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Recent work: catch up on what agents just made

Recent work: catch up on what agents just made

When agents are dispatching at scale, they can create epics and beads faster than an operator can read them. Recent is now a Board named view rather than a top-level sidebar pane.

At a glance

Primary route/board?view=recent&layout=list
Sidebar slotNone; use Plan → View → Recent
Legacy route/recent still exists as a deep link
Default windowLast 24 hours
StateURL + unified work-item view storage
BackendGET /api/work-items plus client-side view filtering

How it works

The Board has one canonical named-view registry. The Recent chip filters to work items created in the last 24 hours and sorts newest first. Done · 7d is the companion catch-up view for recently closed work.

Use the Board toolbar:

  1. Open Plan (/board).
  2. Click View → Recent.
  3. Stay in the default list layout or switch to kanban/work-item layout if you need to compare the recent items in their execution columns.

The old standalone Recent page is no longer a first-order navigation concern. It remains routeable for bookmarks and direct links, but new operator flows should prefer the Board named view.

Why it moved

Recent is a filter over work items, not a separate job. Folding it into the Board keeps daily navigation focused on the core verbs:

  • Plan (/board): execute, inspect, and filter current work.
  • Refine (/refine): groom backlog work before it enters execution.
  • Review (/walk): take a Gemba walk over work in progress.
  • Triage (/escalations): respond to blockers and escalations.

URL migration

The Board migration layer normalizes old view/preset shapes into the canonical ?view= slot. Examples:

/board?preset=recent       -> /board?view=recent
/board?view=recently-done  -> /board?view=done-recent
/grid                      -> /board?layout=list&power=1

Source pointers

  • View registry: web/src/lib/workItemViews.ts
  • Board toolbar: web/src/pages/BoardPage.tsx
  • Sidebar nav: web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
  • Legacy Recent route: web/src/pages/RecentPage.tsx
  • URL migration tests: web/src/lib/__tests__/workItemViews.test.ts