A cloisonné medallion, like the Allies: flat concentric enamel cells — cream seed, sky ring, deep-teal ring, umber field — inside the same thin gold rim every real thing wears. No face, no bot, no glassy glow. Renders at 52 / 34 / 22px. Name in Goudy; status line lowercase, quiet. Ki says i lowercase. Ki lives only in this region — never as an object in the Field.
Studio invariant: always visible near the top of Ki's region — an enamel capsule: flat warm-brown surface, camel hairline, gold rim (money is real; it wears the rim). Gold sparkle = Resource hue; balance in Goudy (numbers are always Goudy); live delta in mint; Go To Resources always attached, sky. Never moves, never scales.
Ki bubble: flat warm enamel surface (no translucency), camel line, top-left notch, sky name row with mint live-dot. Source bubble: solid sky enamel with a deep-umber cloisonné line, deep-teal text, right-aligned. Body is Avenir 13-14px / 1.6. No timestamps inside bubbles; a quiet centered divider marks time.
Suggested prompt: quiet, lowercase, flat umber fill with camel line — words the Source may say; no gold rim (nothing has happened yet). Primary Action: solid sky enamel pill with the Action bolt, umber line + gold rim — it commits something real; max one visible at a time. Never render retrieval headings, taxonomies, or capability labels as chips.
Sky cloisonné line = consequence pending — the card is flat enamel (no translucency, no wash), the sky wire around it carries the meaning; it earns its gold rim only as the Approve button. Eyebrow carries the Action bolt; quoted content sits on the warm camel panel in IBM Plex; the consequence line states cost + reversibility in plain words. Inspect (quiet, right) opens the exact-detail Panel — never crowd it into the card.
Flat enamel tiles — mint = done, gold = Compute movement; hue fill mixed into umber, hue wire, umber outline. One line, flash-in once (900ms settle), then rest. Accepted ≠ executed — a receipt appears only when the thing actually happened.
Enamel pill bar, one per screen — flat umber fill, camel line, umber outline; it follows Focus: with Ki when conversation leads, with the active Panel otherwise. Sky presence dot breathes; Lucide paperclip + mic; the send button is a small gold-rimmed sky medallion — the one committing act in the bar. Focus ring on :focus-within is sky at 15%.
Ki is always the right region (default 70/30, Source-adjustable 66/34–75/25). Everything in it is flat enamel: opaque warm fills, cloisonné lines, deep-umber outlines — no translucency, no blur, no neon. The gold rim is reserved for real things: Ki's own medallion, the Compute capsule, the Primary Action, the send button. Sky is Ki's color — identity, Primary Actions, send; nothing else there is sky. Extended-palette hues appear only where they mean something: mint done, gold Compute, violet Actors, orange Projects. Voice: "Here with you," one clear invitation, no option sprays — at most 2-3 suggested prompts and one Primary Action.