@tritard/waterbrother 0.8.19 → 0.8.20

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@tritard/waterbrother",
-  "version": "0.8.19",
+  "version": "0.8.20",
   "description": "Waterbrother: Grok-powered coding CLI with local tools, sessions, operator modes, and approval controls",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/src/agent.js

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ When you use tools:
   - avoid invented publication brands, named authors, issue numbers, staff credits, or editorial worldbuilding unless the user explicitly asked for fictional framing
   - avoid browser-default Georgia/Times plus system-sans typography as a final design answer
   - avoid fake keyboard shortcuts, fake command palettes, and demo-only interaction chrome
+  - avoid generic reflective-editorial copy about slowness, attention, or the examined life unless the user explicitly asked for that voice
+  - prefer fewer sections and at least one asymmetrical or compositionally distinctive move over a fully balanced template layout
   - prefer fewer stronger sections over a busy page with fake search, fake filters, or filler widgets
 - After making code or file edits:
   - lead with the file path or paths you changed

package/src/frontend.js

@@ -76,60 +76,66 @@ const ARCHETYPE_RULES = {
     "Use restrained editorial hierarchy with fewer, larger blocks of content.",
     "Favor margins, type rhythm, and restraint over decorative UI.",
     "Keep the palette quiet and avoid loud CTA-heavy marketing patterns.",
-    "Choose a deliberate type direction; do not fall back to Georgia plus a generic system sans as the final answer."
+    "Choose a deliberate type direction; do not fall back to Georgia plus a generic system sans as the final answer.",
+    "Target type palette: literary serif with a plain neo-grotesk sans, high text contrast, and quieter metadata."
   ],
   "luxury-magazine": [
     "Use strong type contrast and asymmetry, but avoid fake prestige or fashion cliché overload.",
     "Make one or two sections do the visual heavy lifting instead of many repetitive cards.",
     "Let spacing and composition carry the premium feel more than gradients or gimmicks.",
-    "Use a sharper typographic voice than default browser serif/sans stacks."
+    "Use a sharper typographic voice than default browser serif/sans stacks.",
+    "Target type palette: high-drama display serif with a compressed or restrained sans; the serif should feel chosen, not default."
   ],
   "founder-journal": [
     "Keep the voice direct and personal rather than generic lifestyle-editorial.",
     "Use sparse structure and strong notebook-like pacing.",
     "Avoid fake magazine tropes and unnecessary promotional UI.",
-    "Avoid invented issue metadata, fake staff credits, and fake publication mastheads."
+    "Avoid invented issue metadata, fake staff credits, and fake publication mastheads.",
+    "Target type palette: notebook-like serif or humanist sans with compact utility text, not glossy magazine typography."
   ],
   "brutalist-culture": [
     "Prioritize bold hierarchy, high contrast, and deliberate rawness.",
     "Use fewer colors and stronger typographic tension.",
     "Avoid soft premium-blog aesthetics.",
-    "Prefer assertive type treatment over polite editorial defaults."
+    "Prefer assertive type treatment over polite editorial defaults.",
+    "Target type palette: aggressive grotesk or condensed display with a deliberately plain supporting text face."
   ],
   "high-contrast-tech": [
     "Use a colder palette, harder edges, and precise spacing.",
     "Prefer technical clarity over lifestyle editorial softness.",
     "Avoid generic startup landing-page sections unless they are explicitly requested.",
-    "Do not add fake command-palette or keyboard-shortcut gimmicks unless the interface truly needs them."
+    "Do not add fake command-palette or keyboard-shortcut gimmicks unless the interface truly needs them.",
+    "Target type palette: sharp grotesk or mono-accent system with disciplined scale and hard contrast."
   ],
   "quiet-portfolio": [
     "Let work and case-study structure carry the page, not decorative chrome.",
     "Use calm spacing and image framing with minimal interface noise.",
     "Avoid blog-style editorial filler.",
-    "Use a real typographic system, not a browser-default fallback pair."
+    "Use a real typographic system, not a browser-default fallback pair.",
+    "Target type palette: understated serif or neutral sans with small, quiet metadata and restrained headings."
   ]
 };
 
 const LAYOUT_STARTERS = {
   "blog:editorial-minimal": [
     "Preferred layout starter: masthead + cover essay + compact archive list + quiet closing note.",
-    "Avoid the default stack of sticky nav + centered hero + card grid + newsletter + footer."
+    "Avoid the default stack of sticky nav + centered hero + card grid + newsletter + footer. Cut to three or four blocks max."
   ],
   "blog:luxury-magazine": [
     "Preferred layout starter: issue masthead + asymmetrical lead story + offset secondary columns + sparse archive rail.",
-    "Use asymmetry and composition, not a generic centered hero with repeated cards."
+    "Use asymmetry and composition, not a generic centered hero with repeated cards. One offset composition should carry the whole page."
   ],
   "blog:founder-journal": [
     "Preferred layout starter: notebook-style header + one lead entry + dated index + short personal note.",
-    "Do not invent a fake magazine publication identity."
+    "Do not invent a fake magazine publication identity. Keep the page sparse and personal, with no decorative extra sections."
   ],
   "blog:brutalist-culture": [
     "Preferred layout starter: poster-like masthead + stacked feature blocks + dense archive strip.",
-    "Prefer raw hierarchy over polished editorial sameness."
+    "Prefer raw hierarchy over polished editorial sameness. Reduce section count and let the type do the work."
   ],
   "blog:high-contrast-tech": [
     "Preferred layout starter: hard-edged masthead + featured build note + change log rail + compact archive.",
-    "Do not drift into soft literary-journal aesthetics."
+    "Do not drift into soft literary-journal aesthetics. Keep the page lean and asymmetrical."
   ],
   "portfolio:quiet-portfolio": [
     "Preferred layout starter: nameplate + featured case study + selected work list + short bio/footer.",
@@ -159,6 +165,7 @@ const SLOP_PATTERNS = [
   { key: "newsletter_cliche", label: "generic newsletter promise copy", pattern: /\b(?:no spam, ever|respect your inbox|join the newsletter|subscribe to the journal|receive the next dispatch|quarterly letters from the edge of attention|only the essential)\b/i, weight: 2 },
   { key: "fake_ui_chrome", label: "fake low-value UI chrome", pattern: /\b(?:search|filterCategory|showPostModal|toggleSearch|Latest Stories|Recent Dispatches|command palette would open here|metaKey && e\.key === ['"]k['"])\b/i, weight: 2 },
   { key: "premium_blog_trope", label: "generic premium-blog editorial trope", pattern: /\b(?:thoughtful living|slow living|curated reflections|crafted with intention|made with intention|a quiet publication|made with restraint|journal of attention|discipline of seeing|private notes made public)\b/i, weight: 2 },
+  { key: "reflective_editorial_copy", label: "generic reflective-editorial copy trope", pattern: /\b(?:quiet architecture of attention|great thinkers understood|value of slowness|the examined life|deliberate cultivation of focus|most radical act|what we have forgotten|how everyday items carry|still matters)\b/i, weight: 2 },
   { key: "fictional_publication_brand", label: "invented publication/author scaffolding", pattern: /\b(?:by [A-Z][a-z]+ [A-Z][a-z]+|photography by [A-Z][a-z]+ [A-Z][a-z]+|journal of attention|vesper|lumen|dispatches|vol\.\s*\d+|winter 20\d{2}|autumn 20\d{2}|spring 20\d{2}|summer 20\d{2}|the quarterly|editorial\.)\b/i, weight: 3 },
   { key: "fake_social_proof", label: "fake reader count or social proof", pattern: /\b(?:\d+\s+readers joined this month|\d+\s+subscribers?|trusted by)\b/i, weight: 2 }
 ];
@@ -274,6 +281,8 @@ export function buildFrontendExecutionContext({ promptText = "", profile = "code
     "Do not add fake keyboard shortcuts, fake command palettes, or demo-only interactive chrome unless the interface truly needs them.",
     "Avoid placeholder image services, Inter/Playfair default pairings, Tailwind CDN starter aesthetics, and generic premium-blog tropes.",
     "Prefer fewer sections with stronger hierarchy over a long page full of low-value widgets.",
+    "For benchmark frontend tasks, cut generic reflective-editorial copy. Use sharper, more concrete language or neutral structural placeholders instead of atmosphere-writing.",
+    "For benchmark frontend tasks, force at least one asymmetrical or compositionally distinctive move instead of a fully balanced template layout.",
     ...(layoutStarter ? [layoutStarter[1]] : []),
     ...(ARCHETYPE_RULES[archetype] || [])
   ].join("\n");
@@ -380,6 +389,8 @@ export function buildFrontendRevisionPrompt({
     "If this is a blog or editorial site, prefer structural labels and a stronger layout idea over invented magazines, authors, newsletter promises, or atmosphere-copy.",
     "Do not use browser-default serif/sans fallback stacks as the end-state typography. Pick a deliberate type system or simplify until the typography feels intentional.",
     "Remove fake keyboard shortcuts, fake command palettes, and demo-only interaction flourishes that do not help the page.",
+    "Cut reflective-editorial filler copy and replace it with either concrete language or neutral structural placeholders.",
+    "Reduce section count if needed and push one stronger asymmetrical composition instead of a sequence of balanced blocks.",
     "Simplify the page if needed. Stronger direction with fewer elements is preferred over busier generic output.",
     "Rewrite the weakest sections rather than making superficial tweaks."
   ].filter(Boolean);