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Tide Vault

A hydraulic memory chamber where tide waves, silt transport, and gate memory carve channels into a live Three.js simulation.

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Design Quality Needs a Veto

Most agent-built UI fails for a boring reason: the same system that writes the code is allowed to quietly sand down the design intent into safe dashboard mush. The fix is not a more poetic system prompt. The fix is a workflow where design has authority, artifacts, and a veto.

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