{
  "_comment": "COMMAND DECK — the cyberpunk bar across the bottom of the screen (rendered by js/ui/ActionBar.js). Six evenly spaced slots: `buttons` is the ORDERED list — give a slot an `id` (the action it will fire) + `label` + `accent`, or leave both `null` for a reserved slot. Buttons currently fire `onAction` (see GameScene); the behavior behind them comes next. Everything visual is procedural (no image assets) and tunable here: layout in `height`/`margin`/`padding`/`button`, palette in `colors`, CRT scanlines in `scanline`, motion in `animation` (boot flicker, the rail comet, the glitch bursts, the RGB pull-apart).",
  "enabled": true,
  "height": 56,
  "margin": { "left": 20, "right": 20, "bottom": 12 },
  "padding": 16,
  "button": {
    "widthFactor": 0.72,
    "maxWidth": 190,
    "notch": 10,
    "fontSize": 14,
    "letterSpacing": 2.5
  },
  "buttons": [
    { "id": "research", "label": "Research", "accent": "#00e5ff" },
    { "id": "scan", "label": "Scan", "accent": "#ffc94d" },
    { "id": "ship", "label": "Ship", "accent": "#7ce8a4" },
    { "id": "quests", "label": "Quests", "accent": "#ffc94d" },
    { "id": "map", "label": "Map", "accent": "#c084fc" },
    { "id": "menu", "label": "Menu", "accent": "#ff2d6f" }
  ],
  "surface": {
    "_comment": "Deck layout for the surface (SurfaceScene): `research` is replaced by `shop` (toggles the world's shop clip — while the clip is up the slot relabels to `labelActive`, and pressing it swaps back), `explore` folds up the world's service drawer (see `explore` below), and `takeoff` sits to the left of `menu`. SurfaceScene passes this list to ActionBar via its `buttons` option; everything else (height, colors, animation) is shared with the flight deck.",
    "buttons": [
      { "id": "shop", "label": "Shop", "labelActive": "Leave Shop", "accent": "#00e5ff" },
      { "id": "build", "label": "Build", "accent": "#ffc94d" },
      { "id": "explore", "label": "Explore", "accent": "#7ce8a4" },
      { "id": "quests", "label": "Quests", "accent": "#ffc94d" },
      { "id": "takeoff", "label": "Take Off", "accent": "#7ce8a4" },
      { "id": "menu", "label": "Menu", "accent": "#ff2d6f" }
    ],
    "explore": {
      "_comment": "The EXPLORE drawer — the full-width secondary bar (the deck's own left→right span, resting on its top rail — the shop tab bar's recipe) that folds up from the surface deck's Explore slot. SurfaceScene renders it with js/ui/MenuSubBar.js in span mode; the item LOGIC is js/ui/ExploreBar.js (worldContext / matchesWhere / resolveItems). `items` is the ordered button list: `id` (fired via onAction — the behavior lands later), `label`, `labelActive` (the label while the service is up — BAR relabels to LEAVE BAR while its clip loops, and is the only live button on the surface until pressed), `accent`, and an optional `where` clause — EVERY key it names must match the world the player is standing on for the button to appear. Keys: `world` ('planet' | 'station'); `planetClass` (the planet's class — 'terran' | 'rocky' | 'gas' | 'ice' | 'lava' | 'arid' | 'capitalNeutral' | 'capitalApex' | 'capitalMindweave' | 'capitalZenith', per data/planets.json → frames; 'none' on stations); `faction` (the faction controlling this system — 'apex' | 'mindweave' | 'zenith', or 'neutral' = wild space; per data/factions.json); `isHomeSystem` (boolean — true in the player's home / starting system; `{ isHomeSystem: false }` = every system EXCEPT the home). A value may be a single entry or a list (any-match). No `where` = every planet and station; the Job Board carries `{ isHomeSystem: false }` — it's on every planet and station EXCEPT the player's home system. DESIGN NOTE: the home system is safe space — enemies should NEVER be placed there, so there is no work to post on its board. JOB BOARD is a nearly full-screen CONSOLE (js/ui/JobBoardWindow.js — the build screen's structure, depth 80 over the deck/drawer/upper-left HUD): pressing it opens the board (left: the feed — `video` below, a muted 2:3 loop of assets/videos/jobboard.mp4; right: the JOB BOARD title, an AVAILABLE JOBS section — the board's postings — and a JOB DETAILS section — the selected job's contract — both placeholders until the postings land); the console's ✕ is the way-out, and the JOB BOARD slot's own press stays live as the second door (the deck + drawer stand down meanwhile — SurfaceScene.setServiceLocked). The bar's clip is data/landing.json → videos[frame].bar (the neutral capital's capital-bar-neutral.mp4).",
      "video": { "file": "assets/videos/jobboard.mp4", "aspect": [2, 3] },
      "items": [
        { "id": "jobBoard", "label": "Job Board", "accent": "#ffc94d", "where": { "isHomeSystem": false } },
        { "id": "bar", "label": "Bar", "labelActive": "Leave Bar", "accent": "#00e5ff", "where": { "planetClass": "capitalNeutral" } }
      ]
    }
  },
  "colors": {
    "panelTop": "#101c36",
    "panelBottom": "#04070e",
    "slotBg": "#0b1322",
    "slotBorder": "#22405f",
    "rail": "#00e5ff",
    "railBottom": "#ff2d6f",
    "text": "#eaf6ff",
    "reserved": "#3d4c74",
    "hatch": "#78b4ff"
  },
  "scanline": {
    "_comment": "CRT scanlines over the bar + buttons — the menu's recipe (one dark row per pitch rows). Defaults follow theme.overlay.scanline; override here for the deck only.",
    "pitch": 3,
    "alpha": 0.14
  },
  "animation": {
    "bootStagger": 70,
    "rgb": {
      "_comment": "RGB pull-apart on labels/panel (the menu title's GlitchText technique): idleOffset px of constant chromatic fringe, burstOffset extra px at full burst, idleAlpha/burstAlpha ghost strength.",
      "idleOffset": 1.8,
      "burstOffset": 6,
      "idleAlpha": 0.4,
      "burstAlpha": 0.55
    },
    "comet": {
      "enabled": true,
      "everyMs": [3600, 7800],
      "durationMs": 950
    },
    "glitch": {
      "enabled": true,
      "intervalMs": [3500, 9000],
      "durationMs": [240, 480],
      "slices": [3, 6]
    },
    "shimmer": {
      "_comment": "The RESEARCH slot's READY cue (GameScene._applyResearchCue arms it while a tech can start — one cue on screen at a time; the console's category tabs wear the same recipe, data/research.json → fx.tabShimmer): a yellow band sweeps the face, then a comet runs the cut-corner edge (js/ui/ShimmerCue.js). color is the comm pulse's yellow family (data/comms.json → box.pulse); periodMs = faceMs + gapMs + edgeMs + the silent rest.",
      "enabled": true,
      "color": "#ffd84d",
      "periodMs": 4200,
      "faceMs": 700,
      "gapMs": 140,
      "edgeMs": 1500,
      "dashFrac": 0.3
    }
  }
}