Cut: a pulsing 'live' activity view (we run once a day), simulated agent playback, numeric confidence percentages, and an Impact Ledger with no measurements. Challenge: demo challenges invented by the team prove less than replaying real work.
✓ VerifiedFacts
NN/g: motion attracts attention whether meaningful or not; gratuitous animation distracts, and attention hijacking is a dark pattern.
PAIR: numeric confidence presumes users understand probability and can be misleading; categorical buckets are an alternative.
? HypothesisInferences
A 'live' feed on a once-a-day routine would be misleading on 23 hours of every day.
Real case files (contrast catch, input-ban workaround) beat invented demos as proof; demos should come second.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: Ship real case files before the first demo challenge; drop live-activity and ledger ideas until data exists
How should we cut the Monday weekly release so its notes stay readable with little effort?
findingverifiedconfidence high
GitHub can generate release notes from merged PRs and group them by label. Our PRs carry their kind in the branch name, not a label, so generated notes would be one flat list. Cut the first weekly tag as-is on Monday and judge it before adding labels or config.
✓ VerifiedFacts
GitHub docs: generated release notes list merged PRs, contributors, and a full-changelog link, and a .github/release.yml can group PRs into categories by label and exclude labels or authors.
GitHub docs: releases are based on git tags, and people can watch a repo for releases only.
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No release exists yet (gh release list is empty), so the first weekly-2026-10-19 tag is the natural test.
Grouping by data, design, feature, and ops would need a label per PR, which touches .github/ and so needs Shield and Atlas.
Which experience could ship first as a compelling working prototype?
proposalverifiedconfidence highrecommend pursue
The Research Arena: this research round already exists as structured data (14 reports, facts vs inferences, Critic's challenge, Coordinator's scores), so a page can render it next PR with no new data model.
✓ VerifiedFacts
MDN: details/summary is baseline widely available since January 2020 and needs no script.
data/research.json already separates facts, inferences, evidence, confidence, and status per report.
? HypothesisInferences
The Arena is the only concept where the content is done and only rendering remains.
Shipping it first gives later pages (case files, challenges) a reusable card and label system.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: An /arena/ page for this round: question, each role's answer, the challenge, the scores, the decision
Mobile and UX audit: what breaks on phones and tablets, measured at 360, 390, 414, 768, and 1280?
proposalverifiedconfidence highrecommend pursue
At 360 px, 3 of 37 pages scroll sideways and there are 622 tap targets under 44 px (481 of them in the 13-link header nav). Contrast, tiny text, and table scrolling already pass. The CSS is desktop-first (3 max-width queries, 0 min-width). After #72 to #75, the same audit measures 0 overflowing pages and 0 undersized targets at all five widths (docs/design/mobile/after.json).
✓ VerifiedFacts
Measured with headless Chrome on the built site at #70 (docs/design/mobile/before.json). Overflow at 360: challenges 79 px, updates 50 px, issues 15 px.
The header is 211 px tall on phones and holds 13 nav links, each 34 px tall.
0 text elements under 4.5:1 in light or forced dark mode, and no text under 12 px.
? HypothesisInferences
A 4 or 5 item nav fits one row on phones and frees about a quarter of the first screen.
Most content targets are toggles and chips that only need padding.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: Simpler nav and hubs, a sharper landing page, mobile-first CSS, and a 360 px check in CI
Which no-JS interaction patterns would make Slopworks feel distinctive, intuitive, and polished?
proposalverifiedconfidence highrecommend pursue
Three platform features give app-like polish with zero scripts: exclusive accordions via details name=, :target step views (already used for filters), and cross-document view transitions opted into with one CSS at-rule. All degrade to plain pages.
✓ VerifiedFacts
MDN: details elements sharing a name attribute form a group where only one is open, giving accordions without scripting.
Chrome docs: cross-document view transitions are opt-in with one CSS at-rule (view-transition, navigation: auto) on same-origin pages; supported in Chrome 126+ and Safari 18.2, not Firefox.
NN/g: motion should be brief and used for feedback, state change, and spatial navigation, not to entertain.
? HypothesisInferences
A Research Arena can show one role's report at a time with details name=, no JS.
View transitions are a safe progressive enhancement: Firefox users get a normal page load.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: One interaction kit for the showcase: exclusive accordions, :target steps, page-to-page transitions, all reduced-motion aware
Which interface patterns and capabilities are emerging in leading AI products?
proposalverifiedconfidence mediumrecommend pursue
Leading AI products are converging on 'governor' patterns that show the work: an action plan before acting, inline citations, branches, and a gallery of real examples. Slopworks already has the raw material for all four.
✓ VerifiedFacts
The Shape of AI pattern library groups 'Governors' (human-in-the-loop) patterns: Action plan, Branches, Citations.
It lists 'Example gallery' (share sample generations and prompts) and 'Prompt details' (show what is actually happening behind the scenes) as wayfinders.
? HypothesisInferences
Our ideas.json (plan), research.json (citations) and chat threads (branches) map onto these patterns without new data.
An example gallery of worked challenges answers 'what can this team do' faster than a role list.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: Lead the showcase with an example gallery of worked challenges, each showing plan, citations, and outcome
A 'follow one decision' explorer: pick a shipped change and step through pitch, research, challenge, score, PR sign-offs, and Trial's check, every step a real link. Dashboards show status; this shows reasoning.
✓ VerifiedFacts
Explorable Explanations describes itself as a hub for learning through play, built by people reuniting play and learning.
PAIR lists 'explanation via interaction' (let users ask 'what if?') as a way to build mental models and trust.
? HypothesisInferences
Most agent dashboards show live status; few let a visitor replay why a decision was made.
:target steps make a stepper possible with no JS.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: Case files: 2 real decisions (d4 contrast check, d1 filters vs the input ban) as step-through stories
With no visitor input, what data on the showcase still needs protection?
proposalverifiedconfidence highrecommend pursue
The risk moves from visitors to our own traces: raw chat transcripts, routine prompts, box paths, gh auth, corrections mail, and Ryno's private messages. Render only from already-public, CI-scanned repo data, never raw logs.
✓ VerifiedFacts
OWASP LLM02:2025 lists PII leakage, sensitive business data, and exposing system preambles or configuration as disclosure risks.
OWASP recommends least privilege, restricting data sources, and pattern-based redaction before output.
? HypothesisInferences
'Real execution traces' could tempt us to paste raw run transcripts; those can hold paths, prompts, or tokens.
Our existing CI scans cover data/ and site/, so traces must enter as data/ fields to be scanned.
→ RecommendationOpportunity: Traces = links to merged PRs, chat ids, and research ids only; no raw transcripts, prompts, or usage screenshots
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