Fabian Hamm
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Found 2026-09-14 while pulling the repos on the other machine: `xenia-rs` had 468 uncommitted lines plus an untracked 338-line `imports.rs` in the very crate Phase 3 lifted, written 2026-09-10 and sitting there for four days. Verified absent from `iterate-4A` and from the lifted crate in PR #32 — it existed in exactly one place, and that place was not git. Phase 0 is titled "Secure the single-copy work" and its gate passed anyway, because the gate iterates `refs/heads` and a dirty working tree has no ref. Canary's two dirty files were secured only because a human already knew about them; nothing found them. Phase 1 then declared the archive honest while this sat beside the branches it pushed. Phase 5 ends with "delete the local clone" and Phase 7 drops the emulator, so a deletion was scheduled against it. Records: the finding and the `git status --porcelain` half the gate was missing (run across all four repos — only Canary is dirty, and both entries are already on Phase 7's drop list); that it is secured on `harvest/import-thunk- naming` and ported in `feat/xexdb-import-naming`; a fifth entry in the wrong-claims list; and a `0b` row in the status table. Also records three pieces of Phase 3 residue found while porting, the sharpest being that `tools/zq.py` still defaults its database path to a location inside `xenia-rs` — the repository Phase 5 archives and Phase 7 drops. Left unchanged: the right replacement is a decision, not a guess. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <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.