CLI UX Controls

Status: Shipped (human output controls)

joy has separate human and machine interfaces:

• human mode (default) for local developer experience
• machine mode (--json / --machine) for automation

Human Output Controls

Global flags:

joy --color auto|always|never ...
joy --progress auto|always|never ...
joy --glyphs auto|unicode|ascii ...

Convenience aliases:

• --no-progress (same as --progress=never)
• --ascii (same as --glyphs=ascii)

Environment Variables

joy also consults environment variables for human output behavior:

• JOY_COLOR
• JOY_PROGRESS
• JOY_GLYPHS
• NO_COLOR
• CLICOLOR
• CLICOLOR_FORCE
• TERM
• CI

Compatibility Policy

Human output is allowed to improve over time (layout, colors, wording, progress rendering).

Automation should use --json, which remains the stable interface.