Grounded multi-agent audit — hero, nav, pillars…

Details

Round-1 of a six-agent audit (each grounded in real top researcher/engineer
personal sites). Applied the cross-validated, verifiable wins:
Defects
- Skip link jumped to #about, past the hero + both explainers → #hero.
- ⌘K "LinkedIn" was a dead no-op (no data-cmd target) → wired to the contact link.
- Publication first-author badge never fired when an author line was present, so
  first-authorship (the top committee signal) was invisible on ~5/9 papers → fixed
  detection (explicit marker OR name-leads), added a "1st author" badge, dropped the
  redundant "· first author" suffix, cleaned the "Conference Article;" venue boilerplate,
  and suppressed the duplicate year pill when the venue badge already carries the year.
- "NeuroSymbolic AI" was spelled three ways → standardized (explainer eyebrow, ⌘K label).
Curate / subtract (what separates "good site" from "established researcher")
- Nav 11 → 7 curated links (rest reachable via scroll + ⌘K + priority-overflow).
- Hero lede de-bolded (AAAI/ICLR/CIKM/Dell/Intel were tripled with the proof bar);
  one bold, tighter sentence.
- Proof bar drops the third "AAAI 2026 reviewer" mention.
- Pillars retitled by the QUESTION each answers, subfield demoted to a mono tag —
  now "Three threads, one agenda" is literally true on the page.
- Stats: dropped the weak "Talks & essays" vanity tile; "Papers" → "Peer-reviewed
  papers & preprints"; added a mobile 1-col breakpoint (labels were wrapping 3–4 lines).
System / craft
- New --v3-accent-display token: the large hero italic stays vivid orange in LIGHT
  theme (large text needs only 3:1) instead of the darkened brick used for AA body text.
- Reveal no longer double-animates (section + children); single, shorter, shallower
  reveal (22px/0.7s → 12px/0.45s) for a more premium, less "everything slides" feel.
Polish
- Footer version "v3" now links to /changelog/.
- Copy honesty: News "live feed" → "Recent updates"; dropped a now-past
  "Reviewing for AAAI 2026" line; "Impact at a glance" → "By the numbers".
- Contact eyebrow inline style → .v3-eyebrow--center; removed dead .v3-contact-note.
Every factual claim (venues, counts, affiliations, dates) preserved. Verified
across dark/light/mobile; build + tsc clean.

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