Confirmed shape brief: ops-console direction, balanced density, blue committed accent, readability emphasized.
Design system: surface scale to 5 steps tinted toward hue 266; text contrast lifted (secondary 62->72%, tertiary 44->52, added text-disabled); borders gained faint variant; status tokens renamed semantically (signal-good/warn/bad/idle); typography upgraded (Inter 400/500/600, JetBrains Mono for numerics, new 2xl/3xl/tc scale steps).
New components: tc-display timecode classes with blue glow; tally-word with good/warn/bad/rec variants; signal-strip flutter bar with modifiers; chip dense monospaced pill; manifest table styles.
Topbar status strip: new js/topbar-strip.js auto-injects a 28px strip on every page with wall clock, page name, live API latency, and system-pulse dot.
Per-page: recorders gain live signal-strip above fps line; capture timecode bumped 38->64px with blue glow; ingest drop zone slimmed 200->88px side-by-side layout so manifest gets the real estate.
