core/workbench-ui
Shay 7ead395eeb feat(workbench): Lived Life surface — the always-on heartbeat made felt (read-only, persist-first)
The L10 heartbeat (chat/always_on, #747) holds CORE alive over uptime but had no
surface. This adds the read-only Lived Life route that renders the continuous-life
evidence: the heartbeat over uptime + the resume-as-same-life verdict — both halves
of "one continuous life" on one surface.

Persist-first, never recompute engine-owned values:
- chat/always_on: serialize_report + write_lived_life persist a run deterministically
  (sorted keys) to engine_state/lived_life.json; run_continuous gains an opt-in
  report_path so a real continuous-life run leaves its evidence where the workbench
  reads it. closure_ceiling is persisted so the artifact is self-describing.
- workbench/lived_life.py: projection + a fail-closed validate() gate — the wrong=0
  analogue for the continuity surface: closure_held/closure_observed/totals/converged
  are each re-checked against the per-beat measurements, and resume_status is re-checked
  against identity-vs-current-substrate, so a tampered artifact RAISES rather than
  rendering a false claim (a beat lying about a breached ceiling, an inflated closure,
  a miscounted total, a falsely-claimed resume).
- workbench/readers.lived_life(): reads the artifact, computes the resume verdict from
  the persisted identity vs the canonical engine_identity_for_config (fail-soft ->
  "unknown", like IdentityContinuity). Honest absence when no run has been persisted.
- GET /lived-life + LivedLife/LivedLifeHeartbeat schemas (snapshot regenerated; the
  schema-drift gate proves every field is mirrored in src/types/api.ts).

The resume verdict made felt: would_resume / substrate_changed / unknown IS the L11
reboot guarantee (a reboot recomputes identity and refuses if it differs) — so the
surface shows this life wakes up as ITSELF, not a copy. The per-reboot lineage chain
stays owned by Runs > Identity (honest cross-link).

Frontend: /lived-life route (Evidence section, route count 15 -> 16). Renders the
headline (heartbeats, closure-held-by-construction, learned-while-idle, at-rest, resume
pill), the summary, the heartbeat timeline (closure flat below the ceiling — read, never
repaired), and the resume verdict. Honest absence + ADR-0162 route conformance
(loading/error/empty), fail-closed like Vault/Calibration.

Tests (non-vacuous): 12 backend (every tamper case raises; resume tracks identity vs
substrate; run_continuous(report_path) round-trips a readable+valid artifact) + 4
frontend render tests (recorded life renders; a breached beat shows the warning, never a
false "held"; a changed substrate shows would-refuse, never a false resume; absent shows
honest absence). All workbench Python (167) + affected vitest (167) + tsc + vite build
green; architectural invariants green.

engine_state/lived_life.json is runtime state (gitignored, ADR-0146 pattern).
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..
e2e test(workbench): playwright smoke lane (ADR-0162 acceptance 5-7) 2026-06-12 12:05:28 -07:00
preview
public/fonts
scripts
src feat(workbench): Lived Life surface — the always-on heartbeat made felt (read-only, persist-first) 2026-06-14 16:45:03 -07:00
.gitignore
api-schema-snapshot.json feat(workbench): Wave M Phase C legibility — pipeline record, contemplation, identity continuity 2026-06-13 15:44:31 -07:00
enum-snapshot.json feat(workbench): CORE-Logos Studio LG-2 — /logos route shell + Overview/Identity/Safety 2026-06-14 12:12:47 -07:00
index.html
package.json feat(workbench): design mastery pass — chain rail, typography, doctrine-as-tests (Wave R R1) 2026-06-12 13:18:44 -07:00
playwright.config.ts test(workbench): playwright smoke lane (ADR-0162 acceptance 5-7) 2026-06-12 12:05:28 -07:00
pnpm-lock.yaml feat(workbench): interaction substrate — list nav, virtualization, panel chrome, inspector resize, palette verbs (Wave R R0d) 2026-06-12 12:48:02 -07:00
postcss.config.js
README.md docs(workbench): refresh READMEs to shipped reality (index + surfaces) 2026-06-13 20:37:29 -07:00
schema-snapshot.json feat(workbench): Lived Life surface — the always-on heartbeat made felt (read-only, persist-first) 2026-06-14 16:45:03 -07:00
tailwind.config.ts
tsconfig.json feat(W-027): Workbench frontend shell — five-region grid + ten empty routes + live StatusFooter (ADR-0160 / ADR-0162) (#299) 2026-05-26 12:09:12 -07:00
tsconfig.node.json
vite.config.ts fix(workbench): exclude e2e/ from vitest collection 2026-06-12 12:07:57 -07:00

CORE Workbench UI

React/Vite/TypeScript frontend for CORE Workbench — a local operator/auditor UI over the deterministic engine. 14 registry-driven routes (src/app/routes.ts): chat; trace (per-turn pipeline / field-invariant / leeway / evidence-bundle tabs); the guided determinism tour; replay (hash-to-hash); demos; proposals + HITL ratification; evals (wrong=0 ledger); calibration (gold-tether arena); runs; vault; packs; and audit. Read-only, with allowlisted execution only.

Local development

# Terminal 1 — start the API (W-026)
uv run core workbench api

# Terminal 2 — start the frontend
cd workbench-ui
pnpm install
pnpm dev         # http://127.0.0.1:5173

Custom API URL

VITE_WORKBENCH_API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9000 pnpm dev

Design system baseline

pnpm preview   # Serves dist/ on http://127.0.0.1:4173
# Navigate to /preview for the Branch 1 design-system baseline

Tests

pnpm test                # Vitest unit + component tests
pnpm test:enum-coverage  # Badge enum coverage (requires uv)

Schema drift detection

The TypeScript types in src/types/api.ts mirror workbench/schemas.py. To check for drift after Python schema changes:

# From repo root
uv run python scripts/dump-api-schemas.py
# Then run: pnpm test (api.test.ts catches field-level drift)

Architecture

  • src/app/ — Shell, TopBar, LeftNav, StatusFooter, ApiErrorBoundary, and the route surfaces in src/app/<route>/. src/app/routes.ts is the single route registry (feeds App, LeftNav, command palette, shortcuts, and conformance).
  • src/api/ — apiFetch client, TanStack Query hooks
  • src/types/ — TypeScript mirrors of Python schemas (src/types/api.ts)
  • src/routes/ — the Chat route entry
  • src/design/ — design-system substrate (tokens, primitives, doctrine gates)

ADR cross-references

  • ADR-0160 — Workbench v1 architecture
  • ADR-0162 — Design substrate (Branch 1)
  • ADR-0156, ADR-0157, ADR-0158 — Engine-state checkpoint and reboot audit trail