Claude
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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>
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.