Limen: make the handoff from selection to execution clear

A terminal workspace launcher is useful when it shortens a routine transition without making that transition mysterious. Choosing a workspace and executing a command are related actions, but they have different responsibilities. The user should be able to understand where one ends and the other begins.

CTO to Human: what the history tells us

Limen's first release brings together tmux and SSH discovery, command-handoff planning and a terminal interface. Its public release history is brief. The point of this retrospective is to describe that concrete foundation, not to imply months of releases that do not exist.

Engineer to Engineer: the boundary that matters

Discovery reports which sessions or destinations are available. Planning translates a selection into the command that will take over. The interface presents those choices. Keeping those pieces distinguishable helps an engineer reason about failures: an unavailable destination is different from a malformed handoff or an input problem.

Milestones in the public record

• 2026-05-26 — Limen connects workspace discovery to command handoff. Limen 0.1 combines tmux and SSH discovery, command-handoff planning and a Bubble Tea terminal interface. The release links the individual foundation and UI pull requests. Project journal.

The design ambition is modest and useful: remove repeated navigation while keeping execution understandable. A small tool can earn its place by having a clear boundary and doing that work predictably.

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Retrospective written on October 12, 2026, covering the public evidence available for October 12, 2025 through October 12, 2026. Linked journal entries use source event dates; this essay is a newly written retrospective. Quiet months do not imply an unrecorded release, and short-lived projects are not presented as having a full year of activity.