submit: add official track:backyard + achievement:* tags (the judges' canonical format)

docs: make the safety disclaimer explicit (not a mobility aid)

docs: add Field Notes blog link + field-notes badge tag (8th badge)

docs: add the social post link (LinkedIn)

docs: add the demo video link (README + the app's Watch-the-demo button)

perf: also warm STT during the popup so the first hold-to-ask is fast (Whisper is CPU, no quota)

perf: warm the model during the welcome popup (once per session) so the first describe is fast

popup: teach how to use (gestures + live-mode voice command) in text and narration

fix: popup empty on cold load — lazy-load gradio client so UI never waits on the CDN

feat: welcome popup on every open (reads pitch aloud, voice/tap close, video link)

ui: brand mark = minimal line eye (option 2); remove preview page

preview: brand-mark candidates page (temporary, /static/marks.html)

ui: taste-skill design pass (Outfit display font, color/radius system, softened glow)

docs: claim best-agent with an explicit perception-action architecture section

ui: add the iris brand mark (idle identity)

ui: polish pass (depth scrims, live dot, speaking/idle motion, answer entrance)

fix submission tags: off-the-grid (was off-grid), add community-choice

docs: credit Claude Code (Claude Opus 4.8) as the coding agent

docs: plainer voice, drop AI writing tics and negation framing

docs: link the agent trace (Sharing is Caring) + clarify the inference log is separate

docs: lead with accessibility (designed blind-first)

chore: neutral .gitignore comment

chore: keep internal dev/strategy docs out of the public Space

docs: add live Space URL to README

fix: valid HF Space metadata (colorTo, short_description <=60)

chore: stop tracking local warmup image (HF rejects non-LFS binaries; warmup off on Space)

live mode: stop self-hearing, prioritize user questions, kill repetition/hallucination

live mode: in-browser object-detection gate + browser-language onboarding

docs: Field Notes draft, DEPLOY guide + social post; bundle warmup asset

tests, inference trace, English-only repo, testability refactor

Iris: hands-free live mode, money/bill reading, accessible UI, Qwen3-VL-2B

Iris: voice-first assistant for the blind (gr.Server + Qwen2.5-VL + Whisper + Piper)