The label column is the widest tool title plus two cells of gap, which
leaves the muted description 47 to work in. All 22 of them ran past it —
"Act on the device itself — clock, backup, identity key, reboot, reset"
needed 94 columns of terminal to say what 67 could. The row scrolled
under ←→ rather than lying, but a description you have to scroll is a
description nobody reads.
Rewritten to fit: the subject moves into the title's shadow (the row
already says Device actions, so the description just lists them), the
parenthetical asides go, and the trailing clause that repeated the
obvious goes with them. Widest row is now exactly 72.
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The menu asks "What would you like to do?" and then grouped its rows by
subject, which is not an answer to that. Mesh had grown to seven of the
nineteen rows — live watching, passive browsing, and one transmit action
in the same bucket — and Tools said nothing at all, since everything in
the menu is a tool.
So each section now names a doing, and holds what shares it:
Message Chat · Channels · Courier · Contacts
Watch Dashboard · Live feed · Watchtower · Time machine
Explore Map · Mesh walk · Trace target · Trace path · Trophy case
This node Device info · Device configuration · Device actions · Send advert
Other nodes Repeater admin · TX optimize
Four rows moved for a reason. Contacts is the address book the three
features above it pick a recipient from, not a mesh view. Time machine is
the past tense of the Dashboard, and was stranded in the grab-bag. Send
advert is your own node announcing itself — a device action, filed with
the mesh views only because it was about the mesh. And Repeater admin and
TX optimize are the same job — someone else's radio, over the mesh, with
credentials — which the old Device-management/Tools split hid.
The two walks join the topology views they walk over, with the boards
that score them underneath: see a node, walk to it, get scored. Nothing
is renamed (a menu row still names the screen it opens) and no section is
now larger than five rows or smaller than two.
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The "Nodes" menu was a contacts roster mislabeled — it lists the device's
contacts (get_contacts), which upstream meshcore calls "contact" too. Rename
throughout, no CLI alias:
- tools/nodes.py -> tools/contacts.py (ContactsTool, `meshterm contacts`)
- ui/nodes_screen.py -> ui/contacts_screen.py (ContactsScreen/open_contacts)
- ui/nodelist.py -> ui/contactlist.py (ContactListScreen/ContactRow)
- widgets: NodesSort->ContactsSort, nodes_table->contacts_table
Courier's recipient is a contact you address, so its prose and CLI arg
(`courier queue CONTACT ...`) follow; persisted node_key/node_name stay.
The reception/hardware layer keeps "node" — HeardNode, heard_nodes(),
observations.node, trace_hops.node, map/atlas participants, node types, admin
targets, and the Time Machine's reception picker (its "Nodes" heading stands).
CLAUDE.md's lexicon is rewritten to the refined definitions: node = any mesh
radio; contact = a node your device knows (discovered or added).
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The feed panel moves out of the dashboard into its own first-class Mesh
tool, right below it: a full-screen newest-first stream with the same
row lanes, highlight walking, and Enter-into-the-packet-viewer, wired
to the hub by its opener exactly as the dashboard is. The dashboard
becomes pure overview — activity, traffic, RF health — scrolling as
one body, and sheds the viewer-only plumbing (prefix bytes, channels,
self name, node types) it only carried for the feed.
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One full-screen, live view of everything going on around the node,
stacked coarsest first. Activity: a three-row braille bar chart of
every packet heard over the trailing two hours — the header
indicator's big sibling, drawn from the same monitor buckets — with a
pulse line reading the rate, nodes heard, and the window's busiest
transmitter. Traffic: session tallies by packet class with
proportional bars (the monitor grows per-kind counters). RF health:
median SNR on the trace tool's quality bar and RSSI extremes from the
stored window, beside the radio's own live numbers — noise floor,
last RSSI/SNR, airtime, battery — polled the way Device info reads
them. Feed: the latest packets in fixed lanes (time, class, node,
reception, relay path), seeded from stored history via a new
recent_observations window query so the screen opens full, then
streamed straight off the event hub.
Menu-only (it rides the hub and repaints every second); scripted
inspection stays with the monitor and nodes subcommands.
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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5