Status: Design record, build authorized. Date: 2026-10-05. For Seth (reviews) and Mateo (signs off); both agreed to the build on 2026-10-05. It builds Q1 of the Consolidated Reader decisions and §2 "The canonical Home" of the proposal; the tracker task is RDR-019. Ground: origin/main = e4e9b2f6. Every file:line was read at fcc88280; between the two commits only docs/product/CONSOLIDATED-READER.md changed, below its §2, so every line cited still holds. "(inferred)" marks what was reasoned, not read. Nothing here was run: the owner's PC cannot take the load, so every check names where it runs. The owner questions are in §11, each with its answer line.

Starts from the winning design ("a home with a window") with the judges' grafts and corrections applied. Where the judges disagreed, the choice and the reason are stated inline.

• Q1 as recorded. "Adopt 'a home with a window'. The featured reading's field moves full screen; words do not stream on Home; Begin is the only primary action; Continue leads when there is a reading to resume. Home's structure changes only by a joint dated decision after five readers are observed against the acceptance criteria" (docs/product/discussions/2026-10-05-consolidated-reader-decisions.md:9). Decided by Mateo; Seth gave his full agreement on 2026-10-05 (:3). Build authorized the same day with Seth reviewing (docs/product/tasks/RDR-019.json:41).
• What this build delivers of RDR-019. Criteria 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 (RDR-019.json:13-19), on the existing backdrop renderer (reading-backdrop.js), with the frame fixed by a test.
• What waits. Criterion 4 (R2: Begin to first word ≤ 1.5 s, field visible throughout) is not reachable from Home.js: the gap is the router's 400 ms fade-out (src/core/router.js:161-164), the preparation overlay and 300 ms settle (src/app/chamber-session-factory.js:135, 434-437) and the Chamber's 500 ms autoStart (src/components/read/Chamber.js:514). The router hold and overlay skip are A3's remainder (RDR-015, still in_progress, RDR-015.json:6-7) and land as PR 7 below. The field never unmounted is D1 (FND-010.json:17). B4 lands the measurement under test.fail() so the number is read on every CI run. Criterion 7 is package V (RDR-007, RDR-009).
• Bad news first. B4 ships with criterion 4 red by design. Its PR body must say so; RDR-019's acceptance list omits criterion 4 (RDR-019.json:13-19) and gains a line pointing at RDR-015.

Home is six permanent regions. Each has a rule saying what it may hold. A future experiment (a chooser, an object, a request) is content of the Featured slot or the Field, never a new region. src/components/home-frame.test.js (new, PR 5) pins the order of the regions and the hooks, not the words, so copy changes stay cheap.

Region	Selector	May hold	May not hold
Header	.sl-header	Lockup; on desktop (≥ 900 px) div.home-rooms with button.home-room[data-nav="library"], [data-nav="make"], [data-action="settings"]; the Menu pill; the Menu sheet of eight (A6, unchanged Home.js:181-197)	A door to a reading
Field	.home-engine[aria-hidden]	The featured reading's own engine, full bleed, moving (reading-backdrop.js:30-82)	Words
Featured slot	.home-featured: p.home-label (eyebrow), h1#home-title.home-title, p.home-meta, p.home-note[role=note], p.home-epigraph[data-face]	Exactly one reading: today's poem, a roll, an Ask answer, or the in-memory session	A second reading; anything that moves; a form
Actions	.home-actions	One .btn-primary ([data-home="enter"] or [data-home="continue"]), [data-home="roll"], [data-home="adjust"], [data-home="ask-open"] (connected only), the today line [data-home="enter"] in the Continue state	A second primary; a parameter
Aside	p.home-about	The owners' one line, first visit only (PR 8, when the copy exists)	Links or controls
Legal	.portal-footer .portal-legal	Privacy, Terms (Home.js:205-213, unchanged)	—
Voice (assistive)	p.sr-only[data-home-opening], p.sr-only[role=status], .home-alert[role=alert]	The whole opening as text; the spoken status; errors	—

Rules that outlive the next experiment: fix the frame, vary the content; Home names a reading, never starts one; no form before feeling; no metaphor carries the page; change by criteria and observation (CONSOLIDATED-READER.md:57-63).

Visitor	Featured slot	Primary	Secondary	The field
First visit (no session, flag unset)	Eyebrow TODAY'S POEM; h1 title alone (poemTitle(pick.label)); meta Author · Work · N min · Look; epigraph = the poem's first line in the look's face	Begin ([data-home="enter"], disabled until the poem is here, Home.js:417)	Another reading · Adjust · (about line, PR 8)	Today's engine, moving, mounted after first paint (Home.js:616, 324-333)
Returning, session in memory, not complete	Eyebrow CONTINUE; h1 session.name (src/core/models.js:248; written from title at src/app.js:678); meta N min from session.totalDuration (models.js:321-326); no epigraph, no bar	Continue ([data-home="continue"])	Another reading · the today line Today's poem · Roy Butler, by Edgar Lee Masters Begin › ([data-home="enter"]). No Adjust (wireframe CONSOLIDATED-READER.md:117)	The session's engine via the shim { config: { visualConfig: session.visualConfig, colors: session.presentation?.colors ?? null } } (colours sit at presentation.colors: src/core/jev-config.js:57-65; the Session keeps presentation, models.js:310-313); a Library text with no visualConfig shows ink (reading-backdrop.js:81)
Returning, nothing to resume	As first visit, without the about line	Begin	Another reading · Adjust	Today's engine
After Another reading	Eyebrow BY CHANCE (roll) or AS YOU ASKED (ask); h1 work title; meta Author · N min · Look (asked: no look word); p.home-note under the meta when an Ask carries limits (Home.js:70-76, kept); epigraph in the roll's face	Begin	Another reading · Adjust	Cross-fades to the roll's engine over 900 ms (reading-backdrop.js:25, 108-143), old layer held at full opacity under the new one (PR 2)
Connected (connectionState().kind !== 'none', src/core/ai-connection.js:37-41)	As above	As above	+ Ask for a reading ([data-home="ask-open"]); the Menu entry stays (e2e/reader-connection.js:55-58 depends on it)	Unchanged
Reduced motion	Same	Same	Same	One still frame per engine (reading-backdrop.js:43, 59-61; attractor reads the query itself, src/visuals/attractor.js:229-232); no cross-fade (reading-backdrop.css:37-40)

After Another reading while a session is in memory, the session line leaves for that visit; update() on the next return re-presents it (Home.js:128-144). The proposal's table draws it that way (:78); allowing a line back would push a connected phone to 6 targets.

Tokens: header 64 px (src/design-system.css:87), gutter clamp(16px, 4vw, 56px) (portal-home.css:11; 51 px at 1280, 16 on phones), spaces 4/8/12/16/24/32 (:70-75), control 46 px (:86). Breakpoint: desktop is ≥ 900 px, the boundary portal-home.css:419 already uses. The 640 px sheet rule (Home.css:247-253) stays.

Type, every width. Eyebrow: JetBrains Mono 12/16 500, 0.14em, uppercase, --sy-text-2 (the .portal-eyebrow recipe, Home.css:275-287). h1: Instrument Sans 20/28 500 on desktop, 18/24 on phones wrapping to ≤ 2 lines; the one-line ellipsis and tooltip rule (portal-home.css:220-231) stays on desktop. Meta: Instrument Sans 14/20 --sy-text-2, parts joined by ·, the work hidden under 900 px (span.home-meta-work). Epigraph: font-family: var(--home-face, var(--font-literary)), weight var(--home-face-weight, 400), desktop clamp(28px, 2.6vw, 40px)/1.25 max-width 30ch ≤ 3 lines (-webkit-line-clamp), phone clamp(22px, 6vw, 26px)/1.3 ≤ 3 lines, ≤ 2 under @media (max-height: 640px); text-shadow: 0 0 40px var(--sy-bg) (kept from .home-still, portal-home.css:131). Face from data-face through the design-system tokens, matching the Chamber's own map (src/components/read/Chamber.css:184-217): literary → --font-literary, display → --font-display (Instrument Serif, preloaded index.html:35), thick → --font-stream-thick 700, mono → --font-mono, sans → --font-primary (Instrument Sans, preloaded), book → --font-literary 600, jp → --font-jp. Seven CSS lines, no family names (the comment at chamber-stream-face.js:10-13 naming Marcellus and Inter is stale against that CSS). Actions: Begin .btn.btn-primary 46 px, 16 px 600, padding 0 28px (portal-home.css:252-255); Another reading .btn.btn-secondary; Adjust and Ask .home-link 44 px underlined (:257-276); gap 12.

The dim. Unchanged tokens: --home-ink-stream 86% and --home-ink-bar 92% (portal-home.css:12-13), the .home::after ground from −96 px above the block to the footer (:78-85), the footer's own ground (:295-302), the 72% header band (:37-39). This keeps Home.test.js:644-657 untouched (judges 2 and 3 over judge 1's single 80% token). The stream's pool (:106-123) goes with the stream. Rendered at 360×640 and 1280×800 before merge; the fade start widens only if the window measures short.

Desktop 1280×800. Header row 64. Window: .home-window is the grid's minmax(0,1fr) row (today's .home-stage, portal-home.css:90-99, with min-height: 0), undimmed moving field. Block at the gutter, max-width 640 px, bottom-anchored: eyebrow 16 + 8; h1 28 + 4; meta 20 + 20; epigraph ≤ 3 lines of 41 (two typical, 82) + 24; actions 46 + 24; footer 52. Block ≈ 324 px, top at y ≈ 476; ≈ 316 px of clear field between the header band and the ground's fade. The header rooms: div.home-rooms right of the lockup, button.home-room 15/20 --sy-text-2, hover --sy-text, 44 px tall, gap 28 (reviving the dead Home.css:37-41 values under a new selector), then 20 px, then the Menu pill. display: none below 900 px. A div, not a second nav landmark: the Menu sheet already is "Primary" (Home.js:181) and a second landmark naming the same rooms doubles the reader's list (judge 3 over judge 2).

Phone 390×844 and 360×640. Header with the Menu pill only. Block full width, gutter 16: eyebrow 16 + 8; h1 ≤ 2 × 24 + 4; meta 20 + 16; epigraph ≤ 3 × 29 (≤ 2 at height ≤ 640) + 20; Begin full width 50 px 17 px (portal-home.css:457-461); 12; grid minmax(0,1fr) auto (:452-455) Another reading | Adjust; Ask, when connected, a full-width third cell; 12; footer 48. Worst case at 360×640 (two-line title, two-line epigraph, Ask): ≈ 390 px below the header; typical ≈ 346, block top y ≈ 294, ≈ 130 px of undimmed field above the fade. Nothing scrolls vertically; overflow-x: clip (:56) keeps sideways at 0. The phone caption sentence rule (:436-450) is deleted; the stack is the same on every width.

Legal links. As today: 13 px, 44 px targets (:304-307), right-aligned, not counted.

Focus order, desktop. library, make, settings, portal-menu-toggle, enter, roll, adjust, (ask-open), Privacy, Terms. Phone: the rooms are display:none, so the order starts at the toggle.

The handover now (unchanged route). Begin → proceed('enter') (Home.js:488-507) → onLaunchToday → launchToday (src/app.js:737-742) → todaySession (src/app/today.js:25-41: exact division, origin today) → handleBeginSession (app.js:672-707: compileSession sync, currentSession = session at :705, router.navigate('chamber-session'), address stays /). A roll: launchJevReading → resolveJevReading (app.js:710-717), /read/session. The router aliases to room read, pane chamber (route-url.js:39, 76), deactivates Home (pausing the stage, Home.js:628), fades #view-home out 400 ms and hides it (router.js:161-164, 335-341), builds Read with the chamber pane hidden (Read.js:45, 65-70), the factory raises the overlay at :135, settles 300 ms at :434, lowers it at :437, new Chamber at :444, the router unhides and fades #view-read in 400 ms (:189-190), and the Chamber's 500 ms timer calls player.play(), which paints #atom-display synchronously (Chamber.js:459-514). Fixed waits: 1.2 s before any network. RDR-015 measured 1,730–2,356 ms on a dev build (RDR-015.json:37).

What B4 does now. Home's frame at the press is a still epigraph over a paused field, so the hand-off reads as a hold, then today's gap. B4 adds no work to the press path (the face font is already loaded for the epigraph). B4 keeps pause, not destroy, at launch: deactivate runs before the fade-out (router.js:161-163) and destroy removes the layer at once (reading-backdrop.js:156-163), so destroying there would put bare ink under the 400 ms fade, a new black frame (both judges rejected Design 2's destroy-at-launch).

What the preparation screen becomes (PR 7, A3's remainder, RDR-015, M reviews the factory). (1) For a launchesReading move (router.js:114) from Home: keep #view-home visible and under #view-read, unhide Read at opacity 0 above it, fadeIn 400 ms, and only then deactivate and hide Home, so Home's last frame is the ground until the reading's field is up. (2) In the factory, const quiet = live || session.origin?.view === 'home'; use the stub ui and skip the 300 ms settle for quiet (:38-39, 434). FLASHING_ENABLED is false (src/core/visual-presence.js:43), so the "consent before overlay" order guards nothing today. (3) The Escape-during-launch return (router.js:235-241) leaves Home visible, which the hold already does. Predicted first word: today's 1.73–2.36 s minus 400 minus 300 = 1.03–1.66 s on a dev build (arithmetic on RDR-015's numbers, not a measurement). The 500 ms autoStart stays (shared with the Composer presentation, factory:449).

Measurement (PR 6, e2e/home-begin.spec.js, CI only, test.fail() until PR 7). Stamp performance.now() on pointerdown of [data-home="enter"]; a MutationObserver on #view-read's subtree for the first non-empty #atom-display (Chamber.js:3242-3301); a rAF sampler recording per frame #view-home opacity/hidden, .reading-stage-layer.is-shown, #loading-overlay class, #view-read opacity and the field nodes (.chamber-scheduled-field.is-active, #chamber-continuous-field layers, plate canvases). Pass: t_word − t0 ≤ 1500; overlay keeps hidden (the smoke.spec.js:206 pattern); every sample has a field node visible at opacity > 0; PerformanceObserver('longtask') longest ≤ 50 ms (the live.spec.js:341-375 probe). One case per vivid temper through showDecision(tools, composeRoll({ temper })) (home.spec.js:226-231 pattern) plus today's poem. Headless Chromium is SwiftShader: CI numbers bound CI, not the owner's PC.

What D1 removes. The second renderer (reading-backdrop.js deleted), the still-to-live dissolve, the cortex kept off Home's first paint against the gate (app.js:197-212), the embed witnessed again (FND-010.json:15-19).

Continue. Source: app.currentSession, memory only (app.js:106; written at :654, :705, :934; nulled at :437, :1084). Home reads getCurrentSession (route-manifest.js:20) in syncContinue at construction and on every router re-entry (Home.js:124, 143). Shown iff a session exists and was not released. B4 adds releaseSession(session) to the factory's operations (app.js:468-494): if (this.currentSession === session) this.currentSession = null. Called in onExit (factory:463-467) when player.sessionState?.state === 'complete' (src/core/player.js:978), read before player.stop() (inferred: stop may reset state), and in the failure path before router.back() (factory:518-531). A mid-reading exit keeps it. Press → onNavigate('chamber-session', session) (Home.js:594-597, moved into the .home delegate so the busy rule covers it, :415-421). Limit, stated plainly: the Chamber and Player are disposed on exit (factory:483-488; room-panes.js:92-105), a new Player starts at atom 0 (models.js:344-351), the Player has no seek, and nothing writes a position. Continue reopens the reading from its first word. So Home prints N min, never "left", and no bar; the wireframe's bar (:115) waits for a Player addition and a persisted session. Known hole, pre-existing: browser Back mid-reading bypasses onExit (Read.js:90-92 forwards to a Chamber method that does not exist) and leaves the Chamber mounted; Continue then re-shows that instance by identity (room-panes.js:66). Not B4's; worth its own tracker item.

Adjust. Always the third action for today's poem, a roll and an ask; hidden in the Continue state. Press → onAdjustReading(reading.decision, reading.exact ?? null) (Home.js:495, one argument added) → app.js:454 adjustJevReading: (decision, exact) => this.adjustJevReading(decision, exact) → adjustJevReading(decision, exact = null) calls resolveJevReading(decision, exact) (jev-reading.js:152-155; exactDivision :138-145) → origin.adjusted = true → router.navigate('chamber', { data: { text, source, config } }) (app.js:723-728) → room read pane setup (route-url.js:38, 75) → Read.js:40-43 → ChamberOrbital.loadText (ChamberOrbital.js:1896+). homeReading's today branch carries exact: { entryId: pick.entryId, label: pick.label } from the pick (Home.js:386-389). Without it, Adjust on today's poem opens the plan's section: 'first' (today-reading.js:21), not the day's poem. The wormhole's adjust(decision) (invocation.js:65-69) is unchanged: one argument, exact null. Leaving an adjusted reading returns to setup (chamber-exit.js:85-89), as the Oracle ruling records. A recited day's voice is a Begin-only path (today.js:32-37); Adjust opens the silent plan.

#	Criterion	Test that fails if it is not met
1	One primary; ≤ 7 desktop, ≤ 5 phone, legal excluded	Home.test.js (rewritten): [...querySelectorAll('.home .btn-primary')] equals [enter] (or [continue] with a session); a counting case lists every visible button, a[href] outside .portal-nav, dialog, .portal-legal in each state and asserts 7 (jsdom shows the header rooms). e2e/journeys.spec.js:10 kept. New e2e case in home.spec.js: at 1280×800 count visible targets by getBoundingClientRect = 7, at 390×844 = 4, then connectTestOpenRouter and 8 / 5. Counts: desktop first visit = Library, Make, Settings, Menu, Begin, Another reading, Adjust; Continue state = the same with Continue and the today line for Begin and Adjust; phone 4; connected +1 (desktop 8: owner question 2).
2	No stream, no sound before a press	Home.test.js: no reading-stream mock; after arrive, .home-epigraph text equals the opening's first line and no .reading-stream-* node exists; vi.useFakeTimers then vi.getTimerCount() is 0 after present() apart from the day watch; advance 5 s, epigraph unchanged. e2e: .reading-stream-current count 0; before the press smoke.spec.js:41-52's audioState reports sessionActive false and contextState !== 'running'. home-preload.test.js:20-27 fails if home-preload.js:23 outlives the import.
3	Five rooms, 1 click desktop, 2 taps phone	Home.test.js: .home-rooms [data-nav=library] click → onNavigate('library'); [data-nav=make] → make; settings copy dispatches rise-open-settings (Home.js:599-605; app.js:1236-1238). e2e home.spec.js at 1280×800: click each header room with the Menu closed → library, make (Workshop, route-url.js:81), /settings; [data-home=adjust] → read/setup. portal-hit-test.spec.js:76-87 already hit-tests every visible [data-nav] and now covers the header copies. smoke.spec.js:81-83 holds the Menu of eight and three .portal-nav [data-nav] (the rooms sit outside .portal-nav).
4	Begin to first word ≤ 1.5 s, field visible throughout	e2e/home-begin.spec.js (§5), CI only, test.fail() in PR 6, plain in PR 7. If it stays red there, criterion 4 is recorded open in RDR-015, not hidden in B4.
5	Continue iff resumable, then primary	Home.test.js: with getCurrentSession: () => session the eyebrow is Continue, the h1 the name, .btn-primary is [data-home=continue], the today line is [data-home=enter], Adjust absent, stage.show receives config.visualConfig from the session, press → onNavigate('chamber-session', session), today line → onLaunchToday; after a roll the line is gone and Adjust is back; update() re-presents the session. Factory unit test (chamber-session-factory.personal.test.js pattern): onExit('close') with sessionState.state === 'complete' calls releaseSession(session); with 'paused' it does not; the failure path calls it before router.back(). e2e: begin today's poem, Escape + End reading → [data-home=continue] is the one .btn-primary; play a shortest division at 500 wpm to completion, Return → Begin leads, no Continue.
6	First-load holds; field after first paint	CI's measure:first-load on the PR (.github/workflows/ci.yml:79-80) ≤ 64 KB (scripts/measure-first-load.mjs:40; last recorded 59.8 KB, PR #393). Review check: no new <link>/<script> in index.html, no new static import in src/app.js (the gate weighs only those, measure-first-load.mjs:47-59). Home.test.js:133-135 kept (stages.made empty before activate).
7	Five readers observed before structural change	Not a code test. home-frame.test.js makes a structural change a visible edit; its header names docs/product/discussions/ as where a dated joint record must exist first. RDR-007 and RDR-009 run on the B4 release.

Removed	Replaced by
The stream: reading-stream.js (114 lines), .css, .test.js (198); playStream, setProgress, the play() call (Home.js:316-372); .home-stream, the hairline (:235, :252); portal-home.css:101-139, 278-293, 420-424, 463-478; home-preload.js:23; ci.yml:59; system-design.test.js:73 (housekeeping); ARCHITECTURE.md:403-405 sentence; the generated diagram edge	p.home-epigraph, one still line in the look's face; [data-home-opening].sr-only kept (e2e/today.spec.js:41-45 reads it)
Read it with sound (Home.js:246)	Begin, same hook, same disabled rule
The bar's Library/Adjust link (:248, :300-303, :523-526)	Adjust always; Library in the header rooms and the Menu
Title, by Author h1 (:57, :65) and the plan line as label (:68, :79)	Title alone; Author · Work · N min · Look meta; the plan words stay in the sr-only status (zero visual cost; e2e/request-preview.spec.js:56 holds)
The Continue pill (:38-42, :251, :594-597; portal-home.css:160-189; Home.css:499-551)	The Continue state of the slot
The phone caption sentence (portal-home.css:436-450), the desktop bar as a row (:191-207, :426-430)	One stacked column at every width
.home-stage min-height 160 (:92)	.home-window, min-height 0
The Home.js header comment (:1-25)	Rewritten: a home with a window
Kept: demo pages (:257-284), busy rule, alert, status, Menu of eight, first-read preview (:81-82, :498-500), midnight turnover (:617), no-WebGL path, Ask dialog, ReadingStage (D1 deletes it)	—

Unit.

• src/components/Home.test.js: :20-43 stream mock deleted; arrive (:101-105) waits for .home-title and a non-empty .home-epigraph; :123-137 actions ['Begin','Another reading','Adjust'], eyebrow text, no .home-stream; :139-167 epigraph = first line, [data-face] = decision.config.presentation.chamberFace, meta Author · Work · N min · Look, status Today's poem: Roy Butler, by Edgar Lee Masters. 2 minutes. Ember., hairline assertion gone, engine block (:155-161) kept; :169-177 order ['library','make','settings','portal-menu-toggle','enter','roll','adjust', legal, legal]; :193-215 stage pause/resume only; :229-240 Adjust always; :269-295 eyebrow By chance, h1 Oedipus Rex, meta Sophocles · N min · Revel, status keeps the plan words, epigraph swaps when openingLines resolves, cross-fade assertion kept; :297-306 deleted; :331-341 becomes "the epigraph is empty while the opening loads and stays empty if it cannot be read"; :358-429 warm-up triggered by present() writing the epigraph; :432-460 plus onAdjustReading(decision, { entryId, label }) for today and (decision, null) after a roll; :489-494 becomes the header rooms; :496-511 the Continue state; :530-568, :593-657 unchanged.
• src/components/Home.jev.test.js:187-189: h1 Ulysses, meta James Joyce · Ulysses · N min, eyebrow As you asked, status keeps the plan words; new case: with acceptOpenRouterKey(KEY) .home-actions [data-home=ask-open] is visible and opens the dialog; without, hidden.
• New src/components/home-frame.test.js: region order and hooks (§2).
• src/app/chamber-session-factory.personal.test.js (or a sibling): the releaseSession cases (§7, criterion 5).
• src/components/reading-backdrop.test.js:211-222: right after the second show, both layers carry is-shown ([true, true]); after 900 ms one layer, old destroyed.
• src/core/today-poem.test.js: the pick carries words. src/app/jev-reading.test.js (or nearest): openingLines returns words.
• src/app/home-preload.test.js, src/core/system-design.test.js:44-54, src/app/today.test.js:45, src/core/roll.test.js: unchanged files; the first two go green by the edits named in §8.
• src/core/user-data-keys.test.js: enforces registering rise_home_seen_v1 (PR 8).

Browser.

• e2e/home.spec.js: openHome (:11-14) waits for .home-title non-empty; streaming() (:31-35) deleted; :45-64 selectors enter, roll, adjust, .portal-legal-link, primary Begin, plus the counting case; :66-84 column geometry (caption bottom ≤ enter top on both widths; roll and adjust share a row on phone); :86-109 the new Tab order, ≥ 12 px and ≥ 44 px rules kept; :111-134 and :136-157 keep their round trips with the return assertion rewritten to the Continue state (eyebrow Continue, .btn-primary is [data-home=continue], the today line present) because the heading changes on return (judge 3's catch at :131, :156); :141 kept; :159-183 kept plus a today's-poem Adjust case asserting paneInstance('setup').config.continuation.entryId equals the day's entryId; :185-201 kept with the epigraph wait; :203-211 epigraph unchanged after 2.5 s, stage transition 0; :213-220 kept; :222-236 kept plus the connected worst case; :238-249 deleted; :251-267 kept; :309-330 selectors .home-epigraph, .home-label, .home-title, .home-meta, .home-link, [data-home=roll], .portal-legal-link, light points in the window above the block.
• e2e/portal-hit-test.spec.js:128 waits for .home-title; :134 [data-home=adjust] replaces library; :158 waits for .home-epigraph; :174 drops the stream selectors, adds .home-room, .home-meta, .home-epigraph.
• e2e/request-preview.spec.js:52 h1 Ulysses; :54 label ^As you asked$; :56 unchanged (plan words in the status).
• Unchanged: smoke.spec.js:32, 75-88, 112; today.spec.js:36-64 ([data-home=enter] and [data-home-opening] survive); journeys.spec.js; url-routing.spec.js:16, 49; fixtures.js:24-32 (tolerates an inline nav); reader-connection.js:55-58; wormhole.spec.js:33-40, 241-246; keystones.spec.js:10; chunk-reload.spec.js:29; jev-steering.spec.js:180-183. Stale comments at fixtures.js:71, jev-steering.spec.js:181, journeys.spec.js:8, home.spec.js:4-9 reworded.
• Locators: [data-nav="library"] now exists twice on desktop. Every tree click is scoped to .portal-nav or uses .first(); the hit test uses document.querySelector (first). New tests scope to .home-rooms.

Oracle and wormhole invariants kept. Home composes only through rollReading({ previous, vivid: true }) (Home.js:473; roll.js:196-206); every featured decision passes validateJevRecommendation (jev-reading.js:118); the two doors stay launchJevReading and adjustJevReading (route-manifest.js:15-18), the latter gaining only an optional exact; the wormhole hands its decision through the same two (invocation.js:65-69) and keeps its Menu link (Home.js:196); a reading entered from Home exits to Home, via Adjust to setup (chamber-exit.js:83-92); src/wormhole/* and e2e/wormhole.spec.js untouched. The ChatGPT contracts (CONSOLIDATED-READER.md §5) are untouched; B4 edits no file in that table. The factory edits (PR 3, PR 7) are M's to review because it hosts live Currents.

For agentic workers: REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: superpowers:subagent-driven-development or superpowers:executing-plans, task by task. Steps use - [ ].

Goal: Home becomes a home with a window: one featured reading, still, with one way in and the rooms one click away. Architecture: Home.js keeps its class, grid and ReadingStage; the stream is deleted; the slot, header rooms, Continue state and Ask toggle are labels, attributes and listeners Home already has. Three small app-side changes (exact, releaseSession, the cross-fade hold) land first as their own PRs. Tech stack: vanilla JS, Vite, vitest (jsdom), Playwright. Spec: this document.

Global constraints. Read-only rule for the plan's author does not bind the builder, but: every PR branches from main in a worktree under D:\syberlabs\nise.worktrees (never the main folder); one heavy process at a time on the owner's PC; locally run only the single unit file named in the task (npx vitest run <file>); browser suites and measure:first-load run on CI; node scripts/build-architecture-diagram.mjs runs once, alone, in PR 4a. Hook names kept: enter, roll, adjust, ask-open, continue, [data-home-opening]. No new <link>/<script> in index.html; no new static import in src/app.js. Nothing under 12 px; every gradient from the two ink tokens. Phone fits 390×844 and 360×640 with no vertical scroll. Merge one PR at a time through the required CI check; verify the live release after each.

Files. Modify src/core/today-poem.js:42, src/app/jev-reading.js:211, src/app.js:454, 723-728. Tests src/core/today-poem.test.js, src/app/jev-reading.test.js (add if absent, beside the module), src/app.js has no unit test: the exact thread is proven by PR 4b's Home test and the e2e Adjust case. Produces. todayPoem() → { workId, entryId, label, words, seed, dayNumber }; openingLines(decision) → { text, verse, words }; App.adjustJevReading(decision, exact = null).

• Test (today-poem): expect(todayPoem(new Date(2026, 9, 5)).words).toBe(DIVISION_INDEX[pick.workId].divisionWords[pick.entryId]). Run npx vitest run src/core/today-poem.test.js; expect FAIL (words undefined).
• Implement: at today-poem.js:42 push { workId, entryId, label, words: work.divisionWords[entryId] }. Run; PASS.
• Test (jev-reading): with a released decision, (await openingLines(decision)).words is a positive number. Run; FAIL.
• Implement at :211: return { text: openingOf(entry.content, 240), verse: entry.verse === true, words: Number(entry.words) || 0 };. Run; PASS.
• app.js:454 → adjustJevReading: (decision, exact) => this.adjustJevReading(decision, exact); :723 → async adjustJevReading(decision, exact = null); :725 → resolveJevReading(decision, exact). The existing e2e Adjust case (home.spec.js:159-183) must stay green on CI.
• Commit: Carry word counts to Home and the exact division to Adjust.

Files. Modify src/components/reading-backdrop.js:133-142; test src/components/reading-backdrop.test.js:211-222.

• Test: after the second show, expect(layers().map(l => l.classList.contains('is-shown'))).toEqual([true, true]); after advanceTimersByTimeAsync(900), one layer, old.destroy called once. Run npx vitest run src/components/reading-backdrop.test.js; FAIL on [false, true].
• Implement: delete :133; in the paused/reduced branch (:134-137) end(old) stays; inside the timer (:138-141) end(old) removes the node, so no class change is needed. Run; PASS.
• Commit: The stage keeps the old engine at full strength under the incoming one.

Files. Modify src/app.js:468-494 (add releaseSession), src/app/chamber-session-factory.js:463-467, 518-531; test src/app/chamber-session-factory.personal.test.js (add cases; its operations() helper is the shape).

• Test 1: build a session with atoms: [{}], visualConfig: { visualMode: 'off' }; make ensureVisualCortex resolve and the Chamber import stubbed (vi.mock('../components/read/Chamber.js') capturing onExit); call onExit('close') with player.sessionState.state = 'complete'; expect op.releaseSession called with the session. Test 2: state 'paused' → not called. Test 3: ensureVisualCortex rejects with a plain error → releaseSession called before router.back. Run the file; FAIL (releaseSession is not a function / not called).
• Implement: app.js operations gain releaseSession: session => { if (this.currentSession === session) this.currentSession = null; }. Factory onExit: first line const complete = player.sessionState?.state === 'complete'; then after player.stop(): if (complete) operations.releaseSession?.(session);. Failure path: before operations.router.back() add operations.releaseSession?.(session);. Run; PASS.
• Commit: A finished or unopened reading no longer offers Continue.

Files. Modify src/components/Home.js (header comment, homeReading, renderHome, present, play, delete playStream/setProgress), portal-home.css, Home.css (delete :499-551), src/app/home-preload.js:23, src/core/system-design.test.js:73, docs/specs/ARCHITECTURE.md:403-405, .github/workflows/ci.yml:59 (coordinator's file: one line removed), regenerate the diagram. Delete reading-stream.js, .css, .test.js. Tests: Home.test.js, Home.jev.test.js. Produces. homeReading() returns { decision, temper, eyebrow, title, meta: [author, work, minutes, look], note, spoken, exact, today, firstReadPreview, face }; present(reading, opening) writes eyebrow, title (+tooltip), meta, note, epigraph (after the font hold), status; epigraphOf(opening, tools).

• Rewrite Home.test.js first, as listed in §9 (one commit of red tests). Run npx vitest run src/components/Home.test.js; FAIL across the board for the right reasons (no .home-epigraph, actions still Read it with sound).
• Implement renderHome: <div class="home-window"></div>, alert, <div class="home-featured"><p class="home-label"></p><h1 class="home-title" id="home-title"></h1><p class="home-meta"></p><p class="home-note" role="note" hidden></p><p class="home-epigraph"></p></div><div class="home-actions">${button('enter','Begin','primary',' disabled')}${button('roll','Another reading','secondary')}<button class="home-link" type="button" data-home="adjust">Adjust</button></div>, then the sr-only opening and status.
• Implement homeReading: today → eyebrow: TODAY, title, meta: [author, work, minutes(pick.words, decision.config.wpm), capital(temper)], exact: { entryId: pick.entryId, label: pick.label }; roll → eyebrow: 'By chance', title from the decision (roll.js:183); ask → 'As you asked', no look word. minutes = (words, wpm) => words ? \${Math.max(1, Math.round(words / wpm))} min` : ''. spoken keeps the plan words for a roll or ask (summarizeJevPlan) so request-preview.spec.js:56` holds.
• Implement present: write the parts; node.dataset.face = resolveChamberStreamFace(decision.config.presentation?.chamberFace); showEpigraph(text): await Promise.race([document.fonts?.load(\${weight} 1em ${getComputedStyle(node).fontFamily}`), new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 300))])then set text if the reading is still this one.epigraphOf: verse → first non-empty line; prose → tools.openingOf(text, 90). Move the idle warm-up (:359) to after the epigraph renders. play()callsshowEngine()only.showDecision`'s callback writes meta minutes and the epigraph.
• CSS: the §4 rules; seven data-face lines using --font-* tokens; delete the stream rules. Run Home.test.js and Home.jev.test.js (with its :187-189 update); PASS. home-preload.test.js and system-design.test.js PASS after the edits.
• Run node scripts/build-architecture-diagram.mjs once, alone. Commit: Home is a home with a window: the opening set still, Begin the one key.
• CI: PR job (unit set, vite build, measure:first-load, the gate: portal-hit-test, request-preview, smoke, journeys, url-routing, keystones updated per §9) plus a manual full-validation dispatch for home.spec.js, today.spec.js. Screenshots at 1280×800, 390×844, 360×640 from the CI artifacts or a single local vite preview run with nothing else open; measure the undimmed window and scrollWidth − innerWidth.

Files. Home.js (render header, click delegate, subscribeConnection in the constructor, unsubscribe in destroy), Home.css (.home-rooms), portal-home.css (phone third cell), tests Home.test.js, Home.jev.test.js, e2e home.spec.js, portal-hit-test.spec.js.

• Tests: header rooms call onNavigate/dispatch settings; focus order; counting case (7); ask-open hidden without a key, visible and opening the dialog with acceptOpenRouterKey(KEY). Run both unit files; FAIL.
• Implement: markup <div class="home-rooms"><button class="home-room" type="button" data-nav="library">Library</button><button class="home-room" type="button" data-nav="make">Make</button><button class="home-room" type="button" data-action="settings">Settings</button></div> before the toggle (the existing [data-nav] and [data-action] loops at :586-605 bind them). Actions gain <button class="home-link" type="button" data-home="ask-open" hidden>Ask for a reading</button>; delegate branch else if (action === 'ask-open') this.asking.open();; this.stopConnection = subscribeConnection(() => this.syncAsk()), syncAsk() sets hidden = connectionState().kind === 'none'. Home never calls takeConnectionNotice. Run; PASS.
• Commit: Library, Make and Settings one click away on a desk; Ask on Home for a connected reader.

Files. Home.js (syncContinue → present(continueReading(session)), delegate branch continue, the today line, update() resets chosen on re-entry when a session leads), portal-home.css (.home-line), tests Home.test.js (criterion 5 cases), e2e home.spec.js (return assertions, Continue cases).

• Tests first (§7, criterion 5). Run Home.test.js; FAIL.
• Implement continueReading(session) → { eyebrow: 'Continue', title: session.name, meta: [minutesFromMs(session.totalDuration)], spoken: \Continue: ${session.name}. N minutes.`, session, primary: 'continue', engine: { config: { visualConfig: session.visualConfig, colors: session.presentation?.colors ?? null } } }. presentrenders the primary as[data-home="continue"]textContinue, hides Adjust, shows Today's poem · <title>, by Begin(an SVG chevron aria-hidden).showEngineusesreading.engine ?? reading.decision`. Run; PASS.
• Commit: Continue leads when a reading is in memory.

Files. New src/components/home-frame.test.js; docs/product/tasks/RDR-019.json (acceptance gains "Criterion 4 (R2) is held by RDR-015 and FND-010" and "Criterion 7 is RDR-007/RDR-009"; activity line; evidence refs to the PRs).

• Test: mount Home, assert [...container.querySelectorAll('.sl-header .home-rooms, .portal-menu-toggle, .home-engine, .home-featured > *, .home-actions, .portal-footer .portal-legal')] order and the hook set ['enter','roll','adjust','ask-open'] (and continue with a session). Header comment names the joint-decision rule. Run; PASS on first run is expected here: this test pins existing structure (say so in its comment; it is a guard, not a feature).
• Commit: Pin Home's frame; record where criterion 4 lives.

Files. New e2e/home-begin.spec.js (§5), in the full project (CI only); test.fail() with a comment naming PR 7.

• Write the spec; dispatch full validation on CI; confirm it reports an expected failure with the numbers in its annotation (test.info().annotations). Commit: Measure Begin to first word on CI.

Files. src/core/router.js:161-192 (hold #view-home under #view-read for a launchesReading move from home; z-order: #view-read above), src/app/chamber-session-factory.js:38-39, 434 (quiet), src/components/portal-home.css if the held engine needs z-index under the Read view; e2e/home-begin.spec.js loses test.fail(); a router unit test for the hold order; RDR-015 updated with CI's numbers.

• Test first: router test asserting, for a launch from home, #view-home.hidden stays false until after fadeIn resolves; factory test asserting showLoading is not called when session.origin.view === 'home'. Then implement; then CI full validation reads home-begin.spec.js. If the number is still over 1,500 ms, RDR-015 stays open with the measured value and the next cut is named (the 500 ms autoStart is C3/D1's).

Files. Home.js (p.home-about under the actions, shown when localStorage lacks rise_home_seen_v1; written in activate once, try/catch), src/core/user-data-keys.js (register homeSeen: 'rise_home_seen_v1'), portal-home.css (14/20, one line), tests Home.test.js, user-data-keys.test.js.

• Test: first mount shows the line; after activate the key is set; a second mount hides it; a throwing localStorage still renders. Implement; PASS. Render at 360×640: the line must stay one line (copy ≤ 60 characters) or the window shrinks.

What runs where. Locally: the single unit file each task names. CI PR job: the fixed unit set (ci.yml:55-77, minus reading-stream.test.js), vite build, measure:first-load, the gate. CI manual dispatch after each of PR 4a–4c, 6, 7: the full browser suite (home.spec.js, today.spec.js, home-begin.spec.js, wormhole.spec.js). Screenshots at the three sizes after 4a, 4c and 8; the first-load number recorded in each PR body.

1. The one line on what RISE is (first visit only; PR 8 waits for it). Proposed, theirs to replace: "RISE reads a text to you: words at a reading pace, over light and sound made for it." At or under 60 characters keeps it one line at 360 px; the proposal above is longer and would wrap.

   Answer (Mateo, 2026-10-07): "Texts read to you, with light and sound made for them." (54 characters). PR 8 builds it.

2. Criterion 1 on a connected desktop. The §2 table puts Ask on Home when connected (:81), which makes the desktop 8. Default built: Ask shows on Home at every width when connected and criterion 1 reads "7, or 8 when the reader's own AI is connected". Alternative: Ask in the Menu only on desktop (phone keeps 5). A cold production load is never connected (the key is tab memory, ai-connection.js:24), so the case is rare.

   Answer: pending. Default if unanswered: Ask shows on Home at every width when connected; criterion 1 reads "7, or 8 when the reader's own AI is connected".

3. Continue's word. It reopens the reading from its first word until a Player start index and a kept position exist. Keep "Continue" (today's behaviour made honest, no "left", no bar), or use "Read again" until then?

   Answer: pending. Default if unanswered: Continue.

4. The visible words, decided here and reversible: eyebrows TODAY'S POEM, BY CHANCE, AS YOU ASKED, CONTINUE; the look word is the temper's name (Signal, Ember, Revel) until C1 renames Ember to Iris.

   Answer: pending. Default if unanswered: the words above.

5. May B4 merge with criterion 4 red under test.fail() (PR 6) while PR 7 lands next?

   Answer: pending. Default if unanswered: yes; the PR body and RDR-019 say so.

• Criterion 4 ships failing; if PR 7's hold and skip do not reach 1.5 s on CI, the remaining cut (the 500 ms autoStart) is C3/D1 territory and RDR-015 stays open with the number.
• The factory is edited twice (PR 3, PR 7); it hosts live Currents, so M's review is on the critical path and live-mcp must stay green.
• Continue reopens from the first word; a reader who left at minute five gets minute one. Browser Back mid-reading leaves the Chamber mounted and may let audio run on (pre-existing; needs its own tracker item).
• A revel session behind Continue shows the default flame palette only if presentation.colors is missing; for Home-launched readings it is present (jev-config.js:63), so the shim matches the reading. Verify on the build.
• The epigraph's face: only thick and mono ever fetch (Instrument Sans and Serif are preloaded; Crimson Pro is the literary face). The 300 ms fonts.load race hides the swap on a normal network, not a slow one. A thick 700 epigraph at 33 px beside a 14 px meta reads loud; the 30ch measure and clamp bound it. Render each of the six faces before merge.
• The 360×640 window is ≈ 130 px of undimmed field in the typical case and less with a two-line title and Ask; the about line (PR 8) must stay one line. Render and measure before merge; widen the ground's fade only if the render shows it short (aesthetic-authority: look, do not reason from the CSS).
• R5: Home's engines are only paused at launch; a pending plate bake and an in-flight flame worker survive (reading-backdrop.js:146-172; plate-field.js:301-304). PR 7's hold keeps them running ~400 ms longer. The longtask probe in home-begin.spec.js is the guard; if it fails, destroy the stage once #view-read has faded in.
• Twelve spec files touch Home's selectors; the hook names are kept so round-trip specs change their waits, not their logic. Two [data-nav="library"] nodes on desktop: every existing locator is scoped or uses .first(); new ones must be.
• ci.yml:59 lists reading-stream.test.js; deleting the file without that line breaks the PR job. The coordinator owns that file.
• today-openings.json (72 KB raw) is fetched on every cold Home visit for one opening a day; not B4's to change.

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