SPRINT9 §Lane D: "play site_02 cold and log where the verbs break (the ladder
assumes fascia height; the carport may not have one)". site_02 isn't landed yet,
so I audited the verb against it instead of waiting.
The seam is real but it isn't height — it's that `needsLadder` is spelled
`type === 'house'`, and contracts.js types anchors as a closed enum
('house'|'tree'|'post') that E's carport doesn't fit. The failure mode is what
makes it worth fixing now: if needsLadder says false, interact's canReach returns
TRUE UNCONDITIONALLY, so the player re-rigs a 2.6 m bracket standing on the grass
and the mechanic silently stops existing. Same disease as StumbleBack's dead
threshold and the camera-less shadow grid — a rule keyed on the wrong thing,
failing open with no error.
A pure height test is NOT the fix: posts (3.95 m) and tree limbs (5.05 m) are
higher than the fascia and need no ladder, because you work the CLOTH there and
the bracket here. So needsLadder now reads data first —
`anchor.worksAtBracket` — exactly like anchor.ratingHint already does from the
GLB's userData, and falls back to site_01's type. Nothing on site_01 carries the
flag, so it's a no-op there (asserted). Lane A/E: set it in the site JSON and the
ladder follows the site with no code change.
Also made ladder.js headless-importable (lazy GLTFLoader, same as broom.js),
because d.test.js was testing fakeLadder's hand-copied duplicate of needsLadder
rather than the rule itself — a rule the suite re-implements is one it cannot
catch drifting. Verified the ladder's GLB still loads in the browser.
62 Lane D asserts headless, 275/0/0 in the browser.
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The broom (SPRINT5 §Lane D-1, DESIGN.md's funniest correct mechanic): a third
carry type that queues behind the same hands, walk under the sail belly, hold-E
poke (Crank per E's anim_hint) → B's drainPondAt() → the water lands ON YOU,
sized to the joke: splash under 15 kg, stagger over 60, flat on your back over
120. Everything defers to E's baked metadata (carry_type, poke_tip.use on the
bristle end, anim_hint) — read, not invented. Duck-typed against the ponds[] /
drainPondAt seam I posted to B early, so it carries/walks/refuses-thin-air today
and lights up fully the moment B lands ponding.
Self-wires from createPlayer like the ladder; needs the live sail rig, which it
reads off interact.sailRig (published by wireYardActions, which main.js re-calls
through rigSail whenever attach() swaps the rig).
Greyed prompts (§Lane D-2, my offer, A's HUD hook): interact.visible() shows the
nearest UNAVAILABLE action with its reason when nothing's usable, instead of the
prompt vanishing — the confusion I logged last sprint. nearest() (what hold-E
acts on) is unchanged, so display and action stay separate. step() now reports
`usable` so the HUD can grey the radial. Fixed the ladder-place label to read as
a reason too ("the fascia needs the ladder — it's by the shed").
broom.js keeps no top-level THREE import (the vendored addons need index.html's
importmap) so d.test.js stays headless; the view loads via dynamic import that
only fires in a browser. 217/0/0 (was 207), 13 new asserts.
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New ladder.js. The whole mechanic is 200 mm: the fascia bracket sits at 2.48 m,
a 1.72 m person's hands reach 2.20, and E's ladder tops out at 2.90. The asset
and the yard were already built for each other; this is the verb between them.
Carry-ladder is a second carry type, so the ladder and the spare compete for the
same pair of hands and a fascia repair costs two trips while a post repair costs
one — DESIGN.md's "limited hands" rule doing real work, and the reason the house
is the expensive anchor to depend on (which E's ratingHint 0.35 / collateral
"gutter" was already saying in the data).
Climb height is code-driven with ClimbLadder playing on top — the knockdown
precedent, since _rotOnly strips the root and a clip can no more lift the body
than Falling could lay it down. You can't brace up there (both hands on the
rungs), the wind's bar drops to 0.6x, and being blown off is a fall that feeds
straight into the existing get-up chain.
needsLadder is scoped to the fascia on purpose: a height test would have roped in
the 3.95 m posts and 5.05 m limbs, made every repair a two-trip job, and silently
invalidated the recorded §7 run — and it isn't true to rigging either.
Landed with no change to main.js: createLadder self-wires from createPlayer,
which Lane A already hands the scene, world and interact.
Two bugs found by building on my own API, both now asserted: a canUse that reads
player.state cancels its own hold (starting a hold sets busy) — it ate the climb
AND the reach gate before I keyed both on physical height instead; and onLadder
had to become height-based for the same reason. Documented on register().
Selftest 194/0/0 (was 184). Full loop driven by hand in the real game.
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