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pastilhasandClaude Fable 5 6071ded175 todo: one file per item, grouped by theme, with a generated index
TODO.md had reached 1050 lines and 72 open items across 28 sections, read mostly
on a phone. It is now a directory: todo/<theme>/<item>.md, one card per file, with
frontmatter carrying id, status, created date and order, and the prose body copied
across verbatim. TODO.md becomes a generated index (bun run todo:index).

Dates: where an item's prose stated one it is used; otherwise its old section's;
otherwise 2026-08-20, floored at the day before the split rather than invented.
date_source records which.

Shaped for a two-way Kanban board, filed as todo/tooling — a card is a file, id is
the identity, frontmatter is the machine's half and the body is the owner's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 05:42:39 +00:00

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---
id: mobile-apps/the-mobile-recorder-app-and-the-dispatcher
title: "The mobile recorder app, and the dispatcher agent behind it"
theme: mobile-apps
status: open
created: 2026-08-21
date_source: stated
order: 2
---
**The mobile recorder app, and the dispatcher agent behind it.** Wanted 2026-08-21. The owner is
building a recorder for the phone. **Every audio lands in one central place** — one inbox, not a
folder per purpose — and a **dispatcher agent** decides where each one goes.
Routing has two modes and both are wanted:
- **Told.** The recording opens with the destination — "send this to my todo guy", or just
"todo" — and the dispatcher obeys. An explicit address always wins.
- **Inferred.** Nothing is named, and the dispatcher works it out from the content. This is the
one that makes the app worth using: the ideal is that most notes need no prefix at all.
What this implies: **destinations must be addressable and speakable.** "My todo guy" is a name for
a standing agent session, so the dispatcher needs a registry of destinations with names a person
would actually say. Command HQ is already most of that registry — `command_hq_sessions` names
commanders and keys them on Claude's own transcript uuid. Delivery into a session exists too; see
"Speaking into a session from the backend".
Fits with the rest rather than duplicating it: the **File watchers** split applies unchanged —
a script transcribes on arrival, the dispatcher is the agent stage — and the **iPhone Action
Button** item is how a recording starts without unlocking the phone.
Open: whether the dispatcher is one long-lived session or spawned per note; what it does when
inference is uncertain (ask back, or file into an inbox for review); and whether a routing rule
is a prompt from the prompt library.