# Sprint Retro — Harbormaster v11.0.0a4

**Theme:** UX consistency polish — stateBadge helper + `?q=` URL
pre-fill on the askForm.

## What shipped

### stateBadge unification

- New partial `src/harbormaster/ui/templates/_partials/_state_badge.html`.
  IIFE that defines `window.harbormaster.stateBadgeHtml({state, icon,
  color, label})`. The function returns an HTML string for the
  standard small icon+label pill (px-2 py-0.5 rounded inline-flex).
- Static color allowlist (`emerald`, `amber`, `rose`, `cyan`,
  `gray`) so Tailwind's purge/scan picks up the classes
  predictably — no dynamic class composition.
- Idempotent: a guard at the top of the IIFE no-ops on a second
  load.
- `base.html` includes the partial so the helper is reachable on
  every page without per-template wiring.
- `network.html` migrated: replaces the inline `live` / `offline`
  text with two `stateBadgeHtml` calls (emerald + amber respectively).
- statusStrip (`bridgeBadgeClass`) and reembedPanel
  (`phaseBadgeClass`) sites retained — they already use a
  semantically-rich class-helper pattern; migration would require a
  richer helper signature for marginal cleanup. Documented as a
  Phase 4 deviation below.

### `?q=` URL pre-fill

- `_partials/_ask_form_script.html` — `askForm()` factory gains an
  `init()` method that reads the URL's `?q=<question>` parameter on
  mount and assigns it to the textarea-bound `question` field.
  Alpine 3 invokes `init()` automatically when present, so no
  template change to `_partials/ask_form.html` was required.
- This closes the loop with the cmd-K palette's `Ask <project>
  <question>` dynamic-action introduced in v8.0.0a4 — that action
  builds `/projects/<name>?q=<question>` URLs; the receiving form
  now consumes them.

## Tests

| Suite delta                                | Before | After |
|--------------------------------------------|-------:|------:|
| Total tests                                | 1154   | 1165  |
| New (test_state_badge_and_prefill.py)      | —      |    +8 |
| (+3 picked up by tightened existing tests) | —      |    +3 |

Coverage:
- Helper IIFE present on dashboard / project_detail / network.
- Color allowlist visible in HTML so Tailwind picks the classes up.
- Idempotent re-load guard present in source.
- `data-state="<state>"` attribute on the rendered badge for
  structural test hooks.
- Network status pill consumes the helper (verified via the literal
  `stateBadgeHtml({` substring + `color: 'emerald'` + `color: 'amber'`
  in the rendered HTML).
- askForm factory has `init()` with `searchParams.get('q')` body.
- Dashboard's per-card askForm reaches the same factory.
- cmd-K dynamic-action still emits `?q=...` URLs.

## Quality gates

```
mypy --strict src/harbormaster   →  Success: no issues found in 56 source files
ruff check src tests              →  All checks passed!
pytest -q                         →  1165 passed, 2 skipped in 37.39s
```

## Architecture notes

- The helper renders HTML via string concatenation rather than
  building a DOM fragment so callers can use it via Alpine's
  `x-html=`. `escapeHtml()` runs on every prop to prevent the
  helper itself becoming an injection vector.
- The static color allowlist solves a Tailwind purge gotcha — if
  classes were composed dynamically (`bg-${color}-900/50`), the
  Tailwind scan wouldn't find them at build time. Listing all five
  colors explicitly in the source guarantees they ship.
- `init()` is idiomatic Alpine 3 — no need for an explicit
  `x-init="init()"` on the section element. This means a single
  edit to the factory partial covers ALL sites that use askForm
  (project detail + dashboard cards) without template churn.

## Deviations

- **statusStrip + reembedPanel sites NOT migrated to the helper.**
  Both already use a semantically-rich class-helper pattern
  (`bridgeBadgeClass()`, `phaseBadgeClass()`) that returns Tailwind
  utility strings, with separate icon helpers
  (`bridgeStateIcon()` / `phaseIconHtml()`). Migrating them through
  the unified `stateBadgeHtml` helper would require a richer
  signature OR a flatter class API — both increase complexity to
  remove duplication that the existing pattern already manages
  consistently. Recorded as v12 candidate `migrate-status-pills-to-
  unified-badge` if the operator finds the inconsistency painful in
  practice.

## Next

Phase 5 — backend-side token counter instrumentation (real
`input_tokens` / `output_tokens` from `claude --output-format
json-stream` instead of approximate counts).
