Four things the last pass left open.
Reflex findings no longer masquerade as Floor failures. They report at a new
REFLEX grade which still blocks, so nothing drifts silently, but "0 FAIL" is now
a true statement about the floor even while a build owes an argument above it.
Across every committed page that distinction turns 230 reported failures into 56
real Floor findings and 174 arguable ones, which is the number that was hiding.
The waiver cap is gone. Three-per-artifact was the restraint the tier existed to
remove: a colour-field poster that wants a black stage, achromatic neutrals, a
long measure and one face doing everything is right, and it was being blocked for
being expressive. Guards, reason quality and the log are what keep waivers honest.
Past three the build gets a NOTE saying what it now is, a house style rather than
a set of exceptions, and pointing at design.md.
The Floor has two admission criteria instead of one embarrassed exception. Door 1
is "no admired page breaks this on purpose". Door 2 is a named house rule where
admired pages do break it but a language model reaches for it unprompted on every
section. Gate 54 is the only member, listed in a table that any future addition
has to join explicitly. The apology is gone; the reasoning is in the file.
Finish findings gained a record form. `answered <check> · <reason>` parses, so a
build that reasons its way past gate 38 leaves something the next run can read
instead of prose in a comment.
Also: the skill stops mandating em and en dashes in page copy, which had it
arguing with its own house rule. The Picks block and the Step 5 preview merge into
one recital, since the same decisions were being serialised four times. The font
catalog and the per-tone voice samples become skip-unless-needed, roughly 200
lines a build. Two waiver bugs found by a cold build are fixed: "intentional
design choice" was passing the boilerplate test, and a malformed two-field waiver
was being ignored in silence.
The 18 hero captures and 14 gallery thumbnails are regenerated against the live
pages, so the README and the homepage stop advertising eyebrows the skill bans.
Swapped the single full-page custom-04 screenshot for two hero-only shots side
by side, the Cascadia Nightjar sleeper ticket and the Ferns and Fathom
periodic-table tea menu, so the section shows the range without dumping a whole
page. Trimmed the Custom blurb down to the essentials.
Swapped in the new Open Graph image (2400x1260), keeping the OG-hallmark.png
filename so the meta tags, the README banner, and the deployed URL all stay
valid; updated the height meta to match.
Refreshed the "Different briefs, different shapes" gallery to the worked
examples we actually ship now: the four new themes (Bubble, Distil, Cold Snap,
Cinder), the Custom and newly generated pages (Mend Assembly, Hollowback Apiary,
Off-Register, Press Quaternary), and four originals (Tally, Wayfare, NAJM,
Hyperlane). Dropped the retired examples, reworded the intro, and added eight
new hero shots.
- docs/screenshots/hero-*.jpg: 8 fresh hero-only captures of each worked example (1440×900 via Chrome headless on the local dev server). Replaces the mid-video stills in _tests/_thumbs/*-still.jpg which had video-player overlay and cropped headlines. Each is unique — no duplicates. README "Different briefs, different shapes" section now uses these and each thumbnail is a clickable link to the live deployed example.
- site/index.html: the Study verb's brief-pill swapped from "/hallmark study this landing page" to "/hallmark study together.ai · or paste a screenshot" so URL mode is visually concrete next to the lede that already names both modes. One-line change.
- ROADMAP.md: new "Now — actively working on" section at the top. N.1 covers tightening the existing 22 themes + adding 4–6 new distinct ones + lowering the bar to route to custom. N.2 covers first-class Nanobanana image generation + a new image-led theme (working title: Plate) + token discipline for generated stills.
Youssef