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 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
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
Designed with the user 2026-07-29 (Redesign card 82e2de6c, storage half; UI half remains open). A comment is a UUID folder under comments/ holding index.md + optional attachments/ — a card's anatomy one level down, every fractal rule applying verbatim. Field table: kind: comment, lenient self-reported author (content, not overlay — survives app writes), created/modified; no title, no order. Threads sort chronologically by created (ranks rejected: independent clocks across machines and trackers), flat this iteration with nesting deferred. Comment defects never refuse the board — stray posture at worst. Delete skips the trash, undoable without confirm. Copies carry the thread, reminted, stripping remote/remote-state so two local comments never claim one remote object. Comments are window-scoped, outside the board snapshot — the walk stays O(cards); the committer already protects them via whole-root staging, and composer/announcer describe foreign comment changes by path shape. Count chip on faces filed as WISHLIST #9. Schema edition-blind.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Stated 2026-07-29: when duplicate occurrences straddle live and trashed, the live one keeps the identity regardless of age — a restore done as a copy must never see the restored card withheld in favor of its trash ghost; the silent heal remints the trashed occurrence. Uniform across content duplicates, case-twins, and trashed lanes sharing a live lane's UUID.
Board: Minor card 94086f7b → Resolved. Minor lane now holds only tombstoned sweep cards.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User-ruled doctrine: a defect with a reliable heal heals and moves on (non-blocking notice at most); only an unhealable defect blocks, and blocking means a decision surface — load pauses, the user chooses the fix, the fix applies, the load proceeds. The loader collects every fail-fast defect in the walk rather than stopping at the first; one aggregated surface, never a modal chain. The surface's design (decision vocabulary, aggregation, reconciliation with the welcome failure row and the loading state) is filed as its own design pass — Redesign card a82a19f1 atop Issues to Resolve.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Two rulings (2026-07-29). Copy flows that stamp descendants preflight the whole subtree and refuse loudly naming the offender — the nested-uneditable silent skip is reversed; nothing partial ever lands, and post-preflight failures clean up wholesale per the construct-then-clean precedent; whole-board forks stamp nothing and stay exempt. No-sensible-reading fallbacks now log field, path, and raw text as coerce-tier Defect-stream entries — the one silent-and-unlogged recovery joins the family posture, and the stream is where real-world shapes get promoted to heuristic heals. The doctrine both rulings flow from is now stated in the taxonomy preamble: leniency recovers recoverable issues through reliable service-owned heuristics, never accepts loss that could surprise the user, and "proceed partially, lose a little" is never a verdict.
Board: Minor cards 70b3e4ba + fcc5a70b → Resolved. Code realign queued: stampCopiedDescendant leniency → subtree preflight; FrontmatterFields fallbacks → Defect stream.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Extends the claimed-names displacement to a card's reserved child names: a wrong-kind node on attachments displaces by the same ladder, scheduled class, and notice, retiring the imports-fail-one-gesture-at-a-time mode one level down; the displaced file then rides the loose-file relocation into the real attachments/ — the heals compose. comments stays a tolerated stray until the tracker era consumes the name, per the load-bearing-now timing principle.
Board: Gap card 64a1c409 → Resolved.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
General ruling (2026-07-29): app-initiated covers every reliably healable repair — unambiguous, content-lossless — because heals are auditable: Pro's separate heal commit is the durable trail, base happens quietly, and a heal that changes user content announces with a warning-tone notice, never a consent gate. The user-gated class stays defined but has no current members. Duplicate-id healing goes silent under Lanework-owns-the-board (free to re-mint UUIDs at will): no condition banner, no Repair button — a scheduled heal remints withheld occurrences (memo-guarded, disk re-verified, no-op on vanished duplicates) and posts "Repaired duplicate id — 'Fix login'". Winner rule unchanged: earlier commit on git boards, filesystem birth date then traversal order without history. 06 keeps the Repair verb as the heal commit's name; 13 moves the remint outside undo with all heals. Dissolves the Repair-has-no-Nexus-row contradiction — no command, no row owed.
Board: Contradictions card ce5e7f60 → Resolved (lane now empty); Implementation card 50ed2b5d (Active) retitled "Dedupe duplicate ids and heal them silently" and realigned mid-flight.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
The rule 01 ▸ Deletion and 03 ▸ Trash cited is now stated (ruled 2026-07-29): order is logically the container's property, stored as an attribute in each member's file for implementation convenience, so reorders, cross-lane moves, and renumber rescales rewrite index.md without touching content — no modified stamp, no modified-by clear. The trash move is the genuine exception: deletion is an edit to the item's story, stamping and clearing both, feeding the future age-based auto-purge. Considered and declined: stamping the container's own modified on reorder — fair reading, pragmatically risky to enforce, nothing reads it.
Board: Contradictions card 30c8f207 → Resolved. Code realign (Writer stamp suppression, agent guide v7) queues for the session-end realign card.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User ruling on the squatted-.trash gap: a wrong-typed node on an app-claimed
name (a file or symlink squatting .trash, a directory or symlink squatting
CLAUDE.md) is an invalid artifact, not a resident — a scheduled heal moves
it aside via the Finder-style rename ladder, preserved verbatim, with the
relocation-style notice. Upgrades the agent guide's untouchable-skip to
displace-then-write; the CLAUDE.user.md-taken skip stands (destinations
don't cascade-displace). Until the heal lands the loader keeps the
empty-trash read and a racing delete fails as a one-shot — a one-reload
window, not a standing state.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User ruling on the integrity pass: a scheduled heal's batch never folds into
a commit carrying anyone else's work. The committer's two-commit split gains
a heal class keyed by heal-marked EchoLedger receipts; the composer stays a
pure diff reader and names heal commits from their own diff shape. On-touch
heals ride their host write's commit (the backfilled kind joins the
bookkeeping no-event class), inline heals batch with their gesture, and the
user-gated Repair already commits alone.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User addendum to the integrity pass: kind moves from the lane table to the
common frontmatter table — board/lane/card at creation, comment reserved;
value-trusted where consulted, consequential only inside .trash/ today,
carried everywhere for consistency. A missing kind backfills on touch via
the integrity service. Guide v6 teaches kind on every object.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
01 gains Validation and healing (five verdicts: refuse / refuse-writes /
tolerate / coerce / heal; heal axes consent x timing incl. the inline mode;
write discipline decided by the existing stamp rule; disk re-verify, memo
discipline, defer-under-lock). kind re-ruled: any object may carry it, the
value names the kind, trusted where consulted, no stripping; backfill is the
service's on-touch heal, on-touch only. 02 gains IntegrityRules +
HealScheduler components — rules and policy consolidate, enforcement stays
with loader/writer.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
User-proposed and ruled 2026-07-29, retiring the design's sole
destructive delete: lane delete becomes a move into .trash/, exactly as
cards move. Full rationale on the Redesign board's Resolved card;
implementation is post-m12 ("Lanes delete into the trash" on the
Backlog) — the docs deliberately lead the code until then.
- 01: kind: lane always present on lane frontmatter (created with the
lane, healed on touch, never stripped) — discriminates lane from card
in the flat .trash/, where an empty lane is shape-identical to a
card; legacy deleted: on lanes is now simply ignored (no migration,
no notice — backward compatibility deliberately not funded).
- 03: trashed lane = opaque dimmed row with card count, restores whole
or purges whole; confirms count lane freight; fixed 03's own copy of
the "native undo restores a permanent delete" contradiction.
- 04: delete staged by place for lanes too (board→trash no dialog,
trash→permanent confirmed); lane drop on shown trash deletes;
kind-homogeneous trash selections, ranges skip by kind; ⌘X/⌘V restore
rides the existing lane-paste rule.
- 10: trashed lane is one flattened element, never a container.
- 13: lane delete inverse = ordinary move back; recreate-from-capture
retires — no destructive delete remains outside the trash.
- 08: agent guide v6 — lanes trash by move, kind: lane taught.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
The tombstone model is retired wholesale: deletion is a move into the reserved
<root>/.trash/, always entering at the top (rank minting — no deleted: key, no
timestamp sort), with modified stamped for the future age-based purge. Lanes
are never trashed — lane delete is physical, native undo in-session the net.
Put Back is gone: restore is drag-out or cut+paste (⌘X now enabled in the
trash as the keyboard restore path). Trash cards are ordinary cards — search,
selection, clipboard, and rendering uniform — and one container boundary
replaces the effective-liveness, ancestor-walk, and kind-homogeneity machinery
across 02 and 04. Delete stages by place (board moves, trash deletes
permanently under the recoverability confirm); legacy deleted: keys migrate
without destroying (cards relocate, lanes return live, notices). Templates
exclude .trash; Duplicate carries it; the agent guide teaches delete-as-move.
Materialized reserved lanes are named as a pattern — .archive is WISHLIST #8,
and the backed-out release-presentation question is marked open in 03.
Ruling: Redesign board Resolved card e8f1a6c2; 19 mooted tombstone-era rulings
moved to the board's new Mooted lane.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Rulings written in place: the drop settle yields to the system drag session
(fly-to-slot deferred to WISHLIST #7) and the held proposal's home is the
app-wide DragSession — rendering the arrangement means rendering the card at
release (03, 02); folder drops refuse at hover with loss-row reporting, created
cards land positionally, N shadows, header resolves topmost, shadow-only
feedback (04); the banner vocabulary gains the warning-tone loss row class
(02); all user-initiated creation clears the search (04); loose files beside a
card's index.md relocate into attachments/ with notice — files-only carve-out,
paste normalizes at the boundary, the agent guide teaches it (01, 04, 08);
dropping a card on the shown trash deletes it, shadow pinned topmost (04);
query-emptied lanes keep their slot, the out-transition stays reachable, an
open rename survives the filter, pasteboard staleness accepted (04).
The face carousel does not carry over: the pathfinder's selection-keyed dual
presentation proved undesirable — one presentation per card, selection changes
styling never geometry; the attachment chip and the card window are the whole
media story (03, 01, 10, 11; the same-day carousel settlements superseded on
their Resolved cards).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
Edition split follow-through: 12-editions.md and 13-native-undo.md join the
corpus; git-era docs (06, 07) are Pro-scoped and cross-references realigned.
Resolution session rulings written in place: caret chords yield to any focused
text control (04, 11); the drop settle holds its proposal as overlay state and
02 gains the overlays family; Duplicate gets the save-panel fallback and a
cancellable copy walk (03); Finder open is a standard document open (02);
failed first opens record before loading with the folder name provisional (02);
trash pointer ranges skip by kind, full-height marquee surface, Select All by
kind, rows-only trashed universe (02, 04); Empty Trash counts entries (03);
create handoff reads as one arrival (02); range-anchor lifecycle, board-
background click grammar, jump landing cards, lane-domain shift-arrows (04);
Reduce Motion restated per voice (10).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
- 02: failed create discards the placeholder; a second creation is a
click-away for the open draft (replace-with-discard, ⌘N unreachable);
unwritable-lock banner names volume vs permissions; WriteOperation
vocabulary grows with rename/body-save surfaces; one bookmark per open
board threads through the open flow; in-progress banner class ratified
newest-first; signpost lifecycle is the dismissable untimed one-shot
- 01: folder-name tie-breaks compare the canonical lowercase spelling
everywhere (Ranks and trash sort)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Two follow-ups to this session's decisions: the reconciling reload's
writability re-probe now raises the unwritable lock as well as clearing it
(fail loudly once, not per gesture), and under the shape-only identity
predicate the loader deterministically dedupes case-spelled sibling twins
on case-sensitive volumes (lowercase spelling wins, else lexicographic
first; loser takes the stray posture) so a snapshot never carries
duplicate ids.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Researched against the Frontmatter implementation: the duplicate-key
rescue's retry-loop pattern (compose a placeholder-patched copy, derive
spans from original lines) extends directly. Ratified: a top-level key
line whose plain unquoted remainder trips "mapping values are not allowed"
reads as everything after the first ": "; quoted/flow remainders and
nested shapes stay fail-fast; bytes preserved, fully editable, heals on
first app write of the key; silent with a log line. Test obligation named
(no hostile-YAML case covers the shape today).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
01 said "lowercase UUIDv4" without defining the test, and the strict
reading made every uppercase uuidgen/UUID().uuidString folder a silently
skipped stray. Settled: 8-4-4-4-12 hex in any case and any version is an
identity; comparison is UUID-value equality (case-spellings are one
identity, matching default-APFS behavior); the app emits lowercase v4
only and never renames to canonicalize.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
01's table promised an update on every app write, which raw-source Apply
(byte-for-byte contract) and attachment operations (never touch index.md;
load-bearing for 03's Add-Attachment-during-raw-source rule) cannot honor.
Settled: modified updates only on app writes that rewrite the item's
index.md; both exceptions stated as deliberate, and the stale-readout
consequence on 05's Modified line accepted with attachment history living
where the files do.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Contradictions: v1 gains a minimal Settings pane (⌘,) housing the
restore-at-launch toggle; Window ▸ Welcome to Lanework inventoried in 11.
Gaps: close/quit waits for in-flight bracketed and copy-shaped operations;
pull extends the Edit-session treatment to open raw-source buffers
(signpost + last-writer-wins Apply); File ▸ Duplicate keeps tombstones
(01's "as-is" softened to per-flow exclusions). Minor: Undo routing
promoted to a real heading in 06; 11's dead "10 ▸ Actions" citation
repointed. m3 watcher findings: root-gone cancels armed debounced
delivery; mid-bracket root changes owned by the root-change path;
.git filtered at any depth; banked mid-bracket reconciles and the
200 ms debounce ratified.
- Appended frontmatter lines adopt the file's prevailing line ending
(read off the opening delimiter) — one stamp never produces a
mixed-ending file.
- Empty-but-not-blank frontmatter ({}, null, ~) joins the
readable-but-uneditable shapes: zero keys load fine, but appending
after that text would be unparseable YAML.
- Renumber is atomic per file, not per lane — an interrupted rescale
is accepted the same way as the shared-board burst: valid floats,
deterministic order, next renumber completes the job.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
18 golden fixture boards as real on-disk trees under Fixtures/ — ten
valid/tolerated cases (rich board, interrupted create, non-UUID strays,
stray files, tombstones, tie-breaks, unknown-key order, coercion,
last-wins duplicates, board-level deleted) and eight fail-fast cases,
each pinned to its exact error reason and path; the rich board's whole
tree round-trips byte-identically. Pins two contract subtleties now
recorded in the design: tombstone flags are not inherited (renderers
walk ancestors) and last-wins resolves before order strictness. README
gains the storage-foundation feature entry. 146 tests total.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Resolves the ownership contradiction: CLAUDE.md / CLAUDE.user.md (08)
and the git-init-seeded .gitignore (06) are app-claimed at board root —
the one scope on the preserved-verbatim promise agents read.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Duplicates: Yams' duplicate-key error is disarmed by placeholder-
renaming first occurrences and re-composing (line count preserved, so
span layout stays exact); reads take the last occurrence, set()
rewrites the winner and clears earlier twins, remove() clears all.
Top-level only — nested duplicates stay YAML errors (doc updated).
Re-splice: an inline comment on a rewritten scalar line survives, with
quote-aware detection so a # inside quotes is never a comment. +31
tests (118 total).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Resolves the 01-vs-09/03 contradiction: Save as Template and File ▸
Duplicate copy the board folder as-is, GUIDs kept — the remint rule
governs item-level copies inside an existing board. Duplicate's
fork-keeps-history guarantee requires retention (copied .git history
must keep naming real paths); 03's Duplicate paragraph now says so.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Resolves the 01-vs-06 contradiction: the pure-diff composer cannot emit
'Renumber lane X' (order-only bookkeeping composes nothing), and a
renumber never happens alone — it batches with the insert/move that
exhausted the midpoint, so the commit reads as that event. 06's
bookkeeping rule now says sequence-preserving order changes are the
bookkeeping; repositioning order changes still compose Reorder.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
Resolved on the Redesign board: raw-source Apply preserves a typed
modified-by stamp; FolderWatcher is FSEvents-only best-effort with no
iCloud/network fallback; read-only lock scope enumerated; matching
touch-ups in board-ui, card-window, accessibility docs.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Resolved on the Redesign board: post-renumber Put Back placement is
deterministic but may land among new neighbors; the commit-message
composer deliberately models the reserved labels/assignees/due trio.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
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