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Detect nested stage-scripts and indent output accordingly

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the StagedScript implementation and tracing how stage headings are emitted when one script invokes another. Done means nested StagedScript output is visibly indented while top-level output remains unchanged; the issue names no files or tests to run.

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Description

Type: Feature

It'd be really nice if a StagedScript could detect whether it was being run within the stage of another StagedScript, and, if so, adjust it's output by prepending an indent level. I have no idea how I might implement such a thing at the moment, but seeing the output of one script run by another is confusing for the user, because they just see all the stages consolidated together into a flat level, which can be misleading. E.g., consider just the stage headings in the output:

Opening project...
Building documentation...
Creating an environment...                                     # This is a nested script,
Installing documentation dependencies...                       # but the user is unaware,
Building documentation...  # Didn't we already do this above?  # because the output doesn't say.
Building toolbox...
Cleaning up...
Dominant language
Python
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23
Forks
2
Avg merge
3d 11h
Merged PRs (30d)
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