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-# Changelog
-
-All notable changes to `@keenmate/pure-css` are documented here. Format based on
-[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
-
-## [1.0.0-rc06] — 2026-08-30
-
-### Fixed
-
-- **The app shell now renders standalone — component `--pc-*` tokens fall back to
-  `--base-*`.** rc05 relocated the shell into the foundation, but its CSS
-  hard-referenced component tokens (`--pc-navbar-bg`, `--pc-sidebar-*`,
-  `--pc-footer-*`, `--pc-card-bg`, `--pc-input-bg`) that pure-css does **not**
-  emit — those are pure-admin's `output-pc-component-variables` contract. So a
-  consumer linking `base.css` / `pure-css.css` alone (keen-docs hit this) got an
-  unstyled navbar/sidebar. Every such reference now carries a `--base-*` fallback
-  traced from the token's own derivation: `var(--pc-navbar-bg, var(--base-main-bg))`,
-  `var(--pc-sidebar-bg, var(--base-page-bg))`, navbar/sidebar text →
-  `--base-text-color-1/2`, borders → `--base-border-color`, submenu surfaces →
-  `--base-subtle-bg`, input → `--base-input-bg`. This makes `--pc-*` an *optional*
-  override layer over a guaranteed `--base-*` floor — link only the base vars and
-  the shell just works; set `--pc-navbar-bg` to tune the bar independently of the
-  page. 40 references across the eight shell partials.
-- **Dangling token references in `_fit-flyout.scss`.** The fit-flyout trigger
-  referenced `--pc-accent-color` (defined nowhere — the token is `--pc-accent`)
-  with no fallback, so its focus outline was inert; and `--pc-hover-bg` (also
-  undefined) with only an rgba literal. Repointed to
-  `var(--pc-accent, var(--base-accent-color))` and
-  `var(--pc-hover-bg, var(--base-hover-bg, rgba(…)))`.
-
-### Changed
-
-- **Unified the `--pc-border-radius*` scale with the `--base-border-radius-*`
-  contract the components already use.** pure-css shipped two disconnected radius
-  systems: `--base-border-radius-sm/md/lg` (the unitless rem-multipliers
-  `0.4/0.6/0.8` every web/svelte component reads — e.g. web-multiselect's
-  `calc(var(--base-border-radius-md) * --ms-rem)`), and its OWN
-  `--pc-border-radius-sm/base/lg` as hardcoded `2px/4px/8px` literals disconnected
-  from the base layer. On one themed page a `<keen-web-multiselect>` and a pure-css
-  `.rounded` element rounded differently, and a runtime `--base-border-radius-*`
-  override re-rounded the components but not pure-css's own elements. The three
-  `--pc-border-radius*` tokens now derive from the base contract —
-  `calc(var(--base-border-radius-{sm,md,lg}, <default>) * 1rem)` (unsuffixed
-  `--pc-border-radius` = the `-md` mid step) — mirroring how `--pc-border-color`
-  already tracked `--base-border-color`. **Rendered radii change** to match the
-  ecosystem: `-sm` 2px → 4px, mid 4px → 6px, `-lg` 8px (unchanged). Overriding
-  `--base-border-radius-*` now re-rounds pure-css and the components together.
-
-## [1.0.0-rc05] — 2026-08-27 [PUBLISHED]
-
-### Added
-
-- **The app shell moves into the foundation — navbar, sidebar, and layout
-  container.** pure-css was variables + grid + utilities; rc05 also relocates the
-  structural app-shell layer out of pure-admin-core, so a standalone page (docs
-  site, portal) gets the same navbar/sidebar/layout chrome as a full pure-admin
-  app without pulling in the component library. Seven new partials, all `@use`d
-  into the `pure-css.css` **bundle only** (base.css / grid.css / utilities.css
-  untouched; no new standalone artifact):
-  - `_navbar.scss` + `_navbar-elements.scss` — the fixed navbar (`.pc-navbar`
-    with `__inner`/`__start`/`__center`/`__end` regions) and its elements (burger
-    menu, brand wordmark `.pc-app-header`, nav menu `.pc-navmenu`, page title
-    `.pc-page-header`, profile button, theme switcher).
-  - `_sidebar.scss` + `_sidebar-states.scss` — the sidebar nav with nested
-    submenus (`.pc-sidebar`, `.pc-layout__sidebar`, drag-to-resize
-    `.pc-sidebar-resize`) and its hidden / icon-collapse / expanded states.
-  - `_layout-container.scss` — the layout wrapper (`.pc-layout` with
-    `__inner`/`__main`/`__content`/`__footer` and the `.pc-footer__*` regions),
-    including sticky/scroll content modes. Emitting `.pc-layout__main` here also
-    gives the grid's container-query responsive columns (`.pc-col-md-*`) their
-    documented automatic containment context in the same bundle (the
-    `_pa-grid.scss` note is corrected from the pre-rc04 `.pa-layout__main` to
-    `.pc-layout__main`).
-  - `_layout-responsive.scss` — the mobile/tablet media queries for the shell.
-  - `_resize-handle.scss` — a mixin-only partial (emits nothing on its own)
-    providing the shared grab-knob look `@use`d by the sidebar resize handle and
-    splitter gutters.
-  - `_fit-flyout.scss` — the Fit engine's floating-menu sink
-    (`.pc-fit-flyout__*`): a `•••` trigger + a `<body>`-parented panel that
-    `fit.js` fills on demand when slots relocate out of the row.
-
-  pure-admin-core keeps same-named partials that now just `@forward` these, so the
-  shell is single-sourced in the foundation and the two can't drift.
-
-- **The shell's behaviour ships too — a dependency-free JS runtime (`src/js/`).**
-  The shell is no longer styling-only: the foundation now carries the vanilla-JS
-  runtime that drives it, so pure-css is no longer a CSS-only package. Shipped
-  **as source** (no build step) via a new `./js` export (and `./js/*` for
-  individual engines); `files` gains `src/js/`.
-  - `pure-css.js` installs the `window.pureCss` namespace — a tiny event bus,
-    live viewport / OS-colour-scheme / capability-first device sources, overlay
-    primitives (scroll-lock, keyboard-inset), an open-menu registry, a shared
-    `config` baseline (single-sourced from SCSS via `--pc-*` vars), and
-    `components.initAll(scope)`. Load-order-safe and stands alone when pure-admin
-    is absent; `pure-admin.js` adopts the same buses by reference on top.
-  - `fit.js` — the Fit engine (`data-pc-fit` = hide / steps / relocate). It
-    **absorbs the former `navbar-collapse.js`** (progressive nav folding via
-    `data-pc-fit-nav`, sinking items to the sidebar or a generated "More" menu),
-    so that separate file no longer exists.
-  - `navbar-dropdown.js` (tap-toggle nav dropdowns/submenus),
-    `sidebar-resize.js` (drag-to-resize the sidebar), and
-    `container-breakpoint.js` (container-query breakpoint driver).
-
-  Shell CSS is authored no-JS-safe, so styling degrades gracefully rather than
-  breaking when the runtime isn't loaded.
-
-### Fixed
-
-- **Migrated the dead `data-pa-nav-collapse` hook to `data-pc-fit-nav`.** The
-  relocated nav-collapse CSS keyed on the pre-rc04 `pa-`-branded
-  `[data-pa-nav-collapse]` attribute driven by the old `navbar-collapse.js`;
-  since that engine is now merged into `fit.js` (which reads `data-pc-fit-nav`),
-  the selectors in `_navbar-elements.scss` / `_layout-responsive.scss` were stale
-  and matched nothing. Repointed at `[data-pc-fit-nav]` and corrected the
-  companion comments (`navbar-collapse.js` → `fit.js`). Also de-branded the fit
-  hide-class `.pa-fit-hidden` → `.pc-fit-hidden`.
-
-### Internal
-
-- **GitHub Actions release workflow (`.github/workflows/release.yml`).** On a `v*.*.*`
-  tag push, builds the CSS (`npm ci` + `npm run build`) and publishes a GitHub Release
-  with a `pure-css-<version>.zip` (bundling `dist/`, `src/scss/`, `README.md`,
-  `CHANGELOG.md`, `LICENSE` — the same set as the package `files`, so the zip is a
-  toolchain-free drop-in for consumers who don't use npm) plus a `.sha256` checksum.
-  Auto-generated release notes; tags containing `-` (rc) publish as a pre-release.
-  Mirrors pure-admin-core's release workflow, adapted for this single-package repo.
-- **Exhaustive, data-driven utilities e2e coverage.** Rewrote `e2e/utilities.spec.ts`
-  from a handful of spot-checks into a hard value assertion for 655 of the 664 shipped
-  utility classes (the 9 `auto` sizing classes — `m-auto` + per-side, `w-auto`, `h-auto` —
-  are layout-resolved and covered behaviourally instead). Each family measures every one
-  of its classes' computed styles in a single in-browser pass, then diffs in Node so a
-  failure lists exactly which classes are off; the expectations independently encode the
-  10px-rem contract and the documented scales rather than reading them back from the CSS,
-  so a failure means the compiled output disagrees with the contract or the contract
-  regressed. Renamed the fixture `test/utilities.html` → `test/utilities-scale.html` with
-  definite-size `#w-parent` / `#h-parent` containers so percentage widths/heights resolve
-  to known px. Test-only — no change to shipped CSS.
-
-## [1.0.0-rc04] — 2026-08-26 [PUBLISHED]
-
-### Changed (BREAKING)
-
-- **pure-css now ships only the BASE token contract — component tokens moved to
-  the consumer that owns the components.** pure-css is a *foundation*: its
-  bundles (`pure-css.css`, `base.css`) now emit only the ~46 base `--pc-*` tokens
-  its own CSS consumes or exposes as universal theming primitives (surfaces,
-  text, accent, links, border, the semantic role identities + their utility text
-  colours, the theme palette slots, the radius scale). The ~165 **component**
-  tokens (`--pc-btn-*`, `--pc-card-*`, `--pc-table-*`, `--pc-alert-*`, badges,
-  tooltips, panels, command palette, multiselect, sentiment scale, form spacing,
-  the derived contextual surfaces, admin layout chrome) are no longer emitted by
-  the foundation. They are pure-admin's contract.
-  - `output-pc-css-variables` is now base-only. The component tokens are emitted
-    by the new **`output-pc-component-variables`** mixin (+ the existing
-    `output-pc-alert-variables-{light,dark}`), which pure-css still *defines*
-    (they read the shared `$`-variable vocabulary in `variables/*`, so they must
-    be authored where that vocabulary is in scope) but does **not** call from its
-    own bundle. Consumers that ship the components — pure-admin core, every
-    theme — opt in by `@include output-pc-component-variables` alongside
-    `output-pc-css-variables`.
-  - **Theme authors / anyone calling the emit mixins must add
-    `@include output-pc-component-variables;`** (after `output-pc-css-variables`)
-    or lose every component token. Consumers of the *compiled* theme/core CSS are
-    unaffected — the emitted token set is identical, just split across two mixins.
-- **Every emitted CSS variable de-branded from `--pa-*` to `--pc-*`.** pure-css is
-  a *foundation*, but it still emitted its entire runtime custom-property surface
-  under pure-admin's `pa` brand. The full `--pa-*` set (~210 vars: `--pa-accent`,
-  `--pa-text-color-*`, `--pa-card-bg`, `--pa-border-*`, the contextual /alert sets,
-  `--pa-color-1..9` + `-text`, the new `--pc-*` form-spacing family already shipped
-  this cut, etc.) is renamed to `--pc-*`. This completes the same de-branding the
-  grid/mode classes started above — nothing pure-admin-branded remains in the
-  foundation's output.
-  - **The emit mixins move too:** `output-pa-css-variables` → `output-pc-css-variables`,
-    `output-pa-alert-variables-light` / `-dark` → `output-pc-alert-variables-*`.
-    (`output-base-css-variables` is unchanged — `--base-*` is a separate, neutral
-    web-component contract and stays.)
-  - **Untouched:** `--base-*` (web-component bridge), `--page-loader-*` (pre-FOUC
-    loader), and the `.pa-color-{name}` colour-variant **class** (a class, not a
-    `--pa-` variable).
-  - **Migration:** a boundary-aware replace of the string `--pa-` → `--pc-` across
-    markup, stylesheets, inline `style="--pa-…"`, JS `getPropertyValue`/`setProperty`
-    calls, and every theme's `:root` / dark-mode `--pa-*` override block. Safe
-    because the leading `--` + trailing `-` can't match `--base-*` or `--page-loader-*`.
-    pure-admin, its demo, all 16 themes, and the svelte/keen wrappers migrate in
-    lockstep with this release.
-- **Grid classes renamed from the consumer-branded `pa-` to the foundation's own
-  `pc-` prefix.** `.pa-row` → `.pc-row`, `.pa-col*` → `.pc-col*` (all percentage /
-  fraction / responsive / `--grow`/`--shrink`/`--no-padding` variants),
-  `.pa-offset*` → `.pc-offset*`, `.pa-cq` → `.pc-cq`, `.pa-hide*` → `.pc-hide*`,
-  `.pa-show*` → `.pc-show*`. The grid is a pure-css *foundation* primitive, so it
-  should not carry pure-admin's (`pa`) brand — this de-couples it. **No dual-emit:**
-  the old `pa-*` grid classes are gone. Consumers must migrate markup
-  (`class="pa-col-1-2"` → `class="pc-col-1-2"`) — a boundary-aware find/replace
-  (careful: `pa-col` is a substring of `pa-color-*`, which must NOT be touched).
-  pure-admin, its demo, and the svelte/keen wrappers are migrated in lockstep.
-- **Light/dark mode scope classes renamed `.pa-mode-*` → `.pc-mode-*`.**
-  The light/dark scopes the foundation emits its variables against (and that apps
-  toggle on `<body>`) are foundation-owned, so they move to the `pc-` prefix too.
-  `output-pc-css-variables` now emits at `:root, .pc-mode-light, .pc-mode-dark`.
-  Consumers toggling the class in JS (`classList.add('pc-mode-dark')`) and themes'
-  dark-mode blocks migrate in lockstep. (Safe replace: the string `pa-mode-` →
-  `pc-mode-`; `pa-modal` is untouched since `mode` ≠ `moda`.)
-
-### Added
-
-- **Sizing utilities consolidated into the foundation.** The universal sizing/flex
-  utilities that had been left in pure-admin now live here, so a standalone
-  pure-css page has the full set: viewport heights `h-full` / `h-screen` /
-  `min-h-full` / `min-h-screen` / `max-h-full` / `max-h-screen`, and the
-  Tailwind-style flex shorthands `flex-1` / `flex-auto` / `flex-initial` /
-  `flex-none` / `flex-grow` / `flex-shrink` (alongside the existing
-  `flex-grow-0/1`, `flex-shrink-0/1`). pure-css already owned the width/height %
-  + rem scales (`w-*`/`h-*`, `wr-*`/`hr-*`) and the full min/max families
-  (`minw-*`/`maxh-*`/`minwr-*`/`maxhr-*`/…); pure-admin's duplicate rem-height
-  `h-Nx`/`min-h-Nx`/`max-h-Nx` set (byte-identical to `hr-N`/`minhr-N`/`maxhr-N`)
-  is retired in favour of the foundation's `hr-`/`wr-` naming (`r` = rem).
-- **Complete form-spacing contract as runtime CSS variables, under a pure-css-owned
-  `--pc-` namespace.** `output-pc-css-variables` now emits the full anatomy of a
-  form's spacing at `:root`, so every consumer (pure-admin, keen-docs,
-  keen-pure-admin) shares one contract instead of re-declaring `var()` chains or
-  being stuck with compile-time-only margins:
-  - Vertical rhythm: `--pc-label-gap` (label → control), `--pc-help-gap`
-    (control → help/error), `--pc-field-gap` (field → field),
-    `--pc-form-actions-offset` (last field → actions row).
-  - Inline gaps: `--pc-form-gap` (shared + label↔inline-icon), `--pc-choice-gap`
-    (between options), `--pc-choice-inner-gap` (control↔label), `--pc-form-actions-gap`
-    (between buttons), `--pc-field-horizontal-gap` (horizontal label col↔input col).
-
-  The inline "gap" family chains to `--pc-form-gap` (one knob moves them all);
-  every var is also overridable on its own scope. These are the first
-  foundation-owned runtime vars to use `--pc-` rather than the legacy
-  consumer-branded `--pa-` prefix — new foundation tokens should follow suit.
-
-### Changed
-
-- **Renamed the misleading `$form-scale` token to `$form-gap`.** It reads like an
-  input-sizing multiplier but is only ever consumed as a `gap:` value — the small
-  gap between adjacent form bits (a label and its inline icon, footer action
-  buttons, checkbox/radio group options). `$form-scale` is kept as a `!default`
-  alias of `$form-gap`, so existing overrides keep working; it will be retired in
-  a major. (pure-admin reads the gap through `var(--pc-form-gap, …)`, so it is
-  also runtime-tunable.)
-
-## [1.0.0-rc03] — 2026-08-21 [PUBLISHED]
-
-### Changed
-
-- **BREAKING — renamed the top-bar region tokens from `header` to `navbar`.** The
-  foundation's top-region tokens named the bar as a *component block* rather than a
-  layout region, which read as misleading once pure-admin's navbar component dropped its
-  legacy `pa-header__*` block naming. Renamed:
-  - SCSS variables: `$header-height` → `$navbar-height`, `$header-bg` → `$navbar-bg`,
-    `$header-border-color` → `$navbar-border-color`, `$header-text` → `$navbar-text`,
-    `$header-text-secondary` → `$navbar-text-secondary`,
-    `$header-profile-name-color` → `$navbar-profile-name-color`,
-    `$z-index-header` → `$z-index-navbar`.
-  - CSS variables: `--pa-header-bg` → `--pa-navbar-bg`,
-    `--pa-header-border-color` → `--pa-navbar-border-color`,
-    `--pa-header-text` → `--pa-navbar-text`,
-    `--pa-header-text-secondary` → `--pa-navbar-text-secondary`,
-    `--pa-header-profile-name-color` → `--pa-navbar-profile-name-color`.
-  - `$footer-height` still mirrors the bar height (now `$navbar-height`); component-header
-    tokens (`$card-header-*`, `$table-header-*`) are unaffected.
-
-### Removed
-
-- **Dead `$header-brand-padding-left` variable.** Superseded by the navbar's flex `gap`;
-  no live rule consumed it (only a stale comment referenced it).
-
-## [1.0.0-rc02] — 2026-08-05 [PUBLISHED]
-
-### Added
-
-- **Reboot layer (`reboot.scss`) — the reset the foundation always assumed.** Emits
-  `html { font-size: 10px }` (the 10px rem base every pure-css rem value is authored
-  against — `$font-size-base: 1.6rem` is 16px *only* at a 10px root), a `box-sizing:
-  border-box` reset, neutral base styling for standard elements (headings, paragraphs,
-  links, lists, blockquotes, `hr`, `figure`), the `body` font/colour/background, and the
-  `button/input/select/textarea/label { font: inherit }` reset. Relocated from
-  pure-admin-core's `core-components/_base.scss` so it sits with the rem-scale variables
-  that depend on it. Analogous to Bootstrap's Reboot.
-- **New `reboot.css` build artifact** + `./reboot` export, and `reboot` is now part of the
-  `pure-css.css` bundle (emitted before grid/utilities).
-- **Themed scrollbars (`scrollbars.scss`).** The global `*::-webkit-scrollbar` + Firefox
-  `scrollbar-width`/`scrollbar-color` styling (thin scrollbars coloured from the `--pa-*`
-  cascade), relocated from pure-admin-core's `core-components/_scrollbars.scss`. Global browser
-  chrome belongs with the foundation's consistent-appearance promise, so a standalone pure-css
-  page gets the same themed scrollbars as a full pure-admin app instead of native ones. Part of
-  the `pure-css.css` bundle, plus a standalone `scrollbars.css` artifact + `./scrollbars` export.
-
-### Fixed
-
-- **Standalone consumers no longer render 1.6× too large.** Before, the 10px base lived
-  only in pure-admin-core, so a page linking `pure-css.css` (or `base.css`) on its own
-  inherited the browser's 16px root and every rem was 1.6× oversized. The bundle now ships
-  the 10px base itself, so the sizing scale is correct out of the box.
-
-## [1.0.0-rc01] — 2026-08-04
-
-Initial extraction of the CSS foundation out of `@keenmate/pure-admin-core`.
-
-### Fixed
-
-- **Border/rounded utilities now resolve (were inert).** `.border` / `.border-{top,right,bottom,left}`
-  and `.rounded` / `.rounded-{lg,top,…}` referenced bare `--border-color` / `--border-radius`
-  variables the framework never emits — so they fell back to a `currentColor` border and no radius
-  (a latent bug inherited from pure-admin-core). Repointed them at the emitted `--pa-border-color` /
-  `--pa-border-radius(-lg)` (themed from `--base-*`). Now `base.css` + `utilities.css` are
-  **self-sufficient** — the border/radius utilities work standalone, no host shim.
-- **`--pa-border-color` is now a live reference** — emitted as `var(--base-border-color, <literal>)`
-  instead of a baked literal (it's a pure pass-through, no derivation lost). So it — and the `.border`
-  utilities that read it — follow a **runtime** `--base-border-color` override (a theme or dark-mode
-  class toggling it at `:root`/`.pa-mode-dark`), not just build-time themes.
-
-### Added
-
-- **`--base-*` theming contract** — `src/scss/variables/*` (the `$base-*` source of truth plus the
-  derived typography/spacing/colors/layout/system/components modules) and
-  `_base-css-variables.scss` (the mixin emitting `--base-*` and derived `--pa-*` custom properties).
-- **Native flexbox grid** — `_pa-grid.scss` (`.pa-row` / `.pa-col`: percentage columns in 5%
-  increments, intuitive fractions, container-query responsive variants, offsets, visibility helpers),
-  relocated from pure-admin-core's `core-components/_grid.scss`. Replaces the legacy PureCSS
-  `.pure-g` / `.pure-u-*` grid, which pure-admin had already stopped using — so pure-css ships the
-  grid consumers actually use, not the deprecated one.
-- **Utilities** — `utilities.scss` (spacing / flex / display / width-height classes) plus the generic
-  `.font-family-system/-sans/-serif/-mono` classes from `_fonts.scss` (core keeps `_fonts.scss`
-  standalone; here it `@use`s into utilities so all foundation utilities ship together). Adds
-  `.gap-*` / `.gap-x-*` / `.gap-y-*` (flex/grid gap, same `$spacers` scale) — the one spacing family
-  core lacked, needed to express flex layouts with utilities.
-- **Build entries & artifacts** — `pure-css.scss` (full bundle), `base.scss` (variables only),
-  `grid.scss` (grid only), and the existing `utilities.scss`, compiled to
-  `dist/css/{pure-css,base,grid,utilities}.css`. `dist/` is committed for toolchain-free vendoring.
-- Package tooling: `package.json` (`@keenmate/pure-css`, `exports` for `.`/`./base`/`./grid`/
-  `./utilities`/`./scss`), `Makefile`, `README`, this changelog.
-
-### Notes
-
-- **pure-admin-core consumes this package** as its single source for the foundation (thin
-  `@import`/`@forward` shims for the variables, `--base-*`/`--pa-*` emit mixins, utilities, and the
-  grid). The two no longer carry duplicate copies, so compiled `--base-*` values and grid output
-  match core's `dist/css/main.css` exactly.
+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to `@keenmate/pure-css` are documented here. Format based on
+[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
+
+## [1.0.0-rc08] — 2026-09-10 [PUBLISHED]
+
+The **foundation-only + coherent-contract** release. rc08 finishes what rc07
+started: pure-css sheds pure-admin's component vocabulary to become a true
+foundation, the `--base-*` contract is cleaned up into a coherent, fully-named
+token API, a shared themeable icon layer lands, and the default palette is
+rebased onto pure-admin **Corporate**. The canonical `--base-*` list now lives in
+the parent package [`@keenmate/base-css-variables`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@keenmate/base-css-variables);
+pure-css mirrors it and a drift guard keeps the two honest.
+
+### ⚠ Breaking
+
+- **The `--pc-*` component layer moved to `@keenmate/pure-admin-core`.** pure-css
+  no longer ships `variables/_components.scss` or emits the component token
+  mixins (`output-pc-component-variables`, `output-pc-component-mode-variables`,
+  `output-pc-alert-variables-{light,dark}`) — the whole buttons / cards / tables /
+  modals / tabs / alerts / badges / panels / command-palette / multiselect /
+  sentiment / form-spacing vocabulary. pure-css is now **foundation-only**: the
+  `--base-*` bridge plus the base `--pc-*` tokens (surfaces, text, accent, links,
+  border, the semantic role identities, the theme palette slots, the radius
+  scale). Anything that relied on pure-css emitting component `--pc-*` tokens must
+  now take them from **pure-admin-core ≥ 2.9.0-rc20**, which owns the mixins and
+  the `$`-vocabulary. Consumers of the compiled `dist/css/*` are unaffected; only
+  SCSS consumers that `@include`d the component mixins need the core bump.
+
+### Added
+
+- **A shared, themeable icon contract — 13 `--base-icon-*` tokens.** `chevron`,
+  `caret-down`, `caret-up`, `close`, `clear`, `remove`, `expand`, `collapse`,
+  `add`, `edit`, `delete`, `search` (Lucide defaults), emitted as percent-encoded
+  SVG data-URIs meant to be painted via `mask` + `background: currentColor`. One
+  `--base-icon-*` override re-skins the shell, pure-admin components, and the web
+  components together. The dismiss family (`close`/`clear`/`remove`) cascades off
+  `--base-icon-close`; the CRUD family (`add`/`edit`/`delete`) reads as distinct
+  verbs (delete is a trash bin, not an ✕). Two disclosure models are documented:
+  chevron **rotates one glyph**, expand/collapse **swaps two**.
+- **A coherent `--base-*` token API (WS7).** `--base-border-width`; the
+  `--base-primary-*` role set as aliases of accent; `--base-secondary-color(-hover)`
+  + `--base-text-on-secondary`; `--base-text-on-{primary,danger,success,warning,info}`
+  (the `text-on-<role>` convention); `--base-info-bg` (role symmetry); the brand
+  palette `--base-color-1..9` (+ `-text`), aliased by `--pc-color-N`; and the
+  non-colour scales `--base-space-*`, `--base-shadow-{sm,md,lg}`,
+  `--base-duration-*` + `--base-ease-*`, and `--base-z-*`.
+- **`--pc-hover-bg` / `--pc-active-bg`** base tokens, so component hover/active
+  states read a dedicated interaction-state axis instead of borrowing the
+  recessed `--base-subtle-bg` surface.
+- **`component-reset` — a Shadow-DOM reset entry** (`./component-reset`,
+  `dist/css/component-reset.css`). The counterpart to `reboot` for web components:
+  a `:host` box-sizing + inherited-typography reset pinned to `--base-*` so a host
+  page can't bleed into a component's shadow root. Sets no `rem` base; pair with
+  `base`. This brings the build to **7 artifacts**.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Default theme rebased onto pure-admin Corporate.** `$base-*` defaults now
+  track Corporate — accent `#0ea5e9`, slate text/surfaces, role hues emerald /
+  red / amber / cyan — and the palette is sourced from `$base-color-1..9`. This
+  changes pure-css's **un-themed default look**; themed apps are unaffected since
+  every theme sets its own `--base-*`. (Verified: of the reconciled defaults, only
+  `--base-input-border-color` — the one un-owned token — shifts themed output.)
+- **`--base-disabled-bg`** given its own distinct value (`#f1f3f5`) instead of
+  colliding with the hover/subtle surface.
+- **The shell chevrons are now SVG masks, not a `›` text glyph.** The sidebar
+  collapse chevron and the navbar "more" chevron render `--base-icon-chevron` via
+  a mask box (rotated on open); the `fit.js` injectors emit empty spans painted by
+  CSS.
+
+### Removed
+
+- Dead `--pc-multiselect-*` and the simple `--pc-badge-*` tokens (web-multiselect
+  themes off its own `--ms-*` namespace; badges read `--pc-btn-*` / `--pc-color-*`).
+
+### Internal
+
+- **`@keenmate/base-css-variables` is the canonical `--base-*` parent.** pure-css
+  mirrors its token list into `$base-*` SCSS; `scripts/check-base-parity.mjs`
+  fails the build if the emitted `--base-*` names drift from the contract (4 dead
+  tokens allow-listed). Going-forward rule: author a new `--base-*` token in
+  base-css-variables first, then mirror it here.
+
+## [1.0.0-rc07] — 2026-09-08 [PUBLISHED]
+
+The **shared theming knob** release. Before rc07 the same visual token (a tooltip
+background, an input border, a dropdown surface) was produced *twice and
+independently* — pure-admin's `--pc-*` component tokens were baked compile-time
+literals, while the KeenMate web components read `--base-*` live — so they agreed
+only by coincidence and diverged the instant a theme retuned `--base-*` at
+runtime (every dual-mode theme does exactly this at `.pc-mode-dark`). rc07 makes
+`--base-*` the single runtime knob: override one namespace and pure-admin
+components + the web components re-theme together, in light and dark.
+
+### Added
+
+- **Gap `--base-*` tokens the web components already read but pure-css never
+  emitted** — so they stop falling through to hardcoded component defaults and
+  actually theme: `--base-text-inverted`, `--base-checkbox-border-color`,
+  `--base-input-border-color` (+ the `--base-input-border` shorthand),
+  `--base-input-clear-color` / `--base-input-clear-bg-hover`, the solid role
+  fills `--base-success-bg` / `--base-danger-bg` / `--base-warning-bg`, and
+  `--base-rem`.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`--pc-*` component tokens now derive from `--base-*` at runtime.** ~40 themed
+  `--pc-*` tokens (buttons, cards, inputs, checkbox, input groups, tables, modal,
+  tooltip/popover, command palette, multiselect) were rewritten from baked
+  `#{$…}` literals to the guiding-rule form `var(--base-x, #{$fallback})`. The
+  `#{$fallback}` preserves today's compiled value, so **light-mode output is
+  unchanged** — but the token now follows any runtime `--base-*` override, shared
+  with the web components.
+- **The app shell surfaces stay compile-time — deliberately not `--base-*`-derived.**
+  The navbar/sidebar/footer surface + text tokens (`--pc-navbar-*`,
+  `--pc-sidebar-*`, `--pc-footer-*`) are emitted as plain `#{$…}` literals, *not*
+  `var(--base-main-bg, …)`. The shell is a distinct brand surface a theme sets on
+  its own (e.g. a yellow navbar) independent of the `--base-*` card/page palette;
+  since `--base-main-bg` is always emitted, deriving the navbar from it would let
+  the base palette win and erase the brand colour. Standalone (`base.css`-only)
+  rendering is still covered — the shell CSS itself resolves
+  `var(--pc-navbar-bg, var(--base-main-bg))`, so the `--base-*` floor applies only
+  when no `--pc-*` is emitted (the rc06 contract), not as a runtime override of it.
+- **Surface-token naming realigned with the `--base-*` model (B5).**
+  `--pc-main-bg` is now the **white surface** (`--base-main-bg`), `--pc-subtle-bg`
+  the **muted grey** (`--base-subtle-bg`), and `--pc-page-bg` remains the **grey
+  canvas**. Previously `--pc-main-bg` *was* the grey canvas and `--pc-subtle-bg`
+  *was* white — an inversion vs the `--base-*` vocabulary. pure-css's own shell
+  canvas usages (reboot `body`, `.pc-layout`, scrollbars) were repointed
+  `--pc-main-bg` → `--pc-page-bg` so the canvas stays grey. **Downstream code
+  reading `--pc-main-bg` / `--pc-subtle-bg` must re-check intent** — see
+  pure-admin-core rc19, which repoints its component surfaces accordingly.
+- `$base-elevated-bg` default changed from the stray `#f5f5f5` to `$base-page-bg`.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Broken `$`-link:** `$input-border` was a hardcoded `#ced4da` (the comment even
+  claimed it came from base) — reconnected to `$base-input-border-color`, so input
+  borders finally track the theme.
+- **Semantic surface reconciliation** so pure-admin and the web components resolve
+  the *same* base token per surface: card/table headers + striped rows →
+  `--base-elevated-bg`, dropdown/popover → `--base-dropdown-bg`, table/multiselect
+  hover → `--base-hover-bg`, checkbox border → `--base-checkbox-border-color`.
+- **Sidebar search box alignment + collapsed-rail gating (`_sidebar.scss`).** The
+  search input's inline padding was rebalanced to `0 $spacing-base 0 $spacing-sm`
+  so its magnifier lines up with the nav-row icons below it (margin `$spacing-sm` +
+  padding-left `$spacing-sm` = the `$spacing-base` nav inset) instead of sitting one
+  box-margin too far in. The collapsed-rail rules that shed the search frame/field
+  down to the submit icon were re-scoped from `.pc-layout__sidebar--icon-collapse`
+  to `.sidebar-hidden .pc-layout__sidebar--icon-collapse` — the mode class stays on
+  the element while the rail is expanded, so the unscoped rules were stripping the
+  search frame in the expanded state too.
+
+## [1.0.0-rc06] — 2026-08-30
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **The app shell now renders standalone — component `--pc-*` tokens fall back to
+  `--base-*`.** rc05 relocated the shell into the foundation, but its CSS
+  hard-referenced component tokens (`--pc-navbar-bg`, `--pc-sidebar-*`,
+  `--pc-footer-*`, `--pc-card-bg`, `--pc-input-bg`) that pure-css does **not**
+  emit — those are pure-admin's `output-pc-component-variables` contract. So a
+  consumer linking `base.css` / `pure-css.css` alone (keen-docs hit this) got an
+  unstyled navbar/sidebar. Every such reference now carries a `--base-*` fallback
+  traced from the token's own derivation: `var(--pc-navbar-bg, var(--base-main-bg))`,
+  `var(--pc-sidebar-bg, var(--base-page-bg))`, navbar/sidebar text →
+  `--base-text-color-1/2`, borders → `--base-border-color`, submenu surfaces →
+  `--base-subtle-bg`, input → `--base-input-bg`. This makes `--pc-*` an *optional*
+  override layer over a guaranteed `--base-*` floor — link only the base vars and
+  the shell just works; set `--pc-navbar-bg` to tune the bar independently of the
+  page. 40 references across the eight shell partials.
+- **Dangling token references in `_fit-flyout.scss`.** The fit-flyout trigger
+  referenced `--pc-accent-color` (defined nowhere — the token is `--pc-accent`)
+  with no fallback, so its focus outline was inert; and `--pc-hover-bg` (also
+  undefined) with only an rgba literal. Repointed to
+  `var(--pc-accent, var(--base-accent-color))` and
+  `var(--pc-hover-bg, var(--base-hover-bg, rgba(…)))`.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Unified the `--pc-border-radius*` scale with the `--base-border-radius-*`
+  contract the components already use.** pure-css shipped two disconnected radius
+  systems: `--base-border-radius-sm/md/lg` (the unitless rem-multipliers
+  `0.4/0.6/0.8` every web/svelte component reads — e.g. web-multiselect's
+  `calc(var(--base-border-radius-md) * --ms-rem)`), and its OWN
+  `--pc-border-radius-sm/base/lg` as hardcoded `2px/4px/8px` literals disconnected
+  from the base layer. On one themed page a `<keen-web-multiselect>` and a pure-css
+  `.rounded` element rounded differently, and a runtime `--base-border-radius-*`
+  override re-rounded the components but not pure-css's own elements. The three
+  `--pc-border-radius*` tokens now derive from the base contract —
+  `calc(var(--base-border-radius-{sm,md,lg}, <default>) * 1rem)` (unsuffixed
+  `--pc-border-radius` = the `-md` mid step) — mirroring how `--pc-border-color`
+  already tracked `--base-border-color`. **Rendered radii change** to match the
+  ecosystem: `-sm` 2px → 4px, mid 4px → 6px, `-lg` 8px (unchanged). Overriding
+  `--base-border-radius-*` now re-rounds pure-css and the components together.
+
+## [1.0.0-rc05] — 2026-08-27 [PUBLISHED]
+
+### Added
+
+- **The app shell moves into the foundation — navbar, sidebar, and layout
+  container.** pure-css was variables + grid + utilities; rc05 also relocates the
+  structural app-shell layer out of pure-admin-core, so a standalone page (docs
+  site, portal) gets the same navbar/sidebar/layout chrome as a full pure-admin
+  app without pulling in the component library. Seven new partials, all `@use`d
+  into the `pure-css.css` **bundle only** (base.css / grid.css / utilities.css
+  untouched; no new standalone artifact):
+  - `_navbar.scss` + `_navbar-elements.scss` — the fixed navbar (`.pc-navbar`
+    with `__inner`/`__start`/`__center`/`__end` regions) and its elements (burger
+    menu, brand wordmark `.pc-app-header`, nav menu `.pc-navmenu`, page title
+    `.pc-page-header`, profile button, theme switcher).
+  - `_sidebar.scss` + `_sidebar-states.scss` — the sidebar nav with nested
+    submenus (`.pc-sidebar`, `.pc-layout__sidebar`, drag-to-resize
+    `.pc-sidebar-resize`) and its hidden / icon-collapse / expanded states.
+  - `_layout-container.scss` — the layout wrapper (`.pc-layout` with
+    `__inner`/`__main`/`__content`/`__footer` and the `.pc-footer__*` regions),
+    including sticky/scroll content modes. Emitting `.pc-layout__main` here also
+    gives the grid's container-query responsive columns (`.pc-col-md-*`) their
+    documented automatic containment context in the same bundle (the
+    `_pa-grid.scss` note is corrected from the pre-rc04 `.pa-layout__main` to
+    `.pc-layout__main`).
+  - `_layout-responsive.scss` — the mobile/tablet media queries for the shell.
+  - `_resize-handle.scss` — a mixin-only partial (emits nothing on its own)
+    providing the shared grab-knob look `@use`d by the sidebar resize handle and
+    splitter gutters.
+  - `_fit-flyout.scss` — the Fit engine's floating-menu sink
+    (`.pc-fit-flyout__*`): a `•••` trigger + a `<body>`-parented panel that
+    `fit.js` fills on demand when slots relocate out of the row.
+
+  pure-admin-core keeps same-named partials that now just `@forward` these, so the
+  shell is single-sourced in the foundation and the two can't drift.
+
+- **The shell's behaviour ships too — a dependency-free JS runtime (`src/js/`).**
+  The shell is no longer styling-only: the foundation now carries the vanilla-JS
+  runtime that drives it, so pure-css is no longer a CSS-only package. Shipped
+  **as source** (no build step) via a new `./js` export (and `./js/*` for
+  individual engines); `files` gains `src/js/`.
+  - `pure-css.js` installs the `window.pureCss` namespace — a tiny event bus,
+    live viewport / OS-colour-scheme / capability-first device sources, overlay
+    primitives (scroll-lock, keyboard-inset), an open-menu registry, a shared
+    `config` baseline (single-sourced from SCSS via `--pc-*` vars), and
+    `components.initAll(scope)`. Load-order-safe and stands alone when pure-admin
+    is absent; `pure-admin.js` adopts the same buses by reference on top.
+  - `fit.js` — the Fit engine (`data-pc-fit` = hide / steps / relocate). It
+    **absorbs the former `navbar-collapse.js`** (progressive nav folding via
+    `data-pc-fit-nav`, sinking items to the sidebar or a generated "More" menu),
+    so that separate file no longer exists.
+  - `navbar-dropdown.js` (tap-toggle nav dropdowns/submenus),
+    `sidebar-resize.js` (drag-to-resize the sidebar), and
+    `container-breakpoint.js` (container-query breakpoint driver).
+
+  Shell CSS is authored no-JS-safe, so styling degrades gracefully rather than
+  breaking when the runtime isn't loaded.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Migrated the dead `data-pa-nav-collapse` hook to `data-pc-fit-nav`.** The
+  relocated nav-collapse CSS keyed on the pre-rc04 `pa-`-branded
+  `[data-pa-nav-collapse]` attribute driven by the old `navbar-collapse.js`;
+  since that engine is now merged into `fit.js` (which reads `data-pc-fit-nav`),
+  the selectors in `_navbar-elements.scss` / `_layout-responsive.scss` were stale
+  and matched nothing. Repointed at `[data-pc-fit-nav]` and corrected the
+  companion comments (`navbar-collapse.js` → `fit.js`). Also de-branded the fit
+  hide-class `.pa-fit-hidden` → `.pc-fit-hidden`.
+
+### Internal
+
+- **GitHub Actions release workflow (`.github/workflows/release.yml`).** On a `v*.*.*`
+  tag push, builds the CSS (`npm ci` + `npm run build`) and publishes a GitHub Release
+  with a `pure-css-<version>.zip` (bundling `dist/`, `src/scss/`, `README.md`,
+  `CHANGELOG.md`, `LICENSE` — the same set as the package `files`, so the zip is a
+  toolchain-free drop-in for consumers who don't use npm) plus a `.sha256` checksum.
+  Auto-generated release notes; tags containing `-` (rc) publish as a pre-release.
+  Mirrors pure-admin-core's release workflow, adapted for this single-package repo.
+- **Exhaustive, data-driven utilities e2e coverage.** Rewrote `e2e/utilities.spec.ts`
+  from a handful of spot-checks into a hard value assertion for 655 of the 664 shipped
+  utility classes (the 9 `auto` sizing classes — `m-auto` + per-side, `w-auto`, `h-auto` —
+  are layout-resolved and covered behaviourally instead). Each family measures every one
+  of its classes' computed styles in a single in-browser pass, then diffs in Node so a
+  failure lists exactly which classes are off; the expectations independently encode the
+  10px-rem contract and the documented scales rather than reading them back from the CSS,
+  so a failure means the compiled output disagrees with the contract or the contract
+  regressed. Renamed the fixture `test/utilities.html` → `test/utilities-scale.html` with
+  definite-size `#w-parent` / `#h-parent` containers so percentage widths/heights resolve
+  to known px. Test-only — no change to shipped CSS.
+
+## [1.0.0-rc04] — 2026-08-26 [PUBLISHED]
+
+### Changed (BREAKING)
+
+- **pure-css now ships only the BASE token contract — component tokens moved to
+  the consumer that owns the components.** pure-css is a *foundation*: its
+  bundles (`pure-css.css`, `base.css`) now emit only the ~46 base `--pc-*` tokens
+  its own CSS consumes or exposes as universal theming primitives (surfaces,
+  text, accent, links, border, the semantic role identities + their utility text
+  colours, the theme palette slots, the radius scale). The ~165 **component**
+  tokens (`--pc-btn-*`, `--pc-card-*`, `--pc-table-*`, `--pc-alert-*`, badges,
+  tooltips, panels, command palette, multiselect, sentiment scale, form spacing,
+  the derived contextual surfaces, admin layout chrome) are no longer emitted by
+  the foundation. They are pure-admin's contract.
+  - `output-pc-css-variables` is now base-only. The component tokens are emitted
+    by the new **`output-pc-component-variables`** mixin (+ the existing
+    `output-pc-alert-variables-{light,dark}`), which pure-css still *defines*
+    (they read the shared `$`-variable vocabulary in `variables/*`, so they must
+    be authored where that vocabulary is in scope) but does **not** call from its
+    own bundle. Consumers that ship the components — pure-admin core, every
+    theme — opt in by `@include output-pc-component-variables` alongside
+    `output-pc-css-variables`.
+  - **Theme authors / anyone calling the emit mixins must add
+    `@include output-pc-component-variables;`** (after `output-pc-css-variables`)
+    or lose every component token. Consumers of the *compiled* theme/core CSS are
+    unaffected — the emitted token set is identical, just split across two mixins.
+- **Every emitted CSS variable de-branded from `--pa-*` to `--pc-*`.** pure-css is
+  a *foundation*, but it still emitted its entire runtime custom-property surface
+  under pure-admin's `pa` brand. The full `--pa-*` set (~210 vars: `--pa-accent`,
+  `--pa-text-color-*`, `--pa-card-bg`, `--pa-border-*`, the contextual /alert sets,
+  `--pa-color-1..9` + `-text`, the new `--pc-*` form-spacing family already shipped
+  this cut, etc.) is renamed to `--pc-*`. This completes the same de-branding the
+  grid/mode classes started above — nothing pure-admin-branded remains in the
+  foundation's output.
+  - **The emit mixins move too:** `output-pa-css-variables` → `output-pc-css-variables`,
+    `output-pa-alert-variables-light` / `-dark` → `output-pc-alert-variables-*`.
+    (`output-base-css-variables` is unchanged — `--base-*` is a separate, neutral
+    web-component contract and stays.)
+  - **Untouched:** `--base-*` (web-component bridge), `--page-loader-*` (pre-FOUC
+    loader), and the `.pa-color-{name}` colour-variant **class** (a class, not a
+    `--pa-` variable).
+  - **Migration:** a boundary-aware replace of the string `--pa-` → `--pc-` across
+    markup, stylesheets, inline `style="--pa-…"`, JS `getPropertyValue`/`setProperty`
+    calls, and every theme's `:root` / dark-mode `--pa-*` override block. Safe
+    because the leading `--` + trailing `-` can't match `--base-*` or `--page-loader-*`.
+    pure-admin, its demo, all 16 themes, and the svelte/keen wrappers migrate in
+    lockstep with this release.
+- **Grid classes renamed from the consumer-branded `pa-` to the foundation's own
+  `pc-` prefix.** `.pa-row` → `.pc-row`, `.pa-col*` → `.pc-col*` (all percentage /
+  fraction / responsive / `--grow`/`--shrink`/`--no-padding` variants),
+  `.pa-offset*` → `.pc-offset*`, `.pa-cq` → `.pc-cq`, `.pa-hide*` → `.pc-hide*`,
+  `.pa-show*` → `.pc-show*`. The grid is a pure-css *foundation* primitive, so it
+  should not carry pure-admin's (`pa`) brand — this de-couples it. **No dual-emit:**
+  the old `pa-*` grid classes are gone. Consumers must migrate markup
+  (`class="pa-col-1-2"` → `class="pc-col-1-2"`) — a boundary-aware find/replace
+  (careful: `pa-col` is a substring of `pa-color-*`, which must NOT be touched).
+  pure-admin, its demo, and the svelte/keen wrappers are migrated in lockstep.
+- **Light/dark mode scope classes renamed `.pa-mode-*` → `.pc-mode-*`.**
+  The light/dark scopes the foundation emits its variables against (and that apps
+  toggle on `<body>`) are foundation-owned, so they move to the `pc-` prefix too.
+  `output-pc-css-variables` now emits at `:root, .pc-mode-light, .pc-mode-dark`.
+  Consumers toggling the class in JS (`classList.add('pc-mode-dark')`) and themes'
+  dark-mode blocks migrate in lockstep. (Safe replace: the string `pa-mode-` →
+  `pc-mode-`; `pa-modal` is untouched since `mode` ≠ `moda`.)
+
+### Added
+
+- **Sizing utilities consolidated into the foundation.** The universal sizing/flex
+  utilities that had been left in pure-admin now live here, so a standalone
+  pure-css page has the full set: viewport heights `h-full` / `h-screen` /
+  `min-h-full` / `min-h-screen` / `max-h-full` / `max-h-screen`, and the
+  Tailwind-style flex shorthands `flex-1` / `flex-auto` / `flex-initial` /
+  `flex-none` / `flex-grow` / `flex-shrink` (alongside the existing
+  `flex-grow-0/1`, `flex-shrink-0/1`). pure-css already owned the width/height %
+  + rem scales (`w-*`/`h-*`, `wr-*`/`hr-*`) and the full min/max families
+  (`minw-*`/`maxh-*`/`minwr-*`/`maxhr-*`/…); pure-admin's duplicate rem-height
+  `h-Nx`/`min-h-Nx`/`max-h-Nx` set (byte-identical to `hr-N`/`minhr-N`/`maxhr-N`)
+  is retired in favour of the foundation's `hr-`/`wr-` naming (`r` = rem).
+- **Complete form-spacing contract as runtime CSS variables, under a pure-css-owned
+  `--pc-` namespace.** `output-pc-css-variables` now emits the full anatomy of a
+  form's spacing at `:root`, so every consumer (pure-admin, keen-docs,
+  keen-pure-admin) shares one contract instead of re-declaring `var()` chains or
+  being stuck with compile-time-only margins:
+  - Vertical rhythm: `--pc-label-gap` (label → control), `--pc-help-gap`
+    (control → help/error), `--pc-field-gap` (field → field),
+    `--pc-form-actions-offset` (last field → actions row).
+  - Inline gaps: `--pc-form-gap` (shared + label↔inline-icon), `--pc-choice-gap`
+    (between options), `--pc-choice-inner-gap` (control↔label), `--pc-form-actions-gap`
+    (between buttons), `--pc-field-horizontal-gap` (horizontal label col↔input col).
+
+  The inline "gap" family chains to `--pc-form-gap` (one knob moves them all);
+  every var is also overridable on its own scope. These are the first
+  foundation-owned runtime vars to use `--pc-` rather than the legacy
+  consumer-branded `--pa-` prefix — new foundation tokens should follow suit.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Renamed the misleading `$form-scale` token to `$form-gap`.** It reads like an
+  input-sizing multiplier but is only ever consumed as a `gap:` value — the small
+  gap between adjacent form bits (a label and its inline icon, footer action
+  buttons, checkbox/radio group options). `$form-scale` is kept as a `!default`
+  alias of `$form-gap`, so existing overrides keep working; it will be retired in
+  a major. (pure-admin reads the gap through `var(--pc-form-gap, …)`, so it is
+  also runtime-tunable.)
+
+## [1.0.0-rc03] — 2026-08-21 [PUBLISHED]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **BREAKING — renamed the top-bar region tokens from `header` to `navbar`.** The
+  foundation's top-region tokens named the bar as a *component block* rather than a
+  layout region, which read as misleading once pure-admin's navbar component dropped its
+  legacy `pa-header__*` block naming. Renamed:
+  - SCSS variables: `$header-height` → `$navbar-height`, `$header-bg` → `$navbar-bg`,
+    `$header-border-color` → `$navbar-border-color`, `$header-text` → `$navbar-text`,
+    `$header-text-secondary` → `$navbar-text-secondary`,
+    `$header-profile-name-color` → `$navbar-profile-name-color`,
+    `$z-index-header` → `$z-index-navbar`.
+  - CSS variables: `--pa-header-bg` → `--pa-navbar-bg`,
+    `--pa-header-border-color` → `--pa-navbar-border-color`,
+    `--pa-header-text` → `--pa-navbar-text`,
+    `--pa-header-text-secondary` → `--pa-navbar-text-secondary`,
+    `--pa-header-profile-name-color` → `--pa-navbar-profile-name-color`.
+  - `$footer-height` still mirrors the bar height (now `$navbar-height`); component-header
+    tokens (`$card-header-*`, `$table-header-*`) are unaffected.
+
+### Removed
+
+- **Dead `$header-brand-padding-left` variable.** Superseded by the navbar's flex `gap`;
+  no live rule consumed it (only a stale comment referenced it).
+
+## [1.0.0-rc02] — 2026-08-05 [PUBLISHED]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Reboot layer (`reboot.scss`) — the reset the foundation always assumed.** Emits
+  `html { font-size: 10px }` (the 10px rem base every pure-css rem value is authored
+  against — `$font-size-base: 1.6rem` is 16px *only* at a 10px root), a `box-sizing:
+  border-box` reset, neutral base styling for standard elements (headings, paragraphs,
+  links, lists, blockquotes, `hr`, `figure`), the `body` font/colour/background, and the
+  `button/input/select/textarea/label { font: inherit }` reset. Relocated from
+  pure-admin-core's `core-components/_base.scss` so it sits with the rem-scale variables
+  that depend on it. Analogous to Bootstrap's Reboot.
+- **New `reboot.css` build artifact** + `./reboot` export, and `reboot` is now part of the
+  `pure-css.css` bundle (emitted before grid/utilities).
+- **Themed scrollbars (`scrollbars.scss`).** The global `*::-webkit-scrollbar` + Firefox
+  `scrollbar-width`/`scrollbar-color` styling (thin scrollbars coloured from the `--pa-*`
+  cascade), relocated from pure-admin-core's `core-components/_scrollbars.scss`. Global browser
+  chrome belongs with the foundation's consistent-appearance promise, so a standalone pure-css
+  page gets the same themed scrollbars as a full pure-admin app instead of native ones. Part of
+  the `pure-css.css` bundle, plus a standalone `scrollbars.css` artifact + `./scrollbars` export.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Standalone consumers no longer render 1.6× too large.** Before, the 10px base lived
+  only in pure-admin-core, so a page linking `pure-css.css` (or `base.css`) on its own
+  inherited the browser's 16px root and every rem was 1.6× oversized. The bundle now ships
+  the 10px base itself, so the sizing scale is correct out of the box.
+
+## [1.0.0-rc01] — 2026-08-04
+
+Initial extraction of the CSS foundation out of `@keenmate/pure-admin-core`.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Border/rounded utilities now resolve (were inert).** `.border` / `.border-{top,right,bottom,left}`
+  and `.rounded` / `.rounded-{lg,top,…}` referenced bare `--border-color` / `--border-radius`
+  variables the framework never emits — so they fell back to a `currentColor` border and no radius
+  (a latent bug inherited from pure-admin-core). Repointed them at the emitted `--pa-border-color` /
+  `--pa-border-radius(-lg)` (themed from `--base-*`). Now `base.css` + `utilities.css` are
+  **self-sufficient** — the border/radius utilities work standalone, no host shim.
+- **`--pa-border-color` is now a live reference** — emitted as `var(--base-border-color, <literal>)`
+  instead of a baked literal (it's a pure pass-through, no derivation lost). So it — and the `.border`
+  utilities that read it — follow a **runtime** `--base-border-color` override (a theme or dark-mode
+  class toggling it at `:root`/`.pa-mode-dark`), not just build-time themes.
+
+### Added
+
+- **`--base-*` theming contract** — `src/scss/variables/*` (the `$base-*` source of truth plus the
+  derived typography/spacing/colors/layout/system/components modules) and
+  `_base-css-variables.scss` (the mixin emitting `--base-*` and derived `--pa-*` custom properties).
+- **Native flexbox grid** — `_pa-grid.scss` (`.pa-row` / `.pa-col`: percentage columns in 5%
+  increments, intuitive fractions, container-query responsive variants, offsets, visibility helpers),
+  relocated from pure-admin-core's `core-components/_grid.scss`. Replaces the legacy PureCSS
+  `.pure-g` / `.pure-u-*` grid, which pure-admin had already stopped using — so pure-css ships the
+  grid consumers actually use, not the deprecated one.
+- **Utilities** — `utilities.scss` (spacing / flex / display / width-height classes) plus the generic
+  `.font-family-system/-sans/-serif/-mono` classes from `_fonts.scss` (core keeps `_fonts.scss`
+  standalone; here it `@use`s into utilities so all foundation utilities ship together). Adds
+  `.gap-*` / `.gap-x-*` / `.gap-y-*` (flex/grid gap, same `$spacers` scale) — the one spacing family
+  core lacked, needed to express flex layouts with utilities.
+- **Build entries & artifacts** — `pure-css.scss` (full bundle), `base.scss` (variables only),
+  `grid.scss` (grid only), and the existing `utilities.scss`, compiled to
+  `dist/css/{pure-css,base,grid,utilities}.css`. `dist/` is committed for toolchain-free vendoring.
+- Package tooling: `package.json` (`@keenmate/pure-css`, `exports` for `.`/`./base`/`./grid`/
+  `./utilities`/`./scss`), `Makefile`, `README`, this changelog.
+
+### Notes
+
+- **pure-admin-core consumes this package** as its single source for the foundation (thin
+  `@import`/`@forward` shims for the variables, `--base-*`/`--pa-*` emit mixins, utilities, and the
+  grid). The two no longer carry duplicate copies, so compiled `--base-*` values and grid output
+  match core's `dist/css/main.css` exactly.