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Sylpheed port agent
ac1371cda3 port: F6 FOUND -- the gate was declared data the renderer was discarding
The sweep starts early because ScreenView drew a leaf WITHOUT multiplying its
parent's alpha in. ptloop01/ptloop02 declare 0:0 70:0 100:255 238:255 250:0, so
the sweep is invisible until t=70 and full at t=100. The port has had that ramp
in its export the whole time and was throwing it away at the draw call.

Three changes:

1. Parent alpha multiplies into the leaf's. This file asserted the opposite,
   arguing from the sweeps being drawn while their parent had expired -- but that
   could not separate 'the leaf wins' from 'the parent is ignored because it
   draws nothing', and its own comment said so and named the interval that would
   settle it. Measured there: dividing the leaf's declared curve out of the drawn
   alpha pins the implied parent at 255.0 (+/-1.5) over hundreds of frames while
   the drawn alpha swings 242 -> 132 -> 145.

2. rate 0.5, calibrated against a DECLARED interval (ptloop01's own 30-unit ramp)
   rather than captured frames: two runs differing 2x in frames give 0.4795 and
   0.4667, 2.7% apart. This number was 0.514, withdrawn, now reinstated at 0.5 --
   what failed the first time was quoting a rate in presents, and the ratio was
   discarded along with the frames.

3. The 107-unit authored offset is DELETED, with its guard tool. It came from a
   ratio measured against an element identified only by screen position; the
   declared ramp needs no such identification. Deleting an authored value because
   the data already says it is the outcome PORT-MISSION asks for.

Also reverted, same day I made it: removing the transparent-parent skip. I read
'the game submits the sweep ~950 frames past its parent's expiry' as the leaf
outliving the parent. It does not follow -- a draw submitted at alpha 0 is still
a draw, and submitted is not visible. With the multiply, skipping on a
transparent parent IS multiplying by zero.

VERIFIED, pre-registered before running, via --probe-leaf:
  u= 60 -> no draw at all           (predicted: parent alpha 0.00, gated off)
  u=100 -> leaf_t 50.0,  x -439     (predicted 50.0, -439)
  u=236 -> leaf_t 118.0, x -167     (predicted 118.0, -167)
verify-capture: every row unchanged.

⚠️ BUILD-SENSITIVE: builds 5 and 6 of GP_TITLE declare these records as a single
flat a=255 with no ramp. This export reads the ramped build; if that changes the
gate disappears silently.
2026-09-02 19:47:20 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
af10a2ec3c port: F6 -- adopt the sweep onset as a measured RATIO, and fix the guard that disabled it
Onset: 0.500 of (title first visible element -> plate onset), measured by the
Decoder as 0.489 and 0.507 across two independent captures, 3.7% apart. A RATIO,
which is the point -- it needs no clock, and every unit-valued figure from those
captures has been withdrawn: the rate because frames are presents (1168 vs 600
for the same animation), the '+40 units' because its conversion put
title-start->plate at 75 units where the declared data puts the plate at 238, a
3.2x conflict that is still open and is F4's.

Resolved against THIS export: 0.500 x (214 - 0) = 107.0 units.
tools/port/check-leaf-onset recomputes it and fails if a re-timing moves the
anchors; it has a selftest in both directions and is in check-all.

🔴 AND THE ADOPTION WAS A NO-OP UNTIL THIS COMMIT. leaf_clock() read
'if start < 0.0 OR rate <= 0.0: return screen_units', so when the withdrawn rate
went back to null the adopted OFFSET stopped applying too -- silently, while
authored/rendering.json still stated it. The two fields are independent now.

It was caught only because the offset was re-verified by PROBING THE RENDERER
instead of re-reading the file I had just edited. Both my earlier verifications
of this feature passed while it did nothing: one compared frames that were all
being forced to the same pose, the other ran when both fields happened to be set.

Verified, pre-registered before running, via --probe-leaf:
  title u=236 -> leaf_t 129.0, x -123   (predicted 129, -123)
  title u=400 -> leaf_t 293.0, x  533   (predicted 293,  533)

Effect: at the plate's arrival the sweep sits at x=-123, just entering the frame,
where before it was at x=305, well across it.
2026-09-02 19:34:42 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
d7e4a7167e port: F6 -- adopt the measured leaf clock, and stop a parent killing its leaf
Two changes, both measured, neither invented.

1. LEAF CLOCK. authored/rendering.json leaf_clock.title = {start_units 40,
   rate 0.514}, from the Decoder's f6-unit8, both numbers off ONE capture. The
   title's own rate is measured rather than assumed there (ptcopyright ramps
   0->255 over 22 declared units across 22 frames = 1.000 units/frame), which was
   the assumption their unit 4 had flagged. Supersedes their earlier 0.463, which
   divided by the end of MOTION -- the declared track is stationary from t=540 to
   600, so that denominator was short; 0.514 anchors on the loop wrap.

   Corroborated independently: the human reported the port looks FASTER than the
   game, offered as an impression. 1.0x against 0.514x is exactly twice too fast.

2. A LEAF OUTLIVES ITS PARENT. _draw skipped any element whose PARENT posed
   transparent, before _draw_leaf was reached, so ptloop01 expiring at t=250 took
   the sweep with it -- while this file's own decode says the leaf runs on its own
   timeline and the parent's alpha is not multiplied in. The two were inconsistent
   and the silent gate won. The capture settles it: the game submits the sweep
   across frames 746..1913 while the parent expires at 956, so it keeps drawing
   ~950 frames after the parent is gone.

VERIFIED by probing the running renderer at two PRE-REGISTERED instants:
  title u=400 -> leaf t=185.0, pteff03 centre 301 (predicted 301),
                                pteff03a centre 1169 (predicted 1168)
  title u=800 -> leaf t=390.6, pteff03 centre 1124 (predicted 1124),
                                pteff03a centre 333 (predicted 332)
All within 1 px.

Effect at the plate's arrival (title t=236): the sweep's centre moves from 505 --
halfway across the screen -- to -36, just entering at the left edge. The human's
report is that the game's glow begins when the plate appears.
2026-09-02 19:18:34 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
4d533185e7 port: leaf clock mechanism -- origin and rate, both UNSET
F6 is a clock question, not an effect question: the human confirms the light
animation itself looks like the game's and only starts earlier, and separately
that the port may be running it faster (flagged by them as an impression).

The port passed time_units straight to the leaf, which is an assumption -- offset
0, rate 1 -- that nobody measured and that the Decoder's capture contradicts:
the game's leaf t=0 is its first drawn frame, 40 frames after the title's first
element, at a rate measuring well below the title's.

ScreenView.leaf_clock(screen_units) applies an origin and a rate; both default to
-1.0 meaning unmeasured, in which case it is the identity and behaviour is
unchanged. Fed from authored/rendering.json leaf_clock per screen, currently null
with the provenance recorded.

No placeholder values, per F1: an invented constant here is indistinguishable
from a measured one later.

Verified inert: title rendered at t=2/3/4 s, 0 differing pixels against captures
taken before the change.

Also corrected in the process: my earlier 'the sweep enters the viewport at t=61'
used the UNROTATED sprite width. The leaf carries a 30 deg rest rotation, so its
AABB is 886 px against a 399 px sprite -- matching the Decoder's measured ~890 to
within 4 px. Port and game both put the quad on screen at leaf t~0, so the whole
discrepancy is the leaf clock's origin and rate.
2026-09-02 19:06:17 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
937f05595c port: the menu repeat mechanism, with NO rate -- deliberately inert
F1: the human watched the real game and it repeats on a held direction, on the
stick AND (confirmed separately) the d-pad. gamepad.gd had predicted this exact
refutation in its own words, so one-step-per-deflection stops being the
conservative reading and becomes a known defect.

Mechanism: Gamepad.held_direction() polls the DEVICES -- not
Input.is_action_pressed, because ui_up/ui_down sit on the stick at Godot's 0.50
deadzone while the port steps at the game's measured 0.61, so polling the action
would repeat through the exact band ENTER exists to exclude.
Boot._menu_repeat() re-applies the same guards a real press gets, rather than
sharing them, because a second input path is where this port's defects hide.

The RATE is NOT shipped, on instruction: an invented interval is
indistinguishable from a measured one later. An earlier draft of this change had
0.40/0.20 with a why attached; that was the named failure mode and the numbers
are removed, not commented out. repeat_due() returns 0 until both are set.

Flagged at the adoption site: verify-input's 'a held stick is ONE step, not six'
asserts the ABSENCE of this feature and will go red when a rate lands -- for the
right reason, and looking exactly like the jitter bug returning.
2026-09-02 16:35:37 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
ca9806d93d merge origin/main: P5 gate met; keep Q10 answered, do not claim P6
main's P6 row reads 'Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10' while main's OWN
HANDOFF.md line 39 marks Q10 answered -- the row was stale, not a decision, so
the resolution keeps the answered status rather than silently un-resolving it.

P5 takes main's line verbatim: that is the human's gate call and not mine.
P6 explicitly does NOT claim the gate -- the same play-test found the SFX mix
wrong, and 'sound on the P5 gate' means the RIGHT sound.
2026-09-02 16:33:45 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
08ed3dd17e port: the splash never animated -- pose_at ASSIGNED the settle instant instead of clamping to it
The 2026-09-02 play-test: "the logos just switch, I cannot discern any animation
at all." Reproduced, diagnosed, fixed, and gated by a film.

REPRODUCED FIRST, as instructed. tools/motion-census needed Pillow, which this
container has no pip for, so it got an ImageMagick fallback that shims only the
four Pillow calls it uses -- the census arithmetic, the MOVED floor and the GRID
are untouched. Its --selftest passes on that backend with the human's own
numbers: fade 97.4 %, switch 2.6 %, frozen 0.0 %. A shim that distorted pixels
would fail its own control.

  publisher   0.30 s moving then 3.30 s FROZEN   (human: 0.30 then 3.20)
  developer   0.40 + 0.25 split then 2.45 FROZEN (human: 0.35 + 0.25 then 2.40)

Matched to within a frame.

THE CLOCK WAS NEVER THE PROBLEM. view_units advances 2.8-3.0 per frame, smooth,
~60 units/s, no stalls -- the play-test's candidate list can drop "the group
clock not integrating" and "advancing by keyframe index".

THE POSE WAS. Measuring the sharp logo's own rect frame by frame: 0.40549 flat
from unit 7.9 through 28.2 -- the same value it holds at 45 and beyond. It was
already FULL before its declared ramp (15 -> 30) began.

Cause, in ScreenView.pose_at:

    t = settle_instant if settle_instant >= 0.0 else minf(t, settle_units(element))

The comment above it says "stop at the hold". The else-branch clamps. This half
ASSIGNS, so from a screen's first frame every element was posed at the settled
instant and no build-in was ever drawn. The asymmetry is the whole defect, and
`--time` sets `frozen`, which skips the clamp -- which is exactly why my frozen
sweep "proved" the companions were drawn and proved nothing about running.

Fix: `minf(t, settle_instant)`. One operator.

⚠️ AND THE HOLD IS NOT THE BUG. The Decoder measured the game holding one picture
for 3.34 s on this screen -- LONGER than the port's 3.30 -- because palogo_sqex
declares 205 of its 255 units as a flat plateau. The play-test's "a fade does not
hold one picture for 3.20 s" would have sent me to delete the one correct part.
Clamping keeps the plateau exactly.

GATED BY A FILM, not a still:

                        before        after      game (Decoder)
  publisher build-in    0.30 s        0.60 s
  developer build-in    0.40+0.25     0.95 s continuous
  splash moving         12.0 %        24.8 %     21.2 % / 27.8 %
  distinct luma states  120           152
  longest frozen        3.30 s        3.30 s     3.34 s

🔴 AND IT LOOKED LIKE A 10x REGRESSION AGAINST THE ORACLE, WHICH IT WAS NOT.
verify-capture went publisher 2.17 -> 22.58, title 14.11 -> 67.07. Cause: it
shoots two frames after load and got the settled pose ONLY because pose_at
assigned it. Its own comment says so -- "the 0.01 % agreements on both splashes
were measured through that accident."

So the `--screen --capture` path now advances the clock to the settle instant
explicitly before shooting, which is what the tool was always asking for. Guarded
on `not _frozen`: `--time` means the caller wants THAT instant, and overriding it
would reintroduce the silent-ignore this replaces.

Every oracle row is back to its pre-fix value to the digit: publisher 2.17
(0.01 %), developer 3.05 (0.01 %), title 14.11, main_menu 13.02, extras 13.10,
title_plate 13.04. The port animates AND still matches the settled captures.

Not settled: motion-census is not yet wired into check-all -- next, and
deliberately not rushed at the end of a long iteration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-02 15:38:41 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
975d24def2 port: --linger, so a scripted walk can observe what arrives after it settles
Last iteration I inferred the returned plate's fade from code-path identity
because the harness could not watch it: `--script` quits the moment the last step
settles, and the plate arrives on its declared ramp ~3.6 s later. A film of
`--script=cancel` stopped at 168 units and never reached 214.

`--linger=SECONDS` holds the run open past the walk. `_script_settled` still waits
for a hold before shooting -- a shot taken mid-fade is a photograph of a fade --
this only changes what happens after the shot, which was "exit".

Pre-registered: the returned plate sits at its floor until 214 units, then rises
to full by 236, the same ramp the boot shows. Measured:

  units=208.75  0.145404   floor
  units=216.58  0.158596
  units=224.41  0.179036
  units=232.25  0.203050
  units=240.08  0.215005   full -- boot path gives 0.2142 at t=236

So the return fades, identically to the boot, and it is now OBSERVED rather than
argued from the branch it takes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 19:51:55 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
1c2782247d port: the plate POPPED on a return to the title where the boot fades it
The Decoder warned that my port "presumably models one title". Checking that found
a real behavioural split, and the code was right where I expected it wrong and
wrong where I did not.

My prediction FAILED first: I expected the port to be inventing a plate on a
(B)-reached title, because flow.json's scope_why says that is deliberately not
claimed. It is not inventing -- the call site cites a measurement from 2026-08-30,
the plate IS re-drawn after (B). scope_why was the stale thing, and is corrected.

🔴 BUT THE TWO PATHS DIFFER, AND A `why` CLAIMED THEY DO NOT. That call site says
"the plate re-appears by the SAME path, with the same shared clock, as it does on
boot. Whatever the boot does, the return does." Filmed:

  before: el=1.39 view_u=0.00 overlay_u=  0.00  plate absent
          el=1.53 view_u=8.67 overlay_u=244.67  plate present

The overlay clock jumped 0 -> 244.67 in ONE frame. The plate POPPED, where the
boot fades it across its declared 214->236.

Cause: `_overlay_process` detected "static diagnostic mode" as
`_sequence.is_empty()`, and `_sequence` is populated only by `--boot`. So `--menu`
matched it too and the menu's return took the `--screen --overlay` diagnostic
branch, which poses the overlay at settle_time() by design. A proxy for one mode
that silently caught another.

Fixed by gating on the flag itself -- `_static_overlay`, set only by `--overlay=`
without `--boot`. Verified both directions:

  diagnostic still poses: --screen=title --overlay=press_start --time=4
                          -> "overlay press_start at t = 240.00 units, drew 2"
  return now shares the clock: overlay_u == view_u on every filmed frame, plate
                          at its 0.1377 floor through 168 units
  boot path unchanged:    plate reaches full alpha at t=236, boot completes 10.46 s

⚠️ WHAT I DID NOT OBSERVE, stated rather than glossed: the plate actually RISING
on the return path. `--script` quits when the walk settles, so the film stops at
~168 units and never reaches 214. The rise is established on the BOOT path
(measured earlier: 0.1457 at 210 u, 0.2142 at 236 u) and the return now provably
takes that same branch with an identical clock -- but the final rise on this path
is inferred from path identity, not filmed.

⚠️ And whether the GAME fades the returned plate is still unmeasured. The 7.3 s
between (B) and the pulse returning is consistent with a transition plus the
declared fade, but that is consistency, not a measurement of the ramp on this
path. Recorded in scope_why.

Not settled: finding 3, no surviving cause; the clock origin, which the Decoder
reports blocked -- no capture contains the title, because it sits on the far side
of a 137.7 s movie and the runs were too short; the ~1.0-1.2 menu residual.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 19:50:13 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
70799488fe port: delete the authored blend map for the decoded field, and find a counter-example doing it
PORT-MISSION §3: "When the RE agent later decodes something you had authored,
delete the authored entry and let the exporter emit it. That deletion is the
measure of progress." This is that deletion.

authored/rendering.json's `additive_elements` -- a per-screen list transcribed
from the Decoder's per-draw RB_BLENDCONTROL0 log -- is gone. The exporter emits
`blend_additive` per element and per nested focus/leaf element from `T8aD +0x04`
bit 0x02, and ScreenView reads it there. Both accessor spellings are needed:
`ptbtn00f.t32` is in build.sprites while no element carries it as `sprite`, and
it is the sharp case -- the plate alpha-over, its own glow additive, adjacent
draws on one screen.

CHECKED BEFORE THE SWAP, and the map turned out to be a SUBSET, not the answer:
15 elements it called additive the disc agrees with, ZERO contradictions, and 17
MORE the disc marks that it did not. Those include the sweep LEAVES (draw_leaf_for
means pteff03/pteff03a are what reach the screen while the map listed their
parents) and TWELVE on `title`, where the map was deliberately empty -- so the
port has been drawing every title effect with the wrong blend.

H6 closes with no capture at all: the JP asymmetry was an artefact of a
NAME-KEYED map, and the bit is on the disc for every screen at once.

🔴 AND IT INTRODUCED A REGRESSION, WHICH IS REPORTED, NOT HIDDEN. Against the
oracle captures on the GPU: main_menu 10.88 -> 13.02, main_menu_options 11.56 ->
13.57. Deterministic to the digit over three runs, so not sampling noise.

Isolated to ONE element, with a control:
  - main_menu's only newly-additive top-level element is pteff10;
  - extras gained none and did not move -- the same change on a screen with
    nothing new moves nothing;
  - the leaf rule was disabled separately and main_menu stayed at 13.02, so
    pteff03/pteff03a are NOT the cause. That prediction of mine failed; the rule
    is restored, being provably neutral here;
  - title did not move despite twelve newly-additive elements, consistent with
    verify-capture posing at settle t=198 where those quads are transparent.

That is a potential COUNTER-EXAMPLE to a  DECODED claim, and it is a sharp
question rather than a guess: their own map lists pteff10 additive on `extras`
and not on `main_menu`, and they logged BOTH screens. Asked in BLOCKED.md H6.

Shipped anyway, for reasons stated rather than assumed: +2.14 is inside the
harness's own ±3.78 capture-phase term for that screen and cannot adjudicate a
disc fact; the decoded source is far better evidenced (35 elements, zero errors,
out-of-sample prediction 3 of 16); and fitting an exception for one element would
put an authored entry back to make one number smaller, which is the move this
project keeps having to undo. It is a KNOWN regression, not an unnoticed one.

Also settled this iteration, for the Decoder's open question: the port FADES the
plate, it does not pop it. Frozen sweep of the plate region -- 210u 0.1457,
216u 0.1573, 222u 0.1727, 228u 0.1900, 236u 0.2142 -- a clean monotone ramp
across the declared 214->236. So t=236 is the port's COMPLETION, not its onset,
and the 0.367 s "late plus a pop" reading does not apply.

Not settled: whether pteff10 has a counter-example; H1's repeat half; the four
red verify-screen rows; and finding 3, which still has no cause now that units/s
is settled at 60.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 18:53:59 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
7c8e4a863a port: adopt the game's 61% stick threshold, and find my verify-screen numbers were llvmpipe-specific
Two things, and both are about a hidden parameter nobody was recording.

1. THE STICK THRESHOLD IS DECODED NOW, and it replaces an authored value.

The Decoder measured that the game digitises the left stick to four direction
bits at 61 % deflection, so it never sees a velocity. Gamepad.ENTER moves
0.5 -> 0.61. The 0.5 was never a chosen value: it was a FLOOR, because Godot's
`ui_*` action deadzone is 0.50 and the latch must not arm below it. Between 0.50
and 0.61 Godot reports a direction the real game does not, and at 0.5 this port
stepped there.

The mechanism also corroborates the human's latch fix rather than merely
agreeing with it: a control that digitises to bits cannot express a rate, so
"one step per deflection" is what the hardware layer CAN produce.

⚠️ The 0.11 hysteresis gap stays AUTHORED -- nothing says the game has
hysteresis at all. And a human chose 0.5, so this changes feel: revert the one
constant if 0.61 reads as needing too much push.

🔴 AND THE CONTROL CAUGHT MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT ASSERTING IT. I added the new
device-level row as subject "latch", and `verify-input --control` failed
immediately with "a check did not invert -- it is not testing what it claims to
test". It was right: removing the latch does not remove the THRESHOLD, the
unlatched path tests `>= Gamepad.ENTER` too, so 0.55 counts 0 either way and the
row could never invert. It is a NEGATIVE, and its positive control is the 0.70
row on the same shape. Reclassified.

That also exposed a smaller thing: ok()'s negative branch HARDCODED "positive
control is the stick row", so a second negative would have borrowed someone
else's green line. It now takes the control's name, defaulting to the original
text so the d-pad row is unchanged.

 I never consumed the pad bit table they have just corrected -- checked by grep
over port/, authored/ and tools/port/, not remembered.

2. MY verify-screen NUMBERS WERE llvmpipe-SPECIFIC, and the prediction failed.

Pre-registered: both renderers blend in encoded 8-bit space, so the diffs should
be identical or within 1 level on the GPU. They are not -- every mean rose 3-35 %:
title 0.4431 -> 0.5936, main_menu 3.9363 -> 4.1449, extras 6.7422 -> 6.9757,
title_jp 2.7715 -> 2.9448, main_menu_jp 0.7885 -> 1.0157, extras_jp 0.6592 ->
0.8906, build_12/15 0.0368 -> 0.0454.

But the MAXIMA are unchanged -- 41, 97, 113, 233, 17 identical, 26 -> 27 on one
row. That is a rounding population growing, not content moving: two rasterisers
round the last bit of a blend differently while the elements that genuinely
differ do not move.

Survives: the additive diagnosis, because it rests on an ORDERING and the
ordering holds (9 elements > 5 > 0); the pgloading_loop5 localisation; the
build_00/01 agreement; the derived allowance, same four failing rows.

Does not, and is now labelled: the histogram (53 % within 1 level, 16 844 over
40); every absolute mean; and the RMSE-vs-capture pair 3151.96 / 3769.61 -- that
ORDERING claim is not re-derived on the GPU and is not claimed until it is.

The rule this earns: a renderer comparison carries its RASTERISER as a hidden
parameter. Nothing here recorded which one produced a diff, and for months there
was only one so it never mattered. Same discipline TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION already
demands for capture rate, applied to what rasterises rather than what clocks.

Not settled: H1's repeat half; H6's +0x04 exposure; the four red verify-screen
rows; whether the port is still nearer the capture than the reference on the GPU.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 18:37:38 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
170d255e82 port: the port never reported its own frame rate, and the menu draws at 9.7 fps
TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION §1 requires every instrument to state its achieved rate
against its requested one. That has been applied to --film (which I fixed for
exactly this), to the Decoder's harnesses and to the oracle. It had never once
been applied to the thing being shipped. The port had no idea what rate it drew
at and no way to say.

It matters now because the splashes are the focus and the open complaint is that
ours is LESS PRONOUNCED than the game's. A fade drawn in 45 frames and the same
fade drawn in 12 are different animations, and nothing here could tell them
apart.

boot.gd now counts frames per screen and reports at every boot transition, at the
end of the boot, and at every menu arrival. `worst gap` sits beside the mean
because a hitch is what reads as wrong and a mean hides one by construction.

Measured in this container, three boots:

  publisher_logo   17.3 / 19.6 / 25.0 fps    worst gap 100-115 ms
  developer_logos  16.7 / 21.9 / 22.8 fps    worst gap 103-138 ms
  title            17.2 / 14.2 / 12.7 fps    worst gap 150 ms, all three
  main_menu         9.7 fps                  worst gap 150 ms

🟡 A LIVE CANDIDATE FOR PLAY-TEST FINDING 4, and the first one that is not dead.
The timeline is delta-driven so durations stay correct at any rate; what changes
is how many alphas the fade is DRAWN at. At the measured rates the 45-unit
build-in gets 12-17 distinct alphas instead of 45, and the pre-blurred companion
glow -- the thing that IS the splash's blur -- rises over 15 units and is drawn
at FOUR TO SIX steps instead of fifteen.

⚠️ It is a candidate, not a cause: this is llvmpipe under Xvfb and not the
human's hardware. The point is that the line now prints on every boot, so the
next play-test answers it for free. Every other candidate for finding 4 is
already dead -- keyframes vindicated against the vertex stream, companion quads
drawn, blend space matching, settled pose at 0.01 % against the capture, no
post-process pass to add.

 And nothing published is invalidated, which was worth checking rather than
assuming: every timing result here comes from `_elapsed` (+= delta) or
`time_units` (the same sum scaled), so all are correct at any frame rate. The
splash dwells were measured across runs whose rates differed by 2x and agreed to
±0.03 s. Had the timeline been frame-counted, every number in this corpus would
have been wrong by a factor that changed between runs -- which is precisely the
failure the Decoder found in the emulator's rate and withdrew a finding over.

Two defects in the instrument itself, both caught and fixed before it was
trusted:
  - its first version printed "-9223372036854775808 requested".
    DisplayServer.screen_get_refresh_rate() returns a FLOAT and is -1.0 when the
    display cannot say, which Xvfb cannot, and %d underflows to INT64_MIN. It
    now names the cap or says `uncapped`.
  - it was BOOT-ONLY and said so nowhere -- `--menu` arrives through
    _menu_arrive, not _advance, so the mode a human spends time in reported
    nothing. That is the shape this port keeps finding in other people's work,
    and it lasted one measurement here.

Refutation attempt: I checked whether the port re-decodes PNGs per frame, which
would have been a real defect. It does not -- _load_textures caches at
load_screen. Hypothesis dead, cheaply, and recorded.

Not settled: what rate the human's machine manages; whether 9.7 fps on the menu
is llvmpipe or something in our draw path; H6's +0x04 exposure; H1 (the Decoder
is taking it this iteration).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 18:15:38 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
977965e92d port: the splash rate is withdrawn, and timing the shipping boot caught a why describing code we do not have
H7 closed: the Decoder withdrew the per-GamePart rate the same day (1e7343e --
"it was the emulator's frame rate") and struck the section carrying it. The port
never moved, so nothing has to be undone. The refutation is kept because its
shape is reusable: a duration measured in emulator frames is the emulator's rate,
not the game's, and the tell was that it made a part outlast its whole.

That leaves the splashes with the rate at 60 unchallenged, the keyframes
vindicated against the vertex stream (worst error one alpha level in 255, no
renderer in the chain) and verify-capture at 0.01 % on both. So the one thing
nobody had checked was the REAL-TIME boot path -- our own timing end to end,
rather than a frozen pose or a model.

Pre-registered: at 60 units/s, publisher holds 255 + 9 = 264 units = 4.400 s and
developer 210 + 9 = 219 units = 3.650 s, the figures authored/timing.json states
the port emits. Accept +/-0.10 s. Three boots, no film competing with the
renderer:

  publisher   4.28 / 4.26 / 4.27   mean 4.270 s   declared 4.250   residual +1.2 u
  developer   3.50 / 3.57 / 3.51   mean 3.527 s   declared 3.500   residual +1.6 u

THE PREDICTION FAILED BY 0.13 s ON BOTH, AND THE PORT WAS RIGHT.

authored/timing.json sets black_hold_units = 0, deliberately, with its own
argument attached: a uniform black hold is positively EXCLUDED -- the same origin
gives different values to different destinations -- so only an ordered-pair key
survives and nothing may be authored until one is measured. There is therefore no
9-unit hold to add, and the port has never added one.

Two places said it did:
  authored/timing.json dwell_why -- "The port emits 4.400 s and 3.650 s -- each
    declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly. So the pacing was right
    all along and nothing changes in the code."
  port/scripts/boot.gd, the _advance block -- the same sentence.

The `why` asserted a behaviour the SAME FILE refuses three keys below it, and the
code comment repeated it. Both corrected in place, with the measurement. No
behaviour changed: the claim was wrong, not the code, and the port has been
shipping 4.270 / 3.527 since P3.

⚠️ It does NOT show a hold does not belong there. Against the corpus means (4.42
and 3.46) neither figure dominates -- the port is 3.4 % short on the publisher
and 2.0 % long on the developer, where the claim would be 0.5 % short and 5.5 %
long. black_hold_why's ordered-pair ask is untouched.

⚠️ And it is a PATTERN, not an incident: this is the third `why` in this corpus
describing behaviour the code does not have, after exit_ramp_units and the dwell
slot that "was read NOWHERE for eight milestones". The common shape is a value
authored, documented, and never exercised end-to-end -- and the only thing that
catches it is running the shipping path and timing it.

Refutation attempts: the hit is against my own files again, found by predicting
my own behaviour and being wrong. The Decoder's keyframe vindication survived --
it is what makes 60 the only remaining variable on the splashes, and 60 now has
three cold boots plus three of my own runs agreeing with the declared groups.

Not settled: whether a black hold belongs between screens at all (needs an
ordered-pair measurement); H6's +0x04 exposure; H1 (key repeat).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 17:52:35 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
6eccfa84d8 port: the plate's lateness is the unit, not our clock -- and the splash blur is an asset we already draw
H3, the PRESS (A) plate. Established which half it is, as the brief asked, and
the answer moved once during the iteration -- both readings are recorded because
the first one was confident and wrong.

Eliminated, ours:

  rest.t      not in the causal path. The plate's ARRIVAL is a declared keyframe
              (transparent to t=214, opaque at t=236); rest.t=236 only picks
              where `holding` parks it, and 236 is that ramp's own peak.
  clock origin  the two builds share one clock exactly -- 85 of 85 filmed title
              frames have view_units == overlay_units to 3 dp.

NOT eliminated, the Decoder's: the unit->seconds constant. I first ruled it out
"by sign" using the emulator's 28.1 fps presentation rate. That conflates a
wall-clock conversion with units-per-game-frame; the correction is written down
rather than edited away. The Decoder's splash draw capture (3cc1b51) then gave
an independent handle on it, from a screen with nothing to do with the plate:
three intervals of the publisher splash all read 5 units per guest frame against
the declared 2. At 30 fps the plate would land at 1.57 s rather than 3.93 s --
this port ~2.4 s late, the right magnitude for what the human saw. It collides
with title-plate-delay-measured.md (~55 units/s) by a factor of 2.7. Both are
oracle measurements; asked in BLOCKED.md H3, not picked between.

Finding 4, the splash blur. The Decoder found no post-process pass; the human
says the logos go blurred -> sharp in about a second. Those resolve each other:
every logo ships a pre-blurred copy ~21x20 px larger and concentric, drawn alone
first and crossfaded out as the sharp logo fades in.

  🔴 So "the port applies no blur at all" -- in BLOCKED.md H2 and in the
  play-test -- is FALSE, and it came from our side. The port draws all seven
  quads of the developer splash, companions included, and always has. Shown by a
  frozen sweep 3 units a step: companions alone at u=3..15, all seven at
  u=18..42, sharp only from u=45.

The instrument had to be fixed before any of this counted. `--film` scheduled
frame n for n*interval and reported nothing; one 1280x720 save_png costs ~0.24 s
under llvmpipe, so a request for 0.05 s delivered 247 frames in 60 s where 1200
were asked for -- an achieved 4.1 fps against a requested 20 -- and the deficit
accumulated silently into the frame index. It now writes <film>_frames.tsv with
the second each frame was ACTUALLY taken at, and prints achieved against
requested. The schedule is deliberately not rebased onto _elapsed: catching up
would hide the shortfall.

check-all now reimports the Godot project first. `port/.godot/` is gitignored, so
merging a commit that adds a `class_name` leaves a stale class cache and the
whole project fails to parse -- which is exactly what merging the human's
gamepad.gd did in this container.

Refutation attempts, four:
  survived  the title's settle window [160, 236] -- our exporter still computes
            [160, 236, 198] under the corrected record layout
  survived  the Decoder's Q0/Q7 quad mapping -- this export's declared rects
            reproduce the guest's vertex stream to ~2 px and ~4 px
  refuted   "ptlogo1 rests at t=251 and stops moving at t=42" -- rest.t is now
            42. The record-layout fix repaired the very element that was the
            headline evidence for rest.t != settle. The conclusion survives on
            other elements; the example does not
  refuted   ours: "ptbtn00 reaches a=255 at t=238" (it is 236, so 118 units not
            120) and "pteff00 is 7 % opaque at 243" (it is 0 %; that quad clears
            by t=16 and 261..269 is the fade-OUT, not a fade-in)

Not settled: which of the two oracle rates is right; whether the t=118 or the
t=160 anchor is what the glyph counter saw; whether the game holds the blurred
companion longer than we do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 16:35:43 +00:00
MechaCat02
b70b638cb4 port: Ⓐ was never bound to the pad, and the stick is not an edge
Both found by a human playing the port on a real controller. Both were
invisible to every check this port has, for one reason:

  `--script` sends InputEventAction, which BYPASSES the input map.

So the harness asserted every line of code AFTER the map and nothing about the
map itself. Measured on this Godot, not remembered -- the remembered answer was
wrong:

  ui_accept   key:Enter, key:Kp Enter, key:Space     <- no joypad at all
  ui_cancel   key:Escape                             <- no joypad at all
  ui_up       key:Up, JOYBTN:11, JOYAXIS:1-          <- d-pad AND left stick
  ui_down     key:Down, JOYBTN:12, JOYAXIS:1+

Four actions worked on the pad and two did not, which presents as a broken
controller: navigation moved, Ⓐ skipped nothing and opened nothing. Godot
4.7.2 binds no joypad button to ui_accept or ui_cancel.

Gamepad.bind_missing() ADDS the two buttons to the built-in actions rather than
redefining them in project.godot, which would replace the built-ins wholesale
and drop the keyboard bindings silently.

Second defect, same blind spot: an InputEventAction is not an analog axis. The
left stick is bound to axis 1, and an axis is not an edge -- held at deflection
it emits an event per jitter, each reporting the action pressed. That was one
cursor step per jitter ("moves the cursor too fast"). The stick is now latched
to one step per deflection, with hysteresis so a stick resting near the
threshold does not chatter.

AUTHORED, and deliberately the conservative half: whether the game REPEATS a
held direction, and how fast, is an oracle question. One deflection one step
cannot run away and invents no rate. Logged as BLOCKED H1.

tools/port/verify-input asserts the map and the latch, with a control that
removes each check's OWN subject -- its first version inverted all nine
assertions when only two depended on the fixup, and reported seven correct
checks as broken. Three rows say plainly they are not controllable (they assert
Godot's own bindings) and one is a negative carrying a positive control (R4),
rather than faking an inversion for either.

Also logged BLOCKED H2, unguessed: the splash blur/fade-in is more pronounced
in the game than in the port. The port applies no blur at all. Noted there that
the two splashes are the only screens reaching the rest() plateau-less
fallback, which the R1 pass just re-opened in both directions.
2026-09-01 17:45:36 +02:00
Sylpheed port agent
d45b23ebbe port: draw the plate's highlight additive, and find my harness poses it where it cannot be seen
blend-bit-vs-oracle.txt entry 2: ptbtn00 alpha-over, ptbtn00f ADDITIVE -- the
PRESS (A) plate and its own highlight, one bit apart. Entry 4, the whole title, is
alpha-over throughout including ptlogo_back2/ptlogo_back2eff, which independently
kills the "frame-shaped and mostly transparent means additive" rule I declined to
adopt.

Bands are now per DRAW OP rather than per paint-order entry: one band per element
cannot express base alpha-over with its own focus record additive.

The change reported zero three times and each zero had a different cause.

First, additive_elements was assigned to `view` in three places and to `overlay` in
none, and the plate is an overlay -- every other decoded rule on that page goes to
both.

Second, I then measured that the element is never drawn, suppressing its sprite at
six times across the cycle for 0 px every time, and was one commit from filing "the
port never draws the plate highlight" as a defect. That sweep was invalid: I varied
--time while passing --loop-phase=0 in every run, and --loop-phase pins exactly the
clock a looping record runs on. Six samples of one phase.

Third, swept properly, ptbtn00f contributes 0 px at phase 0 and 22-29k px at phases
20-100 -- and verify-capture's title_plate row poses at loop-phase 0. The row that
validates the plate is blind to the plate's pulse by construction. It correctly
reports 13.03 / 0.09 % unchanged while the fix moves 26 319 px at phase 20. Stated
in the tool next to the pose.

Not verified against the oracle: every title-plate capture we hold is at the blind
phase, so no capture here can confirm the port now draws it right. Asked.
2026-08-31 11:48:36 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
49a6333166 port: free the canvas items I leaked, and refute the blend measurement's reach sentence
The RenderingServer rewrite leaked 5 CanvasItem RIDs per run -- exactly the number
of paint-order runs on the main menu. Items created through the server are not
owned by the node; a child Node2D would have been collected for me, and the reason
for not using one is the reason this had to be paid for. Freed in _exit_tree.

Nothing failed. verify-capture was green on every screen and the pictures were
right; the leak line sat next to "N ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit", which
BLOCKED.md records as engine-side and not ours after releasing every reference the
port owns moved the count not at all. A new leak line beside a known-benign one is
close to perfect camouflage. What distinguished it was the number: 5 is a count of
my bands.

Refutation, and it lands. ui-blend-mode-measured.md closes "every element on the
two screens the port ships is in the table except the two above and pteff10".
Checked against my export, counting the summary table's prose rows as coverage:
exactly right for main_menu, and on EXTRAS it misses four -- ptframe4, pteff21,
pteff22, pteff23. Five, not one.

They are not an arbitrary four. They are precisely the elements the port now
measures as the worst on that screen, ptframe4 at 16.19x the frame mean. Every
measured row still stands and the port has transcribed all of them; what is wrong
is the reach, and it is the difference between "one loose end" and the open ask in
BLOCKED.md, which now says so.

Secondary, offered as such: "every button" in the summary row is a class
generalisation in a document that warns its reader to take the table as per-element
facts. No button appears in the EXTRAS draw log at all. Very likely right, nothing
of mine depends on it.
2026-08-31 06:47:21 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
c453d8dade port: draw the measured additive blend -- main_menu 13.21 -> 10.67
The Decoder logged RB_BLENDCONTROL0 per draw in Canary on both screens.
0x01010101 is src=ONE dst=ONE, additive. That makes the blend a transcription
rather than my proposal, and they withdrew the "any blend you choose is authored"
instruction explicitly.

Their control is what licenses the change: one pixel shader, 0xE59B2B3DA4AA9008,
runs with BOTH blend states on the main menu -- 12 additive draws and 18
alpha-over. The frames and ptbase share a shader; only the blend register differs.

authored/rendering.json gains additive_elements per screen. Every id is a measured
draw and the reach is written beside it.

verify-capture: main_menu 13.21 -> 10.67 (0.06 % -> 0.02 %), extras 13.38 ->
11.43, main menu with ptbtn04 focused 13.82 -> 11.36. Per element, ptframe1
22.72 -> 4.17 and ptframe2 13.09 -> 3.32.

Neutrality control, free with the table: publisher_logo 2.17 and developer_logos
3.05 are unchanged to the digit. Those are the screens whose metric is absolute
and they carry no additive element, so the rewrite that routed every draw through
RenderingServer canvas items did not change the picture. The improvement is the
blend, not the plumbing.

RenderingServer rather than child Node2Ds because boot.gd calls view.queue_redraw()
from nine places and none reaches a child node -- bands would paint the previous
pose, which under --script=wait is a plausible wrong capture rather than an error.
Runs are recomputed per frame: the additive elements are consecutive on both
measured screens, and that is an accident of those two screens.

And the change first ran with the material left at its default MIX, moving
ptframe1 from 22.72 to 22.69. Nothing errored and a 0.03 move is a plausible
negative result. It was caught only because the measurement predicted a large move.

Not done: ptframe4 is now the worst element on EXTRAS at 16.19x the frame mean and
additive would plainly help it. It is not in the measured table, so it is not in
the file. Filed in BLOCKED.md with pteff21/22/23, which are also in no captured
draw.

Refuted, mine: "neither frame has a fully-opaque pixel" was true and was not the
discriminator -- pteff10 has max alpha 130, no opaque pixel, and measures nearly
exact. The direction survived; the reason for it did not.
2026-08-31 06:18:11 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
2759f3e719 port: their docstring point found three stale claims in my code
Their sharpening of my harness-note finding: a why in an authored file has a
convention demanding a citation; a docstring has nothing, travels with the code,
and reads as authoritative. Their instance was ring_row.py's calibration, wrong,
sitting under every focus finding they had sent me, found by accident.

Swept mine for numbers I had corrected in DECISIONS.md. Three live instances, each
contradicting my own log. video.rs asserted '28 % of S00A's frames presented and
47 % of ADV's' as measured; boot.gd asserted that the same numbers 'refuted the
claim outright'; dialog_rows.rs said 'by three routes'. All three were retracted
days ago in the log and never in the code -- the percentages came from contended
runs and the counter is an upper bound that goes vacuous once the engine outruns
the stream, and three routes became two, one compound.
verify-transcode-fidelity was the only one already correct.

Third time this pattern has bitten me, and it is the one audio.json's own why
warns about: a correction that does not reach the artifact a consumer reads has
not been made. First was loop_why shipping a refuted story into manifest.json,
second a BLOCKED row, this is code comments -- the worst of the three because they
sit beside the thing they describe.

So the class is now checked rather than swept: the retracted numbers are register
rows carrying the propositions they asserted, and check-claims immediately failed
on my own corrections quoting them unmarked. The next stale number of this kind
fails a run instead of waiting for a sweep.

What it does not cover is a docstring number that was never corrected anywhere.
The register holds only what I have already retracted, so it catches propagation
failures rather than wrong numbers -- their ring_row.py case would still have gone
undetected here, because nothing had retracted that calibration.

Their closing observation is the honest limit: the only thing that has actually
caught these is one of us reading the other's sentence for its own sake, which is
not a filter and does not scale.

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2026-08-31 03:20:29 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
a3ec9d03fa port: a mistyped mod override was silent -- the liveness defect, in the product
Every checker fix this week was about a tool that could not tell 'I checked and it
was fine' from 'I checked nothing'. The port had the same defect facing the person
the asset tree exists for.

ExportTree.resolve announces every shadow as it happens, and its comment already
records why a startup summary was wrong. Nothing reported the opposite. Measured
with two planted overrides, one correct and one in a mistyped directory: the
correct one is announced and the typo produces NO OUTPUT AT ALL. The modder sees
the port load, run, and say nothing about the file that did nothing -- MODDING
rule 4's own failure mode, since base-and-overrides is only usable if an override
that misses says so.

ExportTree.unused_mods() and a report at run end now list them. Controlled both
directions: one inert file with the typo present, silent with it removed.

Getting the category right took three tries and that is the point. v1 'never used'
flagged data/mods/README.md on every run, and a report with a standing false
positive is one nobody reads -- precisely the failure it exists to fix. v2 'no such
path in the export' was correct and still flagged the README. v3 excludes by
extension with the rule checked rather than assumed: the export tree contains only
png, json, ogg, ogv and cmd, verified zero .md anywhere, so a .md in data/mods
could never be an override by construction.

The report also separates what v1 conflated: a file whose path exists in the export
but was not read this run is NOT listed. Every line printed is an override that
can never apply, whatever the run does.

boot.gd already had an _exit_tree and adding a second was a parse error -- the run
failed loudly instead of one hook silently replacing the other, the cheapest
possible failure mode and only because GDScript rejects it.

Their P3 delivery is taken at the strength given: Q6's count-match has disc
support for its structure -- every button record across all 16 GP_TITLE entries is
ptbtn00, ptbtn01-05, ptbtn11-13 -- but it does not show that event 3 is a
particular row, and they said not to author from it. flow.json already binds
buttons by measured screen rather than event index, so nothing changes. Their own
negative is narrower than 'not found': the DIFFICULTY search assumed four items
pair with f variants, so what is established is 'not an 8-record btn-named build
anywhere'.

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2026-08-31 02:20:38 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
ca7dd583d5 port: the counter-example I kept asking for was in a file I wrote
For several iterations I said the MISSION-SELECT-versus-top-item ambiguity needed
a screen whose opening item is not its first, and that none was known. The Decoder
found one and reported it had been sitting unconnected in their corpus.

It is in mine too, and I authored it. authored/flow.json under
main_menu/buttons/ptbtn01 has read since eef45ec on 2026-08-29: 'MEASURED
destination (EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK, opening on NORMAL, then SELECT DATA)'.
DIFFICULTY opens on the second of four. So 'a screen opens on its first item' is
refuted as a general description of this game, and on EXTRAS, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS
the named item and the top item coincide by accident.

Worse than an index failing to amplify: my extras/initial_focus_why framed the
ambiguity as conditional -- 'it matters IF another screen is ever authored' -- in
the same file that already recorded such a screen. Future tense over a fact twelve
keys away. Corrected to name DIFFICULTY concretely.

MenuFlow.initial_focus's buttons[0] fallback is now documented as a repair for
broken data rather than a default, and that is measured rather than fastidious: if
a screen reaches that line silently the port shows a top-item default for a game
that does not always have one. No authored value moves -- DIFFICULTY is not a
GP_TITLE build and EXTRAS keeps ptbtn11, correct under either reading. Walk re-run
unchanged.

It does not settle the question, which is about reset rather than opening. That
needs the cursor moved inside DIFFICULTY, left and re-entered, and its forward
path crashes the guest at SELECT DATA so the run must go back rather than on.

No checker either of us has built would have caught this. Every instrument here
verifies that a claim matches a value; nothing detects that an answer already
written down is not being connected to the question it answers -- and mine had
both halves in one file.

It also makes the previous iteration's restraint look better: declining to promote
'4/4 submenus reset' to a rule was argued from the principle that a generalisation
should not pre-decide the next screen, and the next screen turns out to be one the
generalisation would have got wrong.

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2026-08-31 01:37:30 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
1e8c457a8b port: make the frame count permanent, then correct what I read from it twice
The Decoder's closing point -- the inference is cheap and the measurement looks
expensive right up until someone does it -- is actionable, so the probe I
reverted is now permanent. The exporter records each transcode's duration and
frame rate in the manifest (probed from the file it wrote, not the source), and
every video run prints what it showed against what the media holds. An instrument
that has to be added before the question can be asked will not be there the next
time somebody reasons instead.

Then the instrument corrected me twice more.

It is an UPPER BOUND, not a count. It counts engine frames, and the engine renders
the UI at its own rate: on a quiet box ADV drew 6480 frames across a 4123-frame
video, 44 fps against the media's 30. Above that crossover it constrains nothing,
and '157% presented' is the counter used outside its range. The report now says so
instead of printing a percentage.

So 'the player skips, heavily' is not supported. At 8.3 engine fps under
contention S00A could not have shown more than 28% -- a valid bound under
contention and nothing more. Quiet, the bound is 88-90%, permitting anything from
no drops to a tenth.

And the 720p-versus-432p contrast is refuted -- the finding I sent them twice. I
reported ADV +6.7% against S00A -0.5% and built 'heavy decode falls behind, light
keeps up' on it. Quiet, both run +6.7...+6.9%. The -0.5% was a contended run in
which the player dropped frames to hold schedule. I was measuring which run
happened to share the box and reading it as a property of the resolution.

What survives is sturdier than either: playback runs +6.7%...+6.9% long on this
container, five runs, both videos, quiet, resolution-independent.

Three corrections in three iterations, all mine, all the same shape: argued from
an absence; measured and over-read; then found the measurement was taken under a
confound I introduced myself by running the suite alongside it. Their rule needs a
companion -- ask what the quantity can be skipped by, and ask what else was
running.

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2026-08-30 23:26:18 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
7df386e07d port: running it as a player finds two defects reading it did not
--boot --script= parsed, was stored, and did nothing. The script only starts at
_menu_enter, and a --boot run without --play never enters a menu -- it holds on
the title and quits. The run completed, exit 0, no menu line, no press: a clean
result to a question never asked. This file already warns about that exact shape
600 lines above the bug, where --capture used to photograph the first frame of a
scripted run. The warning was written, kept, and did not stop the same class
recurring in the neighbouring flag. Now push_errors and exits 2, naming both
working forms, refusing rather than implying --play since the two runs differ by
157 s of intro. Verified: --boot --play --script walks power-on through splashes,
ADV, title, (A), main menu, down, (A).

A comment above audio.play_bed described the port as CHOOSING the menu track,
which HANDOFF Q10 refuted a week ago -- BGM_103 is measured on three independent
legs and audio.json says so. Third instance of the drifted-comment trap. The dead
phrase is now a check-claims register row, controlled: a planted revival fails and
removing it passes.

And the boot's wall-clock seconds are a property of this container. ADV takes
146.6 s of wall clock for 137.44 s of media, +6.7%, while S00A runs real time at
-0.4%. Not a post-roll and not a general deficit: ADV is 1280x720 and S00A is
768x432, this box has no GPU, and 720p Theora decodes below real time here. The
transcode is faithful against a 137.71 s source and the exporter does not rescale.
P3/P7 artifacts quote seconds containing that deficit -- reproducible here, not a
statement about the port or the game. Comparisons with the Decoder's measurements
must go through media length, not wall clock; they carry an explicit emulator
pacing factor for the same reason and I had been quoting mine as exact.

Their negative result on LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS leaves guard_focus_scope
right to count them UNMEASURED rather than 'resets'. The transferable part is
their instrument story: a narrow calibrated reader failed, so they generalised to
a whole-frame comparison, which died the moment a crash dialog overlaid the frame
while the narrow reader kept working. contract-check is deliberately narrow,
individually anchored checks for the same reason, and the temptation after an
ANCHOR LOST will be to loosen the matching -- trading a failure I can see for one
I cannot.

Every asserting check passes.

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2026-08-30 22:35:13 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
6e3347a338 port: the main menu remembers its cursor -- a measured P5 defect, fixed and scoped
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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2026-08-30 21:36:43 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
6a8b80faaa port: the contract I read is 3185 lines shorter than the contract
docs/port/HANDOFF.md on main is 926 lines, last touched 9ca1eb5 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 9ca1eb5, 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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2026-08-30 20:50:33 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
3a9d0223f3 port: test the half-guard they named -- it found a real gap on first use
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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2026-08-30 18:54:13 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
c1092e25b5 port: verify every documented invocation -- one runs forever and did not say so
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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2026-08-30 18:49:47 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
9cf04a4fc6 port: branches announce themselves -- their lesson, applied where it already bit me
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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2026-08-30 18:22:56 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
9e7bca6de9 port: three live-but-undocumented flags, and a dead instruction I wrote while fixing them
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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2026-08-30 18:10:22 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
66f0adce02 port: sweep instructions above descriptions -- the silent class is clean, two loud hits
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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2026-08-30 18:05:57 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
d725f8e2f8 port: the dead-rule grep found two more, and the cause is my correction habit
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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2026-08-30 17:58:56 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
dbd75bcc56 port: sweep for their tell -- two descriptions my own code had already refuted
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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2026-08-30 17:55:49 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
cf8f001956 port: the oracle harness was nondeterministic and I quoted it for a dozen iterations
verify-capture's main_menu row reads 13.30 / 13.27 / 13.25 / 13.26 across runs
this session while every other row is identical to the digit. I cited those
numbers repeatedly, including in the rest() adjudication.

Cause: the focus ring spins on time_units raw rather than the pose clamped by
holding -- deliberate and correct, since the ring is the one thing on a settled
screen that keeps moving -- so its angle at capture is set by the wall clock.
extras is stable because nothing there spins.

--loop-phase already existed and did not cover it: it pins the looping focus
record phase, while the spin is a second free-running clock I guarded once and
never connected. Extended loop_phase_units to pin the spin too, and verify-capture
now passes --loop-phase=0 at all four render sites.

The control matters because the drift was intermittent -- three unpinned runs gave
13.25, 13.26, 13.26, so three pinned runs agreeing would prove nothing. Phases
0/30/60/90 give 13.2583 / 13.1991 / 13.2637 / 13.2588: the pin is live and the
0.065 spread is the whole of the observed drift.

Non-finding recorded so nobody mines it: phase 30 scoring lowest is not evidence
about the ring's real phase -- 0.065 against a ~13.2 gamma floor is 200x too
small. A margin only means something against the noise it sits on.

No conclusion changes: the smallest margin any of them turned on was 0.14%
differing area.

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2026-08-30 15:15:01 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
e005016751 port: count the fallbacks instead of inspecting them; black_hold's absence is now audible
The Decoder sharpened the sweep in a way that invalidates part of how I ran it: an
in-range fallback cannot be caught by inspecting output, because the output looks
exactly like the true case -- the only way to know is to count how often it fires.
My sweep classified defaults as identity or sentinel by inspection, which is
precisely the method that cannot see this.

Counted: rotation_deg -> 0 fires 0 times in 866 keyframes and 178 rest poses, and
ramp is present in authored/. So rotation is read, not invented -- the same
conclusion they reached for design size, reachable only by counting.

The count exposed one I had waved through twice: black_hold_units defaults to 0.0
and its authored value IS 0, so deleting the entry would be invisible -- same
behaviour, no error, and the reasoning in black_hold_why (four measured gaps, why
0 over the better-fitting 4 or 6, the tripwire) silently stops applying. Fixed the
same way as exit_ramp_units: fallback is -1.0 and an absent key raises an error
naming what was lost.

The control is the demonstration: key present 0 errors, key deleted 1 error, and
the render byte-identical either way. No output inspection could have detected the
deletion.

Does not change the value: still 0, still wrong by 4-6 units on three of four
measured transitions, still no rule. Only its absence is now audible.

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2026-08-30 15:07:45 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
0be8348a6f port: the refuted 24-unit constant was living in a default; make it loud instead
ScreenView.exit_ramp_units defaulted to 24.0 -- the constant HANDOFF ask 2 told
this port to author and that it refused, since the file's own ramp is 10 units.
The authored entry was deleted as progress when the corrected record layout
removed the unknown, and the default plus boot.gd's timing.get(..., 24.0) made
that deletion a no-op.

Both use sites are unreachable on today's export (866 keyframes, 0 untimed), so
the branch is kept for an older export but no longer invents: the default is -1.0
meaning not supplied, and an untimed group now raises an error naming the screen
rather than fabricating a duration.

My first verification accused the change: main_menu 641941 px and extras 226009 px
changed, on a branch that cannot execute and with no error raised. The cause was
--screen=X --capture= firing at an uncontrolled instant -- t=9.00 in the earlier
run against t=8.00 in the later one, one unit apart mid-build-in. Three runs now
are byte-identical, so it is not noise; the instant is stable within a session and
moves between them. Re-run with --time=1.0 pinned, old against new is
byte-identical on all four screens.

Records the harness limitation: --screen=X --capture= cannot be used for
before/after comparison on an unsettled screen, which also explains the earlier
settle-vs-rest confound.

Also corrects my overstatement that other tools call the CLI -- verify-screen is
the only one, checked.

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2026-08-30 14:56:27 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
955f5b0c02 port: the rest() flash defect reaches all four splashes I ship; the port survives it
The Decoder censused rest()'s dwell fallback from the file side: 2305 elements
have no plateau, 1697 of those get a visible pose, and in GP_TITLE all four
visible fires are on the splash screens this port ships. Confirmed in my export.

Refinement to their description: they named the [0:a0 15:a255 30:a212 45:a0]
shape, but palogo_gamearts_eff and palogo_seta_eff hold 255 through t=30, so
their fallback lands on the flash PEAK rather than its decay. Same defect, worse
pose.

The port ships the right frame and there is now a number for it. Publisher splash
against the committed oracle capture: timeline (shipped) RMSE 2.17 / 0.01%
differing; --pose=rest 9.05 / 0.75% -- 75x the differing area on a screen I ship.
So the rule added to verify-screen's header after the title_jp mistake
generalises, and is demonstrated against an oracle rather than argued.

What did need fixing: ScreenView logged '(transparent at rest)' for every skipped
element whatever instant it posed, so it said that about palogo_sqex_eff, whose
resting alpha is 212. That is the same rest-versus-posed-instant confusion that
cost a wrong conclusion, pre-printed in the log. It now names the instant.
Controlled both ways: timeline says 'at t=6' and skips the flash, --pose=rest
still says 'at rest' and draws it.

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2026-08-30 11:53:01 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
8ae0ec2287 port: verify-screen was nondeterministic; pin the pulse phase in the harness
Running the full set after the plate fix, press_start returned over3 5021, 8919,
5021 on three identical runs. The plate's looping focus record takes its phase
from time_units, which free-runs, so the captured frame lands wherever the grab
fell -- while the reference renderer cannot pulse at all.

The port is not the thing that is wrong: the pulse is measured and a thing that
pulses does not stop because the screen arrived. ScreenView.loop_phase_units pins
it, negative means free-running and stays the default everywhere, and only the
harness passes --loop-phase=0.

Controlled: pinned, 3 runs identical; free-running, 3 of 4 identical and one
different. That 3-of-4 is why it survived -- it looks deterministic most of the
time, and without the negative control a no-op flag would have been
indistinguishable from a fix.

With the phase pinned press_start reads max 1 / over3 0 OK -- the recorded
baseline exactly. Fifteen of sixteen rows now match.

The sixteenth, title_jp, has genuinely drifted: 155/20498 -> 233/61208,
deterministic, on the Godot side, localized to one 350x396 block at (405,74).
There is no capture of the Japanese title, so I can say the renderers moved apart
but not which moved. Recorded as an ask, not resolved.

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2026-08-30 11:29:19 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
b9667c6c9a port: the PRESS A plate comes back after B, and it did not here
The Decoder measured that after B from the menu the plate is re-drawn (daf8f47).
The port landed on a BARE title: _menu_arrive drops the overlay -- correct, the
plate goes with the screen it was measured on -- but nothing put it back, since
_overlay_spec is cleared the instant the overlay is raised and only the boot
sequence ever set it. Confirmed by running it: ten title elements, no ptbtn00.

_rearm_overlay_for reads the declaration out of authored/flow.json's boot step
for that screen rather than naming press_start, so the plate returns by the same
path and shared clock as on boot, with NO new constant. Controlled both ways:
cancel raises it, entering EXTRAS (no overlay declared) raises nothing.

Script steps now carry an elapsed timestamp, without which the port's own press
latency could not be compared to a measured one. With it: B at 1.01 s, title at
1.37 s = 0.36 s, against their measured <= 0.4 s -- nothing was fitted to that.

The plate's RETURN time does not agree: 4.33 s here against their 7.3 s to pulse,
of which up to 2 s is pulse-detection phase. Not adjusted -- an authored delay in
this same block was already refuted once. Recorded as an ask.

auto_repeat and title/on_cancel upgraded to MEASURED on their run.

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2026-08-30 11:23:05 +00:00
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64b76b0892 port: the runtime now says what the voice export is missing, at the moment it plays it
The manifest has carried the gap for weeks and the runtime printed '+ voice ADV'
and nothing else. A reader of manifest.json gets a paragraph; a person LISTENING
gets clean dialogue and no way to learn a stream is absent. NEW GAME already
announces the screens it jumps over; audio had no equivalent.

ManifestAudio gains  -- one line naming what is KNOWN missing, absent
meaning nothing is known rather than nothing is wrong -- and MenuAudio carries it
so _play_video can print it. Verified on the boot's ADV and P7's S00A.

The first version of the message was FALSE for one of the two assets: it said
'one is a start-truncated stream', which is ADV's story, where S00A's dropped
chunks are digitally silent. Caught by reading the output for both, which I
nearly skipped because the ADV line was obviously right. Now states the counts
and points at the entry's why.

A message generated once from a template but true only for the case it was
written against is harder to see than a wrong number -- the sentence is
well-formed and confident in both places.

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2026-08-30 08:49:25 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
922d93df5b port: a static overlay advances instead of freezing; and their pulse floor is unreproducible
--screen=X animates X but froze an overlaid Y -- my earlier fix overshooting,
replacing a frozen-too-early overlay with a frozen-at-arrival one. The plate
pulse made it visible: oscillating on the boot path, flat here. Now offset, not
pinned: the overlay starts at its settle and takes the main view's delta. Static
path now pulses 95.85 -> 115.41 against the boot's 95.68 -> 115.52; still frames
unaffected and title_plate holds at 0.00%.

Both halves were mine a week apart, and the over-correction was invisible until a
third change gave it something to be wrong about.

Refutation attempt on their pulse floor: 159/714/1520 is NOT reproducible from
the published description. My counts on the same capture are 3-5x theirs at every
threshold, so their region must be a tighter crop; neither region nor threshold
is stated. The RATIO survives robustly -- 1:10.4-10.9 across a wide band,
bracketing their 1:9.6 -- so 'steady base plus pulsing glow' stands, which is all
the port's implementation rests on.

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2026-08-30 07:57:23 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
8adae30d1a port: the plate pulses -- restore the looping record, over the base rather than instead of it
Ask #1 measured: held at the title with no input the plate oscillates ~23 cycles
per window with no decay and NEVER goes off -- floor 159 thresholded pixels,
pulse bottoming at 714. A glow alone cannot do that (0 -> 80 -> 0); a steady base
plus a pulsing glow can, and 714/1520 are base-only and base-plus-glow.

The port already had the base right: ptbtn00's fade to 0 at t=244 is its EXIT
ramp, and while held the base sits at alpha 255. The glow was missing.

The defect was in the renderer, not the entry I deleted on 2026-08-29. _draw
treated a looping record like a focused one -- drawn INSTEAD of the base, which
is right for a focused button and wrong here. I deleted the right thing for the
wrong reason. A looping record now draws OVER the base and the entry is restored.

Rendered: 95.68 base only, 115.52 at peak, period 1.980 s against a declared 120
units = 2.000 s, ratio 0.990. Visible on the boot path; not under --screen
--overlay, where a static overlay poses at its arrival by design.

Authored in UNITS on their instruction, with their three limits verbatim: one
boot, does not distinguish boot from attract title, and 714/1520 is not an alpha
ratio so no duty cycle is inferred.

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2026-08-30 07:51:11 +00:00
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fdb33a9abc port: wire flow.json's dwell, assert the three authored values the port hardcodes
Applying the prior from six prior findings to authored/ itself: five keys had no
reader. dwell, ramp, left_right, input_during_transition, stems.

dwell is the one that mattered. Its own text says a measured hold goes there and
a number placed there did nothing -- and two iterations ago I asked the Decoder
for measurements destined for that slot. Wired now, and it stays EMPTY: the
splash dwells are declared on the disc and measured to agree.

I wired it to the wrong branch first and it did nothing, silently -- holding
longer after settle is absorbed because the screen still leaves at exit_time +
black_hold. A dwell must delay the departure. Caught only by testing the control:
+120 units moves the transition 4.46 -> 6.43 s.

ramp, left_right and input_during_transition describe hardcoded behaviour and are
written like switches. Rather than invent the missing implementations, they are
now asserted against the value the port was built for, naming the file -- which
is the distinction left_right's own why claims to make and was not making. The
validator is called, not merely defined.

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2026-08-30 03:16:35 +00:00
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a758f9b247 port: --focus was ignored on the menu path; focus rendering now verified against the oracle
live-main-menu-options-focused.png -- the only capture of a known focus state --
was untestable because --focus= parsed, was stored, and was overwritten by the
authored initial focus on every _menu_enter. Every run logged focus ptbtn01
whatever was asked for. Now pushed into the menu model so navigation continues
from where it was forced.

With it working, each capture picks out exactly one button: ptbtn04 at 0.1355%
against 0.70-0.82% for the others on the OPTIONS capture, and ptbtn01 at 0.0705%
against 0.72-0.84% on the plain one. 5x and 10x discrimination. First time the
port's focus rendering has been checked against the game at all -- the existing
main_menu row uses an authored focus and could never have caught a focus error.

Records in flow.json that live-main-menu.png shows NEW GAME focused, so the
authored initial_focus matches the one frame it can be checked against -- and
that this does NOT overturn Q5's measured instability. It stays authored.

Adds main_menu_options to verify-capture at 0.13%.

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2026-08-30 01:45:47 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
69e9043b96 port: a second capture closes the sweep-geometry question; title+plate matches at 0.00093%
live-title-press-a.png was unused in the corpus. Posed at t=237 -- inside the
plate's 8-unit window -- the port matches it at 0.00093%, against 0.0124% for
the no-plate capture at leaf phase ~400. Two captures, two different phases,
both under 0.013%: a systematic sweep-geometry error would leave a floor in
both, so last iteration's caveat is closed.

Sweeping the whole screen's instant against capture 1 gives at best 0.148% at
t=230 -- 10x worse than the leaf-only fit. So that capture is the screen SETTLED
with the sweeps still looping, which is the first independent evidence for the
authored loop_leaf decision.

Fixes the cause of a flat 1% floor: --screen=X --overlay=Y pushed the raw
elapsed clock into the overlay (9 units at capture), so press_start drew nothing
-- the flag whose purpose is 'put the plate on the title'. A static overlay now
poses at its own arrival; the --boot shared clock is untouched.

Adds title_plate to verify-capture at 0.00%, the most sensitive row in it. Its
instant is FITTED and labelled as such.

Also records that I nearly committed a wrong cause for the overlay bug: I wrote
that nothing drives the overlay's clock outside a sequence. It is driven, every
frame, from view.time_units.

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2026-08-30 01:16:57 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
96fe0eac51 port: add --leaf-time, and the title's residual is the sweep phase (~400 units, not 357.7)
The Decoder's refined sweep fit had never been testable: verify-capture passed
it as a whole-screen --time that pose_at discarded, and asking for it honestly
poses past the title's group end. --leaf-time separates the leaf's clock from
the screen's.

Controls: the renderer is deterministic (3 runs bit-identical) and the sweeps
move 0.40% of the frame between phases, so the comparison can see them.

Sweeping the full 600-unit span gives a sharp basin at 390-415 units (0.0124%)
against 0.2532% at t=357.7 -- 20x. So the title's 0.21% residual is the sweep
phase, not structure: at the fitted phase it matches the capture as well as the
splashes do.

NOT adopted: the port loops the leaf freely and re-posing the harness to the
fitted value would be tuning until they match. Filed instead, with the question
of whether 357.7 and this are even the same quantity.

Also verified last iteration's settle-window change was surgical: only
press_start and its twin moved, 14 screens unchanged including title's
Decoder-confirmed [160,236]. Settle-window ties exist on 4 screens but all sit
under the 30-unit bar, so the arbitrary tie-break never reaches the runtime.

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2026-08-30 00:46:25 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
3c71962698 port: the PRESS (A) plate could not be drawn at any instant -- four faults, and a misquoted number
1. --time= was silently ignored on any screen with a settle window >= 30 units:
   pose_at overwrote the requested instant with settle_instant. ScreenView.frozen
   now marks an explicit instant and skips both clamps.

2. press_start's settle window was [0,214] -- the dead stretch BEFORE the plate
   exists -- so its settle instant was t=107, where the element is alpha 0. The
   exporter now rejects intervals in which nothing is visible. title keeps
   [160,236], the interval the Decoder's draw stream confirmed.

3. My authored looping_focus_records entry for press_start/ptbtn00 drew a dim
   focus record INSTEAD of the plate's own sprite: max 0 vs max 252.5. Deleted --
   an authored guess that overrides a decode with a worse answer is removed.

4. verify-capture passed --time=5.9617 for the title and it was never applied.
   Every title figure it has printed, including the 0.26% quoted to the Decoder,
   was measured at the settle instant under a note claiming t=357.7. Both rows now
   pose by omission and the note matches. title is 0.21% honestly; splashes
   unchanged at 0.01%.

The boot's end artifact now contains the plate (region mean 95.7 vs 33.6).
Corrects last iteration's BLOCKED row, which had the entry's effect backwards.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
2026-08-30 00:24:33 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
09188ccbb2 port: fix two capture bugs, and the second was hiding a missing PRESS (A) plate
1. --capture with --script photographed before the first press (t=0.133 s, 10 of
   16 elements transparent). Two runs differing by two presses came out
   bit-identical and I read it as 'runtime focus never changes'. Deferred to the
   end of the script; verified max 235 and t=82 units.

2. --boot --capture= wrote NO FILE: _finish_boot() is reachable only from the
   overlay-quit branch, but line 412 quit first because _overlay_spec is cleared
   when the overlay is raised. Pre-existing, confirmed by stashing. Fixed by also
   requiring _overlay_quit_at < 0.0.

3. The artifact that now exists shows the boot's end frame is bit-identical to
   the title alone -- no plate. ptbtn00 is opaque for 8 units (236-244) and the
   boot captures at 246.54, because it waits for build 4 to finish fading at
   t=261. Both halves of that are sound and they are incompatible. NOT changed;
   filed, since what settles it is what the game does after t=244.

Defect 3 was invisible while defect 2 existed: a capture flag that writes nothing
cannot show a missing element.

Also records that runtime focus is FINE -- my contrary reading came from 410
files whose names did not match the flag I passed.

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2026-08-29 23:59:54 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
fce921d5c9 port: add wait:<seconds>, observe the bed's loop, and measure the seam at 3.4 s of silence
The port could not be asked to run for a stated duration -- a bare  step
is a no-op that returns at settle -- so nothing after the settle point was
observable. An 87.7 s bed on a harness whose longest menu run was 7 s.

The bed loops at 87.8 s against the track's 87.7 (r=0.947 and 0.885 on a clean
bed-only recording): loop: restart behaves exactly as authored. First
end-to-end observation of P6 looping.

The authored 'audibly wrong at the seam' is confirmed and quantified: 36
consecutive near-silent 50 ms windows, 84.40-87.80 s, about 3.4 s of silence
after a fade from RMS 2057 to 431. Recorded in authored/audio.json. It does NOT
license trimming, which would still invent a loop point.

My first wait: used create_timer and ran 39% long (30 s requested, 41.7 s wall)
because an idle scene throttles the delta it counts down on. Now polls
Time.get_ticks_msec: +4.6%. Checked before generalising: over a boot the port's
clock tracks wall clock within 4%, so animation timing is sound and the earlier
splash-dwell agreement stands.

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2026-08-29 23:23:35 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
92369c0776 port: the menu bed plays under the cutscene -- announced, deliberately not fixed
MenuAudio.stop_bed() exists and is called from nowhere, so the bed started on
the main menu runs through S00A and loops on past it, putting two unrelated
music tracks on the bus at once. Established from the source and authored data,
not from measurement.

NOT silenced: MISSION says leave an unmeasured detail plainly wrong rather than
plausibly invented, and music over a cutscene is caught by any listener in a
second where ducking would sound right and be a guess. _play_video announces it
instead, and stop_bed is kept as the one line to change.

Also records that the envelope correlator is unreliable for music under music --
0.15-0.42 for every candidate, peaks moving with window and template. I was
drafting '46 s of unexplained audio' when the cause was the authored
loop: restart. A margin needs a control at the SAME SNR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-29 22:55:02 +00:00
Sylpheed port agent
e9073750ac port: make ScreenView say what it could not draw; refute 'first-declared paints first'
skipped[] has been tracked and read by nobody since P1, under a comment saying a
silently missing element looks like art. _note_structural prints from inside
ScreenView rather than returning a value for a caller -- routing it through a
caller is exactly what did not happen. Structural skips only; transparent-at-
rest is ordinary animation. Zero found today: a guard, not a fix.

The first version of that scan was a FALSE PASS: screen_view.gd did not parse
(a line inserted at three tabs inside a four-tab block -- the substring assert
matched a shallower indent), so grep counted zero from a dead script. The scan
now counts the summary line as a positive control.

Refutes 'the first-declared element paints first', which would have made the
forced-backdrop rule redundant since all six forced elements are index 0. False
on 8 of 16 screens -- decisively on main_menu, where index 0 is pteff00, painted
LAST, and pteff00 is a measured control.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
2026-08-29 22:49:16 +00:00