Both were live in the running shell and invisible to every check that ran
before it. Found by reading the shell's log after Casey applied.
ThinkingCard: missing `import qs.modules.common.functions`
ReferenceError: ColorUtils is not defined, on every render of every
reasoning segment. My own defect, shipped through a lint that said clean.
The lint was blind because I staged an approximation of the composed tree by
hand instead of linting the composed tree itself. Against the real composed
tree qmllint reports it plainly: 1 ColorUtils diagnostic before, 0 after.
Lint the composed tree. A hand-built stand-in tests the stand-in.
Config: sidebar.ai.fontSize restored
MessageTextBlock (vendor) reads Config.options.sidebar.ai.fontSize and got
undefined, assigning undefined to font.pixelSize on every text render.
Pre-existing, not from 0008 — the vendor delegate used MessageTextBlock too.
Cause is structural: modules/common/Config.qml SHADOWS ii-base's Config
wholesale, so every key ii-base adds after the fork silently disappears. The
key even carries an ii-base comment explaining it was added deliberately as
a live theme binding. Nothing failed; a number was just quietly absent.
Restored as a live binding, never a literal and never null
(null-in-a-serialized-config, 2026-08-11).
Verified: shell alive 12s after the Config edit (the crash-loop window),
config.json 46 keys and zero nulls, both fault lines gone from the log.
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