Digital Artist · L0001 · 2026-07-16

Slice digital-artist/0001 · Level 0001 (Web Fundamentals) · Apprentice tier · Engine verdict ⚠️ warn · Walked 2026-07-16

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

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🎯 Session Summary

Walked a 5-quest window (window 1 of 6; the full Level 0001 slice is 26 quests) of the Digital Artist (UI/UX) path at level 0001 — Web Fundamentals as a learner, using the sealed execute-mode evidence the workflow pre-computed. The three quests the engine scored are technically solid: every locally-runnable command in GitHub Pages Basics (82), Jekyll Fundamentals (88), and Git Workflow Mastery (80) was actually executed in a disposable Jekyll sandbox and behaved as documented — no broken commands, no unsafe steps. Average score across the scored quests is 83.3%.

The headline verdict is WARN, not PASS, for one honest reason: 2 of the 5 planned quests have no execute evidence at all — yaml-configuration and liquid-templating both hit the engine’s max_turns limit (40) and returned no verdict (overall: 0.0, verdict: "fail"). That is a harness/engine exhaustion, not an observed content defect — I did not witness those quests fail, so I refuse to report them as passing or as genuinely failing. They are reasoned about statically below and flagged as uncovered. A maintainer should treat this slice as 60% machine-verified.

🗺️ The Journey

Plan order (as walk-plan.json selected — note this window is not dependency-sorted; see Chain Continuity):

1. ✅ GitHub Pages Basics: Host Your Jekyll Site for Free — 82 · every baseurl / relative_url / JEKYLL_ENV=production / gh api :owner path ran clean; docked for a stated-but-undelivered “GitHub Actions Build” objective and no plugin-safelist warning.
2. ✅ Jekyll Fundamentals: Build Static Sites with Ruby — 88 · strongest quest; install → jekyll new → serve → collections → build all verified live; the one real failure is remote_theme silently no-op’ing without the unmentioned jekyll-remote-theme plugin.
3. ❌ YAML Configuration: Site Settings Mastery — no verdict · engine hit max_turns (40); no commands recorded. Reasoned-only below — treat as uncovered.
4. ✅ Git Workflow Mastery: Branches, Merging & Team Collaboration — 80 · branch/commit/push, true merge-commit vs rebase, and a hand-built conflict all reproduced exactly; docked for no gh auth login step and git revert named-but-never-shown.
5. ❌ Liquid Templating: Dynamic Content for Jekyll Sites — no verdict · engine hit max_turns (40) after a sandbox permission denial on a background jekyll serve --livereload; no commands recorded. Reasoned-only below — treat as uncovered.

🔬 Evidence

All command outcomes below come verbatim from the sealed walk-evidence.json (execute mode, real sandbox). I ran no engine myself; I read the quest sources and the sealed evidence.

1. GitHub Pages Basics — 82 / pass · ran 9/7 runnable snippets (9 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped, 3 reasoned)

• git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial site" on a real jekyll new scaffold → passed (7 files committed, exit 0).
• _config.yml url/baseurl + bundle exec jekyll build --baseurl "/my-castle" → passed: every href in _site/index.html correctly prefixed /my-castle/…, confirming relative_url/baseurl mechanics.
• JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build with {​% if jekyll.environment == "production" %​}{​% include analytics.html %​}{​% endif %​} → passed: include absent from dev build, present in production build (verified end-to-end with a real _includes/analytics.html).
• gh api -X POST repos/:owner/my-castle/pages … → passed: :owner placeholder verified to resolve to the repo owner (401 on fake token, i.e. syntactically/semantically correct).
• gh repo create --public --source=. --push flags all validated against --help.
• skipped: Windows PowerShell block (no PowerShell on Linux sandbox). reasoned: macOS brew install gh, the DNS A/CNAME tables. gh auth login / actual publish → untested (needs real GitHub credentials — inherent, not a defect).

2. Jekyll Fundamentals — 88 / pass · ran 11/10 runnable snippets (10 passed, 1 failed, 4 skipped, 3 reasoned)

• Linux gem install jekyll bundler (GEM_HOME, no sudo) → passed (“Successfully installed jekyll-4.4.1”, “bundler-4.0.16”).
• jekyll new my-castle + bundle exec jekyll serve → passed: HTTP 200 via Ruby Net::HTTP with the expected Jekyll SEO title tag.
• collections: recipes: + mkdir _recipes + _recipes/bread.md + bundle exec jekyll build --verbose → passed: wrote _site/recipes/bread/index.html.
• bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload --drafts → passed: GET /recipes/bread/ → 200, <title>Hearth Bread | …</title>.
• bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config_dev.yml → passed: dev override title won, confirming merge order.
• remote_theme: "bamr87/zer0-mistakes" → FAILED: built without error but silently ignored the theme — vanilla jekyll gem lacks jekyll-remote-theme; no warning, a silent no-op the quest never caveats.
• skipped: macOS/Windows install paths, docker run … jekyll/jekyll:4, and docker-compose up -d (the latter references a compose file never defined anywhere in the quest).

3. YAML Configuration — NO EVIDENCE (engine max_turns, 40)

• verdict_obj: null, overall: 0.0, zero commands recorded. The engine child process reached its turn limit before emitting a verdict. Nothing was witnessed — no pass, no fail. See Issues for the reasoned-only static read.

4. Git Workflow Mastery — 80 / pass · ran 7/10 runnable snippets (7 passed, 0 failed, 3 skipped, 2 reasoned)

• git switch -c feature/… / git add / git commit / git push -u origin … against a local origin → passed (tracking set up as documented).
• git status / git log --oneline --graph --all / git diff → passed (output matched the quest’s descriptions).
• Merge vs rebase demo → passed: on a genuinely diverged history, git merge made a true merge commit and git rebase main replayed the commit with a new hash — reproduced the quest’s ASCII diagrams exactly. (Engine notes a non-diverged history fast-forwards silently, which the diagram doesn’t caveat.)
• Hand-built conflict → passed: markers matched the quest’s <<<<<<< / ======= / >>>>>>> format exactly; git merge --abort / git rebase --continue / --abort all restored state cleanly.
• skipped: gh pr create / gh pr merge --squash --delete-branch — gh auth status showed “not logged into any GitHub hosts”; flags are valid, behavior judged by docs, not executed. macOS/Windows installs skipped (wrong OS); Linux apt install gh reasoned (confirmed available via apt-cache policy gh).

5. Liquid Templating — NO EVIDENCE (engine max_turns, 40)

• verdict_obj: null, overall: 0.0, zero commands recorded. Recorded permission_denials: a backgrounded bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload … && curl … was denied by the sandbox before the run exhausted its turns. Nothing was witnessed. Reasoned-only static read is in Issues.

🐞 Issues Found

Every item below is either engine-observed (cites a recorded command result) or, where marked reasoned, a static read of the quest source with the quoted line — never invented.

High

• [GitHub Pages Basics] · Chapter 1 / secondary objective — observed (content_accuracy/completeness): the objective “GitHub Actions Build — Understand how Pages can build Jekyll automatically” (line 114) is listed but no chapter ever explains the Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions path; only “Deploy from a branch” is covered. Fix: add a short GitHub Actions section or drop the objective/mastery indicator.
• [Git Workflow Mastery] · Chapter 2 / System Requirements — observed: gh auth status returned “not logged into any GitHub hosts”, so gh pr create / gh pr merge cannot run as written; the quest never instructs gh auth login. Fix: add an explicit gh auth login step before the PR snippet.
• [Jekyll Fundamentals] · Chapter 4 — docker-compose up -d — observed (skipped as unrunnable): line ~452 docker-compose up -d / port 4002 references a docker-compose.yml that is never defined anywhere in the quest. Fix: provide the compose file or replace with the already-shown docker run … jekyll/jekyll:4 pattern.

Medium

• [Jekyll Fundamentals] · Chapter 4 — remote_theme — observed (the one FAILED command): remote_theme: "bamr87/zer0-mistakes" builds but silently applies nothing without the jekyll-remote-theme plugin (absent from the vanilla jekyll gem used all quest). Fix: note the plugin dependency, or the learner sees a no-op with no error.
• [GitHub Pages Basics] · Content accuracy — observed: no mention of the github-pages gem pin / plugin safelist for the “Deploy from a branch” build — the single most common “builds locally, breaks on Pages” cause. Fix: add a short note.
• [GitHub Pages Basics] · Linux path — sudo apt install -y gh — reasoned (line 188): on many stock Debian/Ubuntu images gh isn’t in default apt repos without first adding GitHub CLI’s apt repository; verbatim followers may hit “package not found”. Fix: add the repo-add caveat.
• [Git Workflow Mastery] · Chapter 1 setup — observed: no step wires a real GitHub remote (git remote add origin … / gh repo create) before git push -u origin feature/…; Chapter 1 assumes origin + tracking already exist. Plausibly deferred to the /quests/0000/git-basics/ prerequisite, but not called out.
• [Git Workflow Mastery] · Secondary objective “Undo Safely” — observed: git revert is named in the objectives but no snippet ever demonstrates it (only git restore/git reflog get a one-line mention). Fix: add a runnable git revert <commit> example.

Low

• [GitHub Pages Basics] · Windows path — reasoned (lines 174-176): PowerShell ; does not short-circuit on failure like bash &&, so a failed git init won’t stop the chain. Minor note worth adding.
• [Jekyll Fundamentals] · Chapter 2 diagram — observed (reasoned in engine): the tree shows index.md (line 307) but jekyll new scaffolds index.markdown/about.markdown. Cosmetic; note both extensions.
• [Jekyll Fundamentals] · Chapter 4 webrick entry — reasoned: Jekyll 4.4+ already declares webrick as a runtime dep, so the LoadError is now rare on a fresh jekyll new; keep the fix for older setups but note this.
• [Git Workflow Mastery] · Chapter 2 merge diagram — observed: caveat that git merge only produces the “M” commit on a diverged history; a fast-forward-able branch merges with no merge commit, diverging from the diagram.

Reasoned-only (no execute evidence — quests the engine could not score)

• [YAML Configuration] · uncovered — no engine evidence (max_turns). Static read: the quest is well-structured (syntax → front matter/_config.yml → data files/pitfalls → production config) and its Chapter 4 plugin list does include jekyll-remote-theme (line 415) — which is exactly the plugin whose absence made Jekyll Fundamentals’ remote_theme no-op. Its commands (yamllint, --config layering, strict_front_matter: true) look runnable but were not verified this session. Needs a re-run with a higher turn budget.
• [Liquid Templating] · uncovered — no engine evidence (max_turns + a serve-binding permission denial). Static read: Chapter 2’s “New” badge snippet uses {​% elsif post.date > site.time | date: "%s" | minus: 604800 %​} — a date-vs-string comparison whose correctness I could not verify without running it; a real learner could plausibly hit a type mismatch here. Flag for a targeted re-run.

🔗 Chain Continuity

Reasoning about the window as one journey a Digital-Artist learner would actually take:

• Window order ≠ learning order. The plan walks GitHub Pages Basics first, but its own frontmatter lists required_quests: /quests/0001/jekyll-fundamentals/ and its prose opens “You forged a Jekyll site in the workshop…” — you cannot host a site you haven’t built. The dependency spine is jekyll-fundamentals → {yaml-configuration, liquid-templating, github-pages-basics} → git-workflow-mastery. This is expected for a date-rotated window (offset 5 of a 26-quest level, not a topological cut), but a learner following this window’s listed order verbatim would start in the wrong place. Not a content bug — an ordering caveat for anyone reading the window as a syllabus.
• Shared “my-castle” scaffold holds the chain together. Every quest assumes the same my-castle Jekyll site from Jekyll Fundamentals (verified: the engine reused one scaffold across quests). Naming and setup are consistent — good continuity once the learner has done Jekyll Fundamentals first.
• Cross-quest remote_theme inconsistency. Jekyll Fundamentals Ch4 introduces remote_theme: "bamr87/zer0-mistakes" without mentioning the jekyll-remote-theme plugin (verified: silent no-op). The very plugin that fixes it only appears later, in YAML Configuration Ch4’s plugin list. A learner hitting the silent failure in quest 2 gets no pointer forward; the two quests should cross-reference. Evidence: the one FAILED command in the whole session.
• Unstated GitHub-account/auth prerequisite spans two quests. Both GitHub Pages Basics and Git Workflow Mastery assume an authenticated GitHub session and an existing origin remote, yet neither walks gh auth login or remote creation (both defer implicitly to /quests/0000/git-basics/, which is recommended but outside this window). Evidence: gh auth status → “not logged in”; gh pr and publish steps were the exact commands the engine could not complete. A learner who jumped straight into level 0001 gets stuck at the “last mile” of both quests.
• Concepts reinforce well where they overlap. baseurl/relative_url, JEKYLL_ENV=production, and _config.yml,_config_dev.yml layering recur across Jekyll Fundamentals, YAML Configuration, and GitHub Pages Basics with consistent syntax — good spaced repetition for the tier.
• Chain coverage is only 60% machine-verified. Two of the five links (YAML, Liquid) have no execute evidence, so I cannot certify that quest 2→3 or 4→5 hand-offs actually work end to end this session. The dependency declarations are coherent; the executed proof is partial.

🧠 Reasoning & Method

• What I ran vs. reasoned: I ran no engine myself. The evidence is the sealed walk-evidence.json / walk-evidence.md the workflow pre-computed in a deterministic execute-mode step (the engine’s child claude processes can’t authenticate from an agent’s Bash tool). I consumed those files as-is, then read all five quest sources in plan order and reasoned about the linked journey. Every “passed”/”failed” above is quoted from the sealed evidence; everything I judged from source alone is marked reasoned.
• Mode: execute (disposable sandbox), as recorded in the evidence. Not review-only, not --mock.
• Coverage limits (stated plainly):
  • 2 of 5 quests have no evidence — yaml-configuration and liquid-templating both exhausted the engine’s max_turns (40) and returned verdict_obj: null / overall: 0.0. Their verdict: "fail" is an engine-exhaustion artifact, not a witnessed content failure. I did not fabricate scores for them; they are reasoned-only and flagged uncovered. They should be re-run with a higher turn budget (or fewer snippets per turn) before this slice is called complete.
  • The average (83.3) and pass 3 / fail 2 counts in the evidence are computed only over the scored quests; do not read the “2 fail” as two bad quests.
  • Publish/auth “last-mile” steps (gh auth login, gh repo create --push, live Pages publish, custom-domain DNS) are inherently unrunnable in a credential-less sandbox and were correctly skipped — not counted against the quests.
  • Windows/macOS platform blocks were skipped on the Linux sandbox (reasoned, not tested).
• Confidence: High for the three scored quests — their commands were genuinely executed and the recommendations align with the quest rubric’s dimensions. Low for YAML Configuration and Liquid Templating — no evidence gathered; treat my notes there as hypotheses to verify, not findings.
• Scope discipline: one slice, one report. No quest content was edited; no other character/level was touched. The caller handles git.