§36.4 held -> ruled -> RESOLVED: Fable ruled 'classic keeps its people', D fixed
it in rigs.js alone (2fd4c1c: base-17 restored, the five DJ bodies append behind
djs=dance riding the shell's existing !CLASSIC signal; classic's 129-citizen
census byte-identical to a b339402^ shadow tree). F's full-suite re-gate on the
true final tree (run 3): SUMMARY 7 passed / 0 failed / 0 warn / 0 skipped, QA
GREEN, MATRIX GREEN 10 towns x 7 gates, flags harness 0 fails / 0 WARNS — the
smoke_djdance warn flipped to '?classic=1: zero DJ-body fetches'; default keeps
all 22 bodies, the organic gig-crowd proof, and the DJ figure-scale statures
exactly. Honest record: re-gate runs 1-2 died to a box-level fork famine
(~10,600 leaked m3panel pmset|tail orphans, fixed at source) — starvation
artifacts, not gates; noted in §36.5.
The five-holds law end-to-end in one round: held by F, ruled by Fable, fixed by
the owning lane, re-proven by the gate that held it. Nothing improvised.
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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.
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README: the v7.0 section (the loop dig->guide->want->travel->list->paper, the
delta-law machinery, the classic covenant) + the morning-paper manual row.
V7_THE_GAME.md: the five charter risks get their retired-or-carried verdicts,
v4-style, written by F under the single-lane-close ruling: economy RETIRED-
structural (the named bot verifier carried to the live tier) · schema drift
RETIRED (three optional widenings, zero migrations) · re-emit identity CARRIED
(never fired; owned-item stability check unbuilt — the next re-emit round owns
it) · scope gravity RETIRED (the stage gates held) · v6 collision RETIRED (the
2 a.m. commits were the one contact, swept R36w1 + gated R36w2).
LANE_F_NOTES §36 + F-progress: the close record — both playtests, E's three
flags closed by measurement, the DJ-roster hold, the full gate numbers
(7 passed / 0 failed / 0 warn / 0 skipped · flags 0 fails / 1 warn (deliberate)
· selfcheck 156,352/156,352 · figure-scale 29 figs incl. the 5 DJ bodies ·
MATRIX GREEN 10 towns x 7 gates · R32-35 smokes re-green on the final tree).
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interior_scale_check.py grows the DJ-body leg (E flag a): the 5 trellis bodies
(b339402) spawned BY NAME through the real browse path — bind skeletons measure
0.984-0.989 UNITS vs the legacy roster's ~173 (cm convention), rigs.js:163
span-normalise absorbs it: statures 1.64/1.71/1.81/1.87/1.89 m, all [1.4,2.0],
feet planted, rig-kind verified. The old sample's (i*7)%19 could never reach
fleet indices 17-21 — the subject is now provably exercised.
flags_check.py grows STRICT smoke_djdance (E flag b: gate on binds + NaN, never
node counts): 4 Rokoko clips bind 64/65 tracks (sole unbound mixamorigReference
— E's census reproduced at runtime); gig dancers clip-driven (identity by
duration, mixer advancing, position.y FLAT); ?classic ZERO dance-clip fetches
(positive control: default fetched 4); ?noassets procedural sway ALIVE (amp
0.067 m vs clip-driven 0.00 — the inverse pair proves the branch).
ONE WARN, deliberate (the held finding, machine-recorded): ?classic fetches the
5 DJ body GLBs — unconditional PED_NAMES.normal members (D's file), which also
widened classic's crowd pool 17->22 ungated. Held for Fable per the five-holds
law; F did not improvise in D's file during the close.
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046668e + b339402 provenance'd: 4 dance clips are ROKOKO free mocap (263 pack,
Mixamo-skeleton export — the brief's Mixamo guess corrected by measurement; new
licence-table zone) and there are FIVE trellis DJ bodies, not three. All 9
sha1-identical to their 90sDJsim originals; chain recorded to source FBXs.
Structural: clips mesh-free 68n/198t/52-joint skin+IBM, 0 NaN, bind 65/66 (only
mixamorigReference unbound); bodies 3998-4000 tris, 1024 webp, no Draco, ped law
PASS. FLAG -> F w2: bodies' bind-pose ~0.99 units vs roster ~175 (cm) — the
figure-scale gate's expected number; rigs.js:163 absorbs it at spawn. No file
touched, nothing fixed in place.
Depot: published per R22 standing authorization via tailnet ingress,
_published.json 44->53, all 9 fetched back from the public depot byte-identical.
validate_manifest 0/0, publish --verify 53/53 live.
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The v7.0 charter's money shot, driven through the REAL loop on the pinned seed: arrive hunting
(the splash mission) → the strip → the shop (rumor overhead) → THE GEM (THE VERANDAHS 'Tinny',
asking $19 against ★ RARE guide $60+ — with onboarding beat ③ visible below, walking its talk)
→ the crate → dawn day 2: '⚖ SOLD Tinny — hammer $89, $78 after fees'. Bought $19, hammered
$89: the loop, told in six frames. docs/shots/v7_tour/ + sequence README. What remains for the
v7.0 tag is deliberately NOT mine: docs freeze + John's playtest (hands before tags).
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qa.sh --strict --matrix: 7 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped, MATRIX 10 towns green. New
STRICT smoke_first_five: the fresh game hunts a roster artist and the splash names hunt + cash
· the beats walked the REAL paths (② at the crate, ③ on the buy, the send-off on the ⚖) · a
returning save gets no tutorial · a second fresh browser hunts the SAME artist (seeded, not
random) · ?game=0 shows nothing · 0 console errors. THE CROSS-ROUND CATCH: the seeded want
moved a fresh-boot invariant (wants 1, not 0) and the R33 gate went red on the FULL run while
green solo — amended to a baseline snapshot, lesson filed in §35 (a feature that moves a boot
invariant must sweep every gate that assumed it; full runs exist for exactly this). Money shot:
docs/shots/v7_beta/first_five_splash.png. Remaining for v7.0: the tour + docs freeze + THE TAG
— which waits for John's hands (the alpha precedent).
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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.
qa.sh --strict --matrix: 7 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped, MATRIX 10 towns green. New
STRICT smoke_godbay: consigned through the real crate DOM · ONE-HAMMER determinism (a frozen
pre-sleep export slept twice lands byte-identical — the seeded gavel, measured not trusted) ·
honest bounded resolution (net $19 ≤ 2×$24×0.88) · the wake toast carried the morning paper ·
the ride to melbourne hammered a listing on arrival · ?game=0 has no crate to list from · 0
console errors. Money shots in docs/shots/v7_beta/ (the dawn paper + the ⚖ crate). The full
v7 loop now closes end to end: dig the gem → keeper cash now or the gavel tomorrow → the
wantlist points at another town → the ride costs a day and hammers your listings on arrival.
Remaining for the v7.0 tag: THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES (onboarding), the tour, docs freeze — and
John's hands on the whole thing.
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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.
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).
qa.sh --strict --matrix on the final tree: 7 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped, MATRIX 10
towns green. New STRICT smoke_wantlist_travel: ☆→★ through the real card (the save carried
{THE VERANDAHS — 'Servo at Midnight'}) · a keeper muttered the hunted artist within 2 shops
('saw one in Castlemaine just last week') · buying the wanted sleeve cleared the hunt · the
synthetic→melbourne ride cost EXACTLY one day with $179 and the find riding along · the
same-town reboot was free (the control discriminates) · the ride home charged again (day 3) ·
?game=0 built zero want DOM and muttered nothing · 0 console errors. Matrix note: town_matrix
shares one browser across towns so travel drifts the day as it walks — safe because
determinism double-boots the SAME town (free by the same-town rule); reasoned before landing.
Money shots: docs/shots/v7_beta/rumor_and_wantlist.png (the keeper's mutter over the toy
shop's 70s wallpaper + THE WANTLIST open in the crate) + want_card.png. README manual row.
v7.0-beta systems are now ALL BUILT — what remains of v7: Esc-in-person (John's hands), then
the v7.0 close (GodBay offline auctions, THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES, the tour, the tag).
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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).
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.
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.
qa.sh --strict --matrix on the final tree: 7 passed · 0 failed · 0 warn · 0 skipped, MATRIX 10
towns green. New STRICT gate smoke_bible: band law over EVERY bin off the digOffers surface
(80 offers/5 bins), the buy-everything ledger runs on THE GEM'S BIN so the finder-margin leg is
non-vacuous (bin1: 2 gems, grail asking $19 vs keeper $30; ledger closes to the cent — Σask
$333 → Σoffer $135, gems alone +$21, every non-gem strictly negative), scarcity measured
(emptied bin 0/16 on re-open AND across a full reload; 16 pulls in the save) with the ?game=0
negative control re-opening 16/16 (the detector discriminates). sell_routing amended from the
alpha inequality (credited < paid) to the exact formula (credited == min(basis−1, basis//2),
basis = bandLow-or-pricePaid) — the fence moved from the receipt to the band, which is what
charter law #2 always said; it passed on a banded standard item (+$4 on basis $8). _at_bin
grows an idx param (back-compatible). Money shots in docs/shots/v7_beta/ (the guide card + the
crate at the counter). LANE_F_NOTES §32 (incl. the JING5 fresh-checkout trap: gitignored
web/assets/models synced from m3ultra — also un-warned the validator's 15 cross-pack checks).
README manual: the guide/gem/scarcity rows. Remaining beta charter queued in the round doc:
wantlist + rumors · travel costs a day · Esc-in-person · then GodBay.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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R28's gate had no subject and SKIPPED with its reason printed (look.glb was published, verified,
sha1-proven off the depot — and nothing bound it). D bound it in wave 0. The gate is now
permanent, and flags_check is GREEN:
✓ default boot: look.glb BOUND — 6.5s, 64 tracks
✓ the glance REACHES THE GAME — peak 46 of 396 peds glancing · 0 console errors
✓ ?classic=1: look.glb NEVER FETCHED — the zero-fetch-delta covenant holds
✓ ?classic=1: glance inert at the source — 0 of 269 peds, AND the rng stream still draws
That last line is the design, and it is D's cleverness: THE DETERMINISM IS IN THE DRAW, NOT THE
OUTCOME. D takes from a dedicated glanceRng stream always — so the seeded sequence is identical
whether or not a clip exists — and only flips the flag when fleet.lookClip is real. Under
?classic the roll still happens, the flag never sets, nothing is fetched, the covenant stays
byte-identical. A behaviour added without touching a hash.
The gate asserts the clip's ABSENCE under classic, not merely "0 glancing" — because "0
glancing" alone passes on a fleet that failed to load at all. Present-on-default + absent-under-
classic is the pair a broken fleet cannot satisfy.
F'S OWN GATE CRASHED THE SUITE FIRST: the subject check used pg.goto() on a .glb, which starts a
download, aborts the navigation, and took flags_check down before one assertion ran. A gate that
DIES looking for its subject is worse than one that skips — it reports nothing at all and takes
the suite with it. Now it reads the disk. The vacuous-gate law has a sibling: a gate must survive
its own subject being absent.
No tag — wave 0 rides Spike 2's close, gated on John's footage.
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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.
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qa.sh --strict --matrix 7 passed / 0 failed / 0 warn. selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352 —
UNCHANGED, confirming the brief's prediction that nothing this round moves a golden. MATRIX
GREEN 10 towns x 7 gates.
F'S POSE GATE HAS NO SUBJECT — SKIPPED with the reason printed, per the vacuous-gate law. The
brief asked for "lean/look poses through the scale gate" and "leaning peds in old frames". There
are no new poses in the game:
· `lean` DOES NOT EXIST. E measured instead of trusting the list — the stash's 34 clips have no
lean, and find -iname "*lean*" across ultra returns nothing. Brief and kickoff both called it
already-cached. The premise was half wrong, and E found it the only way these are ever found.
· `look.glb` is shipped, verified, published, sha1-checked by fetching the bytes BACK off the
public depot — AND NOTHING BINDS IT. loadPedFleet() loads walk, idle, sit. No look. E's
handoff said it plainly ("-> D: gate it behind an opt the way rigs.js gates sit"); D's entire
R28 commit is LANE_D_NOTES.md, 48 lines, docs only. The run order said "when E's clips land:
D (#1 wiring)" — the log says D committed BEFORE E shipped.
Nobody was careless; the wave order was. Every check E ran was real and passed, and none of them
could see that no consumer exists. A GATE ON THE ARTIFACT CANNOT SEE THE WIRE — fifth appearance
of the R17 pattern this epoch and the cheapest yet to have missed, because the artifact was
perfect.
v5.1 SHIPS ANYWAY, AND DOES NOT CLAIM THE SPIKE. An unbound clip is inert: nothing is broken,
the game is unchanged and correct. This is not R18's "known breach", it is an unfinished item,
and holding a polish tag over an inert file would be precious. What ships is the sweep:
C's audioEmitter (its own v3.0 note had specified it wrong on both halves — "the panner was
inert"), and TWO backlog items KILLED WITH THE MEASUREMENT — B's awning ripple and D's
instrument LOD, the oldest tri item on the books. They don't leave the backlog "deferred"; they
leave it gone, with the number that killed them.
Filed for R29 (D, one opt): rigs.js gains `look` the way it gates `sit`; F passes it from the
shell. Then the pose gate has a subject and F runs it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
