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+# Usability Wave — guest access, legibility, recap, device bridge
+
+Seven approved items (#1–#5, #7, #8 from the usability review), built by
+parallel agents in isolated worktrees against this contract. Rules that
+bind every workstream:
+
+- **Additive only.** No feature may be removed; no refactor beyond the
+  files listed for your workstream. `lib/baseline.ts` (the shared
+  ThresholdBaseline extracted from coldSpot/bluetooth/magnetometer) is
+  current repo state — build on it, do not revert it.
+- **i18n parity is a hard gate.** Every new user-facing string goes
+  through `t()` with keys added to BOTH `src/i18n/en.json` and
+  `src/i18n/es.json`. `npm run pretest` fails on any mismatch.
+- **Tone:** all copy stays in-fiction ("the veil", "vessel", "seeker") —
+  see existing keys for register. Errors guide, never scold.
+- **Tests:** each workstream runs its own targeted tests and reports
+  results honestly. The integrator runs the full suites.
+
+## Workstream A — Guest passage (#1)
+
+A stranger must be able to reach a real séance without registering.
+
+Backend (`app/routes/auth.py`, `app/deps.py` untouched):
+- `POST /auth/guest` — creates a REAL user row with a generated username
+  (`wanderer-<4 hex>` style, retry on collision), random unusable password
+  (long `secrets.token_urlsafe` hashed as usual), and issues the normal
+  session cookie. No schema change, no new auth path — a guest IS a user,
+  so every downstream system (essence, codex, devices) works unmodified.
+- Rate-limit guest creation per-IP (RateLimiter, ~5/hour) so the users
+  table can't be spammed.
+- `GET /auth/me` already returns username; no change.
+
+Frontend:
+- `EnterPage.tsx`: add a third action under login/register — "slip through
+  as a wanderer" — that calls `/auth/guest` then navigates to `/seance`.
+- `SeancePage.tsx`: the `if (!user) return <Navigate to="/enter" />` gate
+  STAYS (do not remove); the guest button on /enter is the path through.
+- Show a one-line dismissible note in the séance for usernames matching
+  `wanderer-`: "your contacts fade with the mist — claim a name to keep
+  your codex" linking to /enter. Key it off username prefix; no backend
+  flag needed.
+
+Tests: backend tests for /auth/guest (creates user, cookie works on
+/auth/me, rate limit fires, username collision retries). Frontend: none
+required beyond compile + existing suites passing.
+
+## Workstream B — Legibility (#2 hints, #3 conditions, #4 errors)
+
+All frontend; new components in NEW files, one-line mounts in
+`SeancePage.tsx` so merges stay trivial.
+
+#3 Conditions readout:
+- Backend (only backend touch in B): `GET /api/conditions` in a NEW route
+  file `app/routes/conditions.py`, registered in `main.py`. Returns
+  `{sky: veil_thinness(lon?), geomagnetic: <cached reading or null>}`;
+  accepts optional `?lon=` query. Uses `geomagnetic_cache.reading()` —
+  never blocks beyond its own timeout, nulls are fine.
+- Frontend: `components/VeilConditions.tsx` + css — a compact strip for
+  the séance side column: moon glyph by phase name, "% lit", veil
+  thinness as a phrase (thin/veiled/heavy — map from `thinness`), Kp line
+  only when data exists ("field: quiet" / "geomagnetic storm"). Poll the
+  endpoint once on mount + every 10 min. Renders nothing while loading;
+  never an error state (missing data = fewer lines).
+
+#2 First-run hints:
+- `components/ModeHint.tsx`: per-mode one-liner shown inside the active
+  mode panel when that mode's sensor has never been started this session
+  and ~15s have passed. Dismiss = localStorage `qm_hint_<mode>` so it
+  never returns. Copy in-fiction: e.g. evp — "the veil listens through
+  your microphone — grant it your ear"; radio — "a tuner in the hand
+  hears further than the wire"; emf — "hold still; the field remembers
+  movement"; ouija — "ask below, or let the board drift"; wire — "the
+  wire whispers on its own when you listen passively".
+- Wire into each panel with a single mount line per panel.
+
+#4 Error guidance:
+- In the mic/radio/emf panels' existing error branches, upgrade copy to
+  detect-and-redirect: mic denied → point at browser permission AND
+  suggest ouija/wire ("the board needs no ear"); WebUSB unsupported →
+  suggest EVP; insecure context stays as-is (already good). Do not
+  restructure the panels — copy and small conditionals only.
+
+## Workstream C — Presence beyond the tab (#5 PWA, #7 recap)
+
+#5 PWA:
+- `frontend/public/manifest.webmanifest`: name/short_name Quantumancy,
+  `display: standalone`, `background_color/theme_color #07070d`, icons
+  from the existing favicon/apple-touch assets in `public/` (check what
+  exists; generate 192/512 PNGs from favicon.svg with a script if absent
+  — sharp is NOT a dependency, use whatever is available or copy the
+  existing apple-touch-icon at its native size with correct `sizes`).
+- Link it + `theme-color` meta in `index.html`. NO service worker this
+  wave (offline séance is meaningless; SW cache bugs are not worth it).
+- Verify `main.py`'s `serve_spa` root-file passthrough serves it (it
+  serves any real file in dist root — manifest lands there via public/).
+
+#7 Ghost Log recap:
+- Backend: `GET /api/seances/recent` (NEW file `app/routes/seances.py`,
+  auth required via existing `get_current_user`): last 12 ContactSessions
+  for the user, each with: id, started_at, ended_at, mode, entity
+  (name/epithet/rarity/visual via relationship or join — entity may be
+  null), and event counts by kind (single GROUP BY over events), plus up
+  to 3 utterance texts (kind in greeting/reply/manifest, most recent
+  first) as "echoes".
+- Frontend: new route `/log` — `pages/GhostLogPage.tsx` + css, linked
+  from the séance topbar next to CODEX as "LOG". Card per session:
+  entity glyph (reuse GhostGlyph), name/epithet, when (relative), mode,
+  counts ("7 questions · 3 anomalies"), echo lines in the transcript
+  style. Empty state in-fiction ("no séances yet — the log waits").
+- Tests: backend route test (returns own sessions only, newest first,
+  counts correct, entity-less session doesn't crash).
+
+## Workstream D — The vessel speaks in the séance (#8)
+
+- `components/DeviceWhisper.tsx` + css: compact live panel for the séance
+  side column, shown ONLY when the user has ≥1 device (fetch
+  `/api/devices` once). Connects the existing `DeviceFeedSocket`
+  (`lib/deviceFeed.ts`), reuses `lib/coldSpot.ts` cores for temp/pressure
+  state, shows: device name, online dot (reading in last 60s), latest
+  temp/pressure/evp/presence values in the terminal readout style, and
+  the cold-spot/pressure flags when active. No new backend.
+- Mount: one line in SeancePage side column above RitualPanel.
+- Unmount/close socket on leave; never block or error the séance if the
+  feed is down (render nothing on failure).
+- Tests: component test with a stubbed socket driving 2–3 frames.
+
+## Integration (the controller, not an agent)
+
+Merge order: A, C-backend, B, C-frontend, D (SeancePage conflicts are
+mine to resolve). Then: full backend + frontend suites, pretest i18n
+gate, build, deploy, restart service, verify /healthz + new endpoints,
+commit per workstream, then the whole-app review pass.