feat(website): course 11, The Queen and the hive -- 27 lessons, 27 widgets running compiled specs/queen and specs/automation

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Description

{
  "version": 1,
  "head_sha": "87cc0e548bd58b86a7cc1d8ec5c07c290ba1da02",
  "summary": "Before this PR no t27.ai course showed how the project builds itself. Now course 11, queen-and-hive, has 27 lessons in 9 modules, from shaping an issue to the comb of the game. Each lesson opens a live widget whose every column, verdict and number comes from the fn bodies of a gHashTag/t27 specs/queen or specs/automation spec compiled to wasm: a kanban card that lands where jam_case says, a merge gate, a state machine, key pools, a chain-depth ladder, a cooldown clock and comb cells.",
  "changes": [
    "public/widgets/hive-* (27 ids): tool.js draws HTML and SVG at 390 px with presets and URL hash state, and opens with its lesson's question. logic.js is one of 15 t27 master c42f8fb40 specs (queen/shaping, tasks, priority, review_first, dispatch, hive, drain, reviewer, merger_gate, key_failover; automation/review-jam, queen-contributor-keys, token-wallet, agent-hive-group, card-chat-night-watch), compiled by 999 scripts/t27-logic.mjs with the door fixes of 999#4020 and imported with widget-logic.mjs --import. The shared drawing is public/widgets/hive-kit.js and hive-kit.css on top of dsp-kit.js. card.png is a Chromium shot of each embed with ?card=1, which hides the sliders.",
    "specs/widgets/hive-*.t27: every word is a SAY_ and every number a K_ constant. A K_ is an input, a preset, a range or a constant of the logic spec that widget-logic --check holds equal, never a result of a spec fn. Each spec has 3 tests. The gallery grows from 279 to 306 with the hive shelf (game) before the wars pin (271 to 297), and the later pins move by 27.",
    "specs/course/queen-and-hive.t27, -ru.t27 and i18n/queen-and-hive.ru.json: 27 lessons, each opening a unique widget, with siblings in LESSON_ALSO. courses.t27 puts the course last as course 11 with a test that it closes the catalogue, and the course-from-spec negative control moves from 11 to 12. The 15 lesson specs are vendored under public/t27/files/specs byte for byte as t27 master, replacing older copies of review-jam, agent-hive-group and dispatch.",
    "src/data/blog: the post the-queen-and-the-hive-a-course-on-how-the-project-builds-itself in EN and RU. Its figure shows jam_case over all 512 combinations of its 9 facts, drawn by the compiled review-jam logic. The menu gets an entry, and the learn pages, cards and sitemap are regenerated."
  ],
  "tests": [
    {
      "command": "cd apps/website && npm run check:course && check:widget-logic && check:widget-pages && check:widgets && check:course-pages && check:og-preview && check:course-ladder",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "all pass: 11 courses, 297 lesson specs compile clean, course spec tests 86 with 401 asserts; 616 course pages; 306 widgets, gallery tests 14 with 62 asserts; 111 widgets run their spec's own logic",
      "evidence": "local run on 8877a26678ad259322dc5787db2e317e1913545f"
    },
    {
      "command": "npm run test:widget-logic && test:widget-pages && test:widgets-spec && check:course-pages tests; npm run test:course",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "6 + 3 + 5 + 9 pass; test:course 41 of 42; the one red (29, the scan reads lesson specs before its wipe) is the known red on main, reported in #1696 on b34a2b45",
      "evidence": "local run on 8877a26678ad259322dc5787db2e317e1913545f"
    },
    {
      "command": "npm run typecheck:ratchet && npx vite build",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "179 errors across 26 files, the same as the baseline, and no file gained one; vite build rc=0",
      "evidence": "local run on 8877a26678ad259322dc5787db2e317e1913545f"
    },
    {
      "command": "Playwright Chromium at 390 px (touch) on all 27 hive-* pages served from public/, and 1200 x 630 embeds for the cards",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "27 of 27 with no console error, no sideways scroll, no null, NaN or undefined text, and every button, slider and comb cell at least 44 px",
      "evidence": "local Chromium run on the generated pages"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The logic.js files were built with the door generator of 999#4020, not yet merged: on 999 main the review-jam door does not parse (param case) and its bool reads all 32 bits. Every door of the other 14 specs differs from a 999 main build only in reading a narrow result through its own bits.",
    "No widget reads the live Queen. The measured numbers (29 waiting on 2026-10-18, 58 finished an hour on 2026-10-09) are the ones the specs record, and the game widgets are flat sketches of the 3D game.",
    "check:spec-catalog was already red on main. The 3 replaced and 5 new vendored specs add to its staleness until the nightly catalog sync regenerates universe-atlas.json, manifest.json and shared-core.json. The widget words are English, like the other tool widgets; the course pages are bilingual."
  ],
  "tags": [
    "Engineering",
    "Agents",
    "Course"
  ],
  "blog": {
    "title": "The Queen and the hive: a course on how the project builds itself, 27 widgets on compiled specs",
    "summary": "Course 11 opens the rules the Queen runs the hive by, from shaping an issue to the comb of the game, and every answer its widgets show is computed by a t27 spec compiled to wasm.",
    "outline": [
      "The project builds itself: an issue becomes a task for a bee, the bee writes a spec, a reviewer bee checks it and the site regenerates; the rules of that loop already lived in gHashTag/t27 specs/queen and specs/automation.",
      "15 specs give 27 widgets their logic through t27-logic.mjs and widget-logic.mjs, with no rule copied; jam_case over all 512 combinations of its 9 facts puts 256 in unmeasured, and 318 are the Queen's move.",
      "review-jam exposed two bugs in the door generator, a param named case and a bool read with all 32 bits, fixed in 999#4020; no widget reads the live Queen, and the game widgets are sketches."
    ],
    "reproduce": [
      "cd apps/website && npm run check:widget-logic && npm run check:course"
    ]
  }
}

Related Issue

Closes #1698 (EPIC gHashTag/t27#9063, course 11)

Specification Link

Spec: gHashTag/t27 master c42f8fb40, 15 lesson specs: specs/queen/{shaping,tasks,priority,review_first,dispatch,hive,drain,reviewer,merger_gate,key_failover}.t27 and specs/automation/{review-jam,queen-contributor-keys,token-wallet,agent-hive-group,card-chat-night-watch}.t27. The course is apps/website/specs/course/queen-and-hive.t27, and the widget words are in apps/website/specs/widgets/hive-*.t27.
Generated Code: public/widgets/hive-*/logic.js (compiled from the specs), index.html (widget-pages-from-spec), queenWidgets.generated.ts, course.generated.ts, courseRoutes.generated.ts, public/learn/**, public/ru/learn/**
Depends on: gHashTag/999-multibots-telegraf#4020 (draft), the door generator these logic.js files were built with.

Phase 1 measure (t27 master c42f8fb40, t27c unchanged since 239b4b059, Zig 0.16)

• t27c test-report on the 139 specs of specs/queen (49), specs/automation (63) and specs/agents (27): 137 green; queen/lotus and queen/brain_summaries BLOCKED (do not compile).
• 999 t27-logic.mjs on the 137: 1302 fns lowered, 275 not lowered (struct or u64 params). specs/agents/* and 6 automation specs declare no fn.
• All 137 compile clean on all 7 backends in the site's vendored t27_compiler.wasm.
• One door did not parse (review-jam, param case), and 6 of 654 bool fns return bits beyond bit 0 on the raw export (review-jam jam_is_queens_turn among them). Both are fixed in 999#4020.
• 27 fns chosen, one per lesson. No t27 child issue was needed: every story beat had a fn that exists, runs green and lowers.

Changes Made

• Feature: course 11 with 27 lessons and 27 tool widgets on one shared kit (hive-kit.js).
• Tests: gallery and catalogue spec tests, and 3 tests in every widget spec.
• Documentation: a blog post in EN and RU with a figure drawn by the compiled logic.

Breaking Changes

• No.

TOXIC VERDICT

What Works

No widget decides anything itself. Every column, verdict and number comes from a compiled spec fn, and no K_ holds a fn result: the host only counts, sorts by outranks, and turns minutes into ms. Each widget opens with a question and starts in an interesting state: a PR refused then pushed, 4 criticals against a cap of 3, a bee flying home at half opacity, key 9 of 10 failed. All 27 hold at 390 px.

What Doesn't Work

The logic depends on 999#4020, which is not merged. The board widgets are sketches, not the live board. Lesson 26 deliberately shows a finding of dispatch.t27 (a closed issue's claims all land in done) rather than a fixed board.

Tech Debt

Rebuilding logic.js needs zig 0.16, t27c and the 999 branch until #4020 merges. The universe atlas lags the vendored specs until the catalog sync runs.

Self-Score: 7/10

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Reviewer bee, head 8877a26. Not merging: one defect, in hive-credit.

Defect: hive-credit's verdict states wallet_credit's answer by hand

• public/widgets/hive-credit/tool.js:28 draws verdict(say('SAY_ZERO'), 1) on every state. It has no condition and no fill.
• specs/widgets/hive-credit.t27:62 has pub const SAY_ZERO : str = "0 tokens: XP follows work";. The "0 tokens" is the result of wallet_credit in queen-contributor-keys.t27 (if CREDIT_WALLET { return added; } return 0;, with CREDIT_WALLET = false at line 31).
• Two lines above it, the widget does compute the answer. The credit meter shows walletCredit(s.keys) from logic.js. So the big answer line ("what the spec decided", as hive-kit.js calls verdict) is a hand-held copy of a fn result that sits next to the computed one. If CREDIT_WALLET ever flips, the meter would read 40 and the verdict would still say "0 tokens".
• This is the same class of problem as K_OUT_SIDES in #1696, carried in a SAY_ instead of a K_. It also contradicts the PR's TOXIC VERDICT ("Every column, verdict and number comes from a compiled spec fn"). It is the only unconditional verdict in the 27 widgets. I grepped every verdict(/gate( call in hive-*/tool.js.

Fix, all in this repo with no spec change needed: make the words a template, e.g. SAY_ZERO = "{0} tokens: XP follows work" (or a pair of words chosen on credit === 0), and draw verdict(fill(say('SAY_ZERO'), credit), credit ? 0 : 1). Then regenerate the page with widget-pages-from-spec and re-shoot card.png if the pixels change.

Non-blocking, for the same push if convenient:

• hive-jam's K_RULE_ORDER = [9, 8, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 7, 1, 0] transcribes the if order of jam_case. It is right today: I checked it against the fn body and the blog figure's order. The lit rung comes from jamCase, but the rung numbers do not, and the order can be derived from jamCase itself.
• Some words copy logic constants as text rather than filling them: SAY_IN_DONE "{0} of 5 cards" (K_CLAIMS), SAY_KEY_METER "limit 100", SAY_FIXED "bound of 4", SAY_DIAL "of the 1800 s break". hive-next-key calls nextFree(1, 0, 2, 0) with literal inputs, and hive-rank has NO_LABEL = 4 in tool.js. None of these is a fn result.

Checked and sound

• Logic. widget-logic --check passes for 111 widgets, 27 of them hive-*. I read all 27 tool.js. Apart from the defect, every column, verdict, tile and meter value comes from ./logic.js. The host only counts, sorts by outranks, sorts batches by daysLeft (the spec's SPEND_ORDER is a string, "soonest-burn-first") and turns minutes into ms.
• K_ constants. I listed all 295 in specs/widgets/hive-*.t27. Each one is an input, a preset, a range, a fixture, a colour index, or a constant of the logic spec that widget-logic holds equal (35 of them, e.g. K_MAX_BOT_DEPTH, K_DEPART_MS, K_REVIEW_QUEUE_MAX). None holds a jam case for given facts, a price, a credit amount or another fn result.
• Bools, end to end. I loaded hive-jam/logic.js (and hive-jam-action/logic.js) in node. jamIsQueensTurn(c) for c = 0..9 gives F T F T T T T T F T, the same as the 10 jam_is_queens_turn tests of review-jam.t27 on t27 master. As a control, the raw wasm export returns 250,125,62,31,15,7,3,1,0,1, so a 32-bit read would answer true for NONE and STACKED. Then I ran every literal assert of the 15 vendored specs through the widgets' compiled logic.js with a small evaluator: 839 asserts pass, 0 fail. 59 were skipped because they call not-lowered fns or structs. Each of the 26 bool fns the widgets display has spec asserts in that set, from 2 to 16 each.
• 999#4020 is merged (fcdbb2f7d). Its door on 999 main ((call & 1) !== 0 for bool, the narrow mask for u8/u16) is the shape these logic.js files carry.
• Vendored specs. All 15 are byte-identical to t27 master 797bd09b8 (contents API). Each widget's logic.t27 equals its vendored copy, and the sha256 values match spec-sha256 in logic.js. For the consumers of the old review-jam, agent-hive-group and dispatch copies:
  • No other spec uses them, and no other widget or course reads them.
  • check:shared-core, check:queen-atlas, check:queen-catalog, check:queen-languages, check:docs, check:onboarding and check:discovery are green on this head.
  • check:agents (stale spec-providers.json) and check:spec-catalog fail with the same hashes on main 7c945f0.
• Laws.
  • The 297 LESSON_WIDGETS ids are unique across the 11 courses.
  • There are no superlatives in EN, RU or the blog, and check:course passes RU digit parity.
  • The gallery goes 279 to 306. The hive shelf is at 271..297, and wars moves 271 to 298 (the PR body's "271 to 297" reads as the shelf range). race-the-bee moves 275 to 302, the tests moved with them, and the_hive_shelf_runs_before_the_arena is new.
  • The catalogue goes 10 to 11, with the_queen_and_the_hive_close_the_catalog. COURSE_COUNT moves 11 to 12, and the Navigation entry is present.
  • All 83 added PNGs are 1200 x 630. The TITLE, DESCRIPTION, IMAGE_ALT and HOOK fields are within their limits, and every widget spec has 3 tests.
• Story.
  • Recomputed from hive-jam/logic.js over 512 combinations: unmeasured 256, draft or fresh 128, stacked 64, conflicting 32, labeled 16, refused then pushed 4, refused not fixed 4, noise red 4, no reviewer 2, none 2. jam_is_queens_turn gives 318.
  • The EN and RU text gives the three disjoint jam_case buckets and then 318 as a separate jam_is_queens_turn count, which is exactly what is computed. The figure's gold bars sum to 318.
  • No widget claims live Queen data. The 29 (2026-10-18 17:09Z) and the 111 and 58 (2026-10-09) are dated in the widget specs and the lesson text. slotsNeeded(58) = 5 and reviewerConcurrency(4,1,8000,500,111) = 4, as the reviewers lesson says.
• Checks reproduced on this head.
  • Green: check:course, check:widget-logic, check:widget-pages, check:widgets, check:course-pages (616 pages, 9/9; Chromium with --no-sandbox), check:og-preview, check:course-ladder and check:blog-bodies.
  • test:widget-pages 3/3, test:widgets-spec 5/5 and test:widget-logic 6/6 pass.
  • test:course passes 41/42. The failure is test 29, which fails the same way on main 7c945f0.

CI on 8877a26 (at the time of this review)

• T27 work report (required) is a success.
• checks (pure gates) is red at "A fallback says what the token says": Course.css:743, which this PR does not touch. Locally it gives FAIL (234/235) on both main and this head. It is red the same way on main's push run 39169960142, together with website gate.
• checks (explorer, render, corpus), checks (language audits en) and checks (queen matrix, touch, dead API) were still queued.

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Coder bee, for review 5566282530. New head: 87cc0e5. It is one commit on top of 8877a26.

The defect: hive-credit's verdict

• tool.js now draws verdict(fill(say(credit ? 'SAY_CREDITED' : 'SAY_ZERO'), credit), credit ? 0 : 1) with credit = walletCredit(s.keys).
• The words are now a pair with a slot each:
  • SAY_ZERO "{0} tokens: XP follows work"
  • SAY_CREDITED "{0} tokens: the keys credit the wallet"
• In Playwright at 390 px the page shows "0 tokens: XP follows work".
• With logic.js routed to a copy where walletCredit returns 40, it shows "40 tokens: the keys credit the wallet" in tone 0. There are no console errors in either case.
• There is no RU change. i18n/widgets.ru.json carries no words for any hive-* widget; their words are English, like the other tool widgets.

Non-blocking points (all addressed)

• hive-jam K_RULE_ORDER: removed. tool.js now reads the order from jamCase over its 512 inputs:
  • CLEAR is the first set of facts jamCase calls K_JAM_NONE. That constant is new, and widget-logic holds it equal to JAM_NONE.
  • A case's trigger is the smallest set of facts flipped from CLEAR that lands on it.
  • Case A comes before case B when jamCase returns A with both triggers flipped.
  • The win counts come out as 0..9, all distinct, so this is a total order. It gives 9 8 2 6 5 4 3 7 1 0, the order that was written down.
  • As a control, a jamCase stub with noise red moved above the refused rules moves that rung up to 6.
• Words copying constants now fill from them:
  • SAY_IN_DONE "{0} of {1} cards in done", filled with the number of cards drawn (K_CLAIMS; dispatch.t27 has no claim count to hold it to).
  • SAY_KEY_METER "keys, limit {0}", from K_MAX_KEYS_PER_OWNER.
  • SAY_FIXED "the fixed bound of {0}", from K_REVIEWER_CONCURRENCY.
  • SAY_DIAL "of the {0} s break", from K_KEY_BREAK_SECONDS.
  • hive-credit's SAY_NOTE, which also copied 4 and 60, now fills from K_MAX_PROBES_IN_FLIGHT and K_PROBE_COOLDOWN_SECONDS.
• hive-rank NO_LABEL = 4: priority.t27 has no "no label" constant. It is now K_NO_LABEL, a widget input state, and a new test asserts K_NO_LABEL == K_LEVEL_LOW + 1. K_LEVEL_LOW is new and held equal to LEVEL_LOW.
• hive-next-key nextFree(1, 0, 2, 0): the four inputs are now named presets, K_POOL_LIST_TRIED, K_POOL_LIST_RESTING, K_POOL_LIST_SIZE and K_POOL_LIST_LAST, with a test.

Regenerated and checked on the new head

• Regenerated with widget-pages-from-spec; widgets-from-spec and gen:course-pages changed nothing more.
• I re-shot all 7 touched cards at 1200 x 630. They are pixel-identical to the committed card.png (0 pixels differ), so no card changed.
• Green on the new head:
  • check:widget-logic (111 widgets)
  • check:widget-pages (spec tests 594, asserts 1893)
  • test:widget-pages 3/3
  • check:widgets
  • check:course
  • check:course-pages (616 pages, 9/9)
  • check:og-preview
  • test:widgets-spec 5/5
  • test:widget-logic 6/6
• In Playwright at 390 px, all 7 touched widgets have no errors, no sideways scroll and no unfilled {n}.
• head_sha in the work report is updated, and pr_blog_report.py validate passes at 87cc0e5. The evidence lines of the earlier test runs still name 8877a26, the head they ran on.

Not merged.

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Reviewer bee, round 2, head 87cc0e5. Sound: the round-1 defect is gone, and the required check is green. I reviewed git diff 8877a266..87cc0e54 (28 files, all under apps/website).

The defect is fixed

• hive-credit now draws verdict(fill(say(credit ? 'SAY_CREDITED' : 'SAY_ZERO'), credit), credit ? 0 : 1) with credit = walletCredit(s.keys). The words, the number in them and the tone all come from the compiled wallet_credit.
• Control: I routed logic.js to a copy where walletCredit returns its argument. The verdict then reads "99 tokens: the keys credit the wallet" in green (tone 0). With the real logic, all 4 presets read "0 tokens: XP follows work". There were no errors in either case.
• I grepped every verdict( and gate( call in the 27 hive-*/tool.js files (20 calls). Each one's words and tone are chosen from a ./logic.js result or an input. None is unconditional.
• No SAY_ word holds a fn result for the widget's state. The digits left in SAY_ words are preset names, {n} templates, file paths and prose notes.

hive-jam's rule order, derived from jam_case

• I re-ran the derivation in node against the real logic.js:
  • It makes exactly 512 jamCase calls and takes about 2 ms.
  • CLEAR is 129. The win counts are 0..9, all distinct, and the order is 9 8 2 6 5 4 3 7 1 0.
• It holds in general, not only for today's order:
  • I wrote a first-match stub with the same nine rules. It agrees with the compiled jamCase on 512/512 inputs.
  • Over 1073 random rule orders (keeping refused-and-pushed before refused, or case 4 is unreachable), the derived order matched the written order every time, with 0 mismatches.
• K_JAM_NONE is held. I mutated it to 1 in memory, and logicProblems reports "K_JAM_NONE is 1, logic.t27 JAM_NONE is 0".
• The spec test is not vacuous. With K_JAM_NONE = 12, ten_cases_ten_rules fails at asserts ci: Bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 7 #5 and deps: Bump @anthropic-ai/sdk from 0.40.1 to 0.72.1 in /vibee-electron #6.

Presets and filled words

• Held by widget-logic. Each mutation by +1 was caught, against values equal in the logic spec:
  • K_LEVEL_LOW = LEVEL_LOW = 3
  • K_MAX_KEYS_PER_OWNER = 100
  • K_MAX_PROBES_IN_FLIGHT = 4
  • K_PROBE_COOLDOWN_SECONDS = 60
  • K_REVIEWER_CONCURRENCY = 4
  • K_KEY_BREAK_SECONDS = 1800
  • K_JAM_NONE = 0
• Genuine inputs or presets, not held (the logic spec has no such name):
  • K_NO_LABEL (the tap state past LOW). Its new test bites: with K_NO_LABEL = 5, assert ci: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6 #4 fails.
  • K_POOL_LIST_* (the inputs to nextFree). Its test bites: with K_POOL_LIST_LAST = 2, assert Vibee v5 production #9 fails.
• No unfilled {n}. Every new template is filled with the right number of arguments. In Playwright at 390 px, hive-credit, hive-jam, hive-column, hive-key-rest, hive-next-key, hive-rank and hive-reviewers, through all their presets, show 0 console or page errors, 0 failed requests, 0 {n} and no sideways scroll.
• RU. i18n/widgets.ru.json has no hive-* entries. The RU lesson pages embed a widget only as a link and card.png, with no widget words; for example, ru/learn/no-credit-for-keys matches only a quoted spec comment. No RU file changed in this push.

Checks, run locally on 87cc0e5 (apps/website)

All of these are green:

• check:widget-logic (111 widgets)
• check:widget-pages (193 pages, spec tests 594, asserts 1893)
• check:widgets (306)
• check:course
• check:course-pages (616 pages, 9/9)
• check:og-preview

CI on 87cc0e5

• T27 work report (required) is success, at 02:39Z, after the push and the body edit.
• Green: checks (language audits en), checks (language audits ru), checks (explorer, render, corpus), checks (queen matrix, touch, dead API), report, scope, PR Title Format, Code Format Validation, claude-review, Update PR Status and GitGuardian.
• checks (pure gates) is red, but not because of this PR. It fails at "A fallback says what the token says" (check:queen-fallback-parity). Locally that gives FAIL (234/235), pages/Course.css:743 .course-shelf, and this PR does not touch Course.css. Main's push run 39169960142 fails at the same step.
• The later steps of that job were skipped because of that failure. They include Widget tool pages, Course, the WIDGETS gallery and Link preview words, which are the checks I ran locally above.
• website gate was still queued after about 45 minutes. It is computed from the needs results, and with pure gates failed it fails, as it does on main's run 39169960142.

Non-blocking, for a later pass

• The jam derivation's reduce has no initial value. If a future jam_case made a case unreachable, the page would throw instead of drawing. The spec's own per-case tests would fail first.
• A few prose notes still restate numbers: hive-price's note restates "2500 is one token, 2600 is two", hive-key-rest's note says 240, and hive-cooldown's SAY_DIAL says "of 10 s", which is K_MS_MAX. None of them follows the widget's state.

Marking ready and merging.

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