live: heartbeat sync 2026-10-30T16:20:49-07:00 (Refs #11)

agent/managed-skills/niri-config-edit-validate/SKILL.md

@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ description: "Locate, edit, validate, and commit niri compositor config on Frank
 - Profiles: `cfg/desk-<n>-<name>.kdl` (e.g. `desk-1-home.kdl`, `desk-2-portable.kdl`); ACTIVE profile is symlinked as `cfg/display.kdl` — `readlink` it to know which. `scripts/desk.sh` manages switching; `desk.sh capture` prints connected outputs' EDID long names.
 - Panels are keyed by **EDID long name** (`output "Lenovo Group Limited 0x40A9 Unknown"` = the laptop eDP-1 panel), not connector — connector names reshuffle between desks. Long-name blocks BEAT connector-keyed blocks when both match one output (legacy connector blocks like `output "eDP-1"` linger as duplicates; niri applies the EDID block's `position`).
 - Position math: x,y = top-left of each output in the logical layout; right edge = x + mode width. To place panel A left of panel B: `A.x = B.x - A.width`; bottom-align: `A.y = B.y + (B.height - A.height)`.
-- Verify: `niri validate` → hot-reload → `niri msg outputs | grep -iE 'Output |Position'` (prints `Logical position: x, y`).
+- **Changing `transform` rewrites every x, not one block.** A 1920x1200 panel rotated 90 is logically 1200 wide; normalizing it to `"normal"` makes it 1920 wide, which shifts the right edge +720 and therefore the x of every output to its right. Recompute the whole row from left to right and state the new x in the commit. Modes need no change (`mode` is the physical mode string, independent of transform).
+- **"No matching profile" is a defect, not an idle state.** `desk.sh match` prints `no desk profile matches connected outputs` and `desk-autoswitch.sh` then exits at its initial match (the unit shows `inactive (dead)` with `status=0/SUCCESS`, minutes after start). The rig is not "unchanged" — it runs the *previous* desk's numbers, and a stale `mode` there falls back silently to preferred. Signature seen 2026-10-30: portable rig on `desk-1-home`, both 16" panels asked for `3440x1440@180.000` that no panel reported. Fix the profile, `desk.sh switch`, then `systemctl --user restart blankpad-desk-autoswitch` and confirm `is-active` — the watcher never comes back on its own.
+- Verify: `niri validate` → hot-reload → `niri msg outputs | grep -iE 'Output |Position'` (prints `Logical position: x, y`). Compare `Logical size` and `Transform` too — that is what proves a rotation actually applied.
 
 ## Schema gotchas (niri 26.04)
 - `preset-column-widths` AND `preset-window-heights` are children of `layout { }` as SIBLING blocks — wiki wording misleads; nesting or `window-rule` placement fails `niri validate` with `expected one of proportion, fixed` / `unexpected node`.