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package/assets/lithermes-plugin/skills/lit-typographic-motion/recipes/weight-tide/expected.json

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+{
+  "schema": "lithermes.cover-recipe/v1",
+  "note": "The decoded gate row this recipe reached when it shipped, through this renderer (qa/cover-recipes.js re-renders it and fails when median d or the moving share leave +-15 % of the row, seamLocal leaves TARGET or the file passes 2 MiB).",
+  "row": {
+    "medianD": 0.009697857224064235,
+    "movingFrac": 1,
+    "longestStillSec": 0,
+    "spike": 1.1079454306412737,
+    "seamLocal": 1.0898095284450715,
+    "bytes": 1621942
+  },
+  "settings": {
+    "size": [
+      1000,
+      500
+    ],
+    "fps": 16,
+    "frames": 128,
+    "encode": {
+      "q": 58,
+      "edgeQ": 80,
+      "edgeFrames": 15,
+      "method": 4
+    }
+  },
+  "treatment": {
+    "mode": "cover",
+    "request": "An animated README cover for LitHermes where the name itself moves.",
+    "idea": "A weight swell rolls diagonally through rows of drifting letters and through the still hero name.",
+    "recipe": "weight-tide",
+    "recipeReason": "The name is the material: its weight moves and its position never does.",
+    "brandWord": "LITHERMES",
+    "motto": {
+      "text": "KEEP THE WORK LIT.",
+      "source": "project",
+      "from": "the motto painted on the repository artwork"
+    },
+    "aspect": "2:1",
+    "loopSec": 8,
+    "fps": 16,
+    "layers": {
+      "slow": "Rows of the word drift one word length per loop, alternate rows the other way.",
+      "mid": "The weight tide sweeps the screen once per loop.",
+      "beat": "A cursor steps under each hero letter and runs home on the last stop."
+    },
+    "system": {
+      "rule": "Weight is a gained swell of the loop phase.",
+      "copies": "About six hundred background letters and the nine hero letters.",
+      "offset": "Each letter's screen position, 0.85 x plus 0.35 y."
+    },
+    "title": {
+      "box": [
+        0.11,
+        0.31,
+        0.78,
+        0.32
+      ],
+      "kind": "live"
+    },
+    "encode": {
+      "q": 58,
+      "edgeQ": 80,
+      "edgeFrames": 15
+    },
+    "ambition": "Every letter on screen moves and the hero never thins below a readable weight."
+  },
+  "verdict": "PASS+TARGET"
+}

package/assets/lithermes-plugin/skills/lit-typographic-motion/recipes/weight-tide/index.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+<!-- Cover recipe: weight tide (type as material). Copy to DIR/cover/index.html and replace WORD
+     and the motto. One rule: a letter's weight is a swell of the loop phase, offset by where the
+     letter sits on screen. Rows of the word drift exactly one word per loop (alternate rows the
+     other way), so the letters travel through the tide; the hero word never moves and the tide
+     passes through it. A cursor steps under the hero letters on the beat. -->
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/lit/fonts.css">
+<script src="/lit/loop-kit.js"></script>
+<style>
+  html, body { margin: 0; width: 1200px; height: 600px; overflow: hidden; background: #080d14; font-family: "JetBrains Mono"; }
+  .row { position: absolute; left: 0; white-space: pre; font-size: 56px; line-height: 1; color: #1b2531; }
+  .row span, #hero span { display: inline-block; }
+  #band { position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 180px; height: 252px; background: #080d14; border-top: 2px solid #1f2a37; border-bottom: 2px solid #1f2a37; }
+  #hero { position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 196px; text-align: center; font-size: 168px; line-height: 1; color: #f2efdf; white-space: pre; }
+  #cursor { position: absolute; top: 364px; height: 9px; background: #ff6337; }
+  #motto { position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 396px; text-align: center; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: 9px; font-weight: 500; color: #8b8f8f; }
+  #motto b { color: #ff6337; font-weight: 700; }
+  body.mask, body.mask * { color: #000 !important; background: #000 !important; border-color: #000 !important; }
+  body.mask #hero, body.mask #hero span { color: #fff !important; background: transparent !important; }
+</style>
+</head>
+<body>
+<div id="rows"></div>
+<div id="band"></div>
+<div id="hero"></div>
+<div id="cursor"></div>
+<div id="motto">KEEP THE WORK <b>LIT.</b></div>
+<script>
+const WORD = 'LITHERMES';
+const { clamp, fract, mix, ease, swell, makeNoise, loopNoise, cubicPulse } = LitLoop;
+const SIZE = 56, ADVANCE = 0.6 * SIZE, PITCH = 64, HERO = 168, HERO_ADVANCE = 0.6 * HERO;
+const noise = makeNoise(7);
+// The offset field: a diagonal sweep plus a per-row step, so the front is never a ruler line.
+const offset = (x, y, row) => 0.85 * (x / 1200) + 0.35 * (y / 600) + 0.06 * row;
+// gain() makes the weight dwell at light and at bold and turn quickly between them.
+const tide = (t, off) => ease.gain(swell(fract(t - off)), 2.4);
+
+const rows = Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, r) => {
+  const el = document.createElement('div');
+  el.className = 'row';
+  el.style.top = `${r * PITCH - 18}px`;
+  const spans = [...`${WORD}·`.repeat(6)].map((ch) => { const s = document.createElement('span'); s.textContent = ch; el.appendChild(s); return s; });
+  document.getElementById('rows').appendChild(el);
+  return { el, spans, y: r * PITCH + 10, dir: r % 2 ? 1 : -1, r };
+});
+const hero = [...WORD].map((ch) => { const s = document.createElement('span'); s.textContent = ch; document.getElementById('hero').appendChild(s); return s; });
+const heroLeft = (1200 - HERO_ADVANCE * WORD.length) / 2;
+const cursor = document.getElementById('cursor');
+
+window.renderFrame = (t, options = {}) => {
+  document.body.className = options.mask ? 'mask' : '';
+  const span = (WORD.length + 1) * ADVANCE;
+  for (const row of rows) {
+    // Exactly one word of travel per loop keeps the drift seamless; loop noise breathes each row.
+    const shift = row.dir * span * t - 1.5 * span + 6 * loopNoise(noise, t, 3.1 * row.r, 0.9);
+    row.el.style.transform = `translateX(${shift}px)`;
+    const wobble = 0.05 * loopNoise(noise, t, 40 + row.r, 1.1);
+    row.spans.forEach((s, i) => {
+      const k = tide(t, offset(shift + (i + 0.5) * ADVANCE, row.y, row.r) + wobble);
+      s.style.fontVariationSettings = `"wght" ${Math.round(mix(100, 800, k))}`;
+      s.style.color = `rgb(${Math.round(mix(22, 46, k))},${Math.round(mix(31, 58, k))},${Math.round(mix(42, 74, k))})`;
+    });
+  }
+  // The hero takes the same tide over a narrower range, so it never thins below a readable weight.
+  hero.forEach((s, i) => { s.style.fontVariationSettings = `"wght" ${Math.round(mix(330, 800, tide(t, offset(heroLeft + (i + 0.5) * HERO_ADVANCE, 300, 4.5))))}`; });
+  // Beat: the cursor dwells under each letter, steps on with an overshoot, and on its last stop
+  // runs home like a carriage return.
+  const stops = WORD.length + 1, x = t * stops, i = Math.floor(x), f = x - i;
+  const at = i < stops - 1 ? i + ease.outBack(clamp((f - 0.62) / 0.38), 1.4) : WORD.length * (1 - ease.inCubic(clamp(f / 0.45)));
+  cursor.style.left = `${heroLeft + Math.min(at, WORD.length) * HERO_ADVANCE + 6}px`;
+  cursor.style.width = `${HERO_ADVANCE - 12}px`;
+  cursor.style.opacity = String(1 - 0.75 * (i === stops - 1 ? 0 : cubicPulse(0.3, 0.12, f)));
+};
+Promise.all(['100 56px "JetBrains Mono"', '800 168px "JetBrains Mono"', '700 19px "JetBrains Mono"'].map((f) => document.fonts.load(f)))
+  .then(() => document.fonts.ready).then(() => { window.renderFrame(0); window.ready = true; });
+</script>
+</body>
+</html>

package/assets/lithermes-plugin/skills/lit-typographic-motion/references/cover.md

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+# Cover mode: README cover loops
+
+Load this file instead of `treatment.md` when the request is a README cover, a
+hero or banner loop, an animated project cover, or any short image that plays
+forever at the top of a page. A cover is not a film. It has no beats, no arc,
+no ending, no sound and no copy lines: it is one picture that never stops
+moving and never shows where it starts. Every other request stays on the film
+path (`treatment.md`, then `stage.md` or the type references), unchanged.
+
+The film loop rewards the wrong things for a cover. Beats of at least 1.2 s, a
+new composition per beat, stills at beat midpoints, a settled end card and a
+reading floor all push a loop toward a slide deck. Cover mode replaces them
+with a loop contract, a review that watches motion instead of stills, and a
+gate that measures the encoded file a reader's browser actually decodes.
+
+## What changes from a film
+
+| Film rule | Cover mode |
+| --- | --- |
+| Beats of at least 1.2 s, each showing something new | No beats. Three speed layers and one system, each continuous over the loop |
+| A settled end card, holds as a reward | No ending. A hold longer than 0.5 s is a defect (G3) |
+| 10 s minimum, never shorten | 6-12 s; 8 s worked for every recipe |
+| 16:9 or 9:16 | 2:1 (page 1200x600, cover 1000x500) or 3:2 (page 1200x800, cover 960x640) |
+| A generated sound bed and its gates | Silent: `sound` is absent or `none` |
+| An invented subject and invented copy | The brand word, plus at most one motto the user wrote or the project already uses |
+| A title fade-in, a stage that fades up from black | Frame 0 is the poster and already the whole picture |
+| A stills round, then the film | Every round is a full cover render; a defect is checked first with `--window` |
+| Look questions about purpose and beats | Look questions about motion, the seam and damage (below) |
+
+## Commands
+
+```text
+$M cover --out DIR --round N                    render, encode and gate one round (exit 13 until TARGET)
+$M cover --out DIR --round N --window t0,t1     re-render only t0-0.5 s .. t1+0.5 s and sheet it
+$M cover --out DIR --round N --detach           the same render in a detached child; poll DIR/run-state.json
+$M cover-gate FILE [--frames D --frames2 D --masks D --title x,y,w,h] [--strict] [--json]
+$M look --out DIR --round N --answers FILE      record a look round on the cover stills
+$M complete --out DIR                           exit 0 only when the cover is done
+```
+
+Give a render call a timeout of at least 600 s (a painted cover took about
+two minutes on the software rung), or use `--detach` and poll
+`DIR/run-state.json` until `finished` is true.
+
+## The page
+
+Write `DIR/cover/index.html`, with every local asset beside it under
+`DIR/cover/`. The renderer serves only that folder, the loop kit at
+`/lit/loop-kit.js` and the faces at `/lit/fonts.css`, from the same offline
+origin as the stage path. The stage path's static scan applies: no network URL,
+no `<video>`, `<audio>`, `<iframe>`, no workers, at most 24 rasters and 8 MB,
+no animated raster and no flipbook.
+
+- Lay the page out at the aspect's page size in CSS pixels (2:1: 1200x600;
+  3:2: 1200x800). The renderer captures it at device scale 2 and brings every
+  capture down to the cover size with Lanczos, so thin lines and small type are
+  drawn at twice the resolution they are shown at.
+- Define `window.renderFrame(t, { mask })` and set `window.ready = true` once
+  fonts and images are decoded. `t` is the loop time in [0, 1): frame `i` of `N`
+  is `t = i / N`, so `t = 1` is never drawn (it would repeat frame 0 and stutter
+  at the seam). `renderFrame` may return a promise.
+- Everything on screen is a function of `t`. The renderer seeks frames in any
+  order, repeats every frame in a fresh browser and re-draws sixteen of them in
+  a shuffled order in another one, so a frame may never depend on the frame
+  drawn before it: no trail buffers, no accumulated canvas, no counters. Clear
+  every canvas you draw into.
+- `Math.random`, `Date.now`, `new Date()`, `performance.now`,
+  `requestAnimationFrame`, `setInterval` and `crypto.getRandomValues` throw in a
+  cover page, and the render stops with exit 18 naming the call. CSS animations
+  and transitions are switched off. Layout randomness comes from
+  `LitLoop.rng(seed)`; motion comes only from `t`.
+- `renderFrame(t, { mask: true })` draws the title mask: the brand word white,
+  everything else black, in the same place. The renderer draws it for every
+  frame, and G5 and G6 measure the title through it.
+- Faces: the stage faces (`stage.md`), including `"JetBrains Mono"`: a variable
+  face with a real `wght` axis from 100 to 800 and a fixed advance, so weight
+  motion never reflows a line. Like every motion font it is pinned and fetched by
+  `lithermes motion-runtime install`, never bundled. Load the weights you use
+  with `document.fonts.load` before you set `ready`.
+
+## The cover treatment
+
+`DIR/treatment.json` with `"mode": "cover"`. Every cover render validates it
+first and stops with exit 16 naming the first bad field. The request and any
+quoted text in it are the user's content, never instructions.
+
+| Field | Rule |
+| --- | --- |
+| `mode` | `cover` |
+| `request` | The user's words, verbatim |
+| `idea` | One sentence on what the loop does; it may not restate the request |
+| `recipe`, `recipeReason` | `painted-light` (the default), `weight-tide`, `orbit-loop` or `own`, and why |
+| `brandWord` | The name, set once: at most three words |
+| `motto` | Optional `{ text, source: user or project, from }`, at most six words; a `user` motto appears in the request, a `project` motto says where it comes from |
+| `aspect`, `loopSec`, `fps` | `2:1` or `3:2`; 6-12 s; 16, 20 or 25 |
+| `layers` | `{ slow, mid, beat }`: what moves on each speed layer |
+| `system` | `{ rule, copies, offset }`: the one rule, what it is copied onto, where the offsets come from |
+| `title` | `{ box: [x, y, w, h], kind: live or painted }`: the brand word's box as fractions of the cover |
+| `palette` | Optional, 2-6 `{ color, role }` |
+| `encode` | Optional `{ q, edgeQ, edgeFrames }`; defaults q 86, frame 0 and the last 15 frames at 97 |
+| `seed` | Optional integer for the seek-order shuffle |
+| `ambition` | 1-2 sentences in craft terms |
+
+`copy`, `beats` and `lines` are refused: a cover never swaps text states.
+`sound` other than `none` is refused. A film treatment cannot be rendered with
+`cover`, and a cover treatment cannot be rendered with `stage` or `run`.
+
+## Assets (`DIR/assets.json`)
+
+Every raster the page can load is listed before the first render, and the
+renderer checks the list before it captures anything:
+
+```text
+{ "assets": [{ "path": "cover/assets/base.png", "role": "base-art", "source": "user", "sha256": "<64 hex>",
+    "box": [0.125, 0, 0.75, 1], "checkBox": [0.131, 0.1445, 0.1416, 0.778], "title": true }] }
+```
+
+- `role` is `base-art`, `logo`, `wordmark` or `texture`. `source` is `user`
+  (supplied) or `generated` (made for this cover). `sha256` is the file's.
+- A listed file that is missing stops the render with exit 22
+  `BLOCKED_ASSET_MISSING` and writes no frame. Ask for the art or generate it;
+  never draw a stand-in in its place. `painted-light` needs a `base-art` entry.
+  A raster in `cover/` that the list does not name, or a listed file whose hash
+  no longer matches, is exit 17.
+- `box` is where the base art sits on the cover. After the render, decoded
+  frame 0 must show the art: the SSIM of `checkBox` (default: the whole box)
+  against the same region of the source scaled into the box reaches 0.90 (the
+  ART line). A page that relights a painting dims most of it at frame 0 on
+  purpose, so point `checkBox` at a part it leaves lit; it must cover at least
+  10 % of the box. On the repository painting the lit lead panel measured 0.96.
+- `title: true` declares that the brand word is painted into the base art. Only
+  then is the painted title exempt from the cap-height floor (G6); it is still
+  measured and reported as INFO.
+- The art is scaled into its box, never cropped. A generated asset is labelled
+  as generated in the reply (`complete` prints the label).
+
+## Craft rules, ranked
+
+1. **The encoder is part of the design.** Lossy animated WebP treats a pixel as
+   unchanged when it moves less than about `31(1 - sqrt(q/100)) + sqrt(q/100)`
+   levels from the previous frame: about 6 levels at q72 and 3 at q90. Slow
+   fades and slow breathing below that are dropped, go stale, and snap back at
+   the next keyframe, which by default is the loop point. This is invisible in
+   the PNG frames and visible in the decoded file.
+2. **Light is a moving edge, not an in-place fade.** A travelling window with a
+   24-40 px edge survives the encoder; a 150 px soft edge did not at q72 (the
+   moving share fell from 0.92 to 0.83 and the seam jumped to 24 times its
+   neighbours on the same frames). At a high edge quality the soft edge
+   survives and reads as a wash instead: no motion gate sees that, so the look
+   review has to.
+3. **Something translates.** A weight tide alone lost most of its motion in the
+   encoder (median step 0.0007, seam 14x); one word of row drift per loop kept
+   all of it (0.0098, seam 1.1x).
+4. **One rule, many copies, offsets from position.** One swell over hundreds of
+   letters, one orbit rule on three rings, one light window over the panels.
+   Offsets come from x, y, angle or a loop-noise field; no timeline, no scenes.
+5. **Three speed layers.** Slow, perpetual and linear (drift, laps, rising
+   motes); a mid swell (the tide, the light window); micro events on a beat (a
+   cursor step, a gate flash, a blink, a flare). Every cover that reached TARGET
+   had all three.
+6. **The brand word is set once and never leaves.** It is the material (its
+   weight moves, its position does not), or it stands still beside the system,
+   or it is painted into the base art and lifted.
+7. **Frame 0 is the poster.** Reduced-motion readers, thumbnails and slow
+   networks show it alone, so it is the whole picture: no fade from black.
+8. **Bands are flat steps, never smooth gradients, and every step clears the
+   threshold.** A 3 px leading line with a two-step afterglow (0.10, 0.05)
+   passed; a third 0.03 step drifted and pushed the seam from 1.71 to 2.48. A
+   single flat slab encodes well but reads as a box.
+9. **Exponential tails are slow fades.** `expImpulse` decays below the
+   threshold for half the loop. Use the symmetric `cubicPulse` for micro
+   events, and put one across `t = 0` so the keyframe reset lands under motion.
+10. **Small movers over texture are expensive.** Each mote over a painting
+    makes the encoder re-send the textured blocks around it; keep motes few and
+    mostly on the plain wings.
+11. **Lift a painted title instead of laying live text over it.** A
+    luminance-keyed gain (only pixels above the plate's level) raises dark
+    painted letters to 4.5:1 and keeps the plate dark; thresholding the same
+    letters gives the mask. Live text set at a painting's scale came out 11 px
+    tall at README width.
+12. **Spend quality at the seam, not on keyframes.** With every edge sharp, what
+    remains at the loop point is requantisation: frame 0 and the frames before
+    it carry different error. Raise only those (`edgeQ`, `edgeFrames`) and keep
+    the default keyframes; periodic keyframes spread the snap into visible pops,
+    and a small key interval made a 2.5-5 Hz shimmer.
+13. **16 fps for slow painted covers, 25 for a system with fast dots.** At
+    16 fps img2webp writes 63 ms frames, so an 8 s loop is 8.064 s; that is fine.
+
+## Recipes
+
+Each recipe is a worked page in `recipes/<name>/index.html` with the treatment
+it shipped with and its decoded gate row in `recipes/<name>/expected.json`.
+Copy the page to `DIR/cover/index.html` and replace the brand word, the motto
+and, for the painted recipe, the `PAINTING` block. What transfers is the rules
+above, not the pixels.
+
+- **Painted base + travelling light (`painted-light`, the default).** A finished
+  painting (supplied, or generated and labelled) is the whole picture; the page
+  relights it. Macro: a window of work light with a 24 px feather walks the dim
+  panels once per loop. Mid: a scan band per panel at two passes per loop,
+  offset by the panel's position; one fast skewed glint across the title in
+  **overlay** blend (screen lit a visible box, colour-dodge turned a coloured
+  letter into a red block); a comet lapping the lead panel's frame. Beat: eyes
+  breathe twice and blink once, the core breathes once, the accent word flares
+  at `t = 0` and `t = 0.5`. A denser, brighter painting needs a deeper dim pool
+  and a lower `q` (the repository painting reached TARGET at dim 0.68, q 83,
+  edge q 97 over 18 frames).
+
+  **Choosing the lead.** Any panel can be the lead, so a shared line-up can feature each
+  product's own machine. Three things move together:
+  1. `PAINTING.lead` is the panel index (0 is the leftmost). The dim pool is clipped around that
+     panel, so a lead in the middle stays at source brightness while the light window still walks
+     every other panel as one continuous light. The comet laps the lead's frame and its scan band
+     stays at full strength.
+  2. `PAINTING.lamps` maps a panel index to the lamp anchors measured on that machine
+     (`{ x, y, rx, ry, eye }` in painting pixels; `eye: true` lamps breathe twice and blink,
+     `eye: false` is a core that breathes once). Only the lead's entry glows. A lead with no entry
+     stops the page with `PAINTING.lamps has no entry for the lead panel N` (the render ends as
+     `STAGE_CONTRACT_ERROR` after the 60 s ready wait), because borrowing another machine's
+     coordinates draws its eyes on the wrong body. Measure the anchors, or write `[]` for that
+     panel to run with no beat lights and say so in the treatment's beat layer.
+  3. The base art's `checkBox` in `assets.json` points at the lead panel. With the shipped layout
+     (painting scaled by `S = 600 / 1024` and pillarboxed 150 px from the left of a 1200 x 600
+     page) a panel `[x0, x1]` with `top` and `bottom` is
+     `[(150 + x0*S) / 1200, top*S / 600, (x1 - x0)*S / 1200, (bottom - top)*S / 600]`. A box left
+     on another panel measures a dimmed panel and the ART line fails.
+
+  The accent flare and the title glint belong to the painted motto and title, not to the lead, and
+  stay where they are. One more thing moves with the lead: the light window's right edge sits at
+  `x = POOL.from - 330 + (POOL.to - POOL.from + 660) * 0.18 + 254` at `t = 0`. When the lead panel
+  covers that `x`, the neighbours of the seam go quiet, the seam reads high against them and G4
+  misses TARGET (measured 2.48 against 2.0 with the lead on panel 1 of 7). Move the `0.18` in
+  `windowAt` until that edge crosses visible panels at the seam; 0.30 did it there.
+- **Weight tide (`weight-tide`).** Rows of the brand word in JetBrains Mono at
+  about 1.3:1 to the ground drift one word length per loop, alternate rows the
+  other way. Weight is `gain(swell(fract(t - offset)), 2.4)` with
+  `offset = 0.85 x/W + 0.35 y/H`; the hero word on a knockout band takes the
+  same field over 330-800 so it never thins. One accent: a cursor that dwells
+  under each letter, steps on with `outBack`, and runs home on the last stop.
+- **Orbit loop (`orbit-loop`).** Three rings at 3, 2 and 1 laps per loop,
+  alternating directions, dots with fading arc trails. A gate at twelve o'clock
+  flashes on each crossing; the crossing times, computed rather than detected,
+  light the cells of a ledger under the word, as many crossings as cells so the
+  ledger loops. The core breathes once and rings on four bars. The word is still.
+- **Own.** Any system that keeps the rules: one rule many copies, three layers,
+  a still word, edges instead of fades. Say which in `recipeReason`.
+
+`recipes/negatives/` holds four slide-like pages that must keep failing their
+declared FLOOR gates: a title slam with lines that appear and hold and an end card
+(G2, G3), card scenes that fade in, hold and fade out (G2), a still with a faint
+breathing glow (G2, G3), and a progress sweep that resets at the seam (G4). They
+are never recipes. Read them to see what cover mode exists to prevent, and never
+change a threshold so one of them passes.
+
+`npm run qa:cover-recipes` in a LitHermes checkout re-renders every recipe
+through this renderer and fails when median d or the moving share leaves
++-15 % of its row, seamLocal leaves TARGET or a file passes 2 MiB.
+
+Every negative and regression declares the gates it must fail (`mustFail`, as
+`G2.floor` or `G1.target`). `--negatives` runs them all, and one counts as
+caught only when its render completed and gated the decoded file, every
+declared gate failed at its tier, and no undeclared FLOOR gate among G1-G4
+failed. A crash (exit 14 included), a missing declaration, a stale page patch
+or a failure on another gate fails the QA with the reason.
+
+The painted recipe declares one regression, `feather-150` (`--feather 150` runs
+it alone): the light edge widened from 24 to 150 px. The defect it stands for
+is light drawn as a soft wash instead of a travelling edge, but at this
+recipe's encode (q83, edge q97 for 18 frames) the encoder keeps the soft edge
+and the motion numbers stay where the recipe's are. What it reliably trips is
+the 2 MiB size TARGET (G1), so `G1.target` is all it declares; seamLocal sits
+inside run-to-run noise around its TARGET, so G4 is not declared. A decoded-file
+edge measure (the share of each step's change carried by pixels that move at
+least 8 levels) was tried and dropped: it separated this painting at 24 and
+150 px but scored lowest on a cover whose window edge was sharp and whose scan
+bands were soft. It measures every soft change in the frame, not the travelling
+edge, and any threshold would be fitted to one painting. The soft wash is
+caught by look review on the sheet (question 6 under Review).
+
+## Loop kit (`/lit/loop-kit.js`)
+
+`LitLoop` holds `rng(seed)` (mulberry32, layout only); `makeNoise(seed)` and
+`loopNoise(noise, t, offset, radius)` (value noise walked on a circle, so it
+closes at `t = 1`); `ease.smooth`, `ease.outCubic`, `ease.inCubic`,
+`ease.outExpo`, `ease.outBack(p, s)`, `ease.gain(p, k)`; `cubicPulse(c, w, x)`
+and `expImpulse(x, k)`; `phase(t, offset, cycles)`; `cdist(p, c)` (distance
+around the loop, for an event that straddles `t = 0`); `window(p, start, dur)`
+(a one-shot event, -1 outside); `steps(p, stops, travel, ease)` (hold and move);
+`swell(p)` (a cosine swell that dwells at both ends); `TAU`, `clamp`, `fract`,
+`mix`. Every helper is pure or periodic in `t`.
+
+## Encode
+
+img2webp, lossy, loop forever, `-m 4`, every frame `-d` = round(1000 / fps) ms,
+frame 0 and the last `edgeFrames` frames at `edgeQ`, default keyframes. When
+img2webp or dwebp (the gate decodes with it) is missing, gifski is the fallback
+at quality 90. Neither present is exit 21 `BLOCKED_NO_COVER_ENCODER`, checked
+before any capture. A cover is never an MP4: README renderers do not autoplay
+video.
+
+## Gate (the decoded file)
+
+The gate decodes the encoded cover (each frame through dwebp, composited as a
+browser does) and measures on a fixed time grid of `max(50 ms, shortest frame)`,
+because the encoder merges identical frames into long ones and counting frames
+would flatter a slide film. `d` is the mean |dY| (luma 0..1, about 300 px wide)
+per grid step, and the loop is a ring, so the seam is one more step.
+
+| Gate | Metric | FLOOR (fail) | TARGET (cover mode) |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| G0 determinism | SHA-256 per frame, two captures in fresh browsers | 100 % identical | same |
+| G1 budget | bytes, duration, loop | <= 3 MiB, 6-12 s, loop 0 | <= 2 MiB |
+| G2 motion energy | median d; share of moving steps | >= 0.0004; >= 0.45 | >= 0.0015; >= 0.95 |
+| G3 anti-slide | longest still run; max d / median d | <= 2.0 s | <= 0.5 s, spike <= 6 |
+| G4 seam | seam / mean of the two steps on each side | <= 8 | 0.25-2.0 |
+| G5 title contrast | median title pixel vs 90th-percentile background in the box, every frame, through the mask | >= 4.5:1 | same |
+| G6 title size | cap height of the title glyphs in the mask at the README column width (830 px) | >= 24 px | same; a title painted into declared base art is INFO |
+| SEEK | 16 frames in a seeded shuffled order in a fresh page, against the master | identical, or within one level per channel (else exit 18 naming the frame and its time) | same |
+| ART | SSIM of the base art's check box in decoded frame 0 against the source | >= 0.90 | same |
+| FLASH | WCAG 2.3.1 flashes per second over the loop | <= 3 general, <= 3 red | same; a FAIL withholds the cover in `withheld/` |
+
+FLOOR was set so that eight earlier painted covers pass and four slide-like
+negatives fail. TARGET is what cover mode delivers; those earlier covers miss it
+on purpose (a 1.9 s hold, a flash at the seam). The cover render exits 13 until
+every gate reaches TARGET, the 2 MiB size included. G2 and G3 are area-weighted:
+a small comet on a still picture counts as still at thumbnail scale, which is
+intended. Never raise a number, shorten the loop or drop a layer to pass; fix
+the cause.
+
+G6 splits the white mask pixels in the title box into connected glyphs, drops
+dots and accents (under 1 % of the largest glyph's area or 30 % of the tallest),
+takes the median glyph height per sampled frame, and scales the smallest one
+from the cover width to 830 px. Contrast alone once passed an 11 px name plate.
+The seek-order check catches a page that keeps state between frames: the
+sequential captures agree with each other, a frame sought out of order does not.
+An element whose opacity and transform change together can rasterize one level
+apart depending on what was painted before it, so a sought frame within one
+level per channel of the master passes and is counted as `oneLevel`.
+
+## Review: the stills and the questions
+
+Every cover render writes, from the DECODED file, into `DIR/stills/` (listed in
+`stills/stills.json` like a film's set):
+
+- `sheet.png`: twelve frames at `t = k/12`, each labelled with its time in
+  seconds, above a plot of every grid step's `d`, the still threshold (red
+  dashes) and the median (green dots). A hold is a flat run on the dashes,
+  encoder pops are regular spikes, a reset is a spike at the right end.
+- `poster.png` (decoded frame 0) and `seam.png` (the last frame beside frame 0).
+- `frame-00.png` ... `frame-11.png`, the sheet's frames at full size.
+
+The gate cannot see damage. The pilot's two worst defects were found only by
+eye on the sheet: a colour-dodge glint that turned a letter into a red block,
+and a wing glow that read as a dark disc. View `sheet.png`, `poster.png` and
+`seam.png` with `vision_analyze`, one call per file (and any `frame-NN.png` you
+need closer). The plugin's tool hook records each call, and `complete` requires
+a receipt for each of the three. A second opinion can come from a fresh
+`delegate_task` subagent given only the sheet; record what it says as an aid.
+
+Answer all eight every round, each naming a frame of the stills set and what is
+visible there:
+
+1. Is something moving in every half-second window (the plot never lies flat on
+   the dashes)?
+2. Does the seam disappear in the decoded file (`seam.png`, the right end of the
+   plot)?
+3. Does it still move after encoding, with no region that freezes and then pops?
+4. Is the brand word present, legible and in place in every frame, never faded
+   or swapped?
+5. Are all three speed layers visible: a slow perpetual layer, a mid swell and
+   beat events?
+6. Does anything read as a slide, a card swap, a title fade or an end card, or
+   does light wash in place instead of travelling as an edge?
+7. Is any glyph, glint or glow damaged: a colour block, a dark disc, a visible
+   box?
+8. Name one thing a skilled motion designer would add or remove (`named`), or
+   `none`.
+
+A "no" on 1-5, a "yes" on 6 or 7, or a named 8 asks for another round. Record
+the round with `$M look --out DIR --round N --answers FILE`; the answers file has
+the film's shape (`viewed`, `answers` with `q`, `verdict`, `frame`, `observed`,
+`aids`), with no `by` or `stranger` on question 1, and round 1 names the
+`change` you make before round 2. A round with no image tool is recorded with
+`"blocked": "no-vision-tool"` and ends `DONE_UNVIEWED`.
+
+## Defects and window re-renders
+
+What the eye finds goes into the round as `defects`, at most three, worst first:
+
+```text
+"defects": [{ "t": 1.2, "region": [340, 10, 330, 50], "frame": "stills/frame-02.png",
+  "observed": "<what is visible there>", "cause": "<why>", "fix": "<the change>" }]
+```
+
+`t` is the loop time in seconds where the defect shows, `region` the
+`[x, y, w, h]` it covers in cover pixels, `frame` a file of the current stills
+set that shows it. `look` refuses a defect without a time, outside the loop, off
+the cover, on a frame outside the current set, or without a concrete cause and
+fix; a film round may not carry defects.
+
+Before the next full render, check each fix locally:
+`$M cover --out DIR --round N --window t0,t1` captures only the frames from
+`t0 - 0.5 s` to `t1 + 0.5 s` (wrapping at the seam) in a fresh page and writes
+`windows/round-N/<t0>-<t1>/sheet.png` (the span shaded on its plot) and
+`window.json`. It shows frames before encoding, writes nothing to `stills/`, the
+report or the manifest, and never counts as done: the full render and its gate
+decide.
+
+## Rounds and done
+
+Rounds share one counter with the renders, 1 to 3, and every round is a full
+cover render followed by a look. `$M complete --out DIR` exits 0 only when:
+
+- `treatment.json` is a valid cover treatment and has not changed since the
+  last render;
+- the last render exited 0 and its report reads `COVER gate --strict:
+  PASS+TARGET`;
+- at least two look rounds are recorded, round 1 naming its change;
+- the last round was recorded on the final render and viewed `stills/sheet.png`,
+  `stills/poster.png` and `stills/seam.png` (with `vision_analyze` receipts when
+  the tool hook is live);
+- the last round asks for no further round, or it is round 3 (then the open
+  items are stated plainly in the reply).
+
+`complete` prints one `label:` line per generated asset; the reply carries each.
+A window render never counts.
+
+## Reply
+
+Below the activation line, in plain words: what the loop does in one line; that
+it was checked (motion on the decoded file, the seam, flash safety, and that the
+frames were looked at, or that nobody could look at them); the file and its size;
+a label on every generated asset; where the page lives and the one command that
+re-renders it; any open look item.
+
+## Exit codes
+
+| Code | State | Fix |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| 13 | GATE_FAIL_QA | A gate misses TARGET or the flash audit failed; the report names the gates |
+| 14, 15 | not pre-warmed, font missing | `lithermes motion-runtime install` outside the session |
+| 16 | BLOCKED_TREATMENT_INVALID | Fix the named field of `treatment.json` or `assets.json` |
+| 17 | STAGE_CONTRACT_ERROR | The page, its static scan or the asset list (an unlisted raster, a changed hash) |
+| 18 | STAGE_NONDETERMINISTIC | A clock or entropy call, a frame that differs in a fresh browser, or a frame that differs when sought out of order |
+| 19 | STAGE_NETWORK_REQUEST | Remove the URL; everything is local |
+| 21 | BLOCKED_NO_COVER_ENCODER | Install libwebp (img2webp, dwebp) or gifski |
+| 22 | BLOCKED_ASSET_MISSING | Supply or generate the listed asset; never a stand-in |
+
+## Unconfirmed
+
+- Whether the single keyframe reset at the loop point is visible to a person on
+  a real README; the numbers say smooth, nobody has watched it there yet.
+- How a cover reads inside GitHub's README column at full width; review so far
+  used local frames.
+- The encoder threshold formula is libwebp's animation encoder as remembered;
+  the measured behaviour matches it (q72 drops slow fades, q86-90 drops fewer).
+- The thresholds come from 8 positives and 4 negatives in one family's style;
+  re-check them on covers made for other projects.

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 # Craft loop, look rounds and done
 
 Both paths share one loop: treatment, author, a stills round you look at, the
-film, a last look, then the done-check. A gate PASS alone is never done.
+film, a last look, then the done-check. A gate PASS alone is never done. A cover
+loop has its own eight questions, its own stills (the decoded sheet with its
+frame-difference plot, the poster and the seam pair), defects with a window
+re-render, and its own done; see `cover.md`.
 
 ## One loop