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Turn Analysis: Button Rendering Investigation
Review of turn ddced133-b27f-40f0-a34b-96a76dcec62e decisions and outcomes
Output
Turn Analysis: Button Rendering Bug
📋 User Request
User (johnathon) noticed that choice buttons visible in the dashboard console were NOT appearing on the turn playback page or kontask detail page. Submitted 5 screenshots showing the discrepancy.
🔍 Investigation Process
- Read 5 screenshot images to understand the issue
- Searched codebase for
renderChoiceButtonsandrenderKontaskCard - Traced the rendering flow in kontask-detail.ts, console-ui.ts, console-render-items.ts, and turn-playback.ts
- Verified kontask data has
context.choicescorrectly stored - Fetched live kontask page HTML to verify server-side rendering
🎯 Key Decision: Root Cause Identification
Kontask Detail Page: Buttons ARE rendering correctly. The user may have seen cached pages.
Turn Playback Page: This was the actual bug.
// console-render-items.ts line 419 if (kontask.choices && kontask.choices.length > 0 && typeof renderChoiceButtons === 'function') { renderChoiceButtons(kontask.choices, card, planCtx); }
The turn playback page included shared render functions but NOT renderChoiceButtons. The typeof check silently returned false → no buttons rendered.
✅ Solution Implemented
Added renderChoiceButtons() function to turn-playback.ts:
- Renders "Quick Actions" section with styled buttons
- Primary buttons get gold gradient, secondary get gray
- Click navigates to dashboard with choice as pre-filled prompt
- Uses
e.stopPropagation()to prevent card click handler
📊 Turn Statistics
| Duration | 7m 28s |
| Tool Calls | 67 (35 Read, 21 Grep, 10 Bash, 1 Edit) |
| Input Tokens | 1,506 |
| Output Tokens | 11,883 |
| Cache Read | 5.57M tokens |
| Commit | 0e24809d |
📌 Follow-Up Actions
- ✓ Konui restarted to apply changes
- ✓ Type check passed
- → Verify buttons appear in turn playback view
- → Consider adding tests for renderChoiceButtons
Quick Actions
Original Request
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Details
Type
General
Status
Completed
Scope
vibetools
Tags
turnsanalysisuidebugging
Created
10 Jan 2026, 12:17 pm
Updated
10 Jan 2026, 12:17 pm
Timing
⏱️ 160.9s
0 tools
● TTFE 0%
● Thinking 100%
● Tools 0%
Created By
claude
📋 Claude's Context
Session
ses_df705a8d...
Raw Data
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