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Org updates as HCI Nerdz takes shape. For essays on HCI and UX, see the Blog.

1. August 28, 2026 Actor-model agentic UI added to the repertoire

   Persisted node graph for agent harnesses — typed actors, spawn-on-drift, disk addresses, task grid view — with essay, docs, demo, and DevCentr ACTOR_AGENTIC_UI variables.

2. August 28, 2026 Grounded tokens added to the repertoire

   Visual provenance for AI assistant output - heuristic dashed warm underlines, researched solid cool underlines - with essay, docs, and an interactive fork-name desk.

3. August 28, 2026 Project inbox added to the repertoire

   Parallel agent tasks in a scrollable grid with cosmetic fork chats — essay, docs, Dev-Centr harness contract, and an interactive desk seeded from a real Grok bot wall-of-updates.

4. August 28, 2026 Open Terminal layout desk added to the repertoire

   Interactive facsimile of Open Terminal layout modes and shell-context chrome — prompt desk, standalone, decoupled index, project manager, contained tiling zones, and session association.

5. August 19, 2026 Spatial web windows added to the repertoire

   Multi-window desktop web UX — lite palettes, intent routing, SharedWorker coordination — with essay, docs, demo desk, and Desktop-Tooling browser fork.

6. August 11, 2026 An alternative to URLs added to the repertoire

   Essays, docs, and a demo on broken links after URL renames — and why systems need another way to find a resource besides the pretty path.

7. August 10, 2026 Context-bound settings added to the repertoire

   Settings as a dependent process: a pane that follows activity state and shows only applicable controls — with essay, docs, mockups, and an interactive desk.

8. August 10, 2026 Context Edge added to the repertoire

   Edge-summoned ecosystem navigation: thin top/left rails, wireframe platform maps, and stable overlay colors — with essay, docs, mockups, a site desk, and an Astro multi-island MVP.

9. August 8, 2026 Audio lexicon added to the repertoire

   A literacy UI for pro-audio filters — meaning, history, audition, and export — now linked from demos and the homepage.

10. August 4, 2026 Open-with interrupt added to the repertoire

    Essay and docs for a first-class gesture that stops default file open and asks which app should run — Ctrl+double-click and middle-click on files.

11. August 3, 2026 Pass-through extensions: screenshots and a settings app

    HTML today-vs-peel comparison on the demo, plus product photos of the WPF configurator — and the PowerToys ask.

12. August 2, 2026 Instruction flows added to the repertoire

    Menu-style install guides join the catalog — essay, interactive demo, Antora extension, and docs topic.

13. August 2, 2026 Pass-through extensions added to the repertoire

    Meta-suffixes like .example and .template should peel to the inner file type — essay, interactive demo, docs, and a Windows settings app.

14. August 1, 2026 Hello, HCI Nerdz

    The org is live — discoverable surfaces, lower cognitive tax, and a clean split from shell/CLI work.