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Concept A — Task Inbox

Tasks are treated like email: one global, cross-project inbox optimized for triage — sweep, snooze, done. The Inbox lives above projects in the sidebar. Untriaged tasks carry unread weight; triaged ones recede. Two-pane surface: list on the left, reading pane on the right. Keyboard triage (e done, h snooze, j/k move) makes a morning sweep of fourteen tasks a sub-minute ritual.

tested against: busy inbox (9 open) · inbox zero · task detail #245 w/ provenance + attempts · capture mid-run (log mode, agent stays Working) · start → focused thread (live attempt, task stays Open) · blocked #231 / done #212 w/ evidence · mobile home + swipe triage · mobile quick capture

A1 · Inbox — triage list + reading pane (task detail #245)

1 2 3 4 5 6

Inbox 14 open 9 · snoozed 3 · done 2

New · 3

T3 Crash: renaming a thread while its agent is settling suggested #2494m

T3 Thread list flickers on reconnect when >200 threads #238 ✓ ◷

T3 Add test for snooze across DST boundary #2411d

Open · 6

T3 Focus ring lost after closing command palette with Esc #2456w

T3 Decide retention policy for settled threads blocked #2313w

XF Focus outline invisible on amber buttons dup? #245 #1988w

Snoozed until later · 3

◷T3 Composer stash lost when switching projects back Mon #229

Done this week · 2

✓T3 Migrate diff renderer to @pierre/diffs v3 #2122d

✓XF Empty-state copy for archived threads #2074d

#245 Open logged 6w ago · triaged 2d ago

Focus ring lost after closing command palette with Esc

Start ✓ Done ◷ Snooze ⋯

Close the palette with Esc and keyboard focus silently lands on body — the visible focus ring disappears until the next pointer click. Tab order still works, so it passes automated checks. Repro on Safari and Chrome; regression window points at the palette portal refactor.

Provenance

Logged from Focus ring bug — #245 · 6w ago

“esc closes the palette fine but then tab focus is invisible — the ring never comes back until you click somewhere. feels like focus fell back to the document root.”

apps/web/src/palette/CommandPalette.tsx apps/web/src/styles/focus-ring.css

Attempts · 2

T3 Focus ring bug — #245 Awaiting input 5d

T3 Palette focus spike Closed 5w

Related: #198 Focus outline invisible on amber buttons — possible duplicate

▸ History · 12 events

1 Inbox sits above pinned threads — first row in the shell, global across projects. Count = open untriaged + triaged.

2 Untriaged = never opened: indigo dot + heavier title. Triaged rows recede to 400-weight. Row anatomy: dot · project monogram · title · #id (mono, tabular) · age.

3Hover reveals two ghost triage buttons: ✓ done, ◷ snooze. Keyboard sweep: e done · h snooze · j/k move. No modal, no confirm.

4 Groups mirror email triage: New · Open · Snoozed until later · Done this week. Snoozed rows show their return day; done rows keep a quiet ✓.

5 Reading pane = full task detail: identity + lifecycle pill, description, then provenance — source thread, 2-line origin quote, file chips.

6 Attempts list threads with their own status pills (thread status, not task status). #245 stays Open while an attempt awaits input.

A2 · Inbox zero

Inbox zero

Nothing waiting. Log findings from any thread with #.

1 Calm terminal state, no confetti: tiny # glyph, one line of copy that re-teaches the capture gesture. No count badge in the sidebar at zero.

A6 · Inset — blocked task · done task w/ evidence

1 2

#231 Open 3w

Decide retention policy for settled threads

Blocked — waiting on a decision: keep 90 days vs. forever

#212 Done 2d

Migrate diff renderer to @pierre/diffs v3

Swapped the renderer behind a flag, removed the legacy splitter, and verified hunk alignment on the ten largest diffs in the corpus.

✓ pnpm test — 214 passed screenshot diff +38 −6

Reopen

1 Blocked is a flag on an Open task, not a status: 2px amber left border + one amber line naming what it waits on.

2 Done carries proof, not just a checkmark: agent summary + evidence chips (test run, screenshot, diff stat) and a ghost Reopen.

A3 · Conversation — capture while the agent works (log mode)

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The list still jumps when the socket reconnects — can you gate the re-render until the diff settles?

Reproduced it. The store emits a full refresh on reconnect before the server diff arrives, so the list paints twice. I’ll hold the render behind a 250 ms settle window and drop the interim frame.

▸ Gate re-render behind settle window 4/7

While tracing this I noticed the reconnect spinner never clears on links slower than ~2 s RTT — separate bug, not touching it now.

#246 Reconnect spinner never clears on slow links Logged

⌕Edit apps/web/src/stores/threadStore.ts

Back on the settle window — replaying a 300-thread reconnect storm against the gated render now.

# Reconnect spinner never clears on slow links claude · opus

Logging a task — won’t interrupt the agent

# Logged to Inbox · #246 View

1 The agent stays Working (sky, pulsing) through the whole capture — logging never interrupts a run.

2 Plan chip = the agent’s execution checklist: pips + step + 4/7. Deliberately distinct from tasks — no #id, no capture affordance.

3 Task chip = one quiet line in the timeline: #246 mono, inferred title, “Logged”. Never a card. It anchors provenance — the detail view quotes this spot.

4 Typing # first flips the composer to log mode: thin indigo top border + hint line. Enter logs; Esc returns to chat.

5 Bottom-left toast confirms the destination, not just the action: “Logged to Inbox · #246”, with a View escape hatch.

A4 · Starting #245 — reading-pane popover

1 2

#245 Open logged 6w ago

Focus ring lost after closing command palette with Esc

Start ✓ Done ◷ Snooze

Close the palette with Esc and keyboard focus silently lands on body — the visible focus ring disappears until the next pointer click. Tab order still works…

1 Default: spin a fresh focused thread named after the task, with provider/model picked inline — one Enter from triage to a running agent.

2 “Continue here” keeps the attempt in the current thread for small fixes — same attempt link either way.

A5 · The focused thread — live attempt, task stays Open

1 2

#245 Focus ring lost after closing command palette with Esc Open attempt 2 · Working

Starting from the task’s provenance quote and the two linked files. First step: confirm where focus lands after the portal unmounts.

⌕Read apps/web/src/palette/CommandPalette.tsx

⌕Grep "restoreFocus" — 3 matches

▸ Trace focus after portal unmount 2/5

The portal’s cleanup runs after the palette’s restoreFocus, so the stored element is already detached. That matches the “focus fell back to the document root” quote.

Reply, or # to log a task… claude · opus

1 Task ribbon under the topbar: the task keeps its Open pill next to a sky attempt chip. “In progress” is the thread’s state, never the task’s.

2 Thread auto-named from the task; provenance quote and file chips are pre-loaded into context, so the agent starts oriented.

A7 · Mobile — home with Inbox card

1 2

9:41●●●●

Home #

Inbox

3 new · 2 done this week

14 ›

T3 t3code

Pinned-thread drag ordering

Working

Reconnect flicker fix

Working

18m

Focus ring bug — #245

Awaiting input

XF xenforo-cloud

Billing webhook retries

Pending approval

Importer memory audit

Done

1 Inbox card pinned above all projects — count + “what changed” subline. Tap → full-screen list (A8).

2 # button in the Home header = quick capture from anywhere (A9).

A8 · Mobile — inbox list, swipe triage

1 2

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‹ Inbox 14

New · 3

✓

Crash: renaming a settling thread

#249 · suggested

◷

Thread list flickers on reconnect

#238

Add test for snooze across DST

#241

Open · 6

Focus ring lost after closing palette

#245

Decide retention policy

#231 · blocked

Focus outline invisible on amber

#198 · dup? #245

1 Swipe right = done (emerald reveal, ✓). Full-swipe commits, no confirm; undo lives in a snackbar.

2 Swipe left = snooze (amber reveal, ◷) → tomorrow / next week / pick date.

A9 · Mobile — quick capture sheet

9:41●●●●

Home #

Inbox

3 new · 2 done this week

14 ›

T3 t3code

Pinned-thread drag ordering

Working

Reconnect flicker fix

Working

18m

Log a task

# Composer stash lost when switching projects

Goes to Inbox as new — triage later. Project inferred: t3code ▾

Log task

1 One field, one button. The # prefix is fixed — same sigil as desktop log mode. Sheet dismisses on log; a toast shows the new #id.