Minors ruled into 01 ▸ The decision surface and Skip: (1) depth reveals
in rounds — a defective lane index leaves its subtree unwalked, so
deeper defects surface on the round after its repair, the collect-all
rule meeting an unreadable container; (2) Skip never names the root —
the case-by-case foreclosures are one general rule the loader polices,
a root skip entry ignored and the defect collected anyway; (3) the
skip's carrier is the defect's root-relative path — the string the row
displays and Reveal resolves, exactly what the user consented about.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Minor ruled into 05 ▸ Window: the no-title titlebar collapses AppKit's
title/subtitle pair as one field, so board › lane hides with it. The
window is usually beside its board; title and subtitle keep feeding the
Window menu, Exposé, VoiceOver, and restoration. The live-update wiring
stands — a sidebar placement row is the named candidate if a visible
surface is ever wanted; deliberately not built now.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Minor ruled into 06 ▸ Auto-commit: a reload in flight at bracket close
clears the gate without a started-after guarantee, and the committer
deliberately does not ask — the cadence margin makes the window
academic, the post-bracket reload is unconditional, and the deadline
already accepts a near-covering snapshot; the tree is what gets staged,
so the exposure is message precision, never content. Walk-start
bookkeeping named as the escalation.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Issues card ruled into 10 ▸ audits: the every-surface claim reaches
tier-gated UI via a launch flag honored only when isFixtureLaunch is also
set — the fixture already scopes the app to a scratch container and a
throwaway board, so the override grants Pro on a disposable sandbox and
never over real boards. Manual-checklist-forever would asterisk the
claim; debug-only would leave release unauditable. Partial surfaces pin
the free-reachable state and audit the full one under the override.
(Carries 10's in-flight zoom-control bullet from the parallel session.)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
The pathfinder surface stack landed in e1ffe71 entangled with staged-index
placement drift: the replica's wash block sat inside replicaHeight (a CGFloat
has no .background — HEAD did not build), the body plate rode outside the cut
dim, the lanePlate property and the DESIGN bullet sat away from their kin.
Pure relocation, no new lines: every block moves to the anchor it was written
for. Verified by an isolated build of this tree.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Gap #12 ruled into 04 ▸ the trash-drop bullet: the refusal fall-through's
honest reading (the column declines to be a target, it does not cancel
the held drag) covers only promises the refusal leaves keepable — lane
shadows keep drawing and an ⌥-copy lands where they are. A standing
proposal naming the trash itself is the promise the refusal just broke,
so it withdraws: the drag goes proposal-less over the column, release
with no proposal cancels in agreement with the empty picture, and
lifting ⌥ re-asks at the same address. Implementation filed on the
Implementation board.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #11 ruled into 02 ▸ One-way flow: between a write's bracket and its
echo the snapshot describes the past, so a guard deciding whether a write
would change disk baselines on the snapshot as amended by this store's
own in-flight writes — a pending-value record of the write path's own,
never the EchoLedger. Relative gestures (step one width unit) resolve
their base against the same amended truth, and the undo step's recorded
prior reads it too. The amendment dies with its echo; failed writes never
enter it. Coalescing weighed and set aside — one gesture, one write, one
commit. Implementation filed on the Implementation board.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #10 ruled into 04 ▸ Search's single-source-of-truth bullet: zones,
shadow, and write all resolve through the same filtered list — the
position the shadow shows is the landing the write performs. The slot's
meaning in the full order is its visible anchor (after the visible
predecessor, before the visible successor at the lane top, true end in a
query-emptied lane; multi-card in proposal order beside the anchor);
hidden cards keep their ranks untouched, and the gesture's meaning
survives the query's clearing. The rendered space includes the new-card
placeholder. Code diverges today — implementation filed on the
Implementation board.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #9 ruled into 06 ▸ Rules: a board-wholesale operation asked from a
form is both rulings at once, and the form rule wins while the asking
surface is up — create-and-switch answers inline in the sheet's Branch
section, a picker-asked switch at the popover's caption, never both at
once (the sheet dismisses the popover). The banner stays the posture for
whatever outlives the asking surface — the form rule's own fallback
generalized. Banner-only-everywhere weighed and set aside.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #8 written into 02 ▸ FolderWatcher's reconciling bullet: the
value-equal skip's structural consequence is that walk-subject consumers
cannot key on the applied-snapshot generation, so the store carries two
counters — applied (the committed-overlay hold's event, unchanged) and
landed (every successful reload, equal or not; failures bump neither).
The choosing rule: anything outside the snapshot, or about the walk
itself, watches landed walks — the comment thread, the comment search
index, the auto-committer's covering gate.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #7 blessed into 01 ▸ Malformed input ▸ Skip: the store retains the
open's skip set and every live reload's walk carries it, so a
still-broken skipped file never re-trips the reload-breakage banner. The
skip names a defect at a path, not the file — a fixed file rejoins
mid-session on its own, and a new defect at an unconsented path is
ordinary reload breakage. The notice stays the open's one-time residue;
consent lapses at close, and the next open meets the surface again.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Gap #6 ratified into 01 ▸ Malformed input ▸ The decision surface: a root
that is gone/unreadable or is a file throws immediately as a single-defect
failure — nothing to walk, nothing a surface could repair or reveal — so
it retires to the welcome failure row on every open, attended or not.
Judged per failure, not per defect (the 31fee00 refinement, ratified): an
environmental defect among repairable ones still shows the surface, and
the vocabulary keeps the unreachable-root seat for the re-walk that meets
one under a standing surface.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Ruled 2026-08-01: the width the user types in is the em-derived figure in
both of ⌘F's homes; the toolbar field's resting width is AppKit's, outside
the invariant — the transient strip never rests, so it has no collapsed
state to mirror. 03 also records the shipped grow-on-focus behavior beside
the default-item sentence.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: SHA-256 repos are unsupported,
safely — unopenable ones take the corrupt-repo loud-failure path,
never a silent fall to mode-none; opened ones get hygiene's abstention
by construction (SHA-1 shape filter, empty work list). Recorded in 06.
No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: the hygiene pass never
consolidates, rewrites, or deletes existing packs — one pack per
threshold's worth of objects accrues forever, the never-rewrite
posture's price. Terminal git gc remains the consolidation path.
Recorded in 06. No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: loose-object pack at the 6,700
threshold (git's gc.auto default), 8 s after session activation,
background priority, skipped under contention, at most once per
session, all injectable. Recorded in 06's repo-growth bullet.
No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: identity writes append a plain
[user] section, never editing existing sections or tool-specific
subsections; reads take the last plain-section value, git's own
semantics — so the append always wins without reformatting anything.
Recorded in 06's identity bullet. No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Two Redesign Minor settlements in 06: the popover's name/email fields
re-read repo config at 2 s only while visible (the watcher never
delivers .git, so the resync courtesy needs its own signal; focused
fields keep keystrokes); and the wholesale-bracket failure sentence
now defers to 02's hosted-by-window-of-origin rule — the card window
hosts its own strip, a ⌘Z pressed there fails there.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: popover-asked operations fail
inline at the form; board-wholesale brackets — branch switch and undo
restore named explicitly — fail as banner rows, red one-shot failures
per the same-day banner ruling. A switch's bounded lock wait can
expire long after the popover dismissed. Recorded in 06.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: the stamp clears on successful
abort only. A failed abort keeps it — the stamp is the sole evidence
the leftover is the app's own, and clearing on failure would orphan it
as somebody-else's forever. Recovery retries at next open or the 15 s
paused-state re-read. Recorded in 06. No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: the waiting posture stays calm,
but the wait ends — 30 s (injectable), then the clean-failure path,
tree untouched, lock path named. Only a stale lock ever reaches the
bound; an eternal spinner holding the wholesale bracket is worse.
Recorded in 06's index.lock bullet. No code change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign Minor card: no at-HEAD fast path — the
"can't change the tree" proof fails under concurrent writers, and
pending work flushes onto the branch it was made on. One sequence,
no special case; recorded in 06's Branch switching intro. No code
change.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the parked Redesign Minor card, with the user: 02's
hang-avoidance doctrine and 06's ordering guarantee genuinely conflict
at noteWillWrite, and the guarantee wins — rare, bounded, load-bearing,
reentrancy-safe only in the synchronous shape. Full semantic
composition stays on the path: the commit preserving somebody else's
version keeps its real subject. Carve-out recorded in 06.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign board's Gap card: the failure class gains a
message-carrying GitOperationFailure shape beside the BoardWriteError
one — error tone, failure rank, BannerCenter phrasing. A failed undo
restore, branch switch, or pull/push presents as the failure it is,
never as a warning-tone loss row; recovery notices stay warning-tone.
Code realign pending (both reportFailure wirings post loss rows today).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign board's Gap card: crossing a restore commit
post-relaunch emits the inverse prefix ("Undo: S" crossed -> "Redo: S")
rather than stacking "Undo: Undo: S". Semantically exact and caps
prefixes at one; cosmetic-only mislabel accepted for foreign commits
whose subjects happen to open with a prefix. Code realign pending in
the restore-subject composer.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Settled from the Redesign board's Gap card: crossing the parentless root
commit could only restore the empty tree, and the root is a baseline,
not a change-set. Undo bottoms out at the initial board state; the
reseed walk stops in the same place. The shipped GitHistoryProvider
already conforms.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
DESIGN/14-git-operations.md distills the settled conclusions from the
pathfinder's AI-ANALYSIS-git-operations.md so pro-m1 has a citable
in-repo source: the forward-restore model (C3/C9 — restores are new
forward commits, never reset, never force; pull's rebase of unpushed
local commits is the one deliberate rewrite), C8 as later design
settled it (no sidecar state, reseed from HEAD's first-parent
ancestry, history browser out of scope with the per-card History
section as the one carve-in), and honest call-outs of the three
leanings 06/07 settled differently (C1 substrate, A1 iCloud dual
mode, B6 cadence-as-divergence-budget). Resolves the corpus's
outstanding git-operations-doc tbd.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
2026-07-30 findings-resolution ruling (Redesign card c70d7a72): the
guide-contents section now states what the shipped guide teaches NOW,
normative against the literal, edited in the same change as the literal.
The hand-maintained per-version bullets drifted within days of v6
(claiming kind and lane-trash teachings the shipped body lacked) — the
README deferred-list failure class; version history lives in git.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
2026-07-30 design pass (with the user), superseding the 2026-07-27
two-app split and the 2026-07-29 App Group ruling. Rulings:
- One Mac App Store app (dev.rzen.indie.Kanban, free, 2.0 updates the
existing record); Lanework Pro = auto-renewable subscription (StoreKit
2) unlocking the git tier; libgit2 compiles in dormant. The KanbanPro
target, module-alias tests, verify-editions, UTI/About/Types twins all
retire. Teams stays deferred — probably a separate app, and never on a
shared app group.
- No grandfathering: 1.x's free git users get the inert-.git posture;
unsubscribed and lapsed are one state — histories freeze, resume on
subscribe via the committer's catch-up commit.
- Entitlement = local read of StoreKit's signed transaction store at
board-session composition; never a network call on the open path;
subscribe effective at next open (purchase flow offers reopen); lapse
never interrupts an open session; expiry-while-offline with auto-renew
on holds in grace until a real refresh.
- App Group removed wholesale: registry, clipboard staging, template
store, defaults return to ordinary Application Support; grant slots
collapse to one bookmark, open-now to one flag; freshness stamp,
pid-liveness line, group-id provisioning risk all dissolve.
- Quiet signposts carry over; Settings gains the Pro section (subscribe/
manage/restore) as the third named Pro surface.
12-editions.md rewritten as the tiers doc; edition vocabulary swept to
tiers across 00-13, README, WISHLIST.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
2026-07-30 findings-resolution ruling (Redesign card 8fec5d7d): the
structured log line is the coerce-tier Defect stream's whole surface
this version; promotion to a heuristic heal or notice is deliberately
investigation-driven — a no-telemetry app has no other observer to
build for. An in-app diagnostics surface becomes WISHLIST #11 with the
typed stream as its ready plumbing. Code already conforms.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
2026-07-30 findings-resolution ruling (Redesign card 89862cef): the
mtime+size stamp the App Group implementation introduced (566deab) is
the designed mechanism, not an invention — checked before every registry
read and mutation, re-read on change, write on top of the other
edition's latest state. The microsecond check-to-write window stays
last-writer-wins, costing at most one convenience field. Deliberately no
NSFileCoordinator and no per-record split. Code already conforms.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
2026-07-30 findings-resolution ruling (Redesign card d40bfac1): Finder's
⌥⌘⌫ answered disk-space pressure boards don't have, and it was the one
gesture reaching unrecoverable straight from the board. The delete
vocabulary is now purely staged: board → trash, trash → permanent
(confirmed on no-git boards), Empty Trash for bulk. Docs drop the File
menu row, both ⌥-alternate context rows, and the VO custom action; code
removal rides the session's realign card.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User-ruled 2026-07-30: only within-container order-only rewrites (a reorder
among a lane's siblings, a lane reorder on the board, the renumber rescale)
skip the modified stamp and the modified-by clear. A move that changes the
item's container — cross-lane, cross-board, into or out of .trash/ — stamps
and clears both: which lane a card lives in is state, where it stands in
line is presentation. The trash move stops being an exception and becomes
the container rule's plainest instance. 01 scope/modified-by/Ordering/
Deletion/comments, 03 Trash, and 08's v7 bullet updated.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
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