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simulators/: persist the survey, and let it shrink two of the three tracks
Eight profiles on a common schema, each marking what was checked against a
source this session and what is background recollection. Three are marked
unverified in full — Machinations, the play substrates, most of RBG — and
say so rather than reading as evaluations. Written straight after three
review rounds whose entire yield was claims outrunning what had been
checked, so the confidence rule is the first thing in the README.

The survey changed the plan, which is what a survey is for.

Track C was described in Positioning as open ground. It is not: Browne
published 57 criteria for game quality, and Ai Ai already computes
designer-facing measures — drama, lead changes, branching factor,
completion, duration — from played games. The track becomes adopt, credit
and find the gap. The gap looks real: those measures presume a leader, and
SHARED GROUND has none — Modes.csv gives its tiebreak as "Not applicable".

Track B probably adopts rather than builds. OpenSpiel implements CFR,
best-response and exploitability over games that are simultaneous-move,
imperfect-information and co-operative, which is all four of GROUND's
awkward properties. "Does ATTACK ever pay" is a best-response question,
and we spent three review rounds refining a two-policy sweep for it. The
first Track B task is now one question — is exploitability meaningful for
a co-operative game with a shared threshold — not a build.

The cost of not surveying earlier is therefore measurable, and is recorded
rather than glossed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:56:27 +02:00
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ArchitectureBlueprint.md specs/Ornamentation.md: what a game is besides its rules 2026-08-07 21:16:34 +02:00
ArchitectureRuntime.md T01: audit every InnerLoop rule, and make the checkable ones executable 2026-07-31 09:16:00 +02:00
ChaosRollHistory.md CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect 2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00
CostAccounting.md CB-WP-0004 T04: fact registry and make facts-check — DFD gets a gate 2026-07-31 10:24:39 +02:00
FindingRegister.md CB-WP-0037 T02: the engine's rules against the edition's 2026-08-08 00:21:40 +02:00
GameDesign.md CB-WP-0030: a control for the wrong-subject family 2026-08-07 11:35:41 +02:00
GameKernel.md CB-WP-0019 T01/T02: AM-4b asks what a contributor acquires 2026-08-03 19:04:54 +02:00
GroundRules.md CB-WP-0026: collect the rulings -- ten answers that arrived and were never applied 2026-08-05 16:13:37 +02:00
InnerLoop.md ADR-0017: window 2's verdict — the mechanism worked, my account of it did 2026-08-07 10:55:54 +02:00
InnerLoopReference.md ADR-0017: window 2's verdict — the mechanism worked, my account of it did 2026-08-07 10:55:54 +02:00
MetricsAndScenarios.md CB-WP-0023: SOLVE is legal only where it can do something 2026-08-04 00:18:40 +02:00
Ornamentation.md CB-WP-0037 done: T03 classification and T04 evidence 2026-08-08 00:33:24 +02:00
OrnamentRegister.md CB-WP-0037 done: T03 classification and T04 evidence 2026-08-08 00:33:24 +02:00
Positioning.md simulators/: persist the survey, and let it shrink two of the three tracks 2026-08-08 11:56:27 +02:00
RetrospectiveAnalysis.md CB-WP-0025 T05: the search works, and it falsified this pass's own 2026-08-05 19:10:25 +02:00
SessionShape.md CB-WP-0013-T01: SH-3 refuses a window that cannot carry a rate 2026-08-02 07:23:04 +02:00
Taxonomy.md CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect 2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00