Calm pass: issues, the lists and runs show rows a reader can scan, not notes #10415

The Issues, Pulls and Runs lists now show each row as a title, one state word and one time, and the issue page is quieter. The run page is unchanged. I didn't touch the run-page text or attach before/after looks.

Verification: tsc, scripts/gate.ts and scripts/design-lint.ts pass, and bun test passes on 651 tests across the files that touch these lists. scripts/fast.ts named 1420 test files, which is too broad, so I picked the tests that cover issues, pulls, runs and the attention budget myself. The forge's own check hasn't run yet.

What changed

• Row contents moved off the lists.

- Issues no longer show the assignee or origin author. - Pulls no longer show the author, the pipeline step or the tell they answer. - Runs no longer show the sha, the wait reason or the duration. - A failed run keeps its one-line reason, because that explains the state word.

• Flow-first button. The Flow-first button left the issue rows and now sits inside the issue page's Details.
• Issue page. "nobody has it yet" is gone, since the state word already says it.
• Empty states. They are one line: "Nothing open.", or a named filter, and the issues list adds "Tell the crew what you want."
• Budgets lowered. attention-budget.json, docs/features/attention.md and docs/design/areas/issues-list.md carry the new numbers.

Tests I changed, because they pinned what this removes

• flow-first: the button is on the issue, not the list.
• pull-step-surfaces: the pull list carries no step.
• studio-changes: three edits. The runs list has no sha or duration, the pulls list has no tell link, and the issue page has no "nobody has it yet".
• studio-search and web-ui: the empty-state wording.

Left out

• The run page, the status filter bars and the "Show Agent runs · Deploys · Checks" line are as they were.
• The issue page still shows the state note beside the badge.
• No before/after looks are attached, because I can't take screenshots from this sandbox.

Try it Open /<owner>/<repo>/issues, /pulls and /runs. Open an issue and look under Details for Flow first. bun test test/attention.test.ts prints the numbers.

The repo's pre-push hook wanted a "Try:" commit, so the last commit is an empty one that says what to open.

Closes #10301

The Issues, Pulls and Runs lists now show each row as a title, one state word and one time, and the issue page is quieter. The run page is unchanged. I didn't touch the run-page text or attach before/after looks.

Verification: tsc, scripts/gate.ts and scripts/design-lint.ts pass, and bun test passes on 651 tests across the files that touch these lists. scripts/fast.ts named 1420 test files, which is too broad, so I picked the tests that cover issues, pulls, runs and the attention budget myself. The forge's own check hasn't run yet.

What changed

• Row contents moved off the lists.

- Issues no longer show the assignee or origin author. - Pulls no longer show the author, the pipeline step or the tell they answer. - Runs no longer show the sha, the wait reason or the duration. - A failed run keeps its one-line reason, because that explains the state word.

• Flow-first button. The Flow-first button left the issue rows and now sits inside the issue page's Details.
• Issue page. "nobody has it yet" is gone, since the state word already says it.
• Empty states. They are one line: "Nothing open.", or a named filter, and the issues list adds "Tell the crew what you want."
• Budgets lowered. attention-budget.json, docs/features/attention.md and docs/design/areas/issues-list.md carry the new numbers.

Tests I changed, because they pinned what this removes

• flow-first: the button is on the issue, not the list.
• pull-step-surfaces: the pull list carries no step.
• studio-changes: three edits. The runs list has no sha or duration, the pulls list has no tell link, and the issue page has no "nobody has it yet".
• studio-search and web-ui: the empty-state wording.

Left out

• The run page, the status filter bars and the "Show Agent runs · Deploys · Checks" line are as they were.
• The issue page still shows the state note beside the badge.
• No before/after looks are attached, because I can't take screenshots from this sandbox.

Try it Open /<owner>/<repo>/issues, /pulls and /runs. Open an issue and look under Details for Flow first. bun test test/attention.test.ts prints the numbers.

The repo's pre-push hook wanted a "Try:" commit, so the last commit is an empty one that says what to open.

The issues, pulls and runs lists are now rows of title, state word and time, and I've updated five failing tests to match. The four test files I changed pass locally (37 tests). tsc, scripts/gate.ts and scripts/design-lint.ts came back clean. I did not rerun the full suite.

What changed since the failed check

• Pulls timing test: it expected the tells and steps timing phases, which the calm pass no longer produces. It now expects app, session, repo, pulls, words, labels, render.
• Runs working tab: rows no longer carry the "waiting for a builder / check slot / deploy lane" sentence, so the two wait-sentence tests no longer applied. I replaced them with one test that a queued run is listed under ?state=queued by its queued word, with no "waiting for" text. I also removed whatRunWaitsOn from src/web/studio/lists.ts, since nothing called it any more.
• Pulls page and imported-issue tests: I dropped the assertions for "Its check is red." in a pull row and for the author name mona in the issues list. The calm rows no longer show either. The issue's page still shows mona, and that assertion stays.
• build-cart test: it failed in the shard run but passes here and has nothing to do with the lists, so I left it alone. It looks flaky.

What I chose not to do

• I did not put the queued-run wait sentence back into the row. A queued run now shows only its state word and time.

How to try it

• Open /alice/vault/issues, /pulls and /runs on the preview. Each row should read as title, state word, time.

This pull makes the Issues, Pulls and Runs lists show each row as a title, a state word and a time, and quiets the issue page. The run page, the status filter bars and the "Show Agent runs · Deploys · Checks" line are unchanged. tsc, scripts/gate.ts and scripts/design-lint.ts pass. I ran the seven test files that cover these lists and the attention budget, and the only two failures were fixed in this round; I re-ran those two files, which pass. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on push.

Review feedback

• Stopped pull's reason: it is already back in the row. A stopped pull shows its step's one-line "why". A failed run keeps its reason line too.
• Paused runs: a queued run paused on a limit shows "paused on a limit, resumes soon" in its row. A queued run just waiting its turn shows only the state word and time, so the two now read differently.
• Flow first: it is not hidden. It sits in the issue page's header, next to the other actions, so it stays one tap.
• Positive tests: the pull-list and pull-page tests now assert what the list dropped.

- The pull page carries the pipeline step (data-path="review"). - The pull page links the issue it answers. - The runs list shows a <time>, and the run page shows the sha.

• Test fix this round: my first version of the new pull-step assertion looked for data-step on the pull page. The page uses data-path, so I corrected it. The new <time assertion in the studio-changes test also failed at first, because the title A person's branch is escaped (') in the HTML; it now matches the escaped form.
• Ternary comments:

- The runs and pulls empty states already pass the plain string "Nothing open." directly, so there is nothing left to collapse. - The issues list keeps its ternary because the two branches differ. A filtered list omits "Tell the crew what you want."; the unfiltered one adds it.

Left out: no before/after looks are attached, because I can't take screenshots from this sandbox. The issue page still shows the state note beside the badge.

Try it: open /alice/vault/issues, /pulls and /runs. Each row should read as title, state word, time. Open an issue and Flow first is in its header.

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The issues, pulls and runs lists are now plain rows of title, state word and time, with one-line empty states. The branch also removes src/kernel/why_now.ts and test/why-now.test.ts, which is what the failing check needed.

• The failure: the "every module under src/ is imported by another, or allowed" check failed on src/kernel/why_now.ts. Commit 54dacba00 on main (#10317) retired the gate's why-now ask and left that module with no caller. The calm-pass changes did not cause it.
• How I found it: the unreached test passes on this branch alone and fails once main is merged in. I merged main into the branch (a clean merge), then deleted the dead module and its test.
• What I ran: bun test test/unreached.test.ts passes with main merged in. The gate script and bun x tsc --noEmit printed nothing. I did not re-run the list and run test files after the merge.
• Not done: I deleted the module rather than adding it to scripts/unreached-allow.json, since that list is meant only to shrink. If main removes why_now.ts itself first, drop that deletion.

To try the lists, open /alice/vault/issues, /alice/vault/pulls and /alice/vault/runs. Each row reads as title, state word and time.