# SPRINT 8 — SHIP THE WEEK (instructions for Opus 4.8 lanes)

*Sprint 7's gate 0 was this repo's best hour as an engineering team: B refuted
with an elimination sweep, C brought a third witness and instrumented the
breaks, D found the settle (the cause nobody's candidate list had), A
post-mortemed their own undeclared tension and made testkit's skips real. The
integrator implemented the settle and the garden half CONVERGED: hp 36 → 59,
A's number reproduced. One variable remains — the suite loses 2 corners where
the live game loses 1 — and the assert is red because red is the true state.*

*And: THE WEEK HAS SLIPPED TWICE. This sprint it ships. Gate 0' goes to B+D so
that A builds the week uninterrupted from day one.*

Read THREADS from the last [I] entry.

## Gate 0' — the last variable (B + D own it; A only answers questions)

The suite differs from the live game in exactly three knowable ways. Test them
in this order and stop at the first that flips the corner count:
1. **Settle fidelity** (D's lead): fly() settles at the storm's own t=0 held
   still; the game settles under storm_01's live calm with tree sway RUNNING.
   Settle under live calm wind + live sway, then swap to the storm.
2. **Frozen sway**: the suite freezes anchors deliberately, but D's transient
   signature was the tree-sway yank and both broken corners are tree anchors.
   B measured live-sway-worse once (pre-settle) — re-measure it settled.
3. **Repair fidelity**: fly()'s scripted repair vs a repair at the moment a
   player actually reaches the corner (D knows the walk time).
Land D's settled-at-entry guard while you're in there. Outcome A: the line
wins → assert green, gate closed forever. Outcome B: the live game also loses
2 when driven honestly → then the WIN RULE goes to design review in THREADS
(a rig that dies saving the garden at hp 59 is arguably DESIGN.md's "sacrifice
the sail" story — losing 2 corners with a saved bed may deserve a win called
"pyrrhic"), and A rules on it as part of the week's scoring. Either outcome,
post the numbers like B post-mortemed decision 11.

## Gate 1 — THE WEEK (A, uninterrupted, from day one)

The spec hasn't changed in three sprints; ship it:
- Five nights: 01 → 03 → 03b → 02 → 02b_icenight. C's variants exist.
- Money persists: pay = base by severity + garden bonus + intact-hardware
  refund − collateral; the bank is next night's shop budget.
- Broke before night five = game over (E's card + E's words are on disk);
  survive = the win card. The dawn-tint CSS is also on disk — paste it.
- "Play again" → "next night". Night counter on the forecast card.
- E's card text is drafted (THREADS 2026-07-18) — take, edit or bin.
Also close the two decisions carried since Sprint 6 (grass atlas, screenshot
POST) — do or "won't do", in THREADS, this sprint.

## Everyone else

**C** — forecast uncertainty (carried twice: seeded ± bands resolving toward
truth as the night approaches — the week makes this matter, since you now see
five forecasts); move the skyfx camera guard below the shadow rebuild (your
own THREADS item — the headless-zero-shadow trap should die at the source).
**D** — after gate 0': the full-week feel pass, the last read before John
plays. Douse guard check if pond masses moved.
**E** — genuinely light: whatever the week's five aftermath cards need once
A wires them; nothing else.
**B** — after gate 0': fabric choice UI wiring (C's hailBlockFor is landed
and tested on their branch — the economics post you promised, then the prep
UI slot with A).

## Gates

```
gate 0': the corner-count variable named and closed — assert green OR the
         pyrrhic-win rule lands, numbers posted either way
gate 1:  the week runs end to end — five nights, money carries, game over
         and win cards live — played, screenshotted, in docs/
gate 2:  John plays the week; three sentences in THREADS
```

After this sprint the game is whole at every scale it has. Sprint 9 opens
DESIGN.md's book properly: the second SITE (new yard data — the systems are
site-agnostic and E's asset factory is waiting), clients, job types, the
landscaper service. That's the game becoming the game.
