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Closes #814

The gap

playwright.config.ts declared one project. It spread devices["Desktop Chrome"], which carries a 1280x720 viewport, so every spec on every pull request since 2026-08-08 has only ever rendered the app in a desktop window — while the product's primary context is a phone in a hen house, which is the stated reason #674 chose direction B.

This adds the second width. It is the gate, not the layout remedy — #740 stays with the #674 revamp.

What changed

Two Playwright projects partitioned by a structured @phone tag, so every test runs in exactly one and none runs twice. npm test runs both; no workflow logic changed.

The two projects differ in the viewport and nothing else, deliberately. A spec red in one and green in the other is then attributable to width alone, which is the entire evidentiary value of the split. devices["Pixel 7"], isMobile and hasTouch were measured against the live stack and rejected: both emulation modes reported identical scrollWidth/clientWidth/innerWidth on all six walked routes and an identical tab-bar rect, so they buy nothing here while adding touch dispatch and a mobile UA. The cost is stated rather than implied in the config — isMobile drives Chromium's mobile layout-viewport sizing, so a #441-class regression on a real device is not covered, and reopening that means re-measuring, not flipping the flag.

signIn moved off getByRole("complementary") to main#main-content. The sidebar is display: none below 900px, so the old assertion could never complete at phone width. The replacement is structural rather than labelled — the reason the old comment gives still stands, that a persona left in es/tl by the i18n spec must still be able to sign in — and it is honestly narrower: it proves the authenticated shell mounted, no longer that any nav chrome rendered.

The nav fixture now throws under the phone layout, and that refusal is the load-bearing part of this PR. worker, readonly and session-races each prove a role gate with expect(nav.link(k)).toBeHidden(). Below 900px those destinations live inside a closed dialog, so every one of those assertions would pass while the gate stood wide open. Making the fixture unavailable turns that from something a reviewer has to notice into a construction error. For the same reason a MoreSheet is obtainable only from openMore(), so a sheet-link locator always refers to an open sheet.

Proving the gate can fail

Three mutants, each killed in the phone project while the whole desktop suite stayed green under it, checked by a new MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON table rather than asserted in a comment. Killing a phone spec at 390 proves the spec noticed something; it does not prove the something was width-specific.

mutant dies on desktop under it
phone-action-bar-under-tabbar the daily-entry action bar overlaps the tab bar 41 passed, 1 skipped
phone-tabbar-removed there is no tab bar at phone width 41 passed, 1 skipped
phone-table-overflow-unclipped /sales, /customers, /flocks, /history each scrolls sideways at phone width 41 passed, 1 skipped

Each died on exactly the assertion it declares in EXPECT_MSG_FOR, and every one of those lines was copied from an observed run. The overflow mutant leaves /daily-entry and /stock at exactly 390 — neither renders a wide data table — which is why that walk asserts per route and softly: a hard assertion would stop at /sales and report one screen of four.

EXPECT_MSG_FOR[nav-role-gate-bypassed] also had to change. That known false kill dies inside signIn, so its declared line moved from getByRole('complementary') to locator('main#main-content') — re-observed, not translated by hand. Leaving it would have turned a documented false kill into an unexplained WRONG ASSERTION.

The instrument is not the obvious one

Two independent designs both proposed injecting a <style> element. It does nothing here. The app ships Content-Security-Policy: style-src 'self' with no 'unsafe-inline' and no nonce, so a script-created <style> parses to nothing — measured, sheet === null with the element sitting in <head>. page.addStyleTag builds exactly that element. This is #501's warning wearing a different hat: a CSS mutant that never installed reports as a surviving mutant, accusing the spec of being vacuous when the mutant is what failed to run.

page.route on the stylesheet fails differently — a service worker serves the original from cache on every load after the first. What works is insertRule on the sheet the page already loaded: CSP governs loading a style resource, not editing an already-allowed same-origin one. All three facts are now a third boundary in src/mutants.ts, beside the network and DOM ones.

Measured cost

Local, against the sim stack, one worker:

tests wall
chromium before 42 (41 passed, 1 skipped) 90.6 s
chromium after 42 (41 passed, 1 skipped) 91.0 s
chromium-phone 4 11.2 s

+11.2 s of spec time. The PR job measures ~3 minutes wall against a timeout-minutes: 10 cap, so this is well inside it. No desktop test was lost — 42 before, 42 after, confirmed with --list per project.

Scope: a deliberate divergence from the handoff

The handoff on #814 suggests running sales, worker, manager, owner, named-entity-picker and pagination at phone width. I ran exactly those six with the fixed signIn before choosing: 12 of 19 tests failed and it took 8.5 minutes locally. Every failure was a nav.link() call against the absent sidebar. Making them pass means rewriting the nav contract across 18 call sites in 10 files, and it still yields no assertion a phone can fail that a desktop cannot — so it could not satisfy the acceptance criterion that is not optional.

So this ships a dedicated phone.spec.ts instead. Extending coverage to real flows at phone width is a reasonable follow-up and is the owner's call, not something I decided quietly.

One thing the gate got wrong, and what it cost

#816 was filed against a phantom and is withdrawn. An early probe measured the dashboard at 443/390, and the reading was real — of bytes that no longer ship. The sim stack had been up 28 hours, so it was serving an image built before 7193ebe (fix(dashboard): give recent sales real columns…, #781, 2026-09-12), the commit that gave that list its container-query narrow layout. That commit is an ancestor of this branch's own base, seven commits back.

Rebuilt, with the same $9,999,999.99 rows still in the fixture: 390/390, grid-template-columns: 179.219px 112px, widest amount at x=346.6 inside a 353px panel. Nothing overflows.

So / is now walked rather than excluded, and the dashboard is covered at phone width — which is what that issue would have wanted. Recorded rather than buried, because the rule that would have caught it is the one this description already quotes: a long-running sim stack serves the bytes it was built from, not the branch under review. Rebuild before believing a rendered measurement, including one used only to justify an exclusion.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automated validation for the phone layout at 390×844, including mobile navigation, accessible touch targets, More menu access, sticker-bar positioning, and horizontal-scroll prevention.
  • Documentation

    • Updated E2E documentation to describe desktop and phone coverage, viewport-specific behavior, and mobile navigation conventions.
  • Tests

    • Expanded responsive layout and mutation checks across desktop and phone screen sizes.

The sidebar is display:none below 900px, so signIn's complementary-landmark
assertion cannot hold there. It now matches main#main-content, the one element
AppLayout carries and the login screen does not — narrower, because it no
longer proves nav chrome rendered.

nav now throws under shellLayout=phone. Three specs assert toBeHidden() on a
sidebar link to prove a role gate, and at phone width those links sit inside a
closed dialog, so those assertions would pass vacuously. The phone fixture
exposes the tab bar and a More sheet whose link locator is only obtainable from
openMore(), so a hidden sheet link is always judged against an open sheet.
chromium keeps its 1280 frame and runs everything untagged; chromium-phone runs
@phone at 390x844. The viewport is the only difference between them, so a red in
one and a green in the other is attributable to width alone. Pixel 7 emulation
was measured and rejected: identical widths on all six walked routes and an
identical tab-bar rect, for two behavioural differences unrelated to width.
Four tests behind the @phone tag: the tab bar replaces the sidebar with five
thumb-sized controls, a non-tab destination is reachable only through More and
the sheet closes behind it, the daily-entry action bar clears the tab bar by its
measured 2.2px, and six walked routes neither scroll sideways nor inflate the
layout viewport. / is excluded from the walk — its 443/390 today comes from this
suite's own E2E Worker Sale residue, so the verdict is run-order dependent.
The app ships style-src 'self' with no unsafe-inline and no nonce, so an
injected <style> parses to nothing (sheet === null, measured) and a CSS mutant
written that way reports as a survivor instead of as never having run. A
service worker also serves the original stylesheet after the first load, so
page.route on the CSS lapses mid-test. insertCssRule appends to the SPA's own
already-loaded sheet, polls for it, shouts on a deadline, and inserts once.
PROJECT_FOR is required, not defaulted: an implicit default would run a phone
mutant at 1280, where its spec is not even selected, and report it as a survivor
of a spec that never executed. MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON re-runs the whole desktop
suite under each phone mutant after a kill and demands green, so a mutant that
broke every width cannot be credited to the phone gate. Four EXPECT_MSG_FOR
entries are TODO-OBSERVE placeholders the harness rejects loudly.
The workflow header's spec count was stale at 28; it is 46 across the two
projects. No workflow logic changes — npm test already runs both.
The four EXPECT_MSG_FOR entries left as placeholders are filled in from
real failing runs, which is the table's own rule: a declaration written
from the spec source is a prediction, and a wrong prediction reads as
coverage.

`nav-role-gate-bypassed` is re-observed rather than hand-translated. Its
old entry named `getByRole('complementary')`, the landmark signIn no
longer asserts on; the observed line is now `locator('main#main-content')`
and it still says what the header says, that this mutant dies inside
sign-in and proves nothing about the nav gate.

`phone-table-overflow-unclipped` declares four lines, one per route it
breaks, because the softness of that walk is the claim. A hard assertion
would stop at /sales and report a quarter of the damage. /daily-entry and
/stock are absent on purpose: neither renders a wide data table and both
measured exactly 390 under the mutant.

Test 1's tab-bar assertion gains a custom message so the mutant does not
have to be declared against an English aria-label, which is the one thing
this suite refuses to hardcode.

MoreSheet.close() is dropped. It had no caller, so its locator
(`common:close`) would never have been exercised — an untested handle in
a fixture later specs copy from.
The AGENTS.md bullet carries the one-paragraph rule; this is the rationale
behind its link — what the single-viewport suite let through, why the two
projects differ only in the viewport, why `nav` refuses to exist below
900px, and the CSP finding that decides how a CSS mutant has to be written.

Also resolves the placeholder in the overflow walk: the dashboard's
excluded-route note now names #816.
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The smoke suite now runs desktop and phone Playwright projects. Phone fixtures and specs validate the phone shell. Mutation tooling injects phone-specific DOM and CSSOM defects and verifies width-specific failures.

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Phone-width E2E coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Phone project, fixtures, and layout checks
tools/simulation/ui/playwright.config.ts, tools/simulation/ui/src/fixtures.ts, tools/simulation/ui/specs/phone.spec.ts
The suite selects desktop and @phone tests in separate projects. Fixtures expose desktop and phone shells. Phone tests check navigation, control sizes, the More sheet, action-bar overlap, button geometry, and horizontal overflow.
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tools/simulation/ui/src/mutants.ts, tools/simulation/ui/mutation-check.sh
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.github/workflows/e2e-smoke.yml, AGENTS.md, docs/decisions/277-spa-e2e.md, tools/simulation/ui/README.md
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  Playwright->>PhoneApp: Run phone layout assertions
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#814 is otherwise implemented. The PR adds the chromium-phone project, partitions @phone tests, updates phone fixtures and assertions, and adds phone-action-label-wrapped mutation coverage. mutation-check.sh maps that mutant to chromium-phone and requires chromium to remain green. The documented runtime remains about three minutes without workflow-step changes. However, the mutation evidence is inconsistent: mutants.ts records 170.6 × 198.2 with a 0.86 ratio, while phone.spec.ts, the harness comment, and the PR comment record 170.6 × 217.2 with a 0.79 ratio. The PR does not reconcile or explain this difference.

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Comment thread tools/simulation/ui/specs/phone.spec.ts Resolved
CodeRabbit asked for the over-long-label case the #814 handoff names, and it
was a real gap: none of the four phone invariants could see #740, the defect
the issue was opened over.

The guard walks the daily-entry action bar and requires each button to be at
least as wide as it is tall — below 1, `border-radius: 999px` clamps into an
ellipse and the label leaves its own background. Measured at 390: 170.6x65.2,
a ratio of 2.62, so there is 1.62 of margin.

The Sales draft-order panel is deliberately NOT walked, and the comment there
carries why with numbers: it is 91.5x103.2 today, in ENGLISH, at this width.
#740 is filed as an es/tl defect and it reproduces in en at 390.

`MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON` earned its place on the first attempt. The mutant
originally rewrote the buttons' textContent, which changes their accessible
name — the desktop specs locate those two controls by it, so the mutant broke
the app at every width and the kill proved nothing about phone width. The
harness caught exactly that and reported NOT WIDTH-SPECIFIC. It now appends an
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79a9b1c adds the over-long-label case: a phone-width assertion that every daily-entry action button is at least as wide as it is tall, plus phone-action-label-wrapped registered in all six mutation-check tables. The mutant is proven — observed kill at 170.6x217.2 (ratio 0.79) with the full desktop suite green under it, checked by MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON rather than asserted.

Worth a look at one thing specifically: the guard deliberately excludes the Sales draft-order panel, because that panel is already 0.89/0.87/0.87 at 390 in English — that is #740, now measured on the issue. The exclusion is a documented confession with numbers, not a silencer.

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harness = Path("tools/simulation/ui/mutation-check.sh").read_text()
names = set(re.findall(r'^\s*"([^"]+)": \{\s*$', mutants, re.M))
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  • P2 — Reconcile the recorded mutant measurement. tools/simulation/ui/src/mutants.ts records 170.6 x 198.2 with a 0.86 ratio. tools/simulation/ui/specs/phone.spec.ts, the mutation-harness comment, and this PR comment record 170.6 x 217.2 with a 0.79 ratio. These cannot describe the same run. Update the stale measurement, or state why the values differ. The measured values document the mutation evidence and the guard margin.

The MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON mapping is present and runs the full desktop project. The Sales draft-order exclusion is bounded, quantified, and linked to #740. It does not suppress the known defect.

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Comment thread tools/simulation/ui/src/mutants.ts Resolved
CodeRabbit caught the mutant comment claiming 170.6x198.2 (ratio 0.86) while
the spec and the harness claimed 170.6x217.2 (0.79). The spec was right: 198.2
came from a draft of the mutant that lengthened only one button, and the
shipped one lengthens both.

Rather than sync the two copies, mutants.ts stops carrying measurements at
all. The geometry lives with the assertion that makes it; the mutant comment
keeps the mechanism, which is the flex track's width.
Found by a local adversarial pass: the overflow walk asserted
`window.innerWidth === viewport.width` for the second half of #441, while
playwright.config.ts states in the same PR that the device half is NOT covered
because the project runs desktop emulation without `isMobile`. Both cannot be
true, and the config was right.

Layout-viewport inflation is mobile-emulation behaviour. Under desktop
emulation `innerWidth` tracks the frame whatever the content does, so that
assertion was incapable of failing. Measured rather than argued: under
`phone-table-overflow-unclipped`, with /sales at scrollWidth 1420 against a
390 frame, it fired ZERO times across all six routes while four of them
tripped the scrollWidth assertion beside it. Its absence from
EXPECT_MSG_FOR was the same fact, already visible and unread.

AGENTS.md: a wrong guard is worse than no guard, because it reads as safety.
This one read as #441 coverage and provided none. The comment that replaces it
says what restoring it would take — enabling `isMobile` and re-measuring, not
re-adding the line.
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Local adversarial pass (Codex, gpt-6-astra, read-only) found a wrong guard in my own work. Fixed in 2defe0f.

The overflow walk asserted window.innerWidth === viewport.width for the second half of #441 — a wide element inflating the layout viewport past the visual one, which is what anchors BottomNavs position: fixed. Meanwhile playwright.config.ts, in this same PR, states that the device half is not covered because the project runs devices["Desktop Chrome"] with a viewport override and no isMobile. Both claims cannot hold. The config was right.

Layout-viewport inflation is mobile-emulation behaviour; under desktop emulation innerWidth tracks the frame whatever the content does. Measured rather than argued: under phone-table-overflow-unclipped, with /sales at scrollWidth 1420 against a 390 frame, that assertion fired zero times across all six routes, while four of them tripped the scrollWidth assertion beside it. Its absence from EXPECT_MSG_FOR was the same fact sitting in the diff, already visible and unread by me.

So it read as #441 coverage and could provide none — AGENTS.md: a wrong guard is worse than no guard, because it reads as safety. Removed, with a comment saying what restoring it would take (enable isMobile and re-measure, not re-add the line).


Separately, a pre-existing fragility this PR surfaced but did not cause: #818.

sales.spec.ts "takes an order from new customer through to a recorded payment" fails once the shared sim fixture has accumulated enough orders — it passes in isolation and fails in a full-suite run on the same fixture. It matters here because mutation-check.sh drives several full runs per invocation, so it reliably tips, and the harness then reports a correct mutant as NOT WIDTH-SPECIFIC and a clean run as RESTORE: RED. Both are the harness accusing correct code, which is the one thing it exists to prevent.

CI never sees it, because e2e-smoke.yml seeds a fresh fixture per run — which is also why nothing has reported it before. After reset.sh the full suite is green: 46 passed, 1 skipped across both projects, and every phone mutant kills with chromium green.

The PR is unaffected: it adds a second project and touches neither that spec, the Sales screen, nor any endpoint it uses.

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A local Codex (gpt-6-astra) pass raised seven findings against this PR's own
guards. None was a product defect; all were defects in the guard, which is
this PR's deliverable.

Three guards could pass with the thing they name broken:

* The tab-bar test measured the bar and never used it, so a phone-only
  `.tabbar a { pointer-events: none }` kept visibility, the 4+1 split and
  every box green while all four tabs were dead. It now hit-tests the Sales
  tab and then navigates. Clicking alone was tried first and is NOT enough:
  under that rule `.click()` does not fail, it waits for actionability until
  the test times out, which the harness correctly refuses to count as a kill.
  `phone-tabs-inert` is the new mutant.
* The overflow walk could measure an error or loading screen and report it
  clean — `main#main-content` proves the shell mounted, `networkidle` proves
  the requests settled, neither proves the table rendered, and both SalesPage
  and CustomersPage answer a failed read with a table-less section that is
  exactly 390 wide. Each route now names the content being judged. A blanket
  `table.data` was wrong on the first run: /daily-entry has no table.
* `MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON` was optional where `PROJECT_FOR` is required, so
  deleting a row silently downgraded a phone mutant to an ordinary kill. It is
  now required for any mutant scoped to chromium-phone.

Four claims were false and are corrected rather than defended: `MoreSheet`
enforces the handle, not the open state; 44px is WCAG AAA 2.5.5, not AA 2.5.8
(24px), and the real floor is the app's own `min-height: 3.4rem`; the three
role-gate specs would fail their positive controls rather than pass silently;
and the desktop cross-check proves no existing desktop scenario noticed, not
that desktop geometry stayed healthy. The stale overflow widths are gone too.

The route list now states its selection rule and why Reports, Expenses, Feed,
Water, Users, Audit, Settings and Inventory are out, instead of being six
routes somebody remembered.

npm run mutation over all five phone mutants: baseline GREEN, 5 killed,
0 survived, chromium green under each, restore GREEN.
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All seven findings from the local Astra pass are addressed in 3e0e25b. Stopping the review loop here, deliberately, at four rounds — CodeRabbit twice, Astra twice — so the silence is a decision and not an unfinished response.

Why stop

Four consecutive rounds, and not one found a defect in the product. Every yield was tests, mutants, comments and harness plumbing. That is my standing cue to stop triggering rather than keep spending rounds; the owner made the call. The findings themselves were worth having — three of them were guards that could pass while the thing they named was broken — but the escalating chain has now moved entirely into the guard, and the guard has been mutation-proven.

What changed

Three guards could not fail.

  1. Four dead thumb tabs would have passed all five phone tests. The tab-bar test measured visibility, the 4+1 link/button split and every bounding box, and never used the bar — .tabbar a { pointer-events: none } preserves all of it. It now hit-tests the Sales tab with elementFromPoint and then navigates. Clicking alone is not enough, and that is measured: under that rule .click() does not fail, it waits for actionability until the test times out, which the harness correctly refuses to count (locator.click: Test timeout of 45000ms exceeded). phone-tabs-inert is the new mutant.
  2. The overflow walk could measure an error screen and report it clean. main#main-content proves the shell mounted and networkidle proves the requests settled; neither proves the table rendered, and both SalesPage and CustomersPage answer a failed read with a table-less section that is exactly 390 wide. Each route now names the content being judged. A blanket table.data was wrong on its first run — /daily-entry renders a grade grid and no table.
  3. MUST_STAY_GREEN_ON was optional where PROJECT_FOR is required, so deleting a row silently downgraded a phone mutant to an ordinary kill. Now required for anything scoped to chromium-phone.

Four claims of mine were false. MoreSheet enforces the handle, not the open state. 44px is WCAG AAA 2.5.5, not AA 2.5.8 (which is 24px) — the real floor is the app's own min-height: 3.4rem. The three role-gate specs would fail their positive controls rather than pass silently; the negative assertions go vacuous, which is still the thing worth preventing but is not what I wrote. And the desktop cross-check proves no existing desktop scenario noticed, not that desktop geometry stayed healthy. Stale overflow widths removed as well.

The route list now states its selection rule — every route whose main content is a table.data — and says why Reports, Expenses, Feed, Water, Users, Audit, Settings and Inventory are out, instead of being six routes somebody remembered.

Where it stands

npm run mutation  (five phone mutants)
  BASELINE : GREEN
  killed   : 5   phone-tabs-inert phone-action-bar-under-tabbar phone-tabbar-removed
                 phone-table-overflow-unclipped phone-action-label-wrapped
  survived : 0        chromium green under each
  RESTORE  : GREEN

Full suite across both projects: 46 passed, 1 skipped. Desktop 91.0s against a 90.6s pre-change baseline; phone 12s. The CI E2E job runs 271s against a 246–286s spread on recent base runs, so the second project is inside runner variance.

Two things I did not fix, on purpose

#816 — the dashboard overflows at 390 (443/390) on a long money value. Real, reproduces in English, excluded from the walk with the numbers in the comment because the triggering row is written by the suite itself and the verdict would therefore depend on spec order. #674 owns the remedy.

#818 — sales.spec.ts degrades as the shared fixture accumulates orders. Pre-existing, untouched by this PR, and the reason two earlier mutation runs reported a correct mutant as NOT WIDTH-SPECIFIC and a clean run as RESTORE: RED. CI never sees it because it seeds fresh per run.

Astra also confirmed the things that matter most: no inert mutant, and none broken at both widths. All five kill at their intended assertions.

The Orders-list step loaded /sales bare and expected its just-created order on
page one. Root cause, and it is not in the spec:

  SalesOrderRepository orders the list `OrderDate DESC, Id DESC`. OrderDate is
  a bare `date` with no time component, and Id is a random v4 Guid
  (CreateSalesOrderHandler: `var orderId = Guid.NewGuid()`). SalesOrders
  carries no creation timestamp at all. So every order placed on the same day
  is ordered ARBITRARILY, and with PAGE = 50 on SalesPage an order created
  seconds ago lands in a uniformly random position among that day's orders.

Against a long-lived sim fixture this suite keeps adding to, that read as a
flake: toHaveCount(1) received 0, having passed moments earlier in isolation.
It also cost two false verdicts in the mutation harness on #817 — a correct
width-scoped mutant reported NOT WIDTH-SPECIFIC, and a clean run reported
RESTORE: RED — which is the harness accusing correct code, the one thing it
exists to prevent.

The step now reaches the list the way a user asks this question: through the
customer book's name link into the URL-filtered Orders list (#512 US5), which
is the sole source of truth for that filter. Position stops mattering.

The unpaid-filter assertion that follows gains from the same change. With the
customer filter on, 'unpaid orders for this customer' is correctly EMPTY, so
the settled-list anchor is `noOrdersMatch` rather than a surviving table —
a stronger statement, and it renders only once the reload has settled, so it
keeps the anti-vacuity property the table anchor had.

Verified: full suite twice back-to-back with no reset between, which is what
reproduced the failure before. 46 passed, 1 skipped, both runs.
#816 reported the dashboard overflowing at 390 (443/390, a 13-character
amount pushed off screen). The measurement was real and the code was not: the
sim stack had been up 28 hours, so it served an image built before 7193ebe
(#781, 2026-09-12) — the commit that gave that list its container-query narrow
layout, and an ancestor of this branch's own base, seven commits back.

Rebuilt, with the same $9,999,999.99 rows still in the fixture:

  documentElement.scrollWidth / clientWidth   390 / 390
  ul.dash-list grid-template-columns          179.219px 112px
  widest .num right edge                      346.6px   (panel is 353.2px)

So `/` is walked rather than excluded, and the dashboard — the screen the
phone context is FOR — is now covered. The issue is closed as not-a-defect
with the evidence on it.

The rule that would have prevented the whole detour is already in AGENTS.md
and is quoted in this PR's own description: a long-running sim stack serves
the bytes it was built from, not the branch under review. Rebuild before
believing a rendered measurement, including one used only to justify an
exclusion. The spec comment and the decision record both carry that, because
the next person to measure a stale stack will find it convincing too.

Verified: five phone mutants all KILLED with chromium green under each;
full suite 46 passed, 1 skipped across both projects.
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