HardYards/SPRINT18.md

# SPRINT 18 — THE BOOK OF CLIENTS, PART 2: THE NIGHT YOU DIDN'T RIG

*Part 1 shipped whole: the board offers two jobs a morning, client terms refuse
in the client's own voice, the pool yard is in the game only by being chosen —
515/0/0. D's cold play asked one question the board couldn't answer and **John
has RULED it (2026-07-21): declining a booked night COSTS YOU. "It adds
pressure."** This sprint lands that ruling and opens the arc's second half: job
types that are not "rig for tonight". The headline is DESIGN.md's own line 29 —
**the emergency callout: mid-storm, right now, double rates, someone's sail
flogging itself to death over their glasshouse.***

Read THREADS from the last two `[I]` entries. Baseline **515/0/0**; keep it
green; mutation-check anything you'd call coverage. Every arc ends live
(ROADMAP principle 1) — main stays shippable.

⚠️ **THE ONE-VARIABLE LAW BINDS THIS SPRINT HARDER THAN ANY BEFORE IT.** We are
shipping a new JOB TYPE (the emergency callout) and a new YARD (the glasshouse)
in the same sprint, and DESIGN.md pairs them in one sentence. They may **not**
debut on the same night. The emergency callout debuts over a yard the player has
already rigged; the glasshouse debuts as an ordinary rig-for-tonight job. The
sentence they were written for is the payoff, not the introduction — it belongs
to a later week, and A's ordering must make that impossible to get wrong by
accident.

## Gate 0 — ⚖️ THE RULING LANDS: DECLINING COSTS YOU (A owns; FIRST, fast)

John's ruling on D's filing. The board currently lets a fee-maximizer dodge the
wildnight and the designed-loss icenight — the week's two hardest lessons — at
zero cost. That is the hole. Close it:

1. **A booked night is a promise.** The "TONIGHT, AS BOOKED" offer has a client
   expecting you; the alternative callout does not. Taking the alternative
   stands the booked client up, and standing someone up costs **standing** —
   the currency the whole of arc 1 built for exactly this. A rules the number
   (the mirror of `REP.CLEAN` is the obvious candidate; it is yours to rule and
   to write down as measured-or-unmeasured per house rule).
2. **The cost is on the CARD, before the choice.** No hidden tax — the offer
   card names what declining the booked job costs, in the client's terms
   ("the Hendersons are expecting you"). A choice whose price is invisible
   until the invoice is a trap, and this repo doesn't ship traps without tells.
3. **The stood-up client remembers.** Their next appearance on the board, or
   their next brief, carries it. Cheap to build (the job log already exists),
   and it is the whole point of "your work follows you".
4. **The invoice states which job you took and what it cost you to take it** —
   both papers, same as gate 2 constraints in part 1.
5. **Two callouts, no booked job** is a legal board state: then declining is
   free, and it must READ as free. Pin the asymmetry.

## Gate 1 — THE EMERGENCY CALLOUT (the arc's new job type; A spine · B rig · C dispatch · D verbs)

ROADMAP: *"you arrive MID-STORM at double rates to someone else's failing rig:
triage, repair, cut-away. The storm phase already does everything this needs
except spawn you at t=30 with a rig you didn't build."* Ship it end to end:

1. **A — the phase.** A night that starts in `storm`, not `prep`: no rigging
   session, no quote, a **dispatch** instead of a job sheet (there was no time
   to quote — that's the drama). Emergency rates (A rules the multiplier), and
   the ledger runs unchanged: invoice, rep, warranty, all of it.
2. **B — the rig you didn't build.** Someone else's work, authored as data:
   hardware below what the night needs, at least one corner already gone, the
   rating hints telling the truth about why. The economy of **triage**: paid on
   the callout plus what you SAVE, not on a garden you never had a prep phase
   to protect. B rules whether the garden bonus applies at all and writes why.
3. **D — the verbs, and DESIGN.md's signature decision: release, cut, or ride
   it out.** The knife is canon (line 165: *cut a sail loose — lose the sail,
   save the anchors*). Ship the knife: a deliberate cut-away that spends the
   sail to save the steel and the collateral. It needs its input, its HUD read,
   and its line on the paperwork in this sprint (principle 2, no exceptions).
   Seam with B: B exposes the cut on the rig, D owns the verb and the input.
4. **C — the dispatch has no forecast.** You arrive inside weather nobody
   briefed you on. C rules what an honest mid-storm read looks like (what the
   sky and the grass tell you when no paper does), and the honesty gate covers
   emergency storms like any other.
5. **Publish the shapes EARLY in THREADS** (the seam pattern — it is now the
   thing this repo does best: five lanes, one code conflict in two sprints).

## Gate 2 — ⚠️ THE TWO HARNESSES DISAGREE (B owns; the repo's highest-priority class)

D's cold play lost p2 and p3 on the wildnight flying a recipe `gardenfly` holds
0-lost. **"When two harnesses disagree, find the variable"** is a README rule
and it has never once been wrong. D's candidate: hail impact load reaching the
rig only in-game. Find it, name it, pin it. If the played path is right, the
audit has been selling recipes it can't back — say so in the card. If the audit
is right, D's play found a sim bug. Either way this outranks new features.

## Gate 3 — THE $5-TIER CLEAN BOUNDARY (B owns)

D flew the audit's own $40 "clean" line on N3 and `tr1b`'s carabiner broke at
1.17 / 1.2 kN. A card that calls a line clean and then watches it break is the
card lying — the same defect class as part 1's charter silence, which B fixed
well. Re-rule the clean/marginal boundary at the cheap tier with measurement,
not margin-of-taste.

## Gate 4 — THE GLASSHOUSE TIER (E owns; DESIGN.md's maximum-fragility asset)

*"Highest pay on the board, highest collateral."* Supply glass as a first-class
fact your family of honesty rules covers: a glasshouse structure whose
fragility is **readable at a glance** (a tell for "this is the most expensive
thing you can break in this game"), a collateral price that makes the gnome
look like pocket change, and a wreck state — your own failure becoming the
worst debris of all is the whole point. Manifest entry unambiguous or
refuse-to-guess with the why, as always. It is the emergency callout's eventual
stage, but per the one-variable law it debuts as an ordinary night — flag A the
moment it is placeable.

## Gate 5 — THE SECOND-RUST-POST LANDMINE (E + A; D's filing, small)

Two corroded posts in one yard share the baked `collateral: 'corroded_post'`
key; first-match resolution plus envelope dedupe would bill or wreck the wrong
post. The pool yard ships exactly ONE and pins it, so this is armed, not
firing. Disarm it before a yard author trips it.

## Gate 6 — JOHN PLAYS (live URL, the standing gate)

partly.party/hardyards after integration. The week where saying no costs you,
and one night you arrive at somebody else's disaster with a knife. Three
sentences in THREADS — and this sprint they steer arc 2's close: the cowboy
audit and warranty-as-a-night are the two job types still unbuilt, and yards
5–6 (the granny-flat alley, the glasshouse) are waiting on an author.

**Deploy note carried from part 1:** main is one sprint ahead of live —
`tools/deploy_hardyards.sh` needs John's hand or his green light (the
integrator's session was permission-gated). The rails say the gap never exceeds
one sprint; part 2 must not ship before part 1 is up.