Browse and Tables

Classify the table task before loading broad table architecture.

Task tiers

1. Narrow view edit: one column, interaction, empty state, or local filter. Inspect its row producer, identity, persistence, and adjacent tests; do not inventory unrelated tables.
2. Shared table behavior: GridTable, resource-table controller, adapters, persistence, shared filtering/sorting/pagination, identity, or columns. Inventory affected usages and read docs/frontend/gridtable.md plus table modes.
3. Architecture or large-data behavior: query ownership, global semantics, pagination/windowing, caps, dynamic metrics, export, or select-all. Inventory every production resource-table usage, read docs/architecture/large-data.md, and use table modes.

Use docs/architecture/catalog.md for discovery/Browse changes, docs/architecture/refresh-system.md for snapshot/stream contracts, docs/frontend/live-age.md for age behavior, and docs/architecture/resource-metrics.md for CPU/memory/utilization. Read only the contracts selected by the change.

Ownership

• The object catalog owns discovery, existence, canonical identity, Browse namespace metadata, and cluster listings. The namespaces refresh domain owns namespace LIST rows.
• Typed list/table data comes from refresh snapshots and, when applicable, matching resource-stream projections.
• Frontend reads use data access or refresh orchestration. Resource tables render through ResourceInventoryTable with boundedRowsSource or backendQuerySource; do not add a third source shape.
• Shared GridTable and column factories own common rendering behavior.
• Row actions and navigation use concrete full object references.

Workflow

1. Trace backend producer, scope, cap/truncation, permission behavior, cache or query owner, stream parity, and every consumer assumption.
2. Classify the table mode. For tier 2/3 work, use the definitions and inventory in table modes.
3. For broad work, create or update docs/plans/<topic>.md; move durable results into the owning architecture/frontend doc when finished.
4. Write the failing contract test before changing global table semantics.
5. Keep counts, facets, sorting, export, selection, and actions consistent with the table's actual completeness.

Focused checks

mise exec -- go test ./backend/objectcatalog ./backend/refresh/snapshot ./backend/refresh/system
mise exec -- npm run test --prefix frontend -- browse tables cluster namespace
mise exec -- npm run typecheck --prefix frontend

For broad shared-table changes, also run mise exec -- wails3 task qc:knip and add a static/contract test preventing unclassified production resource-table usage. Then follow the root final validation gate.