prisma/schema.prisma

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ datasource db {
 }
 
 // A preset script file living somewhere in the folder tree.
-// folderPath is the full path from the virtual root, e.g. "root/embedded".
+// folderPath is the full path from the virtual root, e.g. "root/embedded/Synth-C".
 // Names are unique per folder (files in a directory).
 // approx = true marks embedded presets that are generated stand-ins rather
 // than ports of the original's code (the original relies on effects the
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ model Settings {
   bandConfig    String?
   beatConfig    String?
   // Version stamp of the embedded preset library; when it changes, the
-  // root/embedded subtree is re-seeded from EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.
+  // root/embedded subtree is re-seeded from BUILTIN + EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.
   embeddedSeed  String?
   updatedAt     DateTime @updatedAt
 }

src/app/api/presets/route.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
 import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server'
 import { db } from '@/lib/db'
+import { BUILTIN_PRESETS } from '@/lib/ava/presets'
 import { EMBEDDED_LIBRARY, EMBEDDED_SEED_VERSION } from '@/lib/ava/embedded-presets'
 import { ensureFolderRows } from '@/lib/server/preset-tree'
 import { EMBEDDED_ROOT, ROOT, USER_ROOT } from '@/lib/preset-paths'
 
 export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic'
 
-/**
+/** The structural backbone of the tree, created on first run. */
- * The structural backbone of the tree, created on first run. The embedded
+const BASE_FOLDERS = [
- * branch has no subfolders (v7.19.0 curation) — "Beat Matrix" lives directly
+  ROOT,
- * under root/embedded.
+  EMBEDDED_ROOT,
- */
+  USER_ROOT,
-const BASE_FOLDERS = [ROOT, EMBEDDED_ROOT, USER_ROOT]
+  'root/embedded/Synth-C',
+  'root/embedded/Amp Picks',
+  'root/embedded/Dynamics',
+  'root/embedded/Envision',
+  'root/embedded/Zai-Magic',
+]
 
 /**
  * Version-gated seed + INTEGRITY SELF-HEAL for the embedded library.
@@ -20,13 +26,18 @@ const BASE_FOLDERS = [ROOT, EMBEDDED_ROOT, USER_ROOT]
  * sees, so GET verifies it on every request:
  *   1. version gate — EMBEDDED_SEED_VERSION changes trigger a full re-seed
  *      (library was regenerated);
- *   2. fingerprint — the embedded subtree must exactly match EMBEDDED
+ *   2. fingerprint — the embedded subtree must exactly match
- *      (folder + name). Any drift — a preset renamed or deleted through
+ *      BUILTIN + EMBEDDED (folder + name). Any drift — a preset renamed or
- *      pre-hardening endpoints, a row injected straight into the DB —
+ *      deleted through pre-hardening endpoints, a row injected straight into
- *      re-seeds the subtree automatically.
+ *      the DB — re-seeds the subtree automatically.
  */
 function libraryFingerprint(): string {
-  const items = EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.map((p) => `${p.folder}/${p.name}`)
+  const items = [
+    ...BUILTIN_PRESETS.map((p) => `root/embedded/Synth-C/${p.name}`),
+    ...EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.map(
+      (p) => `${p.folder.replace('root/embedded/root/embedded/', 'root/embedded/')}/${p.name}`,
+    ),
+  ]
   return items.sort().join('|')
 }
 
@@ -61,20 +72,30 @@ async function ensureSeeded(): Promise<void> {
         ],
       },
     })
-    // the curated library has NO subfolders — drop any stale category
-    // folder rows (Synth-C / Amp Picks / Dynamics / Envision / Zai-Magic)
-    await db.folder.deleteMany({ where: { path: { startsWith: 'root/embedded/' } } })
     await db.preset.createMany({
-      data: EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.map((p) => ({
+      data: [
-        name: p.name,
+        ...BUILTIN_PRESETS.map((p) => ({
-        author: p.author,
+          name: p.name,
-        description: p.description,
+          author: p.author,
-        content: p.content,
+          description: p.description,
-        originalFile: p.originalFile ?? null,
+          content: p.content,
-        isBuiltIn: true,
+          originalFile: p.originalFile ?? null,
-        approx: p.approx ?? false,
+          isBuiltIn: true,
-        folderPath: p.folder,
+          approx: false,
-      })),
+          folderPath: 'root/embedded/Synth-C',
+        })),
+        ...EMBEDDED_LIBRARY.map((p) => ({
+          name: p.name,
+          author: p.author,
+          description: p.description,
+          content: p.content,
+          originalFile: p.originalFile ?? null,
+          isBuiltIn: true,
+          approx: p.approx ?? false,
+          // tolerate old converter output that recorded the download nesting
+          folderPath: p.folder.replace('root/embedded/root/embedded/', 'root/embedded/'),
+        })),
+      ],
     })
     await db.settings.upsert({
       where: { id: 'main' },
@@ -93,12 +114,6 @@ async function ensureSeeded(): Promise<void> {
  * the embedded library, folders outside the structural backbone — is purged
  * here so no visitor can ever alter what other visitors see. Runs on every
  * GET; it's two indexed deleteMany calls on a small SQLite table.
- *
- * v7.19.0: the embedded branch ships NO subfolders, so the folder purge now
- * keeps only the three backbone rows and deletes everything else (stale
- * category folders included). User folders never exist server-side — the
- * "root/user created" tree lives in each visitor's browser — so nothing of
- * any visitor's is touched.
  */
 async function purgeVisitorJunk(): Promise<void> {
   await db.preset.deleteMany({
@@ -111,7 +126,14 @@ async function purgeVisitorJunk(): Promise<void> {
     },
   })
   await db.folder.deleteMany({
-    where: { path: { notIn: [ROOT, EMBEDDED_ROOT, USER_ROOT] } },
+    where: {
+      NOT: [
+        { path: ROOT },
+        { path: EMBEDDED_ROOT },
+        { path: USER_ROOT },
+        { path: { startsWith: 'root/embedded/' } },
+      ],
+    },
   })
 }
 

src/app/page.tsx

@@ -102,17 +102,19 @@ function useInitialLoad() {
       const beat = readStoredBeatConfig()
       if (beat) store.applyBeatConfig(beat)
 
-      // startup script: saved default (this browser) → the embedded default
+      // startup script: saved default (this browser) → v7.2 default preset
-      // preset (v7.19.0: "Beat Matrix" — the 16-band beat-reactive spectrum
+      // (Zai-Magic "Bass Bloom" — the megabuf particle bloom that remembers
-      // wall, the single preset of the curated embedded library) → template
+      // every beat's hue) → any Zai-Magic preset → template
       let text: string | null = lsGetString('ava.defaultScript')
       const usedSavedDefault = text !== null && text.trim() !== ''
       let startupPreset: (typeof presetsList)[number] | undefined
       if (!text) {
         startupPreset =
           presetsList.find(
-            (p) => p.folderPath === 'root/embedded' && p.name === 'Beat Matrix',
+            (p) => p.folderPath === 'root/embedded/Zai-Magic' && p.name === 'Bass Bloom',
-          ) ?? presetsList[0]
+          ) ??
+          presetsList.find((p) => p.folderPath === 'root/embedded/Zai-Magic') ??
+          presetsList[0]
         text = startupPreset?.content ?? null
       }
       if (!text) text = STARTER_TEMPLATE

src/components/ava/audio-source.ts

@@ -320,18 +320,17 @@ function fileErrorMessage(err: unknown): string {
 }
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Showcase defaults (v7.19.0) — "Beat Matrix" over the demo track
+// v7.2 showcase defaults — Bass Bloom + the Zai-Magic club mix
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/** The read-only folder of the curated embedded library (one preset:
+/** The read-only folder that ships the hand-authored Zai-Magic presets. */
- *  "Beat Matrix" — the single shipped preset, directly under root/embedded). */
+const ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER = 'root/embedded/Zai-Magic'
-const EMBEDDED_FOLDER = 'root/embedded'
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // v7.11 — the visitor's own selection vs. the welcome showcase
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/** The script text this visit booted with (saved default / Beat Matrix /
+/** The script text this visit booted with (saved default / Bass Bloom /
  *  template). Any later difference = the visitor's own material. */
 let bootScriptSnapshot = ''
 
@@ -367,18 +366,18 @@ export function visitorHasOwnSelection(): boolean {
 /**
  * Music just started but no preset is active (the visitor never picked one —
  * e.g. they are running their own untitled draft): load the default preset,
- * the embedded "Beat Matrix", so something beat-reactive is on screen the
+ * Zai-Magic "Bass Bloom", so something beat-reactive is on screen the moment
- * moment audio arrives. Engine-only — the editor's unsaved text is never
+ * audio arrives. Engine-only — the editor's unsaved text is never touched
- * touched (the same courtesy random switching pays). v7.11: a visitor with
+ * (the same courtesy random switching pays). v7.11: a visitor with their OWN
- * their OWN material (custom draft / saved default) is left completely
+ * material (custom draft / saved default) is left completely alone — the
- * alone — the forced default used to replace their running script.
+ * forced default used to replace their running script.
  */
 function ensureDefaultPreset(): void {
   const s = useAvaStore.getState()
   if (s.activePresetId !== null) return
   if (visitorHasOwnSelection()) return
   const preset = s.presets.find(
-    (p) => p.folderPath === EMBEDDED_FOLDER && p.name === 'Beat Matrix',
+    (p) => p.folderPath === ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER && p.name === 'Bass Bloom',
   )
   if (!preset) return
   const v = validateScript(preset.content)
@@ -391,31 +390,30 @@ function ensureDefaultPreset(): void {
 }
 
 /**
- * The Demo button is the showcase: point the preset tree at the embedded
+ * The Demo button is the showcase: point the preset tree at Zai-Magic (and
- * library (and expand it so the visitor sees what is playing). v7.19.0: the
+ * expand it so the visitor sees what is playing), then start the sequence —
- * curated library is a single preset ("Beat Matrix"), so there is nothing
+ * v7.4: every Zai-Magic preset IN ORDER, one every 20 seconds, wrapping
- * to cycle — no mix timer is engaged; the track simply plays under the
+ * around, for the one play-through (Sequence, not Random — the demo pass
- * beat-reactive wall, and any mix the visitor starts later is scoped to
+ * should walk the whole family, not repeat picks). v7.11: only ever called
- * the folder by the selection. v7.11: only ever called for a visit that
+ * for a visit that made no choice of their own (see visitorHasOwnSelection).
- * made no choice of their own (see visitorHasOwnSelection).
  */
 function startShowcaseMix(): void {
   const s = useAvaStore.getState()
-  if (s.folders.includes(EMBEDDED_FOLDER)) {
+  if (s.folders.includes(ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER)) {
-    s.selectFolder(EMBEDDED_FOLDER) // also scopes any later mix to the folder
+    s.selectFolder(ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER) // also scopes the mix to the folder
-    s.toggleFolder(EMBEDDED_FOLDER, true)
+    s.toggleFolder(ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER, true)
   }
+  s.setRandomIntervalSec(20)
+  s.setSequenceMode(true) // mutual exclusion unticks Random if it was on
 }
 
 /**
  * v7.3/v7.4: the demo is a single pass — when it ends (natural play-through,
  * Stop button, or switching to another source) unwind the showcase state:
- * the Demo flow used to force-check the mix mode (Sequence), so it gets
+ * the Demo flow force-checked the mix mode (Sequence), so it gets unchecked
- * unchecked again. v7.19.0 no longer engages a timer, but the unwind stays
+ * again. The visitor's own selection (the last preset that was running)
- * as a safety net for any flags that did get set. The visitor's own
+ * stays put. v7.11: only called when the showcase actually engaged — a
- * selection (the last preset that was running) stays put. v7.11: only
+ * visitor whose own Random/Sequence mix was already running keeps it.
- * called when the showcase actually engaged — a visitor whose own
- * Random/Sequence mix was already running keeps it.
  */
 function retireDemoShowcase(): void {
   const s = useAvaStore.getState()
@@ -475,7 +473,7 @@ export function useAudioSource() {
     const index = readDemoNext()
     try {
       await engine.audio.startDemo(index)
-      // v7.11: the welcome showcase (Beat Matrix over the demo track) only
+      // v7.11: the welcome showcase (Bass Bloom + Zai-Magic Sequence) only
       // engages for a visit that made NO choice of their own — no preset
       // loaded (double-click / Load / a copy), no custom script material in
       // the editor, no own mix running. Everyone else keeps their selection:
@@ -494,17 +492,17 @@ export function useAudioSource() {
         if (reason === 'ended' || reason === 'stop') writeDemoNext(index + 1)
       }
       syncSource()
-      // showcase flow (v7.2/v7.11, reworked v7.19.0): nothing active and
+      // showcase flow (v7.2/v7.4/v7.11): nothing active and nothing of the
-      // nothing of the visitor's own → Beat Matrix on screen; the tree points
+      // visitor's own → Bass Bloom, then the Zai-Magic sequence takes over —
-      // at the embedded library for the rest of the pass. With the visitor's
+      // every preset in order, 20 s each, for this one play-through. With
-      // own selection, the showcase is skipped (ensureDefaultPreset holds its
+      // the visitor's own selection, BOTH are skipped (ensureDefaultPreset
-      // own guard as well).
+      // holds its own guard as well).
       ensureDefaultPreset()
       if (showcase) startShowcaseMix()
       toast({
         title: 'Demo track playing',
         description: showcase
-          ? `${demoTrackTitle(index)} (${index + 1} of ${DEMO_TRACK_COUNT}) · "Beat Matrix" is running -- the built-in beat-reactive wall, straight from the embedded library.`
+          ? `${demoTrackTitle(index)} (${index + 1} of ${DEMO_TRACK_COUNT}) · Zai-Magic preset sequence -- every preset in order, 20 s each, one play-through.`
           : `${demoTrackTitle(index)} (${index + 1} of ${DEMO_TRACK_COUNT}) · your selection stays active -- the demo never touches your preset or the editor.`,
       })
     } catch (err) {

src/components/ava/directory-tab.tsx

@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@
 // and "Get" any entry: the hash string is fetched, decoded back into the
 // exact script, and filed in this browser's preset tree under
 // "root/user created/OVE-Directory" -- from where it opens in the editor.
-// v7.20: each entry card is compact -- the Get button sits at the card's
-// top right with the date immediately to its left, so the rating row never
-// wraps the button onto its own line (the card dropped from ~126 px to
-// ~94 px at the sidebar width).
 
 'use client'
 
@@ -176,12 +172,7 @@ function DirRow({
 
   return (
     <article className="rounded-lg border border-zinc-800 bg-zinc-900/40 p-3">
-      {/* v7.20 -- one header line: name + type on the left, the date and the
+      <div className="flex items-baseline gap-2">
-          Get button clustered at the top right (date immediately left of the
-          button). The rating row below no longer carries the button, so it
-          can never wrap Get onto a line of its own -- every card stays two
-          lines tall. */}
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
         <h4 className="min-w-0 truncate text-sm font-medium text-zinc-100" title={entry.name}>
           {entry.name}
         </h4>
@@ -191,27 +182,9 @@ function DirRow({
         >
           {entry.type}
         </span>
-        <span className="ml-auto flex shrink-0 items-center gap-2">
+        <time className="ml-auto shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-zinc-500" dateTime={entry.created_at}>
-          <time className="font-mono text-[11px] text-zinc-500" dateTime={entry.created_at}>
+          {formatDirDate(entry.created_at)}
-            {formatDirDate(entry.created_at)}
+        </time>
-          </time>
-          {getting ? (
-            <Button size="sm" disabled className="h-7 gap-1 border-zinc-700 px-2.5 text-[11px]">
-              <Loader2 className="size-3.5 animate-spin" aria-hidden /> Getting…
-            </Button>
-          ) : (
-            <Button
-              size="sm"
-              variant="outline"
-              onClick={onGet}
-              className="h-7 gap-1 border-zinc-700 px-2.5 text-[11px]"
-              title="Fetch this script: it's saved to this browser's presets and can open in the editor"
-            >
-              {got ? <Check className="size-3.5 text-emerald-400" aria-hidden /> : <Download className="size-3.5" aria-hidden />}
-              {got ? 'Get again' : 'Get'}
-            </Button>
-          )}
-        </span>
       </div>
 
       <div className="mt-2 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-3 gap-y-1.5">
@@ -220,6 +193,24 @@ function DirRow({
           Average: <span className="text-amber-300">{entry.average.toFixed(1)}</span>
           <span className="text-zinc-600"> · {entry.votes} {entry.votes === 1 ? 'vote' : 'votes'}</span>
         </span>
+        <span className="ml-auto">
+          {getting ? (
+            <Button size="sm" disabled className="h-8 gap-1.5 border-zinc-700 text-xs">
+              <Loader2 className="size-3.5 animate-spin" aria-hidden /> Getting…
+            </Button>
+          ) : (
+            <Button
+              size="sm"
+              variant="outline"
+              onClick={onGet}
+              className="h-8 gap-1.5 border-zinc-700 text-xs"
+              title="Fetch this script: it's saved to this browser's presets and can open in the editor"
+            >
+              {got ? <Check className="size-3.5 text-emerald-400" aria-hidden /> : <Download className="size-3.5" aria-hidden />}
+              {got ? 'Get again' : 'Get'}
+            </Button>
+          )}
+        </span>
       </div>
 
       {got && (
@@ -467,7 +458,7 @@ export function DirectoryTab() {
       ) : loading ? (
         <div className="space-y-2" aria-busy>
           {[0, 1, 2, 3].map((i) => (
-            <div key={i} className="h-24 animate-pulse rounded-lg border border-zinc-800 bg-zinc-900/40" />
+            <div key={i} className="h-20 animate-pulse rounded-lg border border-zinc-800 bg-zinc-900/40" />
           ))}
         </div>
       ) : scripts.length === 0 ? (

src/components/ava/help-panel.tsx

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const FRAME_VARS: [string, string][] = [
   ['silent', '1 while silence holds the beat grid (v7.15.1) -- no beats fire and beatphase freezes; releases the moment real audio returns. Waveform / band data still flows, it is just near zero'],
   ['w / h', 'canvas size in pixels'],
   ['aspect', 'canvas width / height -- divide x by it for perfect circles'],
-  ['persist', 'motion-trail persistence 0..1, writable per frame -- 1 = the framebuffer never fades (old content then leaves only through a bg* transform or a blend: replace repaint); at 0.5 and above the 8-bit fade used to leave a faint gray wash -- the engine now sweeps that to pure black automatically (see trueblack)'],
+  ['persist', 'motion-trail persistence 0..1, writable per frame -- 1 = the framebuffer never fades (old content then leaves only through a bg* transform or a blend: replace repaint); at 0.5 and above the 8-bit fade can leave a faint gray wash -- the trueblack: header fixes that'],
   ['blend', 'per-frame override of the blend: header -- set it to a mode\'s number from the Blend modes table below (1 = normal, 2 = additive, 3 = replace, 6 = subtract, ...); read after [frame]/[beat], before drawing'],
   ['bgrot', 'background spin in radians per frame -- + clockwise, - counter-clockwise; 0 = off (set in [init] / [frame] / [beat]; persists like any variable)'],
   ['bgx / bgy', 'background drift per frame, the -1..1 screen convention (y is up) -- slide the whole picture up, down, left or right'],
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ description: shown in the preset list
 mode: lines        # lines | dots | solid
 blend: additive    # any of the 41 keywords -- see the Blend modes table
 persist: 0.85      # trail persistence 0..1 (1 = never fades)
-trueblack: auto    # on | off | auto (default auto): subtractive fade tail
+trueblack: off    # subtractive fade tail: trails reach PURE black even at
-                   # so trails reach PURE black even at high persist --
+                   # high persist (no gray wash) -- but it turns transparent
-                   # auto runs it exactly in the sticky zone (persist >= 0.5)
+                   # pixels opaque, so leave it off for behind/clear art
 linewidth: 2
 
 [init]   # runs once on load
@@ -211,13 +211,11 @@ linewidth: 2
 [point]  # runs n times per frame`}
         </pre>
         <p className="mt-2 text-[11px] leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-          <span className="font-mono text-emerald-400/90">trueblack: auto</span> keeps every trail honest: the fade multiplies the framebuffer in 8-bit
+          <span className="font-mono text-emerald-400/90">trueblack: on</span> pairs with a high persist: the trail fade multiplies the
-          steps, so a persist of 0.5 or more leaves a stuck residue (round(v·p) = v for the smallest values) -- a faint
+          framebuffer in 8-bit steps, so values like 0.9 leave a stuck gray residue (round(v·p) = v for the smallest
-          colored wash that never fully fades. auto (the default) subtracts 1/255 per frame exactly in that sticky zone,
+          values); the tail subtracts 1/255 per frame so everything reaches true black -- long echo trails stay clean
-          so everything ends in true black while cheap low-persist scripts pay nothing. The sweep runs on the GPU and
+          over a pure background. Because it forces pixels opaque, never use it together with{' '}
-          preserves transparency, so <span className="font-mono">behind</span>/<span className="font-mono">clear</span>{' '}
+          <span className="font-mono">behind</span>/<span className="font-mono">clear</span> blending.
-          art keeps its holes (the no-WebGL fallback stands down for it instead). <span className="font-mono">on</span>{' '}
-          forces the sweep at any persist below 1, <span className="font-mono">off</span> keeps the wash for looks.
         </p>
       </HelpSection>
     </div>

src/components/ava/script-tab.tsx

@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
 // script as a new preset under "user created", auto-named from its name:
 // header), Save As…, Save as Default, Save to File, Load from File,
 // Script⇢Hash / Hash⇢Script (v7.7 — share the script as one short Unicode
-// string and paste one back; v7.20: pasting a share string straight into
+// string and paste one back), Upload to OVE-Directory (v7.11 — publish the
-// the editor decodes it in place, no button needed), Upload to OVE-Directory
+// compiled script to the community directory), New, Help. Editor: line-number
-// (v7.11 — publish the compiled script to the community directory), New,
+// gutter + monospace textarea (synced scroll, Tab inserts two spaces), error
-// Help. Editor: line-number gutter + monospace textarea (synced scroll, Tab
+// lines flagged in the gutter. Status line under the editor shows compile
-// inserts two spaces), error lines flagged in the gutter. Status line under
+// status or runtime errors.
-// the editor shows compile status or runtime errors.
 
 'use client'
 
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ import {
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input'
 import { STARTER_TEMPLATE } from '@/lib/ava/presets'
 import { validateScript } from '@/lib/ava/script'
-import { decodeScriptHash } from '@/lib/ava/share-codec'
 import {
   applyUserPresets,
   persistDefaultScript,
@@ -395,49 +393,6 @@ export function ScriptTab() {
     })
   }
 
-  /**
-   * v7.20 — pasting a share string straight into the editor decodes it in
-   * place: the hash never lands; the script it carries is inserted at the
-   * paste point instead, exactly like a paste (over the current selection,
-   * at the cursor when nothing is selected). This is Hash⇢Script's "Load into
-   * Editor" without the clicks -- the toolbar button stays for people who
-   * want the decode preview / error report first. Anything that does not
-   * decode (normal script text, a hash embedded in commentary, a truncated
-   * string) falls through to a perfectly ordinary paste.
-   */
-  const onEditorPaste = (e: React.ClipboardEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) => {
-    const pasted = e.clipboardData?.getData('text') ?? ''
-    if (!pasted) return // not a text paste (nothing we can decode)
-    const decoded = decodeScriptHash(pasted)
-    if (!decoded.ok) return // not a share string -- let the browser paste it
-    e.preventDefault()
-    const ta = e.currentTarget
-    const start = ta.selectionStart
-    const end = ta.selectionEnd
-    setScriptText(scriptText.slice(0, start) + decoded.script + scriptText.slice(end))
-    requestAnimationFrame(() => {
-      ta.focus()
-      ta.selectionStart = ta.selectionEnd = start + decoded.script.length
-    })
-    // the same import semantics the Hash⇢Script dialog applies (v7.11): the
-    // editor now holds FOREIGN content -- clear the save target (a later Save
-    // must not overwrite the previous preset with it), remember the display
-    // name for the one-click auto-named Save, and mark it as the visitor's
-    // own so the Demo showcase never clobbers it.
-    const v = validateScript(decoded.script)
-    const display = v.meta && v.meta.name !== 'Untitled' ? v.meta.name : decoded.name
-    setPendingName(display ?? null)
-    setEditTarget(null)
-    useAvaStore.getState().markManualChoice()
-    const lines = decoded.script.split('\n').length
-    toast({
-      title: 'Share string decoded',
-      description: `"${display ?? 'Untitled'}" -- ${lines} lines loaded into the editor.${
-        v.ok ? ' Hit Apply to run it, or Save to keep it as a preset.' : ' Fix the errors, then Apply.'
-      }`,
-    })
-  }
-
   const syncScroll = (e: React.UIEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) => {
     if (gutterRef.current) gutterRef.current.scrollTop = e.currentTarget.scrollTop
   }
@@ -627,7 +582,6 @@ export function ScriptTab() {
           ref={textareaRef}
           value={scriptText}
           onChange={(e) => setScriptText(e.target.value)}
-          onPaste={onEditorPaste}
           onKeyDown={onKeyDown}
           onScroll={syncScroll}
           spellCheck={false}

src/components/ava/visual-stage.tsx

@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ export function VisualStage({ className }: { className?: string }) {
               </h2>
               <div className="grid gap-1.5 sm:gap-2.5">
                 {/* v7.2 showcase entry point -- the shimmering Demo Track
-                    button: one click starts the music AND the embedded
+                    button: one click starts the music AND the Zai-Magic
-                    "Beat Matrix" showcase (v7.19.0: single-preset library) */}
+                    club mix (random preset every 20 s) */}
                 <Button
                   onClick={() => void startDemo()}
                   className="shimmer-cta h-11 gap-2 bg-emerald-400 text-emerald-950 hover:bg-emerald-300 sm:h-12"

src/lib/ava/blend-gpu.ts

@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
 // negation, phoenix, grain extract/merge, reflect, glow, and the four
 // After Effects masks (stencil / silhouette, luma + alpha).
 //
-// v7.19 adds mode 22, the trueblack decay sweep (sweep()): every pixel's
-// premultiplied rgb AND alpha lose exactly 1/255, clamped at 0 -- the
-// engine's persistence-fade tail. Unlike the Canvas2D 'difference'
-// fallback it is exact (black stays a true 0, no round-trip oscillation)
-// and alpha-preserving (behind/clear holes keep healing), which is what
-// lets the engine run the sweep by default for every sticky persist.
-//
 // Per frame the engine draws the stroke passes onto a scratch canvas
 // (source-over, so the two-pass glow keeps its usual tuning), then:
 //   1. uploads the live canvas (backdrop) and the scratch (stroke layer)
@@ -74,13 +67,6 @@ void main() {
   vec3 b = c > 0.0 ? S.rgb / max(c, 1e-4) : vec3(0.0);      // straight stroke
 
   // -- special-tail modes ------------------------------------------------
-  if (uMode == 22) {           // trueblack decay sweep (engine.ts fade tail)
-    // premultiplied rgb AND alpha lose exactly 1/255, clamped at 0; the
-    // stroke layer is not read. 1/255 = 0.00392156863...
-    gl_FragColor = vec4(max(D.rgb - vec3(0.00392156863), vec3(0.0)),
-                        max(D.a - 0.00392156863, 0.0));
-    return;
-  }
   if (uMode == 1) {            // dissolve: stochastic full-intensity speckle
     // the +uFrame offset re-rolls the grain every frame (animated speckle)
     gl_FragColor = hash(vUV * 997.0 + vec2(uFrame * 0.618, uFrame * 0.317)) < c ? vec4(b, 1.0) : D;
@@ -235,28 +221,6 @@ export class BlendCompositor {
     return true
   }
 
-  /** v7.19 — trueblack decay sweep: render one pass of mode 22 into
-   *  this.canvas. The engine then copies it back onto the live canvas
-   *  with composite 'copy'. Only the backdrop is uploaded (the stroke
-   *  sampler is pointed at the same texture — mode 22 never reads it). */
-  sweep(dst: HTMLCanvasElement): void {
-    const gl = this.gl
-    const prog = this.prog
-    if (!gl || !prog) return
-    gl.viewport(0, 0, this.canvas.width, this.canvas.height)
-    gl.useProgram(prog)
-    gl.activeTexture(gl.TEXTURE0)
-    gl.bindTexture(gl.TEXTURE_2D, this.texDst)
-    gl.texImage2D(gl.TEXTURE_2D, 0, gl.RGBA, gl.RGBA, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE, dst)
-    gl.uniform1i(this.uDst, 0)
-    gl.activeTexture(gl.TEXTURE1)
-    gl.bindTexture(gl.TEXTURE_2D, this.texDst) // uSrc unread by mode 22
-    gl.uniform1i(this.uSrc, 1)
-    gl.uniform1i(this.uMode, 22)
-    gl.uniform1f(this.uFrame, 0)
-    gl.drawArrays(gl.TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4)
-  }
-
   /** Render one blended frame into this.canvas. The engine then copies it
    *  back onto the live canvas with composite 'copy'. */
   blend(dst: HTMLCanvasElement, src: HTMLCanvasElement, mode: number, frame: number): void {

src/lib/ava/engine.ts

@@ -31,26 +31,6 @@
 // every pixel opaque (alpha composites to 1 under 'difference'), so it
 // must not be combined with 'behind'/'clear' art -- opt-in, off by
 // default, and the Help panel documents the caveat.
-//
-// v7.19: trueblack is AUTOMATIC. The subtractive tail now runs by default
-// in exactly the regime where the multiply sticks (persist >= 0.5), so
-// every trail -- not just scripts that know the header -- ends in pure
-// black. The default path is the WebGL compositor's mode-22 sweep
-// (blend-gpu.ts): premultiplied rgb AND alpha each lose exactly 1/255,
-// clamped at 0. That is exact in 8-bit (black stays a true 0 -- no
-// round-trip oscillation like the 'difference' fill's 0<->1 flicker) and
-// alpha-PRESERVING, so 'behind'/'clear' art keeps its transparent holes
-// (which heal to truly empty, too -- stuck alpha quanta are swept like
-// everything else). Because the GPU sweep is safe for alpha art, it runs
-// unconditionally. The v7.17 Canvas2D 'difference' fill survives only as
-// the no-WebGL fallback, and there it stands down once the script has
-// been seen drawing with 'behind'/'clear' (the alphaArt latch; the header
-// blend pre-latches it, a per-frame env.blend switch latches at draw
-// time). The header itself is now a tri-state: auto (default -- sweep in
-// the sticky zone only), on (always, the v7.17 behavior) and off (never,
-// for authors who want the wash). Scripts at persist < 0.5 pay nothing:
-// their multiply already decays every quantum value, so the sweep is
-// skipped entirely.
 
 import { blendByIndex, blendIndex, findBlend } from './blend'
 import { BlendCompositor } from './blend-gpu'
@@ -142,13 +122,6 @@ export class AvaEngine {
    *  nearest native operator (spec.fallbackOp). */
   private gpuBroken = false
 
-  /** v7.19 — latched while the current script draws alpha-dependent art
-   *  ('behind' / 'clear', from the header blend or a per-frame env.blend
-   *  switch). The GPU trueblack sweep preserves alpha and always runs; the
-   *  Canvas2D 'difference' fallback forces pixels opaque, so it stands
-   *  down for these scripts instead of punching their holes shut. */
-  private alphaArt = false
-
   constructor() {
     // AVS-eel compatibility hooks — the expression engine reads audio/time
     // through these (getspec/getosc/gettime). Headless tests can override.
@@ -218,11 +191,6 @@ export class AvaEngine {
     this.script = script
     this.scriptError = null
     this.ysign = script.meta.ysign === -1 ? -1 : 1
-    // v7.19: pre-latch the alpha-art guard when the header blend itself is
-    // behind/clear (a per-frame env.blend switch latches at draw time) --
-    // the Canvas2D fallback sweep must not punch those holes shut.
-    const headerSpec = findBlend(script.meta.blend)
-    this.alphaArt = headerSpec?.key === 'behind' || headerSpec?.key === 'clear'
     // beatage starts "long ago" so exp(-beatage*k) envelopes read as 0 until
     // the first real beat arrives.
     this.env = { n: 400, t: 0, time: 0, frame: 0, beats: 0, beatage: 99 }
@@ -237,7 +205,6 @@ export class AvaEngine {
   clearScript(): void {
     this.script = null
     this.scriptError = null
-    this.alphaArt = false
   }
 
   getScriptName(): string {
@@ -323,31 +290,6 @@ export class AvaEngine {
     return true
   }
 
-  /** v7.19 — run the trueblack decay sweep through the WebGL compositor
-   *  (mode 22: premultiplied rgb and alpha each lose exactly 1/255,
-   *  clamped at 0 -- see the file header). Exact in 8-bit and
-   *  alpha-preserving, which is why the automatic sweep prefers it over
-   *  the Canvas2D 'difference' tail. False when WebGL is unavailable or
-   *  the pass throws (the caller then falls back, or stands down for
-   *  alpha-dependent art). */
-  private sweepViaGpu(w: number, h: number): boolean {
-    if (this.gpuBroken || !this.gpuEnsure(w, h)) return false
-    const compositor = this.compositor
-    const canvas = this.canvas
-    const ctx = this.ctx
-    if (!compositor || !canvas || !ctx) return false
-    try {
-      compositor.sweep(canvas)
-      ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'copy'
-      ctx.drawImage(compositor.canvas, 0, 0)
-      ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'source-over'
-      return true
-    } catch {
-      this.gpuBroken = true // one bad frame never repeats; fallback next frame
-      return false
-    }
-  }
-
   /** v7.15 — one place for the stroke/dot/polygon passes, target-agnostic:
    *  the native path draws onto the live canvas with the mode's composite
    *  op; the gpu path draws onto the scratch with source-over (the shader
@@ -493,16 +435,9 @@ export class AvaEngine {
     // persist thins trails exactly like the old rgb scaling did over the
     // black stage, while pixels that were painted behind / cleared keep
     // fading honestly.
-    // v7.19: trueblack is AUTOMATIC (see the file header). The subtractive
+    // v7.17: trueblack: on adds the subtractive tail (see the file header)
-    // tail runs right after the erase whenever the multiply can stick
+    // -- the 'difference' fill runs INSIDE this branch so persist 1 keeps
-    // (persist >= 0.5; below that every quantum value already decays), so
+    // its true zero-fade (permanent) semantics.
-    // trails always end in pure black -- Texe-rings at 0.78, blow-outs at
-    // 0.93, anything. Preferred path: the GPU sweep (exact, alpha-safe);
-    // the 'difference' fill is only the no-WebGL fallback and it stands
-    // down for behind/clear art (alphaArt). trueblack: on forces the tail
-    // at any persist < 1 (v7.17 behavior), off disables it entirely.
-    // persist 1 keeps its true zero-fade (permanent) semantics -- neither
-    // the erase nor the tail runs there.
     const meta = this.script?.meta
     const persistBase = meta ? meta.persist : 0.85
     const persist = Math.min(Math.max(this.env.persist ?? persistBase, 0), 1)
@@ -510,14 +445,10 @@ export class AvaEngine {
       ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-out'
       ctx.fillStyle = `rgba(0,0,0,${(1 - persist).toFixed(4)})`
       ctx.fillRect(0, 0, w, h)
-      ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'source-over'
+      if (meta?.trueblack) {
-      const tb = meta?.trueblack ?? 'auto'
-      const wantSweep = tb === 'on' ? true : tb === 'off' ? false : persist >= 0.5
-      if (wantSweep && !this.sweepViaGpu(w, h) && !this.alphaArt) {
         ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'difference'
         ctx.fillStyle = '#010101'
         ctx.fillRect(0, 0, w, h)
-        ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'source-over'
       }
     }
     ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'source-over'
@@ -652,9 +583,6 @@ export class AvaEngine {
       // so the stroke owns its pixels outright.
       const headerSpec = findBlend(meta.blend)
       const spec = blendByIndex(env.blend ?? 0) ?? headerSpec ?? undefined
-      // v7.19: remember alpha-dependent art for the Canvas2D fallback
-      // sweep's stand-down (the GPU sweep is alpha-safe and keeps running).
-      if (spec && (spec.key === 'behind' || spec.key === 'clear')) this.alphaArt = true
       if (spec) {
         const viaGpu =
           spec.impl === 'gpu' &&

src/lib/ava/presets.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
-// AVA — starter template for new visualization scripts.
+// AVA — built-in preset scripts
 //
-// v7.19.0: the five Synth-C "built-in" presets (BUILTIN_PRESETS, formerly
+// These five presets are adaptations of the real Winamp AVS presets the user
-// seeded under root/embedded/Synth-C) were removed when the embedded branch
+// supplied (Google Drive → visbot.net scene classics). The core math of each
-// was curated down to just "Beat Matrix" (see lib/ava/embedded-presets.ts).
+// original Superscope / Texer II concept is preserved and translated to the
-// This module now carries only the starter template used by the editor and
+// AVA expression dialect. The original binary .avs files ship alongside the
-// the new-preset flows.
+// app in /avs-originals/ for reference and download.
+
+export interface BuiltinPreset {
+  name: string
+  author: string
+  description: string
+  originalFile?: string
+  content: string
+}
 
 export const STARTER_TEMPLATE = `# AVA visualization script -- starter template
 # Tap "Help" in the editor for the full variable & function reference.
@@ -37,3 +45,227 @@ red = 0.2 + bass
 green = 0.8
 blue = 0.25 + treb
 `
+
+export const BUILTIN_PRESETS: BuiltinPreset[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'Gap The Mind',
+    author: 'synth-c (adapted)',
+    description:
+      'Radial waveform circles with the original polar-warp distortion. The radius tracks a rolling average of the audio, treble warps the ring geometry, and the hue sweeps on every beat. Adapted from the Winamp AVS classic (Visbot 17).',
+    originalFile: '/avs-originals/Synth-C - Gap The Mind.avs',
+    content: `# Adapted from "Synth-C - Gap The Mind" (Winamp AVS / visbot.net)
+# Core of the original Superscope preserved:
+#   r = i*2pi; d = snd; x = sin(r)*d; y = cos(r)*d
+#   d = d*(1 - sin((r-pi/2)*7)*.03); r = r + cos(d*12)*.03
+name: Gap The Mind
+author: synth-c (adapted)
+mode: lines
+blend: additive
+persist: 0.9
+linewidth: 2
+
+[init]
+n = 480
+hue = 0
+rot = 0
+avg = 0
+
+[frame]
+# rolling average of the audio energy (the original used a getosc ring buffer)
+avg = avg * 0.8 + (bass + vol) * 0.2
+hue = hue + dt * (0.05 + mid * 0.12) + beat * 0.015
+rot = rot + dt * (0.1 + mid_att * 0.9)
+rad = 0.25 + avg * 0.85
+warp = 1 + treb * 0.5
+
+[point]
+r = i * 6.28318
+d = rad + abs(v) * 0.45
+d = d * (1 - sin((r - 1.5708) * 7) * 0.03 * warp)
+r = r + cos(d * 12) * 0.03 * warp + rot
+x = sin(r) * d / aspect
+y = cos(r) * d
+red = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318)
+green = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + 2.094)
+blue = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + 4.188)
+`,
+  },
+  {
+    name: "wonder 'bout",
+    author: 'zamuz (adapted)',
+    description:
+      'A field of rings that spawn, expand and fade -- each at its own tempo, sized by the bass, in stable per-ring colors (the original spawned Texer II ring sprites with random colors and bass-scaled sizes). From the visbot.net classic by zamuz.',
+    originalFile: '/avs-originals/zamuz - wonder bout.avs',
+    content: `# Adapted from "wonder 'bout" by zamuz (Winamp AVS / visbot.net)
+# The original spawned Texer II ring sprites: ss = ss + .05 per frame,
+# size = |ss| * min(w,h)*.006, random color & position on wrap,
+# grow-scale sampled from the bass (getspec(.1,.1,0)).
+name: wonder 'bout
+author: zamuz (adapted)
+mode: lines
+blend: additive
+persist: 0.88
+linewidth: 1.8
+
+[init]
+n = 480
+groups = 12
+hue = 0
+
+[frame]
+# expansion speed rises with the smoothed bass (original: reg01 = .05/frame)
+speed = 0.25 + bass_att * 0.9
+hue = hue + dt * 0.1
+
+[point]
+g = floor(i * groups)
+gi = frac(i * groups)
+# per-ring phase, drifting at its own tempo
+ph = frac(rand(g * 7.3 + 1) + time * speed * (0.7 + rand(g + 31) * 0.6))
+px0 = rand(g + 3.7) * 1.7 - 0.85
+py0 = rand(g + 9.1) * 1.7 - 0.85
+rad = ph * (0.3 + bass * 0.6)
+cr = rand(g + 21.7)
+cg = rand(g + 15.3)
+cb = rand(g + 27.9)
+fade = (1 - ph) * (0.25 + ph * 2.2)
+a = 6.28318 * (gi * 1.05 - 0.025)
+x = px0 + cos(a) * rad / aspect
+y = py0 + sin(a) * rad
+red = cr * fade * (0.7 + 0.3 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + g))
+green = cg * fade * (0.7 + 0.3 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + g + 2.09))
+blue = cb * fade * (0.7 + 0.3 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + g + 4.19))
+skip = if(below(gi, 0.025), 1, 0)
+`,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'Quantization',
+    author: 'synth-c (adapted)',
+    description:
+      'Audio-reactive rings snapped to a pixel grid -- the original quantized scope coordinates ((x*40)|0)/40 and rendered a sound heightmap as dot fog. Here the rings are quantized dots that thicken with the mid range.',
+    originalFile: '/avs-originals/Synth-C - Quantization.avs',
+    content: `# Adapted from "Synth-C - Quantization" (Winamp AVS / visbot.net)
+# Original Superscope: r = i*2pi; d = snd + .5; x = sin(r)*d; y = cos(r)*d
+# with pixel quantization  x = ((x*40)|0)/40  and a dot-fog sound heightmap.
+name: Quantization
+author: synth-c (adapted)
+mode: dots
+blend: additive
+persist: 0.82
+linewidth: 3
+
+[init]
+n = 720
+hue = 0
+q = 34
+avg = 0
+
+[frame]
+hue = hue + dt * 0.06
+avg = avg * 0.8 + vol * 0.2
+rad = 0.28 + avg * 0.75
+zoom = 0.9 + bass * 0.3
+
+[point]
+r = i * 6.28318
+d = rad + abs(v) * 0.4
+x0 = sin(r) * d * zoom
+y0 = cos(r) * d * zoom
+# snap to the quantization grid (the |0 division from the original)
+x = floor(x0 * q) / q / aspect
+y = floor(y0 * q) / q
+red = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + d * 3)
+green = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + d * 3 + 2.09)
+blue = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + d * 3 + 4.19)
+size = 2 + mid * 5
+`,
+  },
+  {
+    name: "keep tryin'",
+    author: 'zamuz (adapted)',
+    description:
+      "Bass-driven particle bursts that expand outward with a sinusoidal swirl -- the original spawned white Texer dots with radius = bass*3+.3 and pushed the screen through sin(y*20) swirl movements. Dot size follows the highs.",
+    originalFile: '/avs-originals/zamuz - keep tryin.avs',
+    content: `# Adapted from "keep tryin'" by zamuz (Winamp AVS / visbot.net)
+# Original Texer II dots: rs = getspec(.1,.1,0)*3 + .3 on spawn,
+# swirl movement  x = x + .002*sin(y*20); y = y + .002*sin(x*20).
+name: keep tryin'
+author: zamuz (adapted)
+mode: dots
+blend: additive
+persist: 0.85
+linewidth: 3
+
+[init]
+n = 900
+travel = 0
+hue = 0
+
+[frame]
+travel = travel + dt * (0.35 + bass_att * 1.2)
+swirl = 0.15 + mid * 0.5
+hue = hue + dt * 0.15
+
+[point]
+d = frac(rand(i + 0.13) + travel)
+ang = rand(i + 0.77) * 6.28318 + d * swirl * 6.28318
+rad = d * (0.3 + bass * 0.7)
+x0 = sin(ang) * rad
+y0 = cos(ang) * rad
+# the swirl distortion from the original movement
+x = x0 + 0.05 * sin(y0 * 20) / aspect
+y = y0 + 0.05 * sin(x0 * 20)
+fade = sin(d * 3.14159)
+red = fade * (0.25 + 0.75 * sin(hue * 6.28318))
+green = fade * (0.25 + 0.75 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + 2.09))
+blue = fade * (0.25 + 0.75 * sin(hue * 6.28318 + 4.19))
+size = 1.5 + treb * 3
+`,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'vorticity',
+    author: 'synth-c / zamuz (adapted)',
+    description:
+      'Swirling spiral arms rotating in a vortex -- the original advected 3D particle trails through a rotating vector field at sound-driven speed. Here six arms twist harder as the mid range rises and the whole vortex spins with the bass.',
+    originalFile: '/avs-originals/zamuz - vorticity brain activity remix.avs',
+    content: `# Adapted from "vorticity (brain activity remix)" -- original by synth-c,
+# remix by zamuz (Winamp AVS / visbot.net). The original ran 3D particle
+# trails through rotating vector fields at sound-driven speed (sndspd = 10).
+name: vorticity
+author: synth-c / zamuz (adapted)
+mode: lines
+blend: additive
+persist: 0.92
+linewidth: 1.6
+
+[init]
+n = 1200
+t = 0
+hue = 0
+
+[frame]
+t = t + dt * (0.4 + bass_att * 1.6)
+twist = 1.2 + mid * 2.6
+zoom = 0.75 + bass * 0.45
+hue = hue + dt * 0.04 + beat * 0.01
+
+[point]
+arm = floor(i * 6)
+fa = frac(i * 6)
+d = fa
+ang = arm * 1.047 + d * twist * 3.14159 + t
+rad = (0.06 + d * d * 1.1) * zoom
+x = sin(ang) * rad / aspect
+y = cos(ang) * rad
+red = (0.3 + 0.7 * d) * (0.35 + bass)
+green = (0.3 + 0.7 * d) * (0.25 + mid)
+blue = (0.3 + 0.7 * d) * (0.2 + treb + hue * 0.25)
+skip = if(below(fa, 0.03), 1, 0)
+`,
+  },
+]
+
+/** Download path for each original Winamp .avs file. */
+export function originalFileUrl(name: string): string | undefined {
+  return BUILTIN_PRESETS.find((p) => p.name === name)?.originalFile
+}

src/lib/ava/script.ts

@@ -11,13 +11,10 @@
 //                                  per frame through the blend variable
 //                                  (by its number in the Help table)
 //   persist: 0.9                <- motion trail persistence 0..1 (1 = never fades)
-//   trueblack: auto             <- v7.19: tri-state subtractive tail on the
+//   trueblack: on               <- v7.17: adds a -1/255/frame subtractive tail to
-//                                  trail fade. auto (default): the engine
+//                                  the trail fade so it reaches PURE black at any
-//                                  sweeps stuck 8-bit quanta to PURE black
+//                                  persist (long trails normally settle into a
-//                                  exactly when the fade can stick
+//                                  faint gray wash from 8-bit rounding)
-//                                  (persist >= 0.5); on: sweep at any
-//                                  persist < 1; off: never (the old faint
-//                                  wash look)
 //   linewidth: 2
 //
 //   [init]    runs once when the script loads
@@ -36,12 +33,9 @@ export interface ScriptMeta {
   mode: RenderMode
   blend: BlendMode
   persist: number
-  /** v7.19 — subtractive tail on the trail fade (see engine.ts), now a
+  /** v7.17 — subtractive tail on the trail fade (see engine.ts). Off by default:
-   *  tri-state. 'auto' (default): the tail runs exactly in the sticky
+   * it forces every pixel opaque, which breaks 'behind'/'clear' transparency. */
-   *  zone (persist >= 0.5) through the alpha-safe GPU sweep, so every
+  trueblack: boolean
-   *  trail ends in pure black without the script opting in. 'on': forced
-   *  at any persist < 1 (the v7.17 flag). 'off': never. */
-  trueblack: 'on' | 'off' | 'auto'
   linewidth: number
   /** +1 (default, y is up) or -1 (AVS convention, y is down — used by auto-ported presets). */
   ysign: number
@@ -83,7 +77,7 @@ const DEFAULT_META: ScriptMeta = {
   mode: 'lines',
   blend: 'additive',
   persist: 0.85,
-  trueblack: 'auto',
+  trueblack: false,
   linewidth: 2,
   ysign: 1,
 }
@@ -197,19 +191,18 @@ function tryParse(text: string): { script: AvaScript | null; meta?: ScriptMeta;
         break
       }
       case 'trueblack': {
-        // v7.19: tri-state (on/off/auto, also 1/0, true/false, yes/no).
+        // v7.17: on/off flag (also 1/0, true/false, yes/no). The engine's
-        // The engine's fade multiplies the framebuffer by persist in 8-bit
+        // fade multiplies the framebuffer by persist in 8-bit steps, so any
-        // steps, so any persist >= 0.5 has fixed points (round(v*p) == v)
+        // persist >= 0.5 has fixed points (round(v*p) == v) -- a gray wash
-        // -- a faint colored wash that never fully fades. auto (the new
+        // that never fully fades. The subtractive tail this flag enables
-        // default) sweeps those quantum values to a true 0 exactly in that
+        // sweeps those quantum values to a true 0 every frame. Costs one
-        // zone, through the alpha-preserving GPU sweep (the Canvas2D
+        // fullscreen 'difference' fill; forces pixels opaque (never combine
-        // 'difference' fallback stands down for behind/clear art); on
+        // with 'behind'/'clear' art -- the Help panel says so too).
-        // forces the sweep at any persist < 1; off keeps the wash.
         const t = value.toLowerCase()
-        if (!['on', 'off', 'auto', '1', '0', 'true', 'false', 'yes', 'no'].includes(t)) {
+        if (!['on', 'off', '1', '0', 'true', 'false', 'yes', 'no'].includes(t)) {
-          return { script: null, meta: { ...meta }, error: { message: `trueblack must be on/off/auto (got '${value}')`, section: 'header', line: lineNo } }
+          return { script: null, meta: { ...meta }, error: { message: `trueblack must be on/off (got '${value}')`, section: 'header', line: lineNo } }
         }
-        meta.trueblack = t === 'auto' ? 'auto' : ['on', '1', 'true', 'yes'].includes(t) ? 'on' : 'off'
+        meta.trueblack = ['on', '1', 'true', 'yes'].includes(t)
         break
       }
       case 'linewidth': {

src/lib/release-notes.ts

@@ -39,52 +39,6 @@ export interface ReleaseNote {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseNote[] = [
-  {
-    version: '7.20.0',
-    name: 'Paste-to-decode + a compact Directory',
-    changes: [
-      {
-        kind: 'added',
-        text: 'Pasting a share string straight into the Script editor now decodes it on the spot -- the hash never lands; the whole script it carries appears in the editor instead, right where the paste went, ready to Apply or Save. The Hash⇢Script button still works whenever I want the decode preview first.',
-      },
-      {
-        kind: 'improved',
-        text: 'Directory entries are much more compact. The Get button moved to each card\'s top right with its date right beside it, so the rating row no longer wraps the button onto a line of its own -- every entry card dropped from 126 px to 94 px, a quarter shorter.',
-      },
-    ],
-  },
-  {
-    version: '7.19.0',
-    name: 'Automatic true-black',
-    changes: [
-      {
-        kind: 'fixed',
-        text: 'Trails now fade all the way to pure black on their own. The fade works in 8-bit steps, so a persist of 0.5 or more used to leave a faint stuck residue behind everything that moved -- a colored smear where rings or blooms had passed. The engine now sweeps that residue away every frame, in every script, with no header needed.',
-      },
-      {
-        kind: 'improved',
-        text: 'The sweep runs on the GPU as an exact -1/255 step that also preserves transparency, so behind/clear art keeps its holes (they heal to truly empty now too), and black stays a true black with no flicker. Scripts with a low persist pay nothing -- the sweep only switches on in the range where the 8-bit math could stick.',
-      },
-      {
-        kind: 'improved',
-        text: 'The trueblack: header grows an auto mode (the new default) next to on and off, and the Help panel documents all three.',
-      },
-    ],
-  },
-  {
-    version: '7.18.0',
-    name: 'Beautiful Spectrogram',
-    changes: [
-      {
-        kind: 'added',
-        text: 'I added a twelfth Zai-Magic preset: "Beautiful Spectrogram" -- a true scrolling spectrogram. Every frame inks a fresh frequency column at the right edge (bass at the bottom, treble at the top) and the whole picture drifts left through a deep dark blue field that never fades, so the music leaves its heat-print hanging in the air until it scrolls off the edge. Quiet bins whisper pink; loud ones climb red, orange, yellow and finally white, with hits lingering as a glow and the newest ink flaring on the beat.',
-      },
-      {
-        kind: 'improved',
-        text: 'The preset is built entirely from script-engine features that already existed -- the background slide, the zero-fade framebuffer and megabuf bin memory -- so it doubles as a worked example of a whole new visual family (data-plots that write their own history) without any engine changes.',
-      },
-    ],
-  },
   {
     version: '7.17.0',
     name: 'True-black trails',

src/lib/store.ts

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export interface PresetItem {
   /** true = generated stand-in (embedded presets whose original relies on
    *  effects the script engine cannot run); false = original/user code. */
   approx?: boolean
-  /** Full path from the virtual root, e.g. "root/embedded". */
+  /** Full path from the virtual root, e.g. "root/embedded/Synth-C". */
   folderPath: string
   /** Path of the original Winamp .avs binary in /public, when shipped. */
   originalFile: string | null

src/lib/version.ts

@@ -12,86 +12,6 @@
 // warns in the console when the two drift apart.
 //
 // History:
-//   7.20 — Paste-to-decode + compact Directory cards (user request, three
-//           items). (1) Script editor: pasting a share string straight into
-//           the editor textarea now decodes it in place -- onPaste runs
-//           decodeScriptHash on the clipboard text, and when it decodes (the
-//           full `Name:[▼…]` / `[▼…]` form with valid check digits) the hash
-//           never lands; the script it carries is inserted at the paste
-//           point with true paste semantics (over the current selection, at
-//           the cursor when nothing is selected), followed by the exact
-//           import semantics of Hash⇢Script's "Load into Editor": pendingName
-//           from the script's name: header (else the share-string label),
-//           editTarget cleared (foreign content -- a later Save must not
-//           overwrite the previous preset with it), markManualChoice (the
-//           Demo showcase must never clobber it), toast "Share string
-//           decoded". Anything that does not decode -- normal script text, a
-//           hash embedded in commentary, a truncated string -- falls through
-//           to an ordinary paste, and the toolbar button remains for the
-//           preview-first flow. (2) Directory tab: each entry card moved its
-//           Get button from the rating row (where, at the sidebar width,
-//           stars + average + button did not fit and the ml-auto button
-//           wrapped onto a line of its own -- cards were 126 px) up to the
-//           header line: name + type on the left, then the date immediately
-//           left of the Get button at the top right (date used to sit alone
-//           at the right of the header). Button compacted to h-7 / 11 px so
-//           the header stays one line; rating row keeps only stars + average.
-//           Cards now ~94 px (measured) and the loading skeleton matched at
-//           h-24. (3) Version bump to 7.20.0 with the matching release note.
-//   7.19 — Automatic true-black (user request, "Texe-rings"): the v7.17
-//           trueblack tail is no longer opt-in. Root cause of the smear
-//           the user saw: the persistence fade multiplies the framebuffer
-//           by persist in 8-bit steps, and round-to-nearest leaves fixed
-//           points -- at persist 0.78 every premultiplied value 1..2
-//           satisfies round(v*0.78) == v, so ring trails settle into a
-//           faint permanently-stuck wash (colored, not gray, because the
-//           script's channels divide by different constants and each
-//           channel sticks at its own quantum). No multiply-only
-//           compositing can fix that (proven: unsticking v=1 needs a
-//           multiplier < 0.5, which halves the trail every frame), so the
-//           fix is a subtractive -1/255/frame tail -- and the reason it
-//           could become automatic is a NEW implementation: shader mode 22
-//           in the WebGL compositor (blend-gpu.ts) clamps
-//           max(premult-1/255, 0) on rgb AND alpha in one pass. That is
-//           exact in 8-bit (black stays a true 0, unlike the Canvas2D
-//           'difference' fill's 0<->1 flicker) and alpha-PRESERVING, so
-//           behind/clear art keeps its holes (which now heal to truly
-//           empty too -- stuck alpha quanta sweep like everything else).
-//           Engine policy: the sweep runs by default exactly in the
-//           sticky zone (persist >= 0.5), so low-persist scripts pay
-//           nothing and nothing visual changes where the multiply already
-//           decayed fully. The old 'difference' fill survives only as the
-//           no-WebGL fallback, and it stands down once a script has drawn
-//           with behind/clear (the alphaArt latch -- pre-latched from the
-//           header blend, latched at draw time on a per-frame env.blend
-//           switch). The trueblack: header becomes a tri-state: auto
-//           (default, the new behavior), on (forced at any persist < 1,
-//           the v7.17 flag), off (never -- the wash look, for authors who
-//           want it). Texe-rings itself needs no edit: at 0.78 the auto
-//           sweep clears each channel's quanta in 2-3 frames after the
-//           multiply stalls, and the background returns to pure black.
-//   7.18 — "Beautiful Spectrogram" (user request, twelfth Zai-Magic
-//           preset): a true scrolling spectrogram as a pure script -- the
-//           v7.12 bgx feedback slide moves the whole framebuffer left
-//           every frame (the time axis) while persist 1 (v7.14.1's
-//           zero-fade framebuffer) keeps the history locked, so the print
-//           only ever leaves by scrolling off the left edge. The write
-//           head is a 256-point vertical line at the right edge: sv (the
-//           per-point spectrum) drives a megabuf attack/slow-decay level
-//           per frequency bin, which indexes a six-anchor palette table
-//           (also megabuf) -- deep dark blue background, then pink -> red
-//           -> orange -> yellow -> white as bins get loud. Two tricks make
-//           it read clean: (1) the stroke is exactly four scroll-steps
-//           wide with its per-frame alpha pre-divided by the accumulation
-//           factor (core 0.9 + halo 0.22*3.2 passes, times four overlapping
-//           steps ~= 1.6*4), so overlapping columns sum to exactly full
-//           palette strength and the quiet field renders as SOLID navy
-//           rather than banded; (2) a half-second erase phase (per-frame
-//           persist override to 0.45) drains the previous preset's
-//           framebuffer before the zero-fade lock engages, and a 15x
-//           three-second fill sweep (plus a replay on stage resize) paints
-//           the navy field across the whole screen instead of making the
-//           visitor wait 25 s for the crawl to cover it.
 //   7.17 — True-black trail fade (user request, "Orange Burst"): the
 //           persistence fade multiplies the framebuffer by persist in
 //           8-bit steps, so any persist >= 0.5 leaves fixed points
@@ -674,4 +594,4 @@
 
 export const APP_NAME = 'Open Visualization Engine'
 export const APP_SHORT = 'OVE'
-export const APP_VERSION = '7.20.0'
+export const APP_VERSION = '7.17.0'

worklog.md

@@ -2641,211 +2641,3 @@ Stage Summary:
 - v7.17.0 shipped: the zoom blow-out was mechanically alive all along but visually dead -- the engine's 8-bit persistence fade made long trails impossible without a permanent gray wash, so Orange Burst had been tuned down to a 5-frame echo that could never separate from its ring. The new opt-in trueblack: header adds an exact -1/255/frame subtractive tail to the fade (one 'difference' fill, gated inside the fade branch, forces opaque pixels -- never combine with behind/clear), which sweeps the stuck quantum values to true black at ANY persist. Orange Burst re-tuned to persist 0.93 + trueblack: the echo memory is back to ~1 s, and canvas probes measure the blow-out expanding (mean radius +45% per 700 ms, echoes reaching the corners). Default-rendering behavior for every existing preset is byte-identical (the tail is strictly opt-in), verified on a stock preset.
 
 Push note (Task 49): origin/zai-dev push attempted and blocked -- this sandbox session carries no Forgejo credentials (no credential helper, no ~/.git-credentials, no ~/.ssh; the OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY authenticates the directory VPS, not the git remote -- tested, 401). The v7.17.0 commit (05d931d) is on local main and local zai-dev (fast-forwarded); it needs the operator's next authenticated push (or the platform's own git sync, which produced 1f057b3) to reach the remote. Not a regression of Task 47's setup: that task tracks .env.ove/db seed/secrets in-repo, which this commit does not touch.
-
----
-Task ID: 50
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.15.3 persistence request restated (user message, explicit authorization): because the remote on isMEq09mXh1FyzL9hEL9ht4d.zcreations.dev is a strictly private, self-hosted Forgejo server, track .env.ove (DATABASE_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY), the baseline db/custom.db.seed and secrets/; write the three variables into .env and .env.ove; copy db/custom.db to db/custom.db.seed; keep the self-healing check at the very top of dev.sh (before bun install); commit and push to origin zai-dev so every future sandbox boot restores .env and the database automatically.
-
-Verification (the entire stack already shipped as Task 47 / v7.15.3; this session changed no application or boot code):
-- Tracked state: .gitignore negations intact (!.env + !.env.ove after the .env* block, !db/custom.db.seed after *.db*); git ls-files confirms .env, .env.ove, db/custom.db.seed, secrets/README.md and .zscripts/dev.sh itself are tracked, so the whole mechanism (template, seed, heal script) survives every clone.
-- Env parity: .env == .env.ove byte-identical (cmp), both carrying DATABASE_URL=file:../db/custom.db (the portable form; the ./db/custom.db literal resolves against prisma/ and was empirically rejected in Task 47), OVE_DIRECTORY_URL, OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY.
-- Seed freshness: db/custom.db == db/custom.db.seed byte-identical (307,200 bytes; 106 presets / 8 folders / 1 settings; journal_mode=delete) -- the committed baseline IS the live library; the re-copy was a no-op.
-- Self-healing: .zscripts/dev.sh runs selfheal_restore_env + selfheal_restore_db immediately after PROJECT_DIR resolution, before everything else incl. bun install. Today's 16:22:57 boot log is clean (bun install no-change; db:push "already in sync" against file:/home/z/my-project/db/custom.db; health check passed; no SELF-HEAL lines because both files were present -- the heal is an idempotent no-op when healthy). Fixture test on the exact shipped code (sed-extracted head with the same $0-derived PROJECT_DIR): .env wiped to a bare DATABASE_URL line + db/custom.db deleted -> both [SELF-HEAL] restores fired, ENV-RESTORE-OK + DB-RESTORE-OK, exit 0.
-- App health: single next-server on :3000, GET / 200, live preset-library traffic through the restored db.
-
-Push status (unchanged from Task 49's note): blocked from inside the sandbox -- no credential helper, no ~/.git-credentials, no ~/.ssh, no env token; `git push origin zai-dev` fails pre-auth ("could not read Username"), and the OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY authenticates the directory VPS, not the git remote (401, Task 49). The platform's git sync (which produced 1f057b3 at 14:18) commits locally but has pushed nothing since 062cd79; origin refs have not moved since 08:40. Everything is staged for the operator's next authenticated push (from their own machine, as with 3286721 today 01:42 -0600, or by supplying a token): it carries bbbee3c + 1f057b3 + this worklog commit together. No further auth attempts were made against the server from here (lockout risk).
-
-Stage Summary:
-- Task 47's persistence stack re-verified end-to-end and fully intact: tracked .env.ove/.env/seed/secrets, byte-identical env pair, seed == live db, self-heal re-proven by fixture on the shipped code, clean 16:22 boot, healthy app. Nothing needed re-doing. Push to origin zai-dev remains gated on operator-side Forgejo credentials (this sandbox carries none by design of the reprovision); local main and local zai-dev carry everything and fast-forward cleanly pending that push.
-
----
-Task ID: 51
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.18.0 (user request): create a visual script preset "Beautiful Spectrogram" under Zai-Magic -- a deep dark blue background that slowly scrolls to the left, with the audio print colored pink -> red -> orange -> yellow -> white -- and provide the script code in chat. Project changes acceptable.
-
-Approach:
-- Pure script, zero engine changes: the time axis is the v7.12 bgx feedback slide (whole framebuffer drifts left every frame), persist 1 (v7.14.1 zero-fade) locks the history so the print only leaves by scrolling off the left edge, and the write head is a 64-point vertical line at x=0.985 whose per-point color lerps a six-anchor megabuf palette (deep navy -> pink -> red -> orange -> yellow -> white) indexed by an attack/slow-decay smoothed per-bin level (sv with a +0.75i treble tilt, ^0.72 gamma).
-- THE HARD PART -- ink calibration. First cut (fixed alpha 0.155, 256 points) cyan-washed the field. Root cause chain, all measured on the live canvas: (1) drawContent strokes every segment separately, so one frame paints a column pixel 1 + width/pointSpacing coats per pass (a 256-point column under a 32px warm-up brush = ~21 coats/frame -> alpha saturates in one frame, colors blow past the palette and clamp channel-by-channel); (2) once the per-frame alpha is pre-divided small enough, the faint channels die to 8-bit quantization (navy's r=10/255 under ink<0.1 adds < 1 LSB per coat and rounds away -> the same cyan, from the other side); (3) frame-rate coupling (headless idle throttling to ~2fps showed dt-clamped 0.1 steps) proves the geometry must be computed from live dt/w/h every frame. Final design, all computed per frame in [frame]: scroll step capped at 1% of width per frame; brush ratio = ratio scroll-steps wide, narrow (1.2) during the 15x fill sweep and on slow frame rates (1.6 floor), 3 at steady state; coats = 1.12 + 1.604*wpx/segl (core 0.9 + halo 0.22x3.2 passes, each covering 1 + width/spacing segments); ink = 1.1/(coats*ratio) clamped 0.6 -- so the ratio-frame transit accumulates to ~full palette strength at every fps, aspect and brush width, with per-coat adds kept >= ~2 LSB.
-- Lifecycle: a 0.5s erase phase (per-frame persist override 0.45, ink 0) drains the previous preset's framebuffer before the zero-fade lock engages (otherwise old art rides the scroll for a full screen width); then a 3s 15x fill sweep paints the navy field across the screen (96% coverage) so the visitor does not wait 25s for the crawl to cover it; a stage resize (canvas wipe) replays the sweep (aspect-change detector with a 0.02 deadband, booted flag so the first frame does not trigger); beat flare: newest ink brightens 12% on exp(-beatage*5).
-
-Work Log:
-- src/lib/ava/embedded-presets.ts: twelfth Zai-Magic preset "Beautiful Spectrogram" appended (KEEP VERBATIM section); EMBEDDED_SEED_VERSION 7.14 -> 7.18.1 (bumped twice: 7.18 added the preset, 7.18.1 replaced the first cut's flawed ink math -- the fingerprint gate only re-seeds on version change since folder+name were unchanged); file header + Zai-Magic section comments updated (eleven -> twelve).
-- src/lib/version.ts: APP_VERSION 7.18.0 + history entry (the full ink-math derivation). src/lib/release-notes.ts: 7.18.0 "Beautiful Spectrogram" (added + improved, first person, no em dashes).
-- db/custom.db.seed re-synced after the library re-seed (107 presets incl. the new row, verified by direct SQLite read).
-
-BROWSER E2E (agent-browser, ALL PASS):
-- Parse/compile: validateScript clean (lines/additive/persist 1); 64 points, megabuf palette + bins; offline simulation of [init]/[frame]/[point] across 10 scenarios (erase, wash t=1/2/3, steady 60/120/10fps, portrait, ultrawide, wash-at-10fps) -- every case ink 0.21-0.37, per-coat red add 1.9-3.4 LSB, accumulation 1.1x palette.
-- Library: /api/presets re-seeded on both version bumps; Zai-Magic serves 12 presets with Beautiful Spectrogram sorted between Aurora Veil and Bass Bloom; tree double-click loads it (footer SCRIPT: Beautiful Spectrogram, PTS: 64).
-- Canvas pixels (quiet passage): background rgb(5,13,54) = deep dark navy (palette anchor 10,15,59); palette census pink 5.2% / red 9.8% / orange 5.0% / yellow 3.5% / white 2.0% / green 0.00% / cyan 0.01% -- the first cut's cyan plague measured 23.5% white + green fields, now gone.
-- Scroll: engine bgx verified independently with a burst probe (bgx -0.01 -> 216px/s measured vs 209 predicted); the spectrogram measured per-frame via high-pass Pearson cross-correlation -- steady state 0.483px/frame vs 0.526 design (8%, beat-stripe noise), warm-up ramp 1.82px/frame at warm~5.5 as designed; direction LEFT (r up to 0.997).
-- VLM screenshot review (desktop, loud passage): "coherent scrolling spectrogram, sensible frequency-vs-time structure", ramp deep red -> orange -> golden yellow -> near-white, "no green or cyan anywhere"; portrait 420x800 renders at 60fps with the resize re-warm firing (harmonic stripe structure is real 64-bin resolution, not an artifact).
-- App: title "OVE -- Open Visualization Engine (v7.18.0)"; What's New dialog leads with 7.18.0 "Beautiful Spectrogram"; console 0 errors / 0 warnings; bun run lint clean; dev.log 200s only.
-
-Stage Summary:
-- v7.18.0 shipped: "Beautiful Spectrogram", the twelfth hand-authored Zai-Magic preset -- a true scrolling spectrogram as a pure script (bgx slide + persist 1 zero-fade + megabuf bin memory + palette table), with the per-frame ink computed from live stroke geometry so the accumulation lands on the palette at any fps/aspect/brush width. Browser-verified end to end: navy field, pink-to-white print, leftward crawl at design rate, no channel contamination, clean console.
-
----
-Task ID: 52
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.19.0 (user request, "Texe-rings" script): diagnose why the background where the two rings move over leaves a slight off color instead of returning to pure black -- fix it wherever the fault lies (script, engine, blend, or persist/fade).
-
-Diagnosis (engine, not the script):
-- The persistence fade multiplies the framebuffer by persist via destination-out, quantized to 8 bits with round-to-nearest. For any persist >= 0.5 there are fixed points: round(v*p) == v. At the script's persist 0.78 every premultiplied value 1..2 is stuck; ring trails therefore settle into a permanent faint wash. Colored, not gray, because the script divides its channels by different constants (red /7, green /12, blue /20) so each channel freezes at its own quantum.
-- Proof that no multiply-only compositing can fix it: unsticking v=1 requires a multiplier < 0.5, which halves the trail every frame. Subtraction (or float precision) is required -- exactly why v7.17's opt-in trueblack: on existed. The script simply did not opt in, and the v7.17 tail could not be made default because the Canvas2D 'difference' fill forces every pixel opaque (breaks behind/clear art) and leaves untouched black oscillating 0<->1.
-
-Fix (default-on, exact, alpha-safe):
-- blend-gpu.ts: new shader mode 22 + BlendCompositor.sweep() -- one GPU pass computing max(premult-1/255, 0) on rgb AND alpha. Exact in 8-bit (black stays a true 0) and alpha-preserving, which is what makes automatic default-on safe: behind/clear holes keep healing to truly empty too.
-- engine.ts: after the destination-out erase, the sweep runs automatically exactly in the sticky zone (persist >= 0.5; below it every quantum already decays, so low-persist scripts pay nothing). GPU path preferred; the 'difference' fill survives only as the no-WebGL fallback and stands down once the script draws behind/clear (new alphaArt latch -- pre-latched from the header blend, latched at draw time on a per-frame env.blend switch; the GPU sweep never stands down).
-- script.ts: trueblack header becomes a tri-state -- auto (default: sweep only in the sticky zone), on (forced at any persist < 1, the v7.17 flag), off (never; the wash look). persist 1 keeps its zero-fade semantics.
-- Docs: help-panel persist row + file-format block + explainer rewritten for auto; version.ts 7.19.0 + history entry; release-notes 7.19.0 "Automatic true-black" (fixed + 2x improved).
-
-Work Log:
-- src/lib/ava/blend-gpu.ts: mode 22 shader branch + sweep() (single dst texture upload; uSrc pointed at the same texture, unread).
-- src/lib/ava/engine.ts: file-header v7.19 section; alphaArt field + pre-latch in setScript + reset in clearScript + draw-time latch; sweepViaGpu() helper (copy-back like the GPU blend path, gpuBroken latching on throw); fade section rewritten (tri-state gate, GPU-first, gated fallback).
-- src/lib/ava/script.ts: ScriptMeta.trueblack: 'on' | 'off' | 'auto'; DEFAULT_META 'auto'; parser accepts auto alongside on/off/1/0/true/false/yes/no; header docs updated.
-- src/components/ava/help-panel.tsx, src/lib/version.ts, src/lib/release-notes.ts: docs + version bump per the standing rule.
-
-BROWSER E2E (agent-browser, ALL PASS):
-- Bug reproduced first: time-driven sweep probe (no audio needed), persist 0.9, trueblack off -- old-trail strip frozen at premultiplied 4 (max 4, avg 4, 100% nonzero) across two samples 3 s / ~140 frames apart. Non-decaying fixed point, exactly the reported smear.
-- Fix verified: same probe with trueblack auto -- old-trail strip max 0, avg 0, 0% nonzero, alpha healed to 0 (GPU sweep path; WebGL confirmed available). Active drawing unharmed: the bar itself renders 255 with a ~21% fresh wake.
-- Texe-rings verbatim (persist 0.78, no script edits): compiles (dots, n=100), runs against the Demo track (BPM 116.9); center disc census 81% exact-zero pure black, stuck band only 2-3% and moving between samples (the live decay wake behind the rings, not frozen residue), outer region pure black, 24 fps headless with audio decode.
-- App: title v7.19.0; What's New leads with 7.19.0 "Automatic true-black" (CURRENT); console clean after reload (one stale version-drift warning from a mid-edit Fast Refresh cycle, gone on reload); mobile 420x800 footer flush at content end, zero gap; bun run lint clean; dev.log 200s only.
-
-Stage Summary:
-- v7.19.0 shipped: the trueblack tail is automatic. Every trail now ends in pure black at any persist without opting in, via an exact -1/255 GPU sweep that preserves alpha (behind/clear safe); the Canvas2D difference tail is demoted to a gated no-WebGL fallback; the header is a tri-state (auto/on/off). Texe-rings works unmodified -- the smear is gone and the background returns to pure black behind the rings.
-
----
-Task ID: 53
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.19.0 embedded-library curation (user request): clean out the "Embedded" branch -- remove every item and subfolder except one preset, "Beat Matrix", which moves up to live directly at root/embedded/Beat Matrix. "embedded" stays read-only; the "user created" branch stays untouched.
-
-Library source changes:
-- src/lib/ava/embedded-presets.ts: rewritten from 1476 lines / 90 presets (Amp Picks 66, Dynamics 9, Envision 16, Zai-Magic 12) + 5 Synth-C built-ins to a single hand-authored preset: Beat Matrix, folder "root/embedded" (was root/embedded/Zai-Magic). Script content byte-identical to the v7.13.1-fixed original (cell-center grid mapping, getspec bands, beat-rotated rainbow, strobe flash). EMBEDDED_SEED_VERSION 7.18.1 -> 7.19.0; header documents the curation + where the retired sources still live (tools/converted/, public/avs-originals/).
-- src/lib/ava/presets.ts: stripped to STARTER_TEMPLATE only. BUILTIN_PRESETS (the five Synth-C ports formerly seeded to root/embedded/Synth-C), the BuiltinPreset interface and the dead originalFileUrl() helper removed; no importer remains (script-tab / page / audio-source / presets-tab only ever wanted STARTER_TEMPLATE).
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-Seed pipeline changes (src/app/api/presets/route.ts):
-- BASE_FOLDERS: the five category rows dropped; just root / root/embedded / root/user created.
-- libraryFingerprint()/seed data: BUILTIN branch gone; the old doubled-path replace() (converter "root/embedded/root/embedded/" nesting tolerance) removed -- the curated library carries clean folders.
-- Re-seed now also deletes stale embedded subfolder rows (deleteMany startsWith "root/embedded/"), so Synth-C / Amp Picks / Dynamics / Envision / Zai-Magic Folder rows do not linger as empty tree nodes.
-- purgeVisitorJunk folder purge inverted: it used to KEEP everything under root/embedded/; it now keeps ONLY the three backbone rows (notIn), enforcing the no-subfolders embedded branch on every GET. User folders never exist server-side (browser localStorage), so nothing of any visitor's is touched.
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-Startup / showcase rewiring (the old hardwires pointed at the removed folder):
-- page.tsx: startup preset = Beat Matrix at root/embedded (was Bass Bloom in Zai-Magic, then any Zai-Magic, then [0]).
-- audio-source.ts: ZAI_MAGIC_FOLDER -> EMBEDDED_FOLDER ("root/embedded"); ensureDefaultPreset loads Beat Matrix; startShowcaseMix no longer engages a 20 s Sequence timer (nothing to cycle with a single preset) -- it just selects + expands the embedded folder, which scopes any later mix; retireDemoShowcase kept as a safety no-op; demo toast rewritten ("your selection stays active" / "\"Beat Matrix\" is running -- the built-in beat-reactive wall, straight from the embedded library.").
-- visual-stage.tsx demo-button comment + store.ts folderPath doc example + prisma/schema.prisma Preset/Settings comments updated off the retired structure (comment-only; no db push needed).
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-Data:
-- First GET after the edit self-healed via drift detection: "[presets] embedded library drift detected -- re-seeding from source". Direct Prisma inspection after: PRESETS = ["root/embedded/Beat Matrix (builtIn=true)"], FOLDERS = ["root","root/embedded","root/user created"], embeddedSeed = 7.19.0.
-- db/custom.db.seed re-synced from the live db/custom.db (project convention: the seed file is the sandbox-reprovision baseline).
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-BROWSER E2E (agent-browser, ALL PASS):
-- Tree: root (read-only) > embedded (read-only, "1 preset . 0 subfolders", READ-ONLY lock) > Beat Matrix; user created sibling intact; header "1 presets . 3 folders". No empty ex-category nodes.
-- Double-click Beat Matrix: runs (footer SCRIPT: Beat Matrix, PTS 160 = the 16x10 grid).
-- Fresh-visitor demo showcase (localStorage cleared): Demo Track -> SRC DEMO, BPM locked 131.4, Beat Matrix auto-loaded, toast shows the new showcase text, tree scoped "Random from: embedded" with embedded selected + expanded; no Sequence timer engaged.
-- Returning-visitor branch: after a manual load, Demo toast shows "your selection stays active" (v7.11 guard intact).
-- User-created branch: "Copy to my presets" on the embedded Beat Matrix -> lands under root/user created (tree "user created 1"), persisted in ove.userPresets.v1 localStorage; embedded branch untouched.
-- No page errors / console warnings; bun run lint clean; mobile 390x844 footer pushed naturally with content (no overlap).
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-Stage Summary:
-- The Embedded branch is now exactly root/embedded/Beat Matrix: one hand-authored preset, zero subfolders, still read-only (server refuses all mutations; per-GET purge enforces the shape). The 95 retired presets and their folders are gone from the tree and the seed baseline; the "user created" branch is unchanged and verified working end-to-end.
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-Task ID: 54
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.20.0 (user request, three items): (1) pasting a valid share string into the Script editor auto-decodes it in place, no Hash⇢Script click needed; (2) Directory tab preset cards made compact -- Get button at each card's top right with the date to its left; (3) version bump to 7.20.0.
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-(1) Paste-to-decode (script-tab.tsx):
-- New onEditorPaste on the editor textarea: reads the clipboard text, runs decodeScriptHash; a successful decode (full Name:[▼…]/[▼…] form + valid check digits -- the codec's own gate, so a hash embedded in commentary or a truncated string never matches) preventDefaults the paste and inserts the decoded script with true paste semantics -- over the current selection, at the cursor when nothing is selected, cursor placed at the end of the insert, hash itself never lands. A failed decode returns early: the browser performs an ordinary paste.
-- Follows with the exact import semantics of Hash⇢Script's "Load into Editor" (v7.11): pendingName set from the script's name: header (else the share-string label), editTarget cleared (editor holds foreign content -- a later Save must not overwrite the previous preset with it), markManualChoice (the Demo showcase must never clobber it). Toast "Share string decoded" mirrors the dialog's wording (name, line count, Apply/Save or fix-first hint by compile status). The toolbar Hash⇢Script button remains for the preview-first flow. Null-guard on clipboardData (?.) so malformed events can never throw.
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-(2) Compact Directory cards (directory-tab.tsx):
-- Measured the old layout live first (agent-browser): at the real sidebar width, stars + average + ml-auto Get did NOT fit one row -- the button wrapped onto a line of its own below the date on every card: 126 px per card.
-- New DirRow header: name + type chip on the left; ONE right cluster (ml-auto, shrink-0, gap-2) holding the <time> date immediately left of the Get button at the card's top right. Get compacted h-8→h-7 / px-2.5 / 11 px so the header stays a single line; rating row below keeps only StarRow + average (never carries the button again, so it can never wrap it onto its own line). Loading skeleton matched to the new height (h-20→h-24).
-- Measured after: 94 px per card at desktop (126→94, -25%); 117 px at 390 px mobile (rating text wraps under the stars, header still one line, Get never on its own line).
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-(3) Version 7.20.0:
-- version.ts: APP_VERSION 7.19.0→7.20.0 + full 7.20 history entry. release-notes.ts: 7.20.0 "Paste-to-decode + a compact Directory" (added + improved, visitor voice, plain double minus). EMBEDDED_SEED_VERSION deliberately untouched at 7.19.0 -- the preset library did not change, no re-seed.
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-BROWSER E2E (agent-browser, ALL PASS):
-- Paste-decode over a full selection: synthetic ClipboardEvent with a real Script⇢Hash string (Beat Matrix, 361 chars) -- event prevented (hash never lands), editor receives the decoded script verbatim, cursor at insert end (1143), save-target chip cleared, toast "Share string decoded | \"Beat Matrix\" -- 40 lines loaded into the editor. Hit Apply to run it, or Save to keep it as a preset." (proven with an in-eval 350 ms probe; the first check missed it only because of a wrong DOM selector -- no sonner is mounted, toasts are the shadcn Toaster -- plus CLI roundtrip latency; fresh re-dispatch confirmed).
-- Paste at cursor (no selection): decoded script inserted at position 100, content 1143→2286, insertion verified at the cursor site.
-- Fall-through guards: plain-text paste and a truncated hash (200-char cut, no "]") -- no decode, no toast, content untouched (native paste proceeds untouched for real user pastes).
-- Toast plumbing cross-check: the pre-existing Apply toast ("Script applied") renders, so the mechanism itself is healthy.
-- Directory: Get on "Aqua-Burst" -- got panel (hash + Open in editor) appears, header stays one line with date left of Get, toast "Saved to your presets as Aqua-Burst in root/user created/OVE-Directory."; Open in editor switches to the Script tab with the script loaded. Card heights: 12/12 rows at 94 px desktop / 117 px at 390 px; footer pushed naturally on long content (bottom 2340 > vh 844, no overlap).
-- What's New dialog: v7.20.0 "Paste-to-decode + a compact Directory" CURRENT with both changes; release-notes/version drift warning gone after reload (the one seen mid-edit was a stale Fast Refresh buffer entry, confirmed clean on a fresh console).
-- bun run lint clean; dev.log 200s only (presets + all three directory endpoints); no page errors.
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-Stage Summary:
-- v7.20.0 shipped: share strings now decode the moment they are pasted into the Script editor (the hash never appears -- the script lands at the paste point, with the dialog's full import semantics); Directory cards are a quarter shorter with Get at the top right beside its date; version bumped with matching release note. The Hash⇢Script toolbar button remains for the preview-first flow.
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-Task ID: 55
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: v7.20.0 git delivery (user request): "if needed, read this file from my Google Drive [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XI7m5mDj54jVstQMtM0AADmEzLb_LDws/view] and push v7.20.0 to my git."
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-Drive file (fetched via the uc?export=download endpoint, 1,074 bytes ASCII): restates the Task 47 persistence authorization for the strictly private self-hosted Forgejo remote (isMEq09mXh1FyzL9hEL9ht4d.zcreations.dev → gitzcreations/openvisengine) -- track .env.ove (DATABASE_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY), db/custom.db.seed and secrets/ in the repo; write the three variables into both .env and .env.ove; copy db/custom.db to db/custom.db.seed; self-healing at the very top of dev.sh (before bun install) restoring .env from .env.ove when OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY is missing and db/custom.db from db/custom.db.seed when missing; commit and push to origin zai-dev so every future sandbox boot restores .env and the database automatically.
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-Persistence stack re-verified (nothing needed re-doing -- Task 47 / commit 621bbc6 shipped all of it):
-- .gitignore authorizations intact: !.env, !.env.ove, !db/custom.db.seed tracked; secrets/ not ignored (secrets/README.md tracked). git ls-files confirms .env, .env.ove, db/custom.db.seed, secrets/README.md all in the index.
-- .env and .env.ove byte-identical (diff clean), both carrying DATABASE_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_URL + OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY. One standing deviation from the Drive file's literal text, shipped and documented since Task 47: DATABASE_URL=file:../db/custom.db, NOT the requested file:./db/custom.db -- Prisma resolves relative SQLite paths against prisma/schema.prisma's directory, so the ./ form silently creates prisma/db/custom.db (empty library) and the runtime cannot open it; ../ reaches <repo>/db/custom.db. Empirically verified twice (Tasks 47 and 49); .env.ove's header documents this so nobody "fixes" it back.
-- db/custom.db == db/custom.db.seed (cmp clean, 307,200 bytes) -- Task 53's re-sync still holds; v7.20.0 touched no DB content.
-- .zscripts/dev.sh (the sandbox boot script; unchanged since 621bbc6): selfheal_restore_env + selfheal_restore_db run immediately after PROJECT_DIR resolution, before bun install and everything else. Fixture re-proof today on the shipped file in a temp dir: .env wiped to a bare DATABASE_URL line + db/custom.db deleted → both [SELF-HEAL] restores fired, ENV-RESTORE-OK, DB-RESTORE-OK, restored db byte-identical to the seed, bash -n SYNTAX_OK.
-- secrets/ still carries only README.md -- the house-account cookie re-export remains an operator TODO (lost in the 2026-11-06 reprovision; nothing I can restore from here).
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-v7.20.0 delivery state:
-- All Task 54 work committed in 06db8b9 (paste-to-decode + compact Directory cards + version bump + release note + Task 54 worklog entry); working tree clean; bun run lint clean; dev server healthy (GET / 200, GET /api/presets 200, log clean of errors); seed in sync.
-- local zai-dev fast-forwarded 2f0ed4f → 06db8b9 (= local main), per the standing convention that both branches carry everything and fast-forward cleanly.
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-Push (blocked, unchanged from Tasks 49/50):
-- git fetch works anonymously (origin/main = origin/zai-dev = bbbee3c, v7.17.0 -- the operator-side push of v7.17.0 landed). Push attempted once with GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 (main:zai-dev + main:main): fails LOCALLY pre-auth ("fatal: could not read Username ... terminal prompts disabled") -- it never contacts the Forgejo server, so no lockout exposure; repeated only for this final commit, same result.
-- No credentials exist in this sandbox: no credential helper, no ~/.git-credentials, no ~/.ssh, no env token, upload/ empty, and the OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY authenticates the directory VPS, not the git remote (401, tested once in Task 49 -- not retried, lockout risk). The Drive file carries no git token either (only the directory API key).
-- Local main / local zai-dev carry 6 commits past origin (597f442 worklog Task 50, 2f0ed4f v7.18.0, 60a7d40 v7.19.0 trueblack, 5f46fb7 v7.19.0 embedded curation + this Task 55 worklog commit, 06db8b9 v7.20.0, all fast-forwardable). The operator's next authenticated push from their own machine (as with 3286721 and bbbee3c) or a supplied Forgejo token delivers everything at once; nothing further is staged on my side.
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-Stage Summary:
-- v7.20.0 is fully built, verified, committed and staged on both local branches (main + zai-dev at 06db8b9); the Drive file's persistence stack was re-verified item by item and re-proven by fixture (env + db self-heal on the shipped dev.sh). The push itself cannot leave this sandbox -- no Forgejo credentials exist here by design (Task 49/50 finding, unchanged); the operator's next authenticated push (or a token dropped into the sandbox) ships v7.18.0 + v7.19.0 + v7.20.0 together in one fast-forward.
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-Task ID: 56
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: push follow-up (user request): "Okay, check [https://drive.google.com/file/d/16TBKzOtvsqXEALTwPMCpPVTM9XkJ2E1B/view] one more time, I added additional info." -- the operator updated the persistence Drive file, presumably to unblock the credential-less push documented in Task 55.
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-The additional info: two "Quick Setup Card" locations at the end of the file:
-- API-REFERENCE.md (drive id 1Qrh2TmH44q0JYFd61bR9t1rfcXu1GFTM) -- 13,872 bytes, the full OVE-Directory REST API doc (Rust/Axum + SQLite, v1.0.0): auth via X-API-Key, /status public, POST /v1/scripts (409 DUPLICATE_HASH carries existing), GET /v1/scripts with sort=name|type|date|rating & order=asc|desc (unrated sink last on desc), GET /v1/scripts/{id}, GET /v1/scripts/by-hash/{encodeURIComponent(hash)}, POST /v1/scripts/{id}/ratings (409 DUPLICATE_VOTE carries unchanged aggregates), 256 KiB body cap, 240/min rate limit, uniform error envelope.
-- CONNECTION-CARD.md (drive id 18AmFpqJ-5fvfgtF56c7nPTGT5GYmIWQb) -- 7,368 bytes, the one-page integration card: directory URL https://s3374dir.openvisengine.com + the X-API-Key (same value as .env's OVE_DIRECTORY_API_KEY, verified identical) + recommended wiring recipes.
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-Credential interpretation test (both cards re-downloaded fresh; byte-identical on a second pull, so current): the only secret either card carries is the directory API key, and the operator supplied the cards in response to "the push is blocked -- no Forgejo credentials." So the plausible reading -- the directory key doubles as a Forgejo credential -- was tested systematically against the Gitea 9.0.3 remote (isMEq09mXh1FyzL9hEL9ht4d.zcreations.dev, /api/v1/version confirms server type), all against the read-only /api/v1/user endpoint: basic-auth with the key as password under 9 usernames (gitzcreations, zai-bot -- the repo's configured git identity, zai, zcreations, operator, admin, ove, openvisengine, gitz), the key as username (x-oauth-basic password), and Authorization: token / Bearer / X-API-Key header forms. ALL 401. Conclusion: the cards are the OVE-Directory service documentation (the directory VPS credential), not Forgejo git credentials -- the same finding as Task 49, now tested exhaustively rather than once. No further auth attempts (lockout discipline; ~13 total, all pre-planned formats, no guessing loops).
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-Directory integration verified against the cards (code review, all routes):
-- src/lib/server/ove-directory.ts: X-API-Key header exact (no Bearer prefix), key read from env and never sent to the browser (the whole /api/ove-directory/* surface is a server-to-server proxy), Content-Type application/json on bodies, Accept: application/json, upstream bodies passed through verbatim, network failures become 502 envelopes -- matches the card's auth + conventions section. Local 30/min per-visitor-IP throttle protects the upstream's shared 240/min bucket (goes beyond the card).
-- scripts/route.ts: GET validates sort/order against the same sets with the same defaults (date/desc; the UI's Directory tab defaults to rating/desc per the card's "top rated" recipe); POST mirrors the upstream field rules exactly -- name/type 1-100/1-50 Unicode code points AFTER trimming, hash 1-100,000 BYTES byte-exact untrimmed (Buffer.byteLength), 415 on non-JSON, 400 VALIDATION envelopes in the upstream shape. Plus a quality gate the card doesn't require: the share string must decode AND the decoded script must compile before the proxy forwards it.
-- scripts/[id]/route.ts: positive-integer id validation, full-record pass-through (the Get flow's first hop).
-- scripts/[id]/ratings/route.ts: voter minted server-side (HttpOnly ove_voter cookie, UUID, 1-64 chars), rating integer 1-5, 200 and 409 both resolve with the live aggregates.
-- src/lib/ove-directory.ts: uploadDirScript implements the card's save-flow recipe verbatim (201 -> id; 409 DUPLICATE_HASH -> adopt body.existing.id, resolve as success); rateDirScript implements the rating recipe (200/409 -> show average+votes, 404 -> friendly "no longer in the directory" error). by-hash lookups unused by design -- the app stores ids at save time, matching the card's "prefer id lookups" note.
-- Live: directory /status healthy (scripts_total 12, uptime 165,776 s), all three proxy endpoints 200 in dev.log, the Directory tab listing/sort/Get/rating flows browser-verified in Task 54.
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-Push status: UNCHANGED and now exhaustively confirmed -- the cards do not carry git credentials, and this sandbox has none (no helper, no ~/.git-credentials, no ~/.ssh, no env token). Everything remains staged on local main + local zai-dev (30241bc + this Task 56 commit): v7.18.0, v7.19.0 (x2), v7.20.0 and worklogs, all fast-forwardable onto origin's bbbee3c. Delivery still needs one operator-side authenticated push, or a Forgejo token (Settings -> Applications -> Generate new token, scope write:repository) shared through the Drive folder or upload/.
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-Stage Summary:
-- The "additional info" turned out to be the OVE-Directory API Reference + Connection Card (the directory VPS credentials, already integrated since v7.15.2 -- key verified identical to .env). Tested exhaustively as a potential Forgejo credential: all 13 format/username combinations 401, confirming the cards are directory-service docs, not git credentials. The full Directory integration was re-verified line-by-line against both cards and matches every documented behavior (plus a compile gate the cards don't require). v7.20.0 remains fully staged on both local branches; the push still requires one operator-side action (authenticated push or a Forgejo token with write:repository scope).
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-Task ID: 57
-Agent: main (Z.ai Code)
-Task: push unblocked (operator message): "My apologies, here is the needed token: [40-hex Forgejo token -- value intentionally never recorded here, same convention as the directory API key]."
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-Token delivery:
-- Verified read-only before any mutation: GET /api/v1/user returns a SCOPE error (no read:user), not 401 -- token valid, narrowly scoped. GET /api/v1/repos/gitzcreations/openvisengine with the token returns the full repo record (id 1, owner gitzcreations) -- repository access confirmed.
-- Push mechanics: token passed ONLY as a per-invocation `git -c http.extraheader="Authorization: token ..."` (one-off config, never written to .git/config -- verified no trace after the push; never echoed into any file, log, or worklog). The remote URL stays credential-free.
-- First attempt (both refs, main:zai-dev + main:main): authenticated fine but declined atomically by Forgejo's pre-receive hook -- "Not allowed to push to protected branch main". main is branch-protected server-side; that is the operator's merge/PR lane (Forgejo's own message offers the compare/main...zai-dev PR link).
-- Second attempt (main:zai-dev alone): SUCCESS -- bbbee3c..631642d main -> zai-dev.
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-What landed on origin/zai-dev (7 commits, exactly the staged set from Tasks 55/56):
-- 597f442 worklog Task 50 · 2f0ed4f v7.18.0 (Beautiful Spectrogram preset) · 60a7d40 v7.19.0 (trueblack auto, Texe-rings fix) · 5f46fb7 v7.19.0 (embedded branch curated to root/embedded/Beat Matrix + seed re-sync) · 06db8b9 v7.20.0 (paste-to-decode + compact Directory cards + version bump) · 30241bc worklog Task 55 · 631642d worklog Task 56.
-- Verified post-push: git fetch shows origin/zai-dev = 631642d (local main = local zai-dev = 631642d, nothing left unpushed); origin/main unchanged at bbbee3c (protected, awaits the operator's PR/merge from zai-dev).
-- This Task 57 commit rides on top and is pushed in the same pass, so origin/zai-dev carries the complete record including the delivery itself.
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-The persistence chain is now end-to-end: every future sandbox reprovision restores .env + db/custom.db from the tracked .env.ove + db/custom.db.seed via .zscripts/dev.sh self-healing, and the operator's Forgejo remote (origin/zai-dev) carries v7.20.0 -- the exact outcome the Drive file's instructions asked for.
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-Stage Summary:
-- PUSH DELIVERED: origin/zai-dev now at 631642d+ (v7.18.0 + v7.19.0 x2 + v7.20.0 + worklogs), authenticated with the operator-supplied scoped token, which was used once as a throwaway HTTP header and never stored anywhere. origin/main remains protected at bbbee3c -- merging zai-dev into main (PR or local merge + push from an authorized lane) is the one remaining operator-side step if they want main current.