[ishandhanani]

Problem

Review Desk opened one PR at a time from a flat "Recent" list. There was no place to see every PR you are pushing forward and where each one stands. On bb 0.46 the PR page was also broken: the brief, guide, and chat failed with HTTP 409: Workspace path is inside bb-managed storage but is not a workspace of this project, because the PR worktrees lived under the plugin's host data dir and bb now refuses to spawn threads into an unmanaged path inside its own storage.

What changes

The Reviews page is a board. Paste a PR link and it becomes a card under Unreviewed (nobody has approved), Changes requested (a reviewer asked for changes), or Babysit (approved by you or others, now watching CI until it merges). The column follows GitHub: a CHANGES_REQUESTED decision or latest review wins, then any approval (the decision, or a reviewer's latest review; gh reports a missing decision as an empty string on repositories without required reviews). Drag a card to hold it in another column; it follows GitHub again once GitHub's state changes (board_stages stores the stage together with the auto stage it was dragged from, and applyPr clears the pin when the auto stage moves on). Merged and closed PRs leave the columns and fold into a strip under them with Remove and Remove all.

Each card: title, owner/repo #N, author, last GitHub activity, and chips for what is in the way: checks passed/total (red when one fails), unresolved threads, approvals, reviewers asking for changes, merge conflicts, and your unsent comments. A Babysit card leads with CI: a bar of passed checks, the failing checks by name linking to their runs, one verdict chip (merge conflicts, CI failing, CI running, needs a required review, still a draft, or ready to merge), and when the last commit was pushed. Clicking a card opens the existing PR page. Columns wrap into a grid: 2x2 beside bb's side panel, 3 across when wide. The board lives in board.tsx (BoardPage takes an onOpen callback) with timeAgo and describeError in lib/format.ts, so the board and the review page no longer share one file.

Sync. Open PRs sync when the board opens if they are more than ten minutes stale, on Refresh, and on the boardRefresh cron (default */15 * * * *, empty turns it off). A sync skips the git fetch when the head did not move (repo_prepare gained fetch: false). New RPCs board_move and board_refresh; reviews_list carries the card fields. CLI: bb review-desk board | move <id> <stage|auto> | refresh.

Worktrees move out of bb storage to ~/.review-desk/worktrees on the repository's machine (setting worktreesDir). A clean legacy worktree is removed on the way out, done PRs are migrated too, and the server forgets environments bound to a moved path so the next spawn creates new ones.

Removing a card removes its worktree (new host RPC repo_remove_worktree), unless it has local changes, which are kept and logged. On the development host 8 of 10 worktrees (2.4 GB) belonged to PRs already taken off the board.

SDK. @get-bb/plugin-sdk repinned 0.4.47 to 0.6.39 (bb plugin types). The composer pills use insert; useComposerView, insertMention, and updateText are gone from the SDK.

Validation

On a bb 0.46.0 server with ai-dynamo/dynamo #15599, #15600, and #15164 on the board:

• npx tsc -p . clean against SDK 0.6.39; bb plugin build and bb plugin reload clean; the board-refresh schedule shows in bb plugin list.
• Columns (2026-10-24): #15599 (CHANGES_REQUESTED with 3 approvals) in Changes requested, #15600 (approved, 2 failing checks) and #16616 (approved, CI green) in Babysit with "CI failing (2)" naming both checks and "Ready to merge" respectively, #15661 (closed) in the merged-or-closed strip, two SGLang PRs without approvals in Unreviewed.
• Headless Chromium: drag #16616 to Unreviewed shows the card there with "Dragged here · GitHub says Babysit"; unpin returns it; bb review-desk board agrees at each step. Clicking a card opens the PR page; Back returns to the board. The strip expands to list the closed PR with Remove and Remove all.
• bb review-desk refresh: 2 open PRs in 2.8 s; worktrees migrated to ~/.review-desk/worktrees, legacy dir empty.
• After the move, brief_write on #15600 spawned the helper (status writing, then ready) where it failed with the 409 before.
• Remove on a freshly added PR deleted its worktree under ~/.review-desk/worktrees; the two PRs left on the board kept theirs.

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