Wave 0 counted pushState across html/ and found 0. Every page read its query
string once at boot and never wrote one again, so you could not send anyone a
link to WP07, a refresh dropped you back at the default view, and Back left the
app entirely because the app had never added a history entry.
CR-011 and CR-014 both promise an email carrying a direct link to a work package.
That is X1, and it was blocked on this. It is not blocked now.
html/wp-url.js is the whole mechanism, and it is deliberately NOT a router.
Nothing in it intercepts navigation or renders anything; it is the query string
treated as state that can be read, merged, written and subscribed to. Pages keep
their own rendering. Query parameters rather than a hash, because the server
already serves these paths and a hash is never sent to the server - which matters
the day a link has to be resolved before the page boots.
The merge behaviour is the part that earns its place: WPUrl.push({wp:id}) keeps
the active project, and WPUrl.push({wp:''}) clears one key without needing to know
what else is in the URL. Hand-built URLs losing ?project= is the usual way this
goes wrong.
WIRED: the creator (open package, dashboard view), the SOP wizard (tool, step),
the launcher (project). Each records a history entry only when the user chose the
change - restoring from the URL uses replace, or Back would immediately add an
entry and appear to do nothing.
WPUrl.absolute() is what CR-011/CR-014 will paste into an email in wave 8.
TWO BUGS THIS TASK CREATED AND FIXED, both found by the probe rather than by
reading:
- bootSOP() calls newPackage() during boot, and newPackage() cleared ?wp=. A
deep link therefore worked and then erased its own parameter, leaving Back
with nothing to return to. Now guarded on wpCreatorReady.
- goToStep() runs validateStep(), which ends in alert() when a required field
is empty - always true on a freshly loaded page. So restoring ?step=3 from a
shared link opened a modal dialog mid-boot, and hung the browser under CDP.
Restoring a view is not a forward navigation and no longer runs the
forward-navigation guard.
The second one is worth keeping in mind for the rest of wave 4: this app has 79
native dialogs, and any of them firing during a restore path will hang a headless
browser rather than fail visibly.
VERIFICATION. tests/url_state_check.py, 23 checks, all passing, covering every
done-when on the task:
- a URL identifying a work package opens that package
- the same URL for a SIGNED-OUT user goes to login, carries the target through
?next=, and lands on the work package itself after signing in
- refresh preserves project, package, tab and view
- Back and Forward move through states, verified as still-initialised rather
than reloaded, and with the dashboard actually rendered rather than only the
URL changed
- a different user opening the same URL reaches the same view
- nothing credential-shaped appears in the query string
Metric 8, pushState: was 0 at wave 0, now 2 in html/ (one pushState and one
replaceState, both in wp-url.js) behind 6 call sites across 4 files. The raw
count stays low by design - one place writes history, which is the same reason
the token work put one place in charge of colour.
browser_check 71/71, f_items 5 FIXED / F6 REPRODUCES, aggregates 16/16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
