The structural change today was consolidating storage. What used to be the “backlog database” is now the “assist database” — a rename that touched 71 files but reflects a real shift: it’s no longer just backlog items. The first thing I moved into it was handovers, which had been living as loose files; storing them in the shared DB means session handovers sit alongside the backlog as proper records I can query and relate. Both changes were mostly mechanical, but they set up the database as the single home for assist’s state rather than a backlog-only store.

Most of the rest was web UI. I can now star backlog items and sessions — a star/unstar pair on the CLI backed by setStarred, plus StarAction and SessionStarButton in the UI, with starred sessions sorting to the top (sortSessionsByStar). Launching a new session now pops a toast so there’s clear feedback that something started, and I fixed a nagging slowdown when switching tabs in the web view. I also removed the old web add-item flow, which the launch buttons had made redundant.

On the review and PR side, I added a guard against wall-of-text PR bodies — validatePrContent rejects bodies that are one giant unbroken paragraph, and the /pr command now spells out the structure it expects — so PRs come out readable instead of as a wall I’d have to reformat by hand. The complexity report now tells you how to improve a low maintainability score, explicitly nudging toward extracting functions into smaller modules rather than gaming the metric by stripping whitespace or comments. Two smaller fixes rounded it out: assist review runs codex from the repo’s working directory so it sees the right files, the Seq query now applies its time window correctly, and a backlog run commits before signalling done on its final phase so nothing is left uncommitted.