Drop the bottom-right floating "Admin mode" switch in favour of a proper
account menu in the header's upper-right (every tool's .header-right).
New shared/profile-menu.{js,css}: a circular avatar button (email initial)
opening a dropdown with the signed-in email, an "Admin mode" item (only for
can_elevate principals — drives elevation.setOn/setOff, drops on leave),
Profile (/.profile), and Access tokens (/.tokens). The panel is portaled to
<body> + position:fixed so it overlays content reliably regardless of the
app's stacking contexts; the button shows a red ring while elevated.
No logout: authentication is the upstream proxy's concern (oauth2-proxy /
Authelia) — ZDDC owns no session, so the menu doesn't render sign-out.
elevation.js keeps the state machine (cookie, armed banner/frame, ephemeral
pagehide-clear, zddc:elevationchange, ?admin= URL) but no longer renders any
control — the profile menu is the UI. elevation.css drops the floating-
toggle styles (keeps banner + frame). All 7 templates drop the dead
elevation-toggle placeholder; all 7 build.sh bundle profile-menu.{js,css}.
Validated in a containerized browser: menu items, links, elevation arming +
armed ring, dropdown overlays content, no floating toggle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three small helpers under window.zddc.cap, wired into every tool's
build:
cap.at(path) — Promise<AccessView|null>. Fetches
/.profile/access?path=<urlpath> and
memoises per-path for the session.
Used by tools to gate top-of-page
affordances on path_verbs / path_is_admin
/ path_can_elevate_grant.
cap.has(node, verb) — boolean. Reads the listing entry's
verbs string for the named verb.
Falls back to node.writable for 'w'
when verbs is absent (offline FS-API
listings or pre-promotion clients).
cap.handleForbidden(resp, — parses a 403 response's JSON body for
opts) missing_verb and renders an error
toast. When opts.path is supplied AND
the path-scoped access view reports
path_can_elevate_grant covering the
missing verb, the toast appends an
"Elevate" button that flips the
elevation cookie and reloads.
Browse loader.js + tree.js carry the new verbs field through to the
node objects so context-menu gating can call cap.has(node, 'w'|'d')
without changing the legacy node.writable contract. New CSS rule
.zddc-toast__action styles the inline Elevate button.
Concatenation order: cap.js comes after toast.js + elevation.js so
the dependencies (window.zddc.toast, window.zddc.elevation) are
present at module-load time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three UI cleanups against the admin/browse chrome.
Red admin-mode frame (shared/elevation.css)
Was: body { outline: 3px ... ; outline-offset: -3px } — an outline
doesn't reflow content, so in tools that butt their content to the
viewport edge (browse split-pane, archive grid) the frame painted
on top of the first 3px of content.
Now: body.is-elevated::after { position:fixed; inset:0; border:3px;
pointer-events:none; z-index:9200 }. The frame lives in its own
fixed layer above all content, so it never overlaps or steals
clicks; content layout is unchanged.
Project-stage strip (Archive · Working · Staging · Reviewing)
Low-value chrome. Removed entirely:
- delete shared/nav.js + shared/nav.css
- drop the include from every tool's build.sh
(browse, transmittal, form, archive, landing, tables, classifier)
- delete tests/nav.spec.js
- rebuild tables.html (the //go:embed'd baked-in copy)
Project navigation already happens through the directory tree in
browse and the URL bar; the strip duplicated breadcrumb information
without adding capability.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Polish pass after the big refactor in 2d114fc.
== Header elevation slot propagated ==
shared/elevation.{js,css} surface a header checkbox for admins.
30-minute sudo-style cookie window (Max-Age=1800, SameSite=Lax).
Only renders when /.profile/access reports can_elevate=true; quiet
for non-admins. Slot added to all 7 tool templates and concat'd
into all 7 build.sh files; admin in any tool now sees the toggle.
Three text-rename ride-alongs in archive/classifier/transmittal
templates: "Add Local Directory" → "Use Local Directory" (the same
rename that landed in browse earlier in this branch).
== Docs ==
- CLAUDE.md gets an "Admin elevation is sudo-style" paragraph in
the "Things that bite if you forget" section.
- AGENTS.md gets a dedicated "Admin elevation (sudo-style)" section
alongside "Bearer tokens" — same depth as the existing auth docs.
== Helper file splits ==
The retired form editor's shared helpers got bundled into a single
zddc_admin.go in the cleanup; that name is now misleading. Split by
concern:
- admin_helpers.go: hasAnyAdminScope (the only admin-specific helper)
- paths.go: resolvePath, urlPathOf, chainDirs (URL ↔ filesystem path
math — used by several profile / zddc-file handlers)
- profile_assets.go (renamed from zddc_admin_assets.go): custom CSS
pipeline. URL renamed from /.profile/zddc/assets/ → /.profile/assets/
since /.profile/zddc/ no longer hosts an editor.
- treeEntry moves to profilehandler.go (alongside AccessView, its
only consumer).
- writeError moves to profileprojects.go (its only consumer).
== Smell cleanup ==
- zddc.HasAnyAdminGrant(fsRoot, email) — new elevation-independent
primitive that walks the cascade and reports whether email is named
in any admin: list anywhere. Replaces the synthetic-elevated probe
hack in enumerateAccess (`Principal{Email, Elevated: true}` was
"lying" to the elevation gate to ask what it would say). The handler's
hasAnyAdminScope collapses to a 4-line wrapper that gates on
p.Elevated and delegates.
- Access-log middleware records `elevated` per request, so forensics
can distinguish "admin acting as user" from "admin exercising power."
- browse/js/app.js's ?file= deep link walks multi-segment paths. Each
intermediate segment is matched + expanded; the leaf gets
selected/previewed. Auto-shows hidden when any segment starts with
. or _. Silently no-ops on unresolved segments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
System-default font stack ('-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI,
…') is the textbook generic admin-tool look. The tools have a real point
of view (engineering documents, traceability, immutability); the
typography should reflect that.
Picks:
--font → IBM Plex Sans (400 + 600). UI body text. Distinctive
engineering sans with tabular nums and proper figures.
--font-display → Source Serif 4 (600). Headings, page titles,
.app-header__title. Reads as "document" not "UI label."
--font-mono → unchanged. Platform mono fonts are already excellent
and engineering tools rarely benefit from a custom mono.
Wiring:
- Raw .woff2 files live in shared/fonts/ (~60 KB total, latin subset,
SIL OFL 1.1 — both families)
- shared/fonts.css is base64-inlined data URIs for those three fonts
(~80 KB after b64 overhead). Generated once from the snippet in
shared/fonts/README.md.
- Every tool's build.sh prepends shared/fonts.css before shared/base.css
so @font-face is parsed before any rule references the family names.
- Headings (h1-h6) and .app-header__title now use var(--font-display);
.app-header__title bumped 17→18px and letter-spacing reset since the
serif doesn't need the original sans-text tightening.
- table/code/.tabular-nums get font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums so
tracking-number columns align vertically.
"Ship the record player with the record": zero CDN dependency at render
time. Tools render identically offline and online. Per-tool dist sizes
grew by ~80 KB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The .app-header__logo SVG was decorative on every tool. Web's
strongest convention is "click logo → go home" — so users tapping
it expecting that fallback got nothing. Now the logo is wrapped in
an anchor whose href reflects the URL the page was loaded from:
file:// → no wrap (no server home to point at)
/ → wrap, href=/ (deployment root)
/index.html / /<tool>.html → wrap, href=/ (root, no project)
/<project>/... → wrap, href=/<project> (project landing)
The wrap happens client-side at DOMContentLoaded via shared/logo.js,
loaded by every tool's build.sh after toast/nav. Idempotent — a
template-supplied anchor or a second mount call is a no-op.
The companion shared/logo.css adds a subtle hover/focus affordance
(opacity 0.82, focus ring) so the logo reads as clickable without
otherwise altering its visual weight. Tools opt out by setting
window.zddc.logo.disabled = true before DOMContentLoaded (e.g. for
deployments that pin the logo to an external destination).
Five Playwright tests (tests/logo.spec.js) lock the contract:
no-wrap on file://, href=/ at root, href=/<project> in project
subtree, aria-label matches target, idempotent re-mount.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a thin nav strip directly under the app-header showing the four
canonical lifecycle stages from the transmittal-workflow spec:
archive · working · staging · reviewing. Each is a link to that
stage's directory under the current project. Current stage is
highlighted (bold + primary color, aria-current="page"). Strip
mounts as a sibling of .app-header on DOMContentLoaded — no
template changes needed in any tool.
Render rules (shared/nav.js shouldRender):
- location.protocol must be http: or https: (file:// has no project
structure to navigate within)
- a project segment must be detectable as the first path segment
(when it isn't a tool HTML file like /index.html or
/archive.html?projects=A,B). Multi-project view at the deployment
root therefore shows no strip.
Stage URL targets:
- Archive → <project>/archive.html (project-root archive view)
- Working → <project>/working/ (directory listing — mdedit auto-served)
- Staging → <project>/staging/ (directory listing — transmittal auto-served)
- Reviewing → <project>/reviewing/ (directory listing)
Convention-driven, not probed: if a deployment doesn't have one of
these folders the link returns 404. Operators on non-standard layouts
can opt out by setting window.zddc.nav.disabled = true before
DOMContentLoaded.
This pairs with the previous landing-tool change (single-project
click → <project>/archive.html). Together they give the user
both URL-bar manipulation AND visible navigation across the four
canonical project stages.
Five Playwright tests in tests/nav.spec.js exercise:
- non-render at deployment root
- render + active stage on <project>/archive.html
- render + active stage deep inside <project>/working/foo/mdedit.html
- canonical link targets
- mount position is sibling of .app-header
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Promote classifier's local toast (classifier/css/base.css + showToast
in classifier/js/excel.js) into shared/toast.{js,css}. Every tool's
build.sh now concatenates them, so window.zddc.toast(msg, level, opts)
is callable from any tool.
API:
window.zddc.toast('Saved.', 'success');
window.zddc.toast('Could not load: ' + err.message, 'error');
window.zddc.toast('Note', 'info', { durationMs: 3000 });
Levels: info (default) | success | warning | error. Single-toast
policy — a second call replaces the first. Click anywhere on the
toast to dismiss. ARIA: error → role=alert/aria-live=assertive,
others → role=status/aria-live=polite.
Class prefix is .zddc-toast (BEM-ish) to avoid colliding with any
tool-local .toast rules. Classifier's existing showToast now
delegates to window.zddc.toast — call sites in excel.js +
selection.js are unchanged. Classifier's local .toast CSS block
deleted in favor of the shared one.
This commit only EXPOSES the API. Replacing the ~25 alert() call
sites scattered across archive/transmittal/mdedit/classifier with
toast calls is left as follow-up — each alert needs per-call review
to decide if it's truly non-blocking.
Five Playwright tests in tests/toast.spec.js lock the contract:
API exposure, level mapping, ARIA roles, single-toast replace,
click-to-dismiss.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring every tool's header in line with archive's pattern:
[logo] [title] [version] [Add Local Directory] [⟳] ............... [◐] [?]
------------- header-left --------------- ----- header-right -
Changes per tool:
* browse: rename "Select Directory" → "Add Local Directory"; add the
red-non-stable wrap to the build label (was missing); add a help
panel + bundle shared/help.js.
* classifier: rename selectDirectoryBtn → addDirectoryBtn,
refreshBtn → refreshHeaderBtn for consistency. Update all JS
callers and welcome-screen copy to the new label.
* mdedit: same id rename. Move the previously-in-pane refresh
button into the header. Stop renaming the dir button to
"Directory: <name>" once a folder is loaded — instead use the
shared btn--subtle variant to de-emphasize while keeping the
standard label.
* transmittal: convert non-standard <div class="app-header"> with
spacer/icons containers to <header class="app-header"> with the
canonical header-left/header-right pair. Move the publish split-
button into header-left (Transmittal-specific primary action).
Remove dead .app-header__spacer/__icons/header-icon-btn CSS now
that nothing references those classes.
* landing, form: add help-btn + help-panel + bundle shared/help.js.
Each panel is tool-specific (project picker docs for landing,
schema-driven form docs for form).
Cross-cutting:
* shared/base.css: promote .btn--subtle from browse/css/tree.css
so any tool with an online mode can de-emphasize Add Local
Directory consistently.
Verified all 7 tools in headless Chromium: header structure correct,
build label red on non-stable cuts, help panel opens + closes via
button + Esc.
Schema-driven form renderer plus zddc-server endpoints that turn any
<name>.form.yaml into a working data-collection form at <path>/<name>.form.html.
Submissions land in <path>/<name>/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<email-sanitized>.yaml,
ACL-gated by the existing .zddc cascade. The form posts back to its own URL;
the server strips ".html" and routes by what's underneath, so create and
update use the same client-side code path.
Form spec dialect: JSON Schema 2020-12 + RJSF-style ui:* hints, written in
YAML. Chosen for LLM authorability — it's the canonical structured-output
target for OpenAI/Anthropic, and the ui:* convention is the most-trained UI
hint vocabulary. Supported subset for v0: type (string/number/integer/boolean/
array/object), enum, min/max, minLength/maxLength, required, additionalProperties:
false, properties, items, format (date, email). Round-trip mode is form-as-truth:
submission YAML is regenerated each save, comments are not preserved (the v1
file-as-truth mode for hand-edited files like .zddc itself is deferred).
New components:
* form/ — sixth single-file HTML tool, vanilla JS renderer (~760 LoC)
* zddc/internal/jsonschema/ — focused JSON Schema validator covering only
the v0 keyword subset. Match-implementation-cost-to-surface-used: a full
library brings 70%+ surface we don't use; revisit when v1 adds $ref +
oneOf + if/then/else.
* zddc/internal/handler/formhandler.go — RecognizeFormRequest / ServeForm,
capability-URL re-edit, atomic submission writes via the new
zddc.WriteAtomic helper extracted from writer.go.
* dispatch() in zddc-server/main.go now intercepts *.form.html and
*.yaml.html before the static-file path; spec existence is the trigger.
Build pipeline: form joins ZDDC_RELEASE_TOOLS in lockstep, gets its own
embedded copy in handler/form.html (separate from the apps cascade —
the form renderer is fixed, not subject to per-folder version overrides).
Tests: 5 new Playwright specs (form-safety) + 14 new Go tests across the
validator and handler. All 172 Playwright tests + 10 Go packages green.
End-to-end manual verification: GET empty → POST 201 + capability URL →
GET re-edit (pre-filled) → POST update → 200, raw YAML browsable, ACL
deny → 403.
Docs: form/ section added to AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md. AGENTS.md
also documents the implementation-vs-dependency policy. CLAUDE.md repo-shape
list extended.
Deferred (v1+): .zddc editor migration onto this system, file-as-truth
lossless YAML round-trip, ui:show-when conditional visibility, oneOf/anyOf,
apps-cascade preview hook, cascade-fetched form definitions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>