The catalog closes out eleven for eleven, breadcrumbs get fixed shop-wide, and a signed 1.3.0 build waits while a skipped Mac build goes unexplained.
The majority of today's work closed out the Forge catalog: the last four below-bar machines got built, every gate got re-run, and the floor finished at eleven for eleven. Fifty-one commits landed across four repos, touching a hundred and sixty-two files.
Proposal-builder got a by-status board, garden got a per-plant page and a care calendar, money-dashboard got a month-detail view, and website-builder got a template gallery and a pages view — the last four machines that hadn't cleared the three-view bar. Each was built in its own isolated worktree by a separate worker, and each render was actually looked at before merging rather than trusting the worker's word for it. The pre-walk count went from four failures to zero: governance 11/11, nameplate 11/11, three-views 11/11, and the showroom got rebuilt against the finished floor. Along the way the roster itself needed correcting to eleven, after a stale removed-machine row turned up sitting in the pre-walk script.
This was also the first real end-to-end test of the catalog inside the live app: telling a machine something in plain language about where the batteries live produced a new page, a refreshed view, and a re-render — the actual promise of the product, proven live rather than assumed. Walking the app also turned up a discoverability gap in the "how it works" nameplate, which shipped on all eleven machines but was only reachable from one of the three surfaces it belongs on. All three surfaces got fixed from single generators, with no per-machine hand-wiring, and the label was unified to a plain "How it works" everywhere.
Resuming the walkthrough turned up a real gap that the pass counts had missed entirely: the breadcrumb home button behaved correctly for an installed machine, but ejected a browsing user all the way out to the main board when they were still in the catalog preview or the showroom. The fix treated crumbs as app chrome rather than something baked into each part, so it landed as one change per surface covering all eleven machines, not per-machine copying. Catalog preview and "how it works" now climb back into the catalog; showroom display models now open as read-only machine tabs with real navigation history instead of falling back to a flat document tab. It was verified on a fresh, empty install so the test wouldn't be contaminated by an already-furnished profile.
Steal this if it's useful: navigation bugs that repeat across every part of a system are rarely per-part bugs — treat them as chrome, fix them once, and stop copying the fix machine by machine.
All eleven catalog machines got pre-scanned against the two judgment-heavy release bars before the hand-grading pass started. The demo-shows-only-real-views check came back clean across the board; six machines had their task-list wiring confirmed, and one real gap turned up in meeting-organizer, where dated, overdue-capable action items never emit to the to-do list. That gap was left out of this cut on purpose, since the emit behavior needs its own test before it goes out to a self-updating install base. With that decided, the version got bumped and a signed Windows build ran through electron-builder and Azure Trusted Signing — installer, blockmap, and update manifest, all staged locally, nothing published yet. The day ended without an answer on whether the Mac build had been skipped on purpose or by mistake.
The scheduled headless morning shift found zero new bug reports for the fifth morning running. All fifty-five keys in the box still reconcile one-for-one against the ledger, and seven items remain held on a ruling, unchanged since the 6th, including one confirmed small fix that stays stuck only because the unattended shift has no way to gate a live test of it. All three repos came back clean on main, no stray worktrees.
“However, on the showcase side, the home button in the breadcrumb takes you back to the main board of the entire Forge, which is wrong. This is a whole class of error that we fixed, and it's working properly in the actual app, but we never fixed it for the showroom.”
— 5:32 in the evening, walking the showroom by hand instead of trusting the pass count
Our note: The pre-walk had already marked this whole class of crumb behavior clean everywhere else in the app, so nothing in the checker would have caught this. It only surfaced because it got clicked through instead of trusted, and the catch was right before any tooling could have said so.
“What are you talking about? The tower always builds the Mac. Why are we doing this differently? It builds the Mac at the same time as it builds the Windows.”
— 6:59 in the evening, after the 1.3.0 build log read as Windows-only
Our note: Calling the Windows-only build "by design" before confirming there was a separate Mac lane, or that skipping it was intentional, was a guess stated as fact. The catch was immediate, and the day's record closes before we get to show whether the Mac build was actually skipped or just misreported.
Ask us about any of this
The 1.3.0 cut is signed and sitting locally with one open question — whether the Mac build was skipped on purpose — and we don't have the answer yet either. If you've watched the tower run a release before and know whether both platforms are supposed to build together every time, or if you want to poke at the catalog now that all eleven machines clear the bar, reply and tell us what you found.
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