The stack view

Your whole system, and its health, in one place.

The rule: a component nobody scanned is not a healthy component.

Architecture diagrams go out of date the week they're drawn, and code-health results live in a dozen tools nobody checks together. The Stack view derives the map from the running system and puts every scanner's latest answer on the box it belongs to, so the picture is current and the gaps show.

The Stack view: three nested ownership rings — code we write, infrastructure we run, external services — with cli, fleet, api, web, db and email boxes, liveness badges, and a code-health strip on each of our components.
Build → Stack. Every box, frame and edge is computed from what the server reports. The strip on each box is its code health; not scanned and stale are drawn as themselves. Demo instance with sample scan data.

Why it matters

One view answers three people's questions.

For the engineering lead

Where the risk is, by component: security findings, complexity hot spots, unfinished code, and which parts nobody has checked at all.

For the developer

What runs where and what talks to what, before touching it. Click a box for its surfaces, its connections and every finding, with the file.

For the agents

Tech debt stops being a vague backlog. One click turns a finding into a card on the board, where the fleet picks it up and it goes through review like any other work.

The map

An architecture diagram that draws itself.

Nothing is placed by hand. The layout is a function of the topology the API reports, so when the system changes, the picture does too.

① Code we write

Your deployables, grouped by where they run: user machines, agent hosts and outposts, and the compose or hosted stack.

② Infrastructure we run

What you operate but didn't write, such as the database, nested around your code.

③ External services

What you only call over the network, in its own column, so the boundary of ownership is visible.

  • Liveness on every box. Reachable, unknown or not configured. Never a healthy default.
  • The facts that drift, in one strip. The running version and commit, the database schema revision, the database engine and the live MCP tool count.
  • Edges say how. Connections are labelled by protocol, such as HTTP with JWT or HTTP plus MCP.
  • Hand it to an architecture review. Print or export the whole map to PDF at a readable fit.

What's missing is on the map too

Above the canvas, every absence gets a chip: no fleet registered, no email configured, no Linear sync, and how many catalogued providers are unwired. A diagram that only draws what exists makes a half-configured system look finished.

The health overlay

Every scanner's latest answer, on the component it's about.

Each component carries seven categories. A finding records its severity, file, scanner and version, and the commit it was scanned against.

CategoryWhat it tells youFed by
SecurityVulnerable dependencies and risky codepip-audit, npm audit, osv-scanner, bandit, semgrep, trivy
Refactoring · complexityHot spots: high cyclomatic complexity, oversized functionsradon, ESLint complexity
Partial implementationStubs and placeholders that shippeda stub scan
Dead codeFunctions, exports and files nothing uses any morevulture, knip, ts-prune
CoverageHow much of the component the code map describes, and whether that description is stalethe code graph, built in
TestsWhether the suite ran at the running commit, with passed, failed and skipped counts, and each failing test as a findingpytest, vitest, jest, any JUnit report
Open workCards on the board that touch this componentthe tracker, built in
The api component selected: an inspector panel lists its surfaces (REST, MCP, sync engine, provider-resolution) and code health, with a security finding from pip-audit and two refactoring findings from radon, each showing scanner, version, the commit it ran against, the file, and a Defrag button.
Click a box. Its surfaces, then every category: which scanner ran, when, against which commit, and each finding with its file. Demo instance with sample scan data.

No score

A component is never green by default.

There is no health score to game. Each category is in exactly one of four states, and the last two are never drawn as the first.

clean at head
Scanned at the commit that's running, with zero findings.
has findings
Coloured by the worst severity present, so one critical outweighs ten lows.
never scanned
Nothing has looked. Until something does, the state is unknown.
stale
A clean result at an older commit. It doesn't cover what's running now.

A component only rolls up clean when the result covers its whole tree. One clean file says nothing about the rest. That's why, in the screenshot above, fleet reads stale: its only scan predates the running commit. And cli shows a high finding even though nothing failed, because its test run executed zero tests. An empty run is not a pass, so it is recorded as one. The same limit, for a path in the tree, is the code graph.

The scan report

The whole codebase's health on one screen.

Every component against every category, then every finding, filterable by severity, component, category and text. "Not run" and "stale" are cells, not blanks.

The scan report: a matrix of components (web, api, fleet, cli) against Security, Refactoring, Partial Implementation, Dead Code, Coverage, Tests and Open Work, showing clean, findings, stale and not run cells, followed by filter chips and seven findings, including a test run that executed zero tests with severity, component, category and file.
Scan report. Pinned to the running commit, with no score and nothing hidden. Demo instance with sample scan data.

Defrag

From finding to card in one click.

Every finding has a Defrag button that files it as a card on the board, tagged as tech debt. Defrag all files every unfiled finding on a component at once.

  • Filed once. A finding remembers that it was filed, so the same issue never becomes two cards.
  • Then it's ordinary work. The card is claimed, built in its own worktree, independently reviewed and verified by CI, like everything else on the pipeline.
  • And the next scan closes the loop. When the fix lands and the scanner runs again at the new commit, that category goes clean at head. The box follows once every category is.

Where the results come from

Your scanners, your repo. Graphban keeps the answers.

Graphban never runs a scanner. An agent working in your repo runs the tools you already trust and reports the results, the same way it describes code for the graph. CI can post them too, over a key-authenticated REST endpoint.

record_scan(scanner, path, scanned_sha, findings) No commit, no result. A clean scan without a revision can't be told apart from a stale one, so it is refused.

Coverage and open work need no scanner at all: they come from the code graph and the board. How the code graph is built →

What's new

latest 2026-11-10
run

The playbook pack, applied with gban update

A deployment publishes the playbook pack at GET /api/playbooks. gban update applies that pack to the checkout. The fleet supervisor still holds no authority of its own.

fleet

Harness capacity is a routing mode beside the grades

Cheap or frontier still comes from measured sign-offs, and a cell under five samples stays unmeasured. The Harness Capacity tab is the other mode: entitlements, a subscription hierarchy you set, and a forecast of spend. A routing verdict the router never recorded is null, with a note. It is not zero.

run

First run is a checklist, not an empty form

After the stack starts, first run is a checklist, a setup-status card that stays until the first job is proven, and a one-time tour. Finish later with no project and the shell keeps the setup chip. It does not drop you into an empty create form.

run

Specs is a library, and a canvas finding stays open

The Specs list is the PRD, its preamble, and the design-set documents, plus the folder they sync to. search_docs searches baselined PRD bodies; drafts and design rows stay out until the call opts in. A design set compiles a prompt, stores the canvas, and can file a finding with a canvas check. That finding stays open until the bound canvas for the latest compiled prompt passes it.

honesty

An unloaded rule pack is not off

Build → Rules draws each rule at a strength: enforced, checked, external, advisory, unmeasured, or not used. library_loaded: false means no pack is loaded. It does not mean every rule is off, and it does not mean nothing was adopted. Turning a rule on or off is a person's REST action. get_rule_toggles has no MCP write.

run

The tracker board has a Blocked column

The tracker defaults to a board. The columns are Backlog, Next, In progress, Review, Blocked, and Done. Blocked sits beside Review, so a card that cannot move is its own column.

graph

Dead code and test results join the Stack overlay

Two new code-health categories on every component. Dead code reads vulture, knip and ts-prune. Tests reads pytest, vitest, jest or any JUnit report, with passed, failed and skipped counts, and each failing test becomes a finding you can Defrag into a card. A run that executed zero tests is recorded as a finding, not a pass, and a suite that hasn't run at the current commit shows as stale or never run.

graph

The Stack view: an architecture map nobody has to draw

Build → Stack maps the running system from the topology the API reports: your deployables grouped by host, the infrastructure you run, and the external services you depend on, in three nested rings. A code-health overlay records scan findings per component and colours each box by its worst severity. A box that was never scanned reads as never scanned, not as clean.

graph

The code graph groups by area

Nodes now cluster by area and draw their kind as their shape, so the map reads at a glance before you open a single label.

fleet

Gemini and DeepSeek join the fleet

Two new named adapters, agy for Google's Antigravity CLI and dsh for DeepSeek, bring the fleet to seven harnesses alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Grok, Qwen Code and local models through gbagent. Each is version-checked before a child starts. Codex still connects over MCP but has no fleet adapter.

honesty

Hand-merged work can be closed without faking a sign-off

Work merged outside the fleet used to sit open forever, or get a sign-off it never had. A project owner can now close it as merged, and the record says that is what happened.

honesty

A check that did not run is not a pass

Sign-off now refuses evidence that denies an acceptance clause, counts only the reviewer's own tests, and treats a skipped check as missing rather than green. A refusal names the word it matched and the rule behind it.

memory

The decider sorts the memory queue

A project can opt in to a fast System One model that grades each memory candidate: grounded, ready, and whether it contradicts a published lesson. Thresholds are calibrated against human decisions, the uncertain middle stays with a person, and a decider that cannot answer says so on the page.

fleet

Review-only seats, and branches published at review

A review-only seat can review but never build, so a reviewer cannot quietly take a slice. When a card reaches review the supervisor pushes its branch and opens a draft PR, one card per PR. With --merge it enables auto-merge after sign-off; without it, a person merges.

run

Usage, Activity and OTLP log export

A deployment-wide Usage page with model usage, an Activity view rebuilt around lenses and facets, and log export over OTLP to the observability stack you already run.

run

The app, reorganised: Plan, Build, Observe

The redesign groups every surface into three sections: Plan (tracker, requests, PRDs, roadmap), Build (code graph, stack, MCP tools, fleet, outposts) and Observe (memory review, lessons, activity, live, harness). The same in self-host and hosted.

run

Feedback Kit: public boards, votes and a roadmap

Collect feedback through an ingest API or the embeddable widget, publish boards people can vote on, and show a public roadmap. Submissions land in triage and become cards.

fleet

Outposts and the harness mix

The Fleet view is rebuilt around a catalog of harnesses, a mix that sets each vendor's share of launches, and outposts: the macOS, Linux and Windows machines your fleets run on.

fleet

A capability matrix built from real sign-offs

Models are graded per function set from reviewed work and probes, learned across users. Ask for a tier and the resolver picks from what has been measured. A cell with under five samples says unmeasured instead of guessing.

honesty

Done cannot be minted at the door

Two ways around the completion gate existed: create an item already marked done, or release a claimed one into done. Both now refuse. Signing work off still requires an attestation — the status is not a field you get to set because the form accepted it.

honesty

Agents are told the git process, or told it is unmeasured

Nothing used to name a base branch, so agents opened PRs against main because that is what models do. The org — or the local project — now stores a sparse delivery contract: base branch, whether they may push to it, optional naming. get_context returns it. An unset field stays unmeasured, not a silent main. Graphban still does not open PRs, merge, or rebase.

fleet

until is a planner loop, not a thicker supervisor

gbfleet up is still one wave: spawn, wait, reap. until sits around it — keep going while there is work, spawn reviewers when review appears, and on restart adopt the children that are already running rather than launching a second set beside them. The supervisor still holds no authority of its own.

fleet

A wait for a human is a blocked item

When an agent needs a person, that wait is a blocked item on the same tracker rather than a side channel nobody will look at. The work stays visible, and the reason is on the record.

memory

A published lesson that nobody retrieved is a miss

Observe now has a Lessons catalog. Reach and outcomes are computed rather than assumed, and publishing something the next agent never found is recorded as a miss — not as a silent success that looks like the lesson landed.

run

Install without Docker, as a system service

Compose is still the default. A Mac or Linux box can now run Graphban as launchd or systemd, with one CLI for install, upgrade and uninstall. Postgres with pgvector is required and verified, never installed for you. There is no .app.

fleet

The caller picks the model a child runs

Every spawned child used to run whatever its vendor CLI defaulted to, with no way to say otherwise — the cost lever the whole fleet idea rests on, missing. The supervisor now passes a model through, along with the two knobs one vendor each exposes. Pass-through, not selection: the supervisor still does not choose models on your behalf, and a knob the chosen vendor does not have is refused rather than quietly ignored.

graph

The living graph answers back

Hubs, shortest path and two-hop reach reach the UI rather than staying in the API. Paths say which way each edge points, and the whole graph is one tab stop — arrows move real focus, so it is navigable without a mouse.

honesty

The reference docs cannot silently fall behind

Three documents presented themselves as complete inventories and were not: the API reference covered 87 of 160 routes, configuration 19 of 51 settings, the data model 15 of 48 tables. A ratchet now records the known gap and fails on any new one, in both directions — documenting something and leaving it listed as missing fails too.

fleet

The fleet supervisor

gbfleet runs one wave: a child per seat, spawned in its own worktree, waited on, reaped. It is a separate distribution that depends on httpx and nothing else, and it holds no authority of its own — it can only launch a process holding a seat the server issued. Delete it and every invariant still holds; the fleet just needs a human to open terminals again.

fleet

Vendor adapters, named and version-checked

claude, cursor-agent, grok and codex, each resolved by name rather than guessed at, with the supported version asserted before a child is spawned. The credential is written to the child's config file and never to argv, because argv is world-readable on a shared box.

fleet

Mint, list and retire became one capability

A planner can retire the seats it minted and only those, scoped by minted_by. Ending a wave expires seats, never credentials — no client config is touched and nothing has to reconnect.

proof

The supervisor walk, run against a real server

Sixteen steps passed, one is blocked on a decision rather than a budget, and it found nothing in the supervisor. The walk refuses to run unless pointed at a real instance and refuses any project it did not create itself — a walk that quietly passed by not running would be the worst possible version of it.

fix

A closed PRD no longer blanks the PRD page

The status map covered three states and the server sends four. One closed PRD threw during render and took the whole list and editor with it. An unrecognised status now costs one oddly-labelled chip instead of a white screen, and a test compares the two lists across the stack.

fix

Linking a request to an item works on a renamed project

Item ids are frozen at issue time while the key you see is rendered from the project's current tag. The link stored the key you sent instead of the id it resolved to, so on any renamed project it violated a foreign key and returned a 500.

Every entry is work that merged. The full history is on GitHub.