Steps 7a through 10 as one authorised run. Nothing deployed (D11).
7a Lighthouse returns as `lighthouse@13.4.1` + `chrome-launcher`, NOT
`@lhci/cli`. AGENTS.md §7's advisory attribution was wrong: the carriers
were @lhci/cli's own `tmp` and @puppeteer/browsers' `extract-zip`, not
Lighthouse, which audits clean. A deliberate deviation from R11's literal
trigger, recorded with what it costs. Local gate; CI has no Chrome.
7b OG card generator (satori + sharp) discharges R15 — 20 typed cards plus
per-article cards; the portrait stays on / and /about/ by Q40. Insights
plumbing: ArticleCard, Prose, the index, the article route, articleGraph,
and /'s section 7. Card copy is constrained structurally because text in a
JPEG cannot be grepped by check:claims: every headline IS its page's <h1>,
enforced by `npm run og:proof`.
7c Five drafted launch articles, draft: true / reviewedByPouya: false. An
independent compliance audit returned 76 findings and 57 unsourced
assertions; all blocking and should-fix applied.
8 /contact/, the intake form, and backend/intake/ (undeployed). Plain HTML
POST to a same-origin /api/intake with a 303 redirect, so the form works
with zero JavaScript. docs/05 records three deliberate deviations.
9 /fees/ on Q59's ruling — overtime runs from the session cap, and the
reservation point ships adjacent to the rate. One-page PDF bio discharges
R16; /bio/ is its source, so the circulated artefact stays inside the
review apparatus.
10 /legal/privacy/ and /legal/terms/, written to the backend as built. Three
of the policy's statements are derived and cannot drift.
Also: /about/'s inverse credentials band (approved at step 6); Q59 closed;
R15 and R16 discharged; and a fix to shipped copy — /practice/energy/ asserted
the absence of a regulation the source extract says must not be asserted.
Review: adversarial-reviewer, two rounds (D20/D19). Round 1 returned 16
findings including two blocking — an invisible ghost button on /fees/ at
1.00:1 that Lighthouse scored 100, and a privacy policy that named one data
processor when there are two. All 16 acted on.
Lighthouse, 22 pages, mobile: performance 99-100, accessibility 100,
best practices 100, SEO 100 on every indexable page, CLS 0.000.
AGENTS.md entry (ah) has the detail, including four of my own verification
commands that were wrong and what each of them nearly caused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5
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# CLAUDE.md — operating instructions for Claude Code
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## Read this first
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1. **`AGENTS.md` is the source of truth for this project.** Read it in full
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before your first edit in any session. It carries the locked decisions, the
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credential register, the open questions, and the full history.
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2. **You are required to maintain `AGENTS.md`** under the constitution written at
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the top of it. Update *Current Truth* in place; append to the *Change Log*,
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newest first; never edit a past entry; never delete history. Record decisions
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and plans, not only executed work. Stamp facts `[verified YYYY-MM-DD]` or
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`[assumed]`.
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3. Update it **at the end of every working session**, not only when something
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ships. A session that produced a decision and no code still produces a Change
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Log entry.
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4. **Read `AGENTS.md` §12 Standing Reminders at the start of every substantial
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session and surface anything live to Pouya.** These are decisions he parked
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deliberately, not settled matters — R1 in particular is his explicit
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instruction to keep raising the licensure wording. A parked decision that
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stops being raised has quietly become permanent, which is the failure mode
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§12 exists to prevent.
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## The one rule that matters more than the code
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This is Pouya's public marketing surface, and the site it replaces carried
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fabricated credentials. **No factual claim about him, his credentials, his
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experience, or his practice may appear on a public page unless it is in the
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Verified table in `AGENTS.md` §4.**
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(§4 does not verify licensure either way — so do not describe him as
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"licensed", or as a "legal professional", anywhere, this file included. State
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the reason for the rule, not a credential the register cannot vouch for.)
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If a page needs a fact you do not have:
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- Do not infer it from context.
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- Do not soften it into something defensible ("extensive experience", "years of").
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- Do not carry it over from the old site — the old site contained a fictitious
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founder, invented matter values, and a fabricated testimonial.
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- **Leave `TODO(pouya): <the exact question>` in the source, and add the question
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to `AGENTS.md` §9.** A build that fails on an unanswered question is a correct
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build.
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Read the Forbidden table in §4 before writing any statistic, number, or
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superlative.
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## How work is executed here
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Pouya is the architect. He makes the decisions and hands you the task. **You
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implement, then you adversarially review your own work before calling it done.**
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This is the standing agreement — it applies to every substantial change without
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being restated in the prompt.
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**Run `/build <task>` for any substantive change.** It encodes the loop:
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1. **Plan** — read `AGENTS.md` (including §12 Standing Reminders, and surface
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anything live), read the governing specs, name the decisions the task touches,
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and **stop and ask on any conflict**. A blocked build is a correct build.
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2. **Implement** — following the conventions below.
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3. **Adversarial review** — invoke `adversarial-reviewer` on the diff. **D20:
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`claims-auditor` does NOT run per step.** It runs once, at cutover, over the
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whole finished site.
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4. **Resolve** — fix each finding or decline it with a stated reason. Re-review
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material fixes.
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5. **Verify** — run the checks. Never report a check as passing that you did not
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run.
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6. **Record** — append the `AGENTS.md` Change Log entry.
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`/review` runs phase 3 alone. `/wrap` runs phase 6 at session end.
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**Agent definitions load at session start.** An edit to `.claude/agents/*.md`
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does not reach the session you made it in — the brief in force is the one that
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was on disk when the session began. After committing a change to one, **restart
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before relying on it, and say in the report which version actually ran.** Found
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2026-08-30: the gloss lens was added to `claims-auditor` and the agent then
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reconstructed it from the `AGENTS.md` Change Log rather than having it in its
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brief, which is luck, not process.
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**Think deeply before acting.** Extended thinking is on by default for this
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project (`.claude/settings.json`), and `/build` and `/review` request it
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explicitly. The planning and review phases are where it earns its cost — a defect
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reasoned out before implementation is far cheaper than one found after.
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### Why the review is adversarial, and what would break it
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Two rules make the difference between a review and a rubber stamp:
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**Do not brief the reviewers on why your work is correct.** Give them the diff
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and the specs, nothing else. Your rationale anchors them, and an anchored
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reviewer produces agreement rather than review. They must form an independent
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view from the artefact — that independence *is* the mechanism.
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**The reviewers are instructed to treat uncertainty as a defect.** They will
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sometimes be wrong, and that is the intended trade. Explaining why a finding is
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mistaken costs minutes; a missed defect on this project's public marketing
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pages costs considerably more — the site this replaces carried fabricated
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credentials, and that is the standard being corrected. Do not read a finding as
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an accusation, and do not argue a reviewer down — either fix it, or record the
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reason you declined it so a later reader can see the judgement was made rather
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than missed.
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**Two reviewers, because they catch different things — but they no longer run at
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the same time.** `adversarial-reviewer` reads the code. `claims-auditor` reads the
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copy against the §4 register and knows nothing about whether the code is elegant.
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A generic reviewer consistently under-weights the professional-conduct check,
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which is the highest-stakes failure mode on this project — so it keeps its own
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pass rather than being folded into the code review.
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**D20, 2026-08-30 — the claims pass moved to cutover.** Per step it is
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`adversarial-reviewer` alone. `claims-auditor` runs **once, over the whole
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finished site**, as a blocking item on `docs/06`'s cutover checklist. Pouya's
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reasoning, and it is a calibration and not an erosion: nothing has shipped, so
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every claims finding so far has been about a page no visitor can reach — the risk
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is deferred to cutover anyway, and one pass over twenty finished pages catches
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**more** than nine passes over drafts, because it sees the site as a reader does.
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The `/med-arb/` ADRIC gloss is the proof: no individual claim was false, the
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defect was **adjacency**, and adjacency does not exist until the pages sit next to
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each other. The code reviewer stays per step because what it catches **compounds**
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— an accessibility or crawlability defect propagates into the next page built on
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it, and a claims defect does not; it sits there until someone reads it.
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**What it costs is recorded in `AGENTS.md` D20, not summarised away here.** Read
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it before proposing any further relaxation: `claims-auditor` has caught defects
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that would have been serious on a live page, and D20 accepts that such a defect
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may now live in an unpublished draft for weeks. Two things carry that risk in the
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meantime — **`npm run check:claims`, which is unchanged and runs on every build
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and both deploy paths**, and **Pouya reading the copy as it is built**. Neither is
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optional, and neither is a substitute for the cutover pass.
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## Commands
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```bash
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npm install
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npm run dev # local dev server
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npm run build # static build to ./dist
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npm run preview # serve ./dist locally
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npm run check # astro check — type and template errors
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npm run check:claims # §4 Forbidden, enforced on dist/ — run it after a build
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npm run check:intake # the form's field table vs the Lambda's — they are two on purpose
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npm run og:proof # every og:image resolves; every card headline IS its page's <h1>
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npm run lighthouse # the performance budget. LOCAL ONLY — needs Chrome, not in CI
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npm run bio:pdf # re-renders the committed one-page PDF from /bio/. LOCAL ONLY
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npm run lint # eslint + prettier check
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npm run format # prettier — rewrite files in place
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npm run deploy # build + deploy from this machine (see docs/06)
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```
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**Four of those are gates and two of them cannot run in CI.** `check`,
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`check:claims`, `check:intake` and `og:proof` are pure Node and run anywhere.
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`lighthouse` and `bio:pdf` drive an installed browser, and the Gitea runner has
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none — so they are keyboard gates plus blocking items on `docs/06`'s cutover
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checklist, and **they are deliberately not wired into `npm run build` or either
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deploy path.** Do not describe either as gating a deploy: a check described as
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running where it cannot is the defect `AGENTS.md` Q22 turned out to be.
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**`og:proof` and `check:intake` exist because two facts in this repo are
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deliberately duplicated**, and a duplicated fact needs a mechanism rather than a
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comment. `og:proof` compares each generated OG card's headline against its page's
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own `<h1>` — **text baked into a JPEG cannot be grepped by `check:claims`**, so
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that comparison is the only thing keeping card copy inside the claim register.
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`check:intake` compares the form's field table against the Lambda's, which are
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independent because a server that validates against a list the client shipped it
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is not validating.
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## Where things live
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```
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AGENTS.md living project record — read first, maintain always
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docs/ the specs you build from
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01-architecture.md sitemap, URL map, per-page content outline
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02-design-system.md tokens, type scale, motion, contrast constraints
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03-content-spec.md voice, copy rules, per-page copy deck
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04-seo-spec.md metadata, structured data, sitemap, crawlability
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05-backend-spec.md intake form, Lambda/DynamoDB/SES, booking, PIPEDA
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06-deployment.md S3/CloudFront, Gitea Actions, IAM, cutover checklist
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src/
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content.config.ts content collections — Content Layer API, NOT content/config.ts
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styles/tokens.css design tokens — the single source of colour and scale
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styles/global.css reset, base type, utilities
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layouts/ page shells
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components/ UI components
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pages/ routes (file-based)
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content/insights/ Insights MDX only; the config sits above, not in here
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data/site.ts site-wide constants, nav, contact details
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public/ static assets served as-is
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```
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## Conventions
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**Framework.** Astro **7.x**, `output: 'static'` (D1 as amended). Never introduce
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a server runtime without a Change Log entry recording why. The major is pinned
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deliberately — check `npm view astro version` before changing it.
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**JavaScript.** Default to zero. Reach for an Astro island only when a feature
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genuinely cannot be CSS or progressive HTML. If you add a `client:*` directive,
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say why in the Change Log. A `<details>` element beats a JS accordion.
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**Styling.** Plain CSS with custom properties. No Tailwind, no CSS-in-JS, no
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utility framework. Every colour, space, and font size comes from a token in
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`tokens.css` — no raw hex values and no magic numbers in component styles.
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**Accessibility is a build requirement, not a polish pass.** Semantic landmarks,
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one `<h1>` per page, heading levels never skipped, visible focus states, all
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interactive elements reachable by keyboard, `prefers-reduced-motion` honoured on
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every animation. Gold `#c9a876` never sits on cream — it fails contrast at
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2.10:1. See `docs/02-design-system.md`.
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**Anything a spec makes a claim about must be reachable from the repository.**
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If the artefact lives only in Drive, in a console, or on someone's laptop, no
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reviewer can compare the claim against it and the claim is **unverifiable by
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construction** — not merely unverified. Commit the artefact, or commit a faithful
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extract with its provenance and the command that produced it.
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This has cost twice. `AGENTS.md` Q24 was the AWS hosting guide, the only record
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of how the infrastructure was hand-built, living outside the repo. Q32 was the
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infinity mark: it was traced from the old site's *loading placeholder*, the
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source comment said so in as many words — and **two adversarial review passes
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still could not catch that the shape was wrong**, because the real artwork was
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not in the repo to compare against. Stating a doubt is not enough when the thing
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that would resolve it is unreachable. Tracked as R14.
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**A command that did not run is not evidence of absence.** Check that a tool
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exists before trusting its silence, and read exit status, not just stdout. This
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project ran `timeout 60 ls "$DRIVE"` four times, got empty output each time, and
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reported the brand assets unreachable — `timeout` is not installed on macOS, so
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the command had never executed and the directory was fully readable all along.
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Empty output from a command that failed to start looks exactly like empty output
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from a command that found nothing. Same family as *a sweep is a command, not a
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claim*: the claim must rest on output you actually read, from a command that
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actually ran.
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**And never suppress stderr in a verification script.** *Pouya's convention,
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2026-08-28, from verifying the deploy credential (`AGENTS.md` Q22).* This is the
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rule above from the other direction, and it is the more dangerous direction:
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**`2>/dev/null` converts "it failed" into "it found nothing", and those are
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opposite results.** His first pass at eight `simulate-principal-policy` checks
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returned empty for all eight; the suppression was hiding an `InvalidInput` error,
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and the empty output was then explained with a guess — *"probably lacks the
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permission"* — which is the answer the check was supposed to produce, arrived at
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without the check running. The actual cause was a **zsh parameter-expansion bug**:
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`$ACCT:user/` parses `:u` as a history modifier and yields `327082975128ser/`.
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Braces fixed it.
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So: no `2>/dev/null` in anything whose output you intend to believe, read the
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exit status, and when a result is empty **remove the suppression and look before
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proposing a cause.** A guessed explanation for an empty result is worse than no
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result, because it closes the question.
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**And never TRUNCATE the output of a check you intend to believe.** *Added
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2026-08-29, from build step 5.* This is the stderr rule's twin and it is easier
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to commit, because the command runs and the pipe looks harmless. `npm run check`
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prints its verdict as three lines — `- N errors`, `- N warnings`, `- N hints` —
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followed by a blank line. **`npm run check 2>&1 | tail -3` therefore returns
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warnings, hints and the blank line, and silently drops the errors line.** It was
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run four times that way and reported as passing each time; `astro check` was
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exiting **1 with 10 type errors**, and both deploy paths run it before the build,
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so nothing could have shipped. `adversarial-reviewer` found it.
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The fix is not a bigger `tail`. **Read the exit status** — `cmd; echo "exit=$?"`
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or `cmd || echo FAILED` — because it is the one signal a pipe cannot silently
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reshape. `head`, `tail`, `grep -c` and `| grep -i error` all have the same
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failure mode: they turn a verdict you did not read into a verdict you assert.
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Same family as *a sweep is a command, not a claim*, and note the asymmetry that
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makes it dangerous — the truncation only ever hides the bad news, because the
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error line comes first.
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*Corroborated the same day, twice, in the same session and both in zsh:*
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`grep -rn $EX 'Mediator-Arbitrator'` printed an option error and no matches —
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which reads as clean — because zsh does not word-split unquoted variables; and a
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digest-comparison loop using `set -- $pair` printed **`DIFFER` on all five rows**,
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which reads as "the source changed under me", because the loop body received one
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argument and the comparison never ran. Prefer `git grep`, quote or array-expand
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anything you pass as flags, and re-check any result whose shape is "uniformly
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bad".
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**And re-check "uniformly GOOD" too — that is the dangerous half.** *Added
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2026-08-30; sharpened on Pouya's instruction 2026-08-31, as "the sharpest
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instrument finding yet".* The same `set -- $pair` loop recurred while confirming
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nine restored files matched a saved copy, and this time it printed **`same` on
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all nine**: `shasum` was handed both filenames as one argument, errored, and left
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both variables empty, so `"" = ""` passed.
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**The distinguishing property, and it is the whole rule: a broken verification
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that fails loudly is safe; one that passes uniformly is not.** `DIFFER` on every
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row announces itself — it is alarming, so it starts an investigation, and the
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investigation finds the broken loop. A uniform pass is **the result you were
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hoping for, so it ends the check** instead of starting one. The two failures come
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from the identical bug and only one of them is survivable.
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So a comparison must **assert that both things it compares exist** before
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comparing them — that is the assertion the shell loop skipped, and it is what
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turns this class of bug back into the loud kind. Note the same hole in `git grep`:
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it silently misses untracked files, so a clean sweep across new work means
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nothing until the files are staged.
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**A parent cannot style a child component's root element.** Astro does not pass
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a parent's scope attribute down, so `<Button class="header-cta" />` compiles the
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parent's rule to `.header-cta[data-astro-cid-<parent>]` while the rendered `<a>`
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carries only `<Button>`'s own cid. **The rule silently never matches** — no
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error, no warning, and the CSS looks correct in the source. Wrap the child in an
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element the parent owns (`<div class="header-cta"><Button …/></div>`), or reach
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it deliberately with `:global()` from a parent-scoped ancestor. Inherited
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properties (`white-space`, `color`, `font-*`) do cross the boundary and are the
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exception. This cost a header CTA that was documented as hidden on mobile,
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was not hidden, and sat 75 px short of the right edge on desktop — both found by
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measurement, neither by reading. It will recur with `PracticeCard`,
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`ArticleCard`, and `Pill`.
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**Never write the `animation` shorthand beside `animation-timeline`.** Longhands
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only — `animation-name`, `animation-duration`, `animation-timing-function`,
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`animation-fill-mode`, then `animation-timeline` and `animation-range`.
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`scroll()` and `view()` are not legal components of the shorthand, and Lightning
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CSS folds the two declarations together on minify into something invalid, which
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is then discarded whole. **It works in `npm run dev` and is dead in
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`npm run build`** — the worst shape a defect can take. It happened twice in one
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session, the second time inside the fix for the first. `/build` Phase 5 greps
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`dist` for it; do not remove that check.
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**Images.** Astro `<Image>` with explicit width and height. AVIF/WebP with
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fallback. Never base64-inline an image into HTML — the old site did this with
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~1 MB of logo PNGs — a figure `AGENTS.md` Q34 is now open against, so treat the
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rule as standing on its own merits rather than on that number.
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**Fonts.** Self-hosted, subset, `font-display: swap`, preloaded. No Google Fonts
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request at runtime — it costs a round trip and adds a third-party call to a
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page that collects legal inquiries.
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**Every page ships with:** a unique `<title>` and meta description, a canonical
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URL, Open Graph and Twitter card tags, and appropriate JSON-LD. See
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`docs/04-seo-spec.md`. A page without these is not finished.
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**A version pin is verified against the registry, never recalled.** Before you
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write or change any dependency version, run `npm view <pkg> version` and pin
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against what it returns. One second of checking; a stale pin costs a migration.
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This rule exists because `astro: "^5.0.0"` was written from memory and was
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**two majors stale on the day it was written** — which meant shipping a
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framework carrying high-severity XSS advisories. The same check applies to
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every pin in `package.json`, not just the framework.
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Re-check currency at each phase boundary in the build order (`AGENTS.md` R11),
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not only when something breaks.
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**`AGENTS.md` §7 is the single source of truth for operational facts.** Resource
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IDs, regions, DNS records, credential state, service status — these live in §7
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and nowhere else. Specs in `docs/` **cite** §7; they do not restate it. Write
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"the region `AGENTS.md` §7 records", not the region. Same for bucket names,
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distribution IDs, DKIM tokens, endpoints, and account identifiers.
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A duplicated fact is a fact that will eventually be wrong in one place, and the
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copy that goes stale is the one nobody re-reads. This rule exists because
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`docs/05-backend-spec.md` carried its own copy of the SES DKIM table, a
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correction reached §7 and never reached it, and the stale copy ended up telling
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an operator to delete the three records that authenticate outbound mail —
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under the heading "Never delete".
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**A measurement is a claim about your instrument until you check the
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instrument.** This has now cost six times, and the shape is identical every
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time: a number that looks like a finding, from a probe nobody validated.
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- `timeout 60 ls "$DRIVE"` — **the command never ran.** `timeout` is not
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installed on macOS. Empty output from a command that failed to start looks
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exactly like empty output from a command that found nothing, and it produced a
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report that the brand assets were unreachable when the directory was fully
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readable.
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- **`1.23:1` for the traced mark** — the bounding box of the path's *coordinate
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hull*, not of the curve. A cubic's control points sit outside it, so the box
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was 33% too tall while giving the *correct* width — which means the obvious
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sanity check, "does the width look right?", passes.
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- **"the mark renders at 24px"** — the harness reported the worst-deviating
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instance on the page, not the instance under discussion, which was exact.
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- **"0 overflow at every width"** — true, and it measured the *document*. A flex
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child was absorbing the deficit by being crushed to aspect 0.891. **Measure
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the elements, not only the page.**
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- **`img.naturalWidth` = 64 at DPR 1, 2 and 3** — which reads as *the density
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ladder is not being generated at all*, a shipped defect on every page. It is
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**density-corrected by spec**: a 192px file selected at `3x` correctly reports
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64. The files on disk were 64 / 128 / 192 all along.
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- **"10 distinct contexts" from `grep -roh '.\{50\}X.\{50\}' dist/ | sort -u`**
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— **`grep -o` takes NON-OVERLAPPING matches.** On minified HTML a page is a
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handful of very long lines, so an early window eats the characters a later one
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needs and occurrences vanish silently. A whole shipped sentence was missing
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from the list. **A `grep -o` window count is not an enumeration** — to count
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occurrences of a string, iterate every match position, or `grep -o` the bare
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string with no context window.
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So before acting on a number: say what it is a number *of*; confirm the command
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actually ran and read its exit status; and check it against a second method that
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cannot fail the same way — the bytes on disk, a screenshot, a hit test.
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**And a grep that matches is not a finding until you read what it matched.**
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A case-insensitive sweep for `LSO` hit `I aLSO practise`; a superlative sweep for
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`leading` hit `the pLEADINGs`. Both on the same page on the same day. Print the
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match with context before you believe it.
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**Never name an Astro prop `as`.** `const { as = 'p' } = Astro.props` detaches
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the `Props` interface from the component, and **every call site silently stops
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being type-checked.** `astro check` reports it only as `ts(6196) 'Props' is
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declared but never used`, which reads like lint noise. Measured: with the prop
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named `as`, `<Eyebrow dot as="h9" bogusProp={1} />` compiled with **0 errors**;
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renaming the one identifier to `tag` made the same probe fail correctly. **Do not
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silence a `ts(6196)` with `Astro.props as Props`** — that hides the warning and
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leaves the call sites unchecked, which is strictly worse. If that hint appears on
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any component, pass it a bogus prop before believing its props are checked.
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**A sweep is a command, not a claim.** Any statement that a change was applied
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across files — a phrase removed everywhere, a path updated everywhere, a
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decision swept through the docs — must cite the command that proves it, and be
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written only after reading that command's output. Paste the `grep` into the
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Change Log entry. Three consecutive entries on this project asserted a completed
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sweep; instances survived all three, and one of them was inside
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`.claude/agents/claims-auditor.md` — the definition of the agent whose job is to
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catch exactly that. Recall is not evidence.
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**And sweep the VOCABULARY, not only the subject.** *Added 2026-08-30, from the
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Q.Arb amendment.* `git grep 'Q.Arb'` is line-anchored, so it could not find **ten
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lines in `docs/03` that were entirely about Q.Arb and never named it** — an
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unstruck, imperative block still instructing the struck form, eleven lines below
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that change set's own strike notice on the same bullet. The sweep was a real
|
|
command and its output was read honestly. It was still the wrong command.
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So after sweeping the term, sweep the words its claims are **made of** — here,
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the stage vocabulary (`commenced`, `in progress`, `pathway`, `not yet`) with no
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mention of the designation. This is R8's sharpest edge, and it is the one that
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survives an honest reader: a sweep can pass every test in the rule above and
|
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still miss everything, because the anchor you chose is not the anchor the text
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uses. The same session also excluded `docs/reference/` as "sourced extracts" —
|
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half right. The quotations there are evidence; **the commentary around them is
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|
this repository's voice**, and three lines of it still asserted the struck row.
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**`check:claims` IS FROZEN. It is a tripwire, not a program.** *Pouya's ruling,
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2026-08-30.* Round 2 of the Q.Arb amendment found **five defects in round 1's own
|
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fixes to that script, two of which made it worse than before the pattern
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|
existed** — a dedup key that reported two breaches of the same string as one (the
|
|
check truncating its own output), and a collapsed-text view whose window leapt
|
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paragraph boundaries onto approved copy while its comment claimed it could not.
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At that point it was generating defects at roughly the rate it caught them.
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The rule, and it has no exceptions:
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- **A pattern is added only after a real breach has reached `dist/`.** Never
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speculatively, never to close a gap you can imagine.
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- **Each addition ships with a probe** — an injected page proving it catches the
|
|
actual breach — **and a negative fixture** proving it stays silent on the
|
|
approved copy nearest to it.
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- **No refactors. No coverage improvements. No tidying.** If a pattern is wrong,
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|
change that pattern deliberately, with a Change Log entry. Do not rewrite the
|
|
scanner around it.
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Under D20 this script is the only per-step claims control, which is an argument
|
|
for keeping it **correct**, not for growing it. It catches the §4 breaches that
|
|
are greppable and makes no claim about the ones that are not.
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|
**Comments record decisions, not history — D19.** *"X because D13"* stays.
|
|
*"This was Y, then flagged, then became X"* belongs in the `AGENTS.md` Change
|
|
Log, which is where a reader looks for how something got here. **A comment
|
|
longer than the code it explains must justify itself. Trim on sight.**
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|
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Pouya's ruling, 2026-08-28, on his own measurement: **342 lines added to `src/`
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|
in one session for 8 functional lines**, and four of that session's review
|
|
findings were stale statements living inside those comments. A comment that
|
|
narrates its own revision history becomes a second record to keep true, and then
|
|
a source of defects about the record rather than about the site.
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|
|
|
This does **not** license deleting a comment that carries a live constraint. The
|
|
parent-scope trap, the `animation-timeline` minifier defect and the `as`-prop
|
|
hazard above are load-bearing and stay. The test is whether a future reader needs
|
|
it **to avoid breaking something** — not whether it is interesting.
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|
|
|
**Commits.** Conventional Commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `chore:`, `refactor:`).
|
|
One logical change per commit. Never commit secrets, `.env` files, or AWS
|
|
credentials. Gitea is not an AWS OIDC provider, so the deploy key is designed as
|
|
a static IAM access key to be held in Gitea Actions secrets — whether it has
|
|
actually been provisioned is `AGENTS.md` Q22. It must never reach the repo.
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|
|
|
**Performance budget.** Lighthouse ≥ 95 on all four categories, on mobile, for
|
|
every page. Under 100 KB of JS on any route. LCP under 2.0 s on a simulated
|
|
Slow 4G connection. Treat a budget breach as a failing build.
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|
|
|
**Lighthouse runs again as of 2026-08-31 — `npm run lighthouse`, and it is
|
|
`lighthouse` rather than `@lhci/cli`.** It enumerates every `index.html` in
|
|
`dist/`, so the page set cannot go stale; it asserts the four category scores and
|
|
**reports** LCP and CLS without asserting them, because simulated throttling on a
|
|
loopback server is not the Slow 4G field measurement `docs/04` describes.
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|
|
|
**It is a LOCAL gate, not a CI check.** Standalone Lighthouse drives an installed
|
|
browser and the Gitea runner has none. So it is `npm run lighthouse` at a
|
|
keyboard plus a blocking item on `docs/06`'s cutover checklist, and it is
|
|
deliberately not wired into `npm run build` or either deploy path. Do not
|
|
describe it as gating a deploy.
|
|
|
|
**Two things about the numbers, and both have to travel with them.** The
|
|
accessibility category is measured with `prefers-reduced-motion` **forced** —
|
|
otherwise axe's `color-contrast` audit reads the scroll-driven reveal's
|
|
mid-animation opacity and reports 24 false nodes (measured; `#d0cbc4` on
|
|
`#f8f4ed`, neither of which is in this palette). And the reason it is
|
|
`lighthouse` and not `@lhci/cli` is that `AGENTS.md` §7's advisory attribution
|
|
was **wrong**: the carriers were `@lhci/cli`'s own `tmp` and `@puppeteer/browsers`'
|
|
`extract-zip`, not Lighthouse, and `lighthouse@13.4.1` audits clean. The budget
|
|
was unmeasurable for five days on a cause nobody re-derived — which is the same
|
|
lesson from the other side: **a documented control that no longer exists is
|
|
precisely the defect Q22 turned out to be**, and so is one recorded as impossible
|
|
on a reason that was never re-tested.
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## What "done" means for a page
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- [ ] Copy written from `docs/03-content-spec.md`, every claim traceable to `AGENTS.md` §4
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- [ ] No `TODO(pouya)` left unlogged in §9
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- [ ] Unique title, meta description, canonical, OG/Twitter tags, JSON-LD
|
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- [ ] Semantic HTML; keyboard navigable; reduced-motion honoured
|
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- [ ] Lighthouse ≥ 95 mobile, all four categories — `npm run lighthouse` after
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|
`npm run build`. Read the exit status, not the table
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- [ ] Renders correctly with JavaScript disabled
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- [ ] `AGENTS.md` Change Log entry appended
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