Reading the column
The card
Rest the pointer on a row and the panel tells you everything the row could not fit.
- where
- this Mac · ~/work/api
- model
- Opus 5
- context
- 412.0k / 1M
- asking
- Bash: git push origin main
- slot
- 1 · lampboard open 1
The panel draws its own cards rather than using the system's, because the system's only appear in a window that is key, and this window never is.
Resting on a row opens it, beside the panel rather than over it: to the right when it fits, else to the left, else under or above, with only its height following the pointer. It stays while the pointer stays, and goes when the rows reorder, since another row may be under the pointer now.
It carries the name, the state in the same words as the legend, the machine and the folder underneath whatever name you chose, the repository and branch the session started in, the exact figure with the tokens behind it, the model with its version, what the row is waiting on, its slot and the command that opens it. On a grouped row it also says what each session inside is doing.
The lines that only appear when they are true
- asking shows the tool and its arguments, on a Codex row that is blocked. On a Claude Code row this line is absent by design; see what it cannot see.
- waiting on names the background work holding a paused row:
monitor ×2, shell. - listening appears when a monitor is registered and has not fired yet.
- reason appears on a stopped row and says why the turn died.
- cost appears with the helper: what the session has cost so far, as Claude Code counts it.
- stuck? appears on a
⌛row and names the tool and the first line of its command.
The line that is always there on a Codex row
Codex reports no failures: a turn that fails stops speaking.
Every card on a Codex row carries it, because that row can never turn red, and a limit you are told is a limit. A limit you meet by trusting a green row that was never going to turn red is a defect with a good explanation.
The folder glyph
While the pointer is on a row, a small folder appears between the timestamp and the grip. It opens a Finder window inside that project. Shift-clicking the row does the same, and so does Show in Finder in the row's More menu.
None of the three appears on a session that lives on another machine.