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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul BakausandGitHub 6496f49a1e Fix skill workflow regression coverage (#783)
Clarify launcher fallback and completed documentation handoffs; separate bounded protocol checkpoints from opt-in browser-backed completion diagnostics. Correct fixture containment, target syntax, and artifact assertions. AI assistance: Codex, under maintainer direction.
2026-09-08 08:41:54 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 8426ac2f9a Clarify launcher-refusal fallback and correct behavior tests (#756)
* Clarify permitted work after launcher refusal

Correct behavior-test skill metadata and DeepSeek output limits; document the measured remaining Gemini warning-order failure and hook download trust boundary.

AI assistance: Codex, under pbakaus direction.

* Clarify behavior harness host-modeling scope

AI assistance: Codex, under pbakaus direction.

* Preserve planning-only scope after launcher refusal

Clarify applicable setup steps and cover denied-launcher planning. Retain the observed playbook-read failure under issue #744 rather than weakening its assertion.

AI assistance: Codex, under pbakaus direction.

* Test planning fallback warning order

Require an assistant warning after context launcher denial and before fallback context reads. Cover silent, late, and unrelated warnings with deterministic tests; retain the observed Sonnet omission under #744.

AI assistance: Codex, under pbakaus direction.
2026-09-06 20:34:28 -07:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 3e653377de Fix: Setup survives a refused launcher (#750)
Preserve Setup context and reference loading after launcher refusal, disclose the failure before editing, and limit Claude skill-directory substitution to SKILL.md. Add plugin-path and denied-launcher behavior regressions. Addresses part of #744 without closing its remaining scope.

AI assistance: Cursor on the original contribution; Codex on maintainer-directed follow-up fixes and validation.
2026-09-06 13:07:29 -07:00
044a04fd0d docs: add workflow guide for command entry points (#737)
* docs: add workflow guide for command entry points

* Refine workflow guidance into advice-only routing

Reuse the existing routing reference and docs map instead of shipping a parallel workflow catalog. Add reference-backed command comparisons, advice-only tests, and explicit-command precedence coverage.

AI-assisted maintainer revision prepared with Codex.

* Include routing guidance in behavior-test triggers

AI-assisted maintainer revision prepared with Codex.

* Constrain routing behavior tests to fixture-safe tools

Keep the real context loader but reject arbitrary host shell searches in the new advice scenarios. Preserve observable project writes and protect the staged skill; cover the restriction with offline regression tests.

AI-assisted maintainer revision prepared with Codex.

* Require actual reference reads in restricted routing tests

Do not count rejected shell reads as reference loading. Record the nine measured advice cases; explicit-command measurements remain pending the stricter retest.

AI-assisted maintainer revision prepared with Codex.

* Record measured workflow-routing baseline

All twelve focused cases pass across Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and Gemini 3.7 Flash, including the stricter explicit-command retest.

AI-assisted verification prepared with Codex.

* Trim workflow routing guidance

Reduce added skill prose from 286 to 59 words while retaining the routing regression assertions. Record the missing-context reference-read flake and passing repeat.

AI assistance: prepared and verified with Codex under maintainer direction.

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Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
2026-09-05 15:01:58 -07:00
e2ff625b63 The Rust engine: one binary replaces every script and the JS detector, fully open (#714)
* Add oracle harness: verb goldens and function-level vectors

Records stdout/stderr/exit/files for every impeccable verb over a fixed
corpus and replays them against an alternate implementation. Adds a loader
hook that captures per-function call vectors from the pure engine modules.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: hook, hook-before-edit, hook-admin cases and goldens

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Add docs/CLI-CONTRACT.md: observable behavior of every impeccable verb

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: context/doctor/pin/surface-brief/critique/palette/embed/signals/csp/seed/genimg/question cases and goldens

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: live-mode cases and goldens (roots, inject, wrap, insert, accept, session, manual edits, daemon)

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: mask the binary path before HOME; export launcher env to the binary

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* detect: set process.exitCode instead of exiting after the final write

process.exit() right after a large piped stdout write truncated JSON output
at the pipe buffer boundary; found by the oracle harness. Re-record the six
directory-scan goldens that had captured the truncation.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: normalize the hook-admin command in both runtimes' forms and audit chars

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Skill text: invoke the impeccable launcher instead of node scripts

Every `node {{scripts_path}}/<name>.mjs` becomes `{{scripts_path}}/impeccable <verb>`
(context-signals -> signals, hook-admin -> hooks). Setup step 1 drops Node, points
Windows shells without sh at impeccable.cmd, and says the launcher runs a
self-contained binary. allowed-tools follows.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Scripts dir: replace the Node scripts with the impeccable launcher

skill/scripts keeps command-metadata.json and the page JS; every .mjs entry
point, lib/, and live/ are gone (the binary owns those verbs). Adds the POSIX
launcher, impeccable.cmd, VERSION (copied from the new root ENGINE_VERSION),
scripts/fetch-engine.mjs (bun run fetch:engine) to pull the pinned binary
into skill/scripts/bin/<os>-<arch>/, and gitignores that bin dir.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Build: ship the launcher instead of bundling the JS engine

readSourceFiles no longer copies cli/engine into the skill; the scripts
payload is the launcher (executable bit preserved through dist, plugin/, and
universal.zip), impeccable.cmd, VERSION (synced from ENGINE_VERSION on every
build), the page JS, and command-metadata.json. Hook manifests call
`<scripts>/impeccable hook` behind an existence guard (Codex adds a
commandWindows sibling calling impeccable.cmd; Cursor runs hook-before-edit;
GitHub keeps the git rev-parse form; Grok mirrors Claude); the Node probe and
systemMessage notice are gone. build:release fetches the pinned engine for
every target (lenient) and stages bin/<os-arch>/ into the dist skill copies
after root harness dirs and plugin/ were synced, so git-delivered trees stay
launcher-only. The detection-rule count check reads the vendored
extension/detector/antipatterns.json and is skipped when absent.
build:browser is a stub; the codex prefix rewrite leaves
`{{scripts_path}}/impeccable` alone.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* CLI: turn the impeccable npm package into a platform-binary shim

cli/engine, cli/lib, and cli/bin/commands are gone; their behavior lives in
the engine binary. cli/bin/cli.js now resolves the binary from IMPECCABLE_BIN,
the @impeccable/cli-<os>-<arch> optional dependency (templates under
cli/platform-packages/, published by the engine release), the
~/.impeccable/bin/<version>/ cache, or a checksum-verified download, and
execs it. package.json drops the engine dependencies and the library
exports; puppeteer moves to devDependencies for the icon scripts.
README.npm.md describes the shim.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: gate behavior on the oracle and the engine binary

Unit tests of the deleted Node scripts and the JS detector are removed;
their behavior is pinned by tests/oracle goldens (frozen JS behavior plus
reviewed deltas) and the engine's own tests. tests/oracle.test.mjs replays
the corpus against the binary (IMPECCABLE_BIN or skill/scripts/bin/<target>/,
via tests/lib/engine-bin.mjs) and skips cleanly without one; the framework
fixture sweep drives live-inject, live-wrap, and detect-csp through the
binary the same way. record.mjs learns --bin. The function-level vectors
under tests/oracle/vectors/calls are committed as the frozen snapshot they
can no longer be regenerated from. Suites: core trimmed to build and
transformer tests, oracle added to the default run, detector/live reduced to
packaging and reference checks, the live-e2e helper tests move to the opt-in
live-e2e lane pending its retarget, cli-remote-e2e is an empty placeholder.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Docs: describe the launcher, the engine pin, and the oracle gate

CLAUDE.md gains an Engine binary section (launcher lookup order, ENGINE_VERSION,
untracked binaries, how tests get one, the oracle as behavior gate, what stays
JavaScript) and drops the Node-script and JS-detector descriptions; the CLI
and detection-rule sections point at the shim and the engine repo. README.md
states the skill needs no runtime and lists the launcher-based hook commands;
AGENTS.md follows. CLI-CONTRACT.md's intro notes the scripts it quotes are
the recorded source, not the tree.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: tighten the hook command guard assertion

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: re-golden 46 cases for the engine's own command names; record them in DELTAS.md

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Build: ship launcher-only release zips by default

IMPECCABLE_BUNDLE_ENGINE=1 opts in to staging the engine binaries into the
dist skill copies. Bundling every target into every provider copy put
dist/universal.zip near 340 MB, past the 25 MB Cloudflare Pages file cap
that impeccable install downloads through.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: drive the live-e2e orchestrator through the engine binary

The session, fake-agent loop, steer test, and manual-edit probe spawn
<binary> <verb> (live-server, live, live-inject, live-wrap, live-insert,
live-accept, live-poll, live-complete) resolved by tests/lib/engine-bin.mjs
instead of node skill/scripts/live-*.mjs; the completion typing the agent
imported from the deleted live/completion.mjs is a small local helper. The
live-e2e helper unit tests move back into the default live suite (the steer
loop skips without a binary).

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: run new-work-e2e through the engine's serve-question and generate-image verbs

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: point the skill-behavior harness at the launcher and engine binary

The bash tool exports IMPECCABLE_BIN so the staged skill's launcher runs
without a download; scenarios assert on 'impeccable context' instead of
context.mjs and skip without a binary.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Tests: note what plugin-e2e validates before and after the generated-output sync

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: record the engine's 'wasm-unsafe-eval' CSP meta patch as a reviewed delta

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Rebase reconciliation: fold main's post-freeze work into the swapped tree

The rebase onto origin/main brought changes whose JS engine halves left the
tree with the swap. This commit reconciles what survives:

- Suite map: register main's comp-fidelity unit tests (build-phase,
  comp-diff, font-match, hero-checks) in the core suite and
  live-browser-ignores in the live suite.
- Payload guard: the skill scripts payload now allowlists the comp-fidelity
  build pipeline (comp-spec/comp-diff/build-phase/font-match and their libs),
  the one Node toolchain that has not moved into the engine.
- Drop skill/scripts/live/project-ignores.mjs, lib/live-path-globs.mjs, and
  their test: they import hook-lib/live-inject/impeccable-paths, which the
  swap deleted, and their consumer (the JS live server) is the engine now.
- skill text: the comp pipeline's calls to engine verbs (generate-image,
  embed-prompt) use the launcher spelling.
- Oracle: re-record 17 detect goldens over the fixture set main changed
  (oklch #592, color-mix #578, 1D grid #615, the two comp-fidelity rules)
  and record the gap in DELTAS.md; those JS rule changes are not yet ported
  to the engine, and the goldens pin its current behavior.

bun run test (oracle included) and bun run build are green on this tree.

AI-assisted change: implemented with Claude Code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* Launcher: engine-probe PATH validation, working .cmd download path; CI: drop stale path, add oracle job

Byte-identical copies of the engine repo's launchers (engine main
af7572c): the retired 3.x npm CLI on PATH or in ~/.impeccable/bin is
rejected by the engine-probe handshake instead of hijacking every verb;
impeccable.cmd's download path is rewritten as straight-line goto flow
(the parenthesized blocks expanded %url%/%cached% at parse time, making
it dead code) with certutil sha256 verification and a windows-arm64 ->
x64 asset fallback; the final error points at the release download
instead of npm i -g (npm still serves the 3.x CLI).

ci.yml: the generated-output check no longer diffs the deleted
cli/engine/detect-antipatterns-browser.js, and a new oracle job fetches
the pinned engine (bun run fetch:engine) and replays tests/oracle/
against it. The job is continue-on-error with a loud warning until the
first engine release exists; flipping it to required is a release-time
toggle, documented in the workflow.

Verified here: sh -n on both launcher copies, bun run build green, full
oracle replay against the rebuilt engine binary green (770 pass, 0
fail), and a launcher behavior test proving a fake 3.x CLI on PATH is
skipped while the download + checksum chain completes against a local
file server.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: restore detector goldens to post-fix behavior after the engine ports

The Aug 17-31 detector fixes (oklch parsing, color-mix nested hex, 1D grid
pass, comment stripping, root-relative linked stylesheets, URL userinfo
redaction, inert ignore-value refusal) and the comp-fidelity rules
organic-clip-path / buried-raster are ported to the engine. Re-records the
gap-pinning detect goldens from the fixed binary (glow.html included: its
.photo-opaque-grad column now carries the buried-raster finding it was
written for), replays the frozen checkHtmlPatterns call vectors through the
last JS engine state in history (db1462b9^; args untouched, 14 of 101
results moved), and rewrites the DELTAS gap section into the landed-ports
note. Each re-recorded json fixture golden byte-matches that JS state's
output; oracle: 770 pass, 0 fail.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* Oracle: pin the Aug 17-31 verb fixes ported to the Rust engine

New cases: hook-session-grok-edit-then-stop (Grok Build camelCase envelope,
end_turn/shutdown/stopHookActive Stop handling, 35ae0733 + bfe634e2 +
3c442af7, #646), hook-session-codex-stop-decision (Codex Stop emits
decision/block, c9e7cd8a, #603), and doctor-order-boot-and-deep (boot and
deep findings keep their established artifact order, 80997663).

Re-recorded goldens whose old bytes froze pre-fix behavior, with a
DELTAS.md entry naming each upstream hash: the Stop finding-cache sync
(3c442af7), the Edit|Write manifests without the retired MultiEdit matcher
(7d5c60d2), and the failWithRollback field order (1f2c3f9d).

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: drop a duplicated DELTAS section

The verb-fix section landed twice when two porting sessions staged the
same file; keep one copy.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: pin the hooks ignore-value inert-entry refusal

Three hadmin-ignore-value-inert-* cases record the engine's port of
be87f5eb (#662) to hooks ignore-value: an exact value for a rule whose
findings can never extract one is refused with the wildcard-plus-file
route (and no config write), while the wildcard scoped form for the same
rule is accepted. Goldens recorded from the engine binary and verified
byte-for-byte against the ea360025 hook-admin.mjs on the same sequences.
No existing golden changes, so no DELTAS entry is owed.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Launcher: fail closed on a missing download checksum (engine triage C1)

Byte-identical sync of the engine repo's launchers: a freshly downloaded
engine binary now runs only after verifying against its .sha256 sidecar.
A sidecar that cannot be fetched, or a machine with no sha256 tool,
refuses the download instead of exec'ing an unverified binary; the
wget-only path fetches the sidecar too. Binaries already on PATH or in
the cache that pass engine-probe are unaffected.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* Enforce engine-before-skill release order (triage D4)

The launcher, npm shim, and `impeccable install` all resolve the engine
binary for the pinned ENGINE_VERSION, so a skill/CLI release or a rust-swap
merge published ahead of the engine release + platform packages dead-ends
every install path. Add a mechanical guard:

- scripts/check-engine-release.mjs: verifies all five dist binaries +
  .sha256 and the five @impeccable/cli-<os>-<arch> npm platform packages
  exist for the pinned ENGINE_VERSION; names missing assets, exits non-zero.
  Honors IMPECCABLE_DOWNLOAD_BASE.
- release.mjs: hard-fails release:skill and release:cli when assets are
  missing; extension is exempt (vendored WASM detector, no engine exec).
- CI engine-release-ready job: runs the check, continue-on-error with a
  loud ::warning until the first engine release exists (flip to false then).
- CLAUDE.md Releases: documents the enforced ordering.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Oracle: re-record the Sep-1 verb fixes ported to the Rust engine

Five fixes landed on main in JS between the swap branch and its rebase and were
ported to the engine; the goldens they touch are re-recorded from the fixed
binary, each engine output first diffed byte-for-byte against the upstream JS on
the same inputs. DELTAS.md documents every case with its upstream hash.

- critique-* (usage/unknown/latest-existing/write-then-read/write-monorepo-child):
  the #660 critique close path (identity + fingerprint freshness, ~NNNN
  collision suffix, closed flag, close verb, latest --json). Upstream 5211bdf4.
- detect-* (new overused-font fixture cases, dir/scope/no-advisory sweeps):
  the #678 overused-font primary-face change (a system stack keeps its system
  face, so a Roboto fallback no longer flags). Upstream 2cfd6076.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* Tests: fix pre-existing release-guard staging on the swap branch

release.test.mjs was already red on the swap branch: release.mjs imports
check-engine-release.mjs and fetch-engine.mjs (the D4 engine release-order
guard), which the temp work tree never staged, so every dry run failed to
resolve the module instead of exercising the guard. Stage both modules and set
IMPECCABLE_SKIP_ENGINE_CHECK=1 so the guard does not probe the network; this
suite predates the guard and only covers the version/changelog/artifact checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* oracle: pin E8 stale-hook-manifest detector fallback (context)

Cover the v3-to-launcher upgrade fix (triage E8) recorded from the engine
binary and hand-reviewed:

- context-stale-hook-manifest: a .claude/settings.local.json naming the retired
  `node .../hook.mjs` script under the claude-code provider emits
  MANUAL_DETECTOR_REQUIRED, because the stale marker no longer counts as an
  active hook (its script is gone after the update).
- context-launcher-hook-active: the same manifest in the launcher form still
  suppresses MANUAL_DETECTOR_REQUIRED, confirming the launcher marker is
  recognized as active.

The only difference between the two goldens is the MANUAL_DETECTOR_REQUIRED
block. No existing golden moved: every other context case runs under the source
provider, whose hook-manifest list is empty, so none of them scan a manifest.
Also null IMPECCABLE_PROVIDER_ID in the case BASE_ENV so a recording machine's
value cannot leak. DELTAS.md records the intentional divergence from JS parity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaJv2c4oN8wS7Ttq4XRqyx

* Tests: stop two harness hangs from wedging a whole run

Two suites could hang forever and never print a tally, because the one
mechanism that could interrupt the wedged work was missing on both paths.

Hang 1 (bun run test / build-phase.test.mjs): the test's run() helper
spawned every child with spawnSync and no timeout. spawnSync blocks the
test worker's thread, so node's --test-timeout (an event-loop timer)
cannot interrupt a child that wedges (a fork/exec blocked on OS resources
under concurrency, a gate's comp-diff grandchild, or a stray browser
launch). Bound every child with spawnSync timeout + killSignal SIGKILL so
a wedge becomes a fast, named failure the next test survives.

Hang 2 (bun run test:skill-behavior): runTurn called generateText with no
client-side deadline, so a stalled provider stream kept the fetch (and the
whole node process) alive past the per-test timeout, producing no tally.
Attach a real AbortSignal (default 840s, under the 900s per-test cap):
on expiry the fetch aborts, the turn throws, and the scenario
fails-and-continues. The unref'd timer is cleared on completion.

Runner backstops: run-tests.mjs now spawns each command as a detached
process-group leader and enforces a per-suite wall-clock cap that SIGKILLs
the entire group (workers, grandchildren, browsers) on expiry, with
SIGINT/SIGTERM forwarded so Ctrl-C still reaps the tree. The core node
batch gets a finite --test-timeout (180s); skill-behavior gets a 60min
group cap. Env overrides: IMPECCABLE_TEST_WALL_CLOCK_MS,
IMPECCABLE_SKILL_BEHAVIOR_TURN_TIMEOUT_MS,
IMPECCABLE_BUILD_PHASE_RUN_TIMEOUT_MS.

Proof: bun run test green twice (~60s); scoped claude-sonnet-5
skill-behavior sweep terminates with a tally (20 tests, ~32min) where the
840s abort caught a wedged redesign turn and the sweep continued instead
of hanging.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* launcher: export skill-dir env before the IMPECCABLE_BIN exec (sync engine fix)

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* Node-free swap: comp-fidelity verbs move to the engine

The four comp-fidelity scripts (comp-spec, comp-diff, font-match, build-phase)
and their six libs are ported into the impeccable-engine binary. This removes
the last Node .mjs from the skill: `git ls-files skill/scripts | grep '\.mjs$'`
now returns nothing.

- reference/new-work.md, reference/visualize.md, and the asset-producer /
  finish-reviewer agents now invoke `{{scripts_path}}/impeccable <verb>` instead
  of `node <script>.mjs`.
- Deleted the ten ported .mjs and the four JS unit tests that imported them
  (their behavior is now covered by the engine's Rust tests and the oracle);
  removed those files from scripts/test-suites.mjs.
- Added oracle cases (comp-*, font-match-*, build-phase-*) over a comp-basic
  workspace, recorded from the engine binary; the deterministic outputs are
  byte-identical to the JS the scripts left behind.
- docs/CLI-CONTRACT.md documents the four verbs, the CDP font rendering, and
  the runtime-resolved (never-committed) font-index catalog.

The font-index catalog JSON stays shipped in the skill (data/font-index.json);
the engine resolves it at run time and never vendors it.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

* reorg: public plumbing for the in-repo Rust workspace and the two-release flow

The engine binaries move from the impeccable-dist channel to this repo's own
GitHub Releases (tag engine-v<ENGINE_VERSION>), and the closed detector the
engine links arrives as detector-v<DETECTOR_VERSION> releases on the same
repo. This commit wires the public side for that; the crates themselves land
in the next commit.

- Launcher (sh + cmd), npm shim, fetch-engine and check-engine-release now
  download from github.com/pbakaus/impeccable/releases/download/engine-v<X>/.
- release.mjs gains `engine`: verifies ENGINE_VERSION against the platform
  package pins and the detector release, tags, pushes; release-engine.yml
  builds the five targets and publishes. check-detector-release.mjs is the
  matching release-order guard (with tests).
- Root Cargo.toml (workspace, lto = false with the reason), rust-toolchain.toml
  (exact pin), DETECTOR_VERSION, /target ignored.
- CI: rust + rust-windows jobs and an oracle job that replays the goldens
  against a source build, warn-only until the first detector release exists;
  ci-test-plan exposes a `rust` output.
- docs/ENGINE.md (the crate map and the closed-detector mechanism) and the
  CLAUDE.md engine, release-order and rules sections.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* reorg C: the open Rust runtime joins this repo as one Cargo workspace

The engine no longer lives in a separate repo. `crates/` is a snapshot of the
open crates (foundation, core, common, context, live, hook, skills, comp,
comp-verbs, html, browser, detect, cli) plus `Cargo.lock`, taken as a git
archive of the engine repo at the commit that finished the boundary split.
None of that repo's history comes with it, and none of it should: the closed
half stays private.

The closed half is the rule engine. It ships as a prebuilt native archive per
target, `libimpeccable_detector.a`, published as a `detector-v<X>` GitHub
Release on this repo. `crates/core/build.rs` resolves and links it three ways:
`IMPECCABLE_DETECTOR_LIB=<dir>` for a local detector build, else the
`~/.impeccable/detector/<version>/<target>/` cache, else a download verified
against its `.sha256` sidecar. `crates/core` is a thin shim over a three-symbol
C ABI; nothing above it knows the boundary exists.

What changed versus the engine repo copy:

- Every crate manifest moves from `license-file.workspace` to
  `license.workspace` (this workspace declares Apache-2.0), and the workspace
  gains the `postcard` dependency the boundary encoding needs.
- The launcher contract test reads `skill/scripts/impeccable{,.cmd}` instead of
  a sibling `launcher/` dir, and `engine_binary` downloads from
  `github.com/pbakaus/impeccable/releases/download/engine-v<version>/` instead
  of the retired dist repo. No oracle golden carried the old URL, so no
  re-recording was owed.
- The tests that hunted for a public repo through `IMPECCABLE_PUBLIC_REPO`,
  `../impeccable-second` or a hardcoded home directory now resolve the root as
  `CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR/../..`, because they are in it. The env var stays as an
  override for an out-of-tree checkout.
- The in-page bundle (`detect-antipatterns-browser.js`, 2 MB of generated wasm
  glue) is no longer tracked. `crates/core/build.rs` resolves it beside the
  archive, hands the path to `impeccable_core::browser::IN_PAGE_BUNDLE_JS`, and
  live mode serves that. `scripts/check-detector-release.mjs` now requires it
  and its `.sha256` in a detector release.
- The live crate embeds `skill/scripts/live-browser*.js` and
  `modern-screenshot.umd.js` directly rather than through vendored copies, so
  the binary and the installed skill cannot drift.
- `crates/browser/assets/` (an unused second copy of the bundle) is gone.
- `tests/lib/engine-bin.mjs` also accepts `target/release/impeccable`, so a
  plain `cargo build --release -p impeccable` is enough to run `bun run test`.

Verified with the archive from a local detector build: `cargo test --workspace`
267 pass, oracle 795 pass / 0 fail / 0 missing, `bun run build` clean, the
default suite green, and the launcher's `engine-probe` handshake answering
through `skill/scripts/impeccable`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* docs: bring RUNTIME-ENV and PORTING-GUIDE over with the runtime

They describe the binary's environment contract and the parity method every
crate here was ported with; both belong next to the crates now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* core/build.rs: refuse a detector archive built by another rustc, in plain words

The archive links only against the exact rustc that built it; a mismatch
used to surface as pages of undefined std symbols from the linker. The
detector repo now writes rustc-version.txt next to the archive (and ships it
with the release); when it is present, build.rs compares it with its own
compiler and names both versions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* build:extension: ship the wasm-core extension shell and vendor its detector from the detector release

`bun run build:extension` was broken on this branch: it still imported the
deleted JS engine (cli/engine/registry/antipatterns.mjs,
scripts/lib/browser-detector-bundle.js).

The shipped shell now matches the new design. The content script only
snapshots the DOM; an extension-owned offscreen document runs the
WebAssembly rule core over that snapshot, so the scanned page's CSP no
longer matters. That replaces the old approach of injecting a JS rules
bundle into the page. New files: extension/offscreen/offscreen.html, plus
the "offscreen" permission and a 'wasm-unsafe-eval' extension_pages CSP in
the manifest.

The manifest version stays at 1.3.3. The shell's own manifest carried
2.0.0; feature branches never bump versions, so the bump is a release step.

The five generated detector pieces (core.js, core_bg.wasm, snapshot.js,
overlay.js, antipatterns.json) are vendored at build time into the
gitignored extension/detector/ by the new scripts/lib/detector-bundle.mjs,
which resolves them the same three ways crates/core/build.rs resolves the
native archive: IMPECCABLE_DETECTOR_LIB/extension-detector/, the
~/.impeccable/detector/<DETECTOR_VERSION>/ cache, then a checksum-verified
download of detector-browser-bundle.zip from the detector release.
antipatterns.json is no longer regenerated here.

The zip packaging is unchanged. The Firefox variant still builds so
`web-ext lint` keeps covering the shared shell, but it cannot scan: Gecko
has no chrome.offscreen API. The build prints a one-line warning saying so.

Also here: a referenced-path check that fails the build when the manifest
or the service worker points at a file that is not in extension/, a
resolver unit test wired into the core suite, and the detector rule count
in the READMEs synced to the 61 the vendored registry carries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* oracle: replay byte-for-byte on Linux too

The corpus was recorded on macOS and eight cases failed on ubuntu CI for
reasons that were all environment, not behavior:

- stageWorkspace returns the realpath of the staged dir. macOS's tmpdir is a
  symlink and two goldens (context-dir-override, live-accept-source-locked)
  had recorded that artifact; both re-recorded, reviewed in DELTAS.md. The
  source-locked case now actually exercises the lock it is named for.
- context-lowercase-product-name declares platforms: ['darwin', 'win32'];
  run.mjs skips such cases elsewhere and says so in the summary.
- The hook-project workspace's empty provider skill folders (.claude,
  .cursor) are now tracked with .gitkeep; git cannot track empty
  directories, so a fresh checkout had none and hooks on found nothing to
  repair.
- crates/live's read_dir_raw sorts entries by name: the goldens hold the
  order macOS returned, Linux returns hash order, and the source-candidate
  lists in live-commit output depended on it.

macOS: 795 pass, 0 fail. The Svelte accept cases additionally need the
public repo's node_modules on the machine that runs them (CI now installs
them).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* oracle: mask <HOME> only at path boundaries (a short home like /root ate 'roots.json')

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* oracle: track live-html's dist/generated.html (the root dist/ ignore hid it from CI checkouts)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* release-engine: darwin-x64 builds on macos-14 (macos-13 is retired)

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Open the detector: the rule crates join the workspace, the C-ABI goes away

The detector is open source. The rules it ships were already public in this
repo's git history and in every npm tarball of the JS engine, so a closed
binary bought nothing it could keep; the moat is the service (the catalog,
the labs, the review pipeline), not the check functions. Keeping them behind
a prebuilt archive cost a C-ABI, an exact toolchain pin, a build-time
download, a second release to order ahead of every engine release, and a
serde layer that had to serve two encodings.

Deleted
- crates/core/src/ffi.rs, crates/core/build.rs, crates/core/tests/boundary.rs
  and the shim modules under src/checks and src/browser.
- crates/foundation/src/boundary.rs and the postcard dependency.
- DETECTOR_VERSION, scripts/check-detector-release.mjs and its test, the
  check:detector-release script, the detector gate and
  IMPECCABLE_SKIP_DETECTOR_CHECK in scripts/release.mjs.
- scripts/lib/detector-bundle.mjs and tests/detector-bundle.test.mjs (the
  vendoring path for the closed browser bundle).
- scripts/build-browser-detector.js and the build:browser script (a stub
  since the JS engine left the tree).
- xtask's detector-archive subcommand and its public-repo lookup.

Came back
- crates/core is now the rule logic itself: every check_* / scan_*, the
  browser adapters, the visual-contrast decisions. It re-exports foundation
  as before, so no consumer changed. Its vectors dispatcher is the union of
  both id tables again, and tests/vectors.rs replays the frozen vectors
  straight through it.
- crates/wasm and crates/xtask join the workspace. cargo xtask bundle builds
  the in-page bundle from browser-bundle/ plus the wasm core, writes
  dist/, refreshes the tracked crates/live/assets/detect-antipatterns-
  browser.js, and writes extension/detector/. bun run build:extension runs
  it instead of downloading.
- crates/live/assets/detect-antipatterns-browser.js is tracked again; live
  mode embeds it and serves it as /detect.js.
- Serde is back to plain derives: no is_human_readable branch in
  js::json_number, derived Serialize for Rgba and BrowserFinding with their
  skip_serializing_if attributes.
- profile.release has lto = "fat" again; rust-toolchain.toml is plain
  stable plus the wasm32 target. The rust, rust-windows and oracle CI jobs
  lose continue-on-error and can be required.

Verified
- cargo build --workspace --all-targets: clean, no warnings.
- cargo test --workspace: 346 pass, 0 fail (the 8 boundary tests are gone
  with the boundary).
- cargo build -p impeccable-wasm --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release: ok.
- cargo xtask bundle && cargo xtask bundle --check: reproducible; the
  regenerated bundle is committed (it differs from the archived one, which
  was built with a pinned rustc and lto = false).
- cargo build --release -p impeccable: no linker warnings, 12.5 MB (the
  same source at lto = false is 13.1 MB).
- oracle: 795 pass, 0 fail, 0 accepted deltas, 0 missing goldens.
- bun run build, bun run build:extension, web-ext lint (0 errors,
  8 warnings), bun run test: 363 + 80 + 1 + 1 + 133 + 180 + 4 pass, 0 fail.
- impeccable detect --no-config --json tests/fixtures/antipatterns: 128.7 ms
  median of 5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* core: doc comments drop the open/closed split

The rule crate and the foundation crate are both Apache-2.0 in one
workspace now, so "open", "closed" and "crosses the boundary" no longer
describe anything. Comments only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Rule packs: downstream crates add rules on all three engines; wasm detect surface

A crate that depends on this workspace can now add rules without forking
it. `impeccable_core::rule_pack::RulePack` (object-safe, Send + Sync +
Debug) carries a pack's registry rows plus three hooks that default to
empty: `check_text` for the text engine, `check_element_dom` and
`check_page_dom` for the browser driver. `impeccable_html::StaticRulePack`
adds `check_document` for the static engine, where the document model
belongs to the html crate and detect cannot name it.

The registry keeps ANTIPATTERNS as the built-in list; `registry::extend`
appends a pack's rows and every lookup consults them after the built-ins,
so a pack can never shadow a built-in id (extend panics on a collision and
is idempotent per slice). `all_antipatterns()` is the built-ins followed by
the registered rows.

Hook order, chosen so built-in output cannot move:

- detect_text: after every matcher, analyzer and the dedupe, before inline
  ignores, so `impeccable-disable` waives pack rules like built-in ones.
- detect_html_source: after the element rules, the design-system merge and
  the page passes, again before inline ignores. One pack pass per HTML
  file: the document hook when set, otherwise the text hook over the raw
  source, so a pack implementing both never reports twice.
- collect_browser_findings: the element hook at the end of the per-element
  loop through the same disabled-rules filter and group, the page hook
  after every built-in page pass with the same el-or-body attribution.

A pack travels on TextOptions / ScanOptions, DetectHtmlOptions
(static_rule_pack plus rule_pack), StaticHtmlEngine, and BrowserConfig
(serde-skipped: a pack is a Rust value, not JSON from the page). The
shipped binary installs none.

`crates/wasm --features detect` exposes the two file engines as JSON
exports for hosts that cannot exec the binary: `detect_text_json` and
`detect_html_source_json`, options `{ inlineIgnores?, designSystem? }`,
returning the findings array `detect --json` prints. `antipatterns_json`
now includes a pack's rows. `set_rule_pack` and `set_static_rule_pack` are
Rust-only, for a crate that links this one as an rlib.

Tests: registry extension and collision in foundation, one test pack per
engine (crates/core, crates/detect, crates/html tests) proving each hook
fires, that the built-in findings are unchanged, and that the waivers and
the disabled-rules list cover pack rules, plus the wasm export shapes.
Workspace tests 346 to 361, oracle 795/0 unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* docs: the cutover checklist under the open design

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* bundle: the page JS and the bundler become a library crate downstream packs can reuse

The in-page bundle, the extension pieces, the registry JSON and the
wasm-pack call were reachable only through `cargo xtask bundle`, which read
`browser-bundle/*.js` from the repo root. A downstream crate that links
impeccable-core + impeccable-wasm with its own rule pack had to copy the
page JS to produce a detector bundle for its module.

They move to `impeccable-bundle` (crates/bundle), which embeds every
`browser-bundle/*.js` with `include_str!` and exposes `in_page_bundle`,
`extension_pieces`, `registry_json`, `check_capture_contract` and
`wasm_pack_build`. Nothing writes files or exits the process; the caller
places the bytes. `registry_json` now reads `all_antipatterns()`, so an
installed pack's rows land in `antipatterns.json` too (no built-in change).

xtask becomes the workspace's caller and writes the same files to the same
places; `cargo xtask bundle` is byte-identical, tracked live asset included.
`IMPECCABLE_BUNDLE_SKIP_WASM_PACK` is the skip switch's new name, the old
`IMPECCABLE_XTASK_SKIP_WASM_PACK` still works.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* The immediate tier moves to the registry, and reaches wasm

The design hook's immediate-tier list is the set of rule ids worth fixing
at the edit site, and a downstream reviewer wants the same set to decide
how loudly a finding is reported. `impeccable-hook` is native-only, so the
list moves to `impeccable_core::registry` (the hook re-exports it) and the
`detect` feature gains `immediate_tier_rules_json()`.

The export is behind `detect`, which the in-page bundle does not build, so
the tracked browser asset is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* docs: Pristine tracks the engine by revision pin, not npm

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* docs: the cutover checklist is maintainer-side, not part of the tree

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: Fix flat type hierarchy false positives (#702)

Upstream sha 84728e9ce4.

The rule now reads rendered semantic roles and the dominant size per role
instead of the raw set of font sizes on the page, and it fires only when
every adjacent role step is under 1.25x.

- crates/core checks::rules gains TYPE_HIERARCHY_SELECTOR / MIN_ROLES /
  MIN_STEP_RATIO, typeHierarchyRole, dominantTypeRoleSize and
  checkFlatTypeHierarchySamples, the shared half of checks.mjs.
- crates/core browser::page_checks gets checkFlatTypeHierarchyFromDoc over
  the Dom trait, with the overlay skip selector checkTypography passes.
- crates/html page.rs gets the same walk over StaticDocument.
- crates/detect drops the source-only analyzer: flat-type-hierarchy leaves
  REGEX_ANALYZERS, the text-content analyzers shift to index 1, and
  analyzer_rule_id loses its first row.
- crates/html cascade defaults gain contentVisibility, and crates/foundation
  registry carries the reworded description.

Goldens re-recorded (the binary now matches origin/main's JS engine on every
one of these fixtures, verified by scanning the shared corpus with both):
glow, icon-tile-stack, layout, modern-color-borders, motion,
named-color-borders, numbered-section-markers, oklch-neon-text,
typography-should-flag, json and text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: Fix detector URL scans and advisory handling (#709)

Upstream sha fa44839f72.

Advisory handling. `severity` becomes the canonical registry field: the
`advisory` bool leaves `Antipattern`, `advisory_rule_ids` filters on
`severity == "advisory"`, and `derive_advisory_flag` stamps the finding's
`advisory: true` from the effective severity, so a per-finding promotion or
demotion carries the flag. The html and browser engines call it after their
severity override; the detect CLI and the hook accept either spelling; the
driver's serializer and the wasm registry exports derive it the same way.
em-dash-overuse moves from `advisory: true` to `severity: "advisory"`.

URL scans. `expand_joined_url_targets` splits an argv value that is entirely
whitespace-separated URLs and leaves paths with spaces alone. The browser
driver reads the readable linked-stylesheet corpus into the HTML pattern
corpora and resolves a finding's selector with `selector_nodes_for_live_dom`
/ `pseudo_element_host_selector`, so an unresolvable selector drops the
finding instead of keeping it page-level. The CSSOM walk itself is page JS:
`browser-bundle/15-snapshot.js` gains `__snapLinkedStylesheetText` (grouping
rules flattened, container-query probes, effective keyframes) and puts it in
the snapshot as `linkedCss`; `10-probe.js` exposes the same for the in-page
route, and the Dom trait carries `linked_stylesheet_text`.

Also `enclosing_css_selector` blanks comments before hunting the previous
declaration delimiter, and `check_typography` reports the uniquely most-used
family instead of every family over a 15% share.

Verified: `impeccable detect --no-config --json tests/fixtures/antipatterns`
is now byte-identical to `node cli/bin/cli.js` on an origin/main worktree
over the shared corpus (432 findings). The two changed lines in
tests/oracle/vectors/calls/rules.checks/checkHtmlPatterns.jsonl were
re-recorded by running origin/main's `checkHtmlPatterns` over the frozen
args; only the comment-polluted selector changed. Goldens re-recorded for
the advisory partition (config-*, fixture gemini/gpt-tells,
numbered-section-labels, scoped-ignore, shape-assembled-illustration,
color, em-dash-entities) and the help text, each cross-checked against the
JS on origin/main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: stop gray-on-color false positives on Tailwind opacity and JSX (#707)

Upstream sha 32b270f4e8.

`find_solid_chromatic_bg` replaces the bare `bg-<hue>-<n>` match in both
engines: a `bg-blue-500/10` tint is a wash, not a solid fill. The `regex`
crate has no lookahead, so the maximal digit run plus the word boundary is
matched as before and the byte after it is tested for `/`.

The text engine gains the JS-source scanner (`scan_js`) and the scope
helpers on top of it: `containing_markup_tag` keeps a gray text class from
pairing with a background in a sibling tag on the same line, and
`find_ternary_split` / `exclusive_class_scopes` split a `cond ? a : b`
class expression into its arms, recursing into nested ternaries, ignoring
`?.` and `??`, and keeping a common prefix and post-ternary suffix in every
arm. `MatchCtx` now carries the match offset the scope lookup needs.

Verified against origin/main's JS: all eleven cases from the upstream test
file plus a nested / nullish / suffix set produce byte-identical findings on
both engines; they are pinned as Rust unit tests in `regex_matchers` and
`checks::rules`. The shared fixture corpus stays byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: resolve unique --target names in monorepos (#706)

Upstream sha 8b326fc81e.

`resolve_target_path` / `find_unique_bare_target` in `crates/context`: a
`--target` that does not exist and reduces to a single path segment under
cwd resolves to the one workspace candidate with that name, so `--target a`
selects `apps/a`. A caller that already absolutized the name against cwd
(live and the other helpers do) takes the same route. Ambiguous or unknown
names still report the miss.

The context CLI resolves the target once and hands the resolved path to
`load_context`, replacing `path_exists_for_target`.

Oracle: four new `context-monorepo-target-bare-*` cases (bare name,
absolutized bare name, unknown name, bare name from a child cwd).
`context-monorepo-target-b-inherits` was re-recorded: resolving the target
before `load_context` changes its `surfaceBriefReason` from `not-found` to
`invalid-target`, which is what origin/main's `context.mjs` prints for the
same run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: Fix Next.js 16 CSP and parent hook discovery (#710)

Upstream sha 672ca29642.

CSP. `detect-csp` recognizes Next.js 16's `proxy.{ts,js,mjs}` request hook
beside `middleware.*`, but only where it sits at a project root or its `src/`
directory: the scan root itself, or a nested directory carrying a Next
project marker (a `next.config.*`, an `app` / `pages` dir, or a `next`
dependency). A same-named helper elsewhere in the tree is not the framework
hook.

Context. `find_git_boundary_root` gives `resolve_project` a git-boundary
notion: an explicit target inside its own repository resolves against that
repository, and an external target resolves against its own root, so caller
context never leaks across the boundary. `hook_manifest_search_roots`
replaces the cwd/projectRoot/repoRoot triple with a walk up from the
project root that stops at the first git boundary, and each root's own hook
lifecycle config is honored before its manifest counts as coverage.

Verified against origin/main's JS: nine `detect-csp` placements and five
hook-discovery scenarios (enclosing harness root, that root disabled,
sibling target, nested git target, markerless nested git target) produce
identical output.

Oracle: five `csp-proxy-*` cases and five `context-hook-*` /
`context-markerless-nested-git-target` cases. Four route-target goldens were
re-recorded because #710 resolves a `/`-prefixed target outside the
workspace; each was cross-checked against origin/main, and
`surface-brief-write-route` has a DELTAS entry for the one wording
difference (an unwritable filesystem root).

`tests/framework-fixtures.test.mjs`'s new proxy-placement block came in from
the merge importing the deleted `detectCsp`; it now drives `detect-csp`
through the binary like the rest of that file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: fail URL scans when the browser is unavailable (#711)

Upstream sha f2f9958be1e6a4ecb1fbd5ef1ae1b7d9c53e0d24 (Fix: fail URL scans
when the browser is unavailable).

`detect` gains an operational-failure flag. Exit 1 now means at least one
requested target could not be scanned, and it takes precedence over exit 2,
because findings from the targets that did scan do not turn a partial scan
into a complete one. The flag is set by an unreachable path, an unreadable
directory or file in a dir walk, a per-file scan that throws, a URL scan
that throws, and a shared-browser setup failure.

- `walk_dir_reporting` and `build_import_graph_reporting` take a read-error
  callback; the plain wrappers stay for callers that do not report. A file
  the graph could not read is skipped for the scan too.
- `SharedBrowser::ensure_launched` is the eager half of
  `createBrowserDetector()`: the CLI brings the browser up before the loop so
  a launch failure prints one `Error:` line and every URL target is skipped,
  instead of the lazy launch reporting once per URL.
- The static engine and the text path spell a permission failure the way Node
  does (`EACCES: permission denied, open '<path>'`), which is what
  `Error: cannot scan <target>: <message>` prints.
- Usage text and docs/CLI-CONTRACT.md carry the exit-status block.

Verified against origin/main's JS: missing target, missing target alongside a
flagging file, unreadable file, unreadable file beside a readable sibling,
unreadable directory, unreadable nested directory, a clean scan, and a
browser-unavailable scan of one and of two URLs all agree on exit code,
stdout and stderr (the browser-not-found wording is the pre-existing
puppeteer-vs-discovery difference).

Oracle: `detect-missing-file` and `detect-missing-file-json` re-recorded at
exit 1, plus new `detect-missing-file-with-findings`,
`detect-unreadable-file-json` and `detect-unreadable-file-in-dir`, each
cross-checked against origin/main. `detect-help` carries the new block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: OpenCode slash command bridge (#483)

Upstream sha 9736a9f6e9.

OpenCode does not honor `user-invocable: true` on SKILL.md frontmatter, so a
pinned skill never reaches its slash menu. `pin` now writes
`commands/impeccable-<cmd>.md` on the OpenCode command schema instead, and
skips `.opencode` in the SKILL.md loop so no unreachable
`.opencode/skills/<cmd>` is left behind. `unpin` mirrors it, marker-guarded,
and reaches both scopes even when the skill itself is gone.

`find_opencode_commands_dirs` covers the project-local dir when the project
has the skill and the user config dir when Impeccable is installed globally,
resolving that dir the way the CLI does (`OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR` ->
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME/opencode` -> `~/.config/opencode`).

The build-tooling half of the upstream change (transformers, the OpenCode
command the build generates, `root-commands-sync`) came in with the merge and
needed no port.

Verified against origin/main's pin.mjs across seven scenarios (no harness,
project scope, user scope, a foreign command file, pin then unpin, unpin over
a foreign file, unpin with nothing pinned): identical stdout, identical file
sets, identical file contents apart from the one deliberate difference.

Oracle: five `pin-opencode-*` cases, with a DELTAS entry for the bridge body
naming the launcher rather than `node .../context.mjs`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: Fix Codex skill version metadata (#703)

Upstream sha 482368511a.

Codex's validator rejects unknown top-level keys, so the Codex and `.agents`
skills now carry `version` under the spec-defined `metadata:` map. Both
version readers learn the same parser: `parse_skill_frontmatter_version` in
`crates/context` (the boot update check) and `extract_version` in
`crates/skills` (`getSkillsVersion`). A metadata version wins, a legacy
top-level one still reads, only the map's own indent level counts, tabs count
as two spaces, and a comment line is skipped.

The build-tooling half (`versionInMetadata` on the two providers, the YAML
emitter's nested-object branch) came in with the merge.

Fourteen frontmatter shapes were recorded from origin/main's
`parseSkillFrontmatterVersion` and pinned as unit tests in both crates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: Fix skill subcommand help handling (#708)

Upstream sha a264199177.

`install`, `link`, `update` and `check` render static help before entering
any operational path, through both the top-level verb and the legacy `skills`
namespace, for `--help` and `-h` alike.

Verified against origin/main's `cli/bin/cli.js`: all six spellings produce
identical text and exit codes.

Oracle: a new `tests/oracle/cases/skills.mjs` with seven help cases. Only the
help paths are pinned there; every other installer path writes into harness
directories or reaches the network.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Oracle: goldens for the three fixtures the merge added

`tests/fixtures/antipatterns/` gained `flat-type-hierarchy.html` (#702) and
`linked-url-patterns.{css,html}` (#709) with the merge, so the corpus
generator produced six `detect-fixture-*` cases with no goldens and the
directory-wide cases (`detect-dir-*`, `detect-scope-*`, `detect-no-advisory-*`)
moved.

Every golden here was recorded from the binary and then cross-checked against
`node cli/bin/cli.js` on an origin/main worktree over the same files: the six
per-fixture cases agree byte for byte in JSON and text, and a full scan of
`tests/fixtures/antipatterns` produces 432 findings identical on both engines
after normalizing the repo path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Port: the installer half of the OpenCode command bridge (#483)

Upstream sha 9736a9f6e9, the part of it that
lives in `cli/bin/commands/skills.mjs` rather than `pin.mjs`.

`copy_provider_commands` mirrors `copy_provider_skills` for a provider's
compiled `commands/` dir: project scope writes `<root>/<configDir>/commands`,
user scope writes the config dir OpenCode actually scans
(`OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR` -> `XDG_CONFIG_HOME/opencode` -> `~/.config/opencode`),
and a pre-#406 global install at `~/.opencode/commands/` loses exactly the
files just written while siblings, symlinked dirs and home-rooted git repos
are left alone. It runs on install, on the reinstall refresh, on update, and
on link, which is the only path that can deliver the bridge to a linked
install.

`is_up_to_date` now compares the bundle's command files too, so an install
whose skills match but whose bridge is missing or drifted refreshes instead of
reporting success while the slash command stays absent. Only bundle-shipped
files are compared, so a pinned shortcut never affects freshness.

`tests/copy-provider-commands.test.js` arrived with the merge importing the
deleted `cli/bin/commands/skills.mjs`; its scenarios are ported to
`crates/skills/tests/provider_commands_tests.rs` (project scope, the three
user-scope dir resolutions, the legacy migration and its two guards, a
provider with no commands dir, and the four `isUpToDate` command-awareness
cases), and the file is removed and deregistered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* CI: the first full run on the branch, three fixes

- The oracle harness masks the climb to the root a /-prefixed target
  produces (<UP_TO_ROOT>/): the number of `../` is the staged tmpdir's depth
  (7 on macOS, 2 on Linux), not the verb's behavior. surface-brief-path-slash
  re-recorded.
- Two context test helpers canonicalized their temp dir, which on Windows
  yields a \\?\ verbatim path that takes `/` literally; they strip the prefix
  like Node's realpathSync. The critique-storage identity test compares
  against the platform's own resolved path.
- Every job that drives the binary end to end (live-e2e smoke and full,
  accept-cleanup, the DeepSeek sweep, the remote CLI smoke) builds it from
  the checkout first; before, they looked for a release that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* context tests: the verbatim-prefix strip spells the prefix once

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* context test: derive the snapshot identity from the verb's own resolver

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* context test: JSON-quote the snapshot identity, as the verb does

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* detect test: import resolution against platform-form paths

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* hook test: the stock cache path in the host's path form; Windows CI runs every crate's tests before failing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: skills tests pass on Windows

The two test temp roots kept `canonicalize`'s `\\?\` verbatim prefix, and the
kernel takes a verbatim path literally, so every `/`-joined path built under
them was an invalid filename. Strip it the way Node's `realpathSync` does.
The manifest, artifact and sibling-binary expectations hard-coded POSIX
separators for paths the product joins with the host's semantics; derive them
from `jsp::join` instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: hook tests pass on Windows

Same verbatim-prefix strip on the test temp roots, plus expectations derived
from the helpers the product uses: cache keys and scan targets from
`jsp::join`, the config path in an admin message from the same relative form
`path.relative` renders, and the footer hints from `quote_command_arg`, which
deliberately switches to the double-quoted Windows form (#476 / #533). The
env lock no longer poisons the sibling tests when one of them fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: html oracle goldens compare on Windows

The goldens pin the `<REPO>`-masked fixture path recorded on POSIX. Mask, then
render the remainder with `/` so a Windows checkout's backslashes are not read
as a finding difference. The goldens are untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: widen the live read-deadline test's margin

Timing only. The watchdog polls in 50ms steps against a ~15.6ms Windows system
timer while the crate's tests run in parallel, so the later request takes its
turn later there. The bound stays far under the 60s read timeout a
deadline-less read would hold the ticket for, so the test still distinguishes
the fix from the regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: the request read deadline was not enforced on Windows

Windows does not unblock a `recv` already parked in the kernel when another
thread calls `shutdown` on the same socket, so the watchdog could not end a
silent connection's read and it held its turnstile place for the whole 60s
header timeout instead of the 10s deadline. Bound the read at the socket too,
which enforces the same deadline everywhere; the watchdog stays as the backstop
for a connection that trickles bytes without ever completing a request. POSIX
behavior is unchanged: the watchdog already closed the socket at the deadline.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: hook tests derive the rest of the host path forms

The test temp helper's `write` returned a `PathBuf::join` result, which keeps
the `/` inside the relative part and so does not match what the hook resolves a
relative target to on Windows. Three more admin messages and the cache-root slug
pinned the POSIX spelling of paths the product renders with the host's
semantics (`path.resolve` also prefixes the current drive there).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: skills test fixtures name USERPROFILE, and the win32 quoted form

`os.homedir()` reads USERPROFILE on Windows, so a fixture home that named only
HOME sent the global installs into the runner's real profile. The Windows hook
command carries the JSON-quoted path, so a host path's backslashes arrive
escaped; derive the expectation instead of pinning the POSIX spelling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: check the oracle fixtures out with LF

A finding's snippet carries the scanned file's own bytes, and the goldens were
recorded from a POSIX checkout, so a CRLF checkout of a linked stylesheet reads
as a finding difference. The goldens are untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* windows: check the grok global-install manifests as JSON

The Windows hook command carries the JSON-quoted launcher path, so the path's
backslashes are escaped once inside the command and again by the manifest file
itself. Read the manifest as JSON and look for either quoting form instead of
counting escaping layers in a raw substring match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* npm shim: refuse a download with no verifiable sidecar

The skill launcher and `impeccable install` both fail closed when a
release binary's `.sha256` sidecar cannot be fetched or carries no hash:
they refuse rather than cache an unverified binary. The npm shim did not.
It only compared when a hash was present, so a 404, an empty sidecar, or
a truncated one all wrote the payload straight into
`~/.impeccable/bin/<version>/` and exec'd it.

It now refuses in the same cases, with wording that matches the launcher,
and writes nothing until the hash matches, so a refusal leaves the cache
dir empty. IMPECCABLE_BIN and the optional-dependency lookup are
untouched: neither downloads.

tests/cli-shim.test.mjs runs the real shim against a throwaway HTTP
server and covers missing, empty, and mismatched sidecars, plus the
matching-sidecar and IMPECCABLE_BIN paths. The two refusal cases fail
against the old shim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Oracle fixture: declare the vite plugin the web workspace imports

`live-workspaces/apps/web/vite.config.js` imports `@vitejs/plugin-react`
but the workspace's package.json listed only `vite`. No oracle case
installs or evaluates that config (the three `live-boot-workspaces-*`
cases stop at root resolution), so the fixture was never wrong at
runtime, only self-contradictory to read. Adding the devDependency keeps
the goldens byte-equal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Vectors: drop the 12,208 byte-identical repeat lines

The recorder deduplicated by arguments per run, not across runs, so the
frozen call snapshot arrived with 12,208 lines (43% of 28,266) that
repeat an earlier line byte for byte. Every one re-asserts what its first
occurrence already asserts, and `crates/core/tests/vectors.rs` replays
line by line with no count anywhere, so removing them changes nothing it
checks: the replay still reports 8,321 pass, 0 fail.

Duplicates were removed with `awk '!seen[$0]++'`, keeping first
occurrences and file order, and every changed file was checked to equal
that transform of its old contents. No line was added, reordered, or
rewritten, and no vector file gained or lost a distinct call. The tree
drops from 9.2 MB to 5.7 MB.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Fix: restore the live overlay's disabledValues waivers in the engine

The JS engine applied value-level ignore waivers at the tail of
collectBrowserFindings: `_disabledValues` read the entries the live
overlay resolved for the page (skill/scripts/live-browser-ignores.js
sends them as config.disabledValues), and filtered the assembled
findings by the value each one reported, with design-system-color
compared by color value rather than by spelling so a hex waiver
suppressed a finding the browser reported as rgb(...). The Rust port
dropped that stage: `disabledValues` appeared nowhere in the workspace
or in browser-bundle, so a project entry like

    [detector]
    ignoreValues = [{ rule = "overused-font", value = "geist mono" }]

stopped reaching the overlay. The rules the CLI and the edit hook waive
kept drawing markers and counting toward the badge.

Restore it end to end:

* BrowserConfig gains `disabled_values`, parsed leniently so a
  hand-edited __IMPECCABLE_CONFIG__ entry of the wrong shape is dropped
  rather than failing the whole config, the way the JS filter did.
* The driver applies the waivers after every pass, so a rule pack's
  findings are covered the same way the built-in ones are, honoring the
  entries only in extension mode exactly as the JS read them. The
  normalizer, the value extractor (including the rule that bounce-easing
  without a direct ignoreValue offers no value) and the hex/rgb color
  key are ported alongside it.
* collectConfigJson in the in-page bundle and configJson in the
  offscreen bundle forward the field. The extension never sends it, so
  its behavior is unchanged.

Coverage: two driver unit tests (suppression by font value, by hex
waiver across the rgb spelling, and the extension-mode gate; plus the
config parse and the normalizers), a skipScan test that pins the empty
shape for every stage the core produces, and
crates/wasm/tools/disabled-values-check.mjs, a browser-backed check
ported from the retired tests/detect-antipatterns-browser.test.mjs case
that the swap left without a replacement. Against the previous bundle it
fails on exactly the three waiver assertions and passes the skipScan
one, which is the shape of the regression.

Two related review findings were checked and are not defects. skipScan
is gated on extension mode in both the driver and the bundle, which is
what the JS did (index.mjs#skipScanActive), and the live overlay runs in
extension mode: live-browser.js sets `s.dataset.impeccableExtension` on
the injected /detect.js tag, and the overlay's whole detect toggle
travels over the postMessage loop that 50-scan.js installs only under
EXTENSION_MODE. The visual contrast stage is not leaking either:
collectBrowserFindingsAsync and scan() both consult skipScanActive(),
and the offscreen path skips its visual pass on config.skipScan.

The tracked live asset is regenerated (cargo xtask bundle). The oracle
replays with zero unreviewed differences: the new field defaults empty
and the filter is inert without it, and no CLI path sets extension mode.

AI-assisted change: implemented with Claude Code under maintainer
direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Shim test: run from a staged copy and prove the download happened

The three fail-closed cases cleared IMPECCABLE_BIN and pointed
IMPECCABLE_HOME at a temp dir, but locate() prefers an installed
@impeccable/cli-<os>-<arch> before the cache or a download. Those
platform packages ship with every engine release and are a merge
prerequisite, so as soon as one is installed under the repo the cases
would resolve it and go green without fetching anything. Confirmed by
hand: with a platform package staged in node_modules, running the shim
against an unreachable download base still exits 0 from the package.

The shim now runs from a throwaway copy at <tmp>/cli/bin/cli.js beside a
copy of the repo's package.json, with no node_modules on the lookup path
above it, so require.resolve of the platform package fails the way it
does on a machine without the optional dependency. Production code is
unchanged; there is no test-only branch in the shim.

The fixture server also records every request now, and each download case
asserts the asset and sidecar URLs were actually requested, so a future
lookup shortcut fails loudly instead of passing on an untested path. A
sixth case installs a fake platform package next to the staged shim and
asserts the shim prefers it with the server untouched, which pins the
precedence the other cases depend on being absent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Live: the loader now hands off when the resume is the arrival

The overlay could sit in its generating shader over a DOM that already
held all three variants, and only a page refresh cleared it (#719).

The server's generation preflight runs live-wrap with
--defer-source-write, so the wrapper and every variant reach the DOM in a
single HMR batch. The deferred-wrapper scout is constructed at init and
the variant MutationObserver at Go; observer callbacks run in
construction order, so on that batch the scout resumes first and
resumeSession, not the observer, is the transition into CYCLING. It set
the state and the bar but never called hideShaderOverlay(), so the frozen
capture of the original stayed painted over the variants. It also
reported browser_resumed, which does not count as publication progress,
and then disconnected and re-created the observer, dropping the records
that observer had already queued for the same batch, so variants_ready
never fired at all.

resumeSession now finishes the same transition the observer does (shader
down, inline edit off, insert session finalized, params panel rebuilt)
and reports variants_ready when it already holds every variant. The
deferred scout names itself in the journal as
browser_resumed_deferred_wrapper, so the two resume paths are no longer
indistinguishable.

Wrapper resolution goes through findVariantsWrapper, which prefers a
wrapper that actually holds non-original variants. A target inside a
.map() renders one wrapper per item, and an agent that relocates the
wrapper out of the shared primitive live-wrap scaffolded leaves an empty
one behind; first match could pin either and strand the session at 0/N.
With zero or one match this is the querySelector it replaces.

Tests: waitForCycling now asserts the generating shader is gone once the
bar cycles, across every runtime fixture (it failed on vite8-react-plain
before this change and passes after), marked no-retry so the reload
recovery cannot hide it. Source-shape tests pin the transition, the
variants_ready report, and the wrapper preference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Live server: stop ends the process, SSE skips the mutation lane

Two Rust-only regressions found while investigating #719, both of which
can leave a tab waiting on a broadcast that never comes.

/stop ran shutdown() but never set shutting_down, and the accept loop
only breaks on that flag or a signal, so a stopped server kept its port
and kept answering while its server.json was already deleted. The next
`impeccable live` then booted a second server on another port and a tab
could reattach to the zombie. Node's shutdown() ended in process.exit(0).
The flag is now set after the response is written, so `stop` still reads
"stopping" instead of a reset connection, and the accept loop (already
non-blocking) exits on its next pass.

GET /events took a turnstile ticket and waited its turn before
registering, even though handle_sse releases that ticket two statements
later and needs no arrival ordering. A peer that stalls mid-request holds
the lane for the whole READ_REQUEST_DEADLINE, so a reconnecting stream
could sit unregistered for up to 10 seconds (measured 9.71s against 0.00s
on Node); broadcast is fire-and-forget, so a `done` landing in that
window reaches an empty client set and is gone. Registering early can
only make a stream see more broadcasts. The one cost is that the
connected frame's activeSessions snapshot may miss a mutation still in
flight, and the browser treats that snapshot as a hint. Preflights still
take a turn: answering those out of order reorders the POSTs the browser
issues behind them.

The route classification moved into releases_ticket_up_front so it can be
unit tested. tests/live-server-leak.test.mjs gains a guard that a stopped
server's pid is gone and its port is free.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Live: the shader teardown can no longer race its own construction

The new cycling assertion caught a real defect on CI: vite8-react-insert
reached CYCLING with #impeccable-live-shader still painted over the page.

showShaderOverlay is async. It appends its canvas synchronously, then
awaits createImageBitmap and finishes the GL setup before it publishes
shaderState. hideShaderOverlay returned early on a null shaderState, so a
teardown that landed inside that window did nothing, and the construction
then published itself over a session that had already left GENERATING,
with no teardown left to run. The scroll tick kept repositioning it,
which is why the CI page.html shows the canvas sized from the capture
rect but styled to the cycling anchor.

Every teardown now bumps a shader epoch before it does anything else, and
a construction pins the epoch it owns and abandons its canvas (releasing
the GL context) at every point past an await and before any publish,
including both bitmap-fallback publishes. A teardown also drops a shader
node that no shaderState owns, so an already-orphaned canvas cannot
survive one.

Reproduced by widening the append-to-publish window: with a 400ms delay
after uiAppend, vite8-react-insert failed with the CI error and the probe
showed the teardown arriving at CYCLING with shaderState still null.
The same run passes with this change, as does a 1500ms window on insert
and plain. Locally that window is about 4ms, which is why it only showed
on a slower runner.

The four remaining setLiveState('CYCLING') sites that did not lower the
loader now do: the SSE done handler (the one route that can reach CYCLING
from GENERATING), the Svelte republish remount, and the two accept
failure recoveries.

The e2e assertion already waits up to 5s for the shader to clear, so it
was never racing a legitimate teardown; it is left as it is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Live: every active-session wrapper lookup goes through the resolver

Cursor Bugbot on #720: findVariantsWrapper alone was not enough.
resolveBarAnchor, the visible-variant element, mountedParameterCount,
readVisibleVariantFromDOM, showVariantInDOM, the source injection, and
the whole accept path still took the first [data-impeccable-variants]
match, so in the relocated-wrapper case Tune never bound and the bar kept
anchoring to the empty scaffold even after the resume reached CYCLING.

Thirteen call sites now resolve through findVariantsWrapper. The resolver
split in two so a missing id cannot silently widen the lookup to any
session: findVariantsWrapper(sessionId) returns null without an id, and
findAnyVariantsWrapper() is the entry point for the two resume paths that
have no id yet. Both share pickPopulatedVariantsWrapper, which is the old
querySelector whenever there are fewer than two matches.

Discard cleanup now hides every duplicate wrapper rather than the first,
since a target inside a `.map()` renders one per item and hiding one left
the rest of the discarded variants on screen.

What still takes a raw first match is deliberate: bare existence checks,
selector strings for stylesheets and observers (which want to cover every
match), querySelectorAll sweeps, the parsed source document, and the
Svelte component wrapper, which holds no variant children at all. The
source-shape test pins that exact set by name, so a new raw lookup fails
until it is either routed through the resolver or justified there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Live: a discard releases every wrapper it hid

Bugbot on #720: the non-restoreOriginal discard now hides every matching
wrapper, but the delayed fallback still released only the first
querySelector hit. A target inside a `.map()` renders one wrapper per
item, so the rest stayed at display:none and their original content never
came back on the static and missed-HMR flows that fallback exists for.

The hide, the existence checks, and the release now all speak about the
same set. discardedWrappers(sessionId) is the one place that collects it;
releaseDiscardedStaticWrappers takes the stylesheet down once and
releases each wrapper; releaseDiscardedStaticWrapper drops its sessionId
argument and just unwinds the node it is given. The HMR-ownership
decision still reads the first wrapper, which is fair: duplicates all
render from one source element, so ownership is uniform across them. The
reload branch is unchanged because a reload restores every original at
once.

Covered by a source-shape test rather than an e2e scenario:
hasFrameworkHmrOwnership is true for every React, Vue, and Svelte runtime
fixture, so all of them take the watcher path and none can reach the
static release. The existing framework-ownership guards in the same file
move to the new shape and keep their intent, including the one that says
only non-discard cleanup may blank the wrapper while waiting for HMR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Release: publish the npm platform packages in one command

bun run release:platform-packages downloads each engine-v<ENGINE_VERSION>
binary with its .sha256 sidecar (required; nothing unverified is
published), stages the package from cli/platform-packages/<target> with
the version stamped, the executable at bin/ and the repo LICENSE, and
runs npm publish --access public. Targets already on the registry are
skipped so a re-run resumes after a partial failure. Preconditions:
package.json pins equal ENGINE_VERSION and npm is logged in.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* release-engine: pin checkout, upload-artifact and download-artifact at v7

The v4 pins target Node 20, which the runner now deprecates and forces
onto Node 24 with a warning on every step. The rest of the workflows
already use v7.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Tests: make the temp-dir helpers unique under a coarse clock

Windows' system clock is coarse enough that two parallel tests could get
the same pid-plus-nanoseconds directory name and then remove each
other's files (rust-windows: close_verb_round_trip_and_ownership,
NotFound). A per-process counter is appended to the name.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vau2X53xGTjjTCXWMVBoNY

* Tests: declare the temp-dir counter in the hook cache-root tests

The previous commit referenced TMP_SEQ there without defining it.

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 10:42:45 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 6fe900dbb4 Improve incumbent evidence and direction fusion (#689)
Prefer committed visual goldens when the app cannot run and make assigned-system translation explicit when a pinned register conflicts with literal materials.\n\nAI-assisted: prepared with Codex under @pbakaus direction.
2026-09-01 00:22:49 -04:00
jesusdizvalls-cellandGitHub ac64a2fe12 Fix grammar in skill introduction (#679)
Correct the article before award-winning in the source skill introduction. Generated provider copies will refresh through the post-merge sync.

AI-assisted merge: reviewed and executed by Codex under maintainer direction.
2026-08-31 19:21:34 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 19786e7a22 Native leg for the verify-and-review pipeline (#546)
* Give the verify-and-review pipeline a native leg

The build-verify-review loop assumed a browser end to end while the
comp side of the system was already platform-aware: new-work.md,
visualize.md, and the asset producer all comp a native app portrait at
its device viewport, and then the verification steps asked for desktop
and mobile browser screenshots of it. Concretely:

- new-work.md step 7 ordered detect.mjs on every hookless build with no
  platform guard. routing.md declares the detector web-only and the
  design hook skips native projects, so a native build was always
  hookless and always ordered to run an HTML rule engine over
  Swift/Kotlin/RN code. The playbook now guards it: web-only, and on
  native the reviewer's floor check is the named slop gate.
- The inspection round and the SKILL.src.md batched-round principle
  named desktop and mobile as the only viewports. Both now map per
  platform: web keeps desktop and mobile; native inspects the shipped
  device classes per OS, captured from the simulator or emulator.
- ios.md and android.md carried no verification guidance at all, so
  nothing told a native run how to produce the screenshots the evidence
  chain depends on. Each gains a Verifying the build section: simctl /
  adb capture commands, dark-appearance and type-scale checks, and the
  simulator-vs-hardware honesty line.
- The finish reviewer judged native builds blind: it never runs
  context.mjs and its packet carried no platform guidance. On native
  the packet now includes the platform reference path(s) and a
  no-detector-ran line, and the reviewer's Input Contract says to judge
  in the platform's conventions.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* fix: address PR review bot findings

- greptile: carry the capture's device selector through the
  state-changing verification commands (simctl appearance, adb uimode
  and font_scale); unqualified forms fail with several targets attached
- Copilot: align new-work.md's cross-reference with the actual heading
  (Verifying the build)
- Copilot: give the finish reviewer's Input Contract the native
  filename example new-work.md establishes (phone.png / tablet.png,
  suffixed per OS on adaptive)

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* fix: identify simulators by UDID, not display name

greptile follow-up: display names can collide across booted simulators,
so the capture and appearance commands now both key on the UDID from
simctl list devices booted.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
2026-08-09 15:09:55 -07:00
045865918a Held for review: agent placeholder substitution, reviewer recapture contract, base-directory script form (#544)
* Resolve {{scripts_path}} in the agent bodies Codex ships

Three code paths emit an agent body: the degraded fallback reference, the
.toml nested inside the skill for Codex, and the native agent file. Only the
nested .toml skipped placeholder substitution and rule-marker stripping, so
the codex and .agents dists shipped `node {{scripts_path}}/embed-prompt.mjs`
verbatim in the asset producer, and every caller had to substitute the token
itself at load time.

All three now render through renderAgentBody(), and the new regression test
asserts a runnable embed-prompt command on each emitted surface plus a
synthetic agent proving markers and placeholders resolve in the nested .toml.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Give the finish reviewer's screenshots one fixed address

The Input Contract asked for "desktop and mobile screenshot paths captured by
the parent" and named none, so each session invented a filename and the
verdict pass went looking for a recapture that was never written there. Two
reviewer passes burned on that in the eval runs.

The parent now captures and recaptures to .impeccable/review/desktop.png and
.impeccable/review/mobile.png, and the reviewer reads those two first,
treating a brief-named path as the fallback for a parent that wrote elsewhere.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Lead Setup with the base directory the runtime reports

The rendered claude and codex skills opened with
`node .claude/skills/impeccable/scripts/context.mjs`, a project-relative path
that resolves in this repo and in nothing a user installs: a personal or
plugin install puts the scripts outside the project entirely. The working form
was already in the text, parenthesized, after the one that fails.

Setup now leads with `node <skill-base-dir>/scripts/context.mjs` and says once
that the base directory resolves every scripts-path command in the skill and
its references, leaving the project-relative path as the fallback for runtimes
that report no base directory.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Answer the Copilot review: brittle model assertion, missing review dir

Assert that {{model}} resolved rather than that it resolved to "GPT", which
belongs to PROVIDER_PLACEHOLDERS and can change without touching what the test
guards. And have the parent create .impeccable/review/ when the harness does
not, so a fresh project's first capture has somewhere to land.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Make the review-screenshot contract directory-based, not web-viewport-named

Two amendments to the recapture contract from review feedback:

1. The canonical location is the directory .impeccable/review/, one file
   per captured viewport; desktop.png and mobile.png are the web case,
   not the contract. Baking web-viewport names into the reviewer's spec
   would have hardened a web assumption into paths that a native
   (ios/android/adaptive) build cannot honestly write.

2. Precedence restored to explicit-beats-convention: paths the calling
   brief names are authoritative when the files exist; the canonical
   directory is where the reviewer looks when the brief names none or a
   named path is missing. This avoids stale canonical files from an
   earlier run silently winning over fresh explicit paths. The observed
   failure (the verdict round inventing a round-stamped filename) stays
   fixed: recapture happens over the same files, and invented filenames
   are still called out as pointing at nothing.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 19:26:43 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 6769b1879a The polish ceiling covers the whole cycle, and the handoffs end it
Probe attribution on Opus 5 showed the screenshot bound working (42
to 16) while the real burner ran free: five rounds of node -e
micro-edits, eight rebuilds, and inline defect hunts absorbed the
reviewer's and documenter's jobs until the turn cap killed the run
mid-hunt. The two-round ceiling now names scans, micro-edits, and
rebuilds; after the second round the build thread stops polishing and
ships the rest through the reviewer (one batched fix pass, one
rebuild, stop) and the documenter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 19:16:17 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 8634c538fb Verification is two bounded rounds, never a loop
Opus 5 turned the iterate-with-screenshots-until-it-meets-the-bar
instruction into 42 screenshot trips and 150 tool calls per build,
about forty dollars of cache churn a page, before ever reaching the
reviewer. Verification now batches: one desktop-and-mobile round after
the full build, fixes applied together, one confirming round, ceiling
two. Craft-floor's checks share those renders instead of earning
separate trips; per-tweak iteration is live mode's channel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 18:43:04 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude 5575a027dc Flag and repair drift in Impeccable's own project artifacts
v4 changed PRODUCT.md's shape and retired the register axis, so an
upgraded project can carry answers nothing reads. Nothing measured that.

Two tiers, and the split is a performance contract:

- Boot (context.mjs, emitting CONTEXT_STALE) spends only what a boot
  already spends: markdown already in memory, a bounded set of stats,
  the small JSON files the boot reads anyway. No new directory walks.
  One directive for the whole set, throttled to once a week per project
  so a finding the user declined does not reappear tomorrow.
- doctor.mjs runs the deep pass on demand: git drift, ignore lists
  validated against the live rule registry, hook script paths that stop
  resolving, and the monorepo workspace sweep. --fix applies only the
  migrations that carry no decision.

Findings are data, not prose, so the boot directive, the text report and
--json all render one set. Severity says what should happen: auto (fix on
the next write anyway), mention (state once), route (name the command
that owns the repair).

PRODUCT.md now carries a schema stamp so the checks stop reconstructing a
file's vintage from which sections it happens to have. Schema version,
not release version: a record written by 4.0.0 is not stale under 4.0.1.
DESIGN.md gets no stamp, because it follows the external design.md spec
that Stitch lints and every DESIGN.md signal is measurable without one.

The highest-value catch is a project that resolves to web while carrying
native build files, including a monorepo app inheriting a root record
that says web. That one costs output quality silently; nothing failed
before.

doctor follows the hooks/pin pattern rather than the Commands table, so
it stays out of the design menu and the count stays at 23.

Also corrects CLAUDE.md, which still documented the register axis,
reference/brand.md, reference/product.md, eleven deleted domain reference
files, and an extractRegister() whose only occurrence in the repo was
that sentence.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 21:50:40 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude ceb13f6c8a Let routing's general-work branch honor scoped-refinement directives
Setup step 1 tells the agent to follow context.mjs's directives, and the
no-PRODUCT.md-with-existing-code directive explicitly permits a narrow
refinement to proceed on the incumbent implementation and offer init
afterward. Routing's "Otherwise" branch said missing PRODUCT.md routes
through init, with no carve-out, so the two instructions disagreed on the
same request and the agent could block work context.mjs had cleared.

Rule 3 now splits the way the directive does: a new surface or
replacement world goes through init then new-work, a narrow refinement
proceeds and offers init afterward. Explicit and implied commands were
never affected; they route one rule earlier, which is what skill-behavior
scenario 10 already covers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 20:46:12 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude 6d47843867 Stop losing DESIGN.md and native platform refs across init
Bugbot flagged the "resume without rerunning context.mjs" instruction
after init. It is right, and the gap is wider than the platform half it
named: context.mjs has two output branches, and the no-PRODUCT.md branch
omits DESIGN.md, the native platform references, and the unrecognized
`## Platform` warning. Because the skill never reruns the script once
init writes PRODUCT.md, whatever that first run withheld is gone for the
whole session. A greenfield iOS project would be designed without
reference/ios.md ever loading, and a project carrying DESIGN.md without
PRODUCT.md never saw its own design system.

The two halves need different fixes. DESIGN.md is authority in its own
right and does not depend on PRODUCT.md existing, so context.mjs now
emits it on both branches. Platform is unknowable before PRODUCT.md
exists, so no change to the script can recover it; init.md, the one step
that learns the answer, now loads ios.md / android.md / both right after
recording a native platform, and SKILL.src.md says so where it tells the
agent not to rerun.

Verified end to end against a temp project on both branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 20:33:05 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude 153b416f2e Move the slop defects back into the craft floor
The detector-blind slop review existed because the AI-tell rules had been
stripped out of SKILL.md and nothing carried them. The floor is a better
home: it loads after concept ideation and immediately before editing UI,
which is the placement that made stripping them necessary in the first
place. Models tread lightly when a ban list is present during ideation;
by the time the floor loads, the direction is already committed.

- Rename build-floor.md to craft-floor.md and restore the absolute bans
  (side-stripes, gradient text, glassmorphism, hero-metric, identical card
  grids, eyebrow-on-every-section, numbered markers, text overflow), the
  codex and gemini defect lists, and the reflexes no scanner catches.
  Rule ids match the ones the ablation catalog already knows.
- Delete lib/slop-review.mjs and both injections. The Stop hook is now
  purely a mechanical pass and stays silent with nothing to report.
- context.mjs replaces AI_SLOP_REVIEW_REQUIRED with the narrower
  MANUAL_DETECTOR_REQUIRED, emitted only when a session has no hook at
  all. A per-edit hook already covers the mechanical gap, and the floor
  covers the judgment one either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 02:04:36 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 7557935fdb Expand concept system: modes, ratings, re-roll, breadth strategy
Catalog: mode-aligned staging surfaces (persuade/operate/read/experience),
star ratings on approvals feeding challenger draw weights, family
retirements, authoring strategy and territory guide, rework and breadth
authoring rounds, composition mining from rejected worlds.

Seed: six challengers (two per tier), --reroll chains, --mode staging
filter, rating-weighted draws. New-work: Present/visualize/re-roll flow,
image-gen requirement, register-neutral vocabulary.

Pipeline: per-mode staging prompts with split frames, hero-from-board
reference generation, render-safety guards. Labs: ratings UI, unrated
filter, mode chips, composition approve-guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 22:10:10 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 2b1f36c43e Add concept world catalog and review workflow
AI-assisted: prepared by Codex at Paul's request.
2026-07-18 14:12:05 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 77c7d8e0fc Refine product and visual work lifecycle 2026-07-17 16:10:13 -07:00
Paul Bakaus bbed6eef08 Refresh the Impeccable product experience
Rework the landing page proof, steering demo, feature grid, slop catalog, detector coverage, theming, Live workflow, and responsive behavior.\n\nAI-assisted implementation by OpenAI Codex.
2026-07-15 23:29:47 -07:00
Paul Bakaus ead6ddabe5 Preserve experimental Live app-server workstream
Snapshot the current app-server implementation, shared Live optimizations, generated harness output, and in-progress site work before restoring polling as the primary runtime path.

Prepared with Codex assistance under maintainer direction.
2026-07-15 16:07:34 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 036dded377 SKILL.md polish pass (Paul's seven notes)
- Setup 1 collapsed to run-and-follow; NO_PRODUCT_MD divert logic incl.
  unattended exception moved into context.mjs directive (no circular ref)
- Modes moved before Craft floor; Registers heading renamed Modes
- frontend-design near-verbatims removed (structural-devices rule,
  CSS-specificity example); copy rule rewritten in own voice
- Craft floor: dropped prefers-reduced-motion (a11y lives in polish/
  harden/audit) and edit-source clause; heading space-above folded
  into spacing rhythm
- Mode descriptions de-biased: surface-role definitions, no niche
  lists; Read rewritten (comprehension earned twice), density claims
  removed from Read and Operate
- craft/teach deprecation reduced to routing facts; codex illustration
  line reworded; codex tells flagged for gpt-5.6 revalidation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 17:46:51 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 62ee3a9b00 a17: colored space, derived composition, subtraction, incumbent-as-evidence
Four lines from the r10 dual consultation (codex gpt-5.6-sol + gemini
3.5-pro on the actual HTMLs) and the hero-probe micro-eval: the probe
isolated a first-viewport monoculture (same split template in every
sample, control and skill alike) and showed these lines break it while
codex's raw 15-liner alone does not. The incumbent sentence swap fixes
the r10 root cause both consultants independently identified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 12:41:34 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 79573ce55b refinement scope: keep content + media footprint; recompose for emphasis (codex+gemini consult)
Replaces the a14/a15 attempts (both deleted). Diagnosis: incentive
stacking; the placeholder-completion MUST plus the image tool turned
'bolder' into full-bleed photo insertion. Scope preservation is the
missing rule, not imagery policy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 21:13:58 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 6f3076051f persuade: scope the imagery MUST to new surfaces; existing systems decide their own vocabulary
x02 a14 rerun: 3/3 samples still imported photos — the unscoped MUST in
the Persuade mode block overrode the existing-worlds principle. Scoping
keeps the greenfield ablation win, frees iteration asks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 21:09:58 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 5674a94114 existing-worlds: boldness from committed materials; new medium = redesign, not refinement
x02-tidewater-bolder eval: 3/3 skill-on samples imported photography into
a photo-free seed system (0% arena vs competitor, which amplified the
seed's own vocabulary instead). One sentence, shape-level, no examples.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 20:59:07 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 073e17e180 three-directions sketch + the scene decides the theme
Paul's a11 review: heroes are safe SaaS viewports, everything
predictable; mobile Operate ships dark despite a brief that specifies
outdoors-in-motion use. Decide-then-build now opens with three
one-line directions differing in concept (the instinctive pick that
any studio would reach for is the default wearing your name); the
Operate mode adds: the usage scene is part of the spec, the theme
follows the scene, not the category's habit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 17:36:45 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 cfbac54440 deprecate craft: the build flow lives in new-work.md, checkpoints are a mode
Per Paul: rather than gating a second file, fold what made the craft
path superior into the file both models already read 21/21 through the
gate. new-work.md gains 'Decide, then build' (direction as one
confirmable paragraph; attended pauses, unattended records-and-goes;
codex.md mock flow when image generation exists) and 'Finish like a
studio' (inspect, honest critique, patch, detector). craft becomes a
deprecated alias like teach: invoking it forces attended checkpoints,
nothing else differs; the reference is a redirect stub. codex.md
retargeted. Existing-world feature builds remain governed by the core
floor (unmeasured path, noted in the plan doc).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 17:08:02 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 139d69f2b7 bare build requests follow the craft orchestration; brief-coverage joins the floor
Invocation A/B on Fable (a9 craft-path vs a9-direct plain): the plain
path scored 38% vs the competitor against the craft path's 50%, and
brief fidelity collapsed to 14% vs bare — the direct path drops asked-
for features that craft's direction step and engineering bar preserve.
Routing now sends any build request through the craft orchestration
unprompted (its gates pause only when a user can respond), and the
craft floor gains a brief-coverage recheck: every requirement the brief
names must exist on the page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 21:49:05 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 eeff485c20 mode belongs to the surface; palette sources are exclusive
a7 transcript evidence: 01-observability samples drew orange-honey and
green seeds, recited the color-strategy menu, and shipped dark
category-reflex palettes anyway; the model applied the subject's
workmanlike grammar to its own landing page. Two generic lines: the
mode belongs to the surface, not the subject (a landing page for a
dense tool is still Persuade; deciding a page can be plain because its
subject is workmanlike is the category error in reverse), and the
palette has exactly two legitimate sources (seed or the subject's
world; the category's habitual palette is neither).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 18:46:42 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 a55b162a24 routing owns the craft-vs-direct decision; craft.md stops advising its own loading
The when-to-choose guidance sat inside the file that only loads after
the choice is made. SKILL.md's routing now says it: bare build requests
build directly through the gate and floor; craft is routed only when
named or when the user asks for a guided, checkpointed build. The
Commands row describes craft by its checkpoints. craft.md's intro just
describes the supervised flow it orchestrates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:46:26 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 b409bedf5d drop brand.md/product.md stubs; craft repositioned as the collaborative build
Stubs removed per Paul (register: values remain harmless family hints;
nothing points at the files anymore). craft.md now opens by defining
itself against plain invocation: a bare build request goes straight
through the gate and the craft floor; craft is the supervised path with
guaranteed checkpoints and the mock pipeline. One shipping-discipline
line joins the core floor (real content, interaction states, respect
the build pipeline) so one-shots inherit the bar that previously lived
only in craft's Step 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:40:32 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 051f856113 finish the mode migration: brand.md/product.md become redirect stubs
Answering the obvious question the family-depth framing dodged: with
modes derived per task, files named for the old two-register taxonomy
had no architectural reason to exist. brand.md's surviving depth (lane
test + inverse test, reflex-reject lanes, color discipline, layout
moves, permissions) folds into new-work.md, where all of it belonged:
it is new-identity Persuade/Experience guidance. product.md's content
moves unchanged to operate.md, its true name. Both old files remain as
one-line redirect stubs because register: brand|product in existing
PRODUCT.md files and older links point there. All cross-references
retargeted (SKILL.md modes intro, context.mjs REGISTER hint, live.md,
typeset.md); 85 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:35:28 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 0fde0850cf skill v4.0.0-alpha.9: daily-driver core + mandatory new-work playbook
Architecture per Paul: impeccable is primarily a daily driver on
existing codebases; the always-loaded core should serve that 90% path,
not carry the full generative arsenal on every invocation. SKILL.md now
holds brief-wins, existing-worlds (the headline path), the four visitor
modes, the full craft floor, and a hard gate: new identity work
(greenfield, or a redesign discarding the current look) MUST read
reference/new-work.md before any design decision. That file carries the
generative playbook (seed, subject grounding, plan/self-check/signature,
hero-thesis, everything-bold, prove-don't-claim, color commitment,
calibration, persuade type/imagery). context.mjs enforces the gate
mechanically: NEW_WORK directive when no PRODUCT.md/DESIGN.md exists,
and the old mandatory register-file read is replaced by a REGISTER
family hint. No surfaces: map anywhere; mode is derived per task.
Gate compliance is measurable via skillEvidence.directSkillFileReads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:22:15 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 bf2dd7ec13 skill v4.0.0-alpha.8: four visitor modes replace the brand/product bifurcation
Field report: impeccable SaaS-ified a developer docs page; the Opus
galleries showed the same on an album page. Root cause: two registers
force every surface into persuade-or-operate grammar. The register
section now names the visitor's mode first (Persuade / Operate / Read /
Experience) with mode-borrowing called out as the canonical failure,
and PRODUCT.md's register field maps as family (brand = Persuade +
Experience, product = Operate + Read) for compatibility. Read mode:
comprehension deliverable, navigable structure, chrome out of the way.
Experience mode: the artifact leads at every screen size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:06:14 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 2e71facb59 skill v4.0.0-alpha.7: cultural surfaces are the work, not a funnel
Paul's Opus gallery observation: every impeccable 05-experimental-album
generation reads decidedly SaaS while frontend-design's open with the
art itself, especially at narrow viewports. Cause: the brand register
prescribed stop-the-scroll/earn-the-click/convert for ALL brand
surfaces. Split the register's deliverable by surface: product/service
pages convert; cultural surfaces (album, portfolio, publication, body
of work) lead with the artifact, recede the interface, and treat
conversion grammar as a category error — the visitor meets the work in
the first viewport at every screen size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 17:00:54 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 02f760fbad skill v4.0.0-alpha.6: boldness is page-level commitment, not an element budget
Paul: everything should be bold, nothing bland; bold is neither
decoration nor clutter but commitment to the concept, whose form the
concept chooses (maximal or severely clean, drenched or monochrome,
piercing copy, the product demonstrating itself). Replaces the
'spend your boldness in one place' rule imported from frontend-design,
whose one-bold-element-on-a-quiet-page framing pulled pages toward the
tasteful softness the galleries showed losing. The signature becomes
where the concept peaks rather than the only place it lives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 16:55:13 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 56edce955a skill v4.0.0-alpha.5: hero-as-thesis + commit-over-refined (distinctiveness push)
Paul's spot-check of the Fable validation galleries: frontend-design's
lektor generations read vastly more distinctive and subject-faithful
despite losing the overall pairwise verdict on craft. The arena agrees
on the axis (distinctiveness 8-31 at n=5). Two additions to the core:
the opening viewport is a thesis (open with the most characteristic
thing in the subject's world, with a concrete memory test), and an
explicit polish-is-the-floor counterweight so the craft floor stops
reading as a mandate for quiet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 16:48:23 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 50002a9e05 skill: rewrite codex block as positive calibration (self-priming fix)
gpt-5.6-sol evals: skill-on lost craft 0-25 to bare gpt-5.6; removing
the enumerated codex ban block recovered it to 4-16, confirming the
block's literal CSS patterns self-prime the defects they ban (the same
mechanism the v2.1 ablation sweep documented). Replaced with three
shape-level calibration lines: tracking floor (kept, it's a numeric
ceiling), elevation-declared-once + modest container radius, and
material honesty (real assets, surfaces not decoration, specific
claims). Detector rules continue to enforce the mechanical patterns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 16:28:09 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 6b3d174e93 skill v4.0.0-alpha.4: the lean core — full design guidance at a quarter the length
Pairwise evals on Fable one-shot (6-task regression set, opus-4-8 judge,
position-bias-cancelled): the hand-distilled ~55-line lean core beat the
heavy v4 core 66% overall / 67% craft head-to-head, and moved the
decisive win-rate vs frontend-design from 13% to 27% (40% with the
completion-time QA scan; craft went positive 6-5 for the first time).
18/18 lean samples ran context.mjs + palette.mjs vs a minority under the
heavy core: shorter instructions get followed. Context weight itself was
suppressing both compliance and boldness.

Structure: persona + brief-wins + existing-worlds + subject-grounding +
plan/self-check + boldness + prove-don't-claim + commit + calibration +
compressed craft floor + two-paragraph registers. Commands table kept;
the no-arg context-aware menu logic moved to reference/routing.md (read
on demand in the only case that is inherently interactive). Provider
blocks and rule anchors preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 18:19:35 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 1172898020 skill v4a3: prove-don't-claim + load-bearing signature
Judge rationales across cand-v4a2 arenas: competitor wins by showing
the product working (mix panels, comparison tables, live demos) and by
signatures big enough to organize the page; our samples claim, decorate,
and sometimes stop at the hero.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 14:09:49 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 f1078c59b0 skill v4a2: seed defers to subject's world; unattended-mode gates for craft/shape; init skip when no user
Eval evidence (cand-v4a1-prose): palette.mjs handed a random violet seed
to the Polish-TV lektor brief and the model anchored on it, overriding
subject-grounding; craft/shape user gates can't fire in one-shot runs
and each model improvises around them. Seed is now a reflex-check that
yields to a subject-dictated palette; craft/shape gain an explicit
unattended mode (same bar, no waiting); init interview is skipped when
no user can respond.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 13:05:47 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 440348a498 skill v4 core: existing-world/new-work gate, register-scoped type rules
Per Paul's guidance: (1) existing committed design systems are the
bread-and-butter case and get a first-class core rule (work inside the
world, no parallel colors/fonts/styles, no perf regressions); (2) a
redesign that discards the current look is new identity work and runs
the full concept/tokens/signature process instead of anchoring to the
incumbent skeleton (the lektor failure); (3) the reflex-reject font list
and physical-object font procedure are brand-register rules, moved out
of the universal Commit section — system stacks and workhorse UI faces
are legitimate, often correct, for product UI, stated positively in the
product register.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 12:04:46 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 a38a0765a9 skill v4.0.0-alpha.1: always-loaded core — brief-wins, subject grounding, token/self-check process, inline craft floor + registers
One-shot evals on Fable 5 (impeccable-evals notes/fable-oneshot-craft-plan.md)
showed the reference-file architecture failing: models skip the register
reads, so most design guidance never reaches them, and skill-on collapses
toward bare-model output (0/9 pairwise wins vs frontend-design on r10).

SKILL.md is now self-contained for one-shot work: persona, the-brief-wins
rule, ground-it-in-the-subject, a plan/tokens/signature/self-check process
gate, commitment guidance, a compact inline craft floor, and distilled
brand/product registers. Reference files remain as sub-command flows and
optional depth. The enumerated absolute-bans list is retired from prose;
mechanical slop enforcement moves to the detector/hook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 10:46:10 -07:00
c11cc7b58c Route native projects to native command variants (audit, adapt) (#357)
* Route native projects to native command variants for audit and adapt

Follow-up to #269. The web audit.md and adapt.md carried "translate this
yourself" Platform notes, so a native invocation paid for the full web
file (~1.8k / ~2.6k tokens, mostly inapplicable) and did error-prone
run-time translation. Authored with AI assistance (Claude Code) under
maintainer direction.

- New reference/audit.native.md and reference/adapt.native.md: authored
  native content (VoiceOver/TalkBack, platform conformance, adaptivity
  dimensions; phone-to-tablet, platform-to-platform, web-to-native
  strategies). One variant per command covers ios, android, and
  adaptive; per-OS specifics stay in the platform refs Setup loads
  regardless.
- SKILL.src.md: Commands table lists the variants; Setup step 2 reads
  the variant instead of the web file when the platform is native.
- audit.md / adapt.md: Platform sections replaced with a one-line
  web-only guard pointing at the variant.
- animate.md / layout.md: Platform sections deleted; the Motion and
  Layout sections of the already-loaded platform refs carry that
  content. Web users now pay zero tokens for the platform axis in
  these files.
- Skill-behavior scenario 15 pins the route-instead behavior (passes
  live on claude-sonnet-4-6); CLAUDE.md documents the variant
  convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Phrase command-reference routing as one rule, not rule-plus-exception

Copilot review catch: step 2 said "MUST read reference/<command>.md"
and then carved out the native variant, which invites loading both
files. Now a single rule: read the web reference or the table's native
variant, one file, not both. Scenario 15 re-verified live. Applied with
AI assistance (Claude Code) under maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Anchor native runs in animate/layout, drop loaded-refs assumption

Review-thread fixes, applied with AI assistance (Claude Code) under
maintainer direction:

- Greptile: deleting the animate/layout Platform sections left native
  runs alone with web tooling instructions (CSS keyframes, GSAP, Grid,
  clamp()). Restore a one-line anchor in each pointing at the loaded
  platform reference's Motion / Layout section (~20 tokens, not the old
  restatements).
- Bugbot: audit.native.md and adapt.native.md asserted the platform
  refs were "already loaded in Setup", but the command reference loads
  at step 2, before step 5. Now they instruct: read the platform
  reference first if Setup hasn't already.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Carry the native-variant rule into routing rules 2 and 3

Bugbot catch: Setup step 2 routed native projects to the variant, but
routing rules 2 and 3 (the operative text at command time) still said
to load the generic reference file. Both now reference the same
one-file variant rule. Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code) under
maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Point animate/layout native anchors at the files, not "loaded" refs

Bugbot catch, same class as the variant wording fix: the anchor lines
said "the loaded platform reference" but command files load at step 2,
before the platform refs at step 5. Both anchors now name the files and
instruct reading them first if Setup hasn't already. Applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code) under maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 07:30:49 -07:00
3e38e595c7 Add platform axis (web / ios / android / adaptive) (#269)
* Add a platform axis (web / ios / android / adaptive) to the skill

Orthogonal to register: register decides whether design IS or SERVES the
product; platform decides the delivery target and which native conventions
apply. Set `## Platform` in PRODUCT.md; a missing field defaults to `web`,
so legacy projects are unaffected.

- extractPlatform() in skill/scripts/context.mjs (mirrors extractRegister);
  the CLI appends a NEXT STEP directive to read the native reference(s).
  `adaptive` (Flutter / RN / KMP shipping both iOS and Android) loads both
  ios.md and android.md.
- New reference/ios.md (Apple HIG distilled) and reference/android.md
  (Material 3 distilled); reference/web.md is a thin pointer. The native
  refs frame register's role as narrow: platform conformance is the bar,
  brand lives in the expressive layer the platform gives you, never by
  breaking the rails.
- Setup step 5 loads the native reference(s) when platform is native. Live
  mode and the detect CLI stay web-only, gated off ios/android/adaptive.
- init asks platform right after register; adapt/audit/animate/layout carry
  short platform divergence notes; all secondary spots thread `adaptive`.
- a11y stays in audit.md (loading it at design time makes output timid), so
  the native refs carry no Accessibility section; audit.md's Platform
  section owns native a11y.
- Tests: extractPlatform unit coverage + skill-behavior scenario 10
  (PRODUCT.md platform ios -> agent loads ios.md).

Source-first: only skill/, scripts/, tests/, CLAUDE.md, NOTICE.md, the
changelog and version are committed; the sync workflow regenerates the
provider trees and ./plugin on merge.

ios.md / android.md are distilled from the MIT-licensed
ehmo/platform-design-skills; attribution in NOTICE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Address review: gate web tools on native platforms, drop version churn

Maintainer-review fixes applied with AI assistance (Claude Code), on top
of the rebased platform-axis commit:

- Design hook (post-edit and Cursor pre-edit) now resolves the project
  platform via loadContext + extractPlatform and skips its web rule scan
  for ios / android / adaptive projects, so React Native / Flutter code
  never draws web-shaped findings (new hook-lib resolveProjectPlatform /
  isNativePlatform helpers, covered by unit and subprocess tests).
- context.mjs CLI warns on an unrecognized ## Platform value (e.g. a
  toolchain name like `flutter`) instead of silently defaulting to web;
  extractRegister / extractPlatform now share extractSectionValue.
- Removed reference/web.md: nothing loaded it; CLAUDE.md carries the
  "web has no extra rulebook" explanation.
- init.md: skip live-mode config (Step 6) for native platforms; note the
  per-app PRODUCT.md pattern for repos shipping web + native.
- android.md: Material-everywhere apps that also ship on iPhone still
  owe iOS OS guarantees (safe areas, Reduce Motion, edge-swipe back).
- ios.md: reworded a design-time line that framed Dynamic Type as an
  accessibility check (a11y stays owned by audit.md).
- Renumbered the new skill-behavior scenario to 14 after main's 10-13;
  updated CLAUDE.md scenario list; added android + unrecognized-value
  CLI test cases.
- No version or changelog changes: versioning happens at release time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Tighten platform reference prose

Editorial pass on the platform-axis text, applied with AI assistance
(Claude Code) under maintainer direction:

- ios.md / android.md rewritten to house style: single-line paragraphs
  (no hard wraps), one-sentence scope intro, deduplicated intro/slop-test,
  register-compression down to two sentences. In-file attribution
  paragraphs removed (NOTICE.md owns attribution); "read on top of the
  register reference" cruft removed (SKILL step 5 and the context.mjs
  directive already say it). Bans sections dropped: they restated the
  rules above them; the two additive items (tab-bar overload,
  hover-dependent affordances) folded into rules. ~40% smaller each.
- Sub-command Platform sections (adapt, audit, animate, layout), SKILL
  step 5, init.md platform prose, and the context.mjs directive trimmed
  the same way.

Build (prose validators, counts) and both test runners green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Treat an empty PRODUCT.md section as absent, not the next heading

Copilot review catch: extractSectionValue read the next `## ...` heading
as the section value when a field was left empty, which made the CLI
warn "value `## Product Purpose` is not recognized". Stop at the next
heading and return null instead. Regression tests for extractPlatform,
extractRegister, and the CLI warning path. Applied with AI assistance
(Claude Code) under maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Only read a token list of both native targets as adaptive

Bugbot catch: after the exact platform tokens failed, any Platform line
containing the words ios and android was classified adaptive, so
negated or explanatory prose ("web only, not ios or android") silently
loaded both native refs and skipped the hook, with no warning. The
combo parse now accepts only list separators and the two platform
words; anything else falls through to the CLI's unrecognized-value
WARNING. Regression tests added. Applied with AI assistance (Claude
Code) under maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
2026-07-08 17:11:31 -07:00
1a46353b29 Don't force init on scoped commands when PRODUCT.md is missing (#277)
* Don't force init on scoped commands when PRODUCT.md is missing

Setup step 1 told the agent: "If it reports NO_PRODUCT_MD, stop and
follow reference/init.md before doing anything else." For a project with
no PRODUCT.md, that turned every scoped request (polish, critique, audit,
layout, ...) into a full from-scratch init detour. The user asks to
polish one button and the skill instead starts writing PRODUCT.md from
the beginning. Faced with that gate, agents also frequently abandon the
command and do an ad-hoc pass without loading the command reference.

Make the gate command-aware. A missing PRODUCT.md still routes into init
for the from-scratch build flows where captured product context is the
point (init, craft, shape). For any other command, a scoped request
against existing code, the code is the context: proceed with the
requested command, infer the register from the surface in focus, and
offer /impeccable init once as a suggestion rather than a blocker.

- skill/SKILL.src.md: rewrite the step 1 NO_PRODUCT_MD rule; reconcile
  the no-argument routing rule so it leads the menu with init instead of
  silently jumping into it; extend the craft init-then-resume footnote to
  cover shape, now also a from-scratch flow.
- skill/scripts/context.mjs: soften the NO_PRODUCT_MD message to defer to
  the step 1 rule instead of "Stop the current task"; refresh the stale
  file-level JSDoc that still described the old empty-stdout signal.
- tests/skill-behavior/scenarios.test.mjs: add scenario 10 (scoped
  command + no PRODUCT.md proceeds without forcing init) and scenario 11
  (shape + no PRODUCT.md still diverts into init). Scenario 1 (craft
  diverts) stays green and pins the build path.

Source-only per repo convention; provider and plugin copies are
regenerated by the maintainer's build:skills sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix missing-context routing for build intent

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
2026-07-07 18:02:30 -07:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 7b2c2a1f23 Fix Impeccable setup path guidance (#341) 2026-07-07 17:17:48 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 4ac0348032 Add Codex grid background slop rule 2026-07-01 00:12:32 -07:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub b7d2ad5589 Fix: allow skill's bundled node helpers under strict-permission harnesses (#301) (#310)
The skill declared only `Bash(npx impeccable *)` in allowed-tools, but Setup and the no-arg menu shell out to `node {{scripts_path}}/*.mjs`. Under a default-deny Claude Code allowlist those calls are blocked, so Setup fails on context.mjs.

Add a provider-aware `Bash(node {{scripts_path}}/*)` entry and resolve {{scripts_path}} in the frontmatter (the build previously substituted it only in the body). Provider-aware rather than the hardcoded `.claude/...` path the issue suggested, since five providers honor allowed-tools with different script dirs.
2026-06-25 17:16:32 -07:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 0306b41949 Add monorepo context support (#213)
Context files (PRODUCT.md / DESIGN.md) resolve child-first then fall back to the repo root, and /impeccable live lets the user pick a child app in a monorepo. Single-app behavior is unchanged. Closes #202. Co-Authored-By: abdulwahabone
2026-06-20 19:49:37 +09:00