Ring at 347.5 on entry (MISSION SELECT), 427.5 after one delivery-confirmed DOWN,
347.5 on re-entry with the frame 0.0% different from first entry, screen
confirmed by eye because an earlier run was fooled about which screen it was on.
Two things settle here. The caveat on extras/initial_focus comes off: MISSION
SELECT is a genuine initial focus, because a screen that RESETS cannot have a
single-entry reading that is measuring history -- that objection was live only
while persistence here was unknown. And focus_persists: false for extras is now
written explicitly with kind: measured. Nothing changes at runtime, since the
port already defaulted to false; the point is that an absent key and a measured
false behave identically and mean opposite things -- 'nobody looked' versus 'the
game was watched doing it' -- and only the second is visible to audit-kinds.
It does not vindicate how it got there and is not recorded as if it did. For one
iteration contract-check ASSERTED extras non-persistence with nothing behind it,
the Decoder flagged it, and the measurement then agreed. Their separation is
sharper than my own account was: declining to generalise the memory was correct,
on the evidence then and on measurement now, since the two screens genuinely
disagree -- but encoding 'not measured here' as a positive assertion of the
negative was a different move that happened to land. Being right by luck does not
retroactively make it evidence. The check is rewritten to rest on the
measurement rather than left in place looking vindicated.
guard_focus_scope no longer polices 'only main_menu': there is no menu-wide rule
to state, since two measured screens disagree. It now states both measured values
and counts the screens that say nothing, printing UNMEASURED, not 'resets'.
Untested and not built on: OPTIONS, LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL. And nobody can separate
'resets to MISSION SELECT' from 'resets to the top item' -- they coincide, since
ptbtn11 is both. The port's value is right under either reading and the reason is
not established, which matters the day a screen is authored whose opening item is
not its first.
16 kind labels audited clean, 14 controls firing, every asserting check passes.
The P5 walk artifact now matches a measurement on both halves rather than one
measurement and one default.
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The Decoder corrected their own focus delivery: the persistence run's item names
were two positions out, from a reader using design-space rows against captures
carrying Xenia's chrome and a 1.060 scale. Two things follow.
initial_focus_kind moves from authored to measured. NEW GAME on a fresh boot, 2/2
fresh boots, both the first menu entry. The value did not change; its standing
did, and the upgrade is not because the measurement agrees with me -- they had
said my agreeing with their records was no evidence, which was correct, and this
is a direct reading independent of the reasoning that chose NEW GAME here. "First
entry" is load-bearing: since the menu remembers its cursor, a reading taken
later measures history, which is the objection that voided the earlier
TUTORIAL-versus-NEW-GAME disagreement. The superseded reasoning is kept under
(was) lines -- the field existing and being labelled honestly is what made
arriving at a measurement a label change rather than an archaeology problem, the
third time that has paid off after loop_start_s and the +0x08 read.
My check_focus_persists anchor survived a correction it should not have been able
to detect. It anchors on the heading, the conclusion, not on the item names. That
is lucky rather than designed: the conclusion is geometry-free -- ring at y 384.0
before the round trip and 385.5 after, an equality immune to a constant offset --
while the names were not. The check would not have caught the label error, and
nothing in it distinguishes anchored-on-a-robust-claim from anchored-above-the-
part-that-was-wrong.
Their generalisation: a control that only checks differences is blind to the
origin. check_splash_dwell is that shape -- it compares the widest gap between
keyframe times, and a reader with every time shifted by a constant passes. Added
check_splash_times, asserting the absolute list the contract prints. Origin and
difference now fail independently.
Writing that control reproduced the error one level down: its perturbation
literal was written from memory of the prose, with a space where the document has
a newline, so it reported its own anchor gone. A control written from a memory of
the source rather than from the source is the class of error these checks exist
to catch. Thirteen controls, all firing.
Q2 closed: fixed same day, and the row was worse than I reported -- the splashes
were also mis-paired as 10/11, one half each of two different pairs.
EXTRAS remains unmeasured; the run meant to settle it navigated to OPTIONS
believing it was EXTRAS. Every asserting check passes.
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tools/port/audit-kinds reports what each in authored/ rests on. Nothing
had ever checked them, which is the point -- the disciplines that fail this way
are the ones that never visibly failed.
Seven of fifteen labels, every goto_name_kind, had no of their own. Four
scored ok on the first run because the audit fell back to the parent's ,
which argues the DESTINATION while the label is about where the NAME came from.
That is the same error I was corrected for the previous iteration, one level
down: crediting a claim with evidence that does not bear on it. Borrowed evidence
is now its own outcome, and all seven carry a why citing HANDOFF Q4's own words
and stating that the port never branches on the field.
The audit refuted itself twice first. It counted only paths, shas and filenames
as citations, so HANDOFF Q1 and PORT-MISSION section 7 read as citing nothing --
four false positives, and an audit that invents defects is worse than none
because its false positives are indistinguishable from its true ones until each
is opened. It also resolved paths against committed refs only, failing on a
citation to the tool being written. Both fixed. It still cannot read a cited page
to confirm it says what the why claims, and prints that every run.
MEASURED and measured both existed; a consumer comparing == measured misses the
other, and a label that fails to match reads as ABSENT rather than wrong.
Normalised.
Refutation attempt on HANDOFF Q2's map of GP_TITLE. The headline survives and is
exactly right: 4 UI states + 2 loading variants + 2 boot splashes = 8 states
shipped twice = the 16 entries the archive holds, confirmed against my export's
entry map. But the row enumerates six of those eight -- entries 10, 11, 13 and 14,
publisher_logo and developer_logos, appear nowhere in it. A reader counting Q2
gets twelve, and this is the row already corrected once for an ordinal-versus-
entry error, which is the mistake four unlisted entries feed. The port is
unaffected; both splashes are exported, named and verified at RMSE 2.17 and 3.05.
Every asserting check passes, audit-kinds included.
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The pair I shipped this iteration -- focus_persists on for main_menu, off
everywhere else -- reported both halves as agreement with the contract. Nothing
measured that extras does not persist. The corpus has EXTRAS' opening item from
one entry and (B) restoring the PARENT's focus 4/4; neither says what a submenu's
own cursor does on re-entry. Caught by the Decoder.
It is the mirror of the trap it was written to avoid. I refused to let a derived
menu-wide rule overwrite a measured value, then let 'not measured here' become a
positive assertion of the negative. Both treat a gap in the corpus as if it
carried information and differ only in which direction they fill it. And the
failure mode was the bad one: if the game does persist EXTRAS, the check holds
the port to the wrong behaviour and passes while doing it.
check_focus_persists now asserts only the measured half. The scope became a
separate guard with its own outcome word -- 'only main_menu, AUTHORED DEFAULT,
unmeasured elsewhere' -- which still fails if widened, since that should be a
deliberate edit, but can no longer be read as the game being known to reset.
focus_persists_why records the correction rather than being rewritten.
It also weakens a label. EXTRAS' initial_focus is marked measured and was taken
on a single entry; now that the main menu is known to remember its cursor, a
one-entry reading of any screen may be measuring history rather than what the
screen opens on -- the same objection that reframed the TUTORIAL/NEW GAME
disagreement. The observation stands, its reading as an initial focus does not.
Caveat attached, kind left as measured with a note that it changes if EXTRAS
turns out to persist.
Not building on the non-persistence half until their EXTRAS re-entry run returns.
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Measured by the Decoder today: (B) from the menu to the title and (A) back
returns to the item you left, not to a default; their control passed first, two
delivery-confirmed DOWNs moving the cursor exactly two items before the round
trip. The port reset to initial_focus on every entry, so a player who moved to
EXTRAS, pressed (B) then (A) landed back on NEW GAME. MenuFlow.enter() now
consults opening_focus(), and a new set_focus() writes the memory.
set_focus() exists because two call sites set focus -- a cursor move and (B)'s
restore -- and a memory updated at only one of them is right until the player
uses the other.
focus_persists is true on main_menu and nowhere else, and the scope is the
authored part. wrap generalised because it was measured on two screens; this was
measured on one. Here that is stronger than a preference: extras opens on MISSION
SELECT as a MEASURED initial focus, so a menu-wide memory would have silently
replaced a measured value with a derived one.
Both halves are in one artifact, because a one-sided test passes a port that
quietly generalised: the menu returns to ptbtn05 after the round trip, and extras
opens on ptbtn11 both times despite being left on ptbtn12. contract-check asserts
the pair -- on where measured, off elsewhere -- and fails its known negative.
Eleven checks.
Not assumed: whether the memory survives a reboot, or whether any other screen
has it. Their reach is one boot, one round trip, one direction. The finding also
reframes this morning's initial-focus warning without settling it -- if focus
persists, a reading not taken on a fresh boot's first entry is measuring history.
NEW GAME stays authored, on its own reasoning.
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The tag was cut within the iteration, so screen.rs now calls
ui_layout::loop_length_units and its local RATC guard and byte read are deleted.
One line, as predicted -- and the doc comment promising that deletion is the only
reason a temporary reading did not quietly become permanent.
A pin bump moves the whole crate, not one function, and this pin is recorded
load-bearing, so both commits between the tags were read before taking it:
b5df02a adds the public function, d020845 is comment-only -- two 'fixed code
under an unfixed description' corrections. No behavioural change in either, and
the oracle RMSEs confirm it: main_menu 13.21, extras 13.38, title 14.16, all
identical across the bump.
d020845 is worth noting for what it is. The rest override's comment still claimed
it tested the shifted time reading that the record-layout fix had refuted, and a
continue branch was documented with the pre-fix rule. Both are the same failure
this port hit in spin_period_units: a doc comment describing the rule the body no
longer implements. Three instances now, across two agents and two languages.
examples/record_loop_control.rs deliberately did NOT follow the API. The moment a
control calls the thing it exists to check it stops being a control and becomes
the API tested against itself; the falsifier means something only because the
reading is independent. Re-run at the new pin, unchanged. So the port holds one
copy of this reading instead of two, and it is the copy whose job is to disagree.
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docs/game/navigation.md is a second document unreachable from main, and
authored/flow.json is its executable form -- nothing in the port fails when a
label drifts from it. Three more checks in contract-check, anchored on the walk's
own text: the five main-menu labels in order, EXTRAS' three items, the cursor
wrap. Ten checks now, ten known negatives, all passing.
The manual audit behind them found nothing else: initial focus is already
kind:authored citing Q5's instability, left_right is an explicit no-op,
auto_repeat is measured, unexported destinations are marked blocked with reasons.
Refutation target: the walk's claim that the ring is the ONLY thing moving on the
settled menu. Cannot be tested against the game from here, but can be tested
against my renderer, which is the direction that matters. Five renders across a
full ring cycle: 1428 of 921600 pixels vary, 0.155 %, one 46x44 cluster beside
the focused item. The port animates one ring, not five -- worth checking, since
all five ptbtn01f..05f declare the same 120-unit cycle and a renderer running all
of them would look identical until you diffed frames.
Then I nearly filed a serious P5 defect against myself: sweeping --leaf-time with
the ring pinned moves 10.4 % of the frame, full-screen. It is not a defect. That
pin addresses the build-in -- ptloop01 runs t=0..600, ptloop02 t=0..720 -- and at
settle both park off-screen at x=1521 and x=-839, with loop_leaf_on_screens
scoped to the title alone. The general form: a pin that can address states the
screen never occupies will manufacture defects on demand, which inverts what the
three pins are for.
The +0x08 ask came back answered and is not consumable. ui_layout::loop_length_units
is public at b5df02a and byte-for-byte what screen.rs holds, so the deletion is
one line -- but Cargo.toml pins a tag, no tag carries that commit, and swapping a
deliberate pin for a bare rev on an unmerged branch is not a move to make alone.
Asked for a tag; keeping the guarded local read.
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HANDOFF on main is 926 lines frozen at 0fd8e69; the live one is 4111 at 27938aa,
99 commits and 70 sections this port has never opened. 'Read the other one' is
not good enough -- more arrive daily and nothing says which of them contradict
what the port ships.
tools/port/contract-check pulls each expected value OUT OF THE LIVE HANDOFF TEXT
by pattern, never restating it, and reconciles it against export/ and authored/:
the three fade quads' poses, the fade-out ramps, the plate glow cycle, the menu
BGM loop window, the black hold, the menu bank, and the boot splash dwells. All
seven agree. It reads the newest HANDOFF on any ref and prints how far the
working tree's copy is behind.
Three outcomes, and ANCHOR LOST is the point: a check whose pattern no longer
matches the contract has stopped checking, and passes forever while measuring
nothing. Reported as loudly as a mismatch.
--control perturbs the contract one token per check -- 120 becomes 121, -ss 9.44
becomes 9.45 -- and requires every check to fail. All seven do. Without it these
would be seven passes from an instrument nobody had seen react to anything, the
same unfalsifiable clean run the suppression count fixed in check-claims. Both
steps now assert in check-all.
Refutation attempted on 'your menu fade-in is 5x too slow', which corrected a
0.97 s fade-in to 12 units after their helper was found reading each pose's time
from the next record's word. The port never held that number -- ScreenView
animates pteff00 from its own exported keyframes, so the error could not reach
it, the second consecutive iteration where an instruction was aimed at a state I
was not in. But it makes the export an independent check on the correction, and
it holds exactly: their rebuilt tools and my pinned crate are different readers
of the same bytes, so agreement means both got the record-layout fix -- which is
what their helper had not had. Same for the 190/145 splash retraction, now
re-derived a third time.
Filed for the human: only a human merges a topic branch, so the port cannot land
HANDOFF on main and will not merge another agent's branch into its own.
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docs/port/HANDOFF.md on main is 926 lines, last touched 0fd8e69 on 2026-08-29.
The live one is 4111 lines at 27938aa, +3930/-745 across 96 commits I have never
read, several of them addressed to the port by name. The Decoder writes HANDOFF
on origin/auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures; main is a hundred-odd commits behind
it; I open main's copy every iteration as instructed.
So the rule meant to prevent this cannot detect it. tools/port/blocked-provenance
recovers each row's derivation from history rather than memory -- git log -S on
the row's key phrase -- and all 27 open rows derive from 0fd8e69, because
HANDOFF-on-main has not moved. A constant cannot separate a fresh row from a
rotten one. Withdrawn in BLOCKED.md: 'HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones'
was missing the qualifier that carried its meaning.
The tool's first version silently missed its own known positive: P6 looping vs
712cac8, whose 9.44 s answer this port already ships. 'looping' did not stem to
'loop', 'menu' was stoplisted, and a >=2-shared-words threshold dropped the rest.
The threshold was the defect -- two common words outscored one rare one -- so
ranking is now by log(N/df) with no cutoff at all, and the control passes at rank
1 of 7 without touching the stoplist. Every discard is counted: struck rows,
sub-rank pairs, stoplisted words. Same rule applied to check-claims, which now
reports the 40 occurrences it suppresses; the Decoder reached it the same day
from the opposite failure, a silent suppression path making a clean run
unfalsifiable.
The reading list found two open rows already answered: the plate's pulse period
(120, not 105) and the main menu having no idle self-return, which refutes the B
row's own reasoning.
Refutation attempted on '+0x08 is the loop length', the claim the port was about
to build on. It survives: their falsifier re-run on my own read of the disc gives
0 violations in 1781 records, and on the eight records this port animates their
table reproduces cell for cell. Adopted -- screen.rs exports loop_length_units
and ScreenView._loop_period prefers it, announcing any disagreement rather than
silently resolving it. The value does not change: authored/timing.json already
had 120 from a wall-clock measurement, so a disc field and an emulator stopwatch
agree while sharing no instrument.
Two asks filed: the field is exposed in no public API on any ref, so the port
reads four bytes it should not own; and eleven focus records declare the same
120-unit cycle while only the plate is authored to animate, which is behavioural
and not mine to infer.
Every asserting check passes; oracle RMSEs unchanged, as 120 == 120 predicts.
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Their stale Q10 row does not touch my tree: stems_why already reads 'a bank is
exactly TWO waves of identical duration', the corrected understanding, and the
three-sub-waves discrepancy is recorded here as refuted. stems: sum unchanged. Nor
do I cite their coherence discriminator, which they flagged because its own
control showed L-vs-R within one wave reading 0.22-0.50, so its premise fails in
this material.
Adopted their paraphrase resolution: the register entry is the verbatim home of a
dead phrase and prose paraphrases freely, since they are different documents. That
resolves the prose half but not my hook, and I wrote the limit into the tool -- it
detects whether a section contains a registered phrase, so it will always
over-report on well-written corrections, mixing 'never registered' with
'registered and paraphrased'. A prompt to check, never a defect count.
Fourth instance of the recursive cost, incurred while documenting it: writing that
comment quoted a registered phrase and check-claims failed, as did the previous
entry explaining that the corrected heading no longer contains it. Both marked.
So the cost is not per-correction but per-MENTION, and mentions multiply once the
register becomes a subject. Four instances, each inside text about the mechanism.
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Ran the suite after a session of edits to boot.gd, screen_view.gd, four tools and
two authored files. Every asserting check passes, and verify-screen's two DIFFERS
are the named pair with per-screen reasons.
Two oracle rows moved: title_plate 12.83/0.00% to 13.04/0.09%, title_band
15.31/0.35% to 12.86/0.00%. Opposite directions, which is a phase change rather
than a regression, and the cause is mine -- adding --leaf-time=0 to
verify-capture's render sites pinned the sweeps while the captures froze them
wherever the shutter caught them.
That makes the capture-phase term concrete: I documented +/-5.56 for title from a
sweep, and here it moved two published rows from a one-line harness change. It also
touches a number I published -- the boot-end-frame 0.00% was measured before the
pin, and the equivalent row now reads 0.09%. Both inside the term, and the right
reading is that neither is 'the' number.
Also narrowed the withdrawal-time hook. Its regex matched headings ABOUT
corrections rather than headings making them, so 33 was a measurement of the
regex; narrowed to a leading WITHDRAWN/CORRECTION/Refuted, it gives 10, all
genuine retractions.
Residual limit named: several of the ten are flagged because the registered phrase
does not appear in that section -- the corrected JP heading reads 'does NOT go
against the port', which does not contain 'goes against the port'. The register
wants the claim quoted; a good correction paraphrases it away.
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They retracted RMSE 0.32 as a noise floor: their plate-pulse gate phase-locks the
shutter to the title animation, so it measures their trigger's repeatability
rather than the game, and 11.9 is the replacement title-capture figure.
Checked my tree. Two hits: one is my own unrelated splash ink measurement that
happens to read 0.32, the other is a genuine citation. My entry used their 0.32 as
evidence the sweep is absent on the JP title, creating a tension with my EN curve
that I recorded as unadjudicable.
Both halves are now gone. Half one was settled by their draw-stream run -- the
leaves are drawn and free-run, so present was right. Half two is retracted at
source: two captures at the same animation phase show identical content in the
sweep band whether or not the sweep is drawn, so the figure never argued absent.
I built a tension I could not adjudicate out of a number that carried no
information about the question. It looked like a conflict between two
measurements; it was one measurement and one artefact of a trigger.
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Tested the last signature on the open residual: is it positional? A sub-pixel or
resampling difference makes the residual track local gradient. Rule stated first,
r > 0.5. Got +0.109 and +0.307, and the brightness control settles it -- on
developer_logos brightness correlates more strongly (+0.471) than gradient, so the
gradient signal is not distinguishable from 'content is where things happen'. Not
positional.
The brightness correlation pointed somewhere better. Signed residual by capture
brightness, off-edge: 843025 of 857573 pixels on publisher_logo and 812111 of
850869 on developer_logos sit in the 0-15 band with a residual of -0.00. So 98% of
the off-edge area is exact, and the entire 0.82-1.42 RMSE comes from the ~2% of
pixels that are lit.
Within those the sign is inconsistent across bands and across screens -- publisher
+1.68, -1.09, -2.48, +0.45 against developer +2.19, +0.74, -1.57, -0.96 -- so not
a global gain and not a global curve, consistent with a per-level LUT fitted on its
own pixels improving them by only 1.6%.
Three mechanisms now ruled out with evidence: global tone, texture decode,
positional. Still no mechanism, and naming what it is not four times is not
finding what it is.
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Their finding was about their own audit: evidence exists in three forms and their
check looked for one, so '48 citations, 0 missing' was a statement about the
data-file form -- reported in the wording rather than the scope.
The analogue: do my own citations resolve? 32 paths cited in DECISIONS.md, 12 do
not. Inspected before publishing -- fifth instance of that habit here -- and most
are relative fragments, the Decoder's branch files, a historical absolute path,
and a hypothetical modding example. Genuine: five stale citations from the docs/
-> docs/port/ reorganisation, rewritten.
And one reached a claim I published last iteration. P0's gate says the export
'validates against FORMAT.md'; my closure reported the validator saying '16
screens validate against sylpheed.screen/3'. Different words, and I certified the
gate on one while quoting the other -- their exact failure, in a gate closure
published as verified.
Checked rather than assumed: docs/port/FORMAT.md is 405 lines and contains
format: sylpheed.screen/3 as the specification, so the schema the validator
enforces is the one FORMAT.md defines and the closure stands. But it stood on an
unstated identity, and had FORMAT.md described a superseded format nothing in the
check would have said so, because the validator never mentions FORMAT.md.
Verifying in the tool's vocabulary and certifying in the gate's is a substitution
nobody performs explicitly.
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Their audit found 48 citations resolving and 0 missing, with the caveat that it
cannot see data a page should have cited and did not. The port-side analogue: my
earlier audit checked what a MEASURED stamp cited and could not see an authored
value carrying no why at all, which passes by being absent.
First pass flagged 35 of 131 values as bare. Every inspected sample was a false
positive: ptbtn01's label and goto sit in an object carrying five *_why siblings
plus a blocked explanation, and /voice/stream_weights/.../position is covered by a
_ key one level above, which the check only looked for in the same object.
Ancestor-aware, the real number is 126 values and 0 uncovered -- every authored
scalar has a why, _ or *_why in its own object or an ancestor.
35 was the instrument's resolution, not a finding. Third instance in one exchange
after their 9 raw hits going to 2 real and my 33 hook candidates: a first count
from a new detector is a measurement of the detector.
Their caveat transfers unchanged and is stated rather than glossed: this tests
that a why exists in scope, not that it explains that value. A parent _ covering
twenty values may say nothing about any one.
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They were right that the P0/P2/P5 gap matters more than the P2 fix. P0 is the one
of the three I can close alone: its gate names no human and no emulator.
Verified both halves. export/screens/title/main_menu.json exists at 51011 bytes,
the validator reports 16 screens validating against sylpheed.screen/3 with that
file among them, and all 20 sprites it references open as PNG with 0 missing and 0
unreadable. P0's gate is met on an artifact and now written down; it had been met
for a long time and only the record was missing.
That is the argued-versus-indexed split one level up. The refutation register
taught it about deaths -- the page is where a refutation is argued, the index is
where it is found. Here the milestone was completed and never indexed: the work
existed, the artifact existed, the gate record did not.
Remaining: P2 verified and recorded last iteration; P5 is 'a human clicks through
it', which I cannot self-certify and will not try. Converting it into something I
can check would be rewriting the gate to fit the checker, which is the mission's
own warning about gating on 'it compiles' in a more flattering costume.
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Their rule, from replacing a stale status with an unchecked one in the edit
criticising unchecked status: a correction is a new claim and needs the same check
as the claim it replaces.
I made that shape of edit last iteration. The blocker halves were checked -- I
confirmed Q1 and Q10 read 'answered' in HANDOFF before writing it. The gate half
was not: my correction asserts 'Gate met' for P2 and there is no P2 gate record in
DECISIONS.md at all. Written from confidence.
Resolved by measuring rather than withdrawing. ptbtn01 declares y 142 -> 162 across
t=28..34; rendering main_menu at both gives a changed region 307x215 at (542,162),
x and final y matching the declared button exactly, max difference 159. The port
does slide the buttons in, so P2's gate is met -- now on evidence.
Being right is the dangerous part: an unchecked assertion that happens to be true
does not announce itself, and correct-by-luck is indistinguishable from
correct-by-checking in the text.
The check also turned up that P0, P2 and P5 have no gate record while P1, P3, P4,
P6 and P7 do. P2 is now verified here; P0 and P5 remain unrecorded and unverified,
and P5's gate is 'a human clicks through it', which I cannot self-certify.
Their boundary holds: this correction would have passed my own withdrawal-time
hook cleanly. Neither mechanism tests whether a correction is true.
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They ended with 'it needs a hook at withdrawal time, not a sweep'. Expressible,
because a correction here has a shape: a heading carrying WITHDRAWN / CORRECTION /
refuted. A correction section containing no registered phrase is a death argued
and never indexed. check-claims now reports them, and the first run names more
than my 'four of eight' -- the shortfall runs back through earlier work.
Reported, not asserted, deliberately: not every correction retires a claim, and
forcing rows for those would push rows in to silence the check.
Two failures while building it. The first version pasted the register rows into
its own heredoc, so every registered phrase became an unmarked quotation and
check-claims flagged its own source -- a tool violating the rule it enforces by
being written. Fixed by passing the register through the environment.
And writing up the previous catch re-introduced three unmarked quotations:
describing a refuted claim quotes it, so every correction is a new occurrence
needing the token. The cost is recursive, which the header implies but does not
say out loud.
What the hook does not do: it fires when a correction is written, so it closes the
gap between arguing and indexing, not between believing and arguing. Nothing here
would have caught me copying their 'structural' claim into my record.
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Their finding: eight claims died this session and none reached REFUTED.md, the
file their brief says to grep before proposing anything. The pages are where a
refutation is argued; the index is where it is found.
Mine is the same gap and worse in one respect. tools/port/check-claims is a
register that FAILS the run if a refuted claim is quoted without its [refuted]
token, and it is in check-all -- so an entry enforces rather than merely
publishes. It held 7 rows, all from earlier work, and I added none while
withdrawing about 8 claims this session.
Registered four. The checker immediately flagged three still asserted unmarked,
and every one was inside a correction I had written myself -- the headings-audit
table rows explaining the withdrawals, and the EXTRAS withdrawal block. That is
the token doing what phrasing cannot: all three read as corrections to a human and
the marker fired anyway, because it tests for a token an author places rather than
for language that sounds retracted. Marked; the register now passes.
Scope: four of roughly eight registered. Not registered -- the compactness
precondition, the half-rate defect, 'the eras render identically', and my 16/16/18
rule -- each argued in its own correction and findable by nobody. Stopped at four
because each row costs marking every existing quotation by hand.
And nothing mechanically checks that a future withdrawal reaches the register.
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Finished the second half rather than leaving it named. MODDING.md carries no
status markers at all, so nothing of the stale-blocker shape. But their finding
was about claims, not markers: it states five rules, and tools/port/check-modding
asserts all five by name, one section each, and passes in check-all. Those claims
are mechanically verified on every suite run rather than merely unstaled.
Of the five documents the brief names, three are mine: BLOCKED.md (five rows
struck earlier), PORT-MISSION.md (two stale blockers corrected), MODDING.md
(clean, checker-backed). PROTOCOL.md and HANDOFF.md are not mine to correct, and
HANDOFF as I read it is the stale main copy, which is its own recorded problem.
Also checks their 'a ranked list always has a winner' against my own matching. My
GP_TUTORIAL identification ran the control first -- my own title capture over
seven builds with a known answer, picking build 4 at +0.2792 -- and the submenu
then scored +0.4962, above the calibrated true-match score rather than merely top
of a list. No other nearest-match report exists in the tree.
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Their finding was that MISSION.md carried three stale headings while they had
audited everything else. The diagnosis transfers: a document read only for
instructions is never read for review, and the more central it is the more often
it is consulted and the less often checked.
The brief names five documents to read every iteration. I had audited BLOCKED.md
and never PORT-MISSION.md or MODDING.md. Two stale blockers in the table I am told
to consult to find the lowest unfinished milestone: P2 'Blocked on HANDOFF Q1 --
do not invent it' when Q1 is answered (ramp linear, 2 units/frame, 1 unit = 1/60 s)
and P2 shipped long ago; P6 'Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10' when Q10 is
answered and the P6 gate is recorded verified.
Worse than a stale heading in a record: a stale INSTRUCTION in a document whose
purpose is instruction, the class we ranked highest.
Scope: PROTOCOL says only the human changes a mission, so I corrected the factual
status clause and nothing else. Gates, requirements and asks untouched, original
struck through rather than deleted so the change is visible and reversible. If a
human reads this as a mission change rather than maintenance, revert the two table
cells.
MODDING.md is still unaudited and is named as such rather than quietly skipped.
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They offered, with its counter-example attached, that the incoming screen's
full-screen primitive is [255] where the gap is 0 and [127] where it is 1, failing
on menu -> EXTRAS which declares a black backdrop and gives 1.
My first check got it wrong and would have dissolved their counter-example: I took
the FIRST full-screen primitive in element order and reported extras arriving at
alpha 64. extras has two such primitives; I read one and called it the screen's.
Corrected, all three GP_TITLE screens are identical in this respect -- pteff00 at
255 painting last, pteff02 at 64 -- so every one opens with an opaque black quad
on top clearing over 12-16 units, extras does arrive at 255, and their
counter-example stands.
The sharpening: within GP_TITLE this quantity is CONSTANT, so it cannot explain
any variation among the four intra-archive pairs. It could only separate GP_TITLE
screens from outside ones, which is much narrower than 'begins from black implies
no blank frame' and is already contradicted by menu->EXTRAS 1 against
menu->other-2 0, both arriving at an opaque incoming.
Their new pair kills the origin story from my side too: the menu gives {0,1,1,0}
across four destinations, both extremes from one origin.
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Recorded that fix as inert because press_start carries no leaf, which left it
unverified. title carries the leaves, so raising it as an overlay exercises the
path: pre-fix the two renders at leaf-time 0 and 4 are identical (the pin does not
reach, since the overlay's leaf read the frozen time_units in both runs);
post-fix they differ by max 105.86 and the announcement reports
overlay(leaf=0.0) against overlay(leaf=240.0).
A proper before/after -- the negative control shows the failure the fix removes,
not just the fixed state working. The configuration is synthetic (--overlay=title
over main_menu is something the game never does) but what it tests is the wiring,
which is screen-independent.
Process failure worth keeping: I reverted with a text patch to run the control and
the restore script half-failed, removing the line and throwing before replacing
it. What caught it was two independent checks disagreeing -- grep reported the fix
absent while the render comparison reported output matching the fixed run. Had I
printed only the render check I would have concluded the restore worked. Restored
with git checkout, tree clean, verification re-run gives the same 105.86.
Reverting a committed change by editing text is choosing the fragile path when the
robust one is one command away.
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Their run gives five replicates with no variation -- title->menu 3,3,3 and
EXTRAS->menu 2,2 -- while every differing value comes from a different ordered
pair, and the same origin gives different values to different destinations. The
origin constrains; the ordered pair determines.
That excludes a second model for black_hold_units: a constant was already out, and
keying on the outgoing screen is now out too. Only an ordered-pair key survives,
needing a measured value per pair.
Checked their 'nothing declared predicts it' from my export rather than taking it.
Outgoing close (15,10,10,10), incoming clear (12,12,16,12), outgoing span
(269,74,80,80) and incoming span (80,80,269,74) each have two rows sharing a value
with different gaps, so no single declared quantity determines it.
Did not search combinations, deliberately: four intra-archive pairs against many
candidate two-screen functions fits by construction, which is the error this
corpus has catalogued five times including my own 16/16/18. A formula found here
would be indistinguishable from one found in noise.
black_hold_units stays 0 meaning not modelled, now with two candidate models
positively excluded rather than one.
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They flagged that my pose line reports the pins from the variables in force,
never checked against a pin set but not reaching the view. I had recorded the same
doubt and not acted on it.
The case is the overlay: a second ScreenView with its own pins, while the
announcement read view.* only -- and the plate carries a looping focus record,
the clock in question, drawing from overlay.*.
Extended the line to report the overlay's pins, and its first use printed
overlay(loop-phase=0.0, leaf=free): overlay.loop_phase_units was wired and
overlay.leaf_time_units was not. A run requesting both had one pin reach the
overlay and one not, and the pre-fix announcement would have printed leaf=0.0 from
the main view while the overlay drew free-running. Their half-guard precisely.
Currently inert -- press_start carries no leaf, so the render is byte-identical
before and after. The gap was real, live for any overlay carrying a leaf, and cost
nothing today.
Fourth instance of their remedy of putting the qualifier in the text rather than
the reader's memory, and it caught something within a minute of existing.
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They withdrew 'EXTRAS's sole exit is (B) to the menu, so n=1 is structural' after
one screen info showed build 6 declares three buttons. I had recorded that claim
in DECISIONS.md as a limit 'that row cannot be strengthened by anyone', and the
refutation was in two of my own files: export lists ptbtn11/12/13 for extras, and
authored/flow.json -- written by me -- records ptbtn11 -> GP_MISSION_SELECT, a
destination outside GP_TITLE and exactly the exit they have now measured at gap 3.
A failure mode distinct from the rest of the session: not 'my claim outran its
evidence' but 'I promoted someone else's unverified claim to an established fact
in my own record, while holding the data that refuted it'. A message carries no
evidence -- the protocol says so -- and I copied a sentence out of one into
DECISIONS.md as a finding.
Their METHOD entry on distrusting 'structural' and 'impossible' gets a corollary:
they are worth distrusting hardest when someone else writes them, because they
arrive without the doubt the author would have had.
The second measurement weakens the ordering -- EXTRAS {2,3} overlaps title
{3,3,3}, so menu < EXTRAS < title no longer separates -- while strengthening one
control: menu and EXTRAS to another archive give 1 and 3, so the destination is
not the variable. black_hold_units stays 0 and is better supported, since neither
the menu nor EXTRAS is single-valued.
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Flagged the --boot family as unverified three iterations running, deferring each
time on cost. Done: --boot terminates at 156 s on title+plate; --skip-at=1 puts
the title at 7.80 s against 152.54, so the skip is real and quantified;
--film with --film-interval=0.5 writes 375 frames; --play hands over with 'menu on
title' at 7.77 s and stays live by design.
And --boot --film= never terminates. The boot-quit branch is gated on _film ==
at line ~499, and a second quit path on the same condition, so a filming run keeps
capturing past the title forever -- measured still filming at 300 s. verify-dwell
wraps it in timeout so the behaviour was known to whoever wrote that tool, but the
documented example is bare and a reader following it gets a process that looks
hung. That is the failure boot.gd's own header warns about, committed in its own
usage block twelve lines away. Fixed with the measurement.
The deferral was the mechanism: three times I judged the cost too high and
recorded the judgement honestly, which kept a non-terminating documented
instruction alive for three iterations. 'Too expensive to verify' and 'unverified'
are the same state and only one sounds like a decision.
Also records their correction -- the menu spans {0,1}, so even a per-outgoing-screen
key would not be single-valued, making 'not modelled' more robust; and EXTRAS is
structurally stuck at n=1.
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Their measurement orders the four gaps by the screen being LEFT: menu 0 and 1
frames, EXTRAS 2, title 3. Direction, button and incoming screen are each
positively ruled out -- the same pair both ways differs, (B) gives 0 and 2 while
(A) gives 1 and 3, and an incoming menu takes 3 from the title and 2 from EXTRAS.
That resolves the escalation I raised: a uniform value is not merely unsupported
but excluded, so 0 is no longer one option among several. It is the only honest
uniform choice, because it models the gap as absent rather than as constant.
black_hold_units is unchanged at 0; its justification is replaced.
And my own rule is now refuted rather than unadopted. Gap plus the incoming
screen's opening black-clear held at 16/16/18 on three transitions; their fourth
gives 16, 14, 16, 18, and decisively the two transitions with the same incoming
screen have different gaps, so the incoming screen cannot determine it. A fourth
point did to a three-point fit exactly what it should.
Not keying per outgoing screen: three screens with one value each restates the
data, which is the objection I raised against my own 16/16/18. BLOCKED row
rewritten to ask for a second value on any one outgoing screen.
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Their salvaged iteration produced the rule I most needed: have each branch
announce itself in the log, so a run that took the wrong path says so before its
numbers are read. Assertions catch the edit; log lines catch the execution.
Two of my own failures were of exactly this shape. --no-hold under --time produced
byte-identical renders because --time sets frozen and pose_at tests 'holding and
not frozen' -- a request silently overridden reads exactly like one that worked.
And I enumerated three free-running clocks, wired two, and a run pinning two of
three looked identical to one pinning all three.
Both now announce. --no-hold prints INERT with the reason when --time is present,
and the pose line carries the effective configuration of all three clocks:
'pose = timeline [frozen, loop-phase=free, leaf=free]' against
'[running, loop-phase=0.0, leaf=free]'. The second prevents precisely the failure
I shipped -- pinning a subset and reading the result as pinned.
Verified the harnesses are unaffected: nothing under tools/port/ parses that line.
Also accepts their scope correction: a claim about code needs its ref attached,
the same way a number needs what it is a number of. With main 145 behind and both
of us on topic branches, 'the code contains X' is underspecified by default, which
is how we were both correct about SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT simultaneously.
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They flagged five XPR_* texture toggles as relevant since I consume textures, and
my off-edge splash residual -- non-tonal, ~0.5 RMSE above quantisation, no
candidate -- has the shape a subtle decode difference would produce.
Closed: the toggles live in texture.rs::decode_surface, shared by from_xpr2 and
cube_faces_from_xpr2, and my exporter calls neither -- sprites come from
t8ad::parse. t8ad.rs reads no environment variables in its 202 lines, so the
sprite path has no hidden freedom either. The candidate is eliminated with no
replacement.
Enumerating what my exporter reaches turned up SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT, which they
reported as absent from crates/. True on their branch, false on mine: my
ui_layout.rs is the stale era and the knob is live at line 497. The pinned tag has
0 occurrences (2 of LEGACY) so export/ cannot be perturbed, but verify-screen
builds its reference from the workspace, which can.
Tested both directions: with the knob the reference reports rest t=12, the
corrected reading, and the era guard passes; without it, t=70 and the guard
refuses. So the knob is the working remedy that makes a workspace-built reference
usable, and it appeared in no tool, help text or instruction in my tree -- their
exact class, in the lane I had just told them was clean. The refusal message now
carries the remedy.
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Their newest class -- the instruction is dead AND the working one is undocumented
-- inverts last iteration's sweep. I checked documented->parsed; the reverse is
parsed->documented, and it enumerates, so it completes rather than samples.
Eighteen flags parsed, fifteen documented, three live and undocumented:
--film-interval and --skip-at (used by verify-dwell, in no usage example) and
--no-hold, which plays a screen past its rest instead of clamping each element at
its hold, documented in DECISIONS.md and absent from the header a reader consults.
A capability that exists only in an 11000-line record does not exist to anyone
reading the interface.
Then I documented it wrong in the same command. I wrote the example as
--screen=title --no-hold --time=6 and tested it: the renders are byte-identical
because --time sets frozen and pose_at tests 'holding and not frozen', so an
explicit instant makes --no-hold inert. Without --time the pair differs by max
253. I wrote a dead instruction inside the commit fixing dead instructions, and it
only failed to ship because I ran the example rather than trusting that a parsed
flag works -- the gap I had named one iteration earlier.
Strongest evidence yet for their ranking: a wrong description costs a reader's
belief, a wrong instruction hands them a null result that looks like a finding.
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Their sharpening: a stale instruction manufactures a false confirmation, strictly
worse than a stale description that merely misleads. Applied to my instruction
surface, the documented invocations in tool and script headers.
All fifteen distinct flags across those examples are parsed, so nothing in my
headers can produce their failure mode by being inert. But 'parsed' is a proxy and
its gap is known -- --shots parses and does nothing on the --boot path -- so I ran
two documented examples end to end rather than trusting the grep, and both produce
a 1280x720 frame.
Two hits, both loud rather than silent: 11 references to tools/verify-capture and
tools/verify-screen, paths that do not exist since the tools are under tools/port/
(fixed in 4 files); and check-all claiming eleven tools where there are fourteen
(now states both so the sentence dates itself).
The distinction worth recording: mine fail loudly, theirs failed silently. A wrong
path announces itself; an inert environment variable returns a clean wrong result.
Both are stale instructions and only one manufactures evidence.
Honest limit: I tested the flag surface plus two examples end to end, not all
thirteen documented invocations -- the --boot ones take 156 s each. That is a
judgement about cost, not a claim of coverage.
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Their third mechanical search, audit headings first, lands harder here than on
their side because tools/port/index-decisions builds a table of contents FROM the
headings. A withdrawn claim was not merely sitting above its correction, it was
being republished at the top of the file as a live finding.
Three hits. 'The JP title capture adjudicates title_jp -- and it goes against the
port' asserted the opposite of the finding: I scored --pose=rest, which the port
does not ship, and posed as it runs the port beats the reference +0.9994 to
+0.8727. 'The leaf phase was an arbitrary choice; the capture turns out to
determine it' was refuted 97 lines below by the replication on title. 'Nested
leaves may advance at half rate -- a quantified defect in shipped output' is not a
defect, since the rate it is quantified against is known wrong.
All three now lead with the correction, original quoted and demoted beneath.
Scope stated because the number is unflattering: I audited the ~30 headings from
this session plus one older one I remembered, out of 211. Roughly 180 unaudited,
and older headings are likelier to be stale, not less. This is a sample, not a
sweep.
The generalisation: an index is an amplifier. Any mechanism that republishes
headings multiplies the reach of whatever they assert, including wrongly.
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Their generalisation of my 'untimed' marker -- search for the vocabulary the dead
rule needed -- is the cheap version and it works. Swept for the nouns of every
rule refuted this session. Two real hits: verify-screen:57 still asserting 'all
four are COMPOSITED rather than standalone', the reading withdrawn after they
tested it disc-wide at 7.9%; and boot.gd:197 opening with the pre-fix 'no time
slot' claim before retracting it.
Third and fourth instance after spin_period_units and exit_ramp_units, and in all
four the correction sits below the false claim in the same block, with both
written by me. The diagnosis is a habit: my corrections are ADDITIVE. I append a
CORRECTION block and leave the original standing, which is right for a record and
wrong for a statement -- a reader takes the first assertion and the retraction
three lines later has already lost. The habit that creates these is the same one I
adopted to make corrections honest.
Fix: keep quoting the original but demote it grammatically, leading with 'what
this used to say'. Both rewritten. Verified comment-only by artifact rather than by
reading -- the main_menu render is byte-identical before and after.
Also records agreement with their caution: the failed gap+clear rule was rejected,
not narrowed to menu transitions.
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Their sweep cleared my three quoted figures: the splash dwell spans were corrected
today, and the gap and cold-boot intervals are capture-derived, which the
record-layout fix cannot reach.
Their sharpening -- the tell is not that a number changed but that a page hedges a
quantity it should not need to -- made a sweep of my side possible. The marker is
'untimed', since there are 0 untimed keyframes in 866. Two hits, both worse than
hedges: descriptions their own code had already refuted.
Hit A: spin_period_units' doc stated the rule as 'the first timed and the second
untimed', the pre-fix version, while the body directly below carries a block
explaining that this rule silently stopped the ring and implements the span-based
replacement. A function and its documentation disagreeing, with the documentation
stating the refuted version.
Hit B: exit_ramp_units' doc claimed the value is authored in timing.json and that
the disc has no time slot on that keyframe. Both false -- the entry was deleted as
progress and the corrected layout times every pose. And I wrote the correction
myself, immediately below it, two iterations ago without looking up.
Both are fixed code under an unfixed description, with the fix and the falsehood
within twenty lines of each other -- not drift, but editing at the point of failure
without re-reading the frame around it. Their practice of quoting the original
sentence is adopted so the change is visible.
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I set the value to 0 with an explicit condition: revisit at the next measurement
that is not 0, or the moment a rule appears. Five measurements now exist -- 0, 4,
6, 6 from the Decoder and ~7.9 from my own verify-dwell shortfall, which arrived
by a different route when the tool stopped absorbing it into slack. Four of five
non-zero, mean 6.0.
Attempted a rule so that any change would be principled rather than fitted: does
the incoming screen's opening black-clear absorb part of a fixed black period? Sums
are 16, 16, 18 on the three menu/title transitions -- suggestive given +/-1 frame --
and 7.9 on the splash pair, whose backdrop is a single keyframe at alpha 255 and
never clears. Three points fitting a constant with one outlier is a fit with an
exception, not a rule. Not adopted.
So my justification for 0 has failed on its own terms -- it now omits a real
quantity on most transitions, which the tripwire called a different invention --
and the alternative is a fit chosen for its residual. Both invent, so this goes to
BLOCKED.md with the numbers rather than being settled by whichever error I find
more comfortable. Value stays 0 pending that, with verify-dwell reporting the
shortfall.
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Their audit found one defect in sixteen commands and their point that doing one
and stopping is the failure applies to me: I had fixed verify-screen and
verify-capture and gone no further.
Hit 1: verify-dwell built its target as oracle span + the GAME's black gap and
scored the port against it, correct only while the port inserted that gap. It does
not -- black_hold_units went to 0. On publisher_logo the port runs 0.131 s below
the unslacked target, absorbed into an 'agrees' by 0.15 s of slack that is larger
than the omission it hides. Hold now read from authored/timing.json; the game's
gap printed as its own term.
Hit 2: the tool carried '4 presented frames at 2.284 units/frame'. The number is
right but it is the disc used as its own clock on ONE capture that ran at 13.1 fps
against ~28 elsewhere. Stated bare it reads as a general rate and would contradict
Q1's 2 units per rendered frame, a different quantity at normal speed. The
derivation was in DECISIONS.md; the tool inherited the value alone -- exactly
their defect, and their 'print the population beside the number' fix applies
unmodified.
Not found elsewhere: check-capture's percentages all name their population;
check-claims, check-modding, index-decisions and strip-padding assert no measured
quantities.
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I offered 'a declared opaque-black backdrop distinguishes standalone from
composited' and asked for it to be tested against archives I do not have. It was.
The split reproduces exactly: derived independently from the disc, GP_TITLE gives
12 with and 4 without, the four being entries 0-3 -- my build_00, build_01,
press_start, press_start_jp -- with element names matching. Two genuinely
different paths, my export against their disc reader.
The reading does not survive. Disc-wide the predicate is rare, 76 of 965 builds at
7.9%, with GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL 0 of 390, GP_OPTIONS 0/14, GP_PAUSE_MENU 0/6. Read as
'composited' it makes 92% of the game composited, which the archives do not
support.
What survives is narrower: it separates screens that BEGIN FROM BLACK from
everything else, and their sharpening is the part I would not have reached -- the
negative class is heterogeneous, so a two-way rule cannot express it.
My caveat named the exact test that refuted the reading, but I still put the
refuted interpretation into verify-screen's header as a stated fact while the
hedge lived in DECISIONS.md. Corrected, with the 7.9% figure and an explicit do
not carry this into the four unexported archives. Hedging in the write-up does not
protect the claim shipped in the tool -- the same delivery gap as the
capture-phase term, repeated four iterations after fixing it once.
Within GP_TITLE the rule is exact and --black for those twelve is justified from
the file rather than assumed.
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Their finding that screen render --black's premise is declared on the splash
builds is checkable across my whole export, and verify-screen passes --black to
all sixteen screens on that premise.
Audited by asking whether a screen declares a full-screen untextured primitive at
t=0 with fade_argb 0xff000000. Twelve do -- pteff00 on both titles, both menus and
both extras, palogo_eff0 on all four splashes, pgloading_eff00 on build_12/15.
Four do not: press_start, press_start_jp, build_00, build_01.
All four exceptions are composited rather than standalone. press_start is one
element, the plate, whose own name_why records it is composited over the title.
build_00/build_01 carry the pgloading_* set without the pgloading_eff00 backdrop
that build_12/15 declare.
Harmless where used: verify-screen gives --black to both renderers so the
assumption cancels in a consistency check, and verify-capture already scores the
plate over the title rather than on black. The exposure was real and the tooling
had already routed around it, which could only be established by looking.
The rule that falls out: a declared opaque-black backdrop distinguishes a
standalone screen from a composited one, derivable from the file rather than from
a name. Recorded as a rule with its evidence -- sufficient as observed, not proven
necessary, on four exceptions.
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Their revision confirmed from my export exactly: palogo_sqex_eff ramps 0->255 over
t=0..15 while palogo_sqex is still at alpha 0, so the screen is lit before the
logo appears and its visible span IS the full group. Their withdrawal of the
systematic stands on my data too.
Checking it exposed my own version of the error. My earlier 'visible 0..251' came
from counting any element with alpha > 0, which includes palogo_eff0: a
full-screen untextured primitive with a single keyframe at t=0 and fade_argb
0xff000000 -- opaque BLACK. Drawn from t=0 and showing nothing. My answer was
right only because the _eff element really is lit early; without it my method
would have called a black frame visible. I published that definition in the same
message that corrected their span.
So the family has a fifth member and it is mine: 'visible' read as 'drawn'.
Also accepts their correction on framing: I called this the first where the
misread number was mine to supply, and it is not -- they supplied 240, I supplied
4.28 s without saying what it spanned, and the under-specification was mutual and
simultaneous.
Conclusion unmoved: full group 255 and 210 units, ratios mean 1.0146, Q1 stands
unqualified.
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They challenged the dwell agreement: declared spans 240 u and 195 u at 60 u/s give
4.000 and 3.250 s against six cold boots whose ratios all exceed 1, mean 1.085,
implying 54-56 units/s. And that 240 units at 60 should give 4.000 where I report
4.28.
The port does not play 240 units. Their 240 is the visible span, the logo
element's 15->255. The port plays the whole group from t=0, and my export gives
the full spans as 255 and 210 units -- 4.250 and 3.500 s. My 4.28 and 3.58 are
those plus transition overhead.
Recomputed against what the port plays, the ratios become 1.011, 1.083, 1.028,
1.002, 1.001, 0.962 -- mean 1.0145 with one of six below unity, against their mean
1.085 with none below. The systematic largely dissolves.
Their practical consequence does not follow either: the gap is 0.174 s, not 0.42,
and on developer_logos the port runs 0.041 s LONGER than the oracle mean, the
opposite sign.
Fourth instance of the same family after pivot-as-extent, centre-track-as-bbox and
cycle-length-as-motion-duration: a visible span read as a played span -- and the
first where the misread number was mine to supply and I had never stated which
span the port plays.
What survives: publisher still runs long in two of three boots against the full
group. Much weaker than 8.5%, thin at three boots, and no support for changing
keyframe_units_per_second.
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Twice I wrote that the boot's 0.00% agreement is one frame, the last one, and the
boot could take a wrong path and still land correctly. Closed, with no new capture
and no new feature.
--boot --shots= writes nothing: _shots is wired to the --script path only. I was
about to build stepwise boot photography; the trace and verify-dwell already
answer the question, so I did not.
Path: the boot logs its transitions, and they match authored/flow.json's declared
sequence exactly -- publisher_logo, developer_logos at 4.26 s, video ADV at 7.78,
title at 152.54 with the overlay raised at the same instant, ending 156.48.
Timing: verify-dwell against the Decoder's three cold boots gives publisher 4.28 s
against 4.297/4.604/4.370 and developer 3.58 against 3.508/3.503/3.366, both
agreeing. And authored/flow.json's dwell is EMPTY by design -- the dwell is
declared and the port plays it -- so these are disc-derived timings agreeing with
three cold boots of the real game with no authored constant between them.
So the shipped artefact is verified on three axes: path from the trace, timing
against the oracle, final frame at 0.00% differing. Still unverified: the
intermediate frames themselves, and the 144.76 s video beyond the fact it plays.
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Their closing point -- the thread lived in messages and docs/re/, which by our own
rule means it was not delivered -- applies to my side. The capture-phase term was
in DECISIONS.md, but verify-capture is what prints the numbers it qualifies and it
said nothing: a reader saw title 14.16 with no sign that +/-5.56 is inherited from
where the shutter fell.
Now printed per row: title +/-5.56 regression only, main_menu +/-3.78, extras
+/-3.73, and both splashes marked as carrying no free-running element and meaning
what they say. Header records that --leaf-time=0 is a convention, not the game's
phase.
Also names a gap their own update exposes: they landed the leaf facts in HANDOFF,
correctly, but HANDOFF as I read it contains none of them -- their work is on
auto/build-ordinal-audit and origin/main is 145 commits behind. So the facts reach
me only through messages, the channel the rule says does not count. Writing it in
the contract is necessary and not sufficient when the contract lives on an
unmerged branch. My BLOCKED.md and DECISIONS.md carry the status sourced to their
sha so my tree does not depend on a HANDOFF I cannot see.
Second structural consequence of main being stale, after the Cargo.toml pin.
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My sampling alternative is refuted cleanly: their captures report 150 frames
spanning 1..149, indexed by guest VdSwap submissions, not wall-clock. The
wall-clock revival I proposed does not survive.
rotation_deg is confirmed from the running game. Their AABB check predicts, from
the declared scale plus my exported angles, pteff03 400x1080 at +30 deg -> 1135.3
against 1134 observed (0.12%) and pteff03a 400x1440 at -45 deg -> 1301.1 against
1303 (0.15%). First time this session an export value of mine has been checked
against the game rather than against the other decoder -- everything prior ran
disc->exporter->export against disc->their-reader, which shares the source.
The renderer self-check I started is abandoned. I predicted a changed band at x
949..1280 full height for leaf phase 0->30; measured 1177x70 at the top of the
frame, max difference 5.29. The prediction is mine and wrong: the leaf pivot is
[200,90], the source centre, but under 800% vertical scale the mapping from pos to
drawn extent is not the centre-offset I assumed. My arithmetic, not a demonstrated
renderer fault, and separating them costs more than the answer is worth.
Stopping deliberately. They classified the leaf clock as undecodable with reach
after four refuted models and noted the thread has cost both of us a lot for a
quantity nothing ships on. Recording an inconclusive self-check as inconclusive is
the end state, not a step toward another attempt.
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Their gate -- a slope is only a rate if its residual is random -- bears on the
ratio we built together, so I checked the half I supply. The disc side has no
residual: pteff03 is declared piecewise linear with identical segment rates,
+4.0000 px/unit over t 0..150 and again over 150..540, then a hold. pteff03a gives
-4.0667 then -4.0625, a 0.1% step. These are declarations, not fits.
The inversion: their gate failed on the strips of height 1134, which is pteff03 --
the one whose declared track is PERFECTLY linear -- and passed on height 1303,
pteff03a, whose declaration is the slightly non-uniform one. So the curvature is
not in the source data and is in the strip where the source is exactly straight,
which localises it to the measurement or to how the game advances the record.
Also offers an instrument question: their ratio implies px/wall-second of 121.7 at
default against 30.5 at limit 15, ~4x slower on screen. If their samples are guest
frames that says the animation runs 4x slower, which no fixed declared rate
produces. If they are wall-clock samples while the limiter slows guest time -- and
their own boot slowdown of 3.58x says it did -- movement per sample falls with
guest speed, which is the direction measured and would revive the wall-clock
model. Their 3.58x and 2.14 are two measures of the same slowdown and disagree.
Marks the 1.87x table's input as known-wrong rather than merely unpinned.
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Ran the per-level tone correction I said was untested, deriving the curve on one
splash and applying it to the other because fitting and scoring on the same pixels
succeeds by construction. developer_logos off-edge: uncorrected 2.7512, single
gamma 0.85 gives 0.9040, the cross-applied per-level curve gives 1.3795 -- worse
than a single exponent.
The control settles it: publisher_logo scored with its OWN fitted curve gives
1.4209 against 1.4440 for gamma 0.85. A tone curve fitted on those very pixels
improves them by 1.6%. If the residual were a tone-mapping error, fitting the tone
mapping on its own training data would collapse it. The residual is not tonal.
And it is smaller than I made it sound. I called 0.82-1.42 '15-25x the 0.06
rasterisation floor', but 0.06 is render-to-render reproducibility -- the floor for
asking whether the renderer repeats itself. For render-versus-capture the floor
includes 8-bit quantisation on both sides: uniform rounding is RMSE 1/sqrt(12) =
0.289, so two independently quantised images differ by ~0.41 before anything is
wrong. Against that, 0.90 is ~2.2x, about one level in 255.
Same error as comparing an in-box margin to a whole-frame spread, which I flagged
in someone else's work two days ago.
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They closed three routes to pinning the absolute leaf rate. Route 1 -- a top-level
element moving in the same capture as a leaf, so fps cancels -- failed on the
settled title.
Searched all 16 screens for a top-level element still moving at its settle
instant. Two hits, pttitle on extras and extras_jp, and both are false positives:
it arrives, holds from t=24, and the post-settle motion is the exit ramp at t=52
to 58, which plays only when the screen leaves. Third time the exit ramp has
fooled a census of mine, after counting it as the end of visibility and after
making every normal element look like a flash.
The negative generalises their finding: excluding exits, no top-level element on
any of the 16 screens moves at rest. holding clamps every top-level element at its
own hold and the only post-settle keyframes are exits, so no capture of any screen
in this archive can carry a top-level clock alongside a free-running leaf. Route 1
is closed structurally, not just empirically.
Also states something about the port's design I had not: everything that moves on
a settled screen is nested. The three free-running clocks -- looping focus record,
spin, leaf -- are all sub-records, which is now explained rather than observed.
Also marks the 1.87x table conditional, since its input is the rate they cannot
pin.
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Their corrected least-squares fit gives 4.287 and -4.348 px/frame against my
declared 4.000 and 4.063 px/unit: 1.072 and 1.070 units/frame, where Q1
establishes 2 for top-level elements.
My port drives everything from one clock -- boot.gd:375, time_units += delta *
units_per_second at 60 units/s -- and the leaf path reads that same clock. So the
title's sweeps cross in 10.0 s where the game takes 18.7, a visible 1.87x defect
in what the boot ships.
Not changed, and not only out of caution: keyframe_units_per_second is authored
from a measurement and governs build-in, transitions and the plate. Changing it
globally breaks the top-level timing Q1 measured; a leaf-only clock is a claim
about how the game works rather than about my renderer. That is a Q1 sub-question
and theirs.
Refutation attempt on their strongest argument: two strips agreeing to three
significant figures constrains the strips to EACH OTHER, not the absolute rate.
Both ratios come from one capture under one fps assumption, so a systematic error
scales both identically and the agreement survives. Their own untested candidate --
1 unit per 1/30 s at 28.5 fps gives 1.053 -- sits within that uncertainty of 1.070.
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Their oracle run refutes their own 'may not draw these leaves' hypothesis and
confirms my title curve from the game. Checked against my export:
Rotation: the export carries rotation_deg +30 on pteff03 and -45 on pteff03a,
constant across all four keyframes, matching their ROT flag. spin_period_units
returns 0 for four-keyframe elements so the spin override does not fire and the
port draws the declared angle.
Directions: ptloop01 runs -639 -> 1521, ptloop02 runs 1721 -> -839 -- their strip
A and strip B.
Height: a 30-unit phase step changes a band 1121x720 and 1137x720, full frame
height, which is what a 1134/1303 px strip on a 720 px screen must produce.
The correction: their rate check divided 2160 px by a 600-unit cycle to get 3.6
px/unit, but the last segment HOLDS. pteff03 moves over t=0..540 then sits at 1521;
pteff03a moves over 0..630 of 720. Corrected: 4.00 and 4.06 px/unit, predicting
8.0 px/frame against their measured 6-7. That widens the gap from 7.2-vs-6.5 to
8.0-vs-6.5, so 'the rate matches the disc' does not survive the corrected span,
and a lower emulator frame rate moves the prediction the wrong way.
A cycle length is not a motion duration -- same family as a pivot anchor read as a
drawn extent.
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The splash rows have no free-running element, so their residual is chaseable
without a phase term. It is not tonal: max 255 with 0.012-0.017% of pixels over
8/255, in opposite directions on the two screens. That is the edge-antialiasing
signature.
Tested against an edge mask from the capture, with coverage checked first because
an earlier attempt on title failed by classifying 92% of the frame as edge:
publisher_logo mask 0.67%, residual 18.30 on edges against 1.42 off;
developer_logos mask 1.44%, 12.66 against 0.82. Non-degenerate masks, 13-15x
concentration. The 1.92 whole-frame floor is glyph-edge antialiasing.
Off the edges the port matches the game at 0.82-1.42 RMSE -- the cleanest
port-versus-game statement in the corpus, and confirmation of verify-capture's
long-standing note that the port is +9 to +12 on sprite edges, measured rather
than observed in passing.
Not everything is explained: 0.82-1.42 is still 15-25x the rasterisation floor,
consistent with the binned tone table leaving about a level of error, but not
shown to be that.
Also records the contamination check after their withdrawal of the A result:
nothing in authored/, docs/port/ or port/ cites it or the '2 of 2' run count.
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