steps

1. Start sbt server on terminal1 where a build is located: sbt server
2. Start sbt client on terminal2 from anywhere like ~/temp/: sbt client localhost:5001
3. In the thin client, I can type in sbt shell expressions such as echo-server/compile

expectation

The shell expressions are queued up to the sbt server and it gets executed.

not part of the scope

Seeing the intermediate outputs out of the commands and tasks.