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Drift Awareness

LeonXu edited this page Apr 1, 2026 · 1 revision

Drift Awareness

Compare your plans with what actually got done. Helps you make conscious decisions about when to stay on track vs embrace productive detours.

How It Works

Drift Awareness sits inside the Blackboard panel (bottom-right card in the 3+1 layout). It's generated automatically when you click Blackboard.

The LLM reads your strategy-layer files (plans, design docs in docs/, .claude/plans/) and compares them with recent git commits and conversation topics.

What It Shows

Plan Items

Each item from your plan files with a status:

  • Done — completed with sessions and commits
  • 🔄 In progress — partially done
  • Not started — no related work detected

Unplanned Work

Work that happened but wasn't in the plan, with a brief reason (e.g. "user feedback", "bug fix").

Planned Percentage

A badge showing what percentage of your time went to planned vs unplanned work.

Pattern Insight

A one-paragraph observation about your work pattern — factual, non-judgmental.

User Verdicts

For each unplanned work item, you can mark:

  • ✓ OK — Conscious decision, no need to revisit
  • ↩ Circle back — Remember to return to the original plan
  • + Adopt — This is more important than the original plan, make it official

Verdicts are saved and persist across sessions.

Click to Expand

Click the Drift card to open a detailed dialog with the full plan comparison, unplanned work list with verdict buttons, and the pattern insight.

Design Principles

  • Show facts, don't judge — "You spent time on X" not "You drifted from the plan"
  • Users decide — The tool shows the data, humans make the call
  • Accumulate into patterns — Over time, you see your work habits

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