Prototype Run Guide v6

Canonical source: prototypes/calendar-ui/README-v6.md · Snapshot commit: b9df7479add1

Life in Days — private Search prototype v6

Throwaway UI prototype · fictional data · browser-memory mutations · no integrations connected

v6 preserves the accepted v5 Calendar, Almanac, Journal Day, Settings, and privacy patterns. Its one stable feature is PVA-001: Search terms stay inside the current JavaScript session and are never written to the address, history state, page title, or persistent browser storage.

Run the prototype

From this directory:

npm run check:v6
npm run prototype

Open the v6 Search landing.

Useful routes:

• index-v6.html?view=search&month=2026-08 — private Search initial state;
• index-v6.html?view=calendar&month=2026-08 — inherited Living Mosaic Calendar;
• index-v6.html?view=calendar&month=2026-08&date=2026-08-13 — inherited selected Museum Margin;
• index-v6.html?view=calendar&month=2026-08&date=2026-08-13&screen=day — inherited full Journal Day;
• index-v6.html?view=almanac&month=2026-08 — inherited Monthly Almanac;
• index-v6.html?view=settings&month=2026-08&section=overview — inherited Settings overview.

v6 Search contract

• A fresh Search screen explains its deterministic scope. It shows no recent memories, personal query suggestions, generated answer, or result list.
• Search terms live only in the running page's JavaScript memory. The input has no form-field name, which also avoids browser form-state serialization by name.
• Submitting, clearing, opening a result, and browser Back/Forward never add the term to the URL or history state.
• A reload intentionally clears the term.
• A legacy q parameter is ignored and removed immediately without using its value.
• The document title remains the generic Life in Days.
• Inputs disable autocomplete, autocapitalization, and spellcheck.
• Current v6 matching is a case-insensitive literal substring over title, summary, tags, and displayed journal text.
• Photo captions, date and tag filters, current-versus-history match context, index lifecycle states, and exact matched-field snippets are deliberately deferred to the dependency-complete lexical Search slice tracked for v21.

Responsive and accessibility intent

• The Search heading is restrained so the form and honest scope appear above the fold on common desktop sizes.
• The input and button stack on compact screens; explanatory rows reflow to one column.
• Essential Search metadata is at least 13 px.
• The form has a visible label and role="search"; submitting focuses the result count and clearing returns focus to the input.
• All accepted v5 keyboard, modal, reduced-motion, theme, and responsive behavior remains present and must regress successfully.

Prototype boundary

All journal text and media are fictional fixtures. Nothing connects to Telegram, VoiceNotes, AI providers, authentication, persistence, storage, Hetzner, Cloudflare, backup, or life.arunp.in. This version demonstrates frontend privacy behavior; it does not prove server logs, reverse-proxy configuration, database encryption, deployed cache headers, or production telemetry behavior.

Review artifacts

• Council contract: ../../docs/prototypes/v6/COUNCIL-v6.md
• Version handoff: ../../docs/prototypes/CALENDAR-UI-PROTOTYPE-v6.md
• Independent QA record: ../../design-qa-v6.md
• Captured evidence: ../../docs/prototypes/v6/