Aligning to the design system is now non-optional, drift gets named by
root cause (missing token / one-off / conceptual), and a new Information
Architecture & Flow dimension covers the user-flow shape that polish
previously left to chance. Folds the missing pieces from the deprecated
normalize skill into the v3.0.1 changelog bullet rather than a new bump.
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Documents `bun run test:live-e2e`, the IMPECCABLE_E2E_ONLY scope env var,
the IMPECCABLE_E2E_DEBUG diagnostic flag, the one-time
`npx playwright install chromium` setup, and why the suite is kept off
the default `bun run test` path.
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CSP meta-tag auto-patch (live-inject.mjs)
When the user's HTML carries <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy">,
the cross-origin load of /live.js and the SSE/POST stream back to
localhost:PORT are both blocked. Insert: append http://localhost:PORT to
script-src and connect-src, plus blob: to img-src (the shader overlay),
stash the original content value as a base64 data-impeccable-csp-original
attribute. Remove: decode the marker and restore the original verbatim.
Header-based CSP (Next/Nuxt/SvelteKit configs) intentionally untouched —
those flow through the existing detect-csp.mjs reference path.
JSX-aware accept (live-accept.mjs)
- Carbonize stash now emits style={{ display: 'contents' }} for JSX targets
instead of style="display: contents" (HTML form). React 19 was throwing
"Failed to set indexed property [0] on CSSStyleDeclaration" on the
string form because it iterated chars onto the style object.
- extractCss now matches </style> anywhere on a line, not just at line
start. Previously a JSX template-literal close like `}</style> would
leak the backtick + brace into the carbonize stash, breaking JSX.
- Carbonize stash wraps the CSS body in {` … `} for JSX targets so curly
braces in CSS rules don't get parsed as JSX expressions.
Conditional-render UX (live-browser.js)
- Drop the 2s-then-window.location.reload() fallback in the SSE 'done'
handler. That reload was masking a real failure mode: when the picked
element lives inside conditional render (closed modal, hidden tab,
other-route), Fast Refresh remounts the parent and state resets, so
the variants land in source but never reach the DOM. Reload also reset
state to default, leaving the user stuck.
- Replace with a 6s contextual toast: "Variants ready. If the picked
element isn't visible, retrace the path that revealed it — they'll
appear automatically." The MutationObserver stays armed and
auto-transitions to CYCLING once the variants finally mount.
- Pick-time heads-up: when the picked element is inside [role="dialog"],
[data-state="open"], a multi-tab tabpanel, or an aria-expanded
collapsible, fire a brief upfront toast so the user knows what to
expect if state resets during generation.
Hydration race (live-browser.js)
- SvelteKit (and any framework that hydrates after HTML parse) was
failing post-Vite-page-reload because init() ran resumeSession()
before the variant wrapper hydrated into the DOM. The OLD reload
fallback masked this by triggering a second reload whose hydration
benefited from warm cache. Without that, fix it properly: install a
scout MutationObserver in init() that retries resumeSession() once
[data-impeccable-variants] lands in the DOM.
Shader overlay (live-browser.js)
- WebGL fallback in showShaderOverlay used Object.assign(img.style,
canvas.style, …), which throws on modern Chromium because
CSSStyleDeclaration's indexed properties are not writable. Use
cssText to copy positioning instead.
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19 fixtures (11 styling/build variants + 4 conditional-render scenarios + 4
meta-frameworks) drive the entire user flow end-to-end: handshake, pick,
configure, Go, cycle, accept, carbonize cleanup. Each fixture installs real
deps, boots the framework dev server, and runs Playwright Chromium against a
deterministic fake agent that produces realistic variants (colocated style
with @scope rules, full data-impeccable-params manifests covering range +
steps + toggle, JSX/HTML/Svelte syntax-aware rendering).
The agent is pluggable via a one-method interface — generateVariants(event) —
so a future LLM-backed agent slots in by implementing the same shape. The
orchestrator handles wrap, file write, accept, and carbonize cleanup
deterministically regardless of which agent is plugged in.
Schema extensions (tests/framework-fixtures/README.md): runtime block adds
preActions / reloadProbe / pickSelector / scheme / ignoreHTTPSErrors so
fixtures can drive conditional UI (modal, tab, route) before pick and verify
the carbonized variant survives a reload.
Static fixture suite filtered to skip dirs without fixture.json so empty
scaffold dirs no longer break discovery. Total: 178 static checks, 19 E2E
full cycles, ~107s wall clock for the E2E suite.
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The .prose p rule (specificity 0,1,1) was overriding .docs-viz-caption's
intended margin-top, leaving 0px between the caption and the cards/file/
report above it on every docs page that uses the hero block.
Bump specificity with .docs-viz-hero .docs-viz-caption and set
margin: 16px 0 0 so the caption sits 16px below the visual and lets the
hero's 24px padding alone control the bottom gap. Symmetric inside the
cream box.
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public/index.html and public/privacy.html had stale
`<script src="http://localhost:8400/live.js">` scaffolding from a
local /impeccable live session. On impeccable.style (Cloudflare) this
fired Chrome's private-network-access prompt on every page load. The
inject is dev-only; normally stripped by live-server.mjs stop, but
these two slipped through.
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typography.md pointed at SKILL.md's `<font_selection_procedure>` and
`<reflex_fonts_to_reject>` XML tags, which were removed in the v3
consolidation and moved into brand.md as the "Font selection procedure"
and "Reflex-reject list" sections. Agents loading typography.md via the
craft flow were chasing content that no longer existed. Now points at
brand.md with correct section names.
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colorize.md: the brand-register paragraph claimed "a dominant color can own
the page" and "accent rate stays ≤10%" in the same breath. SKILL.md scopes
the ≤10% rule to Restrained only; Committed / Full palette / Drenched
exceed it on purpose, and brand.md explicitly encourages those strategies.
Rewritten to defer to the color-strategy ladder.
critique.md: two cross-references still pointed at "Step 4" / "Step 5"
after those headers were renamed to "Ask the User" / "Recommended Actions".
Swapped the references to the new names so the flow is self-consistent.
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Merged ten tactical items from ehmo/typecraft-guide-skill into the typography
reference at the upstream author's request: dark-mode weight/tracking/leading
compensation, font-display: optional vs swap, preload-critical-weight-only,
variable fonts for 3+ weights, clamp() max-to-min ratio bound, container/
font-size coupling to preserve measure, text-wrap: balance / pretty,
font-optical-sizing: auto, quantified ALL-CAPS tracking (5-12%), and the
paragraph-rhythm rule (space OR indent, never both).
Skipped: platform-specific tables (iOS/Android/print), confidence markers,
severity-graded report format, academic sources, and the punctuation
subsection (em-dash prescription conflicts with the project copy rule).
Attribution lives in NOTICE.md, not inside the skill content.
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Runtime fix in live-browser.js: the 2s static-server fallback in handleAccept
now swaps the outer wrapper with the `[data-impeccable-variant="N"]` div itself
(+ display:contents), matching what live-accept.mjs writes to disk. Scope rules
anchored on the variant attribute keep matching on the non-HMR path, so the
accepted design no longer flashes unstyled until reload. Propagated to all
harness script copies.
/designing:
- §03 Polish redesigned as drenched magenta masthead: commands live in the band,
three title/description columns beneath on cream.
- §04 Maintain redesigned as architectural poster diptych: extract + document
vizzes become the hero element, caption below.
- §05 Interop section removed.
- §05 (was §06) "Pick a register" renamed to "Brand, or product." with a
two-lane hairline-divided layout and an auto-selected framing in the sub.
Live mode status: BETA → ALPHA across the periodic table, magazine spread,
and docs callout, reflecting real-world-testing readiness.
Skill bootstrap: removed the `<post-update-cleanup>` block from source/SKILL.md
(the source repo is the origin; running cleanup-deprecated here would touch
legitimate source). CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md now document the skip.
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/designing §01 is reframed around the words → pictures → code arc.
The phase sub covers teach, shape, and craft in one breath; the body
splits into two labeled micro-steps ("teach · in words" and
"shape + craft · in pictures") so the new image-gen spread reads as
step 2 of the same flow instead of a separate topic. Generated plates
from GPT Image 2 sit as an editorial two-up beside their brand and
hi-fi captions. Also fixes a long-standing font-size mismatch where
<code> inside .designing-phase-sub fell back to the browser's default
monospace.
Homepage: inserts a new "Visualize, then build" slot at position 02 of
The Case carousel, compact two-plate visual, shifts the remaining
eight slots to 03-09.
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Section 7 no longer reads as default-zero: composition-sized targets,
freeform bias toward 1–2 dials on non-tiny surfaces, hard cap of four.
Cross-link freeform to §7 in the action loader; sync all harness copies.
Made-with: Cursor
Top nav was at six items and growing. The anti-patterns catalog and the
visual-mode overlay demo were always two views of the same subject (the
rule set and seeing it caught in place), so collapsing them into one page
reduces nav weight and puts the catalog + live demo next to each other.
Four sections in one scroll: See it (iframe demo), Try it live (specimen
gallery), The catalog (full rule list), Run it yourself (invocation
methods). Sidebar TOC nests the catalog sections under "The catalog" for
deep linking. 301s from the old URLs preserve external links.
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Unify the design-system panel's data shape around DESIGN.md frontmatter
as the primary source of truth; the sidecar carries only what Stitch's
frontmatter schema can't (extensions + live component HTML + narrative).
Also fix a long-standing build bug that destroyed per-project config.
Shape changes:
- Server /design-system.json now returns { parsed, sidecar, hasMd,
hasSidecar, mdNewerThanJson, parseError?, sidecarError? }. No more
mode switching; both layers ship when present and the panel merges.
- Panel consolidates renderSidecarVisual + renderParsedMdVisual into a
single renderDesignVisual that merges frontmatter primitives with
sidecar extensions.colorMeta / typographyMeta. Helpers for color,
typography, radii model-building. Parsed-md narrative synthesis
survives as a fallback when no sidecar.
- DESIGN.json rewritten at schemaVersion 2: extensions.{colorMeta,
typographyMeta, shadows, motion, breakpoints} + components (with
refersTo pointing back to frontmatter component keys) + narrative.
Token primitives no longer duplicated in the sidecar.
Build fix:
- scripts/build.js:634 wiped .claude/skills/ (and every other harness
dir) on each rebuild, then recopied from dist. After commit b0feed0
unbundled per-project config.json from dist, the sync destroyed the
user's live-mode config on every build without replacing it.
- Added stashPerProjectArtifacts / restorePerProjectArtifacts in
scripts/lib/utils.js. Hoisted PER_PROJECT_SCRIPT_ARTIFACTS to a
module-level export so build.js and readSourceFiles share one
source of truth. Build now preserves config.json across the sync.
Verified in browser: panel renders 10 colors, 9 typography roles, 3
shadows, 6 grouped components, 9 rules, 25 do/don't items, all merged
correctly from frontmatter + v2 sidecar with zero console errors.
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Two loopholes in the critique procedure let the model shortcut past its own rigor: "SHOULD delegate" with a broad "if sub-agents are not available" escape, and "Browser visualization (when available)" framing that made the [Human] detector-overlay tab read as optional color. Both get rationalized away under context pressure even though the isolation is what makes the combined score honest and the overlay is the user-facing deliverable.
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Adopt the Stitch google-labs-code/design.md format's two-layer shape:
YAML frontmatter carries machine-readable tokens, prose body covers the
six canonical sections. The sidecar DESIGN.json now extends frontmatter
rather than duplicating it.
- document.md: new frontmatter section, Step 2b staging, sidecar scoped
to extensions, Do's/Don'ts now cite PRODUCT.md anti-references by name,
OKLCH vs hex presented as project posture not mandate.
- design-parser.mjs: tiny YAML-subset reader, exposes model.frontmatter,
schemaVersion bumped to 2, prose-scraping fallback intact.
- live-browser.js: "basic view" CTA copy reflects frontmatter-first model.
- DESIGN.md: add frontmatter with 10 colors, 9 type roles, 7 components;
OKLCH values direct per The OKLCH-Only Rule.
- tests/design-parser.test.mjs: coverage for no-frontmatter, Stitch-shape,
missing-terminator, comment handling.
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New /designing page: the missing "how do I actually use this tool?" story,
organized around a four-phase core loop. Start, iterate, polish, maintain.
Text-dominant editorial sections, cards are rare, spacing pulls from
DESIGN.md's scale only.
Hero runs as a single editorial spread: title and lede on the left,
a compass loop on the right. The compass is a thin ink circle with
cardinal phase labels at N/E/S/W, clockwise arrow glyphs at 45°
transit points, a slow orbiting accent dot, and an italic impeccable
wordmark in the middle. Collapses to vertical stack below 880px.
Phase sections below the hero are full width. Each opens with a
numbered eyebrow, italic Cormorant title (spine), and a 60ch sub.
Appendix sections (register cross-link, DESIGN.md interop, what to
avoid, CTA) use a quieter title tier in roman to separate spine from
supporting material. All separators are 1px mist hairline, no 2px
black rules; rhythm comes from variable padding and margins.
Adds /live-mode hero-frame polish, new top-nav entry (Home · Designing
· Docs · Anti-Patterns · Live · Overlay), footer link, and the server
route for /designing.
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Config drift was a real tripwire for projects with static generators: new
HTML files get added, never make it into config.files, silently skip
injection. Two additions.
config.files entries now accept glob patterns (**, *, ?) expanded via
fs.globSync in live-inject. Multi-page projects can write
["public/**/*.html"] once and never maintain the list again. New optional
exclude field filters out matched files (email templates, demo fixtures).
HARD_EXCLUDES of node_modules and .git are enforced regardless of user
config so vendor trees can never receive a tracking script.
live.mjs now runs a drift scan after inject: walks common page-source
roots (public/, src/, app/, pages/) and reports HTML files not covered
by the resolved inject targets. Respects user excludes so intentional
omissions aren't flagged. Output JSON carries configDrift: { orphans,
orphanCount, hint } or null. live.md documents the agent flow for
surfacing drift to users without auto-mutating the config.
Unbundle config.json from the distributable skill: it's a per-project
artifact, not skill code. readSourceFiles now skips any PER_PROJECT_ARTIFACTS
during source scan so build output to .claude/ .cursor/ etc never ships
one project's inject targets to another's install. The per-harness
copies stay gitignored via the existing **/skills/impeccable/scripts/config.json
rule; each consuming project writes its own on first /impeccable live.
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Without comments or strokes the screenshot is pure visual anchoring,
biasing the model toward the existing rendering and fighting the
three-distinct-directions brief. Local blob still drives the shader
overlay; upload and screenshotPath are gated on annotation presence.
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Step 1 is now skill-only (the outdated "powers visual mode" claim
and the global CLI install are gone). Chrome extension stays at
step 3, the CLI moves to a new optional step 4 with a link to npm,
and "Stay updated" shifts to step 5. Step 2 collapses its three
numbered sub-steps into a compact command/caption table so the
"Use it" panel matches step 1's height instead of towering over it.
Also: keep code chips and the npm link on one line each (nowrap)
so the caption wraps only on natural prose.
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Vertical 8-tab list ate ~430px of viewport on mobile; panel content
sat far below the fold. At ≤900px, the tab list becomes a sticky
horizontal scrollable pill strip (47px tall) under the header, with
edge-fade mask, pill-shaped buttons, ink-filled active state, and
the active pill auto-centered as rotation advances or users tap.
Desktop layout unchanged.
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- why-panel tab swap is a proper opacity+transform crossfade (display:grid
stack area) instead of display:none jump; 650/800ms ease-out.
- tab progress indicator animates linearly (timer, not eased).
- Panel 01: dropped redundant "Every command reads this…" footer; moved the
commands meta into the visual as a right-side sidebar aside PRODUCT.md.
- Panel 02: "Browse the full catalog →" moved under the Gallery of Shame;
pattern category tabs are now always a single-row horizontal scroll with
JS-tracked edge-fade mask and chevron affordances; click centers the
selected tab inside the strip (never scrolls the page).
- Panel 04: "register" → "mode" in body, labels, meta for plain-language.
- Panel 05: removed redundant "Works in Claude Code…" meta.
- Panel 06: removed "Spec-compliant. Interoperable. Not a proprietary
sidecar." meta.
- .language-content grid gap reduced from --spacing-lg to --spacing-sm so
the commands palette sits closer to the section lead.
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Adds a coarse-controls ("Tune") popover that slides out from behind the
contextual bar via clip-path, showing 2-4 per-variant knobs (range / steps /
toggle) driven by a `data-impeccable-params` manifest. Range/toggle drive
CSS custom properties on the variant wrapper; steps toggle a data
attribute. Values reset per variant; on accept, current values are passed
through live-poll to live-accept as an `impeccable-param-values` comment
for the carbonize cleanup step to bake in.
Other live-UI work in this change:
- Theme-aware palette (barPaletteForTheme) now drives the contextual bar,
action picker, and tune popover. Dark sand on light pages, paper on
dark. Detection has a localStorage dev override for QA.
- Action picker chips get inline SVG icons (wand / bars / funnel / sparkle /
type ramp / circles / grid / devices / curve / star / bolt) stacked
above the label; selection state recolors via currentColor.
- Accept button switched to saturated site magenta with paper text.
- Cycle dots reworked: solid accent for active, neutral for arrived,
hairline ring for pending. No more magenta-on-gray noise.
- Tune chip sits in the cycling row with a count pill badge; open state
uses accentSoft bg + accent text (no ad-hoc white border).
- Popover uses the bar's palette with a deeper surface (surfaceDeep),
lives behind the bar via z-index so a 6px overlap reads as tucked under
it, and animates with clip-path inset() for reliable slide behavior.
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- Reorder and relabel all 8 tabs (Prevents AI slop, Brand + Product design, Ships code not mockups, Fluent in DESIGN.md, etc.)
- Flip every panel to title → body → visual → meta so the claim leads and the visual serves as proof
- Move "The Case" section header above the tab layout, matching the other sections
- Let panel visuals span the full right column; cap only the text at 60ch
- Wrap the right-side content in a paper card; strip .why-visual chrome to avoid nested cards
- Add a heading to panel 02 (Prevents AI slop) so it matches the others
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Remove section 03 (The Antidote) entirely as a standalone section.
Bring the original pattern list (patterns-tabbed via /api/patterns)
and gallery-stack-container back intact, and move them into a new
8th tab in The Case: "Anti-patterns, caught". The new tab panel
shows the list + gallery side-by-side on wide viewports, stacked on
narrow. Keeps the existing app.js wiring (renderPatternsWithTabs
and initGalleryStack both auto-discover via IDs).
Section numbers renumbered: Case 04→03, Live 05→04, Install 06→05,
Changelog 07→06, FAQ 08→07. Sticky nav updated to match.
Replaced the tall page-screenshot "before" images with the
self-contained inline visual examples from the /anti-patterns
catalog (VISUAL_EXAMPLES dict). Three before/after pairs:
1. Gradient Text — purple-blue "Build the Future" gradient text vs.
a solid italic Cormorant "Build the future." with magenta emphasis.
2. Side-Tab Cards — the ban signature, thick colored left stripe on
an otherwise neutral card vs. a hairline-bordered card with a mono
kicker and italic title.
3. Hero-Metric Template — the SaaS gradient "10M+" with tiny stats
vs. a single "+18.4%" italic insight with real explanation and
"from checkout fixes" causal tail.
Panels are now ~140px tall (was 4:3 aspect of full-page screenshots),
so the whole section is roughly half as tall. No large images, no
risk of the "Before" screenshots reading as Impeccable output. The
After panels sit on warm cream (brand surface) while the Before
panels use neutral cool white to further distance them visually.
The "wall of three screenshots" alone looked, at a glance, like
examples of pages made WITH Impeccable. Wrong signal. Replace each
card with a vertical before/after pair: anti-pattern screenshot on
top, hand-built refined alternative underneath. Pair labels use
colored pills (before = crimson, after = green) on the image corners
so the contrast is immediate. Three pairs shown:
1. Purple Gradients → warm editorial hero (cream bg, italic serif
title with magenta emphasis word, squared ink CTA, no gradient)
2. Cardocalypse → flat data table (mono labels, display numbers,
green delta, hairline rules between rows, no nested boxes)
3. Hero-Metric Template → one honest insight (single 52px italic
number with percent accent, body explanation mentioning the
actual reason, subtle sparkline)
Lead copy updated: "Before, and what Impeccable steers toward instead."
After mocks are pure inline HTML/CSS — no new image assets needed,
no font dependencies, fully respect brand (Cormorant italic display,
Instrument Sans body, magenta accent, warm cream bg, sharp CTAs).
Previous layout was a wall of text (three numbered stat rows plus a
side gallery). User feedback: "seeing is believing." Drop the stats
entirely, lead with three big anti-pattern screenshots in a 3-up grid
(Purple Gradients / Cardocalypse / Hero-Metric Template), tight
one-line lead above, footer row with "Browse all 25" link + a small
mono meta line that still carries the key claims (deterministic rules,
LLM layer, browser overlay) in a single sentence.
Images use 4:3 aspect, hover lifts them slightly with a magenta-soft
outline glow, labels are italic display face + mono accent number.
The whole section now reads at a glance: headline + three pictures +
one link.
Content: rewrite the stats to actually sell the differentiator.
- Row 1: "25 Named anti-patterns" — vs. the short prose lists in
comparable skills (Anthropic's frontend-design, assorted "AI design"
skills).
- Row 2: "2 Detection layers" — deterministic (source + DOM, no LLM)
+ LLM semantic pass via /impeccable critique.
- Row 3: "3 Surfaces" — CLI for PR gating, Chrome extension on any
page, overlay inside /impeccable critique.
Lead copy amplified: "list a handful of don'ts in a document and hope
the model remembers" vs. "actively detects them."
Layout: grid-template-columns is now minmax(0, 1fr) minmax(320px,
420px), align-items: start. The row fills the section's full width,
left column sits left-aligned against the intro text, gallery stays
to the right in its natural 320-420px range. Stat numbers shifted
to magenta accent + bolder 3rem italic, rows separated by a dashed
hairline, with bold ink lead-words ("Named anti-patterns" etc.) in
the descriptions for scannability.
- Drop the black rule above the support list (it read as a hard hat
over the column).
- Drop the phase-caption strip below the frame (the demo already
carries its own state visually; the narrated loop underneath was
noise).
- Rewrite the four support cells with stronger POV:
- Start: the actual commands, /impeccable live and stop.
- Your agent, your code: emphasises that it's the same AI you've
been working with, reading your real project context, generating
real edits.
- Accept = write: canvas-like iteration, production output. The
point almost no other AI design tool can claim.
- Skill-native: no external tools or IDE extensions, works across
every harness the skill targets.
- Drop CSP-patch bullet (edge case, not worth homepage real estate).
- Drop the "Accepts into ... via HMR" framing — accepts work because
of the skill loop, not because of HMR per se.
Four responses to feedback:
1. Language: fold "Pick any command to see it in action / Full command
reference →" into the section-lead. The whole commands-header row
is gone; the fisheye panel now sits much closer to the lead copy.
2. Antidote: full two-column editorial split. Left column carries the
lead + a three-row stats block (25 / 6 / 3) and the "Browse full
catalog" CTA as a squared editorial link. Right column is the
Gallery of Shame card stack. No more empty right-of-gallery void.
3. The Case: tab labels switch from Cormorant italic serif to body
sans. Tab numbers stay mono. Less aesthetic noise, cleaner reading.
4. Live Mode:
- Layout split: the frame now sits in the left column with its
caption; the support list ("Works on / Accepts into / CSP /
Overlay") moves to a narrow right column, rule-delimited, with
magenta-kicker-above-ink style per cell. Under the support list
on desktop, stacks on mobile.
- Skeleton page: nav bar (logo + 3 links + CTA) plus heading +
body lines drawn in at 30% opacity behind the target card, so
the iteration reads as "I clicked an element on an actual page."
- Variant cards rewritten with distinct design language per card:
V1 editorial column (rule-top, italic display, text-link button),
V2 brutalist ink ticket (ink slab, magenta accent stripe, stamp
glyph, sans bold), V3 playful dashed postcard (stickers, italic
Cormorant, pill CTA). The demo now actually shows three visually
different directions instead of three similar cards.
Antidote (task b): drop the duplicated pattern tabs (content lives on
/anti-patterns for the full list). Keep the Gallery of Shame as the
signature visual and add a "Browse the full catalog" link underneath.
Section is roughly 40% shorter vertically.
Live Mode demo (task faithful): rewrite to match the real picker flow
one-for-one. Now two separate bars:
- Global bar: dark pill, bottom of the frame, persistent for the
whole session. / + Pick (active) + Detect + DESIGN.md + divider + ✕.
- Contextual bar: LIGHT paper-backed pill that floats above the
picked element, mirroring buildConfigureRow() in live-browser.js.
Dark command pill, transparent input, ×N count, magenta Go button.
Morphs through configure → generating (spinner) → cycling (prev /
counter / next / discard / Accept) → accepted (green ✓ written to
source).
Contextual bar positions itself below the target when space allows,
else above. New JS positionCtx() mirrors the real positionBar()
logic. prefers-reduced-motion still freezes on a representative
"cycling, variant 3" still.
Timeline unchanged in steps but step captions updated to match the
new two-bar split ("Contextual bar appears." etc.).
Two homepage tweaks:
- Section 02 (The Language) gets a pill-style Palette / Periodic view
toggle at the top-right of the intro row. Palette (fisheye command
gallery) is default; Periodic (the periodic table) is behind a tab
click. Collapses the section's vertical footprint substantially
without losing the signature periodic-table visualization.
- Section 04 renamed "Why Impeccable" → "The Case". Matches the
editorial voice of "The Language" / "The Antidote" / "The Editors"
(changelog signature). Sticky nav label Case.
Section 05 is now "Live Mode" with a self-contained real-DOM animated
demo loop. Browser chrome + stage + picker bar + simulated cursor,
running through the full Live Mode flow:
hover → outline → click → open command picker → pick "delight" →
type "more playful" → draw stroke → Go → generating → three
variants cycled → accept → write-to-source confirmation → reset
Three distinct card variants morph in place so the cycling reads as
real iteration, not a slideshow of the same card. Picker bar states
(idle / configuring / generating / cycling / accepted) are driven by
data-phase and matching CSS selectors. Simulated cursor animates
between targets on an expo-out curve; annotations draw a scribble
stroke and pop a comment tag. IntersectionObserver gates the timeline
so it only plays while visible, and prefers-reduced-motion freezes
on a cycling / variant 3 still.
Supporting row below the frame adds the three honest limitations:
frameworks supported (Vite/Next/SvelteKit/Astro/Nuxt), writes to real
source via HMR, CSP-strict apps get a one-time dev-only patch.
Top-nav rename "Visual Mode" → "Overlay" (points at /visual-mode
which is still the overlay-focused sub-page). Sticky section-nav
updated too.
New file: public/js/components/live-demo.js with the timeline driver.
Three polish items on the Why Impeccable section:
- Move the "04 / Why Impeccable" section header into the left column
next to the tab list. The right-side panel now aligns vertically
with the heading instead of sitting offset below it.
- Replace the outer border-top + per-tab border-bottom with an
adjacent-sibling combinator (li + li). No more hairline above the
first tab or below the last one.
- Rework the active-state progress bar. Previously the is-active
border-left-color was fully magenta, which hid the countdown
animation underneath it. Now the active state is driven entirely
by a 2px progress column that either sits full-height (paused or
user-selected) or fills from top to bottom over the cycle window
on a gentle ease curve. The countdown is actually visible now.
Default browser focus-visible ring was a heavy blue outline that
clashed with the dark capsule. Inject a palette-aware inner box-shadow
ring (accentSoft + accent) scoped to the global bar buttons via a
one-time <style> tag. Keeps keyboard focus visible without the
visual noise.
Previously Escape while picking just hid the highlight and set state
to IDLE, leaving the global bar's Pick button visually active. Next
pick attempt fell into a broken state where the button looked on but
no picker ran. Route through togglePick() so the flag, the button,
the UI, and the state all flip together.
Small copy fix on Why panel 04: Figma stamp now reads "last touched
Q3 2025" (was 2024; should reflect closer to the current calendar).
Previous hardening emitted a 7-line todo array and a 10-line ASCII-bar
stderr banner on every accept event, both printed to the agent's
transcript. Per-event overhead added up fast on multi-variant sessions.
Keep the three-layer defence but shrink the per-event noise:
- todo is now a single string: "REQUIRED before next poll: carbonize
cleanup in FILE. See reference/live.md ..."
- stderr is one line with the same pointer.
- reference/live.md keeps the full five-step checklist (loaded once
per session, so its verbosity is a fixed cost — no repetition tax).
Attention signal still triple-redundant: stdout todo, stderr line,
reference section.
After an LLM-triggered session where the carbonize cleanup got skipped
entirely (the instruction was buried as a single bullet among four
cases in live.md, and `_acceptResult.handled: true` felt like a
"done" signal), add three redundant reinforcements:
1. live-accept.mjs now emits a `todo` array on the event payload when
carbonize is true, listing all five cleanup steps plus a pointer to
reference/live.md. The agent reads this as part of the event JSON.
2. live-poll.mjs prints a loud multi-line stderr banner on every
carbonize=true event. Even agents that parse only stdout JSON see
stderr output and can't treat the event as handled without action.
3. reference/live.md pulls the carbonize branch out of the "Handle
accept" bullet list into a dedicated "Required after accept
(carbonize)" section with a numbered five-step checklist, a
rationale paragraph for why skipping is bad, and an explicit
"do not poll again until the file is clean" instruction.
The three layers are deliberately redundant: a future LLM that ignores
the reference text should still be caught by the stderr banner or the
in-event todo, and vice versa.
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 4.7
