Platform and Console Utilities

include/Utils/Platform/ and lib/Utils/Platform/ provide small utilities for timing, progress reporting, and platform queries.

Main components:

Timer for timeout checks and elapsed-time measurement.
ProgressBar for terminal progress reporting.
System for environment and system-level helpers.
subprocess for running external processes and capturing their output.

These headers are shared by tools that need lightweight CLI-facing utilities.

Guidelines

Use Timer for time budgets and elapsed-time reporting rather than relying on ad hoc wall-clock calculations. Long-running tools should make progress reporting optional so redirected output remains machine-readable. Calls that launch external programs should surface the command status and captured error output to the user or caller.