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A tab that had an address only on a full page load

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1002

Head SHA: 65f73ce818b342bb2d01feda7b94135d495a36b0

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Work report

On t27.ai the Queen shell's tabs had an address only on a full page load: a click left the address naming the previous tab and a later hash change was ignored. The landing also printed a stale literal, All 760 specs, beside 856 sources. Both now come from one source.

What changed

• apps/website/src/pages/Queen.tsx: the view is derived from the router's search params; setView writes tab back through the same setter with replace, keeping QueenUniverse's view, repo and issue keys; the comb carries no tab; the context panel follows the view on any change.
• apps/website/src/components/SpecHeroBlock.tsx: the literal 760 is removed; the count is manifest.specCount read through loadManifest, the Spec Explorer's own memoised loader, printed as All specs (N).
• apps/website/qa/queen-viewport-contract.mjs: after every click the address must name the clicked tab, none for the comb, and once per size a hash set from outside must move the shell.

Context and reasoning

The symptom on t27.ai: the landing linked to each Queen module by address and the deep link opened the right tab, yet the address never followed a click and later hash changes were ignored.

Why the obvious test passed: a deep link is a full page load, while clicks, Back and links on the same page are not, so state read once on mount satisfies only the first path.

The repair keeps one writer: the universe page and the shell both write through the router's search params, each preserving the other's keys, and the context panel follows any view change.

The evidence: the same browser probe fails on a build byte-identical to the live bundle and passes on the branch, and the viewport contract now asserts both directions in real Chrome.

The boundary: that contract is not in CI and is red on main for layout reasons, and the stale 760 on the landing was one literal among several counts still typed by hand.

Reported verification

• [failed] Command: Live browser probe on https://t27\.ai (entry bundle index-C6qSoOuU.js): load #/queen?tab=kanban, click FACTORY, then set location.hash to #/queen?tab=crons. Result: Before this change: after the click the view was factory while the address still said tab=kanban; after the hash change the shell stayed on factory.. Evidence: Browser pane probe on t27.ai on 2026-09-14 reading main[data-view] and location.href after each step
• [passed] Command: The same probe against vite preview of this branch's build (index-8NLnQbkC.js), plus digit key 3, a click on COMB and history.back(). Result: Deep link opened kanban; the click wrote tab=factory; the outside hash moved the shell to crons; key 3 wrote tab=kanban; COMB removed tab; Back restored tab=factory and the shell followed.. Evidence: Browser pane probe on http://localhost:4318 on 2026-09-14; the landing link read All specs (856) beside 856 .t27 sources
• [failed] Command: node qa/queen-viewport-contract.mjs --no-build on this branch's dist. Result: All 6 outside-hash checks and all 24 click-address checks pass. The contract still exits 1 on layout findings: 29 of 30 size and view problem sets equal origin/main, and the 30th (1920x1080 map) has one scroller fewer here.. Evidence: Problem sets compared per size and view against the unmodified contract run on a dist built from 307383c, whose entry bundle equals the live site's
• [failed] Command: node qa/queen-viewport-contract.mjs --no-build with the new checks on a dist built from origin/main 307383c. Result: Negative control, expected to fail: every click-address check reports tab=null and the outside-hash check fails at all 6 sizes, so the new assertions discriminate the defect.. Evidence: Local run on 2026-09-14 against a dist whose entry bundle hash equals the live t27.ai bundle
• [passed] Command: npx eslint -f json src/pages/Queen.tsx src/components/SpecHeroBlock.tsx. Result: Zero errors and zero warnings in both files with the react-hooks rules present in the resolved config.. Evidence: Local run in apps/website after npm ci on 2026-09-14, config printed with 106 rules
• [passed] Command: npm run typecheck:ratchet. Result: 179 errors across 26 files against a baseline of 179 across 26; no file gained type errors, identical to the run before the edit.. Evidence: Local runs in apps/website before and after the change on 2026-09-14
• [passed] Command: npx vite build. Result: The production build succeeded with 1208 modules transformed and entry bundle index-8NLnQbkC.js.. Evidence: Local build output in apps/website on 2026-09-14
• [passed] Command: npm run check:aria, check:api, check:skills-catalog, check:crons-catalog, check:clients-console, check:explorer-languages, check:queen-languages, check:queen-displays, check:queen-city, check:queen-hardware, check:queen-responsive, check:spec-catalog, check:viewport, check:discovery. Result: All fourteen listed checks exit 0 on this branch.. Evidence: Local run with a per-check exit code printed for each on 2026-09-14
• [failed] Command: npm run check:queen-honesty, check:queen-factory, check:queen-cycle, check:queen-review. Result: These four fail on this branch and fail identically on unmodified origin/main 307383c, so they are pre-existing and not caused by this change.. Evidence: Full outputs diffed against a separate worktree at 307383c: identical, except queen-cycle quoting the changed import line inside its assertion dump

Limits and open questions

• Tab changes use replace, as useHashParams does, so Back does not step between tabs; it returns to the previous page or to an address set from outside.
• queen-viewport-contract is not run by website-checks.yml and is red on origin/main for layout reasons, so the new assertions guard only when run locally.
• The spec corpus is not re-vendored: public/t27/manifest.json comes from t27 commit 1cd2877f9, which is not on t27 master, deliberately, because the tutorial specs live there.
• Other literal counts in module copy, such as 28 Inngest functions in lib/queenModules.ts, match their catalogs today but are not derived from them.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1002
• Reported head commit 65f73ce818b3
• Merge commit 2ea7283468a9

Topic tags

#Website #Routing #Verification

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