Squashed from work; the fine-grained history is under tag archive/work-2026-08-26:
- vj: the thumbnail pipeline becomes one honest machine, and effects go livecodable
- asset-ai: the chat tells the truth while it works
- audio: a FLAC decoder from the specification, beside the MP3 and Vorbis ones
- asset-ui: the classic import surface follows what the importer now produces
The asset browser becomes the front end for everything the AI stack can do:
- analysis — a content analysis pass over imported assets.
- mask_paint — paint a mask over an image for inpainting.
- music_page — the music generation surface.
- webcam — live capture as a generation input.
- fast_presets, store_content — preset and store-content plumbing.
Around them the existing surfaces get the corrections the store and the video
widget forced: sprite-split and child-pass thumbnail fixes, one video widget
everywhere (opens stop fighting each other and the rail never reflows),
grouped classic/Duke import that lands 102 assets instead of a card flood,
chat that greets with silence rather than a banner, and a pipeline that
survives restarts.
Drop the archived old/ tree, root AI notes, splashgame.md (Arcade lives
in the private sandbox), widgets-dll leftovers, and LAN/oracle helper
scripts. Move download_*.sh into tools/, and move sim/math out of
libs/game/ so the public repo no longer has a game/ directory.
Also quiet first-party compile noise and skip asset-ui tests that need
sandbox kits or uncommitted fixtures.
