sylph-decoder ec06c50bf6 method: the mirror trap -- two records that drift, and a weakened control
Two corrections from the port agent, both of which make earlier claims smaller.

1. Its 'reproduces your published centres to half a pixel' was model against
   model. This corpus's 981/478 are the model's output at t=355, not the
   capture's; the capture measured 992.0/467.2, the 11.5 px residual the page
   declines to fit. So that control shows two implementations of one model
   agreeing, not the model matching the oracle. Neither of us applied the
   correlated-instrument test to that sentence at the time.

   The discriminator survives: it asks whether two captures are the same frame,
   and the model is monotone in t at ~4 px/unit, so a 42-unit gap cannot come
   out of one frame however wrong the absolute times are. Recorded as such.

2. Running my 'grep for the symptom' audit against its own tree, the port found
   the opposite failure: a control recorded in BOTH a tool table and a document,
   drifted to 53.3 % and 53.2 %, with the evidence file gone so neither can be
   re-measured. One hard-to-find record announces itself as missing; two
   disagreeing records announce nothing, which is worse.

   So the rule is not 'write it down twice' -- one record in docs/re/,
   everything else cites it, and any number that must appear twice is generated
   rather than typed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
2026-08-30 07:26:27 +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
  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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