CI resolves playwright but has no downloaded chromium; launch threw instead of falling back to the catalog ranking, and every spec gate downstream failed. Launch failures now return the no-browser path (and the browser test skips instead of asserting).
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Paul's decision on the tenth sweep's design question: hard vetoes (missing region, contradicted plate or text, SVG illustration, clipped plate, invented ink) stay unconditional; at overall >= HERO_MIN the numeric readings (ink colour, letter-spacing, line pitch, strip heights, box positions) print as advisories with the pass and belong to the polish pass. Every sweep-10 sample closes its hero under this condition, which settles 07 without another paid round.
Ninth-sweep defects: codeDrawn / container / bleed now persist into spec.json with WARN lines (an overridden refusal used to vanish from the record); font-match probes os.tmpdir() and points TMPDIR at .impeccable/tmp when the sandbox /tmp is unwritable (every ninth-sweep rank silently fell back to the catalog).
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
font-match / catalog index
- Index schema 2 adds a third render, 48c (48px cap, ALL CAPS text). Caps headline crops have no x-height band and ranked against mixed-case renders as barcode faces; they now route to the caps render.
- Non-text families (barcodes, redacted, flow, dingbats, effect faces) are excluded from candidates.
- The distance adds a gross width and weight gap (log ratio of advance and ink density) so a face 50% wider or 35% lighter cannot rank first on run-length detail alone; the index stores those readings.
- Multi-line all-caps crops vote on x-height across lines: one line's crossbars no longer give the crop a spurious x band.
- With no browser, --rank records the catalog's nearest face (source catalog, size estimated) so the spec gate can close; the NEXT line and new-work.md say not to install a browser or hand-write a choice.
- font-match stamps the choice it writes; the spec gate refuses a chosen face it did not write (sessions typed Arial Narrow into spec.json to pass).
- IMPECCABLE_NODE_MODULES lets a harness lend a playwright.
comp-spec
- A region note that describes painted material (diagram, drawing, photo, texture...) under a code kind is refused at the spec unless codeDrawn is set: the exploded carburetor filed as chrome is a plate about to be redrawn in SVG.
build-phase
- The control ink-box veto applies only when the comp's ink is a discrete element and the build's box is too; a full-width bar told one session six times that 1376x87 was 1382x102 with no edit able to move it.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
comp-spec, comp-diff, build-phase, font-match, and generate-image now decode any comp raster via loadRaster(), converting non-PNG input to <file>.png next to the source. Sessions used to hit 'not a PNG' and rewrite the .webp in place with PNG bytes, which broke transcript replay (a later step rewrites the comp beyond the cut) and left a mislabeled file.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
The first paid confirmation sweep showed the failure: models rendered the
three comps first and ran build-phase.mjs start after, so a session cut at
the composition pick carried no state.json and the resumed model followed
the conversation ('translate the comp into HTML now') instead of the
phases. Decision comps (.impeccable/mocks/decision/) are unaffected;
--force-mock overrides.
AI-assisted (Claude).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
font-match.mjs fingerprints a text region's lettering in the comp (cap
height, glyph advance per cap = width class, ink fraction = weight class,
tracking), renders candidate faces at that cap height in a headless
browser (yours plus a shortlist for the width class), and ranks them by
distance with a proof sheet; the spec gate refuses to close until the lead
text region is measured and ranked. generate-image --plate keys ink-on-
ground plates to alpha (chroma) so the drawing sits on the page's own
ground; the plates gate scores keyed plates composited over the region's
ground. comp-diff reports each region's ink box; the hero gate names a
control whose box height or width differs from the comp. The hero
instruction copies the comp's words verbatim; rewording is a stated
decision after the hero passes.
Driven by a human review of the r3 side-by-sides: face width and weight,
plate ground, control row height, and content substitution.
AI-assisted (Claude).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul Bakaus
