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feat: give the chapters motion, diagrams, and retrieval practice
Three strands of work on the chapter surface, all reading from the same
constraint: this site ships no runtime dependencies, so every effect below
is native CSS or an .astro component.

Motion (src/styles/motion.css, DrawRule.astro). A scroll-driven layer of
reveals, hero parallax, section depth, and a hairline that paints itself
along its path, scrubbed by `animation-timeline: view()` — 0KB against
lottie-web's ~60KB gzipped on the main thread. Every scrubbed rule sits
inside `prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference` and `@supports`, so a
Firefox reader or an opted-out one gets the complete static page rather
than one with holes in it. Ranges key to `cover 40%`-`cover 75%` where the
motion is meant to be watched: `view()` ranges key to first visibility,
which on a 2600px page is long before anyone is reading the section.
`.agents/skills/motion/references/scroll-driven.md` records the technique
and the two ways `pathLength` normalisation was broken while building it.

Diagrams (StepFlow.astro, WorktreeMap.astro). The `.steps` stack on
/skills/, /models/, and /agents/ becomes a numbered flow with connectors,
and /agents/ grows the worktree map it was describing in prose — reusing
the `trees` collection rather than a second set of strings. The map's
static variant is gated one class deeper than full-guide's page styles, so
the interactive copy renders byte-identical. Connectors are pseudo-elements,
not SVG: a stretched path desynchronises its own dash pattern, and a
straight line does not need one. Mermaid was considered and rejected at
~1MB of runtime.

Retrieval practice (/rules/, /skills/). A "check yourself" section of
native `<details>` question/answer pairs plus a citation row, both bilingual
through the existing `data-copy` toggle, and both JavaScript-free.

Two audit blind spots surfaced and are closed rather than worked around:
`build.inlineStylesheets: 'never'`, because Astro inlined sheets under ~4kB
and audit-ui.mjs reads its colour and size baseline from dist/_astro/*.css;
and `--columns` declared in the grid components, because an element-level
custom property is not a declaration the audit can resolve.

legacy/styles/skills.css is renamed and imported for its side effect. Inside
a *page*, `?url` resolves to that page's own CSS chunk whatever file it
names, so the link pointed at the wrong asset and the sheet was emitted but
never loaded — the package preview had been rendering unstyled and
overflowing since the Astro cutover.

verify.mjs gains 5 assertions for the recall sections and their Portuguese
copy: 89 now, against the 84 baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 16:04:08 -03:00

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name, description
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design-tokens Extract, name, and enforce the design token layer for the ai-for-dummies site. Use when touching any colour, font size, spacing value, or breakpoint, when consolidating the three drifted palettes, or when a check-tokens failure needs resolving.

Design tokens

Before anything

Read ../../context/design-system.md. This site has three drifting palettes and a broken @font-face. Both are traps. If you have not read that file, you will "preserve the styles" by copying a bug.

Extracting

python3 - <<'PY'
import re
files=['legacy/styles/guide.css','legacy/styles/chapters.css','legacy/styles/skills-chapter.css',
       'legacy/styles/skills-review.css','legacy/styles/change-lens.css',
       'legacy/styles/audit.css','public/hands-on/starter/styles.css',
       'public/hands-on/rules/styles.css']
seen={}
for f in files:
    for m in re.finditer(r'--([a-z-]+):\s*([^;}]+)', open(f).read()):
        seen.setdefault(m.group(1),{}).setdefault(m.group(2).strip(),[]).append(f)
for k,v in sorted(seen.items()):
    print(f"--{k}:")
    for val,fs in v.items(): print(f"    {val:12} <- {', '.join(fs)}")
PY

Re-run this after any consolidation. Every token should print exactly one value.

Consolidating a drifted token

  1. List every value and where it is used (above).
  2. Compute the perceptual delta. Sub-perceptual (a few units per channel) → canonicalize freely. Visible (--blue: #527f9f vs #215675) → screenshot both, get a human decision, record it in the task file.
  3. Pick the canonical value. Prefer the one used on the most-visited surface.
  4. Replace, then screenshot every affected page at 560/800/1100/1600 px.
  5. Attach before/after images to the task report. "It looked fine to me" is not evidence.

Naming

Semantic, matching the existing vocabulary — --ink, --paper, --muted, --line, --accent, --gold, --blue, --deep. Never numeric scales. New surfaces extend semantically: --surface-lab, --ink-inverse.

Type scale and breakpoints

Collapse the 14 ad-hoc clamp() triples to named steps and the 16 breakpoints to five, per ../../rules/theming.md. When collapsing a breakpoint, screenshot at the old value — that is where the regression is.

Enforcing

node .agents/scripts/check-tokens.mjs   # fails on raw hex outside tokens.css

Wire it into pnpm run verify. A rule nobody checks is a suggestion.

The font decision

Do not self-host Manrope/DM Mono as part of a refactor task. The intended fonts have never rendered, so adopting them is a visual redesign. Default to matching what renders today (Arial / generic monospace) and delete the dead @font-face. If a human wants the real fonts, that is its own task with its own screenshots.