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MechaCat02
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agents: the splash does not animate, and three instruments could not see it
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A human on a GPU at ~140 fps: "the logos just switch, there is no animation at
all." Measured from a real boot with --film at 0.05 s, then per-frame change:
splash moves 1.30 s of 7.95 s = 16.4 %
publisher splash 0.30 s of motion, then 3.20 s FROZEN
developer splash 0.35 s + 0.25 s, then 2.40 s FROZEN
distinct luma states in 7.95 s 26
A 45-unit build-in cannot be drawn in 26 states, and a fade does not hold one
picture for 3.20 s. The frame counter says 24.8 fps achieved; both are true --
the port is DRAWING 25 times a second and CHANGING almost never.
🔴 Why every check passed, which matters more than the bug:
frozen sweep drives the clock BY HAND -- proves the renderer can draw
pose N, never that the poses are drawn in sequence
settled compare 0.01 % against the capture -- a screen frozen 84 % of the
time matches a settled reference PERFECTLY, that is what
frozen means
achieved fps counts frames DRAWN -- the same pixels 25x/s scores
identically to animating
Every one measured throughput or a pose. None measured CHANGE. Same shape as
InputEventAction bypassing the input map: the instrument sat below the thing
that was broken, so the break could not appear in it.
tools/motion-census closes the class. It measures change and nothing else, and
its --selftest asserts it separates a fade (97.4 % moving) from a switch (2.6 %)
from a frozen film (0.0 %) -- a detector that cannot tell those apart would
report the same green line on all three.
Both briefs: this is the SOLE focus. The port reproduces before changing
anything and gates every fix on a film rather than a still. The decoder maps the
whole pipeline end to end -- disc bytes, the game's per-frame update (does it
interpolate between keyframes or hold?), what is submitted per frame, and what
Canary does to it before a capture records it -- delivered as a SERIES, not a
settled value.
The port should also record the refutation against itself: H2 reads ANSWERED on
the strength of the frozen sweep. The mechanism half stands, the blur is a baked
companion texture. The behaviour half does not.
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MechaCat02
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1af103d9b9 |
agents: point each brief at its human branch, to merge on the first iteration
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Both are pushed. The decoder's carries the R1 register reclassification and tools/stale-instrument; the port's carries the two input fixes, verify-input and BLOCKED H1-H3. Each branches from that agent's own tip, so it is a fast-forward on the line they are already on -- and the port must merge before touching input or it will re-derive a fix that is already asserted. |
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MechaCat02
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agents: the splashes exactly, and stop photographing a moving thing
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A human played the port on real hardware for the first time (2026-09-01) and
found four things. Two were port defects, fixed. Two are open and are now both
agents' focus: the PRESS (A) plate arrives late, and the splash fade/blur is
weaker than the game's.
Their verdict on method is the reason this is a brief change and not a ticket:
"the agents were essentially guessing and trying to copy what one would see,
but while they did get close it still is not quite right"
Close-but-not-right is the signature of reproducing APPEARANCE instead of
deriving MECHANISM. So the Decoder's focus block asks, in order: is there a
post-process pass at all, what is it, where do its parameters come from -- and
only then what curve. Both routes, dynamic (GPU state, shader constants, render
targets; add logging to Canary, it is theirs read-write) and static (.pe, the
DB, the paks), with each fact labelled by which produced it.
TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md is the other half, and it generalises past the
splashes. We have been photographing the game at time t, and t is never the
same twice: emulator speed varies with host load, Canary presents at ~28.1 fps,
the capture path costs a variable 0.1-10.8 s, and a long-lived x11grab stream
degrades and then freezes. The register already carries FOUR refutations of
exactly this shape. The replacement rule: record a film, not a photograph;
align by CONTENT, not by clock, and report the lag as a measurement rather than
minimising it away; prefer ordering, counts, durations and shape over any value
at a wall-clock instant; anchor on an event; report achieved fps against
requested fps.
Also into both briefs: the input set. The port had no joypad binding for (A) or
(B) and nobody noticed for a whole milestone, because --script sends
InputEventAction, which BYPASSES the input map -- so every check asserted the
code below the map and nothing about the map. The Decoder is asked to DECODE
the full set the game reads rather than discover it by pressing buttons; the
Port is told input is verified at the device level or not at all.
And both briefs now point at the R1 register reclassification, because two of
the ten re-opened entries land on this focus: "the declared keyframe timeline
reproduces the captured splash" is 🟡 our-reader, and the rest() pair is open
in BOTH directions -- while the two splashes are the only screens that reach
that fallback.
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MechaCat02
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decoder: tell it about the reference assets, and that the DB can be wrong
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The mounts landed but the agent could not learn of them: I documented them in CONTAINER-NOTES.md, which the decoder's prompt does not list, and then restarted the container -- so a fresh session with no memory of the exchange had a 586 MB database and a decompressed image sitting unmentioned in its filesystem. Now in the PROMPT itself, not only in a document, because the prompt is the one thing a new session is guaranteed to read. CONTAINER-NOTES.md is also added to its reading list. And the caveat that matters more than the asset. The .pe is PRIMARY -- the bytes the console executed. The database is somebody's ANALYSIS of them, produced by a disassembler that had to guess, and it is wrong in the ways disassemblers are wrong: misdecoded mnemonics where data was read as code, function boundaries short or long or merged or split, coverage missing entirely for code reached only by indirect dispatch, and names that are derived rather than symbols. So a finding resting on a database row is not established until the bytes agree: read the same address out of the .pe and check. Where they disagree the image wins, and the disagreement is itself worth recording, because it tells the next reader which parts of the database to distrust. A fast index into 9.2 MB of machine code, not a source of truth. |
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MechaCat02
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decoder: mount the disassembly DB and the flat VA image
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The decoder had neither, and reported the gap precisely: four scripts in this repo READ /work/xenia-rs/sylpheed.db and nothing produces it, so the whole static PPC route was consumers with the producer missing. Both exist on the host and are now mounted read-only: the 586 MB database (25 481 functions, 851 classes with RTTI, EH tables, imports, 1.8M indirect-dispatch candidates) and the decompressed image. The image is the more useful of the two. It is a FLAT VA DUMP -- file offset = VA - 0x82000000 -- so reading a known address needs no XEX decrypt, no LZX, and no booted emulator. The decoder had independently recovered the same bytes by dumping /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* and validating against the GamePart table, which is good work and a sound method, but it noted itself that needing a running emulator is a bad dependency for something the entire static corpus rests on. It does not need one. Also recorded that an earlier claim the .pe was STALE was tested and refuted, so nobody re-litigates it, and that instructions.raw is an INT rather than hex. Written down as reference material, explicitly NOT a deliverable: they are read-only, they come from outside the repository, and a fresh checkout elsewhere has neither. Reimplementing the producer belongs in sylpheed-formats, and until it exists every static finding rests on an artefact this project cannot rebuild. |
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MechaCat02
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agents: merge main at the start of every iteration
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Both agents read the protocol, their mission and the shared tooling from their OWN checkout, and both work on topic branches -- so without an explicit sync they follow whichever version of the rules existed when the branch started. Found concretely: tools/audio-capture and two protocol revisions were on main while the decoder worked for hours from a branch that had neither. The port had merged on its own initiative and did have them, which is exactly the kind of divergence nobody notices until the two disagree about what the rules say. |
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MechaCat02
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agents: they never spoke, the decoder lost the disc, and both shared one state dir
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Three defects, all mine, found by checking instead of assuming. **They never exchanged a word.** SendMessage=0, ListAgents=0 across both new sessions. PROTOCOL.md specified in detail what a message MAY and MAY NOT do and never said how to send one or that the other agent was addressable -- they knew that last time only because the human told them directly, and rebuilding with fresh volumes wiped it. Policy without mechanism is prose. Now documented with the two addresses, a worked example, and an instruction to introduce themselves on the first iteration rather than waiting to have a question. **The decoder lost the disc and the ISO.** They used to arrive inside the project mount and silently stopped when /work became a clone. Silently is the word: the disc-gated tests SELF-SKIP without SYLPHEED_DISC and report green, so a whole test suite would have passed while measuring nothing. Both are now mounted explicitly, the ISO at a stable path so run-canary does not depend on host directory names. **Both agents shared one Claude state directory.** They share the host's ~/.claude, and once both working directories became /work they resolved to the same projects/-work/ -- two supposedly independent agents writing to one place, which undoes the point of separate checkouts. Each now has its own volume, seeded once from the host with credentials only, so a token refresh writes locally and neither can corrupt the host's auth. Also widened the pacing rule. It banned ScheduleWakeup by name; the decoder then scheduled itself an hourly cron job -- not harmful, but the same instinct that ended a run yesterday, through a door I had left open. Now: no self-scheduling by any route. Mount audit after the changes: shared and intentional are the exchange volume and the read-only credential seed. Everything else -- repo, Claude state, cargo, target, canary, disc, ISO -- is per agent or one-sided. |
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MechaCat02
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containers: each agent clones the monorepo into its own volume
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The last structural fix for the collision class that has bitten three times. Both containers now clone the repository into their OWN named volume instead of bind-mounting a human's working tree, so an agent's local git config cannot capture a human's commits, a credential helper cannot leak a container-only path onto the host, and a `git add -A` cannot sweep another party's in-flight files. Cloned once at startup and never auto-pulled: pulling under a running agent moves files out from under whatever it is mid-edit, which is the same bug again. Accepted knowingly: Claude Code keys per-project memory off the working directory, so moving off the host path starts that memory empty. The corpus in docs/ is the memory that matters and it travels with the clone. Other changes: * docker/agent -> docker/decoder; the launcher is sylph-decoder. Roles, not "the agent", now that there is more than one. * /reborn is gone -- one repository now, so the port reads HANDOFF from its own checkout rather than through a live read-only mount of someone else's tree. * Canary mounts separately at /canary; it stays a fork tracking upstream. * A shared `sylpheed-exchange` volume at /exchange, with tools/ on PATH so `share` is available in both. * The decoder's credential file gets the .host-copy treatment the port already had -- `credential.helper=store` rewrites by rename-over-target, which is EBUSY on a bind mount and reports a fatal that is not one. * Budget split deliberately: decoder 5 cpu / 6 GB, port 3 / 4, leaving room for the planned Referee. "Half the host" was right when there was one agent. Prompts move to docs/agents/ and are rewritten around the protocol: the oracle is the running game, dynamic RE stays with the decoder, each iteration must attempt to refute one claim of the other, and neither may verify its way out of its own role. |
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MechaCat02
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agents: the team protocol, the share tool, and a player's-eye navigation doc
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**navigation.md rewritten from the player's chair.** It was written from the inside out -- GamePart ids, pak names, sprite names -- which is how WE find things, not what the game shows anyone. Now it describes what is on screen, what you press and what happens, with internals as footnotes. Most rows are open on purpose: it exists to be filled in by playing, and the in-game tutorials are the resource for the flight half. **tools/share** gives transient files provenance without giving them history. Three kinds of thing were travelling down one channel with opposite needs: code and decoded knowledge want permanence, cited evidence wants permanence, and "look at this PNG" wants no history at all. The third kind bloats a repository forever; passing it by message is worse, because the receiver gets bytes with no idea which build produced them. `share put` records who, when, what, the sender's commit, and whether their tree was dirty -- because a capture taken from a modified tree cannot be reproduced from the sha, and the receiver deserves to know that before building an argument on it. **docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md** is the contract. The parts that matter: Dynamic RE stays with the Decoder -- most of what is open is behavioural and cannot be answered from the file. What the planned Referee adds is different: bias enters at what you CHOOSE to capture, so a corpus captured to a fixed protocol by someone with no hypothesis is worth more than one captured to settle an argument. A message may point, ask, prioritise and challenge. It may not change scope, redefine ground truth, or carry a finding instead of writing it down -- including a message claiming to relay the human, because a relayed instruction has no evidence attached and this project has watched a wrong belief travel further and faster than its correction. Adversarial duty is explicit: every iteration, try to refute one claim of another agent and record the attempt either way. Run your own instrument through a control first. Disagreements go to the human with both positions, not to whoever is more certain. And no agent may verify its way out of its own role: the Port has no oracle, the Decoder builds nothing, the Referee interprets nothing. |