Two gaps, both reported from real use. Worlds were drawn with no mode
awareness at all: selectApprovedChallengers never received the mode, so a
build asking for an app UI could draw six worlds that only make sense on a
landing page. And surface alone is too coarse for compositions, because
"operate" spans onboarding, dashboards, editors and settings, so an
onboarding flow could legitimately be dealt a settings composition.
Worlds gain `allowedModes` on the review record, beside breadth and rating,
because it is a reviewer judgment rather than authored content. Absent means
eligible in every mode, so nothing needs backfilling and no existing roll
changes. Applied per tier and skipped where it would empty one, matching how
minRating and strength already degrade. It is a ceiling the reviewer lowers,
not a category they assign: a world is an identity, and identities transfer
across modes further than compositions do.
Compositions gain an optional `area`, one level below surface, with a
taxonomy per surface (COMPOSITION_AREAS). Area is a preference rather than a
filter: a request reorders the ranking to put area matches first and tops up
from the rest of the surface, because the per-area pools are small and
dealing one on-target composition would be worse than three good ones. A
stable partition of an already deterministic ranking stays deterministic.
`--area` on the CLI requires `--mode`, since areas are scoped to a surface,
and is validated against that surface's list so a wrong-surface area fails
loudly instead of silently matching nothing.
Also validated `breadth`, which selection has honoured for a while with
nothing checking it, so a typo read as "general" and quietly returned a
narrow world to the pool.
Four new tests: worlds excluded from a mode stay out, absent allowedModes
stays eligible everywhere, a tier whose every world excludes the mode falls
back instead of starving, and an area-scoped deal prefers its area, tops up
to three, and reproduces from its key.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The data layer has said compositions since the catalog was split, while the
code, the model-facing text, and the UI still said stagings. The rename was
held back by the selection logic existing twice; it exists once now, so this
is one pass instead of two coordinated ones.
Renamed: selectApprovedStagings, selectApprovedStaging, renderStaging, and
the model-facing STAGING GRAMMAR / STAGING CHALLENGERS / FIRST-SURFACE
STAGING INPUTS headings. The block that introduces them now states what
they are for rather than only what they are not: what is the cleverest way
to present, organize, or make interactive the problem in front of you.
Three places keep the old word on purpose:
- The rank salt, `${scope}:${key}:staging`. It is hash input, so renaming
it would re-deal every roll anyone has ever reproduced by key. Verified:
240 seeder rolls and 252 API rolls reproduce exactly.
- `Staging/hierarchy:`, the first composition grammar prefix. Inside a
composition, staging names one of its four aspects, which is a different
word-sense from staging as the name for the whole artifact. It is also a
schema constant that 317 catalog entries are validated against.
- The wire fields. The API keeps emitting `stagings` and `staging` beside
`compositions`, because the wire is the one place a rename cannot be
coordinated with already-installed skills. Clients prefer the new field
and fall back through both old ones.
Separately, WELL_TIERS had two definitions after the extraction.
roll-selection.mjs owns it now and concept-catalog.mjs imports it, in that
direction because concept-catalog reads the filesystem and a Pages Function
must not pull node:fs into its bundle. Imported and re-exported rather than
re-exported alone: a bare `export { X } from` does not bind X locally, and
validateConceptCatalog needs it, which cost one round of red tests.
Dropped concept-catalog's synchronous deterministicRank. Nothing imports it
since selection moved out, and leaving a second ranking implementation
around is how the first drift started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
concept-seed.mjs and the service repo's functions/api/_worldroll-core.js
were two implementations of the same selection, and the API core's header
claimed they matched "exactly". They did not: it had no breadth gate on
either pool, no rating weighting for compositions, and dealt one
composition where the seeder dealt three. Since the catalog never ships
with the skill, every real user rolls through that API, so those gates
reached nobody. Two copies is the defect; this removes the second.
Written as generators rather than plain functions because the callers
cannot agree on a hash. Node has a synchronous one, Workers only have
async crypto.subtle, and renderConceptSeed's local path is deliberately
synchronous so prepared eval sessions and tests can call it without
awaiting. The selection yields batches of strings to hash and resumes
with their digests; runSyncSelection and runAsyncSelection are the only
runtime-specific code, eight lines each. Forcing the seeder async would
have broken the eval harness; forking the logic is what got us here.
No roll changes. Node's crypto.createHash('sha256') and Web Crypto's
SHA-256 return the same bytes, verified, and 240 seeder rolls plus 252
API rolls across both scopes, five modes, three reroll depths and the
rating gate reproduce their pre-refactor output exactly. The 23 existing
concept-seed tests pass unmodified, which is the point: the synchronous
contract survived.
The service repo's core keeps its own copy until this is on main, because
its deploy materializes skill/ from main and would fail to resolve an
import that is not there yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two review findings:
- restoreSvelteMarkup visited an {#each} key with outer scopes only, so a
contract prop sharing a loop binding name rewrote the key: with prop
name -> user.name and loop context "name", the key (name.id) became
(user.name.id) in the accepted route. The key evaluates per item, so it
is now visited with the loop context and index bound. Regression test
verified failing on the previous code.
- enterLiveRoot silently kept the ambient working directory when the
resolved appRoot no longer existed or chdir failed, letting a helper
derive server, session, and source paths from the wrong project. Both
cases now exit with a clear error naming the app root and the --target
escape hatch.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
removeSelectorAt walked backward to find the rule prelude and stopped at
any '>', added so the walk would not escape past the <style> open tag.
That same character is the CSS child combinator, so pruning one unused
selector from a list like '.wrap > .orphan, .orphan' cut the prelude
mid-list; when every remaining fragment equaled the flagged selector, the
whole-rule branch then deleted from the cut point and left a dangling
'.wrap >' in source. A '>' now bounds the walk only when it actually
closes a <style ...> tag; combinators are walked through.
Regression tests cover a mid-list combinator prune and the dangling-
fragment shape (verified failing on the previous code).
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses two cursor findings on extractMatchingSourceCss plus an adjacent
hazard in the same removal machinery:
- Class matching is token-bounded, never substring: .btn no longer seeds
.btn-primary and .stage no longer seeds .stages. A falsely seeded
selector was an accept-time deletion of a hand-written rule, since any
seeded selector the variant does not re-declare is removed as
superseded.
- Tag rules that style the pick (h1, a, p) now seed the preview stub, so
unclassed selections start from the real cascade. They are excluded
from the supersedable set: tag rules style shared elements across the
route and must never be removal candidates.
- Supersession removal is now bounded by ownership: a seeded class
selector whose class is still used by markup OUTSIDE the replaced
region survives the accept, because removing it would strip styling
from markup the accept never touched.
Tests cover substring non-matches, tag seeding with a tag-free
supersedable set, and a shared-class accept where .card is used both
inside the pick and elsewhere.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field session on a nested SvelteKit app surfaced a self-reinforcing leak:
localStorage is per-origin, two projects reused 127.0.0.1:5174, and a
React project's leftover cycling session was resumed inside the Svelte
project. Its checkpoints then materialized a ghost session in the new
project's durable store that kept reattaching after every discard, and a
stale adapter module 401'd on live.js, hiding the picker.
Four fixes:
- Server: only session-creating events (generate, steer) may mint a
journal. Progress events (checkpoints, mount acks, accept/discard) for
unknown ids are refused with 404 unknown_session and never enqueued, so
foreign browser state cannot create ghost sessions. Browser sends are
gated so progress never overtakes its own creating POST (the Go-time
checkpoint and generate are concurrent fetches; the first sweep caught
the out-of-order arrival breaking every SvelteKit flow). Steer
checkpoints now follow the steer event for the same reason.
- Browser: saved sessions carry the server's appRoot; a session stamped
by another project is dropped at load time. Unstamped legacy state is
caught by the unknown_session refusal, which clears local state and
re-arms the picker with an explanatory toast.
- SvelteKit adapter: the layout import carries a token-derived revision
query so a helper restart changes the module specifier and no Vite
client/SSR cache can serve an adapter with a rotated-out token;
live-inject --port reads the running helper's token from server.json
instead of writing an unauthenticated live.js URL; script load failures
log an actionable console error; and adapter removal is byte-exact
(the old regex swallowed the next line's indentation).
- live.mjs resolves surface briefs from appRoot, then contextRoot, then
repoRoot, matching context.mjs in nested-app repos.
Tests: server unknown-session rejection units, adapter revision/
byte-exact-removal units, and a foreign-session e2e scenario that seeds
another project's localStorage state and asserts it is cleared, no ghost
journal materializes, and picking still works.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
A codex session declared the decision board dead while the user was
still reading it, then proceeded without their choice. The wait's
liveness probe was process.kill(pid, 0) with every error treated as
gone, but a sandboxed exec cannot signal a process outside its sandbox:
EPERM arrives for a living server. Liveness now leads with the page's
own heartbeat in the state file, falls back to the kill probe, and
reads EPERM specifically as exists-but-unsignalable. The exit-2 message
also stopped inviting the wrong recovery: it now states this is a
server failure, not a user decision, and orders a restart and reopen,
never an unattended proceed while the user's browser session is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two field observations. Greenfield projects with no framework never got
asked what to build on: the interview covered product truth and banned
aesthetic questions, and the model silently picked a scaffold the user
never chose. Init now asks once, static HTML, a named framework, or a
delegated choice plus any deploy constraint, and records the outcome
under a new optional Stack section, including the delegation itself, so
later work knows the choice was offered.
And the medium guidance named raster a dozen times while naming WebGL
once, so models never reached for vector or GPU code unprompted. The
affinity now runs both ways at the decision point: precise geometry,
shape systems, diagrams, expressive motion, shaders, and anything
interactive are vector and GPU territory, where a raster flattens what
should move, scale, and respond. The sketchy-SVG ban states its own
scope: it bans SVG imitating pictures, never SVG doing geometry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stagings now honour approval ratings exactly as world challengers do, a
3-star earning a second ticket and a 1-star marginal keep leaving the
pool, which matters more here because per-surface staging pools are
small enough that an unweighted shuffle repeats a weak staging often.
Each ticket carries its index into the deterministic ranking so the
id-dedupe cannot silently collapse the doubled odds into a no-op, and
an all-marginal pool still deals rather than starving. The composition
catalog validates the new grades: 1-3, approved entries only. Tests
cover the weighting, the dedupe subtlety, and the fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The github and cursor providers previously received only the generated
degraded/ inline fallbacks. Both harnesses support real custom subagents,
so the build now emits them from the same skill/agents/ source:
- GitHub Copilot: .github/agents/impeccable-<role>.agent.md with portable
frontmatter only (name + description; omitting tools grants all tools,
and Copilot has no documented model/effort/max-turns equivalents).
- Cursor: .cursor/agents/impeccable-<role>.md with name, description,
model: inherit, is_background: false, and readonly derived from the
agent's tool list (true only for the finish reviewer, which declares
neither Write nor Edit). effort/max-turns are skipped because Cursor's
effort option requires an explicit model id.
Agent bodies now also resolve {{scripts_path}} and strip rule markers in
the shared agentFormat pipeline, which fixes the previously unresolved
placeholder in the emitted Claude asset-producer agent.
The CLI installer places agents per scope: project installs write
<repo>/.github/agents/ and <repo>/.cursor/agents/; user-level installs
write ~/.copilot/agents/ (Copilot's user dir, not ~/.github/) and
~/.cursor/agents/, overwriting stale impeccable-* copies. Because
Copilot lets user-level agents shadow same-named project ones, a project
install warns when shadowing copies exist; Cursor gives project agents
precedence, so no warning there.
new-work.md and visualize.md extend their harness-naming clauses with
the Cursor and Copilot invocations. The degraded/ fallbacks keep
shipping for surfaces where the model still fails to delegate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes#439. When a cycling session is abandoned and the wrapped region is
then edited or regenerated out of the source file, the resumed page used
to sit in GENERATING forever with the picker disarmed; the only recovery
was a manual live-complete --discarded. Now a resumed CYCLING session
whose wrapper cannot be found in source retries the read a few times
(HMR or an agent write may be mid-flight), then discards itself, clears
local state, and re-arms the picker with a toast. GENERATING restores
are exempt: deferred-wrapper flows legitimately have no wrapper in
source until the agent's write lands.
The browser tags the discard event orphaned:true; the server terminalizes
that session directly (phase discarded) and keeps the event out of the
agent poll queue, since there is no source cleanup left to perform and
the normal discard flow would just fail against the missing scaffolding.
New e2e scenario on vite8-react-plain drives the full repro: cycle,
revert source externally, reload, assert self-discard, terminal durable
phase, and a working picker afterward.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
A trailing --target, an empty --target=, or --target followed by another
flag used to degrade into implicit root selection, letting a mutating
helper (poll, accept, complete) act on the most recent live app instead
of the one the caller tried to name. consumeTargetArg now throws on those
shapes and enterLiveRoot exits with a clear error before any session
state can be touched. Unit tests cover the malformed shapes and a
subprocess test proves the helper body never runs.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses two cursor review findings:
- {#each} bodies whose bound values appear in attributes (href={link.href},
src={item.img}) now record attr slots; the browser hydrates them from the
rendered attribute so component previews no longer mount with empty links.
Single-expression attributes hydrate exactly; mixed values stay unhydrated
as before. A new slot classifier also refuses shapes that would crash a
shallow hydration item (deep paths, method calls, bare item renders) and
routes them to source-preview mode instead.
- Style directives now run the mixed loop/outer identifier check before the
free-identifier param check, so style:width={base + r.pct} falls back
instead of minting a broken param.
Tests: attr-slot analysis units, crashy/lossy fallback units, an attribute-
bound anchor in the stateful SvelteKit fixture asserted through accept, and
a mountedDomProbe e2e hook that reads the hydrated href off the mounted
variant DOM (verified to fail when hydration is disabled).
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot]: the legacy fallback (server.json without port or
token) accepted a pid-only record on Windows without identity. Every
server.json this codebase has ever written records port and token, so a
record without them is malformed or foreign; it now classifies as not
live and resolution falls to the durable-session tier, the correct
recovery path for a crashed helper. The ps-based identity heuristic is
gone with it: authentication or nothing.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot] escalated the identity ladder to a pid AND port both
coincidentally reused by different processes. The definitive terminator
was available all along: the helper serves an authenticated endpoint and
server.json records the token, so the probe now requires a 200 from
/status?token=... over HTTP. Nothing but our helper can answer that,
which closes the entire misidentification class rather than the next
rung. The regression test hosts its responder in a child process (the
probe is execFileSync, so a same-process responder can never accept
while the parent's event loop is blocked; production helpers are always
separate processes).
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot]: the win32 branch skipped the port probe entirely
(bash /dev/tcp is not portable), so a reused pid on Windows still
classified as a running helper. The probe is now a spawned node
one-liner that behaves identically on every platform, which also drops
the bash dependency for minimal Linux environments; the ps identity
check remains only for legacy server.json records without a port.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]: an expression mixing loop bindings with outer free names
(fmt(r.label) where fmt lives in the route script) was left verbatim, so
the detached preview referenced an undeclared identifier and failed at
mount, past the compile gate, because globals make it legal to the
compiler. Such expressions now mark the analysis unsupported and the
session takes source-preview mode. A globals allowlist makes Math/JSON
and friends count as neither free nor bound, which also fixes a latent
bug where a pure-global expression minted a nonsense prop.
Won't-fix on the same pass: the live-setup.md filename cross-reference
matches the repo's established reference-link convention.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field failure (Codex session, 2026-07-28): the agent kept the seeded
stub style block and appended its own second top-level style element in
all three variants. Svelte forbids that, so the user saw a red Vite
compile overlay; the mount-ack loop then self-healed (failure event,
repair, republish, clean accept), but the overlay window is exactly the
kind of thing the user should never see.
The publish gate closes the class: a done reply for a component session
now compile-checks every variant with the app's own compiler BEFORE the
revision bump and the browser broadcast. Failures bounce as a 422 with
file, line, and message plus _instructions; live-poll surfaces the
details in the thrown reply error. The browser never imports a variant
that cannot compile.
Also: the stub guard comments warn that all CSS belongs in the single
existing style block, worded to never contain the literal "<style"
sequence (a mention inside a CSS comment truncates the string surgery
agents use to find the block; the fake test agent caught exactly that).
The JIT svelte instructions carry the same warning.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The prompt behind a generated image was recorded three different ways,
a sidecar in the eval harness, nothing in the skill's API tool, nothing
for native tools, so intent survived or vanished depending on where you
ran. One dependency-free script now embeds the prompt inside the image
itself, PNG tEXt or JPEG COM with a sidecar fallback for other formats,
idempotent, and reads it back from any impeccable-generated file. The
API tool embeds automatically; the prose directs every native-tool
generation through it; copies between machines and harnesses keep their
intent. Comps meanwhile are declared the build thread's own work, never
delegated, and the comp-skeleton guidance now asks for the surface's
actual regions instead of prescribing navs onto pages that have none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two findings from the first human-validated probe. The comps rendered
as scene vignettes because the generation prompts led with the world's
atmosphere; the model painted the fish market instead of the fish
market's website. The comp guidance now demands the page's literal
skeleton in the prompt, nav and its items, headline block, sections in
order, footer, with a self-check: a render that could hang as a poster
is not a comp. And generation context is part of the asset: the thread
that wrote a prompt knows what the image contains and why, so build-
critical imagery prefers the build thread, and subagent-produced assets
must carry their prompts, via the tool's new sidecar or the manifest,
read by the builder before composing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The failed gallery batch bound its seed, ran the reviewer, and still
shipped CSS bevels imitating enamel: the matrix's material row was
defined against the approved comp, and comp-less runs left it with no
reference. The rows now fall back to the contract's OWN-WORLD and the
world's real materials, with faked physicality contradicted on its
face; imitation material is the single most reliable mark of
machine-made design.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Transcript archaeology on the failed gallery batch split the binding
break three ways. One model authored a complete, correct contract that
Astro then erased: the compiler strips a slot's leading comment while
keeping deeper ones, so the contract now belongs to the root layout's
body as its first child, and the first production build gets grepped
for the seed key, because a contract the build erased is a contract
nobody can audit. Another model simply skipped the roll and built the
exact category default the seed exists to refuse; the roll step now
states outright that it has no substitute and no skip condition. The
third failure was the worker watchdog, fixed separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two probe runs on two different harnesses built complete pages and
declared done without ever entering the finish sequence: the reference
was read once near turn four and the finish choreography had fallen out
of attention thirty turns later. The one text a model rereads on every
edit is its own artifact, so the direction contract now closes with a
FINISH line naming the exit condition verbatim: unreviewed and
undocumented is unfinished; this build ends with the finish review, the
verdict, and DESIGN.md. A page that looks complete with that line
undischarged is not done, it is abandoned at the finish line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A sandboxed harness rejected view_image on an absolute path to a mock
the model had itself just produced under .impeccable/mocks/, killing
the run. The relative-path rule existed only for downloaded quality-bar
cards; it now covers every image the flow produces or references, in
the comp round and in the asset producer's comparison step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]: discoverAppCandidates only matched dev-config markers while
the upward walk also honors an existing .impeccable/live/config.json,
so booting from a repo root without --target missed a nested
live-configured static site and fell through to the wrong root. Both
paths now share isAppRoot; regression test covers the static-site shape.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]: the background-terminal notify regex predated
variant_mount_failed (and manual_edit_apply / prefetch), so on Cursor a
failed mount exited the one-shot poll without waking the agent and the
error card sat unanswered. The pattern now lists every type the
dispatch loop handles.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot] re-raised the residual with a repro: a stale
server.json pid reused by an unrelated node process passed the
command-name check. The decisive signal is the recorded PORT: a real
helper is listening on it, a pid squatter is not. hasLiveServer now
probes 127.0.0.1:<port> (bash /dev/tcp, sync, ~ms, win32-guarded with
the previous behavior); the multi-app preference test runs a real
listener instead of faking liveness with a bare pid.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field feedback from two more Codex sessions drove both changes.
JIT instructions (live/instructions.mjs): every event live-poll prints
now carries _instructions, the authoritative next step for that exact
situation with real ids, paths, and line numbers substituted, and only
the active path's rules (a svelte-component session never sees JSX
guidance). The boot payload carries loop instructions the same way.
Instructions are versioned with the scripts, so they cannot drift from
behavior, and live.md's plumbing can keep shrinking toward contract plus
craft guidance. The Codex poll-discipline failure observed in the field
("the long poll was started, but I yielded the task instead of actively
servicing its result") gets a named anti-pattern in both the harness
policy and the boot instructions.
LLM e2e agent: default provider/model moves from Claude Haiku 4.5 to
OpenAI gpt-5.6-terra at medium reasoning effort via an Anthropic-shaped
shim over the ai SDK (the three call sites stay provider-agnostic;
Anthropic and DeepSeek remain selectable). The harness should exercise
the model tier that actually drives live sessions. Both the react and
sveltekit fixtures pass end to end with terra driving the trimmed
live.md and the new _instructions.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rating grades quality, breadth says whether a world can serve an
arbitrary build at all; while they shared one field, the only way to
hold a narrow world back was calling it marginal, which made excellent
but narrow unrecordable and corrupted the ratings as a calibration
signal for the next authoring round. Both axes now exclude
independently, either kind of hold keeps its approval for direct
briefs, an all-niche tier falls back rather than starving, and
stagings honour the same gate with the same fallback. Tests cover the
niche exclusion at strength, the fallback parity with marginal-only
tiers, and the staging gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First-time setup (config schema, framework table, adapters, drift, the
whole CSP flow) moves to reference/live-setup.md, loaded only when the
boot reports config_missing/config_invalid or cspChecked is absent.
The per-session prose is compressed without dropping any pinned phrase,
MUST rule, schema, or example; the boot payload documentation now names
the inlined surface brief. All live-reference pins and both prose gates
pass.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
The hard stop landed one step early: one review, one batched fix, one
recapture, then done, with nobody ever judging whether the fixes reached
the quality the findings named. A recapture measures positions; the
model then presented mechanical confirmation as artistic success over a
page whose display face, material, and hero legibility had all drifted
from the approved comp. The finish now ends on a verdict: the recaptured
screenshots go back to the same reviewer, which scores every material
fix resolved, partial, or unresolved and names at most three regressions
the batch introduced, no new hunt. Partial and unresolved fixes earn
exactly one more round; two rounds is the ceiling, the second verdict
ends the work whatever it says, and the final verdict table goes to the
user as it stands, open items included.
Three blindnesses from the same run close alongside. The matrix gains
two mandatory rows: TYPE, where a display face of a different character
is contradicted however the layout matches, and MATERIAL, where flat CSS
standing in for painted, textured, or dimensional artwork is contradicted
regardless of placement. And the Truth check now requires every produced
asset visibly present in the screenshots, because a paper texture at
0.16 opacity is a compliance token, not a shipped material.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field failure from a real Codex session: accepting a variant into
Pitch.svelte appended 23 selectors and removed none, so the source's old
.decisions grid rules re-attached through the kept root class and forced
the accepted board into a stale three-column layout; some appended base
rules also landed after the source's media block, weakening the mobile
cascade.
Two mechanical fixes:
- Preview truth: the scaffolder records the seeded selectors (the source
rules that styled the replaced selection, which the isolated preview
never applied). On accept, any seeded selector the variant does not
re-declare is removed; the selector-loss postcondition treats those
removals like compiler prunes. A regression test reproduces the exact
Pitch shape end to end.
- Cascade order: reconciliation inserts new base rules BEFORE existing
top-level media blocks instead of appending after them.
Init-latency reductions from the same transcript:
- live.mjs inlines the resolved surface brief (removes three
surface-brief.mjs round-trips including a --help miss before first poll).
- The wrap/scaffold payload carries componentStubMarkup, and live.md
instructs editing stubs in place (the session read the manifest + stub
back and then deleted/recreated the files).
- live.md notes that a busy default port usually means the dev server is
already running (the session spawned a duplicate).
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The batch producer was the clumsy piece: one subagent owning eight
jobs needed heartbeat rules, reclaim windows, and a page full of
fallbacks to survive its own opacity. The unit of work is now a single
card. With parallel subagents, the set fans out one agent per card, up
to four in flight, landing everything in roughly the time of one; a
single-sketch agent has no planning phase and no batch to stall, so a
failure costs one slot and its remedies fit one sentence: regenerate an
empty slot when its agent returns, drop it when the user answers first.
Without parallel subagents, the main thread generates in reading order
after serving, and the harness's own generation display carries the
progress. The page-side streaming is unchanged; it never cared who
writes the files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hidden backface still hit-tests in Chrome, so after flipping a card
the front's picture-in-picture sat invisibly over the back's chips,
showing its zoom cursor and eating the flip-back click. Pointer events
now follow visibility: the back is inert until the card flips, and the
front goes inert while it is flipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field data: the first image of a real batch took ninety seconds and the
page's 150-second fallback then silently promoted catalog art to full
bleed, unlabeled, which is exactly the this-is-your-design misread the
picture-in-picture treatment exists to prevent. The policy is now
patience while there is progress: a slot shows its inspiration only
after waiting four minutes with nothing landing anywhere on the page
for four minutes, the stand-in is dimmed and labeled 'inspiration ·
sketch pending', and polling continues so the real sketch still swaps
in whenever it arrives. Slots with no inspiration keep the honest
elapsed shimmer instead of folding. The parent's reclaim rule matches:
files landing steadily is health at any pace, and only total silence,
no first file in three minutes, takes the batch back inline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field feedback: with every fact stacked under the media the cards ran
past a screen tall. The front now carries only what the choice needs,
sketch, lineage, title, thesis, identity, and the honest risk clamped
to two lines, while first viewport and the case read on the back behind
a Details chip, sharing the face with the board when the world has one.
Risk stays on the front because the counterweights are pointless if the
downside hides behind a flip, and once the sketch lands the first
viewport is a picture anyway. The schema notes now ask for one-sentence
facts, since a long fact should cost the reader a flip, not the page
its scanability.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A codex field run dealt six challengers into an eight-sketch batch
behind an opaque subagent, and the user stared at a page of shimmer
asking whether anything was happening at all. Four fixes from that run.
A hand now holds at most three challengers, the rest banked for
re-rolls, so fairness within the hand stops multiplying into a queue.
Sketches greek everything but the product's real name and one real
headline, because an invented spec, price, or ship date in a sketch is
a claim PRODUCT.md never made, and comps have solved this for a century.
Sketch production follows the user's reading order with the first file
doubling as the producer's heartbeat, and the parent's --wait loop
checks the sketch directory each pass, reclaiming the batch inline when
two minutes pass with nothing landed. And a failed --start now captures
the daemon's stderr to a per-key log and names the sandbox as the usual
suspect, instead of reporting only that failure occurred. The shimmer
counts its elapsed seconds, and gives up at 150 instead of 300.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three field notes from a live review. The deck now escapes the content
column and runs edge to edge, so a cut-off card sits at the screen edge
where it reads as more cards instead of at an invisible container edge
where it reads as a bug; the first card still aligns with the column
via scroll padding. Whichever side hides more content wears a fade, and
a hard edge means the end. The vertical pager grows from a bare chevron
into labeled Back and More pills, because in a column deck it is the
primary way forward. And hovering the inspiration thumb now takes over
the whole media region instead of a timid zoom; the sketch is the
promise, the inspiration is a glance, and the glance must cost nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field-checked in a real browser, which surfaced three defects the DOM
tests could not: the generic .media img display rule defeated [hidden]
and floated an empty block over the shimmer and its sketching note; the
deal animation left every card at opacity zero in an unfocused tab,
because rAF throttling is real and decoration must never gate content;
and the sketch poll's cache-busting query missed the anchored /img
route, so a landed sketch kept shimmering forever.
The grid is now a snap-scrolling deck: one row in a wide viewport, one
column in a tall one, with edge arrows that appear only on overflow and
page one card at a time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot] repro: a helper that died without removing
server.json leaves a pid the OS can hand to an unrelated process, which
kill(pid, 0) classifies as a running server and routes repo-root helpers
onto the stale app. The liveness check now also requires the pid's
command line to look like a node process (ps-based, platform-guarded),
removing reuse by arbitrary processes; the residual node-reuse case is
covered by the multi-app warning and the --target escape hatch.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The decision page compared unlike things: the grounded direction was a
wall of text beside curated catalog art, the catalog art read as a
promise of the build, the weighing silently shrank the challenger set,
and the standing exit hid in the footer under the cards it must not
soften. Every card now shares one anatomy (thesis, palette chips,
material tags, first viewport, case, risk), every dealt challenger is
presented with the weighing written on it rather than applied to it,
the catalog image rides picture-in-picture as labeled inspiration with
the lightbox a click away, and canonCard renders the category standard
as one honest, subordinate card.
When image generation exists, each card declares a sketch slot the page
polls: serve first, generate after, through one shared deliberately
unfinished frame, so the comparison stays about direction instead of
rendering luck. The asset producer takes the batch when subagents
exist; the chosen sketch returns in ANSWER to seed at most one comp
probe, and the comp round still renders its full set.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
greptile-apps[bot] repro: the multi-app warning recommended --target,
but the helper CLIs never parsed it, so live-poll --target appB still
re-anchored onto the pointer's first choice. enterLiveRoot now consumes
a --target argument (removing it from argv so downstream flag parsers
never see it) and resolves roots against it, making the documented
escape hatch real on every helper. Regression test drives a two-live-app
repo through a child process and asserts both the chdir target and the
argv scrubbing.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]:
- verifyAcceptedSource anchors its param patterns to the exact shapes
live mode writes (data-p-x= / [data-p-x] attributes, var(--p-x, ...)
references) instead of bare prefixes, shrinking the false-positive
class near the completion gate. Note: the reported examples (data-page,
var(--primary)) did not actually match the previous hyphenated
substrings; the tightening removes the residual class (e.g. a user's
own data-p-* attribute) regardless.
- With a non-root Vite base, the /@fs/ fallback is tried both under the
base and at the server root, covering Vite versions that serve @fs at
either location.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]:
- variant_mount_failed now sets the session's pendingEvent (without
clobbering a still-pending generate), so a helper restart replays it
onto /poll and a repair --reply resolves instead of returning
unknown_poll_reply_id. live-resume's next action names the real event
id instead of a literal EVENT_ID placeholder.
- Contract v2 text hydration strips {#key} DELIMITERS from the zip
source (content stays; it always renders), so key blocks can no longer
shift expression slots against the live DOM.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
cursor[bot]:
- enqueueEvent dedupes variant_mount_failed per variant, so a second
broken variant is no longer swallowed while the first is queued.
- Every component (re)injection resets the mount-failure dedupe, so a
republish that is still broken at the same URL reports again instead
of silently convincing the agent the repair landed.
- Toggle baking now mirrors preview truth exactly: the runtime sets
data-p-<id>="on" or removes the attribute, so presence and "on" forms
survive only while on, and any other valued branch (never matched at
preview) is dropped in either state.
greptile-apps[bot] (both P1 repros):
- When several apps qualify at the same resolution tier (two live
servers, or two stopped apps with interrupted sessions), the choice
stays deterministic but is now loud: a stderr warning names the chosen
app, the alternatives, and how to target a specific app. Silent
wrong-app routing was the failure in both repro harnesses.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CI-only astro accept hang: the carbonize source edit triggers a
framework reload, and on a slow runner the reloaded page rehydrated the
still-non-terminal carbonize_required session back into GENERATING,
stranding the bar over a decided comparison. Adoption now uses a
positive allowlist of comparison phases (generate_requested,
variants_ready, generating, cycling); accept/carbonize/steer/manual
phases are agent-side work and never adoptable. Regression guard pins
the allowlist.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
