macOS keeps Saved Application State per app, and on macOS 26 its mere
existence — even describing zero windows, which repeated dev kills
guarantee — counts as "a restored session": SwiftUI then treats every
scene's defaultLaunchBehavior as moot and presents nothing. The app
launched as a windowless shell with no way back, since windowOpener is
captured by the first scene that appears — so Open Recent, the
re-grant Grant click, and Dock reopen all silently buffered or
no-opped. Proven by -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES presenting
correctly on the same state; with the fix, welcome presented 3/3
consecutive plain launches.
Three changes:
- App.init registers ApplePersistenceIgnoreState — restoration is the
registry's job (02 § Launch and window lifecycle), every scene
already declares restorationBehavior(.disabled), and AppKit's layer
was pure liability. Registered before NSApplicationMain runs, which
is what makes a registration-domain default early enough.
- The restore bootstrap presents at every launch as the app's one
reliable presenter; welcome is never system-presented (.suppressed)
— the pass opens it when nothing else lands on screen.
LaunchPlan.presentsBootstrap retired.
- captureWindowActions returns the replayed Finder-open count so the
pass counts those as opens — a cold document launch doesn't get
welcome stacked beside its board.
Both suites green, verify-editions 30/30.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Every edition declares group.dev.rzen.indie.Kanban and homes its
app-side state there from day one (12-editions.md ruling 2026-07-29):
- AppGroup namespace: container resolution with per-edition fallback
when unprovisioned, shared UserDefaults suite, edition identity, and
a unit-test-host redirect (the test host IS the app — its launch
sweep and recents refresh must not touch the real shared container).
- BoardRecord: bookmark/isOpenNow replaced by per-edition grants and
openNow keyed by bundle id; hand-written Codable keeps legacy keys
decoding (adopted in memory as the running edition's slots, upgraded
on first save); every other field stays common.
- RecentBoard gains needsReopen: no grant of ours but somebody's —
first click runs an open panel pre-anchored at the recorded path,
prompt "Grant"; recordOpen mints this edition's slot onto the
matched shared record (path fallback only after identity fails and
only against records holding no grant of ours, so re-granting never
forks the record).
- Cross-edition freshness: stat-cheap mtime+size stamp re-reads the
registry when the sibling edition wrote it, so one edition's save
never erases the other's records wholesale.
- restorables() filters on this edition's open-now flags; the board
popover gains BoardEditionPresence ("Also open in Lanework Pro"),
pid-liveness-checked so crash residue never lies.
- Clipboard staging store moves to the group container; the sweep
claims doomed trees by atomic rename into .sweeping/ then deletes,
so the sibling's concurrent sweep is a non-event.
- Template store re-homed to the group container per the 09-templates
re-ruling; scalars (quick-style recents, window size) move to the
shared suite.
- verify-editions.sh: 30 checks (each edition carries exactly the
family group). No pathfinder 1.x migrator: 1.x predates the
registry; state starts fresh in the group container.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
App identity for both editions: the three-lane glyph
(rectangle.split.3x1.fill) over a gentle gradient - teal for base
Lanework, dark graphite for Lanework Pro - rendered as 1024 masters and
packaged down the full macOS ladder into each target's own iconset,
replacing the borrowed pathfinder icon.
The About window arrives via IndieAbout (0.2.x): icon, copyright,
version/build/date read from the Info.plist that update_build_info.sh
already stamps on every build (CFBundleVersion 160 = git commit count,
BuildDate, BuildHash - verified in the built product), the version line
opening the bundled CHANGELOG.md, and the new ISC LICENSE.md one
document link away. Both files are authored to the Apple
inline-Markdown subset (no # headings, single-line paragraphs) and
bundle into both editions.
CHANGELOG.md replaces its placeholder with the real 2.0 first-release
notes - one sentence per user-facing feature.
The About box is also an edition seam: base's EditionAbout carries the
one-line Pro signpost 12-editions.md allots ("Lanework Pro adds
git-backed board history and sync."), and the Pro target compiles its
own signpost-less twin instead of that file - the no-#if file-level
doctrine applied to a string. README gains the identity bullet.
1649 green on both schemes; verify-editions.sh 26/26.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The automated half: AccessibilityAuditTests runs performAccessibilityAudit
over all eight surfaces DESIGN/10 names — board with trash hidden and
shown, card window in Preview/Edit/raw source, welcome, template chooser,
board popover. One audit per test, .all audit types, no issue handler —
nothing waived; a future false-positive excusal must match one element on
one surface with its reason beside it. Navigation is menu-bar titles and
the arrow grammar; no accessibility identifiers added to production code.
The suite launches with --ui-test-fixture-board: the sandbox forbids
handing the app a temp-folder path (no bookmark behind it), so the flag
carries no payload and the app builds a known board inside its own
container through the ordinary BoardWriter door — three lanes, six cards,
a rich Markdown body with attachment, one card already in .trash/ — with
the registry redirected to the same scratch directory so audit runs never
pollute real recents. LaunchPlan replaces the restore Bool (welcome /
restoreBoards / uiTestFixture, fixture wins outright), decided once in
KanbanApp.init and dispatched by RestoreBootstrapView; pure and pinned by
UITestLaunchTests, and the fixture itself is materialized and read back
through BoardLoader in units — the only proof available headlessly.
The manual half: KanbanUITests/AccessibilityVerification.md is the one
document — the audit suite at the top (it needs a real display and
Accessibility permission), the per-release VoiceOver smoke script with
expected utterances quoted from AccessibilityPhrases, and the
consolidated m11 checklist from all four implementation cards.
1588 unit tests green, UI target compiles, both schemes build. The audit
run and smoke script await a real display — the manual pass is the
user's.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The chooser completes its three tiers: bundled by template order, then
keyed user templates, then keyless boards by display name — and a
malformed user template still lists, by folder name with the loader's
own sentence on the row, never failing its neighbours. The store is
re-scanned on every presentation and on app activation, the Reveal
round trip made honest without watching a folder 09 deliberately
leaves unwatched; Reveal lives in the chooser's header and mints the
store on first press. Save as Template repeats Duplicate's sequence —
progress row with Cancel, flush, detached cancellable copy — through
the engine: mint the store, read the next user order before the copy
can count itself, Finder-ladder the name, copy excluding .git and
.trash/, then stamp the whole template: mapping on the landed copy
through updateIndex, with no bracket because the copy lives outside
every watched board. Folder attributes deliberately don't carry — the
one lock the command stays live under is the read-only-DMG one, and
carrying its mode bits would mint a read-only template in the user's
own store; the command gates instead on the real hazard, unsaved card
content. A signpost names the template only when the ladder renamed
it. One name ladder now serves Duplicate and the store.
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
The m4 scene plumbing was already honest — one WindowGroup value per
CardWindowRef enforces one-window-per-card, and CardWindowFate's
ancestor walk answered dismissal — so this card fills the window: a
two-column shell whose body column takes all resize flex and whose
sidebar width derives once from font metrics (26 characters of average
body advance plus em gutters), the five 05-ordered section headers as
placeholders, and the card body as selectable plain text until Preview
mode lands. The fate walk now returns a CardPlacement (card + lane), so
one pass answers both liveness and the live board › lane subtitle; a
board rename lands for free through displayName. Card windows remember
their frames per card in the board record (case-folded id keys,
unchanged-writes-nothing), restoring instead of cascading; only
unremembered cards take the last-used size and cascade. Store
acquisition stays gated on liveStore — a card window never opens a
board — and the close-flush hook stands with nothing to flush until the
Edit-session card.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Nexus parity, audited row by row (11-command-nexus.md § Menu commands) —
every already-built item's title, chord, and placement matched exactly;
this pass fills what remained:
- The future-window rows, present with stable titles and validation-driven
disablement until their milestones fill the actions: Save as Template
(m9), Add Attachment… ⇧⌘A, Find Next/Previous ⌘G/⇧⌘G, the View-menu
card triplet Edit Body ⌘E / Raw Source ⌥⌘E / History (m6), Board ▸
Pull/Push (git milestones) — one shared disabled-row shape in
FutureCommands.swift so later milestones only flip validation.
- No Print story in v1: the print group is removed.
- Help carries the Nexus's one remap-teaching line — Customize Keyboard
Shortcuts…, opening System Settings' Keyboard ▸ Shortcuts extension
directly (the modern extension URL, verified to launch the appex).
- The launch-restore decision now runs through a pure, tested
AppModel.shouldRestoreAtLaunch gate; the Settings pane's caption rides a
proper Form section footer.
904 unit tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The board's live title+body filter per 04-interactions.md § Search:
- SearchFilter — a pure value folding the query once (case- and
diacritic-insensitive substring, locale-stable); title OR body matches,
attachment filenames never searched; only the literal empty string is
inactive.
- One universe: the filter threads through SelectionGrammar's order lists
as a defaulted parameter, so ranges, Select All, arrow navigation, the
marquee, drop zones, count badges, and the shown trash all read the same
filtered set by construction; lanes are deliberately never filtered out
(an emptied lane keeps its slot with a 0 badge). Hidden cards leave the
selection through the existing constrain primitive, run on every query
change and as the last line of the reload resolve; the delete successor
is filtered so ⌫ never selects a hidden neighbour.
- The field: an NSSearchField-backed toolbar item (the toolbar's sole
default item); Edit ▸ Find ⌘F focuses it through a focused-value
presentation; stock field-editor dispatch — Return swallowed, Tab is the
keep-filter path to the board, board commands stay enabled except the
caret-chord pair, now one shared caretChordsYield expression.
- Escape is staged: clear the non-empty query (focus stays), hand an empty
field back to the board, clear an active search from board focus —
before Escape's clear-selection meaning.
- Creating a card clears the search (the placeholder funnel); a rename
deliberately gets no carve-out; filter reflow rides the content spring
keyed narrowly on the query.
903 unit tests (24 new).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The board's fixed grammar keys and the menu-backed chords of
04-interactions.md § Keyboard, per the Command Nexus inventory:
- Spatial arrow navigation (NavigationMath.nearest over the marquee
registry's frames — one geometry source), walking across interior
masonry columns, lanes, and into the shown trash; ⇧-arrows extend via
the same range function as ⇧-click and go inert at the liveness and
kind boundaries; ⌥-jumps with the ⌥↑ lane-domain escalation and ↓
descent; the empty selection seeds at the first lane's first card;
selection scrolls into view.
- selectionHead — the navigation cursor beside the anchor, set by every
click, moved by every arrow, dropped by the reload vanish rule.
- Board ▸ Open Card ⌘↩ (the one command enabled mid-edit: commits the
placeholder or rename and opens), Move Up/Move Down ⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓
(within-lane sort, gather-then-step, rank-permuting writes in one
bracket), Move Left/Move Right ⌘←/⌘→ (sole lane, one slot, never the
trash) — all validating and acting off one shared answer.
- Delete now selects the Finder-style successor sibling from the
pre-write snapshot, so repeated ⌫ walks down a lane; external
vanishing still only shrinks the selection.
- handleReturn rejects modified Returns; the trash column renders
eagerly so every row stays registered for navigation and the marquee.
686 unit tests (27 new).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The welcome window becomes the real thing: Xcode-style, hidden title
bar with background drag, branding and actions left, recents right —
rows carrying the board symbol, name, location, and the registry's
cached lane/card counts (stamped at close, never a scan at welcome
time), sorted by last opened. Launch failures surface row-level per
02: a failure joins its recents row as a warning caption, an
unresolvable bookmark renders unavailable with Forget its one
affordance, and only a failure with no row to carry it falls back to
a compact list; a board opening again heals its row. New Board
(Opt-Cmd-N) opens the Pages-style template chooser — shipped with
the single Basic template and the m9 seams marked — flowing through
the save panel into createBoard/createLane and straight into a board
window. Open Recent gains its submenu with Clear Menu (byte-identical
to forgetting every row, pinned by test), and File > Duplicate forks
the frontmost board to a Finder-style copy sibling: pending work
flushes first through the close flush's step two alone (sessions stay
open — 09's stated exception), every GUID and tombstone carries (the
whole-board carve-out from copies-remint), and the copy opens in its
own window while the original stays put. 36 new tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
Deletion becomes a two-stage, Finder-style story. File > Delete and
plain Backspace tombstone the live selection; View > Show Trash (no
chord — Shift-Cmd-T stays with the system's tab bar) reveals the
quasi-lane: trailing, one fixed width unit consumed only while shown,
hatched dimmed header, count badge, no new-card button, exempt from
resize and reorder alike. Its contents are a pure view over the
snapshot — the deterministic sort (deleted newest first, folder-name
ties, unparseable stamps oldest) interleaves card rows with a
tombstoned lane's single entry, whose count names what Put Back
returns; the ancestor walk is absolute, so an own-flag card beneath a
tombstoned lane has no row and recovery is deliberately two steps.
Put Back twins Delete on Cmd-Backspace with validation enabling
exactly one; restore fidelity is byte-perfect because nothing ever
moved. Delete Immediately confirms exactly where loss is real (every
board is mode-none today; the predicate names the git carve-out for
m7), Empty Trash always confirms with the true whole-board count,
and dragging a tombstoned card onto a live lane restores it there —
positional drops and cross-board locality arrive with m5's machinery.
The banner's delete phrasing drops "move to the trash" per the naming
constraint: board deletion says Delete, "Move to Trash" stays
reserved for the system Trash. 47 new tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
The window-title widget arrives as a leading titlebar accessory — a
quiet chevron on board windows only, installed and removed by the
window controller's own attach lifecycle — anchoring the one
board-level surface as a transient popover (the board window
deliberately grows no toolbar item for it). Inside: board rename
editing frontmatter title only (the folder is never renamed; an empty
commit removes the key and the window title falls back to the folder
name), the embedded shared style editor permanently targeting the
board, and the labeled Git section that this milestone only reserves
— a mode-none explanation and a disabled stub where m7's add-git,
branch, remote, and authentication controls land. Cmd-I (File >
Board Info) toggles it per window through a focused scene value,
kept apart from board-scoped transient state since a titlebar
popover belongs to one window, not to the board. Escape reverts a
dirty rename field and falls through to dismiss otherwise; a foreign
rename resyncs the field only while unfocused. 12 new tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
One style-editor component, anchor-agnostic: a background grid (None
well plus the 12 palette colors) and a curated symbol grid (the
pathfinder's five-dozen set, leading well removing the icon key for
the level default), selection-aware across cards, lanes, and the
board itself. Batch edits compute per-dimension state — uniform,
mixed (no well selected), or an off-palette value labeled verbatim
outside the grids — and choosing a well applies to the whole target
set as one write bracket, skipping no-ops per field. The popover
tracks its target set live per the freshly ratified rule: targets
re-resolve by UUID on every reload, a vanished target leaves the set,
an emptied set dismisses the editor, and nothing ever silently
retargets to the board. Anchors landing now: Board > Style
(Opt-Cmd-S) and the card/lane context menus, which also carry the
quick-style recents row (app-wide, persisted, capped at six, None
never recorded) and the lane's width control twinning the menu
chords. The styling system's other two renders arrive with it: a
lane's background paints the C7 top-edge band, the board's paints
the window content background — malformed values paint nothing and
stay byte-identical on disk. 31 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
Four scenes (welcome, restore bootstrap, board group, card group) with
system restoration disabled in favor of the registry's open-now flags:
set when a window actually opens, cleared only on user close, so quit —
and crash — leave exactly the restoration set behind. AppModel joins
windows to sessions (shared store, registry record, card refs, held
security scope); CloseFlushCoordinator pins 02's strict close order as
a seam-injected machine (card sessions end, windows drain, store
flushes, record stamps, teardown) with named slots where m6/m7 flushes
land. HostedWindowController proxies — never replaces — SwiftUI's
window delegate to intercept windowShouldClose for the flush, report
frames, and place saved frames onto live screens. Card windows are
(board path, case-folded card id) values: reopen focuses, and a
snapshot-pure fate function dismisses on delete, tombstone, tombstoned
lane, or cross-board move.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
XcodeGen project (codename Kanban, display name Lanework, bundle id
dev.rzen.indie.Kanban): macOS 26+ app target with Swift 6 strict
concurrency, app sandbox with user-selected file access and app-scoped
bookmark entitlements, plus unit-test (Swift Testing) and XCUITest
targets wired into the Kanban scheme.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
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