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Sylpheed port agent fe01c3e221 port: sweep my own tool headers after theirs -- two hits, both in verify-dwell
Their audit found one defect in sixteen commands and their point that doing one
and stopping is the failure applies to me: I had fixed verify-screen and
verify-capture and gone no further.

Hit 1: verify-dwell built its target as oracle span + the GAME's black gap and
scored the port against it, correct only while the port inserted that gap. It does
not -- black_hold_units went to 0. On publisher_logo the port runs 0.131 s below
the unslacked target, absorbed into an 'agrees' by 0.15 s of slack that is larger
than the omission it hides. Hold now read from authored/timing.json; the game's
gap printed as its own term.

Hit 2: the tool carried '4 presented frames at 2.284 units/frame'. The number is
right but it is the disc used as its own clock on ONE capture that ran at 13.1 fps
against ~28 elsewhere. Stated bare it reads as a general rate and would contradict
Q1's 2 units per rendered frame, a different quantity at normal speed. The
derivation was in DECISIONS.md; the tool inherited the value alone -- exactly
their defect, and their 'print the population beside the number' fix applies
unmodified.

Not found elsewhere: check-capture's percentages all name their population;
check-claims, check-modding, index-decisions and strip-padding assert no measured
quantities.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
2026-08-30 17:52:03 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Check the port's boot pacing against captures of the real game.
#
# tools/port/verify-dwell
#
# WHY THIS IS A TOOL AND NOT A ONE-OFF. Doing it by hand once already refuted a
# 🔴 I had filed myself: `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` said `rest.t` was the wrong settle
# landmark AND that "everything the sequencer paces off it is therefore late".
# The first half is true; the second was wrong, and I nearly re-paced screens
# that already matched the game to 0.05 s.
#
# ⚠️ A PORT'S TRANSITION INTERVAL IS NOT THE ORACLE'S VISIBLE SPAN. They differ
# by the black hold between screens, and confusing the two cost this corpus 0.6 s
# once and 0.48 s on the plate delay. So the comparison here is explicit: the
# port's interval is checked against the oracle's span PLUS the measured hold.
#
# 🔴 AND THE VERDICT DOES NOT COME FROM THE FILMSTRIP ANY MORE. It used to
# measure ink spans from `--film` frames. The boot's black hold is 0.17-0.23 s
# (HANDOFF Q7) -- shorter than the 0.25 s cadence meant to observe it -- so when
# the black frame fell between samples two screens merged into one span and this
# tool reported `developer logos` as 93 s against an oracle of 3.5 s. Filming at
# 0.1 s made it WORSE: 2.5x the screenshots slows the run enough that the capture
# catches up in bursts, and the publisher span came back as 7.80 s.
#
# The sequencer already knows exactly when it changed screens and prints it.
# Sampling a picture to rediscover a number the program can state is how this
# went wrong. The filmstrip is kept, and marked advisory.
#
# THE EXPECTED NUMBERS ARE THE ORACLE'S, NOT THE PORT'S: three cold boots from
# `docs/re/boot-order-and-splash-dwell.md`, quoted as a test fixture. Nothing in
# the port derives them and nothing may.
set -euo pipefail
cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}"
export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}"
OUT="${OUT:-$(mktemp -d)}"
mkdir -p "$OUT"
INTERVAL="${INTERVAL:-0.25}"
echo "running the boot (the intro is skipped -- the splashes are what this measures)"
timeout "${TIMEOUT:-300}" godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- \
--boot --skip-at=1 "--film-interval=$INTERVAL" "--film=$OUT/f" \
>"$OUT/boot.log" 2>&1 || true
INTERVAL="$INTERVAL" python3 - "$OUT" <<'PYEOF'
import glob, os, re, subprocess, sys
out = sys.argv[1]
INTERVAL = float(os.environ.get("INTERVAL", "0.25"))
# The boot's black gap, measured in the DRAW STREAM (4 presented frames at
# 2.284 units/frame = 9.1 units), not from luminance -- luminance cannot separate
#
# ⚠️ 2.284 IS NOT A GENERAL RATE AND THIS LINE USED TO READ AS IF IT WERE.
# It is the disc used as its own clock ON ONE CAPTURE, which ran at 13.1 fps
# against ~28 elsewhere: `palogo_sqex` declares alpha >= 1 for 239.8 units and
# was drawn in 105 frames of that run. Correct for converting THAT run's frame
# count; not a constant, and not HANDOFF Q1's 2 units per rendered frame, which
# is a different quantity measured at normal speed. See DECISIONS.md.
# the outgoing fade's tail from true black. The +/-1 frame range is 6.9-11.4
# units = 0.114-0.190 s. HANDOFF Q7's luminance figure of 0.17-0.23 s overlaps
# only at the top, and the draw-stream number is the one to use.
HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI = 0.114, 0.190
# 🔴 THAT IS THE GAME'S GAP. THE PORT'S IS AUTHORED AND IS CURRENTLY 0.
#
# This tool built its target as `oracle span + the GAME's black gap` and compared
# the port against it -- correct only while the port inserted that gap. It does
# not: `black_hold_units` went to 0 (four measured gaps, 0/6/4/6 units, no rule;
# see authored/timing.json). So the port is expected to run SHORT by the gap, and
# on `publisher_logo` it does -- 0.131 s below the unslacked target, which the
# 0.15 s wall-clock slack was quietly absorbing into an "agrees".
#
# Read from the authored file so it cannot drift again, and REPORT the shortfall
# rather than hide it. A verdict that passes because the slack happens to exceed
# a known omission is not a verdict.
import json as _json
PORT_HOLD = float(_json.load(open("authored/timing.json")).get("black_hold_units", 0)) / 60.0
marks = []
for line in open(os.path.join(out, "boot.log"), errors="replace"):
m = re.match(r"\s+-> (\S+) at ([0-9.]+) s", line)
if m:
marks.append((m.group(1), float(m.group(2))))
if not marks:
print("no transitions in the boot log -- see", os.path.join(out, "boot.log"))
raise SystemExit(2)
ORACLE = [
("publisher wordmark", [4.297, 4.604, 4.370]),
("developer logos", [3.508, 3.503, 3.366]),
]
starts = [0.0] + [t for _, t in marks]
print()
print("%-20s %-14s %-26s %s" % ("screen", "port interval", "oracle span (3 boots)", "verdict"))
bad = 0
for k, (name, runs) in enumerate(ORACLE):
if k + 1 >= len(starts):
print("%-20s %-14s %s" % (name, "-", "no such transition this run")); continue
d = starts[k + 1] - starts[k]
lo, hi = min(runs) + PORT_HOLD, max(runs) + PORT_HOLD
game_lo, game_hi = min(runs) + HOLD_LO, max(runs) + HOLD_HI
ok = lo - 0.15 <= d <= hi + 0.15
bad += 0 if ok else 1
print("%-20s %-14s %-26s %s"
% (name, "%.2f s" % d, "%.3f / %.3f / %.3f" % tuple(runs),
"agrees" if ok else "DIFFERS"))
print()
print(" Target = oracle SPAN + the PORT's authored hold (%.3f s); the GAME's" % PORT_HOLD)
print(" measured gap is %.3f-%.3f s, so a port with hold 0 runs short by that." % (HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI))
print(" 0.15 s of slack for wall-clock jitter -- which is LARGER than the gap,")
print(" so a shortfall of that size passes unless it is reported separately:")
print(" transitions:", ", ".join("%s@%.2f" % m for m in marks[:4]))
frames = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(out, "f_*.png")))[:120]
if frames:
means = [float(subprocess.run(["convert", f, "-colorspace", "Gray", "-format",
"%[fx:mean*255]", "info:"], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout or 0)
for f in frames]
ink = [m > 0.0 for m in means]
spans, i = [], 0
while i < len(ink):
if ink[i]:
j = i
while j < len(ink) and ink[j]: j += 1
spans.append((i * INTERVAL, j * INTERVAL)); i = j
else:
i += 1
print()
print(" advisory -- filmstrip ink spans at %.2f s, which CANNOT resolve a" % INTERVAL)
print(" %.2f-%.2f s hold and merges screens whenever it misses one:" % (HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI))
for a, b in spans[:4]:
print(" %6.2f - %6.2f s (%.2f s)" % (a, b, b - a))
raise SystemExit(1 if bad else 0)
PYEOF
rc=$?
echo "artifacts in $OUT"
exit $rc