Build the welcome screen

The welcome window becomes the real thing: Xcode-style, hidden title
bar with background drag, branding and actions left, recents right —
rows carrying the board symbol, name, location, and the registry's
cached lane/card counts (stamped at close, never a scan at welcome
time), sorted by last opened. Launch failures surface row-level per
02: a failure joins its recents row as a warning caption, an
unresolvable bookmark renders unavailable with Forget its one
affordance, and only a failure with no row to carry it falls back to
a compact list; a board opening again heals its row. New Board
(Opt-Cmd-N) opens the Pages-style template chooser — shipped with
the single Basic template and the m9 seams marked — flowing through
the save panel into createBoard/createLane and straight into a board
window. Open Recent gains its submenu with Clear Menu (byte-identical
to forgetting every row, pinned by test), and File > Duplicate forks
the frontmost board to a Finder-style copy sibling: pending work
flushes first through the close flush's step two alone (sessions stay
open — 09's stated exception), every GUID and tombstone carries (the
whole-board carve-out from copies-remint), and the copy opens in its
own window while the original stays put. 36 new tests.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY

Kanban/App/AppCommands.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+import AppKit
+import SwiftUI
+import os
+
+// MARK: - Focused values
+
+/// The frontmost board window's **identity**, published beside its store by `BoardWindowHost`.
+///
+/// `FocusedBoardStoreKey` answers "which board is in front"; this answers "which *window*", which is
+/// a different question and the one File ▸ Duplicate has to ask: the flush that precedes a copy is
+/// keyed on the window's session, not on the store (`AppModel.flushPendingWork(for:)`).
+struct FocusedBoardWindowRefKey: FocusedValueKey {
+    typealias Value = BoardWindowRef
+}
+
+/// The welcome window's selected recents row — File ▸ Reveal in Finder's welcome scope.
+struct FocusedWelcomeSelectionKey: FocusedValueKey {
+    typealias Value = WelcomeRow
+}
+
+extension FocusedValues {
+    var boardWindowRef: BoardWindowRef? {
+        get { self[FocusedBoardWindowRefKey.self] }
+        set { self[FocusedBoardWindowRefKey.self] = newValue }
+    }
+
+    var welcomeSelection: WelcomeRow? {
+        get { self[FocusedWelcomeSelectionKey.self] }
+        set { self[FocusedWelcomeSelectionKey.self] = newValue }
+    }
+}
+
+// MARK: - New Board
+
+/// File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N) — the template chooser's entry point (11-command-nexus.md;
+/// 09-templates.md).
+///
+/// **⌥⌘N, not ⌘N**: ⌘N is New *Card*, which is the command a board window user reaches for a hundred
+/// times a day, so the rarer creation wears the modifier. Available everywhere — a new board needs
+/// no board in front, and the welcome window's own button is this item's twin.
+struct NewBoardCommand: View {
+
+    let appModel: AppModel
+
+    var body: some View {
+        Button("New Board…") {
+            appModel.showTemplateChooser()
+        }
+        .keyboardShortcut("n", modifiers: [.option, .command])
+    }
+}
+
+// MARK: - Open Recent
+
+/// File ▸ Open Recent ▸ (11-command-nexus.md: "Everywhere; reads the board registry").
+///
+/// The registry, rendered as a menu — same rows as the welcome list, through the same derivation, so
+/// the two can never disagree about a board's name or about whether it can be opened. An
+/// unavailable board is **listed and disabled** rather than hidden, which is the recents row's own
+/// posture (02 § Graceful orphaning) applied to a menu: a board that has gone missing is information,
+/// and a menu that quietly shortened itself would be the app forgetting on the user's behalf.
+///
+/// Clear Menu sits at the bottom, where Finder puts it. See `AppModel.clearRecents` for the
+/// equivalence it rests on — the registry *is* this menu, so clearing the menu clears the registry.
+struct OpenRecentMenu: View {
+
+    let appModel: AppModel
+
+    /// The failures are deliberately not joined in here: a menu item has no room for fail-fast's
+    /// specifics, and a board that failed to open is still a board the user may want to try again.
+    /// The failure's surface is the welcome row (02 § Launch and window lifecycle).
+    private var rows: [WelcomeRow] {
+        WelcomeRow.derive(recents: appModel.recents, failures: []).rows
+    }
+
+    var body: some View {
+        let rows = self.rows
+
+        Menu("Open Recent") {
+            ForEach(rows) { row in
+                Button(row.displayName) {
+                    guard let url = row.url else { return }
+                    appModel.openBoard(at: url)
+                }
+                .disabled(!row.canOpen)
+            }
+
+            if !rows.isEmpty {
+                Divider()
+            }
+
+            Button("Clear Menu") {
+                appModel.clearRecents()
+            }
+            .disabled(rows.isEmpty)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// MARK: - Duplicate
+
+/// File ▸ Duplicate (⇧⌘S) — **the board**, never the selection (11-command-nexus.md, 03-board-ui.md
+/// § Welcome screen & templates).
+///
+/// ### What it does, in the order 03 fixes
+///
+/// 1. **The flush first** — "The copy is preceded by the close flush ... so neither the tree nor the
+///    copied history misses pending work". Not a *close*: 09-templates.md states the rule with its
+///    exception attached ("sessions staying open"), and 03 is explicit that "the original stays open
+///    too". `AppModel.flushPendingWork(for:)` is that step of the sequence, run on its own.
+/// 2. **The copy** — `BoardDuplicator`, off the main actor so the spinner can spin.
+/// 3. **The copy opens in its own board window** — "macOS Duplicate convention" — through the
+///    ordinary open path, so it registers, bookmarks, and titles itself like any other board.
+///
+/// ### Validation
+///
+/// Board window only, so a welcome-selected recent can never be duplicated by accident — 03 says it
+/// "never acts on a welcome-selected recent", and scoping the item to the focused board window is
+/// how that is enforced rather than remembered.
+///
+/// **Disabled under the read-only lock in every state** (03: "the flush can't run and the sibling
+/// destination shares the board's fate"). It uses `acceptsBoardMutations`, which adds the
+/// focused-inline-editor half of 04's rule to the lock 03 names — a deliberate reading rather than a
+/// slip: an open title editor holds the one pending change no flush can reach, and a duplicate taken
+/// mid-rename would be a fork missing the edit the user is in the middle of making.
+struct DuplicateBoardCommand: View {
+
+    let appModel: AppModel
+
+    @FocusedValue(\.boardStore) private var store
+    @FocusedValue(\.boardWindowRef) private var ref
+
+    private static let logger = Logger(subsystem: "dev.rzen.indie.Kanban", category: "duplicate")
+
+    var body: some View {
+        Button("Duplicate") {
+            duplicate()
+        }
+        .keyboardShortcut("s", modifiers: [.shift, .command])
+        .disabled(!canDuplicate)
+    }
+
+    private var canDuplicate: Bool {
+        guard let store, ref != nil else { return false }
+        return store.acceptsBoardMutations
+    }
+
+    private func duplicate() {
+        guard canDuplicate, let store, let ref else { return }
+        let name = AppModel.displayName(of: store)
+        let source = store.rootURL
+
+        Task { @MainActor in
+            // The in-progress row 02 § The banner surface names for "big-board Duplicate": info
+            // tone, pinned, cleared on completion, swapped for the error row on failure.
+            //
+            // No Cancel yet. 02 promises one on copy-shaped work ("remove the partial copy, nothing
+            // lost"), which needs a cooperatively cancellable copy and a cleanup of the partial
+            // destination; `beginOperation`'s `cancel` slot is where it plugs in.
+            let operation = store.banners.beginOperation(label: "Duplicating '\(name)'…")
+            defer { store.banners.endOperation(operation) }
+
+            await appModel.flushPendingWork(for: ref)
+
+            do {
+                // Off the main actor: the copy is real I/O on a board that may carry a large `.git`,
+                // and a spinner drawn by a blocked main thread is a still picture. See
+                // `BoardDuplicator` for why that is safe here.
+                let copy = try await Task.detached(priority: .userInitiated) {
+                    try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: source, titled: name)
+                }.value
+                appModel.openBoard(at: copy)
+            } catch let error as BoardWriteError {
+                Self.logger.error("duplicate failed: \(error.description, privacy: .public)")
+                store.banners.post(error)
+            } catch {
+                store.banners.post(BoardWriteError(
+                    operation: .duplicateBoard(title: name),
+                    path: source.path,
+                    reason: .io(message: error.localizedDescription)
+                ))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// MARK: - Reveal in Finder
+
+/// File ▸ Reveal in Finder — **the welcome scope** (11-command-nexus.md: "welcome: the selected
+/// recent's folder (disabled on unavailable rows) — the context-menu entry's required twin").
+///
+/// It is here because the welcome row's context menu is: 11 files the menu-bar item as that entry's
+/// *required* twin, so shipping one without the other would leave the context menu as the only path
+/// to a command — the thing 04's contract forbids.
+///
+// m5-context-menus, m6-card-window: the item's other two scopes. Board window — the selection's
+// folder(s), or the board root with nothing selected — arrives with the board's own context menus;
+// card window — the card's folder, or the selected attachment's file when the attachments section is
+// focused — with the card window. Each adds a focused value and a branch here; the welcome branch
+// does not move.
+struct RevealInFinderCommand: View {
+
+    @FocusedValue(\.welcomeSelection) private var selection
+
+    var body: some View {
+        Button("Reveal in Finder") {
+            guard let url = selection?.url else { return }
+            NSWorkspace.shared.activateFileViewerSelecting([url])
+        }
+        .disabled(selection?.canReveal != true)
+    }
+}

Kanban/App/AppModel.swift

@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ import os
 public enum WindowID {
     public static let welcome = "welcome"
     public static let restoreBootstrap = "restore-bootstrap"
+    /// The template chooser (09-templates.md; File ▸ New Board… ⌥⌘N). Its own window rather than a
+    /// sheet on welcome because ⌥⌘N is available *everywhere* (11-command-nexus.md) — including from
+    /// a board window, and including when welcome is not open at all, which a sheet would have to
+    /// conjure a host for.
+    public static let templateChooser = "template-chooser"
     public static let board = "board"
     public static let card = "card"
 }
@@ -66,11 +71,11 @@ public enum AppPreferences {
 /// **A struct rather than the obvious tuple** only because SwiftUI needs identity to list these and
 /// two failures can share a path (a board that failed, was retried, and failed again).
 ///
-/// This is the minimum that satisfies "never a silent drop". The settled shape is richer — 02
+/// The join onto a recents row is `WelcomeRow.derive(recents:failures:)` — 02 § Launch and window
-/// § Launch and window lifecycle wants the failure *on the board's recents row*, carrying fail-fast's
+/// lifecycle wants the failure *on the board's row*, carrying fail-fast's specifics or the
-/// specifics or the unavailable state — and that belongs with the recents list itself.
+/// unavailable state, and a failure naming no row (a first open of a folder that was never a board)
-// m4-welcome: row-level failure rendering lands with the full welcome window (recents, Forget,
+/// falls back to a list of its own. `path` is what the join matches on, which is why it is stored
-// Open Recent). Until then a plain list under the branding is the honest placeholder.
+/// rather than derived from the message.
 public struct LaunchFailure: Identifiable, Sendable, Equatable {
     public let id = UUID()
     public let path: String
@@ -229,10 +234,82 @@ public final class AppModel {
         windowDismisser = dismiss
     }
 
+    // MARK: Recents
+
+    /// The recents list, cached: what the welcome window renders and what File ▸ Open Recent lists
+    /// (02-architecture.md § Per-board app state — "The recents list *is* this registry sorted by
+    /// last-opened").
+    ///
+    /// **Cached rather than read through on demand, and both halves of that are deliberate.**
+    /// `BoardRegistry` is not `@Observable`, so a view reading it directly would never learn that a
+    /// row was forgotten; and `recents()` resolves every record's bookmark, which is filesystem work
+    /// no SwiftUI body should be doing on every evaluation — the File menu's command graph is
+    /// rebuilt far more often than this list changes. So the list lives here as observable state and
+    /// every path that can change the registry refreshes it explicitly (`refreshRecents()`).
+    ///
+    /// The honest residual: a registry mutated behind this object's back would show stale until the
+    /// next refresh. There is no such path today — every writer goes through this type or through a
+    /// session it owns — and welcome refreshes on appearance as the cheap belt-and-braces.
+    public private(set) var recents: [RecentBoard] = []
+
+    /// Re-reads the registry into `recents`. Called wherever the registry changes: a board opening,
+    /// a board closing (the counts are stamped there), Forget, Clear Menu, and welcome appearing.
+    public func refreshRecents() {
+        recents = boardRegistry.recents()
+    }
+
+    /// The welcome row's Forget (11-command-nexus.md ▸ Welcome recent) — the record, plus any launch
+    /// failure that row was carrying, plus the refresh, in one call so no caller can do one without
+    /// the others.
+    ///
+    /// **Forgetting the board forgets the failure too.** The row *is* the failure's surface (02
+    /// § Launch and window lifecycle); dropping the row while keeping the failure would relocate its
+    /// message into the unmatched-failures list, which reads as the app declining to forget.
+    public func forget(boardID: UUID) {
+        clearLaunchFailures(naming: knownPaths(ofBoard: boardID))
+        boardRegistry.forget(id: boardID)
+        refreshRecents()
+    }
+
+    /// File ▸ Open Recent ▸ Clear Menu (11-command-nexus.md).
+    ///
+    /// **Finder clears the *menu*; here the registry is the menu**, so clearing removes every record
+    /// — there is no second list to clear, and a "menu" that still knew about the boards it had
+    /// stopped listing would be a distinction with no surface. What that costs is per-board settings
+    /// (window frames, push-on-commit) for boards the user reopens later, which is exactly what
+    /// Forget costs one row at a time and what 02's "its settings are conveniences" already accepts.
+    ///
+    /// It is Forget applied wholesale, so it clears failures the same way — the ones naming records,
+    /// leaving a failure that named no row (and therefore no menu entry) standing in its own list.
+    ///
+    /// A board that is open right now keeps working: its session holds a record id that no longer
+    /// resolves, and `BoardRegistry.update` treats an unknown id as a no-op for precisely this case.
+    public func clearRecents() {
+        clearLaunchFailures(naming: Set(recents.flatMap { recent in
+            [recent.record.lastKnownPath, recent.url?.path].compactMap { $0 }
+        }))
+        boardRegistry.forgetAll()
+        refreshRecents()
+    }
+
+    /// Every path a given record is known by — the one it was last seen at and, when its bookmark
+    /// still resolves, where it lives now. The two can differ (a bookmark follows a move), and a
+    /// failure recorded before the move names the older one.
+    private func knownPaths(ofBoard id: UUID) -> Set<String> {
+        var paths: Set<String> = []
+        if let record = boardRegistry.record(id: id) {
+            paths.insert(record.lastKnownPath)
+        }
+        if let url = recents.first(where: { $0.record.id == id })?.url {
+            paths.insert(url.path)
+        }
+        return paths
+    }
+
     // MARK: Launch failures
 
-    /// Boards that failed to restore or open, newest last — the minimal welcome's one dynamic
+    /// Boards that failed to restore or open, newest last. Rendered on their own recents rows where
-    /// section. See `LaunchFailure` for what replaces it.
+    /// one exists, and in a fallback list where none does — `WelcomeRow.derive(recents:failures:)`.
     public private(set) var launchFailures: [LaunchFailure] = []
 
     // MARK: Card-window placement
@@ -266,6 +343,11 @@ public final class AppModel {
     /// real Application Support directory".
     public init(registryStorageURL: URL = BoardRegistry.defaultStorageURL) {
         boardRegistry = BoardRegistry(storageURL: registryStorageURL)
+        // Read once here rather than lazily, so File ▸ Open Recent is populated from the app's first
+        // menu pass — a launch that restores boards never shows welcome, and a submenu that filled
+        // in only after the first close would look broken. It costs one bookmark-resolution sweep at
+        // launch, next to the one `restorables()` already runs.
+        refreshRecents()
     }
 
     // MARK: - Opening
@@ -308,6 +390,14 @@ public final class AppModel {
         windowOpener?(id: WindowID.welcome)
     }
 
+    /// File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N) — shows, or focuses, the template chooser (09-templates.md).
+    ///
+    /// The command opens a *chooser*, never a board: the location is the save panel's question and
+    /// the panel is the chooser's, so this method's whole job is the window.
+    public func showTemplateChooser() {
+        windowOpener?(id: WindowID.templateChooser)
+    }
+
     /// The standard open panel behind File ▸ Open… ⌘O (11-command-nexus.md).
     ///
     /// **Validation is the open attempt itself** — there is no pre-flight check that a folder is a
@@ -352,8 +442,17 @@ public final class AppModel {
     }
 
     /// Starts a board's session — the board window's host calls this once its load has succeeded.
+    ///
+    /// Two bookkeeping consequences of "this board is now open" ride along. The recents list is
+    /// re-read, because `recordOpen` just moved this board to the top of it. And any launch failure
+    /// naming this board is dropped: the board demonstrably opens, so a row still captioned with the
+    /// old error would be reporting a condition that has stopped being true. That is not the silent
+    /// drop 02 forbids — it forbids a failure that was never surfaced disappearing, not one the user
+    /// has since fixed.
     func beginSession(ref: BoardWindowRef, store: BoardStore, recordID: UUID, access: ScopedAccess?) {
         sessions[ref] = BoardSession(store: store, recordID: recordID, cardRefs: [], access: access)
+        clearLaunchFailures(naming: [ref.path, store.rootURL.path])
+        refreshRecents()
     }
 
     /// Registers a card window with its board's session, so the close flush can find it.
@@ -389,6 +488,22 @@ public final class AppModel {
         launchFailures.removeAll()
     }
 
+    /// Forgets exactly the named failures — what the unmatched-failures list's Clear dismisses, so
+    /// that pressing it never also erases a message still standing on a recents row the user has
+    /// not looked at.
+    public func clearLaunchFailures(ids: Set<UUID>) {
+        launchFailures.removeAll { ids.contains($0.id) }
+    }
+
+    /// Drops every failure naming one of `paths` — the resolution path, used when a board opens
+    /// successfully and when its record is forgotten. Paths are compared the way the welcome row's
+    /// join compares them, so "this row's failure" means the same thing in both places.
+    private func clearLaunchFailures(naming paths: Set<String>) {
+        guard !paths.isEmpty else { return }
+        let keys = Set(paths.map(WelcomeRow.pathKey))
+        launchFailures.removeAll { keys.contains(WelcomeRow.pathKey($0.path)) }
+    }
+
     // MARK: - Counts
 
     /// The lane and card counts stamped into the registry at close — **live items only** (02
@@ -442,6 +557,29 @@ public final class AppModel {
         defer { closingBoards.remove(ref) }
 
         await coordinator(for: ref).run(cause: cause)
+        // The flush stamped this board's counts and (on a user close) cleared its open-now flag, so
+        // the cached list is now one close out of date — and welcome is often the very next thing on
+        // screen.
+        refreshRecents()
+    }
+
+    /// The close flush's **pending-work step, without the teardown** — what File ▸ Duplicate runs
+    /// before it copies (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates: "The copy is preceded by the
+    /// close flush ... so neither the tree nor the copied history misses pending work").
+    ///
+    /// **Not `closeBoard`**, and the design says so itself: 09-templates.md ▸ Save as Template states
+    /// the rule together with its exception — "with the pull-style mechanical exception committing an
+    /// open Edit session's on-disk saves as-is, **sessions staying open**". A duplicate leaves the
+    /// original on screen (03: "the original stays open too"), so what it needs is pending work
+    /// *landed on disk*, not a session ended: no card window is dismissed, no record is stamped
+    /// closed, nothing is torn down, and the board the user is looking at never blinks.
+    ///
+    /// It goes through `CloseFlushCoordinator` rather than calling the store directly so that the
+    /// order of the three flushes — store pipeline, then editor saves, then the pending auto-commit
+    /// (02's own order) — keeps having exactly one definition.
+    public func flushPendingWork(for ref: BoardWindowRef) async {
+        guard sessions[ref] != nil else { return }
+        await coordinator(for: ref).flushPendingWork()
     }
 
     /// Quit: the same sequence, once per open board, **sequentially**.

Kanban/App/BoardDuplicator.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import Foundation
+
+/// File ▸ Duplicate (⇧⌘S) — the copy itself (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates).
+///
+/// ### A literal tree copy, and every one of its exclusions is deliberate
+///
+/// - **Every GUID is kept.** A whole-board copy is 01-storage-format.md's explicit carve-out from
+///   the copies-remint rule: "the remint rule governs *item-level* copies landing inside an existing
+///   board, where identities could collide; a whole-board copy is a new namespace, and Duplicate's
+///   fork-keeps-history guarantee requires it (copied `.git` history must keep naming the paths it
+///   describes)".
+/// - **Tombstoned items are carried too** (03, settled): "Duplicate is a full fork, trash included —
+///   dropping them would leave the copy's working tree disagreeing with its own copied HEAD". This
+///   file does nothing to achieve that: a tombstone is a `deleted:` key inside a file, so a copy
+///   carries it by declining to be clever.
+/// - **`.git` comes along** — a duplicate of a git board is a fork of its history — with only its
+///   remote configuration stripped, which is m7's.
+/// - Timestamps, unknown keys, strays, `CLAUDE.user.md`, attachments: verbatim, for the same reason.
+///   **Nothing here reads a board file at all.**
+///
+/// `FileManager.copyItem` rather than a walk through `BoardWriter.copyItem`: the Writer's copy path
+/// exists to remint identities and restamp frontmatter at an import boundary, and this operation is
+/// defined by doing neither of those things.
+///
+/// ### Not `@MainActor`
+///
+/// Duplicating a board with a year of `.git` behind it is real I/O, and it runs while the original's
+/// window stays open with an in-progress banner row spinning (02-architecture.md § The banner
+/// surface names "big-board Duplicate" as an example). A spinner on a blocked main thread is a
+/// frozen picture, so the caller runs this off the main actor. That is safe by construction: it
+/// touches only its two URLs, and the board's security-scoped access is a process-wide grant the
+/// session holds open for the window's whole life, not a per-thread one.
+enum BoardDuplicator {
+
+    /// The Finder-style destination for duplicating `rootURL`: `"Board copy"`, then `"Board copy 2"`,
+    /// `"Board copy 3"`, … — Finder's own ladder, counting up from 2 against what is on disk at
+    /// decision time, one collision at a time.
+    ///
+    /// **A sibling**, per 03 ("a Finder-style 'copy' sibling"), so a board found in a folder full of
+    /// boards produces its duplicate where the user is already looking.
+    ///
+    /// The extension rides on the end (`Board.kanban` → `Board copy.kanban`) and an extension-less
+    /// board folder simply has none to carry (`Board` → `Board copy`) — both are shapes a board is
+    /// allowed to be (01-storage-format.md § Document packaging, "Extension-less board folders still
+    /// open"), and both are what `URL`'s own splitting produces, which is also how the Writer's
+    /// attachment-collision helper spells the same idea.
+    ///
+    /// `fileExists` is the one test, and it is true for a file as much as a folder: anything already
+    /// wearing the name blocks it, which is what keeps a duplicate from ever overwriting something.
+    static func copyDestination(for rootURL: URL) -> URL {
+        let parent = rootURL.deletingLastPathComponent()
+        let base = rootURL.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
+        let ext = rootURL.pathExtension
+
+        func candidate(_ name: String) -> URL {
+            parent.appendingPathComponent(ext.isEmpty ? name : "\(name).\(ext)", isDirectory: true)
+        }
+
+        var name = "\(base) copy"
+        var counter = 2
+        while FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: candidate(name).path) {
+            name = "\(base) copy \(counter)"
+            counter += 1
+        }
+        return candidate(name)
+    }
+
+    /// Copies the board at `rootURL` to its Finder-style sibling and answers where it landed.
+    ///
+    /// `title` is the board's display name, carried only so a failure can name the board the user
+    /// pressed Duplicate on — this function never reads it off disk, which is the whole point.
+    ///
+    /// The failure is a `BoardWriteError` like every other write in the app, so the board window's
+    /// banner renders it in the vocabulary it already speaks. A copy that fails part-way leaves a
+    /// partial folder behind; `FileManager` cleans up its own destination on most failures, and the
+    /// residue that survives is a folder the user can see and delete — the honest outcome, and the
+    /// one 02's "remove the partial copy" Cancel affordance would formalise when it lands.
+    static func duplicate(boardAt rootURL: URL, titled title: String?) throws(BoardWriteError) -> URL {
+        let destination = copyDestination(for: rootURL)
+        do {
+            try FileManager.default.copyItem(at: rootURL, to: destination)
+        } catch {
+            throw BoardWriteError(
+                operation: .duplicateBoard(title: title),
+                path: destination.path,
+                reason: .io(message: error.localizedDescription)
+            )
+        }
+        // m7-git: strip the copy's remote configuration — "the duplicate keeps `.git` but has its
+        // remote configuration stripped ... it must not silently push into the original's remote"
+        // (03-board-ui.md). Remotes only: the repo-local `user.name`/`user.email` survives, so the
+        // fork keeps its commit identity (06-history-undo.md's identity home). Push-on-commit needs
+        // nothing here — it lives on the registry record, and the copy's record is born fresh.
+        return destination
+    }
+}

Kanban/App/BoardTemplate.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import Foundation
+
+/// A board template — what File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N) instantiates (09-templates.md).
+///
+/// ### One template today, and that is the shape of this card, not a shortcut
+///
+/// 09 settles both the inventory (all ten pathfinder templates carry over) and the definition
+/// format, and the format is the interesting part: **a template is itself a board** — a schema-valid
+/// board folder in the app's resources, read by the same `BoardLoader`, its `index.md` supplying the
+/// display name (`title`), the picker blurb (the body), the icon, and the chooser position
+/// (`template.order`). None of that exists yet. What this card ships is the *entry point*: the
+/// chooser window, the save panel, and a real path from ⌥⌘N to an open board, with exactly one
+/// template behind it so that path is exercised rather than described.
+///
+// m9-templates: the inventory becomes a walk of `<bundle>/Templates/*.kanban` plus the user store in
+// Application Support, each folder loaded through `BoardLoader` — `name`/`blurb`/`icon` off the
+// template board's own `index.md`, order off its `template.order`, an unloadable user template still
+// listed (by folder name, marked unloadable, carrying the loader's specifics) but not instantiable.
+// `laneTitles` stops existing at that point: instantiation becomes a tree copy that skips tombstones,
+// mints fresh GUIDs, and stamps `created`/`modified` fresh (`BoardWriter.CopyStamps.born`), never
+// copying `.git`. The chooser's mini preview renders from the loaded `BoardModel` rather than from
+// these strings.
+struct BoardTemplate: Identifiable, Sendable, Equatable {
+
+    /// The bundle folder name a real template would have (`basic.kanban` → `basic`) — 09 calls it
+    /// "the template's stable slug (tests, a11y ids)", so it is the identity here too.
+    let slug: String
+
+    /// The chooser's display name — a real template's `title`.
+    let name: String
+
+    /// The chooser's blurb — a real template's `index.md` body, which also becomes the new board's
+    /// description. Nothing is written from it yet: this card creates lanes, not board bodies.
+    let blurb: String
+
+    /// The board icon shown in the picker and inherited by the new board.
+    let icon: String
+
+    /// The lanes to create, in order.
+    let laneTitles: [String]
+
+    var id: String { slug }
+
+    /// The plain scaffold, and the one template that exists.
+    ///
+    // m9-templates: the bundled `basic.kanban` is 09's "plain To Do / Done scaffold" — two lanes,
+    // not these three. The third is here because a chooser preview with two lanes reads as a mistake
+    // and because this stub's whole job is to prove the create path; when the bundled template
+    // arrives it replaces this value wholesale and 09's inventory is the only source.
+    static let basic = BoardTemplate(
+        slug: "basic",
+        name: "Basic",
+        blurb: "Three lanes to move work through.",
+        icon: ItemSymbol.board,
+        laneTitles: ["To Do", "Doing", "Done"]
+    )
+
+    /// Every template the chooser offers, in chooser order.
+    static let all: [BoardTemplate] = [.basic]
+
+    // MARK: - Instantiation
+
+    /// Writes this template to `rootURL`: the board's `index.md`, then one lane per title, in order.
+    ///
+    /// **The board's title is the document name the user chose**, not the template's — 09
+    /// ▸ Instantiation says so, and 01-storage-format.md § Board naming is the reason: display name
+    /// and folder name start out matching, so a board called "Roadmap" on disk is called "Roadmap" in
+    /// its window title. An extension-less name is as legal a board as a `.kanban` one, so the
+    /// extension is stripped rather than required.
+    ///
+    /// Lanes land at `1024`, `2048`, `3072` without this function saying so: each `createLane` call
+    /// appends after the visible siblings the previous one left behind (`Ranks.append(toVisible:)`),
+    /// which is what makes the array's order the board's order.
+    ///
+    /// Separated from the panel and from the window flow deliberately — this is the whole of what
+    /// "instantiate a template" means on disk, and a test drives it against a temp folder without
+    /// going anywhere near `NSSavePanel`.
+    func instantiate(at rootURL: URL) throws(BoardWriteError) {
+        try BoardWriter.createBoard(at: rootURL, title: Self.documentName(of: rootURL))
+        for title in laneTitles {
+            _ = try BoardWriter.createLane(inBoard: rootURL, title: title)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The document name behind a chosen URL — `~/Boards/Roadmap.kanban` → `Roadmap`.
+    static func documentName(of rootURL: URL) -> String {
+        rootURL.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
+    }
+}

Kanban/App/BoardWindowHost.swift

@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ struct BoardWindowHost: View {
             // beside it the window's own popover flag, which is what File ▸ Board Info toggles, and
             // its purge-alert host, which the trash's two confirmed commands raise.
             .focusedSceneValue(\.boardStore, store)
+            // The window's identity beside its store — File ▸ Duplicate flushes a *session*, which
+            // is keyed on the window rather than on the board it is showing.
+            .focusedSceneValue(\.boardWindowRef, ref)
             .focusedSceneValue(\.boardInfo, boardInfo)
             .focusedSceneValue(\.trashConfirmations, trashConfirmations)
         }

Kanban/App/CloseFlushCoordinator.swift

@@ -198,7 +198,13 @@ public struct CloseFlushCoordinator {
 
     /// Step 2. The store's pipeline, then the editor saves, then the pending commit — 02's order,
     /// stated once.
-    private func flushPendingWork() async {
+    ///
+    /// **Callable on its own**, which is the one place the sequence is entered part-way: File ▸
+    /// Duplicate needs pending work on disk before it copies but must leave the session standing
+    /// (09-templates.md ▸ Save as Template's stated exception — "sessions staying open"). It reaches
+    /// this step through `AppModel.flushPendingWork(for:)` rather than re-listing the three flushes,
+    /// so their order still has one definition.
+    public func flushPendingWork() async {
         await storeFlush()
         await editorFlush?()
         await committerFlush?()

Kanban/App/TemplateChooserView.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+import AppKit
+import SwiftUI
+import os
+
+/// The template chooser — File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N), 09-templates.md's picker.
+///
+/// ### Pages' shape, one card in it
+///
+/// A grid of template cards, each showing a **mini per-lane preview** above its name, one selected
+/// at a time, with Cancel and Choose at the bottom (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates: "a
+/// Pages-style chooser with a mini per-lane preview per template"). The grid holds exactly one card
+/// today because exactly one template exists (`BoardTemplate`); everything about the layout is
+/// already the plural case, so the m9 inventory drops in without the surface changing shape.
+///
+/// ### Choosing is three steps, and the middle one is a save panel
+///
+/// Choose runs `NSSavePanel`, instantiates into the chosen location, and opens the result. The panel
+/// is not ceremony: a sandboxed app cannot write anywhere the user has not pointed at, so the panel
+/// *is* how a new board gets a location it is allowed to occupy (09 files this under "seed the save
+/// panel's suggested name"). The chooser stays open if the panel is cancelled — a cancelled location
+/// is not a cancelled choice.
+///
+/// ### Failure is an alert here, deliberately
+///
+/// Everywhere else in the app a failed write is a banner in the window that produced it
+/// (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing). A failed *create* has no such window: the board
+/// that would host the banner is the one that did not get created, welcome may not be open (⌥⌘N
+/// works from a board window), and filing it under `AppModel.launchFailures` would put it in a
+/// recents-adjacent list belonging to boards the registry knows — which this one, having never
+/// existed, is not. So it is an `NSAlert`, continuing the modal conversation the user is already in
+/// with the save panel, in the same sentence the banner would have used
+/// (`BannerCenter.headline(for:)`) so the app has one vocabulary for a failed write rather than two.
+struct TemplateChooserView: View {
+
+    @Environment(AppModel.self) private var appModel
+    @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss
+
+    @State private var selection: BoardTemplate.ID = BoardTemplate.basic.id
+
+    private static let logger = Logger(subsystem: "dev.rzen.indie.Kanban", category: "templates")
+
+    private var selected: BoardTemplate? {
+        BoardTemplate.all.first { $0.id == selection }
+    }
+
+    var body: some View {
+        VStack(spacing: 0) {
+            header
+            Divider()
+            grid
+            Divider()
+            footer
+        }
+        .frame(width: 620, height: 460)
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Header
+
+    private var header: some View {
+        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 2) {
+            Text("Choose a Template")
+                .font(.title3.weight(.semibold))
+            Text("Every template is an ordinary board — lanes and cards you can change afterwards.")
+                .font(.callout)
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+        }
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
+        .padding(20)
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Grid
+
+    private var grid: some View {
+        ScrollView {
+            LazyVGrid(columns: [GridItem(.adaptive(minimum: 170), spacing: 20)], spacing: 20) {
+                ForEach(BoardTemplate.all) { template in
+                    TemplateCard(template: template, isSelected: template.id == selection)
+                        .onTapGesture { selection = template.id }
+                        // The list convention welcome's recents use, for the same reason: a
+                        // double click is how a chooser is answered without reaching for a button.
+                        .onTapGesture(count: 2) { choose() }
+                        .accessibilityAddTraits(template.id == selection ? [.isSelected] : [])
+                }
+            }
+            .padding(20)
+        }
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity, alignment: .topLeading)
+        .background(Color(nsColor: .controlBackgroundColor))
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Footer
+
+    private var footer: some View {
+        HStack(alignment: .firstTextBaseline) {
+            Text(selected?.blurb ?? "")
+                .font(.callout)
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                .lineLimit(2)
+
+            Spacer(minLength: 16)
+
+            Button("Cancel", role: .cancel) { dismiss() }
+                .keyboardShortcut(.cancelAction)
+
+            Button("Choose") { choose() }
+                .keyboardShortcut(.defaultAction)
+                .disabled(selected == nil)
+        }
+        .padding(20)
+    }
+
+    // MARK: - Choosing
+
+    /// Panel, instantiate, open — and only then dismiss, so a cancelled panel leaves the chooser
+    /// exactly as the user left it.
+    private func choose() {
+        guard let template = selected, let url = Self.chooseLocation(for: template) else { return }
+
+        do {
+            try template.instantiate(at: url)
+        } catch {
+            Self.logger.error("template instantiation failed: \(error.description, privacy: .public)")
+            Self.present(error)
+            return
+        }
+
+        dismiss()
+        // The ordinary open path, so the new board joins recents, gets its bookmark, and closes
+        // welcome on the way in exactly like a board opened from a row.
+        appModel.openBoard(at: url)
+    }
+
+    /// The save panel — where the board goes and what it is called.
+    ///
+    /// `"Untitled.kanban"` is the suggestion; the package extension is visible and editable, because
+    /// an extension-less board folder is equally legal (01-storage-format.md § Document packaging)
+    /// and deleting the suffix should therefore work rather than be silently undone.
+    ///
+    // m9-templates: 09 ▸ Instantiation seeds this name from the template's own title once templates
+    // have titles of their own ("Basic.kanban", "Bug Tracker.kanban"). With one stub template a
+    // suggestion of "Basic" would name the *template*, not the user's board, which is worse than
+    // Untitled.
+    ///
+    /// A name that already exists gets the panel's own replace prompt; agreeing to it does not delete
+    /// anything (the panel never does), so `BoardWriter.createBoard`'s refusal to clobber an existing
+    /// board is what the user sees — as an alert, naming the path. That is the honest outcome: this
+    /// flow is a *create*, and quietly replacing a board with an empty one is not a thing it should
+    /// be able to do.
+    private static func chooseLocation(for template: BoardTemplate) -> URL? {
+        let panel = NSSavePanel()
+        panel.nameFieldStringValue = "Untitled.kanban"
+        panel.canCreateDirectories = true
+        panel.isExtensionHidden = false
+        panel.allowsOtherFileTypes = true
+        panel.prompt = "Create"
+        panel.message = "Choose where to keep the new board."
+
+        guard panel.runModal() == .OK, let url = panel.url else { return nil }
+        return url
+    }
+
+    private static func present(_ error: BoardWriteError) {
+        let alert = NSAlert()
+        alert.alertStyle = .warning
+        alert.messageText = BannerCenter.headline(for: error)
+        alert.informativeText = error.path
+        alert.addButton(withTitle: "OK")
+        alert.runModal()
+    }
+}
+
+// MARK: - Template card
+
+/// One template in the grid: its mini per-lane preview, its name, and the selection ring.
+private struct TemplateCard: View {
+
+    let template: BoardTemplate
+    let isSelected: Bool
+
+    var body: some View {
+        VStack(spacing: 8) {
+            TemplatePreview(template: template)
+                .frame(height: 96)
+                .background(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 8).fill(Color(nsColor: .textBackgroundColor)))
+                .overlay(
+                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 8)
+                        .strokeBorder(isSelected ? Color.accentColor : Color(nsColor: .separatorColor),
+                                      lineWidth: isSelected ? 3 : 1)
+                )
+
+            Label(template.name, systemImage: template.icon)
+                .font(.callout)
+                .labelStyle(.titleAndIcon)
+        }
+        .contentShape(Rectangle())
+        .accessibilityElement(children: .combine)
+        .accessibilityLabel(template.name)
+        .accessibilityHint(template.blurb)
+    }
+}
+
+/// The mini per-lane preview: one column per lane, each a title bar over a couple of card shapes.
+///
+/// Deliberately abstract — no text, because the point is the *shape* of the board and legible lane
+/// names at this size are not available. It renders from `laneTitles` only for the count and the
+/// stable identity of each column.
+private struct TemplatePreview: View {
+
+    let template: BoardTemplate
+
+    var body: some View {
+        HStack(alignment: .top, spacing: 6) {
+            ForEach(Array(template.laneTitles.enumerated()), id: \.offset) { index, _ in
+                VStack(spacing: 4) {
+                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 2)
+                        .fill(Color.accentColor.opacity(0.65))
+                        .frame(height: 5)
+                    // A descending number of cards, so the preview reads as work in flight rather
+                    // than as three identical columns.
+                    ForEach(0..<max(1, 3 - index), id: \.self) { _ in
+                        RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 3)
+                            .fill(.quaternary)
+                            .frame(height: 14)
+                    }
+                    Spacer(minLength: 0)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        .padding(10)
+        .accessibilityHidden(true)
+    }
+}

Kanban/App/WelcomeRow.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+import Foundation
+
+// MARK: - WelcomeRow
+
+/// One row of the welcome window's recents list: a `RecentBoard` joined with whatever launch failure
+/// names the same board.
+///
+/// ### Why the join is a value, derived by a pure function
+///
+/// 02-architecture.md § Launch and window lifecycle makes the *row* the failure surface:
+///
+/// > A restored board that fails surfaces on welcome, row-level: its window doesn't open; welcome
+/// > appears alongside whatever did restore, the failed board's recents row carrying fail-fast's
+/// > specifics (load error) or the unavailable state per Graceful orphaning. Other restorations
+/// > proceed unaffected — never a launch-time modal chain, never a silent drop.
+///
+/// That is a rule about *data*: which of three captions a row wears, which of its actions are live,
+/// and — the clause a list of rows cannot express by itself — what happens to a failure that matches
+/// no row at all. Derived here, every one of those cases is stateable in a test without a window,
+/// which is the only way the "never a silent drop" half is checkable at all.
+///
+/// The same derivation feeds File ▸ Open Recent, so the submenu and the list can never disagree
+/// about a board's name or about whether it can be opened.
+struct WelcomeRow: Identifiable, Equatable {
+
+    /// The registry record's id — the row's identity, the selection's value, and what Forget names.
+    let id: UUID
+
+    /// The board's name: the record's cached `displayName`, falling back to the folder name for a
+    /// record that somehow carries none (01-storage-format.md § Board naming's fallback, applied to
+    /// the cached string rather than to a board this window must never open).
+    let displayName: String
+
+    /// Where the board is **now**, or `nil` when its bookmark no longer resolves. The single source
+    /// of the row's availability: Open and Reveal need a URL, and an orphan has none.
+    let url: URL?
+
+    /// The containing folder, for the row's location line — Xcode's welcome shows where a project
+    /// lives, not its own path repeated under its name. Home-abbreviated where it can be.
+    let location: String
+
+    /// The counts stamped at last close, `nil` until a close has stamped them
+    /// (02 § Per-board app state: registry-cached, never a directory scan at welcome time).
+    let laneCount: Int?
+    let cardCount: Int?
+
+    /// The message of the launch failure naming this board, if one does.
+    let failure: String?
+
+    var isAvailable: Bool { url != nil }
+
+    /// Open and Reveal in Finder both need somewhere to go; Forget is deliberately not here, because
+    /// it is enabled on every row — an orphan the user can never open is exactly the row that most
+    /// needs erasing (02 § Graceful orphaning: "recents surface it as unavailable with Forget").
+    var canOpen: Bool { isAvailable }
+    var canReveal: Bool { isAvailable }
+
+    /// The row's third line — one line, so the three states are alternatives rather than a stack.
+    ///
+    /// The precedence is 02's sentence read in order: a failure is what the row is *for* at that
+    /// moment and outranks both the orphan state (which the failure message already describes in
+    /// better words) and the counts (facts about a board the user cannot currently get into).
+    enum Caption: Equatable {
+        /// The ordinary row: "3 lanes · 12 cards", or an em dash where nothing has been stamped.
+        case counts(lanes: Int?, cards: Int?)
+        /// The bookmark no longer resolves (02 § Graceful orphaning).
+        case unavailable
+        /// Fail-fast's specifics, from the open or restore that failed.
+        case failed(String)
+    }
+
+    var caption: Caption {
+        if let failure { return .failed(failure) }
+        if url == nil { return .unavailable }
+        return .counts(lanes: laneCount, cards: cardCount)
+    }
+
+    /// "3 lanes · 12 cards" — or "—" when the record has never been closed and so carries nothing.
+    ///
+    /// A single em dash rather than "0 lanes · 0 cards": an unstamped record knows nothing about the
+    /// board's size, and zero is a claim.
+    var countsSummary: String {
+        guard let laneCount, let cardCount else { return "—" }
+        let lanes = "\(laneCount) lane\(laneCount == 1 ? "" : "s")"
+        let cards = "\(cardCount) card\(cardCount == 1 ? "" : "s")"
+        return "\(lanes) · \(cards)"
+    }
+
+    // MARK: - Derivation
+
+    /// The rows, and the failures no row could carry.
+    struct Derivation: Equatable {
+        var rows: [WelcomeRow]
+
+        /// Failures naming no record — a first open of a folder that turned out not to be a board,
+        /// which fails before anything is registered and so has no row to render on. They keep a
+        /// list of their own on welcome, because the alternative is the silent drop 02 rules out.
+        var unmatched: [LaunchFailure]
+    }
+
+    /// Joins the recents list with the launch failures, in `recents`' order (which is the registry's
+    /// `lastOpened` descending — this function never re-sorts, so the sort rule keeps living in
+    /// exactly one place).
+    ///
+    /// **Matching is by path, and by both of a record's paths.** A record knows where it was last
+    /// seen (`lastKnownPath`) and, when its bookmark resolves, where it lives now; a bookmark follows
+    /// a move, so a failure recorded before one names the older spelling. Paths are standardized
+    /// before comparison — `/tmp/b/../b` and `/tmp/b` are one board — but never resolved through
+    /// symlinks: that would be a filesystem round trip per row, which is the cost the registry's
+    /// whole design is built to avoid at welcome time.
+    ///
+    /// **The newest failure wins a row's caption** when several name it (a board that failed, was
+    /// retried, and failed again), because it is the one describing the state the file is in now.
+    /// All of them are consumed either way — a row carries one message, and the older attempts must
+    /// not resurface in the unmatched list as if nothing had shown them.
+    static func derive(recents: [RecentBoard], failures: [LaunchFailure]) -> Derivation {
+        var claimed: Set<UUID> = []
+
+        let rows = recents.map { recent -> WelcomeRow in
+            let record = recent.record
+            var keys: Set<String> = [pathKey(record.lastKnownPath)]
+            if let url = recent.url {
+                keys.insert(pathKey(url.path))
+            }
+
+            let matches = failures.filter { keys.contains(pathKey($0.path)) }
+            claimed.formUnion(matches.map(\.id))
+
+            return WelcomeRow(
+                id: record.id,
+                displayName: record.displayName.isEmpty
+                    ? URL(fileURLWithPath: record.lastKnownPath).deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
+                    : record.displayName,
+                url: recent.url,
+                location: location(of: recent.url?.path ?? record.lastKnownPath),
+                laneCount: record.laneCount,
+                cardCount: record.cardCount,
+                failure: matches.last?.message
+            )
+        }
+
+        return Derivation(rows: rows, unmatched: failures.filter { !claimed.contains($0.id) })
+    }
+
+    /// How two paths are compared for "the same board" on this screen. Standardized only — see
+    /// `derive` for why nothing here touches the filesystem.
+    static func pathKey(_ path: String) -> String {
+        URL(fileURLWithPath: path).standardizedFileURL.path
+    }
+
+    /// The board's containing folder, with the user's home written as `~`.
+    static func location(of path: String) -> String {
+        let parent = URL(fileURLWithPath: path).deletingLastPathComponent().path
+        guard let home = realHomeDirectory, parent == home || parent.hasPrefix(home + "/") else {
+            return parent
+        }
+        return "~" + parent.dropFirst(home.count)
+    }
+
+    /// The user's **real** home directory.
+    ///
+    /// `NSHomeDirectory()` and `FileManager.homeDirectoryForCurrentUser` both answer with the sandbox
+    /// container, which no board is ever inside — abbreviating against either would never once fire.
+    /// The password database is where the real path still lives, and this is display text only:
+    /// nothing is opened, resolved, or written relative to it, so being wrong costs a longer row.
+    private static let realHomeDirectory: String? = {
+        guard let entry = getpwuid(getuid()), let directory = entry.pointee.pw_dir else { return nil }
+        return String(cString: directory)
+    }()
+}

Kanban/App/WelcomeView.swift

@@ -1,25 +1,51 @@
 import AppKit
 import SwiftUI
 
-/// The welcome window (02-architecture.md § Windows).
+/// The welcome window (02-architecture.md § Windows; 03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates).
 ///
-/// ### What this is, and what it is not yet
+/// ### Xcode's shape, which 03 says carries over unchanged
 ///
-/// The settled shape is Xcode's: "branding + actions left, recents right (board icon, name,
+/// > Welcome: resizable, no title bar (background drag); recents list with board icon, name,
-/// location, lane/card counts, sorted by last opened)". This is the left half, plus the one thing
+/// > location, counts; single click selects, double click opens; context menu Open / Reveal in
-/// that cannot wait — the list of boards that failed to open, because 02 § Launch and window
+/// > Finder / Forget.
-/// lifecycle forbids a launch-time failure from being silently dropped and welcome is where it must
-/// surface.
 ///
-/// The layout is therefore already an `HStack` with one column in it. The recents column drops in
+/// Branding and the two create/open actions on the left, recents on the right. Resizable — the
-/// beside it; nothing here has to move.
+/// recents list gets whatever space the user grants it — and title-bar-less, with the background as
-// m4-welcome: the recents column, New Board… / Open Recent, per-row Forget and Reveal in Finder, and
+/// the drag surface (the gesture is attached at low priority, so a row or a button always wins).
-// the row-level failure rendering 02 specifies (a failed board's own row carrying fail-fast's
+///
-// specifics, or the unavailable state per Graceful orphaning) all land with the welcome milestone.
+/// ### The rows are derived, not assembled here
+///
+/// Everything a row *says* — which caption it wears, whether Open and Reveal are live, and which
+/// failures had no row to land on — is `WelcomeRow.derive(recents:failures:)`, a pure function over
+/// the registry's recents and `AppModel.launchFailures`. That is where 02's row-level failure rule
+/// lives, and it is why the rule is testable. This file renders the answer.
+///
+/// ### What it never does
+///
+/// It never opens a board's `index.md` — not for a title, not for a count, not for an icon. Counts
+/// and names come from the registry record, stamped at last close: "no directory scan at welcome
+/// time (which would be slow or hang on big/unavailable boards)" (02 § Per-board app state). The
+/// pathfinder loaded every board to build this list; that is the one thing about it that does not
+/// carry over.
 struct WelcomeView: View {
 
     @Environment(AppModel.self) private var appModel
 
+    /// The selected row's record id. A row's identity is its record, so a Forget leaves this
+    /// pointing at nothing, which reads as "no selection" without any cleanup of its own.
+    @State private var selection: UUID?
+
+    /// Whether the recents list holds the keyboard, so Return can mean "open the selected row".
+    @FocusState private var listFocused: Bool
+
+    private var derivation: WelcomeRow.Derivation {
+        WelcomeRow.derive(recents: appModel.recents, failures: appModel.launchFailures)
+    }
+
+    private var selectedRow: WelcomeRow? {
+        derivation.rows.first { $0.id == selection }
+    }
+
     var body: some View {
         HStack(spacing: 0) {
             branding
@@ -29,14 +55,19 @@ struct WelcomeView: View {
 
             Divider()
 
-            failures
+            recents
-                .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity, alignment: .topLeading)
+                .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
-                .padding(32)
         }
-        // Fixed, with `.windowResizability(.contentSize)` on the scene: welcome is a launcher, not a
+        .frame(minWidth: 760, minHeight: 460)
-        // workspace, and Xcode's — the window this one is modelled on — does not resize either. The
+        // The window has no title bar, so the background is the drag handle. `.gesture` rather than
-        // one thing that can grow without bound is the failure list, which scrolls.
+        // `.highPriorityGesture`: a click on a row or a button belongs to the row or the button.
-        .frame(width: 760, height: 460)
+        .gesture(WindowDragGesture())
+        // Belt and braces over the explicit refreshes `AppModel` runs on every registry mutation:
+        // welcome is the one surface that can appear long after the last thing that changed the list.
+        .onAppear { appModel.refreshRecents() }
+        // What File ▸ Reveal in Finder acts on in this window's scope (11-command-nexus.md: "welcome:
+        // the selected recent's folder (disabled on unavailable rows)").
+        .focusedSceneValue(\.welcomeSelection, selectedRow)
     }
 
     // MARK: Branding and actions
@@ -56,12 +87,24 @@ struct WelcomeView: View {
                 .font(.callout)
                 .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
 
+            Text("Folders and Markdown, on your terms.")
+                .font(.caption)
+                .foregroundStyle(.tertiary)
+                .padding(.top, 4)
+
             Spacer(minLength: 24)
 
-            Button("Open Board…") {
+            VStack(spacing: 8) {
+                // The menu-bar twin of this button is File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N) — same action, and
+                // deliberately the same words, because a button and a menu item that differ read as
+                // two features.
+                WelcomeActionButton(title: "New Board…", systemImage: "plus.square") {
+                    appModel.showTemplateChooser()
+                }
+                WelcomeActionButton(title: "Open Board…", systemImage: "folder") {
                     appModel.presentOpenPanel()
                 }
-            .controlSize(.large)
+            }
         }
         .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
     }
@@ -73,30 +116,87 @@ struct WelcomeView: View {
         return "Version \(short) (\(build))"
     }
 
-    // MARK: Failed opens
+    // MARK: Recents
 
     @ViewBuilder
-    private var failures: some View {
+    private var recents: some View {
-        if appModel.launchFailures.isEmpty {
+        let derivation = self.derivation
-            VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) {
-                Text("No boards open")
-                    .font(.title3)
-                Text("Open a board folder to get started.")
-                    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
-            }
-        } else {
-            VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 12) {
-                Text("Couldn't open")
-                    .font(.title3)
 
-                ScrollView {
+        VStack(spacing: 0) {
-                    VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 12) {
+            if derivation.rows.isEmpty {
-                        ForEach(appModel.launchFailures) { failure in
+                emptyHint
-                            VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 2) {
+            } else {
-                                Text(failure.displayName)
+                list(derivation.rows)
+            }
+
+            if !derivation.unmatched.isEmpty {
+                Divider()
+                unmatchedFailures(derivation.unmatched)
+            }
+        }
+        .background(Color(nsColor: .controlBackgroundColor))
+    }
+
+    private var emptyHint: some View {
+        VStack(spacing: 6) {
+            Image(systemName: "clock")
+                .font(.title)
+                .foregroundStyle(.tertiary)
+            Text("No Recent Boards")
                 .font(.headline)
-                                Text(failure.message)
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+            Text("Boards you create or open appear here.")
+                .font(.caption)
+                .foregroundStyle(.tertiary)
+        }
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
+    }
+
+    private func list(_ rows: [WelcomeRow]) -> some View {
+        List(rows, selection: $selection) { row in
+            RecentBoardRow(row: row)
+                // Single click selects (the `List` does that); the second click of a double click
+                // opens. `simultaneousGesture` rather than `onTapGesture` so the list's own
+                // selection handling still sees the first click.
+                .simultaneousGesture(TapGesture(count: 2).onEnded { open(row) })
+                .contextMenu {
+                    Button("Open") { open(row) }
+                        .disabled(!row.canOpen)
+                    Button("Reveal in Finder") { reveal(row) }
+                        .disabled(!row.canReveal)
+                    Divider()
+                    // Always enabled, on every row: an orphan the user can never open again is
+                    // exactly the row that most needs erasing (02 § Graceful orphaning).
+                    Button("Forget") { appModel.forget(boardID: row.id) }
+                }
+        }
+        .listStyle(.inset)
+        .scrollContentBackground(.hidden)
+        .focused($listFocused)
+        // Return on a selected row opens it — the list convention, and the reason the list takes
+        // focus on a click rather than only on Tab.
+        .onKeyPress(.return) {
+            guard let selectedRow, selectedRow.canOpen else { return .ignored }
+            open(selectedRow)
+            return .handled
+        }
+        .onTapGesture { listFocused = true }
+    }
+
+    /// The failures no recents row could carry — a first open of a folder that turned out not to be
+    /// a board fails before anything is registered, so there is no row for it to land on. A list of
+    /// their own, because the alternative is the silent drop 02 rules out.
+    private func unmatchedFailures(_ failures: [LaunchFailure]) -> some View {
+        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) {
+            Text("Couldn't Open")
+                .font(.subheadline.weight(.semibold))
+
+            ForEach(failures) { failure in
+                VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 1) {
+                    Text(failure.displayName)
                         .font(.callout)
+                    Text(failure.message)
+                        .font(.caption)
                         .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
                         .fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true)
                     Text(failure.path)
@@ -107,13 +207,121 @@ struct WelcomeView: View {
                 }
                 .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
             }
+
+            // Clears exactly the failures listed here, never the ones standing on rows above: those
+            // are still describing a board the user can see, and one button quietly erasing both
+            // lists would be the drop 02 forbids wearing a different hat.
+            Button("Clear") {
+                appModel.clearLaunchFailures(ids: Set(failures.map(\.id)))
             }
+            .controlSize(.small)
+        }
+        .padding(16)
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
     }
 
-                Button("Clear") {
+    // MARK: Actions
-                    appModel.clearLaunchFailures()
+
+    /// Opens a row's board. Welcome closes itself on the way in — that is the board window host's
+    /// job ("Opening a board from welcome closes welcome"), not this view's, because the close has to
+    /// wait for the load to actually succeed.
+    private func open(_ row: WelcomeRow) {
+        guard let url = row.url else { return }
+        appModel.openBoard(at: url)
     }
+
+    private func reveal(_ row: WelcomeRow) {
+        guard let url = row.url else { return }
+        NSWorkspace.shared.activateFileViewerSelecting([url])
     }
+}
+
+// MARK: - Pieces
+
+/// A full-width, leading-aligned action button — Xcode's welcome column.
+private struct WelcomeActionButton: View {
+
+    let title: String
+    let systemImage: String
+    let action: () -> Void
+
+    var body: some View {
+        Button(action: action) {
+            Label(title, systemImage: systemImage)
+                .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
+                .padding(.vertical, 2)
+        }
+        .buttonStyle(.bordered)
+        .controlSize(.large)
+    }
+}
+
+/// One recents row: icon, name, location, and the one caption line carrying whichever of the three
+/// things the row has to say (`WelcomeRow.Caption`).
+private struct RecentBoardRow: View {
+
+    let row: WelcomeRow
+
+    var body: some View {
+        HStack(spacing: 12) {
+            // The board default symbol, on every row.
+            //
+            // The record carries no icon. 02 § Per-board app state settles that it should — "the
+            // row's title and icon are registry-cached too — with live write-through" — and today it
+            // holds only the display name and the counts. An `icon`/`iconColor` stamp joining
+            // `recordClose` (and the store's reload path, which is where the write-through half
+            // lives) is what turns this into the board's own glyph; until then a row that guessed
+            // would be worse than one that is honestly generic.
+            Image(systemName: ItemSymbol.board)
+                .font(.system(size: 22))
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                .frame(width: 34, height: 34)
+                .accessibilityHidden(true)
+
+            VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 1) {
+                Text(row.displayName)
+                    .font(.headline)
+                    .lineLimit(1)
+
+                Text(row.location)
+                    .font(.caption)
+                    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                    .lineLimit(1)
+                    .truncationMode(.middle)
+
+                caption
+            }
+
+            Spacer(minLength: 0)
+        }
+        .padding(.vertical, 4)
+        // Dimmed when the board cannot be reached — the row stays, with Forget, rather than
+        // disappearing (02 § Graceful orphaning).
+        .opacity(row.isAvailable ? 1 : 0.55)
+        .accessibilityElement(children: .combine)
+    }
+
+    @ViewBuilder
+    private var caption: some View {
+        switch row.caption {
+        case .counts:
+            Text(row.countsSummary)
+                .font(.caption)
+                .foregroundStyle(.tertiary)
+        case .unavailable:
+            Label("Unavailable — moved, deleted, or on a volume that isn't mounted",
+                  systemImage: "questionmark.folder")
+                .font(.caption)
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                .lineLimit(1)
+        case let .failed(message):
+            // The warning tint, and the whole of fail-fast's specifics — this row *is* the failure
+            // surface (02 § Launch and window lifecycle).
+            Label(message, systemImage: "exclamationmark.triangle.fill")
+                .font(.caption)
+                .foregroundStyle(.orange)
+                .lineLimit(2)
+                .fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true)
         }
     }
 }

Kanban/KanbanApp.swift

@@ -55,11 +55,30 @@ struct KanbanApp: App {
         }
         .defaultLaunchBehavior(shouldRestoreAtLaunch ? .suppressed : .automatic)
         .restorationBehavior(.disabled)
-        .windowResizability(.contentSize)
+        // "Welcome: resizable, no title bar (background drag)" (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen &
+        // templates). `.contentMinSize` rather than `.contentSize`, because the view states a
+        // *minimum* and the recents list is meant to take whatever space the user gives it; the
+        // hidden title bar is why `WelcomeView` carries a `WindowDragGesture`.
+        .windowResizability(.contentMinSize)
+        .defaultSize(width: 820, height: 500)
+        .windowStyle(.hiddenTitleBar)
         // Its automatic Window-menu item is replaced by the explicit command below, so the title is
         // the one 11-command-nexus.md names rather than whatever the scene happens to be called.
         .commandsRemoved()
 
+        // The template chooser (09-templates.md), reached from File ▸ New Board… ⌥⌘N and from
+        // welcome's own button. A `Window` for welcome's reason — there is one of it, ever — and
+        // suppressed at launch, since ⌥⌘N is the only thing that ever asks for it.
+        Window("New Board", id: WindowID.templateChooser) {
+            TemplateChooserView()
+                .environment(appModel)
+                .captureWindowActions(into: appModel)
+        }
+        .defaultLaunchBehavior(.suppressed)
+        .restorationBehavior(.disabled)
+        .windowResizability(.contentSize)
+        .commandsRemoved()
+
         Window("", id: WindowID.restoreBootstrap) {
             RestoreBootstrapView()
                 .environment(appModel)
@@ -107,13 +126,15 @@ struct KanbanApp: App {
     /// changing one silently breaks every remap of it.
     @CommandsBuilder
     private var menuCommands: some Commands {
-        // The File group, in 11-command-nexus.md's own row order: New Card, New Lane, (New Board…,
+        // The File group, in 11-command-nexus.md's own row order: New Card, New Lane, New Board…,
-        // still owed), Open…, (Open Recent, still owed), Board Info, (Duplicate / Save as Template /
+        // Open…, Open Recent ▸, Board Info, Duplicate, (Save as Template, still owed — 09),
-        // Reveal in Finder, still owed), then the trash trio and Empty Trash…. Every one of them
+        // Reveal in Finder, then the trash trio and Empty Trash…. The board-scoped ones validate
-        // validates against the frontmost board through the focus system, so each is simply
+        // against the frontmost board through the focus system, so each is simply absent-of-effect
-        // absent-of-effect when no board is in front.
+        // when no board is in front; New Board… and Open Recent are available everywhere, including
+        // with no window at all.
         CommandGroup(after: .newItem) {
             BoardCreationCommands()
+            NewBoardCommand(appModel: appModel)
 
             Divider()
 
@@ -122,12 +143,19 @@ struct KanbanApp: App {
             }
             .keyboardShortcut("o", modifiers: .command)
 
+            OpenRecentMenu(appModel: appModel)
+
             Divider()
 
             BoardInfoCommand()
 
             Divider()
 
+            DuplicateBoardCommand(appModel: appModel)
+            RevealInFinderCommand()
+
+            Divider()
+
             TrashCommands()
         }
 

Kanban/LiveStore/BannerCenter.swift

@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ public final class BannerCenter {
             // looking at — which is what makes "Couldn't rename 'Fix login'" (02's own example
             // sentence) identify the right row rather than a name that never landed.
             if let title { "Couldn't rename '\(title)'" } else { "Couldn't rename the item" }
+        case let .duplicateBoard(title):
+            if let title { "Couldn't duplicate '\(title)'" } else { "Couldn't duplicate the board" }
         case let .importAttachment(filename):
             "Couldn't import '\(filename)'"
         case .listAttachments:

Kanban/LiveStore/BoardRegistry.swift

@@ -426,6 +426,21 @@ public final class BoardRegistry {
         save()
     }
 
+    /// Drops every record — File ▸ Open Recent ▸ Clear Menu (11-command-nexus.md).
+    ///
+    /// **Finder's Clear Menu clears the menu; this registry *is* the menu**, so the equivalence is
+    /// exact: there is no separate recents list that could be emptied while the records stayed, and
+    /// a record whose board never appears anywhere is a setting nothing can reach. It is therefore
+    /// `forget(id:)` applied to every row, and the one test worth writing says exactly that.
+    ///
+    /// One save rather than one per record: the file is rewritten wholesale anyway, and forgetting
+    /// twenty boards should not be twenty writes.
+    public func forgetAll() {
+        guard !records.isEmpty else { return }
+        records.removeAll()
+        save()
+    }
+
     // MARK: - Matching
 
     /// The index of the record whose bookmark resolves to the same file as `url`, if any.

Kanban/Storage/BoardWriter.swift

@@ -1192,6 +1192,13 @@ public enum WriteOperation: Sendable, Equatable, CustomStringConvertible {
     /// the edit — `updateIndex` enriches it off the document it just read — which is the name the
     /// user is still looking at when the banner appears.
     case rename(title: String?)
+
+    /// File ▸ Duplicate — the whole-board copy (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates). Its
+    /// own case rather than a fold into `.copy`, on `.rename`'s reasoning: the user pressed
+    /// *Duplicate*, and a banner telling them the app could not "copy the item" would name neither
+    /// the command nor the thing. `title` is the board's display name.
+    case duplicateBoard(title: String?)
+
     case importAttachment(filename: String)
     case listAttachments
     case renumberChildren           // order-maintenance sweep (compaction)
@@ -1218,6 +1225,7 @@ public enum WriteOperation: Sendable, Equatable, CustomStringConvertible {
         case .style: .style(title: title)
         case .resize: .resize(title: title)
         case .rename: .rename(title: title)
+        case .duplicateBoard: .duplicateBoard(title: title)
         }
     }
 
@@ -1241,6 +1249,7 @@ public enum WriteOperation: Sendable, Equatable, CustomStringConvertible {
         case let .style(title): Self.phrase("style", title)
         case let .resize(title): Self.phrase("resize", title)
         case let .rename(title): Self.phrase("rename", title)
+        case let .duplicateBoard(title): Self.phrase("duplicate board", title)
         case let .importAttachment(filename): "import attachment '\(filename)'"
         case .listAttachments: "list attachments"
         case .renumberChildren: "renumber children"

KanbanTests/BoardDuplicatorTests.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+import Foundation
+import Testing
+@testable import Kanban
+
+/// File ▸ Duplicate's copy (03-board-ui.md § Welcome screen & templates).
+///
+/// Three promises, and all three are about what the copy *doesn't* do:
+///
+/// - it doesn't remint — "The copy keeps every GUID", 01-storage-format.md's whole-board carve-out,
+///   and the thing that keeps a copied `.git` history naming paths that still exist;
+/// - it doesn't drop the trash — "Tombstoned items are carried too (settled) ... the duplicate is
+///   born exactly matching its history";
+/// - it doesn't overwrite — the Finder-style `copy` ladder renames instead.
+///
+/// Tested against real folders, because every one of those is a claim about bytes on disk. The
+/// window flow around the copy (the flush, the banner row, the open that follows) is the command's,
+/// not this type's.
+
+// MARK: - Fixtures
+
+/// A board with a live lane, a tombstoned lane, a live card, a tombstoned card, and a stray file —
+/// everything a literal copy has to carry through untouched.
+@MainActor
+private func makeBoard(named name: String) throws -> (fixture: WriterFixture, root: URL) {
+    let fixture = try WriterFixture()
+    let root = fixture.url(name)
+    try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: root, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+
+    try fixture.item(name, Item.board)
+    try fixture.item("\(name)/\(Ident.lane1)", Item.rich(order: "1024", title: "Todo"))
+    try fixture.item("\(name)/\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card1)", Item.rich(order: "1024", title: "First"))
+    try fixture.item(
+        "\(name)/\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card2)",
+        "---\nschema: 1\norder: 2048\ntitle: Gone\ndeleted: 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z\n---\nbody\n"
+    )
+    try fixture.item(
+        "\(name)/\(Ident.lane2)",
+        "---\nschema: 1\norder: 2048\ntitle: Archive\ndeleted: 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z\n---\nbody\n"
+    )
+    try fixture.item("\(name)/\(Ident.lane2)/\(Ident.card3)", Item.rich(order: "1024", title: "Buried"))
+    try fixture.file("\(name)/CLAUDE.user.md", Data("board instructions\n".utf8))
+
+    return (fixture, root)
+}
+
+/// Every path under `root`, board-root-relative, hidden entries included — what "a literal copy"
+/// means as an assertion.
+private func tree(of root: URL) throws -> Set<String> {
+    var paths: Set<String> = []
+    let walker = FileManager.default.enumerator(at: root, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: [])
+    while let url = walker?.nextObject() as? URL {
+        paths.insert(url.path.replacingOccurrences(of: root.path + "/", with: ""))
+    }
+    return paths
+}
+
+// MARK: - Tests
+
+@MainActor
+@Suite("BoardDuplicator")
+struct BoardDuplicatorTests {
+
+    // MARK: The name ladder
+
+    @Test("The first duplicate is a 'copy' sibling, extension carried")
+    func firstCopyIsNamedFinderStyle() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let destination = BoardDuplicator.copyDestination(for: board.root)
+
+        #expect(destination.lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy.kanban")
+        #expect(destination.deletingLastPathComponent().path == board.root.deletingLastPathComponent().path,
+                "a sibling — where the user is already looking")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An extension-less board has none to carry")
+    func extensionlessBoardCopiesWithoutOne() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Plain")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        #expect(BoardDuplicator.copyDestination(for: board.root).lastPathComponent == "Plain copy")
+    }
+
+    @Test("The collision ladder counts up from 2, one collision at a time")
+    func collisionLadderCountsUp() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let first = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+        #expect(first.lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy.kanban")
+
+        let second = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+        #expect(second.lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy 2.kanban")
+
+        let third = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+        #expect(third.lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy 3.kanban")
+
+        // And duplicating a duplicate ladders off *its* name, exactly as Finder does.
+        let ofACopy = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: first, titled: "Roadmap copy")
+        #expect(ofACopy.lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy copy.kanban")
+    }
+
+    @Test("Anything already wearing the name blocks it, folder or file alike")
+    func anyExistingEntryBlocksTheName() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+        // Not a board — just a file in the way. A duplicate must rename around it, never through it.
+        try board.fixture.file("Roadmap copy.kanban", Data("in the way".utf8))
+
+        #expect(BoardDuplicator.copyDestination(for: board.root).lastPathComponent == "Roadmap copy 2.kanban")
+    }
+
+    // MARK: What lands in the copy
+
+    @Test("Every GUID is kept — the whole-board carve-out from the remint rule")
+    func guidsArePreserved() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let copy = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+
+        #expect(try tree(of: copy) == tree(of: board.root),
+                "same identities, same nesting — a copied history keeps naming paths that exist")
+        #expect(FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: copy.appendingPathComponent(Ident.lane1).path))
+        #expect(FileManager.default.fileExists(
+            atPath: copy.appendingPathComponent("\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card1)").path
+        ))
+    }
+
+    @Test("Tombstoned lanes and cards are carried, trash included")
+    func tombstonesAreCarried() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let copy = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+        let loaded = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: copy).model
+
+        let archive = try #require(loaded.lanes.first { $0.id.rawValue == Ident.lane2 })
+        #expect(archive.isDeleted, "the tombstoned lane came along — Duplicate is a full fork")
+        #expect(archive.cards.contains { $0.id.rawValue == Ident.card3 }, "and everything beneath it")
+
+        let todo = try #require(loaded.lanes.first { $0.id.rawValue == Ident.lane1 })
+        #expect(todo.cards.contains { $0.id.rawValue == Ident.card2 && $0.isDeleted })
+    }
+
+    @Test("The copy is byte-for-byte, strays and stale attribution included")
+    func contentIsCopiedVerbatim() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let copy = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+
+        func bytes(_ root: URL, _ relative: String) throws -> Data {
+            try Data(contentsOf: root.appendingPathComponent(relative))
+        }
+        #expect(try bytes(copy, "index.md") == bytes(board.root, "index.md"))
+        #expect(try bytes(copy, "\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card1)/index.md")
+                    == bytes(board.root, "\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card1)/index.md"),
+                "created, unknown keys and modified-by all survive — nothing here reads a board file")
+        #expect(try bytes(copy, "CLAUDE.user.md") == bytes(board.root, "CLAUDE.user.md"))
+    }
+
+    @Test("The original is untouched by its own duplication")
+    func originalSurvivesUnchanged() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+        let before = try tree(of: board.root)
+
+        _ = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: board.root, titled: "Roadmap")
+
+        #expect(try tree(of: board.root) == before)
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Failure
+
+    @Test("A source that isn't there fails as a duplicate, naming the board")
+    func missingSourceFailsInTheDuplicateVocabulary() throws {
+        let board = try makeBoard(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { board.fixture.tearDown() }
+        let missing = board.fixture.url("Never.kanban")
+
+        let error = writeFailure { _ = try BoardDuplicator.duplicate(boardAt: missing, titled: "Never") }
+
+        #expect(error?.operation == .duplicateBoard(title: "Never"),
+                "the user pressed Duplicate; the banner must say so")
+        #expect(BannerCenter.headline(for: try #require(error)).hasPrefix("Couldn't duplicate 'Never'"))
+    }
+}

KanbanTests/BoardRegistryTests.swift

@@ -226,6 +226,76 @@ struct BoardRegistryTests {
         #expect(registry.recents().isEmpty)
     }
 
+    // MARK: Clear Menu
+
+    @Test("Clear Menu empties the registry, and persists")
+    func forgetAllEmptiesTheRegistry() async throws {
+        let storage = try RegistryStorage()
+        defer { storage.tearDown() }
+        let first = try makeBoard()
+        defer { first.tearDown() }
+        let second = try makeBoard()
+        defer { second.tearDown() }
+
+        let registry = BoardRegistry(storageURL: storage.url)
+        registry.recordOpen(of: first.root, displayName: "First")
+        registry.recordOpen(of: second.root, displayName: "Second")
+        #expect(registry.recents().count == 2)
+
+        registry.forgetAll()
+
+        #expect(registry.recents().isEmpty)
+        #expect(BoardRegistry(storageURL: storage.url).recents().isEmpty, "Clear Menu persists")
+    }
+
+    /// The equivalence 11-command-nexus.md's Clear Menu rests on: Finder clears a *menu*, and here
+    /// the registry **is** the menu — so clearing it can only mean forgetting every record, and must
+    /// leave the file in precisely the state that forgetting them one at a time would.
+    @Test("Clear Menu is Forget applied to every row — same result, same file")
+    func forgetAllMatchesForgettingEachRow() async throws {
+        let wholesale = try RegistryStorage()
+        defer { wholesale.tearDown() }
+        let piecemeal = try RegistryStorage()
+        defer { piecemeal.tearDown() }
+        let first = try makeBoard()
+        defer { first.tearDown() }
+        let second = try makeBoard()
+        defer { second.tearDown() }
+
+        func populate(_ storage: RegistryStorage) -> BoardRegistry {
+            let registry = BoardRegistry(storageURL: storage.url)
+            registry.recordOpen(of: first.root, displayName: "First")
+            registry.recordOpen(of: second.root, displayName: "Second")
+            return registry
+        }
+
+        let bulk = populate(wholesale)
+        bulk.forgetAll()
+
+        let oneByOne = populate(piecemeal)
+        for row in oneByOne.recents() {
+            oneByOne.forget(id: row.record.id)
+        }
+
+        #expect(bulk.recents().isEmpty)
+        #expect(oneByOne.recents().isEmpty)
+        #expect(
+            try Data(contentsOf: wholesale.url) == Data(contentsOf: piecemeal.url),
+            "the two paths leave byte-identical files — there is no state Clear Menu skips"
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test("Clear Menu on an empty registry writes nothing")
+    func forgetAllOnEmptyRegistryIsANoOp() async throws {
+        let storage = try RegistryStorage()
+        defer { storage.tearDown() }
+
+        let registry = BoardRegistry(storageURL: storage.url)
+        registry.forgetAll()
+
+        #expect(try storage.entryNames().isEmpty, "an empty registry has nothing to clear and no file to write")
+    }
+
     // MARK: Persistence
 
     @Test("Every mutation survives a reload of the file, dates included")

KanbanTests/BoardTemplateTests.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+import Foundation
+import Testing
+@testable import Kanban
+
+/// Template instantiation — the on-disk half of File ▸ New Board… (09-templates.md ▸ Instantiation).
+///
+/// The window flow around it (the chooser, `NSSavePanel`, the open that follows) is untestable
+/// without a screen and deliberately holds no rules of its own; everything that *is* a rule — what
+/// gets written, what the board is called, and the order the lanes land in — lives in
+/// `BoardTemplate.instantiate(at:)` and is checked here against a real temp folder, through the
+/// app's own loader.
+
+// MARK: - Fixtures
+
+/// An empty temp folder to create *into* — the save panel's answer, minus the panel.
+private func temporaryLocation(named name: String) throws -> (url: URL, tearDown: () -> Void) {
+    let container = FileManager.default.temporaryDirectory
+        .appendingPathComponent("BoardTemplateTests-\(UUID().uuidString)", isDirectory: true)
+    try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: container, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+    return (container.appendingPathComponent(name, isDirectory: true), {
+        try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: container)
+    })
+}
+
+// MARK: - Tests
+
+@Suite("BoardTemplate")
+struct BoardTemplateTests {
+
+    @Test("Basic writes a board and its three lanes, in order")
+    func basicInstantiatesInOrder() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Roadmap.kanban")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+
+        let result = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: location.url)
+        #expect(result.warnings.isEmpty, "a board this app just wrote must load clean")
+        #expect(result.model.lanes.map { $0.title.value } == ["To Do", "Doing", "Done"])
+        #expect(result.model.lanes.allSatisfy { !$0.isDeleted })
+        #expect(result.model.lanes.allSatisfy { $0.cards.isEmpty }, "the Basic scaffold seeds no cards")
+    }
+
+    @Test("The lanes are ranked by the board convention — 1024 apart, from 1024")
+    func lanesAreRankedByTheAppendConvention() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Ranked.kanban")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+
+        let orders = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: location.url).model.lanes.map(\.order)
+        #expect(orders == [1024, 2048, 3072], "each lane appends after the one before it")
+    }
+
+    @Test("The board's title is the document name the user chose, not the template's")
+    func titleComesFromTheChosenName() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Q3 Planning.kanban")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+
+        // 01-storage-format.md § Board naming: display name and folder name start out matching.
+        #expect(try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: location.url).model.title.value == "Q3 Planning")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An extension-less location is as legal a board, and keeps its whole name as the title")
+    func extensionlessLocationWorks() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Plain")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+
+        #expect(try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: location.url).model.title.value == "Plain")
+    }
+
+    @Test("Every lane folder is a fresh lowercase UUID")
+    func laneFoldersAreMintedIdentities() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Minted.kanban")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+
+        let ids = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: location.url).model.lanes.map(\.id.rawValue)
+        #expect(ids.count == 3)
+        #expect(Set(ids).count == 3, "three lanes, three identities")
+        #expect(ids.allSatisfy { $0 == $0.lowercased() }, "the app emits lowercase UUIDs")
+        #expect(ids.allSatisfy { UUID(uuidString: $0) != nil })
+    }
+
+    @Test("Instantiating over an existing board refuses rather than clobbering it")
+    func refusesToOverwriteAnExistingBoard() throws {
+        let location = try temporaryLocation(named: "Taken.kanban")
+        defer { location.tearDown() }
+        try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url)
+        let before = try Data(contentsOf: location.url.appendingPathComponent("index.md"))
+
+        let error = writeFailure { try BoardTemplate.basic.instantiate(at: location.url) }
+
+        #expect(error?.operation == .createBoard)
+        #expect(
+            try Data(contentsOf: location.url.appendingPathComponent("index.md")) == before,
+            "the existing board is untouched — a create never replaces one"
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test("The document name behind a chosen URL is the folder name without its extension")
+    func documentNameStripsTheExtension() {
+        #expect(BoardTemplate.documentName(of: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Boards/Roadmap.kanban")) == "Roadmap")
+        #expect(BoardTemplate.documentName(of: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Boards/Roadmap")) == "Roadmap")
+    }
+
+    @Test("The chooser offers Basic, and Basic is first")
+    func inventoryHoldsBasicFirst() {
+        // m9-templates: this becomes the bundled inventory's ten, with Basic still first
+        // (09-templates.md ▸ Inventory).
+        #expect(BoardTemplate.all.first == BoardTemplate.basic)
+        #expect(BoardTemplate.basic.slug == "basic")
+    }
+}

KanbanTests/WelcomeRowTests.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+import Foundation
+import Testing
+@testable import Kanban
+
+/// The welcome window's row derivation — 02-architecture.md § Launch and window lifecycle's
+/// row-level failure rule, which is the one part of that screen a test can hold to account:
+///
+/// > A restored board that fails surfaces on welcome, row-level: its window doesn't open; welcome
+/// > appears alongside whatever did restore, the failed board's recents row carrying fail-fast's
+/// > specifics (load error) or the unavailable state per Graceful orphaning. Other restorations
+/// > proceed unaffected — never a launch-time modal chain, **never a silent drop**.
+///
+/// "Never a silent drop" is the clause with teeth: a failure that matches no row has to come out
+/// somewhere, and the only way to know it does is to ask the function that decides.
+
+// MARK: - Fixtures
+
+/// A record with nothing in it that matters except what a given test is about. The bookmark is empty
+/// because this function never resolves one — `RecentBoard` is constructed directly here, so the
+/// availability classification is an input rather than a filesystem outcome.
+private func record(
+    name: String,
+    at path: String,
+    lanes: Int? = nil,
+    cards: Int? = nil,
+    opened: Date = Date()
+) -> BoardRecord {
+    BoardRecord(
+        bookmark: Data(),
+        displayName: name,
+        lastKnownPath: path,
+        lastOpened: opened,
+        laneCount: lanes,
+        cardCount: cards
+    )
+}
+
+private func available(_ record: BoardRecord, at path: String? = nil) -> RecentBoard {
+    .available(record, at: URL(fileURLWithPath: path ?? record.lastKnownPath, isDirectory: true))
+}
+
+// MARK: - Tests
+
+@Suite("WelcomeRow")
+struct WelcomeRowTests {
+
+    // MARK: The three states
+
+    @Test("An available record with stamped counts is an ordinary row")
+    func availableRow() throws {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Roadmap", at: "/Boards/Roadmap.kanban", lanes: 3, cards: 12))
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: [])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.count == 1)
+        let row = try #require(derived.rows.first)
+        #expect(row.displayName == "Roadmap")
+        #expect(row.isAvailable)
+        #expect(row.canOpen)
+        #expect(row.canReveal)
+        #expect(row.caption == .counts(lanes: 3, cards: 12))
+        #expect(row.countsSummary == "3 lanes · 12 cards")
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    @Test("A record that has never been closed shows an em dash, not zeroes")
+    func unstampedCountsShowAPlaceholder() throws {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Fresh", at: "/Boards/Fresh"))
+
+        let row = try #require(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first)
+
+        #expect(row.caption == .counts(lanes: nil, cards: nil))
+        #expect(row.countsSummary == "—", "zero is a claim; an unstamped record makes none")
+    }
+
+    @Test("Counts are singular at one")
+    func countsPluralize() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Tiny", at: "/Boards/Tiny", lanes: 1, cards: 1))
+
+        #expect(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first?.countsSummary == "1 lane · 1 card")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An unresolvable bookmark is a dimmed row with Open and Reveal off — never a missing row")
+    func unavailableRow() throws {
+        let recent = RecentBoard.unavailable(record(name: "Archive", at: "/Volumes/Gone/Archive", lanes: 4, cards: 9))
+
+        let row = try #require(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first)
+
+        #expect(!row.isAvailable)
+        #expect(!row.canOpen)
+        #expect(!row.canReveal)
+        #expect(row.caption == .unavailable)
+        #expect(row.displayName == "Archive", "an orphan still says which board it was")
+    }
+
+    // MARK: The failure join
+
+    @Test("A failure naming a row renders on that row instead of in a list of its own")
+    func failureLandsOnItsRow() throws {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Broken", at: "/Boards/Broken.kanban", lanes: 2, cards: 5))
+        let failure = LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/Broken.kanban", message: "index.md: schema 7 is from a newer version")
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: [failure])
+
+        let row = try #require(derived.rows.first)
+        #expect(row.caption == .failed("index.md: schema 7 is from a newer version"))
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.isEmpty, "the row carried it — it must not also appear in the fallback list")
+    }
+
+    @Test("A failure outranks the counts and the unavailable state alike")
+    func failureOutranksTheOtherCaptions() throws {
+        let orphan = RecentBoard.unavailable(record(name: "Offline", at: "/Volumes/NAS/Offline", lanes: 2, cards: 2))
+        let failure = LaunchFailure(path: "/Volumes/NAS/Offline", message: "This board is unavailable.")
+
+        let row = try #require(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [orphan], failures: [failure]).rows.first)
+
+        #expect(row.caption == .failed("This board is unavailable."))
+        #expect(!row.canOpen, "the caption changed; the row is still an orphan")
+    }
+
+    @Test("A bookmark that followed a move matches a failure recorded at the older path")
+    func failureMatchesEitherOfARecordsPaths() {
+        // The record was last *seen* at the old path; its bookmark now resolves to the new one.
+        let moved = RecentBoard.available(
+            record(name: "Moved", at: "/Boards/Old.kanban"),
+            at: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Boards/New.kanban", isDirectory: true)
+        )
+
+        let atOldPath = WelcomeRow.derive(
+            recents: [moved],
+            failures: [LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/Old.kanban", message: "old")]
+        )
+        let atNewPath = WelcomeRow.derive(
+            recents: [moved],
+            failures: [LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/New.kanban", message: "new")]
+        )
+
+        #expect(atOldPath.rows.first?.caption == .failed("old"))
+        #expect(atNewPath.rows.first?.caption == .failed("new"))
+        #expect(atOldPath.unmatched.isEmpty)
+        #expect(atNewPath.unmatched.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    @Test("Paths are compared standardized, so two spellings of one board are one board")
+    func pathsAreStandardizedBeforeMatching() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Roadmap", at: "/Boards/Roadmap.kanban"))
+        let failure = LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/./Sub/../Roadmap.kanban", message: "couldn't read it")
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: [failure])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.first?.caption == .failed("couldn't read it"))
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    @Test("The newest of several failures for one board is the caption, and all of them are consumed")
+    func newestFailureWinsAndOlderOnesAreNotOrphaned() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Retried", at: "/Boards/Retried"))
+        let failures = [
+            LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/Retried", message: "first attempt"),
+            LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/Retried", message: "second attempt"),
+        ]
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: failures)
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.first?.caption == .failed("second attempt"), "the newest describes the file as it is now")
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.isEmpty, "the older attempt must not resurface as if nothing had shown it")
+    }
+
+    @Test("A failure naming no record keeps a fallback of its own — never a silent drop")
+    func failureWithNoRowFallsBack() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Roadmap", at: "/Boards/Roadmap.kanban"))
+        let stray = LaunchFailure(path: "/Downloads/not-a-board", message: "index.md: no such file or directory")
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: [stray])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.count == 1)
+        #expect(derived.rows.first?.caption == .counts(lanes: nil, cards: nil), "the unrelated row is untouched")
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.map(\.message) == ["index.md: no such file or directory"])
+    }
+
+    @Test("Other rows are unaffected by a failure on one of them")
+    func failuresDoNotBleedBetweenRows() {
+        let recents = [
+            available(record(name: "Good", at: "/Boards/Good", lanes: 1, cards: 1)),
+            available(record(name: "Bad", at: "/Boards/Bad")),
+        ]
+        let failure = LaunchFailure(path: "/Boards/Bad", message: "boom")
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: recents, failures: [failure])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows[0].caption == .counts(lanes: 1, cards: 1))
+        #expect(derived.rows[1].caption == .failed("boom"))
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Order and naming
+
+    @Test("The derivation preserves the registry's order and never re-sorts")
+    func orderIsTheRegistrys() {
+        let recents = [
+            available(record(name: "Third", at: "/Boards/C", opened: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 3))),
+            available(record(name: "First", at: "/Boards/A", opened: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 1))),
+            available(record(name: "Second", at: "/Boards/B", opened: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 2))),
+        ]
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: recents, failures: [])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.map(\.displayName) == ["Third", "First", "Second"],
+                "the sort rule lives in BoardRegistry.recents() and must not be duplicated here")
+    }
+
+    @Test("A record with no display name falls back to its folder name, extension stripped")
+    func displayNameFallsBackToTheFolderName() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "", at: "/Boards/Untitled.kanban"))
+
+        #expect(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first?.displayName == "Untitled")
+    }
+
+    @Test("The location line is the containing folder, not the board's own path")
+    func locationIsTheContainingFolder() {
+        let recent = available(record(name: "Roadmap", at: "/Boards/Work/Roadmap.kanban"))
+
+        #expect(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first?.location == "/Boards/Work")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An unavailable row's location comes from where it was last seen")
+    func unavailableLocationUsesLastKnownPath() {
+        let recent = RecentBoard.unavailable(record(name: "Archive", at: "/Volumes/Gone/Boards/Archive"))
+
+        #expect(WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [recent], failures: []).rows.first?.location == "/Volumes/Gone/Boards")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An empty registry derives no rows and drops no failures")
+    func emptyRecentsStillSurfaceFailures() {
+        let stray = LaunchFailure(path: "/Downloads/whatever", message: "not a board")
+
+        let derived = WelcomeRow.derive(recents: [], failures: [stray])
+
+        #expect(derived.rows.isEmpty)
+        #expect(derived.unmatched.count == 1)
+    }
+}

README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Lanework is in early development. This list tracks what has actually shipped and
 - **Storage contract, read side** — frontmatter engine with a byte-perfect round-trip guarantee (unknown keys, comments, and formatting survive every rewrite; duplicate keys read last-wins; wrong-type scalars coerce read-side), gapped fractional ordering (Ranks), and a fail-fast board loader with UUID-gated level detection, warning-collecting skips, and tombstone-aware snapshots — pinned by a golden fixture suite of 18 on-disk boards.
 - **Storage contract, write side** — BoardWriter turns every mutation into an atomic temp-file+rename over exactly the files it touches: creates mint lowercase-UUIDv4 identities and `.kanban` packages; moves keep the UUID (with per-folder collision repair at the cross-board import boundary); copies mint fresh identities at every level; deletes are in-place tombstones with position-perfect restore and physical purge; attachment imports never overwrite and never refuse (Finder-style renames). Every app write stamps `modified`, clears `modified-by`, and preserves everything it didn't change byte-for-byte; readable-but-uneditable frontmatter shapes refuse loudly instead of corrupting.
 - **Live store** — every open board is one shared, watched, in-memory snapshot: an FSEvents folder watcher (debounced, `.git`-filtered, origin-reconciling) drives whole-tree reloads with a generation guard and single-flight coalescing; write brackets suppress self-echo; a file-identity-keyed store registry refcounts stores and watchers across windows and absorbs root renames via bookmark re-resolution (a vanished root locks the board and watches for its return); plus the board registry (recents, bookmarks, cached counts), the banner center's single precedence order, the dirty-buffer guard, and transient UI state.
-- **Window architecture** — the three window types and their lifecycle: a welcome window (branding, failed-open reporting), one board window per root (per-board frame memory, repositioned onto a live screen), and at-most-one card window per card (last-used size, cascaded; follows its card across lanes; dismisses on delete, tombstone, or cross-board move). Closing a board window or quitting runs one strict close flush — card sessions end, pending work drains, the registry is stamped — before the store tears down; launch restores the boards whose open-now flags survived quit (or crash), a preference gating only whether the flags are consulted.
+- **Window architecture** — the three window types and their lifecycle: a welcome window (below), one board window per root (per-board frame memory, repositioned onto a live screen), and at-most-one card window per card (last-used size, cascaded; follows its card across lanes; dismisses on delete, tombstone, or cross-board move). Closing a board window or quitting runs one strict close flush — card sessions end, pending work drains, the registry is stamped — before the store tears down; launch restores the boards whose open-now flags survived quit (or crash), a preference gating only whether the flags are consulted.
 - **The board** — every lane always on screen, the window's width dividing across the lanes' width units with no horizontal scroll: cards flow into as many interior masonry columns as a lane is wide, a right-edge drag resizes between whole units by growing the *window* (snapping at the gap with release hysteresis, hard-stopping at the screen with rubber-band feedback), and ⌥⌘→/⌥⌘← re-divide the existing width instead. Lane chrome is a per-lane SF Symbol (unknown names fall back leniently), title or untitled placeholder, a card-count badge that counts exactly what's rendered, and a new-card button — the whole title bar doubling as the reorder drag surface, a plain click selecting the lane and movement carrying it above its siblings while they show the would-be order.
 - **Card faces** — a card reads as a leading SF Symbol, its title (or a quiet untitled placeholder), and a quiet paperclip when it has attachments — title-only by design, no body excerpt. Colour is an edge accent rather than a fill: `background` paints a stripe down the card's left edge and `iconColor` tints the symbol, both written as a kebab-case palette name (12 icon tints, 12 backgrounds) or a `#RRGGBB[AA]` hex. Everything degrades rather than complains — an unreadable colour simply doesn't paint, and the value stays on disk exactly as written. Each card's snapshot carries its attachment names, listed flat and in Finder order (top-level files only; subfolders, hidden files, and symlinks are preserved but never surfaced).
 - **Creating and renaming** — New Card (⌘N) files into the selected card's lane immediately after it, a selected lane's bottom, or the last-active lane, opening a focused pseudo-card that exists nowhere on disk until its title commits (Return commits and re-selects the lane, ⌘↩ also opens the card window, Escape or clicking away discards, and a failed create discards rather than waiting for a card that can't arrive). Inline rename — Return on a card, Board ▸ Rename for either kind — tracks its target by UUID, so a foreign move mid-edit is invisible and a tombstone or deletion discards the edit silently; committing empty removes the `title` key rather than writing a blank one. New Lane is ⇧⌘N. Every mutating command disables while an editor holds the keyboard and under the read-only lock.
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 - **The trash** — deletion is two-stage and Finder-shaped. File ▸ Delete (⌘⌫, or a plain ⌫) tombstones the selection in place — cards or lanes, one bracketed write for the whole batch — and View ▸ Show Trash reveals a trailing quasi-lane where tombstoned items live. It is a pure view: nothing moves on disk, so Put Back is byte-perfect and returns an item to its old position. The column takes exactly one width unit while shown, so showing it re-divides the window rather than resizing it. Its order is fully deterministic (newest deletion first, ties by folder name, an unreadable timestamp sorting oldest) and its ancestor walk is absolute — a tombstoned lane is one entry subsuming everything beneath it, its count naming the cards Put Back would return, so recovering a separately deleted card inside it is deliberately two steps. Drag a row out onto any lane to restore it there. Purging is Delete Immediately (⌥⌘⌫) and Empty Trash… (⇧⌘⌫), each confirmed where the loss is real and named by count; Empty Trash always covers the whole trash, never just what a filter is showing. Nothing edit-shaped — Open, Rename, Style… — applies to a tombstoned selection, and a selection never mixes trashed with live.
 
+- **The welcome screen** — branding and two actions on the left, recents on the right: board icon, name, containing folder, and the lane/card counts stamped at last close, newest first. The list never opens a board to build itself, so a huge board or an offline volume costs nothing. Single click selects, double click or Return opens, and a context menu carries Open, Reveal in Finder, and Forget. A board that failed to open or restore says so **on its own row**, in the warning tint, carrying the loader's specifics rather than a modal at launch; a board whose bookmark no longer resolves dims to Unavailable with Open and Reveal off and Forget still live; and a failure naming no known board keeps a list of its own rather than vanishing. File ▸ Open Recent lists the same boards — unavailable ones disabled — with Clear Menu at the bottom, which forgets every record because here the registry *is* the menu.
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+- **New Board and Duplicate** — File ▸ New Board… (⌥⌘N) opens a Pages-style template chooser with a mini per-lane preview per template, then a save panel for the location; the new board's frontmatter title is the document name you chose, so the window title and the Finder name start out matching. File ▸ Duplicate (⇧⌘S) forks the frontmost board to a Finder-style "Board copy" sibling (then "copy 2", "copy 3"), preceded by the pending-work flush so the copy misses nothing and with the original left open beside it. The copy is literal: every GUID kept — a whole-board copy is a new identity namespace — tombstoned items carried, strays and timestamps untouched.
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 - **The board popover** — a quiet chevron beside the window title (File ▸ Board Info, ⌘I, which toggles it) opens the board's one configuration surface. Renaming edits the board's frontmatter `title` and nothing else — the folder is never renamed, so the app's display name and the Finder document name are free to diverge — and clearing the field removes the key entirely, dropping the window title back to the folder name rather than to "Untitled"; the edit commits on Return and on click-away, Escape abandons it, and an unchanged title writes nothing at all. Below it sits the same style editor every other anchor uses, aimed permanently at the board, and below that a Git section that says plainly that this board has no repository yet. The read-only lock disables the surface without closing it.
 
 ## Development