docs(panels): brand guide and the opportunities panel plan by marty916 · Pull Request #97 · Accelerated-Innovation/aipos-plugins

marty916 · 2026-10-23T15:10:27Z

Summary

The groundwork for the first MCP App panel, which discovery-engine feature 27 now serves as ui://aipos/opportunities (engine side merged, PRs #151–#156 there). Docs only; nothing under plugins/ changes, so there's no version bump.

`panels/BRAND.md`

The Accelerated Innovation Brand Book V01, applied to a view rendered inside someone else's chat.

The host's look, plus brand accents and one small mark. Surfaces and font come from the host's MCP Apps theme variables (--color-background-primary, --font-sans, …), with the brand neutrals #f2f2f2 and #1a1a1a as fallbacks.
Accents are chosen per theme from measured WCAG contrast.
- Purple #5865e7 in light mode (4.74:1 on white).
- Light blue #0abeef in dark mode (7.98:1 on #1a1a1a). It fails as text on light surfaces (2.18:1).
- Dark purple is for light-mode headings only; it's invisible on dark (1.05:1).
- The full table is in the doc.
The host's font is required, not a preference. Poppins can't be used: the engine contract forbids external requests, and the MCP Apps default CSP has no font-src, which also blocks an inlined data: font. The brand book's own system-font exception covers this.
The mark: the official SVG, unaltered, at the brand book's minimum sizes, in the right variant for the theme. The panel ships without a mark until the artwork is supplied.
Source notes flag three brand book discrepancies for the brand owner: secondary Blue and Yellow have RGB values that disagree with their hex codes, and the wordmark minimum is given as both 18 px and 25 px.
The panel PR checklist that discovery-engine feature 27 (N12) requires.

`docs/plans/2026-10-23-opportunities-panel.md`

Location: panels/ sits beside viewers/, because the two have different release paths (the plugin ships viewers/; the engine serves panels/) and different gates.
Behaviour: open, filter, drill in (evidence as references only), hand back via ui/message, plus the fallbacks.
The MCP Apps 2026-01-26 bridge messages. The SDK handles these (see below).
The contract test on the built file: the engine's byte limit, UTF-8, no external requests, and only the allowed tool names.
Increments 2–6: through the release, the discovery-engine bump PR and verification in a real host.
Demo prerequisites and open questions.

The SDK decision

Marty Bradley chose the bridge approach for increment 2 on 2026-10-23. It is recorded in the plan.

Official SDK. The panel uses @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps, pinned to exactly 2.0.3, behind a small bridge.mjs adapter. The adapter keeps the SDK instance private and offers only the panel's named operations: the three allowed reads, opening record links and the optional hand-back. It never exposes a general tool-call method. model.mjs stays pure and doesn't import the SDK.
Bundled locally. build.mjs (esbuild) replaces build.py. package.json and package-lock.json pin exact versions, and the SDK is inlined into the single HTML file, with no CDN or runtime loading. CI runs npm ci before build.mjs --check.
Engine size limit (pending, cross-repo). Probe builds of the SDK alone produced 455,884 bytes (app-with-deps) and 601,224 bytes (the default entry point) of JavaScript. Both exceed the engine's current 256,000-byte limit. The plan proposes 1 MiB (1,048,576 bytes) for the complete HTML file. discovery-engine has to raise its loader limit and update its tests and docs before the panel can be pinned. The other rules stay as they are: single file, UTF-8, hash verification, no external requests and allowed tools only.
Early host check. Before the full page is built, increment 2 proves a minimal panel in Claude Desktop: initial result, a detail call, theme changes and resizing. The fixtures include captured MCP results and errors, so tests check the boundary between the REST {data, error} envelope and MCP structuredContent.

Test plan

pytest tests: 925 passed, 6 skipped
check_version_bump.py: no plugin files changed
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- Added planning documentation for a proposed opportunities panel, outlining its expected browsing, filtering, drill-in, hand-back, and fallback behavior. The panel itself is not implemented in this change.
- Added panel branding guidance covering host themes, accessible colors and typography, icons, and layout.
- Documented build and review requirements, including file-size limits, external-request restrictions, allowed tools, open decisions, and a release checklist.

panels/BRAND.md applies the Accelerated Innovation Brand Book V01 to MCP App panels. The rule is the host's look plus brand accents and one small mark: - accent colours chosen per theme from measured WCAG contrast; - the host's font, required because the MCP Apps default CSP blocks fonts; - left-aligned type, and status never shown by colour alone; - the official mark, unaltered; - source notes on three brand book discrepancies, and the PR checklist discovery-engine feature 27 (N12) requires. docs/plans/2026-10-23-opportunities-panel.md plans the first panel: panels/ beside viewers/ and why; behaviour; the MCP Apps 2026-01-26 bridge; the contract test on the built file; increments 2-6 through release, the engine bump PR and host verification; open questions. No plugin files change, so no version bump. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The PR adds a delivery plan for an MCP Apps opportunities panel and a brand guide for panels. The plan covers planned panel interactions, host constraints, validation, and release steps. The guide defines visual requirements and records open branding questions.

Changes: Opportunities panel

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Panel scope and delivery plan `docs/plans/2026-10-23-opportunities-panel.md`	The plan describes read-only browsing, filtering, sorting, problem details, evidence provenance, and optional hand-back to the conversation. It also specifies host messages, built-file checks, delivery steps, demo settings, and open questions.
Panel brand and visual requirements `panels/BRAND.md`	The guide specifies host-theme compatibility, color and contrast rules, typography, mark and icon requirements, layout, and a PR checklist. It also records engine constraints and open branding questions.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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Possibly related PRs

Accelerated-Innovation/aipos-plugins#94: It adds a shared panel contract that the opportunities-panel plan references for provenance and stale labels.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dbd17

Make the final hand-back verification conditional on the v1 scope decision so a read-only release is not blocked by an excluded feature.

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to dbd17

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observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-23-opportunities-panel.md: Adds the full plan for the panel’s ownership, behavior, bridge protocol, brand, built-file checks, implementation increments, release and verification process, demo setup, and open questions. The document describes a planned feature, not implemented panel functionality.
observed — Modified behavior in panels/BRAND.md: Adds the panel brand guide, including engine constraints; light- and dark-theme color, contrast, and fallback rules; typography, mark, icon, and layout requirements; source discrepancies and open items; and a PR checklist.

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- Around line 111-112: Update the validate.yml workflow to run the opportunities
panel build check with build.py --check and the Node test for
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Review comments at @panels/BRAND.md:
- Around line 80-84: Update the secondary-colour status guidance to prohibit red
and blue as status markers on dark surfaces unless compliant variants meet the
required 3:1 contrast; otherwise describe them as decorative only. Keep the
existing requirement to pair status with a word or icon.
- Around line 51-55: Update the theming guidance around
`ui/notifications/host-context-changed` to state that each partial host-context
update must be merged with the current context, unless discovery-engine already
merges it before delivery, so omitted `styles.variables` are retained.
- Around line 74-76: Update the theme accent guidance to validate the purple and
light-blue accents against the resolved panel surface for the required contrast
thresholds, or explicitly restrict supported host surface values to those for
which the accents meet those thresholds.
- Around line 20-26: Update the “No external requests” section in BRAND.md to
describe the MCP Apps default CSP accurately: allow `self` and inline
scripts/styles, block connections with `connect-src 'none'`, and note that fonts
are blocked because `font-src` is absent under `default-src 'none'`. Attribute
the stricter inline-only and no-external-request requirements to the
discovery-engine contract, while preserving the Poppins conclusion with its
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BRAND.md: - the inline-only rule is attributed to the engine, and the MCP Apps default CSP is described as it is (self and inline scripts and styles, data: images, no connections, no fonts); - partial host-context updates are merged, never replacing the current context; - accents are checked at runtime against the resolved host surface, falling back to host colours; - status uses the host's semantic colours first. Brand secondaries that miss 3:1 on a surface are decorative only there, with a per-surface table. Plan: hand-back in v1 becomes decision Q4, taken before increment 2 (it defines the ui/message payload if yes), and increment 3 tests hand-back only then. Increment 4 names the new validate.yml steps (build.py --check and the panel's node tests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Record the decision to build the panel's bridge on the official @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps SDK (exact 2.0.3) behind a narrow bridge.mjs adapter, bundled locally with a locked dependency tree and a build.mjs (esbuild) in place of build.py. Measured SDK bundles exceed the engine's 256,000-byte ceiling, so the plan proposes a 1 MiB limit as a pending cross-repository contract change that discovery-engine must land before the panel is pinned. Increment 2 now includes an early Claude Desktop integration check, and the fixtures cover the REST-envelope vs MCP structuredContent boundary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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