Operator verdict on round two: better, but 'still no coherent
application'. The cockpit must provide everything a human crew would
need if no AI were around — as distinct roles that cooperate through
handoffs and never melt into each other. This rebuilds the IA as a
bridge with six stations over shared instruments, in the control-room
tradition (overview -> station -> instrument -> raw files/CLI), with
maker-checker separation of duties encoded in the UI itself.
- / is now the Bridge: whole-system verdict strip, six crew cards with
live data, and the dispatch (andon) board 'if this happens, who acts'
- /station/{proposer,quorum,operator,cryptographer,architect,newcomer}:
each console has a fixed anatomy: Mission -> Duties (every duty a
runnable, verified-real CLI command - the no-AI drill) -> embedded
live instruments -> 'This station never...' (separation of duties) ->
Handoffs (receives/delivers)
- Operator gets a real liveness board: on-demand parallel probes (HTTP
GET on log head/paper/blog/mirror with observed facts + latency; git
HEAD/cleanliness on all 9 local repos). Never probes on ordinary page
loads. Verified live: caught this very repo as 'alive, dirty' while
building it, and confirmed log 13/3488a2d0 + paper 7f140356
- Architect gets the live drift tripwire (ESTATE.md vs estate view)
- modularized per the standing separation-of-concerns order:
uikit.py (primitives+style), stations.py (role model, pure),
liveness.py (probes), walletui.py (collectors, instruments, routes)
- crew law test-enforced: bridge crew+dispatch, per-station role
contract, station distinctness (signature phrases must not bleed
across roles), explicit-probe semantics; read-only byte sweep now
covers all 13 routes incl. the probe route
- narrow-viewport fix: breakany for unbreakable paths in headings
Suite 135 -> 139 green. Read-only guarantee unchanged: no mutating
routes; every custody act is a printed command, never a button.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator verdict on the first cockpit: unusable, jargon-walled. The
evidence layer was honest but the presentation assumed the reader
already lived inside warden's head. This rebuilds the presentation
layer around a testable UX contract, additive to the design law:
- every page: verdict IN WORDS first (CUSTODY HEALTHY / CUSTODY FROZEN
(LATCHED) / CUSTODY EVIDENCE BROKEN), then evidence, then provenance
- every page: plain-language lead saying what the page answers
- every panel: 'How to read this panel' expander interpreting every
column and pill; jargon carries a ? linking to the glossary
- new /guide view: what warden is, how to read any page, color code,
five-minute tour, 12-term glossary, honest 'what this cockpit cannot
tell you'
- navigation: two-line tabs stating the question each view answers,
present on every page; /estate gets a back-to-cockpit chip
- explained empty states (incidents: 'empty is the good state')
- narrow-viewport fix: tables/pre scroll in their own containers
- estate fact chip updated 130->135 green (both renderings)
UX contract is test-enforced (guide terms, lead+nav+explainers on every
view, empty states); read-only byte-guarantee sweep now covers /guide.
Verified by looking: served --demo, walked all six views in a browser.
Suite 131 -> 135 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The operator ran the documented command and hit the fail-fast (no
wallet exists on a fresh machine) — correct behavior, useless
instruction. seal_demo_wallet() now seals a throwaway DEMO wallet
(fake shell-stub members, DEMO-labeled fields, temp dir named
warden-DEMO-*, sample incident/refusal/airgap so every view has
content); 'pacta wallet cockpit --demo' serves it. Exactly one of
--wallet/--demo required. Verified by running the literal command:
all five views 200, demo quorum renders. Suite 130 -> 131.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator questions answered in code: (1) the estate map now lives IN the
cockpit too — /estate serves the interactive map (lanes, typed edges,
loops, clickable dossiers) to the same human audience the cockpit
serves; ESTATE.md remains the canonical committed version (renders on
GitHub, reachable by agents via llms.txt, needs no running process), and
a name-level sync test guards drift between the two renderings — the
published_assets lesson applied preemptively. (2) 'What is RUNNING?' is
now answered everywhere: an operations strip on the map (ALWAYS ON:
caddy + the LTL read-only container + Forgejo with its single 03:00
mirror cron, all droplet; ON-DEMAND: append/publish/sign ceremonies,
cockpit, MCP, operator machine only; NOT RUNNING: warden — prototype,
no deployed instance, no funds watched; everything else: static files
or external parties), a per-entity Runtime line in every dossier, and a
verified What-is-running table in ESTATE.md (container commands, :ro
mounts and read_only:true on the LTL service, and the crontab checked
on the droplet 2026-07-20, not recalled).
Suite 128 -> 130 (estate route + drift guard). Local-only as before:
nothing deployed, live estate untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator-ordered milestone, built under an explicit no-risk constraint
while the paper application is in flight: strictly ADDITIVE (one new
module + one CLI subcommand; zero changes to wallet semantics, the
public site, or anything the paper describes), LOCAL-ONLY (never
deployed; binds 127.0.0.1), and READ-ONLY in v1 (human approve/deny is
deliberately deferred — that is a custody-semantics change belonging to
a separately reviewed milestone).
New: src/pacta/walletui.py — four views over an existing wallet:
- Posture: latch state, ledger head with FULL hash-chain
re-verification, pinned quorum members, spending policy verbatim.
- Signature queue: airgap outbox/inbox, observed never operated.
- Incidents & refusals: verbatim records, newest first.
- Receipt inspector: paste attestation + receipt + log key; verdict,
per-signature results, and diagnostics come verbatim from
transparency.verify_receipt — the deployed verifier itself, reused
not reimplemented.
Design law, stated in the module and enforced by tests: THE COCKPIT
RENDERS EVIDENCE, IT NEVER ASSERTS IT. Every panel recomputes at
request time and carries a provenance line (function + timestamp);
anything unverifiable renders a loud FAILED-TO-VERIFY panel — no cached
green, no neutral gray. Panels state what they do NOT prove (e.g.
binary pinning vs source-to-binary correspondence).
CLI: pacta wallet cockpit --wallet DIR [--host --port].
Tests (10 new, suite 118 -> 128 green): recomputed-evidence rendering,
CHAIN BROKEN on tampered ledger, loud failure on collector error,
latched-state rendering, airgap queue states, verbatim incident/refusal
rendering, fail-closed inspector on garbage, real-evidence roundtrip
(skips if example evidence absent), full-sweep BYTE-LEVEL read-only
guarantee (wallet dir hash-identical after all GETs + a POST), and
fail-fast on non-wallet dirs. Rendering additionally verified visually
against a live demo wallet (posture, quorum table, incidents).
Docs: docs/cockpit.md; WALLET.md section; ESTATE.md + llms.txt updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-contained dark-theme product page: the one idea, the trust-posture
asymmetry, the firewall diagram, the four deployment profiles, and the
non-claims. Also published as an artifact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
