Focus Board

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A kanban of your bb threads, focused on what needs you first. Group threads by attention, last activity, project, provider, machine, or parent; drag to act — hand-order a column, change a card's state in the drag, or nest a child; sweep stale lanes, snooze threads, and search titles, projects, and branches. Cards show state, pin, pending-interaction badge, update time, and branch or host; a click opens the thread and a modified click opens it in a new window.

Overview

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Focus Board is a nav panel in the bb sidebar that shows all your threads as a kanban board. It reads bb's live thread view through the plugin SDK's sidebar hooks, so it updates in real time as your threads change.

What you get

  • Orient at a glance.
    • The default lanes rank threads by attention — pinned, needs-you, unread, or working — and quiet threads settle out based on how long they have been idle.
    • Reslice anytime by project, provider, machine, activity, or parent; search and filters persist across sessions.
  • Act from the board.
    • Drag to re-order a column, or drop a card to change its state or nest it as a child. Sweep a lane's stragglers to "Done" or "Archive" so your board stays focused on what's fresh.
  • Depth, one click away.
    • Open a thread within the board and read, reply, or answer the agent's questions -- works from your browser, desktop, or phone.

More about our features in the README.

CLI

One subcommand, bb focus-board, manages the plugin's own state: done status, marks, snoozes, links, auto-titling, sweeps, and config. All commands accept --json, and the sweep never archives without --confirm.

Requirements

  • Node 18 or newer
  • bb 0.43 or newer with plugin SDK 0.5.9 or newer
  • Optional: the official GitHub plugin, for ticket status dots. Without its local cache, chips render without dots and everything else works.

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