todos: a backburner column, and the parked items on it

backburner joins TODO_STATUSES and the board's columns; the three items in the
backburner theme move onto the status, so parked is now a lane rather than a
folder you have to remember to open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TODO.md

@@ -22,39 +22,39 @@ the owner's OS user and can never be granted. Indirection there really is accide
 
 **90 open, 29 closed**, across 31 themes.
 
-| Theme | Open | Closed |
+| Theme                                                                                      | Open | Closed |
-| --- | --- | --- |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------ |
-| [Affordances](todo/affordances/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Affordances](todo/affordances/)                                                           | 1    | 0      |
-| [Agents coordinating agents](todo/agent-coordination/) | 2 | 0 |
+| [Agents coordinating agents](todo/agent-coordination/)                                     | 2    | 0      |
-| [Speaking into a session from the backend](todo/agent-delivery/) | 1 | 1 |
+| [Speaking into a session from the backend](todo/agent-delivery/)                           | 1    | 1      |
-| [Backburner](todo/backburner/) | 3 | 0 |
+| [Backburner](todo/backburner/)                                                             | 3    | 0      |
-| [Background jobs](todo/background-jobs/) | 2 | 1 |
+| [Background jobs](todo/background-jobs/)                                                   | 2    | 1      |
-| [Chat interface](todo/chat/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Chat interface](todo/chat/)                                                               | 1    | 0      |
-| [Code editor](todo/code-editor/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Code editor](todo/code-editor/)                                                           | 1    | 0      |
-| [Components — the shared UI layer](todo/components/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Components — the shared UI layer](todo/components/)                                       | 1    | 0      |
-| [File watchers](todo/file-watchers/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [File watchers](todo/file-watchers/)                                                       | 1    | 0      |
-| [Fleet — one command across every server](todo/fleet/) | 5 | 2 |
+| [Fleet — one command across every server](todo/fleet/)                                     | 5    | 2      |
-| [Headscale](todo/headscale/) | 0 | 5 |
+| [Headscale](todo/headscale/)                                                               | 0    | 5      |
-| [Infra (alpha)](todo/infra/) | 7 | 0 |
+| [Infra (alpha)](todo/infra/)                                                               | 7    | 0      |
-| [Known bugs](todo/known-bugs/) | 3 | 2 |
+| [Known bugs](todo/known-bugs/)                                                             | 3    | 2      |
-| [Mobile apps](todo/mobile-apps/) | 3 | 0 |
+| [Mobile apps](todo/mobile-apps/)                                                           | 3    | 0      |
-| [Multi-user](todo/multi-user/) | 16 | 5 |
+| [Multi-user](todo/multi-user/)                                                             | 16   | 5      |
-| [Notifications](todo/notifications/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Notifications](todo/notifications/)                                                       | 1    | 0      |
-| [Plugin ecosystem — before it opens to third parties (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-ecosystem/) | 3 | 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 infrastructure](todo/plugin-infrastructure/)                                       | 2    | 0      |
-| [Plugin repos — what writing their READMEs turned up](todo/plugin-repos/) | 10 | 9 |
+| [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 |
+| [Plugin system — gaps the email extraction found (2026-08-18)](todo/plugin-system/)        | 3    | 0      |
-| [Prompt library](todo/prompt-library/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Prompt library](todo/prompt-library/)                                                     | 1    | 0      |
-| [SendOff](todo/sendoff/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [SendOff](todo/sendoff/)                                                                   | 1    | 0      |
-| [Settings — portable, and readable by an agent](todo/settings/) | 2 | 0 |
+| [Settings — portable, and readable by an agent](todo/settings/)                            | 2    | 0      |
-| [Shell — spotlight and the dock](todo/shell/) | 4 | 1 |
+| [Shell — spotlight and the dock](todo/shell/)                                              | 4    | 1      |
-| [Sub-agents — agents spawning agents](todo/sub-agents/) | 0 | 2 |
+| [Sub-agents — agents spawning agents](todo/sub-agents/)                                    | 0    | 2      |
-| [Sudo terminal modal](todo/sudo-terminal-modal/) | 1 | 0 |
+| [Sudo terminal modal](todo/sudo-terminal-modal/)                                           | 1    | 0      |
-| [Tooling — the list about the list](todo/tooling/) | 0 | 1 |
+| [Tooling — the list about the list](todo/tooling/)                                         | 0    | 1      |
-| [Transmission](todo/transmission/) | 6 | 0 |
+| [Transmission](todo/transmission/)                                                         | 6    | 0      |
-| [URL state — routing, query strings and selection](todo/url-state/) | 4 | 0 |
+| [URL state — routing, query strings and selection](todo/url-state/)                        | 4    | 0      |
-| [Waiting on the owner to run it](todo/waiting-on-owner/) | 3 | 0 |
+| [Waiting on the owner to run it](todo/waiting-on-owner/)                                   | 3    | 0      |
-| [Workspaces & Panels](todo/workspaces-panels/) | 2 | 0 |
+| [Workspaces & Panels](todo/workspaces-panels/)                                             | 2    | 0      |
 
 ## Records — no items, kept for the reasoning
 

src/servers/api/todos/todo-tree.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
 /** Resolved per call, not at module load: the server asserts its cwd is the repo root at boot. */
 const todoDir = () => resolve(process.cwd(), 'todo');
 
-export const TODO_STATUSES = ['open', 'doing', 'blocked', 'done'] as const;
+export const TODO_STATUSES = ['open', 'doing', 'blocked', 'backburner', 'done'] as const;
 export type TodoStatus = (typeof TODO_STATUSES)[number];
 
 export type TodoItem = {

src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/TodoBoard/TodoBoardPanel.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+import type { DragEvent } from 'react';
+import { useState } from 'react';
+import { Link, useSearchParams } from 'react-router';
+import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
+import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm';
+import { AlertTriangle, CalendarClock, X } from 'lucide-react';
+import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
+import type { TodoItem } from './useTodos';
+import { useTodoItem, useTodoPatch, useTodoTree } from './useTodos';
+
+/**
+ * The board over `todo/` — the platform's own backlog, one file per item (todo/README.md).
+ *
+ * Selection and the theme filter live in the URL (`?selected=`, `?theme=`), per the navigation audit:
+ * a card is a real link, a filtered board is an addressable page, and back means what it should.
+ *
+ * Writes go through PATCH /todos/item, which touches frontmatter only and regenerates TODO.md — this
+ * board never holds state the files do not; a drag is a file edit and a refetch.
+ */
+
+const COLUMNS = [
+  { status: 'open', label: 'Open' },
+  { status: 'doing', label: 'Doing' },
+  { status: 'blocked', label: 'Blocked' },
+  { status: 'backburner', label: 'Backburner' },
+  { status: 'done', label: 'Done' },
+] as const;
+
+export const TodoBoardPanel = () => {
+  const { data, isLoading, error } = useTodoTree();
+  const patch = useTodoPatch();
+  const [params] = useSearchParams();
+  const selected = params.get('selected');
+  const themeFilter = params.get('theme');
+  const [dragOver, setDragOver] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const href = (changes: Record<string, string | null>): string => {
+    const next = new URLSearchParams(params);
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(changes)) {
+      if (value === null) next.delete(key);
+      else next.set(key, value);
+    }
+    const qs = next.toString();
+    return qs ? `?${qs}` : '.';
+  };
+
+  if (error) {
+    return (
+      <div className="flex h-full items-center justify-center p-8 text-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+        The todo board is owner-only, and this account was refused. Nothing here is broken — there is simply nothing to
+        show.
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+  if (isLoading || !data) {
+    return <div className="flex h-full items-center justify-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">Reading todo/…</div>;
+  }
+
+  const themes = data.themes.filter((t) => t.items.length > 0);
+  const items = themes.flatMap((t) => t.items);
+  const visible = themeFilter ? items.filter((i) => i.theme === themeFilter) : items;
+
+  const drop = (status: string) => (ev: DragEvent) => {
+    ev.preventDefault();
+    setDragOver(null);
+    const id = ev.dataTransfer.getData('text/todo-id');
+    if (id) patch.mutate({ id, status });
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <div className="flex h-full min-h-0">
+      <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col">
+        <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-1.5 border-b border-border px-4 py-2">
+          <Link
+            to={href({ theme: null })}
+            className={cn(
+              'rounded-full px-2.5 py-0.5 text-xs',
+              !themeFilter
+                ? 'bg-primary text-primary-foreground'
+                : 'bg-muted text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground',
+            )}
+          >
+            All · {items.filter((i) => i.status !== 'done').length}
+          </Link>
+          {themes.map((t) => {
+            const open = t.items.filter((i) => i.status !== 'done').length;
+            return (
+              <Link
+                key={t.theme}
+                to={href({ theme: t.theme === themeFilter ? null : t.theme })}
+                className={cn(
+                  'rounded-full px-2.5 py-0.5 text-xs',
+                  themeFilter === t.theme
+                    ? 'bg-primary text-primary-foreground'
+                    : 'bg-muted text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground',
+                )}
+              >
+                {t.heading.split('—')[0]?.trim()} · {open}
+              </Link>
+            );
+          })}
+        </div>
+
+        <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 gap-3 overflow-x-auto p-4">
+          {COLUMNS.map((col) => {
+            const cards = visible
+              .filter((i) => i.status === col.status)
+              .sort((a, b) => (b.priority === 'urgent' ? 1 : 0) - (a.priority === 'urgent' ? 1 : 0));
+            return (
+              <div
+                key={col.status}
+                onDragOver={(ev) => {
+                  ev.preventDefault();
+                  setDragOver(col.status);
+                }}
+                onDragLeave={() => setDragOver(null)}
+                onDrop={drop(col.status)}
+                className={cn(
+                  'flex w-64 shrink-0 flex-col rounded-lg border border-border bg-muted/30',
+                  dragOver === col.status && 'border-primary bg-primary/5',
+                )}
+              >
+                <div className="flex items-baseline justify-between px-3 py-2 text-xs font-semibold text-muted-foreground">
+                  <span>{col.label}</span>
+                  <span>{cards.length}</span>
+                </div>
+                <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-2 overflow-y-auto px-2 pb-2">
+                  {cards.map((item) => (
+                    <TodoCard
+                      key={item.id}
+                      item={item}
+                      href={href({ selected: item.id })}
+                      selected={selected === item.id}
+                    />
+                  ))}
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            );
+          })}
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+      {selected ? <TodoDetail id={selected} closeHref={href({ selected: null })} /> : null}
+    </div>
+  );
+};
+
+type TodoCardProps = { item: TodoItem; href: string; selected: boolean };
+
+const TodoCard = ({ item, href, selected }: TodoCardProps) => (
+  <Link
+    to={href}
+    draggable
+    onDragStart={(ev) => ev.dataTransfer.setData('text/todo-id', item.id)}
+    className={cn(
+      'block rounded-md border border-border bg-card p-2.5 text-left shadow-sm hover:border-primary/50',
+      selected && 'border-primary',
+    )}
+  >
+    <div className="text-xs leading-snug text-card-foreground">{item.title}</div>
+    <div className="mt-1.5 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-1.5 text-[10px] text-muted-foreground">
+      <span className="rounded bg-muted px-1 py-px">{item.theme}</span>
+      {item.priority === 'urgent' && (
+        <span className="flex items-center gap-0.5 rounded bg-destructive/15 px-1 py-px text-destructive">
+          <AlertTriangle className="h-2.5 w-2.5" /> urgent
+        </span>
+      )}
+      {item.due && (
+        <span className="flex items-center gap-0.5">
+          <CalendarClock className="h-2.5 w-2.5" /> {item.due}
+        </span>
+      )}
+      <span>{item.created}</span>
+    </div>
+  </Link>
+);
+
+type TodoDetailProps = { id: string; closeHref: string };
+
+const TodoDetail = ({ id, closeHref }: TodoDetailProps) => {
+  const { data, isLoading } = useTodoItem(id);
+  const patch = useTodoPatch();
+  const status = data?.meta.status ?? 'open';
+
+  return (
+    <div className="flex w-[28rem] shrink-0 flex-col border-l border-border">
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 border-b border-border px-4 py-2">
+        <span className="truncate font-mono text-xs text-muted-foreground">{id}</span>
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+          <select
+            value={status}
+            onChange={(ev) => patch.mutate({ id, status: ev.target.value })}
+            className="rounded border border-border bg-background px-1.5 py-0.5 text-xs"
+          >
+            {COLUMNS.map((c) => (
+              <option key={c.status} value={c.status}>
+                {c.label}
+              </option>
+            ))}
+          </select>
+          <Link to={closeHref} className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground">
+            <X className="h-4 w-4" />
+          </Link>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <div className="file-viewer-md min-h-0 flex-1 overflow-y-auto px-4 py-3 text-sm">
+        {isLoading || !data ? (
+          <span className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">Reading…</span>
+        ) : (
+          <ReactMarkdown remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}>{data.body}</ReactMarkdown>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+};

todo/README.md

@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ process everywhere, report which host is behind…
 
 - **`id`** — `<theme>/<slug>`, and it is the filename. Stable: rename the title freely, leave the id
   alone. Anything pointing at an item points at this.
-- **`status`** — `open` or `done` today. The board will want more (`doing`, `blocked`); adding one is a
+- **`status`** — `open`, `doing`, `blocked`, `backburner` or `done`. The board (`/todos`) renders one
-  new value here, not a new file or a new directory.
+  column per value; adding one is a new entry in `TODO_STATUSES` (`api/todos/todo-tree.ts`), not a new
+  file or directory. `backburner` is parked-not-dead — still counted as open by the index.
 - **`created`** — the date the item was raised. **`date_source`** says how much to trust it:
   `stated` (the prose named a date — true), `section` (inherited from its old section heading — close),
   `assumed` (unknown, floored at 2026-08-20, the day before the split — a bounded "before today"

todo/backburner/four-foreign-keys-are-over-postgres-s-63.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 id: backburner/four-foreign-keys-are-over-postgres-s-63
 title: "Four foreign keys are over Postgres's 63-character limit and re-create on every `db:push`"
 theme: backburner
-status: open
+status: backburner
 created: 2026-08-19
 date_source: stated
 order: 1

todo/backburner/music-tagging-feature.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 id: backburner/music-tagging-feature
 title: "Music tagging feature"
 theme: backburner
-status: open
+status: backburner
 created: 2026-08-20
 date_source: assumed
 order: 2

todo/backburner/resurrect-projects-apps.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 id: backburner/resurrect-projects-apps
 title: "Resurrect Projects/Apps"
 theme: backburner
-status: open
+status: backburner
 created: 2026-08-25
 date_source: stated
 order: 3