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feat(cortex): big green/red check-in stamp, no blurbs, readable project names, nothing-open table #356
Description
Overview
First-look feedback on the projects-first Cortex board shipped in #355 / PyAutoCortex#14. The two explanatory blurbs ("This page is generated from…", "The science body map, active first…") are noise on a phone; the check-in stamp is a small bold line where it should be the one thing the eye lands on; project names inherit the shared theme's small h3; and the eight projects with nothing open trail the Projects section as one ·-joined line.
Plan
- Drop the Cortex
REFRESH_BLURBand the Projects section blurb; keep the one-lineLast updated <date>so thedashboard_bodydrift normaliser still strips it. - Turn the HTML check-in stamp into a large boxed date whose colour is decided on the viewer's clock: green ✓ "fresh" within 3 hours, red ✗ "stale, paste the check-in" beyond (single threshold, replacing the 60-minute rule). Markdown twin renders
### Last check-in: <stamp>. - Wrap each project card in
<section class="project">with a cortex-local.project h3rule (larger, bold, accent underline); the sharedboard/_theme.pyis untouched. - Move the nothing-open projects out of Projects into a Project | Status | Phases table under Summary, ordered active → planned → dormant.
- Rewrite the affected test pins, regenerate
PyAutoCortex/dashboard.md/.html, ship Brain PR first then Cortex PR (itsrefreshcheck renders against Brain main).
Detailed implementation plan
Affected Repositories
- PyAutoBrain (primary) —
agents/conductors/cortex/_cortex.py,tests/test_cortex_conductor.py - PyAutoCortex — regenerated
dashboard.md,dashboard.html
Branch Survey
| Repository | Current Branch | Dirty? |
|---|---|---|
| ./PyAutoBrain | main | clean |
| ./PyAutoCortex | main | clean |
Suggested branch: feature/cortex-checkin-stamp-prominent
Implementation Steps
_cortex.pyl.254 deleteREFRESH_BLURB; l.976 markdown →> **Last updated {generated}.**; l.1194 HTML →<div class="fresh"><p class="muted">Last updated {generated}.</p></div>(both prefixes preserved fordashboard_bodyl.1353). Drop the_FRESH_CSSleft border.- l.1212-1214 HTML stamp →
<div class="checkin" id="checkin-box"><span class="mark" id="checkin-mark"></span><div><span class="label">Last check-in</span><time id="checkin" datetime="…">…</time><span class="note" id="checkin-note"></span></div></div>; CSS: flex box, 2px border,time~1.6rem bold tabular;.fresh-ok/.fresh-badonvar(--ok)/var(--bad)(board/_theme.pyl.333, dark l.338-339); keep.stale. _CHECKIN_JSl.1133-1140:CHECKIN_FRESH_MINUTES = 180interpolated; unparseable/empty or age>180 →fresh-bad,.stale, ✗, "stale, paste the check-in" / "never checked in"; elsefresh-ok, ✓, "fresh · N min ago" (hours ≥60). Age on view only.- Markdown l.993 →
### Last check-in: {stamp}. - Comments at l.1131-1132, l.1207-1210: "an hour" → 3 h.
- HTML l.1237 wrap each shown project in
<section class="project">…</section>; add.project h3{font-size:1.35rem;font-weight:700;padding-bottom:.2rem;border-bottom:2px solid var(--accent);letter-spacing:.01em}to_FRESH_CSS. SECTIONS[0]blurb (l.230-235) →"";h2()at l.951 and l.1154 render only the markdown-version link when the blurb is empty (no dangling " — ").- Remove the folded-projects line at markdown l.1043-1048 and HTML l.1275; after the Summary table (markdown ~l.1005, HTML ~l.1230) add a "Nothing open" sub-head and a Project | Status | Phases table over
project_order(folded, c)usingprojects[key]['status']andproject_counts(key, c); nothing whenfoldedis empty. - Tests: l.268/275/353/1032
**Last check-in:**→### Last check-in:; l.292-301 pin/60000>180,fresh-ok,fresh-bad, ✓, stale text, and absence of "only as current as they are" and "science body map"; l.450/452 the folded project is a Summary table row and absent from Projects; pin.project h3{and<section class="project">; new test thatdashboard_bodyequalises two renders with differentgenerateddates. PYAUTO_CORTEX=<worktree>/PyAutoCortex python -m pytest tests/test_cortex_conductor.py -q; thenPYAUTO_CORTEX=<worktree>/PyAutoCortex pyauto-brain cortex dashboard --apply+--check.
Key Files
PyAutoBrain/agents/conductors/cortex/_cortex.py— both renderers, CSS, JS,SECTIONS,dashboard_bodyPyAutoBrain/tests/test_cortex_conductor.py— section/stamp pinsPyAutoBrain/board/_theme.py— read-only:--ok/--badtokens, sharedh3PyAutoCortex/dashboard.md,dashboard.html— regenerated
Original Prompt
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We dont need this text for a dashboard it too much info "This page is generated from phases/, rulings/ and projects.yaml, so it is only as current as they are. dashboard_refresh.yml re-renders it on every push to main.". Also make the date larger, and some sort of obvious green box or tick if its within 3 hours of now.
Project names are small text and hard to read, euclid / inference programme etc. Make them larger and ideally underline or something to help? This is also superflous "The science body map, active first: where each project lives, what it is holding, and the one phase of it to act on next. The plans and the issues are one click away — this page routes to them rather than reprinting them; census --by-project and the check-in printout keep the full per-phase tree." This should be in summary: 8 project(s) with nothing open: euclid_dr1_prelim (planned · none) · concr (dormant · none) · cowls_diana (dormant · none) · ic50_workspace (dormant · planned 1) · pj011646 (dormant · none) · profiling (dormant · none) · slope_hierarchy (dormant · planned 2) · subhalo_simulations (dormant · none) make it a table for clarity Do all this too.
Prompt file: PyAutoMind/draft/feature/pyautobrain/cortex_checkin_stamp_prominent.md
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Activity
Jammy2211 commentedon Sep 4, 2026
Both PRs are open, review-ready, and merge in this order:
dashboard.md+dashboard.html. chore(dashboard): regenerate for the prominent check-in stamp PyAutoCortex#15Cortex#15's
refreshcheck renders the pages against PyAutoBrainmain, so it is red until #357 merges — re-run it afterwards.What shipped: the check-in stamp is a bordered box (mark, label,
1.6remtabular stamp, note) that the page's own script paints on the reader's clock — green✓ fresh · N min agounder 3 h (the newCHECKIN_FRESH_MINUTES = 180, up from a hard-coded hour), red✗ stale, paste the check-inover it,never checked inwith no stamp. The age is still computed on load and nowhere else. The markdown twin renders### Last check-in: <stamp>.The refresh blurb and the Projects blurb are gone from the Cortex page (the Mind keeps its own
REFRESH_BLURB); theLast updatedfootnote and the line prefixesdashboard_bodystrips are unchanged, so--checkdrift behaviour is untouched. Each project card is wrapped in<section class="project">so.project h3can size the project's name at1.35remwith an accent rule, without touching the shared themeh3. Projects with nothing open move out of a fold at the foot of the map into aProject | Status | Phasestable under the Summary.Tests:
tests/test_cortex_conductor.py81 passed; full Brain suite 910 passed.cortex dashboard --checkprints current.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Jammy2211 commentedon Sep 4, 2026
Shipped
Last updatedstays so the drift normaliser keeps stripping it); the check-in stamp is a large boxed date coloured on the viewer's clock — green ✓ "fresh · N min ago" within 3 hours, red ✗ "stale, paste the check-in" beyond, "never checked in" when absent (CHECKIN_FRESH_MINUTES = 180); project cards wrapped in<section class="project">with a larger, accent-underlinedh3(shared theme untouched); the nothing-open projects moved out of Projects into a Project | Status | Phases table under Summary. 81 conductor tests, 910 full-suite.dashboard.md/dashboard.htmlregenerated. Itsrefreshcheck was red until feat(cortex): the check-in stamp is a box, the map is a map #357 landed (renders against Brain main); re-run green, then merged.