Beside its square the shorter word is unmistakable, and it brings the
whole key to 52 cells, so the legend under a path graph or the contacts
table is one line on the PicoCalc and the Cardputer instead of two. The
type's name stays room server everywhere else, the CLI's answers
included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Message paths and the mesh walk keep their list's rows on the Cardputer instead of
spending three on a key to marks that mean the same thing everywhere; the rule is
widgets.short_frame, the same one that draws a tab strip on one row. The message
paths budget also counts the key's real height, which wraps to two lines at 53
columns and had been counted as one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Below sixteen viewport rows the boxed strip's three rows become one, the active
tab standing on the rule between tees and every label held where it was. On the
Cardputer that puts the node page's actions and a record's whole Info list back
on screen. The node page's location preview steps aside when it can't have its
five-row floor, rather than scrolling the header and actions away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"scoped · 3fa1" put a `·` inside the reading, so in the message paths
title it chained as two status atoms. It is now "unknown scope 3fa1",
and "? 3fa1" in the live feed's SCOPE lane, whose heading already says
what the column holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The groundwork for region scopes. core/regions.py holds the firmware's
maths (key = SHA-256("#"+name)[:16] over UTF-8, code = HMAC over type byte
+ payload with the reserved values stepped off) and the Scope reading of a
received frame. core/region_store.py keeps the regions known by name,
which repeaters carry them, and each channel's send scope, and memoizes
resolution. Observations gain transport_code and scope_body (schema v16)
so a scoped frame resolves against a name learned after it was heard.
Device gains set_flood_scope (the session override, * forcing unscoped)
and request_regions (the anonymous REGIONS request). The default scope
is now framed by MeshTerm: the library stored it with a # the firmware
and apps leave off, and padded by characters rather than bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
0.9.0 called the same advert type three things: `companion` in info, `client` in
diagnostics, and `node` in contacts and every other screen that names a node's type.
Room servers were `room server` in two places and `room` in the rest. JP picked
companion. It is the ecosystem's word -- companion firmware, companion apps -- and the
one MeshTerm's own docs already used most. "client" now belongs to MeshTerm itself, which
the one-liner calls a MeshCore client, and "node" is the lexicon's umbrella for every type,
so a TYPE column that says "node" for one of them tells a reader nothing.
There is now one table, NODE_TYPE_LABELS, and one helper, node_type_label(), which gives
"type N" for an advert type MeshTerm does not know. info and diagnostics lose the two
role tables that had drifted apart, and the packet viewer its own copy of the fallback.
The longer names made the node-type legend 59 cells wide, which the PicoCalc's 53 would
have cropped, cutting "sensor" off. node_type_legend() now takes the width it has and
breaks between entries, never inside one, so it stays on one line on a desktop and takes
two on the PicoCalc. The four screens that draw it pass their width and take its lines.
This changes --json output, so it goes under [Unreleased] for 0.9.1. docs/cli.md's samples,
the value lists and CLAUDE.md's lexicon say companion and room server. Two tests pin the
names and the PicoCalc legend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apache-2.0 does not require per-file headers, but a file lifted out of the tree carried no marking at all. One comment line, first (or right after a shebang), on every .py under meshterm/, tests/, packaging/ and scripts/, plus the extensionless SPI bridge; tests/test_spdx.py keeps a new file from landing without one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A leading underscore says "internal to this file, don't import me", and the
column-age formatter and the node glyph table wore one while seventeen modules
imported them and CLAUDE.md named them as the one place each concept lives.
format_age sits beside format_ago now (prose age, column age), NODE_GLYPHS and
DEFAULT_GLYPH beside them, age_seconds with the ages. A mechanical rename, 140
references across 24 files, CLAUDE.md's three lines with them so the guide and
the code move as one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A pre-release architecture and QA pass, applied as one change because the moves
share files and only the whole set was gate-tested (2480 passed, ruff clean).
Three new modules pull logic down out of layers that should not own it:
core/channel_probe.py (ChannelSlot, read_channel_slots, probe_channel_slots)
so services/device_state.py no longer imports a screen; services/markers.py
(gather_markers, with MapMarker a core/models dataclass) so two screens stop
importing a tool; core/tracing.py (trace_timeout, path_hash_flags) so
core/connection.py no longer imports services. The routing-prefix width is
DeviceState.routing_prefix_bytes(), replacing five private cross-module imports.
One definition per thing: is_path_hash, the NodeResolver/NameKeyResolver
aliases, TILE_RETRY_SECONDS, haversine_km, marks.SELF_MARK, MENTION; nine
private names that crossed module boundaries got public ones and menus.__all__
lists what other modules import. A preference's default is written once
(ALERT_CAP, DONE_CAP, DEFAULT_VIEW_FRACTION read the registry), the stranded
PREFERENCES doc comment sits on its subject, and three docstrings stop naming
questionary, a library dropped long ago.
The command line gains --version (eager, exit 0, documented, tested) and drops
the -p short form on trace, trace-path and tx-optimize: the root lifts -p as
--profile before a leaf ever sees it, so the leaf's could never work, and a
derived test now checks every leaf against every root short option.
tx-optimize with a one-hop --path is a usage error, exit 2, because nothing
transmitted is not a device failure. Log handlers are closed before they are
cleared (197 unclosed-file warnings gone), chat's fire-and-forget tasks keep a
reference, coroutines use get_running_loop(), the never-awaited MapScreen._load
in a test is awaited, and the CLI sweep passes --no-ble to devices so a test
run stops turning on the Bluetooth radio three times (the suite is 40 % faster).
The about page lists every dependency, and the release skill bumps the README's
download names, which still said 0.2.8.
apply_ops stays in tools/: it and its helpers build report blocks and open two
screens, so moving it to core/ would invert core over ui. The widgets CLAUDE.md
names by their private spellings (_format_age, _NODE_GLYPHS) keep them until
CLAUDE.md is edited alongside.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The node page's shape (widgets.tab_strip, Tab/Shift+Tab, the next tab on F3): Stats is
the record read — its stats, identity first, then the route two ways — with the action
rows at its foot; Area is the ground drawing across the whole stage the viewport leaves
under the strip, so the shape gets every row and column the page has rather than the
block a stacked layout could spare it. The Area tab is offered only for a walk with a
drawable shape; a record without one keeps a lone-tab heading and nothing to switch. A
page too narrow to draw on says so instead of squeezing.
widgets.tab_air is the strip's platform-bound air, hoisted from the node page so both
tabbed screens spend it the same way. The gallery gains the Area tab as a specimen on
both platforms.
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Three body headings — Stats, Area walked, Route — each with the note that used to be a
faint caption under its block, so a page this tall can be skimmed by its landmarks. The
record's identity leads its stats: the spec walked and when it was set, then what the
walk measured. The area drawing takes the page's whole width and rows in step with it,
a quarter of the columns (half as tall as wide in braille dots), so a wider page is a
bigger shape rather than a padded one; rows a flat shape leaves blank are still
trimmed, so a tall box costs it nothing.
widgets.body_heading is THE form for a heading inside a page's body — accent title,
muted note — hoisted from the Time Machine's private copy.
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The charger cuts out at full, the pack settles back to 99, the charger
restarts - and the companion reports that flip every poll for as long
as the thing is plugged in. The gauge is pinned to the header's right
edge and the pulse takes whatever is left, so the fourth cell 100%
needed came off the sparkline and redrew the whole activity history at
a new scale, twice a minute, on a device sitting still.
A full pack reads `100` now, with no sign: three cells, exactly as the
`99%` it keeps flipping back to. It is the one reading whose `%` can
be inferred - a bare 100 beside a full block is a percentage without
being told - and the sign goes on doing its work at every charge that
could be mistaken for something else.
Only that pair is answered, deliberately. The other width change in
the range, 9 to 10, is a boundary a discharging pack crosses once and
never comes back over: one repaint, no jitter, nothing to fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four places where the CLI answered a question the caller had not asked.
`--profile yagi` naming no profile fell through to ordinary discovery, so
a typo in a scheduled advert transmitted from whichever radio happened to
be attached. Naming a profile is a claim about which device; an
unkeepable claim is a bad argument, not a default.
`--sort bogus` sorted by the default and `--category long_hual` selected
every discipline — which then came back as exit 5, the code that means a
real empty result. A caller branching on 5 could not tell "no records"
from "you misspelled the discipline". `ContactsSort.from_name` still
forgives an unknown name, because a saved preference from an older build
must not wedge the menu's list; the command line refuses instead.
A `--port` that would not open reported exit 4 and "the connection to the
device was lost", describing a connection there had never been. Every
failure while acquiring the device is the other status: nothing was
transmitted. It now says which port, and why.
A message body could hold a newline, which ended its record early and
left the remainder indented under the other columns as a second record
with an empty TIME — the one field a stranger fills in, breaking the one
rule the format has. script.oneline folds it flat.
And an unnamed node read as `""` in one listing and `-` in the next:
seven of the ten places that print a name were claiming "called nothing"
where they meant "never said". script.name draws the distinction once,
which is also the one the JSON rendering will need.
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The CLI had grown the menu's manners -- colour, boxes, section headings,
glyph columns, a closing check mark -- and every one of them is in the way
of the thing it is actually for. It now prints like a standard Unix
utility: plain text, no escape sequences at all, no frames, one record per
line, and nothing wrapped, so a long line runs off the right instead of
folding its fields onto a second one.
meshterm/ui/script.py is the whole vocabulary. Listings are an uppercase
header and space-aligned records; key/value blocks are sysctl's shape, and
a `get` prints the bare value alone. Names are quoted wherever they share a
line, because a name can hold a space or a comma and a bare one is not a
field. A route reads "Origin" (3d),"Relay" (f2),"Us" (a1) -- the hash
outside the quotes, our own node a hop like any other rather than a star,
since the hash is what carries the identity that colour carries on screen.
Times are absolute local ISO-8601 and "-" is the one token for absent.
The return value is now half the report: 0 ok, 1 failure, 2 usage, 3 no
device, 4 the device was reached and the operation failed, 5 nothing to
report. That last one is the point -- a command that ran fine and found
nothing prints nothing and says so in $?, so a script never has to count
output lines to tell an empty mesh from a full one. Errors and progress
moved to stderr, and an expected failure no longer arrives as a traceback.
Two things lose their scripted face rather than get a degraded one. The map
is a picture whose nodes are told apart by colour: monochrome it would be
unreadable, coloured it could not be piped anywhere useful, and the nodes
themselves are still in `contacts`. The QR codes are a second rendering of
a link the output already prints.
ui.ack joins ui.note to draw the line the change needed: a note is output,
an acknowledgement is reassurance a person wants and a script must filter
out, so the menu prints it and the CLI drops it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`ruff format .` across the repo: 153 files, no behaviour change. This is the
second gate CONTRIBUTING.md promises, and until now it reported 154 files needing
reformat — so a first contributor ran the command the guide told them to run and
could not tell their own diff from the background.
Landed on its own, with nothing else in it, because a whole-repo reformat is only
safe to skip past in blame if it is provably nothing but layout. It was checked
that way rather than assumed: every changed file was formatted in memory and
compared by full `ast.dump()`, and 152 of 153 come out structurally identical
(the one exception was a docstring opening on a quote character, fixed in the
commit before this one). The string and comment token streams were diffed
separately, so a quote flip or an edited comment could not hide inside a
re-layout — five quote-style normalisations and sixteen implicit-concatenation
joins, all value-identical, and one commented-out line gaining the space after
its `#`. `meshterm specimen` is byte-identical on both platforms, and the suite
is 1888 green, gallery gate and `test_theme16` included.
What actually changed, in order of how much of the diff it is: wrapped calls and
signatures rejoin onto one line where they fit inside the hundred columns; the
magic trailing comma expands what it is there to expand; complex slices gain
their spaces (`[len(noise) :]`); a few redundant parens go. The tables that are
laid out to be read were fenced in the previous commit and are untouched here.
The aligned trailing-comment column is gone from about ninety lanes that were not
fenced — including the `heat.*` ladder in `MESH_THEME`, which cannot be fenced
where it sits. Every comment stays on the entry it describes, so nothing there
reads wrong; it just no longer lines up.
Add this commit to `.git-blame-ignore-revs`, which follows immediately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`D205` across the 20 sites in `meshterm/` and `scripts/`, which leaves the
package and the scripts fully ruff-clean.
None of these were a summary that happened to wrap. They were a paragraph with
no summary at all, so the fix is additive: a plain sentence saying what the
thing *is* goes on the first line, and the prose that was there becomes the
description under it. "The transport of the current/selected connection:
``"serial"``, ``"ble"``, ``"tcp"``, or ``None``" now opens with "Which
transport the current or selected connection uses" and lists the four values
below; `_emit` leads with what it returns before the four paragraphs on why a
wide glyph forces a whole-row repaint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`E501` across 69 lines, wrapped rather than exempted.
The prose ones — module docstrings in `menu`, `node_detail_screen`,
`pathline`, `pathgraph`, `walk_screen`, `trace_runner` and `test_about` — are
reflowed as paragraphs, so the block keeps its shape instead of gaining one
short orphan line. Nothing they say changed.
The code ones mostly gained a line break inside a call. Where a break would
have read worse than a name, the sub-expression got one instead: `reach` in
`topology`'s quality clamp, `plain_cells` in `pathline`, `numbering` in the
trace list, `listed` in `flash.py`'s refusal, and a small `shape`/`is_strip`
helper in two tests that were comparing or matching the same shape twice on one
line. Four docstring summaries lost a word they were not using.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`B905` over 56 sites, and the answer differs by idiom rather than by file.
21 were the sliding window `zip(xs, xs[1:])` — ragged by exactly one, on
purpose, so `strict=` is the wrong question entirely. Those become
`itertools.pairwise`, which is what they always meant and needs no flag: the
walk's SNR stops, the heat ladder, the route chains in `topology`/`records`,
every polyline in `mapcanvas`, and the graph's edge sets in `pathgraph`.
The other 35 pair sequences that must line up, so they now say `strict=True`
and a mismatch raises instead of silently truncating the longer side. Running
them under that assertion is what sorted the two groups: the first pass put
`strict=True` everywhere and 208 tests failed, all of them a sliding window.
One goes the other way. `mvt._decode_feature` reads tags off a network tile,
where an odd-length list means the tile is malformed — and this decoder answers
that with a shrug everywhere else (`if not geom_ints: return None`, bounds-
checked key and value indices). It keeps `strict=False`, now with a comment
saying why, so a bad basemap tile still can't crash the map.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`ruff check --fix` over the whole tree, ahead of putting the linter in CI:
1977 mechanical fixes, overwhelmingly `Optional[X]` → `X | None` (1186 in the
package alone) and the quoted annotations that `from __future__ import
annotations` already made unnecessary, plus import sorting and unused imports.
Nothing here changes behaviour — the suite is 1885 green before and after.
Four findings were real rather than stylistic and are fixed by hand: a dead
`cells` range in `MapCanvas`, a dead slot dict in the heat-ladder test, a
`ProgressScreen` task handle nobody read, and a tab loop binding a `label` it
never used. The two `F821`s were quoted forward references to names imported
inside their function bodies — now declared under `TYPE_CHECKING`, which keeps
`test_performance`'s local import (it guards the startup import graph) while
letting the linter resolve the name.
412 findings remain and are deliberately untouched: they need a decision about
the rule, not an edit to the code.
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No, it isn't the ack — ACK is its own payload class and was never in the match.
Both symptoms come from the same place: a packet header's route type, which we
never recorded, decides what its `path` field *is*.
A FLOOD packet accumulates: every relay appends its hash, so the path is the
route it travelled to reach us. A DIRECT packet is the opposite — the path is a
routing instruction the sender wrote and the relays consume — so it says where
the packet is going, and an empty one means the route was used up, not that the
packet arrived in a single leap. Reading every path the first way is what drew a
message from five hops out as having appeared from nowhere.
The evidence is in your own log. The four-hop route on those sends is identical
across four consecutive messages, where a flood-accumulated path varies every
time; it ends on 40ef0f, which is the first hop of everything hairu sends *us*;
and a PATH frame carrying exactly those four hops crosses the log seconds before
the first message that uses it. That is a learned route to hairu being announced
and then used — not a route anything took to us.
So route_typename is stored (schema v15, a `route` column beside the crypto and
addressing ones added for the same reason), and an Arrival carries whether it
was routed. A routed frame with no path has route_known False: it is kept as a
copy that reached us — the count and the time are real — but it is drawn as
"routed · route not carried" instead of a confident zero hops, and it puts no
lane in the fan, because an empty lane there is a claim of adjacency the frame
never made. Frames from before the column read None and fall back to the old
behaviour rather than to a guess.
The round trip is a second bug and needed no new data. The path line closed on
our own ★ unconditionally, and for an outgoing message its head is our ★ too —
so every send drew ★ ▶ … ▶ ★. The graph did the same, DST_NODE having been
hardcoded to us. Both now take a destination: the far end for a message we sent,
ourselves for one we received. It is the rule the line's head already followed —
a path runs between the nodes it went between — applied at last to its tail. A
channel broadcast keeps us at both ends, because there the copies we log really
are our own message coming back.
collapse now keys on the route type as well as the hops, so a route travelled
and a route intended never fold into one row even when the hashes match.
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One braille cell was four coarse levels lit in one colour. It is now a
filled block whose two channels answer two different questions.
Colour answers "roughly how much" from across the room: a lit
foreground over its own darker ground of the same hue — light green on
green over half, yellow on brown over a quarter, light red on red
below. The braille fill inside the block answers "exactly how much" on
a second look: each dot row lights left before right, so one cell
carries eight rungs, one per 12.5% of charge. The band holds still
while the dots climb through it, which is what keeps the two readable
as two.
The charging sweep keeps its five whole-row frames and does not colour
itself — a frame of an animation is not a reading, so the band goes on
answering for the real charge underneath it, exactly as the number
beside it does.
That leaves the alarm nothing to say in hue, so it says it in ground:
under 6.25% — half the last dot's worth of charge — the cell alternates
black dots on red with the light red on the bare page. Where every
other cell is filled, a beat with no fill at all is the loudest thing
the palette has. It is drawn a frame at a time because a terminal's own
blink only ever toggles the foreground, and the PicoCalc's framebuffer
console ignores SGR 5 outright — device-checked, along with its want of
bright backgrounds, which is why the grounds are all dim-bank slots.
Neither animation sits behind Platform.effects any more. The header is
rebuilt on the idle tick regardless, so both cost a colour swap in a
frame already being painted, and the one platform the alarm is *for*
was the one platform never drawing it. effects keeps the braille
spinner, which is what it was really gating.
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Teal was still answering three questions it had no business answering. The wordmark's
colour is the app's identity, and it is also a node hue — so a cyan-keyed node could
vanish into the very highlight pointing at it.
- A node's key-derived hue folds to the cursor white on the cursor row. A row is a
column of identities right up until it is the row you are on, and then it is
answering a different question; a hue on it argues with its own selection. Folded
once at the render boundary for any Text whose *base* style is `cursor` (which is how
every list and every screen drawing its own rows already marks it), so no screen has
to remember the rule. `theme.is_identity_style` is node_style read backwards — every
hue a key can mint, on both platforms — and only those fold: the heat of an age, an
SNR reading, a red badge, a path line's chip fills all keep what they were given. So
does the grey of a node no key could place: the highlight knows where you are, not who.
- The reverse-video chip — a dialog's committing button, a running action's Abort, the
arrow-mode composer slot, the editor cursor — is grey. A chip marks where a press
lands. It is chrome, and chrome does not get a hue. Light grey slot 7 on the VT: the
one grey a reverse can put behind text there, and the fill the F-key lane already uses.
- The active sort column's heading and triangle take the same white as the cursor row,
being the same claim one axis over. They were a bare `#22d3ee`, which put a selection
cue back on the node spectrum and, on the console, straight onto the brand's own slot.
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The sweep read a frame per idle repaint, so it climbed at half speed on the
handheld — a platform that ticks every 2 s because a frame costs 7-11% of a
core there. Pacing it off the tick was solving the wrong problem: the gauge
should climb at a second a frame everywhere, and the repaints that takes are
worth buying, since a pack only sweeps while it is plugged in.
So the poller now buys them, and only while all three hold: the gauge is
actually sweeping (a pack sitting full on the charger is not — which is where
a forgotten handheld spends the night), the platform idles slower than a
frame, and a surface is listening. Everything else sleeps out the interval as
before. BATTERY_ANIM_S moves to the widget as the one cadence both read, and
Ui.invalidate gives a service its first channel to repaint live chrome.
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The gauge says charging by sweeping its fill bottom-to-full, holding the
charge colour. That is the state itself, not decoration, so gating it on
Platform.effects left the PicoCalc with no way to say it at all — and,
worse, frozen on the sweep's empty frame. Only the low-battery blink is
decoration over a charge the cell already shows; that alone stays behind
`effects`, and `animate` now says so.
The sweep steps on the platform's own idle repaint interval rather than a
fixed second, so each repaint advances it one clean step instead of
aliasing across skipped frames: 1 s on the desktop, 2 s on the handheld.
A pack at 100% draws as not charging whichever way the flag reads — a full
cell resting full is the honest picture, and a charger left plugged in
shouldn't leave the gauge sweeping forever.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PicoCalc reads its charging flag straight off the handheld's own BMS
— the kernel's power_supply status, backed by the keyboard MCU's battery
register — so the state was known all along; the header simply never drew
it. Charging replaces the fill with a sweep frame, and a platform without
effects holds frame 0, so a charging pack drew an *empty* cell: the gauge
under-read the pack outright, exactly while it was filling.
Animation is now the caller's claim rather than something inferred from a
held frame. Where nothing animates the gauge draws its resting state — the
true fill, no blink — and says charging with an arrow beside it instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A name standing alone above its messages was a coloured word with nothing
to say it was a label — at a glance it read like something someone typed.
It now sits in a chip, and not a chip of its own invention: ui/widgets.
name_chip builds a one-hop PathLine and asks it for its line, so the fill,
the ink, the padding, the rounded cap and the closing point are whatever a
route's segments are wearing today and cannot drift from them. A sender
wears exactly what that node wears as a hop — hue in the fill under dark
ink, the keyless grey where no key places them, and our own messages
headed by the ★ on its neutral grey rather than by the word "you".
Only the group header. An @mention inside a body is part of what was said,
and framing it would put a chip in the middle of a sentence.
Degrading comes free with the borrowing: where the terminal can't draw
separators — the PicoCalc console among them — a path line is arrow text
and one hop is just the name in its hue, which is what a sender label was
before it was framed. The specimen card grows a chips row, which doubles
as a one-hop sample of the route language.
And the unknown sender takes node.unknown rather than muted: one hex apart
here, a whole slot apart on the console, and an unidentified sender is
content you can still act on, not chrome.
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A name standing alone above its messages was a coloured word with nothing
to say it was a label — at a glance it read like something someone typed.
It now sits on a field: the node's own hue as ink on the neutral dark grey
pathline already fills our ★ chip with, closed at both ends by the rounded
caps a path line closes on, or by half blocks where the font has none.
Only the group header. An @mention inside a body is part of what was said,
and framing it would put a chip in the middle of a sentence.
The widget is ui/widgets.name_chip — the ink arrives as whatever style the
caller would have drawn the name in and is *added* to the fill as a Style,
because Rich silently drops "node.unknown on #3f3f46" and renders the name
bare. The console has no field to offer (its one dark grey is slot 8 and
backgrounds stop at 7), so the name draws unframed there, bound on
truecolor like the heat gradient. The specimen card grows a chips row so
both dresses are visible on the acceptance screen.
And the unknown sender takes node.unknown rather than muted: one hex apart
here, a whole slot apart on the console, and an unidentified sender is
content you can still act on, not chrome.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hash whose node nobody can name reads whole in node.unknown — path
lines, key lanes, the walk, the packet card, the arrivals — never in a
hue its bytes would derive, exactly as the path graph already drew it.
highlighted_hash gains a known flag; the two path widgets decide it from
their resolver, and the node page threads it per hop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JP's spec for the heard-age scale, replacing the four-step ladder: white
under 5 minutes, then yellow at 5m, light red at 1h, brown at 1d, red at
1w, light grey at 1mo, and one cold grey for over a year — which is also
"never heard", since past a year the distinction stops earning a colour.
The `heat.*` styles are renamed for what they describe: a node heard
eight minutes ago is `heat.minutes`, one heard eight days ago is
`heat.days`. The old hot/warm/cool/cold read as temperature but had to
carry an age, and at seven rungs that stopped being sayable. The steps
themselves move into a table, so the ladder is one thing to read.
Three of the seven land in the VT's dim bank, so they say `not bold` — a
selected row would otherwise jump them a rung (brown to yellow, red to
light red), which is the one way a heat colour can lie about an age.
The splash wordmark's vertical ramp becomes white / yellow / light red /
red / light black, each picked to quantize onto exactly one palette slot
(15, 11, 9, 1, 8) while staying a warm fade in truecolour. Its rows are
art rather than renderables, so they had never passed through the fold
and the console was downsampling them on its own — they do now, which is
what makes the slot choice hold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two reports on the PicoCalc's message paths, one root cause each.
The graph drew an unnamed hop's hash — and the sender's name — as white,
the "you" colour. MapCanvas emits its own bold for markers and labels,
and its colours arrive already quantized to a palette slot; the kernel VT
then draws bold as *brightness*, so anything that landed in the dim bank
was promoted to its bright partner. Light grey became white. A purple
repeater would have become pink the same way. The canvas now drops
emphasis where bold is brightness — the colour is the load-bearing part.
The same trap reaches the theme through inheritance: Rich merges a row's
base style into every span, so a dim-slot span left silent about bold
changes colour inside a selected row. Every dim-slot style now says which
it means — `not bold` to keep its colour, `bold` where the promotion is
the point (only title.muted) — and a test forbids staying silent.
The pathline drew the same hop dark grey, because `muted` collapses onto
the console's dark grey while the desktop's is light. That conflated two
things: `muted` is chrome and may recede a step, but a node we can't
identify is content you can still act on. It gets its own name,
`node.unknown` — light grey, identical to today's desktop muted, so
nothing moves there — and it is what `name_style` returns keyless, what
an unlit `highlighted_hash` wears, and what the `○` ring is.
Also fixes a crash from the previous commit: the graph's label colour
resolved a marker through `parse_hex`, which the type marks' theme names
are not. A repeater relay we couldn't name would have raised.
The gallery's node-detail header spelled a marker hex by hand; it goes
through the app's own styles now, so a palette bug can't hide behind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A platform's ceiling may change a rule's resolution, never the rule. P3
had picocalc colour node names by *type* instead of by key, so a name's
colour there meant something different than it does on the desktop — the
node's kind, not its identity. Both platforms now run one rule: the key's
first byte picks the hue. The console just spends fewer of them.
node_style gains the binding the heat scale already had. Regular keeps
the full 256-hue wheel; picocalc snaps the same hue to its sixth of it —
the six chromatic bright slots, ~43 first bytes each. It returns the
slot's own hex rather than a color(N), so every downsample on the way out
(Rich's, and the fold's quantizer) lands on that exact slot instead of
guessing a neighbour, and the callers that read an RGB back out of a
style string keep working.
The type marks needed the opposite treatment: their hues are fixed, not
derived, and a naive nearest-RGB match drained the repeater's violet to
grey — a repeater read as an unknown node. They move to the theme's
type.* entries so each platform picks its slot deliberately, and a
braille raster resolves the same entry through theme.mark_rgb, so the
canvas marker and its Rich-drawn twin can't drift.
With names off the type registry, nothing reads it: Platform.name_colour
and core/nodetypes.py go, along with the three reception-layer feeders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The console keeps its stock kernel palette - black background, classic
PC hues - instead of the custom setvtrgb remap. MESH_THEME_16 is
re-tuned against the stock slots, which hands back the map's own
language for free: clients wear bright pink (13), repeaters purple (5),
rooms cyan (6), sensors brown (3). The cost is one dark grey - muted,
faint and track all collapse onto slot 8. Heat quantizes on plain human
units (15 min / 1 h / 1 day). The custom design is archived, not
deleted: theme._VT_SLOTS_CUSTOM + MESHTERM_CUSTOM_PALETTE=1 on the font
script reinstalls it, with the parity test keeping the two in sync.
Undoing the remap on the device exposed a trap: setvtrgb overwrites the
kernel's DEFAULT colormap, so the OSC palette-reset "resets" straight
back to the custom values - the script's default mode now programs the
stock palette explicitly (verified live; specimen screenshot in
.claude/plans/p3-specimen-stock.png).
The header also follows JP's spec: the handheld brands the app -
"MeshTerm vX" - instead of naming a soldered port that never changes,
and the activity pulse takes whatever room remains.
Also root-causes the intermittent suite flake: Rich memoizes a parsed
Style's ANSI codes on first render (Style.parse is globally cached), so
a raw hex style first rendered by a truecolor console replays 38;2
verbatim on a standard console later in the process. The specimen's
nodes row now wears the type.* theme styles - which is also just
correct: the marks now match the names row. Six consecutive clean
full-suite runs.
Deferred at JP's request: the glyph substitution map (he will redo it),
the F-key lane design (awaits his explicit spec), the CLI fold gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first P3 (a84abf3) ran on the wrong model and its palette never
reached the TUI: MESH_THEME_16 was written in 256-colour cube indices
instead of the 16 VT slots, and the platform theme pick was wired into
the scripted-CLI console while the real rasterizer stayed hardcoded to
truecolor. Replace it end to end:
- theme._VT_SLOTS: the canonical slot->RGB design (conventional hue
families kept; slots 5/6 become the track/faint slates), MESH_THEME_16
rewritten against color(0..15) with the VT's bold-as-brightness and
dim-bank-background rules pinned by tests. /etc/vtrgb + a boot oneshot
install it (console-font script), OSC fallback when kbd is absent.
- platforms.on_platform: set_platform now re-runs registered bindings,
so theme, rasterizer and widgets swap implementations once per switch
and hot paths read module globals - no per-call get_platform().
- The render-boundary fold (theme.fold_text): one str.translate pass
(NFKD accent folds - the Terminus base has no accented Latin - plus
symbol stand-ins and the width-padded emoji map), an embedded-SGR
quantizer for canvas truecolor, and a ?-at-own-width catch-all that
makes the no-wide-glyph short-circuit true by construction. Applied at
the only two places every visible byte passes: render_to_ansi and
MapCanvas.to_ansi_lines.
- ui/fontset.py freezes the installed font's inventory (dumped live);
the gallery now asserts rendered picocalc ANSI carries no truecolor/
256-colour SGR and no character outside it - the parity gate the
first attempt faked by asserting a dataclass field.
- Font build: nine new 6x12 marks (ellipsis, warn, backspace, shift,
gear, refresh, clock, crosshair, padlock) drawn into donor slots, with
donor misses now fatal and a keeper canary (donating pi once erased
Cyrillic pe - shared slot). Table re-dumped on-device: identical to
fontset.py, 519 = 519.
- Type-based name colouring: registry moved to core/nodetypes (services
no longer import ui), fed from monitor observations, heard_nodes and
merge_contacts. Heat gradient quantizes to heat.* steps on picocalc.
- ui/marks.py: the P2-deferred constant relocation - widgets no longer
drags map_render/mapcanvas/pathgraph for tuples and aliases.
- meshterm specimen: the visual language on one card through the real
funnels - the on-device acceptance screen (JP's request).
- tools/chat: delivered/no-ack state uses the standard check/query
marks, not the banned emoji pair.
Verified on the Lyra: font+palette installed, specimen framebuffer
captures in .claude/plans/. 1259 tests green, 13 xfailed (P6 list).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merging a repeated hop into one marker is right across paths and wrong
within one. A via chain that names the same hop twice closes a cycle, and
the left-to-right flow has nowhere to seat it: the balanced-x relaxation
iterates a cyclic edge set, never reaches its fixed point, and returns
wherever the sweep budget stopped. The loop's relays then land in one
column — markers piled a cell apart, labels colliding or dropped, the back
edge falling as a bare vertical — while the hops outside it are crushed
against the ends. Worse, the residue depends on set iteration order, so
the pile's column swung with the hash seed: the very frame-to-frame jump
the first-appearance node order exists to prevent.
render_path_graph grows allow_duplicate_nodes, which hands each revisit
its own marker (occurrence-qualified ids the caller's callbacks never see,
so both markers draw as the same node). The walk is acyclic again, spreads
evenly, and reads in the order it was heard. Relays shared *between* paths
still merge — that fan is what the widget is for.
Opt-in, because the two situations want opposite things. The Trophy case
scores a path we composed, so collapsing a revisit is deliberate there —
re-walking a node must not make the shape look bigger than the ground it
covered. An overheard chain has no such duty: nothing in it is ours to
inflate, and a repeat is evidence.
Evidence we cannot read, though — hops are addressed by a one-byte hash,
so a repeat is as likely two colliding nodes as a genuine loop. The packet
card and the Message paths dialog now say exactly that under the via row
and the graph, naming the repeated hops through the shared path widget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The composer's insertion point was a reverse-video arrow living between two
hops, which forced the whole preview back to plain arrows — chips fuse the seam
it needed to sit in — and made a wrapped route carry the cursor by hand, riding
a line's trailing cue when the break landed on it.
An insertion point is a position in the route, so it is now a hop of its own: a
`+` slot in the brand accent (the same colour the row cursor below it wears),
spliced in by `path_line(cursor=…)`. It measures, wraps, and colours like every
other hop, so the preview keeps whichever mode the terminal earned and can never
strand its cursor on a fold. `cursor_arrow` goes with it, out of both `PathLine`
and `path_text`.
Message paths: the arrival rows draw through the path line too — chips in each
node's hue, names alone, no hash repeated after one. The hash bytes are the
graph's job one row up, and the shared node hue ties the two together without
spelling the hex twice. The graph loses the blank line above it; its canvas
already opens with air over the topmost lane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The trace surfaces' route lanes were spending their width on hex nobody
reads there: every name carried the hash it is addressed by, and the wire
spec one lane below already spells that out verbatim, at the width it goes
on the air. The route lane, the planned-route preview and the composer's
live preview now name nodes and nothing else; an unnamed hop still reads as
its hash, since that is the only identity it has.
The composer's preview becomes that same lane rather than its own dialect —
pathline chips, hop-boundary wrapping, our two ends the bare star.
Both stars fade. Setting out from us and landing back on us are fixtures of
every such route, no more composed (or removable) than a mirrored return
leg, so they wear the automatic grey — dark slate as a chip, never the loud
you white. Finding the turn a wrapped route folds at now reads the faded
*tail* rather than the first faded hop, which the leading star had become.
Chips are separated, not interlocked: every seam draws its point with no
background, so the page shows through the taper and a route reads as a row
of blocks the way oh-my-posh spaces its segments. Two neighbours landing on
one fill can no longer fuse, without that being a special case.
Finally, two places that had the right information and didn't use it: the
composer's suggestion list fell back to bare hex for a short hop matching
several contacts (the topology won't guess, so it names nothing), and the
not-a-trail confirm printed whole 12-hex ids. Both now go through the
owning screen's own resolver and its chosen path-hash width, so a node
reads the same in the dialog as in the window behind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hop with no label now draws as its seam alone — the arrow, no chip, no
word. The trace screens' route lane uses it (bare_self) for both ends of
every walk: a trace leaves us and comes back to us, so naming ourselves
twice only pushed the hops that *are* news out of the lane. Arrow mode
drops the padding the vacated label sat in ("→ 3d → f2 →"); chip mode
lets the seam point into the page.
Wrapped chip lines now open on the female point (U+E0B2, core set) from
the second line down, so a continuation reads as one — only the very
first chip of a path keeps its square left edge. The packer pays for that
cell, so lines still fit their column.
Also carries the round already sitting in the tree: the wrap evens hops
across the fewest lines it can take and folds at the route's turn, the
trace/node-detail/select surfaces route their rows through the widget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sweep table title used ASCII ->, TraceResult.path_str was an unused
ASCII-arrow renderer, and the trophy browser truncated long walks at the
fold — SelectScreen's own hscroll now slides the highlighted row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Swap the active tab's bottom corners: the flat rule turning up into
the tab's wall is west+north (╯), and turning back down out of it is
north+east (╰) — had these backwards.
- The left margin belongs to the tab boxes, not the bottom rule: the
rule is one continuous line, so it now runs the full width including
through the margin instead of being indented with the tabs.
- Inactive tab outlines move from "muted" to the dimmer "faint" shade.
- The whole bottom rule is now a single colour (accent, the active
tab's) rather than mixing accent/faint segments — it's one line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only the active tab now breaks the bottom rule (up, across open, back
down); inactive tabs sit flush against it with no corners or seams of
their own, so they read as behind/in-the-dark rather than each having
their own raised box. Top border and its z-order layering (active tab
always wins both corners) are unchanged. Adds a 2-column left margin
when the width has slack for it.
Tab switching moves off the shared Left/Right handler onto Tab/Shift+Tab
only, freeing the arrow keys for other use on this screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All tabs now render as full boxes at all times (muted by default,
accent when active) instead of only the active one — so every tab's
width is fixed regardless of selection, and labels never shift
column when the active tab changes. Tabs share a single vertical at
each seam; the shared corner "opens" only at the strip's leading
edge and at the active tab's own left edge, "closing" (ceding to the
tab on its left) everywhere else, so the active tab reads as lifted
in front of its neighbours.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Since the strip already spent a blank line above and its own line,
box the active tab in accent-coloured rounded corners with its
bottom edge opening into a full-width rule, instead of a plain
── Label ── heading, now that a third line is on the table anyway.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The page stacked the location preview and the route graph down one long
scroll, and the graph was inert — no way to pick which route it lit. Give
it a tabbed stage instead: a one-line strip (new widgets.tab_strip) pages
Map and Routes one full-height view at a time, switched with ←→ (Tab /
Shift+Tab backup; BackTab now dispatches as "shift_tab"). Tabs are
adaptive — only views with content show, a lone tab collapses to a lit
heading, and our own fix-less node falls back to a bare action list.
The Routes tab folds the old route/suggest info rows into a selectable
route list (best marked ★ best, the firmware's device route, then the
good observed alternatives), each spelled contact→relays→us through the
path widget with a hanging wrap. ↑↓ over the rows drives the graph: the
picked route lights white while the rest go grey and every node off it
fades its label to grey (a per-render label_rgb_of closure — the pathgraph
widget stays generic). A dedicated 🎯 Trace this route row opens the trace
flow armed on whichever route is selected (nothing transmits here).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every node now sits on a level platform: an edge leaves level, shifts
once, arrives level, so an off-lane relay reads as a flat-topped
trapezium instead of a pointed peak or valley. The shift itself is a
cubic-bezier S-curve with horizontal tangents at both ends, easing out
of one platform and settling into the next with no corner anywhere.
Every edge is keyed by its unordered node pair and drawn exactly once,
killing the doubled/offset lines that came from a pair walked in both
directions. That bidirectional pair is the sole edge drawn as a bare
straight segment (near-vertical when the layout stacks the markers) —
the one place an up-and-down line is the honest picture.
A direction arrow embeds in the trunk just before us, so the whole
graph reads as a directed run node → us.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "Nodes" menu was a contacts roster mislabeled — it lists the device's
contacts (get_contacts), which upstream meshcore calls "contact" too. Rename
throughout, no CLI alias:
- tools/nodes.py -> tools/contacts.py (ContactsTool, `meshterm contacts`)
- ui/nodes_screen.py -> ui/contacts_screen.py (ContactsScreen/open_contacts)
- ui/nodelist.py -> ui/contactlist.py (ContactListScreen/ContactRow)
- widgets: NodesSort->ContactsSort, nodes_table->contacts_table
Courier's recipient is a contact you address, so its prose and CLI arg
(`courier queue CONTACT ...`) follow; persisted node_key/node_name stay.
The reception/hardware layer keeps "node" — HeardNode, heard_nodes(),
observations.node, trace_hops.node, map/atlas participants, node types, admin
targets, and the Time Machine's reception picker (its "Nodes" heading stands).
CLAUDE.md's lexicon is rewritten to the refined definitions: node = any mesh
radio; contact = a node your device knows (discovered or added).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new make_name_key_resolver (beside its trace_runner siblings) maps a
display name back to the node's key — contacts win, the recorder's
stored advert names fill in strangers — and name_style's keyless
fallback becomes muted: colour now always marks a keyed identity,
never a character-sum accident that two spellings of one node disagree
on. Wired through every keyless call site: the chat transcript's
sender headers and @mentions (a direct thread falls back to the peer's
key), the picker previews, the live feed's channel-sender lane, and
the route graph's origin label (new key_of hook on route_graph_style,
threaded through the packet viewer and Message paths). The chat
picker's contact dot switches to the standard companion pink — shape
still marks history — and contact labels take their key-derived hue.
name_rgb guards the muted style so braille canvases render the grey.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
highlighted_hash lit a key's path-hash prefix in the fixed brand cyan;
it now takes the node's hash-derived palette hue — the same colour the
node's name wears — so a hash carries its node's identity colour even
where no name is known, and a key's prefix, its name, and its map
labels all agree. The remainder (and a hash standing in as a name)
stays muted, and the truncation ellipsis keeps inheriting the colour
of the digit it replaces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-node palette hue was keyed on the display name's characters; it
is now derived from the node's key — the first byte picks the colour, so
a 2-hex path hop, the stored 12-hex id, and the full 64-hex public key
all agree, and a rename keeps its colour. name_style grows a key
parameter (theme.node_style is the raw derivation); the name-character
fallback remains only for genuinely keyless senders (a channel message's
inline name). Keys are threaded through the path widget, the route
graph's labels, the atlas lists, the trophy case's far point and area
pins, and the packet viewer's node lane.
In the Nodes screen and the Time Machine (the shared node list, the
static CLI table, and the mesh page's arrivals), names drop their
recency-heat colouring for the node's palette hue; the heat now glows on
the HEARD/first-heard age lane instead, where the recency actually
lives. A nameless node's "unknown" placeholder stays muted — colour
marks a name, and the hash lane already carries the identity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
