This page documents the collaborative development of CAps™ tooling and trust-first refinements.

🧠 Initialization Milestone

🗓️ 2025-07-24 — caps-cortex repo created and initialized
🗓️ 2025-07-24.gitignore added and verified
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Push conflicts resolved via rebase
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — CAps v2.1.1 ZIP bundle finalized and hosted
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — GitHub sync confirmed and public visibility established
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Homepage layout and trust language refined
🗓️ 2025-07-24verify.html trust guide created and linked from homepage
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Logging protocol established and styled
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Logo anchor updated with target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer" for UX continuity and trust-safe redirection
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Favicon integration complete; rendering correctly on GitHub Pages
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Proposed Outstanding Mentions section for /caps-cortex/index.html
🗓️ 2025-07-26 — Added Wiki to nav bar
🗓️ 2025-07-29 — Successfully added color-scheme responsiveness to full site after failed first attempt a few days ago

🔮 Iteration Highlights

🗓️ 2025-07-24index.md converted to index.html with consistent design language
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Logo styling matched across all rendered pages
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Inline styles staged for cockpit readability
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Markdown hierarchy revised with emoji and task clarity
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Confirmed trust-safe anchor behavior for cockpit logos and footers
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Added new footers to project-log.html, visually aligned with index.html
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Logged new process insight: importance of updating Copilot on completed actions
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Cockpit Phase 1 Complete: visual polish, trust-safe anchors, favicon integration, and synced logs/process insights
🗓️ 2025-07-25 — Completed nav bar harmonization and cockpit visual audit across: index.html, verify.html, caps-cortex/index.html, caps-cortex/process-insights.html, and caps-cortex/project-log.html. Unified spacing (gap: 16px;), deployed consistent style blocks, and staged favicon updates
🗓️ 2025-07-26 — Added emoji-based status key to Do Now section for improved visual cohesion and semantic clarity. Documented key @ /CAps-Cortex Home/Do Now to standardize across cockpit flows: 🟨 → Not started 🕓 → Waiting / Scheduled 🚧 → Setup in progress 🛠️ → In progress ✅ → Completed 🧪 → Experimental / Testing
🗓️ 2025-07-31 — Project branch: Create secure persistent wayfinder @ all PDFs that originate @CAps website

📘 Copilot Collaboration

🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Copilot-assisted list formatting and UX scaffolding staged
🗓️ 2025-07-24 — Trust-first automation strategies explored

💡 Copilot Note: This log is co-authored in real time with Microsoft Copilot, acting as a markup scribe, staging engine, and process witness. All entries reflect user-initiated decisions and live collaboration.