Halo
Multi-step jobs
Requests that need several steps run as one job: shown whole, confirmed once, with results passed between steps.
Some requests are naturally several steps. Halo keeps them as steps rather than cramming them into one command:
◯ find the PDFs from yesterday and zip them
⟳ a job of 2 steps (changes files)
1 Find files · PDF · modified yesterday
2 Zip them into pdfs.zip
Run this job?
❯ Yes- Shown whole. You see every step before anything runs.
- Confirmed once. One confirmation covers the job, bounded by what the job was shown to need. A step that turns out to need more stops the job.
- Results flow between steps. "them" means exactly what the earlier step found, not a fresh search.
- Stops on failure. If a step fails, later steps do not run, and Halo shows where it stopped.
More examples:
◯ find the CSV files from this week and convert them to JSON
◯ for each folder in packages, count its files
◯ if there's no backup folder, make one
◯ stage the changes, commit them as "notes" and show the last commit
◯ list the ports above 8000 and show the process using the most memory