xuhuanstudio · xuhuanstudio · Jul 20, 2026 · Jul 19, 2026 · Jul 19, 2026 · Jul 19, 2026
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+{
+  "format": "codex-styler-release-notes-v1",
+  "version": "0.2.0-beta.7",
+  "defaultLocale": "en",
+  "locales": {
+    "en": {
+      "summary": "A coordinated theme system, faithful Codex previews, safe companion placement, and explicit creator-quality review bring Beta 7 to its release gate.",
+      "highlights": [
+        "Themes now coordinate surfaces, text, icons, borders, status and diff colors, typography, materials, depth, and reduced-motion-safe animation through one preview/runtime contract.",
+        "Theme previews use a structurally faithful Codex shell for Home, Task and composer, Settings, Dialog, Components and states, and Right panel scenarios.",
+        "Companion Studio adds shared-canvas scaling and alignment assistance, placement modes, behavior audition, compiler-ready output summaries, and final edge review.",
+        "Theme and companion libraries use responsive master-detail workspaces with accurate previews and one persistent application action."
+      ],
+      "fixes": [
+        "Fixed preview controls covering themed workspaces or relying on an invented Codex layout.",
+        "Fixed companion previews using arbitrary scale or placement that did not match runtime attachment rules.",
+        "Fixed global frame scaling allowing out-of-bounds output or per-frame size drift instead of preserving a shared canvas and ground line.",
+        "Fixed theme motion recipes interfering with Codex-owned transforms or ignoring reduced-motion preferences.",
+        "Fixed unreadable semantic text, icon, border, status, and code-change combinations by validating them against the surfaces where they actually render."
+      ]
+    },
+    "zh-CN": {
+      "summary": "统一的主题视觉系统、忠实的 Codex 预览、安全的伙伴定位与明确的创作质量验收，让 Beta 7 达到发布门槛。",
+      "highlights": [
+        "主题现在通过同一套预览与运行时合同统一协调表面、文字、图标、边框、状态与代码变更色、排版、材质、层次和减少动态效果。",
+        "主题预览使用更贴近真实结构的 Codex 骨架，覆盖主页、任务与输入区、设置、弹窗、组件状态和右侧面板。",
+        "伙伴工作室新增共享画布缩放与对齐辅助、定位模式、行为联调、编译输出摘要和最终边缘质量验收。",
+        "主题库与伙伴库使用响应式主从工作区、准确预览和唯一的全局应用操作。"
+      ],
+      "fixes": [
+        "修复预览控件长期遮挡主题内容，以及使用与真实 Codex 不一致的虚构布局问题。",
+        "修复伙伴预览使用随意尺寸或位置、与运行时贴合规则不一致的问题。",
+        "修复全帧缩放导致输出越界或逐帧大小漂移，而不是保持共享画布与落脚线的问题。",
+        "修复主题动效干扰 Codex 自有 transform 或忽略减少动态偏好的问题。",
+        "修复语义文字、图标、边框、状态色与代码变更色没有依据实际承载表面进行可读性校验的问题。"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
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+# Codex Styler 0.2.0-beta.7 — Creator Quality & Theme System
+
+This release completes the Beta 7 creator-quality gate and turns themes into a coordinated visual system instead of a collection of independent color substitutions. The manager, real-Codex preview shell, injected runtime, and companion compiler now share the same placement, surface, readability, material, and motion contracts.
+
+Release tag: `v0.2.0-beta.7`
+
+## Download and install
+
+### macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon
+
+1. Download `Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_aarch64-unsigned.dmg`.
+2. Compare its SHA-256 digest with `SHA256SUMS.txt`.
+3. Open the DMG and drag Codex Styler to Applications.
+4. On first launch, Control-click Codex Styler and choose **Open**.
+
+The macOS app is ad-hoc signed, does not have an Apple Developer ID signature, and is not notarized. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally.
+
+### Windows 11 x64 — community-validation Beta
+
+1. Download `Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_x64-unsigned-setup.exe`.
+2. Compare its SHA-256 digest with `SHA256SUMS.txt`.
+3. Review the GitHub build attestation, then run the per-user installer.
+
+The Windows installer is not Authenticode-signed, so SmartScreen may show an unknown-publisher warning. It is built and structurally verified on GitHub-hosted Windows runners. Microsoft Store launch, managed restart, update, restore, and uninstall still require independent real-device evidence before RC.
+
+## A complete theme system
+
+- Theme previews now use one simplified but structurally faithful Codex shell for Home, Task & composer, Settings, Dialog, Components & states, and Right panel.
+- Backgrounds, quiet and raised surfaces, text, icons, borders, semantic feedback, code changes, typography, depth, materials, and motion are derived as one coordinated palette.
+- Surface-aware safety checks show the actual readability and boundary result before save or apply, including image-backed surfaces and tinted status treatments.
+- Icon treatments preserve native SVG geometry while adding theme-aware contained or tinted presentation.
+- Motion recipes share preview/runtime parameters, preserve Codex-owned transforms, and reduce to safe non-displacing feedback when reduced motion is enabled.
+
+## Companion creation and placement
+
+- Global frame scaling and alignment assistance keep every frame on one shared canvas and ground line without per-frame size drift.
+- Free, composer-attached, and surface-attached placement modes use the same safe positioning rules in the library preview, interactive test, and injected runtime.
+- Behavior audition lets creators verify pointer poses, idle motion, timing, interruption, and reduced-motion output before packaging.
+- Compiler-ready summaries expose logical frames, poses, idle clips, atlas pages, encoded limits, and decoded memory before the final build.
+- Edge quality is reviewed on black, white, and theme-colored surfaces and is invalidated whenever source pixels, cleanup, crop, scale, inclusion, or alignment changes.
+- A bounded local preflight identifies likely retained backgrounds, canvas contact, isolated residue, and sampled color spill without pretending heuristic analysis is authoritative.
+
+## Manager and workflow polish
+
+- Theme and companion libraries use responsive master-detail workspaces with accurate previews and one persistent application action.
+- Preview controls stay out of the artwork until requested, and compact layouts preserve selection, detail, and primary actions without overlap.
+- Cross-platform scroll surfaces, fixed workspace navigation, keyboard focus, labels, controls, and responsive density use the same design system.
+- Selected themes, variants, companions, sizes, and placement modes remain independent and observable before Codex is launched.
+
+## Automated evidence
+
+- Desktop unit and component coverage includes real preview structure, theme effect derivation, visual safety, control mappings, companion alignment, placement modes, edge analysis, quality review, motion clips, compiler output, and runtime injection.
+- Theme-core validation covers all built-in semantic palettes and package constraints.
+- Rust formatting, Clippy, tests, JavaScript dependency audit, production builds, local link checks, and release-version synchronization remain release gates.
+- The release workflow independently builds and structurally verifies the Apple Silicon DMG and Windows x64 NSIS installer before assembling the draft release.
+
+## Release evidence
+
+- `SHA256SUMS.txt` covers both installers and the macOS updater archive.
+- `Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7.spdx.json` exports the dependency graph as SPDX 2.3.
+- GitHub artifact attestations cover both installers; platform updater artifacts carry Tauri signatures.
+- `latest.json` contains macOS Apple Silicon and Windows x64 update entries.
+- `release-notes.json` contains validated English and Simplified Chinese summaries for the pre-download update panel.
+
+Verify installers with GitHub CLI:
+
+```bash
+gh attestation verify Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_aarch64-unsigned.dmg \
+  --repo xuhuanstudio/codex-styler
+
+gh attestation verify Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_x64-unsigned-setup.exe \
+  --repo xuhuanstudio/codex-styler
+```
+
+## Beta limitations
+
+- Windows Store and non-Store startup are structurally tested in CI but still require independent real-device reports before RC.
+- Complex-background automatic segmentation, video backgrounds, multi-entity scenes, 3D/WebGL, macOS Intel, Windows ARM64, and Linux remain outside 0.2.
+- macOS notarization and Windows Authenticode signing remain required before v1 Stable.
+
+Codex Styler is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI.
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: manager-e2e-report
           path: |
-            apps/desktop/playwright-report
-            apps/desktop/test-results
+            apps/desktop/test-results/**/*.png
+            apps/desktop/test-results/**/error-context.md
           if-no-files-found: ignore
           retention-days: 14
 

@@ -4,6 +4,57 @@ All notable changes will be documented here. The project follows Semantic Versio
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.2.0-beta.7] - 2026-07-20
+
+### Added
+
+- A shared real-Codex preview shell with Home, Task & composer, Settings,
+  Dialog, Components & states, and Right panel scenarios across the theme
+  library and Theme Editor.
+- Surface-aware color harmony, typography rhythm, icon roles, component
+  boundaries, semantic status colors, code-change colors, material recipes,
+  and reduced-motion-safe theme animation recipes.
+- Companion placement modes, global frame scaling and alignment assistance,
+  behavior audition, compiler-ready output summaries, and explicit edge-quality
+  review on black, white, and theme-colored surfaces.
+- Companion Studio now requires an explicit final edge review on black, white,
+  and theme-colored surfaces before building. Reviews advance between
+  backdrops, remain part of the local draft, and automatically expire whenever
+  source pixels, cleanup, shared crop, global scale, frame inclusion, or
+  alignment changes.
+- Companion edge review now runs a bounded local preflight over neutral,
+  reduced-motion, direction-anchor, motion-boundary, and representative frames.
+  It flags retained backgrounds, canvas contact, isolated pixels, and sampled
+  color spill, then links each advisory finding back to an affected cleanup
+  frame without replacing the user's final visual review.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Theme and companion libraries now use responsive master-detail workspaces,
+  accurate companion scale and attachment previews, unobtrusive preview
+  controls, and one persistent configuration action.
+- Theme rendering now treats backgrounds, quiet and raised surfaces, text,
+  icons, borders, feedback states, typography, depth, and motion as one
+  semantic system shared by local preview and the injected Codex runtime.
+- Companion creation now keeps crop, baseline, scaling, inclusion, cleanup,
+  direction poses, idle motion, and final-quality evidence non-destructive and
+  observable before packaging.
+- Cross-platform scroll surfaces, fixed workspace navigation, compact editor
+  layouts, and keyboard focus behavior now share the desktop design system.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Theme previews no longer use an invented application skeleton or let preview
+  controls permanently cover the themed workspace.
+- Companion previews no longer place characters at arbitrary scales or outside
+  the same safe composer attachment rules used by the runtime.
+- Global companion scaling preserves a shared canvas, ground line, and frame
+  alignment instead of allowing per-frame size drift or out-of-bounds output.
+- Motion recipes preserve Codex-owned transforms and automatically reduce to
+  non-displacing feedback when reduced motion is requested.
+- Visual safety checks report readable text, icon, border, status, diff, and
+  image-surface results before a theme is saved or applied.
+
 ## [0.2.0-beta.6] - 2026-07-19
 
 ### Added

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 Compatibility is claimed only after real-device validation.
 
-| Platform   | Architecture  | Beta 6 status                                                           | RC requirement                            |
+| Platform   | Architecture  | Beta 7 status                                                           | RC requirement                            |
 | ---------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
 | macOS 13+  | Apple Silicon | Ad-hoc signed Beta; locally built, installed, and exercised             | Two complete real-device runs             |
 | Windows 11 | x64           | CI-built unsigned Beta; lifecycle fixes await community device evidence | Two complete independent real-device runs |

@@ -15,21 +15,21 @@
 
 <p align="center">
   <a href="README.zh-CN.md">简体中文</a> ·
-  <a href="https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.6">Download Beta</a> ·
+  <a href="https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.7">Download Beta</a> ·
   <a href="https://xuhuanstudio.github.io/codex-styler/">Website</a> ·
   <a href="https://xuhuanstudio.github.io/codex-styler/docs/getting-started/">Documentation</a>
 </p>
 
 <p align="center">
   <a href="https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img alt="CI" src="https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/ci.yml?branch=main&label=CI&style=flat-square"></a>
-  <a href="https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.6"><img alt="Preview version" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/preview-v0.2.0--beta.6-2563EB?style=flat-square"></a>
+  <a href="https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.7"><img alt="Preview version" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/preview-v0.2.0--beta.7-2563EB?style=flat-square"></a>
   <a href="LICENSE"><img alt="Apache-2.0" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code-Apache--2.0-365443?style=flat-square"></a>
   <a href="ASSET_LICENSES.md"><img alt="CC BY 4.0 assets" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/art-CC%20BY%204.0-9B6E3F?style=flat-square"></a>
   <img alt="macOS and Windows" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-macOS%20%7C%20Windows-555D57?style=flat-square">
 </p>
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> Codex Styler 0.2 is a Creator Beta. The macOS DMG is ad-hoc signed but not notarized, and the Windows EXE is not Authenticode-signed. Windows Beta 6 retains the rebuilt Store launch and bounded restart lifecycle and still awaits community real-device verification; v1 Stable remains gated on complete evidence and platform code signing.
+> Codex Styler 0.2 is a Creator Beta. The macOS DMG is ad-hoc signed but not notarized, and the Windows EXE is not Authenticode-signed. Windows Beta 7 retains the rebuilt Store launch and bounded restart lifecycle and still awaits community real-device verification; v1 Stable remains gated on complete evidence and platform code signing.
 
 ![Gilded Grandeur Codex theme with the Reset God companion](docs/media/codex-theme-gilded-grandeur.webp)
 
@@ -97,14 +97,14 @@ Companions are selected independently from themes. Native Refined, Nocturne Stud
 
 Every shipped image and sprite is original project artwork. The reference repositories are studied for ideas only; their assets and source are not redistributed.
 
-## Download Creator Beta 6
+## Download Creator Beta 7
 
-- **[macOS 13+ / Apple Silicon — DMG](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/download/v0.2.0-beta.6/Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.6_aarch64-unsigned.dmg)**
-- **[Windows 11 / x64 — installer EXE](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/download/v0.2.0-beta.6/Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.6_x64-unsigned-setup.exe)**
+- **[macOS 13+ / Apple Silicon — DMG](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/download/v0.2.0-beta.7/Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_aarch64-unsigned.dmg)**
+- **[Windows 11 / x64 — installer EXE](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/download/v0.2.0-beta.7/Codex-Styler_0.2.0-beta.7_x64-unsigned-setup.exe)**
 
 On macOS, open the DMG, drag Codex Styler to Applications, then Control-click the app and choose **Open** on first launch. On Windows, SmartScreen may warn because this Beta does not yet have an Authenticode certificate; inspect the published checksum and provenance before continuing. Never disable Gatekeeper or SmartScreen globally.
 
-The [pre-release page](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.6) includes SHA-256 checksums, an SPDX SBOM, build attestations, updater artifacts, tested scope, and known limitations. Intel macOS is not included. Windows Beta 6 is CI-built and structurally verified but remains marked as awaiting community real-device validation.
+The [pre-release page](https://github.com/xuhuanstudio/codex-styler/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.7) includes SHA-256 checksums, an SPDX SBOM, build attestations, updater artifacts, tested scope, and known limitations. Intel macOS is not included. Windows Beta 7 is CI-built and structurally verified but remains marked as awaiting community real-device validation.
 
 ## Run from source