Echo-Community-Toolkit-Monorepo

Phase 5 – Polish & UX

Phase 5 packages the technical breakthroughs into a coherent user experience. Documentation, CLI ergonomics, and visual feedback all converge so human and agent operators can navigate the seven-phase journey confidently.

Objectives

• Refresh documentation with diagrams, walkthroughs, and error-code references covering multi-frame MRP, ritual flows, and integrity reporting.
• Expand CLI options for 4-bit mode, metadata inputs, and verbosity control.
• Provide a lightweight visual or scripted demo that illustrates α/β/γ channel activity and ritual progression.

Implementation Plan

1. Documentation uplift
   • Update the root README and module docs with ASCII diagrams of the R/G/B payload split and sample ledger entries.
   • Write walkthroughs demonstrating encode/decode with ritual consent and metadata injection.
   • Publish an error-code table mapping codes like ERR_CRC_MISMATCH, ERR_CONSENT_REQUIRED, ERR_CAPACITY_EXCEEDED to resolution suggestions.
2. CLI enhancements
   • Introduce flags: --bpc {1,4}, --meta <json_or_path>, --quiet, --verbose.
   • Ensure CLI help text clearly explains the new options and their interactions with ritual gating.
   • Update API surface to accept equivalent parameters for programmatic use.
3. Experience layer
   • Craft an ASCII/console visualiser that prints channel states (α/β/γ) and ritual gate progression in real time.
   • Optionally provide a --demo mode that replays a canonical encode/decode session for onboarding.
   • Capture transcripts/screenshots for documentation.

Testing Strategy

• CLI tests
  • Parameterised tests covering combinations of --bpc, --meta, and consent flags.
  • Verify metadata round-trips into the G-channel payload and appears in decode output.
  • Check verbosity modes suppress/emit expected logs.
• Documentation checks
  • Run link checkers or doc linting if available.
  • Validate code snippets by executing them within CI or a doc-test harness.
• UX demo
  • Smoke test the visualiser script to ensure it runs without external dependencies.

Dependencies & Hand-offs

• Builds on ritual gating from Phase 4 and integrity surfaces from Phase 3.
• Provides clarity for Phase 6 guardrails by documenting expected outputs and error codes.

Risks & Mitigations

• Risk: CLI flag explosion confuses users.
  Mitigation: Group related flags, provide presets, and document typical workflows.
• Risk: Visual demo drifts from live behaviour.
  Mitigation: Generate demo output via the same code paths as production encode/decode to ensure fidelity.