# 0.35.0 — 2026-07-25 — "House Green"

- **Added**: **Kandown finally has its own theme, and it is the default** — a `kandown` preset built from the brand palette registered on the website: `#88E138` brand lime (the logo arrow) as the dark-mode primary, `#7AD12A` as its light-background variant, `#0CE931` (the hero shader green) reused as the `success` token, `#F1FFB8` for accent surfaces and `#EBEBEB` for neutral borders, on 4px radius to match the website. Because lime cannot carry white text at any usable contrast, `primary-foreground` is a near-black green in both modes (7.9:1 light, 11.2:1 dark) rather than the usual white. Every other foreground/background pair passes WCAG AA in both modes.
- **Fixed**: **The default skin silently resolved to Vercel** — `DEFAULT_CONFIG.ui.skin` already read `'kandown'`, but `LEGACY_SKIN_MAP` still aliased `kandown` to `vercel` from before the FABLE_UI theme system, so every fresh project opened in monochrome instead of the brand colors. The alias is gone, the preset now sits first in `THEME_PRESETS` (and is therefore the `[0]` fallback for an unknown id), and `normalizeSkinId` falls back to `kandown` instead of `vercel`.
- **Changed**: **Website hero rewritten** — the technical breadcrumb (Local-first / MIT / Node / npm) is replaced by a short free, open-source, local promise, and the headline is reframed around Markdown tasks built for AI agents, long-running work, and the web/TUI/CLI trio. The shared tagline and description used for SEO and machine-readable docs were aligned with it.
- **Added**: **Demo mode** — a third backend for the web UI that answers the Kandown REST API from an in-memory `Map` instead of a disk, so the whole application can run in a browser tab with no CLI, no server and no storage. It plugs in at `apiFetch` (`src/lib/filesystem.ts`) via `registerDemoApi()`, which is why the board, drawer, editor, search, archive and drag-and-drop all work without knowing anything changed — nothing is mocked. Built with `pnpm build:demo`, which also drops `vite-plugin-singlefile` in favour of a normal chunked build. The entire feature is compiled out of the bundle `npx kandown` ships, behind the `__KANDOWN_DEMO_BUILD__` define.
- **Fixed**: **Header task counter rendered `[object Object] tasks`** — `useAnimatedNumber` returns a Motion `MotionValue`, which has to be rendered by a `motion.*` component that subscribes to it; wrapping it in `String()` stringified the object itself. Every user of the web board saw this on every screen.
- **Fixed**: **Repository root could open as a project named `templates`** — implicit project resolution now checks the current directory and walks upward for the nearest valid `.kandown/kandown.json` instead of recursively scanning child directories. This keeps the live board anchored to the canonical root `.kandown/` + `tasks/` layout, works from nested paths such as `src/`, and prevents packaged init assets under `templates/` from being mistaken for a project.
- **Changed**: **Removed downward child-project auto-discovery** — launching Kandown from a directory above a project no longer guesses which descendant board to open. Run it inside the intended project (or one of its subdirectories), or pass an explicit `--path`, for deterministic selection.
- **Cleaned**: Removed accidentally committed `templates/daemon.json` runtime state and `templates/kandown.html` generated output. The configuration, documentation, and welcome-task seeds required by `kandown init` remain in `templates/`.