VFS Federation Studio 0.0.16 engineering handoff
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Primary change
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The preservation-first Chronicle model is now exposed as a native desktop
workflow. The placeholder center has been replaced by a task-oriented landing
page; New/Open workspace dialogs, Federation Explorer, Context Inspector,
status bar, and Chronicle Center all project the same canonical saved document.

Chronicle Center exposes Overview, audit History, explicit compare-and-swap
Recovery, and review-only Proposals. A successful explicit Perl NN candidate
approval is registered as a pending proposal when a workspace is active. The
link is evidence-only and grants no build, model-selection, VFS, Monk, code, or
network authority.

Documentation change
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Offline Help manifest v2 has five named sections and twenty-six ordered topics.
The Help Center provides grouped navigation, ranked excerpts, breadcrumbs,
match traversal, and full-guide traversal. New pages cover Quick Start, desktop
navigation, federation concepts, Chronicle Center, Path/Rule instruments, and
build/export. Generated Perl distributions add local static search across their
five package-specific HTML pages.

Important files
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src/vfs_federation_studio/workspace/controller.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/ui/widgets/workspace_home.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/ui/dialogs/workspace_files.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/ui/dialogs/chronicle_center.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/ui/dialogs/offline_help.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/ui/main_window.py
src/vfs_federation_studio/help/manifest.json
src/vfs_federation_studio/help/topics/
src/vfs_federation_studio/emitters/perl/package.py
docs/architecture/CHRONICLE_CENTER_STATUS_v0.0.16.md
docs/architecture/ROADMAP_CONFORMANCE_v0.0.16.md

Review boundary
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Do not interpret accepted proposals as applied artifacts. Selection and verified
build remain later explicit steps. Do not interpret the native Chronicle Center
as completion of roadmap RM-P2: project/mount authoring, Qt undo, autosave
checkpoint creation, and the GUI/CLI parity gate remain open.

Assembly evidence
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The complete Python suite passes 211 tests with one environment-only
QLocalSocket skip. Ten preservation/intelligence proofs pass. The repository
Perl suite passes 93 assertions; the separate laptop NN suite passes 92. The
default 59-file and approved-candidate 60-file emitted distributions pass Perl
syntax and all 40 generated assertions. Offscreen Qt layout qualification
passes at simulated 100, 125, 150, and 200 percent scaling.

Windows 11 wheel review
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Install the v0.0.16 wheel into a clean Python 3.12+ virtual environment, move
outside the source tree, and launch:

  py -m vfs_federation.ide

Review New/Open workspace previews, landing page wrapping, tree icons, all four
Chronicle tabs, proposal confirmation language, Help section/search navigation,
keyboard focus, and 100/125/150/200 percent display scaling. Then run:

  powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\windows_assistant_qualification.ps1

Linux/offscreen qualification cannot replace actual Windows display,
screen-reader, or native Perl qualification; those results must be recorded by
the reviewer rather than inferred.
