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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	dcd4efcea0	refactor(design): retire /design — a surface that could only inspect itself ... The design surface is for the projects an install tracks. /design read the running app's own stylesheet — names out of a bundled theme.css, values out of getComputedStyle(document.documentElement) — so it could only ever describe the instance serving the page. Scribe is one project among the projects Scribe tracks; it gets no view hardcoded into every install. The mechanism that makes this a tool rather than a mirror already existed and already covers Scribe: scripts/check_design_tokens.py runs in CI against a sheet path it knows nothing about, using check_code_against_tokens — the same engine behind check_snippets_against_system. /design was redundant even here. Removed: DesignView, DesignTabs (nothing left to tab between), api/design.ts, routes/design.py and its blueprint, the /design route, ui_design_system() and its setting, and the Settings picker that designated "this app's UI". utils/designTokens.ts and utils/designDrift.ts go with it — between them they were the browser-reading half. What survives is utils/designValues.ts, which works on a record rather than a document: valueForMode, modesPresent, and resolveDeclared. resolveDeclared gained real isolation in the move. Custom properties inherit and `all: initial` does not reset them, so a probe sitting in this page would resolve any reference a record leaves undeclared against the SURROUNDING app's tokens — previewing another project's system would quietly borrow this one's palette wherever that system was incomplete, and a token already reported under unknown_refs would render as though it were fine. Undeclared references are now blanked on the probe first, so they resolve to nothing, which is what the record says they are. Migration 0075 absorbs ui_design_system_id alongside design_rulebook_id rather than an 0076 undoing it: 0075 has not run anywhere, since dev is unmerged and deploys come from main. Both keys named a design source for the running install, and a project already carries its own pointer. This retires the agreement panel shipped yesterday. It asked whether the sheet was actually loaded and applied — the one question a record cannot answer about itself — but only ever about the app you are already inside. Nothing replaces it; recorded in #2430 rather than quietly dropped. Step 1 of milestone #274. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-04 10:35:52 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	5b824c1626	feat(design): the panel now asks whether the app agrees with its own sheet ... Retiring rulebook #2 left the /design drift panel with no data source, and because its empty state was well-written the feature read as working while it could only ever render "nothing designated" (#2419). The original question is genuinely gone: theme.css is generated from design system 2, so checking the system against a sheet derived from it would be a tautology. The question that survives is the one no server can answer. A generated sheet still has to be LOADED and APPLIED, and nothing checked that it was: absent the record declares a token the app doesn't have — the sheet was never regenerated after the record changed, or never loaded differs the app has it with another value — a stale sheet, or a later rule that overrode it unrecorded the app declares a token in the record's own family that the record has never heard of Both sides go through the same engine so the comparison is honest: declared values are set on an offscreen probe and read back, which performs the same var() substitution the browser already did to the live values. Comparing raw strings would mark every derived token as drift. The designation moved with the feature — design_rulebook_id becomes ui_design_system_id, with a migration deleting the retired key rather than leaving an inert row. The prose extractor it fed goes too (#2288 said its runtime role ended when the import landed). Three orphans of the same shape, found alongside and fixed here: - darkOverriddenNames hardcoded [data-theme="dark"]. The sheet went dark-first months ago, so it matched nothing and the "mode-aware" flag silently left the gallery. Now matches the SHAPE of a mode selector, which also holds for an install whose modes aren't light and dark. - groupFor's prefix table never heard of --fs-, so 110 tokens sat under "other". Groups now come from the record where there is one; the table can only know families that shipped with the product (rule #115). - The type scale was a hand-written table of nine sizes marked "no token", true when written and false since the scale was recorded. Now rendered from whatever size tokens the sheet declares, so it can't go stale twice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 20:50:03 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	22f907c44d	feat(design): offer starter token ROLES at creation, never values ... A literal gets written into a stylesheet when there is no role to reach for. This codebase demonstrated it: the house style had no "text on a filled colour" role, so 76 call sites wrote a pure-white literal — not out of defiance, but because nothing existed to write instead. The correction was not a better ban list; it was declaring the missing role (#2275, #2349). So the useful moment is creation. A system whose roles are named on day one never presents the occasion. Ten groups, ~40 roles: surface, text, action, semantic, border, accent, radius, space, motion, state. Operator's call was one flat list, every group individually skippable — presets keyed to app shape (web / CLI / docs) were rejected because they need the product to hold opinions about app categories, and a wrong category is worse than a list someone prunes once. TWO BOUNDARIES THIS HAS TO HOLD, both rule #115: - The ROLES ship; the VALUES never do. Every seeded token has an empty value_by_mode, so a fresh system is a set of named, deliberately-unanswered questions. A test asserts no hex appears anywhere in the module — not just that tokens are blank, but that no palette hides in a comment waiting to be pasted in. - The PREFIX is the install's. `--fs-` is FabledSword's convention, not the product's; the default is a neutral `--ds-` and callers pass their own. Valueless roles are already legible downstream — render_stylesheet emits them as commented-out declarations and stylesheet_for_system reports them under `valueless` (#2299) — so "declared but undecided" reads correctly with nothing new built. Both surfaces, per rule #33: MCP gains starter_role_groups/token_prefix plus list_starter_role_groups(); REST gains the same on POST plus GET /api/design-systems/starter-roles. The parity enumeration is extended rather than loosened. Note create_design_system treats None and [] alike (seed nothing), while starter_tokens treats None as "all". Deliberate: creation must never write 40 rows into a system whose caller never asked, and the everything-checked default belongs in the UI where the operator can see it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:37:20 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	731ca284c3	feat(design-systems): give a design system a way to reach the session ... Storing a design system never made a session aware of one. Rules get pushed into every session by the SessionStart hook and returned by enter_project; a design system had neither, so its standards were reachable only by an agent that already knew to call resolve_design_system — the same silent failure as a token nobody declares. That gap was invisible while the operator's visual standards also lived in a rulebook. Retiring that rulebook (which is what this unblocks) would have deleted design guidance from every session with nothing to say so. - services/design_systems.design_context() — the delivery side. Guidance is chain-merged ANCESTOR-FIRST: a child system holds only what it CHANGES, so its own guidance describes a departure from a house style it never restates, and the leaf alone is a fragment. Tokens are summarised (count + group names), not listed — a hundred declarations would crowd out the context they are meant to inform. - enter_project returns `design_system`, null when the project has none. - The SessionStart context gains a Design system block with pointers to the values, alongside the always-on rules. - server.py's entity list gains Design system, including the negative: do NOT record one as a rulebook, because a token kept as prose cannot be resolved, inherited, rendered or checked. - The rulebook-tier passage used "a design-system rulebook" as its worked example of a subscribed rulebook — it now teaches the opposite, plus a new "is this a rule at all?" test pointing at design systems, processes and snippets. - using-scribe gains a section on building UI against the project's system. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-07-31 22:10:09 -04:00
bvandeusen	1fde646c60	feat(design-systems): formulas — derived tokens that follow their source ... Operator: "build in a way to support formulas like this so that the colors shift as expected and have less to clean up when testing color changes." The storage needed no change at all, which is the good news. A formula is just a value: --fs-accent-soft: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent) It passes the value sanitiser untouched (verified, and now pinned by a test — had `color-mix(... var(...) ...)` been rejected as unsafe, derivation would have needed a storage shape of its own), and the browser resolves the `var()` at use time. Change `--fs-accent` and everything derived from it shifts. **One declaration covers every mode**, and that is the "less to clean up" part. A derived token written once in the base layer follows its source through dark mode automatically, because `var()` resolves where it is USED rather than where it is written. A stored computed literal would need a row per mode and would silently stop tracking the source the moment the source changed — the whole problem this avoids. What derivation DID need is the check. A formula pointing at a token that does not exist is invalid-at-computed-value-time: the browser drops the declaration outright and the token has no value. No error, no warning, nothing in the toolchain notices — the same family as `--color-accent`, `_parent_map`, and the scripted edit whose anchor matched nothing. So `derivation_report` returns three things alongside the sheet: which tokens are computed and from what, which formulas point at nothing, and which derive from each other in a loop. CSS resolves a loop to nothing rather than hanging, so the cycle check is about telling the operator, not protecting the renderer — but a token that quietly resolves to nothing is exactly what is worth being told. A self-reference with a fallback (`var(--fs-x, 8px)`) is deliberately not a dependency; counting it would report every such token as a one-node loop. The UI leads with broken formulas, then loops, then the healthy derived set — the first two are unambiguously wrong, where a duplicate value is a judgement call.	2026-07-31 09:51:54 -04:00
bvandeusen	23a385e2db	revert(design-systems): drop the rulebook import — a migration, not a feature ... Operator's call, and it corrects a scope error rather than a bug: "this is a path for a user to go from a rulebook to a design system. we don't need to build this path in the app itself ... you should be the one that does the import ... going forward no one else should have to do such a migration." Right. Nobody starting from a design system will ever go rulebook -> system, so the whole path was permanent product code serving a single act on one install. Rule #22: remove it, don't flag it off. Gone from the service, the REST route, the MCP tool, the UI panel, the API client and its tests. There is a second consequence I had missed, and it is the better argument. The parser was WORSE at this than doing it by hand. `propose_tokens` leaves radius steps and type sizes valueless because "Small 4px" is not a hex and nothing here parses it — a limitation I documented carefully and shipped anyway. But that limitation only exists because the importer had to run unattended. Done as work rather than as a feature, those values are just read and written, and the result is a complete design system instead of one with a dozen blanks and a count explaining them. Scaffolding built around my own absence from the loop, when I am the loop. KEPT: `extract_expectations` and `design_expectations` in services/design_rulebook_import.py. The live drift panel still reads them until it is repointed at a resolved design system (#2295), and removing them now would take the /design page's only content with it. They go with that change, not this one.	2026-07-31 09:46:12 -04:00
bvandeusen	0f80b790c7	feat(design-systems): central prose — guidance on the system, rationale on tokens ... Last piece of the architecture in #2296. The operator: "the prose doesn't have to live as one offs, there's a central system for managing it." Two fields, both free-form: design_systems.guidance the narrative a token table cannot hold — aesthetic, voice and tone, what is deliberately out of scope. design_tokens.rationale WHY a token is this value, which is a different question from `purpose` (what it is FOR). "Success equals Moss, aligned by design" is a rationale; "page bg, deepest surface" is a purpose. Rules carry the first routinely and a token row had nowhere to put it. Free-form rather than a column per category, deliberately. A schema with `voice`, `aesthetic` and `scope` columns would bake one rulebook's table of contents into every install (rule #115), leaving the next install three empty columns and nowhere for what it actually cares about. Both nullable: a design system with no prose at all is complete, not a draft. `rationale` cascades like `purpose` — deepest non-empty wins — so an app overriding a colour keeps the family's reasoning rather than blanking it. Same argument as `supersedes`: the override was about the value, not the meaning. In the generated sheet the inline comment prefers `purpose` and falls back to `rationale`, so a token carrying only the why still says something instead of rendering bare.	2026-07-30 21:52:16 -04:00
bvandeusen	46d88f9e7e	feat(design-systems): check the components against the sheet they claim to use ... "The snippets use the tags from the sheet" was a relation nobody could verify. Now it is three checks, and all three currently fail SILENTLY in this codebase: unknown `var(--x)` where the system declares no `--x`. Renders as nothing at all — no error, no failing test, no visual clue beyond the element quietly not being styled. superseded literals a value the sheet said to stop writing, paired with the token to write instead. Only possible because `supersedes` is declared rather than inferred. local definitions custom properties a snippet mints for itself instead of reusing the sheet's — the bloat a shared sheet exists to prevent, where a value stops being reused and starts being restated per component. The first is not hypothetical. Writing DesignSystemsView.vue earlier in this same session I used `--color-accent` throughout; it does not exist, and nothing in the toolchain noticed. This check is the thing that would have. A token that is both defined and read locally is reported ONCE, as an unknown reference — "--btn-bg does not exist in the sheet" is the more precise statement of the same problem, and reporting both would double-count one fact. Literal matching is boundary-aware and case-insensitive: `#fff` must not fire inside `#ffffff` (different colours, and a finding on the wrong one sends someone to change correct code), while `#FFFFFF` in a rulebook has to match `#ffffff` in a stylesheet — the same trap `normalize_hex` exists for. Snippets with nothing to report are omitted entirely. A list of everything that is fine is a list nobody reads twice — the same principle the auto-inject menu and the drift panel are both built on. Two integration mistakes fixed while wiring it: `list_snippets` returns `(rows, total)` and caps its limit at 100, and `get_snippet` returns a Note model rather than a dict. The list rows carry a preview, not the code, so the check reads each full body — checking the preview would have reported on a truncation.	2026-07-30 21:47:47 -04:00
bvandeusen	b0a7d9e89b	feat(design-systems): the master sheet — purpose tokens, not per-element values ... Operator's new requirement (#2299, architecture in #2296): a design system does not just hold tokens, it generates and manages a master CSS sheet. That settles the milestone's open "authority mechanism" question — the record is authoritative because the stylesheet comes out of it. **The sheet is shaped by purpose and styles no elements.** It declares custom properties, grouped by what they mean, and contains no `.btn-primary`, no `table`, no `input`. That is the design, not a shortcut: a sheet that styled elements would restate the same handful of values once per element and grow with the UI, where purpose-named values are stated once and reused. Components live as SNIPPETS that reference these names — a surface that already exists and already carries prose, locations, drift checks, merge and write-path recall. A token named after an element (`--fs-button-bg`) is the smell that the two have been mixed; a purpose name (`--fs-action-primary`) is reused across all of them. Alongside the CSS the endpoint returns what the text cannot say for itself: which tokens are still valueless, and which VALUES are declared under more than one name. The second is the operator's "reuse consistent values" constraint made checkable — and it reports rather than refuses, because a design system legitimately aligns colours on purpose ("Success = Moss, by design") and only a human knows which case it is. Mode maps to selector the way the codebase already does it: base on the root selector, every other mode layered on `[data-theme="…"]`. The root selector is a PARAMETER — #251 recorded that a container-scoped preview cannot use `:root`, so hardcoding it would have made the generator useless to the preview surface. A token the rulebook names but states no value for is emitted as a commented-out declaration IN ITS GROUP rather than dropped. Its absence is the finding, and a comment puts that finding where the reader already is. Values are validated, not escaped, and this is a real boundary rather than tidiness: design systems are shareable records (rule #47), so `red; } body { display: none` in a system shared with you would otherwise inject CSS into your page. A value containing `{ } ; @ < >`, a comment delimiter or a newline is REFUSED and rendered as a comment saying so — rejecting beats stripping, since a partially-sanitised value is one the operator never wrote and the sheet's whole claim is that it is the record. Not in scope, and deliberately: serving this as the app's actual stylesheet. Generating and exposing a sheet is reversible; swapping theme.css for a generated one is not, and it should be an explicit call rather than a side effect.	2026-07-30 21:42:08 -04:00
bvandeusen	4dc57f8ab2	feat(design-systems): import a design system out of a rulebook's prose ... Milestone #254 step 3 (#2288). Reuses #251's prose extractor as the reader and adds the part that makes it an import rather than a list of claims. **The join is the whole trick.** A rulebook states a design system in two places and neither half is a token: one rule names the colours ("Obsidian #14171A (page bg, deepest surface)"), another names the custom properties (`--fs-obsidian/iron/slate`). The import pairs them on the word — `--fs-obsidian` ends with `obsidian` — which is the only reason it produces something usable instead of seventy empty names. The parenthetical becomes the token's purpose, which is the field a bare hex could never carry. **Prohibitions arrive as replacements, per the operator's reframe.** Rule 52 declares Parchment and forbids pure white in one breath, so the import emits "write --fs-parchment instead of #ffffff" — the same fact stated forwards. It attaches to the FIRST token that rule supplied a value for, not to every token of that rule, because claiming Vellum is also the replacement for white would be putting words in the rulebook's mouth. **A token the rulebook names but states no readable value for is still proposed, with an empty value.** Radius steps and type sizes are prose ("Small 4px") and nothing here parses them; inventing a parse per shape would be guessing. The name is real and the value needs a human, so the proposal says exactly that — and the UI leads with the COUNT of those, because an import that hid them would look more complete than it is. Preview is the default on both surfaces and in the UI. An import is a proposal: rulebooks are written aspirationally and some of what they describe was never built, so every entry carries the rule id and the sentence it came from and a reviewer can check the claim rather than trust it. Existing token names are never overwritten. A value already in the record was put there deliberately — most likely correcting this importer — so a re-run fills gaps and lists the rest as skipped, which also makes it safe to repeat. Colours the rulebook names but never exposes as a custom property produce no token: it never asked for one, and inventing a name would put something in the record no rule sanctions.	2026-07-30 21:23:32 -04:00
bvandeusen	3da40abcb8	feat(design-systems): declare what to write instead, rather than what not to ... Milestone #254 step 6, first half (#2295) — and this reframes the task rather than answering it. The operator's call: "in this case we should declare what should be used in place of pure white, it's not a prohibition it's what should be used in its place." None of the three options on the table (a constraints record / the panel reads both sources / negative token rows) was right, because all three kept the prohibition as a KIND OF THING. It isn't one. "Pure white is never text" is the shadow cast by a positive fact — text is Parchment — and a design system that stores what things ARE has no row for a ban because it never needed one. So `design_tokens` gains `supersedes`: the literal values this token should be written instead of. `--color-text-on-action` supersedes `#fff` / `#ffffff`. Same fact as the rule, stated forwards, and now actionable — a finding can say what to write rather than only objecting. It has to be DECLARED, not derived, and that is the crux: `#fff` and Parchment `#E8E4D8` are different colours, so no value-matching check could ever have connected them. That mismatch is precisely why the prohibition looked unrepresentable until it was turned around. `supersedes` cascades on EMPTINESS rather than on None. A child overriding a colour says nothing about which literals it replaces, and blanking the family's declaration there would silently disarm the check for every app that customises the token — while a child that states its own list replaces it wholesale. Two things this deliberately does NOT do: - It does not feed the drift panel. Superseded literals live in component CSS, which `designDrift.ts` cannot see and already documents as a blind spot. This is input for the source lint (#2277). Declaring it with nothing consuming it yet is honest; wiring it to a panel that cannot check it would not be. - It does not remove the panel's `prohibited_color` arm yet — that happens when the panel is repointed at a resolved system, which needs #2288 first. The declaration also exposes a missing token: most of the 67 hardcoded `color: #fff` (#2275) are text on a coloured action button, and the system has no token for that role at all. Every view hardcodes it. Declaring the token that was never there is the first real output of the operator's framing.	2026-07-30 21:16:45 -04:00
bvandeusen	839d6902ad	feat(design-systems): resolve the chain, and keep the argument not the verdict ... Milestone #254 step 2 (#2287). `resolve_tokens` flattens a system's inheritance chain into its effective token set — walk to the root, deepest wins by token name. Pure and duck-typed, so a test states a whole hierarchy in literals and the service hands the same function ORM rows. **Provenance is stored as the contest, not the winner.** A ResolvedToken carries every system that offered a value, per mode, deepest first — `[0]` won and `[1:]` are what it shadowed. "Which system supplied this?" and "what did it override?" are then two reads of one list and cannot disagree, where a winner plus a separate provenance field would be two things to keep in step. **Merging is per (name, MODE), and that is the storage decision paying off.** A system that deepens one accent for light backgrounds while leaving dark alone owns `base` and still inherits `dark`. A token-level "overridden here" flag would have to lie about one of them, and the two-column shape could not have represented it at all. Metadata cascades separately by the same deepest-wins rule, with one exception: `order_index` treats 0 as UNSTATED rather than "first", because 0 is the column default. Reading it as a real value would let a colour-only override drag its token to the top of its group — a visible reshuffle in return for a change that touched nothing structural. One fix to step 1 while wiring this up: `_parent_map` is now scoped to the SYSTEM'S OWNER rather than the caller. A caller reading through a shared project owns no link in the chain, so the caller-scoped version would have handed them an empty forest and truncated the cascade to a single system — a page rendering with plausible wrong values and no error anywhere. The ACL already grants read along the whole chain; this is the loading side keeping that promise, and it now has a test naming the shared-project case. `BASE_MODE` moves from the model to the cascade module, where it belongs: it is a resolution rule, not a storage fact, and design_cascade.py deliberately imports nothing so both access.py and the service can depend on it.	2026-07-30 17:02:31 -04:00
bvandeusen	03b3998585	feat(design-systems): the model, the parent chain, and the guard on it ... Milestone #254 step 1 (#2286). A design system becomes a record Scribe holds rather than prose in a rulebook: a named set of tokens with an OPTIONAL parent, so a family system carries the house style and an app system carries only what it changes. Answering "what does this app alter?" is then `list its tokens` — nothing to compute. `parent_id` is the whole model. It replaces both an `always_on` flag (a family system is one with no parent) and a subscription join table (a project points at ONE system; the chain supplies the rest) — less schema than the rulebook shape it mirrors. Two decisions the task left open, settled here: - **Token values are JSONB keyed by mode**, not `value_light`/`value_dark` columns. The deciding argument was not flexibility, it was ambiguity: in a child system an unset mode means "inherit", in a root it means "not mode-dependent", and as columns both are NULL and the resolver cannot tell them apart. As a map, resolution is `{**parent, **child}` at every level with no special case for roots. Against it: queryability — but nothing filters tokens by value in SQL, so that buys a query no caller makes. - **`group_name` is free text, no CHECK enum.** Groupings are each design system's own vocabulary; a whitelist would bake one install's kit into the schema. No CHECK is introduced anywhere, so rule #36 does not fire. The cascade lives in `services/design_cascade.py` as pure functions over a `{id: parent_id}` map, importing nothing — which is what lets both the service and `access.py` use it without a cycle, and lets a test state a whole hierarchy in one literal. Cycles are refused on WRITE by walking up from the proposed parent (the cheap direction), and survived on READ by a visited-set, because a loop from a direct DB edit must truncate rather than hang. ACL (rule #78) is deliberately asymmetric: owning a system grants write, reaching one through a project you can see grants READ ONLY. An editor on a shared project must not be able to rewrite the family system every other project in that family resolves through. Also renames `services/design_system.py` -> `design_rulebook_import.py`. It is the #251 prose extractor, whose role is already scheduled to become a one-shot importer (#2288), and leaving it one character away from the new `design_systems.py` was a trap for every later session. Rule #115 throughout: nothing seeds a system or implies a default. An install with zero design systems is ordinary, not degraded.	2026-07-30 16:54:41 -04:00