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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- 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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Biggest change in a while. Users previously had 18 standalone skill
entries cluttering their /menu; now they have one entry (/impeccable)
that routes to 20 specialized commands via argument dispatch. The pin
mechanism (/impeccable pin audit) restores standalone shortcuts on
demand for commands users hit all the time.
## Architecture
- Single /impeccable skill with command router section in SKILL.md
- 20 commands served via reference files under source/skills/impeccable/reference/
- /impeccable pin <command> creates a lightweight redirect shim so users
who prefer /audit, /polish, etc. can still have them
- Context gathering (teach) auto-runs on first use
- command-metadata.json is the single source of truth for command
descriptions, argument hints, and relationships
## Site rewrite
- Docs URL: /skills renamed to /docs (with /skills permanent redirects)
- Homepage hero frames Impeccable as "one skill with 20 commands"
- "Get Started" split into 50/50 install + how-to-use with editorial
numbered steps, /impeccable shown as the home command with three modes
- New /docs overview: home command hero card + dense category rows
matching the old cheatsheet density, with leads-to/pairs-with/
combines-with relationship metadata served from a shared source
- Cheatsheet merged into /docs, /cheatsheet redirects
- Magazine spread and mobile cards show /impeccable as a stacked
namespace label above the command name at full display size
- Periodic table updated with craft/teach/extract as first-class cells
- Skill detail pages generate from reference files, with an editorial
wrapper per command for tagline + body
- Tutorials and anti-patterns pages updated to use /impeccable <cmd>
## Build system
- Dead code removed (scripts/lib/transformers/shared.js)
- Build log wording fixed ("1 skill" not "1 skills (1 user-invocable)")
- generateApiData fallback branch removed (throws loudly if metadata
missing instead of silently degrading)
- Commands API includes editorial tagline alongside the long description;
UI surfaces prefer tagline for human display, description for auto-
trigger keyword matching
## Gitignore
- Added .claude/scheduled_tasks.lock, .claude/settings.local.json to
ignore list (local Claude Code state that should not be tracked).
- Harness skill directories (.claude/skills/, .agents/skills/, etc.)
remain tracked by design: npx skills reads them from this repo at
install time and they enable clean submodule use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 'In the wild' section at the bottom of /anti-patterns was
mischaracterizing synthetic fixtures as real examples and was buried
deep in a taxonomy of detection rules. The specimens belong somewhere
that frames them as what they actually are: live pages you can click
into to experience Visual Mode. Split them off into a new top-level
page that also finally gives Visual Mode first-class treatment.
- New /visual-mode page, top-level nav item, single-column layout (no
sidebar). Structure:
1. Editorial header with an "Live detection overlay" eyebrow.
2. Live iframe embed of visual-mode-demo.html inside mac-window
chrome, same preview component the homepage uses.
3. "Three ways to run it" section with three method cards:
- /critique runs the overlay inside its browser pass
- `npx impeccable live` starts a standalone overlay server
- Chrome extension, marked coming soon, with a cream bg
4. "Try it live" gallery of the 11 synthetic specimens as
clickable cards. Each links to /antipattern-examples/{id}.html
where the detector script is already injected so the reader
lands on a live overlay.
- scripts/build-sub-pages.js: new renderVisualModeMain(); visualMode
added to outDirs; generator loop writes /visual-mode/index.html.
- server/index.js: new /visual-mode route serving the generated file.
- Top nav on every page gains 'Visual Mode' between Anti-Patterns
and the GitHub pill. Updated the partial + all 4 hand-authored
HTML pages.
- .gitignore adds public/visual-mode/.
- /anti-patterns: 'In the wild' section and its TOC entry removed.
Replaced with a one-line pointer at the end of the lede: "Want to
see them live on real pages? Try Visual Mode." GALLERY_ITEMS stays
in the catalog file (now used by /visual-mode only).
- public/css/sub-pages.css: new .visual-mode-page-body + .visual-mode-*
classes. Ports the mac-window chrome (dots + mono title) from
main.css, adds three-card method grid, and reuses the existing
.gallery-card styles for the specimen list.
Clean up a few em-dashes in the catalog (block comments + one visible
visual example) so the build-time validator stays clean.
Server restart required to pick up the new /visual-mode route.
Two fixes from the review.
1. Rule id chip hidden. The internal slugs (e.g. 'border-accent-on-rounded')
are not useful to readers, only to detector code. Drop the
.rule-card-id element from the card head entirely. The DOM id on
the article stays so rules can still be anchor-linked.
2. Merge /gallery into /anti-patterns and drop 'Gallery' from the nav.
'Gallery' in the top nav reads as 'things built with impeccable'
when it is actually a curated collection of AI-generated UI in the
wild — the complement to the rule catalog above.
- Add GALLERY_ITEMS to content/site/anti-patterns-catalog.js
(11 entries, same ids and copy as the old gallery.html)
- Render a new 'In the wild' section at the bottom of
/anti-patterns with a card grid of the 11 specimens, each linking
to its standalone live example under /antipattern-examples/{id}.html
- New .gallery-card CSS: square thumbnail, italic display title,
charcoal body, hover lifts the card and tints the title accent
- Add an 'In the wild' entry to the anti-patterns TOC sidebar so
readers can jump to it
- Drop the 'Gallery' link from the top-level nav in the shared
header partial and the 4 hand-authored HTML pages. The old
/gallery route still serves its page directly (for bookmarked
links), but the nav no longer advertises it and the gallery page
itself now marks Anti-Patterns as the active nav item.
Two small-to-medium improvements bundled together.
1. Copy buttons on every rendered code block.
- render-markdown.js: wrap each fenced code block in a .code-block-wrap
container and emit a <button class="code-block-copy" data-copy="...">
alongside it. Button text is set via CSS ::before content so the
'Copy' / 'Copied' label is a single toggle class (.is-copied).
- render-page.js: 12-line inline script at the end of the body wires
a delegated click handler that calls navigator.clipboard.writeText
and flips .is-copied for 1.5s.
- sub-pages.css: button styles matching the dark terminal palette,
hidden until you hover the code block, accent-colored success state.
2. Merge Skills and Tutorials under a single Docs nav item.
- Rename the Skills nav link to 'Docs' in every header (partial +
4 hand-authored pages). Drop the separate Tutorials nav item; it
now lives inside Docs. Anti-patterns stays as its own top-level.
- scripts/build-sub-pages.js: replace renderSkillsSidebar and
renderTutorialsSidebar with a unified renderDocsSidebar that shows
every skill category followed by a Tutorials group. Takes a
current descriptor of shape { kind: 'skill'|'tutorial', id|slug }
so both skill detail and tutorial detail pages can mark the active
row. activeNav on every /skills/* and /tutorials/* page is now
'docs'; the shared site header's data-nav matches.
Verified: /skills/polish and /tutorials/getting-started both render
with the unified Docs sidebar (all 21 skills grouped by category +
both tutorials as a final group). The Docs nav item is aria-current
on both. Copy buttons appear on every fenced code block and toggle
to 'Copied' when clicked.
Builds on the /skills overview landing. Every skill detail page now lives
inside the same sticky-sidebar shell, with the active skill marked via
aria-current and pulled out of the list with a 2px accent border.
- scripts/build-sub-pages.js: detail pages now wrap the .skill-detail
body in wrapInDocsLayout() and pass currentSkillId into the sidebar
renderer so the active row is marked
- public/css/sub-pages.css sidebar pass:
- Narrow from 260px to 200px (was way too wide for the content)
- Drop the redundant "Skills" label at the top (it was visually
competing with the category titles); keep the node for a11y via
visually-hidden styling
- Group titles shrink to 0.625rem mono uppercase in --color-ash so
they read as quiet signposts, not headings
- Tighten item line-height to 1.5 and vertical padding to 3px
- Replace the box-shadow inset accent with a border-left accent on
the active item, leaving it visually pulled left
- Simplify .skill-detail sizing so it works inside .skills-main
without its own max-width / padding
- Ban em dashes in user-facing copy everywhere:
- Rewrite 9 copy lines in index.html, 2 title tags in gallery.html,
inline category descriptions, the /skills overview lede + how-to,
two skills-generator comments, one aria-label, and the page titles
for Skills and skill detail pages
- New validateNoEmDashes step in scripts/build.js scans content/site,
public/*.html, and the sub-page generator sources. Build fails on
any — or — in user-facing copy. Uses commas, colons, periods,
or parentheses instead
Build green: all 26 HTML entrypoints bundle cleanly, all four hand-authored
pages retain the shared site header, anti-pattern rules still match
SKILL.md, zero em dashes.
- Kill double underlines on nav items and brand: scope '.site-header a
{ text-decoration: none }' more specifically so the page-level 'a'
rule in main.css can't bleed through
- Add an inline SVG logo mark next to the 'Impeccable' wordmark (reuses
the favicon.svg glyph, inlined so Bun's HTML loader doesn't try to
bundle '/favicon.svg' from a non-relative path)
- Add a subtle GitHub star pill (icon + 17k + small star) at the far
right of the header; replaces the bare 'GitHub' nav text link
- Remove the duplicate .github-link floater from the hero on the landing
page; the header pill is the single place for the stars signal now
- Mobile: stop nav items from wrapping mid-word; lower the breakpoint
to 820px; enable horizontal scroll with a mask fade on the right;
hide the 'Home' link on mobile (the brand is already the home link);
hide the brand wordmark below 480px (logo glyph alone); hide the 17k
label inside the github pill on mobile (keep the icon + star)
Groundwork for new /skills, /anti-patterns, /tutorials sections.
No user-visible changes yet — this is pure plumbing.
- Split main.css into tokens.css (design tokens + reset, ~100 lines) and
main.css (everything else, imports tokens.css). Lets sub-pages import
only tokens without pulling in the landing-page component CSS.
- Add marked as a dependency.
- Add scripts/lib/render-markdown.js: marked wrapper with a custom link
resolver (skill slugs, reference/*.md anchors, external rel=noopener),
stable heading slugger, and terminal-style code blocks.
- Add scripts/lib/render-page.js: page shell wrapper that injects the
shared site header partial with aria-current marking.
- Add content/site/partials/header.html: shared site header with nav
(Home / Skills / Anti-Patterns / Tutorials / Gallery / GitHub).
- Add public/css/sub-pages.css: shared styles for generated pages, with
.site-header styling (sticky, backdrop blur, accent-underlined active
nav item) and mobile collapse.
Build still produces the same 104 KB landing-page CSS chunk; tests pass.
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 4.7