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Posts the GIF unsized so GitLab stretches it to the column
Renders the same 520x64 layout at 3x (1560x192) from one scale constant
Masks 6 px rounded corners as transparent in every frame
Re-uploads a cached pre-3x banner instead of stretching it
Tests
Parity with the approved prototype GIFs runs at 2x through the same render path, corners excluded; missing-feature negatives kept
New checks: 1560x192, 100 KB cap, exact accents at 3x, transparent corners in every frame
Verification
Latch tests 157/157, board:typecheck and format:check green. Preview checked in Fast Browser in light and dark: full column width, round corners, art unchanged. Largest GIF 80 KB.
A cached upload is re-wrapped with imageMarkdownFor, so banners cached
with an older width suffix post unsized too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strips are re-rendered at deviceScaleFactor 3 (1560x192) and the
compositor's geometry moves to CSS px times one scale, so the banner stays
sharp at full column width. Pixels outside a 6 CSS px quarter-circle take
a reserved transparent index in every frame, with dispose 2.
Parity composites at 2x through the same path, with 2x strips the build
script now writes into the test fixtures, and skips the rounded corners.
The size cap rises to 150 KB; the largest GIF is about 80 KB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The latch banner now renders at 1560×192 and uses transparent rounded corners. Strip generation supports regular and parity scales. Posted Markdown no longer specifies an image width, and cached uploads with the legacy width suffix are replaced.
The build script renders regular strips at the configured scale and parity strips at 2×. Shared fixtures supply parity cases and layout data. The preview uses those cases and displays images without a fixed width.
Scaled GIF rendering and validation apps/board/src/latch/banner.ts, apps/board/src/latch/gifenc.d.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/latch-banner*.test.ts, apps/board/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-29-latch-animated-states-design.md
The renderer scales its drawing geometry from the strip set and encodes rounded corners as transparent pixels. Tests check the GIF dimensions, transparency, disposal, size limit, and parity against reference frames.
Unsized Markdown and legacy cache handling apps/board/src/latch/markers.ts, apps/board/src/latch/post.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/latch-markers.test.ts, apps/board/src/__tests__/latch-post.test.ts
Generated Markdown omits the width suffix. The posting path replaces cached uploads whose Markdown contains a width suffix. Tests cover unsized output and legacy sized Markdown.
sequenceDiagram
participant StripSet
participant renderBannerGif
participant GIFEncoder
StripSet->>renderBannerGif: Provide strip paths, scale, and dot layout
renderBannerGif->>GIFEncoder: Write indexed frames with transparency and disposal options
GIFEncoder-->>renderBannerGif: Return encoded GIF data
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Possibly related PRs
m4ttstack/mattstack#958: Adds the latch GIF renderer, variant strips, layout coordinates, banner APIs, and upload caching that this change updates.
m4ttstack/mattstack#935: Introduces the latch marker and banner-posting contracts, including the width suffix and cached banner reuse changed here.
Merge Risk: Low · up to c496c
The fallback colour currently matches the artwork but could drift when it changes. This is mergeable with a small follow-up to derive it from the strip.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to c496c
The change stays within existing banner rendering and GitLab posting flows. Refreshing previously stored banners introduces additional upload work during rollout, but no new credential, permission, or attacker-controlled rendering configuration was identified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — The directly affected persistent and external surfaces are the board's per-MR/per-variant upload cache and banner uploads and notes in the selected GitLab project. The gateway remains bound to the board's existing host and token.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
inferred — The inspected production path does not turn the MR URL into a file path or selectable raster scale. It supplies the URL to creature generation, then renders with committed strip mappings and the fixed production scale. The configurable renderer therefore does not establish attacker-controlled file access or allocation sizing in this path.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Legacy replacement reuses the existing nontransactional upload sequence. Failure before cache persistence leaves replacement work for retry; failure after persistence can leave the note temporarily stale. Concurrent legacy readers can upload independently and overwrite the same cache key. These are bounded presentation and remote-resource consistency risks, not an established authorization bypass.
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The latch banner now fills the GitLab comment column, stays sharp there, and has softly rounded corners (from Matt's approved mock).
What changed
Banner (
apps/board/src/latch/,apps/board/assets/latch/)Tests
Verification
Latch tests 157/157,
board:typecheckandformat:checkgreen. Preview checked in Fast Browser in light and dark: full column width, round corners, art unchanged. Largest GIF 80 KB.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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