DEC-0018resolvedresolve by mvp

Builder meta lives in a Stripe-style workbench, not the site nav

Decision (2026-08-05). Decisions, the builder roadmap, and future building-process meta (annotations, time travel) do not appear in the marketing site’s navigation. They live in a workbench: a collapsed dark bar at the bottom of every page, Stripe-style, with three states —

  1. Collapsed bar — a slim strip with an open-decision count.
  2. Icon popovers — small widgets sharing the Astro-toolbar popover mechanics: the theme switcher and the version lens.
  3. Expanded panel — a resizable section hosting a mini-app with its own navigation (decisions, builder roadmap), independent of the main site.

Why. The original spec put these surfaces in the site nav and the Astro dev toolbar, which broke the core promise: the vision site should read as a finished product’s marketing site. Meta about the building process is a different mode of looking. The Stripe workbench pattern keeps that meta one click away but visually separate — and because the panel is independent of the page, the builder can review a decision while navigating the site around it to think it through in context.

Consequences.

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