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Right now paths are DashMaps of DashMaps and paths are strings I re-parse every time. I need to figure out exactly how I want paths to actually work, write some nice structs and macros to encapsulate, and maybe do some performance optimization.

Deleted this feature in cleanup because I was missing a UX to activate it and didn't want to spend time inventing one; I need to re-add it at some point.

The key here is to make writing as nice as possible. So it'll probably be some sort of graphical editor, with nice formatting support and... I dunno, flowcharty connection.

Plus, whatever tool I write for this, and whatever format it outputs, I can easily spread around for an easy entry to custom content!

Two components to this:

• help command, which can list available commands and print their descriptions
• Mouseover hover text or F1 or something which lets you see what commands or options mean in context

Not sure exactly how each will be implemented, because I also want whatever I use to be able to cover shell syntax. Maybe some kind of a system of manuals, each linked to others.

I need a tab for controlling game settings, and a mechanism for propagating those settings globally.

Right now tools are... adequate. They can do a lot of interaction by being an Agent, but their capability for I/O with the user is very limited. I'm thinking it needs a bit of a revamp. The trouble is that Apps (by design) can't really act in the same capacity as Agents, so a Tool that wanted to do any event back-and-forth would need to spawn (probably itself) as an agent.

There's probably a solution here around buliding that into the Tool API, but I haven't thought of a concrete answer yet.

I haven't tested this on other machines, but here on my Gentoo Linux machine it fails to compile.

Miscellaneous tools to make writing (especially writing NPCs) easier, e.g.:

• GUI editor with clifmt support
• Some kind of playtester/visualizer
• Text-ish NPC file format (maybe YAML?) for source control

Probably blocked on #6