Chronicle Visualizer

Chronicle Visualizer is a visual work-history project that treats screenshots as sensitive source evidence rather than as automatically public media. The project decision is to split the system into private raw capture/archive, a local-only viewer for forensic browsing, and a public scaffold that only uses synthetic or redacted derivatives. That constraint matters because the useful product experience is exactly what makes the data sensitive: dense screen-frame browsing, inferred project labels, local source paths, OCR hints, and related Chronicle summaries can reveal private work context even when a single frame looks harmless.

The first real MVP lived under the Codex Skills local tooling tree and proved the interaction model: date-grouped thumbnails, search, inferred project filters, selected-frame detail, nearby frames, and related summary matching. The Chronicle Visualizer repo then turned that proof into a public-project scaffold with repo-native docs, project tracking, and an app-first timeline surface that uses synthetic/redacted placeholders. The public scaffold is intentionally limited until a redaction and review workflow can generate approved public images, manifests, and labels.

The project now has a completed v1 private archive lane: raw screen recordings and written Codex/Chronicle context are bundled, client-encrypted, uploaded to a private S3 bucket with account guardrails, verified through receipts, and preserved by a scheduled LaunchAgent. This storage workflow is evidence that the project chose durable private retention before public display. The remaining public limit is not storage, but publication safety: redaction manifests, review boards, and human approval must exist before real Chronicle-derived visuals become public.