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Wrote docs/UI-LAYOUT.md and three live layout mockups

Completed work this turn:

Deliverable: /home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/docs/UI-LAYOUT.md (9942 bytes) — four allowed user questions, fact-ownership table, per-pane show/keys spec, three layouts, width-driven recommendation.
Artifacts: three mockups run live as TUIOS workspaces 6/7/8 (mock-A, mock-B, mock-C) and captured as /tmp/mockups/{A,B,C}.txt and .png.
Validation: text renderings measured (A 16x81, B 20x82, C 15x82) and inspected; each workspace confirmed at 88x26 via tuios list-workspaces. Committed as ae7fc00 ('Interface spec: what each page must show, the source of every fact, and three layouts').
Follow-up: awaiting user choice of layout and answers on diff-pane placement, tree-driven pane hand-off, and workspace count; build starts with the width-driven chooser.

Detailed deliverable from completed turn

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.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete deliverable, artifacts, commit, and follow-up context.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

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

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

Rewrote docs/UI-LAYOUT.md (348 lines, commit b44bf73 "Interface specification: six workspaces, twenty-seven interface items, styling and keys") as the single interface document for the Paperclip Harness TUI, replacing the earlier layout note rather than adding a second one.

Deliverables: six workspaces, twenty-seven interface items each with purpose, Charmbracelet component, and empty/loading/failed behaviour, a semantic styling system, per-panel minimum sizes, and width-responsive layout rules.

Validation: discovered actual Bubbles/Lipgloss component availability by listing the vendored module sources (confirmed no tabs component) before writing the spec.

Follow-up: four open decisions (tree-driven navigation via .harness/harness.toml watching key, six vs fewer workspaces, glyph set verified against real font, diff panel placement) must be answered, then build Board first with the styling system established before the second panel.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete completed deliverable with commit, path, and follow-ups.

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

Completed: updated the Paperclip harness interface spec in docs/UI-LAYOUT.md (now ~440 lines), committed as 5b82900 "Interface spec: workspaces grouped by question, tabs and tool panels, plain-language task selection".

Changes: removed the four-panel hard limit; specified tabs as first-class (frame/footer/focus marker, '[' ']' switching, word names); specified tool panels (Hunk, Lazygit, shell, git log/diff for task branch, review) opened with 't' and restoring focus on close; specified that selecting a task updates all other panels via a 'watching' setting in .harness/harness.toml with fallback to most active task; added two arrangements ('Reading a claim and its code', 'Deciding'); kept responsive width-based layouts and deliberate exclusions.

Validation: checked tool availability and glyph/font environment via bash before finalizing glyph guidance (starship absent, no Nerd Font, TUIOS default glyph set).

Follow-up: build the Board workspace and visual language first, have the user review it, then proceed to the second workspace.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Concrete deliverable with commit hash, artifact path, changes, and follow-up.

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

Delivered: Work workspace with tabs (runs/change/facts), responsive Board, theme config, and vim-key aliases in the harness TUI.

Artifacts:

Commit 4e3c955: Work workspace with runs, change and facts tabs; vim keys; responsive Board; theme file.
Theme applied by setting theme = 'catppuccin_mocha' in ~/.config/tuios/config.toml.
Verified on real data: the Work panel followed the chosen task from AUD-160 to AUD-165 after only .harness/harness.toml changed, then showed commit 520bc2d AUD-165: add cleanup.sh and the diff.
Screenshots at /tmp/mockups/board-live.png and /tmp/mockups/work-live.png.

Follow-ups:

Next piece: align reply and new-task panels with the same frame, tab bar and footer; small because the frame exists.
Still with the user: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop for the font rebuild.

Detailed deliverable from completed turn

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

Evidence

Confidence: 80%
Reason: Completed work with artifacts, validation and follow-up.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

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

Deliverables: built six (plus shell = seven) styled TUI workspaces in the paperclip-harness TUIOS session — shell, board, work, reply, new, project, repair — with a single frame/palette/footer convention and '·focus·' focus indicator. Artifacts: live screenshots /tmp/mockups/{board,work,reply,new,project,repair}-live.png; commits c9a1a61 (Project and Repair workspaces; adoption keeps own pane; truncation fix), 031073f (Conversation/Author screens styled; glyph policy from measurement), 351cb35 (reply follows chosen task; board opens without pinning). Validation: ran bin/board --replace to rebuild workspaces by name ending with one pane each; verified reply box posts as user (authorType: user); verified reply workspace follows board from AUD-166 to AUD-162 when only the harness file changed; fixed Project wrong-key harness.toml read and ellipsis-when-nothing-cut bug. Follow-up: user to choose which workspace to refine first; confirm Nerd Font icons visible in Ghostty (else revert default with one line); Project write actions, Repair rebuild button, and theme restart remain deliberately open.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete completed-work summary with artifacts, validation, and follow-ups.

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 05:41:48)

Deliverable: (1) Reverted commit 32fa275 ("Every workspace split into real panes: 19 panes across 7 workspaces") via 851a15b, restoring the 7-workspace / 1-pane-per-workspace layout the user already had (board, work, reply, new, project, repair, shell). No new layout was invented. (2) Wrote docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md (~7.8 KB) mapping every Paperclip object to a screen, listing missing screens and an order. Commit 7f18c54.

Plan highlights (order):

Agents>agents — roster | runs | log tabs; actions enter (open run log), p/P (pause/resume), w (wake). Read-only first.
Agents>settings — role, job title, reportsTo, model, heartbeat, monthly budget, mapping to PATCH /api/agents/{id}. Model change applies to next run not in-flight; budget changes recorded with actor.
Tool panels — t in Work>work opens chooser shell · lazygit · hunk · git log · ocr as a pane in the current workspace, esc closes and returns focus. Nothing created until user asks.
Review panel in Work>work — last ocr verdict/findings (blocking in red) beside diff; merges remain a command.
Mouse-1 / Switch only if installed and measured against omni/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash.

Validation: workspace listing confirmed 7 workspaces with 1 pane each and all drawing. Follow-up: user asked to pick item 1..5; only build the chosen item.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed concrete work with commit hashes, deliverables, and an explicit follow-up ask.

Update (2026-11-10 06:23:51)

Delivered and committed (ec7e907: "Agents pane: project-scoped runs with selection, roster cursor, editable settings").

Changes:

Runs tab now project-scoped by default with task column, A toggles company-wide.
Added per-tab cursors for runs and roster; enter opens the selected run's log; selection highlighted, scroll-follows-cursor.
Log viewer now merges token deltas into paragraphs; tool calls/prompts/turn markers as single lines.
New settings tab (4th tab): edit role, job title, model, monthly budget, heartbeat via inline edit (enter saves, esc cancels, heartbeat toggle). Saves are single PATCH /api/agents/{id} merging into existing config; verified config preserved after save.
p/P/w pause/resume/wake act on the selected agent.
Updated docs/WORKSPACES.md (22 panels across 8 workspaces, 1 missing panel, 6 tool panes to wire).

Validation: build passed (build=0); manual tests of run selection/open, settings edit/save, and pause/resume round-trip.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed, verified deliverable with commit hash, artifacts, and validation.

Update (2026-11-10 07:06:26)

Completed work on paperclip-harness committed as 4a23f05 ("Work>review and tool panes; panes re-sync their size; the Work pane follows the Board again"). Deliverables:

Fixed stale pane size: every pane now re-asks the terminal for its size on each refresh instead of trusting the startup WindowSizeMsg. This fixed a pane that was re-tiled from 177 to 88 columns but kept drawing 177-wide lines (top border scrolled off, rows overflowed). All seven borders verified afterwards.
Added Work>review tab (fourth tab) showing verdicts recorded on the chosen task; when none, states so and names bin/review <ID> --post.
Added tool panes: t in Board>board or Work>work opens a chooser (shell, Lazygit, Hunk, Yazi, Neovim, fzf, ocr), opening in same workspace beside current pane; verified end-to-end (Lazygit opened in Work, closed with q, 8 workspaces unchanged; esc closes chooser).
Fixed Work>work latching to startup task: it was treating its own resolved watched task as explicit; now follows the board within ~1s (verified switching to AUD-165). Status: 8 workspaces, 23 panels, nothing missing from docs/WORKSPACES.md. Tool panes wired in 2 of 8 workspaces; other six can gain t later. Screenshots refreshed in /tmp/mockups/.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Concrete completed deliverable with commit hash, artifacts and validation.

context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/tmp
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-repair-session-border-overflow-review-
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-using-workspace-pane-from-here-on-2026-11-10-
observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns

Update (2026-11-10 07:35:38)

Commit 7b12b45 (message: "Drop the icon sample row; give tool panes a working PATH and a reason to stay open; answer the open questions").

Deliverables:

Repair>repair: removed the icon sample row (the user's explicit request).
ocr tool pane: two root causes fixed — (a) tool panes launched with a smaller PATH than the user's shell so ocr was command-not-found; tool panes now include ~/.local/bin, ~/.nix-profile/bin, system profile and per-user profile on PATH; (b) ocr exits immediately when there is nothing to review; added a "press enter to close" trailer so the pane stays open.
Tool chooser gained g and G keys (led to opening a second shell pane while testing).
Verified in Repair>repair: all eight checks pass (control plane reply, project file, harness binary, git, go, ocr, tuios, lazygit, hunk, Nerd Font 384 files).
ocr now runs and logs ([ocr] 1 file(s) changed, reviewing 1 in /tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10 …).

Not yet done: end-to-end functional test list (pending user go-ahead); skills read-only row; Work>artifacts tab; Project>projects switcher; spend chart.

Also field-verified that per-agent settings PATCH merges into existing config (changing model did not wipe folder/instructions, confirmed by reading the record back).

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed, verified work with commit hash, root causes, and known follow-ups.

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

Deliverable: docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md (commit 3d31243) capturing the full interface plan: skills rows in Agents>agents (desired set + skill source, backed by existing /api/agents/{id}/skills + sync), memory row (engram/headroom/memctx), MOUSE-1 limited to triage, Project>overview panel built from /api/companies/{id}/dashboard with tuios.dev/plot sparkline, and adopting the old office scaffold (settings.toml, per-role file, verify.sh, per-screen notes) as the cheapest real gap. Lazygit confirmed already wired (t in Board>board / Work>work). Artifacts dropped. Validation: tree clean, eight workspaces running, no half-changes. Follow-ups: fix stale obsidian-cli on Builder; implement scaffold step in office; optionally register engram in mcp.json.

Detailed deliverable from completed turn

Explored all of it. Recorded in docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md; the short version:

Skills per agent — Paperclip already models it

GET /api/agents/{id}/skills returns a desired set, a managed set and a state per skill. On Builder today:

desired: ["paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip"]
company/<id>/obsidian-cli   desired: false   managed: true   state: "stale"

POST /api/agents/{id}/skills/sync takes add, remove or replace — replace is exactly "this agent gets these and nothing else", which is how a sub-agent's context stays small. There is also a company skill catalog, versions, audit, and GET/PUT /api/companies/{id}/skill-policy with an evaluate call.

Proposal: two rows in Agents>agents settings — skills (the desired set, read-only first, add/remove later) and skill source. A full browser is a later screen, not a panel. Also: obsidian-cli sitting stale on Builder is worth fixing.

Memory — three different things

	state here	what it is
engram	installed, v1.16.1, MCP mode, not registered in `~/.pi/agent/mcp.json` (only `codebase-memory`, `graphify-vault`)	persistent memory
headroom	running, v0.24.0, healthy at `192.168.20.13:8787`, memory backend disabled, compression on	a prompt-compression proxy, not a store
pi memctx	in use now	injects notes into a prompt

They are complementary. Paperclip's only per-agent lever is adapterConfig and runtimeConfig, so memory is set per agent by pointing that agent at the proxy or store it should use. Proposal: a memory row in Agents>agents settings showing which of the three that agent uses, and nothing more until one agent has run both ways and been measured.

MOUSE-1

MOUSE_API_KEY is set (checked the name only, never the value). JEV_API_KEY too. No mouse, mouse1, jev or switch binary is installed.

There are notes, and they are good ones — in the old project's plan documents:

MOUSE-1 is "triage only: label, score, route, escalate. Never a gate, never a permit" — explicitly ruled out for deciding a merge or allowing a tool call, because a cheap classifier that fails open on a network error makes a green run a lie.

I would adopt that policy unchanged. Its place, if added: ordering Board>board's needs-you list, or pre-sorting findings in Work>review. Never the merge, never an approval.

Lazygit

Already wired: t in Board>board or Work>work, choose Lazygit. Verified opening in the right workspace and closing with q.

The old `office` — and what ours lacks

The previous office did four things: remember the host; run new-project to write the scaffold (settings.toml, a file per role, verify.sh, the per-screen notes) writing only what is missing; refuse if the session does not exist and print the exact tuios new line; then build the pages.

Ours does the host, the refusal and the pages — but no scaffold. No per-role files, no verify.sh, no page notes. That is the cheapest real gap in the whole plan.

Dashboard — the API answers it in one call

GET /api/companies/{id}/dashboard, 1.8 KB:

agents {active 6, running 0, paused 0, error 0}
tasks  {open 8, inProgress 0, blocked 4, done 147}
costs  {monthSpendCents 11, monthBudgetCents 0, utilization 0}
runActivity [14 entries]

Proposal: a Project>overview panel with those blocks and a sparkline drawn in Go with tuios.dev/plot, rather than embedding the web dashboard in a pane.

Not doing

Artifacts — dropped as instructed.

I am ready for the task you are about to deliver; nothing in the tree is half-changed, the eight workspaces are running, and the last commit is 3d31243.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed deliverable with artifact path, commit, validation, and follow-ups.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns
runbook: [[packs/paperclip-harness/70-runbooks/tmp-deployment-operations|Adopt an existing folder into the harness with office (and its known scaffold gap)]]
decision: packs/paperclip-harness/50-decisions/mouse-1-restricted-to-triage-never-a-gate-or-permit
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-tuios-interface-discovery-skills-api-memory-stack-
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-tuios-harness-sam-s-coding-harness-office-board-wo
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-paperclipai-2026-11-10-10-01-16
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home

Update (2026-11-10 21:03:21)

Advice-only turn: no code built, no running layout changed.

Deliverable: documentation added to docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md explaining how Pi agent configuration resolves under Paperclip.

Key content: picker.ts / pi-config command interface writes plain JSON to <project>/.pi/settings.json or ~/.pi/agent/settings.json; the Paperclip adapter-pi-local command line; four consequences (per-agent skills via desiredSkills, skill symlink leak into shared /.pi/agent/skills, fixed tool list, project settings not honoured due to trust); recommendations (Paperclip owns identity/instructions/model/budget/skills; extensions global only; folder settings manual-only; per-agent extensions = adapter feature request); agent history sources (/.pi/paperclips/*.jsonl, 178 files; GET /api/agents/{id}/task-sessions; runtime-state).

Commit: 77014d0 — documentation only.

Detailed deliverable from completed turn

Advice only — nothing built. Written into docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md as well.

Your picker, and what it actually writes

pi-config registers five commands — /config-add, /config-remove, /config-list, /config-show, /config-setup — and picker.ts is the overlay: a filtered list of ~/.agents/skills and ~/.agents/extensions showing which are active in the project and which are active globally.

What the commands change is plain JSON:

<project>/.pi/settings.json      project settings ("-l" mode)
~/.pi/agent/settings.json        global settings

in the shape:

{"packages": [
  "npm:pi-memctx",
  {"source": "git:https://gitea…/pi-config", "extensions": ["extensions/pi-config/index.ts", "extensions/tavily-search/index.ts"]},
  {"source": "/home/sam/.agents", "skills": ["nixos-workflow"], "extensions": []}
]}

So yes: that JSON is the interface, and anything that can write a file can compose an agent's context exactly as the picker does. The real question is which of those files Pi actually reads on a Paperclip run.

What Paperclip actually runs

From the installed @paperclipai/adapter-pi-local:

pi --mode json --append-system-prompt <rendered>
   --provider <p> --model <m> --thinking <t>
   --tools read,bash,edit,write,grep,find,ls
   --session ~/.pi/paperclips/<timestamp>-<agentId>.jsonl
   --skill <a directory built from that agent's desired skills>

Four consequences:

Skills are already per agent — desiredSkills and POST /api/agents/{id}/skills/sync. That is the supported lever, and the --skill directory is built from it.
The isolation leaks. Injected skills are symlinked into the shared ~/.pi/agent/skills and are not removed when another agent runs, and --no-skills is not passed. A skill one agent had can remain visible to another.
The tool list is fixed at read,bash,edit,write,grep,find,ls. An agent cannot gain a tool by being handed an extension.
Project-local .pi/settings.json is unlikely to be honoured for Paperclip runs. Pi loads project settings only from a trusted path, and ~/.pi/agent/trust.json has 14 entries — none is a Paperclip worktree or ~/paperclip-agents. And a worktree path changes every task (…/worktrees/AUD-165-…), so there is nothing stable to trust.

That is the direct answer to your "if it uses /.pi in each folder it might be possible" — it is possible for you at a terminal, and not reliable for a Paperclip-spawned Pi, for two independent reasons.

So, honestly

Identity, instructions, model, budget, skills: Paperclip. They are already per agent, and the instructions bundle at ~/.paperclip/instances/default/companies/<co>/agents/<id>/instructions/AGENTS.md is your real per-agent context control.
Extensions: one global set. There is no per-agent extension mechanism in this adapter. Pretending otherwise gives you agents whose behaviour depends on which one ran last.
Folder-level .pi/settings.json: useful for you, not for the factory. Keep it for when you open Pi in a folder by hand.
If per-agent extensions are genuinely wanted, the change belongs in the adapter — a per-agent config directory, plus --no-skills with an explicit set and stale links removed. That is a Paperclip feature request, not something a terminal can arrange from outside.

Seeing the agents does give you their history

~/.pi/paperclips/*.jsonl — 178 session files here, one per run, named <timestamp>-<agentId>.jsonl, each the full conversation.
GET /api/agents/{id}/task-sessions maps a task to its session file and working directory.
The run log is already visible in Agents>agents; runtime-state gives current state.

So an Agents>history panel is feasible with no new plumbing: list an agent's sessions, open one, render the transcript, link back to the task. Read-only, and the natural next panel after your tests.

Committed as 77014d0 — documentation only, nothing in the running layout changed.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Records what was delivered and where, plus commit id.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

Update (2026-11-11 01:02:31)

Completed work in paperclip-harness, committed as 7198c34 ("Work>work chooses its own task and merges from the interface; panes find their tools; shell follows the project folder"); eight workspaces rebuilt and running.

Deliverables:

o in Work>work opens "choose a task to look at" list; selecting a task retargets all five tabs (runs, change, facts, review, merge).
m starts merge for the focused task; new merge tab streams live log. Verified real merge of AUD-168 into main at 4a44473 (log: rebased, no verify command warning, "review saw nothing to review (0 files); recorded, not hidden").
Merge is idempotent-safe: takes a lock; second start refused.
bin/lib/harness.py: prepends ~/.local/bin, ~/.nix-profile/bin, system profile, per-user profile so ocr is found (fixes "refused: ocr is not installed", exit status 2).
bin/board: replaces mismatched Shell>shell pane when its cwd differs from project folder, with a message.
docs/TEST-PLAN.md rewritten: step 4 is now "press m and wait"; no terminal commands anywhere.

Validation: build=0, syntax ok, real merge succeeded.

Follow-ups proposed (in order): user runs nine-step keys-only plan and reports disagreements; Repair>cleanup (list sessions with age and pane count, kill only selected, never touch Pi session files); Pi session browser via pi --resume in a tool pane or the folder in Yazi.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed implementation with concrete artifacts, validation and follow-ups.

Update (2026-11-11 01:58:59)

Completed work (commit 049e25a, message: 'Merge asks first; Work>work lists runs with a log tab; Shell says where everything is'): (1) work.go in paperclip-harness/tui now guards merge behind a confirmation dialog (y/n); (2) Work>work defaults to the runs tab, lists runs with a cursor, and Enter on a run opens a new log tab showing the run's wake payload, reasoning, and tool calls; tab bar is now runs · change · facts · review · log · merge; (3) Shell>shell prints a 'where things are' box of key paths plus one-line hints for unwrapped commands bin/merge and bin/review. Docs updated: docs/TEST-PLAN.md step 4 includes the confirmation and new step 4b covers picking a run and reading its log (still no terminal commands in the test plan); README.md and docs/WORKSPACES.md cover the new tabs, the m confirmation, and the shell box. Validation: builds clean (go build of tui), syntax checks ok, the eight workspaces were rebuilt, and Work>work opens on runs with AUD-171 chosen.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Concrete completed deliverable with artifacts and validation.

Update (2026-11-11 02:17:44)

Deliverables in /home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness:

Added task/run navigation inside Work>work: header shows task position and run count; n/p next/prev task, o pick from list, ↑/↓ choose run, Enter open run log, m merge with a confirmation dialog naming source and base branches.
Task selection in Work writes the same choice the Board writes, so other panes (Reply>reply, etc.) follow.
Added docs/RUNS-AND-MERGE.md (~2932 bytes) explaining what a run is (one execution of one agent; wake reasons assignment/comment/automation/blockers-resolved), measured run counts (AUD-167=1, AUD-164=2, AUD-166=2, others=1), and the bin/merge pipeline (rebase → verify → ocr review → merge → re-check/rollback).
README updated with the new keys.

Validation: build=0; 8 workspaces running; Work>work opens on runs for AUD-171. Commit: 6aef6ce — 'Task and run navigation inside Work>work; explain what a run and a merge are'.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Completed implementation with artifacts, validation and commit reference.

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-runs-vs-merge-semantics-work-work-navigati
observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns
runbook: packs/paperclip-harness/70-runbooks/tmp-deployment-operations
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-02-17-44
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home

Update (2026-11-11 03:16:34)

Commit 3ec960e ("Cleanup pane, Pi session tools, review from the UI, project registry, needs panel acts"). docs/NEXT.md updated with done/remaining.

Delivered:

Repair>repair cleanup tab: lists sessions with pane count and last used; space ticks, x closes ticked after confirm. Protected/attached sessions refused with a visible state message (this project's session / attached, or on another machine). Message notes closing a TUIOS session ends its panes but does not delete anything in ~/.pi/paperclips.
Pi sessions in t: pi sessions opens ~/.pi/paperclips in Yazi; pi resume gives Pi's own session list.
Project>project projects tab: reads adopted projects from ~/.config/paperclip-harness/projects.toml and lists project/machine/session/folder. This is a LIST, not a switch — switching would require tearing down and rebuilding panes, and a remote-machine project cannot be opened locally.
v in Work>review runs bin/review <task> --post, showing running then verdict, written to the task.
Board>board needs-you: enter on a card selects the task and switches to the Reply workspace.

Not done: spend-per-day chart in Project>overview. Runs sparkline exists; spend-per-day needs cost per run and the only cheap source is company runs at ~8s read, which was not added without asking.

Remaining in docs/NEXT.md: spend chart, the office scaffold, memory per agent, MOUSE-1.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete completed work, artifacts, commit hash, and explicit deferred items.

Update (2026-11-11 04:06:03)

Deliverable: finished remaining docs/NEXT.md items for paperclip-harness except blocked/design-decision items.

Key artifacts/changes:

Cleanup list UI: ↑/↓ now move selection (▸) rather than scroll; space ticks (*); x closes ticked after confirmation; protected/attached sessions refused with a reason line.
Project>costs: bar chart of each task's spend relative to the largest, reusing loaded figures (no extra API calls).
bin/office: writes only missing .harness/verify.sh (with replacement/comments guidance) and .harness/NOTES.md; never overwrites.
Agents>settings: appends read-only 'memory and extensions' line read from agent command and global Pi settings (e.g. extensions: the global set · memory: pi-memctx).

Validation/result: verified via build=0, syntax ok, screens exercised in tuios panes (project/agents/repair windows). Eight workspaces rebuilt and running on new build. Committed as 36abdc1.

Follow-ups: MOUSE-1 (triage-only, needs software), project switching design (.27 vs .13 boundary), memory switch semantics pending user input.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed work with commit, artifacts, and validation results.

observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/paperclip-harness-cleanup-navigation-and-ui-conventions
decision: packs/paperclip-harness/50-decisions/paperclip-harness-ui-six-workspaces-spec-first-four-panel-li
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-cleanup-column-navigation-fix-cost-bars-of
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-omni-2026-11-11-04-06-03
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/omni
observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns

Update (2026-11-11 05:36:08)

In paperclip-harness/tui the close-session confirm overlay (frame.go) previously clipped long lines; fixed by wrapping (build error earlier was " " + strings.Repeat(...) + wrapFirst(...) mismatched string and []string in frame.go:299). Also renamed the project check script: bin/office now writes .harness/check.sh (old .harness/verify.sh still honoured for adopted folders; merge dialog says project check: … or no project check: the review decides). Merge gating job reframed as regression check, not completion gate. Committed as 70e1f55 — message: 'Wrap overlay text instead of cutting it; the project check is a regression check, renamed check.sh; concrete Headroom steps; Mouse-1 measured'. Headroom and Mouse-1 facts folded into docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md.

Detailed deliverable from completed turn

Four answers.

1. The cut-off text

The overlay drew each line and then clipped it to the box width — no wrapping at all. It wraps now, and the box is as wide as the screen allows:

╭─ close 1 session? ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────·focus· ╮
│  what happens    these TUIOS sessions are closed and their panes end            │
│                  nothing in ~/.pi/paperclips is deleted; that is your Pi       │
│                  history                                                        │
│                  this project's session and attached sessions are never touched │
│  y               close them                                                     │
│  esc or n        do nothing                                                     │
│                  office-test-1-card-t3-cover-image-1x4e                         │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The text was also "cut off in chat" because I had truncated my own output with sed; the popup itself was the real fault and is fixed.

2. `verify.sh` — you are right, it was a hangover, and it is reframed

I had been describing it as "the thing that decides a task is finished". That is wrong, and it is exactly the wrongness you smelled. What actually decides a task is finished:

the agent, by setting the task's status — Paperclip's own model;
a reviewer, if a review stage is configured on the task;
ocr, at merge time, which can refuse the change.

A project-wide script cannot overrule any of those. So its honest job is a regression check, the same job a CI pipeline does: after a task's work is applied, does the project still build and pass its tests? bin/merge runs it in the task's worktree and again on main, and rolls the merge back if it fails.

Renamed accordingly: bin/office now writes .harness/check.sh, and the old .harness/verify.sh is still honoured so an adopted folder keeps working. The merge dialog now says project check: … or no project check: the review decides.

3. Headroom — the concrete version

Measured just now:

GET http://192.168.20.13:8787/v1/models  → 200, 486 models (auto/best-coding, deepseek/…)
GET http://192.168.20.13:8787/health     → healthy, compression on, memory off
upstream                                 → http://192.168.20.13:20129/v1

The agents' omni provider already points at that same upstream, so headroom can sit in front of it. To use it for one agent, two steps, only the second per agent:

once, in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json, add a provider:

"headroom": { "baseUrl": "http://192.168.20.13:8787/v1",
              "apiKey": "<the key the omni provider already uses>",
              "api": "openai-completions" }

in Agents>settings, set that agent's model to headroom/auto/best-coding.

Would it work. The endpoint answers the OpenAI-style API that Pi's provider type speaks and lists the model ids Pi would ask for, so the pieces line up. It remains a hypothesis until one run goes through it: the unknowns are whether the proxy passes Pi's tool-calling requests unchanged, and what compression does to a prompt with large tool results. The measurement is one run, comparing cost, duration and result for the same task with and without.

Per project is not possible. The provider is chosen by the agent's model, and agents belong to the company, not a project. One agent is the finest granularity — which is what the model field already gives you.

4. Mouse-1 notes, read

They are precise and I have folded the facts into docs/PLAN-INTERFACE.md. The ones that shape the design:

POST https://api.mouse.dev/v1/decisions, key already in the environment — no software to install, I was wrong about that.
Cold start is minutes: first call after idle returned 503 engine_timeout after 30 s; retry 200 in 13 s; warm ~489 ms.
Stable answers at ~0.98 confidence. A classifier, not a writer.
Proven useful for failure routing (redo / stronger model / environment / person), unblock triage, intake clarity, task sizing.
Ruled out for the merge decision, judging test results, anything on a keystroke path, and as the only record of a decision.

The one place it earns its keep here: a failed run in Agents>agents offers f, asks one four-option question, and writes the recommendation, confidence and options onto the task — with the screen saying " …[truncated]…

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Completed implementation with commit and renamed artifact; useful follow-up context.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

Update (2026-11-11 07:40:01)

Completed work this turn:

Headroom provider test then removal: added the headroom provider to config, called it (502 on /v1/chat/completions, 401 'invalid x-api-key' on /v1/messages, 400 on omni router), diagnosed it as Anthropic-shaped needing an Anthropic key, then removed the provider entry. Final providers: ['omni','deepseek','openrouter','opencode-go','google'].
Built bin/triage [--ask next|failure]: asks one four-option question to Mouse-1, retries once on 503, prints per-option probabilities/reasons with confidence and latency, and writes the answer as a comment on the task (via Paperclip). Verified end-to-end on AUD-162 ('Tree render check'): answer person (confidence 0.97, 0.5s, attempt 1).
Machine audit: measured .27 and .51 for Go/Nerd Fonts/pi/tuios (see context note).

Validation: syntax check 'syntax ok'; triage run produced a written task comment; commit 7a2d435 'Headroom measured and blocked; Mouse-1 triage command built and run'.

Follow-up offered (not yet done): close 21 junk sessions (harness-demo-card-, office-test-1); archive/delete ~/paseo/harness and ~/paseo/projects/tuios_coding_harness; clean up test tasks AUD-161/162/166–171 (mark cancelled, not delete); docs pass; two clean tests; write docs/HANDOVER.md.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Structured deliverable summary with artifacts, validation, commit, and follow-ups.

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Three layouts, live in your session

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Vim keys: yes, as aliases

The theme confusion, cleared up

Styling changes

Work workspace

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Skills per agent — Paperclip already models it

Memory — three different things

MOUSE-1

Lazygit

The old office — and what ours lacks

Dashboard — the API answers it in one call

Not doing

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Your picker, and what it actually writes

What Paperclip actually runs

So, honestly

Seeing the agents does give you their history

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2. verify.sh — you are right, it was a hangover, and it is reframed

3. Headroom — the concrete version

4. Mouse-1 notes, read

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