Work Board Phase 1 — capture/list MVP

Tracking: Work Board delivery #2560

Surface

A compact Work Board tab in the session workbar, next to Tasks, with:

  • global Inbox and current-project filtering;
  • manual create, rename, move (Inbox <-> project), complete / reopen, archive / restore, and delete (archived items only);
  • empty, loading, and error states;
  • local-first persistence through the existing operational-state database.

Boundary

  • The Desktop main process owns WorkBoardStore; the renderer is a read-only IPC projection that reloads on the workBoard:changed signal.
  • No Runtime Host involvement, model-visible tools, or automatic prompt injection.
  • linkedSessions and the linked-session projection are separate concerns; Phase 3 stores Host-scoped links, while execution-status projection remains deferred.

Why a dedicated store instead of a project file

A project TODO.md / issue would cover the literal capture-and-list atom, but the one thing that justifies a store is provenance + Session linking: side-conversation captures must keep typed source references and a bounded excerpt after the temporary fork is deleted, and Phase 3 must link a board item to the Session it starts. Typed provenance and stable item identity also let concurrent Desktop writers mutate items with revision CAS instead of parsing a file. If provenance and Session linking were not in scope, a project file would suffice.

Assumption

We are betting that users will return to the board and start tasks from it. Phase 3 must prove this.

Sequencing

Per maintainer review, the thin capture -> revisit -> start-as-task loop is validated before Phase 2 (side-chat capture) and Phase 4 (evidence / refinement): a minimal, flag-gated Phase 3 spike wires one hard-coded item -> “Start task” -> new Session -> link back, with no polish. Only if the loop shows real use do we resume Phases 2 and 4.

Implementation

  • Main: apps/desktop/src/main/work-board-ipc-main.ts (workBoard:list/create/update/archive/unarchive/remove + change signal).
  • Preload: window.maka.workBoard in apps/desktop/src/preload/preload.ts.
  • Renderer: useWorkBoard hook and WorkBoardPanel, wired as a workbar tab in session-workbar.tsx.