grilling: questions are often written as statements instead of actual questions #1249

❓ Q2 - Mods only: "Every mod" means every published mod. Status line configs get no Desktop preview, since Desktop doesn't draw status lines without a mod like statusline-anywhere.
➡️ Yes: mods only.

❓ Q3 - Mods that draw nothing in Desktop: Some mods only draw in the terminal (Raster/Image) or only run hooks. Options:
* (a) Show a plain note on the mod page: "Draws nothing in Claude Desktop."
* (b) Hide the Desktop slot entirely.
* (c) Show the empty Desktop window.
➡️ Yes to (a). It tells a Desktop user something real before they install.

❓ Q4 - Mod page only: Desktop previews appear only on the mod page, not on gallery cards or OG (Open Graph) share images.
➡️ Yes: mod page only, per YAGNI (build only what's needed). Cards and OG images can come later if wanted.

❓ Q5 - Glossary: "surface": [...] I'd add to `GLOSSARY.md`: [...]
➡️ Yes: adopt "surface" and update Preview.

❓ Q6 - Part of render:mods: The same bun run render:mods run records both surfaces, one Desktop preview per mod against clean-main. If the Desktop recording fails, the mod keeps its old Desktop preview and its terminal preview is unaffected.
➡️ Yes.

❓ Q7 - Re-pin gap stays out of scope: render:mods renders only a mod’s current version, and publish-mod refuses a version that hasn’t rendered. So a new mod version can never go live today. That gap exists for terminal previews too.
➡️ Yes: out of scope here. I’ll propose it as a separate follow-up once we’re done.