.planning/NOTES.md

@@ -4302,3 +4302,51 @@ compiles against HEAD with a single shim
 (`SetPlaybackFinishedHandler` gained a `srcErr error` parameter), which
 makes "did the backend fix cause this" a ten-minute question instead of
 a full checkout.
+
+## An overlay band is not a notification, it is a lid (measured 2026-08-20)
+
+#62 asks for background jobs to become "a notification" on the phone,
+and the app has exactly one notification surface, so the first version
+of the fix put `<job-panel>` in `notification-host`'s band — which is
+`position: fixed` under the header. It renders correctly, it is on top,
+it is inside the viewport, and it is unusable.
+
+At the device's 424x439 viewport a **compact** panel showing two active
+jobs is ~216px — half the screen — drawn over the content, with
+`pointer-events: auto` so it swallows every tap underneath. Nothing in
+the component tier could see it. The e2e suite could: four specs failed,
+and *none* of them was about jobs — two `phone-shell` journeys into the
+full-screen Now Playing and `header-action-overflow`'s phone case, all
+three because the band was intercepting taps meant for the app.
+
+`<job-band>` is in the shell's grid instead, as a row between the top
+bar and the main panel, so it **pushes**. That is #24's one sentence
+("no action is ever unreachable at any supported size") deciding a
+layout question: a band that hides the app in order to say the app is
+busy has traded the popover's fault for a worse one.
+
+Two things fell out of it worth keeping:
+
+- **A finished row in flow is furniture.** The overlay could afford to
+  keep terminal jobs around; a row that holds the content down after
+  the work is done cannot. `job-panel` grew `active-only` for the band,
+  and Settings keeps finished rows because that is where "did the last
+  scan work" is asked.
+- **`job-row` already had the right density.** `variant="compact"` is
+  described in its own source as "the popover density", which is
+  exactly what the band is replacing — 216px against 259px for the
+  same two jobs, and no per-job statistics that a phone has no room
+  for.
+
+## The e2e suite is the tier that sees a shell regression (2026-08-20)
+
+Worth stating because it decided how #62 was verified. The change is
+one component, one stylesheet and one line of `index.html`; `make
+ui-test` (955 tests) passed on the broken overlay version and so did
+`tsc`, `lint` and the whole Go suite. The failure was three specs that
+have nothing to do with jobs, failing on `click()` timeouts.
+
+The corollary for anything that draws over the shell: **run the whole
+e2e suite, not the spec you wrote.** A spec written for a feature
+asserts the feature works; what a new overlay breaks is everything
+else, and only the suite is looking at that.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -593,11 +593,38 @@ rather than renaming them.
   `ClearFinishedJobs` is global — a Clear under Libraries would discard
   the index build's history too; a finished row dismisses itself.
 
-  The header `job-indicator` is untouched and is still the one view of
-  everything at once, from every page. One consequence worth knowing
-  before writing a spec: a section holding a `job-panel` also holds a
-  `job-details-drawer`, whose own header carries `.header` — so
+  The header `job-indicator` is still the one view of everything at
+  once, from every page — **on a desktop.** One consequence worth
+  knowing before writing a spec: a section holding a `job-panel` also
+  holds a `job-details-drawer`, whose own header carries `.header` — so
   `config-section .header` is ambiguous the moment a job exists.
+
+  **Below 600px that indicator stands down and `<job-band>` takes
+  over** (#62), because a popover is a *disclosure* and background work
+  is the one thing a phone should not make you open something to see —
+  and because #57 deletes the bar it is anchored to and is blocked on
+  it having somewhere else to live. The band is the same `job-panel`,
+  so `applyJobControl` and its index-build confirmation come along
+  rather than being reimplemented; `kinds="*"` is how it says "every
+  kind", which is what the indicator was for.
+
+  Three things about it are load-bearing. **It is in the layout, not
+  over it**, as its own grid row above the main panel: the first
+  version put it in `notification-host`'s fixed band, which reads fine
+  in a screenshot and is unusable — at 424×439 a compact panel is
+  ~200px of a 439px screen and it *covers* what is under it, which four
+  e2e specs caught by failing on taps it was intercepting. **It shows
+  active work only** (`active-only`), because in flow a finished row is
+  furniture that keeps the content pushed down after the work is done;
+  finished rows stay where the work was started, which is #27's rule.
+  And **it renders nothing above 600px**, from `matchMedia` rather than
+  a media query, because that decides whether the element *exists* —
+  Settings already holds four `job-panel`s and a fifth answering for
+  every kind is `bottom-nav`'s "resolved to 2 elements" trap again.
+  `index.css` keeps it `display: none` outside the phone for a second
+  reason: an in-flow grid child with no named area is auto-placed into
+  one of the shell's rows, which is what the skip link is absolutely
+  positioned to avoid.
 - `config` — TOML-based settings. Settings page uses HTMX + templ for server-rendered HTML fragments.
 - `playlist` / `smartplaylist` — Playlist CRUD and rule-based smart playlists.
 - `mediacontrols` — OS media controls behind one `Handler`: MPRIS over