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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 0e10f6bb8a feat(rules)!: retire the always-on tier — every rule arrives by retrieval (#394)
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Milestone 394, steps 5-8. Operator: "remove the always on rule functionality
as the goal was to not have it at all since it didn't seem to work as
expected."

Unconditional preload had three failures the retrieval arms do not. It could
not be MEASURED — a resident rule is in the context whether or not it
mattered, so nothing distinguished "this governed the act" from "this was
scenery", and it was the one surface structurally exempt from the scoreboard
judging every other. It was SUMMARISED AWAY by compaction while the session
went on believing it held the rules. And it CROWDED OUT the few rules that
applied with the thirty that did not.

WHAT GOES

Schema (0100): rules.tier + ck_rules_tier, rule_versions.tier,
rulebooks.always_on, and project_rulebook_exclusions — a table recording a
project's opt-out of something that no longer binds it unasked.

Tools: list_always_on_rules, exclude_always_on_rulebook,
include_always_on_rulebook. Service: the same three plus rules_etag_for,
_valid_tier and the whole etag family. The SessionStart preload and the
write-path staleness arm go with them: nothing is resident, so nothing can
have drifted since a session loaded it.

THREE CALLS WORTH REVIEWING

enter_project got NARROWER, not wider. Its filter was `always_on OR
area-tagged`; dropping the tier arm leaves the deterministic half, so a
project with no canonical-tagged Systems gets no bulk rules and reaches them
by retrieval instead. Dropping the whole clause would have made that payload
bigger than the preload this milestone deletes.

Backups import tolerantly. A pre-394 archive carries tier, always_on and the
retired inception choice; none is read, and the exclusion key is DROPPED
rather than remapped, because restoring it would write data that
validate_inception now rejects as unknown.

The migration is irreversible in the way that matters and says so: downgrade
recreates the columns at their defaults and cannot restore which rules were
always-on. A value invented to fill a hole is not a measurement.

THE INSTRUCTION SURFACES SAY THE HARDER THING

Deleting "call list_always_on_rules()" is easy; replacing it is not, because
the new model asks a session to trust something it cannot see. All three
surfaces now say a session holds nothing, that rules arrive when work matches
them, and — the half that got dangerous — that "no rule arrived" means
"nothing matched", never "there is no rule". Under residency an empty session
was rare and suspicious; it is now the ordinary state of most turns, so
reading it as permission is wrong on nearly every turn rather than
occasionally. That is #3720's defect at session scale.

test_instruction_surfaces_agree is repointed rather than retired: its two
halves collapsed into one instruction, and it gains a guard that every
surface states what absence means. _INSTRUCTIONS is back at 1999/2000 —
the inception clause paid for the longer HOW line.

UI (rule 27, and the opportunity step 8 named)

The tier selector is gone, and what replaces it is the point: `when_to_apply`
is now the field that decides whether a rule is ever seen, so the editor
marks it required, warns while it is empty, and both rule lists badge a
trigger-less rule "never surfaces". A rule without one is not quiet, it is
unreachable.

TESTS

Two files deleted outright — test_rules_etag.py and test_inception_rules.py
tested subsystems that no longer exist. Elsewhere obsolete cases were removed
and the rest repointed. One deserves naming: the wiring test asserted the act
arms pass no `tier`, which had become an assertion that could not fail. It is
repointed onto `kind`, which does still exist and where the same claim is
live — a preference must reach a write exactly as a rule does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-09-11 16:22:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 6627cfc2f0 feat(rules): a usage badge on the rule list, and the badge becomes canon instead of a second copy (#3319)
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Milestone 333 step 5, and rule 27 — the counter had a tuning point from step
4 and no operator-facing one until now.

The task said to reuse the snippet badge's classes rather than mint a parallel
set, citing the eight duplicated CSS families the ledger already carries
(#3207). `.usage-tag` lived in SnippetListView's SCOPED block, so "reuse" was
not available: copying it into the rule pane would have been the ninth family,
and importing it is not a thing a scoped block permits. So it was promoted
rather than copied.

Three pieces, each of which existed once and now exists once:

- `components.css` gains `.usage-tag` / `.usage-dead`, geometry and colour
  only, with the scoped original deleted rather than left behind.
- `UsageBadge.vue` holds the logic the two lists would otherwise duplicate —
  the >=3 dead-weight threshold, the empty-string-renders-nothing rule, the
  tooltip.
- `types/usage.ts` holds `RecordUsage`, one client type over two tables.
  `SnippetUsage` becomes an alias, so no existing consumer changes.

THE ADVICE IS A PROP, and that is the substance rather than the plumbing. The
counts read identically for every kind; the remedy does not. A snippet offered
and never opened should probably be rewritten or deleted — one action. A rule
in the same position has TWO possible causes and the operator has to pick:
its trigger may fire on the wrong work, in which case `when_to_apply` wants
rewording, or it may genuinely not be wanted. Baking "delete it" into the
component would give the wrong nudge half the time on the surface where being
wrong is most expensive, since a deleted rule stops binding behaviour.

The route zero-fills every row through `usage_for_rules`, one aggregate per
page — per-row would be N+1 by construction. That matters more here than for
snippets: every rule on every existing install predates `rule_usage_events`,
so the zero-filled shape IS the common case for a while, and a route that
attached the key only where it found events would leave the badge reading
undefined on almost every row.

`usage_for_rules` had no test at all — step 1 covered the write path and the
zero shape and left the aggregate uncovered, which only became load-bearing
when a list started rendering it. It now has an integration test over real
Postgres, including that a rule with no events comes back zero-filled rather
than absent.

Recorded as snippet #3460, per the design system's own instruction that the
component layer lives as snippets rather than as prose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TcCs1CcQ1ormdnzSshKqvN
2026-09-02 18:37:55 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 c83bedf3be feat(rules): the check is editable, visible, and sweepable in the UI (#3098, milestone 312 step 4)
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Rule 27 — the milestone was backend-only until this. Four surfaces:

RULE EDITOR — verify_with and expires_when under a legend that asks the
actual question ("Can this rule go stale?") and says empty is the normal
answer, because most rules are decisions and a form that implies a missing
field would get them filled in out of tidiness. When the SAVED rule carries
a check, the stamp shows with Still true / No longer true beside it. The
stamp reads the stored value, not the draft: an unsaved edit to the textarea
has not been run against anything.

SWEEP PANE — its own surface, not a filter on the rule list. That list can
only ever show one topic of one rulebook, and a rule that has gone false
belongs to no one rulebook; filtering it would under-report, which is the
failure this whole surface exists to catch. Reached from the rulebook list,
below the rulebooks, because that is where you go to look at rules.

RULE ROWS — a chip only on rules carrying a check, so its presence is the
signal. PROJECT RULES TAB — the check shows beside `why` when a rule has
one, read-only: that tab is the project's view of what binds it.

NO AGE-GRADED COLOUR anywhere, deliberately. The sweep is already ordered by
urgency, so a red/amber ramp would restate the ordering AND require an
invented "stale after N days" threshold — a magic number nobody could defend
and the first thing to go out of date. --fs-overdue is error red and reserved
for a broken promise like a missed due date; a verification age is not one,
and colouring it that way makes a rule someone just wrote look broken. Only
"never" is marked, because it is categorically different from a date rather
than a worse one — and it is marked by weight, not hue.

An empty sweep says "Nothing to check", not nothing: good news must not read
as a broken page.

Two chips (tier, then verification) turned out byte-identical, so .rule-chip
moves to rules-shared.css and snippet #2906 is updated to match rather than
left describing a file that has moved on. Its header comment counted the
panes it served; that count went stale the moment a fourth arrived, so it no
longer counts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 11:53:35 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8b60d552d2 feat(rules): the rule editor asks when it applies, and the list shows its age (#3029, milestone 307 step 3, UI)
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Rule 27 — the schema and both doors shipped with no human surface, so step 3
was not shippable until this.

RuleEditorSlideOver gains the trigger, the tier, the areas, and a read-only
view of the rule's edges. The tier is a radio pair carrying the test itself
rather than a bare toggle: can you name the trigger WITHOUT naming a system,
an artifact type or a moment? If the honest answer is "whenever you are
working", it is always on. It also says why conditional is not a demotion —
it costs nothing when irrelevant, which is what lets a rule be as long as it
needs to be. The relations block states the rule the whole milestone turns on:
rules that FAIL TOGETHER are linked, never merged.

RuleListPane shows the trigger and the LAST-CHANGED DATE on every row, and
marks conditional only — always_on is the default and badging every row would
say nothing. The date is the cheap triage the FabledCurator case wanted: a
rule whose age predates the capability it duplicates is visible at a glance
instead of needing a get_rule to find out.

ProjectRulesTab's inline create form gains the same two fields, because a
project rule bloats exactly the way a family one does — FabledCurator has 23
of them.

Two type fixes the new shapes forced, both worth keeping:
- toHeader() in the store: a list row is the server's rule_brief, so patching
  a list locally has to mirror every field it carries or the two disagree.
  There were two hand-built four-field literals doing that job.
- ApplicableRules.rules / .project_rules are now described AS RuleHeader
  rather than as two more hand-written shapes — the same builder produces
  them, so the same type should describe them.

groupByRulebookAndTopic skips a null-topic rule rather than widening
TopicGroup to accept one: a rule carries topic_id XOR project_id, so a null
topic in that list means something is wrong upstream, and a widened type would
hide it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 14:23:40 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 a72605de8f refactor(frontend): the last pay-down, part 1 — three dead views deleted, editor rules shared, .page-container + .fs-input canon, rules-shared.css; a one-declaration CSS body is not a shape (#2903, milestone 299 step 5)
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The derive queue said the biggest duplicate families were whole views:
TaskViewerView, UserManagementView and LogsView were imported nowhere — left
behind when tasks moved to the editor and users/logs became SettingsView
tabs. Deleted (rule 22). Note/TaskEditorView carried six identical scoped
rules -> editor-shared.css (the .tag-suggest-row gap the scoped copies
actually rendered wins). Three views wrapped the page under three names ->
.page-container in components.css. Three scoped input recipes -> the design
system fs-input recipe (snippet #2336), verbatim, in components.css; width/
box-sizing stay with the caller. The three rules panes share .pane and the
pane heading via rules-shared.css (the auth-shared pattern, #2852).

Ledger: a single-declaration CSS rule keeps its selector in its fingerprint,
so `color: var(--fs-text-tertiary)` under five different names is no longer
a five-file "identical body" family — the first pay-down found that most of
the 148 dup families were exactly this, and nobody would consolidate them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:55:28 -04:00
bvandeusen 4ba544e2af refactor(theme): retire the --color-* shim — the sweep it promised, run
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#2533. theme.css claimed "removing this block is a rename sweep across the
components, tracked separately" — written in 67a529a, never filed, which made
the comment itself an instance of the survey's presence-without-reference
pattern. This is that sweep.

73 alias declarations deleted; 69 files rewritten; every --color-*-style name
now references its --fs-* token directly. Mechanical by construction: the map
IS the alias block, applied longest-name-first with a boundary guard so
--color-text never matched inside --color-text-muted. Zero survivors outside
theme.css, verified by grep rather than assumed.

One deliberate survivor: --color-shadow stays DECLARED, because it was never
an alias — it is a literal value the design system has no token for. Marked
in place as a recorded gap: promote it to an --fs-* token when a second app
needs it, don't copy the line.

Nothing is lost mode-wise: the aliases' resolve-at-use-time trick (which
absorbed 48 dark-mode overrides) lives one layer down in the --fs-* tokens'
own derivations, which is why the sweep is a pure rename. Both CSS checkers
green.

Why now rather than never: check_snippets_against_design_system reports every
--color-* reference as "unknown — renders as NOTHING", and nine recipe
snippets recorded from components.css carried the deprecated names, making
them prior art pointing the wrong way. With the sweep in, the checker's
report over re-recorded snippets should be EMPTY — the acceptance test that
proves the checker was right all along (#2517's correction).

Refs #2533
2026-08-08 22:42:37 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 bd60d679d9 refactor(theme): remove 184 var() fallbacks — every one was unreachable
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#2277 counted ~150 "raw colour literals bypassing the tokens". Measuring them
told a different story: 184 sat in `var(--token, #fallback)` position, and a
check against theme.css shows every one of those tokens IS declared. So the
fallbacks could not render. Not drift — vestigial.

They were also not this palette. The most common were Tailwind and Flat-UI
defaults — #6366f1 indigo, #22c55e green, #f59e0b amber, #3b82f6 blue,
#e74c3c and #27ae60 — a second, unsanctioned colour scheme sitting in the
codebase looking like the app's colours to anyone reading it.

Removing them is not tidying. #2319's lesson is that a fallback is WORSE than a
missing token: a missing token renders as nothing and someone eventually
notices, while a fallback renders something plausible forever. These 184 were
one token rename away from silently repainting the app in Tailwind. The design
token check would catch the rename — but the fallback is precisely the thing
that would make it invisible if the check were ever bypassed.

Literal count 152 -> 45, which matters beyond the number: a report that is
mostly unreachable noise is one people stop reading, and then it stops working
while still passing. What remains should be genuinely worth looking at.

Done with a paren-aware transform, not a regex — `var(--x, rgba(0,0,0,.5))`
nests parens and `[^)]+` would cut at the first one and leave `))` behind.
Verified after: every changed line is a fallback strip and nothing else, and
every var() reference still resolves.

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2026-08-03 11:52:04 -04:00
bvandeusen 75d8e7ab49 feat(rulebook): RulesView three-pane shell + child panes + rule editor 2026-05-27 22:00:32 -04:00