@gavin-hu/my-pi-agent 0.19.0 → 0.21.0

package/lib/board/store.ts

@@ -20,18 +20,29 @@
  * a board is tens of files, so the read is cheaper than the second source of truth a
  * cached index would be.
  *
- * Nothing prunes. A `done` card is history, the page shows the store's size, and
- * `drop` is the only deletion.
+ * Nothing prunes by itself. `cards/` is the board and `archive/` is where a finished card
+ * is set aside by `archive` — its file moved rather than rewritten, so the record is
+ * unchanged and the board stops paying for it — and `ended/` keeps the record of a `drop`
+ * alone. The page shows the store's size, and `drop` is the only deletion.
  */
 
 import { link, mkdir, readFile, readdir, rename, rm, stat, unlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { join } from "node:path";
+import { basename, join } from "node:path";
 import { getAgentDir, type ExtensionAPI } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
 import { resolveEffectiveCwd } from "../env.ts";
 import { hasErrorCode, messageOf } from "../errors.ts";
 import { shortenPath } from "../format.ts";
 import { repoKeyFor } from "../repo-key.ts";
-import { type Card, CARD_STATUSES, cardRef, isCard, type Priority, priorityRank } from "./card.ts";
+import {
+	type Card,
+	CARD_STATUSES,
+	CARD_VERSION,
+	cardRef,
+	type EndedCard,
+	isCard,
+	type Priority,
+	priorityRank,
+} from "./card.ts";
 import { indexOf } from "./links.ts";
 import { type Actor, applyOp, type CardOp, createCard } from "./rules.ts";
 
@@ -41,6 +52,17 @@ export const BOARD_DIR_NAME = "board";
 /** The subdirectory one board's cards live in. */
 export const CARDS_DIR_NAME = "cards";
 
+/** The subdirectory a dropped card leaves its record in. */
+export const ENDED_DIR_NAME = "ended";
+
+/**
+ * The subdirectory a finished card is set aside in.
+ *
+ * A second pile, not a second state: the file is moved here unchanged, so its notes, plan,
+ * and landed commit stay readable, and the board's own reads stop opening it.
+ */
+export const ARCHIVE_DIR_NAME = "archive";
+
 /** Card files are the user's work; only their owner reads them. */
 const FILE_MODE = 0o600;
 
@@ -64,27 +86,72 @@ export interface CreateInput {
 
 /** What a mutation did, or why it was refused. */
 export type MutateResult =
-	| { ok: true; card: Card; changed: boolean; dropped: boolean }
+	| { ok: true; card: Card; changed: boolean; dropped: boolean; archived: boolean }
 	| { ok: false; error: string; card?: Card };
 
+/**
+ * A card file the reader refused, and why.
+ *
+ * The lanes skip these, so without this the board reads as if they were never there:
+ * "nobody has planned anything" instead of "this build cannot read your work".
+ */
+export interface Skip {
+	/** The file name, e.g. `0042.json`. */
+	file: string;
+	/** The id the file name spells, when it spells one, so a caller can match a refusal. */
+	id?: string;
+	/** What is wrong, phrased for a reader: `bad JSON`, `version 2`. */
+	why: string;
+}
+
 /** One repository's board, as the runtime, the router, and the tool use it. */
 export interface BoardStore {
 	/** The board's own directory, for `where` and for a refusal that names it. */
 	readonly dir: string;
 	/** Create the directories and sweep a temp file a dead process left. */
 	ensure(): Promise<void>;
-	/** Every card, in lane order: todo, doing, blocked, done. */
+	/** Every card on the board, in lane order: todo, doing, blocked, done. */
 	list(): Promise<Card[]>;
-	/** One card by its unpadded id, or undefined when it is not there. */
+	/**
+	 * The board in one read: the cards, and the files it refused.
+	 *
+	 * A page's snapshot needs both, and asking twice reads and parses every card twice to
+	 * answer one frame; `list` and `skipped` are the two halves of this for a caller that
+	 * wants only one.
+	 */
+	scan(): Promise<{ cards: Card[]; skipped: Skip[] }>;
+	/**
+	 * The cards set aside in the archive, in the same order, and the files there this build
+	 * refused. Read only when a caller asks: no other read opens the pile.
+	 */
+	archived(): Promise<{ cards: Card[]; skipped: Skip[] }>;
+	/** How many card files the archive holds, without opening one: the count a listing prints. */
+	archivedCount(): Promise<number>;
+	/** One card by its unpadded id, from whichever pile its file lies in. */
 	read(id: string): Promise<Card | undefined>;
 	/** Add a card, allocating the next id. */
 	create(input: CreateInput, actor: Actor, now: number): Promise<Card>;
-	/** Apply one operation, re-checking it if the card changed while it was read. */
+	/**
+	 * Apply one operation, re-checking it if the card changed while it was read. A card is
+	 * found in whichever pile it lies in, and written back to that one.
+	 */
 	mutate(id: string, op: CardOp, actor: Actor, now: number): Promise<MutateResult>;
-	/** Bytes the store occupies on disk. */
+	/** Bytes the board's cards occupy on disk; the archive is not counted. */
 	bytes(): Promise<number>;
+	/** Card files this build refused to read, and why. */
+	skipped(): Promise<Skip[]>;
 	/** A short, user-facing name for the directory. */
 	where(): string;
+	/**
+	 * The repository root this board belongs to, and the directory itself outside one.
+	 *
+	 * A board is keyed by a hash, so this is the one part of its identity a reader can
+	 * say out loud: the page names the repository from it, and offers the whole path on
+	 * hover, which is what tells two clones of one repository apart.
+	 */
+	root(): string;
+	/** The root's last segment — `my-pi-agent` — which is all a tab has room for. */
+	name(): string;
 }
 
 /** Where one repository's board lives. */
@@ -103,37 +170,75 @@ export async function openBoard(
 	// environment carries the active root, so the two are reconciled before the
 	// repository lookup — the same path `plan` and `session-bus` take.
 	const repo = await repoKeyFor(pi, resolveEffectiveCwd(cwd));
-	return createStore(boardDirFor(agentDir, repo.key));
+	return createStore(boardDirFor(agentDir, repo.key), { root: repo.root });
 }
 
 /** Build a store over one directory. Exported for tests and for a second backend. */
-export function createStore(dir: string): BoardStore {
+export function createStore(dir: string, options: { root?: string } = {}): BoardStore {
+	// A store built over a directory by hand has no repository to name, so it names its
+	// own directory: the page then says something true instead of something blank.
+	const root = options.root ?? dir;
 	const cardsDir = join(dir, CARDS_DIR_NAME);
+	const endedDir = join(dir, ENDED_DIR_NAME);
+	const archiveDir = join(dir, ARCHIVE_DIR_NAME);
 
 	const ensure = async (): Promise<void> => {
 		await mkdir(cardsDir, { recursive: true, mode: DIR_MODE });
 		await sweepTemps(cardsDir);
+		// An archived card that was edited leaves a temp file in its own pile, and a process
+		// that died mid-write there is the same mess as one on the board.
+		await sweepTemps(archiveDir);
 	};
 
-	const list = async (): Promise<Card[]> => {
-		const entries = await readdirSafe(cardsDir);
+	/** Every card file of one pile, read once: what it shows and what it refused. */
+	const scanPile = async (pileDir: string): Promise<{ cards: Card[]; skipped: Skip[] }> => {
+		const entries = await readdirSafe(pileDir);
 		const cards: Card[] = [];
+		const skipped: Skip[] = [];
 		for (const entry of entries) {
-			const card = await readCardFile(cardsDir, entry);
-			if (card) cards.push(card);
+			const read = await readCardFile(pileDir, entry);
+			if ("card" in read) cards.push(read.card);
+			// Anything that is not a card-named file is not the board's to explain.
+			else if (entry.endsWith(".json")) skipped.push(read.skip);
 		}
-		return sortForLane(cards);
+		// Sorted by file name so two reads of one board say the same thing in the same order.
+		return { cards: sortForLane(cards), skipped: skipped.sort((a, b) => a.file.localeCompare(b.file)) };
 	};
 
-	const read = async (id: string): Promise<Card | undefined> => {
-		return readCardFile(cardsDir, fileNameFor(id));
+	const scan = (): Promise<{ cards: Card[]; skipped: Skip[] }> => scanPile(cardsDir);
+
+	const list = async (): Promise<Card[]> => (await scan()).cards;
+
+	const archived = async (): Promise<{ cards: Card[]; skipped: Skip[] }> => scanPile(archiveDir);
+
+	// A directory listing and a name pattern, with no file opened: a plain `list` prints this
+	// count so the archive it left out cannot read as history that was deleted.
+	const archivedCount = async (): Promise<number> =>
+		(await readdirSafe(archiveDir)).filter((entry) => CARD_FILE.test(entry)).length;
+
+	const skipped = async (): Promise<Skip[]> => (await scan()).skipped;
+
+	/**
+	 * One card and the pile its file is in, the board first.
+	 *
+	 * A card is where it lies: the archive is not a state a record carries, so every read by
+	 * id has to look in both places, and every write goes back to the one it was read from.
+	 */
+	const locate = async (id: string): Promise<{ card: Card; pile: string } | undefined> => {
+		for (const pile of [cardsDir, archiveDir]) {
+			const result = await readCardFile(pile, fileNameFor(id));
+			if ("card" in result) return { card: result.card, pile };
+		}
+		return undefined;
 	};
 
+	const read = async (id: string): Promise<Card | undefined> => (await locate(id))?.card;
+
 	const create = async (input: CreateInput, actor: Actor, now: number): Promise<Card> => {
 		await ensure();
 		let lastError: unknown;
 		for (let attempt = 0; attempt < ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
-			const id = await nextCardId(cardsDir);
+			const id = await nextCardId(cardsDir, endedDir, archiveDir);
 			const card = createCard(id, input, actor, now);
 			const temp = tempPath(cardsDir);
 			await writeFile(temp, serialize(card), { mode: FILE_MODE });
@@ -155,22 +260,44 @@ export function createStore(dir: string): BoardStore {
 	const mutate = async (id: string, op: CardOp, actor: Actor, now: number): Promise<MutateResult> => {
 		let changedUnderneath = false;
 		for (let attempt = 0; attempt < ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
-			const card = await read(id);
-			if (!card) {
+			const found = await locate(id);
+			if (!found) {
+				if (changedUnderneath) return { ok: false, error: `${cardRef(id)} was dropped.` };
+				// A file that is there and refused is not a card that does not exist: the
+				// reader is told which file to look at instead of being sent to add one.
+				const skip = (await scan()).skipped.find((entry) => entry.id === id);
 				return {
 					ok: false,
-					error: changedUnderneath ? `${cardRef(id)} was dropped.` : `${cardRef(id)} does not exist.`,
+					error:
+						skip === undefined
+							? `${cardRef(id)} does not exist.`
+							: `${cardRef(id)} is there and this build cannot read it (${skip.file}: ${skip.why}).`,
 				};
 			}
+			const { card, pile } = found;
 			// The preconditions are checked against the card as it is *now*, and against the
 			// board as it is now, so an operation re-applied to a card that changed is refused
 			// rather than forced.
 			const result = applyOp(card, op, actor, now, indexOf(await list()));
 			if (!result.ok) return { ok: false, error: result.error, card };
-			if (!result.changed) return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: false, dropped: false };
+			if (!result.changed) {
+				return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: false, dropped: false, archived: false };
+			}
 			if (op.kind === "drop") {
-				await rm(join(cardsDir, fileNameFor(id)), { force: true });
-				return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: true, dropped: true };
+				// The record lands first: a crash between the two leaves a card that still
+				// exists with a note explaining it, never a card that is gone unexplained.
+				await writeEnded(endedDir, result.card, actor, now);
+				await rm(join(pile, fileNameFor(id)), { force: true });
+				return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: true, dropped: true, archived: false };
+			}
+			if (op.kind === "archive") {
+				// A card the board does not hold is already aside, and two sessions asking at
+				// once are one move rather than a second one.
+				if (pile === archiveDir) {
+					return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: false, dropped: false, archived: false };
+				}
+				await moveCard(cardsDir, archiveDir, id);
+				return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: true, dropped: false, archived: true };
 			}
 			// Last look before the rename: a writer that landed in between is the
 			// re-read the next pass applies against.
@@ -179,8 +306,8 @@ export function createStore(dir: string): BoardStore {
 				changedUnderneath = true;
 				continue;
 			}
-			await writeCardFile(cardsDir, id, result.card);
-			return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: true, dropped: false };
+			await writeCardFile(pile, id, result.card);
+			return { ok: true, card: result.card, changed: true, dropped: false, archived: false };
 		}
 		return {
 			ok: false,
@@ -200,7 +327,22 @@ export function createStore(dir: string): BoardStore {
 		return total;
 	};
 
-	return { dir, ensure, list, read, create, mutate, bytes, where: () => shortenPath(dir) };
+	return {
+		dir,
+		ensure,
+		list,
+		scan,
+		archived,
+		archivedCount,
+		read,
+		create,
+		mutate,
+		bytes,
+		skipped,
+		where: () => shortenPath(dir),
+		root: () => root,
+		name: () => basename(root),
+	};
 }
 
 /** `<id>.json`, zero-padded to four digits so a directory lists in card order. */
@@ -211,58 +353,129 @@ function fileNameFor(id: string): string {
 /** The card files the reader accepts. */
 const CARD_FILE = /^(\d{4,})\.json$/;
 
-/** One card file, or undefined when it is not a card this build trusts. */
-async function readCardFile(cardsDir: string, entry: string): Promise<Card | undefined> {
+/** One card file: the card, or the reason this build refused it. */
+async function readCardFile(pileDir: string, entry: string): Promise<{ card: Card } | { skip: Skip }> {
 	const match = CARD_FILE.exec(entry);
-	if (!match) return undefined;
-	const text = await readFile(join(cardsDir, entry), "utf-8").catch(() => undefined);
-	if (text === undefined) return undefined;
+	if (!match) return { skip: { file: entry, why: "not a card id" } };
+	const id = String(Number(match[1]));
+	const text = await readFile(join(pileDir, entry), "utf-8").catch(() => undefined);
+	if (text === undefined) return { skip: { file: entry, id, why: "cannot be read" } };
 	let parsed: unknown;
 	try {
 		parsed = JSON.parse(text);
 	} catch {
-		return undefined;
+		return { skip: { file: entry, id, why: "bad JSON" } };
+	}
+	// A version above this build's is the one refusal a reader can act on: the file was
+	// written by a newer build, so the board is not empty, it is not readable here.
+	const version = typeof parsed === "object" && parsed !== null ? (parsed as { v?: unknown }).v : undefined;
+	if (typeof version === "number" && version !== CARD_VERSION) {
+		return { skip: { file: entry, id, why: `version ${version}` } };
 	}
-	if (!isCard(parsed)) return undefined;
+	if (!isCard(parsed)) return { skip: { file: entry, id, why: "not a card record" } };
 	// The file name is the id's canonical spelling: a padded id inside the record
 	// (or a record moved under another name) is a disagreement, not a card.
-	if (parsed.id !== String(Number(match[1]))) return undefined;
-	return parsed;
+	if (parsed.id !== String(Number(match[1]))) {
+		return { skip: { file: entry, id, why: `names card ${parsed.id}` } };
+	}
+	return { card: parsed };
 }
 
-/** `1`, `2`, `3` … as the highest existing id plus one. */
-async function nextCardId(cardsDir: string): Promise<string> {
-	const entries = await readdirSafe(cardsDir);
+/** The highest id a directory holds, or 0 when it holds none. */
+async function highestId(dir: string): Promise<number> {
+	const entries = await readdirSafe(dir);
 	let highest = 0;
 	for (const entry of entries) {
 		const match = CARD_FILE.exec(entry);
 		if (match) highest = Math.max(highest, Number(match[1]));
 	}
-	return String(highest + 1);
+	return highest;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `1`, `2`, `3` … as the highest id the board has ever used plus one.
+ *
+ * Ended and archived cards count: a dropped card's record keeps its id spent, and an
+ * archived card's file is still named by it, so a note or a handoff that names `#29`
+ * cannot come to mean a different feature tomorrow.
+ */
+async function nextCardId(cardsDir: string, endedDir: string, archiveDir: string): Promise<string> {
+	return String(Math.max(await highestId(cardsDir), await highestId(endedDir), await highestId(archiveDir)) + 1);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Write the record of a card that has ended.
+ *
+ * Exclusive like a create, so the id ends once: a retry that finds the record already
+ * there is the same end, not a second one.
+ */
+async function writeEnded(endedDir: string, card: Card, actor: Actor, now: number): Promise<void> {
+	await mkdir(endedDir, { recursive: true, mode: DIR_MODE });
+	const ended: EndedCard = {
+		v: 1,
+		id: card.id,
+		title: card.title,
+		status: card.status,
+		by: actor.label,
+		...(card.owner === undefined ? {} : { owner: card.owner }),
+		at: now,
+		why: "dropped",
+	};
+	const temp = tempPath(endedDir);
+	await writeFile(temp, serialize(ended), { mode: FILE_MODE });
+	try {
+		await link(temp, join(endedDir, fileNameFor(card.id)));
+	} catch (error) {
+		if (!hasErrorCode(error, "EEXIST")) throw error;
+	} finally {
+		await rm(temp, { force: true });
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Move one card's file into the archive.
+ *
+ * A rename, not a write: the record does not change, and the pile it lies in is the whole
+ * of what an archive means.
+ */
+async function moveCard(from: string, to: string, id: string): Promise<void> {
+	await mkdir(to, { recursive: true, mode: DIR_MODE });
+	await renameInto(join(from, fileNameFor(id)), join(to, fileNameFor(id)));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Rename one file over or onto another, with the fallback this platform needs.
+ *
+ * Windows refuses a rename onto an open file, so removing the target first is the only
+ * way through there; every caller has already read what it is replacing, which is what
+ * bounds what the removal can lose.
+ */
+async function renameInto(source: string, target: string): Promise<void> {
+	try {
+		await rename(source, target);
+	} catch (error) {
+		if (!hasErrorCode(error, "EPERM") && !hasErrorCode(error, "EACCES") && !hasErrorCode(error, "EEXIST")) throw error;
+		await rm(target, { force: true });
+		await rename(source, target);
+	}
 }
 
 /** Write one card: a temp file in the same directory, then a rename over the old one. */
-async function writeCardFile(cardsDir: string, id: string, card: Card): Promise<void> {
-	const temp = tempPath(cardsDir);
+async function writeCardFile(dir: string, id: string, card: Card): Promise<void> {
+	const temp = tempPath(dir);
 	await writeFile(temp, serialize(card), { mode: FILE_MODE });
-	const target = join(cardsDir, fileNameFor(id));
 	try {
-		await rename(temp, target);
+		await renameInto(temp, join(dir, fileNameFor(id)));
 	} catch (error) {
-		// Windows refuses a rename onto an open file; removing first is the fallback
-		// the platform needs, and the read above still bounds what can be lost.
-		if (!hasErrorCode(error, "EPERM") && !hasErrorCode(error, "EACCES") && !hasErrorCode(error, "EEXIST")) {
-			await rm(temp, { force: true });
-			throw error;
-		}
-		await rm(target, { force: true });
-		await rename(temp, target);
+		await rm(temp, { force: true });
+		throw error;
 	}
 }
 
 /** One card's bytes, ending in a newline so the file reads well in an editor. */
-function serialize(card: Card): string {
-	return `${JSON.stringify(card, null, "\t")}\n`;
+/** One record as the bytes a file holds: tab-indented JSON with a closing newline. */
+function serialize(record: Card | EndedCard): string {
+	return `${JSON.stringify(record, null, "\t")}\n`;
 }
 
 /** A temp path in the cards directory: never matched by the reader's own pattern. */

package/lib/board/view.ts

@@ -8,21 +8,31 @@
  *
  * `where` is the store's own path, shortened, so a reader can tell which directory
  * a shared board is filed under — and so nothing here needs a "remote" variant that
- * no backend produces.
+ * no backend produces. `repo` and `root` are the same board said aloud: the repository
+ * root's own name, which a tab can carry, and its whole path for the hover title.
  *
  * Pure: the caller supplies the cards, the clock, and the sizes it read.
  */
 
-import { type RosterSession, rosterStateOf } from "../session-roster.ts";
-import { type Card, CARD_STATUSES, type CardStatus, signatureOf } from "./card.ts";
+import { type RosterSession, type RosterState, rosterStateOf } from "../session-roster.ts";
+import {
+	type Card,
+	CARD_STATUSES,
+	type CardStatus,
+	laneSince,
+	priorityOf,
+	type Priority,
+	signatureOf,
+} from "./card.ts";
+import { blockersOf, indexOf, lanesText, openDependentsOf } from "./links.ts";
 import type { Actor } from "./rules.ts";
 import { buildRound, type RoundSummary } from "./round.ts";
 
 /** One session on the repository's bus, as the Team tab lists it. */
 export interface ViewTeammate {
 	label: string;
-	/** `live` while its heartbeat holds, `quiet` once the record has aged out. */
-	state: "live" | "quiet";
+	/** `live` while its heartbeat holds, `quiet` once the record has aged out, `gone` once its process is not running. */
+	state: RosterState;
 	/** When it last proved it was there. */
 	seen: number;
 	/** Messages waiting in its inbox. */
@@ -33,10 +43,47 @@ export interface ViewTeammate {
 	you: boolean;
 }
 
+/**
+ * One card as the page meets it: the stored card, plus the two answers it would
+ * otherwise compute for itself.
+ *
+ * Both are derived from the board, not stored on the card, so a client that did the
+ * same work would be a second copy of a rule — and the copies drift, which is how the
+ * page came to disagree with the tool about what a card waits for.
+ */
+export interface ViewCard extends Card {
+	/** The priority it acts on: a card that never set one is ordinary. */
+	priority: Priority;
+	/**
+	 * The unfinished cards it waits for, as `#2 (doing)`; absent when nothing blocks it.
+	 *
+	 * `undefined` is the whole fact — a waiting card is one with a `waits` — because a
+	 * boolean beside it would be one more thing that can disagree with the string.
+	 */
+	waits?: string;
+	/**
+	 * The unfinished cards waiting on it, as `#9 (todo)`; absent when none do.
+	 *
+	 * The other side of `waits`: what leaving this card undone holds up. Derived here
+	 * rather than in the page's script for the same reason, and filtered to the unfinished
+	 * for the same reason a finished blocker does not count.
+	 */
+	dependents?: string;
+	/**
+	 * When the card entered the lane it is in now, or absent when its history does not say.
+	 *
+	 * A timestamp rather than a phrase: the page already formats ages, and a wording
+	 * decided here would be a second copy of that rule. Absent is the honest answer for a
+	 * card written before the log existed, so the page draws no age rather than guessing
+	 * one from `updatedAt`, which moves on every write.
+	 */
+	since?: number;
+}
+
 /** One lane and the cards in it, in the order the page draws them. */
 export interface ViewLane {
 	status: CardStatus;
-	cards: Card[];
+	cards: ViewCard[];
 }
 
 /** The per-lane tallies the toolbar shows. */
@@ -50,13 +97,16 @@ export interface ViewCounts {
 
 /** Everything the page is allowed to know. */
 export interface BoardView {
-	/** The session a page write is made as — the page's seat, never the browser. */
+	/**
+	 * The session a page write is made as, and the one the page is read as: its seat.
+	 *
+	 * The page is not a session that happens to be serving — it is a seat that outlives
+	 * whichever session serves it — so the browser is told one identity and no other.
+	 */
 	me: { id?: string; label: string };
-	/** The session the page is served from, when the page knows it: who is reading. */
-	session?: { id?: string; label: string };
 	lanes: ViewLane[];
 	counts: ViewCounts;
-	round: RoundSummary;
+	round: RoundSummary<ViewCard>;
 	/**
 	 * The sessions on this repository's bus, or absent when there is no bus here.
 	 *
@@ -66,54 +116,94 @@ export interface BoardView {
 	teammates?: ViewTeammate[];
 	/** Bytes the store occupies, so a board that is never pruned says so. */
 	bytes: number;
+	/**
+	 * Card files the reader refused, so the footer can say the board is not empty.
+	 *
+	 * Zero is the ordinary answer and draws nothing; a count above it is the one fact
+	 * that separates "no work here" from "this build cannot read your work".
+	 */
+	skipped: number;
 	/** Changes when a card's revision, a teammate's state, or its mail does. */
 	sig: string;
+	/** The root's last segment, e.g. `my-pi-agent`: what the tab and the footer lead with. */
+	repo: string;
+	/** The repository root, absolute, so the footer can put the whole path on hover. */
+	root: string;
 	/** The store's directory, shortened. */
 	where: string;
 }
 
 /** What the server read before building one snapshot. */
 export interface ViewInput {
+	/** The page's own actor, which is both who it writes as and who is looking. */
 	me: Actor;
-	/**
-	 * The session the page is served from, when it has one.
-	 *
-	 * The page writes as its seat — a fixed name — so the reader's own row on the Team
-	 * tab is marked from the session, not from `me`: the seat is what a card records,
-	 * and the session is who is looking.
-	 */
-	session?: Actor;
 	cards: readonly Card[];
 	now: number;
 	bytes: number;
+	/** Card files the reader refused; absent reads as none, which is the ordinary board. */
+	skipped?: number;
 	where: string;
+	/** The repository's name, from `BoardStore.name()`. */
+	repo: string;
+	/** The repository root, from `BoardStore.root()`. */
+	root: string;
 	/** The bus's records, when the page could read them at all. */
 	roster?: readonly RosterSession[];
 }
 
 /** Build the page's snapshot. */
 export function buildView(input: ViewInput): BoardView {
+	// One index for the whole snapshot: a card's lane and its blockers are read from the
+	// same board, so a dependency and its dependent cannot be told two different stories.
+	const index = indexOf(input.cards);
+	// One mapped list feeds both halves of the snapshot: the rollup's groups carry the same
+	// card the lane does, so a client reading `round.unassigned` is not handed a card
+	// missing the facts every other card has.
+	const cards = input.cards.map((card) => viewCardOf(card, index));
 	const lanes = CARD_STATUSES.map((status) => ({
 		status,
-		cards: input.cards.filter((card) => card.status === status),
+		cards: cards.filter((card) => card.status === status),
 	}));
-	const reader = input.session ?? input.me;
+	const reader = input.me;
 	const teammates = input.roster === undefined ? undefined : teammatesOf(input.roster, reader.label, input.now);
 	return {
 		me: input.me.id === undefined ? { label: input.me.label } : { id: input.me.id, label: input.me.label },
-		...(input.session === undefined ? {} : { session: input.session }),
 		lanes,
 		counts: countOf(lanes),
-		round: buildRound(input.cards, input.now),
+		round: buildRound(cards, input.now),
 		...(teammates === undefined ? {} : { teammates }),
 		bytes: input.bytes,
+		skipped: input.skipped ?? 0,
 		// The roster enters the signature at its coarse facts only: a heartbeat every ten
-		// seconds is not news, while a join, a quiet and a letter are.
-		sig: signatureOf(input.cards) + rosterSignature(teammates),
+		// seconds is not news, while a join, a quiet and a letter are. A file that became
+		// readable, or unreadable, is news too: the footer counts it, and a frame that is
+		// not pushed leaves the page saying the board holds less than it does.
+		sig: signatureOf(input.cards) + rosterSignature(teammates) + `|skipped:${input.skipped ?? 0}`,
+		repo: input.repo,
+		root: input.root,
 		where: input.where,
 	};
 }
 
+/**
+ * One card for the page: what it carries, plus what it acts on.
+ *
+ * The card is copied rather than annotated — the caller's cards are the store's, and a
+ * derived field written onto one would outlive the read that made it.
+ */
+function viewCardOf(card: Card, index: ReadonlyMap<string, Card>): ViewCard {
+	const waits = lanesText(blockersOf(card, index));
+	const dependents = lanesText(openDependentsOf(card.id, index));
+	const since = laneSince(card);
+	return {
+		...card,
+		priority: priorityOf(card),
+		...(waits === "" ? {} : { waits }),
+		...(dependents === "" ? {} : { dependents }),
+		...(since === undefined ? {} : { since }),
+	};
+}
+
 /** The roster as the page shows it, ordered so a repaint never reorders it. */
 function teammatesOf(roster: readonly RosterSession[], meLabel: string, now: number): ViewTeammate[] {
 	return roster