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Refs #89. Docs only, no code.

What's here

design/war-room/ is the visual spec for conduit watch as a terminal UI, exported from the Claude Design "War Room TUI" page on 2026-09-28.

  • frames/: three frames (live mid-mission, card drawer with a tool call selected, approaching the wall) and the color token sheet, as PNGs.
  • golden/: the same three frames as plain text and 24-bit ANSI, exactly 160x45. These are intended as snapshot targets for captureCharFrame() once a journal fixture reproduces the mock scenario.
  • tokens.json: every color as hex: stations (live, past, done), states, text levels, and tool ticks.
  • tui-reference.js: the cell-grid renderer the design page used, with its mock scenario. The golden frames were generated by running its build() under Bun.
  • README.md: the rendering rules and how to use the golden frames.

PRD revision

prd/drafts/war-room.md now orders delivery TUI first, web view second:

  • The "Delivery surface" resolution is revised. The original web-only reasoning is kept, and the reasons for the reversal are added.
  • §8 opens with the delivery order and points at design/war-room/.
  • §9 adds the OpenTUI constraint and the @opentui/react/test-utils testing approach.
  • NFR-6 accepts 160 terminal columns for the TUI or 1280px for the web.

Gaps for the build

  • The TUI page has no replay or crashed-run frames. Those states come from the earlier web frames plus the grid rules in the README.
  • The mock shows some fields the journal may not record, such as a finding's severity. The TUI renders "not recorded" for those (PRD FR-13) and doesn't copy the mock.

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  • Documentation
    • Added a War Room terminal-interface design reference with layout, visual indicators, keyboard controls, and example screens for live work, selected tasks, and overdue items.
    • Updated the delivery plan to prioritize a server-free terminal interface, with a local web view planned afterward.
    • Clarified heartbeat and stale-status indicators, shared live and replay views, and how the interface handles bursts of journal events.

Frames, 160x45 golden text and ANSI frames, color tokens, and the cell-grid
reference renderer exported from the Claude Design War Room TUI page. The PRD
now orders delivery TUI first (OpenTUI), web view second.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds a War Room TUI design reference, a mock-frame renderer, color tokens, and golden dashboard captures. It also updates the PRD to specify TUI-first delivery, followed by a web view that shares reader, projection, and replay logic.

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War Room TUI reference

Layer / File(s) Summary
TUI delivery and display specification
prd/drafts/war-room.md, design/war-room/README.md
The PRD specifies TUI-first delivery, terminal width, and TUI constraints. The README describes the grid, display rules, golden-frame comparison, and handling of missing journal fields.
Mock data and frame rendering
design/war-room/tui-reference.js, design/war-room/tokens.json
The reference module defines mock work items, tool calls, display frames, grid operations, and rendering for the dashboard, drawer, and status rows. The token map defines colors for station states, work states, interface elements, and tool results.
Dashboard golden captures
design/war-room/golden/*
The text and ANSI captures show live mission, selected-card tool history, and overdue held-card dashboard states.

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This change specifies the War Room experience and adds reference designs; no actionable merge-blocking risk is established.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 82edd

The design avoids a new listening service for the first delivery and keeps the viewer read-only. No production access path changes in this PR, but the proposed journal and liveness behavior still needs validation when implemented.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The specified first-delivery exposure is local read access to one run’s journal and state, not a new network endpoint. The later web surface has a separate transport decision and is not implemented here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The proposed boundary is read-only viewing of journal-persisted data; the draft excludes UI writes and relies on existing journal filtering rather than granting the viewer new control authority.
  • observed — The exported mock renderer builds an in-memory grid from supplied frame configuration and hard-coded scenario data; the reference documentation does not designate it as a production journal reader.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The draft distinguishes kernel liveness recorded in the journal from web watch-process liveness conveyed by SSE, reducing the risk of presenting a live transport as proof of a live kernel.
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Review comments at @design/war-room/tui-reference.js:
- Line 100: Clamp the scaled `nowX` position in the waterfall calculation to its
right edge so it cannot enter the state-column area when `now` exceeds `B`. Keep
the existing scale `s` derived from the clamped position so event marks and the
budget line remain within the waterfall and move left as elapsed time increases.
- Line 122: Update the state selection in build so the parent card uses
stateOf(c, t), mapping only its wait state to awaiting_children; preserve
working and terminal states, including done. Add an awaiting_children rendering
branch to the status renderer so the parent’s waiting state is visible.
- Around line 189-190: Update the selected WI-209 status row in SB to include
the on_timeout policy marker “not recorded” after the timeout value. Keep the
overdue indicator visible within the 160-column frame.

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- Around line 241-242: Update the War Room command definition to give the web
view a distinct invocation, using either a web flag or a separate command, and
update the resolved process decision to use it. Keep the shared reader,
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queso and others added 3 commits September 29, 2026 06:00
…b-only sections (#89)

Resolve the three open questions: one journal is one run with no picker in
v1, screen capture (vhs) is enough for launch material, and the kernel
writes a run-level heartbeat (new FR-14). Rewrite the section 8 data model
as a shared core, add the TUI keys and drawer, mark the SSE and reactiveSWR
material web-only, and turn the burst-race risk into a core fold test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix: clamp the now-line to the waterfall's right edge once elapsed time passes the budget
- Fix: render the fan-out parent's waiting state as "awaiting" instead of a blank state cell
- Fix: show "on_timeout not recorded" on the held card's status line (FR-13)
- Fix: give the web view its own invocation, `conduit watch --web`, in the PRD
- Regenerate golden frames 01 to 03 (parent state cell, status line)

Addresses review comments from coderabbitai.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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