PROCITY/G-progress.md

G-progress — GODVERSE lane (runs on ultra)

Lane brief: docs/LANES/LANE_G_GODVERSE.md. This file follows your progress-file convention — newest round first. Fable-on-ultra writing.

Round 23 (2026-07-16) — G2a: THE FIRST REAL CRATE + the G3 draft

Landed (branch lane-G-godverse, G namespace only — ready for your mid-round merge):

• pipeline/godverse_stock.py — the per-shop atlas pipeline, split at the snapshot boundary: snapshot (runs where the DBs are; freezes every source row + every cover's sha256) → pack (pure: snapshot + image bytes → atlas, no DB, no network). That split is deliberate — it's what lets E's validate_atlas gate G's output on m3 without the dealgod DB (ledger #4).
• pipeline/_godverse/monsterrobot_550.snapshot.json — the artifact of record (committed).
• web/assets/stock_godverse/3962749/ — 120 real records from a real crate: 2 atlases (2048², 256px cells, E's contract verbatim) + index with provenance.
• docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.md — the draft (ledger #2), incl. the write-back question framed for John (§7), now grounded in a real trading shop rather than a hypothetical.
• Verified: byte-identical re-bake (same snapshot → same bytes); uv ⊂ [0,1]; every item's atlas ref resolves; bands standard 58 / collector 56 / grail 6. Eyeballed the atlas: it's a real deep-house crate (Basement Jaxx, Byron Stingily, Angel Moraes, 4hero, Murk, Blaze).

THE HEADLINE FINDING — the brief's premise doesn't hold (all measured, R23): The ledger asked for "dealgod inventory → one real Newtown record shop". That can't be built:

• No Newtown record shop has stock in any database. Egg Records / Papa Disquo / Haze Guitars / The Vintage Record / Downtown Music: 0 items each.
• dealgod.stores is not a shop census — 8,754 of 9,285 are Discogs seller accounts. Zero Newtown stores, zero census name matches. It's an item feed, not a shop directory.
• thriftgod.item is a demo seed — 2,221 items across 29 shops, all Brisbane/Newcastle/Alice charity shops, zero record shops.
• mint() cannot produce tier 1: TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM (0.5) + random.random/uniform/shuffle, and random.seed appears nowhere in server.py. Non-deterministic, and it assigns other sellers' listings to shops that never owned them — which also voids the licence law's "the stores' own product shots" green and makes write-back meaningless. (G3 §2.)
• This is not risk #3's "fuzzy matching" — it's a population mismatch. Nothing to match to.

What we found instead — and it's better. monsterrobot (147 Musgrave Rd, Red Hill, Brisbane — John's ruling) is the same real shop in three datasets: recordgod (its POS: 28,624 live vinyl, 24,914 in 357 real crates with real labels and slot numbers), monsterrobot.party (its own site — the covers are the shop's own product shots), and dealgod store 3962749 (the scrape; the cover cache + the godverse id). 99.3% of its crate stock joins to a cached cover by Discogs release_id. Not in thriftgod's census, so its godverse id = its dealgod store id 3962749 (real, stable, clear of the census space — thriftgod max shop id = 2992). Drops counted: 120 of 122 in crate 550 baked; 2 dropped (no own photo).

Rulings received from John this round (recorded):

1. The crate ships as the shop it really is — Red Hill, Brisbane, not Newtown.
2. Real titles/artists at tier 1 — an amendment to the no-real-trademarks law that build_stock_pack.py enforces (it parody-transforms metadata). Same shape as the licence law: in-house 🟢, flagged before anything public. Recorded in every atlas's provenance.

Asks — two things gate the crate reaching a room, and both are outside G's namespace:

1. [C + F] Per-shop packs aren't wired at runtime. stockpack.js caches by type alone (_packs/_resolved), and interior_mode.js:192 does getStockPack(shop.type) with base fixed to assets/models/. R23's single shop works via a base override, but two stocked shops collide in that cache — so this blocks v5.0-beta, not just ledger #3. Seam needed: key the cache by type + base (or godverse_id) + preload per-shop on entry. C owns the wording (LANE_C_PUB); G re-emits to whatever lands.
2. [E, via Fable] The crate has no street. redhill_real doesn't exist; westend_real is the only Brisbane cache and stops ~2.3 km south. Needs a build_towns.py TOWNS entry (~center: (-27.4553, 153.0064), span_km: 2.4) + one Overpass fetch, then godverse_town.py redhill_real redhill_godverse. That's E's file and an outward-facing fetch — G touched neither. Note monsterrobot must be added to the godverse cache's shops[] as id 3962749 (it's not in the census); godverse_town.py takes shops from thriftgod only, so that's a small G change once you rule on the town.

Environment note (matters for reproducibility): this ran on the m3, not ultra — the box has neither thriftgod nor dealgod Postgres. Both were restored/read from John's mounted backup drive (/Volumes/johnking/db-backups, 2026-07-15 dumps); dealgod (2 GB gz) was never restored, its cover map was streamed straight out of the dump (command recorded in godverse_stock.py:load_image_map). This is better for the charter's snapshot discipline, not worse: the dump date is pinned in every snapshot's provenance. I left two restored DBs on the m3 (thriftgod, recordgod) — say the word and I'll dropdb them.

Fences held: PII — recordgod holds real customer/staff/sales; the pipeline reads only inventory/crate/disc_cache, and G3 §9 makes that a standing fence. Licence — covers are the shop's own shots, in-house 🟢, flagged before public, provenance in every atlas.

Round 1 (2026-07-16, ultra) — the marriage's first artifact

Landed:

• pipeline/godverse_town.py — thriftgod PG census + donor OSM cache → <key>_godverse.json (schema v2, source: "godverse+osm"). Deterministic, stdlib+psycopg2, runs where the DB lives (ultra). Type map thriftgod→registry: music→record, charity/second_hand/antiques→opshop, books→book, toys/games→toy, video_games→video, pawnbroker→pawn, market→dept.
• web/assets/towns/newtown_godverse.json — 18 REAL Newtown shops (Sydney; DealGod census) on your real 1,086-road graph (roads donated from newtown_real, attribution extended).
• Verified on ultra: boots via ?plansrc=osm&town=newtown_godverse&seed=20261990 — splash and HUD show Newtown, selector shows "Newtown Godverse · OSM fixture", streets render, 25 chunks / ~78 draws. Real shop names should render on facades exactly as your fictional ones do (data-driven) — not yet eyeball-confirmed on a specific facade (see bookmark ask below).

Found while verifying (asks, no files touched):

1. Per-town bookmarks: DBG.teleport('shopfront_detail') on an OSM town lands inside geometry (synthetic-town coords). Suggest bookmarks resolve against the active plan.
2. DBG.enterShop(selector) — took neither a type nor a shop name from the cache; a name/type/id selector would make cross-repo QA one-liners. (Your harness is excellent — info/teleport/shot made this round's verification trivial.)
3. Sync: gitea origin/main is at 06fe648 (R20 kickoff); the m3 clone holds R20 lane commits beyond that (up to 94e56ed). Push when the round closes so ultra tracks you.

Context from the ultra side (useful to A–F):

• MODELBEAST grew: trellis_mac (local TRELLIS.2 image→3D, ~$0, proven 15/15 on thriftgod's Tier-1 props), sf3d, bg_remove_local, mflux_image_edit, seedvr2_upscale all live on the m3's own queue (:8777). Lane E's "HF-gated, setup needed" note is stale — weights are unlocked.
• ⚠️ Do NOT run trellis_mac output through the MESHGOD finish farm — its fill_holes+decimate shreds 200k-tri marching-cubes meshes (proven on ultra, post-mortem in dealgod memory). The working pipeline: raw GLB → npx @gltf-transform/cli optimize --compress draco --texture-compress webp --texture-size 1024 --simplify-error 0.01 → 0.4–1.8 MB at raw-quality look.
• Which collides with your no-Draco law → the ruling ask in the lane brief. If no-Draco wins, same command minus --compress draco (files ~2-3× bigger, still fine); if Draco wins, three.js needs the DRACOLoader wire your vendored addons already include. Either is one re-emit; the depot should hold ONE law.
• 15 thriftgod hero props sit in OPSHOPGAME/tools/props_out/game/ on ultra (record-crate, rummage-tub, teapot, crt-tv, suitcase, mannequin-bust…) — op-shop interior dressing your Lane C might want; John is picking keepers for the 3GOD depot now.

Next round (G2, proposed): real-stock atlases — dealgod inventory → build_stock_pack.py per-shop record/book atlases keyed by the godverse shop id, behind ?stock=real. Contract I'd like C/E's eyes on: atlas file per shop vs per town; budget per interior; cache invalidation when stock sells (thriftgod items are one-of-a-kind — sold means GONE, which is the whole GODVERSE magic: the crate you riffle is a real crate in a real shop).