The table says what the state of every repo is; the briefing says who is
waiting. Neither says which repos to open a tab for today, in what order,
and with which command - so a day plan was assembled by hand every morning
from a table that deliberately takes no position.
--plan is built on exactly the argument --brief was: a lookup over data the
scan already holds, zero model calls, and route.sh already derives the
per-repo command. The order IS the position it takes, and the only one -
there is no cutoff, so nothing is hidden.
The rule most likely to be "fixed" into a defect: repos owing mail rank
first regardless of status. Excluding blocked or done is a claim about a
repo's OWN next step, which by definition cannot be moved, while owing an
answer is the other axis entirely - and answering is often what unblocks
it. Measured on the real tree, two of 26 planned repos were done with an
unhandled inbox, so the fixture tree pins done-with-debt and
blocked-with-debt rather than the general rule alone. Repos with no board
line rank last and are LABELLED, because the table already prints a note
about them and dropping them silently would repeat that defect.
key=value rather than prose, because the plan has two consumers: the
operator, and a separate repo driving a terminal from it. Prose would make
the rendered format an API no test here could hold stable for a consumer
living in another repo. dir= is absolute because a new pane inherits its
anchor's directory; command_missing= carries both no-command causes,
because a driver reading ^command= would type a blank line into a live pane.
route_cmd_for() becomes the single reader of the route-line grammar, shared
with --brief, distinguishing the two failure causes by exit code rather
than by an empty string. --brief output is unchanged.
Driving a terminal from the plan stays OUT of this repo, on the measurement
in docs/ghostty-orchestration-measurement.md rather than on taste.
board-selftest: 51 -> 86 checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011eKRzhD1RqY2MxvDEkrJAM
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