Session Handoff — PeptidePal Atmosphere+Glass slice 1 BUILT + APPROVED; next: interior rollout + mobile

WHERE WE JUST WERE — verbatim (MANDATORY, always first)

Final substantive assistant message (after her font-darkening ask — the fix was applied and re-shot):

The hero photo is now fully alive — water glass anchoring center, tile frosting the vials — and the copy is ink-dark over it. That's the fix. Now the handoff:

The slice-1 delivery message she approved (prior message, verbatim):

Done with the first slice — stopping for your nod, exactly as planned.

What's built (light cream + sage only, dark retired):

• Landing hero — your P01 photo full-bleed (re-generated at 2K, same exact scene), with the app as a frosted-glass tile sitting right on the vials — the contact-sheet demo, live. Sage buttons, italic-serif numbers ($0 · 2 taps · 100% yours).
• New Progress section — your P04 measuring-tape photo with a little glass "Daily check-in" chip floating on it.
• Dashboard — real glass tiles over a soft blurred wash of P01, the big 75 in italic serif inside a sage ring, glass side rail on desktop, glass bottom bar on mobile. "Good afternoon, Sam." in Fraunces italic.
• Logo + favicon retinted to sage (they were still the old copper + teal — the clash was loud).
• Every other page inherits the new skin automatically through the tokens + glass cards; the deep per-page pass comes after your nod.

Verified: desktop 1440 / tablet 768 / phone 390 screenshots read back and judged — no sideways scroll, zero console errors, contrast passes, money/auth code untouched.

Look at it yourself:

• Landing: http://localhost:4780/
• Dashboard preview (no login needed): http://localhost:4780/preview/dashboard
• Screenshots: PROJECTS/Peptide Pal/app-v2/design-verify/ (the ag-* files)

Say "roll it out" and I'll carry the system across the rest of the interior (Log, Supply, Insights, Check-in, etc.), or tell me what to tweak first — the photo strength, the sage, the italic numbers, anything.

Her verbatim reply (the governing input for the next session):

"Looks great- darken the font, especially in hero to see it easier - once we know what the app looks like on mobile, I want to add images on the landing page of the mobile. We will add 21st dev components to stand out more with interactive components later. should we do a session-handoff for next part. and we can't forget about mobile optimization"

→ Font darkening was DONE this session (--fg-muted → #414f47, hero paragraph to full ink, "Free forever" line to medium fg-muted) and verified by screenshot. The other three asks are the next session's work list.

ACTIVE MODES — RE-INVOKE THESE FIRST (MANDATORY)

• Model: this session ran on Fable 5 (claude-fable-5, her /model switch) — the design work is planned for Fable 5. If the next session is NOT on Fable, invoke fable-mode first.
• premium-web-design (Mode A) — re-invoke FIRST before touching any page; run its pre-ship quality gate on every rolled-out page.
• ui-ux-pro-max — re-invoke second (palettes/UX rules; used for the accessibility + touch-target gates).
• design-premium — re-invoke third (spacing/type discipline).
• ponytail (full) auto-loads via the SessionStart hook — no action needed.

Where it started

Resumed from the photo-picks handoff: light cream+sage LOCKED, P01 = hero, P04 = measurements, dark retired. Sondra said "build it." Built the thin end-to-end slice per FABLE-REDESIGN-PROMPT.md: Dashboard + landing hero only, screenshot gate, stop for her nod. She approved ("Looks great") and set the next work list.

Decisions locked + what shipped

• Slice 1 approved by Sondra. Landing hero on P01 + glass Dashboard, light cream+sage. All in c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\.
• P01 + P04 re-generated at 2K (gemini-3-pro-image-preview on GEMINI_API_KEY), seeded with the original PNGs so her exact compositions held. Verified visually. 2K masters: design-references\photo-candidates-gen\*-2k.png. Optimized WebP: app-v2\public\images\ (hero-p01.webp 39KB · measure-p04.webp 169KB · atmosphere-p01.webp 4KB pre-blurred interior wash).
• branding.css rewritten — cream #f4f0e7, ink #20302b, ONE sage accent #5e6e4e (hover #4d5b3f), ring #7c8b6b + soft glow, glass tokens --glass/--glass-strong/--glass-border, --fg-muted darkened to #414f47 per her note. Dark block DELETED.
• Light-only enforced in code: src\lib\theme.tsx always resolves 'light' (provider API kept so HalfLife charts + Settings don't break); ThemeToggle removed from AppShell + Landing; Appearance picker removed from Settings; color-scheme: light.
• Glass system: .glass / .glass-strong utilities in src\index.css; shared ui\card.tsx is now a glass tile → every interior page inherits it; side rail, mobile top bar, bottom nav all glass. .app-atmosphere = fixed blurred-P01 layer behind the app; .num-display = giant italic Fraunces numbers.
• Landing: P01 full-bleed hero (isolate stacking context is REQUIRED — without it the -z-10 photo vanishes behind the page background), 112% left-anchored pan so the still life sits beside the glass tile, cream veil releasing left→right on desktop / top→bottom on mobile; new Progress band on P04 with a glass check-in chip; glass nav + med chips; italic-serif fact/pricing numbers. Copy untouched (approved v1 wording) except the honest new Progress-band copy.
• Logo + favicon retinted sage (public\logo.svg, public\favicon.svg — were copper #a8502c / old teal #0f766e placeholders).
• Chart colors (src\branding.ts) → sage family; dark block kept only for type stability.
• Fixed en route: 768px tile clip (fixed width → max-w), --fg-subtle contrast (#6d7969), hero stacking bug.
• Wiki updated: decisions-july-2026 (top entry), open-questions (new entry + 2 superseded struck), dashboard.md PeptidePal row.

Key files for next session

• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\FABLE-REDESIGN-PROMPT.md — READ FIRST; 🛑 blocks govern (direction → no-landscapes → theme+hero lock).
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\src\branding.css — the token system (do not add colors; ONE sage accent).
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\src\index.css — .glass, .glass-strong, .app-atmosphere, .num-display, .label-mono, .data-mono utilities.
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\src\pages\Dashboard.tsx + src\pages\Landing.tsx — the approved reference implementations; match their register when rolling out.
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\src\pages\ — the rollout surface: Log, Supply, Insights, CheckIn, Cycles, HalfLife, Stacks, Reminders, Share, Settings, Admin, Login, Upgrade, Onboarding, More, Legal, SharedView, Placeholder.
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\design-verify\ag-*.png — approved-state screenshots (the baseline to not regress).
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\design-references\photo-candidates-gen\generated.json — per-image prompts; H01-H05 + P02/P03/P05 approved for other sections (re-gen hi-res the same seeded way if used).
• Memory files touched: none (wiki + handoff shelf only, per skill rules).

Running state

• Background processes started THIS session: none.
• Dev server: Vite at http://localhost:4780 — RUNNING (started in a prior session, not tracked by this harness). Restart if dead: cd "c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2" && npm run dev -- --port 4780.
• Open worktrees / branches: none — workspace repo on main.
• Playwright MCP browser is LOCKED by her open Chrome — use python playwright.sync_api headless instead (pattern proven this session).

Verification — how to confirm things still work

• cd "c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2" && npx tsc --noEmit — exits 0.
• curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:4780/ — 200 (else restart per Running state).
• Open http://localhost:4780/ and http://localhost:4780/preview/dashboard — landing shows the P01 photo hero (glass tile over vials), dashboard shows glass tiles + sage ring + italic serif number. Zero console errors.
• Horizontal-overflow check at 390px must stay 0px (python playwright: document.documentElement.scrollWidth - clientWidth).

Deferred + open questions

• Deferred: interior rollout (~14 pages listed above) — pages inherit tokens+glass Card but need per-page layout/polish, mobile-first.
• Deferred: mobile-optimization pass — her explicit "we can't forget"; every page verified at 390.
• Deferred: real mobile-app screenshots on the landing — AFTER interior mobile is final; capture real 390px app screens and place them on the landing (phone frames).
• Deferred: 21st.dev interactive components on the landing — "to stand out more"; her component standard (check 21st.dev first, replicate at full boldness).
• Deferred: /app-safety-check re-run once the design fully lands; Stripe still TEST — live-flip needs her go + webhook refund/dispute event subscribe (see open-questions 2026-07-10 PeptidePal entry).
• Open: none blocking — she approved the direction; next tweaks come from her review of the rollout.

Pick up here

Fresh session in c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\Peptide Pal\app-v2\ on Fable 5: re-invoke premium-web-design (Mode A) → ui-ux-pro-max → design-premium first (plus fable-mode if not on Fable), read FABLE-REDESIGN-PROMPT.md, then roll the Atmosphere+Glass system across the interior pages mobile-first — screenshot-verify each at 1440/390 against the ag-* baseline, then capture the real mobile screenshots for the landing.