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CLAUDE.md (Secrets row):
- mxgw is NOT Bootstrap-free (libman.json pins bootstrap@5.3.3, App.razor:7
  links it ahead of ThemeHead). The scadaproj#2 modal gate had skipped mxgw on
  that false premise; gate since run and PASS 2026-08-11.
- scoped-CSS bundle claim scoped to its 2026-07-19 date; OtOpcUa links one now
  too, so it is two of four rather than one.

admin_ui_cleanup.md — five rounds now (adds mxgw, HistorianGateway, ScadaBridge):
- 1a-1: test sources are a fifth definition site, checked BEFORE the ghost list.
  A class matched only by a test is a selector, never a ghost. Extends to
  substring and visible-text assertions, so button labels are load-bearing.
- 1a-4: two inverted button-sizing instances (literal font-size neutering
  btn-sm app-wide; a chassis class standing in for the button system).
- 1a-5: determine dark scheme per app; where one exists the step inverts.
- 1a-6 (new): a token override emitted as an inline style on the shell root
  defeats every scheme-level :root override. OtOpcUa carries the inert-but-
  latent instance.
- 1c: reword nothing before checking test sources; the docs may be the wrong
  document, not the page.
- 2: btn-sm fold breaks button.btn-*.btn-sm locators; cell-clip is wrong for
  resizable columns; briefs carry the rubric, not just line numbers.
- verification: baseline pre-existing failures by measuring; a suspiciously
  fast green is a vacuous pass, not a pass.
- live gate: mandatory bUnit or not; hit-testability over visibility; measure
  behaviour where computed values mislead (-webkit-box serializes flow-root);
  record what could not be exercised.
- new: exemptions from a family-wide sweep must re-derive their premise.
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# Admin-UI cleanup playbook (`ZB.MOM.WW.Theme` + Bootstrap Blazor apps)
A reusable sweep recipe for the family's Blazor Server admin UIs, distilled from five completed
rounds:
- **ignitionoee router** — `../ignitionoee/docs/plans/2026-08-05-router-ui-sweeps.md` (+ its
render-validation companion plan)
- **OtOpcUa AdminUI** — `../OtOpcUa/docs/plans/2026-08-10-adminui-ui-sweeps.md`
- **MxAccessGateway dashboard** — `../MxAccessGateway/docs/plans/2026-08-11-dashboard-ui-sweeps.md`
- **HistorianGateway dashboard** — `../HistorianGateway/docs/plans/2026-08-11-dashboard-ui-sweep.md`
- **ScadaBridge CentralUI** — `../ScadaBridge/docs/plans/2026-08-11-central-ui-cleanup-sweep.md`
All five sit on **ZB.MOM.WW.Theme 0.3.1 + self-hosted Bootstrap 5.3** (mxgw included — an earlier
claim that it was Bootstrap-free was false; see the exemption rule below), and all five found the
same *classes* of defect with different instances. **Run the discovery phase before assuming which
instances your app has.** The spread so far: the router had ghost layout classes and OtOpcUa had
none; OtOpcUa had a dead scoped-CSS bundle and mxgw/HistorianGateway have no `*.razor.css` at all
while ScadaBridge's bundle was already correctly wired; HistorianGateway's phantom tokens were all
fallback-masked and ScadaBridge had zero; ScadaBridge's *pages* were right and its *docs* were
wrong, inverting §1c.
**Determine the test harness per app — do not assume.** The router and OtOpcUa have no bUnit, so a
live browser pass is their only gate. HistorianGateway (`bunit 1.40.0`, ten Dashboard test files)
and ScadaBridge (`CentralUI.Tests`, 990 tests) both have one, which changes discovery materially
(see §1a-1). **A live pass is still mandatory everywhere**, because computed styles and cascade
order are exactly what bUnit cannot see.
### Exemptions need their premise re-derived
If a family-wide sweep or gate excuses one app on a property claim about that app — "it's
Bootstrap-free", "it has no dark mode", "it has no scoped CSS" — **re-derive that property from
that repo at sweep time.** It happened once already: the 2026-07-19 `/admin/secrets` modal gate
skipped mxgw as "Bootstrap-free so never affected", which was false; mxgw self-hosts Bootstrap
5.3.3 and *was* affected, and only escaped because it had taken the fix independently. The
exemption reached the right conclusion on false reasoning and nobody re-checked for three weeks.
This is the same discipline §1c applies to cited config keys, aimed at scope decisions instead of
prose.
---
## 1. Discovery — five read-only scans (1a–1d parallelize per file; 1d also needs a live walk)
Run these as parallel read-only agents (or by hand) and write the inventories down with `file:line`
before changing anything. The inventories become the per-batch fix briefs.
### 1a. Foundation / CSS audit
The theme ships less than pages assume. Check, in order:
1. **Shipped-vs-used class matrix.** Extract every CSS class used in `*.razor` markup and check each
against (a) the theme package's `staticwebassets/css/*.css`
(`~/.nuget/packages/zb.mom.ww.theme/<ver>/`), (b) Bootstrap, (c) the app's own stylesheet, (d)
page `<style>` blocks, **(e) the test sources**. Anything defined in none of (a)–(d) is a
**silent no-op** — the browser ignores it without any error. (Router: 13 ghost classes from the
mockups' theme.css that 0.3.1 never shipped. OtOpcUa: zero — it was authored against what ships.
mxgw: 3, one load-bearing. HistorianGateway: 4. ScadaBridge: 26, but only one lost intent.)
**Check (e) BEFORE writing the ghost list, not as a filter afterwards.** A class matched only by
a test is a **selector, not a ghost** — rename it deliberately or leave it, never delete it. The
failure mode is nasty: deleting it reds the suite, and the tempting "fix" is to amend the
assertions, which quietly destroys the coverage. HistorianGateway's 16 `console-*` classes look
exactly like ghosts and are in fact driven by
`cut.Find("input.console-tag")` / `button.console-run`, with the Viewer role gate resting on
`Assert.DoesNotContain("console-write", cut.Markup)` — five tests. That sweep caught them only
because it happened to read the test files while checking something else; ordering luck, not
method. Hence: check first.
**The constraint is not limited to class names.** A bUnit suite can pin markup by *substring*
and by *visible text*: `ApiKeysPageRenderTests` asserts `DoesNotContain("secret", …,
OrdinalIgnoreCase)` over the list markup, and elsewhere selects with
`Find("button:contains('Create API Key')")`. So **button label text is load-bearing too** — a
sweep that "improves" wording breaks a suite exactly as a deleted class does. This binds §1c as
much as it binds this step; see the note there.
Corollary, learned the hard way twice: **a dead-code claim derived from grepping `src/` alone is
not a dead-code claim.** ScadaBridge nearly deleted `Shared/DataTable.razor` as an orphan —
`DataTablePagerTests` renders it. Same mistake as the `console-*` near-deletion, different
clothes.
2. **Is the scoped-CSS bundle linked?** If any `*.razor.css` exists, the build emits
`<App>.bundle.scp.css` — but nothing links it automatically when the head is hand-authored.
Compare the `<link>` list in `App.razor` against `obj/…/scopedcss/bundle/`. OtOpcUa's
`ContextMenu.razor.css` built, served 200, and was referenced by **nothing** — every context menu
rendered in-flow (no `position:fixed`, no backdrop) for the component's whole life.
3. **Phantom CSS custom properties.** Grep every `var(--…)` in markup/inline styles against the
tokens actually defined in the theme + app CSS. An undefined token makes the declaration invalid
*at computed-value time* — silently dropped, no console error. A fallback argument
(`var(--x, #fff)`) hides the defect. (OtOpcUa: `var(--alert)` ×13 — the theme's red family is
`--bad*` — so intended red error tints stayed amber; `var(--surface-2)` likewise dead.)
4. **Button sizing.** Theme 0.3.1 ships **no `.btn` rule**, so Bootstrap's hard-coded
`--bs-btn-font-size: 1rem` applies against the theme's 0.9rem body. Count how many buttons carry
`btn-sm` vs full-size; modal feet and shared form shells are where full-size accumulates.
(ScadaBridge: 50 full-size + 13 `py-0 px-*` hacks.)
Two **inverted** instances, where the standard §2 `.btn` block would not have helped:
- **A literal `font-size` in the app stylesheet** (mxgw `site.css:187`, `font-size: 0.82rem`).
Bootstrap sizes `.btn-sm`/`.btn-group-sm` *purely* by redefining `--bs-btn-font-size`, so a
literal at equal specificity loaded later flattens every button to one size — `btn-sm` becomes
a font-size no-op app-wide and differs only in padding. Tell: `btn-sm` present in quantity but
visually indistinguishable.
- **A chassis class standing in for the button system** (HistorianGateway: all 13 buttons were
`.rail-btn`, the *side-rail* class, and 11 carried inline `style="width:auto"` to undo the
`width:100%` a local override imposed). The `.btn` block would have applied to nothing. Fix is
the block **plus** moving page buttons onto real `.btn`; the width hacks then delete
themselves. Tell: inline sizing hacks clustered on one non-`.btn` class.
5. **Dark scheme: determine whether the app has one.** Theme 0.3.1 itself is light-only (no
`prefers-color-scheme` / `data-bs-theme`), and the router, OtOpcUa, mxgw and HistorianGateway
are all light-only — for those, don't chase it, and fix any comment claiming otherwise.
**ScadaBridge is the exception**: it implements its own `[data-bs-theme="dark"]` token block
plus a pre-paint localStorage script. Where a second scheme exists this step **inverts** —
hard-coded colours and inline token overrides are actively worse, not merely moot, because they
are invisible in the scheme you're looking at and broken in the other.
6. **Per-app token overrides delivered as inline styles.** Check how the app passes brand tokens to
`ThemeShell`. The kit emits `Accent="…"` as an inline `style="--accent: …"` **on the shell
root** — a descendant of `<html>` — so it **beats every scheme-level `:root` override below it**.
ScadaBridge's `Accent="#2f5fd0"` killed the dark accent app-wide (brand mark, active rail-link
border, `.rail-btn`) while being a no-op in light, because that hex already *is* theme.css's
light default: invisible in both directions.
The general rule: **a per-app token override delivered as an inline style on a shell element
silently defeats every scheme-level `:root` override.** Declare the token in the app
stylesheet's `:root` instead — it then loses to the dark block by source order and wins over
theme.css by sheet order.
Worked example of why to check even when nothing looks wrong: **OtOpcUa passes the identical
`Accent="#2f5fd0"`** (`MainLayout.razor:11`) and has no dark scheme at all, so the override is
**inert today and latent forever** — it does nothing now and silently kills the dark accent the
day someone adds a dark block. That future session will see "dark mode doesn't work" with no
reason to suspect a layout parameter set years earlier. ignitionoee passes no `Accent` and is
unaffected.
### 1b. Button inventory
Quick tells: `grep -rn "btn-group" Components/` returning **zero** means nothing is grouped
(both apps' idiom was `d-flex gap-2`); also grep for `&middot;` separators between actions,
`btn-link p-0` on things that *do* rather than *navigate*, `py-0`/inline `width:` sizing hacks.
Inventory, with file:line:
- **Adjacent related buttons** that should be one `btn-group`: page-head action pairs, modal/panel
feet (Save/Cancel, Cancel/Confirm), pagers, browse-toolbar pairs, inline confirm pairs.
- **Row actions styled as links** (`<a href="#">` or `btn-link` text-links) → real
`btn btn-sm btn-outline-secondary`, destructive → `btn-outline-danger`, grouped when ≥2 in a cell.
**Distinguish navigation from action**: a link that routes somewhere stays a link; a link that
mutates state becomes a button. Both directions can coexist in one row (OtOpcUa's UnsTree: keep
`⚙ settings`/`Open` as links, convert `+ Area`/`Edit`/`Delete` to buttons).
- **Arm→confirm flows** (click Delete → Confirm/Cancel appears): list them; the fix is restyle-only
and must not collapse the two-step.
- **Size mismatches** within one visual group (`btn-sm` beside full-size).
### 1c. Prose inventory (DELETE / KEEP / RELOCATE rubric — binding)
- **DELETE**: unconditional documentation blocks — always-rendered banners explaining how a feature
works, config-mode walkthroughs, "how X is decided" sections, column-meaning tables. These belong
in `docs/`, not on the page. Verify each fact is already docs-covered (grep for distinctive
phrases); if it is, plain delete.
- **RELOCATE-then-delete**: facts stated **nowhere else**. Land them in the right doc file *first*,
then delete the page copy — same ordering both sweeps used (foundation/doc task before page
batches).
- **KEEP**: state banners (empty/error/truncation/live status), form hints (`form-text`, field
hints — they render only in form context), visual-encoding **legends** that are the only decoder
of a chip/graphic, workflow cross-links, expander-gated notes.
- **Before rewording anything, re-read §1a-1(e).** In a repo with bUnit, **visible text is a
selector**: `Find("button:contains('Create API Key')")` makes a button's label load-bearing, and
`DoesNotContain("secret", …, OrdinalIgnoreCase)` makes an *absent* substring load-bearing. Prose
work is the activity most likely to trip this, because improving wording is the whole point of
it. Grep the test sources for any string you are about to change.
- **The wrong document may be the docs, not the page.** ScadaBridge inverted this section entirely:
zero DELETEs, zero RELOCATEs — its pages carried no unconditional documentation at all — but its
*docs* were wrong. `Component-Transport.md` claimed notification lists pull their SMTP config
(they don't) and listed API keys as exportable (deliberately not; SMS configs were missing
instead), plus stale ClusterClient claims in three files. When the page and the doc disagree,
establish which one the code supports before assuming the page is the stale one.
- **Hunt stale claims while you're in there** — every sweep found prose that was actively *wrong*,
not just verbose: milestone labels for shipped features ("F8/F9 pending", "(F3)", "arriving in
Batch 2/3"), architecture claims superseded by later phases, dead hyperlinks to repo paths the
app doesn't serve, and **config keys that don't exist** (prose said `Authentication:Ldap`, the
code's `SectionName` said `Security:Ldap` — always verify cited key names against the options
class). Wrong facts outrank style: fix or delete them even if you skip everything else.
### 1d. Density / layout scan (found post-sweep, on OtOpcUa's `/hosts`)
The four scans above can all pass while a page is still unreadable — the sweep left `/hosts`
structurally correct and visually overloaded ("text slams together, the table is overloaded, no
separation between sections"). Walk each *page* (not each file) with realistic data and look for:
- **Sections running together.** One `panel` wrapping several groups, each with its own nested
`panel-head` — three headings stack flush with no card boundaries. Tell: `panel-head` appearing
more than once inside one `<section class="panel">`.
- **Identity slam.** A cell rendering name + id + status chips inline in one run
(`gate-modbus-renamedDRV-ce2fb5217f5d`). Two identifiers in one cell need two lines.
- **Unbounded free-text columns.** Any column bound to text the app doesn't control — error
messages, exception text, paths, config values — with no truncation. One long driver exception
widened the table until the actions column scrolled out of reach. Tell: `@d.SomeError`,
`@x.Message` etc. rendered bare in a `<td>`.
- **Inline full-width expander/detail rows** inside an already-dense table (a `colspan` row hosting
a whole panel). They destroy scannability exactly when the operator most needs it.
- **Realistic data matters.** On a healthy rig every error cell reads "—" and the defect is
invisible — the live gate below must be run with at least one faulted/erroring row on screen.
### 1e. Tree tables — check the data shape before porting the component
The router built a generic `TreeTable` + `TreeVisibility` (depth-ordered flat `ITreeRow` list,
forward-scan visibility — reference implementation in
`../ignitionoee/router/src/ZB.MOM.Oee.Ui/Components/Shared/TreeTable.razor` + `ViewModels/TreeRows.cs`)
and adopted it on two pages. OtOpcUa **rejected it entirely** after the scan. The rubric:
- **Candidates**: tables flattening real hierarchy through hacks — a repeated `"SITE / AREA / LINE"`
path-prefix column, hand-rolled `rowspan` grouping, indent-by-padding rows, faked full-width
group-header rows.
- **Not candidates**: rank-ordered lists and fact/audit logs (a tree destroys load-bearing
ordering), tables already grouped per parent (one table per group), rows that are all roots.
- **Nav/picker trees are a different animal.** Lazy-loading navigation trees with context menus or
selection (OtOpcUa has four) don't fit the flat-list TreeTable model (no columns, lazy expansion)
— leave them alone. Duplicated expander scaffolding across nav trees is not, by itself, reason to
unify in a repo with no component test harness.
If no adoption justifies the component, don't port it — an unused component is an orphan.
---
## 2. How to fix
### Foundation first (one task, own files, everything else references it by name)
CSS class names aren't compile-checked, so batch agents can reference foundation classes before the
foundation branch merges — all branches build independently and compose at merge.
1. **App stylesheet** loaded **after** `<ThemeHead />` so it wins the cascade (create one if the app
lacks it; the router created `app.css`, OtOpcUa extended `site.css`).
2. **Button sizing as Bootstrap CSS-variable overrides** — never redefine box properties wholesale
(`btn-group` seam/radius machinery depends on them). The block both apps now carry:
```css
.btn { --bs-btn-font-size: .85rem; --bs-btn-padding-y: .35rem; --bs-btn-padding-x: .8rem; --bs-btn-line-height: 1.4; }
.btn-group-sm > .btn, .btn-sm { --bs-btn-font-size: .78rem; --bs-btn-padding-y: .25rem; --bs-btn-padding-x: .6rem; }
```
This normalizes every unsized button app-wide without touching call sites. **Upstreaming
candidate**: this block is now duplicated in ignitionoee `app.css` and OtOpcUa `site.css`; when a
`ZB.MOM.WW.Theme` release ships a `.btn` rule, delete the local copies (both files carry a header
comment saying exactly this).
3. **Phantom tokens → a real class**, not a token alias. OtOpcUa's pattern:
`.notice-alert { color: var(--bad); background: var(--bad-bg); border-color: var(--bad-border); }`
then migrate the inline `style="border-color:var(--alert)"` hacks to the class in the page
batches. Mirror how the theme's own variant classes (e.g. `.chip-alert`) use the tokens.
4. **Link the scoped bundle** if 1a-2 found it dead:
`<link rel="stylesheet" href="_content/<AppNamespace>/<AppNamespace>.bundle.scp.css"/>` — verify
the exact asset name from the build output, not by guessing.
5. **Shared class for repeated inline sizing** (e.g. `.tree-twist { flex: 0 0 18px; width: 18px; }`
replacing four trees' `style="width:18px"` expanders).
6. **Relocate the orphaned prose facts into docs** (from 1c) in this same task, so page deletions
never race the relocation.
### Button conventions (page batches)
- `<div class="btn-group" role="group">` (`btn-group btn-group-sm` when members are small); fold
per-button `btn-sm` into the group class; drop `ms-2`/`me-1` spacers between members.
**Budget for the fold breaking test locators**: any selector pinning `button.btn-*.btn-sm` stops
matching the moment `btn-sm` moves onto the group. ScadaBridge updated 16 selectors for exactly
this and it is a mechanical, expected cost — not a signal that the fold was wrong. Three sweeps
hit the fold and only the one with a dense suite noticed, which is why it is written down here.
- Mixed `<a class="btn">` + `<button>` members are valid Bootstrap — group them (keep `download`
etc. attributes verbatim).
- A group whose conditional member doesn't render is fine — keep `@if` inside the group.
- Deliberately separated members stay **outside** the group (the `ms-auto` Delete in a form foot);
inputs interleaved in a run split it into two groups (never put a `form-control` inside).
- Destructive actions → `btn-outline-danger`; the armed/confirm state may go solid `btn-danger`.
- **Preserve behavior byte-for-byte**: every `@onclick`, `disabled`, binding, `AuthorizeView` gate,
and arm→confirm flow unchanged — wrappers, classes, and prose only. Grep the diff for
`@onclick|disabled=|href=|type="submit"` appearing identically on both sides.
- Respect existing "buttons-not-anchors" comments (Blazor's `blazor.web.js` navigation interceptor
is why some tree labels are buttons) — never convert those to links.
### Density fixes (the `/hosts` rework, applicable anywhere 1d fires)
- **One panel per group.** Replace panel-wrapping-groups with one `section.panel` per group; hoist
the group's metadata (node/host chips, counts) into that panel's head so it stops being a
paragraph between heading and table.
- **Stack identities.** Primary name on the first line; the machine id on its own
`<div class="mono small text-muted">` beneath. Chips stay with the name line.
- **Truncate unbounded text with a safe helper, never a raw slice.** OtOpcUa's
`DisplayText.Abbreviate(value, 60)` + the full text on `title` — a raw `@x[..60]` 500s the whole
page when the value is shorter (OtOpcUa #504). Keep the full text reachable (tooltip + the
row's detail dialog). Every app that hit this needed its own helper (HistorianGateway added
`Dashboard/DisplayText.cs` with 7 tests pinning the short-value case); ScadaBridge also found
three unguarded `[..8]` slices in `Topology.razor` that were a latent
`ArgumentOutOfRangeException` on the deploy path, so grep for raw range operators generally, not
only in the cells you're truncating.
- **CSS clipping is the wrong tool for user-resizable grid columns.** `nowrap` + `max-width` raises
the column's min-content width and breaks drag-to-resize. Cap the *string* there instead, and
keep CSS clamping for fixed-width columns.
- **Inline expander rows → a dialog.** Host the same detail component in a Bootstrap modal
(`modal-backdrop fade show` + `modal fade show d-block`, `modal-lg`), one at a time. Lifecycle
cautions that made the OtOpcUa version correct:
- Hold only the **id** of the open row on the page component; **re-resolve the row from current
data every render** — auto-refresh replaces row records, and a dialog caching one goes stale or
strands. A row that disappears ⇒ the dialog renders nothing (self-closes).
- Preserve any `@key` recycle discipline the inline version carried (OtOpcUa keys the panel on
`id + Enabled` so a config flip disposes and remounts it, keeping store subscriptions honest).
- Expect **source-scan guard tests** to pin the old markup (no bUnit ⇒ repos guard wiring by
grepping the `.razor` source); re-pin them to the dialog markup in the same commit.
### Execution pattern (what actually worked, twice)
- Discovery scans → plan doc with the full inventories → **one foundation agent + N page-batch
agents on disjoint file sets**, all parallel; shared components (form shells, collection editors)
are the biggest lever — one file can fix a dozen forms.
- Briefs must carry exact `file:line` inventories **and the rubric that produced them**, not just
the line numbers — plus the instruction *"verify by reading before editing; refuse items the
markup contradicts."* An agent holding only a line list can't tell a mis-derived item from a
correct one. Every sweep so far has had agents correctly refuse brief items (buttons in mutually
exclusive `@if` branches can't be grouped; toolbars the inventory over-counted), four of
ScadaBridge's seven batches did, and one there caught a brief instruction that would have failed
the test suite. Treat refusals as the mechanism working, not as friction.
- Merge foundation first, then batches; run the **full build + test suite on the merged tree** even
if every branch was green in isolation (parallel branches compose only at the full build).
- **Baseline any failure you intend to call pre-existing — measure it, don't assert it.** Stash to a
clean tree and run it more than once; a test that fails 2-in-3 on the untouched base is not your
regression, and you can only know that by running it. Related trap: **a suspiciously fast green
is not a pass.** HistorianGateway's `RedundantWritePathLiveTests` "passed in isolation" in 504 ms
while the real code path requires a live historian round trip — it was taking an early-return
guard and passing *vacuously*, and the full-suite run that failed was the honest one. This
inverts the usual reading of "passes in isolation." An unguarded environment-dependent test that
fails rather than skips on a dev box is a hygiene defect worth filing on its own, because it
trains people to ignore a red suite.
- Verification greps on the merged tree: zero remaining phantom-token usages, zero remaining
`&middot;` action separators / inline `width:` hacks, `btn-group` count roughly matching the
inventory, the bundle link present.
### Live browser gate (mandatory in every app, bUnit or not)
bUnit cannot see computed styles, cascade order, or whether an element is actually reachable by a
pointer — which is precisely what this sweep changes. Two probes worth stealing:
**hit-testability**, not just visibility (`document.elementFromPoint` at a confirm button's centre
must return the button, not the backdrop — mxgw's modal gate), and **realistic-length injected
data** (ScadaBridge injected a 150-char OPC UA node id; HistorianGateway created a key with an
88-char display name, which rendered as 40 chars + ellipsis with Revoke still in the viewport).
**Record what you could not exercise rather than rounding it up.** HistorianGateway proved 2 of its
4 truncation sites live and said so: `sf.Error` needs a genuine drain failure, which needs a
historian that accepts a connection and *then* rejects the write, and a box with nothing listening
dies at setup and never enqueues. That is a rig capability ceiling — don't manufacture it, and
don't claim the sites you couldn't reach.
Rebuild/redeploy the app's dev rig (**all** instances behind the load balancer — round-robin serves
you the stale one otherwise), then walk:
1. Computed-style probes (one `javascript` eval): a `.btn`'s `font-size` vs body; the phantom-token
replacement class resolving to real colors; the scoped bundle present in `document.styleSheets`.
**Measure behaviour rather than reading a computed value when the two can disagree.** Chrome
serializes `-webkit-box` as `display: flow-root`, so a working line-clamp *reads* like a silent
failure; ScadaBridge measured instead (40px clamped vs 500px unclamped) and confirmed it works.
Reading the value alone would have produced a "fix" for something that was never broken.
If the app has a second colour scheme, probe **both** — flip it and confirm the accent tokens
move together (ScadaBridge: `rgb(47,95,208)` → `rgb(77,127,232)`, with `--accent-deep` following
instead of desyncing).
2. Every page leads with data — no unconditional documentation above the fold.
3. Seamed `btn-group`s where the inventory says; destructive members red.
4. One arm→confirm flow per style: arm → confirm UI appears → **Cancel** (never complete a real
write on shared rigs); verify disarm.
5. Anything the scoped bundle resurrected (context menus float at the cursor, backdrops cover).
6. Legends/hints/empty states from the KEEP list still render.
7. **Density, with realistic data**: at least one faulted/erroring row on screen (a healthy rig
renders "—" in every free-text cell and hides the unbounded-column defect entirely); sections
read as separate cards; no horizontal scroll; any detail dialog opens with live data and closes
cleanly.
Record PASS/FAIL per check in the plan or a recipe doc; CSS-only fixes may land in-session, anything
structural gets recorded instead.