refactor: split the renderer along its status/harvest seam

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Closes residual finding 4, on its own stated terms: the deferral said "revisit when harvest mode next grows," and harvest mode grew twice in one release (squash detection, publish).

bin/renderer.mjs (was ~1340 lines mixing two separately-tested feature areas) is now a thin entrypoint — mode dispatch plus export * re-exports — over three modules split along the seam the test files already used:

• renderer-shared.mjs — pure, side-effect-free helpers (manifest path/parse, sanitize, pad, poll backoff)
• renderer-status.mjs — status mode (U5): read-only reconciliation, the renderer's one Herdr-access section
• renderer-harvest.mjs — harvest mode (U6): UI/state machine over harvest-step.sh verbs

No behavior change and no consumer churn: panes still launch bin/renderer.mjs, and tests import from it exactly as before via the re-exports. The bin/-wide invariant tests (no git-mutation strings, no raw herdr invocations) iterate over every file in bin/, so the new modules are inside the audit automatically. Unused imports pruned per module.

Full suite: 235 tests green on Linux (and the macOS job will verify there); shellcheck unaffected. Docs: CHANGELOG entry plus a dated close-out note in the residual-findings record.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added an interactive harvest mode for reviewing, merging, archiving, and resolving slot changes.
  • Added publishing support to push a slot branch to a configurable remote without force-pushing.
  • Previews now recognize merges completed through supported forge workflows.
  • Improved status views with slot reconciliation, workspace fallback, adaptive updates, and safer terminal display handling.

• Documentation

  • Updated the changelog and review documentation to reflect the renderer improvements and new publishing workflow.

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Walkthrough

The renderer implementation is split into shared, status, and harvest modules. Harvest mode adds step-driven merge, archive, conflict, resume, and publish interactions. The entrypoint preserves dispatch and public import paths.

Changes

Renderer workflows

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared renderer foundation bin/renderer-shared.mjs	Shared helpers normalize manifests, reconcile slots, parse Git output, sanitize terminal text, and support polling and layout.
Read-only status renderer bin/renderer-status.mjs	The status renderer gathers Herdr and Git facts, reconciles slot state, renders terminal output, handles focus keys, and maintains polling.
Harvest protocol and rendering bin/renderer-harvest.mjs	The harvest renderer defines step protocols, builds preview models, and renders prompts for each harvest phase.
Harvest orchestration bin/renderer-harvest.mjs	Harvest actions run bounded harvest-step.sh commands for preview, merge, archive, conflict handling, and publish.
Harvest interaction lifecycle bin/renderer-harvest.mjs	Keyboard handling implements resume, stale, dirty, conflict, ignored, discard, publish, selection, and terminal cleanup flows.
Renderer entrypoint and release record bin/renderer.mjs, CHANGELOG.md, docs/residual-review-findings/main-27b3c92.md	The entrypoint re-exports the split modules. Release documentation records the completed split.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7f713

The renderer split preserves the existing entrypoint, but the current implementation can display the wrong agent status and can interleave multi-step harvest actions, leaving the UI state inconsistent with completed work; run metadata changes may also take longer to trigger normal polling. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Terminal
  participant HarvestRenderer
  participant HarvestStep
  participant GitRepository
  Terminal->>HarvestRenderer: select slot or publish action
  HarvestRenderer->>HarvestStep: run preview, merge, archive, or publish
  HarvestStep->>GitRepository: inspect or mutate repository state
  GitRepository-->>HarvestStep: state, SHA, files, and errors
  HarvestStep-->>HarvestRenderer: tab-delimited result and exit code
  HarvestRenderer-->>Terminal: repaint phase and slot table

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
In `@bin/renderer-harvest.mjs`:
- Around line 492-495: Update onKey and the dispatch flow used by run so an
operation-level guard is acquired before handling a key and released only after
the entire handler, including all awaited verbs, completes. Keep the guard
active across doMerge, discard, refresh, and reload sequences; ignore or defer
subsequent keys while it is held, and ensure it is cleared in a finalization
path even when a handler fails. Do not rely on step’s busy flag, which should
remain scoped to individual verbs.

In `@bin/renderer-shared.mjs`:
- Around line 84-88: Update the agent lookup in the live assignment so pane_id
is considered only when row.terminal_id is absent; when terminal_id exists,
match exclusively by terminal_id and do not fall back to a different agent via
pane_id.

In `@bin/renderer-status.mjs`:
- Around line 322-331: Update the idle-state comparison around the polling loop
in the renderer status tick flow to include runInfo alongside rows and banner.
Ensure changes to any rendered run metadata reset idleTicks and preserve the
existing backoff behavior when all compared state remains unchanged.

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Two things worth having on the record for this PR:

The split is a verified pure move. I diffed the executable lines of the pre-split bin/renderer.mjs against the concatenation of the four new files (comments, import/export headers, and re-export plumbing stripped): zero lines differ in either direction. The review's findings therefore describe pre-existing behavior, not regressions from the split.

All three findings were real, and are fixed in caec5ad:

1. reconcileSlots pane fallback now applies only to rows with no recorded terminal id — with one present, the old OR let whatever agent occupied the pane display its status on the slot's row. Two regression tests added (imposter-in-pane → unknown; legacy pane-only row still matches).
2. Harvest onKey now holds an operation-level guard (keyInFlight) across the whole handler, closing the await gaps between verbs of multi-step operations where a second key could interleave.
3. The status poll's idle comparison includes runInfo, so metadata-only manifest changes reset the backoff.

237 tests green, both OSes.

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🤖 Lab Code Review (draft opinion)

• bin/renderer-harvest.mjs:116: this.staleSlots = []; in enterStalePhase() should be this.staleSlots = []; (already correct, but line 116 shows this.staleSlots = []; — no issue; however, line 116 is actually this.staleSlots = []; which is fine — rechecking: the code shows this.staleSlots = []; correctly — no finding).
  Correction: No issue found in harvest mode stale handling.
• bin/renderer-harvest.mjs:540: this.phase = { name: "list" }; in afterResume() when no stale slots — should await this.reload() to refresh UI after resume queue drain (currently missing reload).
  Fix: Add await this.reload(); after setting phase to list.
• bin/renderer-harvest.mjs:780: this.write(${ESC}[?1049l${ESC}[?25h); in cleanup() duplicates logic from Renderer.cleanup() in status mode — but this is correct as each renderer owns its cleanup.
  No issue.
• bin/renderer.mjs:20: Missing re-export of parseStepOutput and previewFromStep from renderer-harvest.mjs — tests may import them via bin/renderer.mjs as before.
  Fix: Add export { parseStepOutput, previewFromStep } from "./renderer-harvest.mjs";
• bin/renderer-shared.mjs:140: export const pad = (s, w) => { ... } duplicates logic already in status/harvest modules — but it's a pure helper, so centralizing is correct.
  No issue.

Only one actionable finding:
bin/renderer-harvest.mjs:540 — missing await this.reload() after setting phase to list in afterResume().
Fix: Add await this.reload(); after this.phase = { name: "list" };.

(Note: Initial scan overclaimed; only one real issue found after careful review.)

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Verified the one actionable finding against the code — no change needed:

• afterResume() missing await this.reload(): it's already there. bin/renderer-harvest.mjs:351-358 reads if (this.enterStalePhase()) { this.paint(); return; } this.phase = { name: "list" }; await this.reload(); — the exact line the finding proposes adding is the function's last statement.
• The re-export concern (item 4) is also covered: bin/renderer.mjs does export * from "./renderer-harvest.mjs", which re-exports every named export including parseStepOutput and previewFromStep — the 237-test suite imports them through bin/renderer.mjs and passes on both OSes.

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