[DozenTwelve]

The Skill and engine overhaul after The Little Horse and Little Red Riding Hood, plus a design pass over every book's landing page. Released together as engine-v2.9 (which also carries #36's Arabic interface) once merged.

Engine

• Listen and find (findWords) moves from the two picture books into the engine: a character asks for one thing at a time; a wrong tap says that thing's name and asks again, help grows (shake, stars, give-up after 20 s), nothing is ever called wrong. Keyboard works; the caption no longer sticks after a seek.
• tapWords is removed (no book on the site uses it): code, CSS, strings, P.tapDemo. check_tapwords.py becomes check_find.py.
• Every film ask keeps the scene drawing while the page waits (P.idleAt for export).
• Beds that last: sfx(beat, at, name, vol, { loop: true, to }) lays a bed again every file length − 0.5 s to its end or the beat's, through an ask wait. Both books drop their own find.js and bed relay.
• scripts/engine.py DEFAULT → engine-v2.9.

Picture-book kit

• cast.js has three kinds of puppet: round-headed figures, storybook figures after LRRH (look, brow, blink, lean, crouch to pick, hat over hair, hold, a walker that stops cleanly), and a four-legged rig after Little Horse (two-bone legs, walk/trot by distance, flipTurn; example cat).
• paperCam draws puppets after the layer sets.js marks stage: true, and warns about unknown layer names.
• The template chapter ships a working listen-and-find stop and a looping room-tone bed.
• series.html: hero picture and Watch button open episode 1 without scripting; one episode = no card grid; the cover is shown once.

Scripts

• eleven.py writes a word cache (ElevenLabs voices get mouths.py/join.py --words) and moves words whisper puts inside a pause; mouths.py keeps the mouth open on long words.
• lint.py checks findWords stops; export.py lays looping beds, holds film asks, names clashing page globals, levels to --lufs (default −16; was about −20), has the beat option video.
• still.py names ask beats it skips, playlog.py logs engine music and MUSIC_OFF, music.py gaps measures every track over the whole film.

Landing pages (impeccable, then Hallmark)

Every site/*/index.html and the shelf went through an impeccable audit + polish (contrast, wrapped Watch pills, 44 px tap targets, focus rings, layout shift, missing links back to the shelf) and then a Hallmark audit whose findings were fixed at their source (series template, lesson cover in engine/contents.*, shelf focus ring and labels). Little Horse's page now has a making-of article.

Checks

check_site.py 0 failed, check_skill.py 0 problems, ruff clean; check_i18n, check_latex, check_find, check_volume pass. check.py on Little Horse and LRRH: 0 errors in Chromium and Firefox, film lengths unchanged (229.13 s, 207.99 s).

For the owner

• The making-of essays are long (1,100–1,600 words); left as written unless you want them cut.
• Left open: an Elephant still of the aim screen; a visible "Work with us" on the shelf.
• No cold-start run of the Skill this time (owner's call).

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