# Regular and dev mode (https://docs.vitrinka.ai/use/modes)



## Two faces, one preference [#modes]

vitrinka has two display modes, and the one you see is your own account preference: it follows you across browsers and never changes what anyone else sees. Everyone starts in **regular** mode, the workspace owner included. **Dev** mode is the whole engine — Home and Mission control, the agents' queues, Calendar, Brainstorms, the Library, QA and World.

Both modes show the same data under the same permissions; only the surface changes.

## Regular mode [#regular]

The bar reads Inbox · Sprints · Tasks · Boards · Docs. There is no Home: the workspace opens on the Inbox.

| Link    | What it shows                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Inbox   | Every report people sent, in one list beside the picked one — [the Inbox](/pm/inbox).                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Sprints | One project's sprint — the active one unless you pick another — as a list grouped Planned · In progress · In review · Done, each group folding away with its count beside it. **Columns** shows the same tasks as four lanes; the choice is remembered on this device. |
| Tasks   | The project's open tasks, grouped the same way.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Boards  | The board list, as in dev mode.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Docs    | The workspace's documents, as in dev mode.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

Sprints and Tasks each carry their own project pick. Human surfaces say Sprint; the API, the CLI and the agents' tools keep their own words.

**A task reads as a story.** In regular mode a task's address opens top to bottom: its title; one quiet row with every property — status, assignee, priority, category, sprint, labels — each still editable; the steps Received · Planned · In progress · Fixed · Done with the current one marked; the before and after — the places a reporter marked and the picture the fix attached; the reporter's words; and the activity. It is built from the task's own record, never an AI summary. Dev mode keeps the full task panel at the same address.

## Dev mode [#dev]

The bar reads Home · Inbox · Calendar · Boards · Docs · Brainstorms · Library · QA · World — the full app [Finding your way around](/use) describes, with the Inbox right after Home.

**Needs you moved.** The agents' decision queue — the gates and decisions waiting on a person — lives at `/decisions` now, reached from Home. Old links to it land there. The Inbox holds human reports only.

## Switching [#switch]

* `⌃⌥D` anywhere, except while you type in a field.
* ⌘K, then **Dev mode** or **Regular mode** — the command is named for the mode it switches to.
* **Settings → Preferences → Display**, under display mode.

A switch saves and reloads. The server paints the new bar in the very first frame, so nothing flickers on the way. The account menu's **Build diagnostics** — once also called Dev mode — is a different switch, for build details.

People outside the team never see either mode: they follow their reports on the [reporter portal](/qa/portal).