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Tommaso Bianchi
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Two changes to section 4, both from Tommaso. FIRST: the selection does not merely feed the tool, it DETERMINES WHICH TOOLS EXIST. Point at a planar face and the product offers the small set of things a planar face can become; point at an edge and it offers fillet, chamfer and the sketch tools that can reference it. Nothing else, because nothing else is possible. This is the largest single thing available to us for a first-time user, and the reason is worth writing down: a beginner's difficulty is not operating a tool, it is not knowing which tools apply to what they are looking at. Sixty icons answer a question they cannot yet ask; a face that offers its own five verbs teaches the product by being used. It also deletes a whole class of failure — a tool that silently does nothing because the selection was wrong becomes unreachable. The offer is an accelerator, not a toll gate: toolbar and single-letter shortcuts keep working unchanged and consume the same selection, so an expert never looks at the offer and a beginner never needs the toolbar. Both routes land in the same place, which is how one interface serves all three audiences. SECOND: "click empty space to commit" is withdrawn. It was an invisible gesture with a destructive meaning — nothing on screen said it, and a stray click committed a feature still being adjusted. Exactly what L5 forbids. A pending feature now carries a confirm/cancel puck attached to its own geometry, beside its handles, with Enter/Escape mirroring it; empty space reverts to the safe meaning, clear the selection. The puck is an object in the scene, not a dialog: the camera orbits, the values stay editable, nothing is blocked (L4 intact). Two cases the rule has to get right or it damages the inner loop: continuous tools (line, rectangle, circle) still commit each entity on its own gesture — a tick per line would be miserable — and Enter/Escape end the tool rather than confirm an entity. And ambiguity resolves toward keeping work: starting another operation with a valid feature pending commits it rather than discarding it, because undo reaches everything and the recoverable direction is the right default. Section 10 gains the two honest consequences: today a selection offers nothing (the largest single item of new work this charter asks for) and committing is still the invisible empty-space click. snaporca-2is.