SHIFT: How a Shell Becomes Convergent

A look at the architecture beneath SHIFT's convergence mode: one configuration flag, a dozen listeners, and what it actually takes to make a phone shell turn into a desktop without restarting. The first post about SHIFT described what convergence means at the intent level: a single shell that reconfigures itself when you connect a monitor, without rebooting, without switching sessions. This one goes one level down, into how it's actually built. One flag The whole thing pivots on a single value: