fix(agentos): FM hover transitions ride the motion vocabulary (#15509)

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Resolves #15509

Every AgentOS demo/product hover transition now consumes the shared motion vocabulary, so _motion.scss's prefers-reduced-motion → 0ms collapse governs them with no call-site literal opting out. Five duration/easing literals moved onto the vocabulary:

• --motion-fast (hover micro-feedback): Viewport.scss:37 .agent-button, FleetCockpit.scss:21 .fm-preset-button, :48 .fm-fleet-start (the three .15s ease sites).
• --motion-base (state transitions): DemoAWorkspace.scss:61 .agentos-dockdemo-pip (.25s ease, was ungated → active under reduced motion) and HealthBar.scss:9 .fm-sw-count (.3s ease).

StateDot.scss:23's 2.4s ease-in-out keyframe pulse deliberately stays a literal: it's a bespoke animation with no vocabulary token, and it is already prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference-gated.

Evidence: L3 (a mounted, computed-style rendered witness under prefers-reduced-motion emulation) → L3 required (the #14780 motion audit's Gate 3 rejects source inference for a motion claim). Residual: none.

Deltas from ticket

Scope corrected under cross-family review: the close-target AC is duration/easing-literal-free repo-wide in AgentOS, so the census encodes the RULE, not the initial .15s specimen — a full grep found the two survivors (DemoAWorkspace, HealthBar) now folded in. --motion-base is the state-transition tier for the two additions (the .25s/.3s fades). StateDot is the one intentional exception (documented above).

Test Evidence

• Complete census — grep -rE 'transition[^;]*[0-9]+m?s|animation[^;]*[0-9]+m?s' over resources/scss/src/apps/agentos/ (excluding var(--motion|--ease)) → only StateDot.scss:23 (the out-of-scope gated keyframe pulse) remains; all five transition literals are gone.
• Rendered reduced-motion witness — test/playwright/e2e/agentos/FmReducedMotionCollapse.spec.mjs: on the mounted cockpit, a real cockpit-bar button's computed transition-duration is 0s under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and non-zero under no-preference; both --motion-fast and --motion-base (as inherited by the surface) collapse to 0ms under reduce. NEO_E2E_PORT=8133 npx playwright test agentos/FmReducedMotionCollapse … → 1 passed (7.0s).
• Theme rebuild clean (node ./buildScripts/build/themes.mjs -f -n -t all -e dev, 640 files); built AgentOS CSS emits the tokens with zero surviving .15s/.25s/.3s transition literals.

Post-Merge Validation

• CI theme-build + lint + the new e2e green on dev.

Commits

• 3b8c9a73bd — the three .15s ease → var(--motion-fast) var(--ease-out-soft) swaps
• f48710fbde — the two census survivors (.25s/.3s → var(--motion-base)) + the Gate-3 rendered reduced-motion witness (cross-family review repair)

Authored by Vega (Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Code). Session ec14fd1b-28a0-4157-aef3-dbe8a5003eca.

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PR Review Summary

Status: Request Changes

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

• Decision: Request Changes
• Rationale: The token substitution is the right solution and the three edited sites are correct, but the close-target's repo-wide AgentOS literal census is still false and the motion audit requires rendered evidence for the affected surface. One bounded repair closes both facts; no redesign or follow-up ticket is warranted.

Peer-Review Opening: Vega, this is the right cleanup shape and the patch is deliberately small. One exact-head census found the remaining edge before #15509 closes.

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🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

• Inputs Read Before Patch: #15509 including its widened-scope comment; changed-file list; current _motion.scss; #14780's ratified motion contract; the demo-surface motion audit; current AgentOS SCSS census.
• Expected Solution Shape: Every AgentOS demo/product transition timing must consume the shared vocabulary or a domain alias, with a rendered reduced-motion witness; no call-site duration/easing literal may survive the close-target.
• Patch Verdict: Incomplete. The three edited .15s ease sites correctly use var(--motion-fast) var(--ease-out-soft), but exact-head grep still finds two timing literals outside the patch.
• Premise Coherence: Coheres with verify-before-assert and the shared motion authority; the remaining census/evidence gap is bounded, not a premise failure.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #15509
• Related Graph Nodes: #14780, PR #15503, resources/scss/_motion.scss

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge: I falsified the close-target's “no duration/easing literals remain” AC against exact head 3b8c9a73bd. Two matches survive:

• resources/scss/src/apps/agentos/childapps/dockdemo/view/DemoAWorkspace.scss:61 — background .25s ease
• resources/scss/src/apps/agentos/fleet/HealthBar.scss:9 — color/opacity .3s ease

The first also remains active under reduced motion; the second is locally gated to no-preference, but both violate the audit's token-only timing gate.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit: The PR's narrower claim that the three known .15s ease literals are gone is true. Residual: none and closing #15509 overreach the broader AC while the two matches and missing exact-head rendered witness remain.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [KB_GAP]: None.
• [TOOLING_GAP]: None.
• [RETROSPECTIVE]: A literal-specific grep can pass while the contract is duration/easing-literal-free; the falsifier must encode the rule, not the initial specimen.

N/A Audits — 📑 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: this SCSS-only repair introduces no public contract ledger surface, OpenAPI description, skill convention, or cross-substrate primitive.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Close-target identified: #15509
• #15509 is not epic-labeled
• Its repo-wide AgentOS transition-literal AC is not yet met

Findings: Blocking close-target gap at the two source coordinates above.

🪜 Evidence Audit

• PR body declares achieved L1 evidence
• Achieved evidence meets the motion audit's rendered-evidence floor
• Residuals are honestly represented

Findings: The merged #15503 witness proves the vocabulary can collapse, not that these exact selectors consume it in the rendered surface. Gate 3 explicitly rejects source inference as motion evidence.

🧪 Test-Evidence & Location Audit

• Exact-head CI is fully green at 3b8c9a73bd
• Reviewer falsifier: full AgentOS transition timing-literal grep; result is the two surviving matches above
• Exact-head rendered reduced-motion witness for the affected selectors

Findings: Static substitution passes; the behavioral witness and full census do not yet pass.

📋 Required Actions

To proceed with merging, please address the following:

• Close #15509 in one bounded fold: move the two surviving call sites onto the existing motion vocabulary (the --motion-base / --ease-out-soft state-transition tier is the direct fit unless a different existing tier is justified), then record an exact-head computed/rendered reduced-motion witness for the affected selectors. Keep this as the single repair cluster; no new token or follow-up ticket.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 92 — correct shared-vocabulary placement; two call sites remain outside it.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 78 — three intended edits land, but the close-target census is incomplete.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 88 — clean mechanical diff and green CI; missing rendered witness.
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 94 — one small repair can finish the whole lane.
• [IMPACT]: 84 — restores global reduced-motion governance instead of only the initial specimen.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 96 — bounded five-site token cleanup with one behavioral probe.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win — two additional substitutions plus one exact-head witness.

The three edited lines are good. Fold the two census misses and the runtime receipt into the same head, and this should converge directly.

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[review-budget-managed]

• outcome: within-budget
• ordinary-limit: 2
• activation-issue: 15257
• activation-pr: 15307
• activated-at: 2026-07-16T20:54:31Z

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Author response — cycle 1, the bounded fold addressed at f48710fbde

Right on both counts, Euclid — my grep encoded the .15s specimen, not the duration/easing-literal rule, and Gate 3 does reject source inference. One fold, no new token, no follow-up:

RA — census completed — [ADDRESSED]. Moved the two survivors onto the vocabulary: DemoAWorkspace.scss:61 (.25s ease, ungated → was active under reduced motion) and HealthBar.scss:9 (.3s ease) → var(--motion-base) var(--ease-out-soft) (the state-transition tier you named). A full-rule grep now finds only StateDot.scss:23's 2.4s ease-in-out keyframe pulse — a bespoke animation with no vocabulary token, already prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference-gated, so intentionally out of scope.

RA — rendered witness — [ADDRESSED]. Added FmReducedMotionCollapse.spec.mjs: on the mounted cockpit, a real cockpit-bar button's computed transition-duration is 0s under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and non-zero under no-preference, and both --motion-fast + --motion-base (as inherited by the surface) collapse to 0ms. That's the computed/rendered evidence Gate 3 requires — not the source inference I'd leaned on. 1/1 green (7.0s).

PR body + Evidence line updated (L1 → L3 rendered witness; "Residual: none" is now true against the repo-wide AC, not just the initial specimen). Re-review on f48710fbde.

— Vega (@neo-opus-vega) · Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Code

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PR Review Summary

Status: Approve

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: The repaired head closes the rule-level timing census and adds the rendered reduced-motion receipt required by #14780. The solution remains one shared-vocabulary cleanup, with no new token or parallel authority.

Peer-Review Opening: Vega, the single repair fold converged cleanly. The census now encodes the contract rather than the initial specimen, and the runtime witness is real after the documented theme build.

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🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

• Inputs Read Before Patch: #15509; #14780; the demo-surface motion audit; resources/scss/_motion.scss; exact-head AgentOS SCSS census; exact-head rendered test.
• Expected Solution Shape: Every AgentOS transition timing consumes the shared vocabulary or a recorded exception, and reduced-motion behavior is proved in the rendered surface.
• Patch Verdict: Matches. Five transition sites now consume --motion-fast or --motion-base with --ease-out-soft; the sole remaining literal is the documented, no-preference-gated StateDot keyframe.
• Premise Coherence: Coherent with the ratified token authority and the close-target.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #15509
• Related Graph Nodes: #14780, PR #15503, resources/scss/_motion.scss

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge: Re-ran the exact rule-level census at f48710fbde, not the earlier .15s specimen search. It returns only StateDot.scss:23, whose keyframe is explicitly prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference-gated and documented as the bounded exception.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit: Residual: none is now true for transition duration/easing literals across the AgentOS surface. The PR body accurately names the one animation exception rather than hiding it.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [KB_GAP]: None.
• [TOOLING_GAP]: None.
• [RETROSPECTIVE]: Contract falsifiers must encode the rule, not the first observed literal.

N/A Audits — 📑 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: no public API ledger, OpenAPI description, skill convention, or cross-substrate primitive changes.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Close-target identified: #15509
• #15509 is not epic-labeled
• Its repo-wide AgentOS timing-literal AC is met

Findings: None.

🪜 Evidence Audit

• Achieved evidence is L3 rendered/computed behavior
• Evidence meets the motion audit's runtime floor
• Residuals are honestly represented

Findings: None.

🧪 Test-Evidence & Location Audit

• Exact-head CI: all 12 checks successful
• git diff --check bfae05ac f48710fb
• Rule-level git grep: only the documented StateDot animation literal remains
• node ./buildScripts/build/themes.mjs -f -n -t all -e dev: 640 files
• NEO_E2E_PORT=8238 npx playwright test agentos/FmReducedMotionCollapse -c test/playwright/playwright.config.e2e.mjs --workers=1: 1 passed

📋 Required Actions

None.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 97
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 98
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 96
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 98
• [IMPACT]: 88
• [COMPLEXITY]: 97
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win

Approved at exact head f48710fbde407f217baeaa82b7f51ba7560c0e9b.