Decide · the ritual’s frame · @orgdevkit/kit-monthly-plan
The chrome all seven steps share and none of them owns: two phase labels, the stepper, the footer that scrolls away with the step, and the one bar the forward steps draw. All seven bodies are drawn inside it — the freshness gate, the look back, the ladder, the turn, Allocate, living money and the signing. ⚠ This paragraph said five of the seven and called the last two a placeholder for two tranches after they landed, which is why a person reading it was told the signing they could see did not exist.
On Allocate, the row the drawing marks is not the row that spent the money. The prototype tests a row against its ask, where the money is spent by rows pushed above their suggestion — so in a month whose money ran out partway down the list, which is what the ladder’s ordering is for, not one row is marked. Turn on the missions took €300 more and step to Allocate: exactly the row that was pushed carries the mark, the guard names how tight the living money has become, and the remainder card turns from Not allocated to Over-allocated — one act, three places, no second arithmetic. Press €10 less thirty times and all three come back.
And the remainder card has six states where the drawing has five. Turn on March covers itself to the cent: a month that comes out exactly even is not short of anything, so it gets neither the gap’s card nor its three identical cover choices — it gets its own sentence, and its rows stay on the screen because the override is absolute and taking the list away would remove the one thing they could still decide.
Before this the equation had no word for a household on its first month, and it made five false claims rather than one. Turn on this is their first month and open What’s coming: all three pills read Thin, the legend defines that term and stops defining the two that are no longer on the screen, and the note under the total stops calling typical spending a six-month median. Off, every one of those strings is what it always was, character for character. ⚠ The one that mattered most was not a pill: the spending line’s own detail used to promise one heavy month does not drag it, and on a household with one month of imports the one month is the drag — so that sentence moved to the legend, where it is keyed on the basis it describes.
The stepper walks straight past the gate that stops the button beside it. In the drawing, the refusal guards the footer’s forward button and nothing else — all seven stepper buttons set the step unconditionally, so a short month with no cover chosen refuses Continue and reaches the signing in one click. Turn on the month is short and step to Allocate: every step past it stops being a control.
And the screen argues with its own footer the moment somebody acknowledges. In the drawing, the head card is wired to freshness alone, so it goes on saying we can’t close the month yet while the footer beside it says going on without two accounts and enables the button. Turn on two accounts stop in February, step to Up to date, then press Continue with February 2026 incomplete: the headline, the pill and the card all change together, and the button that has just been used is gone rather than left live.
- Step 5 of 7 · Allocate · still to come
- Step 6 of 7 · Living money · still to come
- Step 7 of 7 · Sign · still to come
That was February 2026. Now March 2026’s money gets its missions.
Three questions left, in this order on purpose: what the month brings, what you save first, and what you live on. Saving first is the point — what you live on is what is left, not the other way round.
Any line can be overridden if you know better.