The studio, reviewed against itself

The publishing page. publishing/ answered its errand in one click, with the answer on the first screen, and every claim in it checks out. This is the page the others should copy.

The register page. register/ answers on the first screen and is correctly filed.

The body page. body/ shows twelve pictures against six links — the only page where the picture rule is beaten rather than met.

The links themselves. Of 109 live URLs followed, exactly two failed: inspiration/viktoroddy/ and the same folder linked from motion, both folders without an index.

The composition audits. Fourteen of the twenty-two pages pass every desktop check with zero failures.

Factory → Speakers. The page's own breadcrumb is Studio › Speakers › The factory, and its subject is making a speaker cheaply. Cost: Speakers grows to six cards, still under the eight the README sets as the limit. Tools drops to one card — so this move only works with the next one.

Mail → Publishing. Publishing opens with “not what a page is made of, but how it reaches someone”, which is what mail is. Cost: Tools loses its second card and stops being a chip; the tool register keeps its banner, where it already is. Publishing goes from one card to two, which is the point.

Body → Diagrams. Of its three ways to make one — drawn in the page, a line over real film, a 3D body in Blender — two are drawings. Cost: the files stay in body/, so a session grepping the folders still finds it, but a session filtering by the Motion chip no longer will. Put the words in the card.

Two chips hold one card each. Publishing and Diagrams. Pressing a one-card chip does exactly what clicking the card does. With mail moved in Publishing becomes two; with body moved in Diagrams becomes two. That is the whole repair — no new family is needed.

Documents is now the shelf for practices as well as page shapes. Five cards: two are shapes to copy, three are practices with a method and a verdict loop (the user manual, the UI review, the register). A reader looking for “review my page” does not press Documents. This is a finding about the families, not a card to move — the studio has no family for a practice, and inventing one is Frank's call, not the reviewer's. taste.md has nowhere to go for the same reason.

Buried the other way. motion/index.html — the Motion family's own front page, the one the top bar points at — is reachable from no card. The card sends the reader to motion-design.html, and the two share only five sentences, so whichever door you take you miss the other half.

Three roads unreachable. The card Make your own speaker promises “Take one that exists, invent a new one, or use your own face.” The three pages that answer it are live — speaker-existing, speaker-new, speaker-yourself — and make-your-own.html links to none of them. It links instead to two markdown files, which download.

The rule holds on the front door and collapses behind it. Every card on index.html carries a picture, and three pages beat the rule. But inspiration/, whose only job is to point at other people's sites, names thirty-eight of them and shows not one — and it is the page Frank's rule of 15-08-2026 was written for: “systematically put thumbnails when you refer to a site or an image”. bloquant for this question.

A picture that shows the wrong thing. In the Formats and Country-leaflet bands, several live previews are clipped at the tile's right edge mid-word, so the picture shows the left third of a page. That is about finding, not beauty. finition

Right. The share skill and its plugin share-service v1.3.0 exist as publishing/ describes. Every skill named in the pages is on disk or correctly marked archived, rag-gardien included. The four speaker sizes match the README.

Wrong. The mail Status — repair 10.

Published but marked for deletion. all.html lists three files from kennedy/_root-pack-absorbed-safe-to-delete/, a folder whose name is its own verdict. They are live and clickable. finition — delete the folder, then re-run build-index.py.

Marked unverified, honestly. kennedy/cheat-sheet-unverified.md says so in its title, and tools.html marks four capabilities with a warning. That is the studio's own rule 3 working.

Stale-sounding but true. diagramas/ says two engines are “Waiting for top-up”; motion/ says the motion-so server waits on Frank's authorisation. Both are states, correctly dated. No repair.

The source is always the family page, because that is where a card lands and where the pictures are. Repair. The README keeps one line and a link per family. It is the spine, not a second library.

Not a duplicate. taste.md §3 restates the six suspended rules but cites the README as their home. That is a cross-reference, and it is correct.

Two more, from the studio's own inbox. inbox.md has been carrying two candidate needs that were never dug.

Charts and data. Parked 03-07-2026 as “chart/dataviz tooling beyond Kennedy's color picker”. The find bar returns nothing for chart or table, and no page covers a chart. A studio that decides what can go in a page has nothing to say about the commonest thing in a report.

The screen-mockup vocabulary. Parked 19-07-2026, a full block vocabulary for drawing a software screen inside a page, with the note that Frank had flagged the difference himself. Never promoted. The find bar returns nothing for mockup.

Sixty-eight pages with no card. build-index.py --check reports them; they sit behind a closed row of all.html and, being markdown, download when clicked.

What is in there. The entire Kennedy shelf, twelve files, which the README calls layer ② of the method · the four root doctrine files, README, taste, franks-baseline-ux, tools · twelve motion reference notes · ten inspiration video notes · the five format specifications behind the format tiles · three built speaker pages the wizard forgets to link · three files in a folder named _root-pack-absorbed-safe-to-delete.

It is not a junk drawer. It holds the method, the taste record and the format specifications — everything the second reader, a session hunting for doctrine, actually needs. bloquant for that reader, and repairs 4 and 9 fix most of it at once.

A 404 on every page. All twenty-two pages ask for /favicon.ico and get 404. One file fixes it.

Card pictures far bigger than the card. A card image is drawn 382 px wide and served at 1,400 to 2,560 px. Four files alone weigh 908, 764, 661 and 267 KB; the front door pulls 3.8 MB once scrolled, and body/ pulls 7.2 MB. Resize to 800 px.

Two folders answer 403. /formats/ and /kennedy/ have no index, so a reader who trims a URL gets a server error instead of a page.

Paragraphs that touch. The audit finds pairs with less than half a line between them on people/, make-your-own, factory and motion-design.

The badge and the chip disagree. Cards are badged MOTION; the chip says “Motion & films”. One name per notion.

Two find bars, different promises. The front door offers “try: leaflet, speaker, film, mail, voice”; all.html offers “e.g. leaflet, callout, comparison, deck, law”. Neither finds what the other finds.

British spelling misses. colour returns nothing; color returns two cards. The studio's own README writes “colour”.

One card leads to an anchor, not a page. The ready document formats is the only card that opens a section of the catch-all page rather than a page of its own.

How it was run. Against the live site on 15-08-2026, per the specification. Captures with node ~/.claude/skills/page-review/review.js at 1440 px and 390 px; pictures in studio-review-15-08-2026/. Overflow and element geometry measured with playwright at 390 px; weight and requests after a full scroll; link status by following all 109 live URLs; the find bar simulated against the real data-find strings and the matching rule in index.html.

What was not touched. No studio page edited, nothing published, no new taxonomy invented, no source cited from outside the studio's own doctrine.

Next. Frank's verdict, then one build session that applies the moves, the cuts and the re-captures together — because moving three cards changes the text anyway.