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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
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# Lanework — Design Documents
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A ground-up rewrite of the Kanban app, to ship as **Lanework** on the Mac App Store. The old repo (`../../Kanban`, one level above this repository — not the rewrite's own `Kanban/` source folder, which shares the codename) was a pathfinder — it never shipped, but it is the reference implementation and the source of hard-won decisions. This design starts from a clean slate and keeps only what earned its place. The rewrite keeps the internal codename `Kanban` (bundle id `dev.rzen.indie.Kanban`).
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Each document covers one aspect of the design. Within each:
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- **Decisions** — settled, either carried over from the old app or newly made.
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- **Changes from Kanban** — where this rewrite deliberately diverges.
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- **Open questions** — flagged for iteration; nothing here is implicitly settled.
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## Index
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| Doc | Aspect |
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| [00-vision.md](00-vision.md) | What Lanework is, who it's for, goals and non-goals |
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| [01-storage-format.md](01-storage-format.md) | On-disk contract: folders, frontmatter, ordering, the materialized trash |
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| [02-architecture.md](02-architecture.md) | App structure: source of truth, stores, watchers, concurrency |
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| [03-board-ui.md](03-board-ui.md) | Board window: layout, lanes, cards, styling, templates |
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| [04-interactions.md](04-interactions.md) | Selection, drag & drop, keyboard, clipboard, search |
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| [05-card-window.md](05-card-window.md) | The card window: Markdown preview/edit, attachments |
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| [06-history-undo.md](06-history-undo.md) | Git-backed undo/redo and history — **Pro tier** |
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| [07-sync-collab.md](07-sync-collab.md) | Board modes: local-only, git; iCloud Drive warned against — **Pro tier** |
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| [08-agent-integration.md](08-agent-integration.md) | AI agents as first-class users of the board |
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| [09-templates.md](09-templates.md) | Board templates: inventory and definition format |
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| [10-accessibility.md](10-accessibility.md) | VoiceOver, text scaling, visual accommodations |
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| [11-command-nexus.md](11-command-nexus.md) | The command Nexus — every command and action: bindings, contexts, customizability |
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| [12-editions.md](12-editions.md) | The tiers (free / Pro subscription / Teams deferred): one-app distribution, entitlement, provider seam, feature matrix |
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| [13-native-undo.md](13-native-undo.md) | macOS-native undo/redo — the free tier's history substrate |
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## Deferred design iterations
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The card window (05-card-window.md), toolbar (03-board-ui.md ▸ Toolbar), styling controls (03-board-ui.md ▸ Styling ▸ Controls), and comments (01 ▸ Enhanced schema + 05 ▸ The comments column — designed 2026-07-29, shipping post-2.0) each had their focused pass and are settled.
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**The authoritative list of open design passes is the findings board** (Lanework Redesign.kanban ▸ Issues to Resolve) — this section stopped enumerating by hand after drifting twice. Standing examples as of 2026-07-29: the attachment-undo staging design and the EchoLedger foreign-undo bridge (both flagged in 13-native-undo.md), Teams' tracker integration (no design yet), the fail-fast decision surface (01 ▸ Refuse), and the drop-release settle presentation (03 ▸ Motion — deliberately last in line).
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## Wishlist
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Ideas worth keeping but outside the committed design live in [../WISHLIST.md](../WISHLIST.md).
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## Terminology
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The rewrite adopts **lane** as the canonical term for what the old app called a column (it's in the name: Lane-work). "Column" survives only when referring to the old app or to interior card-grid columns inside a wide lane.
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