Prototype Handoff v8

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Life in Days — Cross-month Almanac prototype v8

Date: 2026-08-14
Branch: prototype/calendar-ui-v8-cross-month-almanac
Baseline: frozen v7 implementation 05975fc; freeze record dda1b9c
Status: complete; independently passed and ready to freeze

Stable feature

V8 implements PVA-003 Cross-month Almanac, representing LID-REF-002 in the frontend prototype. Council decisions C-02 and C-03 preserve the name Almanac, the book-like direction, the Calendar/Almanac switcher, and the collapsible local index; no competing Timeline destination was created.

Behavior represented

Area	V8 behavior
Chronology	Live fictional Journal Days appear newest-to-oldest, grouped by fixed Asia/Kolkata Journal Date month.
Initial range	August 2026 only, six days ordered 13, 11, 8, 6, 4, 2.
Pagination	One deliberate calendar month per action: July adds zero, June adds two, May adds two and reaches the explicit prototype boundary.
Index	Wide collapsible index or compact sheet; loaded months and safe day links; no duplicate Calendar grid.
Jump	Immediate-commit twelve-button month/year chooser; target becomes the only loaded month, including truthful empty months.
Chapter	One shared Calendar Cover, external provenance, generated title/summary/tags, counts, and Read full Journal Day; no raw source transcript.
Full day	Exact inherited full-day renderer; Back restores Almanac range, scroll, and invoking control.
URL	view=almanac, newest month, optional oldest through, optional safe date, screen=day, and optional rail=collapsed.
Exclusion	Trash-only and history-only sentinels do not render, count, appear in accessibility output, or become anchors.
Responsive	Wide rail; at 960 px and below a Browse toolbar plus drawer; 390/320 one-column reading and external media labels.

Deliberate limits

The oldest May 2026 boundary and four-digit chooser range are synthetic representation constraints, not product retention rules. The component-local failure/Retry proves only the Almanac pagination interaction. Complete app loading, interruption, session, and server-error states remain v10. History, Trash, complete Search, and formal browser/accessibility closure remain assigned to later packages.

Files

• ../../prototypes/calendar-ui/index-v8.html
• ../../prototypes/calendar-ui/app-v8.js
• ../../prototypes/calendar-ui/styles-v8.css
• ../../prototypes/calendar-ui/styles-v8-almanac.css
• ../../prototypes/calendar-ui/README-v8.md
• v8/COUNCIL-v8.md
• ../../design-qa-v8.md — independent QA Pass bound to exact artifact hashes
• v8/ — current-run evidence

Evidence boundary

This is a static frontend prototype with fictional fixtures and browser-memory mutations. It does not implement or verify server filtering/order, lifecycle, persistence, authentication, media delivery, integrations, deployment, formal accessibility, or production readiness. The independent QA result supports only: LID-REF-002 prototype-represented; implementation unverified.