Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Week 1 board.
- The /build board holds eight fixed slots, filled in the same order every time: target, scope, features, transforms, model, calibration, evaluation, staking.
- The engine re-solves the whole board from scratch on every slot fill or change, so an early pick cannot lock in a bad answer later.
- A wrong slot returns a typed, specific problem, not a silent crash and not a vague error toast.
- The slot count is read from the live piece-list rather than hardcoded; today that list has eight slot types.
- One live table backs all eight slots and currently holds fifty-six pieces, a number that moves as pieces are added or retired.
- The old four-tier gallery and its day-one starter set are gone from the current build flow.
The board on /build is not a gallery of four tiers to pick from. It is eight fixed slots, each filled from a live and growing list of pieces that sits behind the page.
Eight slots, filled in a fixed order
Every board built on /build has the same eight positions, filled in the same order every time: target, scope, features, transforms, model, calibration, evaluation, staking. That order is not cosmetic. The engine solves the whole board fresh every time a slot is filled or changed, so an early pick cannot lock in a bad answer later.
Get a slot wrong and the engine returns a typed, specific problem, not a silent crash and not a vague error toast. The board never applies half a change and calls it done. It either lands cleanly or names the exact piece it rejected.
The slot count comes from the live piece-list, not a hardcoded number
The code behind the board does not hardcode the number eight anywhere. It counts however many slot types the live piece-list actually has entries for, right now, and builds the checklist from that count. Eight is today's real number, not a number written into the page permanently.
If a ninth or tenth slot type is added to the piece-list later, this part of the page follows along automatically. No rewrite of the page is required for that change to show up.
Fifty-six pieces, and the list moves
The pieces that fill those eight slots come from one live table the whole builder reads from. As of the count behind this post, that table holds fifty-six entries, spread across the eight slot types. Add a piece and the count moves on its own, with no code change required on this page to reflect it.
What is gone: the old gallery and starter set
The old four-tier gallery view and its day-one tile set are not part of the current build flow. A search of the codebase for the old day-one starter file returns zero hits.
The gallery component that used to show those tiers still exists as a file, but nothing under the site's actual page routes reaches it. The only files that import it sit in the same gallery family, none of them under the site route tree, and no visitor-facing link points to it. The eight-slot, fifty-six-piece system is what fills the board today.
Both Screens Say
Slot count on this board comes from the live piece-list, not from a fixed number typed in once. The piece-list itself sits in one real table, not scattered across several files. That structure, a fixed slot order fed by a live piece-count, is the durable part of this page.
The honest limit: fifty-six pieces and eight slots are a snapshot as of the moment this post was written, and both numbers can move the day someone ships a new piece or a new slot type. Check /build for an update on the current count before quoting either number elsewhere.
FAQ
Is the number of slots on the board always exactly eight? Today, yes. The page derives that count from the live piece-list rather than hardcoding it, so it can grow if new slot types are added later.
Does the order I fill slots in change the final board? No. The engine re-solves the whole board from scratch on every change, so fill order never changes the end result, only which slot gets flagged first if something is invalid.
Is the fifty-six-module count fixed? No. It is a live read of one table behind the builder, at /build. It moves as pieces are added or retired.
Can I still see the old four-tier gallery? The gallery component still exists as a file, but no page route links to it anymore. It does not fill the board on /build today.
What happened to the original day-one starter set? That file has been fully removed from the codebase. It is not a hidden or deprecated option; it does not exist anymore.
