The AC panel webview (AestheticWebWindow) now tags every URL it loads with ?menuband=true. The boot stack (index.mjs) detects that flag and serves a minimal, text-free boot visual — a small centered cluster of soft breathing bars (a tiny equalizer/keyboard motif) on a clean light/dark ground — instead of the default logs/moods/title chrome. Mirrors the device=true / notebook=true / notepat / laklok boot branches; takes precedence over the other themes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>