A Menu System for Gantry's Run Monitor

This sprint was asked to collapse keys, menu item ids, and help text onto the same action registry before changing the bar's shape. That made the job small enough for a fresh agent: preserve existing keys, route them through one dispatcher, and prove help generation from the same registry. Its boundary stayed clean, with no repair or retry recorded.

This piece turned the registry into a live bar and established the per-frame rebuild behavior the later dynamic items needed. The agent did not have to implement the whole menu catalogue; it only had to render the title skeleton, rebuild from state, and keep an open dropdown stable across rebuilds. The run stayed green at that boundary.

This sprint was a bounded stateful-menu exercise: move feed navigation, sidebar visibility, chat focus, filters, card expansion, and zoom under View. The brief made the hard part explicit, because checkmarks had to be read from real AppState and the feed renderer had to honor the same state. It passed without recorded stress after the registry and rebuild layer were already in place.

This sprint completed the first milestone by adding discoverability and context rather than another control surface. It reused the generated help from the registry and added metadata-driven About and stage-explainer views, so the fresh agent could work mostly at the edge between run metadata and overlays. The ledger and run facts record it as green.

This sprint built the shared read-only pager before asking other menus to rely on it. Its first consumer was deliberately concrete: Tools artifact viewers for ledgers, plans, sprint files, and reports. The sprint passed, then the milestone was re-planned, showing that the reusable viewer contract needed follow-on adjustment before the rest of the milestone continued.

This sprint was scoped around one clipboard mechanism plus the first copy items that would use it. That made availability and disabled reasons testable without depending on a real system clipboard. It also triggered a later re-plan inside the milestone, because some copy values depended on metadata that the front-end did not yet receive.

This was the milestone's hardest unit because it had to carry resolved engine configuration into the front-end without inventing a new command path. It also finished earlier placeholders for plan source, worktree path, and branch by extending the same startup metadata channel. The review record shows a note followed by a second execution pass, so the integration pressure was here rather than in the simpler viewer and copy helpers.

This sprint used the pager and clipboard pieces in a different domain: the assistant pane. Its work was bounded by existing chat state and the registered MCP tool definitions, with no new engine commands required. After the metadata turbulence earlier in the milestone, this consumer sprint landed green.

This sprint deliberately avoided rendering and built a reusable fold over the existing run event stream. That kept the problem memoryless-agent sized: define typed snapshots, preserve absent-versus-present values, and prove the math with synthetic events. Its green boundary gave the Stats menu and ticker a stable source to read.

This sprint was thin by design because all computation had already been isolated. Its job was presentation: render the aggregate snapshot as read-only menu information, omit unknown values, and apply attention styling when the snapshot called for it. It stayed green, with most risk already handled by the previous unit.

This sprint made lifecycle state visible through enabled and disabled menu items. It had to wire existing owner, attacher, map-run, prompt, abort, detach, merge, shell, and quit behavior without adding engine commands. The sprint landed cleanly, indicating the command boundary was narrow enough for one agent to hold.

This sprint completed the run-facing set by turning current and recent agent sessions into inspectable menu entries. It reused the existing session modal and the shared pager, while leaving kill-current-agent out because that would have required engine work. The run facts show a clean pass, so the boundary held around existing state and readers.

This sprint was a formatter and layout unit over the stats snapshot from the previous milestone. Its narrow charge was to show progress, elapsed time, and retry or park state in the bar without recomputing those values. It passed cleanly because the hard data model had already been built.

This sprint was asked to exercise dynamic bar mutation by adding and removing a styled prompt menu while preserving another open dropdown. The work was isolated to prompt state, title styling, and rebuild reconciliation; it did not need new engine commands. It passed in the original run, but later evidence shows this exact public behavior was not kept.

This sprint added a bounded fold of notable run events and a menu path back to their feed cards. Its boundary was clear: classify existing event kinds, keep the list ordered and bounded, and reuse the feed's scroll target. It stayed green and did not require new events.

This sprint separated the runless chat front-end from normal build-run menus. It asked the agent to detect the same empty state the feed already knew about and replace irrelevant run menus with a reduced read-only surface. The sprint landed green, and later work revised the exact reduced title set.

This sprint was the integration visibility pass for the makeover. It depended on the preceding cross-cutting pieces and enriched demo state so populated menus, disabled reasons, checkmarks, pager artifacts, prompt state, notable events, and stats could all be seen together. It passed without recorded repair.

This capstone sprint had one conditional decision and one audit: do not build a command palette unless the menu crate had one, then consolidate the verification suite around the whole makeover. That was a good terminal unit because it read the state of the already-built system rather than adding another user surface by default. The run closed green.