Bernardo Magri
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Bernardo saw Recovery ellipsize on a 2560x1440 external, which falsified the item's model (40% + Inter 11 → "only below 1920"). Real cause: text menus render through themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi, where boreal + neon-glass pinned width: 620px (fixed — a wide panel buys nothing) while seven used 40%, and the font is whatever that file says — mostly monospace, far wider than the Inter that was measured. The modelled combination ships in no theme. The insight: a menu must fit its longest label, which is a count of characters in the THEME's font — so the window must scale with the font, not the screen. 40% gives a 1366 panel 546px and a 2560 one 1024px for the same row, and a 14pt mono theme needs ~25% more room than an 11pt one on both; a percentage cannot see either fact. Rofi has the right unit (`ch` = width of one digit in the current font) and `calc( a min b )` to cap it, so every text menu — generated and all nine whole-swaps — is now `width: calc( 84ch min 65% )`. 84ch fits the longest row we ship (69 chars) plus icon and padding; the cap is Bernardo's condition (never sprawl on a low-res panel) and it is measured, not assumed. Verified on hardware, not by arithmetic: 84ch = 756px in GeistMono 11 and 924px in JetBrainsMono 14; `calc( 84ch min 300px )` → 300px, so the clamp really clamps. Screenshots at both ends — the real Recovery menu at 756px (29% of 2560) with every label complete, and the Acer worst case reproduced pixel-exactly (888px = 65% of 1366, JetBrainsMono 14) also complete. Grid views override width per-invocation and are untouched. checks.rofi-text-width guards the class, proven by pinning boreal back to 620px and watching it fail by name. Acer V3 queued for its own fontconfig. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent instructions + loop state
Everything an AI agent needs to work on Nomarchy, vendor-neutral and git-tracked. Protocol: LOOP.md. Entry point for every harness: repo-root AGENTS.md.
Instructions (how to work)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| LOOP.md | Human | One-iteration protocol (orient → pick → work → verify → commit → record) + the V0–V3 ladder |
| VERIFICATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Enforcement: preflight, honesty rules, visual protocol, hardware-blocked checks, reporting |
| DELEGATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Capability tiers, scout/runner roles, token economy, parallel fan-out |
| GOALS.md | Human (agents propose) | Pillars, quality bars, non-goals |
| CONVENTIONS.md | Human (agents propose) | How to write code/menu/state while shipping |
| THEME-DESIGN.md | Human (agents propose) | Theme/visual design instructions |
State (what's happening)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| BACKLOG.md | Both | Prioritized queue — only executable work list |
| JOURNAL.md | Agents | Append-only iteration log (read last 3–5 entries; older → JOURNAL-ARCHIVE.md) |
| MEMORY.md | Agents | Curated durable gotchas |
| HARDWARE-QUEUE.md | Agents append, human checks | On-hardware V3 tests only Bernardo can run |
Product / design docs (not a queue)
| File | Role |
|---|---|
| ../docs/VISION.md | v1.0 product themes — agents slice into BACKLOG PROPOSED |
| ../docs/ROADMAP.md | Design history + shipped log |
| ../docs/README.md | Full docs map |
Harness adapters (vendor-specific, thin)
Shared content never lives in an adapter — adapters only register/route into the files above, in whatever format their harness requires.
| Path | Harness | Role |
|---|---|---|
| ../AGENTS.md | any | Entry point (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to it) |
| ../.claude/settings.json | Claude Code | Tool permissions |
| ../.claude/agents/ | Claude Code | nomarchy-scout / nomarchy-runner role defs (contracts in DELEGATION.md) |
Do not put backlog items, vision text, or policy under an adapter directory — it is not shared with other agent runners.
Rules of thumb
- Execute from BACKLOG only (NOW → NEXT; never PROPOSED without human triage).
- Orient with GOALS + CONVENTIONS + MEMORY + last journal + BACKLOG; when the task is product-shaped, also read the relevant VISION §.
- Record lasting design in ROADMAP ✓ when something ships that future humans should know; delete the BACKLOG line.
- v1 branch is human-only — never advance from an agent session.