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2026-10-22-redesign-from-scratch

Decisioncanonicalverified 2026-10-23

DECISION.2026-10-22.REDESIGN-FROM-SCRATCH

The product is redesigned from scratch, smaller

Decision

Babul is redrawn from a blank page, one screen at a time, each approved by the owner before the next: version control for design (Capture → Journey → Pages → Components → Styles), Analysis of the live product, AI, a CLI and an MCP server, and every change a commit on a branch that merges to main as a version. The screens in .context/designs/web/ are the spec; the app is rebuilt to them, zero legacy.

Why

The owner, 2026-10-22: the product had been over-engineered. The rules are .claude/rules/simplicity.md: the smallest thing that works, a small architecture, ask when there is a better way, zero legacy, say less.

Impact

Status

Active

Sources

  • The owner's instructions in the sessions of 2026-10-22 and 2026-10-23.