Honest take on 'better character art': the standard LPC bodies in the kit
are nude bases (only pants, no shirt/hair-grid), so they're not an upgrade
over the complete clothed chibi sprites. Instead, added real variety:
- targeted recolor (preserves skin/hair, retints only armour/cloth) →
guard-green/crimson/violet + host-rose/emerald sheets in public/scene2d/lpc
- NPCs now wear distinct colours; each visitor gets a stable distinct sprite
derived from their id, so the tavern feels populated
- richer room: candlelit tables with mugs/plates, flickering wall torches
- fixed the stale preload (was preloading the removed painted hero)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual overhaul per user direction:
- canvas fills the whole window (under the topbar); render at 2x through a
camera that follows the player across a bigger (28x18), more decorated
hall (more tables/rugs/paintings/fireplace/shelves/props)
- click-to-move: click the floor and the avatar walks there (keyboard still
works); click an adjacent NPC/fixture to interact
- prominent glowing interaction bubble above the nearest target + clickable
bottom prompt
- names over every head (NPCs gold, visitors cyan, you teal) + drop-shadows
- serious value-prop + door CTAs overlaid on the game (it looks like a
game, but stays a cloud agent tool)
- verified: full-window sizing, click-to-move, camera follow, the
'✦ What is amerc?' bubble over the host
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- quick emotes: press 1-4 (or the side buttons) to pop 👋❤️❗✨ above
your avatar ~2.4s; carried in the presence record so others see it
- the tavern remembers your last position (localStorage) and spawns you there
- verified across two browsers: A's wave appeared above A in B's view
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- backend: in-memory ring buffer POST/GET /agents/tavern-chat
{id,name,text}, last ~60, control-char sanitized
- RpgTavern: Enter/T (or 💬) opens a chat bar; your line floats as a
canvas speech bubble above your avatar for ~5.5s AND lands in a small
chat log; others' bubbles render above their avatars (keyed by presence
id); typing freezes movement
- verified across two browsers: A's message appeared in B's log and as a
bubble over A's avatar
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- each logged-out player gets a random fantasy name (Bold Dwarf, Lucky
Elf...) stored in localStorage; click the name badge to set your own
- NPC dialog is now multi-line, advanced with E/tap (the patrons have
flavor to share); movement freezes while a dialog is open
- NPC idle bustle holds still under prefers-reduced-motion
- verified: random name badge, 3-line dwarf dialog advancing then closing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- backend: in-memory public presence lobby — POST/GET /agents/presence
(id,name,x,y,dir,frame,sheet; 6s TTL; POST returns other live players)
- RpgTavern: broadcast my position ~600ms, render other visitors'
chibi avatars (smooth-interpolated) with name labels, depth-sorted;
a '👥 N in the tavern' counter
- verified: two browsers each show the other's named avatar walking, both
report 2 online
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per user pivot — the home is now an actual Pokemon-style 2D RPG, not a
static illustration. src/RpgTavern.jsx: canvas top-down tavern (LPC tiles
+ 64px chibi character sheets), a controllable player (arrows/WASD + an
on-screen dpad/A button on phones) with 4-dir walk animation and tile
collision, depth-sorted NPCs, and proximity interactions — walk up to the
barkeep (sign in / Legion), elf host (tour), roster board (Browse), banner
(Legion) or estate door (Mansion) and press E; patrons have flavor dialog.
Verified: movement, collision, prompt, and E->opens-feature all work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- prefers-reduced-motion stills the painted scene's float/flicker/bob
loops (ptbob/flicker/pulse, gm-bub-float, solbob, life pulse, cursor
blink, apb drop, villa twinkle/flicker/wave, scroll reveals)
- the elf host greets you with a face-cropped portrait on the sign-in gate
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ambient life over the painted scene: flickering warm lantern glows +
pulsing cool crystal/bar light (CSS, screen-blend, no JS)
- mobile: hide the tiny diegetic tabs/wood-bubbles, center the roster
board, and add a clear Browse/Legion/Mansion tap-button row under the
tagline so the tavern is usable on phones
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The home scene is now a layered hand-painted illustration — a clean
tavern backdrop with an elf host, orc bartender and dwarf patron cutouts
(the painted assets were already in assets/, just unused) — resized to
webp (258KB total, was ~5MB png). The diegetic UI sits on top: the roster
board with live stats, the barkeep sign-in bubble, the elf's tour bubble,
and Legion/Mansion side passages. Dropped the LPC canvas + tile preload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chat messages render markdown via marked (code blocks, lists, tables,
links) with a DOMParser-based sanitizer that strips script/style/iframe/
event-handlers and javascript:/data: URLs; links open in a new tab. The
agent owns its own links (netdisk, showcase, anywhere) as the user asked.
Verified: formatted agent reply renders, injected <script> stays inert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- new Quartermaster.jsx: the admin panel is now amerc's internal station —
a command-post dashboard (live member/agent/online/session counts +
quick links to git, docs, pm workspace, webagent, tavern) plus tabs for
Tenants/keys/company (AdminConsole), Whiteboards, and Netdisk
- Scene2D #/admin renders Quartermaster (AdminConsole no longer imported
directly); pm.amerc.ai stays as a standalone too
- verified locally: first signup=admin, all four tabs render
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
My Mansion gets a CSS villa scene — dusk sky, glowing/flickering windows,
waving flag, garden hedge — with the live services (Showcase, File-mapper,
Net-disk) presented as 'chambers of the estate'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- LegionDashboard 'war camp': each class is a pennant banner (click =
detail dialog), each instance a soldier grouped under its banner —
bobbing 🪖 when online, 🧍 pending, 💀 fallen when down
- SoldierDialog: command a soldier in an ornate dialog — chat with your
own running agent (skills shown), a live terminal snapshot polled every
5s (the heartbeat tui field), rouse instructions when down, stand-down
- legion auto-refreshes every 15s so statuses stay live
- verified locally: 2 banners, 3 soldiers, ON DUTY chat dialog
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- AgentBrowse is a doorway: a glowing open-door graphic, then mercs
descend (staggered drop animation) hanging on wooden sign-bubbles that
show each agent's brief; portraits carry a live/offline dot + managed crest
- ClassModal rebuilt on the shared GameDialog (extracted to GameDialog.jsx
to avoid a Scene2D<->AgentPlatform circular import); instances render as
a squad — living soldiers (online) vs fallen (down)
- verified locally against a seeded backend (6 mercs, squad dialog)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full-screen diegetic game home — the page IS the tavern:
- grand glowing door = Browse Agents; bar/barkeep = sign-in (greets a
logged-in user by name); wall banners = My Legion; villa side-exit =
My Mansion; dancer pitches the tour in a holographic panel
- persistent clickable speech bubbles (wood / holo / door variants),
hover quips on patrons, live stats on the wall screen
- GameDialog: ornate gem-cornered dialog frame; the tour (HomeFeatures)
and login (THE LEDGER) open in-game instead of navigating away
- stage scales to fill the viewport (768x432 buffer, pixelated upscale)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- file_maps table + agent fm register/list/delete; public GET /fm/:iid/:name
relays the download live through the broker (consumer-first rendezvous,
60s window, zero server storage); broker long-polls /instances/:id/jobs
- netdisk: 100MB per-account quota enforced on upload + /files/usage meter
- Mansion: File-mapper and Net-disk are live rooms (usage bar, embedded
Netdisk browser); Netdisk relay soon-room retired
- kebab's real instance is ONLINE and replied 'pong' over native chat —
gate path proven; jobs protocol spec sent to kebab
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- AgentCard extracted; Browse and My Legion render the identical card;
Legion cards open the same ClassModal (instances + Use + chat)
- class properties: managed (amerc-managed, loads amerc skills),
terminal_mode new|shared per session, skills_reload for shared
terminals — publish form, API create/patch, badges in the modal
- kebab coordination: broker spec delivered via TerminalMan 155; kebab
already heartbeats instance 2 with the skills array (status lost ->
stabilizing); monitor armed for online
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- src/Chat.jsx: long-poll chat panel — skills-loaded chips, file/image
send with streaming progress bar, expiring download links for received
files, per-session chatlog with resume; no iframe, no external relay
- UsePanel: chatbox tab now uses the native panel (web-pty still rides
the relay for now); Legion gains a 'My chatlog' card
- verified END-TO-END IN PRODUCTION via throwaway account + live broker:
browser sent, broker echoed, skills rendered, chatlog listed; 2MB file
relayed through nginx md5-identical with no server caching; all test
data purged after
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
audited the Booth as a new publisher: the onboarding is good, but the publish
form was placeholder-only — and Kind (codex) + Launch command (codex --yolo)
come pre-filled, so their placeholders never show, leaving those two technical
fields with no visible label.
- added a persistent label above every field (Class name, Tags, Description,
Kind, Visibility, Launch command) + clearer example placeholders
- a one-line hint explains the two technical fields
- verified live (throwaway account, cleaned up): all six labels render, form
reads cleanly
- changelog entry (0.99) added with the bump
the agent-native callout's API peek showed a curl line + the JSON, but felt
static. made it feel like a real API client:
- after each call it shows the response status and timing (green dot, '200 OK
· 47 ms') measured with performance.now() — the visitor's actual request time
- a '↻ run' button re-fetches the current endpoint (running… -> new status)
- endpoint tabs still switch (stats / roster / activity), all read-only & no-auth
- verified live: status '200 OK · 683 ms', run re-fetches (running… -> 200 OK),
green dot on success
- changelog entry (0.98) added with the bump
the join form used confusing labels at the exact moment a visitor commits:
- the email field was labelled 'Guild handle email' (it is just an email)
- the password field was 'Access sigil'
- the login button was 'Enter Booth' (logging in does not go to the Booth)
- the card eyebrow was 'OPEN BOOTH' (publisher-biased; you might sign in to browse)
now: Email / Password, a clear 'Log in' button, and a neutral 'ONE ACCOUNT'
eyebrow that reinforces the single sign-on. theme stays in the heading
('Join the tavern', 'Welcome, mercenary') and the benefit points.
verified live: login shows Email/Password -> Log in; signup shows
Email/Display name/Password -> Create Account.
on common laptops (1366x768, 1280x720, 1440x900) the tavern canvas reserved
only 210px for the topbar + caption, so the tagline + CTAs landed at the very
bottom edge and the live stats sat ~40px BELOW the fold — a visitor had to
scroll to see the value prop and the action buttons.
- reserve 290px instead of 210, so the canvas is sized to leave room for the
full caption; the tavern is still the large, vivid centrepiece (478px tall
at 768, down from 558)
- desktop-only: the canvas is width-capped (94vw) on phones, so mobile is
untouched
- verified across all three laptop sizes: CTA ~80px clearance, stats ~40px
clearance (was 40px below the fold)
- added the matching changelog entry (0.96) alongside the bump
the in-app CHANGELOG array stopped at v0.89 while the badge (which links to it)
read v0.94 — five shipped versions missing: linkable agents, mobile docs nav,
the live API peek, full-text docs search, and the key 'try it' curl.
- added entries 0.90-0.95 so the changelog's newest version matches RELEASE
- verified live: badge v0.95, changelog tops out at v0.95 (37 entries)
(also saved a project note to add a CHANGELOG entry alongside each version bump —
this has now drifted 5 versions behind twice.)
minting an agent key showed the key once with no hint of what to do with it —
you had to go dig through the docs to make your first call. great API products
hand you a working example right there.
- after minting, show a ready-to-run curl with YOUR key inlined, hitting a real
read-only endpoint (GET /agents/classes), plus a one-click copy and a link to
the API reference
- completes the get-key -> call-the-API loop and reinforces the agent-native pitch
- verified live (throwaway account, cleaned up after): the curl renders with the
real minted key, copy button + api-reference link present
the docs search only matched titles/folders, so searching a term that lives in
a doc's body (e.g. 'heartbeat') returned nothing — you had to already know
which doc to open.
- search now matches title AND body across all docs; results show the title
plus a context snippet with the query highlighted (<mark>)
- doc bodies are fetched once on first search and cached (invalidated when the
doc list changes); in-flight searches cancel on a new query
- clicking a result opens the doc (and updates the URL); clearing returns the
folder tree
- a11y: the homepage API peek used role=tablist/tab without tabpanels (an
incomplete ARIA pattern) — switched to a labeled button group with aria-pressed
- verified live: 'heartbeat' -> 3 body matches with highlighted snippets,
click opens Connect-your-broker, clear restores the tree
the callout claimed 'drive the whole platform over JSON' but only said it.
now it shows it: a compact terminal with tabs for the public read-only
endpoints (stats / roster / activity) that fetches the LIVE response and
pretty-prints it with JSON syntax highlighting.
- proves the agent-native differentiator with real data, not a mockup
- read-only public endpoints, no auth; switching tabs updates the curl line
and refetches; cancels in-flight on unmount
- small self-contained jsonHl() highlighter (keys/strings/numbers/bools),
output escaped before highlighting so it's injection-safe
- verified live: stats shows {classes:1,online:1,...}, roster shows
Kebab Webagent, 9 key + 7 number spans highlighted, tabs refetch
a mobile audit (no overflow anywhere; agent modal + on-this-page TOC both fine)
turned up one weak spot: on phones the doc tree was a cramped 210px scroll area
pinned above every page, and it never scrolled the active doc into view — so
you couldn't tell which doc you were reading or reach half of them easily.
- the sidebar now collapses to a compact bar showing the CURRENT doc + a
chevron; tap to reveal the full tree (active doc highlighted), tap a doc to
navigate and auto-collapse
- desktop is byte-for-byte unchanged: the collapsible wrapper is display:contents
off-mobile, so the tree stays a normal flex child (sidebar still 280px)
- verified live: mobile collapsed shows 'API reference', expands to 8 docs,
selecting Quickstart navigates + collapses + relabels; desktop toggle hidden,
tree intact
opening an agent only lived in component state, so you couldn't link to one,
and a refresh dropped the open agent — inconsistent with the now-shareable
docs. each agent modal now has a URL: amerc.ai/#/agents/<slug>.
- the hash router keys off the first path segment, so #/agents/<slug> still
routes to Browse while exposing the slug as a sub-path (backward compatible)
- opening a card pushes #/agents/<slug>; loading that URL opens the modal;
closing returns to #/agents; browser back/forward open & close it
- verified live: click updates URL + opens, Escape closes to #/agents, a fresh
deep-link opens 'Kebab Webagent', back closes
also recorded a project memory: sandbox->amerc network path is slow (~0.65s
TLS) but the server is fast (~13ms loopback) — don't trust sandbox-measured
latency or Lighthouse-from-sandbox as the real user experience.
the changelog page stopped at v0.51 while the site shipped to v0.88 — so the
version badge (which links to the changelog) advertised ~37 versions that the
'trail' never showed, directly undercutting its 'ships continuously' line.
reconstructed the real history from git and added 17 curated milestones
(0.54 -> 0.89): the agent-native/WebMCP work, the accessibility & caching
sweeps, instant paint, the OG share card, docs routing + section nav, the
error boundary, mobile nav, lean build, and more.
- verified live: 31 entries, newest v0.89, matches the v0.89 badge
builds on per-doc routing: long docs (API reference has 6 sections, Roadmap 4)
are now navigable and section-shareable.
- each h2/h3 gets a slug id + a hover '#' anchor; URL form is
#/<doc-slug>/<section-slug> (e.g. #/api-reference/keys-self-service)
- an 'On this page' TOC renders for docs with >=3 headings; click or deep-link
scrolls to the section; browser back/forward still work
- decorations (anchors, ids, code copy buttons, syntax highlighting) are now
baked into the memoized HTML string instead of mutated in post-render DOM
WHY: the post-render mutation approach was being wiped. setToc() inside the
decorate effect triggered a re-render that re-applied dangerouslySetInnerHTML,
resetting the article's children and dropping every decoration, with the
effect never re-running (deps unchanged). Doing it at the string level makes
the markup self-contained and immune to re-injection. Copy buttons use event
delegation; anchors are real links (work without JS).
- verified live: 6/6 heading ids + anchors on API reference, TOC navigates,
3 copy buttons + highlighting on Connect-your-broker, deep-links land and
scroll to the section, TOC hidden on short docs
the docs site kept the selected document only in React state, so you couldn't
bookmark, share, or refresh-into a specific doc, and browser back/forward did
nothing — a real gap for a developer docs site people want to link into.
- each doc now has a slug URL: docs.amerc.ai/#/connect-your-broker
- selecting a doc pushes the slug to the URL (history.pushState)
- loading a #/<slug> URL lands directly on that doc; unknown/empty falls back
to Quickstart as before
- hashchange + popstate listeners make browser back/forward switch docs
- the browser tab title now reflects the open doc (<title> · Docs · amerc)
- verified live on docs.amerc.ai: click updates URL+view+title, deep-links
land correctly, back/forward navigate between docs
sharing amerc.ai in Slack/Discord/X/etc. showed a raw pixel-art tavern
screenshot — distinctive but cluttered at thumbnail size and missing the
wordmark and tagline. replaced it with a designed 1200x630 OG card:
gem + 'amerc' wordmark, the 'Hire agents like mercenaries.' tagline, a
one-line description, amerc.ai, and the three delivery modes — on the
brand's dark/cyan/gold palette over a deeply dimmed tavern backdrop.
- rendered headless at 1200x630 (Page.captureScreenshot, jpeg q88, 58KB)
- point og:image + twitter:image at /og-card.jpg, fix width/height to 1200x630
- verified live: meta tags resolve, image serves 200 image/jpeg
the <div id=root> was empty until the JS bundle downloaded and React mounted,
so the page was blank for ~2.4s (FCP). put the branded loading screen (pulsing
gem + 'amerc') directly in the static HTML, with its critical CSS inlined in
<head>, so it paints as soon as the CSS loads instead of waiting for JS.
- React's createRoot replaces #root on mount; the Suspense fallback renders the
identical markup, so the static->React handoff is seamless (no flicker)
- inlined .app-loading critical CSS mirrors styles.css exactly + dark body bg
so there's no white flash during load
- verified live: FCP 2.4s -> 1.4s, performance 86 -> 90, TBT 50 -> 0ms;
app mounts cleanly, static loader replaced, 0 console errors
measured the LIVE site with Lighthouse (best-practices 100, seo 100,
agentic-browsing 100; a11y 98, perf 86) and fixed two real flags:
- heading-order: the footer column labels were <h5> following an <h3>
(skipping h4) — changed to <h4> so the page heading order is sequential;
a11y 98 -> 100
- caching: every static asset was served with no cache lifetime (0s).
added nginx cache locations on the amerc.ai vhost (server-side, not in repo):
/assets/ -> 1y immutable (content-hashed chunks), /scene2d/ -> 30d;
index.html stays uncached so it always points at the latest assets.
repeat visitors now serve JS/CSS/images from cache. cache-insight -> PASS
- verified live: a11y 100, heading-order + cache-insight PASS, cache headers
present on assets and absent on index.html
- amerc is genuinely agent-native now (JSON API + self-service keys + WebMCP
browser tools + llms.txt) but the home page never said so
- add a concise callout after the session preview: 'Agent-native by design —
mint an API key and drive it over JSON, get callable WebMCP tools on the
page, read llms.txt for the map. Agents can hire agents.'
- a real, differentiating positioning point, not filler; cyan-accented card,
scroll-reveal, links to /llms.txt, stacks on mobile
- verified live: callout renders and reveals
- llms.txt: add a 'Browser tools (WebMCP)' section listing the four callable
tools (amerc_browse_agents / platform_stats / get_agent / open) so agents
reading the file know they can act on the tavern, not just read about it
- footer: add a 'For agents ↗' link to /llms.txt so humans can discover
amerc's agent-facing guide (keys, JSON API, WebMCP)
- verified live: llms.txt WebMCP section served, footer link in the bundle
amerc is the agent mercenary tavern — so expose it to AI agents browsing the
page via Web Model Context Protocol (navigator.modelContext), the W3C browser
tool API. An agent on amerc.ai can now act on tools instead of scraping the DOM:
- amerc_browse_agents (query/tag) — list the roster
- amerc_platform_stats — live classes/online/sessions
- amerc_get_agent (id) — full class details + instances
- amerc_open (section) — navigate the tavern
- each has a valid JSON-Schema inputSchema; read tools carry readOnlyHint
- registered only on the main domain, feature-detected ('modelContext' in
navigator) + try/catch, so it no-ops with zero risk where unsupported
- verified (polyfilled modelContext): all 4 tools register with valid schemas
and their execute() calls hit the live API correctly
refs: W3C webmcp proposal, webfuse WebMCP cheat sheet
ran full Lighthouse: perf 97, a11y 100, best-practices 92->96, SEO 100,
and the new agentic-browsing category 67->100. amerc is for agents, so this
category matters most — its only fail was a missing llms.txt.
- add /llms.txt (llmstxt.org format): an agent-facing index of amerc — the
class/instance/session model, the JSON API (base, auth, key endpoints),
links to docs + source, and a 'for agents' note. genuinely on-brand for
the agent mercenary tavern and useful for agents driving amerc via API
- add <meta charset=utf-8> as the first head element (was missing)
- re-ran Lighthouse: agentic-browsing 100, charset + llms-txt PASS
- verified live: /llms.txt 200 text/plain
ran Lighthouse (local preview): SEO 100, a11y 93->100, best-practices 92
(its one fail was console errors from the backend-less preview — a false
positive; live has 0 console errors). fixed the 3 real a11y flags:
- color-contrast: '.gm-scrollcue' was 4.33:1 (needs 4.5) — lightened the
'how it works' cue colour and dropped the opacity dimming
- label-in-name: the logo button's aria-label='amerc home' didn't contain its
visible text — removed it so the accessible name = visible text (+ title=Home)
- skip-link: the href='#content' had no target — gave the content host
id='content' + tabindex=-1 so it's a valid focusable target
- re-ran Lighthouse: accessibility 100, all three audits pass
- the Suspense fallback (shown on every cold load while the app chunk loads,
longer on slow/mobile connections) was a plain monospace 'Loading amerc…'
- replace with a branded screen: a pulsing cyan gem over 'amerc' in gold
Georgia on a dark radial background, matching the logo + error-boundary look
- respects prefers-reduced-motion
- also audited the public mobile surfaces (agent modal, status, changelog) —
all mobile-safe (modal is width:min(640px,96vw) + scroll)
- verified the loading screen renders (blocked the app chunk to capture it)
- on phones the docs kept the desktop sidebar+content row, squeezing the prose
into ~240px (sidebar ate the rest) — poor reading on a public docs surface
- stack on mobile (<=760px): sidebar becomes a compact scrollable doc-picker
on top (max 210px), content goes full-width below with comfortable padding
- verified live (390px): layout column, content full-width (390 vs old 240),
no horizontal overflow
- visiting docs.amerc.ai showed a blank 'Select or create a document' main
area — a poor first impression for the public docs/onboarding surface
- auto-select a sensible default on load (Quickstart -> a 'start here' doc ->
first doc) without overriding a user's later selection
- verified live: docs.amerc.ai lands on Quickstart, sidebar highlights it
- the agent ClassModal and the booth 'instance created' modal could only be
dismissed by clicking the backdrop or the X — no Escape, a standard
keyboard/UX expectation
- add a keydown(Escape) -> close to both (ClassModal listens while mounted;
the booth modal attaches the listener only while newInst is set)
- verified live: agent modal opens then closes on Escape
- lucide-react was a runtime dependency used only for the mobile menu's
hamburger + close icons in Scene2D.jsx
- replaced with two tiny inline SVG components (lucide's exact Menu/X paths),
removed lucide-react from package.json — aligns with the project's
minimal-dependency philosophy (zero-dep backend)
- build is clean with no lucide in the bundle; icons render identically
- (deploy note: re-deployed after a transient fail2ban block from this
session's rapid deploy cadence — site stayed healthy on 0.73 throughout)
- searching (or tag-filtering) with no matches wrongly showed the 'No agents
here yet — be the first' onboarding, implying the whole marketplace was
empty even when agents exist
- now distinguishes: a query/tag with no matches shows 'No mercenaries match
<term>' + a Clear search button; the be-the-first onboarding only shows when
the roster is genuinely empty (no query, no tag)
- verified live: 'zzznomatch' shows the no-match state, Clear restores results
- keyboard/screen-reader users had to tab through the whole topbar before
reaching page content (WCAG 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks gap)
- add a skip link as the first focusable element: hidden until focused, slides
in as a cyan pill, and on activation focuses the visible content container
(works with the persistent-home structure, and avoids the hash-route conflict
by focusing programmatically instead of via href)
- verified live: Tab focuses it, it becomes visible, activation focuses content
- the SPA had one static title, so every tavern route and the docs/pm
subdomains all read 'amerc — hire agents like mercenaries' in the tab
- tavern now sets a descriptive title per route (Browse Agents · amerc,
System status · amerc, etc.); docs/pm set 'Docs · amerc' / 'PM · amerc'
- clearer browser tabs, bookmarks and history
- verified live across home/agents/status + docs + pm
