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Paul BakausandGitHub fa44839f72 Fix detector URL scans and advisory handling (#709)
* Fix detector URL and advisory handling

Recover joined URL arguments without splitting local paths, derive advisory behavior from registry severity across consumers, inspect readable linked CSS in URL scans, and report only the dominant primary font.

AI assistance disclosure: Implemented and verified with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Filter linked CSS to rendered selectors

Flatten linked stylesheet grouping rules and collect only selector rules that target the live DOM, preventing unused grouped and selector-less patterns from leaking into URL findings.

AI assistance disclosure: Implemented and verified with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Fix detector review edge cases

AI assistance disclosure: Codex implemented and verified these fixes under maintainer direction.

* Preserve unresolved linked CSS selectors

AI assistance disclosure: Codex implemented and verified this fix under maintainer direction.

* Fix linked CSS selector filtering

Resolve pseudo-element selectors to live hosts, reject unresolvable linked CSS findings, and make the regression assertions independent. Also ignore comment delimiters when recovering CSS rule selectors.

AI assistance disclosure: This commit was prepared with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Skip unresolved container query CSS

Exclude linked container-query groups when their current applicability cannot be resolved, with a browser regression proving inactive styles do not leak.

AI assistance disclosure: This commit was prepared with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Detect active container query CSS

Use a temporary custom-property probe so the browser decides whether a nested style rule actually applies in the current container layout.

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and test this fix under maintainer direction.

* Filter inactive linked CSS states

Keep valid empty pseudo-class matches authoritative and omit selector-less linked at-rules that cannot be tied to rendered nodes.

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and test this fix under maintainer direction.

* Parse pseudo-elements without rewriting literals

Preserve quoted attribute values and escaped identifiers while resolving real pseudo-elements to live hosts.

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and test this fix under maintainer direction.

* Restore live linked keyframes

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and verify this fix under maintainer direction.

* Handle grouped linked keyframes

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and verify this fix under maintainer direction.

* Respect keyframe definition order

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and verify this fix under maintainer direction.

* Resolve effective linked keyframes

AI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and verify this fix under maintainer direction.

* Fix keyframe easing detection

Serialize effective per-keyframe easing back into the linked stylesheet corpus so overshoot motion is detected. Add a browser regression with a neutral animation name.\n\nAI assistance disclosure: Codex helped implement and test this fix under maintainer direction.
2026-09-02 15:45:34 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 84728e9ce4 Fix flat type hierarchy false positives (#702)
* Fix flat type hierarchy false positives

Use rendered semantic roles and dominant size frequency, align the adjacent-step guidance, and abstain in source-only scans.\n\nAI assistance: prepared with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Fix static hidden typography filtering

Honor the hidden attribute in the static wrapper and use raw browser findings in regression coverage.

AI assistance: prepared with Codex under maintainer direction.

* Align typography sampling with painted content

Count visibly painted aria-hidden text and exclude content-visibility hidden subtrees in both static and browser scans.

AI assistance: prepared with Codex under maintainer direction.
2026-09-01 18:46:34 -04:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 2cfd60765a Fix: do not flag Roboto in system font stacks (#678)
Treat the leading system face as primary so later Roboto fallbacks do not trigger overused-font, while named web-font primaries still flag.

AI-assisted merge: reviewed and executed by Codex under maintainer direction.
2026-08-31 19:20:51 -04:00
Paul Bakaus 3818a5655b Address the Bugbot and Copilot findings on #599
- keyChroma re-encodes with the PNG's tEXt chunks intact (the embedded prompt survived generation but not keying)
- organic-clip-path counts relative curve commands too (path data letters are only commands, so the match is case-insensitive)
- buried-raster normalizes percentage alphas (parseFloat('80%') read as 80) and reads 4- and 8-digit hex alpha instead of treating #rrggbbaa as opaque
- the extension-injected-node skip in checkQuality runs before any finding is pushed (a low-opacity injected raster was recorded, then returned by the skip)
- fake-mode plates carry impeccable:fake tEXt and the plates gate's crop-identity refusal skips them (fake mode IS the crop by design; the refusal is for models shipping the comp's pixels as artwork)

Findings by cursor[bot] and Copilot on PR #599; detector engines rebuilt (build:browser, build:extension).

AI-assisted (Claude Code).
2026-08-28 14:54:04 -07:00
5856161014 Plate pipeline, asset producer rewrite, and two detector rules for CSS standing in for material
generate-image.mjs --plate produces one raster region of the measured spec
from the comp crop, scores it against the crop, and refuses under --min.
The asset producer's job becomes producing the spec's plates. Detector
gains organic-clip-path (many-vertex polygon / curved path() clips) and
buried-raster (raster under a near-opaque wash or at near-zero opacity),
wired into both engines with fixtures.

AI-assisted (Claude).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 06:09:46 +05:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub a735bc55cd Merge pull request #630 from pbakaus/fix/592-oklch-parseanycolor
Fix: parse oklch in visual-contrast and neon-text (#592)
2026-08-24 04:26:19 +05:00
Abdul WahabandCursor a236137bc6 Fix: stop flagging 1D dashed rules as grid backgrounds (#615)
codex-grid-background treated any 2D px background-size as a grid, so a single hairline tiled as a dash or rail false-positived. A finding now requires two hairline gradients plus a px tile.

Prepared with AI assistance (Cursor agent), directed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-22 06:51:25 +05:00
Abdul WahabandCursor 1b7da15b56 Fix: parse oklch in visual-contrast and neon-text (#592)
Bare parseRgb() dropped Tailwind v4 computed colors, so contrast sampling skipped and neon-text never fired.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-22 05:25:50 +05:00
ac0416b655 Stop assuming white when a background cannot be read (#541)
* Stop assuming white when a background cannot be read

Dark themes came back from a scan buried in low-contrast findings that
all claimed the light text sat on #ffffff. Two live runs against
impeccable.style produced 102 and 95 of them.

Two causes, both fixed here.

Parsing. Browsers keep the authored color space in getComputedStyle
output: oklch() stayed oklch, but color-mix results come back as
color(srgb 1.04 0.72 -0.21), wide-gamut authors get color(display-p3
...), and lch()/lab() survive verbatim. The parser read none of those, so
those surfaces registered as unset. parseGradientColors was worse: it
matched only rgba() and #hex, so a ground painted as
linear-gradient(oklch(...), oklch(...)) counted as a gradient with no
stops at all.

Guessing. When the ancestor walk ran out of readable color it returned
white, and on a body-level gradient it returned white without even
looking. Light copy on a lacquer-black page then measured 1.3:1 against a
canvas the visitor never sees.

resolveBackgroundInfo now separates three outcomes: a resolved surface, a
gradient the caller should fall back to stops for, and an unreadable
layer. The last one makes both color adapters skip their contrast checks
entirely. White survives in exactly one case, the one that earns it:
every layer up to the document root was genuinely transparent.

Color conversions moved to cli/engine/shared/color.mjs and gained lab,
lch, and color() for srgb, srgb-linear, and display-p3. Spaces outside
that set return null, which now routes to abstention rather than to a
color nobody painted. Every conversion is pinned against what Chrome
itself paints for the same string.

Rescanning impeccable.style: 102 low-contrast findings down to 30, none
of them on an invented white ground.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* fix: address PR review bot findings on background resolution

- Treat a url() image layer stacked above a gradient as an occluding,
  unreadable surface: resolveBackgroundInfo now returns unresolved so the
  gradient-stop fallback never measures stops the image hides
  (greptile-apps finding, reproduced in Chrome).
- Route the glow and AI-palette DOM adapters through resolveBackgroundInfo
  so an unresolved surface makes them abstain instead of hunting gradient
  ancestors past an unreadable layer (Cursor Bugbot finding).
- Resolve background-color keywords jsdom hands through verbatim:
  inherit now reads as no-paint (the ancestor walk IS its resolution) and
  currentcolor substitutes the element's own computed text color instead
  of forcing an abstention (Copilot finding).
- Regression coverage in the dark-theme fixture for all three, asserted in
  both the jsdom and real-Chrome suites; browser detector regenerated.

AI-assisted: prepared with Claude Code at the maintainer's direction.

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

* fix: keep zero-offset glow findings when the surface is unreadable

The browser glow adapter abstained from the whole element when
resolveBackgroundInfo reported an unreadable surface, which also dropped
zero-offset chromatic halo findings that do not depend on the background
at all. It now skips only the gradient hunt past the unreadable layer and
scores the halo tell against a null surface, matching what the static
loop already did. Fixture cases pin both sides: the halo over a url()
image ancestor flags in both engines, and an offset chromatic shadow on
the same unknown surface stays abstained.

Also hardens the currentcolor background substitution with the
parseColorResolved fallback used by the text-color path, and adds fixture
coverage proving tokenized currentcolor surfaces already resolve through
the static cascade (flag when knowable, abstain when the token is
undefined).

Addresses Cursor Bugbot review findings on PR #541.

AI-assisted-by: Claude Code

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

* fix: abstain on translucent gradients over images, drop phantom color-mix stops

Two follow-up review findings on the merge with main.

A gradient leading a url() layer was treated as a resolvable surface even
when its stops are translucent, so the glow and AI-palette hunts averaged
wash stops (a 20% black wash reads as pure black) while the real surface
blends with image pixels the engine cannot read. resolveBackgroundInfo now
marks gradient-over-image unresolved unless every readable stop of the
leading gradient is opaque, in which case the gradient provably covers the
image and remains the scorable surface.

parseGradientColorsModern predated this branch's parseGradientColors
rewrite: its second regex pass re-extracted color tokens nested inside
color-mix() stops that the shared parser already captures whole via
balanced-paren tokens, appending ingredient colors that are never painted.
The worst-case stop ratio then invented low-contrast findings against a
color nobody sees. The helper is removed; all callers use the shared
parser, which covers the modern syntaxes it existed for.

Fixture coverage pins both: the translucent-wash-over-image glow abstains
in both engines, an opaque gradient over an image still flags in the
browser, and the color-mix wash case stays clean in the static engine.
Each new assertion was verified to fail against the previous engine.

Addresses Greptile and Cursor Bugbot review findings on PR #541.

AI-assisted-by: Claude Code

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 14:59:07 -04:00
aee5ddd10c data-impeccable-ignore scoped waivers + occlusion and image-backed contrast FP fixes (#559)
* Add data-impeccable-ignore scoped waivers; fix occlusion and image-backed contrast FPs

Three changes that let a page hosting deliberate anti-pattern exhibits
scan clean without losing coverage, prepared with AI assistance (Claude
Code) on maintainer instruction:

- data-impeccable-ignore="rule-a rule-b" (or "*" / bare) on any element
  suppresses matching findings for its whole subtree, in the browser
  overlay, the extension, and the static engine. The DOM twin of the
  line-based impeccable-disable comments (which a live DOM cannot
  apply) and the generalization of data-impeccable-allow-kickers.
  Applied at the addBrowserFindings choke point, at the static element
  walk, and for regex findings that carry a live selector.

- text-occlusion: an occluder whose effective opacity multiplies out to
  ~0 paints nothing. An opacity-0 range scrubber stretched over a
  before/after comparison produced 16 "100% covered by an opaque
  element" findings on one page because elementFromPoint returns it and
  its UA background-color read as opaque paint. Invisible-at-rest
  elements are also no longer probed as victims.

- Analytic contrast now skips what it cannot measure: a url() image
  layer anywhere in the background stack ends the gradient-stops walk
  (dark ink on a bright gold-leaf image measured 2.6:1 against the wash
  composited over the wrong base), and elements that are invisible at
  rest (visibility hidden, effective opacity ~0 — hidden scene decks)
  are skipped by the color checks in both engines. The static cascade
  now tracks opacity to support this.

Covered by a new scoped-ignore fixture (exact rule, star, comma list,
nested depth, wrong-rule control) tested in both engines, a scrubber
pass case in the occlusion fixture, and image-backed / photo-panel /
hidden-scene pass cases in the gradient-ground fixture. Full suite
passes; browser and extension bundles regenerated.

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

* CSS-scan findings carry their enclosing selector; browser pass resolves them

Page-level CSS-text findings (marquee, dark-glow, radial-halo,
repeating-stripes, codex-grid, ai-color-palette, image-hover-transform,
pseudo/inset side-tab stripes) now attach the selector of the rule that
matched, via a best-effort enclosingCssSelector() helper or the
selector already in scope. The browser pass resolves that selector
against the live DOM: pseudo segments are stripped, a selector that
renders nowhere on the page drops the finding (the CSS ships there but
the pattern never paints — the live DOM is ground truth in a browser
scan), and matches under a data-impeccable-ignore ancestor are waived.
Static scans are unchanged: partial documents keep the text-level
findings. Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Covered in the scoped-ignore fixture: a live marquee under a marquee
waiver is suppressed, and dead two-axis grid CSS matching no element is
dropped.

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

* Attribute selectors on gradient-text and bounce-easing page emitters too

Same mechanism as the previous commit, extended to the three page-level
motion/text emitters that were still selector-less. Applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code).

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

* text-overflow: skip SVG content; scrollWidth lies there

Chrome reports arbitrary non-zero scrollWidth/clientWidth on SVG
elements (a <text> gave 78/48 while its rendered length sat inside its
box), so the box-metric delta is noise. SVG clips to its own viewport
anyway. Pass case added to the quality fixture. Applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code).

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

* Overlay samples image-backed text at the pixel level by default

Visual contrast gains a third mode. Explicit true still runs the full
sampled pass, explicit false still disables everything (the mode the
test suites use), and unset — the default overlay run — now samples
ONLY image-backed text: the one class the analytic walk deliberately
skips, because a url() layer's pixels are unknowable without looking.

The cost is bounded and the method is precise: at most a 3x3 grid of
sample points per candidate (degrading to 3 or 1 for small rects), the
source image drawn once to a canvas with only those pixels read, and
glyph ink never pollutes the samples because the image is drawn alone.
A cross-origin image without CORS headers reports unresolved rather
than guessing. Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Covered by a new fixture: white text on a near-white same-origin
data-URI image background flags via sampled pixels under default
options; dark ink on the same image passes.

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

* Review fixes: root opacity, keyframe steps, static parity, attributed fixtures

Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code), addressing all seven findings
from the automated reviews:

- effectiveOpacityDOM walks through body and html: a page-fade wrapper
  with body/html opacity 0 hides every descendant (Greptile executed a
  Chromium repro of the false positive).
- enclosingCssSelector refuses `from`/`to` keyframe steps, which read
  as never-matching type selectors and got valid findings wrongly
  dropped by the zero-match rule (Bugbot, high). Regression case: an
  overshoot bezier inside a `to` step must survive as page-level.
- The static cascade now inherits visibility, so descendants of a
  hidden container compute as hidden like the browser path; a declared
  visibility:visible still overrides.
- The static engine applies scoped waivers to selector-backed
  html-pattern findings, mirroring the browser — but keeps findings
  whose selector matches nothing, since static scans see partial
  documents.
- The scoped-ignore fixture grows to the mandated matrix: 4 flag cases
  (control, other-rule waiver, sibling waiver, misspelled rule id) and
  5 waived shapes (exact rule, nested depth, star, comma list, self),
  each with a unique border width so every finding attributes to
  exactly one case in both engines' tests.
- The image-backed contrast test pins its cases via the sampled
  finding's candidate text: the white-on-light specimen must flag and
  the dark-ink control must stay clean.

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

* Review fixes: image-only starvation, selector rejection class, inset stripes

Second review round, applied with AI assistance (Claude Code):

- The image-only filter moves inside the candidate collector, before the
  cap: gradient/opacity/filter candidates earlier in DOM order no longer
  consume the 12-candidate budget and starve the url()-backed texts the
  mode exists to sample (Bugbot, high). The regression fixture packs 14
  gradient decoys ahead of the photo panels, and the test now drives the
  overlay entry (impeccableDetectAsync, default options) rather than
  detectUrl's Node-side full fallback, which is where the image-only
  mode actually lives.
- enclosingCssSelector no longer rejects the child combinator or quoted
  attribute selectors; only braces and angle brackets disqualify.
- The inset box-shadow side-tab scanner attaches its selector like the
  pseudo-element scanner does, so those findings waive and dead-drop
  the same way.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 16:31:46 -07:00
5f7b001cbe Fix: measure gradient body grounds instead of assuming white (low-contrast false positives) (#557)
* Fix: measure gradient body grounds instead of assuming white (browser mode)

A page whose ground is set via background: linear-gradient(...) on body
leaves backgroundColor transparent, and resolveBackground assumed white
for any body/html-level gradient. In a real browser that assumption is
wrong: the shorthand is always decomposed there, so reaching that branch
means the ground truly is the gradient. On a dark oklch gradient ground
(impeccable.style's lacquer) this turned every light-on-dark text into a
~1.3:1 "on #ffffff" low-contrast finding, ~120 false positives on one
site. Browser mode now returns null so the caller measures against the
actual gradient stops; the white assumption stays for jsdom, where the
undecomposed-shorthand rationale still holds.

Gradient stops also now parse modern color syntax: computed
backgroundImage keeps oklch()/oklab()/hsl()/hwb() stops as authored, and
parseGradientColors only read rgb()/hex, so a token-driven gradient
ground was invisible even once the walk deferred to it. New
parseGradientColorsModern routes those stops through parseAnyColor.

Covered by a Puppeteer fixture (dark oklch body gradient): light text on
the ground must not flag, muted dark-gray ink must, proving the stops
are measured rather than the checks silently skipping.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code), on maintainer instruction.

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

* Composite translucent layers over gradient stops; parse modern glow stops

Review fixes from PR #557's automated reviews, applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code):

- Cursor Bugbot found the new browser-mode early return discarded the
  translucent ancestors resolveBackground had collected: text on a
  frosted wash over a body gradient was measured against raw stops.
  resolveGradientStops now collects translucent layers during its own
  walk (through readCascadeBackgroundColor, extracted so both walks
  read surfaces identically) and composites every stop under them.
- Copilot flagged the other legacy parseGradientColors call sites. The
  glow-context fallback now uses parseGradientColorsModern, since body
  gradients reach it more often after this change. The AI-palette rule
  and the injected analytic sampler stay on the legacy parser
  deliberately: the former is a rule-behavior expansion deserving its
  own fixtures, the latter degrades to pixel sampling or a skip.
- Greptile asked for standard fixture structure: the fixture now has
  labeled flag/pass cases (3 flag, 5 pass) including the frosted-wash
  pair that locks the overlay compositing in both directions and a
  legacy hex-stop gradient guarding the original parser path.

The test scopes itself to the DOM path via visualContrast: false, the
suite's established pattern; the screenshot sampler is a separate
subsystem with its own coverage.

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

* Pin gradient-ground flag cases to their snippet signatures

Bugbot follow-up: a count-only assertion let an offsetting miss and
false positive cancel, especially the frosted pair. Each flag case now
asserts its full text-on-background signature, so the frosted case must
measure against the composited wash and the count guard excludes any
pass case flagging in its place. Applied with AI assistance (Claude
Code).

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

* Comments: the static path is the custom engine now, not jsdom

jsdom left the dependency tree when the static-html engine (StaticElement
+ css-cascade.mjs) replaced it, and that engine does decompose the
background shorthand, so the comments this PR added were dated in both
name and rationale. Only comments touched by this PR are renamed; the
~40 legacy jsdom mentions elsewhere in checks.mjs are a separate sweep.
Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

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

* Static engine: measure body gradients too, dropping the white assumption

Follow-up to the browser-mode fix: the white assumption for body/html
gradients was a jsdom guard, and jsdom is gone. The static cascade
decomposes the background shorthand (expandStaticDeclaration) and
preserves var() colors for later resolution, so a missing solid under a
body gradient is now as real in static mode as in a browser — and the
static engine had the identical false-positive class (light text on a
dark gradient ground flagged "on #ffffff") while missing the muted-ink
true positives on the same page.

The old catastrophic case cannot recur: opaque stops fully cover any
hidden solid (they are the ground), alpha stops composite over the
resolved base or the white canvas default, and unresolvable stops drop
rather than guess.

Static twin of the browser test added over the same fixture; the full
suite, the url()-ancestor guard, and a source scan of impeccable.style
(0 low-contrast findings) all stay clean. Applied with AI assistance
(Claude Code).

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:35:55 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 19e400e392 Retire the single-font rule
One family with weight and size contrast carrying the hierarchy is a
legitimate type system, and in practice the rule mostly punished
minimal pages: it was the loudest cross-rule noise on the fixture
corpus's should-pass columns. Removed from the registry, both engine
paths, the regex page analyzers, and the devtools category map; the
negative assertions stay as resurrection guards, and the text-content
analyzer index base shifts down one with the removal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 17:45:45 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 cfb6274a18 See through versioned stylesheets and catch standard-tracked kickers
Paul's codex build carried an element literally named class="kicker"
and the detector returned one finding. Two independent blind spots:

- The linked stylesheet was styles.css?v=3, and the href resolved as a
  literal path with the query string in it, so the whole sheet was
  invisible to every element-level check: 1 finding with the link, 18
  with the CSS inlined. Hrefs now strip query and hash before resolving.
- The kicker gate demanded letter-spacing >= max(1px, 0.08 * size). The
  wild's most common recipe, 0.08em at 12px, computes to 0.973px and
  lost to the absolute floor by a fraction. The floor is now purely
  proportional (0.06 * size), with a fixture case pinning the exact
  shape that slipped through.

With both fixed, the failed codex build scans at 18 findings including
its numbered section kickers (numbered-section-labels), side-tab
stripe, and grid background.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 17:45:45 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 8ebcfccc64 Scope the page-level pattern checks to style carriers, not raw source
The static engine's checkHtmlPatterns ran its CSS-property regexes over
the entire source string, so documentation ABOUT css flagged as css:
impeccable.style's changelog line naming background-clip: text inside a
<code> tag tripped gradient-text, the purple hexes in a <pre> sample
read as the AI palette, and a commented-out stripe rule counted as a
live one. The browser path shared the exposure through outerHTML.

The fix is engine-level, not a per-rule patch. The pattern pass now
scans scoped corpora: styleText carries <style> block contents,
style="" attribute values, and the linked stylesheets the static engine
already reads for the cascade; classText carries class attribute values
for the utility-class scans. The static engine builds both from its
parsed document, so escaped code samples never contribute; other
callers fall back to a tag-scoped extraction in
buildHtmlPatternCorpora, and bare CSS input stays its own style text so
direct callers keep working. The pulsing-dot and marquee scanners take
a second markup argument for the parts that really are markup: landmark
ranges, Tailwind class positions, the <marquee> tag itself.

Rendered-text checks (theater phrases) and markup-shaped checks (svg
scenes, img hover classes) keep the full source on purpose. No registry
ids change; this is scoping, not a new rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 16:56:56 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 33a1c5fcae Ban kickers outright: one eyebrow above a heading is one too many
The detector's repeated-section-kickers rule waited for three tracked
labels before calling the pattern; generated pages earn the finding on
the first one. Retire that id and replace it with kicker-above-heading,
which flags any tracked-caps or small-caps label block sitting directly
above an h1-h4 or heading-role element, at full warning severity.

The candidate gate absorbs the false-positive shapes the repetition
count used to paper over: editorial category-and-date meta lines,
breadcrumbs with separators, legal and chapter numbering, application
panel context labels, nav landmarks before page titles, and stat
callouts with the label below the number. Hero-scale h1 eyebrows stay
with hero-eyebrow-chip so one element gets one finding, and the static
cascade now carries font-variant so small-caps kickers register.

The craft floor entry moves from caution to ban in the same breath.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 18:55:52 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 63ecc37e54 Merge pull request #415 from pbakaus/css-pseudo-stripe-coverage
Detect pseudo-element stripes in standalone stylesheets and style blocks
2026-07-25 18:39:24 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Code a4a076005b Carry source lines on pseudo-stripe findings and skip commented-out rules
Review bots caught two real gaps in the pseudo-stripe wiring: findings
had no source line (so line-scoped impeccable-disable directives could
not match them), and the scanner read commented-out CSS as live rules.

scanCssTextForPseudoStripe now blanks comment bodies byte-for-byte
(preserving offsets) and returns each rule's selector offset; the three
regex-engine call sites convert that to a real line, including the
whole-file line for component style blocks and CSS-in-JS templates. The
HTML path ignores the new field. Tests now assert every finding's line
against the selector's actual position and cover a commented-out stripe.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code), directed by @pbakaus.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 18:24:02 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Code 7622cc8440 Derive static-cascade color extraction from the shared named-color table
The static-html engine never emitted side-tab for `border-left: 4px solid
purple` (or any named color outside a hardcoded 9-name list) in .html
files: extractStaticColor's regex dropped the color token from border
shorthands, the side defaulted to neutral black, and checkBorders skipped
it. The same declaration in a .css file was flagged by the regex engine,
so the two engines disagreed while both exited cleanly (issue #359).

Build the extraction alternation from the same CSS_NAMED_COLORS table
parseAnyColor resolves against (longest-first, whole-token), so the set of
names the extractor recognizes and the set the parser can resolve cannot
drift apart again. STATIC_NAMED_COLORS shrinks to the one keyword
parseAnyColor deliberately refuses (`transparent` as zero-alpha), since
parseAnyColor already covers every real named color in the table.

New two-column fixture (named-color-borders.html) covers the issue
reproducers: purple shorthand + radius, rebeccapurple (substring-safe
matching), crimson top stripe, bare 3px teal, var() resolving to a named
color, and an inline style attribute — with neutral named colors
(dimgray, gainsboro, black), thin, and uniform borders as pass cases.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code), directed by @pbakaus.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 17:45:55 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 6ff9f957ac Add radial-spotlight-glow detector rule
Flags the decorative low-opacity chromatic radial-gradient "spotlight"
washed behind a hero or section and fading to transparent, an AI-slop
reflex the saturated radial-halo gate lets slip (e.g. rgba(80,111,255,
0.26) -> transparent on a mobile hero).

Gates: a non-repeating radial-gradient whose last stop is transparent,
whose visible stops are all low-opacity (alpha < 0.45) with at most two
of them, at least one chromatic (channel spread >= 24 exempts neutral
vignettes), on a decorative-scale surface (width >= 240, height >= 160,
exempting badges/avatars/small lights). The alpha band is disjoint from
radial-halo (>= 0.7), so the two never double-report.

Wired into both element loops (static-html + injected browser) with the
pure checkRadialSpotlight shared by both adapters. TDD fixture with 5
flag / 9 pass shapes. Browser-path sweep over the eval corpus: 29 hits
on 11 pages, 0 false positives. Count 59 -> 60.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 17:19:04 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 507725c935 Harden detector against form.id shadowing and gradient/non-rendered false positives
Fixes three detector bugs that surfaced on real-world (Shopify) URL scans:

#407 — DOM named-property shadowing crash. On a <form> with a named control
like <input name="id"> (every Shopify product form), HTMLFormElement's
[LegacyOverrideBuiltIns] behavior makes `form.id` return the input element, not
the id string, so `elId.startsWith(...)` throws and aborts the whole scan. Read
the id via getAttribute whenever `el.id` is not a string, at all three sites:
checkQuality (checks.mjs) and collectBrowserFindings + generateSelector
(browser/injected/index.mjs). Regenerated the browser bundle.

#408 — tiny-text / undersized-ui-text flagged non-rendered elements. On sites
that set html{font-size:62.5%} the root computes to 10px, so <script>/<style>/
<title>/<noscript> and display:none / visibility:hidden blocks — whose JS/CSS/
JSON-LD text clears the hasDirectText gate — produced dozens of phantom "10px
body text" findings. Added isNonRenderedText() (tag list + head descendants +
display/visibility) and gated both text-size floors on it.

#409 — contrast rules misjudged gradients. Case A: background-clip:text paints
its glyphs with the element's own gradient, not a backdrop, so measuring the
never-painted `color` against those stops is a guaranteed false positive; skip
the backdrop-contrast checks when bgClip is 'text' (the gradient-text pattern
flag still fires). Case B: a translucent gradient stop (e.g. a 9%-alpha accent
glow) was treated as an opaque accent; composite alpha stops over the resolved
surface beneath the gradient in resolveGradientStops(), dropping the stop rather
than guessing when that surface is unresolvable.

Fixtures + tests: shadowed-form-id.html (browser, #407), nonrendered-text.html
(#408), and gradient-clipped + alpha-glow cases added to color.html (#409).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 16:17:24 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 daec380cdb Add undersized-ui-text rule for functional text below an 11px floor
The existing `tiny-text` rule owns long body copy and deliberately exempts
the UI furniture layer (nav, footer, links, buttons, labels, uppercase
micro-labels). That left a real gap: a build shipped its entire furniture
layer (nav links, category names, timecodes, meta rows) at 8px because the
chosen pixel font only steps in 8px increments, and the design hook waved it
through as merely "not on the DESIGN.md ramp" -- which the model resolved by
adding 8px to the ramp. Being on the ramp launders the token, not the
legibility problem.

New `undersized-ui-text` quality rule closes that laundering path:

- Flags interactive and short content-bearing text (links, buttons, nav
  items, labels, table cells, meta rows, timecodes) below an 11px floor. The
  floor holds inside a footer; only non-interactive legal smallprint gets the
  softer 10px floor.
- Ignores the design system entirely, so a value ON the ramp is still
  flagged.
- Uppercase letterspaced micro-labels stay in scope (still functional).
- Exempts sup/sub, visually-hidden (sr-only) text, and code/terminal
  contexts. em/rem/%-sized text that computes at or above the floor never
  fires.
- Complements tiny-text without double-flagging: long non-furniture body
  copy stays with tiny-text.

Implemented as a single check in checkQuality (rules/checks.mjs), so both the
static-html (jsdom) and browser adapters pick it up through the unified
per-element path -- no dual wiring. Registered in registry/antipatterns.mjs.

TDD: fixture tests/fixtures/antipatterns/undersized-ui-text.html (7 flag / 7
pass shapes), failing test first, then implement. Full fixtures suite 64/64.

Deferred (blocked by an active release-gate eval reading build/_data/dist):
regenerate the browser bundle (bun run build:browser ->
cli/engine/detect-antipatterns-browser.js) and the extension detector
(bun run build:extension -> extension/detector/detect.js + antipatterns.json)
so the standalone browser/extension artifacts carry the new rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:23:06 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 270f4d20aa Make em-dash-overuse an advisory rule with browser parity
Em-dashes are used legitimately by humans, so em-dash-overuse fired far too
often. Reclassify it as the first advisory-tier rule: detected, but never a
failure.

Engine
- Add `advisory: true` to the rule metadata schema (em-dash-overuse is the
  first). findings.mjs stamps `advisory: true` on advisory findings so every
  consumer can partition without a registry lookup. Rule count stays 58.
- Raise the firing threshold from a flat 5 dashes to two gates: an absolute
  floor of 8 and a density of about one dash per 500 characters of body text.
  A long article that uses a few em-dashes no longer trips; a short,
  dash-per-clause page still does. Entity decoding (mdash, numeric, hex) is
  unchanged. Thresholds live in shared/constants.mjs so every engine agrees.

Browser parity
- The browser bundle carried a registry entry but no logic, so the overlay and
  extension could never flag it. Add checkEmDashOveruse / checkEmDashOveruseDOM
  in rules/checks.mjs (reads rendered text, no entity decoding needed), wire it
  into the injected page-level pass, and carry the advisory flag through
  serializeFindings so the overlay/extension can render it with the mildest
  affordance.

CLI
- Advisory findings print under a separate dimmed "Advisory" section, are
  excluded from the failure count, and never change the exit code (an
  advisory-only scan exits 0). JSON keeps them with `"advisory": true`.
  `--no-advisory` suppresses them entirely.

Hook
- Advisory rules are skipped by default in both the per-edit and Stop deep-pass
  hooks, so the hook never nags about them. Opt in with
  `.impeccable/config.json` -> `detector.advisoryRules: "include"`.

Tests
- Fixture + threshold + browser-adapter coverage; advisory-skip default and
  opt-in for the hook; formatFindings partitioning. The em-dash-overuse stand
  for a deferred copy rule in the tier tests is swapped to marketing-buzzword.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:23:06 -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 144cee5c36 Fix detector coverage for generated UI tells
Remove provider gating, share grid-background detection across source and rendered scan paths, and update the detector catalog and tests.\n\nAI-assisted: prepared by Codex at Paul's request.
2026-07-18 14:21:06 -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 8682c85c57 Fix Live side-tab validation gaps
Scan Astro style blocks for inset-shadow stripes, recognize semantically chromatic external tokens without flagging neutral unknowns, and make the polling generator run advisory detector checks before publication. Sync the affected detector bundles and add a paired regression fixture.\n\nAI-assisted: Codex analyzed the failed Live task, implemented the detector and generator changes, and ran the validation suites under maintainer direction.
2026-07-15 16:23:49 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 ed7a6fbe4e detector: text-occlusion + first-viewport-column-overflow (57 -> 59)
Two browser-engine quality rules, both warning severity.

text-occlusion / element-overlap fires on three shapes: an opaque
decorated box painted over a text element (elementFromPoint confirms
real coverage, box >= 30%), one text run buried under another when at
least one side is a positioned layer (text >= 45%, so line-box leading
bleed between stacked flow blocks does not count), and an inline element
whose opaque fill leaks past its line onto a neighbour (the class-name
collision bug). A large headline whose edge overhangs a bounded content
card is caught as an element collision even when the text stays on top.
Gradient scrims, decorative SVG emblems, fixed/sticky overlays, floats,
and raw image backdrops (contrast territory, deduped against the pixel
low-contrast rule) are exempt.

first-viewport-column-overflow fires when a multi-column opening section
runs one column past 140% of the viewport while a sibling fits inside
one screen, the stretched-hero signature. Single-column pages and
full-page heroes with no fitting sibling are exempt.

Validated: fires on the diagnosed repros, clean across a 60-sample
sweep. Fixtures + browser tests added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 14:53:03 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 dc0b25d393 detector: hero pulsing-dot promotion, nav-CTA contrast gap closure, shape-assembled-illustration (56 -> 57)
Item 1 (hero liveness theater):
- pulsing-dot now merges declarations per selector across rule blocks
  (cascade-approximate), descends into media queries, and strips
  prefers-reduced-motion: reduce overrides before the predicate runs.
  Catches the shipped split-block constructions (size in the base rule,
  animation added later or inside a no-preference media block).
- Dots whose element sits inside a header/nav landmark are promoted to
  error severity (string-level landmark ranges in both engines); the
  browser engine additionally promotes dots resting in the first ~900px.
- blinking-cursor findings in the first ~900px or inside header/nav are
  promoted from advisory to warning.
- Per-finding severity overrides now flow through static-html,
  browser-injected serialization, and detect-url.

Item 2 (nav-CTA contrast constructions):
- The a24-opus 01/002 header CTA already fires (specificity cascade +
  oklch + var() all resolved); systematic sweep found two remaining
  escapes and closes both:
  - own gradient background on a SAFE_TAGS element (checkColors styled-
    control exception now treats an own gradient as an own surface,
    contrast measured against the worst stop)
  - ::before/::after full-cover surface (static cascade marks pseudo
    surfaces; browser adapter reads the pseudo computed style) so text is
    measured against the surface the browser actually paints
- nav-cta-constructions fixture locks all eight computable construction
  families; background-image: url() remains unflaggable by design.

Item 3 (shape-assembled-illustration, slop/advisory):
- New rule for large inline SVGs composing a pictorial scene from >= 8
  primitive shapes at >= 200x200 intrinsic size with >= 3 distinct fills.
  Charts (axis labels), stroke-only technical drawings, icons/logos
  (small explicit size), and pattern-tiled backgrounds are exempt.
  1.8 percent fire rate over the 3069-sample eval corpus, all verified
  pictorial scenes; zero fires across val-a22/val-a24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 19:29:29 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 c98f5d42ed detector: script-error, content-hidden-at-rest, edge-flush-cards + chip contrast and inline-overflow widenings (53 -> 56)
Three new rules and three widenings, all from confirmed eval-corpus
escapes found by eye:

script-error (quality, error severity, URL engine): pageerror listener
attached before goto catches uncaught exceptions AND parse errors (a
syntax error fires during the initial parse, long before load). Deduped
by message, capped at 3. A JS typo was silently deleting whole pages.

content-hidden-at-rest (quality, error, URL engine): after the main
at-rest scan, an instant-scroll reveal sweep (bypasses scroll-behavior:
smooth, which silently defeated the first sweep design) gives every
IntersectionObserver reveal its chance to fire, returns to top, then
measures the share of text characters still at opacity 0 / visibility
hidden. display:none / [hidden] / aria-hidden subtrees stay out of the
denominator. Fires above 30% with a 200/150-char floor. Calibration on
30 corpus samples: broken repro holds 83% after the sweep, all clean
samples (including 0.75-0.93 at-rest reveal pages) drop to <= 7%.

edge-flush-cards (quality, warning, browser): cards with their own
opaque background or 2+ borders inside a horizontal scroller, flush
against one edge of the clip box at rest (< 8px, > -24px so deliberate
mid-card peeks stay exempt) while keeping a gutter on the other side.
Grouped per scroller. Repro: transit-mobile pager whose first snap
panel is 407px wide inside a 390px clip. New --viewport WxH CLI flag
makes mobile-width URL scans reachable (--viewport 390x844).

Chip/badge contrast widening: the SAFE_TAGS styled-button exception in
checkColors now covers any text-bearing element painting its own opaque
background at >= 9px font, not just a/button. The shipped miss: a span
SEV-2 chip whose white text lost a specificity fight and rendered
muted-on-red at 1.2:1. Static adapter also resolves var() own-bg via
the custom-property map so the gate engages on token backgrounds.

background:none cascade fix: the background shorthand now resets
background-color/-image when it names neither (and no var()). Exposed
by the chip widening: pre code { background: none } left an earlier
surface color standing and manufactured 1.1:1 phantom findings.

text-overflow inline-owner widening: inline elements have no client
geometry (clientWidth 0) so the scrollWidth path never saw them, and
their block parent owns no direct text. New branch measures the inline
rect against the nearest block container's padding box (16px floor,
transform-path exempt). Repro: nowrap span.v spilling 45px past its
grid cell.

The round-3 nav-CTA contrast escape (val-a22-opus obs 003 header CTA)
was verified already covered at HEAD by the earlier parseAnyColor
oklch fallback; both engines fire 3.6:1 on the repro, no change needed.

FP sweep across 36 val-a21/a22/a23 samples: new rules fire only on
their repros (script-error also catches a second genuinely broken
sample); static-engine delta is limited to the chip repro plus two
borderline-but-real chip findings on one sample.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 17:10:44 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 cc8906ecaa detector: add heading-rhythm and blinking-cursor rules (51 -> 53)
heading-rhythm (quality): a heading binds to the content it introduces,
so its rendered space above must exceed its space below. Browser-only:
measures real getBoundingClientRect gaps (margin collapsing, flex rows,
and section padding make authored margins untrustworthy), merges eyebrow
labels into the heading cluster, requires same-column edges, and exempts
first-in-container headings, bounded bands, and small cards. Fires only
when 2+ headings on a page invert the rhythm.

blinking-cursor (slop, advisory): a decorative blinking caret (solid
block, underscore bar, or block glyph) bound to an infinite blink
animation in the landing region of a page. Real editable surfaces
(contenteditable, role=textbox, inputs) are exempt; round pulsing dots
stay with the pulsing-dot rule.

Verified against eval corpus repros: heading-rhythm fires on the
val-a18 observability sample Paul flagged (6 headings, 0px above vs
40px below) and blinking-cursor on the val-a19 hero terminal cursor;
10 other samples across both runs stay clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 09:35:03 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 7a99e1725d detector: four human-review rules — nav-CTA oklch contrast, numbered section labels, floating side-tab stripes, repeated card text
Four gaps found shipping in Opus 4.8 eval samples during human review:

1. low-contrast (extended): the browser adapters parsed text/own-bg
   colors with parseRgb only, so Chrome's oklch()-serialized computed
   colors silently skipped every contrast check — a flat dark-on-dark
   nav CTA (broader nav selector beating the button class) shipped at
   1.5:1 undetected. checkElementColorsDOM and readOwnBackgroundColor
   now fall back to parseAnyColor. Near-threshold ratios print two
   decimals so a 4.497 finding no longer reads "4.5 needs 4.5".

2. NEW numbered-section-labels (slop, advisory): tiny (<=13px) styled
   numeric index labels riding beside section headings, repeated across
   2+ sections with distinct indices. Sibling of repeated-section-kickers
   (which deliberately excludes bare numeric labels); handles both the
   direct prev-sibling shape and label-before-heading-wrapper shape.
   List/nav/table/card-item numbering is exempt.

3. side-tab (extended): the vertical pseudo-element stripe scan required
   the stripe to touch both corners (top/bottom 0 or height 100%), so a
   left accent bar inset a few px from each end evaded it; small end
   insets (<=20px each) now count. Added a browser-side pseudo-element
   check (getComputedStyle(el, '::before'/'::after')) since runtime-
   assigned custom-property colors are invisible to the text scanner.
   Selection-state exemptions stay as narrowed: only aria-selected=true /
   aria-current / active-class markers exempt, plus button/link
   affordances on the horizontal variant.

4. NEW repeated-container-text (quality): the same literal string (>=4
   chars, contains letters) rendered 3+ times at 3+ structurally distinct
   positions inside one bordered/elevated container. Parallel/templated
   repetition (table cells, calendar grids, nav lists, identical sibling
   rows) never counts — structural signatures, not word lists.

Verified: each rule fires on its repro sample via the file:// browser
scan; clean eval samples add no new findings (the new low-contrast hits
on other samples are genuine sub-AA oklch button pairs). Full test
suite green; browser bundle regenerated; README/homepage rule counts
bumped 49 -> 51 (docs-integrity test enforces them).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 13:09:54 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 b6304913ef detector: narrow the tab-strip stripe exemption to actual selection state
Tab-strip MEMBERSHIP no longer exempts chromatic top/bottom stripes —
only a real selection marker does: aria-selected="true", aria-current
(any non-false value), or an active/current/selected class hint. A
stripe repeated on every tab in the group ([role=tab], .tabs items,
aria-selected="false" tabs) is decoration and flags as side-tab; the
selected tab's own underline — including the reserved-space
transparent-border pattern — stays legal. Applied consistently across
the element border path (isTabContextElement), the pseudo-element
stripe scan, and the inset box-shadow stripe scan.

Also replaces a stray NUL byte in the marquee scanner's dedupe key
that made tools treat checks.mjs as binary.

Browser bundle regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 20:04:22 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 ea44f514f9 detector: grid-background variants, dash-prefix eyebrow, marquee rule, inset-shadow stripes
Four gaps from human review of gpt-5.6 eval artifacts:

1. codex-grid-background variants: the block scan now also matches the
   inverted end-of-tile hairline form (transparent calc(100% - Npx))
   and reads the tile cell from the background shorthand's `/ Npx Npx`
   slot, not just background-size declarations. A single hairline layer
   qualifies when tiled by a px pair cell (page-scale line field);
   percent-tiled single hairlines (background-size: 25% 100% rules on
   data-viz tracks/graphs) stay legal.

2. hero-eyebrow-chip branch C (dash-prefix): sentence-case, regular-
   weight microlabels above the h1 announced by a short chromatic
   ::before/::after bar (8-80px x 1-6px, accent fill). Static cascade
   marks dash-pseudo targets during rule collection; the browser path
   reads getComputedStyle(el, '::before'/'::after').

3. New `marquee` slop rule: <marquee> elements, and infinite animations
   bound to keyframes with >= 20 percentage points of X travel. Percent
   travel only — px-travel loops are bespoke product animations
   (waveform playheads, progress sweeps). Centered elements animating
   other properties (constant -50% X), non-infinite slide-ins, rotations,
   and pulses never qualify.

4. side-tab inset box-shadow variant: single-edge inset shadows
   (3-12px offset on one axis, no blur/spread, chromatic) drawn as
   stripes on cards/badges/menu items. Selection-state indicators
   ([aria-current], [aria-selected], [role=tab], active/current/selected
   hints, interaction states) stay exempt; the same stripe repeated
   unconditionally on every item flags. Narrow fixed-width glyphs
   (logo marks) are exempt. isTabContextElement narrowed to match:
   bare nav ancestry no longer blanket-exempts top/bottom border
   stripes — only explicit tab semantics or state markers do.

Browser bundle regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 18:38:59 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 1a4b5c2fa2 detector: hover-state contrast + color-mix/compositing, radial-halo rule, top/bottom stripe variant, file:// browser scans
Four changes driven by human design review of eval artifacts:

1. Static engine contrast fidelity (nav-CTA cascade miss):
   - parseAnyColor evaluates color-mix() (premultiplied sRGB mix; exact
     for the dominant `color-mix(in oklab, C n%, transparent)` chip form)
   - extractStaticColor captures color-mix() balanced instead of plucking
     "transparent" out of the expression
   - resolveBackground composites translucent layers over the opaque base
     in both engines instead of skipping (static) or returning them
     as-if-opaque (browser)
   - NEW hover pass in the static cascade: :hover rules are matched via
     state-stripped selectors, merged per-property against the resting
     cascade with real specificity, and checked for WCAG contrast on
     styled controls (checkHoverContrast). Catches the recurring miss
     where a broader selector (.nav-links a:hover) beats the CTA's own
     hover color and drops the pair below AA.

2. New `radial-halo` slop rule: chromatic radial-gradient wash (visible
   saturated center -> transparent) as a decorative background on a dark
   page. Exempts achromatic vignettes, opaque-end sheens, px-stop dot
   textures, url() photo layers, and translucent (<0.7 alpha) staged-
   light washes. Separate id from dark-glow so dashboards track the
   gradient-drawn variant independently.

3. side-tab horizontal variant: 3-12px chromatic border-top/bottom (and
   top/bottom-anchored full-width pseudo stripes) on cards/badges flag as
   side-tab. Exempt: tablist/nav/aria-selected underlines, link/button
   affordances, table cells, hr, state-conditional pseudo stripes, and
   >12px bands. Badge-shaped spans (own visible background) participate.

4. CLI: file:// URLs route to the Puppeteer browser engine (~2s on a
   50KB page), and detect --json findings now carry the registry
   `category` field so downstream QA loops can separate mechanical slop
   tells from judgment calls.

Fixture policy update: flat 3px top-accent cards moved from should-pass
to flag columns; tablist-underline and 16px-band pass cases added.
Browser bundle regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 18:18:33 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 cfdb7d4c81 detector: catch pseudo-element side stripes; add pulsing-dot rule
Two gaps surfaced by human eval review of real artifacts:

1. side-tab missed the pseudo-element variant. The accent stripe drawn as
   an absolutely-positioned ::before/::after (left/right: 0, top+bottom: 0
   or height: 100%, narrow width, colored background) uses no border
   property at all, so neither the element-level border checks (pseudo
   elements never enter the static cascade or DOM walk) nor the
   border-left/right regexes could see it. New scanCssTextForPseudoStripe
   scans stylesheet text for that shape, mirroring the border rule's
   gates: >= 3px thick (<= 12px), chromatic fill (var()-resolved, neutral
   dividers skipped), full height against a side edge, with the
   blockquote/prose exemptions preserved.

2. New pulsing-dot rule (slop): small circular "live" indicator dots
   (<= 16px, border-radius >= 40% or pill values) bound to an infinite
   animation whose keyframes vary opacity, scale, or box-shadow — or
   pulse/blink/ping names when the keyframes aren't in the scanned text —
   plus the Tailwind animate-ping/pulse + rounded-full + tiny-size utility
   combo. Rotation-only keyframes (spinners) never flag, including when
   they hide behind a pulse-like name.

Both scanners live in checkHtmlPatterns, so the static-html engine and
the browser bundle share the same detection path. Browser/extension
bundles regenerated; docs rule count bumped to 47.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 19:06:41 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 0d72991bc8 detector: catch glow shadows in any color format, zero-offset halos on any background, and text-shadow glows
- parseAnyColor now covers oklab(), hsl()/hsla(), hwb(), and ~35 common
  named colors on top of rgb/rgba/hex/oklch, so checkGlow sees the color
  regardless of authoring format (Chrome preserves oklch() in computed
  styles, which the old rgba-only match silently passed).
- checkGlow gains a second tell: a zero-offset chromatic box/text-shadow
  with blur > 4px is flagged on ANY background (the halo pattern);
  achromatic zero-offset shadows and focus rings stay legal. The
  existing chromatic-blur-on-dark-background rule is unchanged in
  semantics but now parses every color format.
- text-shadow is checked wherever box-shadow was (browser DOM path with
  inherited-value dedupe, static engine via new textShadow cascade
  support, text engines).
- The page-level text scan (regex engine + checkHtmlPatterns) is now a
  shared scanCssTextForGlow that resolves single-level var() refs
  against custom properties collected from the same text; unresolvable
  var() in a shadow color position is skipped, never guessed. Its
  dark-page heuristic accepts var()/oklch backgrounds but only when
  declared at root scope (body/html/:root or body inline style).
- dark-glow keeps its id; registry name/description updated to cover
  both cases.

Validated: three eval repro samples with oklch / var(--x) glows that
previously produced zero findings now flag on the static CLI path; ten
known-good largerun samples stay clean except one with genuine amber
status-dot halos (0 0 12px oklch(.73 .17 65/.4)).

Note: cli/engine/detect-antipatterns-browser.js and the extension
detector are generated and still need 'node scripts/build-browser-detector.js'
+ 'node scripts/build-extension.js' once builds are unblocked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 11:01:54 -07:00
Dustin PersekandGitHub 9f49cb85cc Fix Google Fonts css2 family parsing (#349) 2026-07-07 17:16:11 -07:00
f5c1bd65ae Add codex-grid-background detector rule (#328)
* Add codex-grid-background detector rule

Detects the Codex two-axis grid-line background tell: a single background
value carrying two or more hairline `linear-gradient(... 1px, transparent
1px)` layers (one per axis), usually paired with a repeating
`background-size` cell. Gated behind --gpt like the sibling codex tells,
off by default.

Counts hairline stops within a single background declaration (not across
the page) so unrelated single-axis ruled lines don't add up to a false
flag, and matches the stop directly rather than parsing whole gradient
layers, since colors like oklch(...) carry nested parens.

Extends the gpt-tells fixture with one flag case and two pass cases
(single-axis rule, two-color blend), regenerates the browser detector
bundle, and bumps the rule count 44 -> 45.

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

* Require tiling background-size for codex-grid-background

Address review: two hairline gradients alone draw a fixed crosshair, not a
grid. Scope detection to a single style block (CSS rule body or inline
style attr) and require both >=2 hairline stops AND a tiling
`background-size` px cell in the same block, matching the skill rule's
"plus background-size" wording. Add a crosshair-without-tiling pass case.

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

* Scope codex-grid-background hairline count to background values

Address review: count hairline stops only inside background/background-image
declaration values, not the whole style block, so a hairline in an unrelated
property (mask-image, border-image) can't stand in for the grid's second
axis. Add a bg+mask-image hairline pass case.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 01:29:40 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 858b9bbea6 Improve hook false-positive handling 2026-06-15 13:30:28 +09:00
Paul BakausandGitHub e3e22007a9 [codex] Improve detector false positive handling (#232)
* Improve detector false positive handling

* Register docs integrity test

* Fix clipped overflow decorative skip
2026-06-09 10:56:32 -07:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 4e251061b8 Fix sr-only text overflow false positive (#197) 2026-06-05 15:25:34 -07:00
9ffd3211d5 Neo Kinpaku design system + Live Mode v3 (#169)
* Add neo kinpaku design system page

* skill: rip out baked-in category recipes and saturated-default motion tropes

Programmatic bias mining (impeccable-evals) traced four major defects
back to specific lines in this skill that contradicted SKILL.md's own
first-order-reflex warning:

- brand.md "Pairing and voice" prescribed four category→aesthetic
  recipes (editorial → serif+sans, tech/dev/fintech → tight tracking,
  consumer/food/travel → script/display serif, creative → rule-break).
  These directly drove OpenAI's 76% extreme-negative letter-spacing
  on tech briefs and Anthropic/Google's 28-34% italic-serif-display
  slop on editorial/food briefs. Replaced with one sentence: the
  shape depends on the brand, not on the brand's category.
- brand.md "Brand permissions" had "Typographic risk. Enormous
  display type, unexpected italic cuts, mixed cases, hand-drawn
  headlines, a single oversize word as a hero." — a four-for-one
  slop driver behind 97% OpenAI comically-large H1, 42% bad-SVG
  illustration, and the editorial-italic slop. Deleted outright.
- typeset.md and teach.md repeated the same category recipes;
  trimmed to the principle without the recipe.
- SKILL.md Typography: added a hard hero-H1 ceiling (clamp() max
  ≤ 6rem ≈ 96px), with a <codex> block to make it explicit since
  OpenAI over-indexes here (97% ≥128px vs 24% for Anthropic).
- animate.md, bolder.md, brand.md: removed "staggered reveals" and
  "scroll-triggered transitions" as the prescribed default ambitious
  motion. By 2026 that's the saturated AI tell, not a choreography.
  Reserved stagger for legitimate list-sibling rhythm.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: anti-cream + codex-specific defect bans + universal slop bans

Second pass after measuring more biases against the eval corpus.

- SKILL.md Color: explicit "cream/sand/beige body bg is the saturated
  AI default of 2026" rule. Tone down the "tint every neutral" line so
  it doesn't read as "default to warm-tinted near-white" (which OpenAI
  hits at 74% and Anthropic at 31%-47%).
- SKILL.md Absolute bans: add universal bans for two slop patterns
  detected at 55-95% across providers — tiny uppercase tracked eyebrow
  above every section (the 2023-era kicker that's now AI grammar) and
  numbered section markers (01/02/03). Also explicit "text that
  overflows its container is the universal defect on tablet/mobile."
- SKILL.md Absolute bans → <codex> block: ban the GPT-specific defects
  Paul annotated repeatedly — `border:1px solid` + soft-wide-shadow
  (≥16px blur) "ghost cards", `border-radius:32px+` over-rounding,
  hand-drawn/sketchy SVG illustrations (loose-sketch / *-sketch classes,
  feTurbulence paper-grain filters), repeating-linear-gradient stripes,
  "X theater" AI-slop copy phrases.
- SKILL.md Motion → <gemini> block: the image :hover transform tell
  (38% Google skill-on rate). Hover effects on images add no info; the
  image isn't an action target. Animate card chrome, not the image.
- SKILL.md Typography: hard display letter-spacing floor ≥-0.04em
  (OpenAI defaults to -0.075em → cramped). Existing hero ceiling
  <codex> block extended with the letter-spacing rule.
- codex.md Step A example: stop seeding "warm-grounded (deep oxblood +
  cream)" as the warm-palette template, which primes the cream default.
- colorize.md Tinted backgrounds: stop printing the literal cream
  recipe `oklch(97% 0.01 60)`; replace with brand-anchored guidance.
- document.md examples: warm-ash-cream → cool-paper so the example
  doesn't seed cream as the canonical neutral example.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: universal anti-slop bans + contrast/font-count/all-caps-body rules

Third pass after measuring the rest of the cross-provider matrix:

- Color: explicit "Verify contrast" rule. Low-contrast text fires at
  68% across all providers skill-on (90+% off). The most common
  failure is muted gray body on a tinted near-white; light-gray-for-
  elegance is named as the single biggest cause of unreadable AI
  pages.
- Typography: max-3-font-families rule. Overused-fonts (>4 families)
  fires at 28% Anthropic / 36% Google / 0% OpenAI skill-on; >50% off.
  Also: universal "no all-caps body copy" (moved from brand-only ban
  to Shared design laws since product-register also overuses caps).
- Copy: anti-aphoristic-cadence ban targets Anthropic's signature
  "X. No Y." / "X. Just Y." voice (63% skill-on copy-slop rate, 77%
  off — the worst rate in the matrix). Once-is-voice / three-or-more-
  is-tell framing per the runner's copy-slop detector.
- Copy: anti-SaaS-buzzword-string ban with the literal phrase list
  the detector watches for (streamline/empower/supercharge, trusted-
  by-leading, best-in-class/enterprise-grade/cutting-edge, etc).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: strengthen anti-cream rule across full warm-neutral band

Smoke validation showed the cream fix worked for Google + OpenAI but
Anthropic Sonnet italian-restaurant still shipped `--paper: oklch(90%
.018 88)` — cream just outside the L≥95% band the rule cited.

Broaden the rule:
- Band: OKLCH L 0.84-0.97, C < 0.06, hue 40-100 (was 95-97% / 60-95).
- Name the token-name tells explicitly (paper / cream / sand / bone /
  flour / linen / parchment / wheat / biscuit / ivory) — the model
  defaults to one of these regardless of what hex it lands on.
- Call out the specific brief patterns ("warm, traditional, family-
  coastal-Italian" / "editorial-restraint") that the model translates
  into cream by reflex. Then provide three explicit non-cream options:
  saturated brand color, true off-white at C=0, or darker mid-tone.

Warmth in the brand is carried by accent + typography + imagery, not
by body bg.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* v3.2.0: skill bias-fix release

Bumps version from 3.1.1 to mark the four-commit skill cleanup that
rips out baked-in category recipes (brand.md), saturated-default motion
tropes (staggered reveals everywhere), the cream/sand body-bg AI tell,
codex-specific defects (1px+wide-shadow, over-rounding, hand-drawn SVGs,
stripes, X-theater copy), the extreme-letter-spacing default, and
universal slop bans (all-caps eyebrow on every section, numbered-section
markers, all-caps body, font-family-count > 3, aphoristic copy cadence,
SaaS buzzword strings). Plus a hard hero-H1 ceiling (clamp() ≤6rem) and
a Gemini-specific image:hover transform block.

Validated against ~190 post-fix samples — see impeccable-evals
biases tab for per-provider deltas.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* drop "no pure black/white" rule entirely

The rule was contested in the design world and causing more damage than
good — pushing every page into the tinted-near-white default which is
the cream/sand AI tell we already explicitly ban elsewhere. Vercel,
SVKMS, Brutalist sites, et al. use pure black/white successfully; the
skill shouldn't second-guess that.

Skill markdown deletions:
- SKILL.md Color: drop the "Never use #000 or #fff" bullet.
- color-and-contrast.md: drop the "Never Use Pure Gray or Pure Black"
  subsection, the "Never pure black" table-row prescription, and the
  "Avoid: Using pure black for large areas" bullet.
- colorize.md: drop the "NEVER use pure black or pure white for large
  areas" bullet.
- polish.md: drop the "Tinted neutrals: No pure gray or pure black"
  half of the bullet (the gray-on-color bullet survives).

Detector code (cli/engine):
- registry/antipatterns.mjs: remove the `pure-black-white` entry.
- rules/checks.mjs: remove the three `findings.push({ id:
  'pure-black-white', ... })` emit points (inline #000 bg, Tailwind
  bg-black class, plain-HTML scan path).
- engines/regex/detect-text.mjs: remove the two pure-black-white regex
  rules (CSS `background: #000…` + Tailwind `bg-black`).
- detect-antipatterns-browser.js: regenerated via
  scripts/build-browser-detector.js.

Tests:
- detect-antipatterns-fixtures.test.mjs: invert the assertion that
  pure-black-white fires; expect it to NOT fire post-v3.2. Drop the
  Tailwind bg-black-opacity edge-case test (no longer relevant).
- detect-antipatterns.test.js: drop the standalone "detects pure-
  black-white in styled-components" test and remove pure-black-white
  from the multi-detector assertions in PricingCard, globals.css, and
  GlobalStyle.tsx tests.

166 bun tests pass; 24 node fixture tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: strip example patterns from copy rules, strengthen gemini block

v3.2 rerun validation surfaced two issues:

1. Copy-slop detector fires more on Gemini under v3.2 (48% → 84%) than
   under no-skill baseline. Root cause: the anti-aphoristic-cadence rule
   printed the literal "X. No Y." / "X. Just Y." patterns as examples,
   and Gemini imitated them as the recommended voice. Same recipe-becomes-
   bias trap we hit with brand.md:116's "Enormous display type, unexpected
   italic cuts, mixed cases, hand-drawn headlines" enumeration. Fix:
   describe the cadence as a rhythm ("serious statement, then punchy
   short negation") without printing literal patterns. Buzzword list
   trimmed to a single inline phrase family rather than quoted strings.

2. Gemini image:hover transform Gemini-tell hadn't dropped (31% off →
   32% v3.2). Strengthen the <gemini> block: explicit "Never animate
   <img> elements on hover", call out the Tailwind group-hover:scale /
   group-hover:rotate / group-hover:translate parent-hover patterns by
   name (Gemini was reaching for these via Tailwind even though the
   prior text talked about :hover on the image directly).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: simplify context loading and inline register directive

Replaces load-context.mjs's JSON output with a tight markdown block from
the renamed context.mjs. The script now extracts PRODUCT.md's `## Register`
field and appends a `NEXT STEP:` directive naming the matching reference
(brand.md / product.md), which moved Gemini from skipping the register
load entirely to honoring it. Drops the `.impeccable.md` auto-migration;
makes IMPECCABLE_CONTEXT_DIR a lazy escape hatch consulted only when the
default paths come up empty.

Setup is now four bullets in one list. The DESIGN.md nudge is gone; in
its place, a "familiarize with the existing design system" step that
calls out CSS / tokens / running app as authoritative sources alongside
DESIGN.md. The standalone `### Register` H3 stays for the cascade rules
(task cue → surface → register field).

New LLM-backed test suite at tests/skill-behavior/ runs five scenarios
against claude-haiku-4-5, gpt-5.4-mini, and gemini-3.1-flash-lite via
Vercel AI SDK. Captures real tool traces, asserts on context.mjs calls,
brand.md loads, and teach.md fallback. Skips cleanly when API keys are
unset. 13-14/15 pass; only stable failure is the v3.2.0-era gpt-mini S4
"don't re-run" regression. Adds @ai-sdk/google as devDep and the
test:skill-behavior npm script.

Touches em-dashes in skill/SKILL.md and four reference files so
`bun run build:skills` passes its skill-prose validator. teach.md and
document.md drop their "re-run the loader to refresh session cache"
steps since the agent's own write is now the freshest source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: merge orphan reference files into command sub-skills + inline S-tier invariants

Two related restructurings:

1. SKILL.md now carries the cross-domain invariants that catch defects in any
   project (contrast/placeholder/gray-on-color, similar-font pairing, text-wrap,
   tabular-nums, centered-stack default, Flex/Grid choice, auto-fit grids,
   semantic z-index, reduced motion, stagger vs section-fade, premium motion
   materials, focus-visible, placeholders-aren't-labels, dropdown overflow trap,
   button/link copy). Greenfield-only rules (theme picking, color strategy,
   tinted neutrals) live under "New projects only".

2. Reference files merged into their command counterparts:
   - spatial-design.md  -> layout.md
   - motion-design.md   -> animate.md
   - color-and-contrast.md -> colorize.md
   - responsive-design.md  -> adapt.md
   - ux-writing.md         -> clarify.md
   - typography.md         -> typeset.md (bolder.md redirected)
   - cognitive-load.md + heuristics-scoring.md + personas.md -> critique.md

   craft.md and shape.md "load references" lists updated to new file homes.
   interaction-design.md stays standalone (no 1:1 command verb).

Net: 36 -> 27 reference files. Same content, fewer files, no orphaned
reference loaded only from craft.md.

Also extends the routing rules: if the user's first word doesn't match a
command but the intent clearly maps to one, load that command's reference
and proceed as if invoked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: add sub-command + existing-project scenarios; move sub-command load to step 2

Adds three new LLM-backed scenarios to tests/skill-behavior:
- S6: `/impeccable polish` → loads polish.md
- S7: `/impeccable audit` → loads audit.md
- S8: existing SvelteKit project (PRODUCT.md + DESIGN.md + src/app.css +
  src/lib/components/*.svelte + src/routes/+page.svelte) → agent reads
  at least one project code file to understand the existing design system

S6/S7 surface a real model-floor: gpt-5.4-mini reads brand.md, reads the
target index.html, and just does the polish/audit without ever loading
the sub-command reference. Stronger SKILL.md wording didn't move it.
Captured in the README baseline as a known weakness. Claude and Gemini
honor the load reliably.

To fix Gemini on S6/S7, sub-command reference loading is now Setup step 2
(right after context.mjs), not step 4 — placing it before the model gets
focused on "doing the work". Step 3 (design-system familiarization) is
tightened to require at least one project code read even when a
sub-command reference loads in step 2, so Claude doesn't laser-focus on
the sub-command flow and skip the broader exploration.

Two new fixtures: MINIMAL_LANDING_HTML (a tiny static landing page for
S6/S7) and SVELTE_PROJECT_FILES (a minimal SvelteKit scaffold with
tokens, components, and a routes/+page.svelte for S8). Both designed to
look real enough that agents treat them as production code.

Suite is now 24 tests across three providers; baseline is 21-22/24, with
the stable failures being gpt-5.4-mini scenarios 6 and 7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: add reveal-animation safety rule (must enhance, not gate visibility)

Class-triggered visibility transitions pause on hidden tabs and headless
renderers. The italian-restaurant smoke produced a build where 2 sections
shipped opacity:0 because the CSS transition never advanced past
currentTime=0 (timeline paused). Added one-liner under Motion to prevent
the antipattern: reveals must enhance an already-visible default, never
gate content visibility on a class-triggered transition.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: restore prescriptive cream/sand/beige paragraph

Bisection across 5 historical skill commits on Gemini 3.5 flash fast
lane n=3 found that 0cf2debd was the peak quality state. The regression
between 0cf2debd and HEAD came from simplifying the long anti-cream
paragraph into a one-liner.

Restoring the paragraph (with em-dashes replaced by parens to satisfy
prose lint) recovers ~0.22pt average on Gemini vs HEAD, with the
largest gains on:
- 09-luxury-hotel: +0.50 (restores editorial drama in photo-led briefs)
- 10-food-magazine: +0.67
- 03-italian-restaurant: +0.51

The paragraph's load-bearing parts are the (a)(b)(c) alternatives that
give the model actionable replacements for cream-tinted body bg
("saturated brand color as body", "true off-white at chroma 0",
"darker mid-tone tinted neutral"). Without them, the one-line warning
left the model with no concrete alternative.

Cross-provider validation showed the pattern matches historical
behavior: Gemini benefits from prescriptive scaffold (+0.12 over off),
Sonnet is roughly neutral (+0.01), GPT-5.5 slightly regresses (-0.11
matching the v3.1.0 pattern of -0.11). The skill has never been
uniformly better than skill-off across providers; this is the closest
achievable state without provider-specific rework.

The structural improvements from the prior restructure stay (file
merges, S-tier inlines, routing rule extension, reveal-animation
safety rule).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: teach CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / DEVELOP.md about the skill-behavior tests

Adds the `bun run test:skill-behavior` script to the test commands lists
in all three docs. CLAUDE.md gets a full `### Skill-behavior tests`
subsection paralleling the existing Live-mode E2E one: how the suite
works (inlines source SKILL.md, scoped tools, asserts on the trace),
which providers it always runs (claude-haiku-4-5, gpt-5.4-mini,
gemini-3.1-flash-lite — all three every run), the eight scenarios, the
baseline (21-22/24 with stable gpt-mini sub-command-routing failures),
auth via repo-root `.env`, and how to add a scenario.

AGENTS.md gets the one-liner plus a paragraph in Testing Guidelines that
points contributors at the suite for Setup-touching edits (SKILL.md
Setup section, context.mjs, teach.md, document.md, register / sub-command
refs).

DEVELOP.md gets a short Testing section that didn't exist before, plus a
nudge in the "Test across providers" bullet pointing at the new suite as
the automated way to do that.

No code changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* detector: add 5 new antipatterns (em-dash-overuse, broken-image, marketing-buzzword, numbered-section-markers, aphoristic-cadence)

Consolidates eval-side detection logic into the canonical impeccable
detector. Before this change, the eval harness had its own duplicate
implementations of em-dash, copy-slop, and broken-image checks. They
now live alongside the existing 28 antipatterns in the impeccable
registry, available to the CLI, browser extension, critique skill,
and eval (via the existing slop grader child-process call).

New antipatterns:
- em-dash-overuse: 5+ em-dashes in body text content (threshold
  permits legitimate prose use of em-dash; only triggers on AI
  cadence-level density)
- broken-image: <img> with empty src, missing src, or src="#"
- marketing-buzzword: SaaS phrase list (streamline / empower /
  supercharge / enterprise-grade / cutting-edge / etc)
- numbered-section-markers: repeated 01 / 02 / 03 sequence as
  section labels — the AI editorial scaffold one tier deeper than
  tracked eyebrow chips
- aphoristic-cadence: 3+ manufactured-contrast ("Not a X. A Y.")
  or short-rebuttal ("Sentence. No clause." / "Sentence. Just
  clause.") constructions in body text

Engine wiring:
- broken-image runs as a static-html element rule (selector: img)
  and a fallback regex matcher (for non-HTML files)
- em-dash / buzzword / numbered / aphoristic run as regex
  page-analyzers, factored into a new runTextContentAnalyzers()
  helper that both detectText (non-HTML) and detectHtml (HTML)
  call, so .html files get the same coverage as .css/.tsx

Tests: 166 detector + 12 browser + 24 fixture all pass.
Browser detector rebuilt (162.7 KB).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: drop unvalidated anti-centering rule; add image-led hero carve-out

The anti-centering rule ("Don't default to centering everything") was
added without empirical support. We have a detector for it
(everything-centered, threshold ≥70%) that fires on 0 / 998 samples
in the corpus — never validated, never useful.

Meanwhile the rule was almost certainly responsible for collapsing
Gemini 3.5 flash's luxury-hotel skill-on output from the canonical
"full-bleed photo + centered overlay headline" cinematic hero (the
shape skill-off Gemini chooses 67% of the time) to a 50/50
magazine grid (full-bleed rate drops to 18% under skill-on, -49pp).

Changes:
- skill/SKILL.md #### Layout: drop "Don't default to centering..."
- skill/reference/brand.md ## Layout: drop the same rule; replace
  with a positive carve-out — image-led briefs (hotels, restaurants,
  magazines, photography) often want full-bleed hero with overlaid
  menu and centered headline; let the photograph be the design
- skill/reference/layout.md: drop the assessment question and the
  "asymmetric breaks centered-content pattern" framing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Apply neo-kinpaku design system and improve live picker UX

Restyle the live picker to match the site kinpaku kit, persist pick mode
in localStorage, fix DESIGN.md color swatches in the parser, and land the
neo-kinpaku site refresh with new tokens, assets, palette script, and
detector rules.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Add live Steer end-to-end: poll protocol, browser UI, and E2E harness.

Wire page-level Steer through the live server and agent poll loop with steer_done
unlock semantics, extend live.md for agents, and add smoke tests with LLM
handleSteer plus recovery for hidden heroes, HMR lag, and dev-tool overlays.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Add experimental live-poll --stream mode; keep one-shot default for Cursor.

Stream keeps one process alive with ack-aware resume, but live.md documents
that Cursor should stay on one-shot background notify after testing showed
~5s pickup vs sub-second on exit-based notify.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Sync harness output and fix build validators for poll stream release.

Regenerate provider skills after live-poll --stream work, update homepage
detection counts to 41, and replace em dashes in site/skill copy so
bun run build passes prose and count checks.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* homepage: add testimonials marquee section

A two-row testimonial marquee on a tinted graphite plinth, sitting
between the hero and the slop teaser.

29 testimonials sourced via api.fxtwitter.com (lightly cleaned: leading
@-mention reply targets stripped, trailing self-links removed). Avatars
downloaded into site/public/assets/testimonials/ so they're served
locally. Quote order curated for impact — both rows lead with the
punchiest quotes (Ben Davis spotlight, "Impeccable > Claude design",
"THIS. This shit works.", "Uninstall whatever frontend skill you're
using.") so the first viewport is loaded with the most memorable
testimonials.

Engineering notes:
- Section uses width:100vw + margin-left:calc(50% - 50vw) to escape
  main.site-content's max-width + side padding (cards now clip cleanly
  at the actual viewport edges).
- Marquee runs at 110s linear infinite. Both rows share the same
  duration so on-screen speeds match; track is doubled so the loop
  back to 0 reads as continuous.
- Hero min-height reduced from 100svh to calc(100svh - 115px) so the
  dotted divider and top of row A peek above the fold on landing,
  signalling the section is there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* homepage: keep the hero demo clear of the fixed header on short viewports

The hero centers its content in the full viewport (the site header is a fixed
overlay), so on shorter screens the tall Live Mode demo tucked under the nav.
Raise the hero's top padding above the 97px header (113px wide, 108/92px when
stacked) so content always pins below the header while still centering on tall
viewports, and cap the demo frame to the viewport so the whole demo stays on
screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add steer voice input and refine processing animation.

Wire Web Speech API on the Steer mic with auto-submit, block Cursor's preview browser with a clear message, and replace truncated "Working" text with a dots-only processing state.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Add agent poll connectivity indicator and tighten global bar spacing.

Surface poller state on the Impeccable mark via SSE and /status, with an instant disconnected tooltip, steer timeout failsafe, and matched brand/chat section gaps.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix steer focus to allow page text selection without losing type-to-steer.

Blur the hidden steer input on page interaction, pause refocus during selection gestures, and reschedule focus recovery after clicks and cleared selections.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* site: rework "Design in production" section glyphs and audience band

Put the three how-it-works steps back into thin-line cards and drop the
overused browser-chrome bars from each glyph. Redraw the step 2 and 3
visuals to mirror the real Live Mode UI: step 2 shows the on-canvas pick
outline with an attached comment bubble, step 3 shows the floating
contextual accept bar plus the source-write confirmation. Re-treat the
audience tiles as verdigris-lined text (no card box) under a "Who it's
for" eyebrow, so each role reads as distinct from the gold step band.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add live insert mode with HMR-safe placeholder recovery.

Ships insert picking, scaffold helpers, variant cycling fixes for hidden
variants, and placeholder snapshot/recreation so Astro HMR does not drop
the wait-state box or re-anchor to the hero container.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* site: mobile pass — hamburger nav + designing hero overflow fix

The header was rendering inline nav links + GitHub button that overflowed
narrow viewports (~363px). Pre-existing display:none hacks hid Designing
and Live to make the row fit, but those items still belonged in the menu.

Header.astro: added a hamburger toggle button + inline script. The right
cluster (nav + GitHub) becomes a collapsible drawer below the header on
mobile, with data-nav-open driving the open/closed state and animating
the two-line glyph into an X.

kinpaku-kit.css: hamburger button (kinpaku-bordered glyph), mobile drawer
panel (solid lacquer-deep bg, hairline separators between rows, full-width
tappable rows), and overrides for the older sub-pages.css mobile rules
(horizontal-scroll mask on the nav, hidden [data-nav="home"] item, hidden
GitHub star label) — all redundant now that the drawer surfaces everything.

home-kinpaku.css: dropped the @media (max-width: 560px) block that hid
Designing / Live / GitHub. The drawer pattern shows them all.

designing-kinpaku.css: hero h1 "Designing with Impeccable" was overflowing
at narrow viewports. Three fixes:
  - grid-template-columns 1fr → minmax(0, 1fr) so the column shrinks to
    fit container instead of growing to "Impeccable"'s 472px intrinsic
    min-content width.
  - mobile h1 size override (clamp(2.2rem, 11vw, 3rem) at <=480px) since
    the display token's 3.4rem minimum is sized for desktop hero impact.
  - hide the decorative loop-wheel SVG below 600px (was overflowing 22px
    past the right edge).

Verified clean at both 363px and 403px viewports across /, /docs,
/docs/animate, /slop, /designing, /live-mode. scrollWidth matches viewport
width on every page (no horizontal scroll).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* detector: refine new rules + run provider tells in browser env

Follow-up to the detector port (rules landed in 7648af00):
- oversized-h1: flag long headlines set at display size, not punchy
  one/two-word heroes (length, not size alone, is the tell)
- provider tells (--gpt/--gemini) now always run in a real browser env
  (detector page, live overlay, extension); gating is a CLI-output
  concern only, applied in the Node engine return paths
- move theater-slop-phrase into checkHtmlPatterns so it runs in the
  bundled browser path, not just CLI/static (browser bundle excludes
  detect-text.mjs)
- hero-eyebrow-chip overlay highlights the eyebrow, not the heading
- gemini-tells fixture: data-URI images so the hover-zoom renders
- rebuild browser bundle

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: migrate /detector lab to neo-kinpaku design system

Rebuild the detector lab tool shell on --ks-* tokens (lacquer ground,
gold hairlines, champagne/mono type) instead of the legacy warm-paper
palette. Swap the "/" placeholder for the real carved-tile brand lockup,
restyle the toolbar actions as kinpaku primary/secondary buttons, and
recolor the finding overlay from off-brand magenta to vermilion.

Update the global theme-color from #fafafa to #010101 (the sRGB render
of the lacquer ground) so the browser chrome matches the dark site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Homepage: hero finalist, compact live demo, real picker bar.

Switch the hero to m-01-v2-01, tighten the in-hero demo layout, and replace
the marketing gbar with a shared LiveDemoGbar that mirrors live-browser.js.
Size the bar with max-content so controls are not clipped inside the capsule.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* site: migrate /cases/neo-mirai to neo-kinpaku design system

Rebuild the Neo Mirai case-study page on --ks-* tokens: lacquer ground
(drops the off-brand magenta radial spotlight), Alumni Sans Pinstripe
display headings instead of the banned italic serif, gold eyebrow/labels,
gold hairline image frames, kinpaku primary/secondary buttons, and a
lacquer-deep command panel with a gold-bordered code block.

Opt .neon-case-page into the shared kinpaku site-header/footer chrome in
kinpaku-kit.css (per the "add new kinpaku pages to the selector list"
note) so the global header and footer go dark to match the page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: consolidate kinpaku header+footer into one reusable .kinpaku-chrome class

The dark header/footer were not a reusable unit: the header was scoped to
a per-page selector list, the github star pill was home-only, and the
default footer was copy-pasted into four page stylesheets. Pages not on
the lists (like /cases/neo-mirai) fell back to the legacy light chrome.

Collapse all of it into one `.kinpaku-chrome` block in kinpaku-kit.css —
header, github pill, and default footer — and opt every kinpaku page in
via a single body class. Delete the four duplicated per-page footer
blocks and the home-only github pill. The home page keeps its textured
verdigris footer as a deliberate override, raised to body.home-kinpaku
specificity so it wins regardless of import order. Genuinely light pages
(privacy, tutorials) just omit the class.

Fixes on /cases/neo-mirai: footer and github star now render dark/kinpaku
(were legacy-light), and the content sections are wrapped in the .neon-case
container so they sit in header-aligned gutters instead of bleeding to the
viewport edge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: migrate privacy + tutorials to kinpaku via a reusable surface class

These were the last two light pages. Rather than rewrite their per-rule
styling, add a reusable .kinpaku-surface class that remaps the legacy
--color-* / --font-* tokens to kinpaku values at the body scope, so the
existing legacy-token CSS (sub-pages.css prose, the pages' inline styles)
renders dark for free. Same trick docs-kinpaku/slop-kinpaku use per page,
lifted into one shared class. Pair it with .kinpaku-chrome for header +
footer.

privacy + both tutorials pages now carry both classes. Also force the
sub-1.2rem headings (tutorial card titles, prose h1/h2) back to the
upright body face: the legacy display face was italic serif, and the
kinpaku Pinstripe face reads wrong synthesized-italic at small sizes.

No light pages remain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: re-add Tutorials to the /docs sidebar

Tutorials lost its docs placement across two refactors: the Astro docs
rebuild never carried over the sidebar tutorials list the old generated
pages had, and the kinpaku homepage redesign dropped the "Full
walkthrough" link. It survived only via /designing and /live-mode.

Add a "Tutorials" group at the top of the docs sidebar (matching the
command-category styling) linking the index plus all four tutorials,
restoring the old information architecture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: make kinpaku the default — flip legacy :root tokens to dark (phase 1)

Repoint the legacy design tokens in tokens.css from light-mode to kinpaku:
--font-* now reference the --ks-* brand faces (retiring Cormorant/Instrument/
Space Grotesk), surfaces carry dark-lacquer oklch, and --color-accent is gold
instead of magenta. Values mirror the per-page kinpaku remaps.

Every live page already overrides these at its body-class scope, so this
changes the fallback (any classless/new page now renders kinpaku) without
altering existing pages — verified home, designing, slop, live-mode, docs
unchanged, and the deliberate-light demos (slop specimens, home's Aurelia
mock) still render light via their own colors.

First step toward removing the per-page remaps; those become redundant next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* detector + slop: cream-palette rule, drop everything-centered, polish catalog

- new deterministic cream-palette rule ("claude beige"): flags warm
  lightly-tinted off-white page backgrounds; wired into static + browser
  engines, with fixture + test
- remove everything-centered rule entirely (no longer in the skill) from
  registry, regex analyzer (+ index-offset fix), checkPageLayout, and tests
- catch Instrument Serif in overused-font (regex + OVERUSED_FONTS)
- /slop: reconcile catalog (cream card in, everything-centered out; counts),
  and fix demo visuals — visible hairline border, gigantic clipped hero,
  more extreme crushed tracking, padded gray-on-color card, uniform-rhythm
  monotonous-spacing, long line-length line, elastic-overshoot dialog for
  bounce easing, real zooming image for image-hover; flip the demo surface
  off warm beige to a cool neutral

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* detector page: add cream-palette fixture to the catalog

Surfaces the new cream/beige palette rule on /detector alongside the
other Color specimens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: shared docs sidebar + tutorial pages join the layout

Extract the /docs section sidebar into a reusable DocsSidebar component
and wire it into all three entry points so the navigation is consistent
across docs index, command pages, and tutorial pages.

site/components/DocsSidebar.astro (new): one source of truth. Loads the
tutorials + skills collections, renders Tutorials → Commands grouped by
category, and highlights the active entry via activeCommand / activeTutorial
props.

site/pages/docs/index.astro: swap the inline sidebar markup for the
component. Drop the "All tutorials" link — the dedicated tutorials
listing page wasn't earning its slot in the rail.

site/layouts/Doc.astro: same swap. Command pages now also see the
Tutorials section above Commands, matching /docs.

site/pages/tutorials/[...slug].astro: rewrite from a standalone page
(custom .tutorial-page wrapper, ad-hoc breadcrumb) to the full
skills-layout shell with DocsSidebar in the left rail. Tutorial content
now reads in the same layout as command reference pages.

site/content/tutorials/brand-vs-product.md (deleted): the skill picks
the register automatically from PRODUCT.md, so a tutorial telling users
to pick it themselves was misleading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* detector: catch Tailwind warm-light bg utilities in cream-palette

The static engine can't resolve Tailwind classes to computed CSS, so a
`bg-amber-50` on <body> slipped past the cream-palette rule. Add a
class-list fallback that scans body/html for arbitrary `bg-[...]` values
and named warm-light utilities (amber/orange/yellow/stone), each run
through the same isCreamColor test so neutrals and over-saturated shades
drop out. Fixture + test for the class-only case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: drop redundant per-page token remaps (phase 2)

With kinpaku now the :root default, the --color-* / --font-* remap blocks
in docs/slop/designing/live-mode-kinpaku.css re-declared values identical
to :root. Removed them, keeping only the --ks-muted alias (still read by
name in those files) and each page's shell (gradient bg, color, min-height).

home-kinpaku.css keeps its remap: it uses home-specific values (e.g.
--color-charcoal: var(--ks-text), --color-cream: var(--ks-lacquer-raised))
plus the --cat-* gradient overrides, so it is not redundant.

Verified designing (PRODUCT.md viz), slop (specimens stay light), docs,
live-mode unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: drop italic from 15 dead editorial-serif heading rules

Audited every font-style: italic in sub-pages.css and main.css against
the live markup. Removed italic from the 15 rules whose selectors don't
appear in any page/component/content/script:

  sub-pages.css: docs-home-card-title, docs-category-title,
    tutorial-embed-caption, skill-demo-caption, skill-source-card-subtitle,
    skill-references-heading, skill-reference-title
  main.css: hero-title-combined, hero-tagline-combined, impeccable-title,
    loading-state, install-primary-howto .install-path-desc em,
    install-howto-steps > li::before, install-step-status, consulting-title

These were dormant remnants of the retired Cormorant italic-serif look —
the kinpaku Pinstripe face renders them as bad synthesized-italic, but
no markup matches the selectors so nothing rendered. Removed only the
font-style declaration; the rest of each rule stays (whole-rule cleanup
is out of scope).

Kept the 5 live selectors (slop-section-heading, tutorial-card-title,
visual-mode-demo-caption, visual-mode-method-name, gallery-card-title)
per the "if they're not used anywhere" condition, plus .prose em (real
emphasis) and .prose blockquote (conventional blockquote italic).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: brand-seed palette.mjs + Setup step to run it

New-brand color now starts from a curated seed color (129 OKLCH seeds)
instead of the model guessing or defaulting to warm-cream. The script
returns one seed + composition guidance (pure-bg architecture, perceptual
text-on-fill, anti-cliché moods, jewel-tone range), with inverse-frequency
hue weighting for fair rainbow exposure and deterministic --from picking.
SKILL.md Setup step 5 makes it run for greenfield projects. Curation
tooling lives in the impeccable-evals repo (tools/palette/).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Remove accidental live mode inject from Base.astro.

The localhost live.js tag was left in the site layout after a dev session and should never ship in the Astro template.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* site: dedicated /changelog + /faq, epic v3.5.0 notes, Live Mode → Beta

Split changelog and FAQ out of the homepage into two standalone kinpaku
pages, linked from the footer (and a quiet hint under the Get-started CTA).

/changelog: every release inline (no collapsible), newest first. The
v3.5.0 entry leads with a one-line summary, a real before/after pair from
the GPT-5.5 eval corpus (luxury-hotel brief, skill off vs on), and a stat
row (74% cream-bg, 76% extreme tracking, 90%+ low-contrast — measured
across ~190 samples). Then five scannable bold-led bullets, biggest
takeaway first: per-provider skill compilation, the bias-fix, Live Mode,
the 7 new detector rules, the tighter skill. Before/after JPGs optimized
to ~470KB total (down from ~2.5MB PNGs).

/faq: the six support questions, each deep-linkable.

Live Mode is now Beta everywhere it surfaces: the /live-mode eyebrow
badge and note, the homepage bento tile badge, and the changelog entry.
The historical v3.0 changelog entry stays "Alpha" — accurate to what
shipped then.

Footer trimmed to the four links not already in the top nav (Changelog,
FAQ, Privacy, GitHub).

Version bumped 3.2.0 → 3.5.0 across the three plugin manifests; the
3.2 bias-fix work folds into this release rather than shipping separately.

astro.config.mjs: disable the dev toolbar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: point /design-system hero at the m-01-v2-01 finalist

design-system.css referenced kintsugi-hero-v2.png, an untracked orphan
that was never committed. Repoint it at the committed m-01-v2-01 finalist
so /design-system and the homepage hero share one image, and the page
no longer depends on a file outside the repo. The v2 orphan moved to tmp/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* build: sync harness mirrors + green the prose gate

Rebuild propagates the committed skill source (palette.mjs Setup step,
detector rule updates, brand.md) into the 13 harness output dirs and the
plugin subtree, which had drifted from source.

Also fixes the prose validator, which had been red on six pre-existing
hits across committed files:
- Four em dashes in code comments (Testimonials.astro, LiveDemoGbar.astro,
  index.astro) and one in skill/reference/live.md — reworded to colons/commas.
- Two in the slop catalog (an em-dash-overuse specimen and the
  marketing-buzzword rule naming "empower"). Those are intentional: the
  slop page documents every antipattern by example, so it must contain
  them. Exempted site/pages/slop from validateProse rather than neutering
  the specimens.

`bun run build` is now green end to end: counts validate, prose passes,
site builds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* skill: rewrite no-section-fade rule to fix Gemini zero-motion overcorrection

The old rule ("whole-section fade-on-scroll is the saturated AI motion
reflex") drove Gemini to overcorrect into shipping pages with no motion
at all: motion-variety 39% / zero-motion 12% with the skill on, vs
~74-78% variety and ~3% zero-motion without it.

Rewrite keeps the legitimate-stagger carve-out, names the defect at
shape level (one identical entrance on every section) without
enumerating motion primitives, and adds an explicit clause that
suppressing the reflex is never grounds for a static page.

Validated on Gemini 3.5-flash (n=10, luxury-hotel + infra-platform):
motion-variety 39% -> 70%, zero-motion 12% -> 0%, staggered-reveal
stays 0% (reflex not re-inflated).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* release: bump CLI to 2.2.0 and extension to 1.1.0

Both ship the expanded detector: the 7 new rules (cream-palette,
em-dash-overuse, marketing-buzzword, numbered-section-markers,
aphoristic-cadence, broken-image, italic-serif-display) plus
hero-eyebrow-chip, with everything-centered removed. 41 rules total.

The extension settings page already supports toggling them: the rule
list renders from detector/antipatterns.json, grouped by category, and
disabledRules flows through chrome.storage.sync into the scan config,
which detect.js honors by rule id. New rules are toggleable with no UI
change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* release: fix release.mjs for the moved changelog + add CLI/ext entries

The changelog moved from site/pages/index.astro to its own
site/pages/changelog.astro with new markup (cf-version / cf-entry /
cf-items), which left release.mjs reading the wrong file with the old
selectors. All three release commands would have failed at note
extraction. Point it at changelog.astro, match cf-version, and scope
notes to the <ul class="cf-items"> bullet list — that also skips the
lead paragraph, before/after figure, and stat row on the v3.5.0 entry,
keeping release notes to clean bullets.

Add CLI v2.2.0 and Extension v1.1.0 changelog entries (the shared
detector update: 7 new rules, everything-centered removed, 41 total;
plus the extension's per-rule toggles) so release:cli and release:ext
have notes to extract.

Verified extraction for all three labels: v3.5.0 (5 bullets),
CLI v2.2.0 (3), Extension v1.1.0 (2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: correct dev server port to 4321 and drop stale pnpm-lock

Astro serves on 4321, not 3000 as the docs claimed; update CLAUDE.md,
AGENTS.md, and screenshot-antipatterns.js. Remove the leftover
pnpm-lock.yaml from the Astro migration so Cloudflare's frozen install
uses the maintained, in-sync bun.lock instead of a drifted pnpm lockfile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: rework /designing flow, rhythm, Live Mode mock, and CTA

Restructure the page so iteration reads as the core value, not net-new.
The four loop phases are wrapped in a track with a sticky scroll-spy nav
(Start/Iterate/Polish/Maintain) that pins under the header and highlights
the active phase; the surfaces section (skill/CLI/extension) moves out of
the loop into the post-loop context group so the loop runs uninterrupted.

Fix the iterate split: shared subgrid row tracks so the terminal and the
Live Mode mock align on the same baseline regardless of paragraph length,
wider intro measure (52ch, was a crammed 36ch), and a deeper picker stage
so the context and global bars breathe instead of stacking on the card.

Rebuild the Live Mode mock to mirror the real picker: carved-tile mark plus
Pick / Insert / Detect / DESIGN.md controls on lacquer-deep with the gold
border, and a /impeccable live entry line so the reader knows how to start.

Reframe Start as the hard mode, move h3 subheads off the thin display face
onto Albert Sans, and trim Start so it no longer dominates the loop.

Rework the closing CTA into two standalone raised cards (the bento plinth
made them read as boxes nested in a box), and fix the tutorials copy: there
are three walkthroughs now, and the brand-vs-product tutorial is gone, so
drop it from the CTA and remove the dead lane link to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: reorder Get Started so usage follows setup, link out to more

Move the /impeccable usage examples below the Chrome extension, CLI, and
Stay-updated block. Running a command is the logical next step once the
skill, extension, CLI, and subscriptions are all in place, so the section
now reads install -> set up the extras -> use it. Add a closing "Go deeper"
line linking to the Designing with Impeccable workflow page and the docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: install compiled per-provider skill variants, not uncompiled source

`npx skills add` (and `impeccable skills install`, which wrapped it) installed
the uncompiled skill/ source verbatim: the skills CLI dedupes discovery by name
and picks skill/SKILL.md first, so installs shipped unresolved {{placeholders}}
and no vendored detector (#168).

- Rename skill/SKILL.md -> skill/SKILL.src.md so the skills CLI's discovery
  skips the source and falls through to a compiled .agents variant; update the
  build reader, skill-behavior harness, and docs to match.
- Refactor `impeccable skills install` to copy each harness's compiled variant
  from the universal bundle (real dirs, no npx skills, no symlink), with
  project/global harness detection and a --providers override.
- Fix stale unit tests (replacePlaceholders, readPatterns, transformer
  prefix/summary) that asserted removed pre-v3.0 behavior, and wire the three
  orphaned test files into `bun run test` so the drift can't recur.
- Split skills-cli.test.js: pure blocks run by default, network blocks move
  behind a new `bun run test:cli-e2e`; fix its stale update assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: default to `npx impeccable skills install`, restore install-method panel

Get Started recommended `npx skills add`, which installs a single shared build
across harnesses. Make our CLI the default (it installs the build compiled for
each harness) and bring back the "Other install methods" disclosure the
neo-kinpaku redesign dropped.

- Homepage: primary command is now `npx impeccable skills install`; a native
  <details> panel offers the Claude Code plugin and `npx skills` (caveated as
  installing one shared build rather than the per-harness one).
- FAQ: recommend `npx impeccable skills install` to install, `--force` to
  reinstall, and note the npx skills shared-build caveat.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* site: reword craft tagline so it doesn't lead with "Shape"

The craft card's tagline began with the word "Shape", which reads like
the name of the sibling /shape command and made the two cards look
swapped (#166). Reword to "Design it, then build it, all in one flow."
No data was actually swapped; this is a copy collision fix.

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

* skill: rename teach -> init and expand its setup flow

Rename the `/impeccable teach` command to `/impeccable init` across the
skill, site, CLI, and tests. `teach` stays as a deprecated router alias and
/docs/teach + /skills/teach redirect to /docs/init.

Expand the command beyond writing PRODUCT.md/DESIGN.md: the same codebase
crawl now also pre-configures `.impeccable/live/config.json` (Step 6, with
CSP consent) so live mode boots with no first-time detour, and the flow ends
by recommending the best commands to run next from what the scan surfaced
(Step 7).

Fold two items into the unreleased v3.5.0 changelog entry: the init rename
and the brand-seed palette picker. No version bump.

Regenerates all harness skill output dirs and the _redirects file.

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

* docs: lead README install + usage with the CLI installer

Add `npx impeccable skills install` as the recommended install option and
update the Usage section to the `/impeccable <command>` form, dropping the
nonexistent `/normalize` example.

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

* test(skill-behavior): swap to production-tier models (sonnet + gpt-5.5)

Replace the cheap-tier default lineup (claude-haiku-4-5, gpt-5.4-mini) with
production-tier models (claude-sonnet-4-6, gpt-5.5) so the skill-behavior
suite reflects what users actually run. gemini stays on flash-lite.

Sync the docs (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, tests/skill-behavior/README.md): new
model names, cost estimate raised to ~$0.50-1.50/sweep, and the old 21-22/24
baseline reframed as previous-cheap-tier history pending re-measurement on
the new lineup.

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

* feat: self-updating skill via boot-time version check

context.mjs now polls a new lightweight /api/version endpoint at most once
per day (cached globally in ~/.impeccable) and appends an UPDATE_AVAILABLE
directive when a newer skill version has shipped, prompting the agent to
offer `npx impeccable skills update`. Best-effort and silent on any failure;
asks before updating; suppresses re-prompts for a declined version for a
week. Opt out with IMPECCABLE_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1.

- skill/scripts/context.mjs: version read, throttle + anti-nag cache, directive
- scripts/build.js + _redirects: /api/version endpoint (from plugin.json version)
- skill/SKILL.src.md: document the UPDATE_AVAILABLE boot branch
- tests/context.test.mjs: coverage for cached/newer/suppressed/opt-out paths
- changelog: v3.5.0 entry
- synced harness skill dirs via bun run build

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

* test: cover the self-update path (network + LLM behavior)

context.test.mjs: add a localhost stub-server integration test for the live
fetch path (poll /api/version, cache a newer version, stay silent on
same-or-older, fail silent + stamp lastCheck when unreachable). Runs against
127.0.0.1 only, never the real site; uses async spawn so the in-process stub
isn't deadlocked by spawnSync blocking the event loop.

skill-behavior: add scenario 9 asserting the agent surfaces UPDATE_AVAILABLE
but never auto-runs `npx impeccable skills update` without asking. New
prepareWorkspace `skillVersion` copy-mode (so context.mjs has a SKILL.md to
version-check), env threading through runTurn -> execBash, and bash-output
capture to prove the agent actually received the directive. Passed on
claude-sonnet-4-6, gpt-5.5, and gemini-3.1-flash-lite.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-05-28 14:22:22 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub e1d3ea0b6f Detector architecture v2: static engine, benchmarks, lab, and visual contrast (#156)
* Add detector benchmark lab and visual contrast fallback

* Expand visual contrast fixture coverage

* Add browser visual contrast fallback

* Show visual contrast overlays in detector lab

* Fix detector lab short viewport layout

* Fix detector lab visual overlays

* Add visual contrast to browser scan overlays

* Avoid browser scroll jumps during visual contrast scans

* Resolve visual contrast lazily on scroll

* Refresh detector lab visual counts lazily

* Update pnpm lockfile for static parser deps

* Address Bugbot detector API comments

* Report extension visual contrast errors

* Refactor detector into engine modules

* Address Bugbot detector comments

* Fix latest Bugbot detector notes

* Fix visual contrast fixture labels

* Refine detector lab fixtures

* Fix stale detector overlay references

* Fix detector lab fixture URLs

* Fix typography lab fixture highlights

* Fix typography lab page-level signal

* Fix visual overlay lifecycle cleanup

* Remove dead spotlight timer cleanup

* Make browser async APIs reject consistently
2026-05-17 19:49:38 -07:00