Round 5 (MEGA), all eight orders.
THE COMMISSION LADDER — the fax is the tutorial. The queue used to open on
one MELT, i.e. "build eight machines correctly, in order, with no feedback
until the last one works". Now four rungs teach one mechanic each and never
say so: 20 raw ore (extractor->belt->uplink) -> 15 luma (the demuxer, and the
slurry is your problem) -> 18 hf-dust (waste is inventory) -> 1 melt
(graduation; first-taste keeps its id, reward 50->80). Measured against SIM's
real sim: rung 1 clears at tick 650 = 21.7s with 4 machine types, against a
3-minute budget.
data/seams.json — seam regions per stratum, richness, and a seam-free
relicReserve in the SE so SIM's seed-derived optical fossil always has
somewhere legal to land. stream-crust-west covers all three reference-factory
extractors, pinned by a test.
data/stations.json — the whole dial: FKTRY FM, THE STANDARD (30 lines of
Correction propaganda, 10 minutes before a repeat), NUMBERS, DEAD AIR. The
numbers station is a real treasure map: each 5-figure group is
[x+32][y+32][richness*9] and three of them are the hidden seams. The validator
recomputes them from seams.json, so the map cannot drift, and no decoy is
allowed to decode onto real treasure.
Also:
- mosquito trap: input-free recipe, the shape LANE-SIM detects traps by (my
first pass took ingredients, which would have silently made it an ordinary
crafter). Unblocks vaporwave-sunset after four rounds; FORWARD_CANON pruned.
- cooler final 0.0018 -> 0.001: the additive ruling made two coolers immortal.
Now 1 doubles output, 2 nearly eliminates downtime, 3 is an absurd shrine.
- SIM's tuning constants imported; the hand-copies are retired.
- the optical fossil canon: §1's fossils "sing when excavated", so the world is
silent until you dig up the severed audio bus. One margin hint, mid-ladder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
