Reading the board

lerp

The TUI is the engine. The loop runs while the screen is open, and there is no daemon.

Two panels share it. On you lists what waits on a human, Work lists what the machine is doing, and lerp opens focused on On you.

1 and 2 choose a panel, tab cycles, ↑/↓ pick a row, ? lists every key, and q quits.

The Work panel

One list, grouped by queue, in the loop’s pickup order, with the running tickets at the top of each group.

A running row carries its state and what the run is doing. A waiting row is faint and says why it waits, blocked or claimed. enter on one shows where it sits in pickup order and what gates it.

The panel title and the status bar carry capacity, 2/3 running, with · +1 over while more runs are live than the limit allows.

Ordering is not a keystroke. To change what runs next, move tickets in Linear, or start one past the limit.

The On you panel

Unclaimed tickets, and your own claimed tickets, sitting in a status no queue serves. The columns are identifier, leverage, the Linear status, project, priority and title, in Linear’s own vocabulary.

A tab row above the columns slices the list to one status, each tab with its count. ] and [ move across it, and all comes back.

It opens on what is blocked on you, with the tickets that never entered the pipeline folded into one line at the foot. Finding tickets covers browsing those. A claimed ticket is never folded, since no pass can pick it up while the claim stands.

A ticket in a working status your pipeline never names is marked, the fingerprint of a ticket that left the pipeline. ? spells out that mark and the other two.

The main pane

enter reads the selected ticket into a pane beside the table, the body where the plan lives and the comments where a run’s verdict lands. esc closes it. The pane is a read and stays one, so o opens the ticket in Linear for anything else. ↑/↓ scroll it while it holds the keys.

Colour

Colour marks state and never carries it alone. Every state has a shape or a word too, so the screen survives a 16-colour terminal and a colour-blind operator. Environment variables pick the palette or turn it off.