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Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 01:47:01)

That notification is the failed Explore agent finishing late — the one that returned nothing because claude-haiku-4.5 404s. Nothing new in it; I did that reading myself.

Meanwhile I did what you asked next: the interface spec and the mockups.

`docs/UI-LAYOUT.md`

It opens with the only four questions the interface is allowed to answer — what is the state of the work, what is happening now, what needs me, what do I do about it — then a table pinning every fact to its one owner:

shown	read from	never
tasks, status, assignee	company issue list	a folder name
blockers	`issues/{id}/diagnostics/blockers`, per task	the list
thread	`issues/{id}/comments`	a copy
run state	`issues/{id}/runs`	a log we write
cost	`issues/{id}/cost-summary`	our arithmetic
what changed	`git` in the task's worktree	a stored diff
folder, machine, session, watched task	`.harness/harness.toml`	Paperclip

Then a table per pane: what it must show and which keys it may use, with h j k l z n reserved for TUIOS and a bare Esc free.

Three layouts, live in your session

They are running now on workspaces 6, 7, 8 (mock-A, mock-B, mock-C), and as images:

/tmp/mockups/A.png  /tmp/mockups/B.png  /tmp/mockups/C.png

A — one page each. What exists today. Whole width per page, works at 80 columns. Costs a keystroke to look at the tree while replying.
B — cockpit: tree beside conversation. Tree 34% left, thread and reply box right, ⤷ markers under each task showing what it waits on. Log and diff one workspace away.
C — cockpit with the change visible. Tree 28%, thread top right, diff bottom right — a claim and the code behind it in one glance. Needs width; below ~120 columns the diff half is unreadable.

Recommendation in the doc: C, falling back to B, falling back to A, chosen by the pane's actual width — 150+, 110–149, 80–109, and the "too small" screen below 80×24. The person gets as much as the terminal can carry, never a layout pretending to have room it does not.

Two decisions I need from you

Is the diff its own pane, or the bottom half of the log? A separate pane never squeezes the log for a long diff, but costs a workspace. C only works if the diff can share a page with the reply.
Does the tree drive the other panes? My proposal: enter on a task writes watching = AUD-163 into the project's harness.toml and asks TUIOS to switch to the reply page; the reply, log and diff panes watch that file and reload when it changes. One fact, one owner, no message bus — but it means a file is the hand-off, so say if you would rather each pane be told directly.

Also still open from earlier: whether the four screens stay four workspaces or become two.

Say which layout you want, and I will build it — starting with the width-driven choice, since that is what makes it survive being used in a small pane.

Source paths observed

tmp/pi-subagents-1000/home-sam-paseo-projects-paperclip-harness/01a1c288-74f9-75ae-ba9a-a501d66bc3b5/tasks/87e640dd-8043-41e.output
home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/docs/UI-LAYOUT.md
tmp/mockups/A.txt
tmp/mockups/B.txt
tmp/mockups/C.txt
tmp/mockups/A.png
tmp/mockups/B.png
tmp/mockups/C.png

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest

Update (2026-11-10 02:04:26)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 02:04:26)

You are right to call it, and I will not push back on the substance: the last few turns drifted into proving commands rather than designing the thing. Here is the line I would hold, briefly — when a claim reaches you as "it works", it gets run once in TUIOS, because a spec built on an unproven assumption is the failure that cost you three restarts. One check per claim. Not exploratory testing. Everything else, spec first.

I have rewritten docs/UI-LAYOUT.md as the single interface document (348 lines, replacing the earlier layout note rather than adding a second one).

How it is grouped

By what you are doing, not by which system the data came from:

Workspace	Question it answers	Panels
Board	what is the state of the work, what needs me	Task tree · Task summary · Needs you
Work	what is happening now, what changed	Run log · Diff · Worktree facts
Conversation	what was said, what do I say back	Thread · Composer · Task header
Author	what am I asking for, how will it be judged	Task form · Guidance · Preview
Project	which folder, machine, limits, cost	Project facts · Costs · Settings
Repair	is the layout sound, what broke	Layout map · Health · Log

Six, not sixteen. Four panels maximum per workspace, and the shell workspace stays for the moments you need a prompt. More than four panels cannot be read at once, so a fifth thing becomes a view inside a panel or a new workspace.

The interface items

Twenty-seven, each with a purpose, its Charmbracelet component, and its empty, loading and failed behaviour. The ones that matter most:

Panel frame — rounded border and bright edge when focused, plus the word focus in the title, so focus never depends on colour alone.
Footer key hints — built from help and key.Binding, so a key that would do nothing is not shown.
Stale marker — the time of the last successful read, in the panel title. A wrong panel is visibly stale instead of quietly wrong.
Blocker badge — waits on AUD-163, read per task; when the blocker finishes but the task is still marked blocked the badge changes to ready, because that is our most confusing state.
Needs-you card — one per decision: a refused merge, a task waiting on an answer, a task ready but stuck. Each says what happened and the one key that acts.
Composer — textarea, Enter sends, Shift-Enter new line, stated in the footer because a text area normally does the opposite.
Diff view — file headers, hunks, line numbers, additions and deletions marked by a leading character as well as colour; a large diff says how many lines it left out and offers a key for all of it.
Result receipt — the server's own words on failure, never a paraphrase.
Health row — pass, fail, or not run, three states, because "not run" is not "pass".

Components: list for rows and decisions, table for figures, viewport for anything scrollable, textarea for the composer, textinput for single-line fields, help and key for the footer, spinner and progress for feedback. One honest note: there is no tabs component in this collection, so a view switcher inside a panel is Lipgloss and help styling, not a Bubbles widget.

Styling

One theme with semantic roles (text, muted, accent, success, warning, error, surface) and a light and dark variant from the start. One cell of horizontal padding, one blank line between sections, no blank line between rows. Columns computed from the content in view, never a hardcoded width. Truncation always ends visibly and the full text is one key away. Only two things animate: the spinner and the selection cursor. No colour that does not mean a state.

Sizes

Every panel declares a smallest useful size (the task tree needs 30 by 10, the diff 40 by 12, the form 50 by 14). Below it, the panel draws its own short message naming what it has and what it needs — never a broken layout, never a scrollbar to hide the problem. The workspace needs 80 by 24.

Layout follows the width

150 columns and wider: tree beside summary with Needs you under the tree; run log beside diff. 110 to 149: two panels per workspace, the third becomes a tab inside the panel of the same kind. 80 to 109: one panel per workspace, full width, in the order Board, Work, Conversation, Author. Below 80 by 24: one message.

Four decisions before I build

Does the tree drive the other workspaces? Proposal: Enter writes watching = AUD-163 into the project's .harness/harness.toml and asks TUIOS to show Conversation; the other panels reload when that file changes. One fact, one owner, survives a restart.
Six workspaces, or fewer? Fewer means switching views inside panels, which hides state.
Which glyph set? Must be checked against the font on the machine you actually sit at, not assumed.
Diff: its own panel in Work, or a tab beside the run log?

Answer those four and I will build Board first, in the order the document lists, with the styling system established before the second panel exists — so the look is settled once instead of drifting per screen.

Source paths observed

home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/docs/UI-LAYOUT.md

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

Update (2026-11-10 02:26:18)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 02:26:18)

Taken, and folded into docs/UI-LAYOUT.md (now 440 lines, committed as 5b82900).

The four-panel rule is gone

A workspace holds what the work in it needs. Four side by side is a good default because more than four stops being readable, but a workspace that needs a fifth thing has three allowed answers — a tab, a tool panel that closes when done, or TUIOS's zoom. Tabs are specified as first-class: same frame, same footer, same focus marker, switched with [ and ] while the panel has focus, and named with words rather than numbers.

The only rule left is that everything in a workspace helps answer the same question. If it does not, it belongs in another workspace.

Your first point, in plain words

I meant exactly what you said: choosing a task changes what the other panels show. Pick a task in the tree, and the summary, the thread, the run log, the diff and the worktree facts all switch to it. Nothing has to be typed twice.

The spec now leads with that sentence. The mechanism is described after it, in one short paragraph: the chosen task is remembered as one line in the project's own .harness/harness.toml, the other panels re-read when it changes, and the choice survives a restart or a lost pane. If a chosen task is deleted, the panels fall back to the most active task instead of showing an error.

Glyphs: you are wrong about one thing, and it matters

Measured just now on this machine:

starship is not installed and there is no ~/.config/starship.toml.
No Nerd Font is present — fc-list | grep -i nerd returns nothing.
TUIOS offers four glyph sets: ascii, default, heavy, unicode. default is active and uses ordinary Unicode: ╭ ╮ ✕ ▎ ● › ….

So Starship-style icons would draw empty boxes today. The spec says: use TUIOS's default set with ascii as the fallback, and if you want the Starship look, installing a Nerd Font is a system change to do deliberately first, then we pick a glyph set. Tell me if you want that and I will prepare it.

Hunk and Lazygit: yes, and they are installed

They were already in your own product statement — "We need a page where we can interact with the Gitea and similar. Hunk, LazyGit etc." — and both are present: lazygit in the system packages, hunk as a flake input at /etc/profiles/per-user/sam/bin/hunk.

They are now specified as tool panels: opened with t in the current workspace, they take focus when they open, run the real program rather than a copy, and give focus back to exactly where it was when closed. Also available this way: a shell, git log and git diff for the task's branch, and the review as it runs.

Two arrangements I added, because they are what you actually do

Reading a claim and its code — task tree left, thread upper right, diff lower right. The only place a claim and the change behind it are on screen at once.
Deciding — Needs you on the left, the task it concerns beside it, so a decision and its evidence never sit on different workspaces.

Zoom stays TUIOS's own key; we rely on it rather than reimplementing it, and the same is true of switching workspaces.

I build the Board workspace first, and the visual language with it — frame, focus, tab strip, footer hints, stale marker, rows and badges — so the look is settled once instead of drifting screen by screen. Then I put it in your session and you look at it before I start the second workspace. Say go.

Source paths observed

etc/profiles/per-user/sam/bin/hunk
run/current-system/sw/bin/lazygit
run/current-system/sw/bin/git
home/sam/.local/bin/ocr
etc/nixos/configuration.nix
etc/nixos/flake.nix
home/sam/.config/tuios/glyphs

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

Update (2026-11-10 03:01:16)

Bugs found and fixed in paperclip-harness (committed 4e3c955):

If the worktree folder was removed, git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD returns exit status 128; the change tab now says "the task's folder … no longer exists" instead of showing raw exit code.
Table columns looked ragged because styled text was being padded by bytes. Rule: pad plain text first, apply colour after.

Caution on tuios set-config: tuios set-config theme catppuccin_mocha fails with "set_config came from host nixos-desktop and would change this machine, not the session". Using it on the live session risks changing the machine config rather than the session. Set theme in ~/.config/tuios/config.toml instead; new sessions pick it up, but the running session needs a restart.

Screenshots saved: /tmp/mockups/board-live.png, /tmp/mockups/work-live.png.

Other note: the font rebuild is still the user's to run: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop.

Evidence

Confidence: 80%
Reason: Concrete discoveries/pitfalls for future agents.

Update (2026-11-10 03:01:16)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:01:16)

Three things answered, and the Work workspace is built.

Vim keys: yes, as aliases

j and k now move in both the Board and Work screens, and h and l switch tabs. They are aliases, not the primary keys, because whether they reach the program depends on TUIOS's mode: in window-management mode TUIOS keeps h j k l z n, and in terminal mode the program gets them. Use whichever arrives, and the footer says ↑↓ or j k so nobody has to guess. Arrow keys stay the primary path.

The theme confusion, cleared up

You changed something and it worked; I checked the wrong thing. tuios look is a saved appearance bundle, and "no look is applied" says nothing about the theme. The real answer was in ~/.config/tuios/config.toml:

theme = ''

So the config had no theme, which is why this session's chrome looked default. I have now set it:

theme = 'catppuccin_mocha'

New sessions pick it up. The running one needs a restart, and tuios set-config theme catppuccin_mocha refused with "set_config came from host nixos-desktop and would change this machine, not the session", so I left that alone rather than fight it. Our program is drawn in Catppuccin Mocha with a Latte variant (-theme light), so once the session restarts the chrome and the panels will match.

Styling changes

The board now reads at a glance: group headings are a label, a rule and a count (DONE───────── 6), rows are two lines, content sits one column inside the frame.
Three-column layout above 140 columns (tasks, chosen task, needs you), two columns below, so a wide terminal is used instead of wasted.
The Work screen has a tab bar, coloured run states, and diff lines coloured by kind — additions green, deletions red, hunk headers blue.
The footer shows only keys that apply in the current panel, and focus is a rounded bright edge plus ·focus·.

Work workspace

One screen, three tabs, tested on real data:

runs — a column table of every run with what woke it, start, end and duration, then the activity list with times in local time.
change — the task's worktree, branch, base, commits, changed-file counts, then the diff.
facts — folder, branch, base, status and cost.

It follows the Board without being told: the chosen task lives in the project's .harness/harness.toml, and the Work panel re-reads it every five seconds. I watched it switch from AUD-160 to AUD-165 after only that file changed, then show 520bc2d AUD-165: add cleanup.sh and the actual diff.

Two real bugs found by using it: a git that fails because the folder was removed now says "the task's folder … no longer exists" instead of a raw exit code, and a table whose columns were ragged because styled text was being padded by bytes — pad the plain text first, colour it second.

Screenshots: /tmp/mockups/board-live.png and /tmp/mockups/work-live.png. Committed as 4e3c955.

Still to do

The reply and new-task panels still use the older plain look — they need the same frame, tab bar and footer before the set is consistent. That is the next piece, and it is small because the frame already exists.

And the font rebuild is still yours to run:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop

Source paths observed

home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/harness
tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-165-review-gate-pro
tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-165-review-gate-
tmp/mockups/C.png
tmp/mockups/work-live.png
.config/tuios/config.toml
tmp/mockups/board-live.png

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

Update (2026-11-10 03:19:00)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:19:00)

Fonts are in — 96 Nerd Font entries, JetBrainsMonoNerdFont-Regular.ttf present. All four screens now share one look.

What is on screen now

Board — tasks / chosen task / needs you, three columns above 140 columns wide, two below. Group rules with counts, two-line rows, ·focus· markers, ↑↓ or j k, a assign, enter to show a task everywhere.

Work — tabs runs · change · facts. The runs tab is a real table (state, what woke it, start, end, duration) followed by activity with local times. The change tab shows worktree, branch, base, commits, changed-file counts and the coloured diff. The facts tab shows folder, branch, base, status and cost.

Conversation — thread panel above, reply box below, and the box title says what will happen: "reply · leaves the status alone" or "reply · also sets the status to in_progress". enter writes a reply, alt+enter adds a line, esc closes the box.

Author — one panel, five fields, the focused field marked with ▸ and its hint shown only while focused, enter stepping through and creating on the last. I created AUD-166 through it and the Board picked it up as TODO 2.

Screenshots: /tmp/mockups/board-live.png, work-live.png, reply-live.png, new-live.png.

One honest note about icons

The Nerd Font is installed, and Lazygit, Hunk, Ghostty and Starship will all use it. But when I switched the panels to Nerd Font icons, TUIOS's own screen capture returned blanks for them — a private-use glyph does not survive the capture path, so I cannot prove from here that they render for you.

So the panels use plain Unicode by default (· ▶ ■ ◆ ✓ ✕), which is certain to render, and -nerd opts into the richer set once you have looked at it on the real terminal. Either way the word sits next to the icon, so nothing depends on the glyph.

Theme

I set theme = 'catppuccin_mocha' in ~/.config/tuios/config.toml, so new sessions match the panels. The running session keeps its old chrome — tuios set-config refused it with "would change this machine, not the session". A session restart picks it up.

Where the interface stands against the spec

Four of the six workspaces exist and are styled. Missing: Project (folder, machine, session, costs, verify command) and Repair (layout map, health rows, log). Those are mostly read-only panels over data the commands already produce, so they are the natural next piece.

Also still true: bin/board builds five workspaces (shell, board, work, reply, new) and repairs them by name; fonts and the theme are recorded in docs/ENVIRONMENT-FACTS.md. Committed as 031073f.

Source paths observed

home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/tui/newtask.go
tmp/mockups/board-live.png
tmp/mockups/new-live.png
tmp/mockups/reply-live.png
tmp/mockups/work-live.png
.config/tuios/config.toml

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

Update (2026-11-10 03:29:19)

Project costs tab reads each task's spend from Paperclip and shows per-task rows (task, state, cents, runs) plus footer 'total, recent: N cent(s) over N run(s)' with the note 'costs come from Paperclip; nothing is added up twice' (i.e., no double counting). Observed example: AUD-159..AUD-166 where done tasks had 1-3 cents, todo tasks 0 cents; total 8 cents over 8 runs. Repair layout tab reads TUIOS live state: workspaces by name with panes-per-workspace map (e.g. {1:2,2:1,...}) and 'workspaces in use'. Panels are found by name because closing the last pane deletes a workspace and renumbers the rest. Repair checks are three-state (pass/fail/not run): Paperclip answers, project file, harness binary, git, go, ocr, tuios, lazygit, hunk; Nerd Font = 384 font files. Repair adopted workspace 7 after rebuild; 'bin/board --replace' rebuilds all workspaces by name, leaving exactly one pane per workspace.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete evidence-backed UI/behavior facts discovered during the turn.

Update (2026-11-10 03:29:19)

Operational caveats for paperclip-harness in TUIOS: (a) Panels/workspaces must be looked up by name, not index, because closing the last pane deletes a workspace and renumbers remaining ones. (b) TUIOS screen capture returns blanks for private-use (Nerd Font) glyphs — icons may render fine on screen but be unverifiable via capture; every icon has its word label next to it, and '-ascii' flag switches to plain characters. (c) TUIOS theme is set to catppuccin_mocha in config but the running session keeps its old chrome until restarted. (d) The Conversation/reply workspace must be opened without a task argument so it follows the board's chosen task; passing a task pins it.

Detailed observations from completed turn

All six workspaces are built and running in the paperclip-harness session. Screenshots in /tmp/mockups/: board-live.png, work-live.png, reply-live.png, new-live.png, project-live.png, repair-live.png.

What you will see when you open it

workspace 1  shell       a prompt in the project folder
workspace 2  board       tasks by group · the chosen task · needs you
workspace 3  work        runs · change · facts
workspace 4  reply       thread · reply box
workspace 5  new         the form that makes a task
workspace 6  project     folder, machine, session, costs, verify command
workspace 7  repair      health checks · live layout

One frame, one palette, one footer everywhere. Focus is a bright rounded edge plus ·focus·. Every panel says when it last read.

New since you left

Project — folder, machine, session, project identity, the six agents with their state, and a costs tab that reads each task's spend from Paperclip (total, recent: 8 cents over 8 runs). Read-only on purpose: a screen that changes settings is a screen that breaks a project while nobody is looking. It also shows the verify command in force, and where it came from.

Repair — three-state checks, never two: pass, fail, not run. It currently passes everything:

Paperclip answers · project file · harness binary · git · go · ocr · tuios · lazygit · hunk
Nerd Font            384 font files

plus a layout tab showing what TUIOS actually has right now, read live, with the note that panels are found by name because closing the last pane deletes a workspace and renumbers the rest.

Icons

The font is installed, so the panels now ask for Nerd Font icons by default (-ascii switches to plain characters). I still could not confirm they draw, because TUIOS's own screen capture returns blanks for private-use glyphs — that is a limit of the capture path, not necessarily of the display. Every icon has its word next to it, so nothing is lost if they do not appear. If they are still invisible in Ghostty, tell me and I will switch the default back with one line.

Two bugs the screens found

The Project screen read the wrong key out of harness.toml and showed "no project given"; the section prefix was missing. Fixed and verified.
The Conversation screen was opened with the task pinned on the command line, so it never followed the board. Now bin/board opens it without a task, and I watched it switch from AUD-166 to AUD-162 a few seconds after only the harness file changed. Sending from the new box posts as you — the test comment landed on the task with authorType: user.

Also fixed: a truncation routine that appended an ellipsis even when nothing was cut, which is why several lines ended in … for no reason.

Honest gaps

Project has no write actions yet (settings are read-only).
Repair checks but does not repair: no rebuild button, deliberately, because rebuilding would close the pane you are standing in.
The TUIOS theme is set in the config (catppuccin_mocha) but the running session keeps its old chrome until it is restarted.
The board workspaces are 7 panes now; bin/board --replace rebuilds them all by name and I ran it to prove it, ending with exactly one pane per workspace.

Committed as 351cb35. Next, when you are back: tell me which of the six you want refined first, and whether the icons appear on your screen.

Evidence

Confidence: 80%
Reason: Durable operational caveats discovered during troubleshooting/verification.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

Update (2026-11-10 03:29:19)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:29:19)

What you will see when you open it

workspace 1  shell       a prompt in the project folder
workspace 2  board       tasks by group · the chosen task · needs you
workspace 3  work        runs · change · facts
workspace 4  reply       thread · reply box
workspace 5  new         the form that makes a task
workspace 6  project     folder, machine, session, costs, verify command
workspace 7  repair      health checks · live layout

One frame, one palette, one footer everywhere. Focus is a bright rounded edge plus ·focus·. Every panel says when it last read.

New since you left

Repair — three-state checks, never two: pass, fail, not run. It currently passes everything:

Paperclip answers · project file · harness binary · git · go · ocr · tuios · lazygit · hunk
Nerd Font            384 font files

plus a layout tab showing what TUIOS actually has right now, read live, with the note that panels are found by name because closing the last pane deletes a workspace and renumbers the rest.

Icons

Two bugs the screens found

The Project screen read the wrong key out of harness.toml and showed "no project given"; the section prefix was missing. Fixed and verified.
The Conversation screen was opened with the task pinned on the command line, so it never followed the board. Now bin/board opens it without a task, and I watched it switch from AUD-166 to AUD-162 a few seconds after only the harness file changed. Sending from the new box posts as you — the test comment landed on the task with authorType: user.

Also fixed: a truncation routine that appended an ellipsis even when nothing was cut, which is why several lines ended in … for no reason.

Honest gaps

Project has no write actions yet (settings are read-only).
Repair checks but does not repair: no rebuild button, deliberately, because rebuilding would close the pane you are standing in.
The TUIOS theme is set in the config (catppuccin_mocha) but the running session keeps its old chrome until it is restarted.
The board workspaces are 7 panes now; bin/board --replace rebuilds them all by name and I ran it to prove it, ending with exactly one pane per workspace.

Committed as 351cb35. Next, when you are back: tell me which of the six you want refined first, and whether the icons appear on your screen.

Source paths observed

home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/harness
paperclip-harness/tui/paperclip
run/current-system/sw/bin/git
home/sam/.nix-profile/bin/go
home/sam/.local/bin/ocr
etc/profiles/per-user/sam/bin/tuios
run/current-system/sw/bin/lazygit
etc/profiles/per-user/sam/bin/hunk
tmp/mockups/board-live.png
tmp/mockups/new-live.png
tmp/mockups/project-live.png
tmp/mockups/repair-live.png
tmp/mockups/reply-live.png
tmp/mockups/work-live.png

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns
action: packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-harness-tui-six-workspace-build-screens-and-bug-fi
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-what-you-will-see-when-you-open-it-2026-11-10
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness

Update (2026-11-10 03:34:34)

Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:34:34)

Done. R rebuilds everything and I proved it by pressing it.

Rebuild and refresh, both real

r   read the data again in this panel. Nothing closes, nothing moves.
R   rebuild every workspace and pane from the project file.

R is on the board, work, conversation, project and repair screens (not the new-task form, where letters are text). It runs bin/board --replace detached in its own session, because the panel you press it in is one of the panes being replaced — a rebuild that dies with its caller is not a rebuild.

Pressed R in the board pane and read the result:

rebuild started 2026-11-10 14:33:47
  closed shell
  closed board
  closed work
  closed reply
  closed new
  closed project
  closed repair
  shell  created  workspace 2
  board  created  workspace 3
  ...

Afterwards, exactly seven panes, one per workspace, all of them drawing:

ws 1 shell    ws 2 board    ws 3 work    ws 4 reply
ws 5 new      ws 6 project  ws 7 repair

The log is /tmp/paperclip-harness-rebuild.log and the Repair workspace has a third tab, rebuild log, that shows it — so the record of a repair outlives the panes it replaced.

Missing panels added

Author now has three: the form, what a task needs (one thing, a command, a boundary, a blocker — each explaining why), and what will be sent, which renders the exact description the agent receives, verify command and blocker included. At 177 columns the form sits left with the other two stacked right; narrower, they are tabs under ctrl+n.
Repair now has health, layout and rebuild log.
Conversation's task header is a line rather than a panel, deliberately: a panel for one line wastes the border.

Where the layout stands

1 shell   2 board   3 work   4 reply   5 new   6 project   7 repair

One pane each, named, rebuilt by name, adopted if present. bin/board --replace rebuilds them all; bin/board alone adds whatever is missing without touching what is there.

Screenshots refreshed: /tmp/mockups/{board,work,reply,new,project,repair}-live.png.

Committed as 972d4c0. Ready for you to poke at: the four things I would test first are R on the repair screen, the conversation follow when you pick a task on the board, the costs tab against what Paperclip reports, and whether the icons render now that the font is in.

Source paths observed

home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/tui/rebuild.go
paperclip-harness/tui/paperclip
tmp/mockups/board-live.png
tmp/mockups/new-live.png
tmp/mockups/project-live.png
tmp/mockups/repair-live.png
tmp/mockups/reply-live.png
tmp/mockups/work-live.png

Evidence

Confidence: 82%
Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery

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docs/UI-LAYOUT.md

Three layouts, live in your session

Two decisions I need from you

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How it is grouped

The interface items

Styling

Sizes

Layout follows the width

Four decisions before I build

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The four-panel rule is gone

Your first point, in plain words

Glyphs: you are wrong about one thing, and it matters

Hunk and Lazygit: yes, and they are installed

Two arrangements I added, because they are what you actually do

Next

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Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:01:16)

Vim keys: yes, as aliases

The theme confusion, cleared up

Styling changes

Work workspace

Still to do

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Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:19:00)

What is on screen now

One honest note about icons

Theme

Where the interface stands against the spec

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Detailed observations from completed turn

What you will see when you open it

New since you left

Icons

Two bugs the screens found

Honest gaps

Evidence

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Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:29:19)

What you will see when you open it

New since you left

Icons

Two bugs the screens found

Honest gaps

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Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-10 03:34:34)

Rebuild and refresh, both real

Missing panels added

Where the layout stands

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