Ship Checklist

A component is done when it passes every gate below in all four themes (dark / light / extreme / phosphor). If any box fails, it is not Control Room.

Tokens & chassis

• Every color, border width, shadow, and font comes from a token — no raw hex, px border, or hardcoded font that a token already names.
• All corners square (--radius / 0). No border-radius anywhere — unless this is the one Law 9 breach (.cr-breach).
• Shadows are the hard offset idiom only — offset offset 0 color, never blurred, never soft, never inset-glow — unless it is the Law 9 breach glow.
• No gradient on any content surface — unless it is the Law 9 breach wash.
• Survives a theme flip with zero per-theme overrides.

Design language (the nine laws)

• L1 — surfaces use two tones + hard boundary; correct border-weight hierarchy (--brd / --brd-heavy / --brd-brush); no mid-tone.
• L2 — every non-neutral color asserts real state or action; no decorative flood; one key per region.
• L3 — glitch (if any) is proportional to severity, on error/masthead surfaces only, never on data/numerals/<18px, never ambient.
• L4 — every diagonal encodes direction / state / focus / sequence; ≤15° off-axis; no decorative triangles.
• L5 — text is display or data register only; no 18–24px sans body.
• L6 — texture (halftone/scanline/grain) lives inside a bezel only, or as a panel edge bleed whose mask clears the readout; no nested bezels, and never more than one bled panel per screen.
• L7 — calm at rest, event-driven eruption, always settles.
• L8 — every string is machine voice: present tense, datum first, one line, no apology/cheer/emoji, never first-person.
• L9 — at most one breach per screen (or none); it is keyed to a signal, sits on the exceptional (never data/chrome), and everything else stays hard-edged.

Signatures (the tells)

• Carries the identity marks that apply: the one hard offset shadow, square corners, color-as-state, two registers — and where relevant geometric-glyph icons (no icon font), .cr-mark registration ticks on a primary readout, drip/arrow-rail with their fixed meanings. See design-language.md#signatures.

Motion

• Interaction feedback is tier-0 (<200ms), including snap-press where pressable.
• Ambient motion (if any) rides the shared ticker and is low.
• prefers-reduced-motion: reduce leaves the component fully legible.

Accessibility

• Text and UI boundaries meet WCAG 2.1 AA contrast in every theme.
• Signal color always has a non-color backup (label / shape / aria).
• Focus is visible; keyboard operation works; native elements preferred.
• Decorative glitch/canvas is aria-hidden; the clean string is the accessible name.

Documentation

• Has a spec following templates/component.md.
• Copy-ready markup uses only tokens and is confirmed rendering in all themes.
• Variants/props are enumerated and named consistently with the ramp.