Workspace round 3: the map, newest-first, one-field composer, Temper everywhere, no layout shift

[cailmdaley]

Round 3 of the document workspace, from Cail's feedback on round 2. The headline changes:

• the map of pages is back, as a band of tile faces under the page;
• a channel lists its newest sends first;
• the page sits beside the sidebar instead of across a dead band;
• the composer is one field that never moves when you touch it;
• Meeting is a switch;
• Temper and Discard reach every card without a verdict;
• opening a channel never jumps you to another page once it has painted.

A layout-shift guard now enforces "nothing moves when you touch it" across the board.

Claude Opus 5.5 on behalf of Cail. Every screenshot below comes from the mocked-daemon harness.

The map of pages

Cail lost his place without a row of thumbnails, so the reader's map is back.

• The band. It sits under the stage: one row of 80×56 tiles, with the selected tile lifted, a serif caption on hover, and "n / N" at the end.
• Tile faces. Every tile shows its declared title and a kind mark straight away. Audio tiles add a waveform sketch once peaks are known. A live thumbnail carries its title on a paper strip at its foot, so a flat image or a dense report still names itself.
• Order. A channel lists §, then sent documents by newest receipt, then embeds that were never sent. A re-send moves to the front. Selection follows the document, never the slot.
• The head drops its text index, so pages are listed once.
• The phone gets one tick per page along the bottom bar's top edge.

Geometry

• With the sidebar open, the page sits one 24 px gutter from it and shrinks before that gutter grows. It used to centre itself, leaving a dead band of up to 443 px at 1920.
• The sidebar is 320 px wide and has its own ground and edge.

The composer and Meeting

• One bordered field, the same height at rest and focused. Its verbs sit inside its right edge. Only wrapped text grows it, and it grows downward.
• Focus never scrolls the page. r had scrolled it 7–12 px with the sidebar open, which cut off the kicker.
• Meeting is a switch beside the verbs, off by default. Switched on, it shows the kind (Call · Room · Phone) and one verb, Start meeting.

desktop, at rest	desktop, Meeting on

phone, at rest	phone, Meeting on

Temper everywhere

The head's Temper · Discard shows for every fiber without a verdict: drafts, in flight and awaiting review.

• t/x work in the same columns.
• In-flight Desk cards reveal the pair on hover and keyboard selection.
• A live worker still confirms once at the gesture, and every verdict goes through the 6 s undo queue.
• The fiber page's ⋯ duplicate is gone.

in-flight fiber	Desk hover

No jump after paint

• Selection is settled before the first paint, in this order: the route, else memory, else the report the Board's receipt feed already names. A wanted page that isn't listed yet gets a frame at once.
• show() no longer writes selection. Late documents, metadata and polls never move the page.
• A routed page that doesn't exist falls back to the report.
• Receipts stamped with a session id instead of a fiber uid are filed as Unfiled rather than re-read. That stops the no fiber found storm against the daemon.

Nothing moves when you touch it

ui/e2e/layoutShift.mjs records every visible box, applies one interaction, and fails on anything else moving by more than 0.5 px. The interactions are focus, typing, hover, popovers, page selection, a poll repaint and a worker-state change, swept at 1440, 1000 and 390 px across the act zone, the head, the label bar, the band, the sidebar, the Desk and the Board. It found, and this PR fixes:

• the composer's growth on focus;
• the Desk's needs-you edge;
• non-reduced-motion hover lifts under reduced motion;
• the worker control's width change between states.

No known-shift exceptions remain.

Gates

• tsc is clean.
• vitest: 1,562 tests pass under America/Los_Angeles and Europe/Paris (--maxWorkers=2).
• e2e: 104 passed, 0 failed. The layout-shift guard passed 7/7 after the final helper cleanup.
• No daemon files changed since Make the board responsive: connection lanes, deduped reads, audio and Desk fixes #10.
• CI is out of the loop while GitHub Actions is degraded, so this merges on local gates plus an independent review.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XTQ9CSGaUs1DbFHxME9BB3