The Resources pane

The Resources pane sits next to Code, Knowledge, and Skills in the right working-surface slot (Ctrl+R to switch in). It browses the file hierarchy under a configurable directory at the conception root and surfaces every file as a small action card.

What it shows

By default the pane reads from <conception>/resources/. The directory does not have to exist — when it's missing the pane shows an empty-state with a pointer to the setting.

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
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 note modal, rendered, read-only.
  • 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.
  • 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 the user's open_with.main_ide slot (configured in .condash/settings.json, or the legacy condash.json).
• 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 ↵). If no session is live, the button still pastes once you spawn one.

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.

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 an empty state.