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Item selection rebuilt the complete target map on every scroll frame, generated table-of-contents anchors trapped heading margins inside transparent sections, and nested IDs could produce two hints for one visible box.

This change keeps visible hint candidates stable during scrolling and refreshes membership at scroll end, rejects hidden targets before geometry reads, and collapses exact ancestor/descendant duplicates to the innermost target. Generated table-of-contents anchors now take no layout height. Distinct nested extents remain separately addressable, and the authoring guide places a transparent wrapper and sole child's shared ID on the child.

Visual verification: the shipped release-notes page at 1200×900, at the same scroll position with item hints open, moves the Console heading from 48 px below its section boundary to the section boundary itself. The same-fixture before/after captures are preserved in a local lf-shot; both browser consoles were clean.

Tests: uv run pytest tests (761 passed); uv run pytest tests/test_render_semantic_selection.py tests/test_render_widgets.py -q -n0 (92 passed); pre-commit hooks passed.

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The runtime change itself reads correct to me: the collapse only ever drops an ancestor that a surviving descendant covers, so no target is orphaned, and the !refreshed guard keeps the new drawnTargets clear from misfiring on the path that rebuilds candidates. Two things left over from the repo's own before-finishing list.

The owning reference doesn't carry the scroll rule. Holding hint membership for the length of a scroll is this PR's headline behaviour change, and skills/leaf/CLAUDE.md's Item selection is explicit is where that rule belongs — it already documents the neighbouring case ("A viewport change that removes or renames that target clears the announced choice"). As it stands the paragraph you edited still says the hints "are the whole route, so none may be dropped", which now has a window where it isn't: a target that scrolls into view carries no chip until scrollend. Suggestion inline.

.lf-toc-target is a visible layout change wider than what the test pins. Trading height: 1px; margin-bottom: -1px for height: 0 makes the span self-collapsing, so it stops separating adjoining margins everywhere, not only at a section's first child. At a listed heading in mid-document the preceding block's bottom margin and the heading's top margin now collapse together where they previously summed. That looks like the right result to me — it is the same "takes no layout height" claim — but the new test_render_widgets geometry assertion only reaches the section-top case, and root CLAUDE.md asks for "one sentence and an lf-shot before/after from the same fixture, viewport, and state" on a static change.

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Follow-up on the visual-evidence request: I compared the shipped release-notes page on origin/main and this branch at 1200×900, at the same scroll position with item hints open. The Console heading was 48 px below its section boundary before and aligned with it after (0 px gap); both browser consoles were clean. The two same-fixture captures are packaged in the local lf-shot handoff rather than added as a source fixture.

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…layout change

The nightly suite on main came back 10 failed. Most trace to #189, whose new
pr-walkthrough page replaced the one two nightly-only tests still name and whose
new package widget ships chrome the layer's markers never reached; two trace to
#190's zero-height ToC anchor, which shortened the release page past a named
scroll; and one is an ordering collision between Playwright's sync API and
asyncio.run.

- Point the two stale heading assertions at the page the example now is.
- Route the data-bound diff test's comment through the anchored field, which is
  where #181 moved the press it still clicked.
- Read the sticky sidebar's scroll position off the page instead of naming it.
- Give the author's description a surface the layer's muted ink clears, and the
  changed rows' line numbers an ink that clears their own fill.
- Build CallDiff's disclosure with offer, so an exported copy takes the press
  away, and give the location an href only where following it goes somewhere.
- Read a covered run against what it paints, so clipped overflow stops reading
  as words on words.
- Show a rendered diff and a scrolling code line in the corpus again, which is
  what the two unlit focus rings were missing.
- Run the MCP stdio exchange on its own thread, since the session-scoped browser
  holds an asyncio loop open in the worker's main one.
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## Problem

[`ci` run
33516407327](https://github.com/max-sixty/leaf/actions/runs/33516407327)
came back **10 failed, 1614 passed, 6 skipped**. Eight belong to #189,
whose `ci` run was cancelled by #190's push before the nightly leg ever
ran on it. #188's `test_mcp_app.py` case arrived on the same collision
as the MCP test below and is carried here rather than left to red the
next nightly.

The everyday suite that gates a pull request does not run
`test_render_*` or `test_site.py`, so a PR can land its nightly half
unread — which is how these arrived, and how five more have arrived
since, from #193, #194 and #200. `main` has moved a long way under this
branch; the ones it now owns are taken on merge, and three of the new
ones are cleared here. #203 reached `tests/conftest.py`'s
`headless_shell` first, so the four `test_render_commands.py` setup
errors are its.

## Solution

Grouped by cause rather than by test, since several tests share one.

**The example the tests still name.** #189 rewrote
`examples/pr-walkthrough.html` into the Worktrunk review packet, and the
shipped patch is now a collapsed manifest that builds no lines until a
reader opens a file, which the scroller gate read as
`getComputedStyle(null)`. The gate reads the diffs that have drawn
lines, with its own non-vacuity floor kept.

**The new package's chrome and surfaces.** `.lf-pr-description` stacked
a second translucent accent onto a card that is already a tint of one,
and the layer's own `--muted` reads 4.32:1 there; the description now
sits on the raised-surface token. CallDiff's disclosure was a bare
`<button>` rather than an `offer`, so an exported copy kept a hand over
a press nothing can take. Its location anchor carried an `href` on the
header row, which names no location at all — and `reachScrollers` reads
a candidate for a focusable descendant before granting it a stop, so
that hidden anchor answered "there is already a way in here" with a link
nobody can reach, for a box whose words run off the side.

**A reading that counted clipped text as painted.** `coveredWords`
measured each run's whole rect, so an ellipsised name in a narrow column
read as covering its neighbour. It now intersects each run with the
boxes that clip it, stopping at an out-of-flow ancestor where a hidden
overflow further out need not reach. The one test that plants this fault
plants it properly now: the runtime's note is parked in a one-pixel box
with hidden overflow, so opacity alone never put its characters on the
screen.

**Three focus rings the corpus stopped painting.** `code-pre-light` and
`code-pre-shadow` are the tab stops on a scrolling code block and on a
diff's lines, and with the old example gone no example held either. The
page gets one rendered hunk and one code line long enough to scroll.
Then `.lf-diff-review`: it took the outward ring it shared with
`.lf-diff-next`, which stands on its own in the toolbar, while this one
rides a file's summary row inside a box that clips at the row's bottom
edge — its lower run fell 3px past what the sweep can see. It takes the
inset the summary beside it already takes, and splitting the rule made
each half declare the ring name neither had.

**`--diffs-fg-number` on changed rows.** Surfaced by that rendered hunk:
a changed row's number is drawn in the base its own fill is mixed from,
green on green at 4.03:1. Pierre's number overrides now take the layer's
tinted-surface inks.

**A sidebar the page got shorter under.** #190's zero-height ToC anchor
shortened the release page 58px, putting a named `scrollTo(0, 900)` past
the stretch where the box stands on its own offset. Both edges of that
stretch are the page's, so they are read off it, with a floor asserting
the stretch exists before a point halfway along it says anything.

**Playwright's loop against `asyncio.run` and `anyio.run`.**
`sync_playwright()` keeps an asyncio loop running in its thread for its
whole lifetime, and the `browser` fixture is session-scoped per xdist
worker — so an MCP test's own loop start raises in any worker that has
opened a browser and passes in one that has not, leaving the schedule to
decide. Verified directly: `asyncio.events._get_running_loop()` is
`None` before `sync_playwright()`, the loop inside it, `None` after.
`interact_support.run_async` runs the entry point on a thread with no
loop on it, and both MCP modules go through it — #204's three new
exchanges included, since they landed on the direct call while this was
in flight.

**A declared verb no page replayed.** #194 added `lf-diff`'s `review` to
the registry without an event for it on the standing-state page — the
one fixture built so that exactly this fails rather than going
unexercised. It gets a diff and a standing review.

**A focus contract two site tests never heard about.** #193 kept the
response field passive so a drag leaves the browser's own selection
alone and a native copy still has something to take, and aligned the
render tests with it. `test_site.py` is nightly-only. Its label test
turned on `document.activeElement === field`, which is now false for the
page's own words and the site's label alike — the discriminator was
gone, not inverted — so it reads whether the field was offered at all,
which is the difference it was always after.

## Testing

`uv run pytest tests --run-nightly` and `pre-commit run --all-files` on
this head. The everyday suite and lint are green on this branch in CI.
Every claim about what `main` does was taken from a control run of the
same tests in a clean checkout of `main`, not from reading.

<details><summary>Where each failure landed</summary>

| test | fix |
| --- | --- |
|
`test_render_gate.py::test_the_runtime_holds_a_scroller_the_page_wrote`
| reads the diffs that drew lines |
|
`test_render_export.py::test_an_exported_example_stands_on_its_own[pr-walkthrough]`,
`[corpus]` | widget, probe, theme |
|
`test_render_controls.py::test_every_ring_the_layer_draws_is_shown_whole_somewhere_in_the_corpus`
| example, then `.lf-diff-review`'s ring and both ring names |
|
`test_render_pages.py::test_a_left_sidebar_uses_the_margin_until_the_page_needs_it_back`
| scroll position read off the page |
|
`test_interact_mcp.py::test_stdio_protocol_carries_the_app_resource_and_private_tool_result`
| own thread |
|
`test_mcp_app.py::test_registered_server_prefers_full_page_and_keeps_snapshot_as_fallback`
| own thread |
|
`test_render_projection.py::test_the_render_gate_applies_every_standing_action_a_second_time`
| standing fixture (#194's) |
| `test_site.py::test_the_label_is_chrome_rather_than_words_to_quote`,
`::test_a_comment_lands_in_the_thread_with_its_quote` | the field is
offered, not entered (#193's) |
|
`test_render_anchors.py::test_a_data_bound_diff_aims_and_selects_one_source_line`
| **#194's and #193's, taken on merge** |
| `test_site.py`, `test_render_export.py` stale `<h1>` | **#202's, taken
on merge** |

The two exported-copy cases each carried four faults, three of them
masked: `offering` asserts before `covered`, which asserts before the
copy's axe run, so each fix uncovered the next. The ring sweep did the
same — the geometry fault stood in front of a naming check that had been
silent about a rule missing its name since it was written.

</details>

<details><summary>Three this leaves, all of them main's</summary>


**`test_render_controls.py::test_examples_have_no_serious_wcag_a_or_aa_violations[pr-walkthrough]`
stays red.** The `.lf-pr-description` contrast above is fixed and
confirmed gone. What holds the test red is 46 `nested-interactive`
findings from #194: each file's "Mark reviewed" `<button>` sits inside
that file's `<summary>`, and a disclosure with a focusable descendant is
a serious WCAG failure. Clearing it means taking the press out of the
disclosure and re-laying the row — `entry.node` is the `<details>` in
ten places, and the theme, print and export rules key on it — which is a
change to that widget's shape with visual verification of its own, not a
line this branch should slip in.


**`test_render_anchors.py::test_a_failed_fragment_hydration_waits_for_a_reader_retry`
fails whenever anything runs before it.** Confirmed on unmodified
`main`: three runs of the file at `-n4`, three failures, and the same
failure at `-n0` over the whole file. It passes alone every time.
`assert len(requests) == 2` sees one — the reopened disclosure's second
fragment fetch never reaches the route. Arrived with #189.


**`test_render_anchors.py::test_a_drag_released_mid_word_hugs_words_and_sentences`
fails over the whole file and passes alone.** `assert 'inside' ==
'inside it'` — the selection did not grow to the word boundary. It looks
like the next instance of what #191 diagnosed, Chromium 151 collapsing a
synthetic range on mouse release.

Also still behind: the gallery's `docs/example-pr-walkthrough.jpg`.
Regenerating here rewrites all nine stills in substituted faces, because
`theme.css` asks for Charter and this runner's `fc-match` has none of
the serif stack — the same reading #175 made. Left for the authoring
machine.

</details>

---

Automated fix for [failed
run](https://github.com/max-sixty/leaf/actions/runs/33516407327)

> _This was written by Claude Code on behalf of @max-sixty_

---------

Co-authored-by: leaf-agent <318509791+leaf-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Maximilian Roos <m@maxroos.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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