The estate is weakest at visual craft — so a brilliant designer improving a build is high value. This is the safe on-ramp: you own the skin (edit the tokens below, restyle the live build any way you like), the kernel stays locked, and the gate proves in real time that your redesign still works. Design freedom above the gate; the proven thing below it.
--w-bg, --w-ink, --w-accent, --w-radius…) — recolour, restyle, reshape it freely. The gate runs the mutation-tested designGate kernel (26/26) against the build's contract every time you change something: is the kernel intact, is every wired control still present, is every required variable defined? Flip the "break it" toggle to watch it reject a redesign that drops a control. All in konomi: the design contribution is witnessed exactly like code — you can iterate endlessly and never ship a broken build.