5 tasks executed sequentially; all 4 first-impression UX gaps from
2026-05-09 live UAT structurally closed (G1 BLOCKING white halo, G2
BLOCKING no first-run prompt, G3 HIGH dim tile grid, G4 MEDIUM floating
gate). 21 new Vitest cases (312 → 333 green); 3 new Playwright assertions
(16 → 19); npm run ci + npm run test:e2e both exit 0. Phase 3 watercolor
deferral preserved (no painted assets, no new dependencies); V1Payload
unchanged (firstRunHintDismissed is session-state only, no migrations[2]).
Hint copy chosen: "Begin where the soil is bare." (plan's #1 ranked
candidate; bible voice — warm, specific, contemplative). Externalized in
content/seasons/01-soil/ui-strings.yaml; UiStringsSchema extended with
first_run_hint: z.string().min(1) so Zod strip mode does not silently
drop the YAML key from parsed.data.
Verifier handoff unblocked: 02-VERIFICATION.md frontmatter `gaps:` block
ready to flip status from gaps_found → verified. The 6 HUMAN-UAT.md tone
items remain pending (out of scope; addressed by separate workflow).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
