Typography token contract Extend the SPEC-048 TokenContract with a real typographic system. Today the contract carries only font.sans / font.mono — no scale, leading, weight, or tracking — so typographic identity (the primary differentiator for editorial/magazine themes) is not themeable. This is the gate for the SPEC-094 Tier 1 foundations.
high moderate
Lumina typography refactor onto tokens Replace Lumina's hardcoded typography with the WORK-404 tokens. Today there are ~351 hardcoded font-size declarations against 5 tokenized — so an editorial theme wanting a different scale must override hundreds of declarations across 90 files. Tokenizing here is also what shrinks the WORK-410 skeleton/skin spike's classification surface.
high complex
Generate Lumina token CSS from tokens.ts Make tokens.ts the single source for Lumina's token CSS. Today tokens/base.css and tokens/dark.css are hand-authored mirrors of luminaTokens, kept in lockstep by token-config-coverage.test.ts — the file header even notes "a future build script that regenerates this file." Wire generateThemeStylesheet into the build so the mirror and its coverage test retire and drift becomes impossible.
medium moderate
Gallery generator — rune subject A CLI command that emits a deterministic static rune gallery: every rune across its variant matrix, on one page, rendered through the HTML adapter. This is the AI-iteration surface and the deterministic subject the harness (WORK-409) photographs.
high complex
Visual-regression harness A shared Playwright harness that photographs the generated gallery + layout fixtures and diffs them against a baseline. This closes the AI iteration loop and — critically — gives the v0.23.0 skeleton/skin extraction its "diff must be empty" proof. No screenshot testing exists in the repo today; this is greenfield.Baselines are ephemeral, not committed. Fixtures and theme CSS churn constantly, so committed golden PNGs would mean endless binary diffs and a re-baseline commit on nearly every PR — noise that trains everyone to ignore the check, plus repo bloat. Instead the baseline is whatever you compare against in the moment (__screenshots__/ is gitignored): capture-then- compare locally, or compare-against-base in CI.
high moderate
Skeleton/skin split — spike The gating spike for the v0.23.0 wholesale extraction. The skeleton/skin cut is a per-declaration design call (structure and aesthetics are braided inside single rules), so settle it empirically on a small slice before committing to the public contract every future theme depends on.
high moderate
Fixture format, loader & generated manifest The foundation of SPEC-102: pin down the fixture format and unify the four fragmented stores into one source the CLI, gallery, editor, and reference all read. The WORK-407 gallery exposed the cost of the status quo — getFixture reads only cli/lib/fixtures.ts (13 runes), ignores RUNE_EXAMPLES (24), and 25 runes fall back to a naive stub that renders wrong (<p> inside an inline badge span).
high complex
Complete the standardised fixture corpus With the format + loader in place (WORK-411), author a good fixture for every rune so the gallery, editor, and inspect render the whole catalogue correctly. The WORK-407 gallery surfaced ~25 runes with no real fixture (rendering the broken stub) and several child runes shown standalone.
high complex
AI write mode draws fixtures as few-shot exemplars ai/src/modes/write.ts hardcodes an "Example structure" in its prompt. Replace it with the unified fixtures — drawing each rune's rich/canonical fixture (with its notes) as in-context few-shot exemplars. No training pipeline; retrieval into the prompt only.
medium moderate
Fixture validation in CI Guard the corpus: parse the frontmatter fields (the format established in WORK-411 strips the block; this work consumes it), validate them against the schema, support <rune>.<scenario>.md scenarios, and ensure every fixture parses + transforms. plugin-validate reports role coverage instead of only warning "no fixture".
medium moderate
Fixture-authoring docs Document the fixture format, frontmatter fields, the role (coverage-vs-exemplar) split, and the <rune>.<scenario>.md convention under the plugin/theme authoring section.
low simple
Gallery: bundle behaviors so interactive/lifecycle runes render The WORK-407 gallery renders the static pre-enhancement HTML, so custom-element / lifecycle runes render empty: diagram → <rf-diagram>, chart → <rf-chart>, nav → <rf-nav>, sandbox → <rf-sandbox>, map → ~nothing. Progressive-enhancement runes (accordion, details, tabs, …) render their no-JS fallback (all-expanded) rather than their real state. Including the behaviors client makes the lifecycle runes draw and the PE runes show their enhanced (representative) state.
medium moderate
Image-src scheme registry + resolver hook The foundation for SPEC-106: recognise custom URL schemes in a Markdown image's src during the transform and resolve them to a renderable, before the generic <img> fallback. Custom schemes (placeholder:, icon:) already survive markdown-it's validateLink, so  arrives as an image node with src intact.
medium moderate
icon: image-src resolver The inline icon shorthand discussed when the icon rune landed:  resolves to the named icon's inline SVG — the same source the {% icon %} rune uses.
medium moderate
placeholder: image-src resolver  resolves to a generated, theme-tinted inline SVG placeholder sized to the named shape — deterministic, offline, screenshot-stable.
medium moderate