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check-claims --control plants a revival in docs/port/ and requires exit 1. That the plant lands INSIDE a scanned directory was a property I checked manually, one time, and wrote up -- the exact pattern I had criticised in this same tool one iteration earlier. A fifth case now plants the identical text OUTSIDE the scanned root and requires 0, so the pair asserts the boundary is real: same text, 1 inside and 0 outside. Either half alone is consistent with the tool scanning everything, or nothing. Five cases: clean 0, unmarked 1, marked 0, outside-root 0, empty register 2. audit-kinds has always reported what it found and was never asked whether it can find anything, while its clean runs are cited as evidence that fifteen labels are grounded. --selftest pushes three synthetic rows through the real classifier and reads its verdict: citing nothing must read BARE, a real path ok, a missing path DANGLING. Verified two-directionally -- an extractor stubbed to accept everything returns exit 2. Asserting in check-all. All four submenus are now measured to reset -- LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS joining EXTRAS -- and the main menu remains the only screen that remembers. Three of the four are not in this export, so no authored value changes. NOT promoted to a rule, deliberately. 'Submenus reset' at 4/4 is better evidence than the 2/2 that made wrap a menu-wide rule, and adopting it would change nothing today because the only submenu this port ships is already measured. What it would do is pre-decide the next screen from a generalisation instead of a measurement -- the trap that nearly let a derived rule overwrite EXTRAS' measured opening item. The guard prints the 4/4 finding beside its per-screen values so the evidence is visible without being load-bearing. MISSION-SELECT-versus-top-item stays open: none of the three separates it, each opens on its own first item, and NEW GAME is untested. Remaining without a harness self-test: verify-transcode-fidelity. Every asserting check passes, 13 of them. 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.