fix: group sidebar navigation separately from personal projects

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 - Worktree: /Users/chillishark/Makelore 麦洛/.codex-worktrees/makelore/20260929-empty-work-merge-39c633d0
 - Base commit: a77ddbd6813bb71d490544edfef6e1f35240070f
 - Owner: codex
-- Status: Ready for Integration
+- Status: Planning
 
 ## Scope
 
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 - Reordered only the existing Sidebar brand/control blocks. Updated README and the existing Electron scenario to require brand-first positioning while keeping the same-row/right-edge, narrow-width, collapsed return and configuration-route checks. Typecheck, scoped lint, production build and the complete existing navigation scenario passed (1/1); inspected the actual default-width screenshot. No new behavior or dependency was introduced.
 
 - Updated the same live trial to `index-C-y4CmSj.js` / `index-CA1PKQZ_.css` from `code-brand-first-33d87a81/source`, preserving all published overlays. Independent source review confirms Sidebar is the sole product delta; composite typecheck/lint/build passed. Live DOM confirms brand-first at the top of the Sidebar, controls directly below, identical horizontal centers, no overlap and a 13px right inset. Current account, 14 drafts, messages, teacher panel/content and pre-refresh Operation Chat tab were restored and compare equal; all 34 recorded data hashes are unchanged and no alerts remain. Main PID 32583 is unchanged; refresh lease released and task-opened inspector closed. Launch/guidance metadata include ae646f6. No merge, remote push or formal-app changes.
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+## Follow-up: Group Navigation And Personal Projects
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+- User confirmed the hierarchy: move the brand/navigation group upward, then Code return, Works Square, a group gap, New Project, My Projects and its list. Brand stays first; collapse remains aligned on the right of Code. Public discovery belongs with navigation; creation belongs directly with personal project management.
+- Project Context Loaded / Planning Gate: Passed. Same-task ownership and recorded feature branch/worktree/base are verified. Previously read entry, positioning, decisions, integrated architecture/domain and commitments remain unchanged from 41901ee. Active record and peer scopes reread; the only new peer merged teacher controls into main without touching the app. The current trial remains our combined brand-first source and all overlays. No conflicting navigation work identified.
+- Plan: reduce chat-only header/brand top padding, place the existing CommunityLink directly below the Code control row, keep New Project immediately above My Projects with a larger gap between the two groups, preserve other module/config layouts and behavior. Update the existing layout/navigation verification and README, build against the current live source, and refresh the same temporary Renderer/profile.
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+- Implemented the public navigation group in the non-scrolling chat header (brand, Code/collapse, Works Square), followed by a 20px group gap before New Project and an 8px projects-section margin. Reduced the chat header top padding from 8px to 0 and the brand padding from 10px/12px to 0/8px, moving its visible content upward while retaining native chrome. Other routes retain their previous ordering/styles.
+- Validation: typecheck, changed-file lint, full production build and 26 relevant unit tests passed. The existing Electron navigation scenario passed with brand-at-top, Code/Works adjacency, gap before creation, New Project/My Projects adjacency, 128px no-overflow, unchanged config routes and collapsed return. Inspected screenshot; independent source review passed. Composite live-source build also passed and differs only in Sidebar and scoped classroom CSS.