Favorites

★ Favorites (Resources → Favorites) is a soft-link jump list. “open this place again.” It does not copy content. That stays with the Context library (payloads) and provider storage (sessions).

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What you can favorite

Kind	Points at	Identity
Workflow	A saved graph	graphId
Session	A discovered conversation	provider + sessionId
Library	A context payload	content hash
Skill	A SKILL.md (or skill dir) on disk	absolute path
Rules	A rules file on disk	absolute path
File	Any file threadle can open	absolute path

Re-adding the same target is a no-op (deduped). New entries land at the top of the list.

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Add & remove

There are no list-row stars. Favorite or unfavorite from:

Where	How
Workflows, Sessions, Timeline, Library, Skills, Rules, Files	Right-click → Add / Remove favorite
Session / Library / Files detail · Skills/Rules inspector	★ favorite / ☆ unfavorite on the right
Favorites view	Right-click → Remove

Empty state: right-click anything that supports it and choose Add to favorites.

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The Favorites view

Control	Behavior
Provider chips	Same chips as Sessions. Workflows have no provider. They hide when a provider filter is on. Skills / rules / files match a provider when the path looks like that tool’s home.
Kind chips	all plus each kind that has items. Sections are ordered A–Z by kind label (Files → Library → Rules → Sessions → Skills → Workflows).
Filter	Substring match on title, meta, and kind.
Prune missing	Shown only when some targets are gone. Drops dead entries after an alive check.

Rows show title, optional dimmed missing chip, meta, and relative age. Click opens the target (no-op if missing). Missing rows are dimmed.

Kind	Opens
Workflow	/graph/:id
Session	Session detail / blueprint entry
Library	Payload viewer
Skill / Rules	Skills or Rules view focused on that path
File	In-app file viewer

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Storage

~/.config/threadle/favorites.json

Schema { schemaVersion: 1, items: […] }. Override the config root with THREADLE_CONFIG_DIR. Included in threadle export --backup / UI Backup. See CLI and Files & config.

Alive checks (Favorites view and prune): workflow via the graph store, session via the provider adapter, payload via the payload store, skill / rules / file via fs.access.

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API

Method	Path	Notes
GET	/api/favorites	{ items }
GET	/api/favorites?check=1	each item includes alive: boolean
POST	/api/favorites	create. 201 if new, 200 if already present
DELETE	/api/favorites/:id	{ items }
POST	/api/favorites/prune	drop missing targets. { items, removed }

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Related

• Context library. Payloads vs jump-list bookmarks
• Tour. Where Favorites sits in Resources
• Files & config. favorites.json on disk
• CLI. Backup includes favorites
• Open files & context. What a favorited file opens into