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style(chat): a thinner, quieter working aura, and the focus ring steps back while it turns - #117
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…s back while it turns The first version read as too big and too noisy: a 2px line over a faint ring all the way round, a 6px blurred halo, and an arc whose head was mixed toward white. Now, in VS Code chat's proportions: a 1px line on the box's own border and a 2px band blurred 1.5px under it, an arc of at most a quarter turn in the plain theme colour, and no ring of its own: the box's border is the track. Waiting on you is a dim, still border; reduced motion is a still 1px border with no glow. The speed is unchanged. In real use the message box keeps the focus after Enter, and its accent focus ring would swallow a 1px line. While the light turns the ring steps back, as in VS Code: on the desktop a 40% accent border and no shadow, in the browser skin no 3px halo. It returns when the run ends. Tested: workingAura.test.js pins the thin design (1px line, a glow of at most 2px, a clear track, the arc's length, no white head, the focus step-back on desktop and in the skin); 40 one-edit mutations, each fails it. The editor check now focuses the box mid-run (the first one never did: the key prompt had the focus) and checks the ring steps back and comes back: 11/11 in the dark theme and in LevelCode One Light. The skinned browser page in the web themes, focused and not: 16/16. scripts/test-extensions.sh: 137 files.
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Follow-up to #116, which merged the first version of the working aura. That version read as too big and too noisy; this makes it thin and quiet, in VS Code chat's own proportions.
What changes
Speed, states, wiring and the setting (
levelcode.ai.chat.workingAura) are unchanged; only its description's wording follows the new look.The focus step-back matters in real use: the message box keeps the focus after Enter, and a 1px line in the accent colour is invisible on an accent focus border. VS Code's chat does the same (
.chat-input-container.working.focused).Files:
media/chat.html(the CSS block),web/ai-extension/skin/chat.css(the browser skin's halo),package.json(description),test/workingAura.test.js,scripts/working-aura-editor-check.js.Tested
test/workingAura.test.js(15) now pins the thin design: 1px line, a glow of at most 2px, a clear track, the arc's length, no white head, the focus step-back on desktop and in the skin. Each of 40 one-edit mutations fails it (including "back to the big glow", "a 2px line", "a ring of its own", "a long arc", "no focus step-back" desktop and browser).scripts/working-aura-editor-check.js): now focuses the box mid-run (the feat(chat): a light travels round the message box while LevelCode works #116 run never did: the key prompt had the focus) and checks the ring steps back and comes back. 11/11 in the default dark theme and in LevelCode One Light.skin.jsapplied and the web-dark / web-light colours in headless Chrome, focused and not: 16/16.web/test/unit/skin.test.jspasses.scripts/test-extensions.sh: 137 files pass (macOS, Node 24). tsc: no new errors.Not run
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