View ▸ Appearance (11-command-nexus.md): three radio-exclusive rows,
app-wide, persisted, needing no window in front — the View menu's new
last group. AppearanceStore owns the override's rules (absent key =
Auto, lenient reads degrade to Auto, remove-at-default) with an
injectable apply seam so test hosts never touch NSApp; the one real
apply hands NSApp.appearance its answer in applicationDidFinishLaunching,
the global side effect KanbanApp.init must not carry. The board toolbar
gains its first .picker item — an NSMenuToolbarItem whose rows re-fetch
their spec fresh, checkmark read at menu-open like every other menu row —
and Appearance joins the search field as the second default item,
centered beside it (03-board-ui.md ▸ Toolbar, ratified 2026-08-07).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
The toolbar's search field now lives in AppKit's own NSSearchToolbarItem:
em(17) is the focused width (preferredWidthForSearchField), the resting
width is the item's own, and ⌘F becomes beginSearchInteraction — one call
that expands and focuses. Escape's empty-field exit collapses the field as
the keyboard leaves. resignsFirstResponderWithCancel is off so the staged
Escape survives the cancel button. The item ships its own live overflow row
and an above-.high visibility priority, so both custom-view workarounds
retire. The palette copy stays inert through an enablement round-trip the
item's searchField setter would otherwise overwrite.
The centering half of the card is blocked on a Design ruling (03 settles
"trailing") and is not built; the two-homes width question is filed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
The command surface was already almost entirely platform machinery —
this card proves it and pins it. Headless probes established that
NSWindow.validateMenuItem answers enablement AND rewrites the row title
from the delegate-supplied manager, so 'Undo Move 3 Cards' flows step
phrase to Edit menu with no code of ours; under the lock the rows dim
and keep their names, the correct reading of the-stack-survives. The
toolbar twins validate through validateUserInterfaceItem, which never
touches labels — 03's static-label exception proven rather than
asserted — and their specs' enablement abstention is pinned so nobody
later adds a second, disagreeing answer. The one link a headless run
cannot close is the nil-target key-window resolution itself: standard
responder-chain behavior with none of our code in it, left as the
manual check. Base-edition 'disabled without undo' scaffolding is
reworded away — every base board has undo now. New suites cover the
trash's two doors (delete-then-undo byte-identical to Put Back's
effect), position-preserving restore of a middle card, and the
capstone: five gestures forward, five presses back to the origin
board, five forward again, the menu phrase asserted after every press.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
NSToolbar through the existing HostedWindowController rather than
SwiftUI's toolbar — for reasons that are contract, not taste: 03's
transient-search clause is a decision over the toolbar's current
contents, which NSToolbar publishes and SwiftUI's API cannot answer;
Undo/Redo are the system's nil-target responder-chain actions so the
toolbar items validate exactly as the menu rows do (disabled on base
boards, alive in m8 unchanged); and the search item hosts the real
NSSearchField with explicit first-responder control. Customization is
all system furniture — Customize sheet, drag rearrange, display-mode
popup, overflow, autosaved per window kind. Board default: the search
field alone, trailing; catalog adds New Card, New Lane, Undo, Redo,
Show Trash, every action extracted from its menu command so no second
predicate exists. Card default: the Edit Body / Raw Source toggles and
Add Attachment, mirroring their commands' own predicates live via
observation tracking. Removing the search item keeps the promise —
⌘F surfaces the same field as a transient strip under the title bar,
persisting until the query clears, and an overflowed item that cannot
take the keyboard falls through to the strip too.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
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