The composition pool (stagings) is not ready: too thin to help, and its
draws crowd the decision it rides along with. concept-seed.mjs stops
rendering the staging block by default; IMPECCABLE_COMPOSITIONS=1
re-enables it for catalog development, and the draw machinery,
rating-weighted selection, and mode scoping stay intact and tested for
its return. new-work.md drops the dress-the-staging-challengers
instruction and the FORM contract's staging clauses; the surface-scope
roll still assigns which of the model's own structures gets built.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The area taxonomy was wrong, and wrong in a way worth recording. It was
derived from Mobbin-style categories in the abstract rather than from what
the skill can be asked for, and measured against the catalog most of it
described problems that were not there: onboarding, settings, empty-state and
search each had zero entries.
Reframed against demand instead. A user asks for a docs site, an onboarding
flow, a landing page, or a data table, and those differ in how much of the
product is in play. Register already says what kind of work it is; grain says
how much: product, flow, view, region.
Named grain rather than scope because scope already means direction-or-surface
on every roll and 'surface' is already a register value, so a scope of
'surface' would have collided with both.
Platform is the second axis: web, ios, android. Unlike grain it is a hard
filter with no fallback, because a composition that leans on hover or a
pointer does not degrade on a phone into something slightly worse, it stops
working, and an empty deal is a visible gap where a broken one is not.
Both fields are optional and absence means eligible everywhere, so nothing
needs backfilling and no existing roll changes.
The third piece is the one a trace turned up. Asking for an onboarding flow
resolves to register=operate, grain=flow, and the catalog holds zero
flow-grain compositions, so the top-up would have dealt three plausible
single-screen compositions with no signal that none matched. The model would
have improvised the flow structure while believing it was handed one, which is
the same silent plausibility the axis exists to remove. Selection now returns
a match alongside the picks, and the rendered seed says when the structure is
borrowed and why.
Measured at the time of writing: 137 of 173 approved compositions are view
grain, product grain is empty, flow grain holds one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
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>
Paul reproduced the Opus smoke failure in a fresh repo: given a
natural-language build intent, the model runs concept-seed directly and
skips the init divert entirely, so PRODUCT.md never exists and nothing
grounds the challenger fusion. Prose already says init-first in both
SKILL.md routing and new-work.md; prose alone does not hold the floor.
The deal path now refuses with a NO_PRODUCT_MD directive routing to
reference/init.md when loadContext finds no PRODUCT.md. The --chosen
telemetry ping stays ungated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ship40 concept pipeline had reversed the proven a-series mechanisms:
the seed's roll decayed into a shortlist nomination that taste functions
(model ranking, candidate floor, simulated user) then argmaxed into the
safest card; the costume check returned as the Translation veto and
carrier-removal test; and the 07-15 rewrite deleted the calibration,
reflex-font lanes, color strategies, and commit-every-atom language that
had held off the cream-editorial default since the alpha era. Five of six
frozen craft directions converged on the same warm-paper family and both
builders obeyed them.
This lands the repair on top of the in-progress simplification:
- new-work.md: the script assigns the build index again on both scopes;
catalog challengers are fused (challenger supplies form and grammar,
product supplies every fact, clarity wins conflicts) and weighed on the
two proven axes only; attended runs present one fully committed
direction with re-roll and an optional steer instead of a ranked
lineup; the color-strategy picker, reflex-face list, saturated-look
calibration, first-viewport thesis and memory test, commit-every-atom,
scroll pacing, and prove-don't-claim return; the direction contract
returns as five lean blocks audited by the separate-agent finish.
- concept-seed.mjs: PROMOTED INDEX becomes ASSIGNED INDEX with
build-assignment semantics; self re-roll only on named factual grounds.
- craft-floor.md: hook-active sessions act on findings instead of
re-auditing; the Refuse list is framed as category defaults the brief
can earn; a closing commitment line keeps a ban list from being the
last word before code.
- codex.md / shape.md: contract references restored for flow coherence.
Adopts the concurrent session's ceremony cuts, softened challenger
instruction, seed SOURCE IDs and --candidate-count, detector-ownership
fix, and the removal of the hook-side contract audit (the audit now
belongs to the separate reviewer at finish).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A single staging input was too weak a counterweight to the model's
habitual page skeleton: beside six identity challengers it read as one
optional flourish rather than a real search over composition. Roll three
from distinct staging families so a roll tests materially different
hierarchy, sequence, and interaction laws.
selectApprovedStagings replaces the single-pick selector; the old
selectApprovedStaging stays as a count-1 wrapper for smoke tests. Re-rolls
exclude every earlier set, and an absent mode still returns nothing rather
than falling back across modes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The public repo keeps the OSS promise surface: skill, CLI, extension,
tests, and the provider build. The site, labs, concept/composition
catalogs, image pipeline, Cloudflare functions, and authoring guide move
to pbakaus/impeccable-site.
concept-seed tests run against a synthetic fixture catalog; the plugin
icon and skill categories moved in-repo; build validation narrows to
README prose and non-site counts; release notes read from a sibling
impeccable-site checkout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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