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Rich discovery update (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: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

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

Rich discovery update (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: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

Rich discovery update (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: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

Rich discovery update (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: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

Update (2026-11-10 05:00:01)

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 05:00:01)

Found the real reason you see no icons, and it was not the server.

Icons: the font was missing on `.27`, not `.13`

Your terminal on .27 is what draws the characters. .27 had 98 Nerd Font entries installed but its Ghostty config contained only term = xterm-256color — no font-family, so Ghostty used its own plain JetBrains Mono, which has no icon glyphs. The tick shows because ✓ is an ordinary character; the Nerd icons are private-use codepoints that a plain font simply does not have.

I appended to ~/.config/ghostty/config on .27 (backup at config.bak-icons):

font-family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"
font-size = 12

Reopen the terminal window on .27 (or reload Ghostty's config) and the icons should appear. If they still do not, say so and I will switch the panels back to plain characters by default.

Built since you left

? on every panel — an overlay listing the keys that work there, and nothing else. esc or ? closes it.
/ filter on the board — type part of an identifier, a title or an assignee and the list narrows; the count and the chosen task follow the filter, so what is highlighted is always what would be acted on. The header shows filter: CHANGE▌ while you type.
u unblock — on a task whose blocker has finished but which still says blocked, one key sets it to todo with a comment. That is the state you had to hand-fix earlier.
Mouse clicks on task rows — one click-zone manager created once and the whole view scanned through it, as the rules require. Clicking a row selects it and loads its detail. I cannot verify a click from here, so treat it as untested until you try it.
B on Repair — add only the panes that are missing, never closing any. Safe to press from inside a pane, unlike R.

All seven panes rebuilt cleanly afterwards, and every screen drew.

Screenshots refreshed in /tmp/mockups/. Committed as 09e32da.

What I would build next, in this order

Needs-you cards that act — each card gets its own key: unblock, assign, open the conversation. Right now the panel tells you what needs you but you act in another panel.
A settings tab that writes — the verify command per project, edited in place, which is the one thing the Author form cannot express today.
Diff beside the conversation — the wide-screen arrangement from the spec: tree, thread, diff on one workspace, so a claim and its code sit together.
Search across the project — one key that filters tasks, comments and activity together, for when you remember a phrase but not the task.

Tell me which of those you want first, and whether the icons appear after reopening the terminal.

Source paths observed

paperclip-harness/tui/paperclip
home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/harness
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
.config/ghostty/config

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

Update (2026-11-10 05:59:07)

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 05:59:07)

The full list, at the end of the project, with what exists today marked.

Workspaces and panes

Workspace	Pane	Shows	Now
Shell	shell	a prompt in the project folder	built
Board	board	tasks by group · chosen task · needs you	built
Work	work	runs · change (diff) · facts	built
Work	review	the last ocr verdict and its blocking findings	missing
Agents	agents	roster · runs · log — who is working, on what	built today
Agents	settings	role, title, reports-to, model, heartbeat, budget	missing
Reply	reply	the task · the thread · the reply box	built
New task	new	the form · guidance · preview	built
Project	project	facts · costs · settings and limits	built
Repair	repair	health · layout · rebuild log	built
any	tool	Lazygit, Hunk, Yazi, Neovim, fzf, shell, ocr — opened with `t`, closed with `esc`	not wired

So: 8 workspaces, 10 named panes, 21 panels built, 2 panels and the tool panes still to do.

What the Agents pane does now

Workspace Agents, pane agents, three tabs:

roster — every agent with its state, spend and budget:

 researcher      idle     0 c   2000 c
 Builder         idle    10 c   5000 c

runs — the company's runs, newest first, with agent, state, what woke it, duration and task:

15:56:27  Builder  succeeded  automation  32s   bb4dc72b
12:41:47  Builder  succeeded  assignment  1m27s bb4dc72b

log — enter on a run shows its output. This is watching Pi work: the stored log is a wall of JSON and token-by-token deltas, so it is gathered back into readable paragraphs:

15:56:41 session
15:56:42 user: ## Paperclip Resume Delta
15:56:43 The user posted "Here is a test reply" — a test comment…
15:56:43 Let me verify the file still exists and commit present…

p, P and w pause, resume and wake the selected agent. I tested the pause/resume calls directly against Paperclip on Documenter: idle → paused → idle.

One bug worth knowing: the company run list is 1.1 MB and takes 8 seconds, while the roster is instant. Reading them together made the whole pane appear empty. They are now separate reads — the roster on the timer, the runs when you open that tab.

Still missing, in order

Agents>settings — role, title, reports-to, model, heartbeat, budget. All of it is a single PATCH /api/agents/{id}, which accepts exactly those fields.
Work>review — the ocr verdict beside the diff. ocr is installed and already refused a merge on AUD-165.
Tool panes — t opens Lazygit, Hunk, Yazi, Neovim, fzf or ocr in the current workspace; esc closes it. This is the answer to "any pane can work with any terminal tool" and needs no reimplementation.

The layout is now eight workspaces, one pane each, and R rebuilds them. docs/WORKSPACES.md holds this table and is updated; committed as b15216a.

Say which of the three you want next, and I will build only that.

Source paths observed

d4921013-e5da-4d88-8016-57d5746e2d03/403de1f7-645c-4d35-bc7e-19b01d77bacc/df306e7b-f56b-4cd8-bf68-bab0cbfb27fa.ndjson
tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-166-add-a-changelog-entry-for-the-harness

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

The Paperclip terminal UI (TUI) has an "Agents" pane with four tabs: roster, runs, log, and settings. It tracks agents (researcher, System, Hub, Chief of Staff, Builder, Documenter), their states (idle/paused), spend vs. budget, and run history.

Key behaviors:

runs tab: project-scoped to the current project's tasks by default (resolved through each run's task reference, shown as e.g. AUD-166). A toggles between "this project" and company-wide runs. Company-wide total at time of work: 281 runs.
log tab: renders run logs. Logs are a stream of token deltas; the viewer merges deltas into paragraphs while tool calls, prompts, and turn markers each become single lines (e.g. toolcall_start, toolcall_end, assistant: lines).
settings tab: editable fields for each agent — role, job title, model, monthly budget, heartbeat. enter edits a field inline, esc cancels, heartbeat is a toggle. Saves go through one PATCH /api/agents/{id} that merges into the agent's existing config (does not wipe working folder or instructions). p/P/w pause/resume/wake the selected agent.
Navigation: each tab has its own cursor; enter opens detail (e.g. run log). Roster is sorted by name so cursor stays on the same agent after reload; ▸ marks the selected row.

The pause control writes pausedAt and pauseReason (e.g. manual from a board key) to the agent status.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Evidence-backed overview of the Agents pane architecture and behaviors from the turn's tool output and final summary.

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

Project at /home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness. The bin/harness TUI is organized into 8 workspaces with 23 panels total, documented in docs/WORKSPACES.md. Named panes/workspaces observed: Board (board), Work (work, tabs: runs/change/facts/review), Agents (agents), Reply (reply), New task (new, tabs: form/guidance/preview), Project (project, tabs: facts/costs/settings), Repair (repair, tabs: checks/health/layout/rebuild), plus Workspace>pane. Layout is tiled by TUIOS, which can re-tile panes to different widths after startup. Entrypoint is the Go binary bin/harness launched with flags like -screen work -folder <dir>.

Detailed context from completed turn

Using Workspace>pane from here on.

Repair>repair border

The cause was a stale size, not the drawing. That pane had been created when the layout gave it 177 columns; TUIOS later re-tiled it to 88 and the program never heard about it, so it kept drawing 177-wide lines into an 88-wide pane — the top border scrolled away and every row overflowed.

Fixed properly: every pane now re-asks the terminal for its size on each refresh, instead of trusting the one message it got at startup. All seven borders were checked afterwards:

Board>board   ╭─ tasks ────────────────·focus· ╮ ╭─ th...
Work>work     ╭─ the work   runs   change   facts ────
Agents>agents ╭─ agents · 6 agent(s), 0 run(s)   roste
Reply>reply   ╭─ the task ────────────────────────────
New task>new  ╭─ new task   form   guidance   preview
Project>project ╭─ the project   facts   costs   setting
Repair>repair ╭─ checks   health   layout   rebuild lo

The final two items

Work>review — fourth tab beside runs, change and facts. It shows the verdicts recorded on the chosen task, because our reviews and merges are written as comments, so the record lives with the work. On AUD-165 it shows the real refusal:

## Merge refused: the review found 1 blocking item(s)
`cleanup.sh:2` critical/bug — If $HOME is unset or empty, "$HOME/tmp" expands to /tmp,
so this would recursively delete the system temp directory…

When there is no verdict it says so and names the command that would produce one.

Tool panes — t in Board>board or Work>work opens a chooser: shell, Lazygit, Hunk, Yazi, Neovim, fzf, ocr. The tool opens as a pane beside the one you are in, in the same workspace, and its own quit key closes it. Tested end to end: Lazygit opened in Work (workspace 3, next to Work>work) and closed with q, leaving the eight workspaces exactly as they were. The chooser closes with esc.

One more bug found on the way

Work>work was pinned to whatever task it resolved at startup, so changing the task on Board>board no longer moved it. The program was resolving the watched task itself and then treating the result as an explicit choice. It now follows the board again within a second — verified by switching to AUD-165 and watching the header change.

Where the list stands

8 workspaces, 23 panels, nothing missing from docs/WORKSPACES.md.
Tool panes wired in 2 of the 8 workspaces; the other six can gain t whenever you want it.
Committed as 4a23f05. Screenshots refreshed in /tmp/mockups/.

Ready to discuss modifications whenever you are.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Durable architecture overview with exact workspace/panel names and doc path.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

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

In paperclip-harness, Work>work model (workModel in Go TUI) resolves which task to display: if a task is named explicitly on the command line (-issue / newWorkModel sets explicit = issueID != "") it stays fixed to that task; otherwise it follows the choice made on Board>board via watchedTask(folder) which reads the project's own file. On each 5s tick it calls m.load() which fetches Issue(id), Runs(id), Activity(id), CostSummary(id) and, if the task's Workspace has a CWD, computes worktreeDiff(ws.CWD, ws.BaseRef) for the change tab. It shows an error if a task has no worktree on the machine. Work>review is a fourth tab beside runs/change/facts showing verdicts/comments recorded on the task (reviews and merges are written as comments); when none exist it names the command to produce one (bin/review <ID> --post). Pressing t in Board>board or Work>work opens a tool chooser (shell, Lazygit, Hunk, Yazi, Neovim, fzf, ocr); the tool opens as a pane beside the current one in the same workspace, closes with its own quit key, chooser closes with esc.

Detailed context from completed turn

Using Workspace>pane from here on.

Repair>repair border

Fixed properly: every pane now re-asks the terminal for its size on each refresh, instead of trusting the one message it got at startup. All seven borders were checked afterwards:

Board>board   ╭─ tasks ────────────────·focus· ╮ ╭─ th...
Work>work     ╭─ the work   runs   change   facts ────
Agents>agents ╭─ agents · 6 agent(s), 0 run(s)   roste
Reply>reply   ╭─ the task ────────────────────────────
New task>new  ╭─ new task   form   guidance   preview
Project>project ╭─ the project   facts   costs   setting
Repair>repair ╭─ checks   health   layout   rebuild lo

The final two items

## Merge refused: the review found 1 blocking item(s)
`cleanup.sh:2` critical/bug — If $HOME is unset or empty, "$HOME/tmp" expands to /tmp,
so this would recursively delete the system temp directory…

When there is no verdict it says so and names the command that would produce one.

One more bug found on the way

Where the list stands

8 workspaces, 23 panels, nothing missing from docs/WORKSPACES.md.
Tool panes wired in 2 of the 8 workspaces; the other six can gain t whenever you want it.
Committed as 4a23f05. Screenshots refreshed in /tmp/mockups/.

Ready to discuss modifications whenever you are.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Concrete component behavior and command evidence for the Work pane.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

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

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 07:06:26)

Using Workspace>pane from here on.

Repair>repair border

Fixed properly: every pane now re-asks the terminal for its size on each refresh, instead of trusting the one message it got at startup. All seven borders were checked afterwards:

Board>board   ╭─ tasks ────────────────·focus· ╮ ╭─ th...
Work>work     ╭─ the work   runs   change   facts ────
Agents>agents ╭─ agents · 6 agent(s), 0 run(s)   roste
Reply>reply   ╭─ the task ────────────────────────────
New task>new  ╭─ new task   form   guidance   preview
Project>project ╭─ the project   facts   costs   setting
Repair>repair ╭─ checks   health   layout   rebuild lo

The final two items

## Merge refused: the review found 1 blocking item(s)
`cleanup.sh:2` critical/bug — If $HOME is unset or empty, "$HOME/tmp" expands to /tmp,
so this would recursively delete the system temp directory…

When there is no verdict it says so and names the command that would produce one.

One more bug found on the way

Where the list stands

8 workspaces, 23 panels, nothing missing from docs/WORKSPACES.md.
Tool panes wired in 2 of the 8 workspaces; the other six can gain t whenever you want it.
Committed as 4a23f05. Screenshots refreshed in /tmp/mockups/.

Ready to discuss modifications whenever you are.

Source paths observed

dev/pts/97
home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/harness

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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)

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 07:35:38)

Both bugs fixed, and here are direct answers.

Fixed

Repair>repair — the icon sample row is gone.

ocr closed instantly. Two causes, both real: a tool pane is started with a smaller PATH than your shell, so ocr was "command not found", and even when it ran, a review with nothing to look at exits in a second. Tool panes now get ~/.local/bin, ~/.nix-profile/bin, the system profile and your per-user profile on PATH, and the ocr entry ends with a "press enter to close" line. It now runs and stays:

[ocr] 1 file(s) changed, reviewing 1 in /tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10
[ocr] ▶ code_search search_text=harness …

The chooser also gained g and G, which is what led me to open a second shell pane while testing.

Where settings are

Agents>agents, fourth tab, settings. Role, job title, model, monthly budget, heartbeat. enter edits a field in place, esc cancels, p/P/w pause, resume, wake. Each save is one PATCH merged into that agent's existing config, so changing the model does not wipe its folder or instructions — I verified that by reading the record back.

Spend is shown, not set, in Project>costs, Board>board and Work>work. The budget lives on the agent, so it is edited per agent on that settings tab. There is no company-level spend control on any screen yet.

Your questions, answered plainly

Skills. Not in the interface. Paperclip has GET /api/agents/{id}/skills and POST …/skills/sync with add, remove, replace — so a read-only skills row is cheap, a full editor is a later step. Your rule (sub-agents get only what their job needs) maps exactly onto replace.

Where to add work. New task>new. And my answer on Tuxedo is no for tasks: a second place that writes tasks is a second owner for the same fact, which is the fault that sank the last attempt. If you want notes, put them in the project's own .harness/NOTES.md and let Tuxedo read it per project — notes are not tasks, and nothing else should claim they are.

office --host from another machine. Not implemented, and it should not be faked. Sessions are created by you: tuios new --host nixos-desktop "new test project", then bin/office <folder> inside it on the machine that owns the folder. Driving .27 from .13 needs ssh plus a remote bin/board — a deliberate step, not an accident.

Switching projects. Not built. Proposal: a small local registry of adopted projects (id, folder, host, session) filled by bin/office, and a Project>projects tab that lists them and switches by rewriting the current folder's .harness/harness.toml. A project on another machine shows as on .27 rather than pretending it can be opened from here.

Artifacts are Paperclip work products attached to a task — an uploaded file, a pull request, a preview URL, a commit, a branch. Nothing shows them yet; their home is a Work>artifacts tab.

"Workspaces" in Paperclip do not exist. Paperclip has companies → projects → tasks → agents → runs. What Paperclip calls a workspace is a project's code folder, the git worktree a task runs in. Our workspace is TUIOS's word for a page.

Charts. Use Go, not TML: the panels are already Go and the data is in memory. tuios.dev/plot gives a spend-by-day chart in Project>costs for a few dozen lines.

Mouse-1/Switch are still not installed on this machine.

Functional tests — the list I propose

Create a task in New task>new with a blocker and a verify command; see it in Board>board.
Assign it in Board>board, then watch it in Agents>agents — roster, then runs, then its log.
Let it finish; read the diff in Work>work, the verdict in Work>review.
Merge with bin/merge, confirm the verify command passes on main.
Open the blocker's dependent task and confirm it can now proceed.
R from Repair>repair and confirm the eight workspaces come back.
Set an agent's model in Agents>agents and confirm it applies to the next run only.

Committed as 7b12b45. Say go and I run that list end to end and report each result.

Source paths observed

paseo/projects/new_test_projects
tuios.dev/docs/libraries/plot
home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/harness
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/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.gitignore

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

Rich discovery update (2026-11-11 01:02:31)

Both complaints are fair, and both are now fixed in the program rather than in the instructions.

Work>work selects its own task and merges

o in Work>work opens a list of the project's tasks. Choose one and the runs, change, facts, review and merge tabs all switch to it. You no longer start in Board>board.
m runs the merge for the task you are looking at, and the new merge tab shows it live:

merge of AUD-168 started 12:01:39
  worktree …/worktrees/AUD-168-tidy-the-readme-introduction
  rebased onto main
  no verify command: this would pass on the agent's word
  review saw nothing to review (0 files); recorded, not hidden
  merged into main at 4a44473
merge finished 12:01:43

That is a real merge I ran from the pane a minute ago, with no shell. Starting it twice is safe — the merge takes a lock and the second is refused.

Why the Shell step failed you

Two real bugs, not your memory:

The pane that merges inherited the pane's small PATH, so bin/merge could not find ocr and refused with ocr is not installed. Fixed at the source: bin/lib/harness.py now adds ~/.local/bin, ~/.nix-profile/bin, the system profile and your per-user profile before looking for anything.
Shell>shell was created in one folder and later adopted without checking. bin/board now compares the pane's real working directory with the project folder and replaces the shell pane when they differ, saying so.

The principle you are pointing at

The terminal was creeping in as the normal path. It should not be. From now on:

anything you do regularly is a key in a pane;
Shell>shell exists for the things we deliberately do not wrap, and for emergencies;
a test plan that needs me to write git log is a bad test plan.

docs/TEST-PLAN.md is rewritten accordingly: step 4 is now "press m and wait", and the whole plan contains no terminal commands at all. Shell>shell appears once, as the escape hatch it is.

What I would do next, in your order

You run the plan as written (nine steps, keys only) and tell me where the screen and Paperclip disagree.
Repair>cleanup — sessions listed with age and pane count, kill only what you select, and never touching the Pi session files.
The Pi session browser — pi --resume in a tool pane, or the folder in Yazi.

Committed as 7198c34; the eight workspaces are rebuilt and running.

Source paths observed

tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-168-tidy-the-rea
bin/lib/harness.py

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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

Rich discovery update (2026-11-11 01:58:59)

You caught three real problems. All three were mine, and all three are fixed.

"You are auto merging" — that was the `m` key, and it was wrong

m used to merge immediately. Now it asks, and tells you exactly what it will do:

╭─ merge AUD-171? ─────────────────────────────────────·focus· ╮
│  what happens    rebase onto the base branch                 │
│                  no verify command: the review decides       │
│                  ocr reviews the change; a critical finding refuses the merge
│                  merge, then re-run the checks on the base branch
│  y               do it                                       │
│  esc or n        do nothing                                  │

Nothing merges until you press y. That is the approve step. The workflow is now: read the verdict in review, then m → read what will happen → y.

The two merges you saw (AUD-168, AUD-171) were me pressing m while testing, not an agent and not the interface deciding on its own.

"Work>work does not have a list of runs"

It had one, but the pane was left sitting on the merge tab from my test, so you never saw it. Two changes:

runs is the default tab when the pane opens, and it lists every run of the chosen task with a cursor;
pressing Enter on a run opens a new log tab with what Pi actually did — the wake payload, its reasoning, its tool calls.

The tab bar is now runs · change · facts · review · log · merge.

Lazygit, and where it fits

Lazygit is not the merge gate. It is still one keystroke away (t → lazygit) for looking at branches, staging or history by hand. The gate is bin/merge: rebase, verify if the task has a command, ocr review, merge, re-check. Two different jobs — one is for you to poke at git, the other is the decision to put work on the main line.

Shell now says where everything is

Shell>shell opens with a box, so you never have to remember a path:

┌─ where things are ───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ project folder       /tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10                      │
│ task worktrees       /tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees │
│ this project's file  /tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.harness/harness.to… │
│ harness commands     /home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin  │
│ pi conversations     /home/sam/.pi/paperclips                        │
│ pi skills you own    /home/sam/.agents/skills                        │
│ paperclip data       /home/sam/.paperclip/instances/default          │
│ session              paperclip-harness                               │
│ watching             AUD-171                                         │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Below it, four commands with one line each, for the things we deliberately do not wrap.

Documentation updated

docs/TEST-PLAN.md — step 4 now includes the confirmation, and a new step 4b covers picking a run and reading its log. Still no terminal commands anywhere.
README.md and docs/WORKSPACES.md — the new tabs, the m confirmation, the shell box.

Committed as 049e25a. The eight workspaces are rebuilt; Work>work will open on runs with AUD-171 chosen.

Source paths observed

tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.paperclip/worktrees
tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.harness/harness.toml
home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin
home/sam/.pi/paperclips
home/sam/.agents/skills
home/sam/.paperclip/instances/default
tmp/pc-sandbox-2026-11-10/.harness/harness.to

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

Update (2026-11-11 08:00:32)

Rich discovery update (2026-11-11 08:00:32)

Straight answers, then what I built tonight.

Headroom — you were right that a path exists, and it is the tool, not the provider

The headroom-bridge extension gives an agent two tools: compress_for_agent and check_headroom. That is the integration that fits: headroom shortens text an agent is about to pass on, rather than standing between the agent and its model.

Measured directly, without the extension:

POST http://192.168.20.13:8787/v1/compress  {"model":…, "messages":[…]}   → 200
{tokens_before: 4009, tokens_after: 4009, tokens_saved: 0,
 transforms_applied: ["router:protected:user_message"]}

The endpoint works and reports honestly; one long user message is protected from compression, which is why it saved nothing in that test.

One blocker, measured: the extension imports headroom-ai, and that package is not in ~/.pi/agent/npm, so it will fail to import until it is installed. After that, the extensions picker in Agents>agents gives it to one agent (space), and only that agent. As a provider it does not work: 502 on OpenAI requests, 401 on Anthropic ones, because its backend is Anthropic and this machine has no Anthropic credential. I removed the provider entry so no agent can point at a failing endpoint.

Machines: yes, `.13` and `.27` are behind `.51` on Pi

	`.13`	`.27`	`.51`
Pi	0.82.1	0.82.1	0.87.1
Go	1.26.5	1.26.2	missing
Nerd Fonts	384	98	98
TUIOS	0.12.1	0.12.1	0.12.1

.51 needs Go added to its configuration; .13/.27 are on the same Pi and could be bumped to 0.87 for consistency. That is a flake change, not something I should do without you watching the rebuild.

Cancelled — the option now exists

There was no way to cancel, so I added it: c in Board>board, with a dialog that says the thread, runs and cost stay and nothing is deleted. Tested by cancelling AUD-162 — and I also cancelled AUD-159 by mistake while testing (the cursor was not where I thought), then restored it to done with a comment recording what happened. Both are now correct: AUD-162 cancelled, AUD-159 done.

The office workflow — the thing you kept asking about

bin/office <folder> now does the whole job: adopt the folder, create the TUIOS session if it does not exist (via the daemon verb), write .harness/harness.toml and the scaffold, and build all eight panes in that session. Proven on a brand-new folder tonight:

session: fresh-project-2026-11-11 (created)
… eight panes created, workspaces 1–8

One honest limit: moving your client to that session is refused when the call comes from a pane — the daemon will not let a program change what you are looking at. So the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or tuios attach fresh-project-2026-11-11.

Handover written

HANDOVER.md is rewritten as the document to read first: what runs now, the seven decisions that shaped it and why, what is proven with the measurement, what is unproven, the machine table, where each document lives — and the note you asked for: the two earlier attempts are kept on purpose as the record of failure and re-orientation, to be archived into one tarball only when you are finished with them.

Committed as 404fcc2 and 00abedb.

What I propose next, in order

Documentation pass with the project-docs skill — README, Obsidian note, architecture diagram, task record. This is the one you said yes to and it is the biggest remaining piece.
Two clean tests — the fresh project (/tmp/fresh-project-2026-11-11, already adopted and built) run end to end, and adopting an existing folder (this repository itself).
Machines — .51 Go, and decide whether to align Pi to 0.87 everywhere.
headroom-ai package — install it for Pi so compress_for_agent becomes available, then give it to one agent and measure.

Say go on 1 and I will run the project-docs pass before anything else.

Source paths observed

8787/v1/compress
.pi/agent/npm

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness
observation: packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns
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-headroom-integration-machine-drift-cancel-
session: packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-itself-2026-11-11-08-00-32
context: packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/tmp

Update (2026-11-12 00:35:25)

Repo/config root is /etc/nixos (NixOS flake, home-manager). Hosts live under /etc/nixos/hosts//configuration.nix and shared home config in /etc/nixos/home.nix; flake.lock pins nixpkgs.

Hosts and addresses: nixos-desktop/.13 -> 192.168.20.13, .27, .51 (ssh access by IP; names may not resolve).

Pi CLI (the 'pi' tool) exists in three versions across the fleet: .13 and .27 evaluate to 1.5.0 after edits, .51 currently at 0.87.1. Running binaries were 0.82.1 on .13/.27 before rebuild.

Fonts are declared per-host in configuration.nix (nerd-fonts.symbols-only, font-awesome, nerd-fonts.jetbrains-mono) plus home-manager fontconfig (see hosts/sam-4screen-desktop/configuration.nix lines ~398-446 and hosts/sam-thinkpad/configuration.nix ~199-202).

Office workflow docs are in /etc/nixos/docs/: STARTUP-COMMANDS.md (existing notes) and STARTUP.md (new simplified rule, committed as 7b2cccf). Helper scripts: bin/office, bin/board, bin/project-reset.

Key rule documented: the folder and the session must live on the same machine. On the owning machine run bin/office <folder>; use --host <host> only when the folder and session machine differ.

Detailed context from completed turn

You are right that I was inconsistent. Here is the exact state, then the simple rule for office.

What is applied, precisely

	`/etc/nixos` changed?	Evaluates to pi	Running pi	Needs
`.13`	yes, now: lock bumped to 2026-11-07, `initExtra` → `initContent`	1.5.0	0.82.1	one `sudo nixos-rebuild switch`
`.27`	yes, now: same two edits	1.5.0	0.82.1	a fix first — see below
`.51`	no	0.87.1	0.87.1	the same two edits, then rebuild

Earlier I said "applied" when I had only tested a copy in /tmp. That was wrong wording on my part: nothing had been written to /etc/nixos. It has been now, on .13 and .27, and .13's dry-run build passes with 465 derivations to build and 5.5 GiB to fetch.

On .13, the rebuild is:

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

.27 cannot be rebuilt yet. Its evaluation fails in home-manager's fontconfig code:

… while evaluating the option `home-manager.users.sam.fonts.fontconfig.configFile.fonts.settings':
error: … head values (attrsets.nix:1711)

That is home-manager 2026-11-10 disagreeing with something in .27's font configuration, not the Pi change. The smaller next attempt is to bump nixpkgs only on .27 and leave home-manager where it is — I would try that before touching fonts.

.51 would need the same two edits to reach 1.5.0. Say whether you want .51 aligned in the same pass, or left at 0.87.1 until .13 is proven.

Your notes, adopted — and the commands simplified

I read docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md. Four things from it are now in our bin/office:

A host name → address table (nixos-desktop/.13 → 192.168.20.13, and so on), because the old version broke on names ssh could not resolve.
A check whether the named host is this machine, before any ssh. I hit exactly that trap tonight: office --remote 192.168.20.13 from .13 tried to log in to itself.
An ssh probe (ssh -o BatchMode=yes <addr> true) before doing anything remote, so a missing key says so instead of half-working.
bin/board --reset — closes every pane, waits until the session is empty, clears the workspace names, then builds. --replace alone can run out of workspace slots on a half-built session.

One thing is simpler than the old design: it needed tuios new --host … plus office … --host …, because office could not create a session. Ours can, through the daemon's own verb. So it is one command.

The rule, in one table

Situation	Command
folder on this machine, shell on this machine	`bin/office <folder> --project "<Name>"`
folder Paperclip has not seen yet	`bin/office <folder> --new "<Name>"`
folder on another machine	`bin/office <folder> --project "<Name>" --host nixos-desktop`
repair / rebuild	`bin/board`, `bin/board --replace`, `bin/board --reset`
start again from nothing	`bin/project-reset <folder>`

And the rule that removes the confusion: the folder and the session live on the same machine. If you are typing inside the session, on the machine that owns the folder, it is just bin/office <folder>. --host is only for the case where those two differ.

Written into docs/STARTUP.md, committed as 7b2cccf and pushed.

Your `email_agent` case, concretely

The folder is on .13, the Paperclip project is Email Agent (local_path, so no worktree policy), and the session must live on .13. From .27:

bin/office /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --host nixos-desktop --session email-agent

That runs the work on .13 over ssh, creates the session there, and builds eight panes. Then tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent. No program can move your client, so that last step is always yours.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Concrete repo layout, host map, version state and script names from the turn.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

Update (2026-11-12 01:11:14)

Repository: https://gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness.git (branch main).

Purpose: provides the operator CLI commands for opening folders as Paperclip/TUIOS-backed projects.

CLI commands installed on PATH via thin wrapper scripts in ~/.local/bin: office, board, merge, review, triage, project-reset.

Wrappers, not symlinks. Reason: a symlinked script resolves its own directory to ~/.local/bin and cannot find sibling modules. Each wrapper is a two-line script execing the real script inside the repo checkout.

Python entrypoint for office: options --project (adopt existing Paperclip project), --new (create Paperclip project), --host (folder lives on remote machine; run_on_remote), --dry (print intended actions, write nothing), --no-switch, --session, --remote. Behaviour: resolves folder, refuses if not a dir; reuses existing project session from .harness/harness.toml or defaults to basename(folder); ensures the session exists and switches before writing; writes /.harness/harness.toml; builds eight panes in the session.

Previous project's three wrappers were moved (not deleted) to ~/.local/bin/.old-harness/ for comparison.

Detailed context from completed turn

Both done, and the rebuild failure is fixed.

The commands are now plain commands

office, board, merge, review, triage, project-reset are on your path. Each is a two-line wrapper in ~/.local/bin that runs the real script in this repository — a wrapper, not a symlink, for the reason your old notes give: a symlinked script resolves its own directory to ~/.local/bin and cannot find its siblings. The previous project's three wrappers were moved to ~/.local/bin/.old-harness/, not deleted, in case you want to compare.

$ office --help
office — open a folder as a project

  office <folder> --project "<Name>"        adopt a project Paperclip already has
  office <folder> --new "<Name>"            create the Paperclip project too
  office <folder> --project "<Name>" --host nixos-desktop    the folder is on that machine
  office <folder> --dry                     say what would happen, write nothing

The folder and the session live on the same machine. If you are typing inside the
session, on the machine that owns the folder, it is just: office <folder>.

Two bugs fixed while doing it: office --help used to run with the current directory and create a stray session called tmp (I killed it), and the session was being created before the Paperclip project was checked — so a bad command left a session behind. Both corrected.

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed

lan-mouse 0.11.0 panics during build:

The environment variable LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR has been set but no compatible system libgit2 could be found.

The new nixpkgs sets that variable, and lan-mouse's crate insists on a system libgit2. Letting it vendor its own fixes it. I built it with the override before touching anything:

/nix/store/f6w228jqp5wq6xznf6arq69kck6axyyf-lan-mouse-0.11.0   ← built

and applied the one-line change to /etc/nixos/flake.nix:

lm = lan-mouse.packages.${system}.default.overrideAttrs (o: { LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR = "0"; });

Now the system dry-run evaluates with 29 derivations to build and pi at 1.5.0. Your rebuild:

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

If it fails again, send the first error block; the next likely candidate is another package that the newer nixpkgs treated differently, and each one is found the same way — build just that package with an override before switching.

Where the machines stand

	config changed	evaluates to	running	next
`.13`	lock + `initContent` + lan-mouse fix	pi 1.5.0, 29 to build	0.82.1	rebuild now
`.27`	lock + `initContent`	pi 1.5.0, but eval error in home-manager fontconfig	0.82.1	needs a fix; smaller attempt is bumping nixpkgs only
`.51`	not yet	pi 0.87.1	0.87.1	the same three edits, then rebuild

.27's failure names home-manager.users.sam.fonts.fontconfig.configFile.fonts.settings — home-manager 2026-11-10 with a font declaration it cannot merge. It has nothing to do with Pi, and I would rather fix it deliberately than guess at its font config.

Committed as a129c4e and pushed. After .13 reboots into the new generation, tell me what pi --version says and I will do .27 and .51 to match.

Evidence

Confidence: 90%
Reason: Discovered architecture, CLI surface, and install convention for the repo worked on this turn.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

Update (2026-11-12 01:11:14)

Three NixOS machines managed from a flake at /etc/nixos (hosts under /etc/nixos/hosts//configuration.nix, e.g. sam-4screen-desktop, sam-thinkpad).

Host roles/addresses observed:

.13 = nixos-desktop (flake target nixos-desktop); config changed (lock + initContent + lan-mouse fix); dry-run evaluates to pi 1.5.0, 29 derivations to build; still running pi 0.82.1; next step: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop.
.27 = sam-4screen-desktop; config changed (lock + initContent); evaluates to pi 1.5.0 but has an eval error in home-manager fontconfig (home-manager.users.sam.fonts.fontconfig.configFile.fonts.settings) — home-manager dated 2026-11-10 cannot merge the font declaration; unrelated to Pi. Still running 0.82.1; plan is a deliberate fontconfig fix, with smaller fallback of bumping nixpkgs only.
.51 = sam-thinkpad; not yet changed; running pi 0.87.1; plan is the same three edits then rebuild.

Both .27 and .51 declare lan-mouse in configuration.nix.

Detailed context from completed turn

Both done, and the rebuild failure is fixed.

The commands are now plain commands

$ office --help
office — open a folder as a project

  office <folder> --project "<Name>"        adopt a project Paperclip already has
  office <folder> --new "<Name>"            create the Paperclip project too
  office <folder> --project "<Name>" --host nixos-desktop    the folder is on that machine
  office <folder> --dry                     say what would happen, write nothing

The folder and the session live on the same machine. If you are typing inside the
session, on the machine that owns the folder, it is just: office <folder>.

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed

lan-mouse 0.11.0 panics during build:

The environment variable LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR has been set but no compatible system libgit2 could be found.

The new nixpkgs sets that variable, and lan-mouse's crate insists on a system libgit2. Letting it vendor its own fixes it. I built it with the override before touching anything:

/nix/store/f6w228jqp5wq6xznf6arq69kck6axyyf-lan-mouse-0.11.0   ← built

and applied the one-line change to /etc/nixos/flake.nix:

lm = lan-mouse.packages.${system}.default.overrideAttrs (o: { LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR = "0"; });

Now the system dry-run evaluates with 29 derivations to build and pi at 1.5.0. Your rebuild:

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

Where the machines stand

	config changed	evaluates to	running	next
`.13`	lock + `initContent` + lan-mouse fix	pi 1.5.0, 29 to build	0.82.1	rebuild now
`.27`	lock + `initContent`	pi 1.5.0, but eval error in home-manager fontconfig	0.82.1	needs a fix; smaller attempt is bumping nixpkgs only
`.51`	not yet	pi 0.87.1	0.87.1	the same three edits, then rebuild

Committed as a129c4e and pushed. After .13 reboots into the new generation, tell me what pi --version says and I will do .27 and .51 to match.

Evidence

Confidence: 85%
Reason: Fleet overview with host mapping, versions, and per-host state that future work will build on.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable

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Both done, and the rebuild failure is fixed.

The commands are now plain commands

$ office --help
office — open a folder as a project

  office <folder> --project "<Name>"        adopt a project Paperclip already has
  office <folder> --new "<Name>"            create the Paperclip project too
  office <folder> --project "<Name>" --host nixos-desktop    the folder is on that machine
  office <folder> --dry                     say what would happen, write nothing

The folder and the session live on the same machine. If you are typing inside the
session, on the machine that owns the folder, it is just: office <folder>.

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed

lan-mouse 0.11.0 panics during build:

The environment variable LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR has been set but no compatible system libgit2 could be found.

The new nixpkgs sets that variable, and lan-mouse's crate insists on a system libgit2. Letting it vendor its own fixes it. I built it with the override before touching anything:

/nix/store/f6w228jqp5wq6xznf6arq69kck6axyyf-lan-mouse-0.11.0   ← built

and applied the one-line change to /etc/nixos/flake.nix:

lm = lan-mouse.packages.${system}.default.overrideAttrs (o: { LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR = "0"; });

Now the system dry-run evaluates with 29 derivations to build and pi at 1.5.0. Your rebuild:

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

Where the machines stand

	config changed	evaluates to	running	next
`.13`	lock + `initContent` + lan-mouse fix	pi 1.5.0, 29 to build	0.82.1	rebuild now
`.27`	lock + `initContent`	pi 1.5.0, but eval error in home-manager fontconfig	0.82.1	needs a fix; smaller attempt is bumping nixpkgs only
`.51`	not yet	pi 0.87.1	0.87.1	the same three edits, then rebuild

Committed as a129c4e and pushed. After .13 reboots into the new generation, tell me what pi --version says and I will do .27 and .51 to match.

Source paths observed

etc/nixos/flake.nix
nix/store/v4yl2ai666di77fysixjb0v3nic1p8h9-lan-mouse-0.11.0.drv
nix/store/f6w228jqp5wq6xznf6arq69kck6axyyf-lan-mouse-0.11.0
etc/nixos/hosts/sam-4screen-desktop/configuration.nix
etc/nixos/hosts/sam-thinkpad/configuration.nix
home/sam/.local/bin/board
home/sam/.local/bin/merge
home/sam/.local/bin/office
home/sam/.local/bin/project-reset
home/sam/.local/bin/review
home/sam/.local/bin/triage
tmp/dryrun-alpha/.harness/harness.toml
gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness.git
.local/bin/.old-harness

Evidence

Confidence: 84%
Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration

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tmp

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 01:47:01)

docs/UI-LAYOUT.md

Three layouts, live in your session

Two decisions I need from you

Source paths observed

Evidence

Related

Related learned memories

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

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 03:01:16)

Vim keys: yes, as aliases

The theme confusion, cleared up

Styling changes

Work workspace

Still to do

Source paths observed

Evidence

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

Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 03:19:00)

What is on screen now

One honest note about icons

Theme

Where the interface stands against the spec

Source paths observed

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

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Rebuild and refresh, both real

Missing panels added

Where the layout stands

Source paths observed

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Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 05:00:01)

Icons: the font was missing on .27, not .13

Built since you left

What I would build next, in this order

Source paths observed

Evidence

Related learned memories

Update (2026-11-10 05:59:07)

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Workspaces and panes

What the Agents pane does now

Still missing, in order

Source paths observed

Evidence

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

Evidence

Related learned memories

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

Detailed context from completed turn

Repair>repair border

The final two items

One more bug found on the way

Where the list stands

Evidence

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Detailed context from completed turn

Repair>repair border

The final two items

One more bug found on the way

Where the list stands

Evidence

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Rich discovery update (2026-11-10 07:06:26)

Repair>repair border

The final two items

One more bug found on the way

Where the list stands

Source paths observed

Evidence

Related learned memories

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`docs/UI-LAYOUT.md`

Icons: the font was missing on `.27`, not `.13`

"You are auto merging" — that was the `m` key, and it was wrong

Machines: yes, `.13` and `.27` are behind `.51` on Pi

Your `email_agent` case, concretely

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed

The `.13` rebuild failure: found and fixed