[m4ttheweric]

The latch's GitLab comments now read plainly to someone who doesn't know how the board works. Comment text appears only where the author has something to do.

What changed

Comment body (src/latch/markers.ts, src/latch/variants.ts)

• Keeps the sentence under the banner only for "Ready for another pass?" and "Done, N new comments"
• Every other state posts the banner alone; its title is the image alt text
• Removes "this latch is spent" and "Superseded by a newer latch"

Banner text (assets/latch/)

• Queued: "Starts in a few minutes", "Waiting between reviews", "Daily limit reached. Starts tomorrow", "Waiting on another review"
• Retrying: "Trying again in a few minutes", "Trying again after a pause", "Daily limit reached. Trying again tomorrow"
• Duplicate: "Replaced" / "See the newer thread below"

Also

• The stuck reply keeps its wording, now a constant in triage/latch.ts
• The queued and retrying parity references are re-rendered with the original prototype renderer, changing only the subtitle. An unchanged state re-renders byte-identical.
• The spec's copy section is updated

Verification

The board's latch tests pass (283/283), and the board typecheck is clean. I checked the regenerated strips by eye. The longest subtitle fits within the copy column.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updates
  • Revised latch banners with clearer timing and blocking details for queued and retrying states, including pauses and delays until tomorrow.
  • Renamed the “Superseded” banner to “Replaced” and updated its subtitle to direct readers to the newer thread.
  • Removed explanatory sentences from most banner states; the banner title and subtitle now communicate status, while armed and done-comments states retain sentence copy.
  • Updated banner images when their cached text no longer matches the current banner copy.
  • Adjusted the dot placement in the “Replaced” layout.

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Walkthrough

Latch banner wording and body formatting changed. Most variants no longer include note sentences. Cached uploads are reused only when their alt text matches the current copy. The stuck-reply text is now defined independently of banner variants.

Changes: Latch copy and replies

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Banner copy and body formatting apps/board/src/latch/*, apps/board/assets/latch/layout.json, apps/board/scripts/preview-latch-banners.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/latch-{markers,post,variants}.test.ts, apps/board/docs/superpowers/specs/*	Queued and retrying subtitles are reworded, and the terminal banner is now titled “Replaced.” Most variants omit note sentences. latchBody and the preview card accept an omitted sentence. Spent bodies no longer add explanatory copy. Cached uploads are reused only when their alt text matches the current copy and they have no width marker.
Fixed stuck-reply text apps/board/src/triage/latch.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/triage-latch.test.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/latch-land.test.ts	STUCK_REPLY is exported as a fixed message. Triage tests compare replies with that constant instead of deriving them from variant copy.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• m4ttstack/mattstack#960: Changes latch banner dimensions, layout coordinates, and cached-image handling. This PR also updates a latch layout coordinate and cached-image validation.
• m4ttstack/mattstack#958: Introduces the latch variants, marker bodies, banner rendering, upload cache, and triage lifecycle revised by this PR.
• m4ttstack/mattstack#935: Moves latch marker recognition into packages/rt-client and defines the marker and body contract updated by this PR.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 42fb8

The reviewed changes preserve accessible banner descriptions and correctly format image-only latch notes, with no actionable merge-blocking risk identified.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 42fb8

The change is narrowly scoped to latch messages and banner refreshes. The inspected changes preserve existing write permissions, merge-request identity and machine markers. Refreshing older banners adds an upload dependency that can temporarily delay latch updates; no introduced security vulnerability was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated expansion is additional banner uploads for legacy cache entries in MRs already handled by the latch. The inspected delta does not introduce a new destination, credential, privileged operation or cross-MR cache key.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The alt-text comparison is a presentation-cache freshness check, not authorization or URL validation. The existing imageMarkdownFor helper continues to extract the URL from gateway-returned Markdown; the PR does not strengthen or weaken that trust boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The pre-existing external-upload then database-write sequence is not atomic. Interruption after upload but before persistence, or concurrent replacement calls, can produce redundant remote images. The PR makes more legacy entries enter that sequence; the inspected evidence does not establish cross-MR mutation or authority escalation from this behavior.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title "board: plain latch copy" matches the main change. The PR removes the spent and superseded sentences, leaves only a banner for most states, and revises queued, retrying, and duplicate copy. …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title "board: plain latch copy" matches the main change. The PR removes the spent and superseded sentences, leaves only a banner for most states, and revises queued, retrying, and duplicate copy. The title names the board app and the latch copy. It is short and specific. It does not name the alt-text or cached-upload changes, but those are supporting details.

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Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 5 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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• apps/board/assets/latch/superseded.png is excluded by !**/*.png

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• apps/board/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-29-latch-animated-states-design.md
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Include the subtitle in accessible banner text.

When a sentence is omitted, bannerMarkdown supplies only the title as image alt text. For example, a screen reader cannot tell that a retry is automatic or that a completed review was approved from the root note. Include the subtitle in the alt text. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/board/src/latch/markers.ts at line 48:
Update the parts assembled for bannerMarkdown so the accessible banner text
includes the subtitle even when sentence is omitted, while preserving the
existing title and sentence content.

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