Cryptograss:Moods/pickipedia-and-rabbithole/todo
What the people in this Mood have left each other to do. Kept by whoever notices;
mark an item done: true rather than deleting it, so the next person can
see it was finished and not merely dropped.
Compacted 2026-10-19. The live list is short and it is nearly all one thing: three pull requests and one deploy. Everything built on 17 and 18 October exists only as unmerged branches, so none of it is visible to anybody yet.
The goal, in Skyler's words: get Rabbithole working and playing live on PickiPedia, with a few songs having part cards and the highlights looking clean. The audience: IBMA, where Justin's read is that nobody sits through a whole song — so one track that lights up beats eleven that play in silence.
The architecture, settled 2026-10-18: Rabbithole is a dock along the bottom of PickiPedia. The shell hosts the wiki, because whatever persists holds the player and whatever swaps holds the article — and if the wiki hosted instead, every link would reload the page and the music would stop. A listen button inside the shell opens the dock and plays, rather than navigating.
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- task: Merge rabbithole#2, then run the playbook
who: justin
kind: merge
link: https://github.com/cryptograss/rabbithole/pull/2
note: >
Twenty-two commits, the bottom bar and everything under it. Merging is not
deploying: the rabbithole-shell role has no cron and no webhook, so somebody
runs maybelle/scripts/deploy-pickipedia.sh on maybelle with the vault
password on stdin. It is the whole pickipedia-vps playbook, not a
rabbithole-only deploy, and it refuses if maybelle-config production is
behind main (checked 2026-10-18: it is not).
Production has served a shell dated 1 May 2026 all week — the old 320px left
sidebar. Every listen button on all eleven song pages opens it. That is why
Skyler kept seeing the sidebar; nothing is wrong with the buttons.
done: false
- task: Merge rabbithole#3 — tests, the lost scene half, the pane, trails
who: justin
kind: merge
link: https://github.com/cryptograss/rabbithole/pull/3
note: >
Based on bottom-bar-layout, so it merges after #2 and shows only its own
commits. 36 tests where the repo had vitest configured and none at all.
Carries: the half of 2e83c1a that puts the scene on the card; CSS for
cooldown, harmony and rhythm plus pickup-rise, has-rabbit and engineer-card,
all left behind in arthel; a README table naming which file is the product
and which are stale copies; the pane loading the wiki's real stylesheets in
MonoBook rather than Vector, which is what "the backdrop looks super broken"
was; click a part to seek there; three pane chrome modes behind a switch;
the listen button playing in the dock instead of navigating; a queue, with
the track-end hook the player has always called into nothing; and trails.
done: false
- task: Merge pickipedia#148 — the rabbit chases the carrot
who: justin
kind: merge
link: https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia/pull/148
note: >
The listen button is already live on all eleven song pages: the template
carries inline styles, so the shape did not wait on a deploy. This adds what
inline styles cannot express, hover and the keyframes. Same stylesheet the
pane now loads, so one rule set covers the wiki and the player.
Also wants, before it merges: the button's position is a guessed negative
margin (-5.9em) rather than a rule anchored to the heading. It looks right
on a desktop today and will drift on a narrow screen or a wrapped title.
done: false
- task: Merge pickipedia-mcp#33 and restart the MCP server
who: justin
kind: merge
link: https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia-mcp/pull/33
note: >
A marker line is its own paragraph, so it stops eating the prose above it.
Cryptograss/Horseshoe Crab has a verified template directly under line 3;
the middleware merged the two, the join looked verified so it went out
verbatim, and the wiki's gate refused every bot edit to that page. Needs a
restart as well as a merge — the server loads its bundle at start.
done: false
- task: Look at it on a phone
who: skyler
kind: review
note: >
Justin asked for this on 2026-10-18 and it has not happened. The listen
button's placement is the most likely thing to break: it is positioned by a
negative margin that assumes a one-line title. Preview, while the container
lives: http://hunter.cryptograss.live:14003/rabbithole/pickipedia-demo.html
done: false
- task: Which chrome should the pane wear
who: skyler
kind: decision
note: >
Three modes are built and switchable from a select in the pane: content, a
header we own with a working search, or MonoBook's full chrome fetched from
the real page. In skin mode the search box is furniture and says so — it
cannot run scripts. Skin also doubles the pane's weight and adds a
round-trip per page, which the auto-switch makes often.
done: false
- task: Which one is THE play button
who: skyler
kind: decision
note: >
Three in the bar: webamp's transport, the carrot, and .mini-player-btn.
Open since 2026-10-16. Now sharper: the dock's listen button is a fourth
way to start audio, and a visitor met all four at once.
done: false
- task: Timelines — nineteen of twenty-one tracks are empty
who: skyler
kind: edit
note: >
August and Paint Exchange have real ones. Everything else plays with a blank
bar. Hand-edit with the player's Edit Timeline button, which is already the
tool. Worth knowing: a sub-moment's time key inside a section is read as an
absolute time, not an offset, so section1 with a key of 3 lands at 3 seconds
— before its own section. Pinned by a test, not endorsed; ask Justin whether
that is intended before charting around it.
done: false
- task: Metadata for some vocal songs
who: magent
kind: edit
note: >
Justin, by voice, 2026-10-18: everything charted so far is instrumental, so
we have not found out what Rabbithole does with words. Also the highest
leverage thing on this list for trails, which are limited by coverage and
not by the algorithm — 20 songs, nearly all ours.
done: false
- task: Document the metadata format
who: magent
kind: edit
note: Justin asked for it by voice, 2026-10-18. Nothing written yet.
done: false
- task: Write up the URL question
who: magent
kind: review
note: >
Justin, by voice: the article is the primary URL and what is playing is a
second axis, and he does not know how they compose. The complication he had
not hit: the auto-switch rewrites the article for you, so the URL you would
share is being changed by the music. Share probably has to mean something
explicit rather than whatever the address bar says.
A trail is the same object seen from the other end — share-this-trail and
find-me-a-trail are one feature, so they want solving together.
done: false
- task: Unwrap the cover image on the song pages
who: magent
kind: edit
note: >
Each of the eleven wraps its cover in Bot_proposes. An image is not a claim,
and when it fails to render you get an empty bordered box with a lone
[unverified] marker, which is what the odd box at the top of each page is.
done: false
- task: The listen button on the other ten song pages
who: magent
kind: edit
note: >
August has it in its new place, above the infobox so it floats to the top
right. The other ten still have it mid-page. Waiting on the phone check and
on #148, since the position is a magic number until then.
done: false
- task: Paste one line into Horseshoe Crab Day 9
who: anyone
kind: edit
link: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Template:Horseshoe_Crab_Day_9_paste
note: >
One bullet, the Webamp vendoring of 11 October. Everything else moved to
Cryptograss/Jellyfish. The bot cannot save that page until mcp#33 ships.
done: false
- task: Write the four people Rabbithole would strand
who: anyone
kind: edit
note: >
David Grier, Ice Quilitz, Jeff Fehlauer, Luna Lavender. Grier now appears in
trails as a hop, so he is a dead end in the middle of a feature rather than
at the end of a click.
done: false
- task: Decide the remaster / remix / overdub line
who: justin
kind: decision
link: https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia/issues/144
note: Blocks the automatic ensemble path. The melodica overdub is the sharp case.
done: false
- task: Special:Categories is reporting numbers that are not true
who: justin
kind: deploy
note: Leaderboards claims 8,265 members and has 4. maintenance/recountCategories.php.
done: false
- task: Delete Template:Studio track and Template:Studio track/testcases
who: justin
kind: edit
note: The wiki's only script error. The bot cannot delete.
done: false
- task: Look at the front page draft and say whether to adopt it
who: justin
kind: review
link: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Template:Main_Page_draft/preview
note: Main Page untouched since April, read 530,000 times, opens on half a screen of nothing.
done: false
- task: Merge 9f83ab7 and c13f2e8 — the two most-wanted tools
who: justin
kind: merge
link: https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/pickipedia/commits/production
done: false
- task: The infobox asks for instrument icons that do not exist
who: magent
kind: edit
note: Template:ThinkingEntityInfo builds a File: link without asking whether the icon exists.
done: false
- task: Finish populating {{Song}} on the twelve pages outside 4masks
who: magent
kind: edit
done: false
- task: The metadata editor no longer works inside the pane
who: magent
kind: review
note: Injected HTML does not run scripts, so the editor cannot boot in the pane. Worth a decision rather than a silent loss.
done: false
- task: Release the held podcast import — 240 pages would change, limit is 50
who: magent
kind: review
link: https://pickipedia.xyz/status/podcast-import.txt
done: false
- task: Self-host packery, js-yaml and the Google Fonts faces
who: magent
kind: edit
note: Same class of dependency that killed the player once. Webamp is vendored; these are not.
done: false
- task: Drop the four hard-coded demo songs
who: magent
kind: edit
note: audioFile "/audio/August.flac" and friends, 404 everywhere, and the four arthel YAML rabbithole blocks that feed them.
done: false
- task: Masks has no session data anywhere
who: anyone
kind: edit
link: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Song%3AMasks
note: The only one of eleven tracks with no ensemble recorded. Somebody who was there can fix it in a sentence.
done: false
- task: Settled, 16 to 18 October
who: anyone
kind: review
note: >
Written up in full at Cryptograss/Jellyfish. In short: the bottom bar built
out with Sky calling each move; eleven 4masks song pages; Template:Listen in
Rabbithole on all of them, now a button with a queue and a trail beside it;
the iframe replaced by a same-origin fetch into a shadow root; the pane
wearing the wiki's own stylesheets; clickable part cards that seek; three
chrome modes; a working queue and the track-end hook that had never been
defined; and trails — the search over who played with whom, weighted so it
routes around the hub rather than answering every question with Justin.
Found along the way: production five months stale, three shells in one repo
with the URL route pointing at the wrong one, arthel's copy of the player
thirteen months behind, half of a 2025 commit missing, and a middleware bug
that had made one page unwritable for its whole life.
done: true