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Intent

Ship bin/fm-board.sh: one executable that renders the operator-facing status board as a self-contained Lavish HTML artifact, built from live fleet state instead of by hand.

WHY THIS EXISTS
The board had been hand-written three times in one evening and the columns changed each time. It works - two rounds of operator decisions came back through it - but every refresh cost ~300 lines of hand-authored HTML, and hand-authored means it drifts from reality the moment anything moves. The reference artifact is /home/nathan/firstmate/.lavish/bridge.html; it is the accepted design, not a suggestion: same four columns, same card shapes, same interaction.

THE CENTRAL DESIGN DECISION - what the script owns and what it does not
The script owns everything mechanically derivable from durable state:

  • Under way: one card per live direct report, from state/.meta plus the current state bin/fm-crew-state.sh reports. Each card carries the time its state was read.
  • Queued: from the backlog, including what each item is blocked by and any date gate, so a reader can see why something is not moving.
  • Landed: recent completions with their delivery artifact.
  • Waiting on you, the mechanical half: work whose PR is recorded and awaiting a merge, and unresolved decision keys folded from the durable status logs.

The script must NOT try to derive the judgment half. An option list, a recommendation, the reasoning for preferring one option, and the "only you can do these" chores cannot be inferred from a status line - attempting it would produce confident nonsense. Instead the script has a clean seam: an optional input file of authored cards merged into the Waiting-on-you column, rendered alongside the mechanical cards. The input format was mine to design; it must be simple to author by hand and validated rather than trusted.

A decision key present in the durable logs but absent from the authored input must still appear, marked as unelaborated, rather than being silently dropped. Silence about a pending decision is the one failure this board cannot have.

INTERACTION
Reproduce the reference artifact's behaviour: choices update local state only; one send control queues a single prompt carrying every answered question and sends it; the control then resets so a further round can be answered on the same page. Answers must arrive identified by question, unambiguously - the operator's click is the payload, so an ambiguous one is worse than none.

Emit a self-contained artifact with the age of the snapshot visible and honest, including when it has gone stale enough not to be trusted. The script writes the artifact and prints its path; arming it as a wake source stays the operator's separate step, and the script must not run any blocking poll.

TESTS
Colocated per repo pattern, against fixture state rather than a live fleet: each column renders from its source; a blocked queued item shows its blocker; an unelaborated decision key still appears; malformed authored input is refused rather than half-rendered; the emitted HTML is well-formed and self-contained; no secret, token, or absolute private path leaks into the artifact. Shellcheck clean.

DECISIONS AND TRADEOFFS MADE WHILE BUILDING - deliberate, not oversights

  • Renderer over bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh --json rather than parsing state files again, following bin/fm-fleet-view.sh. The snapshot stays the one owner of fleet truth. jq is therefore a hard dependency, as it already is for fm-fleet-view.
  • SELF-CONTAINED MEANS NO CDN. The reference artifact pulls Tailwind and daisyUI from jsdelivr. A required test asserts self-containment, so the same palette, card shapes and left-accent borders are reproduced in hand-written vanilla CSS instead. This is a deliberate deviation from the reference's delivery mechanism, not from its design; it also renders offline and adds dark mode. Do not flag the absent CDN as a regression.
  • Captain-held queued items (snapshot captain_actionable / hold_kind=captain) are routed into Waiting on you as a third mechanical source beyond the two named in the brief. Leaving them in Queued would reproduce exactly the silence the unelaborated-key rule exists to prevent.
  • The authored-card format is line-oriented [decision] / [chores] blocks with field: value lines, chosen over JSON/TOML because a human authors it by hand under time pressure. A small inline markup subset (bold, italic, code) is applied ONLY to authored text and only AFTER HTML escaping, so authored text cannot inject markup. Snapshot-derived prose gets escaping without markup, since an asterisk in a status line is an asterisk.
  • Backticks must be balanced in authored lines. This is enforced by the parser because the code-span renderer splits on backticks, and an odd count would silently wrap a trailing fragment as code. Validated rather than tolerated.
  • An authored card binds to a durable decision through an explicit binds: <task-id>:<decision-key> field validated against the live open-decision set, rather than by key-name coincidence. A typo therefore refuses the render instead of silently degrading into a free-standing card that claims to elaborate something it does not. A binds value naming no open decision is a hard refusal that lists the available identifiers.
  • The artifact computes its age from the snapshot's own generation timestamp, not from page load as the reference did, so a reopened page reports honestly. It degrades through "going stale" to "too old to trust, ask for a fresh board".
  • Leak boundary: operator-home paths are reduced to ~ per field before escaping, and the write is REFUSED outright if the home path survives into the rendered output. Only project basenames are rendered, never worktrees, endpoints, or metadata paths.
  • The jq render program lives in a quoted heredoc rather than an inline single-quoted argument because the emitted page carries JavaScript full of single quotes.
  • Empty-array expansions use the repo's ${arr[@]+"${arr[@]}"} idiom for bash 3.2 safety under set -u.
  • The test suite runs ONE real fm-fleet-snapshot over a fixture home and renders many boards from it, rather than re-snapshotting per case; the file-to-artifact path is still exercised end to end, including one case that takes its own snapshot.

VERIFICATION ALREADY DONE
bin/fm-lint.sh clean. 20 colocated cases in tests/fm-board.test.sh pass. tests/fm-test-run.test.sh, tests/fm-documentation-audiences.test.sh and tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh still pass. bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh ok. The test is registered in the snapshot-bearings family in bin/fm-test-run.sh and the runner's coverage guard passes.

KNOWN GAP, deliberately disclosed: browser automation is broken in this worktree - chrome-devtools-axi returns "Target closed" immediately after navigation, and a one-line static HTML page fails identically, so it is the environment and not the artifact. The page has not been seen rendered by a browser or a human. The CSS was reviewed by hand instead, which caught and fixed a specificity bug that rendered all fine print as body text, a missing position:relative on option labels, and missing overflow guards on headings and options. The emitted script is syntax-checked with node --check in the suite.

AGENTS.md gained one line pointing at the new command where it already discusses choosing a visual surface, per the repo's size-discipline and trigger-hygiene rules.

DELIVERY: push and PR must target notno/firstmate, never kunchenguid/firstmate. The shared gate clone's origin was repointed to the fork for exactly this reason. Repo-visible text stays neutral engineering prose and never describes the operating structure or roles.

What Changed

  • New bin/fm-board.sh renders the four-column operator board (Under way, Queued, Landed, Waiting on you) as one self-contained HTML artifact over bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh --json, so the snapshot stays the single owner of fleet truth. Waiting-on-you folds in recorded PRs awaiting merge, unresolved durable decision keys, captain-held queued items, and decisions and landings rolled up from registered delegated homes. The page carries hand-written vanilla CSS with no CDN or external asset, computes its age from the snapshot's own timestamp and degrades through "going stale" to "too old to trust", queues every answered question into a single send control that resets for a further round, and the write is refused outright if an operator-home path survives into the output.
  • The judgment half stays authored: an optional --cards file of line-oriented [decision] / [chores] blocks is merged into that column, validated rather than trusted - balanced backticks, slug-shaped keys, and binds: <task-id>:<decision-key> checked against the live open-decision set - with malformed input refused at file:line, the valid identifiers listed, and no artifact written. A durable decision key with no authored card still renders, marked unelaborated. Inline **bold** / *italic* / `code` applies only to authored text and only after escaping.
  • Adds tests/fm-board.test.sh (37 colocated cases against one fixture snapshot, including per-column sourcing, blocker and date-gate display, refusal paths, self-containment, and leak checks), registers it in the snapshot-bearings family in bin/fm-test-run.sh, and documents the command in docs/scripts.md, docs/architecture.md, and AGENTS.md. Review and test rounds on the branch hardened snapshot shape guards, made unreadable decision state fail loudly instead of silently reporting nothing pending, widened the waiting count to include chores, and made .sub block-level so muted sub-text stops welding onto the title above it.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: Every finding raised across four review rounds is now closed and independently verified against the snapshot schema and jq's actual behavior, the change remains purely additive and read-only with respect to the fleet, and the only open item is an informational audit note requiring no action.

Testing

Ran the smallest relevant automated set - the 37 colocated cases in tests/fm-board.test.sh, all passing - and separately proved the new muted-sub-text case is a real regression test by rendering with the pre-fix bin/fm-board.sh, where it fails, then restoring. Because the defect was invisible to every text assertion in three prior rounds, I drove the actual rendered surface: a fixture fleet seeded to carry all three list-based .sub call sites at once was rendered to HTML and screenshotted in headless Chrome before and after the fix, in dark and light palettes and at both the three-column and single-column breakpoints. The before images reproduce the welded text ("Ship the mesh accuracy notewaiting on the captain's word", "Cut the 0.9 release noteneeds your sign-off on the wording", "broken-mateinvalid home: not a directory"); the after images show each reason on its own muted line, with every pre-existing .sub usage in Queued, Landed and Under way still reading correctly. I also re-exercised the answer-and-send interaction on the current artifact and confirmed one prompt is queued identified by question and binds, sent, and the control resets for a further round. Working tree left clean.

  • Evidence: Held-for-your-word and delegated-homes cards BEFORE the fix (dark, three-column) - sub-text welded onto titles (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-3col-dark-before.png)
  • Evidence: Same board AFTER the fix (dark, three-column) - each reason on its own muted line (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-3col-dark-after.png)
  • Evidence: Light palette BEFORE the fix (three-column) (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-3col-light-before.png)
  • Evidence: Light palette AFTER the fix (three-column) - no other .sub usage regressed (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-3col-light-after.png)
  • Evidence: Single-column breakpoint BEFORE the fix (760px, dark) (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-1col-dark-before.png)
  • Evidence: Single-column breakpoint AFTER the fix (760px, dark) - all four columns still read cleanly (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-1col-dark-after.png)
  • Evidence: Answer-and-send interaction on the fixed artifact: one prompt identified by question and binds, then the control resets (local file: /tmp/no-mistakes-evidence/01KZDCX5PWMJQAXZCH97F25YEH/board-send-flow-after.png)
Evidence: Rendered board HTML used for the after screenshots (self-contained artifact as an operator would open it)
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>The Bridge</title>
<style>
*,*::before,*::after{box-sizing:border-box}
:root{
  --bg:#eef1f6;--surface:#fff;--ink:#182030;--ink-soft:#333c4d;--muted:#5c6577;--line:#dde2ea;
  --primary:#4553c8;--primary-soft:#eceefb;--warning:#9a6510;--warning-soft:#fdf3e2;
  --info:#0d6f84;--info-soft:#e6f3f6;--error:#b02a1f;--ok:#2c7a4f;--shadow:0 1px 2px rgba(20,26,40,.08),0 1px 8px rgba(20,26,40,.05);
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){
  :root{
    --bg:#12161f;--surface:#1b212d;--ink:#e6e9f0;--ink-soft:#c8cedb;--muted:#9aa3b4;--line:#2a3140;
    --primary:#8d9bff;--primary-soft:#232a49;--warning:#e0a95c;--warning-soft:#2e2718;
    --info:#6fc7d8;--info-soft:#162b31;--error:#f08b80;--ok:#79c79b;--shadow:none;
  }
}
html{-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%}
body{margin:0;background:var(--bg);color:var(--ink);
  font:15px/1.5 ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif}
a{color:var(--primary)}
code{font:12.5px/1.45 ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;
  background:var(--primary-soft);padding:.1em .35em;border-radius:4px;overflow-wrap:anywhere}
header{position:sticky;top:0;z-index:20;background:var(--surface);border-bottom:1px solid var(--line)}
.bar{max-width:1600px;margin:0 auto;padding:12px 20px;display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;align-items:center;gap:12px}
.bar h1{margin:0;font-size:17px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2}
.bar .meta{margin:2px 0 0;font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}
.age{font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums}
.grow{flex:1;min-width:0}
#pending{font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}
button{font:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;padding:7px 14px;border-radius:7px;border:1px solid transparent;
  background:var(--primary);color:#fff;cursor:pointer}
button[disabled]{opacity:.45;cursor:default}
main{max-width:1600px;margin:0 auto;padding:20px;display:grid;gap:20px}
@media (min-width:1080px){main{grid-template-columns:1.5fr 1fr 1fr}}
section{display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:12px;min-width:0}
h2{margin:0;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--muted)}
.head{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;flex-wrap:wrap}
.card{background:var(--surface);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:var(--shadow);padding:16px;
  display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:10px;min-width:0;border:1px solid var(--line)}
.accent-primary{border-left:4px solid var(--primary)}
.accent-warning{border-left:4px solid var(--warning)}
.accent-info{border-left:4px solid var(--info)}
.card-head{display:flex;align-items:flex-start;gap:8px}
.card h3{margin:0;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;flex:1;min-width:0;overflow-wrap:anywhere}
.card p{margin:0;font-size:14px;color:var(--ink-soft);overflow-wrap:anywhere}
.card ul{margin:0;padding-left:18px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:8px;
  font-size:14px;color:var(--ink-soft)}
.card li{overflow-wrap:anywhere}
.card p.fine,p.fine{font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}
.card p.callout,p.callout{font-size:13px;background:var(--warning-soft);color:var(--warning);
  padding:8px 10px;border-radius:6px}
.pill{flex:none;font-size:11px;padding:2px 8px;border-radius:999px;background:var(--line);color:var(--muted);white-space:nowrap}
.pill-primary{background:var(--primary-soft);color:var(--primary)}
.count{background:var(--primary);color:#fff}
.dot{flex:none;width:9px;height:9px;border-radius:50%;margin-top:5px;background:var(--muted)}
.dot-working{background:var(--primary)}.dot-parked{background:var(--warning)}
.dot-blocked{background:var(--error)}.dot-paused{background:var(--info)}
.dot-done{background:var(--ok)}.dot-failed{background:var(--error)}
.opts{display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:6px}
.opt{position:relative;display:block;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:7px;
  padding:9px 11px;font-size:13.5px;cursor:pointer;overflow-wrap:anywhere}
.opt input{position:absolute;opacity:0;pointer-events:none}
.opt:hover{border-color:var(--primary)}
.opt.picked{border-color:var(--primary);box-shadow:0 0 0 1px var(--primary);background:var(--primary-soft)}
.rows{background:var(--surface);border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:var(--shadow);
  padding:16px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:12px;font-size:14px;min-width:0}
.row{display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:2px;overflow-wrap:anywhere}
.row.dim{opacity:.6}
/* block, not inline: a .sub in a list item would otherwise weld onto its title */
.sub{display:block;font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}
.empty{font-size:13px;color:var(--muted)}
.stale .meta{color:var(--warning);font-weight:600}
.expired .meta{color:var(--error);font-weight:600}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header id="top">
  <div class="bar">
    <div class="grow">
      <h1>The Bridge</h1>
      <p class="meta">as of <span class="age">00:13</span> &middot;
        <span class="age" id="age">just now</span> - a snapshot, not a live feed</p>
    </div>
    <div id="pending"></div>
    <button id="send" disabled>Send answers</button>
  </div>
</header>

<main>
  <section>
    <div class="head"><h2>Waiting on you</h2><span class="pill count">6 items</span></div><article class="card accent-primary"><div class="card-head"><h3>Prose above blind clips</h3><span class="pill">listening screen</span></div><p>A natural title hands over the <em>withheld</em> answer set one line above clean rows.</p><p class="callout">Three rounds on one theme.</p><div class="opts"><label class="opt"><input type="radio" name="blind-prose" data-question="Prose above blind clips" data-binds="listen-b:blind-src" value="audit"><span><strong>A, done properly</strong> - enumerate every authored string with <code>grep</code>. <span class="pill pill-primary">my pick</span></span></label><label class="opt"><input type="radio" name="blind-prose" data-question="Prose above blind clips" data-binds="listen-b:blind-src" value="split"><span><strong>D</strong> - split the two kinds of sitting.</span></label></div><p class="fine">If you like D I would take A as the interim.</p></article><article class="card accent-info"><div class="card-head"><h3>Waiting for your merge</h3></div><ul><li><strong>Ship the mating corners</strong> <span class="pill">tung</span><br><a href="https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13">https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13</a></li></ul><p class="fine">Recorded locally. This board takes no snapshot of the forge, so it does not know whether one of these has already been merged.</p></article><article class="card accent-warning"><div class="card-head"><h3>Held for your word</h3></div><ul><li><strong>Ship the mesh accuracy note</strong><span class="sub">waiting on the captain&apos;s word</span></li><li><strong>Cut the 0.9 release note</strong><span class="sub">needs your sign-off on the wording</span></li></ul></article><article class="card accent-warning"><div class="card-head"><h3>Delegated homes this snapshot could not read whole</h3></div><ul><li><strong>broken-mate</strong><span class="sub">invalid home: not a directory</span></li></ul><p class="fine">These homes are not being reported as holding nothing. Ask for a fresh board once they read cleanly.</p></article><article class="card accent-warning"><div class="card-head"><h3>Only you can do these</h3></div><ul><li><strong>Tier-2 listening session.</strong> 22 clips staged.</li></ul><p class="fine">Nothing else needs your hands.</p></article>  </section>

  <section>
    <h2>Under way</h2><article class="card"><div class="card-head"><span class="dot dot-parked" title="parked"></span><h3>Sitting surface: collapse answered clips</h3><span class="pill">tung</span></div><p>parked - a filename naming the target renders on a blind row <strong>Holding for your call.</strong></p><p class="fine age">state as of 00:13</p></article><article class="card"><div class="card-head"><span class="dot dot-working" title="working"></span><h3>Ship the mating corners</h3><span class="pill">tung</span></div><p>working - harness busy (claude-hook)</p><p class="fine age">state as of 00:13</p></article>  </section>

  <section>
    <h2>Queued</h2><div class="rows"><div class="row"><strong>Carrier question redesign</strong><span class="sub">waits on listen-b</span></div></div>    <h2>Landed</h2><div class="rows"><div class="row"><strong>Grasshopper verdict</strong><span class="sub">findings recorded: data/scout-b/report.md</span><span class="sub">reported 2026-07-10</span></div><div class="row"><strong>Tile mating corners</strong><span class="sub"><a href="https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13">https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13</a></span><span class="sub">merged 2026-07-10</span></div></div>  </section>
</main>

<script>
(function () {
  var generated = 1786086828 * 1000;
  var staleMins = 30;
  var answers = {};
  var sendBtn = document.getElementById('send');
  var pending = document.getElementById('pending');
  var age = document.getElementById('age');
  var hdr = document.getElementById('top');

  function tick() {
    var mins = Math.floor((Date.now() - generated) / 60000);
    age.textContent = mins < 1 ? 'just now'
      : mins === 1 ? '1 minute old'
      : mins < 90 ? mins + ' minutes old'
      : Math.round(mins / 60) + ' hours old';
    hdr.classList.toggle('stale', mins >= staleMins && mins < staleMins * 2);
    hdr.classList.toggle('expired', mins >= staleMins * 2);
    if (mins >= staleMins * 2) {
      age.textContent += ' - too old to trust, ask for a fresh board';
    } else if (mins >= staleMins) {
      age.textContent += ' - going stale';
    }
  }
  tick();
  setInterval(tick, 20000);

  function refresh() {
    var n = Object.keys(answers).length;
    sendBtn.disabled = n === 0;
    sendBtn.textContent = 'Send answers';
    pending.textContent = n === 0 ? '' : (n === 1 ? '1 answer ready' : n + ' answers ready');
  }

  Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.opt input[type=radio]'), function (input) {
    input.addEventListener('change', function () {
      var label = input.closest('.opt');
      Array.prototype.forEach.call(
        document.querySelectorAll('.opt input[name="' + input.name + '"]'),
        function (sib) { sib.closest('.opt').classList.remove('picked'); });
      label.classList.add('picked');
      answers[input.name] = {
        question: input.getAttribute('data-question') || input.name,
        binds: input.getAttribute('data-binds') || null,
        answer: input.value
      };
      refresh();
    });
  });

  sendBtn.addEventListener('click', function () {
    var keys = Object.keys(answers);
    if (!keys.length) return;
    // One answer per line: a separator an answer can contain would make the
    // prompt ambiguous, and an ambiguous answer is worse than none.
    var lines = keys.map(function (k) {
      var a = answers[k];
      return k + (a.binds ? ' [' + a.binds + ']' : '') + ' (' + a.question + '): ' + a.answer;
    });
    var text = lines.join('\n');
    var payload = { tag: 'board-answers', text: text, data: { answers: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(answers)) } };
    if (window.lavish && typeof window.lavish.queuePrompt === 'function') {
      window.lavish.queuePrompt('Answers from the board:\n' + text, payload);
      window.lavish.sendQueuedPrompts();
      pending.textContent = 'on its way';
    } else {
      pending.textContent = 'no review session attached - answers copied instead';
      if (navigator.clipboard) { navigator.clipboard.writeText(text).catch(function () {}); }
      return;
    }
    keys.forEach(function (k) { delete answers[k]; });
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.opt input[type=radio]:checked'), function (i) {
      i.checked = false;
      i.closest('.opt').classList.remove('picked');
    });
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.opt.picked'), function (l) { l.classList.remove('picked'); });
    sendBtn.disabled = true;
    sendBtn.textContent = 'Sent - ready for more';
  });

  refresh();
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Evidence: New regression case fails against the pre-fix renderer
$ git show HEAD~1:bin/fm-board.sh > bin/fm-board.sh
$ bash tests/fm-board.test.sh
ok - the board renders all four columns
ok - Under way renders one stamped card per live report
ok - Queued shows blockers and date gates
ok - Landed carries each completion's delivery artifact
ok - the mechanical half of Waiting on you comes from durable state
not ok - muted sub-text is inline, so it welds onto the title it follows: .sub{font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}

$ git checkout -- bin/fm-board.sh
$ bash tests/fm-board.test.sh | tail -1
all fm-board tests passed
Evidence: Evidence harness that builds the fixture fleet and renders the board
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Evidence harness: render one operator board from a fixture fleet that carries
# every card type whose muted sub-text sits inside a <li> - the captain-held
# card, the awaiting-merge card, and the unreadable-delegated-home card - so a
# screenshot shows all three .sub call sites at once, alongside the .row-based
# .sub usages in Queued/Under way/Landed that must not regress.
#
# Usage: render-evidence.sh <out.html>
set -u

ROOT_REPO=${ROOT_REPO:?set ROOT_REPO to the worktree}
OUT=${1:?out path}

# shellcheck disable=SC1091
. "$ROOT_REPO/tests/lib.sh"

TMP_ROOT=$(fm_test_tmproot fm-board-evidence)

FB=$(fm_fakebin "$TMP_ROOT")
cat > "$FB/no-mistakes" <<'SH'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
exit 0
SH
cat > "$FB/tmux" <<'SH'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
case "${1:-}" in
  display-message) printf '%%1\n' ;;
  capture-pane) printf 'all quiet\n> \n' ;;
esac
exit 0
SH
chmod +x "$FB/no-mistakes" "$FB/tmux"

HOME_DIR="$TMP_ROOT/home"
mkdir -p "$HOME_DIR/state" "$HOME_DIR/data/scout-b" "$HOME_DIR/config" \
  "$HOME_DIR/projects/wt" "$HOME_DIR/projects/tung"

cat > "$HOME_DIR/data/backlog.md" <<'EOF'
## In flight
- [ ] ship-a - Ship the mating corners (repo: tung) (kind: ship) (since 2026-07-11)
- [ ] listen-b - Sitting surface: collapse answered clips (repo: tung) (kind: ship) (since 2026-07-11)

## Queued
- [ ] carrier-c - Carrier question redesign blocked-by: listen-b (repo: tung) (kind: ship)
- [ ] meshnote-e - Ship the mesh accuracy note (repo: tung) (kind: captain) (hold: waiting on the captain's word) (hold-kind: captain)
- [ ] relnote-g - Cut the 0.9 release note (repo: tung) (kind: captain) (hold: needs your sign-off on the wording) (hold-kind: captain)

## Done
- [x] corners-f - Tile mating corners https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13 (repo: tung) (kind: ship) (merged 2026-07-10)
- [x] scout-b - Grasshopper verdict data/scout-b/report.md (repo: tung) (kind: scout) (reported 2026-07-10)
EOF
printf '# Grasshopper\n' > "$HOME_DIR/data/scout-b/report.md"

fm_write_meta "$HOME_DIR/state/ship-a.meta" \
  "window=firstmate:fm-ship-a" \
  "worktree=$HOME_DIR/projects/wt" \
  "project=$HOME_DIR/projects/tung" \
  "harness=claude" "kind=ship" "mode=no-mistakes" \
  "pr=https://github.com/notno/tung/pull/13"
fm_write_meta "$HOME_DIR/state/listen-b.meta" \
  "window=firstmate:fm-listen-b" \
  "worktree=$HOME_DIR/projects/wt" \
  "project=$HOME_DIR/projects/tung" \
  "harness=claude" "kind=ship" "mode=no-mistakes"
printf 'needs-decision [key=blind-src]: a filename naming the target renders on a blind row\n' \
  > "$HOME_DIR/state/listen-b.status"

# An unreadable delegated home, so the third <li>-based .sub site renders too.
printf -- '- broken-mate - synthetic scope (home: %s; scope: sample reviews; projects: sample; added 2026-07-14)\n' \
  "$TMP_ROOT/no-such-home" > "$HOME_DIR/data/secondmates.md"
fm_write_secondmate_meta "$HOME_DIR/state/broken-mate.meta" "$TMP_ROOT/no-such-home" \
  "firstmate:fm-broken-mate" sample

for id in ship-a listen-b; do
  semantic=idle; event=stop
  [ "$id" = ship-a ] && { semantic=busy; event=user-prompt-submit; }
  gen=$("$ROOT_REPO/bin/fm-busy-event.sh" arm "$HOME_DIR/state" "$id")
  "$ROOT_REPO/bin/fm-busy-event.sh" apply "$HOME_DIR/state" "$id" "$semantic" \
    --gen "$gen" --source claude-hook --event "$event"
done

CARDS="$TMP_ROOT/cards.txt"
cat > "$CARDS" <<'EOF'
[decision]
key: blind-prose
binds: listen-b:blind-src
title: Prose above blind clips
tag: listening screen
body: A natural title hands over the *withheld* answer set one line above clean rows.
warn: Three rounds on one theme.
option: audit | **A, done properly** - enumerate every authored string with `grep`.
option: split | **D** - split the two kinds of sitting.
recommend: audit
footnote: If you like D I would take A as the interim.

[chores]
title: Only you can do these
item: **Tier-2 listening session.** 22 clips staged.
footnote: Nothing else needs your hands.
EOF

PATH="$FB:$PATH" FM_HOME="$HOME_DIR" "$ROOT_REPO/bin/fm-board.sh" \
  --out "$OUT" --cards "$CARDS" >/dev/null || exit 1
printf '%s\n' "$OUT"
- Outcome: 🔧 2 issues found → auto-fixed ✅ across 2 runs (17m0s)

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Rebase** - passed

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⚠️ **Review** - 1 info
  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:570 - Landed concatenates two differently-ordered sources and then slices, so it does not show "recent completions" once both sources are populated. $records[] | select(.state == &#34;done&#34;) preserves raw backlog file order (fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:parse_row keeps order as read), while $s.secondmate_landed.records was already sorted sort_by(completion.date) | reverse by fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:1330. The union is never re-sorted, and [0:$landed] then takes the first N. With the default --landed 8 and the live backlog's 10 - [x] rows, every delegated landing falls past the cut and is silently reported as "older landings not shown" no matter how recent it is - contradicting the script's own header claim (bin/fm-board.sh:20-21, "including the landings rolled up from delegated homes"). Fix: sort_by([(.completion.date // &#34;&#34;), .id]) | reverse over the union before slicing, matching what the snapshot already does per home. Currently latent only because data/secondmates.md does not exist yet.
  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:418 - Open decisions held in a delegated home never reach the board. $work filters select(.kind != &#34;secondmate&#34;), and $durable is folded only from $work[].hints.open_decisions, so secondmate_current.records[].summary.decisions_open (which the snapshot populates with both needs-decision and captain-hold entries, fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:706-709) has no reader. The board deliberately reaches into delegated state for secondmate_landed but not for their pending decisions, so once a secondmate is registered a captain decision in that home is invisible - the exact silence the unelaborated-key rule exists to prevent ("Silence about a pending decision is the one failure this board cannot have"). A registered secondmate also renders no Under-way card at all. Flagging rather than fixing because the intent names only three mechanical sources, so whether delegated decisions are in scope is your call.
  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:366 - The option &lt;value&gt; is the only authored identifier that is not validated, and the shell parser and the jq renderer disagree about it. The parser accepts option: a|b | Label (it contains ' | ') and takes optval=a|b, but the renderer's sub(&#34;^[^|]* \\| &#34;; &#34;&#34;) is anchored and [^|]* cannot cross the pipe, so the substitution does not match and the label renders as the whole line a|b | Label while the radio's value is a|b - verified with jq 1.7. Separately, the emitted script joins answers with lines.join(&#39; | &#39;) (bin/fm-board.sh:754), so a value or title containing ' | ' makes the prompt text ambiguous, which the intent calls out as "worse than none". Validate the option value as a slug the way key already is at bin/fm-board.sh:246.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:460 - binds is parsed and hard-validated against the live open-decision set, but is never rendered into the artifact - the radio carries only name=&lt;card key&gt; and data-question=&lt;title&gt;. The answer payload therefore comes back as blind-prose (Prose above blind clips): audit with no link to the durable listen-b:blind-src identity that was just proved correct. Emitting a data-binds attribute and folding it into the answers[...] object would make the click map back to the decision it answers without any new validation.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:481 - Every truncation runs esc | clip($n), i.e. it clips the HTML-escaped string. A cut landing inside an entity leaves a fragment (a &amp;amp; b clipped at 5 renders literally as a &amp;am…), and the character budget is spent on escape expansion, so a summary dense in &amp;/&lt;/quotes is truncated far shorter than the intended 700. Reversing to clip($n) | esc fixes both. Same pattern at lines 478, 492, 504-505, 524, 527, 546, 549, 554.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:803 - The final refusal guard greps only for $REDACT_HOME ($HOME), not for $SNAPSHOT_HOME (the snapshot's fm_home). redact reduces both, but the backstop only covers one of them, so when FM_HOME lives outside HOME - which the test suite itself does, FM_HOME=$TMP_ROOT/home - a field that bypassed esc/md would be written rather than refused. No such field exists today (I checked every interpolation in the render program), so this is defence-in-depth, but the stated boundary is "the write is REFUSED outright if the home path survives". Add the same grep -qF on a non-empty $SNAPSHOT_HOME.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:450 - $waiting_count counts authored decisions, unelaborated decisions, the PR card (1) and the held card (1), but not chores cards - even though a chores card renders in the same column and is literally "only you can do these". A board carrying just one chores card shows no count pill and no "Nothing is waiting on you" line, so the pill under-reports against the comment right above it ("the count that has to be honest: everything actually waiting on the operator"). Counting each chores card as 1, consistent with the PR and held cards, would close it - flagged rather than fixed because the omission may be deliberate (chores are not answerable).
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:544 - Simplification: the date-gate/hold-reason rendering uses an if/elif plus a follow-up if $until != null and $r.hold_reason != null that re-emits the same hold-reason span. The whole three-branch construction is exactly equivalent to two independent conditionals - one emitting held until when $until != null, one emitting the reason when hold_reason != null - with the reason markup written once instead of twice.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:295 - Simplification: the whole-file pass re-greps the entire accumulated $rows blob once per card (printf ... | grep -qxF &#34;$i\ttype\tdecision&#34;) to recover the card type it already knew when it appended the header. The function already keeps parallel per-card arrays (keys, have_title, blocklines, ...); pushing the type onto one more array at bin/fm-board.sh:196 turns this into an array lookup and drops a subprocess per card.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:124 - require_count accepts any digit string, so --landed 08 or --stale-mins 030 passes CLI validation and is then handed to jq --argjson, where a leading zero is not valid JSON. The failure surfaces as the generic rendering the board failed at bin/fm-board.sh:791 rather than a usage error naming the flag. Stripping leading zeros (or rejecting them in require_count) keeps the diagnostic at the boundary that knows the flag name.

🔧 Fix: fold delegated decisions into the board and fix column bounds
4 issues (2 warnings, 2 infos) still open:

  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:486 - The new shape guards do not guard against the one shape they most need to. (if ((.decisions_open // []) | type) == &#34;array&#34; then .decisions_open else [] end)[] tests the type of the defaulted value but then iterates the raw field, so a null or missing decisions_open takes the then-branch and yields null[]. I confirmed with jq 1.7 that both {&#34;decisions_open&#34;:null} and {} abort with Cannot iterate over null (rc=5) - a non-array such as a string is the only case actually handled. Reachable through the documented --snapshot &lt;file&gt; flag, whose validation at bin/fm-board.sh:157 only requires has(&#34;tasks&#34;) and has(&#34;backlog&#34;): a saved or older-schema snapshot with a secondmate_current.records[] entry lacking decisions_open kills the whole render with the opaque rendering the board failed, rather than skipping that home as the surrounding comment ("Keep it defensive about shape") intends. Same hole at bin/fm-board.sh:189 (DURABLE_KEYS) and bin/fm-board.sh:504 (omitted). Fix: ((.decisions_open // []) | if type == &#34;array&#34; then . else [] end)[].
  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:184 - DURABLE_KEYS=$(... | jq -r &#39;...&#39;) has no || die, so any failure of that jq leaves the bind-validation domain silently empty and the script continues. Because parse_cards runs before the render, the first thing the operator sees is not a render failure but a confident wrong refusal: bin/fm-board.sh:320-332 reports binds names no open decision: &lt;id&gt; followed by there are no open decisions right now for a decision that is genuinely open. That is the board asserting nothing is pending while something is - the failure the design says it cannot have - delivered as an exit-2 refusal. Combined with the null-hole above it is concretely reachable, but the missing check is worth closing on its own. MATE_HOMES at bin/fm-board.sh:412 is likewise unchecked, though its failure is caught downstream by --argjson rejecting an empty string.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:492 - Delegated status-sourced decisions render with markedly less text than their main-home equivalents. The mapping is task_title: (.summary // .key) and summary: (.reason // &#34;&#34;), but a status decision in the home summary is built as {..., summary:(.summary | trunc(160)), reason:null} (fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:708), so reason is null, the &lt;p&gt; at bin/fm-board.sh:556 is skipped entirely, and the whole decision text sits in the &lt;h3&gt; clipped to 90 by escn(90) - discarding up to 70 characters the snapshot carried, with nowhere else on the card to read them. A main-home decision gets a 90-char title and a 700-char body. Captain-hold entries are unaffected since they populate both fields. Putting .summary in the body slot for delegated entries would close it; flagged rather than fixed because the field mapping is deliberate.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:672 - The count now reports chores per item on the reasoning that each chore is a separate act, but the PR and held cards still contribute n: 1 regardless of how many entries they list. A board with five PRs awaiting merge and five captain-held items shows 2 items while a three-item chores card shows 3. The same reasoning that moved chores to per-item applies to $prs | length and $held | length; leaving them per-card keeps the pill understating exactly the mechanical half it was widened to report honestly.

🔧 Fix: guard snapshot shapes and fail loudly on unreadable decisions
2 infos still open:

  • ℹ️ tests/fm-board.test.sh:578 - The shape_case &#34;a main-home task with a null decision list&#34; case does not exercise the main-home guard it names. It mutates $SNAP3, whose only task is sample-mate - the DELEGATING fixture's state dir holds just sample-mate.meta, written by fm_write_secondmate_meta with kind=secondmate (tests/lib.sh:245-260), and its backlog has no In-flight rows. Both DURABLE_KEYS (bin/fm-board.sh:189) and $work (bin/fm-board.sh:471) drop kind == &#34;secondmate&#34; before reaching the guards at bin/fm-board.sh:190 and :483, so this case passes identically against the old broken guard. The four delegated cases are real; the main-home guard - one of the two sites this round was opened to fix - is left unpinned. Point the case at $SNAP instead, whose ship-a/listen-b tasks are kind: ship, adjusting the surviving-content assertion accordingly.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:568 - Delegated captain-hold cards now print their title twice. The snapshot builds those entries as {summary:(.title | trunc(160)), reason:(.hold_reason | trunc(160))} (fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:662-663), and the board maps both task_title: (.summary // .key) and summary: (.summary // &#34;&#34;) to that same value, so the &lt;h3&gt; at bin/fm-board.sh:562 and the new &lt;p&gt; at bin/fm-board.sh:567 render identical text before the hold reason appears. For needs-decision entries the new body is exactly right - it restores the text the 90-char heading clip was dropping, which is what was asked for - but for captain-holds, whose summary is just the title, it is pure repetition on every such card. Gating the body on $d.summary != $d.task_title keeps the fix and drops the echo; flagged rather than fixed since rendering the summary in the body was an explicit instruction.

🔧 Fix: route delegated decision text by entry kind, pin guards
1 info still open:

  • ℹ️ tests/fm-board.test.sh:577 - Audit result for the "must fail against pre-fix code" standard, since it was asked for explicitly. Six of the eight shape cases discriminate; three variants are tolerance coverage rather than regression coverage, and all three still assert real behavior, so no action is needed. I confirmed the pre-fix forms with jq 1.7. Main home, old form (.hints.open_decisions // [])[]: null and missing both already returned [] because // catches null, so those two cases pass identically pre-fix - but &#34;unavailable&#34; aborts with Cannot iterate over string and [&#34;not-an-object&#34;] aborts with Cannot index string with string &#34;key&#34;, so the main-home guard and the select(type == &#34;object&#34;) added in round 3 are both genuinely pinned now, which was the substance of the round-3 finding. Delegated, old form: null, missing and a null omitted all abort with Cannot iterate over null, while &#34;unavailable&#34; was already handled by the old guard's else-branch. The other audited cases discriminate: the broken-domain test asserts the absence of the exact there are no open decisions right now string the pre-fix path emitted, and the chores-only case carries &gt;3 items&lt;, which the pre-fix counter (0, no pill) could not produce.
🔧 **Test** - 2 issues found → auto-fixed ✅
  • ⚠️ bin/fm-board.sh:610 - Rendered-board defect (now visible, since the page has been screenshotted): in held_card (bin/fm-board.sh:609-610) and unread_homes_card (bin/fm-board.sh:584-585) the muted &lt;span class=&#34;sub&#34;&gt; is concatenated straight onto &lt;/strong&gt; with no separator. .sub (bin/fm-board.sh:771) sets only font-size and color - it is an inline span with no margin - and unlike every other .sub usage these two sit inside &lt;li&gt; rather than a .row flex column that would stack them. The result renders as run-together text: "Ship the mesh accuracy notewaiting on the captain's word", "Cut the 0.9 release noteneeds your sign-off on the wording", "broken-mateinvalid home: not a directory". pr_card at line 596 inserts a literal space in the same position, so this is an omission rather than an intended layout. Reproduced in two independent renders (board.png, board-held.png). The suite cannot catch it: it asserts the strings are present and that the hold title occurs exactly once, both of which hold true while the words are glued together. Fixing the renderer is outside this test phase's scope, so the author needs to decide whether to land the one-character/CSS fix and add a colocated case that asserts the separation.
  • ℹ️ bin/fm-board.sh:646 - Pre-existing and outside this change, but newly visible on this surface: the Queued column renders the backlog item winlane-d with its raw annotations inside the title - "Revisit the Windows build lane (repo: litany) (kind: ship) (hold: time gate: revisit on/after 2026-08-20) (hold-until: 2026-08-20)" - while its siblings render clean titles. The board is faithful here; bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh itself emits that string in .title for this record (its sibling fields repo, kind and hold_reason all parsed correctly), most likely because the hold: value contains its own colons. bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh is untouched by this branch, and the same fixture line appears in tests/fm-board.test.sh, so no action is needed for this change - noting it only because it is the one visibly ragged card on an otherwise clean board.
  • bash tests/fm-board.test.sh - all 36 colocated cases pass against fixture state
  • bash tests/fm-test-run.test.sh - runner family registration and coverage guard pass after fm-board.test.sh was added to the snapshot-bearings family
  • Seeded a realistic operator home (in-flight tasks with a recorded PR, an open decision key, a blocked queued item, a date-gated item, a captain hold, two landings with differing delivery artifacts) and ran bin/fm-board.sh --cards cards.txt --out board.html --title &#39;The Bridge&#39; on its own live snapshot - artifact written, path printed
  • Screenshotted the rendered artifact with chrome.exe --headless=new --screenshot over a \\wsl.localhost UNC path, after confirming chrome-devtools-axi open fails with Target closed and chrome-devtools-axi screenshot reports a path it never writes
  • Drove the page's own interaction by appending an evidence-only driver to a copy: stubbed window.lavish, clicked an option, clicked the single #send control, and screenshotted the captured queuePrompt text and payload plus the post-send reset state
  • Rewound the emitted generated timestamp in two copies to +45min and +3h and screenshotted the header to confirm the honest "going stale" and "too old to trust, ask for a fresh board" degradation
  • Captured a CLI refusal transcript: --cards with binds: listen-b:no-such-key and with an unbalanced backtick both exit 2, name file:line, list the valid identifiers, and write no artifact
  • Rendered a second board carrying a captain hold and an unreadable delegated home (bin/fm-board.sh --out board-held.html) to confirm the run-together sub-text defect in both affected card types
  • Leak boundary on the real artifact: grepped board.html for the fixture token, the absolute home path, the tmux window endpoint, and &lt;link / &lt;script src / @import / url(http / &lt;img - all absent

🔧 Fix: block-level .sub so list sub-text stops welding onto titles
✅ Re-checked - no issues remain.

  • bash tests/fm-board.test.sh - all 37 colocated cases pass on the target commit
  • Regression proof: git show HEAD~1:bin/fm-board.sh &gt; bin/fm-board.sh &amp;&amp; bash tests/fm-board.test.sh fails on muted sub-text takes its own line wherever it appears (not ok - muted sub-text is inline, so it welds onto the title it follows: .sub{font-size:12px;color:var(--muted)}), then git checkout -- bin/fm-board.sh restores and it passes
  • Rendered real boards from a fixture fleet seeded with all three &lt;li&gt;-based .sub sites (captain-held x2, recorded PR, unreadable delegated home) plus authored decision/chores cards, via bin/fm-board.sh --out ... --cards ...
  • Screenshotted before/after with chrome.exe --headless=new --screenshot at --window-size=1600,1200 (three-column) and --window-size=760,1500 (single-column, below the 1080px breakpoint)
  • Captured the light palette explicitly with --blink-settings=preferredColorScheme=1 and the dark palette via headless default
  • Re-ran the answer/send interaction against the current artifact with the evidence driver: one queued prompt carrying question + binds, sendQueuedPrompts called, control resets to Sent - ready for more with radios and .picked highlights cleared
  • Confirmed git status --porcelain clean after all evidence work; removed the Windows temp render directory
⚠️ **Document** - 1 info
  • ℹ️ docs/scripts.md:3 - docs/scripts.md presents itself as the bin/ toolbelt inventory, but 27 shipped scripts are absent from it, including operator-relevant ones like fm-procevent.sh, fm-procevent-lavish.sh, fm-lint.sh, fm-doc-audience-check.sh, and the fm-remote-* helpers. This predates the change and closing it would mean a broad table rewrite outside this change's scope, so only the row for the new fm-board.sh was added here. Worth a follow-up that either completes the table or states explicitly that it is a curated subset rather than a full inventory.
✅ **Lint** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Push** - passed

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notno added 7 commits August 6, 2026 17:06
* docs(agents): trim section 2 layout tree to a thin pointer surface

Replace the exhaustive annotated layout tree with a compact top-level
summary plus explicit owner pointers (docs/configuration.md for layout
and config schemas, producing script headers for artifact fields).
Normative tree annotations without another owner survive as section 2
prose: the state/ dot-file never-edit rule, the procevent
supervision-required presence rule, the symlink edit-the-original rule,
and the read-script-headers-first rule.
AGENTS.md drops from 63,377 to 53,563 chars.

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
Add bin/fm-board.sh, which renders the four-column operator board -
Waiting on you, Under way, Queued, Landed - as one self-contained HTML
artifact built from bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh rather than written by hand.

The script owns only what is mechanically derivable from durable state:
a stamped card per live report, queued items with their unresolved
blockers and date gates, recent completions with their delivery
artifact, and the mechanical half of Waiting on you (locally recorded
pull requests, captain-held items, and every unresolved decision key
folded out of the status logs).

Option lists, recommendations and captain-only chores cannot be inferred
from a status line, so they arrive through --cards as authored input
that merges into the same column. That input is validated as a whole and
refused on any problem rather than half-rendered, and a decision key
with no authored card still renders, marked unelaborated, so nothing
pending can go unmentioned.

The artifact carries no external reference, escapes every rendered
string, reduces operator-home paths before rendering, and refuses the
write if one survives. It states the snapshot's age and says when it has
gone too stale to trust. The script writes the file and prints its path;
it runs no poll and arms nothing.
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