Mothlight Theatre Company · The Drayhouse · Deputy Stage Manager's Console

The cue palette — every call on the book, one ⌘K away

Tech rehearsal R3 · Wed 28 Oct · 19:42 · book held by DSM R. Okafor · decks: LX D. Whitcombe · SND P. Réti · FLY M. Ashworth

The palette at six momentsone engine · deterministic frames

Each panel below is the actual output of the palette engine after the key sequence shown — not a mock-up. Fuzzy match is a case-insensitive subsequence over label then description; ↑↓ cross group boundaries; ⏎ fires; esc clears the query, then closes. Mode prefixes scope the search: @ files · # cues · > commands · / channels.

01Open — the standby set leads ⌘K

Correct when — the three standby cues lead the list, exactly one row is selected, zero match marks, footer hints present.

02Query — fuzzy "moth" ⌘K→moth

Correct when — every visible row matches "moth", matched glyphs are marked in place, group counts equal their rows, rank-1 selected.

03Navigate — crossing groups ⌘K→gob→↓↓↓↓

Correct when — selection sits on the first channel row (rail + fill + ⏎ chip on it alone); LX 47 shows its STANDBY tag again, not ⏎.

04No results — recovery, not a dead end ⌘K→zzx

Correct when — zero rows, the query is echoed, three recovery chips ≥44px, and the naming rules (department prefixes) are stated.

05Mode — "@" scopes to files ⌘K→@

Correct when — a "@ files" chip sits inside the input, documents only are listed, counts are right, first document selected.

06Receipt — what ⏎ did ⌘K→moth→⏎

Correct when — the receipt names what fired and when, the next standby set, deck acknowledgements, and logs itself to the rehearsal report.

Rehearsal log — exceptions tonightR3 · report open

Methodengine · audits

Fuzzy match: case-insensitive subsequence, label before description; label matches rank above description matches inside a group, and description matches carry a contiguity bound — the matched span may not exceed 3× the query length, so scattered hits across a sentence are rejected (“timestamp the report at this cue” is not “moth”). Selection: ↑↓ moves one row across group boundaries; ⏎ fires the selected row and prints a receipt; esc clears the query, a second esc closes; mode prefixes @ # > / scope the result set before matching. The engine is deterministic — all six frames above are its output, replayed from the recorded key sequences.

Verification: audit checks pending run on load in both viewports — they assert the frame row-sets against the engine, the single-selection invariant, the tag↔⏎ chip swap across a group boundary, the no-results recovery contract, mode scoping, the receipt's successor chain, and keyboard behaviour on a live hidden mount (synthetic ↑↓ / ⏎ / esc events — no mouse).

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