#2 THE READER, built to C's §8 ruling (direct wire, no hook) and to what the waves measured,
not to the brief's letter:
· `pack.gone` set, `price` updated IN PLACE — items[] never added to, removed from, or
reordered, because its identity AND ORDER are the pick's stability (C §8.3). Filtering the
array instead reshuffles the crate: C measured ONE sale changing 21 OTHER records.
· fire-and-forget at room build, 1200ms abort, etag-cached, circuit-broken on first failure.
The dig never blocks on the network (charter risk #1). No await anywhere near the door.
· fires ONLY for a real-sourced shop. G's fence 404s a mint shop, and asking anyway would be
R26's blind probe wearing a server. The manifest already knows which is which.
TIER 2 IS OPT-IN (`?live=1` / `?live=<url>`; absent → byte-identical to the beta). That is the
R26 lesson applied to a server: a default boot that probed for a GODVERSE host would ask a
question with no answer on every machine that isn't John's. Tier 2 is a place you go, not a
thing that happens to you. Auto-discovery is a v5.x question with a reachability contract.
PROVEN IN THE BROWSER (formal smoke class still to land):
· sold-means-gone, via G's make-fixture (production `gone` is EMPTY — 0 sales since
2026-07-01 — so a live assert would pass vacuously forever; G built the subject before the
gate could be born blind): 3 sold → gone[3] → items[] 120→120 IDENTITY AND ORDER INTACT,
117 survivors, COLLATERAL 0. C called this: both pick-then-omit and filter-the-array hide
the sold record, so "the gone item never renders" cannot tell them apart — the obvious
assertion is vacuous and goes green. Collateral is the one that discriminates.
· KILL THE SERVER MID-SESSION → enter took 13.1ms, worst frame gap 14ms, the crate still
renders its own 120 real covers, and ZERO console errors. Charter law #1 proven by
execution instead of assertion — the thing A correctly refused to retire from the risk
list until this gate went green.
Recorded, not hidden: after a mid-session kill the etag-cached `gone` persists for the session,
so a killed server does not resurrect sold records mid-walk. That is tier-1-plus-last-known, not
tier-1-exactly. It is the honest behaviour (a network blink must not re-stock a shop) and a
server-down BOOT is still pure tier 1 — but it is a nuance the brief's "degrades to tier 1
exactly" doesn't cover, so it goes in writing rather than in the gaps.
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EVERY CRATE IS DIFFERENT, and F measured it rather than taking G's 15/15 on trust — from the
indexes of record, not by entering one lucky shop: 15 keyed crates, 105 pairs, 0 sharing a
title; 0 crates overlap the generic v2 pack; 0 ids reused across crates (G's sku fix holds at
scale — the R24 vacuity dead at the source, not papered over in F's gate). 4 crates in Red Hill
+ 11 in Newtown = the manifest's 15 exactly, and the manifest lists nothing not on disk.
SOURCING, NOT TIER — C was right and the gate follows C. `tier` is the charter's ladder rung and
a mint atlas is ALSO rung 1: still a file, still offline, still deterministic. What differs is
where the stock came from. 15/15 indexes declare sourcing, every one agrees with the manifest,
a mint crate can never report as real, and the gate PRINTS it per room — provenance a human
never reads isn't doing anything (R24's licence lesson, one round on).
THE 404 TOLERANCE IS DELETED, NOT TUNED. R24 probed every keyed shop and ate a 404 per
atlas-less one; F's smoke could only cope by NAMING them, and a tolerance is a confession. F
filed the real fix as a contract ask rather than inventing it; G built the manifest; F now
consumes it — the shell asks for nothing unlisted. Zero 404s because nothing absent gets asked
for, not because the gate stopped looking. AND DELETING IT IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT A LEFTOVER: F had
wired the boot preload but left a second blind probe at the door, 404ing on every
keyed-but-unfetchable shop. While the gate said "8 probes, expected", a ninth was invisible too.
A named exception starts protecting new bugs the moment the real fix exists.
F's beta gate GREEN: distinctness · sourcing (real + mint rooms) · soft fall silent · ZERO 404s ·
0 console errors, no attribution exceptions. Selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,212/156,212.
TAG HELD — atlas-QA FAIL, 14 errors, and it is not the product. E's SLOT_ID_PREFIX = "sku_"
(validate_atlas.py:73) applies to every pack; E reads `sourcing` at :178 but the slot-id check is
sourcing-blind. All 14 mint crates fail; the real crate passes. A mint crate HAS no POS sku — it
was never in that shop's till — so the rule demands what cannot exist, the same shape as R24's
sweep demanding a cafe carry a godverseShopId.
F measured the rule's intent and it holds: mint_<dealgod listing id>, non-positional, sorted by
it, seeded bake, 0 ids reused across all 15 crates. Only the literal prefix fails. And G refused
to go green the easy way for the best reason — F's own R24 collision grown up: a POS sku and a
dealgod listing id are different id spaces, and filing one under `sku_` recreates that bug
INSIDE the economy, where tier-2's sold-means-gone looks up POS skus. R24's collision entered
the wrong shop; the same collision in the money layer sells the wrong record.
F did not fix E's one line: E's file, C's contract, C's call as its author (the principle Fable
ratified when C overruled `tier`) — and F is the party that benefits, since that line is the
only thing between F and the tag. Cost of waiting: one line. Cost of F being quietly wrong: a
gate that green-lights id-space collisions in the layer that moves money.
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You can boot redhill_godverse, walk down Musgrave Road into Monster Robot Party, riffle its
own real crate and buy a real record. Proven falsifiably, not by eyeball:
base assets/stock_godverse/3962749/ (its own, not the town-wide)
TITLES 120/120 the shop's atlas · 0/120 the generic pack
TEXTURES 2 from stock_godverse/3962749/*.webp · 0 generic — the pixels' own file
BUY rec_0000 "Abstract Latin Lounge II (Part II)" @ $15 → cash 191→176, exact
REBOOT 191/0 restored — gone-this-session, back next boot
Ladder: ?noassets → ZERO network requests · keyed-but-atlas-less shop → 404 → parody, live ·
newtown_real → base null, 350 items: the wire is a NO-OP off the godverse path.
flags_check GREEN (0 fails, 0 warns).
#6a THE WIRE: godverseBaseFor(shop), exported and used by BOTH the shell's boot preload and
the room's lookup — C's cache identity is the LITERAL (type, base) pair, so two sides building
that string differently would drop a real shop to parody, a bug indistinguishable from "no
stock" by eye. One function, one string, one key. Gated on stockReal, never the id alone.
#6b THE GATE: smoke_real_crate + DBG.stockInfo() — permanent, and it cannot pass without
touching its subject (SKIPs with a printed reason when the town/atlas is absent).
FINDING — THE BRIEF'S OWN HONEST-GATE SPEC WAS VACUOUS. It specified id equality. Both packs
number items POSITIONALLY (rec_0000…), so all 120 atlas ids are generic-pack ids too: an
id-equality gate goes GREEN on the generic pack — the exact failure the vacuous-gate law was
written to stop, reproduced inside its first application. Ids there are slot numbers, not
identity. Titles (0 overlap) and the texture URL discriminate; F asserts on those.
FINDING — THE ID SPACES COLLIDE, and it bit F's own selector inside the anti-vacuous gate.
Plan ids (1..N) and godverse ids (31, 767, 3962749) share a numeric space: Silky Oak's godverse
id is 31 and another shop's PLAN id is 31, so enterShop(31) silently entered "Wholefood Cafe"
and the soft-fall assertion PASSED ON AN UNKEYED CAFE. Fixed both ends: 'g:<n>' selects a
godverse id explicitly, a bare number stays the plan id and now REPORTS the collision, and the
smoke asserts it landed in the shop it asked for before asserting anything about it.
FINDING — F'S OWN GATE CRIED THE LOUDEST WOLF WE OWN. classic_regression reported "plan
fingerprint != golden 0x3fa36874 — determinism/prime-law broken" while the covenant was
provably intact. F wrote it in R16 as `hash_ok and returncode == 0` — two assertions, ONE
verdict, reported with the fingerprint's message — so any unrelated selfcheck red screamed that
the byte-identical-forever covenant had broken. Two assertions, two verdicts now. It isn't
enough to fail for a reason; you have to fail for YOUR reason.
FINDING — fail-soft-by-404 vs the 0-console-errors law. The boot preload must resolve a keyed
shop's pack before the door opens (getStockPack is sync), so it probes blind: 9 of Red Hill's
10 keyed shops have no atlas → 404 → parody. That IS fail-soft working, and it is also 8
console errors no .catch() can suppress. Fix is not to loosen the law but to stop probing for
what isn't there: an atlas index in G's namespace (or hasStock on the cache entry, A+G). Filed
as a contract ask, not invented. Until then the smoke counts and NAMES the probes and fails on
any other error — tolerance stated out loud.
Verified the lift is clean: cache 10 keyed → plan 9 keyed, every one a real secondhand shop.
No cafe keyed, zero duplicate ids — there is no mis-stocking.
F did NOT touch A's identity sweep or E's validator. F was the party that would benefit, and
changing a red gate to green in another lane's file to unblock F's own tag would retroactively
devalue every green F has ever reported. Filed instead — and R25 has since landed A's
reconciliation and the six pins, which is the right hands doing it.
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The ped you followed into a venue now turns up in its crowd. D published the seam in R14; F wires the three touches:
- interior_mode.js: crew.spawn({ roster: rosterOf(shop.id) }) — the front crowd slots become tonight's roster
- index.html: rosterOf=(id)=>citizens.tonightRoster(id) into interior_mode; onAdmit=(e)=>citizens.recordVenueEntry(id,e)
on the queue (each admit relays into the roster); the clear is automatic on the existing setGig(id,false)
- flags_check.py: smoke_continuity — asserts the seam (crowd includes roster-cap, pedIndex in tonightRoster),
empty-roster injects nobody (shell side of D's byte-identical law), + ledger #5 settled-tris honesty
Verified: 2 queue admits carry into the crowd; empty roster 0-injected; settled interior 71k->182k tris
(C's finding — interior gate is draws <=54, no violation). 0 console errors.
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Wires A–E + D's district together and fires it. Seed 20261990 → "Boolarra Heads": 3 venues, 2 playing
tonight (The Exchange Hotel pub gig-pubrock + an RSL gig-covers, one dark), Screaming Utes $10 on the door.
- gig_state.js → PER-VENUE latches off the shared procity:segment spine (one per venueShopId); all three
hard-won R12 laws kept. New runtime surface window.PROCITY.gigs.byVenue + onOf/openOf/gigOf/coverOf/
bandNameOf/paidOf(id) + markPaidOf/venueShopIds; the R12 single-venue alias kept for one round.
- interior_mode.js: crowd-walla rides the interior tone layer under the live band bed while `on`; an
applause sting fires once on the on->done edge. DELETE the GIG_BED bridge — debt #1, and it was a LIVE
BUG: E renamed pubrock-live->gig-pubrock, so the bridge (gig-pubrock->pubrock-live) pointed at a dead
key => the band would have mimed in silence. room.audio.gigKey (already the manifest key) feeds directly.
- index.html: per-venue cover charge (a night at two venues is two covers), concurrent per-venue setGig
surges, and the outdoor VenueQueue lifecycle (D shipped the class + left the street-side seam to F:
spawn at doors off B's queueZoneFor, drive each frame, dispose by done), exposed as queueCountOf(id).
- interior_scale_check.py: human-size assert now measures STATURE (crown-foot, platform-independent);
world-crown ceiling-clip assert kept as its own line (debt #6).
- flags_check.py smoke_gigs -> THE DISTRICT: band->4, per-venue loop (every gigKey resolves across 3
genres, crowd <= its own watchPoints, no-giants by stature), street budget at the busiest venue block,
the queue assert; plus the R12 determinism/cover/noassets/flags-off arms.
- CITY_SPEC: pin the window.PROCITY.gigs runtime surface. gig_shot.py -> r13 interior + venue_night shots.
qa.sh --strict GREEN 6/6, 0 warn. Interior 63 draws/35k tris; street @ venue block 121 draws/51k tris;
band+crowd stature 1.61-1.81 m under a 4 m ceiling; flags-off fingerprint 0x3fa36874 unchanged.
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F last: five landed lanes → one Friday night. Seed 20261990 → The Thornbury Hotel,
tonight SCREAMING UTES, $10 on the door. qa.sh --strict GREEN 6/6.
- gig_state.js (new, F-owned): quiet → doors (DUSK) → on (NIGHT) → done (DAWN) → quiet.
Rides lighting's procity:segment event (a poll only sees the segments it samples, and
missed the night roll entirely); `state` is a getter because B's audio reads it from its
own rAF while the player is inside a shop.
- ?gigs=1 seam: custom_bands.json fetched in the bootstrap (no fetch flag-off or ?noassets)
→ generatePlanFor(seed, src, {gigs:true, customBands}). 7 of John's 10 names fill the week.
- Cover charge on the R8 buy seam, zero new UI: paid debits once with a toast, re-entry the
same night is free, broke → polite knockback, free nights walk straight in.
- interior_mode: opts.gig → C's gigKey; D's GigCrew (band 3 + crowd 8, 3 dancing) at C's
stage/watch points; both disposed with the room (leak-free over 4 cycles).
- Cross-lane fix at the glue: C emits gigKey 'gig-pubrock', E shipped the bed as
'pubrock-live' — unresolved the pub plays to a silent room and nothing errors. Bridged
here; C/E/Fable owe CITY_SPEC a contract line. Details + 2 more findings in LANE_F_NOTES §12.
- smoke_gigs (16 gates): schedule determinism, band==3, crowd ≤ watchPoints, dance mix, bed
resolves, ≤350 draws (47 rig / 171 placeholder), no-giants by STATURE (the band stands on a
0.32m deck, so world-crown fails a correct band), cover ruling, ?noassets+?gigs.
Flags-off regression gains a v3 arm: no state machine, no plan.gigs, no pub, no venue geo.
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Interior audio (interior_mode): enter -> PROCITY.audio.playInterior(room.audio) with Lane C's
{musicKey,toneKey} (fade in), exit -> stopInterior() (0.7s fade). Guarded/no-op when
muted/noassets/pre-gesture -- silent-and-happy.
New smoke_audio gate (flags harness, fresh Chromium per the R10 standing law): pre-gesture silence
(ctx not unlocked), 0 boot errors, ?mute=1 muted, ?noassets=1 zero audio fetches, enter/exit
AudioNode leak-free (12 cycles, 8 shops with a music bed, live sources bounded at 5). Gesture via
keyboard -- a mouse-click gesture tripped PointerLockControls in headless.
scaffold_check: scoped the Math.random generation-ban to exempt runtime FX PLAYBACK
(web/js/world/audio.js) -- Lane B's footstep SFX variant/gain jitter is transient, not world
generation (which shop plays which bed is seeded upstream in interiors.js). Noted to B.
Soak with audio on PASS (heap 48MB stable, 0 errors, no drift). qa.sh --strict GREEN 6/6.
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Wiring (F owns index.html + interior_mode.js):
• Interior presence (C->D->F seam): occupancyOf closure -> interior_mode spawns browser rigs at
C's room.browsePoints (one per patronage occupant, cap 3); freed by exit()'s keepers.disposeAll.
Door points now carry shopId for D's occupancy truth.
• Tram (Lane B, ?tram=1): createTram + update in loop (2 draws, non-blocking).
• Buy-anywhere (Lane C C2): E aimed at a book-spine/toy-box buyMesh buys over the same wallet
(collapseBuyItem + toast); preload book+toy packs too. Records keep the dig.
Harness: graduated buy-v0 / patronage / book-toy stock warn->STRICT (katoomba golden already
strict). New warn smokes: interior presence (browsers==min(occ,3), dispose clean), shelf-buy
(book spine bought, cash drops), tram (present). Book-stock check now counts isStock OR buyMesh
(C2 tags book spines buyMesh, not isStock). flags_check GREEN 0/0; qa.sh --strict GREEN 5/5.
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Shell seams (F owns index.html): A &town=<key> -> generatePlanFor(seed,'osm',{town}) (Katoomba);
B weather (createWeather on ?weather=1; PROCITY.weather={state,intensity}, {clear,0} off; update in
loop); C session wallet bound to the dig BUY (getCash/onBuy in interior_mode); D patronage door
points -> citizens.setShops + ?patronage=0 off-switch + setWeather each frame.
Harness: stock=real + weather=rain graduated warn -> STRICT. New warn smokes: buy-v0 (dig BUY ->
wallet, cash 191->179 bag 0->1), patronage (7 peds visit shop doors/~18s), book/toy stock (6/11
real atlas meshes). Determinism gate: pinned osm/katoomba golden 0x0f652510 keyed on (seed,plansrc,
town) + fixed a hex zero-pad bug the katoomba golden exposed (0x0f652510 vs unpadded 0xf652510).
No patronage baseline re-pin needed (nets fewer draws, within tolerance). qa.sh --strict GREEN 5/5.
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qa.sh: flags harness warn_gate → run_gate — flags-off regression + the 4 existing flags +
all-on combo are now STRICT (a harness FAIL fails qa). New flags stay warn-level in-harness.
?stock=real wiring (F owns the shell + interior bridge): shell preloads the record stock pack
(preloadStockPack('record'), fail-soft, off under ?noassets) + passes stockReal to the bridge.
interior_mode builds makeStockAdapter(getStockPack(shop.type)) and passes it to BOTH buildInterior
(static crate sleeves) and dig.open (riffle) — null pack → parody canvas (Lane C fail-soft).
Harness: added stock=real smoke (assert non-parody = batched userData.isStock atlas meshes > 0;
verified 7 real sleeves in the record shop) + weather=1 smoke (auto-skips until Lane B lands),
both warn-level (decision #4). qa.sh --strict GREEN (5 gates); crates now show real covers.
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Added an interior draw-budget sweep to flags_check.py (decision #2): enter all 9 shop types,
assert <=350 draws/room, dig on so it also confirms C1's batching kept ?dig=1 riffling.
The sweep caught a real bug in interior_mode.js (F-owned): the interior/dig render never called
renderer.info.reset() while the shell runs autoReset=false (for the composer), so
renderer.info.render.calls ACCUMULATED every frame — inflating any interior draw read (and the
HUD were it shown). Fixed: reset per interior frame before both the dig and the walk render.
True per-frame result after the fix: all 9 room types <=350 draws (worst dept 96) — C1 batching
(35981ad) verified. flags_check GREEN (regression + interior budget + 4 flag smokes + all-on combo).
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A landed the plansrc seam (52eb109); F owns the shell bootstrap. index.html: ?plansrc=osm
-> citygen.generatePlanFor(seed,'osm') (real-data 'Melbourne' 95 shops); default synthetic
'Boolarra Heads' unchanged (prime law). scaffold_check.mjs: pin BOTH goldens keyed by
(seed,plansrc) — synthetic 0x3fa36874, osm 0x34cfdec0 (deterministic) — + assert the selector
routes synthetic|osm. flags_check auto-detects + smokes plansrc + the all-on combo (4 flags).
interior_mode.js: restored binUnderAim's nearest-bin fallback (Lane C test-page parity) so E
riffles a nearby bin without perfect aim / before the bin GLB async-loads — fixes the dig
smoke's raycast-miss under fast headless AND improves real UX.
qa.sh --strict GREEN; flags_check GREEN (all 4 flags + all-on combo, 0 console errors).
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C shipped dig.js + the flag but left the in-game input/mode hook to F (LANE_C_NOTES C2).
interior_mode.js (F-owned): aim at a userData.kind==='bin' fitting + press E -> createDig +
dig.open (per-bin seed binSeed(shop.seed,pos)); the dig owns the frame (renders dig.scene,
suppresses interior walk); WALK OUT/Esc closes back to the room; closed on interior exit.
Shell (index.html): ?dig=1 -> dig: opt; procity:digOpen releases pointer-lock (riffle is
cursor-driven); the unlock->leaveShop guard reads interiorMode.digActive so opening a bin
isn't read as walking out; canvas re-locks for interior walk after close.
Fresh-chromium smoke: E opens the riffle (seeded sleeves + prices render), WALK OUT closes
to the interior, leak-free (steady-state geo/tex flat over 3 open/close cycles), 0 console
errors. Flag off => no listener, dig stays null => byte-identical to v1 (prime law).
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interior_mode.js bridges Lane B's enterShop seam to Lane C buildInterior and Lane D
keepers (spawn at counter keeperStand, greet, leak-free over 5 cycles). CitizenSim
wired into the street loop (pop 140, ~96 active midday, worst ~191 draws). tools/:
qa.sh gate runner (all 4 landed gates GREEN --strict), scaffold/consistency checks,
shots.py + soak.py browser harnesses. docs/shots/ reference tree, LANE_F_NOTES
runbook, V2_IDEAS parking lot.
(F's inline seam edits to index.html/skins.js landed with the Lane B commit.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
