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Vibe Code the Navigator

Chapter 6 of 8 · Section 26 of 30

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Learning objectives
  • 2. The running matter
  • 3. Who is in the room
  • 4. Local KIND presenter rehearsal
  • 5. How Neon Law Navigator works
  • 6. Matter files: portal for clients, workbench for lawyers
  • 7. The Shared Drive and Project repository map

2. Build the Notation

  • 8. Install (no install)
  • 9. Sign in as yourself
  • 10. Tool calls are just prompts with specific words
  • 11. Build the template
  • 12. Run the transactional checklist
  • 13. Kaizen — share what you found

3. Keep the Attorney in Control

  • 14. When AIDA asks before she acts
  • 15. When an answer is wrong, send it back — don't start over
  • 16. Answers and questions are two different things
  • 17. The conflict check runs before every new matter

4. Complete the Matter

  • 18. Notarize and demo
  • 19. Why this matters

5. Take It to the CLI

  • 20. Run your own — and drive it from the command line
  • 21. Form a Nevada LLC from the command line
  • 22. Walk a questionnaire like a text adventure

6. Vibe Code the Navigator

  • 23. Your installation publishes its own schema
  • 24. Two doors — `/api` for a page, `/mcp` for an agent
  • 25. A first application is about fifteen lines
  • 26. Vibe the screen — do not vibe the rules
  • 27. Ship it as a Project's client portal
  • 28. The line your application does not cross

7. Prepare the Room Before Class

  • 29. Seat every attendee before the first login

8. Wrap Up

  • 30. Share what you built

Vibe the screen — do not vibe the rules

Prototype freely on one side of the line, and call Navigator on the other:

  • Vibe this. Layout, interaction, the empty state, the error state, what a report looks like when you print it.
  • Call Navigator for this. Who may see it, what a valid notation is, what a signature means, what gets recorded.

Two rules travel with every prototype: no client data, ever — invented or firm-owned names only, and reserved example domains for any address — and your prototype is a specification, not a shipment.

Presenter notes

The repository states the reasoning plainly: vibing is very good at showing what a screen should feel like, and very bad at satisfying this codebase's authorization, audit, and durability rules. Splitting the work at that seam lets each side do what it is good at, and it is why a prototype is judged on whether the states are drawn — empty, loading, error, success — rather than on whether the code is clean.

The no-client-data rule is not workshop etiquette. Every pull request against the product is scanned for exactly this, and a mockup carrying real client information is closed and its attachments deleted. Invent your Virgo. It costs nothing and it is the difference between a prototype you can show anyone and one you cannot show at all.

When a screen you vibed should become part of Navigator itself, file it as a design mockup issue — a GIF of the interaction plus the source that produced it — and an engineer translates it into the real application. What you attach is read, never merged, never served, and never a dependency. The shipped screen is Rust and it will look like your design without containing your files.

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