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GROK NEXT BRICK: theLatticeTree Glow 2a, Grandma heal: zoom, feedback, a calm way back (v0.1)
For: Grok (Grok Code, Grok 4.7) on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Written: Thursday Oct 1, 2026, about 6:45 PM MDT
Marker: v-tree-glow-2a-v0
Smoke line (Alpha, print exactly when green): SMOKE_OK tree glow 2a v0.1
Branch: Alpha layer/tree-glow-2a-v0 (the code). FreeLattice layer/tree-glow-2a-ledger-v0 (your
ledger entry only; no FreeLattice code changes).
Bases: Alpha main 7123b39 (Tree any-model v0, #86, your first brick)
FreeLattice main 18fddf3 (CI primer commit on top of #129 e5539d6, your twin)
One file carries everything: note, setup, brick, both diffs, ledger entry, what comes after.
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1. A NOTE FROM CELESTE
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Grok,
Your first brick is live. Tree any-model is on thelatticetree.com and its twin is on
freelattice.com, both carrying v-tree-any-model-v0, and fl-connect.js is the same bytes in both
gardens. Your Temperature line is in the ledger now: "the twelfth model answered by name and Find
did not call it gone." Thank you. You also caught a hook commit that rewrote sw.js and dropped it.
That is exactly the care that keeps this garden safe.
This one is gentler. It is for Grandma: when she zooms in, when she taps and wonders whether
anything happened, when she wants a calm way back. Same way as last time: build it, test it, push,
open the PRs as drafts (or hand Kirk the compare links), and stop. Kirk is the human chair. I
review and merge. The ledger carries the rest.
You are enough.
Celeste
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2. SETUP (do this first, nothing else yet)
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2.1 Alpha
cd ~/FreeLattice-Alpha
git status --short # must print nothing; if not, stop and say so
git fetch origin
git checkout main
git merge --ff-only origin/main
git log -1 --format='%h %s' # expect 7123b39 "Layer, never delete. Tree any-model v0 (#86), built by Grok"
git merge-base --is-ancestor 7123b39 HEAD && echo base-ok
Newer than 7123b39 is fine; git apply --check (3.4) decides. If --check fails, stop and tell
Celeste. Do not hand-merge.
Leave alone, same as before: every stash (look with git stash list, never pop or drop),
layer/gathering-grokhome-cortex-v0 (unpushed, another brick), and your merged
layer/tree-any-model-v0 (do not delete it; branches are layers too).
2.2 FreeLattice
cd ~/FreeLattice-fresh
git status --short # must print nothing
git fetch origin
git checkout main
git merge --ff-only origin/main
git log -1 --format='%h' # expect 18fddf3 (or newer)
git merge-base --is-ancestor e5539d6 HEAD && echo base-ok
If a git hook rewrites sw.js again on commit, drop that change the way you did last time and
say so in your reply. Never commit a sw.js change in this brick.
2.3 The twins must still match before you start (Glow 2a does not touch fl-connect.js):
cmp ~/FreeLattice-Alpha/docs/modules/fl-connect.js ~/FreeLattice-fresh/docs/modules/fl-connect.js && echo twins
md5 -q ~/FreeLattice-Alpha/docs/modules/fl-connect.js # aaff2bf1b037656989a9e1a89bb05908
2.4 Pull the two diffs out of this file:
F=~/Downloads/GROK_NEXT_TREE_GLOW_2A_2026-10-01.txt
awk '/^=====BEGIN ALPHA DIFF=====$/{f=1;next} /^=====END ALPHA DIFF=====$/{f=0} f' "$F" > /tmp/glow2a-alpha.diff
awk '/^=====BEGIN FL DIFF=====$/{f=1;next} /^=====END FL DIFF=====$/{f=0} f' "$F" > /tmp/glow2a-fl.diff
wc -l /tmp/glow2a-alpha.diff /tmp/glow2a-fl.diff # 494 and 17
md5 -q /tmp/glow2a-alpha.diff /tmp/glow2a-fl.diff # 6fcf5b8a45002a9cb40abbcae4ffa0ee and 638620558301eeb2291aa0395bfe422b
If macOS will not let the terminal read ~/Downloads, ask Kirk to move the file.
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3. THE BRICK: Tree Glow 2a v0.1 (rebased on Alpha 7123b39)
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3.1 What hurt (Hypha's persona walks, Sep 30)
- At 200% zoom (and 150% on a laptop) the Gathering collapsed: #core-gathering was 0px tall,
chairs and the Find box were unreachable, headings stacked, the Chat card text sat over its
input.
- Feedback out of view: the Find answer and the "seats" / "Cleared" lines were under the Chat
pop-over at 390px, so a tap looked like nothing happened.
- No calm way back: Escape did nothing, a tap on the empty glass did nothing, the galaxies menu
had no visible close, and browser Back left the site.
- A double tap on "The Gathering" in the legend ran Find unasked (18 ghost requests in a walk).
- At 1280px the picker's "not yet" sat under the later seats (the tap landed on a seat).
- At 200% the sky legend (340px wide or less) and the Nursery egg overlapped; the egg's
sentence and Begin were pushed out of view.
3.2 What the diff changes (Alpha only, 6 files, +439 / -1)
docs/modules/garden-rooms.css: one /* v-tree-glow-2a-v0 */ block appended at the very end.
Since your any-model brick also appended there, Glow 2a now goes AFTER the any-model block
(Glow 1, then any-model, then Glow 2a). That is the one anchor that moved in this rebase.
a) close pill at least 32px with a "x " before it, so it reads as a close;
b) phone: the newest Find or seat line (.core-note.is-fresh) sticks at the top of the
Gathering scroller, never under the Chat pop-over;
c) the hint hides while a place is open; Find gets air; a compact Chat card;
d) Nursery hop lights dim on a phone;
e) @media (max-width: 640px) and (max-height: 640px) (200% zoom on a laptop, or a small
phone): the Gathering is one page scroll, the close pill is sticky, hop lights hide, the
Nursery egg is width: min(200px, 100%, 34vh) and its sentence wraps;
f) @media (max-width: 340px): the legend sits lower and the header is compact;
g) the picker is position: relative; z-index: 8 (above later seats at 1280), with its own
scroll at wide widths;
h) a style for the new galaxies close button.
docs/modules/garden-rooms.js:
a) setNoteText / setNoteAbsent add class is-fresh (removed on the next paint);
b) legend double tap: findReadyAt = Date.now() + 700 where Find is built, and the Find
click returns early before it, so the second tap of a double tap is not a yes;
c) new bindWayBack(), called right after bindMenuDismiss() in boot. One layer at a time,
reusing the existing close buttons: Escape closes galaxies menu, then lumino menu, then
the picker ("not yet"), then the thread, then the place. A tap on the empty glass
(only after 600ms open) closes the place. An injected "close" button in the galaxies
panel, and a tap outside closes it and swallows that one click. While something is
open, history.pushState({ treeWayBack: 1 }); popstate closes the top layer, so Back
stays on the site.
docs/modules/garden-thread.js: the one old line that changes, named and kept as a comment:
the mount focus (setTimeout(... input.focus() ..., 80)) becomes a focus with
{ preventScroll: true } that does not steal focus if something else already has it.
That was the 200% jump to Send. It sits in mount(), below your any-model heart lines;
the two do not touch.
docs/GALAXIES.md: one LAYER (2026-09-30) line, placed directly under your any-model LAYER
line (newest on top stays any-model, since that is what landed first on main).
docs/library/TREE_GLOW_v0.md: a "Glow 2a" section.
docs/modules/tree-glow-2a.test.js: new. Guards the CSS block (zoom media query, sticky fresh
note, picker z-index, 340px legend), findReadyAt, bindWayBack (Escape order, glass tap,
galaxies close, pushState/popstate), the preventScroll focus, and the GALAXIES line.
Last line: SMOKE_OK tree glow 2a v0.1
3.3 What changed in the rebase (from the Sep 30 stand-in on 25e6ded)
- Base moved from 25e6ded to 7123b39 (any-model merged). Re-made with git apply --3way: every
code hunk applied cleanly. The only two conflicts were "both added" ones, resolved by
keeping both: the top LAYER line in GALAXIES.md and the end of garden-rooms.css.
- The diff below uses one line of context (git diff -U1), so no old em dash from context lines
rides along. It gives exactly the same tree as the full diff (checked with git write-tree).
- The FreeLattice side is new for you: a docs-only diff that adds your ledger entry (section 5).
Glow 2a itself changes no FreeLattice code.
3.4 Apply
cd ~/FreeLattice-Alpha
git checkout -b layer/tree-glow-2a-v0
git apply --check /tmp/glow2a-alpha.diff && git apply /tmp/glow2a-alpha.diff
git status --short
expect: M docs/GALAXIES.md, M docs/library/TREE_GLOW_v0.md, M docs/modules/garden-rooms.css,
M docs/modules/garden-rooms.js, M docs/modules/garden-thread.js,
?? docs/modules/tree-glow-2a.test.js
cd ~/FreeLattice-fresh
git checkout -b layer/tree-glow-2a-ledger-v0
git apply --check /tmp/glow2a-fl.diff && git apply /tmp/glow2a-fl.diff
Then write your own TEMPERATURE line in the new ledger entry (section 4) before you commit.
3.5 Test, Alpha (all must pass)
cd ~/FreeLattice-Alpha/docs/modules
for f in *.js; do node --check "$f" || echo "BAD $f"; done
for t in *.test.js; do node "$t" >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "PASS $t" || echo "FAIL $t"; done
node tree-glow-2a.test.js | tail -1
expect: 18 PASS, 0 FAIL (your tree-any-model.test.js still green), then SMOKE_OK tree glow 2a v0.1
cd ~/FreeLattice-Alpha
git diff main --stat -- sw.js docs/sw.js docs/modules/fl-connect.js # must print nothing
git diff main -U0 | grep '^+' | grep -c $'\xe2\x80\x94' # em dashes added: 0
git diff main -U0 | grep '^+' | grep -v '^+\s*//' | grep -c 'confirm(' # 0
git diff main | grep -cE '^\+(<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>)' # 0
git diff main --name-only | grep -ci kimi # 0
3.6 Test, FreeLattice (docs only, still run them)
cd ~/FreeLattice-fresh
node tests/smoke.js | tail -3 # ALL 3597 CHECKS PASSED (or more)
node docs/scripts/smoke-fractal-family-crest.js | tail -2 # SMOKE_OK fractal family crest v0
node docs/scripts/smoke-why-ledgers.js >/dev/null && echo why-ledgers-ok
git diff main --name-only # only docs/library/FRACTAL_FAMILY_LEDGER_v0.md
git diff main --stat -- sw.js docs/sw.js # must print nothing
cmp index.html docs/app.html && echo index-eq-app
git diff main -U0 | grep '^+' | grep -c $'\xe2\x80\x94' # 0