Persist home stepper state to localStorage via freeze scope

- freeze-scope "home-stepper" captures step-idx signal
- Each step/back saves to localStorage via freeze-to-sx
- On mount, restores from localStorage via thaw-from-sx
- Invalid state resets to default (step 9)
- Clear preview lake before replay to prevent duplicates
- Register local-storage-get/set/remove as primitives
- Arrows 3x bigger

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

shared/static/scripts/sx-browser.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   // =========================================================================
 
   var NIL = Object.freeze({ _nil: true, toString: function() { return "nil"; } });
-  var SX_VERSION = "2026-03-14T22:48:39Z";
+  var SX_VERSION = "2026-03-15T00:04:32Z";
 
   function isNil(x) { return x === NIL || x === null || x === undefined; }
   function isSxTruthy(x) { return x !== false && !isNil(x); }
@@ -5757,6 +5757,20 @@ PRIMITIVES["resource"] = resource;
   PRIMITIVES["is-html-tag?"] = function(n) { return HTML_TAGS.indexOf(n) >= 0; };
   PRIMITIVES["make-env"] = function() { return merge(componentEnv, PRIMITIVES); };
 
+  // localStorage — defined here (before boot) so islands can use at hydration
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-get"] = function(key) {
+    try { var v = localStorage.getItem(key); return v === null ? NIL : v; }
+    catch (e) { return NIL; }
+  };
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-set"] = function(key, val) {
+    try { localStorage.setItem(key, val); } catch (e) {}
+    return NIL;
+  };
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-remove"] = function(key) {
+    try { localStorage.removeItem(key); } catch (e) {}
+    return NIL;
+  };
+
 
   // =========================================================================
   // Platform interface — DOM adapter (browser-only)
@@ -7019,6 +7033,7 @@ PRIMITIVES["resource"] = resource;
   function localStorageRemove(key) {
     try { localStorage.removeItem(key); } catch (e) {}
   }
+  // localStorage primitives registered in CEK_FIXUPS_JS for ordering
 
   // --- Cookies ---
 

shared/sx/ref/platform_js.py

@@ -1531,6 +1531,20 @@ CEK_FIXUPS_JS = '''
   PRIMITIVES["make-symbol"] = function(n) { return new Symbol(n); };
   PRIMITIVES["is-html-tag?"] = function(n) { return HTML_TAGS.indexOf(n) >= 0; };
   PRIMITIVES["make-env"] = function() { return merge(componentEnv, PRIMITIVES); };
+
+  // localStorage — defined here (before boot) so islands can use at hydration
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-get"] = function(key) {
+    try { var v = localStorage.getItem(key); return v === null ? NIL : v; }
+    catch (e) { return NIL; }
+  };
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-set"] = function(key, val) {
+    try { localStorage.setItem(key, val); } catch (e) {}
+    return NIL;
+  };
+  PRIMITIVES["local-storage-remove"] = function(key) {
+    try { localStorage.removeItem(key); } catch (e) {}
+    return NIL;
+  };
 '''
 
 
@@ -2912,6 +2926,7 @@ PLATFORM_BOOT_JS = """
   function localStorageRemove(key) {
     try { localStorage.removeItem(key); } catch (e) {}
   }
+  // localStorage primitives registered in CEK_FIXUPS_JS for ordering
 
   // --- Cookies ---
 

sx/sx/home-stepper.sx

@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@
                    (when (and parent rendered)
                      (dom-append parent rendered)))))
            (swap! step-idx inc)
-           (update-code-highlight))))
+           (update-code-highlight)
+           (local-storage-set "sx-home-stepper" (freeze-to-sx "home-stepper")))))
        (do-back (fn ()
          (when (> (deref step-idx) 0)
            (let ((target (- (deref step-idx) 1))
@@ -182,7 +183,18 @@
              (when container (dom-set-prop container "innerHTML" ""))
              (set-stack (list (get-preview)))
              (reset! step-idx 0)
-             (for-each (fn (_) (do-step)) (slice (deref steps) 0 target)))))))
+             (for-each (fn (_) (do-step)) (slice (deref steps) 0 target))
+             (local-storage-set "sx-home-stepper" (freeze-to-sx "home-stepper")))))))
+      ;; Freeze scope for persistence
+      (freeze-scope "home-stepper" (fn ()
+        (freeze-signal "step" step-idx)))
+      ;; Restore from localStorage on mount
+      (let ((saved (local-storage-get "sx-home-stepper")))
+        (when saved
+          (thaw-from-sx saved)
+          ;; Validate — reset to default if out of range
+          (when (or (< (deref step-idx) 0) (> (deref step-idx) 16))
+            (reset! step-idx 9))))
       ;; Auto-parse via effect
       (effect (fn ()
         (let ((parsed (sx-parse source)))
@@ -198,7 +210,9 @@
               ;; Defer code DOM build until lake exists
               (schedule-idle (fn ()
                 (build-code-dom)
-                ;; Replay to initial step-idx
+                ;; Clear preview and replay to initial step-idx
+                (let ((preview (get-preview)))
+                  (when preview (dom-set-prop preview "innerHTML" "")))
                 (let ((target (deref step-idx)))
                   (reset! step-idx 0)
                   (set-stack (list (get-preview)))
@@ -213,7 +227,7 @@
         ;; Controls
         (div :class "flex items-center justify-center gap-2 md:gap-3"
           (button :on-click (fn (e) (do-back))
-            :class (str "px-2 py-1 rounded text-lg "
+            :class (str "px-2 py-1 rounded text-3xl "
                      (if (> (deref step-idx) 0)
                        "text-stone-600 hover:text-stone-800 hover:bg-stone-100"
                        "text-stone-300 cursor-not-allowed"))
@@ -221,7 +235,7 @@
           (span :class "text-sm text-stone-500 font-mono tabular-nums"
             (deref step-idx) " / " (len (deref steps)))
           (button :on-click (fn (e) (do-step))
-            :class (str "px-2 py-1 rounded text-lg "
+            :class (str "px-2 py-1 rounded text-3xl "
                      (if (< (deref step-idx) (len (deref steps)))
                        "text-violet-600 hover:text-violet-800 hover:bg-violet-50"
                        "text-violet-300 cursor-not-allowed"))