Research provable end-to-end on DATA's real tree (realtech.test.ts), not
just a fixture. Cooler aura ~triples a hot generator's run. Constants
exported. Reference factory ships slabs.
For the orchestrator:
- the demo needs one line from you: the reference build uses two gated ids
so it is a post-research save now. Dispatched cold it comes up 100 draw
vs 80 gen and browns out -- I watched it. referenceFactoryTech(data)
names the techs; testkit.grantResearch() opens them. Proposing a dev-only
{kind:'grantResearch'} command instead of importing test helpers
- DATA fixed the tech bootstrap mid-round and was right to: it was circular
and 0 of 24 techs were affordable at start
- asic-cooler still has no coolRadius, so its aura is inert in the game
- cooling cap 0.05/tick is my call; reasoning in NOTES
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All five orders shipped. The honest parts: SIM's research gating breaks SIM's
own reference factory at HEAD (GEN 80 vs DRAW 100, permanent brownout), nothing
in the game can make a science pack so research can't be performed by playing,
and the order's numbers went stale mid-round for the third round running.
No contract requests; one proposal (grantResearch, so tests stop coupling to
the save schema).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verification numbers; the lock-rule divergence with UI (they were right, I was
wrong — the scrammed lesson misapplied); the showroom overflow postmortem; one
contract request (an inspected-entity channel for placed-and-selected auras).
Notes that round 3's MODELBEAST manifest is stale — ?showroom is the live one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 4 orders, all five.
The headline is a bug I authored: the v4 gating rule (any id in a
TechDef.unlocks is locked until that tech completes) turned three rounds of
tech authoring into a total bootstrap deadlock. Measured: melt not producible
at tick 0 (first-taste impossible), 0 of 24 techs reachable — every pack chain
gated behind packs you cannot make. disc-artifact-bottling cost 10 analog packs
and unlocked the only machine that bottles analog packs.
Fixed as a shape, not a patch, and both rules are now tests:
- the M1 melt chain is starting equipment (so first-taste is possible, and
RENDER's era derivation correctly reads it as starting equipment)
- one pack is craftable at tick 0 — SPATIAL, made from the quantizer's own
sins, so your first research is a study of your own damage
23/23 nodes now reachable; six emptied disc nodes deleted (no lane references
tech ids).
Also:
- §10 THE COMPOSITE SEAM transcribed: alpha/hard-matte/blue-hole/fringe-lace/
green-spill/mixed-pixel/roto-chatter/ghost-feather/sodium-light (forward
canon), matte bath, optical printer, chroma keyer, roto bench, neural keyer
(powerDraw 240 — the codex's "appetite that dwarfs everything").
- ARCHAEOLOGY LAB canonized (kind: lab), ungated — a lab behind research is a
lab you can never build.
- ASIC cooler live: the round-3 spec of 0.02 would have meant "never heats,
free 100/s". Retuned to 0.0018, sane under both readings of the contract.
- accents where output-derivation can't work; CODEX_REF regex widened for §10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records that my ten round-3 src/render files reached main inside d1c3f2b
"[sim] round 3 NOTES": the five lanes share one working tree AND one git index,
so SIM committing with -a swept up my staged files. Not a SIM ownership
violation — that commit's render diff is mine. Already pushed and four sessions
are live on this history, so it stays as-is.
Proposal: a git worktree per lane (one index each, one shared repo) would end
this class of accident. Staging discipline can't — the loser is whoever happens
to have files staged, not whoever was careless.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verification numbers, the prod-leak postmortem, and the showroom's contents as
a 23-row asset manifest (asset key / era / footprint) — every row a live
hot-swap target. One contract request (setGhostMode), filed jointly with UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Confirms the units conversion (bufferCap 240 = 8.0s of cover at a 30/s
deficit) and reports scram survival: first scram t434, restart t934,
~718-tick duty cycle, ZERO brownout ticks across 20k, melt rate unchanged.
For the orchestrator:
- heat semantics need a one-line ruling. heatPerTick is GROSS in my model
(net = heatPerTick - coolPerTick). DATA's committed 0.0025 against the
0.004 default nets negative -- the decoder could never scram. Their
in-flight 0.0033/0.001 works, so we agree by luck of timing.
- the codex's literal bloom loop is not expressible with per-grade recipes
- asic-cooler does nothing without a spatial heat mechanic
- my sim code landed inside 45003db [ui] REMOVE mode: the shared tree has
one git index and an add-everything commit in another session swept it.
Not a UI ownership violation. Suggest a no-`git add -A` rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shipped 1-4, skipped the tech panel (tech.json is still []). The honest parts:
the reference factory can't ship anchor slabs so the SANITISING premise didn't
hold; live pressure verification is impractical in the browser pane (paused rAF
+ HMR churn) so it's headless against the real sim; and I nearly reported
commissionQueue as unpublished before a probe caught SIM landing it mid-round.
Two contract requests (setGhostMode to kill the __remove magic string,
MachineDef.accent) and a ?uidemo proposal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Boots createSim() + createUI() on the real data/*.json, builds
referenceFactory(), and pumps ticks through the same update(snap, events) path
main.ts uses — then reads the actual DOM. No mocks.
Confirms what the round asked to see with eyes but the harness wouldn't allow:
heat climbing to THROTTLING and then SCRAM on a software decoder (inspected via
the real pickTile -> entityAt -> open click path), the unit still reading SCRAM
while it cools back below 1.0, SANITISING on real anchor-slab shipments,
NEXT IN TRAY matching SIM's real queue, a real standing order reaching the head
and stamping the fax, and remove mode demolishing a real entity.
Why headless: the browser pane backgrounds the tab, which pauses rAF, so the
live page advances ~10 ticks per screenshot — SCRAM needs ~435 ticks of
continuous generation, and parallel lanes' HMR reloads wiped the world every
minute or so. Same code, deterministic, milliseconds, and it stays a regression
test.
The reference factory never ships anchor slabs — it recycles them into the
i-only assembler by design — so the SANITISING case demolishes that assembler
and drops an uplink on it, which is what a player would do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured after LANE-UI landed live.test.ts: their THROTTLING/SCRAM HUD tests
fail on round-2 data and pass on round 3 (heat was decorative before). Their
remaining anchor-slab failure is independent of data — fails identically
either side of the retune; likely the reference layout circulating recovered
slabs back into the assembler instead of an uplink.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 3 orders, all six. The validator move landed in 4803b6a (swept into
LANE-SCREEN's commit by the shared index); this is the rest.
- heat retune: round 2's numbers were below the sim's always-on cooling, so
nothing could ever warm up. Decoder now 100 gen at 0.0033 heat / 0.001 cool
-> throttles 10.2s, scrams 14.5s, 23.9s cycle, 25.8/s average (1.29x the
ASIC). Verified against LANE-SIM's real sim, not just arithmetic.
- powerGen had to move: the scram/restart hysteresis forces ~30% duty, so at
55 gen the decoder averaged worse than a steady ASIC and nobody would build
one.
- two new tests refuse decorative heat (per-tick and per-craft). They caught a
fresh instance of the same bug in chart-stco-map before it shipped.
- bufferCap 240 -> 300: one tank now covers exactly one decoder scram.
- ASIC COOLER spec'd (aura deferred to M4, no contract field requested yet);
THE MUXER + moov brain sub-lines; reel + broadcast era tech.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SIM landed heat this round, so I read their implementation: `scrammed` lives
on their internal Ent, never on EntityState; they deliberately clear `jammed`
on scram ("reported by its own event, not as a flow jam"); and Renderer only
ever receives snapshots, never events. So the latched-off state is not
snapshot-visible at all.
A plain `heat >= 1` test (what I shipped earlier today) therefore un-scrams the
moment a machine starts cooling. With HEAT_RESTART=0.5 and dissipation
0.004/tick, the sim holds it dead for ~125 ticks (~4s) while heat falls 1.0 ->
0.5 — the renderer showed it alive, glowing and animating, that whole window.
Now latches at 1.0 and releases below SCRAM_RELEASE=0.5, mirroring them.
Verified: 1.0 dead -> 0.7 STAYS dead -> 0.3 releases and recovers.
This duplicates SIM's constant, which is the wrong place for it to live —
EntityState.scrammed is filed as a contract request with the evidence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verification numbers, the MachineDef.color conflict written up in full, and
3 contract requests (settle color's meaning, EntityState.scrammed, BeltItem.side).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reference factory holds: melt at tick 1247, still shipping at 20,000,
demuxer never jams. Heat curve and scram/throttle decisions documented.
Main thing for the orchestrator: data/ has none of the v2 fields, so heat
and buffer tanks are implemented and tested but inert in the real game --
the software decoder cannot overheat until DATA gives it a heatPerTick.
Suggested starting values included. One contract request: coolPerTick.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shipped/verified list, and the honest parts: happy-dom was granted but never
installed; STANDING ORDER and SANITISING are built but unreachable until the
sim advances commissions and a chain gets fed; NEXT IN TRAY infers the queue.
Three requests (commission queue on snapshot, sim commission rotation,
happy-dom) and a remove-button proposal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 2 orders, all seven.
- data/CANON-DELTA.md: ledger of every invention beyond the codex, with the
rationale and the arithmetic behind the numbers.
- colour + flavor on all 21 machines (kills UI's hardcoded lookup and RENDER's
black-on-black); desaturated industrial per style guide §8.
- heat: software decoder 45->55 gen at 0.0025/tick (throttles 9.3s, scrams
13.3s) so it's a burst generator, not a better ASIC; a pinch on the splicer.
- bufferCap 240 = 10s of the reference chain's one-decoder-down deficit.
- commission queue reordered into a ramp + 3 standing orders, incl. THE
CORRECTION BUYBACK (the sellout loop: anchors clean THE SCREEN).
- container line (moov-shard/offset-ribbon/sync-key) unblocks the hex splicer;
bloom grades 1-5. bloom-concentrate kept — LANE-SCREEN hardcodes it.
- validator 28 -> 36 tests, covering every v2 field; FORWARD_CANON pruned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decisions, verification evidence, honest limitations, and 3 contract
requests (BeltItem stable id, optional MachineDef.color, main.ts placing
on any pointer button).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reports the M1 melt chain working (tick 1149) and two things the
orchestrator needs to decide: the DoD chain no longer exists after
LANE-DATA's codex landed (mosh now eats gop-crate, melt is 8 machines
deep), and the M1 factory deadlocks at ~tick 1200 on byproduct surplus
with no legal overflow. Proposes splitters as the fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shipped/verified list, and the honest parts: click-to-inspect is blocked
on reaching renderer.pickTile, 12 of 21 machines have no hotkey, and the
lane has no DOM test env. Four contract requests (pickTile, MachineDef
.color, MachineDef.flavor, jsdom) and a build-bar paging proposal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Transcribe the §2-§6 codex into machine-readable canon and add the validator
that keeps five parallel lanes from drowning in dangling ids.
- validator (28 tests): recipes point back at their machine, every item/tech/
commission reference resolves, ids unique + kebab-case, colors hex, footprints
>=1x1, plus a reachability pass proving MELT is craftable from raw ore.
- items 9->36, machines 7->21, recipes 4->35, tech 0->17, commissions 1->10.
- mosh rewired to canon (gop-crate -> melt + reclaimed anchor slab); all seed
recipe ids preserved so nothing dangles mid-round.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
