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>
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