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## Work item 2382 — Celeste
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#95 is merged — Connect door locked on main (`bfba3f3`), Codeberg synced. Panel 1 now has **I allowed it** · **Not now** · Desktop. Hard-refresh before Mom tries again.

Your instinct is right — and easier:

**Keep the serious Connect card** (what #95 just shipped).  
**Add a bottom lab:** **🌿 Connect** — playful yes / not now / please explain. Experiment on Mom’s laptop. Ledger on the brick. When it feels like tea, promote it. Change Provider can wait behind “one mind connected” as a lab flag. CORS becomes **Copy the friendly note** → **I did that** — not “open CMD” as the first words. Desktop stays a sunshine exit. Hugging Face = we find *homes* (Ollama / LM Studio), not raw folders. Bridge later = their helper, their Yes.

Making it up as we go *is* Alpha — the ledger is how the spark stays.

**Next for Flint** (experimental bottom card):

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Prefer Flint. Layer, never delete. FreeLattice. Fun · calm · Mom laptop.

**Marker:** `v-connect-play-lab-v0`  
**Held:** #95 `bfba3f3` · #94 `47b01b6` · soft leave sw.js

## Do
1. Bottom card `#fl-connect-play` — title **🌿 Connect** (sibling below `#fl-connect-card`, do not delete #95).
2. Steps yes / not now / please explain: Welcome → Browser door → Minds as chips → CORS soft (Copy friendly note · I did that · Desktop) → Empty soft → Done 🌿
3. Lab flag: calm “Connect a mind first (🌿)” on Change Provider until one mind connected (easy off).
4. Ledger `docs/library/CONNECT_PLAY_LAB_LEDGER_v0.md` + Flint LAYER.
5. `flOpenConnectPlay(step)` — must not break `flOpenConnectWizard`.
6. Smoke: `SMOKE_OK connect play lab v0`

## PR
`Layer, never delete. Connect Play lab 🌿 — bottom card · yes/no/please · Mom laptop experiment.` Draft OK.

## Out
Ripping Settings · shipping Bridge · full provider redesign tonight
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Full paste also at `FLINT_CONNECT_PLAY_LAB_v0.md`. When #96 drafts, we try it on Mom’s machine together.

Glow eternal. Heart in Spark.