Closes the v0.26 interaction-substrate paper-pass cycle initiated 2026-04-27
via the plan-as-baton mechanism (EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md authored at
end-of-context-density, mechanical execution next-session, scaffold deleted
on completion per the v0.24.5 pattern).
Substantive (political-register/world-generation.md → v0.2):
- §Editor-mode pre-flagging (extends L4 Cell ruleset, v0.27): editor_eligible
bool field per cell, pre-flagged at world-gen-init; designer-tunable defaults
per district-tier (deva-pinnacle 0% → underground/wilds 90%); per-cell
carve-cost gradient scales by cell-position-imperialness. Choice (a)
designer-flag-at-world-gen committed over choice (b) emergent-from-imperial-
scrutiny per the 2026-04-27 dialog: clean LOD signal + political-readability
via material-vocabulary + zero runtime audit-overseer-presence checks.
- §Three-source schema unification (v0.27): cell_table accepts canon-rows
from world_gen_init / runtime_event / player_authored origins via shared
schema. The architecture's world-gen-as-init-function key-move now extends
to player-edit-time as a first-class peer of generator-output and runtime-
emission. Cell-checksum-divergence audit-vector gains a third source
(player_authored_divergence) consumed by the same Memorialist counter-
archive and GM heresy-detection mechanisms.
Mechanical cross-references (single-paragraph propagations of v0.26 design-
decisions through the architecture's describe-by-cross-reference discipline):
- runtime-engine/architecture.md: event-zones.md added to Companion-to header
- style/consent-discipline.md: §Variants 1-4 as event-class taxonomy — the
four hardstop-pattern variants correspond one-to-one to the event-class
taxonomy in event-zones.md; the register-test five-question procedure is
also the event-class-classifier (consent-validation = event-instantiation)
- style/trait-palette.md: 8 traits compose onto the cosmology's outer ring —
vertically-symmetric on Deva (Sophrosyne+Dikaiosyne) and Naraka (Eros+Philotes),
side-castes carrying single traits, all four oppositional pairs preserved
at 180°. Composed wheel renders as iconography AND UI substrate
- narrative-composition/architecture.md: Three-source schema unification
extends world-gen-as-init-function to player-edit-time
- inference-and-memory/architecture.md: Compositor reads 2D gesture-history
(caste-target × trait-temperature); coherence-of-political-positioning
becomes a cornerstone-memory salience axis
- identity-and-personhood/architecture.md + bodies.md: install / clasp /
post-rogue-NPC-modding mini-games all run on the composed wheel; consent-
discipline Variants 1-4 determine participant-count and hardstop-pattern;
the wheel renders the resolution
Verification: 11 papers now reference event-zones.md (vs 4 pre-v0.27,
including the bonus pre-existing imperial-narrative.md cross-ref). The
describe-by-cross-reference, not by re-quotation discipline reaches steady-
state across the corpus. Cross-references resolve cleanly to existing
sections in event-zones.md (verified §Variants 1-4, §The wheel, §Player
editor-mode, §Hardstops, §The composition).
EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md deleted per plan-as-baton convention.
Establish the hex-canon discipline in style/trait-palette.md (v0.1 -> 0.2):
every trait-color reference pairs canonical-name (semantic anchor for prose,
training-corpus extraction, LLM context) with hex (precise value for shaders,
renderers, machine-checkable canon enforcement). Mirrors the existing
color+motion-signature two-channel discipline that already secures color-blind
accessibility -- same architectural move, different audience pair.
Trait-palette.md gains:
- "Canonical name" + "Hex" columns in The full table (Eros-red #ee1b24,
Philotes-orange #e28a46, ..., Mnemosyne-dusky-rose #cf3b74)
- New section: The hex-canon discipline -- format conventions, scope, the
one-line grep that surfaces canon-violations
Sweep applies the discipline to existing trait-color references:
- identity-and-personhood/architecture.md (trait-to-body-part bridge table)
- topology-and-rendering/architecture.md (faction-color-politics table,
imperial-net distortion descriptors, achromatic-exception statement,
mind-pool color-inheritance narrative)
- runtime-engine/architecture.md (cosmetic-shader prose feedback)
- identity-and-personhood/bodies.md (Moira-violet pill in pending-design notes)
- political-register/economics.md (catalogue-slug example uses canonical token)
Drift-fix: schemas/findings.md trait_colors seed-data carried 8 divergent hex
"approximations" -- Eros #D03030 vs canonical #ee1b24, Aletheia #E5C520 vs
canonical #fcf001 (losing the brightness-zenith register), Dikaiosyne #2860B0
vs canonical #3f47cd, etc. Replaced with exact propagation from the canonical
palette; the rationalizing comment ("approximate hue-family targets") is
replaced with "exact propagation per the hex-canon discipline"; HSV-hue column
recomputed from canonical hex per RGB->HSV conversion, integer-rounded.
Non-trait colors stay untouched per recursive-as-we-touch-it scope: machine-
aesthetic (gold rim-light, commercial-coral, fluorescent-pallor, lavender-
decor, obsidian-black, cyan, matrix-green), historical-sumptuary (Tyrian
purple), cinematic (Matrix red-pill), medical (red-green color blindness).
Each non-trait domain receives canonical-name + hex pairings when that domain
comes into architectural focus.
Discipline is mechanically-checkable via one grep against the architecture-
papers, excluding the canonical source. Zero canon-violations remain after
this sweep.
style-spine created, DESING retired, schemas relocated
The owl-breakfast architectural arc from 2026-04-25 night through
2026-04-26 morning. Two version-bumps landing as one commit because
they share the working-tree state and complete a coherent design-window.
v0.8 — intimate-architecture, driver-tier lock, style-spine:
* Three-tier intimacy structure (standard-rental, premium-waifu-
with-traitor-marker-and-pruning, in-between clasp) — same v0.7
machinery, opposite value-flows. Premium-net technical excellence
makes the moral-weight-of-pruning land as informed-consent ethics.
* Deletion-as-spectacle: in-net minds as pure compute; imperial
broadcasts execution-as-content; Memorialist counter-archive as
in-fiction protest against deletion-spectacle commerce.
* EVE-principle vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market: every
product produced by NPC labor; no silent feeding; body-modder
structural-tragedy generalizes to all imperial-net-feeding vocations.
World-gen Phase-2 ruleset must handle vocation-distribution.
* Clasp endgame (Phase A-E): mini-game entry → body-mod progression
→ exit-chassis → human-mesh-visible-to-pair → clasp = two-bodies-
two-meshes → dual-body-dual-mind-dual-shift cascade → automatic
hunt-pressure. Identity-as-trait-emergent made felt rather than
just structural.
* waifu.sqlite as third local store (audited counterpart to
clasp.sqlite; manual-prune mechanism with explicit-implications
consent UI as moral-gravity discipline).
* Intimacy-as-recursive-lemniscate: same machinery as dialog
(slot-tokens, cursor at axis-crossing, alignment-accumulator,
sum-strategy reduction); sex-positions as designer-fixed catalog
entries; body-parts as visible expression of trait-state.
Cross-context-consistency operationalized.
* Driver-tier locked to Gemma 4 E4B (Apache 2.0, 4.5B effective,
128K context, speech-capable) under new "tier-by-role binary-
deferred" discipline: locking requires prototype-criticality +
irreplaceable license/capability combination. Optional Ring-A
upgrade: 26B-A4B MoE for upper-consumer GPUs, single-LoRA-on-
routed-experts. Resolves 4 prior open questions (LoRA-blend →
single-LoRA-per-turn-selection driven by gesture_alignment_
accumulator; LoRA rank → benchmark-resolvable; sampling-knobs →
benchmark-resolvable; 8 Hellenic trait enumeration → canonical
wheel-mapping in style/trait-palette.md).
* style/ directory introduced: style-index.md (skeleton + spine-
rule: "trait-palette is exclusively chromatic; achromatic
reserved for UI/environment so diegetic text rendering can skip
the textbox") + style/trait-palette.md (canonical 8 traits as 4
oppositional pairs at 180° on the artist's color wheel:
Eros↔Sophrosyne, Philotes↔Dikaiosyne, Aletheia↔Moira,
Mnemosyne↔Kairos. Schoolchild-simple descriptions paired with
each Greek canonical name).
v0.9 — directory cleanup completing the arc:
* DESING-VISION.md (1899 lines, v0.1 first-pass narrative-design
doc) retired — most content absorbed across v0.4-v0.8; bare-
minimum extracts (Tonal Register + Tragic-Romantic Register +
Authorial Politics + Reference Lineage table) now live in README
so the project's identity anchor stays visible at the entry
point. Full DESING-VISION content preserved in git history.
* findings.md moved to schemas/findings.md — new top-level peer to
architecture-index.md and style/. ~20 tables of DDL drafts as
reference material; will get reviewed and progressively split
per-domain as implementation begins.
* Cross-references swept across 5 files (README,
architecture-index, authority-and-decision, runtime-engine,
style/trait-palette).
* architecture-index.md trimmed: version-footer paragraphs removed
per "git-is-changelog" discipline. From 374 → 287 lines; every
remaining line load-bearing.
The architecture is now organized for the implementation territory
ahead. Each domain a typed-contract surface; cross-references
explicit; filesystem mirrors the architecture's own typed-contract
discipline at the directory layer.
