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A deep-dive panel for a run's stats and git history

Turning the monitor's one-line stats glance into a full panel, a commit-activity view, and a pager every drill-down reads through.

Gantry milestones

3 milestones 12 sprints 29 agents

251k peak context

156k median execute

A plans dashboard with improved paging and git activity tracking.

4h 26m total 18m 39s per sprint

30m 8s plan 2h 51m execute 24m 6s review

208 edits 960 commands

claude harness

107.5M tokens in 774.1k tokens out

$121.48 nominal cost

This job turned the monitor's Stats menu from a glance into a set of inspectable run surfaces. It first upgraded the shared pager, then used that reader for a full stats panel and a git activity view rather than adding separate text viewers behind each new overlay.

The surviving code is concentrated in the TUI and stats layers. The tree still has the extended stats projection, panel state, proportional bars, pager search and follow behavior, structure heuristics, and git activity data and drill paths; the old run artifacts from the build have been cleaned away.

How this walkthrough is structured

Feature

What did the run build and ship?

The monitor still exposes a richer stats model, a full stats overlay, commit activity inspection, and a pager that can search, follow, wrap, zoom records, and color patches.

Build

How did Gantry structure the work?

The decomposition put the common reading surface ahead of the panels that would depend on it, then let the stats and git views build as bounded consumers of that surface.

Milestone 1

Pager Component Upgrade

5 sprints 0 agents 1h 33m wall time 156k peak context $38.13 nominal cost

The pager is still the central read-only overlay in the current TUI state. It carries a source path for file-backed buffers, search state, wrap and horizontal scroll state, tail-follow, and per-line zoom state. Its structure classifier also remains split into a small module, so JSON records, diff buffers, and Markdown headings are handled without a separate viewer.

This milestone carried the shared text reader because the later panels needed one place to open logs, reports, and patches. Its boundary was deliberately broad but still coherent for fresh agents: every sprint touched the same pager surface and its input model. The run stayed green, but review re-planned the remaining pager work after the registry and search pieces, which places the adaptation inside this foundational surface rather than in the later panels.

Key Registry Integration

0 agents 20m 5s wall time 135k peak context 72k tokens out $8.17 nominal cost

Pager actions are now part of the same registry surface model used by the rest of the TUI. The current key handling still distinguishes pager actions from feed and global actions while the overlay is active. Help for the pager is sourced through that registry path rather than a separate hard-coded list.

This sprint moved existing pager keys into the action registry before any new reader behavior was added. That was a small enough task for one agent because it preserved current scrolling and closing semantics while introducing only the overlay scoping the registry needed. Its review led to a re-plan of later pager work, so the boundary exposed a real dependency issue early without producing a red gate.

In-Pager Search

0 agents 18m 57s wall time 131k peak context 52.8k tokens out $7.64 nominal cost

The pager still has a search sub-state built from its buffer lines, with committed terms and ordered hits separate from rendering mode. Current tests exercise entry through the key path, query typing, case-insensitive matching, and next or previous navigation. Because the state is held on the pager, the behavior composes with wrap, zoom, and follow rather than living in a special search viewer.

Search was layered after registry integration so its keys could join the same scoped surface instead of extending the old inline dispatch. The brief also had to stabilize an upstream menu-crate change that the prior sprint had left outside Gantry's managed worktree. Review again re-planned the remaining pager work, which is consistent with this sprint turning the pager from a scroller into an interactive reader.

Line Wrapping And Scrolling

0 agents 11m 17s wall time 142k peak context 35.9k tokens out $5.45 nominal cost

The pager still records whether lines wrap and keeps a horizontal offset for unwrapped buffers. The state comments and tests show the intended split: scroll offsets remain buffer-line based, while drawing translates that into visible rows. Long JSON records and patches can therefore be read either folded to the viewport or panned horizontally.

This sprint was a rendering cut: long-line presentation, horizontal offset, and key registration, without changing where pager content came from. Search already existed, so the agent had to keep line addressing stable across both wrapped and unwrapped views. The run record shows a clean boundary here after the preceding re-plan settled the shape.

Follow Mode

0 agents 13m 29s wall time 116k peak context 29.1k tokens out $5.74 nominal cost

File-backed pager instances still carry an optional source path and can refresh while open. The shared scroll machine remains responsible for tail-follow, including breaking follow on upward movement and rearming it at the bottom. Generated pager content keeps the same surface but has no file source to follow.

Follow mode required the pager to know whether its text came from a file, so the sprint was scoped around source threading and refresh behavior. That made the task larger than a key binding but still local: generated views kept no source, while file-backed views could be reread. It passed without recorded repair, leaving the next sprint with filename context for classification.

Structure Awareness

0 agents 17m 26s wall time 156k peak context 53.6k tokens out $7.06 nominal cost

The current `structure` module still holds pure heuristics for JSON records, unified diffs, and Markdown headings. JSON pretty printing is on demand per line, diff roles are classified by prefix and hunk shape, and Markdown recognition depends on the source filename. Those rules are still used by the pager rather than by separate JSON or patch readers.

The last pager sprint took the source information from follow mode and added cheap content and filename heuristics. Its brief kept the work bounded by rejecting a highlighting engine or parser-heavy design. With search, wrap, and follow already present, the sprint's main boundary was preserving line identity while a single JSON record could expand in place.

Milestone 2

Full Stats Panel

4 sprints 0 agents 1h 27m wall time 251k peak context $47.75 nominal cost

The full stats panel still stands across the stats fold and the TUI overlay. The snapshot exposes per-unit rows, stage breakdown data, gate history, retry and park records, token presence, and harness labels, while the TUI owns panel scroll, collapse, selection, and drill-down state. The old glance menu remains a consumer of the same stats model rather than a separate implementation.

This milestone could run cleanly because the brief separated data accumulation from overlay rendering and saved drill-downs for last. The central constraint was that all figures come from the event stream or existing artifacts, so later UI sprints could render a projection instead of deriving state while drawing. The run facts show no red gates or retries in this milestone.

Extend Stats Model

0 agents 18m 21s wall time 176k peak context 75.2k tokens out $8.07 nominal cost

`src/stats.rs` still contains the expanded snapshot and the fold that projects panel data. Per-unit entries, stage buckets, gate history, retry logs, recovery logs, and harness names are present as typed fields. The implementation still treats missing token metrics as absence, not as a displayed zero.

The first stats sprint deliberately carried no UI. Its job was to extend the existing fold over run events with the data the panel would later read, including absent-versus-zero token handling and separate park or retry buckets. That made the correctness burden testable in one place before any modal code depended on it.

Panel Modal and Timeline

0 agents 23m 2s wall time 251k peak context 78k tokens out $16.10 nominal cost

The current TUI state still has a stats panel overlay with scroll, selected item, collapsed sections, and reveal behavior. The proportional bar helper remains a pure module used by the panel's bar sections. Timeline rows are navigable items, which is what lets later drill-down code identify a unit row from the rendered panel state.

This sprint turned the data layer into an overlay while keeping the visible scope to the timeline and shared bar helper. The cut was fit for one agent because modal state, input precedence, collapse behavior, and timeline rendering were all one TUI surface. It depended on the stats projection already being exact, so the panel did not need to rescan history.

Remaining Panel Sections

0 agents 10m 8s wall time 133k peak context 31.6k tokens out $4.74 nominal cost

The panel still renders sections for stage breakdown, tokens, gate history, and retries or parks in addition to the timeline. The snapshot fields they read are present in `StatsSnapshot`, and the panel item builder treats only the relevant gate rows as drillable. The code still keeps section folding independent of the underlying stats data.

After the modal shell existed, this sprint was intentionally a rendering pass. It filled the remaining panel sections from the already-extended projection and reused the same proportional bar helper. With no new interaction model or stats model promised, the boundary stayed narrow and the gate remained green.

Drill-downs and Demo

0 agents 25m 30s wall time 221k peak context 89.6k tokens out $14.23 nominal cost

Stats panel drill-downs still resolve timeline units and red gate rows to artifacts opened through the shared pager. The current code prefers live worktree artifacts when a run is active and degrades to explanatory pager content when a target report is absent. The demo engine also still carries synthetic history meant to populate the stats panel surface.

The final stats sprint connected panel rows back to artifacts and expanded the demo run so the surface could be smoked manually. Its scope was the boundary between a selected stats row and the shared pager, not a new stats calculation. That was possible because the panel already had navigable rows and the pager already had file-backed reading behavior.

Milestone 3

Git Activity View

3 sprints 0 agents 1h 6m wall time 217k peak context $34.11 nominal cost

Git activity remains a separate TUI module plus overlay state. It reads commit activity through read-only git calls, renders a loading, ready, or unavailable outcome, and drills from a commit list to diffstat and patch content. Full patches still route into the shared pager, where the pager's diff and search behavior applies.

This milestone added repository inspection after the shared pager and stats panel were already present. Its split followed the same pattern as the stats work: data first, overlay next, drill-down last. The only recorded stress was a support-stage error around the milestone boundary and a restarted first sprint; the sprint gates themselves stayed green.

Git Data Parser

0 agents 16m 39s wall time 78k peak context 54.5k tokens out $8.05 nominal cost

`src/tui/git_activity.rs` still keeps the parser pure and the runner thin. The model carries commit rows, a summary, optional unit attribution, and an unavailable state. The runner derives a baseline from git, reads ledgers for attribution, and returns an explicit unavailable reason when the worktree cannot be inspected.

The first git sprint isolated correctness in a parser and runner before any view existed. The brief asked the agent to derive the commit range, attribute commits from ledgers, and make unreadable worktrees a data outcome rather than an exception. The run facts show this unit started more than once after surrounding support trouble, but its own recorded stages completed green.

Activity Overlay

0 agents 20m 29s wall time 217k peak context 68.4k tokens out $12.40 nominal cost

The Tools menu still has a git activity entry, and the app state still has a git activity overlay with result, loading, scroll, selected row, and refresh sequence fields. The render path draws loading, unavailable, and populated states. The event loop reloads activity off thread when the view opens or when new commits arrive.

With the data layer in place, this sprint was overlay plumbing and background loading. The agent could mirror the stats panel's surface shape while adding the channel handoff needed to keep git calls off the render thread. Its boundary ended at a navigable list, leaving diffstat and patch behavior for the next sprint.

Drill-Down and Demo

0 agents 19m 6s wall time 188k peak context 62.9k tokens out $9.49 nominal cost

The git activity overlay still carries a commit drill sub-state with diffstat text, patch request state, and modal navigation. Fetching a diffstat or patch uses read-only `git show`; when a patch lands, the event loop opens it in the shared pager with the commit title. The mock engine still gives the demo enough repository context to exercise the git view or its degraded state.

The last git sprint completed the interaction path from commit row to diffstat to full patch. It reused the existing off-thread git plumbing and the shared pager, so the sprint did not need a second diff renderer. The demo requirement stayed scoped to mock engine metadata, keeping real run behavior unchanged.