Digital Artist · L0100 · 2026-07-11

Slice digital-artist/0100 · Level 0100 (Frontend & Containers) · Adventurer tier · Engine verdict ❌ fail · Walked 2026-07-11

🔗 Perfection run · 🏠 Perfection dashboard · 📄 Raw report · 🕘 Change history

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🎯 Session Summary

I walked the first window (5 of 8 quests) of the Digital Artist → Level 0100 (Frontend & Containers, Adventurer tier) slice as a learner, in the dependency order the planner fixed. The two Docker infrastructure quests are excellent and largely verified end-to-end in the sandbox; the two frontend / Bootstrap quests — the ones a UI/UX-focused digital artist actually comes here for — are broken at nearly every runnable step and are still draft: true; the side quest is sound but has one hard touch failure and a missing Sass-wiring step.

Headline verdict: fail for the slice. Machine average is 59.5% (1 pass · 1 warn · 3 fail · 1 engine error). The critical, actionable finding for a maintainer is that this character’s namesake content (Jekyll + Bootstrap 5) is the weakest link: frontend-docker.md (28%) and frontend.md (54%) both fail on the very first hands-on commands, so a real digital-artist learner would get the strong container grounding but hit a wall exactly where the “make it beautiful” payoff should be.

🗺️ The Journey

Plan order (dependency-sorted, window 1 of 2):

1. ✅ Docker Container Fundamentals: Images to Registries — score 83 · Strong, accurate, verified end-to-end; only a non--d foreground command and a multi-stage snippet that can’t build on the quest’s own app.
2. ❓ Docker Compose Orchestration: Multi-Container Apps — no verdict (engine errored — max_turns while blocked from curl/wget localhost) · Statically the quest reads as correct, current Compose V2, and well-linked; no sandbox score.
3. ❌ Dockering Jekyll with Bootstrap 5 — score 28 · Broken end-to-end: jekyll new conflict, a cd into a never-created dir, Bootstrap 4 attributes, unprocessed Liquid, and a docker compose up that never reaches localhost:4000.
4. ❌ Frontend Forests: Building a Jekyll Site with Bootstrap — score 54 · gem install / bundle install fail with permission errors on stock Ruby; Steps 3–4 edit theme files that don’t exist in a fresh scaffold; no actual Bootstrap markup appears despite being the title topic.
5. ⚠️ The Artisan’s Forge: Refactoring Jekyll Theme Components — score 73 · Core refactoring pattern verified by real build, but Step 2.1 touch fails without mkdir -p, and the Sass partial is never wired into compiled CSS.

🔬 Evidence

All statuses below come from the sealed walk-evidence.json — commands the execute engine actually ran in its disposable sandbox. I did not re-run the engine.

1. container-fundamentals.md — ✅ 83 (execute)

Dimension scores: commands_work 4 · content_accuracy 4 · completeness 4 · clarity 4 · structure 5 · safety 5. Command coverage: 18 passed · 1 failed · 2 skipped · 4 reasoned (of 25); md snippet coverage 19/11 (1✗).

• passed — docker pull nginx:alpine → docker run --name web -d -p 8080:80 → docker ps → docker stop/docker rm: “ran flawlessly and the image correctly remained after container removal.”
• passed — docker build -t container-hello:1.0 . “produced the exact ‘naming to … container-hello:1.0’ output the quest promises,” and docker run … container-hello:1.0 “served the expected greeting text.”
• passed — Layer-cache claim verified precisely: after editing only app.js, RUN npm install --omit=dev and COPY package.json ./ “both reported CACHED while only COPY . . re-ran, exactly matching the quest’s explanation.”
• passed — Bind mount verified: editing app.js on the host was “immediately visible via docker exec dev cat /usr/src/app/app.js”; Compose up/logs/ps/down all “worked correctly with the exact compose.yaml given.”
• failed — Multi-stage Dockerfile (Chapter 3): RUN npm run build errors with npm error Missing script: "build" because Chapter 2’s package.json has no build script. Quest presents it as a continuation of the same project.
• skipped (reasonably) — curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo sh and sudo usermod -aG docker (system-state / already installed); macOS + Windows install paths marked reasoned (correct syntax, not runnable on Linux sandbox).

2. docker-compose-orchestration.md — ❓ no sandbox verdict

The engine exited 1 after hitting max_turns (40). Its permission_denials show the agent was blocked from curl -s http://localhost:8080/ and wget -qO- http://localhost:8080/ — the sandbox harness refused loopback HTTP, so the agent burned turns retrying the counter check and never emitted a verdict. This is a harness/engine limitation, not evidence of a quest defect, and no score exists. Everything below §2 in Chain Continuity is therefore reasoned (static read), not tested.

3. frontend-docker.md — ❌ 28 (execute) · draft: true

Dimension scores: commands_work 1 · content_accuracy 1 · completeness 1 · clarity 2 · structure 2 · safety 3. Command coverage: 4 passed · 5 failed · 1 skipped (of 10); md snippet coverage 9/4 (5✗).

• failed — docker-compose run jekyll jekyll new .: docker-compose: command not found (v1 CLI absent); retried as docker compose run … → Conflict: /srv/jekyll exists and is not empty (Dockerfile/compose already occupy the mounted dir).
• failed — cd my-jekyll-site: bash: cd: my-jekyll-site: No such file or directory — that directory is never created by any prior step.
• failed — index.html homepage: after jekyll build, the file lacks front matter so {​% include %​} tags are not processed — verified literal {​% include head.html %​} / {​% include footer.html %​} text left in built _site/index.html; also references a never-created _includes/footer.html.
• failed — docker compose up: container crashes with Bundler::GemNotFound: Could not find base64-0.3.0, csv-3.3.5, … in locally installed gems — the advertised “visit localhost:4000” end state is unreachable as written.
• reasoned/observed content — Bootstrap “5” block uses jQuery + Bootstrap 4 data-toggle/data-target, sr-only, and the removed .jumbotron; integrity hashes are sha384-xxx placeholders.

4. frontend.md — ❌ 54 (execute) · draft: true

Dimension scores: commands_work 2 · content_accuracy 3 · completeness 2 · clarity 3 · structure 2 · safety 5. Command coverage: 6 passed · 5 failed · 8 reasoned (of 19).

• failed — gem install jekyll bundler (Step 1) on Ruby 3.2.3: Gem::FilePermissionError — no write permission for /var/lib/gems/3.2.0. No fallback guidance (rbenv/rvm/--user-install) anywhere.
• failed — implicit/explicit bundle install: same global-dir PermissionError; only succeeded after a manual bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' the quest never mentions.
• failed — Steps 3–4 edit _includes/head.html and _layouts/default.html: verified via find that neither exists in a fresh jekyll new + minima project — they live only inside the gem (vendor/bundle/.../minima-2.5.2/…). No Bootstrap CDN link or grid markup is given anywhere in the quest.
• verified accurate — Chapter 9 (Jekyll build pipeline, layouts/includes, Liquid, overriding a remote-theme gem) is technically correct and well-verified.

5. jekyll-component-refactoring.md — ⚠️ 73 (execute)

Dimension scores: commands_work 3 · content_accuracy 4 · completeness 3 · clarity 4 · structure 4 · safety 5. Command coverage: 8 passed · 2 failed · 1 skipped · 3 reasoned (of 14); md snippet coverage 10/3 (2✗).

• passed — config-driven nanobar include, scoped SCSS, full-width footer fix, and a direct jekyll build (exit 0) all worked once the parent dir existed.
• failed — Step 2.1 touch _includes/components/nanobar.html: touch: cannot touch …: No such file or directory — touch doesn’t create parents; needed a manual mkdir -p _includes/components first (Step 3.1 does this correctly with mkdir -p, so the pattern is known).
• failed — Phase 7 bundle exec jekyll build: bundle: command not found — no Gemfile/bundler is set up anywhere in the quest; jekyll build directly succeeded.
• skipped — Phase 7 docker-compose exec … jekyll build: no compose/Dockerfile exists in this quest (assumed to come from the unlinked-in-body Frontend Docker quest).

🐞 Issues Found

• high · frontend-docker.md · Step 2.3 / Step 3 (docker-compose run jekyll new . then cd my-jekyll-site) — Observed: jekyll new . conflicts with the Dockerfile/compose already in the dir, and the very next cd my-jekyll-site targets a directory that is never created (No such file or directory). Fix: scaffold into a fresh empty subdir (or jekyll new . --force) and make every later cd match where the site actually lands.
• high · frontend-docker.md · Step 4 (index.html Liquid includes) — Observed: built _site/index.html still contains literal {​% include head.html %​} / {​% include footer.html %​} because the file has no front matter; _includes/footer.html is never created. Fix: add the ---\n--- front-matter fence and create/remove the footer include.
• high · frontend-docker.md · Step 5 (docker compose up) — Observed: Bundler::GemNotFound crash; localhost:4000 never comes up. Fix: persist the bundle (named volume for /usr/local/bundle or BUNDLE_PATH + volume) or run bash -c "bundle install && jekyll serve --watch --force_polling".
• high · frontend-docker.md · Step 3 (Bootstrap “5” snippet) — Observed: uses jQuery, Bootstrap-4 data-toggle/data-target, sr-only, and the removed .jumbotron, plus sha384-xxx placeholder integrity hashes that silently break styling. Fix: drop jQuery, use data-bs-* / visually-hidden, replace .jumbotron with BS5 utilities, and supply real (or no) integrity hashes.
• medium · frontend-docker.md · everywhere — Observed: all commands use legacy docker-compose (v1) → command not found. Fix: switch to docker compose (V2) and drop the obsolete version: '3' key.
• high · frontend.md · Step 1 (gem install jekyll bundler) + implicit bundle install — Observed: Gem::FilePermissionError / Bundler PermissionError on stock system Ruby; blocks the first command with no guidance. Fix: note the common permission error and recommend a version manager or bundle config set --local path vendor/bundle / --user-install.
• high · frontend.md · Steps 3–4 (edit _includes/head.html, _layouts/default.html) — Observed: neither file exists in a fresh jekyll new minima site (only inside the gem); and no Bootstrap markup is provided anywhere despite Bootstrap being the quest’s subject. Fix: tell the learner to override by copying from bundle show minima, and include the actual CDN <link>/<script> and grid snippets.
• high · jekyll-component-refactoring.md · Step 2.1 (touch _includes/components/nanobar.html) — Observed: fails on a clean checkout because the parent dir doesn’t exist. Fix: mkdir -p _includes/components && touch … (matches the correct pattern already used in Step 3.1).
• medium · jekyll-component-refactoring.md · Phase 3 (Sass wiring) — Observed: the _sass/components/_nanobar.scss partial is never @use/@import-ed into the compiled stylesheet, so a learner ends with an orphaned partial and an unstyled nanobar. Fix: add the explicit import step (with the partial’s front-matter fence).
• medium · container-fundamentals.md · Chapter 3 (multi-stage Dockerfile) — Observed: RUN npm run build → npm error Missing script: "build" against the quest’s own Chapter-2 app. Fix: flag the snippet as a standalone pattern, or give it a project with an actual build step.
• low · container-fundamentals.md · Chapter 2 (docker run --rm -e PORT=4000 …) — Observed: missing -d, so it runs in the foreground and the terminal appears to hang right after the backgrounded examples. Fix: add -d or note it runs in foreground.
• low · frontend-docker.md & frontend.md · Objectives — Observed: both ship the auto-seeded placeholder objectives with the visible “objectives auto-seeded during framework alignment” note. Fix: replace with quest-specific outcomes.

No fabricated issues: every item above cites a command result from the sealed evidence or a quoted line from the quest source.

🔗 Chain Continuity

Where the chain is strong. container-fundamentals → docker-compose-orchestration is an exemplary handoff: Fundamentals Chapter 4 literally introduces a compose.yaml and calls it “your on-ramp to the next quest,” and the Compose quest declares required_quests: [/quests/0100/container-fundamentals/] and opens by referencing the single containers “you have already forged.” A learner finishing quest 1 is genuinely ready for quest 2. (Quest 2 got no sandbox score — see §2 — so I judge its continuity by static read only; its content is accurate and current for Compose V2.)

Where the chain breaks for THIS character. The Digital Artist path is UI/UX. Its Level-0100 payoff is precisely the two Jekyll + Bootstrap quests — and both are draft: true and fail when followed literally. So the slice gives this learner a solid container foundation and then collapses exactly at the “style it, make it beautiful” step they came for. That is the single most important continuity finding.

Prerequisite gaps.

• Neither frontend-docker.md nor frontend.md declares any quest_dependencies (empty required_quests), even though frontend-docker re-teaches Docker + Compose that container-fundamentals already covers — the chain never links them, so the Docker grounding the learner just earned is silently re-introduced (worse, with the legacy docker-compose v1 syntax the earlier quest correctly avoided).
• jekyll-component-refactoring (Phase 7) assumes a Gemfile/bundler + a docker-compose … jekyll service that, per the evidence, “come from a separate, unlinked-in-body Frontend Docker quest.” It only recommends frontend-docker — but that recommended prerequisite is itself broken and draft, so the assumed setup is never reliably provided. The side quest builds fine in isolation (jekyll build exit 0) but its stated Docker validation path is unmet within the slice.

Redundancy. frontend-docker.md and frontend.md heavily overlap (both “Frontend Forests,” both Jekyll + Bootstrap 5, both draft, both carrying the identical auto-seeded objectives placeholder). A learner walking the chain meets the same broken lesson twice. Consider consolidating or clearly differentiating them.

Ordering. The planner’s order (two Docker quests → two frontend quests → the refactoring side quest) is sound as a difficulty ramp; the problem is content quality, not sequence.

🧠 Reasoning & Method

• Mode: execute. I consumed the workflow-sealed walk-evidence.json / walk-evidence.md as-is — I did not run, regenerate, or edit the engine output (the engine’s child claude processes can’t authenticate from my Bash tool). I read all five quest sources in plan order and reasoned about the linked journey on top of the machine evidence.
• Tested vs reasoned: Quests 1, 3, 4, 5 have real sandbox command results (quoted in §4). Quest 2 (docker-compose-orchestration) has no verdict — the engine hit max_turns after the harness denied loopback curl/wget; I marked all my claims about it reasoned (static read), assigned it no score, and did not let it count as a pass or a fail.
• Coverage / limits: This is window 1 of 2 — 5 of the level’s 8 quests. The remaining 3 quests are out of scope for this run and will be swept in a later window; I did not expand beyond the planned window. Platform-specific install commands (macOS brew, Windows winget, the Linux curl | sudo sh installer) were not run in the Linux sandbox and are labelled reasoned/skipped in the evidence, not passed. Registry docker login/push/pull needs real credentials and was verified only for docker tag + syntax.
• Confidence: High for the four scored quests (their headline defects are backed by reproduced command failures). Medium for the Compose quest (static read only, no sandbox score). The slice-level fail verdict reflects that 3 of 5 quests fail and the two that fail are the character-defining frontend quests.
• No content mutations. My only write is this report. No quest, data, workflow, or config file was touched; I did not branch, commit, push, or merge — the caller handles git.

Appendix — machine evidence (verbatim excerpt from walk-evidence.md)

4 quests evaluated · ✅ 1 pass · ⚠️ 1 warn · ❌ 3 fail · avg 59.5% · ~$3.6522

	Score	Quest	Snippets run
✅	83	Docker Container Fundamentals: Images to Registries	19/11 (1✗)
❌	—	Docker Compose Orchestration: Multi-Container Apps	— (engine max_turns)
❌	28	Dockering Jekyll with Bootstrap 5	9/4 (5✗)
❌	54	Frontend Forests: Building a Jekyll Site with Bootstrap	yes
⚠️	73	The Artisan’s Forge: Refactoring Jekyll Theme Components	10/3 (2✗)