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Build Log · July 26, 2026

Alloy: Quench page layout polish — dead space, overlap, and scroll fixed through real live iteration

Multi-round layout pass on the freshly-rebuilt Quench page, driven entirely by Zeb's direct screenshot feedback rather than design guessing. Found and fixed a real CSS bug (grid row height caps without matching card heights let content overflow past its row) and one real self-correction (an over-aggressive height increase reintroduced the exact scrollbar it was meant to fix).

  • Alloy
  • Quench
  • Layout
  • CSS
distinct layout rounds, each driven by a real screenshot
6

distinct layout rounds, each driven by a real screenshot

real CSS bug found (grid row height cap without h-full on card)
1

real CSS bug found (grid row height cap without h-full on card)

real tests passing throughout, zero regressions
339/341

real tests passing throughout, zero regressions

Timeline

  1. Start

    Ticket 5's initial single-column layout caused real dead space + scroll

    Zeb: 'a lot of dead space and a sizable vertical scrollbar'

  2. Round 1

    Paired panels into a 2-col grid (IgnitePanel's own precedent)

    Fixed pixel heights (h-56/h-48) either clipped long content or left dead space next to short content

  3. Round 2

    Removed fixed heights, let panels size to content — still had real gaps

    Charge Baseline (long text) vs. Actual Outcome (short) in the same row left visible dead space below the shorter cell

  4. Round 3

    Zeb specified the exact concrete layout: Charge Baseline alone, Actual Outcome (bigger) stacked above Verification Matrix (smaller)

    Built exactly as specified — real, fixed-height matched columns (h-64 both sides)

  5. Round 4

    Zeb: move Quench Verdict + Continue button into the rail, under Verification Ledger

    New QuenchVerdictPanel export in QuenchRail.tsx; also fixed VerificationLedgerPanel forcing itself to fill dead vertical space

  6. Round 5

    Real bug: Evidence Tray/Cracks & Routing rendered ON TOP of Workspace Integrity/Scope & Safeguards

    Root cause: grid row had a height cap (h-40) but the card divs inside had no matching h-full — content grew past the row instead of being clipped by it

  7. Round 6

    Over-correction: grew row heights (h-64→h-80, h-40→h-56) to fill visible dead space, reintroduced the scrollbar

    Reverted to the last confirmed-working sizes rather than guessing a new number

  8. End

    Zeb: 'ok. good enough for now' — moving to Ticket 6

What shipped

  • products/alloy/components/QuenchPanel.tsx — final layout: Charge Baseline alone (h-64, internal scroll) on the left; Actual Outcome (flex-[3], real execution timing added) stacked above Verification Matrix (flex-[2]) on the right at a matching h-64; Workspace Integrity/Scope & Safeguards in an h-40 stretched grid row (both cards h-full so their internal lists clip correctly instead of overflowing); Evidence Tray/Cracks & Routing in a matching h-40 stretched row; Quench Verdict panel removed entirely (moved to the rail)

  • products/alloy/components/QuenchRail.tsx — new QuenchVerdictPanel export (Quench Verdict + Continue-to-Temper button), moved here from QuenchPanel.tsx per Zeb's explicit placement instruction; VerdictIcon moved here too

  • products/alloy/components/VerificationLedgerPanel.tsx — removed h-full/flex-1 forced stretching so it sizes to its own real (often short) content

  • products/alloy/app/quench/page.tsx — rail column simplified to a plain flex-col of QuenchRail + VerificationLedgerPanel + QuenchVerdictPanel, no artificial wrapper divs forcing heights

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