chore(agents): restore evidence sharing after the asset purge

Issue #49 removed game assets from git. It also, silently, removed the only
transport agents had for showing each other evidence: each agent works in its
OWN clone, so "commit the screenshot, the other one pulls it" was the mechanism,
and PROTOCOL.md's file table said so in as many words -- "evidence cited by a
finding -> git". That row sat directly above "🔴 Never commit game content",
which is how 76 MB accumulated: the two contradicted each other and the table
won, because it was the one that told you what to do.

WHAT REPLACES IT

  * one host directory, `Sylpheed/docs/re/captures/`, bind-mounted read-write
    into BOTH agents at /work/docs/re/captures. All three -- host, decoder,
    port -- see the same files live, every citation resolves, and nothing can
    reach git history. Read-write on purpose: showing each other a screenshot
    is the point.
  * PROTOCOL.md's table rewritten. Cited evidence -> present but never
    committed; derived measurements (csv/tsv/txt/log/json) -> still git, they
    are our numbers not game content; evidence that must cross MACHINES ->
    attached to the issue or PR, because a bare clone has no captures.

Verified, not assumed: container A wrote a .png there, a SEPARATE container B
read it back, the host saw it, `git status` reported 0 changes, and
`git check-ignore` named the rule.

THE CHECKER WAS RED ON EVERY CLEAN CHECKOUT

A fresh clone/worktree/CI has no captures, so it called all 134 citations
dangling and exited 1. A gate that is red before anyone changes anything is one
people learn to ignore -- the exact failure this file already carries a comment
about. It now distinguishes "no captures here" (expected, explains itself,
exit 0) from "these are missing" (real, exit 1, unchanged when assets ARE
present). Both paths tested.

ALSO
  * `sylph-decoder` no longer mounts `xenia-rs` -- retired repo, gone from disk,
    the mount pointed at nothing.
  * CONSOLIDATION.md closed: it still described captures as committed and the
    history fork as undecided. Both are settled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

docker/decoder/sylph-decoder

@@ -122,11 +122,19 @@ docker_args() {
     # (file offset = VA - 0x82000000), which removes the need to boot the
     # emulator and scrape /dev/shm to get at it. An earlier belief that this
     # file was STALE was tested and refuted -- it is current.
-    -v "${SYLPH_XENIA_RS:-$PROJECT/xenia-rs}:/xenia-rs:ro"
     -v "${SYLPH_PE:-$PROJECT/Project Sylpheed - Arc of Deception (USA, Europe) (En,Ja).pe}:/image/sylpheed.pe:ro"
     -e "SYLPHEED_DB=/xenia-rs/sylpheed.db"
     -e "SYLPHEED_PE=/image/sylpheed.pe"
     -e "SYLPHEED_IMAGE_BASE=0x82000000"
+    # 🔴 EVIDENCE IS SHARED, NOT COMMITTED (issue #49). Each agent works in its
+    # OWN clone, so a gitignored capture written in one container is invisible to
+    # the other and to the human -- git used to be the transport and no longer is.
+    # One host directory, bind-mounted into both agents, is: all three see the
+    # same files live, every `docs/re/captures/...` citation resolves everywhere,
+    # and nothing can reach git history. Read-write on purpose -- showing each
+    # other a screenshot is the point.
+    -v "${SYLPH_CAPTURES:-$PROJECT/Sylpheed/docs/re/captures}:/work/docs/re/captures"
+
     # The shared exchange: transient files with provenance, outside git history.
     -v "sylpheed-exchange:/exchange"
     -e "PROJECT_DIR=/work"

docker/port/sylph-port

@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ docker_args() {
     -v "sylpheed-port-claude:/sylph-home/port/.claude"
     -v "${SYLPH_CLAUDE_HOME:-$HOME/.claude}:/sylph-home/port/.claude.seed:ro"
     -v "${SYLPH_CLAUDE_JSON:-$HOME/.claude.json}:/sylph-home/port/.claude.host.json:ro"
+    # 🔴 EVIDENCE IS SHARED, NOT COMMITTED (issue #49). Each agent works in its
+    # OWN clone, so a gitignored capture written in one container is invisible to
+    # the other and to the human -- git used to be the transport and no longer is.
+    # One host directory, bind-mounted into both agents, is: all three see the
+    # same files live, every `docs/re/captures/...` citation resolves everywhere,
+    # and nothing can reach git history. Read-write on purpose -- showing each
+    # other a screenshot is the point.
+    -v "${SYLPH_CAPTURES:-$WORKSPACE/Sylpheed/docs/re/captures}:/work/docs/re/captures"
     -v "sylpheed-exchange:/exchange"
     -e "PROJECT_DIR=/work"
     # Same guardrail as the decoder, added the same day and for its reason: the

docs/agents/CONSOLIDATION.md

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+# ✅ CLOSED 2026-09-20 — every phase done, and the two human decisions taken
+
+Nothing on this page is outstanding. It is kept as the record of how the two-repo
+layout was reached; **where it describes the repository's present state it is
+now out of date on purpose**, and the notes below say how.
+
+| the page says | what is true now |
+|---|---|
+| "**Still open, for the human**: the history fork" | **Taken: full purge.** `git filter-repo` stripped 182 assets from every commit; force-pushed 2026-09-19. `main` `2a93be99` → `e16556dc`, `.git` **217 MB → 114 MB**, **0** assets anywhere in history, verified from an independent fresh clone. Backups + runbook: `~/sylph-repo-backup-2026-09-19/` |
+| "`docs/re/captures/` is 118 MB of game screenshots inside a public repository" | **Decided (#49): no game assets in the repos.** Captures live on disk, gitignored, shared between the host and both agents by bind mount; derived measurements (csv/tsv/txt/log/json/npy) stay tracked. PR #59 |
+| "all six repos are `private=False`" | Still true, and now deliberate — there is nothing game-derived in them |
+| "`ai-agent-*.md`, `scratch/`, `_voice_span.rs` — keep or drop" | `scratch/` and `_voice_span.rs` dropped in the 2026-09-18 cleanup; the `ai-agent-*.md` files are the human's and stay |
+| the four archived repos | unchanged: `Sylpheed-Godot`, `xenia-rs`, `xex2tractor` archived read-only, `Syplheed-Reborn` deleted. ⚠️ Their local clones are **gone from this machine** too, and `sylph-decoder` no longer mounts `xenia-rs` |
+
+🔴 **The one thing this page got right and nobody acted on.** It named
+`crates/sylpheed-export`'s dependency on **this repository by tag** as the hard
+blocker for a rewrite. It was not re-checked before the purge, the locked rev
+vanished, and the build broke for every clean checkout while still working on the
+machine that did the rewrite — its `~/.cargo/git` still held the old object.
+Fixed in PR #60 (re-lock) and PR #61 (path dependency, which removes the class).
+**Before any future history rewrite, grep for a dependency on the repo's own URL.**
+
+---
+
 # Consolidating six repositories into two
 
 **Set by the human, 2026-09-13.** The end state is **two** repositories:

docs/agents/CONTAINERS-AND-AGENTS.md

@@ -88,6 +88,42 @@ sylph-agent-canary-build                         the warm 235 MB Canary build tr
 sylpheed-exchange                                agent -> agent files, read-only in
 ```
 
+**Plus one bind mount, which is not a volume on purpose** — the host's
+`Sylpheed/docs/re/captures/`, mounted read-write into both agents at
+`/work/docs/re/captures`:
+
+```
+-v "${SYLPH_CAPTURES:-<workspace>/Sylpheed/docs/re/captures}:/work/docs/re/captures"
+```
+
+🔴 **Why it has to exist.** Each agent works in its OWN clone, so before issue
+#49 the transport for evidence was *git*: commit the screenshot, the other agent
+pulls it. #49 removed that — captures are gitignored now — and without a
+replacement a capture written in one container is invisible to the other agent,
+to the human, and to `check-capture-citations`, which would call every citation
+dangling. One host directory shared by all three restores it: the same file is
+live everywhere, every `docs/re/captures/...` citation resolves, and nothing can
+reach git history. Read-write on both, because showing each other a screenshot
+is the point.
+
+Verified rather than assumed: container A wrote a `.png` there, a **separate**
+container B read it back, the host saw it, and `git status` reported **0**
+changes.
+
+⚠️ **Evidence that must cross MACHINES still cannot go this way** — a bare clone
+on the other desktop has no captures at all. Attach it to the issue or PR; that
+is the only channel that travels.
+
+⚠️ **The agent volumes were all deleted in the 2026-09-18 cleanup** and Docker
+recreates them empty on next launch. Nothing was lost — both agent clones were
+verified clean with nothing unpushed, and the exchange held only spent artefacts.
+One side effect is welcome: the empty `*-claude` volumes mean the next launch
+starts a **fresh** session, which is the documented workaround for the
+"resumes the old brief" defect below.
+
+⚠️ **`sylph-decoder` used to mount `xenia-rs` read-only. That repo is retired and
+the directory is gone**, so the mount pointed at nothing; removed.
+
 **Credentials** — three files on the host, `chmod 600`, mounted read-only:
 
 ```

docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md

@@ -129,10 +129,18 @@ exchange volume carries the working artefacts.
 | kind | where | why |
 |---|---|---|
 | code, decoded knowledge | **git** | history, review, permanence |
-| evidence cited by a finding | **git** | it is the proof |
+| evidence cited by a finding — a screenshot, a frame, a savegame | **`docs/re/captures/`, present but NEVER committed** | it is the proof, but it is game content. The directory is gitignored and shared between the host and both agents, so all three see the same file; `tools/re/check-capture-citations` fails if a citation has no file, and fails again if an asset is tracked |
+| a measurement you derived — csv, tsv, txt, log, json | **git** | our own numbers, not game content, and most findings rest on them |
+| evidence that must cross machines | **attached to the issue or PR** | captures are local-only now, so a bare clone has none of them. Attaching is the only channel that reaches the other desktop or a reviewer |
 | **evidence a human must look at** — the screenshot or film behind a `state/needs-human` item | **attached to that issue** | it travels *with* the item, a person sees it in a browser, and it cannot be orphaned from the claim it supports |
 | exploratory captures, work in progress, "look at this" | **`share`** → `/exchange` | no history; would bloat the repo forever |
 
+⚠️ **This table's first row used to say "git", and that is how 76 MB of
+screenshots accumulated** — directly above the rule forbidding exactly that. The
+two contradicted each other for months and the table won, because it was the one
+that told you what to *do*. Issue #49 settled it and the history was rewritten;
+if you find yourself reaching for `git add -f` on a capture, the answer is no.
+
 🔴 **Never commit game content.** Not sprites, not audio, not transcoded video,
 not a capture of the running game — under *any* directory name. On 2026-09-04
 this rule was live, and freshly tightened, while **545 MB of extracted disc

tools/re/check-capture-citations

@@ -235,6 +235,21 @@ def main() -> int:
     print("  cited by a page or a tool : %d" % (len(files) - len(orphans)))
     print("  cited by nothing          : %d  (reported, not failed —" % len(orphans))
     print("                               an orphan may be evidence a page owes)")
+    # 🔴 A BARE CLONE HAS NO CAPTURES AT ALL, and that is not a defect.
+    # Since #49 the assets are never committed, so a fresh clone, a worktree or
+    # a CI checkout legitimately has none — and the naive check calls all 134
+    # citations dangling and exits 1. A gate that is red on every clean checkout
+    # is one people learn to ignore, which is how the last wrong-by-default
+    # check in this file cost a session. Distinguish "none here" from "this one
+    # is missing": with some assets present, a gap is real and still fails.
+    assets_here = sum(1 for f in files if f.lower().endswith(ASSET_SUFFIXES))
+    if assets_here == 0 and dangling:
+        print("  ⓘ no captures on this checkout: %d citations unresolved" % len(dangling))
+        print("     Expected — captures are local-only (#49) and a fresh clone has none.")
+        print("     Copy them in, or read the evidence on the issue it is attached to.")
+        print("  🔴 game assets TRACKED    : %d" % len(stowaways))
+        return 1 if stowaways else 0
+
     rc = 0
     if dangling:
         print("  🔴 cited but NOT present  : %d" % len(dangling))