MANUAL RUN: score the Git Recon menus yourself (#3575) #3576

About 10 minutes. Score the Git Recon menus yourself out of 10, and pick the direction for the next round.

The menus climb (#3575, target 8/10) stalled tonight at about 5 on agent judges' scores. Agent judges run about two points high on these climbs and drift between judges, so your score is the real one.

Steps

1. bun run manual and pick this issue: it opens each screen below. Or by hand: cd apps/git-recon && bun run dev, then open these paths on the port it prints:

   • /: the title page and the missions as dog tags
   • /?screen=loadout: the build, head and role pickers, as a parts tray
   • /?screen=settings: the Controls panel
   • /?screen=won and /?screen=lost: results, with a sample round's numbers
   • Each again at phone width (devtools, 390 px).

   The ?screen= links come with PR Git Recon: baked menu art, a sprue of clay soldiers behind the page, the soldier on results (menus climb round 4) #3574. Until it merges, open the title and click: "More" for loadout, the gear for settings. Win or lose Boot camp for results.

2. Score the menus out of 10 on the goalpost in Git Recon: menus as a toy-soldier briefing, hill climb to 8/10, rounds 5+ (from #3569) #3575:

   • In the game's own look.
   • Artwork, not only CSS.
   • Readable at every size.
   • The house kit underneath.
   • (The eqosys chip, report form and toast aren't done yet: they wait for eqosys skin: a game injects its look once, and the chip, toast, report form, lobby and spaces wear it (climb round 1) #3540.)

3. Which direction for the next round?

   • More toy box: sprues, clay and moulded parts everywhere. For example, the loadout as a real tray of parts you pick, and the figures resculpted for the renders.
   • Back toward the field manual: paper, stencils and diagrams, with the toy box as an accent.
   • Something else.

   Comment with your score and the direction. Yes closes this; No (with a note) keeps it open.

Before and after (desktop)

	main, before round 1	now (round 4, #3574)
title
loadout
settings
results

Every round at desktop, tablet and phone is in apps/git-recon/docs/shots-2026-11-04-menus/ (before-*, r1-* to r3-*, now-*).

The judges' numbers

Each round had a fresh judge, scored out of 10 and corrected two points down:

The drift between judges is as big as the gains: the stall note on #3575 has the detail.

For agents

• bun run probe git-recon "/?screen=won" --shot out.png shows any screen. In dev builds, window.__recon has the game.
• bun scripts/menu-art.ts in apps/git-recon re-bakes the backplate and the result soldiers.