The maintainer's observation decided the design: aspects partition the
GAME, strata partition our apparatus, and they are orthogonal. A module
is one coordinate change in aspect space with an obligation in every
stratum. So aspect identity must NOT be Rust types -- an aspect
ground-game adds would make clay-borg fail to parse a configuration
rather than fail to run it, welding the two coordinate systems at the
one place they must stay independent.
Chosen: identity as data (Configuration round-trips anything the catalog
names), behaviour exhaustive (Rules, no catch-all), resolve() between.
Decisive argument: the catalog ALREADY ships modules with a rules_delta
and status: proposed, so a per-aspect enum would report them as "unknown
module" -- indistinguishable from a typo, a false statement about the
edition, and this project's signature failure shape. Two facts need two
errors. Federating design authority is permanent, so the representation
must outlive the implementation.
Legacy ids alias forever through the catalog's own legacy_experiment_id,
on the standard-Np precedent: 26 recordings name them and the expansion
is exact, so there is nothing to deprecate.
T00 done: the schema-2 mirror had arrived with no digests (19 files) and
edition-check was red. Digests are now generated by WALKING editions/,
not typed -- two reviews already found hand-written lists that made
their own controls vacuous, and a mirror that grows a directory is what
breaks a maintained list. PROVENANCE-catalog.md was a file inside the
mirrored tree that upstream does not have; folded into our own
PROVENANCE.md, since provenance about the mirror does not belong inside
the thing it describes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CB-WP-0045 left "nothing explains what a scope does" open and gave a
FALSE reason: that scoping is our Variant so no printed sentence exists.
The H2 package ships Rules_Text.csv -- twenty-two passages of
player-facing rules -- and nothing in clay-borg had ever read the file.
A wrong reason for an open item is worse than an open item; it retires
the question. Filed as F26 against ground-game: a package that adds a
FILE is invisible where one that adds a column is not.
The scope rule now renders under the table in the edition's own words,
only when a non-global scope is in play, matched by heading rather than
row number, and absent (never paraphrased) if the edition drops it.
The trial log stamps its variant on the begin marker -- a session
property, not an eighth column -- read off state.variant rather than the
--variant flag, because a bare `state.variant = v` leaves H2 inert and a
flag-stamped log would put false provenance on real player words. An
unstamped log reports `unrecorded`, never `ground-darvo-r0`.
Six mutations, six red. The sixth is the finding: every trials.py fixture
built its marker out of BEGIN, so nine checks followed BEGIN away from
what hotseat.rs writes and stayed green while real logs broke. A fixture
built from the constant under test cannot test the constant -- the
control is now a literal, asserted from both sides.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three reports from the 2026-08-08 sessions. H2 lands ("that seemed more
interesting"), two legibility gaps do not.
The number was only a FALLBACK for a missing title, so it showed exactly
when it was least useful. That was survivable while Problems sat in one
ordered row -- position WAS the number. CB-WP-0043 scattered them by
scope and took the implicit index with it, with nothing going red because
no test named the number.
DARVO.csv's mandatory_effect and Actions.csv's GROUND rules_text were
both vendored, both used only as tripwires, and neither ever reached the
player -- F18's shape again. The modes now explain themselves at the
point of choice, and NOT when no mode is on offer.
Tests assert the edition's own words verbatim (ADR-0015), the number over
every key in view.problems, and both halves of the mode explanation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reported as "I did a session and noted no changes" — correct, and the
fault was ours twice.
make ground passes no --variant, so the session was baseline, and
CB-WP-0043 deliberately leaves the baseline layout untouched because a
variant that redraws the baseline invalidates every prior look at it.
But the deeper defect is that nothing said so. The page named the round,
the step, the Lead, the scoring mode and the viewer, and never which rules
it was playing — GroundView did not even carry the variant. There was no
way from the screen to tell baseline from H1 from H2. A session that
cannot say which rules it is playing cannot report a rules change; the
player did the right thing and the instrument had nothing to tell them.
Now: variant on GroundView, `rules <id>` in the page header beside the
scoring mode, `rules <id>` in the inspector because a replay that cannot
say which rules produced it is the same defect in the other tool, and
make ground VARIANT=h2 so the capability is reachable.
Both coverage probes caught the new field independently — the render
crate's and cb-play's — the second time in two passes that they have
turned an addition into a legibility requirement instead of letting it be
silent state.
Verified by fetching the served page rather than by reading the code:
make ground VARIANT=h2 prints "rules: h2" and the page carries
"rules h2-scoped-problem-stress" with the scope labels; the baseline says
"rules ground-darvo-r0" and keeps its row.
Still open: nothing explains what a scope DOES, and the trial log header
does not record the variant either — the same defect one artifact along.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The H2 panel measured wins, variance and DARVO but not ATTACK selection —
which is F17's actual question. attack-value now runs H2 too.
The shape is the finding. Under H1 a seat that sometimes attacks loses
everything at 3p and above. Under H2 rank-75 wins 112/173/199 against
greedy's 120/175/199, while attacking and arming DARVO. So H2 makes
occasional ATTACK affordable — it does not make it pay. rank-75 never
beats greedy in any cell, and rank-95 (always attack) still wins 0
everywhere in all three variants, so "not always-attack-optimal" holds.
F17 therefore stands: ATTACK earns its place in no mode. What changed is
that choosing it is no longer catastrophic. Whether affordable is what the
design wants is ground-game's judgement.
And a hazard: with_variant() exists because H2 assigns Problem owners at
setup and `state.variant = v` leaves them unassigned, so scoped pressure
ticks nobody and H2 measures as INERT. Three call sites had the bare
write, including cb-play's driver.
No published figure is affected, and that was checked rather than assumed:
h2-panel used the builder, and the two harnesses with the bare write had
only ever run baseline and H1, neither of which has a setup step; the
driver has never played H2. All three fixed, and
a_bare_variant_write_leaves_h2_inert now states the difference so a
regression is caught by a named test rather than by a reader wondering why
H2 did nothing.
The builder was not enough — the field is public, so the old form still
compiles. Worth knowing before the next variant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CB-EV-0030 concluded H1's DARVO arm rate was still 0. That was true of the
panel, and the panel was greedy-family throughout. GreedyPolicy ranks
`Ground if gated => 100`, so it grounds the instant the stress gate bites,
Stress plateaus at 3, and the arm at 5 is unreachable by construction. "H1
does nothing" was really "H1 does nothing to a seat that already manages
its Stress" — and H1 was written for the seat that does not.
`reactive` is greedy with exactly one preference changed: GROUND demoted
below ATTACK. Under it, H1's criteria 1 and 2 are MET — DARVO arms 400
times per cell, ATTACK is chosen 3 times per seat per game. Criterion 3
fails harder: reactive wins nothing at any seat count.
The larger finding is about the baseline. Greedy and reactive play
IDENTICALLY under baseline, and peak Stress across 3,200 baseline games
was 1 — against a starting value of 2. The gate at 4, the DARVO arm at 5
and the Freedom token are all unreachable, and a policy built to be
reckless with Stress is indistinguishable from one built to husband it.
That is a deeper account of F17 than F17 has. Not raised as a finding yet:
it wants the plural panel first.
A constant was investigated rather than reported: darvo was exactly 400 in
every cell while atk scaled with seats. Six-player final Stress is
[5,5,4,4,4,4] every seed — H1-B holds the attacker at 4, below the arm,
and pushes its targets to 5. The self-soothe suppresses DARVO in the
aggressor and concentrates it in the attacked. The direction follows from
H1-B's arithmetic; the number 2 is partly an artifact of reactive's
first-legal targeting, and is labelled as such.
Still unreviewed: tier L review outstanding on CB-WP-0038, and nothing
here reaches ground-game until it runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reading Player_Mats.csv and Glossary.csv — which O4 had forbidden
declaring about until they were read — found a rule. Player_Mats'
choice_rule column IS GR-R03: at Stress 4-5 choose ATTACK or GROUND unless
you spend a ready Freedom token. The engine's stress_gated and
allowed_under_stress_gate match it exactly, and now have a tripwire.
So Ornamentation.md gains §1.3: the unit is a column, not a file.
Classifying Player_Mats as ornamentation would have thrown a rule away
with the colour swatches. A mixed artifact is normal — a player mat is a
rule printed on a decorated card in the box too. O4 is rewritten and
re-grounded from provisional to rule accordingly.
O5, O6, O7 declared with falsifiers. O7's is not theoretical:
back_design_id is unread in four vendored files, and hidden information is
what card backs are for.
CB-EV-0029 answers T04's question per rule rather than as a count — yes,
every checkable clause — and states the reading that result does NOT
support: it shows GroundRules.md was a faithful secondary source for the
clauses with behaviour to check, not that the engine is correct.
10 of 19 files vendored. Nine still unread, and Rules_Text.csv is the one
that matters: every clause checked here was checked against our own
transcription of it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two reports, one cause: the script's fetch had no .catch. When the server
had exited the promise rejected, the chain never ran, and not even the
status line moved — so a dead server and a click that did nothing were
indistinguishable. play again read as a dead button, and the linger
timeout was invisible.
Now a rejection says the session is gone and seals the page, and a
5-second heartbeat against a new /alive notices it without needing a
click, which is what the timeout case requires. The beat carries the
token, and does not extend the linger: that deadline is absolute.
The harness had the same hole. jsrun's fetch stub had no .catch, so the
branch that notices a dead server would have been unreachable in every
test — the very defect the stub's own comment records from CB-WP-0024.
Teaching it __failing, .catch and a recorded setInterval was the fix;
writing the script defensively would have repeated the trap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
make trials reported "positions unreachable: 4, target 0 — the recording
exists but the position moved". All four were false. A recording holds one
hash, the final state, and reachability asked whether the note's hash was
in that file — so a mid-game note could never match, and a post-game note
from any but the last game could not either. Instance 8 of the ADR-0018
family: vary only WHEN a note was written and the answer flips, with
nothing having moved.
The root cause was not the metric. play again reused state belonging to a
game: it overwrote the previous game's recording (data loss), never
cleared the journal (game 2's log opened with game 1's commands), and so a
note's command index pointed into a recording without those commands.
Fixing reachability alone would have gone green while a session still
destroyed its own evidence.
A note now binds by (game, after) — an index into the recording's own
commands list, which a reader can replay to. The hash keeps a job as the
integrity check at the end of a game, where it can actually fail. Game 1
keeps the path it was given, so GameDesign §5's documented invocation is
unchanged; later games get -2, -3 and nothing is overwritten. Legacy
5-column logs stay readable and are reported as legacy, never as orphans —
an unsubstantiated orphan claim is the defect being fixed.
All three fixes mutation-proven, including at the call site via a real
two-game session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Notes were written to a file and shown back nowhere — the shape
trials.py's own docstring calls this project's signature failure in a new
medium. The log now carries the player's comments where they were made.
Position is the feature: a remark like "why did that do nothing?" is about
the move above it, and collected at the bottom it is a sentence with no
subject. round/step cannot order a note against the log because several
commands share a step, so the server records how many commands had been
played — which it knows exactly — and the page places it there.
A comment must not be readable as something the game did. The log is the
recorder's vocabulary; notes render in their own block, attributed to the
player, quoted. The .note CSS already existed and nothing had ever used it.
No column was added to the trial log. trials.py skipped any row that was
not five cells, silently, so a sixth column would have made `make trials`
report zero notes for every log at once. That latent defect is fixed on
its own terms: a wrong column count now raises, and the walk reports the
real reason rather than blaming a missing block for every failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The note channel closed at the moment it is worth most — a player who has
just seen the outcome is the one with something to say, and that reading
was collectable at every moment of the game except the one after it.
Two independent defects: doc::ending never rendered the box, and
serve_end had no POST /note arm, so even a hand-built post fell through to
404. Fixing either alone leaves the channel shut, so the test asserts both
and is mutation-proven to fail on each half separately.
A post-game note binds to the final position but is not an observation
made at the last decision point. RoundStep::End is the last step of a
ROUND, not the end of the game, so record_note now takes the step as an
argument and the post-game path passes "after the end" — otherwise an
after-the-fact reading is filed as an in-play one, which is the
wrong-subject family ADR-0018 was written for.
A note does not end the session: every other POST in that loop breaks it,
and a player must be able to write a second one and then still play again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADR-0016, Tokens.csv vendored, tracks and discs on the table, and a supply
audit that found nothing and says so.
T03 MEASURED BEFORE T01 DECIDED. 750 games, 2-6 seats, greedy and random:
Protection reaches 1 per seat and 2 on the table against a supply of 6;
Denied 3 of 5; relation links EXACTLY 12 OF 12 and never more; Focus/Blame
0 conflicts. The link row is the interesting one -- GR-L01's two-slot rule
IS the twelve-token supply written twice, which is the shape of a supply
needing no separate enforcement.
AND THE FIRST VERSION OF THE FOCUS/BLAME CHECK WAS WRONG. It compared a
seat's own placed Focus against its OWN blame_from -- but that list holds
OTHER players' discs, so they are different tokens. It reported 2
conflicts; corrected, it reports 0. Fifth instance of this project's
recurring defect, a number computed correctly about the wrong subject, and
the first caught before it left the repo rather than by a reviewer.
D2: a token is a VIEW, not a type. The aggregate gains no `Token` --
adding one would create a second source of truth for Stress, and the first
time they disagreed the bug would be invisible because both would look
internally consistent.
D3: quantity does NOT bind, and the reason is not the measurement. A
component limit the rules do not state is not a rule. Refusing a seventh
Protection token would enforce something nobody ruled -- CB-WP-0023's
error inverted: SOLVE was OFFERED where it could not act; this would
REFUSE where the rules allow. The check ships as a standing control, so a
future violation becomes a question for ground-game (does the box bound
the game, or do the rules?) rather than a bound the engine invented.
Registered as F22, withdrawn: a stated negative, because a survey that
finds nothing and leaves no trace cannot be told from one never run.
D4: Stress on a 0-5 track that turns red at 5 where DARVO arms, DARVO on
OFF/DENY/ATTACK/REVERSE, Freedom as the two-sided disc the edition says it
is, Protection and Blame counted, Lead and Round on the table.
Two tests broke on token discs and both were FIXTURE defects:
seat_centres matched every <circle> and track stops are circles. Seats now
carry class="seat".
The table height limit went 460 -> 500 as a CORRECTION, not a concession.
460 had no derivation; 500 does -- ~800px viewport less ~120 header and
~150 controls leaves ~530, and the version that broke dragging was 620.
CB-WP-0021 T06's rule is to fix the measurement rather than lower the
floor, and an underived number is a measurement defect.
make all: exit 0. 66 render tests, 26 cb-play.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Declaration 12 of chaos window 2, which CLOSES IT. Structural M (imports
another edition file under AM-4's budgets), chaos d8=4, no override.
Tokens.csv turns out to carry more than names. Every token has a
`quantity` -- 6 Protection, 5 Denied, 12 relation links -- and a component
count is a limit a simulation does not have unless it is told. protection
is saturating_add(1) at lib.rs:986 with no upper bound, against an edition
that ships six tokens for six players. T03 measures whether that matters
rather than assuming either way.
And `sides` is the second interesting column: Freedom and Focus/Blame are
each ONE DOUBLE-SIDED TOKEN, not two states. The engine holds Focus in a
map and Blame in a list; whether those can disagree with a single physical
token is worth checking.
T03 is shaped against a specific error: whatever it finds is a FINDING,
not a fix. A component limit the rules do not state is underdetermined and
belongs to ground-game, and the engine must not start enforcing a bound
nobody ruled. CB-WP-0023 exists because SOLVE was offered where it could
not act; inventing a limit is the same error in the other direction.
The workplan also names the window-2 verdict as DUE. Its retirement
condition was untestable throughout -- eleven declarations, zero 8s, zero
overrides -- and recording that is a change to how the loop constrains
itself, so it is its own tier-M pass rather than a task here. Named so it
is not lost between passes, which is how the ten rulings went uncollected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tier S (fixes inside a boundary; chaos d8=3, no override). Two
observations from play, both about what the page says has happened.
The controls moved BELOW the log: you read what happened, then decide what
to do next. They were above it, which asks for the decision first.
And sealing now marks the WHOLE PAGE inert, not just the controls. A
greyed-out button beside a full-colour table still reads as a live game
with one broken control; the session has ended and everything on screen is
a record of it. The status line stays legible on purpose -- it is the one
thing still worth reading.
THE STUB NEEDED A BODY classList TO MAKE THAT TESTABLE. Without it "the
session visibly ended" would have been a claim about CSS with nothing
checking it, which is precisely CB-WP-0016's finding: a stub too thin to
express a failure is how the failure survives. The harness reports the
sealed page through the status channel with a NUL-separated marker --
ugly, deliberate, and documented, because widening the return type would
touch every caller for one boolean.
Both directions asserted: a `closed` reply seals the page, an `ok:
dealing` reply does NOT -- otherwise the seal test would pass for a page
that greys itself whenever it is touched, breaking `play again`.
63 render tests, 26 cb-play, check and loop-lint clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tier S (a fix inside a boundary; chaos d8=7 from the previous roll stands
for this continuation). Two observations from play that are ONE defect.
`play again`, `end session`, `pass` and the move buttons carried `.pick`,
which is cursor:grab. The stylesheet has .btn{cursor:pointer} BEFORE
.pick{cursor:grab}, so grab won.
A GRAB CURSOR INVITES A DRAG. A drag released over nothing posts nothing,
so the player picked up the button, let go, and the page did nothing. It
looked dead because the affordance told them to do the one thing that does
not work. Reported as two separate things -- "the button shows a hand to
pick up that it probably shouldn't" and "I can't start another game or
stop the server" -- and the first causes the second.
The click path itself was never broken: driving again->again and
done->done through the JS harness posts correctly. The logic was fine and
the invitation was wrong.
Click targets now carry `.tap` -- pointer cursor, same press affordance.
This extends CB-WP-0017's rule (interactive and inert must not look
identical) to: click and drag must not look identical either. The test
asserts both directions, because checking only that buttons lost `.pick`
would pass for a page with no affordances at all.
Registered F20 (applied) and F21.
F21 IS THE ONE I COULD NOT REPRODUCE: dragging did not work until after
the first note was saved. Ruled out the plausible mechanisms -- the
gesture logic posts correctly against the served page, the drag ghost
carries pointer-events:none so it cannot intercept the drop, and the
markup is identical before and after since the 303 re-renders the same
page from the same state. Remaining candidates are a <details> toggle
shifting layout mid-drag, a first-load timing difference, or browser-level
pointer capture. Reproducing it needs a browser, which no test here has --
the same gap F19 named. Recorded as unreproduced rather than given a
speculative fix.
And the fourth observation is confirmation, not a bug: "drawing my cards
from the deck is not implemented, I did not need to do that" is exactly
what CB-WP-0028 T04 determined and deliberately did not build. It is the
first evidence that importing the card text closed the comprehension gap
that produced the earlier click-the-deck request.
make all: exit 0. 62 render tests, 26 cb-play.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
