Claude
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`SYLPHEED_DB=/xenia-rs/sylpheed.db` named a path that no longer exists. The xenia-rs repo was retired by the consolidation, its local clone was deleted, and the `/xenia-rs` mount that served the database was removed in #61 because it pointed at nothing. The env var stayed. So the decoder had NO database: `zq.py` and `/sylph-dis` -- most of what a static-RE brief asks for -- could not run. Mounted read-only at the container's repo root instead, which is where `zq.py` looks when `$SYLPHEED_DB` is unset, so there is no variable left to drift out of step with the mount. That drift is the whole bug: a path in an env var and a path in a mount, maintained separately. Read-only is deliberate. The host owns the file, DuckDB takes an exclusive lock to write, and two agents plus the human sharing one database would corrupt it. Regenerating means writing elsewhere and pointing $SYLPHEED_DB at it. Missing-file cases now say so and print the command that builds one, rather than starting an agent that discovers it mid-iteration. Verified in the real agent image: DB mounted, no env var set, `zq.py fn 0x824609C8` -> `Pak_FindEntryByName`, `zq.py classes` lists RTTI. The brief's tooling table also claimed the old path, and said nothing about the oracle binary; both corrected. It now records that the built Canary carries RE-INPUT/RE-DRAW but NOT the audit_61 branch probe -- measured with `strings` on both built binaries, zero hits; it is on two other branches (fork issue #1). 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.