Appendix: The Artifact Series

draft first cut, 2026-09-13.

Four design and proposal artifacts, originally published as private Claude Artifacts during the sessions that shaped this project; reproduced here verbatim as static pages under this domain instead, so anyone can actually open them without needing sharing access granted — same content, one fewer moving part.

• Trailview — the phase-0 pilot’s design-review surface: a static mockup of how reward (a fixed attester-tier stamp) and decay (a fading-ink freshness bar, restorable by re-attesting) render side by side, grounded in the same paper-trail material metaphor as the rest of this project rather than a generic dashboard fade. Invented sample data — reads no live server.
• Magnet or Manifest — a proposal written for an external collaborator working on torrent-like dataset addressing, sketching whether and how a breadcrumbs trail record should attest to a magnet-URI-addressed dataset directly, versus attesting to a stable manifest record that itself references the magnet link. A real tradeoff to react to, not a decided design.
• Crumb Icon Gallery — the first showcase of the deterministic, seeded “star and sticks” visual identity every physical crumb renders as, across a range of connection counts and freshness levels.
• Rose Curve Prototype — an earlier visual-language exploration for the same crumb-icon system, plus parameter-sweep grids used to tune it before settling on the version actually shipped.

These are snapshots of a point in time, not living code. The actual, current crumb-icon generator is part of trail-of-crumbs, the live SvelteKit app behind Physical Crumbs — these pages are the design record of how it got there, not the thing itself.