Prototype Design QA v9

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Life in Days prototype v9 — independent design QA

Date: 2026-08-14 Package: PVA-004 First-use Readiness Requirement disposition: audit gap 3 first-use portion prototype-represented; v10 interruption states remain open Independent QA agent: /root/v9_independent_qa Upload QA agent: /root/v9_upload_qa Verdict: Pass

Immutable artifact identity

The Pass applies only to these exact SHA-256 values:

Artifact	SHA-256
prototypes/calendar-ui/index-v9.html	96527f3e8e96e1bfdaa5a3e31cf6885a6b5505a108ca9c287e00d7b570719af9
prototypes/calendar-ui/app-v9.js	9677a6023baf45e67a8580e46cec48261c4747d62d391969e3cf4877ce3875ee
prototypes/calendar-ui/styles-v9.css	3f38acbe74ffdac691b5963a779b27d61f3f19e3f03775aabec626b74bb12869
prototypes/calendar-ui/styles-v9-almanac.css	7ca0b5ad77cef1e08681479cd1d79d9dd1dafb70e520d1e0ee04d15860b38b8b
prototypes/calendar-ui/styles-v9-readiness.css	e2c07c35b05307ff682ed0ecb21ceb4e33fcb8b5a45f2cd227b23d86584cd42e

Any byte change to these artifacts invalidates this disposition and requires fresh independent QA.

Severity summary

Critical	High	Medium	Low
0	0	0	0

Coverage completed

First-use truth and independent readiness

• Verified reload opens the empty August 2026 Calendar with one H1, 31 quiet dates, Monday-first Asia/Kolkata context, and no fabricated memory, guilt language, or AI action.
• Verified the exact VoiceNotes tag/activation boundary, Telegram private-chat/compression boundary, optional/unavailable AI, Backup Not configured/Never verified, and Recovery Ceremony Blocked with exactly three Not evidenced prerequisites.
• Verified configured-unverified and AI-unavailable fixtures stay independent, visibly synthetic, and never imply a live server read, connection, provider, backup, restore, or launch readiness.
• Verified every readiness article exposes its domain, status, explanation, and action through a complete programmatic name.

Capture and first Journal Day

• Verified a real .txt chooser reaches a concise review heading, preserves filename and complete text, assigns the chosen Journal Date, and labels the authentic source as Uploaded journal.
• Verified hidden populated fixtures do not participate in first-use duplicate detection.
• Verified confirmation moves to a concise Adding journal status and accurately says it is being added to the temporary prototype.
• Verified Escape and backdrop cannot visually cancel an atomic save; the first commit produces exactly one populated day and 30 empty dates without revealing the six populated regression fixtures.
• Verified a browser Back during saving invalidates the delayed callback, so no Journal Day appears later.
• Verified the full Journal Day retains the uploaded filename and complete source text, while reload returns to pristine first use.

Navigation, privacy, and recovery disclosures

• Verified Review readiness focuses the Readiness H2 without URL churn.
• Verified VoiceNotes, Telegram, and AI actions use safe structural Settings routes, focus the exact destination, and Browser Back/Forward restores the exact invoking action.
• Verified Settings and source contain no hostname, account/service identifier, callback path, secret-shaped field, credential, recovery key, or masked identifier.
• Verified Backup and Recovery disclosures have no mutation control; focus enters the heading, Tab/Shift+Tab enter and wrap through actionable controls, and Escape/backdrop returns to the exact origin.
• Verified fixture state and Search terms remain absent from URL, title, history payload, persistent storage, and outbound requests; invalid/query-shaped state fails closed.

Calendar, responsive, and inherited behavior

• Verified Previous/next/Today, the twelve-button month chooser, Arrow/Home/End/Page navigation, empty-date no-creation behavior, focus states, and seven Calendar columns.
• Verified light/dark and reduced-motion behavior at 1440, 1280, 960, 700, 390, and 320 px plus landscape and compact zoom-equivalent reflow observations.
• Verified no horizontal page overflow, no visible target below 24 px, preferred 44 px primary actions, and fixed-bottom-navigation clearance.
• Verified the compact prototype banner shows the complete Simulated data · no persistence · no integrations connected boundary at 390 and 320 px without clipping, and that the shared 66 px banner token keeps the header correctly offset.
• Verified the populated regression retains six August Journal Days, real-photo cover precedence, Calendar–Almanac navigation, bounded Almanac loading, canonical full-day return, hidden/Trash-only exclusion, and private Search behavior.
• Verified frozen v8 hashes remain identical, npm run check:v9 and git diff --check pass, and the browser console has no warnings or errors on tested routes.

Findings repaired before the final Pass

The candidate remained v9 while findings were repaired, and the independent gate restarted after every fingerprint change:

1. First upload initially revealed the six populated fixtures; first-use commit now begins from a genuinely empty in-memory archive.
2. Escape during the saving delay initially closed the dialog while the callback still committed; saving is now atomic and stale navigation cancels the callback.
3. Hidden fixture journals initially participated in duplicate detection; first-use duplicate checks now inspect only represented live content.
4. Readiness groups initially omitted state/copy/action from their programmatic names; all four parts are now named.
5. Inherited Settings exposed a callback hostname and human archive hostname; v9 now describes server-only boundaries without identifiers or paths.
6. Tab from a programmatically focused disclosure heading initially stalled; the focus trap now enters the first or last actionable control explicitly.
7. The compact prototype boundary initially ellipsized the no-persistence/no-integration disclosure; it now wraps completely and updates the shared layout token.
8. Upload progress initially used contradictory durable/in memory language and broad dialog focus; it now uses truthful temporary-prototype copy with concise review and saving focus targets.

No finding remains open in this v9 package.

Current-run visual evidence

• 01-first-use-desktop-light-v9.jpg
• 02-first-use-desktop-dark-v9.jpg
• 03-configured-unverified-v9.jpg
• 04-ai-unavailable-v9.jpg
• 05-backup-requirements-v9.jpg
• 06-recovery-ceremony-v9.jpg
• 07-first-use-960-v9.jpg
• 08-first-use-390-v9.jpg
• 09-first-use-320-v9.jpg
• 10-readiness-320-v9.jpg
• 11-populated-regression-v9.jpg

Evidence boundary

This QA verifies fictional frontend interaction intent, deterministic browser-memory behavior, responsive rendering, and the exact static files above. It does not verify live VoiceNotes or Telegram behavior, persistence, AI providers, backup, restoration, recovery-key custody, encryption, authentication, deployment, formal screen-reader/contrast conformance, production accessibility, or production readiness. Text-only zoom was observed through equivalent compact reflow rather than a native user-agent text-only zoom session.

The only allowed closure statement is: First-use readiness is prototype-represented with synthetic fixtures; integrations, recovery, implementation, and operations remain unverified.