Sylpheed port agent b88e2e38b1 port: record that the blend oracle's instrument was container-only until today
From the Decoder's audit of their own /canary checkout, not from anything visible
on this side. They applied their own lesson rather than stating it, and the
exposure was four logger commits deep, not one.

The sharpest bears directly on what this port shipped. `0f920e645` adds `blend=`
per draw, and without it a draw log records NO BLEND STATE AT ALL -- so
ui-blend-mode-decoded.md's 35-element oracle, the evidence on which this port
DELETED its authored additive map, could not be re-derived by anyone who cloned
this repository. Not approximately. Not at all.

It is reproducible now: four container-only commits exported as patches on their
branch with a rebuild recipe. Named in prose without a resolvable path, since
that directory is not in this checkout and citing it as one would be the exact
defect check-citations exists to catch.

What it changes: nothing is retracted. The measurement was real when made and is
now portable, and the trade was still right -- a screen-name map cannot answer for
a screen nobody drove to, so the decoded field is better regardless. What it
changes is what "decoded" was resting on: for the window between adoption and
export, this port had deleted an authored entry in favour of a field whose
supporting oracle nobody else could regenerate.

📌 Theirs, and the durable line: a finding is only as portable as the tool that
produced it, and a reproduce recipe that READS as complete is the dangerous kind.
Theirs named shas, which is why four commits sat unexported while one was noticed.

⚠️ And this port cannot check the class from here. check-citations scans repo
paths; an instrument living in another container is not a path at all. The only
defence available on this side is asking what produced a number before adopting
it -- which is a habit, not a check, and does not run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AHUQvXGyNcKonSEWsgWcX
2026-09-01 20:00:20 +00:00

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-cli and 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

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.

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