System
Harbor DNA
Quiet ops admin — dense indexes, semantic status, no cinema.
Harbor — design DNA
Harbor is the ops admin contract on ui.byronwade.com. It is not Meridian with a green hue. It is a deliberate system for dense indexes, quiet chrome, and semantic status — the surfaces agents keep open for hours.
The merge
| Source | Take | Leave behind |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify Polaris | Dense resource clarity, calm neutrals, status honesty | Green-as-brand decoration, heavy marketing chrome |
| Linear | Row density, selected wash, keyboard scanning | Purple accent, dark-only identity, issue-tracker clichés |
| Vercel | Sparse craft, mono metadata | Pure stark coldness, marketing-hero defaults |
| Meridian (sibling) | Shared platform skeleton, shadcn compose, gates | Cinema frames, theater tone, warm soft paper as default |
What Harbor is
Quiet paper operations. Indexes you can scan. Status you can trust. Chrome that stays out of the way. Light-first cool paper. One accent — harbor green for brand/selected only; warning / destructive stay semantic. Depth defaults to none. No cinema.
Laws
- Tokens only — OKLCH semantic utilities; no raw hex in components.
- One accent —
--brandfor selected / primary CTA; never wash whole rows in brand. - Status ≠ brand — open / warning / healthy / destructive chips stay semantic.
- Dense by default — stable row heights, mono IDs, compact toolbars.
- Depth defaults to none —
edgefirst; raise only for floating panels. - Shape vocabulary — controls
rounded-lg/ pillsrounded-full; panelsrounded-2xl. - No cinema — no full-bleed heroes, overlay stickers, or theater tone on ops routes.
- Own empty / loading / error on every resource index.
Surfaces
| Surface | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Indexes / tables | Compact sans, mono meta, semantic chips |
| Record detail | Title → description → meta → actions |
| Settings | Calm forms, h-8/h-9 controls |
| Docs (secondary) | reading-ui only when truly long-form |
Agent stack
Law book (contracts/harbor/) → harbor-* skills → recipes → npm run validate.
Contract MCP optional. See docs/stack.md.
Why this is not Meridian-green
Anyone can recolor Meridian. Harbor bans cinema, prefers list-resource over agent-rail as the default hero pattern, and treats status chips as first-class grammar. The site should feel like a trustworthy ops console — inevitable, not referential.