@lovek4d/kickflip 0.5.0 → 0.6.0

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  1. package/CONTEXT.md +105 -68
  2. package/README.md +1 -1
  3. package/SKILL.md +27 -21
  4. package/bin/kickflip.mjs +27 -18
  5. package/bin/wait-events.mjs +2 -2
  6. package/board/agents.mjs +2 -0
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  9. package/board/build-script.mjs +2 -1
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  12. package/board/headless.mjs +9 -4
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package/SKILL.md CHANGED
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  `init` is the first-run name for `doctor --fix`; both run the same steps and finish with a doctor report. Init links `~/.claude/skills/kickflip` to the installed package's folder (with `npm link` from a clone, to the clone) and `~/.claude/skills/kickflip-hooks` through `kickflip/hooks-plugin/`. Correct skill links are checked and kept. A real folder is accepted only when it is the target itself. A skill link pointing elsewhere, including a broken link, is refused with a message; move an existing real folder or explicitly remove a wrong link before retrying. `--force` does not bypass these checks.
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+ `kickflip update` runs `npm i -g @lovek4d/kickflip@latest`, then restarts the hub (`--no-restart` leaves it running). It refuses a clone; update that with `git pull`. An npm install's hub checks npm for a newer version as it starts and hourly; it pulls a newer one itself with `kickflip update --no-restart`, whatever runs, and the hub then restarts itself, after which the sidebar reads New version · Reload. A failed pull is logged and retried at the next check, and shows nothing; `kickflip update` is the backup. A clone never pulls ([the hub offers a newer kickflip from npm](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1521-the-hub-offers-a-newer-kickflip-from-npm.md), [the update row shows only New version and Reload](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0800-the-update-row-shows-only-new-version-and-reload.md)).
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  For development, clone the private repo, run `npm install`, `npm link`, then `kickflip init`. `npm run build` makes the minified package in `dist/`, which is what gets published. To release, when the owner asks: run `npm version <x.y.z>` in the clone, then `git push origin main v<x.y.z>`. The tag runs `.github/workflows/release.yml`, which runs the suite, builds, checks the tag against `dist/package.json`'s version, smoke-installs the packed `dist/` and publishes it to npm by trusted publishing ([a v* tag publishes kickflip to npm](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1345-a-v-tag-publishes-kickflip-to-npm.md)).
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  1. **Who you are.** Your session id is the directory name just above your scratchpad (`…/<session-id>/scratchpad`). Your label is the session's name if it has one, otherwise two or three words for its work.
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  2. **Hub up.** Run `node $KF doctor`. When anything is fixable, ask the user once (it adds the hub's service, a login item on macOS or a systemd user unit on Linux, maps Tailscale `/` to the hub and sets up kickflip's status line and hooks as above), then run `node $KF doctor --fix` and read its new report. For anything marked yours, tell the person the printed command once and go on; a foreign status line needs their explicit replacement. Done when doctor reports nothing fixable: yours, optional and note lines are the person's and never hold up the join, so a session the hub started in the background, which nobody watches, still joins and lands its board ([a board starts and lands without Tailscale](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1513-a-board-starts-and-lands-without-tailscale.md)). See [doctor checks and fixes a hub](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1433-doctor-checks-and-fixes-a-hub.md).
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- **Sidebar, app shell and hub page** ([a sidebar of every board replaces the hub home](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-sidebar-of-every-board-replaces-the-hub-home.md), [one app for the whole hub](docs/adr/2026-10-29-2005-one-app-for-the-whole-hub.md)). Every page shows a sidebar of every site from `/_hub/sidebar.json`, Boards apart from Pages: a rail from 900px wide, and narrower a drawer. The header's kickflip logo toggles it at every width, opening the drawer or collapsing and restoring the rail, which this device remembers. The last row of Boards is New board: a + tile opening a repo picker, newest push first, with search over the owner's and their orgs' repos. Signed-out owners see `gh auth login` and a field to paste a git link. The next step shows the clone path, boards sharing it, a branch picker defaulting to the repo's default, Name prefilled from the repo, optional What it’s for, and Tickets, defaulting to Internal · INT. Start confirms: the hub clones into `~/.claude/kickflip/repos/<owner>/<repo>` if needed, then starts the board's session there with its join flags ([a new board chooses a repo and branch](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1636-a-new-board-chooses-a-repo-and-branch.md)). A muted, non-link row shows the board's name, three start steps on the board's phase bars (cloning, starting orchestrator, landing it) and the step with its seconds: cloning fills from git's real progress as cloning (NN%), and the later steps pulse; at join it turns into the board's row, which fades in ([a new board shows its start steps and live clone progress](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1914-a-new-board-shows-its-start-steps-and-clone-progress.md)); a failed clone or session start keeps the board's name in red with the sub line failed to start, as does a start that never joins after 15 minutes. Tapping it opens a sheet with its error line ([a clone uses gh's token over https, and a failed start shows git's real error](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1207-a-clone-uses-ghs-token-over-https.md)), repo, branch, tickets and when it was asked, with Dismiss and Retry, which stops a timed-out start's session and starts it again from the same record, its clone path taken again from the repo and the current clone home ([a failed start retries from its sheet](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2006-a-failed-start-retries-from-its-sheet.md)). Its order is New version when ready, Hub, Turn on notifications when needed, Pages, then Boards with New board last. The app shows New version with Reload when the hub’s code changed since it loaded, and never reloads by itself ([the app reloads for new hub code only on the owner's tap](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1824-the-app-reloads-for-new-hub-code-only-on-the-owners-tap.md)). An npm install's row reads Update available · Upgrade while npm has a newer kickflip ([the hub offers a newer kickflip from npm](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1521-the-hub-offers-a-newer-kickflip-from-npm.md)). Its header reads Kickflip. Below 900px every page header is a bottom bar and the drawer header sits under New board; desktop headers stay at the top ([phone headers sit at the bottom, with boards nearest the thumb](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1532-phone-headers-sit-at-the-bottom.md)). Hub shows notification problems and labelled Claude and Codex 5-hour usage bars under its sub line; the whole row opens the Hub page and stays selected on the hub page and its settings modals. On a keyboard, s pressed twice shows each linked row's key, a board's number or a letter from the row's name claimed in the order sites joined (`created` in the manifest), and the next key opens that row ([Switch mode's letters come from names, claimed in the order sites joined](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1102-switch-mode-letters-come-from-names-in-join-order.md)). h pressed twice shows or hides a centred Keyboard shortcuts sheet listing every shortcut, from one list in `board/public/ui-sidebar.js`; Escape closes it, and a phone never shows it. Pages open in one app shell (`board/public/app.html`), where the sidebar stays put and a site's row, a utility row, or a link to a board's Waiting on you or Notes, swaps the view in place, with no reload; the shell keeps one stream to the hub, `/_hub/stream`, for every board's change signal and the sidebar's updates. Other sites' pages and a board's prototypes show in a frame under the board header, whose title follows the page's. `/` and the Home Screen app open this device's last board, or on a first visit the board with the most waiting; never a page. While the host is asleep the app still opens, from the shell the service worker `/sw.js` saved, with the last sidebar and each board's last visit dimmed; it caches only the shell and its `/_hub/app/` files, never a site's page, API call or upload. The hub page, `/_hub/`, is a view of the shell too; it and its settings modals read their data from `/_hub/api/…`, refreshing it every 30 seconds. `/_hub/` is the hub's status page: pause and Keep going banners, then Usage (5-hour and weekly percentages, reset times and when read), then the hub's health, then Boards with their links and watchers, then Pages and polling status. Below them, Notifications, Quiet hours, Linear, Rules for every board and Closed boards keep one-line summaries and each open a centred settings modal. Claude appears after the status line writes `~/.claude/kickflip/usage.json`. Codex's block opens with the Codex share control, and Codex's bars sit under it unless share is Off. While Codex isn't installed or logged in, the control is greyed out on Off, with the reason and the command to run (`brew install --cask codex` on macOS, `npm i -g @openai/codex` elsewhere, or `codex login`) ([Codex share sits in the Usage card](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1428-codex-share-sits-in-the-usage-card.md), [Codex share follows whether Codex is usable](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1521-codex-share-follows-whether-codex-is-usable.md)). Usage and the `pause` gate come through `/_hub/sidebar.json` and `/_hub/api/hub`; older-than-window readings show “last seen” with grey stripes, otherwise a window whose reset passed reads as reset. Bars turn amber from 75% and red from 90% ([the sidebar shows Claude and Codex usage under Hub](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1338-the-sidebar-shows-claude-and-codex-usage-under-hub.md)). The Hub row opens this page; old `/_hub/settings#<section>` links open its modal, and the old `/_hub/settings/polling` opens Quiet hours. Opening or closing a Hub modal replaces the URL without adding history entries ([hub settings open as modals](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1221-hub-settings-open-as-modals.md)). Board Settings opens only that board’s controls in a centred modal at every width, scrolling inside on a phone; its gear and old `settings.html` links open it over the board, and closing preserves the board and open card without adding history entries ([hub settings expand in place and board settings open in a modal](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1721-hub-settings-expand-in-place-and-board-settings-open-in-a-modal.md)).
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Start confirms: the hub clones into `~/.claude/kickflip/repos/<owner>/<repo>` if needed, then starts the board's session there with its join flags ([a new board chooses a repo and branch](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1636-a-new-board-chooses-a-repo-and-branch.md)). A muted, non-link row shows the board's name, three start steps on the board's phase bars (cloning, starting orchestrator, landing it) and the step with its seconds: cloning fills from git's real progress as cloning (NN%), and the later steps pulse; at join it turns into the board's row, which fades in ([a new board shows its start steps and live clone progress](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1914-a-new-board-shows-its-start-steps-and-clone-progress.md)); a failed clone or session start keeps the board's name in red with the sub line failed to start, as does a start that never joins after 15 minutes. Tapping it opens a sheet with its error line ([a clone uses gh's token over https, and a failed start shows git's real error](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1207-a-clone-uses-ghs-token-over-https.md)), repo, branch, tickets and when it was asked, with Dismiss and Retry, which stops a timed-out start's session and starts it again from the same record, its clone path taken again from the repo and the current clone home ([a failed start retries from its sheet](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2006-a-failed-start-retries-from-its-sheet.md)). Its order is New version when ready, Hub, Turn on notifications when needed, Pages, then Boards with New board last. The app shows New version with Reload when the hub’s code changed since it loaded, and never reloads by itself ([the app reloads for new hub code only on the owner's tap](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1824-the-app-reloads-for-new-hub-code-only-on-the-owners-tap.md)). Its update row shows only New version · Reload ([the update row shows only New version and Reload](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0800-the-update-row-shows-only-new-version-and-reload.md)). Its header reads Kickflip. Below 900px every page header is a bottom bar and the drawer header sits under New board; desktop headers stay at the top ([phone headers sit at the bottom, with boards nearest the thumb](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1532-phone-headers-sit-at-the-bottom.md)). Hub shows notification problems and labelled Claude and Codex 5-hour usage bars under its sub line; the whole row opens the Hub page and stays selected on the hub page and its settings modals. On a keyboard, s pressed twice shows each linked row's key, a board's number or a letter from the row's name claimed in the order sites joined (`created` in the manifest), and the next key opens that row ([Switch mode's letters come from names, claimed in the order sites joined](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1102-switch-mode-letters-come-from-names-in-join-order.md)). h pressed twice shows or hides a centred Keyboard shortcuts sheet listing every shortcut, from one list in `board/public/ui-sidebar.js`; Escape closes it, and a phone never shows it. Pages open in one app shell (`board/public/app.html`), where the sidebar stays put and a site's row, a utility row, or a link to a board's Waiting on you or Notes, swaps the view in place, with no reload; the shell keeps one stream to the hub, `/_hub/stream`, for every board's change signal and the sidebar's updates. Other sites' pages and a board's prototypes show in a frame under the board header, whose title follows the page's. `/` and the Home Screen app open this device's last board, or on a first visit the board with the most waiting; never a page. While the host is asleep the app still opens, from the shell the service worker `/sw.js` saved, with the last sidebar and each board's last visit; it caches only the shell and its `/_hub/app/` files, never a site's page, API call or upload. The hub page, `/_hub/`, is a view of the shell too; it and its settings modals read their data from `/_hub/api/…`, refreshing it every 30 seconds. `/_hub/` is the hub's status page: pause and Keep going banners, then Usage (5-hour and weekly percentages, reset times and when read), then the hub's health, then Boards with their links and watchers, then Pages and polling status. Below them, Notifications, Quiet hours, Linear, Rules for every board and Closed boards keep one-line summaries and each open a centred settings modal. Claude appears after the status line writes `~/.claude/kickflip/usage.json`. Codex's block opens with the Codex share control, and Codex's bars sit under it unless share is Off. While Codex isn't installed or logged in, the control is greyed out on Off, with the reason and the command to run (`brew install --cask codex` on macOS, `npm i -g @openai/codex` elsewhere, or `codex login`) ([Codex share sits in the Usage card](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1428-codex-share-sits-in-the-usage-card.md), [Codex share follows whether Codex is usable](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1521-codex-share-follows-whether-codex-is-usable.md)). Usage and the `pause` gate come through `/_hub/sidebar.json` and `/_hub/api/hub`; older-than-window readings show “last seen” with grey stripes, otherwise a window whose reset passed reads as reset. Bars turn amber from 75% and red from 90% ([the sidebar shows Claude and Codex usage under Hub](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1338-the-sidebar-shows-claude-and-codex-usage-under-hub.md)). The Hub row opens this page; old `/_hub/settings#<section>` links open its modal, and the old `/_hub/settings/polling` opens Quiet hours. Opening or closing a Hub modal replaces the URL without adding history entries ([hub settings open as modals](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1221-hub-settings-open-as-modals.md)). Board Settings opens only that board’s controls in a centred modal at every width, scrolling inside on a phone; its gear and old `settings.html` links open it over the board, and closing preserves the board and open card without adding history entries ([hub settings expand in place and board settings open in a modal](docs/adr/2026-10-31-1721-hub-settings-expand-in-place-and-board-settings-open-in-a-modal.md)).
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- **Board template** (`--template board`, `~/.claude/skills/kickflip/board/`): a work board over wave files. A running builder with no progress for 30 minutes (from its start before its first progress) reads Stalled. The server sends `builder-stalled {key, silentSince}` once per silent spell, including across a restart; tapping Stalled and confirming sends `builder-nudge {key}`. On either event, check the builder's process and log, restart or finish the run as needed, and write one thread line on the card saying what you found. A nudge on a card that is no longer stalled gets a thread line too. Every write an agent makes to a board site goes through `node ~/.claude/skills/kickflip/board/bin/board.mjs --site <route> <command>`: replies, thread lines, question topics and questions, item status and `next`, and builder records. Its usage text lists the commands. Hand-edited JSON skips the checks the pages rely on. A new card is `board.mjs item add <wave> --title …`, never a hand edit of a wave file: it makes the card's ticket, names the card from it and prints `<label> added as <key>`; use that key, and pass `<wave>/<id>` only to import a card with its own id ([a card is named by its board's ticket source](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2100-a-card-is-named-by-its-boards-ticket-source.md)). A card filed from another card's thread, grill or answer, a follow-up included, takes `--parent <that card's key>`; one from the + has none ([a follow-up is a work card with a Parent](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0526-a-follow-up-is-a-work-card-with-a-parent.md)). A board serves `GET /_claude/needs` itself, one item per Needs you line. The + sends an `ask` event, shown as a New card at the top of Todo until you sort it ([the + makes a New card, which Claude files, folds or answers](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-plus-makes-a-new-card.md)). Take New cards from the top. Sort New cards: file it under a wave (`--from-ask`), fold it into the card it's about (`item relate-ask`), or answer it (`reply`), all below. **Every new task is grilled or prototyped at once, unless the owner chose Quick build** ([every new task is grilled or prototyped at once](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0131-every-new-task-is-grilled-or-prototyped-at-once.md)). The New task sheet asks Discuss (the default) or Quick build above Send; a Quick build ask comes as `ask {text, quick: true}`, and its thread reads "quick build: no grill, as you asked" under it. On a Discuss ask, as soon as the card is filed and titled, set it `--state grilling` and dispatch a grill (`builder start <key> --dispatch --kind grill`, then the agent), or `--state prototyping` and a prototype agent when it's a UI ask; which planner is your call. Never wait for the idle pull to plan it. On a Quick build ask, file it `--state ready` with its `--size` and its plan in the notes file, never on the card, and dispatch nothing; with auto implement on, the board takes it from there. A `grill-more {key, text?, files?}` (the thread's fire, or /grill) or a `prototype-request {key, text?, files?}` (the thread's eye, or /prototype, or the owner's eye on one question) is the owner's request: the card already reads "preheating" or "prototyping" in planner blue and the thread a muted "grill requested" or "prototype requested", or, with text, the owner's message with that status in its footer, and the board server has already launched that planner itself, headless in the board's repo folder with a brief built from the card and the owner's text and files (Claude Opus for a grill, Claude Sonnet for a prototype), and written "Planner launched on <model> in <folder>." in the thread, so leave both events alone ([the hub launches every agent from the card](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-the-hub-launches-every-agent-from-the-card.md)). A prototype request is answered only by a prototype: never answer it in the thread instead. One still waiting 30 minutes on, with no prototype agent running on the card, comes back as `prototype-overdue {key, request, question?, since}`, once per request: dispatch its prototype agent now ([a prototype request waits for its prototype](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-a-prototype-request-waits-for-its-prototype.md)). First check it against the other boards: each one's title and description in `~/.claude/kickflip/manifest.json`, its folder (`node $KF sessions`) and its cards. Only when another board clearly fits better, add an open question on the New card (`question add`, topic `item:ask:<eventId>`): "Move to <board>" recommended, then "Keep here", each with `diagram` and `practice`. On Move, run `board.mjs --site <route> ask move <eventId> --to <other route>`, which makes it a New card there and wakes that board's session, then `question resolve`; on Keep, sort it here. Hand a long build or investigation to a builder, which reports in the card's thread. The owning session only triages events, writes board lines and dispatches: a full test suite, a scratch hub, screenshots, `board.mjs land` and anything else that takes more than a few seconds run in a background agent or background task. A session sitting in foreground work leaves events waiting, and the board reads stalled. The watcher marks each ask, thread message and wave triage it prints as Working, so the page reads "Working on it" until you reply, write a later thread line on its card, reply to its ask, turn or fold its ask into a card, or the card closes. Answer a quick ask with `board.mjs reply <eventId>`. An answer never pushes: the board's answer banner and the thread's unread mark carry it ([a push goes out only when something waits on the owner, on the hub's schedule](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-pushes-only-when-something-waits-on-the-owner.md)). When the answer waits on the owner, such as a pick between prototypes, also run `board.mjs --site <route> ask progress <eventId> --next "<what the owner picks>"`. An `ask-done {id}` event is the owner closing it, which needs nothing beyond relaunching the watcher. `board.mjs ask done <eventId>` closes it from your side ([an ask can wait on the owner before Done, and the owner closes any open card from its thread](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-an-ask-can-wait-in-progress-until-the-owner-marks-it-done.md)). To turn an ask into work, add the work item named for the change and run `board.mjs item set <wave>/<id> --from-ask <eventId> --text "<first line>"`: the New card gives way to the item, whose thread opens with the ask and then that line, so the item stops reading "Working on it". A card's **Notes** is your understanding of the task so far: what was asked, what's settled, what's still open. Keep it as a `.md` file in its wave's folder, set it with `board.mjs item set <wave>/<id> --notes-file <file>` (`--plan` still works), and rewrite it as the grill settles things rather than freezing it as a plan; the thread keeps the short news. Setting the notes file resolves the card's answered questions still waiting on Claude, noting "Recorded in the card's notes", and prints `resolved: <id>` for each. The open card's details list ends with a "Notes ↗" link, which opens `notes.html`, a view that renders the file for the phone, or the item's short `notes` text when it has no file ([notes replace the full plan, and a card starts on its own](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1816-notes-replace-the-full-plan-and-cards-start-on-their-own.md), [notes is a link in the details list, with no stored summary](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1626-notes-is-a-link-in-the-details-list.md)). `item set --title` renames a card. When an ask is about an existing item, fold it in with `board.mjs item relate-ask <eventId> <wave>/<id> --summary "<one concise line>"`: the New card goes, and the owner's message moves into the item's thread marked Moved, with the summary after it. When the owner says it went to the wrong card, relate-ask it to the right one, or run `board.mjs ask unfold <eventId>` to give it a New card again. An `item-message` whose `key` is `ask:<eventId>` is the owner replying in a Done ask's thread: answer it with `board.mjs reply <its eventId>` or `board.mjs thread ask:<eventId> --text …`, as in a work item's thread. An `ask-withdrawn {id}` event (with `key` from a thread) deletes a pending message ([a pending ask or thread message can be deleted or edited, and a pending ask bumped](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-pending-ask-can-be-deleted-or-bumped.md)). An `ask-edited {id, text}` event (with `key` from a thread) replaces a pending message's text: use the new text, and if you had started, adjust the work to it and say what changed. An `ask-bump {id}` event means take that ask, or that pending prototype request, next. A `card-bump {key}` event bumps a work card ([a card that hasn't started, or is running, can be bumped](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-card-that-hasnt-started-can-be-bumped.md)): a card that hasn't started starts next once it is unblocked, and a running card's next steps (its builder's questions, review fixes, CI) come ahead of other work, and it goes first among cards waiting for a free builder. A `card-hold {key, hold, until?}` event is the owner's Hold (`hold: true`, with `until` when they picked a time) or Unhold (`false`) on a work card. A held card never starts on its own; stop work on a held running card, with no new builder, review fixes or CI reruns until it is resumed; once resumed, start it if nothing blocks it. When the owner's words give a time to pick a card up, hold it with `item set <key> --pick-up-at <ISO time>` (no offset is the Mac's local time). Within a minute of that time the board server resumes the card itself and appends `card-unblocked {key, until}` unless a dep is unfinished ([a card can be held until a time](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1727-a-card-can-be-held-until-a-time.md)); treat it as any `card-unblocked`, carrying on with a card that had started. A `card-done {key}` event is the owner closing a card from its thread's Done: follow up only by stopping any builder on it. Closing a card yourself (`--status done` or `dropped`) takes `--text "<what was done or left>"`, which becomes its last thread line; `--status merged` writes "Merged PR #n." unless `--text` says otherwise. Closing resolves each of its questions that has an answer, noting "Closed with the card"; one still open, with no answer yet, stops it, and the refusal names that question. `--force` closes the card anyway and resolves that one too. Never touch GitHub for it: an open PR stays as it is. A `card-merge {key}` event is the owner's Merge on a card whose PR is approved, green and CLEAN while the board's auto-merge is off (Auto-merge, below): run `board.mjs --site <route> merge <key>` now. When it refuses, it writes why as a thread line, which ends the button's "Merging…". Start a card as soon as its open questions are all answered and nothing blocks it, without waiting for a go; `unblocked: <key>` or a `card-unblocked {key}` event means start it now, unless held ([notes replace the full plan, and a card starts on its own](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1816-notes-replace-the-full-plan-and-cards-start-on-their-own.md)). The Implement tap, a queued start and Auto implement's pull all start the build in the board server: it makes the refusals a build's `builder start` makes, picks the builder (claude with a model, or codex), makes the worktree, marks the card building and clears its Next, then launches the builder itself, headless in the worktree (`claude -p`, or `codex exec` for a codex pick) with a standard brief built from the card's notes and the rules, and writes "Builder launched on <model> in <worktree>." in the thread; no event reaches you. The builder's own first step is `builder start <key> --kind build`, which takes up the record the board opened; its first status line then replaces "starting". A refused tap, or a launch that fails, puts the card back in Todo with the reason in its thread ([a Build tap starts the build in the board server](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0219-a-build-tap-starts-the-build-in-the-board-server.md), [the hub launches every agent from the card](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-the-hub-launches-every-agent-from-the-card.md)). `item set --state ready` refuses a card without `--size`, without a notes file, or whose notes don't name the id of each question the owner answered on it, and marking it ready resolves those questions, so record every answer in the notes before marking it ready. The builder asks you as any builder does, and finishes its own work with `builder done --text`, rebasing and resolving conflicts itself; finishing never comes to you. A build with calls hands back as before: verify them (`builder verified`), which finishes the card in the same step; when a question on the card was still open, or that finish refused, the server launches a headless lander once no question is open, which acts on the owner's answers and finishes it, so don't land it yourself ([builders launch headless, check their notes and land on their own](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0306-builders-launch-headless-check-their-notes-and-land-on-their-own.md)). With Auto implement Todo cards on (`setting auto-pull on|off`, set with `settings set auto-pull on|off` only on the owner's word), the board pulls ready Todo cards into free implementer slots and launches their builds, one per free slot, up to Maximum parallel implementers (`setting max-implementers <n>`, 10 by default, set with `settings set max-implementers <n>` only on the owner's word), counting cards building or in Orchestrator review ([an idle board pulls in its top Todo card](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1754-an-idle-board-pulls-in-its-top-todo-card.md), [auto implement fills In Progress up to Maximum parallel implementers, on every board change](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0057-auto-implement-fills-in-progress-up-to-a-cap.md)). When nothing is ready to pull, the idle board launches a planner on its top unready Todo card, a prototype when the card is prototyping and a grill otherwise, so it moves toward ready ([the idle pull takes ready cards first, and plans the top card when none is ready](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1631-the-idle-pull-takes-ready-cards-first.md)). A `pr-review {pr, head, repo, title, author, url, touches, asked}` event, with auto review on, asks you to review a teammate's PR that touches the listed cards or asks the owner: read its diff and the reviews already on it, and, rereading them right before posting, post one Comment review (never approve or request changes) as the owner's gh login, its first line "Claude review from <owner>'s board" plus `<!-- claude-bridge -->`, with only points no other review made, or post nothing; then `review record <pr> --state posted --file <review.md> [--url <review link>]`. When it finds a blocker, disagrees with a decision on a card or clashes with a card in progress, post nothing and `review record <pr> --state needs --file <draft.md>` instead; the owner's Post it or Skip comes back as `review-answer {pr, answer}`, after which you post (or don't) and record it as posted ([each board reviews incoming PRs that touch its work, in an Auto Review lane](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1731-each-board-reviews-incoming-prs-that-touch-its-work.md)). An `overnight-triage {date, topic, cards}` event is the board asking for its overnight triage, with auto-triage on (`setting auto-triage on|off`, set only on the owner's word): it goes out once a night from the middle of quiet hours, when two or more cards, `cards`, wait on the owner's open questions and nothing builds. First read those cards' open questions against each other. Questions that ask the same thing become one: `question add` the merged question on the newest of their cards by `created`, naming in its `context` each card it answers for, and `question resolve` each of the others with `--note "Replaced by <new id>"`. When the owner answers a merged question, copy the answer onto each card it names, as a thread line and in its notes, before acting on it on any of them. Cards whose grills show they are the same work merge as a clear duplicate does below. Then check each open question left against the owner's earlier answers on other cards and their long-running context, such as what they said in other cards' threads and notes, not against ADRs or CONTEXT.md, which the grill already read. When one of those answers settles a question and you are confident it carries over, `question add` it again on the same topic with a new id, its options unchanged and `suggested: {option, card, answer}`: the option, the earlier card's ref and the owner's answer in their words. Then `question resolve` the old one with `--note "Replaced by <new id>"`. Never act on a suggestion yourself: the page pre-checks it, and it waits for the owner's Send ([overnight triage suggests your earlier answers](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2200-overnight-triage-suggests-your-earlier-answers.md)). Leave the other questions you could answer yourself as they are. Then read the Todo and Stale cards against each other and against merged work, leaving Done alone (old Done cards leave by the archive rule, [the board keeps the newest 100 Done cards](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0307-the-board-keeps-the-newest-100-done-cards.md)), and find duplicates, cards a newer card covers, cards merged work already did, and deps that no longer hold. Link related cards (`item set --related`) and merge a clear duplicate into the newer card yourself, dropping the older with a thread line naming the one it went into. A close, or anything you aren't sure of, is one question per finding on `topic`, all in one `question add` array; quiet hours hold their push until morning. Then reply to the event, even when you changed nothing ([triage runs once overnight on cards waiting on your answers](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1900-triage-runs-once-overnight-on-cards-waiting-on-your-answers.md)). Set `deps` for work that waits on other cards. When `--status done`, `merged` or `dropped` finishes the last dep, it prints `unblocked: <key>` and appends a `card-unblocked {key}` event; leave a held card held until the owner unholds it ([cards wait on explicit blocked-by links](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-cards-wait-on-explicit-blocked-by-links.md), [Build on a blocked card queues it, and blocked, bumped and Action needed leave the badges](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0301-build-on-a-blocked-card-queues-it.md)). Every builder you start for a card works in its own git worktree, never in the folder you, a running app or the hub use ([every builder works in a worktree, and the hub's own fault shows once](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1654-every-builder-works-in-a-worktree.md)). A repo card's builder uses the board's manifest `github` and `branch` when following wave-build; it never switches the shared clone's checkout. A build's `builder start` on a board makes the card's worktree when its record keeps none, `~/.claude/kickflip/worktrees/<card id>` on branch `<card id>`, and prints `worktree: <path>`; the builder's prompt names that path as the only place it edits, tests and runs scratch hubs. Right before it launches any builder agent, the session runs `board.mjs --site <route> builder start <key> --dispatch --kind <kind> [--model …]`, which opens the record (`dispatched: 'session'`) so the card reads "starting" at launch, and changes nothing on a record the Implement tap already opened (`dispatched: 'tap'`), printing "already open"; it never posts a "builder is working" line itself ([the session opens the builder record when it dispatches an agent](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0513-the-session-opens-the-builder-record-when-it-dispatches-an-agent.md), [a card reads starting from its tap, with one dispatched mark](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1718-a-card-reads-starting-from-its-tap-with-one-dispatched-mark.md)). Every builder, prototype and grill agents included (`--kind prototype` or `--kind grill`), runs, as required steps in its prompt, `board.mjs --site <route> builder start <key> --kind <kind> --label "<label>"` first, which takes up the dispatched record (the label carries no model word) (a build agent passes `--kind build`, which records the kind and model `builder pick <key>` prints), `builder progress <key> --phase <reading|building|testing|checking|landing> "<detail>"` (or `--text "<detail>"`) at each milestone (a planner, kind grill or prototype, passes no `--phase`: its line reads "Preheating: <detail>" or "Prototyping: <detail>" in planner blue, never a builder phase word, and a `--phase` it passes is dropped) and `builder done <key>` before it hands back, so the card sits in In Progress with a live status line. Closing a card's last open record when it stays In Progress with no Next is refused: pass `builder done <key> --next "<what happens next>"`, or hand back with `item set <key> --status checking` or `land`, which close the record themselves. A card with a step only the owner can do once its code lands (a publisher to add, a release to tag) takes `--owner-step "<the step>"` on whichever of `builder done` and `land` finishes it: it then waits in In Review with that step as its Next and its ticket open, and only the owner's Done closes it ([a card whose code landed stays in review while an owner step remains](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0158-a-card-whose-code-landed-stays-in-review-while-an-owner-step-remains.md)). When code can prove the step done, add one `--check "<name> <args>"` on the final evidence beside `--owner-step`: `tag <owner/repo> <pattern>`, `npm <package> <version-or-range>`, `run <owner/repo> <workflow>`, `gh <owner/repo> <api-path> <field>=<value>` or `url <address> [<status> | <text>]`, never a shell command. The hub's poll runs it once the code lands and closes the card when it passes; on `owner-check-broken {key, check, error}`, fix it with `item set <key> --check "<check>"`, or remove it with `--check ""`, and write one thread line saying which ([an owner step can carry a code check](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2308-an-owner-step-can-carry-a-code-check; `item set` likewise refuses a write that would leave a built card with neither ([an In Progress card always has a builder line or a Next](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0237-an-in-progress-card-always-has-a-builder-line-or-a-next.md)). The detail is plain words: what the builder is doing and why it matters to the owner, such as `--phase testing "fix for the scroll jump into Done"`. A wait on a lock or a Codex limit goes in the detail. Commits, test counts, ADR numbers, file names and screenshots go in the hand-back and the session's thread message, not the line ([a builder status line is a phase and a short detail](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0128-a-builder-status-line-is-a-phase-and-a-short-detail.md)). A build's `builder start` is the one write that marks the card building: it moves the ticket to In Progress and prints `ref: <label>`, the card's name for its commit subject. `building` and `fixing` count as working only while a builder record on that card is open; with none open, its PR and other state place it as if the status were absent. `builder done` clears either status when it closes the card’s last open builder record; `item set --pr` clears either status too and closes ordinary builders while install builders keep running. When a subagent stops, a SubagentStop hook, `board/bin/builder-stop-hook.mjs`, closes the records it started and left open, but not one another agent restarted later, and not while background work the subagent started still runs (the input's `background_tasks`), since it resumes when that work ends. A skill's own hooks don't fire for SubagentStop, so the hook ships as the plugin `hooks-plugin/`, which Claude Code loads as `kickflip-hooks@skills-dir` through the link `~/.claude/skills/kickflip-hooks` (`claude plugin list` shows it); a new host needs that link. A site card's builder lands its own card: it runs the tests and checks the board at phone width in its worktree, commits there as the repo's configured user (`git -c core.commentChar=';' commit -F <file>`, or `--cleanup=verbatim`, so git keeps a "#N:" subject), then runs `board.mjs --site <route> builder done <key> --text "<what it checked>"`. With no unverified calls that finishes the card, the one step `land` also runs, as `builder done`'s usage lists: it lands the worktree, closes the card as done with that text as its last thread line, and with the board's "Push main after a land" switch on pushes main to origin itself, so no session pushes after a land; on a GitHub board it pushes the branch and opens a draft PR instead, and on a plain git remote pushes the branch ([finishing a build is one step](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1611-finishing-a-build-is-one-step.md)). A finish that fails refuses with the reason and the builder stays on: it fixes what the refusal names and runs `builder done` again. Only a builder that can't finish hands back, with a `builder call` naming why, then `builder done`: the card sits in In Progress reading "Orchestrator review" and unblocks nothing, and the owning session checks it, and its `builder verified` finishes it ([site cards build in parallel when their files don't overlap](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-site-cards-build-in-parallel-when-their-files-dont-overlap.md), [the board records what it knows, and commands make the rule calls](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0003-the-board-records-what-it-knows-and-commands-make-the-rule-calls.md)). On a refusal, fix what its line names in the worktree and finish again. **Judgment calls** ([a builder records its judgment calls and the session verifies them before land](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0514-a-builder-records-its-judgment-calls-and-the-session-verifies-them.md)): every builder's brief includes these steps. Right after `builder start`, it records each gap or ambiguity in its brief as `builder call <key> "Question: …"`; with any, it runs `builder done <key>`, which hands the card back for them, and stops, its report the questions. Answer them from the card's notes and thread, asking the owner on the card only what those don't settle, and resume it with SendMessage; its `builder start` then resumes the record, calls kept. While building, it records each judgment call as it makes it, `builder call <key> "<call>"`, one plain line each. A builder with calls doesn't finish: `builder done <key>` hands the card back for them to be verified, and its report lists them. Check each (`builder calls <key>`) against the owner's words and the other cards: one that conflicts with what the owner said goes to the owner as a question on the card, any other wrong one back to the builder by SendMessage. Then run `builder verified <key> [--note "<what you checked>"]`, which finishes the card in the same step, the note its closing line; while a question on the card is open it says so and the card waits, and a finish that fails keeps the mark and says why. `land` refuses while a record on the card has unverified calls. **Builder asks** ([a builder asks the orchestrator mid-build, and only what it defers reaches the owner](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0247-a-builder-asks-the-orchestrator-mid-build.md)): a builder's brief also says that, at any point, it can ask you a question with `builder ask <key> "<question>"` and carry on meanwhile, checking `builder asks <key>` for your reply. The ask shows in the card's thread as "Claude Opus builder" (by its model) and wakes you as a `builder-ask {key, ask, agent, text}` event; the card itself stays quiet. Answer from the card's notes, thread and the owner's words with `builder answer <key> <ask> --text "<answer>"`, or, when you aren't confident or the owner's opinion is wanted, `builder defer <key> <ask> --text "<what to carry on with>"`: never ask the owner mid-build. Both show in the thread as Orchestrator. A deferral is a "Question:" call on the builder's record, so its build hands back to you; after you've reviewed everything else, and before a draft PR or In Review, put it to the owner as a card question naming the ask (`"ask": "<ask>"` in the question file), which `builder verified` requires. The card then shows Open questions and "1 new question", with no Action needed. **A repo card's built work always goes straight to a draft PR** once it is checked (owner, 2026-10-23): on a GitHub board the finish (`builder done --text`, or your `builder verified` on a handed-back build) pushes the card's branch, opens the draft with `gh pr create --draft` and records it as `item set --pr` does, closing the builder records. For a PR opened by hand, run `item set <key> --pr <n> --clear-status`. Either way the card sits in In Progress while CI runs or fails, then in In Review with Action needed linking to the PR once CI passes, also while the owner tries it on a test deploy. A card whose work spans repos holds a PR in each: run `item set <key> --pr <owner/repo#n>` once per PR (it adds, never replaces; a bare number is the board's repo). Each PR gets its own badge and polling, the least-ready one decides the lane and Next, `merge` merges them all in order, and `pr` prints a line per PR ([a card holds several PRs across repos](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1904-a-card-holds-several-prs-across-repos.md)). A board whose repo is a plain git remote (manifest `remote`, no `github`) has no PRs: the finish pushes the card's branch to origin and records it as `item set <key> --pushed <branch>` does (by hand: `git push origin <branch>` in its worktree, then that command), so the card waits In Review on the owner's merge; the hub's poll moves it to Done once the branch is merged into the board's branch or gone from the remote, with a thread line ([a board can work on any git remote](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1850-a-board-can-work-on-any-git-remote.md)). A card's lane follows who acts next: one waiting only on the owner's Ready, Merge, manual steps or an ask's Done sits in In Review with Action needed, and goes back to In Progress once Claude works on it again ([the lane follows who acts next, and a card waiting on the owner says Action needed](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-lane-follows-who-acts-next.md)). One that hasn't started and waits only on its open questions or a prototype pick, ask or work card, stays in Todo with Action needed. An owner `item-message` on a Done card, or a question you add on one, reopens it on the board with no step from you: it sits in In Progress until you answer the message, then waits in In Review with Action needed until the owner's Done (an open question puts it there at once). Answer and leave it ([a message or question on a Done card reopens it until the owner's Done](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1952-a-message-or-question-on-a-done-card-reopens-it.md), [a merged card reopens on a message, and its PR badge shows the PR's state](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1843-a-merged-card-reopens-and-its-pr-badge-shows-the-prs-state.md)). Never park built work as `waiting`, which reads as blocked. `item set <key> --deps <list>` sets a card's blockers after it exists. A PR that changes what a page looks like carries screenshots in its description, as wave-build's build step says. **Each card and main has a version to try** ([a board's build script serves or builds each card and main](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1846-a-boards-build-script-serves-or-builds-each-card-and-main.md)). When setting up a board whose repo lacks `.kickflip/build`, write that executable repo file for the project. The hub runs each branch's copy with `<key> <worktree>` (key `main` for main), cwd the worktree, `KICKFLIP_BOARD=<route>`. Keep it owned by the current user and writable by neither group nor others. A website script starts its server, prints exactly `port <n>` on stdout and stays running as its server process. It listens on `HOST` (127.0.0.1), so only the hub's gated relay reaches it. Serve browser paths at `/`; each served card and main gets its own Tailscale HTTPS port, with no `KICKFLIP_BASE` ([a try build serves on its own Tailscale port](docs/adr/2026-11-01-2254-a-try-build-serves-on-its-own-tailscale-port.md)). An app script exits 0 after publishing its install: `board.mjs --site "$KICKFLIP_BOARD" item set <key> --install <url> --install-sha <head sha>`, or `main set --install <url> [--install-sha <sha>]` for main. iOS uses `itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://…/manifest.plist`; Android uses an https `.apk`. Keep install files under the site's `public/installs/`. Signing still needs the login keychain unlocked on macOS. The hub owns runs and their logs in `data/try/<id>.log`, reports only failed card runs in the thread and leaves each card in its lane. Try builds wait on Tailscale; the hub refuses a run with the readiness reason until it is ready. Only the owner's Serve or Build and Auto-build start a card run; a session never starts one on its own, not even for a device app after a push, and a board rule asking for that is the owner's cue to turn Auto-build on. When the owner asks for a run in words, run `board.mjs --site <route> build <key> --asked "<the owner's words>"` (`install` is an alias), quoting their ask, card message or answer note; it refuses words the owner didn't write on the board, prints `started` and exits ([only the owner or Auto-build starts a card run](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1806-only-the-owner-or-auto-build-starts-a-card-run.md)). Auto-build cards, off by default, runs each new head when on, and the card then has no Serve or Build; otherwise the card waits for Serve or Build, shown once its branch has changes. Set `settings set auto-build on|off` only on the owner's word. Main always builds after each merge, independent of the toggle, in the hub's detached worktree, and shows its version above the lanes. A served card stops after 30 minutes without a visit; main stays up. The card badge reads Visit/Install, Visit (stale)/Install (stale), an inert Serving…/Building… spinner or Serve failed/Build failed opening its thread. Main’s red Serve failed/Build failed button opens a bottom sheet with the last 40 log lines and Retry at the recorded failed tip, even if origin has moved. Retry waits on Tailscale readiness and shows refusals in the sheet; while running it reads Serving…/Building… in orange, then closes with a toast when main is ready or refreshes the log after another failure. Maintain a broken script through a card. **Marking a PR ready for a reviewer includes the Slack link** (owner, 2026-10-24): add them to the board's reviewers if they're missing (Board reviewers, below), then DM the bare PR link as the Reviewers steps below describe, even when no monitor or bridge runs for the wave, and record its ts in the wave's `review_link_ts`. Every hub feature finds boards through one registry, `hub/boards.mjs`, so each serves both kinds alike ([one board registry for every hub feature](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-one-board-registry-for-every-hub-feature.md)): the hub polls every open PR on any board's card, whatever `monitor.json` watches (a card's PR is in the board's `github` repo, else its wave's `repo`; with neither, the card has no PR link and nothing polls it), and a PR's `github-change` goes to each board with an eligible changed card. Boards over their own file (`--items`) use the same GitHub tick and Reviewers steps as wave boards. The hub checks GitHub every minute while Love is here and every 5 when away, and wakes you only on a change, or at the daily wake when quiet hours end ([the hub checks every minute while you’re here and every 5 when away](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0226-the-hub-checks-every-minute-while-youre-here-and-every-5-when-away.md)): a `github-change {prs: [{wave, id, pr, changes}]}` event, where `changes` lists `ci`, `review`, `comments`, `merged`, `mergeable`, or `draft`, means run one GitHub tick for those PRs. A `check-github {}` event is the owner's refresh asking for a check, and `check-github {reason: "morning"}` is the hub's daily wake (8:00am by default), so kickflip's reviewer digests go out on a quiet day: for either, run one GitHub tick. Run the Reviewers steps below as part of either tick. End each tick with `board.mjs --site <route> checked`, which takes `--every` as the away cadence, 5 minutes, so the In Review header reads late only once a check is overdue, and records idle by itself when no card has an open PR, so the time stays muted rather than late. It then sends the pushes the tick queued. The hub writes the same `checked.json` after each of its checks. When the header reads "not listening" in your own session, relaunch the watcher ([the board shows GitHub checks and Claude's activity, with one refresh](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-board-shows-github-checks-and-watcher-health.md)); it also reads so while the board's session isn't running and the hub can't wake it. When an event has waited 15 minutes while the board reads so, the hub pushes the owner "<title> isn't listening" once. A `hello` event is the hub testing a new board's links (`join --template board` runs `node $KF handshake <route>`, then asks the hub for one poll so the GitHub link passes at once): the watcher answers it itself and prints `hello <eventId> from the hub answered`. The board shows a Connecting checklist until that and the hub's GitHub check reach it; cards can start meanwhile. The In Review header's GitHub mark opens the Hub links sheet (GitHub polling, the repo fetch on a board with a repo, events, daily wakes, pushes, reviewer links). The watcher prints each broken one at once, after the rules, as `link <name> <detail>`; the mark gets a red dot only for a link still broken past its grace period, and the sheet shows it settling until then ([hub links turn red only after a grace period](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-hub-links-turn-red-only-after-a-grace-period.md)). Fix what is yours straight away, such as a missing reviewer link or a stopped watcher. `link hub` means the hub runs older code than its files, which the sidebar's Hub row and the hub page show in amber, never a board: restart it with the command the link names: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/local.claude.kickflip-hub` on macOS, `systemctl --user restart kickflip-hub.service` on Linux. Tell the owner the rest. A card that changes the hub's or a board's UI starts with an in-situ prototype before any builder touches the skill: one prototype per question, one take per option, and an open question on the card whose `url` opens it; build only after the owner picks. The prototype planner the board launches for a `prototype-request {key}` posts its page as a card question ([prototypes come only when obviously helpful or on request](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-prototypes-come-on-request.md)); for a `prototype-request {key?, question, note, choice}`, the owner's eye on one question asked in place of an answer, it builds takes of that whole question, following the note and the option `choice` names when it isn't null, and posts them as the round's question with `question add`, adding `round_of: "<that question id>"` beside the prototype url. The asked question reads "prototype requested", locked, and `question resolve` refuses it, until that round's `question add` with `round_of` resolves it, numbering the round and noting "Followed by prototype round N" on it; the card reads prototyping until a take is picked ([a prototype round ends with a one-take confirm](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1332-a-prototype-round-ends-with-a-one-take-confirm.md), [a question asked for a prototype is resolved, and the page moves on](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1803-a-question-asked-for-a-prototype-is-resolved.md), [a prototype request waits for its prototype](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-a-prototype-request-waits-for-its-prototype.md)). A resolved question on Waiting on you is read-only; tapping its green resolved badge and confirming sends `reask-request {key?, question}`, and the card's thread already reads a muted "re-ask requested", so write no thread message. Re-read the card's notes and thread, and ask that question again as they stand today with `question add`, adding `reask_of: "<that question id>"`; on a card with a planner running, have the planner ask it. `question add` notes "Asked again as <new id>" on the old question, which ends the request ([a resolved question is read-only and can be asked again](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2001-a-resolved-question-is-read-only-and-can-be-asked-again.md)). **The board owns the page; you write only the takes** ([the board serves every prototype from one template](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1448-the-board-serves-every-prototype-from-one-template.md)). Record the prototype with `board.mjs --site <route> prototype add <topic> --title "…" --card <wave>/<id> --take A:"Label" --take B:"Label"` (topic `a-z0-9-`, each key one capital letter, labels never starting with "A. ", since the take pill shows the label alone), which prints the take files to write, `public/prototypes/<topic>/<KEY>.js`. The board then serves `prototype-<topic>.html` from its one template: the header with back to the card, the shared take pill, `?take=` and `?q=`, and a stage for the take. `prototype list` shows what is recorded, and `prototype rm <topic>` drops a record once no open question uses it. Each take file is a module, `export function render(stage, kit) { stage.innerHTML = …; return cleanup }`, rerun with a fresh stage on every switch. `kit` draws the real components fed fake data: `kit.sidebar()`, `kit.hub({usage, afterUsage, usageCard, settings…})`, `kit.cards()` and `kit.sheet(html, {title})`, with `kit.toast`, `kit.on`, `kit.fake` and `kit.esc`; `BoardUI` and `HubUI` are globals too, and `board/public/prototype-kit.js` documents each. Build each take from these, changing only what the take is about; a look-alike copy drifts from what ships (owner, on back-to-card). The stage contains its take, `position: fixed` included, so nothing covers the header or pill; links and forms in it only toast, and the listeners and timers a take adds end on the next switch. Every interaction must work on a tap. Include this prototype paragraph in the brief of any builder or agent asked to make a prototype. With each prototype, add an open question on its card: one option per take, the option ids the take keys in take order (a later round may list only some takes, still in take order), and the recommended option tagged with `recommended: true`, with `url` set to `prototype-<topic>.html?q=<question id>`, relative to the site root and stored as given. A question added on a card's topic resolves each question there that is answered and still waiting on Claude, noting "Followed by <new id>", and prints `resolved: <old id>`; a question re-asked on the same topic and prototype resolves any other unresolved one it replaces, noting "Replaced by <new id>", and prints `replaced: <old id>` ([an answered question stops waiting once Claude acts on its card](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1813-an-answered-question-stops-waiting-once-claude-acts-on-its-card.md)). Acting on a card's answers resolves them the same way, noting what acted: `item set --status building` ("Acted on: build started"), `builder start` ("Acted on: builder started"), and a `reply` to an ask or a wave triage for the answered questions on its topic ("Acted on: replied") ([the CLI and board server do the board's housekeeping](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2044-the-cli-and-board-server-do-the-boards-housekeeping.md)). A pick, with a note or none, settles its round: the note is the build's guidance, and the build starts as any card's does ([a prototype pick is the build's go, and more of the skill moves into code](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0504-a-prototype-pick-is-the-builds-go.md)). An answer with a note and no take, the owner having cleared the pick, resolves its question and leaves the card prototyping with Next "Prototype again" until a take is picked; its owner-answer event carries `prototype_again: true`: draw the next round from the note as for a `prototype-request`, or grill when the note asks a question ([a prototype answer with no pick prototypes again, so a card is never stuck](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1646-a-prototype-answer-with-no-pick-prototypes-again.md)). The questions page measures each take in a frame: a single take, or a question where any take scrolls or fills the screen, gets one full-width take below the option row, switching the take in place with no reload; if all fit, they show in a grid. Every frame takes taps. Both layouts keep the note and Send on Waiting on you; a page opened from a thread keeps its own header and take pill, where the owner can also pick ([a question's takes show inline, and back goes one step](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-questions-takes-show-inline.md)). In the app, back from the page goes to Waiting on you on that question and then to the board, however the owner arrived; the header's `backHref` applies only when the page is opened alone ([Back follows the page tree](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1125-back-follows-the-page-tree.md)). A page that links the board's `style.css` links `colors.css` before it, since every color lives there ([one colour constants file shared by the hub and every board](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-one-colour-constants-file-shared-by-the-hub-and-every-board.md)). The board pushes it (Push notifications, below). Add prototypes to a card's question unasked only when they obviously help. A choice with nothing to see, such as a code structure, a data flow or a policy, gets `diagram` and `practice` on each option instead (`question add` usage): boxes and arrows the questions page draws, and a line or two of what it means in practice (what a new feature must do, what changes, what it costs), so the pick is between concrete options, not labels (owner, 2026-10-24, on hb-model; [a question's takes show inline, and back goes one step](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-questions-takes-show-inline.md)). **Grill a card through open questions on the card**, never a separate page or a link ([a card is grilled through its own open questions](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-card-is-grilled-through-its-own-open-questions.md)): `board.mjs question add` each question with topic `item:<wave>/<id>`, options in take order with the recommended option tagged, and a prototype page in `url` when one helps. They land in Needs you and on the open card. When the ask is to grill new work, make the card first (`--from-ask`), then the questions. Questions that span several cards go under a declared topic (`topic add`). **Messages stand alone.** Every reply, thread line and question reads on its own in the card's thread, where the owner reads it: name cards by their label (e.g. #96), and a pointer such as "above", "below" or "here" must make sense in the card's own thread, never point into this session. The owner reads only the board, not this session.
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+ **Board template** (`--template board`, `~/.claude/skills/kickflip/board/`): a work board over wave files. A builder reads starting until its first progress line. A headless builder the board launched reads from its process: quiet, in grey, once 5 minutes pass with no progress line and no change to its Claude transcript, and stopped, in red, once its process is gone without done and the board has stopped relaunching it (a first exit relaunches within a minute); any other running builder reads Stalled once 10 minutes pass with no progress line and no change to its Claude transcript (from its start before its first progress; a run with no readable transcript has progress lines alone) ([a card's status word comes from a signal the board checks](docs/adr/2026-11-05-0410-a-card-status-word-comes-from-a-signal-the-board-checks.md)). A silent or stopped builder is a `stalled` kind on the orchestrator's list, waking you once per spell like any wait; tapping the red line and confirming sends `builder-nudge {key}`. On either, check the builder's process and log, restart or finish the run as needed, and write one thread line on the card saying what you found. A nudge on a card that is no longer stalled gets a thread line too. To stop a run the board launched, never use a raw kill: `builder stop <key>` stops a card's headless builder, lander or rebase run, and `land stop <key>` its land with the suite, each saying what it stopped. To put a card's land first, bump it (`item bump <key>`); `land queue` lists the order ([the orchestrator stops the board's own runs](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1809-the-orchestrator-stops-the-boards-own-runs.md)). For a parallel part of a card's work, ask the board for a helper rather than an in-process subagent it can't see or count: `agent launch <key> --name <n> --task "<t>" [--writes]`. The board launches it headless; one that writes takes an implementer slot and works in its own worktree off the card's branch. `agent wait <key> --name <n>` prints its hand-back, and `agent merge` brings in a writing helper's branch ([the implementer limit counts agents, and any agent on a card can ask the board for helpers](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0425-the-implementer-limit-counts-agents-and-a-card-spawns-helpers.md)). Every write an agent makes to a board site goes through `node ~/.claude/skills/kickflip/board/bin/board.mjs --site <route> <command>`: replies, thread lines, question topics and questions, item status and `next`, and builder records. Its usage text lists the commands. Hand-edited JSON skips the checks the pages rely on. PreToolUse hook (`hooks-plugin/hooks/board-data-gate.mjs`) denies Edit and Write on a board site's `board.json`, its `data/**/*.json` and its wave file, naming the `board.mjs` command that makes the change ([a hook refuses hand edits to board data files](docs/adr/2026-11-05-2330-a-hook-refuses-hand-edits-to-board-data-files.md)); notes `.md` files and Bash stay open. Write a question draft for `question add --file` in the site's `drafts/` folder, where Edit and Write still work. A new card is `board.mjs item add <wave> --title …`, never a hand edit of a wave file. Yours carries `--state <s>` and its `--relate <keys>` so it is filed and linked in that one call, while an agent's has no `--state` and comes back to you as `card-added`: it makes the card's ticket, names the card from it and prints `<label> added as <key>`; use that key, and pass `<wave>/<id>` only to import a card with its own id ([a card is named by its board's ticket source](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2100-a-card-is-named-by-its-boards-ticket-source.md)). A card filed from another card's thread, grill or answer, a follow-up included, takes `--parent <that card's key>`; one from the + has none ([a follow-up is a work card with a Parent](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0526-a-follow-up-is-a-work-card-with-a-parent.md)). A board serves `GET /_claude/needs` itself, one item per Needs you line. The + sends an `ask` event, shown as a New card at the top of Todo until you sort it ([the + makes a New card, which Claude files, folds or answers](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-plus-makes-a-new-card.md)). **Intake triage sorts New cards, not you** ([intake triage sorts new tasks on Sonnet](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0204-intake-triage-sorts-new-tasks-on-sonnet.md)): for each new task, each owner message in a New card's thread, and each `card-added` card, the board launches a one-shot Sonnet run, one at a time, handed an index of every open card (label, title, lane, state, notes file) and the task with its attachments and thread. It files the task under a wave (`--from-ask`), folds it into the card it's about (`item relate-ask`), or answers it (`reply`), as below, and its thread lines are its report; those events never wake you. When it is unsure, or its run ends with the task unsorted, it hands it to you with `intake handoff <eventId> --text <why>`: an `intake` wait on your list, which you sort the same ways, from the top. **Every new task is grilled or prototyped at once, unless the owner chose Implement** ([every new task is grilled or prototyped at once](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0131-every-new-task-is-grilled-or-prototyped-at-once.md)). **Linking is part of filing** ([the orchestrator links a new card when it files it](docs/adr/2026-11-05-0130-the-orchestrator-links-a-new-card-when-it-files-it.md)). Before you set a new card's state, check the cards still pending (Todo and In Progress) for ones it overlaps, depends on or would duplicate. Link them in the same call that files it: `item set <key> --from-ask <id> --text … --relate <keys> --state …` (`--relate` adds links and keeps the rest, `--unrelate` takes them off on both cards, `--related` replaces the list; `--deps` for a card it truly waits on). Then append a short `## Related` line to each linked card's notes file and to the new card's, naming the other card and how they overlap. A card never reaches Todo unlinked: its planner launches from there, and the planner's and builder's briefs list the card's Related to, Parent and deps with their notes paths, so they gather the broader context from your links. A `card-added {key, title}` event is a card an agent added with `item add` (a builder's or planner's follow-up): it is unsorted, and gets no grill, until intake triage (or you, on its hand-off) files it: write or tidy its notes, link it the same way, then set its `--state`; that clears New, and the board grills it on arrival. `item add` and `item set` refuse `--state ready` on such a card: an agent's follow-up reaches ready only through staging. The New task sheet sends with one of two buttons, Discuss (⌘↵) or Implement (⌥↵); an Implement ask comes as `ask {text, quick: true}`, and its thread reads "Implementation requested" under it. On a Discuss ask, file the card `--state grilling` with notes that brief its grill, and dispatch nothing: with Auto implement on, the board launches a grill headless on every card that lands in Todo, however it was filed (an ask, `item add`, the +, an import), up to Maximum parallel planners at once (`setting max-planners <n>`, 3 by default, set with `settings set max-planners <n>` only on the owner's word), the rest waiting in board order. An arrival is a work card in Todo that isn't ready, staging or held, with no planner record and no questions yet; it gets one grill, never a prototype straight away, and the grill asks for a prototype round when the card changes a UI ([every card arriving in Todo is grilled by the board](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2359-every-card-arriving-in-todo-is-grilled-by-the-board.md)). A grill ends with its prototype gate, so the owner's Send settles every card; where the owner asked for prototypes, or a board rule wants a UI prototype first, it ends prototyping. A card has no status: it stores its lane (Todo, In Progress, In Review, Done), which a build's start, a handover (`--pr`, `--pushed`, a verified merge-ready build), a block and a close move at once, and the board server moves the rest as GitHub, messages and holds change, each move with a "Moved to <lane>: <why>" thread line; `item set --status` is refused ([a card stores its lane, and facts replace statuses](docs/adr/2026-11-07-1400-a-card-stores-its-lane-and-facts-replace-statuses.md)). Don't watch Todo or write grill prompts; the grill's questions go to the owner, and you act on the owner-answer. An Implement ask is filed `--from-ask <id> --state staging` with its `--size` and its plan in the notes file, never on the card, the one filing that stages a card: it waits on you as a staging card, and you judge it like any other before it goes ready. A Todo card's reply box sends with Reply (⌘↵) or Implement (⌥↵), the card's only Implement, and each message's thread footer names its button ([each text box sends its intent from a key](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2343-each-text-box-sends-its-intent-from-a-key.md), [Implement in the thread queues the card for the orchestrator](docs/adr/2026-11-05-0300-implement-in-the-thread-queues-the-card-for-the-orchestrator.md)). Reply comes as `item-message {key, text, intent: 'reply'}`; answer it as any message. Implement comes as `item-message {key, text, intent: 'build'}`: the board has already staged the card in Todo, unheld it, resolved its open questions "Skipped: you tapped Implement" and written the words into its notes verbatim (its footer reads "Implement", the watcher's line "Implement asked on <card>"). A Reply on a ready card stages it the same way. **Staging, then ready** ([staging, then ready](docs/adr/2026-11-07-0700-staging-then-ready.md)): staging is the state the board sets on the owner's Send that leaves an unstarted card with nothing open (a gate "no" included), on an Implement, and on a Reply to a ready card; only the board sets it. `item set --state ready` takes a card only from staging, or one already ready. The orchestrator's wait on a staging card reads "Judge the staged card": read its notes, where the owner's words already are, then `item set <key> --state ready` (with its `--size` and notes file), or `--state grilling` or `--state prototyping` for another round, which the board starts itself. A staging card is never pulled; a ready card waits for the pull like any other, so never start that build yourself. A question added on a ready or staging card moves it to grilling, and so does the owner's Grill or Prototype tap. An empty Implement on a Todo card records no event: the board server writes its "Implementation requested" line, marks the card ready with whatever is on it and starts the build, or bumps it while a dep blocks it, and nothing waits on you. **Every button without a text box, and Implement with nothing typed, posts only a status line in the thread, keyed by `command`** in `/api/thread` (and in the thread file for the lines the board server writes); read a key only when the card has no clearly defined next step: `command: implement` "Implementation requested" (the owner wants it built as it is; the board has already started it), `command: prototype` "Prototype requested", `command: grill` "Grill requested", `command: visual` "Visual requested" (each comes with its event, and the board server launches that planner or agent), `command: reask` "Re-ask requested" (ask that resolved question again), `command: hold` "Held" or "Held until <time>" (leave the card alone until it resumes), `command: resume` "Resumed" (it can move again) and `command: done` "Marked done" (the owner closed it). The board writes four more as your lines when a link changes, each naming the other card in its `card` field: `command: related` "Related to", `command: unrelated` "Unrelated from", `command: followup` "Follow-up" (in a Parent's thread) and `command: followup-of` "Follow-up of" (in the child's); they ask nothing of you. Each has its icon in `board/public/ui.js` MARK_ICONS ([a button without a text box posts a keyed status line](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0021-a-button-without-a-text-box-posts-a-keyed-status-line.md)). On a New card (`key` `ask:<eventId>`) file an Implement the same way. An ask whose work still has an outcome pending after you act on it (a release run, a deploy, a CI run, a push someone else must see) is a card, not a thread answer: file it with `item add`, link the ask, and keep it blocked with `--blocked-until "<the outcome it waits on>"` until that outcome is known, then close it with `--done --text` or say what failed. A `visual-request {key, text?, files?}` (the thread's image, or /visual) asks for a visual, a one-off HTML page answering in the thread: the board server launches a headless visual agent on Claude Sonnet beside any other agent on the card (one visual at a time per card), which places its page with `visual add <key> --file <page.html> --title <t>` and a link line in the thread; it wakes nobody ([a visual is a page an agent draws for a thread](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1921-a-visual-is-a-page-an-agent-draws-for-a-thread.md)). A `grill-more {key, text?, files?}` (the thread's fire, or /grill) or a `prototype-request {key, text?, files?}` (the thread's eye, or /prototype, or the owner's eye on one question) is the owner's request: the card already reads a grey "preheating" until the planner picks it up, then "grilling" or "prototyping" in the lane's colour, and the thread a muted "Grill requested" or "Prototype requested", or, with text, the owner's message with that status in its footer, and the board server has already launched that planner itself, headless in the board's repo folder with a brief built from the card and the owner's text and files (Claude Opus for a grill, Claude Sonnet for a prototype), and written "Planner launched on <model> in <folder>." in the thread; neither event wakes you ([the hub launches every agent from the card](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-the-hub-launches-every-agent-from-the-card.md)). A prototype request is answered only by a prototype: never answer it in the thread instead. One still waiting 30 minutes on, with no prototype agent running on the card, comes back as `prototype-overdue {key, request, question?, since}`, once per request: dispatch its prototype agent now ([a prototype request waits for its prototype](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-a-prototype-request-waits-for-its-prototype.md)). First check it against the other boards: each one's title and description in `~/.claude/kickflip/manifest.json`, its folder (`node $KF sessions`) and its cards. Only when another board clearly fits better, add an open question on the New card (`question add`, topic `item:ask:<eventId>`): "Move to <board>" recommended, then "Keep here", each with `diagram` and `practice`. On Move, run `board.mjs --site <route> ask move <eventId> --to <other route>`, which makes it a New card there and wakes that board's session, then `question resolve`; on Keep, sort it here. Hand a long build or investigation to a builder, which reports in the card's thread. The owning session only triages events, writes board lines and dispatches: a full test suite, a scratch hub, screenshots, `board.mjs land` and anything else that takes more than a few seconds run in a background agent or background task. A session sitting in foreground work leaves events waiting, and the board reads stalled. The watcher marks each ask, thread message and wave triage it prints as Working, so the page reads "Working on it" until you reply, write a later thread line on its card, reply to its ask, turn or fold its ask into a card, or the card closes. Answer a quick ask with `board.mjs reply <eventId>`. An answer never pushes: the board's answer banner and the thread's unread mark carry it ([a push goes out only when something waits on the owner, on the hub's schedule](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-pushes-only-when-something-waits-on-the-owner.md)). When the answer waits on the owner, such as a pick between prototypes, also run `board.mjs --site <route> ask progress <eventId> --next "<what the owner picks>"`. An `ask-done {id}` event is the owner closing it, which is record-only: the watcher holds it and prints it on the next wake. `board.mjs ask done <eventId>` closes it from your side ([an ask can wait on the owner before Done, and the owner closes any open card from its thread](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-an-ask-can-wait-in-progress-until-the-owner-marks-it-done.md)). To turn an ask into work, add the work item named for the change and run `board.mjs item set <wave>/<id> --from-ask <eventId> --text "<first line>"`: the New card gives way to the item, whose thread opens with the ask and then that line, so the item stops reading "Working on it". A card's **Notes** is your understanding of the task so far: what was asked, what's settled, what's still open. Keep it as a `.md` file in its wave's folder, set it with `board.mjs item set <wave>/<id> --notes-file <file>` (`--plan` still works), and rewrite it as the grill settles things rather than freezing it as a plan; the thread keeps the short news. Setting the notes file resolves the card's answered questions still waiting on Claude, noting "Recorded in the card's notes", and prints `resolved: <id>` for each. The open card's details list ends with a "Notes ↗" link, which opens `notes.html`, a view that renders the file for the phone, or the item's short `notes` text when it has no file ([notes replace the full plan, and a card starts on its own](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1816-notes-replace-the-full-plan-and-cards-start-on-their-own.md), [notes is a link in the details list, with no stored summary](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1626-notes-is-a-link-in-the-details-list.md)). `item set --title` renames a card. When an ask is about an existing item, fold it in with `board.mjs item relate-ask <eventId> <wave>/<id> --summary "<one concise line>"`: the New card goes, and the owner's message moves into the item's thread marked Moved, with the summary after it. When the owner says it went to the wrong card, relate-ask it to the right one, or run `board.mjs ask unfold <eventId>` to give it a New card again. An `item-message` whose `key` is `ask:<eventId>` is the owner replying in a Done ask's thread: answer it with `board.mjs reply <its eventId>` or `board.mjs thread ask:<eventId> --text …`, as in a work item's thread. An `ask-withdrawn {id}` event (with `key` from a thread) deletes a pending message ([a pending ask or thread message can be deleted or edited, and a pending ask bumped](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-pending-ask-can-be-deleted-or-bumped.md)). An `ask-edited {id, text}` event (with `key` from a thread) replaces a pending message's text: use the new text, and if you had started, adjust the work to it and say what changed. An `ask-bump {id}` event means take that ask, or that pending prototype request, next. Only what the owner types in a thread is a message to you; a button tap changes the card or starts an agent in the board server, and wakes you only where noted ([only typed thread messages wake the orchestrator](docs/adr/2026-11-06-1100-only-typed-thread-messages-wake-the-orchestrator.md)). A `card-bump {key}` event bumps a work card, and is the one tap that still wakes you, since the owner wants it done urgently ([a card that hasn't started, or is running, can be bumped](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-card-that-hasnt-started-can-be-bumped.md)): the board already takes a bumped card first in the pull and the land queue, so a card that hasn't started needs nothing from you; a running card's next steps (its builder's questions, review fixes, CI) come ahead of your other work. A `card-hold {key, hold, until?}` event is the owner's Hold (`hold: true`, with `until` when they picked a time) or Resume (`false`) on a work card, and wakes nobody. A held card never starts on its own; the board server has already stopped the held card's headless builder or planner, so stop nothing yourself, and start no new builder, review fixes or CI reruns while it is held. On Resume the board server relaunches the grill, prototype or build the hold stopped, and the pull takes a card whose hold stopped nothing; a card a relaunch leaves with nothing running reaches you as an orchestrator wait. When the owner's words give a time to pick a card up, hold it with `item set <key> --pick-up-at <ISO time>` (no offset is the Mac's local time). Within a minute of that time the board server resumes the card itself and appends `card-unblocked {key, until}` unless a dep is unfinished ([a card can be held until a time](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1727-a-card-can-be-held-until-a-time.md)); the board relaunches what the hold stopped, as on Resume. A `card-done {key}` event is the owner closing a card from an In Review thread's Done or a Todo card's Close: the board server has already stopped the card's headless builder and closed its records (a land in progress finishes), so it wakes nobody. Closing a card yourself (`item set <key> --done`) takes `--text "<what was done, or why it closes without landing>"`, which becomes its last thread line and says whether it merged, was given up (a duplicate, not feasible) or was superseded; it moves the card's ticket to Done whatever the reason. Never leave a card open because part of it can't be done: close it and file a follow-up card for what stays open. Closing resolves each of its questions that has an answer, noting "Closed with the card"; one still open, with no answer yet, stops it, and the refusal names that question. `--force` closes the card anyway and resolves that one too. Never touch GitHub for it: an open PR stays as it is. A `card-merge {key}` event is the owner's Merge on a card whose PR is approved, green and CLEAN while the board's auto-merge is off (Auto-merge, below): run `board.mjs --site <route> merge <key>` now. When it refuses, it writes why as a thread line, which ends the button's "Merging…". A card whose open questions are all answered goes to staging, and from ready the pull starts it without waiting for a go; `unblocked: <key>` or a `card-unblocked {key}` record means a dep or hold no longer stops it, and the pull takes it ([notes replace the full plan, and a card starts on its own](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1816-notes-replace-the-full-plan-and-cards-start-on-their-own.md)). The Implement tap on a ready card and Auto implement's pull both start the build in the board server: it makes the refusals a build's `builder start` makes, picks the builder (claude with a model, or codex), makes the worktree, marks the card building and clears its Next, then launches the builder itself, headless in the worktree (`claude -p`, or `codex exec` under workspace-write for a codex pick) with a standard brief built from the card's notes and the rules, and writes "Builder launched on <model> in <worktree>, session <id>." in the thread; no event reaches you. The builder's own first step is `builder start <key> --kind build`, which takes up the record the board opened; its first status line then replaces "starting". A refused tap, or a launch that fails, puts the card back in Todo with the reason in its thread ([a Build tap starts the build in the board server](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0219-a-build-tap-starts-the-build-in-the-board-server.md), [the hub launches every agent from the card](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-the-hub-launches-every-agent-from-the-card.md)). `item set --state ready` refuses a card without `--size`, without a notes file, or whose notes don't name the id of each question the owner answered on it, and marking it ready resolves those questions, so record every answer in the notes before marking it ready. The builder asks you as any builder does, and finishes its own work with `builder done --text`, rebasing and resolving conflicts itself; finishing never comes to you. A build with calls hands back as before: verify them (`builder verified`), which finishes the card in the same step; when a question on the card was still open, or that finish refused, the server launches a headless lander once no question is open, which acts on the owner's answers and finishes it, so don't land it yourself ([builders launch headless, check their notes and land on their own](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0306-builders-launch-headless-check-their-notes-and-land-on-their-own.md)). With Auto implement Todo cards on (`setting auto-pull on|off`, set with `settings set auto-pull on|off` only on the owner's word), the board pulls ready Todo cards into free implementer slots and launches their builds, one per free slot, up to Maximum parallel implementers (`setting max-implementers <n>`, 10 by default, set with `settings set max-implementers <n>` only on the owner's word), counting cards building or in Orchestrator review ([an idle board pulls in its top Todo card](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1754-an-idle-board-pulls-in-its-top-todo-card.md), [auto implement fills In Progress up to Maximum parallel implementers, on every board change](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0057-auto-implement-fills-in-progress-up-to-a-cap.md)). Only ready cards are pulled ([the idle pull takes ready cards first](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1631-the-idle-pull-takes-ready-cards-first.md)); every other card that lands in Todo gets its grill on arrival ([every card arriving in Todo is grilled by the board](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2359-every-card-arriving-in-todo-is-grilled-by-the-board.md)). A `pr-review {pr, head, repo, title, author, url, touches, asked}` event, with auto review on, asks you to review a teammate's PR that touches the listed cards or asks the owner: read its diff and the reviews already on it, then `review post <pr> --file <review.md> --read-at <when you read it>` with only points no other review made (it adds the header and marker, posts one Comment review and records it posted, and refuses if another review landed since you read), or post nothing and `review record <pr> --state posted --file <note.md>`. When it finds a blocker, disagrees with a decision on a card or clashes with a card in progress, hold it with `review record <pr> --state needs --file <draft.md>` instead; the owner's Post it or Skip comes back as `review-answer {pr, answer}`, after which you `review post` it (or don't, and record it posted) ([each board reviews incoming PRs that touch its work, in an Auto Review lane](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1731-each-board-reviews-incoming-prs-that-touch-its-work.md)). An `overnight-triage {date, topic, cards}` event is the board asking for its overnight triage, with auto-triage on (`setting auto-triage on|off`, set only on the owner's word): it goes out once a night from the middle of quiet hours, when two or more cards, `cards`, wait on the owner's open questions and nothing builds. First read those cards' open questions against each other. Questions that ask the same thing become one, on a single card ([a question for several cards moves to the card built first](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1000-a-question-for-several-cards-moves-to-the-card-built-first.md)): pick the card the pull would build first, and run `question move <id>,<id>,… --to <that card> --block <the other cards, in build order>`. The first id moves onto that card, the others resolve "Duplicate of <ref>'s question <id>", and each blocked card is blocked by the one before it and related to the first. The owner's answer lands on that one card and starts it as any answer does; a blocked card's builder reads the related card's thread and notes once it is done. Cards whose grills show they are the same work merge as a clear duplicate does below. Then check each open question left against the owner's earlier answers on other cards and their long-running context, such as what they said in other cards' threads and notes, not against ADRs or CONTEXT.md, which the grill already read. When one of those answers settles a question and you are confident it carries over, `question add` it again on the same topic with a new id, its options unchanged and `suggested: {option, card, answer}`: the option, the earlier card's ref and the owner's answer in their words. Then `question resolve` the old one with `--note "Replaced by <new id>"`. Never act on a suggestion yourself: the page pre-checks it, and it waits for the owner's Send ([overnight triage suggests your earlier answers](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2200-overnight-triage-suggests-your-earlier-answers.md)). Leave the other questions you could answer yourself as they are. Then read the Todo and Stale cards against each other and against merged work, leaving Done alone (old Done cards leave by the archive rule, [the board keeps the newest 100 Done cards](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0307-the-board-keeps-the-newest-100-done-cards.md)), and find duplicates, cards a newer card covers, cards merged work already did, and deps that no longer hold. Link related cards (`item set --relate`) and merge a clear duplicate into the newer card yourself, dropping the older with a thread line naming the one it went into. A close, or anything you aren't sure of, is one question per finding on `topic`, all in one `question add` array; quiet hours hold their push until morning. Then reply to the event, even when you changed nothing ([triage runs once overnight on cards waiting on your answers](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1900-triage-runs-once-overnight-on-cards-waiting-on-your-answers.md)). Set `deps` for work that waits on other cards. When a close finishes the last dep, it prints `unblocked: <key>` and appends a `card-unblocked {key}` event; leave a held card held until the owner unholds it ([cards wait on explicit blocked-by links](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-cards-wait-on-explicit-blocked-by-links.md), [Build on a blocked card queues it, and blocked, bumped and Action needed leave the badges](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0301-build-on-a-blocked-card-queues-it.md)). Every builder you start for a card works in its own git worktree, never in the folder you, a running app or the hub use ([every builder works in a worktree, and the hub's own fault shows once](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1654-every-builder-works-in-a-worktree.md)). A repo card's builder uses the board's manifest `github` and `branch` when following wave-build; it never switches the shared clone's checkout. A build's `builder start` on a board makes the card's worktree when its record keeps none, `~/.claude/kickflip/worktrees/<card id>` on branch `<card id>`, and prints `worktree: <path>`; the builder's prompt names that path as the only place it edits, tests and runs scratch hubs. Right before it launches any builder agent, the session runs `board.mjs --site <route> builder start <key> --dispatch --kind <kind> [--model …]`, which opens the record (`dispatched: 'session'`) so the card reads "starting" at launch, and changes nothing on a record the Implement tap already opened (`dispatched: 'tap'`), printing "already open"; it never posts a "builder is working" line itself ([the session opens the builder record when it dispatches an agent](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0513-the-session-opens-the-builder-record-when-it-dispatches-an-agent.md), [a card reads starting from its tap, with one dispatched mark](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1718-a-card-reads-starting-from-its-tap-with-one-dispatched-mark.md)). Every builder, prototype and grill agents included (`--kind prototype` or `--kind grill`), runs, as required steps in its prompt, `board.mjs --site <route> builder start <key> --kind <kind> --label "<label>"` first, which takes up the dispatched record (the label carries no model word) (a build agent passes `--kind build`, which records the kind and model `builder pick <key>` prints), `builder progress <key> --phase <reading|building|testing|checking|landing> "<detail>"` (or `--text "<detail>"`; the board adds the phase word, so don't start the detail with it) at each milestone (a planner, kind grill or prototype, passes no `--phase`: its line reads "Preheating: <detail>" or "Prototyping: <detail>" in the lane's colour, never a builder phase word, and a `--phase` it passes is dropped) and `builder done <key>` before it hands back, so the card sits in In Progress with a live status line. Closing a card's last open record when it stays In Progress with no Next is refused: pass `builder done <key> --next "<what happens next>"`, or record a judgment call with `builder call <key>` (so `builder done` hands the card back) or `land`, which closes the record itself. A card with a step only the owner can do once its code lands (a publisher to add, a release to tag) takes `--owner-step "<the step>"` on whichever of `builder done` and `land` finishes it: it then waits in In Review with that step as its Next and its ticket open, and only the owner's Done closes it ([a card whose code landed stays in review while an owner step remains](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0158-a-card-whose-code-landed-stays-in-review-while-an-owner-step-remains.md)). When code can prove the step done, add one `--check "<name> <args>"` on the final evidence beside `--owner-step`: `tag <owner/repo> <pattern>`, `npm <package> <version-or-range>`, `run <owner/repo> <workflow>`, `gh <owner/repo> <api-path> <field>=<value>` or `url <address> [<status> | <text>]`, never a shell command. The hub's poll runs it once the code lands and closes the card when it passes; on `owner-check-broken {key, check, error}`, fix it with `item set <key> --check "<check>"`, or remove it with `--check ""`, and write one thread line saying which ([an owner step can carry a code check](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2308-an-owner-step-can-carry-a-code-check; `item set` likewise refuses a write that would leave a built card with neither ([an In Progress card always has a builder line or a Next](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0237-an-in-progress-card-always-has-a-builder-line-or-a-next.md)). The detail is plain words: what the builder is doing and why it matters to the owner, such as `--phase testing "fix for the scroll jump into Done"`. A wait on a lock or a Codex limit goes in the detail. Commits, test counts, ADR numbers, file names and screenshots go in the hand-back and the session's thread message, not the line ([a builder status line is a phase and a short detail](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0128-a-builder-status-line-is-a-phase-and-a-short-detail.md)). A build's `builder start` is the one write that marks the card building: it moves the ticket to In Progress and prints `ref: <label>`, the card's name for its commit subject. `building` and `fixing` count as working only while a builder record on that card is open; with none open, its PR and other state place it as if the status were absent. `builder done` clears either status when it closes the card’s last open builder record; `item set --pr` clears either status too and closes ordinary builders while install builders keep running. When a subagent stops, a SubagentStop hook, `board/bin/builder-stop-hook.mjs`, closes the records it started and left open, but not one another agent restarted later, and not while background work the subagent started still runs (the input's `background_tasks`), since it resumes when that work ends. A skill's own hooks don't fire for SubagentStop, so the hook ships as the plugin `hooks-plugin/`, which Claude Code loads as `kickflip-hooks@skills-dir` through the link `~/.claude/skills/kickflip-hooks` (`claude plugin list` shows it); a new host needs that link. A site card's builder lands its own card: it runs the tests and checks the board at phone width in its worktree, commits there as the repo's configured user (`git -c core.commentChar=';' commit -F <file>`, or `--cleanup=verbatim`, so git keeps a "#N:" subject), then runs `board.mjs --site <route> builder done <key> --text "<what it checked>"`. With no unverified calls that finishes the card, the one step `land` also runs, as `builder done`'s usage lists: it lands the worktree, closes the card as done with that text as its last thread line, and with the board's "Push main after a land" switch on pushes main to origin itself, so no session pushes after a land; on a GitHub board it pushes the branch and opens a draft PR instead, and on a plain git remote pushes the branch ([finishing a build is one step](docs/adr/2026-11-04-1611-finishing-a-build-is-one-step.md)). A finish that fails refuses with the reason and the builder stays on: it fixes what the refusal names and runs `builder done` again. Only a builder that can't finish hands back, with a `builder call` naming why, then `builder done`: the card sits in In Progress reading "Orchestrator review" and unblocks nothing, and the owning session checks it, and its `builder verified` finishes it ([site cards build in parallel when their files don't overlap](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-site-cards-build-in-parallel-when-their-files-dont-overlap.md), [the board records what it knows, and commands make the rule calls](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0003-the-board-records-what-it-knows-and-commands-make-the-rule-calls.md)). On a refusal, fix what its line names in the worktree and finish again. **Judgment calls** ([a builder records its judgment calls and the session verifies them before land](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0514-a-builder-records-its-judgment-calls-and-the-session-verifies-them.md)): every builder's brief includes these steps. Right after `builder start`, it records each gap or ambiguity in its brief as `builder call <key> "Question: …"`; with any, it runs `builder done <key>`, which hands the card back for them, and stops, its report the questions. Answer them from the card's notes and thread, asking the owner on the card only what those don't settle, and resume it with SendMessage; its `builder start` then resumes the record, calls kept. While building, it records each judgment call as it makes it, `builder call <key> "<call>"`, one plain line each. A builder with calls doesn't finish: `builder done <key>` hands the card back for them to be verified, and its report lists them. Check each (`builder calls <key>`) against the owner's words and the other cards: one that conflicts with what the owner said goes to the owner as a question on the card, any other wrong one back to the builder by SendMessage. Then run `builder verified <key> [--note "<what you checked>"]`, which finishes the card in the same step, the note its closing line; while a question on the card is open it says so and the card waits, and a finish that fails keeps the mark and says why. `land` refuses while a record on the card has unverified calls. **Builder asks** ([a builder asks the orchestrator mid-build, and only what it defers reaches the owner](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0247-a-builder-asks-the-orchestrator-mid-build.md)): a builder's brief also says that, at any point, it can ask you a question with `builder ask <key> "<question>"` and carry on meanwhile, checking `builder asks <key>` for your reply. The ask shows in the card's thread as "Claude Opus builder" (by its model) and wakes you as a `builder-ask {key, ask, agent, text}` event; the card itself stays quiet. Answer from the card's notes, thread and the owner's words with `builder answer <key> <ask> --text "<answer>"`, or, when you aren't confident or the owner's opinion is wanted, `builder defer <key> <ask> --text "<what to carry on with>"`: never ask the owner mid-build. Both show in the thread as Orchestrator. A deferral is a "Question:" call on the builder's record, so its build hands back to you; after you've reviewed everything else, and before a draft PR or In Review, put it to the owner as a card question naming the ask (`"ask": "<ask>"` in the question file), which `builder verified` requires. The card then shows Questions and "1 new question", with no Action needed. **A repo card's built work always goes straight to a draft PR** once it is checked (owner, 2026-10-23): on a GitHub board the finish (`builder done --text`, or your `builder verified` on a handed-back build) pushes the card's branch, opens the draft with `gh pr create --draft` and records it as `item set --pr` does, closing the builder records. A PR opened by hand on the card's branch, a same-repo head named by the card id, is linked by the hub's poll as `item set --pr` does, with the thread line "Found PR #12 on branch GH-230." and a `linked` change ([the poll links a PR opened by hand](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1000-the-poll-links-a-pr-opened-by-hand-on-a-cards-branch.md)); run `item set <key> --pr <n>` yourself only for a PR on another branch. Either way the card sits in In Progress while CI runs or fails, then in In Review with Action needed linking to the PR once CI passes, also while the owner tries it on a test deploy. A card whose work spans repos holds a PR in each: run `item set <key> --pr <owner/repo#n>` once per PR (it adds, never replaces; a bare number is the board's repo). Each PR gets its own badge and polling, the least-ready one decides the lane and Next, `merge` merges them all in order, and `pr` prints a line per PR ([a card holds several PRs across repos](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1904-a-card-holds-several-prs-across-repos.md)). A board whose repo is a plain git remote (manifest `remote`, no `github`) has no PRs: the finish pushes the card's branch to origin and records it as `item set <key> --pushed <branch>` does (by hand: `git push origin <branch>` in its worktree, then that command), so the card waits In Review on the owner's merge; the hub's poll moves it to Done once the branch is merged into the board's branch or gone from the remote, with a thread line ([a board can work on any git remote](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1850-a-board-can-work-on-any-git-remote.md)). A card's lane follows who acts next: one waiting only on the owner's Ready, Merge, manual steps or an ask's Done sits in In Review with Action needed, and goes back to In Progress once Claude works on it again ([the lane follows who acts next, and a card waiting on the owner says Action needed](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-lane-follows-who-acts-next.md)). One that hasn't started and waits only on its open questions or a prototype pick, ask or work card, stays in Todo with Action needed. An owner `item-message` on a Done card, or a question you add on one, reopens it on the board with no step from you: it sits in In Progress until you answer the message, then waits in In Review with Action needed until the owner's Done (an open question puts it there at once). Answer and leave it ([a message or question on a Done card reopens it until the owner's Done](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1952-a-message-or-question-on-a-done-card-reopens-it.md), [a merged card reopens on a message, and its PR badge shows the PR's state](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1843-a-merged-card-reopens-and-its-pr-badge-shows-the-prs-state.md)). `item set <key> --deps <list>` sets a card's blockers after it exists; `--blocked-until "<condition>"` blocks it on something concrete that isn't a card, which you check on your passes over the cards and clear with `--blocked-until ""` once it holds, and `--block-reason "<why>"` says why for either; a time is a hold, not a block ([nothing waiting on the orchestrator is missed](docs/adr/2026-11-05-2358-nothing-waiting-on-the-orchestrator-is-missed.md)). Blocking a card In Progress sends it back to Todo: the call stops its board-launched builder, keeps its worktree, branch and state, and the pull starts it again once nothing blocks it; a builder running in a session the board didn't launch is refused, so finish it there first. A blocked card In Review stays there but never lands: `land`, `merge`, auto-merge and the lander refuse or skip it, and its Merge shows disabled. A block never silences a wake ([a block past Todo bumps a build and holds a land](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0102-a-block-past-todo-bumps-a-build-and-holds-a-land.md)). A PR that changes what a page looks like carries screenshots in its description, as wave-build's build step says. **Each card and main has a version to try** ([a board's build script serves or builds each card and main](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1846-a-boards-build-script-serves-or-builds-each-card-and-main.md)). When setting up a board whose repo lacks `.kickflip/build`, write that executable repo file for the project. A repo with several build targets, such as a web front end and an iOS app, gets one executable `.kickflip/build-<target>` each, and each board picks its target in Board Settings' Build target (`settings set build-target <target>|default`); with none set the hub runs `.kickflip/build`, and main builds the same target as the board's cards ([Board Settings picks which build script a board runs](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1823-board-settings-picks-which-build-script-a-board-runs.md)). The hub runs each branch's copy with `<key> <worktree>` (key `main` for main), cwd the worktree, `KICKFLIP_BOARD=<route>`. Keep it owned by the current user and writable by neither group nor others. A website script starts its server, prints exactly `port <n>` on stdout and stays running as its server process. It listens on `HOST` (127.0.0.1), so only the hub's gated relay reaches it. Serve browser paths at `/`; each served card and main gets its own Tailscale HTTPS port, with no `KICKFLIP_BASE` ([a try build serves on its own Tailscale port](docs/adr/2026-11-01-2254-a-try-build-serves-on-its-own-tailscale-port.md)). An app script exits 0 after publishing its install: `board.mjs --site "$KICKFLIP_BOARD" item set <key> --install <url> --install-sha <head sha>`, or `main set --install <url> [--install-sha <sha>]` for main. iOS uses `itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://…/manifest.plist`; Android uses an https `.apk`. Keep install files under the site's `public/installs/`. Signing still needs the login keychain unlocked on macOS. The hub owns runs and their logs in `data/try/<id>.log`, reports only failed card runs in the thread and leaves each card in its lane. Try builds wait on Tailscale; the hub refuses a run with the readiness reason until it is ready. Only the owner's Serve or Build and Auto-build start a card run; a session never starts one on its own, not even for a device app after a push, and a board rule asking for that is the owner's cue to turn Auto-build on. When the owner asks for a run in words, run `board.mjs --site <route> build <key> --asked "<the owner's words>"` (`install` is an alias), quoting their ask, card message or answer note; it refuses words the owner didn't write on the board, prints `started` and exits ([only the owner or Auto-build starts a card run](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1806-only-the-owner-or-auto-build-starts-a-card-run.md)). Auto-build cards, off by default, runs each new head when on, and the card then has no Serve or Build; otherwise the card waits for Serve or Build, shown once its branch has changes. Set `settings set auto-build on|off` only on the owner's word. Main always builds after each merge, independent of the toggle, in the hub's detached worktree, and shows its version above the lanes. A served card stops after 30 minutes without a visit; main stays up. The card badge reads Visit/Install, Visit (stale)/Install (stale), an inert Serving…/Building… spinner or Serve failed/Build failed opening its thread. Main’s red Serve failed/Build failed button opens a bottom sheet with the last 40 log lines and Retry at the recorded failed tip, even if origin has moved. Retry waits on Tailscale readiness and shows refusals in the sheet; while running it reads Serving…/Building… in orange, then closes with a toast when main is ready or refreshes the log after another failure. Maintain a broken script through a card. **Marking a PR ready for a reviewer includes the Slack link** (owner, 2026-10-24): add them to the board's reviewers if they're missing (Board reviewers, below); the hub then DMs them the bare PR link and records its ts, as Reviewers below describes. Every hub feature finds boards through one registry, `hub/boards.mjs`, so each serves both kinds alike ([one board registry for every hub feature](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-one-board-registry-for-every-hub-feature.md)): the hub polls every open PR on any board's card, whatever `monitor.json` watches (a card's PR is in the board's `github` repo, else its wave's `repo`; with neither, the card has no PR link and nothing polls it), and a PR's `github-change` goes to each board with an eligible changed card. Boards over their own file (`--items`) use the same GitHub tick as wave boards. The hub checks GitHub every minute while Love is here and every 5 when away, and wakes you only on a change, or at the daily wake when quiet hours end ([the hub checks every minute while you’re here and every 5 when away](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0226-the-hub-checks-every-minute-while-youre-here-and-every-5-when-away.md)): a `github-change {prs: [{wave, id, pr, changes}]}` event, where `changes` lists `ci`, `review`, `comments`, `merged`, `mergeable`, `draft`, or `linked` (the poll just linked a PR opened by hand, so handle its CI and comments from the start), means run one GitHub tick for those PRs. A `check-github {}` event is the owner's refresh asking for a check, and `check-github {reason: "morning"}` is the hub's daily wake (8:00am by default), for either, run one GitHub tick. The hub sends reviewer links and digests itself (Reviewers, below). The hub writes `checked.json` after each of its checks and sends the pushes a tick queued at its next check. When the header reads "not listening" in your own session, relaunch the watcher ([the board shows GitHub checks and Claude's activity, with one refresh](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-the-board-shows-github-checks-and-watcher-health.md)); it also reads so while the board's session isn't running and the hub can't wake it. When an event has waited 15 minutes while the board reads so, the hub pushes the owner "<title> isn't listening" once. A `hello` event is the hub testing a new board's links (`join --template board` runs `node $KF handshake <route>`, then asks the hub for one poll so the GitHub link passes at once): the watcher answers it itself and prints `hello <eventId> from the hub answered`. The board shows a Connecting checklist until that and the hub's GitHub check reach it; cards can start meanwhile. The In Review header's GitHub mark opens the Hub links sheet (GitHub polling, the repo fetch on a board with a repo, events, daily wakes, pushes, reviewer links). The watcher prints each broken one at once, after the rules, as `link <name> <detail>`; the mark gets a red dot only for a link still broken past its grace period, and the sheet shows it settling until then ([hub links turn red only after a grace period](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-hub-links-turn-red-only-after-a-grace-period.md)). Fix what is yours straight away, such as a missing reviewer link or a stopped watcher. `link hub` means the hub runs older code than its files, which the sidebar's Hub row and the hub page show in amber, never a board. The hub restarts itself once its new code is whole on disk ([the hub restarts itself on a done signal](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0010-the-hub-restarts-itself-on-a-done-signal-from-whatever-brought-the-code.md)), so a link that stays up means that restart failed (see the hub log): restart it with the command the link names: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/local.claude.kickflip-hub` on macOS, `systemctl --user restart kickflip-hub.service` on Linux. Tell the owner the rest. A card that changes the hub's or a board's UI starts with an in-situ prototype before any builder touches the skill: one prototype per question, one take per option, and an open question on the card whose `url` opens it; build only after the owner picks. The prototype planner the board launches for a `prototype-request {key}` posts its page as a card question ([prototypes come only when obviously helpful or on request](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-prototypes-come-on-request.md)); for a `prototype-request {key?, question, note, choice}`, the owner's eye on one question asked in place of an answer, it builds takes of that whole question, following the note and the option `choice` names when it isn't null, and posts them as the round's question with `question add`, adding `round_of: "<that question id>"` beside the prototype url. The asked question reads "prototype requested", locked, and `question resolve` refuses it, until that round's `question add` with `round_of` resolves it, numbering the round and noting "Followed by prototype round N" on it; the card reads prototyping until a take is picked ([a prototype round ends with a one-take confirm](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1332-a-prototype-round-ends-with-a-one-take-confirm.md), [a question asked for a prototype is resolved, and the page moves on](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1803-a-question-asked-for-a-prototype-is-resolved.md), [a prototype request waits for its prototype](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2130-a-prototype-request-waits-for-its-prototype.md)). A question on Waiting on you with an answer sent, or resolved, is read-only and green with a Resolved badge; tapping the badge and confirming sends the record-only `question-reopen {key?, question}`, which opens the question again and writes "Question N was reopened" in the card's thread, so act only on the new answer that follows ([a sent answer is resolved in place until the page reloads](docs/adr/2026-11-05-2331-a-sent-answer-is-resolved-in-place-until-the-page-reloads.md)). No page sends `reask-request {key?, question}` now; one that arrives has the card's thread already reading a muted "re-ask requested", so write no thread message. Re-read the card's notes and thread, and ask that question again as they stand today with `question add`, adding `reask_of: "<that question id>"`; on a card with a planner running, have the planner ask it. `question add` notes "Asked again as <new id>" on the old question, which ends the request ([a resolved question is read-only and can be asked again](docs/adr/2026-11-04-2001-a-resolved-question-is-read-only-and-can-be-asked-again.md)). **The board owns the page; you write only the takes** ([the board serves every prototype from one template](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1448-the-board-serves-every-prototype-from-one-template.md)). Record the prototype with `board.mjs --site <route> prototype add <topic> --title "…" --card <wave>/<id> --take A:"Label" --take B:"Label"` (topic `a-z0-9-`, each key one capital letter, labels never starting with "A. ", since the take pill shows the label alone), which prints the take files to write, `public/prototypes/<topic>/<KEY>.js`. The board then serves `prototype-<topic>.html` from its one template: the header with back to the card, the shared take pill, `?take=` and `?q=`, and a stage for the take. `prototype list` shows what is recorded, and `prototype rm <topic>` drops a record once no open question uses it. A web repo's round runs in situ instead ([a prototype round is a page in the board's base prototype worktree](docs/adr/2026-11-06-1500-a-prototype-round-is-a-page-in-the-boards-base-worktree.md)): `prototype base` makes or moves the board's base prototype worktree on main and prints its path and the listener, `shared/prototype-frame.js`; the round is one page there built from the repo's real components fed mock data, recorded with `prototype add <topic> --served <path> --take K:"Label" … --state key:"Label" …`, and the viewer frames it at `?variant=&state=`, then sends each switch as a message the page takes with `KickflipPrototype.on((take, state) => …)`. The hub serves the base worktree while an open question links a served round. Each take file is a module, `export function render(stage, kit) { stage.innerHTML = …; return cleanup }`, rerun with a fresh stage on every switch. `kit` draws the real components fed fake data: `kit.sidebar()`, `kit.hub({usage, afterUsage, usageCard, settings…})`, `kit.cards()` and `kit.sheet(html, {title})`, with `kit.toast`, `kit.on`, `kit.fake` and `kit.esc`; `BoardUI` and `HubUI` are globals too, and `board/public/prototype-kit.js` documents each. Build each take from these, changing only what the take is about; a look-alike copy drifts from what ships (owner, on back-to-card). The stage contains its take, `position: fixed` included, so nothing covers the header or pill; links and forms in it only toast, and the listeners and timers a take adds end on the next switch. Every interaction must work on a tap. Include this prototype paragraph in the brief of any builder or agent asked to make a prototype. With each prototype, add an open question on its card: one option per take, the option ids the take keys in take order (a later round may list only some takes, still in take order), and the recommended option tagged with `recommended: true`, with `url` set to `prototype-<topic>.html?q=<question id>`, relative to the site root and stored as given. A question added on a card's topic resolves each question there that is answered and still waiting on Claude, noting "Followed by <new id>", and prints `resolved: <old id>`; a question re-asked on the same topic and prototype resolves any other unresolved one it replaces, noting "Replaced by <new id>", and prints `replaced: <old id>` ([an answered question stops waiting once Claude acts on its card](docs/adr/2026-11-01-1813-an-answered-question-stops-waiting-once-claude-acts-on-its-card.md)). Acting on a card's answers resolves them the same way, noting what acted: a build's start ("Acted on: build started"), `builder start` ("Acted on: builder started"), and a `reply` to an ask or a wave triage for the answered questions on its topic ("Acted on: replied") ([the CLI and board server do the board's housekeeping](docs/adr/2026-11-02-2044-the-cli-and-board-server-do-the-boards-housekeeping.md)). A pick, with a note or none, settles its round: the note is the build's guidance, and the build starts as any card's does ([a prototype pick is the build's go, and more of the skill moves into code](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0504-a-prototype-pick-is-the-builds-go.md)). An answer with a note and no take, the owner having cleared the pick, resolves its question and leaves the card prototyping with Next "Prototype again" until a take is picked; its owner-answer event carries `prototype_again: true`: draw the next round from the note as for a `prototype-request`, or grill when the note asks a question ([a prototype answer with no pick prototypes again, so a card is never stuck](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1646-a-prototype-answer-with-no-pick-prototypes-again.md)). A prototype question on Waiting on you shows plain options and a View prototypes button, which opens the prototype page, the full-page viewer: one take at a time, ‹ › and ←/→ switch takes keeping the scroll position, and Pick drafts the take with its note and goes back to the question, whose Send sends it ([a question's prototypes open in a full-page viewer](docs/adr/2026-11-05-1302-a-questions-prototypes-open-in-a-full-page-viewer.md)). In the app, back from the page goes to Waiting on you on that question and then to the board, however the owner arrived; the header's `backHref` applies only when the page is opened alone ([Back follows the page tree](docs/adr/2026-10-30-1125-back-follows-the-page-tree.md)). A page that links the board's `style.css` links `colors.css` before it, since every color lives there ([one colour constants file shared by the hub and every board](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-one-colour-constants-file-shared-by-the-hub-and-every-board.md)). The board pushes it (Push notifications, below). Add prototypes to a card's question unasked only when they obviously help. A choice with nothing to see, such as a code structure, a data flow or a policy, gets `diagram` and `practice` on each option instead (`question add` usage): boxes and arrows the questions page draws, and a line or two of what it means in practice (what a new feature must do, what changes, what it costs), so the pick is between concrete options, not labels (owner, 2026-10-24, on hb-model; [a question's takes show inline, and back goes one step](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-questions-takes-show-inline.md)). **Grill a card through open questions on the card**, never a separate page or a link ([a card is grilled through its own open questions](docs/adr/2026-10-29-1639-a-card-is-grilled-through-its-own-open-questions.md)): `board.mjs question add` each question with topic `item:<wave>/<id>`, options in take order with the recommended option tagged, and a prototype page in `url` when one helps. They land in Needs you and on the open card. When the ask is to grill new work, make the card first (`--from-ask`), then the questions. Questions that span several cards go under a declared topic (`topic add`). **Messages stand alone.** Every reply, thread line and question reads on its own in the card's thread, where the owner reads it: name cards by their label (e.g. #96), and a pointer such as "above", "below" or "here" must make sense in the card's own thread, never point into this session. The owner reads only the board, not this session.
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- **Waves** ([a wave the owner asks for is a lineup of cards](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1202-a-wave-the-owner-asks-for-is-a-lineup-of-cards.md)). What the owner calls a wave is a **lineup** in `board.mjs`: a named set of cards from one wave file, in phases in build order, shown as a band in Todo with Implement for its next ready card ([waves are bands in Todo, each with its next card's Implement](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1840-waves-are-bands-in-todo.md)). Make one only when the owner asks with the +, or when you spot a grouping in Todo: then propose it as an open board question on a declared topic, with the cards, the phases and the goal, and make it only on a yes. Group the cards into phases by the files and areas they touch ([a wave builds in phases, and cards in one phase build side by side](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0238-a-wave-builds-in-phases.md)): read each card's notes and the code it will change, put cards that touch the same files or area in different phases, and let cards that don't share a phase so their builders run side by side; order the phases so a card comes after what it builds on. Two cards in one phase that still touch the same file need nothing special: the later one rebases at land. Planning produces three things, through `board.mjs --site <route> lineup create <slug> --title "<name>" --goal "<one line>" --phase <wave>/<id>,… --phase <wave>/<id>,… --note "<why these phases, in a few lines>"`, one `--phase` per phase in build order: the wave's band in Todo, each card blocked by every card of the phase before (its other `deps` stay), and the wave note that Notes opens. Each card stays one PR, and starts on its own as it unblocks, with no approval step. `lineup add <slug> <wave>/<id> [--after <wave>/<id>]` puts a card in a phase of its own and `lineup remove` takes one out, `lineup set` renames it, sets its goal, rewrites its note or (`--phase` per phase, every card once) re-phases it, and `lineup finish` takes its band out of Todo. A wave made before phases is a chain, one card per phase, and stays so until it is re-triaged. The owner's ⋯ Move up / Move down on a band card swaps it with the Todo card above or below on the server, each taking the other's phase, with no event. A wave whose cards are all Done leaves on its own. A `plan-waves {keys}` event is Plan waves at the foot of Todo, with the keys of its free cards ([Plan waves plans from any Todo cards](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0509-plan-waves-plans-from-any-todo-cards.md)). Triage those cards into one or more waves, each a lineup within one wave file, in phases grouped by the files and areas the cards touch, as above: ask each as one open question on a declared topic, with its phases and goal, and `lineup create` only on a yes. Then `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "2 waves proposed". A `wave-triage {lineup}` event is the owner's Triage on a wave's band, which reads Triaging… until you reply to that event. Read the code for the wave's unstarted cards (Todo, not started) and decide what to change: split a card that is more than one PR, merge cards too small to stand alone, add a card the goal needs that none covers, close one already covered, or re-phase the wave by the files and areas its cards touch, as Plan waves does (a chain's cards that touch different areas can share a phase). Add one open question per change, all in one `question add` file, on topic `lineup:<slug>`, with source "Wave triage", the change as the question, what it does to the order in `context`, and options for yes (recommended) and no. Then `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "3 questions" or "No changes". Needs you shows them as "<wave> · N questions", and the band reads "Triage: N open questions" until they are resolved. Act on each answer: `lineup set --phase …` for a re-phase, `item add` and `lineup add` for a split's new card or an added one, `item set --status dropped` and `lineup remove` for a close, `item set --title`/`--notes-file` for a merge's surviving card, then `question resolve`. On a board over `~/.claude/waves`, each unfinished wave file is a band too, with Triage in its head, which sends `wave-triage {wave}` with the file's slug. Check each unfinished card in that file: its PR, CI, reviews and blockers, and for a Todo card whether a merged card already covers it. Fix what you can yourself, such as a rebase or a CI re-run. Then add one open question per card that needs the owner, all in one `question add` file, on topic `wave:<slug>`, with source "Wave triage", and `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "2 questions" or "Nothing needs you". Needs you and the band show them as a lineup's.
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+ **Waves** ([a wave the owner asks for is a lineup of cards](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1202-a-wave-the-owner-asks-for-is-a-lineup-of-cards.md)). What the owner calls a wave is a **lineup** in `board.mjs`: a named set of cards from one wave file, in phases in build order, shown as a band in Todo with Implement for its next ready card ([waves are bands in Todo, each with its next card's Implement](docs/adr/2026-11-03-1840-waves-are-bands-in-todo.md)). Make one only when the owner asks with the +, or when you spot a grouping in Todo: then propose it as an open board question on a declared topic, with the cards, the phases and the goal, and make it only on a yes. Group the cards into phases by the files and areas they touch ([a wave builds in phases, and cards in one phase build side by side](docs/adr/2026-11-04-0238-a-wave-builds-in-phases.md)): read each card's notes and the code it will change, put cards that touch the same files or area in different phases, and let cards that don't share a phase so their builders run side by side; order the phases so a card comes after what it builds on. Two cards in one phase that still touch the same file need nothing special: the later one rebases at land. Planning produces three things, through `board.mjs --site <route> lineup create <slug> --title "<name>" --goal "<one line>" --phase <wave>/<id>,… --phase <wave>/<id>,… --note "<why these phases, in a few lines>"`, one `--phase` per phase in build order: the wave's band in Todo, each card blocked by every card of the phase before (its other `deps` stay), and the wave note that Notes opens. Each card stays one PR, and starts on its own as it unblocks, with no approval step. `lineup add <slug> <wave>/<id> [--after <wave>/<id>]` puts a card in a phase of its own and `lineup remove` takes one out, `lineup set` renames it, sets its goal, rewrites its note or (`--phase` per phase, every card once) re-phases it, and `lineup finish` takes its band out of Todo. A wave made before phases is a chain, one card per phase, and stays so until it is re-triaged. The owner's ⋯ Move up / Move down on a band card swaps it with the Todo card above or below on the server, each taking the other's phase, with no event. A wave whose cards are all Done leaves on its own. A `plan-waves {keys}` event is Plan waves at the foot of Todo, with the keys of its free cards ([Plan waves plans from any Todo cards](docs/adr/2026-11-03-0509-plan-waves-plans-from-any-todo-cards.md)). Triage those cards into one or more waves, each a lineup within one wave file, in phases grouped by the files and areas the cards touch, as above: ask each as one open question on a declared topic, with its phases and goal, and `lineup create` only on a yes. Then `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "2 waves proposed". A `wave-triage {lineup}` event is the owner's Triage on a wave's band, which reads Triaging… until you reply to that event. Read the code for the wave's unstarted cards (Todo, not started) and decide what to change: split a card that is more than one PR, merge cards too small to stand alone, add a card the goal needs that none covers, close one already covered, or re-phase the wave by the files and areas its cards touch, as Plan waves does (a chain's cards that touch different areas can share a phase). Add one open question per change, all in one `question add` file, on topic `lineup:<slug>`, with source "Wave triage", the change as the question, what it does to the order in `context`, and options for yes (recommended) and no. Then `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "3 questions" or "No changes". Needs you shows them as "<wave> · N questions", and the band reads "Triage: N open questions" until they are resolved. Act on each answer: `lineup set --phase …` for a re-phase, `item add` and `lineup add` for a split's new card or an added one, `item set --done --text "<why>"` and `lineup remove` for a close, `item set --title`/`--notes-file` for a merge's surviving card, then `question resolve`. On a board over `~/.claude/waves`, each unfinished wave file is a band too, with Triage in its head, which sends `wave-triage {wave}` with the file's slug. Check each unfinished card in that file: its PR, CI, reviews and blockers, and for a Todo card whether a merged card already covers it. Fix what you can yourself, such as a rebase or a CI re-run. Then add one open question per card that needs the owner, all in one `question add` file, on topic `wave:<slug>`, with source "Wave triage", and `reply <eventId>` with one line, such as "2 questions" or "Nothing needs you". Needs you and the band show them as a lineup's.
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- **Architecture review** ([the bulb runs an architecture review of the board's repo](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1813-the-bulb-runs-an-architecture-review-of-the-boards-repo.md)). The bulb between the board header's ↻ and gear opens the board's last review and Run, which confirms. The board server then makes the review's wave, "Architecture <date>", as a lineup, or on a board over `~/.claude/waves` a wave file of its own, with the audit card first and a builder record open on it, and appends `arch-review {key, repo, github, branch, wave, lineup, scope?}`. Review `repo` on `branch` and nothing else; on a board whose repo is the running kickflip clone, as the hub board's is, `scope.paths` limits the review to those parts of the clone, and `scope.data` names live files to read only for their shapes, never to write. Follow the mattpocock skills by reading their SKILL.md files under `~/.claude/skills/`, since they keep the Skill tool from loading them: improve-codebase-architecture for the review, in codebase-design's vocabulary, with `builder progress <key> --phase <phase>` lines as it goes. In place of its HTML report and its "which would you like to explore?", write the report as the audit card's Notes (`item set <key> --notes-file`), then add one open question per finding on topic `item:<key>`, all in one `question add` file, as grilling asks questions: the problem as the question with its evidence in `context`, two or three possible solutions as options, the recommended one tagged, each with `diagram` and `practice` (or a prototype per the prototype skill and the prototype rules above, for a UI choice), and last an option `skip` labelled Skip. Then `builder done <key>`; with no findings, say so in the thread and close the card instead. As answers come in, run `board.mjs --site <route> arch file <key>`: each answer that isn't Skip becomes a card in the review's wave, titled with the picked option and with its detail, practice and the owner's note as notes, chained after the wave's last card, and its question resolved; a Skip resolves its question. Once every finding is settled it closes the audit card, and its cards start on their own in order. While the audit card is open, Run opens it instead of starting another review.
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+ **Every grill ends with a prototype question** ([the board acts on its answer](docs/adr/2026-11-06-0130-every-grill-ends-with-a-prototype-question-the-board-acts-on.md)). The grill planner's last question is "Prototype round first?", options `yes` and `no`, posted with `"prototype_gate": true` in its `question add --file` entry, yes recommended when the card changes UI and no otherwise, asked even when it is the only question. When the owner answers it the board moves the card with no orchestrator step: yes sets it prototyping and starts the prototype planner; no sets it ready once none of its questions is left open. Don't move the card yourself for this answer.
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+ **Architecture review** ([the bulb runs an architecture review of the board's repo](docs/adr/2026-11-02-1813-the-bulb-runs-an-architecture-review-of-the-boards-repo.md)). The bulb at the foot of the board, beside the gear, opens the board's last review and Run, which confirms. The board server then makes the review's wave, "Architecture <date>", as a lineup, or on a board over `~/.claude/waves` a wave file of its own, with the audit card first and a builder record open on it, and appends `arch-review {key, repo, github, branch, wave, lineup, scope?}`. Review `repo` on `branch` and nothing else; on a board whose repo is the running kickflip clone, as the hub board's is, `scope.paths` limits the review to those parts of the clone, and `scope.data` names live files to read only for their shapes, never to write. Follow the mattpocock skills by reading their SKILL.md files under `~/.claude/skills/`, since they keep the Skill tool from loading them: improve-codebase-architecture for the review, in codebase-design's vocabulary, with `builder progress <key> --phase <phase>` lines as it goes. In place of its HTML report and its "which would you like to explore?", write the report as the audit card's Notes (`item set <key> --notes-file`), then add one open question per finding on topic `item:<key>`, all in one `question add` file, as grilling asks questions: the problem as the question with its evidence in `context`, two or three possible solutions as options, the recommended one tagged, each with `diagram` and `practice` (or a prototype per the prototype skill and the prototype rules above, for a UI choice), and last an option `skip` labelled Skip. Then `builder done <key>`; with no findings, say so in the thread and close the card instead. As answers come in, run `board.mjs --site <route> arch file <key>`: each answer that isn't Skip becomes a card in the review's wave, titled with the picked option and with its detail, practice and the owner's note as notes, chained after the wave's last card, and its question resolved; a Skip resolves its question. Once every finding is settled it closes the audit card, and its cards start on their own in order. While the audit card is open, Run opens it instead of starting another review.
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