Completes the three dark/light pairs for v1 (batch: 0ba1762, e51c8a7).
Kiln is a potter's workshop at night, lit only by the kiln: warm
near-black (#1D1815), copper accent (#D68C5C, 6.5:1), brass accentAlt,
CaskaydiaCove, rounding 8. Kiln Clay is the same studio at midday:
cream plaster (#F4EDE3), espresso text (11.1:1 AAA), fired-copper
accent (#A34F1F, 4.89:1), brick-red bad. Both waybars are a NEW
whole-swap identity — 'the workbench': ONE continuous floating plank
(window#waybar carries the surface, modules transparent) — deliberately
distinct from boreal's three pills and slate's edge-to-edge strip;
module set verbatim-parity with the generated config. Matched rofi,
btop themes. The wallpapers share identical ring geometry — banked-coal
heat rings at night, terracotta glaze rings at noon — so the autoTheme
flip visibly rhymes.
Sync sweep in this commit (LOOP §5): README 24->28 presets + the
whole-swap list now names the three pairs; CONVENTIONS waybar parity
list gains the four new slugs; OVERRIDES autoTheme table points at the
pairs; HARDWARE-QUEUE gains the batch V3 entry (real-GL blur, btop
visual, launcher grid, tray menus, pair flip); BACKLOG files #153
(PROPOSED: per-theme desktop widgets — the conky idea, engine spike
needed, not v1).
Verification: V2. Full targeted set green on the final tree:
theme-contrast, theme-wholeswap (previews + backgrounds + CSS
self-containment), waybar-language, waybar-swap-env, rofi-text-width,
state-sync-validate, auto-theme VM; nix flake check --no-build green.
Visual protocol: theme-shot VM desktop + menu viewed for BOTH themes
(plank renders as one island, copper/terracotta semantics, legible
menus; /nix/store/2fizd945...theme-shot-kiln and
/nix/store/0126yd48...theme-shot-kiln-clay). audit-theme-design:
CVD-only findings (≤ executive-slate's own baseline); ANSI slots
in-family after the magenta retune. V3 pending: HARDWARE-QUEUE entry
above. btop visual is VM-blocked (GL terminal never starts under
softGL) — file-level assertions only, listed for hardware.
Design + wallpapers on Fable; assets by a Sonnet subagent to a written
identity spec; reviewed on Fable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nomarchy now carries a nixpkgs-unstable input and exposes it through
overlays.default as an `unstable` attrset: in the template's
`home.packages = with pkgs; [ … ]` a user writes `unstable.lmstudio`
and is done. Downstream stays one locked input; nomarchy-pull moves it.
lib.nix needed zero changes — mkFlake's pkgs already applies the
overlay. The import is plain and non-recursive, so configs that never
reference unstable. pay nothing beyond the input fetch; allowUnfree
mirrors the base set so the motivating lmstudio resolves.
Home packages are the supported surface (documented convention). Costs
stated in the README, not hidden: you own the pinned+unstable
combination; a second toolchain lands in your closure (~690 of ~4k
paths shared, measured on lmstudio); it moves when the lock moves.
Lock bumps now move two channels — VERIFICATION §5 and CONVENTIONS
updated accordingly. flake.lock gained exactly one node
(nixos-unstable @ 753cc8a); nothing else moved.
Verification: V1 — nix flake check --no-build green; new eval-only
checks.unstable-seam green (26.05pre vs 26.11pre lib.version, no
builds); template HM activation built via mkFlake with unstable.hello
enabled and its closure carries the unstable store path (pg2zfr… vs
pinned nm7p8w…). Implementation by a Sonnet subagent; design and
review on Fable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The machine flake's git-tracked settings file is system state, not
"theme" only — rename it to state.json. CLI becomes nomarchy-state-sync
with a nomarchy-theme-sync symlink for scripts and muscle memory.
Eval (mkFlake, doctor, lifecycle) still accepts theme-state.json; the
next write migrates to state.json and removes the legacy file.
Documented in MIGRATION.md; drop the CLI alias after release notes.
Make the downstream template the single source of truth for machine
flakes: nomarchy-install copies flake/system/home/theme-state and
patch-template.py only fills hostname, user, keyboard, detected
hardware, snapper, resume, and password. Install and flake-init users
now share the same commented opt-ins and starter home.packages.
Also: BACKLOG boreal-as-default proposal; installer audit notes;
HARDWARE.md from prior work if uncommitted.
The executive-slate preset shipped a waybar.css that referenced @base/@accent
with no @define-color block, and no matching waybar.jsonc — so the raw-read
override ran a largely unstyled bar (the item-28 partial-whole-swap defect).
The palette was also flat (base->surface only 1.13x) with a dim accent
(#4D78CC, 3.91 on base).
- Palette: widen surface stepping (base->surface 1.13x -> 1.29x so panels/
selection/hover separate), brighten the accent (#4D78CC -> #5A8AE6, 3.91 ->
5.04 on base, now AA text), lift subtext/good/warn/bad a tier, realign ansi,
soften bright-white (#FFFFFF -> #F0F3F9). text stays 12.5 AAA. Contrast
checker: all 23 themes x 7 pairings pass.
- Waybar: complete the bespoke bar as a real whole-swap. New waybar.jsonc with
the full 17-module set (parity with summer-day/night); waybar.css rewritten
to lead with its own @define-color block and cover every module + state class
the helper scripts emit (.recording/.activated/.on/.available/.dnd-*/battery).
Identity: solid, edge-to-edge, sharp corners, accent underline on the active
workspace.
- Rofi: drop the broken var() idiom for the house *{}/@name convention (split
border syntax, message/textbox/scrollbar elements for the theme-grid picker).
- CONVENTIONS: Waybar parity rule now names executive-slate as a third
whole-swap target (was stale at summer-only).
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON parse of both files; real
rofi parsed the .rasi cleanly; with executive-slate set active, the module
eval resolves waybar.settings -> the jsonc, waybar.style -> the css, rofi.theme
-> the override rasi, and theme.nix accepts the palette. NOT yet done: on-screen
render of the bar/rofi/desktop (V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware
capture, per the chosen path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A git-tracked agent/ directory so AI agents can iterate on the distro
unattended (runner-agnostic: /loop, headless claude -p, or a fresh
manual session — all state lives in the checkout, per the distro's own
philosophy):
- LOOP.md — the iteration protocol: orient → pick one BACKLOG task →
verify up the V0–V3 ladder → commit+push main → record. Safety rails
(v1 untouchable, no force-push, no surprise lock bumps) and
stop-and-escalate conditions.
- BACKLOG.md — the forward half of docs/ROADMAP.md reworked into a
prioritized queue (5 NOW / 6 NEXT / LATER / PROPOSED / Decisions);
ROADMAP.md stays the design/decision record + shipped log.
- GOALS.md — the four pillars (stable > reproducible/zero-hidden-state >
effortless config > beautiful), quality bars, non-goals.
- CONVENTIONS.md — coding/design rules (in-flake state, menu placement,
Waybar whole-swap parity, toggle-vs-package, no formatter).
- MEMORY.md — curated hard-won lessons (VM recipes, btrfs-assistant
segfault watch, rofi/WirePlumber/hyprlock gotchas).
- HARDWARE-QUEUE.md — every pending V3 on-hardware check collected from
the ROADMAP, with exact steps, split by machine.
- JOURNAL.md — append-only iteration log, seeded with this bootstrap.
Plus a root CLAUDE.md entry point and README/ROADMAP pointers.
Verified: V0 — docs-only; nix flake check --no-build green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
