chimw: the chi-shaped helpers of the custom services GetHead registers a read route under GET and HEAD both, which cover, bench and tokens had each spelled out — five copies of three lines, under three names. RenderRefusals points chi's NotFound and MethodNotAllowed at the service's own error page, which spec and dolt install neither of, so a mistyped URL there is the one refusal on the instance that answers in plain text. RequestLogger is a chi LogFormatter emitting slog records, in place of chi's colourised stdlib line on stdout — the highest-volume line a service writes and the only one that was neither structured nor on stderr. It is a second middleware package and not a wing of the first because sr-ht-ecore/middleware needs nothing but net/http and that rule is worth keeping; the boundary is whether the helper has to know what a route is. A request line is Info, a 5xx is Error, and 499 stays Info by being below 500, which is what that code was chosen for. Skipping probe noise is the caller's call, through a predicate. The logger goes outside RecoverPanics so the line reports the error page that was rendered rather than the nothing an unwinding stack has written.
bearer: the shared working-token validator of SPEC ch. 6
chrome: shared page chrome for the instance's custom services Extract the nav/chrome idiom that compare, spec, dolt and cover each carried as a private copy (and bench was about to fork as a sixth): BuildNav over the shared config.ini with the canonical ordering and paste/pages/hub exclusions, a per-request Page with login/logout/profile URLs against meta's unified login, embedded srht-nav / srht-env-banner partials (circle brand + red service label + switcher + login box), and the generic dict/shortsha template helpers. Policy decisions the copies had drifted on are baked in: switcher only for authenticated viewers, hub excluded in the builder rather than the template, profile link prefers hub's ~username page, environment name uppercased for the banner. Service-specific needs surfaced by the cover survey get seams instead of copies: ExtraNav for extra switcher entries, ContainerClass for full-bleed pages, the config section as an explicit parameter for the active check.