fix(panel): keep the party-board hint clear of the dock

The hint line is a <p> whose user-agent 1em top margin was never reset,
so at 1920x1080 its box rendered at ~954-988px, under the dock (top edge
950px). Reset the margin, restore the PANEL-SPEC §2 27px/600 size, and
move the hint up to top: 896px so its 37.8px line box ends at ~934px,
16px above the dock. The dock keeps its 84px height and 46px inset.

Add a source-level regression test asserting the hint's margin reset
and that top + font-size x line-height sits at least 12px above
1080 - dock bottom - dock height.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -1,5 +1,41 @@
 # NestQuest Release Notes
 
+## Version 0.8.0 — 2026-09-25
+
+### Scope
+
+Minor release carrying the multi-pattern presence model (schema 9), the
+Sunday-first calendar week, and the create-materializes fix, plus the
+definition start-date field, onto `main`.
+
+- **Multiple presence patterns per child (schema 9):** a child now has zero or
+  more presence patterns instead of at most one. Each pattern has a name, a kind
+  (`home` or `away`), its own cycle length (1–4 weeks), its own anchor date and a
+  per-week weekday set. Evaluation is first-match-wins — overrides, then away,
+  then home, then absent when the child has at least one home pattern, else
+  present. Migration 9 copies each existing schedule into a `home` pattern named
+  "Home schedule" and drops the old `presence_schedules` table. (PRs #231, #232.)
+- **Sunday-first calendar week:** the admin Schedule month grid and the
+  Definitions weekday picker now render weeks Sunday-first; the stored/API
+  weekday numbering is unchanged (Monday=0..Sunday=6). (PR #230.)
+- **Fix — newly created tasks materialize immediately:** creating a quest
+  definition now regenerates its future instances over the rolling horizon, so a
+  new task reaches the panel without waiting for an unrelated write. (PRs #235,
+  #236.)
+- **Definition start date:** the definition edit sheet gains a Start date field
+  so a task can be scheduled to begin on a future date. (PRs #237, #238.)
+- **Docs:** the multi-pattern decision (D-016), the migration-9 rollback step in
+  the runbook, and the ADMIN-SPEC Schedule section. (PRs #233, #234.)
+
+### Upgrade note
+
+This release runs schema version **9**. Version 0.7.1 refuses a version-9
+database, so take a copy of the SQLite file (or note the Litestream generation)
+before the first start on 0.8.0 if you need a rollback path.
+
+### Requirements
+
+
 ## Version 0.7.1 — 2026-09-24
 
 ### Scope

admin/src/definitions/DefinitionsTab.test.tsx

@@ -1118,3 +1118,95 @@ describe("DefinitionsTab icon picker", () => {
     expect(rowIcon(screen.getByTestId("definition-20"))).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+/* ── Start date ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+
+function startDateInput(s: HTMLElement): HTMLInputElement {
+  return within(s).getByLabelText("Start date", { selector: "input" }) as HTMLInputElement;
+}
+
+describe("DefinitionsTab start date", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    sessionStorage.clear();
+    storeTokens({ access_token: "at-123", expires_in: 600 });
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    cleanup();
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("a new task defaults to today and POSTs the chosen start date", async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers({ toFake: ["Date"] });
+    vi.setSystemTime(new Date(2026, 8, 23, 9, 0)); // Wed 23 Sep 2026, local
+    await renderReady();
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "New" }));
+    const s = sheet();
+    const input = startDateInput(s);
+    expect(input.type).toBe("date");
+    expect(input.value).toBe("2026-09-23");
+
+    fireEvent.change(within(s).getByRole("textbox", { name: "Title" }), {
+      target: { value: "Feed the cat" },
+    });
+    fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("button", { name: /Assigned children/ }));
+    fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("checkbox", { name: "Declan" }));
+    fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("button", { name: "Evening" }));
+    fireEvent.change(input, { target: { value: "2026-10-15" } });
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("button", { name: "Save changes" }));
+    });
+    expect(api.writes()).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(api.writes()[0].method).toBe("POST");
+    expect((api.writes()[0].body as { rule: DefinitionRule }).rule.start_date).toBe("2026-10-15");
+  });
+
+  it("an edit pre-fills the definition's start date and PATCHes a changed one", async () => {
+    await renderReady();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("definition-10"));
+    const s = sheet();
+    const input = startDateInput(s);
+    expect(input.value).toBe("2026-01-01");
+
+    fireEvent.change(input, { target: { value: "2026-11-02" } });
+    await act(async () => {
+      fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("button", { name: "Save changes" }));
+    });
+    expect(api.writes()).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        method: "PATCH",
+        path: "/api/v1/admin/quest-definitions/10",
+        body: expect.objectContaining({ rule: rule({ start_date: "2026-11-02" }) }),
+      }),
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("the occurrence preview requests the chosen start date", async () => {
+    await renderReady();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("definition-10"));
+    const s = sheet();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(api.previews()).toHaveLength(1));
+
+    fireEvent.change(startDateInput(s), { target: { value: "2027-03-01" } });
+    await settleDebounce();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(api.previews()).toHaveLength(2));
+    expect((api.previews()[1].body as { rule: DefinitionRule }).rule.start_date).toBe(
+      "2027-03-01",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("a cleared start date is not submitted", async () => {
+    await renderReady();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("definition-10"));
+    const s = sheet();
+    fireEvent.change(startDateInput(s), { target: { value: "" } });
+    await act(async () => {
+      fireEvent.click(within(s).getByRole("button", { name: "Save changes" }));
+    });
+    expect(api.writes()).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(within(s).getByText("Pick a start date.")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});

admin/src/definitions/DefinitionsTab.tsx

@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ function parseWhole(value: string, min: number, max: number): number | null {
 function buildRule(draft: Draft): DefinitionRule | string {
   const interval = parseWhole(draft.interval, 1, 999);
   if (interval === null) return "Interval must be a whole number of at least 1.";
+  if (draft.startDate === "") return "Pick a start date.";
   const rule: DefinitionRule = {
     rule_type: "daily",
     interval,
@@ -740,6 +741,16 @@ function EditSheet({
             <OccurrencePreview ruleKey={previewKey} />
           </Field>
 
+          <Field label="Start date" id="defs-label-start">
+            <input
+              className="defs-input"
+              type="date"
+              aria-labelledby="defs-label-start"
+              value={draft.startDate}
+              onChange={(e) => update({ startDate: e.target.value })}
+            />
+          </Field>
+
           <Field label="Due time" id="defs-label-due">
             {orderedWindows.length === 0 ? (
               <p className="defs-hint">Pick a window to set its due time.</p>

custom_components/nestquest/manifest.json

@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
   "iot_class": "local_polling",
   "issue_tracker": "https://github.com/Maniacs-Mansion/NestQuest/issues",
   "requirements": [],
-  "version": "0.7.1"
+  "version": "0.8.0"
 }

custom_components/nestquest/www/nestquest-cards.js

@@ -906,11 +906,12 @@ const $t = "polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 62%, 50% 100%, 0 62%)", $e = "polygon(50%
 
   .hint {
     position: absolute;
-    top: 930px;
+    top: 896px;
     left: 0;
     right: 0;
+    margin: 0;
     font-family: var(--nq-p-font-body);
-    font-size: 24px;
+    font-size: 27px;
     font-weight: 600;
     line-height: 1.4;
     text-align: center;

frontend/src/cards/party-board.ts

@@ -497,11 +497,12 @@ const boardStyles = css`
 
   .hint {
     position: absolute;
-    top: 930px;
+    top: 896px;
     left: 0;
     right: 0;
+    margin: 0;
     font-family: var(--nq-p-font-body);
-    font-size: 24px;
+    font-size: 27px;
     font-weight: 600;
     line-height: 1.4;
     text-align: center;

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "nestquest"
-version = "0.7.1"
+version = "0.8.0"
 description = "NestQuest Home Assistant Integration"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"

tests/test_panel_cards.py

@@ -411,6 +411,36 @@ def test_panel_hard_rules_hold_in_the_card_sources() -> None:
     assert "@click" not in sealed_template
 
 
+def test_party_board_hint_clears_the_dock() -> None:
+    """PANEL-SPEC §2/§2.3: the hint line reads fully above the dock at
+    1920x1080. The hint's line box (top + font-size x line-height) must
+    end above the dock's top edge (1080 - bottom inset - dock height)
+    with a visible gap, at the 27px/600 design size. The hint is a <p>,
+    so its user-agent 1em top margin must be reset or it shifts the box
+    down by a whole font-size."""
+    style = _style_literal(_read(PARTY_BOARD), STYLE_CONSTANTS[PARTY_BOARD])
+    rules = {selector.strip(): body for selector, body in _css_rules(style)}
+    sizes = _size_tokens(_read(REWARD_TOKENS))
+
+    def px(body: str, prop: str) -> float:
+        declared = re.search(rf"(?<![-\w]){prop}:\s*([^;]+);", body)
+        assert declared is not None, prop
+        value = _font_size_px(declared.group(1), sizes)
+        assert value is not None, f"{prop}: {declared.group(1)}"
+        return value
+
+    board, hint, dock = rules[".board"], rules[".hint"], rules[".dock"]
+    assert "margin: 0;" in hint
+    line_height = float(re.search(r"line-height:\s*([\d.]+);", hint).group(1))
+    hint_bottom = px(hint, "top") + px(hint, "font-size") * line_height
+    dock_top = px(board, "height") - px(dock, "bottom") - px(dock, "height")
+    assert px(dock, "height") == 84
+    assert px(dock, "bottom") == 46
+    assert hint_bottom + 12 <= dock_top, (hint_bottom, dock_top)
+    assert px(hint, "font-size") == 27
+    assert "font-weight: 600;" in hint
+
+
 def test_panel_text_sizes_respect_the_22px_floor() -> None:
     """PANEL-SPEC §1: no body text below 22px. Every font-size in the
     panel styles resolves against the panel size tokens or an explicit

uv.lock

@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "nestquest"
-version = "0.7.1"
+version = "0.8.0"
 source = { virtual = "." }
 
 [package.dev-dependencies]