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Ticket 04: design-guard stops judging what already has a judge - #74

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The installed design method owns the making of a frontend, and design-guard was still carrying a
second rulebook for one: nine visual rules restating the craft floor that ticket 03 made the single
source. It now routes before it checks.

  • A web, iOS, Android or adaptive interface goes back to the method that built it. What is left on
    that route is a re-check, never a second hunt: the direction contract kept, the FINISH line
    discharged, the finish verdict traveling with its open items under the reviewer's own word, the
    live-surface contract on a redesign, and DESIGN.md section 3 still mirroring the build.
  • Everything the method does not carry stays here and is judged in full: generated documents,
    e-mails, exports, error strings, CLI and log output.
  • The platforms it does not carry are named rather than left implied (Unity, Godot and other
    game engines, console UIs, embedded and kiosk displays, TV, print), so nobody assumes coverage
    that does not exist. On one of those, the platform's own published guidelines are the missing
    rulebook and the verdict says so.

Two floors sit above every route, because nothing else states them: the accessibility floor with
its COMPLIANCE.md link (carried over unchanged, extended with reading order for a document and
never-color-alone for any medium), and reduced motion, which decision 0020 moved to DESIGN.md
principle 7. Both are exercised, not read out of the source.

verify's pointer follows the same split, and the AGENTS.md row says what the skill is now for.

Verified by

  • The non-interface half, proven on real output rather than asserted. Ran section 3 over this
    repo's own gate output. mkdir docs/emptyprobe produced FAIL [empty-dirs] docs/emptyprobe/ is empty: delete it, or add a .gitkeep if it must exist. - what happened plus what to do, a named
    gate rather than a bare code. Piped to a file: zero escape sequences, so meaning never rides on
    color alone. One finding left unbuilt: 1 finding(s). carries a parenthetical plural in an
    otherwise properly pluralized register. Not a defect, so the intake freeze holds it out.
  • Gates green on this head. node checks/check.mjs OK with the enforcement line reporting all
    four signals; node checks/links.mjs clean; node checks/progress.mjs runs.
  • All ten suites green: 70 runner and document, 35 code, 24 config, 48 trace, 5 stack, plus
    progress 25, links 19, cockpit-path 11, cockpit 21, drill 11.
  • Review found two copies of somebody else's knowledge in the first draft (DESIGN.md principles
    9 and 10, and VOICE.md's banned-phrasing examples, restated inside the checklist). Both are now
    pointers carrying only the medium-specific angle, which is the rule this ticket exists to apply.
  • Not verified here: the frontend re-check route against a real built surface. The one built
    through this method so far was a throwaway scratch project from ticket 02, already discarded;
    ticket 06's reconciliation and the spec's own verify pass are where that gets exercised.

The installed design method owns the making of a frontend, so design-guard stops carrying a second
rulebook for one. It now routes before it checks: a web, iOS, Android or adaptive interface goes
back to the method that built it, while documents, e-mails, exports, error strings, CLI and log
output, and every platform the method does not carry (game engines, console, embedded and kiosk
displays, TV, print) stay here, because nothing else judges those. The platforms are named rather
than left implied, so nobody assumes coverage that does not exist.

Nine visual rules that restated the craft floor are gone. What takes their place on the frontend
route is a re-check rather than a second hunt: the direction contract kept, the FINISH line
discharged, the finish verdict traveling with its open items under the reviewer's own word, the
live-surface contract on a redesign, and DESIGN.md section 3 still mirroring the build. Scoring
typography and spacing again is stated as the craft floor's job, not this skill's.

Two floors sit above every route, because neither is stated anywhere else: the accessibility floor
with its COMPLIANCE.md link, carried over unchanged and extended with reading order for a document
and never-color-alone for any medium, and reduced motion, which decision 0020 moved to DESIGN.md
principle 7 and which is exercised as a preference rather than read out of the CSS.

The non-interface half was proven on this repo's own gate output rather than asserted: an
empty-directory failure names what happened and what to do, uses a gate name rather than a bare
code, and survives being piped with no escape sequences left behind. One finding stays unbuilt,
"1 finding(s)" carrying a parenthetical plural, which is a wart and not a defect, so the intake
freeze holds it out.

verify's pointer follows the same split, and the AGENTS.md row says what this skill is now for.

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