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diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This file is an **index, not a manual**. It carries the map plus the one-line fo
 | How a feature actually works            | [`docs/features/`](docs/README.md#features)                                |
 | The visual direction (tokens, shapes)   | [`docs/design/fluid-editorial.md`](docs/design/fluid-editorial.md)         |
 | The second direction, Liquid's glass    | [`docs/design/liquid-aurora-glass.md`](docs/design/liquid-aurora-glass.md) |
+| The third material, Pulse's neon        | [`docs/design/pulse-neon-deck.md`](docs/design/pulse-neon-deck.md)         |
 | Crate split, audio topology, DB layout  | [`docs/architecture/`](docs/README.md#architecture)                        |
 | Design decisions not yet built          | [`docs/rfcs/`](docs/README.md#rfcs)                                        |
 | Release / packaging procedure           | [`docs/RELEASING.md`](docs/RELEASING.md)                                   |
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ React 19 + TypeScript. Entry: `src/main.tsx` → `src/App.tsx`.
 - **Hooks** wrap each context: `useTheme`, `usePlayer`, `useLibrary`, `usePlaylist`, `useProfile`, `usePageScroll`. The playback position is the exception: it ticks at 4 Hz, so it lives outside `PlayerContext` in [`usePlayerPosition`](src/hooks/usePlayerPosition.ts) ([why](docs/architecture/invariants.md#events)).
 - **Tauri wrappers** (`src/lib/tauri/`): one typed `invoke()` per backend command.
 - **Views**: `HomeView`, `LibraryView`, `PlaylistView`, `AlbumDetailView`, `ArtistDetailView`, `LikedView`, `HistoryView`, `StatisticsView`, `WrappedView`, `SettingsView`, …
-- **Layout**: a skin preset declares its `layout` (`classic` | `fluid`, the 2.0 interface) and the views branch on `skin.layout`, never on a skin id; the fluid layout's structure is [`fluid.css`](src/styles/skins/fluid.css), keyed on `data-layout`, and Liquid paints its glass over it. Classic: Apple-Music-style sidebar, TopBar with search, PlayerBar at the bottom, right-edge panels (`NowPlayingPanel` / `QueuePanel` / `LyricsPanel`) mutex'd via `PlayerContext`. A second `WebviewWindow` (label `mini`, `?mini=1`) ships the always-on-top mini-player — [`docs/features/ui.md`](docs/features/ui.md#mini-player) — and a third (label `lyrics`, `?lyrics=1`, created by the backend) the transparent desktop lyrics overlay — [`#desktop-lyrics`](docs/features/ui.md#desktop-lyrics).
+- **Layout**: a skin preset declares its `layout` (`classic` | `fluid`, the 2.0 interface) and the views branch on `skin.layout`, never on a skin id; the fluid layout's structure is [`fluid.css`](src/styles/skins/fluid.css), keyed on `data-layout`, and Liquid paints its glass over it, Pulse its neon. Classic: Apple-Music-style sidebar, TopBar with search, PlayerBar at the bottom, right-edge panels (`NowPlayingPanel` / `QueuePanel` / `LyricsPanel`) mutex'd via `PlayerContext`. A second `WebviewWindow` (label `mini`, `?mini=1`) ships the always-on-top mini-player — [`docs/features/ui.md`](docs/features/ui.md#mini-player) — and a third (label `lyrics`, `?lyrics=1`, created by the backend) the transparent desktop lyrics overlay — [`#desktop-lyrics`](docs/features/ui.md#desktop-lyrics).
 
 ### Backend (`src-tauri/`) — Cargo workspace, two members
 

diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ User-facing references and per-feature deep dives. The top-level [README](../REA
 
 ## Design
 
-| Doc                                                    | Scope                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| [Fluid Editorial](design/fluid-editorial.md)           | The visual direction since 2.0: principles, colour / type / shape / motion tokens, the wave mark, every component's shape, and how to carry it to the web app, the Android app and the landing site           |
-| [Liquid — Aurora Glass](design/liquid-aurora-glass.md) | The second direction on the same interface: music as light and material — pastel pools tinted by the cover, four glass levels, separation by light, states as light, the mood capsules and the light progress |
+| Doc                                                    | Scope                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Fluid Editorial](design/fluid-editorial.md)           | The visual direction since 2.0: principles, colour / type / shape / motion tokens, the wave mark, every component's shape, and how to carry it to the web app, the Android app and the landing site                       |
+| [Liquid — Aurora Glass](design/liquid-aurora-glass.md) | The second direction on the same interface: music as light and material — pastel pools tinted by the cover, four glass levels, separation by light, states as light, the mood capsules and the light progress             |
+| [Pulse — Neon Deck](design/pulse-neon-deck.md)         | The third material on the same interface: a club control panel — OLED black, the chrome drawn as hairlines, the theme's accent as neon on whatever is live, the tempo deck, the floating pill of a player bar, the spring |
 
 ## RFCs
 

diff --git a/docs/design/fluid-editorial.md b/docs/design/fluid-editorial.md
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ The structure above — the canvas, the band, the spectrum, the rail, the contro
 | rails and bars are flush  | the rail, the bar and the panel float: inset `0.75–1 rem` from the window, `1.5–1.75 rem` corners                                                                                                                                                          |
 | a hover is a tone         | a hover is a tone, and a press is instant — `scale(0.94–0.97)` on pointer-down, before anything else                                                                                                                                                       |
 
-What does not change between the two: the base type system (the serif italic line excepted, as the row above says), the mark, the accent rule, the rhythm, the ease. A third material (a paper, a neon) would be written the same way — the tokens redeclared, the few surface rules added, nothing moved.
+What does not change between the two: the base type system (the serif italic line excepted, as the row above says), the mark, the accent rule, the rhythm, the ease. A third material is written the same way — the tokens redeclared, the few surface rules added, nothing moved — and the neon one exists: [Pulse — Neon Deck](./pulse-neon-deck.md), OLED black, the chrome as hairlines, the accent lit on whatever is live, its own spring in place of the ease.
 
 ## Carrying it to another surface
 

diff --git a/docs/design/liquid-aurora-glass.md b/docs/design/liquid-aurora-glass.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Liquid — Aurora Glass
 
-The second direction of WaveFlow 2.0, beside [Fluid Editorial](./fluid-editorial.md). Both sit on the same interface — the canvas, the rail, the control rail, the tabbed panel, the page heroes — and both are written down here so the web app, the Android app and the landing site can carry them. The desktop implementation is the `liquid` skin ([`src/styles/skins/liquid.css`](../../src/styles/skins/liquid.css) over [`fluid.css`](../../src/styles/skins/fluid.css), [`src/lib/skins.ts`](../../src/lib/skins.ts)); this page is the intent and the values.
+The second direction of WaveFlow 2.0, beside [Fluid Editorial](./fluid-editorial.md) (and, since, [Pulse — Neon Deck](./pulse-neon-deck.md)). Both sit on the same interface — the canvas, the rail, the control rail, the tabbed panel, the page heroes — and both are written down here so the web app, the Android app and the landing site can carry them. The desktop implementation is the `liquid` skin ([`src/styles/skins/liquid.css`](../../src/styles/skins/liquid.css) over [`fluid.css`](../../src/styles/skins/fluid.css), [`src/lib/skins.ts`](../../src/lib/skins.ts)); this page is the intent and the values.
 
 The one-line brief: **music as light and material — a luminous, airy glass, tinted by what is playing, with a light that answers the hand.**