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m3ultra
78f49f7113 Lane D R41 §41.3: the town stops walking — 99.3% to 78.1%, at zero draws
THE ROUND IN ONE MEASUREMENT (12 samples x 146 active, ?clips=0 vs default — a new flag that
turns off the library and nothing else): walking 99.3% -> 78.1% · bench-sit 0 -> 9.5% · lean
0 -> 7.1% · stopped in own idle 0.4% -> 5.1% · DISTINCT CLIPS ACROSS THE CROWD 4 -> 20.
The town was 99.3% people walking because standing still had nowhere to happen.

Wiring: new postures.js + clipbank.js. idles.glb (10/10) drives a per-citizen deterministic
idle on every near-tier actor plus the seeded shopkeeper. locomotion gives 33.7% of walkers a
shopping bag. sitlean (8/8, lazy) puts 4 sits on Lane B's ACTUAL benches and 4 leans on
shopfront walls. browse (5/8, lazy) is a real BROWSE state at C's browse points, seeded per
(shopId, slot). venue (5/6, lazy) widens the gig crowd, plus a publican pouring and a record
keeper in headphones. social (0/8) is never fetched — two-person conversation needs a paired
state machine, filed to R42.

Cost: boot = 4 requests, 1.24 MB / 16 clips resident; the rest lazy on first need; heap delta
+3.34 MB; mixer median 0.1 ms both arms. ?clips=0 / ?classic=1 / ?noassets=1 fetch ZERO clips
— not even clipbank.js (dynamic import). No shell edit needed.

DRAWS: +0 on every bookmark (street_noon 193, crossroads 108, night_crowd 128, market_square
94, night_neon 111, interior 110 — identical both arms). Ruling 4 respected exactly.

DETERMINISM: 150 citizens, two fresh contexts, byte-equal posture signature. Controls: seed+1
differs; EVERY clip GLB delayed 2 s -> identical signature (posture is a pure function of
(citySeed, id), never of residency). 6 new streams collide with none of the 12 pre-R41 keys.

TWO FINDINGS THAT CHANGED THE DESIGN: the idle pool was INVISIBLE — wired only to the R17/R29
node loiter, so only 0.8% of citizens were ever stopped; and the lean never fired at all (0 in
a 9 s run). Both moved to the patronage stride check. Bench stations are GATED not trusted:
14/14 derived stations coincide with real instanced geometry within 2 cm, and the control
(same stations offset 2 m) matches 0/14. Filed to B: one benchStops(plan) export retires the
mirror, and furniture.js puts the bench's front ALONG the street rather than facing the road,
contradicting its own comment.

Leak: +0 geometries, +1 texture over 6 enter/exit cycles. Goldens 157,647/157,647, 0x5f76e76.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 18:11:30 +10:00
m3ultra
422f17263e Lane C R41 §41.4: the shops get their stock — and the measuring instrument was wrong
110 fittings placed across 12 shop types via new kit41.js (96-row catalogue, 67 ids in
pools) and ONE generic kitProp builder; recipes name pools, never asset ids. glb.js now
honours seeded per-fitting variants, multi-GLB booths, and a MEASURED autoYaw instead of a
110-row facing table.

THE INSTRUMENT WAS WRONG. drawSweep cleared every interior EXCEPT current, so every
historical interior number carried a phantom second room — 'toy', untouched this round,
'gained' 4 draws. R39/R40's celebrated 'worst 188, margin 162' was inflated. Corrected, and
with 110 new fittings placed: worst room in the game is 122 @ dept/auto, MARGIN 228.
Per type: record 61->78, pub 45->59, band_room 39->50, stall 71->82, book 51->61,
pawn 60->70, video 54->63, rsl 52->60, dept 116->122, opshop 102->105, milkbar 68->69,
toy 86->86 (+0, the control).

The pub finally has a bar (plywood_bar), banquettes, pokies, a stage flank. Milk bars get a
bain-marie and pie warmer. The pawn shop gets an 808 and an SP-1200 on the bench. Record
shops get a rigged DJ booth. Market stalls get 2-4 diggable bins each, closing R39's measured
44%-no-crate hole to 0/40.

WARDROBE, route R5: 257.5 KB total (246 KB atlas + 17 KB index), ONE fetch, one material,
one draw per fitting — 52 layers picked BY NAME, alpha-cropped, shelf-packed, 3.7% of source
bytes, lazy behind ?stock=real. LICENCE CALL MADE EXPLICITLY: AUDIT.md says no real brands
ship and the source library is prompted FROM real labels — the adidas jacket renders a
legible trefoil. Screened on a contact sheet, then relabelled in parody voice (Paddy's
Bootleg, Kaymart, Coogee Knits, Mombo, Stoosh).

FIVE DEFECTS FOUND AND FIXED, one long-standing: buyMesh has been INVISIBLE on every GLB
fitting since R9 (hiding every buyable item under ?stock=real) · DJ booths were
nondeterministic (parts attached in network order) · booth gear floated at 0.92 m · batch.js
dropped userData sub-tags on merge, so any post-batch flag read was already a no-op · the
path guarantee could empty a room (pub/wide/4242 returned a bar, a stage and nothing else) —
new restore pass, 129 pulled -> 101 restored over 480 rooms, path re-proved on every restore.

Gates: 288-room sweep x 4 arms all pass; soak 60 rooms avg 3.83 ms worst 10.3 ms, leaks 0;
960-room corpus 0 path-fails 0 carves; determinism byte-equal across fresh contexts
(sha256 c26b4848); ?noassets=1 60 rooms with 0 GLB / 0 manifest / 0 wardrobe / 0 stock
fetches. DJ control nodes recorded on fitting.controlNodes for a future driver (glTF drops
the limit constraints — a driver must clamp travel itself).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 18:11:07 +10:00
m3ultra
48033f48b1 Lane B R41 §41.5: the credits surface — and the game had never shown the OSM attribution it owes
THE CREDITS SURFACE. New web/assets/credits.json (schema procity-credits/1, the data file
every lane appends to — documented in LANE_B_NOTES §41 with a paste-ready row) + credits.js
(the panel, DOM only) + a HUD link. F2 or the link. Zero draws, zero boot fetches (0 before
open, exactly 1 after), zero fetches under ?noassets=1.

Seeding it found a LIVE OBLIGATION the game has never displayed: the 23 real-town caches are
OpenStreetMap data under ODbL 1.0, whose own source note says keep the credit visible. It now
rides the link and is context-aware — on an OSM boot the HUD reads '(c) OpenStreetMap
contributors · credits (F2)'; on the synthetic town, where no OSM data is on screen, it does
not claim it. three.js r175 MIT credited too. 14 entries seeded, all read off the repo.

Field law: licence 'unverified' is legal and a guess is not. Two gaps filed to E as amber
rather than invented: the 19-GLB base ped roster has NO per-asset licence record anywhere in
this repo (and CITY_SPEC's declared zone includes CC-BY and CGTrader RF — a credit may be
owed today), and the 18 house-library fittings still carry AUDIT.md's 38-round-old blanket
caveat despite shipping since R3.

A's D3 CLOSED. Re-measured over the shipped corpus at the golden seed: 27 towns, 1,838 shops,
81 venue lots, 81 of 81 taking the op-shop signage fallback — exactly 3 per town, in every
town. A's number reproduces to the digit. Bite drifted :344 -> :465 -> :483, hence a named
resolver: signStyleFor() tries B's nine palettes, then A's registry (gilt/stencil/club,
carried since R13), then op-shop as genuine last resort. Venue treatment is venue-gated by
construction. Deliberately NOT done: repainting the other nine types onto A's palettes
(record would go muted-teal -> hot-pink neon) — an art call for John, filed.

RULING 4 RESPECTED, NOTHING SPENT: frozen town, 136 station-yaw samples per arm, 544/544
identical on BOTH counters (draws and tris), 0 console errors. Pin method reproduces R40
exactly — default 282 noon / 291 NIGHT, classic 269 byte-exact. The nine-draw night margin
is intact. Classic purity: HUD DOM 2354:8 both arms, fetch surface identical, no
#pc-creditlink / overlay / F2 listener / PROCITY.credits.

Filed to F: three classic bookmarks are not byte-reproducible across boots even at HEAD
(2/5 HEAD-vs-HEAD) — a font race in the sign atlas. A screenshot golden on those cannot be
a byte-hash.

selfcheck ALL GREEN 157,647/157,647, fingerprint 0x5f76e76 unmoved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 18:10:39 +10:00
m3ultra
c3384b92c9 Lane F R40 §40.6: the notepad — F8, the tour, and the gate that caught the harness
THE PLAYTEST HARNESS, for John's bug-hunt session. F8 anywhere drops a structured note:
pos, mode, shop id+name when inside, street/locality via A's address layer, seed, town,
clock segment, live flags, fps, draws — plus a screenshot and a typed one-liner (Esc
cancels, Enter saves). Notes persist under the delta law (bounded, survive reload,
export/import, corrupt store REJECTED WHOLE and loudly) and export as one JSON of
tickets, schema documented in LANE_F_NOTES §40. Zero cost when unused; classic-gated by
construction.

?bugtour=1 walks the whole game in 11 stops (N advances, each with a caption of what to
look at): spawn → street_day → shop_buy → dig → opshop_bin (caption says the contents
are deliberately unarmed) → gig_night → tram → rain → night → fog_map → second_town.
DBG loads without ?dbg=1 so the tour is one flag.

THE GATE CAUGHT THE HARNESS. The first full strict run went RED on exactly one arm —
R30c classic purity, because the playtest constructor read localStorage eagerly on
?game=0. Fixed (lazy store), re-verified on the targeted smoke, and the new gate now
carries its own instrumented zero-calls arm so it cannot recur.

Wave-1 asks, all taken: D's door_footpath_check and B's r40_lane_b wired into qa.sh ·
D's index.html:433-437 door nudge now derives from buildShopfront's doorRect · A's
filed D2 closed (index.html:541 uses the canonical isOpen; remaining divergent call
sites listed for their owners) · README's stale ?r=N 307 row and the flags_check label
that still called the town selector a debt question, both corrected.

qa.sh --strict: 12 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped. selfcheck 157,647/157,647,
0x5f76e76 unmoved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 12:29:02 +10:00
m3ultra
3e1ff312a5 Lane D R40 §40.5: the peds come in the front door — 100% on every real town
Verification first, and B's R39 heading fix did NOT clear the gate alone. Measured today
(tools/qa/door_footpath_check.mjs, new): synthetic 447/493 foot (90.7%) · katoomba 71/72 ·
fitzroy 138/139 · bowral 28/30 (93.3%) — from R39's 0/493, 0/72, 0/139, 0/30.

Two residue species, handled differently ON PURPOSE:
1. A 0.85m kerb miss on real towns — plan_osm's setback puts the facade past the corridor
   edge, so the shell's d/2+0.6 door point lands just off the verge. Fixed by new D-owned
   door_snap.js, applied in sim.setShops: clamps each door into the registry vergeBand of
   its nearest footpath-bearing edge, 6m cap. Corpus: fixes 4, breaks 0. Live-shell verified
   (493 points, 2 moved, max 5.41m — matches node exactly). Real towns now 72/72, 139/139, 30/30.
2. The synthetic's 36 strict misses are market stalls and arcade shops WHOSE FRONT IS THE
   MARKET SQUARE. An uncapped snap would 'pass' them by teleporting a door 59.85m to a street
   they do not front — passing the gate by breaking the truth it measures. The gate instead
   scores walkable front ground (footpath ∪ market/arcade block ground) = 473/493 (95.9%) and
   reports the strict number alongside.

The check ships its own falsifiability CONTROL (the R8-R39 back point must score under the
floor: reads 0.4-13.3%) and a fix-only arm (clamp breaks 0, asserted forever). Deterministic.
Remaining 20 synthetic misses are artefacts of the fixed nudge at index.html:433-437 — not
D's file; measured, exact fix documented for F. Goldens untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 12:28:25 +10:00
m3ultra
066cc1775b Lane B R40 §40.3 (+E's §40.4 rule): the 307 was fiction, the town speaks its street names
THE ?r=3 BREACH — the carried number was stale by 84 draws. Re-measured with the pin
method of record (stepwalk 2m, 802 stations, fresh headless contexts, no-store server):
default 282/291 (≤300, 9 margin at night) · classic 269 byte-exact to the R38 pin incl.
90,580 tris · ?r=3 382/391, NOT 307. Decision: GATE, not shave — the 91-draw excess is
the R+1 live-chunk window (48 vs 31 chunks) on a per-chunk cost already collapsed to
~1 draw/kind/chunk, so shaving it means cutting default-boot content to legalise a
diagnostic. ?r= above auto now declares PROCITY.budget {draws:420, diagnostic:true} and
console-warns its own law; HUD threshold + DBG.info().budget read it; new
tools/qa/r40_lane_b.py enforces it (386 ≤ 420, and >300 so the exemption is provably
load-bearing).

?classic=1 TOWN SELECTOR (Fable ruled): true by construction, now deliberate and
qa-asserted — 27 options, one fetch (the named POST_V2_EXCEPTION), picks stay classic,
zero draws, 0 errors.

FOG SIGNAGE: three silent surfaces consume A's address layer via new
createStreetLocator(plan) — HUD street row, door tooltip ('Little Paris Cafe ·
Katoomba Street'), fog-map caption. Never branches on town type; classic-gated by
construction (#pc-street absent, tooltip pre-R40-byte).

E's arcade rule applied verbatim (§40.4): roof spans, a spanned roof has no posts;
district.kind keying, explicit ARCADEKIT classic gate + ?arcadekit=0 control.
-34 post instances exactly, lane draws 120→120 (+0). Shot pair vs E's reference.

Goldens 157,647/157,647, 0x5f76e76 unmoved after every wave.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 12:28:08 +10:00
m3ultra
dab5ecd273 Lane A R40 §40.2: D1-D4 settled — the poster that stood in the road, and no silent carry
D4 CLOSED with a fix: 8/108 gig plans placed a spine poster inside a NON-nearest edge's
carriageway (worst 1.78m inside a main, northbridge seed 42, behind a kerbless arcade at
1.45m) — the exact filing, reproduced before touching anything. gigs.js onCarriageway now
tests inside-ANY-edge; selfcheck's poster arm asserts minimum clearance over ALL edges.
After: 0/108. Poster counts 0 diffs across all 108 plans; synthetic byte-identical.
The 7 REAL_TOWN_GIG_GOLDENS re-pinned (D4 explicitly required it; old hashes in comments).

D1 A-side CLOSED: chunkIndexByCoverage is canonical (chunkIndex kept as verified alias);
the naive swap would multi-build 258/681 lots — measured, documented in CITY_SPEC.
D2 RE-FILED to F (isOpen still 0 importers; divergent predicate at index.html:541).
D3 RE-FILED to B (SHOP_REGISTRY missing pub/band_room/rsl; 81 venue lots wear op-shop
signage; bite drifted to buildings.js:465). Both re-filings carry numbers and a reason.

selfcheck ALL GREEN 157,647/157,647; fingerprint 0x5f76e76 and GIG_GOLDEN frozen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 12:27:51 +10:00
m3ultra
f0b9a1d30f Lane B R39 (Fable's ruling): the magpie takes E's GLB use-if-ready, and the fallback's white moves
+1 draw / +894 tris with the bird on screen, +0 with it off — measured same page, same frame, by
toggling the InstancedMesh count. ?noassets keeps the 182-tri procedural bird (+1 / +182), so this is
furniture.js's use-if-ready SECOND path, not a substitution. state.asset reports which bird is bound.

THREE THINGS MEASURED BEFORE THIS WAS SAFE, AND ALL THREE WOULD HAVE SHIPPED WRONG:
 · E's bird faces +Z and this file flies -Z (Matrix4.lookAt's -Z column is the travel direction).
   Sliced the GLB's 894 tris along Z in ten bins: +Z end mean y 0.31, half-width 0.009 (head + bill);
   -Z end mean y 0.028 (tail). Without rotateY(PI) the magpie swoops TAIL-FIRST. This is the FIFTH
   -Z/+Z instance and the first caught BEFORE it shipped — because R39's lineage table said to point
   a measurement at it. Verified in pictures: perched head-leading, and a swoop frame taken head-on.
 · Its origin is at the FEET (GLB law minY=0) while PERCH_Y is a body-centre height: dropped 0.20 m
   so it stands on the lamp arm (4.12) instead of hovering. `folded` is 1 for the GLB — it IS the perch.
 · THE FETCH IS ARMED BY createMagpie(), NOT BY THE IMPORT. index.html imports this module
   unconditionally and gates only the CONSTRUCTION, so a module-scope loadGLB (furniture.js's shape)
   would have put a brand-new GLB request on the ?classic=1 boot — a fetch delta on the one boot that
   is not allowed one. Asserted on the network log, not on the code: default 1 request (asset 'glb',
   894 tris) · ?classic=1 0 · ?magpie=0 0 · ?noassets=1 0 (asset 'primitive', 182).

AND ONE MY EDIT INTRODUCED INTO ANOTHER LANE'S TOOL: a module-scope loadGLB also fires GLTFLoader's
fetch path under node, so Lane E's pipeline/dump_bird.mjs (which imports this module unmodified) died
with "ProgressEvent is not defined". Gated on IN_BROWSER as well as ?noassets; E's tool then ran
against my edit and reported 182 triangles / 216 verts — the placement fixes are exactly +0 tris.

THE FALLBACK, FIXED AND THEN MEASURED — a half-win, stated as one. E is right that the white bars sat
3 mm ABOVE horizontal wing planes, so from below (the player is always below: perch 4.32 m, EYE 1.62)
the black wing occluded its own flash: bar y 0.048 -> 0.042. Same class of fix, my own arithmetic, for
the other two marks: the nape was BURIED IN THE HEAD (head-sphere surface at z=-0.10 is y 0.0728, the
box topped out at 0.067) so it moved behind the head to z -0.07; nape and rump thickened 0.014->0.030
and 0.02->0.034, because from the flank a 14 mm slab on a 166 mm bird is 1.3 px at 64 px. All +0 tris.
Measured in the same crop of the same pose: pale area 180 -> 399 px, dark 3,017 -> 2,755 — but TRUE
white 33 -> 28, because a downward-facing surface gets no sun. E's GLB reads 755. The fallback cannot
be made pied with primitives at zero cost; the problem is photometric as well as geometric.

Stale comments corrected: magpie.js:9 and :123 said 154 triangles; it is 182 (E's ask 1).

FILED, NOT FIXED: the arcade's awning posts land +/-0.50 m from the centreline — two rows 1.00 m
apart, 34 posts down a 5.00 m lane (my own measurement from the plan, confirming E's). AWNING_DEPTH
2.2 is tuned for a 9 m footpath. One clamp fixes it, but it changes default-boot geometry for a
district whose whole treatment is a scheduled item, and the post line should be designed with the roof.

Lane E's transmission recall checked, not assumed: longbench, streetlight and magpie as staged in
web/assets/models/ carry no KHR_materials_transmission. My lane wires neither of the first two today.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 21:37:24 +10:00
m3ultra
0ee7a84710 Lane B R39 39.2: THE FOG — the map shows what you walked past, and is finally readable
minimap.js drew every lot in the plan from the first frame (493 shops on the synthetic, one M
press, against 5,330 m / 4.8 game-days of walking to earn it). It now draws what has been walked
past AND FRAMES ITSELF TO IT — a shop lot goes 0.83x1.11 px -> 29.4x39.2 px on bowral_real, 35.3x.

ZERO DRAWS, measured as an A/B: two port-isolated no-store servers, HEAD vs treatment, the same 15
stations x 4 yaws compared as JSON before either sweep runs. Draw calls IDENTICAL on 60/60 samples
at noon and at night; with the gig layer off both sides (the venue queue's async rigs were the only
noise) NIGHT is identical in draws AND triangles. Map mode cannot cost a draw structurally: the
frame loop never calls composer.render() in the map branch.

- discovery.js (new): a 25 m PROXIMITY PROBE, not onChunkBuilt (R=2 => the outermost live chunk
  corner is 181 m out), on a plan-derived spatial hash — 1.09-1.37 us a probe, every 6th street
  frame = every 0.46 m at WALK. Plus a side test: you must be in FRONT of the shopfront. Control
  with a red arm: walking the synthetic's two service laneways, radius-only reveals 93 shops, the
  shipped probe 59 — 34 refused through the back wall; on the arcade it refuses 0 of 17.
- save.js: optional `known` block under the delta law, keyed by TOWN (re-derived: 23 caches x 3
  seeds, shop/edge ids and lot geometry all identical; the synthetic alone keys @<seed>). Bounded
  by the plan (max 493 shops / 2,593 edges) at 8,192, 64 towns FIFO, ints only. Whole corpus fully
  learned = 137,547 B (2.6% of quota); 482 B after a 500 m outing. Eight reject arms demonstrated.
- classic BY CONSTRUCTION: createMinimap(plan, null) is the pre-R39 map and the file has no flag
  test at all. ?classic=1 / ?fog=0 / ?game=0 map canvases are hash-identical to HEAD's.
- Lane A's address layer consumed (getTownCache + createAddresses): street names along walked
  streets, deduped; the synthetic gets district labels from the same line. No town-type branch.

FILED, NOT FIXED: index.html:384 (Lane D patronage door points) and :450 (the R32 spawn) use
(-sin ry, -cos ry) — the BACK of the building. buildings.js:410/583-597, dbg.js:53 and minimap.js
all use local +Z. Measured against each lot's own frontEdge the +sin point is 0.00 m from the kerb
and the shipped one 15.25 m the wrong side, 493/493 and 72/72 shops. At the shipped spawn 0 of the
shops within 25 m are in front of you on all four towns tested; at the corrected one, all of them.
Two characters, but it moves the default boot's opening pose mid-round — Fable's call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 21:04:34 +10:00
m3ultra
eeba920d68 Lane C R39 §39.3: the op shop gets a bin — the verb table, and the margin was never six
THE TABLE (LANE_C_PUB §10, the deliverable): what a player can actually do in each of
the 12 shop types, counted in 48 rooms per type. `record` digs (4.6 bins/room) and is the
only room where anything can be sold. `stall` digs — in 27 of 48 rooms; the other 21 (44%)
have NO crate, a measured correction to the round's binding fact #5. The other ten types
offer looking. `?stock=real` is opt-in, so the default boot has zero `buyMesh` anywhere;
garments/snacks/magazines/treasures are unbuyable in any mode; `interactable:true` on
cases/fridges/returns/arcade is read by nothing.

THE MECHANISM: `rummageBin` — a castored galvanised dump tub, rim 0.76 m, heaped with
stickered bric-a-brac and a hand-lettered "EVERYTHING $2" card. 72 rooms: placed 72/72,
reachable 72/72 (0.77–1.15 m), 0 carves, pathOK 72/72, deterministic 72/72, and the rest
of the room byte-identical to pre-R39 72/72 (the spec is appended last). Armed end-to-end:
aim → dig → 16 offers → BUY → bin depletes. Default: 0 bins, dig never opens.

THE CONTENTS ARE NOT SHIPPED. `o.dig` defaults false, so the tub is furniture and the
economy is untouched; `opts.fittingOpts.rummageBin.dig` (or `?opshopdig=1`) arms it. Held
for John with the numbers: 44 record + 36 stall vs 147 op shops across 23 towns.

THE BUDGET: `C-progress.md:841`'s GLB-on 344 is R9-era and stale — today's tree measured
319 before I touched it, so the margin was 31, not six. The bin costs +5 GLB-off / +10
GLB-on at opshop/hall; every other type byte-identical. Margin now 21. Also: `slot.pool`
stops the scatter fill minting a material per item, so 12 goods cost less than 9 did.

FILED, NOT FIXED: Lane E's bookshelf GLB ships transmission:1, which triggers three.js's
transmission pre-pass and issues every draw in the room twice — opshop/hall 191→104,
book/hall 101→51. Roughly half the interior budget. E's asset, so E/F rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 20:59:42 +10:00
m3ultra
f628bf581a Lane A R39 39.1: THE ADDRESS LAYER — 17,835 street names stop being dropped on the floor
The contract, published for B and C in LANE_A_NOTES §39 (first commit, per the half-day rule).

  createAddresses(plan, cache|null) → streetOf(edgeId) · localityOf(shopId) · cohort(pred)
                                     · streets() · stats()

New pure module web/js/citygen/address.js: ZERO imports, no THREE, no fetch, no DOM, no module
state, no plan mutation. Two suppliers, ONE consumer contract — a real town fills `label` from the
cache's named ways, the synthetic fills it from district.kind + block. Consumers must never branch
on town type; that constraint is the design.

MEASURED (Fable's binding facts re-derived independently, all three land exactly):
· 19,132 road ways, 17,835 named (93.2%)
· median plan-edge-sample → nearest named way 0.03–0.90 m (worst katoomba)
· 1,192 / 1,219 corpus shops resolve to a street name (97.8%); 29,865/30,986 edges named (96.4%)
· all 27 unresolved shops front a way OSM genuinely leaves unnamed (adelaide 21 arcade) — null is
  the honest answer and the module returns it rather than borrowing a neighbour's name

TWO DEPARTURES FROM THE SYNTHESIS, both with numbers:
· the shift is recovered EXACTLY (node↔waypoint lattice intersection), not voted for. The proposed
  centroid-align + nearest-waypoint vote returns the WRONG shift on 5 of 23 towns (braddon,
  fremantle, hobart, northbridge, westend) — island culling drags the plan centroid off the
  cache's. A wrong shift renames every street in the town. Exact on 23/23, nothing to tune.
· the resolver samples FIVE points along an edge, not the midpoint — a midpoint cannot tell a
  street from the street that crosses it.

THE ONE-LINE UPGRADE: TAKEN. plan_osm.js writes norm.shift = {shx,shz} into the normalization log,
reaching the caller only via the existing opts.report sink — never onto the plan. It is a
cross-check, not a dependency: selfcheck compares plan_osm's published shift against address.js's
independently recovered one and fires on a 0.01 m disagreement.

GATES (+240 checks), each proven to fire on a broken world:
· 0 wrong street names on 884 shop-bearing edges, against an INDEPENDENT way-membership resolver
  (857 agree, 0 disagree). Corpus-wide 4/30,986 disagree — all 2D-stacked ways, none carrying a
  shop — PINNED at 4, not asserted > 0.
· CONTROL: with roads[].name stripped (exactly the pre-change state) the layer resolves 0 streets.
· CONTROL: no cache ⇒ supplier 'district', visible in stats(), never a silent wrong name.
· createAddresses does not mutate the plan — asserted byte-for-byte, per town.
· tolerance 8 m, and the finding that sets it: correctness SATURATES AT 6 m (857 agreeing frontage
  names at 6, 8, 12, 16 and 24 m). Every metre past 6 buys only a name borrowed from an unnamed
  way; it can never buy a correction.

Additive: getTownCache(key) — index.html registers the cache and drops its reference, so roads[]
was unreachable downstream. Read-only, no new state, no shell change.

GOLDENS: NOTHING MOVED, ZERO RE-PINS. selfcheck 157,407 → 157,647 ALL GREEN, fingerprint 0x5f76e76.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 20:32:43 +10:00
m3ultra
4514cb94b5 Lane B R38 (v8 WAVE 1, INHABITATION): all four runtime items — the whole round costs +1 walked draw
The town is inhabited: 23 towns finally differ, 181 back yards have a Hills Hoist with washing on it,
a magpie owns one street for six weeks of the year, and six point sources put a life off-screen.

MEASURED, walked, not bookmarked — two port-isolated no-store servers (:8472 = `git archive HEAD`,
:8471 = treatment, assets symlinked so E's mid-round wave is identical on both sides), 102 8-metre
spine steps at yaw 0, each frame fully streamed, through the shell's own composer:

  worst draws  224 -> 225   (+1)
  worst tris   89,502 -> 93,298   (+3,796 of ~75k spare)
  sum draws over 102 frames  16,676 -> 16,663   (-13)

The citizen sim and the tram are hidden identically on both sides, and that IS the measurement: with
them live the same step read control 346 vs treatment 232, because peds spawn on wall-clock time.
`?yards=0` reproduces HEAD exactly (224 / 89,502 / 16,676). Isolated at a fixed pose: washing +1 draw
/ +512 tris, magpie +1 draw / +182 tris, every yard box prop +0 draws.

§1.2 THE CHARACTER VECTOR — +0 draws, +0 tris, classic byte-identical BY CONSTRUCTION.
`townCharacter(null)` returns the frozen v1 literals and a null tint keeps the SAME material cache key,
so classic gets the same object, not a copy of it: default-boot ground hashes identical to HEAD
mesh-for-mesh, `?classic=1` hashes unmoved from R37. There is no `if (classic)` in the ground path.
The sky feeds the BASE skyName, never `setSky` (a one-way latch that would have killed R32's dawn dome
on all 23 towns). The vacuous arm is per-town: `newtown_godverse` / `redhill_godverse` carry `state: ''`,
so a per-corpus arm would have dropped exactly those two silently. 21 distinct palettes across 23 towns.
`gravel` and `reddust` were not unwired but UNWIREABLE — their `use` values named no slot ground.js had;
making the slot addressable fixed it at the root, and both are selected now. E's three new grounds
landed mid-round and the upgrade was a name change in one table, which is what procedural-first is for.

§1.4 BACKYARD AUSTRALIA — inside boxMats, +0 draws. Houses inset off their boundaries so there is a
yard; 36 `yard` lots that had rendered as blank shopfront sheds since v1 are now fenced blocks with a
hoist, a shed and often a tank. Collision byte-identical (the lot rect is where the fence stands).

THE WASHING SHIPS, and I wrote the inverted weight rather than dropping it. The shipped top-weighted
mode moves a hem 0.10 cm calm / 0.67 cm gusty; `pegged` gives 4.5 cm / 31 cm — ~52x, and at the hem
instead of the pegs. The `canopy` string is byte-for-byte unchanged, so the gum-tree covenant argument
is untouched. It is ONE TOWN-WIDE InstancedMesh (1 draw at any N, cap 256, proximity-first off the R37
chunk seam) rather than per-chunk, which would have been +1 x 31 live chunks = 4x the whole margin.
Zero on every real town (no hoists ⇒ no mesh) and zero at night.

§1.3 THE MAGPIE — +1 draw on screen, exactly 0 otherwise; 182 tris of 900. Territory scales with the
road graph: 6 on the 6.78 km synthetic town, 157 on bendigo's 188.6 km / 2,593 edges, nearest 120 m
from spawn. The latch sets, the day roll clears it, localStorage gains no key and the save never
mentions it. `swoopPos()` is exported and pure. The hat stays cut.

MY OWN SEASON MECHANISM WAS VACUOUS AND THE SWEEP CAUGHT IT: keyed on citySeed alone it produced a
CONSTANT, because the town key is deliberately off the plan — 24 of 24 towns were 214 days from
swooping season, and it would have gated green because `?magpie=1` forces it. Re-keyed on
(citySeed, townKey): `newtown_real` is in season on arrival on the default seed, marrickville is 8 days
out, and 12.9% of 1,000 seeds put the synthetic default in season against a design ratio of 11.5%.

§1.1 THE AUDIO LAYER — six new mixer layers, zero draws, zero tris, seeded anchors, distance falloff,
AND A StereoPannerNode PER LAYER, so direction is real (measured spread -0.71..+0.85) instead of a
limitation written into the notes. Day-of-week derived locally. All six anchored on the default boot;
3 of 6 report `no-anchor` on real towns rather than being faked onto shopfronts. The falsifiability
control — one manifest key renamed away, served from a third port — makes that source report
`no-entry`, 0 plays, never `audible`, with the other five unchanged and zero console errors.

TWO DEFECTS MY OWN GREEN NUMBERS COULD NOT SEE, both caught by a screenshot: the washing shipped at 256
instances / +1 draw / cap respected and was INVISIBLE behind its own back fence (per-instance peg height,
and a fence taller than the hoist), and the magpie perched on THIN AIR over the road. R37's lesson
relearned at full price. Fence 1.60 / hoist 2.15 measured against the object; territories now snap to
furniture.js's own streetlight rule.

LANE E'S PROPS, ADJUDICATED: hoist + aerial permanently primitive (E's spike killed them, and primitive
is also the +0-draw mechanism). `paling_fence` at 1,121 tris x 905 runs = 1.01M triangles — no. The
`magpie` GLB is HELD FOR THE TINT: it reads as a crow, and a magpie seen for 1.2 s in peripheral vision
IS its white bar. My 182-tri bird already carries it, at a fifth of the triangles and no fetch.
furniture.js's "novelty_record is 26.5k tris" was stale by six epochs — corrected to 8,000.

Zero fetch delta: `?noassets=1` fetches the same 23 assets, same list, on HEAD and on R38.
0 console errors on 10 boots (default, classic, yards=0, washing=0&magpie=0&ambient=0, noassets,
magpie=1, darwin, hobart, bendigo, the patched-manifest control) beyond the known PointerLock ones.

Shots: docs/shots/laneB_r38/. Detail + every number: LANE_B_NOTES §38.
2026-08-03 18:53:26 +10:00
m3ultra
47db478a51 Lane B R37 (v8 wave 0 §0.1 + §0.4): THE KERB IS FOOTPATH — +0 draws, tris DOWN; the chunk seam is subscribable at last
§0.1 — ground.js adopts Lane A's corridor law. The road quad narrows from the whole
corridor to the carriageway and the EXISTING merged footGeos class extends inward to
meet it, consuming `vergeBand(e)[0]` (not `roadWidth/2` — per A's mid-round correction,
so the geometry and A's corrected gate read the same number).

MEASURED, fresh boots, port-isolated no-store servers (:8178 = HEAD control, :8177 =
treatment), 2560x1440:
  synthetic     ground 5 draws / 224 tris -> 5 draws / 216 tris
                walked spine, 102 steps @ 8 m: worst 276 draws BOTH; sum of draws
                20,081 BOTH (identical at every step); 8 bookmarks identical draws
  katoomba_real ground 4 draws / 9,932 tris -> 4 draws / 9,644 tris
                walk 120 steps: worst 100 draws BOTH; sum 7,703 BOTH
+0 draws is proven, not asserted. Tris go DOWN (-8 / -288): the charter's "~2k tris" was
an estimate against a class that already existed. Honest number, stated loudly.

Surfaces verified by RAYCAST, not by reading the code (offset from centreline, topmost hit):
  main@28  road 0-4.75 | kerb 5 | footpath 5.25-17.5     (band [5,14])
  main@24  road 0-5    | footpath 5.25-15.25             (band [5,12], real)
  side@12  road 0-3    | footpath 3.25-9.5               (band [3,6] — 72% of the corpus)
  lane@8   road 0-4    | footpath 4.25-9   DEGENERATE band [4,4] => pre-ruling geometry
  lane@4   road 0-1.75 | kerb 2 | footpath 2.25-5.25     (synthetic, also unchanged)
  arcade   footpath 0-6.5, NO road quad, NO kerbs        (1,102 corpus edges)
  RESIDENTIAL side@14  road 0-2.75 | kerb 3 | GRASS 3.25-6.75 | footpath 7-10.5
The lane case branches on `outer <= inner`, never on a band literal.

Posters: 14 of 14 stood inside painted bitumen before; 0 of 14 after. Not one poster moved
— the ground did.

ONE DEFECT FOUND AND FIXED IN THE ROUND. The first cut painted every intersection shut:
a 12.5 m footpath crosses the perpendicular CARRIAGEWAY where a 3.5 m one only ever
clipped a far corner. Screenshotted, rejected, and fixed by putting the carriageway on
top (ROAD_Y 0 -> 0.04 under the flag): roads run through junctions, footpaths stop at the
kerb they meet. Verified on the real graph's worst 4.3-degree junction.

?verge=0 ships permanently — the gate's falsifiability control. Proven EXACT, not merely
similar: ground vertex+uv hashes identical to the HEAD build (c4c72181 / c111d968 /
1a80ebcd / 12c1241b / fd0d3211), and the same detector goes RED on the default boot.

CLASSIC IS FENCED, NOT AMENDED (the R31 dig-flip pattern). ?classic=1 forces verge off, so
the covenanted town's render does not move on a render-side ruling. Proven twice: identical
ground geometry hashes AND identical ground-only rendered pixels at three poses
(79df268c / 91564001 / a09d1e52), while the default boot differs at all three. If Fable
wants classic to take the footpath too, that is an amendment ruling and a one-token change.

§0.4 — the chunk lifecycle seam. The producer has fired since R3 and Lane D's consumer has
existed since R3, but nothing could connect them: createChunkManager never handed `ctx`
back, so a consumer holding only PROCITY.chunks had nowhere to attach (measured on HEAD:
`!!chunks.ctx === false`). Now `chunks.onChunkBuilt(fn) -> unsubscribe()` for many
consumers plus `chunks.ctx` for the original single slot. Proven live: 136 build / 144
dispose events over a 40-step walk; payload {cx,cz,buildings,furniture,data} with
key === `${cx},${cz}`; a second consumer does not clobber the first; the ctx slot fires;
unsubscribe silences; a THROWING subscriber does not take the streamer down.
ZERO behaviour change when nobody subscribes: a 102-step walk recording
[draws, tris, chunks] per step hashes ceb1ec66 on BOTH builds.

Files: web/js/world/ground.js, web/js/world/chunks.js, docs/shots/laneB_r37_kerb/*,
docs/LANES/LANE_B_NOTES.md, B-progress.md. sim.js untouched (Lane D's).
2026-08-03 16:40:43 +10:00
m3ultra
e4d77629c5 Lane A R37 (v8 wave 0 §0.1, ruling-side): the poster gate was VACUOUS — corrected to three arms with a permanent control
The audit's claim against my lane, re-measured and CONFIRMED exactly: on the default
boot (synthetic 20261990, gigs default-ON) there are 14 posters, all 14 stand inside
e.width/2 — the bitumen ground.js paints — and 0 stand inside the ruled kerb
roadWidth/2. One refinement it did not make: 12 are spine posters at poleOffset=6m,
8m inside the paint (genuinely mid-road); 2 are frontage posters clipping the corridor
edge by 0.06m (FACADE_PROUD past their venue's facade plane).

WHY the gate was green: my placer seats posters via poleOffset, which is DERIVED FROM
roadWidth, and my selfcheck asserted clearance against roadWidth/2. Gate and subject
were the same function agreeing with itself — the R27 cross-convention trap recurring
inside the very file whose header explains it. It never read a number that came from
Lane B, so no change to where the road is painted could make it fail.

The correction (selfcheck.js, districtInvariants), three arms:
  1. no poster on a carriageway — measured through vergeBand(e)[0], the published law
     itself, the same call B's ground now consumes, so gate and renderer move together
  2. every SPINE poster stands INSIDE some edge's vergeBand — the outer bound the old
     check never had ("not on the road" also passed for a poster in a paddock).
     Frontage exempt BY MEASUREMENT: 18/108 gig plans have a frontage poster past every
     corridor edge (worst 3.98m, launceston_real) via plan_osm's lot setback.
     Spine violations over the same corpus: 0/108.
  3. THE CONTROL — count posters standing on bitumen under the PRE-RULING ground
     (?verge=0, road quad = full e.width) and assert it is NOT ZERO on every gig plan
     (min 3 / max 212 / never 0 across 510 plans), pinned at EXACTLY 14 on the default
     boot. A control allowed to drift toward zero is how a gate goes vacuous.
     The replica is pinned to B's FLAG, not to a line number that will drift.

FALSIFIABILITY PROVEN. Simulated ?verge=0 honestly — vergeBand switched to the
pre-ruling reading, poleOffset pinned to the true band so the PLACER stays
byte-identical (it is a render flag: paint changes, plan does not; fingerprint and
every gig golden green in both runs, so the gate's reading is the only variable):
  corrected (R37) gate  →  FAIL, 1020 failures (2 arms x 510 plans)
  pre-R37 (HEAD) gate   →  ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352  — structurally blind

GOLDENS: NOTHING MOVED, ZERO RE-PINS. 0x5f76e76, GIG_GOLDEN 0xec7a2d39, 25 base town
goldens and 24 real-town gig goldens all untouched — correct and predicted, since the
only generator-adjacent file changed is the selfcheck, which validates output and never
produces it. 156,352 -> 157,407 checks (+1,055), 10.3s.

Corridor law CONFIRMED for Lane B, semantics unchanged, contract published in full
(LANE_A_NOTES §37) with four hazards flagged loudly while B consumes it in parallel:
roadWidth and edge.width are both FULL widths but one is carriageway and one corridor
(that naming IS why this bug existed); lane's band is NOT the literal [2,2] the round
instructions state (2 synthetic edges are, 56 real lane edges are [4,4] — branch on
outer<=inner); arcade is all footpath with coincident kerbs to skip; the inward
extension never inverts (0 of 31,039 edges). Two charter numbers corrected: the "9m
band / 18m of every main" figures are synthetic-only — on every real town a main is
24m => 7m band, and the corpus's dominant edge is side@12 at 22,415/31,039 (72%) with
a 3m footpath.

FILED, NOT FIXED — v8 debt ledger, four entries (LANE_A_NOTES §37): D1 chunkIndex
(two impls, THREE divergences, header comment promises a swap that would break three
ways — owner B) · D2 isOpen (three impls + an ad-hoc fourth site; A's canonical one has
ZERO importers; the live shell copy treats no-hours as CLOSED where A's law says OPEN —
latent until v8 adds an hours-less lot — owner F) · D3 two shop registries (B's missing
all three venue kinds => buildings.js:344 renders op-shop signage on every gig venue
since R13 — owner B) · D4 NEW, mine: the poster gate's inner bound is NEAREST-EDGE and
an arcade (kerb 0) camouflages a real carriageway — 8 real-town plans hide a spine
poster up to 1.78m inside a main, 0 on synthetic. Cost measured decision-grade:
synthetic 0/4 plans move, 11/26 town gig goldens re-pin, poster counts unchanged.
Deferred to R38 on purpose — it moves plan output for a reason that is NOT the kerb
ruling, and the "did the kerb ruling move a golden?" answer must stay a clean no.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 16:25:04 +10:00
m3ultra
2fd4c1cf79 Lane D R36 w2.5 (Fable ruling): CLASSIC KEEPS ITS PEOPLE — the 5 DJ bodies gate out of ?classic's pool
b339402 appended the 5 trellis'd DJ bodies to PED_NAMES.normal unconditionally, so
?classic=1 fetched them and its seeded crowd pool widened 17->22 (F's held §36.4 warn).
Ruled option (b): the five gate OUT of classic, mirroring the sit/look/dance !CLASSIC
clip gates. classic is the v2 town INCLUDING ITS PEOPLE; the DJs walk every other boot.

MECHANISM (rigs.js only — zero shell edits): PED_NAMES.normal restored to the covenanted
base 17 (exact pre-July-20 list); the five move to PED_NAMES.djs; loadPedFleet gains
djs = dance (default tracks the existing dance flag, which the shell already passes as
!CLASSIC). Roster = djs ? [...normal, ...djs] : normal — the five APPEND, so no base
slot renumbers: default boot's 22-list is byte-identical to the pre-ruling list and
classic's 17-list is byte-identical to pre-b339402. pickRig maps through pool.length,
so 17 restores the exact pre-July-20 crowd mapping, not merely the width.

MEASURED (fresh contexts, port-isolated no-store servers, seed 20261990):
- ?classic=1: ZERO of the 5 DJ GLBs fetched (21 ped-GLB fetches = 17+2 bodies +
  walk+idle) · pool 17 normal / 19 all · 129-citizen census all base-17 u comical,
  zero DJ · 0 console errors.
- default: all 5 fetched · pool 22/24 · 37 DJ-bodied street peds · F's organic gig
  proof preserved (pinned seed's venue crowd includes dj_phrtt_01 + woman_dj_02) ·
  0 console errors.
- IDENTITY vs pre-July-20: classic booted on a shadow tree with b339402^ rigs.js —
  full 129-citizen (id, pedRoll, pedIndex, pedName) census BYTE-IDENTICAL to the
  gated tree's classic boot. Same crowd, ped for ped, as before July 20.

Known side effect (noted §36): citizens_test.html passes no opts -> its dev harness
shows 17+2; not a covenanted surface, {djs:true} restores it if wanted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 23:20:52 +10:00
type-two
55b984e0b0 Lane C+B R35 (v7.0 close #2): THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES — arrive hunting, three beats walk the hustle
A FRESH game (day 1 · empty crate · empty auction house) seeds ONE artist want off
rng(citySeed,'firstwant',0) × the parody roster (dig.js ARTISTS exported) — the splash names
the mission before the first step ('You're hunting HILLS HOIST — $191 in your pocket'), and
the keeper rumors point at the same hunt from shop one. Three toast-beats ride EXISTING events
(zero new systems): ① find a record shop (on the go-click) → ② riffle · mind the guide · BUY
(first digOpen) → ③ sell at a counter or ⚖ LIST and sleep (first find, via wallet.onChange) →
the send-off on the first sale-or-listing (the listener removes itself). A returning save gets
its town back, not a tutorial (fresh-detection = state, no save flag — the delta law stays
clean); ?game=0 / ?classic=1 never reach the block. #pc-toast body-mounted (the #pc-game rule):
beats fire INSIDE shops, and a SLEEP taken at a counter now shows its morning paper.
2026-07-20 20:13:02 +10:00
type-two
e528c92fed Lane B R34: ⚖ LIST in the crate · AT AUCTION section · the morning paper rides the toasts
hud.js: every crate find row gains ⚖ (mail-in consignment — very 1996); AT AUCTION section
(non-empty only) shows what hammers tomorrow; the rebuild watcher now folds listings in.
index.html: the wake toast and the travel-arrival toast carry the drained auction news —
'🌅 day 2 · ⚖ SOLD "Cane Toad Blues" — hammer $22, $19 after fees' is the come-back-tomorrow
hook paying off at dawn.
2026-07-20 19:32:06 +10:00
type-two
b048f51640 Lane F R34 (v7.0 close #1): GODBAY — the offline seeded auction, one hammer per item, ever
godbayHammer(entry, townKey): THE ONE-HAMMER LAW — seeded by ITEM IDENTITY
(godbay:<townKey>:<sku|slotId>:<dayFound>:<pricePaid>), NEVER by resolution day: a passed-in
item re-lists to the same result forever, so there is no retry farm anywhere in the economy
(the keeper's offer is a formula, the auction is one hammer per item per life). Fixed 4-draw
stream. Rolls: 15% passed in (comes home free) · hammer uniform across the item's band
(grail's open top = 2×low; unbanded alpha finds auction around pricePaid — honest, never
invented) · 12% bidding war ×1.5–2.0 · 12% commission, net floor $1. EV ≈ 0.8× band midpoint
— UNDER the asking-price EV of in-band stock: random flipping bleeds, only FINDS profit
(charter law #2 at the auction house); the keeper's half-of-low stays the instant floor, the
gavel the bounded ceiling (2×high×0.88). Band table imported from C's bible.js and PRNG from
core/prng.js — one authority each, no mirrors.
listings: optional on procity-save/1 (entry shape + listDay ≥ 1, the pulls/wants back-compat
law). listFind (identity — the entry LEAVES the crate, it cannot also sell at a counter) ·
resolveAuctions() runs in adopt() AND sleep(), so sleep, travel, and day-moving imports all
hammer what they pass · takeAuctionNews() drains the transient morning paper (NOT saved — the
ledger is cash/collection; the paper is a toast).
2026-07-20 19:32:06 +10:00
type-two
7b26e45fa0 Lane B R33: THE WANTLIST in the crate panel · the arrival toast · the build-race fix the shot found
hud.js: THE WANTLIST section in the crate (non-empty only — no header over nothing): hunted
rows, ✕ stops hunting, refresh watches wants length so an open panel follows adds/clears.
THE FIX: R32's game surface BUILT only in street update() frames — a door entered fast after
boot had no crate/bar inside at all, and the interior tickGame() refreshed a UI that never
existed. Every gate idles on the street long enough to build, so green gates missed it; the
R33 money-shot script entered faster and exposed it. tickGame() now builds-or-refreshes in
ANY mode (shots are a detector, not decoration — filed in LANE_F_NOTES §33).
index.html: game.traveled at boot → '🚌 <town> — the ride cost a day. Day N' toast (save.js
already charged the fare and re-keyed the week before the shell read game.day).
2026-07-20 19:01:40 +10:00
type-two
37773bc81d Lane F R33 (v7.0-beta wave 2): wants on the save · the keeper's rumor · TRAVEL COSTS A DAY
save.js: optional wants:[{artist?|title?|sku?}] on procity-save/1 (validated exact-and-loud,
≥1 string field per entry, cap 40, absent-when-empty — the same back-compat law as pulls).
recordWant (case-insensitive dedupe) / findWant (a want covers an item when every field the
WANT names matches) / removeWant (identity). TRAVEL in adopt(): the adopted save's town !==
this boot's townKey (town OR seed — a new seed is a new town) ⇒ day += 1, traveled = true,
prunePulls — load AND import both pay the fare; same-town adoption is FREE, so reloads and
export→import round trips keep the save-determinism gate's byte equality untouched. The 23
towns are a map you spend days crossing now, not a dropdown.
interior_mode.js: onWant/isWanted seams into dig.open; buying a matching item clears its want
('✓ off the wantlist'). THE RUMOR (charter #6 — the keeper finally gossips): seeded
xmur3('rumor:citySeed:shopId:day') → ~45% of shop entries mutter a hunted want + a real
cached town in the banner. Runtime-only stream, freshly keyed — A's rotation boundary holds;
no game / empty wantlist ⇒ the line never exists. Full persona lines stay D's for the v6
clip epoch; the banner is the keeper's voice until then.
2026-07-20 19:01:40 +10:00
type-two
ce71908bb5 Lane C R33 (v7.0-beta wave 2): ☆ WANT IT on the pull card
The wantlist grows from the card, not a search box the 90s didn't have: you pulled it, it's
dear, you'll hunt one cheaper. ☆ WANT IT → ★ ON THE WANTLIST (a stamp once wanted, not a
button). Construction-gated on opts.onWant/isWanted — ?game=0 / classic cards carry ZERO
wantlist DOM, the classic-pure pattern.
2026-07-20 19:01:40 +10:00
type-two
bb30767b62 Lane B R32 (§31.6 queue 1–3): the crate lives in shops · cluster-pose spawn · dawn reads dawn
hud.js: #pc-game rides document.body (position:fixed, z 30) instead of the mode-hidden street
root — day/cash/CRATE/SLEEP are YOURS inside a shop too (the playtest's 'crate at the counter').
C toggles the crate ANYWHERE; the surface yields to the dig/sell cards and the map (they own
the screen). tickGame() exported so the interior/map frame branches keep it live (buys update
the count while you shop); dispose removes the body-mounted wrap.
index.html: the frozen spawn (-96,9,east) was tuned for the synthetic fixture — on real towns
it faced dirt (§31.6-1). Non-classic boots now spawn ON the main-street footpath door-line
(block kind 'mainstreet', both generators; every-door fallback) at the door nearest the shop
cluster's heart, facing the LONGER run of shopfronts down the strip's dominant axis. Pure plan
math, zero draws — no stream moves; ?classic=1 keeps the frozen pose forever.
lighting.js: dawnSky opt (shell passes high-cirrus, null under classic) — the DAWN segment
swaps the dome off the golden-SUNSET default that read dusk-orange (§31.6-3), and swaps back.
setSky() is now an explicit override: weather's rain/overcast dome always wins over base+dawn.
2026-07-20 18:26:56 +10:00
type-two
75e5e06288 Lane F R32 (v7.0-beta wave 1): per-day scarcity — pulls ride procity-save/1, the bin remembers
save.js: optional pulls: string[] on the SAME schema (validated exact-and-loud when present;
absent on every alpha save — old savers drop it silently, never reject; payload omits it when
empty so the alpha byte shape survives). recordPull/pullsFor seams; pruned on sleep/import —
day-tagged keys from other days are unreachable by construction (the consumer embeds the
current day), untagged keys are real-sourced and KEPT (sold means gone, tier-2 spirit at
tier 1). Cap 600 FIFO (delta law: saves stay tiny). Collection entries gain optional band
(recordFind stamps dig + shelf buys) — C's §9.1 sell basis reads it.
interior_mode.js: pull keys ${shopId}|${binKey}${pullTag}#${slot} — pullTag @d<game.day> for
rotating crates INCLUDING day 1 (the SEED stays untagged per the day-1 convention; the ledger
doesn't — a day-1 pull must not survive into day 2's identical-looking untagged key space),
'' for real-sourced (their pulls never expire). The seed input to binSeed is UNTOUCHED — A's
rotation boundary holds. Selling an item does NOT restock the bin (pulls are independent of the
collection — the leak the §30.6 filing predicted). digOffers getter = the honest-gate surface
(index/ask/band/sku) so the bible gate asserts identity, not looks.
2026-07-20 18:26:36 +10:00
type-two
f9517f14ab Lane C R32 (v7.0-beta wave 1): THE BIBLE — bands derived, gems seeded, the cards get the guide stamp
bible.js: band ranges MIRRORED from E's pipeline thresholds (record 8/25/60 · book 5/15/40 ·
toy 6/20/50) — derived in JS off the price_band labels the packs already carry, NO pack re-emit
(charter risk #3 never opens). guideText renders a RANGE ('guide $8–24' / '$60+'), never a
verdict — the card never says gem; spotting asking-under-guide is the player's skill.
dig.js: parody sleeves roll seeded bands (25/45/22/8) + a 10% gem on collector/grail only,
asking strictly under the keeper's own bandLow offer (collector $2–9 vs $12 · grail $5–20 vs
$30) — margin by construction; fixed 9-draw stream per item; rare ≡ grail (matches real packs).
Real offers carry band off price_band — and real asking always sits INSIDE its band (the band
derives FROM the price), so with the §9.1 basis swap every real round trip stays strictly
negative: the no-pump gate holds untouched, structurally. open({gone}) omits pulled slots AFTER
the draw (R27 pick-then-omit, zero collateral; o.i survives filtering — identity preserved).
currentOffers() honest surface for F's gate. sell.js: the §9.1 basis swap EXECUTED exactly as
pre-ratified — sellOffer(sellBasis(entry)) = min(bandLow−1, max(1, floor(bandLow·0.5))) when
banded; alpha-era entries (no band) keep the pricePaid basis and sell exactly as before. The
sell card carries the guide line too.
2026-07-20 18:26:15 +10:00
m3ultra
046668e5af feat(gig): club dancers play real dance clips, not procedural sway
loadPedFleet gains dance:!CLASSIC (mirrors the sit/look gate) → fleet.danceClips
= 4 mesh-free mixamorig club dances (party/medium/drink/sway). _make picks one
per dancer off a fresh gigdance seeded stream (zero impact on existing draws /
the same-seed-same-crowd covenant), spawnRig plays it, and update() drops the
fake bounce for real-clip dancers (procedural sway stays as the classic/noassets
fallback). ?classic fetches nothing, byte-identical.

Verified: default boot fetches all 4 dance GLBs (gated load runs), both modules
parse + export clean, page boots. Same clips + _canon/_rotOnly/spawnRig proven
animating in 90sDJsim (its crowd/rigs.js is this file ported).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 02:11:55 +10:00
m3ultra
b3394027be feat(citizens): +5 trellis DJ bodies in the ped roster
Same 5 Mixamo-rigged DJ characters as 90sDJsim, converted FBX->skinned GLB +
decimated to 4k tris (<=5k ped law) via MESHGOD scripts/fbx_to_ped.py — mixamorig:
skeleton + skin preserved. Added to PED_NAMES (rigs.js). Shares the proven bind:
identical _canon/_rotOnly + the same GLBs verified animating in 90sDJsim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 01:37:10 +10:00
m3ultra
2c9cb94b8e Lane F R30 wave 3 (v7.0-alpha ledger #5 + §9.4): THE GATES + the sell routing — E chain aimed-bin→dig · counter+sellable→C's sell card (removeFind-first onSell, veto-safe) · forgiving-bin · shelf; aim-priority amendment measured both ways (counter-adjacent bin sells, wrong-aim bin still digs); 3 shell seams (sellOpen unlock, sellActive guards). Five STRICT suite gates in flags_check: routing live-loop ($9 dig → +$4 sell → HUD $186·CRATE 0), save/load determinism (byte-equal state+export, plan fp unchanged, weekNight re-key), no-pump 5/5 strictly negative (Σ−$30) + C's negative control (wallet.buy invoked-and-false ⇒ recordFind unreachable, positive arm discriminates), classic purity (Storage-prototype instrument, 0 calls classic/game=0, positive control sees procity-save, plan fp game-on==off), rotation over VERTEX DATA (day 1/2/3 distinct, re-entry + cross-boot byte-identical, game=0==day1). qa.sh --strict --matrix: 7 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped, MATRIX 10 towns green. NO TAG per brief.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-18 15:10:08 +10:00
m3ultra
cb03f07fb2 Lane B R30 (v7.0-alpha ledger #4): THE COLLECTION UI + SLEEP surface — the crate panel in hud.js (cover thumb = pack-atlas CSS crop off the sku, per-shop/town-wide bases, parody = glyph by design; where+day honest, foreign towns fall back to townKey), game bar day/$/CRATE count + SLEEP on F's §30.1 contract; construction-gated on PROCITY.game itself (classic/game=0 ⇒ zero DOM/listeners, measured); venue.js compat venueShopId = live weekNight getter (F's §30.4 filing, 116→490 across a sleep). Verified vs F's REAL committed core (nothing stubbed) on no-store :8151 snapshot; qa 6/6 2026-07-18 14:37:15 +10:00
m3ultra
207bcffb54 Lane F R30 (v7.0-alpha ledgers #1+#3): THE SAVE CORE + SLEEP=SAVE=TOMORROW — save.js (procity-save/1, delta law by shape, loud reject + stash, beforeunload), game-backed wallet facade on the proven seam, buy seams record the collection (type/sku|slotId/title, C's §9 asks), day-salted stock rotation (stk-* seam in interiors/layout [marked], dig binSeed; day 1 = pre-v7, REAL never rotates), gig weekNight = (day-1)%7 (amended from day%7 with the measurement, §30.3), wake at DAWN. classic/game=0: layer never constructed, ZERO storage touches measured. Verified 7 legs green in fresh contexts; qa.sh --strict 6/6, 0 warn 2026-07-18 14:26:35 +10:00
m3ultra
369a2be23e Lane C R30 (v7.0-alpha ledger #2, implementation): sell.js — the sell counter lands. E at the bench → the mirrored price sticker; offer strictly below pricePaid by construction (8/8 scripted round trips lose money); type=type fail-closed (untyped item sells nowhere); wallet.sell = the credit mirror; game layer absent → no card, zero errors. Verified on :8144 no-store, stubbed game shape (F's core not landed); soak green avg 3.4ms · leak 0/0 · draws card-open ≡ closed 2026-07-18 14:14:14 +10:00
m3ultra
10025d4082 Lane D R29 (v6 Spike 1): look.glb bound and wired — peds glance, feet planted (wave 0)
The spike reaches the game. E's look.glb (mesh-free, 65 joints, 6.5s 'Look') is bound
through the fleet gate; street peds now glance around during window-shop stops. `lean`
is absent and never existed (E's R28 measurement). Goldens untouched — clips sit outside
every plan hash; the synthetic anchor stays R27's amended 0x5f76e76.

WIRED: loadPedFleet(base, {sit, look}) -> fleet.lookClip, the exact twin of the R16 sit
gate; the shell passes look:!CLASSIC so ?classic fetches NOTHING (a raw fetch would have
breached the zero-fetch-delta covenant — E flagged it, the gate is the answer).
makeActor gains lookA, played only on setLooking(true) — crossfaded (0.3s), not snapped
like sit, since idle->idle-variant reads naturally and there's no replant for a fade to
fight. sim.js gains a dedicated `glance` rng stream, rolled ALWAYS (deterministic) but
only flipped when a clip exists => classic inert at the source. Mutually exclusive with
bench-sit (sit rolls first at 35%, glance takes 40% of the rest). RigPool threads
lookClip; release snaps the glance off so no rig is pooled mid-look.

THE FINDING — my own prediction was wrong, and the measurement caught it. I wrote that a
STANDING clip needs no foot replant ("no hip descent to recover — that trap was sit's
alone"). Measured over the full loop: idle keeps the lowest bone within 4cm of the ground
(-0.04..0.00); look.glb ranges -0.009..+0.205 — the ped HOVERS up to 20.5cm, drifting
through the loop. Same trap, different coat: _rotOnly drops the Hips POSITION track for
rig-height independence, so the clip's authored weight-shift dip can't move the hips and
comes out as the FEET RISING. Sit's one-time replant can't fix it — the float varies per
frame.

FIX: plantFeet() — the per-frame twin of sit's replant. Reset to bind plant -> measure
posed feet -> drop inner by float/scale. ABSOLUTE (reset->measure->correct), never
incremental, so it cannot drift. Reproduces the authored motion exactly: the hips dip
relative to the ground instead of the feet leaving it. Scale-aware like sit's. Foot bones
cached once; cost paid only by glancing peds, on frames their mixer ran (both mixer sites
— the drummer's post-mix lean taught that coupling rule).

PROOFS: foot float 0.205m -> 0.000m (pinned); head yaw sweep span 1.735 (-0.85..+0.89) so
the glance still animates; ?classic — no look fetch, no Look action on any rig, glance
never flips (0); identity signature unchanged, no glance term; sit AND glance never
simultaneous (0); 0 NaN; goldens 0x5f76e76 untouched. A glancing ped is NOT tagged
seated/posed — standing pose at standing stature, so F's no-giants gate needs no arm.

D->F: the pose gate HAS ITS SUBJECT — un-SKIP it. Fresh ?localdepot=1 boot shows a ped
glancing on the footpath, head sweeping, feet planted.
Spike 2 readiness: plantFeet() is the general machinery the brief asked for ("data, not
new code") — riffle and wall-lean should land as clip + roll; the lean's wall-contact
placement is the only genuinely new part.
FLAGGED (A's file, A rests): selfcheck.js:301 still says "the synthetic golden above stays
0x3fa36874" while line 267 pins the amended 0x5f76e76. A stale comment, not a rule — but
the same species as the epoch's five holds, so: flagged, not touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 18:44:07 +10:00
m3ultra
488067004c Lane C R28: audioEmitter — the till rings from the counter; the panner was inert
R28 ledger #3. My own idea, parked since R7. Brief stated acceptance only, so I scoped it.

THE TRAP MY OWN v3.0 NOTE SET: it said "userData.audioEmitter = musicKey so Lane B can
position/spatialise the bed". Both halves wrong. (1) Shape: the engine holds no reference to
the room group and would traverse a scene it cannot reach — emitters belong on room.audio as
data, riding the EXISTING playInterior() call (no lifecycle, no traverse, no dispose hook).
(2) Method: "spatialise" invites a PannerNode. NOTHING in this tree sets ctx.listener (zero
hits), so a panner resolves against a listener frozen at (0,0,0) — which, because rooms are
built room-local at the origin, is the room's own CENTRE, forever. Measured, OfflineAudioContext,
real pub stage bed:
    panner, listener never set (the engine as it SHIPS): RMS 0.106905 door / 0.106905 stage
                                                          -> ratio 1.0000, bit-identical
    panner + listener tracking the player:                RMS 0.055665 / 0.500000 -> 8.98x
It plays, throws nothing, warns nothing, and never changes by one sample as you cross the room
— while failing at the only thing it exists to do. "Routed through a panner?" yes. "Audible in
a venue?" yes. "In a shop?" yes. All green, all worthless.
-> ASSERT THE DELTA (gain at door != gain at stage), NEVER THE PRESENCE. Vacuous-gate law, 4th
application — and this one had no author to blame but me.
The house idiom was already right: tram/spill/gig-spill are all hand-rolled distance-gains vs
PROCITY.camera.position. No listener, no panner.

SHIPPED (C's files only):
- room.audio.emitters {stage?, counter?} — room-local, 3dp, 18/18 same-seed deep-equal. `r`
  (reach) is the ROOM DIAGONAL, not a constant: measured diagonals 9.81-15.63m, and scaling to
  the room holds door->stage proximity in a 0.42-0.59 band from a pokey band_room to a hall pub.
  `floor` is the room-filling residue, never 0 — a PA fills a pub; what changes as you walk in
  is the BALANCE, not the presence. Swing 2.65-4.52 dB (John R20: subtle changes are great).
- THE TILL RINGS FROM THE COUNTER — audible positioning in a normal shop with NO ENGINE CHANGE,
  via B's already-public playSfx(key,{gain}): C does its own distance math, hands B a scalar.
  Measured through the real BUY button, real record shop: 0.9489 @0.60m vs 0.6436 @4.19m =
  3.37 dB; negative control (no emitters) fires at exactly 1.0. sfx-till.ogg has been on disk
  since 15 Jul and had NEVER ONCE PLAYED. Routing, not content — as the brief said.
- ?mute=1 now actually silences the crate riffle (below).

WHY THE VENUE HALF IS AN ASK: a one-shot resolves its gain once, at fire time, from a position C
already knows. A bed must be re-gained every frame inside the engine's update() loop — B's file.
Structural, not political. B has a ~12-line paste-ready diff in the house idiom; audio.js
untouched. The letter of "consulted not modified" could have been met by reaching through B's
exposed state.layers diag to rewire its graph from outside — that backdoor is strictly worse
than the edit it avoids. Refused.

TWO BUGS FOUND:
- F DROPS EMITTERS ON THE ONE NIGHT THEY MATTER. interior_mode.js:289 rebuilds the spec on a gig
  night ({musicKey: ra.gigKey, toneKey: WALLA_KEY}) and every unnamed field dies. Measured on a
  real gig-night pub: quietNight_emittersSurvive TRUE, gigNight_emittersSurvive FALSE. Silent,
  fail-soft, no error. -> F: don't just spread `ra`; pass emitters DELIBERATELY, gig-night only —
  on a quiet night the radio + room-tone genuinely ARE room-filling.
- ?mute=1 NEVER SILENCED THE RIFFLE (R5->R28). dig.js opened a SECOND, private AudioContext
  straight to destination, breaking both stated house laws (ONE AudioContext; mute forces
  silence). It survived three epochs because NO GATE ASSERTS MUTE => SILENCE: the engine returns
  its silent surface and looks honest from its own side, while the sound came from somewhere it
  never knew existed. A gate that asks the engine whether it is muted can only ever answer yes.
  Fixed via B's PUBLIC .muted getter (consulted, not modified), URL fallback when standalone.
  Measured with a positive control so the probe provably CAN see sound: live 1 ctx / 1 source;
  muted 0 / 0. Blips stay procedural on purpose — zero-fetch, deterministic, still work under
  ?noassets=1 where a sampled riffle cannot. Only mute was broken; only mute was fixed.
  -> F: assert SILENCE, not muted-state.

HARNESS HONESTY: the first till rig reported the same clean 3.37 dB — from a CONTAMINATED rig
(createDig appends a panel per call, close() doesn't remove it, so querySelector clicked trial
1's stale button every time). Tell: panelUp false on all three, and the NEGATIVE CONTROL
returning 0.6436 where it must return 1.0. The gains matched the formula exactly; I refused them
anyway and re-ran isolated (panelCount 1, panelUp true, control 1.0). Never report a number from
a rig you have watched lie — even when you like the number.

QA GREEN 6/0/0/0. Docs: LANE_C_AUDIO.md -> v3.1 (contract + both asks + every measurement).
2026-07-17 17:39:54 +10:00
m3ultra
c1e862cf7c Lane A R27 wave 5: THE FACADE FIX — it was every town, not just the real ones (the covenant amended)
selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352; consistency green. 51 goldens re-pinned in this one commit per the
amendment law. scaffold_check is RED and CANNOT be green from here — the covenant hashes are duplicated in
LANE F's files; exact values handed to F in LANE_A_NOTES §R27w5 (I don't edit other lanes' files).

THE RULING'S PREMISE WAS WRONG, AND THE WRONG HALF WAS LOAD-BEARING.
Wave 5 says "synthetic follows B's canon so every golden has been green over a wrong product since R18".
Half right. Synthetic does NOT follow B's canon -- it is broken identically, and so is the marched path,
and so are all three checked-in fixtures. It is not "every real town since R18". It is EVERY TOWN, EVERY
PATH, SINCE v1. The ruling told me to measure the marched path rather than assume it was clean "because
that's how this one survived nine rounds" -- so I measured all three, and the same discipline caught the
premise itself.

MEASURED FIRST, IN B'S CANON (+Z = the facade), BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING:
  synthetic seed 20261990   0 toward / 681 away   (dot = -1.0000, exactly anti-parallel)
  marched katoomba/fremantle/godverse, fixtures melbourne/katoomba/silverton   0 toward, all away
  real-roads katoomba   0/72   <- B's number, reproduced
637 of 681 synthetic lots had their facade pointing at NO STREET AT ALL (44 hit a different street by
corner coincidence). Then I confirmed it with my own eyes rather than trust the arithmetic: booted
?classic=1, stood on the synthetic main street at lot 0 -> three blank grey boxes. Walked BEHIND them into
the block -> NUMBAT PLAYTHINGS, sign/door/windows/awning, facing the dirt. The classic covenant town has
been a row of back walls since v1.
After the fix, same camera, same seed, same ?classic=1: CROWN TOYS & GAMES · MARBLES & KITES · NUMBAT
PLAYTHINGS -- a strip of shopfronts facing the road.

FOUR SITES, ONE SIGN, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM SAID SO IN ITS OWN COMMENT:
  plan.js:122    synthetic strip   "facade faces back down the outward normal, to the street"  <- it didn't
  plan.js:244    market row        "the facade then faces -(outward) = +x"                     <- it didn't
  plan_osm:330   marched avenue    "facade faces +z (north) to the avenue"                     <- due south
  plan_osm:443   real roads        B's proven one-liner (B measured it, then reverted it -- A's file)
All four were atan2(outward) where the intent was atan2(-outward). The code never did what its comment
said, and CITY_SPEC:71 blessed the result by writing the SIM convention into the LOTS contract. Nobody was
wrong; the spec was. After: synthetic 681/681, marched + fixtures 100%, real-roads katoomba 72/72.

THE COVENANT MOVED -- JOHN RULED IT, I DIDN'T.
Fixing synthetic necessarily moves 0x3fa36874, frozen "forever" since R16. That is not Lane A's call, so I
stopped and asked with the evidence. John's ruling: AMEND THE COVENANT, FIX ALL PATHS -- the covenant is
anti-drift machinery, not a defect preservative. 51 pins in this commit:
  classic/synthetic  0x3fa36874 -> 0x5f76e76
  gig                0xb1d48ea1 -> 0xec7a2d39
  fixtures           melbourne 0x9c7e76b3 · katoomba 0xf3aafec8 · silverton 0x6d74c4
  23 real towns      base + gig (46)
Verified byte-identical across two fresh processes; pack-xor 0xa5058322. CITY_SPEC records the amendment as
a ONE-TIME, ruling-gated precedent -- from this hash forward the law reads as it always did.

A SECOND BUG THE FIX EXPOSED (fixed here, counted). buildRealRoads seated blocks at KERB = 4 m from the
CENTRELINE, but a `main` carriageway is 10 m wide -- its kerb is at 5 m. EVERY MAIN-STREET BUILDING HAS
STOOD 1 m INSIDE THE ROAD SINCE R18. The footprint never moved; only which face is the front -- so it was
invisible until the shopfront turned around and its poster landed in the traffic lane (-1.07 m clearance,
6 real failures). Blocks now seat behind the kerb per A's own published corridor law (roadWidth/2 +
FOOTPATH). Pack drops 6.4% -> 6.6%, counted, not hidden.

THE CROSS-CONVENTION GATE -- built to F's lesson, not to a spec line. F proved that measuring lots against
CITY_SPEC:71's own convention is SELF-AGREEMENT: 72/72 "facing" over a town of blank walls. So this gate
restates nothing. It replicates LANE B'S OWN maths from buildings.js (toWorld(lot, 0, y, d/2 + 0.02)) and
asks a physical question neither spec line can fudge: does the quad the RENDERER actually draws land nearer
the street than the lot centre? It fires if A's ry sign drifts OR if B's zf sign drifts. It would have
caught this on day one of v1.

CITY_SPEC amendments: the lots contract now states facade/door/frontage = local +Z; the SIM/rig convention
is documented separately as the different thing it is, with the explicit rule -- never assert a lot's
facing against a spec line, assert it against the geometry the renderer draws.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 16:28:20 +10:00
m3ultra
4c2702fc58 Lane B R27 w4: poseForShopFront — and the real towns face the wrong way
The micro-task, done and verified. In doing it I found why F photographed
empty road: it is not the pose.

1. THE DELIVERABLE — DBG.poseForShopFront(sel, dist = 8)
Poses at a NAMED shop's frontage: door centred, sign band + R26 crate mark in
shot, under the verandah. clusterPose() answers "where is the town's HEART",
which is the wrong question for a named shop — Red Hill's heart doesn't contain
Monster Robot, which is exactly how F got three frames of empty road.

Keyed through ONE shop selector: F's R22/R24 resolver lived inside enterShop(),
so I extracted it rather than grow a second key scheme beside it. A selector bug
resolves the wrong shop AND looks like it worked (F's own first cut proved it),
so the id-namespace law now has exactly one home.
  poseForShopFront(31)         → Wholefood Cafe (PLAN id) + ambiguous: "31 is
                                 also the godverseShopId of Silky Oak Furnature"
  poseForShopFront('g:31')     → Silky Oak Furnature (the prefix IS the fence)
  poseForShopFront('g:999999') → {error} — never throws, never guesses
Framing proven by projection, not by eye: doorCentreNdcX = 0.0000 exactly, door
+ sign + mark inside the frustum. Derived from buildings.js, not hardcoded: door
is centred on the lot front (off = 0, unlike poseForShop's off = 1.0); sign band
= min(h,FACADE_H)-0.35 ± 0.25 ⇒ y 2.40-2.90; mark = y 2.45-2.52; camY 2.0 sits
below AWNING_Y 2.95, so a ray rising to a target ≤2.9 can never cross it — the
sign is clear BY GEOMETRY at any distance.

2. CORRECTING MY OWN R27 INTEL — I gave F two wrong numbers. I said the mark
"rides high (y≈3.3)" and the vinyl blocks 4% of it. Both wrong: the mark is at
y 2.45-2.52, and I had scanned y 3.0-3.6 — empty awning air above the sign,
which is why it read ~0. Re-measured: the novelty_record disc (top y 2.50)
reaches INTO the mark band and clips ~15% of the strip from EVERY offset;
moving the camera only changes which 15%. "Shoot head-on" survives, but for the
opposite reason to the one I gave.

3. THE FINDING — every real town's shops face away from their street, since R18.
From Musgrave Road (Monster Robot's own frontEdge 1316) the shop is a blank grey
back wall: no sign, no door, no mark. Measured:
  redhill_godverse  35 shop lots: 0 facing, 35 backwards (dot = -1.000)
  katoomba_real     72 shop lots: 0 facing, 72 backwards (dot = -1.000)
  synthetic         correct — always has been
dot = -1.000 exactly on every lot in both towns: a convention, not a defect.
Katoomba's street_noon — the bookmark the tours have shot for nine rounds — is
46 draws / 19,680 tris of bare road.

Root cause: CITY_SPEC contradicts itself and each generator implements one half.
  CITY_SPEC:71  (lots contract) "World facing = (-sin ry, -cos ry)"  ⇒ -Z facade
  CITY_SPEC:335 (posters, R15)  "the +Z street facade (B's canon)"   ⇒ +Z facade
plan_osm.js:443 obeys the first (its comment: "facade (-Z) faces road").
plan.js, buildings.js, venue.js and the R15 posters obey the second. Synthetic —
the town every golden tests — follows B's canon and looks right, which is exactly
why nine rounds of real-town work never caught it. The epoch's own signature
species: a rule meeting a case written after it.

Proven, then REVERTED: one line in A's plan_osm.js (ry = atan2(-nx,-nz)) flips
katoomba 0/72 → 72/72 facing, and turns poseForShopFront's camera from 26m out in
a paddock into 4m from Musgrave Road — the money shot F specified. Not committed:
it is A's file, it moves every real-town plan (goldens re-pin under amendment
law), and a self-contradicting spec is Fable's to rule on, not mine to pick a
side of.

This also re-reads my R22 diagnosis: I recorded "chunk-buildings 348 tris (0.2%)"
in katoomba's busiest block and credited the instancing work. 348 tris is ~29
boxes — that was not efficiency, it was the buildings being ABSENT from frame. I
read the evidence as a win for five rounds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 15:42:50 +10:00
m3ultra
39cfc3d3ed Lane F R27 (v5.0): the tier-2 reader — pick-then-omit, and the server killed mid-session
#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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 14:34:42 +10:00
m3ultra
6960bdd279 Lane C R27 (v5.0): the tier-2 seam ruling + LANE_C_PUB v5-FROZEN (ledgers #2, #6)
SEAM RULING (§8): bless the direct wire — NO lifecycle hook. F already holds currentAdapter
(interior_mode.js:67) and passes it to dig.open() PER DIG (:111), so the live read lands, F
updates the pack, the next riffle picks it up; not-landed/slow/dead => the adapter is simply the
tier-1 pack => the dig never blocks (charter risk #1). No C lifecycle change.

BUT THE QUESTION UNDERNEATH IT IS C'S, AND THE OBVIOUS WIRING IS WRONG. pickRealOffers indexes
pack.items[(rr()*len)|0], so FILTERING THE ARRAY RESHUFFLES THE CRATE. Measured, 5 crates: one
record selling changed 21 OTHER records (6/2/2/6/5 collateral). Pick-then-omit (draw from the
stable full list, drop gone after) = 0 collateral: a crate with 3 sold shows 13, not a different
16. Selling one record must remove one record, not re-stock the shop.

THE TRAP: both forms hide the sold record — so F's planned assertion ("a real gone item never
renders") GOES GREEN ON THE WRONG WIRING. It cannot see the 21. -> F: assert on COLLATERAL (the
survivors are unchanged across a gone delta), not absence. Vacuous-gate law, third application,
and the cheapest to miss because it passes.

LANDED (dig.js): pack.gone (Set|array) omitted at PICK time. F's invariant published: update item
FIELDS in place (live price) freely; NEVER add/remove/reorder items[] — that identity+order IS the
seeded pick's stability (R25's positional-id lesson, one layer up).

DETERMINISM BOUNDARY sits exactly here: server down => byte-identical tier 1 (gate-able); server
up => the crate legitimately changes (tier 2 is non-deterministic BY DESIGN), so no gate may
assert dig determinism with the server up, and pack.gone never enters a seeded stream or golden.

SCOPED: the bin fan is decorative (a different seeded pick from the dig's offers) — a sold cover
may linger there until rebuild. That's when I'd publish a post-build hook; the epoch's claim
doesn't need it, because the crate you RIFFLE is true.

VERIFIED: pure-function measurement for the collateral claim, then end-to-end through the real
dig's public surface (pull -> Esc -> scroll -> pull): sold record gone, survivors 4/4, collateral
0, items[] untouched at 120, live in-place price shows on the next pull. (My first harness
returned the same title 4x — I never un-pulled — so its number was an artifact; re-ran it properly
rather than report a metric I'd just watched lie.)

DOCS FREEZE (§6): LANE_C_PUB is v5.0-FROZEN, whole document, with the case law at the top: three
amendments here exist because a rule of mine met a case written AFTER it, and both times the lane
building to my rule took the red. Header now states it: when a line meets a case it didn't
foresee, the line is the stale thing — amend it, don't bend the case.

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2026-07-17 13:53:02 +10:00
m3ultra
528829eeba Lane F R26 (v5.0-beta): the manifest consumed, the tolerance retired — tag HELD on the mint-id rule
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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2026-07-17 11:38:44 +10:00
m3ultra
2f4ab5912f Lane B R26 (v5.0-beta): the stocked shopfront reads from the footpath
Ledger #5 — B's polish pick. A stocked godverse shop now tells you it's
diggable before you reach the door: a crate of seeded spines under the shop
name, and a warm-lamp-over-crates room behind the glass.

Cost: +0 draws / +0 tris. The mark is painted into the chunk's EXISTING
sign-atlas cell; the window cue rides the EXISTING per-shop aTint attribute.
Nothing new is allocated or submitted.

The manifest is the authority, deliberately NOT the godverseShopId key: keyed
means "has a stock identity", the manifest means "a crate is actually here".
Marking keyed-but-unstocked shops would advertise a crate the shop hasn't got
— the street would lie. The mark does not leak tier: "you can dig here" is
equally true of real and mint; provenance belongs on C's price card and in E's
gates. (Second job for ledger #6's manifest, free.)

Measured — true A/B at one pose, manifest 200 vs 404:
  spine-marked sign cells   0 → 3 (18,768 exact-palette px)
  stocked window tint verts 0 → 36
  street_noon               65 draws / 115,502 tris → UNCHANGED
Stocked shopfront (Goulds Books, footpath): 85 draws / 144,730 tris — inside
street law (<=300 / <=200k). Cues agree with ground truth: 3 stocked shops
live → 3 marked cells, 9 stocked window quads.

Covenants re-proved (the prefetch is new code on the boot path), tested with
the manifest present on disk so a stray fetch would 200 and be unmissable:
  ?classic=1        0 keyed, 0 stock fetches, 0 errors  (zero-fetch covenant)
  default synthetic 0 keyed, 0 stock fetches, 0 errors
  manifest 404      18 keyed, fail-soft, 0 page errors

Three traps, self-caught: (1) a module-load fetch would have put a fetch delta
on ?classic=1 — restructured to a lazy reader + plan-driven prefetch, keyed
plans only; (2) the lazy trigger alone raced the first chunk build, so the
first stocked shop you approach built unmarked — prefetch moved to
createChunkManager, before any chunk builds; (3) the first "zero cost" was
VACUOUS (manifest never fetched, so nothing was applied) and the first pixel
detector reported 60 marked cells with no treatment at all — replaced with an
exact-palette signature that reads 0 in control. Vacuous-gate law applies to a
lane's own verification too. Corollary: force-cache serves a deleted file
(transferSize 0, status 200 while disk 404s) — poison the cache or you are
testing your own memory.

B consumes stock_godverse/index.json read-only and emits nothing into it; the
temp manifest used to prove this round was deleted — the directory is G's.
Shape-tolerant + fail-soft, so G's real emission needs no coordination with B.

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2026-07-17 09:49:54 +10:00
m3ultra
4f0adf12d8 Lane C R26 (v5.0-beta): three contract lines + the dig price sticker (ledgers #1, #4, #6)
Wave 1 — contract lines published first; G and E build to them.

#1 THE BRIEF SAID `tier`. IT CAN'T BE (§7.2b). G's atlases already emit tier: 1 = the CHARTER'S
LADDER RUNG (0 parody / 1 static-real / 2 live), and `kind` is already the stock type. A mint atlas
is ALSO rung 1 — same mechanism (a statically baked per-shop atlas); only the data's origin differs.
Real-vs-mint is an orthogonal axis, not a rung — overloading `tier` puts two meanings in one name,
the same species as the plan-id/godverse-id collision just standing-noted, and as R25's positional
ids. RULING: top-level `sourcing: "real"|"mint"`, REQUIRED; `tier` stays the numeric rung. A mint
index MUST NOT carry POS-snapshot fields (the separation is the honesty). Gates read `sourcing`;
absent => FAIL.

#4 `condition` ISN'T IN THE INDEX (§7.2c) — the ledger assumed it was. The index carries
artist/title/price/price_band; G's SNAPSHOT has condition + sleeve_cond and drops them at emit, so
pickRealOffers mapped cond:'' and the card rendered dangling separators around a hole. That WAS the
"database row". Ruled optional index fields, emitted when the source has them; no invented grades on
mint items (a plausible-but-fictional grade is what `sourcing` exists to prevent).

#6 THE ATLAS MANIFEST (§7.2d): stock_godverse/index.json is the authority for which shops carry
atlases — no entry => no fetch => zero 404s, so the zero-console-errors law holds with no
attribution exception. Shape + both-ways consistency specified. No manifest + no atlases = a
legitimate silent zero-shop state, not an error.

THE PRICE STICKER (code): the pull panel is now the shop's price sticker — manila card, rotation +
shadow, typewriter caps, italic title, a stamped condition grade, and the round yellow $ sticker the
sleeve art already uses (the panel echoes dig.js's own canvas language instead of fighting it).
Fields compose only when present: a missing field never leaves a stray separator.

VERIFIED (fresh context, 5 card shapes, both star branches): real grail VG+/VG + ★GRAIL; real
standard VG+ + STANDARD; real ungraded COLLECTOR (grade omitted cleanly); parody NM + 1973 PUNK;
parody rare (seed 4) VG + 1973 POP + ★RARE. No dangling separators anywhere.

The verification caught a defect in MY OWN card: a real grail read "GRAIL ★ GRAIL" — `s` carried the
price_band AND `rare` derived from that same band (parody is immune: its `s` is a genre). Fixed at
the mapping. And I didn't leave the parody-rare branch on assumption — scanned seeds until a rare
pull appeared and asserted it says RARE, not GRAIL. An unexercised branch is an unproven one.

Budgets: the card is DOM — zero draws, zero tris, no 3D change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 09:38:42 +10:00
m3ultra
29942002eb Lane F R24 (v5.0-alpha): THE CRATE WALKS — the per-shop wire + a gate that can't lie
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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2026-07-17 08:43:29 +10:00
m3ultra
a493c0a13c Lane A round 25 (v5.0-alpha): the sweep reconciled with Ruling 2 + the six pins (ledger #1)
All 8 tree reds cleared. selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,211/156,211; scaffold + consistency green; classic
0x3fa36874 and gig 0xb1d48ea1 frozen. F: the tag is unblocked from my side, nothing of mine is pending.

SIX OF THE EIGHT REDS WERE MY OWN GATE ASSERTING RULING 2 AWAY. I built the R24 identity arm on an
assumption that was true when I wrote it and false the moment G shipped: that a godverse cache is ALL
census shops. Ruling 2 makes it MIXED -- a keyed GODVERSE layer plus an inherited OSM texture layer that
G measured to be load-bearing, not cosmetic (census-only Red Hill: 306 m spacing warn + a poster inside a
kerb). So newtown_godverse (18 keyed + 54 texture) and redhill_godverse (10 + 27) were HEALTHY TOWNS MY
GATE CALLED BROKEN -- it fired 54/72 on a good town. Keyed asserts now run PER-LAYER over the keyed subset
only; unkeyed texture shops raise nothing. The validator's "N/M missing" warn dies with it. The one honest
requirement left at that layer: a `godverse+osm` cache must have a NON-EMPTY godverse layer (else it's an
osm cache wearing the wrong `source`) -- still a warn, for the R24 charter reasons that still hold.

THE UNIQUENESS CHECK WAS BROKEN IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. `new Set(all ids).size === shops.length` collapses
every `undefined` into ONE Set entry, so it (a) failed structurally on any mixed cache -- 54 texture shops
became one entry -- and (b) could HIDE A REAL DUPLICATE behind that same collapse. Now over DEFINED ids
only. And per the vacuous-gate law I made it prove it bites rather than asserting that it does:
validateTownCache rejects duplicates at the front door, so a dup can never reach the plan that way -- the
test feeds one STRAIGHT TO THE LIFT (generatePlanOSM does not validate) and asserts the predicate catches
it, with a healthy mixed cache passing the same predicate. A check nobody can watch fail is not a check.

NEW -- THE ORPHANED-ATLAS GATE (my own R24 finding, now enforced instead of filed). The lift legitimately
drops shops (overlap-resolve, counted since R19). Dropping a shop that HAS a committed atlas means real
stock keyed to a shop that isn't in the town -- exactly the failure I filed in R24, and one F's #7b could
only catch in a browser at the end of a round. Now a node gate: for each godverse town, every
stock_godverse/<id>/ on disk belonging to that cache MUST be seated, else FAIL. Subject-aware -- it SKIPs
by name when a town has no atlas, rather than passing quietly.

It already found one, benign today: redhill's lift drops keyed shop 2286 "Empire Revival" (10 keyed in
cache -> 9 seated). No atlas, so nothing is orphaned and the gate passes -- but it prints, because a drop
must never be silent (the R19/R20 ruling). G: stocking Empire Revival at the beta would orphan it. Monster
Robot Party is seated (lot 8), which is the one that matters this round.

THE SIX PINS, cross-checked two ways before landing -- byte-identical across two fresh processes, AND
matching the three values G stated independently in 86e2985:
  newtown_godverse  base 0xcf69b387  gig 0x1e266f60   (moved by G's keyed re-emit)
  redhill_real      base 0x6046700f  gig 0x673785ee
  redhill_godverse  base 0xb2224939  gig 0xc6f80e18
No other golden moved -- the diff is exactly these six lines.

Two lines still print; both deliberate, neither pending:
  ⊘ SKIP newtown_godverse orphaned-atlas -- correct, the only committed atlas (3962749) keys to Red Hill.
  ⚠ redhill_godverse: 1 keyed shop dropped -- the honest disclosure above.

Committed strictly by pathspec: F's six staged files sit untouched, exactly as its session left them.

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2026-07-17 02:23:57 +10:00
m3ultra
1eb0b45bd0 Lane A round 24 (v5.0-alpha): the identity field — godverseShopId, published first (ledger #2)
The optional shop key that resolves `stock_godverse/<godverseShopId>/`. Schema STAYS v2 (optional field ⇒
every shipped cache still valid, the 21 osm caches untouched by construction). Published to
web/assets/towns/README.md — the doc G and E build to — plus CITY_SPEC. selfcheck ALL GREEN (+15 checks),
synthetic 0x3fa36874 frozen, NO golden moved.

THE BRIEF'S "THE POS SHOP ID IS THE ID — NO MAPPING TABLE" IS FALSE FOR THE ONE SHOP THIS ALPHA IS ABOUT.
G's own docstring says it: Monster Robot Party is NOT in thriftgod's census, so its id is its DEALGOD STORE
ID 3962749, while census shops use thriftgod ids (max 2992) -- two disjoint spaces, deliberately kept clear
of each other. Had I coded "godverseShopId == shop.id" or derived it from the census, the headline shop
could never be keyed. So it is an OPAQUE key: no derivation from `id`, no equality assert, no mapping table
(the R12 gigKey law -- one key, zero mapping; G emits, everyone reads).

THE FIELD HAD TO SURVIVE THE LIFT OR IT WAS DECORATION. plan_osm builds a FRESH shop object and copies
nothing unknown, and the runtime reads plan.shops[], never the cache -- so a cache-only field could never
reach F's per-shop base. It's now carried through, CONDITIONALLY: absent ⇒ the key isn't written ⇒
JSON.stringify byte-identical ⇒ every pinned golden holds until G re-emits (that re-emit IS the sanctioned
move). Proven end-to-end: a keyed cache puts `stock_godverse/3962749/` on the plan with census ids
(101..107) coexisting alongside it.

ARMS SPLIT BY HAZARD, NOT TIDINESS:
- malformed  -> ERROR. It names a path segment; "3962749" vs 3962749 is the same folder but different JSON,
  and that coercion drift is the exact species that broke C's atlas contract (licence/license).
- duplicate  -> ERROR. Two shops keyed to one atlas IS mis-stocking -- charter risk #3 forbids it by name.
- missing on a godverse cache -> WARN + fail-soft to tier 0.

RECORDED DEPARTURE (Fable's to overrule): ledger #2 says validateTownCache "requires" the field; I made
MISSING a warn. Three reasons. (1) The charter's determinism boundary is "world = seeded, frozen, gated;
stock = data tiers" -- an error inverts it, failing to load a TOWN because its STOCK identity is absent;
tier 0 must always boot. (2) Charter risk #3 names the remedy for identity gaps: "fail-soft to tier 0,
never mis-stocked" -- missing IS the soft case, duplicate is the hard one; they are different failures and
now get different arms. (3) Sequencing: newtown_godverse carries 0 ids today, it is G's to re-emit in wave
2 (their namespace, no census DB on m3), so a hard error would red the tree for C and E through all of wave
1 to say what the warn already says.
The requirement keeps its teeth where R23 taught us to put them -- the VACUOUS-GATE LAW: selfcheck FAILS on
partial keying (a half-keyed town silently mis-stocks the rest) and prints an explicit
"⊘ SKIP ... 0/18 shops carry godverseShopId. Subject absent ... binds the moment one id lands" at zero. It
names its subject, proves it touched it with a count, and cannot pass vacuously.

FILED FOR G BEFORE THEY START (measured in wave 1, so it costs them minutes not a wave): redhill_godverse
cannot contain Monster Robot from EITHER source. godverse_town.py takes roads from the OSM donor and shops
from the census, and the shop is in neither -- not in the census (G's R23 finding), and NOT in E's
redhill_real, which I checked the moment it landed: 36 shops, ZERO of type `record`, nothing matching
/monster|robot/. As written the adapter yields a Red Hill of census charity shops while the atlas keys to a
shop that isn't in the town -- F's #7b id-equality gate would fail at the end of the round. It must be
injected explicitly; the opaque-key design exists precisely to serve that case. Second trap on the same
path: redhill_godverse must still clear MIN_TOWN_SHOPS (6) from the census bbox or the cache is rejected
outright (hard error). E's donor is otherwise good: valid, no warns, 73.3 m median spacing.

HOUSEKEEPING: removed toowoomba's two stale pins -- E retired the cache in R23, and a golden for a town
that cannot load can never fire (the vacuous-gate law, one layer down). E's attempt also proved my R23
spacing metric is GAMEABLE: the re-bbox fixed the median (395.7 -> 89.4 m, "passes") while hub density fell
3/12 -> 2/12, the pack's worst. It is necessary, not sufficient -- D's hub test is the complement, and E
used both and refused to game it. Ballarat (255 m) is still flagged and still E's call; I pin what moves.

PINS NOT TAKEN YET, DELIBERATELY: redhill_real is untracked/in-flight (E still editing build_towns.py), and
redhill_godverse + the re-keyed newtown_godverse don't exist until wave 2. Pinning a moving file buys a
false green or a spurious red. The round's law says A pins these BATCHED -- that batch lands when E commits
and G's caches are in.

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2026-07-17 00:45:45 +10:00
m3ultra
ba901d4a75 Lane C R24: the contract fix — the runtime is the authority (ledger #1, the root cause)
F held the tag because my published atlas contract and my own loader were mutually
incompatible. That was mine. Closed, and published FIRST so G and E re-emit against it.

WHAT WAS WRONG: my R22 §7 invented `stock_shop_<godverseShopId>_index.json`; the loader
(stockpack.js:25) fetches `${base}stock_${type}_index.json`. An index named per the contract
can never be fetched by the code meant to load it. G built runtime-compatible (correct), E
built contract-compatible (also correct — the contract said so), and E's validator globbed
stock_shop_*_index.json -> zero files -> vacuous pass. Nobody was wrong; the contract was.

§7 REWRITTEN AGAINST THE CODE (LANE_C_PUB):
- Authority rule: stockpack.js IS the contract; doc vs loader disagreement = doc bug.
- Layout ratified as G shipped it: assets/stock_godverse/<godverseShopId>/stock_<type>_index.json
  (`type` is load-bearing — SLOT_FOR picks the slot). stock_shop_* RETIRED.
  -> E: the glob becomes stock_godverse/**/stock_*_index.json (the vacuous gate's actual cause).
- Runtime-read vs ignored stated exactly: reads atlases[] + items[{atlas,uv}] (uv top-left, the
  loader flips V); ignores version/atlas_px/cell*/count/kind/tier/shop/crate/provenance.
- Provenance drift dies: runtime reads none of it, so the authority is E's validator + the 23
  shipped town caches -> TOP-LEVEL `license` (US), attribution, generator, snapshot. British
  `licence` retired; G lifts+renames those four, keeps its rich nested provenance{} as colour.
  atlas_px stays REQUIRED (checked against real dims). cell* informational — C reads uv, never
  cell; do NOT shrink the cell for VRAM (the dig renders covers close-up).

CODE (F's filed item): stockpack cache identity is now `${base}|${type}`;
getStockPack(type, base = DEFAULT_STOCK_BASE); new opts.stockBase on buildInterior = the seam F
wires. Omitted => town-wide packs, byte-identical to today. Pre-v5 callers untouched.

VERIFIED FRESH — and I fixed my own metric first: R23's "8/8 atlas-backed" only checked that a
map exists, but a parody canvas has a map too (same species as the vacuous gate). Re-asserted
falsifiably: every sleeve's texture source IS stock_godverse/3962749/stock_record_atlas_00/01.webp,
pack items == index items by id; negative control — the parody room's textures are (canvas, no src)
and touch the atlas zero times, so the metric discriminates. Collision FIXED (shop 120 + town 350
coexist). Fail-soft FIXED with a populated cache (missing base -> null -> parody). 98 draws with
real covers, pathOK, 0 carves, 0 console errors.

SCOPED NOT SLID: the LRU+dispose (§7.6) lands at v5.0-beta — one stocked shop can't accrete, and
safe eviction needs a room-exit hook (a live room holds the pack's shared material) that arrives
with F's per-shop preload. Written into the contract so it can't slide silently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 00:43:50 +10:00
m3ultra
47f05ecaa8 Lane D R23 (v5.0-alpha): the GIG_RANGE chunk-neighbour fix — scoped to the gig path (ledger #6)
My carried v4.x finding, fixed post-release as scheduled. Runtime-only: no plan, no
golden, no flag, no fetch. selfcheck ALL GREEN 161300/161300, 0x3fa36874 frozen.

THE FINDING GREW WHILE IT WAITED: filed at 8.7% (measured at katoomba's isolated pub);
A's R21 cluster bias made it WORSE — venues now sit inside the retail cluster where peds
converge from every side, so 42.6% of in-gig-range peds (5094/11971) were chunk-blind.

THE OVERRIDE (measurement wins): the brief asked for "extend to chunk + 8 neighbours"
AND "byte-identical flags-off". I built the literal version and measured that those
cannot both hold: on the synthetic town (what ?classic=1 boots, gig layer absent) a full
3x3 scan sourced 127 of 855 finds (14.9%) from neighbour chunks — finds v2 never made.
The frozen v2 crowd would shop ~15% more. Covenant breach, in a clause of the same brief.

So the fix is scoped to the GIG path — which is what I actually filed:
- ordinary shops: own chunk only (v2 semantics, frozen — noticed from its own block)
- gig venues: the full 34m radius, honest across chunk edges ("follow the sound" is the
  whole reason GIG_RANGE 34 > PATRON_RANGE 18)
- no gig on -> _gigVenues empty -> neighbour loop skipped entirely -> ?classic and every
  flags-off boot take the IDENTICAL code path and cost to v2. Byte-identical BY
  CONSTRUCTION, not by measurement luck.
Both ranges < CHUNK(64) so 3x3 is exact, not approximate; fixed dz/dx order keeps ties
deterministic as the old single-list scan was.

BEFORE -> AFTER: cross-chunk in-range peds seeing the gig 0% (structural: v2 scanned only
the ped's own chunk) -> 100% (katoomba 4/4, fitzroy 11/11). Same-chunk unchanged 100%.
Classic neighbour-sourced finds: 0 (127 under the rejected full scan). Determinism
identical. 0 NaN on katoomba/fitzroy/synthetic. Sim 0.056 -> 0.057 ms/frame (+2%, i.e.
0.006% of a 16.7ms budget); lookup 0.58us unchanged with no gig, 1.3-2.7us with a gig on
(fires per PATRON_STRIDE, not per frame). Fitzroy clean at 376 peds.

CARRIED, documented: PATRON_RANGE keeps v2's own chunk-blindness — fixing it costs the
classic covenant, and the covenant wins. A frozen v2 quirk now, not an oversight.
Known minor: a scheduled-but-closed gig still runs the loop for nothing (0.58->1.3us).

D->F: no blocker for v5.0-alpha; classic untouched by construction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 23:06:07 +10:00
m3ultra
292b07aa91 Lane A round 23 (v5.0-alpha): the spacing warn — D's thin-tail finding as law (ledger #5)
validateTownCache now warns when medianShopSpacing(cache) > MAX_MEDIAN_SPACING_M (150 m). Metric +
threshold exported from the barrel so no lane re-derives them. WARN, NEVER ERROR: a flagged cache still
boots a valid district (toowoomba shipped green through the entire v4.0 pack) — E curates, A flags.
selfcheck ALL GREEN 161,372/161,372 (+72); synthetic 0x3fa36874 frozen; NO golden moved (only E's
toowoomba re-bbox may move one this round, per the round's law).

THE THRESHOLD IS MEASURED, NOT PICKED. The brief offered darwin 27 m / toowoomba 388 m as "plenty of
daylight for a line" — but that's 2 points. Measuring all 23 towns shows a near-continuum, and the line
is FORCED into (119.3, 254.9]: braddon at 119.3 m is ALIVE by D's own hub test (7 shops within 160 m,
identical to darwin's 7), ballarat at 254.9 m is not. 150 m sits in the pack's widest gap (x2.14), with
1.26x margin below and 1.70x above. Flags 2 of 23.

TWO TOWNS FLAG, NOT ONE. The brief names only toowoomba (D spot-checked the two 12-shop towns). The
measurement adds BALLARAT at 255 m — nobody has looked at it, and it's independently one of the three
towns my R22 graded cluster fallback fired on (no venue candidate at the >=3-shops/160 m floor). Two
signals agree. Filed for E as a curation call, counted either way.

THE BRIEF'S ANCHORS WERE IN THE WRONG SPACE, AND IT MATTERS. D's 27 m is PLAN space (post-lift metres);
validateTownCache is CACHE space (raw lat/lon — the only thing that exists at ingest, and the layer where
a bad bbox must be caught). Darwin is 68.3 m in cache space, not 27. Interpolating a threshold between
D's figures would have silently mixed spaces. I verified the hypothesis before trusting it: computing the
metric plan-side reproduces D's numbers exactly (darwin 27.2 vs 27, toowoomba 386.8 vs 388, hubs 7 and 3).

Cache space is correct HERE and provably safe: the lift marches shops at a regularised cadence, so it
COMPRESSES dense towns (darwin plan/cache 0.40) but not sparse ones (toowoomba 0.98, ballarat 1.01) --
the error lives at the dense end, the warn only fires at the sparse end. Verified all 23 towns in both
spaces: exactly ONE disagrees, newtown_godverse (94.4 cache passes / 158.3 plan would warn). Filed for
G/Fable, NOT acted on: no cache-space line catches it without false-positiving braddon, and godverse is a
census subset (18 thriftgod shops over the footprint that carries 72 OSM shops) so its sparsity is
coverage, not a bad bbox — re-bboxing, the warn's only remedy, cannot fix it. Worth knowing since R23
stocks the real crate in that town and the beta asks "fitzroy_godverse if the census is dense there".

Also fixed en route: the R17 silent-fallback trap bit again in my own scratch harness — an unregistered
town key resolves to the melbourne fixture rather than erroring, so five towns silently measured
identical. Registered the caches; noting it because it has now cost two rounds.

Coverage: sparse cache warns + still boots (structural + district suites on a flagged town), compact
cache does NOT warn (no false positive), metric edge cases (< 2 shops -> null, coincident -> 0, no throw
on empty), and an exact-value check (a 100 m pair measures 100 m, projection sane).
Cost: ~1 ms/town at registration (25.6 ms for all 23 incl. fitzroy's 160 shops) vs a <100 ms plan budget.

E -> use the warn as your acceptance test for #4: re-bbox, re-run, warn goes silent = the town has a high
street. If your fix moves toowoomba's or ballarat's cache, ping me — goldens are mine to re-pin, and only
what you move.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 23:04:43 +10:00
m3ultra
8ac3b18b36 Lane F R22 (v4.0 — THE EPOCH CLOSE): the re-measure, the selector, the release tour, the tag
The blocking gate is CLOSED, and the epoch closes green.

- #1b THE BLOCKING RE-MEASURE: F's R21 re-measure made the tri diet blocking; B diagnosed layer-by-layer,
  the driver traced A -> E (A's own commit: "B's numbers say the fix is E's"), E fixed it, F re-measured:
  katoomba venue_night 221,935 (+11%) -> 108,365 (-51%); bendigo 201k -> 124,682; fremantle -> 88,397.
  Worst 124,682 — the 200k stress edge is closed. The measure-first loop worked end to end.
- #3 DBG.enterShop(selector) (Lane G's ask): id · registry type · exact name · name substring, resolved
  most-specific-first so an id-shaped string can't be shadowed. One-liner QA on any of 23 towns.
- #4 The release tour -> docs/shots/release_v4/: the Fremantle hero · the Fitzroy mecca · the Toowoomba thin
  tail · the synthetic control · the ?classic=1 covenant. Every real-town frame poses through F's R21
  cluster primitive; B's R22 bookmarks anchor on the same retail heart, so tour and bookmarks agree by
  construction. HUD hidden throughout (F's R21 ruling corollary).
  The primitive earned itself twice: the first cut posed via street_noon and the MECCA CAME OUT AS BARE
  BITUMEN — the same trap as R21. Re-posed through the cluster, Fitzroy reads.
- HONEST FINDING (filed v4.x): the brief asked for the thin tail as "proof the floor holds". It does not,
  and the frame says so — Toowoomba reads as an empty road. The floor is a RATIO, not a count: 0.008
  shops/edge vs the heroes' 0.06-0.08. Shipped labelled honestly rather than swapped for a flattering town.
- #6 Docs: README v4 section (the towns ARE the product), LANE_F_NOTES §22, F-progress.

qa.sh --strict --matrix GREEN 7/7; MATRIX GREEN — 10 towns × 7 gates (the budget gate green everywhere for
the first time); selfcheck 161,300/161,300 (A's 36 goldens + the 23-town pack).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 22:32:32 +10:00
m3ultra
af8a6db020 Lane B round 22 (v4.0): #3 per-town bookmarks — anchor on the retail heart (Lane G's filed bug) + F's primitive
ROOT CAUSE: every "nearest" resolver in dbg.js sorted by distance from the WORLD ORIGIN. That's the town
centre only on a synthetic plan -- a real OSM town is projected about its cache's bbox centre while its shops
cluster hundreds of metres away, so bookmarks teleported into arbitrary far-flung geometry, exactly as G
reported. Measured origin-pick distance from the retail heart: katoomba 408m, newtown 626m, fremantle 371m.

FIX: resolve bookmarks about the town's DENSEST SHOP CLUSTER (grid-bin shop lots at 120m; heaviest bin's
centroid = the retail heart) instead of the origin -- byDist, lotsByDist, streetViewPose, stopPose, and
crossroadsPose's tie-break.

GATED on the REAL-ROADS signal (edges > 200) -- the same primitive as the R20 tram fence -- so synthetic and
the marched fixtures keep their exact origin-centred behaviour and F's release-tour control shot cannot move.
The gate is load-bearing, not cosmetic: synthetic's anchor is only 117m out but it DOES re-pick (Anglibarn Op
Shop -> Dusty Pages), so an unconditional switch would have silently moved the control. Same reason the new
crossroadsPose tie-break is gated (a degree tie would otherwise resolve differently on synthetic).

Verified across the town set: synthetic(22 edges)/melbourne(15)/katoomba-fixture(15)/silverton(1) -> origin,
UNCHANGED; newtown_godverse(1626) -> anchor(98,-629); katoomba_real(993) -> anchor(-227,-625). G's own town
is fixed.

Result on katoomba: shopfront bookmarks went from ~408m adrift to <=42m of the retail heart (arcade 7m,
milkbar_dusk/patronage_door/shopfront_detail 24m, market_square 26m, dig_real 42m); strip views ~195m on the
high street; venue_night/queue_night ~345m (A's venue placement, not the bookmark). All 19 resolve, 0 errors;
synthetic 19/19 unchanged. warehouse_fringe sits 3,074m out -- correct by design (it's the far:true fringe
shot; on a 5km town the fringe genuinely is 3km away).

-> F (ledger #4, the shared posing primitive): published on the harness as DBG.townAnchor {x,z,n,anchored,ref}
   (the retail heart + whether it's in use) and DBG.clusterPose(kinds) (stand on the road at the densest
   cluster, look along it). Your cluster-pose finding as a dbg.js-consumable -- the tour and the bookmarks now
   resolve through the SAME primitive, so a tour shot and its bookmark can't drift apart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 22:01:41 +10:00
m3ultra
3face97046 Lane A round 22: absorb the town pack — 23 towns, 36 goldens pinned in one commit (v4.0, ledger #2)
E's 17 new towns + Lane G's newtown_godverse fed through the lift. ONE batched golden commit as
briefed: REAL_TOWN_GOLDENS + REAL_TOWN_GIG_GOLDENS go 5 -> 23 towns each, zero unpinned.

THE HEADLINE: everything built this epoch held at 23-town scale, FIRST TRY. 1,210 shops -> 1,133 seated
(77 dropped, 6.4%, all counted by cause); 1 CONNECTED COMPONENT and 3 VENUES on every one of the 23 towns.
fitzroy — 160 shops, 2x anything absorbed before — landed 139 seated, 1 component, 3 venues, 212 posters,
all invariants green. The junction-protected DP, fragmentation ruling, cluster bias, poster cap and
capacity fence needed NO new hardening: the pack needed absorbing, not fixing.

- Graded cluster fallback (the one refinement). Three towns have no candidate at the floor at all
  (ballarat/toowoomba/newtown_godverse top out at 2 shops within 160m); R21's bias switched off entirely
  there, stranding venues at 0. It now falls back to the DENSEST AVAILABLE — ballarat 0,2,0 -> 2,2,2,
  godverse 0,1,1 -> 2,2,2, toowoomba 1,0,0 -> 1,2,1. Fires only where the floor is unreachable, so NO
  already-pinned town moved (verified). Acceptance at pack scale: 20 of 23 towns have every venue >=3;
  the three above sit at their town's genuine ceiling — the carved-out case, stated explicitly.
- Drop outliers, counted not hidden: daylesford 19% (32 shops on a 171-road graph, the thinnest in the
  pack, all overflow), fitzroy 13%. RGAP is already 0.5m and NODE_CLEAR 3m; the only lever left is
  spilling overflow onto a DIFFERENT street, which buys a few percent by putting a shop on a road it
  isn't on. Same ruling as R20: drop and count beats teleport.
- selfcheck ALL GREEN 161,300/161,300; scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process deterministic
  (pack-xor 0xca140954). classic 0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched fixtures FROZEN.

Handshake -> C + D + F: the pack is in, 23 towns pinned, start your verifies. Tri diet (ledger #1): if
B's layer-by-layer names plan geometry as the venue_night driver, I own the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 21:55:05 +10:00
m3ultra
110c82833b Lane A round 21: venue cluster-adjacency bias — D's relocation finding (ledger #1)
D found katoomba's pub 1,000m from the retail cluster — a gig with no passing crowd. Measuring all
five towns first showed it was SYSTEMIC: 11 of 15 venues sat with <3 shops within 160m (newtown's were
0/0/1 — every venue stranded). After the bias: 0 of 15. Katoomba's pub 1 → 9. Castlemaine cleared without
needing the floor exception the brief anticipated.

- pickVenues builds a CLUSTER-ADJACENT field first (>= CLUSTER_MIN 3 shops within CLUSTER_R 160m), then the
  kind flavors (pub corner / band_room fringe / rsl off-spine) bias WITHIN that field rather than overriding
  it (per the brief: biases, not absolutes) — a fringe band_room in the cluster beats one a kilometre from
  anyone. A town with no cluster at all falls back to the pool.
- SYNTHETIC FROZEN BY CONSTRUCTION, not by luck. The brief assumed a blanket filter would be a no-op because
  'the synthetic town is one dense cluster anyway'. Measurement says otherwise: 4 synthetic candidates PER
  SEED sit under the threshold (min cluster 0-1), so a blanket filter WOULD have moved the frozen golden.
  Gated on plan.source === 'osm' (undefined on synthetic) — impossible rather than unlikely. The marched
  fixtures are 'osm' but genuinely dense (min cluster 3/11/13) ⇒ verified no-op.
- Only the GIG goldens moved (venue selection is gig-layer; base town goldens untouched): katoomba
  0xbf586b77, newtown 0xacdb3eee, fremantle 0xcf3426fc, bendigo 0x646b2c23, castlemaine 0xf9713a69.
  classic 0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched fixtures FROZEN. selfcheck ALL GREEN 66419/66419;
  scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process deterministic.
- FYI: E's v4.0 pack (glebe/marrickville/newcastle) already boots clean through my loader (validates + full
  suites pass), listed UNPINNED — I pin the pack in R22; it does not gate the beta tag.

Handshake → C + D: cluster bias landed, goldens re-pinned, start your verifies (before/after table in
LANE_A_NOTES §R21).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 20:37:45 +10:00
m3ultra
4b0144989b Lane B round 21 (v4.0-beta): town selector reads E's towns index (ledger #2, the missed R20 #5)
Closes the gap Fable caught (hud.js:11 still hardcoded REAL_TOWNS). The real-town list now comes from E's
web/assets/towns/index.json (procity-towns-index/1), so it grows with the town pack instead of being edited
in hud.js. Verified fresh Chromium. Nothing else touched -- tram/ground work is done and verified.

Fail-soft by construction: createHUD is synchronous, so the picker is built immediately from the fallback
literal and UPGRADED IN PLACE when the index resolves -- if the index never arrives, a working list is
already on screen.
- index present -> real names/states/shop counts: "Katoomba, NSW · 80 shops", "Fremantle, WA · 80 shops",
  "Newtown, NSW · 72 shops", "Bendigo, VIC · 36 shops", "Castlemaine, VIC · 24 shops" (roads:false -> "· marched").
- ?noassets -> the fetch is SKIPPED entirely (asset law; the shell doesn't load town caches there either).
  Measured: 0 index fetches, fallback list, 0 errors.
- anything wrong with the index -> the fallback simply stands. Exercised the exact chain: 404, network error,
  malformed JSON, towns:[], towns-not-an-array, junk entries (no key) -> none throws, none rebuilds from junk;
  only a good index rebuilds.

REAL_TOWNS_FALLBACK is retained ONLY as that fallback (comment says so), no longer the source of truth.
Verified live: booting katoomba_real shows "Katoomba, NSW · 80 shops" pre-selected; fits (193px of 230px max);
0 page errors; navigation unchanged (onchange is set once on the <select>, so rebuilding options never clears it).

-> F: unchanged from R19 -- NO shell seam (selector is entirely hud.js, already built by createHUD) and it
   lives inside #pc-hud so setVisible(false) hides it for the beta money shot. The gating call is still yours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 20:35:47 +10:00