Comments card-window UI designed — three componentized panes and the .draft composer

Designed with the user 2026-07-29, closing Redesign card 82e2de6c (both halves). The card window recomposes as three componentized panes — body, comments, attributes — with a layout option (side-by-side default, body-over-comments for narrow displays; app-wide) and the thread visible through body Edit in both mounts. The column auto-shows when the thread is non-empty; sort direction flips at the header; the composer sits at the newest end. The composer edits comments/.draft/ — the user's idea, replacing any app-side draft store: one draft per card, ordinary comment schema with attachments, excluded from the thread, riding git/copies/trash, joining the claimed names; slow save cadence composing "Draft comment on 'X'"; posting renames to a fresh UUID and restamps created/modified in one bracket. Inline edits are body-edit sessions in miniature; no prompts anywhere. All editions ship comments — only tracker sync is Teams (matrix updated). A11y shapes in 10; menu, grammar, context-menu, and configuration rows in 11.

Board: Redesign card 82e2de6c → Resolved; Implementation card "Build comments" filed on Backlog (post-2.0).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97

DESIGN/11-command-nexus.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ The single source of truth for **every command and action the app can perform**
 | File | Save as Template | — (no default) | Board window; 09-templates.md |
 | File | Reveal in Finder | — (no default) | Board window: the selection's folder(s), or the board root with nothing selected; card window: the card's folder — the selected attachment's file instead when the attachments section is focused; welcome: the selected recent's folder (disabled on unavailable rows) — the context-menu entry's required twin |
 | File | Add Attachment… | ⇧⌘A | Card window |
+| File | Add Comment | — (no default) | Card window (all editions — 12); reveals the comments column if hidden and focuses the composer — 05 ▸ The comments column |
 | File | Delete | ⌘⌫ | Board window, any card or lane selection — staged by place (resettled 2026-07-28; lanes rejoined 2026-07-29): board cards and lanes move to `.trash/`, trash selections delete permanently (03's recoverability confirm — freight-counting for lanes). Deliberately **not** extended to the card window: an enabled ⌘⌫ key equivalent would steal delete-to-line-start from the window's text surfaces, so there the card's delete is the sidebar Actions button (05) |
 | File | Delete Immediately | ⌥⌘⌫ | Board window, any card or lane selection — skips the trash from anywhere; confirmed on boards without git history (mode none / repo-nested), immediate on git boards — 03 ▸ Trash |
 | File | Empty Trash… (confirmed) | ⇧⌘⌫ | Board window, trash shown and non-empty (whole-trash scope, search-independent — 03 ▸ Trash) |
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ The single source of truth for **every command and action the app can perform**
 | Board | Pull / Push | — (no default) | Remote-backed boards only (07); disabled during 06's abnormal-state pause (the whole git surface holds) and on an unresolvable remote (07's one-time remote picker case); popover twins exist |
 | View | Show Trash (checkmark toggle) | — (no default) | Board window — ⇧⌘T is deliberately left to the system's Show Tab Bar: window tabbing stays enabled (settled; see Standard macOS furniture), so the chord is the system's; assign one via the remapping mechanism if wanted (04 ▸ Configurable bindings) |
 | View | Edit Body (checkmark toggle) | ⌘E | Card window; disabled while Raw Source is active |
+| View | Show Comments (checkmark toggle) | — (no default) | Card window; per-window, transient — the column auto-shows when the thread is non-empty (05 ▸ The comments column) |
+| View | Comments Beside Body (checkmark toggle) | — (no default) | Card window; checked = side-by-side (default), unchecked = body over comments; app-wide, persisted (05 ▸ Composition) |
 | View | Raw Source (checkmark toggle; toggling off = Apply) | ⌥⌘E | Card window |
 | View | History | — (no default) | Card window; focuses the sidebar History section (05); git boards only — section absent, item disabled on mode none / repo-nested |
 | Window | Welcome to Lanework | — (no default) | Everywhere; shows (or focuses) the welcome window (02 ▸ Launch and window lifecycle) |
@@ -66,6 +69,7 @@ All board grammar keys are inert while a title editor is focused, and menu dispa
 | Return | Card window, Preview | Enter Edit |
 | Escape | Card window, Edit | Return to Preview |
 | Return | Card window, title field | Commit title, focus into body |
+| ⌘↩ | Card window, comment composer or inline comment editor focused | Post the draft (rename + restamp, one commit) / end the edit session at its commit point — 05 ▸ The comments column; twinned by the Comment / Save buttons |
 | Escape | Card window, title field | Abandon: revert to the on-disk title, focus into body — routes by focus, winning over Edit-mode's Escape while the field is focused (05) |
 | Escape / ⌘↩ | Card window, source mode | Cancel / Apply (leaving-by-toggle is Apply too — 05) |
 | Arrows / Space / Return / ⌫ | Card window, attachments section focused | Row navigation / QuickLook / open / Remove to *system* Trash (05) |
@@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ Context menus are the per-item action inventory VoiceOver reads (10 ▸ The boar
 | Lane | One menu, invoked on the header or lane empty space (settled — a full lane still has its header): Rename, Style…, quick-style recents row (03), Width control (stepper — menu twins Increase/Decrease Lane Width), Delete — with the same ⌥-alternate Delete Immediately. The trash needs no alternate: its Delete is already permanent |
 | Trash selection | Delete (permanent — 03's recoverability confirm), Reveal in Finder (inspection before a purge; twin of File ▸ Reveal in Finder, not edit-shaped, enabled on trash selections — 04 ▸ The trash) |
 | Attachment row | Open, Remove (system Trash) — twins of the focused section's grammar keys (Return / ⌫ — 05); Reveal in Finder — twin of File ▸ Reveal in Finder in its attachments-focused context |
+| Comment | Edit (inline session — 05 ▸ The comments column), Delete (immediate, undoable — 01), Reveal in Finder |
 | Welcome recent | Open, Reveal in Finder, Forget (C — registry management, welcome-scoped) |
 
 ## Configuration controls (C)
@@ -98,6 +103,7 @@ Context menus are the per-item action inventory VoiceOver reads (10 ▸ The boar
 - **Style editor** (three anchors — 03 ▸ Styling ▸ Controls): grids arrow-navigable, every well Tab-reachable.
 - **Template chooser** (09): template selection; Reveal in Finder for the user store.
 - **Welcome** (03): recents list; Forget.
+- **Comments header** (05 ▸ The comments column): the sort-direction control (ascending/descending, app-wide persisted) — Tab-reachable beside the count.
 
 ## Standard macOS furniture