Hiro development journal

Queue status cards become interactive benchmark filters

2026.08.15 at 12:56:47 America/Los_Angeles Implemented, validated, and live Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

The Ranked Ideas view in Hiro's Evaluation Observatory now lets an operator click every queue summary card to display only that status.

Waiting, Active, Retrying, Implemented, Rejected, Superseded, and Source Reservoir are all accessible buttons with a visible selected state and programmatic pressed-state semantics.

A persistent Show all control restores the complete queue page, and a status pill always states which subset is visible.

The implementation was committed promptly so the continuous-improvement governor continued to observe a clean production repository.

Work completed

Interactive queue filtering

Completed

Converted the seven summary cards above Ranked Ideas into semantic button elements without removing their live counts or descriptive notes.
Added client-side filter state that persists across the dashboard's periodic data refreshes.
Each selected status renders only its matching queue section. Active records include investigating, candidate, testing, and canary states; Waiting remains separate from bounded retries.
The unfiltered view renders Active, Waiting, Retrying, Source Reservoir, Implemented, Rejected, and Superseded in their established order.

Reset and accessibility behavior

Completed

Added a Show all button next to a live Showing status label. The reset is disabled when the complete view is already selected and enabled for every filtered view.
Added aria-pressed values, keyboard focus styling, hover feedback, and a distinct active-card border so mouse and keyboard users receive equivalent state feedback.
Added the previously missing Superseded count card so every rendered queue outcome has a direct filter.

Regression and browser validation

Completed

Added focused source-contract tests covering all seven filters, semantic button state, and the Show all reset.
Tested the live local Observatory by clicking Waiting and Rejected, verifying that each produced only its direct matching section, and then restoring all seven sections with Show all.
Verified that the browser console recorded no errors during filtering and reset.

Decisions and reasoning

Keep filtering entirely client-side because the continuous-improvement endpoint already returns the bounded queue data needed for every view.
Keep the status cards visible while filtering so switching between subsets remains a single click.
Treat the source reservoir as a filter alongside lifecycle statuses because it is already a first-class summary card and page section.
Keep retries separate from ordinary waiting records so a filtered Waiting view does not obscure bounded revision state.
Commit the UI change before the next promotion scheduler tick to preserve the governor's clean-repository safety boundary.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Focused filter and model-dashboard tests	passed	Fourteen tests passed, covering the new queue controls and the existing independent model benchmark views.
Waiting filter	passed	Clicking Waiting set aria-pressed to true, changed the label to Showing waiting, enabled Show all, and left Waiting queue as the only direct queue-section heading.
Rejected filter	passed	Clicking Rejected set its pressed state and left Rejected as the only direct queue-section heading.
Show all reset	passed	Show all restored Active, Waiting queue, Bounded retries, External lead reservoir, Implemented, Rejected, and Superseded representations, then disabled itself and displayed Showing all records.
Browser console	passed	No browser errors were recorded during live interaction testing.
Full Hiro repository suite	passed	All 578 tests passed in 191.48 seconds.

Current state

The live Ranked Ideas page exposes seven clickable filter cards and a Show all reset.
The default page remains the complete queue view.
The current filter survives automatic dashboard refreshes during the browser session.
The Hiro repository is clean at commit 2fad51c after validation.

Next steps

Use the live filters during promotion monitoring and adjust only if operator experience reveals a need for URL-deep-linkable views.
Continue letting the existing continuous-improvement policy advance candidates against the clean committed baseline.