The Resources pane

The Resources pane sits alongside Code, Knowledge, Skills, and Logs in the right working-surface slot (Ctrl+R to switch in, or the activity rail). It browses the file hierarchy under resources/ at the conception root and surfaces every file as a small action card.

What it shows

The pane reads <conception>/resources/. The directory does not have to exist — when it's missing the pane shows an empty state:

No resources directory yet. Drop any file under resources/ at the conception root.

…plus an Open in file manager button that opens the conception directory so you can create it. There is no setting to point elsewhere (see Configuration).

Every file in the tree is rendered, regardless of extension. Hidden dot-files are skipped. Directories at any depth become their own section, so a deeply-nested layout reads as a flat list of grouped sub-directories.

Each card carries a coloured glyph for its file type:

Glyph	Categories
MD	.md, .markdown
MDX	.mdx — visual notes
PDF	.pdf
WEB	.html, .htm
TXT	Source code, JSON, YAML, plain text
IMG	Images (raster + SVG)
AUD	Audio
VID	Video
ZIP	Archives
BIN	Compiled / opaque binaries
·	Anything else

Per-card actions

A button row at the bottom of each card exposes:

• view — opens the file in-app, picking the viewer by type:
  • Markdown → the editable note modal, rendered by default; use the edit toggle and Save to write it back.
  • Text / source code (JSON, YAML, CSS, JS, …) → the note modal, read-only, syntax-highlighted by extension.
  • PDF → the PDF viewer modal.
  • HTML → the HTML viewer modal, rendered, with a Rendered / Source toggle in the header.
  • .mdx → the visual-note block viewer — typed blocks (wireframes, diffs, data models, …) with the same Rendered / Source toggle. See Visual notes.
  • Image (raster or SVG) → the image viewer modal, fit-to-window.
  • Audio, video, archives and binaries have no in-app viewer — the button is hidden and the card opens them in the OS default app instead.
• open — opens the file via your open_with.main_ide slot. That is a personal, global-only setting: it lives in the per-machine settings.json, never in a conception's .condash/settings.json. If nothing happens, the slot is probably unconfigured — see Repositories and open-with launchers.
• reveal — reveals the file in your OS file manager (selected in its parent folder).
• copy — copies the absolute path to the system clipboard.
• → term — pastes the absolute path into the focused terminal session (no ↵). With no session live it opens a shell first and pastes into that new tab, once the tab is actually there to receive it; if the tab fails to open, it says so rather than pasting somewhere else.

Clicking the card body itself runs the most-likely action for the file type — view for inline-viewable types, open-in-IDE otherwise.

Each in-app viewer (PDF, HTML, image) carries the same reveal + open-in-OS escape hatches in its header, so a file that can't render in-app (e.g. an HTML page pulling root-absolute or remote assets, or an image outside the conception tree) is always one click from the real application.

Creating and importing files

The pane is not read-only. Every directory header carries three buttons that write into that directory:

• + md — create a new Markdown file, naming it in a prompt. It opens straight away.
• + file — import an existing file from anywhere on disk through a file picker; it is copied in.
• + dir — create a subdirectory.

This is the intended way to file a screenshot, a downloaded spec, or a scratch note into the tree without leaving the app.

Configuration

The Resources pane reads <conception>/resources/ unconditionally — the directory name is hard-coded and not configurable. To opt out, leave the directory absent; the pane renders its empty state.

See also

• The Deliverables pane — the per-project aggregation of ## Deliverables, distinct from this conception-global file browser.
• The knowledge tree — the same tree component, for durable reference material.