Add scale-ring navigation to the simulator per the scales-library design §3:
an endless rotary-encoder control (relative, vs the absolute 0-4 experience
knobs) walks a closed ring of neutral "scales of nature" clips, with placeholder
AI zoom/warp transitions between adjacent scales and a small->large wrap (the
infinite-zoom payoff).
- player/ring.py (new, canonical pure logic): ScaleRing + advance_ring; one
transition clip per edge, played forward zooming inward / reversed outward;
modulo wrap both ways; chained steps for a multi-detent spin. Mirrors
player/content.py conventions (frozen dataclasses, pure functions).
- simulator: load_ring + ring_to_dict/ring_move_to_dict; GET /api/ring and
POST /api/ring/advance (Python owns step/wrap/transition math; the browser
only plays the returned transition(s) then settles on the target scale).
- frontend: endless-encoder control (zoom in/out buttons + stage scroll),
current-scale readout, multi-clip active-scale selection, transition playback.
- media: two cheap true-PD scales so the ring is demonstrable -- cosmos
(NASA/Hubble) + abyss (NOAA Ocean Exploration), provenance recorded in the
manifest, bytes generated as labelled placeholders by setup_scales_media.py.
The expensive multi-strength flow-stabilized Right re-bake is DEFERRED (new
scales carry a raw base only) until the ring is liked; Pi renderer +
serial/firmware remain deferred (simulator-first).
- docs: ROADMAP slice-3 done; USER_GUIDE scale-ring gesture; plan doc.
Verified: pytest 215 passed / 2 skipped (+22 new); sim boots, /api/ring +
/api/ring/advance correct incl. wrap, media served, and a headless-Chrome CDP
drive walked cosmos -> forest -> abyss -> (wrap) -> cosmos with the active clip
reloading correctly.
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-07-scales-library-and-right-axis-pipeline-design.md (§3)
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-07-scale-ring-navigation.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tuning the look by eye in the simulator (design §8) surfaced that the dark
mood pole rendered a full-frame hue-rotate(-200deg) — rock orange, trees
purple: the disorienting look rejected in session 0008, not the peaceful POC
dark_frame. Replace it with darken + slight desaturate on the video filter
plus a multiply-blended deep-blue wash (#tint, below the SVG HUD so the
overlay stays legible). Dark now reads cool/somber with natural greens, like
the approved POC look; light/left/right unchanged and confirmed peaceful.
With full tilt now tasteful on every axis, LOCK DEFAULT_CALIBRATION to unity
gains + linear variant map as a deliberate by-eye choice (not placeholders),
closing the open session-0006 knob->strength decision: knobs run 0=off..4=max,
equal Dark/Light = identity, the 5 notches map 1:1 to the 5 discrete Right
bakes. Guard the locked constants with test_default_calibration_is_locked.
Resolves design §8 open questions (calibration curve shape; grade-vs-overlay
ordering) and records the dark-grade fix. Full suite 193 passed / 2 skipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 13 / spec §10 test 8. Hermetic e2e: fake fetcher ->
ingest_candidate -> proposed record; approve flips it; reload + validate_catalog;
select(approved_only=True) finds it. Opt-in real-ffprobe/ffmpeg tests generate a
lavfi clip and assert mode/duration/resolution + dominant color, skipped when the
binaries are absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 12 / spec §8.2. Walks proposed records (fields +
coords + rationale + best-effort ffmpeg preview), prompts accept/edit/skip/quit,
and persists each approval via save_catalog rewrite. I/O seams (input_fn/now_fn/
out) and --no-preview make the walk testable hermetically; decision logic lives
in the tested review core.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 11 / spec §8.1. proposed_records filter and approve()
return an approved copy via dataclasses.replace (no in-place mutation), with
optional coordinate/rationale override and an injected reviewed_at timestamp.
Pure, no I/O, no clock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 9 / spec §6.4. Three keyless first-ship fetchers
parse documented JSON APIs via an injected HttpClient; license/attribution go
through tools.licensing; NASA third-party + IA no-license cases are flagged in
notes for review. musopen/fma/freesound are explicit deferred stubs raising
NotImplementedError; freesound documents FREESOUND_API_TOKEN (secret, env-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 8 / spec §6. ingest_candidate dedupes, downloads,
mechanically tags, drafts coordinates, builds a proposed Record and appends it;
ingest_search loops over fetcher hits. All boundaries (download/prober/color_fn)
injectable, so the pipeline is fully hermetic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 7 / spec §7. HeuristicProposer seeds the brain plane
from archive priors and the mood plane from title/description keyword nudges,
clamps to 0..4, and emits a one-line rationale. Deterministic, no I/O, no ML
(honors design §11) — only a DRAFT a human reviews.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 6 / spec §5.3. normalize_license maps CC URLs /
identifiers and public-domain markers to the LICENSES vocab, builds non-empty
attribution for cc_by/cc_by_nc, and rejects unmappable licenses at ingest.
librivox_license() helper returns public_domain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 5 / spec §5.2. ffmpeg-only dominant color (no image
library), opt-in by design; extract_frame for review previews. Runners injectable
so the unit suite never shells out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 4 / spec §5.1. derive_tags(Probe) -> Tags with the
attached_pic cover-art guard so an art-bearing audio file stays mode=audio.
Duration falls back to the longest stream when format.duration is absent, and
rounds half-up so 12.5s -> 13s (Python's round() would give 12 via banker's
rounding) to match the spec's stated behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 3 / spec §5.1. Parses ffprobe JSON into a Probe
(streams + format); subprocess runner injectable so tests never shell out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 2 / spec §3. Purely additive to hef.catalog;
no existing symbol changes. validate_catalog runs per-record validate() then
asserts id uniqueness; index_by_id gives by-id lookup the player also wants.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 1. Adds tools/ to setuptools packages,
gitignores media/, and a minimal injectable urllib HTTP client.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ben Stull