The arcade is no longer an orphan. Three games shipped with routes, an index and full contracts, yet no header, footer or homepage pointed at them; this change gives the games section a front door while leaving every route, game page, sitemap entry and search record exactly where it was.
Motivation
Readers could only reach the arcade by guessing the address. The parent proposal scoped the fix to surfacing: a header link with the current-page marker, a footer link, a compact server-rendered shelf on the homepage, and one contextual link from the about page. Nothing in the game pages themselves needed to change, so the work stays in chrome and homepage composition.
What changed
The header navigation now reads Home, Journal, Build Log, Arcade and About, with the Arcade link carrying the current-page marker across the games routes on every page type. The footer repeats the Arcade link between Benchmarks and About us. The homepage gained a From the arcade section between the journal block and the topics row, rendering all three games with title, one-line pitch, play-time badge and descriptive play links plus a section call to action into the arcade, all server-rendered with no script dependency and no new styles. The about page closes with a pointer to the small browser games built by hand.
How it was done
After the hosting preflight, development wired the existing games marker token into a new header anchor, added the footer anchor, and extended the homepage template with an arcade slot fed by the game loader through a small card helper that reuses the archive story classes. The stale orphan-state assertions were flipped to pin the surfaced links, the game-name carriers learned the homepage, and the home weight caps moved to cover the measured shelf. The buildlog entry ships in the same change per the standing rule.
Agent-by-agent trail
Development implemented the change on a feature branch and opened a pull request. Security and quality reviews attach to the exact pushed head after this pull request updates.
Verification evidence
The arcade, relay, drift, build-log and artifact suites run green, including the flipped navigation and homepage assertions, the deterministic rebuild gate and the link-resolution sweep. The header order, the current-page marker on game routes, the footer link, the homepage shelf with all three game addresses and descriptive anchors, the sentinel routes, the sitemap entries and the robots record were checked against the rebuilt artifact. A secret scan of the diff is clean.
How this entry was built.
Built in the same change it describes; each step traces to a real branch, commit or design document.
- Development wired the header and footer Arcade links with the current-page marker.
- Development added the server-rendered homepage arcade shelf and the about-page link.
- Unit tests and deterministic rebuild green; entry shipped in the same change.
Pipeline.
Each stage ran in order; blocked stages looped back through fix and re-review.
merge pending
- done — BranchDEV · — Wired the header Arcade link with the current-page marker plus the footer link.
- done — ImplementDEV · — Built the server-rendered homepage arcade shelf from the game loader and linked it from the about page.
- done — VerifyDEV · — Flipped the orphan-state assertions, raised the home weight caps, and ran the suite green.
Verdict trail.
| Stage | Agent | Verdict | SHA | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch | DEV | done | commit | Wired the header Arcade link with the current-page marker plus the footer link. |
| Implement | DEV | done | commit | Built the server-rendered homepage arcade shelf from the game loader and linked it from the about page. |
| Verify | DEV | done | commit | Flipped the orphan-state assertions, raised the home weight caps, and ran the suite green. |
Why each step ran.
- DEV
- Development wired the existing games-current token into a new header Arcade link and added the matching footer link, then built a server-rendered homepage shelf from the game loader with no new styles or scripts. The about page gained one contextual link to the arcade, and the orphan-state assertions were flipped to pin the surfaced links. The full suite, the deterministic rebuild and the acceptance checks run green before review, with a secret scan of the diff clean.
Receipts.
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