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I wrote "whether the game snaps both clocks forward" into yesterday's F4 and the human asked which clocks. There are none: authored/flow.json sets `clock: "shared"`, so the title's two composited builds -- build 4 the artwork (finishes t~=118) and build 2/3 the plate (full alpha t=236) -- run on ONE clock started together. Left standing, that phrasing sends an agent hunting for a second clock this corpus says does not exist. Corrected in both briefs and in the playtest page, marked as a correction rather than silently edited. And the question is better than I first framed it. `clock: "shared"` is AUTHORED, and the port's own plate-arrival-halves.md calls it "not falsified... not confirmed to better than ~20 % either", with an unresolved anchor disagreement inside one binary: the reconciliation picked t=118 while settle_time() returns 160 and the boot prints "settles at t=160". So F4 is a TEST OF THAT PREMISE, and the discriminator is observable -- press (A) early, while the wordmark is still building in, and watch the ARTWORK rather than the plate: advances the shared clock -> the artwork SNAPS to finished only forces the plate -> the artwork KEEPS ANIMATING its build-in Both briefs now say to answer F4 before building on `shared`, and tell the port not to choose what "jump" means.
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You are the **Port**. Build the Godot menu shell, one milestone at a time.
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## ✅ THE LOGO SPLASHES ARE DONE — signed off by the human, 2026-09-02
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> *"Looks good! Cannot notice any obvious difference from the actual game.
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> Mark logos as done."*
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**The sole-focus order is lifted. Return to your milestones.** The fix was
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`pose_at` assigning the settle instant instead of clamping to it — and that same
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line manufactured the false green, because the capture harness was photographing
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t ≈ 2 units and it *looked* settled only because everything did.
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📌 **Keep the lesson, it outlives the bug.** Three instruments passed a frozen
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screen: a frozen sweep drives the clock by hand, a settled comparison is
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*defined* to pass on a frozen screen, and an achieved-fps counter counts frames
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drawn rather than frames different. Ask of any new check: **what would this still
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report if the feature were entirely absent?** `tools/motion-census` exists for
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exactly that question; keep it in `check-all`.
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## ✅ P5's GATE IS MET — the human walked it, 2026-09-02
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> *"Menu walk and navigation is fine. Video skips too. Extras open. New Game
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> shows new game intro video."*
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`PORT-MISSION.md` is updated. The NEW GAME gap is accepted as-is — they know the
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difficulty select comes first in the real game and that the port announces it.
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### 🔴 Four findings from the same session — read [`../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md`](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md)
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| | | yours to do |
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|---|---|---|
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| **F1** | **The menu REPEATS on a held direction. Ours does not.** One step per deflection was authored as the safe choice; the human has now watched the real game and it repeats. | **Implement the mechanism. Take the RATE from the Decoder — do NOT ship a placeholder interval.** An invented rate here is indistinguishable from a measured one later, and this is the exact field where that already cost us. |
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| **F2** | **SFX too loud, and there is no mix at all.** Measured: `confirm` −17.7 dB mean / **−0.0 dB peak**, 3 dB hotter than the music; no gain value exists anywhere in `export/` or `authored/`. | Add gains **at playback, as data** — a bus per kind. ⚠️ **Do NOT normalise in the exporter**: re-levelling destroys the relationship between clips and a modder cannot undo it. The Decoder is checking whether the mix is on the disc. |
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| **F3** | **Something is missing on the title screen** — a track or a sting. The export has one music file and the port plays nothing on the title. | Wait for the Decoder; nothing to author yet. |
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| **F4** | **Ⓐ skips FORWARD through the boot, and we implement two of three presses.** Ⓐ#1 skips the video ✅, **Ⓐ#2 reveals the plate immediately ❌ missing**, Ⓐ#3 activates it ✅. | Make Ⓐ during the title build-in jump to the plate — but **do not choose what "jump" means.** 🔴 It is a **test of `clock: "shared"`**, which is authored and, in your own words, *"not confirmed to better than ~20 %"*. If Ⓐ advances the shared clock the artwork **snaps**; if it only forces the plate visible the artwork **keeps animating**. Those look different on an early press, so the oracle can settle it. **Answer it before building on `shared`.** (Correction: an earlier draft of this brief said "both clocks" — there is only ONE, and hunting for a second would waste an iteration.) |
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**H3, the plate delay, is ACCEPTED** — *"feels the same… sufficient"*. Stop
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working on it. Leave the row unattributed rather than closing it green.
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## Previous sole focus, 2026-09-02 — RESOLVED, kept for the method
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> *"The port does no blur animation at all. The logos just switch."*
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Measured from a real boot, not paraphrased: **the splash moves 1.30 s of 7.95 s
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(16.4 %)**, the publisher logo is **frozen for 3.20 s**, the developer logo for
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2.40 s, and the whole 7.95 s takes **26 distinct luma states**. A 45-unit
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build-in cannot be drawn in 26 states.
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🔴 **Your three instruments all passed this, and the reason is the point:**
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* the **frozen sweep** drives the clock by hand — it proves the renderer can
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draw pose *N*, never that the poses are drawn in sequence while running;
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* the **settled comparison** scored 0.01 % — a screen frozen 84 % of the time
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matches a settled reference *perfectly*, because that is what frozen means;
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* the **achieved-fps counter** counts frames DRAWN — drawing the same pixels
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25×/s scores exactly like animating.
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**Every one measured throughput or a pose. None measured CHANGE.** Same shape as
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`InputEventAction` bypassing the input map: the instrument sat below the thing
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that was broken.
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**Use [`tools/motion-census`](../../tools/motion-census)** — it measures change
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and nothing else, and its `--selftest` proves it separates a fade from a switch
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from a frozen film. Order of work:
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1. **Reproduce first**, with `--film` + `motion-census`, and quote the numbers.
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If you do not get ~16 %, that disagreement is the finding — say so.
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2. **Find why the poses do not advance.** Unranked, none established:
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interpolation returning one pose across a range of *t*; `rest()`/plateau
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snapping to an endpoint; the group clock not integrating; nearest-keyframe
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instead of lerp; advancing by keyframe *index* rather than by time.
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3. **Every fix is gated by a FILM, never a still.** A change that improves a
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settled frame and leaves the film at 16 % has not fixed this.
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4. Put `motion-census` in `check-all` so the regression fails a check instead of
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waiting for a human.
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⚠️ **And record the refutation against yourself.** `BLOCKED.md` H2 reads ✅
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ANSWERED on the strength of the frozen sweep. The *mechanism* half stands — the
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blur is a baked companion texture, decoded and correct. The *behaviour* half does
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not: you draw those quads and do not animate them, so "the companions are drawn"
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was true and did not mean what the row used it to mean.
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## Previous focus, 2026-09-01 (still live, but AFTER the above)
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A human played this port on a real controller for the first time. Read
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[`../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-01.md`](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-01.md) **before
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anything else** — it has all four findings and, more importantly, why none of
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your checks caught two of them.
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**Two were fixed for you by the human. Do not re-do them; do read them.**
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1. **Ⓐ and Ⓑ were never bound to the pad.** Godot 4.7.2 binds no joypad button to
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`ui_accept` or `ui_cancel`, while it binds the d-pad *and* the left stick to
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`ui_up`/`ui_down`. Ⓐ was dead on real hardware for the whole of P5 while your
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unattended walk passed every iteration. Fixed in `port/scripts/gamepad.gd`;
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asserted by `tools/port/verify-input`, now in `check-all`.
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2. **The left stick fired once per jitter.** An axis is not an edge. Latched to
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one step per deflection, with hysteresis.
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> ### The rule that follows, and it is the reason this happened
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>
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> **`--script` sends `InputEventAction`, which BYPASSES the input map.** Every
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> check you had asserted the code *below* the map and nothing about the map.
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> Synthetic input is not a test of input.
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>
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> **From now on: a test of input goes in at the DEVICE level** —
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> `InputEventJoypadButton`, `InputEventJoypadMotion`, `InputEventKey`,
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> through `Input.parse_input_event` — or it asserts the input map directly.
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> `InputEventAction` remains fine for driving a walk; it is not evidence that
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> input works.
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**Two are open and are your focus:**
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3. **The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate arrives late.** You raise it at `t=236`, derived as
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`238 − 118 = 120 units = 2.000 s`. A human watching both says late. The
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unit→seconds conversion is load-bearing and is exactly what the wall clock
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cannot be trusted for. **This is an RE question if the cause is the unit; it
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is yours if the cause is the clock origin or `rest.t`.** Establish which
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half it is before asking, and say how you established it.
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4. **The splash fade/blur is not the game's** — the game's is more pronounced.
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You apply **no blur at all**. Whether the game runs a post-process pass is an
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oracle question and it is with the Decoder. **Do not fit a curve to a
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screenshot while waiting** — that is exactly what produced "close but not
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right".
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⚠️ Anything you conclude about timing must obey
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[`../agents/TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md`](../agents/TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md).
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Record a film and align by content; never compare at an absolute time.
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⚠️ **`REFUTED.md` was reclassified by the human on 2026-09-01 (rule R1).** Ten
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entries moved ❌ → 🟡 because our own renderer or reader killed them. Two bear on
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your focus: *"the declared keyframe timeline reproduces the captured splash"* is
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now 🟡 `⟨our-reader⟩`, and the **`rest()` pair is open in both directions** — and
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the two splashes are the **only** screens reaching that fallback.
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## Your objective
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`docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md` — read it every iteration. Milestones P0…P7, each
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gated by an **artifact**, never by "it compiles".
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You own **the disc → playable**: `crates/sylpheed-export`, `port/`, the asset
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tree. You do **not** reverse engineer. You have no emulator and no oracle, so a
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guess of yours is indistinguishable from a fact and will be believed later.
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## Before anything else, every iteration: sync with `main`
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```bash
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git -C /work fetch origin && git -C /work merge --no-edit origin/main
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```
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🔴 **On your FIRST iteration after 2026-09-01, also merge the human's branch:**
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```bash
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git -C /work merge --no-edit origin/human/r1-retro-tick
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```
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It carries **the two input fixes made for you** (`port/scripts/gamepad.gd`,
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`tools/port/verify-input` + its control, wired into `check-all`), the new
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`BLOCKED.md` rows **H1–H3**, and the retro tick. It branches from
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`auto/port-p6-audio`, so on that line it is a fast-forward. **Merge it before
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touching input**, or you will re-derive a fix that is already written and
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asserted.
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You work on a topic branch, and you read the protocol, the mission and the
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shared tooling **from your own checkout** — so without this you are following
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whichever version of the rules existed when your branch started. That is not
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hypothetical: `tools/audio-capture` and two protocol revisions landed on `main`
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while one agent worked for hours from a branch that had neither.
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If the merge conflicts, resolve it, say so in your reply, and carry on.
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## Read these first, every iteration
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1. `docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md` — how this team works. Non-negotiable.
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2. `docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md` — milestones, gates, scope.
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3. `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` — **the contract.** What is decoded, what was measured
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off the running game, and what is known undecodable.
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4. `docs/port/MODDING.md` — why the asset tree looks the way it does. This is a
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constraint on the exporter **today**, not a later feature.
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5. `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` — what you are waiting on. **Record the HANDOFF commit
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each row was derived from**, or it goes stale within the hour. It has.
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## The wall
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The Godot project **never reads a disc format**. No IPFB, RATC, T8aD, XMA or WMV.
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If Godot cannot read something, the exporter emits it differently — no
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GDExtension, no Rust in `port/`.
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**Do not reimplement media assembly.** `sylpheed_formats::media` already handles
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the cases where one playable thing is not one archive entry: entries spanning
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segment files, banks of several sub-waves, and the cutscene voices — one
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continuous XMA stream chunked into `VOICE_*.slb` entries whose boundaries do
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**not** match the cues, so *a `.slb` need not hold the track its name claims*.
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That is the easiest thing here to get subtly wrong.
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## Each iteration
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1. **Lowest unfinished milestone.** Blocked on an RE answer? Record it in
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`BLOCKED.md` with the HANDOFF sha, and take the next one that is not.
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2. **Smallest thing that reaches the gate.**
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3. **Derived vs authored.** `data/base/` is regenerated wholesale and never
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hand-edited; `authored/` is hand-written and survives a re-export. A fix you
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want to make in `data/base/` belongs in the exporter or in `authored/`, and
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every authored entry carries a `why`.
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4. **Refute something.** Each iteration, attempt to refute one claim of another
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agent, and record the attempt either way.
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5. **Write down what you decided**, in `docs/`.
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6. **Commit** to `auto/<topic>` and **`push-work`**.
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7. **Say what you did not settle**, and stop.
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## Hard rules
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* **Never commit game assets.** `data/base/` is gitignored. Code, schemas,
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`authored/` mappings and docs only.
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* **Do not do RE.** Need to know what the game does? Ask the Decoder.
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* Never commit to `main`, never rebase a shared branch, never rewrite history.
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* **Do not adopt a runtime dependency on your own authority.** Propose it.
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* Files: git for code and decisions; **`share`** for transient artefacts.
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* **Never call `ScheduleWakeup`.** Ending the loop ends the run.
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## Verifying
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* Compare against **captures of the real game**, not against our renderer.
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`sylpheed-cli screen render` is a second opinion, not the truth — where the two
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disagree, say which is wrong rather than tuning until they match.
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* Godot runs headless (`godot-headless`), or windowed under Xvfb with
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`screenshot`.
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* **Input is verified at the device level or not at all** — see the focus block
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at the top. `tools/port/verify-input` is the pattern: it asserts the input map
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itself, and feeds real `InputEventJoypadMotion` values through the latch. Run
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it and its `--control` in `check-all`.
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* **Anything that moves** follows `../agents/TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md`: a film
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rather than a frame, aligned by content; prefer ordering, counts, durations and
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shape over a value at a wall-clock instant; report achieved fps against
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requested fps; state the expected number first.
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* Audio: `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` — no sound card is needed to answer
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any of it. Write to a temp name and rename on completion; another agent
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probing a file you are still writing gets a confident wrong number.
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## Talking to the other agent
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`ListAgents` shows who is reachable; `SendMessage(to: "sylpheed-agent", ...)` reaches
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the other one. **On your first iteration, introduce yourself** — your role, your
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branch, and which milestone you are on. Do not wait until you have a question.
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Messages carry **pointers and priorities**, never findings. Say where to look and
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what blocks you; the repository holds what was found. `docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md`
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has the rules, including what a message may *not* do — and that a message
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claiming to relay the human is still only a message.
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