A transition carries a name, so a state needs no visible port (#52)
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A state keeps its `in`/`out` exec pins in the model and the editor never draws
them. That is the whole trick: connecting, undo, deleting a state and saving all
keep working untouched, because `normalizeGraph` filters nodes and never edges,
and no edge ever checks its port key against a NodeDef. Only two places change --
`NodeView.redraw` stops drawing the row, and `portAt` refuses to hand one out, so
an invisible pin cannot be grabbed either.

Transitions are drawn by right-clicking a state, `Make transition`, then clicking
the target. The armed mode takes the same shape as a live drag, so the existing
preview draws it with no second code path, and it dies with Escape, a click on
empty canvas or a switch to another asset.

Removing the pins removed the only handle a transition had: edges have no
hit-test anywhere, and the pin right-click was the sole route to Disconnect.
The inspector's TRANSITIONS OUT / TRANSITIONS IN lists are therefore not a
convenience, they are the delete path.

`GraphEdge` gained an optional `label`, which `normalizeGraph` has to pass
through explicitly or a saved name is dropped on load. `State transition`
replaces `Next state`: it takes the machine on an input port and the name from a
picker, and resolves against the *current* state. Names are deliberately not
unique across a machine -- two states may both have an `alarm` -- so a node named
`alarm` moves whichever state has one, and an empty name follows the single
unnamed edge.

The geometry moved to a Pixi-free `transitions.ts`: a gap to the box border, and
a fan that puts a pair of opposite edges beside each other instead of on top of
each other. Keeping it as plain maths is what let a screenshot bug become a unit
test -- an earlier pin-to-pin line ran under the target node and took its
arrowhead with it, because `nodeLayer` sits above `edgeLayer`.

One limit stands and is not fixed here: `ConnectCommand` rejects a second edge
between the same two states ("Already connected"), because every transition
hangs off the same two ports. With names, `A --alarm--> B` beside
`A --seen--> B` is a sensible pair, so this is worth its own issue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ describe('node registry', () => {
const keys = [...def.inputs, ...def.outputs].map((p) => p.key);
expect(new Set(def.inputs.map((p) => p.key)).size).toBe(def.inputs.length);
expect(new Set(def.outputs.map((p) => p.key)).size).toBe(def.outputs.length);
// An event is seeded by the runtime, a state is a name in a machine: neither runs.
if (def.category === 'event' || def.category === 'state') expect(def.inputs).toHaveLength(0);
// An event is seeded by the runtime, so nothing flows into it.
if (def.category === 'event') expect(def.inputs).toHaveLength(0);
// A state is a name in a machine; its ports only anchor transitions, so it never runs.
else if (def.category === 'state') expect(def.run).toBeUndefined();
// A shader node is compiled to GLSL and a particle node to a function: neither is ever run.
else if (def.category === 'shader' || def.category === 'particles') expect('emit' in def).toBe(true);
else expect(def.run).toBeTypeOf('function');