Lab

Interface pieces for software that thinks out loud — waiting, streaming, reasoning, asking permission, reporting back. Every one is drawn in this site's ink: hairlines, dashed borders, mono figures, sharp corners and no status colors. They share one fictional run, so the page reads as a single interface caught at five moments.

WAITING

Agent work has no known end, so a progress bar would be a lie. The grid says the work is alive; the timer says how long you have been waiting. Neither claims to know how much is left.

Reading the repo

Nine cells, opacity only, no color and no movement — so the whole vocabulary is which cell is lit and when. Four patterns fit in that, and each says something different about the wait.

  • drivehas a direction
  • scanwhole columns
  • bloomno direction
  • orbitwinds inward

The same four at 6×6. Every pattern is a function of the grid size, so this is one resolution of the same idea, not a second set of numbers — and each sweep slows in proportion, because there are more cells to cross.

  • drivehas a direction
  • scanwhole columns
  • bloomno direction
  • orbitwinds inward

STREAMING

A word at a time, not a character at a time. Whole words let you start reading the first line while the third is still arriving — chasing a character cursor is watching, not reading.

The grid is sized against the viewport, so a card in a narrow column still thinks it has a wide screen to work with. Moving it to a container query fixes it at the source and matches what ProjectGrid already does for its plate tag. One prefix swap, no new tokens, and the breakpoints stay where the reader expects them.

REASONING

The trace is evidence, not content, so it rests collapsed. The summary line carries the total; only a reader who doubts the answer opens the rest.

APPROVAL

Two competing actions and one accent per theme, so they cannot be told apart by color. The primary action takes a solid border, the secondary a dashed one — the same grammar the rest of the site uses for resting against engaged.

Needs approvalEdit AwardsGrid.tsx

Replace every viewport breakpoint prefix with its container equivalent, and mark the wrapper as the container.


        
        
        className="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 gap-4"
      

        
        
        <AwardCard award={award} className="p-4 sm:p-6" />
      

        
        
        <span className="hidden sm:inline">{award.year}</span>
      

        
        
        className="@container grid grid-cols-1 @sm:grid-cols-2 @md:grid-cols-3 gap-4"
      

        
        
        <AwardCard award={award} className="p-4 @sm:p-6" />
      

        
        
        <span className="hidden @sm:inline">{award.year}</span>

STATE

Status without status colors. Running, done and failed are three states, not a matched pair like a diff's two, so there is no palette to borrow — state rides on the marker, the rail and the spelled-out word instead. The word is doing the real work; the rest lets you scan the column.

  • Rewrite AwardsGrid columns1 file · 2 linesrunning
  • Run the design checker0 violationsdone
  • Screenshot all three themesKozo render timed outfailed
  • Update the component notesqueued behind the rewritedone