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The right panel

The right panel is the contextual column on the right side of the workspace. What it shows depends on where you are and what you've selected:

  • A detail panel when something is selected — the entity, persona, task, screen, zone, chip, or overlay rule you clicked.
  • Sources on the Vision layer — the reference materials you've added for the skills to read.
  • Write Status on the Spec layer — which design files exist and the hand-off tooling.
  • Nothing otherwise. When nothing is selected on Ontology, Architecture, or Screens, the column collapses and the canvas gets the full width.

Detail panels: what and why

Click any element on a canvas and its detail panel opens — one consistent chassis for every type. The panels are deliberately narrow in scope: they carry the element's identity and the reasoning behind it, not a form dump of every stored field.

The recurring shape is what and why:

  • Name — editable in place.
  • Render — a live schematic of the element where one exists (a screen's layout silhouette, a shell's chrome).
  • Purpose — one sentence on what this element is for. Screens, shells, zones, and chips all carry one.
  • The structural choice and its rationale — a screen's page template and Why this template; a shell's pattern and Why this pattern. The skills write these rationales; you can edit them.
  • Where it appears — surface availability, shell assignment, related elements.

Detail panels are written by the same files the skills write. Edit a purpose in the panel and design/*.json updates on disk; run a skill and the panel reflects what it wrote.

Selection is remembered per layer

Each layer remembers its selection. Select an entity in Ontology, switch to Architecture, come back — the entity panel is still open. Explicitly closing a panel clears that layer's memory, so your next visit lands on the clean canvas.

Responsive behavior

On wide windows the panel docks as a fourth column. On narrower windows, detail panels open as a slide-over sheet instead, and the always-on panels (Sources on Vision, Write Status on Spec) inline into the canvas as compact sections. Content is the same; only the container differs.

What it's not

  • Not a dashboard. No counts, metrics, or progress meters.
  • Not a notification feed. The activity hub in the top bar handles that.
  • Not a settings surface. Project settings live behind the gear in the rail.

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