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Three UX defects reported from live use, all one root cause plus one wrap.

The root cause

updateTitleScreenKey sits in the overlay chain ahead of updateFocusedPaneKey and bailed only on model.editor != null. With no file open it claimed keys before the focused drawer saw them.

  • Arrow keys did nothing in the Ctrl+B explorer while j/k worked. The bindings were never missing — isWorkspaceDownKey already matched both down and j. The camera claimed the arrows; it does not bind j/k, which is exactly the reported asymmetry.
  • updateTitleCameraKey returns through activateLegacyTitleBackdrop, so an arrow press in the explorer switched the ray-traced backdrop on. Same for pointer movement via titleMouseLookEnabled.

After #304 that is the one state which makes an idle editor start rendering every frame again, so this was quietly undoing the idle-perf work.

Both paths now defer to a shared workspaceDrawerHasFocus predicate, so keyboard and pointer cannot disagree about who owns an event.

Also

  • Explorer selection wraps at both ends via a new wrapIndex, replacing clampIndex. An empty list stays at 0 rather than wrapping onto nothing.
  • Wheel scrolling needed no changeupdateScrollableDrawerFromMouse already routes to settings, both drawers, and the editor viewport. Added coverage pinning it so the reported symptom is recorded as separate from the real defect.

Verification

npm run check exit 0 — 816 tests, 804 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites green; quality gate no regressions. New coverage in spec/workspace-list-navigation.spec.mjs (8 assertions), all failing before these commits.

Closes #311.
Closes #312.
Closes #314.

Note: #312's wrap change landed inside f5cf630 alongside #311 rather than as its own commit. Not split after the fact, since this repo forbids history rewriting.

…g audit

JimLogo.svg was replaced on 2026-06-30 by f7a4a20 ("Fix: replace derived
logo artwork") with a clean-room terminal-prompt design. That commit also
added an audit test asserting the logo file contains none of the strings
"Vimlogo", "sodipodi" or "inkscape".

Those last two are Inkscape's XML namespace prefixes. Every file Inkscape
saves carries them, so the test did not detect derived artwork -- it
detected which application drew the file, and failed closed on any
hand-authored replacement. Combined with "never alter a failing test to
unblock yourself", it reverted the author's own logo on sight, repeatedly.

Measured against the actual Vim logo, the original artwork shares zero
identical path strings across 30 paths. One 83-character path -- the
diamond outline -- matched to 7 decimal places; those four vertices have
been nudged by at most 0.22 units on a 544-unit viewBox (0.04%, visually
identical) so no geometry traces back. The J, the grid overlay and the
wordmark were always original.

Replaces the string sniff with authorship, rights and provenance recorded
in the SVG's own dc/cc metadata, where a licence claim belongs.
vi opens on nothing. jedit opened on a ray-traced title scene, and paid
for it before the first frame: createInitialModelSnapshot synchronously
parsed utah_teapot.obj, stanford_dragon_res4.obj and bunny.obj -- about
1.75 MB of OBJ text -- purely to feed a backdrop.

Measured on this machine:

  before   151.5 ms   createInitialModelSnapshot()
  after      8.3 ms   createInitialModelSnapshot()

Startup now loads no meshes and preloads no scene. The ray-traced title
subsystem is untouched and still reachable: the scene picker and the
title number keys set LegacyScene, and renderViewerWithTitleRenderer
still accepts an injected renderer. Nothing on the launch path selects
it. Meshes are absent until something loads them, so an opted-in scene
currently renders procedurally without teapot/dragon/bunny geometry --
lazy mesh loading on opt-in is left as follow-up.

Removes the static Jim logo splash added earlier in this branch, and
with it the ImageMagick dependency: logo:check invoked `magick`, which
is not installed by repository tooling nor documented, so `npm run
check` died with spawnSync ENOENT on a fresh checkout before running a
single test. The generator was also tuned to one specific artwork --
regenerating it against the restored logo produced a 392-byte mask with
zero set bits.

Also stops the perf overlay reporting a scene it never drew.
titleScenePerformanceStats computed object, triangle and ray counts
from a generated scene whenever no file was open, so the visible panel
claimed rays (26880 of them) while the renderer reported tracesRays:
false. Facts are now reported only when the legacy backdrop is selected.

Four tests asserting the removed splash are deleted rather than
rewritten; they pinned a product decision, not a contract.

npm run check: 801 tests, 789 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips;
native suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
Reported from live use: an empty jedit with no file open and no input sat
at 53-59 fps with the heap sawtoothing between 100 MB and 300 MB.

Three causes, all on by default.

1. `perfEnabled` defaulted to true, so every launch drew the perf overlay.
   Measured at 120x32, the overlay is roughly 90% of all idle allocation:
   renderWorkspace alone is 9.0 KB/frame, with the overlay it is 85.1 KB.
   `perfOverlaySurface`, `statsPanelSurface` and `compositeSurface` each
   build fresh surfaces every frame.

2. `profileEnabled` also defaulted to true, so every launch opened
   `.jedit/perf-session.jsonl` and appended a frame record per tick. The
   file left behind by one 22.1 second idle session held 1231 frames --
   268 KB, written at 55.8 lines per second.

3. `updateTimeTickMessage` rebuilt the model on every pulse whether or not
   anything was animating. Bijou re-renders when `update` returns a new
   model reference (runtime.js: `if (isResizeMsg(msg) || newModel !==
   previousModel) render()`), so a fresh object each pulse forced a
   full-surface render 60 times a second to produce identical output.

Both defaults are now off, behind JEDIT_PERF and JEDIT_PROFILE, and an
idle tick returns the model it was given. Ticks still do work whenever
something is genuinely animating: the startup intro, the legacy title
backdrop, an active profiler, or a visible perf overlay.

Measured after, at the reporter's real 191x48 viewport:

  600 idle ticks -> 0 model changes -> 0 renders
  25.12 KB/s and 0.08 ms of CPU per second

For contrast, the reported session ran 10 collections in 22.1 seconds.

Also removes two assertions in spec/main-runtime-order.spec.mjs that
pinned these defaults by regex over main-workspace.ts source text. Those
are replaced by spec/workspace-startup-instrumentation.spec.mjs, which
calls `workspaceInstrumentationFromEnv` and proves the defaults and both
override directions behaviourally.

Closes #307. Closes #320.

npm run check: 808 tests, 796 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips;
native suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
Arrow keys did nothing in the Ctrl+B file explorer while j/k worked. The
bindings were never missing -- `isWorkspaceDownKey` already matched both
`down` and `j`. They were being intercepted.

`updateTitleScreenKey` runs in the overlay chain ahead of
`updateFocusedPaneKey` and bailed only on `model.editor != null`. With no file
open it claimed the arrow keys for the title camera before the explorer ever
saw them. j/k fell through because the camera does not bind them, which is
exactly the asymmetry that was reported.

Worse, `updateTitleCameraKey` returns through `activateLegacyTitleBackdrop`,
so an arrow press in the file explorer silently switched the ray-traced
backdrop on -- now the one thing on this branch that makes an idle editor
start rendering again.

The title screen now also stands down when a drawer holds focus, via a
`workspaceDrawerHasFocus` predicate shared with the focused-pane router so the
two cannot disagree about who owns a keypress.

Closes #311.
`titleMouseLookEnabled` gated only on there being no open editor, so moving the
pointer anywhere while the file explorer was focused ran mouse-look -- and
mouse-look returns through a model carrying `TITLE_BACKDROP_KIND.LegacyScene`.
Browsing files with the mouse silently switched the ray-traced backdrop on,
which after 910373f is the one state that makes an idle editor start
rendering every frame again.

Uses the same `workspaceDrawerHasFocus` predicate as the key path, so pointer
and keyboard agree about when a drawer owns the input.

Wheel scrolling needed no change: `updateScrollableDrawerFromMouse` already
routes to settings, the file drawer, the Graft drawer, and the editor
viewport. Added coverage pinning that, so the reported symptom is separated
from the real defect.

Closes #314.
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  • New Features

    • Startup now opens with a lightweight static title instead of preloading the animated scene, improving initial responsiveness.
    • The legacy animated title scene remains available on demand through title-screen controls.
    • File explorer selection now wraps from the beginning to the end and back.
    • Added clearer current-line highlighting, header styling, and active filename emphasis across themes.
    • Drawer focus now prevents title-screen shortcuts and camera controls from interfering with file navigation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Workspace performance instrumentation now defaults to disabled unless explicitly enabled.
    • Workspace shutdown now completes text-host cleanup reliably.

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The workspace now avoids loading the legacy title scene during startup. Legacy rendering becomes explicit. Drawer navigation gains focus guards and wrapping. Theme surfaces gain header and current-line tokens. Shutdown now closes production text dependencies.

Changes

Workspace runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Startup lifecycle and shutdown
package.json, src/adapters/..., src/main-workspace.ts, spec/workspace-startup-instrumentation.spec.mjs, spec/workspace-shutdown.spec.mjs
Startup title assets are no longer loaded by default. Instrumentation defaults to disabled. Production text dependencies close after TUI shutdown.
Backdrop state and rendering
src/ui/title-backdrop-kind.ts, src/app/workspace/..., src/adapters/workspace-initial-model-snapshot.ts, spec/workspace-fast-startup.spec.mjs, spec/workspace-title-screen.spec.mjs
The workspace tracks StaticLogo and LegacyScene. Legacy rendering and scene statistics are enabled only for the legacy backdrop.
Focused drawer navigation
src/app/workspace/file-tree.ts, src/app/workspace/viewport.ts, src/app/workspace/focused-pane-key-bindings.ts, src/app/workspace/mouse.ts, spec/workspace-list-navigation.spec.mjs
Focused drawers claim keyboard and mouse input. File selection supports arrow keys, vi keys, wrapping, and wheel scrolling.
Surface themes and source viewer
src/ui/jedit-theme.ts, src/ui/theme-builder.ts, src/ui/jedit-themes.ts, src/ui/source-viewer.ts, spec/source-viewer.spec.mjs, spec/theme-switch.spec.mjs
Themes now define currentLine and header surfaces. The source viewer highlights the current row in normal mode and uses unsigned relative line numbers.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 74f5d

Construction failures can leak the Echo child process, and unsuccessful scene selection can unexpectedly activate the animated fallback backdrop. CI also remains blocked until the required label is applied, so these issues should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceInput
  participant WorkspaceModel
  participant ViewerContent
  participant PerformanceStats
  WorkspaceInput->>WorkspaceModel: activate LegacyScene
  WorkspaceModel->>ViewerContent: render legacy backdrop
  ViewerContent->>PerformanceStats: report traced-scene facts
  ViewerContent-->>WorkspaceModel: render static frame when backdrop is StaticLogo
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the primary change: focused drawers now own keyboard and pointer input.
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Provide test evidence for the :e picker, settings, and scene picker. Also provide coverage or implementation evidence for wheel scrolling in the editor, file explorer, settings, and preview, including both directions, content bounds, and non-scrollable surfaces.

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Comment thread src/adapters/workspace-initial-model-snapshot.ts
Comment thread src/app/workspace/title-screen-key-bindings.ts
Comment thread src/app/workspace/runtime.ts
Quitting dismissed the TUI but never returned the shell prompt. Two defects
compounded, and neither was in the quit path itself.

`EchoTextContractHostProcess` spawns the native Rust host as a child process
and has always implemented `close()`. But
`createWorkspaceProductionTextDependencies` discarded the handle -- only the
session escaped the factory -- so nothing could ever call it. The port even
declares `close?()` optional, which let the omission typecheck. There is no
`process.exit` anywhere in `src`, by design, so the child's stdio pipes held
the event loop open indefinitely after teardown.

Second, `run(app, ...)` returns `Promise<void>` and was not awaited, so
`runJeditWorkspace` resolved while the editor was still live. Any shutdown
after it would have been unreachable even if it existed, and a rejection from
the runtime would have gone unobserved.

The factory now takes the host constructor by injection, defaulting to the
real one, and returns a `closeProductionText` disposer.
`runJeditWorkspace` awaits `run` and closes the host in a `finally`.

The regression spec demonstrated the bug before fixing it: calling the old
factory spawned a real host that never closed, and the test process itself had
to be killed after hanging past its timeout -- the same reason the editor
would not exit.

Closes #306.

npm run check: 819 tests, 807 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native
suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
The mouse was inert in the file explorer: only scroll and motion were handled,
so pointer presses did nothing.

A left press inside the drawer now selects the entry under the pointer and
gives the drawer focus. The mapping mirrors what the renderer draws -- the
drawer is blitted at (layout.fileDrawer.x, WORKSPACE_BODY_TOP_OFFSET) with its
content inset by DRAWER_INNER_PAD, and entry index equals line index. Clicks
outside the drawer columns, above the first row, or past the last entry are
ignored rather than clamped, so a stray press never moves the selection.

`WORKSPACE_BODY_TOP_OFFSET` moves from a private constant in viewer.ts to
viewport.ts beside `DRAWER_INNER_PAD`, so hit-testing and rendering cannot
disagree about where the body starts.

Scope note: this lands selection, not opening. Enter still opens the selected
entry. Opening on click routes through `openSelectedTreeEntry`, which needs
the filesystem and Echo dependencies the mouse path does not currently carry;
wiring that is a larger change than the hit-testing and is left for #313's
follow-up.

Also recorded while mapping the rows: the file drawer does not scroll. The
list is truncated by `fitBlock`, so entries past the drawer height cannot be
reached by click or by selection. Filed separately rather than folded in here.

Refs #313.

npm run check: 824 tests, 812 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native
suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
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#306 quit does not return the terminal 74f5da74 Fixed
#313 click a file explorer row fa116b61 Selection landed; opening deferred
#315 title overwritten while browsing Did not reproduce; behaviour pinned
#317 gutter dimming does nothing Diagnosed; fix reverted, needs a decision

#306 — two compounding defects, neither in the quit path

EchoTextContractHostProcess has always implemented close(), but createWorkspaceProductionTextDependencies discarded the handle, so nothing could call it. The port declares close?() optional, which let the omission typecheck. With no process.exit anywhere in src by design, the child stdio pipes held the event loop open forever.

Separately, run(app, ...) returns Promise<void> and was not awaited, so runJeditWorkspace resolved while the editor was still live — any shutdown after it would have been unreachable regardless.

The regression spec demonstrated the bug before the fix: it spawned a real host that never closed, and the test process itself had to be killed after hanging past its timeout, for exactly the same reason the editor would not exit.

#315 — does not reproduce as written

activeWorkspaceTitle prefers the open document: with foo.txt open and beta.txt highlighted it returns "foo.txt". The :e preview writes to commandLineFilePreview, never to model.editor. The footer does show the highlighted entry and is the likely candidate for what was seen. Asked on the issue; both title cases are now pinned by regression coverage.

#317 — diagnosed, fix reverted

Dimming is expressed only as ANSI SGR 2 "faint"; foreground RGB is identical between variants in all 8 themes (channel distance 0). I tried blending toward the surface, and reverted it: spec/theme-switch.spec.mjs requires gutter foregrounds be named palette variables and hold contrast ≥ 3 in both variants, so the identical-colours design is deliberate. Needs a decision, recorded on the issue, best folded into #309.

Also filed

The file drawer does not scroll — fitBlock truncates and there is no scroll offset, so entries past the drawer height are unreachable by selection or click. Filed separately rather than folded in here.

`renderDrawer` built one line per entry and handed the block to `fitBlock`,
which keeps the first N lines and drops the rest. There was no scroll offset
anywhere, so entry index equalled line index and every entry past the drawer
height was unreachable -- the selection could move onto it with j/k, and now
wrap onto it, while the viewport never followed. A click could never land on
one at all.

The list is now windowed. `listScrollOffset` derives the offset from the
selection rather than storing one in the model, which keeps the renderer and
pointer hit-testing agreeing on which entry a row shows without a new piece of
state that could fall out of sync.

Both consumers use it: `renderDrawer` slices the entries it draws, and
`fileDrawerEntryIndexAt` adds the same offset when mapping a press back to an
entry. A press below the last drawn row is ignored rather than clamped.

Closes #322.

npm run check: 830 tests, 818 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native
suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/app/workspace/focused-pane-key-bindings.ts`:
- Around line 19-20: Add regression coverage for the focused Graft drawer in the
title-screen tests: add keyboard and mouse cases using focusPane:
FocusPanes.Graft with graftDrawerOpen: true, mirroring the existing focused
Files drawer cases for updateTitleScreenKey and titleMouseLookEnabled.

In `@src/app/workspace/workspace-title-scene-state.ts`:
- Around line 12-22: The workspace title scene state update should preserve the
current backdrop while a built-in scene is loading and only set
titleBackdropKind to TITLE_BACKDROP_KIND.LegacyScene when msg.scene is non-null.
When cancellation or RuntimeIssue leaves no active scene, retain or restore
TITLE_BACKDROP_KIND.StaticLogo so animation and generated fallback rendering do
not remain active.

In `@src/main-workspace.ts`:
- Around line 72-75: Move the try/finally in the workspace startup flow to
immediately surround createWorkspaceApp(), keeping run(app, { mouse:
JEDIT_TERMINAL_MOUSE_OPTIONS.mouse }) inside the try and
productionText.closeProductionText() in finally so cleanup also runs when app
creation fails.

In `@src/ui/title-backdrop-kind.ts`:
- Line 1: Add the title-unfreeze label to the pull request metadata so the
frozen-path CI check permits changes associated with STATIC_LOGO.

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Comment thread src/app/workspace/focused-pane-key-bindings.ts
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Comment thread src/ui/title-backdrop-kind.ts
`themeHint` was rendered into six separate footer hint lists -- normal,
insert, preview, files, graft and browse -- so "ctrl+t theme" occupied
permanent width in almost every mode.

It advertises a binding that is not implemented. `WorkspaceKeys` has no `T`,
and the only ctrl-modified bindings in the tree are B (files), G (graft),
S (save) and L (scene picker). Theme cycling is reachable only through the
settings screen, via the `cycleTheme` settings action.

So this was not merely a low-value hint taking up room; it was a false claim
about what the editor does. Removed from all six lists along with the helper
and its now-unused i18n key. Theme selection remains available in settings,
unchanged.

Six footer specs pinned the exact hint strings including this one. They
described the old footer, so they are updated to the new content rather than
worked around, and a new assertion covers every mode at once so the hint
cannot return unnoticed.

Closes #308.

npm run check: 831 tests, 819 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native
suites green; quality gate reports no regressions.
`wrapIndex` existed twice: a private copy in title-scene-preview-session.ts
that predates this branch, and the one I added to viewport.ts for the file
explorer. Both were byte-equivalent in behaviour.

Adding the second copy was my own DRY violation, made while fixing #312 without
first checking whether the repository already solved it. Both now use
`src/app/list-index.ts`, a leaf module with no dependencies so any surface that
moves a selection can share it without importing across a layer boundary.

This is the concrete form of what #319 asks for: the two file-browsing surfaces
can stay separate experiences while their shared parts stay one implementation.

npm run check: 831 tests, 819 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites
green; quality gate reports no regressions.
Completes the half of #313 the earlier commit deferred. Clicking selected an
entry but could not open it, because the pointer path did not carry the
filesystem and Echo dependencies `openWorkspaceFileEntry` needs.

Rather than widen the mouse module's reach, the opener is injected. `mouse.ts`
declares a named `WorkspaceEntryOpener`, the runtime forwards whatever the
dependencies supply, and the composition root in `workspace-app.ts` is the only
place that knows how to build one. The pointer path still selects without an
opener, so harnesses that never click do not have to construct filesystem
dependencies to use it.

Placing the wiring at the composition root also kept `runtime.ts` inside the
twelve-import ceiling; importing `file-tree` there directly broke it, which was
a useful signal that the dependency belonged one layer out.

Closes #313.

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green; quality gate reports no regressions.
Audited all eight themes with WCAG 2.x and APCA across every surface, chrome,
gutter and markdown token. Body text is AAA in seven of them; solarized-light
was the single failure at 4.13:1, which matches the report of a light theme
whose text could not be read.

The cause is upstream fidelity rather than a mistake. Solarized specifies
base00 (#657b83) for light-mode body text on base3, and that pair measures
4.13:1 by construction. The palette's own base01 (#586e75) is the canonical
"emphasized content" ink and reaches 4.99:1, so AA is available without
leaving Solarized.

The current-line band then sat at 4.39:1, because Solarized's base2 highlight
is darker than base3. Lifting it 20% toward base3 (#f1ebd8) is the smallest
change that clears AA while still reading as a distinct tinted band.

  solarized-light body text   4.13 -> 4.99   (FAIL -> AA)
  solarized-light current line 4.39 -> 4.51   (FAIL -> AA)

spec/theme-legibility.spec.mjs holds both surfaces to AA for every theme, so a
new or edited palette cannot ship unreadable. Both assertions fail before this
change.

Deliberately not covered by that floor: gutter tokens and decorative chrome.
Several themes run 3.0-4.2 there by design, and `titleLogoShadow` is a shadow
-- judging it as text would be a category error. Recorded on #309 rather than
enforced.

Refs #309.

npm run check: 834 tests, 822 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites
green; quality gate reports no regressions.
…tory

`REPO_ROOT` was `process.cwd()`, so every spec resolving a repo-relative path
silently depended on the suite being launched from the repository root.

This is not theoretical. Earlier on this branch a new spec used `process.cwd()`
for its entry list and, run under a different working directory, enumerated the
wrong tree and exhausted memory -- the process was OOM-killed with no
diagnostic, because the failure surfaced as a hang rather than a wrong path.

`discoverRepoRoot` asks `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` and falls back to the
given directory outside a work tree, so it degrades rather than throwing.
`REPO_ROOT` is derived from it once at module load.

Verified by running the suite from `spec/` as well as the root; both resolve
the same root. The fallback case is covered too.

Remaining scope, not done here: 21 files still call `process.cwd()` directly
rather than importing `REPO_ROOT`. Migrating them is mechanical but touches a
lot of surface; the shared helper this issue asks for now exists and is correct,
which is the part that unblocks the rest.

Refs #54.

npm run check: 837 tests, 825 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites
green; quality gate reports no regressions.
The gate scanned `src` only, so 127 spec files were invisible to it. Doctrine
caps a file at 500 lines; unwatched, the largest spec reached **2047 lines**,
four times the limit, and reported nothing. #58 filed it at 693 lines -- it has
tripled since.

Twelve files are over the limit today:

  2047  spec/workspace-text-cutover.spec.mjs
  1979  spec/workspace-command-line.spec.mjs
  1184  spec/workspace-title-screen.spec.mjs
   932  spec/workspace-command-completion.spec.mjs
   817  spec/title-scene.spec.mjs
   659  spec/graft-source-highlighter.spec.mjs
   625  spec/workspace-helpers.mjs
   619  spec/workspace-runtime.spec.mjs
   559  spec/workspace-text-boundaries.spec.mjs
   539  tests/replace-range-law-cycle.spec.mjs
   537  spec/graph-rope-contract.spec.mjs
   518  spec/title-screen.spec.mjs

Only `max-lines` is applied to specs. The remaining rules encode TypeScript
doctrine -- `no-any`, `no-type-assertion`, import ceilings -- and do not
meaningfully transfer to `.mjs` test files.

Rather than block on a twelve-file refactor, each is recorded in
`quality-baseline.json` at its current size, which is what the ratchet is for:
a spec that grows past its recorded ceiling is a regression, one that shrinks
is reported as an improvement, and any new spec is held to the flat 500. The
debt is now visible and can only move down.

`files scanned` rises from 257 to 392, so the reported number stops
understating coverage.

Refs #38. Refs #58 -- the split that issue asks for is now enforced by the
ratchet rather than relying on someone noticing.

npm run check: 839 tests, 827 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites
green; quality gate reports no regressions and 12 tracked debt entries.
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Third batch on this branch

Issue Outcome Commit
#309 theme legibility audit Fixed — solarized-light was the one failure 403fb233
#54 test repo-root discovery Fixed cce8b484
#38 quality gate spec coverage Fixed b8c83e2e
#58 oversized spec Now ratcheted; measured at 2047 lines b8c83e2e
#318 settings surface Recommendation recorded
#59 viewer-key extraction Re-measured; metric no longer fails
#170 witness storage Scoped: 27 refs across 6 files
#70 CI planner extraction Boundary mapped; attempt reverted
#150 Graft drawer Mechanism located; needs a design call
#148 SourceHighlighter Assessed; Symbol() blocks publication

#309 — one theme failed, and it was not the one reported

Measured WCAG and APCA across every surface, chrome, gutter and markdown token in all 8 themes. Body text is AAA in seven. solarized-light was 4.13:1 — below AA.

The cause is upstream fidelity: Solarized specifies base00 on base3 for light-mode body text, which is 4.13 by construction. Moved to base01 (Solarized's own emphasis ink) for 4.99, and lifted the current-line band 20% toward base3 for 4.51. Both surfaces are now held to AA for every theme by spec/theme-legibility.spec.mjs.

Gutter tokens (3.0–4.2 in several themes) and titleLogoShadow were deliberately excluded — a shadow judged as body text is a category error.

#38 — specs were invisible to the ratchet

The gate scanned src only, so 127 spec files were unwatched. The largest had reached 2047 lines, four times the doctrine limit, reporting nothing. #58 filed it at 693; it has tripled since.

Twelve files are over. Only max-lines applies to specs; the rest encode TypeScript doctrine. Each is recorded in quality-baseline.json at its current size, so the debt is visible and can only move down. files scanned went 257 → 392.

#54 — the bug that bit this session

REPO_ROOT was process.cwd(). Earlier on this branch a spec using it enumerated the wrong tree and was OOM-killed with no diagnostic. Now discovered via git rev-parse --show-toplevel, verified by running the suite from spec/ as well as the root.

On #70, honestly

I attempted the extraction and reverted it. Two specific traps, recorded on the issue: PACKAGE_CHANGE_KINDS is export const so a const NAME pattern-match leaves it behind, and the import insertion produced a syntax error. The planner decides what CI runs, so a half-done move was not worth keeping. It is untouched and green.

Verification

npm run check exit 0 — 839 tests, 827 pass, 0 fail, 12 intentional skips; native suites green; quality gate reports no regressions and 12 tracked debt entries.

Three review findings on this PR, two of them real defects.

A scene load result carrying no scene -- a cancellation or a RuntimeIssue --
was still setting titleBackdropKind to LegacyScene. That dropped the static
logo for a scene that had not loaded, and because workspaceAnimationIsActive
counts LegacyScene as animating, it also put the workspace back into a 60Hz
render loop. That is the #320 idle-render regression, resurrected on the
failure path. A result with no scene now returns the model untouched.

createWorkspaceApp was called outside the try that closes the native Echo
host, so a throw during app construction left the child process holding stdio
pipes open and the terminal unrestored -- the failure #306 was filed for.
Construction now happens inside the guard. The acquire-use-release shape is
extracted as closingProductionText so the invariant is testable at all: the
composition root has no injection seam, and three specs now pin that the host
closes on success, closes when construction throws, and does not mask the
original error while doing it.

The Graft drawer had no coverage of its own. It takes the same branch as the
Files drawer in workspaceDrawerHasFocus, which is covered, so a change
narrowing that guard to Files only would have left every existing test green
while arrow keys and the pointer went back to driving the title camera behind
an open Graft drawer. Verified by mutation: narrowing the guard fails three of
the four new cases. The fourth deliberately asserts the closed-drawer case and
should stay green.

Note the first version of the mouse case was vacuous -- it passed a mouse
message with x/y instead of col/row, so it exercised nothing and stayed green
with the guard removed. It now sends a real move event and asserts on
titleBackdropKind, which is the observable effect of mouse-look firing.
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All four findings addressed in f5a1b3c. Two were real defects.

Backdrop on a failed scene load — valid, fixed. A LoadSceneResult carrying no scene (cancellation or RuntimeIssue) was still setting titleBackdropKind to LegacyScene. Worse than dropping the static logo: workspaceAnimationIsActive counts LegacyScene as animating, so a failed load put the workspace back into a 60Hz render loop — the #320 idle-render regression, resurrected on the error path. A result with no scene now returns the model untouched. Two specs pin both directions.

createWorkspaceApp outside the cleanup guard — valid, fixed. A throw during app construction left the native Echo host's child process holding stdio pipes open and the terminal unrestored, which is exactly the failure #306 was filed for. Construction moved inside the guard.

I extracted the acquire-use-release shape as closingProductionText rather than just moving a brace, because the composition root has no injection seam and the invariant was otherwise untestable. Three specs now pin it: the host closes on success, closes when construction throws, and doesn't mask the original error while doing it.

Graft drawer coverage — valid, added. Four cases mirroring the Files ones. Verified by mutation rather than assumed: narrowing workspaceDrawerHasFocus to Files only fails three of the four, and the fourth is the closed-drawer case that should stay green.

Worth flagging that my first version of the mouse case was vacuous — it passed {x, y} where the message shape is {col, row}, so it exercised nothing and stayed green with the guard removed. Caught it on the mutation check. It now sends a real move event and asserts on titleBackdropKind, which is the observable effect of mouse-look firing.

title-unfreeze label — applied. The frozen-path check was the only reason CI was red; every other job was already green. James authorised this directly.

npm run check: 848 tests, 836 pass, 0 fail, quality regressions none.

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All four findings addressed in a pushed commit and answered on the PR. Two were real defects: a failed scene load was setting titleBackdropKind to LegacyScene, which restarted the 60Hz render loop on the error path (#320 regression), and createWorkspaceApp sat outside the guard that closes the native Echo host, leaking the child process on a failed startup (#306). Graft drawer coverage added and mutation-verified. The title-unfreeze label is applied, authorised by James.

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All three Codex findings addressed in the latest commit. All three were real — thank you.

P1, no built-in scene could open. Confirmed and worse than described: continuum-gate is the scene the picker offers first, so the default selection was broken. The snapshot comment already promised these "load on demand"; that half was never wired. The loader now fills the gaps from a memoised library, parsed at most once and only when a scene is actually opened, so the startup saving that emptied the library is kept. A caller-supplied mesh still wins — only gaps are filled.

While verifying, I found three scenes that fail for a different reason: neon-orbit, mirror-hall and aurora-vault declare "kind": "mesh" with no mesh field. They fail identically against a fully loaded library, so it's scene data, not loading — filed as #327. The spec asserts specifically that no scene fails for want of an unloaded mesh, so it stays pointed at this bug rather than passing silently if a new scene breaks loading.

P2, idle time billed as one frame. Correct, and it was my regression from the idle-render gate. Measured before the fix: 30,016 ms as a single frame after a 30-second idle — instantly over budget, tripping the low-rate flag exactly as you predicted.

Fixed at the inactive→active edge rather than by advancing the clock during idle, because advancing it while idle means returning a new model, which would defeat the render gate that made the workspace idle in the first place. Two specs: a resumed frame is plausible, and ordinary frames are still measured normally (16ms, 17ms).

P2, the material key lying. Correct. With no scene it switched the ray-traced backdrop on and toasted that a preset had been applied, while nothing changed — a false report that also started an animation loop to deliver itself. It now says a scene must be loaded and leaves the backdrop alone. I chose the "don't advertise" option over materialising an override for the generated scene, since that would be a new feature rather than a fix. Verified by mutation: restoring the old behaviour fails both new cases.

One note on mechanics — the on-demand mesh library needed an import slot in the scene loader. node:fs already exposes the promises API, so the two fs imports became one rather than the file taking on tracked debt.

npm run check: 826 tests, 814 pass, 0 fail, quality regressions none.

…erial lie

Three findings from Codex on this PR. All three were real.

P1: no built-in scene could be opened. Startup deliberately loads no title
geometry, so the model carries an empty mesh library and the scene picker hands
that same empty library to the loader. Every scene that references bunny,
teapot or dragon then failed to decode -- including continuum-gate, the one the
picker offers first. The snapshot comment already promised these "load on
demand"; that half was never wired. The loader now fills the gaps itself from a
memoised library, parsed at most once and only when a scene is actually opened,
so the startup saving that emptied the library is kept.

The caller's library still wins, so a scene opened with an explicitly supplied
mesh keeps it and only gaps are filled.

Note three scenes -- neon-orbit, mirror-hall, aurora-vault -- still fail to
decode. They declare "kind": "mesh" with no mesh field at all, and they fail
identically against a fully loaded library, so that is a defect in the scene
data and not in loading. Filed separately. The spec asserts specifically that
no scene fails for want of an unloaded mesh, so it stays pointed at this bug
rather than silently passing if a new scene breaks loading.

P2: the frame clock billed idle time as one frame. The idle gate returns the
model untouched so nothing re-renders, which also stops lastFrameMs advancing.
Whatever switched animation back on -- perf overlay, profiler, legacy backdrop
-- then handed the first active frame the entire idle interval as its duration.
Measured: 30016 ms as a single frame after a 30 second idle. That is instantly
over budget, which trips the backdrop's low-rate flag and leaves the animation
frozen from then on, and it corrupts the first profiler record. The baseline is
reset on the inactive-to-active edge, not on every idle tick, because advancing
it during idle would mean returning a new model and defeating the render gate
that made the workspace idle in the first place.

P2: pressing m with no scene loaded switched the ray-traced backdrop on and
toasted that a material preset had been applied. Nothing was applied -- the
generated backdrop takes its materials from the theme and never reads
titleMeshMaterialIndex -- so it reported a change that could not have happened,
and started an animation loop to do it. It now says a scene must be loaded and
leaves the backdrop alone. Verified by mutation: restoring the old behaviour
fails both new cases.

One import slot was needed for the on-demand mesh library; node:fs already
exposes the promises API, so the two fs imports in the scene loader became one
rather than the file taking on tracked debt.
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