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@IvanHCenalmor, could you review this when you have time? We won't merge it ourselves. If you're happy with it, please merge it and tag a release, so MorphoRelate can move its pin to that tag (MorphoRelate#183).

Why

MorphoRelate's "your data" notebook embeds folder_step(). Since v0.1.0, ticking "Yes, the labels are correct" there shows the Experiment design card and writes experiment_design.csv into a new <images>_MorphoBricks_Preprocessing/ folder beside the images. MorphoRelate doesn't use that file, and the card's text points to this brick's Step 3, which MorphoRelate's notebook doesn't have. The owner chose an upstream option over a workaround in MorphoRelate (27 October 2026).

Summary

• notebook_ui: PreprocessingNotebook.folder_step takes show_design, default True. With False:

  • the Experiment design card is left out of the page;
  • confirming the labels asks nothing more and design stays None;
  • nothing is written: no experiment_design.csv, no <images>_MorphoBricks_Preprocessing/ folder;
  • the labels question drops "Step 3 can only run once the labels are confirmed", and the "What next?" boxes of steps 1 and 2 no longer send the user to the design;
  • Step 3, if a notebook shows it, doesn't wait for a design and runs without one, as run_experiment(design=None) does.

  Building the page again with the other value opens or closes the design for labels already confirmed.

• notebook_style: ConfirmToggle.explain() replaces the text under a question.

• Docs: plan §12 question 29, with pointers in question 26 and §10; contract §12 (Notebook row); AGENTS.md.

Notes for review

• With the default, the page, its texts and the files it writes are unchanged. A test pins this.
• Nothing else in step 1 writes files: the folder check and the header inspection only read (zarr opened with mode="r"), and with show_output=False the output folder is only named.
• Two changes go a little beyond the request:
  • Step 2's "What next?" box no longer points to a hidden design.
  • Step 3 runs without a design under show_design=False. Without that, Step 3 would stay locked for good in a notebook that hides the design.
• Tested headless only (pages built and driven by clicks); not looked at in a browser or a real JupyterLab.

Tests

• New tests, each of which failed before the change:
  • the default page is pinned, for both the default and show_design=True;
  • with show_design=False, confirming the labels and the axes writes nothing under the experiment's parent folder;
  • with show_design=False, the card and its words are absent.
• Python 3.11 (zarr 2.18): 922 passed, 18 skipped. Python 3.13 (zarr 3): 939 passed, 1 skipped.
• ruff check . and ruff format --check . pass.

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