B3's warning is about ORDER, and it is the whole item: the proposal removes the
project-picker card, and the first-run empty state was built inside it. Remove
the card first and every brand-new account lands on a page whose only
instruction is to choose from a list with nothing in it.
So the empty state was built first, as its own thing rather than a branch inside
a control that is going away, and only then did the card go.
The launcher now shows exactly one of three states:
no projects at all what a project is for, the create form already open (it
is the only thing to do on this page, so hiding it behind
a button is one click of ceremony in front of the only
way forward), and the sample offered underneath it
none chosen point at the app bar's switcher, which is on every page,
plus New project
one active the tool cards, as before
Switching moved to the app bar's switcher entirely. Its popover footer used to
read "All projects / new project" and link to index.html - half of that promise
moved into the popover itself and the other half needs a form, so the link now
says New project and carries #new-project, which the launcher opens on.
The create form was rebuilt, so per C1 it ships accessible: a real <form> with
requestSubmit, every input labelled, and its validation inline at the field with
aria-describedby and role="alert" - the same shape T5.8 gives the wizard. That
retires the "Project name is required." alert (index.html 6 -> 5).
html/index.html three states, rebuilt create form, picker card removed
html/wp-chrome.js popover footer link (one line - it named the card)
tests/launcher_check.py new - 58 checks, two seeded databases
tests/f_items.py F1 rewritten to drive the controls that replaced the select
Done when
[x] a brand-new account with zero projects sees a clear path to create one
[x] the sample project remains discoverable from the empty state
[x] the picker card is removed only after the empty state ships
[x] switching projects still works from the header for users who have projects
Two things the probes caught that I would have shipped
F1 went INCONCLUSIVE, not FAIL. Its probe drove `document.querySelector
('select')` on the launcher - the picker card's dropdown. It refused to guess
rather than reporting a silent pass, which is the behaviour f_items was
written for. Rewritten to drive both replacements, because they fail
differently: the switcher RELOADS with ?project=<id>, so its two labels cannot
drift apart whatever subscribes to what; creating a project changes the active
project IN PAGE, and that is the interaction F1's mechanism actually applies
to. It is now the only in-page change on the launcher, so it is the arm that
matters. Both pass - the bar subscribes through ProjectData.onActiveChange.
launcher_check reported "no focus ring" on the rebuilt form's inputs. That was
trap 5 in reverse: without CDP focus emulation the headless document is not
the focused one, :focus-visible never matches, and every control reports NO
ring - a false red where a11y_check would get a false green. With emulation on
they draw 2px --cds-focus from T4.7's app-wide floor.
Verified one at a time
launcher_check 58/58 new (38 empty-account + 20 populated)
stepper_check 70/70
browser_check 71/71
aggregates 16/16
a11y 22/22 launcher 29 focusable elements, all >= 3:1
url_state 23/23
autosave 34/34
f_items F1-F5 FIXED, F6 REPRODUCES (T7.2)
No colour literal added: 0 across all five page sheets and all seven inline
<style> blocks.
Raised, not fixed
BL-014 updated rather than left stale: two of its four sites (.proj-row select,
.link-like) went with the picker card, and the third (.proj-form-grid input)
was measured rather than assumed - it draws T4.7's ring, which post-dates that
entry. What survives is field.html's .fld-search, which T9.5 should measure the
same way instead of inheriting the wording.
Question for the PR, per CLAUDE.md: with the picker gone, an account whose only
project is archived sees the choose-a-project prompt plus the archived note, and
the switcher lists nothing. That is honest but bleak. Whether an archived project
should stay switchable read-only is a product call, not an implementation one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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