Breaking the Gleipnir

Two passes over ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh. The first stripped the time, reduced the CWD to a basename, and right-aligned model and context percentage using tput cols padding. The second matched a shared screenshot: a two-line layout with [Model] 📁 dirname | 🌿 branch on line one and a gold/dim context progress bar, cost, and elapsed time on line two.

The progress bar uses █ for filled slots and ░ for empty — ten characters wide, constructed with printf '%*s' | tr. Cost is printed as $0.08 in yellow. Elapsed time reads from .cost.total_duration_ms.

FiremanDecko created EasterEggModal.tsx — the single shared modal shell for all easter eggs. It accepts image, audioSrc, title, description, and children props. Audio plays automatically on open (the triggering keypress satisfies browser autoplay gesture policy) and pauses on close. The Dialog structure, the gold header with runic eyebrow, the two-column layout, the dismiss button — all live here once.

ForgeMasterEgg.tsx was stripped of its own dialog boilerplate and now renders through <EasterEggModal audioSrc="/sounds/fenrir-howl.mp3" ...>. Going forward every new easter egg renders the same shell — no dialog reimplementation required.

The easter-egg-modal skill was significantly trimmed. Its Step 4 template previously scaffolded a full Dialog/DialogContent/Button structure with inline audio fade logic — 168 lines of repeated boilerplate. All of that is gone. The new template renders only <EasterEggModal> with its four props and a fragment-count footer as children.

The hook template lost its howlRef, fadeIn, and fadeOut helpers — audio is now EasterEggModal's responsibility. A new props reference table documents every prop the shared shell accepts. The "do not re-implement the modal structure" rule is stated explicitly at the top of Step 4.

The skill generated gleipnir-3.svg — an inverted mountain silhouette with apex at (512, 820) and a full branching root system radiating from four foothill nodes. Opacity fades from 0.70 at the trunk to 0.15 at the finest tips. A gold glow node marks the apex convergence. The ᚱ rune watermarks the bottom-left.

The component GleipnirMountainRoots.tsx wraps EasterEggModal with the fragment counter in children. The trigger was wired into AppShell.handleToggle: when next === true (collapsing, not expanding), triggerRoots() fires. The hook's localStorage gate (egg:gleipnir-3) ensures it fires exactly once per user, regardless of how many subsequent collapses occur.

Three Gleipnir fragments generated in a single session. Fragment 4 — The Sinews of a Bear (gleipnir-4.svg): a diagonal crosshatch of curved gold and iron sinew strands across the full canvas; a bright gold convergence knot with a Gaussian glow at the centre; four heavier anchor strands radiating to each corner. Rune: ᚢ. Trigger: TBD.

Fragment 5 — The Breath of a Fish (gleipnir-5.svg): eleven gold stroke-only bubbles rising in a gentle S-curve from the base to the apex, opacity fading from 0.85 at the largest to 0.12 at the smallest. Dim iron water-surface ellipse at the base. Rune: ᛚ. Trigger: onMouseEnter on the footer © symbol.

Fragment 6 — The Spittle of a Bird (gleipnir-6.svg): a gold beak silhouette pointing right, tip at (560, 512); thirteen droplets sprayed at −30° to +30° fading from opacity 0.85 near the beak to 0.20 at the outer edge; faint radial guide lines from tip to each droplet. Rune: ᛊ. Trigger: TBD.

Four location entries updated across both the design doc and the skill's placement table. Fragment 3's location was set to its exact implementation truth: First time collapse of the Sidebar Menu. Fragments 4 and 6 acknowledged honest incompleteness — more UI surface is needed before a home can be chosen.

All three files were kept in sync: design/easter-eggs.md, .claude/skills/easter-egg-modal/SKILL.md, and the inline comment in GleipnirMountainRoots.tsx. The wolf does not like inconsistent records.

No favicon existed. In Next.js App Router, placing icon.svg in app/ causes the framework to inject a <link rel="icon"> tag automatically — modern browsers stop requesting /favicon.ico, ending the 404 entirely.

The icon is a gold ᚠ Fehu rune on a void-black rounded square: a vertical stave from y=4 to y=28 at x=12, two right-branching diagonal strokes. Fehu is the first rune of FENRIR — fitting as the app's permanent mark. Stroke width 2.5 on the stave, 2 on the branches, all in #c9920a.

Luna specified the wireframe, FiremanDecko built it, Luna reviewed and demanded a compact revision, FiremanDecko complied. The final footer is two lines tall at 11px — barely a whisper at the bottom of the page. It is a flex row: copyright symbol on the left (the hover trigger for Fragment 5), project name centred, GitHub link on the right.

Both easter egg triggers survived the cut: the Loki 7-click counter and the © hover for The Breath of a Fish. What was removed: the three-column grid, the About dialog link, the top separator line, and the excessive py-6 padding (reduced to py-1.5).

The mismatch was visible: SVGs had fill="#07070d" background rects while the modal's image column is bg-[#13151f] (chain) — a darker slab against a slightly lighter surround. The fix was simpler than custom-matching colours: strip the background rect from all six SVGs and the inline anvil in ForgeMasterEgg.tsx, and let the modal's own column colour show through.

SVGs 1 and 2 had the comment Background void; SVGs 3, 4, 5, 6 had Background. The anvil in ForgeMasterEgg.tsx had the comment Background — void black. Intentional #07070d fills on design elements — hardie/pritchel holes, rune engravings — were left untouched. The skill's background rule was rewritten to explicitly ban background rects and explain the reason.

The 200-line ForgeAnvilArtifact function was excised from ForgeMasterEgg.tsx entirely. Its JSX — with React-style attribute names like strokeWidth and stopColor — was converted to standard SVG attributes and written to public/easter-eggs/forgemaster.svg. The component now renders a simple <img src="/easter-eggs/forgemaster.svg"> in the image prop. No background rect.

The skill was updated so engineers may invoke it with either a number (3) or a name keyword ("mountain", "fish", "bear sinews"). The lookup table gained a Name keywords column. Four examples show both input styles. Ambiguous input requests clarification before proceeding.

Loki delivered test-easter-eggs.spec.ts — 22 test cases across 8 suites in the quality/scripts/ directory. Each implemented egg is tested against three dimensions: trigger mechanism matches the spec in design/easter-eggs.md, modal surfaces the correct SVG filename, and the fragment counter resolves to a valid /\d+ of 6/ pattern.

The assertion strategy is calibrated for maintainability: exact matches for modal titles, SVG src filenames, and the dismiss button text "So it is written"; partial (~30 character) matches for visible description copy; regex for fragment counts. Audio playback, CSS animation state, and exact fragment numbers are intentionally omitted — these would make the suite brittle without adding confidence. One-time gate behaviour is verified: each egg is triggered once, dismissed, then retriggered — modal must not reopen.