What actually changed.

Chronological. No PR sheen. Regressions are owned publicly. If you want the narrative version, /blog has the monthly roundups.

1. 2026-08-08FIXED
   Changelog fabrication audit

   Rebuilt this file to reflect only shipped code, dated against actual commits. Removed 40+ entries describing events that had not happened (a PBC filing, a ShareTheMeal partnership, monthly WFP receipts, a million-meals milestone, specific incident post-mortems). The whole point of a receipts-first company is that its receipts are real.

2. 2026-08-08SHIPPED
   THE LOOK — definitive visual overhaul

   Warm-dark rebase across the app. Old cold near-black scale (#0B0A0C / #121014) replaced with a warm umber scale (#0F0D10 → #14110F → #17130F → #1B1611 → #1E1913). Ambient center-light layer. Four signature moments (send ripple, streaming shimmer, meal-toast rebuild, theme cross-dissolve). Kill list: Constellation/Field art removed from chat canvas. Written into DESIGN.md as §18 / The Look.

3. 2026-08-08SHIPPED
   Marketing expansion — six pages substantially deeper

   Manifesto rebuilt as 10 chapters + 4 addenda. Principles rebuilt as 13 principles with per-principle receipts. Docs expanded from 10 to 20 pages in three categories. Learn expanded from 16 to 23 guides in five tracks. Help expanded from 34 to 48 articles across 8 categories (added Features and Troubleshooting). ~35,000 new words of first-party product writing.

4. 2026-08-07FIXED
   Feature audit — 69 features verified end-to-end

   New grand-tour self-test provisions a real user via admin.createUser + signInWithPassword, walks 69 features through the deployed API with a real session cookie. Uncovered and fixed: chat search returning 500 (PostgREST embed-filter collision on the messages.chats join); sign-out-all returning 500 (wrong signOut signature — admin.signOut takes a JWT not a user id); ⌘K 'Share this chat' event had no listener; composer chip toggles silently no-op'd before first message on new chats.

5. 2026-08-07SHIPPED
   Share chat modal + header button

   The share endpoint existed but no UI reached it. Added ChatShareModal listening for ladle:share-current; wired the ⌘K palette action; added a SHARE button in the chat header (visible when a chat has at least one turn).

6. 2026-08-07FIXED
   Composer toggles now apply on the first turn

   SEARCH / THINK / MODEL / STYLE flipped before the first message on a new chat used to no-op silently (the client bailed at `if (!currentChatId) return`). Fixed: the send route now accepts the four flags in the request body on new-chat creation and PATCHes them onto the fresh chats row before the first send reads them back.

7. 2026-08-07SHIPPED
   I-series: dedicated flagship surfaces

   /design becomes a real gallery page (live-iframe hero, own-work grid with IntersectionObserver, starter briefs, recent design-chats rail). /artifacts becomes its own surface with type-chip filter + grid/list toggle. /plans and /give move in-app (marketing pages remain for visitors).

8. 2026-08-07SHIPPED
   Setting the Table — 10-step onboarding

   New first-run flow: name, role, intents, style (with live-streamed samples), theme (with mid-flow re-render), context + memory consent, language (conditional), the cause split, the receipts moment, plan interest, table closer. Every answer writes to a real profile field. Seeded role memory shows up in the standard Memory settings.

9. 2026-08-07FIXED
   Artifacts + Design mode incident — root cause + fix

   Artifacts hadn't been landing on prod (zero rows ever created). Two bugs: (1) client-side detect POST raced router.replace() on new chats, unmounting ChatSurface before the POST returned; (2) design turns exceeded the 90s maxDuration and the post-stream persist block never ran. Fixed: detection moved server-side (LADLE_ARTIFACT sentinel in the stream), maxDuration→300s, max_tokens=16K for design. Added a real-API-route + real-session E2E test suite.

10. 2026-08-07CHANGED
    CLAUDE.md self-test rule

    Every self-test suite must include at least one end-to-end test per feature through the REAL API route with a REAL authenticated session (not service_role, not in-process function calls). Prior test suites passed while the artifacts feature was broken — that's the specific failure mode this rule prevents.

11. 2026-08-07SHIPPED
    Daylight theme compat layer

    The theme was authored dark-first with hardcoded rgba(244,239,230,x) values inline. Tokens invert on daylight; inline literals don't. Added a CSS attribute-substring override sheet that catches every common ivory-alpha pattern under html[data-theme='daylight'] and remaps to ink-alpha equivalents. Daylight reads on every surface.

12. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    H-series: furniture density + Daylight theme + languages + Design mode

    Commit a6ae118. Adds chats.mode='design' with a dedicated system prompt, per-user theme + reduced-motion + response-language preferences via ui_prefs, and an English/Français interface dictionary.

13. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    G.5: Kitchen panel (radical transparency) + Second Opinion

    Commit a5665d6. Every assistant reply persists prompt_meta (base/style/memory/custom/project lengths, model, tier, routing reason, thinking budget, search state). Kitchen opens from the ⋯ menu on any assistant turn and shows the whole plate. Second Opinion: one click routes the reply through the OTHER tier for a verifier critique, stored on messages.second_opinion.

14. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    G.4: project knowledge + voice dictation + usage meter

    Commit 8497437. Files attached to a project are extracted (pdf-parse) and rendered into a 'Project knowledge' block in the system prompt with per-message filename citation. Web Speech API dictation in the composer. Usage counters (input/output tokens, search count) exposed at Settings → Usage.

15. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    G.3: memory — user-owned, fully inspectable

    Commit 674083d. memories table with per-user RLS. Manual add from Settings → Memory. Background extraction after every 10th assistant reply via a Haiku call. Every memory visible, editable, deletable. Never announced by the assistant. Off entirely via a single ui_prefs toggle.

16. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    G.2: manual model override + extended thinking

    Commit 2ad2e4a. Per-chat FAST/DEEP/AUTO override on chats.model_override. Extended thinking (Sonnet-only) on chats.thinking_enabled with a ~8K reasoning budget; the trace streams via a LADLE_THINKING sentinel and renders inside a collapsed 'Thinking…' block.

17. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    G.1: conversation branching + temporary chat + shared links

    Commit dfba9cb. Regenerate creates a sibling branch via parent_id + branch_index on messages. Active-leaf-per-chat persists so re-opening a chat restores the exact conversation. Temporary chats (?temp=1) skip persistence entirely. Public /share/:slug snapshots of the active branch; image attachments copied to a public bucket, PDFs represented as chips.

18. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.6 polish: star action + response style + rail icons

    Commits 126d9b1 + 5fe762a. messages.starred_at column + POST /api/app/messages/:id/star. chats.response_style + per-chat STYLE chip in the composer. Bottom-rail nav icons on the sidebar. Self-test verifies both round-trip through the real API.

19. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.5: Library + response styles + palette destinations

    Commit c06fdf7. /library first iteration (later refactored to Starred + Snippets during the I-series). Five response-style presets (Default, Concise, Thorough, Direct, Friendly) as directive tokens appended to the system prompt. ⌘K palette gains destinations for the new surfaces.

20. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.4: scheduled tasks (Vercel cron)

    Commit 6c0d6bb. Recurring prompts on daily / weekdays / weekly cadences at a chosen hour + timezone. Cron endpoint claims due tasks with a row-level lock (status='running'), executes a one-shot Anthropic call, persists user + assistant messages, computes next_run_at. Two target modes: dedicated_chat and new_chat_per_run.

21. 2026-08-06CHANGED
    F.4 downgrade: cron runs daily 09:00 UTC on Hobby

    Commit 8b572b8. Vercel Hobby doesn't allow */15 * * * * cron schedules; downgraded to a single 0 9 * * * daily firing. Higher-frequency runs blocked on a Pro upgrade.

22. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.3: web search with citations (Anthropic server-side tool)

    Commit 3d39bc1. Per-chat SEARCH toggle wires the Anthropic web_search_20250305 tool with max_uses=3 per turn. Citations captured to messages.citations jsonb and rendered as a sources rail below the reply. Usage counted separately in usage_counters.searches_count.

23. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.2: real image + PDF uploads via Anthropic vision / document

    Commit 79fe9ca. Composer accepts images (PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF up to 20MB) and PDFs (up to 32MB / 100 pages). Files land in the uploads bucket; the send route streams them as base64 into Anthropic vision / document content blocks. Attachments force HEAVY tier so Haiku doesn't get vision work.

24. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    F.1: provider seam + Artifacts (right-side panel)

    Commit a92efe9. First iteration of the artifact system: detection heuristic (code ≥40 lines / HTML doc / prose ≥600 words after a write-ask), artifacts + artifact_versions tables with RLS, right-side ArtifactPanel with per-type rendering. Provider abstraction (getProvider(name).streamChat(...)) allows a future OpenAI drop-in without touching the send route.

25. 2026-08-06FIXED
    A-gap: loud logging when instructions read fails

    Commit 616ea3d. Silent-swallow was hiding cases where custom instructions failed to load. Every failed read now logs with the specific error and the user_id so the incident is diagnosable from server logs.

26. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    A.4: shell polish, mobile drawer, Setting placements, feel pass

    Commit 0d45282. Mobile responsive rebuild — sidebar becomes a drawer under 900px, layout collapses to a single column, composer respects env(safe-area-inset-bottom) so it never sits under the iOS home indicator. Setting glyphs placed at their earned moments.

27. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    A.3: My Table flagship + full settings + onboarding v1

    Commit abe9c33. /my-table is the personal impact ledger (renders a plate grid per subscribed cycle when the ledger has entries). Full settings shell (Account, Behavior, Appearance, Memory, Language, Data, Billing, Usage). First-run onboarding (later expanded to the 10-step Setting the Table flow on 2026-08-07).

28. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    A.2: sidebar rebuild + search + projects + palette + shortcuts

    Commit b97a444. Sidebar with pinned/recent chat groups and per-row menus. Chat search across titles + message content. Projects (create/rename/delete/instructions). ⌘K command palette. ⌘/ shortcut overlay.

29. 2026-08-06SHIPPED
    A.1: message-rendering pipeline + composer + empty-state moment

    Commit 1ee0fc8. react-markdown + remark-gfm + Shiki-based code blocks with a custom LADLE theme. Composer input, attachments, autofocus, submit-on-Enter, Esc-to-stop. Greeting-based empty state on first-turn.

30. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M4.3: nav restructure + 12 bespoke pages

    Commit 77779ed. Two-column dropdown panels with featured cards. New pages: /teams, /models, /api, /roadmap, /community, /partners, /education, /nonprofits, /security, /manifesto, /changelog, /meals-map.

31. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M4.2: /demo hub + core page expansions + ClosingCTA + ReceiptsTableWithFilter

    Commit 0047558. Expanded core marketing pages with the reveal + closing-CTA components. The receipts-table-with-filter is the mock rendering of what a real receipts feed will look like once we have receipts to feed it.

32. 2026-08-05FIXED
    M4.1: keyword-match on word boundaries

    Commit 873390f. The homepage hero composer was routing 'postgres' to the 'post/write' scenario because the keyword matcher was substring-based. Switched to word-boundary matching.

33. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M4.1: plan ladder + MealsPlanDemo + /pricing rebuild + hero composer

    Commit 197fa56. Three plans (Ladle · Max 5x · Max 20x) with the meal-math for each. MealsPlanDemo interactive calculator. /pricing rebuilt with the plan cards + comparison matrix. The homepage hero becomes an interactive composer that maps free-typed input to eight scripted scenarios.

34. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.6: polish pass — easing + depth tokens + PWA + audit

    Commit ae9bc5f. Global --ladle-ease token. Depth tokens for cards / overlays / hairlines. Micro-interaction polish across the marketing surfaces. PWA manifest and beforeinstallprompt capture.

35. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.5: content wave 3 + GEO/AEO infrastructure

    Commit 8882ee9. sitemap.xml, robots.txt, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, dynamic OG images. Schema.org markup on every core page. Later commits will layer more content.

36. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.4: content wave 2 — 30 prompts + 24 help articles + 8 learn guides

    Commit 1d22d5b. First large content push. Every entry Zod-validated; taxonomy indexed by slug.

37. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.3: content wave 1 — 11 use cases + 9 comparisons + 7 bespoke pages + 404

    Commit c14f846. First real content. Use cases per role; comparison pages against ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and others.

38. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.2: 8 family templates + 1 seeded entry each

    Commit a998e77. Registry pattern for content families (docs, help, learn, prompts, use-cases, comparisons, workflows, glossary). Every family gets a schema-validated seed.

39. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    M3.1: content architecture + component library + nav+footer at scale

    Commit da369ab. Foundation for the marketing content system: content/ registries with Zod schemas, marketing-page shell, sitewide nav + footer. First flagship-home iteration.

40. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    Pass 2: search screen + all 8 marketing pages + interactive My Table

    Commit b0027b8. Second major visual pass. Search-answer surface, the eight core marketing routes, and the interactive plate toggle on /my-table.

41. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    Pass 1: full 1:1 build of the imported design

    Commit 920bcf7. First implementation of the entire visual system from the LADLE v3 import — sidebar, chat surface, composer, marketing hero, footer.

42. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    DESIGN.md as source of truth

    Commit 909a0bd. Extracted every value from the imported design mockup into DESIGN.md — colors, typography, spacing, motion, component patterns. The rule since: DESIGN.md wins over prose; do not deviate.

43. 2026-08-05SHIPPED
    Repository scaffold — marketing + app shells + mock data layer

    Commit 61326ef. First commit. Next.js 15 App Router. Marketing + (app) route groups. Mock data layer that lets the whole UI be developed in mock mode before the Supabase swap.

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