Effects: a symbol instance's fill or stroke effects reshape its art and expand by dotCooCoo · Pull Request #7011 · storytold/vectorcraft

dotCooCoo · 2026-11-13T01:16:13Z

What and why

A geometry effect on a symbol instance's fill or stroke row was stored but drew nothing: the canvas placed the symbol's art without it, and Object › Expand Appearance stayed disabled for the instance, because expandable_except (crates/engine/src/cmd/effectcmd.rs) only looked at the instance's object-level effects. The help page describes applying an effect from the Effect menu or the Appearance panel, to a selected fill or stroke as well as to the whole object, and editing or removing it later (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/apply-and-modify-effects.html). The help page for Expand describes expanding as turning an object's appearance attributes into objects (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/expand-objects.html). Neither page says how a symbol instance's fill or stroke effect maps onto the symbol's art; the mapping below is VectorCraft's own rule.

effects::has_item_geometry (crates/effects/src/reshape.rs) now counts a symbol instance whose topmost fill or topmost stroke is visible, has an opacity above 0 and has a geometry effect. A lower fill or stroke never counts, matching the fill the instance's color stain already reads.
When the art is placed, the fill row's geometry effects are added to every painting fill in the art and the stroke row's to every painting stroke, so an Offset Path on the fill grows the filled shapes and leaves their strokes, colors and other detail as they are. Clipping paths, guides and opacity-mask art keep their shapes. A group's own fills and strokes in the art take the effects. A nested instance passes them on to its own art, except one whose symbol holds the outer symbol.
The canvas, Use Preview Bounds and the drawn bounds, SVG and PDF export, and Expand Appearance all use that art. crates/render/src/fx/bounds.rs measures the reshaped art with a dynamic symbol's overrides, as the canvas draws it, and measures a group in the art by the art its own appearance paints.
Expand Appearance is enabled for such an instance and turns it into an editable group of its art with the effects baked, in one undo step. Instances inside that art are expanded too (expand_nested_instances), up to the nesting depth limit and the symbol art object budget. effects::expand_art (crates/effects/src/bake.rs) now evaluates a group or layer with an appearance of its own before baking its paths, and export baking of nested instances stops at the same nesting depth limit, with its own object budget (SYMBOL_ART_MAX_NODES).
The params text of effect.expandAppearance, docs/mcp.md and one line in docs/target-app-parity.md describe the behavior. No user-visible string changed.

Existing documents with a geometry effect on a symbol instance's fill or stroke draw differently: before, the effect drew nothing.

How it was tested

New tests in crates/engine/src/tests/expand.rs:

a_symbol_instance_fill_effect_reshapes_its_filled_art_and_expands: an Offset Path on the instance's fill grows the art's red filled square on the canvas while its blue stroke stays on the square; Expand Appearance leaves a group that keeps the red fill and blue stroke, has no effects left and draws the same, and one undo gives the instance back with its effect.
a_symbol_instance_stroke_effect_reshapes_its_stroked_art_and_expands: the same for an effect on the instance's stroke and the art's stroked shapes.
only_the_topmost_visible_instance_fill_reshapes_the_art: an effect on a lower fill does not reshape the art or enable Expand Appearance; with the top fill hidden, nothing is reshaped.
a_nested_symbol_instance_takes_the_outer_fill_effect: an instance inside the art is reshaped and expanded with the outer fill's effect.
export_bakes_a_symbol_instance_fill_effect: export bakes the reshaped shapes.
a_stroke_effect_reshapes_a_stroke_a_dynamic_instance_adds: painted and drawn bounds take in a stroke a dynamic symbol's override adds, moved out by the stroke effect.
a_fill_effect_reshapes_the_fill_of_a_group_in_the_art: a group's own fill in the art grows, its bounds take it in, and Expand Appearance bakes it.
a_compound_clipping_path_in_the_art_keeps_its_shape: a compound clipping path in the art is not reshaped.
a_fill_effect_on_an_instance_of_a_symbol_that_holds_itself_ends: a symbol whose art holds an instance of itself exports, measures and draws without running out of stack, and Expand Appearance returns TOO_DEEP with the instance unchanged.

Each of the first eight fails without the change. The last one is a boundary test for the nesting limits.

Focused checks on the final tree, one commit on main at 487ffbba4b, on Linux. The branch merges cleanly with main at 487ffbba4b.

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo check --workspace --tests
cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-effects -p vectorcraft-render -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --lib expand: 186 passed, 0 failed.
cargo test -p vectorcraft-render --lib instance: 31 passed, 0 failed.
cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers (30 crates) and cargo xtask assets (337 files).
cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

cargo xtask ci passed in this pull request's CI run on e51685dc23: https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft/actions/runs/43343639761/job/131617641842

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cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
(why and how).
Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Geometry effects on visible symbol-instance fills and strokes now apply to the shapes in the symbol art, including grouped, nested, and dynamic symbols. Affected shapes retain their colors, and only the topmost visible fill or stroke is used.
- Expand Appearance converts eligible symbol instances into editable art with the effects applied. Canvas rendering, bounds, and SVG/PDF exports reflect the effects.
Documentation
- Updated guidance on symbol-instance effects and Expand Appearance behavior.

…nd expand A geometry effect on a symbol instance's topmost fill now reshapes the filled shapes of the symbol's art, and one on its topmost stroke reshapes the stroked shapes, keeping their colors, strokes and other detail. Only a visible topmost fill or stroke with an opacity above 0 counts. Clipping paths, guides and opacity-mask art keep their shapes; a group's own fills and strokes in the art take the effects; a nested instance passes them on to its own art, except one whose symbol holds the outer symbol. The canvas, Use Preview Bounds and the drawn bounds, SVG and PDF export and Object > Expand Appearance use the same art. Expand Appearance is enabled for such an instance and turns it into an editable group in one undo step. Bounds measure the art with a dynamic symbol's overrides, as the canvas draws it. Existing documents with a geometry effect on a symbol instance's fill or stroke draw differently: before, the effect drew nothing.

coderabbitai · 2026-11-13T01:16:47Z

Walkthrough

Symbol-instance fill and stroke geometry effects now propagate through symbol art. Bounds, Expand Appearance, and export baking account for the reshaped art, with depth and node-count limits for nested symbols.

Changes: Symbol Instance Geometry Effects

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Propagate geometry effects `crates/effects/src/reshape.rs`	Symbol instances qualify when an active fill or stroke has visible geometry effects. Those effects propagate to matching painted items and nested instances, while excluding clipping paths and avoiding symbol cycles.
Measure reshaped instance bounds `crates/render/src/fx/bounds.rs`	Bounds use dynamic instance art and measure reshaped art piece by piece. Nested symbol measurements are bounded by depth and node-count limits.
Expand and bake symbol appearances `crates/engine/src/cmd/effectcmd.rs`, `crates/effects/src/bake.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/expand.rs`, `docs/mcp.md`, `docs/target-app-parity.md`	Expand Appearance recognizes eligible symbol instances and recursively expands qualifying nested instances within depth and node-count limits. Baking evaluates container appearances and limits recursive symbol baking. Tests cover rendering, bounds, export, expansion, undo, clipping, and nested-symbol limits. Documentation describes the expansion behavior and parity evidence.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ExpandAppearance
  participant expandable
  participant outline_art_with
  participant expand_art
  ExpandAppearance->>expandable: Check for an eligible symbol-instance geometry effect
  ExpandAppearance->>outline_art_with: Outline eligible symbol-instance art
  ExpandAppearance->>expand_art: Expand outlined art and qualifying nested instances

Suggested reviewers: taha-mahmoodi, bflatastic, aiongg

Merge Risk: Low · up to e5168

Symbol-instance fill and stroke effects now reshape the symbol's art on the canvas, in bounds, in export and in Expand Appearance. No functional defect was established. Very deeply or heavily nested symbols may be left partly unexpanded by a documented limit. Update the docs' status line and revision entry before merging.

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The title names the main change: a symbol instance's fill or stroke geometry effects now reshape its art and enable Expand Appearance. The changeset matches this. The title is long (13 words) but it is specific and accurate.

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The description follows the template well. It has a detailed 'What and why' section that explains the bug (geometry effect on a symbol instance's fill or stroke row drew nothing), the scope of the fix across the effects, render, engine, and docs crates, and the nesting and budget limits. The 'How it was tested' section lists named new tests, the pre-existing failing behavior, and the commands run with results. All checklist items are present. Three boxes are checked, and the CI pass is supported by a linked run. The description also cites Adobe help pages and states that the symbol-art mapping is the project's own rule. The description is substantive and specific, so it passes.

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Add a dated revision entry in the feature-submission section at the top of the document describing the symbol-instance fill and stroke effects change and noting that scores and estimates are unchanged. Leave the shared status line and shared revision-history table untouched.

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If a nested symbol's art exceeds budget, this branch leaves its effected instance in the result. expand_pieces does not replace that remaining SymbolInstance, yet effect.expandAppearance can report success with live row effects still present. Return an explicit limit failure or report partial expansion instead of presenting the group as fully baked. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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@coderabbitai The status line and revision history of docs/target-app-parity.md are left to the maintainers, so this pull request added only its evidence line.

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Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: docs/architecture.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T14:38:44.337Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- Checklists: [`ui-parity.md`](docs/ui-parity.md), [`file-format-parity.md`](docs/file-format-parity.md), [`hardware-parity.md`](docs/hardware-parity.md), [`localization-parity.md`](docs/localization-parity.md), [`effects-parity.md`](docs/effects-parity.md), [`type-parity.md`](docs/type-parity.md); [`architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md).

Source excerpt:
# Architecture

## Corpus fetching

`cargo xtask corpus --download` retrieves only allowlisted regular PngSuite files over HTTPS at a pinned mirror commit. SHA-256 and exact size checks precede publication; the downloader never extracts an archive. Existing verified files are reused; failed downloads leave existing corpus files intact. See [development.md](development.md#verified-pngsuite-corpus).

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-06T14:09:26.605Z
Learning: Applies to {docs/target-app-parity.md,docs/gaps.md,docs/ui-parity.md,docs/file-format-parity.md,docs/hardware-parity.md,docs/localization-parity.md,docs/effects-parity.md,docs/type-parity.md,docs/roadmap.md,ROADMAP.md} : Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Roadmap and progress docs

When a task lands, update in the same PR: the area row in `docs/target-app-parity.md` (score, missing items, hours) and its evidence list, the gap entry in `docs/gaps.md` if it closed or shrank, the checklist it belongs to, the milestone row in `docs/roadmap.md`, and the ROADMAP's tables and progress log when a headline number moves. Update each touched doc's status line and revision history.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-06T14:09:26.605Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
## House rules

11. **CI stays shared.** Workflows call `storytold/craft-common-actions`. Do not change CI in a feature or fix pull request. If CI cannot cover a change, open an issue there.

Learnt from: CR
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File: docs/file-format-parity.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-13T01:43:24.759Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- Checklists: [`ui-parity.md`](docs/ui-parity.md), [`file-format-parity.md`](docs/file-format-parity.md), [`hardware-parity.md`](docs/hardware-parity.md), [`localization-parity.md`](docs/localization-parity.md), [`effects-parity.md`](docs/effects-parity.md), [`type-parity.md`](docs/type-parity.md); [`architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md).

Source excerpt:
# File format parity

## Corpus download integrity

- [x] PngSuite opt-in downloads are pinned, SHA-256 verified and bounded before publication (#1729); no archive extraction. This secures fixture acquisition and does not raise format-fidelity scores.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: docs/architecture.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T14:38:44.337Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- Checklists: [`ui-parity.md`](docs/ui-parity.md), [`file-format-parity.md`](docs/file-format-parity.md), [`hardware-parity.md`](docs/hardware-parity.md), [`localization-parity.md`](docs/localization-parity.md), [`effects-parity.md`](docs/effects-parity.md), [`type-parity.md`](docs/type-parity.md); [`architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md).

Source excerpt:
# Architecture

## Files

PDF writing uses the optional `craft-pdf` writer at an immutable craft-libs revision. Shared
configuration, metadata, font preparation and guarded serialization leave drawing, colour
policy, layers, editing data and print composition in this app. `cargo xtask pdf-deps` verifies
the shared facade and patched Krilla and Hayro sources at the same revision.
The reader facade opens the PDF with per-document decode limits; the app scans layer and
overprint content in windows and rejects known incomplete content before returning a document.
See [pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md).

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Timestamp: 2026-10-31T05:14:00.435Z
Learning: Applies to .github/workflows/** : Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## CI workflows

- Workflows in `.github/workflows/` call the shared workflows in [`storytold/craft-common-actions`](https://github.com/storytold/craft-common-actions) at `@main`, with their inputs and secrets. No other jobs: if no shared workflow does what's needed, it doesn't go here.

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File: docs/roadmap.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T23:13:07.045Z
Learning: Applies to docs/roadmap.md : Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md): every known shortfall, ranked; the work list. [`docs/roadmap.md`](docs/roadmap.md): milestones and current focus.

AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
When a task lands, update in the same PR: the area row in `docs/target-app-parity.md` (score, missing items, hours) and its evidence list, the gap entry in `docs/gaps.md` if it closed or shrank, the checklist it belongs to, the milestone row in `docs/roadmap.md`, and the ROADMAP's tables and progress log when a headline number moves. Update each touched doc's status line and revision history.

Source excerpt:
# Roadmap: milestones and what's next

## Feature submission evidence

The shared assessment status line and revision history are current upstream; this dated section records the submission's feature evidence and revisions without rescoring upstream or claiming a new combined build or runtime measurement.

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Learning: Source excerpt:
## Rust Craft repositories

4. **Rust only for native Craft apps.** No handwritten JavaScript or TypeScript, and no Tauri, Electron or webview shell, in those apps. Shared tooling follows its documented technical scope and maintainer-approved exceptions. Craft PR Review's existing Tauri and TypeScript UI is one such exception. It does not relax this rule for native apps. Preserve any existing web build.

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Learning: Applies to .github/workflows/** : Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## CI workflows

- Some workflow files here still run their own jobs. Don't add to them. Moving a job into craft-common-actions is its own task, never part of another PR, and the job stays here until a shared workflow runs it.

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# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## CI workflows

New workspace crates include `[lints] workspace = true` in `Cargo.toml`. Production crate roots declare the crate-level lint attributes before modules; crate-level `//!` documentation may precede them.

Learnt from: dotCooCoo
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4489
File: crates/engine/src/cmd/swatch.rs:532-605
Timestamp: 2026-10-28T23:43:37.393Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/engine/src/cmd/swatch.rs"]: When reviewing swatch operations in crates/engine/src/cmd/swatch.rs that rewrite the stored brush array, verify that entries rejected by Brush::from_json remain unchanged at their original positions. Updating paints in parsed brushes must not discard unparseable entries.

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File: docs/roadmap.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T23:13:07.045Z
Learning: Applies to docs/roadmap.md : Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md): every known shortfall, ranked; the work list. [`docs/roadmap.md`](docs/roadmap.md): milestones and current focus.

AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
When a task lands, update in the same PR: the area row in `docs/target-app-parity.md` (score, missing items, hours) and its evidence list, the gap entry in `docs/gaps.md` if it closed or shrank, the checklist it belongs to, the milestone row in `docs/roadmap.md`, and the ROADMAP's tables and progress log when a headline number moves. Update each touched doc's status line and revision history.

Source excerpt:
# Roadmap: milestones and what's next

## Milestones

Milestone estimates predate the 2026-10-10 re-measure for M1–M14; the area table in
[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) is authoritative when they disagree.

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Timestamp: 2026-11-08T02:36:56.607Z
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AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Contributor credits (About window)
- About ▸ Contributors/Models are compiled into the binary from `contributors/contributors.json`
  (commit stats; never hand-edit) and `contributors/people.toml` (names people chose for
  themselves). See `docs/contributors.md`.

Source excerpt:
# Contributors in the About window

## Decision

- Two files, both **compiled into the binary** by the UI crate's `build.rs` (nothing is read from
  disk or the network at run time; the web build has them too):
  - [`contributors/contributors.json`](../contributors/contributors.json): commit stats per GitHub
    username. Never hand-edit. Release builds regenerate it for the release commit
    (`.github/workflows/release.yml`, `credits` job); the copy in the repository is not updated.
  - [`contributors/people.toml`](../contributors/people.toml): the names people chose for
    themselves. **Each contributor adds only their own entry**, in their own PR.

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## House rules

12. **Guards say why.** A check that looks removable says what it prevents. Read that before changing it.

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Learning: Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Non-negotiables

- **Shared test corpora.** Real-file test oracles (Photoshop-authored PSDs, etc.) live in [`storytold/photocraft-corpus`](https://github.com/storytold/photocraft-corpus). Never commit large binary fixtures to this repo; fetch them pinned by commit and sha256-verified, as PhotoCraft does with `cargo xtask corpus`.

Learnt from: dotCooCoo
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4536
File: crates/engine/src/cmd/recolor.rs:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-29T16:06:56.408Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/engine/src/cmd/recolor.rs"]: When reviewing notChanged reporting in crates/engine/src/cmd/recolor.rs, verify that eligible left-out objects are compared by their displayed colors before recoloring and after the group rewrite, including colors in pattern tiles used by fills or strokes. Do not use whole-node equality: a swatch-link-only removal must not exclude an otherwise eligible unchanged object from the count, while a group rewrite that changes its displayed colors, including pattern-tile colors, must exclude it.

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# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Non-negotiables

- **Everything is a command.** User-visible behaviour = a command in `crates/engine/src/cmd/*` (id, label, menu path, shortcut, params doc, `enabled`, `run`) + tests. Tools emit commands (Begin/Preview/Commit). UI-only commands live in `crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs` (`UI_COMMANDS`). The control channel and MCP reach all of them.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-06T14:09:26.605Z
Learning: Applies to {contributors/people.toml,contributors/contributors.json} : Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Contributor credits (About window)

- Never add, edit, guess or copy anyone else's entry or name (not from git config, commit authors or
  GitHub profiles). Never hand-edit `contributors.json`.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-06T14:09:26.605Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
## House rules

13. **Instructions must be readable by everyone.** No notes about one machine, and no links to files a reader cannot open. `craftrules` is retired. Do not link to it.

Learnt from: mockydevs
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4742
File: crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs:260-260
Timestamp: 2026-10-30T19:58:32.891Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs"]: When reviewing alternate placed-file selection in crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs, distinguish a file-wide placement convention from independent per-artboard placement choices. When the placed files share one placement convention, preserve the file-wide candidate; do not require restricting moves to images visible on the compared page solely because other artboards are not compared. Such a restriction can leave images on later artboards at the wrong placement. This guidance does not establish correctness for files that mix placement conventions.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T05:14:00.435Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Non-negotiables

- **Adding a cursor.** The app decides which cursors exist; whoever draws them works from the list. For a new tool state with a cursor of its own: add the `Cursor` variant (`crates/tools/src/lib.rs`, with a doc comment), return it from the tool's `cursor()` with a tool test, cover it in `cursor_icon` (`crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs`), draw it in `crates/ui-egui/src/cursors.rs` or give it a stand-in in `Cursor::stand_in()` until it's drawn, and add its `[[cursor]]` entry to `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml` (when it shows, in plain behaviour terms, and its hotspot; never another app's look). A missing entry only warns (`cargo xtask cursors`): the cursor still works.

Learnt from: mockydevs
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4519
File: crates/doc/src/canvas_range.rs:62-62
Timestamp: 2026-10-29T02:32:34.061Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/doc/src/canvas_range.rs"]: When reviewing canvas-range pruning in crates/doc/src/canvas_range.rs, compare its object-bounds test with the engine's doc_sane edit check. When doc_sane uses geometric_bounds with fallback bounds for symbol instances, do not require load-time pruning to use symbol-aware bounds solely because a symbol definition contains out-of-range art. Treat a change to symbol-instance range semantics as a separate change that must also address doc_sane.

Learnt from: adambelis
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 3145
File: crates/effects/src/stroke/width.rs:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T09:01:06.998Z
Learning: In crates/effects/src/stroke/width.rs, the radius-based cut through Vertex::p for smooth inner offsets is intentionally restricted to constant width profiles. Varying-profile crossings can represent real caustics, and applying the same cut produced visible slits or spikes in the stress-demo. A general varying-width solution requires envelope/boolean trimming rather than applying the constant-profile cut unconditionally.

Learnt from: dotCooCoo
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4517
File: crates/engine/src/session/edit.rs:239-247
Timestamp: 2026-10-30T13:20:01.345Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/engine/src/session/edit.rs"]: When reviewing command.batch handling in crates/engine/src/session/edit.rs, preserve batch-preview support because the Effect Gallery uses it; do not recommend blanket rejection. Check that replacement, cancellation, and failure restore the document and new-art paints, acceptance retains the batch's final paints, and document-switching batch previews fail with rollback.

Learnt from: mockydevs
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4757
File: crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/ops.rs:434-434
Timestamp: 2026-10-30T21:57:59.889Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/ops.rs"]: When reviewing post-record Xy transparency handling for live blends in crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/ops.rs, check that the assignment remains tentative: the blend's own 6 () XW confirms it, but a layer state block ending with 7 () XW followed by LB must apply the state to the layer and restore the blend's prior opacity, blend mode, isolation, and knockout state. Do not extend this live-blend rule to blends retained as drawn-step groups; those retain the group rule.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: ROADMAP.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T15:06:08.576Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Start every session here
1. Read [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) (stage, numbers by dimension, what's next) and the ranked work list in [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md). Unless the user gives you a task, pick work from that list.

AGENTS.md: # VectorCraft — instructions for agents
## Roadmap and progress docs
The progress docs:
- [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md): stage, headline numbers, dimensions, features, languages, upcoming, progress log.

Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft Roadmap

## Progress log

| Date | What landed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | Rendering: copies, symbol instances and repeats that share an appearance keep their stroke outlines between frames (#1667); the canvas no longer reads its whole picture back for each non-isolated group that blends (#1687); envelopes, blends, repeats and meshes redraw when a pattern, symbol, font or colour setting they show changes (#1688); Outline view draws from geometry kept between frames (#1689); CMYK documents with transparency compose their ink planes on several threads (#1755); an edit re-flows a threaded story only when it changes one of the story's frames (#1792); opening a file reads its linked files and lays out its type on the opening thread (#1767). Instances of imported symbols are measured, selected, aligned, culled and exported by their art instead of a 20 pt square (#1744). Export for Screens and the Asset Export panel offer TIFF (#1632). SVG import looks style rules up by id, class and type (#1690), applies `:not()` selectors (#1799, #1557), no longer stalls on stacked descendant selectors over deep nesting (#1834, #1703) and reads linked files within the automation roots again (#1870). DXF export writes the VPORT view direction once (#1789). Untrusted files: nesting is capped at 32 objects in SVG, PDF, EPS and native files and symbols or patterns that use themselves open without the offending instance or paint (#1852); deeply nested PDF and `.ai` data, page trees holding themselves and functions or colour spaces built on themselves (#1871), decompression bombs and impossible predictor parameters (#1873, #1700, #1701), brushes that draw themselves (#1872) and hostile EPS, Affinity and native data (#1863: #1715, #1714, #1704, #1699) no longer crash or exhaust the app; the save fallback keeps the old file until the new one is in (#1695). Files whose ids sit at their largest value, a failed `command.batch`, control requests that timed out and images too large as RGBA for the Eyedropper are handled (#1862: #1718, #1697, #1725, #1717). Effects: wide shadows and glows at high zoom stay within the raster budget, stacked Transform effects are bounded, 3D keeps the area a nonzero compound path fills, pattern tiles redraw when the art they show changes, and a template layer dims its images by Dim Images (#1864: #1706, #1705, #1724, #1723, #1683). A failed save or export is reported in a dialog that names the file and stays until closed (#1865, #1685); a browser download that can't start fails the save (#1693); a file that finishes opening waits while a dialog is open (#1694). krilla's text shaping is no longer built in (#1874, #1730); the CI gate compiles the web app for wasm (#1875). |

Learnt from: dylanmtaylor
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 2893
File: README.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-18T12:32:46.816Z
Learning: In storytold/vectorcraft, “mainstream illustrator” in README.md denotes a user audience, alongside essentials users and full scope, as documented in docs/target-app-parity.md. It does not denote the commercial product. The project’s positioning policy is to present VectorCraft independently on its own merits; preserve accurate assessment scope without requiring commercial product names in README.md.

Learnt from: mockydevs
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 4658
File: crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs:91-91
Timestamp: 2026-10-30T15:53:50.749Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs"]: When reviewing the cropped-to-art PDF fallback in crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs, distinguish repeated whole-art pages from pages for separate artboards. For the repeated whole-art case, check that every PDF page matches the editing data's art box and that only the first page's text objects and glyph outlines enter slot filling. Do not require comparison against every repeated page; first-page comparison is sufficient for this case. Do not apply this exception to pages that represent separate artboards.

Learnt from: dylanmtaylor
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 5289
File: crates/cad/src/scene.rs:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T03:42:50.059Z
Learning: Within repository "storytold/vectorcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/cad/src/scene.rs"]: When reviewing symbol-art budget estimates in crates/cad/src/scene.rs, verify that estimates match place_symbol_art_unclipped: use most_placed_unclipped for a symbol slice map, without charging clip groups, and preserve the art.count_with_masks() fallback when no slice map exists.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T05:14:00.435Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Non-negotiables

- **Clean-room: never use Adobe software (absolute rule, from the project owner).** Adobe's Terms of Use forbid reverse engineering, including observing a program's inputs and outputs to recreate it. So:
  - Never launch, run, script, automate (COM, AppleScript, ExtendScript, UI automation), screenshot or measure Illustrator or any other Adobe application, and never compare our output against one. Don't make test files with them, not even "synthetic" ones.
  - Never read, disassemble or copy anything inside an Adobe install (binaries, plug-ins, presets, procsets, resources, help files, fonts, ICC profiles).
  - Never copy Adobe-authored code or text into this repo, tests included: no PostScript procsets or prologs (AGM, CoolType, the Illustrator prologs), no sample files. Write test inputs from scratch from the public specifications (PostScript Language Reference, PDF / ISO 32000, TIFF, EPSF/DCS).
  - Behaviour comes only from public documentation (helpx, published specs, public forum posts), cited by URL, and from files users send us that they own (used locally, never committed). Never copy Adobe icons, artwork, presets or wording beyond feature names.
  - If a task seems to need any of this, stop and say so instead. `cargo xtask cleanroom` (run by `cargo xtask ci`) fails on Adobe copyright notices and on fixtures made with Adobe applications.
  - Never copy GPL/AGPL code (Inkscape, lib2geom…).

Learnt from: CR
Repo: storytold/vectorcraft PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T05:14:00.435Z
Learning: Applies to docs/brand/** : Source excerpt:
# VectorCraft — instructions for agents

## Non-negotiables

- **Assets: no Adobe iconography or images — ever (absolute rule, from the project owner).**
  - Never add, copy, trace, redraw-from, embed or ship any icon, image, artwork, cursor, preset, swatch/brush/symbol/pattern/style library, ICC profile or screenshot from Adobe products or from any other source whose licence doesn't allow it.
  - Every image, icon, font or other asset must be one of:
    - original work created for VectorCraft by a contributor (who licenses it MIT OR Apache-2.0);
    - OSI open source;
    - public domain / CC0;
    - Creative Commons with redistribution allowed.
  - **Every asset file must have a row in [`ASSETS.md`](ASSETS.md)** (path, author, source URL, licence, notes). Put licence texts next to the assets (e.g. `assets/fonts/OFL-*.txt`) and summarize them in `NOTICE`.
  - `cargo xtask assets` (run by `cargo xtask ci`) fails on any unattributed asset.
  - **Fonts live in [storytold/craft-fonts](https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts), never in this repo**. Never commit a font file here; add new fonts to craft-fonts. The app uses it only through the optional `CRAFT_FONTS_DIR` build option (`CRAFT_FONTS_DIR="$PWD/../craft-fonts" cargo xtask ci`; use an absolute path), read by `crates/text/build.rs` into `vectorcraft_text::CRAFT_FONTS`; never add it to a `Cargo.toml`. Everything must build, test and run with `CRAFT_FONTS` empty, and tests of its glyphs skip when it is. Details: `docs/development.md` › Fonts.
  - Code and original assets are MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`, `NOTICE`). The ArtCraft logos in `docs/brand/` are trademarks, not open source, under `docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`: never modify them or use them outside VectorCraft.
  - Prefer art generated in code for defaults (swatches, brushes, symbols, patterns, cursors). If the provenance of an asset is unclear, don't add it.
  - Reference screenshots of Illustrator stay local under the gitignored `plan/` and are never committed, published or used as assets.

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