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+/**
+ * Frames for the hqtui.com apps showcase.
+ *
+ * A fixture rather than a live session. A screenshot taken from a real run
+ * changes on every capture and would show whatever happened to be in somebody's
+ * home directory and on the far end of an SSH connection — neither reviewable
+ * nor safe to publish.
+ *
+ * The state is built from the real types, not cast into shape, so this stops
+ * compiling if the model changes underneath it. That is the point: a showcase
+ * frame that has silently drifted from the app is worse than no frame.
+ */
+import type { Change, ChangeSummary, RsyncProgress } from '@diskpush/schemas'
+import { blankPane, type Entry, type Pane, type Transfer } from '../apps/cli/src/tui/model.js'
+import { draw, type ViewState } from '../apps/cli/src/tui/view.js'
+
+const entry = (name: string, over: Partial<Entry> = {}): Entry => ({
+  name,
+  isDirectory: false,
+  size: 0,
+  modifiedAt: null,
+  ...over,
+})
+
+const pane = (label: string, path: string, entries: Entry[], over: Partial<Pane> = {}): Pane => ({
+  ...blankPane(label, path),
+  entries,
+  ...over,
+})
+
+const change = (path: string, action: Change['action'], size: number | null, over: Partial<Change> = {}): Change => ({
+  action,
+  path,
+  itemize: null,
+  isDirectory: false,
+  size,
+  ...over,
+})
+
+const LOCAL: Entry[] = [
+  entry('..', { isDirectory: true }),
+  entry('apps', { isDirectory: true, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T09:12:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('packages', { isDirectory: true, modifiedAt: '2026-09-07T21:40:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('dist', { isDirectory: true, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T09:18:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('README.md', { size: 4213, modifiedAt: '2026-09-06T11:02:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('bun.lock', { size: 184320, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T08:55:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('package.json', { size: 1180, modifiedAt: '2026-09-05T16:31:00.000Z' }),
+]
+
+const REMOTE: Entry[] = [
+  entry('..', { isDirectory: true }),
+  entry('releases', { isDirectory: true, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T09:20:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('diskpush-0.6.0.tar.gz', { size: 9437184, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T09:19:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('diskpush-0.5.0.tar.gz', { size: 9214464, modifiedAt: '2026-09-01T14:05:00.000Z' }),
+  entry('checksums.txt', { size: 312, modifiedAt: '2026-09-08T09:19:00.000Z' }),
+]
+
+const SUMMARY: ChangeSummary = {
+  add: 1, update: 1, metadata: 0, delete: 0, unchanged: 1, error: 0,
+}
+
+const PROGRESS: RsyncProgress = {
+  bytesTransferred: 7_340_032,
+  percent: 78,
+  bytesPerSecond: 2_306_867,
+  elapsedSeconds: 3.2,
+  filesTransferred: 2,
+  filesRemaining: 1,
+  filesTotal: 3,
+}
+
+const TRANSFER: Transfer = {
+  mode: 'sync',
+  from: '~/src/profullstack/diskpush/dist',
+  to: 'deploy@edge-01:/srv/releases',
+  running: true,
+  progress: PROGRESS,
+  recent: [
+    change('diskpush-0.6.0.tar.gz', 'add', 9_437_184),
+    change('checksums.txt', 'update', 312),
+    change('diskpush-0.5.0.tar.gz', 'unchanged', 9_214_464),
+  ],
+  summary: SUMMARY,
+  outcome: null,
+  cancel: () => {},
+}
+
+const STATE: ViewState = {
+  panes: {
+    left: pane('Local', '~/src/profullstack/diskpush', LOCAL, { index: 3 }),
+    right: pane('deploy@edge-01', '/srv/releases', REMOTE, { index: 2 }),
+  },
+  active: 'left',
+  overlay: null,
+  transfer: TRANSFER,
+  filtering: null,
+  status: { text: 'Syncing dist → /srv/releases', tone: 'info' },
+  choices: [],
+  now: new Date('2026-09-08T09:21:00.000Z'),
+}
+
+const WIDTH = 132
+const HEIGHT = 34
+
+export const frames = [
+  {
+    name: 'diskpush',
+    width: WIDTH,
+    height: HEIGHT,
+    draw: ({ ui, theme, height }: Parameters<typeof drawAdapter>[0]) =>
+      drawAdapter({ ui, theme, height }),
+  },
+]
+
+/** hqtui hands the renderer a container and a theme; `draw` also wants the size. */
+function drawAdapter({ ui, theme, height }: {
+  ui: Parameters<typeof draw>[0]
+  theme: Parameters<typeof draw>[1]
+  height: number
+}): void {
+  draw(ui, theme, WIDTH, height, STATE)
+}