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Pull the engine out of the game so a second game can use it: rendering, input, physics and assets become a package the game imports, and the game plays exactly as before. Small steps; the game must keep working after every change.

This issue carries the repository's direction. The planner is given it when the map has run dry; it opens and links the issues that follow from it, and this one stays open.

Opened the first slice of this direction as #2 → (#3, #4) → #5: the package appears with the modules that are already game-agnostic and a test that holds the boundary, then physics and the generated assets move behind it, then the renderer stops knowing what a World is.

What this slice deliberately leaves for the next planning round, once these land:

• Input. src/client/input.ts imports Input and NO_INPUT from world.ts today; the engine wants a bindings table in and an action set out, with the game mapping actions to its own Input.
• The loop. The fixed-step accumulator in main.ts is engine, and testable headlessly.
• The grid. src/client/map.ts is de_forge data and a generic grid with A* over it; the A* and the cell↔world arithmetic belong in the engine, the layout stays in the game.
• More than one bundle. scripts/build.ts has one entry point and the server finds one app.<hash>.js; a second game needs both to take a list.
• The second game. A small thing at its own route built only from src/engine/, which is the only real proof the package is a package.

The direction stays open.

The map for direction #1, opened in the order it should be worked. Nothing was pushed and no file was created; the working tree is untouched and the direction stays open.

• #2 — Start the engine package: math and tracing move to src/engine/, and a test keeps the game out. The package appears with the two modules that already know nothing about Counter-Strike, Box lands in the tracer, and boundary.test.ts becomes the rule every later step is checked against. Suggested: Vesper.
• #3 — Physics moves into the engine and takes its tuning as data (waits for #2). MOVE/HULL become CS_MOVE/CS_HULL in the game and travel as arguments; a test under a second tuning proves nothing is baked in, and --bench proves the training loop did not get slower. Suggested: Torque, or Vesper.
• #4 — Assets become engine: a mesh builder, a texture painter and a sound device (waits for #2). The generic tools move, the nine materials and the weapon tones stay as game recipes, and the atlas is pinned byte-for-byte by its sha256 so the map cannot change colour by accident. Suggested: Vesper.
• #5 — The renderer draws a scene, not a World (waits for #3 and #4). src/engine/renderer.ts takes camera, instances, lines and a view model; src/client/scene.ts does the CS translation and is the part that finally gets a headless test. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #2. It holds up the other three, and #3 and #4 open in parallel the moment it lands.

I left input, the fixed-step loop, the grid/A* split, a multi-entry build and the second game itself for the next planning round, and said so in a comment on #1 — those are the half of the direction that only makes sense once the boundary exists and the renderer no longer takes a World. Baseline for whoever picks up #2: bun test is 106 passing in 2.6 s and / answers in 15 ms.

The second half of direction #1, opened now that the map had run to two issues. #2 and #4 have landed, #3 is in flight as pull #7, and #5 waits on it; these four finish the direction.

• #10 — The frame becomes engine: a fixed-step loop and a bindings-driven controller. The accumulator in main.ts and the key table in input.ts become src/engine/loop.ts and src/engine/controls.ts, both driven headlessly through a stub event target; src/client/binding.ts holds CS_KEYS and the action-set → Input mapping. Suggested: Vesper.
• *#11 — The grid becomes engine: cells, meshing and A\; de_forge stays the game's.** src/engine/grid.ts takes any grid and predicates; map.ts keeps the layout, the Cell alphabet, MAT, the sites and the spawns, and exports the same names it exports today. Suggested: Torque.
• #12 — The build takes a list of entries and the server serves a bundle per game. The one-entry bundle() and the readdirSync(...).find() in the server both become plural, the stale-bundle cleanup becomes per entry, and the freshness test covers every entry. Nothing visible changes. Suggested: Torque.
• #13 — A second game proves the package: a shooting range at /range, built only from the engine (waits for #5, #10 and #12). src/range/ imports only src/engine/, proved by a test that reads the sources; its own movement tuning, its own atlas, its own bindings; no new endpoint, no new table. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #10, #11 and #12 — all three are independent of pull #7 and of each other, and none of them touches physics.ts, world.ts or the renderer. #13 is the last one and is the only thing left that the direction is actually about; when it lands, this issue can close.

Two frictions worth knowing before picking one up: main.ts is touched by both #10 and #5, and every pull here rewrites static/app.<hash>.js — rebase on main and rebuild rather than merging a bundle by hand.

Baseline on main today: bun test is 145 passing in 2.8 s, and / answers in 5 ms.

This was a planning run: I read the repository and the map, opened the four issues that finish direction #1, and linked them. Nothing was pushed; the working tree is untouched and the direction stays open.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #10 — The frame becomes engine: a fixed-step loop and a bindings-driven controller. main.ts's accumulator becomes src/engine/loop.ts and input.ts's key table becomes src/engine/controls.ts (bindings in, an action set out, driven headlessly through a stub event target); src/client/binding.ts keeps CS_KEYS and the action-set → Input mapping. Suggested: Vesper.
• *#11 — The grid becomes engine: cells, meshing and A\; de_forge stays the game's.** src/engine/grid.ts works on any grid with predicates for solid and walkable; map.ts keeps the layout, the Cell alphabet, MAT, the sites and the spawns, and exports the same names as today. Suggested: Torque.
• #12 — The build takes a list of entries and the server serves a bundle per game. bundle(), the per-entry stale-file cleanup and the server's script lookup all become plural, and the freshness test covers every entry; nothing visible changes. Suggested: Torque.
• #13 — A second game proves the package: a shooting range at /range, built only from the engine — waits for #5, #10 and #12. src/range/ imports only src/engine/, proved by a test that reads the sources; its own movement tuning, its own atlas, its own bindings, no new endpoint and no new table. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #10, #11 and #12, plus #3 which is already in flight as pull #7. All three new ones are independent of #7 and of each other — none touches physics.ts, world.ts or the renderer. #13 is the last step and the only one the direction is really about; when it lands, #1 can close.

Two frictions I wrote into the bodies: main.ts is touched by both #10 and #5, and every pull here rewrites static/app.<hash>.js, so rebase on main and rebuild rather than merging a bundle by hand. Baseline for whoever picks one up: bun test is 145 passing in 2.8 s and / answers in 5 ms.

One housekeeping note: issue #9 ("probe") was created by accident while I was working out why the API rejected my first request; it is closed and carries a comment saying so.

The third planning round on this direction, opened now that the map's only ready work was already in flight as pulls #7 (#3) and #14 (#10). #2, #4, #11 and #12 have landed; #5 waits on #3; #13 is still the finale.

Two of these four are the extractions #13 would otherwise have to copy out of src/client/, which its own body forbids — the page and the on-screen readout are the last two places where the game owns something a second game needs. The other two are proofs: that the split changed no behaviour, and that it cost no speed. Each pull so far has hand-rolled both measurements.

• #17 — One page shell serves both games: the document, the style and the stage move to src/pages/shell.ts. game.ts keeps cs's content; the shell owns the doctype, the style block, the header, the #stage canvases, the touch pad and the FORGE_APP_SSH line, with text-versus-markup escaping made explicit and the client's ids pinned by a test. Server-side only, no bundle. Suggested: Torque.
• #18 — The readout becomes engine: a 2D overlay the HUD draws through (waits for #3, which renames MOVE under it). src/engine/overlay.ts takes a structurally typed drawing target so a recording stub drives it headlessly; the HUD keeps CS's layout and finally gets a test — it is the biggest untested module in the game. Suggested: Vesper.
• #19 — A seeded round is pinned: a golden digest proves an engine extraction changed nothing. A fixed input script over a seeded ten-bot round and an arena duel, quantised before hashing, with a per-second checkpoint so a failure names the second it diverged. Pull #7 computed this by hand; it should be a test. Suggested: Torque.
• #20 — One command says how fast this is: scripts/bench.ts measures the simulation and the engine's tools. World step, arena step, policy decision, mesh build, atlas paint, A* path and bundle sizes, median and p95 with the units stated, --json to paste into a pull. There is no browser in this sandbox, so this is the measurement a reviewer can actually get. Suggested: Torque.

Ready now: #17, #19 and #20, alongside #3 and #10 already in flight. #18 opens when #3 lands. #13 now waits on #5, #10, #17 and #18 — two more blockers than before, deliberately: a range that copies the page or the HUD out of src/client/ would make this direction untrue.

Left for the next round, once #5 and #10 have settled the module list: a single door for the package (src/engine/index.ts with a documented surface) and a boundary rule that no engine module touches a browser global at import time — today sound.ts is lazy by convention, not by test.

Baseline on main today: bun test is 166 passing in 2.8 s, / answers in under a millisecond locally at 5.4 kB, and the bundle is static/app.876e3fcdf5.js at 67.5 kB.

This was a planning run: I read the repository, the map and the two in-flight pulls (#7 for #3, #14 for #10), then opened and linked the four issues that follow. Nothing was pushed, no file was created, the working tree is untouched and direction #1 stays open.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #17 — One page shell serves both games: the document, the style and the stage move to src/pages/shell.ts. src/pages/game.ts keeps only Counter-Strike's content; the shell owns the doctype, the one <style>, the header, the #stage canvases, the touch pad and the verbatim FORGE_APP_SSH line, with text-versus-markup escaping made explicit and every id main.ts looks up pinned by a test. Server-side only, no bundle rebuild. Suggested: Torque.
• #19 — A seeded round is pinned: a golden digest proves an engine extraction changed nothing. A fixed input script over a seeded ten-bot round and an arena duel, floats quantised before hashing, a per-second checkpoint so a failure names the second it diverged, and Math.random made to throw during the run. Pull #7 computed this by hand; it belongs in bun test. Suggested: Torque.
• #20 — One command says how fast this is: scripts/bench.ts measures the simulation and the engine's tools. World step, arena step, policy decision, level mesh, atlas paint, A* path and bundle sizes — median and p95 with units stated, --json to paste into a pull. There is no browser in this sandbox, so this is the measurement a reviewer can actually get. Suggested: Torque.
• #18 — The readout becomes engine: a 2D overlay the HUD draws through (waits for #3, which renames MOVE underneath hud.ts). src/engine/overlay.ts takes a structurally typed drawing target so a recording stub drives it headlessly, and the HUD keeps CS's layout and words — and finally gets a test, being the largest untested module in the game. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #17, #19 and #20, alongside #3 and #10 already in flight as pulls #7 and #14. #18 opens the moment #3 lands.

#13 now waits on #5, #10, #17 and #18 — two more blockers than before, on purpose: its own body forbids importing src/client/, and the page shell and the HUD were the two things a range would otherwise have had to copy across. Left for the next round, once #5 and #10 settle the module list: a single door for the package (src/engine/index.ts) and a boundary rule that no engine module touches a browser global at import time — sound.ts is lazy by convention today, not by test. Baseline on main: 166 tests passing in 2.8 s, / under a millisecond locally at 5.4 kB.

The fourth planning round on this direction. #10 landed as pull #14, which left the map with nothing ready that was not already in flight: #3 is pull #7 (open since 03:49), #20 is pull #23, and everything else — #5, #18, #13 — sits behind #3. That is the state worth naming for a person before the issues: the whole critical path of this direction waits on one unmerged pull. Nothing I can open changes that; all four of these are deliberately chosen to be true and startable while it waits, and none of them touches physics.ts, renderer.ts or hud.ts.

• #24 — The second game's plumbing lands first: /range is served, bundled and proven engine-only. The route, the shell-built page, the ENTRIES row, src/range/main.ts booting the engine's loop and controls, its own bindings, and independence.test.ts reading the sources — a live page that shows ticks, frame time, held actions and view angles and nothing more. The room, the targets and the renderer stay #13's, which now waits on this. Suggested: Torque.
• #25 — The engine has one door: src/engine/index.ts is the surface, and nothing outside reaches past it. Twenty-nine deep imports into eight files become one; the boundary test gains both halves of the rule (nothing outside imports past the door, every engine module is re-exported by it) and the surface is pinned as a sorted list a review can see change. Bundle bytes stated before and after. Suggested: Torque.
• #26 — The engine loads without a browser, and a test holds it to that. sound.ts is lazy by convention today and controls.ts takes its host by convention; a test that imports every engine module with the browser globals installed as recording getters makes both of them true by test. Suggested: Vesper.
• #27 — Boot becomes testable: main.ts takes its host, and a stub document drives a frame headlessly. The largest untested file here, rewritten in part by every extraction so far: play starts a match, a 1/30 s frame runs exactly two steps, the buy panel suppresses fire, a lost lock pauses, match_over stops the run, one POST a round, and the no-WebGL path is a test rather than a hope. The stubs are the shape src/range/ reuses. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #24, #25, #26 and #27, alongside #3 and #20 already in flight. #13 now waits on #5, #18 and #24; its own checklist is unchanged, and a comment there says which of its items #24 brings.

Two frictions in the bodies: #25 edits an import line in nearly every file under src/client/, so it conflicts with anything in flight and should be rebased and kept to one line per file; #27 and #5 both rewrite part of main.ts.

Left for the next round: the engine's own tuning story (CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE is the point of #3, and nothing yet documents what a game must supply to use the package), and a bundle-size ceiling per entry once there are two. Baseline on main today: bun test is 219 passing in 3.4 s, / answers in 1.6 ms locally at 7.7 kB, and the bundle is static/app.90bb5b2a7e.js.

This was a planning run: I read the repository, the map and the two open pulls, opened four issues and linked them. Nothing was pushed, no file was created, the working tree is clean and direction #1 stays open.

The state worth naming first: #10 landed as pull #14, which left the map with nothing ready that was not already in flight — #3 is pull #7 (open since 03:49), #20 is pull #23, and #5, #18 and #13 all sit behind #3. The whole critical path of this direction waits on one unmerged pull; these four are chosen to be startable while it does, and none touches physics.ts, renderer.ts or hud.ts.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #24 — The second game's plumbing lands first: /range is served, bundled and proven engine-only. The route, the shell-built page, the ENTRIES row, an entry that boots the engine's loop and controls and draws ticks, frame time, held actions and view angles, its own bindings, and independence.test.ts reading the sources. The room, the targets and the renderer stay #13's. Suggested: Torque.
• #25 — The engine has one door: src/engine/index.ts is the surface, and nothing outside reaches past it. Twenty-nine deep imports across eight files become one; the boundary test gains both halves of the rule and the surface is pinned as a list a review can see change, with bundle bytes stated before and after. Suggested: Torque.
• #26 — The engine loads without a browser, and a test holds it to that. Every engine module imported with the browser globals installed as recording getters, so sound.ts's laziness and controls.ts's injected host stop being conventions. Suggested: Vesper.
• #27 — Boot becomes testable: main.ts takes its host, and a stub document drives a frame headlessly. The largest untested file here, and the one every extraction has rewritten: play starts a match, a 1/30 s frame runs exactly two steps, the buy panel suppresses fire, a lost lock pauses, one POST a round, and the no-WebGL path becomes a test. Its stubs are the shape src/range/ reuses. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #24, #25, #26 and #27, alongside #3 and #20 already in flight. #13 now waits on #5, #18 and #24, with a comment there saying which of its checklist items #24 brings and that nothing was dropped. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment. Baseline on main: bun test is 219 passing in 3.4 s, / answers in 1.6 ms locally at 7.7 kB.

The fifth planning round on this direction. #25 and #26 landed as pulls #28 and #30, which finished what the last round parked — the engine now has one door and a test that it loads without a browser. What is left of the direction's own list is physics (#3) and renderer (#5), and the proof (#13).

The state worth naming first, because it has not moved since the last round: pull #7 for #3 is fifteen hours old and no longer merges — mergeable: false, seven conflicting files, almost all of them the import lines #25 rewrote underneath its branch. #5, #18 and #13 all sit behind it. I left a comment on #3 with the conflict list and the three rules that landed while it waited (the door, the purity probe, the golden digest), and the shortest rebase order. Nothing I can open changes that, so these four are again chosen to be true, startable now and clear of physics.ts, renderer.ts and hud.ts.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #32 — The terminal is held by tests, and the tab it already draws becomes reachable. src/tty.ts renders three tabs and the tab key toggles two: the policy card is unreachable from the keyboard. It is also the largest module here with no test at all, on the interface AGENTS.md asks us to keep useful. The drawing becomes screen(view, data) → lines and the keys become a reducer, both plain data in and out, both tested; the entry keeps only the pty wiring. Suggested: Torque.
• #33 — Both games are one click apart: the shell carries the nav, and the 404 offers both. Two games on this server, and the only way across is a link in the middle of a paragraph. The shell takes the games as escaped data, both pages pass them, the current one is marked and not a link, the 404 names both, and no client JavaScript is added. Suggested: Vesper.
• #34 — Every bundle has a stated ceiling, and bun test holds it. "Ship little JavaScript" is a sentence nothing holds anyone to. Today: app is 68,224 bytes raw and 31,663 gzipped, range 7,067 and 3,272. Each entry carries the number it may not pass, measured on the committed file and on a fresh build, with the rule that raising it is a line in a pull. #20's bench may report sizes; the rule lives in the test, once. Suggested: Torque.
• #35 — What ships is what runs: the committed range bundle boots under the stub page. boot.test.ts proves the sources boot; nothing proves the minified file in static/ does, and that is what a browser downloads. Install src/range/dom.ts, import the bundle by file URL, and hold it to drawn text — a tick line, a yaw line, a frame that advances, a key that changes the panel. The shooter's bundle joins once #27 gives the client a stub page. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #32, #33, #34 and #35, alongside #3 (pull #7, needs a rebase), #20 (pull #23) and #27 (pull #31) in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment, and no dependency edges were needed: all four stand alone and touch files nothing in flight touches.

Left for the next round, deliberately: the engine's tuning story — what a game must supply to use the package — which only reads honestly once CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE exists in #3; and the range as a game, which is #13 and still waits on #5 and #18.

Baseline on main today: bun test is 262 passing in 3.6 s, / answers in 3 ms locally at 8.1 kB and /range in 1.5 ms at 6.8 kB, and the bundles are static/app.3fa56501a8.js and static/range.06e0ed221e.js.

This was a planning run: I read the repository, the map, the three open pulls and every issue, then opened and linked four issues. Nothing was pushed, no file was created, the working tree is clean and direction #1 stays open.

The state worth naming first: pull #7 for #3 is fifteen hours old and no longer merges — mergeable: false, seven conflicting files, almost all of them the import lines #25's door rewrote underneath its branch. #5, #18 and #13 all sit behind it, so the whole critical path of this direction waits on one rebase. I left a comment on #3 with the conflict list, the three rules that landed while it waited (the door, the purity probe, the golden digest) and the shortest replay order. The four issues below are chosen to be true, startable now, and clear of physics.ts, renderer.ts and hud.ts.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #32 — The terminal is held by tests, and the tab it already draws becomes reachable. src/tty.ts renders three tabs and the tab key toggles two: the policy card is unreachable from the keyboard, and the file is the largest module here with no test at all. Drawing becomes screen(view, data) → lines, keys become a reducer, the entry keeps only the pty wiring. Suggested: Torque.
• #33 — Both games are one click apart: the shell carries the nav, and the 404 offers both. Two games, and the only way across is a link in the middle of a paragraph. Escaped nav data through the shell, the current entry marked and not a link, no client JavaScript added. Suggested: Vesper.
• #34 — Every bundle has a stated ceiling, and bun test holds it. app is 68,224 bytes raw and 31,663 gzipped, range 7,067 and 3,272; each entry carries the number it may not pass, measured on the committed file and on a fresh build. #20's bench may report sizes — the rule lives in the test, once. Suggested: Torque.
• #35 — What ships is what runs: the committed range bundle boots under the stub page. boot.test.ts proves the sources boot; nothing proves the minified file in static/ does. Install src/range/dom.ts, import the bundle by file URL, hold it to drawn text. The shooter's bundle joins once #27 gives the client a stub page. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #32, #33, #34 and #35, alongside #3 (pull #7, needs a rebase), #20 (pull #23) and #27 (pull #31) in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment, and no dependency edges were needed — all four stand alone and touch files nothing in flight touches. Left for the next round: the engine's tuning story, which only reads honestly once CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE exists in #3, and #13 itself. Baseline on main: 262 tests passing in 3.6 s, / at 8.1 kB in 3 ms and /range at 6.8 kB in 1.5 ms locally.

The sixth planning round on this direction. #32 is in flight as pull #37, #33 and #38 are being worked, and the map had nothing ready that nobody had already started.

The state worth naming first, because it has not moved in sixteen hours: pull #7 for #3 still does not merge — mergeable: false, the same seven conflicting files. #5, #18 and #13 all sit behind it, which is the whole remainder of this direction's own list. So this round does the one thing planning can do about that: it takes the half of the finale that does not need physics or the renderer and makes it an issue of its own.

• #41 — The range becomes a game without a renderer: seeded pop-up targets, a traced shot, a clock and a score. src/range/targets.ts as plain data in and out, the shot traced with the engine's rayBox along angleVectors, the clock that ends a run, and blips on the 2D horizon so a person can actually play it today. #13 now waits for it and keeps the room, the atlas, the movement tuning, the sounds and the drawn scene. Suggested: Vesper.
• #42 — Static files are served the way a browser wants them: gzip when it is asked for, reads only. A phone downloads 68,457 bytes of app.<hash>.js where 31,661 would do, and POST /static/app.<hash>.js answers 200 with the whole file. src/assets.ts gzips each entry once at start-up, negotiates with vary: accept-encoding, and lets only GET/HEAD through. HTML is left alone on purpose, and the pull says whether the forge's edge already compresses. Suggested: Torque.
• #43 — What ships is what runs, for the shooter too: the committed app bundle boots under the stub page. #35 did this for the range; #27 gave the client the stub page it needed, and nothing yet proves the minified file a browser downloads boots at all. Suggested: Vesper.
• #44 — The package says how to build a game on it: a guide beside the door, and no export left undocumented. index.ts is the what; GUIDE.md is the how — host, bindings, tick, recipes, tuning — with a test that every exported name is in the guide and every backticked engine name is exported, so it cannot rot. When #3 lands physics the test demands its paragraph. Suggested: Torque.

Ready now: #41, #42, #43 and #44, alongside #3 (pull #7, needs a rebase), #20 (pull #23), #32 (pull #37), #33 and #38 in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment. One edge was added: #13 waits for #41, with a comment there saying which of its items moved and that nothing was dropped.

Left for the next round, deliberately: the engine's tuning story in prose, which only reads true once CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE exists; and splitting #13 itself, which even after #41 is still a room, an atlas, movement, sound and a drawn scene in one run.

Baseline on main today: bun test is 284 passing in 3.6 s, / answers in 2.5 ms at 8,091 bytes and /range in 1.0 ms at 6,846, and the bundles are static/app.6bf398e121.js (68,457 raw) and static/range.06e0ed221e.js.

The map was already filed before my turn was cut; I've now verified every claim in those four bodies against the working tree, and they hold — src/client/binding.ts against src/range/binding.ts, 64 Hz against 50 Hz in the two main.ts files, reExportedNames already built by boundary.test.ts, the year-long immutable static branch in src/server.ts with no Content-Encoding, and deleteMatch reachable from src/tty.ts with no identity check. Nothing is parked, and there is nothing to commit: a planning run creates no files, so the branch stays level with main.

What I opened, in order:

• #41 — The range becomes a game without a renderer: seeded pop-up targets, a traced shot, a clock and a score. The second game's plumbing landed in #24 but it is not yet a game; this gives it rules built only from the engine's trace and grid, headless and tested. Linked as a blocker of #13, so the proof-of-package issue now waits on real gameplay rather than on nothing. Suggested: Torque.
• #42 — Static files are served the way a browser wants them: gzip when it is asked for, reads only. A 68 KB bundle goes out uncompressed today; this negotiates encoding, keeps the immutable cache and the security floor, and holds the path traversal guard. Suggested: Vesper.
• #43 — What ships is what runs, for the shooter too: the committed app bundle boots under the stub page. #36 gave the range that guarantee; the larger of the two bundles still has none, so a stale static/app..js would ship silently. Suggested: Vesper.*
• #44 — The package says how to build a game on it: a guide beside the door, and no export left undocumented. index.ts says what the engine exports and nothing says what a game must bring; the guide gets a test in both directions so it cannot drift from the door. Suggested: Torque.

Ready now, nothing open in front of them: #40 (trevato's terminal-authorization issue), #41, #42, #43, #44. Still blocked: #5 and #18 behind #3, and #13 behind #5, #18 and #41 — #3 is the critical path, and the renderer split is what the direction needs next. #1 stays open as the direction.

The seventh planning round on this direction, and the one that takes the direction's own headline out from behind a stalled pull. Pull #7 for #3 has not been touched since 03:49 — seventeen hours — and its seven conflicting files are the same seven. #5, #18 and #13 all sat behind it, which was everything this direction still promises: rendering, the overlay and the second game. The forge's dependency API has no delete, so the edges stand and the work moves into new issues that do not need the physics rebase.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #47 — The scene becomes data: src/client/scene.ts builds a frame, and the renderer draws only that. The renderer's one reach into physics is hullHeight for the duck squash; moving it into a scene builder makes a frame plain data and testable headlessly — tracer fades, the bomb beam, team tints, the 4096-vertex cap, the view model's bob — with the renderer still in src/client/ and nothing allocated per frame. None of the files it opens are among pull #7's seven. Suggested: Vesper.
• #48 — The renderer moves behind the door: src/engine/renderer.ts takes an atlas and named meshes. The last thing the headline promises that nobody has started. createRenderer(surface, { atlas, meshes, sky }), draw(scene, dt), a stub context in the test so no GPU is needed, and the shooter handing its own materials in. Waits for #47. Suggested: Vesper.
• #49 — The overlay becomes engine: 2D drawing tools behind the door, and the range draws through them. The range already invented the structural Paint target for itself, and the HUD already has the generic panels, fonts, crosshair, bar and feed; this takes the generic half into src/engine/overlay.ts and opens no file under src/client/, so it is clear of #7 entirely — with the range's readout as the consumer that proves it today. Suggested: Torque.
• #50 — The range paints its own world: a room, a target and an atlas of its own, all data and no renderer. Meshes and atlases are arrays and bytes, so the range's world can land before it can be drawn, and the shot in #41 gets walls to stop in. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #48 waits for #47; #5 waits for both and should be closed with a word when they land, since it holds nothing they do not; #18 waits for #49 and keeps only the HUD half, which genuinely waits for #7's MOVE → CS_MOVE; #13 waits for #50. Each of #5, #18 and #13 carries a comment saying exactly what moved and that nothing was dropped. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment.

Ready now: #47, #49 and #50, alongside #40, #42, #43 and #44 from last round, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #33 (pull #46) and #41 in flight. #38 landed as pull #45 and #32 as #37 since the last round.

Left for the next round, deliberately: the range's own sounds through the engine's device, which is small enough to wait and reads better beside its world; and the engine's tuning story in prose, which still only reads true once CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE exists.

Measured on main at 3c0c7cd before writing this: / answers in 1.1 ms at 8,548 bytes and /range in 1.5 ms at 6,846, /nope is a 51-byte 404, the security floor is on every response including /static/, and the bundles are static/app.6bf398e121.js (68,457 bytes, still uncompressed on the wire and still answering 200 to POST — #42) and static/range.06e0ed221e.js (7,067). The range page still says of itself "what is not here yet: the room, the pop-up targets, the shot, the score and the clock" — #41 and #50 are that sentence.

Seventh planning round on direction #1, and the point of it was to get the direction's own headline — rendering — out from behind pull #7, which has not moved in seventeen hours with the same seven conflicting files. The forge's dependency API has no delete, so the stale edges stand and the work moved into new issues that need no physics rebase.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #47 — The scene becomes data: src/client/scene.ts builds a frame, and the renderer draws only that. The renderer's single reach into physics is hullHeight for the duck squash, so moving the decisions into a scene builder makes a frame plain data and testable headlessly — tracer fades, the bomb beam, team tints, the 4096-vertex cap, the view model's bob — with the renderer still in src/client/ and nothing allocated per frame. None of the files it opens are among pull #7's seven. Suggested: Vesper.
• #48 — The renderer moves behind the door: src/engine/renderer.ts takes an atlas and named meshes. The last thing the direction promises that nobody has started, with a stub context in the test so it needs no GPU. Waits for #47. Suggested: Vesper.
• #49 — The overlay becomes engine: 2D drawing tools behind the door, and the range draws through them. The range already declared the structural Paint target for itself and the HUD already has the generic panels, fonts, crosshair, bar and feed; this takes the generic half into the engine, opens no file under src/client/, and has a consumer that proves it today. Suggested: Torque.
• #50 — The range paints its own world: a room, a target and an atlas of its own, all data and no renderer. Meshes and atlases are arrays and bytes, so the range's world lands before it can be drawn, and the shot in #41 gets walls to stop in. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #48 waits for #47; #5 waits for both and should be closed with a word when they land, since it holds nothing they do not; #18 waits for #49 and keeps only the HUD half, which genuinely waits for MOVE → CS_MOVE; #13 waits for #50. #5, #18 and #13 each carry a comment saying what moved and that nothing was dropped, and #1 carries the round. Nothing was parked.

Ready now: #47, #49, #50, alongside #40, #42, #43, #44 from last round, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #33 (pull #46) and #41 in flight. Measured on main at 3c0c7cd first: / in 1.1 ms at 8,548 bytes, /range in 1.5 ms at 6,846, the security floor on every response, and the app bundle still uncompressed on the wire — the two earlier ports I probed, 8080 and 8099, are other apps on this host, not this one.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip, so there is no pull to open for this run.

The eighth planning round. #41 landed as pull #51 and #33 as #46, so the range is a game today — plates pop up from a seeded spawn, a click traces a ray in three dimensions, thirty seconds run out and the panel keeps the score — and both games are one click apart. On main at a6ebf5b: bun test is 361 passing in 4.1 s, / answers in 0.7 ms at 9,198 bytes, /range in 0.7 ms at 8,265, the 404 is 99 bytes, and the bundles are static/app.6bf398e121.js (68,457) and static/range.422be53cf7.js (11,575). Pull #7 for #3 is still where it was.

Played as a customer, the range's own page says what is missing: "there is no room drawn yet — a plate is a square on the horizon, and you turn on the spot", and it is silent. This round is those two sentences plus the net that should exist before either is fixed.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #52 — The range makes its own noise: a shot, a hit and the clock through the engine's sound device. The one part of the package the second game still does not exercise. Its own recipes, not the shooter's; attenuate for distance; the device opened on the first sound and never at boot, with boot.test.ts holding that; a fake constructor in the test so it runs headlessly. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #53 — A seeded range run is pinned: one digest, so a renderer and a movement tuning cannot change the game. The shooter has had a golden digest since #22 and it is what makes an extraction provably harmless; the range is about to get an atlas, a renderer and a movement tuning under it with no such net. A fixed script of shots, one sha256, a checkpoint per second that names the second that moved. Ready now, and it should land before #50 and #54. Suggested: Torque.
• #54 — The range is drawn in three dimensions: the room, the plates and the tracer through the engine's renderer. The only real proof that #48 made the renderer a package: the range's own scene, its own atlas, its own sky, a WebGL2-less browser keeping today's projected horizon as the fallback, and the pin from #53 unmoved. Waits for #48, #49, #50 and #53. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #54 waits for #48, #49, #50 and #53; #13 waits for #52 and #54. #13 carries a comment with the tally — after #54 it is one movement tuning and one README paragraph, and it keeps its honest wait on #3.

Ready now: #49, #50, #52 and #53, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #44 and #47 in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment.

Left for the next round, deliberately: the shooter's own recipes have no test where the renderer stops knowing them (src/client/models.ts is 65 lines with none), which reads better once #47 has moved the scene decisions out; and the engine's tuning story in prose, which still waits on CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE.

Eighth planning round. #41 landed as pull #51 and #33 as #46, so the range is a real game now: I played it through the page — seeded plates, a ray traced in three dimensions, a thirty-second clock, a score — and its own copy names what is missing ("no room drawn yet — a plate is a square on the horizon, and you turn on the spot"), plus it is silent. On main at a6ebf5b: 361 tests passing in 4.1 s, / in 0.7 ms at 9,198 bytes, /range in 0.7 ms at 8,265, the 404 at 99 bytes, bundles app.6bf398e121.js (68,457) and range.422be53cf7.js (11,575). Pull #7 for #3 has still not moved.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #52 — The range makes its own noise: a shot, a hit and the clock through the engine's sound device. The last part of the package the second game does not exercise, with its own recipes rather than the shooter's, attenuate for distance, the device opened on the first sound and never at boot, and a fake constructor so the test is headless. Suggested: Vesper.
• #53 — A seeded range run is pinned: one digest, so a renderer and a movement tuning cannot change the game. The shooter has had a golden digest since #22; the range is about to get an atlas, a renderer and a movement tuning under it with no net. A fixed script of shots, one sha256, a checkpoint per second that names the second that moved. Should land before #50 and #54. Suggested: Torque.
• #54 — The range is drawn in three dimensions: the room, the plates and the tracer through the engine's renderer. The only real proof that #48 makes the renderer a package — the range's own scene and sky, a WebGL2-less browser keeping today's horizon as a fallback, and #53's digest unmoved. Waits for #48, #49, #50 and #53. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #54 waits for #48, #49, #50 and #53; #13 waits for #52 and #54, and carries a comment with the tally — after #54 it is one movement tuning and one README paragraph, keeping only its honest wait on #3. #53 carries a one-line correction: its checklist heading reads "Started, this is what done looks like" where it should read "Done looks like", and the forge accepts only a state change on an edit, so it stands as filed.

Ready now: #49, #50, #52, #53, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #44 and #47 in flight. Nothing is parked. Left deliberately for next round: src/client/models.ts has no test where the renderer stops knowing the shooter's recipes, which reads better after #47, and the engine's tuning story in prose, which still waits on CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, the working tree is clean at main's tip, and there is no pull to open for this run.

The ninth planning round. #47 landed as pull #56 and #44 as #55, so a frame is plain data, the guide sits beside the door — and #48, the renderer moving behind the door, is ready and unassigned. That is the keystone of this direction's headline and the thing to pick up first.

I exercised the app as a customer on a024b3f before planning: / answers in 6 ms cold and 0.7 ms warm at 9,198 bytes, /range in 0.7 ms at 8,265, and the boundary behaves — bad JSON is 400, a junk result 422, a 20 kB body 413, a name of atlas<b>&" comes back escaped everywhere it is printed, the session cookie is HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax, and the security floor is on every response including /static/. The one thing that still reads wrong is what #42 already says: POST /static/app.<hash>.js answers 200 with 68,457 uncompressed bytes.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #57 — The shooter's recipes are pinned: src/client/models.ts gets the test it never had. After #47 the picture is decided in exactly two places, and only one of them is tested; the meshes are about to be handed to an engine renderer that does not control them. Shape, bounds, index validity, every layer inside the atlas, purity — not vertex order. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #58 — The guide's code runs: src/engine/example.ts is the smallest game on the package, and a test plays it. #44 keeps the guide's names honest but not one line of it runs, so nothing catches a door whose exports still have the right names and no longer fit together. Under 80 lines, host handed in, seeded and headless, and a guide rule that every fenced block appears in the file that runs. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #59 — The engine hands out a headless page: one stub document behind the door, and both games boot through it. src/client/stage.test-helper.ts is 322 lines and src/range/dom.ts 169, doing the same job, and the shooter's header admits a third game would copy whichever is nearer — a thing both games need and neither may share is the definition of engine. Waits for #43, which also stubs a page for the shooter's bundle. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #59 waits for #43. #57 and #58 stand alone; I deliberately did not make #48 wait for #57, because the keystone should not queue behind a test of recipes it does not change.

Ready now: #48, #50, #52, #57, #58, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #49 and #53 in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment.

One thing planning cannot fix, said once more because it is now the only thing still frozen: pull #7 for #3 has not been touched in twenty hours and does not merge. #18's HUD half and #13's movement tuning are the last two items of this direction's own list, and both wait on it. Every other piece has been routed around it.

Left for the next round, deliberately: src/client/weights.ts and src/client/action.ts are the last untested modules that are not covered by a pull in flight, and the engine's tuning story in prose still reads true only once CS_MOVE versus RANGE_MOVE exists.

Ninth planning round. #47 landed as pull #56 and #44 as #55, so a frame is plain data and the guide sits beside the door — which leaves #48, the renderer moving behind the door, ready and unassigned: that is the keystone of this direction's headline and the thing to pick up first.

I exercised the app as a customer on a024b3f first: / answers in 0.7 ms warm at 9,198 bytes, /range in 0.7 ms at 8,265, bad JSON is 400, a junk result 422, a 20 kB body 413, a name of atlas<b>&" comes back escaped everywhere it is printed, and the session cookie is HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax. The one thing still wrong is what #42 already says: POST /static/app.<hash>.js answers 200 with 68,457 uncompressed bytes.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #57 — The shooter's recipes are pinned: src/client/models.ts gets the test it never had. After #47 the picture is decided in two places and only one is tested, and the meshes are about to be handed to a renderer that does not control them. Shape, bounds, index validity, every layer inside the atlas, purity — not vertex order. Suggested: Torque.
• #58 — The guide's code runs: src/engine/example.ts is the smallest game on the package, and a test plays it. #44 keeps the guide's names honest, but no line of it runs, so nothing catches a door whose exports still have the right names and no longer fit together. Under 80 lines, host handed in, seeded, headless, plus a guide rule that every fenced block appears in the file that runs. Suggested: Torque.
• #59 — The engine hands out a headless page: one stub document behind the door, and both games boot through it. src/client/stage.test-helper.ts is 322 lines and src/range/dom.ts 169 doing the same job, and the shooter's own header admits a third game would copy whichever is nearer — a thing both games need and neither may share is the definition of engine. Waits for #43. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #59 waits for #43. #57 and #58 stand alone, and I deliberately did not put #57 in front of #48 — the keystone should not queue behind a test of recipes it does not change.

Ready now: #48, #50, #52, #57, #58, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #3 (pull #7), #20 (pull #23), #49 and #53 in flight. Nothing is parked. Said once more because it is the only piece still frozen: pull #7 for #3 has not moved in twenty hours and does not merge, and #18's HUD half plus #13's movement tuning are the last two items of this direction's list waiting on it — everything else has been routed around it.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

The tenth planning round. #49 landed as pull #60, so the overlay is behind the door and the range already draws through it, and #48 has the renderer in flight. That leaves exactly one module of the direction's headline still sitting in the game — physics — and this round is about getting it moved.

Pull #7 for #3 has not been touched in twenty hours and still does not merge. Its seven conflicting files are the import lines that #25's door, #47's scene split and #49's overlay rewrote underneath it; three of those landed after it was opened. Rebasing it is now larger work than replaying it, so the work has a fresh issue and #3 waits for it. Nothing here touches that branch, and what happens to it is a person's call.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #62 — Physics moves behind the door, replayed on today's main: the solver in the engine, CS's numbers in the game. src/engine/physics.ts with every tuned value a required argument, CS_MOVE/CS_HULL and fallDamage in src/client/movement.ts, six mechanical call sites, a second tuning profile in the test so a re-baked constant fails, and both golden digests unmoved. Pull #7's description is the design note to read first, and its two good decisions are kept. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #64 — The HUD is pinned before it moves: src/client/hud.test.ts says what a player sees today. 256 lines of drawing with no test of its own, about to be moved onto the engine's overlay by #18: health red below 30, the clock's --:-- and its red, the crosshair's gap at rest, the feed at 8 seconds, the scoreboard's order and the player's own row — assertions a player would recognise, not a transcript of rectangles. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #63 — The range walks: its own movement tuning and hull through the engine's solver. The range's page says "you cannot move — you turn on the spot"; this is the sentence the whole direction exists to be able to say, with RANGE_MOVE deliberately unlike CS's, the eye following the body so walking changes what you can hit, and walls that stop you. Waits for #62 and #50. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #3 and #18 wait for #62; #18 also waits for #64; #63 waits for #62 and #50; #13 waits for #63. #3, #18 and #13 each carry a comment saying what moved. When #62 lands, #3 closes with a word — and #13 is then one README paragraph and one measurement.

Ready now: #62, #64, #50, #52, #57, #58, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #20 (pull #23), #48 and #53 in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment.

Where the direction stands, whole: input landed in #10, assets in #4, the grid in #16, the loop in #10, the door in #25, the scene in #47, the overlay in #49; rendering is in flight as #48; physics is #62, the last one. The second game exists, plays, and will walk, paint, sound and draw itself through the same package — #50, #52, #54, #63 — and then #13 is the paragraph that says so.

Measured on main at 154a043 before writing this: bun test 361 passing in 4.1 s, / 0.7 ms at 9,198 bytes warm, /range 0.7 ms at 8,265, the boundary correct under probing — 400 on bad JSON, 422 on a junk result, 413 on a 20 kB body, atlas<b>&" escaped everywhere it is printed, HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax on the session — and POST /static/app.<hash>.js still 200 with 68,457 uncompressed bytes, which is #42.

Tenth planning round. #49 landed as pull #60, so the overlay is behind the door and the range already draws through it, and #48 has the renderer in flight. That left exactly one module of the direction's headline still sitting in the game — physics — and pull #7 for #3 has now gone twenty hours untouched without merging, its seven conflicting files being the import lines that the door, the scene split and the overlay rewrote underneath it. Rebasing it is larger work than replaying it, so the work has a fresh issue and #3 waits on that; the branch itself is a person's call and nothing here touches it.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #62 — Physics moves behind the door, replayed on today's main: the solver in the engine, CS's numbers in the game. Every tuned value a required argument, CS_MOVE/CS_HULL and fallDamage in src/client/movement.ts, six mechanical call sites, a second tuning profile in the test so a re-baked constant fails, both golden digests unmoved — with pull #7's description named as the design note to read first and its two good decisions kept. Suggested: Torque.
• #64 — The HUD is pinned before it moves: src/client/hud.test.ts says what a player sees today. 256 lines of drawing with no test of its own, about to be moved onto the engine's overlay by #18: health red below 30, the clock's --:-- and its red, the crosshair's gap at rest, the feed at 8 seconds, the scoreboard's order and the player's own row — assertions a player would recognise, not a transcript of rectangles. Suggested: Torque.
• #63 — The range walks: its own movement tuning and hull through the engine's solver. The range's page still says "you cannot move — you turn on the spot", and this is the sentence the direction exists to be able to say: RANGE_MOVE deliberately unlike CS's, the eye following the body so walking changes what you can hit, walls that stop you. Waits for #62 and #50. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #3 and #18 wait for #62, #18 also waits for #64, #63 waits for #62 and #50, and #13 waits for #63. #3, #18 and #13 each carry a comment saying what moved — when #62 lands, #3 closes with a word, and #13 becomes one README paragraph and one measurement.

Ready now: #62, #64, #52, #57, #58, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #20 (pull #23), #48, #50 and #53 in flight. Nothing is parked. The direction whole: input, assets, grid, loop, the door, the scene and the overlay have landed; rendering is in flight as #48; physics is #62, the last one named in the headline.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

The eleventh planning round, and the direction is nearly whole. #48 landed as pull #65, #53 as #61 and #50 as #66: the renderer is behind the door taking an atlas and named meshes, the range's run is pinned by a digest, and the range has a room, a plate and an atlas of its own. #62 (physics, replayed) and #64 (the HUD pinned) are in flight. On main at 6f17dbc: bun test is 430 passing in 4.3 s, / answers in 0.7 ms warm at 9,482 bytes, /range in 1.3 ms at 8,265, and the bundles are static/app.a3f495de96.js (70,558 — up 2,101 as the renderer moved) and static/range.925e79efd7.js (12,548).

#5 is closed with a word. #47 and #48 delivered every line of it, exactly as its comment said they would, and an empty umbrella standing in front of #13 was misstating the map. The edges stay in the record.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #68 — Two games, one engine, no sharing — and a test that says so in both directions. src/range/independence.test.ts proves the range never reaches into the shooter; nothing proves the opposite, so the direction's whole claim is half tested. One rule, both ways, src/rl/ decided rather than ignored, and no third copy of the import scanner. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #67 — Transient effects become engine: a capped ring of timestamped events, pruned without allocating. world.ts prunes with effects.filter(...) every tick the game is interesting, and the range needs the same expiry for its tracer — a thing both games need is engine. Preallocated, cap drops the oldest, digests unmoved, and the pull states what the frame allocated before and after. Waits for #62, which is replaying physics through the same file. Suggested: Torque.
• #69 — A player can turn the sound off in either game, and the page remembers. The engine's device has had muted since #4 and neither game exposes it: the shooter's menu offers Match, Name, Sensitivity and Side, and a person in a quiet room has to mute the tab. One switch per game in the same place, silence rather than a zero volume, remembered in localStorage, junk ignored. Waits for #52 so the convention is set in both games at once. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #52, #54, #57, #58, #68, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #20 (pull #23), #62 and #64 in flight. No issue carried a "Parked by the crew" comment.

Two things worth a person's eye, neither of which planning can do: pull #7 is now eighteen hours stale and superseded by #62 — someone should close it or say otherwise — and pull #23 for #20 has sat since 14:27, seven hours, while five pulls landed around it. And one observation from the tree: src/range/level.ts and src/range/paint.ts landed in #50 with tests and no consumer — #54 is that consumer, it is ready, and until it lands the range's page still tells the truth that there is "no renderer under it" and that you "cannot move".

Where the direction stands: input (#10), assets (#4), the grid (#16), the loop (#10), the door (#25), the scene (#47), the overlay (#49) and the renderer (#48) have landed; physics is #62, in flight, the last module the headline names. The second game then paints (#50, done), sounds (#52), draws (#54) and walks (#63) through the package, and #13 is the paragraph that says so.

Eleventh planning round. #48 landed as pull #65, #53 as #61 and #50 as #66 — the renderer is behind the door taking an atlas and named meshes, the range's run is pinned by a digest, and the range has a room, a plate and an atlas of its own. On main at 6f17dbc: 430 tests passing in 4.3 s, / at 9,482 bytes in 0.7 ms warm, /range at 8,265 in 1.3 ms, bundles app.a3f495de96.js (70,558 — up 2,101 as the renderer moved) and range.925e79efd7.js (12,548).

#5 is closed with a word: #47 and #48 delivered every line of it, and an empty umbrella standing in front of #13 was misstating the map.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #68 — Two games, one engine, no sharing — and a test that says so in both directions. The range is proven never to reach into the shooter; nothing proves the opposite, so the direction's central claim is half tested. One rule both ways, src/rl/ decided rather than ignored, no third copy of the import scanner. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #67 — Transient effects become engine: a capped ring of timestamped events, pruned without allocating. world.ts prunes with effects.filter(...) every interesting tick and the range needs the same expiry for its tracer; preallocated, oldest dropped at the cap, digests unmoved, allocation stated before and after. Waits for #62, which is replaying physics through the same file. Suggested: Torque.
• #69 — A player can turn the sound off in either game, and the page remembers. The engine's device has had muted since #4 and neither game exposes it — the shooter's menu offers Match, Name, Sensitivity and Side, and a person in a quiet room has to mute the tab. One switch per game, silence rather than a zero volume, remembered, junk ignored. Waits for #52 so both games get the same convention at once. Suggested: Vesper.

Ready now: #52, #54, #57, #58, #68, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #20 (pull #23), #62 and #64 in flight. Nothing is parked.

Two things only a person can settle: pull #7 is eighteen hours stale and now superseded by #62, and pull #23 for #20 has sat since 14:27 while five pulls landed around it. One note from the tree: src/range/level.ts and paint.ts landed with tests and no consumer — #54 is that consumer and is ready, and until it lands the range's page still truthfully says there is "no renderer under it".

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

Twelfth planning round. #64 landed as pull #71, so the HUD is pinned before #18 moves it; #62 (physics, replayed) is in flight as pull #70. On main at a8747da: bun test is 443 passing in 5.4 s, / answers in 1.1 ms warm at 9,198 bytes and /range in 0.7 ms at 8,265. Nothing is parked.

The engine's headline is nearly all behind the door, so this round is the two things a demanding player hits and the two duplications a third game would inherit.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #72 — A game is one entry: one registry the build, the server, the nav and the 404 all read. Adding a game is four edits in four files and three of them are the same fact; one registry holds name, path, label, entry and ceilings, src/server.ts serves its read routes from it instead of a branch per game, and the sentence each page says about the other lives with the game it describes — / still calls the range "that engine's loop and controls drawn as a readout", which stopped being true two pulls ago. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #73 — The menu remembers you: sensitivity, match length and side survive a visit, and junk in storage is ignored. The shooter stores exactly one thing, cs.name, so a player who has found their sensitivity sets it again every visit. One validated record, defaults for every kind of rubbish a page can write into storage, and the convention #69 needs for the mute switch — which is why #69 now waits for it. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #74 — Paused means paused: the world stops when the mouse is free, and the range's thirty seconds stop with it. controls.onUnlock shows the pause panel and nothing else: running stays true and frame() keeps stepping, so you can die reading the word Paused. In the range the clock drains while the note is up, so an interruption costs you the run. Both games, both headless boot tests, no tick changed — only when ticks happen. Waits for #54, which is rewriting the range's frame. Suggested: Torque.
• #75 — Booting becomes engine: the canvas sized to the screen, the pointer lock asked for safely, and the frame meter. Both entries have written the same dpr clamp, the same fps · ms string, the same 0.05 smoothing and the same coarse-pointer check, and the two copies already disagree — the range guards its lock request against a throw and a rejected promise, the shooter does not. A thing both games need and neither may import is engine. Waits for #54 and #74: three pulls in the same twenty lines of the same two files is how #7 died. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #74 waits for #54; #75 waits for #54 and #74; #69 waits for #73.

Ready now: #72, #73, #52, #57, #68, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #20 (pull #23), #54, #58 and #62 (pull #70) in flight.

Still a person's call, unchanged since yesterday: pull #7 is superseded by #62 and pull #23 for #20 has sat since 14:27. And the range's page still truthfully says there is no room and that you turn on the spot — #54 is the consumer level.ts and paint.ts have been waiting for since #66.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A planning round on direction #1: four issues opened and linked, nothing committed and nothing pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip (a8747da, 443 tests passing in 5.4 s, / at 1.1 ms warm, /range at 0.7 ms).

• #72 — A game is one entry: one registry the build, the server, the nav and the 404 all read. Ready now. Torque.
• #73 — The menu remembers you: sensitivity, match length and side survive a visit, and junk in storage is ignored. Ready now. Vesper.
• #74 — Paused means paused: the world stops when the mouse is free, and the range's thirty seconds stop with it. Waits for #54. Torque.
• #75 — Booting becomes engine: the canvas sized to the screen, the pointer lock asked for safely, and the frame meter. Waits for #54 and #74. Vesper.

Edges added: #74 ← #54; #75 ← #54, #74; #69 ← #73, so the storage convention is set once.

Ready now: #72, #73, #52, #57, #68, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #20 (pull #23), #54, #58 and #62 (pull #70) in flight. Nothing is parked. Two things only a person can settle: pull #7 is superseded by #62, and pull #23 has sat since 14:27.

Thirteenth planning round. #54 landed as pull #76: the range is drawn in three dimensions by the same renderer the shooter uses — one room mesh, one instance per plate, an eighty-millisecond tracer, its own atlas and its own sky — with the flat horizon kept as the no-WebGL2 fallback. bun test is 459 passing in 4.4 s on main at cdb1265; /range answers in 0.5 ms at 8,924 bytes and / in 1.3 ms at 9,198. Nothing is parked. #62 (physics) is in flight as pull #70 and #58 (the guide's game) as #77; #74 became ready the moment #54 landed.

Every module the direction's headline names is now landed or in that one pull, so this round is what a third game would inherit, what a browser can take away, and what a player loses on a refresh.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #78 — The frame's plumbing becomes engine: one pooled scene, filled by a game, allocating nothing. Both games now build a Scene, and both wrote the same pool, the same cursor, the same line buffer and the same per-frame reset; each says so in its own header. What goes in a frame is the game's, how a frame is stored is the engine's, and it is written twice today. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #79 — A lost WebGL context is a sentence, not a frozen picture. contextlost appears nowhere in the tree: when a phone backgrounds the tab or a driver resets, every GL call becomes a silent no-op while the world keeps stepping, the bots keep shooting and the clock keeps running. The renderer notices, preventDefaults so restoration is even possible, and tells the game; both games pause and say so. Waits for #74, which is the pause it should reuse. Suggested: Vesper.
• #81 — The range keeps your last runs: a best and a short history that survive a refresh. A score-attack game whose scores evaporate — "the best of this visit is kept on the page and nowhere else". Five numbers in the browser's own storage, validated the way #73 decides, shown through the overlay's columns, with the page exact about the difference between a browser remembering and a server knowing. Waits for #73. Suggested: Vesper.
• #80 — A third game, served: /example proves a game now costs one entry and one page. Two games is the claim; a third is the price tag. The guide's game gets a page and a bundle, added as one registry entry with no new branch in src/server.ts, no third stub document and no import of either existing game — and the README states what it cost in files, lines and bytes. Waits for #72, #58 and #59. Suggested: Torque.

Edges added: #79 waits for #74; #81 waits for #73; #80 waits for #72, #58 and #59.

Ready now: #72, #73, #74, #78, #57, #68, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #52, #58 (pull #77) and #62 (pull #70) in flight. #43 is worth someone's attention beyond its own merit: #59 waits on it, and #80 waits on #59.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A thirteenth planning round on direction #1, opened after #54 landed as pull #76 (the range now draws in three dimensions through the engine's renderer; 459 tests pass in 4.4 s on cdb1265, /range answers in 0.5 ms). Nothing was committed or pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip.

• #78 — The frame's plumbing becomes engine: one pooled scene, filled by a game, allocating nothing. Ready now. Vesper.
• #79 — A lost WebGL context is a sentence, not a frozen picture: the renderer notices and both games say so. Waits for #74. Vesper.
• #81 — The range keeps your last runs: a best and a short history that survive a refresh. Waits for #73. Vesper.
• #80 — A third game, served: /example proves a game now costs one entry and one page. Waits for #72, #58 and #59. Torque.

Edges added: #79 ← #74, #81 ← #73, #80 ← #72, #58, #59.

Ready now: #72, #73, #74, #78, #57, #68, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #52, #58 (pull #77) and #62 (pull #70) in flight. Nothing is parked. #43 is the one to pick up beyond its own merit — #59 waits on it and #80 waits on #59.

Fourteenth planning round. #72 landed as pull #83 and #52 as #82: a game is now one entry in src/games.ts — name, path, label, entry source, ceilings and the sentence the other pages say about it — read by the build, the server's read routes, the nav and the 404; and the range makes its own noise through the engine's device. On main at 266e608, nothing is parked, #62 (pull #70) and #58 (pull #77) are in flight.

With the registry landed, this round is the three places the app still speaks only cs's name, plus the two ways a browser can take the picture away without anyone noticing.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #84 — The terminal knows the app, not just the shooter: a games tab built from the registry. The page has listed two games since #46 and the terminal still has three tabs, all of them cs's — no way over ssh to see that the range exists, what its bundle weighs against its ceiling, or whether what is committed in static/ is what the sources hash to. screen.ts stays plain data in, lines out; src/tty.ts does the measuring. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #85 — The pages answer to a keyboard and a screen reader. Two canvases with no name and no fallback, a leaderboard replaced with innerHTML after every round and nothing to announce it, overlays hidden with focus possibly inside them, and no focus ring decided for a dark theme. It costs no bytes and no milliseconds. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #86 — The keys are the player's: rebinding through the engine's controls, remembered between visits. createControls({ keys }) takes a table as data and both games hand it a constant captured at construction, so nobody on an AZERTY keyboard or with a left hand can move. One small engine change, one screen, the overrides stored as a difference and validated so a stored table cannot brick the game. Waits for #73. Suggested: Vesper.
• #87 — A frame that throws says so and stops, instead of leaving a frozen picture and a running clock. onFrame is called inside a rAF callback with nothing around it: one throw and the browser swallows it, the page freezes on the last picture and looks alive. The loop stops and reports once, no handler rethrows so a test never loses a bug, and both games say the one useful thing. Waits for #79 — a lost context and a thrown frame want the same sentence in the same place, and there should be one of it. Suggested: Vesper.

Edges added: #86 waits for #73; #87 waits for #79.

Ready now: #73, #74, #78, #84, #85, alongside #40, #42, #43, #68, with #57, #58 (pull #77) and #62 (pull #70) in flight. The chain worth clearing is still #43 → #59 → #80: the third game is the direction's price tag and it waits on a bundle test nobody has taken in a day.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A fourteenth planning round on direction #1, opened after #72 landed as pull #83 (a game is now one registry entry) and #52 as #82 (the range has its own sound). Nothing was committed or pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip (266e608).

• #84 — The terminal knows the app, not just the shooter: a games tab built from the registry. Ready now. Torque.
• #85 — The pages answer to a keyboard and a screen reader: named canvases, a leaderboard that announces itself, focus that never lands on nothing. Ready now. Vesper.
• #86 — The keys are the player's: rebinding through the engine's controls, remembered between visits. Waits for #73. Vesper.
• #87 — A frame that throws says so and stops, instead of leaving a frozen picture and a running clock. Waits for #79. Vesper.

Edges added: #86 ← #73, #87 ← #79.

Ready now: #73, #74, #78, #84, #85, alongside #40, #42, #43 and #68, with #57, #58 (pull #77) and #62 (pull #70) in flight. Nothing is parked. The chain worth clearing is #43 → #59 → #80 — the third game is the direction's price tag and it waits on a bundle test that has sat for a day.

Fifteenth planning round. #58 landed as pull #77, so the guide's code is a game a test plays and #80's only remaining blocker is #59 (which waits on #43). On main at beadfc5, nothing is parked; #62 is still in flight as pull #70, which is now the longest-standing open pull in the repository and the thing #3, #18, #63 and #67 are all waiting behind.

The engine's headline is landed or in that one pull, so this round is the app as a stranger meets it: a second game with one thing to do, a leaderboard that hides everyone outside the top ten, and a link to any of it that looks like nothing.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #88 — The range gets a second drill: moving plates, chosen before the run and pinned by its own digest. The range is four runs deep and then it is finished; a plate that moves is also the hardest thing the engine has been asked for — a box whose position changes every tick, traced, drawn and hashed on the same tick. Drills are a table, today's numbers are untouched and its digest must not move, and the new drill gets a digest of its own. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #89 — The leaderboard finds you: your own row wherever it stands, and a list that does not stop at ten. statsHtml renders standings(db, 10), so the eleventh player on this server plays a match, watches the page redraw and is not there. Your row with its true rank, a longer page with the total said plainly, the rank computed in SQL rather than by scanning, and a guest still unmistakably a guest. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #91 — A match has a page you can link to, and a link to this app looks like something. The app calls itself a scoreboard among friends and there is nothing to send one: a match is a feed row that scrolls away in eight. /match/<id> as a public, escaped, session-less page, the feed linking to it, and the head finally carrying a generated SVG icon and card tags built from src/games.ts — so a third game gets its link preview from its registry entry. Waits for #89: same two files. Suggested: Torque.

Edges added: #91 waits for #89.

Ready now: #73, #74, #78, #84, #85, #88, #89, alongside #40, #42, #43, with #57, #62 (pull #70) and #68 in flight.

Two things a person should look at: pull #70 has been open since 21:37 yesterday and four issues are queued behind it, and #43 has sat ready for a day while #59 and #80 — the third game, which is this direction's price tag — wait on it.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A fifteenth planning round on direction #1, opened after #58 landed as pull #77. Nothing was committed or pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip (beadfc5).

• #88 — The range gets a second drill: moving plates, chosen before the run and pinned by its own digest. Ready now. Vesper.
• #89 — The leaderboard finds you: your own row wherever it stands, and a list that does not stop at ten. Ready now. Torque.
• #91 — A match has a page you can link to, and a link to this app looks like something. Waits for #89 (same two files). Torque.

Edge added: #91 ← #89.

Ready now: #73, #74, #78, #84, #85, #88, #89, alongside #40, #42 and #43, with #57, #62 (pull #70) and #68 in flight. Nothing is parked. Two things for a person: pull #70 has been open since 21:37 yesterday with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it, and #43 has sat ready for a day while #59 and #80 — the third game, this direction's price tag — wait on it.

Sixteenth planning round. #57 landed as pull #90 and #68 as #92: the shooter's recipes are pinned and the no-sharing rule is now tested in both directions, which is the direction's central claim finally held by a test. #43 and #78 are in flight. On main at cacb7ec, nothing is parked. #62 is still open as pull #70, unchanged since 21:37 yesterday, with #3, #18, #63 and #67 behind it.

The engine's extraction is done or in flight to the last module, so this round asks the next question: what is this app for a player who comes back tomorrow? Today the answer is one map, one difficulty, one drill and nothing to look at afterwards.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #95 — The map becomes a value: de_forge is one object the game is handed, not module state it imports. src/client/map.ts builds the level at import time and every module reaches for its singletons; the engine already owns the generic half, so what is baked in is which layout, everywhere. The same move the extraction made, one level down, with the golden digests as the only honest check. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #96 — A second map: one more layout, chosen on the menu, and the bots play it without being told anything new. A defusal shooter with one map is a demo, and a second layout is the only way to find out whether the bots play the game or play de_forge — any de_forge-shaped number left in bots.ts is the finding this issue exists to produce. Waits for #95. Suggested: Vesper.
• #94 — How hard the bots are is the player's choice, not a constant in bots.ts. One line decides the ladder for everyone: 0.25 + ((bot.id * 37) % 100) / 130, the same band on a player's first round and their fiftieth. Named steps on the menu, the spread kept, the learned policy untouched — this is the hands, not the brain — and the leaderboard saying which band a result was played on. Waits for #73. Suggested: Vesper.
• #93 — The round you just played can be watched back. The repository proves twice a pull that the simulation is exactly reproducible and gives the player none of it: a seed and a few bytes a tick is a replay, through the same update, the same buildScene and the same renderer. The test is the interesting part — record, replay, and assert the two runs hash identically, which is the test that fails the day the simulation reads a wall clock. Waits for #74. Suggested: Torque.

Edges added: #96 waits for #95; #94 waits for #73; #93 waits for #74.

Ready now: #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #95, alongside #40 and #42, with #43, #62 (pull #70) and #78 in flight.

Still a person's call: pull #70 has been open for four hours with four issues queued behind it.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A sixteenth planning round on direction #1, opened after #57 landed as pull #90 and #68 as #92 (the no-sharing claim is now tested in both directions). Nothing was committed or pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip (cacb7ec).

• #95 — The map becomes a value: de_forge is one object the game is handed, not module state it imports. Ready now. Torque.
• #96 — A second map: one more layout, chosen on the menu, and the bots play it without being told anything new. Waits for #95. Vesper.
• #94 — How hard the bots are is the player's choice, not a constant in bots.ts. Waits for #73. Vesper.
• #93 — The round you just played can be watched back: a match records its inputs, and the simulation replays them. Waits for #74. Torque.

Edges added: #96 ← #95, #94 ← #73, #93 ← #74.

Ready now: #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #95, alongside #40 and #42, with #43, #62 (pull #70) and #78 in flight. Nothing is parked. Pull #70 has now been open four hours with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it — that one is a person's call.

Seventeenth planning round, after #43 landed as pull #97 and #78 as #98 — the frame's pool is behind the door and both games fill it. On main at f2004f1, nothing is parked; #59 and #95 are working, and pull #70 (#62, physics) is still open with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it.

The engine's headline is landed or in that one pull, so this round is what the app measures badly. I booted it and took the numbers: / answers in 1.1 ms warm and /range in 0.7 ms on an empty database — and then I filled the database and timed the boot, and both of those are worse than they look.

• #99 — Boot is not a freeze: the atlas is painted in slices, and the shooter's menu answers while it paints. materialTextures() is 167.8 ms — nine 128px layers, about 19 ms each — and boot() calls it inside its first line, so the menu is on screen and dead to a click for eleven frames of every visit, with nothing saying why. The meshes are 2.4 ms and the range's atlas 16.6 ms: the atlas is the whole of the cost. paintAtlas gains a painter that paints a bounded number of rows a call, byte-identical to today, and the shooter spreads it across frames. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #100 — The leaderboard is kept, not recomputed: standings stay milliseconds at fifty thousand matches. At 50,000 matches over 900 players, statsHtml(db) — what / renders and what every POST /api/match answers with — takes 72 ms, because standings is a GROUP BY over the whole table on every view. A covering index only reaches 21 ms; the work has to stop being proportional to matches. A standing rollup maintained by the one writer, with the old query kept as the oracle in a differential test. Waits for #89, which rewrites the same query. Suggested: Torque.
• #101 — The gate the leaderboard trusts is pinned: src/result.ts gets the test file it never had. The only server module with no test of its own is the one deciding what a browser may claim. Its four arithmetic rules — headshots ≤ kills, scores sum to rounds, deaths ≤ rounds, the clock bounded by them — could each be deleted today with a green run. Every rule gets a test that fails when that line is removed, plus a seeded fuzz that asserts it never throws. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #102 — A result that did not land says so and is tried again. postResult reads if (response.ok) and has an empty catch: a 429, a 409, a 422 or an offline tab all end the same way — the round is gone and the page never admits it. One pending result, retried with a backoff, and one honest line by the board saying saved, retrying, or refused. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.

Edge added: #100 ← #89.

Ready now: #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #99, #101, #102, alongside #40 and #42, with #59, #95 and #62 (pull #70) in flight. Nothing is parked.

Still a person's call: pull #70 has been open since 21:37 yesterday, with four issues waiting on it, and pull #23 (#20, the bench) since 14:27.

Nothing was committed or pushed: the map is the result, and the working tree is clean at main's tip.

A planning round on direction #1, opened after #43 landed as pull #97 and #78 as #98. Nothing was committed or pushed — the working tree is clean at main's tip (f2004f1), and the map is the result. I booted the app and measured it before writing anything: / answers in 1.1 ms warm and /range in 0.7 ms, and then the two numbers that are not fine.

• #99 — Boot is not a freeze: the atlas is painted in slices, and the shooter's menu answers while it paints. materialTextures() is 167.8 ms of uninterrupted main thread inside boot()'s first line; the meshes are 2.4 ms, so the atlas is the whole of it. Ready now. Vesper.
• #100 — The leaderboard is kept, not recomputed: standings stay milliseconds at fifty thousand matches. At 50,000 matches statsHtml(db) takes 72 ms, on / and on every POST /api/match; a covering index only reaches 21 ms. Waits for #89. Torque.
• #101 — The gate the leaderboard trusts is pinned: src/result.ts gets the test file it never had. The only server module without its own test is the one deciding what a browser may claim; each of its four rules could be deleted today with a green run. Ready now. Torque.
• #102 — A result that did not land says so and is tried again. postResult reads if (response.ok) and has an empty catch: a 429, a 409 or an offline tab loses the round silently. Ready now. Vesper.

Edge added: #100 ← #89.

Ready now: #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #99, #101, #102, alongside #40 and #42, with #59, #95 and #62 (pull #70) in flight. Nothing is parked. Two things only a person can settle: pull #70 has been open since 21:37 yesterday with #3, #18, #63 and #67 behind it, and pull #23 since 14:27.

An eighteenth planning round on this direction, after #59 landed as pull #103 (the headless page is behind the door and both games boot through it). Nothing was committed or pushed; the working tree is clean at main's tip (81a1cdb), bun test is 536 passing in 5.4 s, / answers in 2.3 ms cold and /range in 0.8 ms.

I read the whole tree again looking for what is still the game's and should be the engine's, and there is one large answer left: the learning. src/client/policy.ts is 259 lines with an empty import list — a shape, an MLP, softmax, sample, greedy and an int8 pack — and src/rl/ppo.ts, 314 lines, imports only that. Neither names Counter-Strike anywhere, and both sit outside the door, so the trainer reaches into the shooter and a second game could not learn anything without copying them. That is this round's headline, in two steps.

• #106 — The brain becomes engine: the policy network moves behind the door, the game keeps what it observes. src/client/policy.ts becomes src/engine/net.ts; bots.ts, weights.ts, the trainer and scripts/train.ts's generated import all go through the door; the seeded duel and a digest of unpack(PACKED) hold the behaviour across the move. action.ts, observe.ts and OBS_SIZE stay the game's. Ready now. Suggested: Torque.
• #107 — The trainer becomes engine: PPO through the door, proved on an environment that is not a game. src/rl/ppo.ts becomes src/engine/learn.ts and a new test trains a seeded toy environment written in the test itself, through the door only. src/rl/arena.ts stays CS's. Waits for #106. Suggested: Torque.
• #108 — The bins the shipped weights were trained on get the test they never had: src/client/action.ts. The file whose docstring says it is part of the shipped policy's contract has no test: HEADS could drift from PACKED.shape.heads and decode could read one index along with a green run. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.
• #109 — The terminal boots headlessly: src/tty.ts takes its streams, and a session is under test. The only entry no test can run. screen.ts and keys.ts are pure and covered; the wiring — first paint, tab, j/k, x deleting, raw mode restored on a throw, a name full of escape codes — is not. #84 and #40 both land on this file next. Ready now. Suggested: Vesper.

Edge added: #107 ← #106.

Ready now: #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #99, #101, #102, #106, #108, #109, alongside #40 and #42; #95 is in flight as pull #104. Nothing is parked.

Still a person's call, and now costing more than time: pull #70 (#62, physics behind the door) has been open since 21:37 on the 17th, with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it — the physics is the one part of the direction's headline sentence still on main inside the game. Pull #23 (#20, the bench) has been open since 14:27 on the 17th.

I also opened and immediately closed #105 by accident while working out what this API wanted in a request body; it is closed with a word saying so, and there is nothing in it.

The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, in the order they should be worked, plus one edge; nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the working tree is clean at main's tip (81a1cdb), where bun test is 536 passing in 5.4 s and / answers in 2.3 ms.

Reading the tree for what is still the game's and should be the engine's turned up one large answer: the learning. src/client/policy.ts (259 lines, an empty import list) and src/rl/ppo.ts (314 lines, importing only that) name Counter-Strike nowhere and sit outside the door, so the trainer reaches into the shooter and a second game could not learn anything without copying them.

• #106 — The brain becomes engine: the policy network moves behind the door, the game keeps what it observes. policy.ts → src/engine/net.ts, every caller through the door including the import scripts/train.ts writes into weights.ts; the seeded duel and a digest of unpack(PACKED) hold behaviour across the move. Ready now. Torque.
• #107 — The trainer becomes engine: PPO through the door, proved on an environment that is not a game. ppo.ts → src/engine/learn.ts, with a new test that trains a seeded toy environment written in the test itself. Waits for #106. Torque.
• #108 — The bins the shipped weights were trained on get the test they never had: src/client/action.ts. HEADS could drift from PACKED.shape.heads with a green run. Ready now. Vesper.
• #109 — The terminal boots headlessly: src/tty.ts takes its streams, and a session is under test. The only entry no test can run, and the file #84 and #40 both land on next. Ready now. Vesper.

Edge added: #107 ← #106. Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #80, #84, #85, #88, #89, #99, #101, #102, #106, #108, #109; #95 is in flight as pull #104. Nothing is parked. Pull #70 (#62, physics behind the door) has been open since 21:37 on the 17th with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it, and pull #23 since 14:27 — the physics is the one part of the direction's own sentence still inside the game, and merging it is a person's call. I also opened #105 by accident while working out what this API wanted in a request body; it is closed with a word saying so and holds nothing.

Four issues opened on direction #1, in the order they should be worked; nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created, so the working tree is clean at the branch's tip (fc68c6d), where bun test is 543 passing in 5.4 s, / answers in 1.7 ms warm and /range in 0.9 ms, and a simulation tick costs 0.134 ms with ten bots thinking.

Reading the tree for what is still a game's and should be the engine's turned up one clear answer this round: the determinism harness. src/client/replay.ts (263 lines) and src/range/pin.ts (258) are the same instrument built twice — the same QUANTUM = 1e-4 quantiser, the same CHECKPOINT_CHARS = 12, the same fold, the same Pin, the same compare printing the constants to paste — and both headers say the copy exists only because the range may not import the shooter. The tool every extraction in this direction leans on is the one tool nobody extracted.

• #110 — The determinism harness becomes engine: one folded digest behind the door, and both games' pins hold to the byte. src/engine/digest.ts takes the quantiser, the fold, the checkpoints and the comparison; each game keeps its snapshot, its field tables, its script and its committed digest, and both digests must be unchanged to the byte. Ships in no bundle, like fakePage. Ready now. Torque.
• #111 — What the trainer writes into the repository is under test: the card the page boasts, and the flags that write it. CARD in the generated src/client/weights.ts is printed into the first paint of / ("wins 72% ... which win 38%") and checked by nothing; scripts/train.ts is the only script with no test. Deliberately disjoint from #106 and #108. Ready now. Vesper.
• #112 — The README is held honest the way the guide is, and readable again. GUIDE.md cannot go stale because guide.test.ts reads it; README.md is 516 lines with no test, 361 of them one ## Shape heading retelling the guide. Ready now. Vesper.
• #113 — The round's rules stop being one 553-line file: the economy and the bomb get their own modules, and the digest does not move. Waits for #62 (pull #70), which is open on the same file. Vesper.

One thing is unfinished: the edge #113 ← #62 was not confirmed landed — the request was cut off mid-call, so treat #113 as needing that link (or, if it reads as ready, it should not be started while pull #70 is open on world.ts). Nothing else is outstanding; nothing is parked anywhere on the map.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #80, #84, #85, #88, #89, #99, #101, #102, #106, #108, #109, #110, #111, #112. Still only a person's call, and now the oldest cost in this direction: pull #70 (#62, physics behind the door) has been open since 21:37 on the 17th with #3, #18, #63 and #67 queued behind it — the physics is the one part of the direction's own sentence still inside the game — and pull #23 (#20, the bench) since 14:27 on the 17th. The direction stays open.

Budget reached at $2.51; this is where it stopped.

A nineteenth planning round on this direction, on today's main (4319155, #114 merged: the policy network is behind the door). Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the tree is clean, bun test is 546 passing in 5.3 s, / answers in 1.3–2.3 ms and /range in 1.0 ms.

The extraction list this direction started with is now all issued: physics (#62, pull #70), the overlay (#18), effects (#67), boot (#75), the digest (#110), the trainer (#107). So this round went looking for what is not held, and found four things.

• #115 — Not found is a page, not a fragment. /nope answers 433 bytes with no doctype, no viewport, no style and no header; the 500 is one bare <h1>. Both go through the shell instead, script becomes optional there, and the shell gains a data-URI favicon so /favicon.ico stops being a miss by design. Ready now. Vesper.
• #116 — The seam table is read by a test, not just written. GUIDE.md contradicts itself today: the table says the range brings none yet for sound while two other lines of the same file name src/range/audio.ts. The four hardcoded pairs in guide.test.ts become a parse of the table. Ready now. Vesper.
• #117 — The engine leaves the repository. scripts/pack.ts writes the package — modules, guide, a generated package.json with one exports entry and no dependencies — and a test packs into a temp directory and builds the guide's game against that copy alone. The third proof, after imports (boundary.test.ts) and globals (purity.test.ts): complete on its own. Ready now. Torque.
• #118 — The types are checked, not just written. There is no tsconfig.json and bun test strips types, so the ninety typed names on the door are verified by nothing. The risk is written into the issue twice: the error count is unknown until it is run, and the TypeScript dependency is a person's call — if the answer is no, close it with that sentence. Ready now. Torque.

Edges added: #112 ← #116 (the README's test will reuse the guide's readers) and #113 ← #62, the link last round left unconfirmed.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #88, #89, #96, #99, #101, #102, #107, #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #116, #117, #118; #80 is in flight. Nothing is parked. Still a person's call and now the oldest cost here: pull #70 (#62, physics behind the door) has been open since 21:37 on the 17th with #3, #18, #63, #67 and now #113 behind it, and pull #23 (#20, the bench) since 14:27. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land in code: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at main's tip (4319155), and no file was created or changed, so there is nothing to commit or push.

The result is on the forge. Four issues were opened on direction #1 and two edges linked:

• #115 — Not found is a page, not a fragment: the 404 and the 500 through the shell, and a favicon that is not a miss. /nope answers 433 bytes with no doctype, viewport, style or header; the 500 is one bare <h1>. Ready now. Vesper.
• #116 — The seam table is read by a test, not just written. GUIDE.md contradicts itself today: the table says the range brings none yet for sound while two other lines of the same file name src/range/audio.ts. Ready now. Vesper.
• #117 — The engine leaves the repository: scripts/pack.ts writes the package, and the guide's game builds against that copy alone. The third proof after imports (boundary.test.ts) and globals (purity.test.ts). Ready now. Torque.
• #118 — The types are checked, not just written: one strict tsconfig and a typecheck the forge sees. There is no tsconfig.json and bun test strips types, so the door's typed surface is verified by nothing; the issue says plainly that the TypeScript dependency is a person's call and how to close it if the answer is no. Ready now. Torque.

Edges: #112 ← #116 and #113 ← #62 (the link the previous round left unconfirmed, now landed). bun test was run on this tree before filing: 546 passing in 5.3 s, / in 1.3–2.3 ms, /range in 1.0 ms.

What a person should look at: the four issues above, the summary comment on #1, and pull #70 (#62, physics behind the door), open since the 17th with #3, #18, #63, #67 and now #113 queued behind it — merging it frees more of this map than anything else available.

Budget reached at $2.50; this is where it stopped.

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A planning round spent almost entirely on the parked column, which had grown to ten. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the tree is clean at main's tip (41a204a, #121 merged: the range's moving plates).

Nine of the ten parks were an outage, not the work. #73, #74, #89, #116, #40, #42, #84, #85 and #96 all read "the run ended without a pull: no changes pushed" with a weekly limit reset or a DNS failure behind it — nothing was tried and found wanting. Each now carries a comment saying so: they stand exactly as written and the next run takes them unchanged.

#62 is the one that needed splitting, and it is the keystone — #3, #18, #63, #67 and #113 all wait on it. Two runs have died on it (pulls #70 and #120) and as one piece it moves a file, re-signatures nine functions, follows six call sites, splits a test file, adds a second tuning profile, rebuilds the bundle and edits the README, with the golden digest riding on all of it. It is now three issues in the order that keeps bun test green and the digests unchanged at every stop:

• #122 — Physics takes its tuning as arguments, in place. No file moves, no door change; every function takes tuning and hull as required parameters with no defaults, and the six call sites pass MOVE/HULL explicitly. This is where the design decisions are. Ready now. Torque.
• #123 — The solver moves behind the door. src/engine/physics.ts line for line, src/client/movement.ts holds CS_MOVE, CS_HULL and fallDamage, Box comes from the engine's trace.ts, the door gains its paragraph, the bundle is rebuilt with its sizes stated. Waits for #122. Torque.
• #124 — A second profile proves the solver is general. Half gravity, a taller hull, a bigger step, a different max speed, and one apex checked against a hand calculation with its units — the test that fails if a constant is ever baked back in. Waits for #123. Torque.

Edges added: #123 ← #122, #124 ← #123, and #62 ← #122, #123, #124 — #62 stays open as the umbrella so everything queued behind it needs no re-pointing, and it closes itself when the three land. Nobody should pick #62 up directly.

Ready now: #101, #102, #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #117, #118, #122, plus the nine above the moment the crew takes them again. #99, #107 and #80 are in flight. The direction stays open.

This round went to the parked column, which had grown to ten. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (41a204a).

Nine of the ten parks were an outage, not the work. #73, #74, #89, #116, #40, #42, #84, #85 and #96 each read "the run ended without a pull: no changes pushed", with a weekly-limit reset or a DNS failure behind it. Each now carries a comment saying so: they stand exactly as written and the next run takes them unchanged — no split, no new definition of done.

#62 was the one that needed splitting. It is the keystone (#3, #18, #63, #67 and #113 all wait on it) and two runs have died on it, because as one piece it moves a file, re-signatures nine functions, follows six call sites, splits a test file, adds a tuning profile, rebuilds the bundle and edits the README with the golden digest riding on all of it. It is now three issues, in the order that keeps bun test green and the digests unchanged at every stop:

• #122 — Physics takes its tuning as arguments, in place. Required parameters, no defaults, nothing moves; this is where the design decisions are. Ready now. Torque.
• #123 — The solver moves behind the door, CS's numbers become src/client/movement.ts, the door gains its paragraph and the bundle its measured sizes. Waits for #122. Torque.
• #124 — A second profile proves it is general: half gravity, a taller hull, a bigger step, one apex checked by hand. Waits for #123. Torque.

Edges added: #123 ← #122, #124 ← #123, and #62 ← #122, #123, #124 — #62 stays open as the umbrella so the five issues queued behind it need no re-pointing, and it closes itself when the three land; nobody should pick it up directly.

Ready now: #101, #102, #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #117, #118, #122, plus the nine outage-parked issues the moment the crew takes them again. #80, #99 and #107 are in flight.

A planning round on today's main (6ad116c): #80, #88, #99 and #107 have all landed since the last one, so the app now serves three games — /, /range and /example — and the engine's door is fifteen modules. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the tree is clean. The parked column is empty and #122 (the first of the physics split) is in flight.

I read the tree again and used all three pages the way a visitor would. Four things came out of it, two of them defects I could reproduce.

• #127 — A missing bundle is a loud failure, not a dead canvas. I moved static/ aside and started the server: it logged serving /static/app.js, …, answered / with 200 and correct HTML, and the <script src="/static/app.js"> in it 404s — black canvas, dead Play button, nothing anywhere saying the app is broken. findScripts() falls back to a name that is never right. The file already holds the principle for pages ("a game in the registry with no page here is a mistake that fails now"); the bundle gets the same sentence. Ready now. Torque.
• #128 — The numbers a page boasts are measured, not typed. /example says the shooter's bundle is "71,646" bytes; it is 72,048 today — it grew with #125 and the prose did not. The page whose whole argument is that a third game is cheap should read its numbers off the files. Ready now. Vesper.
• #129 — The security floor stops trusting inline styles. style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' is the last soft spot in an otherwise strict policy, and it does not have to be there: the shell's style block is a constant, so a sha256-… source replaces it with no second request and no visual change. There is not one inline style= attribute in the tree, so nothing stands in the way. Waits for #115, which moves the 404 and the 500 into the shell — then the test that no response anywhere carries unsafe-inline covers every route. Torque.
• #130 — The guide's seam table gets its third column. GUIDE.md still says "two games ship here" and footnotes the example as being in no column; it is a game on this server now, and the most interesting column in the table — the one that ships in 8.7 kB and uses none of the WebGL — is the one missing. Waits for #116, which makes that table something a test reads. Vesper.

Edges added: #129 ← #115, #130 ← #116.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #96, #101, #102, #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, with #122 in flight and #123 → #124 behind it. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, in the order they should be worked, plus two edges. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (6ad116c), where the app now serves three games and the parked column is empty.

Two of the four are defects I reproduced on this tree:

• #127 — A missing bundle is a loud failure, not a dead canvas. With static/ moved aside the server starts, logs serving /static/app.js, and answers / with 200 and perfect HTML whose script 404s: black canvas, dead Play button, no word anywhere. findScripts() falls back to a name that is never right; the boot should refuse, the way it already refuses a game with no page. Ready now. Torque.
• #128 — The numbers a page boasts are measured, not typed. /example says the shooter's bundle is "71,646" bytes; it is 72,048 today — it grew with #125 and the sentence did not. Ready now. Vesper.
• #129 — The security floor stops trusting inline styles. The shell's style block is a constant, so sha256-… can replace 'unsafe-inline' in style-src with no second request and no visual change; there is not one inline style= attribute in the tree. Waits for #115. Torque.
• #130 — The guide's seam table gets its third column. GUIDE.md still says two games ship here and footnotes the example as being in no column. Waits for #116. Vesper.

Edges: #129 ← #115 and #130 ← #116, both to keep two builders out of the same file and to let each land with a test that can see every route.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #96, #101, #102, #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128 — with #122 in flight and #123 → #124 queued behind it.

A planning round read in the light of #132 ("full screen") and #133 ("spectating is super buggy. i want it buttery smooth") — both a person's, both terse, both in flight with Vesper. They say what the next increment of this direction is: the engine is nearly all behind the door, and what the game is short of now is feel. So I went looking in the code for what a player notices and does not have, on today's main (5ac94a6, #122 landed). Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the tree is clean.

Four things, three of them provable from the source:

• #134 — A radar in the corner. The HUD draws ten things and none of them is the map: you cannot see your team, which site the round went to, or where the bomb is. Everything it needs is already general — the level is a value since #95, mergeSolid and worldOf are behind the door, overlay draws rectangles and text — so it costs the game nothing it does not have. The biggest single thing a player is missing. Ready now. Vesper.
• #135 — The round is audible. Two sounds play today: a gunshot and a hit marker. No footsteps, no bomb beep, no plant, no defuse, no death. src/client/world.ts already declares { kind: "sound"; at; pos; name } and nothing in the repository ever pushes one — the plumbing is built and unused. Ready now. Vesper.
• #136 — Aiming while scoped is the same hand. camera.fov = view.scoped ? 40 : 90 with one sensitivity for both, so the mouse is more than twice as twitchy the moment you scope in. One pure function, the ratio of the tangents, a hand calculation in its test. Ready now. Torque.
• #137 — You can tell where the shot came from. Hit markers exist for damage you deal and nothing exists for damage you take: no pain flash, no direction, though the world knows the attacker's position at the moment it applies the hit. Waits for #134 — three issues now want hud.ts (#18 moves it onto the engine's overlay, the radar adds to it, this adds to it) and they should rebase in a line rather than collide. Vesper.

Edge added: #137 ← #134.

Each of the four states the same two guards the extractions have been held to: the golden digests in src/client/replay.test.ts move only if the simulation actually moved, and the app's ceiling in src/games.ts is held or moved with measured raw and gzipped numbers in the pull.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #96, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136; #110, #123, #132 and #133 are in flight. Nothing is parked. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, plus one edge. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (5ac94a6).

I read this round in the light of #132 ("full screen") and #133 ("spectating is super buggy. i want it buttery smooth"): both a person's, both in flight, and together they say the next increment is how the game feels, not how it is shaped. Three of the four below are provable from the source:

• #134 — A radar in the corner: the map, your team, the bomb and the sites. The HUD draws ten things and none is the map. Everything it needs is already general — the level is a value since #95, mergeSolid and worldOf are behind the door, overlay draws rectangles and text. Ready now. Vesper.
• #135 — The round is audible: footsteps, the bomb's beep, the plant, the defuse. Only a gunshot and a hit marker play today, and src/client/world.ts already declares { kind: "sound"; at; pos; name } that nothing in the repository ever pushes — the plumbing is built and unused. Ready now. Vesper.
• #136 — Aiming while scoped is the same hand. camera.fov = view.scoped ? 40 : 90 with one sensitivity for both, so the mouse is more than twice as twitchy the moment you scope in; one pure function, the ratio of the tangents, hand-checked. Ready now. Torque.
• #137 — You can tell where the shot came from: a directional indicator and a pain flash. Waits for #134, because three issues now want hud.ts (#18 also moves it onto the engine's overlay) and they should rebase in a line. Vesper.

Each carries the two guards the extractions have been held to: the golden digests move only if the simulation moved, and the app's ceiling in src/games.ts is held or moved with measured numbers stated in the pull.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #96, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136 — with #110, #123, #132 and #133 in flight and nothing parked.

A planning round on today's main (4cda67e). Since the last one, #131 and #140 landed: the direction's own sentence is now complete on main — rendering, input, physics and assets are all behind the door, with the digest harness (#139) and full screen (#141) behind it too.

Housekeeping first, and it unlocks four issues:

• #62 and #3 are closed as delivered. The physics split did their work (#131 made the tuning arguments in place, #140 moved the solver and left CS's numbers in src/client/movement.ts), so leaving them open only kept things waiting on issues whose work is already merged. #18, #63, #67 and #113 are ready now. #124 (a second tuning profile, the test that proves the solver is general) stays open on its own merit.
• #96 ← #138. A second hand-drawn layout and "procedurally generated maps" are the same menu and the same map plumbing; whoever takes #96 should see what #138 leaves behind first, and may well find it is answered.

Then four issues in the grain of #132, #133 and #138 — a person playing the game and finding it wanting. Three are gaps I could point at in the source:

• #142 — The first grenade. Seven weapons ship and not one is a grenade; a defusal round with no utility is the largest gap left between this game and the one it is shaped like. It is also the first thing worth building on the physics that just moved behind the door: a thrown body is a body, and src/engine/physics.ts moves any of them. One type, thrown by a player, no bots, no smoke. Ready now. Vesper.
• #143 — Switching a weapon costs what it costs in CS. applyInput sets p.weapon and you can fire on the same tick, so you can AWP, tap 3 to run at the knife's 250 u/s and tap 1 to fire — the carry-speed table says a weapon should slow you down and an instant switch says it need not. One deployTime per weapon, hand-checked, digests re-pinned. Ready now. Torque.
• #144 — A match ends with a scoreboard, not a menu. On match_over the loop stops, the pointer is released and the menu you started from comes back: the thirteen rounds you just played are off the screen before you can read them. The scoreboard already exists in the HUD and is only drawn while a key is held. Ready now. Vesper.
• #145 — The bots throw what they buy. A round where only the human ever throws looks wrong from the first spectated second, and spectating is half of every round. Explicitly not a retrain: the throw lives in the scripted layer beside the pathing and the buying. Waits for #142. Vesper.

Two guards are written into each of the four, because the simulation is moving now rather than being carried across: the golden digests move only where the simulation actually moved, and the pull re-pins them and says why, and the app's ceiling in src/games.ts is held or moved with measured numbers.

Edges added: #145 ← #142, #96 ← #138.

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #124, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #142, #143, #144; #133 and #138 are in flight. Nothing is parked. The direction stays open.

The direction's own sentence is now complete on main — with #131 and #140 merged, rendering, input, physics and assets are all behind the door. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the branch is clean at 4cda67e.

Housekeeping, which unlocked four issues: #62 and #3 are closed as delivered (the physics split did their work), so #18, #63, #67 and #113 are ready instead of waiting on merged work; #124 stays open on its own merit. I also linked #96 ← #138, since a second hand-drawn layout and "procedurally generated maps" are the same menu and the same plumbing.

Four new issues, in the grain of #132, #133 and #138 — a person playing the game and finding it wanting:

• #142 — The first grenade: an HE you buy, throw and hear. Seven weapons ship and not one is a grenade; it is also the first thing worth building on the physics that just moved behind the door — a thrown body is a body. One type, thrown by a player, no bots, no smoke. Ready now. Vesper.
• #143 — Switching a weapon costs what it costs in Counter-Strike. applyInput sets p.weapon and you can fire on the same tick, so AWP → knife-run at 250 u/s → fire is free; the carry-speed table already says it should not be. Ready now. Torque.
• #144 — A match ends with a scoreboard, not a menu. On match_over the loop stops and the start menu returns: thirteen rounds vanish before you can read them, though the scoreboard already exists in the HUD. Ready now. Vesper.
• #145 — The bots throw what they buy. Explicitly not a retrain — the throw sits in the scripted layer beside the pathing and the buying. Waits for #142. Vesper.

Each of the four carries the two guards this repository has held every extraction to: the golden digests move only where the simulation actually moved, and the pull re-pins them and says why; the app's ceiling in src/games.ts is held or moved with measured numbers.

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #124, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #142, #143, #144 — with #133 and #138 in flight and nothing parked.

A planning round on today's main (832812d), where #147 landed procedurally generated maps: src/client/generate.ts carves a symmetric, playable level out of a seed, nameOf calls it gen_14u5j6g, and the menu offers it beside de_forge. I measured it before planning anything around it — generateLevel is 6.9 ms and the level mesh 2.1 ms, so Play is not a freeze and there is no issue to open about that. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created.

Housekeeping: #96 is closed. "A second map, chosen on the menu, and the bots play it without being told anything new" is what #147 shipped, and a second hand-drawn layout would now be less variety than the generator gives, not more.

Four issues, all of them about what a generator makes possible and what it leaves undone:

• #148 — The map you played has a name you can keep. The seed comes from the match id and the name is shown only after the match starts, so a map you liked is unreachable: no way to play it again, no way to hand it to anyone. A validated name in the menu, ?map=gen_1z3f on /, and a copy-this-map link that is an <a href> a keyboard can reach. Ready now. Torque.
• #149 — See the map before you play it. A player picking a generated map is picking a number. The radar in #134 draws exactly this data, so this is that drawing given a whole level rather than a second implementation. Waits for #134. Vesper.
• #150 — A result says which map it was played on. de_forge matches and matches on a map generated ten seconds ago now land in one table and nothing records which was which. One validated column, an additive migration, the map named in the feed and in the terminal. Waits for #101, which gives src/result.ts its first test file. Torque.
• #151 — Every generated map looks like its own place. They all look identical, so they blur into one map that keeps rearranging itself. Nine materials are already in the atlas and the level mesh picks a layer per box, so a palette chosen from the same seed costs no repaint and no bytes. Ready now. Vesper.

Edges added: #149 ← #134, #150 ← #101. One correction is noted on #149 itself: the seed-typing issue it refers to is #148.

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #142, #143, #144, #148, #151; #124 is in flight and #133 is waiting on its pull. Nothing is parked. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, plus two edges and one close. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (832812d), where #147 landed procedurally generated maps.

I measured before planning around them: generateLevel is 6.9 ms and the level mesh 2.1 ms, so clicking Play is not a freeze and there is no issue to open about that.

• #148 — The map you played has a name you can keep. The seed comes from the match id and the name is only shown after the match starts, so a map you liked is unreachable. A validated name in the menu, ?map=gen_1z3f on /, and a copy link that is a real <a href>. Ready now. Torque.
• #149 — See the map before you play it. Picking a generated map is currently picking a number; #134's radar already draws this data, so this is that drawing given a whole level. Waits for #134. Vesper.
• #150 — A result says which map it was played on. de_forge matches and generated ones land in one table with nothing recording which was which; one validated column and an additive migration. Waits for #101. Torque.
• #151 — Every generated map looks like its own place. They all look identical; nine materials are already in the atlas, so a palette chosen from the same seed costs no repaint and no bytes. Ready now. Vesper.

#96 is closed — "a second map, chosen on the menu, and the bots play it without being told anything new" is exactly what #147 shipped. A correction is noted on #149: the seed-typing issue it refers to is #148, not #146.

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #142, #143, #144, #148, #151 — with #124 in flight, #133 waiting on its pull, and nothing parked.

A planning round on today's main (e4d284a), where #146 landed spectating: src/client/spectate.ts holds the choice, the order and an eased camera framed in seconds, and its docstring names the four bugs the old one-liner had. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; the tree is clean and nothing is parked.

I read the new code and the game around it. Four issues, and one of them exists because of a number on the front page that #147 quietly made half-true.

• #153 — Buying never takes the mouse off the game. openBuy calls exitPointerLock() and waits for a click, so every round costs a pointer round-trip in a game whose whole feel is that the mouse is your hand. Number keys in the panel, a rebuy, the lock kept, and the panel still a panel for a thumb and a screen reader. Ready now. Vesper.
• #154 — The bots are measured on the maps they actually play. The page says the policy wins 72% of 240 duels against the baseline's 38%; both were measured on de_forge, and since #147 half the matches are somewhere else. src/rl/arena.ts imports DE_FORGE; the observation is level-generic, so the policy should transfer and nobody has checked. Measures only — no retraining, no new weights. Ready now. Torque.
• #155 — Players read as people when they move. Watching a round is half of every round now that spectating is good, and what you watch is boxes sliding: no gait, no landing, no going down when they die. The cheap version first — a bob and a lean driven by distance travelled, computed in scene.ts from numbers the world already has, digests unmoved; per-part animation only with the instance capacity (32 today) and the measured frame cost stated. Ready now. Vesper.
• #156 — Train on the maps the game plays. The shipped policy learned one map; the trainer still resets into de_forge every episode. A level per episode from a recorded seed stream, both win rates on the card, and an explicit rule that the policy is not allowed to get worse on de_forge — a pull reporting a negative result is the right outcome if that is what happens. Waits for #154. Torque.

Edge added: #156 ← #154. A correction is noted on #156 itself: the issue it waits for is #154, not #152.

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155; #124 and #142 are in flight. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, plus one edge. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (e4d284a), where #146 landed spectating.

• #153 — Buying never takes the mouse off the game. openBuy calls exitPointerLock() and waits for a click, so every round costs a pointer round-trip in a game whose feel is that the mouse is your hand: number keys, a rebuy, the lock kept, and the panel still usable by thumb and screen reader. Ready now. Vesper.
• #154 — The bots are measured on the maps they actually play. The front page's "wins 72% … against 38%" was measured on de_forge only, and since #147 half the matches are elsewhere; src/rl/arena.ts imports DE_FORGE while the observation is level-generic, so the policy should transfer and nobody has checked. Measures only. Ready now. Torque.
• #155 — Players read as people when they move. Spectating is half of every round and what you watch is boxes sliding; the cheap gait first, computed in scene.ts from numbers the world already has with digests unmoved, per-part animation only with the instance capacity (32 today) and frame cost measured. Ready now. Vesper.
• #156 — Train on the maps the game plays. A level per episode from a recorded seed stream, both win rates on the card, and an explicit rule that the policy may not get worse on de_forge — a negative result reported plainly is an acceptable outcome. Waits for #154. Vesper's counterpart: Torque.

Edge added: #156 ← #154, with a correction noted on #156 itself (it waits for #154, not the number typed in its body).

Ready now: #18, #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155 — with #124 and #142 in flight and nothing parked.

A planning round on today's main (4e6895a): #152 and #158 landed, so the readout is behind the door and the solver is proved general under a second tuning profile. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked, and there are thirty-one ready issues for two builders — so this round is deliberately about guards and truth-telling rather than more surface, plus the sequencing the queue now needs.

Housekeeping: #13 is closed. "A second game proves the package" has been true since #24, and is now three games deep (#119); what it still listed as waiting — #18, #63 — stands on its own.

Sequencing: #143 ← #142 and #135 ← #142, joining #145 ← #142. Those four all move the golden digests, and two pulls re-pinning src/client/replay.test.ts at once do not merely conflict — the second one's digest is computed on a base that no longer exists. They go in a line, behind the grenade that is already in flight.

Four issues:

• #159 — A match on a generated map is pinned too. Every simulation change queued behind #142 is guarded by one net, and that net only plays de_forge. A change that behaves differently only on a carved layout passes every test here today. Worth landing before the queue rather than after it. Ready now. Torque.
• #160 — A frame has a budget and the tests hold it. Five queued issues add per-frame work and nothing would notice a tenfold regression. I measured the floor first: a 64 Hz tick with ten bots thinking is 0.057 ms and buildScene 0.005 ms, against 15.6 ms — which is exactly why the guard is cheap now and impossible later. Generous ceilings, printed numbers, not a flaky stopwatch. Ready now. Torque.
• #161 — JavaScript off is a sentence, not a dead Play button. With scripts disabled, / renders perfectly and ships a Play button that is disabled for ever, with nothing saying why; the same on /range and /example. The pages are genuinely useful without a script, so one honest line belongs in the shell. Ready now. Vesper.
• #162 — A match nobody finished stops saying "in progress". Close the tab mid-match and the feed on the front page claims a live game for ever. One pure read-side rule, no rewriting of rows, standings untouched. Ready now. Vesper.

Ready now: #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #136, #144, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162; #142 is in flight with #143, #135 and #145 behind it. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened on direction #1, plus two edges and one close. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (4e6895a).

With thirty-one ready issues and two builders, this round is deliberately guards and truth-telling rather than more surface:

• #159 — A match on a generated map is pinned too. Every simulation change queued behind #142 is guarded by one net, and that net only plays de_forge; a change that misbehaves only on a carved layout passes every test today. Worth landing before the queue, not after. Torque.
• #160 — A frame has a budget and the tests hold it. I measured the floor first: a 64 Hz tick with ten bots is 0.057 ms and buildScene 0.005 ms against 15.6 ms — which is why the guard is cheap now and impossible once a radar, a gait, grenades and footsteps have landed on it. Torque.
• #161 — JavaScript off is a sentence, not a dead Play button. With scripts disabled every page renders perfectly and ships a Play button disabled for ever, with nothing saying why. Vesper.
• #162 — A match nobody finished stops saying "in progress". Close the tab mid-match and the front page claims a live game for ever; one read-side rule, no rows rewritten. Vesper.

Sequencing: #143 ← #142 and #135 ← #142 join #145 ← #142. All four move the golden digests, and two pulls re-pinning replay.test.ts at once don't merely conflict — the second one's digest is computed on a base that no longer exists. #13 is closed: "a second game proves the package" has been true since #24 and is three games deep now.

Ready now: #40, #42, #63, #67, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #136, #144, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162 — with #142 in flight and #143, #135, #145 queued behind it.

A planning round on today's main (d838f36), where #157 landed the first grenade: a thrown body on the engine's own solver, a fuse on the simulation's clock, a blast that checks what it can see, a mesh, three sounds and a buy entry — and the app's bundle went from 72,048 to 84,136 bytes for it. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked.

There are thirty-four ready issues for two builders, so this round adds two and spends the rest of itself keeping what is already there true.

Opened:

• #164 — The second grenade is a flash. #157 built machinery; a second type is the proof it was machinery and not one special case. It blinds by how much of it you could see — line, angle and distance, the curve written out and checked — a white-out for the player, a number for the bot, and no change to the observation or the shipped weights. Ready now. Vesper.
• #165 — Smoke that actually blocks sight. The utility that changes how a round is played, and the first that touches what a bot can see: canSee must account for the cloud or a bot and a player will disagree about what happened. Explicitly the biggest of the three and the only one that can slow the tick down — the pull states what it costs, and may land the simulation half alone. Waits for #164. Vesper.

Kept true:

• #135 is rewritten. Its premise died with #157: the sound effect variant it said nothing ever pushed is now pushed by the grenade, with recipes and positioned playback. What is left — footsteps, the bomb's beep, the plant, the defuse, a death — is restated as a checklist on the issue, including that the sounds now play from the spectated ear that #146 introduced.
• #145 is ready and gains its other half: a bot does not react to a live grenade either, and the rule for throwing should be written with the rule for stepping away from one.
• #128's drift has grown: /example still claims the shooter is 71,646 bytes, which is now wrong by more than the whole of the example's own bundle.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #164; #67 is in flight and #63 is waiting on its pull. #159 (a pin on a generated map) is still worth landing ahead of the digest-moving queue rather than behind it. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened and three kept true. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (d838f36), where #157 landed the first grenade (and took the app's bundle from 72,048 to 84,136 bytes).

With thirty-four ready issues for two builders, adding four more would have been padding, so this round is two new issues and maintenance on the ones that stopped being accurate:

• #164 — The second grenade is a flash. #157 built machinery; a second type proves it was machinery and not one special case. Blinding by line, angle and distance — a white-out for the player, a number for the bot, with the observation and shipped weights untouched. Ready now. Vesper.
• #165 — Smoke that actually blocks sight. The first utility that touches what a bot can see: canSee must account for the cloud or a bot and a player will disagree about what happened. Explicitly the biggest of the three, and the only one that can slow the tick — the pull states the cost and may land the simulation half alone. Waits for #164. Vesper.

#135 is rewritten: its premise ("the sound effect variant exists and nothing pushes one") died with the grenade, so what remains — footsteps, the bomb's beep, the plant, the defuse, a death — is restated as a checklist, including that sounds now play from the spectated ear #146 introduced. #145 is ready and gains its other half: bots don't react to a live grenade either. #128's drift has grown — /example still claims the shooter is 71,646 bytes, now wrong by more than the example's whole bundle.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #101, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #148, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #164 — with #67 in flight, #63 waiting on its pull, and #159 still worth landing ahead of the digest-moving queue rather than behind it.

A planning round on today's main (698db5b). #166 put the transient effects behind the door and #163 taught the range to walk, which means the engine is twenty modules and the only thing named in this direction's sentence still written three times is the boot — the Math.min(devicePixelRatio || 1, 2) canvas dance appears once in each game's entry, and #75 is the issue for it. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked.

Thirty-three ready issues for two builders, so this round adds two, and both of them are about the questions nobody has answered yet rather than more surface.

• #168 — The leaderboard stops taking the browser's word. The front page admits the numbers are the browser's claim, checked only for being possible; anyone with a console can post a plausible thirty-round match. Everything needed to do better already exists for other reasons — the simulation is deterministic and pinned (#139, #159), the policy is deterministic, and the server can import the very world.ts the page runs. A match is a seed and a stream of inputs; replay it and the result stops being a claim. Rows with no recording stay accepted and are marked unverified, so nothing regresses for anyone. Waits for #93. Torque.
• #169 — What each part of the engine costs, measured. A game choosing this package cannot find out what using it costs: the ceilings measure whole bundles and the rest is a growing prose log in src/games.ts. One script, a number per group in GUIDE.md beside the paragraph that describes it, and a test that fails when they drift — the same discipline the guide already holds its code to. Ready now. Torque.

Two notes left where they will be read:

• #74 is the unlock for the longest chain on the map. #75, #79, #93 and now #168 all wait on the pointer-lock and pause semantics it settles. It is a small issue and it is worth taking early.
• #91 should be designed knowing that #93's recording makes its match page a place to watch a round rather than read numbers about one, and that #168 verifies the result that page displays.

I checked two things before deciding not to open issues about them: the result gate's damage cap (30,000 over a match) is still comfortably above what grenades made possible, and the range's prose was updated with #163 — there is no "no walking yet" left on any page.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #148, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #169; #101 and #164 are in flight. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened, one edge, two notes. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (698db5b), where #166 put transient effects behind the door and #163 taught the range to walk. The engine is now twenty modules, and the only thing in this direction's sentence still written three times is the boot (#75).

With thirty-three ready issues for two builders, this round adds two, both aimed at questions nobody has answered rather than more surface:

• #168 — The leaderboard stops taking the browser's word. The front page admits the numbers are a claim checked only for being possible. The simulation is deterministic and pinned, the policy is deterministic, and the server can import the same world.ts the page runs — so a match is a seed and a stream of inputs, and replaying it makes the result a fact. Results with no recording stay accepted and are marked unverified. Waits for #93. Torque.
• #169 — What each part of the engine costs, measured. A game choosing this package cannot find out what it weighs; one script, a number per group in GUIDE.md, and a test that fails on drift. Ready now. Torque.

Notes left where they will be read: #74 is the unlock for the longest chain on the map (#75, #79, #93 and now #168 all wait on it, and it is small); #91 should be designed knowing #93's recording turns its match page into somewhere you watch a round.

Two things I checked and deliberately did not file: the result gate's damage cap is still well above what grenades made possible, and the range's prose was updated with #163 — no "no walking yet" is left anywhere.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #109, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #148, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #169 — with #101 and #164 in flight.

The working tree is clean at 698db5b and there is nothing to commit or push: this was a planning run, so the result is on the forge rather than in the branch. No file was created and no pull is needed from me.

What the last round produced, and what a person should look at:

• #168 — The leaderboard stops taking the browser's word. The front page admits the numbers are a claim checked only for being possible. The simulation is deterministic and pinned, the policy is deterministic, and the server can import the same world.ts the page runs — so replaying a match's recorded inputs turns the result into a fact, with unrecorded results still accepted and marked unverified. Waits for #93. Torque.
• #169 — What each part of the engine costs, measured. A game choosing this package cannot find out what it weighs; one script, a number per group in GUIDE.md, and a test that fails on drift. Ready now. Torque.
• Edge #168 ← #93, plus notes on #74 (it is the unlock for #75, #79, #93 and #168, and it is small — worth taking early) and #91 (its match page should be where a recorded round is watched).

Two things I checked and deliberately did not file: the result gate's damage cap is still well above what grenades made possible, and the range's prose was updated with #163, so no page says "no walking yet".

The map stands with thirty-plus ready issues, nothing parked, #101 and #164 in flight, and the direction issue #1 open with the full round-by-round record in its comments.

Budget reached at $2.67; this is where it stopped.

A planning round on today's main (d45c9c0, #171 pinned the leaderboard's gate). Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked, and there are thirty-five ready issues for two builders — so this round is two issues and one piece of wiring that matters more than either.

The wiring. Torque opened #170 while working: src/client/main.ts creates a world with no seed, so world.ts falls back to the wall clock. A match id already picks the map and picks nothing else, which means no round can be reproduced from the id the leaderboard stores, and every run of main.test.ts plays a different world. That is the most load-bearing small issue on the map, and four things now wait on it: #93 ← #170 (a recording with no seed cannot be replayed), #168 ← #170 (verification is #93 plus this), #148 ← #170 (the same seeding code, and it should follow rather than race), and the two below. The issue needs no rewriting — a note on it says what is behind it.

Opened, both building on that:

• #173 — A match you can play again. Once the id is the whole of a match, it stops being bookkeeping and becomes the most interesting string in the app: paste it and get the same map, the same bots, the same seed. A validated ?match=<id>, the id on the screen where it can be copied, and a test that two worlds from one id fold to the same digest. Waits for #170. Torque.
• #174 — A match of the day. The board today compares matches with nothing in common — different layouts, different bot draws — so the top row means whoever played most. Derive the id from the calendar day and everyone plays the same map with the same bots: today's board becomes a fair comparison, beside the all-time one rather than instead of it. Honest about what it is — a score against bots on a fixed seed. Waits for #173. Vesper.

That is the first chain on this map that goes somewhere a player would notice: #170 → #173 → #174, with #93 → #168 branching off the same root.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #169, #170; #109 is in flight and #164 is waiting on its pull. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened and five edges linked. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (d45c9c0).

The important thing this round was wiring, not writing: Torque opened #170 while working — main.ts creates a world with no seed, so it falls back to the wall clock, which means no match can be reproduced from the id the leaderboard stores and every run of main.test.ts plays a different world. Four things now wait on it: #93 ← #170, #168 ← #170, #148 ← #170, and the two new issues. The issue itself needs no rewriting; a note on it says what is behind it.

• #173 — A match you can play again. Once the id is the whole of a match, paste it and get the same map, bots and seed: a validated ?match=<id>, the id on screen where it can be copied, and a test that two worlds from one id fold to the same digest. Waits for #170. Torque.
• #174 — A match of the day. The board compares matches with nothing in common, so the top row means whoever played most; derive the id from the calendar day and today's board becomes a fair comparison, beside the all-time one rather than instead of it — honest that it is a score against bots on a fixed seed. Waits for #173. Vesper.

That gives the map its first chain that goes somewhere a player would notice: #170 → #173 → #174, with #93 → #168 branching off the same root.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #134, #135, #136, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #169, #170 — with #109 in flight and #164 waiting on its pull.

There is nothing to commit or push: this is a planning run, the working tree is clean, and I created no files. The result lives on the forge, in the issues and their edges.

The last round's output, and what a person should look at:

• #173 — A match you can play again. Once a match id is the whole of a match, pasting it gives the same map, bots and seed: a validated ?match=<id>, the id on screen where it can be copied, and a test that two worlds from one id fold to the same digest. Waits for #170. Torque.
• #174 — A match of the day. Today the board compares matches with nothing in common, so the top row means whoever played most; deriving the id from the calendar day makes today's board a fair comparison, shown beside the all-time one and honest that it is a score against bots on a fixed seed. Waits for #173. Vesper.

The wiring mattered more than either: #170, which Torque found while working (the world is seeded from the wall clock, so no match is reproducible from its id and main.test.ts plays a different world every run), is now the root of the map's longest useful chain — #93 ← #170, #168 ← #170, #148 ← #170, #173 ← #170, #174 ← #173. The issue needed no rewriting; a note on it lists what depends on it so whoever picks it up knows its weight.

The map stands with thirty-plus ready issues, nothing parked, and direction #1 open with the full round-by-round record in its comments. The single best next move for a person is to let #170 go first — it unblocks recording, verification, map sharing and both new issues at once.

Budget reached at $2.76; this is where it stopped.

A planning round on today's main (e1ac8bd). Four things landed since the last one, three of them a person's own: #179 mini map, #180 escape handling, #172 the flash, #175 the headless terminal — and #177 (bot retraining on procedural maps) is in flight. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked.

Most of this round was reconciling my map with what those landings actually delivered.

• #134 is closed. "A radar in the corner" is what #179 shipped: src/client/minimap.ts with its own tests, a palette module and the HUD drawing it. That unblocks #137 (a directional damage indicator) and #149 (a plan of the map on the menu) — and #149 should read minimap.ts first, because the drawing it needs exists and only wants a whole level instead of a corner of one.
• #177 has a spec now, left as a comment on it rather than a competing issue: measure before changing (that is #154's harness), train on a level drawn per episode from a recorded seed stream (that is #156), do not touch the observation, the heads or OBS_SIZE, and do not ship weights that are worse on de_forge — a negative result stated plainly is a good outcome. #156 ← #177; #154 stays open, because a measurement outlives the retraining that prompted it.
• #165 (smoke) is ready, now that the flash has proved the grenade machinery generalises.

Two issues opened, both about files that every other issue has to touch:

• #181 — The shooter's entry stops being six concepts. src/client/main.ts is 614 lines holding the host types, the boot, the menu, the buy panel, the posting and the frame — and five queued issues (#143, #144, #148, #153, #173) all land in it. The buy panel and the posting become modules; behaviour, digests and bundle unchanged. Timing matters: take it when nothing else is open on main.ts. Ready now. Vesper.
• #182 — The registry stops being a changelog. src/games.ts is 280 lines, 174 of them a hand-typed history of bundle sizes in a file the build, the server and every page read. The app is 90,451 bytes today; the block's own most recent paragraph says 71,646. The rule stays, the log goes, and scripts/build.ts prints the table a pull is supposed to quote. Ready now. Torque.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #181, #182; #170 and #177 are in flight, and #170 is still the root of the longest chain (#173 → #174, #93 → #168). The direction stays open.

Two issues opened, one closed, one in-flight issue given a spec. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (e1ac8bd).

Most of this round was reconciling the map with what the owner's own issues delivered:

• #134 is closed — "a radar in the corner" is exactly what #179 (mini map) shipped, with src/client/minimap.ts, its tests and a palette module. That unblocks #137 and #149, and #149 should read minimap.ts first: the drawing it needs exists and only wants a whole level instead of a corner of one.
• #177 (bot retraining) now has a spec, left as a comment on it rather than as a competing issue: measure first (#154's harness), train on a level drawn per episode from a recorded seed stream (#156), leave the observation, heads and OBS_SIZE alone, and never ship weights that are worse on de_forge — a negative result stated plainly is a good outcome. #156 ← #177; #154 stays open because the measurement outlives the retraining.
• #165 (smoke) is ready now that the flash proved the grenade machinery generalises.

Opened, both about files everything else has to touch:

• #181 — The shooter's entry stops being six concepts. main.ts is 614 lines and five queued issues all land in it; the buy panel and the result posting become modules, with behaviour, digests and bundle unchanged. Take it when nothing else is open on that file. Vesper.
• #182 — The registry stops being a changelog. src/games.ts is 280 lines, 174 of them a hand-typed history of bundle sizes; the app is 90,451 bytes today and that block's newest paragraph says 71,646. Keep the rule, drop the log, and let scripts/build.ts print the table a pull is meant to quote. Torque.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #113, #115, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #181, #182 — with #170 and #177 in flight, and #170 still the root of the longest chain (#173 → #174, #93 → #168).

A planning round on today's main (950823c). #183 landed, so a match is now reproducible from its id — which makes #173 ready and gives #93, #148 and #168 their root — and #184 put the 404 and the 500 through the shell, which makes #129 (hashing the style block so 'unsafe-inline' can leave the CSP) ready. #185 ("sometimes the bots get into weird spots where they won't move") is in flight alongside #177 and #113. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked, and thirty-eight issues are ready.

So this round is one issue and one spec.

• #187 — The range gets the board it deserves. The range is a scoring game — two drills, a score, hits, shots, accuracy — and the server keeps none of it. This is the direction's own claim applied to the half of the app it has never reached: the engine proved a second game can share the client; nothing yet proves a second game can share the server. src/result.ts validates one game's numbers, src/db.ts holds one game's table, and /api/match is named for one game. The run goes through the same gate rather than a copy of it, ranked per drill, in the first paint — and the range's stricter import rule stays green, because that rule is the proof. Ready now. Torque.
• #185 has a spec, left on the issue: reproduce before fixing — #183 makes a stuck bot a bug with an address, so search seeded generated maps headlessly for a bot that has not moved while its path is non-empty; say what "stuck" is in a number; decide which of the three it is (a path the search will not return, a path the solver cannot walk, or a decision layer that keeps abandoning its goal); and leave behind a guard that plays seeded rounds across several maps and asserts nobody is stuck. It also says what #177 must not do: a stuck bot is geometry, not policy, and the two should not share a pull.
• #81 gains a note: #187 is the server's board, #81 is the browser's own history, and whichever lands second must make the page say which numbers are which.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187. #74 is still the small one that unblocks the most: #75, #79, #93 and, behind #93, #168. The direction stays open.

One issue opened and one in-flight issue given a spec. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (950823c).

Two landings changed the map more than anything I could add: #183 made a match reproducible from its id (so #173 is ready and #93, #148 and #168 have their root), and #184 put the 404 and 500 through the shell (so #129 — hashing the style block so 'unsafe-inline' can leave the CSP — is ready). With thirty-eight issues already ready, this round is deliberately small:

• #187 — The range gets the board it deserves. The range is a scoring game and the server keeps none of it. This is the direction's own claim applied to the half of the app it has never reached: the engine proved a second game can share the client; nothing proves a second game can share the server, where src/result.ts, src/db.ts and /api/match are all named and shaped for one game. The run goes through the same gate rather than a copy, ranked per drill, in the first paint — and the range's stricter import rule stays green, because that rule is the proof. Torque.
• #185 (stuck bots) has a spec on the issue: reproduce before fixing — #183 makes a stuck bot a bug with an address, so search seeded generated maps headlessly for a bot that hasn't moved while its path is non-empty; define "stuck" as a number; decide which of the three causes it is; and leave a guard behind that plays seeded rounds across several maps. It also draws the line #177 must not cross: a stuck bot is geometry, not policy, and the two should not share a pull.
• #81 gains a note: #187 is the server's board, #81 is the browser's own history, and whichever lands second must make the page say which numbers are which.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #117, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #154, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187 — and #74 is still the small issue that unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93, and #168 behind #93).

A planning round on today's main (51ea7ef). Three landings, and one of them finishes this direction's last open claim:

• #189 — the engine leaves the repository. scripts/pack.ts writes a standalone copy with its own package.json, and a test bundles the guide's game against that copy alone. The package is no longer a convention inside one repository; it is an artifact that builds outside it.
• #188 split the round's rules, and #186 retrained the bots.

Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked.

Housekeeping: #154 and #156 are closed, delivered by #186. The card in src/client/weights.ts now records exactly what those two asked for and more — the run learned on 96 layouts and was graded on 24 unseen maps from a separate seed stream: 69% against a 49% baseline there, beside 71% against 42% on de_forge, with the draw rate reported. That is the measurement and the training in one pull, honestly reported including the harder baseline. Both issues would have cost a builder a run to rediscover work already on main. (What nobody has: a check that re-measures the shipped weights when the map generator changes — the card is a snapshot of a run, not a test that runs again. Worth an issue if anyone wants it.)

Opened:

• #191 — The door's version is enforced, not remembered. #189 gave the package a version and nothing makes it true: boundary.test.ts pins the whole surface as a list, and the version sits beside it unchecked, so the first export added without touching it makes the number a lie for everyone who packed an older copy. One committed record — surface against version — and a failing test whose message says which names moved and what to do. Ready now. Torque.
• #190 ("bot spray control is pretty mid") has a spec on the issue: put a number on "mid" first with a seeded stand — one bot, one target at a stated range, a burst, count the hits, per weapon and per skill — prefer the scripted layer over a retrain, keep the skill ladder a ladder, and do not make them perfect. It also keeps open the honest possibility that it is the player's spray that feels mid, in which case that is its own issue.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187, #191; #185 and #190 are in flight. #74 remains the small one that unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93, and #168 behind #93). The direction stays open.

One issue opened, two closed, one in-flight issue given a spec. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (51ea7ef).

#189 closed this direction's last open claim: scripts/pack.ts writes a standalone copy of the engine with its own package.json, and a test bundles the guide's game against that copy alone — the package is an artifact that builds outside this repository, not a convention inside it.

Housekeeping — #154 and #156 are closed, delivered by #186. The card now records more than either asked for: the run learned on 96 layouts and was graded on 24 unseen maps from a separate seed stream, 69% against a 49% baseline there beside 71% against 42% on de_forge, draw rate included. Both would have cost a builder a run to rediscover work already merged. (Nothing yet re-measures the shipped weights when the map generator changes — the card is a snapshot of a run, not a test that runs again; worth an issue if anyone wants it.)

• #191 — The door's version is enforced, not remembered. #189 gave the package a version and nothing makes it true: boundary.test.ts pins the surface as a list and the version sits beside it unchecked, so the first export added without touching it makes the number a lie for anyone who packed an older copy. One committed record and a failing test whose message says which names moved. Torque.
• #190 ("bot spray control is pretty mid") has a spec: put a number on "mid" first with a seeded stand — one bot, one target, a burst, hits counted per weapon and per skill — prefer the scripted layer over a retrain, keep the skill ladder a ladder, don't make them perfect, and stay out of #185's pull. It also keeps open that it may be the player's spray that feels mid.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187, #191 — with #185 and #190 in flight, and #74 still the small issue that unblocks the most.

A planning round with nothing new on main since the last one (51ea7ef; #185 and #190 are in flight), so I spent it the other way round: using the app rather than reading it, and then adding as little as possible to a map that already holds thirty-eight ready issues.

The customer pass found nothing to file. Booted locally and exercised the surface: / 5.9 ms cold then under 2 ms, /range 1.9 ms, /example 1.8 ms; the 404 is now a whole styled document with the icon (#184) rather than the 400-byte fragment it was two rounds ago; HEAD / answers 200 with no body; a valid result posts and comes back as the rendered leaderboard with the guest label and escaping intact; an impossible one is 422, a cross-site POST is 403, a 200 kB body is 413. The one thing still open on that surface is the CSP's 'unsafe-inline', which is #129 and is ready.

Opened:

• #193 — The shipped bots are re-measured, not just remembered. #186's card is honest and is a snapshot of one afternoon: 96 layouts learned, 24 unseen graded, 69% against 49%. Nothing re-measures it, and five queued issues move the world it was measured in (grenades landed, a flash landed, deploy times, smoke and footsteps are queued), while the map generator itself is due a repaint (#151). A guard that plays the shipped weights on named seeds and fails when the win rate collapses — not a retrain, not a digest, not a frame budget: the one question those three do not ask, which is whether the bots are still any good. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #118 gains an argument it did not have when I wrote it. The pack ships the engine's TypeScript sources, so a type error here is now an error in somebody else's build. Typechecking stopped being a convenience for us the day #189 landed.
• #148 ← #173. Naming a map and playing a match id are two controls for one thing; whoever does #173 should decide whether #148 still wants a separate one rather than the menu growing two ways to say it.
• I checked two things and deliberately did not file: src/client/palette.ts (from #179) is the HUD's 2D colours only, so #151 — a generated map's materials chosen from its seed — still stands; and the result gate's caps still fit what grenades and flashes can produce.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193. #74 is still the small one that unblocks the most — #75, #79, #93 and #168 behind it — and #181 (splitting the 614-line entry) is the one that should be taken when nothing else is open on main.ts. The direction stays open.

One issue opened, one edge, one note. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (51ea7ef).

Nothing had landed since the last round, so I spent this one using the app rather than reading it, and then added as little as possible to a map that already holds thirty-eight ready issues.

The customer pass found nothing to file. / answers in 5.9 ms cold and under 2 ms warm, /range 1.9 ms, /example 1.8 ms; the 404 is a whole styled document with the icon now (#184) rather than the 400-byte fragment it was; HEAD / is 200 with no body; a valid result posts and comes back as the rendered leaderboard with guest labelling and escaping intact; an impossible result is 422, a cross-site POST 403, a 200 kB body 413. The only thing still open on that surface is the CSP's 'unsafe-inline' — that's #129, ready.

• #193 — The shipped bots are re-measured, not just remembered. #186's card (96 layouts learned, 24 unseen graded, 69% against 49%) is honest and is a snapshot of one afternoon; nothing re-measures it while five queued issues move the world it was measured in. A guard that plays the shipped weights on named seeds and fails when the win rate collapses — the one question #159, #160 and a retrain all leave unasked. Torque.

Kept true: #118 gains the argument it lacked — the pack ships TypeScript sources, so a type error here is now an error in someone else's build; #148 ← #173, because naming a map and playing a match id are two controls for one thing. I also checked and deliberately did not file: palette.ts is HUD colours only, so #151 still stands, and the result gate's caps still fit what grenades and flashes produce.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #118, #127, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #173, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193 — with #74 still the small unblocker and #181 the one to take when nothing else is open on main.ts.

A planning round on today's main (20876c0). Four landings, three of them a person's own tuning: #192 (spray control), #195 (bots stuck and not shooting), #196 (the deagle one-shot) — and #197, which made a match id something you can paste and play again. That last one makes #174 (a match of the day) ready: the chain #183 → #197 → #174 is now one step from a board that compares like with like.

Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked, thirty-seven issues are ready, and #118, #127 and #20 are in flight.

One issue opened, and it comes straight out of those three landings:

• #199 — The numbers the game is tuned by are on the page. "1 shot deag", "bot spray control is pretty mid": the last three things a person asked for were tuning by feel, and neither the player nor the reviewer can see the numbers being argued about. weapons.ts holds everything that decides a fight and combat.ts turns it into what a hit costs; all of it is server-renderable data that nobody outside the source can read. A table rendered from that data — including what each gun does to a head, a chest and a pair of legs, with and without armour, computed through the same combat.ts the fight uses — turns the next "it feels wrong" into a number somebody can point at. Ready now. Torque.

A note on the forge, not the app: the public API at $FORGE_URL answered 404 for this repository throughout this round — /api/v1/repos returned an empty list for my token, while git fetch over the same forge worked. I did this round against the forge's own address instead, which answered normally. Worth knowing if another agent reports the same thing; nothing about the repository looks wrong.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199. #74 is still the small one that unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93, and #168 behind #93), and #181 — splitting the 614-line entry — wants a moment when nothing else is open on main.ts. The direction stays open.

One issue opened. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (20876c0).

Four things landed since the last round, three of them a person's own tuning (#192 spray control, #195 stuck bots, #196 the deagle), plus #197, which made a match id something you can paste and play again — so #174 (a match of the day) is ready and the chain #183 → #197 → #174 is one step from a board that compares like with like.

• #199 — The numbers the game is tuned by are on the page. The last three requests were tuning by feel, and neither the player nor the reviewer can see the numbers being argued about. weapons.ts holds what decides a fight and combat.ts turns it into what a hit costs; a table rendered from that data — including what each gun does to a head, chest and legs, with and without armour, computed through the same combat.ts the fight uses — turns the next "it feels wrong" into a number someone can point at. Torque.

One thing worth flagging that is the forge's, not the app's: the public API at $FORGE_URL returned 404 for this repository for the whole round, and /api/v1/repos listed nothing for my token, while git fetch over the same forge worked normally. I did this round against the forge's own address, which answered fine — so the map, the issue and this comment all landed, but another agent may hit the same wall.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #102, #108, #111, #116, #128, #129, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199 — with #118, #127 and #20 in flight, #74 still the small unblocker, and #181 waiting for a quiet moment on main.ts.

A planning round on today's main (4da93cd). Five landings since the last one, all from this map: #198 (a missing bundle now refuses the boot), #200 (the types are checked), #201 (the policy's bins pinned), #202 ('unsafe-inline' is out of the CSP), #203 (a result that did not land is retried). Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created; nothing is parked.

I verified #200 rather than assuming it: bun install then bun run typecheck is clean on this tree, and test now runs the typecheck first — and since #201, #202 and #203 all landed after it, the deploy evidently installs before it checks.

Two issues, and the first is a defect I can point at:

• #204 — The HUD makes room for thumbs. hud.ts draws health at (pad, height - pad) and ammo at (width - pad, height - pad); #touch is inset:auto 0 0 0 with a pad of buttons at each end. On a phone the crouch/jump/use pad covers the health number and the reload/nade/flash/buy/fire pad covers the ammo — the two numbers you most need to read are under your hands. With a mouse nothing may move, and a test pins that. Ready now. Vesper.
• #205 — One list of what a player can do. The game's actions are written twice: keys in src/client/binding.ts, buttons in src/pages/game.ts. They agree today — when the grenade and the flash landed, both lists gained them — but that is the crew being careful, not the repository being safe. A test that holds them together, with a short argued list of what is deliberately keyboard-only. Ready now. Vesper.

Two things I checked and did not file, because they turned out fine: the radar is drawn top-left, so it does not collide with the touch pads; and the touch pads already carry the nade and the flash.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205; #111, #128 and #20 are in flight. #74 is still the small one that unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93 and #168), and #174 — a match of the day — is the one that turns the seeded-match chain into something a player notices. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened. Nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created — the branch is clean at main's tip (4da93cd).

Five issues from this map landed since the last round (#198 bundle-or-no-boot, #200 typecheck, #201 policy bins pinned, #202 'unsafe-inline' out of the CSP, #203 result retry). I verified #200 rather than assuming it: after bun install, bun run typecheck is clean and test now runs it first — and since three pulls landed after it, the deploy clearly installs before it checks.

• #204 — The HUD makes room for thumbs. hud.ts draws health at (pad, height - pad) and ammo at (width - pad, height - pad), while #touch spans the bottom of the stage — so on a phone the crouch/jump/use pad covers your health and the reload/nade/flash/buy/fire pad covers your ammo. With a mouse nothing may move, and a test pins that. Vesper.
• #205 — One list of what a player can do. Actions are written twice — keys in binding.ts, buttons in pages/game.ts — and they agree today only because the crew was careful when grenades and the flash landed. A test holds them together, with a short argued list of what is deliberately keyboard-only. Vesper.

Two things I checked and deliberately did not file: the radar is drawn top-left so it does not collide with the pads, and the touch pads already carry the nade and the flash.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #135, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205 — with #111, #128 and #20 in flight. #74 still unblocks the most, and #174 is the one that turns the seeded-match chain into something a player notices.

A planning round on today's main (334086e). One landing since the last round, and it is the loud one: #208 made the round audible — footsteps, the bomb's beep, the plant, the defuse and a death, through the effect path #157 built. Nothing is parked; nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created.

I used the app before writing anything: booted it locally, / answers in 17 ms cold and 1.4 ms warm, /range 1.8 ms, /example 1.3 ms, a cross-site POST to /api/match is 403, and the CSP carries a style hash with no 'unsafe-inline' (#202). Then I read the thing that just landed, and all four issues come out of it: a game that makes noise has to be asked the questions a silent one never was.

• #209 — A sound says which side it came from. src/engine/sound.ts connects every voice straight to context.destination, and src/client/audio.ts places a sound by distance alone; ears.yaw is right there at main.ts:630 and unused. A pure panOf beside attenuate, an optional pan on Burst and Tone through one StereoPannerNode, and a required fallback for a context that has none. Ready now. Vesper.
• #210 — A wall muffles what is behind it. ← #209. Today a body behind the site wall and one in the open at the same distance are the same noise: the footsteps tell you how far and lie about where. One clear-line test per sound event through canSee, one stated factor, and a muffled step that is still information. Vesper.
• #211 — A firefight does not crackle. ← #209. The recipes are not small — a grenade is 0.7 plus 0.55, each shot 0.35 plus 0.3 — and they all sum at the destination with nothing watching the ceiling. One master bus with headroom that is arithmetic in the docstring, a limiter with named constants, and a budget test that fails when a future recipe outgrows the number. The honest outcome may be "the gain was enough, no compressor" — that is a result too. Torque.
• #212 — The bots hear you. ← #193. You can sprint up behind a bot and it keeps looking down the corridor; canSee is its only sense. It reads the world's own sound and shot effects, the earshot numbers move to one module the ear and the bots share, and OBS_SIZE does not move, so the shipped weights still mean what they meant. It waits for #193 so the change is judged against a win rate rather than a feeling.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #69 (sound off in either game) stopped being a comfort the day #208 landed: the page fires a gun and beeps a bomb at a first visit with no switch anywhere, and device.muted is set by nothing. Its blocker #73 is small and ready, and that chain is the most customer-visible ready work on the map.
• #116 has live evidence now: the seam table at GUIDE.md:708 still says sound recipes are none yet for the range, while src/range/audio.ts exists and the same file says so at line 287. The table contradicts its own prose — exactly the drift that test would catch.
• Checked and deliberately not filed: the loop already clamps a slept tab (maxFrame 0.25 s, maxSteps 8), so a return from a background tab is neither a burst of ticks nor a burst of sound; and the seams are clean — nothing outside src/pages imports src/client.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #209. #74 still unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93, #168), #73 → #69 is the one a player would thank you for first, and #209 opens the three audio issues behind it. The direction stays open.

Four issues opened, none assigned; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the branch is clean at main's tip (334086e). All four come out of the one thing that landed since the last round, #208, which made the round audible.

• #209 — A sound says which side it came from: the ear has a heading, and the engine pans what it hears. Every voice in src/engine/sound.ts goes straight to context.destination and src/client/audio.ts places sound by distance alone, while ears.yaw sits unused at main.ts:630. Ready now. Vesper.
• #210 — A wall muffles what is behind it (← #209). A body behind cover and one in the open at the same distance are the same noise today. Vesper.
• #211 — A firefight does not crackle: one output bus with measured headroom, and a limiter on it (← #209). The recipes sum at the destination with nothing watching 1.0. Torque.
• #212 — The bots hear you: a step or a shot they cannot see turns a head (← #193, so the behaviour change is judged against a win rate). OBS_SIZE and the shipped weights stay untouched. Vesper.

Kept true without opening anything: commented on #69 (a first visit now fires a gun with no switch anywhere — device.muted is set by nothing, and its blocker #73 is small and ready) and on #116 (the guide's seam table at line 708 still says the range has no sound recipes while src/range/audio.ts exists and line 287 says so — the table contradicts its own prose). Checked and deliberately not filed: the loop already clamps a slept tab, and nothing outside src/pages imports src/client.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #148, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #209 — with #74 still the biggest unblocker, #73 → #69 the chain a player would thank you for first, and #209 the one that opens the three behind it.

A planning round on today's main (c5dce87). Two landings since the last one: #206 (what the trainer writes is under test) and #213 (a generated map has a name you can read, type back in and link to). Nothing is parked; nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created.

I used the app before reading it. / answers in 8 ms cold and 3 ms warm, /?map=amber-forest-19 and /?map=%3Cscript%3E both come back as de_forge with a sentence and nothing unescaped, /range 1.7 ms, /example 1.8 ms, and the terminal opens on standings/matches/policy with FORGE_APP_SSH unset and says so. Then I measured the bundle, which is where the first issue came from.

• #214 — The shipped weights stop riding in the entry bundle. The app bundle is 96,552 raw / 44,144 gzipped; the packed policy in src/client/weights.ts is 10,878 of those raw bytes and 9,518 gzipped — 21.6% of the shooter's wire cost, near-incompressible, re-downloaded with every deploy that touches one line of the game, and useless until a match starts. It becomes its own content-named asset declared in src/games.ts, CARD stays a module because the first paint renders it, and src/client/bots.ts is handed a policy instead of reaching for one — which is also the seam a second game with its own policy, or none, has been waiting for. Ready now. Torque.
• #215 — A pasted link plays the match it names. main.ts:711 builds the share link as /?match=…&map=…, because the map is a menu choice and the id does not carry it — while pages/game.ts:174 still tells the player "An id is the whole match: the same map, the same spawns, the same bots and the same seed". Paste an id from a generated match with the select on de_forge and you get de_forge with those spawns, silently. The field takes a URL as well as an id, reads only match and map and only from this origin, and the page's promise is corrected. Ready now. Vesper.
• #216 — The sample draws with the engine it advertises. /example boasts that a third game cost two files and 220 lines, and src/example/plan.ts paints it in canvas 2D: the one file a newcomer copies demonstrates the loop, the controls, the trace and the seeded random, and nothing at all about the renderer, the mesh builder or the atlas — the largest things in the package. The room and the plate go through the renderer, plan.ts becomes the no-WebGL2 fallback the way the range's horizon is, and the line count stays the sample's whole value. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #181 was written against a 614-line entry; src/client/main.ts is 910 lines now, and the growth is a third concept — #213's map name, the name of the map Play would give you, the copy control and the share link. The split is three modules, not two, and #215 adds a fourth input to that same block, so it is worth taking first.
• #182 ← #214. The ceiling #213 raised leaves 856 gzipped bytes of headroom, the thinnest it has been, while the docstring recording how it got there is thirty lines of changelog. #214 moves those numbers; turning the record into data should happen once, after.
• #130 ← #216, because the seam table's third column describes the example, and #216 changes what the example is.
• Checked and deliberately not filed: ?map= is validated at both ends through one grammar whose test is a round trip, the share link already carries the map, and /range and /example carry nothing of it.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #209, #214, #215, #216. #74 still unblocks the most (#75, #79, #93, #168); #73 → #69 is still the one a player would thank you for first, now that the round makes noise with no switch; and #209 opens the three audio issues behind it. The direction stays open.

Three issues opened, none assigned; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the working tree is clean and holds nothing that is not on main (c5dce87). Two things landed since the last round: #206 (the trainer's output under test) and #213 (a generated map has a name you can type back in and link to).

• #214 — The shipped weights stop riding in the entry bundle. Measured: the app bundle is 96,552 raw / 44,144 gzipped, and the packed policy is 10,878 raw / 9,518 gzipped of that — 21.6% of the shooter's wire cost, near-incompressible, re-downloaded with every deploy, and useless until a match starts. It becomes its own content-named asset declared in src/games.ts; CARD stays a module for the first paint; bots.ts is handed a policy instead of reaching for one. Ready now. Torque.
• #215 — A pasted link plays the match it names. main.ts:711 shares /?match=…&map=…, but pages/game.ts:174 still promises "An id is the whole match: the same map…" — paste a generated match's id with the select on de_forge and you silently play de_forge. The field takes a URL as well as an id (only match and map, only from this origin), and the copy is corrected. Ready now. Vesper.
• #216 — The sample draws with the engine it advertises. /example claims a third game cost two files and 220 lines while plan.ts paints it in canvas 2D, so the file a newcomer copies shows nothing of the renderer, the mesh builder or the atlas. The plan becomes the no-WebGL2 fallback, and the line count stays the sample's whole value. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true without opening anything: #181 (the entry is 910 lines now, not 614, and #213 added a third concept to it), #182 ← #214 (856 gzipped bytes of headroom left, and #214 moves the numbers #182 would write down), #130 ← #216 (the seam table's third column describes the example). I used the app first: / answers in 8 ms cold and 3 ms warm, ?map= junk and a script tag both come back as de_forge with a sentence and nothing unescaped, and the terminal opens on standings/matches/policy.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #149, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #209, #214, #215, #216 — with #74 still the biggest unblocker and #73 → #69 the chain a player would thank you for first, now that the round makes noise with no switch.

A planning round on main at 22cce57 — and the first thing to say is that main does not boot.

Two landings since the last round: #217 (a sound says which side it came from) and #218 (a plan of the map on the menu). Each was green on its own branch; neither was rebased on the other; each committed its own rebuilt static/app.<hash>.js, and git kept both. bundleOf refuses to guess which is the game, exactly as #198 designed, so the server throws at start-up and bun test is 913 pass, 12 fail, 1 error on the merge result. It is worse than a duplicate: rebuilding here writes a third name, app.cf0752d7d4.js, because one committed file has the panning and the other has the map plan and neither has both. Whatever production is serving, it is not the game on main.

• #219 — main does not boot: rebuild static/ and commit it. Four minutes of work, nothing else in the pull. Until it lands every other pull's check fails, because bun test reads static/ whatever the branch changed. Ready now, and first. Whoever is free.
• #220 — A stale or duplicated bundle is a red suite, not a dead deploy. ← #219. The build deletes stale bundles when it runs; a merge does not run the build, and the quiet half of this failure — a merge that keeps one file and it is the stale one — would pass the suite today without a word. A test that builds every game into a temporary directory and proves the committed static/ is what the sources produce; a full build measured 71 ms here, so the cost is not the argument. The pull is also asked to weigh the stronger fix — one path per game on disk, the hash in the URL through a manifest, so two branches that both rebuild conflict in git instead of merging into rubble. Torque.
• #221 — The range hears the lane. #217 gave the engine a pan and the shooter an ear with a heading; the second game still plays every plate, crack and tick dead centre, down a lane whose plates are spread left and right on purpose. The player's own sounds stay centre, and the guide's seam table stops claiming the range has no sound recipes. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #42 is the largest single win on the page, and now it has a number. curl -H "accept-encoding: gzip" /static/app.<hash>.js returns content-length: 98571 with no content-encoding, while those bytes gzip to 44,271: every first visit downloads 2.2× more than it needs to, on the asset that blocks the first frame. The rest of the static headers are right — immutable, a year, nosniff, the CSP.
• #214 has almost no headroom left to buy back. Today's rebuild is 98,571 raw / 44,271 gzipped against the 100,000 / 45,000 ceiling #213 raised: 1,429 raw and 729 gzipped bytes. The packed weights are 10,878 / 9,518 of that.
• #210 and #211 became ready the moment #217 landed, and #149 closed with #218 — which makes #150 (a result says which map it was played on) the next thing that would make the leaderboard mean something.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #214, #215, #216, #219, #221. Take #219 first — it is the only one whose absence makes the others unmergeable. The direction stays open.

main is red right now, and that is the headline of this round. #217 (sound panning) and #218 (the map plan on the menu) each committed their own rebuilt static/app.<hash>.js; neither branch was rebased on the other, git kept both files, and bundleOf refuses to guess — so the server throws at start-up and bun test is 913 pass / 12 fail / 1 error on the merge result. Neither committed bundle is even the current tree: rebuilding writes a third hash, because one file has the panning and the other has the map plan.

Three issues opened, none assigned; nothing committed or pushed and no file created (I rebuilt locally to measure and restored static/ — the tree is clean at 22cce57).

• #219 — main does not boot: rebuild static/ and commit it. One rebuild, two deletions, nothing else in the pull. Until it lands, every other pull's check fails, because bun test reads static/ whatever the branch changed. Ready now, and first.
• #220 — A stale or duplicated bundle is a red suite, not a dead deploy (← #219). A merge never runs the build, and the quiet version of this failure — one surviving file, and it is the stale one — passes today's suite silently. A test that builds into a temp directory and proves static/ is what the sources produce; a full build measured 71 ms. The pull is also asked to weigh one path per game with the hash in the URL, so two rebuilds conflict in git instead of merging into rubble. Torque.
• #221 — The range hears the lane. The engine gained a pan in #217 and the second game still plays every plate dead centre down a lane whose plates are spread left and right. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true with measurements rather than new issues: #42 — the shooter bundle is served uncompressed (content-length: 98571, no content-encoding, against 44,271 gzipped), so a first visit downloads 2.2× what it needs on the asset that blocks the first frame; #214 — today's rebuild leaves 1,429 raw and 729 gzipped bytes under the ceiling, of which the packed weights are 10,878 / 9,518.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #214, #215, #216, #219, #221 — and #219 is the one to take first.

A planning round on main at 46dc066. One landing — #222, the sample now draws through the engine's WebGL2 renderer with the 2D plan as its fallback — and it quietly fixed the emergency from the last round: static/ holds exactly one bundle per game again, bun run scripts/build.ts leaves git status empty, and the server boots and answers / in 19 ms cold, 4 ms warm.

The parked issue is closed. Vesper declined #219 because #222 had already done it; I checked the same things rather than taking it on faith and closed it with a word. #220 — the guard that would have caught it in the first place — is ready now that #219 is out of its way, and it is the one thing on this map that stops the same merge from happening twice.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created.

• #224 — Every number the pages boast is read from the thing it describes. /example cannot print a digit it did not measure; the other two pages have no such rule and boast plenty. src/pages/game.ts:351-356 types "18-unit steps", "98 damage … over 350 units, on a 1.5-second fuse", "up to 1.6 seconds" of flash, and src/pages/range.ts types 180, 900, 40.5, 22 and 1,792 — every one of them owned by a module three files away, while the policy card beside them is already rendered from CARD. Five queued issues move those numbers (#143, #165, #199, #210, #211) and none will think to edit an adjective in a paragraph. Ready now. Torque.
• #225 — The engine a visitor reads about is one they can take. ← #191. The package is complete, proven and documented, and there is no way to read the guide or take it without cloning the repository; /example tells a stranger what a game costs on this engine and hands them nowhere to go. A page with the door's module list rendered from the door, the guide as escaped preformatted text with anchors — no markdown renderer, no dependency — and the pack as one .tar.gz built at boot under FORGE_APP_DATA. It waits for #191 so the version in the archive is the version the door enforces. Torque.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #169 got its cleanest data point from #222: the example bundle went 9,735 → 21,115 raw and 4,618 → 9,189 gzipped when it stopped drawing in 2D, so renderer + mesh + texture + scene cost about 11.4 kB raw / 4.6 kB gzipped to a game that uses nothing else. The whole door minified alone is 37,050 / 15,342.
• #214: today's tree is 98,617 / 44,304 against the 100,000 / 45,000 ceiling — 1,383 raw and 696 gzipped bytes left, with the packed weights 10,878 / 9,518 of it.
• Checked and deliberately not filed: one shared engine chunk across the three bundles. The union of what they import is close to the whole door, so it would make the small games bigger to save a visitor who plays all three — the saving belongs to #214 and #42 instead.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #214, #215, #220, #221, #224. #220 is the one that keeps a merge from taking production down again; #214 is the one that stops the ceiling moving every second pull; and #42 — the bundle is still served uncompressed, 98.6 kB where 44.3 would do — is the largest single win a player would feel. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened and the parked one closed; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 46dc066.

The emergency is over. #222 swept static/ when it rebuilt, so main boots again (/ in 19 ms cold, 4 ms warm), bun run scripts/build.ts leaves git status empty, and there is one bundle per game. Vesper declined #219 for exactly that reason; I verified it the same way and closed #219 with a word rather than rewriting it. That makes #220 — the test that would have caught the merge in the first place — ready.

• #224 — Every number the pages boast is read from the thing it describes. /example cannot print a digit it did not measure; src/pages/game.ts:351-356 hand-types "18-unit steps", "98 damage … over 350 units, on a 1.5-second fuse" and "up to 1.6 seconds", and src/pages/range.ts hand-types 180, 900, 40.5, 22 and 1,792 — all owned by modules three files away, while the policy card beside them is already rendered from CARD. Five queued issues move those numbers. Ready now. Torque.
• #225 — The engine a visitor reads about is one they can take (← #191). A /engine page with the door's module list rendered from the door, the guide as escaped preformatted text with anchors (no markdown renderer, no dependency), and the pack as one .tar.gz built at boot under FORGE_APP_DATA. Torque.

Kept true with measurements: #169 now has its cleanest data point — the example bundle went 9,735 → 21,115 raw / 4,618 → 9,189 gzipped when it started drawing through the engine, and the whole door minified alone is 37,050 / 15,342; #214 — today's bundle is 98,617 / 44,304 against the ceiling, leaving 1,383 raw and 696 gzipped bytes. I checked and did not file a shared engine chunk across the three bundles: the union of what they import is close to the whole door, so it would make the small games bigger to help only a visitor who plays all three.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #187, #191, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #214, #215, #220, #221, #224 — with #220 the one that keeps a merge from taking production down again, and #42 (the bundle still ships uncompressed, 98.6 kB where 44.3 would do) the largest single win a player would feel.

A planning round on main at 0577870. Two landings, both from this map: #223 (the policy left the entry bundle) and #227 (the door's version is enforced). Nothing is parked; nothing was committed or pushed and no file was created.

#223 worked: the shooter's bundle is 89,037 raw / 35,268 gzipped, down from 98,617 / 44,304, with the weights an 11,120-byte asset of their own, preloaded in the head and cached under their own name — and the page's prose about them was updated with the change rather than left behind. #227 makes #225 ready, since the version in a packed archive is now the version the door enforces.

So I went looking at what a browser actually receives, and found the one lever nobody has pulled.

• #229 — A first visit is 116 kB where 50 kB would do. Nothing this server sends is compressed. / is 16,625 bytes against 6,174 gzipped, the bundle 89,037 against 35,268, the weights 11,120 against 8,251; curl --compressed / comes back with no content-encoding and no vary. A first visit transfers 116.8 kB against 49.7 kB, and the HTML has the worst ratio of the three because prose compresses. One place in src/server.ts, the immutable assets compressed once rather than per request, HEAD unchanged, and a byte budget recorded so a page that doubles fails a test. Ready now. Torque.
• #230 — The floor gains the two headers it is missing. cross-origin-opener-policy and cross-origin-resource-policy, beside the CSP, nosniff, the referrer and permissions policies and HSTS that are already on every response. Twenty minutes, argued rather than copied, and the floor's existing test grows to cover a page, an asset, a 404 and a 403. Ready now.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #42 ← #229. It asked for gzip on static files; #229 asks for it on every response in one place, so what is left there afterwards is the reads-only half — and whoever takes it should close it if nothing remains.
• #181 has a third measurement of the same slope: src/client/main.ts was 614 lines when the issue was written, 910 two rounds ago, 1,068 today. #223 added the policy fetch and its failure path on top of #213's map field and #218's plan. It is the file every second pull touches, and the split it names is four concepts now, not two.
• Checked and deliberately not filed: the bundles are minified (minify: true in scripts/build.ts), the weights asset is served with immutable caching and its own content type, the preload is already in the head, and src/db.ts's migration is real and tested — a database written before identities existed still opens and keeps its rows.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230. #229 is the largest thing a player would feel; #220 is the one that keeps a merge from taking production down again; #181 is overdue and gets worse every pull. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 0577870. #223 (the policy left the bundle: 98,617 → 89,037 raw, with an 11.1 kB preloaded asset of its own) and #227 (the door's version enforced, which makes #225 ready) both landed from this map.

I spent this round on what a browser actually receives, and found the lever nobody had pulled:

• #229 — A first visit is 116 kB where 50 kB would do. Nothing this server sends is compressed: / is 16,625 bytes against 6,174 gzipped, the bundle 89,037 against 35,268, the weights 11,120 against 8,251, and curl --compressed / returns no content-encoding and no vary. One place in src/server.ts, immutable assets compressed once rather than per request, HEAD unchanged, and a recorded byte budget so a page that doubles fails a test. Ready now. Torque.
• #230 — The security floor gains COOP and CORP, beside the CSP, nosniff, referrer and permissions policies already on every response; the floor's test grows to cover a page, an asset, a 404 and a 403. Ready now.

Kept true without new issues: #42 ← #229 (it asked for gzip on static files; #229 does every response, so what remains there is the reads-only half); #181 now has a third measurement of the same slope — src/client/main.ts was 614 lines when it was written, 910 two rounds ago, 1,068 today, and the split it names is four concepts. Checked and not filed: the bundles are minified, the weights asset is served immutably with a preload already in the head, and src/db.ts's migration is real and tested against a pre-identity database.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #136, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #193, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230 — with #229 the largest thing a player would feel, #220 the one that keeps a merge from taking production down again, and #181 overdue.

A planning round on main at 04b26f3. Two landings from this map — #226 (the shipped bots are re-measured on unseen maps, which makes #212 ready) and #231 (scoped sensitivity) — and one thing that matters more than either.

bun test on main is 759 pass, 24 fail, 24 errors. Every failure is one error thrown before any test in the file runs: ReferenceError: Cannot access 'OBS_SIZE' before initialization at src/client/packed.ts:35. The ring is packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts → packed.ts, and SHAPE = { obs: OBS_SIZE, … } is evaluated at module scope, so any file that enters the ring at packed.ts — scripts/train.test.ts, src/frames.test.ts, src/rl/arena.test.ts — hits the dead zone. 783 tests ran in this state against 925 a few days ago.

The app itself is fine today: it boots, / answers in 18 ms cold and under 1 ms warm, the bundles in static/ are current (bun run scripts/build.ts leaves git status empty), 40 posted results render as an escaped, correctly-ranked board in 0.9 ms, and a cross-site POST is still 403. The browser bundle enters the same ring from main.ts, where the order happens to work — which is why this is a live cycle and not just a red suite.

• #233 — bun test is red on main. Break the ring rather than reorder it: the policy's shape belongs in a leaf that imports nothing from src/client, with a guard in the spirit of boundary.test.ts so it cannot grow back. Until it lands, every pull's check is red, exactly as #219 was, and for the same reason — nothing re-runs the suite on main after a merge, which is #220. Ready now, and first.
• #234 — The leaderboard ranks skill, not stamina. src/db.ts:154 sorts by kills DESC, damage DESC: the 40 results I posted put a player with 80 kills over one with 70 and nearly twice the K/D, and nothing on the page says which column decides the order. A rating stated as a formula with a worked example, a minimum number of rounds before anyone is ranked, everyone below it shown rather than hidden, and the sortable columns as server-rendered links somebody can paste. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true, without opening anything: #212 became ready when #226 landed — the bots can be given ears now that there is a guard that says what it did to them. Checked and not filed: the result gate still refuses an impossible match (422), the rate limiter still refuses a burst (429 after 40), names are escaped in the board, and src/db.ts's standings query is fast at forty matches.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230, #233, #234. Take #233 first — nothing else can go green until it does — then #220, which is the reason this is the second time a merge has done this. The direction stays open.

bun test on main is red again — 759 pass, 24 fail, 24 errors, all of them one error thrown before any test in the file runs: ReferenceError: Cannot access 'OBS_SIZE' before initialization at src/client/packed.ts:35. The ring is packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts → packed.ts, and SHAPE is evaluated at module scope, so every file that enters at packed.ts (scripts/train.test.ts, src/frames.test.ts, src/rl/arena.test.ts) hits the dead zone. The browser bundle enters the same ring from main.ts, where the order happens to work today — a live cycle, not just a red suite.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 04b26f3.

• #233 — bun test is red on main: a module cycle puts OBS_SIZE in its dead zone. Break the ring rather than reorder it (the shape belongs in a leaf that imports nothing from src/client), with a guard in the spirit of boundary.test.ts. Until it lands every pull's check is red, exactly as #219 was. Ready now, and first.
• #234 — The leaderboard ranks skill, not stamina. src/db.ts:154 sorts by kills DESC, damage DESC: of 40 results I posted, a player with 80 kills outranks one with 70 and nearly twice the K/D, and nothing says which column decides the order. A stated rating with a worked example, a minimum before ranking, everyone below it shown rather than hidden, and sortable columns as server-rendered links. Ready now. Torque.

The app itself is healthy: it boots, / answers in 18 ms cold and under 1 ms warm, static/ is current, a full board renders escaped in 0.9 ms, impossible results are 422 and a burst is 429. #212 became ready when #226 landed — the bots can be given ears now that a guard says what it did to them.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #144, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230, #233, #234 — take #233 first, then #220, which is the reason this is the second time a merge has done this.

A planning round on main at 8a4655f. Two landings — #232 (a match ends with a scoreboard) and #235 (the bots' planner, from a person's own request) — and main is broken in two ways at once.

It does not boot. static/ carries app.07fd7f4c9f.js and app.d0901a691f.js: #232 and #235 each rebuilt the shooter, neither was rebased on the other, git kept both, and the server throws before it listens. Neither file is this tree — a rebuild writes a third name, app.ae4ebe5234.js (95,029 raw / 37,531 gzipped). This is the second occurrence in two days, identical to #219.

And the suite is red underneath it. With dependencies installed, bun test is 717 pass, 36 fail, 26 errors: twenty-six are the import cycle in #233 (open, ready, untaken since yesterday) and ten are the duplicated bundle. 753 tests run where 925 used to — which is how a broken bundle got merged unnoticed. The two failures are each other's cover.

• #237 — main does not boot again. Rebuild static/, commit exactly what the build writes, nothing else in the pull. Ready now, and first.
• #238 — A planned round is still the same round. #235 gives a deployment with a TYPESAFE_API_KEY a model-planned round, asked per round and cached in one process's memory — while / still promises "An id is the whole match: the same map, the same spawns, the same bots and the same seed". The same id, played twice, can now be played by bots that chose a different site. Three ways to fix it are named in the issue; the pull picks one and argues it. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true, without opening anything:

• #220 has its measurement now: two identical outages in two days. It is not a tidy-up, it is the check that stops a merge taking production down, and the quiet variant — one surviving file, and it is the stale one — still passes today's suite silently.
• #233 escalated with today's numbers.
• #174 (a match of the day) rests on the same promise #238 is about; whichever lands second reuses the other's answer.
• I read #235 rather than assuming: the planner is server-side, keyed from the environment, falls back to a deterministic local plan with no key, and what it sends is a Situation of map name, round, score, averaged money and last winner — no player names and nothing personal. The dependency is one MIT client with no dependencies of its own and the reasoning is in the file. Nothing to file there; the only consequence worth planning is #238.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230, #233, #234, #237, #238. Take #237 (four minutes), then #233, then #220 — in that order the repository can read its own tests again, and the third outage does not happen. The direction stays open.

main is broken in two ways at once, and neither is new work. Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 8a4655f.

It does not boot. static/ carries app.07fd7f4c9f.js and app.d0901a691f.js — #232 and #235 each rebuilt the shooter, neither rebased on the other, git kept both, and the server throws before it listens. Neither file is this tree: a rebuild writes a third name, app.ae4ebe5234.js (95,029 / 37,531). Second occurrence in two days, identical to #219.

And the suite is red underneath it. With dependencies installed, bun test is 717 pass, 36 fail, 26 errors — twenty-six from the import cycle in #233 (filed yesterday, ready, untaken) and ten from the duplicate bundle. 753 tests run where 925 used to, which is how a broken bundle got merged unnoticed.

• #237 — main does not boot again. Rebuild static/, commit what the build writes, nothing else. Ready now, and first.
• #238 — A planned round is still the same round. #235 gives a deployment with a TYPESAFE_API_KEY model-planned rounds, asked per round and cached in one process's memory, while / still promises "An id is the whole match: the same map, the same spawns, the same bots and the same seed". Three fixes are named; the pull picks one and argues it. Ready now. Vesper.

Kept true: #220 now has its measurement — two identical outages in two days, and the quiet variant (one surviving file, and it is the stale one) still passes the suite silently; #233 escalated with today's numbers; #174 rests on the same promise as #238. I read #235 rather than assuming: the planner is server-side, keyed from the environment, falls back to a deterministic local plan without a key, and sends only map, round, score, averaged money and last winner — no names, nothing personal. Nothing to file there beyond #238.

Ready now: #40, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #150, #151, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #229, #230, #233, #234, #237, #238 — take #237, then #233, then #220, in that order.

A planning round on main at b45af3b. Three landings — #236 (compression), #239 (a palette per generated map), #240 (a result records its map) — and the same outage for the third day running.

main carries three shooter bundles now: app.5a2ef4f929.js, app.8ec5c087a3.js, app.ae4ebe5234.js, one from each of those pulls, none of them this tree (a build writes app.ea37d3064a.js, 95,598 raw / 37,788 gzipped). The server throws before it listens. bun test is 736 pass, 36 fail, 26 errors: ten failures are the bundle, twenty-six are the import cycle in #233, which has been ready and untaken since the day before yesterday. Three pulls have merged on top of a suite nobody can read — which is exactly how a dead deploy goes unnoticed.

I measured what did land, by repairing the tree locally without committing it: #236 works. / is now 6,909 bytes over the wire against 16,625, the shooter bundle 38,380 against 95,598, with content-encoding: gzip and vary: accept-encoding where they belong. A first visit is about 54 kB where it was 116 kB.

• #241 — No generated file lives in git. Three identical outages say the guard is not the whole answer: the bundles are generated, so generate them. The server builds into FORGE_APP_DATA before it listens, serves from there, static/ leaves the repository, and a build that fails is a loud refusal the way a missing bundle already is (#198). A full build measured 71 ms. Ready now. Torque.
• #242 — The board can be read one map at a time. #240 recorded the map and nothing compares with it yet: standings still adds de_forge and gen_1z3f together, in the issue whose title was "so the leaderboard is comparing like with like". Server-rendered filter links, the query taking a map, a feed row whose map name plays that map. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #237 updated: three bundles now, not two, and it is still the fastest thing on the board — run the build, commit what it writes, nothing else.
• #233 escalated again with today's numbers: 26 of the 36 failures are that one cycle, and fixing it together with #237 takes the suite from 36 failures to none.
• #220 ← #241. If the artifact leaves git, what remains of #220 is its last checkbox — two builds of one tree agree. If #241 is judged too big, say so there and take #220 instead; what must not happen is a fourth outage with both still open.
• #242, #234 and #89 all touch the same table and the same query; whichever lands second reuses the first's rendering and URL shape.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #221, #224, #225, #230, #233, #234, #237, #238, #241, #242. The order that matters is #237, then #233, then #241 — the first two take the repository from thirty-six failures and a dead deploy to green, and the third means nobody writes this paragraph again. The direction stays open.

Third day, same outage: main now carries three shooter bundles (app.5a2ef4f929.js, app.8ec5c087a3.js, app.ae4ebe5234.js, one from each of #236, #239, #240) and none of them is this tree — a build writes app.ea37d3064a.js. The server throws before it listens, and bun test is 736 pass / 36 fail / 26 errors: ten from the bundle, twenty-six from the import cycle in #233, ready and untaken since two days ago.

What did land works: I repaired the tree locally (without committing) to measure #236 — / is now 6,909 bytes over the wire against 16,625 and the bundle 38,380 against 95,598, with content-encoding and vary where they belong. A first visit went from ~116 kB to ~54 kB.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at b45af3b.

• #241 — No generated file lives in git. Three identical outages say a guard is not the whole answer: the server builds into FORGE_APP_DATA before it listens, serves from there, static/ leaves the repository, and a failed build is a loud refusal the way a missing bundle already is. A full build measured 71 ms. Ready now. Torque.
• #242 — The board can be read one map at a time. #240 recorded the map; standings still adds de_forge and gen_1z3f together, in the issue titled "comparing like with like". Ready now. Torque.

Kept true: #237 updated (three bundles now, still the fastest thing on the board), #233 escalated with today's numbers, #220 ← #241 (if the artifact leaves git, only its last checkbox survives — and if #241 is too big, say so there and take #220 instead), and #242/#234/#89 all touch the same query, so whichever lands second reuses the first's rendering.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #159, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #221, #224, #225, #230, #233, #234, #237, #238, #241, #242 — the order that matters is #237, then #233, then #241.

A planning round on main at 4151c12. One landing — #243, the determinism net over generated maps — and it swept static/ on its way through, so the third bundle outage repaired itself the way the first two did: by accident, inside somebody else's pull. I closed #237 with a word rather than leave it as a standing reminder; #241 (in flight) is the reason there should not be a fourth.

The suite is still red, and now it is the only thing wrong. bun test on this tree is 816 pass, 25 fail, 25 errors — every failure the same import cycle, packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts → packed.ts, thrown before any test in those files runs. #233 has been ready and untaken for three days while five pulls landed on top of it. One leaf module holding OBS_SIZE, HEADS and SHAPE takes the repository from twenty-five failures to zero.

What is healthy, measured today: / answers in 8 ms cold at 6,909 bytes over the wire, /range 5,693, /example 4,180 (#236); the bundles are current and single; twelve results posted across three maps land, rank and render escaped, with each generated map's name a link that plays it (#240); and /api/plan validates — a good situation is a local plan in 12 ms, {"map":"../../etc"} is 422, junk is 400, and with no key the page carries no planner meta at all.

Two issues opened:

• #245 — Your crosshair is yours. src/client/hud.ts draws one crosshair from constants: one size, one gap, one thickness, one colour, no dot, nothing in the menu. It is the first thing a player changes in the game this one is modelled on. ← #73, because a fifth thing that remembers itself, written its own way, is how a settings record turns into five. Vesper.
• #246 — What the planner cost is visible. #235 gave this app a paid dependency that asks a model once a round, with careful limits and nothing anywhere that says what it did — no count of asks, cache hits, refusals, failures or fallbacks. A readout in the terminal beside the policy card, the configuration without the key, and the same truth on the page. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #73 is the blocker with the longest queue behind it — #69, #81, #86, #94 and now #245 — and it is one small module. Taking it turns five blocked issues into five ready ones.
• #84 and #246 both want the terminal; whichever lands second extends the other's tab layout.
• #237 closed, #233 escalated with today's numbers.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #221, #224, #225, #230, #233, #234, #238, #242, #246. #233 first — it is the whole of what is red — then #73, which is five issues in one small module. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened, one closed; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 4151c12.

The bundle outage repaired itself again — #243 swept static/ on its way through, so there is one bundle per game and the server boots. I closed #237 with a word rather than leave a stale emergency on the board; #241 (in flight) is why there should not be a fourth.

The suite is still red and it is now the only thing wrong: 816 pass, 25 fail, 25 errors, every failure the same cycle (packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts → packed.ts). #233 has been ready and untaken for three days while five pulls landed on top of it; one leaf module takes the repository to zero failures.

Measured healthy today: / in 8 ms at 6,909 bytes over the wire, /range 5,693, /example 4,180 (#236 works); twelve results across three maps rank and render escaped with each generated map's name a link that plays it (#240); /api/plan answers a good situation locally in 12 ms, {"map":"../../etc"} with 422 and junk with 400.

• #245 — Your crosshair is yours (← #73). hud.ts draws one crosshair from constants with nothing in the menu — the first thing a player changes in the game this is modelled on. Vesper.
• #246 — What the planner cost is visible. #235 added a paid dependency that asks a model once a round, with careful limits and nothing anywhere saying what it did; a readout in the terminal beside the policy card. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true: #73 is the blocker with the longest queue behind it (#69, #81, #86, #94, #245) and is one small module; #84 and #246 both want the terminal, so whichever lands second extends the other's tabs.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #160, #161, #162, #165, #169, #174, #181, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #221, #224, #225, #230, #233, #234, #238, #242, #246 — #233 first, then #73.

A planning round on main at 81a98bf. Three landings — #244 (a frame budget the tests hold), #247 (static/ leaves the repository) and #249 (a sentence where JavaScript is off) — and for the first time in four days the tree is whole.

#247 ends the outage class. Measured on a fresh data directory: 4 files built into /tmp/.../static, 158.8 kB raw, in 30.3 ms, weighed and gzipped in another 4.9 ms, and the server listening after it. Nothing generated is in git, so two branches cannot merge into a tree that will not boot. bun test is 1,117 pass, 0 fail.

The cycle is still there, and it is #248's now. The suite is green because #161 left a load-bearing import order at the top of scripts/train.test.ts, not because the ring is broken — packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts → packed.ts. Torque's #248 says it better than my #233 did, so I closed #233 as a duplicate and left #248 a note: one of its checkboxes went stale when static/ left the repository.

The other thing I closed is my own #181, and this is the round's real work. It asked for two extractions at once in src/client/main.ts — the file every pull touches — and sat ready and untaken while that file went 614 → 910 → 1,068 → 1,239 lines. An issue nobody takes for a week is a planning failure, not a crew failure, so it is now three small pulls along the seams already marked in the file:

• #250 — the buy panel (main.ts:538-631). Ready now.
• #251 — posting a result (:632-730), ← #250.
• #252 — the menu's map, plan and link (:731 on), ← #251 — the big one, grown across #213, #218 and #215.

Each is a move and not a rewrite, each states the bundle before and after, and they are sequenced so two pulls are never rewriting one file at once. The last one's pull states what main.ts weighs when they are done, which is the headline of the three.

Kept true: #73 is still the blocker with the longest queue behind it — #69, #81, #86, #94, #245 — and it is one small module; #116 is the other keystone, with #112 and #130 behind it.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #162, #165, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #250. Take #248 (the cycle, before the workaround rots), #250 (an hour, and the entry starts shrinking) and #73 (five blocked issues in one module). The direction stays open.

Three issues opened and two closed; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 81a98bf.

#247 ended the outage class. On a fresh data directory the server reports 4 files built into …/static, 158.8 kB raw, in 30.3 ms, weighed and gzipped in another 4.9 ms; nothing generated is in git, so two branches can no longer merge into a tree that will not boot. bun test is 1,117 pass, 0 fail.

The import cycle is still real — the suite is green only because #161 left a load-bearing import order at the top of scripts/train.test.ts. Torque's #248 says it better than my #233 did, so I closed #233 as a duplicate and noted on #248 that one checkbox went stale when static/ left the repository.

The round's real work was closing my own #181 and replacing it with three sequenced pulls along the seams already marked in the file. It asked for two extractions at once in the file every pull touches, and sat untaken while src/client/main.ts went 614 → 910 → 1,068 → 1,239 lines:

• #250 — the buy panel (main.ts:538-631). Ready now.
• #251 — posting a result (:632-730), ← #250.
• #252 — the menu's map, plan and link (:731 on), ← #251.

Each is a move and not a rewrite, each states the bundle before and after, and the last one's pull reports what main.ts weighs when all three are done.

Kept true: #73 is still the blocker with the longest queue behind it (#69, #81, #86, #94, #245) and is one small module; #116 is the other keystone, with #112 and #130 behind it.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #162, #165, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #250 — take #248 before the workaround rots, #250 for an hour that starts shrinking the entry, and #73 for five blocked issues in one module.

A planning round on main at 90e2b87. One landing — #253, a match nobody finished stops saying "in progress" — and the tree is healthy: bun test is 1,123 pass, 0 fail, a cold boot builds four files into FORGE_APP_DATA in 83 ms and then serves / in 7.8 ms at 7,201 bytes, /range 5,995 and /example 4,490. #250 (the first slice of the entry) is in flight, which is the chain from the last round already moving.

I checked #253 rather than assuming: an unfinished result posted a second ago still reads "in progress", and src/db.ts calls it abandoned at ten minutes — three times the longest plausible round, with the reasoning in the docstring. Nothing to file there.

Two issues, both from using the thing rather than reading it:

• #255 — A first visit is one click from a round. The first paint carries seven labelled controls — Name, Length, Side, Map, Map name, Sensitivity, Match id — four inputs, three selects and fourteen buttons, before a person who has just arrived can do the one thing they came for. Play first, a one-line summary in words of what pressing it will give you, and the rest folded into a <details> that needs no JavaScript and hides nothing. The map's plan stays out of the fold, and a pasted ?map=/?match= opens it so a link still shows what it filled in. Ready now. Vesper.
• #256 — The leaderboard has a ceiling it is allowed to be. Nothing ever deletes a match: the only DELETE in src/db.ts is the terminal's manual one, while the limiter lets a caller post a burst of forty and refill at one every two seconds — tens of thousands of rows a day, all of them scanned by standings on every page load, for ever. A stated number with the disk arithmetic behind it, pruned oldest-first inside the write that caused it, and the count against the ceiling in the terminal. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #73 now has six issues behind it — #69, #81, #86, #94, #245 and, through the menu, #255. One small module turns six blocked issues into six ready ones.
• #100 and #256 are the two halves of the same table: one keeps the standings fast, the other keeps the database finite. Whichever lands second reads the first's numbers rather than inventing its own.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #255, #256. Take #248 (the cycle is still real and the suite is green only because of a load-bearing import order), #73 (six issues in one module) and #255 (the first thirty seconds of the product). The direction stays open.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 90e2b87.

The repository is healthy for the first time in a week: bun test is 1,123 pass, 0 fail, a cold boot builds four files into FORGE_APP_DATA in 83 ms and serves / in 7.8 ms at 7,201 bytes, /range 5,995, /example 4,490. #250 (the first slice of the entry split) is in flight. I checked #253 rather than assuming it: a result posted a second ago still reads "in progress" and src/db.ts calls a match abandoned at ten minutes, with the reasoning in the docstring — nothing to file.

• #255 — A first visit is one click from a round. The first paint carries seven labelled controls (Name, Length, Side, Map, Map name, Sensitivity, Match id) — four inputs, three selects, fourteen buttons — before a new arrival can do the thing they came for. Play first, a one-line summary in words of what it will give you, the rest folded into a <details> that needs no JavaScript and hides nothing; a pasted ?map=/?match= opens the fold. Ready now. Vesper.
• #256 — The leaderboard has a ceiling it is allowed to be. Nothing ever deletes a match — the only DELETE in src/db.ts is the terminal's manual one — while the limiter allows a burst of forty and a refill every two seconds, and standings scans every row on every page load. A stated number with disk arithmetic, pruned oldest-first inside the write, and the count against the ceiling in the terminal. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true: #73 now has six issues behind it (#69, #81, #86, #94, #245 and, through the menu, #255) and is still one small module; #100 and #256 are the two halves of the same table, so whichever lands second reads the other's numbers.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #255, #256 — take #248 (the cycle is still real, the suite is green only because of a load-bearing import order), #73, and #255.

A planning round on main at 5dbe90e. One landing — #254, smoke that blocks sight in the simulation as well as on the screen — and the repository is in the best shape it has been: bun test is 1,129 pass, 0 fail, a cold boot builds four files into FORGE_APP_DATA in 30 ms, / answers in 7.8 ms at 7,422 bytes, and 300 parallel requests to / all came back 200 in 510 ms with a serial average of 1.63 ms and nothing over 50.

I spent most of this round trying to find something wrong and mostly finding things already done: the abandoned-match rule is ten minutes with the arithmetic in the docstring (#253), grenades have carry limits per kind, the HUD already lists what is in your pocket, armour, helmet and a defuse kit are all in the shop, and half time already swaps the sides. Two things came out of it.

• #258 — The fourth grenade denies ground. Three of Counter-Strike's four are in (#163 HE, #164 flash, #254 smoke) and the missing one is fire: the grenade that makes a site takeable and a defuse impossible. Every piece exists — a bouncing thrown weapon, an area with falloff, a per-tick damage path, a cloud that lives on the world, a pocket in the HUD. Damage per second rather than per contact, bots that take it and do not path through it, the sound panned and occluded like everything else, and the result gate's damage cap checked against what a round can now produce. Ready now. Vesper.
• #259 — The fourth game is a command. The direction is that a second game can use the engine, and three do; what it still costs to start one is a paste of the same two files, a page, a registry entry and a ceiling. bun run scripts/newgame.ts <name> writes a registered, tested game whose proof is that bun test is green and the server serves it immediately after. If the honest answer turns out to be "document the copy", that is a result too, and the issue says so. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #145 widened by comment: it was written when the HE was the only thing a bot could buy, and it now means four kinds of utility, with smoking a choke a different decision from flashing it.
• #225 gains the line it was missing: the guide's "start here" for a stranger who took the package is two lines, and #259 is what makes them true.
• Still the three that would unlock the most: #248 (the cycle is real; the suite is green only because of a load-bearing import order), #73 (six issues behind one small module), #116 (two behind it, and the guide's seam table is wrong about the range's sound today).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #255, #256, #258, #259. The direction stays open.

Two issues opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at 5dbe90e.

The repository is in its best shape yet: bun test is 1,129 pass, 0 fail, a cold boot builds four files into FORGE_APP_DATA in 30 ms, / answers in 7.8 ms at 7,422 bytes, and 300 parallel requests to / all returned 200 in 510 ms with a serial average of 1.63 ms. Most of this round went into looking for something wrong and finding it already handled: the abandoned rule is ten minutes with its arithmetic in the docstring, grenades have per-kind carry limits, the HUD lists your pocket, armour/helmet/kit are in the shop, and half time already swaps sides.

• #258 — The fourth grenade denies ground. Three of Counter-Strike's four are in (HE, flash, smoke); the missing one is fire, and every piece it needs exists. Damage per second rather than per contact, bots that take it and do not path through it, sound panned and occluded, and the result gate's damage cap re-checked against what a round can now produce. Ready now. Vesper.
• #259 — The fourth game is a command. Three games use the engine; starting one still costs a paste of the same two files, a page, a registry entry and a ceiling. bun run scripts/newgame.ts <name> writes a registered, tested game, proved by bun test being green and the server serving it immediately after — and if the honest answer is "document the copy instead", the issue says to write that and close it. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true: #145 widened (it was written when the HE was the only thing a bot could buy; it now means four kinds of utility), and #225 gains the "start here" line that #259 makes true. The three that would still unlock the most are #248 (the cycle is real — the suite is green only because of a load-bearing import order), #73 (six issues behind one small module) and #116 (the guide's seam table is wrong about the range's sound today).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #169, #174, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #255, #256, #258, #259.

A planning round on main at b929124. Four landings — #260 (what each part of the engine costs, in the guide), #257 and #262 (the first two slices of the entry), #261 (a match of the day) — and the tree is green: 1,164 pass, 0 fail, / in 7,714 bytes.

I spent the round on the newest surface rather than the oldest, and it paid:

• #263 — The day itself is not a run. Posting a result whose matchId is the day — 20260921, the id the menu fills in and the link carries — is accepted (200). It becomes a row on today's board, in the all-time standings and in the feed, owned by the session that sent it, so nobody else can replace it and its owner can rewrite it at will; two later posts from other sessions got 409, which is the ownership rule working perfectly on a row that should never have existed. The design around it is right — dayFiled gives each run its own id under a day column — which is exactly why the bare day id is not a run. A boundary rule, a migration for anything already stored, and a test each. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true, with today's measurements:

• #234 is now an argument the page is having with itself: today's board is ranked by rounds won, then kills, then damage, best run per player, with a sentence saying so — while the all-time board two sections below is still ORDER BY kills DESC with nothing saying which column decides. Whoever takes it should start from the daily board's rule, not invent a third.
• #252 is the last seam of the entry and the only one left. Both extractions in front of it landed, and src/client/main.ts is 1,215 lines — down twenty-four from the 1,239 the chain was opened against, because features were arriving while the extractions subtracted. Its pull is where the entry finally states a number that means something.
• #74 matters more than it did yesterday: a match of the day gives the board something to win, and the only path to a result the server can believe — #93 then #168 — sits behind it, on top of the four it already unblocks.
• Still untaken and still the cheapest wins: #248 (the cycle is real; the suite is green only because of a load-bearing import order), #73 (six issues behind one small module), #116 (two behind it).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263. The direction stays open.

One issue opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at b929124. Four pulls landed since the last round (#260 engine cost table, #257 and #262 the first two entry slices, #261 the match of the day) and the suite is green: 1,164 pass, 0 fail, / at 7,714 bytes.

I spent the round probing the newest surface rather than re-reading the oldest, and it found something:

• #263 — The day itself is not a run. Posting a result whose matchId is the day — 20260921, the id the menu fills in and the link carries — is accepted with a 200. It lands on today's board, in the all-time standings and in the feed, owned by the session that sent it, so nobody else can replace it and its owner can rewrite it at will; two later posts from other sessions got 409, which is the ownership rule working exactly as designed on a row that should never have existed. The design around it is right (dayFiled gives every run its own id under a day column), which is precisely why the bare day id is not a run. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true with today's measurements: #234 — the page now ranks two boards two different ways, and the newer one (rounds won, then kills, then damage, best run per player, with a sentence saying so) is the better one; #252 — both slices in front of it landed and src/client/main.ts is 1,215 lines, down only 24 from 1,239 because features arrived while extractions subtracted, so the last seam is where the entry finally states a number that means something; #74 — a match of the day gives the board something to win, and the only path to a result the server can believe (#93, then #168) sits behind it.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #143, #145, #153, #155, #182, #187, #199, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263 — #248, #73 and #116 remain the cheapest untaken wins.

A planning round on main at afba481. Two landings, and one of them is a direction milestone: #265 gives the range its own board — a run is posted, checked and ranked per drill — so the server now has a second game end to end, and #264 turned the registry into data with a rule. bun test is 1,170 pass, 0 fail; / answers in 7,714 bytes and /range in 6,631.

I probed the new gate rather than reading it: /api/run refuses hits > shots (422) and an unknown drill (422), accepts a legitimate run, and keeps one best row per shooter per drill with the runs counted beside it. Two things came out of the round, and one confirmation.

• #267 — One person, one name. Two boards, one person: the shooter's menu asks for a name and the range asks again under its own key, so playing both makes you two people. One stored value for the visitor, read by every game, each free to override for itself. ← #73, where a stored value is decided once. Vesper.
• #268 — A game that posts says so in the registry. #264 made a game data and a rule; the gates #265 added are still a hand-written array in src/server.ts, so a gate can point at a path no game mentions, a game can declare no way to post and have one anyway, and the floor every gate needs — same-origin, the body cap, the limiter, the ownership rule — is remembered rather than enforced. The declaration becomes data, the check happens at the first boot, and a test walks the table. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true:

• #263 is not hypothetical on the second gate either: POST /api/run with runId: "20260921" — the day id — is accepted and lands on the range board, because parseRun asks isMatchId the same question parseResult does. Whatever rule lands there should be asked of every gate.
• #256 widens: there are two tables growing now, and the ceiling should be stated for both in one place.
• #89 widens too: three boards now ask "where am I" — all-time, today's match, and the range's two drills — so solve it once and use it three times.
• Unchanged and still the cheapest: #248, #73 (now seven issues behind it), #116.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #137, #145, #153, #155, #204, #205, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268. The direction stays open.

Nothing to commit or push: this was a planning run, and the working tree is clean at origin/main (afba481) with no local commits and no files created. The suite on that tree is 1,170 pass, 0 fail, verified this round, and the app boots and serves / (7,714 B), /range (6,631 B) and /example.

The result of the run is the map, on the forge:

• #267 — One person, one name (← #73): two boards now ask a visitor for a name under two different keys, so playing both games makes you two people.
• #268 — A game that posts says so in the registry: #264 made games data and a rule, but the gates #265 added are still a hand-written array in src/server.ts, with the same-origin/body-cap/limiter/ownership floor remembered rather than enforced.
• Confirmations and widenings on existing issues: #263 (the day id is accepted as a run on /api/run too, so the boundary rule must be asked of every gate), #256 (two tables grow now, not one), #89 (three boards each ask "where am I").

What a person should look at: #248 — the packed.ts → observe.ts → world.ts → bots.ts cycle is still real and the suite is green only because #161 left a load-bearing import order; #73 — one small settings module with seven issues behind it (#69, #81, #86, #94, #245, #255, #267); and #252, the last seam of the shooter's entry, which is still 1,215 lines after two of three extractions landed.

Not done, deliberately: no code, no pull, no assignment — a person assigns, and the direction issue (#1) stays open with this round's summary as its latest comment.

Budget reached at $2.54; this is where it stopped.

A planning round on main at d696f28. Four landings, all from this map: #266 (the numbers a fight is decided by, rendered from the table itself), #269 (deploy times), #270 (one list of what a player can do), #271 (a directional damage indicator). bun test is 1,205 pass, 0 fail; / answers in 13 ms, /range 4.6 ms, /example 3.3 ms.

I checked the new surface rather than reading it, and the round came out of what the page has become.

• #272 — The reference gets an address. / is now 31,907 bytes of HTML, 9,683 gzipped — up from about 7,700 — and carries the seven menu controls, the map's plan, today's match, a nine-weapon table with what each gun does to a head, a chest and a pair of legs, the all-time board, the feed and three essays. It is a manual with a Play button in it, and the part somebody would most want to send a friend has no URL. src/pages/weapons.ts is already a module; it just has no route. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true, with today's evidence:

• #224 could not ask for a better argument. #266 rendered every one of those numbers from the source — and two paragraphs above the table, src/pages/game.ts:522-525 still hand-types "18-unit steps", "98 damage … over 350 units, on a 1.5-second fuse" and "up to 1.6 seconds". The same page now does it both ways, and src/pages/range.ts still types 180, 900, 40.5, 22 and 1,792.
• #255 and #272 are the same complaint about the same page — one folds the controls, the other moves the reference — and whichever lands second reuses the other's structure. Neither is a redesign.
• I checked and did not file: the byte budget test from #229 is real and was raised deliberately with #266 (src/server.test.ts states / at 9,683 against a stated ceiling), so the growth was measured rather than missed.
• Unchanged, and still the cheapest three on the board: #248 (the cycle is real; the suite is green on a load-bearing import order), #73 (seven issues behind one small module), #116 (two behind it, and the guide's seam table is still wrong about the range's sound).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #153, #155, #204, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #272. The direction stays open.

One issue opened; nothing committed or pushed and no file created — the tree is clean at d696f28. Four pulls landed from this map (#266 the weapons table, #269 deploy times, #270 the action list, #271 the damage indicator) and the suite is green: 1,205 pass, 0 fail, / in 13 ms, /range 4.6 ms, /example 3.3 ms.

• #272 — The reference gets an address. / is now 31,907 bytes of HTML, 9,683 gzipped (up from ~7,700): seven menu controls, the map plan, today's match, a nine-weapon table with head/chest/legs damage, the all-time board, the feed and three essays — a manual with a Play button in it, and the part somebody would most want to send a friend has no URL. src/pages/weapons.ts is already a module; it just has no route. Ready now. Torque.

Kept true with today's evidence: #224 now has the clearest argument it will ever have — #266 renders those numbers from the source while src/pages/game.ts:522-525 still hand-types "18-unit steps", "98 damage … over 350 units, on a 1.5-second fuse" two paragraphs above the table, and src/pages/range.ts still types 180, 900, 40.5, 22 and 1,792. #255 and #272 are the same complaint about the same page, so whichever lands second reuses the other's structure. I checked and did not file: the byte budget from #229 is real and was raised deliberately with #266, so the page's growth was measured rather than missed.

Still the cheapest three untaken: #248 (the cycle is real; the suite is green only on a load-bearing import order), #73 (seven issues behind one small module), #116.

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #153, #155, #204, #210, #211, #212, #215, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #272.

Nothing was committed or pushed: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at c02cbbb, and no file was created. The result is on the forge. Baseline verified this round: bun test is 1,227 pass, 0 fail in 23 s, the app boots, / answers in 7.5 ms (32,907 B), /range in 4.0 ms, /example in 2.3 ms, and bun run scripts/build.ts leaves 6,252 raw / 2,609 gzip of headroom on app and only 941 / 331 on range.

Four issues opened, in the order I would work them:

• #277 — A bullet goes through a crate: penetration decided by the material it hits, and sight that is not fooled by it. traceBullet stops at the first solid today, so a wooden crate is as good as a plaster wall while the page claims CS ballistics. The engine's tracer gains "the solids along a segment, in order"; the game keeps the table of what each material eats and each gun carries; visible() is untouched, so you can shoot through what you cannot see through. Watch the golden digests in src/client/replay.ts. Suggested: Vesper. Ready now.
• #278 — Bodies stand on the floor: a contact shadow under everything that moves. The renderer has a sun, a hemisphere ambient and fog, and no occlusion anywhere — bodies read as pasted onto the map. Shadows become pooled scene data drawn by the engine, so all three games get them; the scene benches hold and the pull states the frame time. Suggested: Vesper. Ready now.
• #279 — The spray pattern is a picture, not a promise. / advertises patterns you can learn and shows none; recoilOffset is pure, so each automatic weapon's climb is a server-rendered SVG read from the table it is fired by, with a test matching the drawn points to the function. Filed to wait on #272, which gives that table its own address. Suggested: Torque.
• #280 — A controller plays both games: the engine's controls gain a gamepad. The door promises a bindings table in and held actions out; the pad is the one common device it cannot read. Host handed in, polled on the frame, stub-driven headlessly, with each game naming its own buttons. Suggested: Vesper. Ready now.

What is not done: I intended #279 → blocked by #272 and the run ended before that link was confirmed, so treat #279's dependency as stated in its body rather than recorded on the map — it is one POST …/issues/279/dependencies {"blockedBy": 272} away. I filed no issue for baked ambient occlusion on the level mesh: greedy meshing merges quads far larger than a cell, so per-vertex AO would need the mesher split first, and that is a trap to hand a builder without more thought.

What a person should look at: the eight issues parked between Sep 18 and Sep 20 (#40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116) were all parked by an API quota or a DNS failure, not by the work being wrong — they never started, and I left them as written rather than rewriting issues nobody has attempted. #42 in particular may already be satisfied: send in src/server.ts:625 now gzips by accept-encoding with vary and drops a HEAD's body, so it is worth reading before it is assigned. Still the cheapest three untaken: #248 (the packed → observe → world → bots cycle is real and the suite is green on a load-bearing import order), #73 (one settings module with seven issues behind it), #252 (src/client/main.ts is 1,310 lines).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #155, #204, #210, #212, #220, #221, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #272, #277, #278, #280. The direction issue (#1) stays open with this round's summary on it.

Budget reached at $2.53; this is where it stopped.

Nothing to commit or push: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at d2c980a, and no file was created. The result is on the forge. Baseline verified this round before the map was written: bun test is 1,239 pass, 0 fail in 31.6 s, the app boots and / (33,164 B), /range (17,655 B) and /example (11,638 B) answer in 4.5 ms, 5.3 ms and 3.9 ms warm.

Opened, in the order I would work them:

• #283 — The range gets legs: the second game hands the mover its own tuning and hull, and a drill that makes you use them. The seam table's own row still reads "none — nobody walks in the range", so the engine's claim that a game's feel is the pair it hands in is proved only by a unit test. Vesper. Ready.
• #284 — A bullet leaves a mark: pooled decals in the engine's scene, and each game says what a hole looks like. Impacts vanish in 0.25 s and a room that has had a firefight in it looks untouched. Same pool and pass as #279, so whichever lands second rebases. Vesper. Ready.
• #285 — A frame that ran out of room says so: the scene counts what it refused, and a test holds each game's capacity. Refusals are by design and nothing counts them, so the hand-picked capacities are a guess the suite never checks. Torque. Ready.

The eight parked issues are no longer as they were. All were parked by DNS or an API quota and never attempted, so each was re-read against today's tree and its acceptance criteria rewritten: #42 is now only the missing 405 on a write to /static (the gzip negotiation landed with #229/#247, and its src/assets.ts requirement is withdrawn); #73 moves its settings module behind the engine's door because seven issues wait on that convention and two are not the shooter's; #40 widens to both deletable tables; #74, #84, #85, #89, #116 are restated with this round's evidence. The link last round could not finish is recorded: #280 now waits on #272.

What a person should look at: eight of those comments were posted a first time with their backticked paths eaten by a shell — the whole version follows each and says so, and the mangled ones are worth deleting if the forge allows it. Beyond this round, the cheapest three untaken are still #248 (the packed → observe → world → bots cycle, green only on a load-bearing import order), #73 and #252 (src/client/main.ts is 1,367 lines).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #155, #204, #210, #212, #224, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #272, #278, #279, #281, #283, #284, #285. The direction issue (#1) stays open with this round's summary on it.

Budget reached at $2.56; this is where it stopped.

A planning round on main at b7d6153. Two pulls landed since the last one — #288 (the range hears the lane) and #289 (the weapons reference got an address) — and Torque filed five upstream-shaped issues out of #287 (#290 radio, #291 a match that survives the tab, #293 interpolation at 64 Hz, #295 training over cores, #296 corpses), so I planned around them rather than over them. bun test is 1,258 pass, 0 fail in 23 s. Measured this round: / is 23,935 B / 8,442 gzipped — down from 32,907 now that the weapons tables moved out — /weapons answers in 0.9 ms, /range 5.4 ms, /example 3.2 ms, and a miss is 7,736 B.

Three issues opened, in the order I would work them:

• #297 — The frame keeps its budget on a weak GPU: the renderer picks its own pixel scale, and says what it picked. src/engine/renderer.ts:294 sizes the drawing buffer to the canvas times a device ratio capped at 2 and never reconsiders, so a phone at DPR 3 draws four times the pixels of a laptop with a tenth of the fill rate and the only thing that gives is the frame. A frame-time budget in, a scale between a floor and 1 out, with a median and a dead band so it cannot oscillate, off by default, read by the shooter's meter. Engine, so all three games take the same answer. Vesper. Ready now.
• #298 — A step sounds like what you are standing on. src/client/audio.ts has exactly one step burst, played on sand, plaster, a wooden crate, paint and metal alike, while src/client/materials.ts names nine surfaces and the level's cells already say which is underfoot. The map looks like nine materials and sounds like one, and telling that somebody just crossed the metal is the thing a Counter-Strike player does with sound. Recipes stay the game's; the engine gains at most a filter. Vesper. Ready now.
• #299 — A killed player leaves their rifle on the floor, and an empty-handed player can take it (waits for #296). src/client/bots.ts:289 says it outright: "there is nothing on the floor to pick up." A kill is worth nothing but the kill, and the bomb in src/client/bomb.ts:144 already shows how a dropped thing is picked up by walking past it. One primary per corpse, no swap, gone at the end of the round, and the bots use it. Torque.

Sequenced rather than filed: #284 (decals) now waits for #279 (contact shadows) — same pool, same pass, and a collision nobody needs — and #299 waits for #296, which is the same moment in the same code path. I also left the evidence on #75: Math.min(win.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2) is written out four times across three games while the renderer caps the same number again internally, so four copies going to one is that issue's cheapest half.

From the round before this one, which ended before it could be summarised here: #283 (the range gets legs — the seam table's own row still says nobody walks in the second game, so the mover's tuning-as-data is proved by a unit test and nothing a player can stand in), #284 (decals), #285 (the scene counts what it refused, and each game's hand-picked capacity gets a test). In that round the eight issues parked by DNS failures and API quotas between Sep 18 and Sep 20 were all re-read against the tree and rewritten rather than left: #42 is now only the missing 405 on a write to /static, since #229 and #247 landed the negotiation; #73 moves its settings module behind the engine's door because seven issues wait on that convention and two are not the shooter's; #40, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116 were restated with today's evidence.

What a person should look at: #248 (the packed → observe → world → bots cycle is real and the suite is green only on a load-bearing import order), #73 (one small store with seven issues behind it) and #252 (src/client/main.ts is still the largest module in the repository).

Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #155, #204, #210, #212, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #278, #279, #280, #281, #283, #285, #297, #298. The direction stays open.

Nothing was committed or pushed: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at b7d6153 (fast-forwarded to origin/main), and no file was created. The result is on the forge. Baseline verified this round: bun test is 1,258 pass, 0 fail in 23 s; the app boots and / answers in 16 ms at 23,935 B / 8,442 gzipped — down from 32,907 now that #289 moved the weapons tables to their own address — with /weapons at 0.9 ms, /range 5.4 ms and /example 3.2 ms.

Two pulls landed since the last round (#288 the range's pan, #289 the weapons page), and Torque filed five upstream-shaped issues out of #287 (#290, #291, #293, #295, #296), so I planned around those rather than over them.

Opened, in the order I would work them:

• #297 — The frame keeps its budget on a weak GPU: the renderer picks its own pixel scale, and says what it picked. src/engine/renderer.ts:294 sizes the drawing buffer to a device ratio capped at 2 and never reconsiders it, so a phone at DPR 3 draws four times a laptop's pixels with a tenth of the fill rate and only the frame gives. A budget in, a scale with a median and a dead band out, off by default, shown where the meter is. Vesper. Ready now.
• #298 — A step sounds like what you are standing on. One step burst in src/client/audio.ts plays on sand, plaster, crate, paint and metal alike while src/client/materials.ts names nine surfaces and the cells already say which is underfoot. Recipes stay the game's; the engine gains at most a filter. Vesper. Ready now.
• #299 — A killed player leaves their rifle on the floor, and an empty-handed player can take it (waits for #296). src/client/bots.ts:289 says it outright — "there is nothing on the floor to pick up" — and the bomb already shows the pattern. One primary per corpse, no swap, cleared at the round's end, and the bots use it. Torque.

Sequenced rather than filed: #284 (decals) now waits for #279 (contact shadows), which is the same pool and the same draw pass, and #299 waits for #296, the same moment in the same code path. #75 got the evidence it was missing: Math.min(win.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2) is written out four times across three games while the renderer caps the same number again internally.

This round's summary, and the previous round's — #283, #284, #285, plus the eight parked issues rewritten against the tree — are now both on issue #1, which stays open. Ready now: #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #155, #204, #210, #212, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #278, #279, #280, #281, #283, #285, #297, #298; the cheapest three for a person to hand out are #248, #73 and #252.

A planning round on main at 23aee7c. The signal this round was #300, from trevato: "multiplayer. i need to run this with my friends." That is the round: it is now a four-issue map with the design call made in the open, and it waits on the last of them. bun test is 1,258 pass, 0 fail; / answers at 23,935 B / 8,442 gzipped, /weapons in 0.9 ms.

• #302 — What a room costs, measured before anything is built on it. The simulation already steps headless in the suite and ninety-six at a time in training, so what a world-second costs this process is a measurement nobody has taken: CPU per world, worlds per core at 64 Hz, and a snapshot in three encodings at three rates, landed as a bench and a ceiling a test holds. Torque. Ready now.
• #303 — A room your friends can join: one WebSocket relay in this process, same-origin, capped, limited, forgotten when it empties. Bun serves sockets itself, so no dependency; the game is left out on purpose and the messages are opaque. Every limit is a number with a sentence — this is the denial-of-service-shaped half. Vesper. Ready now.
• #304 — A room you can watch: the world steps on the server and every member is sent a snapshot (← #302, #303). The load-bearing change is one line of signature: update asks for a player's input rather than taking one for world.me, with botThink the fallback it already is. The golden digests not moving is the proof the single-player game is untouched.
• #305 — Your friend's shots land (← #304). A slot claimed from a bot, input coalesced per tick and validated on arrival, prediction for your own movement and nothing else, and the result posted by the server — which narrows #168's trust hole from the other side.

The call, stated in #300 and repeated here: the server is the simulation, not one player's browser. Two browsers will not stay bit-identical (Math.sin is implementation-defined), so lockstep was rejected; and a server-side world is the only honest answer to a leaderboard that currently takes a page's word for a result. The cost is CPU and bandwidth on a shared box, which is why the first issue is a measurement and the room cap is a number in #303 that #304 may not raise.

Left for the next round, deliberately: the lobby — a room with an address you can send a friend, a member list, a name and a side — so that "run this with my friends" is one link. It waits on #303 whenever it is filed.

Last round's three (#297 the renderer's own pixel scale, #298 a footstep the material picks, #299 a rifle left on the floor) are unchanged and #299 waits on #296. Still the cheapest three for a person to hand out today: #248, #73, #252.

The direction stays open.

Nothing was committed or pushed: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at 23aee7c (fast-forwarded to origin/main), and no file was created. The result is on the forge. bun test is 1,258 pass, 0 fail; the app boots and / answers at 23,935 B / 8,442 gzipped, /weapons in 0.9 ms.

The signal this round was #300, from trevato: "multiplayer. i need to run this with my friends." It is now a four-issue map with the design call made in the open rather than deferred — the server is the simulation, not one player's browser, because the world already steps headless in the suite and in training, two browsers will not stay bit-identical (Math.sin is implementation-defined, so lockstep was rejected), and a server-side world is the only honest answer to a leaderboard that takes a page's word for a result.

• #302 — What a room costs, measured before anything is built on it. CPU per world-second, worlds per core at 64 Hz, and a snapshot in three encodings at three rates — a bench plus a ceiling the suite holds. Torque. Ready now.
• #303 — A room your friends can join: one WebSocket relay in this process, same-origin, capped, limited, forgotten when it empties. Bun serves sockets itself, so no dependency; the game is left out and the messages are opaque. Every limit is a number with a sentence — this is the denial-of-service-shaped half. Vesper. Ready now.
• #304 — A room you can watch: the world steps on the server and every member is sent a snapshot (waits for #302 and #303). One line of signature carries it: update asks for a player's input instead of taking one for world.me, with botThink the fallback it already is, and the golden digests not moving is the proof the single-player game is untouched.
• #305 — Your friend's shots land (waits for #304). A slot claimed from a bot, input coalesced per tick and validated on arrival, prediction for your own movement and nothing else, and the result posted by the server.

#300 now waits on #305 and stays open as the thing they add up to; the split, the call and what will hurt are written on it. I left the lobby — a room with an address you can send a friend — for the next round on purpose, and said so. Two cross-references in #302 and #303 were filed pointing at the wrong number and are corrected in a comment on each. I also noted on #168 what #305 does and does not do to it.

Ready now (41): #40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116, #145, #155, #204, #210, #212, #225, #230, #234, #238, #242, #246, #248, #252, #255, #256, #258, #259, #263, #268, #278, #280, #281, #283, #285, #290, #291, #293, #295, #296, #297, #298, #302, #303. For a person handing work out today: #302 and #303 start multiplayer without betting anything on it, and #248, #73 and #252 are still the cheapest repairs.

A planning round on main at db506ac. The signal was #307, from trevato: "buggy on windows. tried playing with a mouse and keyboard on windows in edge." No repro and no details, so I read the input and boot paths for what they say about that platform, and there are four faults that would each read as "buggy" from Windows and as nothing at all from the machine this was written on. bun test is 1,258 pass, 0 fail; #306 landed (every boasted number read from the thing it describes).

• #308 — The mouse is the mouse the OS has, not the one Windows adjusted. The lock is asked for with no options, so movementX carries Windows' pointer speed and "enhance pointer precision" into the aim, non-linearly; and void ...requestPointerLock() discards a promise Chromium rejects when the lock is asked too soon or the document is unfocused, with nothing listening for pointerlockerror. Raw movement requested with one fallback, the answer read, the mode shown. Engine, so all three games. Vesper. Ready now.
• #309 — The whole mouse binds like a keyboard. { 0: "fire", 2: "scope" } is the entire table, and buttons 3 and 4 are Back and Forward in Edge: nothing prevents them, so a five-button mouse can navigate out of a round. No wheel binding either. Bound buttons are prevented, unbound ones stay the browser's, a notch is a notch whatever deltaMode says. Vesper. Ready now.
• #310 — A bug report has something to paste. ANGLE rejects shaders a desktop driver accepts, createRenderer throws with the driver's info log, and nothing catches it at boot — a refused shader is a black canvas and silence. One copyable line (browser, ANGLE renderer string, DPR, raw-lock, keyboard lock, frame time, commit) and a boot failure that is a sentence. Torque. Ready now.
• #311 — Crisp at 125%. Windows ships fractional display scaling and this app has never been looked at under one: the crosshair's arms land on quarter pixels. The cheapest of the four and the most visible. Vesper. Ready now.

#307 now waits on all four and carries the reading, line by line, plus the two things that would still help from the reporter. One issue already on the board becomes a Windows symptom worth raising: #74 — Alt+Tab drops the lock, and the world keeps stepping behind the word Paused.

Last round's multiplayer map (#302 measure, #303 relay, #304 watch, #305 input) is unchanged and #300 waits on it. Still the cheapest repairs: #248, #73, #252.

The direction stays open.

Nothing was committed or pushed: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at db506ac, and no file was created. Verified on that head: bun test is 1,267 pass, 0 fail in 31 s (my comment on #1 quotes the previous head's 1,258 — the count moved with #306, nothing else changed).

The signal was #307, from trevato: "buggy on windows. tried playing with a mouse and keyboard on windows in edge." No repro, so I read the input and boot paths for what they say about that platform. Four faults, each of which would read as "buggy" from Windows and as nothing at all from the machine this was written on:

• #308 — The mouse is the mouse the OS has, not the one Windows adjusted. requestPointerLock() is called with no options, so movementX carries Windows' pointer speed and "enhance pointer precision" into the aim, non-linearly; and void ...requestPointerLock() discards a promise Chromium rejects when the lock is asked too soon or the document is unfocused, with nothing listening for pointerlockerror — a click on Play can do nothing, silently. Vesper. Ready now.
• #309 — The whole mouse binds like a keyboard. { 0: "fire", 2: "scope" } is the entire table and nothing prevents buttons 3 and 4, which are Back and Forward in Edge: a five-button mouse can navigate out of a round mid-fight. No wheel binding either. Vesper. Ready now.
• #310 — A bug report has something to paste. ANGLE on D3D11 rejects shaders a desktop driver accepts, createRenderer throws with the driver's info log, and nothing catches it at boot — a refused shader is a black canvas and silence. One copyable line and a boot failure that is a sentence. Torque. Ready now.
• #311 — Crisp at 125%. Windows ships fractional display scaling and this app has never been looked at under one; the crosshair's arms land on quarter pixels. Cheapest of the four, most visible. Vesper. Ready now.

#307 now waits on all four and carries the reading line by line, plus the two details that would still help from the reporter. One issue already on the board becomes a Windows symptom worth raising: #74 — Alt+Tab drops the lock and the world keeps stepping behind the word Paused.

Last round's multiplayer map is untouched (#302 measure, #303 relay, #304 watch, #305 input; #300 waits on it). For a person handing work out: #310 first, because it turns the next report of this kind into evidence; then #308 and #309, which are the faults a player actually feels. Still the cheapest repairs: #248, #73, #252. The direction issue (#1) stays open with this round's summary on it.

Multiplayer landed while the map was being read: pull #312 is merged at 93a7a20, so a room is a real thing in this process — src/rooms/{code,wire,room,hub}.ts, a socket in src/server.ts, a member's end in src/client/session.ts. I played it the way a person would before planning: POST /api/room hands back a code, two sockets join it, and both get hello and then 44 snapshots in three seconds, 22,616 bytes each, the first 59 ms after the upgrade. bun test is 1,283 pass, 0 fail; / answers in 8 ms at 24,650 B.

Two things that probe showed, and they are the round:

1. The two members came back seat 0 on ct and seat 1 on t. freeSeat balances the sides deliberately, so two friends who make a room together are put on opposite teams — and the only way in is reading six characters aloud, because the page never looks at location.search.
2. The member id at the upgrade is ${session}.${uuid}, a new id every connection, so the reconnect branch already written in join can never fire: a reload hands your body, your money and your guns to a bot.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #315 — A room is a link you send, and your friend lands on your side. /?room=CODE validated with roomCodeFrom and prefilled (never auto-joined — pointer lock needs a gesture), an optional team=t|ct validated at the upgrade, and the roster the wire already sends shown before you start. Vesper. Ready now.
• #316 — Your own body stops waiting for the network. #305's remaining half and the first thing a CS player feels: src/client/predict.ts replays your kept inputs from the snapshot's own: { pos, vel } through the engine's own mover, movement only, proved against a headless Room to a stated epsilon. Vesper. Ready now.
• #317 — A refresh does not cost you your seat (waits on #315, which changes the same two functions). A member is their session, one session is one seat, and a dropped socket holds the body for a stated grace with its bot driving. Torque.
• #318 — A room's result counts: the server writes the match it stepped. The one result in this app that is not a browser's claim is the one that is thrown away; identity read at the upgrade, saveMatch behind a writer handed to the hub so src/rooms/ stays database-free. This is #168's honest half for rooms. Torque. Ready now.

Left for the next round on purpose: a hit marker and a damage arrow in a room (both are effects recorded for one screen and a snapshot goes to everybody — the honest fix is a per-member event stream, and it is worth its own issue after prediction lands), and the room concept moving into the engine so the range could ever be played with somebody, which is direction #1's own next question about src/rooms/.

The direction stays open.

Planning round on atlas/1-direction-pull-the-engine-out-of-the-gam, which is level with main at 93a7a20. Nothing was committed and nothing pushed: the working tree is untouched and no file was created. The result is on the forge. Verified on that head: bun test is 1,283 pass / 0 fail, / answers in 8 ms at 24,650 B, and a real two-member room over a socket gave both members hello plus 44 snapshots in three seconds (22,616 B each, first frame 59 ms after the upgrade).

The signal was pull #312 landing multiplayer. Playing it as a customer showed the two things this round is about: two friends who make a room together come back on opposite teams (freeSeat balances the sides on purpose) with no link to send, and the member id at the upgrade is ${session}.${uuid} — new every connection — so the reconnect branch already written in join can never fire and a reload hands your body, money and guns to a bot.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #315 — A room is a link you send, and your friend lands on your side. /?room=CODE validated with roomCodeFrom and prefilled (never auto-joined: pointer lock needs a gesture), an optional team=t|ct validated at the upgrade, the roster shown before you start. Vesper. Ready now.
• #316 — Your own body stops waiting for the network. #305's remaining half: src/client/predict.ts replays kept inputs from the snapshot's own: { pos, vel } through the engine's own mover, movement only, proved against a headless Room to a stated epsilon. Vesper. Ready now.
• #317 — A refresh does not cost you your seat (waits on #315 — same two functions). A member is their session, one session is one seat, a dropped socket holds the body for a stated grace. Torque.
• #318 — A room's result counts: the server writes the match it stepped. Identity read at the upgrade, saveMatch behind a writer handed to the hub so src/rooms/ stays database-free; #168's honest half for rooms. Torque. Ready now.

Reconciled the map rather than repeating it: #303 and #304 are delivered by #312 and say so, #305 records what shipped and points at #316, #302 keeps only its missing half (the bench). I can comment but not close — my credentials lack the scope — so those four want a person's close. #314 is a stray issue titled "probe" that I created by accident while testing the API; it describes no work and should be closed. Left for the next round on purpose: a hit marker and damage arrow in a room (needs a per-member event stream), and the room concept moving into the engine so the range could be played with somebody. Ready now from this round: #315, #316, #318, alongside the 45 already on the board.

A planning round on the direction itself, read against 93a7a20. bun test is 1,290 pass, 0 fail; / answers in 24 ms at 24,650 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B, and a wrong path is the app's own 404.

Multiplayer landed as src/rooms/, and reading it against this direction is the round. Three things are true of that directory and of none of the rest of the repository:

1. Nothing holds it. gameOf("src/rooms/room.ts") is null — the app — so a room module may import src/range/ as freely as src/client/, which is precisely the sharing src/independence.test.ts exists to refuse. Four modules share one 507-line rooms.test.ts while their docstrings name code.test.ts, wire.test.ts, room.test.ts and hub.test.ts, none of which exist.
2. The hub is engine already, unmoved. hub.ts knows the shooter through eight functions and one map name it passes through; code.ts knows nothing at all. A second game cannot be played with somebody without a second copy of both — which is this direction's own test.
3. src/client/session.ts is the only module under src/client/ with no test file, and it is the one that believes the network. Its docstring says a session.test.ts plays a whole room through plain objects; there is no such file. Worse, room.ts claims "the frame between two of them is 62 ms of interpolation, which is what src/client/session.ts hides" — nothing there interpolates: main.ts skips update in a room and readPlayer writes other bodies straight in, so at 16 Hz everybody else moves in 62.5 ms jumps however fast the screen draws.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #319 — The page's end of a room is pinned before anything moves it. session.test.ts over every branch: a hello, a roster, a snapshot, seven refusals, the four sentences with a clock the test moves. Torque. Ready now.
• #320 — src/rooms/ is held by this repository's own rules. Four test files, shared fixtures in a helper, and ALSO.app gaining the directory so the shooter's rooms can never reach the range. Torque. Ready now.
• #321 — The hub becomes the engine's (waits on #320): src/engine/rooms.ts behind the door, generic in the room, proved by hosting a fake game; the shooter keeps its caps and their reasons. Torque.
• #322 — Sixteen snapshots a second are drawn as sixty frames (waits on #319 and #316): the blend in the engine, the delay stated, the snap threshold stated, nothing discrete smoothed. Vesper.

#316 now waits on #319 — prediction rewrites the module #319 pins, and this repository pins before it moves (#64, #101). Left for the next round on purpose: the range played with somebody, which #321 is what makes possible, and a per-member event stream so a hit marker in a room is the member's own. #314, the stray "probe" issue I created while testing the API, is closed. The direction stays open.

This was a planning run: the result is on the forge, so there is nothing to commit and nothing to push — the branch is clean at 93a7a20, level with main, and no file was created. Verified on that head before planning: bun test is 1,290 pass / 0 fail, / answers in 24 ms at 24,650 B, /range, /example and /weapons at 18.2 / 11.6 / 17.0 kB, a wrong path is the app's own 404, and POST /api/room returns a code.

What the round found, reading src/rooms/ (new with #312) against direction #1: nothing holds that directory — gameOf("src/rooms/room.ts") is null, so a room module may import the range as freely as the shooter; its four modules share one 507-line rooms.test.ts while their docstrings name four test files that do not exist; hub.ts and code.ts are engine material sitting outside the door, so a second game cannot be played with somebody without copying them; and src/client/session.ts is the only module under src/client/ with no test, despite being the one that believes the network. room.ts claims the page interpolates between snapshots — it does not, so in a room every other body moves in 62.5 ms jumps however fast the screen draws.

Filed, in working order:

• #319 — the page's end of a room is pinned before anything moves it (session.test.ts, every branch, seven refusals, four sentences on a clock the test moves). Torque. Ready now.
• #320 — src/rooms/ is held by this repository's own rules: four test files, shared fixtures in a helper, ALSO.app gaining the directory. Torque. Ready now.
• #321 — the hub becomes the engine's, generic in the room, proved by hosting a fake game (waits on #320). Torque.
• #322 — sixteen snapshots a second drawn as sixty frames, the blend in the engine with the delay and snap threshold stated (waits on #319 and #316). Vesper.

Also linked #316 to wait on #319, commented on #116 that the seam table now has a fourth directory to account for, and closed #314, the stray "probe" issue I had created while testing the API. Not done on purpose: the range played with somebody (what #321 unlocks) and a per-member event stream so a hit marker in a room is the member's own — both named for the next round. A person should look at #319 and #320 first; they are the guardrails the two engine moves stand on.

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Budget reached at $2.51; this is where it stopped.

A planning round read against 93a7a20. / answers in 19 ms at 24,984 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B, a wrong path is the app's own 404, and a headless ten-body room's snapshot measures 514 bytes in freeze — the number room.ts boasts (544) is honest, so last round's "22,616 B each" was not a snapshot and I am not repeating it.

Reading src/rooms/wire.ts against this direction is the round. It is 677 lines, and the split down it is sharp: the top is a Cursor, packAngle/unpackAngle/unpackSigned, clamp and finite — plumbing every networked game needs and the engine does not have — and the rest is the shooter's own weapons, phases, bomb states and buy items. So a second game cannot be played with somebody without copying the plumbing, which is this direction's test, again.

• #325 — The bytes a frame is made of are the engine's. src/engine/frame.ts behind the door, wire proved byte-identical by recorded hex, the cursor's refusals pinned. Torque. Ready now.
• #328 — A new game is born strict. The range's rule generalised to every entry in src/games.ts except the shooter, which is named as the one exception with its reason. The example — the guide's game, the one a stranger copies — passes today with no source change; it just stops being unheld. One file. Torque. Ready now.
• #327 — A hit in a room is felt (waits on #320). hitmark and hurt are recorded for world.me rather than for the body they happened to, which is why wire.ts says in its own docstring that a room has no hit marker and no damage arrow. Record against the seat, write the seat's events, golden digests unmoved. Vesper.
• #326 — A second game is played with somebody (waits on #321 and #325). The engine's sample game opened, stepped and swept by src/engine/rooms.ts, a tiny codec on the engine's cursor, /ws?game=example, one room cap across all games, two members and one plate. This is the direction's own proof and the thing #321 exists for. Torque.

The eight parked issues (#40, #42, #73, #74, #84, #85, #89, #116) are each parked on an infrastructure failure — a weekly limit, a DNS error — not on the work being wrong, and a previous round already rewrote them against this tree; they stand as written and are all ready.

Left for the next round on purpose: the member's end of a room becoming the engine's (src/client/session.ts is the shooter's copy of what every game will need, and it wants #319 and #326 under it first), and splitting wire.ts into the input codec and the snapshot codec once #325 has taken the plumbing out.

Ready now from this round: #325 and #328. The guardrails are still the bottleneck — a person handing work out should send #319 and #320 first, then #325. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land: this was a planning run, so the working tree is clean at 93a7a20, no file was created in the clone, and there is nothing to commit or push — the result is on the forge as issues.

Filed this round, in working order: #325 moves the byte cursor and the packed angle out of src/rooms/wire.ts and behind the engine's door, proved by the wire not moving a byte (Torque, ready now); #328 generalises the range's strict import rule to every entry in src/games.ts except the shooter, so the guide's own example stops being unheld (Torque, ready now, one file); #327 gives a room its hit marker and damage arrow by recording them against the body they happened to rather than world.me (Vesper, waits on #320); #326 hosts the engine's sample game as a room with one cap across all games and two members on one plate (Torque, waits on #321 and #325). Dependencies are linked, a clarifying comment is on #326, and the round's reading — including that a ten-body room's snapshot measures 514 B, so room.ts's 544 is honest — is on #1, which stays open.

What a person should look at: hand out #319 and #320 first, since they are the guardrails #326 and #327 stand on, then #325; #328 is the cheapest thing on the board today. Nothing was assigned and no pull is needed for this work.

Budget reached at $2.54; this is where it stopped.

Nothing to land: this was a planning run, the working tree is clean at 93a7a20, level with main, and no file was created in the clone — the only thing touched was the gitignored static/, which scripts/build.ts rebuilds at every boot.

No issues were filed this round. The reading was done and the four issues were written, but the budget ran out at the call that would have posted them, so the map is unchanged. That is the honest state; a person should not look for new numbers.

Verified against the running server on this head: / answers in 19–27 ms at 24,650 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B, a wrong path is the app's own 404, POST /api/room hands back a code under the same-origin check, and two sockets in one room each received 46 snapshots of 514 bytes in three seconds (≈15.3 Hz, first frame 3 ms after the upgrade) — so room.ts's boast of 544 B is honest and the rate is what it claims. The three bundle/build tests pass; the committed static/ is gitignored, so there is no stale-artifact problem despite the hash names differing between runs of the app.

What the round found, for whoever plans next — all of it verifiable in the tree today:

• The renderer's test double is written four times. stubGl in src/engine/renderer.test.ts:40, glRecorder in src/client/stage.test-helper.ts:71, src/range/stage.test-helper.ts:51 and src/example/stage.test-helper.ts:41, with the GL_ENUMS/GL_VOIDS lists typed out twice. The example's own docstring already names the problem: "the list of names is the renderer's and not this game's, and a third copy of that list is a third thing to keep in step." The engine ships the renderer; it should ship the recorder, exactly as page.ts argued for fakePage. Ready now, no dependency — Vesper.
• The AudioContext fake is written three times: src/engine/sound.test.ts:150, src/range/audio.test.ts:81, src/range/stage.test-helper.ts:158, differing only in what each records. Ready now — Torque.
• src/rooms/wire.ts is two codecs in one 677-line file — 14 bytes up, 514 down, plus the JSON control line — read by different callers with different threat models. Wants #320 and #325 under it first — Torque.
• src/client/session.ts is the shooter's copy of what every networked game needs: a socket, a clock, four sentences, caps and refusals, with only World and Pressed shooter-shaped in it. It is #321's move at the other end, and without it #326 writes the example a second copy. Wants #319 — Torque.

Housekeeping the round did not get to: #303 and #304 were delivered by pull #312 and already carry "Ready to close" comments from an earlier round; they still sit in the map's ready list and should be closed by a person. The map otherwise stands as it was — 51 ready, 26 blocked, none parked — and a person handing work out should still send #319 and #320 first, then #325, with #328 the cheapest thing on the board.

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A planning round read against 93a7a20, which is still main. Verified before planning: / answers in 24 ms at 24,984 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B in under 4 ms each, and a wrong path is the app's own 404. (POST /api/room answers 403 against a locally booted server, which is correct rather than a fault: publicOrigin falls back to http://localhost with no port when FORGE_APP_URL is unset, so a curl from :7801 is genuinely cross-origin.)

The previous round read the tree and then ran out of budget at the call that would have opened the issues. This round files them, unchanged in substance, after re-reading each claim in the working tree.

What the reading found — the engine ships the thing, the games each ship its test double.

• The renderer's stub context is written four times: stubGl at src/engine/renderer.test.ts:40, glRecorder at src/client/stage.test-helper.ts:71, src/range/stage.test-helper.ts:51 and src/example/stage.test-helper.ts:41. The GL_ENUMS/GL_VOIDS lists are typed out twice and have already drifted — the range's void list has no deleteVertexArray or deleteBuffer. The example's docstring already argues the case against its own copy.
• The AudioContext fake is written three times: src/engine/sound.test.ts:150, src/range/audio.test.ts:81, src/range/stage.test-helper.ts:158 — the same class, three different recordings taken off it.
• src/rooms/wire.ts is 677 lines and two codecs: 14 bytes up from an untrusted browser where readInput is the boundary, ~514 bytes down written by this server. Its own docstring calls them two shapes on purpose.
• src/client/session.ts is the shooter's copy of what every networked game needs. Only World, Player and Pressed are Counter-Strike in it; the socket, the lifecycle, the tick count, the reused frame buffer, the four sentences and BEHIND_MS are the engine's, and #326 would otherwise write the example a second copy.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #331 — One GL recorder, behind the door. fakeGl beside the renderer, with the list of GL names derived from renderer.ts so the drift that lost deleteBuffer is a failing test rather than a silence. Vesper. Ready now.
• #332 — One AudioContext fake, behind the door. One recording; the three callers fold their own view out of it, including the range helper's voices. No assertion moves. Torque. Ready now.
• #333 — wire.ts becomes two codecs (waits on #325 and #320): input.ts and snapshot.ts, each with its own test file, and not one byte moves — 14 up, 514 down, #325's hex unchanged. Torque.
• #334 — A member of a room is the engine's (waits on #319): src/engine/member.ts, generic in the world, every refusal kept and proved headless against a fake game, with #319's session.test.ts passing untouched as the proof. Torque. #326 now waits on it — #321 is the server's end of a room, #334 the browser's, and #326 is what proves both.

Left for the next round on purpose: a per-member event stream so a hit marker in a room is the member's own (#327 is its first half), the range played with somebody once #321 and #334 have landed, and the question these four keep raising — the engine ships a concept and each game keeps re-writing its double, which suggests a rule in src/engine/boundary.test.ts rather than a fifth cleanup.

Two open pulls are worth a person's eye before more is handed out: #329 (all four Windows faults) and #324 (the upstream merge). Housekeeping still outstanding, since my credentials cannot close: #303 and #304 were delivered by #312 and carry "Ready to close" comments.

Ready now from this round: #331 and #332. The guardrails are still the bottleneck — hand out #319 and #320 first, then #325; #328 remains the cheapest thing on the board. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land: this was a planning run, so the working tree is clean at 93a7a20, level with main, no file was created in the clone and there is nothing to commit or push — the result is on the forge as issues. The previous round had read the tree and then run out of budget at the call that would have opened its issues; this round re-verified each claim against the working tree and filed them.

Verified before planning, against a locally booted server on that head: / answers in 24 ms at 24,984 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B and /weapons 16,968 B in under 4 ms each, and a wrong path is the app's own 404. POST /api/room answers 403 there, which is correct and not a fault — publicOrigin falls back to http://localhost with no port when FORGE_APP_URL is unset, so a curl from :7801 is genuinely cross-origin.

What the round found, all of it verifiable in the tree today: the engine ships the renderer and the sound device, and each game ships its own copy of their test doubles — the GL recorder is written four times (src/engine/renderer.test.ts:40, src/client/stage.test-helper.ts:71, src/range/stage.test-helper.ts:51, src/example/stage.test-helper.ts:41, already drifted: the range's list has lost deleteVertexArray and deleteBuffer) and the AudioContext fake three times. src/rooms/wire.ts is 677 lines and two codecs with different threat models, and src/client/session.ts is the shooter's copy of what every networked game needs, which #326 would otherwise copy again.

Filed, in working order:

• #331 — One GL recorder, behind the door (fakeGl beside the renderer, with the list of GL names derived from renderer.ts so drift is a failing test). Vesper. Ready now.
• #332 — One AudioContext fake, behind the door (one recording, three folds off it, no assertion moved). Torque. Ready now.
• #333 — wire.ts becomes two codecs (input.ts and snapshot.ts, each with its own test file, not one byte moved). Torque. Waits on #325 and #320.
• #334 — A member of a room is the engine's (src/engine/member.ts, generic in the world, every refusal kept, proved headless against a fake game). Torque. Waits on #319; #326 now waits on #334, with a comment there saying why.

The map is 53 ready, 28 blocked, none parked. Ready now from this round: #331 and #332; the guardrails are still the bottleneck, so hand out #319 and #320 first, then #325, with #328 the cheapest thing on the board. Two open pulls want a person's eye — #329 (the four Windows faults) and #324 (the upstream merge) — and #303/#304 were delivered by #312 and still need closing, which my credentials cannot do. Left for the next round on purpose: a per-member event stream so a hit marker in a room is the member's own, the range played with somebody once #321 and #334 land, and the rule these four keep suggesting — that a shipped concept should ship its double, held by src/engine/boundary.test.ts rather than by a fifth cleanup. The direction issue (#1) stays open with the round's reading on it.

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A planning round read against 24dcb2d, which is main now that #330 (contact shadows, issue #279) has landed. Verified on it with the server booted here: / answers in 9 ms at 24,984 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B, a wrong path is the app's own 404, every response carries CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, permissions-policy and an HttpOnly session cookie, and POST /api/room under a matching origin hands back {"code":"6PQ3FN","map":"de_forge","length":"short"}.

#330 is the round's first signal, and it argues #331 for me. To add a blended pass it edited the GL name lists in three of the four copies by hand in one commit — the engine's renderer.test.ts, the shooter's helper and the range's helper each gained BLEND, TRIANGLE_STRIP, blendFunc, polygonOffset, depthMask and uniform1f, written out three times. The example's Proxy copy needed no edit, which is its shape's argument and also its silence. That evidence is now on #331.

The second signal is what reading src/server.ts against the room code showed. rg "api/room|SOCKET_PATH|upgrade" src/server.test.ts finds nothing: the app's only endpoints that hold a connection open, and the only ones a stranger reaches without a match to post, have no test at their door. src/rooms/rooms.test.ts is 23 good tests of the hub and the codec through plain objects and never sees a request. Delete the same-origin check on POST /api/room, or the 404 on an unknown code, and this suite stays green. That file is also 953 lines now — the floor, the static bytes, the limiters, the gates, the planner, the pages table, plus the room API, the upgrade and the three socket callbacks — which is what AGENTS.md names as the moment to split.

The third is that the terminal cannot see a room. Rooms are the only live state this app holds — twenty at the cap, each a world at 64 Hz — and src/tty.ts knows standings, matches, the policy card, the day's board and the range's runs. A person can make a room on the page and cannot tell from the terminal that one exists.

Opened, in the order they should be worked:

• #335 — The room's two doors are tested where they are opened. POST /api/room and the /ws upgrade, every refusal and every header, in the suite that already boots the real server on port 0. Test-only. Torque. Ready now.
• #336 — A fifth copy of an engine test double cannot land silently (waits on #331 and #332): the doubles the engine ships are named in the guide and held by a rule with an allow list that reads out, proved by fixtures that fail. Torque.
• #337 — The terminal sees the rooms this deployment is holding (waits on #318): the hub publishes a snapshot through #318's writer seam, a tab in the shape the others have, the age of the snapshot on the screen, and no HTTP listing — a six-character code is a room's only secret. Torque.
• #338 — src/server.ts sheds the room's end (waits on #335, #315 and #318): the upgrade, the socket callbacks and the room API become src/rooms/serve.ts, the floor stays in src/server.ts and is handed over, and #335's tests pass untouched as the proof. Torque.

Left for the next round on purpose: closing a room from the terminal (it needs the seam in the other direction, and #337 should prove the read first), the range played with somebody once #321 and #334 land, and a per-member event stream so a hit marker in a room is the member's own (#327 is its first half).

Ready now from this round: #335. Still the bottleneck for everything else in this direction: #319 and #320, then #325; #328 is the cheapest thing on the board, and #331/#332 are ready with the evidence above. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land: this was a planning run, so the working tree is clean at 24dcb2d (level with main after #330 merged), no file was created in the clone and there is nothing to commit or push — the result is on the forge as issues.

Verified on that head with the server booted here: / answers in 9 ms at 24,984 B, /range 18,236 B, /example 11,638 B, /weapons 16,968 B, a wrong path is the app's own 404, every response carries CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, permissions-policy and an HttpOnly session cookie, and POST /api/room under a matching origin hands back a code.

What the round found. #330 (contact shadows) argues last round's #331 for me: adding one blended pass meant hand-editing the GL name lists in three of the four copies in a single commit — that evidence is now a comment on #331. Reading src/server.ts against the room code found the sharper thing: rg "api/room|SOCKET_PATH|upgrade" src/server.test.ts finds nothing, so the app's only endpoints that hold a connection open have no test at their door — delete the same-origin check on POST /api/room or the 404 on an unknown code and the suite stays green. That file is 953 lines now, floor and pages and planner plus the room API, the upgrade and the three socket callbacks. And the terminal, which AGENTS.md says should do what the page does, cannot see that a single room exists.

Filed, in working order:

• #335 — The room's two doors are tested where they are opened. Every refusal and header on POST /api/room and the /ws upgrade, in the suite that already boots the real server. Test-only. Torque. Ready now.
• #336 — A fifth copy of an engine test double cannot land silently (waits on #331, #332). Torque.
• #337 — The terminal sees the rooms this deployment is holding (waits on #318): published through #318's writer seam, with the snapshot's age on screen and deliberately no HTTP listing — a six-character code is a room's only secret. Torque.
• #338 — src/server.ts sheds the room's end (waits on #335, #315, #318): the upgrade, the socket callbacks and the room API become src/rooms/serve.ts, the floor stays and is handed over, #335's tests pass untouched as the proof. Torque.

The map is 54 ready, 30 blocked, none parked. Ready now from this round: #335; the bottleneck is unchanged — hand out #319 and #320 first, then #325, with #328 cheapest and #331/#332 now carrying landed evidence. Left for the next round on purpose: closing a room from the terminal, the range played with somebody once #321 and #334 land, and a per-member event stream for a room's hit marker. #303 and #304 were delivered by #312 and still need a person to close them.

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Budget reached at $2.54; this is where it stopped.

A planning round read against be13c27, which is main now that #329 (the four Windows faults, issue #307) has landed. Nothing was pushed and no file was created in the clone; the result is on the forge as issues.

Verified on that head before planning, with the app booted here: bun run test is 1342 passing (typecheck included) in 23.8 s; / answers at 25,714 B, /range 18,429 B, /example 11,640 B, /weapons 16,969 B, each in under 11 ms cold and under 1 ms warm; a wrong path is the app's own 404; every response carries the CSP with the hashed style, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, permissions-policy and an HttpOnly session cookie. POST /api/room under a matching origin hands back a code, /ws?room=<code> opens, hello and roster arrive as text and then a 514 B snapshot 16 times a second — about 7.2 kB/s a member.

What the round found.

1. #329 says itself what it did not do. Its pull: "the diagnostics panel is still only on the shooter's page, not /range and /example — #310 asks for all three, and that is the one box on it I did not tick." The reason is this direction's: src/client/support.ts is a pure function of plain facts — no weapon, no round, no map — sitting in the shooter, where #328's rule means the other two games may not import it, and the panel's markup is hard-written into src/pages/game.ts:410. Neither src/range/main.ts nor src/example/main.ts catches createRenderer, which throws with the driver's own shader log; on the machine #307 was reported from, those two pages go black with nothing written anywhere.
2. The room's door writes four sentences no browser can read. src/server.ts:909 refuses an unknown code with 404 no room with that code — it may have been idle too long, but a failed WebSocket handshake gives the page no status and no body: measured here, a socket to /ws?room=ZZZZZZ closed with code 1002 and Chromium's own "Expected 101 status code". A friend who mistyped six characters is told what somebody whose wifi died is told.
3. Seven issues on the board were already in main. #308, #309, #311 and #310 were delivered by #329 (be13c27); #303, #304 and the first half of #305 by #312 (93a7a20). #304 and #305 were also blocking live work, so #316 (your own body not waiting for the network) was standing behind two issues that were done.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #344 — The support line moves behind the door, and the panel becomes the shell's. src/engine/support.ts with its tests, the name at the door with surface.json and the guide's seam row, the <details> moved from src/pages/game.ts into src/pages/shell.ts, and / unchanged to the byte the ids are written in. Vesper. Ready now.
• #340 — A second game that cannot draw says so (waits on #344): /range and /example get the panel, a createRenderer that throws becomes a heading, a sentence and the driver's log with the server-rendered page still alive, and the range's 2D fallback keeps its own meaning. Torque.
• #341 — A mistyped room code says so (waits on #335 and #319): each refusal reaches the page as an application close code and a reason, session.ts turns it into the sentence a person reads, and a prober is no better off than today. Torque.

Closed, each with the commit that delivered it: #308, #309, #310, #311 (by #329), #303, #304, #305 (by #312 — #305's remaining half is #316, which now waits only on #319). #339 was an empty probe of the create endpoint from this run and is closed with a word; #340's dependency was moved to #344.

The map is now 49 ready, 28 blocked, none parked. Ready from this round: #344. The bottleneck is unchanged — hand out #319 and #320 first (they hold up seven between them), then #325; #331 and #332 carry landed evidence from #330, and #328 is still the cheapest thing on the board. Left for the next round on purpose: what a room costs to watch rather than to play, closing a room from the terminal (#337 should prove the read first), and the rule that a shipped concept ships its double (#336) once #331 and #332 land. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land: this was a planning round, so the working tree is clean and no file was created in the clone — the result is on the forge as issues.

Verified on be13c27 (main after #329) before planning, with the app booted here: bun run test is 1342 passing in 23.8 s; / answers at 25,714 B, /range 18,429 B, /example 11,640 B, /weapons 16,969 B, all under 11 ms cold and under 1 ms warm; a wrong path is the app's own 404; every response carries the hashed-style CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, permissions-policy and an HttpOnly session cookie. A room made through POST /api/room sends hello, a roster and then a 514 B snapshot 16 times a second — about 7.2 kB/s a member.

What the round found: #329's own pull names the box it left unticked — the diagnostics panel is the shooter's alone, because src/client/support.ts is a pure function of plain facts stuck on the wrong side of the door and the panel is hard-written into src/pages/game.ts:410; neither /range nor /example catches a createRenderer that throws, which is exactly how #307's machine failed. Separately, the room's door writes four careful refusals no browser can read: a socket to /ws?room=ZZZZZZ closes with 1002 and Chromium's "Expected 101 status code", so a mistyped code and a dead network read the same.

Opened, in working order

• #344 — The support line moves behind the door, and the panel becomes the shell's. Vesper. Ready now.
• #340 — A second game that cannot draw says so: /range and /example get the panel (waits on #344). Torque.
• #341 — A mistyped room code says so: the room door's refusals reach the page (waits on #335 and #319). Torque.

Closed as already in main, each with the commit that delivered it and a sentence saying so: #308, #309, #310, #311 (by #329), and #303, #304, #305 (by #312 — #305's remaining half is #316, which now waits only on #319). #339 was an empty probe of the create endpoint from this run, closed with a word, and #340's dependency was moved onto #344.

The map is 49 ready, 28 blocked, none parked. Ready from this round: #344; the bottleneck is still #319 and #320, then #325, with #328 the cheapest thing on the board. The direction issue stays open with the round's reading on it.

A planning round read against 3ea34d6, which is main after three of the guardrails landed together: #342 (#320, src/rooms/ held by this repository's rules), #345 (#319, session.ts pinned) and #343 (#325, the frame's bytes behind the door). That clears the bottleneck the last two rounds kept naming — #316, #321, #327, #333 and #334 are all ready now.

Verified on that head here: bun run test is 1382 passing across 123 files in 32.9 s, and the app booted with two members in one room behaves: alice took seat 1 and bob seat 0, each saw the other arrive in a roster message, snapshots ran at 16 Hz, and bob leaving handed his body straight back to Sentinel under the bot's own name. That part works.

Three things the round found, each checked against the tree.

1. The two doors that write to the board are held by nothing. src/gate.ts is the door every posted score comes through — the cap, the parse, the shape, the identity — and src/run.ts is what a browser is allowed to say about a range run. Neither has a test file, and no test file in the repository names either: rg "gate|src/run" src/*/.test.ts finds nothing, and rg "api/match|api/run" src/server.test.ts finds nothing either. Delete a ceiling from run.ts or the same-origin refusal from the posting path and 1382 tests stay green. src/result.ts got its file in #101 for this exact reason; these are its neighbours and were missed.
2. Sixteen modules under src/ have no test file, and two of them are covered by nothing at all: src/client/packed.ts, which is the packing the shipped weights were trained against — reorder a field and the bots quietly get worse — and src/sheet.ts, whose whole claim is that no number on /weapons can disagree with the fight, unchecked.
3. A room that finishes its match never ends. match_over is terminal in src/client/match.ts, and nothing in src/rooms/ reads it: stepRoom keeps stepping a finished world at 64 Hz and sending snapshots of a frozen scoreboard until ninety seconds of emptiness sweep it. Friends who finish a match together have to open a new room and read out a new code.

Opened, in the order they should be worked

• #347 — src/gate.ts and src/run.ts get their first test files. Every refusal exercised through plain objects, ceilings read from src/range/targets.ts rather than retyped, no behaviour changed unless a hole turns up. Torque. Ready now.
• #348 — POST /api/match and POST /api/run are tested at the door (waits on #335 and #347): the request as a browser sends it, every refusal by status and sentence, the security floor on refusals too, and a chunked body over the cap. Torque.
• #349 — A module with no test file is a red suite (waits on #347): the rule with an allow list that argues each entry, plus packed.test.ts pinned against the shipped weights and sheet.test.ts pinned against combat.ts. Vesper.
• #350 — A room that finished plays again (waits on #318): the world stops when the match is over, the result is written once, anybody in the room starts the next one, the code and the seats are kept, and a finished room costs nothing. Torque.

The map is 51 ready, 28 blocked, none parked. Ready from this round: #347; the queue in front of the rest of this direction is now #316, #321 and #334 (all newly unblocked), with #344 ready from last round and #328 still the cheapest thing on the board. Left for the next round on purpose: what a room costs to watch rather than to play, a spectator who could not get one of the ten seats, and a room that plays the map you linked rather than a fresh seed. The direction stays open.

Nothing to land: this was a planning round, so the working tree is clean at 3ea34d6 and no file was created in the clone — the result is on the forge as issues.

Verified on that head here: bun run test is 1382 passing across 123 files in 32.9 s, and a room played with two members behaves — alice took seat 1, bob seat 0, each saw the other arrive in a roster message, snapshots ran at 16 Hz, and bob leaving handed his body back to Sentinel under the bot's own name. #342, #345 and #343 landing together cleared the guardrail bottleneck, so #316, #321, #327, #333 and #334 are ready now.

What the round found, all of it checked against the tree: src/gate.ts (the door every posted score comes through) and src/run.ts (what a browser may claim about a range run) have no test files, and no test file names them — rg "api/match|api/run" src/server.test.ts finds nothing either, so removing a ceiling or the same-origin refusal leaves 1382 tests green. Sixteen modules under src/ have no test file, two of them covered by nothing at all: src/client/packed.ts, the packing the shipped weights were trained against, and src/sheet.ts, whose claim is that no number on /weapons can disagree with the fight. And match_over is terminal in src/client/match.ts while nothing in src/rooms/ reads it, so a finished room keeps stepping a dead world at 64 Hz until the idle sweep takes it and friends must open a new room to play again.

Opened, in working order

• #347 — src/gate.ts and src/run.ts get their first test files. Torque. Ready now.
• #348 — POST /api/match and POST /api/run tested at the door (waits on #335, #347). Torque.
• #349 — A module with no test file is a red suite: the rule, plus packed.ts and sheet.ts pinned (waits on #347). Vesper.
• #350 — A room that finished plays again: the match ends, the board takes it, the next one starts (waits on #318). Torque.

The map is 51 ready, 28 blocked, none parked. Ready from this round: #347, alongside #344 from the previous round; the queue in front of the rest of the direction is #316, #321 and #334, with #328 still the cheapest thing on the board. Left for the next round on purpose: what a room costs to watch rather than play, a spectator who could not get one of the ten seats, and a room that plays the map you linked rather than a fresh seed. The direction issue stays open with the round's reading on it.

Planning round against 1ecc709 (main after #353, #360 and #361). The new message on this issue had no words, and this branch has no pull, so there was no conversation to take in beyond the issue itself. Nothing was pushed.

Checked by booting the app on that head: / 200 in 8.7 ms (25,847 B), /range 2.9 ms, /example 1.5 ms, and the app's own 404 for anything else. The CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, permissions-policy and the HttpOnly session cookie are on every response. Three bundles are built, 83.5 kB gzipped.

The round found two places where the last day's work put engine code back in the game:

• #365: the nearest reachable cell is the engine's. #360's coverFrom writes a generic ring search plus bounded A* inside src/client/cover.ts, next to an engine that already owns the grid. Suggested: Vesper. Ready.
• #366: the fake page answers any media query it is told. #361 taught fakePage the shooter's two media queries by string comparison and added an option for each. Separately, "(pointer: coarse)" is written five times across the three games. Suggested: Torque. Ready.

Both are ready alongside the rest of this direction's map: #334, #326, #338, #340, #344 and #328 among them. The direction stays open.

I opened two issues for this direction; both are ready now. The new message on #1 had no text and this branch has no pull, so I planned against main at 1ecc709, after #353, #360 and #361. I pushed nothing and created no files. The note for this round is posted on #1, and #1 stays open.

Before planning I booted the app on that commit. / answered in 8.7 ms, /range in 2.9 ms and /example in 1.5 ms, and every response carried the security headers and the HttpOnly session cookie.

Opened, in working order:

1. #365: The nearest reachable cell is the engine's. #360 put a general "nearest reachable cell" search (rings of cells around a spot, plus a short A* path) inside src/client/cover.ts. The engine's src/engine/grid.ts already has the grid and the path-finding, so the search moves there. cover.ts keeps only the shooter's part: what counts as "exposed". Done means the existing cover.test.ts passes unchanged, and the new function is tested without importing any game. Suggested: Vesper. Ready.
2. #366: The fake page answers any media query it is told. #361 taught the engine's test page the shooter's two media queries ((pointer: coarse) and reduced motion), with a separate option for each. It should take any query by name instead. The phone query is also written out five times across the three games; the engine should export it once. Suggested: Torque. Ready.

I linked neither to anything: nothing open has to land first. Among this direction's earlier issues, #334, #344, #328, #327, #333, #341, #348, #349 and #351 are also still ready, so there are well over three ready issues.

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I opened nothing this round. The newest message on #1 has no text, and the only new comments there are my own two notes from the last round. No pull comes from this branch, so there was no conversation to take into account. Nothing has landed on main since that round, so there is nothing new to plan against, and duplicate issues would only be noise for the builders.

Two of this direction's issues are now being built:

• #334 (a room member becomes part of the engine) has Torque's pull open as #370.
• #368 (taking updates from trevato/cs) has Vesper's pull open as #371.

Ready now for this direction:

• #365: the nearest-reachable-cell search moves from src/client/cover.ts into src/engine/grid.ts. Suggested: Vesper.
• #366: the engine's fake page answers any media query a test names it, and the phone query is written once. Suggested: Torque.
• #344, #328, #327, #333, #341, #348, #349 and #351 are also still ready, so the map keeps well over three ready issues. #1 stays open.

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I opened nothing this round. The newest message on #1 has no text again: the only new comment there is my own from the last round. No pull comes from this branch, so there was no conversation to take in. I pushed nothing.

Since the last round, main has taken these pulls:

• #370 made a room member part of the engine, closing #334. Its pull says it left prediction (#316) and a second codec for the example game (#326) for later. Both already have issues.
• #373 moved the diagnostics line into the engine and made the panel the shell's, for #344. That unblocked #340, which is now ready.
• #377 made a room's result count toward the board (#318).
• #371 and #375 brought in trevato/cs updates. #375 added a landing-speed measurement to src/engine/physics.ts, with tests in physics.test.ts, which fits this direction.

None of these leaves a gap that an open issue doesn't already cover, so new issues would only duplicate the map.

Ready now for this direction, in working order:

• #365: the nearest-reachable-cell search in src/client/cover.ts moves into src/engine/grid.ts. Suggested: Vesper.
• #366: the engine's fake test page answers any media query it is told. Suggested: Torque.
• #340: /range and /example get the diagnostics panel, now that it is the shell's.
• #326: the example game gets a room, which is the next step past #370.
• #328, #333, #327, #336, #341, #348, #349, #350 and #351 are also ready.

Work in progress: #316 is being worked on, and #315, #20, #355 and #376 are waiting on other issues. #1 stays open.

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Planning round against c6da65f (main after #383 and #378). The new message on this issue had no text.

#383 put client-side prediction in src/client/predict.ts. Apart from one function, the code is general netcode: the kept inputs, the ack, the replay, and easing or snapping a correction. Opened #387 — Prediction is the engine's, so a second game with a room (#326) can have it without copying it. Suggested: Torque. Ready.

Also ready for this direction: #365, #366, #340, #326, #338, #328, #333, #322 and #317. The direction stays open.

I opened one issue this round, #387, and it's ready now. The newest message on #1 has no text again, and no pull comes from this branch, so I planned against main at c6da65f, after #383 (prediction) and #378 (room links). I pushed nothing, the clone is clean on its branch, the round note is posted on #1, and #1 stays open.

Opened:

1. #387: Prediction is the engine's. #383 put client-side prediction in src/client/predict.ts. Apart from stepOnce, which is one tick of the shooter's body, it knows nothing about Counter-Strike. The general part (the stored inputs, the server's acknowledgement, the replay and the easing of corrections) moves into the engine. The shooter keeps stepOnce, place and its own numbers. Done means the existing predict.test.ts passes unchanged and the engine's new test runs a toy game that imports no game code. Suggested: Torque. Ready.

Ready now for this direction:

• #387
• #365 (the nearest-reachable-cell search moves into src/engine/grid.ts)
• #366 (the fake test page answers any media query)
• #340 (/range and /example get the diagnostics panel)
• #326 (the example game gets a room)
• #338, #328, #333, #322 and #317

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I opened nothing this round. The newest message on #1 has no text again: the only new comments there are my own two from the last round, and no pull comes from this branch. I pushed nothing and #1 stays open.

Since the last round, main has taken #386 (radio calls), #388 (trevato/cs updates), #389 (bodies stay where they fell) and #391. The only one in this direction is #391: the new /engine page serves the engine's guide and a downloadable archive. What its pull leaves out doesn't need an issue:

• Markdown rendering, a registry and version history are out of scope for this direction.
• The link to #259 gets added by whichever of the two lands second.
• The terminal gets nothing new; the pull argues the guide already ships inside the archive.

I checked whether anything proves the downloaded package builds a game on its own; scripts/pack.test.ts already does, so there's nothing to add there either.

Ready now for this direction:

• #387: prediction moves into the engine. Suggested: Torque.
• #365: the nearest-reachable-cell search moves into src/engine/grid.ts. Suggested: Vesper.
• #366: the engine's fake test page answers any media query. Suggested: Torque.
• #340: /range and /example get the diagnostics panel.
• #326: the example game gets a room.
• Also ready: #338, #328, #333, #322 and #317.

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Planning round against 7556ff0 (main after #395 and #396). The new message on this issue had no text.

#395 added a gait to src/client/scene.ts: stride-phased bob and twist, a lean into the run, a landing squash. Apart from the mesh, hull and tint, it is general body animation. Opened #399: A gait is the engine's. Suggested: Vesper. Ready. #396 (upstream ports) and #398 (the next upstream merge) are not engine work.

Ready for this direction: #399, #387, #365, #366, #340, #326, #338, #328, #333, #322, #317. The direction stays open.

I opened one issue this round, #399, and it's ready now. The newest message on #1 has no text again, so I planned against main at 7556ff0. I pushed nothing, the round note is posted on #1, and #1 stays open.

Since the last round, main has taken #395 (a walking animation for players) and #396 (changes brought over from trevato/cs). #398, the next merge from trevato/cs, is already being worked on. Neither of those merges is engine work.

Opened:

1. #399: A gait is the engine's. #395 put the walking animation in src/client/scene.ts: a stride, a bob, a hip twist, a lean into the run and a squash on landing. Apart from the player model, its size and its team colour, it knows nothing about Counter-Strike.

- Change: the animation's memory and maths move into a new src/engine/gait.ts, and the shooter keeps only its own numbers. - Done means: the existing gait tests in scene.test.ts and frames.test.ts pass unchanged, and a new engine test runs a toy setup that imports no game code. - Main risks: a standing player must still be drawn from exactly the same numbers as today, and the change must not add memory allocation per player per frame. - Suggested: Vesper. Ready. It has no dependencies.

Ready now for this direction:

• #399: the walking animation moves into the engine.
• #387: prediction moves into the engine.
• #365: the nearest-reachable-cell search moves into src/engine/grid.ts.
• #366: the engine's fake test page answers any media query.
• #340: /range and /example get the diagnostics panel.
• #326: the example game gets a room.
• Also ready: #338, #328, #333, #322 and #317.

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Planning round against 869a4c3, after #397, #400, #402 and #406. The new message on this issue had no text. None of those four merges is engine work: #406 moves OBS_SIZE into src/client/obs-size.ts to break an import cycle inside the shooter.

• #401 was parked after pull #405 bundled saving to storage, a sound toggle and a motion field with the actual ask. I couldn't edit it (invalid_state) or close it (no scope), so I rewrote it as #407 with only the pause panel's sensitivity fields applying in the same round. Saving to storage stays #73 and the sound switch stays #69. #401 has a comment pointing to #407, for a person to close.
• #408: the two tests that failed on #405's run without being touched both time the wall clock. The guest-bucket test sends burst + 1 posts against a bucket that refills every 250 ms, so a slow run never sees its 429. The standings test compares performance.now() with 10 ms where budget.test.ts already uses CPU time.

Ready for this direction: #399, #387, #365, #366, #340, #326, #338, #328, #333, #322, #317. The direction stays open.

I opened two issues this round, #407 and #408, and both are ready now. The newest message on #1 has no text again, so I planned against main at 869a4c3. Nothing was pushed, and no files were created or edited.

The four merges since the last round (#397, #400, #402, #406) add no engine work. #406 only breaks an import cycle inside the shooter.

The one thing that needed action was #401, the player report that sensitivity can't be changed mid-game. It was parked after its pull, #405, failed its check. That pull also tried to save settings between visits (already #73) and add a sound switch (already #69).

Opened:

1. #407: Sensitivity can be changed without leaving the round. This is #401 cut down to what the player asked for: the pause panel gets the Sensitivity and Touch sens fields, and a change applies in the same match. There is one shared function for the clamping, a test that the view turns at the new rate after resuming, and no storage or sound work. Suggested: Vesper. Ready.
2. #408: A busy machine does not fail the check. Two tests that failed on #405's run without being touched both depend on wall-clock time:

- The guest-bucket test (src/server.test.ts) sends exactly 201 posts to a bucket that holds 200 and earns one back every 250 ms. A slow run gets a token back and never sees the 429 it expects. - The standings "under 10 ms" test (src/db.test.ts) times with the wall clock, while src/budget.test.ts already times with CPU time to avoid this.

Done means both are fixed without loosening what they prove. Suggested: Torque. Ready.

#401 is still open. The forge refused an edit (invalid_state) and my credentials can't close issues. I left a comment on it pointing to #407, #73, #69 and #408, so a person needs to close it. The round note is posted on #1, and #1 stays open.

Ready now for this direction: #399, #387, #365, #366, #340, #326, #338, #328, #333, #322 and #317. #407 and #408 are also ready.

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Planning round against 948bd72 (main after #412 and #413). The new messages on this issue are the provider's weekly-limit notices, not feedback.

Every one of the 42 parked issues was parked by that limit, not by its work. Each one now has a note saying so and is ready again, the engine issues included (#387, #399, #365, #366, #326, #328, #333, #338, #322, #317, #340, #336). #413 finished #407 (sensitivity in the pause panel), and #407 is closed. #73 is narrowed to match length and side, because #413 already remembers the feel settings.

No new issues: the map has 49 ready. The direction stays open.

I opened no new issues this round and pushed nothing; #1 stays open. The "new messages" on #1 turned out to be weekly usage-limit notices, not feedback, so I planned against main at 948bd72.

Every one of the 42 parked issues was parked because the crew hit its weekly usage limit, not because the work was too big. Those runs pushed nothing. Each now has a comment saying so, and a comment is enough to make the map show it as ready again.

• #407 (change sensitivity from the pause panel) is closed. #413 already delivered it: both sensitivity fields are in the pause panel and apply in the same round.
• #73 is narrowed. #413 already remembers sensitivity, touch sensitivity, motion and sound between visits. What's left is remembering match length and side.

Ready now: 49 issues. The ones for this direction, with who I'd suggest:

• #387 Client-side prediction moves into the engine (Torque)
• #399 The walking animation moves into the engine (Vesper)
• #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336 Smaller extractions and cleanups
• #326, #340, #322, #317 The second game gets rooms, error panels and smooth drawing

Other ready work outside this direction includes #73, #74, #89, #116, #40, #42, #84, #85 and #351.

I opened nothing this round and pushed nothing, because there was nothing new to plan. #1 stays open.

The newest messages on #1 are my own two notes from the last round, not feedback from anyone. main is still at 948bd72, where it was last round, and there are no new comments on the issues. The map still shows 49 issues ready, 5 waiting and 1 in progress.

Ready now for this direction:

• #387 Client-side prediction moves into the engine (Torque)
• #399 The walking animation moves into the engine (Vesper)
• #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336 Smaller extractions and cleanups
• #326, #340, #322, #317 The second game gets rooms, error panels and smooth drawing

I opened nothing and pushed nothing, because nothing has changed since last round. #1 stays open.

The newest message on #1 is my own note from last round; nobody else has written anything. main is still at 948bd72, and the map still shows 49 issues ready, 5 waiting and 1 in progress.

My own notes on #1 seem to be what triggers each new round, so each round now finds only my previous note. Someone should look at that trigger; until then, rounds like this one will keep finding nothing to plan.

Ready now for this direction:

• #387 Client-side prediction moves into the engine (Torque)
• #399 The walking animation moves into the engine (Vesper)
• #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336 Smaller extractions and cleanups
• #326, #340, #322, #317 The second game gets rooms, error panels and smooth drawing

I opened nothing and pushed nothing, because nothing has changed. #1 stays open.

The "new message" on #1 is again my own note from the last round, and nobody else has written there. main is still at 948bd72, and nothing on the map has moved. The forge seems to post my final message on #1, and that comment starts the next round, so this loop won't stop by itself. A person needs to stop my own comments from triggering new rounds, or leave a real message on #1.

Ready now for this direction: #387 (Torque), #399 (Vesper), #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336, #326, #340, #322 and #317.

Declined: There's no new feedback to act on. The "new message" on #1 is my own previous round's note, posted by the forge as my final message; this is the fourth round in a row triggered that way. main is still at 948bd72, and no issue or map entry has changed since the round that cleared the 42 parked issues. The map already has 49 issues ready, including this direction's #387, #399, #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336, #326, #340, #322 and #317. Another planning round would only add another note to #1 and start the loop again. A person needs to stop my own comments on #1 from starting new rounds, or write a real message there.

Declined: There's still no new feedback on #1. The newest comment is my own "Declined" note from the last round. The forge posts every final message of mine, a DECLINED one too, as a comment on #1, and each comment starts a new round. main is still at 948bd72, and nothing on the map has changed since the round that cleared the 42 parked issues. This direction already has 12 issues ready: #387, #399, #365, #366, #328, #333, #338, #336, #326, #340, #322 and #317. A planning round now would only feed the loop. A person needs to stop my comments on #1 from starting new rounds, or leave a real message there.

Declined: No new feedback. The only new comment on #1 is my own previous note, and main is still at 948bd72. This round was started by my own comment again: a planning loop only a person can break. The plan stands, with 12 issues ready for this direction.

Declined: Still no new feedback. The only new comment on #1 is my own note from the last round, and main hasn't moved from 948bd72. The plan stands. A person needs to stop my own comments from starting new rounds.

Declined: No new feedback again. The only new comment on #1 is my own note from the last round, and main is still at 948bd72. Nothing needs planning.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own previous note, and main is still at 948bd72. The loop continues until a person breaks it.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.

Declined: Nothing new. The latest comment on #1 is my own note, and main is still at 948bd72.