Design surface: starter roles, theme literals, and the view that could only inspect itself #97

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	8087ba4db0	feat(design): a project reports drift in its own recorded components ... The check has taken a project id since it was written — check_snippets_against_ system(user_id, design_system_id, project_id=0), and the route has always read ?project_id=. Nothing on the frontend ever passed one and no project-side surface existed, so the capability shipped and stayed unreachable. A Design tab on the project, beside Systems and Rules, reporting three things per snippet: no such token var(--x) the system doesn't declare. Renders as NOTHING — no error, no failing test, just an element quietly unstyled. Leads for that reason. defines its own a component minting a custom property instead of reaching for the shared one. This is the DRY finding and the reason the surface exists: the codebase re-solving a solved problem, one component at a time, visible only when someone changes the shared value and half the components don't move. write the token a literal the sheet says to stop writing, paired with what to write instead. Three empty states, kept distinct, because collapsing them is how a check comes to sit dead: no design system bound, no snippets recorded (nothing was checked), and checked-and-clean. The last one says how many were checked. Bound to the SAVED pointer rather than the sidebar picker's draft, so an unsaved change can't make the tab report against a system the project isn't using. Scope is recorded code, per the operator: snippets are what Scribe holds, and a repository's own sources are checked where they live, by that project's CI. Step 3 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 10:41:49 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	7b0984579d	feat(design): preview any design system, resolved from the record ... The record view listed values as text and drew a swatch only where the value looked like a colour. Two problems, one cause: a derived value such as color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 15%, transparent) was drawn by resolving --accent against THIS app, so previewing another project's system showed Scribe's palette. It looked right, which is why nobody noticed. TokenPreview draws the system from its own record. Every value is resolved on an offscreen probe carrying only that system's declarations, so a system whose app this browser has never loaded renders in its own colours — which is the difference between a tool and a mirror. Specimens are chosen by value SHAPE, never by name: colours become swatches, lengths become rules drawn to scale, gradients and shadows get a surface, font stacks are set in themselves. Nothing matches --fs-space-* or any other convention, because the convention belongs to the install (rule #115) — a system that calls its spacing --gap-N gets the same treatment. Translucent values sit on a checkerboard, or a 15% tint over a solid card reads as opaque and shows the wrong colour. Modes come from the system, not from the app: a system declaring base and light offers both, independent of the theme this page is in. The provenance list keeps its swatches only for self-contained colours — the ones needing no resolution, which it can therefore draw honestly. Everything with a var() inside is left to the preview built for it. Step 2 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 10:39:45 -04:00
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	4d2be27935	feat(nav): Design is primary navigation, not a utility icon ... It sat in the right-hand icon cluster with Trash and Settings, filed as a meta-surface. That was true when /design was a read-only gallery and false since: a design system is a record you author, with its own table, inheritance, sharing under the same ACL, and MCP tools. It is the content of the applications being built, which is the same rule that puts Snippets and Rulebooks in the bar. The pill bar is absolutely centred, so a sixth link doesn't push the brand and the utility cluster aside — it overlaps them. Added a 1150px breakpoint that drops the wordmark (the logo says the same thing and is still the link home) and tightens the link padding, rather than leaving Design out of the bar to avoid the collision. Mobile menu moves Design above the divider with the other content links, so both layouts sort it the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-04 08:26:43 -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	841506b10c	feat(plugin): every session says which plugin version is executing ... Twice a shipped fix failed to reach a live install, and both times the only detector was the operator saying "I don't think it updated" (#2198, #2209). The reason it is hard to see: an install has two halves and only one self-updates. The marketplace clone pulls on its own; the CACHE is what executes and refreshes only when the manifest version changes. So inspecting the clone shows the fix present while the broken copy keeps running — the obvious debugging move actively misleads. The SessionStart context now names the version it is running. That makes "what is actually executing?" answerable from the transcript rather than by archaeology in the cache directory. DELIBERATELY SMALLER THAN THE ISSUE PROPOSED. #2220 recommended reporting the version to the server, storing last-seen per user, and surfacing it in Settings. That is three surfaces and a migration to answer a question the session can answer about itself. Per the operator's framing on #2338 — "I'm afraid of building another integration between two more surfaces, you being able to notice is enough" — the visibility is the deliverable, not the plumbing. It also lands the issue's own caveat, which the server-side design could not: the state most needing diagnosis is the one where credentials never arrive, and there the dynamic tier does not run at all. This marker is keyless and networkless, so it still appears — verified against both the unconfigured and unreachable-instance paths. CI pins it, asserting WITHOUT credentials for the same reason. Manifest 0.1.22 -> 0.1.23, because a shipped hook changed and an unbumped manifest is precisely the failure this commit is about. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:57:33 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	c34454b840	refactor(theme): the accent was hand-written 16 times — now derived ... `rgba(91, 74, 138, …)` is Scribe's accent in decimal. It appears sixteen times across five files at ten different opacities, plus once as #5B4A8A. Change the accent in the design system and none of them would have moved — which is the precise failure the token system exists to prevent, hiding in a notation that does not look like a colour constant. Now `color-mix(in srgb, var(--color-primary) N%, transparent)`, so every one follows the accent. The design system already uses this form for its own tints (--fs-accent-soft, -faint, -wash), so this is the established idiom rather than a new one. The CI literal count barely moves (45 -> 44) because its regex matches #hex and fifteen of these were rgba(). Worth stating plainly: **the count was never the goal, and the check is blind to this whole class.** An rgba triple is a colour literal in every sense that matters and the report does not see it. Not touched: the badge palette in KnowledgeView (#7A6DA8, #fbbf24, #818cf8 for note/task/plan) and the remaining greys. Those are genuine unmade decisions — what colour IS a plan badge — not drift, and inventing tokens for them would be deciding by implementation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:53:54 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	bd60d679d9	refactor(theme): remove 184 var() fallbacks — every one was unreachable ... #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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:52:04 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	174ec8af46	feat(design): the starter-role checklist, in the creation UI ... Rule #27 — the backend half shipped without a surface an operator can touch, so this is the other half of #2349. StarterRolePicker is a component rather than inline markup because DesignSystemsView has TWO creation forms: the empty state is a sibling branch of the body, not a parent, so a form written into one is unreachable from the other. Inlining the checklist would have made it the next thing in this codebase defined twice and free to drift — which is what the button migration spent nine commits undoing. What it offers is names and purposes, never values. "Named now, valued later": a role you haven't filled shows as to-be-decided, while a role that doesn't exist is what gets written as a literal instead. Every group unchecks individually, and the prefix is editable because `--fs-` is one family's convention, not the product's. Three deliberate details: - All groups checked by DEFAULT, and that default lives in the UI, not the service. create_design_system treats None and [] alike (seed nothing) so it can never write 40 rows into a system whose caller never asked; a UI default is visible and reversible before the click. Different layers, different safe answers. - A failed catalogue fetch is NOT fatal and does not read as an error. Starter roles are an accelerator, not a prerequisite — the form still creates, and the operator adds tokens by hand. - The refs are not cleared after a successful create. The picker owns them and re-seeds on mount; resetting here would race that and silently create the next system with no roles. props + defineEmits rather than defineModel, matching TagInput and the rest of components/. defineModel is available (Vue 3.5) and would be shorter, but being the only file in the codebase using a different binding idiom costs more than the lines it saves. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:45:48 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	4852b0d3df	test(design): add the starter-roles endpoint to the URL enumeration ... CI caught it: tests/test_routes_design_systems.py enumerates every routed rule, and I added a handler without adding its rule. The guard doing exactly what its docstring says it is for. Two enumerations govern this blueprint and I had only extended one — the parity list (handlers exist on both surfaces) but not the URL list (handlers are actually routed). They catch different failures, which is why both exist. Noted in place: /api/design-systems/starter-roles is a static segment sharing a prefix with /api/design-systems/<int:design_system_id>. That pairing is where a silently-shadowed route hides, so it is worth being explicit that the int converter cannot match "starter-roles" — verified rather than assumed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-08-03 11:42:11 -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