SLOPSHOPPER

session-board

A floating board of the Claude Code sessions running right now: who works, who waits for you, what was done - and a jump to the tmux window of the one you pick.

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v0.3.1MITupdated 2026-10-08danilpavlov/telescope-claude-code
A shopper browsing a rack in a slop shop
Preview · a replayed session in a sandbox
claude · ~/work/app · session-board
│ ┃ Active sessions ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ The indexer printed something unreadable │ ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line │ ⏺ Bash(bun test) │ ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail │ │ ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. │ │ ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM │ │ › /board │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

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The indexer printed something unreadable
README

<img src="assets/logo-light.png" alt="The Claude spark looking through a telescope" width="200">

<h1 align="center">telescope-claude-code</h1>

A mod for Claude Code: a floating window with the sessions that are running right now - who works, who waits for you, what each has done - and a jump to the tmux window of the one you pick. A picker in the manner of Neovim's Telescope, for your agents.

The plugin inside is called session-board; its command is /board.

For people who run Claude Code in many tmux windows at once and lose track of which agent has finished and is waiting.

╭───────────── Active sessions ──────────────╮╭────────────────── Publish the session board ───────────────────╮
│ > search · enter: go · alt+digit: by numbe ││ ◐ working 8 min                                                │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯│ ~/github/telescope-claude-code                                 │
╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮│ tmux mods:@1.%2                                                │
│   ● 1  Fix the flaky checkout te…   3 min  ││                                                                │
│ ▌ ◐ 2  Publish the sessio… (this)   8 min  ││ you                                                            │
│   ◐ 3  Move billing to Postgres …  42 min  ││ make a repository so that other people can use this mod        │
│   ○ 4  Draft the release notes        2 h  ││                                                                │
│   ○ 5  New session                    6 h  ││ summary                                                        │
│                                            ││ Translating the mod to English and writing the README before   │
│                                            ││ the repository goes public.                                    │
│                                            ││                                                                │
│                                            ││ now                                                            │
│                                            ││ Edit                                                           │
│                                            ││                                                                │
│                                            ││ agent                                                          │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

What it shows

Every live interactive session from Claude Code's own registry (~/.claude/sessions), including the ones started before the mod was installed. claude -p and SDK runs are left out.

MarkMeaning
●the agent stopped and waits for you, for no longer than the threshold
◐the agent is working; such a session never goes dim, however long it works
○no answer for longer than the threshold (10 minutes): the session went stale, its row is dim
  • A row: the mark, a number, the title, the project folder, how long the session has been in that state.
  • The preview: the state, the folder, the tmux address, your last prompt (you), a summary written by a model (summary), the tool that is running (now) and the agent's last reply (agent). A part with nothing to show is left out.
  • (this) marks the session the window was opened from.
  • The colors follow your custom Claude Code theme, if you use one.

Requirements

WhatVersionNeeded for
Claude Code2.1.287 or latereverything: this is a mod, and mods are on by default from that version
python3 in PATH3.8 or latereverything: it reads the sessions
tmux3.3 or laterthe floating window, and going to a session
fzf0.71 or laterthe floating window

Without tmux or a new enough fzf nothing breaks: the board opens as a pane inside Claude Code instead of a floating window. Mind that the fzf packaged by many distributions is older than 0.71; fzf --version tells.

Developed and tested on Linux with Claude Code 2.1.294, tmux 3.7 and fzf 0.74. macOS should work but is untested.

Install

In a Claude Code session:

/plugin install session-board --marketplace danilpavlov/telescope-claude-code

Claude Code asks whether to add the marketplace (y), shows the plugin and asks for a scope - the user scope makes the mod load in every session - and then offers the one setting, which you can leave at its default.

Or from a shell, with no questions asked:

claude plugin install session-board --marketplace danilpavlov/telescope-claude-code

Either way the mod is active at once in the session you installed it from, and in every session started after. Sessions that were already running pick it up after /reload-plugins.

To check that it loaded, run /plugin: a dim line under the tabs names the active mods, and session-board should be among them. Then press space twice on an empty prompt.

To remove it: /plugin uninstall session-board@telescope-claude-code.

Open it

  • Two spaces in a row on an empty prompt, the way <space><space> opens a picker in Neovim. The prompt stays empty; in a prompt that holds text, spaces are typed as usual.
  • /board.

The window rereads the sessions every 5 seconds while it is open.

Keys in the window

KeyWhat happens
letters and digitstyped into the search; the search is fuzzy, over the title and the project folder
↑ ↓move the selection without leaving the search; the preview follows
Entergo to the selected session
alt+1 ... alt+9go to the session under that number
Escclose the window and go nowhere

Order: the waiting sessions first, then the working ones, then the stale ones; within a group the one whose state changed last is on top. While the window is open the order and the numbers stay put, even when a session changes state or the search narrows the list: a number never takes you to another session. The number of a session that ended stays unused, a new session goes last. The next opening orders everything anew.

Going to a session is tmux switch-client -t %<pane>: it changes the tmux session, the window and the pane at once. The session you are in, and a session that runs outside tmux, are not gone to: tmux says why in its status line.

Summaries

One or two sentences about what the agent has done and what it waits for, written by haiku.

SessionWhen it is asked about
waitingonce per stop
workingat once, then no sooner than every 3 minutes and only if the transcript moved
stalenever
  • The model is asked only while the board is open, about three sessions at a time at most.
  • What is sent: a digest of up to 6,000 characters - the last three prompts, the last three replies of the agent, and the names of the tools and files of the current turn. Tool output is never included.
  • Who pays: the session the board was opened from. The prompts and replies of your other sessions go to the model on its behalf, the same way their own requests do.
  • Summaries are cached, so opening the board again costs nothing until a session moves on.
  • If the model does not answer, the preview simply has no summary part; the next try is no sooner than 3 minutes later and only once the transcript has moved.

The fallback pane

The floating window is drawn by tmux and fzf. When Claude Code runs outside tmux, or fzf is missing or too old, the mod opens the same list as a Claude Code pane: two frames docked beside the conversation, or a block above the prompt.

FocusKeyWhat happens
search fieldletters and digitstyped into the search, the list narrows
search fieldEntergo to the selected session, the first of the list
search field↓ or Tabthe focus moves into the list
a row↑ ↓the selection moves, the preview follows
a rowEnter or a digit 1-9go
anywhereEscclose the pane and go nowhere

Setting

staleMinutes: after how many minutes of waiting a session goes dim. 10 by default. Change it in /config, in the mod's row.

What it reads and writes

The mod writes nothing into Claude Code's own files. It reads:

  • ~/.claude/sessions/<pid>.json: the registry of live processes - session id, folder, status, tmux address;
  • the last megabyte of each live session's transcript in ~/.claude/projects/: the title, your prompts, the agent's replies, its tool calls.

It keeps two things of its own: the cache of summaries in the mod's store, and a copy of them for the floating window in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/session-board/summaries.json (or ~/.cache/session-board/summaries.json).

Limitations

  • The registry and the transcript format are undocumented and may change. All the reading is in hooks/index_live.py: if Claude Code changes them, that is the one file to fix.
  • A transcript is read from its end, a megabyte at most. A prompt asked earlier than that is taken from a separate note Claude Code keeps; earlier ones do not reach the digest.
  • The summary of a working session lags by up to three minutes, and a new one reaches the window's preview up to 5 seconds later.
  • A session in another tmux server (another socket) cannot be gone to.
  • In the window the search looks at the title and the project folder; the pane also looks at the last prompt.
  • Two spaces pasted into an empty prompt open the board too.
  • The interface and the summaries are in English.

Troubleshooting

/board is unknown and /plugin does not name session-board among the active mods. The hooks module did not load. Check claude --version (2.1.287 or later). Mods are also off under --safe-mode and --bare, with disableAllHooks in your settings, and where an organization allows only its own mods. claude --debug says which, in a line that names session-board.

The board opens as a pane, not as a floating window. One of: Claude Code is not running inside tmux; fzf is missing or older than 0.71; tmux is older than 3.3. claude --debug has the reason in a line that starts with session-board: the floating window did not open.

No summary in the preview. The model did not answer, or haiku is not available to your account. The board works without summaries: the preview still has your prompt and the agent's last reply. The reason is in claude --debug, in a line that starts with session-board: no summary.

A session is missing from the list. Only interactive sessions are listed: claude -p and SDK runs are not. A session started by a much older Claude Code may not be in the registry at all.

Development

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'   # the indexer and the floating window
claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .                                     # the pure functions and the pane
npx -y -p typescript@5 tsc -p .

tsconfig.json extends the type declarations Claude Code lays into .claude-plugin/types/ when it loads the mod from a folder you own, so run the mod once before the type check: claude --plugin-dir ..

No test starts fzf or tmux: the launchers are replaced, and the real ones are disarmed in the test module.

FileWhat it does
hooks/index_live.pyreads the registry and the transcripts, prints the live sessions as JSON
hooks/board_popup.pythe floating window: the tmux popup, fzf, its list and its preview
hooks/board.tspure functions: states, order, layout, the summary policy
hooks/register.tsxthe hooks module: the command, the leader, the pane, the timer, the summaries
types/index.d.tsthe state contract

License

MIT

Source 3 files
hooks/register.tsx 640 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register, Timer } from 'claude-code'
3
4import {
5  PANE_COLUMNS,
6  PREVIEW_PADDING,
7  ageCell,
8  cleanSummary,
9  clip,
10  filterLive,
11  frameRows,
12  hotkeyOf,
13  isHeldBack,
14  isLeader,
15  isSummary,
16  layoutOf,
17  markOf,
18  mergeOrder,
19  needsSummary,
20  orderOf,
21  paneRows,
22  parseLive,
23  phaseOf,
24  popupArgv,
25  previewOf,
26  previewWidth,
27  rowKey,
28  selectedOf,
29  staleMinutesOf,
30  staleMsOf,
31  summariesFileOf,
32  switchArgv,
33  titleCell,
34  titleLabel,
35} from './board'
36import type { Failure, PreviewLine } from './board'
37import type { Indexed, LiveIndex, LiveSession, Phase, Summary } from '../types'
38
39const COMMAND = 'board'
40const PANE = 'board'
41const TITLE = 'Active sessions'
42// The indexer reads the registry and a megabyte of each live transcript
43const INDEXER_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000
44// How often the list is collected again while the board is open
45const REFRESH_MS = 5_000
46// How long after the leader the board opens: the emptied prompt has to land first, since a pane
47// that asks for the keyboard over a draft is refused it
48const LEADER_DELAY_MS = 30
49const SUMMARY_MODEL = 'haiku'
50const SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS = 200
51const SUMMARY_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000
52// Summaries asked of the model at once; the rest wait for the next tick
53const SUMMARY_PARALLEL = 3
54const SUMMARY_SYSTEM =
55  'You write one line for a status board of coding-agent sessions. From the digest, answer in one or two ' +
56  'sentences of English, at most 200 characters: what has been done, and what is happening now or what ' +
57  'the person is waited on for. No preamble, no lists, no quotes.'
58// The mod's keys in $.store: one summary a session
59const STORE_PREFIX = 'summary:'
60const UNREADABLE = 'The indexer printed something unreadable'
61const NO_HOME = 'HOME is not set: cannot tell where the session registry is'
62// The search field's key, and what the focus ring names when it stands on it
63const SEARCH = 'query'
64// Theme keys, so the colors follow the person's theme. The pane is drawn as a picker: two
65// rounded frames with their titles on them, a selection bar, a preview beside the list
66const PHASE_COLOR: Record<Phase, string> = { waiting: 'claude', working: 'success', stale: 'inactive' }
67const FRAME_COLOR = 'promptBorder'
68const ACCENT_COLOR = 'claude'
69const SELECTION_COLOR = 'selectionBg'
70const QUIET_COLOR = 'subtle'
71const AGE_COLOR = 'inactive'
72// The preview's lines by kind; a state line takes its session's phase color instead
73const LINE_COLOR: Record<PreviewLine['kind'], string | undefined> = {
74  state: undefined,
75  directory: 'suggestion',
76  meta: QUIET_COLOR,
77  label: QUIET_COLOR,
78  text: undefined,
79  note: QUIET_COLOR,
80  gap: undefined,
81}
82// Cells from a frame's corner to its title, and what the title leaves of the frame's width:
83// the corners, a dash each side, a space each side
84const FRAME_TITLE_LEFT = 2
85const FRAME_TITLE_CHROME = 6
86// The preview's title while no session is selected
87const NO_SESSION = 'Session'
88
89const sessions = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'sessions' } as const, [])
90const order = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'order' } as const, [])
91const summaries = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'summaries' } as const, {})
92const skipped = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'skipped' } as const, 0)
93const error = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'error' } as const, null)
94const currentId = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'currentId' } as const, '')
95const home = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'home' } as const, '')
96const nowMs = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'nowMs' } as const, 0)
97const query = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'query' } as const, '')
98const focused = atom({ plugin: 'session-board', key: 'focused' } as const, '')
99
100// What no drawing reads, so a reload may lose it: the refresh timer, the collection under way,
101// whether the floating window is up, the sessions whose summary is being asked, and the
102// summaries that were not got
103let timer: Timer | undefined
104let isCollecting = false
105let isPopupOpen = false
106const asking = new Set<string>()
107const failures = new Map<string, Failure>()
108
109const firstLine = (text: string): string => text.trim().split('\n')[0] ?? ''
110
111const reasonOf = (failure: unknown): string =>
112  failure instanceof Error ? failure.message : String(failure)
113
114const withoutDigest = ({ digest, ...session }: Indexed): LiveSession => session
115
116// Claude Code's configuration folder, or '' where nothing says where it is
117const configDirOf = async ($: EngineInterface, homeDir: string): Promise<string> =>
118  (await $.env.get('CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR')) ?? (homeDir === '' ? '' : `${homeDir}/.claude`)
119
120// Runs the mod's indexer over the configuration folder: the live sessions, or why there are none
121const loadLive = async ($: EngineInterface, homeDir: string): Promise<LiveIndex | string> => {
122  const configDir = await configDirOf($, homeDir)
123
124  if (configDir === '') {
125    return NO_HOME
126  }
127
128  const ran = await $.process
129    .run(['python3', `${$.plugin.root}/hooks/index_live.py`, configDir], { timeoutMs: INDEXER_TIMEOUT_MS })
130    .catch((failure: unknown) => reasonOf(failure))
131
132  if (typeof ran === 'string') {
133    return `Could not start python3: ${ran}`
134  }
135
136  if (ran.exitCode !== 0) {
137    return firstLine(ran.stderr) || `The indexer exited with code ${ran.exitCode}`
138  }
139
140  if (ran.isStdoutTruncated) {
141    return UNREADABLE
142  }
143
144  try {
145    return parseLive(ran.stdout)
146  } catch {
147    return UNREADABLE
148  }
149}
150
151// The summaries kept for the live sessions. The keys of sessions that are gone are dropped
152const loadSummaries = async (
153  $: EngineInterface,
154  live: readonly LiveSession[],
155): Promise<Record<string, Summary>> => {
156  const ids = new Set(live.map(session => session.id))
157  const kept: Record<string, Summary> = {}
158
159  for (const key of await $.store.keys()) {
160    if (!key.startsWith(STORE_PREFIX)) {
161      continue
162    }
163
164    const id = key.slice(STORE_PREFIX.length)
165
166    if (!ids.has(id)) {
167      await $.store.delete(key)
168      continue
169    }
170
171    const value = await $.store.get(key)
172
173    if (isSummary(value)) {
174      kept[id] = value
175    }
176  }
177
178  return kept
179}
180
181// Leaves the summaries where the floating window reads them. The window is another program:
182// it cannot ask the mod, so the mod writes them out, whole, each time one changes
183const handSummaries = async ($: EngineInterface): Promise<string> => {
184  const file = summariesFileOf((await $.env.get('XDG_RUNTIME_DIR')) ?? '', (await $.env.get('HOME')) ?? '')
185
186  await $.fs
187    .write(file, JSON.stringify(await read($, summaries)))
188    .catch((failure: unknown) => $.ui.log(`session-board: summaries not written: ${reasonOf(failure)}`, { to: 'debug' }))
189
190  return file
191}
192
193// Asks the model about one session and keeps what it said; a failure is noted and said to the debug log
194const askSummary = async ($: EngineInterface, session: Indexed): Promise<void> => {
195  const { id, stamp, digest } = session
196
197  if (stamp === null || digest === null) {
198    return
199  }
200
201  const answer = await $.model
202    .complete({
203      model: SUMMARY_MODEL,
204      system: SUMMARY_SYSTEM,
205      prompt: digest,
206      maxTokens: SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS,
207      timeoutMs: SUMMARY_TIMEOUT_MS,
208    })
209    .catch((failure: unknown) => reasonOf(failure))
210  const atMs = await $.clock.now()
211  const text = typeof answer !== 'string' && answer.isAnswered ? cleanSummary(answer.text) : ''
212
213  if (text === '') {
214    const reason = typeof answer === 'string' ? answer : answer.isAnswered ? 'empty-reply' : answer.reason
215    failures.set(id, { stamp, atMs })
216    $.ui.log(`session-board: no summary for session ${id}: ${reason}`, { to: 'debug' })
217
218    return
219  }
220
221  const summary: Summary = { stamp, text, atMs }
222  failures.delete(id)
223  await $.store.set(`${STORE_PREFIX}${id}`, summary)
224  await update($, summaries, all => ({ ...all, [id]: summary }))
225
226  if (isPopupOpen) {
227    await handSummaries($)
228  }
229}
230
231// Starts the summaries that are due, SUMMARY_PARALLEL at once; it does not wait for them
232const askSummaries = async (
233  $: EngineInterface,
234  live: readonly Indexed[],
235  now: number,
236  staleMs: number,
237): Promise<void> => {
238  const kept = await read($, summaries)
239
240  for (const session of live) {
241    if (asking.size >= SUMMARY_PARALLEL) {
242      return
243    }
244
245    if (
246      asking.has(session.id) ||
247      session.stamp === null ||
248      !needsSummary(session, phaseOf(session, now, staleMs), kept[session.id], now) ||
249      isHeldBack(failures.get(session.id), session.stamp, now)
250    ) {
251      continue
252    }
253
254    asking.add(session.id)
255    void askSummary($, session).finally(() => asking.delete(session.id))
256  }
257}
258
259const stopTimer = (): void => {
260  timer?.cancel()
261  timer = undefined
262}
263
264const isPaneOpen = async ($: EngineInterface): Promise<boolean> =>
265  (await $.ui.panes()).some(pane => pane.id === PANE)
266
267// One refresh: the list again, the pinned order with the new sessions, the summaries that are due.
268// It runs for as long as the board is up in either form, the floating window or the pane
269const tick = async ($: EngineInterface, staleMs: number): Promise<void> => {
270  if (!isPopupOpen && !(await isPaneOpen($))) {
271    stopTimer()
272
273    return
274  }
275
276  if (isCollecting) {
277    return
278  }
279
280  isCollecting = true
281
282  try {
283    const homeDir = (await $.env.get('HOME')) ?? ''
284    const loaded = await loadLive($, homeDir)
285
286    if (typeof loaded === 'string') {
287      $.ui.log(`session-board: list not refreshed: ${loaded}`, { to: 'debug' })
288
289      return
290    }
291
292    const now = await $.clock.now()
293    await update($, sessions, () => loaded.sessions.map(withoutDigest))
294    await update($, order, pinned => mergeOrder(pinned, loaded.sessions))
295    await update($, skipped, () => loaded.skipped)
296    await update($, home, () => homeDir)
297    await update($, nowMs, () => now)
298    await askSummaries($, loaded.sessions, now, staleMs)
299  } finally {
300    isCollecting = false
301  }
302}
303
304const startTimer = ($: EngineInterface, staleMs: number): void => {
305  timer ??= $.clock.every(REFRESH_MS, () => {
306    void tick($, staleMs)
307  })
308}
309
310// Brings the person's tmux client to the session's pane, or says in one toast why it did not
311const goTo = async ($: EngineInterface, session: LiveSession): Promise<void> => {
312  if (session.id === (await read($, currentId))) {
313    $.ui.toast('You are already in this session')
314
315    return
316  }
317
318  if (session.tmuxPane === null) {
319    $.ui.toast('This session is not in tmux: cannot go to it')
320
321    return
322  }
323
324  if (((await $.env.get('TMUX')) ?? '') === '') {
325    $.ui.toast(`Not in tmux. The session is at ${session.tmuxTarget ?? session.tmuxPane}`)
326
327    return
328  }
329
330  const ran = await $.process
331    .run(switchArgv(session.tmuxPane))
332    .catch((failure: unknown) => reasonOf(failure))
333
334  if (typeof ran === 'string') {
335    $.ui.toast(`tmux: ${ran}`)
336
337    return
338  }
339
340  if (ran.exitCode !== 0) {
341    $.ui.toast(`tmux: ${firstLine(ran.stderr) || `code ${ran.exitCode}`}`)
342
343    return
344  }
345
346  stopTimer()
347  await $.ui.close({ id: PANE })
348}
349
350// The pane: the board inside Claude Code, where the floating window cannot open
351const showPane = async ($: EngineInterface, count: number): Promise<void> => {
352  await $.ui.open({
353    id: PANE,
354    title: TITLE,
355    focus: true,
356    closeOnEscape: true,
357    columns: PANE_COLUMNS,
358    rows: paneRows(count),
359  })
360}
361
362// The floating window: a tmux popup with the same list and preview. Resolves once it has closed:
363// true when it was up, false when it could not open, the reason said to the debug log
364const showPopup = async (
365  $: EngineInterface,
366  configDir: string,
367  current: string,
368  staleMinutes: number,
369): Promise<boolean> => {
370  isPopupOpen = true
371
372  try {
373    const file = await handSummaries($)
374    const pieces = $.process
375      .spawn({ argv: popupArgv($.plugin.root, configDir, file, current, staleMinutes) })
376      [Symbol.asyncIterator]()
377    let said = ''
378    let step = await pieces.next()
379
380    while (!step.done) {
381      said += step.value.stream === 'stderr' ? step.value.text : ''
382      step = await pieces.next()
383    }
384
385    if (step.value.code === 0) {
386      return true
387    }
388
389    $.ui.log(`session-board: the floating window did not open: ${firstLine(said) || `code ${step.value.code}`}`, {
390      to: 'debug',
391    })
392
393    return false
394  } catch (failure) {
395    $.ui.log(`session-board: the floating window did not open: ${reasonOf(failure)}`, { to: 'debug' })
396
397    return false
398  } finally {
399    isPopupOpen = false
400  }
401}
402
403// Collects the sessions and shows the board: the floating window inside tmux, else the pane.
404// Resolves with how many sessions there are, or with nothing when they could not be collected
405const openBoard = async (
406  $: EngineInterface,
407  staleMs: number,
408  staleMinutes: number,
409): Promise<number | undefined> => {
410  const homeDir = (await $.env.get('HOME')) ?? ''
411  const loaded = await loadLive($, homeDir)
412  const now = await $.clock.now()
413  const id = await $.session.id()
414  const isFailed = typeof loaded === 'string'
415  const live = isFailed ? [] : loaded.sessions
416  const kept = isFailed ? {} : await loadSummaries($, live)
417
418  await update($, sessions, () => live.map(withoutDigest))
419  // Every opening pins the order anew
420  await update($, order, () => orderOf(live, now, staleMs))
421  await update($, summaries, () => kept)
422  await update($, skipped, () => (isFailed ? 0 : loaded.skipped))
423  await update($, error, () => (isFailed ? loaded : null))
424  await update($, currentId, () => id)
425  await update($, home, () => homeDir)
426  await update($, nowMs, () => now)
427  // Every opening starts from the whole list, the selection on its first row
428  await update($, query, () => '')
429  await update($, focused, () => '')
430
431  // A failure is said once, in the pane
432  if (isFailed) {
433    stopTimer()
434    await showPane($, 0)
435
436    return undefined
437  }
438
439  startTimer($, staleMs)
440  await askSummaries($, live, now, staleMs)
441
442  if (((await $.env.get('TMUX')) ?? '') === '') {
443    await showPane($, live.length)
444
445    return live.length
446  }
447
448  // The window stays up for as long as the person looks at it: nothing waits for it here.
449  // Once it has closed, the next tick finds nothing to refresh for and stops the timer
450  void showPopup($, await configDirOf($, homeDir), id, staleMinutes).then(async wasUp => {
451    if (!wasUp) {
452      await showPane($, live.length)
453    }
454  })
455
456  return live.length
457}
458
459export const register: Register = (on, options) => {
460  const staleMs = staleMsOf(options.staleMinutes)
461  const staleMinutes = staleMinutesOf(options.staleMinutes)
462
463  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
464    await $.command.register({
465      name: COMMAND,
466      description: 'Show the running sessions and go to the tmux window of the chosen one',
467    })
468    const started = await next(e)
469
470    // The module was reloaded under an open pane: its timer went with the old copy
471    if (await isPaneOpen($)) {
472      startTimer($, staleMs)
473    }
474
475    return started
476  })
477
478  on('command.run', { command: COMMAND }, async $ => {
479    const count = await openBoard($, staleMs, staleMinutes)
480
481    return count === undefined ? {} : { text: `Active sessions: ${count}` }
482  })
483
484  // The leader: two spaces on an empty prompt open the board, and the prompt stays empty
485  on('prompt.edit', async ($, e, next) => {
486    if (!isLeader(e.text, e.inputText)) {
487      return next(e)
488    }
489
490    $.clock.after(LEADER_DELAY_MS, () => {
491      void openBoard($, staleMs, staleMinutes)
492    })
493
494    return { text: '', cursor: 0 }
495  })
496
497  // The preview follows the pane's focus ring: the row it stands on is the session shown
498  on('ui.focus', async ($, e, next) => {
499    const moved = await next(e)
500
501    if (e.component === 'Pane' && e.requestId === PANE && moved.deny === undefined) {
502      await update($, focused, () => e.element ?? '')
503    }
504
505    return moved
506  })
507
508  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e, next) => {
509    // The mobile app draws no text field
510    if (e.surface === 'mobile') {
511      return next(e)
512    }
513
514    const { Box, Button, Input, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
515    const failed = await read($, error)
516
517    if (failed !== null) {
518      return <Text>{failed}</Text>
519    }
520
521    const all = await read($, sessions)
522
523    if (all.length === 0) {
524      return <Text>No active sessions</Text>
525    }
526
527    const pinned = await read($, order)
528    const kept = await read($, summaries)
529    const homeDir = await read($, home)
530    const now = await read($, nowMs)
531    const current = await read($, currentId)
532    const dropped = await read($, skipped)
533    const asked = await read($, query)
534    const ring = await read($, focused)
535    const found = new Set(filterLive(all, asked, homeDir).map(session => session.id))
536    const byId = new Map(all.map(session => [session.id, session]))
537    // A session that is gone keeps its place in the order and is not drawn; neither is one the
538    // search does not let through, and its digit stays its own
539    const rows = pinned.flatMap((id, place) => {
540      const session = byId.get(id)
541
542      return session === undefined || !found.has(id) ? [] : [{ session, place }]
543    })
544    const selected = selectedOf(
545      rows.map(row => row.session),
546      ring,
547    )
548    const layout = layoutOf(e.props.bodyColumns)
549    const counter = `${rows.length}/${all.length}`
550    const lines =
551      selected === undefined
552        ? [{ kind: 'note' as const, text: 'Nothing selected' }]
553        : previewOf(
554            selected,
555            phaseOf(selected, now, staleMs),
556            kept[selected.id],
557            now,
558            homeDir,
559            previewWidth(layout.preview),
560          )
561    const selectedColor = selected === undefined ? undefined : PHASE_COLOR[phaseOf(selected, now, staleMs)]
562    // A frame's title is drawn over its top border: an absolute Box after the frame, so it paints last
563    const frameTitle = (title: string, width: number) => (
564      <Box position="absolute" top={0} left={FRAME_TITLE_LEFT}>
565        <Text color={ACCENT_COLOR} bold>{` ${clip(title, Math.max(1, width - FRAME_TITLE_CHROME))} `}</Text>
566      </Box>
567    )
568
569    return (
570      <Box
571        flexDirection={layout.isStacked ? 'column' : 'row'}
572        minHeight={layout.isStacked ? undefined : frameRows(e.props.scroll.bodyRows)}
573      >
574        <Box flexDirection="column" width={layout.list}>
575          <Box borderStyle="round" borderColor={FRAME_COLOR} width={layout.list} flexDirection="column" flexGrow={1}>
576            <Box>
577              <Text color={ACCENT_COLOR}>{' > '}</Text>
578              <Box flexGrow={1}>
579                <Input
580                  key={SEARCH}
581                  value={asked}
582                  placeholder="search"
583                  submitLabel="go"
584                  autoFocus
585                  onInput={value => update($, query, () => value)}
586                  onSubmit={() => (selected === undefined ? undefined : goTo($, selected))}
587                />
588              </Box>
589              <Text color={QUIET_COLOR}>{dropped > 0 ? `${counter} · skipped ${dropped} ` : `${counter} `}</Text>
590            </Box>
591            <Text color={FRAME_COLOR}>{'─'.repeat(Math.max(1, layout.list - 2))}</Text>
592            {rows.length === 0 && <Text color={QUIET_COLOR}>{' Nothing found'}</Text>}
593            {rows.map(({ session, place }) => {
594              const phase = phaseOf(session, now, staleMs)
595              const isSelected = session.id === selected?.id
596              const hotkey = hotkeyOf(place)
597
598              return (
599                <Box backgroundColor={isSelected ? SELECTION_COLOR : undefined}>
600                  <Text color={ACCENT_COLOR}>{isSelected ? '▌' : ' '}</Text>
601                  <Text color={PHASE_COLOR[phase]}>{`${markOf(phase)} `}</Text>
602                  <Box flexGrow={1}>
603                    <Button
604                      key={rowKey(session.id)}
605                      label={titleLabel(session.title, titleCell(layout.list), hotkey, session.id === current)}
606                      hotkey={hotkey}
607                      plain
608                      dimColor={phase === 'stale'}
609                      onPress={() => goTo($, session)}
610                    />
611                  </Box>
612                  <Text color={AGE_COLOR}>{ageCell(now - session.statusSinceMs)}</Text>
613                </Box>
614              )
615            })}
616          </Box>
617          {frameTitle(TITLE, layout.list)}
618        </Box>
619        <Box flexDirection="column" width={layout.preview}>
620          <Box
621            borderStyle="round"
622            borderColor={FRAME_COLOR}
623            width={layout.preview}
624            flexDirection="column"
625            flexGrow={1}
626            paddingX={PREVIEW_PADDING}
627          >
628            {lines.map(line => (
629              <Text color={line.kind === 'state' ? selectedColor : LINE_COLOR[line.kind]} bold={line.kind === 'state'}>
630                {line.kind === 'gap' ? ' ' : line.text}
631              </Text>
632            ))}
633          </Box>
634          {frameTitle(selected?.title ?? NO_SESSION, layout.preview)}
635        </Box>
636      </Box>
637    )
638  })
639}
640
hooks/board.ts 385 lines
1import type { Indexed, LiveIndex, LiveSession, Phase, Summary } from '../types'
2
3const MINUTE = 60_000
4const HOUR = 60 * MINUTE
5const DAY = 24 * HOUR
6// How long a session waits before it goes dim, where the setting says nothing usable
7const DEFAULT_STALE_MINUTES = 10
8// A working session's summary is asked again no sooner than this, and so is one that failed
9export const SUMMARY_REFRESH_MS = 3 * MINUTE
10const SUMMARY_MAX = 200
11// The status of a session whose agent is working
12const BUSY = 'busy'
13// The status of a session that waits for the person in the usual way
14const IDLE = 'idle'
15// Columns the pane asks its dock for: a list of 50 and a preview of 60
16export const PANE_COLUMNS = 110
17// A pane narrower than this puts the preview under the list
18const STACK_UNDER = 72
19// The list's share of a pane that holds both side by side, and its bounds
20const LIST_SHARE = 0.45
21const LIST_MIN = 40
22const LIST_MAX = 54
23// Cells a frame takes from its width: the two borders
24const BORDERS = 2
25// Cells of a row before its title: the selection bar, the mark, a space
26const ROW_LEAD = 3
27// Cells of a row's age: the label set right in 7, and a space before the border
28const AGE_WIDTH = 7
29const AGE_CELL = AGE_WIDTH + 1
30// Cells the preview's text stands in from its frame, each side
31export const PREVIEW_PADDING = 1
32// Rows of the list's frame that are not sessions: two borders, the search field, the rule
33const LIST_CHROME_ROWS = 4
34// Rows the pane asks for where it is placed above the prompt: a preview with a prompt, a summary and a reply
35const PANE_ROWS_MIN = 18
36// Lines of the preview a prompt, a summary and a reply may take
37const PROMPT_LINES = 3
38const SUMMARY_LINES = 5
39const REPLY_LINES = 4
40// Lines every preview starts with: the state, the directory, the tmux address
41const HEAD_LINES = 3
42// Lines a section of the preview takes before its text: a gap and its label
43const SECTION_LEAD = 2
44// Rows of a frame that holds the fullest preview: a prompt, a summary, a running tool and a reply
45const FRAME_ROWS =
46  BORDERS +
47  HEAD_LINES +
48  (SECTION_LEAD + PROMPT_LINES) +
49  (SECTION_LEAD + SUMMARY_LINES) +
50  (SECTION_LEAD + 1) +
51  (SECTION_LEAD + REPLY_LINES)
52// Places that get a digit
53const HOTKEYS = 9
54// Cells a plain Button draws before its label: the digit, a colon, a space
55const HOTKEY_WIDTH = 3
56// What follows the title of the session the pane is open in
57const HERE = ' (this)'
58
59// One line of the preview, and what it is: the render colors it by kind
60export type PreviewLine = {
61  kind: 'state' | 'directory' | 'meta' | 'label' | 'text' | 'note' | 'gap'
62  text: string
63}
64// How the pane splits its width: the list's frame, the preview's, and whether the preview is under the list
65export type Layout = { isStacked: boolean; list: number; preview: number }
66// A summary that was not got: the stamp it was asked at, and when
67export type Failure = { stamp: string; atMs: number }
68
69// Reads what the indexer printed; throws when it is not an index
70export const parseLive = (stdout: string): LiveIndex => {
71  const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(stdout)
72
73  if (typeof parsed !== 'object' || parsed === null) {
74    throw new Error('not an index')
75  }
76
77  const fields = parsed as Record<string, unknown>
78
79  if (!Array.isArray(fields.sessions)) {
80    throw new Error('no sessions list')
81  }
82
83  return {
84    sessions: fields.sessions as Indexed[],
85    skipped: typeof fields.skipped === 'number' ? fields.skipped : 0,
86  }
87}
88
89// The setting as minutes; one that is no number of minutes from 1 up is ten minutes
90export const staleMinutesOf = (staleMinutes: unknown): number =>
91  typeof staleMinutes === 'number' && Number.isFinite(staleMinutes) && staleMinutes >= 1
92    ? staleMinutes
93    : DEFAULT_STALE_MINUTES
94
95// The same in milliseconds
96export const staleMsOf = (staleMinutes: unknown): number => staleMinutesOf(staleMinutes) * MINUTE
97
98// Two spaces typed into an empty prompt: the leader that opens the board, as <space><space>
99// opens a picker in nvim. `draft` is the prompt before the edit, `typed` what the edit puts in:
100// the second space after the first, or both at once where the editor folded them into one edit
101export const isLeader = (draft: string, typed: string): boolean =>
102  (draft === ' ' && typed === ' ') || (draft === '' && typed === '  ')
103
104// Where the summaries are left for the floating window to read: the person's runtime folder,
105// else their cache
106export const summariesFileOf = (runtimeDir: string, home: string): string =>
107  runtimeDir !== ''
108    ? `${runtimeDir}/session-board/summaries.json`
109    : `${home}/.cache/session-board/summaries.json`
110
111// The floating window: the mod's own program, which opens a tmux popup and runs fzf in it
112export const popupArgv = (
113  root: string,
114  configDir: string,
115  summariesFile: string,
116  current: string,
117  staleMinutes: number,
118): string[] => [
119  'python3',
120  `${root}/hooks/board_popup.py`,
121  'run',
122  '--config',
123  configDir,
124  '--summaries',
125  summariesFile,
126  '--current',
127  current,
128  '--stale-minutes',
129  String(staleMinutes),
130]
131
132// A busy session works. Any other waits for the person, and past the threshold it is stale
133export const phaseOf = (session: LiveSession, nowMs: number, staleMs: number): Phase => {
134  if (session.status === BUSY) {
135    return 'working'
136  }
137
138  return nowMs - session.statusSinceMs > staleMs ? 'stale' : 'waiting'
139}
140
141export const ageLabel = (elapsedMs: number): string => {
142  if (elapsedMs < MINUTE) {
143    return '<1 min'
144  }
145
146  if (elapsedMs < HOUR) {
147    return `${Math.floor(elapsedMs / MINUTE)} min`
148  }
149
150  return elapsedMs < DAY ? `${Math.floor(elapsedMs / HOUR)} h` : `${Math.floor(elapsedMs / DAY)} d`
151}
152
153// What the session does and for how long. A status this mod does not know is shown as the word itself
154export const stateLabel = (session: LiveSession, phase: Phase, nowMs: number): string => {
155  const age = ageLabel(nowMs - session.statusSinceMs)
156
157  if (phase === 'working') {
158    return `working ${age}`
159  }
160
161  if (session.status !== IDLE) {
162    return `${session.status} ${age}`
163  }
164
165  return phase === 'waiting' ? `waiting for you ${age}` : `waiting ${age}`
166}
167
168const RANK: Record<Phase, number> = { waiting: 0, working: 1, stale: 2 }
169
170// The ids as the pane first shows them: the waiting, the working, the stale, the latest change on top
171export const orderOf = (sessions: readonly LiveSession[], nowMs: number, staleMs: number): string[] =>
172  [...sessions]
173    .sort(
174      (a, b) =>
175        RANK[phaseOf(a, nowMs, staleMs)] - RANK[phaseOf(b, nowMs, staleMs)] ||
176        b.statusSinceMs - a.statusSinceMs ||
177        a.pid - b.pid,
178    )
179    .map(session => session.id)
180
181// The pinned order with the new sessions at its end. A session that is gone keeps its place,
182// so no other session moves under a digit the person is about to press
183export const mergeOrder = (pinned: readonly string[], sessions: readonly LiveSession[]): string[] => [
184  ...pinned,
185  ...sessions.map(session => session.id).filter(id => !pinned.includes(id)),
186]
187
188export const hotkeyOf = (place: number): string | undefined =>
189  place < HOTKEYS ? String(place + 1) : undefined
190
191// Whether the model is asked about the session now. A waiting one is asked once per stop,
192// a working one at once and then no sooner than SUMMARY_REFRESH_MS, a stale one never
193export const needsSummary = (
194  session: Indexed,
195  phase: Phase,
196  cached: Summary | undefined,
197  nowMs: number,
198): boolean => {
199  if (phase === 'stale' || session.stamp === null || session.digest === null) {
200    return false
201  }
202
203  if (cached === undefined) {
204    return true
205  }
206
207  if (cached.stamp === session.stamp) {
208    return false
209  }
210
211  return phase === 'waiting' || nowMs - cached.atMs >= SUMMARY_REFRESH_MS
212}
213
214// After a failure a session is asked again only at a new stamp and SUMMARY_REFRESH_MS later:
215// a working session's stamp moves every few seconds, and the failure would repeat at each
216export const isHeldBack = (failure: Failure | undefined, stamp: string, nowMs: number): boolean =>
217  failure !== undefined && (failure.stamp === stamp || nowMs - failure.atMs < SUMMARY_REFRESH_MS)
218
219export const isSummary = (value: unknown): value is Summary => {
220  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) {
221    return false
222  }
223
224  const fields = value as Record<string, unknown>
225
226  return typeof fields.stamp === 'string' && typeof fields.text === 'string' && typeof fields.atMs === 'number'
227}
228
229// Text cut at its end to a width, the cut marked
230export const clip = (text: string, width: number): string =>
231  text.length <= width ? text : `${text.slice(0, Math.max(0, width - 1))}…`
232
233// Text cut at its start to a width: a path keeps its last components
234export const clipStart = (text: string, width: number): string =>
235  text.length <= width ? text : `…${width > 1 ? text.slice(1 - width) : ''}`
236
237// The title as its Button draws it: cut so the digit before it and the mark of the current session fit
238export const titleLabel = (
239  title: string,
240  width: number,
241  hotkey: string | undefined,
242  isCurrent: boolean,
243): string => {
244  const room = width - (hotkey === undefined ? 0 : HOTKEY_WIDTH) - (isCurrent ? HERE.length : 0)
245
246  return `${clip(title, Math.max(1, room))}${isCurrent ? HERE : ''}`
247}
248
249// The model's reply as the pane draws it: one line, cut
250export const cleanSummary = (text: string): string => clip(text.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).join(' '), SUMMARY_MAX)
251
252const clamp = (value: number, low: number, high: number): number => Math.min(high, Math.max(low, value))
253
254const MARK: Record<Phase, string> = { waiting: '●', working: '◐', stale: '○' }
255
256export const markOf = (phase: Phase): string => MARK[phase]
257
258// The key of a session's row: its Button's, and what the focus ring names when it stands on it
259export const rowKey = (id: string): string => `go-${id}`
260
261// How a pane of a width holds the two frames: side by side, or the preview under the list
262export const layoutOf = (width: number): Layout => {
263  if (width < STACK_UNDER) {
264    return { isStacked: true, list: width, preview: width }
265  }
266
267  const list = clamp(Math.round(width * LIST_SHARE), LIST_MIN, LIST_MAX)
268
269  return { isStacked: false, list, preview: width - list }
270}
271
272// Cells of a row's title in a list frame of a width
273export const titleCell = (listWidth: number): number => Math.max(1, listWidth - BORDERS - ROW_LEAD - AGE_CELL)
274
275// Cells of the preview's text in a frame of a width
276export const previewWidth = (frame: number): number => Math.max(1, frame - BORDERS - 2 * PREVIEW_PADDING)
277
278// A row's age, set right so the ages stand in a column
279export const ageCell = (elapsedMs: number): string => `${ageLabel(elapsedMs).padStart(AGE_WIDTH)} `
280
281// Rows the two frames stand at beside each other, so they do not change height as the selection
282// moves between a session with much to show and one with little: the fullest preview's, or the pane's
283export const frameRows = (bodyRows: number): number => (bodyRows > 0 ? Math.min(bodyRows, FRAME_ROWS) : FRAME_ROWS)
284
285// Rows the pane asks for where it is placed above the prompt
286export const paneRows = (sessions: number): number => Math.max(PANE_ROWS_MIN, sessions + LIST_CHROME_ROWS)
287
288// The sessions the search field lets through: every word of the query is somewhere in the title,
289// the directory or the last prompt, as text and whatever its case
290export const filterLive = (sessions: readonly LiveSession[], query: string, home: string): LiveSession[] => {
291  const words = query.toLowerCase().split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean)
292
293  return sessions.filter(session => {
294    const text = `${session.title} ${directoryOf(session.cwd, home)} ${session.lastPrompt ?? ''}`.toLowerCase()
295
296    return words.every(word => text.includes(word))
297  })
298}
299
300// The session the preview shows and Enter in the search field goes to: the row that holds the
301// focus ring, else the first one shown
302export const selectedOf = (shown: readonly LiveSession[], focused: string): LiveSession | undefined =>
303  shown.find(session => rowKey(session.id) === focused) ?? shown[0]
304
305// The preview of a session, line by line: what it does, where it is, what was asked, what was done
306export const previewOf = (
307  session: LiveSession,
308  phase: Phase,
309  summary: Summary | undefined,
310  nowMs: number,
311  home: string,
312  width: number,
313): PreviewLine[] => {
314  const lines: PreviewLine[] = [
315    { kind: 'state', text: clip(`${markOf(phase)} ${stateLabel(session, phase, nowMs)}`, width) },
316    { kind: 'directory', text: clipStart(directoryOf(session.cwd, home), width) },
317    { kind: 'meta', text: clip(session.tmuxTarget === null ? 'not in tmux' : `tmux ${session.tmuxTarget}`, width) },
318  ]
319  const section = (label: string, text: readonly string[]): void => {
320    lines.push({ kind: 'gap', text: '' }, { kind: 'label', text: label })
321    lines.push(...text.map(line => ({ kind: 'text' as const, text: line })))
322  }
323
324  if (session.lastPrompt !== null) {
325    section('you', wrap(session.lastPrompt, width, PROMPT_LINES))
326  }
327
328  if (summary !== undefined) {
329    section('summary', wrap(summary.text, width, SUMMARY_LINES))
330  }
331
332  if (phase === 'working' && session.activity !== null) {
333    section('now', [clip(session.activity, width)])
334  }
335
336  if (session.lastReply !== null) {
337    section('agent', wrap(session.lastReply, width, REPLY_LINES))
338  }
339
340  // Only the lines every session has: nothing was asked in it yet
341  if (lines.length === HEAD_LINES) {
342    lines.push({ kind: 'gap', text: '' }, { kind: 'note', text: 'Nothing has been asked in this session yet' })
343  }
344
345  return lines
346}
347
348// The session's directory as a person writes it: from `~` inside the home directory
349export const directoryOf = (cwd: string, home: string): string => {
350  if (home !== '' && cwd === home) {
351    return '~'
352  }
353
354  return home !== '' && cwd.startsWith(`${home}/`) ? `~${cwd.slice(home.length)}` : cwd
355}
356
357// Text broken at spaces into lines of a width; what is past the last line is cut
358export const wrap = (text: string, width: number, maxLines: number): string[] => {
359  const room = Math.max(1, width)
360  const lines: string[] = []
361  let rest = text.trim()
362
363  while (rest !== '' && lines.length < maxLines) {
364    if (rest.length <= room) {
365      lines.push(rest)
366      break
367    }
368
369    if (lines.length === maxLines - 1) {
370      lines.push(clip(rest, room))
371      break
372    }
373
374    const space = rest.lastIndexOf(' ', room)
375    const at = space > 0 ? space : room
376    lines.push(rest.slice(0, at))
377    rest = rest.slice(at).trimStart()
378  }
379
380  return lines
381}
382
383// tmux brings the person's client to the session's pane: its session, its window, the pane
384export const switchArgv = (pane: string): string[] => ['tmux', 'switch-client', '-t', pane]
385
types/index.d.ts 51 lines
1// One running session, as hooks/index_live.py prints it, less the digest
2export type LiveSession = {
3  id: string
4  pid: number
5  title: string
6  cwd: string
7  // `busy` while the agent works; `idle`, or a word this mod does not know, while it waits
8  status: string
9  // When the session took that status
10  statusSinceMs: number
11  lastPrompt: string | null
12  lastReply: string | null
13  // The tool still running, by name
14  activity: string | null
15  // The tmux pane the session runs in (`%4`), and the registry's whole address of it
16  tmuxPane: string | null
17  tmuxTarget: string | null
18  // Where the transcript stands: the uuid of its last user or assistant record
19  stamp: string | null
20}
21
22// The same with the text a summary is asked over
23export type Indexed = LiveSession & { digest: string | null }
24
25export type LiveIndex = { sessions: Indexed[]; skipped: number }
26
27// Waiting for the person, working, or waiting longer than the threshold
28export type Phase = 'waiting' | 'working' | 'stale'
29
30// What the model said of a session, and the transcript position it said it at
31export type Summary = { stamp: string; text: string; atMs: number }
32
33declare module 'claude-code' {
34  interface PluginState {
35    'session-board': {
36      sessions: LiveSession[]
37      order: string[]
38      summaries: Record<string, Summary>
39      skipped: number
40      error: string | null
41      currentId: string
42      home: string
43      nowMs: number
44      // What the search field holds
45      query: string
46      // The key of the element that holds the pane's focus ring: the field, a row, or nothing
47      focused: string
48    }
49  }
50}
51