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niri_desktop_continuity-0.1.1/.gitignore

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+.venv/
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+.pytest_cache/
+.ruff_cache/
+*.egg-info/
+/dist/
+/build/
+/state/
+/snapshots/
+/previews/
+/receipts/
+/artifacts/
+# Optional workspace-local SCI development state; never a source or package input.
+/.ontology/
+# Generated immutable local template context; not part of the standalone repository.
+/docs/_core/
+# Generated index, never hand-authored.
+/docs/diary-index.md

niri_desktop_continuity-0.1.1/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+User-facing changes per release. Versions follow [semantic versioning](https://semver.org);
+before 1.0, a minor release may change CLI output or saved-state formats, and its entry says how.
+The release process is in [docs/release.md](docs/release.md).
+
+## [0.1.1] - 2026-09-19
+
+### Changed
+
+- Terminal sessions are read only in Ghostty, by design. Other terminals (kitty, WezTerm, foot,
+  Alacritty) now reopen as plain applications with their own command line, instead of receiving
+  Ghostty's `--working-directory` and `-e`, which they do not accept. Captures made by 0.1.0 keep
+  their old recipes until the next `capture`.
+
+### Added
+
+- On PyPI: `pipx install niri-desktop-continuity`. Each release is built once in CI from its tag,
+  attached to the GitHub Release with `SHA256SUMS` and uploaded to PyPI through trusted publishing.
+- README links and images are absolute, so the page reads the same on PyPI.
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-09-19
+
+First public release. Alpha, for [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) on Linux, Python 3.11+,
+no runtime dependencies. Install from the release wheel or with
+`pipx install git+https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity@v0.1.0`.
+
+### Save and reopen your desktop
+
+- `capture` saves windows, workspaces, column layout and a private reopen recipe per window:
+  a Claude Code session (resumed by id), a Pi session, an application command line and working
+  directory, a terminal's last command, a shell in the same directory, or a command you gave
+  `declare`. Anything else is recorded as `unknown` with a reason.
+- `restore` prints the placement plan; `restore --apply` launches each recipe through niri, puts
+  the window on its saved workspace, rebuilds the saved column order and widths and re-applies
+  workspace names. Windows open before the run are never moved or closed; every run leaves a
+  receipt. Browsers, Thunderbird and Obsidian are launched once and restore their own windows.
+- `autostart --enable` adds opt-in systemd user units: a capture every 15 minutes and a reopen at
+  login when the capture came from a different niri instance. `--disable` removes them.
+- `declare --pid PID -- COMMAND` reopens a terminal session that cannot be resumed as a fresh
+  command, for example a new session started from a handoff note.
+- Applications restart in their saved working directory. Chromium and Electron command lines,
+  which those programs rewrite into one process title, are split at a real program file.
+
+### Check before you restart
+
+- `preview` writes an offline HTML/SVG map of the latest capture (or a given digest). Every tile
+  says how the window comes back, and an **After a reboot** section lists each window's kind,
+  exact command and directory, or why it will not reopen.
+
+### Safety and privacy
+
+- A Claude process without a session registry entry is never replayed from its command line.
+  X11 windows (`xwayland-client`) and unresolvable AppImage mounts are reported, not guessed.
+- State is private (`0700`/`0600`); window titles and session titles are stored only with
+  `capture --include-titles`. No network requests, telemetry or daemon; discovered binaries are
+  hashed, never executed.
+
+### Also included, experimental
+
+- Blocked restart proposals, a single-column reorder with exact approvals, and loss-bounded
+  reconstruction and resolution lifecycles that need a separately owned adapter (none ships
+  here). See [docs/recovery.md](docs/recovery.md).
+
+### Known limits
+
+- Reopening is not restoring memory: unsaved drafts, scrollback and hidden tab order are lost.
+- X11 applications are not reopened. Placement is by workspace index; the monitor is not restored.
+- Arguments that contained spaces cannot be recovered from a rewritten process title.
+- Stay idle while `restore --apply` arranges columns; niri has no atomic focus-and-move.

niri_desktop_continuity-0.1.1/DESIGN.md

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+---
+summary: "Offline incident-map design contract for desktop continuity; review is not restart permission."
+read_when:
+  - "You edit the isolated desktop-continuity map_preview renderer."
+version: alpha
+name: Niri Desktop Continuity
+description: A private offline map of the work that must survive maintenance.
+colors:
+  primary: "#D9E5DA"
+  secondary: "#A8BAB5"
+  tertiary: "#F5C875"
+  neutral: "#101D22"
+  surface: "#192C32"
+  on-surface: "#EAF0E8"
+  muted: "#456268"
+  success: "#8ED7C3"
+  warning: "#F5C875"
+  error: "#FFAF9F"
+typography:
+  display:
+    fontFamily: Georgia, serif
+    fontSize: 48px
+    fontWeight: 400
+    lineHeight: 1.1
+  h1:
+    fontFamily: Georgia, serif
+    fontSize: 32px
+    fontWeight: 400
+    lineHeight: 1.2
+  body-md:
+    fontFamily: "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif
+    fontSize: 16px
+    fontWeight: 400
+    lineHeight: 1.5
+  label-caps:
+    fontFamily: "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace
+    fontSize: 12px
+    fontWeight: 400
+    lineHeight: 1.4
+rounded:
+  sm: 4px
+  md: 8px
+spacing:
+  xs: 4px
+  sm: 8px
+  md: 16px
+  lg: 24px
+  xl: 40px
+components:
+  card:
+    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
+    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
+    rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
+    padding: 16px
+  alert-warning:
+    backgroundColor: "{colors.neutral}"
+    textColor: "{colors.warning}"
+    padding: 16px
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+Niri Desktop Continuity is a night-chart of the operator's mental workspace. It is a review artifact,
+not a live remote-control panel and not a backup of process memory. No network resources,
+JavaScript, thumbnails, terminal output, browser contents, or executable approval buttons.
+
+## Visual direction
+
+Surveyor's ledger: ink-blue drafting surface, pale mineral text, amber admission warnings.
+Serif headings frame a precise monospaced map. Workspace rows preserve vertical order;
+columns run horizontally with tiles grouped inside them. Floating windows have a separate row.
+
+## Colors
+
+Use the front-matter palette. Amber always means caution, not successful recovery. Teal may
+mark selected scope or a measured predicate, never unverified application state.
+
+## Typography
+
+Georgia headlines, DejaVu Sans body, DejaVu Sans Mono coordinates and identifiers. Local font
+fallbacks only. Full identifiers remain available as text even if a compact tile label truncates.
+
+## Layout
+
+Read top to bottom: capture timestamp and privacy; admission warning; current map; desired map
+when supplied, otherwise the after-reboot reopen ledger; process/version/scope ledger; limitations. Horizontal overflow is explicit, not
+silently dropped. SVG is a schematic, not a screenshot or pixel-perfect viewport reconstruction.
+
+## Elevation and Depth
+
+Thin drafting borders, generous gutters, no shadows or gradients. Stable static output is more
+important than animation during a recovery incident.
+
+## Shapes
+
+Small-radius cards and square coordinate labels. No decorative circular gauges.
+
+## Components
+
+A workspace header gives stable ID, current index, output and window count. Column headers
+show position, not guessed application tab state. Admission has text status plus blockers;
+status must not rely on color. HTML has a full private inventory; SVG includes every window.
+On snapshot previews each tile states its reopen outcome in text (`reopens as <kind>` or
+`not reopened (<reason>)`), and the after-reboot ledger lists every window and tab session with
+a count summary, the exact recorded command and a plain-language reason for each miss. A miss is
+amber (caution); a reopen is plain text, never teal, because a recipe is not verified state.
+
+## Do's and Don'ts
+
+- Do HTML/XML-escape all observed strings and remove invalid XML control characters.
+- Do preserve exact digests in the textual approval panel.
+- Do label unavailable geometry, versions, output readiness and native state as unknown.
+- Do default to redacted window labels; included titles remain private local data.
+- Don't infer hidden Ghostty tabs from compositor windows or title heuristics.
+- Don't auto-open the operator's browser or restart any process.

niri_desktop_continuity-0.1.1/Justfile

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+# Standardized operator surface for this standalone CLI.
+# Thin delegation to repo-local wrappers; see scripts/ci/ and docs/engineering.local.md.
+
+default: help
+
+# Show the supported local command surface.
+help:
+    just --list
+
+# Run the default test suite (pytest; config lives in pyproject.toml).
+test:
+    uv run --frozen pytest
+
+# Fast local validation gate: lint, formatting check, tests, entrypoint smoke,
+# and the portable-source/privacy check. Delegates to the canonical wrapper.
+check:
+    ./scripts/ci/fast.sh
+
+# Non-formatting linter over the same scope as the check gate.
+lint:
+    uv run --frozen ruff check src tests scripts/check-portability.py scripts/ci/package-smoke.py scripts/demo-desktop.py
+
+# Apply formatting to the same scope as the check gate.
+fmt:
+    uv run --frozen ruff format src tests scripts/check-portability.py scripts/ci/package-smoke.py scripts/demo-desktop.py
+
+# Build distributable artifacts (wheel + sdist).
+build:
+    uv build
+
+# Full local CI-equivalent gate: check + package build via the canonical wrapper.
+# scripts/ci/full.sh already runs fast.sh, so ci must not also invoke check.
+ci:
+    ./scripts/ci/full.sh
+
+# Toolchain/runtime sanity checks: uv present, locked environment, interpreter.
+doctor:
+    uv --version
+    uv run --frozen python --version
+
+# One-shot execution of the primary CLI entrypoint (truthful --help smoke).
+run:
+    uv run --frozen niri-desktop-continuity --help
+
+# Re-render the README screenshots from the fabricated demo desktop (needs chromium + ImageMagick).
+screenshots:
+    ./scripts/docs-screenshots.sh
+
+# NOTE: no `dev` target: this repo has no long-running dev/watch surface
+# (standard-library CLI; iteration is edit + `just run`/`just test`).

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niri_desktop_continuity-0.1.1/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: niri-desktop-continuity
+Version: 0.1.1
+Summary: Save your niri desktop and reopen it after a reboot: windows on their workspaces, in column order
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/issues
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+Keywords: desktop,niri,reboot,restore,session,wayland
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Environment :: Console
+Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Desktop Environment
+Requires-Python: >=3.11
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# niri-desktop-continuity
+
+[![ci](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/niri-desktop-continuity)](https://pypi.org/project/niri-desktop-continuity/)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/LICENSE)
+
+**Reboot, log in, and your [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) desktop comes back.** Windows
+reopen on their workspaces in their column order, Claude Code and Pi sessions resume by id, and
+anything that cannot be reopened safely is reported, never guessed.
+
+![Offline preview of a fabricated demo desktop: a project workspace with Claude Code and Pi sessions, a dev server and an X11 IDE, then a browser workspace; each tile says whether it reopens after a reboot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/main/docs/assets/preview-map.png)
+
+<sub>The offline preview page for a fabricated demo desktop (not anyone's real one): the first two
+of its five workspaces, 23 windows in all. Every tile says how it comes back after a reboot, or
+why it will not.</sub>
+
+## Why
+
+niri's scrolling columns make it easy to build a desktop that is worth keeping: a workspace per
+project, terminals running agents and dev servers, a browser and notes beside them. A reboot or a
+crash throws all of it away, and rebuilding it by hand, window by window and column by column, takes
+longer than the reboot did.
+
+This small tool saves the shape of your desktop every 15 minutes and, at your next login, puts it
+back. From a real reboot of the maintainer's desktop:
+
+- **26 windows saved, 25 reopened at login in 49 seconds**, every one on its saved workspace in
+  its saved column order.
+- Claude Code and Pi sessions **resumed by id**.
+- Two sessions that could not be resumed came back as **fresh sessions started from their handoff
+  notes** (`declare`), instead of replaying their opening prompts.
+- The one miss, an X11 app, was **reported in the receipt, not guessed**.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+Requires Linux, niri and Python 3.11+, with [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org) as your terminal. No
+runtime dependencies.
+
+```sh
+pipx install niri-desktop-continuity
+# or: uv tool install niri-desktop-continuity
+```
+
+Every release is also on [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/releases)
+with checksums; what changed is in the [changelog](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+Save your desktop and check what would come back:
+
+```sh
+niri-desktop-continuity capture    # save windows, workspaces and a reopen recipe per window
+niri-desktop-continuity preview    # write an offline HTML map of the latest capture; open the printed path
+niri-desktop-continuity restore    # dry run: the placement plan, as JSON; nothing is launched
+```
+
+Reopen it: automatically at every login, or by hand after a reboot or crash:
+
+```sh
+niri-desktop-continuity autostart --enable   # capture every 15 min, reopen at login; --disable removes it
+niri-desktop-continuity restore --apply      # reopen the latest capture now
+```
+
+`restore --apply` launches every reopenable saved window that is not already open as a Claude or
+Pi session, so run it on a desktop that has lost those windows. In the session you just captured,
+it would open second copies. The login service checks this for you: it reopens only when the
+capture came from a different niri instance, such as the one before a reboot.
+
+A session that cannot be resumed (for example, a Claude Code session started from inside another
+one, which keeps no transcript) is not reopened. If you would rather it came back as a fresh
+session, say so while it is still running:
+
+```sh
+niri-desktop-continuity declare --pid <pid> -- claude "Continue from docs/handoff.md"
+```
+
+`<pid>` is any process in that terminal (for example from `pgrep -a claude`). The declaration
+lives until the next reboot, applies only to that exact process, and `declare --pid <pid> --clear`
+removes it.
+
+## Check before you restart
+
+`preview` writes a standalone HTML page and prints its path. Its **After a reboot** section lists
+every saved window: whether it reopens, as what, with the exact command and directory, or why it
+will not.
+
+![The "After a reboot" section of the preview for the same demo desktop: 21 of 23 reopen; an unregistered Claude session and an X11 IDE will not, each with its reason](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/main/docs/assets/preview-after-reboot.png)
+
+<sub>Same fabricated demo desktop, first workspace's rows. `restore` prints the same plan as
+JSON.</sub>
+
+## How it works
+
+Each `capture` reads niri's IPC and same-user process metadata, and records a private *reopen
+recipe* per window:
+
+| Kind | How it comes back |
+|---|---|
+| `claude` | Ghostty, running `claude --resume <id>` in the session's directory (from Claude Code's per-process session registry) |
+| `pi` | Ghostty, running Pi's own resume command (from Pi's presence directory) |
+| `declared` | Ghostty, running the command you gave `declare` |
+| `app` | the application's command line and working directory |
+| `command` | Ghostty, running its last command again (for example `btop` or `npm run dev`) |
+| `shell` | Ghostty, opened in the same directory |
+| `unknown` | not reopened. The reason is recorded, for example `xwayland-client` or `claude-session-unregistered` |
+
+`restore --apply` spawns each recipe through niri, waits for its window, moves it to its workspace,
+then rebuilds the saved column order and widths and re-applies workspace names. Browsers,
+Thunderbird and Obsidian restore their own windows, so they are launched once. Every run writes a
+receipt (`history --kind receipts`); exit status 2 means a partial or interrupted run.
+Details: [usage](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/docs/usage.md#save-and-reopen).
+
+## What it never does
+
+- **Never closes a window, and never moves one that was open before the run.** Reopened columns
+  go after them.
+- **Never replays what it cannot resume.** A Claude process without a session registry entry is
+  not relaunched from its command line, which would start the same work over.
+- **Never guesses.** An X11 window (niri reports only the `xwayland-satellite` bridge), an
+  unresolvable AppImage mount or an unreadable process is reported with a reason, not launched.
+- **Never runs anything at login unless you opt in.** `autostart --enable` writes three systemd user
+  units, `--disable` removes them. Nothing else installs a service or edits your configuration.
+- **Never executes a discovered binary while capturing.** Executables are hashed, not run.
+- **Makes no network requests of its own.** No telemetry, no daemon. The preview is static HTML
+  with no scripts or remote assets, and no browser is launched for you.
+- **Never reads terminal contents or browser profiles.** Session ids come from Claude Code's
+  session registry and Pi's presence files. From a Claude Code transcript it takes only the
+  session title, to tell apart windows of one terminal process.
+
+Records stay private: `0700` directories and `0600` files under
+`$XDG_STATE_HOME/niri-desktop-continuity` (default `~/.local/state/niri-desktop-continuity`, or
+`--state-root <dir>`). Window titles and session titles are redacted unless you
+`capture --include-titles`. Recipes still contain command lines and working directories, so treat
+captures and previews as private and do not publish them.
+
+## Honest limits
+
+- **niri on Linux only.** No other compositor or platform is planned. Alpha software.
+- **Reopening is not restoring memory.** Applications bring back their own content. Unsaved drafts,
+  scrollback, shell state and the order of hidden tabs are not recovered.
+- **X11 applications are not reopened**, because niri does not reveal which X11 program owns a
+  window.
+- **Ghostty only, by design.** Sessions inside terminals are read and resumed in Ghostty. Other
+  terminals (kitty, WezTerm, foot, Alacritty) reopen as plain applications, without what ran in
+  them; if you use one, fork it. Claude Code and Pi resume by id; other programs in Ghostty get
+  their last command run again, or a shell in the same directory. Sessions found in extra tabs of
+  one Ghostty window reopen as separate windows.
+- **Placement is by workspace index.** Saved workspaces are compacted to consecutive indices, and
+  which monitor a workspace was on is not restored.
+- **Stay idle while it arranges columns** (usually under a minute). niri has no atomic
+  focus-and-move, so input during the run can land in the wrong column.
+- Exact restart or migration of a still-running window is **not** supported and stays blocked.
+
+## Beyond reopening
+
+The same CLI also plans blocked restart proposals and has a loss-bounded saved-conversation
+reconstruction path, which needs a separately owned adapter that does not ship here. It also has
+an experimental single-column reorder. None of these is needed to save and reopen a desktop. See
+[planning, reconstruction and resolution](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/docs/recovery.md).
+
+## Develop
+
+```sh
+uv sync --group dev
+just check         # lint, formatting, tests, portable-source/privacy check
+just build         # wheel + sdist
+just ci            # check + build
+just screenshots   # re-render docs/assets from the fabricated demo desktop (Chromium + ImageMagick)
+```
+
+Tests never contact a real compositor; [releasing](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/docs/release.md) describes versions, tags and
+rollback. [Architecture](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/docs/architecture.md) explains the module
+boundaries, [DESIGN.md](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/DESIGN.md) is the preview's visual contract and [usage](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/docs/usage.md) has
+every command's details. Screenshots come only from `scripts/demo-desktop.py`, and
+`just check` refuses PNG metadata that could carry private text.
+
+Scaffolded from `tpl-project-repo`, then adapted for a standalone Python package. Copier answers
+retain relative template provenance only; template updates are a maintainer concern, not an
+installation prerequisite. Private template snapshot context is excluded from version control
+and distribution. Apache-2.0: see [LICENSE](https://github.com/tryingET/niri-desktop-continuity/blob/main/LICENSE).