…and the card wears it, and holds still

The card takes the accent border and a breathing `completing` pill in
the slot the status pill already owns — the working vocabulary, because
that is what is happening — and carries the latest narrated step on its
activity line, so "parking the drive" and "cleaned up: worktree and
local branch removed" land on the card and not only in the ticker.

While it is claimed the card offers nothing: no hover actions, no drive
or command chips (both run against the worktree being removed), and not
draggable, so the sheet cannot be reopened behind the run. Suppressed,
not ignored on click — an action that looks available and does nothing
is the same lie in a different place.

manager/core/board.html

@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@
   /* the last run on this card died: the same terracotta, worn until the
      next launch replaces it or the card moves stage */
   .card.run-failed{border-color:color-mix(in oklab, var(--alarm) 55%, var(--border))}
+  /* merge & clean up is running on this card: the working vocabulary,
+     because that is what is happening — the board is disassembling its
+     branch. No new colour, no new animation, and nothing to grab: the card
+     is not draggable and carries no actions until it lands in done/. */
+  .card.completing{
+    border-color:color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent) 55%, var(--border));cursor:default;
+  }
+  .card.completing:hover{transform:none;border-color:color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent) 55%, var(--border))}
+  .card .pill.status.breathing{animation:breathe 2.4s ease-in-out infinite}
   /* tool chips: destinations, not statuses — they live in the card's footer,
      never squeezed into the author row */
   .chiprow{
@@ -817,6 +826,11 @@ function connectStream() {
     } else if (msg.type === 'board_event') {
       S.state?.boardEvents.push(msg.event);
       scheduleRender();
+    } else if (msg.type === 'completing') {
+      // the cards this board is merging and cleaning up, and which step
+      // each is on — whole map, so it can never go stale in pieces
+      if (S.state) S.state.completing = msg.completing;
+      scheduleRender();
     }
   };
 }
@@ -968,13 +982,17 @@ function cardFor(task) {
   const working = agent && agent.mode !== 'review';
   const verdict = task.stage === 'review' ? prVerdict(task) : null;
   const failure = failedRun(task);
+  // the server holds this, not the tab that clicked: while merge & clean up
+  // runs, the card is mid-disassembly and hands back none of its actions
+  const completing = (S.state.completing || {})[task.file];
   el.className = 'card'
     + (S.selected && S.selected.file === task.file ? ' selected' : '')
     + (working ? ' running' : '')
     + (verdict === 'green' ? ' verdict-good' : verdict === 'red' ? ' verdict-bad' : '')
     + (failure ? ' run-failed' : '')
+    + (completing ? ' completing' : '')
     + (task.stage === 'done' ? ' done-dim' : '');
-  el.draggable = true;
+  el.draggable = !completing;
 
   let tint = working ? 'var(--accent)' : STAGE_TINT[task.stage];
   let pill = agent && agent.mode === 'review'
@@ -994,14 +1012,21 @@ function cardFor(task) {
              title: failure.excerpt };
     tint = 'var(--alarm)';
   }
+  if (completing) {
+    // live work outranks every settled reading: the branch behind an
+    // 'approved' pill is being merged away as you look at it
+    pill = { text: 'completing', tint: 'var(--accent)', bg: mix('var(--accent)', 16),
+             title: 'merge & clean up is running — the card comes back when it lands in done/' };
+    tint = 'var(--accent)';
+  }
   const high = (task.priority || '').toLowerCase() === 'high';
   const top = [
-    `<span class="mark${working ? ' breathing' : ''}" style="background:${tint}"></span>`,
+    `<span class="mark${working || completing ? ' breathing' : ''}" style="background:${tint}"></span>`,
     `<span class="ref">${task.number ? '#' + esc(task.number) : esc(task.file.slice(0, 10))}</span>`,
     '<span class="spacer"></span>',
     high ? '<span class="high">HIGH</span>' : '',
     task.statusMismatch ? `<span class="pill drift" title="File says ${esc(task.declaredStatus)}">drift</span>` : '',
-    `<span class="pill status" style="background:${pill.bg};color:${pill.tint}"` +
+    `<span class="pill status${completing ? ' breathing' : ''}" style="background:${pill.bg};color:${pill.tint}"` +
       `${pill.title ? ` title="${esc(pill.title)}"` : ''}>${pill.text}</span>`,
   ];
 
@@ -1010,7 +1035,10 @@ function cardFor(task) {
   const stillTrue = { glyph: '◔', label: 'still true?', confirm: 'check it?', busy: 'checking…',
     title: 'A read-only agent checks this task is still true of the codebase',
     run: () => fireAgent(task, '/api/agent/review') };
-  if (agent) {
+  if (completing) {
+    // none, deliberately: an action that looks available and does nothing
+    // is the same lie as a card that looks idle while its branch is deleted
+  } else if (agent) {
     actions.push({ glyph: '‖', label: 'hold', confirm: 'hold it?', busy: 'holding…',
       title: 'Stop this agent — nothing is lost',
       run: () => stopAgent(agent.id) });
@@ -1088,7 +1116,12 @@ function cardFor(task) {
   if (task.type) extras.push(esc(task.type.toLowerCase()));
 
   let liveLine = '';
-  if (agent && agent.session) {
+  if (completing) {
+    // the steps are narrated as board events against this file; the card
+    // wears the latest one instead of leaving the ticker to tell the story
+    liveLine = `<div class="well"><span class="lead">·</span>` +
+      `<span class="wbody">${esc(completing.step || 'completing…')}<span class="caret">▌</span></span></div>`;
+  } else if (agent && agent.session) {
     const run = S.running[agent.session];
     const smeta = sessionMeta(agent.session);
     const last = run || (smeta && smeta.lastSummary ? { summary: smeta.lastSummary, ok: null } : null);
@@ -1129,7 +1162,9 @@ function cardFor(task) {
   }
   if (task.pr) chips.push({ label: 'PR', glyph: '↗', cls: '', href: task.pr, title: detail });
   let driveWell = '';
-  if (task.stage === 'review') {
+  // the drive and the project's commands run against a worktree this card
+  // is in the middle of removing: no chip offers either while it does
+  if (task.stage === 'review' && !completing) {
     const d = S.state.drive;
     if (d && d.task === task.file && (d.status === 'up' || d.status === 'starting')) {
       if (d.status === 'up') chips.push({ label: 'open', glyph: '✳', cls: 'accent',
@@ -1158,7 +1193,7 @@ function cardFor(task) {
     }
   }
   // project commands run against this task's worktree
-  if (hasBranch && ['in-progress', 'review'].includes(task.stage)) {
+  if (hasBranch && !completing && ['in-progress', 'review'].includes(task.stage)) {
     for (const cmd of (S.state.commands || [])) {
       const running = (S.state.commandRuns || []).some(r => r.task === task.file && r.name === cmd.name);
       if (running) {
@@ -1435,7 +1470,7 @@ function completeSheet(task, from) {
   $('#sh-move').addEventListener('click', () => { closeSheet(); rawMove(task.file, from, 'done'); });
   $('#sh-ship').addEventListener('click', async () => {
     closeSheet();
-    toast(`Completing ${task.file} — the ticker narrates each step`);
+    toast(`Completing ${task.file} — the card shows each step`);
     const res = await fetch('/api/task/complete', {
       method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
       body: JSON.stringify({ file: task.file, from }),
@@ -1471,7 +1506,9 @@ function renderDrawer() {
   const t = S.selected;
   const agent = agentOnTask(t.file);
   const failure = failedRun(t);
-  const pill = failure
+  const pill = (S.state.completing || {})[t.file]
+    ? { text: 'completing', tint: 'var(--accent)', bg: mix('var(--accent)', 16) }
+    : failure
     ? { text: 'run failed', tint: 'var(--alarm)', bg: mix('var(--alarm)', 16) }
     : agent && agent.mode === 'review'
     ? { text: 'reviewing', tint: 'var(--accent)', bg: mix('var(--accent)', 16) }