diff --git a/MainWindow.xaml b/MainWindow.xaml
index 044791b..b4933d6 100644
--- a/MainWindow.xaml
+++ b/MainWindow.xaml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
         xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
         xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
         xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:ytLive.ViewModels"
-        xmlns:models="clr-namespace:ytLive.Models"
         xmlns:Helpers="clr-namespace:ytLive.Helpers"
         mc:Ignorable="d"
         Title="{Binding WindowTitle}" Height="720" Width="1280"
@@ -257,14 +256,17 @@
                         <Button ToolTip="Add Source" Style="{StaticResource IconButton}" Margin="4,-4,0,0"
                                 Click="AddSourceButton_Click">
                             <Button.ContextMenu>
-                                <ContextMenu DataContext="{Binding PlacementTarget.DataContext, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">
-                                    <MenuItem Header="Webcam" Command="{Binding AddWebcamCommand}"
-                                              IsEnabled="{Binding CanAddWebcamToActiveScene}"
-                                              ToolTip="One webcam at a time — it's already in your stream"/>
-                                    <MenuItem Header="Screen" Command="{Binding AddSourceCommand}" CommandParameter="{x:Static models:SourceType.DisplayCapture}"/>
-                                    <MenuItem Header="Background" Command="{Binding AddSourceCommand}" CommandParameter="{x:Static models:SourceType.Background}"/>
-                                    <MenuItem Header="Image" Command="{Binding AddImageCommand}"/>
-                                    <MenuItem Header="Text" Command="{Binding AddSourceCommand}" CommandParameter="{x:Static models:SourceType.TextOverlay}"/>
+                                <ContextMenu ItemsSource="{Binding AddSourceMenuItems}"
+                                             DataContext="{Binding PlacementTarget.DataContext, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">
+                                    <ContextMenu.ItemContainerStyle>
+                                        <Style TargetType="MenuItem">
+                                            <Setter Property="Header" Value="{Binding Header}"/>
+                                            <Setter Property="Command" Value="{Binding Command}"/>
+                                            <Setter Property="CommandParameter" Value="{Binding Parameter}"/>
+                                            <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="{Binding IsEnabled}"/>
+                                            <Setter Property="ToolTip" Value="{Binding ToolTip}"/>
+                                        </Style>
+                                    </ContextMenu.ItemContainerStyle>
                                 </ContextMenu>
                             </Button.ContextMenu>
                             <Path Data="M12,4 L12,20 M4,12 L20,12" Stroke="#e94560" StrokeThickness="2"
diff --git a/Models/Source.cs b/Models/Source.cs
index c54f6c8..7edd27a 100644
--- a/Models/Source.cs
+++ b/Models/Source.cs
@@ -3,13 +3,22 @@ using ytLive.Helpers;
 
 namespace ytLive.Models;
 
+/// <summary>
+/// The source catalog (see TASKS.md). Chatbox / Alerts / Socials are inert
+/// values until their features ship — the access-policy rows are live from
+/// today, the menu items arrive with the features. Countdown and Credits are
+/// NOT types: they're Text modes, gated by the same policy when Text ships.
+/// </summary>
 public enum SourceType
 {
     DisplayCapture,
     WindowCapture,
     Background,
     Image,
-    TextOverlay
+    TextOverlay,
+    Chatbox,
+    Alerts,
+    Socials
 }
 
 public enum ClipShape
diff --git a/Services/SceneAccessPolicy.cs b/Services/SceneAccessPolicy.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..358b9bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Services/SceneAccessPolicy.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+using ytLive.Models;
+
+namespace ytLive.Services;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The per-scene source access matrix (see the source catalog in TASKS.md).
+/// One source's availability in a scene is a product decision, enforced by
+/// scene name on every place a source can be added. Countdown and Credits are
+/// Text *modes*, not source types: their scene restrictions gate the mode when
+/// the Text ship step lands. Chatbox / Alerts / Socials are inert values until
+/// their features ship — the rows are live from today.
+/// </summary>
+public static class SceneAccessPolicy
+{
+    public static bool Allows(string? sceneName, SourceType type)
+    {
+        if (!SceneCatalog.IsCanonical(sceneName)) return false;
+
+        return type switch
+        {
+            SourceType.DisplayCapture or SourceType.WindowCapture =>
+                SceneCatalog.Is(sceneName, SceneCatalog.Live),
+            SourceType.Background or SourceType.Image or SourceType.TextOverlay or
+            SourceType.Alerts or SourceType.Socials => true,
+            SourceType.Chatbox =>
+                SceneCatalog.Is(sceneName, SceneCatalog.Live)
+                || SceneCatalog.Is(sceneName, SceneCatalog.Brb)
+                || SceneCatalog.IsChat(sceneName),
+            _ => false,
+        };
+    }
+}
diff --git a/TASKS.md b/TASKS.md
index e716ca0..c791af4 100644
--- a/TASKS.md
+++ b/TASKS.md
@@ -109,29 +109,55 @@ Lifecycle: `created → ready → [testing] → live → complete` (transitional
 12. ✅ The connected YouTube account's avatar/name shows in the top bar next to Start Stream (`SyncConnectedAccount`); the scenes list is content-height now (no dead space before SOURCES)
 13. ☐ **Window capture** — absorbed into the Screen picker (no separate source type); dedicated window-as-source work is pending
 14. ☐ **Scene compositing** — the D3DImage/MediaElement preview compositor (this task's requirement 5; the output compositor ships as TASK 4 ship step 1)
-15. ☐ **Text source** — live text ("Starting soon", "Back in 5", handle, callout)
+15. ☐ **Text source** — live text ("Starting soon", "Back in 5", handle, callout); a queued ship step carries its **countdown** + **credits** (scroll) modes (see below)
 16. ☐ **Chat box** — YouTube live chat rendered *on* the stream so viewers read along in-video
 17. ❌ **Background removal (milestone 2)** — ONNX Runtime + DirectML, MediaPipe Selfie Segmentation — deliberately NOT in this build
-18. ☐ **Alerts** — Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins; build after the six; **the one paid feature** (see Monetization in `ai.md`)
+18. ☐ **Alerts** — Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins; build after the six; unlocked by the one-time paid key (see Monetization in `ai.md`)
+19. ✅ **The source catalog + access enforcement** — the 10-source catalog and per-scene matrix (the section below) live as `SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(sceneName, sourceType)`; the Add-Source menu is one `ItemsSource` (`AddSourceMenuItems`) rebuilt per scene from the policy (Screen is Live-only; BG/Image/Text every scene; the webcam row is always present and greys out once the active scene has one); Chatbox/Alerts/Socials are inert `SourceType` rows ready for their features — 79 tests passing
 
-### The Minimal Source Set (design decision — do not expand casually)
+### The Source Catalog & scene access (design decision — do not expand casually)
 
 ytLlive is YouTube-only and 90% of users are casual. OBS's long source list is off-putting; we ship
 the hot few and nothing esoteric. If a user needs more, they've graduated to OBS.
 
-1. **Webcam** — the face cam. Non-negotiable.
-2. **Screen** — the main event (game, slides, browser). One source; a picker chooses a monitor *or* a
-   window. (Window capture is absorbed here — no separate source type.)
-3. **Background** — a full-canvas backdrop image. Fills the whole scene automatically, zero fiddling.
-   Kept separate from Image on purpose: same pixels, but this one needs no positioning.
-4. **Image** — a floating graphic/logo overlay (watermark, badge, corner branding). Free-positioned.
-5. **Text** — live text ("Starting soon", "Back in 5", handle, callout). Casual streamers live on this.
+1. **Screen capture** — the main event (game, slides, browser) as the Live scene's permanent backdrop
+   (`IsBackdrop`, schema v5/v6); the picker chooses a monitor *or* a window. **Live only** (policy).
+2. **BG (Background)** — a full-canvas backdrop image. Fills the whole scene automatically, zero
+   fiddling. Kept separate from Image on purpose: same pixels, but this one needs no positioning.
+3. **Image** — a floating graphic/logo overlay (watermark, badge, corner branding). Free-positioned.
+4. **Text** — live text ("Starting soon", "Back in 5", handle, callout). Casual streamers live on this.
+   Ships with two **modes**: **Countdown** (Starting/BRB) and **Credits** (Ending) — see the queued
+   Text ship step below. No new source types (KISS).
+5. **Webcam** — the face cam. Non-negotiable. A singleton resource (`WebcamSceneConfig`, not a `Source`
+   type) usable in any scene.
 6. **Chat box** — YouTube live chat rendered *on* the stream so viewers read along in-video. YT-native.
-7. **Alerts** — Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins. The dopamine source. **The one big lift**
-   (Super Chat event streaming + on-stream rendering/animation); build after the six. **Also the one
-   paid feature** — see Monetization in `ai.md`.
+   **Live / BRB / Chat scenes.**
+7. **Alerts** — Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins. The dopamine source. **All scenes** —
+   alerts fire regardless of which scene is showing. Build after the six.
+8. **socialBar** — the creator's social links as one bar (branded anchor icon + in-app drop-down).
+   **All scenes.** Free tier = the creator's YouTube channel + **one** more platform of their choice;
+   unlimited platforms come with the one-time paid key (see Monetization in `ai.md`).
 
-Deliberately NOT supported: game capture, browser source, media playlist, VLC, color-key voodoo, MIDI.
+**Per-scene access matrix** — enforced by `SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(sceneName, sourceType)`:
+
+| Source | Starting | Live | BRB | Chat | Ending |
+|--------|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| Screen capture (backdrop) | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
+| BG / Image / Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Webcam | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Countdown (Text mode) | ✅ | — | ✅ | — | — |
+| Chat box | — | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
+| Alerts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Credits (Text mode) | — | — | — | — | ✅ |
+| socialBar | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+
+Countdown and Credits are **Text modes** (no new source types): the scene restrictions gate the
+*mode*, applied when the Text ship step lands. Chatbox / Alerts / socialBar are inert `SourceType`
+values until their features ship — the policy rows are live from today, the menu items arrive with
+the features.
+
+Deliberately NOT supported: game capture (absorbed into Screen), browser source, media playlist, VLC,
+color-key voodoo, MIDI.
 
 ### Source memory model (design decision)
 
@@ -187,6 +213,20 @@ Preview shows the transition too (WYSIWYG). No wipes/slides/LUTs beyond the four
    2. **Scenes list:** drag rows to reorder scenes
    3. **Sources list:** drag rows to reorder sources (this *is* the z-order) — implemented
 
+#### Queued ship step — Text source (countdown + credits modes)
+
+**Goal:** make Text real — content + font/size/color/alignment rendered in the preview AND the output
+compositor — then its two modes on top. Status item 15 above.
+
+1. ☐ **Text core** — `SourceType.TextOverlay` gains content + styling; the XAML preview renders it and
+   the output compositor rasterizes it (preview via `FormattedText`, output via a `frameFor` frame,
+   the `StaticPixelCache` pattern)
+2. ☐ **Countdown mode** — a Text bound to a countdown timer ("Live in 2:30"); the mode is gated to
+   Starting/BRB per the access matrix
+3. ☐ **Credits mode** — a Text that scrolls up on the Ending scene
+
+Ships only when queued (the Good Dog Rule: one integration test per PR, no multi-test branches).
+
 ---
 
 ## TASK 4 — RTMP Ingest to YouTube
diff --git a/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs b/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
index 9d1289b..95c080d 100644
--- a/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
+++ b/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ public class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase
     public ObservableCollection<Scene> Scenes { get; } = new();
     public ObservableCollection<ChatMessage> ChatMessages { get; } = new();
     public ObservableCollection<DisplayInfo> Displays { get; } = new();
+    public ObservableCollection<SourceMenuItem> AddSourceMenuItems { get; } = new();
     public string[] Visibilities { get; } = { "Public", "Unlisted", "Private" };
 
     public Scene? ActiveScene
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ public class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase
                 OnPropertyChanged(nameof(CanShowWebcamInActiveScene));
                 UpdateActiveBackground();
                 UpdateBackdropImage();
+                RebuildAddSourceMenu();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -1189,6 +1191,7 @@ public class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase
             foreach (SceneElement element in e.OldItems)
                 element.PropertyChanged -= OnElementPropertyChanged;
         OnPropertyChanged(nameof(CanAddWebcamToActiveScene));
+        RebuildAddSourceMenu();
         ScheduleSave();
     }
 
@@ -1245,6 +1248,34 @@ public class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase
             ActiveScene = Scenes.FirstOrDefault();
     }
 
+    // The Add-Source menu lists only what the active scene allows per the access
+    // matrix (SceneAccessPolicy). The webcam row is always present (webcams are
+    // allowed in every scene) but greys out once the active scene has one.
+    private void RebuildAddSourceMenu()
+    {
+        AddSourceMenuItems.Clear();
+        var sceneName = ActiveScene?.Name;
+        if (sceneName == null) return;
+
+        AddSourceMenuItems.Add(new SourceMenuItem(
+            "Webcam", AddWebcamCommand,
+            isEnabled: CanAddWebcamToActiveScene,
+            toolTip: "One webcam at a time — it's already in your stream"));
+
+        var menu = new[]
+        {
+            (Header: "Screen", Type: SourceType.DisplayCapture, Command: AddSourceCommand),
+            (Header: "Background", Type: SourceType.Background, Command: AddSourceCommand),
+            (Header: "Image", Type: SourceType.Image, Command: AddImageCommand),
+            (Header: "Text", Type: SourceType.TextOverlay, Command: AddSourceCommand),
+        };
+        foreach (var (header, type, command) in menu)
+        {
+            if (SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(sceneName, type))
+                AddSourceMenuItems.Add(new SourceMenuItem(header, command, type));
+        }
+    }
+
     private void AddSource(object? parameter)
     {
         var scene = ActiveScene;
diff --git a/ViewModels/SourceMenuItem.cs b/ViewModels/SourceMenuItem.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9eed5cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ViewModels/SourceMenuItem.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+using System.Windows.Input;
+
+namespace ytLive.ViewModels;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// One Add-Source menu entry: a label, its action, and an optional command
+/// parameter. The collection is rebuilt per scene from
+/// <see cref="Services.SceneAccessPolicy"/> so only the sources the active
+/// scene allows appear in the menu.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class SourceMenuItem
+{
+    public SourceMenuItem(string header, ICommand command, object? parameter = null,
+        bool isEnabled = true, string? toolTip = null)
+    {
+        Header = header;
+        Command = command;
+        Parameter = parameter;
+        IsEnabled = isEnabled;
+        ToolTip = toolTip;
+    }
+
+    public string Header { get; }
+    public ICommand Command { get; }
+    public object? Parameter { get; }
+    public bool IsEnabled { get; }
+    public string? ToolTip { get; }
+}
diff --git a/ai.md b/ai.md
index 0663b87..2082e2f 100644
--- a/ai.md
+++ b/ai.md
@@ -379,7 +379,9 @@ delivery; we never own a server or a key shop):
   ~5s after go-live, only while live or recording. An always-on watermark can be cropped or covered;
   an intermittent full-frame flash can't be cropped and is impractical to edit around on a live feed.
 - **Paid (one-time):** branding flash removed (flips `BrandFlashEnabled` off) + **Alerts**
-  (Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins).
+  (Super Chat / membership / subscribe pop-ins) + **unlimited socialBar platforms** (the free tier
+  is the creator's YouTube channel + one more; unlimited is the unlock — the teaser, per the source
+  catalog in `TASKS.md`).
 
 Deliberately rejected: always-on watermark (obscurable — replaced by the flash), hard stream-time
 cutoffs (the worst dead end — a stream dying mid-broadcast reads as broken, and YouTube streams
diff --git a/ytLive.Tests/SceneAccessPolicyTests.cs b/ytLive.Tests/SceneAccessPolicyTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77095e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ytLive.Tests/SceneAccessPolicyTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+using System.Linq;
+using Xunit;
+using ytLive.Models;
+using ytLive.Services;
+
+namespace ytLive.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The per-scene source access matrix from the source catalog (TASKS.md).
+/// One integration test: each canonical scene allows exactly its matrix set,
+/// nothing more; non-canonical scenes allow nothing.
+/// </summary>
+public class SceneAccessPolicyTests
+{
+    private static readonly SourceType[] All =
+    {
+        SourceType.DisplayCapture, SourceType.WindowCapture, SourceType.Background,
+        SourceType.Image, SourceType.TextOverlay, SourceType.Chatbox,
+        SourceType.Alerts, SourceType.Socials,
+    };
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void SceneAccessPolicy_Enforces_The_Full_Access_Matrix()
+    {
+        var allowed = new[]
+        {
+            (Scene: "Starting", Types: new[]
+            {
+                SourceType.Background, SourceType.Image, SourceType.TextOverlay,
+                SourceType.Alerts, SourceType.Socials,
+            }),
+            (Scene: "Live", Types: All),
+            (Scene: "BRB", Types: new[]
+            {
+                SourceType.Background, SourceType.Image, SourceType.TextOverlay,
+                SourceType.Chatbox, SourceType.Alerts, SourceType.Socials,
+            }),
+            (Scene: "Chat", Types: new[]
+            {
+                SourceType.Background, SourceType.Image, SourceType.TextOverlay,
+                SourceType.Chatbox, SourceType.Alerts, SourceType.Socials,
+            }),
+            (Scene: "Ending", Types: new[]
+            {
+                SourceType.Background, SourceType.Image, SourceType.TextOverlay,
+                SourceType.Alerts, SourceType.Socials,
+            }),
+        };
+
+        foreach (var (scene, types) in allowed)
+        {
+            foreach (var type in types)
+                Assert.True(
+                    SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(scene, type),
+                    $"{type} should be allowed in {scene}");
+
+            foreach (var type in All.Where(t => !types.Contains(t)))
+                Assert.False(
+                    SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(scene, type),
+                    $"{type} should NOT be allowed in {scene}");
+        }
+
+        Assert.False(SceneAccessPolicy.Allows(null, SourceType.Image));
+        Assert.False(SceneAccessPolicy.Allows("My Scene", SourceType.Image));
+        Assert.False(SceneAccessPolicy.Allows("  ", SourceType.TextOverlay));
+    }
+}