Plan and calendar

The plan is a schedule of tasks across the days between today and your last interview. It is rebuilt only when you accept a change, and every change is shown to you before it applies.

What the plan is built from

Your interviews: company, role, level, round type and date.
Your availability: time windows per weekday, a maximum number of minutes per day, dates you cannot study, your preferred session length and the weekdays you prefer for mocks.
Your readiness: the weakest competencies get more time.
Company signals: topics and questions candidates report for that company in the Interview Intel corpus, when the corpus knows the employer.

A sprint moves through phases: Diagnose, Build, Target, Simulate, Repair, Polish and Interview ready. The phase decides the mix of work. Early days favour learning and building, later days favour timed designs and mocks. Mission Control shows the current phase on the phase roadmap.

Some rules hold in every plan:

Nothing new is introduced in the last 72 hours before an interview. Those days are for retrieval and rehearsal.
Studying something schedules a short recall two and five days later, or one and three days later when the interview is under a week away.
Each working day ends with a two-minute check-in: was the load light, right or heavy, and what helped most.

Capacity and the cut list

Each day has a capacity: the minutes your windows allow, capped by your daily maximum. The planner never overfills a day and never quietly rolls unfinished work forward into days that are already full.

When the work worth doing does not fit, the lowest-priority tasks go on the cut list. Mission Control tells you how many items did not fit. Adding hours or moving the interview is how cut items come back; the plan does not pretend they fit.

Replanning

A replan is always a proposal. The dialog shows exactly what would change:

Moved: tasks that land on a different day.
Removed: tasks that drop out.
Added: new tasks, such as repairs after a mock.
Protected: tasks that stay put, such as ones you pinned.

Rebuild my plan applies it. Keep my plan leaves everything as it was. If the plan changed while the dialog was open, the rebuild is refused and you are asked to look again, so two tabs cannot overwrite each other.

Replans are proposed when:

days were missed, from the recovery banner on Mission Control;
an interview date moved, which also shows the change in preparation days;
your availability changed in settings;
a mock or a real interview debrief found new gaps;
you ask for one from the calendar with Fit this into my week.

Missed days are recovered by re-fitting what matters most into the days you have left. Tasks you pinned keep their day.

The calendar

The calendar at /app/sprint/calendar has four views:

Day: one day's tasks and its capacity.
Week: seven days side by side, each with a capacity bar.
Sprint: the whole sprint at a glance, up to the last interview.
Agenda: a plain list by date.

Task chips show the task type with an icon and a shape, not colour alone. You can drag a task to another day, or use its Move to menu from the keyboard. A task cannot be moved into the past or after your last interview.

Final Prep

When an interview is three days away or closer, Sprint offers Switch to Final Prep? Switching freezes a kernel of roughly three hours for that interview:

rehearsals of designs you already practiced, aimed at your weakest areas;
one focused mock;
follow-up drills, short recaps and a structure you say out loud;
recovery phrases and a final recall of your own notes.

The kernel is stored when you switch, so it stays the same whatever else changes. Its navigation is reduced to Today, Must know, Mock, Final review and Interview. On the day before the interview the page reminds you that the day is about retrieval, not collecting more material.

You can switch to Final Prep for an interview further away, but the kernel then replaces the rest of the plan, so new learning stops early.

The warm-up

On the interview morning, /app/sprint/warmup runs fifteen minutes in four blocks: the answer framework, three likely weak points, safe phrases for when an interview goes off-script, and your own notes. Each block has its own timer. The warm-up shows no score and no readiness number.