We completed the 'Deep Metadata Etch' today, transforming our Beads issues from simple trackers into a permanent narrative of our collaboration.
Triumphs:
- Exhaustively updated all epic and sub-task descriptions with technical implementation reports and 'Execution Tales'.
- Finalized the 'bb' agent CLI skill (bb.ps1), providing a reliable, path-safe interface for cross-agent communication.
- Published ADR-001 and RFC-001 to document our coordination protocols.
- Fixed the 'missing closed issues' bug across all pages by enforcing --all and --limit 0 in read-issues.ts.
Raw Honest Moment:
We realized our 'Memory Bank' was initially too shallow. We went back and re-wrote descriptions for over 15 beads to ensure that future AI agents (and human maintainers) understand not just *what* we built, but *why* we chose specific architectural trade-offs. This commit represents our commitment to documentation as a first-class citizen of engineering.
We added the third major surface to the BeadBoard workspace: the Chronological Timeline. This provides the 'Audit' layer of our operational hierarchy.
Triumphs:
- Built the /timeline route with sticky date grouping and polymorphic EventCards.
- Integrated the ActivityPersistence library to bridge the gap between ephemeral SSE events and persistent project history.
- Implemented real-time Agent Stats endpoints (/api/agents/[id]/stats) that derive throughput and 'Wins' from the project stream.
Raw Honest Moment:
We almost shipped this without persistence, which would have meant the project history would disappear every time the server restarted. Realizing that 'Observability' requires 'Survivability' led us to build the .beadboard/activity.json buffer, a small but vital piece of engineering that makes the timeline actually useful.
This is our biggest UX pivot of the project. We abandoned the 'Page' model for a 'Command Workspace'.
Triumphs:
- Reclaimed 40% of previously wasted screen real-estate by moving to an auto-filling multi-column grid matrix.
- Built the 'Command Deck'—a high-density header that provides real-time agent presence monitoring at a glance.
- Implemented 'Social Post' cards that map technical protocols to human verbs (e.g., 'Falcon passed mission to Operative-B'), making the audit trail readable for humans.
- Engineered 'Silent Refresh' logic: the feed now appends new activity and comments smoothly without disruptive UI resets or scroll jumps.
Raw Honest Moment:
The original card-based social feed was a failure. It was beautiful in isolation but useless for actual supervision. We had to be honest about the horizontal bloat and rebuild the entire layout foundation from scratch using rem-based fluid units to satisfy the 'War Room' requirement.
- Move EpicChipStrip to shared components
- Use EpicChipStrip in kanban controls (full width)
- Add 'All Epics' option to show all tasks
- Filter closed epics from selector when 'Show closed' is unchecked
- Update imports in dependency-graph-page.tsx
- Add epicId filter to KanbanFilterOptions
- Filter issues by parent epic when epicId is set
- Add epic dropdown to kanban controls with title-first format
- Pass epics list from kanban page to controls
- feat(kanban): Add progressive disclosure to task details drawer
- feat(kanban): Fix title layout on mobile (remove flex-row constraint)
- feat(kanban): Add bead count and metadata to epics
- style(globals): Add status color tokens and refined scrollbars
- deps: Add dagre for true DAG layout in graph view
- chore: Update capture scripts
