feat: pulseplot v1 — native live pulse rendering replaces PNG display (Closes #66)

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }

packages/extension/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev/pulseplot_harness/main.js

packages/extension/.vscodeignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 src/**
 test/**
 scripts/**
+dev/**
 node_modules/**
 esbuild.config.mjs
 tsconfig.json

packages/extension/AGENTS.md

@@ -65,7 +65,22 @@ script, running with cwd = the run dir, must emit:
 - `AMICODE_ITER iter=<n> f=<obj> inf_pr=<…> inf_du=<…>` to stdout, flushed,
  once per Ipopt iteration (drives the live stats row). This stays on the raw
  Ipopt callback — it needs the rich IPM state the agnostic callback can't carry.
-- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations (the live plot the Inspector shows). See
+- `AMICODE_PULSE_META` (once, before the solve) and `AMICODE_PULSE` (once per
+ iteration) to stdout, flushed — **this is what the Inspector's live pulse
+ plot renders**. Prototype-grade line shapes (candidate GA format):
+
+ ```
+ AMICODE_PULSE_META drives=<n> knots=<N> labels="a_1","a_2" bounds=<lo>:<hi>,<lo>:<hi>
+ AMICODE_PULSE iter=<n> dt=<dt> a=<values comma-sep; drives semicolon-sep>
+ ```
+
+ Use the template's `PulseEmitCallback` idiom (see below): a small
+ `AbstractIntermediateCallback` that delegates to the PNG callback, syncs the
+ trajectory from the primal, and prints the lines. **A script that skips these
+ lines gets a dead live plot** — the Inspector sits on "warming up" until
+ completion, then shows a no-pulse-data hint.
+- `iter_<N>.png` every few iterations — **archival/publication artifact**
+ (`plot_pulse` is canonical there); the Inspector no longer displays PNGs. See
  the per-iter plotting idiom below — **`LivePulsePlotCallback`** once the bundled
  Julia project pins DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7, else the hand-rolled Ipopt-callback
  path (the only one that runs on 0.9.6).
@@ -88,18 +103,26 @@ primal each iteration and writes `iter_<N>.png` — the same object would instal
 on MadNLP via `MadNLPOptions(intermediate_callback = …)`:
 
 ```julia
-live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+live_plot = LivePulsePlotCallback(qtraj, prob.trajectory; every = 6, save_dir = ".")
+pulse_emit = PulseEmitCallback(live_plot, prob.trajectory) # wraps live_plot; adds AMICODE_PULSE lines
 solve!(qcp; max_iter = max_iter,
- options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = live_plot), # → iter_<N>.png
+ options = IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback = pulse_emit), # → iter_<N>.png + AMICODE_PULSE
  callback = CB.callback_factory(cb_log)) # → AMICODE_ITER text
 ```
 
+`PulseEmitCallback` is defined in the template — copy it verbatim (it qualifies
+`update!` against the Makie name collision and resolves the drive component
+`:u`-then-`:a`). It delegates to the PNG callback first, so archival frames and
+pulse telemetry ride one hook.
+
 **Fallback on DirectTrajOpt 0.9.6 (no Ipopt `intermediate_callback` field yet):
 hand-roll the PNG from the raw Ipopt callback** — `IpoptOptions(intermediate_callback=…)`
 throws at construction on 0.9.6, so if you author a script against a project still
 pinned to 0.9.6, use the text-callback path instead: in `cb_log`, every few iters
 call `plot_pulse(qcp; bounds = true, title = …)` and `CairoMakie.save` the figure
-(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync).
+(alongside `callback_update_trajectory_factory` to keep the iterate in sync) —
+and still print the `AMICODE_PULSE_META`/`AMICODE_PULSE` lines from that same
+callback (the synced trajectory has the drive values), or the live plot is dead.
 
 The bundled template uses the preferred `LivePulsePlotCallback` path; it lands
 together with the DirectTrajOpt ≥ 0.9.7 `Manifest.toml` bump (lockstep), so the

packages/extension/demo/run/result.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-schema_version = "1"
 iterations = 60
-fidelity = 0.9999788203047787
-wall_seconds = 101.5023238658905
+fidelity = 0.9998472204856121
+schema_version = "1"
+wall_seconds = 109.01594400405884
+
+[params]
+levels = 3
+drive_max = 0.2
+T = 10.0
+max_iter = 60
+N = 50
+delta = 0.2

packages/extension/demo/run/run.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 schema_version = "1"
-run_id = "r20260617-161814Z-e8cb"
-script_path = "/Users/raghavchari/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
-lab = "default"
-lab_id = "default"
-created_at = "2026-06-17T16:18:14.159Z"
+run_id = "r20260702-232128Z-a0b4"
+script_path = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/templates/solve_template.jl"
+lab = "devlab"
+lab_id = "devlab"
+created_at = "2026-07-02T23:21:28.731Z"
 orchestrator_version = "0.1.0"
 
 [julia]
 binary = "julia"
-project = "/Users/raghavchari/.amico/julia"
+project = "/Users/katebonner/Desktop/harmoniqs_products/amicode/packages/extension/julia"

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+ <title>pulseplot harness (#66)</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/brand.css" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../media/layout.css" />
+ <style>
+ /* Stand-ins for the VS Code theme variables the webview provides.
+ Light values validated (dataviz six checks) against the light surface;
+ brand.css's --series-* fallbacks cover dark. */
+ body { --vscode-foreground: #333; --vscode-editor-background: #fcfcfb;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #717171;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #1a85ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #a05a00;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #8b47b7; --vscode-charts-green: #2e7d32;
+ background: var(--vscode-editor-background); color: var(--vscode-foreground);
+ font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
+ margin: 0; padding: 16px; height: 100vh; box-sizing: border-box;
+ display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }
+ body.dark { --vscode-foreground: #ccc; --vscode-editor-background: #1a1a19;
+ --vscode-descriptionForeground: #9d9d9d;
+ --vscode-charts-blue: #3794ff; --vscode-charts-orange: #c17800;
+ --vscode-charts-purple: #9b6bc4; --vscode-charts-green: #4d9e51; }
+ #controls { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; }
+ #plot-host { flex: 1; display: flex; min-height: 0; }
+ #bench-out { font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <div id="controls">
+ <button id="play">▶ play</button>
+ <button id="clear">clear</button>
+ <button id="theme">☀/☾ theme</button>
+ <button id="bench">⏱ bench (AC8)</button>
+ <span id="bench-out"></span>
+ </div>
+ <div id="plot-host"></div>
+ <script src="./main.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

packages/extension/dev/pulseplot_harness/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+// Pulseplot dev harness (#66) — standalone browser page for iterating on the
+// component's visuals and measuring the AC8 render budget. NOT shipped in the
+// VSIX (dev/ is excluded; see .vscodeignore). Run: `pnpm run dev:pulseplot`.
+//
+// Feeds the component synthetic solve-like data by default; drop a recorded
+// `pulse-events.json` (array of pulsemeta/pulse message objects, produced from
+// a real run.log) next to index.html to replay a real solve.
+
+import { pulseplot } from "../../media/ui/components/pulseplot";
+
+const HARNESS_META = { drives: 2, knots: 50, labels: ["a_1", "a_2"], bounds: [[-0.2, 0.2], [-0.2, 0.2]] as [number, number][] };
+
+const root = document.getElementById("plot-host")!;
+const plot = pulseplot("Harness idle — press play.");
+root.append(plot.el);
+
+// --- synthetic data: smooth random-walk pulses converging toward a waveform
+function syntheticRecord(iter: number): { iter: number; dt: number; values: number[][] } {
+ const { knots, drives, bounds } = HARNESS_META;
+ const dt = 10.0 / knots;
+ const values = Array.from({ length: drives }, (_, d) => {
+ const [lo, hi] = bounds[d];
+ const amp = (hi - lo) / 2;
+ return Array.from({ length: knots }, (_, k) => {
+ const t = k / knots;
+ const target = amp * 0.85 * Math.sin((d + 1) * Math.PI * t * 2) * Math.sin(Math.PI * t);
+ const noise = amp * Math.max(0, 1 - iter / 40) * (Math.random() - 0.5);
+ return target + noise;
+ });
+ });
+ return { iter, dt, values };
+}
+
+// --- controls
+const themeBtn = document.getElementById("theme")!;
+themeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => document.body.classList.toggle("dark"));
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | undefined;
+let iter = 0;
+const playBtn = document.getElementById("play")!;
+playBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; playBtn.textContent = "▶ play"; return; }
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ playBtn.textContent = "⏸ pause";
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ plot.update(syntheticRecord(iter++));
+ if (iter > 60) iter = 0;
+ }, 200); // the host's 5 Hz cadence
+});
+
+document.getElementById("clear")!.addEventListener("click", () => { plot.clear(); iter = 0; });
+
+// --- AC8 budget: median + p95 of component update at fixture scale
+document.getElementById("bench")!.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ plot.meta(HARNESS_META);
+ const times: number[] = [];
+ for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
+ const rec = syntheticRecord(i % 60);
+ const t0 = performance.now();
+ plot.update(rec);
+ times.push(performance.now() - t0);
+ }
+ times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+ const med = times[150].toFixed(3), p95 = times[285].toFixed(3), max = times[299].toFixed(3);
+ const verdict = times[285] <= 16 ? "PASS (≤16ms)" : "FAIL (>16ms)";
+ document.getElementById("bench-out")!.textContent =
+ `update() over 300 frames @ 2×50: median ${med}ms · p95 ${p95}ms · max ${max}ms → ${verdict}`;
+ console.log("[bench]", { med, p95, max, verdict });
+});
+
+// --- optional recorded replay
+fetch("./pulse-events.json").then((r) => (r.ok ? r.json() : undefined)).then((events?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+ if (!events) return;
+ const btn = document.createElement("button");
+ btn.textContent = "▶ replay recording";
+ btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+ if (timer) { clearInterval(timer); timer = undefined; }
+ let i = 0;
+ timer = setInterval(() => {
+ const e = events[i++];
+ if (!e) { clearInterval(timer!); timer = undefined; return; }
+ if (e.type === "pulsemeta") plot.meta(e as never);
+ else if (e.type === "pulse") plot.update(e as never);
+ }, 200);
+ });
+ document.getElementById("controls")!.append(btn);
+});
+
+// --- URL-hash automation for headless-ish eyeballing: #autoplay #bench #dark
+if (location.hash.includes("dark")) document.body.classList.add("dark");
+if (location.hash.includes("autoplay")) (document.getElementById("play") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+if (location.hash.includes("bench")) setTimeout(() => (document.getElementById("bench") as HTMLButtonElement).click(), 800);

packages/extension/media/brand.css

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@
  /* background */
  --bg-box: var(--vscode-editorWidget-background, transparent);
  --bg-plot: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+
+ /* series — categorical, FIXED order (drive 1..4), never cycled. Primary
+ * values ride VS Code's theme-aware chart tokens; the hex fallbacks are the
+ * dev-harness set, validated (dataviz six checks) against the dark surface. */
+ --series-1: var(--vscode-charts-blue, #3794ff);
+ --series-2: var(--vscode-charts-orange, #c17800);
+ --series-3: var(--vscode-charts-purple, #9b6bc4);
+ --series-4: var(--vscode-charts-green, #4d9e51);
+ --plot-grid: var(--vscode-charts-lines, color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 18%, transparent));
+ --plot-band: color-mix(in srgb, var(--vscode-foreground, #ccc) 6%, transparent);
 }