How to read the program board

Open the board

From the program home choose Board (/p/<slug>/board, GET /programs/{program_id}/board). Columns are personas in the fixed order above; each column lists cards oldest first. A table alternative with the same rows is one keystroke away for screen readers.

Read a card

Each card names the record (title where the thread rule allows it, otherwise “From a private thread”), its kind (proposal, approval request, hand-off, question, mention), its age, the permission the decision needs and its origin. For holders of program.twins.read (owner, lead, quality reviewer) the origin reads “Maya N.’s twin (agent) · scientist” (illustrative); for everyone else it reads “a scientist’s twin (agent)” with the persona chip, so the board discloses nothing the escalation rule protects. A card whose record changed since the proposal reads “Changed since proposed”. Cards from your own inbox link to the item so you can decide there; other cards open the record page only.

Read related proposals

Two twins of different people may propose on the same record. Proposals never resolve each other; the board groups them under the record as “related proposals” so both deciding people see the overlap. Contradictory accepted records are a human matter, resolved in the hand-off thread, with the audit trail showing the order.

Read the counts and the metrics

Column headers carry counts. Owners, leads and quality reviewers additionally see reminders “Waiting on <Name> for N days: N decisions” for items past their due date (raised at most once per item per day and only to holders of program.twins.read). GET /programs/{program_id}/metrics/decisions behind the header shows decisions per persona for the week, “counted from records”; the per-person breakdown is present only for holders of program.twins.read. Per-person throughput rows exist only in the organisation audit export and are named in the data-processing agreement.

Act on what you read

Send a hand-off to the persona whose column is long (how to send a hand-off), reassign an open item’s owner, or ask the deciding person. If the person is away, they can delegate (how to delegate while away); you cannot decide for them, whatever you read.