TechTroop

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented here. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and releases follow Semantic Versioning.

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Added

• Added a periodic terms-of-service consent-gate proof of concept to the modern application component catalog. The configurable mockup accepts Markdown content, keeps acceptance controls visible, unlocks its checkbox only after the document is fully scrolled, and offers no close or dismissal action before final acceptance.
• Added a persistent professional onboarding readiness mockup to the modern application reference. Its non-dismissible launch dock keeps verified and outstanding setup tasks visible without becoming a product tour, links each open requirement to a destination, explains which workspace capabilities remain locked, simulates authoritative task completion, unlocks the surrounding workspace, and marks completion with a brief reduced-motion-aware confetti response. A complete unpublished implementation package under caps/_onboarding_readiness_implementation provides portable HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the production state, authorization, routing, persistence, accessibility, responsive, and testing contract.
• Added a complete unpublished modern-interface form handoff under caps/_forms_implementation, with standalone HTML, CSS, and JavaScript covering all six approved form families, their supported variants, full state references, validation-state treatment, multi-select disclosure, password visibility, controlled switches, responsive presentation, and a non-submitting live composition. Its pill dropdown padding, native caret, and default/small sizing now match the production app, and its live fields consume the canonical Studio field structure and focus contract. Pill selects reserve explicit space between their selected text and native caret, and every pill state row now holds one semantic color constant so state labels cannot be mistaken for color mappings. Priority pills use the exact production Heroicons flag; radio specimens inherit the checkbox color contract with only a circular indicator. Checkbox and radio rows now keep a white surface for every unselected state, while disabled choices use muted text and indicators without strikethrough or gray opacity. Full name, Due date, and Device count now explicitly share the complete standard-input focus declaration, with Device count retaining only its native Stepper behavior. The base input selector now has lower specificity so focus, error, and disabled states are no longer suppressed. Standard dropdown and multi-select controls now also provide explicit 48px input-height variants, documented across all five states, while their approved compact defaults remain unchanged. The live composition now uses that 48px multi-select variant for Region instead of the former singular dropdown.
• Added reusable success, error, warning, and information toasts to the modern shared interface, with explicit icons and labels, manual dismissal, a self-dismiss countdown, interaction-aware pausing, reduced-motion handling, catalog replay controls, and a dedicated unpublished implementation package under caps/_toasts_implementation.
• Completed the Provider Offers journey and finalized the standalone Shared, Business, and Provider retheme handoff packages with one flattened locked-global stylesheet, shared interaction controllers, complete route HTML, and route-specific reuse instructions. Provider Business administration now uses the exact Business Company administration composition, while redundant Provider Business profile and Placement detail routes remain retired.
• Rebuilt Shared Resolution Center from the approved Documentation Detail structure: a search-free Name/Status/Date case table with a configured status filter now opens a two-section Dispute case and Evidence drawer, while Open dispute reveals a provider-linked filing form that lists the selected provider’s available tickets through the same approved drawer primitive; both role sidebars expose the shared route.
• Consolidated the Shared Profile and account-security reference into the approved administration-style tab layout. Password changes and authenticator setup now use focused modal flows, passkeys use a management drawer, and social sign-in controls live directly in Profile; the superseded standalone security views were retired.
• Completed the Business provider-offer journey with the approved invitation modal, full participation-agreement view, two-party acceptance state, and pre-placement professional profile. Find expertise now links its Invite and View profile actions to those shared route compositions, while the redundant standalone Team member specimen has been removed in favor of the existing My team master-detail workspace.
• Completed the approved Business company-administration reference: reusable Staff, SSO, Business Profile, Payments, pricing, and ticket-detail compositions now replace the earlier generic route mockups. The work also adds shared step-flow, state-switch, stepper-field, accordion, persistent-footer drawer, pricing-card, invoice-table data, and open/closed ticket-detail sources so the parent studio and Business catalog consume the same approved layouts.
• Added complete noindex modern-interface view catalogs for all inventoried business, provider, and shared application views, composed exclusively from the approved parent interface shell, controls, and components with explicit isolation from Platform ADMIN.
• Centralized Profile, Security, Reset Password, Authenticator, Passkeys, Social sign-in, Disputes, and shared messaging in the shared-view catalog, removed their duplicate role entries, and aligned the account/security compositions with the implemented production React layouts while retaining the approved modern-interface styling.
• Replaced the role-catalog ticket mockup with the complete approved ticket workspace, including its four workflow columns, Board/Table/Completed states, header column menu, search, drag metadata, ordering persistence, and shared interaction script; ticket routes now occupy the application shell edge to edge instead of floating inside its padded content canvas, and the Table state no longer adds an outer white specimen panel or enclosing border around the table grid. Ticket route surfaces now inherit the shell-space gray instead of introducing a second gray background.
• Replaced shortened role-catalog message mockups with the complete approved Chat workspace, restoring the full conversation list, resizable rail, participant stack, linked-ticket controls, pinned-message state, attachment, and connected composer.
• Restored Documentation as a first-class Business sidebar route with its production BookOpen icon and rebuilt its index from the approved completed-ticket table control, including the shared filter, columns, sorting, resizing, and ordering behavior. It now sits directly on the shell surface without a duplicate hero, custom month controls, alternate table markup, or enclosing component panel. Column visibility now uses a shared funnel menu overlaid in the table header instead of an inline checkbox panel or a dedicated control column. Tables retain Name, Status, and Priority while optional columns automatically hide and return with available width, avoiding horizontal scroll.
• Renamed the global ticket-title column from Subject to Name, removed the stray row-reorder glyph beside it, and centered each header label with a Heroicons sort icon as one non-wrapping unit. Optional columns now hide before a header label truncates.
• Loaded the shared ticket-workspace bundle through the established single-script page contract on the parent, Business, Provider, and Shared references, with one revisioned asset URL so those pages cannot silently retain the earlier table implementation.
• Globalized pagination as a native part of the approved data-table control, including accessible previous/next and numbered-page controls, live result ranges, persisted rows-per-page selection, and automatic reuse by Ticket and Documentation tables.
• Expanded the completed-ticket reference dataset to 123 deterministic records so the shared table exercises real multi-page navigation at every approved page size.
• Bounded the desktop application shell and moved long-route overflow into the keyboard-focusable right-hand content pane, keeping the sidebar and top bar stable when tables display 50 rows.
• Replaced the invented application-topbar health, notification, and duplicate-account controls with the shared role-and-route breadcrumb navigation.
• Tightened the global linked-ticket pill controls, shortened priority values to High, Normal, and Urgent, reduced date/status excess width, and shortened the shared Chat action from “View ticket” to “View” so ticket names retain more space. The date pill now fits the rendered date without retaining dead space after the year, and all linked-ticket pills use an even gap with matching Date/View horizontal padding.
• Split the shared Chat workspace into independently scrollable conversation-list and message-history regions, kept the composer pinned outside the message scroller, and made the conversation canvas transparent to the application shell surface. Message bubbles remain solid white, with sent messages shifted from saturated yellow to soft yellow.
• Rebuilt Find expertise as a full-width application workspace instead of a nested card, populated 30 professionals across all 13 approved expertise categories, separated the filter and complete-results scrolling regions, and connected the existing global pagination to the real three-page result set without pinning it. Its new global multi-select dropdown replaces permanently expanded checkbox filters; search now sits beside sorting, and compact provider cards retain only profile identity, name, skills, and compact actions. Provider page sizes use a 12/24/48 three-column cadence so pages end on complete card rows.
• Rebuilt Business 001 / Today from the shared operational-dashboard source so its landing view now combines the compact metric strip with concrete recent-ticket, completed-work, offer, and placement activity. Today rows now reuse the global avatar and approved pill controls in one consistent left-identity/right-status layout. The global pill component now has a documented 24px content-width display size for dense rows, and each Today row is the action, eliminating oversized trailing arrow buttons. The parent composed workspace and Business catalog consume the same source rather than maintaining separate dashboard markup.
• Rebuilt Business 006 / My team as a full-height master-detail workspace. Its member rail reuses the approved Chat list rows, global dropdown, avatars, and selected state; Current and Inactive filtering auto-selects the first visible member, and each member opens complete profile, capability, action, and placement-history detail. The member rail now reuses Chat’s saved pointer-and-keyboard resizing behavior, while current placements expose the documented global destructive action beside their other actions. Member detail also previews business-scoped role-based access with the shared input, preset-role dropdown, checkbox, and action controls; it is explicitly non-enforcing placeholder UI until the application permission model is implemented.
• Added distinct blurred-backdrop error-alert and functional content modal treatments to the modern Platform ADMIN reference, with accessible interaction contracts and separate source-only implementation-package routes.
• Added a complete Platform ADMIN design handoff with modular CSS, full standalone HTML examples and route-specific implementation instructions for all 20 existing ADMIN routes and states, including the new Growth + retention and Financial operations dashboards plus a canonical sidebar/mobile-shell reference.
• Added an unlinked, noindex modern application-interface reference that preserves the complete existing component catalog while introducing a calmer app-focused visual system, a structured implementation manifest, an integrated approved-component composition, and full-height open and closed ticket-detail drawer concepts.
• Added a dedicated, accessible 404 experience using TechTroop’s plain-language error guidance, reassurance, and safe Home or Back actions.
• Added an unlinked, noindex presentation-language studio with narrative, slide-master, image-placeholder, table, typography, data, proof, accessibility, production, downloadable business and professional conversation decks, and GPT handoff guidance.
• Added an unlinked, noindex social-media language reference with audience-balanced strategy, ratio-based graphic systems, campaign and imagery guidance, proof governance, accessible production rules, and copyable CSS and JSON handoffs.
• Added an unlinked, noindex design-system reference for translating the site’s visual language into the TechTroop application.
• Added an unlinked application-interface reference covering global controls, identity, business, professional, ticket, chat, and modal patterns.
• Added copyable CSS sources and machine-readable design and application manifests to make both hidden references usable as future AI implementation handoffs.
• Added a concise landing-page statement of TechTroop’s purpose, direction, and operating principles for businesses and IT professionals.
• Added authentication, password-recovery, verification-code email, placement notification, error-message, invalid-link, and 404 patterns to the application-interface reference and machine-readable implementation handoff.
• Added a dedicated application form-control reference covering fields, custom choices, combined input/action outlines, uploads, scheduling, validation, submission states, and responsive behavior.
• Repository governance, contribution, security, and community-health documentation.
• Continuous integration, dependency updates, and semantic release automation.
• Docker-based continuous integration aligned with the local development workflow.

Removed

• Removed duplicate contract, dependency-boundary, and primitive-catalog sections and their unused CSS from the business, provider, and shared modern-interface view pages; those pages now begin with their view lists and continue directly into composed views and subviews.
• Removed the obsolete responsive-navigation section from both application-interface references, including its breadcrumb and mobile-navigation specimens, dedicated CSS, and manifest contracts.

Changed

• Moved Shared Profile account records and account-access lifecycle controls into the Profile & preferences tab, leaving sign-in controls on Account controls.

• Routed the Shared ticket and documentation-detail catalog choices to their canonical Business specimens, removing three duplicate renderings. Shared error and content modal references now appear as true blurred overlays across the complete application shell instead of as nested application content.

• Rebuilt the full ticket-detail reference inside its approved full-height drawer and split activity/context layout, replacing the fake background navigation and bespoke internal controls with the shared application sidebar, status pill, buttons, icon buttons, tabs, chips, textarea, composer actions, and Heroicons from Sections 01–08; aligned global icon-only actions to the standard button height and reduced the drawer title scale.
• Removed the parallel role-page stylesheet and bespoke mi-* component layer from the business, provider, and shared view catalogs. All three now load the parent modern-interface stylesheet and render their route inventories through its approved shell, form, chat, ticket, directory, profile, modal, table, and feedback components.
• Flattened every composed catalog route into a single application surface while preserving the locked Global / Application shell and top bar; removed only duplicate route headings and specimen-level borders that had incorrectly placed complete demo interfaces inside that shell.
• Replaced the wrapping business, provider, and shared route-link grids with one compact approved dropdown jump bar so host-page navigation stays subordinate to the views.
• Removed the oversized host-page heroes from the business, provider, and shared view catalogs so each page begins with its compact view jump list and then the renderings.
• Rebuilt “The operation, in one view” exclusively from the approved Sections 01–08 shell, sidebar, heading, action, attention, metric, avatar, chip, and team-coverage globals; removed its invented mini-app markup, component classes, and dedicated CSS.
• Rebuilt modern-interface section 08 as an inventory of the exact controls already approved in sections 01–07, globalizing the existing input, Chat textarea, and dropdown treatments, preserving the approved checkbox and radio globals, and adding only the missing multi-select and state representations. The inventory retains its six-family, five-state columns while also surfacing the existing Chat date pill and both existing Chat pill-dropdown variants—text-only status and leading-icon priority—the standard date-input variation, and one trailing-icon input variation. Checkbox and radio markup now comes from one shared choice-control include across the approved inventory and business filters.
• Extracted the approved application top bar, page heading, ticket workspace, Chat workspace, business directory, and team coverage into shared component includes, then switched both the parent Sections 01–08 reference and every role-view catalog consumer to those same sources so the catalogs cannot maintain parallel component markup. Feedback alerts, checkbox/radio choices, trailing-action inputs, and textareas now use the same single-source contract as well; static source checks confirm the role renderer introduces no component class absent from the approved reference.
• Removed the remaining role-route copies of dashboard summaries, profile summaries, modal shells, standard inputs, dropdowns, tabs, and route-only tables. The reference and composed catalogs now resolve those component families through one shared source.
• Consolidated the date pill, text-only status pill dropdown, and leading-icon priority pill dropdown so Chat, Section 08, and ticket detail consume one shared implementation.

• Replaced the ticket table’s full-width column checkbox panel with a compact Heroicons funnel menu in the table header, and replaced the browser’s header-only column drag image with a complete elevated preview of the header and every visible column cell.

• Separated authentication and transactional email from both inner-app interface guides into their own noindex production reference, dedicated stylesheet, and machine-readable manifest. The new reference mirrors the implemented app.techtroop.co sign-in methods, three-step registration, recovery and verification states, auth errors, and backend email layout and templates without importing or extending the inner-app globals.
• Removed the overlapping mobile borders between the cookie illustration cell and the action row so their shared edge renders as one line.
• Aligned both application form headers and actions with their business-yellow and professional-violet role colors, shared counter typography, consistent layout, and one universal orange private-beta status marker with concise audience-first labels; standardized visible business CTAs as “Build an IT team” in business yellow and preserved professional CTAs in professional violet.
• Excluded pages marked sitemap: false from the hand-authored page sitemap.
• Excluded the POST-only form receiver from GET-based link checks and kept hidden reference pages free of public discovery metadata.
• Updated the Ruby JSON dependency to 2.21.2 or newer to address CVE-2026-71847.
• Replaced the default Jekyll metadata description with TechTroop-specific copy.
• Redesigned the marketing experience around TechTroop’s curated private beta, flexible IT team model, and business-controlled support relationships.
• Expanded the original newsletter and countdown landing experience with conversational access flows and clear private-beta onboarding expectations.
• Restyled cookie consent to match the new visual system and made visitor choices easier to understand, revisit, and change.
• Added equal business and IT-professional calls to action throughout the core marketing story.
• Restored the June 1, 2027 launch countdown as a compact opening-page strip.
• Versioned front-end assets to prevent stale styles and refined the cookie consent panel’s spacing, alignment, and preview behavior.
• Separated paired path actions with a visual gutter, aligned the journey divider to that center gutter, and softened their hover movement.
• Added a six-step IT-professional application prototype covering expertise, certifications, résumé, availability, client fit, and working style.
• Made the launch countdown a persistent rail beneath the sticky site header.
• Connected both approved application flows to a dedicated Cloudflare Worker with visible Turnstile verification, honeypot protection, destination-locked email delivery, private 30-day résumé storage, and confirmed-success reset modals.
• Restored the existing MailerLite newsletter signup in a responsive band above the footer divider.
• Added an optional public Credly profile to IT-professional applications, with domain validation and explicit applicant-provided verification labeling.
• Expanded both marketplace paths with practical AI needs and expertise, including readiness, policy, security hardening, integrations, and MCP deployments.
• Unified the newsletter email and Subscribe button under one accessible focus outline.
• Corrected final-step navigation, aligned consent controls with the form checkbox language, and replaced raw Turnstile configuration errors with controlled guidance.
• Replaced free-form professional time zones with a concise continental U.S. selector and clarified the location field as the applicant’s home base.
• Widened and respaced footer navigation columns to prevent wrapped links from feeling compressed.
• Moved contact into a direct home-page section and redesigned the privacy and terms pages around the site’s typography, color system, and sticky launch countdown.
• Brought the Cookie Policy into the same branded legal-page system with direct access to cookie preferences.
• Reframed the combined acceptable-use and disclaimer page with the shared legal-page design, clearer context, and direct issue reporting.
• Added three required follow-up date and time options to both applications and replaced free-form professional availability with structured availability windows.