Triage & decide
Turn a pile of scans into decisions — keyboard-first, with a radar, collections, notes, and drift alerts.
A verdict tells you about one repo. Once you've scanned a few, the Library is where you turn them into decisions — and it's built to be driven from the keyboard.
Keyboard-first
Focus a card with j / k, then act on it without ever touching the mouse:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| j / k | Move focus between cards |
| Enter | Open the focused repo's analysis |
| o | Open the repo's source page (GitHub, npm, …) |
| r | Re-scan the focused repo (fresh AI call) |
| d | Decide — Adopt / Trial / Hold / Reject |
| e | Evaluate against your rubric |
| n | Add a note |
| c | Add to a compare |
| p | Pin to the top |
| / | Jump to search |
| Esc | Clear focus, or leave the current mode |
| ⌘K / Ctrl K | Open the command palette |
The command palette
⌘K (or Ctrl K) opens a fuzzy-searchable palette — "Type a command…" — over everything the Library can do: filters, sorts, views, exports, and one-off actions. The footer spells out the controls: ↑↓ navigate · ↵ run · Esc close.
It's also where the less-common verbs live: Batch Scan, Auto-organize by language, Re-scan all stale, the exports, and ★ Save current filter… — which pins your current filter/sort as a one-tap command you can run again later.
Decisions: Adopt / Trial / Hold / Reject
RepoLens borrows the Tech-Radar verbs. Press d on a focused card for a quick popover — a dopt, t rial, h old, r eject, or c lear — pre-pointed at Vee's suggestion when the repo already has a fit call. Each decision lands as a coloured badge with a relative timestamp ("Trial · 3 days ago").
- In bulk — turn on Select, tick some cards, and assign one decision to all of them.
- From the verdict — every fit call maps to a suggested decision (strong → adopt, solid → trial, care → hold, risky → reject). Run ✦ Auto-decide all undecided (Vee) from the palette to apply that mapping to every rated, undecided repo at once — then fix the handful you disagree with.
Tech Radar
🎯 Radar reorganises the whole library into four columns — Adopt · Trial · Hold · Reject — with your notes inline. It's the one-screen "where did we land" view, and it exports to Markdown for a doc or a PR description.
Collections
Group the repos you're weighing into named Collections (the per-card button reads ▦ Boards). Hit ▦ Boards on a card → + New collection…, name it, and tick repos in or out; a filter bar at the top of the Library narrows the grid to one collection at a time. Collections travel with your backup.
Notes & pins
Press n (or click ✎) for an inline note — Ctrl+Enter saves, Esc closes — and the first line shows as a preview under the card. p pins a repo to the top of the grid so your live shortlist stays in view.
Fit changed? You'll see it
Re-scan a repo and RepoLens diffs the new verdict against the old one: a green ↑ or amber ↓ badge spells out the move ("↑ solid → strong"). The palette filter ↕ Show: Fit changed since last scan pulls up everything that shifted — handy after a dependency's had a busy month.
Drift alerts
A daily background check flags repos you haven't re-scanned in about a month. You'll see a ↻ stale count in the stats bar, a ⟳ stale badge on the affected cards, and — when there's drift — a dismissable banner with a Refresh stale button that pre-fills a batch re-scan. Your shortlist stays honest without you having to babysit it.