intake: hold 50 in the Recent feed, show 10, reveal the rest on tap

The table is a glance, not a log. Twenty rows already pushed the Epics below a
scroll on a phone, and capping the feed at what fits on screen is the wrong
trade: a quiet fortnight and a busy week want different depths.

So the feed now holds 50 (RECENT_MAX) and shows 10 (RECENT_PAGE), with the rest
one tap away — and each surface reveals it with what it actually renders:

- Pages twin: every row ships in the DOM, the overflow marked `hidden`, and a
  `…` button flips ten at a time before retiring itself. Hidden rather than
  absent, so a reader with JS off gets the whole feed instead of ten rows and a
  dead button.
- Markdown page: GitHub strips that script, so the reveal is `<details>` —
  NESTED, so each tap shows the next ten and leaves another `…` behind it.
  Sibling blocks would let a reader open page 4 without page 3, which is not
  what "show me more" means on a list ordered by date. Each page carries its
  own header row, since a markdown table cannot span an HTML block boundary.

Also fixes the blurb printing literal backticks on the Pages page — it is
shared with the markdown renderer and was never run through `_summary_label`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4HPWjv5rdzBAkKpfW1SbR

Author: claude

agents/conductors/intake/AGENTS.md

@@ -88,9 +88,13 @@ schema — light structure over free-form prose.
 | **reconcile** | `intake reconcile [prefix]` | rank backlog prompts that look already-shipped (vs the `complete/` records / `active/`); always read-only — retiring stays human |
 | **reconcile --repo** | `intake reconcile --repo <target> [prefix]` | **also** read the target repo's source for identifiers the prompts name — the one signal that sees a prompt with no Mind-side trace. Opt-in; the default path is offline |
 
-**Recent** is the one section laid out by *date* rather than by state: the 20
+**Recent** is the one section laid out by *date* rather than by state: the 50
 newest events on the **work in hand** — issued, parked, filed — merged across
-the live buckets and sitting between the Backlog and the Epics. Every other
+the live buckets and sitting between the Backlog and the Epics. It *holds* 50
+and *shows* 10 (`RECENT_MAX` / `RECENT_PAGE`): the table is a glance, not a
+log, so the rest is one tap away — a `…` button on the Pages twin, and nested
+`<details>` on the markdown page, which GitHub renders where it strips the
+script. Every other
 section answers "what should I do now?"; recency is orthogonal to state, so
 none of them can answer "what has been happening?". Dates come from the
 registry key that names the event (`issued:` / `parked:` / `filed:`, PyAutoMind

agents/conductors/intake/_intake.py

@@ -501,7 +501,12 @@ def _clip(text: str, limit: int = 130) -> str:
 # records deep and ships ~200 a month, so including it made the table a list of
 # receipts — twenty things nobody can act on, on the page whose whole job is
 # work in hand. `complete/index.md` is where shipped work is read.
-RECENT_MAX = 20
+# How deep the feed goes, and how much of it is on screen at once. The table
+# is a glance, not a log: ten rows answer "what has been happening?" without
+# pushing the Epics below a scroll, and the rest is one tap away — so a quiet
+# week still shows a fortnight of context and a busy one does not bury it.
+RECENT_MAX = 50
+RECENT_PAGE = 10
 
 # The verb each event reads as in the feed. Past tense throughout — every row
 # is something that already happened.
@@ -820,6 +825,9 @@ def _epic_members(c: dict) -> dict:
     "`complete/index.md`, and a thousand records deep it would crowd out "
     "everything anyone can still act on.")
 
+RECENT_PAGING_NOTE = (
+    " Showing the newest {page}; \u2026 opens the next {page}.")
+
 
 def _dated(row: dict) -> str:
     """`— issued 2026-08-19`, the facet every live task row now carries.
@@ -834,6 +842,47 @@ def _dated(row: dict) -> str:
     return f" — {event} {row['date']}"
 
 
+def _recent_blurb(rows: list) -> str:
+    """The section's prose — the paging sentence only when there IS paging."""
+    text = RECENT_BLURB.format(n=len(rows))
+    if len(rows) > RECENT_PAGE:
+        text += RECENT_PAGING_NOTE.format(page=RECENT_PAGE)
+    return text
+
+
+RECENT_TABLE_HEAD = ["| Date | Event | Task |", "|------|-------|------|"]
+
+
+def _recent_rows(rows: list) -> list:
+    return [f"| {r['date']} | {r['event']} | {_cell(_recent_link(r))} |"
+            for r in rows]
+
+
+def _recent_pages(rows: list, page: int = RECENT_PAGE) -> list:
+    """The feed as nested `<details>`: a page on screen, the rest one tap in.
+
+    GitHub strips the JavaScript the Pages twin uses for this, so the markdown
+    page reveals with the one interactive element it does render — `<details>`,
+    NESTED, so each tap shows the next page and leaves another `…` behind it.
+    Sibling blocks would let a reader open page 4 without page 3, which is not
+    what "show me more" means when the list is ordered by date.
+
+    Each page carries its own header row: a markdown table cannot span an HTML
+    block boundary, so the alternative is a headerless slab of pipes. The blank
+    lines are load-bearing — without them GitHub treats the table as raw text
+    inside the `<details>` (same rule as `_task_row`).
+    """
+    head, rest = rows[:page], rows[page:]
+    block = RECENT_TABLE_HEAD + _recent_rows(head)
+    if not rest:
+        return block
+    shown = min(page, len(rest))
+    return block + ["",
+                    f"<details><summary>… {shown} more "
+                    f"({len(rest)} left)</summary>",
+                    ""] + _recent_pages(rest, page) + ["", "</details>"]
+
+
 def _recent_link(e: dict) -> str:
     """The task cell of a Recent row — its title, linked to where it lives."""
     return f"<a href=\"{e['path']}\">{_summary_label(_clip(e['title'], 70))}</a>"
@@ -969,12 +1018,8 @@ def render_dashboard(c: dict) -> str:
     # it is picked up.
     recent = c.get("recent") or []
     if recent:
-        L += ["## Recent", "",
-              RECENT_BLURB.format(n=len(recent)), "",
-              "| Date | Event | Task |",
-              "|------|-------|------|"]
-        L += [f"| {r['date']} | {r['event']} | {_cell(_recent_link(r))} |"
-              for r in recent]
+        L += ["## Recent", "", _recent_blurb(recent), ""]
+        L += _recent_pages(recent)
         L += ["", "_Dates come from each task's registry entry — "
               "`lifecycle.py dates` reports anything undated._", ""]
 
@@ -1062,6 +1107,10 @@ def render_dashboard(c: dict) -> str:
  padding-top:.58rem}
 table.recent td.pick{width:2.6rem;padding-right:0}
 table.recent button.copy{width:2.2rem;height:2.2rem;font-size:.95rem}
+button.more{display:block;width:100%;margin:.6rem 0;padding:.5rem;
+ border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:8px;background:var(--btn);
+ color:var(--muted);cursor:pointer;font:inherit;font-size:.9em}
+button.more:hover{color:var(--fg)}
 """
 
 # One tap on 📋 → the command is on the clipboard; the button flashes ✓. The
@@ -1077,6 +1126,18 @@ def render_dashboard(c: dict) -> str:
   setTimeout(()=>{b.textContent="\\ud83d\\udccb";b.classList.remove("ok");},1200);}
 document.addEventListener("click",e=>{
   const b=e.target.closest("button.copy");if(b)copyCmd(b);});
+// Recent shows one page and reveals the next on each tap of the \u2026 button,
+// which retires itself once the feed is exhausted. Every row is already in the
+// DOM, so this never re-renders or re-sorts anything.
+document.addEventListener("click",e=>{
+  const b=e.target.closest("button.more");if(!b)return;
+  const t=document.querySelector("table.recent");if(!t)return;
+  const hidden=[...t.querySelectorAll("tr[hidden]")];
+  const page=Number(b.dataset.page)||10;
+  hidden.slice(0,page).forEach(r=>r.removeAttribute("hidden"));
+  const left=hidden.length-Math.min(page,hidden.length);
+  if(left<=0){b.remove();return;}
+  b.textContent="\u2026 "+Math.min(page,left)+" more ("+left+" left)";});
 """
 
 
@@ -1228,10 +1289,16 @@ def h2(title, src):
     recent = c.get("recent") or []
     if recent:
         H += ['<a id="recent"></a>' + h2("Recent", "dashboard.md#recent"),
-              f'<p class="muted">{RECENT_BLURB.format(n=len(recent))}</p>',
+              # `_summary_label` turns the blurb's `code` spans into <code>;
+              # markdown backticks render literally on this page.
+              f'<p class="muted">{_summary_label(_recent_blurb(recent))}</p>',
               '<table class="recent">']
-        for r in recent:
-            H += ["<tr>",
+        for i, r in enumerate(recent):
+            # Every row ships in the DOM; the ones past the first page start
+            # hidden, so revealing them is a flag flip rather than a re-render
+            # — and a reader with JS off sees the whole feed rather than ten
+            # rows and a dead button.
+            H += ["<tr hidden>" if i >= RECENT_PAGE else "<tr>",
                   f'<td class="when">{r["date"]}</td>',
                   f'<td class="what">{_summary_label(r["event"])}</td>',
                   f'<td>{link(r["path"], _summary_label(_clip(r["title"], 70)))}</td>',
@@ -1240,6 +1307,10 @@ def h2(title, src):
                   f'Claude command">📋</button></td>',
                   "</tr>"]
         H += ["</table>"]
+        rest = len(recent) - RECENT_PAGE
+        if rest > 0:
+            H += [f'<button class="more" data-page="{RECENT_PAGE}">'
+                  f'… {min(RECENT_PAGE, rest)} more ({rest} left)</button>']
 
     known = {e["slug"] for e in c.get("epics") or []}
     stray = [s for s in members if s not in known]

tests/test_intake_dashboard.py

@@ -607,3 +607,71 @@ def test_an_undated_row_gets_no_placeholder(tmp_path):
                                           "- prompt: active/sprocket_calibration.md\n"})
     row = _page(mind).split("## In flight")[1].split("<details>")[1]
     assert "—" not in row.split("</summary>")[0]
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# recent: fifty deep, ten on screen
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+def _many(root, n):
+    """A Mind whose planned.md holds `n` dated tasks, newest first by slug."""
+    return _mind(root, registries={"planned.md": "".join(
+        f"## task-{i:03d}\n- filed: 2026-01-01\n\n" for i in range(n))})
+
+
+def test_the_feed_runs_deeper_than_the_page(tmp_path):
+    """Fifty is what the feed HOLDS; ten is what it SHOWS."""
+    rows = _intake.census(_many(tmp_path, 80))["recent"]
+    assert len(rows) == _intake.RECENT_MAX == 50
+    assert _intake.RECENT_PAGE == 10
+
+
+def test_markdown_shows_one_page_then_nests_the_rest(tmp_path):
+    """GitHub strips the JS the Pages twin uses, so the markdown page reveals
+    with `<details>` — nested, so each tap shows the next page and leaves
+    another one behind it."""
+    page = _page(_many(tmp_path, 80))
+    section = page.split("## Recent")[1]
+    before = section.split("<details>")[0]
+    assert before.count("| 2026-01-01 |") == 10
+    assert section.count("<details>") == 4
+    assert "… 10 more (40 left)" in section
+    assert "… 10 more (10 left)" in section
+
+
+def test_each_revealed_page_carries_its_own_table_header(tmp_path):
+    """A markdown table cannot span an HTML block boundary — without a header
+    per page the reveal is a headerless slab of pipes."""
+    section = _page(_many(tmp_path, 80)).split("## Recent")[1]
+    assert section.count("| Date | Event | Task |") == 5
+
+
+def test_a_feed_that_fits_on_one_page_has_no_reveal(tmp_path):
+    page = _page(_many(tmp_path, 6))
+    section = page.split("## Recent")[1]
+    assert "<details>" not in section
+    assert "…" not in section
+    assert "opens the next" not in section
+
+
+def test_html_hides_the_overflow_rows_and_offers_a_button(tmp_path):
+    html = _intake.render_dashboard_html(_intake.census(_many(tmp_path, 80)))
+    section = html.split("<h2>Recent")[1]
+    assert section.count("<tr>") == 10
+    assert section.count("<tr hidden>") == 40
+    assert '<button class="more" data-page="10">… 10 more (40 left)</button>' in section
+
+
+def test_html_ships_every_row_so_a_reader_without_js_sees_the_feed(tmp_path):
+    """Hidden, not absent: with JS off the whole feed is there rather than ten
+    rows and a dead button."""
+    html = _intake.render_dashboard_html(_intake.census(_many(tmp_path, 80)))
+    section = html.split("<h2>Recent")[1]
+    assert section.count("<tr") == 50
+
+
+def test_the_html_blurb_renders_its_code_spans(tmp_path):
+    """The blurb is shared with the markdown page; its backticks would
+    otherwise print literally here."""
+    html = _intake.render_dashboard_html(_intake.census(_many(tmp_path, 80)))
+    assert "<code>complete/index.md</code>" in html
+    assert "`complete/index.md`" not in html