The minimal implementation of the 2026-09-02 graph vision (docs/vision.md §1):
- contracts/graph.ts: every node is a TRUE proposition (statement is both
rendering label and identity key; required description; no kind, no name).
Edges are follows (derivable) / supports (grounds without entailing) with
message-granular provenance points {chatId, messageId}. Events reduce to
correct/miss/dont-know plus observation (understanding notes); no taught
events, no misconception kind.
- extraction.ts: extractor is TREE-BLIND (transcript only, no plan tree) and
free-form; auditor sees findings + the current graph, owns faithfulness and
identity (link-or-create verdict per proposition, recorded as linkTo);
transcriptView tags every line with its message id (provenance anchors).
- core/graph.ts merger: applies verdicts deterministically — linkTo appends
a link line (phrasings join aliases, provenance unions; reads merge by id),
absent creates; NO string matching anywhere. Quiz events rebuilt from tool
parts with attribution-only nodeId resolution; understanding notes become
observation events (obs:<sourceId>); mapping lines are the verdict audit
trail and make re-merges idempotent.
- deriveNodeStates: transitional — latest quiz event wins (known/missed/
dont-know, else candidate); taught unreachable until the state-model
ideation lands.
- graph-context.ts + 50-graph-context.md: follows chains, hotspot grouping,
state vocabulary updated for the new event kinds.
- graph-view.tsx: node label is the statement; detail shows statement +
description.
- tests: merger verdicts (link, no-string-match, cross-chat assertions),
tree-blind pipeline end-to-end, follows vocabulary in context tests.
276/276 green.
Fixes the hover flicker the maintainers' way (jacomyal/sigma.js#1493):
sigma v3 picks nodes by reading a single pixel from a picking
framebuffer rendered at HALF the CSS resolution, and has no setting
for hit padding. Small nodes get tiny, ragged hit edges, and our glow
halo (9px beyond the disc) was NOT pickable — moving the cursor from
the disc onto its own halo de-hovered it, an oscillation loop.
NodeCircleProgram subclass (registered via nodeProgramClasses)
replaces only VERTEX_SHADER_SOURCE: a verbatim copy of sigma 3.0.3's
circle vertex shader that adds PICKING_PAD_PX (10) of radius under
#ifdef PICKING_MODE alone. The visible pass never takes that branch,
so rendering is pixel-identical (verified headless); the pickable
disc is disc + 10px, covering the whole hover halo, so the halo is
now hoverable and small candidate nodes are comfortable to hit.
sigma/rendering is imported dynamically (its ESM build touches
WebGL globals at module scope; SSR-safe like the sigma import).
This replaces the reverted prototype-patch approach (f12480e).
sigma v4 ships this officially as the nodePickingPadding setting —
noted for a future upgrade.
Root cause: sigma's getNodeAtPosition reads the picking framebuffer,
which is rendered at HALF the device resolution
(pickingDownSizingRatio = 2 * pixelRatio). Small nodes' hit circles
are a couple of device pixels across in that buffer with ragged,
quantized edges — near a node boundary, tiny cursor movements flip
the hover state on/off, and each flip makes sigma clear the hover
layer immediately. That state churn is the flicker; it survived every
animation change because it was never in the animation.
Mitigations:
- patchNodePicking() replaces Sigma.prototype.getNodeAtPosition with
a smooth distance test (rendered radius + HIT_PAD_PX = 6px) built on
public renderer APIs only (getGraph, getNodeDisplayData,
framedGraphToViewport, scaleSize). No ragged edges, and small
candidate nodes get roughly double the hoverable area.
- Leave-debounce (90ms): when hover drops, hold repainting the
captured hover paint at the current fade (sigma would otherwise
clear the layer the instant hoveredNode flips to null), and only
fade out if the cursor hasn't bounced back within the window. A
re-enter cancels the fade, so boundary oscillation never visibly
dims anything.
The instant muted->bright color swap felt abrupt next to the fading
halo. The hover name is again drawn at partial alpha over the muted
resting label, using the SAME transition factor as the halo — text
and glow fade in/out in sync. Because every enter/leave interpolates
from the current fade value, rapid hover toggles at a node's hit
boundary glide instead of snapping (the flicker-damping fix).
- The halo no longer grows during the fade: radius is constant at
size + 9px; only its opacity fades in/out over ~180ms.
- The hover name is drawn opaque in the bright color instead of
cross-fading over the muted resting label. Partial-alpha text
oscillated whenever hover toggles rapidly at a small node's hit
boundary (sigma fires enterNode/leaveNode on every state change) —
an un-animated color can't flicker.
- The glow no longer pulses: it's a static halo (9px beyond the disc,
0.45 alpha at the edge fading outward) in the node's state color.
- Hover enter/leave now cross-fades over ~180ms instead of appearing
instantly: entering schedules sigma renders so drawHover repaints at
the interpolated fade; leaving draws through a repainter captured on
the last hover paint (sigma stops calling drawHover once unhovered).
The text cross-fades too — the brighter hover name is drawn at
partial alpha over the muted resting label on the layer beneath.
- The halo starts flush at the node disc edge (was size+1, leaving a
dark gap ring that read as a gray border between node and glow).
- Both fade directions cancel each other and stop on completion, so
there is no continuous loop — idle CPU stays near zero.
- defaultDrawNodeHover no longer paints a background box: the hovered
node now pulses a soft radial-gradient halo ring in its own state
color (evenodd punch-out keeps the node disc untouched), phase driven
by performance.now() inside the drawer.
- The hovered label text brightens (muted-foreground -> foreground) at
identical geometry — drawName is shared by both drawers so nothing
shifts when hover begins/ends.
- The pulse is animated by a rAF loop that only runs while a node is
hovered (enterNode starts, leaveNode/leaveStage stop, cleanup
cancels) — idle CPU stays near zero, preserving run-then-freeze.
- roundedRect removed with the pill (its only remaining consumer).
- roundedRect typo: the first arcTo's second control point used y+width
as the x-coordinate (y + width instead of x + width). Since arcTo
tangent math is in absolute coordinates, the pill outline sprouted a
stray wedge/notch whose size scaled with the pill's on-screen
position (diagnosed live by the tester subagent: ~1000px left spike
on a top-right node, right-side bites near the left edge).
- Labels now fade instead of popping: fully visible at fit zoom or
closer, then the labels canvas layer's opacity is interpolated across
a 0.5 camera-ratio zoom span before renderLabels switches off, with
the setSetting call guarded so pans don't spam refreshes.
labelRenderedSizeThreshold gated each node's label by its own rendered
size, so big (taught) nodes showed names several zoom stops before
small (candidate) ones. Zero the per-node threshold and instead toggle
renderLabels from the camera ratio: every name appears at fit zoom or
closer and they all vanish together when zooming further out. Hover
still reveals any node's name regardless of zoom.
- Custom sigma label drawers replace the defaults: every label renders
the node name word-wrapped under the node (max 170px line, overlong
words hard-broken, never truncated) instead of one long strip to the
right of the node.
- Hover swaps sigma's hardcoded white box for a dark rounded pill using
the app's popover tokens; hover always shows the name, even below the
zoom threshold.
- labelRenderedSizeThreshold 12 -> 6 (names are short now) and labels
use the app's body font at weight 500.
- Click card anchors just below the clicked node's viewport position
(flipping above near the bottom edge, clamped horizontally, measured
in a layout effect so the flip never flashes); any pan/zoom dismisses
it via the camera 'updated' event.
Schema: GraphNode + ExtractedProposition carry 'name' — a short 2-6 word
header, the rendering handle. Node theory made explicit: a node is an
objective world-facing fact; the learner's relationship to it lives
entirely in the event ledger (state labels are derived, never stored).
Extractor + auditor instructions enforce it — misconceptions state the
wrong idea itself as a claim, never 'the learner believes Y'. Legacy
ledger lines without a name derive one from the statement on read.
graph-view: labels use the name; the detail panel shows name as header
and statement as body.
The shell now imports through exactly two barrels, enforced by
import/no-restricted-paths (npm run lint):
components/** -> "@/src/core" (pure core API, browser-safe)
app/** -> "@/src/core" + "@/src/server" (server entries)
Zone violations are lint errors with architecture-pointer messages; the
pure-core modules (contracts, question-core, plan-tree, phases, pending,
math-delims, ui-message) may never import agent/server/store.
Supporting moves (direction: IO layers -> core):
- core/index.ts: the core public API barrel
- core/ui-message.ts: moved from src/agent (it was shell-facing all along)
- quiz/ask input zod schemas moved agent/tools -> core/question-core
(the question contract, alongside the grading logic)
- ChatRecord/ChatSummary moved store/chats -> core/contracts (single schema)
- GraphSnapshot/NodeStateClass moved core/graph -> core/contracts (the
/api/graph payload IS a contract; the pure renderer needs only these)
- src/server/{chats,graph,jobs}.ts + index.ts: thin server entries for the
transport layer; GET /api/graph's fold side-effect now lives behind
graphView() instead of inline in the route
Gates: tsc clean, 190/190 tests, eslint clean (law verified to fire on
store/agent/subpath violations), production build clean.
(Repo repair en route: a git object (app/chat/[id] tree) was missing from
the object store — reconstructed byte-exactly via mktree from its blob;
the broken node_modules that stalled the build was cleanly reinstalled.)
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