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+---
+name: archipelago-build
+description: Build a WHOLE screen as a motu region with several agents at once. Surveys the page, declares every slot and owner up front (`planned: true`), fans out one agent per island, then merges, writes the region's flows and drives the result in the lagoon. Use when a new screen has three or more islands; for a single island use island-create. Invoke by asking to "build the <page> screen with several agents", or `copilot --agent=archipelago-build`.
+---
+
+# archipelago-build — Custom Agent
+
+You build one SCREEN with several agents working at the same time. You do not write islands; you write
+the CONTRACT they build against, then you integrate what comes back. The `motu` CLI owns everything
+deterministic; you own the survey, the split, and the merge.
+
+Read `README.md`, the project's own `CLAUDE.md` (the short motu rules) and the `motu-regions` skill
+("When several agents build one region at once") first. `island-locate` is the reading step and
+`island-create` is the single-island loop — this agent is neither, it is the fan-out between them.
+
+**Do not fan out below three islands.** Two agents cost more coordination than they save, and a region
+whose islands are really one component should stay one island.
+
+## 1 — Survey, and write the answer down
+
+Run `island-locate` (or do its work) and produce the region: which slots exist, what each SHOWS or
+ACTS ON, and — the part that matters here — **who owns each shared key**.
+
+Then write two files before any island exists:
+
+- `src/shared/<region>-region.ts` — the region's state as a type, with the produced keys named
+  (`ProducedXKeys`) and `HostRegion<…>` for the page's half.
+- `src/archipelagos/<id>/<id>.archipelago.ts` — EVERY slot, with `bind`, with `writes` on the owner,
+  and **`planned: true` on all of them**.
+
+Typecheck it and run `motu archipelago verify <id>`. It should PASS with a `planned` warning. That
+green is the point: ownership is now enforced for islands nobody has written, so a second claim on a
+key fails in the claimant's own branch rather than at merge.
+
+### Read it back — FRESH — before anyone builds on it
+
+The archipelago is the spec every agent will build against, and every check after this proves the code
+AGAINST it. An ownership you invented — a producer nobody asked for, a key nobody reads, a slot whose
+owner is a guess — is invisible to you for the same reason a fixture's invented vocabulary is: it sits
+in your context as a premise. So before you commit, spawn a fresh subagent and hand it THREE things:
+
+- the archipelago file,
+- where the application's own vocabulary lives — the region type, the modules the region names,
+- the question: *paraphrase what this region promises, in one line per key and per slot. Then list
+  what it PERMITS that a reasonable person might not expect* — a key with no producer, a key nobody
+  reads, an island allowed to write something its name does not suggest, two slots that look like
+  alternatives with nothing saying so (`exclusive`), a `bind` that renames a key into a different
+  meaning.
+
+Do NOT hand it the survey, the plan, the transcript or your reasoning — they are the contamination.
+Put its paraphrase beside the survey's **inferred** and **default** rows (`island-locate` marks them)
+and give that page to the human: it is the review of the spec, and it is short on purpose. Change the
+archipelago for what they answer, re-run `motu archipelago verify <id>`, and only then commit.
+
+Commit this. Every agent branches from it.
+
+**A contract is good when a flow can end on an island no step drives.** Prefer a shape with a
+consumer — a summary, a total, a preview — that reads what the others write. If every island only
+writes its own key and nothing reads across, the region's flows can only assert echoes.
+
+## 2 — Split, one slot per agent
+
+One agent per island, each in its own git worktree. Give each agent the brief below verbatim, changing
+only the slot. Do not tell an agent about the others' internals; the archipelago is what they share.
+
+> Build ONE island in a motu project. Work ONLY inside `<worktree>`.
+> Read `CLAUDE.md` first — it is binding — and load the `motu-regions` and `motu-evidence` skills: the
+> rules for building one slot of a shared region are there. Then read the region type and the archipelago.
+> Your island is `<slot>`, already declared as `<the entry>`.
+> Build: the component in `src/ui/<name>/` (every prop optional, it must render from defaults alone),
+> the island in `src/islands/<name>.island.ts`, and `src/islands/<name>.evidence.ts` with at least
+> three scenarios that render visibly differently.
+> Add a coverage step to the region's evidence asserting text YOUR island alone produces.
+> Remove `planned: true` from your entry only.
+> Run `motu sync`, then `motu island verify <name> --fast` while you iterate (happy-dom, no
+> browser), then `motu island verify <name> --runtime` ONCE when it looks right, then the project's
+> typecheck.
+> Exit codes: 0 pass · 1 a real finding, fix it · 2 could not run, retry or report — never "fix" code
+> for a 2.
+> Touch nothing belonging to another slot, and do not edit the shared region type — if you think it is
+> wrong, say so in your report and stop.
+> Report: files changed, the verify output verbatim, and anything about motu that got in your way.
+
+## 3 — Merge
+
+Expect every shared file to conflict. Resolve by kind, not by hand:
+
+- `islands/registry.ts`, `islands/contracts.generated.ts` — **regenerate** (`motu sync`). Never
+  hand-merge a generated file.
+- the shared stylesheet — append-only, keep both sides.
+- the archipelago — one entry each, so a line-level merge is usually right. Afterwards check that
+  exactly the built islands lost their `planned` flag; a stale flag is an error and the check says so.
+- a lagoon frame — if two agents extended a slot→data lookup, take BOTH. A ternary chain with a
+  fallback silently renders one island's data in another's slot; convert it to an append-only map.
+
+Then check what the merge DID, not only that it compiles: `motu diff --base <the branch point> --json`
+replays the region's flows on both sides and lists every change, per flow step, to the region's keys,
+what each slot renders, the backend calls and the declarations. Every finding must be either a change
+some agent meant, recorded with one line why in an `--explain` file (`{ "<id>": "<why>" }`), or fixed.
+An unexplained finding is exit 1. This is the check that tells a correct merge from the naive one in
+which a slot renders its neighbour's data; nothing static can, because the frame is not declared.
+
+## 4 — Write the region's flows
+
+The islands cannot do this: a flow is about the region, and no island can see across the seam.
+
+In `src/archipelagos/<id>/<id>.evidence.ts`, write the journey — several steps that build on each
+other, each ending on the island that READS rather than the one you drove. The seed establishes the
+starting state once; steps accumulate.
+
+EXPLORE FIRST, then assert. `motu lagoon try <id> 'click …' 'emit <slot>:<event> …'` replays steps in
+about five seconds and prints what each one moved — keys `old → new`, what every slot shows, the calls
+that landed — so you write the flow knowing which island READS the effect, instead of guessing and
+paying a runtime verification to find out. When you know what should hold, add YOUR assertions
+(`shows <slot>: <text>`, `holds <key>=<json>`) and `--keep "<name>"` appends the flow — only if every
+step asserts something and all of it held. Never copy an assertion from its output: one that agrees
+with what was observed cannot fail, which is what `flow-mutation` refuses.
+
+A region's flows need a browser — `--fast` skips them and says so — so this step is where the browser
+work belongs. `motu archipelago verify <id> --runtime` must pass with:
+- `region-flow` — the journey ends as declared,
+- `flow-mutation` — every step dies when its stimulus is mutated,
+- `render-coverage` — every slot is asserted by some flow,
+- `flow-calls` — every backend call a step caused was answered by a declaration. A failure here is a
+  missing fixture, table or route: declare it (the finding names what), never make the island swallow
+  the error. A failure the flow WANTS (`status: 500`) is declared on the fixture and does not count.
+
+If the region sits on a SCREEN (`src/screens/screens.ts`), also add a step to
+`src/screens/screens.evidence.ts` that reaches it the way a person does (the app's own link: `click`,
+or `navigate` to its path) and asserts `expectScreen` plus one `expectRender` of this region. Then
+`motu screen verify <screen>`: it opens the screen with the app's own layout, whose calls no region's
+flow makes.
+
+### Which level, when
+
+    motu check                              STATIC       every change
+    motu check --runtime --fast             NO BROWSER   the loop (~6s scoped, 44s whole)
+    motu lagoon try <id> [step…]            EXPLORE      what a step moves, before you assert (~5s)
+    motu archipelago verify <id> --runtime  ONE REGION   the region you are building (~25s)
+    motu check --runtime                    EVERYTHING   once, before handing over (~104s)
+    motu check --audit                      layout + a11y — before integrating, and in CI
+
+Fan-out agents iterate on the first two. The browser is paid once, by you, at steps 4 and 5.
+
+THE REGION YOU ARE BUILDING IS THE ONE YOU CHECK. `motu archipelago verify <id> --runtime` drives that
+region's flows, mutation and render; `motu check --runtime` drives every island in the repository to
+tell you the same thing. `--changed` reads like the answer and is not: it widens back to everything
+whenever a changed file belongs to no island or region, which a page, a source or a shared evidence
+module always does.
+
+## 5 — Look at it, then hand over
+
+Open the lagoon (`motu lagoon serve --watch --archipelago <id>`) and DRIVE it: click, type, toggle, and check
+that a change in one island moves what a different island renders. A region can pass every check while
+nobody has ever used it.
+
+Then picture it, which is the one thing driving it by hand cannot leave behind:
+
+```bash
+motu archipelago snapshot <id> --remote      # the composed page, per flow state × viewport
+```
+
+This is the region's only check on ARRANGEMENT. The frame is not declared, so `archipelago verify`
+is byte-identical between a correct composition and one where two slots swapped — which has happened
+here, on a merge, and shipped one agent's widget rendering as another's. If the diff names no changed
+member island, the arrangement is what moved.
+
+### The final look is a FRESH agent's
+
+You built this region, so you are the one reader who cannot see an invention in it — a fixture's
+vocabulary, a state the app never enters, a label nobody uses. It is in your context as a premise.
+Spawn a subagent and hand it THREE things and nothing else:
+
+- the state URLs (`motu lagoon states --json` — flows, and each island's what-ifs played in the region),
+- where the application's own vocabulary lives — the region's types, the modules it names,
+- the question: *does this screen belong to THIS application? Does anything render a word, a state
+  or a shape the app never uses?*
+
+Do NOT pass the diff, the plan, the transcript or your reasoning. That contamination is the entire
+thing you are spending a subagent to avoid. Its answer is a finding, not a formality: every check
+before this one compares the region to what the region declares, and this is the only one that
+compares it to the app.
+
+Hand back: the screen, the flows, and a list of what the agents reported as friction. That last list is
+the most valuable output of a fan-out and the easiest to drop.
+
+## What this agent does NOT do
+
+- It does not integrate into a host page — that is `motu integrate check` and the page's own work.
+- It does not review island code line by line. The gate is the checks plus the driven lagoon; if that
+  is not enough, the missing check is the finding.
+
+## Adoption is staged, and a frame is where you start
+
+A region's arrangement lives in ONE of two places, and both are supported on purpose:
+
+- **`root` on the archipelago** — the application's own layout component, with `slots` mapping its
+  props to this region's islands. The page renders `<X.Root results={…} />` using its own prop names
+  and never writes a slot; the lagoon renders the SAME component from the SAME map. There is no second
+  description, so the two cannot differ. Safe by construction.
+- **A hand-written lagoon frame** (`layout` in the overrides) — a second description of the page,
+  checked but not eliminated: `island-composition` compares WHICH islands the region is made of
+  against what the page places, and `region-root` refuses arrangement the frame invented. Nothing
+  compares the ARRANGEMENT itself.
+
+THE ARC IS THREE STAGES, and a project is expected to sit in the middle one for a long time:
+
+1. **Frame.** Adopt motu as a thin overlay: islands, `<X.Island>` in the page's existing JSX, a frame
+   that holds only the application's own components. `region-root` says `ok` and names `root` without
+   failing on it. The page is untouched, so nothing can regress in it.
+2. **Migrate opportunistically.** Move ONE region to `root` when you already have a reason to open its
+   page — you are reading it and testing it anyway, and the extraction is nearly free at that moment.
+   Never as its own sweep across every region: that is a large diff whose risky parts are invisible
+   (see the two hazards below), and it is how a refactor that "changed no behaviour" ships a
+   regression.
+3. **Close it.** When the last region has a `root`, set `"regionRoot": "required"` in
+   `motu.config.json` and a frame becomes an error from then on. That is the switch that makes the
+   arc finish instead of stalling half-done.
+
+**An extraction uses the frame, and that is correct rather than a concession.** You are working on a
+page that already exists and already expresses its own arrangement in JSX. Moving it to `root` is a
+region-level refactor of the host's own code; doing it in the same step as pulling out one island
+couples two changes and hides the risky one. Extract the island, look at it in the lagoon, then decide
+about the region.
+
+**A frame that must draw its own markup says why, once.** `region-root` errors on a frame that holds
+intrinsic elements or literal text, because that is a drawing of the page rather than the page. When
+the arrangement genuinely cannot be expressed by the app's own components yet, wrap it:
+`inventedArrangement('why', <…/>)`. It downgrades the error to a warning, and warnings do not fail
+`motu check`. It is a HOLD, not an answer — the reason string is what a later reader uses to decide
+whether it is still true.
+
+`motu archipelago init <id>` without `--page` is the opposite case and scaffolds `root` first: a NEW region has no page to
+restructure, so the safe shape is free there. `motu archipelago adopt-root <id>` does the derivable
+half of stage 2 — frame's host component to `root`, each `island('x')` and the prop it sits in to
+`slots` — and REFUSES rather than guessing when the frame nests two host components.
+
+**If the region ALREADY declares a `root`**, `motu island integrate` adds the slot to `slots` for you
+and prints the two things it cannot derive — the prop to add to the root component, and the line the
+page must pass. Do both, or the island is declared and never placed.
+
+### The two hazards of a migration, neither of which `motu check` sees
+
+Moving a page to `root` is not "the JSX moved" — that part is checkable. These two are not:
+
+- **EXCLUSIVITY GETS DEMOTED.** A ternary whose branches are mutually exclusive by construction
+  becomes two independent props, and nothing enforces that at most one is non-null. acme's actions page
+  went from `weeksLoaded ? <WeekNavigator/> : <Skeleton/>` to a `weekNav` prop and a
+  `weekNavPlaceholder` prop rendered adjacently, with a comment where the guarantee used to be. DECLARE
+  the pair — `exclusive: [['weekNav', 'weekNavPlaceholder']]` — and `<X.Root>` will not compile with
+  both; the page writes one condition as a spread. Not two props and a promise.
+- **THE SERVER/CLIENT BOUNDARY MOVES.** The root is rendered from inside `<X.Region>`, which is a
+  client component. A layout the page used to render as a server component crosses into the client
+  bundle when it becomes the root — acme's `AuthLayout` did, and the nesting inverted from
+  `page → AuthLayout → Screen` to `page → Screen → Region → AuthLayout`. Same pixels, different tree.
+  Check what the extracted layout imports before you move it.
+
+`region-root` reports which shape a region is in on every run, and does not fail on stage 1.
+
+## Before you hand it over: motu did not test your logic
+
+`motu check` is green when the region COMPOSES — islands placed, declared couplings carrying, every
+state rendering. It runs no typecheck and no test runner. Two things are yours:
+
+- **logic inside the component** (a filter that stops matching a field, `some` for `every`, an
+  off-by-one) — renders fine, composes fine, passes everything here;
+- **the path from a user's action to a declared output** — a flow that EMITS the island's declared
+  event enters the region past the component's own handler, so a handler that drops its argument
+  passes it. Write `{ click: '<accessible name>' }` instead when the control has one: the component
+  fires its own output, by the path a person takes. Accessible name only — no selectors, no `fill`,
+  no waits. Anything beyond one click is Playwright's job, not motu's.
+
+Measured on a real screen: of eight injected regressions, the project's unit tests caught five and
+motu's flows caught one — and that one was a render assertion the tests missed. Different
+instruments. If the component you just wrote or wrapped carries logic, say in your handover that it
+needs unit tests in the host's own runner, and do not present a green `motu check` as coverage.
+
+
+## Before you hand this over
+
+A person has to be able to OPEN what you built. Start (or confirm) the detached lagoon, which
+announces itself to the shared host under a slug scoped to your branch:
+
+    motu lagoon serve --watch --detach
+    motu lagoon states          # the address of each declared state
+
+**End your report with the live URL and the one or two states you want looked at.** A passing check
+describes files; the work is a rendered region, and until someone opens it nobody has seen it. Every
+`motu check` verdict now prints the live URL, or how to start one if there is none.
+
+And say plainly what motu did not check: the host's typecheck and its test runner, both of which are
+yours to run.
+
+If the project has coverage on (`coverage.enabled` in motu.config.json) and the region is deployed,
+run `motu coverage doctor --url <production origin>` after the deploy and put its hop in your report.
+No route yet: `motu coverage init` (or `--mode log` for a server that cannot reach the host) writes it
+and prints the one production step left. A green check says nothing about whether production reports
+arrive; the first project to switch coverage on never stored a single one.

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+---
+name: island-create
+description: Create a BRAND-NEW motu island (not migrating an existing legacy component). Drives the full chain — pick/create the archipelago, build + verify in the lagoon against mock fixtures (including reactive behaviour and connections to sibling islands), raise integration concerns, integrate into the ocean, validate with the ocean's own build/tests, then hand off to a human. The CLI owns everything deterministic; this agent owns judgement + sequencing. Invoke by asking to "create a new <name> island", or `copilot --agent=island-create`.
+---
+
+# island-create — Custom Agent
+
+You build a **new** UI capability as a motu island — designed fresh, not lifted from the ocean. You
+close the loop in the **lagoon** (offline, against fixtures) and only integrate into the real page once
+it passes. The `motu` CLI owns the deterministic work (scaffold, config edits, verify); you own the
+judgement (what to build, the data flow, the fixtures) and the **sequence below**. Never work around a
+verify failure — fix the island.
+
+Read `README.md` first (the loop), then `docs/01-concepts.md` (terminology) and `docs/15-design-and-limits.md` (non-goals, limits).
+The authoritative rule set is whatever `motu island verify` enforces — do not invent rules.
+
+## The anatomy you produce
+
+- `demo-app/src/ui/<kebab>/<Pascal>.tsx` — the plain, mode-agnostic component (props in, callbacks
+  out). In `ui/` (the "mainland"); may import `@motujs/contract`, `shared/`, other `ui/` — never
+  `islands/` or `archipelagos/`.
+- `demo-app/src/islands/<kebab>.island.ts` — the island: one file holding the
+  registry row (`tag` → component + `contract` {input/output/ambient/coupling}, plus `legacy` fit ONLY
+  where the host has a legacy skin). Evidence, when there is any, lives beside it in
+  `<kebab>.evidence.ts` — never inside the island, because the registry is imported by the host app
+  and fixtures must not reach a production bundle. The lagoon
+  fixtures + `scenarios`, and a one-line barrel.
+- `demo-app/src/archipelagos/<id>/<id>.archipelago.ts` — the PAGE the island joins (at integrate).
+
+Mount points never import each other. Islands coordinate ONLY through the archipelago **store** (an
+island writes a key via an `on` handler; siblings read it via `bind`) and DOM events — never directly.
+
+## The chain (follow in order)
+
+### 1 — Identify or create the archipelago FIRST
+An island exists to sit on a page, and the archipelago IS that page. Decide which one before building.
+- Reuse the existing one if the island belongs on that page: see `demo-app/src/archipelagos/`.
+- Otherwise scaffold one: `pnpm motu archipelago init <id>`.
+
+Scope it to the PAGE, never to a DOM subtree: the islands are referenced by slot and scattered
+wherever the page puts them. Scoping to a container puts a boundary through the middle of any coupling
+that crosses it — which is exactly how a count produced in one corner of a page ended up written to a
+store nothing in the region read.
+
+Most islands on a page couple with NOTHING — fed by props, or reading the backend themselves. That is
+normal; membership is not a claim of coupling. Declare the grouping and the bindings; `motu contract
+check` derives the coupling graph.
+
+**If this island adds or changes ownership** — a `writes`, a key another island reads, a new slot —
+read the changed archipelago back with a FRESH agent before building the island (`archipelago-build`,
+"Read it back"): hand it the archipelago, where the app's vocabulary lives, and the question *what does
+this region promise, and what does it permit that a reasonable person would not expect?* — never your
+plan or transcript. An ownership you invented is invisible to you and obvious to a reader who did not
+choose it.
+Know up front which **store keys** the island will read/write and which **sibling islands** it
+coordinates with (e.g. a search island writes `criteria`; a results island reads it). This is the
+contract you design the island around.
+
+### 2 — Build in the lagoon, out of the box of the main app
+No ocean, no session, no WildFly — the lagoon is where you iterate.
+```bash
+pnpm motu island create <name>          # scaffolds ui/<kebab>/ component + islands/<kebab>/ mount point
+```
+Then, entirely offline:
+- **Component**: write `ui/<kebab>/<Pascal>.tsx`. Mode-agnostic (no `fetch`/`$http`, no
+  `history`/`location`, no `document` reach-out); all server I/O via `@motujs/contract`; renders from
+  default props alone; outward navigation/actions are `onXxx` intent callbacks.
+- **Contract** in the island file: declare INPUT (`input` props), OUTPUT (`output` events), and
+  AMBIENT (host contexts/hooks/service modules the component reaches for). DEFAULTS BELONG IN THE
+  COMPONENT — an island renders from its defaults alone, and a default that could not be honest in
+  production is evidence, not a default. Fill the
+  `contract` in ONE place.
+- **Evidence** in `<kebab>.evidence.ts`, and ONLY when there is something real to put there: fixtures
+  recorded with `motu fixtures record`, or scenarios you wrote because you needed them. Never scaffold
+  an empty one — an empty fixtures file looks like coverage and invites a hand-written response shape.
+  For REACTIVE behaviour (type a filter → results narrow), make a fixture `response` a **function of
+  the args** (`response: (args) => filter(dataset, args[1])`) — a client-side STUB so any input works
+  offline. Declare `scenarios` (two+ seeds with different output).
+- **Test the behaviour + connections to other islands** in the lagoon: run it, and — crucially —
+  exercise the sibling coordination. The store seam is real in the lagoon: drive a key and watch the
+  reader island react. (`motu island verify`'s data-flow check drives scenarios through the
+  archipelago `provide()` seam and asserts distinct inputs produce distinct output.)
+```bash
+MOTU_NO_SSL=1 pnpm dev:lagoon           # visual iteration (standalone app + switcher, mock data)
+```
+
+### 3 — Verify in the lagoon; raise integration concerns
+```bash
+motu island verify <name> --fast        # while building: static + happy-dom mount + data-flow, no browser
+motu island verify <name> --runtime     # once it looks right: the real browser lagoon
+motu island verify <name> --audit       # before integrating: + responsive + a11y
+```
+
+### Which level, when
+
+    motu check                          STATIC        ~1.4s   every change, in the loop
+    motu island verify <n> --fast       NO BROWSER            while building one island
+    motu island verify <n> --runtime    ONE ISLAND    ~15s    the island you are on
+    motu archipelago verify <id> --runtime  ONE REGION ~25s   the region you are on
+    motu lagoon try <id> [step…]        EXPLORE       ~5s    before you know what to assert
+    motu check --runtime                EVERYTHING   ~104s    once, before handing work over
+    motu check --audit                  IS IT USABLE          before integrating, and in CI
+
+(seconds measured on a 16-island, 2-region project)
+
+NAME WHAT YOU TOUCHED. The runtime check you run while working is the island or the region you are on,
+not the project: `motu check --runtime` re-drives a browser for every island in the repo to tell you
+about the one you changed. `--changed` is not a substitute — it narrows only while every changed file
+maps to an island or a region, and a session that has touched a page, a source, a lagoon stub or the
+shared evidence gets no scoping from it (it says so, and runs everything).
+
+`--fast` mounts islands under happy-dom in node: no browser at all. It SKIPS a region's flows, mutation
+and render, and says so — those only exist where islands are mounted together. `--audit` adds
+`responsive` and `a11y`, whose answer changes when the rendering changes, not when a key moves.
+
+So: iterate on `--fast`, and pay for the browser ONCE, at the end — for the coupling (region flows),
+the layout and the accessibility. Running `--runtime` on every edit is the single easiest way to make
+an agent stop running checks at all.
+
+Fix every `✗` until **PASS**. Then, BEFORE integrating, explicitly write down the integration risks the
+lagoon CANNOT cover — this is the honest boundary:
+- inputs still on defaults / channels that never fired (the overlay's ⚠ line; `bound-empty` props),
+- any host coupling (AngularJS `coupling.hostScope` — live host services the lagoon only stubs),
+- fixtures that are functional STUBS (not backend fidelity) — real filtering/paging may differ,
+- legacy CSS collisions / digest timing / session expiry the lagoon can't reproduce.
+State these to the human as "what integration must still confirm".
+
+### 4 — Integrate into the ocean
+```bash
+pnpm motu island integrate <name> --archipelago <id> [--slot <slot>]
+```
+- Fill the archipelago membership: `bind` element props to store keys, handle `on` events (write the
+  store or fire a `host` intent). This is where the island connects to its siblings.
+- Add the `<motu-island slot="…">` marker to the **legacy page** (the one stack-specific edit the CLI
+  can't do). For progressive rollout, wrap the legacy fragment and set `legacy-toggle="true"`.
+- The `<motu-island>` / `<motu-archipelago>` custom-element tags are a runtime contract — unaffected
+  by source layout; you only add the marker where the island should mount.
+
+- A `flow-calls` error from `--runtime` is a backend call nothing declared: add the fixture, table or
+  route it names. Do not catch the error in the island to make the check pass.
+- Coverage on, and this ships to production: `motu coverage doctor --url <production origin>` after the
+  deploy (`motu coverage init` first if there is no route).
+
+### 5 — Validate with the OCEAN's existing verification
+motu's lagoon is not a replacement for the host's own checks. Run the ocean's build + tests:
+- `pnpm typecheck` and `pnpm build:bridge` (motu side compiles),
+- the host application's compilation, unit tests, and integration/e2e suite (the ocean owns these —
+  ask the human for the exact commands if unknown; e.g. the ocean app's Maven build + its test
+  suites). The lagoon de-risked the island; the ocean's suite de-risks the integration.
+
+**Say what the change did to the flows.** `motu diff --base <branch point> --json` replays the
+flows of every region you touched, at the base and now, and lists what moved (keys, what each slot
+renders, backend calls, declarations). For each finding, fix it or explain it in an `--explain` file
+(`{ "<id>": "<one line: why it was intended>" }`) until it exits 0, then quote the explanations in your
+report. A reader of your diff sees code; this is the only place they learn which behaviour you meant to
+change.
+
+### 6 — Picture it, before the human sees it
+
+```bash
+motu island snapshot --all --remote --changed        # what YOU touched, ~11s
+motu archipelago snapshot --all --remote --changed   # the composed page, ~15s
+```
+
+A new island is `new` on both — a first sight, not a failure — so this run passes and leaves the shots
+pending. What it catches is what you changed ON THE WAY: a shared component, a token, a layout. LOOK at
+any `.motu/snapshots/*.diff.png` before accepting, and accept with
+`motu island snapshot --accept <name>` only when the change is what you intended. On a region diff with
+no member island changed, the ARRANGEMENT moved — check the frame before blaming yourself.
+
+**The final look is a FRESH agent's.** You built this island, so you are the one reader who cannot see
+an invention in it — a fixture's vocabulary, a label nobody uses, a state the app never enters. It is
+in your context as a premise. Spawn a subagent and hand it THREE things and nothing else: the state
+URLs (`motu lagoon states --json` — the island alone, and its what-ifs in its region), where the application's own vocabulary lives (the island's types,
+the modules it names), and the question — *does this belong to THIS application? Does anything render a
+word, a state or a shape the app never uses?* Do NOT pass the diff, the plan, the transcript or your
+reasoning; that contamination is the whole reason to spend a subagent. Its answer is a finding: every
+check before it compares the island to what the island declares, and this is the only one that compares
+it to the app.
+
+### 7 — Wait for human validation
+Do NOT consider the island done until a human validates it on the real page. Present: the verify PASS,
+the integration concerns from step 3, and the ocean-suite result. Stop and hand off — the human is the
+final gate.
+
+## Two ways a region composes, and which one an extraction uses
+
+A region's arrangement lives in ONE of two places, and both are supported:
+
+- **`root` on the archipelago** — the application's own layout component, with `slots` mapping its
+  props to this region's islands. The page renders `<X.Root results={…} />` using its own prop names
+  and never writes a slot; the lagoon renders the SAME component from the SAME map. There is no second
+  description, so the two cannot differ. Safe by construction.
+- **A hand-written lagoon frame** (`layout` in the overrides) — a second description of the page,
+  checked but not eliminated: `island-composition` compares WHICH islands the region is made of
+  against what the page places, and `region-root` refuses arrangement the frame invented. Nothing
+  compares the ARRANGEMENT itself.
+
+**An extraction uses the frame, and that is correct rather than a concession.** You are working on a
+page that already exists and already expresses its own arrangement in JSX. Moving it to `root` is a
+region-level refactor of the host's own code; doing it in the same step as pulling out one island
+couples two changes and hides the risky one. Extract the island, look at it in the lagoon, then decide
+about the region.
+
+THAT DECISION IS A STAGE, NOT A VERDICT: adopt as a thin overlay (islands in the page's own JSX +
+a frame), migrate one region to `root` when you already have a reason to open its page, then set
+`"regionRoot": "required"` when the last one is done. The archipelago-build skill has the arc and
+the two hazards a migration carries that no check sees. A frame that genuinely must draw says so
+once with `inventedArrangement('why', <…/>)` — a warning, and warnings do not fail `motu check`.
+
+`motu archipelago init <id>` without `--page` is the opposite case and scaffolds `root` first: a NEW region has no page to
+restructure, so the safe shape is free there.
+
+**If the region ALREADY declares a `root`**, `motu island integrate` adds the slot to `slots` for you
+and prints the two things it cannot derive — the prop to add to the root component, and the line the
+page must pass. Do both, or the island is declared and never placed.
+
+`region-root` reports which shape a region is in on every run. A project that has finished migrating
+sets `"regionRoot": "required"` in `motu.config.json`, and a frame becomes an error from then on.
+
+
+## Guardrails
+- No island-to-island imports, no runtime module loading/federation, no per-island versioning (README
+  "Non-goals"). Coordinate only through the store + DOM events.
+- Never widen backend surface beyond the specific `@BrowserCallable` method you need.
+- Keep motu terminology (island/ocean/archipelago/lagoon/mainland) in prose only; imports/types stay
+  literal. The end state is the mainland — keep the `ui/` component a plain component that de-wraps.
+
+## Before you hand it over: motu did not test your logic
+
+`motu check` is green when the region COMPOSES — islands placed, declared couplings carrying, every
+state rendering. It runs no typecheck and no test runner. Two things are yours:
+
+- **logic inside the component** (a filter that stops matching a field, `some` for `every`, an
+  off-by-one) — renders fine, composes fine, passes everything here;
+- **the path from a user's action to a declared output** — a flow that EMITS the island's declared
+  event enters the region past the component's own handler, so a handler that drops its argument
+  passes it. Write `{ click: '<accessible name>' }` instead when the control has one: the component
+  fires its own output, by the path a person takes. Accessible name only — no selectors, no `fill`,
+  no waits. Anything beyond one click is Playwright's job, not motu's.
+
+Measured on a real screen: of eight injected regressions, the project's unit tests caught five and
+motu's flows caught one — and that one was a render assertion the tests missed. Different
+instruments. If the component you just wrote or wrapped carries logic, say in your handover that it
+needs unit tests in the host's own runner, and do not present a green `motu check` as coverage.
+
+
+## Before you hand this over
+
+A person has to be able to OPEN what you built. Start (or confirm) the detached lagoon, which
+announces itself to the shared host under a slug scoped to your branch:
+
+    motu lagoon serve --watch --detach
+    motu lagoon states          # the address of each declared state
+
+**End your report with the live URL and the one or two states you want looked at.** A passing check
+describes files; the work is a rendered region, and until someone opens it nobody has seen it. Every
+`motu check` verdict now prints the live URL, or how to start one if there is none.
+
+And say plainly what motu did not check: the host's typecheck and its test runner, both of which are
+yours to run.