Add repeated production annotation timing, real app-server cache telemetry, the context-delta decision, and correct --judge=false handling.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Keep short crash-recovery leases without allowing a healthy worker to queue its own generation twice, and surface non-monotonic benchmark journals as errors.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Replaces the a14/a15 attempts (both deleted). Diagnosis: incentive
stacking; the placeholder-completion MUST plus the image tool turned
'bolder' into full-bleed photo insertion. Scope preservation is the
missing rule, not imagery policy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Return after a durable starting record, overlap app-server initialization with page startup, dynamically reclaim generation after worker failure, and cap hard-crash leases at 15 seconds.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
x02 a14 rerun: 3/3 samples still imported photos — the unscoped MUST in
the Persuade mode block overrode the existing-worlds principle. Scoping
keeps the greenfield ablation win, frees iteration asks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove stale and contradictory experiments, order the surviving decisions by impact, and replace synthetic claims with current production evidence.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Replace stale startup and synthetic claims with production browser timing, matched architecture comparisons, Accept latency, and honest run counts.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
x02-tidewater-bolder eval: 3/3 skill-on samples imported photography into
a photo-free seed system (0% arena vs competitor, which amplified the
seed's own vocabulary instead). One sentence, shape-level, no examples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Count variants only inside the active generation wrapper so deferred carbonize markers cannot create false fast-path results.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Exercise accepting the first progressive variant, immediately preparing another task, and receiving its first result through the independent Codex worker.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Let the browser E2E harness launch an independent production worker, exercise real sub-command selection, and carry realistic product/design context.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Validate and transactionally publish complete structured agent messages as soon as they arrive while retaining turn-completion serialization for subsequent phases.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Journal and stream dedicated worker phases so Live distinguishes first-variant design and validation from remaining-direction work without adding pollable events.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Compare direct Sol execution with cold and persistent app-server paths using identical full-task quality gates, lifecycle timings, and token metrics.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Update Live Lab and the Live reference with the default Sol worker, full-task quality gate, Spark control, cold readiness, and production architecture.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
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>
Route the full-context benchmark through production worker inputs and preserve established shared-control visual roles during variant amplification.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Default Codex to a dedicated Sol/medium app-server worker with native skill and image inputs, inherited project context, bounded source neighborhood evidence, and progressive context refresh. Other harnesses retain the portable foreground path.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Benchmark realistic bolder and polish tasks across fast, full-model, and full-context worker profiles with deterministic and independent quality gates.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Introduce a Live-owned app-server supervisor with progressive fenced publishing, partitioned control polling, cancellation and recovery safety, and measured integration coverage.
AI-assisted implementation under maintainer direction.
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>
Transcript evidence (a12 01-observability): plans commit and deliver on
the axes with contract-strength language (palette, type, even theme
inversion) and stay default on the axis without one (layout gets a
single conventional breath). And plans living in invisible reasoning
means nothing can hold a build to its intent. The direction is now
written as a comment block at the top of the artifact answering: the
concept, the hour-later memory, why not the modal competitor page, the
signature, the first viewport's move. Critics and evals can score
delivery-against-contract; a mood is not an answer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Measure framework and provider latency, enforce fidelity and cleanup gates, and publish reproducible results on the dev-only Live Lab.\n\nAI-assisted: OpenAI Codex.
Paul's a10 review: palettes are refreshed (the palette-exclusivity
line's fingerprint) while layouts stay boring in every version. Same
cure, same shape: the layout has exactly two legitimate sources, the
concept or the content's own structure; the category's habitual
skeleton is neither.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul's a11 review: heroes are safe SaaS viewports, everything
predictable; mobile Operate ships dark despite a brief that specifies
outdoors-in-motion use. Decide-then-build now opens with three
one-line directions differing in concept (the instinctive pick that
any studio would reach for is the default wearing your name); the
Operate mode adds: the usage scene is part of the spec, the theme
follows the scene, not the category's habit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Paul: rather than gating a second file, fold what made the craft
path superior into the file both models already read 21/21 through the
gate. new-work.md gains 'Decide, then build' (direction as one
confirmable paragraph; attended pauses, unattended records-and-goes;
codex.md mock flow when image generation exists) and 'Finish like a
studio' (inspect, honest critique, patch, detector). craft becomes a
deprecated alias like teach: invoking it forces attended checkpoints,
nothing else differs; the reference is a redirect stub. codex.md
retargeted. Existing-world feature builds remain governed by the core
floor (unmeasured path, noted in the plan doc).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Invocation A/B on Fable (a9 craft-path vs a9-direct plain): the plain
path scored 38% vs the competitor against the craft path's 50%, and
brief fidelity collapsed to 14% vs bare — the direct path drops asked-
for features that craft's direction step and engineering bar preserve.
Routing now sends any build request through the craft orchestration
unprompted (its gates pause only when a user can respond), and the
craft floor gains a brief-coverage recheck: every requirement the brief
names must exist on the page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
a7 transcript evidence: 01-observability samples drew orange-honey and
green seeds, recited the color-strategy menu, and shipped dark
category-reflex palettes anyway; the model applied the subject's
workmanlike grammar to its own landing page. Two generic lines: the
mode belongs to the surface, not the subject (a landing page for a
dense tool is still Persuade; deciding a page can be plain because its
subject is workmanlike is the category error in reverse), and the
palette has exactly two legitimate sources (seed or the subject's
world; the category's habitual palette is neither).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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