Nothing is waiting on you in Kandev.
115 questions were asked here and never answered. The agents that asked have moved on, so they sit read-only in Asked, unanswered.
Revision 4. The previous revisions got the colour tokens exactly right and the chrome around them wrong: the sidebar, the tabs, the rows and the badges were invented. This pass redraws every frame from the shipped components, and applies your two answers — the badge and the list both read the clarification-bundle path, and permission rows appear in the history tab, labelled.
Only colour Kandev already paints appears below. Everything in grey is commentary.
The nav row exists already — app-sidebar-primary-nav.tsx:41-49 renders
IconInbox with badge={inboxCount}, wrapped in {inOffice && …}.
Kanban never sees it. Three details the earlier revisions drew wrong, each fixed here:
The active row is a 3px left bar, not a filled block.
app-sidebar-constants.ts says why, in the file: "a saturated fill reads as garish
against the brand theme." The badge is gated on badge > 0 — so with
Kandev at zero answerable questions, no badge renders at all, and the "0" pills I drew beside other
workspaces cannot exist in that component. And the sections carry their count only while shut
(collapsedSummary) — that is the Automations 4 in your screenshot.
Nothing is waiting on you in Kandev.
115 questions were asked here and never answered. The agents that asked have moved on, so they sit read-only in Asked, unanswered.
This is the honest first frame: measured at 01:06 UTC, the Kandev workspace has 0 answerable questions, so the Inbox opens empty and the sidebar badge does not render. The row design is in frame 02, drawn on the one real answerable question in the instance.
Rebuilt on the shipped row: inbox-item-row.tsx — flat rows divided inside one
bordered container, a 32px bg-muted icon chip, title, description, and timeAgo as
plain muted text. Actions are Button size="sm" on the right. Gone: the per-row card border, the
indigo ring, the red age chip, and the → on the link.
The icon carries the type, in the hue the board already uses.
lib/ui/state-icons.ts assigns yellow + IconMessageQuestion to
WAITING_FOR_INPUT and amber + IconShieldQuestion to a pending permission —
the same marks on the kanban card. My earlier draft spent amber on a tab count, which already means
"over WIP limit" in StepCount, and red on an age chip, where red already means failed.
Pick the reply archetype before the #39 hand-off draft can be written
[FE] #39 — Cross-surface MA+WA pilot hand-off
2 questions, asked 8 days ago
Which reply archetype should the hand-off follow?
Answer and resume is the row that earns the feature. It mounts
ClarificationPanelSection unchanged — that component takes
{pending, messages, onResolved} and reads no task-chat context, so the Inbox can render the
shipped answer UI rather than a copy of it. Display-only is the version that fails: you would still be
jumping around, just from a tidier list.
This row lives in Kegmil V2, not Kandev — it is the only answerable question in the whole instance, asked 2026-09-03 04:54 UTC. It is drawn here so the row design is visible on real content; on the Kandev board this tab is empty today.
Your answer applied: permission requests appear here, read-only, with a label that says what they are. On the Kandev board that is 109 clarification rows across 25 live tasks plus 6 permission rows carrying no terminal status — 115 in total. Every one sits on a superseded turn, so nothing here is answerable; the tab has no write path at all.
85 of the 109 are parked in a step where nothing runs — 70 in
PR Review, 15 in PR Fixup, whose own prompt says "NOTHING RUNS HERE." An
invisible question on a parked card with no agent to re-raise it. Grouping by task rather than by row
is what keeps one stuck task from filling the screen.
Should the retry budget be per-run or per-workspace?
asked 16 days ago, superseded by a later turn
Run git push --no-verify to bypass the secret-scanner hook
asked 16 days ago, and the push has since landed
Chunk size 100 or 500? The sweep holds the lock for the whole batch.
asked 10 days ago, superseded by a later turn
Two things this tab must never do. It must not feed the badge — none of it is answerable, and a badge you cannot drive to zero is a badge you stop reading. And it must not offer Re-ask, which you cut: five of the nine push-blocked questions measured on 09-11 had already been settled by events, so re-asking restarts an agent on a question that answered itself. The honest consequence is that these 115 have no exit in v1. They had none before either — the Inbox makes them visible, it does not clear them.
Correcting the reason I gave you. Revision 2 kept Failed off the badge because "16 failed tasks, newest 6 days old — nothing urgent." That reason has expired: measured now, 17 live Kandev tasks have a failed primary session, the newest 9.6 hours ago, and 3 inside 24 hours. The exclusion still stands, on a reason that does not expire: a failed task is triage, not a decision you owe. The badge counts questions only.
Lifecycle sweep: GetTask failure path
Orchestrator
failed 10 hours ago
Guard MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT override
Agent runtime & ACP
failed 19 hours ago
Restore legacy dynamic routes sweep
Dynamic Agent
failed 23 hours ago
Measured 25 hours apart and again this morning: the Kandev workspace has 0 answerable questions. This is not an edge case to sketch and move past — on your board it is the screen you open most days. It gets the most design attention of anything in this deck.
One rule governs all three variants: an empty inbox must name what it is not counting. "You're all caught up" while 115 questions sit invisible is how this feature loses your trust in week one, and it is the same failure as the 351-row version — just quieter.
Nothing is waiting on you in Kandev.
115 questions were asked here and never answered, and 17 tasks failed. Neither needs a decision from you, so both sit in the other two tabs.
Quiet here, busy next door.
The count comes from inboxCountByWorkspaceId, already a per-workspace map — a number,
never a row, so nothing crosses a permission boundary.
Nothing is waiting on you in Kandev.
1 question is waiting in Kegmil V2.
Empty because you filtered it. A different sentence, because it is a different situation and the fix is one click.
No questions match "rebase".
115 questions are in this tab.
Copy notes, since the words are the design here. No apology and no exclamation mark — an empty queue is a normal state, not a celebration. The number is the subject of the second line, not a footnote. And the verb on every button says exactly what happens: Switch to Kegmil V2, not View.
The issue proposed showing every task that is not Running. Same database, same instant, Kandev workspace, 2026-09-12 01:06 UTC:
| What the view would show | Rows | Of which you can act on |
|---|---|---|
"Not Running" — sessions in WAITING_FOR_INPUT on live tasks | 275 | 0 |
| Every pending question row, any turn | 109 | 0 |
| Answerable now — the shipped clarification-bundle path | 0 | 0 |
| Same, measured across the whole instance | 1 | 1 |
WAITING_FOR_INPUT on this board mostly means
"the agent finished its turn and is idle", not "a human is blocking it". A 275-row inbox at a 100%
false-positive rate trains you to stop opening it — the same failure as an empty one that lies.
Paperclip's rule is the fix, and it is an entry rule rather than a filter: a row cannot enter unless
it carries something concrete you can do. Rows 1 and 2 above are exactly the rows that rule
excludes.
A design call I can make from the shipped component rather than from taste.
packages/ui/src/tabs.tsx has two variants. The Office inbox uses default. On the
dark theme that variant's selected state resolves to the track colour it sits on:
bg-muted is #2a2a2a, and the active trigger paints
dark:bg-input/30 over it — --input is also #2a2a2a, so 30% of
#2a2a2a on #2a2a2a is #2a2a2a. The active border is
--input, the same colour again. Selection is carried by the label's brightness alone.
default — the shipped Office inbox
A secondary count badge here would be 17 on a #2a2a2a track — invisible.
line — recommended
Transparent track, a 2px
after:bg-foreground underline. Selection reads at a
glance, and the counts sit on --background where a
secondary badge has contrast.
Both variants ship today, so this costs nothing to choose —
<TabsList variant="line">. It also settles a smaller question: counts belong in the tab,
not in the page header, because the header is where a title would go and this page has no title. The
app's top bar owns that, as your screenshot shows with Home.
Your answer was "beside, shared selector", and the code makes that literal.
threads-view-filter-registry.ts already ships a threadStatus dimension whose
default value is needs_action and a pendingAction dimension defaulting to
clarification. What is missing is that the one built-in view ships filters: []
(thread-view-builtins.ts), so nobody ever sees the preset — and there is no badge and no
destination.
The Inbox is a second consumer of resolveThreadStatus, not a second
classifier. That is the whole reason the two surfaces cannot drift: one function decides what
needs action, two surfaces render it.
Inbox
Decisions you owe, one row each, answerable in place. Badge = this count.
Threads
Every conversation, filterable. A new built-in view carries threadStatus is needs_action.
both read
resolveThreadStatus() → clarification-bundle path
Your read-path answer, applied. The badge and the Needs you list both
come from the clarification-bundle path (clarification_bundle_query.go:119), which excludes
lifecycle_only turns. The other shipped resolver,
pending_interactions.go:69, does not exclude them, and the two disagree today on exactly
the row frame 02 draws — 1 bundle against 0. Binding the badge to one and the list to the other would
give you a badge reading 1 over an empty page. One path, both consumers.
Correcting myself again, and in the expensive direction. I told you this
was "a kanban route and a different count source, not a new component." The Office inbox shares the nav
slot, not the feature: its InboxItem has eight types — approval,
budget_alert, agent_run_failed, task_review,
provider_degraded and others — and none of them is a clarification. Its rows
come from /api/v1/office/workspaces/{id}/inbox. A kanban Inbox needs its own row model, read
path and count producer.
| Piece | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Sidebar nav row + badge | reuse unchanged | AppSidebarNavItem — drop the inOffice gate |
| Answer UI | reuse unchanged | ClarificationPanelSection — props only, no task-chat context |
| Page shell, list container, empty block | copy the pattern | inbox-page-client.tsx — p-6 space-y-4, bordered divided list |
| Tabs | reuse, variant="line" | packages/ui/src/tabs.tsx |
| Row icons and hues | reuse the board's vocabulary | lib/ui/state-icons.ts |
| needs-action classification | reuse | resolveThreadStatus / lib/utils/needs-action.ts |
| Row model + read path | build | new — the Office InboxItem has no clarification type |
| Count producer | build, carefully | inboxCountByWorkspaceId has one writer today; a second on the same key collides |
Lift these into the card as acceptance criteria; each one is a decision the drawings already make.
badge > 0 already means a
zero renders nothing.403 while trying to hand you a row.Three things, so nobody reads this deck as more settled than it is. The frames are
drawn from source, not from the running build — I had no browser to walk :8817 with,
so the fidelity claims rest on the component files at 76ab36270 and on your screenshot, not on
a live comparison. Button and input metrics are approximated to within a pixel or two;
the sidebar, tabs, badge, row and list metrics are taken from the class strings verbatim.
And the numbers are 01:06 UTC, reused rather than re-measured — thirteen minutes on a
population that turns over in days would look like verification and would not be.