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The pin was 4.3, chosen without checking; 4.7.2 is the current stable (released 2026-08-18). Getting this right matters more here than usual because the project diffs Godot screenshots against a reference renderer, so the engine version is part of the measurement. No Godot MCP server. Not because they are bad -- the mature ones need a LIVE editor plus a WebSocket plugin and a Python server, which is a daemon, an editor process and a second runtime added to an unattended loop. And their headline feature, scene-tree introspection and node manipulation, is built for someone hand-authoring scenes in the editor. This port GENERATES screens from exported JSON: the agent writes a loader, not a scene tree, so the feature that justifies the complexity does not apply. What it actually needs to verify itself -- run headless, screenshot, diff against sylpheed-cli screen render -- is already a bash job. Third-party skill packs are the opposite trade: pure context, no runtime. Worth revisiting, deliberately not installed now, because a skill is instructions injected into an agent running with approvals disabled -- a supply-chain decision, not a default -- and because P0/P1 need no advanced GDScript. The agent may propose one, naming the milestone it unblocks, for a human to vendor and review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sylpheed Godot
A clean-room Godot 4 port of Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception, starting with the menu shell: developer splash → intro video → title → main menu → submenus.
You need your own copy of the game. Nothing in this repository is game content. An offline exporter reads the disc you supply and writes an open, moddable asset tree; the Godot project reads only that tree and never touches a disc format.
your disc ──▶ crates/sylpheed-export ──▶ export/ ──▶ port/ (Godot 4)
(Rust; decoders come from JSON + PNG reads ONLY
sylpheed-formats) + OGG + OGV open formats
Why the wall
Two reasons, and the second is the interesting one:
- Godot cannot read IPFB archives, RATC bundles, T8aD textures, XMA banks or WMV video, and it should not learn to.
- Modding is a goal of this port. If the runtime reads the original formats, modding means reverse engineering. If it reads JSON and PNG, modding means opening a file.
Where the knowledge comes from
The decoders live in sylpheed-formats, pinned by revision — a
separate project, where the reverse engineering happens. Its
docs/port/HANDOFF.md is the contract: what has been decoded, what was measured
off the running game, and what is known to be undecodable. Read it before
assuming a value is on the disc.
Layout
crates/sylpheed-export/ |
disc → open formats. Regenerates export/ wholesale |
port/ |
the Godot 4 project |
authored/ |
decisions that are not on the disc, each with its reason |
export/ |
generated, gitignored, never hand-edited |
docs/ |
the mission, the format spec, the agent's loop prompt |
Status
Pre-P0. Nothing runs yet.