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Their finding was about their own audit: evidence exists in three forms and their check looked for one, so '48 citations, 0 missing' was a statement about the data-file form -- reported in the wording rather than the scope. The analogue: do my own citations resolve? 32 paths cited in DECISIONS.md, 12 do not. Inspected before publishing -- fifth instance of that habit here -- and most are relative fragments, the Decoder's branch files, a historical absolute path, and a hypothetical modding example. Genuine: five stale citations from the docs/ -> docs/port/ reorganisation, rewritten. And one reached a claim I published last iteration. P0's gate says the export 'validates against FORMAT.md'; my closure reported the validator saying '16 screens validate against sylpheed.screen/3'. Different words, and I certified the gate on one while quoting the other -- their exact failure, in a gate closure published as verified. Checked rather than assumed: docs/port/FORMAT.md is 405 lines and contains format: sylpheed.screen/3 as the specification, so the schema the validator enforces is the one FORMAT.md defines and the closure stands. But it stood on an unstated identity, and had FORMAT.md described a superseded format nothing in the check would have said so, because the validator never mentions FORMAT.md. Verifying in the tool's vocabulary and certifying in the gate's is a substitution nobody performs explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
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
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.