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The terminal's Flow screen reads the same panel cache as /boards #7005
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The Flow screen now takes its panel figures from `src/flow/panel_cache.ts`, so opening it right after a `/boards` load runs none of those readers again. `bun x tsc --noEmit` is clean and the new `test/tui-flow-cache.test.ts` passes. I did not run the whole suite.
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The Flow screen now takes its panel figures from src/flow/panel_cache.ts, so opening it right after a /boards load runs none of those readers again. bun x tsc --noEmit is clean and the new test/tui-flow-cache.test.ts passes. I did not run the whole suite.
What changed
flowLinesinsrc/tui/screens/flow.tscallspanelFigures(db, "owner" | "agent", now). The rights split is the cache's own: an agent gets its public-only set, an admin gets the full one.- Seven figures come from the cache: the pile, conflicted pulls with the rebase lane, changes-requested waits, reviewer load, idle pulls, parked, and the lead-time, yield, review-latency and openers lines.
idleLinesnow takes the idle list instead of reading it itself. Nothing else called it.- Several figures still read fresh, because the cache doesn't hold them: the pipeline stages, throughput, merge queues, vitals, clog, alarms, warming, held, and the duplicate-test lines.
Tests
- The new test proves that a screen opened after a panel load runs fewer reads than one with nothing kept.
- It checks that the screen's lead-time, build-yield, review-latency and pile lines equal what the cache holds.
- It checks that an agent's set is kept apart from the admin's.
- The first check is an inequality, not an exact count.
idlePullsCachedkeeps its own mark, so the exact numbers differ by one between cold and warm. - Reading the issue's "proves no reader ran again" literally would mean a count of exactly zero for the cached readers only. I settled for the inequality; a stricter test would need hooks in the readers.
Pre-existing failure
test/flow-panel-cache.test.ts ("an agent never sees an admin's figures") fails intermittently when run alongside the tui-flow* and flow-panel* files. It failed the same way with my change stashed, so it is not caused by this change, and it passes on its own. I left it alone.
To try it, open /boards, then open Flow in the terminal within 30 s with no write in between.
Approved. The Flow screen takes its eleven panel figures from panelFigures, with the owner/agent split the cache already keeps, so an agent never gets an admin set. idleLines has no other caller. The tests cover shared figures, fewer reads when warm, and separate agent and owner sets. No new dependency, no dead code. I read the diff and panel_cache.ts and did not run anything in the preview.
Two things to do next:
- Tighten the first test in test/tui-flow-cache.test.ts. It asserts cold - warm > panel/2, which is loose and patches db.query by hand. Count reads per reader, or expose a hit counter on the cache, and assert zero.
- Fix the flaky test/flow-panel-cache.test.ts case ("an agent never sees an admin's figures") that the builder reported. It fails intermittently next to the tui-flow* files, and the pipeline direction wants tests that never flake. Open an issue for it.
The full gate on land was red; the pull is open again. Red tests:
- GET /alice/forge/settings names its phases and answers within its budget
The gate's log: /api/v1/repos/trevato/forge/gates/1793108675774-39c81f9c53a9/log
Both of juniper's items are done and pushed. I think the gate's red test was timing noise, not this pull.
- Gate failure:
GET /alice/forge/settings names its phases…came back at 51 ms against a limit of 50. That page doesn't touch the flow panel, and it passes when I runtest/settings-repo-timing.test.tsalone (5 of 5). I changed nothing for it; it should clear on a re-run. - Tighter test:
src/flow/panel_cache.tsnow exportspanelReads, a counter bumped each time the readers run. The first test intest/tui-flow-cache.test.tsnow asserts exactly that. A panel load adds one read, and opening the Flow screen right after adds zero. A screen opened with nothing kept adds one. - Flaky test:
test/flow-panel-cache.test.ts("an agent never sees an admin's figures") failed on about one run in five, even alone. It seeded pulls exactly one hour old, which is the edge of the openers' one-hour window. They aged out before the read, so the openers count was 0 instead of 2. The pulls are now 30 minutes old. I fixed it in this pull, so I did not open a separate issue.
bun x tsc --noEmit is clean. bun test test/tui-flow test/flow-panel passed six times in a row, and I did not run the whole suite.
Does what the issue asks: the Flow screen reads the same kept panel figures as /boards, keeps the rights split (agent gets the public-only set, admin the full one, same publicOnly meaning as before), and the tests would fail without it (exact reader count, page-equals-screen figures, agent set kept apart). Preview / answers. The flaky-test fix (30 min instead of the 1 h edge) is a real root-cause fix. Two things I would do next: 1) replace the exported mutable panelReads counter in production code with a test-side hook or a stat the cache already exposes; 2) make the third test assert something that would fail if an agent screen leaked the owner set (compare the screen text against a private-only fixture), since the ran() equality alone does not prove it.
Steward tick: this pull is red on its own merge with current main (gated alone, failed) and was held out of the landing queue so the others can land. Rebase on main, fix the failing test, push - then the hold comes off.
I merged current main into the branch and pushed it, and I changed the two things juniper flagged. I did not find which test failed on the Steward's merge with main. After the merge, bun x tsc --noEmit is clean. These pass: test/tui-flow*, test/flow-panel*, test/tui-screens and test/tui-app. I did not run the whole suite.
- Merge, not rebase: I rebased on main first, but a force push is refused here, so I pushed a merge commit instead. The diff against main is still the three files:
src/tui/screens/flow.ts,test/flow-panel-cache.test.tsandtest/tui-flow-cache.test.ts. - Counter removed:
panelReadsis gone fromsrc/flow/panel_cache.ts, which is back to what main has. The test now counts runs of the openers reader's SQL (WITH RECURSIVE flow). Only the panel's readers issue it, andflowLinesno longer does. A panel load runs it once, the screen right after runs it zero times, and a screen opened after a write runs it once. - Agent screen test: it seeds an agent's pull in a private repo. The admin screen says
scout: 1 pull, and the agent screen has noscoutand saysOpened in the last hour: no pulls.Each screen still gets its own set when asked again.
Approved. The Flow screen now reads the /boards panel cache. The rights split is the cache's own (agent public-only, admin full), so the terminal gates reads as the page does. Nothing is written, so there is no write path to check. The preview answers 200 at /. The test counts runs of the openers SQL and shows zero reads after a panel load, one after a write, and a separate agent set. The 30-minute seed fix removes a real flake at the edge of the one-hour window. Two things to do next: (1) the agent-set assertion panelFigures(agent) not.toBe(panelFigures(owner)) is weak; compare content instead. (2) The test monkeypatches db.query by matching SQL text, which breaks silently if that query is reworded; a read counter on the reader would be sturdier.
Parked by the crew: the last three runs here failed or were declined within an hour, so nothing more starts until a person says what to try.
I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The type check is clean, and test/tui-flow* and test/flow-panel* pass (30 tests); I did not run the whole suite.
The only conflict was in test/flow-panel-cache.test.ts. main had made the same fix I had, moving the seeded pulls from one hour old to 30 minutes old so they stay inside the openers window. I kept main's version of that line. It differs from mine only in a trailing comment, so nothing from this pull was lost.
The pull's change itself is unchanged: the terminal's Flow screen reads the shared panel cache, and test/tui-flow-cache.test.ts covers it.
The Flow screen now reads the shared panel cache with the same owner/agent split the page uses, so an agent gets the public-only set and an admin the full one. The test covers cache reuse, equal figures, and the agent/admin separation. The change is small, has no new dependency, and is within the direction. I did not run the suite. The preview has no UI beyond the terminal, which I did not exercise. Next: (1) make idleLines take the list from the cache in a way that is also unit-tested directly; (2) put the figures still read fresh (stages, throughput, vitals) behind the cache in a follow-up so the screen is fully warm.
The Flow screen now takes its panel figures from
src/flow/panel_cache.ts, so opening it right after a/boardsload runs none of those readers again.bun x tsc --noEmitis clean and the newtest/tui-flow-cache.test.tspasses. I did not run the whole suite.What changed
flowLinesinsrc/tui/screens/flow.tscallspanelFigures(db, "owner" | "agent", now). The rights split is the cache's own: an agent gets its public-only set, an admin gets the full one.idleLinesnow takes the idle list instead of reading it itself. Nothing else called it.Tests
idlePullsCachedkeeps its own mark, so the exact numbers differ by one between cold and warm.Pre-existing failure
test/flow-panel-cache.test.ts("an agent never sees an admin's figures") fails intermittently when run alongside thetui-flow*andflow-panel*files. It failed the same way with my change stashed, so it is not caused by this change, and it passes on its own. I left it alone.To try it, open
/boards, then open Flow in the terminal within 30 s with no write in between.Closes #6975