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Session handover — 2026-05-07

End-of-day note for tomorrow's pickup. Today closed the three render-layer gaps from yesterday's deploy (hero / services / cta-strip), shipped a full brand-default theme layer, fixed verify-design's owner attribution so its output is actionable, and reconciled the EC2/origin/local git divergence. Eleven regions verified; eight still need work, and three of them (header, faq, footer) are still in the 2/10 tier.

Where we ended up

  • Branch: master @ 5d6c5a5 (origin + EC2 + local all aligned).
  • Backup tag (local only): pre-reconcile-2026-05-06 @ 4686c81 — recover from git reset --hard pre-reconcile-2026-05-06 if the reconcile turns out to have lost something we missed.
  • Garvanbay deployed:
  • LIVE: https://www.garvanbay.ie/
  • OURS: https://master.garvanbay-fulldev.pages.dev/ (latest immutable: https://c5f49328.garvanbay-fulldev.pages.dev/)
  • EC2 build directory: ~/replatform-dashboard/builds/garvanbay.ie/assembled-fulldev/ — clean, re-built and deployed at end of session.

What today's session shipped

Eight commits on master (all pushed):

5d6c5a5  fix(hero-4): scope white heading + suppress global accent line + white button border
2528c33  fix(section-prose): emit data-slot attribute so themed selectors match
36a7788  feat(theme): brand-default heading colour + button pill + accent underline
f36b6d7  fix(verify-design): resolve component owner from caller / assembled tree
dc26553  fix(header): add bg/border/shadow to More dropdown popover
2247e8f  fix(header): restore More dropdown with less-aggressive threshold (>7 items)
29f3b67  fix(header): stop over-collapsing nav into More + raise z-index above hero
762f72e  feat(assembler): split-layout for service-teaser sections via content-2
9f94b54  chore: reconcile EC2 working tree (theme-extractor + matcher fallbacks + today's fixes)

Plus the asset-download fixes that landed early in the session:

- lib/dom-pipeline.js (silent catch → 3x retry + warn-on-fail)
- lib/backfill-assets.js (new — post-assemble safety net)
- lib/assembler-fulldev/translate.js (inferIcon helper, content-2 routing,
  alternation pass, More dropdown threshold)
- lib/theme-extractor.js (networkidle wait fallback)
- lib/components-v3/blocks/{cta-wcp,content-2,header-wcp,hero-4}.astro
- lib/components-v3/ui/{button,section/section-prose}.astro

Score deltas across the session (full-region sweep)

Region start end Δ
hero 2 5 +3
welcome n/a 2.5 —
cta-strip 2 4 +2
svc-payroll 1 6 +5
svc-management n/a 6 —
svc-company-secretary n/a 6 —
svc-accounts-prep n/a 6 —
svc-tax n/a 4.5 —
header n/a 2 —
faq n/a 2 —
footer n/a 2 —

n/a = not measured at session start (only hero / one service / cta-strip were verified yesterday). Today's first action was a full-region sweep — that's the right opening move next session too.

The three open regions to attack tomorrow

Header, FAQ, and footer are all still 2/10 tier and represent the remaining cross-cutting gap on garvanbay.

1. Header — topbar missing entirely (Gemini score 2/10)

  • Symptom: the rebuild has no top contact bar (live shows phone + email + Book CTA pinned above the main nav). The main nav has 6 visible + More dropdown after this session's fix, but Gemini also flags missing dividers between nav items and incorrect link colour.
  • Suspected layer: topbar-wcp is in the assembler's component pick list and renders in the assembled index.astro, but on the deploy it's empty / invisible. Either:
    • The topbar matcher (lib/matchers/TopBar.js) emits empty props for garvanbay (no contact info captured)
    • topbar-wcp.astro renders nothing when given empty props
    • The translator drops the topbar's content
  • Where to start:
  • Inspect topBar_1_props in builds/garvanbay.ie/assembled-fulldev/src/data/content.ts. If empty, the matcher isn't capturing.
  • Check lib/matchers/TopBar.js against live's comp-l63c1gdo (the pinned overlay layer at the very top of the site). The matcher needs to extract phone, email, and the Book CTA.
  • If props are flowing but the component isn't rendering them visibly, check lib/components-v3/blocks/topbar-wcp.astro.

2. FAQ (2/10)

  • Symptom: missing background pattern, missing first-item-expanded default state, wrong heading colour, plain horizontal lines instead of styled accordion panels.
  • Suspected layer: lib/components-v3/blocks/faqs-1.astro — needs accordion-panel styling (live uses Wix's expandable cards with subtle borders + bg) and a defaultValue on the first accordion item.
  • Where to start:
  • Read live's first FAQ accordion item's CSS (light grey panel bg, rounded, with chevron).
  • Update faqs-1.astro to mirror that styling.
  • Add defaultValue={items[0]?.title} to <Accordion> so the first item starts open (Gemini explicitly flagged this).
  • Symptom: completely different column structure. Live has a multi-column grid (address | links | hours | credit). Ours stacks everything in a single block, missing phone, missing design credit ("Designed by ..."), adds an unrequested logo column.
  • Suspected layer: both translator + component.
  • translateFooter in lib/assembler-fulldev/translate.js — check what props.columns it receives from the matcher.
  • lib/components-v3/blocks/footer-1.astro — needs to render a proper grid of columns matching live's shape.
  • Where to start:
  • Check footer_12_props in content.ts to see what data is being passed.
  • Inspect lib/matchers/Footer.js to confirm it's grouping address / phone / hours / links into separate columns.
  • Compare footer-1.astro's grid layout with live's.

Methodological lesson — data-slot audit

The biggest waste of the day was discovering, mid-deploy cycle, that SectionProse was missing its data-slot="section-prose" attribute. Every themed selector targeting it had been a silent no-op for half the session. Same gap likely exists on:

  • SectionContent (a div, no data-slot)
  • SectionActions
  • SectionMedia

Tomorrow's first 10 minutes: grep lib/components-v3/ui/ for the primitives that don't emit data-slot= and add it. Otherwise the next round of theme rules will silently miss its targets.

This lesson is in memory at feedback_data_slot_attribute_required.md.

How to run the verifier sweep

The script that drove today's diagnostics is tmp/sweep-design.sh on EC2 (untracked, recreate from this template if tmp/ got cleaned):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -u
LIVE=https://www.garvanbay.ie/
OURS=https://master.garvanbay-fulldev.pages.dev/
OUT=gaps/garvanbay-sweep
cd ~/replatform-dashboard
mkdir -p "$OUT"

# region | live-selector | ours-selector | label | ours-component
REGIONS=(
  "header|header#SITE_HEADER|header.header-wcp|header|header-wcp"
  "hero|section#comp-l60h58h5|body > section:nth-of-type(1)|hero|hero-4"
  "about|section#comp-l60h58h6|body > section:nth-of-type(2)|welcome|content-1"
  "cta-strip|section#comp-l60jla9h|body > section:nth-of-type(4)|cta-strip|cta-wcp"
  "about|section#comp-l60jz64o|body > section:nth-of-type(5)|svc-payroll|content-2"
  "about|section#comp-l60kyc3w|body > section:nth-of-type(6)|svc-management|content-2"
  "about|section#comp-l60l9ij9|body > section:nth-of-type(7)|svc-company-secretary|content-2"
  "about|section#comp-l60lkwh0|body > section:nth-of-type(8)|svc-accounts-prep|content-2"
  "about|section#comp-l60loazy|body > section:nth-of-type(9)|svc-tax|content-2"
  "faq|section#comp-l60lrz7n|body > section:nth-of-type(10)|faq|faqs-1"
  "footer|footer#SITE_FOOTER|footer|footer|footer-1"
)

for entry in "${REGIONS[@]}"; do
  IFS='|' read -r region live_sel ours_sel label component <<< "$entry"
  echo "▶ $label ($region → $component)" >&2
  node lib/verify-design.js --live "$LIVE" --ours "$OURS" \
    --live-selector "$live_sel" --ours-selector "$ours_sel" \
    --region "$region" --ours-component "$component" \
    --out "$OUT/$label.json" 2>&1 | grep -E "score:|issues:|summary:" || echo "  (no summary)"
done

After the sweep, aggregate by theme via node /tmp/aggregate.js (the node script lives in tmp/aggregate.js on local; recreate per the shape in commit f36b6d7's implementation notes).

--ours-component is critical — without it, verify-design.js falls back to a stale REGION_OWNERS map and routes 39+ issues at content-1.astro when they should go to content-2.astro or hero-4.astro (etc.). The fix landed in f36b6d7 but the sweep script must explicitly pass the per-region component basename.

Other follow-ups (lower priority)

  • EC2 GitHub auth. EC2 has no token / SSH key for github.com, so all sync today went via git bundle create … master:master, scp, git fetch <bundle> master:origin/master, git reset --hard. That works but adds ceremony. Install a PAT in ~/.git-credentials on EC2 to push/pull directly. Reference memory: reference_git_topology.md.
  • tmp/ is gitignored as of 36a7788 — but earlier commits this session (dc26553, 2247e8f, 29f3b67) accidentally committed tmp/gaps/garvanbay/services-*-v5.json. ~50KB of noise in history, accepted rather than force-pushing master.
  • Hero buttons are still flagged for padding (Gemini wants larger). Tailwind utility classes (px-6 from CVA) win over the global padding rule. Either move global rules to @layer utilities, append !important, or extend the button variant system.

Suggested tomorrow's order

  1. data-slot audit on SectionContent / SectionActions / SectionMedia — quick win, prevents future invisible-CSS bugs (~10 min).
  2. Topbar / header — most user-visible miss after today, single matcher + component to investigate (~30–60 min).
  3. FAQ accordion — straightforward styling work + first-open default (~30 min).
  4. Footer — biggest scope (matcher + component); leave for last in the cycle so a partial fix doesn't block the smaller wins.
  5. Re-sweep all 11 regions after each, snapshot deltas in a v2 comparison table.