repo-mailbox/scripts/board.sh
Kjell Tore Guttormsen d0a5ffe515 feat(board)!: rank --plan on five ordered groups, planned above in-progress
Replaces the weighted score shipped in 0.19.0 with five lookups: chain-root
credit, unhandled inbox, planned, in-progress, undeclared status. Within a
group: that group's own quantity, then a Sonnet next-cost, then oldest plan.

The score's objection is accepted, not forgotten, and is written into board.sh
and CLAUDE.md so a later session reads it as decided rather than as an unfixed
defect: a group order cannot express "owes one message AND releases two others"
as one quantity. What the score could not do was hold still for the format's
second consumer - re-tuning one weight against another silently reorders a
parser in another repo, and no test here can catch that.

planned now ranks above in-progress, inverted by the same decision: converting a
decision into motion is the slow step; live work is already moving.

Debt stays uncapped and never excluded. One group below chain-root credit is not
the cap declined at 0.19.0 - the debtor keeps its tab, its most-owed-first
position, and its why=inbox:N. Pinned by a discriminating fixture the score
would fail: a root releasing one repo outranks a repo owing four.

board-selftest 134 -> 138. Suite 183 + 138 + 73 = 394.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y6ULuFCPMNYAPNN3pAjsXQ
2026-08-03 06:55:21 +02:00

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#!/bin/bash
# board.sh - cross-repo attention board. Answers the one question no single
# repo's STATE.md can: across ALL repos, which have a live next step, which are
# blocked and on whom, which owe someone a reply, and what each costs to
# advance. Read-only: never writes to a repo, a STATE.md, or the mailbox.
#
# Sources (all pre-existing, nothing invented):
# STATE.md "NESTE" block - the next step, per repo (canonical)
# STATE.md board line - optional machine-readable field (see below)
# git status --porcelain - uncommitted risk
# git log -1 --format=%ct - when anything last landed (the SISTE column)
# ~/.claude/coord/<repo>/inbox - UNHANDLED INBOUND: others addressed this
# repo and it has not processed them. This is an
# obligation the repo owes outward - NOT evidence
# that the repo is waiting on anyone. The mailbox
# format has no reply-to/thread field, so
# outbound waiting is not derivable from it at
# all; that is exactly what blocked-on carries.
#
# Board line (optional, one per STATE.md, directly under the NESTE heading):
#
# <!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/xhigh -->
#
# status planned | in-progress | blocked | deferred | done
# blocked-on <repo-name> or - (only meaningful with status=blocked)
# next-cost <model>/<effort>, the model spelled EXACTLY as the global rubric
# spells it: Sonnet 5/xhigh, Opus 5/high. The parser below accepts
# any spelling, but this field is compared across repos by eye, so
# one form is the whole point - and a second spelling documented
# here is how a field with no write path drifts.
# The field now HAS a write path: route.sh emits it, and the set of
# legal values is that script's row table - not this comment, which
# shows the form only. `route.sh --help` is the authority; the two
# ends are pinned together by route-selftest.sh section 6.
#
# TWO AGE COLUMNS, ONE MEANING EACH. ALDER is the STATE.md mtime - when the
# plan was last touched - and is blank for a repo that has none. SISTE is the
# last commit, read for every repo. They were one column once, and it meant
# whichever of the two the repo's branch happened to compute: a repo WITH a
# STATE.md showed only its plan's age, so one that had not committed in a year
# was indistinguishable from one worked on this morning. Both are evidence for
# the reader and neither is a ranking input - the buckets and the sort are
# unchanged by this column.
#
# ATTENTION AXIS, NOT A TOPIC AXIS. This status vocabulary is deliberately NOT
# the vocabulary a cross-repo TOPIC register uses. A topic register answers
# "what is this repo's status on subject X (has it adopted convention Y?)";
# this line answers "does this REPO's own next step need me?". Topic tokens do
# not transfer: `not-applicable` is meaningless about a repo's next step, and a
# topic-level `partial` carries an ownership-and-next-step rule that belongs to
# the register, not here. Conflating the two axes is a real defect class - the
# board reads only its own axis, so keep them separate.
#
# --brief is a SECOND RENDERING of the same scan, never a second scan. The
# table answers "what is the state of every repo"; the briefing answers the
# narrower question an unattended nightly job can answer without judgement:
# which repos have an unhandled inbox, what their next step says IN FULL, and
# the exact command to start a session there. The 38-char cut is the table
# column's property, not the record's, so the briefing prints NESTE uncut. Each
# command is derived by CALLING route.sh with that repo's own four traits -
# next-cost alone cannot yield it, since the advisor flag is a property of the
# ROW. A repo with no route line is told so rather than handed a guess.
#
# --brief is still read-only: it writes nothing. The file write lives in
# brief-nightly.sh, which renders to a temp file and renames it into place, and
# refuses to overwrite a good briefing with an empty render.
#
# --plan is a THIRD rendering of that same scan, and the only one that takes a
# position: it answers which repos to open a tab for today and in what order.
# It prints key=value blocks, not prose, because it has two consumers - the
# operator pasting commands, and a separate repo driving a terminal from it.
# Ordering is deterministic and there is no cutoff, so nothing is hidden. It is
# FIVE ORDERED GROUPS, each a lookup over a field the scan already read:
#
# 1. chain-root credit - repos released transitively (see below)
# 2. unhandled inbox messages, most-owed first, WHATEVER the status
# 3. planned
# 4. in-progress
# 5. undeclared status ('?' / MALFORMED) - last, and labelled
#
# Within a group: the quantity that group is about (released, then owed), then a
# Sonnet next-cost (cheap to move under quota pressure), then oldest plan first.
#
# 0.19.0 shipped a weighted score here instead, and 0.20.0 replaced it. The score
# expressed one thing this cannot - "owes one message AND releases two others" as
# a single quantity - and the operator accepted losing that. What a score could
# not do was hold still for the second consumer: re-tuning 40 against 15 here
# would silently reorder a parser living in another repo, and no test in THIS one
# could catch it. Groups 3 and 4 are inverted from every version before 0.20.0
# (planned above in-progress), also by operator decision: a decided but unstarted
# step is what converts a decision into motion; live work is already moving.
#
# CHAIN-ROOT CREDIT is the term that needed blocked-on to stop being a display
# string. For every blocked repo the edge is followed transitively to the ROOT
# of the chain - the first repo not itself blocked - and only the root is
# credited. Opening a blocked repo releases nobody, since its own next step is
# by definition waiting; opening the root releases everything behind it. A
# cycle, a blocked-on naming an unscanned repo, and a blocked repo with no
# target all credit NOBODY: inventing a root there would look like a working
# plan while sending the operator to the wrong repo.
#
# Debt is deliberately UNCAPPED and never excluded. A cap was proposed with the
# credit and declined by the operator: owing a reply is the other axis from a
# repo's own next step, and answering is often what unblocks a chain. Being one
# group below chain-root credit is NOT a cap - the debtor keeps its tab, its
# most-owed-first position among the other debtors, and its `why=inbox:N`. A
# change that dropped a debtor from the plan would be the declined cap wearing
# this decision as a disguise, and section 12 of the selftest pins that half.
#
# why= names the GROUP that put the repo in the plan. Under the score it named
# the dominant TERM, because a score has no single rule that admitted a repo;
# under groups the admitting rule is the group, so the two coincide wherever the
# chain-root group applies and the field is unchanged for both consumers.
# Read-only like the rest: --plan writes nothing, in the repo or the mailbox.
#
# --focus "<prose>" narrows --plan to the repos whose STATE.md DECLARES a
# matching topic marker (`<slug>: <status>`), and is the only cutoff this
# format has. It is therefore required to report what it held back: the same
# run prints fokus= (the slugs the prose resolved to), fokus_droppet= (how
# many blocks the cutoff removed), fokus_utenfor= (the repos that MENTION a
# resolved slug with no marker line, named - that class is where the decisive
# find came from), and fokus_rekkevidde= (how many STATE.md were searched;
# board opens no other file). Each surviving block carries fokus_treff=, the
# declaration it survived on. Prose matching no declared slug prints the FULL
# plan plus fokus_ikke_brukt= - never an empty one, since the prose arrives
# verbatim from the operator and a typo must not empty the morning.
#
# Usage: board.sh [--roots <dir>[,<dir>...]] [--plain] [--brief|--plan]
# [--focus "<prose>"]
# Env: CLAUDE_COORD_DIR overrides the mailbox root.
# BOARD_ROOTS overrides the default scan roots.
# ASCII only, bash 3.2 safe.
set -u
export LC_ALL=C
COORD="${CLAUDE_COORD_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/coord}"
ROOTS="${BOARD_ROOTS:-$HOME/repos}"
NESTE_WIDTH=38
BRIEF=0
PLAN=0
FOCUS=""
# Sibling calculator, invoked rather than reimplemented: the rubric that turns
# four traits into a model has exactly one copy, and it is route.sh's row
# table. Bare form on purpose - a ${VAR:-fallback} here is the 0.12.1 defect.
SELFDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
ROUTE="$SELFDIR/route.sh"
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
# bash 3.2: `shift 2` past the end of $# is a no-op -> would loop forever.
--roots) [ $# -ge 2 ] || { echo "board: --roots requires a value" >&2; exit 2; }
ROOTS="$2"; shift 2 ;;
# Three renderings of one scan, so exactly one may be selected: last wins.
--brief) BRIEF=1; PLAN=0; shift ;;
--plan) PLAN=1; BRIEF=0; shift ;;
# Raw operator prose, forwarded verbatim by the driver: it does not
# tokenize, match or normalize, so every bit of that work is here. Same
# `shift 2` guard as --roots, for the same bash 3.2 reason.
--focus) [ $# -ge 2 ] || { echo "board: --focus requires a value" >&2; exit 2; }
FOCUS="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--plain) shift ;;
-h|--help) grep '^#' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'; exit 0 ;;
*) echo "board: unknown argument: $1 (ignored)" >&2; shift ;;
esac
done
NOW="$(date +%s)"
# Truncate to N CHARACTERS (not bytes). A byte cut splits multibyte prose and
# emits mojibake; macOS `cut -c` is character-aware under a UTF-8 locale.
trunc() { printf '%s' "$1" | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 cut -c1-"$2"; }
# --- Discovery: git repos at depth 1, plus depth 2 under polyrepo dirs ------
# A directory that is itself a git repo is one repo; a directory that is not
# but contains git repos is a polyrepo container (the plugin marketplace) and
# contributes its children, never itself.
#
# "Is a repo" tests .git with -e, not -d: a worktree or submodule has .git as a
# FILE. A plain `git worktree add <root>/feature-x` lands a depth-1 sibling that
# can CARRY its own STATE.md - a -d test drops it silently. Kept identical in
# the rollup builder (catalog) on purpose: two readers, one name.
REPOS=""
# Split on comma via IFS + `set --` rather than an unquoted $(...) expansion:
# unquoted word-splitting would also split roots containing spaces. Arg parsing
# is finished above, so clobbering the positional parameters is safe here.
OLD_IFS="$IFS"; IFS=','
set -- $ROOTS
IFS="$OLD_IFS"
for root in "$@"; do
[ -d "$root" ] || continue
for entry in "$root"/*; do
[ -d "$entry" ] || continue
if [ -e "$entry/.git" ]; then
REPOS="$REPOS
$entry"
else
for child in "$entry"/*; do
[ -e "$child/.git" ] || continue
REPOS="$REPOS
$child"
done
fi
done
done
[ -n "$(printf '%s' "$REPOS" | tr -d '[:space:]')" ] || exit 0
# --- Collect one record per repo -------------------------------------------
# Record: bucket|sortkey|name|status|cost|inbox|dirty|age|neste
RECORDS=""
MALFORMED=""
printf '%s\n' "$REPOS" | while IFS= read -r d; do
[ -n "$d" ] || continue
name="$(basename "$d")"
state="$d/STATE.md"
dirty="$(git -C "$d" status --porcelain 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
[ -n "$dirty" ] || dirty=0
inbox=0
if [ -d "$COORD/$name/inbox" ]; then
inbox="$(ls "$COORD/$name/inbox"/*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
[ -n "$inbox" ] || inbox=0
fi
# Read for EVERY repo, not just the STATE-less ones: a repo whose plan file
# is fresh can still have been silent for a year, and that is precisely the
# repo no other column reports. A repo with no commits at all has no reading
# to give - printing a day count there would be a fabricated one.
lastct="$(git -C "$d" log -1 --format=%ct 2>/dev/null)"
if [ -n "$lastct" ]; then
lastd=$(( (NOW - lastct) / 86400 )); lastcol="${lastd}d"
else
lastd=-1; lastcol="-"
fi
if [ ! -f "$state" ]; then
# No plan file, so no plan age: ALDER is blank rather than quietly showing
# the commit age under a heading that means something else everywhere else
# in the table. The sort key keeps using it - order is unchanged.
printf '5|%06d|%s|-|-|%s|%s|-|%s|%s|-|(ingen STATE.md)\n' \
"$lastd" "$name" "$inbox" "$dirty" "$lastcol" "$d"
continue
fi
mtime="$(stat -f %m "$state" 2>/dev/null)"
if [ -n "$mtime" ]; then age=$(( (NOW - mtime) / 86400 )); else age=0; fi
# Anchored to the exact comment form, NOT a substring search: unanchored
# 'board:' also matches prose like "dashboard: ..." and -m1 would let a
# lookalike higher up the file win over the real line.
line="$(grep -m1 '^<!-- board:' "$state" 2>/dev/null)"
status=""; blockedon=""; cost=""
if [ -n "$line" ]; then
status="$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*status=\([a-z-]*\).*/\1/p')"
blockedon="$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*blocked-on=\([A-Za-z0-9._-]*\).*/\1/p')"
# Value runs to the next ';' or the closing '-->', NOT to the first
# non-lowercase byte: the rubric names models "Sonnet 5 / xhigh", so a
# lowercase-only class silently drops spec-conformant values to "?".
cost="$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*next-cost=\([^;>]*\).*/\1/p' \
| sed -e 's/--$//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')"
fi
case "$status" in
planned|in-progress|blocked|deferred|done) ;;
"") status="?" ;;
*) status="MALFORMED:$status" ;;
esac
[ -n "$cost" ] || cost="?"
# First content line under the NESTE heading: skip blanks, HTML comments and
# the heading itself; strip markdown bold/bullet noise. Anchored to the
# heading form (measured 26/27 real repos, decided 2026-08-02) so a prose
# line that merely mentions the word is never mistaken for the marker.
neste="$(awk '
/^#+[[:space:]].*NESTE/ { flag=1; next }
flag {
if ($0 ~ /^[[:space:]]*$/) next
if ($0 ~ /^[[:space:]]*<!--/) next
if ($0 ~ /^#/) next
print; exit
}' "$state" 2>/dev/null \
| sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*>[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/\*\*//g' \
-e 's/^[[:space:]]*[-*][[:space:]]*//' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/`//g')"
# Stored WHOLE. Truncation is a property of the table's 38-char column, so it
# belongs to that renderer alone - the briefing is a second rendering of this
# same record and exists precisely to carry the line uncut. Cutting here once
# meant the only copy of the text was the cut one.
[ -n "$neste" ] || neste="(tom NESTE-blokk)"
disp="$status"
if [ "$status" = "blocked" ] && [ -n "$blockedon" ] && [ "$blockedon" != "-" ]; then
disp="blocked>$blockedon"
fi
case "$status" in
blocked) bucket=1 ;;
MALFORMED:*) bucket=2 ;;
in-progress|planned|"?") bucket=2 ;;
deferred) bucket=3 ;;
done) bucket=4 ;;
*) bucket=2 ;;
esac
# blocked-on is a FIELD, not just the display string above: --plan follows the
# edge to find who a session would release, and the edge cannot be recovered
# from `blocked>X` alone (a repo can be blocked with no target, and a repo can
# name a target the scan never produced). Inserted BEFORE `neste`, never after:
# `neste` is free prose lifted out of a STATE.md and may contain a literal '|'
# from a markdown table, so it has to stay the last field on the line.
printf '%s|%06d|%s|%s|%s|%s|%s|%sd|%s|%s|%s|%s\n' \
"$bucket" "$age" "$name" "$disp" "$cost" "$inbox" "$dirty" "$age" "$lastcol" "$d" \
"${blockedon:--}" "$neste"
done > "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board.$$"
RECORDS="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board.$$"
UNBLOCKS="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board-unblocks.$$"
trap '/bin/rm -f "$RECORDS" "$UNBLOCKS" 2>/dev/null' EXIT
# --- Chain-root credit -----------------------------------------------------
# For every blocked repo, walk `blocked-on` up to the ROOT of the chain - the
# first repo that is not itself blocked - and credit that root with one repo
# released. The credit is transitive and lands ONLY on the root, because that
# is the only node where opening a session changes anything: every other link
# is by definition waiting on someone further up.
#
# Three cases must credit NOBODY rather than credit a guess:
# - a cycle (A waits on B waits on A): no root exists, so the hop limit is
# the terminating condition, not a safety net that also happens to fire.
# - a blocked-on naming a repo the scan never produced: nothing validates
# that field, so a typo is the expected case. There is no directory to
# open, so a tab for it would be unrunnable.
# - a blocked repo with no target at all (`blocked-on=-`).
# Silently inventing a root in any of these is worse than skipping it: the plan
# would look correct and send the operator to the wrong repo.
: > "$UNBLOCKS"
awk -F'|' '$4 ~ /^blocked/ && $11 != "-" && $11 != "" {print $11}' "$RECORDS" \
| while read -r cr_target; do
cr_cur="$cr_target"; cr_hops=0; cr_root=""
while [ "$cr_hops" -lt 20 ]; do
cr_line="$(awk -F'|' -v n="$cr_cur" '$3==n {print; exit}' "$RECORDS")"
[ -n "$cr_line" ] || break # dangling target: no root
cr_st="$(printf '%s' "$cr_line" | cut -d'|' -f4)"
case "$cr_st" in
blocked*)
cr_nxt="$(printf '%s' "$cr_line" | cut -d'|' -f11)"
[ -n "$cr_nxt" ] && [ "$cr_nxt" != "-" ] || break
cr_cur="$cr_nxt"; cr_hops=$((cr_hops + 1)) ;;
*) cr_root="$cr_cur"; break ;;
esac
done
[ -n "$cr_root" ] && printf '%s\n' "$cr_root"
done | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2 "|" $1}' > "$UNBLOCKS"
hdr() {
printf '\n%s\n' "$1"
printf '%-32s %-34s %-14s %4s %4s %6s %6s %s\n' \
"REPO" "STATUS" "KOST" "INN" "DRT" "ALDER" "SISTE" "NESTE"
}
rows() {
awk -F'|' -v b="$1" '$1==b' "$RECORDS" | sort -t'|' -k2,2n | \
while IFS='|' read -r bucket sortkey name status cost inbox dirty age last dir blockedon neste; do
printf '%-32s %-34s %-14s %4s %4s %6s %6s %s\n' \
"$name" "$status" "$cost" "$inbox" "$dirty" "$age" "$last" "$(trunc "$neste" "$NESTE_WIDTH")"
done
}
# --- Briefing rendering (--brief) ------------------------------------------
# The startup command for one repo, derived from that repo's OWN route line by
# calling route.sh. Deriving it from next-cost instead would not work even in
# principle: the advisor flag is a property of the ROW, and two rows can share
# a model/effort pair while differing on it. A repo with no route line gets its
# next-cost printed and is told where the command comes from - a guessed
# command would read as authoritative while being a guess, which is worse than
# no command at all.
# Shared by --brief and --plan, because there is one route line grammar and it
# gets one reader. Two no-command cases, and callers must keep them apart:
# exit 1 - no route line at all
# exit 0, empty out - a route line route.sh rejects (a typo'd trait value)
# Neither may become a guessed command, and neither may become a bare command
# marker: a driver reading `command=` would type an empty line into a live pane.
route_cmd_for() {
rc_line="$(grep -m1 '^<!-- route:' "$1/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null)"
[ -n "$rc_line" ] || return 1
rc_p="$(printf '%s' "$rc_line" | sed -n 's/.*path=\([a-z-]*\).*/\1/p')"
rc_v="$(printf '%s' "$rc_line" | sed -n 's/.*verification=\([a-z-]*\).*/\1/p')"
rc_r="$(printf '%s' "$rc_line" | sed -n 's/.*reversibility=\([a-z-]*\).*/\1/p')"
rc_s="$(printf '%s' "$rc_line" | sed -n 's/.*scope=\([a-z-]*\).*/\1/p')"
bash "$ROUTE" --path "$rc_p" --verification "$rc_v" \
--reversibility "$rc_r" --scope "$rc_s" --rationale brief 2>/dev/null \
| sed -n 's/^command=//p'
return 0
}
brief_cmd() {
if bc_cmd="$(route_cmd_for "$1")"; then
if [ -n "$bc_cmd" ]; then
printf '$ %s' "$bc_cmd"
else
printf 'KOST: %s (route-linjen kunne ikke tolkes)' "$2"
fi
else
printf 'KOST: %s (ingen route-linje - kjor route-skillen i det repoet)' "$2"
fi
}
# The repo scan and the mailbox are two different populations, and the gap
# between them is silent by default. board.sh discovers git REPOS; a mailbox
# can carry a name no scan will ever produce - a declared non-git surface
# (CLAUDE_COORD_REPO, e.g. ~/repos itself) or a checkout outside the roots.
# Such a mailbox is invisible in every column this script prints, so a briefing
# that only walks the scan answers "who is waiting on you" with a number it
# quietly knows is short. Measured on the real mailbox: 11 repos / 21 messages
# against coord-count's 12 mailboxes / 22 pending, the missing one being the
# declared surface `repos`.
#
# coord-count.sh is the right source and the only safe one: it counts without
# delivering, where coord-inbox.sh would mark broadcasts seen just by looking.
brief_orphans() {
bo_count="$SELFDIR/coord-count.sh"
[ -f "$bo_count" ] || return 0
bo_tab="$(printf '\t')"
bo_out="$(bash "$bo_count" 2>/dev/null \
| awk -F"$bo_tab" '$2+0>0 {print $1"'"$bo_tab"'"$2}' \
| while IFS="$bo_tab" read -r bo_name bo_n; do
[ -n "$bo_name" ] || continue
awk -F'|' -v n="$bo_name" '$3==n {f=1} END{exit !f}' "$RECORDS" \
|| printf ' %-32s INN %s\n' "$bo_name" "$bo_n"
done)"
[ -n "$bo_out" ] || return 0
echo ""
echo "UTENFOR REPO-SKANNEN - postkasser uten et repo i treet:"
printf '%s\n' "$bo_out"
echo "Disse har ingen STATE.md og derfor intet neste steg. En deklarert flate"
echo "(CLAUDE_COORD_REPO) eller et checkout utenfor scan-roten."
}
brief() {
n_owe="$(awk -F'|' '$6+0 > 0' "$RECORDS" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
tot_msg="$(awk -F'|' '$6+0 > 0 {s+=$6} END{print s+0}' "$RECORDS")"
echo "BRIEFING $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') - repo som skylder et svar"
echo "Kilder: STATE.md (NESTE + route-linje), git, coord-innboks. 0 modellkall."
echo ""
if [ "${n_owe:-0}" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Ingen repo har uhaandtert innboks. Ingen skylder noen et svar i dag."
# Still checked: "no repo owes" and "no mailbox is pending" are different
# claims, and only the second one is the good news it reads as.
brief_orphans
echo ""
echo "MERK: INN teller hva ANDRE venter paa fra deg. Hva et repo venter PAA"
echo "staar kun i dets egen board-linje (blocked-on) - postkassen har ikke"
echo "noe reply-to-felt, saa utgaaende venting er ikke utledbar derfra."
return 0
fi
# Most-owed first: the repo holding up the most other sessions is read first.
awk -F'|' '$6+0 > 0' "$RECORDS" | sort -t'|' -k6,6nr | \
while IFS='|' read -r bucket sortkey name status cost inbox dirty age last dir blockedon neste; do
printf ' %-32s INN %-4s %s\n' "$name" "$inbox" "$status"
# Wrapped, not cut - the whole line is the point, but a 500-character one
# is unreadable in a file nobody watched being written. Locale is set for
# the same reason trunc sets it: under LC_ALL=C fold counts BYTES and can
# split a multibyte character into mojibake.
# Trailing newline via '%s\n': fold copies its input's lack of one, and the
# command line below would then start on the tail of the NESTE text.
printf '%s\n' "$neste" | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 fold -s -w 84 \
| sed -e '1s/^/ NESTE: /' -e '2,$s/^/ /'
printf ' %s\n\n' "$(brief_cmd "$dir" "$cost")"
done
printf '%s repo skylder svar, %s meldinger totalt.\n' "$n_owe" "$tot_msg"
brief_orphans
echo ""
echo "MERK: INN teller hva ANDRE venter paa fra deg. Hva et repo venter PAA"
echo "staar kun i dets egen board-linje (blocked-on) - postkassen har ikke"
echo "noe reply-to-felt, saa utgaaende venting er ikke utledbar derfra."
}
if [ "$BRIEF" -eq 1 ]; then
brief
exit 0
fi
# --- Focus resolution (--focus) --------------------------------------------
# --focus is the first CUTOFF this format has ever had, and the plan documents
# at length that it has none: it takes one position (the order), it hides
# nothing, and it LABELS what it cannot rank rather than dropping it. A filter
# that stayed silent about what fell outside it would break that property
# outright, so the report is not a refinement of the feature - it is the
# condition the feature was allowed to exist under.
#
# The topic marker grammar belongs to the register, not here. board.sh only
# ever READS a declaration, and reads it from STATE.md alone: the slug
# vocabulary is whatever the scanned STATE.md files themselves declare, so no
# new file is opened and the "STATE.md and nothing else" invariant survives.
# It also means the reader must accept the marker as operators actually write
# it - bold, backticked, bulleted - because the strict form is what the
# register's own grep looks for, and the single most consequential repo in the
# measurement behind this feature was invisible to exactly that grep.
FOCUS_STATUS='planned|in-progress|partial|blocked|deferred|done|not-applicable'
# The emphasis is optional on BOTH halves. Accepting `**slug**: done` but not
# `slug: **done**` is not a rule, only whichever example happened to be in front
# of us - and the second form is in live use, where it makes a repo that HAS
# declared look silent.
focus_marker_re() {
printf '^[[:space:]]*[-*]?[[:space:]]*\**`?%s`?\**:[[:space:]]+\**(%s)\**([[:space:]]|$)' \
"$1" "$FOCUS_STATUS"
}
# Every slug declared anywhere in the scanned tree. Field 10 of RECORDS is the
# repo directory; a repo with no STATE.md simply contributes nothing.
focus_slugs() {
awk -F'|' '{print $10}' "$RECORDS" | while read -r fs_d; do
[ -n "$fs_d" ] && [ -f "$fs_d/STATE.md" ] || continue
grep -hE "$(focus_marker_re '[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*')" "$fs_d/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null
done | sed -E 's/^[[:space:]]*[-*]?[[:space:]]*\**`?([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)`?\**:.*/\1/' \
| sort -u
}
# Prose -> slugs. Two normalisations, because both readings occur: the operator
# types a slug ("some-subject-guard") or a bare word out of their own day
# ("guard"). Matching is never narrowed to one winner - an ambiguous phrase
# widens the answer and every slug it resolved to is named in the output,
# because silently picking one would make the cutoff lie about its own size.
focus_resolve() {
fr_words=" $(printf '%s' "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -c 'a-z0-9-' ' ') "
fr_parts=" $(printf '%s' "$fr_words" | tr '-' ' ') "
focus_slugs | while read -r fr_s; do
[ -n "$fr_s" ] || continue
case "$fr_words" in
*" $fr_s "*) printf '%s\n' "$fr_s"; continue ;;
esac
for fr_p in $(printf '%s' "$fr_s" | tr '-' ' '); do
# Two-character parts match far too much prose to be evidence of intent.
[ "${#fr_p}" -ge 3 ] || continue
case "$fr_parts" in
*" $fr_p "*) printf '%s\n' "$fr_s"; break ;;
esac
done
done | sort -u
}
# Does this repo DECLARE any of the resolved slugs? (survives the cutoff)
focus_declares() {
for fd_s in $FOCUS_SLUGS; do
grep -qE "$(focus_marker_re "$fd_s")" "$1/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null && return 0
done
return 1
}
# What a surviving block survived ON. This is the per-block evidence that
# closed `topics=`: the need was real, but a field in all 27 blocks on every
# day the operator has no focus is noise, while the same fact inside a focused
# run is the reason the block is there.
focus_evidence() {
for fe_s in $FOCUS_SLUGS; do
fe_line="$(grep -m1 -E "$(focus_marker_re "$fe_s")" "$1/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null)"
if [ -n "$fe_line" ]; then
# Reported unwrapped: the emphasis is markdown the operator typed, not
# part of the token, and "**done**" in a key=value field reads as a value.
fe_st="$(printf '%s' "$fe_line" | sed -E "s/.*:[[:space:]]+\**($FOCUS_STATUS)\**.*/\1/")"
printf '%s: %s\n' "$fe_s" "$fe_st"
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
# The held-back population: STATE.md MENTIONS a resolved slug and declares no
# marker line for it. The wording is a constraint, not a style choice - this
# is a fact about text found in a file, and board.sh has no grounds whatever
# for a claim about relevance, so it says "nevner" and never "dekker". The
# class is NAMED rather than counted, because in the measurement that produced
# this feature the decisive find - a heavy consumer pinning the library in its
# build file - appeared only once the population was enumerated. Reasoning
# about it had missed it entirely.
focus_heldback() {
awk -F'|' '{print $3 "|" $10}' "$RECORDS" | while IFS='|' read -r fh_n fh_d; do
[ -n "$fh_d" ] && [ -f "$fh_d/STATE.md" ] || continue
focus_declares "$fh_d" && continue
for fh_s in $FOCUS_SLUGS; do
if grep -qF -- "$fh_s" "$fh_d/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null; then
printf '%s\n' "$fh_n"
break
fi
done
done
}
# --- Day-plan rendering (--plan) -------------------------------------------
# A THIRD rendering of the same scan, built on exactly the argument --brief was:
# it is a lookup over data the scan already holds, it costs zero model calls,
# and route.sh already derives the per-repo command. The table says what the
# state of every repo is; the briefing says who is waiting; the plan says which
# repos to open a tab for today, in what order, with which command.
#
# key=value blocks, not prose, because the plan has TWO consumers: the operator
# pasting commands, and a separate repo driving a terminal from it. Prose would
# make the rendered FORMAT an API, and no test in this repo could hold it stable
# for a consumer living in another one. Comment lines all start with '#', so a
# consumer drops them with one rule.
#
# ORDER IS THE POSITION THIS RENDERING TAKES, and it is the only one it takes -
# there is no cutoff, so nothing is hidden. Five groups, all deterministic over
# fields the scan already read:
# 1. chain-root credit - repos this one releases transitively, most first.
# Above debt because it is the only move that frees sessions other than
# your own; a blocked repo is never credited, since its own next step is
# by definition waiting.
# 2. INN > 0, most-owed first, WHATEVER the status. A message owed is an
# obligation to another session. Excluding `blocked` is about a repo's own
# next step, which by definition cannot be moved; answering is a different
# axis, and is frequently what unblocks it.
# 3. planned - a decided but unstarted next step.
# 4. in-progress - live work, oldest plan first.
# 5. '?' and MALFORMED - no declared status. Planned LAST, and labelled. The
# table already prints a MERK line about repos with no board line; a plan
# that dropped them silently would repeat exactly that defect.
# Groups 3 and 4 are in that order by operator decision at 0.20.0, inverted from
# every earlier version: turning a decision into motion is the slow step, and
# live work is already moving. Deciding it the other way is a policy change, not
# a sort fix.
# Excluded: done, deferred, blocked-without-debt, and repos with no STATE.md and
# no debt - a tab that cannot be moved is not a plan entry.
# Two lines for two consumers, and they are not redundant. A driver cd's the
# pane itself and then types the command, so it needs them apart; the operator
# needs ONE thing to select and paste, because assembling `cd <dir>` from one
# field and the command from another is precisely where a tab ends up started
# in the wrong repo. paste= is emitted only alongside command= - `paste=cd X && `
# with nothing after it would run the cd and then a bare newline, leaving the
# operator in the right directory with no session and no error.
plan_cmd() {
if pc_cmd="$(route_cmd_for "$1")"; then
if [ -n "$pc_cmd" ]; then
printf 'command=%s\n' "$pc_cmd"
printf 'paste=cd %s && %s\n' "$1" "$pc_cmd"
else
printf 'command_missing=route-linjen kunne ikke tolkes (kost: %s)\n' "$2"
fi
else
printf 'command_missing=ingen route-linje - kjor route-skillen der (kost: %s)\n' "$2"
fi
}
plan() {
# FIVE ORDERED GROUPS, not a weighted score. Each group is a lookup over a
# field the scan already read, so two readers can disagree about the order but
# never about how it was produced - and a selftest can pin the outcome rather
# than a coefficient.
#
# THE COST THIS FORM ACCEPTS, recorded because it is real and was argued at
# length before it was chosen: a group order cannot express "this repo owes one
# message AND releases two others" as a single quantity. The 0.19.0 score could,
# and that was its point. What it could not do was stay stable for a consumer in
# another repo - re-tuning 40 against 15 here silently reorders `morning`,
# `--brief` and `brief-nightly`, and no test in THIS repo can hold a weighted
# ranking still for a parser in that one. The operator weighed both and chose
# the lookup (2026-08-03). This paragraph exists so a later session reads the
# objection as ANSWERED rather than as an unfixed defect and "restores" a score.
#
# Group 1 is chain-root credit, and it sits ABOVE debt: opening the root of a
# blocked chain is the only move that releases sessions other than your own.
# Group 3 is `planned` ABOVE group 4 `in-progress` - inverted from every prior
# version by operator decision the same day. The reason is that a decided but
# unstarted next step is the step that turns a decision into motion, while live
# work is already moving. It is a policy call, not a sort that drifted.
#
# Debt is neither capped nor excluded - it is group 2, ranked most-owed-first,
# WHATEVER the status. A cap was proposed and declined; being outranked by a
# chain root is not a cap, because the debtor keeps its tab, its position among
# the other debtors, and its `why=inbox:N`.
#
# `cheap` carries the one property 0.19.0 added that no one asked to remove:
# under quota pressure a Sonnet row moves for less. It is the LAST tiebreak,
# below the group's own magnitude and above age, so it separates repos that are
# otherwise equal and can never lift one past another that owes or releases
# more.
#
# The three sort keys are prefixed as fields 1-3 and stripped again afterwards;
# `why` then becomes field 1 exactly as every previous version left it, so the
# read loop below and both consumers see an unchanged block. Prefixing rather
# than appending is deliberate - `neste` is the last field and is free prose, so
# anything added after it could be swallowed by a stray separator.
pf="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board-plan.$$"
: > "$pf"
awk -F'|' -v OFS='|' '
NR==FNR { ub[$1] = $2 + 0; next }
{
name = $3; status = $4; cost = $5; inbox = $6 + 0
# A blocked repo is credited with nothing even if something waits on it:
# it cannot move its own next step, so opening it releases no one. The
# credit already went to the root of its chain.
blockedp = (status ~ /^blocked/)
u = (!blockedp && (name in ub)) ? ub[name] : 0
# Membership is unchanged: a repo that releases someone is planned even
# when it owes nothing and its own status would otherwise exclude it, and
# done, deferred, blocked and no-STATE repos with no debt stay out.
keep = (inbox > 0) || (u > 0) || (status == "in-progress") || \
(status == "planned") || (status == "?") || (status ~ /^MALFORMED:/)
if (!keep) next
# The group IS the reason, so why= is the group and needs no separate rule.
# `mag` orders within a group by the quantity that group is about - released
# in group 1, messages owed in group 2 - and is 0 where the group has no
# quantity, leaving those to the tiebreaks below.
if (u > 0) { grp = 1; mag = u; why = "unblocks:" u }
else if (inbox > 0) { grp = 2; mag = inbox; why = "inbox:" inbox }
else if (status == "planned") { grp = 3; mag = 0; why = "planned" }
else if (status == "in-progress") { grp = 4; mag = 0; why = "in-progress" }
else { grp = 5; mag = 0; why = "uavklart" }
# Cheap-to-move first under quota pressure. Sorted ascending, so 0 = cheap.
cheap = (cost ~ /[Ss]onnet/) ? 0 : 1
print grp, mag, cheap, why, $0
}
' "$UNBLOCKS" "$RECORDS" \
| sort -t'|' -k1,1n -k2,2nr -k3,3n -k6,6n \
| cut -d'|' -f4- >> "$pf"
# The cutoff, and its disclosure, computed together - they are one feature.
FOCUS_SLUGS=""
fp_applied=0
fp_before="$(awk 'END{print NR+0}' "$pf")"
if [ -n "$FOCUS" ]; then
FOCUS_SLUGS="$(focus_resolve "$FOCUS" | tr '\n' ' ')"
[ -n "$(printf '%s' "$FOCUS_SLUGS" | tr -d ' ')" ] && fp_applied=1
fi
if [ "$fp_applied" -eq 1 ]; then
fp_names="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board-focusnames.$$"
fp_kept="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/board-planfocus.$$"
awk -F'|' '{print $3 "|" $10}' "$RECORDS" | while IFS='|' read -r fp_n fp_d; do
[ -n "$fp_d" ] && [ -f "$fp_d/STATE.md" ] || continue
focus_declares "$fp_d" && printf '%s\n' "$fp_n"
done > "$fp_names"
awk -F'|' 'NR==FNR{keep[$0]=1;next} keep[$4]' "$fp_names" "$pf" > "$fp_kept"
/bin/rm -f "$fp_names" 2>/dev/null
mv "$fp_kept" "$pf"
fi
echo "# PLAN $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') - en blokk per tab, i den rekkefolgen"
echo "# Kilder: STATE.md (NESTE + route-linje), git, coord-innboks. 0 modellkall."
echo "# Rekkefolge: 5 grupper - kjede-rot, innboks, planned, in-progress, uavklart."
# "uten gjeld" governs the WHOLE list, not just the token nearest to it: a
# done or deferred repo that owes mail IS planned, and the real tree has two.
# Read the other way this line calls its own tab 4 a bug.
echo "# Utelatt naar repoet verken skylder svar eller losner noen: done, deferred,"
echo "# blocked, uten STATE.md. Et blokkert repo faar aldri kreditt - den gaar til rota."
# Emitted as key=value, not as a '#' comment, because the format's second
# consumer drops every comment line by rule - a disclosure written as a
# comment would reach the operator on the terminal path and vanish on the
# driver path, which is the one case where the cutoff is applied unseen.
if [ -n "$FOCUS" ]; then
fp_state="$(awk -F'|' '{print $10}' "$RECORDS" | while read -r fp_sd; do
[ -n "$fp_sd" ] && [ -f "$fp_sd/STATE.md" ] && echo x
done | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
if [ "$fp_applied" -eq 1 ]; then
printf 'fokus=%s\n' "$(printf '%s' "$FOCUS_SLUGS" | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' | tr ' ' ',')"
printf 'fokus_droppet=%s av %s blokker\n' \
"$((fp_before - $(awk 'END{print NR+0}' "$pf")))" "$fp_before"
fp_hb="$(focus_heldback | sort -u)"
fp_hbn="$(printf '%s' "$fp_hb" | grep -c . | tr -d ' ')"
# Nobody held back is an answer, and it has to LOOK like one. sed cannot
# supply the placeholder: with an empty string there is no input line for
# a substitution to run on, so the field would end at a bare colon - the
# exact shape command_missing= exists to keep out of this format.
fp_hbl="$(printf '%s' "$fp_hb" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//')"
[ -n "$fp_hbl" ] || fp_hbl="(ingen)"
# "nevner", never "dekker": this states what was found in a file, and
# says which files were searched rather than implying it searched repos.
# One repo in the real measurement carries its strongest evidence in a
# README, which this scan never opens.
printf 'fokus_utenfor=%s repo nevner %s uten markorlinje: %s\n' \
"$fp_hbn" "$(printf '%s' "$FOCUS_SLUGS" | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' | tr ' ' ',')" \
"$fp_hbl"
printf 'fokus_rekkevidde=sokt i %s STATE.md - board leser ingen andre filer\n' "$fp_state"
else
# No declared slug matched. The full plan is printed: the driver forwards
# operator prose verbatim, so a typo must not silently produce a morning
# with no tabs at all.
printf 'fokus_ikke_brukt=%s traff ingen deklarert slug i %s STATE.md - hele planen vises\n' \
"$FOCUS" "$fp_state"
fi
fi
echo ""
pn=0
while IFS='|' read -r why bucket sortkey name status cost inbox dirty age last dir blockedon neste; do
[ -n "$name" ] || continue
pn=$((pn + 1))
printf 'tab=%s\n' "$pn"
printf 'repo=%s\n' "$name"
# Absolute, and the driver must cd into it explicitly: a new terminal pane
# inherits its anchor's working directory, so a plan that omitted this would
# look right and point at the wrong repo.
printf 'dir=%s\n' "$dir"
printf 'why=%s\n' "$why"
if [ "$fp_applied" -eq 1 ]; then
fp_ev="$(focus_evidence "$dir")" && printf 'fokus_treff=%s\n' "$fp_ev"
fi
printf 'status=%s\n' "$status"
printf 'neste=%s\n' "$neste"
plan_cmd "$dir" "$cost"
echo ""
done < "$pf"
/bin/rm -f "$pf" 2>/dev/null
printf '# %s tabber.\n' "$pn"
# An orphan mailbox has no directory to cd into, so it cannot BE a tab - but
# omitting it lets the plan claim a completeness it knows it lacks. Reported
# as commentary, reusing the briefing's single copy of that cross-check.
po="$(brief_orphans)"
if [ -n "$po" ]; then
printf '%s\n' "$po" | sed -e 's/^/# /' -e 's/^# *$/#/'
fi
echo "# MERK: INN teller hva ANDRE venter paa fra deg. Hva et repo venter PAA"
echo "# staar kun i dets egen board-linje (blocked-on)."
}
if [ "$PLAN" -eq 1 ]; then
plan
exit 0
fi
count() { awk -F'|' -v b="$1" '$1==b' "$RECORDS" | wc -l | tr -d ' '; }
echo "BOARD - tverr-repo oppmerksomhetstavle ($(awk 'END{print NR}' "$RECORDS") repo)"
echo "INN = uhaandtert innboks (andre venter paa DEG). DRT = ukommiterte filer."
echo "ALDER = dager siden STATE.md endret. SISTE = dager siden siste commit."
[ "$(count 1)" -gt 0 ] && { hdr "BLOKKERT (venter paa ekstern avhengighet)"; rows 1; }
[ "$(count 2)" -gt 0 ] && { hdr "AKTIV (reelt neste steg)"; rows 2; }
[ "$(count 3)" -gt 0 ] && { hdr "UTSATT (deferred - bevisst valg, ikke venting)"; rows 3; }
[ "$(count 4)" -gt 0 ] && { hdr "FERDIG"; rows 4; }
[ "$(count 5)" -gt 0 ] && { hdr "UTEN STATE.md (sovende / ubestemt tilstand)"; rows 5; }
# Obligations and risk read across buckets, so they get their own roll-up.
tot_in="$(awk -F'|' '{s+=$6} END{print s+0}' "$RECORDS")"
tot_dirty="$(awk -F'|' '{s+=$7} END{print s+0}' "$RECORDS")"
n_mal="$(grep -c 'MALFORMED' "$RECORDS" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')"
n_nofield="$(awk -F'|' '$4=="?"' "$RECORDS" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
printf '\nSUM: %s uhaandterte innboks-meldinger, %s ukommiterte filer.\n' "$tot_in" "$tot_dirty"
[ "${n_mal:-0}" -gt 0 ] && printf 'ADVARSEL: %s repo har MALFORMED status-token (utenfor det lukkede settet).\n' "$n_mal"
[ "${n_nofield:-0}" -gt 0 ] && printf 'MERK: %s repo mangler board-linje - status/kost er ukjent (?), NESTE-utdrag brukes.\n' "$n_nofield"
exit 0