docs: ratified queue order — flakes first, AI node flagship, schemas pre-decided (#29)

Owner-delegated full prioritization (2026-08-12). Flake investigation
leads (it taxes every PR with rerun cycles); 0031 AI node family next
with its effect-class locked under the owner's delegation; the two
tech-debt items blocked on schema calls got their schemas decided at
prioritization time (pins: ordered ID list, store-owned; aliases:
extraBindings array, backward-compatible) so nothing enters a session
un-ready; 0021 Phase 2 recognized as orchestrator-driveable per its
own mandate text. Owner-needed items split into their own
never-blocking lane. Dependabot majors already in flight as their own
wave per the same-day deps-don't-linger policy.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FYwojT8GdUbYSoggbvEFft

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: alicoding

docs/goals/BACKLOG.md

@@ -183,12 +183,18 @@ live-review material, interleaved during owner reviews, not a lane.**
     flaky specs, `canvas-live-sync`/an isolated `guardrail.spec.ts`
     contention flake, both confirmed transient on an isolated rerun).
 
-**Standing**
-- [ ] E2e CI flake investigation (owner-directed 2026-08-12: "add to the backlog when problem found so that we prioritize to unblock us") — three distinct e2e specs have each independently failed once on a shard, then gone green on an immediate rerun, across three different PRs in one session: `resizable-table.spec.ts` (drag-handle bounding-box), `canvas-live-sync.spec.ts` (MCP `update_workflow` live-redraw assertion), and (Go side, same class) `TestMillMCPService_RealClientRoundTrip` (already fixed — its 2s `Shutdown` timeout was genuinely too tight for a loaded shared runner, bumped to 10s, PR #21). Each so far individually diagnosed as unrelated to the PR that triggered it and confirmed transient by a clean rerun — but three in one session is a real pattern worth investigating as a batch rather than re-diagnosing from scratch every time: is the shared macOS/ubuntu CI runner under-resourced for the current suite size, are these three specs sharing some real timing sensitivity (a fixed wait/assertion window too tight for runner variance), or is this the general shape more of the suite's specs have and will keep surfacing one at a time. DoR: pull the actual CI run history for these (and any other) specs' pass/fail/rerun rate over the last N runs before assuming root cause; DoD: either a fix (raise a shared timeout/wait pattern, add strategic retries per goal 0024's existing e2e-retry precedent) or, if genuinely just runner variance, a documented decision to accept it with reasoning, not silence.
-- [ ] [0001 — Authoring-surface overhaul](0001-authoring-surface-overhaul.md) (spacing audit + §3.8 prototype elements — live-review material)
-- [ ] [0021 — MCP dogfood gap closure](0021-mcp-dogfood-gap-closure.md) (owner-mandated 2026-08-11: orchestrator live-probes the MCP surface against the bank use cases, logs ranked gaps, fixes graduate out; **Phase 1 fully complete 2026-08-12** — all 4 gaps fixed/verified + 1 confirmed-by-design; Phase 2/3 still open, need live interactive probing not code changes)
-- [ ] Workflow pins/favorites (tech debt, split from goal 0015's remainder 2026-08-12) — no pin/favorite concept exists anywhere in Mill today (grepped before scoping it out); needs its own small schema decision (which store owns a pin list, per-workflow or a plain ID set) before any build — deliberately not invented ad hoc under 0015's frecency-only ship. Quick Panel's workflow list sorts by frequency alone until this lands.
-- [ ] ⌘?/⌘/ multi-binding keybinding alias (tech debt, split from goal 0015's remainder 2026-08-12) — the owner's goal-0015 "bind ⌘? (and/or ⌘/) to open the palette too" ask needs a command to carry more than one `KeyCombo`; today's registry (`shared/commands.ts`) is 1:1 (`defaultBinding: KeyCombo | null`). Needs a real schema call (array vs. a small alias table) before it's buildable — real data-model infrastructure, not a self-contained UI change.
+**Standing — ratified order (owner-delegated prioritization, 2026-08-12: "prioritize all work to line them up"; Dependabot majors pulled to the front same day per the deps-don't-linger policy and are IN FLIGHT as their own sequential wave, not listed here)**
+1. [ ] E2e CI flake investigation (owner-directed 2026-08-12: "add to the backlog when problem found so that we prioritize to unblock us"; FIRST in queue because it taxes every subsequent PR with rerun cycles — `canvas-live-sync` alone flaked twice on 2026-08-12) — distinct e2e specs failing once on a shard then green on immediate rerun, across different PRs: `resizable-table.spec.ts` (drag-handle bounding-box), `canvas-live-sync.spec.ts` (MCP `update_workflow` live-redraw assertion, ×2), and (Go side, same class) `TestMillMCPService_RealClientRoundTrip` (already fixed — 2s `Shutdown` timeout too tight for a loaded runner, bumped to 10s, PR #21). Each individually diagnosed unrelated to its PR and confirmed transient by rerun — but the pattern deserves batch investigation: under-resourced shared runners vs a shared timing-sensitivity shape in these specs vs the general suite shape surfacing one spec at a time. DoR: pull actual CI run history for pass/fail/rerun rates over the last N runs before assuming root cause; DoD: a fix (shared wait pattern, strategic retries per goal 0024's e2e-retry precedent) or a documented accept-with-reasoning, never silence.
+2. [ ] [0031 — AI node family](0031-ai-node-family.md) — research banked in the goal file (two adapters: openaicompat covers Ollama+BYO, anthropic native; AIProvider Configure entity; ai-completion + ai-extract-structured first). Effect-class LOCKED by owner delegation 2026-08-12 ("you're the boss"): static `ClassExternal` + `EffectForNode` downgrade to `ClassLocal` for loopback (localhost/127.0.0.1/::1) BaseURLs — remote asks by default, local Ollama frictionless. The flagship capability; conforms to node-standard.md from birth.
+3. [ ] Copy-management migration ×4 (below, in order: `app/` → `composition/` → `configure/` → `views/`) then the `eslint-plugin-i18next` revisit — mechanical filler, interleaves between heavier waves when useful.
+4. [ ] Workflow pins/favorites (tech debt, split from goal 0015's remainder 2026-08-12) — schema DECIDED at prioritization (orchestrator, 2026-08-12): a plain ordered workflow-ID list, store-owned (localStorage-tier alongside the frecency substrate; no per-workflow field, no new Go surface unless syncing matters later). Pinned rows sort above frecency in Quick Panel/⌘K.
+5. [ ] ⌘?/⌘/ multi-binding keybinding alias (tech debt, split from goal 0015's remainder 2026-08-12) — schema DECIDED at prioritization (orchestrator, 2026-08-12): `Command` grows an optional `extraBindings: KeyCombo[]` alongside the existing 1:1 `defaultBinding` (backward-compatible; Settings' rebinding UI edits the primary, extras render as secondary chips; dispatch checks all).
+6. [ ] [0021 — MCP dogfood gap closure](0021-mcp-dogfood-gap-closure.md) Phase 2: orchestrator-driven live MCP probing against the bank use cases (the mandate names the orchestrator as the prober — self-driveable, exploratory; produces the next ranked gap list). Phase 3 judgments that need the owner surface as they're found.
+7. [ ] 0030 second-pass linters (gocritic/prealloc/contextcheck/sqlclosecheck — named future work in goal 0028) + `.ls-lint.yml` gains a root `node_modules` ignore (gap found 2026-08-12: a stray root node_modules broke root-file-naming; tiny, rides this or any PR).
+
+**Owner-needed lane (parallel, never blocks the queue)**
+- [ ] [0001 — Authoring-surface overhaul](0001-authoring-surface-overhaul.md) (spacing audit + §3.8 prototype elements — live-review material, needs the owner driving)
+- [ ] Owner hands-on pass over the week's shipped features (Quick Panel focus fix, view-mode hardening, inline hotkey hints, seed reset/restore)
 - [ ] Copy-management migration — `app/` (tech debt, split from goal 0032 2026-08-12) — extract `app/`'s remaining hardcoded JSX copy (App.tsx's shell chrome, QuickPanel/QuickPanelApp, ApprovalPromptApp, workflowFrecency-adjacent UI, etc. — ~11 files carry inline strings) into `frontend/src/locales/en/app.json` (already scaffolded, currently `{}`) following `SettingsView.tsx`'s established pattern (`useTranslation()`/`t()`, namespace-per-bounded-context). DoR: read `docs/goals/0032-copy-management.md` for the locked i18n pattern before starting — no new library/schema decision needed, this is mechanical extraction. DoD: every `app/*.tsx` file free of inline user-facing string literals in JSX (aria-labels included), `app.json` populated, existing e2e specs touching `app/` still pass unchanged (translated text must match original English exactly).
 - [ ] Copy-management migration — `composition/` (tech debt, split from goal 0032 2026-08-12) — same extraction as above, scoped to `composition/`'s ~22 files with inline copy (canvas node cards, palette, validation messages, trigger/schedule UI) into `frontend/src/locales/en/composition.json`. Largest of the four remaining slices — consider whether it splits further once started (per-node-type vs. whole-folder) rather than treating it as one atomic PR. Same DoR/DoD shape as the `app/` entry above.
 - [ ] Copy-management migration — `configure/` (tech debt, split from goal 0032 2026-08-12) — same extraction, scoped to `configure/`'s ~14 files (connector/list/MCP-server forms, OpenAPI synth UI) into `frontend/src/locales/en/configure.json`. Same DoR/DoD shape as the `app/` entry above.