Execution Log: control-plane UI audit — implement the whole of issue-283

Append-only log of progress for the user's visibility.

Process note

The audit (#283) was first triaged into per-item tickets (#284–#296) per the operating model; the owner then directed, on the session thread, that the entire audit be implemented at once. This work item therefore carries the implementation of every audit finding in one PR, at the owner's explicit instruction, in place of the per-ticket spec chains. The sub-tickets remain as the itemized record of what this delivers.

Phase transitions

Phase	Entered	Reviewed/approved by	Notes
implementation	2026-08-25	@MadaraUchiha-314 (direct instruction)	Whole-audit implementation on claude/github-issue-283-4nt97c.
verification	2026-08-25		See Verification below.
needs-review
complete

What was delivered

Service (Python, cli/):

• B1 — the poller caches each ticket's title in the portable record's poll section (PollState.baseline_comments/finalize), served verbatim by /api/v1/work-items.
• B5 / feature #10 — core.attention ages recent-error out after RECENT_ERROR_MAX_AGE_HOURS (24h) and clears a poll.* error once the item's poll.lastPolledAt is newer (a failed item skips that stamp, so the signal is sound); entries carry at so clients render age.
• B7 — api.request demoted to debug level in the router's route class.

UI (ui/):

• Bloat #1 / features #2 #3 #5 #6 #7 — three-pane redesign: Work · Events · Settings. Persistent sidebar (deduped tiered inbox with in-place gate Approve and question Reply; items grouped needs-you/running/idle; standing sessions under a divider), main pane = the item detail (rail, readable transcript, chat bar) or the full inbox. Legacy hashes (#/dashboard, #/attention, #/sessions[/ref]) still land.
• B3/B4/B6 — attentionEntries dedupes per (ref, kind) with a ×N count and tiers needs-input > gate > waits > errors, newest first within a tier; nav badge counts work items needing a human; the strip/inbox inherit it.
• B10 / feature #8 — one health dot + popover (stream state from the board's one useStream, daemon last-cycles, manual refresh) replaces the three header chips.
• B11 — sidebar rows show the frozen rail's progress (planned · 0/9) instead of "no graph state"; the detail rail already rendered it.
• B12 — relative time everywhere with the absolute stamp on hover; trace stamps include the date when not from today (timeOf).
• B13 — session dots are round; "no session" renders as a dash.
• B2 — the table that collapsed is gone; the sidebar rows that replaced it use nowrap/ellipsis throughout.
• B8/B9 — the detail pane's event-trail section renders only when a real transcript is shown, and the no-transcript fallback is two sentences on two lines.
• B7 UI / feature #4 — Events hides api.request/mcp.call unless asked, adds an event-namespace filter, a work-item filter with permalink (#/events/<ref>) and a live tail.
• Feature #9 — fetchGraphs answers dormant loops (session neither active nor paused) from the held report; items with no checkout were already skipped.
• Bloat #2/#3/#4/#5 — provenance notes and the route footer removed; Settings prose behind "Learn more" disclosures with a base-URL input wide enough for its value; blueprint corner marks and all-caps headings retired for sentence case.

Verification

Activity	Command	Outcome
Python unit + integration	uv run pytest (cli/)	2677 passed, 1 skipped
New service behaviour	tests/test_core_attention.py (age-out, clean-poll clear), tests/test_poller.py (title caching)	pass
UI unit + React	npx vitest run	168 passed (12 files)
UI typecheck	tsc --noEmit	clean
UI lint	oxlint --type-aware	the 6 pre-existing findings on main; none added
UI build	vite build	clean
Visual	Playwright over the built bundle in demo mode	evidence/ — overview, item, events, settings, standing

Documentation

• docs/capabilities/control-plane.md — redesigned-dashboard behaviour + history row.
• docs/cli/state.md — the poll section's title field.
• docs/cli/service.md — api.request at debug level.
• ui/README.md — the three-screen layout and per-surface reads.