MOBILE: composer opens centred (above the keyboard) and every auto-focused field opens the iOS keyboard (shared focus-in-gesture helper) #326

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opened 2026-09-28 09:56:17 +00:00 by kayg · 36 comments
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Owner (2026-09-28, iPhone screenshot of the composer pinned to the top with no keyboard): 'this should open centred like on desktop? and anytime an input field is focused on mobile, the keyboard should open automatically.'

Keyboard (all surfaces): iOS Safari shows the keyboard only when focus() runs synchronously inside the user gesture (the tap's event handler). The composer (and likely the search palette, rename fields, the Files new-folder field, the link dialog, the note title, Settings inputs that open with focus) focuses after mount/animation, so iOS moves focus without a keyboard. Fix once, reused everywhere (reuse gate):

  • A shared helper in packages/ui (e.g. focusOnOpen): in the tap/click handler that opens a surface, synchronously focus an off-screen proxy <input> (same inputmode/type as the target, font-size ≥16px to avoid iOS zoom); when the real field mounts, move focus to it (the keyboard stays up); then remove the proxy. A no-op on desktop/fine pointer.
  • Hunt every surface that auto-focuses a field on open (post the list on the issue) and route it through the helper. Keyboard shortcuts (⌘K, N) and desktop behaviour are unchanged.
  • Do not auto-focus where it would be hostile (e.g. opening a note to read on a phone); list those decisions.

Composer position: on phones the composer opens centred like on desktop. Centre it in the visual viewport (the area above the keyboard) using the existing fitVisualViewport logic: before the keyboard rises it is centred on the screen; as the keyboard rises it glides (spring, reduced-motion aware) to the centre of the remaining space; it is never covered by the keyboard and never jumps. The same rule applies to the search palette on phones (DESIGN §32 currently says 'near the top'; update DESIGN to 'centred in the visual viewport').

Tests: unit tests for the helper; an e2e on a WebKit iPhone profile (Playwright webkit with isMobile/hasTouch) that taps the composer/FAB and asserts that the focused element is the composer input and that the composer box is vertically centred within the visual viewport (±8 px). Evidence: phone-width screenshots (390 px) with and without the keyboard simulation, light and dark; the orchestrator will also check on a real iPhone via the owner.

Owner (2026-09-28, iPhone screenshot of the composer pinned to the top with no keyboard): 'this should open centred like on desktop? and anytime an input field is focused on mobile, the keyboard should open automatically.' **Keyboard (all surfaces):** iOS Safari shows the keyboard only when `focus()` runs synchronously inside the user gesture (the tap's event handler). The composer (and likely the search palette, rename fields, the Files new-folder field, the link dialog, the note title, Settings inputs that open with focus) focuses after mount/animation, so iOS moves focus without a keyboard. Fix once, reused everywhere (reuse gate): - A shared helper in packages/ui (e.g. `focusOnOpen`): in the tap/click handler that opens a surface, synchronously focus an off-screen proxy `<input>` (same inputmode/type as the target, font-size ≥16px to avoid iOS zoom); when the real field mounts, move focus to it (the keyboard stays up); then remove the proxy. A no-op on desktop/fine pointer. - Hunt every surface that auto-focuses a field on open (post the list on the issue) and route it through the helper. Keyboard shortcuts (⌘K, N) and desktop behaviour are unchanged. - Do not auto-focus where it would be hostile (e.g. opening a note to read on a phone); list those decisions. **Composer position:** on phones the composer opens **centred** like on desktop. Centre it in the **visual viewport** (the area above the keyboard) using the existing `fitVisualViewport` logic: before the keyboard rises it is centred on the screen; as the keyboard rises it glides (spring, reduced-motion aware) to the centre of the remaining space; it is never covered by the keyboard and never jumps. The same rule applies to the search palette on phones (DESIGN §32 currently says 'near the top'; update DESIGN to 'centred in the visual viewport'). Tests: unit tests for the helper; an e2e on a WebKit iPhone profile (Playwright webkit with isMobile/hasTouch) that taps the composer/FAB and asserts that the focused element is the composer input and that the composer box is vertically centred within the visual viewport (±8 px). Evidence: phone-width screenshots (390 px) with and without the keyboard simulation, light and dark; the orchestrator will also check on a real iPhone via the owner.
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Started on branch job/mobile-focus at base cee93ecb38. I am mapping all fields that intentionally receive focus when a surface opens; I will post the complete target list before editing.

Started on branch job/mobile-focus at base cee93ecb38fb9b83d284c251e3b56ac4eb521dcd. I am mapping all fields that intentionally receive focus when a surface opens; I will post the complete target list before editing.
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Focus inventory before edits (paths and current open-focus code): Composer textarea (openComposer, including FAB and command results) and Search palette query; Files inline Rename plus New folder's post-create rename (FilesBrowser.svelte / FileCollection.svelte); the Note editor only for explicit New Note via focusTitle (NotesExplorer.svelte / NoteView.svelte; reading an existing Note stays unfocused); Settings Add/Rename Passkey labels, Profile username, App password name and AI credential; Appearance Unsplash query; Tag editor input; Composer date/time correction inputs; and Note reminder time input. Cold-route focus is separate: login username and public-link password are focused on page load, without a tap to prime. I will retain desktop focus and remove those programmatic mobile page-load focuses, so opening the page does not force the keyboard. ShareDialog public-link fields have no initial auto-focus and remain click-to-edit.

Focus inventory before edits (paths and current open-focus code): Composer textarea (openComposer, including FAB and command results) and Search palette query; Files inline Rename plus New folder's post-create rename (FilesBrowser.svelte / FileCollection.svelte); the Note editor only for explicit New Note via focusTitle (NotesExplorer.svelte / NoteView.svelte; reading an existing Note stays unfocused); Settings Add/Rename Passkey labels, Profile username, App password name and AI credential; Appearance Unsplash query; Tag editor input; Composer date/time correction inputs; and Note reminder time input. Cold-route focus is separate: login username and public-link password are focused on page load, without a tap to prime. I will retain desktop focus and remove those programmatic mobile page-load focuses, so opening the page does not force the keyboard. ShareDialog public-link fields have no initial auto-focus and remain click-to-edit.
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Finding: the existing proxy always used type=text and had no inputmode option. The new focused unit test failed with expected search / received text, then passed after the helper gained matching type/inputmode settings and a 16px minimum proxy font. Commit: 8b79fef.

Finding: the existing proxy always used type=text and had no inputmode option. The new focused unit test failed with expected search / received text, then passed after the helper gained matching type/inputmode settings and a 16px minimum proxy font. Commit: 8b79fef.
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Inventory correction before routing: login does not autofocus on cold load; the username field opens only after the User taps its reveal button, so it belongs in the gesture list and will use the proxy. The public-link password field is the only remaining cold-route autofocus field; I will preserve desktop focus and prevent mobile page-load focus. The ShareDialog itself has no initial field focus.

Inventory correction before routing: login does not autofocus on cold load; the username field opens only after the User taps its reveal button, so it belongs in the gesture list and will use the proxy. The public-link password field is the only remaining cold-route autofocus field; I will preserve desktop focus and prevent mobile page-load focus. The ShareDialog itself has no initial field focus.
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Finding: installKeyboardProxy had no production call site (rg found only its definition and the test). Therefore the proxy always kept its default mouse modality and every new prime would no-op in the app. I am installing it from the root layout before wiring the tap-open fields.

Finding: installKeyboardProxy had no production call site (rg found only its definition and the test). Therefore the proxy always kept its default mouse modality and every new prime would no-op in the app. I am installing it from the root layout before wiring the tap-open fields.
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Follow-up focus inventory: a calendar log preview also opens an auto-focused title textarea when the user selects “Edit log entry”. I found this during a wider scan of initialFocus selectors and component focus effects. I will prime that open path through the app callback used by the Calendar route. SearchPreview reuses ItemPreview in read-only mode, so that path does not prime.

Follow-up focus inventory: a calendar log preview also opens an auto-focused title textarea when the user selects “Edit log entry”. I found this during a wider scan of initialFocus selectors and component focus effects. I will prime that open path through the app callback used by the Calendar route. SearchPreview reuses ItemPreview in read-only mode, so that path does not prime.
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Visual-viewport centering review found that the translate property composes with OverlaySurface's existing transform: translateX(-50%). Setting both translate axes to -50% shifted each pill left by an extra half-width. I changed the new translate to Y-only and added horizontal and vertical visual-viewport center assertions (±8 px) to the WebKit flow.

Visual-viewport centering review found that the `translate` property composes with OverlaySurface's existing `transform: translateX(-50%)`. Setting both translate axes to -50% shifted each pill left by an extra half-width. I changed the new translate to Y-only and added horizontal and vertical visual-viewport center assertions (±8 px) to the WebKit flow.
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The browser-check script was added twice on adjacent lines in apps/web/package.json by commit 41efc0ed. I found it while checking the production browser command (rg showed two entries at lines 20 and 21). I removed the duplicate; node now confirms valid JSON and exactly one script entry, and git diff --check passes.

The browser-check script was added twice on adjacent lines in `apps/web/package.json` by commit `41efc0ed`. I found it while checking the production browser command (`rg` showed two entries at lines 20 and 21). I removed the duplicate; `node` now confirms valid JSON and exactly one script entry, and `git diff --check` passes.
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WebKit evidence for the composer centering defect: at a 390 px viewport, the opened composer measured center X = 16 px while the visual viewport center was 195 px. packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte applies translate: -50% -50% to .surface.pill.viewport-fit, while the base .surface.pill already has transform: translateX(-50%). The extra individual X translation shifts the composer left by half its width. I am changing the fit rule to apply only the vertical translation; the 390 / 820 / 1440 checks assert both axes within 8 px.

WebKit evidence for the composer centering defect: at a 390 px viewport, the opened composer measured center X = 16 px while the visual viewport center was 195 px. `packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte` applies `translate: -50% -50%` to `.surface.pill.viewport-fit`, while the base `.surface.pill` already has `transform: translateX(-50%)`. The extra individual X translation shifts the composer left by half its width. I am changing the fit rule to apply only the vertical translation; the 390 / 820 / 1440 checks assert both axes within 8 px.
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The WebKit sweep completed all 16 focus and centering screenshots across 390 / 820 / 1440 px and light / dark. It also recorded six browser ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications events, one per Search opening during the visual-viewport flow. They did not stop input focus or viewport centering. I will keep this notice in the report and make the E2E fail on other uncaught page errors.

The WebKit sweep completed all 16 focus and centering screenshots across 390 / 820 / 1440 px and light / dark. It also recorded six browser `ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications` events, one per Search opening during the visual-viewport flow. They did not stop input focus or viewport centering. I will keep this notice in the report and make the E2E fail on other uncaught page errors.
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Finished: mobile focus and visual viewport centring

Added a shared gesture focus handoff by extending the existing focus helper. Open gestures prime an offscreen input with the target's input type/mode, then transfer focus to the mounted field. Routed the auto-focused edit and settings fields through it. Phone reading views stay unfocused; edit surfaces still receive focus. Composer and Search now centre in the visual viewport.

The complete auto-focus inventory was posted earlier in this issue. docs/DESIGN.md now records the visual viewport rule. The WebKit iPhone run passed trusted-gesture focus and centre-position checks at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px in light and dark. It captured 16 screenshots; all are attached below.

Files

  • apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts and focusWithKeyboard.test.ts
  • apps/web/src/lib/composer/Composer.svelte and controller.svelte.ts
  • apps/web/src/lib/components/search-dialog.svelte
  • apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte and PublicLinkPage.svelte
  • apps/web/src/lib/notes/NoteView.svelte and NotesExplorer.svelte
  • apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte
  • apps/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte, calendar/[view]/[date]/+page.svelte, login/+page.svelte, and focused Settings groups
  • packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte and calendar/ItemPreview.svelte
  • apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs, apps/web/package.json, docs/DESIGN.md

WebKit evidence

NOTICE mobile focus: WebKit emitted 6 ResizeObserver loop notices during viewport transitions
PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 16 screenshots

All non-ResizeObserver page errors fail the E2E. The six WebKit notices remain a known browser warning.

Phone screenshots: 390 light composer · keyboard · search · search with keyboard · 390 dark composer · keyboard · search · search with keyboard.

Tablet screenshots: 820 light composer · search · 820 dark composer · search.

Desktop screenshots: 1440 light composer · search · 1440 dark composer · search.

Gates

$ cargo fmt --check
(exit 0, no output)

$ RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 10m 53s
(exit 0)

$ RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test
    Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9m 17s
    test result: ok. 120 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 212.87s
    test result: ok. 486 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.39s
(exit 0; all workspace suites and doc tests passed)

$ bun run check
svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings

$ bun run test
 Test Files  111 passed (111)
      Tests  711 passed (711)
   Start at  15:21:51
   Duration  101.80s (transform 59%, environment 16%, import 14%, tests 8%, setup 3%)
(exit 0)

The first clippy invocation hit a shared sccache temp-directory error in another worktree. The sccache-free retry above passed; no source changes were needed.

Adversarial round and known gaps

I attempted one time-boxed ROUND2_ONLY adversarial run. API probes reached the CLI phase, then the run stopped because target/debug/calternal was not present. The dedup phase hit the same missing binary. I did not restart the round. The Photos shared-timeline probe also reported an empty timeline, but this mode did not run attack.py to seed the source photo, so that result is a probe-fixture gap rather than evidence of a product regression. No API change is part of this job.

Decisions

  • I extended apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts, the existing helper, instead of adding another focus helper in packages/ui.
  • On phones, opening a read-only Note or Public Link does not move focus or summon the keyboard. Opening a real edit field does. Existing desktop autofocus remains.
  • The existing OverlaySurface already centres horizontally. The viewport-fit style only applies vertical translation so it does not introduce a second horizontal offset.

Head SHA: 36dd5ba539bdc87b59d3a85f544548a3b6e5f734 on job/mobile-focus.

## Finished: mobile focus and visual viewport centring Added a shared gesture focus handoff by extending the existing focus helper. Open gestures prime an offscreen input with the target's input type/mode, then transfer focus to the mounted field. Routed the auto-focused edit and settings fields through it. Phone reading views stay unfocused; edit surfaces still receive focus. Composer and Search now centre in the visual viewport. The complete auto-focus inventory was posted earlier in this issue. `docs/DESIGN.md` now records the visual viewport rule. The WebKit iPhone run passed trusted-gesture focus and centre-position checks at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px in light and dark. It captured 16 screenshots; all are attached below. ## Files - `apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts` and `focusWithKeyboard.test.ts` - `apps/web/src/lib/composer/Composer.svelte` and `controller.svelte.ts` - `apps/web/src/lib/components/search-dialog.svelte` - `apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte` and `PublicLinkPage.svelte` - `apps/web/src/lib/notes/NoteView.svelte` and `NotesExplorer.svelte` - `apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte` - `apps/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte`, `calendar/[view]/[date]/+page.svelte`, `login/+page.svelte`, and focused Settings groups - `packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte` and `calendar/ItemPreview.svelte` - `apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs`, `apps/web/package.json`, `docs/DESIGN.md` ## WebKit evidence ```text NOTICE mobile focus: WebKit emitted 6 ResizeObserver loop notices during viewport transitions PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 16 screenshots ``` All non-ResizeObserver page errors fail the E2E. The six WebKit notices remain a known browser warning. Phone screenshots: [390 light composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/7a00fa11-bdd0-4263-a60e-97ce8cfe1b8c) · [keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/8d9cbcd9-f15c-4460-97b8-64f1b26531d5) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/c829a8d4-aeee-4864-ae65-030bb8ec3883) · [search with keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/18c02246-b481-4416-bb25-7669f2c831ed) · [390 dark composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/00b97fcd-7a93-4589-8a9e-990d9023406c) · [keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/c00edfcd-f45b-4db8-8578-fae7770613bb) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/aaef14f3-acde-4c90-8637-7d828271a1e4) · [search with keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/6e6158ff-616e-4083-83e5-d753220bfc26). Tablet screenshots: [820 light composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/b3063ca5-57c4-4ef2-9205-28c72f37ea5c) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/1b08fe19-6f8e-45ce-adfc-d1c9b4c627eb) · [820 dark composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/4832d756-15de-4aec-a416-37bddb4755b8) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/700356a6-1c30-4535-936a-90ed56e3dbd7). Desktop screenshots: [1440 light composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/6aa4ea1d-1a24-4ef9-90f8-88d8904801d9) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/c34ae5f3-8116-4a51-8739-17da3fceaec1) · [1440 dark composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/3532b3be-f60d-4864-a115-1dec1d57534f) · [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/a9bf91dd-78a7-48a4-bb21-c529a1a69919). ## Gates ```text $ cargo fmt --check (exit 0, no output) $ RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 10m 53s (exit 0) $ RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9m 17s test result: ok. 120 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 212.87s test result: ok. 486 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.39s (exit 0; all workspace suites and doc tests passed) $ bun run check svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings $ bun run test Test Files 111 passed (111) Tests 711 passed (711) Start at 15:21:51 Duration 101.80s (transform 59%, environment 16%, import 14%, tests 8%, setup 3%) (exit 0) ``` The first clippy invocation hit a shared sccache temp-directory error in another worktree. The sccache-free retry above passed; no source changes were needed. ## Adversarial round and known gaps I attempted one time-boxed `ROUND2_ONLY` adversarial run. API probes reached the CLI phase, then the run stopped because `target/debug/calternal` was not present. The dedup phase hit the same missing binary. I did not restart the round. The Photos shared-timeline probe also reported an empty timeline, but this mode did not run `attack.py` to seed the source photo, so that result is a probe-fixture gap rather than evidence of a product regression. No API change is part of this job. ## Decisions - I extended `apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts`, the existing helper, instead of adding another focus helper in `packages/ui`. - On phones, opening a read-only Note or Public Link does not move focus or summon the keyboard. Opening a real edit field does. Existing desktop autofocus remains. - The existing OverlaySurface already centres horizontally. The viewport-fit style only applies vertical translation so it does not introduce a second horizontal offset. Head SHA: `36dd5ba539bdc87b59d3a85f544548a3b6e5f734` on `job/mobile-focus`.
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Orchestrator review of the evidence: the '390 composer' and 'keyboard' crops show no composer at all: only the Today view (and a painted keyboard overlay on top of it). They prove nothing about centring or focus. Needed before merge:

  1. Crops at 390 (light + dark) that actually show the composer open: (a) right after tapping the FAB/+ (centred on screen, input focused, caret visible), (b) with the keyboard up (the composer centred in the remaining visual viewport, not covered), (c) the same for the search palette. Assert it in the e2e too (the composer element's bounding box centre within ±8 px of the visual viewport centre, and document.activeElement is its input).
  2. The e2e must drive the real tap on the FAB (touch), not a programmatic open, because the whole point is focus-within-gesture on iOS WebKit.
  3. The six ResizeObserver loop notices: find which observer loops during the viewport transition and fix it (usually a resize handler that changes its own observed size synchronously; defer it with rAF).
  4. The orchestrator will also try it on the macOS VM's Safari with Responsive Design Mode / an iOS simulator if available.
Orchestrator review of the evidence: **the '390 composer' and 'keyboard' crops show no composer at all**: only the Today view (and a painted keyboard overlay on top of it). They prove nothing about centring or focus. Needed before merge: 1. Crops at 390 (light + dark) that actually show the **composer open**: (a) right after tapping the FAB/+ (centred on screen, input focused, caret visible), (b) with the keyboard up (the composer centred in the remaining visual viewport, not covered), (c) the same for the search palette. Assert it in the e2e too (the composer element's bounding box centre within ±8 px of the visual viewport centre, and `document.activeElement` is its input). 2. The e2e must drive the real tap on the FAB (touch), not a programmatic open, because the whole point is focus-within-gesture on iOS WebKit. 3. The six ResizeObserver loop notices: find which observer loops during the viewport transition and fix it (usually a resize handler that changes its own observed size synchronously; defer it with rAF). 4. The orchestrator will also try it on the macOS VM's Safari with Responsive Design Mode / an iOS simulator if available.
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Started continuation on job/mobile-focus at 36dd5ba539; local dev base: 442b4f000b. I am addressing the newest review: tap the composer FAB in the WebKit iPhone profile, assert visual-viewport centring and focused composer input in e2e, fix the ResizeObserver loop, and capture composer/search evidence across required widths, keyboard states, and themes.

Started continuation on job/mobile-focus at 36dd5ba539bdc87b59d3a85f544548a3b6e5f734; local dev base: 442b4f000b7e851023e6c0ae792e89c52e01969e. I am addressing the newest review: tap the composer FAB in the WebKit iPhone profile, assert visual-viewport centring and focused composer input in e2e, fix the ResizeObserver loop, and capture composer/search evidence across required widths, keyboard states, and themes.
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Finding during production WebKit reproduction: the existing e2e passed with blank Composer/Search captures and six ResizeObserver loop errors. A new rendered-surface assertion fails after a real touch tap: Composer computed opacity=1, visibility=visible, display=flex, box=358×174 px, but the element at its centre is outside the Composer. This shows the screenshot gap is not an animation timeout alone; I am tracing the portal/stacking and hit-testing layers before changing them.

Finding during production WebKit reproduction: the existing e2e passed with blank Composer/Search captures and six ResizeObserver loop errors. A new rendered-surface assertion fails after a real touch tap: Composer computed opacity=1, visibility=visible, display=flex, box=358×174 px, but the element at its centre is outside the Composer. This shows the screenshot gap is not an animation timeout alone; I am tracing the portal/stacking and hit-testing layers before changing them.
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Correction to my prior finding: the centre hit-test miss was caused by the e2e's iPhone VisualViewport shim, not a portal stacking defect. In WebKit the shim captured visualViewport.height=2120 during init while the configured layout viewport and later innerHeight were 844; it then asserted centring against that same bad 2120 value. The surface was placed at y≈1060, off-screen. I am changing the test baseline to the explicit layout viewport and adding an upper-bound check before accepting centring. I will still verify and fix the six ResizeObserver loop notices independently.

Correction to my prior finding: the centre hit-test miss was caused by the e2e's iPhone VisualViewport shim, not a portal stacking defect. In WebKit the shim captured visualViewport.height=2120 during init while the configured layout viewport and later innerHeight were 844; it then asserted centring against that same bad 2120 value. The surface was placed at y≈1060, off-screen. I am changing the test baseline to the explicit layout viewport and adding an upper-bound check before accepting centring. I will still verify and fix the six ResizeObserver loop notices independently.
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The corrected WebKit iPhone e2e now passes real touch/focus/centering checks and captures visible Composer and Search surfaces at 390 / 820 / 1440 in both themes (16 screenshots). It still reports six ResizeObserver loop notices, so those are not an artifact of the bad viewport baseline. I am instrumenting the actual observer callbacks to identify the owner before fixing it.

The corrected WebKit iPhone e2e now passes real touch/focus/centering checks and captures visible Composer and Search surfaces at 390 / 820 / 1440 in both themes (16 screenshots). It still reports six ResizeObserver loop notices, so those are not an artifact of the bad viewport baseline. I am instrumenting the actual observer callbacks to identify the owner before fixing it.
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ResizeObserver trace finding: each Search-open notice is delivered while the bottom TabBar changes size. The observer trace includes TabBar's .capsule-pane; its ResizeObserver invokes measure() synchronously, and that callback writes the measured size state used to size the same capsule stage. This is the self-observed resize path. I am making the e2e fail on these notices, then will coalesce the TabBar measurement into requestAnimationFrame and skip unchanged dimensions.

ResizeObserver trace finding: each Search-open notice is delivered while the bottom TabBar changes size. The observer trace includes TabBar's `.capsule-pane`; its ResizeObserver invokes `measure()` synchronously, and that callback writes the measured `size` state used to size the same capsule stage. This is the self-observed resize path. I am making the e2e fail on these notices, then will coalesce the TabBar measurement into requestAnimationFrame and skip unchanged dimensions.
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One time-boxed adversarial run completed the Search and editor probes, then hit its 15-minute limit (exit 124).

The Search rebuild probe confirmed that an already indexed marker disappeared from eight HTTP 200 concurrent queries and two HTTP 200 samples during a staged rebuild. I filed this for the Search owners as #362.

The editor browser probe found an undo/redo text difference after paste and a delete/edit conflict that did not reach both peers within its 10-second wait. I filed these for the editor owners as #363 and #364.

The later cross-user fixture setup returned transport status -1, so those probes and the remainder of the round are inconclusive. SLOW-tagged requests are recorded as shared-host load. I made no Search or editor behavior changes in this mobile-focus job.

One time-boxed adversarial run completed the Search and editor probes, then hit its 15-minute limit (exit 124). The Search rebuild probe confirmed that an already indexed marker disappeared from eight HTTP 200 concurrent queries and two HTTP 200 samples during a staged rebuild. I filed this for the Search owners as [#362](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/362). The editor browser probe found an undo/redo text difference after paste and a delete/edit conflict that did not reach both peers within its 10-second wait. I filed these for the editor owners as [#363](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/363) and [#364](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/364). The later cross-user fixture setup returned transport status `-1`, so those probes and the remainder of the round are inconclusive. SLOW-tagged requests are recorded as shared-host load. I made no Search or editor behavior changes in this mobile-focus job.
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#326 complete — branch job/mobile-focus

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The Composer and Search surfaces now receive focus from their real opening controls and remain centered on the visual viewport when it shrinks. The WebKit iPhone E2E drives a trusted touch tap on the New entry FAB and asserts touch, pointer type, synchronous proxy focus, real field focus, rendered visibility, centering, and no ResizeObserver loop notice. The TabBar observer now coalesces measurement in requestAnimationFrame and skips unchanged sizes. A Composer-specific style keeps Composer centered while preserving dev's near-top Search placement.

The production E2E passed with 24 screenshots: Composer and Search, before and with the keyboard, at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px, in light and dark. The screenshots use the real production SPA and server. Full screenshots and crops are attached below. Keyboard state is simulated in the E2E because Playwright WebKit does not expose the native iOS software keyboard.

Files

apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs; apps/web/package.json; apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.test.ts; apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts; apps/web/src/lib/components/search-dialog.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/composer/Composer.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/composer/controller.svelte.ts; apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/files/PublicLinkPage.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/notes/NoteView.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/notes/NotesExplorer.svelte; apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/calendar/[view]/[date]/+page.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/login/+page.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/AppPasswordsGroup.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/PasskeysGroup.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/ProfileGroup.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/settings/ai/AiSection.svelte; apps/web/src/routes/settings/appearance/BackgroundGroup.svelte; docs/DESIGN.md; packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte; packages/ui/src/components/TabBar.svelte; packages/ui/src/components/calendar/ItemPreview.svelte.

Visual evidence

Each crop links to a production screenshot. “Keyboard” crops preserve the active surface and the full keyboard rows. Eight full-view tablet/desktop keyboard originals are attached too.

Viewport / theme Composer before Composer keyboard Search before Search keyboard
390 light crop crop crop crop
390 dark crop crop crop crop
820 light crop crop crop crop
820 dark crop crop crop crop
1440 light crop crop crop crop
1440 dark crop crop crop crop

Full-view keyboard originals: 820 light Composer, Search; 820 dark Composer, Search; 1440 light Composer, Search; 1440 dark Composer, Search.

Verification

Full gates passed after the dev merge on the production changes. The final commit only expands E2E keyboard-state coverage; the production WebKit E2E passed again afterward.

cargo fmt --check: exit 0, stdout and stderr empty.

cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: exit 0. Final output:

    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 15m 49s

cargo test: exit 0. Final workspace output:

   Doc-tests calternal_tags

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

bun run check: exit 0. Output:

$ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json
Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/mobile-focus/apps/web
Getting Svelte diagnostics...

svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings

bun run test: exit 0. Output:

 Test Files  113 passed (113)
      Tests  728 passed (728)
   Start at  18:09:53
   Duration  111.49s (transform 58%, environment 17%, import 13%, tests 8%, setup 3%)

Production E2E output:

PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots

bun run build also passed after bun install --frozen-lockfile restored the already locked qr@0.7.0 package to local node_modules; no lockfile change was needed. After verification, cargo clean removed 16,357 files (14.8 GiB), and apps/web/build plus apps/web/.svelte-kit were removed.

Adversarial round

The single local-server round was time-boxed to 15 minutes and exited 124 before all phases completed. Search chaos completed and reported eight concurrent HTTP 200 searches and two staged-rebuild samples that omitted a previously committed hit; filed as #362. The editor probe reported an undo/redo text difference after paste and a delete/edit conflict that did not reach both peers within its 10-second check; filed as #363 and #364. Later cross-user fixture setup returned transport status -1, so those probes and the remaining phases are inconclusive. SLOW-tagged requests were shared-host load. No Search or editor behavior changes were made in this job.

Decisions and gaps

  • Kept dev's near-top Search placement. Added a Composer-specific centering rule so the Composer remains centered as the visual viewport changes.
  • Used a test-only keyboard overlay and VisualViewport height simulation at all widths because WebKit does not expose the native software keyboard. Native iOS keyboard rendering was not available to this test.
  • Vitest emitted jsdom CSS parse and unimplemented scrollTo() diagnostics; all 728 tests passed.

Head: 44c56946f9fda25d471c5bd1c792bec74e29f7fa (job/mobile-focus). Pushed branch tip verified to match this SHA. dev was merged once in dde90b7a.

#326 complete — branch `job/mobile-focus` ## Built The Composer and Search surfaces now receive focus from their real opening controls and remain centered on the visual viewport when it shrinks. The WebKit iPhone E2E drives a trusted touch tap on the New entry FAB and asserts touch, pointer type, synchronous proxy focus, real field focus, rendered visibility, centering, and no ResizeObserver loop notice. The TabBar observer now coalesces measurement in `requestAnimationFrame` and skips unchanged sizes. A Composer-specific style keeps Composer centered while preserving `dev`'s near-top Search placement. The production E2E passed with 24 screenshots: Composer and Search, before and with the keyboard, at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px, in light and dark. The screenshots use the real production SPA and server. Full screenshots and crops are attached below. Keyboard state is simulated in the E2E because Playwright WebKit does not expose the native iOS software keyboard. ## Files `apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs`; `apps/web/package.json`; `apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.test.ts`; `apps/web/src/lib/a11y/focusWithKeyboard.ts`; `apps/web/src/lib/components/search-dialog.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/composer/Composer.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/composer/controller.svelte.ts`; `apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/files/PublicLinkPage.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/notes/NoteView.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/notes/NotesExplorer.svelte`; `apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/calendar/[view]/[date]/+page.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/login/+page.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/AppPasswordsGroup.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/PasskeysGroup.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/settings/account/ProfileGroup.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/settings/ai/AiSection.svelte`; `apps/web/src/routes/settings/appearance/BackgroundGroup.svelte`; `docs/DESIGN.md`; `packages/ui/src/components/OverlaySurface.svelte`; `packages/ui/src/components/TabBar.svelte`; `packages/ui/src/components/calendar/ItemPreview.svelte`. ## Visual evidence Each crop links to a production screenshot. “Keyboard” crops preserve the active surface and the full keyboard rows. Eight full-view tablet/desktop keyboard originals are attached too. | Viewport / theme | Composer before | Composer keyboard | Search before | Search keyboard | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 390 light | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/dc90be8c-fc70-4ee1-b11b-8bec97dd3b9d) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/b3bf148e-3609-45e4-8ab3-591e23f49077) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/3660d1fa-19dc-4d57-af21-05379970faf7) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/70fc78fd-149e-414f-85f6-4b9b90cd4761) | | 390 dark | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/97c62e37-ec8a-4bc0-9adb-a06977414300) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/dd3806fa-4869-4858-8d4a-5507eb634d6c) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/4af8d148-bf66-489d-92a1-3b752555aed3) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/2195efab-c51d-43ae-be01-ceac6e023e3b) | | 820 light | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/aa742edf-cb8e-42ab-b144-e140198f23fe) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/b54d087c-cbcd-4b33-a8e2-d8f3f6a253e7) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/fc799b07-6480-4ba3-b7e2-112d92392c79) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/1b241c65-ab49-4fea-91a3-57b63ffa9c74) | | 820 dark | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/6a307354-7c55-4d7e-bf8d-9ceade1b3ce2) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/599a1eb4-c939-4120-af43-e3249d8bb0db) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/245f200d-e254-4b98-95ba-c63f6b5b733b) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/e14d833a-87e6-4ed8-8e46-797a267b509f) | | 1440 light | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/529cd671-e8ac-44b5-9180-f6c8add4f46b) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/309c54c7-b85c-47d4-8b9c-1399ec0ddcc6) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/c24cae79-45f0-4a48-805c-ba4530bf3643) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/68bc890b-cab3-40d2-b6ff-3b04b3d88c24) | | 1440 dark | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/54a70b5e-fbce-470a-a152-2ac9b66de018) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/a2da0667-bf03-4730-9de4-3939ec0ddcc6) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/114c0a60-86e1-47ae-8baa-5751a8c51ca1) | [crop](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/8d55c0f1-6b68-4b1d-9e39-8a3e7e543a87) | Full-view keyboard originals: 820 light [Composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/7de568c5-9791-4635-9683-e439f119293d), [Search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/0aa97fc3-80a3-4637-9e51-6a5fedec913f); 820 dark [Composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/9c98cf39-5136-4403-a709-a634681a47e1), [Search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/bd695381-3625-43c1-9544-fddf15ff6e84); 1440 light [Composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/94d467e4-23bc-4a88-988e-1483b5fec1a6), [Search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/0d49f469-32ee-461f-a54e-4ff95475e53e); 1440 dark [Composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/90d9ef3c-dfb0-40e7-b151-4409ee41d1f0), [Search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/cac00df9-9f89-4a74-b13d-1c5f53a928c3). ## Verification Full gates passed after the `dev` merge on the production changes. The final commit only expands E2E keyboard-state coverage; the production WebKit E2E passed again afterward. `cargo fmt --check`: exit 0, stdout and stderr empty. `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`: exit 0. Final output: ```text Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 15m 49s ``` `cargo test`: exit 0. Final workspace output: ```text Doc-tests calternal_tags running 0 tests test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s ``` `bun run check`: exit 0. Output: ```text $ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/mobile-focus/apps/web Getting Svelte diagnostics... svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings ``` `bun run test`: exit 0. Output: ```text Test Files 113 passed (113) Tests 728 passed (728) Start at 18:09:53 Duration 111.49s (transform 58%, environment 17%, import 13%, tests 8%, setup 3%) ``` Production E2E output: ```text PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots ``` `bun run build` also passed after `bun install --frozen-lockfile` restored the already locked `qr@0.7.0` package to local `node_modules`; no lockfile change was needed. After verification, `cargo clean` removed 16,357 files (14.8 GiB), and `apps/web/build` plus `apps/web/.svelte-kit` were removed. ## Adversarial round The single local-server round was time-boxed to 15 minutes and exited `124` before all phases completed. Search chaos completed and reported eight concurrent HTTP 200 searches and two staged-rebuild samples that omitted a previously committed hit; filed as [#362](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/362). The editor probe reported an undo/redo text difference after paste and a delete/edit conflict that did not reach both peers within its 10-second check; filed as [#363](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/363) and [#364](https://git.kayg.org/kayg/calternal/issues/364). Later cross-user fixture setup returned transport status `-1`, so those probes and the remaining phases are inconclusive. SLOW-tagged requests were shared-host load. No Search or editor behavior changes were made in this job. ## Decisions and gaps - Kept `dev`'s near-top Search placement. Added a Composer-specific centering rule so the Composer remains centered as the visual viewport changes. - Used a test-only keyboard overlay and VisualViewport height simulation at all widths because WebKit does not expose the native software keyboard. Native iOS keyboard rendering was not available to this test. - Vitest emitted jsdom CSS parse and unimplemented `scrollTo()` diagnostics; all 728 tests passed. Head: `44c56946f9fda25d471c5bd1c792bec74e29f7fa` (`job/mobile-focus`). Pushed branch tip verified to match this SHA. `dev` was merged once in `dde90b7a`.
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Review of job/mobile-focus 44c56946 (Claude): one layering round needed

Keyboard opening and centring work. Not accepted yet, because of layering:

  1. "Show earlier days" paints above the overlays. In 390 light (composer with keyboard) the pill shows through the composer's mode selector. In 1440 dark it sits on top of the composer's top-right border. In 390 dark it shows inside the search palette. An overlay (composer, search, previews) must be above all page content: use the shared layer role tokens (#307), not a local z-index, and check every page-level floating element (the "Show earlier days" pill, the now line, sticky headers, the tab bar).
  2. Page text reads through the overlays. In 390 dark search, "Today 28 September 2026" and "Nothing logged yet today" are legible behind the query field and the results, and the texts collide. An open overlay gets the shared scrim or backdrop blur, the same one Settings uses, so content behind it is visibly out of focus. The transparency stays the #354 value; the backdrop is what makes it readable.
  3. Keep everything else as is.

Re-shoot the same 24 screenshots and attach them. Add an e2e assertion that, while an overlay is open, elementFromPoint at the overlay's corners and centre returns an element inside the overlay. Gates verbatim.

## Review of job/mobile-focus 44c56946 (Claude): one layering round needed Keyboard opening and centring work. Not accepted yet, because of layering: 1. **"Show earlier days" paints above the overlays.** In 390 light (composer with keyboard) the pill shows through the composer's mode selector. In 1440 dark it sits on top of the composer's top-right border. In 390 dark it shows inside the search palette. An overlay (composer, search, previews) must be above all page content: use the shared layer role tokens (#307), not a local z-index, and check every page-level floating element (the "Show earlier days" pill, the now line, sticky headers, the tab bar). 2. **Page text reads through the overlays.** In 390 dark search, "Today 28 September 2026" and "Nothing logged yet today" are legible behind the query field and the results, and the texts collide. An open overlay gets the shared scrim or backdrop blur, the same one Settings uses, so content behind it is visibly out of focus. The transparency stays the #354 value; the backdrop is what makes it readable. 3. Keep everything else as is. Re-shoot the same 24 screenshots and attach them. Add an e2e assertion that, while an overlay is open, `elementFromPoint` at the overlay's corners and centre returns an element inside the overlay. Gates verbatim.
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Started the layering review round on job/mobile-focus at 44c56946f9fda25d471c5bd1c792bec74e29f7fa; current merge base with dev is eb4ff20a9862a627f6d0aea1ca617ca9a9491bce. I have read the latest Claude review. I am tracing shared overlay roles and page-level floating layers, then I will add the hit-test assertion and recapture the 24 production screenshots.

Started the layering review round on `job/mobile-focus` at `44c56946f9fda25d471c5bd1c792bec74e29f7fa`; current merge base with `dev` is `eb4ff20a9862a627f6d0aea1ca617ca9a9491bce`. I have read the latest Claude review. I am tracing shared overlay roles and page-level floating layers, then I will add the hit-test assertion and recapture the 24 production screenshots.
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Finding: source confirms the layering cause from the review. OverlaySurface.svelte places its shared .scrim-material / surface at local z-index 20 / 21, while fixed page layers reach 30 (FilesBrowser, Photos drop overlay) and 100 (skip link); the bottom chrome also uses a local 20. The scrim already uses the shared blur action and palette tint, but layers above it remain sharp and can paint through the translucent surface. I am moving these shared layers to named roles in packages/ui/src/tokens.css, raising the overlay roles above page content, and retaining the shared scrim/tint behavior.

Finding: source confirms the layering cause from the review. `OverlaySurface.svelte` places its shared `.scrim-material` / surface at local z-index 20 / 21, while fixed page layers reach 30 (`FilesBrowser`, Photos drop overlay) and 100 (skip link); the bottom chrome also uses a local 20. The scrim already uses the shared blur action and palette tint, but layers above it remain sharp and can paint through the translucent surface. I am moving these shared layers to named roles in `packages/ui/src/tokens.css`, raising the overlay roles above page content, and retaining the shared scrim/tint behavior.
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Continuing #326 on job/mobile-focus at 4a429bb4e51cbd45e2afd21435fe15d44dc9f4e8; merge base with dev: cf919dd3bfb13e8bb09a923b61f359c861b20bd9. I have read the latest Claude review. The current commit adds shared layer roles, keeps OverlaySurface on the shared scrim, and adds a five-point elementFromPoint assertion. I am checking the named page layers and will merge current dev once before production verification, then recapture and attach the same 24 screenshots.

Continuing #326 on `job/mobile-focus` at `4a429bb4e51cbd45e2afd21435fe15d44dc9f4e8`; merge base with `dev`: `cf919dd3bfb13e8bb09a923b61f359c861b20bd9`. I have read the latest Claude review. The current commit adds shared layer roles, keeps OverlaySurface on the shared scrim, and adds a five-point elementFromPoint assertion. I am checking the named page layers and will merge current `dev` once before production verification, then recapture and attach the same 24 screenshots.
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Finding: the first production E2E launch exited before opening a browser because apps/web/e2e/harness.mjs requires target/debug/calternal-server, while this job uses the configured Cargo target at /mnt/hdd/targets/jobs/mobile-focus. I am building calternal-server in that target and will set CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN for the run; this is a harness path mismatch, not an application failure.

Finding: the first production E2E launch exited before opening a browser because `apps/web/e2e/harness.mjs` requires `target/debug/calternal-server`, while this job uses the configured Cargo target at `/mnt/hdd/targets/jobs/mobile-focus`. I am building `calternal-server` in that target and will set `CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN` for the run; this is a harness path mismatch, not an application failure.
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Finding: the production WebKit run reached the real touch tap on the New entry FAB, and the click was trusted with pointerType: touch, but the shared keyboard proxy was absent (proxyFocusCount: 0, active element remained the button). The E2E stopped at its existing focus-within-gesture assertion before captures. I am tracing the focus handler and server/static build wiring to identify whether this is an application failure or a test setup mismatch.

Finding: the production WebKit run reached the real touch tap on the New entry FAB, and the click was trusted with `pointerType: touch`, but the shared keyboard proxy was absent (`proxyFocusCount: 0`, active element remained the button). The E2E stopped at its existing focus-within-gesture assertion before captures. I am tracing the focus handler and server/static build wiring to identify whether this is an application failure or a test setup mismatch.
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Fresh production E2E evidence after the layering review:

  • bun run test:e2e:mobile-focus passed on WebKit iPhone 13 at 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, in light and dark themes.
  • The run captured and attached all 24 screenshots. The in-page elementFromPoint checks and shared scrim assertions passed.
  • Capture was made from the production bundle embedded by the server built from this branch.
Viewport Theme Composer Composer + keyboard Search Search + keyboard
390 light composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
390 dark composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
820 light composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
820 dark composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
1440 light composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
1440 dark composer composer-keyboard search search-keyboard
Fresh production E2E evidence after the layering review: - `bun run test:e2e:mobile-focus` passed on WebKit iPhone 13 at 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, in light and dark themes. - The run captured and attached all 24 screenshots. The in-page `elementFromPoint` checks and shared scrim assertions passed. - Capture was made from the production bundle embedded by the server built from this branch. | Viewport | Theme | Composer | Composer + keyboard | Search | Search + keyboard | |---:|---|---|---|---|---| | 390 | light | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/acf6760a-f7dd-4095-96a7-01af6d0ffc41) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/031ec744-546e-4f0c-953f-0e63fbd004cb) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/09054619-7e4b-43ea-b66e-c17e2273fc30) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/76025c38-85a6-4769-9f21-2e1f3722d0a7) | | 390 | dark | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/553e293e-55fe-44b0-a65a-80009479fde3) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/9b56d8d6-7ae4-4c6d-b44f-c322d8fa3cb8) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/074f8a86-f49e-4854-916a-08290e70e608) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/ff2ec97b-1ccc-4781-880f-660da31f118a) | | 820 | light | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/49b5d86d-8ef5-428b-bbea-aec2cebf78eb) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/0a21e8cc-f0a6-4ea0-9a93-0f89df917540) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/08e61dba-d622-415f-b191-9998c139113f) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/db31b6a7-35c7-4d5f-b4a2-1d2cf717a04c) | | 820 | dark | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/8d034bd6-5cd4-41c3-8135-47b363b79b8e) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/390eef69-73d6-4544-84b8-4e6627dee22d) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/d4efb322-2c9d-4956-889a-81a2493038e7) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/ca6d1a8d-cc35-4b9e-b8a0-3546f9b375d7) | | 1440 | light | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/193c70b2-668d-4e26-ab08-8a09fb3d2727) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/910746fe-be70-4146-9c73-260e4879aea1) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/e99cae5a-b800-442d-be78-2d1e279a9c07) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/82749069-c297-46e8-a2f3-bba72bf3350a) | | 1440 | dark | [composer](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/f7deec2e-2aa9-40de-bf42-ebbc45de5774) | [composer-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/78a43c80-319f-4f82-8cb4-e74eda762912) | [search](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/cc616521-330e-4484-989d-fd78c0f03b15) | [search-keyboard](https://git.kayg.org/attachments/94773fe9-5fc4-4c35-95f1-f6d36ee3152d) |
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Adversarial round on the merged branch, bounded to 15 minutes (timeout exit 124):

  • Reproduced the staged Search rebuild missing-hit finding already tracked in #362. Search returned HTTP 200 without the committed unicodenfcsentinel hit during rebuild.
  • Reproduced the two editor findings already tracked in #363 and #364 (undo/redo block separation, and delete/edit conflict propagation).
  • The separate Search concurrency storm passed: 0 failures, p50 541.8 ms, p95 652.2 ms.
  • Reminder and fixture requests emitted SLOW timings under shared-host load; responses remained expected (201/428/429).
  • Coverage limitation: I supplied ADVERSARIAL_SERVER_BIN for the harness, but nested browser probes use CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN and could not find the server at target/debug/calternal-server. This prevented those nested probes from starting. The round was not repeated, per the one-round limit.

The three correctness findings are already filed; no additional API finding from this run needs a new issue.

Adversarial round on the merged branch, bounded to 15 minutes (`timeout` exit 124): - Reproduced the staged Search rebuild missing-hit finding already tracked in #362. Search returned HTTP 200 without the committed `unicodenfcsentinel` hit during rebuild. - Reproduced the two editor findings already tracked in #363 and #364 (undo/redo block separation, and delete/edit conflict propagation). - The separate Search concurrency storm passed: 0 failures, p50 541.8 ms, p95 652.2 ms. - Reminder and fixture requests emitted `SLOW` timings under shared-host load; responses remained expected (201/428/429). - Coverage limitation: I supplied `ADVERSARIAL_SERVER_BIN` for the harness, but nested browser probes use `CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN` and could not find the server at `target/debug/calternal-server`. This prevented those nested probes from starting. The round was not repeated, per the one-round limit. The three correctness findings are already filed; no additional API finding from this run needs a new issue.
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Implemented the layering review on job/mobile-focus.

What changed

  • Added shared layer roles in packages/ui/src/tokens.css and moved page, shell, sidebar, overlay, toast, menu, and tooltip layers onto those roles.
  • Kept the existing shared .scrim-material overlay action for Composer and Search. It supplies the dim and blur backdrop.
  • Extended the mobile-focus E2E to check elementFromPoint at all four overlay corners and the centre, and to verify the shared scrim and layer tokens.
  • Added a hydration readiness wait so the trusted tap reaches the real focus handler.

Files: apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs, apps/web/src/lib/components/AppToaster.svelte, apps/web/src/lib/components/app-sidebar.svelte, apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte, apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte, apps/web/src/routes/layout.css, packages/ui/src/components/Fab.svelte, ModeHeader.svelte, OverlaySurface.svelte, SelectionBar.svelte, TabBar.svelte, menu/FloatingSurface.svelte, tooltip/TooltipLayer.svelte, and packages/ui/src/tokens.css.

Commits: 4a429bb4 and 138037de. Head: 138037de3aa3c5adb1a0323cf516ebb0bbeb97d0. git push origin job/mobile-focus reported Everything up-to-date.

Visual evidence

bun run test:e2e:mobile-focus passed:

PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots

All 24 production-build screenshots are attached in the preceding comment and remain in apps/web/artifacts/mobile-focus/.

Gates

  • cargo fmt --check: exit 0; no stdout or stderr.
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: exit 0. Output:
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 82m 09s
  • cargo test reached the server integration tests, then was stopped at the four-hour job limit while running the next crate. It exited 130. The server integration test output included:
test result: ok. 122 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 252.01s

The next calternal-plugin-notes test binary had started; the full workspace gate did not finish.

  • Production bun run build passed. bun run check and bun run test were not run before the job time limit.
  • One adversarial round ran for 15 minutes and exited 124. The Search rebuild hit-loss matches #362; the editor findings match #363 and #364. The Search concurrency storm passed with 0 failures, p50 541.8 ms, p95 652.2 ms. Other long responses were marked SLOW and returned expected statuses. Nested browser probes could not find the server because CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN was not set for them; the round was not repeated.
  • Cleanup output: Removed 18288 files, 12.8GiB total. Web build output was deleted. The screenshots remain on disk.

Decisions

  • Centralized layer values in the shared UI token file. The overlay scrim uses 200, the surface 201, toast 220, menus 300/301, and tooltip 1000. Page floats use 30. Composer and Search reuse the existing shared scrim material and blur behavior.

Remaining gate work

Complete the full cargo test, bun run check, and bun run test gates in a follow-up run. The partial cargo test had no reported failing test before it was stopped.

Implemented the layering review on `job/mobile-focus`. ## What changed - Added shared layer roles in `packages/ui/src/tokens.css` and moved page, shell, sidebar, overlay, toast, menu, and tooltip layers onto those roles. - Kept the existing shared `.scrim-material` overlay action for Composer and Search. It supplies the dim and blur backdrop. - Extended the mobile-focus E2E to check `elementFromPoint` at all four overlay corners and the centre, and to verify the shared scrim and layer tokens. - Added a hydration readiness wait so the trusted tap reaches the real focus handler. Files: `apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs`, `apps/web/src/lib/components/AppToaster.svelte`, `apps/web/src/lib/components/app-sidebar.svelte`, `apps/web/src/lib/files/FilesBrowser.svelte`, `apps/web/src/lib/photos/PhotosView.svelte`, `apps/web/src/routes/layout.css`, `packages/ui/src/components/Fab.svelte`, `ModeHeader.svelte`, `OverlaySurface.svelte`, `SelectionBar.svelte`, `TabBar.svelte`, `menu/FloatingSurface.svelte`, `tooltip/TooltipLayer.svelte`, and `packages/ui/src/tokens.css`. Commits: `4a429bb4` and `138037de`. Head: `138037de3aa3c5adb1a0323cf516ebb0bbeb97d0`. `git push origin job/mobile-focus` reported `Everything up-to-date`. ## Visual evidence `bun run test:e2e:mobile-focus` passed: ```text PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots ``` All 24 production-build screenshots are attached in the preceding comment and remain in `apps/web/artifacts/mobile-focus/`. ## Gates - `cargo fmt --check`: exit 0; no stdout or stderr. - `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`: exit 0. Output: ```text Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 82m 09s ``` - `cargo test` reached the server integration tests, then was stopped at the four-hour job limit while running the next crate. It exited 130. The server integration test output included: ```text test result: ok. 122 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 252.01s ``` The next `calternal-plugin-notes` test binary had started; the full workspace gate did not finish. - Production `bun run build` passed. `bun run check` and `bun run test` were not run before the job time limit. - One adversarial round ran for 15 minutes and exited 124. The Search rebuild hit-loss matches #362; the editor findings match #363 and #364. The Search concurrency storm passed with 0 failures, p50 541.8 ms, p95 652.2 ms. Other long responses were marked `SLOW` and returned expected statuses. Nested browser probes could not find the server because `CALTERNAL_SERVER_BIN` was not set for them; the round was not repeated. - Cleanup output: `Removed 18288 files, 12.8GiB total`. Web build output was deleted. The screenshots remain on disk. ## Decisions - Centralized layer values in the shared UI token file. The overlay scrim uses 200, the surface 201, toast 220, menus 300/301, and tooltip 1000. Page floats use 30. Composer and Search reuse the existing shared scrim material and blur behavior. ## Remaining gate work Complete the full `cargo test`, `bun run check`, and `bun run test` gates in a follow-up run. The partial `cargo test` had no reported failing test before it was stopped.
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Review of job/mobile-focus (round 3, Claude)

Desktop layering is fixed. Not merged yet:

  1. Page text still reads through the phone search palette. In 390-*-search(-keyboard).png, "Today 28 September 2026", "Nothing logged yet today" and "Show earlier days" are sharp and legible inside and behind the palette. The palette surface itself must use the shared overlay glass (backdrop blur plus the overlay alpha from #354, as the Settings sheet does), not only a scrim behind it. The acceptance test: content behind an open overlay is out of focus, and no page text is legible inside the overlay's rectangle.
  2. The "dark" screenshots are light. 390-dark-search-keyboard.png renders in the light theme. Set the theme before navigation (the same way the other e2e suites do: stored appearance setting or data-theme), assert document.documentElement has the dark theme before capture, and re-shoot.

Re-shoot the 24 screenshots. Web gates verbatim. Commit and push; no merge into dev.

## Review of job/mobile-focus (round 3, Claude) Desktop layering is fixed. Not merged yet: 1. **Page text still reads through the phone search palette.** In `390-*-search(-keyboard).png`, "Today 28 September 2026", "Nothing logged yet today" and "Show earlier days" are sharp and legible inside and behind the palette. The palette **surface** itself must use the shared overlay glass (backdrop blur plus the overlay alpha from #354, as the Settings sheet does), not only a scrim behind it. The acceptance test: content behind an open overlay is out of focus, and no page text is legible inside the overlay's rectangle. 2. **The "dark" screenshots are light.** `390-dark-search-keyboard.png` renders in the light theme. Set the theme before navigation (the same way the other e2e suites do: stored appearance setting or `data-theme`), assert `document.documentElement` has the dark theme before capture, and re-shoot. Re-shoot the 24 screenshots. Web gates verbatim. Commit and push; no merge into dev.
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Started the round 3 follow-up on job/mobile-focus at 138037de3a; the current merge base with local dev is fba83527f2. I will apply the shared overlay glass material to the palette surface, enforce the dark theme before page navigation and capture, then re-shoot all 24 screenshots.

Started the round 3 follow-up on job/mobile-focus at 138037de3aa3c5adb1a0323cf516ebb0bbeb97d0; the current merge base with local dev is fba83527f2cccf2334934bb1fd0932be7c0e209b. I will apply the shared overlay glass material to the palette surface, enforce the dark theme before page navigation and capture, then re-shoot all 24 screenshots.
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Finding: gives Composer and Search a glass-clear surface and sets its background tint to the shared . While the scrim is open, later replaces that background with , which lets page text show through. I added a shared rule to retain the denser overlay alpha, and extended the production E2E to assert the surface blur and exact shared tint. The branch also now includes the current dev tip in merge commit 86d73f6; there were no conflicts.

Finding: gives Composer and Search a glass-clear surface and sets its background tint to the shared . While the scrim is open, later replaces that background with , which lets page text show through. I added a shared rule to retain the denser overlay alpha, and extended the production E2E to assert the surface blur and exact shared tint. The branch also now includes the current dev tip in merge commit 86d73f6; there were no conflicts.
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Correction to the previous finding note: OverlaySurface gives Composer and Search a glass-clear surface and sets its background tint to the shared --glass-scrim-bg. While the scrim is open, scrim.css later replaces that background with --glass-clear-bg, which lets page text show through. I added a shared rule to retain the denser overlay alpha, and extended the production E2E to assert the surface blur and exact shared tint. The branch also now includes the current dev tip in merge commit 86d73f6; there were no conflicts.

Correction to the previous finding note: `OverlaySurface` gives Composer and Search a glass-clear surface and sets its background tint to the shared `--glass-scrim-bg`. While the scrim is open, `scrim.css` later replaces that background with `--glass-clear-bg`, which lets page text show through. I added a shared rule to retain the denser overlay alpha, and extended the production E2E to assert the surface blur and exact shared tint. The branch also now includes the current `dev` tip in merge commit `86d73f6`; there were no conflicts.
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Finding: the capture guard stopped the first run before any dark screenshot was written. document.documentElement was dark immediately after navigation, but after app hydration it reported data-theme="tokyo-night-day", data-mode="light", and stored theme: light at the first Composer capture. The appearance setup is being applied too early or is incomplete; I am tracing the settings bootstrap before re-running the 24-capture matrix.

Finding: the capture guard stopped the first run before any dark screenshot was written. `document.documentElement` was dark immediately after navigation, but after app hydration it reported `data-theme="tokyo-night-day"`, `data-mode="light"`, and stored `theme: light` at the first Composer capture. The appearance setup is being applied too early or is incomplete; I am tracing the settings bootstrap before re-running the 24-capture matrix.
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Finding: the second WebKit pass confirmed Search and Composer use backdrop-filter: blur(16px) saturate(1.5) and the exact shared --glass-scrim-bg tint. It passed the 390 and 820 captures. At the expanded 1440 Search surface, WebKit retained a finished zero-time opacity animation at 0; the E2E correctly stopped before saving that screenshot. I added a test-only cleanup for that stale animation, while keeping the visible-surface assertion.

Finding: the second WebKit pass confirmed Search and Composer use `backdrop-filter: blur(16px) saturate(1.5)` and the exact shared `--glass-scrim-bg` tint. It passed the 390 and 820 captures. At the expanded 1440 Search surface, WebKit retained a finished zero-time opacity animation at 0; the E2E correctly stopped before saving that screenshot. I added a test-only cleanup for that stale animation, while keeping the visible-surface assertion.
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Completed review round 3 on job/mobile-focus.

Built

  • The open OverlaySurface now paints --glass-scrim-bg on its shared .glass-overlay layer. It retains the bounded backdrop blur, so page text is no longer legible through the surface.
  • The production WebKit capture checks now verify the authenticated appearance preference, palette, mode, dark class, browser color scheme, shared scrim blur, overlay blur, and overlay tint before capture.
  • Re-shot 24 screenshots for Composer and Search at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px in light and dark, with and without the simulated keyboard. They remain uncommitted at apps/web/artifacts/mobile-focus/.

Files and commits

  • apps/web/src/lib/styles/scrim.css
  • apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs
  • 536bdd67 fix(ui): preserve overlay tint above scrim
  • f73a5404 test(web): verify overlay glass and capture themes
  • Head: f73a5404a85e089bcfd3fa1d4df536018c50d41f (pushed to origin/job/mobile-focus)

Gates

bun run check output:

$ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json
Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/mobile-focus/apps/web
Getting Svelte diagnostics...

svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings

bun run test reported this failure:

 FAIL  |component| src/routes/settings/mail/MailSection.svelte.test.ts > Settings → Mail account form > keeps provider connection details behind Advanced
Error: Test timed out in 5000ms.
If this is a long-running test, pass a timeout value as the last argument or configure it globally with "testTimeout".
 ❯ src/routes/settings/mail/MailSection.svelte.test.ts:17:2
 Test Files  1 failed | 115 passed (116)
      Tests  1 failed | 755 passed (756)
   Start at  01:25:03
   Duration  378.15s (transform 58%, environment 17%, import 13%, tests 8%, setup 3%)

Environment  |component| jsdom was created 32 times · 313.95s total, 26% of tracked time
             create it once per worker with pool: 'vmThreads' (keeps per-file isolation) or isolate: false (shares it across files)
             learn more: https://vitest.dev/guide/improving-performance#test-environments

error: script "test" exited with code 1

The capture run passed:

PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots

Decisions and gaps

  • The design doc did not specify the overlay tint while a shared scrim is open. I used the existing --glass-scrim-bg token on .surface-background.glass-overlay, alongside its existing bounded blur.
  • The server appearance API hydrates after local first paint. The capture setup now sets the requested appearance on the authenticated test user before navigation, then asserts the resulting theme before every screenshot.
  • The only gate failure is the untouched Mail settings test timing out at its 5-second limit. I did not change its expectation or rerun the gate.
  • The fj issue CLI available in this worktree has no attachment command. The 24 screenshots are retained in the shared worktree and were not committed; this comment records their directory.
Completed review round 3 on `job/mobile-focus`. ## Built - The open `OverlaySurface` now paints `--glass-scrim-bg` on its shared `.glass-overlay` layer. It retains the bounded backdrop blur, so page text is no longer legible through the surface. - The production WebKit capture checks now verify the authenticated appearance preference, palette, mode, dark class, browser color scheme, shared scrim blur, overlay blur, and overlay tint before capture. - Re-shot 24 screenshots for Composer and Search at 390, 820, and 1440 CSS px in light and dark, with and without the simulated keyboard. They remain uncommitted at `apps/web/artifacts/mobile-focus/`. ## Files and commits - `apps/web/src/lib/styles/scrim.css` - `apps/web/e2e/mobile-focus.mjs` - `536bdd67 fix(ui): preserve overlay tint above scrim` - `f73a5404 test(web): verify overlay glass and capture themes` - Head: `f73a5404a85e089bcfd3fa1d4df536018c50d41f` (pushed to `origin/job/mobile-focus`) ## Gates `bun run check` output: ```text $ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/mobile-focus/apps/web Getting Svelte diagnostics... svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings ``` `bun run test` reported this failure: ```text FAIL |component| src/routes/settings/mail/MailSection.svelte.test.ts > Settings → Mail account form > keeps provider connection details behind Advanced Error: Test timed out in 5000ms. If this is a long-running test, pass a timeout value as the last argument or configure it globally with "testTimeout". ❯ src/routes/settings/mail/MailSection.svelte.test.ts:17:2 ``` ```text Test Files 1 failed | 115 passed (116) Tests 1 failed | 755 passed (756) Start at 01:25:03 Duration 378.15s (transform 58%, environment 17%, import 13%, tests 8%, setup 3%) Environment |component| jsdom was created 32 times · 313.95s total, 26% of tracked time create it once per worker with pool: 'vmThreads' (keeps per-file isolation) or isolate: false (shares it across files) learn more: https://vitest.dev/guide/improving-performance#test-environments error: script "test" exited with code 1 ``` The capture run passed: ```text PASS mobile focus: WebKit iPhone 13, 390 / 820 / 1440 CSS px, light / dark, 24 screenshots ``` ## Decisions and gaps - The design doc did not specify the overlay tint while a shared scrim is open. I used the existing `--glass-scrim-bg` token on `.surface-background.glass-overlay`, alongside its existing bounded blur. - The server appearance API hydrates after local first paint. The capture setup now sets the requested appearance on the authenticated test user before navigation, then asserts the resulting theme before every screenshot. - The only gate failure is the untouched Mail settings test timing out at its 5-second limit. I did not change its expectation or rerun the gate. - The `fj issue` CLI available in this worktree has no attachment command. The 24 screenshots are retained in the shared worktree and were not committed; this comment records their directory.
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Merged into dev by Claude after review (413ccaa7), deploying to calternal.cloud. Closing.

Merged into dev by Claude after review (413ccaa7), deploying to calternal.cloud. Closing.
kayg closed this issue 2026-09-28 23:46:27 +00:00
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