rega measured dashboard-plus-grid's own leaf at 390px: the page carried
"mobile": "desktop-only" in its profile-config, and the dashboard, the grid
and a MapLibre canvas mounted anyway. The rule lived in ProfileLoader, and
this composite defines its element without ProfileLoader (it bakes its
children in), so nothing on that page read the flag.
- library/composables/useScreenGate.js holds the rule (narrow screen, not
inside the Gallery, dismissed for the session); ProfileLoader uses it,
unchanged in behaviour.
- dashboard-plus-grid calls it: on a narrow screen the desktop-only message
replaces the element, and the dashboard and grid never mount.
- check:mobile-gating (g): every flagged profile's element must mount
through ProfileLoader (an import in its index.js, not a mention in a
comment) or call useScreenGate itself. The pre-fix composite fails it.
A map says how it behaves on a narrow screen once, in its <profile>.meta.json:
"mobile": "desktop-only" (blocked on a phone) or "larger-screens" (opens,
under a dismissible notice). Absent means phone-ready. Until now the rule
lived only in the Research Gallery, as two hard-coded id sets, so a map
opened standalone on its own leaf page on a phone got neither the block nor
the notice.
- profile-meta.mjs knows the vocabulary; generate-tree and the dev manifest
carry the flag into each profile's manifest entry, and generate-tree into
the leaf page's BASE_CONFIG (with the map's name for the desktop-only
sentence).
- ProfileLoader mounts library/components/LargerScreenNotice.vue on a screen
under 640px: for desktop-only the profile is never mounted and a centred
message says why; for larger-screens a slim in-flow bar sits above the map
(it cannot cover the map's controls), dismissible per profile for the
session, in the element's own locale and direction. Inside the Gallery it
stays quiet: every Gallery pane now carries data-doxa-gallery.
- One text: the Gallery's two sentences moved into the library catalogue as
messages.largerScreenNotice / desktopOnlyNotice (+ noticeDismiss), all 11
locales moved as they were, and the Gallery reads them from there.
- The Gallery derives its rules from the manifest's flags. On a phone it
mounts nothing until the manifest has landed: its baked first tab (Big
Picture) would otherwise mount there before the flags say it is
desktop-only.
- dashboard-plus-grid is desktop-only and gospel-internet/board is
larger-screens, the two sets the Gallery held; nothing changes for either.
- check:mobile-gating now asserts the vocabulary, that each flagged leaf page
carries its flag, the Gallery's derivation and its closed-before-manifest
rule, that Big Picture stays desktop-only, the 11 locales, and the
notice's mounting. Its self-test plants one failure per rule.
dx-base measured two defects in the A8 draft for text that goes public:
- Links into the private DX Life repo answer 404 to anyone without an account. The live
example is now plain words (README, DEPLOY), and the clone line points at the public repo
(doxa-open/doxa-maps, as DEPLOY already did). DEPLOY's "three ways" becomes the two routes;
the CDN route is retired.
- The web folder row said 536 files, 76 MiB. The folder is 855 files, 119.2 MiB. New
check:readme-size re-measures public/dx-maps and fails when the row is more than 10% off,
printing the line to paste. It passes at 855/119; the old numbers fail.
The drop-in was proven on a laptop with one server: the three DX Life branches rendered their maps,
7 of 7 checks passed, with internal/sync-dropin.mjs --from-config --dest <doxa-life>/public. This
makes that the default path:
- dropin.dest is ../doxa-life/public. The old ../doxa-life/public/embed/doxa-maps-build was stale.
- bun run dropin = sync-dropin --from-config; deploy:dev (build + drop-in) now uses it.
- The README gains "The easiest path": the studio for the work, dropin.dest at your site's public/,
then build and drop in.
One hazard came with the new destination, and it is closed here. --prune deletes every file in the
destination outside the drop-in's allowlist, which was right while that was a folder of its own. Into
a site's public/, it would delete the site. deploy:dev passed --prune, so it no longer does, and
sync-dropin refuses --prune into any folder named public/. Measured in a scratch site: --prune into
site/public exits 1 with the reason; a plain drop-in copies dx-maps/ and leaves the site's own
file in place.
Railway, DigitalOcean and `docker build` use a root Dockerfile with no setting, and it is
Coolify's and Dokploy's default path. The file moves; nothing is copied.
- VOLUME /data is gone. Railway rejects the line, and a named volume is needed anyway
(VOLUME alone gives each new container a fresh anonymous one). The platforms mount /data.
- The baked PocketBase gate's comment named the old path. It now says the repo-root
Dockerfile, and the gate's SHA-256 pin moves with it (2987055b... -> 2eceef03...). The
hook's code is unchanged: the exact RUN passes `sha256sum -c`, and the old block still
passes its old pin.
- .dockerignore excludes everything: the Dockerfile copies nothing from the build context,
so no platform sends the whole repository to the builder.
- compose.yaml: the same image with its /data volume and memory limit; settings from .env.
- deployment/cloud/README.md gains "Where it runs": Coolify, Dokploy, Railway, a server with
Docker, Kubernetes, and why not DigitalOcean App Platform (no persistent volumes).
DEPLOY.md and two comments follow the move.
gates:post had gone red on development in three places that no landing runs, because landings run
gates:pre. The library index and the capability-exemplars table are derived documents: regenerated,
they now list the country-map bundle, BackToTopButton and useHostedHelp. check:no-free-identifiers
flagged the Wall's new Path2D (a canvas built-in every browser has) as never bound; it knows the
canvas built-ins now. No code changes.
The joining page, DEPLOY and the laptop sync default moved to development in the
commit before this one. This finishes the move and closes what a fresh clone's
friend test found.
- landing-preconditions diffs against origin/development when no landing branch
is exported, instead of main.
- CLOUD-DEVELOPMENT-ENVIRONMENT, the plugin-designer skill (SKILL.md, workflow,
glossary) and the shared dev server's notes land on and follow development;
the skill says never to push to main.
- The sync fetches with the laptop's own credentials. git runs with prompts off,
so on a clone with no credential helper it failed every interval with a bare
"fetch-failed / remote: Unauthorized", which read as a broken server. That case
is now its own state, needs-credentials: the log (once, not every tick) and
/api/dev-sync say "dev-sync needs git credentials for <remote>". The joining
page and .env.example say so, and that a fresh clone starts on main and must
switch to development before the sync can fast-forward it.
Measured in scratch repos: the private remote with no helper gives
needs-credentials and one warning over two ticks; a local remote with no
DX_SYNC_BRANCH follows development and fast-forwards; a missing remote stays
fetch-failed.
The joining page now teaches laptop (the workshop), development (the table everyone lands on, followed by the
shared dev server) and main (production: /cdn, the websites and every partner snippet load it; never pushed to
directly). Its commands pull and push development. Schema is made on a laptop, never in the shared server's
PocketBase screen, whose automatic migration files are lost at the next restart.
DEPLOY: the cloud server follows development and publishes main at /cdn (PRODUCTION_BRANCH=main); publishing
merges development into main; EMBED_BASE_URL makes snippets absolute; /cdn revalidates within 5 minutes. The
drop-in example pointed at a deleted branch and now names research-gallery-drop-in, with a link to running all
three DX-life ways on a laptop.
Laptop sync (DX_SYNC_REMOTE) follows development by default, so teammates' landings arrive before they are
published.
Both are derived files that had drifted: an import count for utils/html.js, and
regions-dashboard's exemplar is region-dashboards now, not regions-list.
Follow-up to the doc landing in 49, which was written before the guard existed.
Adds the guard: every browser gate reaches Playwright through
internal/lib/playwright-guarded.mjs and refuses unless browser-slot.sh exported
DOXA_BROWSER_SLOT; an unslotted run exits 75 with the command to use, quoted
verbatim. And says the slot is a COUNTING SEMAPHORE, not a mutex, with the reason
from its own header -- a single lock queued 10-19 deep for hours because the real
constraint is memory, ~300-500MB per chrome, not exclusivity.
Replaces the grep advice with `bun run browser-gates`. The grep still works and
is fine for a quick look, but it is a heuristic over file text: my own count from
grepping internal/check-*.mjs said 87 browser gates; the repo's own detector says
97, because browser gates also live in plugin-designs/*/scripts/. Corrected. The
authoritative list cannot drift from what is enforced, because
check:browser-gates-guarded uses the same detector.
One line the guard's header earns and this doc had not stated: being able to
launch is not the same as it being yours to launch. The guard stops the accident;
it does not hand a newcomer the seat. Testing whether the guard refuses is itself
a browser launch.
Does NOT claim path-into-node_modules detection: studio has that in landing 50,
and it is not in this tree, so the doc does not describe it yet.
238 checks; 148 run anywhere, 87 need a real browser, 3 shell out. A newcomer
cannot tell from the name -- check:packet-render sounds like a file check and
drives a browser; check:composites-mount sounds like it needs one and does not.
The test is one grep for playwright/chromium, and the doc says so.
The part worth writing down is exit 75. run-parallel.mjs:262 defines three
outcomes, not two: 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) is NOT MEASURED -- the gate could not look --
and a gate that exits 0 while announcing SKIP is also NOT MEASURED. Only another
non-zero is a FAIL. Two traps follow: exit 0 alone does not mean a gate looked at
anything, and your own `timeout` produces 124, which says you stopped it, not
that the code failed.
Also states the rule the split exists for -- one machine, one browser seat, so
one person runs them -- and why it is not just logistics: a source read and a
render are different measurements. Four catalogue gates can pass while a page
still paints English; and of 16 cards parked as "needs a browser", 7 were about
markup, a path, a manifest field or a gate, and settled headlessly.
Every number measured on main d8baaefd2 rather than estimated, including
correcting gates:pre from 13 to 15 after re-running it.
research-map and countries-map moved to the shared printer, leaving the
composable with no importer on main. jsPDF stays: useMapPoster.toPdf,
posterSizes and my-upg-100-list still reach it. The file map row goes and the
library index is regenerated.
A plugin's <profile>.meta.json targets (web, mobile, desktop, widget; absent = web)
now decide where it is built. internal/plugin-targets.mjs is the one reading.
desktop:build builds a desktop plugin into .desktop/<plugin>/ with a page that
names its engine, builds its backend as a Tauri sidecar for this machine, and runs
tauri build with a --config override; tauri.conf.json and public/ are untouched.
The shell starts the bundled rudder-engine (RUDDER_AUDIO=browser, RUDDER_HOME in the
app data folder) and stops it on exit. A plugin whose targets leave out web
(Rudder: desktop + widget) is no longer built for the web tree: run-parallel,
generate-tree and check-composite-freshness skip it, and its public/ folder is
removed; the dev server still gives the Studio its corner. check:targets
(gates:pre, with a self-test of five planted violations) validates the values,
widget corners and backend folders and fails if a non-web plugin reaches the built
tree. Measured: desktop:build rudder-voice on Linux produced Rudder_0.1.0_amd64.deb
(8.8 MB) with the app and the engine side by side; the app has not been launched.
file-map.md documented `SOW_EXPORT_BUTTON=false` as a hidden global switch that "hides the
fully-wired Export menu across ALL bundles". SOW_ appears nowhere in this repo, so anyone setting
it would get silence and conclude the Export menu was broken. Docs describe the code as it is, so
the claim is gone.
The per-component prop it mentioned is real and untouched: LegendMobile.vue passes
:export-enabled. Only the global env override was fictional. MAX_LIVE went with the staging.js row
it lived in, and neither name appears in README.md or documentation/ now.
If a global export switch is wanted, that is a card, not a doc edit.
Audited README.md and all 35 documentation/*.md against main. Script names and markdown links
were already clean — 59 documented scripts all exist in package.json, 0 broken links. What was
wrong was file-map.md describing files that no longer exist, and three paths that had moved.
REMOVED, all archived in afb998f17 or earlier and still documented as current:
internal/staging.js — the repo-root staging page; the plugin studio is the only entry now
index.html — the same page's HTML
library/composables/useDoxaSearch.js — deleted in ea0c47b27, and dropped from a prose list too
REPOINTED: the three colour strategies documented under plugin-designs/doxa-research-map/src/colors/
live in library/colors/. THIRD-PARTY.md's two vendored files live under data/vendor/.
embeddability.md's reference to the staging script now says it was archived and where the entry is.
WHAT I DID NOT "FIX", because it was not broken: ~20 relative shorthand paths in the architecture
docs (`composables/useMapData.js` inside a document about library/) read correctly in context, and
three paths name things that are not repo files at all — a runtime endpoint (public/api/maps/token.json),
a generated artifact (out/_records.json) and a placeholder (./bundle/bundle.js). Reporting those as
defects would have buried the five real ones in 23 false positives.
TWO MEASUREMENT TRAPS I fell into on the way, both corrected before reporting: my first env-var scan
grepped only internal/, plugin-designs/ and library/ and declared 13 documented env vars unread —
11 of them are read in internal/build-lock.sh, .env.example, deployment/cloud/Dockerfile and the Go
backend. And an earlier sweep of my own data files reported six "rega" hits that were all the word
"aggregates".
main is the shared sandbox the dev server follows; /cdn is built only from PRODUCTION_BRANCH (default
production), which moves when someone promotes: git push origin main:production. The container watches
that branch and rebuilds /cdn once it has held a new commit for CDN_AUTOBUILD_MINUTES (default 2; 0 = the
admin button only); a failed commit is not retried automatically. The build fetches the branch into its
own ref (never touching the dev server's FETCH_HEAD) and uses that commit's own exclusion list, so
loosening it takes a promotion too. DEPLOY.md documents the promote step.
A preset page baked only the instance's props, so every default in the profile's
.meta.json config that the instance did not repeat was lost (go-int: upg-neighbor's
five presets dropped pinHint:false). instanceHtml now takes the meta config first
and the props over it. check:preset-config-merge (gates:post) reads every built
preset page and fails on a lost default; the rule is written into
PRESET-PLUGIN-STANDARD.md. Affected before the fix: upg-neighbor only; no
production preset has profile defaults to lose.
Laptop (bun run dev, zero config); a shared cloud dev server (Docker or Coolify, with a persistent /data);
public embeds from /cdn or any static host; the built folder inside a site's public/, as DX-life does.
Each with the command, what you get, and the detailed doc.
upg100-plugin caught it: my THIRD-PARTY.md row 17 stated their licences table
was EMPTY on the very commit where it held all 162. Our landings crossed and
neither of us could see the other's tree. Worse than they framed it -- my own
two files disagreed, since data/boundaries/ATTRIBUTION already carried the 162
and the three duty classes.
Row 17 now records what is true: 162 licences established, 32 duty-free, 65
attribution-only, 65 share-alike class (58 ODbL + 7 explicit ShareAlike), with
the ODbL "Derivative Database" question marked OPEN and legal rather than
measurable. The "unverified, someone should look" paragraph drops from four
rows to three, because world-adm0's provenance is answered.
★ AND THE STRUCTURAL FIX, WHICH MATTERS MORE THAN THE ROW. The counts are
asserted in two files, so that is the one place these records can silently
disagree. The register now names their PROVENANCE.json as the AUTHORITY and
says plainly that if the two disagree, it wins -- drift becomes resolvable
instead of invisible. Their phrase for the failure is the right one: a register
that still reads "unestablished" after the work is done is settled-by-omission
in reverse, the absence of an update reading as the absence of the work.
The India ADM1 boundary is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 2.5 IN,
sourced from DataMeet and the Election Commission of India), so the credit
has to reach whoever receives the data. It did not: 6.1 MB of boundary
GeoJSON shipped with no human-readable attribution, and a sidecar for one
file of eight.
data/boundaries/ATTRIBUTION now ships beside the data. Every licence value in
it is verbatim from the geoBoundaries API, queried per boundary -- CC BY 2.5
IN for India, Public Domain for China. No licence wording is ours.
★ IT TOOK TWO ALLOWLIST EDITS, and the first one silently did nothing. The
boundary staging is TWO-STAGE: a pair list gathers into the build pool, and a
separate path list decides what reaches the tree. I added the file to the pair
list, rebuilt, and it still did not ship. An entry in one stage of a two-stage
pipeline is not an entry.
WORLD-ADM0 IS CORRECTED, not closed. This register first guessed Natural
Earth, public domain. It is geoBoundaries gbOpen assembled per country: its
features carry geoBoundaries' own iso3/shapeGroup/shapeName, and the plugin's
data/adm0/PROVENANCE.json names the source and endpoint. That file also states
the real problem -- gbOpen passes each country's UPSTREAM licence through, so
one file carries up to 162 licences and up to 162 attribution duties -- and
its licences table is EMPTY. Which of the 162 are CC BY is unestablished.
Stated in ATTRIBUTION as an undischarged duty rather than papered over.
pplr's row is exp-shepherd's evidence: the PPLR ArcGIS org aggregating IMB,
Joshua Project, ROP and WCD identifiers, publishing no licence at all, and
WCD is a proprietary Brill database.
repo's zero-config .env.example is on main (8c529c031), verified before writing about it: every DX_* and
VITE_* line is present and empty, empty meaning the local default. That is the follow-up patch I held back
rather than documenting a file whose contents had not landed.
"Every line in it is optional" is a better opening than the list I had, because it IS the zero-config
promise in five words — a reader who copies the file and fills in nothing has a working setup, which is
exactly what the Driver asked the default to be.
Also states what happens if the Mapbox token is left empty: the Mapbox-backed maps do not draw, and the
keyless MapLibre provider is the alternative. My previous wording implied the token was required to get
anywhere, which is not true and is discouraging at exactly the wrong moment.
Both are MIT, which asks for the permission notice to be included with the
software. Tabulator's minified .js carried only "(c) Oliver Folkerd 2025" and
its .css carried nothing; Vue's banner names @license MIT but omits the
permission text. Each now has its upstream LICENSE vendored verbatim beside
it -- fetched, not authored, with the URL and sha256 recorded.
★ AND THE ALLOWLIST IS WHY IT WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED. generate-tree stages
vendor/ by an explicit PATH LIST, so the licences sat in data/vendor and never
reached the tree: staged count 0. Vendoring a notice the staging step drops is
not compliance, it is paperwork. Both LICENSE paths are now listed.
documentation/THIRD-PARTY.md is the register the sweep produced: every
non-original thing dx-maps ships, its source, its licence, whether the licence
or attribution actually travels, and the gap. Compiled by inspecting the
SHIPPED tree rather than the source lists, because the question is what a
recipient receives.
Four rows are left OPEN and marked as such. Two are unverified and need a look
(world-adm0's provenance, the pplr upstream). Two need a decision, not a fetch:
people-groups and the 304 derived tables carry data whose redistribution terms
are not established, 36 MB of it. Attaching a licence I have not confirmed
would be worse than the gap, so those go to the Driver. geoBoundaries is
closable by work rather than judgment -- CC BY needs attribution, and the
.meta.json sidecar pattern already exists here for one file of eight.
Two of the five shipped without one. bebas-neue/LICENSE was 24 lines and
poppins/LICENSE 29 -- our own notes files named LICENSE, pointing at
openfontlicense.org instead of carrying the text. The OFL requires the licence
to travel WITH the font, and these fonts go out in the repo we intend to give
away.
Both now carry their FAMILY'S OWN upstream OFL, fetched verbatim from
google/fonts, which is what brings the real copyright line with it -- Dharma
Type for Bebas Neue, the Poppins Project Authors for Poppins. No licence text
was authored here. Source URL and sha256 are recorded. figtree keeps its OFL
and loses only the six lines of ours that sat above it.
Our prose moved to documentation/vendored-fonts.md, OUTSIDE the served tree,
and that placement is the whole lesson. My first attempt put a NOTES.md beside
each LICENSE, which check:public-hygiene rejected as "documentation in a served
folder" -- three new hard findings, plus a fourth for an internal folder name I
had relocated with the text. The old bebas-neue LICENSE had said exactly this
in its own words, "prose does not belong in a public served folder"; I quoted
that line and then did it anyway. The licence travels with the font; the
explanation travels with the repo.
Whole shipped tree, measured before and after rather than sampled:
role nouns 6 -> 0, hygiene warnings 18 -> 14, findings 1 -> 1 (the pre-existing
assets/ contract one, not mine).
Driver via dx-shepherd (ENDTOKEN-UPG-DRV1 item 2). Written entirely from repo's exact text
(END-REPO-CLOUDNAMES) rather than from the architecture doc, because the last page needed two rounds of
corrections and every one was something I would have guessed wrong.
It opens by sending most readers away: "Most people do not need this page." The default is a fresh clone
and `bun run dev`, and a doc that implies otherwise costs a newcomer their first afternoon.
TWO OPTIONS, with option 1 recommended as the Driver asked:
1. Keep working locally and follow the remote — one line, DX_SYNC_REMOTE. You keep dictation, your own
database, and a broken push only breaks your own screen.
2. Run the shared container — everyone opens one URL, and the trade-offs are listed honestly rather than
buried: no dictation (the engine falls ~4 s behind speech on 2 CPUs, so it ships off), nobody can edit
on it, one broken push breaks it for everyone, it needs ~2.5 GB and 2 vCPUs, and its database is the
shared team one.
★ THE CONDITION I GAVE ITS OWN CALLOUT is the one that bites silently: the sync only fast-forwards when you
are on the branch with no unsaved edits AND no local commits. Otherwise it stops pulling and says "main is
N commits ahead". That is protective, and the consequence is not obvious — leave local commits sitting
while an agent lands twenty changes and the eventual pull carries a day of divergence. So the page says
"push your own work, or you will drift" in as many words.
EVERY CLAIM VERIFIED IN THE SOURCE, not taken from the message: deployment/cloud/ exists with its
Dockerfile and README, that README really does carry the OIDC_* settings (12 mentions), entry.sh defaults
PULL_INTERVAL to 15 and RUDDER_ENGINE to 0 — which is exactly the "it falls behind so we switched it off"
repo described.
No internal names: the only hit was `dx-maps-dev`, which is the Docker IMAGE TAG in repo's own command, not
a hostname. Same substring trap as 'aggregates' matching 'rega'.
Cross-linked both ways with HOWTO-join-the-table.md.
Driver 01:10Z via dx-shepherd: the DEFAULT is everything LOCAL, zero config. A fresh clone plus
`bun run dev` gives the Studio, dictation, hot reload and a local database, and never reaches a remote
database or Docker. The team database is OPT-IN.
My 674d5655 said the opposite — that most teams point every laptop at the shared one and the local one is
"the fallback". That wording came from repo (END-REPO-PBDOC) and was correct when they gave it; the
decision moved the same day. Inverted here: local is the default and the opt-in line is what needs
explaining, not the other way round.
⚠ AND THE TABLE ABOVE IT WOULD HAVE KEPT SAYING THE OLD THING. Its middle row read "the team — this is
usually the default", six lines from a section now saying the opposite. Fixed in the same pass: the laptop
row is marked as the default, the shared row as opt-in. Third time in this file that a line has survived an
edit around it and quietly stopped agreeing with the prose — the only way to catch it is to re-read what
you did NOT change.
Also states the zero-config claim explicitly where a newcomer meets it first ("That is the whole setup.
Nothing to configure, no server to reach, no Docker"), because "everything is local" and "you have nothing
to set up" are different promises and the Driver is making the second.
Cross-links CLOUD-DEVELOPMENT-ENVIRONMENT.md for people whose agent runs on a server, with "most people do
not need it" — that doc is next and its exact env names are with repo.
repo END-REPO-PBDOC: the Driver's decision went live and REVERSED their earlier instruction to me. When I
first wrote this section repo said to leave DX_PB_URL out entirely, because it sat behind the team sign-in
and failed from a laptop. It is now the TEAM DEFAULT, and the local database is the fallback.
So the section is rewritten rather than appended to: a joiner is now told to set
DX_PB_URL=https://<your team's dev server>/pb, that they sign in with the same team account and there is no
separate password, and that leaving it unset still gives them a private local one — which is a fine way to
start. Placeholder host in the public text, not ours.
⚠ THE OPENING LINE WAS QUIETLY WRONG AFTER THE CHANGE and I nearly left it. "There are three databases and
you only ever touch one" was true when the local one was the only option a joiner had; now they touch the
shared one OR a local one depending on one env line. The claim that actually matters — and is still exactly
true — is that they never touch the third. Now reads "You work against one of the first two — never the
third." A sentence can survive an edit around it and stop being true without looking any different.
Added the detail repo gave that a reader needs and would not guess: new collections start LOCKED until a
migration opens them, deliberately, so nothing is public by accident. That reinforces the schema-as-commits
point the section already makes rather than sitting beside it.
Names unchanged and re-verified: DX_PB_URL points at the PocketBase root (.../pb), DX_PB_PORT for the
port-in-use case. No internal hostnames anywhere in the file.
repo af37aa52 changed two things I had written emphatically, and studio confirmed both independently
(END-REPO-NAMES2 / END-STU-DOCFIX).
- DX_SYNC_REMOTE now takes a remote NAME **or** a full repo URL. My callout said "the remote's NAME, not a
URL" — a sentence whose whole point is now backwards, so it is rewritten rather than softened. A URL saves
a `git remote add`, and a private repo uses the laptop's existing git credentials.
- DX_SYNC_INTERVAL default is 5 seconds, minimum 2. It was 15/5.
- Added the reassurance studio named: a token in an `https://user:token@…` URL is never written to the log
or shown at /api/dev-sync. That is exactly the question someone pasting a private URL will have, and the
answer is good — worth stating rather than leaving them to wonder.
⚠ AND I DID **NOT** TOUCH LINES 38 AND 167, which also say "about every 15 seconds". studio flagged that
those describe the SHARED SERVER's pull loop — a different thing from DX_SYNC_INTERVAL that happens to have
carried the same number. Changing them because the number matched would have introduced a fresh error while
fixing a real one; checked both after the edit and they are intact.
Every other name still matches repo's branch. repo has also warned that a shared team database may later
become the default, which would make the PocketBase section go stale; they will tell me before it does.
repo answered with the names as they will ship (END-REPO-ENVNAMES) and dx-shepherd caught a path I had
wrongly removed. Both corrected; the doc now states nothing I have not verified.
⚠ MY "THE PATH DOES NOT EXIST" CHECK WAS WRONG, AND WRONG IN AN INSTRUCTIVE WAY. I searched the LAST
COMMIT's file list for pb_migrations and found nothing, then reported the path as unbuilt. `git ls-tree -r
origin/main` shows backend/pocketbase/pb_migrations/.gitkeep — it has been there all along. A file list from
one commit answers "was this touched recently", never "does this exist"; I asked the cheap question and read
it as the expensive one. The real path is restored.
THREE CORRECTIONS FROM repo, each of which would have cost a reader time:
- DX_SYNC_REMOTE is a remote NAME (`origin`), not a URL. My draft said "<the repo URL>", which would have
failed silently for every joiner who copied it.
- DX_PB_URL IS OUT ENTIRELY. repo was explicit: it points at the shared database, which sits behind the team
sign-in and does not work from a laptop. Telling a newcomer to set it would have sent them to debug an
auth wall on their first afternoon. What replaced it is the truth — `bun run dev` downloads and starts a
local database itself, and there is nothing to configure.
- VITE_MAPBOX_TOKEN is the one credential they must ask for, and my draft never mentioned it. A joiner
following the old page would have got a working repo and a blank map.
ALSO ADDED, because it is the behaviour that makes the feature safe to recommend: the auto-pull only runs
when you are on that branch, with no unsaved edits and no local commits. Otherwise it does not touch your
files, it says "main is N commits ahead … pull when ready" in the log. That is the difference between a
feature a newcomer trusts and one they turn off after it eats an afternoon's work.
Required set is now stated plainly: DX_SYNC_REMOTE=origin if you want teammates' work to arrive, plus the
Mapbox token. Everything else optional, with its default in a table.
No internal names, re-checked after the rewrite: the only product name left is PocketBase, which a joiner
sees in its own admin UI.
dx-shepherd ENDTOKEN-UPG-DOC, from the Driver's laptop-first decision. Written for someone staring at a
repo, a dev server and a database, unsure which one they are allowed to touch — so it answers that first
and explains second.
THE SHAPE, in the Driver's own three places: laptop = your workshop · main = the truth · the shared server
= the table, look but do not edit. Plus the rule the whole thing rests on, one plugin folder per person.
★ THE 95% NUMBER IS THE POINT OF THE PUSH SECTION, not decoration. A newcomer whose first push is rejected
assumes they broke something. The measured result — 95% of pushes rejected, 0 conflicts, 1.1 retries on
average — tells them the rejection IS the normal case and explains why it is cheap: you collide on who goes
first, never on the same lines, because you are never in the same file. That reframes a scary error into one
extra command, and it is the strongest argument for the one-folder rule.
⚠ TWO THINGS I CORRECTED RATHER THAN SHIPPED:
- I first cited `backend/pocketbase/pb_migrations` as the migrations path. It does NOT exist in this repo —
it is from the architecture doc's PLAN. A path a reader cannot find is worse than no path, because they
assume they cloned wrong. Now says "committed alongside the code" until it is real.
- "reloads every few seconds" is now "about every 15 seconds", which is what the source actually states.
NO INTERNAL NAMES, checked rather than intended: zero hits for the server hostnames, the source-control
product, the agent tabs, the dictation tool, the auth stack, "tenant" or the project's own code names.
Cross-linked to develop-a-plugin-and-see-it-live.md, which answers the different question of how to BUILD a
plugin — this page is about working alongside other people once you have one.
⚠ THE ENV SECTION IS PROVISIONAL. DX_SYNC_REMOTE / DX_SYNC_BRANCH / DX_PB_URL are taken from the
architecture doc; repo is building them now and I have asked for the exact names, which are required vs
optional, and what each points at. A doc with a wrong env name is worse than no doc — the reader blames
themselves — so this gets corrected the moment repo answers, before anyone links it.
generate-tree derives each profile's tier from its composes edges (composing
anything is capability 4; composing a capability-4 plugin is capability 5). An
explicit type is checked against the derivation and a contradiction fails the
build naming both. check:capability-derived asserts every profile is 1-5 and
agrees. documentation/PRESET-PLUGIN-STANDARD.md describes the one
*.instances.json file a preset plugin declares.
Card BUILD-SHAREABLE-FILTERED-TABLES, for researchers and media-to-movements teams: narrow the table to
the peoples you are working on, then give that exact view to a teammate or reopen it on a phone.
TWO GAPS, both measured on main before building.
1. IT WAS NOT REUSABLE. The share hash was a PRIVATE function inside
plugin-designs/research-dashboard/src/composables/useDashboardShell.js, so exactly one dashboard in
the fleet could produce a link. go-int's board had none — grepped, zero matches — and every future
kit dashboard would have had none either. Nothing in it was research-specific except its address.
It is now library/composables/useShareableView.js, parameterized: the bus and labelFor are passed
in, the filter and search param names are options, and no dashboard is named inside it. The
research dashboard supplies the one genuinely research thing — labelFor, for the display-only slug.
2. THE LINK WAS INCOMPLETE, AND SILENTLY SO. The hash serialized filterSet ONLY. Typing in the search
box is the commonest way this persona narrows a table, so a shared link reopened with MORE ROWS than
the sender saw, with nothing to tell the recipient their set was wider. For population data passed
between teams that is worse than a link that plainly fails. `q` is appended only when a term is
present, so a dashboard with an empty search box writes byte-identically the hash it wrote before.
`&` joins params now, so it is reserved in values alongside `;` `:` `*` `,` `%` — otherwise a search for
"rice & beans" would truncate the link at the ampersand.
check:share-policy grows a DRIVEN arm: the two pure functions are lifted from the kit source and RUN,
so nine guarantees are measured rather than asserted — the old format byte-for-byte on an empty search,
slug still display-only, multi-value still dropping the slug, the typed search reaching the link and
coming back, a literal comma in a people-group name surviving, an ampersand in the search surviving, and
both legacy shapes (JSON hashes, and old #f= links with no q) still restoring. No browser needed to
prove a string round-trips.
Source only. Rebuild: research-dashboard, dashboard-plus-grid.
check:filter-multivalue arm C follows the file: it lifted escapeValue/unescapeValue from the shell to
drive the hash round-trip, and said so plainly when they moved ("the hash format moved and this gate is
blind to it") rather than passing vacuously. Repointed to the kit module.
cap5-plugin-studio (Rudder's button now reads its label), prod-gospel-resources and its phone
shot. Derived from check:shots on this tree, tokenless; check:shots passes.
82 lines, one importer (useDashboardShell), and every import already @map/ — so it moves as-is with
no adapter and no shim. Its inject('profileConfig') stays inside its try/catch: it can be called from
outside setup, and that is the property the move had to preserve.
Source only. research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid need a rebuild.
The numerals policy is HELD — whether counts follow the reader's locale is the Driver's decision — so
this changes nothing anyone can see. Every caller renders exactly the digits and separators it
rendered before. What changes is how many places that decision is written down: thirteen call sites
across four bundles becomes one, library/utils/formatCount.js, and eight of the thirteen (mine) now
read it.
That is the whole value while the policy is held. If the answer becomes "follow the locale" it is a
one-line edit in formatCount.js instead of thirteen edits by four owners, each free to pick a
different locale source — and the first divergence in that world would be invisible: two panels in
one dashboard, same number, different separators.
★ IT FORMATS. IT DOES NOT DECIDE WHAT EMPTY MEANS, and that is the bug this fold would otherwise have
shipped. I told dx-shepherd these three helpers were "byte-identical". They are not:
DashboardDataTable null/undefined -> '' and '' falls through to Number('') === 0, so "0"
DashboardDetailDrawer null/undefined/'' -> '—'
useDashboardShell null/undefined -> '—' and '' likewise becomes "0"
Three different answers to "what does a missing count look like", inside one dashboard. Folding them
onto one empty policy would have silently changed two of the three — a table cell going from blank to
an em dash, or an em dash where a zero used to be. So each caller KEEPS its own guard and hands
formatCount a value it has already established is real. The locale decision folds; the empty policy
does not, and the difference is written into the helper's header so the next person does not re-merge
them.
Folded: DashboardDataTable, DashboardDetailDrawer, useDashboardShell (its exported fmt keeps working
for the KPI strip), DashboardFacetRail's three inline template calls, people-groups-grid's two.
NOT folded, because they are other owners': regions-dashboard (3) and pplr-data-maps (2). The helper
is theirs to import when they want it; nothing forces them, and no gate demands it — a gate requiring
the helper everywhere would fail on their files today, which is not a thing to land on someone else.
Source only. research-dashboard, dashboard-plus-grid and people-groups-grid need a rebuild.
THE GROUP WAS SCHEDULED AS ONE LANDING AND DELIVERED AS TWO. Section 8 of the spec puts the facet
rail, the chip bar and the BREADCRUMB in a single landing. The rail moved in 4c-3 and the chips in
4c-2; the breadcrumb was left behind, and nothing failed, because it is mounted by nobody. A leftover
like that is invisible unless someone re-reads the spec against the tree, which is what this landing
came out of.
The breadcrumb gets exactly the inversion the chip bar got: no useTreeLegendLabels import, the
resolver read from dashboardConfig.legend, and the SAME unconfigured default — identity, joining an
array. Identical on purpose rather than by copy-paste: the breadcrumb and the chips render the same
filterSet in the same band, so if their defaults differed a half-configured dashboard would show one
value resolved and the other raw, side by side. Its dead `dataStore` / `searchSourceId` injects go
too; they existed only to build the composable that is no longer imported.
★ AND THREE ONE-CYCLE SHIMS FROM LANDINGS 2 AND 3 WERE NEVER RETIRED. plugin-designs/research-
dashboard/src/composables/ still held useDashboardLayout.js (11 lines), useSelectionCamera.js (11) and
useCsvExport.js (14), each a pure re-export of the library module. MEASURED before deleting: ZERO
importers. Every consumer — including DashboardMapPanel, DashboardDataTable, DashboardDetailDrawer,
useDashboardShell, gospel-internet's board and research-dashboard.vue — already reads
'@map/composables/…' directly, and a tree-wide grep for a relative import of any of the three returns
nothing. So they were dead code that made the plugin look like it still owned three library modules.
I wrote "a one-cycle shim that nobody retires is permanent" into the previous landing's gate comment
while three older ones were sitting in the tree unnoticed. They were not found by a gate; they were
found by listing what is still in plugin-designs and comparing it against the spec.
check:legend-mirrors arm 5 now guards three moved names instead of two, so a re-export of the
breadcrumb creeping back into the plugin barrel is caught the same way.
Source only. research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid need a rebuild.
generate-library-index took the first line of every file as its description, which for a .json file is data:
the Data section read '"_meta": {', '"value": "AFG",' and a run of ISO codes (flagged by simpleresearch).
A .json file now uses _description, then _meta.description, then _meta.purpose, and otherwise says
'(no description)'. iso3-to-alpha2 now reads as what it is.
