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Resuming happens on the other machine, so anything that lived only in this workspace either comes into the repo or gets named as something to carry. **The launchers come in.** `run-canary-safe.sh` (Wine) and `run-canary-native-safe.sh` (native) are the ONLY sanctioned way to start Canary from the editor — they force software Vulkan and refuse to launch while a hardware Vulkan device is visible, because Canary on the AMD GPU takes VS Code with it. They sat in the workspace root, outside git, hardcoding one machine's absolute paths, which is exactly why they could not be checked in. They now derive the workspace from their own location and honour `$SYLPHEED_ISO` and `$CANARY_BIN`, so the layout is a default rather than a requirement. Same for `run-canary-native.sh` (interactive, hardware Vulkan — not from the IDE), `diagnose-freeze.sh`, `live-guest-state.sh`, `heaptrack-wrap.sh` and the `asound-null.conf` the native launcher needs beside it. Both safe launchers were run from `tools/` before this commit: the native one reached content in 20 s (`VERDICT: HEALTHY`, title + 25,398 XMA lines, no faults), the Wine one ran 25 s and logged 4 `ADV.wmv` hits. **`docs/agents/HANDOFF-2026-09-18.md`** records what changed since 2026-09-16, what is on the server, what cannot travel through git, and the traps this machine paid for — chiefly that the guest-PC branch probe exists only on the fork's snapshot branch, so a rebuild from `sylpheed-re` silently loses it. **`HANDOFF-2026-09-06.md`** gets a correction note rather than an edit: a plain clone works again now that the 545 MB branch is gone, and its baselines are two baselines old. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sylpheed
A clean-room reverse engineering and port project for Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception (Xbox 360, 2007).
Three things live here, in one repository so that a change spanning them lands as one commit:
| The decoders | crates/sylpheed-formats — the disc's formats, read and verified disc-wide |
| The port | port/ — a Godot 4 project, plus crates/sylpheed-export which converts a disc into the open asset tree it reads |
| The corpus | docs/re/ — what has been reverse engineered, with its evidence, its retractions and its dead ends |
You need your own copy of the game. No game content is in this repository and none ever will be. The exporter reads the disc you supply.
The oracle is the real game
sylpheed-cliand the Explorer are tools for verifying our decoding. They are hypotheses under test and they have been wrong. When something must be checked against the truth, the truth is the game running in Xenia Canary, captured — not any renderer of ours.
This is stated first because getting it backwards is the most expensive mistake this project has made.
Layout
crates/
sylpheed-formats/ the decoders. Disc-wide verified; the corpus is its spec
sylpheed-cli/ headless tools -- render a screen, dump a table, probe audio
sylpheed-viewer/ the Explorer: a human's window onto the disc. STATIC data only
sylpheed-export/ disc -> the open, moddable asset tree
port/ the Godot 4 project. Reads open formats ONLY
authored/ decisions that are NOT on the disc, each with its reason
data/
base/ generated by the exporter. Gitignored, never hand-edited
mods/ drop-in overrides. Yours
docs/
re/ the corpus: findings, refutations, method traps
game/ how the game is navigated -- menus, modals, flight
port/ the port's mission, its handoff contract, modding rules
-- and RUNNING.md, which is how you actually start it
agents/ how the agent team works together
tools/ capture harnesses, probes, the share tool
exchange/ transient inter-agent files. NOT in git
docker/ the agent containers
Where to start
docs/re/INDEX.md— what is decodeddocs/re/REFUTED.md— what has been tested and dieddocs/re/METHOD.md— traps this project has already paid fordocs/game/navigation.md— how the game is navigateddocs/port/MODDING.md— why the asset tree looks the way it does
Xenia Canary is a separate repository: it is a fork tracking upstream, and it carries our instrumentation.
Conventions
Confidence is per claim, never per document: ✅ CONFIRMED · 🟡 PROBABLE ·
❔ HYPOTHESIS · ❌ REFUTED. A withdrawn result is kept with its reasoning
rather than deleted — that is why the numbers here can be trusted.