Three top-level groups replace the flat eight categories on the home
page and /browse:
Apps 7 sub-categories inside: browsers / communication /
privacy / devtools / media / productivity / other
Games single bucket for now; sub-chips later when there's volume
FinTech single bucket for now (BCH wallets, bridges, POS, DeFi)
Routes:
/t/<slug> top-level page. For Apps shows the 7 sub-chips + an
aggregated listings view across them. For Games and
FinTech shows the listings directly (no sub-chips).
/c/<slug> sub-category page under Apps (browsers, communication, …).
The sole-sub categories /c/games and /c/fintech 301 to
/t/games and /t/fintech respectively, so each view has
exactly one canonical URL.
Slug renames + removals in the CATEGORIES allow-list on listings.js:
utilities → productivity (the display label was already pointing at
that in people's heads — "productivity"
fits storage + sync + file tools better)
wallets → fintech (broader scope: bridges + POS + DeFi,
not just wallets)
games stays as a top-level sole-bucket
browsers NEW sub-category under Apps for BCNR
resolvers, mobile browsers, extensions
Seed listings re-categorised + two slug fixes:
theseus.x/theseus-navigator-win category: other → browsers
ariadne.x/ariadne-resolver-win → RENAMED to ariadne-thread-win,
name "Ariadne's Thread
(Windows resolver)" shortened
to just "Ariadne's Thread";
category: privacy → browsers
ariadne.x/ariadne-android → RENAMED to ariadne-navigator,
name "Ariadne's Thread
(Android)" → "Ariadne
Navigator" (it is a
different program, not a
platform build of Thread);
category: privacy → browsers
pithos.x/pithos-desktop category: utilities → productivity
scripts/migrate-taxonomy.mjs is a one-shot that deletes every row with
signature='SM_OPERATOR_SEED'; a subsequent `seed.mjs` run then inserts
the fresh set with the new slugs. Publisher-POSTed listings (none in
production today) are left alone. Idempotent — a second run finds
nothing to remove.
New icons:
top-apps.svg 2×2 rounded tile grid (OS launcher metaphor)
cat-browsers.svg browser window + 3 chrome dots + content block
Three icons reused: cat-games.svg doubles as the Games top icon,
cat-wallets.svg as the FinTech top icon (same visual, different label);
cat-utilities.svg stays as the Productivity sub icon.
Replaces the emoji glyphs (💬🛡️💸🎮🧰🎧⚙️✨) in the category grid with
dedicated SVG icons under /static/icons/cat-<slug>.svg, following the
same visual family as the sibling .x marks (theseus, sirius, ariadne,
pithos, aegis): 12-radius dark square + acid-green mark, legible at
16 px tab-icon size and 40 px grid size.
Designs chosen to not blur with the Silent Mode product icons also
rendered on the site:
cat-communication speech bubble + three dots (not an envelope — too
close to the Hephaestus letter imagery elsewhere)
cat-privacy shield + checkmark (DISTINCT from aegis.svg's
shield+chevron, so category + listing don't collide)
cat-wallets stacked coins + B serif (hints at the BCH coin)
cat-games stylised controller (d-pad + two action buttons)
cat-devtools code brackets < / > (reads as "code" at 16 px
where a wrench/hammer blurs with the Utilities gear)
cat-media play triangle in a circle (equally "player" and
"publish/broadcast")
cat-utilities gear with hollow centre (less visual weight than
the Media circle; the two side-by-side don't
crowd each other)
cat-other sparkle burst + two smaller sparkles (sibling of
sirius.svg's 4-point mark, extras so the two don't
look identical)
pages-browse.js: CATEGORIES[].icon is now the path to the SVG, not an
emoji string. The three places the icon rendered — grid card, category
hero, and the inline chip on listing detail — all now use <img> at the
size they need (40, 56, 14 respectively). The CSS entry
`.cat .ico` loses the font-size + grayscale (text styling) and gains
width/height for the image plus a tiny hover rotation that matches the
existing lift transform.
Also: when a listing has no `icon` of its own, the detail page's icon
slot now falls back to the category's SVG (centered + padded) instead
of a plain 📦 emoji, so the detail hero always has a vector icon.
Four changes, one coherent pass:
1. Prometheus gets its own flame mark (SVG, not an emoji). Used in the
topnav brand, in the hero at 88 px, and as the favicon. Replaces the
🔥 glyph in the service and in site/prometheus/index.html.
2. silentmode.st/prometheus is now a brief introduction with two big
buttons (Open prometheus.x · Open apps.silentmode.st mirror) and a
short "what / who / status" block, instead of the full category
grid that duplicated what prometheus.x already renders. The /prometheus
page's job on silentmode.st is "point you at the real site," not host
the content.
3. Footer on the Prometheus service drops the "Silent Mode — a Deviant
project" byline and reframes the sibling-x links as "Also live in the
decentralized web:" so Prometheus reads as its own site rather than a
Silent Mode subpage. Keeps the attribution via the MPL-2.0 + source
link on the final line. aegis.x and pithos.x added to the sibling row.
4. Four Silent Mode apps seeded as first-wave listings
(scripts/seed-listings.json + scripts/seed.mjs). Theseus Navigator,
Ariadne's Thread (Windows + Android), Pithos. Each carries the
project's own SVG icon from public/icons/, pulled from the project's
own site. The seed is a direct-DB insert (not through /api/listing)
with signer_address = chipnet operator and signature = sentinel
`SM_OPERATOR_SEED`; scan_report is an operator-attested envelope
signed by the service key so the display pipeline is unchanged. Run
with `node scripts/seed.mjs`; idempotent (skips existing (publisher,
slug)).
Deliberately NOT seeded: Theseus extensions that have no standalone
form — pdf-editor, docx-editor, shield-blocker, bergamot provider.
They ship via Theseus's own OTA, not as Prometheus listings. Aegis
is in the same boat today (a Theseus bundled add-on without a
standalone binary); its icon is included in public/icons/ for when
it has its own distribution.
Real file sizes + SHAs come from the current dl.silentmode.st manifest
(theseus 0.3.89, ariadne resolver 0.1.13, ariadne android 0.22,
pithos-desktop 0.3.26). When APS1 lands cross-session, these listings
migrate to real on-chain records signed by each project's own publisher
key and the sentinel values go away.
New top-level Prometheus/ directory holds the Node service that will own
prometheus.x once the on-chain record flips from the silentmode.st
redirect to ip+tls. Nothing dynamic yet — this milestone delivers the
site skeleton and proves the family's visual conventions port cleanly to
a dynamic server.
Shape:
Prometheus/service/server.js node:http listener + map-based router
Prometheus/service/layout.js document shell, topnav, footer
Prometheus/service/pages.js home / browse / submit / publish / boundaries
Prometheus/public/style.css ported silentmode.st tokens + category grid
Prometheus/public/favicon.svg flame mark
Routes: /, /browse, /submit, /publish, /boundaries, /static/*.
Dynamic routes (/api/upload, /api/manifest, /api/publish, /api/pay,
/admin/*) land here in later milestones per the architecture doc.
Launch config .claude/launch.json gets a prometheus-service entry on
port 3700 so the preview harness can run it.
The pre-pivot WordPress-based scaffold at site-prometheus-x/ is left
in place for the next session to delete deliberately — the architecture
doc marks it as abandoned for prometheus.x but keeps the Sirius Press
infra fixes it carried in.
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