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Colour the window's frame, inset Hosts like its neighbours, drop Pins
Three things one pass over the shell's chrome turned up, none of them related
to the others beyond having been looked at together.

◆ A PALE STRIP ACROSS THE TOP OF THE WINDOW ON WINDOWS, and it is not this
application's titlebar. Avalonia's Win32 backend gives a BorderOnly window
WS_BORDER | WS_THICKFRAME and then calls DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea with
one-pixel margins on all four sides — read out of WindowImpl.UpdateWindowProperties
in 12.1.1 rather than guessed at. So DWM owns a hairline of every edge and fills
it with the system's caption and border colours, which follow the user's
personalisation settings: with "show accent colour on title bars and window
borders" on, that is blue against a near-black shell. Nothing in the visual tree
painted those pixels, which is why nothing in the visual tree could cover them.

NativeWindowFrame sets DWMWA_BORDER_COLOR and DWMWA_CAPTION_COLOR to the
window's own Background, so the hairline still exists — the resize grip is on
it, the drop shadow hangs off it — and cannot be seen. Deliberately not
DWMWA_COLOR_NONE, which removes the border outright and leaves a near-black
window with no edge at all on a dark desktop. Windows 10 gets the dark-mode
attribute and nothing else, because the two colour attributes are Windows 11
and DwmSetWindowAttribute simply answers E_INVALIDARG there.

Called from OnOpened, not the constructor: there is no platform handle until
the window is shown, and calling early is a silent no-op — which looks exactly
like a fix that does not work.

Verified on screen on Windows 11.

◆ THE HOSTS HEADER SAT A STEP LEFT OF AND ABOVE EVERY OTHER SCREEN'S. Keychain,
Snips, Logs and Pins all frame their content with Margin="26"; Hosts was on 16
a side and 20 on top. It is 26 all round now, stated per row rather than once on
the root, because the board's ScrollViewer is deliberately full-bleed so that
its scrollbar rides the pane's edge, and because a root margin would also inset
the drawer, which draws its own.

That cost the cards ten pixels, and the layout suite is what said so:
TheHostsGridKeepsTwoColumnsAtTheMinimumWithTheDrawerOpen failed, because
Border.tile's 224 was derived from the board's old 16-pixel margins and the grid
quietly collapses to one column at exactly the size this application guarantees.
224 becomes 214, with the arithmetic in App.axaml rewritten — it had also gone
stale in a way that hid itself, still citing the 1016 minimum and 190 rail from
before v5b, whose two changes happened to cancel.

◆ PINS LEAVES THE RAIL, and only the rail. KnownHostsScreen is still built and
still one click away, from "Host keys" on the Keys screen's own header, which
was always the second way in. The row was kept through v5b on the grounds that
the mock has no screen for approved host keys — a reason for the screen to
exist, and never a reason for a rail entry once the keychain had a door to the
same place. Two rows landing on one screen is a rail that has to be read twice.
MainWindowViewModel.IsKnownHostsShowing stays: it names a real shell state and
ShellFlowTests still asserts on it.

design-import-gaps.md recorded that row as a deliberate deviation and
manual-checks.md Phase 1.1 walked the rail entry by entry; both are corrected,
and the manual check now reaches the screen the way a user would.

The layout suite's rail row count moves from six to five with it.

153 layout tests and 446 shell tests pass. The frame is confirmed by eye; the
Hosts inset and the rail are covered by the layout suite but were not seen
running, because the instance launched to check them came up locked.
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What the design asked for and this build has not got

The Avalonia client's interface was rebuilt from a Claude Design project — a five-screen spec covering the chrome, hosts and terminals, file transfer, the vault, teams, and preferences.

The second import — v2, phone

A later design in the same project, DodoSSH Android v2, is what the phone head now draws: eight screens, a bottom bar with the rest behind a hub, and a new palette. It has been imported, and this section is the same accounting for it. The desktop's own v2 has not been imported — only its palette, because the palette is shared and the two heads may not disagree about a colour.

The bar is three rather than the design's four, and the hub is SETTINGS rather than MORE. The design puts Hosts, Terminal, Keychain and More along the bottom. The keychain moved behind the hub: a bottom bar is for the places a session moves between, and keys, credentials and tags are managed occasionally and then left alone, which is the shape of everything already behind it. With the keychain on it the hub is no longer "more" of anything — it is where everything that is not connecting to a machine lives — so it takes the name and the glyph that has meant exactly that on a phone since before this application existed. Terminal became Connections in the same pass, for a reason below.

The palette went from green to blue, and one colour changed meaning rather than value. Green used to be the accent, so Ellipse.dot.live filled with Accent and "the thing to press" and "a shell is open here" were the same colour by construction. v2 makes the accent #5B8CFF and keeps a green, #3DDC97, for status alone. That is now Live, and nothing merely interactive may use it. The accent is also two colours — Accent fills, AccentText writes — which is what stops a row of chips reading as a row of primary actions.

Five destinations moved under MORE and four of them were built: snippets, SFTP, S3 and logs, each over a view model that already existed, plus preferences. ShellScreen gained More and Buckets; SFTP and S3 are one screen over one TransfersViewModel, differing only in which picker they offer.

A sixth is behind MORE that v2 never drew: VAULTS. It is the reverse case — a shipped screen the design had no slot for — and it is on the phone because a vault arrives without being asked for, and because somebody can be let into one from there. Somebody wraps its key to you from their machine, and the person it arrives for is at least as likely to be holding a phone as sitting at a desktop; a vault the server has just put somebody in, visible only on a head they may not have installed, is a membership they cannot see. It runs over the same view model the desktop screen drives, like the other four.

v2 element What ships instead
The FORWARDING screen: local/remote/dynamic rules, toggles, bytes transferred Nothing, said out loud. ISshConnection offers OpenShellAsync and nothing else, so there is no tunnel for a rule to run through; SyncEntityType.PortForward = 9 is still reserved and still unused. The MORE screen carries a paragraph naming the absence, for the reason the desktop keeps VAULTS in its rail.
23 ms · fwd 5432 on the terminal's connection line The line is gone, and what was real on it moved. There was never an RTT to draw — SSH.NET measures none — and nothing forwards anything, so what shipped was the account and endpoint actually dialled. In v3 a connected phone draws one 35-pixel bar and then the terminal, so a second 36-pixel row naming the machine is exactly the chrome that surface exists to give back: the address is on the connecting card, where it is read before anything has answered, and the shell's own prompt says it afterwards. The two text-size buttons that shared the line are pinned at the end of the accessory row, outside its scroller, which is what the line was protecting them from.
ED25519 badge and SHA256:kQ9f…Zw2M on every keychain card Detail, which is what is genuinely known about an item. Unchanged from the first import: no algorithm field, no fingerprint, and computing either means parsing armour the type stores verbatim.
An agent chip on a key Omitted. There is no agent of any kind — see the first import's Vault section.
Snippet cards footed with edge-eu-1 · today 10:58 · exit 0 The command and its badge. Nothing records where a snippet ran, when, or what it returned; the shell it is typed into never reports back.
Logs: a blinking FOLLOW pill over a live tail A REFRESH button. These are the keychain's own synced audit records, written once at close and read when the screen opens — there is nothing to tail.
Logs: ALL 8 / INFO 5 / WARN 2 / ERROR 1 and per-host chips The real two-way choice: connections, or keychain activity. A connection record is not a syslog line and carries no level, and neither log filters by host.
SFTP: the LOCAL / REMOTE toggle One remote pane. Scoped storage means there is no browsable local filesystem, which docs/android-port.md decided before any of this was built.
SFTP: the transfer card, and moving files at all Both directions ship, and neither is the button the design drew. There is no local pane for an UPLOAD arrow to point away from, so the gestures are the platform's two pickers: ADD FILES is ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT — "point at a document wherever it lives" — and SAVE FILE is ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT, asked before the transfer because a picker raised on completion arrives over whatever the person moved on to, and often while the app is backgrounded and Android will not show one. Both stage through the cache, for the same reason: a content:// URI has no path, no trustworthy length and no promised seek, and the queue needs all three to resume. QueueDownloads — the desktop's path, writing into LocalPath — is unused here, because LocalPath on Android is the app's own private directory. The queue is drawn now, since this head can fill it.
S3: 96 objects · 412 GB and lifecycle: IA after 7d Omitted. Neither a bucket total nor a lifecycle policy is fetched; the listing is what IRemoteFileStore returns.
A + floating button on HOSTS Shipped in v3. It was omitted twice, on the grounds that it would open a host editor this head had not got — and that was true until one existed. It raises a sheet rather than a form, because "add" on this screen is two operations: a host, or a group to file hosts under.
A 14px rounded inset around the terminal Not drawn. The renderer is a native child view composited above everything Avalonia draws, so a rounded frame behind it clips nothing. What the design was after comes from the page's own background, which is the design's #171A26.
Instrument Sans / Fira Code Inter and the system monospace stack, as before and for the same reason — see the note on MonoFont in Palette.axaml.
A theme toggle () in the header, and the desktop v2's light theme Omitted. There is one theme by decision, and a switch with one position is a control that does nothing.
Nothing at all on a group beyond its heading A menu on the heading, which is the second thing on this list the design had no slot for. The desktop puts Edit, Move to another vault and Delete on the group's own card; this head draws no group cards and has no right-click, so the raises the add sheet's shape with the same three entries in the same order — Move above the rule because it is not a deletion, Delete below it. Open is the one entry it does not carry: the desktop's grid holds one level of the tree and this list holds all of it flattened, so there is nowhere to open a group into. It was a pencil alone while Edit was the only thing behind it.
Nothing that removes a host DELETE, on a row of its own under EDIT and MOVE. A phone has no hover and no tooltip, so where a thumb lands is the only thing separating a destructive button from an ordinary one — full width in the danger colour, below both, is the same arrangement KEYCHAIN uses. The counted question takes the bar's controls in place rather than stacking over them, which is what stops DELETE being pressed a second time under its own confirmation. Until v3 this head could fill a keychain and never empty one.
PREFERENCES, which v2 draws as a list of settings One setting, one fact, and a paragraph of absences. The setting is whether this phone may unlock with a fingerprint — see the screen. The fact is the running version, which matters more here than on the desktop: there it sits beside a CHECK NOW that will say whether it is current, and this head does not replace itself at all. What it says instead is where a newer one comes from, which is ADR 0011 rule 2 in plain words — never from the server you sign in to.
TERMINAL's empty state: a sentence saying nothing is open More than the design asked for, which is rare enough on this list to say out loud. The tab is called Connections and with nothing running the screen is where one is made: a box taking user@host or user@host:port with a password, and the machines most recently connected to underneath it, read from the vault's own connection log. The box is the only path in the product to a machine that is not in the keychain — the design assumes every connection starts from a saved host, and the case it has no answer for is an address somebody was handed five minutes ago. Nothing typed there is saved, and the screen says so.

The desktop's v2

DodoSSH v2 — the desktop design in the same project — has since been imported too, dark only. Its light theme is not built: the light accent is #6D5AE6, a different hue rather than a tint, so it needs every colour doubled, a theme variant to switch on, the renderer's page switching with it, and contrast checked twice. That is a piece of work, not a setting, and it is separable from the layout.

The window's minimum grew, and by exactly what v2 added. The 54-pixel icon rail became a 190-pixel labelled sidebar and the chrome went from 72 tall to 86, so 880x560 became 1016x574 — leaving every screen the same 826x464 it was designed against. Four of the tables stop fitting at 690 wide, so widening the sidebar without widening the window would have broken them where the layout suite was not looking. v5b grows it again, to 1081x583 — see that section, below.

Buckets became a destination rather than a toggle inside the files screen, matching the phone: the HOST / BUCKET pair is gone and ShellScreen.Buckets draws the same TransfersScreen with the other picker. That also settled an old disagreement — TotalItemCount excluded buckets and disagreed with the list under it. It counts every kind now, tags included.

v2 element What ships instead
The FORWARDING screen, the ⇄ N forwards chip on the session strip, and the host detail's FORWARDING card Nothing, as on the phone and for the same reason. Three surfaces for a feature the SSH layer does not have.
The host detail's 2×2 card grid — IDENTITY fingerprint, TAGS, LAST SESSION Not drawn as a grid. There is no fingerprint on a stored key and no last-used timestamp at any layer, so two of the three cards have nothing behind them. Tags are real and are drawn — as chips on the row and a picker in the editor, which is where they are used rather than in a card beside two empty ones.
The keychain detail's public-key block, USED BY hosts, and Rotate The detail pane as it stands. Copy public key is real and already there; rotation is not a thing this client can do.
Logs: FOLLOW, the severity chips, and tailing via ssh · journald + files The two logs it really has. Same as the phone — these are synced audit records, not a tail, and the footer sentence describes a feature rather than the screen.
Snippets: RUNS ON host tags and a last-run line The command and the two buttons that name the terminal they type into.
The session footer: latency, forwards, utf-8 · xterm-256color Omitted. The first two have no source; the third is a constant, and a constant printed as though it were a reading is decoration.
The terminal as an inset rounded panel Not drawn, for the reason the phone does not draw it: it is a native child window that composites above everything Avalonia paints, so a rounded frame behind it clips nothing.
Split ⌘D Still omitted — the renderer stacks panes and shows one; tiling needs a pane geometry it has not got.
macOS traffic lights, and ⌘K The window's own minimise/maximise/close, and CTRL K. Development is Windows-first and the chrome is BorderOnly for a documented reason.
No status bar Kept, and cut down to the one thing the titlebar does not now carry: Vault.Status, which is the only channel this application has for saying a save failed or a merge picked a winner. The design is a mock-up of a working afternoon and has nowhere to put a sentence like that.
The sidebar's five destinations, and a Team vault card at its foot Seven destinations, because Pins, Vaults and Preferences are built screens and dropping their entry would strand them — and two fewer than v2 shipped with, because SFTP and S3 became tabs; see v3 below. The card is not drawn: it is a second route to a screen already in the list, carrying a seat count nothing here produces.

The desktop's v3

A third pass, and the smallest of the three: it moves furniture rather than adding screens. Nothing in it needed a layer below client-app, which is why it has no table of its own — there was nothing to omit.

The tab strip became the window's, not the terminal's. Three fixed tabs sit at its head — Vaults, SFTP, S3 — and terminal tabs follow them. SFTP and S3 left the nav rail to get there, which is the one semantic change: they are the two destinations you stay in while something runs, and a rail entry is for somewhere you go and come back from. The rail is drawn under Vaults alone, so SFTP, S3 and a terminal each get the full window width instead of 826. See MainWindowViewModel.IsVaultsTab for why the tab is a page test rather than a fourth ShellSurface.

v5b reverses the paragraph above, and says so rather than leaving it to be found out of date. The tab strip this paragraph describes is retired — see the v5b section, below — and with it the rule that made the rail conditional at all: the switcher it drew moved onto the nav rail's own head as three segments, the rail stopped collapsing for any of them, and neither SFTP, S3 nor a terminal gets the window's full width any longer. IsVaultsTab outlived the strip essentially unchanged — it is still a page test rather than a read of a ShellSurface, now over which of the rail's own destinations is showing rather than which of three tabs was.

The hosts screen became a grid of cards — groups above, hosts below — and the 268-pixel host sidebar went with it. That column was choosing among forty machines and editing one of them at two-thirds width; the grid took the first job at full width and a 304-pixel right-hand drawer took the second. The drawer collapses when nothing is selected, which is most of the time. Pressing a group card selects it; double-pressing one opens it, and a breadcrumb trail above the cards is where you are and the way back — the same trail the transfers screen draws over a directory.

And the grid holds one level of that trail rather than every host. A host filed under a group is drawn inside that group and not also on the screen the group's card sits on, which is what makes a card a place instead of a label: while the level above held everything anyway, opening a group could only ever subtract. The find box is the one thing that crosses a boundary — it searches the open group and everything under it, so a machine can be found without first remembering where it was filed, and the chip on a card is what says which group a result came out of. See VaultViewModel.Matches.

The type scale went up a point and the text ramp went white. #E3E7F4 was a blue-tinted white on blue-black surfaces, which costs contrast twice — once for being darker than white and once for sharing a hue with what it is drawn on. Every step of the ramp moved with the top, so the intervals the design chose are kept. Both are in the shared palette, so the phone has them too.

v3 element What ships instead
The hosts toolbar's view-mode switch (grid / list / table) One view. A switch between three layouts where only one is built is two disabled buttons.
The hosts toolbar's tag filter, calendar and share control Omitted. There are no saved filters, nothing in a vault carries a date, and sharing outside a team vault does not exist. Tags are real and are searched by being read off the cards.
Serial beside Terminal in the toolbar Omitted. Every session here is an SSH channel; a serial transport is not a button, it is a second session kind.
The strip's tabs inside the titlebar row, with a hamburger A row of its own under the titlebar. The titlebar already carries the drag region, the search box, the sync light and three window controls, and the strip scrolls — putting both on one 44-pixel row would make the thing that scrolls fight the thing that drags.
A count on the S3 tab Omitted. The rail entry it replaces carried one; a number on two of five tabs reads as a fact about those two rather than as the tab's own state, and a terminal tab has nothing to count. The count is on the S3 screen.

The desktop's v4 — the host detail pane

A fourth pass, narrower than v3: one pane and the cards beside it. It changes the shape of the drawer rather than what is in it, and it changes one behaviour that is not cosmetic at all.

The drawer is asked for now. Selecting a host used to open it, which charged 304 pixels of grid for the act of choosing — including every card arrowed past on the way to the one you wanted. A pencil appears on a card under the pointer, and on the selected card, and that is what opens the pane; VaultViewModel.IsHostPaneOpen is the flag, and the context menu has a Details… entry so the pane is reachable without a pointer. Once open the pane follows the selection, because a pane about one host beside a grid marking a different one is two answers to the same question.

The pane is three cards, a fixed header and a fixed footer. Address, General, Connection — the same three in the detail pane and in the host editor, the first as rows and the second as boxes. Only the middle scrolls, so the button each panel exists to offer is never below the fold, which CONNECT could be on a host with fifteen tags. The detail pane's rows are buttons that open the editor: the design draws every fact as a filled box, and rather than draw an input that refuses the pointer, pressing one leads to the same card with a real box in it. Saving is a whole-host operation — it validates the key-or-credential exclusion and writes one encrypted payload — so a box committing per keystroke was never on offer.

A host card is two lines and no chips. The subtitle is ssh, root, pci, eu-west-1: the transport, the resolved account, then every tag. It replaces the user@host:port line and the wrapped row of tag chips below it. The address moved to the card's tooltip rather than nowhere — a card is read while scanning forty machines, where the name and the kind of machine are what is being looked for, and an address is what you read once you have found it.

v4 element What ships instead
Share this host Omitted, as the vault screen's SHARED WITH · 6 is. A grant is per vault and per-item sharing is M5; a button here would imply this one host could be handed over, which is the thing the architecture does not do.
Add Telnet, and Serial in the toolbar Omitted. ISshConnection is the only transport there is. This is also why the card subtitle's ssh is a constant today rather than a reading — it is stated in HostRowViewModel.Summary, which is the one place in this interface where a constant is printed on purpose.
+ SSH ID, Certificate, FIDO2 Omitted. IDENTITIES and CERTIFICATES have been on this document's list since the first import — neither is even a reserved SyncEntityType — and there is no security-key path anywhere in the SSH layer. One control offering three item types that do not exist.
The Backspace / Default row Omitted, and it is the one row on this list that could now be built cheaply — a setting, an opcode and a control, the way the text size was. What it lacks is a reason: which byte backspace sends is a fact about the remote's stty, so a client-side switch fixes a mismatch by hiding it. See the Preferences section.
The chevron beside the vault name The name alone, and the move behind the pane's ⋯ menu instead. A host can now be moved between vaults, so the gap is no longer that there is nothing to offer — it is that a chevron on a subtitle implies an edit, and this is not one: the two vaults are encrypted under different keys, so it is a re-seal into one and a tombstone in the other, the host takes a new id, and its group and tags stay behind. A control that implied "just change this field" would be describing something else. Where a new host goes is still asked in the host editor, as a picker beside the name. A group moves too, from its card's right-click menu, and takes its nested groups and every host filed under them; keys, passwords and buckets take theirs from the keychain screen's standing picker and cannot be moved yet.
Show more ⌄ Not drawn as a disclosure. What it would hide — notes, the relay switch, forgetting the host key — is in the editor, one press away, and a second fold inside a pane that already scrolls is a second place for a field to be missing from.
Port Forwarding in the sidebar Nothing, for the third time in this document.
The host grid's toolbar avatar, share and tag-filter controls Omitted, as in v3 and for the same reasons.

The desktop's v5 — hosts, restyled, and two reversals

A fifth pass, and the first that undoes as much of its own predecessors as it adds: a re-theme both heads share, pinned folders as a full feature, a last-connected time read off the connection log, and two pieces of earlier passes put back on the user's own instruction rather than kept.

The palette went purple, and three fonts are embedded that were only ever named before. The shared scheme moves from v3's near-black-and-blue to a purple accent (#5D42DE, with a gradient and a glow of its own) over the same near-black canvas, and both heads recolour together — Palette.axaml is shared, and a colour is not allowed to mean something different on the two of them. What changed on the desktop alone is the type: Montserrat, JetBrains Mono and Material Icons are embedded as AvaloniaResource in the Shell project rather than requested by name and left to whatever the machine happens to have, the way WithInterFont alone used to leave Inter registered but unused. Montserrat is the default sans now, with Inter kept as its fallback rather than the whole answer; MonoFont gains JetBrains Mono at the front of its own list, ahead of the system-mono stack that is still behind it for a glyph JetBrains Mono does not cover. Android recoloured with the shared palette and kept its own default sans when this paragraph was first written; it does not any more — see "the phone catches up", directly below.

The phone catches up. A later reversal than the one above, on the same reasoning: a face is not a colour, and the user decided the phone should share both rather than only the second. WithInterFont gains the same FontManagerOptions block Program.cs sets, off the same embedded Montserrat, no new asset required. Theme/Phone.axaml's six-rung v2 ladder — 4/9/10/11/12/14 — collapses to the desktop's three: chip or tag 6, button or field 10, card or output 12; Button.fab's 28 and every sheet's 22 survive unchanged, being geometry rather than ladder rungs. Button.primary and Button.fab take AccentGradient and AccentGlow in place of a flat fill, the same swap Button.accent made on the desktop, BoxShadow cleared the same way on disabled. And the phone's own chrome — the vault header, the bottom bar, the shells strip, HostActionBar, the editor headers, the terminal's collapsed bar and every screen's raised selection bar — moves from Chrome/Sidebar to DeepChrome, joining the desktop's own v5b titlebar-and-rail move; PhoneRail's hover takes Track, which Palette.axaml already names for that row. Borders stay keyed.

Flat sections replace the grid of group cards and the breadcrumb trail — reversing v3, on the user's own approval rather than a defect found in it. v3's grid held one level of the group tree at a time, opened by a double-click, with a trail above it saying where you were; that model is retired outright rather than folded into anything; every group is now a heading on one flat board, in label order, exactly the flattening the phone's SidebarRows has always drawn — a headerless board for a groupless keychain, "No group" first where there is one, a chevron per heading and one Collapse All. Nothing here was found broken; the grid did what v3 asked for. The user asked for the phone's shape on the desktop too, and decision 2 in hosts-v5-design-spec.md is that request recorded.

Tag chips and a mono address line are back on the card — reversing v4, also by approval and not by defect. v4 had replaced both with a two-line ssh, root, pci, eu-west-1 subtitle and moved the address to the tooltip alone, on the reasoning that a card read while scanning forty machines wants the kind of machine more than its address. v5's own mock draws chips and an address on every card, and the user chose the mock's arrangement over v4's when the two were put side by side — so the card now carries both: the full address is still on the tooltip, as v4 left it, and a truncated mono copy sits under the name as well.

Pinned folders are a full feature, not a field with nowhere to be edited. HostSecret.PinnedPaths is an ordered, deduplicated list merged per path the way TagIds is merged per tag, so two machines pinning different folders on one host both keep theirs. The drawer's QUICK ACCESS section edits it — a row per pin with a close box, an add field and button, staged on VaultViewModel.EditorPinnedPaths the way the tag picker stages editorTagIds — the card shows a pin-count badge once there is at least one, and the detail pane repeats the list read-only in its own fieldrow idiom. Clicking a pin above a connected terminal opens the SFTP tab with the remote pane navigated straight to that path, through the same connect path "Browse files" already used — a second authenticated connection, exactly as every SFTP session here is.

Last connected is read off the synced connection log, and it is deliberately narrow about when. max(StartedAt) per HostId is computed on the hosts screen's own activation and again when a session ends, then restrung into words on a one-minute tick for as long as the screen stays visible — never on the sync loop, which is the same rule LogsViewModel states for the log itself: nobody is watching their own connection from an hour ago update on a screen they are not looking at. A connected host prints nothing here; the green dot already answers "right now", and printing an age beside it would be answering a question about a session that is not the one still running. It is scoped to the active vault alone, the same limitation LogsViewModel and MainWindowViewModel.RecentConnections already carry — a host filed in a second vault this session can read gets no ago-text until something on this screen reads more than one vault's connection history, which nothing does yet. And a session ending can, briefly, still show the previous entry: the recorder's own write is queued onto a background task rather than made inline, so a re-read landing before that write drains reads the log as it stood before the session it is reporting on closed. It self-heals on the next activation or the next session end, and closing the gap outright was judged not worth blocking a screen transition on the recorder's queue.

Quick connect grew to match, and quietly answers a different question than the mock's own row does. The card widened from 520 to 640, gained the mock's >_ prompt styling and a live dot per row the way the hosts board's own two-state dot works. What it does not draw is the mock's SSH/SFTP kind column — every palette connection here is SSH, so a constant printed as though it varied would be exactly the kind of decoration this document has refused before (the terminal's session footer, the snippet's kind badge); the auth word (credential/key/password) answers a question that is actually different per row instead.

v5 element What ships instead
The status dot's third, amber state Still two states, on the same reasoning v3 and v4 both gave and v5 was asked to reconsider. Green means a terminal is open on that host, grey means one is not; nothing here pings a machine, so the amber "reachable but not connected" state has no fact behind it to draw.
The relay checkbox's mock copy The pre-existing sentence, unchanged, "(not wired up yet)" included — restyled into the mock's own nested-card shape (radius 12, a title beside the box rather than under it) but not reworded. The mock's own copy implies a relay this client can dial; it cannot, for the reason HostDrawer.axaml's own remarks give.
The host card as a link straight to a terminal Click still selects, double-click still connects, and the pencil still opens the pane — the mock's card-as-link is not adopted, because multi-select (Ctrl, Shift, the marquee band) depends on a plain click meaning "choose this one" rather than "go".
Quick connect's SSH/SFTP kind column The auth word — credential, key, or password — see above.
A collapsed section staying collapsed after a restart In memory only, for the running session. settings.json holds two scalars by decision — the terminal's text size and whether this machine checks for updates on its own — and collapse state is not judged worth a third.
QUICK ACCESS's editor, on the phone Shipped, over the same shared data the deferral above described. The phone's host editor draws its own QUICK ACCESS section on the same staged VaultViewModel.EditorPinnedPaths the desktop's drawer binds — a row per pin, an add field and button, and a remove target sized to this head's 44dp touch floor rather than the desktop's 22-pixel close box. AddEditorPinCommand's refusals surface through a Status line the editor page draws for itself, since that page covers the whole screen and the list behind it draws its own Status off-screen for as long as it is open. The pins themselves reach a second surface this head has that the desktop does not need: TransfersViewModel.ConnectedPinnedPaths carries them as chips on the Files screen while connected, and tapping one runs GoRemoteCommand — the same command the breadcrumb trail already used to navigate. Two deviations from the desktop, both named where they land: the chip row is a snapshot taken at connect rather than a live follow of the vault, so a pin edited mid-session shows up on the next connect rather than this one; and the editor's own hint sentence says the pins appear on the Files screen, not above a terminal — this head has no terminal strip for them to sit above, the same honesty the row below already states for the desktop's own hint.
Collapse All beside every section's own collapse chevron Bound on every heading's view model and shown on only the first — SidebarGroupHeader.IsFirstBoardSection is what a virtualised list of sections uses in place of a control of the board's own that would otherwise have to sit above all of them.
The QUICK ACCESS hint's claim that pins live in a sidebar "Pinned folders appear above the terminal for this host." — no sidebar exists on this screen for the sentence to point at, so the shipped hint says where they actually draw.
The mock's "Saving to DodoTech ▾ vault" subtitle, with a picker's chevron inside a sentence The pre-existing DrawerSubtitle wording — the vault's name alone, unchanged by this pass. A chevron inside running text implies the text itself is the control, which it is not: the vault picker is its own element, shown only while creating and only above one writable vault, as it always has been.
The design's two deeper text steps, #6D6F84 and #5D5F74 Not added as Palette.axaml keys. TextGhost, already repicked to #7C7F98 for v3, is reused everywhere the design reaches for either — a resource nothing yet distinguishes from TextGhost is not free to carry, on the same reasoning the border ramp's own remarks give.

The desktop's v5b — chrome, session shell and SFTP restyled

A sixth pass, and the first aimed at the chrome and the two screens somebody spends the most time inside rather than at any one screen on its own. What shipped: the titlebar and nav rail redrawn against TitleBar.dc.html and NavRail.dc.html — a segmented SSH/SFTP/S3 switcher at the rail's own head, a mode-dependent first row beneath it, and Vaults and Preferences moved off the rail's list and into a popover under the user chip at its foot. The terminal and the SFTP surface both gained a session shell — an in-screen tab row, a host header, a bottom status bar and a 300-pixel QUICK ACCESS/SNIPS sidebar — replacing the window-wide tab strip v3 built and the pin-chip strip that used to sit above the terminal alone. The SFTP screen's own two panes and its TRANSFERS strip were restyled against SFTP.dc.html — row grids, quiet Material glyphs, slim progress bars — and three screens that had never had a .dc.html of their own got one each: Keychain, Snippets (titled Snips on screen now, matching the rail) and Logs.

The nav rail stopped being conditional furniture, and that is the one structural change underneath the paint. v3 drew it only under the Vaults tab, so SFTP, S3 and an open terminal each got the window's full width; v5b's own fidelity pass puts the rail up beside all three, because the design draws it that way and because the segmented switcher now living at its head is only worth having if it stays reachable from everywhere. MainWindowViewModel.IsVaultsTab still exists and still answers the question it always did — which of the rail's own six destinations is on screen, as opposed to SFTP or S3 — but nothing about it gates the rail's own visibility any more. The window's minimum grew again to hold the difference: 1016x574 became 1081x583, nine pixels for the titlebar's 44-to-53 and sixty-five for the rail's 190-to-255, added straight onto the minimum rather than absorbed by shrinking a screen — see MainWindow.axaml's own remark and LayoutHarness.MinimumWidth/MinimumHeight. ScreenWidth held at 826 because the rail is the only thing beside a page that grew; ScreenHeight grew by the 42 pixels the retired tab strip used to cost every screen, because nothing replaced that strip as chrome every screen pays for — the terminal and SFTP surfaces pay for their own tab row out of their own session-shell budget instead. See LayoutHarness.ScreenHeight and SessionScreenHeight.

v5b element What ships instead
The host header's OS label (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) and latency reading (12 ms) Neither. The client does not know the remote's OS and nothing measures round-trip time — the same two absences the terminal pane header already recorded before this pass, carried into the new header rather than reopened.
A Port forward button on the host header Omitted. The feature does not exist; see the FORWARDING rows earlier in this document.
The tab and status dots' third, amber state Still two states, for the reason the hosts screen's own dot has stayed two states since v3: green means a shell is open (or a session is connected), grey means it is not, and nothing here pings a host to justify a third colour meaning "reachable but not connected".
The status bar's negotiated cipher, host-key algorithm and key/credential name Shipped, on both surfaces, with three honest deviations. ISshConnection and ISftpSession now both carry Cipher — the server-to-client algorithm off SSH.NET's own ConnectionInfo.CurrentServerEncryption, captured once at construction because a rekey is not an event SSH.NET raises — and TerminalWorkspace.GetSessionFacts hands the cipher and the host key's algorithm back to the shell the moment a session opens; VaultViewModel.TryBuildAuthentication now threads the authenticating key's or credential's own Label into HostAuthentication.IdentityLabel, all the way to MainWindowViewModel's surface-aware SessionCipher, SessionHostKeyAlgorithm and SessionIdentityLabel, composed into one SessionIdentityText run for the status bar. Three deviations from the mock, not omissions: the algorithm prints exactly as negotiated (ssh-ed25519), not the design's shortened ed25519, because trimming it would be an edit to a string this client did not choose; the run is plain text rather than the design's clickable element, because there is no pin-details modal for a session that is already open, and drawing a click target for a screen that does not exist would itself be a fabrication; and a typed-password session — nothing filed in the keychain to name — shows the host-key algorithm alone, with no · after it, because there is no item behind the dot.
S3 dimmed in the design's own switcher Enabled. The mock leaves S3 as future work; this application already has bucket browsing, so SSH, SFTP and S3 are a true three-way segment, wired to IsSshShowing, IsTransfersShowing and IsBucketsShowing exactly alike.
The S3/Buckets screen Did not get the session shell in v5b. TransfersScreen serves both SFTP and S3 today and only the SFTP usage in MainWindow.axaml sat inside the new tab row/header/status bar/sidebar; the S3 usage was unchanged at the time. v5c gives it the shell's own look without the machinery — a 26-pixel padded, bordered, radius-12 container and nothing past that, since a bucket has no tab to close, no host to head a card with and no pin for a sidebar to show; see the v5c section, below.
No pins destination in the design at all The rail agrees with the design now. KnownHostsScreen is still built and still reachable — from Host keys on the Keys screen's own header, which was always the second way in — but the rail's Pins row is gone. It was kept through v5b on the grounds that the mock has no screen for approved host keys, which is a reason for the screen to exist and was never a reason for a rail entry once the keychain had a door to the same place. Two rail rows landing on one screen is a rail that has to be read twice.
The popover's Settings and Preferences rows, and the design's own Settings-* family of screens Landed in v5c. What was two doors to one room in v5b — Settings and Preferences both opening the same bare Preferences screen — is now two of three doors onto their own settings pages: Settings opens General, Preferences opens Preferences, and a third row, Vaults, opens Vaults. All three are real, distinct pages inside one settings mode; see the v5c section, below.
· Org after the user chip's name, and a Primary tag on a vault row in the popover Neither. There is no organisation concept behind a vault — only the vault itself — and no vault is distinguished as primary; the popover's vault rows are the existing shown-vaults toggles, restyled.
The design's titlebar, which has nowhere for a sync indicator SYNCED stays, on the titlebar's right side, ahead of the window's own minimise/maximise/close buttons — the one thing this titlebar keeps that the design's own does not draw at all.
Per-tab SFTP sessions, implied by a tab row shared between the terminal and the SFTP surface Not built, and not what shipped instead. A click on the SFTP tab row runs MainWindowViewModel.SelectFilesHostAsync, which opens (or reuses) a second, SFTP-specific connection through the same "Browse files" plumbing a pin click already used — an honest second login, not a channel multiplexed onto the terminal's. SelectedTab moves with the click, which is also what keeps the sidebar's QUICK ACCESS in step — that list is keyed to SelectedTab on both surfaces, so selecting a different terminal tab afterwards can leave QUICK ACCESS naming a host that is not the one the remote pane is actually browsing.
A scroll-to-section affordance behind the sidebar's + Pin folder row Not built — this application has no way to open the host editor already scrolled to one card inside it. PinFolderFromSidebarCommand opens the same three-card editor the hosts screen's own EDIT reaches, at the top, which is the closest honest affordance rather than a new one.
The TRANSFERS strip's aggregate throughput readout (8.4 MB/s beside an arrow) Omitted. TransferRowViewModel.Progress computes a rate per transfer; nothing sums those into one number for the whole queue, and inventing one would be exactly the fabricated fact this document's honesty rule forbids.
Freshness/"hot row" colouring and a selection ring on a finished transfer Not drawn — there is no tracked notion of how recently a row finished, so nothing distinguishes a transfer that just completed from one that finished an hour ago.
The design's Material-Symbols-only "draft" glyph for a file row insert_drive_file, the closest classic Material Icons has — a plain document rather than a page with a folded corner. Recorded as a substitution rather than silently swapped; "draft" is simply not a glyph this font contains.
REMOTE across the SFTP panes' arrow column HOST/BUCKET, kept from before this pass rather than adopted from the design. The pair is the difference between a directory tree and a flat namespace with inferred folders, which is a distinction worth keeping even where the design collapses it.
THIS MACHINE on the local pane LOCAL, the design's own word, adopted — nothing in this file's own comments ever defended "THIS MACHINE" the way HOST/BUCKET is defended above, so there was no reason to keep it.
The Keychain screen's MODIFIED column and FINGERPRINT box Both dropped. VaultItem carries no timestamp of any kind, and SshKeySecret has no fingerprint field — computing one would mean parsing armour the type stores verbatim, an already-recorded gap this pass did not revisit.
Five separate add buttons (GENERATE / + SSH KEY / + PASSWORD / + TAG / + BUCKET) One + New key accent button, opening a menu of the same five actions in the same order — the design draws one button because its own mock has one "add" concept; this application has five, and none of them was dropped to fit.
NEW ITEMS GO TO on the vault-filing picker NEW ITEMS FILE TO, the design's own wording, adopted — this screen's own comments already called the act "filing", so the label was this application's vocabulary already.
The Snippets screen's own on-screen name Snips, matching the rail, which already said so.
A modified-date on a snippet card Omitted — SnippetSecret carries no timestamp, the same absence every other item kind has.
The design's shorter captions — "Type into terminal", the rationale-only sentence for "runs on insert" The screen's own longer, more actionable wording kept instead: the insert button still names the destination tab (TYPE INTO {tab} / NO TERMINAL OPEN), and the "runs on insert" caption still states the operational consequence rather than only the reason the setting exists. Both of the design's sentences are true; the ones already here say more.
A delete confirmation for a snippet Built, matching the mock. SnippetsViewModel.RequestDelete/ConfirmDelete/CancelDelete say the same vault-wide-reach, tombstone, no-undo sentence VaultViewModel.HowFarADeletionGoes already says for every other item kind — additive beside the existing uncounted DeleteCommand, which the phone's own DELETE row still calls.
The Logs screen's own footer sentence about encryption Adopted verbatim — verified against this screen's own header remark and ADR 0001 before shipping it, both true, so it is drawn as literal text rather than reworded.

The desktop's v5c — a settings area, at last

An eighth pass, and the first to give the design's own Settings area a home of its own rather than folding its two real screens into the rail's popover. Settings is a full-window mode now, swapped in wholesale rather than laid over anything: its own 53px titlebar reading "Back to application", a 340px SettingsNav rail — SETTINGS (General, Vaults, Account) above CUSTOMIZE (Security, Preferences, Groups, Tags), Logout pinned below both — and a content column capped at the design's own 1100 pixels, which is 741 beside the rail at the window's own minimum rather than the full 1100 (LayoutHarness.SettingsContentWidth). Seven pages, not the design's eight: the ORGANISATION section and its one page are refused outright, below. Two of the seven are wholly new — Account and Security did not exist as screens before this pass — and the other five are the old PreferencesScreen.axaml and VaultsScreen.axaml split apart and restyled into the design's own card idiom; both files are deleted, and every command either one offered is reachable here exactly once. The popover's own Settings, Vaults and Preferences rows, and everywhere else in the codebase that used to navigate to the bare Preferences or Vaults screen, now land in this mode instead — MainWindowViewModel.ShowScreen redirects at that one point rather than at every caller that used to reach either screen directly.

The importer moved inside this same chrome rather than staying a screen of its own: it draws over the Preferences page as a boolean overlay — SettingsNav stays lit on Preferences the whole time it is open, and the titlebar's own back button reads "Back to preferences" instead of "Back to application" — restyled to the design's own table (ALIAS/HOSTNAME/USER/PORT/WHAT THIS MEANS, one header tick-all button in place of the old TICK ALL/TICK NONE pair). Known Hosts was restyled the same pass but kept its own place: it stays a main-chrome screen, reached from the rail's Keys entry and now also from Security's own "Approved host keys" row, because the design draws no page for it at all. And the S3/Buckets surface — which got none of v5b's session shell — picked up that shell's look this time without its machinery: a 26-pixel padded, bordered, radius-12 container and nothing else, since a bucket has no tab row, no host to head a card with, no status-bar fact to print and no pin for a sidebar to show.

v5c element What ships instead
The Settings-Organisation page, and the rail's own ORGANISATION section Refused outright. No organisation entity exists anywhere in this product — a team is the membership list behind a shared vault, and there is exactly one tenant per deployment — so the rail simply has no third section; see SettingsNav.axaml's own remark.
General: the update-channel switcher, Launch at login, Reopen tabs, the theme control and the language picker Refused, and carried on the page's own NOT BUILT YET card rather than left silently missing: which channel a copy follows is fixed when it is built, nothing registers this application with Windows' own startup list or remembers a tab list across a launch, only the one dark theme exists, and there is no i18n anywhere in this client.
Vaults: the VAULT DEFAULTS card (auto-lock, require-password-on-unlock, relay) and the RECOVERY card (kit, export) Both refused outright — none of the three settings exists, sync is always on, and there is no recovery kit and no export.
Vaults: "Manage devices", and the "3 devices" count on the sync line Refused. There is no list-devices endpoint anywhere in this client.
Vaults: per-vault UNLOCKED/LOCKED chips, and the "Unlock ⟨vault⟩" modal Refused. This application locks the keychain as a whole, not one vault at a time, so there is no per-vault state for a chip or a modal to act on; the keychain-level fact is the sync card's own dot instead.
Vaults: the magenta "Default" badge Dropped rather than faked. The app does track a "new items go to" vault, but that lives on a different view model than the row being drawn here, and cross-referencing the two per card would be more machinery than the badge is worth.
Vaults: "Sorted by name ▾" Decorative in the mock, and not drawn — VaultsViewModel.Vaults is already ordered personal-first-then-name, and there is no second order to switch to.
Vaults: member avatar stacks on every card Refused on an unselected card — VaultRowViewModel carries a member count, not the members themselves, and only the selected vault's own member list is actually loaded. A count stands in on the card; avatars are real in the members panel, where the data is.
Account: Edit profile, Change passphrase, the DEVICES list, Sign out everywhere All four refused — no endpoint exists for any of them, and the passphrase is a one-time enrollment choice with no change flow. What is new and real on this page instead: the SIGN-IN card's issuer sentence, MainWindowViewModel.Issuer off MeResponse.Issuer, cached the same turn the name and email are and surfaced here for the first time — "Signing in proves who you are — it never decrypts a vault."
Security: the strict-host-key toggle, the allowed-algorithms chips, the auto-lock link row Refused — the app always asks on a changed key, there is no algorithm allow-list anywhere in the SSH stack, and there is no auto-lock setting for the link to point at.
Security: RECENT SECURITY EVENTS as a list of rows Shipped as the link alone, "See all activity in Logs." A real list would mean a filtered read over LogsViewModel's two logs, and which entries count as "security" is a judgement call the design does not resolve; the honest link is complete on its own.
Preferences: the device-name editor, Font/Cursor/Scrollback/Copy on select/Terminal bell, the clipboard-clear delay, confirm-run-on-insert All refused, on the page's own carried-over NOT-BUILT idiom — none of the seven has anything behind it. Windows Hello's register/"Stop unlocking here" pair moved off this page to Security instead, one home rather than two.
Groups: drag-to-reorder, and the mock's "the order here is the order there" sentence Refused. HostGroupRowViewModel orders by the vault new items go into, then by vault name, then by label — there is no manual order to drag into. The page prints the true sentence instead and draws no drag handles.
Tags: the LAST APPLIED column Refused — no timestamp of when a tag was last put on a host exists anywhere in this client.
Tags: a per-tag vault chip Refused — TagRowViewModel carries a label and a host count and nothing else; there is no vault id on the row for a chip to read.
Import: the "saving to ⟨vault⟩ ▾" picker Refused as a control. Every import writes through the same session.ActiveVaultId every other bulk write does, so there is no per-import target to choose — the footer prints the vault's name as a fact, ImportViewModel.SelectionSummary, rather than as a .
Import: the old ADDRESS/AUTHENTICATION/STATE columns Folded into the design's own column set — ALIAS/HOSTNAME/USER/PORT — with the authentication text moved onto the alias cell's own tooltip rather than kept as a column of its own.
Import: TICK ALL / TICK NONE Replaced by the design's own header tick-all button, one press that ticks or unticks every row through ImportRowViewModel.ToggleAllCommand.
Import as a nav-rail destination Refused. It is a boolean overlay over the Preferences settings page (MainWindowViewModel.IsImportOpen), not a page of its own — SettingsNav stays lit on Preferences throughout, exactly as Import.dc.html draws it.
The design's fixed 1100px content column MaxWidth="1100" rather than a fixed width — the column is 741 pixels beside the 340px rail at the window's own minimum, where a fixed 1100 would not fit.
The status bar and the update banner, while in settings mode Both hidden — MainWindow.axaml's bottom two rows read !IsSettingsMode. The design's own settings titlebar has no room for either, and there is nowhere honest to draw them instead.
The design's sentence-case button copy Not adopted. Every button on every settings page keeps this application's own ALL-CAPS mono convention — CHECK NOW, SIGN OUT, OPEN IMPORTER — over the mock's own "Check now".
The design's assumption that Settings is the only thing on screen Not followed. The quick-connect palette and an unapproved host key's decision card both still draw over settings mode exactly as they interrupt every other screen — a connection question does not stop mattering because the window happens to be showing Settings; see MainWindow.axaml's own remark on the ordering of its Panel.
The importer's own sentence, "This is the only control in DodoSSH that opens key material from a directory you did not point at file by file — nothing is read until Import is pressed." Adopted verbatim — verified against ImportViewModel.ScanAsync and ImportAsync: scanning never calls SshConfigLocator.ReadIdentity, and ImportAsync is the only path that ever does.
The tags page's own sentence, "Renaming here is one write and every host follows." Adopted verbatim — verified against SaveTagAsync: a host names a tag by id, never by label, so a rename touches nothing but the tag item itself.
The known-hosts screen's own intro, "Every pin is a decision recorded at the moment of connecting. Fingerprints are never trimmed — compare them character by character against what the operator published." Adopted verbatim, matching the stance the rest of this application already takes on a pin.

Most of it landed. This file is the rest: every element of that design with nothing behind it, which project each piece would have to land in, and what the shipped interface does instead. That last column is the important one. This codebase states its limits rather than implying them — the README does it for revocation, for relay session recording and for what locking does not do — so nothing here was rendered with invented data to make a screenshot look finished. Where a feature does not exist, the interface either omits it or says so.

Read alongside the milestone plan. Most of what follows is not a defect. M2 and M3 have since arrived and their rows say so; what is left is either M5 — per-item content keys, and the sharing that would rest on them — or a decision recorded here not to build the thing at all.

The shape of the problem

Three facts explain nearly every row below.

An SSH connection here opens exactly one channel. ISshConnection offers OpenShellAsync and nothing else (src/DodoSSH.Client.Ssh/SshConnection.cs). No port forwarding, no ProxyJump. That one fact removes the FORWARDS chip, the status bar's port list, and every via bastion-eu in the design.

It used to remove the file-transfer screen too. M2 did not lift the restriction — it worked around it: file transfer is a separate connection rather than a second channel, because SSH.NET's SftpClient owns its own transport. See File transfer, which is the one place in this document where what shipped differs from what the row predicted.

Teams are schema and nothing else. Built in M3. The team and team_membership tables were there from the first migration with nothing reading them, and VaultAccessService.ResolveAsync denied every vault that was not the caller's own. Both changed in M3 and neither needed a migration, which is what carrying two unused tables bought. See Vaults. What has not changed is the split underneath: the server decides what it will serve, and only a client can decide who can read it — so "shared with" is two facts on this screen, not one.

One table was added and then dropped again, and the round trip is worth a line. An invitation named an address, and team_membership.user_id is not nullable and carries a foreign key, so somebody who has never signed in had nothing for that row to point at — which is why MembershipStatus.Invited has been reserved since the first migration and has never once been written. team_invitation existed for that one reason and is gone: membership is granted only to an account that exists, so there is no longer a shape the reservation fails to cover. The status stays reserved, because the column holds it in nobody's database and a client must not fail on a value a later server might send. See ADR 0009.

The client's settings file holds two things. It writes three files — cache.db, device.key and settings.json — and the cache's six tables still hold none of them. ClientSettings carries the terminal's text size and whether this machine looks for a newer build on its own, and both survive a restart. Everything else on the design's TERMINAL panel is unbuilt rather than unbuildable: the data plane grew TerminalServerOpcode.FontSize to carry the one that shipped, so a second option is an opcode, a setting and a control rather than a new mechanism.

Three things the design did not ask for and this build now has. A key can be generated in the client rather than pasted in (SshKeyGenerator, and the openssh-key-v1 container is written by hand — see OpenSshKeyWriter for why there was no alternative and why it is written unencrypted). Hosts can be imported from ~/.ssh/config (DodoSSH.Client.Import; ProxyJump is recorded as intent because the SSH layer still has no jump hosts, and the private keys the config names come in only behind a tick that starts off — the one control in this application that opens key material out of a directory the user did not point at file by file, which is why nothing is read until IMPORT is pressed). And the file-transfer screen takes drag and drop in four directions — remote to Explorer is the one that does not ship, because it needs a virtual file the platform layer cannot supply; see docs/manual-checks.md.

The rail has six destinations, not five. The design gives host keys no slot at all. They were a fourth category on the keychain screen for a while and are now a screen of their own, KnownHostsScreen, because the other categories are things somebody creates and edits and a pin is a decision recorded at the moment of connecting — and because comparing an untruncated fingerprint against a published one needs a column layout the shared table could not give it.

The product surface says "keychain" and everything under it says "vault", deliberately. The nav rail, the unlock and enrollment copy, and every sentence a user reads now call the encrypted store a keychain. The wire does not: the route is /api/v1/vaults/{vaultId}, the tables are vault and vault_key_grant, the CLR types are VaultViewModel and VaultSession, and docs/crypto.md — which is normative — says "vault key". Renaming those would break every deployed client, need a table-rename migration, and put CryptoSpec.AadResourceType.Vault = 3 inside the blast radius of a find-and-replace, where changing it would make every item in every vault permanently unreadable. So the split is the answer rather than a stage on the way to one: read "vault" in this repository as the name of the cryptographic object, and "keychain" as what the product calls it.

One thing cuts the other way and is worth knowing before planning any of this: the wire protocol already reserves the slots. SyncEntityType (src/DodoSSH.Contracts/SyncEntityType.cs) has HostGroup = 4, Tag = 5, HostTag = 6, HostCredential = 7, Snippet = 8 and PortForward = 9 — reserved, unused, and already covered by the AAD resource-type table. Groups, tags and snippets are new item types on an existing protocol rather than a protocol change.

Two of those slots are now taken. HostGroup and Snippet shipped as full item kinds — a table, an EF configuration, a server kind that refuses every plaintext field, a codec, a merge, a cipher and a repository — and neither needed a contract change, which is what the reservation bought. Tag = 5 has since shipped the same way, for the same cost, and is the clearest case the reservation ever paid for: a whole item kind, a table, a migration and an AAD arm, with PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt untouched.

HostTag, HostCredential and PortForward are still reserved and still unused — and HostTag is now reserved against a decision rather than pending one. Which hosts wear a tag is a set of ids inside each host's payload, not a join: the one thing a join buys over that is two machines tagging the same host without either losing, and the client's per-key three-way merge already gives it. A second item type would be a second table and a second pass through every rule in this file, for nothing.

A third was added for something the design never mentioned: ObjectStore = 13, an S3-compatible bucket and the keys that reach it. It is a keychain item like any other — the endpoint and the secret access key are both inside the payload, and the server refuses every plaintext field including the endpoint, because for everybody self-hosting that is an address on their own network.

What made it cheap is that the transfer queue never needed anything SSH-specific: IRemoteFileStore was lifted out of ISftpSession with only the host key left behind, and a bucket is the same contract with a different implementation. Three things a bucket genuinely cannot do are refused with a reason rather than approximated — there are no directories (only keys with slashes in them, and a marker object for an empty one), no resumable upload (an object cannot be written from the middle), and no atomic rename (a copy and a delete). Downloads do resume, because a ranged GET is part of the protocol.

Two members were added rather than claimed: ConnectionLogEntry = 11 and ActivityLogEntry = 12, the first additions to SyncEntityType since it was frozen. Logs are synced items rather than local files because they are audit records — an administrator has to be able to read a shared vault's history once teams land, and a log kept only on the machine that produced it can be neither read nor trusted by anybody else. ADR 0001 records what that costs in metadata; it is not free and it is not hidden.

Three properties are worth knowing before touching them. An entry is written once, at close and never updated, which is what lets a synced log avoid a merge entirely. Neither kind is audited, which is the guard that stops the activity log producing an entry for every entry it writes. And both are excluded from the pending-change count and from what a background sync announces — those numbers answer "how much of my work is not yet safe", and a log entry is not somebody's work.

One plaintext field was taken away rather than used. SyncPlaintextFields.GroupId has existed since the contract was frozen and host.group_id since the first migration; no client ever wrote either. Group membership is inside the encrypted payload instead, the column is dropped, and the server now refuses the field with a reason — because what it would have handed the operator is a clustering of every user's estate, and ADR 0004's test for a plaintext concession is that the server cannot function without it. The wire field cannot be removed and stays as a permanently refused member; SyncEndpointTests holds the refusal.


Chrome — titlebar, nav rail, status bar

Design element Layer What it would take What ships instead
Org chip dodotech / platform contracts + server An organisation above teams, which does not exist — VaultSummary.TeamId is no longer always null since M3, but a team is not an org and there is exactly one tenant per deployment. The vault's own name, and the account this machine is enrolled as. Team names are on the VAULTS screen, where they are about something.
SYNCED dot, always green client-app Nothing — the design's claim is simply unconditional. Green only when a connection is held, the last sync pass actually reached the server, and the outbox is empty; otherwise UNREACHABLE, the count of changes still waiting, or OFFLINE. Holding an IVaultServer proves a sign-in once succeeded and nothing more, so a laptop whose lid has been shut all afternoon still has one — reachability comes from the outcome of the last pass. A permanently green light is the same as no light.
VAULT SYNCED 11:02 client-session StoredSyncState.LastPulledAt/LastPushedAt are persisted, but VaultSession exposes the store as internal. A property away. Omitted. The one honest sync fact — the outbox depth — is in the titlebar and the status bar.
⌘K command palette running commands client-domain A snippet or saved-command item type (SyncEntityType.Snippet = 8 is reserved). Ctrl+K opens a real host search that connects on Enter. The box says "search hosts", not "search hosts · run command".
Status bar · via bastion-eu client-ssh Jump-host execution. See below. Omitted.
Status bar port forwards client-ssh Port forwarding. See below. Omitted.
Status bar sftp · 2 transfers client-app Nothing now — file transfer is built. What is missing is the count reaching the status bar, which is a screen away from where the queue lives. Omitted from the status bar. The queue itself is on the FILES screen, with a row per transfer.
Status bar locks in 09:41 client-app An idle auto-lock. See preferences below. Omitted.
IBM Plex Mono / IBM Plex Sans ui Shipping the font files as AvaloniaResource and registering them. The design loads them from Google Fonts, which a desktop app cannot. Shipped, since v5, and not IBM Plex. The v5 design asked for Montserrat, JetBrains Mono and Material Icons instead, and all three are embedded as AvaloniaResource in the Shell project rather than requested by name and left to whatever the machine happens to have. Montserrat is the default sans, with Inter — the earlier substitution — kept only as its fallback; MonoFont puts JetBrains Mono first, ahead of the system-monospace stack the terminal still falls back to. Named once each in Program.cs and Palette.axaml, so a later design's fonts are still a one-line swap.
⌘K, ⌥↵ ui Nothing; the design is Mac-flavoured. CTRL K. Development is Windows-only today (docs/platform-flags.md).

Also worth knowing: custom chrome went in as SystemDecorations="BorderOnly", not by extending the client area. ExtendClientAreaChromeHints was removed in Avalonia 12, so extending leaves the system caption buttons and window title drawn on top of the application's own — two sets of window controls, and "DodoSSH" printed twice. Measured, not assumed.


Hosts + terminal

Design element Layer What it would take What ships instead
Tag chips (nginx, eu, pg16) client-domain A tag item type, and a way to put one on a host. Shipped. Tag = 5 is a live item kind and HostSecret.TagIds names them, merged per tag so two people tagging one host both keep theirs — which is what HostTag = 6 was going to buy, so it stays reserved and unused. Chips are drawn on host rows on both heads and toggled in the host editor, which also creates one inline; renaming and deleting are a TAGS category on the keychain screen. The filter box still searches name, address and notes only — a chip is read rather than typed.
Groups PRODUCTION / STAGING / PERSONAL client-domain A host-group item type (HostGroup = 4, reserved) or a group field on HostSecret. Shipped, as both: VaultHostGroup is a synced item kind and HostSecret.GroupId names one. A group carries a ParentId and the defaults its hosts inherit, and the two heads draw the nesting differently on purpose. The desktop is a grid of cards holding one level at a time, the way a directory pane holds one directory; the phone has no room for a row of cards, so it flattens the whole tree into one heading per group in label order with no indentation. A keychain with no groups renders exactly as it did before on both — one flat list, no headings and no cards.
Group badge TEAM·PLATFORM server Built in M3. The vault's name on each row, and the personal vault ordered first. Not the team's name: two of a team's vaults would then carry the same badge and the badge would be naming the wrong thing. Distinct from the groups above, and deliberately so — a group is a shelf the user chose, a vault is who can read the item.
Groups on a team's hosts client-domain A vault id on each group row for rename and delete, and a way to tell two vaults' identically-named groups apart in a list with one heading per group. Shipped, and it is what makes a shared vault an arrangement rather than a heap. Both halves are paid for: the row carries the vault it came out of, so rename and delete go back to it, and the vault's name is drawn beside the group's on the desktop's cards and the phone's headings wherever the session holds more than one — which is what lets two production groups sit side by side. The group editor asks which vault a new group goes into, on the terms the host editor's picker set: while adding only, hidden at one writable vault, and never offered afterwards, because the two are encrypted under different keys. The parent picker is that vault's alone, for the reason the host editor's group picker is — a parent in another vault is a level half the key holders cannot resolve. Dragging a host card onto a group card in another vault is refused with the reason, rather than filing it under an id nobody in its own vault can read. The resolution map stays wider than the list and still spans hidden vaults: a group lends a port, a username and a binding, so a host whose group went unread would silently dial 22 as nobody while the machine is on 2222 as deploy.
Per-host status dot, three colours client-ssh The amber state would mean "reachable but not connected", and nothing here ever probes a host. Two states, both real: green when a terminal is open on that host, grey when not.
· ⤷ bastion-eu in the host subtitle client-ssh Jump hosts are data-only. HostSecret.JumpHostIds is a JumpChain that is stored, encrypted, synced and three-way merged — and nothing reads it at connect time. SshConnectionRequest carries one host. Omitted. The stored chain is preserved untouched by every edit.
SPLIT ⌘D and side-by-side panes client-ssh + ui The renderer stacks panes and shows one (terminal.css: .pane { position:absolute; inset:0; display:none }). Tiling needs a real pane geometry and a splitter. Omitted. Tabs ship instead, over the same one-WebView multiplexing.
⇄ FORWARDS · 2 client-ssh Port forwarding. SyncEntityType.PortForward = 9 is reserved; nothing in the SSH layer forwards anything. Omitted.
SNIPPETS panel, to run client-domain A snippet item type (Snippet = 8, reserved). Shipped, as a screen rather than a panel. is per snippet and off by default: inserting types the command at the prompt and stops, because nothing here can tell whether the terminal is at a prompt at all.
Broadcast to all panes (⌥↵) client-ssh Input is routed strictly by session id in TerminalDataPlane.Dispatch; there is no fan-out. Needs splits first. Omitted.
Pane header 24ms client-ssh Round-trip measurement. SSH.NET offers no RTT API. Omitted.
Pane header aes256-gcm client-ssh No longer a miss — the plumbing this row used to lack now exists. ISshConnection.Cipher and TerminalWorkspace.GetSessionFacts were built for the v5b session shell's status bar; see that row in the v5b section, above. Still not on a pane header — this pre-v5b element does not exist as its own piece of chrome any more. The fact it wanted to show is drawn instead where v5b moved it: the status bar's SessionCipher, beside CONNECTED. The session shell's host header separately shows the account and endpoint actually dialled (v3v4: the tab strip did; v5b moved that fact to SessionHeader, off MainWindowViewModel.SessionAddress, when the strip was retired).
Pane header showing the running command and following client-ssh The host moves opaque bytes and never parses terminal output. Would need shell integration (OSC 133) on the remote. Omitted.
A local · zsh tab client-ssh Every session here is an SSH channel. Needs ConPTY and a second session kind. Omitted.
Tab strip + button ui Not missing so much as redundant: the real operation is select a host, press Connect, which the hosts grid already is. Shipped, as the palette rather than a menu: it opens what Ctrl+K opens, so the strip and the shortcut are one way of doing one thing. A MenuFlyout offering "SSH" and "local shell" is the nicer answer and is not verifiably safe above the terminal's native child window — and there is no local shell to offer.
Terminal font size (--termfs, 1116px) client-storage Shipped, and wider than the design's range: 832px from the preferences screen or Ctrl+plus/minus/0 over a terminal, carried by TerminalServerOpcode.FontSize and kept in settings.json. It resizes the grid rather than magnifying it, so every live pane refits and the remotes are told how many columns they now have.

File transfer (the design's SFTP screen)

Built in M2. The screen ships: two directory panes, a breadcrumb trail on each, and a queue that moves one file at a time with progress, throughput and resume. What follows is what it does not do, and one thing this document got wrong before it was built.

The correction. The row below used to say an SFTP subsystem channel on ISshConnection was what it would take. SSH.NET does not offer that: SftpClient derives from BaseClient and owns its own transport, and there is no supported way to hand it a session an SshClient already has. So the transfers screen opens a second authenticated connection to the host rather than a second channel on the terminal's. That is visible to a user — the host records a second login, and a host whose password is typed each time asks for it again on this screen — so it is named for what it is: ISftpSessionFactory.OpenSftpAsync is a connect, and it goes through the same host key gate, the same pin and the same two refusals a shell does.

Design element Layer What ships
SFTP itself client-ssh ISftpSession over SSH.NET's SftpClient: listing, stat, offset-based read and write, mkdir, delete and rename. Delete is deliberately not recursive.
Remote listing with NAME/SIZE/MODIFIED/PERMS client-ssh All four. PosixMode renders drwxr-xr-x from the bits SFTP hands over; setuid, setgid and sticky are not shown, because SSH.NET does not surface them and rwx where rws is true would be worse than nothing.
Local listing client-transfer LocalDirectory, which is where this client's System.IO now lives. PERMS is blank on the local side rather than filled with a plausible-looking POSIX mode that is not a fact about a file on Windows.
Transfer queue, progress, throughput client-transfer FileTransferQueue. One transfer at a time, so the rate on a row is the rate of the link rather than a share of it. Throughput is measured over a half-second window, not averaged since the start.
resume supported client-transfer Within a run of the application. Every transfer writes to a .dodossh-part file beside its destination and is renamed into place at the end, so an interrupted one can never be mistaken for a finished one, and RESUME carries on from the part file's own length. A part file found at startup is not resumed: nothing records what wrote it, and resuming on the strength of a name matching is how a corrupt artefact gets delivered with nothing reporting a failure. Making it survive a restart needs somewhere to record what wrote each part file — the source, the offset and the run — which is a table rather than a setting; settings.json holds two scalars and is not that.
Design element Layer What it would take What ships instead
Per-host last directory client-storage Somewhere to persist two panes' navigation state per host, which is a table rather than a scalar — settings.json holds two of those and is the wrong shape for a row per machine. The remote pane opens on the account's home directory, which the server canonicalises during the handshake; the local pane opens on the user profile.
sftp over bastion-eu client-ssh Jump hosts, as above. HostSecret.JumpHostIds is still stored, synced, merged and read by nothing. Omitted.
Overwriting a file that is already there ui A prompt, which means a modal this window has no idiom for. Refused, with the name that is in the way. The remote pane has DELETE and MKDIR so the refusal is not a dead end.
Dragging between the panes ui Drag-and-drop between two ListBoxes, plus a drop target that is a directory rather than a row. Two arrow buttons between the panes, pointing at the pane the file is going to.
Transferring a directory client-transfer Recursive enumeration on both sides, and a policy for what a partial directory means. One file at a time. A directory cannot be selected as a transfer source.

Not to be reached for: CreditWindow is a 256 KiB flow-control window for terminal output, not a transfer primitive. The queue does its own 64 KiB copy loop and shares nothing with the terminal data plane.


Keychain — the design's Vault screen

The screen ships and is real: four categories over the vault's four item types, one table, a detail pane, and both editors. It is called the Keychain in both heads, which is what the rail has always labelled it; the section below keeps the design's word only where it quotes the design. What follows is what the design drew around them.

Design element Layer What it would take What ships instead
ACCESS column and your access → CONNECT-ONLY server Per-item ACLs. EncryptedPayload.DataKeyId is documented as the seam for per-item grants in M5. VaultSummary does carry an opaque int Permissions, but nothing gives the bits a meaning on the wire — PermissionFlags itself lives in DodoSSH.Domain — and those are per vault, never per item. There is no ConnectOnly role in TeamRole at all. Omitted. The column shows sync state instead — whether a change is still sitting in this machine's outbox — which the design had no column for.
SHARED WITH · 6 avatars server Built in M3, minus the avatars — no picture is stored anywhere. GET /api/v1/vaults/{id}/grants lists who holds a key. The list lives on the VAULTS screen, beside the members it is about, rather than as a count on an item row: a grant is per vault, and putting a number on an item would imply per-item sharing, which is M5.
"Private key never leaves the vault. Sessions sign through the team agent (dodod)" client-ssh Both sentences are false here, and the second cannot be made true by this architecture. There is no agent of any kind, and the connect path decrypts the private key and hands the bytes to SSH.NET. Omitted. The key editor already says what is true: the key and its passphrase are encrypted here and never reach the server in a readable form.
Scope rail: PERSONAL / TEAM · PLATFORM / TEAM · DATA server Built in M3. VaultAccessService.ListAsync resolves team membership, so a session can hold several vaults. Not a rail, because it would be a selector with nothing to select: every list on the screen already spans every vault this session can read. What replaces it is a picker for where a new item is filed, which is the only vault question with an answer.
SCOPE column server Built in M3. Scope is a property of a vault, never of an item, and that has not changed. Each row names the vault it is in, and rows are grouped by vault.
LAST column (11:02, 1d ago) contracts No last-used timestamp at any layer. VaultItem<TSecret> is (id, secret, version, three sync flags). Omitted.
FINGERPRINT for SSH keys client-domain SshKeySecret has no fingerprint field, and computing one means parsing key formats the type deliberately stores verbatim. The DETAIL column carries what is known — whether a passphrase and a public half are stored. Pins show their real fingerprint, in full and untruncated.
•••• rotated jul 14 for passwords client-domain CredentialSecret has no rotation date or password age. The account the password is for.
IDENTITIES category contracts A new item type, not even reserved in SyncEntityType. Omitted.
CERTIFICATES category, expires 2026-09-01 contracts Same ladder, plus certificate parsing. Omitted.
18 items · 12 shared server The sharing stack. N items · N not synced, counted over the rows on screen.
added by anna@dodotech.dev contracts The server records CreatedByUserId, but SyncChange carries no actor field and no other user's name is fetchable. Omitted, and the detail pane says in one line that items record no author, no timestamps and no sharing.
created 2026-03-14 client-sync Recoverable in principle — entity ids are UUIDv7 and carry a timestamp — but nothing surfaces it. Omitted.
TEST CONNECT ui Connecting is host-scoped, not credential-scoped: there is nothing to test a credential against without a host. Omitted.
REVOKE server Built in M3, as WITHDRAW KEY on the VAULTS screen — because there are now grants to revoke, and a grant is what it acts on. ADR 0001 constrains how it is presented, and it is: the message says it blocks future reads only, and that what they already hold is unaffected. On this screen, still Delete, named for what it does. Deleting an item and withdrawing somebody's key remain different acts.
SSH KEY · ED25519 client-domain No algorithm field, and deriving it means parsing the armour. The type without the algorithm.
One + ADD CREDENTIAL button ui Two buttons, one per kind that can be added. "Credential" is a specific item type in this codebase (a username and a password), so using it as an umbrella word would collide with the vocabulary.
HOST KEYS is the reverse case: a fully-backed, shipped category the design had no slot for. It is in the rail.

Vaults

Built in M3, and reshaped since. The screen ships: a vault list, a members table with a real last-active column, who holds a key, and the two buttons the whole design was really about — add somebody, and share a vault key. A vault can also be renamed and handed to another member.

It lists vaults where it used to list teams, and that is the reshaping. A team is still what the server authorises against; what went is the requirement that anybody make one. Naming a vault makes the membership list that carries it, named after the vault and owned by its creator, so the thing people came to share is the thing they create. The team resurfaces in exactly one place and is not hidden there: a membership list carrying several vaults — which this screen cannot produce — says so, because adding somebody to one of those vaults adds them to all of them. Archiving is gone with the team list: a vault cannot be deleted at all, the server refuses to archive a membership list while its vault exists, so the screen says so rather than offering a button that always refuses.

What follows is what it still does not do, and one thing this document got wrong before it was built.

The correction. The rows below used to describe a screen with nothing behind it, on the grounds that VaultAccessService.ResolveAsync denied every vault that was not the caller's own. That is now the one place that changed, exactly as its remark predicted, and no migration was needed: team, team_membership, vault.team_id and vault_key_grant have all been there since the first migration. What the row did not anticipate is that the interesting half is not the endpoints at all. It is that membership and readability are different things, and the screen is arranged around saying so.

There is one way into a team, and that is the decision. Adding a member takes a user id the caller has already got from the directory, so that account must have signed in here at least once — and the ordering is deliberate rather than incidental, because whoever adds a member is usually about to wrap a vault key to the public key that lookup returned. An address is accepted too, and has to be: the directory lists only accounts that have published a key, so everybody between a first sign-in and their enrollment is invisible there and would otherwise be unaddable. What is refused is an address with no account at all, under no-such-account, and that refusal is the end of the road — the remedy is that person signing in once.

There was a second way in, and there is not any more. An invitation took an address, waited, and became a membership the next time somebody signed in asserting it. It is gone because it was the one place in this product where access followed from an identity provider's claim about an address rather than from somebody naming an account. See ADR 0009.

Design element Layer What ships
The team itself server POST/GET /api/v1/teams, plus members, roles and team vaults. Ids are client-chosen, so a create whose response was lost is safe to repeat.
Shared vaults server + client A team owns vaults; each is created with the creator's own grant, because a vault with no grant is a container nobody can open.
Roles contracts + server TeamMemberRole on the wire, numerically pinned to DodoSSH.Domain.TeamRole by a test. Viewer reads, Member writes, Admin and Owner also share and administer.
Members table server TeamMemberSummary, and a directory that resolves an exact email to a public key.
Sharing an item client VaultSession.ShareVaultAsync: verify the recipient's key against the key log, wrap, sign, record. The server stores the wrap and the signature and can check neither. One grant per generation the sharing client holds, so a recipient can read a rotated vault's history and not only what happens next.
Adding a member shares the team's vaults client Adding somebody wraps every team vault the adding machine can open to them, as part of the add rather than as a button to remember. Membership and a key are still two acts on two machines; the client just performs both. A vault this machine holds no key to is skipped and named.
Removing a member rotates the vaults server + client POST /api/v1/vaults/{id}/rekey advances the generation and records the caller's new grant in one transaction — the server contributes the moment and no cryptography. The client then wraps the new key to the members who remain. Grants for earlier generations are kept, or the vault's stored items would become unreadable to everybody. See ADR 0010.
Re-sealing a rotated vault's stored items client VaultResealer, the last step of a rotation: every item is opened and the same plaintext sealed again under the new key, in batches, against the version the server holds. The plaintext is never decoded, so an item written by a newer client crosses a rotation untouched. Resumable, because a vault at mixed generations is readable — a pass that stops half way leaves a working vault and is re-run. A change queued before the rotation is re-sealed by the push path instead, so nothing reaches the server under a superseded key at all.
Ownership transfer server POST /api/v1/teams/{id}/owner, owner only. One transaction: the named member becomes owner and the outgoing owner becomes an admin. Not two role changes — ownership is sole, so promoting first leaves the team owned twice and demoting first leaves it owned by nobody. The outgoing owner is demoted rather than removed, because removing them would revoke their vault key grants and rotate every team vault, which is a far larger act than the one being asked for.
LAST ACTIVE server Real, and coarse on purpose. UserAccount.LastSeenAtUtc is now refreshed on ordinary authenticated requests, at most once per account per hour: writing it per request would put an UPDATE on the hot path of every authenticated call and start losing races on user_account's own concurrency token. So the column answers "this week or not", which is the granularity the question is actually asked at, and is shown coarsely rather than to the minute.
Renaming and archiving a team server PUT and DELETE /api/v1/teams/{id}. The slug is deliberately not renameable: it is unique only among live teams, so a rename could take a slug an archived team still holds and strand it. Archiving soft-deletes the team and every membership in one transaction — and is refused outright while the team owns any vault.
Design element Layer What it would take What ships instead
CONNECT-ONLY role Nothing that would be true. Connect is a user-interface hint, not a boundary: SSH terminates on the client, so a session needs the credential's plaintext on that machine. See ADR 0001. Four roles, all of which are enforceable. Connect rides along with Read and is documented as a hint.
2FA ENFORCED and the per-member 2FA column server No two-factor concept exists anywhere — the only hit in the whole worktree is an aside in docs/crypto.md. Omitted. The member columns carry what is known and matters: whether they have published a key a vault can be wrapped to, and when they were last here.
Avatars server No picture is stored anywhere. Omitted; the row shows a name and an address.
Pending invites, the invitation mail, and resend server An outbound mail path this server has not got, and — the larger cost — a rule that turns an identity provider's claim about an address into team membership. Nothing pending exists, and the screen says why. Only an account that already exists can be added; an address with no account is refused, naming the address and saying the person has to sign in here once. There was a team_invitation table doing the deferred version of this and it has been dropped. See ADR 0009.
Archiving a team that owns vaults Nothing that would be safe. A team vault resolves through membership, so archiving would take those vaults away from everybody holding a key, silently, including the caller — and nothing in this product deletes a vault, so there is no sequence of calls that turns the refusal into a success. Refused, with team-not-empty and a count of the vaults in the way. A stated limit rather than a coming feature, for the reason the SFTP layer refuses a recursive delete: a refusal is visible and a quiet removal is not.
SSO · OIDC · okta.dodotech.dev server Per-team SSO. Authentication is one global JWT scheme bound to one authority. Omitted.

The trap this document warned about is still a trap. GET /api/v1/meta advertises features: ["teams"] unconditionally (MetaEndpoints.cs). It was meaningless when nothing implemented teams and it is meaningless now that everything does — it has never been computed from anything. Do not gate a client feature on it.


Preferences

The screen ships with what is real — this machine's device key, locking, syncing, and signing out — and lists the rest as absent rather than omitting it silently.

Signing out is not on the design and is here anyway. The design has no way to leave a machine, and without one there is no way to hand a laptop on, to enrol a second account, or to get past a forgotten passphrase — which is unrecoverable by construction, so the unlock screen would otherwise be a dead end. It empties the local cache and withdraws the device key from the account; it cannot end the session at the identity provider, and says so.

Design element Layer What it would take
Any preference, saved Two are. settings.json beside the cache holds the terminal's text size and whether this machine checks for updates on its own. It is deliberately not in the vault: the vault syncs, so a preference kept there would follow you between machines, and a font size chosen for a laptop screen should not arrive on a desktop. Anything per-host or per-item wants a table instead — see the transfers rows above.
Terminal font, cursor style, cursor blink, scrollback client-terminal A setting, an opcode and a control, in that order — the mechanism is no longer the obstacle. TerminalServerOpcode.FontSize proved the path and ClientSettings is where the value would live; what none of these four has is somebody deciding it is worth a row on the preferences screen.
Font family picker offering IBM Plex Mono ui Shipping the font, as above.
Audible bell client-terminal + ui xterm.js 6 removed bellStyle and bellSound; what remains is an onBell event, so the page would have to make the sound itself.
GENERAL section ui There is no general setting to put in it. The theme is fixed by decision, and window size is not persisted.
KEYS & AGENT section client-ssh There is no agent, at all — no own agent, no forwarding, no Pageant or OpenSSH-agent interop.
SYNC & VAULT section client-domain Nothing here is adjustable. The auto-sync interval is a private static readonly with a remark arguing for its value.
SECURITY & SSO section server Per-team SSO, which is a refusal rather than a pending endpoint: authentication is one global JWT scheme bound to one authority, so there is no per-team policy for this screen to show.
SHORTCUTS section ui There is no keybinding infrastructure and no rebinding surface.
Auto-lock after idle client-session An activity source, a decision about what counts as idle, and — the hard part — a policy for a shell mid-job. LockAsync's own remark already argues that an unattended timeout which killed a running job would be worse than the exposure it removed.
Require biometric to sign crypto Three separate falsehoods in one row. There is no signing service — the private key is decrypted and handed to SSH.NET whole, so there is no per-signature moment to interrupt; there are no connect-only keys; and per-use consent would need the key to live in the TPM, which is a different key hierarchy from the one in docs/crypto.md.
Pill toggle switches ui Purely presentational — App.axaml has no ToggleSwitch selector, so Fluent's default would appear un-themed beside the hairline chrome.

Two things the import changed on purpose

Hosts left the vault column. They have their own screen and the vault screen holds keys, passwords and pinned host keys. This follows the design, and it is also the better split: the host list is what you look at while you work, and the rest is what you go and manage. VaultSection lost its Hosts member and gained All.

That screen was a 268-pixel sidebar beside the terminal when this paragraph was written, and v3 made it a grid of cards with a drawer — see above. The split it describes did not change; only which half is wide.

Tabs moved to the shell, not the vault. Locking disposes the vault and deliberately leaves shells running, so a tab list rebuilt per unlock would lose track of sessions that are still connected — the very sessions the unlock screen already counts. TerminalWorkspace gained SessionActivated on the wire, IsSessionLive, and a SessionEnded event so a tab can stop claiming to be connected.


v5c-4 — two more, asked for after living with v5b

The session shell's host header is gone, and it is a deliberate departure from the design. Terminal.dc.html and SFTP.dc.html both draw a 60-pixel row above the pane carrying the address on the left and a cross-surface button on the right, and v5b shipped it as SessionHeader.axaml. Both of the two facts it held now live at the head of the sidebar beside the pane — the address as its own line, and the button stretched across the column under it — and the pane is 60 pixels taller for it. The reasoning is the one the design cannot see from a mock: this is a window somebody keeps a terminal open in all day, and a full-width strip repeating an address the tab already names was the cheapest 60 pixels in the layout to give back. LayoutHarness.SessionScreenHeight no longer subtracts a header, for the same reason it stopped subtracting the retired window-wide tab strip.

The sidebar closes, which the design has no state for. 300 pixels of a 1081-pixel minimum is a lot to spend on a list that is often two rows long, so MainWindowViewModel.IsSessionSidebarOpen folds the column to a 34-pixel rail carrying the chevron that brings it back — a rail rather than nothing, because a panel that vanishes without trace is one people report as lost. The choice is written through to ClientSettings.SessionSidebarOpen rather than held for the session: it is a decision about how much of the window a terminal gets, and one that had to be made again on every launch would not really be on offer.