# HANDOFF — 2026-10-30 (design standard + token sweep complete; visual check pending)

## State

- Branch `main`, worktree clean. **Twelve commits, unpushed** (push at your checkpoint),
  `565b8db` → `c885bbd`. `DESIGN.md` is normative; `Themes/Tokens.xaml` implements it.
- **Every XAML surface is tokenised and guarded**: theme, window, top bar, scene strip, left
  panel, preview pane, App Settings, and all nine dialogs. The guard lists them all, so a raw hex
  in any of those files fails `DesignTokensTests`.
- Blue `#38bdf8` is the only interactive accent; red `#ff5451` is live/record; `positive`
  `#22c55e` is status only; `attention` `#ff8c3a` is warnings; `#e94560` is retired from chrome.
- Two duplications were killed on the way: the scene tiles no longer use one colour for two
  states, and the webcam's right-click border-colour menu is generated from
  `Models/BorderColorPalette` instead of carrying its own seven colours.

## Next action

**Tokenise the VM-side state colours** (the last raw hexes in app chrome). They are strings bound
to `Background`/`Foreground`, so this is a VM→`Brush` refactor, not a find/replace:
`MainViewModel.Streaming.cs` (`RecDotBrush`, `RecTextBrush`, `OnAirBrush`, `RunningDotBrush`,
`TopBarBackground`), `MainViewModel.Streaming.Operations.cs` (`HealthIssueBackground`,
`PreviewGlowBrush`), `MainViewModel.Audio.cs` (meter zones, `MicProblemBrush`),
`Services/NotificationService.cs` (toast tints). Values already match the standard; only the
literals remain.

## Landmines

- **Not every hex is a theme colour.** Leave `BorderColorPalette`, picker `Tag=` values,
  `Models/Source.cs` chat defaults, and the on-stream renderers (`AlertRenderer`,
  `ChatBoxRenderer`, `Compositor/*`, `BrandFlashPresenter`) literal.
- A red settings control is a bug now — red means live/record.
- Pre-existing: the **full test suite hangs** (WASAPI teardown). Per-class runs are the way.

## Pending

- **Launch and eyeball**: fonts render (pack-URI resolution cannot be proven in the test host),
  the blue accent, blue-staged / red-live tiles, and mono telemetry.
- Vertical-tier camera check; webcam-cadence take in the failing geometry.