lux/docs/constellation-work.md

# Constellation: working state

Read [the design](constellation.md) and this file to resume. Keep this file short:
replace superseded state rather than appending a chronological log.

## Working agreement

- Explore the philosophy through concrete use, discuss meaningful choices, then
  implement a small coherent change. Curiosity and alternative designs are welcome;
  an idea need not prove a defect before we explore it.
- Write succinctly without losing important details. Distinguish accepted choices,
  proposals and observations. Ask when intent would change the design; resolve
  routine implementation details autonomously. Infer opportunities from the user's
  philosophy and actual use; contribute design ideas beyond literal backlog items.
  Continue to the next natural step when the user could only usefully say "continue";
  pause for material choices or missing authority, not routine progress.
- Minimize input stops: plan a coherent batch of autonomous work and gather the
  material inputs needed for the next batch together. Avoid serial question/action
  loops. When pausing, state exactly what input is needed and what it will decide;
  otherwise continue with the next logical step rather than ending with an offer.
- The main agent owns alignment, design and integration and may do small work.
  Use subagents for bounded independent investigations or implementation with clear
  ownership. Begin with at most two workers; avoid overlapping writes, duplicate
  investigations and mandatory delegation of trivial tasks.
- Give workers the question, relevant paths, constraints and expected result.
  Prefer a compact brief and fresh context when sufficient; retain relevant prior
  context for follow-ups. Return conclusions, uncertainty and evidence pointers,
  not raw logs. Astra/Sol orchestration is a candidate to learn from, not a fixed rule.
- Read only what can affect the current decision. Use quiet commands and bounded
  output; keep large logs in `/tmp` and inspect relevant failures. Do not repeatedly
  check settled facts. Consult current documentation for consequential or unfamiliar
  interfaces when needed for the task.
- No tests unless explicitly requested. Keep other verification proportional;
  report only what was actually checked. Avoid turning small changes into campaigns.
- Keep durable decisions in the design and current questions/next steps here.
  Add an area-specific document only when an active topic outgrows this arrangement.
  No separate backlog, scratchpad, audit ledger or agent-role files for now.

## Boundaries

Repository remotes are read-only. Only the user activates system generations.
Agents must not have write access to live company systems; test writes require
task-specific authority and care. Do not read secret values for layout discovery.
Current exploration does not authorize relocating credentials, synchronizing
company content or deleting existing material. Existing local changes are preserved.

## Git baseline — 2026-09-09

The accumulated NixOS changes are recorded in focused local commits on
`chore/workflow-system`: AI tooling/inputs, editor ergonomics, query persistence
and target context, workspace navigation, Notes, SharePoint, Zellij and TeamViewer.
The original long handoff and archived plans are preserved in commit `4e3a3ac`;
use Git history for chronology. `nvim.log` is retained locally and ignored.
Workbench changes are committed on its local `main`: `eb8da6a` organizes HTTP/SQL
material and `063157c` archives helpers and documents native tools. The ordinary
company-root files are outside either repository and remain user-owned.
This cleanup preserves implementation behavior; a commit does not establish runtime
acceptance. Keep subsequent implementation and its documentation in the same
coherent commit before starting unrelated work.

## Implemented state

- **Places:** `~/yookr` has ordinary `.envrc` and `AGENTS.md` files; its environment
  loads workbench tools only. Workbench is at `~/yookr/workbench`, company projects
  at `~/yookr/projects`, and personal groups at `~/projects/{own,ext,forks}`.
  Direct moves retained archives/worktrees; all three linked dashboard worktrees
  were repaired. Nix owns tools/integration, not these workspace files.
- **Navigation:** Walker enters Yookr or a repository; Git identity follows the
  company root; XDG projects points to `~/projects`. Notes has a desktop entry
  opening `~/sync/notes` without creating a daily note. Existing note commands,
  project search and Niri daily-note behavior remain.
- **Synchronization:** Bruno collections were previously moved to Trash on Zenith
  and their shared Syncthing entry removed. Other devices' files were untouched.
  Syncthing was subsequently observed running. Notes and credentials remain in place.
- **API/database work:** workbench `http/` groups requests by service with shared
  authentication; `databases/` groups reusable queries by database. Private HTTP
  environment files are ignored at any depth. Dadbod working queries persist under
  `stdpath('data')/db_ui/working`; write them there without promoting them into Git.
  Saved-query storage also contains connection state and must stay outside Git.
  Lualine uses native Kulala environment and Dadbod connection/timing components.
  These indicators are not access controls.
- **Editor ergonomics:** word-boundary wrapping, count-aware displayed-line `j/k`
  in ordinary normal/visual buffers, and Blink Escape cancellation. The existing
  `tests/neovim-ergonomics.lua` is retained; earlier smoke-check evidence is in the
  archived plan, with interactive preview restoration/visual behavior unproven.
- **Agents:** Herdr is selected; agent-deck and tmux remain installed alongside it.
  Codex has agent-deck notifications and hooks enabled. Shared Context7/NixOS skills
  live under `.agents/skills`; a Nix-managed marketplace exposes Ponytail.
  Zellij is also declared on workstations. Detailed project workflow remains open.
- **SharePoint:** Zenith declares an hourly service syncing `company-sharepoint:`
  into `~/.local/share/yookr-reference/sharepoint/Algemeen` and
  `company-sharepoint-projecten:` into `Projecten`. Each invocation has
  `--max-delete 100`; new files use `UMask=0077`. The latest implementation only
  checks for `rclone.conf`; the old environment-file gate is gone. Archived setup
  instructions describe an earlier version. Consent, remote configuration and
  synchronization state were not inspected during this cleanup.
- **Remote support:** Zenith enables TeamViewer. Temporary Xorg/Xfce settings are
  comments only. The purpose beyond remote support and runtime acceptance were
  not recorded; preserve the change without calling it a settled design.
- **Inputs:** accumulated lock updates are retained, including an older Elephant
  revision (`376ee71c` replacing `23f37238`). No rollback rationale was recorded.

## Activation and verification

Earlier handoffs report user activation of the relocated XDG/Git/Walker paths and
Dadbod working-query persistence. Notes and the newer target statusline were last
recorded as pending activation. Only Zenith's filesystem was relocated; other hosts
need their own migration before adopting the shared paths. Reopen shells or
recreate path-dependent development environments as needed; no compatibility links
or cache rewrites were introduced.

For this cleanup, `nix flake check --no-build --quiet` and diff whitespace checking
passed in both NixOS and workbench. NixOS emitted the expected dirty-tree and unknown
`modules` warnings; workbench emitted only the dirty-tree warning.
No builds, tests, activation, credential reads or company-service calls were
performed. Active-generation differences were not checked; earlier activation
reports are not a fresh comparison with this baseline.

## Open choices and next discussion

Dictation: plain local transcription is selected; rambling cleanup is deferred.
The shared Niri module installs Handy and starts it hidden with the desktop.
Super+D toggles recording; Super+Shift+D cancels. Commands were verified against
the pinned Handy 0.9.1 source. No microphone recording or model download was run.
After user activation, launch Handy from Walker, download/select Parakeet V3,
keep automatic language detection and disable push-to-talk for toggle operation.
In Advanced, choose paste method None and clipboard handling Copy to Clipboard.
Keep post-processing disabled. Settings/models remain writable app-owned state.
Start Handy manually for the current session; desktop autostart applies on login.
Try an English and a Dutch recording, paste into Codex with Ctrl+Shift+V, then
submit manually. User feedback needed: recognition accuracy, delay and shortcut
delivery. Automatic paste can follow if wanted after checking Niri compatibility.
Verification: formatting, flake evaluation, Zenith and Polaris no-link system
builds, and whitespace checks passed. No system activation or interactive
dictation was performed; recognition quality and latency remain unmeasured.
First-use diagnosis: Handy was set to Nemotron, Direct Input, Don't Modify
Clipboard and push-to-talk. One recording transcribed but output used X11 input
simulation; other recordings returned zero usable samples. Default digital mic
is unmuted. Set None + Copy to Clipboard and retry a full sentence; microphone
selection/voice detection needs further checking if History stays empty.
Niri Super+D invokes a forced toggle, independent of Handy's push-to-talk setting;
Handy's Ctrl+Space global binding is not the Niri binding. Keep the user's minimal
overlay. Noctalia's native microphone filter suppresses all microphone activity
popups/indicators, while camera and screen-sharing indications remain enabled.
The Noctalia change passed formatting, flake evaluation and both workstation
builds; user activation and the clipboard retry remain pending.

The focus is the broader environment, not further API/database polish. Candidate
areas remain places/ownership, navigation/interaction, human/agent collaboration,
and system operation/maintenance; these are discussion areas, not a work queue.

Current choice: keep Herdr and configure its keys. The user likes its structure,
spaces and overview; keyboard interaction is the issue. Agent evaluation is
explicitly deferred. Do not resume replacement-tool comparisons or ask for an
evaluation task/budget as a prerequisite for this work.

Read-only inspection found existing Niri overview, workspace movement and tabbed
columns; Kitty has no declared project/session organization. Installed versions:
Kitty 0.48.2, Niri 26.04, tmux 3.7c, Zellij 0.45.1 and Herdr 0.9.0.
Herdr's installed default config confirms remappable navigation and agent jumps.
Current [Herdr keyboard docs](https://herdr.dev/docs/keyboard/) describe direct
chords; [Kitty sessions](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/sessions/) supply native
session creation/switching. Session layouts and window overviews do not themselves
provide authoritative agent attention states. tmux detach keeps processes alive;
Zellij resurrection recreates layouts/commands, not process memory. None of these
capabilities was exercised interactively; no sessions were inspected or changed.

Proposed workflow, awaiting discussion: organize human-visible work by project/task;
one lead conversation owns each coherent change. Use bounded subagents when work
is independent, with explicit ownership and evidence returned to the lead. Separate
worktrees for independent writing efforts, one integration owner. Keep enduring
repository rules in AGENTS.md, current goals/acceptance in task prompts, and durable
decisions/current state in existing project docs. No fixed agent team is selected.

Herdr configuration is now declared in `modules/capabilities/ai.nix`, including
the existing Kanagawa theme, workspace-sorted agent panel and disabled toasts.
Home Manager owns `~/.config/herdr/config.toml` after activation; maintain these
preferences in Nix. Its configured `.bak` mechanism preserves the previous regular
file. Direct Ctrl+Alt bindings supplement the existing Ctrl+B prefix shortcuts:

| Ctrl+Alt + | Action |
| --- | --- |
| H / J / K / L | Focus pane left / down / up / right |
| U / I | Next / previous workspace |
| O / G | Workspace picker / goto picker |
| 1–9 | Focus agent |
| [ / ] | Previous / next tab |
| Enter | New tab |
| V / Minus | Split right / down |
| F | Zoom pane |
| Q | Detach, leaving the session running |

Inside workspace navigation, U/I moves down/up and H/J/K/L retains pane navigation.
Niri and Kitty bindings are unchanged. Syntax and action names were checked against
the installed Herdr 0.9.0 default config and current upstream documentation.
Interactive delivery through Kitty remains for user acceptance after activation.
Reload Herdr with its existing Ctrl+B then Shift+R binding after activating Nix.
Verification: repository formatting, rendered TOML parsing, flake evaluation,
Zenith no-link system build and whitespace checking passed. No tests or live Herdr
session changes performed by the agent. The user's activation installed the Herdr
config and preserved `config.toml.bak`, but Home Manager later timed out (below).
After retrying activation, reload Herdr and gather combined feedback on
pane/workspace movement, the pickers and agent jumps.

Activation fix (2026-09-09): Home Manager's service switch stopped and restarted
the running SharePoint oneshot, then waited until Home Manager's five-minute start
timeout. Service-state inspection identified SharePoint as the sole pending user
job; its oneshot start timeout is unlimited. This was not a Herdr file collision.
Set `Unit.X-SwitchMethod = "keep-old"` in `sharepoint-reference.nix` so activation
leaves an in-flight sync running; subsequent timer runs use the updated unit.
Verified against pinned Home Manager/sd-switch source. Formatting, flake evaluation,
Zenith build and whitespace checks passed; the focused sd-switch dry run reported
`Keep active sharepoint-reference-sync.service`, with no restart planned. No live
units were changed and no company content or credentials were read. The user must
retry activation to verify the full switch; sync health/content completeness were
not investigated.

Mail search remains unresolved. The workbench's custom mail reader, inventory
pilot, justfile and old README are archived; native Garden/kubectl/K9s now own the
documented operations. No replacement mail helper or semantic index is selected;
raw mailbox grep is not assumed sufficient. No new ingestion is authorized.

Human credential delivery remains both test/live via environment variables with
ordinary editor startup. Workbench `.envrc` supplies aggregate credentials; agents
must not source it. Separate read-only agent credentials and access isolation are
explicitly deferred, not prerequisites for unrelated work. Do not resume the
rejected per-connection launchers or per-selection decryption proposal.

Notes placement and further company material organization remain open. Work is
mostly project-based and notes mostly meetings; do not impose investigation
folders, outer project containers or company-wide editor search without a need.