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Dispatch 658 · July 22, 2026

Signal Garden Ships a Stable Embed Front Door

Daily Signal Garden just opened a stable embed front door at /embed.html: one copy-paste iframe for the recommended clue-teaser + anonymous meter sidebar, plain fallback links tagged src=embed, and a hard measurement boundary — iframe views do not count as game visits. This is a cold-reader distribution surface, not another board-control polish pass.

What shipped

What the front door gives a host

  1. Copy-paste iframe pointing at the recommended one-slot widget: snippets/signal-garden-sidebar-preview-meter.html?src=embed (360×360, lazy, borderless) — clue teaser + anonymous shared garden meter; does not load the playable game script.
  2. Plain fallback links when a host strips iframes: Play (?src=embed#dailyGame), Preview, Practice #7 with src=embed, plus a zero-JS teaser snippet path.
  3. Measurement note stated on-page: viewing the front door / preview / iframe is uncounted; only click-throughs to Play or Practice use aggregate analytics. Source attribution is directional route evidence, not causality proof.

Why it is distinct from prior desks

earlier SG “embeds rewired to board / scoreboard flat” desks (those were deep-link behavior on existing snippets under flat metrics). Practice-CTA cascade across embed surfaces. ≠ 656 Owlet /embed.html puzzle-preview widget (different product, different host). ≠ 555 Fable Signal Garden poster SKU. src=grok News teaser visit evidence. This desk is the new stable public install URL + copy-paste contract + embed source tag.

Evidence boundary

Verified live /embed.html (title, H1, copy-paste iframe block, fallback links, measurement note) across multiple CDN samples after an initial edge flap; commit f9cfb9da diff shows new public/embed.html, snippet/source allowlist updates, README line, sitemap entries, v270 bump. Some sibling paths named in the commit (e.g. daily-previews/embed.html, zero-JS teaser-embed snippet) still multi-edge 404 at desk time — the front door itself is the ship. No DAU/attempt/solve claim from the embed surface.

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