The card face becomes real: leading SF Symbol (card default doc.text,
tinted by a valid hand-written iconColor — schema yes, control no),
title or the quiet untitled placeholder, and a quiet paperclip when
the card has attachments — title-only by design, no body excerpt.
Color is the settled K1 edge accent, not a fill: background paints a
4pt stripe down the left edge, resolved through the ported pathfinder
palette (12 icon tints + 12 backgrounds carried over verbatim, plus
raw #RRGGBB[AA]); anything unresolvable paints nothing and stays on
disk exactly as written. The snapshot now carries each card's flat
attachment names — the loader's one read inside a card folder, shared
with the Writer's listing so the m5 carousel and m6 sidebar can never
disagree on order (Finder order, the Writer's existing comparator).
The face keeps its top-aligned structure so the sole-selection
carousel can expand inside the card without moving masonry neighbors.
18 new tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The lane title bar becomes real: leading SF Symbol (hand-written names
render leniently, unknown ones fall back to the level default), title
or secondary untitled placeholder, a quiet count badge that counts
exactly the cards the body renders (so the m5 search filter is
followed by construction), and a new-card button. The whole bar is
the reorder drag surface — no grip — with click-vs-movement splitting
select from drag; a pure proposal function maps the drag to an
insertion index and release commits through the Writer's same-parent
degenerate reorder, compacting and retrying when midpoint precision
runs out. Clicking never edits: inline rename is Return on the sole
selected card or Board > Rename for either kind, a third transient
editor beside the placeholder that tracks its target by UUID, commits
on focus loss, discards silently when the target vanishes, and
removes the title key on an empty commit. The new-card placeholder
renders at last — the settled Cmd-N target rule (pure, tested) files
it after the anchor card, at a selected lane's bottom, or into the
last-active lane; Return commits and re-selects the lane, Cmd-Return
also opens the card window, and a failed create discards the overlay.
New Card / New Lane / Rename land in the menus with focused-editor
and read-only validation; rename gets its own WriteOperation case in
the banner vocabulary. 59 new tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The lane strip replaces the placeholder board: window width divides
across the lanes' width units (no horizontal scroll, no minimum width,
degenerate compression accepted), a lane of n units flowing its cards
into n round-robin masonry columns via a measurement-cached Layout.
Width has two deliberately opposite controls, both landing here: the
right-edge drag (ported verbatim from the pathfinder's ColumnResize)
freezes the 1x standard at drag start, snaps between integer widths
with the asymmetric shadow-leads tick and 10pt re-entry, grows the
window one standard width per snap so siblings keep their exact
pixels, and rubber-bands at the screen's visible frame — uncapped
otherwise; the Increase/Decrease Lane Width items (new Board menu,
Cmd-Opt-arrows) are the stepper's keyboard face and re-divide the
existing window width instead, never touching the window. Width
changes write through the new .resize WriteOperation ("Couldn't
resize…" in the banner vocabulary, which grows with the surfaces by
design); malformed width values render as one unit and stay untouched
on disk. 27 new tests port the pathfinder's resize-math suite onto
the uncapped range and pin the write path's fidelity.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Accept liberally, emit conservatively (764a4d4): the gate is 8-4-4-4-12
hex in any case and any UUID version — uuidgen and UUID().uuidString
print uppercase, and a strict lowercase gate would silently stray an
agent's standard-tool card. Identity comparison is UUID-value equality
everywhere: ItemID keeps its byte-faithful rawValue but equates and
hashes on the lowercased canonical form, and the writer's
import-boundary collision check canonicalizes, so a same-UUID arrival
spelled in another case remints instead of slipping past. The app still
mints only lowercase v4 and never renames to canonicalize.
Full suite 342 tests in 63 suites green. Two findings filed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
WriteOperation replaces free-form operation strings throughout
BoardWriter, per the settled rule in 02 § Write-failure surfacing: the
banner layer will switch exhaustively over it, so a new operation
without a banner rendering is a compile-time hole. Titles enrich at the
two points a document read makes them known (updateIndex, and the
move/copy pre-flight), so failures after the read name the item;
purge never reads and stays title-less. Free-form English survives
only in the diagnostic reason.
Full suite 300 tests in 56 suites green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
importAttachments lands files into a card's attachments/ (created on
first import — the one folder the app ever makes there), never
overwriting and never refusing a name: collisions auto-rename
Finder-style, counting up from 2, with a same-named subfolder
blocking a name exactly like a file. Sources are validated before any
copy; a failed copy removes the partial destination and throws naming
the source file; a multi-file batch stops at the first failure with
earlier files staying landed. listAttachments is the flat surface:
top-level regular files only, Finder-sorted, subfolders and hidden
entries excluded and untouched; a missing attachments/ lists empty.
11 new unit tests; 245 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
deleteItem writes deleted: <now> in place through updateIndex — the
folder never moves, nothing beneath it is touched (hiding the subtree
is the renderer's ancestor walk, not a stored flag). restoreItem
removes the key — position-perfect by construction, every duplicate
occurrence taken so a hand-written twin cannot resurrect the
tombstone. purgeItem physically removes the tree; an already-missing
folder is success (a Finder deletion converges on the same end
state), and no prior tombstone is required (Delete Immediately skips
the stage by design). Board-root deletion is structurally unreachable
via the UUID-shape guard shared with move/copy. Neither delete nor
restore polices liveness — re-deleting refreshes the timestamp,
restoring a live item is a harmless stamped rewrite.
14 new unit tests; 234 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
moveItem: physical folder move, UUID and created travel unchanged;
exactly one file rewritten (the moved root's order, stamped). Import
boundary detected by resolved board-root comparison; on a cross-board
move-in, arriving UUIDs colliding with any identity in the destination
board (tombstones included) are reminted per folder at the finest
grain — folder rename only, file bytes untouched, every repair
reported in MoveResult. A colliding root moves straight to its minted
name. A same-parent move degrades to a plain reorder, self excluded
from the appended-rank scan.
copyItem: whole-tree copy minting fresh UUIDs at every depth; .fork
keeps created while stamping modified and clearing modified-by, .born
(template instantiation) stamps created fresh too. Nested uneditable
or unreadable files copy byte-verbatim rather than blocking the
gesture; the root must be rewritable. All-or-nothing at the
destination — any failure removes the partial tree.
24 new unit tests; 220 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
createBoard fills or mints a .kanban (or extension-less) folder and
refuses to clobber an existing board; createLane/createCard mint fresh
lowercase-UUIDv4 folders and append at max+1024 among visible siblings
via the same strict scan renumber uses (extracted, shared). New files
carry schema/title?/order?/created/modified — created==modified, no
modified-by — written LF through the same atomic temp+rename path.
The editability pre-flight is now scoped to operations that rewrite
siblings: renumber refuses on an uneditable sibling, a create beside
one proceeds. Schema constant unified on BoardLoader.supportedSchema.
Info.plist declares the .kanban document type (UTI conforming to
com.apple.package) so Finder treats a board as one document.
20 new unit tests; 196 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
The single point through which every mutation becomes a filesystem
operation: read fresh from disk (strict byte-faithful UTF-8), refuse
readable-but-uneditable frontmatter shapes, apply the edit through the
span engine, stamp modified / clear modified-by, then temp-file+rename
atomically. Renumber-visible-children is the sole minimal-touch
exception, tombstones untouched. Structured BoardWriteError carries
operation + path + reason for the future banner surface.
Alongside, three edges the card surfaced:
- The loader now decodes byte-faithfully too, so a BOM'd or non-UTF-8
index.md is rejected at load per the encoding contract, instead of
loading via NSString's silent BOM strip and then refusing every write.
- An appended frontmatter line adopts the file's prevailing line ending
(a CRLF file stays uniformly CRLF when a stamp first lands in it).
- Empty-but-not-blank frontmatter ({}, null, ~) is detected as
uneditable — appending after it would be unparseable YAML.
30 new unit tests; 176 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
rawValue and the coercion/malformed paths now stop at the quote-aware
inline-comment boundary, so 'title: 2048 # note' coerces to "2048"
and a read-then-write no longer compounds the comment (pinned
idempotent). Strictly read-side; round-trip bytes untouched. +6 tests
(124 total).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
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
Only lowercase-hex 8-4-4-4-12 folder names are lane/card candidates;
anything else is a stray — skipped with a distinct warning, never
descended, never able to fail-fast a load. UUID-shaped folders keep the
prior contract (missing index skips, malformed frontmatter fail-fasts).
Design resolution from the Redesign board. +5 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Pure tree walk: root → lanes → cards, level is position. Fail-fast with
path+reason for bad YAML, missing/malformed schema or order, newer
schema, rootless board; index-less folders skip with a collected+logged
warning; strays, hidden files, and symlinks ignored; board-level
deleted ignored with a warning; tombstones loaded and flagged. 17 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Immutable snapshot value types encoding the frontmatter tables: ItemID
wraps the exact folder name (not Foundation UUID, which uppercases);
lanes/cards carry FieldValue-typed fields, display-ordered children
including flagged tombstones, and their full FrontmatterDocument so
unknown and reserved keys ride along uninterpreted. Boards are
identified by rootURL — package folders are human-named, not UUIDs.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Pure ordering math: append at max+1024, head-insert at min−1024,
midpoint insertion with precision-exhaustion detection (nil on ties and
rounding onto an endpoint), renumbering to whole multiples of 1024, the
shared display-order tie-break (order, then folder name), and
tombstone-excluding overloads. 18 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
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