The releases manifest had grown to 63 entries (every Theseus build back to
0.3.59) and the hand-edited page had drifted: Android was two versions
behind and Pithos was never listed. scripts/releases-page.mjs now trims the
manifest to recent versions per product (5 Theseus, 2 others) and rewrites
the page's release blocks from it. Consumers read only the first entry per
product, so nothing they see changes; older builds stay on Sia.
The Hermes subpage still said "designed, not built" and "MVP · desktop".
It now reflects what shipped: web messenger at hermes.x/messenger, three
sign-in paths incl. Theseus ID, three handle spellings, Nostr profiles,
vCard import, opt-in phone discovery, Ariadne's menu entry, and the planned
free sub-identity + Hermes TLDs (mainnet) as designed items.
Before: the on-sky lockup had a dark mark with dark cutouts — the fold
V-shape disappeared because the cutouts matched the mark colour instead
of the sky backdrop. Same on cream.
Now three per-surface mark variants, cutouts coloured to match the
expected background so it shows through:
mark.svg sky body + navy cutouts → dark panel
mark-on-sky.svg navy body + sky cutouts → sky-blue surface
mark-on-light.svg navy body + cream cutouts → light surface
Logo lockups rebuilt the same way: logo-horizontal-on-sky.svg uses the
dark+sky mark variant, logo-horizontal-light.svg uses the dark+cream
mark variant, same for stacked.
Branding page's on-sky / on-light preview cells repointed at the new
variants. addon.json bumped to 0.2.6 (same mark, re-emitted from
pipeline for byte parity with the sites).
Two bugs the deployed branding page surfaced:
1. site-hermes-x/branding/index.html referenced logo/avatar/banner/og/poster
files as same-dir paths, but they actually live in site-hermes-x/assets/.
Rewrite 15 asset refs (src= + href= download links) to ../assets/<name>.
2. The "on sky" mark preview cell used mark.svg (sky-blue), which was
invisible against the sky background. Add mark-dark.svg (same vector,
fills swapped to deep navy) and point the on-sky cell at it.
Also noted during deploy: the on-chain s3 record for hermes.x points to
bns/hermes/ (same convention as [[theseus-x-sia-bucket]]), not bns/hermes.x/.
The VPS systemd sync service was pointing at the wrong bucket and has been
corrected to s3://bns/hermes/.
Follow-up to 120dd8e1 which committed only the branding page rewrite but
dropped the binary assets. All kit files now land in both mirrors:
site/hermes/branding/ and site-hermes-x/assets/.
Each generated by the Python compositor at
scratchpad/build_brand_kit.py from the user's own file.svg master.
Two tweaks so the mark reads at sidebar size.
- addon.json/mark.svg (and every mirror of mark.svg across the sites):
rebuild with ZERO padding around the content bbox so the icon fills
the slot vertically — before it was centred in a square viewBox that
wasted ~45% of pixels. Version bumped to 0.2.5 so Theseus re-seeds.
- quicklinks.html: .icon svg, .icon img goes from 20×20 to 26×26
(container stays 34×34; same breathing room, bigger glyph). Ships
with the next Theseus release — can't be hot-patched into the asar.
Deploy state: site-hermes-x is live on the VPS and in bns/hermes.x/ via
the silentmode-sia-sync systemd timer, which was extended to include
hermes-x alongside sirius-x and bergamot. Future rsyncs of site-hermes-x/
to the VPS auto-sync to Sia within 5 minutes.
User supplied the real vector source at Hermes/Icons/file.svg. Dropped the
background rectangle, kept the sky-blue foreground + dark inner detail
cutouts, squared the viewBox around the content bbox with a small margin.
Result: ~6.6 KB SVG, pixel-perfect at every size — no more 60x downscale
blur.
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark.svg: tight-cropped vector
(viewBox centres the icon in a square so 1:1 slots don't crop).
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark-64.svg: same, pre-normalised to a
0..64 viewBox for legacy consumers that assume that range.
- bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: version 0.2.4; manifest icon is now
the SVG as a data:image/svg+xml;base64 URI (8.8 KB vs the previous
16 KB PNG data URI).
- bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: both img tags point at mark.svg at
24 and 72 px.
- home.html / home-brand/hermes-mark.svg: Hermes.X tile uses the vector.
- site/hermes/{favicon,branding/mark}.svg: both now the user's artwork.
- site-hermes-x/assets/{favicon,mark}.svg: same.
- All /hermes site HTML img tags swapped from mark.webp to mark.svg.
Installed bundle + user-data cache hot-patched to 0.2.4 so this takes
effect on the running Theseus without a reinstall.
Finishes the icon sweep started in badce1bc. The branding pages'
download links now serve mark.webp (main) + mark-wings-both.webp
(variant); the Open Graph image for site-hermes-x points at the webp
too. Legacy .svg files stay on disk so any outside link to them keeps
working, but every page we control now references the webp assets.
User-authored artwork wins. mark.webp is the main icon; two sibling variants
(mark-wings-both.webp, mark-variant.webp) ship alongside for brand uses.
- bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: version 0.2.2, icon/panels[0].icon are
now data:image/webp;base64,... from the main mark.
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark.webp: served by the host via the panel
page's relative path (seedBundledAddons' fs.cpSync recursive carries it).
- bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: both top-bar and signin inline SVGs
become <img src="assets/mark.webp"> at 24 and 72 px.
- site/hermes/index.html: hero SVG → <img> at 120 px.
- site/hermes/branding/{index.html,mark.webp,mark-wings-both.webp,mark-variant.webp}:
branding kit now carries the three webp files; the inline hero SVG uses
the main one.
- site-hermes-x/{index,branding,messenger}/index.html: same SVG → <img>
swap with the appropriate assets/ relative path.
- site-hermes-x/assets/mark{,-wings-both,-variant}.webp: sibling of the
existing favicon.svg and mark SVGs (kept for backward refs that still
point at them).
Legacy mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg + favicon.svg stay in place for any
external references; nothing in-repo points at them for the primary icon
slots anymore. favicons still point at the SVG files — safe to leave;
flipping those to webp is a one-liner if you want it.
Hermes handles are not tied to the .bch TLD — the user's names live on .x
today and the planned Hermes TLDs are .erm/.tel — so the hermes.x site,
the silentmode.st Hermes page and the add-on's description and panel now
say "on-chain registered name" and use alice.x / bob.x as examples.
Add-on wording ships on its own OTA; no version bump here.
hermes.x's on-chain record was only a `u` redirect to silentmode.st/hermes/,
so the gateway bounced visitors into the silentmode.st subdirectory and the
standalone site in site-hermes-x/ was unreachable. The site now lives on
Sia at bns/hermes/ (record updated: s3 + u fallback to the ICANN mirror,
txid 3c0d65b6…), mirrored at silentmode.st/hermes-x/, and the Hermes
subpage carries the same sovereign-site note as Sirius and Theseus.
The Angie vhost's foreign-mirror list gains hermes-x, prometheus-x and
press-x so those keep their directory URLs; serve-site.mjs matches.
The sidebar panel used to be a launcher that opened the standalone Messages
window; now it IS the messenger — signin screen with "Open with Theseus ID"
(derives the Nostr key from the unlocked vault seed) or "Open an existing
account" (12/24-word mnemonic fallback), then a contacts + thread view with
a narrow-width single-column fallback. The ⧉ button still pops the standalone
window out, so the Ctrl+Shift+E flow keeps working.
- main.js: expose a global._hermesAPI with status/canUseVault/init/inbox/
send/markThreadRead/contacts* so the addon can proxy panel calls without
granting it ipcRenderer or crossing the HERMES_ONLY sender gate.
hermesEmit also fans out on an in-process __hermes_bus so the panel gets
live inbox/status pushes decoupled from hermesWin's lifetime.
- bundled-addons/hermes/index.js: proxies each allow-listed method onto
global._hermesAPI, forwards bus events to api.emit for the panel.
- panel.html: signin + app screens, mobile-style single column under 540px.
- Mark updated to the spread-wings variant: envelope sized up (34×22),
three tapered trails extending outside the viewBox so the wings don't
bunch at the back of the envelope at any size. Applied to the addon
icon (manifest base64), the panel header, both /hermes sites, and
site-hermes-x's favicon + mark SVGs.
Earlier iterations left the nested site/hermes/* on the superseded winged-
helmet design and the Theseus addon on acid-green despite the branding
tokens moving to sky-mid. This brings every surface to the same mark + colour:
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: both icon fields
(toolbar + panel declared) swap from acid-green helmet to sky-mid
(#38BDF8) tapered-trails envelope. Picks up on next addon re-copy.
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: inline SVG swapped
from helmet dome paths to the tilted-envelope + 3 tapered trails. Uses
currentColor so the panel's own colour token drives it.
- site/hermes/branding/mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg: standard (3 trails) +
simplified 16-20px (1 trail) variants match site-hermes-x/assets/.
- site/hermes/branding/index.html: six inline mark cells (hero + 5 size
cells) swapped in bulk.
- site/hermes/index.html: hero mark SVG swapped.
Grep confirms all seven surfaces now carry 'rotate(-22 32 32)' — the
tapered-trails signature. Nothing left on the old helmet.
Removes the 'Not Hermès' warning box, the 'collision check' callout, the
horsey-mascot don't-row, and the orange-luggage footer line. Orange moves
from an alternate / cautioned colour into the regular palette grid alongside
sky — three swatches (orange, orange-light, orange-deep).
Both the standalone hermes.x branding page and the silentmode.st/hermes
nested branding page updated in parallel so they stay consistent.
New site-hermes-x/ — standalone .x site (own nav, own assets, own OG tags),
sibling to site-theseus-x and site-sirius-x. Internal nav stays on hermes.x:
Overview, Messenger (preview + UI mockup), Branding (brand kit). The only
cross-link is 'Get Theseus' pointing at theseus.x where appropriate.
Mark redesigned: tilted winged envelope with three tapered speed-trails on
the back-left (top longest, bottom shortest). Default colour sky #38BDF8 —
swappable via --sky in site-hermes-x/assets/shared.css. Alternate orange
palette documented but not applied by default. Mark propagated to:
- site-hermes-x/assets/mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg (16-20px variant)
- site/hermes/{index.html, branding/{index.html, mark.svg, mark-stroke.svg}}
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/{addon.json, panel.html}
Theseus addon moves out of the top-right extensions dock and into the
left-strip sidebar: panels[].side = 'left' + registerSidebarPanel({side:'left'}).
Appears alongside Mail/Pithos/Telegram, excluded from rightPanels() so the
extensions dock no longer lists it. Verified via sidebarState() CDP query —
hermes:main is no longer in the right-panels list.
site/hermes/ (the nested silentmode.st/hermes page) also updated to the new
mark for consistency; both the sovereign hermes.x and the silentmode-nested
page now show the same winged envelope.
<object data='mark.svg'> renders the SVG inside its own document — currentColor
there resolves against that document's own body, not the parent page's. The
hero mark was coming out black on dark and the on-acid/amber cells couldn't
re-colour the glyph.
Inlining the SVG puts the <svg> in the same document as .mark-xl / .mark-neg
/ .mark-amber, so each container's color tokens drive the stroke. Also added
an amber (unread-badge) swatch to the mark grid so the Hermes accent colour
has a visible example alongside the Silent Mode acid green.
Link downloads to mark.svg / mark-stroke.svg are unchanged — the files still
ship as standalone assets for third-party reuse.
Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M -> Ctrl+Shift+E. Chrome owns Ctrl+Shift+M as
'switch profile' and E matches the Greek spelling (Ermis).
Sidebar discoverability: new bundled add-on at bundled-addons/hermes/
registers a left-strip icon + launcher panel. The panel is a thin chrome
(mark + 'Open Messages' + shortcut hint) that forwards clicks through
api.onMessage -> ipcMain.emit('hermes-open-request') -> openHermesWindow.
All real messaging code stays in main.js — add-on is purely for discovery.
Address book: opt-in vCard (.vcf) import. Dialog in the Add Contact modal
lets the user pick a file; main.js parses BEGIN:VCARD blocks for X-BNS-NAME
/ X-NOSTR-NPUB / X-NOSTR-PUBKEY plus .bch names and npubs mentioned in
NOTE fields. Candidates are previewed per-contact with checkboxes; nothing
is added until the user confirms. Non-matching vCards are returned too (so
the user can still add manually) rather than silently dropped. Nothing is
uploaded; parsing is local.
site/hermes: status badge flipped from 'designed - not yet built' to
'MVP - desktop'. New 'What ships today' grid covers threaded chat, send by
name, address book, local history (all live) and mobile + Tor (next /
planned). Hero carries the new Ctrl+Shift+E shortcut and a link to
/hermes/branding.
site/hermes/branding: new page. Mark SVG (winged envelope, two variants
for 16-20px and 24-160px display sizes), palette (reuses Silent Mode
tokens + an amber accent that's distinctly warm-yellow, not Hermes-orange
— so it never collides with Hermès the fashion house), name explanation
(English Hermes / Greek Ermis), voice notes, do/don't table, MPL-2.0
attribution.
Hermes/MOBILE-RECOMMENDATION.md: analysis of three mobile paths (inside
Ariadne / standalone / hybrid). Recommendation is Option 1: ship as a
screen inside Ariadne. Reuses the wallet seed, aligns with the design
doc's 'one seed many purposes' architecture, lowest total cost.
Canonical silentmode.st URLs no longer carry a trailing slash (/tools, not
/tools/). nginx (tracked now in VPS/SilentMode/silentmode-st.nginx) 301s
the old form and serves <dir>/index.html; sub-sites deployed from other
repos with relative asset paths (deviant, sirius-x, theseus-x, hephaestus.x,
fly.x, code) keep their directory URLs. Every page's internal links are
now site-root-relative, which resolves correctly both at /x on nginx and
under the BNS gateway's injected <base href="/bns/silentmode.bch/"> — the
old ../x/ links were already broken on the gateway route.
/theseus becomes the Silent Mode-headered Theseus page (what it is, what's
inside, Windows + Android downloads with manifest hashes, verify), linking
out to the sovereign theseus.x whose VPS mirror moves to /theseus-x/, the
same split as /sirius vs /sirius-x/. /tools is repurposed as the overview:
every site, the on-chain twins, the other clients (relay, Firefox, the
standalone Ariadne Resolver) and the machine endpoints. The old tools page
carried stale APK and resolver hashes; the new pages use the manifest's,
verified against the files on dl.silentmode.st.
scripts/serve-site.mjs mirrors the nginx rules for local preview.
Browsers held a stale shared.css (no Cache-Control on .css, weeks-old
Last-Modified → long heuristic freshness), so the .brand .logo rule added
on 2026-09-07 never applied for returning visitors and the brand wrapped
onto its own nav row on every page except Hephaestus. All 13 pages now
link shared.css?v=YYYYMMDD; bump it on every shared.css change (GOTCHAS).
- inline chain-link logo in every top nav and the two chain-emoji hero marks
(index, sirius/register); shared.css sizes/colours it via .l1/.l2
- homepage hero figure: Theseus opening hello.bch (BCDN badge, no DNS)
- Open Graph + Twitter card meta on all 13 silentmode.st pages, image
brand/og.png (1200x630, rendered from the brand kit)
- contrast: --dim 5e6678 -> 7a8496 (3.4:1 -> 5.1:1); default .btn no longer
off-palette blue with 3.9:1 white text, now panel2/ink; nav links 9px pad
- figure.shot styles for screenshots; tools/img/ holds the Theseus and
Ariadne-Android shots for the download cards (wired in a follow-up, the
tools page is mid-ship in another session)
- scripts/serve-site.mjs: zero-dep static server for previewing site/
Two brand kits, one design language. Each site now has a /brand/ page + a
favicon; every page I own on silentmode.st links the SVG favicon (parallel
sessions can add the same line to Sirius/Hephaestus/Choose when they touch
those files).
Silent Mode kit (site/brand/, site/favicon.svg):
Mark — two interlocking chain links, one muted (#8b98a9) + one acid
(#d6ff3d). The umbrella family mark.
Logo, wordmark, avatar (400x400 social), banner (1500x500 social header).
Brand page shows every asset with SVG download, colour palette
(tokens matching shared.css), usage do's and don'ts.
navigate.st kit (navigate.st/brand/, navigate.st/favicon.svg):
Mark — compass rose (N acid, other points muted) inside a chain-link
ring. Ring keeps it in the Silent Mode family without cloning the
SilentMode mark; compass says what this specific site is (the
wayfinding front door).
Same asset set: logo, wordmark, avatar, banner. Standalone brand page
(no shared.css — navigate.st runs single-file).
nginx (VPS): added two locations to sites-enabled/navigate-st so /favicon.svg
and /brand/* resolve from /opt/silent-mode/navigate-brand/. Rollback point
at sites-enabled/navigate-st.bak.1788146513. silentmode.st serves both from
disk under /opt/silent-mode/site/ — no vhost change needed.
Verified live: all favicon + brand URLs return 200 on both hosts.
Site:
- Rename the "Tools" nav label to "Theseus" on every subpage. URL slug
/tools/ is kept intact so bookmarks and cross-links survive; the page's
own title + h1 rename to Theseus; homepage product card retitled.
- Remove the /tlds/ self-nav entry so its 7-item header matches every
other subpage (was 8 items, causing the same "header rearranges" glitch
Hephaestus had before).
Auth-proxy (fixes reported by a concurrent session working with a chipnet
wallet):
- verify.ts now auto-detects the CashAddr prefix (bitcoincash, bchtest,
bchreg) instead of hardcoding "bitcoincash". Chipnet wallets sign the
same message with the same key but display bchtest: addresses; the old
code compared their claim against a re-encoded bitcoincash: version and
always rejected. Same key material, different envelope.
- /challenge accepts any of the three known prefixes at the input gate.
- /verify accepts an optional `state` param in the request body — used as
a fallback if the challenge record didn't carry one (which happens when
a scripted caller runs the /verify step without passing state through
/challenge). Ensures RFC 6749 §4.1.2 compliance: the OAuth callback URL
always echoes state when the client provided one.
Every silentmode.st subpage was missing Hephaestus in its topnav, so clicking
Hephaestus from the homepage led to a page whose nav had a different item set —
looked like the header "rearranged and dropped tabs" mid-navigation.
- Add <a href="../hephaestus/">Hephaestus</a> between Sirius and Helios on:
tools, prometheus, sirius, helios, hermes, releases, tlds
- Normalize hephaestus/index.html to use relative paths (../foo/) matching the
convention used by every other subpage — was absolute (/foo/)
- Result: every page has 7 identical nav items in the same order, with
class="here" on whichever section you're viewing. /hephaestus/ keeps its
"Open forge →" CTA appended (an addition, not a reorder).
Was only .bch. The daemon and CA already handle these four TLDs; the NRPT
rule was the missing piece that made .p2p / .bit / .nav queries never reach
the daemon at all (they went to ICANN's normal DNS and NXDOMAIN'd).
Dual TLDs (.de .ru .dev .ltd) intentionally NOT here. They need the
daemon's DNS-forwarding path to work reliably for unregistered names,
and there's still an open EDNS/AAAA forwarding bug in bnsd.js that
would break most German/Russian sites if we NRPT'd .de.
Adding more native TLDs (.x .sia .dgb .nt from Theseus's expanded set)
needs a CA rotation first — the current CA's nameConstraints only permit
bch/p2p/bit/deviant/nav/test/bcnr. Deferred.
