From 50db790f8615a1d53b8e2a362ba6a9ac28055cc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Croissant Le Doux <aslan@Croissants-MacBook-Air.local>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:57:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix blank Focus + calm-standup nag chrome (found
 dogfooding live)
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Poking at the live app (a real repo with no open issues) surfaced two empty-state gaps:

- Focus (Morning service) rendered a bare header — no cards, no empty state —
  because scheduleFocus returns a FocusView with empty now/next/later rather than
  undefined, so the `if (!focus)` guard never fired. Guard on 'no now/next/later'
  too → shows the 'Nothing to pour' EmptyState.
- Standup's calm sentinel nag (id 0) still rendered '#0 · steeping 0d · blocks'
  chrome and was a click target (would try to open issue #0). Render the calm
  case as a plain reassurance pill, no chrome, not clickable.

Both verified against the live christian/commitea repo (all issues closed → no
open work). desktop tsc clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../src/components/screens/focus-screen.tsx   | 11 ++-
 .../src/components/screens/standup-screen.tsx | 84 ++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/focus-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/focus-screen.tsx
index 6798486..0d35f05 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/focus-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/focus-screen.tsx
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ import { EmptyState } from '../shell/states.js'
 import { Badge, Button, Card, IconButton, Tag } from '../ui/index.js'
 
 /**
- * Morning service — the Now/Next/Later focus cards + the burn-up cone.
- * `focus` (scheduler) and `forecast` (Monte Carlo) override the demo fixtures
- * when gitea is configured; both fall back to the handoff demo otherwise.
+ * Morning service — the Now/Next/Later focus cards + the burn-up cone, from the
+ * scheduler (`focus`) and Monte Carlo forecast (`forecast`). Both come from the
+ * reconciled backlog; with no open work the scheduler has nothing to pour, so we
+ * show the empty state.
  */
 export function FocusScreen({
   onOpenIssue,
@@ -66,7 +67,9 @@ export function FocusScreen({
     </Card>
   )
 
-  if (!focus) {
+  // The scheduler returns a FocusView even when the backlog has no open work —
+  // treat "no now/next/later" as empty, not just an absent `focus`.
+  if (!focus || (!focus.now && !focus.next && !focus.later)) {
     return (
       <EmptyState
         icon="coffee"
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/standup-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/standup-screen.tsx
index 533995d..41b0ace 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/standup-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/standup-screen.tsx
@@ -161,39 +161,59 @@ export function StandupScreen({
         </Section>
 
         <Section overline="Stale blockers" order={3}>
-          <div
-            role="button"
-            tabIndex={0}
-            onClick={() => onOpenIssue(NAG_REF)}
-            onKeyDown={(e) => {
-              if (e.key === 'Enter') onOpenIssue(NAG_REF)
-            }}
-            style={{
-              display: 'flex',
-              gap: 10,
-              alignItems: 'flex-start',
-              cursor: 'pointer',
-              background: 'var(--warn-tint)',
-              borderRadius: 'var(--radius-2)',
-              padding: '12px 14px',
-            }}
-          >
-            <span style={{ color: 'var(--warn)', display: 'inline-flex', marginTop: 2 }}>
-              <Icon name="clock" size={15} />
-            </span>
-            <div style={{ flex: 1 }}>
-              <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 8, flexWrap: 'wrap' }}>
-                <span style={{ font: '500 12.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-1)' }}>#{s.nag.id}</span>
-                <Badge tone="warn" dot>
-                  steeping {s.nag.days}
-                </Badge>
-                <span style={{ font: '400 11.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)' }}>
-                  blocks {s.nag.blocks.join(', ')}
-                </span>
-              </div>
-              <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: '5px 0 0' }}>{s.nag.text}</p>
+          {s.nag.id === 0 ? (
+            // Calm sentinel — nothing is over-steeping; render just the reassurance,
+            // no issue chrome, no click target (there's no #0 to open).
+            <div
+              style={{
+                display: 'flex',
+                gap: 10,
+                alignItems: 'center',
+                background: 'var(--paper-2)',
+                borderRadius: 'var(--radius-2)',
+                padding: '12px 14px',
+              }}
+            >
+              <span style={{ color: 'var(--ok)', display: 'inline-flex' }}>
+                <Icon name="circle-check" size={15} />
+              </span>
+              <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: 0 }}>{s.nag.text}</p>
             </div>
-          </div>
+          ) : (
+            <div
+              role="button"
+              tabIndex={0}
+              onClick={() => onOpenIssue(NAG_REF)}
+              onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                if (e.key === 'Enter') onOpenIssue(NAG_REF)
+              }}
+              style={{
+                display: 'flex',
+                gap: 10,
+                alignItems: 'flex-start',
+                cursor: 'pointer',
+                background: 'var(--warn-tint)',
+                borderRadius: 'var(--radius-2)',
+                padding: '12px 14px',
+              }}
+            >
+              <span style={{ color: 'var(--warn)', display: 'inline-flex', marginTop: 2 }}>
+                <Icon name="clock" size={15} />
+              </span>
+              <div style={{ flex: 1 }}>
+                <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 8, flexWrap: 'wrap' }}>
+                  <span style={{ font: '500 12.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-1)' }}>#{s.nag.id}</span>
+                  <Badge tone="warn" dot>
+                    steeping {s.nag.days}
+                  </Badge>
+                  <span style={{ font: '400 11.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)' }}>
+                    blocks {s.nag.blocks.join(', ')}
+                  </span>
+                </div>
+                <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: '5px 0 0' }}>{s.nag.text}</p>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          )}
         </Section>
 
         <footer
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From 1026c762a9aa850b288c53eee16c52d3600dcf80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Croissant Le Doux <aslan@Croissants-MacBook-Air.local>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:09:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] De-mock Settings + empty Capture braindump + resolve
 connection status
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More static mocks found by poking the live app:

- Settings was ~80% mock: a fake Sync card (webhook endpoint :48731, poll
  fallback, 'last reconcile 3.2s · 500 issues'), a fake dual-model 'router'
  (gemma-4b/qwen-72b with hardcoded URLs), and an unwired Rituals card. Replaced
  with honest/live content: the Sync card now describes the real on-demand
  reconcile + stale-cache model; the Model card shows the actual probed model
  from model.status(); dropped Rituals and the duplicate 'Forget' button.
- Settings showed 'Not connected' while the app was clearly connected: config:get
  returned only the *saved* config, so a .env.local/env connection read as null.
  It now falls back to a public view of the resolved connection — Settings and
  the rail host label reflect the real christian/commitea connection.
- Capture braindump was pre-filled with a fake example ('auth is flaky…'); now
  starts empty with just the placeholder.

Verified live: Settings shows christian/commitea connected + google/gemma-4-26b
reachable; Capture empty; a live Reginald chat turn runs the agent loop.
desktop tsc clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 apps/desktop/src/main/gitea.ts                |  18 +-
 .../src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx |   5 +-
 .../components/screens/settings-screen.tsx    | 167 +++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/main/gitea.ts b/apps/desktop/src/main/gitea.ts
index d75b37b..f66216c 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/main/gitea.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/main/gitea.ts
@@ -365,7 +365,23 @@ export function registerGiteaIpc(): void {
   })
 
   // ---- config (team onboarding) ----
-  ipcMain.handle('config:get', () => publicConfig())
+  // The saved config's public view, or — when running off a .env.local / env
+  // fallback (dev) — a public view of the *resolved* connection, so Settings and
+  // the rail reflect what the app is actually connected to, not just the store.
+  ipcMain.handle('config:get', () => {
+    const saved = publicConfig()
+    if (saved) return saved
+    const c = resolveConfig()
+    if (!c) return null
+    return {
+      baseUrl: c.baseUrl,
+      owner: c.owner,
+      repo: c.repo,
+      pmStateRepo: pmStateRepoName(c),
+      modelUrl: process.env.MODEL_BASE_URL ?? undefined,
+      hasToken: !!c.token,
+    }
+  })
 
   ipcMain.handle('config:set', (_event, cfg: AppConfig) => {
     saveConfig(cfg)
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
index 9ac3229..d80eecb 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
@@ -24,10 +24,7 @@ interface Question {
 
 export function CaptureScreen({ onDone }: { onDone: () => void }) {
   const [stage, setStage] = React.useState<'dump' | 'interview' | 'review' | 'filed'>('dump')
-  const [dump, setDump] = React.useState(
-    'auth is flaky — token refresh dies silently, sometimes session storage goes stale. ' +
-      'also the webhook debounce thing keeps double-firing. and we owe docs for auth setup'
-  )
+  const [dump, setDump] = React.useState('')
   const [qi, setQi] = React.useState(0)
   const [log, setLog] = React.useState<{ q: string; a: string }[]>([])
   const [split, setSplit] = React.useState<boolean | null>(null)
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
index b0a1545..5f2e32d 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import React from 'react'
 
 import type { PublicConfig } from '../../global.js'
-import { Badge, Button, Card, Icon, IconButton, Input, Radio, Select, Switch, Tag } from '../ui/index.js'
+import { Badge, Button, Card, Icon, Radio, Tag } from '../ui/index.js'
 
-// Settings — gitea connection, sync, model roles, labels, rituals, appearance
+// Settings — gitea connection, sync behaviour, model, label schema, appearance.
 export function SettingsScreen({
   dark,
   setDark,
@@ -17,10 +17,20 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
   onReconnect?: () => void
   onDisconnect?: () => void
 }) {
-  const [webhooks, setWebhooks] = React.useState(true)
-  const [reconcile, setReconcile] = React.useState(true)
-  const [poll, setPoll] = React.useState(true)
-  const [nag, setNag] = React.useState(true)
+  const [model, setModel] = React.useState<{ configured: boolean; model: string | null } | null>(null)
+
+  React.useEffect(() => {
+    let alive = true
+    window.commitea.model
+      .status()
+      .then((s) => {
+        if (alive) setModel(s)
+      })
+      .catch(() => {})
+    return () => {
+      alive = false
+    }
+  }, [])
 
   const Row = ({ children, style }: { children: React.ReactNode; style?: React.CSSProperties }) => (
     <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 12, ...style }}>{children}</div>
@@ -33,128 +43,127 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
     <div style={{ maxWidth: 720, margin: '0 auto', display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 16 }}>
       <header style={{ borderBottom: 'var(--rule-double)', paddingBottom: 14 }}>
         <h1 style={{ font: 'var(--text-display)', color: 'var(--ink-1)', margin: 0 }}>Settings</h1>
-        <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: '6px 0 0' }}>config lives in pm-state · versioned, portable</p>
+        <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: '6px 0 0' }}>
+          connection lives on this machine · the plan lives in gitea
+        </p>
       </header>
 
       <Card overline="Gitea" title="Connection">
         <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 12 }}>
           {connection ? (
             <>
-              <Row style={{ padding: '8px 12px', background: 'var(--paper-0)', border: '1px solid var(--line-1)', borderRadius: 'var(--radius-2)' }}>
+              <Row
+                style={{
+                  padding: '8px 12px',
+                  background: 'var(--paper-0)',
+                  border: '1px solid var(--line-1)',
+                  borderRadius: 'var(--radius-2)',
+                }}
+              >
                 <Icon name="git-branch" size={14} style={{ color: 'var(--ink-3)' }} />
-                <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)', color: 'var(--ink-1)', flex: 1 }}>{connection.owner}/{connection.repo}</span>
-                <Badge tone="ok" dot>connected</Badge>
+                <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)', color: 'var(--ink-1)', flex: 1 }}>
+                  {connection.owner}/{connection.repo}
+                </span>
+                <Badge tone="ok" dot>
+                  connected
+                </Badge>
               </Row>
               <Row style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', gap: 6 }}>
-                <Icon name="link" size={12} />{connection.baseUrl}
+                <Icon name="link" size={12} />
+                {connection.baseUrl}
               </Row>
               <Row style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', gap: 6 }}>
-                <Icon name="layers" size={12} />sidecar: {connection.pmStateRepo ?? `${connection.repo}-pm-state`}
-              </Row>
-              <Row style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', gap: 6 }}>
-                <Icon name="sparkles" size={12} />model: {connection.modelUrl ?? 'not set — chat off'}
+                <Icon name="layers" size={12} />
+                sidecar: {connection.pmStateRepo ?? `${connection.repo}-pm-state`}
               </Row>
               <Note>Your token is stored encrypted on this machine. Delete the sidecar and resync — no truth is lost.</Note>
               <Row style={{ gap: 8, marginTop: 2 }}>
-                <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" icon="settings-2" onClick={onReconnect}>Reconfigure</Button>
-                <Button variant="ghost" size="sm" onClick={onDisconnect}>Disconnect</Button>
+                <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" icon="settings-2" onClick={onReconnect}>
+                  Reconfigure
+                </Button>
+                <Button variant="ghost" size="sm" onClick={onDisconnect}>
+                  Disconnect
+                </Button>
               </Row>
             </>
           ) : (
             <Row style={{ gap: 8 }}>
               <Note>Not connected.</Note>
-              <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" onClick={onReconnect}>Connect</Button>
+              <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" onClick={onReconnect}>
+                Connect
+              </Button>
             </Row>
           )}
         </div>
       </Card>
 
       <Card overline="Sync" title="Staying current">
-        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 12 }}>
-          <Row>
-            <Switch label="Webhooks while running" checked={webhooks} onChange={(e) => setWebhooks(e.target.checked)} />
-            <span style={{ font: '400 11.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', marginLeft: 'auto' }}>endpoint :48731 · healthy</span>
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 10 }}>
+          <Row style={{ gap: 8 }}>
+            <Icon name="refresh-cw" size={14} style={{ color: 'var(--ink-3)' }} />
+            <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-body)', color: 'var(--ink-1)' }}>
+              Reconciles on launch and after every write
+            </span>
           </Row>
-          <Switch label="Full reconcile on launch" checked={reconcile} onChange={(e) => setReconcile(e.target.checked)} />
-          <Row>
-            <Switch label="Poll fallback" checked={poll} onChange={(e) => setPoll(e.target.checked)} />
-            <div style={{ marginLeft: 'auto', width: 140 }}>
-              <Select options={[{ value: '2', label: 'every 2 min' }, { value: '5', label: 'every 5 min' }, { value: '15', label: 'every 15 min' }]} defaultValue="5" />
-            </div>
-          </Row>
-          <Note>last reconcile 3.2s · 500 issues · nothing lost</Note>
+          <Note>
+            The board is a rebuildable index over gitea — the durable truth. When gitea is unreachable the last
+            snapshot is served from cache (the rail's dot turns red), and the next successful reconcile supersedes it.
+            No webhooks, no polling: reads are on demand.
+          </Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
 
-      <Card overline="Models" title="The router">
-        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 14 }}>
-          <div style={{ display: 'grid', gridTemplateColumns: '1fr 1fr', gap: '12px 14px' }}>
-            <Select label="Prose & rituals" options={[
-              { value: 'gemma-4b', label: 'gemma-4b · local' },
-              { value: 'qwen-7b', label: 'qwen-7b · local' },
-            ]} defaultValue="gemma-4b" />
-            <Input label="Base URL" mono defaultValue="http://localhost:1234/v1" />
-            <Select label="Decomposition & negotiation" options={[
-              { value: 'qwen-72b', label: 'qwen-72b · lm-studio box' },
-              { value: 'gpt-4o', label: 'gpt-4o · OpenAI API' },
-            ]} defaultValue="qwen-72b" />
-            <Input label="Base URL" mono defaultValue="http://10.0.0.42:1234/v1" />
-          </div>
-          <Row>
-            <span style={{ font: '400 11.5px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)' }}>hot memory ≤ 2k tokens · math is never delegated to either</span>
-          </Row>
-          <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: 0 }}>
-            The small one writes my standup; the large one argues with your estimates. Neither is allowed near the arithmetic.
-          </p>
+      <Card overline="Model" title="Reginald's brain">
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 10 }}>
+          {model?.configured ? (
+            <Row style={{ gap: 8 }}>
+              <Icon name="sparkles" size={14} style={{ color: 'var(--ink-3)' }} />
+              <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)', color: 'var(--ink-1)', flex: 1 }}>{model.model}</span>
+              <Badge tone="ok" dot>
+                reachable
+              </Badge>
+            </Row>
+          ) : (
+            <Row style={{ gap: 8 }}>
+              <Icon name="sparkles" size={14} style={{ color: 'var(--ink-3)' }} />
+              <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-body)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', flex: 1 }}>
+                Chat is off — no model reachable.
+              </span>
+              <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" onClick={onReconnect}>
+                Set a Model URL
+              </Button>
+            </Row>
+          )}
+          <Note>
+            An OpenAI-compatible endpoint (set it in Reconfigure). Reginald names, negotiates and explains; it never
+            does the arithmetic — the scheduler and Monte Carlo do that.
+          </Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
 
       <Card overline="Labels" title="Schema">
         <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 10 }}>
           <Row style={{ flexWrap: 'wrap', gap: 6 }}>
-            {['est/1d', 'est/2d', 'est/3d', 'est/5d', 'est/8d'].map((l) => <Tag key={l} label={l} />)}
+            {['est/1d', 'est/2d', 'est/3d', 'est/5d', 'est/8d'].map((l) => (
+              <Tag key={l} label={l} />
+            ))}
           </Row>
           <Row style={{ flexWrap: 'wrap', gap: 6 }}>
-            {['p/1', 'p/2', 'p/3', 'p/4'].map((l) => <Tag key={l} label={l} />)}
+            {['p/1', 'p/2', 'p/3', 'p/4'].map((l) => (
+              <Tag key={l} label={l} />
+            ))}
             <Tag label="deadline/hard" />
           </Row>
           <Note>Fixed sets, human-meaningful, visible in gitea. Not configurable — that is rather the point.</Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
 
-      <Card overline="Rituals" title="Reginald's calendar">
-        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 12 }}>
-          <Row>
-            <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-body)', color: 'var(--ink-1)' }}>Morning standup</span>
-            <div style={{ marginLeft: 'auto', width: 120 }}>
-              <Select options={[{ value: '0630', label: '06:30' }, { value: '0700', label: '07:00' }, { value: '0800', label: '08:00' }]} defaultValue="0700" />
-            </div>
-          </Row>
-          <Row>
-            <Switch label="Stale-blocker nagging" checked={nag} onChange={(e) => setNag(e.target.checked)} />
-            <div style={{ marginLeft: 'auto', width: 140 }}>
-              <Select options={[{ value: '2', label: 'after 2 days' }, { value: '3', label: 'after 3 days' }, { value: '5', label: 'after 5 days' }]} defaultValue="3" />
-            </div>
-          </Row>
-        </div>
-      </Card>
-
       <Card overline="Appearance" title="Service">
         <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 20 }}>
           <Radio name="theme" label="Morning (light)" checked={!dark} onChange={() => setDark(false)} />
           <Radio name="theme" label="Evening (dark)" checked={dark} onChange={() => setDark(true)} />
         </div>
       </Card>
-
-      <Card>
-        <Row>
-          <div style={{ flex: 1 }}>
-            <div style={{ font: 'var(--text-body-strong)', color: 'var(--ink-1)' }}>Forget this gitea</div>
-            <Note>Removes the connection and the local cache. Gitea itself is untouched.</Note>
-          </div>
-          <Button variant="danger">Forget</Button>
-        </Row>
-      </Card>
     </div>
   )
 }
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