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Pinboard

Keeps open decisions, the task list and links Claude creates in a sidebar pane, updated through its own tool

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v0.2.4MITupdated 2026-10-09jidhra/claude-mods/plugins/pinboard
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Preview · a replayed session in a sandbox
claude · ~/work/app · pinboard
│ ┃ Pinboard ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ PINBOARD · 0 TODO · 0 DECISIONS │ ┃ ■ todos ■ decisions ■ links ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ ╭─────────────────────────────────────────── ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ┃ │ pinboard ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ │ nothing yet ⎿ 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 │ │ › /pinboard │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

Draws

Pane · Pinboard
PINBOARD · 0 TODO · 0 DECISIONS ■ todos ■ decisions ■ links ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ pinboard │ │ nothing yet │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
README

Pinboard

What needs you, pinned where you can see it.<br> Open decisions, the task list and the links Claude creates stay in a pane beside the conversation, so they don't scroll out of view.

Version Claude Code mod Claude Code 2.1.287+ Catalogue License: MIT

<img src="docs/board-in-progress.png" alt="Pinboard pane beside a Claude Code session, with one open decision and two of four todos done" width="820">

The story of how it came together: Pinboard: a Claude Code mod.

What it pins

  • Open decisions: questions Claude needs you to answer. They stay pinned until Claude closes them after you answer.
  • Todos: the session's task list, one action per item. The one Claude is working on is marked ▸ in the warning color (one at a time), open items show ○, and finished items fold into a single dim ✓ N done line so open work stays on top.
  • Links: URLs from actions that make something (gh pr|issue|release|repo|gist create, gh pr|issue comment, git push, and MCP tools that create, draft, send, publish, share or upload), newest first, up to 12. GitHub PRs and issues get short labels such as repo PR #12. Press l (or the clear button) to empty the list.

Everything is session state: /clear and /resume start an empty board.

How Claude updates it

Pinboard registers a tool, mcp__pinboard__update, that Claude calls to add todos, start one, check them off or remove them by id, open decisions, and close them. Its description carries a few working rules borrowed from opencode's todowrite: update in real time, mark a todo done only after the work (and any verification) is actually done, and when blocked, leave it in progress and add a follow-up todo for the blocker. Each call shows as one dim line in the transcript (Pinboard: +2 todo, 1 decided), so lists don't have to be repeated in replies.

The current board, with ids, is added to the end of the system prompt on every request, so Claude always knows what's open. Pinboard doesn't depend on the TodoWrite or Task tools, which newer models don't get by default.

Questions are the easiest thing to leave in a reply, where they scroll away. When Claude finishes a turn whose last lines end in a question mark (code blocks aside) while the board has no open decision, Pinboard's Stop hook sends it back once to pin the question with open_decisions. It only nudges once per stop, so a rhetorical question can still end the turn.

How it opens

  • The pane opens by itself the first time something lands on an empty board.
  • Opened that way, Claude Code only seats it in a terminal at least 144 columns wide (110 once you've opened it yourself). Below that, run /pinboard.
  • /pinboard opens it at any width, even while Claude is working. /pinboard close or Ctrl+X then X closes it.

Install

claude plugin marketplace add sirkitree/pinboard
claude plugin install pinboard@pinboard

Develop

claude plugin validate --strict .
claude plugin test .
claude --plugin-dir .

Built on the mods API as of Claude Code 2.1.288. That API is in early access and changes between releases.

Source 2 files
hooks/register.tsx 405 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Color, EngineInterface, Register, RenderChildren } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Decision, Pin, Todo } from '../types'
5
6const PANE = 'pinboard'
7const TITLE = 'Pinboard'
8// Docked width; matches Flightdeck's so the dock doesn't jump between panes
9const PANE_COLUMNS = 66
10const TOOL = 'mcp__pinboard__update'
11
12const decisions = atom({ plugin: 'pinboard', key: 'decisions' } as const, [] as Decision[])
13const todos = atom({ plugin: 'pinboard', key: 'todos' } as const, [] as Todo[])
14const links = atom({ plugin: 'pinboard', key: 'links' } as const, [] as Pin[])
15const paneOpen = atom({ plugin: 'pinboard', key: 'paneOpen' } as const, false)
16
17const DESCRIPTION = [
18  "Keep the session's task list and open decisions on the user's Pinboard, a sidebar that stays in view while the transcript scrolls.",
19  'Any question you end a reply on that needs the user to answer goes in open_decisions, however small the task, even a single yes/no.',
20  'Use it in place of writing task lists or decision lists in your reply, whenever the work takes 2+ distinct steps or the user gives new instructions.',
21  'add_todos: one action per item. start_todo: the todo id you are working on now; exactly one is in progress at a time. done_todos / remove_todos: todo ids.',
22  'Update in real time; do not batch completions. Mark a todo done only after the work is actually done, including any verification it needs, never based on intent.',
23  'If blocked or partly done, leave it in progress and add a follow-up todo describing the blocker.',
24  'open_decisions: questions that need the user to choose. decide: close a decision by id once the user has answered.',
25  'The current board, with ids, is at the end of your system prompt.',
26  "It is session-only: work that must outlive the session goes to a durable tracker (kindex task_add) instead.",
27].join(' ')
28
29// Pinboard is the person's task tracker; this rides in the system prompt beside the board
30export const GUIDE = [
31  "Pinboard is the user's task tracker (a pane beside the transcript); keep it current instead of listing tasks in replies.",
32  `For any job with 2+ steps, add the todos with ${TOOL} before starting work (load it with ToolSearch first if it is deferred).`,
33  'start_todo as each one begins; done_todos as each one finishes, after verifying it.',
34  'Put questions that need the user in open_decisions.',
35  "Pinboard holds only this session's steps and questions (/clear empties it). Kindex task_add is for work that must outlive the session (follow-ups, deferred items), never for the steps of the current job.",
36].join('\n')
37
38// Theme colour names (Flightdeck's palette), so light, dark and colour-blind themes all work
39const C = {
40  main: 'claude',
41  agent: 'suggestion',
42  gate: 'success',
43  amber: 'warning',
44  dim: 'inactive',
45  faint: 'subtle',
46} as const
47
48/** A gauge of `width` cells: ▰ filled, ▱ empty. */
49const gauge = (done: number, total: number, width: number) => {
50  const full = total ? Math.max(0, Math.min(width, Math.round((done / total) * width))) : 0
51  return { on: '▰'.repeat(full), off: '▱'.repeat(width - full) }
52}
53
54/** Legend items that fit on one row of `width` cells, in order; the rest are dropped. */
55const fitLegend = <T extends { label: string }>(items: T[], width: number) => {
56  const out: T[] = []
57  let used = 0
58  for (const it of items) {
59    const w = it.label.length + 4
60    if (used + w > width) break
61    out.push(it)
62    used += w
63  }
64  return out
65}
66
67const strings = { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } }
68const SCHEMA = {
69  type: 'object',
70  properties: {
71    add_todos: strings,
72    start_todo: { type: 'string' },
73    done_todos: strings,
74    remove_todos: strings,
75    open_decisions: strings,
76    decide: {
77      type: 'array',
78      items: { type: 'object', properties: { id: { type: 'string' }, answer: { type: 'string' } }, required: ['id', 'answer'] },
79    },
80  },
81}
82
83export type Update = {
84  add_todos?: string[]
85  start_todo?: string
86  done_todos?: string[]
87  remove_todos?: string[]
88  open_decisions?: string[]
89  decide?: { id: string; answer: string }[]
90}
91
92type Board = { todos: Todo[]; decisions: Decision[] }
93
94// The next id for a prefix: one past the highest in use
95const nextId = (prefix: string, ids: string[]) =>
96  prefix + (Math.max(0, ...ids.map(id => Number(id.slice(prefix.length)) || 0)) + 1)
97
98export function applyUpdate(board: Board, change: Update): Board {
99  let { todos: t, decisions: d } = board
100  for (const text of change.add_todos ?? []) t = [...t, { id: nextId('t', t.map(x => x.id)), text, isDone: false }]
101  for (const text of change.open_decisions ?? []) d = [...d, { id: nextId('d', d.map(x => x.id)), text }]
102  const done = new Set(change.done_todos ?? [])
103  const removed = new Set(change.remove_todos ?? [])
104  const decided = new Set((change.decide ?? []).map(x => x.id))
105  t = t.filter(x => !removed.has(x.id)).map(x => (done.has(x.id) ? { ...x, isDone: true } : x))
106  // One todo in progress at a time; finishing it ends its turn too
107  if (change.start_todo) t = t.map(x => ({ ...x, isActive: x.id === change.start_todo }))
108  t = t.map(x => (x.isDone && x.isActive ? { ...x, isActive: false } : x))
109  d = d.filter(x => !decided.has(x.id))
110  return { todos: t, decisions: d }
111}
112
113export function describeBoard(board: Board): string {
114  if (board.todos.length + board.decisions.length === 0) return 'Pinboard is empty.'
115  return [
116    'Pinboard now:',
117    ...board.todos.map(t => `${t.id} [${t.isDone ? 'x' : t.isActive ? '>' : ' '}] ${t.text}`),
118    ...board.decisions.map(d => `${d.id} [?] ${d.text}`),
119  ].join('\n')
120}
121
122// A reply asks the user something when one of its last lines, outside code, ends in a question mark
123export function asksUser(reply: string): boolean {
124  const prose = reply.replace(/```[\s\S]*?```/g, '')
125  const lines = prose.split('\n').map(l => l.trim()).filter(Boolean).slice(-3)
126  return lines.some(l => /\?[*_`)"'\]]*$/.test(l))
127}
128
129const NUDGE =
130  'Your reply ends on a question for the user, but the Pinboard has no open decision. ' +
131  'Call mcp__pinboard__update with open_decisions for it (close it with decide once answered), then end your turn. ' +
132  'If it was rhetorical, end your turn as is.'
133
134const MAKES_COMMAND = /\bgh\s+(?:(?:pr|issue|release|repo|gist)\s+create|(?:pr|issue)\s+comment)\b|\bgit\s+push\b/
135const MAKES_MCP = /^mcp__.*(?:create|draft|send|publish|share|canvas|upload)/i
136
137const URL = /https:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9.-]+(?::\d+)?(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9\-._~:/?#[\]!$&'()*+,;=%@]*)?/g
138
139export const urlPins = (text: string): Pin[] =>
140  [...new Set([...text.matchAll(URL)].map(m => m[0].replace(/[)\].,;:'!?*]+$/, '')))]
141    .filter(href => !href.includes('@') && href.length <= 2048)
142    .map(href => {
143      const gh = /github\.com\/[^/]+\/([^/]+)\/(pull|issues)\/(\d+)/.exec(href)
144      return { href, label: gh ? `${gh[1]} ${gh[2] === 'pull' ? 'PR' : 'issue'} #${gh[3]}` : href.slice(8) }
145    })
146
147const isEmpty = async ($: EngineInterface) =>
148  (await read($, decisions)).length + (await read($, todos)).length + (await read($, links)).length === 0
149
150// Runs a capture; opens the pane when it puts the first thing on an empty board
151async function capture($: EngineInterface, change: () => Promise<unknown>): Promise<void> {
152  const wasEmpty = await isEmpty($)
153  await change()
154  if (wasEmpty && !(await isEmpty($))) await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE, columns: PANE_COLUMNS })
155}
156
157export const register: Register = on => {
158  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
159    await $.command.register({
160      name: 'pinboard',
161      description: 'Open the pane of open decisions, todos and links; `close` hides it',
162      argumentHint: '[close]',
163      immediate: true,
164    })
165    await $.tool.register({ name: 'update', description: DESCRIPTION, inputSchema: SCHEMA })
166    // Todos parsed from replies by older versions have no id; the tool can't reach them
167    await update($, todos, old => old.filter(t => typeof t.id === 'string'))
168    // A reload keeps the pane up but starts the module over: re-read whether it is open
169    const isUp = (await $.ui.panes().catch(() => [])).some(p => p.id === PANE)
170    await update($, paneOpen, () => isUp)
171    // No open on launch: only Flightdeck opens unasked, so Pinboard's tab lands second when its first item does
172    return next(e)
173  })
174
175  on('command.run', { command: 'pinboard' }, async ($, e) => {
176    if (/^(close|hide)$/i.test(e.args.trim())) {
177      await $.ui.close({ id: PANE })
178      return {}
179    }
180    await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE, columns: PANE_COLUMNS })
181    return {}
182  })
183
184  // Mod Tools' Show column reads paneOpen; the engine lists a plugin's panes only to that plugin
185  on('ui.open', { id: PANE }, async ($, e, next) => {
186    const opened = await next(e)
187    await update($, paneOpen, () => true)
188    return opened
189  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
190
191  on('ui.close', { id: PANE }, async ($, e, next) => {
192    const closed = await next(e)
193    await update($, paneOpen, () => false)
194    return closed
195  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
196
197  // The board rides at the end of the system prompt, so it never has to be repeated in replies
198  on('prompt.compose', async ($, e, next) => {
199    const { sections } = await next(e)
200    const board = describeBoard({ todos: await read($, todos), decisions: await read($, decisions) })
201    return {
202      sections: [
203        ...sections,
204        { id: 'pinboard:guide', text: GUIDE, scope: 'session' },
205        { id: 'pinboard:board', text: board, scope: 'session' },
206      ],
207    }
208  })
209
210  on('tool.call', { tool: TOOL }, async ($, e) => {
211    if (e.agentId) return { deny: 'Only the main conversation updates the Pinboard.' }
212    let board: Board = { todos: [], decisions: [] }
213    await capture($, async () => {
214      board = applyUpdate({ todos: await read($, todos), decisions: await read($, decisions) }, e as Update)
215      await update($, todos, () => board.todos)
216      await update($, decisions, () => board.decisions)
217    })
218    return { result: describeBoard(board) }
219  })
220
221  // A question left only in the reply scrolls away; send Claude back once to pin it
222  on('classic.Stop', async ($, e, next) => {
223    const ran = await next(e)
224    if (ran.block || e.stop_hook_active || !asksUser(e.last_assistant_message ?? '')) return ran
225    if ((await read($, decisions)).length > 0) return ran
226    return { ...ran, block: NUDGE }
227  })
228
229  // Links only from actions that make something; reads, fetches and test output just mention URLs
230  on('tool.call', async ($, e, next) => {
231    const ran = await next(e)
232    const makes = e.tool === 'Bash' ? MAKES_COMMAND.test(e.command) : MAKES_MCP.test(e.tool)
233    if (e.agentId || !makes || !('text' in ran) || ran.isError) return ran
234    const found = urlPins(ran.text ?? '')
235    if (found.length > 0 && found.length <= 3) {
236      await capture($, () => update($, links, old => [...found, ...old.filter(p => !found.some(f => f.href === p.href))].slice(0, 12)))
237    }
238    return ran
239  })
240
241  // An update is one dim line in the transcript; the board itself is in the pane
242  on('ui.render', { component: 'ToolUse', props: { tool: TOOL } }, async ($, e) => {
243    const { Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
244    const change = (e.props.input ?? {}) as Update
245    const parts = [
246      change.add_todos?.length && `+${change.add_todos.length} todo`,
247      change.start_todo && `started ${change.start_todo}`,
248      change.done_todos?.length && `${change.done_todos.length} done`,
249      change.remove_todos?.length && `-${change.remove_todos.length} todo`,
250      change.open_decisions?.length && `+${change.open_decisions.length} decision`,
251      change.decide?.length && `${change.decide.length} decided`,
252    ].filter(Boolean)
253    return <Text dimColor>{'Pinboard: ' + (parts.join(', ') || 'no change')}</Text>
254  })
255
256  on('ui.render', { component: 'ToolResult', props: { tool: TOOL } }, async ($, e, next) =>
257    e.props.isErrored ? next(e) : $.ui.resolve(e).Text({ children: [''] }),
258  )
259
260  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
261    const { Box, Text, Button, Link } = $.ui.resolve(e)
262    const W = Math.max(40, e.props.bodyColumns)
263    // A card's text area: the width less its border and one cell of padding each side
264    const inner = W - 4
265    const allDecisions = await read($, decisions)
266    const allTodos = await read($, todos)
267    const allLinks = await read($, links)
268    const doneCount = allTodos.filter(t => t.isDone).length
269    const openCount = allTodos.length - doneCount
270
271    // A card's first row: the upper-case label and subtitle in its accent, a dim state on the right
272    const header = (accent: Color, label: string, subtitle: string, right: RenderChildren) => (
273      <Box justifyContent="space-between" width={inner}>
274        <Text color={accent} bold wrap="truncate">
275          {`${label.toUpperCase()} · ${subtitle}`}
276        </Text>
277        {right}
278      </Box>
279    )
280    // The glyph stays in its own column, so wrapped lines indent under the text
281    const item = (glyph: RenderChildren, text: string, props: { color?: Color; bold?: boolean; dimColor?: boolean } = {}) => (
282      <Box flexDirection="row" width={inner}>
283        <Box width={2} flexShrink={0}>
284          {glyph}
285        </Box>
286        <Box flexShrink={1} flexGrow={1}>
287          <Text {...props} wrap="wrap">
288            {text}
289          </Text>
290        </Box>
291      </Box>
292    )
293    const rule = <Text color={C.faint}>{'─'.repeat(W)}</Text>
294
295    const g = gauge(doneCount, allTodos.length, 8)
296    const todoCard = (
297      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" borderColor={C.main} paddingX={1} width={W}>
298        {header(
299          C.main,
300          'todos',
301          `${openCount} open`,
302          <Text>
303            <Text color={C.main}>{g.on}</Text>
304            <Text color={C.faint}>{g.off}</Text>
305            <Text dimColor>{` ${doneCount}/${allTodos.length}`}</Text>
306          </Text>,
307        )}
308        {allTodos
309          .filter(t => !t.isDone)
310          .map(t =>
311            t.isActive
312              ? item(<Text color={C.main} bold>{'▶ '}</Text>, t.text, { color: C.main, bold: true })
313              : item(<Text dimColor>{'○ '}</Text>, t.text),
314          )}
315        {/* Finished todos fold into one line so open work stays on top */}
316        {doneCount > 0 && (
317          <Text>
318            <Text color={C.gate}>{'✓ '}</Text>
319            <Text dimColor>{`${doneCount} done`}</Text>
320          </Text>
321        )}
322      </Box>
323    )
324
325    const decisionCard = (
326      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" borderColor={C.amber} paddingX={1} width={W}>
327        {header(C.amber, 'decisions', 'needs you', <Text dimColor>{`${allDecisions.length} open`}</Text>)}
328        {allDecisions.map(d => item(<Text color={C.amber} bold>{'? '}</Text>, d.text))}
329      </Box>
330    )
331
332    const linkCard = (
333      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" borderColor={C.agent} paddingX={1} width={W}>
334        {header(
335          C.agent,
336          'links',
337          'created',
338          <Box columnGap={1}>
339            <Text dimColor>{String(allLinks.length)}</Text>
340            <Button key="clear-links" label="clear" hotkey="l" plain dimColor onPress={() => update($, links, () => [])} />
341          </Box>,
342        )}
343        {allLinks.map(p => (
344          <Text wrap="truncate-middle">
345            <Link href={p.href} label={p.label} />
346          </Text>
347        ))}
348      </Box>
349    )
350
351    const emptyCard = (
352      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" borderColor={C.faint} paddingX={1} width={W}>
353        <Text dimColor>pinboard</Text>
354        <Text color={C.faint}>nothing yet</Text>
355      </Box>
356    )
357
358    // Only sections with something in them; an empty board keeps one faint card
359    const cards = [allTodos.length > 0 && todoCard, allDecisions.length > 0 && decisionCard, allLinks.length > 0 && linkCard].filter(
360      Boolean,
361    )
362
363    const legend = fitLegend(
364      [
365        { label: 'todos', color: C.main },
366        { label: 'decisions', color: C.amber },
367        { label: 'links', color: C.agent },
368      ],
369      W,
370    )
371
372    return (
373      <Box flexDirection="column" width={W}>
374        <Box justifyContent="center">
375          <Text bold wrap="truncate">
376            <Text>PINBOARD</Text>
377            <Text color={C.dim}> · </Text>
378            <Text color={C.main}>{String(openCount)}</Text>
379            <Text> TODO</Text>
380            <Text color={C.dim}> · </Text>
381            <Text color={C.amber}>{String(allDecisions.length)}</Text>
382            <Text>{allDecisions.length === 1 ? ' DECISION' : ' DECISIONS'}</Text>
383          </Text>
384        </Box>
385        <Box justifyContent="center" columnGap={2}>
386          {legend.map(l => (
387            <Text>
388              <Text color={l.color}>■</Text>
389              <Text dimColor>{` ${l.label}`}</Text>
390            </Text>
391          ))}
392        </Box>
393        {cards.length === 0
394          ? emptyCard
395          : cards.map((card, i) => (
396              <Box flexDirection="column">
397                {i > 0 && rule}
398                {card}
399              </Box>
400            ))}
401      </Box>
402    )
403  })
404}
405
types/index.d.ts 18 lines
1export type Todo = { id: string; text: string; isDone: boolean; isActive?: boolean }
2
3export type Decision = { id: string; text: string }
4
5export type Pin = { href: string; label: string }
6
7declare module 'claude-code' {
8  interface PluginState {
9    pinboard: {
10      decisions: Decision[]
11      todos: Todo[]
12      links: Pin[]
13      /** Whether the pane is open; Mod Tools reads it for its Show column. */
14      paneOpen: boolean
15    }
16  }
17}
18