little-coder 1.5.0 → 1.5.1

package/.pi/extensions/branding/index.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 
 const TAGLINE = "A coding agent tuned for small local models";
 
+// Brand accent — "honey" #E15A1F from the brand book (v1.0). Emitted as a
+// 24-bit truecolor SGR so the cursor matches the documented hex exactly,
+// independent of the active pi theme's named "accent" colour. \x1b[39m resets
+// only the foreground, leaving any surrounding bold/style intact.
+const HONEY = "\x1b[38;2;225;90;31m";
+const honeyFg = (s: string): string => `${HONEY}${s}\x1b[39m`;
+
 function readVersion(): string {
   // .pi/extensions/branding/index.ts → up 3 → package root (where package.json lives).
   // The same path math works in the local checkout (loaded via tsx) and in the
@@ -40,8 +47,15 @@ function readVersion(): string {
 const VERSION = readVersion();
 
 function buildHeader(theme: Theme): string[] {
+  // Brand-book "prompt lockup" (the variant the brand reserves for terminals
+  // and dark surfaces): a honey prompt caret, the wordmark in the foreground,
+  // and the honey block cursor — "lc▌"'s ready-to-type punchline, applied to
+  // the full wordmark. Honey stays the only accent, well under the brand's
+  // ~10%-of-layout cap.
   const logo =
-    theme.bold(theme.fg("accent", "little-coder")) +
+    honeyFg("> ") +
+    theme.bold("little-coder") +
+    honeyFg("▌") +
     theme.fg("dim", ` v${VERSION}`);
   const tagline = theme.fg("muted", TAGLINE);
   const dim = (s: string) => theme.fg("dim", s);

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 All notable changes to little-coder are documented here. The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and little-coder's public interface (CLI, providers, tools, skills) follows semver starting at `v0.0.1` post-rename.
 
+## [v1.5.1] — 2026-05-22
+
+A branding release — no behaviour changes. little-coder now wears the v1.0 brand book: the warm **paper / ink / honey** palette (`#F2EBDC` · `#1A1410` · `#E15A1F`), the `lc▌` block-cursor mark, and IBM Plex Mono. The "ready to type" cursor is the punchline — it ties the CLI heritage into the identity without saying so.
+
+### Changed
+- **README hero is now the brand-book terminal banner.** A single self-contained SVG (`assets/banner.svg`, recreating the brand book's "github readme · hero" slide) replaces the old startup screenshot: ink terminal card, `lc▌` monogram in honey, the wordmark + tagline, and the verifiable headline numbers (`qwen3.6-35b-a3b`, terminal-bench 2.0 24.6%, aider polyglot 45.56%). IBM Plex Mono is embedded so it renders in-face on GitHub, with a `ui-monospace` fallback.
+- **TUI header adopts the honey "prompt lockup."** The interactive startup header (`.pi/extensions/branding/index.ts`) now renders `> little-coder▌` with a honey prompt caret and block cursor — the brand's variant for terminals and dark surfaces. Honey is emitted as a 24-bit truecolor SGR so it matches `#E15A1F` exactly regardless of the active pi theme.
+
+### Removed
+- The stale purple (`#7c3aed`) `docs/assets/startup.svg` mockup (`v0.0.1` / `ollama/qwen3.5`), now superseded by the on-brand banner.
+
+---
+
 ## [v1.5.0] — 2026-05-22
 
 A reliability + UX release centered on the harness's intervention machinery. Issue [#8](https://github.com/itayinbarr/little-coder/issues/8) reproduced on 1.4.3 through a *new* mechanism, and chasing it down fixed a cluster of related symptoms: thinking never actually turning off after a budget breach, a spurious "empty response" nag after interrupts, and a noisy stack of warnings around every harness decision. Harness interventions now speak with one voice, and the thinking-budget cap is more generous.

package/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **A coding agent tuned for small local models, built on top of [pi](https://pi.dev).**
 
-![little-coder startup view](docs/assets/startup.svg)
+![little-coder — a coding agent for the laptop in front of you](assets/banner.svg)
 
 The research story behind all this — why scaffold–model fit matters, how a 9.7 B Qwen beat frontier entries on Aider Polyglot, and what the load-bearing mechanisms actually do — is written up on Substack: **[*Honey, I Shrunk the Coding Agent*](https://open.substack.com/pub/itayinbarr/p/honey-i-shrunk-the-coding-agent)**. Start there if you want the "why"; stay here for the "how".
 

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "little-coder",
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "1.5.1",
   "description": "A pi-based coding agent optimized for small local language models. Reproduces the whitepaper's scaffold-model-fit adaptations as pi extensions.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/itayinbarr/little-coder",
   "repository": {