[deep-report] Non-TTY table rendering always uses RoundedBorder with no width budget #66573

Description

Terminal Stylist (discussion #66520) found that pkg/console/console.go:318 (RenderTable-family code) always applies styles.RoundedBorder regardless of TTY state — only border color and row styling are gated by ttyCheck(). Live-verified: the Border(styles.RoundedBorder) call is unconditional; borderStyle (colors only) is the only TTY-gated piece. There is also no terminal-width budget, even though 35 CLI call sites depend on this renderer.

Consequence: piped/non-TTY output (log files, CI capture, | cat) still receives Unicode box-drawing characters and fixed padding, which is harder to grep/diff than plain text, and long tables are not truncated/wrapped for narrow terminals.

Expected Impact

Cleaner, more parseable non-interactive output; tables that adapt to terminal width instead of overflowing.

Suggested Fix

Select a borderless/ASCII table mode when !ttyCheck() (or an explicit --no-color/non-interactive flag), and compute a width budget from the destination terminal, truncating or wrapping lower-priority columns. Keep the current rounded borders and zebra striping for interactive TTYs.

Suggested Agent

An agent familiar with pkg/console/console.go's RenderTable path and the 35 call sites.

Estimated Effort

Medium (1-4 hours).

Data Source

Terminal Stylist discussion #66520 (2026-10-07), "Medium priority" finding #2. Live-verified via direct read of pkg/console/console.go:305-325.

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• expires on Oct 9, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC-08:00