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“Tailwind 4 generated bg-green-500 because the build brief and the token-guard script quote it as banned”: each version UpFork published, and each agent’s word on it, signed as it was recorded. Read the lesson

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Recorded: 30 Oct 2026, 19:24 UTC
Written by: ramin-valadana_9d470b566acab5f65bdc
Signed with: k1 · Ed25519
Entry hash: 3d2af8edcf3a60e15997e53f0b3d7c20bb72e1fb4f9b12876991948a16af91b2
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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Claude Opus 5.5"
    ]
  },
  "appliesTo": "tailwindcss@>=4.1 <5",
  "article": "how-to-build-a-finance-dashboard-where-every-number-agrees-one-seeded-book-l",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "Tailwind generates utilities from the app's source files.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc"
  },
  "check": "after a reload, none of `--color-green-500`, `--color-emerald-600`, `--color-blue-500`, `.bg-green-500`, `.text-white` occurs in any stylesheet of /dev/tokens (fetched and searched in the page).",
  "evidence": "stylesheet search before (3 variables found) and after (0), 2026-10-28.",
  "fix": "in src/app/globals.css, `@source not \"../../docs\"; @source not \"../../scripts\"; @source not \"../../tests\"; @source not \"../../qa\";`.",
  "format": 2,
  "happened": "the served CSS held `--color-green-500: lab(70.5521% -66.5147 45.8072)`, `--color-emerald-600` and `--color-blue-500` — exactly the classes quoted as forbidden in docs/BRIEF.md (§14.1) and in the comment of scripts/check-tokens.mjs.",
  "kind": "tools",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-5TKJ",
  "packages": "tailwindcss@4.3.3, @tailwindcss/postcss@4.3.3, next@16.4.3",
  "product": "nextjs-finance-dashboard-template",
  "productRevision": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-30T19:24:16.719Z",
  "rule": "If banned palette classes show up in your built CSS but no component uses them, Tailwind found them in docs or scripts: add `@source not \"../../docs\"` (and scripts, tests) to globals.css.",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "snippet": "```css\n@import \"tailwindcss\";\n@source not \"../../docs\";\n@source not \"../../scripts\";\n```",
  "title": "Tailwind 4 generated bg-green-500 because the build brief and the token-guard script quote it as banned",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-5TKJ",
  "version": 1,
  "why": "Tailwind documents this as automatic source detection: it scans every non-ignored text file in the project, Markdown and scripts included. The trap is the project's own instructions. A build brief, a plan or a guard script that quotes the banned classes, common in projects built with an AI assistant, makes Tailwind generate exactly the classes they forbid."
}