colors: add lightblue = ANY STOP THAT REQUIRES STEVE'S INPUT

a56bd8c1ca2e0d0497072b5cdead965ea90578c6 · 2026-09-11 10:06:17 -0700 · Steve Abrams

Steve, 2026-09-11: 'It should mean. Any stop that requires my input on any terminal.'

Adds the umbrella scan colour 🔵 (0,176,240) 'NEEDS STEVE'. Deliberately overlaps
yellow/DIRECTION?, purple/GATED and orange/PASTE — Steve chose to KEEP all three, so
they still carry what kind of stop it is; lightblue is the single colour to scan when
you only want 'has this stopped and does it need me?'.

set_status() rejects any colour not in COLORS, so this entry is what makes 🔵 legal.
Consumers were updated in the SAME change (allcolordots, dot-screen-router) per the
standing rule that a producer must never emit a word its consumer cannot read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Files touched

M terminal_status.py

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commit a56bd8c1ca2e0d0497072b5cdead965ea90578c6
Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 10:06:17 2026 -0700

    colors: add lightblue = ANY STOP THAT REQUIRES STEVE'S INPUT
    
    Steve, 2026-09-11: 'It should mean. Any stop that requires my input on any terminal.'
    
    Adds the umbrella scan colour 🔵 (0,176,240) 'NEEDS STEVE'. Deliberately overlaps
    yellow/DIRECTION?, purple/GATED and orange/PASTE — Steve chose to KEEP all three, so
    they still carry what kind of stop it is; lightblue is the single colour to scan when
    you only want 'has this stopped and does it need me?'.
    
    set_status() rejects any colour not in COLORS, so this entry is what makes 🔵 legal.
    Consumers were updated in the SAME change (allcolordots, dot-screen-router) per the
    standing rule that a producer must never emit a word its consumer cannot read.
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 terminal_status.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/terminal_status.py b/terminal_status.py
index ee6ca3d..07a7303 100644
--- a/terminal_status.py
+++ b/terminal_status.py
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ COLORS = {
     "purple": ("🟣", (148, 0, 211), "GATED"),
     "orange": ("🟠", (255, 140, 0), "PASTE waiting"),
     "pink": ("🩷", (255, 105, 180), "PARKED"),
+    # lightblue (Steve, 2026-09-11): the UMBRELLA "any stop that requires my input on any
+    # terminal". Deliberately overlaps yellow/DIRECTION?, purple/GATED and orange/PASTE —
+    # those keep their specific meanings; lightblue is the one colour to SCAN for when you
+    # only want to know "has this stopped and does it need me?". Ranks ABOVE the three in
+    # every consumer's priority order, because it is the explicit needs-Steve declaration.
+    "lightblue": ("🔵", (0, 176, 240), "NEEDS STEVE"),
     "none": ("", (0, 0, 0), ""),
 }
 PRIORITY = {name: i for i, name in enumerate(

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