Build Log

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

July 26, 2026

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).

AlloyQuenchLayoutCSS

distinct layout rounds, each driven by a real screenshot

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

339/341

real tests passing throughout, zero regressions

Timeline

Start

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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