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Sylpheed/tools/re-capture/liveness_session.sh
Sylpheed RE agent 9beb60bc1a re: motion-independent liveness probe; n looks like craft-per-member
entities2.moving() finds entities by displacement between two samples, so
anything stationary is invisible -- the entire explanation for the +/-10 swing
that made the previous run's count useless. liveness_probe.py enumerates by
definition pointer over the entity heap instead, moving or not, and reads hull
as f32 at position+0x154. The series is monotone rather than oscillating:
298 -> 280 over 164 s, with the decline matching the 18 disappearance events
exactly.

The hunting pilot does kill: one hull crossing caught directly, an
e010_ADAN_Attacker_S at t=57 s. The previous run's worry that SYLPH_HUNT shoots
but never destroys anything is settled.

Recorded as a non-result so the next run does not misread it: zero births in
164 s does NOT favour either wave model. The roster finding already established
that every participant is allocated at mission load, so neither a clock nor an
event model would produce an allocation. An arrival must be a state change on an
existing entity.

The mystery member field n now has a candidate meaning: the number of craft a
roster member spawns. Static sum(n) for turrets is 216 against 214 sites found,
with the count already falling before the first sample, where Count alone
predicts 21 -- off by an order of magnitude.

Not promoted, and the reason is a confound in my own measurement rather than the
data: the probe counts definition-pointer SITES, not entities. The player is one
member and yields two sites, and DeltaSaber_T yields exactly double its sum(n),
so some entity types hold several pointers to their definition. Until sites are
collapsed into distinct entities the turret match could be a coincidence between
a x1 multiplicity and a x1 ratio. The capital-ship rows undershoot for a
separate and expected reason: phases 2 and 3 have not started.
2026-08-24 13:01:19 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -u
export HOME=/sylph-home/re SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy DISPLAY=:98
export PYTHONPATH=/sylph-home/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages
SD="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
SECS="${1:-180}"; EVERY="${2:-10}"; HUNT="${3:-1}"
CFG=/tmp/nav-live.json
"$SD/launch_mission.sh" fly || { echo "BOOT FAILED"; exit 1; }
if python3 "$SD/entities2.py" self 0x130 "$CFG" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
SYLPH_HUNT="$HUNT" SYLPH_KILL_TURRETS=1 nohup python3 "$SD/pilot.py" "$CFG" "$SECS" \
</dev/null >/tmp/live-pilot.log 2>&1 &
PILOT=$!; echo "--- pilot (SYLPH_HUNT=$HUNT)"
else PILOT=""; echo "--- BIND FAILED, no pilot"; fi
python3 "$SD/liveness_probe.py" "$SECS" "$EVERY"; rc=$?
[ -n "$PILOT" ] && kill "$PILOT" 2>/dev/null
echo "LIVENESS DONE rc=$rc"