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Third chord in a day, and each move was the owner naming a collision on the machine he actually uses:
ctrl-space is Brave's address bar, shift-space types a space, alt-space is the window menu — and he rebound
that rather than give up the chord.

Shift-space was the worst of the three and it is worth saying why, because it read as the safe choice.
It is a real key combination inside a text field: it types a space, and people hold shift through one more
often than they think while typing capitals. So it had to stand down whenever focus was in an input — which
is where focus usually is, the chat composer — and a launcher you have to click out of a field to reach is
not a launcher.

Alt-space means nothing in a text field, so the isTyping guard stops being the thing holding the feature up
and becomes belt-and-braces. Kept anyway: two lines against some layout delivering alt-space as a literal
character, which is cheap to prevent and expensive to discover.

`altKey` with `ev.code`, not `ev.key` — alt-space produces a different `key` on several layouts and nothing
at all on others, while the physical key is `Space` everywhere.

No second chord. Two triggers for one thing means two things to collide with, and this one has moved twice.

The TODO item's id still says ctrl-space. Ids are stable by design, so it stays; its body now records all
three moves and which guard was load-bearing for which.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**85 open, 22 closed**, across 28 themes.
| Theme | Open | Closed |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------ |
| [Affordances](todo/affordances/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Speaking into a session from the backend](todo/agent-delivery/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Backburner](todo/backburner/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Background jobs](todo/background-jobs/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Chat interface](todo/chat/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Code editor](todo/code-editor/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Components — the shared UI layer](todo/components/) | 1 | 0 |
| [File watchers](todo/file-watchers/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Fleet — one command across every server](todo/fleet/) | 5 | 2 |
| [Headscale](todo/headscale/) | 0 | 5 |
| [Infra (alpha)](todo/infra/) | 6 | 0 |
| [Known bugs](todo/known-bugs/) | 4 | 1 |
| [Mobile apps](todo/mobile-apps/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Multi-user](todo/multi-user/) | 18 | 3 |
| [Notifications](todo/notifications/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Plugin ecosystem — before it opens to third parties (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-ecosystem/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Plugin infrastructure](todo/plugin-infrastructure/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Plugin repos — what writing their READMEs turned up](todo/plugin-repos/) | 10 | 9 |
| [Plugin system — gaps the email extraction found (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-system/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Prompt library](todo/prompt-library/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Shell — spotlight and the dock](todo/shell/) | 1 | 1 |
| [Sub-agents — agents spawning agents](todo/sub-agents/) | 1 | 1 |
| [Sudo terminal modal](todo/sudo-terminal-modal/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Tooling — the list about the list](todo/tooling/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Transmission](todo/transmission/) | 6 | 0 |
| [URL state — routing, query strings and selection](todo/url-state/) | 4 | 0 |
| [Waiting on the owner to run it](todo/waiting-on-owner/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Workspaces & Panels](todo/workspaces-panels/) | 2 | 0 |
| Theme | Open | Closed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Affordances](todo/affordances/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Speaking into a session from the backend](todo/agent-delivery/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Backburner](todo/backburner/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Background jobs](todo/background-jobs/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Chat interface](todo/chat/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Code editor](todo/code-editor/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Components — the shared UI layer](todo/components/) | 1 | 0 |
| [File watchers](todo/file-watchers/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Fleet — one command across every server](todo/fleet/) | 5 | 2 |
| [Headscale](todo/headscale/) | 0 | 5 |
| [Infra (alpha)](todo/infra/) | 6 | 0 |
| [Known bugs](todo/known-bugs/) | 4 | 1 |
| [Mobile apps](todo/mobile-apps/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Multi-user](todo/multi-user/) | 18 | 3 |
| [Notifications](todo/notifications/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Plugin ecosystem — before it opens to third parties (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-ecosystem/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Plugin infrastructure](todo/plugin-infrastructure/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Plugin repos — what writing their READMEs turned up](todo/plugin-repos/) | 10 | 9 |
| [Plugin system — gaps the email extraction found (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-system/) | 3 | 0 |
| [Prompt library](todo/prompt-library/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Shell — spotlight and the dock](todo/shell/) | 1 | 1 |
| [Sub-agents — agents spawning agents](todo/sub-agents/) | 1 | 1 |
| [Sudo terminal modal](todo/sudo-terminal-modal/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Tooling — the list about the list](todo/tooling/) | 1 | 0 |
| [Transmission](todo/transmission/) | 6 | 0 |
| [URL state — routing, query strings and selection](todo/url-state/) | 4 | 0 |
| [Waiting on the owner to run it](todo/waiting-on-owner/) | 2 | 0 |
| [Workspaces & Panels](todo/workspaces-panels/) | 2 | 0 |
## Records — no items, kept for the reasoning