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The read-first chip outperformed the TOC, track sections, and site-wide search
The learning hub navigation programme ran six phases across two days: track sections, a scroll-spy TOC, prerequisite chips, and site-wide Pagefind search. The smallest phase shipped fifth and delivered more navigability than all the rest combined. The structural reason was there in the spec before the build started.
Seven phases in. The chip at the chapter head was still the highest-leverage fix.
The learning hub navigation programme shipped complete last week: seven phases, P0 through P6, from breadcrumb to site-wide Pagefind search. Improving on the earlier post that identified the prerequisite chip as the spec's highest-value navigability fix — having shipped P4's IntersectionObserver scroll-spy and P6's full search index, the designation holds. Here's what shipping the full programme makes visible.
The navigation spec pre-ranked prerequisite chips over search. Six phases later, that held.
The conventions.md backlog called prerequisite chips at the chapter head the single highest-value navigability fix before any code shipped. Pagefind search and an IntersectionObserver right-rail TOC both landed in the same programme. The ranking held. This is why.
Prerequisite chips, scroll-spy TOC, and Pagefind: the trio that closed the learning hub nav spec
Seven phases of navigation work landed on the learning hub over two days. Phases P0 through P4 were infrastructure. P5 and P6 changed what the property felt like to use — and both were in the spec from day one.
The highest-leverage navigation fix was a conditional on a frontmatter field
conventions.md ranked the N1 prerequisite chip as the single highest-value navigability fix before any phase of the learning-hub navigation plan shipped. After a scroll-spy TOC, hub track sections, and site-wide Pagefind search, the ranking holds. Reader-orientation at the chapter entry-point outperforms retrieval mechanics for an audience that doesn't know what it doesn't know.