Design notes

Specimens — explorations whose decision shipped

• Composer studies — 13 landing-composer takes; “Coral flow” shipped.
• Convene-button studies — the “arrow → 3 heads” glyph shipped.
• Wide-composer studies — the muted call-pill shipped.
• Chat-list avatar study — the plain figure + disc-blend shipped v531.
• Selection-wash colours — the long-press wash over the seat palette.
• Narrow scrollbars — the call was made; → Style Guide.
• Seen v1 mockups · rating studies — → Seen.
• Host moves — first mockups — → the toolbox.
• Call-pill morph — retired; a one-line restore.

Superseded — replaced by current pages

• The build plan · Architecture (old) — → Function map.
• Repo sync — the retired Mac-mini model. → Dev loop.
• The ship plan · Toolbox build plan · Host moves — plan — shipped; → the toolbox.
• Lifecycle audit — the verbs that had no door; → the tool lifecycle.
• Studio native plan — ported v804; → Studio.
• Floor producer (old) — → v1.
• DECIDE gate — a response gate on the frozen exp-010 study.

Ink — the writing track, September 2026

The month a persona wrote the morning, before the brief line replaced it on 09-22; the story in one page: the writing track.

• The essays — the concept: a persona writes the morning.
• The engine — extractor · writer.
• Essay specimens — the live runs.
• The quality score — the target function.
• The rendition A/B — ten pairs, old and new.
• Rendition A/B v2
• The dev pieces
• The first read — what the owner found in the box editions, 09-06.
• The upstream — what the writer reads, one piece verbatim.
• The upstream plan — six phases, three reads.
• The budget meeting — repeats, the bench, the match.
• Coverage and the pitch — span the space; two doors.
• The coverage specimen — one day, wide and shallow.
• The first box meeting — 09-09, the whole process.
• The 09-09 dropped — 14 of 20 on V4.1 Flash.
• The habits to ban
• The over-use profile — found by counting.
• The outside research — what others found about machine essays.
• The loop — the brew as a model, the majors as the loss — 09-11.
• The writing loop — write like a person first, then the persona back.
• The loop ledger — one row a loop.
• The writing gap — Ink against the human page.
• The writing process — a columnist's, ours, the one proposed.
• The writer as an agent — six skills.
• The gate design — where code judges, where a reader judges.
• The density read — six pieces, read.
• Information density — Ink against the bank.
• The model's read — the same pairs, marked by a reader.
• Algorithm A, the read — twelve blind pairs.
• Selection by the paragraph — two algorithms.
• The workbench — one skill, two pieces, every step shown.
• The workbench · dossier
• The workbench · part by part
• The workbench · the persona drives
• The workbench · the life store
• The workbench · the witness
• The workbench · the mend
• The workbench · mend, then reread
• The 09-20 read — every owner note on the first driven edition.
• What one piece cost — 12.7¢ and 6½ minutes, the essay process.