Interactive Console UI

The interactive terminal UI is an optional build-time feature (disabled by default, since the primary use of sqc is CLI + CI/CD). Build with the tui feature to enable it:

cargo build --release --features tui

Then launch it with --interactive (or -i):

sqc /path/to/project --interactive
sqc /path/to/project -d /path/to/project -i    # with cross-file context

Running --interactive against a binary built without the tui feature exits with an error telling you to rebuild with --features tui.

The UI is built with ratatui and provides two tabs: Violations and Configuration.

Note

Screenshots below show the TUI running in a standard terminal emulator. The UI adapts to terminal size and supports 256-color and truecolor terminals.

Violations Tab

Violations tab with violations grouped by file. The right panel shows a source preview with the violation line highlighted.

The Violations tab displays all detected violations with grouping, sorting, selection, and inline source preview capabilities.

Configuration Tab

Configuration tab showing CERT C rule categories. Toggle individual rules on/off and export custom manifests.

The Configuration tab lets you browse all 283 rules by category, toggle them on/off, and export a custom manifest file.

Keyboard Reference

Navigation (both tabs)

Key	Action
Up / Down	Move up/down one item
Page Up / Page Down	Move up/down by 10 items
Left / Right	Collapse / expand group
q / Esc	Quit

Tab Switching

Key	Action
v	Switch to Violations tab
c	Switch to Configuration tab
Tab	Toggle focus between violations list and preview

Violations Tab – Selection

Key	Action
Space	Toggle checkbox / expand-collapse group header
a	Select all violations
Shift+A	Select all in current group
n	Deselect all violations
Shift+N	Deselect all in current group

Violations Tab – Actions

Key	Action
s	Scan repository for violations
i	Suppress checked violations (.sqc-suppress.toml)
e	Export checked violations to file (CSV)
h	Toggle suppressed violations and clean files
p	Toggle file preview panel

Violations Tab – Sorting / Grouping

Key	Action
1	Default sort order
2	Group by violation ID (CERT rule)
3	Group by file path
4	Group by filename
r	Reverse sort direction

Configuration Tab

Key	Action
Space	Toggle rule enabled/disabled
e	Save configuration to file
Left / Right	Collapse / expand category group