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bvandeusen 839d6902ad feat(design-systems): resolve the chain, and keep the argument not the verdict
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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.
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bvandeusen 03b3998585 feat(design-systems): the model, the parent chain, and the guard on it
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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