feat(app): add switchboard for focused work

[sean-brydon]

What changed

• Add a global Switchboard overlay for focused and recent agent conversations and worktrees, available from Home, the command palette, and ⌘⇧K.
• Use existing project sections as initial areas. People can add areas, assign individual items, star work, and leave pickup notes. Focus, custom areas, assignments, and notes are saved on this computer.
• Show home-folder agent sessions as work alongside project work. Resume a structured conversation whose old session has gone away.
• Keep recent rows compact, distinguish agent attention from Focus, and preserve a focused conversation's identity when its session ends.

Screenshots

Focus across areas (dark theme, synthetic mock data):

Work area (light theme, synthetic mock data):

Checks

• go vet ./... && go test -race ./...
• (cd app/src-tauri && cargo check)
• (cd app && CI=true pnpm install --frozen-lockfile)
• (cd app && pnpm typecheck:plugins && pnpm check:titles && pnpm check:csp && pnpm check:themes && pnpm test && pnpm build)
• (cd app && npx tsc -p e2e)
• (cd app && E2E_PORT=1428 npx playwright test e2e/switchboard.spec.ts)
• (cd docs-site && CI=true pnpm install --frozen-lockfile && pnpm build)

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated
berth	Ready	Preview	Oct 14, 2026 5:49pm UTC
berth-docs	Ready	Preview	Oct 14, 2026 5:49pm UTC

[sean-brydon]

UI pass: from about 4/10 to 8/10

The Switchboard is now a quiet, keyboard-first switcher that sits beside the ⌘K palette. Every feature stays: areas, stars, pickup notes and resume. Pushed as 3 commits: f22bfc8, 8da154c and f6577a6.

Before	After

Keyboard highlight	Hover actions	Row menu

Pickup note	Search	Empty area

Next to the ⌘K palette:

What changed

• Search first. The search input matches the palette's. The area tabs are quiet, with "+" as an icon button, and the instructional copy is gone.
• Rows lead with the agent's state, as the sidebar does. "Needs you" is amber, in words. Agent glyphs are muted (a new muted prop on AgentIcon), so colour belongs to state.
• Focus rows are two lines, with the pickup note as a quiet second line.
• Controls appear on hover. The full set is in a row menu (⋯, right-click, ⇧F10): Open, Focus, pickup note, and Move to area or a new area.
• Keys: type to filter, ↑↓ move, ↵ opens, ⌘S stars, ⌘E edits the note, ⇥ changes area. Esc closes the menu or the field first, then the Switchboard. The footer shows four hints.
• The highlight reads clearly in dark themes. The same fix applies to the ⌘K palette's CommandItem, in dark only; light is unchanged.
• The faint search was a layering bug. The popup's tinted ::before layer covered the search, tabs and footer because they weren't positioned. The palette's own footer still has it; making CommandFooter relative would fix that.

Checks

• tsc, check:titles, check:csp, check:themes, pnpm test (452 tests) and pnpm build pass.
• e2e/switchboard.spec.ts was rewritten for the keyboard, hover, menu and note flows. It passed 15/15 runs (--repeat-each=5).
• a11y.spec.ts has 3 failures, on artifact and visual-diff cards (aria-hidden-focus, nested-interactive). They fail the same way on this PR's base, so they're not from this pass.

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