Sprint 13 integration: merge all lanes (362/0/0), apply B's pre-authorized gardenfly resolution, [I] entry

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     brief is perfect bait, and the loop is solid. The gap between how the game PLAYS and how it
     LOOKS is the whole of Sprint 13.
 
+[A] 2026-07-18 — 🚪 **SPRINT13 GATE 3 (front door) + GATE 2.5 (camera) LANDED. selftest 339/0/0** (was
+    335; +4 asserts, all mutation-checked). `lane/a` pushed. main is shippable — the public URL is safe.
+
+    **GATE 3 — the front door, since strangers reach this now:**
+    · **Enter pinned.** The exploit shipped because the rule lived in a keydown closure inside boot(),
+      behind a canvas — nowhere a test could reach, which is WHY it went out. `enterCommits(phase,
+      cardOpen)` is a value now, asserted exhaustively over PHASES (a 6th phase is covered the day it's
+      added, and the default it gets is "may not advance"). Mutation-checked: reverting the guard
+      reddens forecast/storm/aftermath.
+    · **Splash card.** A cold visitor used to land on the job sheet — an invoice from a business they'd
+      never heard of. Now: name, premise, controls, one START. One more `.card`, built on E's letterhead
+      because the masthead IS the game's name. `boot({splash:false})` skips it for benches and D's
+      harness.
+    · **P pause / M mute.** P stops the accumulator (storm only — nothing else has a clock), drains it so
+      resume gives back no free frame, and clears at every phase change so a pause can't survive into a
+      night where P is inert. Veil sits under the card layer, over the scene.
+    · **Touch notice.** `(any-pointer: fine)` not `(pointer: coarse)` — the naive check locks a
+      touchscreen LAPTOP out of a game it can play, which is worse than the dead canvas. Errs toward
+      letting people in.
+    · **Dev fps line** out from under B's anchor panel (both were top-left), and hidden off localhost /
+      `?dev=1` — a stranger was reading "60 fps · storm 12.3s · debris 4" on the front door.
+
+    ⚠️ **C — M MUTE IS WIRED BUT NOT ADVERTISED, and it's waiting on ONE line from you.** `createAudio`
+    holds `master` inside skyfx's closure and exposes only `unlockAudio()`, so main.js has nothing to
+    turn down. **Please add `setMute(on)` to the skyfx public API** — one line against your master gain
+    (`master.gain.value = on ? 0 : 1`, or a smoothing ramp if you'd rather). The moment it exists, M
+    lights up by itself: main.js already asks `typeof sky.setMute === 'function'` at boot, the key is
+    live, the state is real, and the HUD only advertises M once the tap is there. I deliberately did NOT
+    ship `sky.setMute?.(on)` behind an advertised key — that's D's night-3 soft-lock with a keycap on it
+    (`?.()` on a missing method is a silent no-op that looks like a call, on a public URL where the
+    person pressing M just wants the noise to stop).
+
+    **GATE 2.5 — two camera fixes:**
+    · **Spawn framing.** `spawnYawFor()` in camera.js — points the opening frame at the garden with no
+      pole through the player, per YARD (off site data), because site_02 spawns elsewhere. Measured, and
+      wrong twice before right: clearance 0.6 not 1.1 (1.1 is unreachable when a post is 1m from spawn,
+      and the unbounded fallback swung 105° to a fence), maxOff caps the fallback to a 90° arc. Assert
+      reproduces the real 105° and pins the cap brings it to 68°.
+    · **Aftermath cloth-swallow.** The dead sail joins the camera's solid set (`refreshCameraSolids()`,
+      called from both rebuilds). Verified live: camera solids 9→10 the instant a sail rigs. Added a
+      `camera.solids` getter so that was checkable — anyone wanting to know what the camera collides with
+      can now read it.
+
+    **For the other lanes, off my files:**
+    · `camera.js` now exports `spawnYawFor(player, lookAt, obstacles, opts)` and a `cameraRig.solids`
+      getter. D — if a playtest ever spawns facing wrong on a NEW site, the obstacle list I pass is
+      `posts + trees + structures` from site JSON; a site with its bed boxed in on all sides gets the
+      best-available frame, never a throw.
+    · `main.js` exports `enterCommits`, `accumulate`, `canPlayHere`, `stormsToPreload` (pure, tested).
+
+    ⏳ **GATE 1 — MY TWO RULINGS ARE PARKED, WAITING ON C.** SPRINT13 gate 1.4 routes two decisions to
+    me and both need C's shadow-geometry diagnosis FIRST: (1) the garden separation target — C proposes,
+    I rule; the plan's steer is "alive-vs-dead on the wild nights, not 88-vs-83", and I'll hold C to
+    something a player can FEEL, not just measure. (2) whether `GARDEN_DRAIN` moves once the geometry is
+    honest — my own main.js comment says the constant was compensating for the rain shadow decaying to
+    nothing, so once C fixes the MODEL it likely wants lowering back; I'll rule on the number when C
+    posts the before/after. **C: post the separation target in THREADS before you tune to it** (plan's
+    instruction), and ping me. Nothing of mine blocks you.
+
+    🎮 Front door verified in the running game start to finish: splash → job sheet → prep → storm, P
+    pauses to a clean veil, the spawn frame is player+bed with the poles beside not through. Screenshot
+    path in the session. Not asserted, because 339 tests can't see a pole through a head — that's what
+    gate 4 (John plays) is for, same as the two bugs looking caught last sprint.
+
+[A] 2026-07-18 — ⚖️ **GATE 1 RULED, both rulings, on D's funnel-corrected picture — not C's original
+    headline.** C's diagnosis is adopted as fact (the model is exact, the LINE was the bug — probe2's
+    1.0000/1.0000 and D's to-the-decimal UI replays close it), and D's landmine is taken as read: the
+    bench never flew site_02's venturi, so C's 91.5-FULL example dies in the real funnel. One honesty
+    note before the rulings: I re-ran probe4 on a scratch merge and reproduced C's 91.5 EXACTLY —
+    because my re-run shares the bench's venturi blindness. Two harnesses agreeing can still both be
+    wrong the same way; D's UI run was the tiebreaker. Everything below about the backyard is
+    funnel-free by construction (backyard_01 has no venturi), so those numbers stand on any harness.
+
+    **RULING 1 — the separation target: ADOPTED, AMENDED in both halves. Now PINNED.**
+    C proposed: wild night, best buyable line FULL (>66), bare bed DEAD (<33). As stated it is
+    satisfiable nowhere (D's check): no bare bed in the shipped game reads DEAD on the wild night
+    (35.7, tattered — including C's own passing example), and the week's only wild night is the
+    backyard, which capped at 61.3. Amended:
+      · **held half stands: best line START_BUDGET buys must read FULL (>66) AND win — on the
+        shipped week's wild night, which is night 4, backyard_01.** That is where the fantasy has
+        to be true; site_02 never plays the wildnight.
+      · **bare half becomes: a bare bed LOSES the night (hp < 50, the win line).** 35.7 fails the
+        win line honestly. Tuning storm_02's damage budget until the word DEAD lands is exactly
+        the fudge gate 1 exists to kill; the felt boundary is WIN, and the invoice already teaches
+        it. If a future storm makes bare beds read dead, lovely — nothing pins against it.
+    **PINNED as data + assert, because a target nothing checks is decoration:** the recipe lives in
+    `backyard_01.json` → `separation` (stormKey, the line with hardware by name, tension,
+    thresholds), and a.test FLIES it every selftest through the real chain — real shop at the real
+    START_BUDGET, session.commit(rig) → attach (D's skipped-attach trap: this IS the attach path),
+    real skyfx exposure, the real garden model. B: your audit reads the same block instead of
+    inventing a line; that is why it is site data and not a THREADS sentence.
+
+    **RULING 2 — backyard_01: one honest anchor, and the yard's wild night works. p5, the
+    clothesline post.** (5.5, −2), h 2.6, type post, hint 1 — the old rotary-clothesline post by
+    the back path, NE of the bed, 8 m from the fascia so the house trap keeps its whole lesson.
+    Measured (probeA, C's bench chain + ratingHint kept, which probe3/4 drop — on this yard the
+    hint IS the question):
+      · before: every ≥45%-vertical-cover line TORE (fascia-capped at 2.27 kN against 3–7 kN
+        pulls, or honest corners at 6.6–10 kN); best buyable HELD line read **46.1**; the
+        canonical p1..p4 read 61.3 through 25% cover. The yard structurally could not beat
+        tattered — D played both halves, "placement, not budget, not weather". Confirmed.
+      · after: **p1+p2+p3+p5, $75 (p5 RATED, rest shackles), hp 68.3 FULL, 0/4 lost, WIN, vs
+        bare 35.7 — separation 32.6, a full state, felt.** The LOW top is the mechanism: it
+        twists the quad so it spills the gusts — small+twisted survives, now purchasable.
+      · what did NOT change, deliberately: full cover is still unbuyable (covering quads with p5
+        still pull 6.4–6.9 kN and tear; the >45 m² floor assert holds), and the ICE night still
+        refuses the wallet — the same line needs $105 there, p1/p2 missing their shackles by
+        0.05 kN, C's q3-flavoured whisker. **Night 5 stays the night the bank pays for.**
+      · position swept, not chosen: (4.5,−2) and (5,−2.5) price at $90; (6,−2) reads 65.8
+        tattered; (5.5,−2) at h 2.8 is legal but knife-edged (4% shackle margins). Table in the
+        site JSON `_why`.
+    **GARDEN_DRAIN does not move — the second half of gate 1.4, ruled.** My own comment said the
+    constant was compensating; C proved there was nothing to compensate FOR — it scales both sides
+    and cannot separate. What it owns is the bare-bed arc (97.6 / 83.7 / 82.6 / 35.7 / 0.0), which
+    is the week's difficulty curve and is right. The ruling is written ON the constant, which now
+    lives in garden.js (below). GARDEN_DRAIN's old "the lever is the geometry" comment is dead —
+    the lever was the yard.
+    **C:** site_02's pin waits on your bench venturi fix (bench.js:89 reads the STORM def; the
+    funnel is SITE data) — its real night (the buster) is D-verified FULL-and-holding through the
+    live funnel, so nothing burns. Your gain-1.35 standing offer is NOT triggered by my ruling:
+    the wildnight never plays that yard. Selftest here: **341/0/0** (lane/a baseline 339 + M assert
+    + the pin; counts converge at integration — D's scratch read 354 with a+b+c).
+
+[A] 2026-07-18 — 🔌 **The two wiring items, landed.** (1) **M is live end-to-end**: C's
+    `sky.setMute` tap (8a3dc32) meets my `applyMute(sky, on)` — extracted as an exported value so
+    the selftest can fail the wiring, per the Enter-guard lesson; `?.()` on a missing method is a
+    no-op that looks like a call (D's rigging.setWorld). Asserted both directions: a real bus
+    receives ordered booleans (the re-apply across makeSky() at phase changes is the case that
+    rots), a tapless sky reports false, and the HUD only advertises M when the detect is true —
+    splash listing included, and it can go dark again. On lane/a the key stays honest-dark; it
+    lights the moment the branches meet. (2) **garden.js exists — B, your gate-1.2 blocker is
+    gone.** `createGarden` + `HAIL_WEIGHT` + `RAIN_WEIGHT` + `GARDEN_DRAIN`, mechanical lift,
+    main.js imports it. Your TEMPORARY COPY in garden_probe.html can die, per your own protocol
+    (fake → ask → landed → delete the fake). While you're there: balance.test.js:38 carries its own
+    `GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9  // main.js` — jointly-owned file, your pen, but it should point at
+    garden.js now or it drifts the day a retune lands.
+    **D — the phantom sail (night-3 rig haunting night-4 prep): ruled MINE, filed, not fixed
+    tonight.** The split is exactly as you called it: rig STATE reset is B's (done, on attach);
+    the visible ghost is the SailView's lifetime across `loadSiteInto`, which is main.js — mine.
+    It needs the view torn down on site rebuild, not hidden behind the new commit, and I won't
+    land a UI-lifecycle change I haven't watched in play at 1 a.m. on ruling night. First item on
+    my plate next session; if anyone gets there first, the seam is: showTonight's rebuild path vs
+    createSailView's disposal.
+
+[A] 2026-07-18 — ⚖️ **GATE 1.4 RULED TWICE — B's skew finding confirmed to the digit, the pin now
+    measures the game, the target is restated to what the game honestly stakes, and I PLAYED the
+    line before ruling (D's ask). Also: night 5 ruled. Integration is unblocked from my side.**
+
+    **1. The finding, confirmed and fixed.** My a.test separation flight settled 12 s on the calm
+    day; SailRig samples wind at its INTERNAL clock, so the storm flew 12 s off the authored curve
+    while the sky flew t=0..90. Game-true (no settle) my chain reads **63.6** where it read 68.3 —
+    B's three-way probe reproduced, my peaks now matching theirs to the digit (5.10/3.08/2.96/
+    1.81). The settle is deleted; the flight runs commit→attach→storm from t=0 (C's corrected
+    bench pattern) and wires the venturi FROM SITE DATA so the harness can never again assume a
+    yard (backyard's list is empty; the wiring no longer cares). a.test should adopt C's
+    `windForSite` at integration — same wiring, one door; I couldn't import it on lane/a without
+    breaking the standalone suite.
+
+    **2. Re-ruled with true numbers: FULL is dead, and not because we didn't try to buy it.**
+    Re-swept game-true: nothing $80 buys reaches 66. The twin-post covering quad (a second low
+    clothesline post at (−3,−2) h2.6 — p6+p5+p1+p2, 100% cover) pulls **6.9/6.7/6.2 kN and
+    tears**: full cover honestly exceeds the wild night at ANY buyable price, which is decision
+    2's tension doing its job, and every FULL-flavoured partial line is knife-edged under B's
+    margin rule. So the target is RESTATED to the boundaries the game actually stakes, with
+    headroom: **best buyable line holds the sim chain and reads >60 (win line is 50; measured
+    63.6) · bare bed loses <50 (35.7) · separation ≥25 (27.9)**. Field names kept —
+    `heldMustExceed`/`bareMustLoseBelow` are load-bearing in B's gardenfly.
+
+    **3. PLAYED, per D's protocol — and the played number is the ruling's centre.** Night 4 as
+    shipped, scratch merge a+b+c, real pointer events on the real markers (the pick spheres, via
+    the raycast path), real Enter, storm driven with SHADES.step, score off the invoice:
+        **hp 55.7 WIN · 2/4 lost (p2 then p3) · banked +$21 · "THE GARDEN MADE IT. The sail
+        didn't — the shackle at P2 went first and took 1 more with it. That is what the sail
+        was for."**
+    The played night sits ~8 HP under the sim chain because the real yard ALSO throws the t=38
+    crate into the cloth and ponds rain — and that gap lands exactly on p2's 4% shackle margin.
+    **RULED DELIBERATE, canon: the wild night sells no clean line.** The best $75 in the shop is
+    a gamble that saves the bed and may cost the sail — DESIGN.md's firework, priced; the pyrrhic
+    verdict is the intended reading of the week's fourth night. B — your margin rule labelling
+    this recipe `marginal-only` is the audit telling the truth and it should keep saying it; the
+    pin's job is different (deterministic regression tripwire on the sim chain, with the played
+    reference recorded in the site JSON as `_playedReference`). Your 1c: the 18–45 m² band is an
+    AVAILABILITY floor — "the yard must offer survivable choices" — not a ceiling on good lines;
+    it doesn't move, and your 📌 pin-sweeps-regardless behaviour is exactly right.
+
+    **4. NIGHT 5 RULED — disaster by design, and the surfaces now say so.** Canon: the icenight
+    garden is BEYOND SAVING at any price (bare 0.0 DEAD; best buyable 27.7 vs WIN ≥50 — B's
+    game-true table, my probe agreeing; the line that would hold it wants $105 the shop caps
+    0.05 kN short, C's whisker, kept). The week's arc is the point: full/full/full,
+    won-scarred, then the night you cannot save — night 5 is where the job stops being about
+    the bed and becomes about your steel. Landed: `gardenBeyondSaving: true` on week.js night 5
+    (defaults FALSE via nightAt, so no new night inherits the excuse), the night-5 brief now
+    levels with the player BEFORE they spend, and verdictFor honours the flag on a LOSS only —
+    no more "the hail fell where your sail wasn't" on a night where no placement wins; a 4/4
+    hold is credited as the whole job; a torn sail is still named and owned; a WIN ignores the
+    flag (a stale excuse must never eat a real win). Asserted both ways. GARDEN_DRAIN and the
+    icenight hail budget both untouched, per the standing rulings. **B — your offer to wire the
+    invoice's dangling garden-bonus line stands accepted for next sprint's smalls; the verdict
+    and the brief carry the teaching until then.**
+
+    **5. For Sprint-14/gate-4 thinking, acknowledged now:** B's table shows bare beds WIN nights
+    2–3 — on three nights of five the garden bonus, not the win line, is the real stake. That
+    reads as the intended fee-vs-bonus difficulty gradient, but it's exactly the kind of thing
+    John's five nights (gate 4) should judge before anyone tunes it.
+
+    Selftest **342/0/0** on lane/a (was 341: +1 night-5 verdict test; the pin re-lands green for
+    the RIGHT reason — game-true chain, restated thresholds). Counts converge at integration.
+
+[A] 2026-07-18 — 🔧 **INTEGRATOR — one known red at merge, resolution verified, one line, B
+    pre-authorized it.** B's `tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js` pins the 12s-skew
+    DISAGREEMENT itself: `sepRun.held.hp <= s.heldMustExceed` — written when heldMustExceed was
+    66 and game-true 63.8 sat below it. My re-ruling restates heldMustExceed to 60, so on the
+    merged tree that assert now reds BY DESIGN, and its own message says what to do: "If this
+    now exceeds the pin, the disagreement is RESOLVED: delete this ceiling, assert heldOk, and
+    close the [B] THREADS flag" — and the test's header adds "when A re-rules, the constants
+    below move WITH the ruling." It's B's file, so I did NOT land the edit on lane/a; the exact
+    change is applied and verified on my scratch merge (commit message "apply B's in-file
+    resolution", **357/0/0** with everything else green): replace the two-chain ceiling assert
+    with `assert(sepRun.heldOk, ...)` and keep the skew-chain 68.4 measurement as a drift
+    tripwire. Everything else in B's suite passes against my restated block unchanged —
+    `bareMustLoseBelow`, the >25 separation, the $80 cap, and both venturi locks.
+[E] 2026-07-17 — 🌬 **LANE D — the lean CANNOT be a clip, and I can prove it. Read this before you
+    write the wiring; it changes what you're wiring.** SPRINT13 gate 2.4 asks me for "lean / stagger /
+    brace clips staged by wind band". One third of that is impossible in this pipeline, and it's your
+    own architecture that makes it so — correctly.
+    `player.js:53` `_rotOnly` keeps `.quaternion` tracks and **drops `Hips.quaternion`**, and `:239`
+    applies it to *every* clip unconditionally. Your own comment at `:49` already says it: "a clip can
+    no longer lie the body down… player.sim.js pitches the root itself". I measured the shipped GLB
+    rather than trust the read — **all 17 clips carry 195 channels each (65 nodes × translation /
+    rotation / scale), Hips included, and exactly 64 survive the load.** Whatever lean I bake into a
+    Mixamo clip's hips, your loader throws away. A "WindLean_Gale" clip would be a file that changes
+    nothing on screen, and it would pass a dims check while doing it.
+    **And stripping it is RIGHT, so don't 'fix' it for me.** A canned clip has one lean axis, fixed
+    relative to the body. The wind's bearing is `wind.dirAt(t)` — continuous, and it *swings*: the
+    change is the whole point of storm_03, and site_02's venturi bends it again. A player walking north
+    in a westerly must lean *left*. Only the root can aim that, and only the sim knows where the wind
+    is. This is exactly the knockdown's trick ("the fall gets to go DOWNWIND of the gust") and
+    climbY's, and the wind lean is the third instance of the same pattern.
+    **So the split I'm proposing:** the LEAN is yours, procedural — root pitch, magnitude off
+    `wind.speedAt(player.pos, t)`, direction off `wind.dirAt(t)`, in player.sim.js. The POSTURE is
+    mine — spine, shoulders, arms, legs all survive `_rotOnly` intact, and that's what sells "this
+    person is in weather" once your root has aimed them. Neither half reads without the other.
+
+[E] 2026-07-17 — 🌬 **LANE D — names and thresholds, the thing SPRINT13 says we agree before I export.**
+    Argue any of it; names are strings and I haven't exported yet.
+    **Clip names (the contract with player.sim.js's `clipFor`):**
+      · `WindLean` — the sustained gale posture. Loops.
+      · `WindBrace` — one-shot into a hold, pinned to the C key you already have.
+      · **stagger: I propose we ship NOTHING NEW.** `StumbleBack` and `Reaction` are already in the
+        carrier and already retargeted. A gust knocking you off balance is a `Reaction`/`StumbleBack`
+        with your root shoved downwind — that's a sim trigger on an existing clip, not an asset. If
+        you play them and they read wrong in wind I'll cut a bespoke one, but I'm not shipping a third
+        stagger on spec. Your call; you're the one who'll see it.
+    **Band thresholds — Beaufort, because it's the one scale defined by what a body DOES:**
+      · **calm — under 5.5 m/s (<20 km/h, B0–3).** No lean, no posture. Idle as today.
+      · **working breeze — 5.5 to 13.9 m/s (20–50 km/h, B4–6).** Small root lean, no posture clip.
+        You're working in it, not fighting it.
+      · **gale — 13.9 m/s and up (50+ km/h, B7+).** `WindLean` + full root lean.
+    **Why 13.9 exactly:** Beaufort 7's land description is, verbatim, *"inconvenience felt when walking
+    against the wind."* That is not my taste — it's the threshold where a body visibly changes what it
+    does, written down by a meteorologist in 1805, and it's the same tradition the storm files already
+    reason in (storm_03's own comment cites BOM "strong").
+    **It falls out clean against C's measured storms, which is why I believe it:**
+      · storm_01_gentle peaks ~11 → **never leans.** It's a sea breeze; it shouldn't. The tutorial
+        night stays calm and that's the contrast the rest of the week is measured against.
+      · storm_03_southerly sustains ~13, gusts ~21 → **sits on the line and its gusts punch through.**
+        The lean flickers in exactly when the change hits. That's the storm's thesis, for free.
+      · storm_02_wildnight peaks ~32 → **lives in gale.** Leaning all night.
+    One threshold, three different-looking storms, and I didn't tune it to get that.
+
+[E] 2026-07-17 — 🌬 **status / honest scoping.** **Mixamo has no wind animations. None.** I searched the
+    real API on ultra rather than assume: `brace` returns eleven *Braced Hang* ledge-climbing clips;
+    `wind` returns Standing Idle and Catwalk Turn; `shiver` returns zero; `stagger` returns three
+    walks. The factory's own comment already recorded half of this in Sprint 3 — "Hammering /
+    Sweeping Floor / **Bracing** don't exist on Mixamo — skipped". So every clip here is a
+    substitution, which this file has precedent for (Turning Key → Pulling Lever, Covering Head →
+    Taking Cover). My candidates are **Pushing** for `WindLean` (weight forward, legs braced, spine
+    loaded — a body pushing a heavy thing and a body leaning on a gale are the same problem) and
+    **Hold Off Assailant** for `WindBrace` (planted, arms up against a force). Both need my eyes on
+    the silhouette before I'd defend either — Pushing may read as "shoving a box" with the arms too
+    far forward, and if it does I'll say so and cut it rather than ship a clip that's technically a
+    lean and legibly a mime. Rendering next; the bike rule stands — the verify can't answer "is this
+    the right shape".
+    Note for the pipeline: the clip factory only runs on **ultra** (the FBX libraries and the Mixamo
+    login live there; JING5 has neither), and `player_anims.glb` is committed per the copies rule, so
+    the game never needs that box. Nothing here changes that.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — 🌬 **VERDICT: I'm shipping NO wind clip, and that's the deliverable.** I rendered the
+    two candidates I named yesterday and both are wrong on screen. Evidence committed at
+    `tools/character/windclip_candidates/` — strips, the harness, and the repro.
+      · **`Pushing` — rejected.** It is not a lean. It's a deep squat shoving something heavy along
+        the ground and standing up at the end: a man moving a couch. I said in my last note it might
+        read as "shoving a box" and that I'd cut it rather than ship a mime. It does, so it's cut.
+      · **`Leaning` — rejected.** A casual weight-on-the-back-foot lean — propped against a bar,
+        hands slack, no tension, barely moves across five frames. A man waiting for a bus. Nothing to
+        do with 32 m/s.
+      · `Hold Off Assailant` never got a look — Mixamo 429'd the export twice and I wasn't going to
+        keep hammering it for a third candidate when the first two answered the question.
+    **Both would have passed every check we own.** They load, they're metre-scale, their nodes
+    survive the export. Dims can't answer "is this the right shape" — same lesson as the bike's
+    step-through, and this time it caught a whole feature instead of a fork rake.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — 🌬 **LANE D — so here's what I think you should actually build, and it's less than
+    the sprint asked for.** SPRINT13 gate 2.4 asks for lean/stagger/brace clips staged by band. Held
+    up to the code, that decomposes into one thing that's yours and two that already exist:
+      · **the LEAN is yours and always was** — root pitch, magnitude off `wind.speedAt(player.pos, t)`,
+        aimed at `wind.dirAt(t)`, thresholds as posted (calm <5.5 / breeze 5.5-13.9 / gale 13.9+ m/s,
+        Beaufort 7 = "inconvenience felt when walking against the wind"). No asset needed or possible:
+        `_rotOnly` drops `Hips.quaternion` from all 17 clips (64 of 195 channels survive - measured on
+        the shipped pack), so a lean baked into a clip is discarded at load. The wind's bearing swings
+        and a clip's lean axis can't. Third instance of the knockdown/climbY pattern.
+      · **the BRACE already ships - try `TakeCover` on the C key before anyone authors anything.** It's
+        in the pack already, retargeted and working: hunched, arms up, planted. If a body doing that
+        with your root pitch under it doesn't read as bracing, tell me and I'll author one.
+      · **the STAGGER already ships too** - `StumbleBack` and `Reaction`. A gust knocking you off
+        balance is one of those with the root shoved downwind. Sim trigger, not asset.
+    **The one thing worth me authoring, if you want it after wiring the above: a `WindPosture` additive
+    - spine curl, shoulder hunch, one arm up across the face.** Not a lean; a lean is your root. This
+    is the tension the root can't express. It's hand-authored (Mixamo has nothing - I searched the
+    real API: `shiver` returns zero, `brace` returns eleven ledge-hang clips, `wind` returns Catwalk
+    Turn), and the good news is it'll work: both strips show these clips carry their lean in the
+    SPINE, and spine rotation survives `_rotOnly` intact. So a hand-authored posture lands.
+    **My recommendation is you wire the root lean FIRST and we look at it before I author.** The QA
+    entry's complaint was "the player stands bolt upright and unbothered" - a root pitch alone
+    probably fixes 80% of that, and I'd rather author into a gap we can both see than guess at one.
+    Yours to call; I'm not precious about it.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — 🌬 **pipeline notes, so the next lane doesn't re-lose the afternoon I lost.** All in
+    the candidates README, the short version here: `fetch.cjs` takes its token from a **logged-in
+    Brave on ultra via CDP** (nobody types a password - the session is already open), and Mixamo
+    **429s after a handful of exports**. `resolveChar` defaults to `Grandma_mixamo`, which is **not
+    on the account any more** - use **`X Bot`**, a stock rig; for anim-only export the source rig is
+    irrelevant because `_rotOnly` keeps rotations only. Anim-only FBX has **no mesh** and renders
+    nothing, so judging a silhouette needs `SKIN=1`. And do NOT preview by retargeting onto
+    `Hum_M_1_mixamo.fbx`: its armature carries FBX's 0.01 unit scale and the action doesn't, so the
+    body collapses to ~3 cm - the same "peds cannot round-trip through Blender" trap
+    `build_player_anims.py` already documents. I hit all four of those in order.
+    selftest **335/0/0**, unchanged - I added no asset and touched no shipped file.
+[C] 2026-07-19 — 🛑 **GATE 1'S PREMISE IS WRONG, AND I CAN PROVE IT. DO NOT CHANGE THE SHADOW MODEL.**
+    A, B, D — read this before you touch anything downstream of it. SPRINT13 charters me to "fix the
+    MODEL, not the constant" because "the shadow geometry is the bug". I measured it first, per the
+    house rule, and the geometry is **correct**. The garden already responds to rigging — by **55.8
+    points**. Everything below is from the real chain (real site JSON, real world.js yard, real
+    SailRig, real skyfx exposure, main.js's exact drain), in `tools/garden_bench/`.
+
+    **1. The shadow model is exact.** Two independent harnesses, one quantity: a synthetic 10×8 sail
+    hung dead over a 6×4 bed, measured by raycast (`rig.coverageOver`, straight-up sun) and by the
+    rasteriser (`RainShadow.fractionOver`, straight-down rain). **1.0000 and 1.0000**, at gridN 10 and
+    16, no holes. The shadow grid is not lying about anything. (`probe2.html`)
+
+    **2. What was actually wrong: the LINE, not the model.** The canonical lines everyone measures
+    against sit almost entirely off the bed, and hail falls vertically, so they cannot stop it:
+        backyard_01  p1+p2+p3+p4    vertical cover **25%**   hail shadow 0.40
+        site_02      q1+q2+q3+tr1   vertical cover **64%**   hail shadow **0.26**
+    A sail over a quarter of the bed blocks a quarter of the hail. That is the whole of "the garden
+    barely matters" — and it is the same species as balance.test's fictional yard: a number gathered
+    from a rig nobody should be flying.
+
+    **3. THE LINE EXISTS, IT COVERS THE BED, IT HOLDS, AND IT COSTS EXACTLY $80.** site_02,
+    `tr1+q1+q3+q4`, bought through the REAL shop at the REAL `START_BUDGET`:
+        tr1 RATED $30 · q1 RATED $30 · q3 SHACKLE $15 · q4 CARABINER $5  = **$80, to the dollar**
+        storm_02 wildnight   hp **91.5 FULL**  vs bare 35.7   **sep 55.8**   0/4 lost  hailShadow 0.94
+        storm_03b buster     hp **95.2 FULL**  vs bare 82.6   sep 12.6       0/4 lost  hailShadow 0.95
+        storm_02b icenight   hp 0 DEAD                        sep  0.0       2/4 lost  hailShadow 0.00
+    Peak loads on the wild night: tr1 4.72 · q1 3.74 · q3 2.97 · q4 1.02 kN — every corner inside its
+    rating, nothing to spare. **That is alive-vs-dead, today, with no code change.** And the ice night
+    fails by **0.08 kN** (q3 peaks 3.28 against a shackle's 3.20) — night 5 asks for steel $80 cannot
+    buy, which is exactly what "nights 4–5 are bank-funded" is supposed to mean. The loop already
+    works. (`probe4.html`)
+
+    **4. So my gate-1 deliverable is a NEGATIVE: I am not changing the model, and I think changing it
+    would have been the sprint's worst possible outcome** — it would have "fixed" a correct system to
+    compensate for a bad line, and buried the real fault under a fudge that only shows up as garbage
+    on some future site. A's GARDEN_DRAIN comment ("no value here separates good rigging from none")
+    is true *of p1..p4* and false of the yard: the drain constant was compensating for a 25% line.
+
+    **The separation target, A — I propose we ADOPT THE MEASURED ONE rather than invent a number:**
+    *on a wild night, the best line the budget can buy must read FULL (>66) and a bare bed must read
+    DEAD (<33).* site_02's $80 line already hits it (91.5 vs 35.7). Backyard's best buyable line
+    (p1..p4) reads 61.3 vs 35.7 — **tattered vs tattered, and it is the one yard that misses.** That
+    is a backyard_01 anchor-placement question, not a weather question, so it is yours: every
+    100%-covering quad in that yard needs a house anchor, and the fascia's 0.35 hint caps the best
+    steel in the game at **2.27 kN** while those quads pull **6.0–7.5 kN**. They tear at t=1. B's
+    Sprint-9 "thirteen have a corner over 6.5 kN, unholdable at any price" is CONFIRMED exactly —
+    and the mechanism is the fascia hint, not the load. backyard_01 needs one anchor that lets a
+    covering quad off the house, or it stays the yard where the garden can't be saved.
+
+    **B — your cover% vs bed-HP find-the-variable is SOLVED, and the variable is neither harness.**
+    Both were right and were describing different rigs. `tools/garden_bench/` is yours to point at:
+    the bench flies held-vs-bare and reports hail/rain shadow bucketed by wind speed, and `sweep2`
+    ranks every 4-anchor line by cover AND hold together, which is the table your audit needs to
+    stop recommending 25% lines. **Your audit's "cover" should be the VERTICAL projection** — that is
+    what hail sees and hail is 5.0 against rain's 0.25. Sun-coverage is a different number (site_02's
+    canonical line reads 64% vertical but 25% under the real oblique sun) and it is not what scores.
+
+    **⚠️ AND THE PART I OWE YOU HONESTLY — I walked into balance.test's documented trap and it ate
+    four of my own measurements.** `setHardware()` calls `_spend()`, so 4×RATED ($120) silently
+    refuses against an $80 budget and the corners keep their **carabiners**. I never checked `.ok`.
+    Every load number in my first three probes was a cascade: corners "breaking" at 1.3 kN with 6.5 kN
+    steel, covering quads reading "holds fine", `q1+q2+q3+q4` looking like a free 100% line. All
+    wrong, all now re-run on `budget: 9999` with a loud throw on any refusal. The bench now reproduces
+    balance.test's canonical numbers **exactly** — p1 0.98 · p2 2.77 · p3 1.62 · p4 3.65, 0/4 lost —
+    which is the cross-harness agreement that says it's finally measuring the game. B's comment
+    ("any p1 number gathered without checking `lost` is measuring a cascade") was right, was already
+    written down, and I read it *after* I'd made the same mistake. It is now impossible to make in
+    these tools; it is still trivially makeable everywhere else, which is the sprint's `setHardware`
+    small-one (throw or ticker it — please do, this cost me hours).
+    Second harness bug, same family, worth knowing repo-wide: **`world.dress()` throws a bare-specifier
+    error ("three") in any page without the importmap**, and every caller wraps it in
+    `try {} catch {}`. Undressed, every ratingHint silently falls back to 1.0 — **the carport trap
+    does not exist and the house is as strong as a post.** balance.test's `catch { /* graybox anchors
+    are enough */ }` is only safe because selftest.html happens to carry the importmap. That comment
+    is a loaded gun for the next tool author (it was for me).
+
+    **Gate 2 (storm grade, wall edges, leaves) is NOT started — this took the sprint.** I'd rather
+    hand over one measured answer that inverts the brief than three half-landed visual changes and a
+    model "fix" that was never needed. Nothing of mine blocks anyone; `tools/garden_bench/` is on
+    lane/c now. D: `tr1+q1+q3+q4` at $80 is the line to feel — it should read as the night the sail
+    finally mattered.
+
+    **POSTSCRIPT (2026-07-18, next C session) — the session above died before pushing, so this
+    landed a day late and was RE-VERIFIED from scratch first, on the live bench, before anyone got
+    to build on it.** What held, what didn't, and the one correction:
+    · **Every headline number reproduced exactly.** probe2: 1.0000/1.0000 at gridN 10 AND 16.
+      probe4 through the real shop at the real START_BUDGET: $80 to the dollar, wildnight 91.5 FULL
+      vs bare 35.7, sep 55.8, 0/4 lost, hailShadow 0.94; buster 95.2/82.6; icenight 0 DEAD, 2/4.
+      probe3 canonical rows: 61.3/35.7 backyard (hailShadow 0.40), 51.3/35.7 site_02 (0.26), and
+      balance.test's shade-cloth peaks to the last digit. Selftest 335/0/0 before commit.
+    · **D's garden-harness landmine (lane/d, the skipped-attach trap): checked explicitly, the
+      bench is clean.** These tools drive `RiggingSession.commit(rig)` — rigging.js:214, which
+      calls `rig.attach(picks, hw, tension)` directly — NOT the UI-level `commit()`→`onCommit`
+      seam D's first harness bypassed. `rig.pos`/`rig.tris` are built in attach; probe2's
+      1.0000 rasteriser agreement is itself the proof the shadow grid sees the cloth, and a
+      bypassed attach could not produce probe4's 55.8 separation. Same third-param shape as
+      main.js too: `sky.step(dt, t, {sail: rig})`.
+    · **The correction: the probes' per-corner peak LABELS were plan-order, but `rig.corners` is
+      the ring order `commit()` reorders into.** The VALUES above were always the true per-anchor
+      values (verified by `corners[k].anchorId`: backyard flies p4,p2,p3,p1 — so the multiset match
+      with balance.test was in fact an exact per-anchor match). On the $80 line the display swapped
+      the two RATED corners: it's **q1 4.72, tr1 3.74** (both under 6.5, nothing moves); q3/q4 were
+      labelled right, so the ice night's q3 3.28-vs-3.20 miss stands as written. probe3/probe4 now
+      label from `corners[k].anchorId` with a comment saying why. Nobody quote a per-corner number
+      from a tool that doesn't print the anchorId the rig actually flies.
+    · **B reached the same conclusion independently while this sat unpushed** — lane/b's
+      `garden_probe` ("the sail's value is the hail it catches"): cover% vs garden HP correlates
+      at r = −0.42 on the wild night because their audit's cover is the SUN shadow, quoting my own
+      Sprint-11 comment back at me. Two harnesses, no shared code, one verdict: vertical projection
+      is what scores, the model is right, the canonical lines were wrong. B: sweep2's
+      cover-AND-hold table is still yours to point the audit at; my $80 line prices your
+      "cheapest line that saves the garden" question at exactly the budget.
+    · A: the separation-target proposal above stands as my formal gate-1.4 proposal — wild night,
+      best buyable line FULL (>66) vs bare DEAD (<33); site_02 passes at 91.5/35.7, backyard_01
+      fails it for anchor-placement reasons that are yours. Gate 2 starts now, this session.
+
+[C] 2026-07-18 — 🌩 **GATE 2 LANDED (storm grade · wall edges · leaves) + A's M-MUTE + D's SLIVER.
+    D: your gate-2 judging is UNBLOCKED — pull lane/c and fly the wild night.** Four commits, each
+    green and mutation-checked; selftest **340/0/0** (was 335: +1 mute, +1 grade, +1 wall, +1 leaves,
+    +1 sliver).
+
+    **2.1 The storm grade — and why the QA's noon-blue sky was arithmetic, not a missing feature.**
+    The dimming EXISTED; it multiplied the weather by the author's palette. `darkness` is 0.5 on the
+    southerly, so 65 km/h at full rain moved the sky 0.35 toward slate and left the sun at ~70% —
+    the author's dial could zero the weather's say. The grade floors it:
+    `stormGrade = storminess × lerp(0.5, 1, darkness)` — full blow now goes at least half way to
+    slate on ANY palette, and the wild night keeps its authored black (0.94 → 0.97, unchanged to the
+    eye). Two things nothing keyed at all, now keyed: the sun DISC lerps toward slate (loses its
+    noon warmth), and `sun.shadow.radius` lerps 1→7 on storminess — the renderer is PCFSoft, so
+    that is real penumbra, not a no-op; the razor midday shadows die with the noon edge. Pure in t,
+    same curve the rain uses, exposed as `sky.stormGrade` above the render gate. dispose() hands
+    back intensity, colour AND radius exactly (the restore test pins all three). Verified by eye on
+    dev_skyfx: southerly t=55 at 18.5 m/s reads WEATHER.
+
+    **2.2 The wall — both QA sightings were geometry, both reproduced before touching anything.**
+    The floating slab: the band stopped AT the camera's horizontal plane, but the ground's true
+    horizon sits ~0.6° below it (the dip), so a bright sliver of sky showed under the base. The
+    band now overshoots to ~12° below the equator; the ground occludes the overshoot by depth, and
+    it survives scale.y's 0.3 rise floor (−37 m compressed to −11 m is still −3.7°, under the dip
+    from any eye height that matters). The seam: sin^0.75 left the arc's outer tenth at ~0.36
+    alpha; now sin^1.6 with the arc widened 2.2→2.6 rad — same solid core, ends under 0.12. Both
+    pinned in numbers (bbox min.y < −20; end-alpha < 0.2). **D — judge from IN-YARD eye height,
+    that's where both bugs lived and where I re-checked.**
+
+    **2.3 Leaves — the ambient tell.** A pooled handful (cap 7) streaming with the wind, keyed on a
+    2.5 s speed EMA so the count doesn't strobe. **Threshold 8.3 m/s = 30 km/h, deliberately YOUR
+    lean number, D** — when the man leans, the leaves fly; the yard and the body tell one story.
+    Deterministic: own seeded rng (`seed ^ 0x1eaf`) so the pool never shifts the crate rng
+    sequence; same (dt,t) stream in, bit-identical leaves out (asserted). debris.clear() rewinds
+    the layer. dev_skyfx now flies the debris layer too and warms it to the scrub point (leaves
+    carry ~8 s of state; a viewer spawning them cold at ?t=50 lies about mid-storm) — wildnight
+    t=50 reads `leaves 7` with tan flecks driving through the rain.
+
+    **D's two handoffs to me, closed:** the aftermath ghost-white sliver was exactly your diagnosis
+    — hail pool at count:0, frustumCulled off, depthWrite off, instance-0 identity matrix drawing a
+    5 cm always-on-top speck at the origin. Took your cheap fix (`mesh.visible = n > 0`) with your
+    name on the comment, plus a whole-storm assert that demands invisible-when-0/visible-when-
+    falling both directions (found a real subtlety on the way: a burst's first frames honestly draw
+    zero stones — floor(1300×intensity) — so the assert gates on ≥1 stone, not >0 intensity). And
+    `sky.hail` is now on the public fx object like `rain` always was, for your judging.
+
+    **A — your M key is live.** `sky.setMute(on)` + `sky.muted`, one flag + a gain write; the flag
+    is the point — M pressed on your splash BEFORE the first gesture builds the audio graph is
+    remembered and honoured by unlock() (that path is the asserted one, plus `audio.masterGain`
+    reads the real bus so the test can't be lied to by the flag). Your feature-detect should light
+    the key the moment you pull lane/c.
+
+    **Still open on my plate, none blocking:** nothing from gates 1–2. B: sweep2's cover-AND-hold
+    table is waiting for your audit rewrite whenever A's garden export lands; my gate-1 postscript
+    upstream has the label-permutation warning if you lift per-corner numbers from any bench —
+    print `corners[k].anchorId`, never the input order.
+
+[C] 2026-07-18 — 🛑 **CORRECTION: THE BENCH HAD TWO LANDMINES, NOT ONE, AND THE WILD-NIGHT $80
+    HEADLINE IS DEAD. D's funnel catch confirmed, plus a second bug D's replay exposed but nobody
+    had named: the bench flew site_02's gum tree FROZEN.** Corrected tools, corrected tables,
+    corrected claims below. Selftest 341/0/0; the fix carries its own assert.
+
+    **Landmine 1 — the venturi (D's catch, exactly as filed).** bench.js:89 read `def.wind.venturi`
+    off the STORM def, where a venturi never lives — it LOOKED right and never fired; probe3/probe4/
+    sweep2 never attempted it. Every site_02 number the bench ever printed was flown with the
+    funnel OFF. Third harness to make B's Sprint-11 mistake, and I made it with B's sweep.selftest
+    sitting in the repo telling the story.
+
+    **Landmine 2 — the FROZEN TREE, found while verifying the fix.** Venturi-on alone did NOT
+    reproduce D's game numbers (q4 moved 1.02→1.03), so I kept digging with an ablation:
+        funnel OFF, static anchors      q4 1.02   (the original bench)
+        funnel ON,  static anchors      q4 1.03   (the funnel's disc barely reaches q4)
+        funnel ON,  REAL anchors        q4 1.24   — the tree is the bigger half on this line
+    The bench remapped every anchor to `sway: () => pos` — which froze tr1, the gum tree, whose
+    sway is precisely the dynamic load DESIGN.md warns a tree rig has to eat (it also dropped
+    ratingHint). **This is why the backyard bench matched D's UI to the decimal while site_02
+    lied: p1..p4 are all posts — static anchors and no venturi are both no-ops there.** The two
+    landmines are the same species: the bench modelled the STORM exactly and the YARD not at all.
+
+    **The fix, structural so there is never a fourth:**
+    · `windForSite(stormDef, siteDef, anchors)` in weather.js — THE shared wind builder: venturi
+      from the site def + tree shelters, wired byte-for-byte as main.js:453 does at site load. The
+      landmine's full history lives in its docstring. All garden_bench tools now build wind
+      through it; **B — proposal: your re-audit imports it too**, and at integration one copy
+      should win (your sweep.js has its own correct pair of setVenturi calls + the selftest — the
+      logic is identical, the point is one door).
+    · c.test.js gains B's strictly-raises pin lifted onto the helper, flown against the REAL
+      shipped funnel (site_02's own JSON, not a synthetic): drop the setVenturi line and the
+      funnelled/bare winds collapse to equal reads at the throat → red. Mutation-checked.
+    · The tools fly `world.anchors` THEMSELVES — the world is built on a re-pointable wind proxy
+      (main.js-router style) so tree-sway closures sample whichever storm is flying. No more
+      static remaps, anywhere. And no more phantom 12 s calm settle: in the real game the rig
+      does not exist before commit, and commit→attach→storm is one keypress — the settle also
+      skewed every storm sample 12 s off the authored curve, because SailRig samples wind at its
+      INTERNAL clock (measured: worth 0.01 kN on backyard posts, which is why nobody noticed).
+    · Every tool prints the venturi in its header (B's audit.html pattern) — a reader can now SEE
+      which wind a number was flown in.
+
+    **CORRECTED TABLES (probe4, real shop, real $80, funnel + sway on):**
+        $80 line tr1(R)+q1(R)+q3(S)+q4(C):
+          wildnight   91.9 FULL  0/4   peaks q1 4.91 tr1 4.31 q3 2.89 **q4 1.24 vs 1.2 rating**
+          icenight     9   DEAD  2/4   (q3 3.32 breaks t≈50, q4 1.45 breaks t≈49)
+          buster      95.2 FULL  0/4   peaks q1 1.71 tr1 1.79 q3 0.84 q4 0.56
+        all-shackle $60: wildnight 41.3 (2/4) · icenight 0 · buster 95.2 FULL 0/4
+        canonical q1+q2+q3+tr1 best-$80: wildnight 48.3 (1/4) · icenight 0.9 · buster 85.6
+    probe3 (RATED, unlimited): backyard rows essentially unmoved — canonical wildnight 60.9
+    (was 61.3; the 0.4 is the settle removal) and balance.test's canon peaks intact to 0.01 kN
+    (p4 3.64 p2 2.77 p3 1.62 p1 0.98). site_02 posts-line wildnight drops 90.1→79.6 (q1 6.75
+    breaks t≈46 — the funnel side), canonical 51.3→48.3. sweep2 re-run: **tr1+q1+q3+q4 is still
+    the #1 cover-AND-hold geometry** (100% cover, shadow 1.000) — the LINE survives; its
+    wild-night steel pricing does not.
+
+    **⚠️ THE HONEST RESIDUAL — and who is canonical where.** Even fully corrected, the bench
+    under-reads D's real-UI peaks by ~5–15% on site_02 (buster, nothing breaking: bench
+    q1 1.71 · tr1 1.79 · q3 0.84 · q4 0.56 vs D's 1.82 · 1.86 · 0.99 · 0.58). On the wild night
+    that margin is exactly the knife edge: the bench holds q4 at 1.24-vs-1.2 and reads 91.9; the
+    real game pushes it over, q4 lets go, q3 catches the shed (3.43), and D's 39.8 TATTERED is
+    what ships. **D's UI numbers are canonical for the wild-night verdict; the bench's own
+    corrected read supports the same conclusion the honest way: a line whose cheapest corner
+    peaks OVER its rating has no margin and is not a safe line.** The 91.5-FULL-with-room
+    headline was the funnel-off, frozen-tree illusion. Residual cause unlisted-variable, in the
+    pool; until it's found, any bench corner within ~15% of its rating is "breaks in the game".
+
+    **What survives, what dies (A — for your gate-1.4 ruling):**
+    · SURVIVES: the shadow MODEL's exactness (probe2, untouched), the vertical-projection
+      conclusion, every backyard finding (D-verified to the decimal — posts don't sway and
+      backyard has no funnel), the buster verdict (the $80 line holds site_02's actual shipped
+      night with room — D live 97.9), and the diagnosis IN KIND: the canonical lines still can't
+      cover, covering geometry still exists.
+    · DIES: the wild-night 91.5 FULL headline, "$80 to the dollar with nothing to spare" (its
+      pricing was computed against funnel-off loads), and therefore **my separation-target
+      example. A: I withdraw the site_02 example, not the shape.** D's gate-1.4 table is right
+      that the target as I worded it is currently satisfiable nowhere — bare never reads DEAD,
+      and the funnelled wild night has no FULL-capable buyable line on either yard. Rule on D's
+      played picture; if the shape survives, the thresholds want restating against funnel-on
+      numbers (D's "bare TATTERED, held FULL" is the version night 4 already nearly meets).
+    · **B, one more for the re-audit:** your audit "freezes sway like balance.test"
+      (audit.html:69) — same species as my landmine 2. Post-fuse re-audit should fly
+      world.anchors live or every tr1 line stays optimistic; and note sweep2's corrected table
+      still ranks tr1+q1+q3+q4 top on cover-AND-hold, so the tree line is worth pricing right.
 ---
 
 [B] 2026-07-21 — 🌱 **GATE 1 EVIDENCE — C, A: I flew the sim's own garden loop for every night. The
@@ -4895,3 +5488,367 @@ anchors are your GLB), but the tooling is now waiting, not TODO.
     a field that doesn't exist — corners are `.broken`; every "corners lost" probe number I posted
     before today was structurally 0. The probe's hail-vs-cover conclusions survive (they were
     all-held runs); the field is right now.
+[D] 2026-07-17 — 🪢 **LANE E — THE CLIP CONTRACT, MEASURED, AND A BLOCKER YOU CANNOT SEE FROM YOUR
+    CLONE. Read this before you open Blender.** SPRINT13 says agree names + thresholds with me first,
+    so here it is, plus the thing that will eat your sprint if nobody says it: **the source library
+    isn't on this machine.**
+
+    **⚠️ 1. THE SOURCES LIVE ON `ultra`, NOT ON JING5.** `build_player_anims.py` reads
+    `~/Documents/FBX` and `~/Documents/3D=models/animations`. On this laptop **both do not exist**, and
+    neither does `~/Documents/mixamo-fetch`. I checked ultra over the tailnet: all three are there
+    (`johnking@100.91.239.7`, 26 FBX). The repo ships the built `player_anims.glb` (2.3 MB, 17 clips)
+    but the house rule keeps raw DCC out of the repo, so the pack is **not rebuildable from a JING5
+    clone**. Either run the build on ultra or pull the library across first — don't discover this at
+    export time.
+
+    **⚠️ 2. THE CLIPS YOU'VE BEEN ASKED FOR DON'T EXIST ON DISK, AND ONE MAY NOT EXIST AT ALL.** Of the
+    26 FBX on ultra the only lean-adjacent ones are `Stumble Backwards.fbx` and `Taking Cover.fbx` —
+    **both already in the pack**. There is no lean, no brace, no walk-into-wind. And your own build
+    tool's comment (build_player_anims.py:52) already recorded the answer to half of this:
+    *"Hammering / Sweeping Floor / Bracing don't exist on Mixamo — skipped."* Fetching anything new
+    needs `mixamo-fetch`, which the wishlist is explicit about: **a MANUAL Google login in a real
+    browser, by John, and never something a lane fetches on its own.** So the honest status of gate
+    2.4 is: *blocked on John running a fetch on ultra*, not on your Blender time. Flag it to A now —
+    the sprint plan doesn't know this.
+
+    **3. TWO OF THE THREE ARE ALREADY SHIPPED AND WIRED — don't rebuild them.**
+    ```
+      brace    STATES.shelter → 'TakeCover'   already on KeyC, already tuned
+                                              (shelterKnockMult 2.0, shelterShoveMult 0.25)
+      stagger  STATES.stagger → 'Reaction'    0.9 s, fires on gust ≥ TUNE.stumbleGust (9 m/s over base)
+               STATES.stumble → 'StumbleBack' 0.8 s
+    ```
+    SPRINT13 says "brace pinned to the C key that already exists" — it exists *and so does its clip*.
+    **The only genuinely new posture is the LEAN**, and it happens to be the exact QA finding ("the
+    player stands bolt upright and unbothered"). If John's fetch only yields one thing, make it a lean
+    idle — that single clip buys most of gate 2.4.
+
+    **4. THE BANDS — measured at the player's spawn (0, 1.2, 6) across all five storms, not guessed.**
+    ```
+      storm         rating  windBase med   max    calm/lean/gale seconds of 90
+      gentle           1        6.5        8.6      90 /  0 /  0     ← you stand up straight all night
+      southerly        2       12.3       16.2      27 / 63 /  0
+      earlybuster      3       13.1       17.4      18 / 72 /  0
+      wildnight        4       19.4       25.1       7 / 29 / 54
+      icenight         5       18.8       23.1      12 / 31 / 47     ← the gale IS nights 4-5
+    ```
+    **Thresholds (m/s), hysteresis ±1.5:  calm < 8.3 · lean 8.3–17 · gale ≥ 17.**
+    8.3 m/s is 30 km/h **on purpose — it's the same number C's leaves start at (gate 2.3)**, so the
+    yard and the body agree: when the leaves fly, the man leans. 17 m/s (61 km/h) is where nights 4-5
+    separate from 2-3. The band ladder lands exactly on the rating ladder, which is the whole point:
+    **the posture tells you which night you're on before the HUD does.**
+
+    **5. THE SIGNAL IS `sim.windBase`, NOT `wind.speedAt` — and this one is measured, not stylistic.**
+    My prompt says "thresholds off wind.speedAt(player.pos)". Taken literally that strobes, because
+    the raw local speed is gust-noisy. Band changes per storm:
+    ```
+      raw speedAt        + hysteresis        8–18 flips/min   ← a posture change every 4–6 s. Unusable.
+      sim.windBase (EMA) + hysteresis ±1.5   0–2 flips PER 90 s STORM
+    ```
+    `sim.windBase` already exists (player.sim.js:162/275) — the ~4 s EMA of the local wind, with
+    `sim.gust` as the residual, self-calibrating to whatever C authors. It IS derived from the local
+    sample, so this honours the ask and fixes the signal. It also draws the right line:
+    **sustained wind = posture (lean), gust = event (stumble/knock)** — and the event half is already
+    wired. Gentle flips **zero** times; wild flips twice. A posture change becomes a beat in the storm
+    instead of a flicker. **A — flagging the deviation from the prompt's literal wording; it's one word
+    and I have the table.**
+
+    **6. NAMES — PascalCase, matching STATES' existing contract (build_player_anims.py CLIPS is the
+    other half of it):**
+    ```
+      LeanIdle    standing, leaning into wind        band: lean    ← highest value, build first
+      LeanWalk    walking into wind                  band: lean
+      GaleIdle    hard lean, braced legs             band: gale    ← stretch
+      GaleWalk    fighting forward                   band: gale    ← stretch
+    ```
+    In-place only (the game translates the player; player.js keeps rotation tracks only, so root travel
+    is wasted — your pipeline already knows). **Carry stays out of scope**: carrying keeps Carry /
+    CarryIdle at every band this sprint. A man hauling a ladder in a gale is a Sprint 14 nicety, and
+    four clips is already more than John's fetch may return.
+    **If the fetch is dry on Gale*: say so and ship Lean* only** — I'll drive the gale band off the
+    lean clips plus a small extra root pitch on my side (player.sim.js already pitches the root for the
+    knockdown, so the machinery exists). That fallback is mine, not yours; it just means gate 2.4 lands
+    either way instead of waiting on Mixamo's catalogue.
+
+    Nothing here blocks on me. When you've got names, I wire thresholds in player.js the day they land.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🔧 **GATE 2.6 LANDED (ladder + label), and THREE diagnoses for other lanes' files —
+    including one the QA pass pinned on ME that isn't mine, and one genuinely nasty free-money bug.**
+
+    **✅ LANDED (my files, 337/0/0, mutation-checked): the ladder no longer leaves the game.** Full
+    write-up in the commit; the short version is that a knockdown mid-carry desynced `state.carried`
+    (ladder) from `player.carrying` (hands), and every consequence was silent — invisible mesh,
+    nothing to walk to, un-re-takeable, while the prompt still said "it's by the shed". Swept the whole
+    yard post-knockdown to confirm: zero usable ladder offers anywhere. Now it falls flat where you
+    drop it and you fetch it. Also fixed the label the QA flagged: "the fascia" on a carport beam →
+    keyed on the checked `type` enum (house→the fascia, carport→the carport bracket, unknown→the
+    bracket). Verified live: knocked down at (−2.5,−4), the ladder lies there and offers "take the
+    ladder", usable.
+
+    **🩹 LANE C — the aftermath "ghost-white sliver near the shed table" is YOUR hail, not my ladder.**
+    QA guessed "the ladder's placement ghost" — there is no ghost anywhere in my files (grep is clean),
+    so I traced the actual mesh. It's `skyfx.js:165-173`: the hail `InstancedMesh` (BoxGeometry
+    0.05³, color `0xeaf2ff`, opacity 0.9, **`depthWrite:false`, `frustumCulled:false`,
+    `renderOrder:3`**), sitting at the origin in aftermath with `count:0`. count:0 *should* draw
+    nothing, but with frustum culling off and depthWrite off, instance-0's identity matrix reads as a
+    ~5 cm always-on-top sliver at world (0,0,0) — which happens to be near the bed/shed side of the
+    yard from the aftermath camera. Two honest fixes, your call: `mesh.visible = n > 0` at the top of
+    `step()` (cheapest), or park the pool with `makeScale(0,0,0)` when intensity hits 0 instead of
+    just setting count. It only shows once a storm with hail has run (nights 2b/4/5), which is why it's
+    an aftermath sighting. **Not blocking; it's a 5 cm speck, but it's the exact kind of speck a
+    stranger on the public URL reads as "unfinished".**
+
+    **⚠️ LANE B — the shed-table spare is FREE and INFINITE, which quietly deletes the spare economy.**
+    This is the big half of the QA pool's "dropped spare's whereabouts" line, and it's worse than a
+    whereabouts nit. `interact.js:267-278` gates the spare pickup on `!p.carrying` alone and calls
+    `p.pickUp('spare')` — it never reads `rigging.session.spares` and never decrements anything.
+    Measured in a live storm with **zero spares bought**: I took a spare off the table three times in a
+    row, `carrying:'spare'` each time, `sparesBought:0` throughout. So prep's S-key spare (SPARE_COST
+    off the bank, `rigging.js:195`) buys you *nothing* — the table hands out unlimited free shackles
+    mid-storm regardless. The whole "limited hands / two trips" economy that the ladder's cost is
+    balanced against is currently free on the spare side.
+    **It's a cross-lane seam, not mine to close unilaterally:** the purchased count lives in your
+    `rigging.session.spares`, and `main.js:517` wires `wireYardActions(interact, {sailRig, world})`
+    without it, so interact.js physically can't see the budget. Cleanest fix is A threading
+    `rigging` (or a `spares` getter/decrementer) into `wireYardActions`, then the table's `canUse`
+    becomes `!p.carrying && session.sparesRemaining > 0` and `onDone` decrements. Flagging to B (owns
+    the spare economy) and A (owns the wiring). Happy to wire the interact side the moment the count
+    is reachable. **This one I'd fix before gate 4 — "infinite free spares" is a difficulty hole a
+    public player will find in one storm.**
+
+    **On my remaining gate-2 items:** E's wind-clip wiring waits on the clips (see my clip-contract
+    entry above — it's blocked on John's Mixamo fetch on ultra, flagged to A). Storm-grade / wall /
+    leaves are C's to land before I can judge them. So my gate-2 verdict pass is parked until C and E
+    ship; the ladder+label pool work is done and green in the meantime.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🌬 **LANE E — I WIRED THE ROOT LEAN, AND YOU WERE RIGHT ON EVERY COUNT. It's live and
+    it reads.** You said build the lean as root, not clip; look at it before authoring; and that
+    `_rotOnly` makes a baked lean impossible anyway. All three held. Landed on `lane/d`, 340/0/0.
+
+    **What shipped:** `sim.lean` (0..1) + `sim.leanDir`, a foot-pivot torso tip toward downwind, max
+    ~17° (a third of a knockdown's π/2), composed under the yaw in PlayerView as the else-branch of
+    the pitch tip — the sim guarantees `lean=0` whenever `pitch>0`, so a lean and a fall can never
+    fight. Same three-instance pattern you named: knockdown pitch, climbY, now this.
+
+    **The one place I moved off your number, with the measurement:** you posted breeze thresholds
+    5.5 / 13.9 (Beaufort 7) off `wind.speedAt`. I keyed magnitude on **`windBase`** (the ~4 s EMA)
+    instead of the raw sample, because raw `speedAt` strobes the posture — 8–18 band-equivalent flips
+    per minute across the five storms, a lean that flickers every few seconds. `windBase` settles it
+    to **0–2 changes per 90 s storm**: gentle never leans, wild leans once and stays. So sustained
+    wind is the posture and the gust stays the stumble/knock event, which is the line your brace/
+    stagger analysis already drew. Thresholds ended up 8.3 (= C's leaf-start, 30 km/h) to 22 m/s full;
+    the bands fall on the rating ladder — night 1 upright, 2–3 lean, 4–5 in the gale, matching my
+    earlier table.
+
+    **Verified live, not just green:** storm_02 at t=55, windBase 22 → full lean, and `leanDir · wind
+    = 1.000` (dead downwind). Screenshotted the figure at 71 km/h braced against it — it visibly
+    leans, arms trailing, instead of standing to attention. **That's the QA finding fixed at ~80% by
+    the root alone, exactly as you predicted.**
+
+    **Your call now, and I mean it as a genuine question, not a decline:** is the remaining 20% worth
+    your `WindPosture` additive (spine curl + shoulder hunch + arm across the face)? You proved spine
+    rotation survives `_rotOnly`, so it'll land. My read from the screenshot: the root lean carries the
+    silhouette, but the arms hang slack — a hunch would sell the *effort*, which the root can't. I'd
+    take it if it's cheap, but I won't block gate 2 on it and neither should you. Look at the live lean
+    first (pull `lane/d`, wild night, orbit to side-on) and tell me if the gap is worth an authoring
+    afternoon. No asset = no dependency on John's fetch either way, which is the happy part.
+
+    **The wind-clips line of gate 2.4 is therefore DONE** without a single new clip — the brace
+    (`TakeCover`) and stagger (`StumbleBack`/`Reaction`) already shipped and are wired, and the lean is
+    root. The sprint asked for three clips; the answer was one already-present clip, two already-wired,
+    and a root pose. Nicely under budget.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 📋 **STATUS + a harness landmine I nearly stepped in, for whoever measures the garden.**
+
+    **Done and green (340/0/0), all on `lane/d`:** the wind lean (gate 2.4), the ladder-survives-a-
+    knockdown fix + the fascia/carport label (gate 2.6 pool), the E clip contract, and the C/B
+    diagnoses (hail sliver, free-infinite-spares). My two remaining items — the **gate-1 garden
+    verdict** and the **gate-2 visual judging** (storm grade / wall / leaves) — are both blocked on C,
+    who's still at the integration commit. I'll run them the moment C pushes.
+
+    **⚠️ The landmine, because I nearly filed a false alarm off it and the next person will hit it too.**
+    I started building a headless garden-separation baseline (held honest rig vs bare bed, per storm) so
+    my gate-1 verdict would be a clean before/after on C's fix. First cut showed **zero separation on
+    every storm** — held bed took identical hail damage to a bare bed. That looks like a five-alarm
+    finding ("the sail casts no garden shadow at all"). **It's a harness artifact, not the game.** Two
+    variables, both the same species the repo keeps re-learning:
+      · `sky.step(dt, t, world = {})` — the THIRD param is named `world`, and main.js calls
+        `sky.step(dt, windT, {sail: rig})`. So `world.sail` inside skyfx is the PASSED `{sail:rig}`,
+        i.e. the live rig — NOT the global `world`. Grepping `world.sail =` finds nothing and looks
+        like an unset field; it isn't, it's a parameter shadow. Don't "fix" it.
+      · The shadow only projects if `rig.pos`/`rig.tris` are built, and those come from `rig.attach()`,
+        which fires via `rigging.commit()` (UI) → `onCommit` → `rigSail`. I first drove
+        `rigging.session.commit()` (session-level), which bypasses `onCommit` entirely — so the sail
+        was never attached and every rig scored as bare. skyfx.js:803 documents this EXACT trap in its
+        own words: a harness that skips the shadow rebuild "scored every rig as if the sail did not
+        exist — hp 36 was the bare-bed constant, and it cost gate 0 two sprints of four lanes' time."
+    **So: the honest way to measure the garden is to PLAY it** (or drive the full commit→attach path),
+    which is what the QA pass did and what my gate-1 verdict will do. I'm NOT posting baseline numbers —
+    a bypassed-attach measurement is worse than none. C: when your shadow-geometry fix lands, don't
+    trust any separation number that didn't go through `rig.attach()`; the bare-bed constant will lie
+    to you politely.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🎮 **GATE 1 VERDICT — I PLAYED EVERY NUMBER C POSTED, THROUGH THE REAL UI. The model
+    is RIGHT, the backyard claim is EXACT to the decimal — and the $80-line headline has a landmine in
+    it: C's bench never flies site_02's venturi, and the funnel eats the line.** Every run below:
+    real clicks on real markers (rig/cycle through `onPointerDown`→raycast), real Enter through
+    main.js's keydown → `rigging.commit()` → `rig.attach()`, storms driven with `SHADES.step(dt)` (the
+    rAF loop's own code path), scores read off the live invoice. Scratch merge of lane/c+a+b,
+    selftest 354/0/0 before I trusted it with anything.
+
+    **The replays C's numbers survived, and they survived to the DECIMAL:**
+    · Night 3 as shipped (buster, site_02), the $80 line tr1 RATED + q1 RATED + q3 SHACKLE +
+      q4 CARABINER, bought to $0 at the real START_BUDGET: **hp 97.9 FULL, 0/4 lost**, invoice reads
+      "0 HP to hail, 2 to rain", garden bonus $44/45, banked +$81. (C's bench said 95.2; direction
+      and verdict identical.) Peaks q1 1.82 · tr1 1.86 · q3 0.99 · q4 0.58 — the funnel is calm on
+      the buster's wind and the line is honest money.
+    · Night 4 as shipped (wildnight, backyard), best-buyable holding line p4 RATED p2 RATED
+      p3 SHACKLE p1 SHACKLE ($90 of the real $161 bank): **hp 61.3 — C's number EXACTLY — tattered,
+      0/4 lost, 31 HP of hail through the 25% the cloth doesn't cover.** Re-ran with p1 on a
+      carabiner: p1 lets go late (peak 1.23 vs 1.2) and it's 61.6 — the line caps at ~61 with or
+      without the fourth corner. The backyard cannot beat tattered with a line that holds.
+    · The covering quad (night-4 seek, $80): h1 RATED + h3 RATED + p2 shackle + p1 carabiner. The
+      panel prints the whole story before you commit — **h corners eff 2.27 kN, C's fascia number,
+      on the best steel in the game.** p1 tears at **t=1.0**, h1 at t=6, both in the settle; final
+      37.3 ≈ bare, hail 50.0. So both halves in one sitting: the holding line can't cover, the
+      covering line can't hold. **A — the backyard anchor question is real, measured, and now
+      played: it is placement, not budget, not weather.**
+    · Night 3 carport bait (cb1+cb2+q1+q2, carabiners): cb eff 0.26 kN, cb1 gone t≈27, cb2 t≈38,
+      **final 82.6 — C's bare-buster number to the decimal, and the QA's 83%.** Losing the sail on
+      the trap night costs the garden ~15 HP and ~$7 of bonus.
+    · Night 2 QA replay ($20 all-carabiner p-line): p4 blown mid-storm at 1.22 vs 1.2 — the QA's
+      exact story — **final 88.4 ≈ the QA's 88%.** Night 2's number didn't move (nothing landed that
+      should move it): the southerly's hail budget is small and a three-cornered flag still catches
+      some. The brief's "there's no bed on Monday" still over-promises doom.
+
+    **🛑 THE LANDMINE — C, this one's yours, it's one line, and it flips your headline. probe4 (and
+    bench.js) never apply site_02's venturi.** bench.js:89 reads `def.wind.venturi` off the STORM
+    def — the venturi lives in the SITE def (`siteDef.wind?.venturi`, main.js:548) — so the check
+    LOOKS right and never fires; probe4 doesn't attempt it at all. The corner block's whole weather
+    personality (throat (−6,0), r5, **gain 1.5**) is missing from every bench number on that yard.
+    Verified live: the real game flies `wind.venturi = [{x:−6, z:0, gain:1.5, radius:5, sharp:3}]`.
+    What it does to the $80 line on the wild night, through the real UI:
+        bench (no funnel):  q1 4.72 · tr1 3.74 · q3 2.97 · q4 1.02 — 0/4 lost, **91.5 FULL** vs bare 35.7
+        game (funnel on):   q1 5.21 · tr1 3.97 · **q3 3.43 BROKE** · **q4 1.91 BROKE** at t≈45,
+                            before the first hail second (~57) — **final 39.8 TATTERED**, hail 51.2
+    Cheap canonical line same night: 38.5. **On the funnelled wild night the $80 line beats the $20
+    line by 1.3 HP.** Tension doesn't save it — replayed at 0.80 through the [ key: q3 3.48, q4 1.81,
+    both break, 40.0. Same species as my skipped-attach trap and B's five-metres-of-anchors: two
+    harnesses, one variable, and the variable was neither model. The model survived every test I
+    could throw through the UI; the BENCH is what needs the one-line fix. (C — your standing offer
+    in the site JSON says gain drops to 1.35 "the moment B says no $80 line survives the funnel."
+    On the WILDNIGHT that moment may have arrived; on the shipped buster the line survives with
+    room. B: sweep2 wants the venturi wired in before anyone touches gain.)
+
+    **⚖️ FOR A's GATE-1.4 RULING — what the week actually separates, played:**
+        night 2 (southerly): rigged 88 vs bare ≈78     — sep ~10, both FULL
+        night 3 (buster):    rigged 97.9 vs sail-dead 82.6 — sep 15.3, BOTH FULL
+        night 4 (wildnight): best-buyable 61.3 vs covering-quad-dead 37.3 — sep 24, both TATTERED
+    C's proposed target ("best buyable FULL >66, bare DEAD <33, on a wild night") has two problems
+    the ruling should know about: **(1)** its own passing example fails the bare half — wildnight
+    bare is 35.7, which is TATTERED, not DEAD; nowhere in the game does a bare bed read DEAD.
+    **(2)** with the venturi live, the example doesn't pass the FULL half either — and the only
+    wild night in the shipped week is at the backyard, where the ceiling is 61.3 for anchor
+    reasons. As proposed, the target is satisfiable NOWHERE in the real game. The pieces that would
+    make it true are all on the table: the backyard anchor (yours), the icenight/wildnight hail
+    weights (C's), or honest thresholds (bare TATTERED, held FULL — which night 4 already nearly
+    meets from below). The invoice's "what got through: N HP to hail" line is the best teacher in
+    the game and it is ALREADY honest — what's missing is one night where the answer can be both
+    "50" and "0" depending on what you rigged, in a yard that can actually cover the bed.
+
+    **Two more sightings from the same sessions, filed while warm:**
+    · **Last night's sail haunts the next prep.** Night 3 → night 4: the corner block's committed
+      rig (cloth AND its kN corner labels, rig.t still 90.8) hangs mid-air over the Hendersons'
+      backyard through forecast and prep until the new commit re-attaches. B's rig.t fix resets on
+      attach, not on site load, and nothing hides the old SailView across `loadSiteInto`. Cosmetic,
+      but it's a whole phantom sail on the public URL. (A/B seam — the view is A's, the rig state
+      B's.)
+    · **Harness note for whoever drives the game headless next:** a canvas that boots hidden has
+      clientWidth 0 → `cameraRig.resize(0,0)` → aspect 0 → every projection NaN. One synthetic
+      `resize` after the pane is visible fixes it. Cost me twenty minutes; it's the pane cousin of
+      "rAF throttles in a hidden tab."
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🌩 **GATE 2 VERDICT — judged in play, in-yard, mid-gale, both yards. Short version:
+    the night finally looks like the night. All four of C's landings pass, A's spawn fix passes on
+    receipts, my sliver is dead, and the lean survives the dark.** Everything below was LOOKED at
+    from the storm, eye height ~2.3 m, at 65–75 km/h, not from the bench.
+
+    **2.1 The storm grade — PASS, and the noon-blue complaint is dead.** Buster: prep sky reads
+    grade 0.19, the 18-second change snaps it 0.27 → 0.42 and the yard goes slate mid-gust — the
+    CHANGE is now visible weather, not just a ticker line. Wildnight core pegs 0.97 (the authored
+    black, untouched, exactly as promised). At 68–75 km/h on both yards: slate sky, no sun disc, no
+    noon edge, no razor shadows anywhere — screenshotted three bearings and could not summon the
+    old blue. The grade also breathes with gusts (0.31→0.97 swings on the wildnight tail), which
+    reads as scud, not a dimmer.
+
+    **2.2 The wall — both QA sightings are dead from where they lived.** Stood in the yard at eye
+    height and swept the wall's whole arc (bearing of the core, both flanks at ±1.1 rad): the base
+    sits BURIED below the true horizon at every bearing — no sky slit, no floating slab, and the
+    grey beyond the fence meets it clean. The ends fade over a good third of a frame; there is no
+    vertical seam to find, and I went looking for it on both flanks. From in-yard the wall now does
+    the thing it was always meant to do: it's the thing the whole sky is coming FROM.
+
+    **2.3 The leaves — PASS, and the one-wind coincidence works.** Cap honoured in play: leafCount
+    hit exactly 7 through the gale and never more. Onset: first leaves and first visible lean land
+    within ~5 s of each other on both storms (same 8.3 m/s, different smoothing — close enough that
+    the yard and the body read as ONE wind picking up, which is the design's whole point and it
+    lands). At 70+ the tan flecks driving through the rain are the best "this is a gale" tell on
+    the glass; at ≤7 they're subtle mid-storm, and that's correct — the onset minute in clear air
+    is where they carry the scene. debris 0-vs-leaves nit: the dev line counts `pieces`, so it
+    reads "debris 0" while seven leaves fly. One-word fix if anyone's in there; not worth a lane's
+    time.
+
+    **2.4 My lean under the new grade — still reads, full stop.** At grade 0.82–0.97 the silhouette
+    against the wall is the game's best frame: full lean, dead-downwind, head bowed into 75 km/h.
+    E — re-confirming my earlier call now that the night is dark: the root carries it at play
+    distance; the slack arms only show in close orbit. WindPosture stays worth an afternoon and
+    not worth a gate.
+
+    **2.5 A's spawn framing — PASS on receipts, not vibes.** First prep frame, cold boot: player
+    head projects to px (640,442) — dead centre — nearest post's whole vertical span sits x≈800–833,
+    ~160 px clear. Night-4 arrival re-uses the same yaw and stays clear. No pole through anybody.
+    (First glance still reads "man stands beside pole" — the yard is just roomy enough for the
+    sweep's own tolerance, per its comment — acceptable, noted only so nobody re-litigates it.)
+
+    **The sliver (mine → C's fix) — dead twice over.** Two hail-night aftermaths: `sky.hail` (now
+    public — thanks) reads count 0 / visible false, and the shed table has no ghost in either
+    frame. Your whole-storm both-directions assert closes it properly.
+
+    **One feel-nit for the gate-1 retune pile, not gate 2:** the aftermath verdict at 61–62%
+    tattered with 31 HP of hail through prints "THE GARDEN MADE IT — with a belly full of water"
+    — the pond line, on a night hail did the damage. The invoice's "what got through" row tells
+    the true story right above it; when A retunes the verdict table post-gate-1, the hail night
+    deserves a hail sentence.
+
+    **Status: my Sprint 13 plate is clear** — gate 1 verdict filed, gate 2 judged, ladder/label
+    landed, lean landed, clip contract with E standing. Selftest on the judged merge: **354/0/0**.
+    Scratch branch deleted; nothing of mine is code this run, THREADS only.
+
+[I] 2026-07-18 — **SPRINT 13 INTEGRATION (main).** All five lanes merged; selftest **362/0/0** on the
+    merged tree, verified in the browser. Applied B's pre-authorized one-line resolution in
+    gardenfly.selftest.js exactly as A verified it on their scratch merge (the two-chain ceiling
+    became `assert(sepRun.heldOk)`; the skew-chain measurement stays as a drift tripwire). Deployed
+    to partly.party/hardyards after eyes-on verification: the splash reads like a front door, the
+    storm grade turns 63 km/h into actual weather (compare the QA pass's noon-blue complaint — dead),
+    and the clothesline post p5 is in the shop and the yard.
+
+    **This sprint's story, for the record, because it's the repo's thesis proven end to end:** the
+    brief said "fix the shadow model." The lanes measured first and the model was innocent — the
+    canonical line was the bug (C), then C's bench was the bug twice over (D found the funnel-off,
+    C found their own frozen sway), then A's pin was the bug (B found the 12 s settle skew), and the
+    actual fixes were one clothesline post, one restated threshold, and a shared `windForSite()` so
+    no fourth harness ever rebuilds site wind by hand. Four harness bugs, four different finders,
+    every number that survived did so because two independent chains agreed on it. Measure, don't
+    reason — and then measure the measurer.
+
+    **Design canon landed this sprint:** the wild night sells no clean line (the pyrrhic win is the
+    intended reading, A played it themselves); night 5's garden is beyond saving BY DESIGN and the
+    brief levels with the player (`gardenBeyondSaving`, verdict honours it on a loss only);
+    GARDEN_DRAIN does not move; the 18–45 m² audit band is an availability floor, not a ceiling.
+
+    Carried to SPRINT14's pool: the ~5–15% bench-vs-UI residual (cause unfound; the "within 15% of
+    rating breaks in the game" margin rule stands in as policy); D's phantom-sail seam (A took the
+    view half, filed not landed); bare beds WIN nights 2–3 (bonus is the only stake — gate-4
+    material before anyone tunes); B's invoice line for the beyond-saving night (offer accepted,
+    next sprint's smalls); dev-line visibility default worth a second look. **Gate 4 remains open:
+    John plays the week — SEVEN sprints standing, and the game has never looked more like itself.**

tools/character/windclip_candidates/README.md

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+# Wind clips — the Mixamo candidates, and why they're rejected
+
+Lane E, Sprint 13 gate 2.4 ("wind clips for the player — lean / stagger / brace,
+staged by wind band, through the Mixamo pipeline").
+
+**Outcome: no clip shipped. The Mixamo pipeline cannot supply a wind lean, and the
+lean was never going to be a clip in the first place.** Both halves of that are
+measured, and the evidence is in this folder. Full argument in THREADS [E] 2026-07-17/18.
+
+## 1. Mixamo has no wind animations
+
+Searched the real API (`fetch.cjs search`, on ultra), not assumed:
+
+| term | what comes back |
+|---|---|
+| `brace` | eleven **Braced Hang** ledge-climbing clips |
+| `wind` | Standing Idle 04, Catwalk Walk Turn 180 |
+| `shiver` | nothing, 0 results |
+| `stagger` | three walks (Swagger Walk, Walking, Walking) |
+| `lean` | Leaning On A Wall, Leaning, One Shoulder Lean |
+| `push` | Pushing, Push Up, Button Pushing |
+
+The factory's own header already recorded half of this in Sprint 3 — *"Hammering /
+Sweeping Floor / **Bracing** don't exist on Mixamo — skipped."* This is the case
+the asset-pipeline skill names directly: *truly bespoke clips don't exist on
+Mixamo — hand-author, don't keep searching.*
+
+## 2. The two real candidates, rendered and rejected
+
+`skinshot.py` films a skinned Mixamo FBX twice: **as authored**, and **as the game
+shows it** (Hips rotation cleared, which is what `player.js:_rotOnly` does at load).
+The second row is the honest one.
+
+- **`rejected_Pushing.png`** — not a wind lean. A deep squat shoving something heavy
+  along the ground, standing up at the end. It reads as *moving a couch*. The
+  forward angle I hoped to borrow is a squat, not a lean.
+- **`rejected_Leaning.png`** — a casual weight-on-the-back-foot lean, the "propped
+  against a bar" pose. Hands slack, no tension, near-identical across all five
+  frames. A person waiting for a bus, not one in a gale.
+
+Neither is close enough to fix by retiming. Shipping either would have passed every
+check we have — they load, they're metre-scale, their nodes survive — and been wrong
+on screen. That's the bike rule: **the verify can't answer "is this the right shape."**
+
+## 3. The useful technical result
+
+In both strips the raw and stripped rows are **near-identical**, which is worth
+knowing: these clips carry their lean in the **spine**, and spine rotation survives
+`_rotOnly` intact. So a hand-authored posture (spine curl, shoulder hunch, arm up)
+*would* survive the loader. What cannot survive is a lean authored into the **hips** —
+`_rotOnly` drops `Hips.quaternion` from every clip (`player.js:53`, applied `:239`).
+Measured on the shipped pack: 17 clips, 195 channels each, **64 survive**.
+
+Which is why the lean belongs in `player.sim.js` as a root pitch aimed at
+`wind.dirAt(t)` — the wind's bearing swings (the change; site_02's venturi) and a
+canned clip has one fixed lean axis. Same trick as the knockdown and `climbY`.
+
+## Reproducing
+
+```sh
+# on ultra (the FBX libraries and the Mixamo login live there; JING5 has neither)
+mkdir -p /tmp/shadeswind && cd /tmp/shadeswind
+cp ~/Documents/mixamo-fetch/fetch.cjs .
+printf 'Pushing\nLeaning\n' > wishlist.txt
+SKIN=1 node fetch.cjs "X Bot"          # SKIN=1: needs a mesh to judge a silhouette
+/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender -b --factory-startup \
+    -P skinshot.py -- /tmp/shadeswind/out/Pushing.fbx Pushing
+```
+
+Notes for whoever next reaches for this pipeline:
+- `fetch.cjs` reads its token from a **logged-in Brave on ultra via CDP** (port 9222).
+  Nobody types a password; the session is already there. It 429s after a handful of
+  exports — space them out.
+- `resolveChar` defaults to `Grandma_mixamo`, which is not currently uploaded to the
+  account. **`X Bot`** is a Mixamo stock rig and works; for anim-only export the source
+  rig is irrelevant anyway, since `_rotOnly` keeps rotations only.
+- Anim-only FBX (`SKIN` unset) has **no mesh** and renders nothing. Judging a
+  silhouette needs `SKIN=1`.
+- Don't retarget onto `Hum_M_1_mixamo.fbx` to preview: its armature carries FBX's
+  0.01 unit scale and the clip's action doesn't, so the body collapses to ~3 cm.
+  That's the same "peds cannot round-trip through Blender" trap `build_player_anims.py`
+  documents.

tools/character/windclip_candidates/skinshot.py

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+"""Filmstrip a SKINNED Mixamo FBX, twice: as-authored, and as the game shows it
+(Hips rotation cleared — player.js:_rotOnly).
+
+    blender -b --factory-startup -P skinshot.py -- <skinned.fbx> <label>
+
+Skinned export carries its own mesh at its own scale, so there's no cross-rig
+retarget and no unit mismatch — the reason the Hum_M_1 route collapsed.
+
+Camera is fitted to the MEASURED bbox of the animated body rather than guessed,
+because guessing framing is how the last three renders came out flat grey.
+"""
+import bpy, sys, os, math
+from mathutils import Vector
+
+argv = sys.argv[sys.argv.index("--") + 1:]
+SRC, LABEL = argv[0], argv[1]
+
+bpy.ops.wm.read_factory_settings(use_empty=True)
+bpy.ops.import_scene.fbx(filepath=SRC)
+
+arm = next(o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == 'ARMATURE')
+meshes = [o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == 'MESH']
+act = arm.animation_data.action if arm.animation_data else None
+hips = next((b for b in arm.pose.bones if b.name.lower().endswith("hips")), None)
+f0, f1 = (int(act.frame_range[0]), int(act.frame_range[1])) if act else (1, 1)
+print(f"  arm={arm.name} meshes={len(meshes)} act={act.name if act else None} frames={f0}..{f1} hips={hips.name if hips else None}")
+
+sc = bpy.context.scene
+N = 5
+frames = [int(f0 + (f1 - f0) * i / (N - 1)) for i in range(N)] if f1 > f0 else [f0] * N
+
+
+def world_pts(frame):
+    sc.frame_set(frame)
+    bpy.context.view_layer.update()
+    dg = bpy.context.evaluated_depsgraph_get()
+    pts = []
+    for m in meshes:
+        ev = m.evaluated_get(dg)
+        pts += [ev.matrix_world @ Vector(c) for c in ev.bound_box]
+    return pts
+
+
+# --- measure the whole clip, then frame it once so all tiles share a scale.
+allp = []
+for fr in frames:
+    allp += world_pts(fr)
+minx, maxx = min(p.x for p in allp), max(p.x for p in allp)
+miny, maxy = min(p.y for p in allp), max(p.y for p in allp)
+minz, maxz = min(p.z for p in allp), max(p.z for p in allp)
+cx, cy, cz = (minx + maxx) / 2, (miny + maxy) / 2, (minz + maxz) / 2
+span = max(maxz - minz, maxy - miny, 0.1)
+print(f"  clip bbox X[{minx:.2f},{maxx:.2f}] Y[{miny:.2f},{maxy:.2f}] Z[{minz:.2f},{maxz:.2f}] span={span:.2f}")
+
+cam_d = bpy.data.cameras.new("cam"); cam_d.type = 'ORTHO'
+cam_d.ortho_scale = span * 1.5
+cam = bpy.data.objects.new("cam", cam_d); bpy.context.collection.objects.link(cam)
+cam.rotation_mode = 'XYZ'
+cam.location = (cx + span * 6, cy, cz)
+cam.rotation_euler = (Vector((cx, cy, cz)) - cam.location).to_track_quat('-Z', 'Y').to_euler()
+sc.camera = cam
+print(f"  cam {tuple(round(v,2) for v in cam.location)} ortho={cam_d.ortho_scale:.2f}")
+
+sc.render.engine = 'BLENDER_WORKBENCH'
+sc.render.resolution_x, sc.render.resolution_y = 300, 460
+sc.render.image_settings.file_format = 'PNG'
+sc.display.shading.light = 'FLAT'
+sc.display.shading.color_type = 'SINGLE'
+sc.display.shading.single_color = (0.85, 0.32, 0.28)
+if sc.world is None:
+    sc.world = bpy.data.worlds.new("W")
+sc.world.color = (0.42, 0.45, 0.48)
+
+for mode in ("raw", "stripped"):
+    for i, fr in enumerate(frames):
+        sc.frame_set(fr)
+        if mode == "stripped" and hips:
+            hips.rotation_mode = 'QUATERNION'
+            hips.rotation_quaternion = (1, 0, 0, 0)
+        bpy.context.view_layer.update()
+        sc.render.filepath = f"/tmp/shadeswind/tile_{LABEL}_{mode}_{i}.png"
+        bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)
+
+print("DONE " + LABEL)

tools/garden_bench/bench.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta charset="utf-8">
+  <title>garden bench — where does the protection go?</title>
+  <style>
+    body { background:#11161a; color:#dde5ea; font:13px/1.45 ui-monospace, Menlo, monospace; padding:18px; }
+    h1 { font-size:15px; color:#7ee0ff; margin:0 0 4px; }
+    p.sub { color:#8ba0ad; margin:0 0 14px; }
+    pre { white-space:pre; margin:0; }
+    .sep { color:#ffb1ab; }
+  </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <h1>GARDEN BENCH — Lane C, Sprint 13 gate 1</h1>
+  <p class="sub">Real yard, real rig, real skyfx exposure, main.js's exact drain. Held honest quad vs bare bed, both yards, five storms. This is a measurement, not a test — it has no opinion about what the numbers should be.</p>
+  <pre id="out">running… (builds two yards and flies ten storms twice — give it a few seconds)</pre>
+  <script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+    import { runBench } from './bench.js';
+    const el = document.getElementById('out');
+    const lines = [];
+    const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+    el.textContent = '';
+    try {
+      await runBench(log);
+      document.title = 'garden bench — done';
+    } catch (e) {
+      log('\n\nBENCH THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e));
+      document.title = 'garden bench — THREW';
+    }
+  </script>
+</body>
+</html>

tools/garden_bench/bench.js

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+/**
+ * garden_bench — WHERE DOES THE PROTECTION ACTUALLY GO?  [Lane C, SPRINT13 gate 1]
+ *
+ * The QA pass found one variable sighted three times: the sim's garden outcome
+ * barely responds to whether a sail is up (sail DEAD at t=3 on the funnelled
+ * buster still finished 83%). A's GARDEN_DRAIN comment names the suspect and
+ * says the lever is the shadow GEOMETRY, not the constant. This bench is the
+ * measurement that has to come before any fix.
+ *
+ * It drives the REAL chain — real site JSON, real world.js yard, real SailRig,
+ * real skyfx exposure helpers, main.js's exact drain arithmetic — because a
+ * bench that reimplements the drain measures a copy and proves nothing (the
+ * lesson balance.test.js paid for twice: the fictional yard, and the missing
+ * camera).
+ *
+ * For each yard × storm it flies two conditions and reports where they differ:
+ *   HELD  — an honest bed-covering quad on RATED steel, re-repaired every step
+ *           so a corner failure can never contaminate a GEOMETRY measurement
+ *   BARE  — no sail at all, the floor
+ * ...and buckets rain/hail shadow-over-bed by wind speed, which is the actual
+ * question: protection is not one number, it decays as the wind builds.
+ *
+ * Deliberately a browser tool: the scoring chain needs `document`. Run it at
+ * tools/garden_bench/bench.html; it prints a table and dumps JSON to console.
+ */
+
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { createSkyFx } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { loadStorm, windForSite } from '../../web/world/js/weather.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { HARDWARE, FIXED_DT } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+
+const [CARABINER, SHACKLE, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+
+// main.js's exact numbers. Duplicated ONLY so a divergence names itself; the
+// bench asserts they still match main.js at the bottom of the report.
+const GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9;
+const W_HAIL = 5.0;
+const W_RAIN = 0.25;
+
+export const STORMS = [
+  'storm_01_gentle', 'storm_02_wildnight', 'storm_03_southerly',
+  'storm_03b_earlybuster', 'storm_02b_icenight',
+];
+
+/**
+ * The honest bed-covering line in each yard — NOT the carport trap, NOT a rig
+ * that misses. backyard's is balance.test's COVER_QUAD (C's sweep, the only
+ * buyable one). site_02's is the site JSON's own _design note: the honest three
+ * posts + the gum tree, 58% cover at 32.6 m².
+ */
+export const YARDS = [
+  { site: 'backyard_01', quad: ['p1', 'p2', 'p3', 'p4'] },
+  { site: 'site_02_corner_block', quad: ['q1', 'q2', 'q3', 'tr1'] },
+];
+
+/**
+ * The real yard, read from world.js — never a copied anchor table, and never a
+ * FROZEN one. Two landmines this builder now closes (SPRINT13, both caught by
+ * D replaying through the real UI):
+ *   1. The SITE def rides along because its wind block is half the yard's
+ *      weather: the venturi lives HERE, not in any storm def. Measured without
+ *      it, site_02 is a different, easier yard (third harness to learn this;
+ *      windForSite is the fix and the story).
+ *   2. The anchors are world.anchors THEMSELVES. The old remap to a static
+ *      `sway: () => pos` froze the gum tree — a rig on a tree eats the tree's
+ *      sway as dynamic load, and stripping it under-read every tr1 corner.
+ *      The world is built on a re-pointable wind proxy (main.js-router style)
+ *      so the sway closures sample whichever storm is currently flying.
+ */
+async function buildYard(siteId) {
+  const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+  let current = {
+    sample: (p, t, o) => (o || new THREE.Vector3()).set(0, 0, 4),
+    speedAt: () => 4, rainAt: () => 0, rainMmPerHour: () => 0,
+    gustTelegraph: () => null, eventsBetween: () => [],
+  };
+  const proxy = {
+    sample: (p, t, o) => current.sample(p, t, o || new THREE.Vector3()),
+    speedAt: (p, t) => current.speedAt(p, t),
+    rainAt: (t) => current.rainAt(t),
+    rainMmPerHour: (t) => (current.rainMmPerHour ? current.rainMmPerHour(t) : 0),
+    gustTelegraph: (t) => current.gustTelegraph(t),
+    eventsBetween: (a, b) => current.eventsBetween(a, b),
+    setSheltersFromTrees() {},
+    get seed() { return current.seed ?? 1; },
+    get def() { return current.def ?? {}; },
+  };
+  const siteDef = await loadSite(siteId);
+  const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: proxy, site: siteDef });
+  if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch { /* graybox anchors are enough */ } }
+  const anchors = world.anchors;
+  return {
+    anchors, bed: world.gardenBed, ids: anchors.map((a) => a.id),
+    sunDir: world.sunDir, heightAt: world.heightAt,
+    siteDef,
+    use: (w) => { current = w; },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fly one condition and record the geometry as a time series.
+ * @param {'held'|'bare'} mode
+ */
+async function fly(yard, stormName, mode) {
+  const def = await loadStorm(stormName);
+  // windForSite, NOT createWind + storm-def venturi. The old line here read
+  // `def.wind.venturi` off the STORM def, where a venturi never lives — it
+  // LOOKED right and never fired, so every site_02 number this bench produced
+  // before 2026-07-18 was flown with the funnel OFF (D caught it replaying the
+  // $80 line through the real UI: 91.5 FULL became 39.8 TATTERED). Same bug
+  // B's site_audit shipped in Sprint 11. The helper carries the story.
+  const wind = windForSite(def, yard.siteDef, yard.anchors);
+  yard.use(wind);   // point the yard's tree-sway closures at this flight's wind
+
+  let rig = null;
+  if (mode === 'held') {
+    const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors: yard.anchors, budget: 9999 });
+    for (const id of yard.quad) {
+      const r = s.rig(id);
+      if (!r.ok) return { skipped: `cannot rig ${id}: ${r.reason ?? 'refused'}` };
+    }
+    // RATED on every corner: this is a geometry bench, so buy the strongest
+    // steel in the game and ignore the $80 budget on purpose. Money is B's
+    // question; this one is "where does the shadow land".
+    for (const id of yard.quad) { const r = s.setHardware(id, RATED);
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${id} refused: ${r.reason} — flying hardware it did not buy`); }
+    s.setTension(1.0);
+    rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors: yard.anchors, gridN: 10 }));
+  }
+
+  // NO calm settle (correction, 2026-07-18): in the real game the rig does not
+  // exist before commit, and commit → attach → advance() → storm land in one
+  // keypress (sail.js attach, B's clock-reset comment). The attach transient
+  // rides the storm's own calm opening exactly as it does for a player — and
+  // because SailRig samples wind at its INTERNAL clock, a 12 s settle here
+  // skewed every storm sample 12 s off the authored curve.
+
+  const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, 1.6, 0.1, 400);
+  camera.position.set(0, 2, 8);
+  const sky = createSkyFx({ wind, night: true, camera });
+
+  const bed = yard.bed;
+  const probe = new THREE.Vector3(bed.x, 1.7, bed.z);
+  let hp = 100, byHail = 0, byRain = 0, repairs = 0;
+  const rows = [];
+
+  const steps = Math.round(def.duration / FIXED_DT);
+  for (let i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
+    const t = i * FIXED_DT;
+    if (rig) {
+      rig.step(FIXED_DT, wind, t);
+      // HELD means held. A corner that lets go turns this into a hardware
+      // measurement instead of a geometry one, so put it straight back.
+      for (let k = 0; k < rig.corners.length; k++) {
+        if (rig.corners[k].broken) { rig.repairCorner(k, RATED); repairs++; }
+      }
+    }
+    sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, rig ? { sail: rig } : {});
+
+    const hailExp = sky.gardenHailExposure(bed, t);
+    const rainExp = sky.gardenExposure(bed, t);
+    // main.js's exact drain
+    const dHail = W_HAIL * hailExp * GARDEN_DRAIN * FIXED_DT;
+    const dRain = W_RAIN * rainExp * GARDEN_DRAIN * FIXED_DT;
+    const total = Math.min(hp, dHail + dRain);
+    if (total > 0) {
+      const scale = total / (dHail + dRain);
+      byHail += dHail * scale; byRain += dRain * scale;
+      hp -= total;
+    }
+
+    // sample the geometry a few times a second — the grids only rebuild at 10 Hz
+    if (i % 6 === 0) {
+      rows.push({
+        t,
+        speed: wind.speedAt(probe, t),
+        rainShadow: sky.rainShadowOver(bed),
+        hailShadow: sky.hailShadowOver(bed),
+        rainExp, hailExp,
+        hail: sky.hailAmount,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+  sky.dispose?.();
+  return {
+    hp: Math.round(hp * 10) / 10,
+    byHail: Math.round(byHail * 10) / 10,
+    byRain: Math.round(byRain * 10) / 10,
+    repairs,
+    rows,
+    // the SUN coverage — reported for context only. It is emphatically not the
+    // rain/hail geometry, and the gap between them is half of what this bench
+    // exists to show.
+    cover: rig ? rig.coverageOver(bed, yard.sunDir, yard.heightAt) : 0,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Bucket a time series by wind speed — protection is not one number. */
+function byWind(rows) {
+  const buckets = [[0, 10], [10, 15], [15, 20], [20, 25], [25, 99]];
+  return buckets.map(([lo, hi]) => {
+    const r = rows.filter((x) => x.speed >= lo && x.speed < hi);
+    if (!r.length) return { band: `${lo}-${hi}`, n: 0 };
+    const mean = (f) => r.reduce((a, b) => a + f(b), 0) / r.length;
+    return {
+      band: `${lo}-${hi}`,
+      n: r.length,
+      kmh: `${Math.round(lo * 3.6)}-${Math.round(hi * 3.6)}`,
+      rainShadow: mean((x) => x.rainShadow),
+      hailShadow: mean((x) => x.hailShadow),
+    };
+  }).filter((b) => b.n > 0);
+}
+
+const f2 = (v) => (v == null ? '   —  ' : v.toFixed(2).padStart(6));
+const f1 = (v) => (v == null ? '  — ' : v.toFixed(1).padStart(5));
+
+export async function runBench(log) {
+  const out = [];
+  log('# GARDEN BENCH — where does the protection actually go?');
+  log('# HELD = honest bed-covering quad, RATED steel, re-repaired every step (geometry only)');
+  log('# BARE = no sail. Drain is main.js exact: hail×5.0 + rain×0.25, ×0.9.\n');
+
+  for (const y of YARDS) {
+    const yard = await buildYard(y.site);
+    // Print the funnel in the header, B's audit.html pattern: a reader must be
+    // able to SEE which wind these numbers were flown in.
+    const vl = yard.siteDef.wind?.venturi ?? [];
+    const vtxt = vl.length
+      ? vl.map((v) => `throat (${v.x},${v.z}) gain ${v.gain} r${v.radius}`).join(' · ')
+      : 'none';
+    log(`\n## ${y.site}   bed ${yard.bed.w}×${yard.bed.d} at (${yard.bed.x}, ${yard.bed.z})   line ${y.quad.join('+')}   venturi: ${vtxt}`);
+
+    for (const storm of STORMS) {
+      const held = await fly({ ...yard, quad: y.quad }, storm, 'held');
+      if (held.skipped) { log(`  ${storm}: SKIPPED — ${held.skipped}`); continue; }
+      const bare = await fly({ ...yard, quad: y.quad }, storm, 'bare');
+      const sep = bare.hp === 0 && held.hp === 0 ? 0 : held.hp - bare.hp;
+      out.push({ site: y.site, storm, held, bare, sep });
+
+      log(`\n  ### ${storm}   cover ${(held.cover * 100).toFixed(0)}%   repairs ${held.repairs}`);
+      log(`      GARDEN HP    held ${f1(held.hp)}   bare ${f1(bare.hp)}   SEPARATION ${f1(sep)}`);
+      log(`      held  damage: hail ${f1(held.byHail)}  rain ${f1(held.byRain)}`);
+      log(`      bare  damage: hail ${f1(bare.byHail)}  rain ${f1(bare.byRain)}`);
+      log('      wind band     km/h      rainShadow(held)   hailShadow(held)');
+      for (const b of byWind(held.rows)) {
+        log(`      ${b.band.padStart(6)} m/s  ${b.kmh.padStart(8)}      ${f2(b.rainShadow)}             ${f2(b.hailShadow)}`);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  log('\n\n# THE HEADLINE');
+  log('# site                        storm                    held   bare    sep');
+  for (const r of out) {
+    log(`# ${r.site.padEnd(26)} ${r.storm.padEnd(22)} ${f1(r.held.hp)}  ${f1(r.bare.hp)}  ${f1(r.sep)}`);
+  }
+  console.log('GARDEN_BENCH_JSON', JSON.stringify(out.map((r) => ({
+    site: r.site, storm: r.storm, held: r.held.hp, bare: r.bare.hp, sep: r.sep,
+    heldHail: r.held.byHail, heldRain: r.held.byRain,
+    bareHail: r.bare.byHail, bareRain: r.bare.byRain,
+    cover: r.held.cover,
+  }))));
+  return out;
+}

tools/garden_bench/probe.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>shadow probe</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { RainShadow } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [,, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// TWO HARNESSES, ONE QUANTITY. rig.coverageOver(rect, straight-up sun) is the
+// sail's true vertical projection over the bed, computed by raycast. And
+// RainShadow.fractionOver(rect) with straight-down rain is the SAME quantity,
+// computed by rasterising the sail's triangles into a grid. They must agree.
+// If they don't, the shadow grid — which is what scores every rig — is lying.
+try {
+  const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+  const calm = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+    rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, setSheltersFromTrees(){}, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+  const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: calm, site: await loadSite('backyard_01') });
+  if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch {} }
+  const anchors = world.anchors.map((a) => { const pos={x:a.pos.x,y:a.pos.y,z:a.pos.z};
+    return { id:a.id, type:a.type, pos, sway:()=>pos }; });
+  const bed = world.gardenBed;
+  log(`bed: centre (${bed.x}, ${bed.z})  size ${bed.w} x ${bed.d}\n`);
+
+  const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors, budget: 9999 });
+  for (const id of ['p1','p2','p3','p4']) s.rig(id);
+  for (const id of ['p1','p2','p3','p4']) { const r = s.setHardware(id, RATED);
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${id} refused: ${r.reason}`); }
+  s.setTension(1.0);
+  const rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN: 10 }));
+  // settle in dead air so the cloth is in steady state and nothing is moving
+  for (let i = 0; i < Math.round(12/FIXED_DT); i++) rig.step(FIXED_DT, calm, 0);
+
+  const corners = ['p1','p2','p3','p4'].map((id) => anchors.find((a)=>a.id===id));
+  log('quad corners:');
+  for (const c of corners) log(`  ${c.id.padEnd(3)} (${c.pos.x.toFixed(2)}, ${c.pos.y.toFixed(2)}, ${c.pos.z.toFixed(2)})`);
+
+  // where is the cloth, really?
+  let minX=1e9,maxX=-1e9,minZ=1e9,maxZ=-1e9,minY=1e9,maxY=-1e9;
+  for (let i=0;i<rig.pos.length;i+=3){
+    minX=Math.min(minX,rig.pos[i]); maxX=Math.max(maxX,rig.pos[i]);
+    minY=Math.min(minY,rig.pos[i+1]); maxY=Math.max(maxY,rig.pos[i+1]);
+    minZ=Math.min(minZ,rig.pos[i+2]); maxZ=Math.max(maxZ,rig.pos[i+2]);
+  }
+  log(`\ncloth bbox: x ${minX.toFixed(2)}..${maxX.toFixed(2)}  y ${minY.toFixed(2)}..${maxY.toFixed(2)}  z ${minZ.toFixed(2)}..${maxZ.toFixed(2)}`);
+  log(`bed spans:  x ${(bed.x-bed.w/2).toFixed(2)}..${(bed.x+bed.w/2).toFixed(2)}  z ${(bed.z-bed.d/2).toFixed(2)}..${(bed.z+bed.d/2).toFixed(2)}`);
+  log(`tris: ${rig.tris.length/3}   nodes: ${rig.pos.length/3}`);
+
+  // harness 1: raycast toward a sun straight overhead
+  const cov = rig.coverageOver(bed, { x:0, y:1, z:0 }, null);
+  // harness 2: rasterise down a straight-down rain vector
+  const sh = new RainShadow({ groundY: 0 });
+  sh.update(rig, 0, -1, 0);
+  const frac = sh.fractionOver(bed);
+
+  log(`\n--- THE SAME QUANTITY, TWO WAYS (vertical) ---`);
+  log(`  rig.coverageOver(bed, straight-up sun)  = ${cov.toFixed(4)}`);
+  log(`  RainShadow.fractionOver(bed), rain down = ${frac.toFixed(4)}`);
+  log(`  live=${sh.live}   difference = ${Math.abs(cov-frac).toFixed(4)}`);
+
+  // how much of the grid did the rasteriser actually fill, vs the cloth's footprint?
+  let filled = 0; for (let i=0;i<sh.ceil.length;i++) if (sh.ceil[i]>0) filled++;
+  const cellA = (sh.half*2/sh.n)**2;
+  log(`\n  grid cells filled: ${filled}  => ${(filled*cellA).toFixed(1)} m2 of ground shadowed`);
+  log(`  cloth footprint bbox area: ${((maxX-minX)*(maxZ-minZ)).toFixed(1)} m2`);
+
+  // sample the bed on a fine lattice both ways to see WHERE they differ
+  log(`\n--- bed lattice: 1 = shadowed, . = open  (rows = z, cols = x) ---`);
+  for (let j=0;j<9;j++){
+    let rowS='', rowC='';
+    for (let i=0;i<13;i++){
+      const x = bed.x + ((i+0.5)/13 - 0.5)*bed.w;
+      const z = bed.z + ((j+0.5)/9 - 0.5)*bed.d;
+      const c = sh._idx(x,z);
+      rowS += (c>=0 && sh.ceil[c]>0) ? '1' : '.';
+      rowC += rig.coverageOver({x, z, w:0.001, d:0.001}, {x:0,y:1,z:0}, null) > 0.5 ? '1' : '.';
+    }
+    log(`   grid ${rowS}    raycast ${rowC}`);
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'probe done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/garden_bench/probe2.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>shadow probe 2 — synthetic</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { RainShadow } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [,, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// ISOLATE THE RASTERISER FROM THE LEVEL.
+// probe.html showed the real yard's best quad sits over only 25% of the bed, so
+// its shadow numbers can't tell a rasteriser bug from an anchor-placement fact.
+// So: a SYNTHETIC square of anchors dead over the bed, at 4 m. This sail
+// unambiguously covers the whole bed. Grid and raycast must BOTH read ~1.0.
+// Anything less is the shadow model losing cloth it is standing under.
+try {
+  const bed = { x: 0, z: 0, w: 6, d: 4 };
+  const mk = (id, x, z) => { const pos = { x, y: 4, z }; return { id, type: 'post', pos, sway: () => pos }; };
+  // a generous 10x8 square around a 6x4 bed — no edge effects, no excuses
+  const anchors = [mk('s1', -5, -4), mk('s2', 5, -4), mk('s3', 5, 4), mk('s4', -5, 4)];
+  const calm = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+    rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, setSheltersFromTrees(){}, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+
+  for (const gridN of [10, 16]) {
+    const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors, budget: 9999 });
+    for (const a of anchors) s.rig(a.id);
+    for (const a of anchors) { const r = s.setHardware(a.id, RATED);
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${a.id} refused: ${r.reason}`); }
+    s.setTension(1.0);
+    const rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN }));
+    for (let i = 0; i < Math.round(12/FIXED_DT); i++) rig.step(FIXED_DT, calm, 0);
+
+    let minY=1e9,maxY=-1e9;
+    for (let i=1;i<rig.pos.length;i+=3){ minY=Math.min(minY,rig.pos[i]); maxY=Math.max(maxY,rig.pos[i]); }
+
+    const cov = rig.coverageOver(bed, { x:0, y:1, z:0 }, null);
+    const sh = new RainShadow({ groundY: 0 });
+    sh.update(rig, 0, -1, 0);
+    const frac = sh.fractionOver(bed);
+
+    log(`\n=== gridN ${gridN}  (${rig.tris.length/3} tris, ${rig.pos.length/3} nodes)  cloth y ${minY.toFixed(2)}..${maxY.toFixed(2)} ===`);
+    log(`  a 10x4 sail sitting dead over a 6x4 bed. Truth for both numbers is 1.00.`);
+    log(`  rig.coverageOver(bed, straight up)  = ${cov.toFixed(4)}   ${cov > 0.99 ? 'ok' : '<-- LOSES CLOTH'}`);
+    log(`  RainShadow.fractionOver(bed), down  = ${frac.toFixed(4)}   ${frac > 0.99 ? 'ok' : '<-- LOSES CLOTH'}`);
+
+    // where are the holes? print the grid cells across the bed's footprint
+    log('  grid cells over the bed (1 = shadowed):');
+    for (let j=0;j<7;j++){
+      let row='';
+      for (let i=0;i<15;i++){
+        const x = bed.x + ((i+0.5)/15 - 0.5)*bed.w;
+        const z = bed.z + ((j+0.5)/7 - 0.5)*bed.d;
+        const c = sh._idx(x,z);
+        row += (c>=0 && sh.ceil[c]>0) ? '1' : '.';
+      }
+      log(`    ${row}`);
+    }
+    let filled=0; for (let i=0;i<sh.ceil.length;i++) if (sh.ceil[i]>0) filled++;
+    const cellA = (sh.half*2/sh.n)**2;
+    log(`  cells filled ${filled} => ${(filled*cellA).toFixed(1)} m2 shadowed; the sail is 10x8 = 80 m2`);
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'probe2 done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/garden_bench/probe3.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>probe3 — does the covering line hold?</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { createSkyFx } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { loadStorm, windForSite } from '../../web/world/js/weather.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [CARABINER, SHACKLE, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// THE DECIDING QUESTION.
+// sweep.html found quads that cover 100% of the bed in BOTH yards, while the
+// canonical line covers 25%. B's Sprint-9 sweep says every bed-covering quad has
+// a corner over 6.5 kN — unholdable even on RATED, the best steel in the game —
+// and that p1..p4 is the ONLY buyable line. If that's true, then "coverage" and
+// "holdability" are anti-correlated by construction, the affordable rig can only
+// ever shade a quarter of the bed, and NO shadow-model change can make the
+// garden respond to rigging. That is a very different bug from the one the
+// sprint chartered, so it has to be measured, not inherited.
+//
+// Fly the covering lines. Report peak corner load per corner and the garden.
+const GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9, W_HAIL = 5.0, W_RAIN = 0.25;
+
+async function fly(world, ids, stormName, hw, siteDef, use) {
+  const def = await loadStorm(stormName);
+  const anchors = world.anchors;      // REAL anchors: trees sway, hints ride along
+  const bed = world.gardenBed;
+  // windForSite: the SITE's venturi + shelters, as main.js wires them. Before
+  // 2026-07-18 this probe (a) never set the venturi — every site_02 row was
+  // flown with the funnel OFF — and (b) remapped anchors to a static
+  // `sway: () => pos`, freezing the gum tree and dropping ratingHint. See
+  // probe4's correction note and the THREADS postscript; backyard post-only
+  // lines (p1..p4) were unaffected by either, which is why they matched D's
+  // UI replays to the decimal while the tr1 lines lied.
+  const wind = windForSite(def, siteDef, anchors);
+  use(wind);
+
+  const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors, budget: 9999 });
+  for (const id of ids) if (!s.rig(id).ok) return null;
+  for (const id of ids) { const r = s.setHardware(id, hw);
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${id} refused: ${r.reason} — flying hardware it did not buy`); }
+  s.setTension(1.0);
+  const rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN: 10 }));
+  // no calm settle: commit → attach → storm is one keypress in the real game
+
+  const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, 1.6, 0.1, 400);
+  camera.position.set(0, 2, 8);
+  const sky = createSkyFx({ wind, night: true, camera });
+  const peak = ids.map(() => 0);
+  let hp = 100, lost = 0, hsum = 0, hn = 0, brokeAt = null;
+  const steps = Math.round(def.duration / FIXED_DT);
+  for (let i=0;i<steps;i++){
+    const t = i * FIXED_DT;
+    rig.step(FIXED_DT, wind, t);
+    sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, { sail: rig });
+    for (let k=0;k<rig.corners.length;k++) if ((rig.corners[k].load||0) > peak[k]) peak[k] = rig.corners[k].load;
+    if (brokeAt === null && rig.corners.some((c)=>c.broken)) brokeAt = t;
+    // the hail shadow WHILE it is hailing is the only one that scores
+    if (sky.hailAmount > 0) { hsum += sky.hailShadowOver(bed); hn++; }
+    const ex = W_HAIL*sky.gardenHailExposure(bed,t) + W_RAIN*sky.gardenExposure(bed,t);
+    if (ex > 0) hp = Math.max(0, hp - GARDEN_DRAIN*ex*FIXED_DT);
+  }
+  lost = rig.corners.filter((c)=>c.broken).length;
+  sky.dispose?.();
+  // Peaks are indexed by rig.corners — the RING order commit() reordered the
+  // picks into — so label them with corners[k].anchorId, NOT the input order.
+  // (Found at re-verify: p1..p4 flies as p4,p2,p3,p1; an input-order label
+  // attributes each corner's load to the wrong anchor.)
+  return { hp: Math.round(hp*10)/10, lost, peak: peak.map((p)=>p/1000),
+    cornerIds: rig.corners.map((c)=>c.anchorId),
+    hailShadow: hn ? hsum/hn : 0, brokeAt };
+}
+
+try {
+  for (const [siteId, lineSet] of [
+    ['backyard_01', { cover100: ['h1','t1','t2b','p2'], cover100b: ['h1','h3','p1','p2'], canonical: ['p1','p2','p3','p4'] }],
+    ['site_02_corner_block', { posts: ['q1','q2','q3','q4'], cover100: ['tr1','q1','q3','q4'], canonical: ['q1','q2','q3','tr1'] }],
+  ]) {
+    const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+    const calm = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+      rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, setSheltersFromTrees(){}, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+    const siteDef = await loadSite(siteId);
+    // re-pointable wind, main.js-router style: sway closures capture the proxy
+    let current = calm;
+    const proxy = {
+      sample: (p,t,o) => current.sample(p, t, o || new THREE.Vector3()),
+      speedAt: (p,t) => current.speedAt(p, t),
+      rainAt: (t) => current.rainAt(t),
+      rainMmPerHour: (t) => (current.rainMmPerHour ? current.rainMmPerHour(t) : 0),
+      gustTelegraph: (t) => current.gustTelegraph(t),
+      eventsBetween: (a,b) => current.eventsBetween(a, b),
+      setSheltersFromTrees() {},
+      get seed() { return current.seed ?? 1; },
+      get def() { return current.def ?? {}; },
+    };
+    const use = (w) => { current = w; };
+    const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: proxy, site: siteDef });
+    if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch {} }
+    const bed = world.gardenBed;
+    const anchors = world.anchors;
+    const vl = siteDef.wind?.venturi ?? [];
+    const vtxt = vl.length ? vl.map((v)=>`throat (${v.x},${v.z}) gain ${v.gain} r${v.radius}`).join(' · ') : 'none';
+    log(`\n\n######## ${siteId}   (RATED = 6.5 kN is the best steel in the game, $30/corner)   venturi: ${vtxt}`);
+    for (const [label, ids] of Object.entries(lineSet)) {
+      for (const storm of ['storm_02_wildnight', 'storm_02b_icenight', 'storm_03b_earlybuster']) {
+        const r = await fly(world, ids, storm, RATED, siteDef, use);
+        if (!r) { log(`  ${label} ${ids.join('+')}: REFUSED`); continue; }
+        const over = r.peak.map((p,i)=>`${r.cornerIds[i]} ${p.toFixed(2)}`).join(' ');
+        const bare = { storm_02_wildnight: 35.7, storm_02b_icenight: 0, storm_03b_earlybuster: 82.6 }[storm];
+        log(`  ${label.padEnd(10)} ${ids.join('+').padEnd(18)} ${storm.padEnd(22)} hp ${String(r.hp).padStart(5)}`
+          + ` (bare ${bare}, sep ${(r.hp-bare).toFixed(1).padStart(5)})  lost ${r.lost}/4`
+          + `${r.brokeAt!==null?` @t=${r.brokeAt.toFixed(0)}`:'      '}  hailShadow ${r.hailShadow.toFixed(2)}  peak kN: ${over}`);
+      }
+      log('');
+    }
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'probe3 done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/garden_bench/probe4.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>probe4 — the $80 line that saves the garden</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { createSkyFx } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { loadStorm, windForSite } from '../../web/world/js/weather.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE, START_BUDGET } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [CARABINER, SHACKLE, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// THE PAYOFF — and the correction (2026-07-18).
+// The first run of this probe read the $80 line tr1+q1+q3+q4 at 91.5 FULL on
+// the wild night and called it the headline. TWO harness landmines, both mine:
+//   1. No venturi — the funnel lives in the SITE def, and this probe never set
+//      it (bench.js read it off the STORM def, where it never lives). Third
+//      harness to make B's Sprint-11 mistake.
+//   2. Static anchors — the remap `sway: () => pos` stripped tr1's TREE sway,
+//      the dynamic load a rig on a gum tree has to eat (DESIGN.md's whole
+//      warning about tree anchors). The backyard bench numbers matched D's UI
+//      replays to the decimal BECAUSE p1..p4 are all posts; any tr1 line was
+//      flown against a tree that never moved.
+// With both fixed the probe agrees with D's live UI replays in direction and
+// closely in number (buster peaks within ~15%); on the wild night the line's
+// cheapest corner rides AT its rating (q4 carabiner ~1.2 kN) — a knife edge
+// the real game falls off (D: q3+q4 break t≈45, 39.8 TATTERED). Where this
+// probe and D's UI disagree on which side of that edge a corner lands, D's
+// UI number is canonical. What survives: the line holds the BUSTER — site_02's
+// actual shipped night — with room (D live: 97.9 FULL, 0/4).
+async function fly(world, plan, stormName, siteDef, use) {
+  const def = await loadStorm(stormName);
+  const anchors = world.anchors;                       // REAL anchors — tr1 sways
+  const bed = world.gardenBed;
+  const wind = windForSite(def, siteDef, anchors);
+  use(wind);   // point the world's sway closures at the flight wind
+
+  // THE REAL SHOP, at the REAL budget. Every refusal is loud.
+  const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors });          // budget = START_BUDGET
+  for (const [id] of plan) {
+    const r = s.rig(id);
+    if (!r.ok) return { err: `rig ${id}: ${r.reason}` };
+  }
+  for (const [id, hw] of plan) {
+    const r = s.setHardware(id, hw);
+    if (!r.ok) return { err: `setHardware ${id} ${hw.name}: ${r.reason}` };
+  }
+  s.setTension(1.0);
+  const spent = START_BUDGET - s.budget;
+  const rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN: 10 }));
+  // NO calm settle: in the real game the rig does not exist until commit, and
+  // commit → attach → advance() → storm land in one keypress (B's clock-reset
+  // comment, sail.js attach). The attach transient rides the storm's own calm
+  // opening, exactly as it does for a player.
+
+  const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, 1.6, 0.1, 400);
+  camera.position.set(0, 2, 8);
+  const sky = createSkyFx({ wind, night: true, camera });
+  const peak = plan.map(() => 0);
+  let hp = 100, hsum = 0, hn = 0;
+  const steps = Math.round(def.duration / FIXED_DT);
+  for (let i=0;i<steps;i++){
+    const t = i * FIXED_DT;
+    rig.step(FIXED_DT, wind, t);
+    sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, { sail: rig });
+    for (let k=0;k<rig.corners.length;k++) if ((rig.corners[k].load||0) > peak[k]) peak[k] = rig.corners[k].load;
+    if (sky.hailAmount > 0) { hsum += sky.hailShadowOver(bed); hn++; }
+    const ex = 5.0*sky.gardenHailExposure(bed,t) + 0.25*sky.gardenExposure(bed,t);
+    if (ex > 0) hp = Math.max(0, hp - 0.9*ex*FIXED_DT);
+  }
+  const lost = rig.corners.filter((c)=>c.broken).length;
+  sky.dispose?.();
+  // Peaks are indexed by rig.corners — the RING order commit() reordered the
+  // picks into — so label them with corners[k].anchorId, NOT the plan order.
+  // (Found at re-verify: the $80 line flies as q1,tr1,q3,q4 — a plan-order
+  // label swaps the two RATED corners' loads. q3/q4 were unaffected.)
+  return { hp: Math.round(hp*10)/10, lost, spent, peak: peak.map((p)=>p/1000),
+    cornerIds: rig.corners.map((c)=>c.anchorId), hailShadow: hn?hsum/hn:0 };
+}
+
+// main.js's own win rule
+const WIN = (hp, lost) => hp >= 50 && lost < 2;
+const state = (hp) => hp > 66 ? 'FULL' : hp > 33 ? 'tattered' : 'DEAD';
+
+try {
+  const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+  // A re-pointable wind, the way main.js's router serves world.js: the world's
+  // tree-sway closures capture THIS object, and fly() re-points it per storm.
+  // Building the world on a dead stub and remapping anchors to static
+  // `sway: () => pos` was landmine #2 — it froze the gum tree.
+  let current = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+    rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+  const proxy = {
+    sample: (p,t,o) => current.sample(p, t, o || new THREE.Vector3()),
+    speedAt: (p,t) => current.speedAt(p, t),
+    rainAt: (t) => current.rainAt(t),
+    rainMmPerHour: (t) => (current.rainMmPerHour ? current.rainMmPerHour(t) : 0),
+    gustTelegraph: (t) => current.gustTelegraph(t),
+    eventsBetween: (a,b) => current.eventsBetween(a, b),
+    setSheltersFromTrees() {},
+    get seed() { return current.seed ?? 1; },
+    get def() { return current.def ?? {}; },
+  };
+  const use = (w) => { current = w; };
+  const siteDef = await loadSite('site_02_corner_block');
+  const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: proxy, site: siteDef });
+  await world.dress();     // NOT optional: undressed, the carport trap does not exist
+  const bed = world.gardenBed;
+
+  const PLANS = {
+    'THE $80 LINE  tr1=rated q1=rated q3=shackle q4=carabiner':
+      [['tr1',RATED],['q1',RATED],['q3',SHACKLE],['q4',CARABINER]],
+    'all-shackle   tr1+q1+q3+q4 ($60)':
+      [['tr1',SHACKLE],['q1',SHACKLE],['q3',SHACKLE],['q4',SHACKLE]],
+    'canonical     q1+q2+q3+tr1, best steel $80 can buy':
+      [['q1',RATED],['q2',SHACKLE],['q3',CARABINER],['tr1',RATED]],
+  };
+  const vl = siteDef.wind?.venturi ?? [];
+  const vtxt = vl.length
+    ? vl.map((v)=>`throat (${v.x},${v.z}) gain ${v.gain} r${v.radius}`).join(' · ') : 'none';
+  log(`site_02_corner_block   budget $${START_BUDGET}   bed ${bed.w}x${bed.d} @ (${bed.x}, ${bed.z})   venturi: ${vtxt}`);
+  // bare-bed refs are funnel-independent (no sail = exposure is the storm's own
+  // rain/hail timeline, wind never enters it); D confirmed 82.6 live on the buster
+  log(`bare bed for reference: wildnight 35.7 (DEAD)   icenight 0.0 (DEAD)   buster 82.6 (FULL)\n`);
+  for (const [label, plan] of Object.entries(PLANS)) {
+    log(`\n## ${label}`);
+    for (const storm of ['storm_02_wildnight','storm_02b_icenight','storm_03b_earlybuster']) {
+      const r = await fly(world, plan, storm, siteDef, use);
+      if (r.err) { log(`   ${storm.padEnd(22)} SHOP REFUSED: ${r.err}`); continue; }
+      const bare = { storm_02_wildnight:35.7, storm_02b_icenight:0, storm_03b_earlybuster:82.6 }[storm];
+      log(`   ${storm.padEnd(22)} spent $${String(r.spent).padStart(3)}  hp ${String(r.hp).padStart(5)} ${state(r.hp).padEnd(8)}`
+        + ` (bare ${String(bare).padStart(4)} ${state(bare)})  sep ${(r.hp-bare).toFixed(1).padStart(5)}`
+        + `  lost ${r.lost}/4  hailShadow ${r.hailShadow.toFixed(2)}  ${WIN(r.hp,r.lost)?'WIN ':'LOSS'}`
+        + `  peak kN: ${r.peak.map((p,i)=>`${r.cornerIds[i]} ${p.toFixed(2)}`).join(' ')}`);
+    }
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'probe4 done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/garden_bench/sweep.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>quad sweep — can ANY line cover the bed?</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { RainShadow } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [,, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// THE QUESTION probe.html forces: the yard's canonical "best bed-covering quad"
+// sits over 25% of the bed vertically, and hail falls vertically — so the sail
+// can never stop more than a quarter of what kills the garden. Is that the
+// LEVEL's ceiling, or did the canonical line just pick badly?
+//
+// Sweep every 4-anchor combination. Stage 1 is a cheap polygon-overlap proxy
+// (the cloth lives roughly inside its anchors' hull), stage 2 flies the real
+// cloth + real shadow grid for the best candidates. Cheap-then-real, because
+// C(n,4) settles would take an hour and the proxy only has to RANK.
+const clip = (poly, rect) => {
+  // Sutherland–Hodgman against the bed rect, then shoelace. Exact for convex.
+  const [x0, x1] = [rect.x - rect.w/2, rect.x + rect.w/2];
+  const [z0, z1] = [rect.z - rect.d/2, rect.z + rect.d/2];
+  const edges = [
+    (p) => p.x >= x0, (p) => p.x <= x1, (p) => p.z >= z0, (p) => p.z <= z1,
+  ];
+  const isect = [
+    (a, b) => ({ x: x0, z: a.z + (b.z - a.z) * (x0 - a.x) / (b.x - a.x) }),
+    (a, b) => ({ x: x1, z: a.z + (b.z - a.z) * (x1 - a.x) / (b.x - a.x) }),
+    (a, b) => ({ x: a.x + (b.x - a.x) * (z0 - a.z) / (b.z - a.z), z: z0 }),
+    (a, b) => ({ x: a.x + (b.x - a.x) * (z1 - a.z) / (b.z - a.z), z: z1 }),
+  ];
+  let out = poly;
+  for (let e = 0; e < 4; e++) {
+    const inp = out; out = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < inp.length; i++) {
+      const a = inp[i], b = inp[(i + 1) % inp.length];
+      const ain = edges[e](a), bin = edges[e](b);
+      if (ain && bin) out.push(b);
+      else if (ain && !bin) out.push(isect[e](a, b));
+      else if (!ain && bin) { out.push(isect[e](a, b)); out.push(b); }
+    }
+    if (!out.length) return 0;
+  }
+  let s = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < out.length; i++) {
+    const a = out[i], b = out[(i + 1) % out.length];
+    s += a.x * b.z - b.x * a.z;
+  }
+  return Math.abs(s) / 2;
+};
+// convex hull (the cloth spans its anchors' hull, so order the quad sanely)
+const hull = (pts) => {
+  const p = pts.slice().sort((a, b) => a.x - b.x || a.z - b.z);
+  const cross = (o, a, b) => (a.x - o.x) * (b.z - o.z) - (a.z - o.z) * (b.x - o.x);
+  const lo = []; for (const q of p) { while (lo.length >= 2 && cross(lo[lo.length-2], lo[lo.length-1], q) <= 0) lo.pop(); lo.push(q); }
+  const up = []; for (const q of p.slice().reverse()) { while (up.length >= 2 && cross(up[up.length-2], up[up.length-1], q) <= 0) up.pop(); up.push(q); }
+  lo.pop(); up.pop(); return lo.concat(up);
+};
+
+try {
+  for (const siteId of ['backyard_01', 'site_02_corner_block']) {
+    const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+    const calm = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+      rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, setSheltersFromTrees(){}, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+    const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: calm, site: await loadSite(siteId) });
+    if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch {} }
+    const anchors = world.anchors.map((a) => { const pos={x:a.pos.x,y:a.pos.y,z:a.pos.z};
+      return { id:a.id, type:a.type, pos, sway:()=>pos }; });
+    const bed = world.gardenBed;
+    const bedArea = bed.w * bed.d;
+    log(`\n\n######## ${siteId}   bed ${bed.w}x${bed.d} @ (${bed.x}, ${bed.z}) = ${bedArea} m2   ${anchors.length} anchors`);
+
+    // stage 1: rank every 4-combo by hull-over-bed overlap
+    const cands = [];
+    const n = anchors.length;
+    for (let a=0;a<n;a++) for (let b=a+1;b<n;b++) for (let c=b+1;c<n;c++) for (let d=c+1;d<n;d++) {
+      const q = [anchors[a], anchors[b], anchors[c], anchors[d]];
+      const h = hull(q.map((x) => ({ x: x.pos.x, z: x.pos.z })));
+      if (h.length < 3) continue;
+      const over = clip(h, bed) / bedArea;
+      cands.push({ ids: q.map((x)=>x.id), over });
+    }
+    cands.sort((p, q) => q.over - p.over);
+    log(`  swept ${cands.length} quads. Top 8 by hull-over-bed (proxy):`);
+    for (const c of cands.slice(0, 8)) log(`    ${c.ids.join('+').padEnd(24)} hull covers ${(c.over*100).toFixed(0)}% of bed`);
+
+    // stage 2: fly the real cloth for the best few + the canonical line
+    const canonical = siteId === 'backyard_01' ? ['p1','p2','p3','p4'] : ['q1','q2','q3','tr1'];
+    const tryList = [];
+    for (const c of cands.slice(0, 5)) tryList.push(c.ids);
+    if (!tryList.some((t) => t.join()===canonical.join())) tryList.push(canonical);
+
+    log(`\n  REAL cloth + REAL shadow grid (settled 12 s, dead air, vertical rain):`);
+    log(`    line                     hull%   coverageOver(up)   RainShadow.fractionOver`);
+    for (const ids of tryList) {
+      const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors, budget: 9999 });
+      let ok = true;
+      for (const id of ids) if (!s.rig(id).ok) { ok = false; break; }
+      if (!ok) { log(`    ${ids.join('+').padEnd(24)} REFUSED by the shop`); continue; }
+      for (const id of ids) { const r = s.setHardware(id, RATED);
+        if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${id} RATED refused: ${r.reason} — the bench is flying hardware it did not buy`); }
+      s.setTension(1.0);
+      const rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN: 10 }));
+      for (let i=0;i<Math.round(12/FIXED_DT);i++) rig.step(FIXED_DT, calm, 0);
+      const cov = rig.coverageOver(bed, {x:0,y:1,z:0}, null);
+      const sh = new RainShadow({ groundY: 0 }); sh.update(rig, 0, -1, 0);
+      const frac = sh.fractionOver(bed);
+      const hp = hull(ids.map((id)=>{const a=anchors.find((z)=>z.id===id);return {x:a.pos.x,z:a.pos.z};}));
+      const over = clip(hp, bed)/bedArea;
+      const mark = ids.join()===canonical.join() ? '  <-- the canonical line' : '';
+      log(`    ${ids.join('+').padEnd(24)} ${(over*100).toFixed(0).padStart(4)}%   ${cov.toFixed(3).padStart(12)}   ${frac.toFixed(3).padStart(18)}${mark}`);
+    }
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'sweep done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/garden_bench/sweep2.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>sweep2 — hold AND cover?</title>
+<style>body{background:#11161a;color:#dde5ea;font:13px/1.5 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;padding:18px}pre{white-space:pre}</style></head>
+<body>
+<pre id="out">running…</pre>
+<script type="importmap">
+{ "imports": {
+  "three": "../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js",
+  "three/addons/": "../../web/world/vendor/addons/"
+} }
+</script>
+<script type="module">
+import * as THREE from '../../web/world/vendor/three.module.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../../web/world/js/rigging.js';
+import { SailRig } from '../../web/world/js/sail.js';
+import { RainShadow } from '../../web/world/js/skyfx.js';
+import { loadStorm, windForSite } from '../../web/world/js/weather.js';
+import { createWorld, loadSite } from '../../web/world/js/world.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, HARDWARE } from '../../web/world/js/contracts.js';
+const [CARABINER, SHACKLE, RATED] = HARDWARE;
+const el = document.getElementById('out');
+const lines = []; const log = (s) => { lines.push(s); el.textContent = lines.join('\n'); };
+el.textContent = '';
+
+// THE PARETO QUESTION, and the whole of gate 1.
+//
+// probe2 proved the shadow model is sound (a sail over the bed reads 1.000 by
+// raycast AND by the grid). probe3 found the variable: _checkFailure compares
+// load against hw.rating * anchor.ratingHint, and the HOUSE fascia's hint is
+// 0.35 — so a $30 RATED shackle is worth 2.3 kN on the house and 6.5 kN on a
+// post. Every quad that covers the bed hangs off the house.
+//
+// So: sweep every 4-anchor line on the BEST steel in the game, settle it the way
+// prep does, and ask both questions at once — does it HOLD, and does it COVER?
+// A quad that covers 100% while tearing itself apart in prep covers nothing.
+// This is the table the garden's whole design rests on and nobody has ever
+// printed it.
+try {
+  for (const siteId of ['backyard_01', 'site_02_corner_block']) {
+    const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+    const zero = { sample:(p,t,o)=>(o||new THREE.Vector3()).set(0,0,0), speedAt:()=>0, rainAt:()=>0,
+      rainMmPerHour:()=>0, gustTelegraph:()=>null, setSheltersFromTrees(){}, eventsBetween:()=>[] };
+    const siteDef = await loadSite(siteId);
+    // re-pointable wind, main.js-router style: the anchors are world.anchors
+    // THEMSELVES, so tree sway is live — the old static remap froze the gum
+    // tree and under-read every tr1 corner (correction, 2026-07-18).
+    let current = zero;
+    const proxy = {
+      sample: (p,t,o) => current.sample(p, t, o || new THREE.Vector3()),
+      speedAt: (p,t) => current.speedAt(p, t),
+      rainAt: (t) => current.rainAt(t),
+      rainMmPerHour: (t) => (current.rainMmPerHour ? current.rainMmPerHour(t) : 0),
+      gustTelegraph: (t) => current.gustTelegraph(t),
+      eventsBetween: (a,b) => current.eventsBetween(a, b),
+      setSheltersFromTrees() {},
+      get seed() { return current.seed ?? 1; },
+      get def() { return current.def ?? {}; },
+    };
+    const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: proxy, site: siteDef });
+    if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch {} }
+    const anchors = world.anchors;
+    const bed = world.gardenBed;
+    const vl = siteDef.wind?.venturi ?? [];
+    const vtxt = vl.length ? vl.map((v)=>`throat (${v.x},${v.z}) gain ${v.gain} r${v.radius}`).join(' · ') : 'none';
+    log(`\n\n######## ${siteId}   bed ${bed.w}x${bed.d} @ (${bed.x}, ${bed.z})   venturi: ${vtxt}`);
+    log(`  anchors and what the BEST steel ($30 RATED, 6.5 kN) is actually worth on them:`);
+    for (const a of anchors) {
+      log(`    ${a.id.padEnd(5)} ${String(a.type).padEnd(8)} hint ${(a.ratingHint ?? 1).toFixed(2)}  ->  ${((a.ratingHint ?? 1) * 6.5).toFixed(2)} kN`);
+    }
+
+    // prep's own wind: main.js hands the rig the calm day outside a storm.
+    // windForSite so the SITE's venturi flies too — before 2026-07-18 this
+    // sweep settled site_02's quads with the funnel OFF (the third harness to
+    // make B's Sprint-11 mistake; see windForSite's comment). The funnel does
+    // not switch off for prep.
+    const calmWind = windForSite(await loadStorm('storm_01_gentle'), siteDef, anchors);
+    current = calmWind;   // the tree-sway closures fly the same calm day
+
+    const rows = [];
+    const n = anchors.length;
+    for (let a=0;a<n;a++) for (let b=a+1;b<n;b++) for (let c=b+1;c<n;c++) for (let d=c+1;d<n;d++) {
+      const ids = [anchors[a].id, anchors[b].id, anchors[c].id, anchors[d].id];
+      const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors, budget: 9999 });
+      let ok = true;
+      for (const id of ids) if (!s.rig(id).ok) { ok = false; break; }
+      if (!ok) continue;
+      for (const id of ids) { const r = s.setHardware(id, RATED);
+        if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`setHardware ${id} RATED refused: ${r.reason} — the bench is flying hardware it did not buy`); }
+      s.setTension(1.0);
+      let rig;
+      try { rig = s.commit(new SailRig({ anchors, gridN: 10 })); } catch { continue; }
+      // settle exactly like prep: calm day, running clock, 12 s
+      let prepT = 0, peak = 0;
+      for (let i=0;i<Math.round(12/FIXED_DT);i++){
+        rig.step(FIXED_DT, calmWind, prepT % 3); prepT += FIXED_DT;
+        for (const co of rig.corners) if ((co.load||0) > peak) peak = co.load;
+      }
+      const broke = rig.corners.filter((co)=>co.broken).length;
+      const cov = rig.coverageOver(bed, {x:0,y:1,z:0}, null);   // vertical: what hail sees
+      const sh = new RainShadow({ groundY: 0 }); sh.update(rig, 0, -1, 0);
+      const frac = sh.fractionOver(bed);
+      rows.push({ ids, broke, cov, frac, peak: peak/1000 });
+    }
+
+    const survived = rows.filter((r) => r.broke === 0);
+    log(`\n  ${rows.length} quads swept on RATED steel. ${survived.length} survive PREP on the calm day.`);
+    log(`\n  --- best COVER among quads that actually HOLD (this is the real ceiling) ---`);
+    log(`    line                  vert.cover  shadow  peak kN  broke`);
+    for (const r of survived.sort((p,q)=>q.cov-p.cov).slice(0,10)) {
+      log(`    ${r.ids.join('+').padEnd(22)} ${(r.cov*100).toFixed(0).padStart(7)}%  ${r.frac.toFixed(3).padStart(6)}  ${r.peak.toFixed(2).padStart(7)}  ${r.broke}`);
+    }
+    log(`\n  --- best COVER overall, holding or not (what the sprint assumed was available) ---`);
+    log(`    line                  vert.cover  shadow  peak kN  broke`);
+    for (const r of rows.slice().sort((p,q)=>q.cov-p.cov).slice(0,6)) {
+      log(`    ${r.ids.join('+').padEnd(22)} ${(r.cov*100).toFixed(0).padStart(7)}%  ${r.frac.toFixed(3).padStart(6)}  ${r.peak.toFixed(2).padStart(7)}  ${r.broke}${r.broke?'  <-- tears in PREP':''}`);
+    }
+    const canonical = siteId === 'backyard_01' ? 'p1+p2+p3+p4' : 'q1+q2+q3+tr1';
+    const cn = rows.find((r)=>r.ids.join('+')===canonical);
+    if (cn) log(`\n  the canonical line ${canonical}: cover ${(cn.cov*100).toFixed(0)}%  shadow ${cn.frac.toFixed(3)}  peak ${cn.peak.toFixed(2)} kN  broke ${cn.broke}`);
+  }
+} catch (e) { log('THREW: ' + (e && e.stack || e)); }
+document.title = 'sweep2 done';
+</script>
+</body></html>

tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js

@@ -142,11 +142,14 @@ export async function buildGardenflyTests() {
       assert(sepRun.bareOk, `bare bed ${sepRun.bare.hp} vs pinned <${s.bareMustLoseBelow} — bare must LOSE the night`);
       assert(sepRun.held.hp - sepRun.bare.hp > 25,
         `separation ${(sepRun.held.hp - sepRun.bare.hp).toFixed(1)} — rigging must matter by a full state's width`);
-      // the two-chain pin: game-true in [60, 66]; a.test's skewed chain > 66.
-      assert(sepRun.held.hp > 60 && sepRun.held.hp <= s.heldMustExceed,
-        `game-true chain reads ${sepRun.held.hp} — measured 63.8 at landing, BELOW the pinned >${s.heldMustExceed}. ` +
-        `If this now exceeds the pin, the disagreement is RESOLVED: delete this ceiling, assert heldOk, ` +
-        `and close the [B] THREADS flag`);
+      // RESOLVED at SPRINT13 integration, per this assert's own instruction: A
+      // re-ruled heldMustExceed 66 → 60 on the game-true number (their THREADS
+      // entry, "restated, not nudged"), so the two-chain disagreement this used
+      // to pin is closed and the pin is asserted directly. B pre-authorized the
+      // edit in the message above; A verified 357/0/0 on a scratch merge first.
+      assert(sepRun.heldOk,
+        `game-true chain reads ${sepRun.held.hp} vs pinned >${s.heldMustExceed} — the held bed must ` +
+        `clear the site's separation block for the RIGHT reason (no settle skew)`);
       assert(skewRun.lost === 0 && skewRun.hp > s.heldMustExceed,
         `a.test's settle-skewed chain reads ${skewRun.hp} — measured 68.4 at landing (a.test's own 68.3). ` +
         `If this dropped, a.test's pin is about to go red too: the wild night itself moved`);

web/world/data/sites/backyard_01.json

@@ -97,8 +97,86 @@
         "than the 23-38 m2 rigs that survive unaided. a.test.js asserts the >45 m2 floor, so",
         "moving this inward goes red — that assert is the tension's only guard."
       ]
-    }
-  ],
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "p5", "x": 5.5, "z": -2, "h": 2.6, "type": "post", "work": "cloth",
+      "_why": [
+        "SPRINT13 gate 1 — A's backyard ruling, the anchor C's diagnosis routed here. The old",
+        "clothesline post: galvanised steel sunk in concrete by the back path, NE of the bed,",
+        "shorter than the sail posts because it was never a sail post. Honest steel (ratingHint 1),",
+        "8 m from the fascia, so the house trap keeps its whole lesson.",
+        "",
+        "WHY IT EXISTS, measured (probeA on C's garden_bench chain, wildnight, funnel-free yard):",
+        "before it, the backyard could not beat TATTERED on the wild night at any price - every",
+        "vertical-covering quad needs a house corner (fascia caps the best steel at 2.27 kN while",
+        "those quads pull 3-7 kN -> tear in the settle), and the best HOLDING line p1..p4 ceilings",
+        "at hp 61.3 through 25% cover. D played both halves through the real UI and confirmed to",
+        "the decimal. Placement, not budget, not weather.",
+        "",
+        "WHY (5.5, -2) at h 2.6 and not somewhere kinder: the LOW top is the point - it twists the",
+        "p1+p2+p3+p5 quad so it spills the gusts (small+twisted survives, DESIGN.md), and the",
+        "position is swept against the $80 wallet. NUMBERS CORRECTED to the game-true chain after",
+        "B's 12s-skew finding (no phantom settle; the first sweep's hp column ran ~4 HP hot):",
+        "    (4.5,-2)  h2.6 -> p1 3.35 kN, needs RATED, line costs $90  DO NOT",
+        "    (5,-2.5)  h2.8 -> p5 6.20, p1 3.75           -> $90       DO NOT",
+        "    (5.5,-2)  h2.6 -> p5 5.10, p2 3.08, p1 2.96, p3 1.81 -> $75, hp 63.6 WIN  <- here",
+        "    (6,-2)    h2.6 -> shadow drops                             DO NOT",
+        "A second, LOWER-still or wider post cannot buy FULL either: the twin-post covering quad",
+        "(p6 at (-3,-2) h2.6 + p5 + p1 + p2, 100% cover) pulls 6.9/6.7/6.2 kN and tears - full",
+        "cover honestly exceeds the wild night at ANY buyable price, which is decision 2's tension",
+        "doing its job. The separation block below pins the recipe; a.test flies it game-true.",
+        "The smallest full-cover quad stays >45 m2 (a.test's floor holds). And the ICE night still",
+        "refuses the $80 wallet: same line needs $105 there (p1 3.25, p2 3.22 vs a shackle's 3.20",
+        "- the same few-hundredths miss as C's q3), so night 5 stays the night the bank pays for."
+      ]
+    }  ],
+
+  "separation": {
+    "_why": [
+      "SPRINT13 gate 1.4 — A's ruling on C's proposed target, RULED TWICE and honest the second",
+      "time. C proposed: 'on a wild night the best buyable line reads FULL (>66) and a bare bed",
+      "reads DEAD (<33)'. First ruling amended the bare half (nowhere does a bare bed read DEAD;",
+      "35.7 is tattered, and tuning storm_02 until a slogan lands is the fudge gate 1 exists to",
+      "kill) and kept FULL — then B's audit rewrite caught that FULL was only ever met through the",
+      "assert's own 12 s phantom settle (SailRig samples wind at its INTERNAL clock: game-true",
+      "63.8/63.6, skewed 68.4/68.3). The geometry was re-swept game-true: nothing buyable reaches",
+      "66 (the twin-post covering quad tears at 6.9 kN; every FULL-flavoured candidate is also",
+      "knife-edged under B's 15% margin rule). So the target is RESTATED to the boundaries the",
+      "game actually stakes, with real headroom, instead of pinning another knife edge:",
+      "  - the best buyable line HOLDS (0/4) and WINS COMFORTABLY: hp > 60 (win line is 50;",
+      "    game-true 63.6 - a red means the wild night's best line regressed, not noise),",
+      "  - a bare bed LOSES: hp < 50 (game-true 35.7),",
+      "  - the spread reads as most of a plant state: >= 25 HP (game-true 27.9).",
+      "DESIGN CANON, written down on purpose: the wild night's garden is WON SCARRED, never FULL,",
+      "and sometimes the win is PYRRHIC - the sail is spendable, the bed is not. PLAYED, per D's",
+      "ask (real pointer events on the markers, real Enter, real invoice, night 4 as shipped):",
+      "hp 55.7 WIN, 2/4 lost (p2 then p3), banked +$21, verdict 'THE GARDEN MADE IT. The sail",
+      "didn't... That is what the sail was for.' The played number sits ~8 under the pinned",
+      "sim-chain 63.6 because the real yard also throws the t=38 crate and ponds rain - and that",
+      "gap lands exactly on p2's 4% shackle margin. RULED DELIBERATE: the wild night sells no",
+      "clean line (B's margin rule labels this recipe marginal-only, which is the audit telling",
+      "the truth) - the best $75 the shop has is a gamble that saves the bed and may cost the",
+      "sail, which is DESIGN.md's firework, priced. The week's garden arc: full/full/full on",
+      "nights 1-3, won-scarred night 4, beyond saving night 5 (week.js gardenBeyondSaving).",
+      "The thresholds below pin the SIM CHAIN (rig+sky+garden, deterministic, no debris) as the",
+      "regression tripwire; the played reference above is what the numbers must keep buying.",
+      "B's audit reads the same recipe (heldMustExceed/bareMustLoseBelow are B's field names too -",
+      "renaming them breaks gardenfly). A target nothing checks is decoration - the repo's oldest",
+      "lesson."
+    ],
+    "_playedReference": "2026-07-18 UI run, night 4 as shipped: hp 55.7 WIN, 2/4 lost (p2,p3), +$21",
+    "stormKey": "storm_02_wildnight",
+    "tension": 1.0,
+    "line": [
+      { "anchor": "p5", "hw": "rated shackle" },
+      { "anchor": "p1", "hw": "shackle" },
+      { "anchor": "p2", "hw": "shackle" },
+      { "anchor": "p3", "hw": "shackle" }
+    ],
+    "heldMustExceed": 60,
+    "bareMustLoseBelow": 50,
+    "separationAtLeast": 25
+  },
 
   "shed": { "model": "shed_01_v1", "x": 11.8, "z": 6.2, "rotYDeg": -90 },
   "shedTable": { "model": "shed_table_v1", "x": 9, "z": 6, "rotYDeg": -90, "pickupNode": "pickup_anchor" },

web/world/dev_skyfx.html

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import * as THREE from './vendor/three.module.js';
 import { FIXED_DT } from './js/contracts.js';
 import { loadStorm, createWind } from './js/weather.js';
 import { createSkyFx } from './js/skyfx.js';
+import { createDebris } from './js/debris.js';
 
 const q = new URLSearchParams(location.search);
 const stormName = q.get('storm') || 'storm_03b_earlybuster';
@@ -65,9 +66,16 @@ slab.position.set(0, 1.5, -11);
 scene.add(slab);
 
 const sky = createSkyFx({ scene, camera, wind, sun, hemi });
+// gate 2.3: the viewer flies the ambient-leaf layer too — the sky stack and
+// the yard's tell belong in the same eyeball test
+const debris = createDebris({ wind, scene });
 addEventListener('pointerdown', () => sky.unlockAudio(), { once: false });
 
 let t = Math.max(0, +q.get('t') || 0), paused = false, last = performance.now(), acc = 0;
+// Warm the ambient layer to the scrub point: leaves carry a few seconds of
+// state (speed EMA + travel), so a viewer that spawns them cold at ?t=50
+// shows an empty sky the real t=50 would not.
+for (let wt = Math.max(0, t - 8); wt < t; wt += FIXED_DT) debris.step(FIXED_DT, wt, {});
 addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
   if (e.code === 'Space') paused = !paused;
   if (e.key === ']') t = Math.min(def.duration, t + 5);
@@ -86,13 +94,13 @@ function frame(now) {
   const wall = Math.min(0.1, (now - last) / 1000); last = now;
   if (!paused && t < def.duration) {
     acc += wall;
-    while (acc >= FIXED_DT) { acc -= FIXED_DT; t += FIXED_DT; sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, {}); }
+    while (acc >= FIXED_DT) { acc -= FIXED_DT; t += FIXED_DT; sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, {}); debris.step(FIXED_DT, t, {}); }
   }
   camera.rotation.set(0, yaw, 0, 'YXZ');
   const ch = (def.events || []).find((e) => e.type === 'windchange');
   hud.textContent = `${stormName}   t=${t.toFixed(1)}s / ${def.duration}s${paused ? '   ⏸' : ''}\n`
     + `wind ${wind.speedAt(camera.position, t).toFixed(1)} m/s   rain ${wind.rainAt(t).toFixed(2)}   `
-    + `front ${sky.changeFront.toFixed(2)}${ch ? `   (change at t=${ch.t})` : '   (no change)'}\n`
+    + `front ${sky.changeFront.toFixed(2)}   leaves ${debris.leafCount}${ch ? `   (change at t=${ch.t})` : '   (no change)'}\n`
     + `space pause · [ ] scrub · ←→ turn · click for audio`;
   renderer.render(scene, camera);
 }

web/world/index.html

@@ -13,7 +13,14 @@
     color: #eef4f8; text-shadow: 0 1px 2px #0009;
     pointer-events: none; user-select: none;
   }
-  #dev  { top: 10px; }
+  /* SPRINT13 gate 3 — the dev line moved out from under Lane B's anchor panel
+     (top:12/left:12; this was top:10/left:10, so they typeset on top of each
+     other all sprint — QA snag list). Top-RIGHT now, and hidden unless asked
+     for: see main.js's dev-line block. A stranger on partly.party was reading
+     "60 fps · storm 12.3s · debris 4" on the front door of a public game, which
+     is a dev build talking to someone who came to play. */
+  #dev  { top: 10px; right: 10px; left: auto; text-align: right; display: none; }
+  #dev.on { display: block; }
   #help { bottom: 10px; opacity: .75; }
   #banner {
     position: fixed; top: 38%; left: 0; right: 0;

web/world/js/camera.js

@@ -11,6 +11,100 @@
 
 import * as THREE from '../vendor/three.module.js';
 
+/**
+ * Perpendicular distance in XZ from point `p` to the segment a→b. The camera
+ * cares about the whole segment, not the endpoints: a post the camera stands
+ * clear of can still be planted squarely between it and the player's head.
+ */
+function distToSegmentXZ(p, a, b) {
+  const abx = b.x - a.x, abz = b.z - a.z;
+  const len2 = abx * abx + abz * abz;
+  let t = len2 ? ((p.x - a.x) * abx + (p.z - a.z) * abz) / len2 : 0;
+  t = t < 0 ? 0 : t > 1 ? 1 : t;
+  return Math.hypot(p.x - (a.x + abx * t), p.z - (a.z + abz * t));
+}
+
+/**
+ * The opening yaw: point the camera so the first frame is player + what matters,
+ * with nothing skewered through the middle of it. (SPRINT13 gate 2.5.)
+ *
+ * The QA pass put it plainly: "the boot camera puts a pole dead-centre through
+ * the player on every single first impression". Measured rather than eyeballed —
+ * the player spawns at (0,6) on backyard_01 looking up the yard at yaw 0, which
+ * parks the camera near z≈10.4, and post p3 stands at (0,7). Dead between the
+ * camera and the head, every boot, on a public URL.
+ *
+ * Two things this is NOT:
+ *  · not a magic yaw. A hand-picked angle is one site's answer, and sites are
+ *    data now — site_02 spawns somewhere else with its posts somewhere else, and
+ *    a constant tuned against the backyard would frame the corner block by luck.
+ *  · not the camera's existing collision. That pulls IN to the first solid in
+ *    the way, so a post behind the player trades a skewer for a shoulder-filling
+ *    close-up. Both are the bad frame; this picks a different angle instead.
+ *
+ * Sweeps outward from the ideal (camera opposite `lookAt`, so the player stands
+ * in front of the thing they're here to protect) and takes the FIRST yaw with
+ * real clearance — nearest the ideal wins, so the framing gives up as little as
+ * it can.
+ *
+ * TWO NUMBERS HERE ARE MEASURED, not chosen, and both were wrong first:
+ *
+ * `clearance` 0.6 — my first pass asked for 1.1 m and produced a WORSE frame
+ * than the bug it fixed: the camera swung 105° off the garden and stared at a
+ * fence. Reason, measured in the running game: p3 stands at (0,7) and the player
+ * spawns at (0,6), so the post is **1.0 m away** — and the greatest perpendicular
+ * distance any obstacle can ever have from the camera→head line is its own
+ * distance from the player. 1.1 was unreachable by construction. The sweep
+ * dutifully tried all 24 candidates, failed every one, and fell back to
+ * "roomiest", which is a rule that knows nothing about the garden. Clearance is
+ * `sin(off) × 1.0 m` here, so 0.6 buys ~37° of turn and leaves the bed 23° off
+ * centre in a 62° FOV: in frame, next to the player, no pole through the head.
+ *
+ * `maxOff` 90° — the fallback's bound, and the lesson from the same failure. A
+ * frame that has turned more than a quarter-circle off the bed is no longer a
+ * frame of the bed, so it cannot be the "best available" answer no matter how
+ * roomy it is. Past this, a pole in shot is the lesser evil, and the sweep says
+ * so by returning the roomiest angle WITHIN the arc rather than outside it.
+ *
+ * Never throws, never returns NaN: a yard boxed in on every side still gets its
+ * best available frame.
+ *
+ * @param {{x,z}} player
+ * @param {{x,z}} lookAt      what the frame should be about — the garden bed
+ * @param {{x,z}[]} obstacles vertical things, by XZ: posts, trunks, structures
+ * @param {object} [opts]
+ * @returns {number} yaw in radians
+ */
+export function spawnYawFor(player, lookAt, obstacles = [], opts = {}) {
+  const distance = opts.distance ?? DEFAULTS.distance;
+  const clearance = opts.clearance ?? 0.6;
+  const maxOff = opts.maxOff ?? Math.PI / 2;
+  const steps = opts.steps ?? 24;
+  const ideal = Math.atan2(player.x - lookAt.x, player.z - lookAt.z);
+
+  const clearAt = (yaw) => {
+    const cam = { x: player.x + Math.sin(yaw) * distance, z: player.z + Math.cos(yaw) * distance };
+    let clear = Infinity;
+    for (const o of obstacles) clear = Math.min(clear, distToSegmentXZ(o, player, cam));
+    return clear;
+  };
+
+  let best = ideal, bestClear = clearAt(ideal);
+  if (bestClear >= clearance) return ideal;
+
+  // Alternate outward — +7.5°, −7.5°, +15° … — so "first acceptable" also means
+  // "least turned away from the bed". Bounded by maxOff: see above.
+  for (let i = 1; i <= steps; i++) {
+    const mag = (Math.ceil(i / 2) * maxOff) / Math.ceil(steps / 2);
+    if (mag > maxOff) break;
+    const yaw = ideal + (i % 2 ? mag : -mag);
+    const clear = clearAt(yaw);
+    if (clear >= clearance) return yaw;
+    if (clear > bestClear) { bestClear = clear; best = yaw; }
+  }
+  return best;
+}
+
 /** Stand-off kept between the camera and whatever it collided with. */
 const WALL_MARGIN = 0.25;
 /** Absolute floor on camera-to-head distance. Above the 0.1 near plane. */
@@ -108,6 +202,14 @@ export function createCameraRig(domElement, opts = {}) {
      */
     setSolids(list) { solids = list ?? []; },
 
+    /**
+     * What the camera is currently colliding against. A read-only view (spread,
+     * so a caller can't mutate the live array). SPRINT13: added so the
+     * aftermath cloth-swallow fix is observable — "did the dead sail actually
+     * join the solid set" was otherwise a claim with no way to check it.
+     */
+    get solids() { return [...solids]; },
+
     /** @param {(x:number, z:number) => number} fn  Pass world.heightAt. */
     setGround(fn) { groundAt = fn ?? (() => -Infinity); },
 

web/world/js/debris.js

@@ -52,6 +52,66 @@ export function createDebris(o = {}) {
   const w = new THREE.Vector3();
   const probe = new THREE.Vector3();
 
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------- leaves
+  // SPRINT13 gate 2.3 — ambient leaves. QA: "debris reads 0 through night 3"
+  // — the event-driven crates are the drama, but nothing SELLS the gale
+  // between events. A handful of leaves streaming with the wind does, from
+  // 30 km/h up. Numbers that matter: LEAF_START is 8.3 m/s on purpose — the
+  // same threshold D keys the player's lean on (their table, lane/d), so the
+  // yard and the body start telling the same story at the same speed. Count
+  // stays single digits (cap 7); these are a tell, not a particle system.
+  //
+  // Deterministic: own seeded rng (so the leaf pool never shifts the piece
+  // rng sequence), distance accumulated over the fixed-dt stream, flutter
+  // pure in t. Same (dt, t) stream in, same leaves out.
+  const LEAF_START = 8.3;    // m/s = 30 km/h; matches D's lean threshold
+  const LEAF_MAX = 7;        // "a handful" — single digits, capped
+  const LEAF_SPAN = 26;      // m of downwind run before a leaf recycles
+  const lrand = rng(((wind && wind.seed) || 1) ^ 0x1eaf);
+  const leafGeo = new THREE.PlaneGeometry(0.16, 0.09);
+  const leafMat = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({ color: 0x8a7a3f, side: THREE.DoubleSide });
+  const leafMeshes = [];
+  const leafSeed = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < LEAF_MAX; i++) {
+    const m = new THREE.Mesh(leafGeo, leafMat);
+    m.visible = false;
+    if (scene) scene.add(m);
+    leafMeshes.push(m);
+    leafSeed.push({
+      lat: lrand() * 16 - 8,             // lane across the wind, m
+      base: 0.35 + lrand() * 1.5,        // ride height, m
+      off: lrand() * LEAF_SPAN,          // where on the loop it starts
+      fl: 1.6 + lrand() * 1.6,           // flutter frequency
+      ph: lrand() * 6.283,
+    });
+  }
+  let leafDist = 0;   // m travelled downwind, accumulated over the dt stream
+  let leafEma = 0;    // ~2.5 s smoothed speed, so the count doesn't strobe
+
+  function stepLeaves(dt, t) {
+    probe.set(0, 1.6, 0);
+    wind.sample(probe, t, w);
+    const sp = Math.hypot(w.x, w.z);
+    leafEma += (sp - leafEma) * Math.min(1, dt / 2.5);
+    const n = leafEma < LEAF_START ? 0
+      : Math.min(LEAF_MAX, 1 + Math.floor((leafEma - LEAF_START) / 1.5));
+    leafDist += sp * 0.85 * dt;          // leaves ride a little under the wind
+    const inv = sp > 1e-4 ? 1 / sp : 0;
+    const dx = w.x * inv, dz = w.z * inv;
+    for (let i = 0; i < LEAF_MAX; i++) {
+      const m = leafMeshes[i], s = leafSeed[i];
+      const vis = i < n && inv > 0;
+      m.visible = vis;
+      if (!vis) continue;
+      const along = ((leafDist + s.off + i * (LEAF_SPAN / LEAF_MAX)) % LEAF_SPAN) - LEAF_SPAN / 2;
+      const lat = s.lat + Math.sin(t * 0.9 + s.ph) * 1.1;
+      const x = dx * along - dz * lat;
+      const z = dz * along + dx * lat;
+      m.position.set(x, groundAt(x, z) + s.base + Math.sin(t * s.fl + s.ph) * 0.3, z);
+      m.rotation.set(t * s.fl, s.ph + t * 2.1, t * 1.3 + s.ph);
+    }
+  }
+
   /** Graybox stand-in so a missing GLB can't break Lane A's merge. */
   function placeholder(spec) {
     const g = new THREE.BoxGeometry(spec.r * 1.8, spec.r * 1.8, spec.r * 1.8);
@@ -108,6 +168,11 @@ export function createDebris(o = {}) {
   const debris = {
     get pieces() { return pieces; },
 
+    /** How many ambient leaves are flying right now (gate 2.3). 0 in a calm. */
+    get leafCount() { let n = 0; for (const m of leafMeshes) if (m.visible) n++; return n; },
+    /** Positions of the flying leaves — for asserts and D's judging. */
+    get leaves() { return leafMeshes.filter((m) => m.visible).map((m) => m.position); },
+
     /** Lane E's GLBs, once they land. name -> Object3D template. */
     setModels(map) { Object.assign(models, map); return debris; },
 
@@ -125,6 +190,7 @@ export function createDebris(o = {}) {
         for (const ev of wind.eventsBetween(t - dt, t)) {
           if (ev.type === 'debris') spawn(ev, t);
         }
+        stepLeaves(dt, t);               // gate 2.3 — the ambient tell
       }
 
       const player = world.player;
@@ -219,6 +285,10 @@ export function createDebris(o = {}) {
     clear() {
       for (const p of pieces) despawn(p);
       pieces.length = 0;
+      // leaves are a pooled ambient layer, not spawned pieces: hide and rewind
+      // so the next night's stream starts from the same state every time
+      for (const m of leafMeshes) m.visible = false;
+      leafDist = 0; leafEma = 0;
     },
   };
 

web/world/js/garden.js

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/**
+ * garden.js — the garden model, one shared copy.  [Lane A]
+ *
+ * SPRINT13 gate 1.2 — B's export ask, granted. These were module-locals in
+ * main.js, which made the audit's garden prediction impossible without copying
+ * three constants "C is about to change this very sprint" (B's words) — the
+ * exact drift sweep.js exists to prevent on the winnability side. Now main.js
+ * and tools/site_audit read the SAME model, so "same number, two harnesses"
+ * is structural rather than aspirational. B: the TEMPORARY COPY in
+ * garden_probe.html can die now.
+ *
+ * Nothing here changed in the move — this is a mechanical lift. The one thing
+ * that DID change this sprint is the comment on GARDEN_DRAIN, because the
+ * gate-1 rulings resolved what it is for.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * How fast an unprotected garden dies, in HP per second at full exposure.
+ *
+ * SPRINT13 gate 1.4 RULING: **this constant does not move.** My old comment
+ * here said "the lever that actually needs moving is the shadow geometry, not
+ * this" — C measured the geometry and it was never wrong (probe2: raycast and
+ * rasteriser agree at 1.0000). What was wrong was the LINE the yard offered:
+ * the canonical p1..p4 covers 25% of what hail sees, and no drain value can
+ * separate a 25% line from a bare bed because the drain scales BOTH sides.
+ * The separation now comes from anchor placement (backyard_01's p5, its
+ * `separation` block, and the a.test assert that flies it), which is where it
+ * always had to come from.
+ *
+ * What 0.9 actually owns is the week's bare-bed arc — the difficulty curve of
+ * neglect, measured: gentle 97.6 · southerly 83.7 · buster 82.6 · wildnight
+ * 35.7 · icenight 0.0. Move this and all five nights retune at once; the
+ * wildnight bare bed must stay under the win line (< 50) for the pinned
+ * separation target to mean anything, and the early nights must stay
+ * survivable-by-default or night 1 stops being a tutorial. Retunes go through
+ * THREADS with that table, not through this number quietly.
+ */
+export const GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9;
+
+/**
+ * Decision 13's weights. Hail is what actually kills a garden and cloth honestly
+ * stops it (stones fall ≤20° off vertical; rain leans 73° in a gale and walks
+ * straight under the sail — Lane C's numbers). Rain is demoted to a drizzle of
+ * damage so the night still costs you something when it isn't hailing.
+ *
+ * SPRINT6 gate 1 lists these first among the balance levers.
+ */
+export const HAIL_WEIGHT = 5.0;
+export const RAIN_WEIGHT = 0.25;
+
+/**
+ * The garden: the thing you are actually protecting, and the only score that
+ * matters. Deliberately not inside hud.js — the HUD reads, it doesn't decide.
+ *
+ * It keeps its damage split by CAUSE, and that isn't bookkeeping for its own
+ * sake: the aftermath verdict is the game's entire feedback channel, and a
+ * verdict that guesses teaches the wrong lesson. A garden that only knows it
+ * went from 100 to 39 cannot tell a player whether their hardware let go or
+ * their perfectly-held sail simply wasn't over the bed — and those are opposite
+ * mistakes with opposite fixes.
+ *
+ * @param {{ setPlants(state: string): void }} world
+ */
+export function createGarden(world) {
+  let hp = 100;
+  let state = 'full';
+  let byHail = 0;
+  let byRain = 0;
+
+  return {
+    get hp() { return hp; },
+    get state() { return state; },
+    /** HP lost to each cause this run. The verdict reads these. */
+    get damage() { return { hail: byHail, rain: byRain }; },
+
+    reset() { hp = 100; state = 'full'; byHail = 0; byRain = 0; world.setPlants('full'); },
+
+    /**
+     * Decision 13, and the two terms stay SEPARATE on the way in rather than
+     * being pre-summed by the caller — that sum is exactly the information the
+     * verdict needs and can never recover afterwards.
+     *
+     * @param {number} dt
+     * @param {number} hail 0..1  sky.gardenHailExposure(bed, t)
+     * @param {number} rain 0..1  sky.gardenExposure(bed, t)
+     */
+    step(dt, hail, rain) {
+      const dHail = HAIL_WEIGHT * hail * GARDEN_DRAIN * dt;
+      const dRain = RAIN_WEIGHT * rain * GARDEN_DRAIN * dt;
+      const total = Math.min(hp, dHail + dRain);
+      if (total > 0) {
+        // Attribute proportionally, so the split still adds up on the last tick
+        // when the garden bottoms out at 0 mid-step.
+        const scale = total / (dHail + dRain);
+        byHail += dHail * scale;
+        byRain += dRain * scale;
+        hp -= total;
+      }
+      const next = hp > 66 ? 'full' : hp > 33 ? 'tattered' : 'dead';
+      if (next !== state) { state = next; world.setPlants(next); }
+    },
+  };
+}

web/world/js/hud.js

@@ -75,6 +75,22 @@ const CSS = `
 #hud-help { position:absolute; bottom:12px; left:50%; transform:translateX(-50%);
   color:#93a6b2; opacity:.85; white-space:nowrap; }
 
+/* SPRINT13 gate 3 — pause and mute.
+   The veil sits UNDER #hud-card (z 30) so a card always wins: pausing can never
+   hide the job sheet or the invoice. It is a veil and not a card because the
+   yard behind it is the point — you paused to LOOK at something. */
+#hud-pause { position:fixed; inset:0; z-index:20; display:none; place-items:center;
+  background:#060a0d99; backdrop-filter:blur(2px); pointer-events:none; }
+#hud-pause.on { display:grid; }
+#hud-pause .word { font:700 34px/1 ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace; letter-spacing:.34em;
+  color:#dde5ea; text-indent:.34em; }
+#hud-pause .sub { margin-top:10px; text-align:center; color:#8ba0ad; letter-spacing:.1em; }
+/* Muted has to be visible from anywhere or the player thinks the sound broke. */
+#hud-mute { position:absolute; top:12px; right:12px; display:none;
+  padding:4px 9px; border:1px solid #3a4a56; border-radius:4px;
+  color:#8ba0ad; letter-spacing:.16em; font-size:11px; }
+#hud-mute.on { display:block; }
+
 #hud-card { position:fixed; inset:0; z-index:30; display:none; place-items:center;
   /* SPRINT12: E's letterhead + brief + conditions made the tall cards taller
      than a short window, and a RIG IT button below the fold with no scroll is a
@@ -184,6 +200,24 @@ const CSS = `
   color: #55677a; border-bottom: 1px solid #1c262d; padding-bottom: 5px;
 }
 
+/* --- the splash (SPRINT13 gate 3) ---------------------------------------
+   Built ON E's letterhead rather than beside it: the masthead is the game's
+   name, so the front door is the same sheet of paper as everything else. The
+   only rules here are the ones the letterhead doesn't already own. */
+#hud-card .splash .letterhead { border-bottom-width: 2px; padding-bottom: 12px; }
+#hud-card .splash .mark { font-size: 30px; }
+#hud-card .premise { margin: 14px 0 4px; color: #dde5ea; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; }
+#hud-card .fineprint { margin: 14px 0 0; color: #6d8494; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.55; }
+#hud-card .keys { display: grid; gap: 3px; }
+#hud-card .keyrow { display: flex; gap: 12px; align-items: baseline; padding: 2px 0; }
+#hud-card .keyrow kbd {
+  flex: none; min-width: 62px; text-align: center; padding: 3px 7px;
+  background: #16222a; border: 1px solid #33454f; border-bottom-width: 2px;
+  border-radius: 4px; color: #cfe0ea; font: inherit; font-size: 11px;
+}
+#hud-card .keyrow span { color: #93a6b2; }
+#hud-card .splash .go { margin-top: 18px; width: 100%; padding: 12px; font-size: 14px; }
+
 /* --- the pay schedule (job sheet) --------------------------------------
    This is a QUOTE, not a receipt: it's what the night is worth if you do it
    right. It reuses your .row shape so it lines up with everything else, but
@@ -302,6 +336,8 @@ export function createHud(d) {
     <div class="panel" id="hud-carry" style="display:none"></div>
     <div id="hud-events"></div>
     <div id="hud-help"></div>
+    <div id="hud-mute">MUTED</div>
+    <div id="hud-pause"><div class="word">PAUSED</div><div class="sub">P to carry on</div></div>
   `;
   document.body.appendChild(root);
 
@@ -322,6 +358,9 @@ export function createHud(d) {
   const elPct = $('#hud-garden-pct'), elBar = $('#hud-bar i'), elShade = $('#hud-shade');
   const elGardenLabel = $('#hud-garden-label');
   const elCarry = $('#hud-carry'), elEvents = $('#hud-events'), elHelp = $('#hud-help');
+  const elPause = $('#hud-pause'), elMute = $('#hud-mute');
+  /** Set by main.js once it has asked skyfx whether the bus has a tap. */
+  let muteAvailable = false;
 
   // --- world-anchored corner load bars ------------------------------------
   // A bar per corner, floating at the corner it describes. Geometry rather than
@@ -427,6 +466,96 @@ export function createHud(d) {
 
     setHelp(text) { elHelp.textContent = text; },
 
+    /** P — the pause veil. Render keeps running; main.js stops the accumulator. */
+    setPaused(on) { elPause.classList.toggle('on', !!on); },
+
+    /** M — reads the state main.js owns. Only shown once the bus is real. */
+    setMuted(on) { elMute.classList.toggle('on', !!on); },
+
+    /**
+     * Does Lane C's audio bus have a mute tap yet? main.js asks skyfx and tells
+     * us. Until it does, M is not advertised on the splash or the help line —
+     * a promised key that does nothing is worse than no key, and this game is
+     * public now. Flips itself on the day C lands `setMute`.
+     */
+    setAudioMuteAvailable(on) { muteAvailable = !!on; },
+
+    /** The comfort keys, listed only where they're real. See setAudioMuteAvailable. */
+    comfortKeysHint() { return muteAvailable ? 'P pause · M mute' : 'P pause'; },
+
+    /**
+     * THE FRONT DOOR (SPRINT13 gate 3).
+     *
+     * partly.party's arcade can send a stranger straight here, and before this
+     * they landed on a job sheet: an invoice-looking card from a business they'd
+     * never heard of, quoting money for a job nobody had explained, with the
+     * controls appearing only later on prep's help line. The premise of the game
+     * was never once stated on the glass.
+     *
+     * It's one more `.card` — not a menu system. There is nothing to configure:
+     * one week, five jobs, one button. E's letterhead does the work, because the
+     * masthead IS the game's name and the joke lands before the premise does.
+     *
+     * @param {() => void} onStart
+     */
+    showSplash(onStart) {
+      card.innerHTML = `<div class="card splash">
+        <div class="letterhead">
+          <div>
+            <div class="mark">${BUSINESS.mark}</div>
+            <div class="trade">${BUSINESS.trade}</div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+        <p class="premise">Rig shade sails, then keep the client's garden alive
+          through the storm. Five nights, five jobs, one wallet.</p>
+        <div class="sect">THE CONTROLS</div>
+        <div class="keys">
+          ${[
+            ['WASD', 'walk the yard'],
+            ['mouse', 'orbit the camera'],
+            ['click', 'pick an anchor · again to unpick'],
+            ['[ ]', 'tension the rig — tighter holds shape, and breaks harder'],
+            ['S', 'buy a spare shackle'],
+            ['E', 'repair a blown corner (ladder if it is up high)'],
+            ['C', 'brace against the wind'],
+            ['Enter', 'commit the rig and start the night'],
+            ...(muteAvailable ? [['P · M', 'pause · mute']] : [['P', 'pause']]),
+          ].map(([k, v]) => `<div class="keyrow"><kbd>${k}</kbd><span>${v}</span></div>`).join('')}
+        </div>
+        <p class="fineprint">The forecast is a band, not a promise. Nothing you
+          tie to is as strong as it looks.</p>
+        <button class="go">START THE WEEK</button>
+      </div>`;
+      card.classList.add('on');
+      hud.setVisible(false);
+      card.querySelector('.go').addEventListener('click', () => { hud.hideCard(); onStart(); });
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * The phone visitor. A public URL gets phones — DESIGN.md's game is WASD and
+     * a mouse orbit, so there is no touch story to tell and pretending otherwise
+     * would waste their time. Before this they got a dead canvas and no reason.
+     *
+     * No START: this is the one card without a way through, on purpose. Sending
+     * someone into a yard they cannot walk is worse than telling them plainly.
+     */
+    showTouchNotice() {
+      card.innerHTML = `<div class="card splash">
+        <div class="letterhead">
+          <div>
+            <div class="mark">${BUSINESS.mark}</div>
+            <div class="trade">${BUSINESS.trade}</div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+        <p class="premise">${BUSINESS.mark} needs a keyboard and a mouse —
+          you walk the yard and orbit the camera to rig a sail, and there's no
+          honest way to do that with a thumb.</p>
+        <p class="fineprint">Grab a laptop and come back. It'll be here.</p>
+      </div>`;
+      card.classList.add('on');
+      hud.setVisible(false);
+    },
+
     /**
      * @param {number} dt
      * @param {number} t  wind/storm time

web/world/js/ladder.js

@@ -69,7 +69,22 @@ export const needsLadder = (anchor) => {
   return anchor.type === 'house';                                                 // site_01's shape
 };
 
-/** Where the player stands to work a fascia anchor: out from the wall, at the anchor's x. */
+/**
+ * What to call the thing the ladder serves, in the player's own words.
+ *
+ * SPRINT13 pool (the integrator's QA pass): the place label hardcoded "the fascia" — true on
+ * backyard_01, a lie on the corner block, where the bracket is a carport beam. Keyed on `type`,
+ * which has been a CHECKED enum since Sprint 11 (`validateSite` rejects an unknown one), so a new
+ * site can only arrive here with a type somebody typed on purpose.
+ *
+ * The fallback names the MECHANISM, not a guessed structure: an unmapped bracket reads "the bracket
+ * needs the ladder", which is vague but never false. Same instinct as `needsLadder` itself — the
+ * thing that broke here was a rule keyed on site_01's spelling of the idea instead of the idea.
+ */
+const BRACKET_NOUN = { house: 'the fascia', carport: 'the carport bracket' };
+const bracketNoun = (a) => BRACKET_NOUN[a?.type] ?? 'the bracket';
+
+/** Where the player stands to work a bracket anchor: out from the wall, at the anchor's x. */
 const STAND_OFF = 0.9;      // m clear of the wall face
 const PLACE_RANGE = 2.6;    // m — how close you must be to a fascia anchor to plant the ladder
 const RUNG_CLEAR = 0.55;    // m — feet this far below the top rung, so the fascia is at chest height
@@ -95,6 +110,8 @@ export function createLadder(scene, world, interact, player) {
     base: new THREE.Vector3(),
     topY: 2.9,               // overwritten from the GLB's ladder_top node
     view: null,
+    dropped: false,          // lying in the grass where it was lost (see the reconcile in update)
+    dropYaw: 0,
   };
 
   // Home: leaning on the shed, near the spare table but NOT on top of it. Read from world.shedTable
@@ -134,6 +151,11 @@ export function createLadder(scene, world, interact, player) {
       // planted: yaw so local +Z faces the wall, then tip the head into it. +X rotation carries the
       // top toward local +Z, which is the wall — so the feet stand off and the head rests on it.
       state.view.rotation.set(LEAN, Math.atan2(a.pos.x - state.base.x, a.pos.z - state.base.z), 0);
+    } else if (state.dropped) {
+      // Dropped, not stowed: it lies FLAT where it fell. The stowed pose is a slouch against the
+      // shed wall, and a slouch in open grass reads as a ladder leaning on thin air — which looks
+      // like a bug at exactly the moment the player is hunting for the thing.
+      state.view.rotation.set(Math.PI / 2, state.dropYaw, 0);
     } else {
       state.view.rotation.set(0, 0.6, 0.22);   // stowed: slouched against the shed
     }
@@ -169,6 +191,7 @@ export function createLadder(scene, world, interact, player) {
     onDone: (p, t) => {
       state.carried = true;
       state.placedAt = null;
+      state.dropped = false;
       p.pickUp('ladder', t);
       syncView();
     },
@@ -185,15 +208,19 @@ export function createLadder(scene, world, interact, player) {
       clip: 'PickUp',
       // Reads as an offer when you can, and as a reason when you can't — interact.visible() now
       // shows unusable targets greyed, and a label written only as an offer explains nothing there.
-      // Standing under a blown fascia bracket holding a spare, "the fascia needs the ladder" is the
-      // single most useful sentence in the game.
+      // Standing under a blown bracket holding a spare, "the fascia needs the ladder" is the single
+      // most useful sentence in the game — so it has to name the RIGHT structure, or it's the single
+      // most confusing one. It said "fascia" in the corner block until SPRINT13.
+      // ...and it must not lie about WHERE. "it's by the shed" is true until the wind takes it out
+      // of your hands, and then it's the game sending you to the wrong end of the yard mid-storm.
       label: (p) => (p.carrying === 'ladder'
-        ? `set the ladder under ${a.id}`
-        : 'the fascia needs the ladder — it\'s by the shed'),
+        ? `set the ladder under ${a.id.toUpperCase()}`
+        : `${bracketNoun(a)} needs the ladder — ${state.dropped ? 'you dropped it out there' : "it's by the shed"}`),
       canUse: (p) => p.carrying === 'ladder',
       onDone: (p, t) => {
         state.carried = false;
         state.placedAt = a.id;
+        state.dropped = false;
         state.base.set(a.pos.x, world.heightAt ? world.heightAt(a.pos.x, a.pos.z + STAND_OFF) : 0,
           a.pos.z + STAND_OFF);
         p.carrying = null;
@@ -239,6 +266,29 @@ export function createLadder(scene, world, interact, player) {
      * player.js calls this each frame from the same input it reads for movement.
      */
     update(dt, t, input) {
+      // SPRINT13 pool — "the dropped spare's whereabouts are unknown" is the small half of this.
+      // The player can lose the ladder without telling us: knockdown() calls drop() (player.sim.js),
+      // which nulls `carrying` and pushes an event nothing here listens for. state.carried stayed
+      // true forever, and every consequence of that is silent:
+      //   · syncView hides the mesh (`visible = !carried`)      → the ladder is invisible
+      //   · ladder_take.pos() returns null while carried        → nothing to walk to
+      //   · ladder_take.canUse needs !state.carried             → it can never be picked up again
+      // Blown over mid-carry and the ladder left the game, while ladder_place went on saying "it's
+      // by the shed". It wasn't. On the corner block that silently ends the site's whole thesis:
+      // cb1/cb2 are bracket work, and bracket work needs a ladder that no longer exists.
+      // The player's hands are the one source of truth, so reconcile against them every frame and
+      // let the ladder FALL where it was lost — the same instinct as STATES.shelter, which enters
+      // and leaves itself so a dropped release can't strand you. Fetching it is now a cost you can
+      // see and walk to, which is what the mechanic wanted from the knockdown in the first place.
+      if (state.carried && player.carrying !== 'ladder') {
+        state.carried = false;
+        state.placedAt = null;
+        state.dropped = true;
+        state.dropYaw = player.facing ?? 0;
+        state.base.set(player.pos.x,
+          world.heightAt ? world.heightAt(player.pos.x, player.pos.z) : 0,
+          player.pos.z);
+      }
       if (player.state === 'atTop' && input && input.z < 0) player.climbTo(0, t);
       syncView();
     },

web/world/js/main.js

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 import * as THREE from '../vendor/three.module.js';
 import { FIXED_DT, PHASES, STORM_LEN, HARDWARE, SPARE_COST, Emitter } from './contracts.js';
 import { createWorld, loadSite } from './world.js';
-import { createCameraRig } from './camera.js';
+import { createCameraRig, spawnYawFor } from './camera.js';
 import { loadStorm, createWind } from './weather.js';
 import { SailRig, createSailView } from './sail.js';
 import { createPlayer } from './player.js';
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { createSkyFx } from './skyfx.js';
 import { createRiggingUI } from './rigging.js';
 import { createHud } from './hud.js';
 import { createWeek, NIGHTS, nightAt } from './week.js';
+import { createGarden } from './garden.js';
 
 /** The calm day the forecast and prep phases run under. */
 export const CALM_STORM = 'storm_01_gentle';
@@ -60,90 +61,121 @@ export function stormsToPreload(nights = NIGHTS.map((_, i) => nightAt(i).storm))
 const STORMS = stormsToPreload();
 
 /**
- * How fast an unprotected garden dies, in HP per second at full rain.
+ * May Enter commit the rig right now? The ONLY route into `game.advance()` that
+ * a key may take.
  *
- * Decision 7: drain is rain × (1 − rain shadow), NOT sun coverage. At night the
- * sun shadow is a number about nothing, and storm_02 is a wildnight.
+ * A function, and exported, because it is a security-shaped rule on a PUBLIC
+ * game and the handler that used to hold it is inside boot(), behind a canvas
+ * and a WebGL context — i.e. somewhere no assert can reach. That's precisely how
+ * the exploit shipped: `addEventListener('keydown', …)` fell through to
+ * `game.advance()` in EVERY phase, so Enter DURING a storm jumped straight to a
+ * perfect invoice — the storm never ran, "every corner held", full pay, clean
+ * bonus, +$90 banked on partly.party where strangers could find it. The
+ * integrator hit it in a QA pass, not a test, because there was no seam to test.
  *
- * ⚠️ This number is doing less work than it looks like it is, and the reason is
- * worth reading before retuning it. Measured over storm_02 with a rig that holds
- * 4/4 corners all night: sun coverage over the bed stays ~50%, but the RAIN
- * shadow decays 0.38 → 0.04 as the wind builds, averaging 0.23. Driving rain
- * blows under the sail and the shadow walks off the bed — which is Lane C's
- * model being right about weather, not a bug.
+ * So the rule is a value now. Enter means ONE thing: commit the rig and start
+ * the night.
+ *  · `prep` only — forecast and aftermath advance through their own cards, and
+ *    a storm advances when it ENDS. Nothing else may move the phase machine.
+ *  · not while a card is open — the card owns the keyboard, and its button is
+ *    the only way through.
  *
- * The consequence is that a perfectly rigged bed only ever sits ~23% drier than
- * a bare one, so NO value here separates good rigging from none; at 1.6 both
- * ended dead, and the spread stays ~20 points at any setting. 0.9 is chosen to
- * put a good rig around 60% (a win) and a bare bed just under 50% (a loss), so
- * the loop is playable and scores something — but the lever that actually needs
- * moving is the shadow geometry, not this. Flagged for Lane C in THREADS.
+ * @param {string} phase   game.phase
+ * @param {boolean} cardOpen hud.cardOpen
  */
-const GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9;
-
-/**
- * Decision 13's weights. Hail is what actually kills a garden and cloth honestly
- * stops it (stones fall ≤20° off vertical; rain leans 73° in a gale and walks
- * straight under the sail — Lane C's numbers). Rain is demoted to a drizzle of
- * damage so the night still costs you something when it isn't hailing.
- *
- * SPRINT6 gate 1 lists these first among the balance levers.
- */
-const HAIL_WEIGHT = 5.0;
-const RAIN_WEIGHT = 0.25;
-
-/**
- * The garden: the thing you are actually protecting, and the only score that
- * matters. Deliberately not inside hud.js — the HUD reads, it doesn't decide.
- *
- * It keeps its damage split by CAUSE, and that isn't bookkeeping for its own
- * sake: the aftermath verdict is the game's entire feedback channel, and a
- * verdict that guesses teaches the wrong lesson. A garden that only knows it
- * went from 100 to 39 cannot tell a player whether their hardware let go or
- * their perfectly-held sail simply wasn't over the bed — and those are opposite
- * mistakes with opposite fixes.
- */
-function createGarden(world) {
-  let hp = 100;
-  let state = 'full';
-  let byHail = 0;
-  let byRain = 0;
-
-  return {
-    get hp() { return hp; },
-    get state() { return state; },
-    /** HP lost to each cause this run. The verdict reads these. */
-    get damage() { return { hail: byHail, rain: byRain }; },
-
-    reset() { hp = 100; state = 'full'; byHail = 0; byRain = 0; world.setPlants('full'); },
-
-    /**
-     * Decision 13, and the two terms stay SEPARATE on the way in rather than
-     * being pre-summed by the caller — that sum is exactly the information the
-     * verdict needs and can never recover afterwards.
-     *
-     * @param {number} dt
-     * @param {number} hail 0..1  sky.gardenHailExposure(bed, t)
-     * @param {number} rain 0..1  sky.gardenExposure(bed, t)
-     */
-    step(dt, hail, rain) {
-      const dHail = HAIL_WEIGHT * hail * GARDEN_DRAIN * dt;
-      const dRain = RAIN_WEIGHT * rain * GARDEN_DRAIN * dt;
-      const total = Math.min(hp, dHail + dRain);
-      if (total > 0) {
-        // Attribute proportionally, so the split still adds up on the last tick
-        // when the garden bottoms out at 0 mid-step.
-        const scale = total / (dHail + dRain);
-        byHail += dHail * scale;
-        byRain += dRain * scale;
-        hp -= total;
-      }
-      const next = hp > 66 ? 'full' : hp > 33 ? 'tattered' : 'dead';
-      if (next !== state) { state = next; world.setPlants(next); }
-    },
-  };
+export function enterCommits(phase, cardOpen) {
+  return phase === 'prep' && !cardOpen;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Can this device play HARD YARDS at all? (SPRINT13 gate 3 — the touch notice.)
+ *
+ * The question is NOT "is this a touchscreen", and getting that wrong is the
+ * whole reason this is a function with a comment. `(pointer: coarse)` asks what
+ * the PRIMARY pointer is, so a touchscreen laptop — finger on the glass, mouse
+ * on the desk, perfectly able to play — answers "coarse" and gets locked out by
+ * a courtesy card. That's a worse bug than the dead canvas it replaces, because
+ * it takes the game away from someone who could play it.
+ *
+ * `(any-pointer: fine)` asks the question that actually matters: is there a
+ * mouse, trackpad or stylus attached AT ALL? A phone says no. A tablet says no.
+ * A hybrid laptop says yes and plays. Detection errs toward LETTING PEOPLE IN:
+ * an old browser that doesn't know the query returns `matches: false` for both,
+ * and the `?? true` means an unknown device gets the game rather than a lecture.
+ *
+ * Keyboard can't be feature-detected at all — no browser exposes "is there a
+ * keyboard" — so a fine pointer is the honest proxy, and the notice says what we
+ * need in words rather than pretending to know.
+ */
+/**
+ * The fixed-dt accumulator, as a value: how many steps does this frame owe, and
+ * what's left over? (SPRINT13 gate 3 — P.)
+ *
+ * Pulled out of `frame()` for the same reason `enterCommits` was pulled out of
+ * the keydown handler: `frame()` is only ever called by requestAnimationFrame,
+ * and rAF does not fire in a hidden tab — so a pause "test" driven through the
+ * real loop sits there measuring a sim that was already frozen and reports
+ * success. I wrote that probe, and it passed: simT advanced 0 while paused, and
+ * 0 while running. The pause rule is a value now, so it can be checked by
+ * something other than luck.
+ *
+ * PAUSED DRAINS THE ACCUMULATOR rather than leaving it standing. `acc` holds up
+ * to one FIXED_DT of unspent real time; carrying it across a pause spends it on
+ * the first frame after resume — a free sixtieth of a second of storm nobody
+ * asked for, which is invisible right up until two runs of a deterministic sim
+ * disagree about a gust.
+ *
+ * @param {number} acc    unspent seconds carried from last frame
+ * @param {number} raw    this frame's real delta, already clamped by the caller
+ * @param {boolean} paused
+ * @param {number} [max]  step ceiling — a breakpoint must not run 4000 steps
+ * @returns {{steps:number, acc:number}}
+ */
+export function accumulate(acc, raw, paused, max = 60) {
+  if (paused) return { steps: 0, acc: 0 };
+  let left = acc + raw;
+  let steps = 0;
+  while (left >= FIXED_DT && steps < max) { steps++; left -= FIXED_DT; }
+  return { steps, acc: left };
+}
+
+export function canPlayHere(mm = typeof matchMedia === 'function' ? matchMedia : null) {
+  if (!mm) return true;                                   // no matchMedia (node, old): let them in
+  try {
+    return mm('(any-pointer: fine)').matches ?? true;
+  } catch {
+    return true;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Push the mute state at C's audio bus, honestly. Returns whether a bus took
+ * it — false means the flag is UI-only on this tree and the HUD must not
+ * advertise M (hud.setAudioMuteAvailable reads the same feature-detect).
+ *
+ * A value rather than a closure so the selftest can fail it (the Enter-guard
+ * lesson): the wiring bug this pins is calling `sky.setMute?.()` and never
+ * noticing it no-ops, or muting the flag and forgetting the bus after makeSky()
+ * hands back a fresh skyfx at a phase change.
+ *
+ * @param {{ setMute?: (on: boolean) => void } | null} sky
+ * @param {boolean} on
+ * @returns {boolean} true iff a real bus received the state
+ */
+export function applyMute(sky, on) {
+  const bus = typeof sky?.setMute === 'function';
+  if (bus) sky.setMute(!!on);
+  return bus;
+}
+
+/*
+ * The garden model — GARDEN_DRAIN, HAIL_WEIGHT, RAIN_WEIGHT, createGarden —
+ * moved to garden.js (SPRINT13 gate 1.2, B's export ask): the audit must
+ * predict the sim's garden off the sim's OWN code, and module-locals here made
+ * that impossible without a drifting copy. The gate-1.4 ruling on GARDEN_DRAIN
+ * (it does not move, and why) lives on the constant itself, over there.
+ */
+
 /**
  * Why the night went the way it did — read from what ACTUALLY happened.
  *
@@ -161,7 +193,7 @@ function createGarden(world) {
  *
  * @returns {{verdict: string, mode: string}}
  */
-export function verdictFor({ hp, lost, win, dmg, pondPeak, pondDumped }) {
+export function verdictFor({ hp, lost, win, dmg, pondPeak, pondDumped, beyondSaving = false }) {
   // SPRINT12 — B's flag, actioned: "weakest link that went first" reduces on
   // the EFFECTIVE rating (rating × ratingHint), matching sail.js's failure
   // line and B's summary.weakest tie-break fix. On the bare rating a rated
@@ -185,6 +217,25 @@ export function verdictFor({ hp, lost, win, dmg, pondPeak, pondDumped }) {
       verdict: `THE GARDEN MADE IT. The sail didn't — the ${named} went first and took `
         + `${lost.length - 1} more with it. That is what the sail was for.` };
   }
+  // SPRINT13 gate 1.4 — A's night-5 ruling (week.js gardenBeyondSaving): on a
+  // night whose data says the garden cannot reach the win line at ANY price,
+  // every "you could have rigged better" sentence below is a lie, and the
+  // uncovered/rain modes are the worst liars — they blame placement on a night
+  // where no placement wins. This branch comes before every loss mode: the
+  // garden's fate was sealed at the forecast; only the STEEL's fate was the
+  // player's. Note it deliberately does NOT fire on a win — if a retune ever
+  // makes the flagged night winnable, the flag is stale and week.js says to
+  // delete it, not to trust this to paper over it.
+  if (!win && beyondSaving) {
+    if (lost.length >= 1) {
+      return { mode: 'beyond-saving',
+        verdict: `THE BED WAS BEYOND SAVING — no sail in the shop stops this much ice. `
+          + `The ${named} letting go is the part that's on you.` };
+    }
+    return { mode: 'beyond-saving',
+      verdict: 'THE BED WAS BEYOND SAVING — no sail in the shop stops this much ice. '
+        + 'Yours held anyway. That was the whole job tonight, and you did it.' };
+  }
   if (!win && lost.length >= 2) {
     return { mode: 'cascade',
       verdict: `THE SAIL LOST. The ${named} went first — and took ${lost.length - 1} more with it.` };
@@ -419,6 +470,13 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
   // temporal-dead-zone throw. Boot builds them against the same fresh world.
   let rig;
   let rigging;
+  // Same reason, same trap (SPRINT13): loadSiteInto now refreshes the camera's
+  // solid set, and that reads sailView — on a first call that happens at boot,
+  // before any cloth exists. Declared up here with the others so it reads
+  // `undefined` (no cloth yet: use the yard's solids) instead of throwing TDZ
+  // from a line whose only crime was being honest about what the camera needs.
+  // Caught by the page going blank, which is the loudest a TDZ ever gets.
+  let sailView = null;
   const cameraRig = createCameraRig(canvas);
   const interact = new Interact();
 
@@ -445,7 +503,7 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     await world.dress();
     currentSite = siteName;
 
-    cameraRig.setSolids(world.solids);
+    refreshCameraSolids();
     cameraRig.setGround(world.heightAt);
     // Lane C: local wind effects are per-yard. A venturi (site_02's screaming
     // gap) and tree shelters both re-register here; empty/absent is a no-op,
@@ -459,6 +517,23 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     // forecast, never mid-storm, so a clean rebuild is honest and cheap.
     player = await createPlayer(scene, world, cameraRig, { wind, interact });
 
+    // SPRINT13 gate 2.5 — the opening frame, per YARD rather than per game.
+    // Done here because the spawn is here: the player and the yard are rebuilt
+    // together, so the frame that introduces them is a property of the site, not
+    // a constant. site_02 spawns somewhere else with its posts somewhere else,
+    // and a yaw hand-tuned against the backyard would frame the corner block by
+    // luck. Obstacles come from the site's own data — every vertical thing a
+    // pole-through-the-head could be.
+    cameraRig.yaw = spawnYawFor(
+      player.pos,
+      { x: world.gardenBed.x, z: world.gardenBed.z },
+      [
+        ...(siteDef.posts ?? []),
+        ...(siteDef.trees ?? []),
+        ...(siteDef.structures ?? []),
+      ].map((o) => ({ x: o.x, z: o.z })),
+    );
+
     // Re-point everything that captured the old anchor set. Done HERE, right
     // after the rebuild, rather than in the caller — a caller-side `if (switched)`
     // was fragile (it broke the moment a debug path had already advanced
@@ -490,7 +565,28 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
 
   // --- 3. sail ------------------------------------------------------------
   rig = new SailRig({ anchors: world.anchors });
-  let sailView = null;
+
+  /**
+   * What the camera may not pass through: the yard's solids, PLUS the cloth.
+   *
+   * SPRINT13 gate 2.5 — "in aftermath the dead draped sail can swallow the
+   * camera whole" (QA pass). The camera has collided with the house since
+   * Sprint 2 for exactly this reason, and the sail was simply never in the list:
+   * while it is up it hangs above head height and nothing notices, but a sail
+   * that has FAILED lies in the yard at head height, which is the one moment the
+   * player most wants to look at it.
+   *
+   * Called from both rebuilds, because they invalidate the list independently:
+   * loadSiteInto() makes new world.solids, rigSail() makes a new cloth. Either
+   * one alone leaves the camera holding a mesh that was disposed.
+   *
+   * The cloth's bounding sphere is recomputed in sailView.update() every frame,
+   * so the raycast reads live geometry rather than the shape it had at rig time.
+   * Cheap: the default grid is 10x10, so ~162 triangles against a whole house.
+   */
+  function refreshCameraSolids() {
+    cameraRig.setSolids(sailView ? [...world.solids, sailView] : world.solids);
+  }
 
   /**
    * Attach the cloth across 4 anchors and (re)build its view.
@@ -514,6 +610,7 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     }
     sailView = await createSailView(rig);
     scene.add(sailView);
+    refreshCameraSolids();      // the new cloth; the one it replaced is disposed
     wireYardActions(interact, { sailRig: rig, world });
     return sailView;
   }
@@ -535,6 +632,9 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
   let simT = 0;
   let windT = 0;
   let acc = 0;
+  /** SPRINT13 gate 3 — the front door's two comfort keys. Neither is sim state: */
+  let paused = false;   //   P: the accumulator stops; nothing deterministic sees a dt
+  let muted = false;    //   M: Lane C's bus, once it has a tap (see setMuted)
 
   function windTime() {
     if (game.phase === 'storm') return game.phaseT;
@@ -692,7 +792,8 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
      */
     const win = hp >= 50;
     const dmg = garden.damage;
-    const { verdict, mode } = verdictFor({ hp, lost, win, dmg, pondPeak, pondDumped });
+    const { verdict, mode } = verdictFor({ hp, lost, win, dmg, pondPeak, pondDumped,
+      beyondSaving: week.job.gardenBeyondSaving });
 
     return {
       hp,
@@ -824,6 +925,17 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     events.length = 0;
     rigging.setActive(to === 'prep');
 
+    // A pause never survives the phase it was taken in. Leaving `paused` true on
+    // the way out of a storm would carry it into the next night, where P is
+    // inert (nothing but the storm has a clock) — so the flag would be stuck on,
+    // unreachable, and the following storm would open frozen with no way to
+    // unfreeze it. That's a soft-lock built out of a comfort feature, which is
+    // the same shape as the night-3 one D found: a state nothing could clear.
+    // makeSky() also hands back a fresh skyfx, so the mute has to be re-applied
+    // or muting silently expires at the phase boundary.
+    if (paused) { paused = false; hud.setPaused(false); }
+    if (muted) setMuted(true);
+
     if (to === 'storm') { pondPeak = 0; pondDumped = 0; }
 
     if (to === 'forecast') {
@@ -850,7 +962,11 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
       hud.setHelp('click an anchor to rig · click again to cycle hardware · shift-click to remove · [ ] tension · S spare · ENTER when you have four');
     }
     if (to === 'storm') {
-      hud.setHelp('WASD move · shift run · E repair/pickup · C brace · RMB orbit');
+      // P is only offered where it does something (the storm is the one clock
+      // that doesn't wait), and M only once C's bus has a tap — hud owns that
+      // question, because a help line that lists a dead key is a help line that
+      // teaches a stranger the game is broken.
+      hud.setHelp(`WASD move · shift run · E repair/pickup · C brace · RMB orbit · ${hud.comfortKeysHint()}`);
     }
     if (to === 'aftermath') {
       // The dawn comes up BEFORE the scoreboard, on E's 2.2 s ease. Their note
@@ -874,14 +990,8 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
   });
 
   addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
-    if (e.key !== 'Enter' || hud.cardOpen) return;
-    // Enter means ONE thing: commit the rig and start the night. It used to
-    // fall through to game.advance() in every phase, which made Enter DURING
-    // a storm skip straight to a perfect invoice — the storm never ran, every
-    // corner "held", full pay. Found in the SPRINT12 QA pass, live on the
-    // public deploy. Forecast/aftermath advance through their cards (cardOpen
-    // catches those above); nothing else may advance the phase machine.
-    if (game.phase !== 'prep') return;
+    if (e.key !== 'Enter') return;
+    if (!enterCommits(game.phase, hud.cardOpen)) return;
     if (!rigging.commit()) return;
     // Off the bank, not off START_BUDGET — see the note on showTonight().
     spentThisNight = week.bank - rigging.summary.budget;
@@ -890,9 +1000,63 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     game.advance();
   });
 
-  // Straight into the forecast: the card is the game's front door, and it now
-  // opens on night one of five rather than a difficulty menu.
-  showTonight();
+  /**
+   * P — pause. Storm only, and that is not a limitation, it's the whole scope:
+   * forecast and aftermath are already paused by construction (their cards are
+   * up and the sim isn't running), and prep has no clock. The storm is the only
+   * ninety seconds in the game that don't wait for you, which is exactly why a
+   * stranger on a public URL needs a way to stop it.
+   */
+  function setPaused(on) {
+    if (game.phase !== 'storm') on = false;         // nothing else has a clock to stop
+    if (on === paused) return paused;
+    paused = on;
+    hud.setPaused(paused);
+    return paused;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * M — mute. The tap is C's `sky.setMute(on)` (landed lane/c 8a3dc32, with the
+   * pre-unlock case: M pressed on the splash before the first gesture builds
+   * the audio graph is remembered and honoured by unlock()). The application is
+   * `applyMute` — a value, so a.test can fail it — and the feature-detect stays
+   * because on any tree where the tap is absent, `?.()` on a missing method is
+   * a no-op that looks like a call (D's rigging.setWorld lesson). The HUD asks
+   * before it advertises M (hud.setAudioMuteAvailable): the key lights up on
+   * exactly the trees where it does something, and nowhere else.
+   */
+  function setMuted(on) {
+    muted = !!on;
+    const bus = applyMute(sky, muted);
+    hud.setMuted(muted);
+    return bus;
+  }
+
+  addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
+    if (hud.cardOpen) return;                        // a card owns the keyboard
+    const k = e.key.toLowerCase();
+    if (k === 'p') setPaused(!paused);
+    else if (k === 'm') setMuted(!muted);
+  });
+
+  // SPRINT13 gate 3 — the front door, in front of the forecast.
+  //
+  // The job sheet used to be the first thing a stranger saw: an invoice-shaped
+  // card from a business they'd never heard of, quoting money for a job nobody
+  // had explained. It's a good SECOND card. partly.party's arcade can drop
+  // someone here cold, so the game says what it is first.
+  //
+  // `opts.splash === false` skips it — the selftest, the dev benches and D's
+  // playtest harness all boot straight into a night, and none of them should
+  // have to click through a door.
+  hud.setAudioMuteAvailable(typeof sky?.setMute === 'function');
+  if (!canPlayHere()) {
+    hud.showTouchNotice();          // no way through, on purpose: see hud.showTouchNotice
+  } else if (opts.splash === false) {
+    showTonight();
+  } else {
+    hud.showSplash(() => showTonight());
+  }
 
   // --- resize -------------------------------------------------------------
   function resize() {
@@ -906,9 +1070,26 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
 
   // --- loop ---------------------------------------------------------------
   const clock = new THREE.Clock();
-  const dev = document.getElementById('dev');
   let frames = 0, fpsT = 0, fps = 0;
 
+  /**
+   * The dev line: fps, phase, sim clock, debris count.
+   *
+   * On by default for anyone developing (localhost, and every lane clone is
+   * localhost) and for anyone who asks with `?dev=1` — D's playtests read it,
+   * and taking it away to tidy a public page would cost more than it saves.
+   * Off everywhere else, which today means partly.party: it's the only thing on
+   * the glass that talks to us instead of the player.
+   */
+  const devWanted = (() => {
+    try {
+      if (new URLSearchParams(location.search).has('dev')) return true;
+      return /^(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|\[::1\])$/.test(location.hostname);
+    } catch { return false; }
+  })();
+  const dev = devWanted ? document.getElementById('dev') : null;
+  dev?.classList.add('on');
+
   function step(dt) {
     game.tick(dt);
     simT += dt;
@@ -953,12 +1134,15 @@ export async function boot(opts = {}) {
     // Clamped so a background tab or a breakpoint doesn't make the sim try to
     // catch up over thousands of steps and lock the page.
     const raw = Math.min(0.25, clock.getDelta());
-    acc += raw;
-    let guard = 0;
-    while (acc >= FIXED_DT && guard++ < 60) {
-      step(FIXED_DT);
-      acc -= FIXED_DT;
-    }
+
+    // SPRINT13 gate 3 — P pauses the ACCUMULATOR, not the frame: the sim stops
+    // dead (no step(), so no dt reaches anything deterministic) while the render
+    // keeps going, which is what lets the pause veil sit over a frozen yard
+    // instead of a black screen. The rule itself is `accumulate` — a value, and
+    // tested, because nothing here is reachable from a test.
+    const a = accumulate(acc, raw, paused);
+    for (let i = 0; i < a.steps; i++) step(FIXED_DT);
+    acc = a.acc;
 
     cameraRig.update(raw, player.pos);
     sailView?.update();

web/world/js/player.js

@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ export class PlayerView {
     this._axis = new THREE.Vector3();
     this._qYaw = new THREE.Quaternion();
     this._qPitch = new THREE.Quaternion();
+    this._leanAxis = new THREE.Vector3();
+    this._qLean = new THREE.Quaternion();
   }
 
   /** @returns {string[]} clip names that bound to at least one bone */
@@ -208,6 +210,16 @@ export class PlayerView {
       if (this._axis.lengthSq() < 1e-8) this._axis.set(1, 0, 0);
       this._qPitch.setFromAxisAngle(this._axis.normalize(), sim.pitch * Math.PI * 0.5);
       this.root.quaternion.copy(this._qPitch).multiply(this._qYaw);
+    } else if (sim.lean > 1e-3) {
+      // Wind lean (SPRINT13): the same foot-pivot tip as the knockdown, but small and toward the
+      // wind's downwind bearing (leanDir) rather than the fall direction. The sim suppresses lean
+      // whenever pitch > 0, so these two never fight — this is the else branch by construction, not
+      // by luck. leanMaxRad is the whole tip; a knockdown's is π/2, so a full lean is ~a third of a
+      // fall. Yaw still applies underneath, so you lean while facing wherever you're walking.
+      this._leanAxis.set(sim.leanDir.z, 0, -sim.leanDir.x);
+      if (this._leanAxis.lengthSq() < 1e-8) this._leanAxis.set(1, 0, 0);
+      this._qLean.setFromAxisAngle(this._leanAxis.normalize(), sim.lean * sim.leanMaxRad);
+      this.root.quaternion.copy(this._qLean).multiply(this._qYaw);
     } else {
       this.root.quaternion.copy(this._qYaw);
     }

web/world/js/player.sim.js

@@ -100,6 +100,21 @@ export const TUNE = {
   knockBleed: 2,        // exposure drains this many × faster than it fills
   pitchSecs: 0.35,      // s for the body to swing down / back up (view reads sim.pitch)
 
+  // Wind lean (SPRINT13 gate 2.4). The QA pass: "the player stands bolt upright and unbothered" at
+  // 65 km/h. E rendered the two Mixamo lean candidates and rejected both on screen (a couch-shove
+  // and a bus-stop slouch), and proved the deeper reason a clip can't do this at all: _rotOnly drops
+  // Hips.quaternion from every clip at load (player.js:44), so a baked lean is discarded — and a
+  // clip's lean axis is fixed while the wind's bearing swings. So the lean is the ROOT, same machine
+  // as the knockdown pitch: the sim owns an angle and a direction, the view tips the body by it.
+  // Keyed on windBase (the ~4 s EMA), NOT raw windSpeed — measured: raw strobes the posture 8-18×/min
+  // across the storms, windBase settles it to 0-2 changes per 90 s. Sustained wind = posture; gust is
+  // already the stumble/knock event. Bands land on the storm rating ladder (D's THREADS table): night
+  // 1 upright all night, 2-3 lean, 4-5 in the gale.
+  leanWindMin: 8.3,     // m/s windBase (30 km/h — the speed C's leaves start at) before you lean at all
+  leanWindFull: 22,     // m/s windBase for a full lean — past the wildnight median, shy of its 25 peak
+  leanMaxRad: 0.30,     // rad (~17°) of torso tip at full lean. A brace-into-it, not a fall (pitch is 0.5π)
+  leanSecs: 0.6,        // s to reach/leave the target lean — slow, so a lull visibly lets you straighten
+
   // A gust that can't floor you can still break your stride. Sits BELOW knockWind on purpose, so a
   // storm reads as: shoved → stumbling → floored, rather than fine-fine-fine-flat-on-your-back.
   // RETUNED against the real storm_02: 17 was set against a mock that injected +18 gusts, but the
@@ -164,6 +179,8 @@ export class PlayerSim {
     this.gust = 0;                      // windSpeed - windBase, clamped ≥0
     this.pitch = 0;                     // 0 upright … 1 flat on the ground
     this.knockDir = { x: 0, z: 1 };     // which way the body went down
+    this.lean = 0;                      // 0 upright … 1 full wind-lean (view reads this + leanDir)
+    this.leanDir = { x: 0, z: 1 };      // unit downwind — the way the wind is trying to push you
 
     this.climbY = 0;                    // m above the ground; >0 means you're up a ladder
     this.climbTarget = 0;               // where ladder.js asked you to be
@@ -180,6 +197,9 @@ export class PlayerSim {
   get clip() { return STATES[this.state].clip; }
   get speed() { return Math.hypot(this.vel.x, this.vel.z); }
 
+  /** Radians of torso tip at a full wind-lean. Surfaced so PlayerView reads it, not TUNE. */
+  get leanMaxRad() { return this.tune.leanMaxRad; }
+
   /** How high this person's hands get right now. The gate on reaching a fascia bracket. */
   get reachY() { return this.pos.y + this.climbY + this.tune.reach; }
 
@@ -381,6 +401,22 @@ export class PlayerSim {
     const pstep = dt / T.pitchSecs;
     this.pitch = clamp(this.pitch + clamp(wantPitch - this.pitch, -pstep, pstep), 0, 1);
 
+    // --- wind lean: the sim owns it exactly like pitch, so the view stays a pure reader and the lean
+    //     is deterministic (dt,t). Off windBase, not ws, so a gust punches the stumble/knock event
+    //     while the posture holds. Suppressed where a lean would fight another root pose: on your back
+    //     (pitch owns the body), braced (TakeCover is its own hunch), or up the ladder (you're pinned
+    //     to the rungs, not standing in the wind). It eases to 0 there rather than snapping. ---
+    const leanOK = this.pitch < 1e-3 && this.state !== 'shelter' && !up;
+    const leanSpan = Math.max(1e-3, T.leanWindFull - T.leanWindMin);
+    const wantLean = leanOK
+      ? clamp((this.windBase - T.leanWindMin) / leanSpan, 0, 1)
+      : 0;
+    const lstep = dt / T.leanSecs;
+    this.lean = clamp(this.lean + clamp(wantLean - this.lean, -lstep, lstep), 0, 1);
+    // downwind is where the wind blows TOWARD; track it only while there's a wind to read, so a lull
+    // leaves the last bearing rather than snapping leanDir to a default and twisting the body.
+    if (ws > 0.1) { const inv = 1 / ws; this.leanDir.x = wx * inv; this.leanDir.z = wz * inv; }
+
     // --- locomotion state from actual speed (so shove/slow can't desync the feet).
     //     `aloft` is what holds you in atTop: it's unlocked (so hold-E works up there), and without
     //     this guard the speed check would immediately re-state you to idle and drop you off. ---

web/world/js/skyfx.js

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ const STORM_SKY = new THREE.Color(0x2a2f3a);
 const NIGHT_SKY = new THREE.Color(0x11141c);
 const WHITE = new THREE.Color(0xffffff);
 const FLASH_COL = new THREE.Color(0xdfe8ff);
+const SUN_STORM = new THREE.Color(0xc4cedb);   // the noon disc gone slate (gate 2.1)
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------ rain shadow
 /**
@@ -190,6 +191,11 @@ function createHail(opts) {
     step(dt, camPos, vel, intensity, size, shadow) {
       const n = Math.floor(max * clamp01(intensity));
       mesh.count = n;
+      // D's aftermath find (S13): count:0 with frustumCulled off and depthWrite
+      // off still draws instance 0's identity matrix — a ~5 cm always-on-top
+      // white sliver at the world origin, QA's "ghost near the shed table".
+      // visible is the honest gate; count alone is not.
+      mesh.visible = n > 0;
       if (n === 0) return;
       const s = 0.6 + size * 0.9;                  // bigger stones read bigger
       m.makeScale(s, s, s);
@@ -342,8 +348,11 @@ function cloudTexture(size = 256, seed = 7) {
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------- audio
 // Synthesized layers. WebAudio won't start until a gesture (browser rule), so
 // everything is built lazily on unlock() and silently absent before it.
+const MASTER_GAIN = 0.55;
+
 function createAudio(seed = 1) {
   let ctx = null, master = null;
+  let muted = false;
   let windGain, windFilter, windHowl, howlGain;
   let rainGain, rainFilter;
   let gustGain, gustFilter;
@@ -380,6 +389,15 @@ function createAudio(seed = 1) {
     /** 'running' | 'suspended' | 'closed' | 'none'. `ready` only means the graph
      *  got built — a suspended context is still silent, so the HUD reports this. */
     get state() { return ctx ? ctx.state : 'none'; },
+    /** A's M key (gate 3.3). A flag, not just a gain write, so muting works
+     *  before unlock() has built the graph and survives it. */
+    setMute(on) {
+      muted = !!on;
+      if (master) master.gain.value = muted ? 0 : MASTER_GAIN;
+    },
+    get muted() { return muted; },
+    /** Real bus gain, for asserts — null until unlock() builds the graph. */
+    get masterGain() { return master ? master.gain.value : null; },
     /** Current layer gains — for the HUD and for asserting the bed tracks wind. */
     levels() {
       if (!started) return null;
@@ -399,7 +417,9 @@ function createAudio(seed = 1) {
       ctx = new AC();
       if (ctx.state === 'suspended') ctx.resume();
       master = ctx.createGain();
-      master.gain.value = 0.55;
+      // honour a mute that landed BEFORE the first gesture built the graph —
+      // M on the splash screen must not be forgotten by the unlock
+      master.gain.value = muted ? 0 : MASTER_GAIN;
       master.connect(ctx.destination);
       noiseBuf = noiseBuffer(ctx);
 
@@ -641,15 +661,25 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
   // fixed post-change instant — def + seed in, same wall out, every run.
   const FRONT_LEAD = 12;      // s before the change the wall starts rising
   const FRONT_FADE = 8;       // s after the swing completes for it to clear
-  const FRONT_ARC = 2.2;      // radians of horizon the wall spans (~126°)
+  const FRONT_ARC = 2.6;      // radians of horizon the wall spans (~149°)
   const FRONT_MAX_OP = 0.85;
   const frontEvents = (def.events || [])
     .filter((e) => e.type === 'windchange' && Number.isFinite(e.t))
     .map((e) => ({ t0: e.t, over: e.over ?? 6, az: null }));
-  // Band from ~34° above the horizon down to it, centred (in local space) on
-  // azimuth π: SphereGeometry's (x,z) = (-cosφ, sinφ)·sinθ, so φ=0 sits at
-  // atan2(z,x) = π. rotation.y = π − A then carries the centre to azimuth A.
-  const frontGeo = new THREE.SphereGeometry(170, 24, 8, -FRONT_ARC / 2, FRONT_ARC, Math.PI * 0.30, Math.PI * 0.20);
+  // Band from ~34° above the horizon down to ~12° BELOW it, centred (in local
+  // space) on azimuth π: SphereGeometry's (x,z) = (-cosφ, sinφ)·sinθ, so φ=0
+  // sits at atan2(z,x) = π. rotation.y = π − A then carries the centre to A.
+  //
+  // SPRINT13 gate 2.2 — why the band overshoots the equator: the old band
+  // stopped AT the horizontal plane through the camera, but from in-yard eye
+  // height the ground's true horizon sits ~0.6° BELOW that plane (the dip),
+  // so a sliver of bright sky showed under the wall's base and the bank read
+  // as a floating slab — the QA sighting, reproduced on dev_skyfx before this
+  // fix. Overshooting to −12° buries the base behind the ground from any eye
+  // height that matters (it survives scale.y's 0.3 floor: −37 m compressed to
+  // −11 m is still −3.7° elevation, below the dip). The ground plane occludes
+  // the overshoot by depth, so nothing is drawn twice.
+  const frontGeo = new THREE.SphereGeometry(170, 24, 10, -FRONT_ARC / 2, FRONT_ARC, Math.PI * 0.30, Math.PI * 0.27);
   {
     // Soft edges via vertex alpha, or the band reads as a floating rectangle
     // (checked by eye on dev_skyfx.html — the hard phi/theta cut was exactly
@@ -657,11 +687,15 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
     // the arc ends and across the top, so it sits ON the horizon like a bank
     // of weather instead of hanging in the sky like a screen.
     // Sphere uv: x runs 0..1 across the arc, y is 1 at the band top, 0 at the
-    // horizon edge.
+    // (now sub-horizon) bottom edge.
+    // The 1.6 exponent is gate 2.2's other half: 0.75 left the outer tenth of
+    // the arc at ~0.36 alpha, which from in-yard eye height is the "hard
+    // vertical seam" the QA saw at the bank's ends. 1.6 holds the same solid
+    // core (the arc is wider to compensate) but takes the ends to <0.12.
     const uv = frontGeo.attributes.uv;
     const rgba = new Float32Array(uv.count * 4);
     for (let i = 0; i < uv.count; i++) {
-      const across = Math.pow(Math.sin(Math.PI * uv.getX(i)), 0.75);
+      const across = Math.pow(Math.sin(Math.PI * uv.getX(i)), 1.6);
       const up = 1 - smoothstep(0.45, 1, uv.getY(i));
       rgba[i * 4] = 1; rgba[i * 4 + 1] = 1; rgba[i * 4 + 2] = 1;
       rgba[i * 4 + 3] = across * up;
@@ -695,6 +729,8 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
     fogFar: scene && scene.fog ? scene.fog.far : 0,
     sun: sun ? sun.intensity : 0,
     hemi: hemi ? hemi.intensity : 0,
+    sunColor: sun ? sun.color.clone() : null,
+    sunRadius: sun && sun.shadow ? sun.shadow.radius : 1,
   };
   const baseSky = (scene && scene.background && scene.background.isColor)
     ? scene.background.clone() : CALM_SKY.clone();
@@ -706,16 +742,20 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
   }
 
   let flash = 0;              // decaying lightning brightness
+  let gradeNow = 0;           // the storm grade, gate 2.1 — pure in t, see step()
   let flashQueue = [];        // {at, power} — double-strike
   let lastTelegraph = null;
   const camPos = new THREE.Vector3();
   const w = new THREE.Vector3();
 
   const fx = {
-    rain, audio, dome, shadow, hailShadow, front: frontMesh,
+    rain, hail, audio, dome, shadow, hailShadow, front: frontMesh,
     get flash() { return flash; },
     /** 0..1 hail intensity right now — for the HUD ("HAIL" banner) and asserts. */
     get hailAmount() { return hailAmt; },
+    /** 0..1 — the storm grade driving sky/sun/shadow-softness (gate 2.1).
+     *  storminess with a floor under the author's darkness dial; pure in t. */
+    get stormGrade() { return gradeNow; },
     /** 0..1 — how far risen the change-front wall is (gate 3.4). Pure in t. */
     get changeFront() { return frontLevel; },
     /** Azimuth (radians, XZ) the front stands in — the quarter the new wind
@@ -792,6 +832,16 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
     /** Wire to the first click/keydown — browsers won't start audio otherwise. */
     unlockAudio() { audio.unlock(); },
 
+    /**
+     * A's M key (gate 3.3): mute the whole audio bus. main.js feature-detects
+     * this (`typeof sky.setMute === 'function'`) and only advertises M once it
+     * exists — so this method appearing is what lights the key up. Safe at any
+     * time: before unlock it sets a flag the unlock honours, after unlock it
+     * writes the master gain directly.
+     */
+    setMute(on) { audio.setMute(on); },
+    get muted() { return audio.muted; },
+
     /**
      * @param {number} dt
      * @param {number} t   storm time
@@ -821,6 +871,16 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
       const speed = Math.hypot(w.x, w.z);
       const intensity = wind.rainAt(t);
       const storminess = clamp01(Math.max(intensity, speed / 26));
+      // SPRINT13 gate 2.1 — the STORM GRADE. The QA pass played the southerly at
+      // 65 km/h under a noon-blue sky, and the arithmetic says why: everything
+      // below multiplied the weather by the author's palette (`darkness`), so a
+      // darkness-0.5 storm at full blow only ever moved 0.35 toward slate — the
+      // author's dial could zero the weather's say. The grade gives the weather
+      // a floor: at full storminess even a darkness-0 sky goes half way to
+      // slate, while the wild night (0.94) keeps reading as the night it is.
+      // Same curve the rain already uses (storminess IS max(rain, wind)), pure
+      // in t, computed above the render gate so a test can read it headless.
+      gradeNow = storminess * lerp(0.5, 1, darkness);
 
       // --- events: lightning + the ticker ---
       for (const ev of wind.eventsBetween(t - dt, t)) {
@@ -913,7 +973,7 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
       if (!rendering) return;
 
       // --- sky ---
-      skyCol.copy(baseSky).lerp(target, storminess * darkness);
+      skyCol.copy(baseSky).lerp(target, gradeNow);
       if (flash > 0) skyCol.lerp(FLASH_COL, Math.min(0.85, flash));
       if (scene) {
         if (scene.fog) {
@@ -922,8 +982,18 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
           scene.fog.far = lerp(160, 55, storminess);
         }
       }
-      if (sun) sun.intensity = lerp(original.sun, original.sun * 0.12, storminess * darkness) + flash * 2.2;
-      if (hemi) hemi.intensity = lerp(original.hemi, original.hemi * 0.3, storminess * darkness) + flash * 1.2;
+      if (sun) {
+        sun.intensity = lerp(original.sun, original.sun * 0.12, gradeNow) + flash * 2.2;
+        // The sun loses its noon edge two ways as the grade builds: the warm
+        // disc goes slate (colour), and the shadows go soft (radius — the
+        // renderer is PCFSoft, so radius is real blur, not a no-op). Softness
+        // keys on STORMINESS, not the graded value: overcast is overcast even
+        // under a light-palette storm, and razor-sharp noon shadows at 65 km/h
+        // were the QA sighting this whole block answers.
+        if (original.sunColor) sun.color.copy(original.sunColor).lerp(SUN_STORM, gradeNow * 0.85);
+        if (sun.shadow) sun.shadow.radius = lerp(original.sunRadius, 7, storminess);
+      }
+      if (hemi) hemi.intensity = lerp(original.hemi, original.hemi * 0.3, gradeNow) + flash * 1.2;
 
       dome.position.copy(camPos);
       dome.material.opacity = storminess * 0.85;
@@ -937,7 +1007,7 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
       // and the cloud texture is baked near-white. The crush is what makes night
       // look like night. It stops at 0.78 on purpose — the yard has no lights in
       // it yet, and a storm you can't see isn't a storm, it's a black screen.
-      const nightAmt = storminess * darkness;
+      const nightAmt = gradeNow;
       dome.material.color.copy(WHITE)
         .lerp(target, nightAmt * 0.92)
         .multiplyScalar(1 - 0.78 * nightAmt);
@@ -1015,7 +1085,11 @@ export function createSkyFx(o = {}) {
           original.fog.far = original.fogFar;
         }
       }
-      if (sun) sun.intensity = original.sun;
+      if (sun) {
+        sun.intensity = original.sun;
+        if (original.sunColor) sun.color.copy(original.sunColor);
+        if (sun.shadow) sun.shadow.radius = original.sunRadius;
+      }
       if (hemi) hemi.intensity = original.hemi;
       rain.dispose();
       hail.dispose();

web/world/js/tests/a.test.js

@@ -4,12 +4,21 @@
  */
 
 import * as THREE from '../../vendor/three.module.js';
-import { ANCHOR_TYPE, FIXED_DT, STORM_LEN, YARD, checkContract, createStubWind } from '../contracts.js';
+import {
+  ANCHOR_TYPE, FIXED_DT, HARDWARE, PHASES, START_BUDGET, STORM_LEN, YARD,
+  checkContract, createStubWind,
+} from '../contracts.js';
 import { createWindField } from '../weather.core.js';
 import { createWorld, heightAt, loadSite, validateSite } from '../world.js';
-import { createCameraRig } from '../camera.js';
-import { CALM_STORM, createGame, createWindRouter, stormsToPreload, verdictFor } from '../main.js';
-import { orderRing } from '../sail.js';
+import { createCameraRig, spawnYawFor } from '../camera.js';
+import {
+  CALM_STORM, accumulate, applyMute, canPlayHere, createGame, createWindRouter, enterCommits,
+  stormsToPreload, verdictFor,
+} from '../main.js';
+import { createGarden } from '../garden.js';
+import { RiggingSession } from '../rigging.js';
+import { createSkyFx } from '../skyfx.js';
+import { SailRig, orderRing } from '../sail.js';
 import { loadStorm, createWind } from '../weather.js';
 import { createWeek, NIGHTS, nightAt, gradeFor, BROKE_BELOW, PAY } from '../week.js';
 import { createHud } from '../hud.js';
@@ -57,6 +66,152 @@ export default async function run(t) {
     assertEq(checkContract('game', createGame()).join('; '), '');
   });
 
+  // --- SPRINT13 gate 3: the front door of a PUBLIC game --------------------
+
+  t.test('ENTER CANNOT SKIP THE STORM — the exploit that shipped, pinned', () => {
+    // The QA pass found this live on partly.party: Enter during a storm fell
+    // through to game.advance() and paid a perfect invoice for a storm that
+    // never ran — garden 100%, "every corner held", clean bonus, +$90. It
+    // shipped because the rule lived in a keydown closure inside boot(), behind
+    // a canvas and a WebGL context, where no assert could reach it. The rule is
+    // a value now, so this can fail.
+    //
+    // Exhaustive over the phase machine rather than a spot-check on 'storm': a
+    // sixth phase added later is asserted the day it appears, and the default it
+    // gets is "may not advance", which is the safe direction.
+    for (const phase of PHASES) {
+      assertEq(enterCommits(phase, false), phase === 'prep',
+        `Enter in '${phase}' must ${phase === 'prep' ? 'commit' : 'do NOTHING'}`);
+    }
+    // The storm is the money one — name it, so a reader of a red run knows what
+    // broke without decoding the loop above.
+    assertEq(enterCommits('storm', false), false, 'Enter mid-storm cannot bank a night that never ran');
+    assertEq(enterCommits('aftermath', false), false, 'nor re-advance the invoice');
+    assertEq(enterCommits('forecast', false), false, 'nor skip the job sheet');
+
+    // A card owns the keyboard while it's up: its button is the only way through.
+    for (const phase of PHASES) {
+      assertEq(enterCommits(phase, true), false, `a card is open in '${phase}' — Enter is the card's, not the rig's`);
+    }
+  });
+
+  t.test('P stops the sim dead, and gives back no free time on resume', () => {
+    // Tested as a value, and that is the point. The pause lives in frame(),
+    // frame() is only called by requestAnimationFrame, and rAF DOES NOT FIRE IN
+    // A HIDDEN TAB — so my first probe drove the real loop, measured simT
+    // advancing 0 while paused, 0 while running, and reported success. It was
+    // measuring a frozen tab. This can actually fail.
+    const running = accumulate(0, FIXED_DT * 3.5, false);
+    assertEq(running.steps, 3, 'three whole steps out of three and a half');
+    assert(running.acc > 0 && running.acc < FIXED_DT, 'and the half-step is carried, not spent');
+
+    const paused = accumulate(running.acc, FIXED_DT * 10, true);
+    assertEq(paused.steps, 0, 'paused: the sim takes not one step');
+    assertEq(paused.acc, 0, 'and the accumulator is DRAINED — no free sixtieth on resume');
+
+    // The bug the drain prevents, stated: carry `acc` across a pause and the
+    // first frame after resume spends time that elapsed while you were paused.
+    assertEq(accumulate(0, 0, false).steps, 0, 'a zero-delta frame owes nothing');
+    assertEq(accumulate(FIXED_DT * 0.9, FIXED_DT * 0.9, false).steps, 1, 'carried time still adds up to a step');
+
+    // A breakpoint or a background tab must not run thousands of steps at once.
+    assertEq(accumulate(0, 10, false).steps, 60, 'the step ceiling holds');
+    assertEq(accumulate(0, 10, false, 5).steps, 5, 'and it is the caller\'s to set');
+  });
+
+  t.test('the touch notice locks out phones, not touchscreen laptops', () => {
+    // The bug this exists to prevent is the FIX, not the gap: `(pointer: coarse)`
+    // asks what the primary pointer is, so a laptop with a touchscreen answers
+    // "coarse" and gets a courtesy card instead of the game it can perfectly well
+    // play. Taking the game away from someone who could play it is worse than the
+    // dead canvas we're replacing.
+    const mm = (answers) => (q) => ({ matches: !!answers[q] });
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(mm({ '(any-pointer: fine)': true })), true, 'a mouse anywhere means play');
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(mm({ '(any-pointer: fine)': false })), false, 'a phone gets the notice');
+    // The hybrid: primary pointer coarse (finger), but a trackpad exists.
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(mm({ '(any-pointer: fine)': true, '(pointer: coarse)': true })), true,
+      'touchscreen laptop plays — this is the case the naive check gets wrong');
+    // Unknown/old browsers err toward letting people in, never toward a lecture.
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(null), true, 'no matchMedia at all: let them in');
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(() => { throw new Error('nope'); }), true, 'a throwing matchMedia: let them in');
+    assertEq(canPlayHere(() => ({})), true, 'a browser that answers nothing: let them in');
+  });
+
+  t.test('M reaches the real bus when there is one, and is not advertised when there is not', () => {
+    // SPRINT13 gate 3.3, closed by C's sky.setMute (lane/c 8a3dc32). The wiring
+    // bug this pins is the one D named on rigging.setWorld: `sky.setMute?.(on)`
+    // on a tree without the tap is a no-op that looks like a call, so a key the
+    // splash advertises can silently do nothing on a public URL. applyMute is
+    // the application as a value; the HUD half asserts the advertisement tracks
+    // the same feature-detect in BOTH directions.
+    const calls = [];
+    const bus = { setMute: (v) => calls.push(v) };
+    assertEq(applyMute(bus, true), true, 'a real bus takes the state');
+    assertEq(applyMute(bus, false), true, 'both directions');
+    assertEq(calls.join(','), 'true,false', 'and receives booleans, in order — this is what M re-applies across makeSky()');
+    assertEq(applyMute({}, true), false, 'no tap: says so instead of pretending');
+    assertEq(applyMute(null, true), false, 'no sky at all (pre-boot): still honest');
+
+    if (typeof document === 'undefined') return;
+    const hud = createHud({ scene: new THREE.Scene() });
+    try {
+      assertEq(hud.comfortKeysHint(), 'P pause', 'no bus: the help line does not promise M');
+      hud.setAudioMuteAvailable(true);
+      assertEq(hud.comfortKeysHint(), 'P pause · M mute', 'bus landed: M appears by itself');
+      hud.showSplash(() => {});
+      assert((document.querySelector('#hud-card')?.textContent ?? '').includes('P · M'),
+        'and the splash card lists it');
+      hud.hideCard();
+      hud.setAudioMuteAvailable(false);
+      assertEq(hud.comfortKeysHint(), 'P pause', 'and it can go dark again — the detect is live, not a latch');
+    } finally { hud.dispose(); }
+  });
+
+  t.test('the spawn frame points at the garden with no pole through the player', () => {
+    // The QA pass: "the boot camera puts a pole dead-centre through the player on
+    // every single first impression." Measured, not eyeballed — these are the
+    // real backyard_01 numbers that produced the bug.
+    const player = { x: 0, z: 6 };
+    const bed = { x: 1, z: 2 };
+
+    // No obstacles: the ideal frame is the camera OPPOSITE the bed, so the player
+    // stands in front of what they're protecting. The view direction (from camera
+    // through the player) must point at the bed.
+    const clean = spawnYawFor(player, bed, []);
+    const viewOff = (yaw) => {
+      const view = { x: -Math.sin(yaw), z: -Math.cos(yaw) };
+      const tb = { x: bed.x - player.x, z: bed.z - player.z };
+      const l = Math.hypot(tb.x, tb.z);
+      return Math.acos(Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, (view.x * tb.x + view.z * tb.z) / (l || 1)))) * 180 / Math.PI;
+    };
+    assertLess(viewOff(clean), 1, 'with nothing in the way, the frame looks straight at the bed');
+
+    // The bug: p3 stands at (0,7), one metre behind the spawn, dead on the ideal
+    // view line. The fix must TURN to clear it — and still keep the bed in a 62°
+    // FOV (< 31° off centre).
+    const withPole = spawnYawFor(player, bed, [{ x: 0, z: 7 }]);
+    const cam = { x: player.x + Math.sin(withPole) * 4.5, z: player.z + Math.cos(withPole) * 4.5 };
+    const abx = cam.x - player.x, abz = cam.z - player.z, l2 = abx * abx + abz * abz;
+    let t = ((0 - player.x) * abx + (7 - player.z) * abz) / l2; t = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, t));
+    const poleClear = Math.hypot(0 - (player.x + abx * t), 7 - (player.z + abz * t));
+    assert(poleClear > 0.5, `the pole is off the view line (${poleClear.toFixed(2)}m), not through the head`);
+    assertLess(viewOff(withPole), 31, 'and the bed is still in frame after the turn');
+
+    // The failure mode I actually shipped first, reproduced from the real yard.
+    // With the full backyard_01 obstacle set and a clearance the geometry cannot
+    // meet, the sweep falls back to "roomiest" — and UNBOUNDED, roomiest swung
+    // 105° off the garden to stare at a fence (the exact number the QA pass would
+    // have seen). maxOff caps the fallback to the 90° arc, and this config brings
+    // it back to 68°. Without the cap this assert goes red at 105°.
+    const yardObstacles = [
+      { x: -4.5, z: 5.5 }, { x: 4, z: 6 }, { x: 0, z: 7 }, { x: -3.2, z: -1.2 },
+      { x: -9, z: 2 }, { x: 8, z: -2 },
+    ];
+    const unreachable = spawnYawFor(player, bed, yardObstacles, { clearance: 5 });
+    assert(Number.isFinite(unreachable), 'an impossible clearance still yields a finite yaw, never NaN');
+    assertLess(viewOff(unreachable), 91, 'and never turns its back on the bed — the cap holds (105° without it)');
+  });
+
   // --- the week (SPRINT8 gate 1) -------------------------------------------
 
   t.test('the week is five escalating nights, each a storm and a site', () => {
@@ -66,6 +221,10 @@ export default async function run(t) {
     assertEq(nightAt(4).storm, 'storm_02b_icenight', 'night five is the ice night');
     assertEq(nightAt(2).site, 'site_02_corner_block', 'night three moves to the corner block');
     assertEq(nightAt(0).site, 'backyard_01', 'the rest are the backyard');
+    // SPRINT13 gate 1.4: the unsavable-garden flag is night 5's alone, and a
+    // night without it is presumed savable — new nights can't inherit the excuse.
+    assertEq(nightAt(4).gardenBeyondSaving, true, 'night 5 is beyond saving BY DESIGN — canon, ruled');
+    for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) assertEq(nightAt(i).gardenBeyondSaving, false, `night ${i + 1} is savable`);
     const w = createWeek();
     assertEq(w.night, 1); assertEq(w.bank, 80);
     assertEq(w.site, 'backyard_01', 'week.site tracks the ladder');
@@ -642,6 +801,39 @@ export default async function run(t) {
     assert(hailed.verdict !== rained.verdict, 'hail and rain deaths must not read identically');
   });
 
+  t.test("night 5's loss is TAUGHT, not blamed: beyondSaving rewrites the garden verdicts only", () => {
+    // SPRINT13 gate 1.4, the night-5 ruling. Measured game-true (B's pay table,
+    // my probe agreeing): the icenight garden cannot reach the win line at any
+    // price — bare 0.0, best buyable 27.7. So week.js flags the night, and the
+    // verdict must stop implying a better rig existed. The worst liar was
+    // 'uncovered' ("the hail fell where your sail wasn't") on a night where no
+    // WHERE saves it.
+    const dmg = { hail: 90, rain: 5 };
+    const held = verdictFor({ hp: 25, lost: [], win: false, dmg, pondPeak: 0, pondDumped: 0, beyondSaving: true });
+    assertEq(held.mode, 'beyond-saving');
+    assert(/BEYOND SAVING/.test(held.verdict), `says so plainly: "${held.verdict}"`);
+    assert(/held|did it/i.test(held.verdict), 'and a 4/4 hold is CREDITED — keeping the steel was the job');
+    assert(!/wasn't|skimp/i.test(held.verdict), 'no placement-blame, no skimp-blame');
+
+    // Losing your sail on the unsavable night is still yours to own.
+    const shackle = { name: 'shackle', rating: 3200 };
+    const torn = verdictFor({ hp: 5,
+      lost: [{ hw: shackle, anchorId: 'p1', anchor: { ratingHint: 1 } }],
+      win: false, dmg, pondPeak: 0, pondDumped: 0, beyondSaving: true });
+    assertEq(torn.mode, 'beyond-saving');
+    assert(/shackle at P1/.test(torn.verdict), `still names the steel that went: "${torn.verdict}"`);
+
+    // The flag defaults OFF and changes nothing anywhere else: the two garden
+    // deaths keep their opposite sentences (mutation check — delete the branch
+    // and the first assert above reds; pass the flag everywhere and THIS one does).
+    const uncov = verdictFor({ hp: 20, lost: [], win: false, dmg: { hail: 70, rain: 10 }, pondPeak: 0, pondDumped: 0 });
+    assertEq(uncov.mode, 'uncovered', 'a savable night keeps its honest placement lesson');
+    // And a WIN on a flagged night ignores the flag — week.js says the flag
+    // would be stale, and a stale excuse must never eat a real win.
+    const win = verdictFor({ hp: 90, lost: [], win: true, dmg, pondPeak: 0, pondDumped: 0, beyondSaving: true });
+    assertEq(win.mode, 'clean');
+  });
+
   t.test('a clean hold reads as a clean hold, and the broom gets its credit', () => {
     const clean = verdictFor({ hp: 96, lost: [], win: true, dmg: { hail: 2, rain: 2 }, pondPeak: 0, pondDumped: 0 });
     assertEq(clean.mode, 'clean');
@@ -726,11 +918,12 @@ export default async function run(t) {
 
   // --- anchors -------------------------------------------------------------
 
-  t.test('yard offers 12 anchors: 3 house, 5 tree, 4 post', () => {
+  t.test('yard offers 13 anchors: 3 house, 5 tree, 5 post', () => {
     const by = (type) => world.anchors.filter((a) => a.type === type).length;
     assertEq(by('house'), 3, 'house anchors');
     assertEq(by('tree'), dressed ? 5 : 2, 'tree anchors (branch_anchor_* arrive with dress())');
-    assertEq(by('post'), 4, 'post anchors — p3 (SPRINT3 dec 2), p4 (SPRINT6 gate 1)');
+    assertEq(by('post'), 5,
+      'post anchors — p3 (SPRINT3 dec 2), p4 (SPRINT6 gate 1), p5 the clothesline post (SPRINT13 gate 1)');
     const ids = world.anchors.map((a) => a.id);
     assertEq(new Set(ids).size, ids.length, `anchor ids not unique: ${ids}`);
   });
@@ -858,6 +1051,121 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       `supposed to cost you a sail the storm can take`);
   });
 
+  // --- SPRINT13 gate 1.4: THE PINNED SEPARATION TARGET ----------------------
+  //
+  // The ruling, RESTATED after B's skew finding (THREADS [A], twice — read the
+  // second entry): on the shipped week's wild night — night 4, THIS yard — the
+  // best line START_BUDGET can buy must HOLD and WIN comfortably (>60), a bare
+  // bed must LOSE (<50), and the spread must read as most of a plant state
+  // (≥25 HP), because the win line and the invoice are the game's real stakes.
+  // FULL (>66) was the first ruling and it died honestly: it was only ever met
+  // through this flight's own 12 s phantom settle — SailRig samples wind at its
+  // INTERNAL clock, so a settled rig flies the storm 12 s off the authored
+  // curve while the sky flies t=0..90 (B's three-way probe: game-true 63.8 /
+  // skewed 68.4 / shape-only 64.3). The settle is GONE: in the real game the
+  // rig does not exist before commit, and commit→attach→storm is one keypress
+  // (C's bench correction, same day, same bug).
+  //
+  // The recipe is DATA (site.separation) so B's audit reads the same one, and
+  // this flight is the pin: real shop at the real budget, real
+  // commit()->attach() (D's skipped-attach landmine — session.commit(rig) IS
+  // the attach path), real skyfx exposure, the real garden model out of
+  // garden.js. Wind is wired the way main.js wires a site (venturi from site
+  // data — backyard's list is empty, but the wiring must not ASSUME that — plus
+  // tree shelters); switch to C's windForSite at integration, it is the same
+  // wiring behind one door. Flown OUTSIDE t.test() because Suite.test cannot
+  // await — the two async-test ghosts above are the precedent.
+  //
+  // Sway is frozen (balance.test's reasoning): the recipe is all posts, whose
+  // real sway is constant anyway, so frozen here means "identical to the game",
+  // not "conveniently calm". (C's landmine 2 — a frozen TREE under-reads — is
+  // exactly why the pinned recipe staying post-only matters to this harness.)
+  const sep = site.separation;
+  let sepRun = null;
+  if (sep && typeof document !== 'undefined') {
+    try {
+      const frozen = world.anchors.map((a) => {
+        const pos = { x: a.pos.x, y: a.pos.y, z: a.pos.z };
+        return { id: a.id, type: a.type, pos, sway: () => pos, ratingHint: a.ratingHint };
+      });
+      const trees = frozen.filter((a) => a.type === 'tree');
+      const stormDef = await loadStorm(sep.stormKey);
+
+      const session = new RiggingSession({ anchors: frozen });   // the REAL budget
+      const shopLog = [];
+      for (const { anchor } of sep.line) {
+        const r = session.rig(anchor);
+        if (!r.ok) shopLog.push(`rig ${anchor}: ${r.reason}`);
+      }
+      for (const { anchor, hw } of sep.line) {
+        const want = HARDWARE.find((h) => h.name === hw);
+        if (!want) { shopLog.push(`no hardware named "${hw}"`); continue; }
+        const r = session.setHardware(anchor, want);
+        if (!r.ok) shopLog.push(`setHardware ${anchor} ${hw}: ${r.reason}`);
+      }
+      session.setTension(sep.tension);
+      const spent = START_BUDGET - session.budget;
+      const rig = session.commit(new SailRig({ anchors: frozen, gridN: 10 }));
+      // NO settle here, deliberately — see the header. The rig flies the storm
+      // from t=0 on a fresh internal clock, exactly like a committed rig does.
+
+      const flyNight = (sail) => {
+        const wind = createWind(stormDef);
+        wind.setVenturi(site.wind?.venturi ?? []);   // main.js:‘the funnel is SITE data’
+        wind.setSheltersFromTrees(trees);
+        const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, 1.6, 0.1, 400);
+        camera.position.set(0, 2, 8);
+        const sky = createSkyFx({ wind, night: true, camera });
+        const garden = createGarden({ setPlants() {} });        // the model main.js flies
+        const bed = world.gardenBed;
+        const steps = Math.round(stormDef.duration / FIXED_DT);
+        for (let i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
+          const t2 = i * FIXED_DT;
+          if (sail) sail.step(FIXED_DT, wind, t2);
+          sky.step(FIXED_DT, t2, { sail });
+          garden.step(FIXED_DT, sky.gardenHailExposure(bed, t2), sky.gardenExposure(bed, t2));
+        }
+        sky.dispose?.();
+        return { hp: garden.hp, state: garden.state };
+      };
+
+      const held = flyNight(rig);
+      const lost = rig.corners.filter((c) => c.broken).length;
+      const bare = flyNight(null);
+      sepRun = { shopLog, spent, held, lost, bare };
+    } catch (err) {
+      sepRun = { err: String(err && err.stack || err) };
+    }
+  }
+
+  t.test('PINNED: the wild night separates — best buyable line holds and wins, bare bed loses', () => {
+    if (!sep) throw new Error('backyard_01 lost its separation block — the target is decoration again');
+    if (typeof document === 'undefined') return t.skip('needs DOM (skyfx)');
+    if (sepRun.err) throw new Error(`separation flight died: ${sepRun.err}`);
+    assertEq(sepRun.shopLog.join('; '), '', 'the shop sold the whole recipe at the real budget');
+    assert(sepRun.spent <= START_BUDGET, `recipe costs $${sepRun.spent} — must be buyable night 1`);
+    // SIM-CHAIN facts, deliberately: this flight is rig+sky+garden with no
+    // debris events, so it is deterministic and 0/4 here is real headroom. In
+    // PLAY the yard also throws the t=38 crate and ponds rain — the played
+    // reference (site JSON _playedReference: hp 55.7 WIN, 2/4 lost, pyrrhic
+    // verdict) sits ~8 under this chain, and that ~8 is exactly why the
+    // thresholds below carry margin over the win line instead of hugging it.
+    assertEq(sepRun.lost, 0, 'the pinned line holds this deterministic chain — 0/4 lost (play may cost the sail; the WIN must survive that)');
+    assert(sepRun.held.hp > sep.heldMustExceed,
+      `held bed reads ${sepRun.held.hp.toFixed(1)} — must stay >${sep.heldMustExceed} so the PLAYED night ` +
+      `(measured ~8 HP under this chain through crate + ponding) keeps clearing the win line at 50. ` +
+      `Sim-chain 63.6 / played 55.7 at landing. FULL (>66) was the first ruling and it was only ever met ` +
+      `through this flight's own 12 s clock skew (B's finding). A red here means a retune moved the wild ` +
+      `night: re-litigate in THREADS, no quiet threshold bump.`);
+    assert(sepRun.held.state !== 'dead', 'the held bed is ALIVE — tattered is the wild night speaking');
+    assertLess(sepRun.bare.hp, sep.bareMustLoseBelow,
+      `bare bed must LOSE the night (<${sep.bareMustLoseBelow}) — game-true 35.7 at landing`);
+    // The felt spread, stated so a red prints the whole story:
+    assert(sepRun.held.hp - sepRun.bare.hp >= (sep.separationAtLeast ?? 25),
+      `separation ${(sepRun.held.hp - sepRun.bare.hp).toFixed(1)} — rigging must matter by most of a ` +
+      `plant state, not a garden-bonus margin (game-true 27.9 at landing)`);
+  });
+
   t.test('sway() returns an absolute position, not an offset', () => {
     // If sway ever regresses to returning an offset, the returned point lands
     // near the origin instead of near the anchor, and Lane B's cloth corners

web/world/js/tests/c.test.js

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 import * as THREE from '../../vendor/three.module.js';
 import { assert, fixedLoop } from '../testkit.js';
 import { FIXED_DT, checkContract, DEBRIS_PIECE_FIELDS } from '../contracts.js';
-import { loadStorm, createWind, forecastLines, forecastFor, leadFor } from '../weather.js';
+import { loadStorm, createWind, windForSite, forecastLines, forecastFor, leadFor } from '../weather.js';
+import { loadSite } from '../world.js';
 import { createDebris } from '../debris.js';
 import { createSkyFx, RainShadow } from '../skyfx.js';
 import { SailRig, HARDWARE } from '../sail.js';
@@ -136,6 +137,112 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       'clear() replaced the pieces array instead of emptying it — B holds a reference');
   });
 
+  // SPRINT13 gate 2.3 — ambient leaves. QA: "debris reads 0 through night 3";
+  // the crates are event drama, the leaves are the continuous tell. Threshold
+  // 8.3 m/s (30 km/h) matches D's lean threshold on purpose — the yard and the
+  // body start telling the same story at the same speed. Count stays single
+  // digits, they stream WITH the wind, and the layer is deterministic.
+  t.test('ambient leaves: none in a calm, a streaming handful from ~30 km/h', () => {
+    const stub = (sp) => ({
+      seed: 5,
+      sample: (p, t2, o) => o.set(sp, 0, 0),
+      eventsBetween: () => [],
+    });
+    const calm = createDebris({ wind: stub(5) });
+    fixedLoop(8, FIXED_DT, (dt, time) => calm.step(dt, time, {}));
+    assert(calm.leafCount === 0,
+      `${calm.leafCount} leaves flying at 18 km/h — below the threshold the yard is still`);
+
+    const gale = createDebris({ wind: stub(13) });
+    fixedLoop(8, FIXED_DT, (dt, time) => gale.step(dt, time, {}));
+    assert(gale.leafCount > 0, 'no leaves at 47 km/h — the gale has no ambient tell');
+    assert(gale.leafCount <= 9, `${gale.leafCount} leaves — the plan says single digits`);
+
+    // they stream WITH the wind (+x here): over one step every leaf either
+    // moves downwind or recycles ~a span upwind; none drifts against it
+    const before = gale.leaves.map((pos) => pos.x);
+    gale.step(FIXED_DT, 8, {});
+    const after = gale.leaves.map((pos) => pos.x);
+    assert(before.length === after.length, 'leaf count strobed across one step');
+    for (let i = 0; i < before.length; i++) {
+      const d = after[i] - before[i];
+      assert(d > 0 || d < -10, `leaf ${i} moved ${d.toFixed(3)} m against a +x wind`);
+    }
+
+    // deterministic: same seed, same (dt, t) stream, same leaves — bit for bit
+    const a = createDebris({ wind: stub(13) });
+    const b = createDebris({ wind: stub(13) });
+    fixedLoop(5, FIXED_DT, (dt, time) => { a.step(dt, time, {}); b.step(dt, time, {}); });
+    assert(a.leafCount === b.leafCount && a.leaves.every((pos, i) =>
+      pos.x === b.leaves[i].x && pos.y === b.leaves[i].y && pos.z === b.leaves[i].z),
+      'two identical (dt, t) streams produced different leaves');
+
+    // clear() rewinds the layer — next night starts from the same state
+    gale.clear();
+    assert(gale.leafCount === 0, 'clear() left leaves flying into the aftermath card');
+  });
+
+  // SPRINT13, the third time this repo learned it: the venturi lives in the
+  // SITE json, not the storm def. B's site_audit flew site_02 funnel-OFF in
+  // Sprint 11 (their sweep.selftest tells it); C's garden_bench did it again
+  // in Sprint 13 — `def.wind.venturi` off a storm def LOOKS right and never
+  // fires, and the funnel-off bench called the $80 line 91.5 FULL on a night
+  // the real game scores it 39.8 TATTERED (D's live replay). windForSite is
+  // the shared builder that makes the mistake unmakeable; this assert is
+  // B's strictly-raises pin lifted onto it, with the REAL shipped funnel:
+  // drop the setVenturi line and the two winds collapse to equal reads.
+  const site02 = await loadSite('site_02_corner_block');   // awaited here: Suite.test() is sync
+  t.test('windForSite flies the SITE venturi — the shipped funnel strictly raises the throat wind', () => {
+    const def = storms.storm_02_wildnight;
+    const site = site02;
+    const vl = site.wind?.venturi ?? [];
+    assert(vl.length > 0, "site_02 lost its venturi — this test (and the yard's weather) proves nothing");
+    const bare = createWind(def);                    // storm def alone — the trap itself
+    const funnelled = windForSite(def, site);
+    const throat = new THREE.Vector3(vl[0].x, 1.5, vl[0].z);
+    const a = new THREE.Vector3(), b = new THREE.Vector3();
+    let bareMean = 0, funMean = 0, n = 0;
+    for (let time = 20; time <= 80; time += 0.5) {
+      bare.sample(throat, time, a);
+      funnelled.sample(throat, time, b);
+      bareMean += Math.hypot(a.x, a.z); funMean += Math.hypot(b.x, b.z); n++;
+    }
+    bareMean /= n; funMean /= n;
+    assert(bareMean > 3, `the storm never blew at the throat (${bareMean.toFixed(1)} m/s) — vacuous`);
+    assert(funMean > bareMean * 1.1,
+      `throat wind ${funMean.toFixed(2)} vs bare ${bareMean.toFixed(2)} m/s — the site's venturi is not `
+      + 'reaching windForSite\'s wind (it must call setVenturi the way main.js does at every site load)');
+  });
+
+  // D's aftermath find (S13, lane/d): the hail InstancedMesh at count:0 with
+  // frustum culling and depthWrite both off still draws instance 0's identity
+  // matrix — a ~5 cm always-on-top white sliver at the origin, the QA's "ghost
+  // near the shed table". The gate is mesh.visible, not count. This flies the
+  // wild night and demands the pool is invisible whenever no hail is falling
+  // and visible whenever it is — both directions, whole storm.
+  t.test("hail pool: invisible when nothing falls (D's aftermath sliver)", () => {
+    const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+    const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera();
+    const wind = createWind(storms.storm_02_wildnight);
+    const sky = createSkyFx({ scene, camera, wind });
+    let sawHail = false, sawCalm = false;
+    fixedLoop(wind.duration, FIXED_DT, (dt, time) => {
+      sky.step(dt, time, {});
+      // the mesh draws floor(1300 × intensity) stones, so a burst's first
+      // millisecond can honestly show zero — demand visibility only once the
+      // intensity buys at least one stone, and invisibility only at exactly 0
+      if (sky.hailAmount >= 1 / 1300) {
+        sawHail = true;
+        assert(sky.hail.mesh.visible, `hail falling at t=${time.toFixed(1)} but the pool is hidden`);
+      } else if (sky.hailAmount === 0) {
+        sawCalm = true;
+        assert(!sky.hail.mesh.visible, `no hail at t=${time.toFixed(1)} but the pool still draws — the sliver`);
+      }
+    });
+    assert(sawHail && sawCalm, 'storm never exercised both states — this test proves nothing');
+    sky.dispose();
+  });
+
   // Lane A rebuilds skyfx on every phase change, so dispose() is on the hot path.
   // They verified sun/hemi restore exactly and spotted that fog didn't; this pins
   // both. The vacuity guards matter — a restore test where nothing ever moved is
@@ -172,6 +279,86 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       `skyfx left ${scene.children.length - before.children} object(s) in the scene`);
   });
 
+  // SPRINT13 gate 3.3 — A's M key. main.js feature-detects sky.setMute and only
+  // advertises M once it exists, so this contract is what lights the key up.
+  // The pre-unlock case is the one that bites: M pressed on the splash screen,
+  // BEFORE the first gesture builds the audio graph, must survive the unlock.
+  t.test('M-mute: setMute silences the bus, and a pre-unlock mute survives unlock', () => {
+    const wind = createWind(storms.storm_02_wildnight);
+    const sky = createSkyFx({ wind });               // headless — the bus needs no scene
+    assert(typeof sky.setMute === 'function', "no setMute — A's M key has nothing to call");
+    assert(sky.muted === false, 'a fresh sky must not start muted');
+    sky.setMute(true);                               // before unlock — the splash case
+    assert(sky.muted === true, 'setMute(true) did not take');
+    sky.unlockAudio();
+    if (sky.audio.ready) {                           // no AudioContext = nothing to silence
+      assert(sky.audio.masterGain === 0,
+        `unlock forgot a pre-unlock mute: master at ${sky.audio.masterGain}`);
+      sky.setMute(false);
+      assert(sky.audio.masterGain > 0, 'unmute left the master gain at 0');
+    }
+    sky.dispose();
+  });
+
+  // SPRINT13 gate 2.1 — the storm grade. The QA sighting: 65 km/h + driving
+  // rain under a noon-blue sky with razor midday shadows. Cause: sky and sun
+  // both multiplied the weather by the author's palette (`darkness`, 0.5 on
+  // the southerly), so the dial could zero the weather's say — and nothing
+  // touched shadow softness at all. Pins: the grade floors the darkness dial,
+  // the sun dims/goes slate/softens, and dispose hands all of it back.
+  t.test('storm grade: a mid-darkness gale dims the sun, softens shadows, restores on dispose', () => {
+    const scene = new THREE.Scene();
+    scene.background = new THREE.Color(0x9fc4e8);
+    const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera();
+    const sun = new THREE.DirectionalLight(0xfff2dc, 2.0);
+    const before = { sun: sun.intensity, color: sun.color.getHex(), radius: sun.shadow.radius };
+    // a darkness-0.5 storm blowing 18 m/s (65 km/h) in full rain — the QA scene
+    const gale = {
+      seed: 1, def: { sky: { darkness: 0.5 } },
+      sample: (p, t2, o) => o.set(18, 0, 0),
+      speedAt: () => 18, rainAt: () => 1, rainMmPerHour: () => 30,
+      gustTelegraph: () => null, eventsBetween: () => [], setSheltersFromTrees() {},
+    };
+    const sky = createSkyFx({ scene, camera, wind: gale, sun });
+    fixedLoop(10, FIXED_DT, (dt, time) => sky.step(dt, time, {}));
+    assert(sky.stormGrade > 0.7,
+      `grade ${sky.stormGrade} — the darkness dial still zeroes the weather (the old formula reads 0.50 here)`);
+    assert(sun.intensity < before.sun * 0.5,
+      `sun at ${sun.intensity.toFixed(2)} of ${before.sun} — still noon at 65 km/h`);
+    assert(sun.shadow.radius > 4,
+      `shadow radius ${sun.shadow.radius} — razor-sharp midday shadows in a gale`);
+    assert(sun.color.getHex() !== before.color, 'the sun disc never lost its noon warmth');
+    sky.dispose();
+    assert(sun.intensity === before.sun && sun.color.getHex() === before.color
+      && sun.shadow.radius === before.radius,
+      'dispose did not hand the sun back exactly (intensity / colour / shadow radius)');
+  });
+
+  // SPRINT13 gate 2.2 — the wall's edges, judged from in-yard eye height.
+  // Two QA sightings, both geometry: a sliver of bright sky under the bank's
+  // base (it stopped AT the camera's horizontal plane, above the ground's true
+  // horizon), and a hard vertical seam at the arc ends (0.36 alpha at the
+  // outer tenth). The band now overshoots the equator and the end fade is
+  // steeper; these pins are what "grounded" and "feathered" mean in numbers.
+  t.test('the change-front wall grounds below the horizon and feathers its ends', () => {
+    const wind = createWind(storms.storm_03_southerly);
+    const sky = createSkyFx({ wind });
+    const geo = sky.front.geometry;
+    geo.computeBoundingBox();
+    assert(geo.boundingBox.min.y < -20,
+      `front base at y=${geo.boundingBox.min.y.toFixed(1)} — a band stopping at eye level floats a sky sliver under the wall`);
+    const uv = geo.attributes.uv, col = geo.attributes.color;
+    assert(col && col.itemSize === 4, 'front lost its vertex alpha — the edges are hard cuts again');
+    let edgeMax = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < uv.count; i++) {
+      const u = uv.getX(i);
+      if (u <= 0.09 || u >= 0.91) edgeMax = Math.max(edgeMax, col.getW(i));
+    }
+    assert(edgeMax < 0.2,
+      `arc-end alpha ${edgeMax.toFixed(2)} — the vertical seam QA saw at the bank's ends`);
+    sky.dispose();
+  });
+
   // --- SPRINT2 §Lane C.3: rain has to stop at the cloth ---
   // Driven with a synthetic 4×4 m panel rather than a whole cloth sim: the thing
   // under test is the projection, and a flat panel makes the right answer

web/world/js/tests/d.test.js

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { Interact, wireYardActions } from '../interact.js';
 import { createBroom, BROOM_TUNE } from '../broom.js';
 // The REAL rule, not the fakeLadder's hand-copied duplicate of it — a rule the suite re-implements
 // is a rule the suite cannot catch drifting. (ladder.js is headless-importable for this reason.)
-import { needsLadder as realNeedsLadder } from '../ladder.js';
+import { needsLadder as realNeedsLadder, createLadder } from '../ladder.js';
 import { assert, assertEq, assertClose, assertLess, fixedLoop } from '../testkit.js';
 import { FIXED_DT } from '../contracts.js';
 import { loadStorm, createWind } from '../weather.js';
@@ -175,6 +175,54 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       `shove must grow faster than linearly with speed: ${p15.toFixed(3)} -> ${p30.toFixed(3)}`);
   });
 
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------- wind lean (SPRINT13 gate 2.4)
+  t.test('lean: calm leaves you upright, wind tips you, and it scales with the sustained speed', () => {
+    const calm = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(calm, 20, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindMin - 3));   // below the threshold, all storm
+    assertLess(calm.lean, 1e-3, 'under leanWindMin you stand up straight');
+
+    const mid = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(mid, 40, {}, windX((TUNE.leanWindMin + TUNE.leanWindFull) / 2));
+    assert(mid.lean > 0.35 && mid.lean < 0.65, `mid wind is a partial lean, got ${mid.lean.toFixed(2)}`);
+
+    const gale = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(gale, 40, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 6));
+    assertClose(gale.lean, 1, 1e-2, 'past leanWindFull you are fully into it');
+    assert(gale.lean >= mid.lean, 'more sustained wind is more lean');
+  });
+
+  t.test('lean: keys on the SUSTAINED base, not the gust — a single gust does not snap you over', () => {
+    const s = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(s, 30, {}, windX(4));                 // learn a calm baseline: no lean
+    const before = s.lean;
+    drive(s, 1.2, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 10), 30);  // one big gust, shorter than leanSecs momentum
+    // windBase barely moves in 1.2 s (baseTrack ~4 s memory), so the posture must not jump to full.
+    assertLess(s.lean, 0.5, `a brief gust is a stumble, not a lean — got ${s.lean.toFixed(2)} from ${before.toFixed(2)}`);
+  });
+
+  t.test('lean: it points downwind, and it is suppressed on your back, braced, or up a ladder', () => {
+    // downwind: wind blowing +X should tip leanDir toward +X.
+    const s = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(s, 30, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 5));
+    assert(s.lean > 0.5, 'leaning');
+    assertClose(s.leanDir.x, 1, 1e-6, 'leanDir points the way the wind blows (x)');
+    assertClose(s.leanDir.z, 0, 1e-6, 'and not sideways (z)');
+
+    // braced: holding C must zero the lean — TakeCover is its own pose.
+    const braced = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(braced, 30, { shelter: true }, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 5));
+    assertEq(braced.state, 'shelter', 'C braces');
+    assertLess(braced.lean, 1e-2, 'and a brace is not a lean');
+
+    // knocked down: pitch owns the body, lean eases out.
+    const floored = new PlayerSim();
+    drive(floored, 30, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 5));
+    assert(floored.lean > 0.5, 'leaning before the fall');
+    floored.knockdown(0, 1, 0);
+    drive(floored, 1, {}, windX(TUNE.leanWindFull + 5));
+    assertLess(floored.lean, 1e-2, 'flat on your back is not a lean');
+  });
+
   // ---------------------------------------------------------------- knockdown
   t.test('knockdown: needs SUSTAINED overload, like a sail corner letting go', () => {
     const brief = new PlayerSim();
@@ -448,6 +496,74 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       'nor a tree limb — that is a strop you throw');
   });
 
+  // --- SPRINT13 pool: the real createLadder, not the fake. These two pin the things the QA pass
+  //     found by playing, and both were silent — no error, no red, just a mechanic that stopped.
+  //     (createLadder is scene-free with scene=null: the view is the only THREE it needs.)
+  const realLadderWorld = () => ({
+    anchors: [
+      { id: 'h2',  type: 'house',   work: 'bracket', pos: { x: 0, y: 2.48, z: -9.95 } },
+      { id: 'cb1', type: 'carport', work: 'bracket', pos: { x: -8.4, y: 2.29, z: -3 } },
+    ],
+    shedTable: { pos: { x: 9, y: 0.9, z: 6 } },
+    heightAt: () => 0,
+  });
+
+  t.test('ladder: a knockdown mid-carry drops it in the grass — it does not leave the game', () => {
+    const world = realLadderWorld();
+    const interact = new Interact();
+    const player = new PlayerSim({ start: { x: 4, y: 0, z: 2 } });
+    const ladder = createLadder(null, world, interact, player);
+    const takeTarget = [...interact.targets.values()].find((x) => x.id === 'ladder_take');
+
+    // in your hands, walking it out to the bracket — through the target's OWN onDone, because
+    // player.pickUp alone fills your hands without telling the ladder, which is not a state the
+    // game can produce and would test the fixture rather than the code.
+    takeTarget.onDone(player, 0);
+    ladder.update(DT, 0, {});
+    assert(ladder.carried, 'carried');
+    assertEq(player.carrying, 'ladder', 'and the hands agree');
+    assertEq(takeTarget.pos(), null, 'nothing to walk to while it is in your hands');
+
+    // the wind takes you over at (4, 2). knockdown() -> drop() nulls carrying, and before SPRINT13
+    // nothing told the ladder: it stayed "carried" by nobody, invisible and un-takeable forever.
+    player.knockdown(0, 1, 0);
+    assertEq(player.carrying, null, 'the knockdown took it out of your hands');
+    ladder.update(DT, 0, {});
+
+    assert(!ladder.carried, 'the ladder knows it is no longer being carried');
+    const p = takeTarget.pos();
+    assert(p, 'and it is somewhere you can walk to');
+    assertClose(p.x, 4, 1e-6, 'it fell where you did (x)');
+    assertClose(p.z, 2, 1e-6, 'it fell where you did (z)');
+    assert(takeTarget.canUse({ carrying: null, climbY: 0 }),
+      'and you can pick it up again — this is the assert that fails if the reconcile is reverted');
+  });
+
+  t.test('ladder: the place prompt names the structure it is under, and where the ladder is', () => {
+    const world = realLadderWorld();
+    const interact = new Interact();
+    const player = new PlayerSim({ start: { x: 4, y: 0, z: 2 } });
+    const ladder = createLadder(null, world, interact, player);
+    const placeAt = (id) => [...interact.targets.values()].find((x) => x.id === `ladder_place_${id}`);
+    const empty = { carrying: null };
+
+    // QA pass: this said "the fascia" while you stood under a carport beam.
+    assert(/fascia/.test(interact.labelOf(placeAt('h2'), empty)), 'the house bracket IS the fascia');
+    assert(/carport/.test(interact.labelOf(placeAt('cb1'), empty)),
+      `a carport beam is not a fascia — got "${interact.labelOf(placeAt('cb1'), empty)}"`);
+    assert(!/fascia/.test(interact.labelOf(placeAt('cb1'), empty)),
+      'and it must not call it one');
+
+    // ...and it must not lie about where the ladder is once the wind has taken it.
+    assert(/by the shed/.test(interact.labelOf(placeAt('cb1'), empty)), 'stowed: it is by the shed');
+    [...interact.targets.values()].find((x) => x.id === 'ladder_take').onDone(player, 0);
+    ladder.update(DT, 0, {});
+    player.knockdown(0, 1, 0);
+    ladder.update(DT, 0, {});
+    assert(!/by the shed/.test(interact.labelOf(placeAt('cb1'), empty)),
+      'dropped: the shed is exactly where it is NOT');
+  });
+
   t.test('ladder: keys on the MECHANISM a site declares, not on the anchor type', () => {
     // SPRINT10 gate 1. The failure mode is the point: when needsLadder says false, interact's
     // canReach returns TRUE UNCONDITIONALLY — so a mis-keyed anchor doesn't error, it silently

web/world/js/weather.js

@@ -112,6 +112,33 @@ export async function loadStorm(name, dir = STORM_DIR) {
   return def;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The wind a YARD actually flies — storm def + the SITE's local effects,
+ * wired exactly as main.js does at every site load (setVenturi from
+ * siteDef.wind.venturi, tree shelters from the anchors). SPRINT13:
+ *
+ * THREE harnesses have now measured site_02 with the funnel switched OFF by
+ * building wind from the storm def alone — B's site_audit (Sprint 11, their
+ * sweep.selftest tells the story), C's garden_bench (Sprint 13, where it
+ * flipped the $80-line headline: 91.5 FULL funnel-off vs 39.8 TATTERED in
+ * D's live replay), and probe4, which never attempted it. The venturi lives
+ * in the SITE json, not the storm, so `def.wind.venturi` off a storm def
+ * LOOKS right and never fires. Any tool measuring a yard builds its wind
+ * HERE, or it is measuring a yard that doesn't ship. The strictly-raises
+ * assert in c.test.js goes red if the setVenturi line is ever dropped.
+ *
+ * @param {object} stormDef  parsed storm JSON
+ * @param {object} [siteDef] parsed site JSON (loadSite) — its wind.venturi list
+ * @param {Array}  [anchors] world anchors; trees become wind shelters
+ * @param {object} [opts]    forwarded to createWind ({seed})
+ */
+export function windForSite(stormDef, siteDef, anchors = [], opts = {}) {
+  const wind = createWind(stormDef, opts);
+  wind.setVenturi(siteDef?.wind?.venturi ?? []);
+  wind.setSheltersFromTrees(anchors.filter((a) => a.type === 'tree'));
+  return wind;
+}
+
 /**
  * @param {object} def   parsed storm JSON
  * @param {object} [opts] {seed} — same seed + same def = same storm, every run

web/world/js/week.js

@@ -81,7 +81,23 @@ export const NIGHTS = [
     storm: 'storm_02b_icenight', site: 'backyard_01',
     client: 'the Hendersons', addr: '14 Kurrajong St — the backyard',
     brief: 'Less wind than last night and more ice, which is worse for the bed and easier on the rig. '
-         + 'Last night before they land.',
+         + 'Last night before they land. Nobody\'s pretending the seedlings ride this one out — keep '
+         + 'the sail on its feet and the ice off the windows.',
+    // SPRINT13 gate 1.4 — A's ruling, DESIGN CANON: night 5's garden is BEYOND
+    // SAVING, by design, at any price. Measured game-true (B's pay table and
+    // A's probe, agreeing): bare bed 0.0 DEAD; best buyable garden 27.7; best
+    // clean 15.3 — every line in the game sits under WIN's hp >= 50, wallet or
+    // bank. The week's arc WANTS this: full / full / full, won-but-tattered
+    // (night 4, the pinned separation), then the night you cannot save — the
+    // icenight is where the job stops being about the bed and becomes about
+    // your steel (the line that would hold it needs $105 the shop caps at
+    // 3.20 kN shackles against 3.22/3.25 peaks — C's few-hundredths whisker,
+    // kept on purpose). This flag exists so surfaces TEACH the loss instead of
+    // implying a better rig existed: verdictFor reads it (main.js) and stops
+    // blaming placement; the brief above levels with the player before they
+    // spend a dollar. If a retune ever makes night 5 winnable, delete this
+    // flag in the same commit or the verdict lies in the other direction.
+    gardenBeyondSaving: true,
   },
 ];
 
@@ -106,6 +122,9 @@ export function nightAt(i) {
     addr: base.addr ?? null,
     brief: base.brief ?? null,
     pay: base.pay ?? {},
+    // False by default on purpose: a night is presumed savable unless its data
+    // says otherwise, so a new night can never inherit the icenight's excuse.
+    gardenBeyondSaving: base.gardenBeyondSaving ?? false,
   };
 }