Your home screen keeps the five newest jobs and hides none of them

The block at the top of the home screen takes the jobs the app currently holds, sorts them by creation time with the newest first, and keeps the first five (apps/jewelry-mobile/src/features/home/recent-generations.tsx, read against the application source in August 2026).

Five is a constant in the client. It is not something the server sets, and it is not attached to a plan, so there is no configuration anywhere that would make the strip longer or shorter.

The list applies no status filter. A job that failed occupies the same list as a job that finished, at the position its creation time gives it. Nothing is removed from the strip because it went wrong.

Both rules together explain the two impressions this screen produces: a strip that looks short is a fixed count doing its job, and a failure sitting among your latest work is the absence of a filter, not a defect.

The caption is decided by the tool that produced the job, not by the content of the picture. Model generation produces a caption named after the jewellery category the job belongs to. A tool that is not tied to a category produces a caption named after the tool itself (recent-generations.tsx).

That makes the caption a reliable statement about route and an unreliable one about subject. A caption naming a category tells you the job went through the category-based route; it does not describe what is in the frame.

If you work in one category all day, every model-generation card will carry the same caption. That repetition is the rule working, and it is not a sign that the strip has stopped updating — the badge and the time are the parts that differ from card to card.

Two defects in this strip are recorded in the code that fixed them. Both are past behaviour, described here only because a seller who met them once may still be reading today's screen through them.

The caption defect. Before the correction, a job produced by a tool that is not tied to a jewellery category was captioned on the home screen with a category name it never had. The comment beside the caption code in recent-generations.tsx records the fix, and the caption rule described above is what replaced it.

The relative-time defect. Before the guard in apps/jewelry-mobile/src/lib/relative-time.ts was added, this card brought the whole application down on a device whose engine lacked the relative-time formatter; the comment records it as a P0 dated 2026-08-10, and the failure followed the first generation. The absolute fallback described above is that guard.

Neither behaviour is current. A category name on a card today means the job really was a category-based generation, and an absolute time is the fallback rather than the crash it replaced.

How the home screen behaves when the server cannot be reached is a separate subject and is not answered here.

The same picture rule appears on the library and collection screens, where an uploaded photo on a card is used as a diagnostic; how those surfaces report a failure, and what an empty library means, are settled where those screens are documented.

The strip has no controls: no filter, no tab, no selection. Anything you would do to a list rather than read from it belongs to another surface.