject, stamp_order, stamp_review,
)

form.stamp(stamp_approve("Q2 budget", "audit clean"))
form.stamp(stamp_reject("request #4711", "out of bureau scope"))
form.stamp(stamp_order("team 3 mobilization", "immediate execution"))
form.stamp(stamp_review("monthly report", "awaiting Gensek review"))

Variant	Label (RU/EN)	Use for
stamp_approve	ОДОБРЕНО / APPROVED	Request granted, action complete.
stamp_reject	ОТКАЗАНО / REJECTED	Request denied; include detail with the reason.
stamp_order	ПРИКАЗ / DIRECT ORDER	Imperative — the bureau is dictating an action.
stamp_review	К СВЕДЕНИЮ / FOR REVIEW	Awaiting external decision (e.g., from the Gensek).

Signature: stamp_<variant>(label: str, detail: str = "") -> Table.

Background jobs

Form.run_pending(jobs) fans out a list of Jobs as async tasks and renders a live ticker until all reach a terminal state. Failures in one job are isolated — siblings keep running.

import asyncio
from glory_to_protocol.jobs.types import Job

async def fetch_quota() -> None:
    await asyncio.sleep(2)

jobs = [
    Job(label="fetching quota", coro_factory=fetch_quota),
    Job(label="archiving ledger", coro_factory=lambda: asyncio.sleep(3)),
]

with Form(title="sync") as form:
    form.line("Reconciling with the bureau...", style=theme.MUTED)
    outcomes = asyncio.run(form.run_pending(jobs))

for outcome in outcomes:
    print(outcome.label, outcome.status, outcome.duration_ms)

Job fields:

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
label	str	—	Shown in the live ticker.
coro_factory	Callable[[], Awaitable[None]]	—	Factory that returns the coroutine to await.
critical	bool	False	Tag-only today; reserved for future fail-fast use.

coro_factory is a factory, not a coroutine — passing the coroutine directly would bind it to the wrong event loop. Wrap with a lambda or a def that returns the awaitable. Each job receives a fresh awaitable on spawn.

Outcomes returned by run_pending:

Field	Type	Meaning
label	str	Echoes Job.label.
status	"ok" | "fail"	Terminal state.
error	BaseException | None	The exception, if status == "fail".
duration_ms	int	Wall-clock duration of the job.

The runner never raises on individual job failure; the caller decides how a failed background job affects the foreground stamp.

ПОЛЕ № 4 · Status & Roadmap

Pre-alpha (0.1.0). The public surface — Form, the four stamps, logo_large / logo_small, theme, configure(), Job / run_pending, and ProtocolTyper / make_app — is stable enough to drive a real CLI (78 tests, ~98% coverage), but minor versions may still rename or restructure things before 1.0.

Planned:

• Job callbacks (per-job hooks on completion / failure)
• Long-running jobs (progress reporting, cancellation surface)
• Better tracebacks (themed, framed inside the bureau form)
• Custom component authoring (public composition API)
• Sentient Rubber Duck (Да, really)
• Interactive TUI

Want a favor from the Верховный Лидер (Supreme Leader)? Open an issue.

ОТКАЗ · Disclaimer

This project's visual and thematic aesthetic is loosely inspired by Papers, Please (© Lucas Pope / 3909 LLC), specifically its evocation of a fictional Eastern-Bloc-style state bureau.

The inspiration is atmospheric only. Glory to Protocol does not use, reference, or distribute any code, asset, artwork, character, name, country, or trademark from Papers, Please. No content from Arstotzka — or any other fictional element of the game — appears in this repository. The bureau, its naming, its symbols, and its language are original to this project.

Papers, Please and Arstotzka are property of their respective owners. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Lucas Pope or 3909 LLC.

If this project's atmosphere resonates with you, please consider supporting the original creator by buying Papers, Please on its official site or your preferred storefront. The work that inspired this aesthetic deserves to be paid for.