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SPCTR-UPDATE-007

Canonical archive entry for 2026-03-14 to 2026-03-21.

  • IDspctr-update-007
  • Published2026-03-21T00:00:00Z
  • CodeSPCTR-UPDATE-007
  • Window2026-03-14 to 2026-03-21
Dossiers
  • lenia-swarm: added declarative multi-phase campaign system with preset-driven runner and discovery sweep manifests.
  • lenia-swarm: added ranked local seed selection for ecology and warm starts.
  • lenia-swarm: stabilized search mass variance accumulation; enabled Metal backends for non-PE configs with compatibility check.
  • lenia-swarm: added interactive Lenia explainer blog article with 7 live widgets.
  • lenia-swarm: added compendium backfill command with completeness checks; normalized graph_kind via graph_family in lake extractor.
  • lenia-swarm: fixed intervention-battery config, cross-phase seed forwarding, QD compendium merge, re-index enrichment, and provenance backfill.
  • wonton-soup: rewrote dashboard as Vite/TypeScript SPA with DuckDB-WASM; aligned parquet pipeline; dropped old dashboard.
  • wonton-soup: fixed MCTS visualization and clarified MCTS mode framing.
Addenda
  • equational-theories-distillation: added the addendum.
Ops / Infra
  • ported site builder from Python/Bash to spctr Rust CLI; moved publish orchestration, scripts, and Lenia CLI into spctr; deleted unused parity scripts.
  • added design token system: TOML spec, parser, CSS/Typst/email generators, CLI wiring, manifest vocabularies, and integration tests.
  • added spctr sync, lake refresh, cabinet doc publishing controls, and --version flag.
  • added approval-backed weekly update publishing; renamed updates to SPCTR-UPDATE codes; backfilled and retro-numbered the archive.
  • added site data mount system, externalized compendium data from git.
  • replaced sidebar nav with horizontal topnav; added mobile adaptation (touch targets, type tokens, min-height).
  • redesigned dossier and addenda index cards with tab-panel pattern; added page background contrast; added IBM Plex Serif for body prose.
  • restyled sitemap registry (single column, autolink bare URIs, ascending sort, scope chip styling).
  • added rust-native CSS/HTML minification (lightningcss + minhtml); cleaned dead fonts; fixed minifier crate names and template rewriting.
  • added site build drift check and blog validation; tightened site-project provenance checks; untracked generated site outputs.
  • fixed cargo PATH in mirror CI; fixed gitignore inconsistencies; fixed topnav height inheritance; fixed double-title pattern; restored card borders.