v1.0

Here’s our core list of updates from the v0.9.9.9.8 jump to v1.0:

1) We added new AI Prompt and AI Skill components

To account for our new skills and prompts for Glare, we’ve created a few components to make them easy to view, understand, and make it easy to use and install skills.

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2) We Improved The UI Significantly

We were super excited to move in this direction. Now the content is:

• Easier to parse with better content size and spacing

• Left sidenav is better structured, making it easier to parse

• Right sidenav provides a table of contents and linked sections/actions to easily gravitate to

Here’s the before and after:

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3) Restructured Documentation

All of the documentation now lives under /docs, which helps us organize the Glare world (check it out here). We’ve also added a few new top layer sections:

• UX Metrics are now top level - it contains all of the information about how they work within Glare

• Design Signal is a new top level piece of documentation - Breaks down how design signals work!

• AI Skills are new and top level - It briefs people on our latest skills that have been created

• Decision Map is new, containing our Define, Measure, Focus, Lead documentation that previously existed as it’s own section

• Design Review is new - highlighting a way to review your design work

• Design Assessment is new - helping people break down their organizational problems

Of course, there’s a ton more that you can read here as it goes more in-depth with what has changed over the last few months:

New Components

• Callout block

• Table block — with drag-and-drop reordering

• Formula block (UX metrics)

• Scoring component for all UX metric types

• AI Prompt block — versioned, repository-backed, with example-output disclosure

• AI Skill block — versioned, with Details tab, downloads, tabbed renderer

• Fenced code block — syntax highlighting + copy button

• Blockquote — left bar, inline quote marks

• Unified video embed — YouTube / Vimeo / Loom

• Iframe embed — sandboxed, host-allowlisted

• Column block + page-index generator

• Search modal (global) + parent-page typeahead

• NavigationTree + NavigationTreeRow (admin)

• RelatedLinks + CopyMarkdownButton + right-rail ArticleSidebarActions

Component Updates

• Table: text sizing, responsiveness

• Toolbar: h4 with eyebrow styling

• Code block: light bg + dark text, copy button top-right, uniform padding, touch support

• Blockquote: thicker red bar, larger light-weight quote text

• AI Skill block: hide empty tabs, single-line header, download moved to tab strip, show-more on long panels, lavender bg, 480px max-height

• AI Prompt block: default open on first paint, scoped link styles, no underline divider

• Embed: sanitize once on load, pin iframe src in allowlist

• TOC: smooth scroll, active-heading tracking, all-caps header, collapses to h2-only when >10 headings

• Sidebar: sticky with internal scroll, simpler active state, unclipped carets, unbounded depth, slim loading skeleton

• Right-rail action list: rebuilt as proper vertical UI; article action bar moved in

New Pages

• /tools/design-review-signal-rubric — SIGNAL Call Rubric (upload, results, share)

• /tools — Glare Tools index

• /experiments — Testing Templates + examples

• /qa + Q&A archive

• /links

• /newsletters (public) + newsletter-only signup

• Public profile pages

• Diff view for page revisions

• Page Redirects admin (list, delete, manual + subtree create)

• Navigation admin redesign (accordion + drag-and-drop)

• Bulk Link import UI (CSV/TSV)

Page Updates

• Homepage v2 (Nov 2025) → rebuilt Glare flow to match Figma (May 2026)

• Wiki article view aligned to v3 EZ-update Figma — article width 1280→1536, breadcrumb/spacing pass, rhythm cleanup, rail icons swapped for Figma exports

• Edit page: revisioning, parent typeahead, metadata, copy feature, slug validator

• Footer: 3-column copy refresh, Helio/Privacy links cleanup

• /links and /qa aligned to design system components

Enhancements

• Page revisioning + diff view

• Page redirects — automatic backfill + cascade on parent moves, preserves /edit

• Page move API with descendant validation and dense renumbering

• Auto-tag indexer + Related Links matched by tags (admin-triggered)

• Glare RAG with full-coverage indexing and vision-described images

• MCP API routes + page index generator

• Bulk Link import from CSV/TSV (with optional thumbnail fetch)

• Discourse profile sync + avatar handling

• Helio account auto-sync for community submissions

• Community submissions: tags, filtering/sorting, recency in approvals, email existence check

• Newsletters: auto-title, auto-expire, auto-slug, image puller, edit + notes, public URL

• Call Rubric depth: top-down diagnosis pre-pass, sequential SIGNAL scoring, persisted evidence, conditional "Why this isn't a 5", model snapshots

• Navigation: hover-open dropdowns, cursor-proximity opening, animations, new Docs IA, "Glare Tools" promoted to top-level

• GA4 analytics: homepage CTA, analysis funnel, content unlock, speaker edits (PII scrubbed)

Design System

• Component system + design systems foundation (Feb 2026)

• UX Metric cards with associated colors

• Typography pass: nav spacing & fonts, newsletter card typography, TOC header all-caps + bigger, lighter body text

• Primary button update

• Sidebar style system: active state via color only (no border/weight bump), level-1 spacing, caret alignment, accordion offsets

• Tools cards: 4:3 → 3:2, object-cover vs object-contain conventions

• Surface palette: lavender AI Skill bg, light code block, blockquote red bar

• Iconography: rail icons swapped for Figma exports, sidebar icons normalized

Infrastructure & Internals

• Next.js 16 upgrade + Turbopack build fixes; middleware merged into proxy.ts

• Perf: hoist wiki Sidebar to layout, server rendering pages/content, sidebar deps injection instead of reload, prisma init, page indexing performance

Notable Fixes

• TipTap v3 infinite re-render loop on edit

• DOMPurify SSR crash

• notFound() swallowed in production; NEXT_REDIRECT re-thrown so auth redirects work

• Editors couldn't view/edit non-published pages

• Mobile sign-in not visible; mobile nav links not closing menu

• TOC not observing client-rendered content; sidebar overflow; caret clipping

• Featured image not showing on interviews

• Empty paragraphs rendering invisible in editor

• Sibling reorder unreachable in nav tree

• Bulk-import metadata-fetch hang stalling chunks; 504 from low maxDuration