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 ## UX & UI Principles
 
 - **USA Graphics Company Values:** Embrace high information density and tactile interactions. 
-- **Arcade Aesthetics:** Utilize arcade game-style visual feedback for state updates (e.g., blinking notifications for tool execution and AI responses) to make the experience fun, visceral, and engaging.
+- **Professional Arcade Aesthetics:** Balances high-energy "Arcade" feedback (blinking notifications, tactile updates) with a "Professional" visual discipline. Employs modern typography (Inter/Maple Mono), subtle rounded geometry, and soft shadows to ensure the tool feels like a sophisticated, expert utility rather than a toy.
 - **Explicit Control & Expert Focus:** The interface should not hold the user's hand. It must prioritize explicit manual confirmation for destructive actions while providing dense, unadulterated access to logs and context.
 - **Multi-Viewport Capabilities:** Leverage dockable, floatable panels to allow users to build custom workspaces suitable for multi-monitor setups.
 
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 - **Clean Project Root:** Enforces a "Cruft-Free Root" policy by organizing core implementation into a `src/` directory and redirecting all temporary test data, configurations, and AI-generated artifacts to `tests/artifacts/`.
 - **Performance Diagnostics:** Comprehensive, conditional per-component profiling across the entire application. Features a dedicated **Diagnostics Panel** providing real-time telemetry for FPS, Frame Time, CPU usage, and **Detailed Component Timings** for all GUI panels and background threads, including automated threshold-based latency alerts.
 - **Automated UX Verification:** A robust IPC mechanism via API hooks and a modular simulation suite allows for human-like simulation walkthroughs and automated regression testing of the full GUI lifecycle across multiple specialized scenarios.
+- **Professional UI Theme & Typography:** Implements a high-fidelity visual system featuring **Inter** and **Maple Mono** fonts for optimal readability. Employs a cohesive "Subtle Rounding" aesthetic across all standard widgets, supported by custom **soft shadow shaders** for modals and popups to provide depth and professional polish.
+- **Multi-Viewport & Layout Management:** Full support for ImGui Multi-Viewport, allowing users to detach panels into standalone OS windows for complex multi-monitor workflows. Includes a comprehensive **Layout Presets system**, enabling developers to save, name, and instantly restore custom window arrangements, including their Multi-Viewport state.
 - **Headless Backend Service:** Optional headless mode allowing the core AI and tool execution logic to run as a decoupled REST API service (FastAPI), optimized for Docker and server-side environments (e.g., Unraid).
 - **Remote Confirmation Protocol:** A non-blocking, ID-based challenge/response mechanism for approving AI actions via the REST API, enabling remote "Human-in-the-Loop" safety.
 - **Gemini CLI Integration:** Allows using the `gemini` CLI as a headless backend provider. This enables leveraging Gemini subscriptions with advanced features like persistent sessions, while maintaining full "Human-in-the-Loop" safety through a dedicated bridge for synchronous tool call approvals within the Manual Slop GUI. Now features full functional parity with the direct API, including accurate token estimation, safety settings, and robust system instruction handling.
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 - **Synchronous Event Queue:** Employs a `SyncEventQueue` based on `queue.Queue` to manage communication between the UI and backend agents, maintaining responsiveness through a threaded execution model.
 - **Synchronous IPC Approval Flow:** A specialized bridge mechanism that allows headless AI providers (like Gemini CLI) to synchronously request and receive human approval for tool calls via the GUI's REST API hooks.
 - **High-Fidelity Selectable Labels:** Implements a pattern for making read-only UI text selectable by wrapping `imgui.input_text` with `imgui.InputTextFlags_.read_only`. Includes a specialized `_render_selectable_label` helper that resets frame backgrounds, borders, and padding to mimic standard labels while enabling OS-level clipboard support (Ctrl+C).
+- **Faux-Shader Visual Effects:** Utilizes an optimized `ImDrawList`-based batching technique to simulate advanced visual effects such as soft shadows and acrylic glass overlays without the overhead of heavy GPU-resident shaders or external OpenGL dependencies.
 - **Interface-Driven Development (IDD):** Enforces a "Stub-and-Resolve" pattern where cross-module dependencies are resolved by generating signatures/contracts before implementation.