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HALL PASS — Claude session log

Running history of what was decided, built, measured and learned across Claude sessions on this game, newest material appended at the end of each dated block. It exists so a fresh checkout carries its own memory: clone the repo, open Claude inside it, and this file plus CLAUDE.md and docs/MECHANICS.md are enough to resume without the original machine.

Provenance. Mirrored from Claude's private auto-memory (~/.claude/projects/G--Skunkworks/memory/hallpass-benchmark-build.md), which is machine-local and does not travel with a checkout. When a session records a durable decision in memory, copy it here in the same session so the two do not drift.

Division of labour between the docs:

file holds
CLAUDE.md the short standing rules every session must obey
docs/MECHANICS.md how each system works and what must stay true
HANDOFF.md narrative state-of-the-project handoff
docs/SESSION-LOG.md (this) dated session history, spend, vendor facts, hard-won gotchas
playtest/INSIGHTS.md the playtest loop's measured findings and queue

Private-repo content. This log names vendor accounts, credit balances, Netlify/GitHub identifiers and personal to-dos. MisterSands/hallpass is private; keep it that way, and scrub this file before any public mirror.

HALL PASS at G:\Skunkworks\hallpass is the "better version" of the Curfew brief (G:\Skunkworks\curfew\HANDOFF.md), built 2026-08-23 by Claude (Fable) so Chris can benchmark it against another model's Curfew. Same locked brief (Three.js, zero assets, same 4 students / 6 curses / techniques / fragment shop), new codebase, new working title — Chris has not approved the name HALL PASS (nor CURFEW).

Why: Chris judges by feel and look, not code. The differentiators are hit-stop, Flash Step dash, crowd separation, telegraphed attacks, surges, cel-shading + outlines, real bloom, a dressed schoolyard, attract-mode title, and a sim/view split so npm run balance tunes difficulty with a headless bot (novice medians ≈3–4 min, competent 5–11 min).

How to apply: npm run dev serves on 8010 (Curfew's esbuild may hold 8000 — don't kill it). dist/hallpass.html is a single self-contained file that opens from disk. Full notes in its HANDOFF.md. If asked to iterate, re-run npm test and npm run balance after touching src/config.js DIFFICULTY, weapons or upgrades. Not yet played on a physical phone or gamepad. See [[headless-browser-pane-workaround]] for how it was visually verified.

Session 2 (2026-08-23 afternoon): Chris reframed the goal — beat Solomon's Boneyard, not copy Curfew. Graphics first, sound later, no Higgsfield spend without his OK. Licensed from his Envato Elements (project "HALL PASS"): Dyomin "2D Cartoon FX" pack (baked to a tintable flipbook atlas via scripts/bake-fx.py) and the CT Headstone font. Envato 3D props were scouted and rejected (300K+ poly illustration models). Session 2 also shipped the dawn win condition (9 PM→6 AM night, First Bell win, After Hours endless, wins/clearedBy in the save) and six signature boss kits, and deployed publicly to https://hallpass-night.netlify.app (Netlify project hallpass-night, team csands-gtziix8; redeploy recipe in HANDOFF.md — deploy from .netlify-stage/, never the repo root). Later in session 2: shipped 6 evolutions (golden cards; Perfect Flash / Storm Circuit / Second Heart / Encore / Ghost Step / Afterglow) and 4 unique Domain kits (Iron Cell drag+crush, Silk Cathedral time-slow, Blackout Grid bolt storm, Paper Storm homing charms), redeployed. 18 node tests. Remaining spine: obstacles, daily seed/challenges, share card; then Envato sound.

2026-09-02 (CINECAM part 2 — cues, census, the domain scene). Second take shipped: domain-grid, Kaito's Blackout Grid, seed 21, 420 frames (7s) @1080p60. Two capabilities added because the first attempt was impossible without them.

CUES — the rig directs instead of spectating. boot({cues:[{when:'<expr>', do:'domain'}]}) presses a button when real conditions line up. Needed because the bot opens ONE domain across a whole night, usually into a thin crowd, so a domain scene cannot be found by waiting. Choosing WHEN to press is direction; everything downstream is the untouched sim (a cue cannot cast an uncharged domain — activateDomain() refuses and the cue stays armed). Only an ACCEPTED press counts as fired, else a refused domain silently drops the beat. Cues are a pure function of sim state, so they fire on the same frame every run and shoot() re-fires them while seeking.

CENSUS — measure before writing a predicate. census({of,when}) aggregates instead of collecting. This is now the rule: BOTH shots' first predicates matched zero frames because they were guessed. For the domain the census said the bar is full 71% of the night (the bot hoards it) but ring9-while-charged is p50 4 / p90 9 / peak 18 — Kaito's orbs are area denial and keep his ring clear, where Ren's flashstep take had 18 bodies inside FOUR units. ring9>=30 could not fire on any frame of any run; >=16 fires on the densest castable frame the night has (f14845, t=244.9, 72 curses on the board).

THREE MORE BUGS, all found by measuring not reasoning: (1) tick() captured edge state AFTER cues acted, so a cue-fired domain set domainFx and was instantly recorded as "previous" — the rising edge was swallowed and domainCast never reported a cast that definitely happened. Snapshot the edge from what readCtx saw, before any cue runs. (2) census never stubbed the renderer → ~4 fps, and it looked fine for one run only because a wedged scan had left the stub installed globally. Both now restore the renderer in a finally. (3) scan with cooldown: 1 retains one object per hit → six-figure array, wedged pane. Capped at opts.max (500); use census for distributions.

Also: readCtx was duplicated between the Node filter and the browser — the exact setup where a shot matches in the search and never in the pane. Now one source, scripts/cine-ctx.js, imported by both and copied to dist in dev builds. New ctx fields: domainCast (the frame a cast starts — the one you cut on), domainField, bossKill, ring9. cine.mjs render takes --crf and --out (a 7s crf-16 master is 34MB, over the 30MB chat limit; --crf 26 --out preview gives 4.4MB).

2026-09-02 (CINECAM — scripted engine capture). Built the rig that makes gameplay footage directed instead of caught: cine/<id>.json (shot: run, find predicate, camera keys — TRACKED), scripts/cine-client.js (browser half, dev-only, never bundled — reaches the engine only through window.__HALLPASS__ + instance overrides), scripts/cine.mjs (seed search, ffmpeg assembly), shot-server extended with a /shot {take,i} frame sink -> shots/cine/<take>/f%06d.jpg. ONE engine change: game.js bot line now takes this.botRng || Math.random and this.botSkill ?? 0.85 — inert in every normal run, verified absent-of-effect by 97 green tests, and prod bundle carries it once. Full doc: docs/CINECAM.md. Proof take shipped: flashstep-ring, seed 13, 210 frames @1080p60.

FOUR THINGS THIS COST, all measured not predicted — verify() (boot twice, step both, compare the player's path) is the reason they were found: (1) game.botOut outlives a run and the bot eases its heading out of the previous frame's value, so take 2 inherited the turn take 1 was mid-way through: 0.16 world units of drift from identical sim state and identical random draws. Reset botOut/simInput/hitStop/timeScale/platter at boot -> drift 0 over 1800 frames. (2) Re-importing the client with a cache-buster (?v=Date.now()) makes a FRESH module while the installed camera wrapper still closes over the OLD module's camProgram — which stays null, so a whole take shot silently on the engine's default camera. Keep the original on the view (view.__cineOrigCamera) and re-wrap every boot. (3) A hidden pane clamps setTimeout(0) to a full second, so yielding every 600 frames took a scan from ~1855 fps to ~10. Yield every 20k, or not at all. (4) Predicates must be calibrated against measured distributions: the first find asked ring4>=14 && ring6>=26 && hp<0.6 and matched 0/40 seeds in 2 minutes; measuring 351 real dash frames showed ring4 is p90=7/max=20 and a skill-0.8 bot sits at full HP most of the night. ring4>=10 && ring6>=18 hits 12/32.

WHY A TAKE REPEATS: fixed 1/60 dt (never wall-clock), forced run seed, seeded Math.random (so FX and shake replay), and the bot on a stream of its OWN so an unrelated FX change cannot re-cut old takes. The camera can reach neither the sim nor the random stream — spawnRadius/spawnBox are cached in view.resize(), never per frame, and the override runs AFTER the engine's own _updateCamera. Proven: re-shooting flashstep-ring with a completely different camera returned a byte-identical manifest trace.

THE SEARCH IS A SEED FILTER, NOT A FRAME PREDICTION. Headless runs a fixed 1/60; the browser's dt is modulated by hit-stop, slow-mo and the level-up platter, and game.js resolves a level-up AFTER the step where the lab's runner resolves it before. For seed 13 headless predicted f19612 and the browser's own scan() found f13756 (a better moment — ring4 18). Search picks the seed; the browser picks the frame.

2026-08-24. Controls reworked to true twin-stick per Chris (Boneyard fidelity): fixed stick bases in the bottom corners, right stick FIRES in the direction pointed, decoupled from movement; no stick = no shots; desktop holds LMB; AUTO-FIRE setting for accessibility. Higgsfield image pipeline validated via MCP on his Ultra workspace (2,580 credits): 8 credits spent, nano_banana_pro = 2 credits/image ~20s 2048². Ground texture and a 16-icon sheet both landed first try and now ship. Key gotcha recorded in the repo's ASSET-BRIEF.md — asking for a "transparent background" makes it paint a checkerboard; ask for flat chroma magenta instead. Seedance = 45 credits per 5s 1080p, so cinematics are a separate decision (Chris said he'll do those free in the web UI anyway).

2026-08-24 (later). Full Tier-1 art batch run through the Higgsfield MCP (28 credits total for the whole visual identity): 5 tiling ground materials, 12 chroma-keyed decals, 28 icons, 4 anime portraits. The yard became a real stage — MAP in config.js with material zones and 13 solid obstacles that block movement and projectiles, and that stagger a charging enemy into recover on impact (bait charges into planters). Bake scripts: scripts/bake-art.py + scripts/bake-icons.py. Fixed a dev-server bug where --serve cached index.html at startup so CSS edits silently never appeared.

2026-08-24 (evening). FIVE stages shipped and deployed: Yard (free), Gym (150), Second Floor corridors (300), Rooftop (500, smallest+hardest), Pool (800 — water blocks movement but not projectiles, the signature mechanic). Stage select with engine-capture thumbs sits after student pick; per-stage best/cleared in the save; harder stages pay bigger dawn bonuses. Batch 3 art (24 credits, ~52 total): 5 floors, 3 photographic prop faces (lockers/vending/scoreboard, tiled via facePlane repeatX), skyline panorama, 12 interior decals, 8 essence-wisp pickups (now the XP gems), 12 projectile sprites (generated, NOT yet wired — candidate next step). Structured textures (planks/tile grids) never tile from the generator: MirroredRepeatWrapping in-engine is the fix. 21 node tests. Offered but not built: boss splash portraits (~18cr), title key art, generate_3d enemy experiment.

2026-08-24 (night). Boss splash art for all 9 special-grade curses (20 credits — one generation vanished server-side and was resubmitted; ~72 total spent) + full UI identity pass (slab headings, ghost watermarks, notched cards, plated HUD, cinematic bossSplash strip with text-banner fallback). Key infra discovery: the embedded Browser pane taints ANY foreignObject canvas, so DOM screenshots now go SVG → shot-server ({name,svg}) → real headless Chrome with --virtual-time-budget (without it, entrance animations screenshot at opacity 0). Recipe in HANDOFF.md. Projectile "spell" sprites still baked but unwired.

2026-08-24 (late night). The spine shipped: TONIGHT'S RUN (date-hashed seed + stage

2026-08-24 (sound night). Repo pushed to https://github.com/MisterSands/hallpass (private, gh as MisterSands). Envato sound pass done through the NEW app.envato.com in his real Chrome (auto-license on download; the "20 credits" counter did not move for audio): Night Drive Synthwave (night), Devil On The Run (boss), School Bell x3, city crickets ambience. audio.js streams them with the procedural engine as fallback; setBoss crossfades; win() rings the real bell; title gets crickets + quiet cut. bake-audio.py transcodes. Netlify MCP was 503ing — deployed via LOCAL netlify-cli, which is already authed as Chris (deploy --prod --dir .netlify-stage --site 84baf5f8).

2026-08-24 (first cinematic). Seedance 2.5 via MCP animated the Janitor boss splash from a start_image: 6s 1080p silent = 54 credits, style held PERFECTLY (painterly look, zero 3D drift, embers/smoke/keys all moving, slow push-in). mode='omni_reference', role='start_image', generate_audio=false; it may suggest a preset — decline with declined_preset_id and generate literally. Note: a push-in slowly eats the composable black third — for loopable title backgrounds request a fully locked camera. No text in any video per the standing rule (title not final). Clip at docs/janitor-live.mp4.

2026-08-24 (cinematics batch). All 9 boss splashes animated (8 x 54 = 432 credits + 54 for the Janitor test; ~570 total spent of 2,580). Key trick: prior generation JOB IDS work directly as start_image in generate_video — no re-upload needed. All held style at the 5s max-drift point. In-game: splash strip plays assets/bosses/{slug}.mp4 (720p bake via bake-video.py, ~4.4MB total) fading over the webp still; mp3/mp4 never inlined into the single-file build (bake exclusion in build.mjs). Verified playing live (readyState 4, currentTime advancing). Deployed via netlify-cli.

2026-08-24 (cut-in cinematics). All 4 domain cut-ins animated (5 x 54 = 270 credits — one yui redo after a role slip: "input_image" got coerced to image_references, which RECOMPOSES instead of animating the literal frame; always pass role "start_image"). Ally splash plays assets/cutins/{id}.mp4 through the same wrapper-crop rig, mirrored. Boss-splash smoosh lesson applied from the start. Note: pixel-diff vs source art is a BAD literalness metric on glow-heavy frames (yui 27 both modes; ren 14; sora 36 all fine visually) — eyeball filmstrips instead. ~840 credits spent total of 2,580.

2026-08-24 (iPhone pass). Chris playtested on iPhone 16 Safari landscape: no fullscreen control + layout overflow. Fixes: (1) fullscreen-on-PLAY-tap (works on Android/desktop/iPad ONLY — (2) manifest.webmanifest + generated icons -> Add to Home Screen = zero chrome (the page is unscrollable so Safari chrome NEVER auto-collapses — that was the root cause); (3) new @media (max-height:500px) layout: mobile CSS previously keyed on width<=760 which landscape phones (852pt) never hit — touch buttons were stacking off-screen; now sticks shrink, STEP/DOMAIN sit in a row beside the fire stick, HUD compresses, title drops prose but keeps the wordmark. ?touch=1 forces touch UI in desktop testing.

CORRECTION (2026-08-24, late): iPhone Safari does NOT support the Fullscreen API for elements — caniuse: iPad-only ("a #5") through iOS 26; my "iOS 16.4 enabled it on iPhone" claim was FALSE and shipped a no-op. Only

2026-08-24 (stage-select mobile fix). Chris was STUCK on stage select on iPhone: body{touch-action:none} (needed for sticks) also blocks ALL touch scrolling of menu screens on iOS — overflowing content was unreachable, not just clipped. Fix: .screen gets touch-action:pan-x pan-y. Stage select redesigned to his spec: BACK is an arrow in the PICK A STAGE title row, banner note is tiny bottom text, cards are 300px-wide horizontal scroll-snap items (280px + trims under max-height:500). Verified at 852x340: card+PLAY inside viewport, row scrolls to Pool. Remember: any new fixed-position UI on touch needs its own touch-action override.

2026-08-24 (iOS audio + cut-in pacing). "No sound in Safari" = the iPhone SILENT SWITCH: Safari routes WebAudio through the ringer channel. Fix shipped: at ctx creation set navigator.audioSession.type='playback' (Safari 17+, harmless elsewhere) so audio plays like a media app regardless of the switch; also resume ctx on every gesture and on visibilitychange. Domain cut-in tightened per Chris: in fast, OUT fast — 1150ms hold + 0.2s exit (~1.4s visible, was ~2.5s); boss splashes keep the long beat deliberately.

2026-08-25 (VO + level beam). Seed Audio TTS via MCP is ~0.2 credits/line — 12 character lines (domain shout / death / First Bell per student; voices Dylan/Helena/ Emmett/Juno) baked via bake-audio (silenceremove+loudnorm) to assets/vo/, played by sound.vo() with ducking. Level-up is now the Boneyard moment: heaven-beam cylinder + flash + shake + radial knockback in the SIM (deterministic), with sim.levelGrace=0.55 so the world keeps stepping while pendingLevel and the shove plays BEFORE the cards (the frame loop gates on levelGrace too). Verified: ring of enemies 3.0->5.5 units during the beam; modal at ~660ms. ~845 credits total spent.

2026-08-25 (VO recast). Seed Audio reads were flat; Chris demanded better. Winner: his OWN ElevenLabs account, model eleven_v3, stability 0.0, with ACTING TAGS in the text ([battle cry], [strained, defiant], [gleeful shout]) — night-and-day delivery. Cast: Callum=Ren, Alice=Yui, Charlie=Kaito, Gigi=Sora (premade ids hardcoded in scripts/eleven-vo.py; the TTS-scoped key sits in git-ignored .eleven.key, created via his dashboard in Chrome). Pipeline: eleven-vo.py cast -> bake-audio.py -> assets/vo/. Key facts: /v1/voices needs its own scope (TTS-only key 401s — use PREMADE id table); old masters must be deleted before rebake (sorted() lets .wav overwrite .mp3 bakes).

2026-08-25 (Cursed Energy). Chris asked for Boneyard mana: CE pool (100) gates weapon fire (per-weapon ce cost, +25%/extra projectile) AND Flash Step (10 CE atop its charge); Domain keeps its own meter and REFUNDS CE on cast; empty = fizzle until 15% (exhausted event -> deny sound + red bar flash); regen 11/s, x1.8 idle; Silk Cathedral halves costs. New techniques: Deep Reservoir (+30 max), Flow State (+25% regen). Bot now manages its trigger (fire when >30% or enemy <7). Tuned so EARLY fire is sustainable (drain=regen) and midgame rate/multi upgrades force discipline; novice medians ~2:45- 3:41, competent 4:19-5:21 with dawns. 23 tests. HUD: violet segmented bar under XP.

2026-08-25 (domain pacing). Playtest ruling from Chris: domain VO must be ONE SHOUTED WORD ("DOMAIN!!", battle-shout v3 direction; yui needed a retake — v3 can clip ultra-short lines, check durations) and the domain banner must be a RAZOR-THIN bar with ONLY the domain name, ~half-second in-out (shipped: 535ms, domainCutin now uses .domflash, no art). The four animated cut-ins are RETIRED from the domain moment (assets kept, unused). Boss splashes keep their long beat. Lesson: player-triggered FX must never occlude the fight; enemy-triggered FX may.

2026-08-25 (boss splash fix). Chris saw name-only boss banners on iPhone: vid-on fired on canplay, so when iOS BLOCKS autoplay (Low Power Mode), an unrendered

2026-08-25 (parity push). Harvested 4,370 negative Steam reviews (7 category titles) -> research/steam-complaints.md + RISK-TRACKER.md. League: balance-rng(982) > grind(773) > bugs/save-loss(699) > content-drought(601) > difficulty-walls(352). Shipped against it in one push: RUN RESUME (Sim.snapshot/restore, rngState externalized — round-trip bit-identical test), music/sfx sliders, one-thumb mode, first-session hints, 16 Assignments (3/day via daily hash), Night II/III stage tiers. CRITICAL BALANCE LESSON: extra spawns make survivors-likes EASIER (spawns=XP economy) — Night II with spawnMult 1.15 hit dawn at MEDIAN; difficulty must come from HP/speed, never spawn count. Steam API: filter=recent paginates, filter=all starves. 26 tests.

2026-08-25 (3D boss experiment, branch experiment/3d-boss). Chris asked for real 3D bosses; branched off main 3cbcf2e (last known good; production deploys ONLY from main; experiments deploy ONLY to Netlify draft URLs via netlify deploy sans --prod, staged from git-ignored .netlify-draft/). PIPELINE THAT WORKS: boss splash master as identity ref -> nano_banana_pro 4-view turnaround (2cr, flat grey studio, prop held consistently; crop the four figures EXCLUDING the decorative floaters between panels) -> Higgsfield multi_image_to_3d / Meshy (30cr: should_texture, 20K tris, symmetry auto) -> 4.4MB GLB -> src/boss3d.js (lazy GLTFLoader, unit-height normalize, house re-skin: MeshToonMaterial over baked texture + gradientMap + inverted-hull outline via inflate(), emissiveMap floor 0.16 so painted embers glow; sim-driven bob/windup/charge/flash). view._syncEnemies skips the instanced primitive for claimed bosses; missing GLB falls back SILENTLY to primitives (verified). GOTCHAS: Meshy output safety checker false-flags the masked janitor ("nsfw" terminal status) -> pass enable_safety_checker:false; model yaw is OPPOSITE-HANDED to entity yaw -> rotation.y = -e.yaw + PI/2 [WRONG — that formula is for a yaw measured from +X; the sim's is atan2(dx, dz) and the fix is rotation.y = e.yaw, see the 2026-09-03 boss-facing entry]; headless-pane tests of DEPLOYED builds also need ?drive=1 (no rAF). Janitor verified in-game on court + draft deploy. Credit note: balance was 632 BEFORE this experiment (prior "~850 of 2,580 spent" undercounted — his own web-UI use likely). Scale-up cost: ~32cr/boss static.

Phase 2 (same day): rigged animation WORKS. 3d_rigging = 8cr/clip: pass the prior 3D job's GLB URL as model_url + animation_action_id (678-clip library via animation_actions tool; Monster_Walk=112, Heavy_Hammer_Swing=128, Slow_Orc_Walk=119; categories incl AttackingwithWeapon/CastingSpell/Dying/GettingHit). Same source mesh → identical 24-bone armature across clips → load walk GLB as base, mine other GLBs for clips only, all play on one SkinnedMesh. boss3d.js: SkeletonUtils.clone (NEVER .clone() for skinned), per-instance AnimationMixer, sim-state machine (windup+sweep = one LoopOnce swing stretched to the 2.5s attack window; walk timeScale from measured ground speed ~1.1 at boss pace). OUTLINES on skinned meshes = SkinnedMesh shells with inflated geometry bound to the same skeleton (inherits skinIndex/Weight via geometry clone) — ink deforms with the body. Clip GLBs re-embed the 9MB texture each — dedupe via gltf-transform before scaling to 9 bosses. Full animated boss ≈ 48cr (2 sheet + 30 mesh

EXPERIMENT ADOPTED (2026-08-25 evening): branch ff-merged to main; 3D bosses ship to PRODUCTION now. Boss 2 = HALL MONITOR (58cr): stateless kit → profile maps e.caught → RunFast(16), default → Walk_Fight_Forward(21). boss3d.js generalized to per-art MODELS profiles {clips, staticUrl, mode(e), oneShot{clip:windowSec}, heightPerR}. LESSONS: (1) top-down camera makes swagger gaits (Confident_Walk 106) read as full-body tilt — always pick neutral/guarded/monster gaits; (2) arms-at-sides turnaround briefs rig cleaner (clips repose arms anyway); (3) exclude light beams/FX from character models — in-game FX owns those (monitor's spotlight cone already existed as spotMeshes). Remaining roster: quiz, substitute, exam, detention, group, parent, vice (~48-58cr each, ~350-400cr total; balance 528 after monitor). Boss splash art masters live in assets-src/incoming/bosses/{art}.png.

2026-08-26 (FIRST BELL WAS UNREACHABLE — found & fixed). Chris asked for a night-one playtest; scripts/playtest.mjs funnel found 0 dawns in 192 bot runs at EVERY skill/perk tier — the pre-dawn kill-curve (hpLateStart 420 "so every run ends", speedLatePer30 0.12) predated the dawn win condition: ~70× enemy HP and 2.8× speed at 12:00. This also dead-gated Night II/III AND the club's seat-2 milestone. RETUNE (commit 4484f49): hpQuadSec 380, hpLateStart 630, speedLatePer30 0.06 → novice run-1 always loses ✓, avg-fresh ~5%, competent+~270◆ perks ~35%, expert ~45% dawn rates; After Hours kills winners within 0:35–4:13. LESSONS: (1) win-rate funnels (playtest.mjs) belong in the gate checks — survival-time bands HID this for weeks because "the night ends" test uses god bonuses; (2) the resume-wrapper injection trick (headless prestep → snapshot → localStorage → RESUME NIGHT → params.bot=true at runtime) records live finales of exact seeds; ?bot at boot AUTOSAVES OVER an injected wrapper — inject without ?bot. Finale video: captures/first-bell-finale.mp4 (9 HP at 10:51 → bell). Yui underperforms ren at 0.8 (2/20 vs 7/20) — character spread worth a look later.

2026-08-26 (THE CLUB shipped — tag-team roster, Chris's hook). All five phases live on production + GitHub (f9ed19e..7e810ec): (1) sim party model — scalar-only entries {id,ce,ceExhausted,domain,weaponTimer,castCount,activeT,domains}, active fields live on sim, swapCharacter only during pendingLevel, bench CE at half rate (Flow State applies), bench domains FROZEN, global DOMAIN_SWAP_LOCK 10s, mastery ctor hooks (L1 shove/L2 bench regen/L3 startDomain 0.15/L4 SIGNATURES={ren:multi,yui:hands,kaito:focus,sora:orbit}), snapshot v2 (v1 loads as solo, zero migration); (2) botLevel swap-then-pick (pick clears pendingLevel SYNCHRONOUSLY — swap after pick is impossible), balance --party=a,b,c, bands: solo yui ~5:39, duo 5:29, squad 5:21 competent; (3) FORM THE CLUB picker (captain-first, "captain sets the body" = maxHp), tag strip in level-up modal (CE micro-bars + gold domain pip), swap consumers inline via game._onTag (NOT the event loop — modal state doesn't drain events); (4) partySlots save field (retro seat-2 for veterans via clearedBy), first First Bell opens seat 2, CLUB CHARTER {3:1200, 4:3000} (MAP not array — off-by-one bit me), soloHonors ×1.15 fragMult shared helper, mastery banking in _commitRun (activeT + 30×domains, roman toasts); (5) clubIntro vignettes — 15 walk-in keyframes baked to assets/club/{sorted-ids}.webp, ally splash rig, 2.8s skippable, settings.intro, Chris's Seedance mp4s drop in via bake-video.py 'club'. SKIP CLASS card (Chris mid-flight): rare 45s jump toward dawn, ramp doesn't skip, verified balance-neutral. 38 tests. GIT LANDMINE FIXED: git add -A had committed captures/ (>100MB files) → GitHub pre-receive DECLINED and pushes "hung" (1GB packs); filter-branch stripped the 4 unpushed commits; captures/ + shots/ now git-ignored. Balance 182cr. REEL 08 in Night Reel = 15 club start frames; his clips return as assets/club/{key}.mp4. Backlog: tag VO lines, HUD party strip, portrait-fan share card, mastery roster badges, assist call-ins. All NINE bosses are 3D on production (commit 9217aa2): 7 rigged (janitor swing, monitor walk/run, substitute+vice walk+slam via Attack(4) stretched to the 0.55s window, detention Slow_Orc_Walk(119), group Unsteady_Walk(123), parent Casual(30)+RunFast(16)), 2 procedural floaters (quiz, exam — float profile: hover-bob + roll + cast pulse). ASSEMBLY-LINE PIPELINE: batch 6 turnarounds via generate_image_batch → auto-crop by column-ink clustering (fails on dark-on-dark sheets and tendril bridges — manual quarter boxes then) → batch 6 meshes (submit back-to-back, they cook concurrently) → 8 rigs. bake-models.mjs (gltf-transform

CINEMATICS KIT (2026-08-25 late): G:\Skunkworks\hallpass\cinematics-kit\ (+ .zip, both git-ignored, zip sent to Chris) = 28 refs: 4 character sheets, ensemble-walk.png (all four in ONE frame — the intro start frame), 9 boss splashes, 4 domain cut-ins, 10 NEW painted keyframes (campus-wide/gate-night/bell-tower + 5 stage keys + dawn-hero; 20cr, balance ~212). The Night Reel artifact chips now name their start frames; kit README maps file→card and carries the start-frame-vs-style-reference tip. Campus moon inconsistency: crescent in campus-wide, full in bell-tower — pick one per sequence.

2026-08-25 (Shipaton phase 1). Target: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, deadline Sept 30 11:45pm PDT; ruling = playtest first, monetize DARK (store plumbing and playtesting are the same work — Play's mandatory 14-day closed test IS the playtest window). Shipped: Capacitor 8 Android shell (appId com.sandsgames.hallpass — PERMANENT on Play once uploaded, flag before first upload if the name changes), sensorLandscape + immersive + keep-screen-on in MainActivity, back button -> pause via src/native.js using ONLY window.Capacitor globals (web bundle byte-identical; @capacitor/app plugin native-side). User-local toolchain, no admin: G:/Skunkworks/tools/{jdk21,android-sdk}; build with JAVA_HOME=G:/Skunkworks/tools/jdk21 android/gradlew assembleDebug. Debug APK live at hallpass-night.netlify.app/hallpass-playtest.apk; tester guide at /testers.html. FIELD REPORT button (title+pause) -> Netlify Forms ("feedback"; had to flip site processing_settings.ignore_html_forms=false via netlify api updateSite — detection is OFF by default on new Netlify sites); auto-attaches BUILD (version+sha esbuild define), UA, run context; offline queue flushes on boot; submissions verified arriving (listSiteForms count). Monetization scaffold dark: MONETIZATION.enabled=false, save.outfits/supporter, RevenueCat-shaped src/iap.js stub, nothing imports it. iOS shell NOT possible on Windows (needs Mac/cloud build). Chris's homework: Apple Dev $99, Google Play $25 + 14-day closed test (12+ testers), AdMob, shipaton.com registration.

2026-08-26 (session 3 — dawn, UI, accessibility, periods). Bell moved to 7:00 AM (NIGHT.hours 10) with a VISIBLE SUNRISE from t=sunriseAt (5:45 AM): view.dawnMix driven per-frame from sim clock (dawnSnap flag gates the old win-snap self-ramp), indoor maps (gym/halls/pool) get additive floor-projected window shafts (View.INDOOR + _buildDawnShafts). Night progress bar along the top screen edge (article-reader style: full palette faintly visible incl. gold end, shade reveals elapsed, sun marker at 87.5% ignites at sunrise); clock shrank to a corner .clock; subtime is event-only. Effects pass: orbit charms are 3D omamori (charmGeometry in actors.js, vertex-colored toon + outline shell), sweep/strips get scrolling beamTexture interior (footprint = honest hitbox), cage rings are rotating dashed binding seals, domain disc has a hot rim. ENEMY INTRODUCTION GATED per stage (Chris: "minute 3 feels like stage 20"): MAPS[].roster {id->minT} — yard grub/husk+late wisp, gym debuts wisp, halls spitter, roof brute, pool everything; Night II+/dailies pass fullRoster:true; off-roster scripted surges substitute strongest rostered type. STAGE PERIODS (Chris's Boneyard cadence, his Q&A picked 3/6/12 + all-three-to-master): PERIODS QUIZ 180 / MIDTERM 360 / FINAL 720; sim opts.nightLen, nightK compresses the SURGES timeline + fiction (clock, sunrise, warnAt) while ABSOLUTE difficulty curves stay put — that asymmetry IS the tuning. Only the FINAL sets stageCleared/clearedBy/seat-2/Night II. save.periods {map: 0-3}, migration grants 3 to pre-period clears. Skip Class full-nights only (guard BEFORE the rng roll). Bot ladder: QUIZ 67/96/100% @ 0.25/0.5/0.8, MIDTERM 8/63/88, FINAL 50/71 fresh. Fixed: school store had no reachable exit (.screen justify-content:center clips overflow — auto margins on end children now + ✕ in shop head). Night Reel got a push-in camera pass (all prompts continuous 20s dolly-in EXCEPT walk-toward-camera cards). Sora now lags on gated yard (p50 8:51 vs dawn) — character spread pass owes her + yui. 42 tests. Commits e4ef949..cd05363.

2026-08-26 (domain: hallpass.cc). Live at https://hallpass.cc (Let's Encrypt, auto-renew; www 301s to apex; http 301s to https). Netlify: custom_domain=hallpass.cc, domain_aliases=[www.hallpass.cc] — the netlify.app subdomain still serves 200 and stays the CNAME target. NETLIFY API GOTCHA: adding a domain as domain_aliases 422s until that domain family is already the site's custom_domain — set custom_domain FIRST, then the alias. Setting custom_domain did NOT take netlify.app down (Netlify only redirects the subdomain once the custom domain verifies), but assume it might and sequence accordingly. Cert did not auto-provision on DNS landing; netlify api provisionSiteTLSCertificate returns literal null either way — poll https for the real answer (came up ~2 min after the second call). DNS at Namecheap BasicDNS (drove it in his Chrome; he must log in himself — I never authenticate): deleted the two parking records (URL Redirect @ -> http://www.hallpass.cc, CNAME www -> parkingpage.namecheap.com), added ALIAS @ -> apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com (Namecheap supports ALIAS at apex; flattens to 75.2.60.5 / 99.83.231.61) + CNAME www -> hallpass-night.netlify.app. Left the SPF TXT under MAIL SETTINGS alone. Chose Namecheap DNS over Cloudflare deliberately: Cloudflare's orange- cloud proxy in front of Netlify is a double-CDN that breaks LE provisioning and adds a cache layer; DNS-only mode buys nothing Netlify doesn't already give. CODE: SITE_HOST in config.js next to TITLE; FEEDBACK_URL is no longer hardcoded — any host matching hallpass.cc/netlify.app posts to its OWN origin (a cross-domain 301 converts POST->GET and silently drops field reports), dev + Capacitor shell fall back to canonical. Share watermark = SITE_HOST. Added og.jpg (1200x630 from docs/ui-title.png, cropped above the settings row) + OG/Twitter/canonical tags, og.jpg in build.mjs copy list. Verified live: title, og:url, og.jpg 200, and a real field-report POST round-tripped 200 (test submission deleted after). Commit 5901ccb.

2026-08-26 (playtest feedback batch, commit c2bb3f3). Chris's first structured play feedback, all shipped: (1) STARS on HITS TAKEN (sim.hitsTaken in _hurt, iframe-gated; level/kills SATURATE for winners — all full-night winners hit L25 — hits separate skill cleanly; pars from bot medians in config STARS: quiz 10/4, midterm 30/16, final 90/50 silver/gold; final gold intentionally beyond bot play). save.stars 'map:period'→0-3, save.perfect. (2) Stage chain: QUIZ+MIDTERM clears open the next stage — fragment PURCHASE of stages REMOVED (frags now only perks/characters/charter); retro sweep in game.showStages. (3) Night II/III HIDDEN until a stage is all-gold (was confusing pre-first-clear); PERFECT ATTENDANCE = 15 golds. (4) Win screen dead-end fixed: NEXT — {period/stage} primary + STAGE SELECT (also on death screen); _renderWin shared with _reshowWin (reshow previously dropped new fields — keep them in sync). (5) Club picker first tap = captain + ALL unlocked auto-join (Chris went in solo and thought tag-swap was broken; tag strip only renders with party>1). (6) Boss splash 2300ms with slowUntil = clock+2.3 exactly matching (his note: time must never resume mid-banner). (7) boss3d.preload(art) warms the next boss's GLB 10s before nextBossAt — no more primitive flash on spawn. (8) Mouse-lock reticle rides a FIXED RING: view.worldToScreen helper, reticle at player+aimDir*4.2 world units, virtual cursor clamped to 230px around player screen pos (free cursor read as "not where I'm pointing"). DESIGN RESERVOIR (his ask): the pink placeholder primitives are to become a REAL late-stage enemy type ("pink monsters") — bosses may also reuse them; don't delete the primitive enemy visuals. 43 tests. Pane-verified: auto-join chips, tag strip with 2 members, gold/silver star screens, gym auto-unlock, lockreq text, NEXT chaining.

2026-08-26 (stage-score stars, commit 48c9bc6 — SUPERSEDES the per-period stars). Chris redesigned same-day: stars are PER STAGE (one bronze/silver/gold under the PLAY button), periods are just runway. Judged by a live RUN SCORE in sim: kill pays xp10(1+min(3,streak/40)) chain mult, boss +1500, hit taken -30 (floor 0); scalar, no rng, snapshot-free; live in HUD corner (.hscore, gold text) + win/death stat grids. Bot medians ren@yard: QUIZ ~20k (max 26k), MIDTERM ~71k (max 82k), FINAL ~270k. config SCORE_STARS {silver:55000, gold:150000}: silver needs a solid midterm, gold = any final clear OR a ~2x-bot-ceiling chain-farmed midterm ("kick ass on medium, skip the final, pass the class" — his explicit wish). Bronze = any win. save.stageStars {map:0-3} + save.stageScore {map:best-win-score}; legacy 'map:period' stars collapse to stage max in migration. Night II gate + PERFECT ATTENDANCE now key off stageStars>=3 (5 golds, not 15). First stage gold toasts CLASS PASSED. Dawn-moment mass-clear kills (sim.js ~line 814 path) deliberately do NOT score. Period chips back to ✓/min/lock. Tune SCORE_STARS from field reports — thresholds are global (stages' spawnMult 0.8-1 variance unhandled v1).

2026-08-26 (THE SHOWROOM, commit e5b03cc). Design-review stage at hallpass.cc/showroom.html (unlinked, noindex): real engine render (toon + outlines + ACES) of all 4 student rigs (idle walk-cycle, props), 5 cel enemies, and the boss PRIMITIVE (the pink reservoir monster) — no sim, no game. Variant tables CHAR_VARIANTS/ENEMY_VARIANTS live in src/showroom.js (palette overrides; rigId borrows hairstyle branches; buildPlayerRig is a pure fn of {id,color,hair,weapon.type}); the game never imports showroom.js, so design iteration happens THERE and winners get ported to config/actors after Chris blesses them. NIGHT/DAWN/STUDIO presets (showroom NIGHT is hotter than game night — no player light/bloom here), WALK/SPIN/INK toggles, drag-orbit. Second esbuild entry in build.mjs (showroomOptions; dev-watched; excluded from single-file). ?drive=1 gives the headless timer loop + __shot sink. ITERATION WORKFLOW: edit variants in src/showroom.js → build → deploy → he reviews at the URL → blessed variant ported into game config. UI-design iteration NOT in showroom (needs index.html CSS) — do UI as mockups first or ?bot demo on the live game.

2026-08-26 (wheel zoom + showroom v2, commit c0bb652). Game: view.zoom was a dormant factor in the camera math — wheel now steps settings.zoomLevel (0-1, default 0.38 = 1.0x, maps 0.72-1.45x, camera glides, persists via existing numeric migrate, works under pointer lock). Showroom v2: CONCEPTS row (original riffs, house primitives+ink): LOCKER MIMIC / HALL LANTERN / DESK CRAWLER, 2 palettes each, builders in showroom.js; IMPORTS row: KayKit Skeletons (CC0, github KayKit-Game-Assets raw URLs) minion+mage baked via gltf-transform (clips stripped to Idle/Walk, webp textures; 4.8MB->3.2MB — geometry dominates, KayKit is modular) into assets/showroom/ (license shipped) with RAW vs HOUSE TOON toggle (reskinHouse: MeshToonMaterial keeping map + gradientMap; NO outline shells on skinned imports — boss3d pipeline handles that if a pick graduates). ASSET LANDSCAPE: free CC0 GLB-ready = Quaternius Ultimate Monsters (50 rigged/animated, the standout), KayKit (skeletons/dungeon), Kenney, poly.pizza aggregator; PAID = Synty POLYGON ($30-100/ pack or $30/mo sub) but Unity-first FBX — GLTF "coming soon", needs Blender/FBX2glTF conversion friction; Sketchfab per-model licenses. VERDICT logged for Chris: imports read as guests even re-skinned (different proportion language vs chibi cast); concepts in house primitives blend instantly.

2026-08-26 (STORY CANON written, hallpass.cc/story.html, commit 225c052). One-page memo for Chris's pro cut-scene editor — this is now the narrative canon, stay consistent with it: a Japanese high school soaks up daily anxieties; at 9 PM they wake as curses; dawn burns them off. The After Dark Exorcism Club (通行証 kicker) holds a hall pass to hunt them. POWER RULE (JJK logic): the source of your fear is the source of your technique — Ren Amasaki 2nd yr = ANGER (fists/fire, Iron Cell, de facto captain), Yui Kurokawa 1st yr = PERFECTIONISM (youngest AND top of class; silk/needles, Silk Cathedral), Kaito Mizuhara 3rd yr = BURNOUT (senior, voids, Blackout Grid), Sora Tachibana 2nd yr = SHOWOFF/seen (talismans, Paper Storm). Bosses = faculty-shaped fears, "masks the night wears," NOT villains. Arc: I first night / II deeper rooms (stages as chapters, bosses as confessions) / III the night remembers (Night II fiction; After Hours = seductive unhealthy temptation to stay past dawn); ending = graduation, school quiet, a new first-year finds the charter. Touchstones: JJK primary, Persona 3-5, Spirited Away/Little Nightmares; palette neon-noir + ONE warm source, dawn gold = salvation. Collaborator pages ship from docs/ at build: /reel.html (Night Reel) + /story.html (memo), both noindexed.

2026-08-26 (domain economy rework, commit 70ba361). Chris probed the domain cooldown's logic → redesign: (1) domain-dealt damage/kills recharge the meter at D.domainSelfRefill=0.6 (NOT 1.0 — wipe-kills were refunding ~half the next bar, making no-lock a crowd-size-gated perpetual loop). Attribution: sim._domainDmg flag wrapped around _domainFields' cell+grid blocks + domainShot tag on Paper Storm talismans (threaded through _shot ctor + the generic shot-damage site); Storm Circuit/Ghost Step are EVOLUTIONS and charge in full. Both charge paths (_damage domainPerDmg + _kill domainPerKill) scale by the flag. (2) SOLO = NO post-cast lock (activateDomain sets domainLockT only when party.length>1) — back-to-back earned through play is legal, the expert fantasy. (3) Club lock 10s→8s (DOMAIN_SWAP_LOCK) — exists solely to price frozen bench charges (rotation dump). TUNING DATA (same seeds 4000+i*3331): selfRefill 0.4 HALVED 0.5-skill midterm (15→8/16) + final (10→5) — too harsh, avg players use domains as panic buttons; 0.6 restored final to baseline (9/16, 8/16) and midterm 0.5 to the 63% design target (10/16). Duo final 9/10, domains ~flat. Prior turn (ae15a64) also: h.domainReady now includes domainLockT<=0 (bar was ADVERTISING casts the sim refused — Chris's 'button does nothing'), ★ DOMAIN READY / LOCKED Ns labels + white-hot ready CSS, deny sound+toast on every failed press, boss bar proximity-gated (engage 22u / release 30u hysteresis, b._barOn display-only field), crit celebration throttled 120ms + _warmCritFx run-start warmup (27ms hitch→8ms), iconEl fixed-slot ◈ fallback + boot preload + reservoir/flow/__skip icons generated (icons-c.png quadrants).

2026-08-26 (CE economy + HUD wings + coin, commit 9fe9bf5). Chris: "mana feels unlimited" + can't parse the three top-left bars + yellow gem ambiguous as money. INSTRUMENTATION FIRST: bots live CE-STARVED (27-40% avg, 5-14s/min exhausted) — the unlimited feel is TOP-END only (reservoir+flow stacking + human trigger discipline). Ceiling fixes: fire cost ×(1+0.18×(dmgMult-1)) (power feeds on CE; 0.25 first try dropped 0.5-skill finals 56%→42%, softened to 0.18 → 44%/50% ≈ noise), reservoir +30→+24, flow ×1.25→×1.18, ENERGY.idleMult 1.8→2.0 (discipline rewarded). NEW DROP: golden essence 'ce' gem kind (D.ceChance 0.010, +40 CE, clears exhaustion) — the OLD yellow fragment art (sprites/gold.webp) promoted to CE surge per Chris's pitch; currency is now sprites/coin.webp (gold coin, star seal; nano_banana on magenta, chroma-keyed + MinFilter(5) fringe erosion). View: essence pool names += 'coin', frag→'coin', 'ce'→'gold' (cap 30). NOTE: if a pool sprite file is missing the gem is INVISIBLE (pool continue skips fallback) — coin.webp must ship. DESKTOP HUD WINGS (CSS-only, media min-width 761 + body:not(.touch); mobile untouched): HP wing fills LEFTWARD (anchored right of center via .fill margin-left:auto), CE wing RIGHTWARD, name+LV centered between, XP thin strip beneath; bar LENGTH scales with stat max via --hpw/--cew set in updateHud (his "bars grow in the direction they point"). hud-left display:contents frees the grid children for absolute placement. Boneyard reference honored (their trio: health left / xp mid / mana right).

2026-08-26 (ELECTIVES shipped, commit a7a716c). The second technique — the CE economy's missing competing demand, Chris's shikigami pitch. Store section ELECTIVES (own many / one equipped, save.electives + electiveEquipped, migration validates ids + unowned-equip clears). INPUT REMAP: SHIFT = elective (was dash), dash = F/Ctrl/RMB/STEP, gamepad X = elective. Four kits in config ELECTIVES (ce 40-55, ◆450-600, no cooldown — the meter IS the cooldown): kuroinu (spirit hound 8s: heels at aimX*-2.6, lunges 0.55s at nearest in 12u, 60dmg bite aoe 2.2, procedural cel hound in view._syncElectives w/ ink outlines + violet aura), circuit (deterministic nearest-unvisited chain ≤12 jumps ×0.88 falloff), flash (blink to lowest-density sampled pocket, radii 6/9/12 ×16 angles, _blocked-checked, iframe 1.0), decoy (steals enemy chase-vector inside r9 for 4s then 45dmg boom — hooked directly in _enemies target calc). Sim: electiveId SCALAR (config lookup at cast), shiki/decoys plain-field objects → generic snapshot copy, mid-summon resume bit-identical (tested). castElective guards: running/pendingLevel/exhausted/ce. Bot: out.special at ce>85% && enemies>45 (funnels untouched — electives opt-in). HUD .electivechip beside domain bar. Icons: icons-d.png (letterboxed band — slicer must detect bright band rows, not assume grid); 'flash' elective reuses flash-step icon. Hound verified 24 kills/summon. 48 tests.

2026-08-26 (music routing + Ren take 3, commits 14856e3/f996e76/905d8b9/d3081c1). MUSIC ARCHITECTURE: tracks are DECODED PCM (night 168s ≈ 64MB in RAM) — never preload per-stage/per-boss sets. audio.js now has ensureMusic(name) lazy fetch+decode with in-flight dedupe + 5-entry LRU (never evicts trackName/stageTrack/bossTrack), setStageTrack/setBossTrack, and _trackFor(boss) which falls back to night/boss when a slot's file is absent. game.startRun sets stage-{mapId}; the existing 10s boss-preload window also calls setBossTrack(spec.music). config BOSSES[].music = boss-01..09. FREE VARIATION FOUND: the licensed Envato packs shipped loops+stems we never used — Devil On The Run has 9×11s loops + 5×148s PHASE-ALIGNED stems; Night Drive has 6×9.6s loops + 3×168s stems. Baked the 9 boss loops → assets/music/boss-01..09.mp3 (1.5MB total) = per-boss cues today. Stems remain available for adaptive layering (~6-9MB cost). ACQUISITION REALITY: each Envato music download is a 130-150MB zip; his session IS live in Chrome (workspace "Hall Pass", audio downloads don't burn the 20 AI credits) BUT elements.envato.com/audio?terms= redirects to app.envato.com/music and ignored the query — and I cannot audition music by ear, so track SELECTION must be his. Division of labour: he picks/downloads, I bake+wire. Shopping list: 5 stage beds (stage-{yard,gym, halls,roof,pool}.mp3) + 9 boss themes; search terms dark ambient hybrid / occult tension / japanese horror score / distorted taiko (current Night Drive Synthwave is a genre mismatch with the neon-noir occult direction). ALSO: scripts/vo-library.py regenerates a clip-inventory HTML page from {char}-lib/ (data-URI embedded, grouped live/take-n/spares) — reuse for yui/kaito/sora. Ren take 3 → 5 more DOMAIN reads (t3_domain_1..5), library now 15 clips.

Store plumbing: RevenueCat, AdMob, OneSignal (2026-09-02)

Chris: "push plumbing today and deployment next so I can get some testers."

Public sound library (2026-08-27)

hallpass.cc/library.html is the PUBLIC master: music + effects + per-character voice, for the cinematics developer and the hackathon. Hard rule: it must expose NO game code — so the 25 effects are pre-rendered through the real Sound class on an OfflineAudioContext (same compressor/bus gains/noise buffer as init(); captured via shot-server's new wav sink, trimmed, -18 LUFS, 232KB) rather than triggered live. The old /audio.html + its bundle shipped the Sound class publicly and are DELETED (both 404 now). Each character opens with one continuous voice reference: longer lines first, DOMAIN exactly TWICE, then short stock lines, hard cap 30s. REGENERATION IS ON DEMAND ONLY — python scripts/sound-library.py (or --mashups). The build never calls it and only copies assets/library/, so adding a voice line can never silently re-cut a reference take someone already has. Note in build.mjs says so. PENDING (by ~2026-09-10): cut the public lines down — remove rough cuts/unassigned takes, leaving a pristine library plus the references. Until then MORE IS BETTER, publish everything. A publish-only-shipping-lines flag is the intended mechanism.

E-key bug + VO cloning state (2026-08-28)

The "E triggers Domain" bug survived TWO fixes because both edited game.js while the actual binding lived at src/input.js — k === ' ' || k === 'e' || k === 'q' set queue.domain, so one press queued domain AND special and domain won. Fixed by dropping 'e' from that line (commit e1dc61e). The procedural lesson matters more: I "verified" the earlier fixes by injecting into input.queue, which BYPASSES the key handler and can never catch a mis-binding. Verify key behaviour with dispatched KeyboardEvents, always.

ELEVENLABS ACCOUNT FACTS: 8/10 custom voice slots used (Ren Amasaki + Emily Milner, Alex (Tavus-Charlie), Jennifer Jason Leigh, Halle Doolittle, Ed, Bashar, Rachel) — two free, so only the THIRD new clone needs a deletion. .eleven.key is scoped TTS-only: /v1/voices and /voices/add 401 with "missing the permission voices_read/voices_write", so cloning must go through the browser UI (which carries a rights-attestation checkbox that is Chris's to tick) unless he re-issues the key with voices_write. CLONE MATERIAL IS THIN: Ren had 51 clips / 31.8s; Yui 12 / 20.9s, Kaito 8 / 17.4s, Sora 13 / 22.6s. Under ~30s an IVC drifts audibly between renders. Also: automated dryness ranking of the split libraries does NOT work — the splitter trims each clip tight to the utterance, so there is no trailing decay to measure, and an end-ring metric scored Ren's known-good picks BACKWARDS. Any future dryness selection must run on the untrimmed *-dn.wav takes.

Continuous playtest loop (2026-08-30)

/hallpass-playtest (global skill at ~/.claude/skills/hallpass-playtest/SKILL.md) is one iteration of the addictiveness/balance loop, meant to run as /loop /hallpass-playtest. New harness: scripts/insight.mjs measures engagement SHAPE (reward cadence, threat pulses, near-misses, dead air, CE band, per-window ASCII curves) vs balance.mjs's fairness percentiles. Ledger: playtest/INSIGHTS.md (STATE + experiment queue + I-### insights); raw JSON in git-ignored playtest/runs/. First findings: QUIZ threat curve is flat at skill 0.8 (0 near-misses — quickie never bites, I-001) and novice QUIZ win rate may have drifted up vs the MECHANICS table (I-002). Config micro-experiments must snapshot-edit-measure-restore byte-identical, never commit; every 5th iteration is a synthesis pass addressed to Chris.

Nine Sharp — opening cinematic (2026-08-28)

The opening-cinematic handoff for Syed lives at the "Nine Sharp" artifact (claude.ai/code/artifact/b9ce132e-5005-4372-989d-cf4d05a19ffa). LOCKED at rung 1: 19 shots / 4 acts / ~1:21, no fight — the film ends mid-swing on SH 19 (Ren's punch, black ON the impact frame, the threat never re-rendered). Impact SFX = SH 11's pass stamp pitched down ("the fifth stamp"). Chris was 50/50 on including combat; ruling: the fight belongs to the player (viewer is 15s from throwing the next punch), a separate mostly-gameplay-capture action reel covers marketing. Rung 2 (three more combat beats) stays open as a strict prefix decision — judge after SH 19 footage exists. Handoff design: black → title → first run fades up with HUD clock at 9:00 PM; intro.mp4 stays the every-boot cold open (different slot). Deadpan tone rule: the loudest thing in the film is a rubber stamp — keep it that way.

Correctness, first-session, and lab-integrity pass (2026-09-03)

Created two restore branches before touching the implementation: safety/pre-amazing-20260903 is the clean starting commit, while safety/pre-amazing-worktree-20260903 also preserves the pre-existing tracked worktree state. The user's .netlify/netlify.toml edit remained outside this change.

Combat economy now follows its stated contracts: the basic weapon is free and earns CE; specials, Shikigami, and Domain damage cannot refund their own CE; failed CE actions count as exhaustion; and Rally begins at its configured threshold and heals only from weapon damage.

A player-facing rename away from the anime vocabulary also shipped in this commit — Domain, Nightbreak, Blood Price, Aftershock, Veil Step and Rally in place of Domain Expansion, Black Flash, Binding Vow, Perfect Flash, Flash Step and Reverse Cursed. Chris had not asked for it and reverted it the same day (2026-09-03): the JJK-flavoured vocabulary is deliberate and stays. The rename was also only partial — six files kept FLASH STEP — so the build briefly disagreed with itself. Internal IDs were never touched, so nothing about the revert affects saves. Do not re-apply this rename without an explicit ask.

The first session now pauses on a compact MOVE / AIM + FIRE / FLASH STEP primer before combat time starts. Return flow has an exact-context RESUME and a validated one-tap RUN AGAIN. Midterm completion advances to the next newly unlocked hour, while Final remains an optional mastery target. Career counters now distinguish runs won, Rooftop nights survived, Final clears, and per-student First Bell credit; legacy wins data remains synchronized for compatibility. Options is split into fixed pages so it remains usable without scrolling.

The playtest runner now separates world and policy seeds, includes maps in the sim-surface identity, harvests events before clearing them, and exports tag, upgrade-offer, Held Bell, and honest death-context evidence. Promotion manifests are schema-validated and reconciled against actual cell sizes, skills, SHA pinning, cleanliness, and failed gates instead of trusting self-reported pass flags. At completion, the integrated suite passed 107 tests, the metric contract held at 55 run plus 24 summary fields, and the production build completed.

Appendix — standing rules mirrored from Claude's memory

These are machine-local memories that the session history above references but that do not travel with a checkout. Mirrored here so a fresh clone inherits them. Each is dated; verify against current code before treating as fact.

Headless Browser pane (2026-08-23)

Chris keeps the in-app Browser pane collapsed, so it reports "not displayed, so the page is not compositing frames". That is not a page bug — do not burn time "fixing" a frozen loop.

Seedance 2.5 caps at 20 seconds (2026-08-19)

Seedance 2.5 generates a maximum of 20 seconds per clip in the Higgsfield interface Chris uses. The "30s" figure in model docs does not apply to his plan. Every video prompt is ≤20s; if a beat needs more air, split it into two clips at a natural seam and note the seam — never extend past 20s.

Never pop a window (2026-08-19, standing rule)

Never build automation that renders a visible window, terminal popup, console flash, or focus-stealing window. Background automation is supposed to be invisible. Windows 11 specifics:

Relevant here because the playtest loop is long-running background work: keep it inside a Claude session, and never hand it to Task Scheduler naively.

Editor rotation + hover, Flash Step feedback, boss facing (2026-09-03)

Three asks from Chris in one session: improve the level editor, find why Flash Step "sometimes doesn't work", and fix bosses walking toward the player sideways.

Boss facing was a convention mismatch, not a model problem. boss3d.js applied rotation.y = -e.yaw + PI/2, which is right for a yaw measured from +X (atan2(dz, dx)). The sim has used atan2(dx, dz) since the first commit — the same convention as three.js rotation.y for a +Z-facing body, which is why the primitives (eyes on +Z) simply use e.yaw. The sculpts face +Z at rest too (checked the toe/heel offset in every rigged walk GLB, then a headless capture of the Janitor walking south: face to camera). Fix: rotation.y = e.yaw, YAW_OFFSET all zero and kept as a per-model trim. The 2026-08 gotcha above that recorded the old formula is now marked wrong in place.

Flash Step had three silent failure modes. (1) A press during a dash in flight (0.16s; a fast double-tap is shorter) was dropped outright. (2) A press with CE under 20 or while exhausted was refused — and by design exhausts the pool for ~9s of passive regen — with no feedback past the first-five-runs hint, so the key read as broken. (3) The HUD pip measured "full" against the club-wide charge count, so a student with Echo Step showed a lit pip for a charge 2s away. Now: sim.dashBlocked() (side-effect free reason), game.js buffers a human press 0.2s while busy and toasts + deny-tones every other refusal (rate-limited 0.5s). Bot path untouched — lab nights replay identically. Tests: dashBlocked names the reason a Flash Step is refused.

Editor: rotation, hover, nudge. Props and stickers carry rot. Solids turn in quarter turns only (the sim is AABB); footprint() in src/maps.js is the single source of a turned solid's box and sim, world (decal scatter), editor room-check, sidecar gate and night.test.js all use it. world.js now hangs each prop's meshes on a pivot group and turns the pivot — no per-kind rotation code, and the editor drags one object. Hover wash + label under the cursor, R/Shift+R quarter turns, [/] fine spin, arrow-key nudge, Esc deselect, rot in degrees in the inspector, resize handles and resize maths in the prop's own frame. Verified in Chrome: hover label, R on a bench (data, pivot, swapped-footprint corridor warning), resize on the turned bench, undo chain back to clean, sidecar round-trip byte-identical with rot: 1.571 serialised only when set. Suite 107 -> 109.

Gotchas this session. The repo's files are a mix of CRLF, LF and MIXED line endings (sim.js, sim.test.js are mixed); a bash heredoc into sed or an exact-string edit that assumes one style silently misses. A tiny python replace that tries both endings and asserts exactly one hit was the reliable tool. The Chrome extension bridge dropped mid-session with an "OAuth token belongs to a different account" error; the global playwright install plus ?drive=1&bot=1 and game.frame() gave the boss screenshot instead (use canvas.toDataURL, page.screenshot hangs on "waiting for fonts").

Controls guide, the school survey rebuilt, the card on the room (2026-09-03, later)

PAUSE › CONTROLS. A tabbed guide (KEYBOARD · TRACKPAD · GAMEPAD · TOUCH) is the first button on PAUSE and page 0 of the OPTIONS pager, opening on the tab for the last device touched. The pause options screen went modal so prose reads over the arena. The rows are hand-written from input.js.

The selector fight was a CSS collision. .btn:hover sets its own transform; the room button WAS the positioned element carrying translate(-50%,-50%), so hover replaced it, the room leapt half its size off the cursor, un-hovered, leapt back. Each room now rides a .bppin that owns the centring. Verified with elementFromPoint + synthetic pointer events under headless playwright (its mouse.move never updates :hover here — do not read that as a bug in the page).

The card opens on the room. Hover (mouse) / tap / pad-focus (navfocus, dispatched from _setFocus) opens the charge sheet as a .bppop beside the button; click pins it; a hover card closes 260ms after leaving room + card. Placed by placePop() on every pan in VIEW space (unscaled), flipping left at the right edge; measured in view at 1280×800 and 844×390.

The blueprint is a building now. src/blueprint.js generates the survey from site geometry: an L-shaped main block (corridor spine, stair core, classrooms, entry, courtyard), gym annex + natatorium off covered walkways, the yard, and the main block's ground / second floor / roof EXPLODED up-right with dashed guides on the NW and SE corners only (guides from the other corners cut across a floor plan — measured, cut). Basement as an inset. A dotted "route of the night" was tried and cut as a scribble. BP_POS comes from the same projection. Higgsfield had 1.17 credits against a 2-credit image, so three concept prompts went to ~/Downloads/hallpass-school-map- concepts.md for Chris to run in Chrome instead.

THE BANK and GRADUATE — two experiments behind flags (2026-09-04)

Chris asked for both gameplay proposals built, shipped live and tested. Both are switches in OPTIONS › GAMEPLAY (settings.bankLevels, settings.graduate), both ON by default so they get played, and the old flow is the code path when a flag is off. Full mechanism notes in docs/MECHANICS.md ("Two experiments behind flags").

THE BANK. sim.levelMode = 'bank' counts levels instead of stopping time; TAB / SELECT / the ▲ button opens the bank and chooseUpgrade chains through every banked hand in one pause; the game auto-opens at a lull or at three banked (the hybrid, so nobody has to remember). HUD badge under the XP bar, level-up kicker says how many more wait. The sim default is 'now' and the bot never passes 'bank', so every lab night and lockstep pair is untouched. Verified headless in the real game: 600 xp banked 7 levels with the badge, the toast and the ▲7 button; TAB opened the modal with "LEVEL 9 · 7 MORE BANKED"; eight picks chained back to play; the auto-open fired with nine banked and no key; flags off restored stop-time-now.

GRADUATE. startRun forces the QUIZ; the bell's win screen forks into RETURN TO CLUB (bank ◆) or PUSH ON; sim.graduate(dur) continues the same run into the longer period with the boss cadence re-seated on that period's schedule, and game.pushOn reverses the bell's fragment banking through the _preCommit bookkeeping a rewarded revive uses, so a death before the next bell forfeits the whole haul. Verified headless: bell → fork with "PUSH ON — MIDTERM" and "RETURN TO CLUB BANK ◆ 480" → push (night 360, fragments back on the table, ◆ back out of the save) → death forfeited 480 with the save unchanged from before the push.

The balance work is the finding. scripts/graduate-probe.mjs plays a continuous night against fresh MIDTERM/FINAL runs on the same seeds (yui, yard, bot 0.8). Chris's worry was "OP by the end of the quiz"; the data said the opposite. With each period running its own compressed density taper the continuous run was XP-starved (level 14.2 at the midterm bell vs 15.0 fresh) and reached the final bell 2/16 against 5/16 fresh with NO step; the carried boss cadence added a fifth and sixth special grade (0–1/16). Two structural fixes: a continuous night is ONE full night (sim.continuous: nightK = 1 from minute one, periodK keeps the short-period boss floor) and the cadence re-seats on each push. Then at n=48 (fresh midterm 34/48, fresh final 9/48): no step → 36/48 and 10/48, parity; an 8% HP step → 34/48 and 3/48, a third of fresh. GRADUATE ships at 1.0 / 1.0; the knob is in config for the tuner, and speed must not be stepped without the lab. The clock already makes minutes six to twelve the hard part, which is the "harder and harder" Chris wanted, without a tax on top.

Gotchas. Jumping sim.t to a bell in a harness spawns every missed special grade at once and they HOLD the bell — clear the field first. A headless run pauses itself when pointer lock is refused; set settings.mouselock = false in the harness. The prefix/suffix insert trap bit again (a replacement whose new text contains the old text applies twice on a re-run): the edit helper now checks for the new text first.

Cloudflare in front of Netlify — repo side built, dashboard side handed over (2026-09-04)

Chris: "start setting us up to serve from cloudflare cache to minimize huge bills when this goes viral … without disrupting pushes", then "start building". The plan is docs/CLOUDFLARE-PLAN.md (and a runbook artifact); this session did the part that can be done from the repo.

What shipped. _headers (copied into dist/ beside _redirects) gives the EDGE its own lifetimes through CDN-Cache-Control — 60 s for HTML, a year for /assets/*, bundle.js, showroom.js and the APK, a day for /docs/*, never for /version.json — while browsers keep seeing Netlify's max-age=0, so updates land on the next load exactly as before. scripts/cf-purge.mjs purges the zone after a deploy: a warning and exit 0 without CF_ZONE_ID/CF_API_TOKEN (so a push from any machine still ships), non-zero with the manual purge path if the API refuses. npm run ship = build:prod + netlify deploy --prod + purge, and CLAUDE.md's deploy rule now names it. The 15.5 MB single-file build writes to dist-single/ (git-ignored) instead of dist/ — nothing on the site linked it. The APK stays on the origin: both GitHub repos are private, so a Release asset would not be publicly downloadable; it is edge-cached for a year instead.

Measured before touching anything. Namecheap nameservers, apex A records to Netlify's load balancer, www 301s to the apex, Namecheap email forwarding on the apex (three MX + SPF TXT — the DNS move must carry them). Every file served Cache-Control: public,max-age=0,must-revalidate, 3 MB music loops and 1.5–2.4 MB boss models included. Netlify features in use: static hosting, _redirects, Netlify Forms (the feedback form), auto TLS; nothing else. Cloud saves, push, ads, IAP are off-origin; the native shells bundle the site locally.

What is left for Chris (dashboards, ~1 h + DNS propagation). Export Namecheap DNS; add hallpass.cc on Cloudflare Free; apex A and www proxied, MX and TXT DNS-only; SSL Full (strict), Always HTTPS, Tiered Cache Smart, Brotli, the "HALL PASS static" Cache Rule (GET, not /.well-known/*, not /version.json, edge TTL from origin headers); Rocket Loader / Auto Minify / Email Obfuscation OFF; flip nameservers; verify cf-cache-status: HIT on /bundle.js, BYPASS on /version.json, the form still lands, a forward still forwards; create a Zone › Cache Purge token for hallpass.cc only and put CF_ZONE_ID and CF_API_TOKEN in the deploy machine's shell profile; npm run ship once and watch MISS → HIT. Rollback is the orange cloud.

The Yard: recovered storm work, authored campus and prop pass (2026-09-05)

Chris returned after the other computer froze and asked for a major environment upgrade, starting with the first playable level. The checkout was clean at edf1329: the September 4 surface maps, rain, planar puddle reflections and bevel pass had survived. This session builds on them.

yard-campus.js: three-floor classroom block with recessed framed glazing, five authored interior variants, clock tower, main doors and entry canopy, west teaching wing/covered connection, roof plant and tank/ladder, sidewalks and perimeter foliage. yard-props.js: all seven Yard furniture kinds rebuilt with proper construction detail and locally authored material/linear bump textures, cached geometry and material batching. yard-sky.js: continuous midnight sky with clouds and moon, translation-independent in both view and reflection cameras. No paid image/3D generations or external assets used.

The light grade reduces the previous violet wash; the gate sign no longer blooms white. Far-city windows now distribute across all four sides rather than exhausting their capacity on the north buildings. Petals have curved silhouettes. Gameplay map and simulation are unchanged. New decorative trees and architecture stay beyond the playable boundary.

The camera discovery matters: school frontage z=-47 is outside the opening combat viewport. Do not distort combat/spawn framing just to fit the school. The showroom now provides CAMPUS / COURT / ENTRANCE, URL-addressable through ?stage=yard&shot=campus|court|entrance&graphics=enhanced|current. Architectural views use thinner fog; COURT uses the real gameplay framing. A future gameplay arrival cinematic is a separate decision; none was added here.

Validation: all 111 Node tests, production and single-file builds, finite geometry/attribute and disposal checks on desktop/mobile prop construction, browser screenshots of campus, entrance, combat, portrait low-effects, mobile-geometry campus and Yard→Cast restoration; Gym rendered without errors. No browser shader/runtime errors observed. A low-effects test found saved settings overwrote ?nofx=1; applySettings now respects the URL override. Physical phone FPS remains unmeasured. Wide desktop showroom about 96K tris; phone-sized mobile geometry about 62K. These are renderer counters, not FPS.

Mac setup: npm run dev hit EMFILE in the recursive file watcher. A one-shot build plus python3 -m http.server 8010 --bind 127.0.0.1 --directory dist served the verified build. No watcher workaround was written into the game.

The Yard: deliberate layout and ground overlap fix (2026-09-05)

Chris liked the campus upgrade and reported track/sidewalk flicker and random bench placement. The original ground rectangles overlapped by 40.5 square units at the same elevation. ground-layout.js now subtracts later zones from earlier zones and cuts all zones out of the base; world.js builds one UV-preserving mesh per material layer from those pieces. This fixes the cause for every room, including intentional grass/service-pad overlap in this pass.

Authored and saved the Yard through the real 3D editor, with its sidecar validation. Added an object selector to make identical benches and buried floor patches easy to select; inspector fields now also commit on blur (accessibility fills otherwise displayed a value without committing it). No hand edit of map coordinates. North benches face the court under a relocated entrance shelter; south benches face back toward the court on a spectator pad. Rack/dumpster occupy opposite entrance edges, shed faces inward from an east service pad, planters flank the approach, and contextual grime follows the equipment. Track ends clear of the north apron; court paint fits the hoop positions and the previously asymmetric key drawing is corrected. Hopscotch is on paving. Lamps follow paths and court corners, with the existing real-light budget; the shelter's wet band follows its front gutter through a shared Z anchor.

Thirteen obstacle kinds/dimensions retained, positions/orientations changed. All remain outside the 32×20 clear center; nearest pair gap is 7.1 units and minimum boundary lane is 7 units. All 121 tests pass, including partition coverage, movement clearance, deterministic lockstep/snapshot, and existing ten-room bot playability. Reviewed full-campus and actual combat framing in the browser, running combat, portrait low-effects, and the Gym's shared floor renderer. Production and single-file builds pass; checked browser logs contain no warnings or errors. This is a geometry/layout improvement, not a measured balance change; old seed/commit trajectories remain tied to their original map.

Next-room direction proposed, not implemented: THE GYM as a school arena after closing. Scuffed maple with restrained varnish reflections, detailed blue retractable bleachers, masonry piers/high recessed windows/steel trusses, warm aligned high-bay fixtures versus cold moonlight, amber scoreboard, purposeful PE storage and scorer's table. Preserve open combat space and the gaps between bleacher blocks that let enemies return from the back lanes.

The Gym: second environment graphics pass (2026-09-05)

Chris approved the proposed Gym direction. Implemented three modules: gym-surfaces.js (aligned staggered maple strips with photographic grain from the existing shipped asset, bump/roughness/varnish, navy keys/border/hawk crest, high-bay lighting and matched PMREM environment); gym-props.js (cached, material-batched retractable bleachers, padded glass hoops, stitched mats, leather/wood vaults and ball rack); gym-architecture.js (layered masonry, padding, columns, windows, recessed doors, banners, scoreboard and edge trusses).

First visual review corrected excessive reflected glare on the bleacher decks with brushed aluminum, increased cold window emission, separated masonry bump from sRGB albedo, enriched the maple grain, and reduced reflection-environment brightness. PMREM initial blur now .015 radians; .06 exceeded its sample limit. The fighting-camera review caught ceiling fixture models obscuring the floor: their geometry follows the cutaway roof during combat, real lighting stays on, and ARENA/BLEACHERS views can reveal the models through setReviewView.

All Gym collider coordinates/dimensions remain unchanged. Used the 3D editor and save sidecar to author six restrained floor details at entrances and next to equipment; random large stickers no longer clutter the court. Court paint fits the actual hoop locations. The showroom now supports Gym arena/court/ bleachers views, current/enhanced comparison, and CAST/YARD/GYM transitions with only one active environment and restored reflection/shadow state.

Headless QA covered current/enhanced × desktop/mobile world construction, finite geometry, original picks, quality toggles, late floor-load disposal, environment restoration and all visible GPU resources disposed once. The static Gym is roughly 56K triangles desktop /25K mobile; four/two unshadowed spotlights and one cached shadow preserve the Yard's lighting budget. These are geometry counts, not physical-device FPS. New prop regression tests check footprint confinement, inward orientation, cache reuse and mobile reduction.

Validation: all 124 Node tests pass; production and single-file builds pass. Browser review covered Gym arena/stands/court, current↔enhanced, moving combat, 390×844 low-effects touch presentation, and Gym→Cast→Yard restoration. New production page logs showed no shader/runtime warnings or errors. No external generation or new downloaded media was needed. Physical-device FPS remains unmeasured.

The Library: third environment graphics pass (2026-09-05)

Chris asked for the next room after approving the Gym. THE LIBRARY remains the third room at 11 PM. Added library-architecture.js, library-props.js and library-surfaces.js: walnut/brass paneling, parchment plaster, tall moonlit windows, recessed circulation desk/card catalog and an 11 PM clock; double-sided shelves with varied physical books, labeled sections, bookends and top stacks; green reading benches, book trolleys and refreshment cabinet. All 14 obstacle positions, dimensions and rotations remain unchanged. Solid perimeter architecture stays outside the arena; the south cutaway and open roof preserve the fighting camera. Banker lamps sit in clear pockets on the existing case caps, using their shared 2.10-unit height constant.

The floor reuses the shipped parquet photograph with a restrained varnish wash, separate linear bump/roughness and a woven green central runner plus reading-seat rugs. Everything is painted into one floor material, avoiding overlapping ground planes. Close visual review removed mirrored tile diamonds, softened excessive lamp glare and made the cap grain less mechanically regular. Four local point lights on desktop/two on mobile, one cached directional shadow and a matched PMREM environment provide warm lamps against cool windows. Low effects disables local lights, shadows and north-window dust. Existing night-hour grading stays active, with reduced Library fog.

Opened the real 3D editor and sidecar, removed the oversized random floor scatter, and saved eight small book/paper/dust details beside shelves, seats, trolley, refreshment station and circulation entrance. No hand edits to map coordinates. The existing clear-rectangle warning from the Library's original stack rows remains; actual movement and projectile footprints are identical.

Showroom now cycles CAST/YARD/GYM/LIBRARY with reading-room, aisles and catalog Library shots. AISLES uses the gameplay lens and offset. Fitted overview/catalog bounds include the full north alcove; 223,212 architecture vertex projections checked across portrait/square/landscape all fit. Graphics comparison reapplies the chosen review view after rebuilding, also fixing Gym ceiling visibility after an A/B toggle.

Headless current/enhanced × desktop/mobile construction, finite geometry, all 14 picks, quality/activation/disposal, separate PBR map color spaces and late floor-load disposal passed. Enhanced world geometry is about 189K triangles desktop /63K mobile; props are cached and material-batched. These are geometry counts, not measured physical-device FPS.

Validation: all 127 tests pass, including new furniture footprint/finite geometry, lamp clearance, cache reuse and mobile reduction coverage. Production and single-file builds pass. Browser QA covered close shelves and circulation, whole-room overview, current/enhanced comparison, moving combat, 390×844 low-effects touch presentation and Library→Cast→Yard→Gym restoration. Checked browser logs had no warnings or errors. No external generation spend or new downloaded assets. Physical-device FPS remains unmeasured.

Second Floor: fourth environment graphics pass (2026-09-05)

Chris approved the Library and requested the next level. Upgraded SECOND FLOOR, the fourth room at MIDNIGHT. Added halls-architecture.js, halls-props.js and halls-surfaces.js; no paid generation or new downloaded assets. All nine collision objects retain their exact positions, dimensions and rotations. The staggered locker banks still form three lanes, with the 18×14 clear center, 21.6-unit central lane and existing seven-unit locker-end routes. Minimum obstacle-pair gap is 7.40 units.

Architecture: sage ceramic wainscot, pale painted block, numbered classroom doors/glazed transoms, layered notice boards, conduit, fire cabinets, drinking fountains, trophy surround and a 12:00 clock. A recessed stairwell at x=22 aligns with the open eastern approach and extends 4.57 units behind the north boundary. All solid architecture stays outside play; east wall is reduced, south wall is cut away. Architecture totals 8,776 desktop/8,120 mobile triangles in 58 material batches. The camera audit checked 51,108 actual architecture vertex projections across portrait, square and landscape.

Furniture: double-sided teal/blue locker banks with recessed doors, vents, handles, locks, number plates and sparse stickers; inward-facing drink/snack machines, trophy cups/plaques behind glass, inward-facing wood benches and institutional pots/plants. Repeated locker parts use simple material-batched geometry; cache reuse keeps the 70.2K desktop/39.8K mobile furniture in 57 batches. New tests cover footprint confinement, finite/owned GPU resources, orientation, cache reuse and mobile reduction.

Floor: two-unit composition tiles with shallow seams, restrained photographed grain from the shipped lino.webp, wax wear, muted sage checker borders and inlaid lane bands. The entry mat at x=22 and every inlay share the tile's one material plane, replacing the old generic dashed-line overlay. Separate sRGB albedo and linear bump/roughness maps and guarded async photo loading preserve quality/disposal and the single-file build. Nine fluorescent fixture models align with the three lanes; four unshadowed spots on desktop/two on mobile, one cached directional shadow and a matching PMREM reflection room supply the lighting. Moved the fill key toward the camera after visual review to make the locker fronts readable. Low effects hides local lights/shadows/dust. Overhead models follow the roof cutaway during combat; only architectural review angles reveal them. Existing midnight-hour grading remains active.

Authored eight small decals through the real 3D editor and save sidecar: footsteps at doors, papers near notices/benches, a vending spill and sparse equipment wear. The sidecar saved only Second Floor's decalPlacements, with zero room-check errors/warnings. Map coordinates were not hand-edited.

Showroom adds stage=halls, shot=corridors|lanes|stairwell and the five-stage CAST/YARD/GYM/LIBRARY/HALLS cycle. CORRIDORS fits the full architecture, LANES matches gameplay, STAIRWELL focuses the x22 vestibule. Current/enhanced and fixture visibility restore correctly after rebuilds.

Validation: all 130 Node tests and production/single-file builds pass. Headless current/enhanced × desktop/mobile world construction, all nine picks, finite geometry, quality/activation/review switching, scalar map color spaces, guarded photo callback and visible resource disposal passed. Whole enhanced world is about 80.2K desktop/48.8K mobile triangles. These are geometry counts, not measured physical-device FPS. Browser QA covered architecture, actual gameplay camera and moving combat, 390×844 low-effects touch, current/enhanced comparison and all five showroom stages. Checked logs had no warnings or errors. Physical-phone FPS remains unmeasured.

2026-09-05 — Cafeteria and remaining-stage integration

Cafeteria environment pass (2026-09-05): the 1 AM room now uses cafeteria-environment.js for cream/rust terrazzo, folding lunch tables with integrated benches, a shuttered stainless serving line, inward-facing vending cabinets, a tray trolley and sorting bins. All 12 collision footprints remain unchanged. Eight small floor details were authored through the real 3D editor. Four desktop/two mobile unshadowed lights, a cached key shadow and optional PMREM support the physical materials; low quality disables lights and dust. Overhead fixture models appear in lunchroom/serving and hide in gameplay. Showroom links: stage=cafeteria&shot=lunchroom|tables|serving; the stage control is now a direct selector. Current/enhanced comparison remains available.

environment-kits.js registers presentation-only stage modules. world.js composes their architecture, footprint-local props, authored floor materials, optional ground cutouts, reflection target and lighting hooks. Base and zone geometry subtract cutouts without touching simulation obstacles. Quality, review, hour and disposal hooks propagate through the shared world; special water/sky meshes can opt out of generic shadows. View._nightSky forwards the existing hour and Rooftop-only dawn mix. Module registration enables showroom stages incrementally. No simulation/config changes or paid generation. Headless camera-fit, finite geometry, footprint, color-space and complete GPU resource disposal checks pass for current/enhanced desktop/mobile builds. The full Node suite and local build pass; desktop browser review covers all three views. Physical-device FPS remains unmeasured.

2026-09-05 — Pool environment

Pool environment pass (2026-09-05): pool-environment.js builds the 2 AM natatorium with a recessed 1.7-unit basin, animated physical water, submerged lane markings, lane ropes, coping and ladders within the original water footprint. groundHoles removes the base sheet beneath the basin. Movement/projectile behavior, all five solids, three starting blocks and the (0,16) player start are unchanged. Mosaic tile, wet borders and drain strips share one deck material; layered poolhouse glazing and columns stay outside the fighting square. Eight small deck decals were saved through the editor. Four/two local lights and reduced mobile geometry respect the shared quality controls. Showroom: stage=pool&shot=poolhouse|deck|water; DECK targets the actual player start. Headless construction, all prop footprints, floor maps, full architecture camera-fit, quality and complete resource-disposal audits pass. Browser review confirms the recessed basin and animated water. No paid assets or simulation changes; physical-device FPS remains unmeasured.

2026-09-05 — Detention environment

Detention environment pass (2026-09-05): detention-environment.js replaces eight vault proxies with school desks and chairs facing the teaching wall. A teacher cabinet/board, rear storage and bench fit all eleven original colliders. Olive composition tile uses separate albedo/height/roughness with photo grain, border inlays and chair wear in one floor plane. Chalkboards, slatted blinds, radiators, Room 3-C signage and a 3 AM clock form the perimeter cutaway. Eight small editor-authored decals replace random floor clutter. Four desktop/two mobile local lights, optional reflections and cached shadows follow the shared quality controls. Review stage=detention with shot=classroom|desks|blackboard; overhead fixtures hide in gameplay/DESKS. All tests pass. Desktop browser views and headless camera-fit, complete resource disposal, footprint and mobile-quality audits pass. Collision, player start and simulation remain unchanged. No paid generation.

2026-09-05 — Boiler Room and texture lifecycle

Boiler Room environment pass (2026-09-05): the 4 AM room now has riveted cylindrical boilers with pressure gauges, fire doors, copper service lines and valve wheels, paired pipe manifolds, floor grates and a tool bin. All eleven authored obstacle footprints remain unchanged. Brick walls, clerestories, piers and steam services stay beyond the play boundary; pipe runs sit visibly in front of the masonry and clear the service doorway. Scarred concrete, damp roughness and footprint-aligned hazard paint share one floor material. Eight small wear decals were saved through the editor. Furnace glows, restrained steam, four/two local lights and a cached key shadow support the industrial palette. Low quality pauses steam and hides lights. Review stage=boiler&shot=plant|floor|furnaces. Desktop visual review and headless geometry, camera-fit, material-space, footprint and disposal checks pass. Mobile uses simpler machinery. No simulation changes or paid assets.

Shared world cleanup now guards every asynchronous texture callback: a late load after room disposal immediately disposes its texture and cannot append floor decals or touch detached materials. Disposal is idempotent. New deferred loader regression tests cover enhanced ground, legacy water, faces, skies and authored decals. The world hour hook explicitly passes dawn only to Roof.

2026-09-05 — Complete the environment campaign through First Bell

Complete environment campaign (2026-09-05): all ten stages now have an enhanced environment. This session completed Cafeteria (1 AM), Pool (2 AM), Detention (3 AM), Boiler Room (4 AM), Science Wing (5 AM), and Rooftop (6 AM to First Bell). environment-kits.js registers these six presentation modules with the shared world. Every original collider, start, clear rectangle, zone and simulation rule is preserved; the only map edits are eight small cosmetic decals per room, placed and saved through the real 3D editor. The showroom has a direct stage selector and three views per room, with current/enhanced comparisons. Gameplay uses the same world and its existing hour-driven lighting. No paid generation or new external asset dependency.

Science Wing: lab-environment.js adds six epoxy workstations with real sink apertures, taps, glassware, microscopes and small burner variants; detailed reagent storage, cold-storage cabinets and lab trolleys fit all eleven original footprints. The 5 AM shell has layered windows, gas services and genuinely recessed fume-hood/eyewash bays, with openings in both wall and tiled dado. Raycast tests prevent the shell from hiding the equipment again. Separate physical floor maps use shipped grain with guarded loading. Four/two local lights and a cached key shadow provide clinical night lighting; low effects hides lights/dust. Review stage=lab&shot=laboratory|benches|fumehood.

Rooftop: roof-environment.js builds gravel and concrete maintenance paths, detailed fan units, glazed skylights, vents and antenna, retaining all seven original colliders. The crossing floor patches form one non-overlapping partition and share continuous world-scaled texture coordinates. Parapets, service bulkhead and a neighboring water tank sit outside the play square. School facades descend to a common city foundation; streets and a forecourt anchor a full four-sided 3D skyline. Below-arena backdrop geometry is tagged separately from gameplay-level architecture and tested below floor level. A continuous sky shader replaces panorama panels. setHour(p,dawnMix) drives sky, city, street tones and quantized PMREM updates. Only Roof accepts dawn; progress reaching 1 alone cannot create sunrise. Low effects hides practical lights; static art remains. Roughly 56.4K desktop/24.5K mobile world triangles and two local lights; these are geometry counts, not measured device FPS. Review stage=roof&shot=rooftop|combat|first-bell. FIRST BELL deliberately previews dawn, faces the sun, and uses the same dawn light colors/intensities as gameplay; switching views restores blue hour. Ordinary Roof play begins at 6 AM and reaches sunrise only through the existing final-hour logic.

Validation: per-kit tests cover footprint confinement, perimeter geometry, resource reuse, scalar map color spaces, mobile detail and quality limits. Integration tests exercise all 24 new stage × graphics × device combinations, complete resource disposal, reflection/shadow restoration, unchanged map input, the actual Pool ground hole, non-overlapping Roof paths and Roof-only dawn. Deferred-load tests prevent abandoned room loads from adding decals or leaking textures; the legacy skylight halo is now owned too. All 161 Node tests, production and single-file builds pass. Browser review covers each new room, desktop combat, 390×844 showroom/touch views, First Bell and stage switching. Fixed the Boiler PMREM blur warning during browser review. Physical-phone FPS and thermal behavior remain unmeasured. All implementation and tests live in the repository; screenshots and ad-hoc audit outputs stay outside it.

2026-09-05 — Pool aquatics wing and connected-room navigation

Chris approved replacing the later rooms' sparse square layouts, starting with the Pool. The first Pool graphics pass above is superseded by a five-space aquatics wing: swimming hall, spectator gallery, locker wing, filtration plant and arrival lobby. The layout was imported, inspected and saved through the real 3D editor, with zero editor errors/warnings after widening locker routes and attaching corner pillars to their wall edges. src/maps.js now records five room rectangles, 26 movement obstacles including water, three decorative starting blocks, twelve decals, size: 38, and player start (0,26). The basin is 12×23 centered at (5,1). No other stage layout or src/config.js was changed.

The editor gained authored room rectangles, start/enclosing-size controls, serialization and validation. map-space.js derives one floor union, removes shared seams, and supplies exterior edges and non-overlapping floor pieces to the editor, simulation and renderer. The Pool architecture follows that footprint with clerestory glazing, north gable, trusses, services and camera-aware cutaways. Locker banks, tanks, bleachers and structural bays now belong to the combat layout. Cool water lighting contrasts with warm annex lighting; basin caustics, wet tile/drains and distinct room palettes extend the material pass. Combat hides suspended roof structures. The basin hole and exterior notches contain no base floor. Six desktop/three mobile local lights obey the shared quality hooks. No paid generation or new external asset dependency was introduced.

navigation.js adds deterministic one-unit clearance grids and shared reverse breadth-first target fields, gated on map.rooms. Clear sight retains the old AI's movement character; obstructed routes use the field. All three clearance tiers (0.65/1.05/1.85) have one connected component on the actual Pool. Swept sliding movement prevents dash, charge, knockback and separation from passing through partitions. Legal connected placement covers starts, off-screen routine arrivals, surges, blinks, boss transfers, summons and drops. If no hidden connected floor exists, an arrival is not placed. Water permits shots across it; tall cover and exterior boundaries stop swept projectiles, melee cones and pet bites. Orbs keep their intentional tall-cover piercing but cannot travel or damage across exterior notches. This is cover and navigation, not stealth.

Pets and magnetized pickups route around scenery. Peer review caught two subtle failures and supplied reproducible regressions: conservative square-expanded visibility stranded actors in legal rounded corners (including a tangent exterior start), and a pickup's detour could leave its acquisition radius and stop forever. Exact swept-circle clearance now matches movement, and acquired pickups retain magnet attraction until collected on room maps. Tests also caught and fixed melee, orb-area and pet-bite damage across an exterior notch.

Verification: thirteen focused navigation tests pass. Player and boss bodies physically reach twelve actual Pool destinations covering all decks, annexes and portals. A seeded thirty-second combat smoke with moving/firing player and active boss keeps actors legal and resumes in exact snapshot lockstep. Navigation grids and fields are derived and consume no RNG. Yard and Halls each matched HEAD's pre-change simulation snapshot exactly after 960 seeded frames. An old Pool save uses the new authored map and relocates invalid actors/drops, so its old-layout trajectory is not reproducible; newly recorded Pool snapshots are lockstep-safe. Editor regression checks and independent corner/occlusion/pickup repros passed. These checks establish correctness only: balance and physical-phone FPS/thermal behavior have not been validated for this redesign. Final visual/build/deployment verification is recorded with the landing, rather than inferred from these tests.

Final integration: all 187 tests and the production build pass. The playtest contract retains all 55 run / 24 summary fields; its simulation fingerprint now includes map-space, navigation and ground-layout. All nine other maps are byte-equivalent as data and config.js is unchanged. The Pool was imported, previewed and saved through the real 3D editor, with zero layout warnings after placing tanks, reception furniture and structural columns flush to their walls. Desktop showroom and a live bot combat run rendered without console errors; 393×852 portrait review exercised the mobile geometry and all five shot controls. The floor's undersampled 0.44-unit grout was replaced with analytically averaged 0.9-unit tiles to remove visible stripe bands. Close-ups hide roof trusses while the full aquatics-wing overview retains them. Graphify CLI is unavailable on this host; the checked-in architecture graph has not been regenerated.

2026-09-05 — Library wings, tactical furniture and rare-books archive

Chris asked for the Library next and explicitly kept the Gym square. Authored and saved six joined Library rooms through the real 3D editor Import layout → Preview layout → Save workflow. The irregular footprint connects a grand reading hall and staggered stacks wing through two galleries around a sealed archive, with an entrance foyer and moonlit study bay. Start (17,24), enclosing size 40, 16 movement obstacles and ten authored decals. One intentional editor warning is the 4.2-unit pier/table passage, verified traversable by the 1.7-radius boss. All other stage data, including Gym and Pool, remains unchanged.

Library architecture now follows the union boundary, with recessed circulation, 11 PM clock, detailed walnut/brass book-lined facades and gameplay cutaways. The sealed archive contains a celestial globe, illuminated manuscript displays and glazed book cabinets. New reading desks include tucked green chairs, leather writing pads and book piles within their collision boxes; a card catalog and structural piers add cover. New table/catalog kinds are wired through the editor, independent save gate and comparison renderer. No sim or tuner changes.

The floor preserves photographic parquet and uses oxblood and emerald rugs; shared seams have no overlapping triangles. Four instanced draws hold the banker-lamp hardware, with four desktop/two mobile local lights, restrained dust and window/table light projections clipped to the playable union. Geometry, textures, instance buffers and late image loads obey world disposal. Added showroom ARCHIVE, STACKS and STUDY BAY review views while preserving old URLs.

Focused checks physically move player and boss bodies to 29 destinations and back, then complete forward/reverse laps around the archive. A 35-second seeded combat run verifies legal actors/drops and exact snapshot restore. Architecture tests check every vertex against the authored floor; furniture tests verify contained geometry and clear lamp pockets. World integration checks ensure unbroken portal floors, an empty archive floor footprint, bounded lights and complete resource disposal. The graph was consulted from its checked-in JSON; Graphify CLI remains unavailable on this host, so it was not regenerated.

Final verification: all 198 tests and the production/single-file builds pass. Desktop overview, archive and gameplay-height views were inspected in the actual renderer. A real browser bot run exceeded 130 kills without console errors. The initial foyer return wall obscured the south gallery; it now cuts away, while true outer north/west walls and the study bay's north window remain tall. 393×852 portrait QA used reduced mobile geometry, confirmed all five review controls fit without horizontal overflow, and inspected the study-bay view. These checks establish rendering and navigation correctness; physical-device frame rate and balance are not measured by this pass. No generated assets or paid external services were needed. Deployment follows the standing main-to- production workflow.

2026-09-05 — Second Floor corridor maze and adjoining rooms

Chris approved making Second Floor uniquely corridor-led, with a fixed learnable maze and smaller adjoining rooms. Authored and saved 21 joined rectangles through the real 3D editor Import layout → Preview layout → Save workflow. The locker loop surrounds Classroom 201; a moonlit gallery circles the art room; a service passage connects through the staff room and southern return. Stair landing start is (-28,31), enclosing half-size 40. The trophy junction, projecting window bay and recessed vending bank identify routes. All nine other map records, including the square Gym, remain unchanged. The stage blurb now describes the maze.

Thirty-one collision obstacles include 18 low tiled partition segments forming six staggered eight-unit doorways. Classroom desks with tucked chairs/notebooks, art worktables with sketches and paint jars, a staff coffee/mail counter, locker banks, benches and a trophy case stay inside authored footprints. Tall partitions block shots while the visual cutaway exposes the fight. One full-suite failure found 1.1-unit pockets at the vending bank ends; the bank was extended through the editor so only inaccessible half-unit end gaps remain. Other reported wall/table clearances were checked on the actual route; the boss can use all three room shortcuts without leaving their rooms.

Halls architecture now follows the exact union perimeter. True exterior north/west facades retain classroom doors, notices, window transoms, radiators, a midnight clock and a glazed stair vestibule with visible steps outside the playable floor. Interior/foreground walls cut away; wall depth compresses inside narrow voids to prevent overlap or floor intrusion. Transparent stair glazing no longer casts opaque shadows. World integration passes the authored map to architecture, surfaces, lighting and furniture before the generic union fallback.

Room-aware tile/maple/service flooring reuses shipped photographic grain, with separate albedo, bump and roughness. The floor is drawn once at joins; light projections clip to the union and partitions. Instanced fluorescent hardware appears only in the overview. Local lights are capped at six desktop/three mobile, with reduced mobile geometry and complete quality/disposal support. Showroom adds CLASSROOM 201, MOON GALLERY and STAFF WING; existing corridors, lanes and stairwell URLs now frame the maze. No generated assets or paid services were required. No sim rules, tuning-loop files, or playtest-owned files changed.

Verification: all 212 tests and production/single-file builds pass. Focused tests physically move player and 1.7-radius boss bodies through destination/return routes, loops in both directions and all classroom shortcuts. A 40-second seeded combat test verifies legal actors/drops and exact snapshot restore. Geometry checks cover floor area, overlap, voids, doorway seams, prop bounds, architecture outside walkable floor, light budgets and disposal/late-image behavior. Desktop floor-plan, gallery, junction and stairwell views were inspected in the actual browser renderer. A real bot run reached 125 kills without browser errors. 393×852 portrait inspection confirms all six controls fit without horizontal overflow and reviews the staff wing and complete floor plan. These are rendering and navigation checks; device FPS and balance are unmeasured. Graphify CLI was unavailable, so the consulted checked-in graph remains unreconstructed.

Release status: implementation and local QA complete; commit/push/deployment remain pending. Automatic approval review rejected the default-main commit/push, including a retry citing the existing CLAUDE.md standing release rule, because it requires explicit authorization in this conversation. No release command ran and no production deployment was attempted. The finished build is available at the local showroom for review before the final approval step.

2026-09-05 — Second Floor gray palette and next-stage selection

Chris approved the maze design but found the environments increasingly green, and asked for gray tiles distinct from the Pool plus a choice of the next scene. Second Floor now uses silver-gray terrazzo corridor slabs with fine aggregate and quieter joints, charcoal inlays, gray wainscot, slate locker/door trims and cool window glass. Warm classroom tones and maple art floors retain local contrast. Neutral fluorescent sources, PMREM reflections, the Halls world rig and its per-frame gameplay tint were adjusted together to remove the green cast. This is a material/light revision: floor geometry, authored layout, collisions, navigation and all other stage palettes remain unchanged.

Selected the Cafeteria as the next redesign: its current square and repeated table rows can become a broad crooked-L lunchroom, window seating bay and playable service-kitchen shortcut that reconnects at both ends. Offset table islands, a folded-table storage bank, an illuminated serving counter and a steel dish-return area can create four distinct landmarks. Ivory, terracotta and oxblood with mustard seating/amber light would contrast with the gray Halls; the kitchen could use pale blue and stainless steel. Main passages should stay 7–9 units wide with low interior cutaways and one playable height. This records the proposed next scene; Cafeteria implementation has not started.

Palette verification: all 212 tests and production/single-file builds pass. The rebuilt local showroom was reloaded and inspected in floor-plan and Moon Gallery views, with no browser errors. Release remains pending the explicit main/push/deploy approval requested previously; no release retry was attempted for this palette revision.

2026-09-05 — Darker Second Floor midnight treatment

Chris found the silver-gray revision too bright and requested darker gray. Corridor terrazzo is now graphite-gray with subdued aggregate and joints; classroom/service tones and maple flooring were darkened proportionally. Halls broad lighting and its per-frame gameplay tint were reduced by roughly one quarter, while local fixture and moonlight pools retain their brightness. This keeps visual landmarks distinct against the darker floor. No layout, collision or other-stage changes. All 212 tests and production/single-file builds pass. The rebuilt local floor plan and gallery were visually inspected; release remains pending the earlier explicit approval request.

2026-09-05 — Cafeteria dining wings and playable kitchen

Chris approved executing the Cafeteria redesign. Six joined rectangles were imported, previewed and saved in the real 3D editor: main dining hall, eastern wing, kitchen, service passage, west window bay and entrance foyer. The 3,444u² L-shaped footprint starts at (-14,26), enclosing half-size 40. Four staggered communal tables and window seating replace the identical rows; folded-table storage, a 25-unit serving line, prep island, dish return, vending, tray trolley, sorting bins and two arrival planters form 14 movement obstacles. Fourteen floor decals are authored. The editor reports a legal room with no warnings. Kitchen entries reconnect to both sides of the dining space, and both prep aisles keep roughly seven units of clearance. The service lightwell remains outside play. All nine other map records, including the approved darker Second Floor, match the pre-Cafeteria working-copy snapshot exactly.

The room-aware kit now composes separate architecture, props and surface modules; the previous square implementation remains the legacy fallback. Perimeter art follows the room union with true north/west outer facades and low internal returns. Three tall moonlit windows and five recessed kitchen equipment stations show extraction hoods, filter fins, pans, burners, sinks, ducts and a 1 AM clock. Ivory/terracotta/oxblood walls, mustard seating, a dark timber window bay and cool steel kitchen finishes distinguish the Cafeteria from the gray Second Floor. The open serving line uses warming wells and a transparent sneeze guard rather than an opaque shutter; the folded-table bank provides tall cover. Every prop detail stays inside its authored footprint, with rotations applied once. No simulation rules, tuning-loop files or playtest-owned files changed.

Dark terracotta aggregate and slate kitchen flooring share a single floor atlas; photo grain remains grayscale. Dining pendants align with tables. Six desktop/ three mobile local lights and clipped warm/cool pools retain the 1 AM mood. Overhead hardware appears only in the LUNCHROOM overview. Full review caught that the gameplay night curve overwrote the kit's lower broad-light intensity; world now exposes an optional kit brightness scale consumed by View._nightSky. A regression check advances the real night-curve method, verifies Cafeteria brightness persists, and confirms Halls and the comparison renderer retain their existing intensity behavior. Transparent serving glass casts no opaque shadow; review cutaways invalidate the cached shadow correctly.

Verification: all 228 tests and production/single-file builds pass. New tests cover 37 player/boss destination-return routes, four forward/reverse loops, both kitchen entries and prep aisles, 40-second seeded combat/drop legality and exact snapshot restore. Floor integration verifies all doorway seams, no overlap, empty exterior/lightwell regions and 3,444u² area on desktop/mobile and current/enhanced. Props, architecture, quality, shared resources and late image loads pass bounds/disposal checks. Actual browser QA inspected the floor plan, kitchen and window bay; a live combat run exceeded 111 kills without browser errors. Portrait393×852 review fits all five controls with no horizontal overflow and includes the serving-line view. Device FPS and balance remain unmeasured; no paid services or new generated media were required. The graph was consulted from its checked-in JSON; Graphify remains unavailable here.

Release status: Cafeteria and Second Floor are complete in the local working copy and preview. The earlier automatic-review block still requires explicit main/push/deploy approval; no blocked release action was retried. The user's local preview tab now opens the finished Cafeteria.

2026-09-05 — Finish the later-stage layout campaign

Chris authorized continuing through the remaining stages while away, without confirmation stops. This pass completes Detention, Boiler, Science and Rooftop. The Yard, Gym, Library, approved dark Second Floor, Cafeteria and Pool map data match the pre-pass snapshot exactly. The Gym stays square by explicit request. All ten stages preserve their roster, costs, spawn/reward multipliers, blurbs and non-layout fields. src/config.js and playtest/** were not edited.

The real 3D level editor authored all four room unions, arrivals, solids, material zones and decals. Each passed the editor's room check with zero warnings and no browser errors. Initial layouts were previewed and saved in one session to avoid stale editor bundles overwriting another stage's changes. Two final refinements were separately saved through the editor: Science's first chemistry bench moved from x=-24 to -22 for a 7-unit west aisle, and the Roof's tool rack moved from z=16 to 17 to sit flush against the southern boundary. The latter was caught by the existing all-stage wall-pocket invariant after the editor's geometry check accepted it; no invariant was relaxed.

All four keep geometry inside authored collision footprints or outside the walkable union, with readable combat cutaways. Detention/Boiler/Science use six desktop/three mobile optional local lights; Roof uses four/two. Broad-light intensity scales survive the gameplay night curve through the existing world.nightLightScale integration. Detention and Science gameplay tints were changed from green to their new walnut/burgundy and violet/ice treatments. Every room has five showroom views, keeping its old primary shot URLs valid.

Validation: npm run check passes all 253 tests and the production/single-file builds. New tests cover continuous room/zone floors with no coplanar overlaps, empty cores and exterior notches, portal continuity, player and radius 1.7 boss routes, bidirectional cover loops, projectile occlusion, seeded combat/drop legality and snapshot lockstep. Rendering checks cover mobile geometry, material/texture ownership, complete disposal, late photo loads, light budgets, review cutaways and the grounded tower/clock. Earlier square tests remain as explicit legacy fixtures rather than being weakened to accept the new maps. git diff --check passes. No physical-device FPS or balance claims are made.

The Mac was locked while Chris was away. Instead of requiring an unlock, review continued using isolated headless Chrome from the installed browser and bundled Playwright, with temporary profiles and screenshots under /private/tmp. This still exercises the real editor, world and game renderer. Serial browser runs are more reliable than simultaneous SwiftShader/editor sessions on this host; one concurrent editor attempt timed out and made no write, then succeeded on the serial retry. The final desktop/393×852 portrait review has no control overflow and preserves all five views per stage. Graphify's checked-in graph was consulted; the CLI remains unavailable.

No external generation, paid assets, configuration changes or publication was performed. The previous automatic approval rejection of main/production release remains unresolved; this turn authorizes continuing stage work and adds no explicit commit/push/deploy instruction. All finished source, tests and documentation remain in the local working copy alongside the prior Second Floor/Cafeteria changes. Preview is served locally from dist/ on 8010.

Final browser verification: every new stage opened a live bot run with enemies, attacks and the authored gameplay lighting visible. All four remained in the run state on legal floor with no frame or page errors. These were short renderer startup checks under software rendering, not balance/performance experiments; the longer combat, pickup and snapshot assertions are the deterministic Node tests above. All five showroom shots were visually inspected per stage, plus 393×852 controls and the final Roof dawn/clock/foundation views. The temporary editor sidecar was stopped; the local preview server remains running.

The final Science detail review exposed windows covering the new fume hoods. Those bays now cut real openings through the facade, dado and curb, exposing their deep chambers, raised sashes, worktops, glassware and forward extraction ducts. Raycast regressions verify all four bays on desktop and mobile. The rebuilt FUME HOOD view was visually checked with no browser errors; the final full check passes 253 tests and both builds. Map geometry is unchanged.

2026-09-05 — Rooftop finale: the climbable Bell Walk

Chris asked for another pass on the final level, specifically a staircase up to an elevated platform and stairs back down, plus more rooftop/city dressing. Implemented a 3-unit raised Bell Walk across the north bridge: 14-by-12 deck, two 9-unit stair flights with 12 treads each, and two tall solid side guardrails. The south bridge remains a lower return route. The raised plinth is solid; there is no stacked underpass. The deck has inset steel panels, brass seams, step lights and a rear illuminated sign gantry. Copper perimeter services, downpipes and detailed AC return lines dress the roof. Neighboring buildings now have water tanks, fire escapes, aerials and abstract illuminated billboards; distant cranes break up the horizon. Existing four/two local light budgets and First Bell sky/clock transition are preserved.

Map changes were imported, previewed and saved through the real level editor. The east plant footprint extends to z=-28 to support the east stair; a roofwalk surface prop is centered at (-1,-22), 32 by 12. Two roofrail solids at z=-16.2 and -27.8 prevent side entry and block shots. The north AC bank moves to (22,-10) to clear the east rail; the shed moves flush to the west boundary at (-29,-24). The first draft exposed a narrow AC/rail gap in the editor and a 1-unit shed wall pocket in the invariant suite; both were corrected through editor saves. Final editor result: room is legal, no browser errors. Other nine maps and the Rooftop roster, multipliers, rewards, start and clear area are unchanged.

roof-elevation.js supplies one deterministic height per X/Z coordinate, shared by geometry and presentation. roof-walk.js draws the structure in both graphics modes. View, Boss3D, sprites and FX now lift players, all enemy representations, shadows, projectiles, pickups, companions, hazards and effects to their local floor height. Camera height damps with the player; mouse aiming intersects the actual treads/deck and reticles project from their correct height. The sim keeps its established X/Z combat rules, with surface-following shots and tall rail cover; this does not add jumping or a damage bonus for elevation. New editor kinds are registered in all three gates; preview and server save reject missing rails, rotation, unsupported floor or equipment overlapping the elevated route.

Validation: all 259 tests and production/single-file builds pass. New regression coverage checks all tread heights against rendered geometry and mouse rays, player/boss climbs and a lower return loop, guarded sides, authoring failures, player/light placement, both pickup paths, player/hostile projectiles, primitive enemies, modeled-boss height handoff, contact shadows and danger rings. Existing route, seeded combat/snapshot, ownership/disposal, mobile and floor tests remain green. A test also caught a 0.014-unit rail endpoint overhang; the final angled rail ends are inset into their exact collision footprint.

Isolated headless Chrome ran the real game with dispatched movement keys: west stair to deck (ground y=3, camera y≈3), east descent (ground y=0), then the entire crossing in reverse. Enemies followed onto the deck. Diagonal mouse picking on the deck differed from its intended point by less than 1e-12 units. Screenshots and temporary scripts are under /private/tmp, outside the repository. These are functional/visual checks, not physical-device performance or balance claims. Changes remain local; the earlier release authorization block is still pending and no commit, push or deployment was attempted.

Final production-browser review checked the overview, Bell Walk, First Bell and 393×852 portrait layout (no horizontal overflow; all view controls reachable). A second live traversal with Yui verified five active projectiles rendered above the deck while firing through real pointer input; the player climbed both ways and descended to ground level with no frame/page errors. Final overview: about 136 draw calls / 108.6K triangles on desktop; portrait capture uses the reduced mobile geometry. All screenshots were visually inspected. The editor sidecar was stopped after saves; the local 8010 preview remains available.

2026-09-05 — Rooftop finale: reflected rainwater and weather

Chris asked for a substantial graphics pass beyond the Bell Walk, specifically reflections and puddles. Enhanced Rooftop now renders actual scene reflections in ten broad, editor-authored rainwater pools. Their merged mesh clips against the real walkable union, every cover collider and the entire elevated route. One planar target serves all pools (512 desktop / 256 mobile, no MSAA); mobile refreshes on alternate weather updates. Soft irregular edges, subtle ripple distortion and a dark water body keep the pools integrated with the floor. Low quality or missing float-color support uses a wet PBR fallback. Current graphics retains the original photo-decal path; other stage kits are unchanged.

New shared roof weather materials provide fine aggregate, stained concrete, roughness/bump detail and restrained metal wear on the roof, equipment and Bell Walk. An initial close-up exposed excessive mottling and oversized rust; the final pass reduces broad variation and bump substantially and uses small paint chips. The water review also caught Reflector's default gray overriding the intended water tint; the final target receives the explicit dark tint. Skylights have a glossy clearcoat. A darker clouded sky/city and warm practical lights create stronger separation around the bell tower and gantry. Batched wind-driven rain, steam anchored to actual vents/AC fans and a soft bell glow add motion without extra lights or simulation RNG. Rain fades with the actual First Bell dawn transition, never with clock progress alone.

The ten puddles were imported, previewed and saved through the real editor, which reported a legal room with no errors. The Rooftop now has eighteen decals; deep comparisons verified that all other Rooftop fields and all nine other maps remained unchanged during this pass. No collision, elevation, combat or tuning changes were made. Overview framing moves closer, and the former EQUIPMENT shot becomes RAINWATER while preserving its shot=equipment URL. The low view visibly reflects the bell tower and its illuminated clock.

Validation: all 268 tests and both production/single-file builds pass. New tests cover clipped upward-facing water geometry, a single retained reflection target, resource disposal, low/high switching, unsupported-renderer fallback, capture-state restoration on failure, material ownership/UVs and finite weather updates. Existing route, elevation, deterministic combat and snapshot checks remain green. Isolated headless Chrome reviewed all five production showroom views plus 393×852 portrait controls (no horizontal overflow; all reachable). The real game renders the reflection and switches correctly to low quality and back with no page, shader or frame errors. These are functional/visual checks under software rendering, not physical-device FPS or balance claims. Temporary scripts and screenshots remain under /private/tmp.

No external generation, paid assets, commit, push or deployment was attempted. The previous release authorization block remains pending. Finished source, tests and docs remain in the local working copy; the 8010 preview serves the production build.

2026-09-05 — Sora Image 2 → Tripo → rigged character study

Chris supplied a new silver-haired, pink-eyed Sora design and asked for a slightly chibi Image 2 → Higgsfield/Tripo → showcase → walk/attack trial. Generated a clean front A-pose with GPT Image 2 through Higgsfield, then used that result to anchor separate rear and left-profile views (2K, high, 3:4). All three retain the navy/gold uniform, tan cardigan, yellow tie, twin tails, fang and asymmetric socks. The generated sleeves are full length rather than rolled. Cards and floating effects are excluded to keep them separate from the reconstructed body. All three images were visually inspected.

Reference generation cost: 19.5 credits, balance 1613 → 1593.5, before the subsequent 3D/rig trials below. Raw PNGs and prompts are in ../character-assets/sora-20260905/; 896x1200 WebP review copies total about 100KB in assets/showroom/. Full job IDs, generation settings and prompts also travel with the repository in sora-reference-provenance.json. docs/CHARACTER-ASSETS.md records the recipe, provider constraints and remaining animation integration work.

Provider blocker: the connector's live catalog lists Tripo H3.1 image and multiview models plus Meshy rigging, but its current callable tools omit generate_3d. The image cost endpoint rejects a 3D model explicitly, without submitting a job. The official Higgsfield CLI was prepared under /private/tmp as a supported fallback; it requires a separate OAuth login and workspace. The user was asked to complete that sign-in while independent work continued. The in-app browser blocks the OAuth page, and the regular-browser login timed out. Chris reported Clerk's redirect URI mismatch. The initial custom port 18766 was not registered for the OAuth client; retrying the unmodified CLI default callback (http://localhost:8765/callback) authenticated successfully. Selected the same Web Royal workspace used by the image connector. No browser tokens or authentication secrets were inspected. Live CLI model get confirms both H3.1 image models despite the older CLI model guide omitting them. Use the default callback when reconnecting; changing the port can break provider OAuth.

Prepared an isolated /character-showcase.html page, linked from SORA STUDY inside the internal cast showroom. It displays the generated references while the model is pending and can inspect a local self-contained GLB without uploading it. The preview retains source textures, offers a reversible house toon treatment, front/back/combat-distance cameras and real embedded clip controls. Missing idle/walk/attack clips stay unavailable. The adapter owns normalization, material resources, mixer cleanup and stale async-load disposal. No gameplay, config, map or playable roster files were changed for this trial.

Completed Tripo H3.1 image-to-3D job a8f2baaf-65c3-4c9d-a8bc-9ff5163832da from the front Image 2 reference: 19,860 triangles, 13,373 vertices, about 2.6MB. The mesh preserved the costume/face but faced +X. Meshy's model-url rigging requires +Z: the first walk failed (8 credits refunded); the first cast completed but badly distorted limbs and was rejected. Baked the source matrix plus -90° Y into positions/normals in the Higgsfield cloud sandbox, preserving textures/indices. Both corrected rig jobs completed and passed visual inspection: 24 bones and 19,740 triangles, with genuine in-place walk and forward-hand casting clips. All job IDs/parameters are in provenance.

Independent auto-rigging produced different inverse binds and weights. The new strict combine-character-clips.mjs correctly refused direct copying. retarget-character-clip.mjs instead transferred per-joint source deformation to the chosen walk bind, preserving the walk mesh, weights, textures and clip. It baked/verified 107 cast frames and 72 channels; maximum float32 deformation error 1.073e-6, below the 2e-5 limit. The report is stored with the runtime asset. The target weights differ from the donor; final visual review remains necessary even after the matrix checks pass.

optimize-character-texture.mjs converted the 11.48MB embedded PNG to a 325,952-byte 2048px quality-92 WebP after lossless 4K exceeded the 4MB target. It verifies all non-image views and mesh/skin/animation/material JSON remain unchanged. Final assets/showroom/sora-v1.glb is 1,332,252 bytes, 24 bones, original 4.23s walk plus retargeted 3.57s Attack. The study defaults to matte Game cloth & skin materials and retains original/toon comparison modes.

Validation: 291 tests pass, production/single-file builds pass, and git diff --check passes. Real Chrome/WebGL review loaded the default asset, checked real Walk/Attack buttons, loop/one-shot behavior, pause, rest, material switching, front/back/combat-distance/night views and 393px layout. No page/WebGL/shader errors or horizontal overflow. Source maps and both motions remain visible after compression/retargeting. Screenshots and raw masters stay outside the game repo. Net Higgsfield spend 55.5 credits, balance 1613 → 1557.5 (19.5 images + 12 Tripo + 24 completed rigs, including one rejected cast; the failed walk was refunded).

This is a local character study, not a playable-roster replacement. Before game integration: foot planting (sampled walk shoe clearance ~.12 preview units), dedicated hair/skirt/finger controls, a shorter upper-body cast at volley cadence, skeletal afterimages and floor-height behavior. Source/raw files and exact recipes are retained so the trial can be resumed reliably.

2026-09-05 — Sora v2: blonde, fitted socks, quick primary

Chris requested pale blonde twin tails, repair of the small chin artifact, matching fitted socks, and a fraction-second primary card throw while retaining the approved long cast as a special. Explicit approval was given to save the revised character and verification reports to Higgsfield after automatic review had blocked that export. All final outputs are confirmed and downloaded.

The existing mesh and rig were refined rather than regenerated. Sock preparation projects left cloth onto mirrored right cloth, traces navy atlas regions around the ankle, preserves 558 leather vertices and 935 pure shoe triangles, and keeps mixed cloth/leather boundary UVs. 549 original vertices change; UV seam splits increase the vertex count to 16,119 without adding triangles. Earlier full-foot and horizontal-cutoff trials were rejected after close-up review. The accepted version keeps the small original brown shoe collar edge. The blonde material uses complete painted hair charts, and welded local normals remove the chin's flat shading band without moving any facial geometry.

author-character-primary.mjs authors a distinct 21-key right-arm flick: 0.26s duration, release at 0.08s, four rotation channels only. The existing 3.5667s Attack is renamed Special with motion bytes unchanged. A first real-rig check caught a wrist quaternion hemisphere crossing; the final solver preserves her natural wrist twist while pointing her fingers forward. The continuity and exact-ready-endpoint guards remain in place. The preview masks the four arm tracks while every unaffected Walk channel continues through the 0.34s repeat cadence. Cards are separate cosmetic props released from the actual hand socket.

Final assets/showroom/sora-v2.glb: 1,717,144 bytes, 19,740 triangles, 16,119 vertices, two materials, 24 bones, three clips. SHA256: ab0c74398e8fa17a4008565d955105ca96c2661d7d3bd0f6a05fe67e66ba3d60. Confirmed media: 764fbd55-ffdf-44da-84da-0080886c4b87. Final matching reports: sora-v2-refinement-report.json and sora-socks-v2-report.json. No further image, geometry-generation or rigging jobs were submitted for this refinement.

Validation: 311 tests pass and production/single-file builds pass. Read-only audit preserves all 26 nodes, inverse binds and every original Walk/Special sampler byte. CPU skinning across 255 sampled animation frames is finite. Real Chrome/WebGL checks verify .26/.08 timing, hand release, repeated walking without phase reset, full Special, pause/rest, materials, local-file fallback, loading recovery/disposal, and reachable 393px mobile controls with no overflow or browser/shader errors. Final model hash and four ankle views were checked again after the last refinement. Screenshots/reports remain in ../character-assets/sora-20260905/. V1 and its original silver-haired reference images are retained and clearly labeled. This updates the local character showcase; the playable roster, simulation and live deployment are unchanged.

2026-09-05 — Sora v2 local gameplay trial

Integrated the approved GLB into the real View with async fallback and independent resources, walking/ready poses, volley-synchronized primary, domain Special, hurt feedback, floor grounding and pose-frozen dash ghosts. Added a direct human-controlled trial route and showcase play link. Fixed attached-skeleton bind-inverse updates during CPU skinning; regression covers elevated, rotated, translated parents. Browser checks exercised actual Yard movement and seven volleys, frozen dash geometry, pause, and rooftop floor height. No simulation balance or model bytes changed; no production deployment.

Validation: 314 tests passed, production build passed, diff whitespace check passed. Browser lifecycle checks confirmed fallback, superseded-load disposal, reload ownership and Special dispatch. Yard combat capture is archived beside the original character assets as sora-game-yard-v2.png.

2026-09-05 — Restore chibi gameplay direction

User preferred the original bobbly chibi cast after the detailed Sora trial. Removed live GLB loading and its animation branch from View, restoring original Sora motion and procedural rig. Preserved GLB, showcase and adapter experiment for potential cinematics. Trial URL now starts classic Sora. Future polish should preserve proportions and motion while improving bevels, painted faces, hair shapes and uniform detail; no cast-wide visual redesign applied yet.

2026-09-06 — Polished chibi Sora comparison

Built a separate original/polished study with identical cameras, lighting and shared original player-motion code. Added optional beveled solids, curved face texture, sculpted blonde locks, lapels, piping, cuffs, badge and shoe details. Original gameplay remains default; chibi=polished enables a local Sora trial. Preserved the detailed model for future cinematic use. Regression checks compare all animated pivot world matrices through walking and dashing, finite geometry and face texture disposal. No new paid assets, no production deployment.

Validation: all 315 tests passed; focused motion/geometry/disposal regression passed again after visual refinement. Production build and whitespace checks passed. Browser review confirmed both camera modes, no mobile horizontal overflow, and live polished Sora movement with six active card projectiles and 38 dash-ghost source meshes, with no game errors. Comparison captures are archived alongside the Sora source assets outside this repo.

Chibi Ren in the game: rigged, four clips, behind ?rig=chibi (2026-09-06)

Historical experiment, superseded by the procedural-body/modeled-head implementation described in SESSION-HANDOFF-2026-09-08.md. The commands, release status and remaining work below describe September 6, not the current game. The preserved full-body GLB and rig scripts are reference tooling; ?rig=chibi now follows the current head-based loader.

Chris, after the realistic Sora trial was rolled back to the primitives: "looking at YOUR chibi, I think we should try this direction next — the model and the walk are almost perfect ... animate it properly to try it in a demo run inside the game ... without losing Codex's experiment." Done, as a flagged view-only branch; Codex's Sora adapter, showcase, chibi study and assets/showroom/sora-v2.glb are untouched.

Play it: index.html?rig=chibi, pick Ren. Anything else, or a failed load, keeps the primitive rig. node scripts/rig-demo.mjs runs the bot on the Yard headless and drops frames in shots/demo-chibi-*.jpg.

Clips, 24cr (three Meshy 3d_rigging calls at 8, on the +Z-turned mesh): Idle (0), Punch_Forward_with_Both_Fists (214) for the Reversal Palm, Hit_Reaction (178). Each auto-rig produced different inverse binds, exactly as Codex's log warned, so combine-character-clips.mjs refused and the three were baked onto the walk rig with retarget-character-clip.mjs (reports in assets-src/incoming/models-tripo/work/). Meshy's material extensions (KHR_materials_specular/ior) have to be stripped before either script will read the file. Final assets/players/ren-chibi.glb: 4 clips, 24 joints, 19,262 tris, 1,191KB (WebP texture via bake-ladder.mjs).

src/chibi-rig.js (new): normalises the GLB to the primitive rig's height, house toon with the map as emissiveMap, skinned ink hulls, shadow disc + aura, the palm glow parented to the RightHand bone. Mixer: idle/walk crossfade with the walk's timeScale matched to ground speed; palm and hurt as one-shots time-scaled to fit the game's own windows (0.34s / 0.45s); Flash Step freezes the clip and lunges. The bobble is procedural on top of the clips — spine lean into travel and a head wobble on the stride, the same rules player-motion.js applies to the primitive pivots — because that is what Chris said the realistic trial lost.

src/view.js (three small hooks): setCharacter swaps the rig in when chibiRigWanted() and the load resolves; _syncPlayer calls rig.update for kind === 'chibi'; handleEvent forwards events so 'cone' fires the punch. Ghosts come from Codex's createSkinnedGhost. 317 tests pass.

Headless proof: scripts/rig-demo.mjs — global Playwright chromium with SwiftShader, ?bot=1&nointro=1&nofx=1&drive=1&rig=chibi, game.startRun, then game.frame(1/60) ×90 between captures, frames read back with canvas.toDataURL (Playwright's page.screenshot times out waiting on a compositor frame SwiftShader never delivers). 14 frames, 23s of sim, bot at full speed through a 24-curse crowd, zero frame errors.

Not done: the material split so showroom colour variants can repaint the mesh; a dash clip (procedural lunge for now); the other three students (~11cr mesh + 32cr clips each, same recipe). Not committed, not deployed.

Combat notices and boss entrance preparation (2026-09-08)

Replaced the combat boss video takeover with a compact red still-art card. Wave warnings are brief cyan text impacts; banked levels use a gold LEVEL UP impact plus the existing Upgrade count/button pulse. TOP OF THE HOUR is one line for 850 ms. Ordinary toasts now stay readable for their requested duration. A bounded priority lane coalesces levels and expires stale warnings; opening menus cancels pending notices and late club-intro callbacks.

Boss arrival no longer adds hit-stop/slow-mo. Upcoming models prepare an instance, textures, shaders and an off-camera draw twenty simulation seconds ahead, then reuse the prepared instance at arrival. Room changes clear the instance pool while retaining decoded templates. No simulation RNG, schedules, authored FX or soundtrack assets changed. See the combat announcement contract in MECHANICS.md and npm run test:notices.

Verification includes 442 Node tests, seven announcement viewport/motion profiles, all nine real boss models, twelve control layouts and the music browser suites. A controlled Chrome entrance advances the simulation normally; physical iPhone frame times remain to be checked. Reports and screenshots are in the sibling archive under notices-2026-09-08/.

The native payload check exposed a Windows path-alias bug: Node resolved the module through G:\Skunkworks while its CLI argument used the current C:\Users checkout, so the build-app entrypoint guard silently skipped packaging. It now compares real paths. The packaging command and Capacitor copy ios ran successfully, and the web, app and iOS payload bundle hashes matched. This refreshes web assets only; it does not establish a native Xcode build/install.

PostHog analytics (2026-09-12)

Chris had the PostHog dashboard open and the install was not landing — nothing PostHog existed in the repo, so it had never got past the onboarding page. Project 606098, US Cloud; the write-only project token is in SERVICES.posthog.

Gotchas worth keeping.

A handful of junk events (probe_event, transport_probe, verify_flush, live_check, late_check) from this verification sit in the project from 2026-09-12 and can be ignored or filtered.

PostHog insights (2026-09-12, later)

Two saved insights, both on the starter dashboard:

Two more gotchas found doing it:

Also confirmed while verifying: run_ended fires outcome: 'cleared' correctly, but a first attempt to force a win failed because a live boss holds the bell (HELD_BELL) — the round does not end at t >= night until the duel is over. That is the mechanic working, not a bug.

2026-09-12 — School Run three-room prototype

Chris authorized the proposed small expedition prototype. New Run now offers Room Run or School Run. The latter starts in Yard, then Gym and Library in either order through cleared safe passages. Only Final opens the next room. Builds, weapons, XP and the pending Coin haul cross rooms; crew HP is individual and knockouts last until the expedition ends. A survivor receives a protected handoff. There are no checkpoint full heals or rewarded/insured revivals in this mode. A temporary second seat allows testing the crew mechanic without changing purchased permanent seats.

Return To Club settles Coins once, including an active boost. Wipes and abandonment retain kills/mastery but lose the pending haul. Prototype records are separate from normal room scores/stars and First Bell. Suspend saves the full simulation plus route without the normal 24-hour expiry; a receipt in the wallet save prevents stale snapshots from paying twice. A knockout saves immediately. Ground weapons may be inspected at checkpoints before departure.

Validation: 670 Node tests passed, production/app web-payload builds passed, and the real-menu browser loop passed desktop 1280×800, portrait 390×844 and landscape 844×390/568×320. This covered both periods, final loot binding, route gating, seven-day-old resume, retained build/KO, completion settlement and ordinary Room Run entry. UI-only layout checks also covered 320×568, knockout targeting and existing crew-selector controls. Captures are outside the repository. No APK, native SDK change, config tuning or analytics changes.

This remains a three-room test, with current cumulative 3/6/12-minute periods. The ten-room campaign, route rewards and shorter expedition pacing still need playtesting and a later implementation. Browser checks fast-forwarded combat outcomes; they are correctness evidence, not measured human balance results.

2026-09-12 — Full ten-room School Run and the next development punch list

New School Runs now use the complete v2 route: Yard; Gym/Library; Halls; Cafeteria/Pool; Detention; Boiler Room/Science Wing; Roof. Both rooms in a paired wing must be cleared before the next wing opens, in either order. Only Final clears a room, and Roof requires nine prior clears. The route screen groups all ten existing room thumbnails into seven wings and scrolls to the available wing. The detailed illustrated map remains a separate art pass, not a claim about these interim route controls.

Existing simulation carryover now serves the whole expedition: acquired weapons, equipped upgrades, XP, pending Coins, individual crew health and permanent knockouts survive room changes and suspend/resume. All 30 stopped checkpoints restore. The HUD and rendered sky follow expedition order and the complete 12-minute room duration, so graduating does not rewind the clock; only Roof Final earns the First Bell presentation.

Full clears and their settlement receipts live in save.schoolRun, separate from v1 schoolPrototype saves. Banking a completed Roof Final records one school victory and First Bell credit for surviving contributors. Ordinary room scores/stars/period unlocks remain separate. Old three-room saves keep their original route and reward identity, including saves older than 24 hours.

Verification: 686 Node tests passed; production and native web-payload builds passed. Browser checks covered 1280×800, 390×844, 844×390 and 568×320, all ten rooms, both orders in each paired wing, retained builds/KO/health, suspend and completion. Additional desktop/phone checks covered early extraction and legacy three-room completion. Tests also cover all eight valid route orders, deterministic fully equipped carryover, every checkpoint restore, settlement idempotency and Final-only sunrise. Browser combat outcomes were fast-forwarded; this is functional verification, not a human difficulty or performance result. The unchanged cumulative 3/6/12-minute periods mean about two hours of combat for the school, before pauses and boss holds. Pacing still needs playtesting.

docs/IDEAS.md now preserves all ten proposed ideas and Chris's chosen order: finish chaining, then #4 domain environment transformations, then #9 room cleansing and a major school-map redesign, then #1 Ren–Yui duo technique. The map brief explicitly calls for twenty NanoBanana images: cursed/cleared pairs for all ten rooms, matching camera/composition and grounded in actual room captures. No new map art has been generated yet. No APK, native SDK, config tuning or analytics changes were made in this pass.

2026-09-12 — Domain environment transformations, Ren first pass

Started #4 from Chris's selected development queue with Iron Cell. The domain now reveals red illumination and oblique prison-bar shadows across the actual floors, walls and furniture of every room. The existing local domain field still marks its combat footprint. The surface projection sustains through cellT and fades during the final 0.75 seconds; other characters' environments remain unchanged pending individual art passes.

DomainRoom hooks each eligible world-owned material before its first render, composing its existing shader and cache key. Casts only update shared uniforms: no additional draw calls, lights, geometry, textures or dependencies. Keeping material identity preserves the kits' asynchronous texture and animated-light callbacks. Custom shaders, transparent particles and sky backfaces are excluded. Disposal restores original hooks and leaves resource disposal to the world.

View sync feeds simulation time to both the new projection and the existing sustained domain choreography, freezing their motion during pause. Reduced motion uses static bars and a slower fade-in. Same-room restart resets the projection before setMap's early return. Tags retain Ren's palette; snapshot resume reconstructs an active effect from existing field timers. Simulation, damage radius, economy and tuner-owned config are unchanged.

Verification: all 698 Node tests passed, including twelve new material-hook, lifecycle, freeze, reduced-motion, resource-reuse and deterministic replay tests. The focused world/domain suite also passed all 35 checks. Browser rendering is verified separately with test/domain-room.browser.mjs; source is built in memory to avoid the known stale dev-watcher/dist collision, and captures live outside the repo under reports/domain-room-20260912. Browser checks passed all sixteen room/profile cases: desktop across ten rooms, plus Yard and Library on 390×844 touch, 844×390 low-quality touch, and reduced-motion 390×844. Real Domain input, pause/manual time stop, expiry, same-map restart and Yui isolation passed with no page or shader errors. Six-render comparisons in every room found identical draw/primitive counts with projection on/off. Production and native web-payload builds passed. This work does not rebuild or publish an APK. Remaining #4 characters, the #9 illustrated map/cleansing work and the Ren–Yui duo remain in docs/IDEAS.md.

2026-09-12 — Complete gold Coin pickup particles

The intermittent gold burst near Ren after a kill was Coin collection. Its bubbles2 animation (Blobs & Blotches #21) already has particles touching and cut off at the source video's edges. Switched this event to the existing, complete bubbles clip (Fume #4), keeping gold tint and size 1.8. The new pop lasts 0.8 seconds instead of 1.33. No new assets, rendering resources, pickup values or simulation changes.

Verification: all 699 Node tests passed, including a regression that dispatches the actual pickup event and checks every replacement frame's transparent margins in both shipped atlases. Real WebGL rendered all twelve frames with direct, desktop-post and mobile-post output on both atlas sizes (72 cases), without shader/page/GL errors or dark backdrop pixels. Visually checked the gold flecks and the source comparison; captures are archived in reports/coin-pickup-20260912. Production and native web-payload builds passed. No APK was built.

2026-09-12 — Domain room transformations for the full crew

Completed the remaining #4 treatments after Ren's Iron Cell: Yui projects cyan cathedral arches, a silk rosette and woven light; Kaito etches violet circuitry and traveling packets over darkened architecture; Sora sends golden wind and drifting paper-seal shadows across the room beneath the existing airborne charms. Patterns follow the actual floors, walls and furniture, with less contrast immediately around the player. Sora's staggered paper rows wrap outside each seal so the marks stay complete.

DomainRoom now selects all four kits from their existing field timers and keeps the caster palette across tags. Its installed material hooks and shared uniforms serve every cast without extra draws, lights, textures or downloads. The same simulation-driven opening, closing and pause behavior applies to all four; reduced motion keeps the surface patterns static. Expiry, room changes, restart and disposal remove the treatment. No simulation/config changes.

Kaito also dims actual room-owned Point/Spot fixtures to 12% during the Grid. world.js restores their unscaled intensity before hour/flicker writers and scales the latest values once at update end. Reset/disposal restores immediately; quality and Roof dawn still own visibility. Ambient/key/rim lighting and the existing domain light are excluded. Yard avoids stacking its older domain dimmer on top of Grid.

All 720 Node tests passed. Expanded domain tests cover each character's real cast/field, freeze, reduced motion, tag/save restoration, recast and deterministic replay. Lighting integration covers ten rooms on desktop/mobile, noncompounding intensity, quality changes, Roof dawn and Boiler flicker. Production and native web-payload builds passed; no APK was built. Browser captures and reports live outside the repo under reports/domain-room-crew-20260912.

The final WebGL matrix passed all 52 cases: four characters across ten desktop rooms, plus each character on phone/Library, low-quality landscape/Pool and reduced-motion phone/Lab. No page/shader errors; six-render comparisons found identical draw and primitive counts with the projection on/off. All sixteen character/profile lifecycle checks passed real Domain input, pause/manual time stop, tag caster retention, natural expiry and same-room restart. Reviewed indoor Yui/Kaito and phone Sora captures for architecture/enemy readability. These are desktop-browser device profiles, not physical-phone FPS measurements.

2026-09-12 — Behavioral elite enemies

Chris moved #7 ahead of the map pass. Three rare variants now promote an existing normal spawn without replacing its original model or adding bodies: Bulwark exposes a flank around its timed frontal shield, Pouncer commits to a marked dash and recovery, and Conductor gathers up to six existing hostile shots into a harmless orbit before releasing a locked fan. One elite may be alive; new runs become eligible after 60 seconds, with at least 65 seconds between promotions and grace around bosses, held bells and active domains. Elites have 1.8 times normal HP and drop 8 additional Mana and 6 Coins as pickups, retaining the ordinary XP/drop rolls. No tuner-owned config edits.

Scalar phases, timers, facing and bullet-owner IDs survive JSON snapshots. Pre-feature suspended runs retain their original rules through subsequent school rooms; New Run enables elites. Death, domains and room transitions discard held ammunition. Conductor capture/release uses swept scenery checks, including a local fallback for Yard/Gym's legacy open-floor navigation. The ordinary enemy/projectile behavior and existing projectile cap stay intact.

The original bodies gain an amber shield/crest, coral chevrons/dash lane or violet diamond crown/volley fan, plus a compact name and health indicator. One fixed four-mesh pool follows terrain and saved simulation time, including pause/restore and reduced motion. Held/released shot colors use the existing bullet instances; ordinary spit keeps its colors. Arrival/defeat reuse pooled rings, sparks and sound, with no music-mode changes, hitstop or modal menu. Boss announcements keep priority over the compact counterplay hint.

Verification: all 751 Node tests passed, including 31 new elite simulation, rendering and feedback tests. The production and native web-payload builds passed; no APK was built. test/elites.browser.mjs serves source in memory with external requests blocked, and archives its controlled rendering/input fixtures under reports/elites-20260912 outside this repo. This first pass establishes mechanics and readability; encounter cadence and reward balance still need ordinary play feedback.

The final WebGL pass completed 42 scenarios: 18 character/map/profile cases (three elites in Yard/Gym on desktop, portrait phone and landscape phone at low quality), six scenery stops, six solid-cover capture checks, three held volley cancellations, six room/restart resets and three boss-notice priority checks. Nine nested real-input pause/manual-time-stop checks passed. No runtime or shader errors. Reviewed the warning lanes, shield openings, held shots and labels in captures. Persistent cues add at most three main-scene draws; the measured full-render delta, including reflections, peaked at 4.5 on desktop, 4 on portrait phone and 3 on landscape low quality. These are browser device profiles, not physical-phone FPS measurements. Release preflight changed only the main bundle and three documentation pages; the public APK was identical.

2026-09-12 — Carry a Room Run into the next room

Reproduced the reported weapon loss: Quiz/Midterm Push On retained the Sim, but the Final's next-room button called startRun, resetting weapons, levels and the carried haul. Eligible normal tier-1 Finals now offer Push On into an expedition checkpoint using the existing Sim. Players can inspect and bind the Final boss drop before choosing the next room. Existing room scores, stars, unlocks and assignment rewards stay earned.

A Yard start can become the complete v2 School Run. Later starts create v3 partial routes from their canonical room position through Roof, with no invented clears for omitted rooms. Library continues into Halls; later paired wings retain either order. Clock offsets preserve chronology. Partial routes show Route Cleared and save independent roomChain records/settlement receipts, never full-school or prototype credit. Legacy v1/v2 saves remain unchanged. Failed partial routes retry their original room rather than switching to Yard.

Sim promotion retains weapons, upgrades, XP/level bank, resources and exact active HP. Saved starting-health baselines allow bench members to inherit the same health fraction with earned max-HP gains; old saved builds have a fallback. Individual health, lasting knockouts and no revives apply after conversion. No free healing, new crew seats, combat RNG draws or config edits.

The first room's exact provisional Coin payout is reversed, including its original boost. Expedition settlement counts only deltas for Coins, kills and mastery and respects the already-counted run. Suspend/resume and replacement restore these counters; settled IDs prevent replaying an old snapshot for a second payout. Daily, higher-tier and After Hours flows remain separate, with fresh-start actions explicitly labeled New Run.

All 779 Node tests passed, including 28 new route/save, simulation and controller cases. Production and native web-payload builds passed. Eight isolated Chrome browser scenarios covered Yard/Library on desktop and three phone dimensions, real result/loot/route buttons, build and health carry, suspend/reload, precise settlement and stale-snapshot rejection. A Library route completed all eight remaining rooms without full-school credit. Screenshots were reviewed; no page errors. Fixture/report: test/room-chain.browser.mjs and external archive reports/room-chain-20260912. No APK build or publication.

2026-09-12 — Reclaim the school and replace the blueprint map

Continued the selected rotation with #9. Room Run and School Run now share an architectural atlas: floor plates, windows, courtyard, passages and stairs, with large room illustrations and compact state badges. Fit measures a real whole-school overview; zoom and native scrolling expose details. Selecting a small overview room first magnifies it rather than accidentally entering it. The room inspector preserves periods, tiers, insurance and keyboard controls. Career records remain separate from expedition clears. Legacy and partial routes show excluded rooms disabled as Outside route rather than hiding them.

Captured all ten actual environments locally and from the unauthenticated public showroom inside Higgsfield. Nano Banana 2 generated cursed/cleared pairs, reviewing Yard first; each cleared image uses its cursed partner as the reference. The first Gym pair borrowed outdoor details from the style reference and was replaced using only the actual Gym capture. Twenty selected 960×540 WebP files total 1,383,162 bytes. Twenty-two generations at the quoted two credits each imply 44 credits; this is the quoted cost, not a balance reconciliation. docs/school-map-art.json retains prompts, references, IDs, selected outputs and rejected Gym provenance. Masters and review sheets are outside the repo under reports/school-map-20260912 in the archive.

The initial generation request was automatically rejected because the reference was classified as private. Read-only unauthenticated HTTP 200 checks proved both the showroom and reference publicly accessible; the same request was then accepted. No private repository files were exported.

Final now cleanses the actual room materials with an amber/ivory dissolve front, steadies practical lights/beacons and releases bounded pooled spirit sparks. It shares the existing finish duration and follows boss exorcism. Quiz/Midterm do not reclaim. Restored Final checkpoints silently restore the settled presentation. New rooms/runs and After Hours reset it. Reduced motion uses a uniform fade; Roof keeps its authored First Bell lighting. Furniture is static and most room clocks are baked textures, so bespoke possessed-prop or clock choreography remains future art work rather than a claimed change.

Verified 797 Node tests, 40 atlas browser scenarios across four viewports, 13 WebGL reclamation scenarios across all ten rooms plus phone/low/reduced profiles, eight Room Run conversions and four complete School Runs. Existing integration tests now assert visible/disabled skipped rooms; their build, health, economy and settlement assertions remain intact. No page/shader errors, added architectural draws, accumulated light intensity or shader recompilation on effect replay. These are isolated browser checks, not physical-phone FPS measurements. Production and native web payloads build; all twenty asset hashes match both payloads. Public APK is byte-identical.

The full existing menu audit caught undersized map zoom controls and stage-map height exceeding iPhone safe-area space. Controls now have 44×44 minimum hit areas and the career atlas uses the actual remaining flex height under its header. All 533 menu states across nine viewport sizes and inset checks then passed with zero layout/page errors; the final atlas pass also remained green.

2026-09-12 — Pool and Rooftop reflection / lighting refinement

Added a focused environment pass after the reclamation/map release. Pool uses crossing normal samples from its existing texture, slightly clearer physical highlights and warped caustic cells with a faint halo on submerged basin tile. The waterline masks the light pattern; the walking deck remains untouched. Low quality skips the extra normal sample and uses a simpler, dimmer caustic field.

Rooftop puddles now share crossed wave slopes between reflection distortion and directional moonlight, with softer rough edges and clearer water centers. The explicit First Bell transition warms the highlight tint. Three texture taps, one 512/256 reflection target, mobile capture cadence, floor clipping and the unsupported/low-quality PBR fallback remain intact. Both environments bound their weather clocks, hold still at zero delta and still their water in reduced motion; Pool also hides drifting mist in reduced motion.

Verified all 801 Node tests and eight final real-WebGL profiles across the two rooms: desktop, portrait phone, landscape low quality and reduced motion. Before/after captures and budget reports live outside the repo in reports/lighting-20260912/{pool,roof}. The checked-in browser fixtures build source in memory, block external traffic and exercise pause, quality changes, Domain, reclamation, First Bell/reset and idempotent GPU disposal. No shader errors, new scene draws or new GPU resources in matched before/after checks; reduced-motion Pool removes one mist draw. Shader arithmetic has changed, so these checks do not establish physical-device FPS. An independent code review found no source regressions. No simulation, geometry/layout or tuner changes, paid assets, additional light sources or APK build/publication. Production and native web-payload builds passed. Release preflight changed only the game/showroom bundles and these two documentation pages, with no added or removed deployment files and a byte-identical public APK.

2026-09-12 — Restore the original school map

Chris rejected the illustrated atlas. Restored Room Run's pannable blueprint, room pins and adjacent detail sheet, plus the compact expedition wing cards, from the revision before the atlas. Kept the current Second Heart purchase refresh so the pinned sheet updates immediately after purchase. Removed the unused atlas module, styles and its six model tests/browser fixture. Original room thumbnails are active again; generated image files and provenance remain available for later art work. The map redesign is deferred in the punch list.

Room reclamation, Pool/Rooftop lighting, domains, elites, room chaining, carried weapons and progression were not rolled back. Existing browser tests again expect only the rooms belonging to a legacy/partial expedition, while keeping their frontier, build, knockout and settlement checks. Verified all 795 Node tests, 533 menu layout states, a targeted real-click Second Heart refresh, eight Room Run continuation cases and four complete ten-room School Runs. No layout or page errors. Reviewed desktop and phone map captures under reports/map-restore-20260912 in the external archive. No APK build/publication.

2026-09-12 — Combat lights and architectural energy

Powers now cast short colored light onto actual toon figures and room materials. The fixed, shadowless rig uses three PointLights on desktop and two on phones, including one travelling source that follows a nearby player or boss projectile. Large impacts take priority; frequent primary/crit ticks are throttled. Boss arrivals/projectiles use their authored palette, and boss deaths light the room at the exorcism sever cue.

Heavy techniques also send thin, broken energy filaments over opaque floors, furniture and walls. Initial continuous rings read too flat in the WebGL review; the final pass uses narrower fragmented contours and restrained echoes. Material hooks compose after DomainRoom and RoomReclaim without extra geometry, textures or render passes. Pauses and drafts freeze the new effects. Low quality disables them; reduced motion removes filaments and softens light pulses. Corrected first-event binding so a new run's opening attack survives its first View sync, and gave major effects priority over a weaker same-frame blast cooldown.

Verified all 817 Node tests, production and native web-payload builds, and 30 controlled WebGL cases across all ten rooms plus 12 complete event pipelines. Checks include all four palettes, portrait phones, low landscape, reduced motion, actual pause, first-event dispatch, projectile ownership, boss recoil/sever timing, expiry, quality/reset and disposal. No page/shader errors; matched draws, triangles, render passes, geometries and textures. The extra lights and surface shader add fragment work, so these emulated phone checks do not establish physical-device FPS parity. Captures and reports live in reports/combat-lighting-20260912 in the external archive. Independent source review found no unresolved regressions. No simulation, tuner, map layout, paid assets or APK changes. Release preflight verified the existing public APK byte-for-byte; the generated feedback page differed only in its UTC footer date, verified against the previous deployed file hash.

2026-09-12 — Cleaner Yui and Sora domain floors

Chris disliked the overlapping floor squiggles on the two female domains. Replaced both sustained layers: Yui now has broad cyan glass panes with straight facets and a fixed diamond frame; Sora has six simple local seals and more widely spaced, stationary paper impressions across the room. Removed Yui's floor roses/ribs/threads and Sora's floor wind spirals. The first visual pass still showed Sora's low airborne helix as floor curves, so that ribbon draw is now hidden too; her floating paper charms remain. Ren and Kaito's shader branches and choreography are unchanged.

All three domain pools remain allocated and reusable; Sora renders two, the other kits three. No new assets, lights or passes. Existing radii, timers, caster colors, terrain placement, closing fades and simulation behavior are preserved. Added phone/desktop tests for Sora's visibility change and restoration when switching kits. Extended the existing browser fixture to cover floor state/pools alongside room state and to replay a captured source bundle for before/after comparisons.

Verified all 819 Node tests and production/native web-payload builds. The final 14 browser cases cover Yui/Sora on desktop and portrait phone in Yard and Gym, both on low landscape and reduced-motion phone, and Ren/Kaito controls. Real cast input, pause/manual time stop, tag palette, quality switches, expiry and same-map restart pass; no page/shader errors or added room-projection resources. Reviewed before/after captures under the external archive's reports/domain-clean-floor-20260912. Independent source review found no unresolved regressions. No APK build/publication.

Release note: live domain build 0.1.1+7b2ab9d was verified at https://6aa5f07dc5c59a05e3dc1ef1--hallpass-night.netlify.app and hallpass.cc. An old development process repeatedly overwrote the primary checkout's dist/version.json with 0.1.0+d111816 and restored three dev-only files. Do not publish that folder or stop the user's development process to race it. Use an isolated full-history main checkout and run npm run ship there. Preserve the existing APK, assets-src/incoming/vo-seedance/*-lib MP3s and ignored docs/lab-log.html; set HALLPASS_ARCHIVE to the canonical archive and HALLPASS_FEEDBACK_DB to a consistent local DB snapshot. A node_modules junction works, but assets must be a physical copy: Node's build copy tries to recreate an assets junction as a privileged symlink. Preserve original HTML bytes when checkout line-ending conversion would alter otherwise unchanged public pages. Final manifest: 1,095 files, no dev files, public APK byte-identical, and live bundle hashes matched freshly compiled source.

2026-09-12 — Sustained mobile rendering and retired boss cleanup

Chris reported Safari slowing near minute ten even after a clear. Found a concrete accumulating cost: recycled Boss3D roots stayed inside the scene, so Three continued traversing their hidden skeletons. All decoded bosses also remained cached. Idle bodies now detach; the cache retains one idle model on phones/two on desktop while pinning active bodies, exorcism loans, visible loading requests and the next scheduled boss. Eviction releases owned geometry, textures, materials and skeleton buffers. Duplicate bodies from animation-only GLBs and imported PBR resources are released; shared toon maps, prewarming and active death effects remain intact. Async teardown, overlapping loads and rigs without usable clips have regression coverage.

Shard/glow draws now pack only live particles and upload that prefix. Empty particle/flipbook pools stop recurring buffer updates. Settled room reclaim skips dissolve glow/soot calculations and most grain while preserving the original far edge. After existing resolution reductions reach DPR 1, a persistently slow phone can use one bloom blur pair instead of two, without new targets, shaders, quality oscillation or a reload. Performance Test exports now include GPU resource counts, boss-cache size and blur passes.

Verified 834 Node tests, isolated production/native web-payload builds, three mobile-layout recorder/export flows, and 18 byte-identical before/after WebGL reclaim comparisons (desktop/phone, reduced motion and the visible outer dissolve boundary). A frozen-source comparison of all nine actual boss models plus dense fixed FX showed the old build retaining 168 hidden bones and nine templates after the last clear; the new build retains zero hidden bones and one idle template. Quiet matrix traversals fell from 1,182 to 888 per frame; buffer uploads from 22/51,096 bytes to 3/8,192 bytes. GPU counts after the ninth clear were 246 geometries/94 textures before and 230/74 after. Same-map restart, Final reclamation and the lighter bloom fallback also passed. Timings are desktop Chrome diagnostics, not iPhone Safari FPS or thermal evidence. This was an accelerated renderer fixture, not a balance experiment or a real ten-minute run. Reports and captures are in external reports/mobile-safari-soak-20260912/. Independent source/visual review found no unresolved regressions. No tuning, gameplay or APK changes.

Build/release uses the existing isolated main checkout because the old development process can still overwrite the root dist/. Production preflight retained all 1,095 public files and the exact existing APK bytes.

Released game build 0.1.1+6e6e709 at hallpass.cc and immutable deploy https://6aa5f8e8fa3838414477bdbb--hallpass-night.netlify.app; all five served JS entries matched fresh source compilation. Post-deploy manifest matched the isolated output exactly, including the unchanged APK. Refresh the isolated checkout's physical assets/ copy after each Git fast-forward: its sparse-checkout exclusion removes those tracked files during the merge, even when the copy was present before it. Do this before building, then run the manifest guard again. The release note itself is a documentation-only follow-up; the deployed game source remains 6e6e709.

2026-09-13 — Menu filler pass (title, run mode, primer, roster, stage sheet, level-up, weapon drop, results)

Chris: the menus carried "a lot of unnecessary content" next to a clean game. Reference rule taken from the survivors-likes that get this right (Vampire Survivors' level-up, Hades' boon pick, Brotato's end-of-wave): a menu shows the choice, the one number that matters and one primary action; rules, lore lines and repeated labels are cut, and any cost rides on the button that pays it. Applied to src/ui.js only, plus the CSS the removed elements owned:

Why it matters on phones: at 667×375 the death screen's Retry/Revive row sat below the fold behind the filler; it is now on screen without scrolling.

Verified: 835 Node tests; test/menu-ui.browser.mjs (57 states each) at 1280 and 667 with zero layout failures and zero page errors, with the favour-line and push-hint assertions rewritten to the button copy. Before/ after captures were reviewed for title, run mode, roster, stage sheet, level-up, pause, win, win-push and death at both widths. Pause, Options, Stats and the Loadout sheet were already clean and are untouched. No config.js, sim, balance or APK change.

Released 0.1.1+827baca at hallpass.cc (immutable deploy https://6aa69b202b404de2c69d9b4c--hallpass-night.netlify.app); the live bundle carries none of the removed copy. Built from this checkout after stopping the session's own npm run dev watcher, so nothing raced dist/.

2026-09-13 — Card deck prototype: headless slice, first measurement, card art

Chris asked how hard docs/CARD-DECK-PLAN.md (now committed) would be to test and implement today, then said go. Delivered the plan's first runnable milestone minus UI: src/cards.js (twelve cards, Ren/Yui starter decks, deck validation, deterministic seven-offer/blind-five draws from a stream keyed by seed and student), hands on the Sim (stat cards fold into the per-student build once; Passing Period, Second Bell and Spirit Dividend fire at one hook each), the lab runner's cards option with the hand recorded on every run, insight.mjs --cards, and nine behavioral tests. Full detail in MECHANICS "Cards — the opening-hand prototype". 844 Node tests green.

Why the plumbing was cheap: party entries already carry per-student builds as scalars, snapshot copies keys generically, and the room door copies the party wholesale — a cards array and a per-member counter rode through all three with no new machinery. The long pole is card content, not the engine.

Measured (I-205, six manifests 2026-09-13-claude-cards-*, standard-16, ren@yard MIDTERM, kit=full, sim 74b958b): a five-card starter hand with the perk sheet bypassed lands in the same band as the MAXED sheet — novice solo 16/16 blind / 14/16 offer vs 13/16 baseline; competent solo 16/16 everywhere with fewer hits (4 / 3 vs 8); duo saturated. Blind five vs keep five of seven is not separable at n=16 on that cell. Caveats in the finding: the bot does not know the trigger cards exist, MIDTERM is near its ceiling, and the maxed sheet is the upper bound of legacy preparation. Next cells: FINAL, standard-16b, and a mid-progression sheet as the baseline.

Card art (8 Higgsfield credits, nano_banana_pro at 2k, references imported from the live cut-ins at hallpass.cc): four trading-card scenes — Second Bell, Spirit Dividend, Passing Period, Knuckle Wraps — composed into 750×1050 cards (Broaven/Grift, foil border by card kind, effect box, flavor, set line) by a Playwright render of assets-src/incoming/cards/card-sheet.html. Delivered to Downloads as hallpass-card-*.png and hallpass-cards-sheet.png; scene masters and the template are in assets-src/incoming/cards/ (git-ignored). Note for a re-roll: the model drew Yui in a sailor uniform rather than her cyan-trimmed blazer.

2026-09-13 — Cards playable on desktop: deal, deck, reveal, in-run

Chris: keep building, complete the section for a full desktop test. Landed the plan's phase C on top of the morning's prototype — see MECHANICS "Cards — the opening hand" for the contract. In short: fifteen cards with scene art for every one (eleven more Higgsfield renders, two re-rolled after a false safety flag on "sharp as a blade" / "an inch from his skin"; 22 credits; assets/cards/*.webp, 1.2 MB total), legal starter decks for all four students, TONIGHT'S HAND (seven per student, five kept, crew tabs, flip reveal, one Ready, Edit Deck), the deck editor, the pause-strip reminder, in-run toasts when a trigger fires, the Options › Gameplay › Cards toggle (default on), decksBy / pendingDeal in the save, and the deal seed doubling as the run seed so the runner and the game deal the same hand.

Verified: 848 Node tests (cards, save migration and merge, the three trigger events, the game fixture now answers the hand screen); the isolated menu audit at 1280 and 667 with hand and deck states added (0 layout failures, 0 page errors); a real-renderer Playwright flow against the dev server: title → hand → swap → Ready (the sim carries the hand, damage 1.18 from Knuckle Wraps alone, perks bypassed) → pause strip → autosave carries party[].cards → deck editor saves ten → pendingDeal cleared at start.

Gotchas found: (1) em positions inside the card must not sit on an element that sets its own font-size, or top: 66em becomes 99em — text sizes live on children; (2) .btn em/b/small in index.html leak into any button that contains a card, so .tcard :is(b, em, i, small, span) resets them; (3) an inline --tc beats every media query — the screens size cards from JS (fit()), never inline in _cardEl; (4) headless Chromium reports hover: none, so the hover lift is verified by CSS review only.

Pre-existing, not from this work: the menu audit at 390×844 portrait times out on the stage sheet's Second Heart real click (a period chip's lock glyph intercepts the pointer). Reproduced on an export of d636c2a, before any of today's changes; on the punch list, not fixed here.

Desktop bug report (Chris, mid-session): a level-up screen during a Domain freezes the power-up screen. Could not reproduce headless. On the real GPU (--use-angle=d3d11, page-driven rAF): Tab opens the bank inside Ren's Iron Cell, the level-up screen appears after the 0.62 s beam delay, mouse and key 1 both resolve the pick, frames p50 7–10 ms with one 132 ms spike at domain open, no page errors, in both BANK and NOW modes. Also checked: activateDomain already refuses while a level is pending; the manual open inside a domain is a tested design ("explicit time stop overrides the domain", test/domain-levelup.test.js); yesterday's idle-rendering and Q/E key commits touch nothing on that path. Under SwiftShader the domain FX takes seconds per frame, which looks like a hang but is the software renderer. Needed from Chris: browser and GPU, whether keys 1/2/3 pick while it is "frozen", whether the world behind still draws, and the console. Nothing was changed on that path.

2026-09-13 — Domain level-up freeze: not reproduced, black box shipped

Chris, after testing 479db29: the skill pick during or after a Domain "freezes the whole playable window", keys 1/2/3 dead, no movement behind, the turntable audio faintly audible and chopped. That is a stalled main thread, not a screen-logic bug. Tried to reproduce it every way available here: headless SwiftShader, headless with the real GPU (--use-angle=d3d11), headed real Chrome with GPU and audio, the dev bundle and the exact shipped production bundle, cards on and off, BANK and NOW modes, the manual Tab inside a Domain, the automatic bank open the instant the field ends, all four students, and a crowded room (69 curses) crushed by Iron Cell with the levels arriving naturally from the kill burst. Every pass: screen opens within 0.7 s, keys pick, no long task over 190 ms, no page errors. Also ruled out by reading: the dt clamp (0.05 s), the turntable maths, the synth scheduler (only runs without a streamed bed), the decoy top-up loop, the name-fit loop, yesterday's idle-rendering and key-map commits.

So the failure is specific to Chris's machine, browser or save, and the honest fix is instrumentation: src/blackbox.js, the flight recorder documented in ERROR-TRACKING.md. It pins the current phase to localStorage every frame and flushes a ring of marks and samples, a renderer death leaves the record behind, and the next boot reports it to Sentry and PostHog and says so on the title. Verified end to end in a real Chromium with a CDP Page.crash (no pagehide): the reboot recovered phase frame, state levelup, screen levelup, domain active, level pending and toasted it. 852 Node tests. Next freeze on Chris's desktop: reload, read the title toast, and paste localStorage['hallpass.blackbox.last'] from the console if the Sentry event has not landed.

2026-09-13 — Pause menu: the hand moves behind a button

Chris (desktop, after the freeze stopped reproducing for him too): the card strip on the pause menu "overlays and disturbs the pause menu, a jumbled-up mess"; suggested tabs or a Deck button. Done as a Hand button between Options and the exit, present only on a card run. It opens YOUR HAND (ui.showPauseHand): five cards per student behind crew tabs, sized by the same _fitHand the opening screen uses, the active student selected first, Escape or the corner exit back to pause, never a resume. The strip and its CSS are gone. Verified: the menu audit at 1280 and 667 with pause-hand and pausehand states (button order asserted, no cards on the pause menu, tab switch, Escape returns to pause without a resume call), a real-renderer flow through pause → Hand → back, and the Node suite.

2026-09-13 — The club deck: pulls in the club, no deal at run start

Chris, after a day with the dealt hand: it puts a choice in front of every run and "you spend more time configuring your cards than getting into the game". Talked it through (the lab measurement had already shown the hand behaves like a loadout, not a mid-run pick) and he decided: the deck is built in the club and carried until changed; randomness moves to PULLS from the club deck that cost coins; rearranging is free so experimentation is encouraged; slots grow from three to eight, each bought once its mastery rank is earned; Training stays alongside cards for now; wild cards from bosses are the next experiment; dailies stay cardless until he decides. MECHANICS "Cards — the club deck" is the contract.

Shipped in this session: the collection, pull, pity, receipt and slot rules in src/cards.js (pure; a test deals any card it likes), save.cards / slotsBy with normalization and union merges, game.pullCards / game.openSlot, the run start with no screen (Training and the deck both apply), the roster card's Deck row, the deck screen with its slot rack, face-down unpulled cards, the pull reveal (the flip we built for the hand, now where the player has time for it) and the gated slot purchase; Tonight's Hand and the deal seed are gone from the game (the lab keeps the dealt-deck variants). Prices are prototype values against the September 9 audit's ~9–13k coins per active hour: a pull ◆120, three for ◆330, slots ◆400/800/1,600/3,000/5,000.

Verified: 855 Node tests (pull weighting over a full spread of rolls, pity, idempotent receipts, garbage collections, migration and merge, loadout legality and the ride, slot gates); the menu audit at 1280 and 667 with deck and deck-reveal states (rack, face-down cards, a tap saves, an unpulled tap does not, the rank-gated slot button, Pull → reveal → Add To Deck); a real-renderer flow through roster → Deck → pull (◆1,000 → 880, a receipt, the reveal) → Done → slot shut at rank 0 and open at rank 1 (◆880 → 480, four tiles) → New Run with the deck riding and Training still on (damage 1.232 = 1.1 × 1.12) → Pause › Hand. Two audit catches on the way: inert must be set as an attribute (the property did not reflect in the audit's Chromium), and the deck grid must not lift a focused card or it covers its neighbour.

2026-09-13 — Deck doors: title, roster footer, student tabs

Chris could not find the deck "in the clubhouse before a run". It existed only as a small row at the bottom of each roster card, three taps into starting a run, next to a Build row that looks the same. Added the doors a player expects: a Deck button on the title under New Run (opens on the last student played), a Club Deck button in the roster footer beside the seat charter, and student tabs on the deck screen so every unlocked student's deck is edited in one place; the roster row stays but reads as its own thing. The deck screen's save and slot callbacks now name the student. Verified in headed Chrome (title → Deck → Yui's Deck → Ren tab → back to title; roster → Club Deck → back to roster) and the menu audit at 1280 and 667 (title button order, tabs, Yui's own slots, the roster door). Note for the audit: headless Chrome reports no hover, so the desktop roster layout (hover: hover, 175px cards) is only ever seen headed — the Deck row was measured there at 1280×720, inside the card and hit-tested.

2026-09-13 — The club table: a hand you hold, blanks, claims

Chris on the deck screen: the cards and art are right, the UI is not — "more 3D… like you're in the clubhouse, holding the cards, and you can drag them around, rearrange them in your deck, and put ones you favor up closer to the front"; unpulled cards should be blanks, not colour-coded; a card in someone's hand should show it, and if Yui is using a card it is claimed. Desktop first, mobile later. Rebuilt the screen as THE CLUB TABLE: the club deck on a table across the top (tilts toward the pointer), the hand as a fan below it, drag to take / put back / reorder with a live reflow and a card-sized ghost, tap still works. Unpulled cards are dashed blanks with only their number. One card, one holder: holdersOf / claimDeck in src/cards.js, the run persists a first-filled deck, the club shows a cyan tick for In Hand and the teammate's portrait sticker for Yui Has It, and taking a held card moves the claim. The saved deck keeps its order; index 0 is the front of the hand.

Three things cost most of the afternoon, all in the audit's drag test. (1) Native image drag swallowed the pointer drag: dragstart is cancelled on the screen, img.draggable=false, -webkit-user-drag: none. (2) The live reorder rebuilt the fan and detached the dragged node; reorderFan() now moves the existing nodes. (3) The real one: index.html's .screen .btn.focus … { transform: none } and .screen .btn:hover … { translateY(-1px) } (specificity 0,4,0) outrank .deck-fan .fan-card:hover (0,3,0), so a focused or hovered fan card collapsed to the fan's left edge and the pointerdown landed on the fan itself. Found only by instrumenting a copy of the audit harness; fixed by carrying .screen .deck-fan .btn.fan-card specificity on the fan's transform rules. Also: the drag ghost lives on document.body, where the screen's --tcf does not reach, so its size is pinned in px from getComputedStyle; and at 1280×720 the table's second row was clipped, so a short table is now one sideways-scrolling shelf (wheel → scrollLeft) and a tall one two rows, with the slot chrome counted in the card size. The hand takes half the height so the cards you hold are the biggest on screen; the fan spreads at 0.78 of a card width so most of each shows; the claim sticker sits on the card's lower corner, off the name.

Verified: 17 card tests including claims; the menu audit at 1280 and 667 (fan, blanks, In Hand ticks, Yui stickers, take, put back, drag reorder, Open Slot 6 gated, Pull → Add To Hand, the Yui tab); headed Chrome at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 with zero reachability issues once transitions settle — drag front → back reorders the save, drag a table card into the hand takes it. Lesson for the sweep: measure after the fan's 180ms transition or every card reads as covering its neighbour.

2026-09-13 — The carousel: a card in a hand is off the table

Chris, on the club table: "really, really close", the design is right, but a card taken into your own hand should not still show on the table. His model: the club's cards in a left-and-right carousel; grab one off it into Sora's deck and it disappears from the carousel for everybody; put it back by freeing a slot, or drag a carousel card on top of a card in the hand and the two swap, the old one back in rotation. Built exactly that. The carousel holds only cards nobody is using (held cards show on their holder's tab, whose label now counts the hand); the unpulled cards collapsed from eight dashed blanks into one face-down stack that counts them and pulls on tap; arrows page it, the wheel and a swipe scroll it, and it snaps to a card. Dropping on a hand card swaps (gold ring on the target, "Let go to swap for Thick Skin" in the status line; a full hand swaps with the nearest card), dropping in a gap inserts, dragging a hand card up puts it back, and the card that lands pops in. Opening the screen saves a never-saved deck the way the run fills it, so the carousel is honest about what is free. The "In Hand" tick, the portrait sticker and the per-card blanks from the morning are gone with the model.

Verified: the menu audit at 1280 and 667 (tabs with counts, the carousel minus the held card, the stack's count and no face, take, put back, the drag-on-a-card swap with the target lifted, drag reorder, Open Slot 6 gated, Pull → Add To Hand, Yui's tab and her carousel); headed Chrome at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 with zero reachability issues — wheel and arrow scrolling, swap, take, reorder and put back each checked against the save, and a Ren-only card correctly absent from Yui's carousel; 856 Node tests. One catch: scroll-snap-align: start snapped the carousel 20px in on open until scroll-padding-inline matched the padding.

2026-09-13 — Build Deck: the album floats, the crew and the pull move up

Chris on the carousel: better, but lose the table it sits on — the carousel should float in space and use the room a desktop has; he wants the wide array back ("if I have 30 cards, I might be able to flip through all the cards" — the blanks had made the set feel big, the stack made it feel like four cards); a tap should open a card big and close back down; the pull should come up big and not behind the hand; the students belong on the top bar with their avatars and the screen is just "Build Deck"; the pull is a big gold button up there; Open Slot belongs in the hand as a locked card outline; and the buttons along the bottom go. Built all of it. The album is a cover flow — one card in the middle, the rest stepping away and turning in, every card in the set that nobody holds, blanks for the unpulled — flipped by arrows, wheel, a sideways drag or the arrow keys; a tap brings a side card to the middle and opens the middle one big (Take / Put Back / Close). The masthead now carries the crew (portrait buttons, pressed for whose deck, each counting its hand), the gold Pull Card button with a moving shine and a small ×3, and the coins. The next slot sits locked at the end of the fan with its price or the rank it needs. The pull reveal sizes to the window and sits above the fan (.pullreveal was at z-index 8 under fan cards at 20+; the hand really was in the way). The footer, the tabs row and the table box are gone, so at 1280×720 the album and the hand have the whole height between the masthead and the bottom.

Verified: the menu audit at 1280 and 667 (masthead crew with faces and counts, Pull Card in the masthead, nothing under the hand, the locked slot 6 disabled at rank 2, the album minus the held card with a blank per unpulled card, arrows and back, tap-to-look with Take, a hand card's look with Put Back, the drag-on-a-card swap, a sideways drag that flips and takes nothing, drag reorder, a pull that comes up big and over the hand, Yui from the masthead with her album); headed Chrome at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 with zero reachability issues once the album settles — wheel, arrow, scrub, look, swap, take, reorder, put back, the slot opening for coins, the pull, Yui's tab — each checked against the save; 856 Node tests.

2026-09-13 — Build Deck: the row, not the album

Chris, on the cover flow: not that — he had said "album cover" but meant the cards all in a row, facing him, next to each other, a carousel he goes back and forth along with the arrows or the arrow keys, the big array the table had, and any card in view draggable straight into the hand; not a thing where he can only work with one card at a time. Rebuilt the row: cards side by side, none turned, a long sideways scroller that fades at its edges under the arrows, hover tilt back on each card, a tag under each, the wheel and a swipe scroll it, and the menu's own spatial focus (ui.nav) walks the arrow keys card to card and scrolls the focused one into view — no extra key handling needed. Every visible card carries into the hand (the ghost, the swap ring, the gap insert all as before); a drag let go on the row does nothing. The row keeps its scroll position through takes, swaps and put-backs, so a card taken from the far end leaves you at the far end. The masthead crew, the gold Pull Card, the tap-to-look, the big reveal and the locked slot in the hand all stay from the previous pass.

Verified: the menu audit at 1280 and 667 (every card faces you and none overlaps another, the arrows move the row and back, the arrow keys walk to the next card and back, a blank opens big with nothing to take, the rest of the pass unchanged); headed Chrome at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 with zero reachability issues — wheel, arrows, four arrow-key steps and a down into the fan, look, a swap dragged from the far end of the row with the scroll kept, take, reorder, put back, the slot opening for coins, the pull, Yui's tab — each checked against the save; 856 Node tests.

2026-09-13 — Build Deck: the row's cards fill the row

Chris: "looks great"; the top part should be way larger, the hand the same size as now, and the cards in the club deck should take all the vertical space and scale with the browser. The row's card scale had been capped at 2.6 (a 195×273 card), which filled a 720-tall window but left a tall one mostly empty. The cap is gone: the scale is the row's height less the tag, the padding and the hover lift, bounded only by width, so at 1080 the cards are ~350px wide and at 1400 ~500px; the hand keeps its 45% share (150–340px). Chris: too big — three quarters of the row's height. So the scale is 75% of the row height less the tag and padding, the cards centred in the row (a 315×441 card at 1080, 450×630 at 1400).

Verified: both menu audits at 0 failures; the headed sweep at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 with zero reachability issues; a size probe at 1280×720, 1600×900, 1920×1080 and 2560×1400 confirming the row card grows with the window and the tag stays inside the row; 856 Node tests.

2026-09-13 — Copies: the club deck keeps growing; glows; the big viewer

Chris, with four students at 6/3/3/3: every one of the fifteen cards was in a hand, the club read Collection Complete and there was nothing left to pick from — the club deck has to grow as hands do; maybe pay to open club-deck slots so you can keep pulling. Built copies instead of a second purchase, since the pull already is the payment: the set is pulled first, never a duplicate; once complete, pulls add copies — a general card up to four (one per student), a student's own card once — and each copy is its own physical card with its own holder. owned lists a card once per copy (normalize keeps the save's count or the starters plus the receipts, whichever is more, capped; merges keep the larger count per card so copies never double), holdersOf lists every hand on a card, claimDeck lets the others keep a card while the club has copies enough (roster order), claimedFor names what a student cannot take. The row shows one entry per free copy; the pull button reads Copies once the set is complete and the reveal says Another Copy; the pull toast at the cap is "every card is at its limit". Also from his notes: the white sliver at a hand card's rounded corner on hover was the button's own inset highlight and drop shadow showing past the card's corners (gone: the button draws nothing; the focus ring is now a glow in the card's colour); the swap target pulses gold; the big viewer is three quarters of the window tall; a card opened from the hand pulses a glow in its colour, because it is live.

Verified: 856 Node tests with the copies rules (the copies phase of the pool, the caps, a round trip, the merge, claims with a spare copy, four hands on two copies); both menu audits at 0 failures; the headed sweep at 1280×720 and 1920×1000 plus a copies scenario (two Honed Edge, Ren holds one, Yui takes the other from the row and Ren keeps his; a club at every cap reads Collection Complete).

2026-09-13 — Cards at risk: the stake, the loss, the Lost & Found, locks

Chris laid out a risk economy for cards — cards carried into a run are at stake the further you push, disposables versus permanents, a lockable hand, boss drops mid-run, an unlimited deck — and asked for it pulled apart, ten augments and a top three. The read back: the core is strong (a coin sink, a real Push On decision, bosses with identity, Training as the permanent layer) and the one line to push back on is "every death loses your cards", because in a survivors-like death is the normal ending of a run. Top three: stakes start at the door and the stake is shown; signature boss cards plus a pocket; a Lost & Found. Chris: "go ahead".

Built, in that order: the economy model first — scripts/balance.mjs --graduate on the standard-16 bank for Ren and Yui at skill 0.25 and 0.8, then scripts/card-economy.mjs on the JSON. Measured: at 0.25 half the runs die, almost all in the Final after two pushes, banking ~950 a run; at 0.8 nobody dies and a run banks ~1,850. Against ◆120 pulls that is ~8 pulls a run versus a third of a card lost, so a one-card loss rule would be invisible; the loss now rolls every staked card with a cap of two, and the price is left to Chris (the model says ◆300–400 is where risk starts to bite). Then the rules in src/cards.js (the stake, the floor, seeded rolls, the loss with a lost-record so receipts cannot resurrect a card, the Lost & Found with a three-run life and a ◆240 buy-back, locks behind ranks), the save (locksBy, lostFound, stake; merges), the game (the stake goes on the table at Push On, at a school push and at every further door; the bell banks it, Return To Club clears it, a death or a quit rolls it, a crash's forfeit rolls nothing), and the screens (the Push On button counts the cards at risk, the school checkpoint says how many ride until the club, Pause › Hand tags Safe / At Stake, the death screen shows what the night took, Build Deck shows the Lost & Found at the front of the row with Buy Back, Safe chips on the locked front, and Protect Slot N in the masthead). Two catches: an empty stake must not be written (the school tests compare whole saves), and the stake must not persist on its own (those tests count writes); and the Protect button had to leave the hand for the masthead because on a phone the fan covers every corner.

Verified: 858 Node tests (the at-risk rules end to end and a controller-level push-death-return run against the real Game and Sim; the school-run suite untouched); both menu audits at 0 failures (Safe chip, Protect Slot 2, a lost card at the front of the row bought back, a second lock, the push button counting three cards, the death screen's lost card).

2026-09-13 — Grades: harder recoloured bodies the deeper a run goes

Chris: pushing on to the second round is boring — the carried build makes the start of the round trivial; make the levels harder further in, not by starting with the late roster but by mixing recoloured harder versions of the base enemies in, more of them the deeper you go. Measured first with the runner's graduate path at full kit on standard-16: the ninety seconds after each bell were the calmest stretch of the night (Ren 0.25: 4 hits, health at 86%, right after 4–9 hits and 55%), and a further school room is a fresh sim at t=0 with no carry at all (GRADUATE steps are 1.0). Built GRADES (config) + Sim.depth/periodStartT + a per- spawn grade roll at depth > 0 that multiplies hp, speed, dmg and xp and recolours through the existing tier tint; added --rooms to the runner so a continued school room can be measured (fields added, contract holds). Three cuts, each measured on the same seeds: (1) fixed ×2.2/×4.5 bodies — invisible at depth four against a Final-strength build; (2) strength scaling with depth, xp too — win rates rose 8→12 of 16, the graded bodies feeding the power loop, and the late stretch of room three turned lethal even at skill 0.8 (16→9 of 16); (3) landed: front-loaded after a push, thinning to a 0.15 floor, xp growing at half the rate of hp — win rates back at baseline on the graduate path, the low-skill room starts now bite (library after its second push 22 hits), the competent bot's room starts still 0 hits, which is damage output, not enemy hp. Scripts: scratchpad bells.mjs (windows around the bells) and rooms.mjs (yard→gym→library); results in the MECHANICS section.

2026-09-14 — Preload: the run starts when the room is ready

Chris: starting or continuing a run chokes the browser; preload and offload so the game only starts when enough is in. Measured first, in headed Chrome with the real GPU: the yard start was cheap (the title demo had paid for it), a fresh gym or library built its world for 0.4–0.9s and then spent 5.5–6.3s in its first frame compiling and linking every program and uploading every texture, and the head rig's GLB parsed mid-run for a 300–500ms stall. Built the gate: a loading card on the arrival splash, state loading with the loop drawing nothing, view.prepareRun (build, rigs ahead, art idle, textures chunked, one compile, a link poll, a draw), re-entry into the same start call, and _openRun holding the run until view.warmRun has drawn the assembled frame once. Three cuts: the engine's compileAsync threw on a material without a program and never resolved (its poll is not used); drawing during the gate paid the whole compile in the loop's first draw (the loop now skips loading); and warming the room before the character, HUD and companions existed left the run's first frame with thirty programs to link (the hold after assembly fixes that). Result: clean first frames everywhere (worst 50–66ms, one frame over 50ms at most) where the old first frame was six seconds; a cold indoor room's gate is ~10s on this machine (6s of it the first full draw's links, which compile cannot pre-issue), a repeat ~1.8s, a resumed night ~2.8s. Offload was already in place (a room's world disposes on leaving; music is LRU'd); prepared rigs nobody took are dropped.

2026-09-14 — Menus: the title demo kept alive, art decoded off the thread

Chris: the title and main menus still choke, and switching to New Run and back. Measured every transition in headed Chrome. The bad one was back-to-title: showTitle restarted the demo every time — a thousand synchronous sim steps, a new rig, a fresh 600KB head model for a random student fetched and parsed — 51ms and 113ms tasks and a 150ms frame on every return. Fixed by keeping the demo across menu visits, slicing its warm-up over the first frames, a smaller demo board, half-rate demo work behind covering screens, Image.decode before painting the roster portraits and stage thumbs, lazy card art in the deck row, 560×420 thumbs for the row and the fan (the viewer keeps the 800×600 art; bake-cards.py writes both), and portraits at 720×960 (originals archived). After: back-to-title 3–6ms with nothing fetched, no boot-idle long task, title idle worst frame ~34ms; the roster's and the deck's first paint remain the two stalls (~300ms here: the deck's is the first rasterisation of a row of card images behind the edge mask, not decoding — a smaller shadow and pre-decoded thumbs did not move it; next would be a lighter first paint, no mask until the row has painted once). Both menu audits at 0 failures; 859 Node tests.

2026-09-14 — Card implementation review and correctness fixes (Codex)

Chris approved fixing the review findings. Kept Fable's persistent loadouts, physical card copies, Training stacking, Push On risk, and current prices. First-time crew decks now reserve copies sequentially before final run hands are built. Resume wrappers carry the exact card stake and push depth; safe wrappers override stale wallet risk and legacy wrappers keep existing stakes.

Cloud reconciliation now retains acquisition/loss/recovery identities and replays them from a fixed legacy inventory baseline with the copy cap and starter floor enforced. This fixes post-loss resurrection, repeat buy-backs, expired offers returning, concurrent losses of the same spare starter, and concurrent cap-overflow pulls shielding a later loss. Actual deductions check the floor again; the results screen reports only copies really removed.

Phone purchase prices remain visible. Triple reveals scroll to every card and Done. Add To Hand filters held/duplicate card types before counting available slots. Canceled drags restore the hand without saving, viewer dismissal restores focus, crew portraits have accessible labels, and tablet fan edges stay inside the screen. Second Bell's free cast now shares its effective cost with HUD readiness and charge; exhaustion still blocks it.

The economy script now computes capped independent per-card losses and separates unfinished runner samples, withholding incomplete projections. The previous loss estimate and price recommendation were withdrawn in both the plan and mechanics docs. This correctness pass does not establish new balance conclusions or change the ◆120/◆330 pull prices.

Follow-up: durable card histories must not be truncated to the old 200-record window, because that restores the stale-save exploits. The club-card service still has its existing 64KB save ceiling; long histories need wire compaction or a coordinated checkpoint strategy before approaching it. No cloud schema or limit change is included here.

Verified: all 896 Node tests pass, including 17 new persistence regressions; six focused card UI profiles pass (320×568 through 1280×800, with notched landscape insets); the desktop menu audit covers 61 states with no layout failures or page errors. npm run build:app passes in the isolated release checkout. The release preflight retains every existing production file and the current 142,855,616-byte APK (SHA1 57bd812de21f2fb4ea151ef7db17a63639bb8971). Web release only; no APK build.

2026-09-14 — Startup, menus and level preparation optimization (Codex)

Profiled frozen production source 48d5d85 against the revised source using test/loading-performance.browser.mjs: isolated local HTTP server, real Chrome 152/ANGLE RTX 3090, 1280×800, external traffic blocked. Two fresh-page passes per version, plus a fresh-process baseline rerun after the optimized measurements to check cache/order effects. These are desktop measurements, not physical iPhone/Safari results. Raw samples and source hashes live at ../_hallpass-archive/reports/startup-opt-20260914/.

The main cause of the multi-second indoor stall was compiling the world for the canvas, then asking its first post-processed draw to compile different HDR-target variants. Post.compile now prepares the actual world and post targets. Room preparation includes detached crew/companions and uniform atlases, skips unchanged uploaded textures, and yields after six uploads or 4ms. It waits for the head attachment before final warmup and needs one final draw. Disposal/context restoration invalidate upload records. The loading card gets a complete paint before synchronous construction; canceled gates cannot overwrite or start a later selection.

The initial Yard is reused. Intro and covered pre-run menus no longer draw or simulate hidden 3D. New title demos prepare their pipeline after the controls paint; demo fast-forward keeps the same 1,000 steps/RNG sequence with a 3ms frame budget. Optional SDK/feedback initialization yields past paint; resize bursts coalesce. Transparent Options repaints once after resize or an FX setting change. HD/exorcism atlas uploads use the budget; exorcism preparation no longer compiles the entire room on image arrival. Card-title sizing batches layout reads/writes, and closing inspection retains the deck DOM, decoded art, focus and scroll.

First fresh-process samples (entry windows include 750ms of gameplay):

Measurement Frozen baseline Revised
Gym entry window 9.54s 3.30s
Library entry window 8.55s 3.24s
Worst Gym loading frame 5,267ms 700ms
Worst Library loading frame 5,383ms 383ms
Final Gym shader hold 5,284ms 11ms
Final Library shader hold 5,391ms 12ms
Linked programs after Library 192 124
Card inspection layout passes 7 3

The later baseline control still had 5,933/6,484ms Gym/Library frames, so the large gain was not explained by running the baseline first. Warm-cache rooms were already faster: repeat-pass Gym entry 1.93→1.68s; Library 2.24→2.25s. After the final warmup, the six sampled Gym/Library/revisit gameplay windows had no frame above 50ms; one initial Yard sample retained a 100ms frame. Steady covered-menu draws dropped to zero; normal title returns remained 17–18ms worst frames. First roster layout still reached 750ms in one cold sample, and first deck paint 250ms; room construction/individual large uploads also remain synchronous. Do not claim zero hitches or a measured Safari gain.

Kept the accepted visual design and all gameplay/economy values. A separate fresh-process full-collection A/B of removing identity card transforms was inconclusive (283ms control vs 317ms candidate); no speculative CSS change was landed. Responsive card checks passed at six sizes, and the desktop menu audit covered 61 states with no layout failures or page errors.

Verification: all 946 Node tests pass (50 added), including actual-controller cancellation/resize/title checks, upload disposal/overlap cases, and full simulation/RNG equivalence for sliced demo preparation. npm run build:app passes in the isolated release checkout. No APK was built. The startup browser test also passes delayed-video and failed-video paths: black before playback, then the prepared title with an animated character and no recorded frame errors. Screenshots are in the same report archive.

2026-09-14 — Chrome combat hitch investigation

Chris reported a pause around eight seconds into a run and recurring ~200ms hitches. The previous loading measurements sampled only 750ms of gameplay; that was insufficient to sign off sustained combat. Added test/combat-performance.browser.mjs: real Chrome, natural animation frames, seeded fresh/full save fixtures, legal eight-card allocations, audio and autosaves/blackbox enabled. It records five-second frame/cost windows, events, renderer/audio resources, optional shader attribution, real crew key presses, and exact measurement boundaries. Bot movement/instant picks and brief human input windows are explicitly labelled. External requests are blocked; this does not validate production SDKs, the user's existing Chrome profile, or physical Safari. Reports/source hashes live under ../_hallpass-archive/reports/combat-jank-20260914/.

Two concrete first-use stalls were reproduced:

Also removed unnecessary recurring work: routine blackbox pins now write at most twice a second (forced transition records remain immediate); unchanged HUD text keeps its nodes; kill-chain pulses no longer force offsetWidth; notice geometry is read before changed CSS variables are written. In the 35-second delayed-FX comparison, total storage writes fell from 4,231 to 146 while run autosaves remained enabled. This is reduced overhead, not proof that storage caused Chris's reported recurring 200ms pauses.

Measurement caveats caught during investigation: starting the CPU profiler after the run began injected its own ~300ms pause, and querying GPU identity inside the initial frame also contaminated startup. Both operations now run in the menu before the measurement clock starts. Fresh 75-second controls of both live-source 48d5d85 and optimization source 115bab0 did not reproduce the recurring 1–2-second cadence; do not present that specific symptom as proven resolved solely by these isolated controls.

The first ten-minute full-crew run caught an additional correctness bug: at least 25 View._syncSprites exceptions (the recorder's cap; Cannot set properties of null (setting 'x')). A crew switch clears the sprite pool while Kaito's existing orbs can survive; their shot.sprite pointers referred to cleared or recycled slots. Base-orb handles now live in a View-owned Map, validated against a private follow anchor before update/cleanup. Pool exhaustion retries safely and a recycled slot cannot be moved or stopped by its former owner. Domain-ready halos also reject stale slots. Six regression tests use the real SpriteFx pool, including the exact clear/reuse failure and frozen simulation shots.

That diagnostic run is intentionally marked failed despite 593.5 active seconds and an 18.2ms p99: render exceptions are not acceptable. It completed real Quiz/Midterm Push On clicks and frequent crew switches. The fading hound shader was already linked on entry; the one later 116.9ms frame correlated with first-boss buffer preparation around t=100s, not hound expiry. Repeated crew tags still rebuild rigs, but those switches did not justify adding a new rig cache in this change. The remaining first-boss warm draw is a scoped follow-up: prepare only the next boss behind loading, with a safe late-load policy, rather than merely moving its whole buffer upload to another combat callback.

Real Chrome visual checks passed at 1600×900, 852×393 and 393×852: unchanged HUD snapshots caused zero text replacements; chain animation timing, cancellation and reduced motion passed; wave/level/toast placement and the full-width boss video remained correct. Fifteen screenshots and measured bounds are in the hud-ui report directory.

Final verification with the orb fix: ten minutes in visible Chrome 152, 1600×900 at DPR 2 (3200×1800 render pixels), RTX 3090, full trained/card-equipped crew, real numbered crew-key attempts every 15 seconds. Normal audio, autosaves, blackbox, bloom and both blur passes remained active; effective DPR stayed 2. There were 30 successful switches (nine correctly refused), two actual Push On clicks, 3,513 kills, and 594.45 active-combat seconds out of 600 wall-clock seconds. The remaining time was in checkpoint/pick states.

Final active-combat measurement Result
Frames observed 35,629
Median / p95 / p99 16.7 / 16.8 / 16.8ms
Worst frame 83.3ms, during opening
Frames over 50ms / over 100ms 3 / 0
Browser or engine-caught rendering errors 0
Run autosaves written 118
First-boss preparation frame 66.7ms

No recurring ~200ms cadence appeared in this final run. These are measured results for this hardware and isolated Chrome profile, not a universal zero-hitch claim. The result and frozen source are in headed-full-crew-final/; the failed diagnostic remains separately retained in full-crew-soak-after/ so its exceptions cannot be mistaken for a pass.

All 974 Node tests pass, including determinism/snapshot checks and the new loading, HUD, diagnostic-write and sprite-lifecycle regressions. The browser harness also passes syntax and all fresh/full fixture checks. No tuning or simulation code changed. No APK was built or published.

2026-09-14 — Flash Step spends mana on recharge; next boss work saved

Chris reported that a lit Flash Step charge could still refuse to fire when mana was low. The charge timer and press-time CE gate disagreed. A charged step now spends only its charge, retaining movement, invulnerability and the existing input buffer even at zero mana or during special exhaustion.

Sequential recharge draws the existing 20-mana cost gradually. Empty mana pauses funded progress without resetting it or triggering exhaustion. Tempo and Late Slip shorten recharge without multiplying its total cost; existing special exhaustion recovers before automatic recharge resumes. The HUD shows funded progress, and the loadout fact now reads Mana / Recharge. Partial funding stays in the existing snapshot and room-handoff fields. No tuning constants, input bindings, graphics or music assets changed.

Added twelve focused tests for no-cost activation, proportional funding, empty/exhausted recovery, sequential charges, training, crew changes, larger capacity, JSON snapshot continuity, time stops, room continuation and the Afterimage bonus charge. All 986 tests pass, including the existing simulation determinism and snapshot checks. This is a requested game-rule change, not a measured balance improvement; old playtest results need a new sim pin before comparison.

Appended all ten September 14 ideas to docs/IDEAS.md, preserving its previous content and numbering each idea within the new section. Chris selected Boss Signature Cards, followed by boss music phases/resolution with possible entrance/death vocal cues. Those features remain unimplemented here.

2026-09-15 — Anime trailer pipeline: seinen plates + 15s multi-shot Seedance sequences

Chris rejected the first Seedance 2.5 clips twice: first as "too campy" (the painterly style locked in the Action Reel), then as "generic, boring and flat, zero camera cuts and zero dynamic action" (single-beat 5s shots). Both fixes are now a working pipeline; nothing here touches the game.

Style. Any character reference carries its rendering style with it, so the look is fixed by generating text-only design plates first (Higgsfield Nano Banana 2, nano_banana_2, 3:4, 1k, about 1.5 credits each, images only — never video through that API). The locked style text is "modern prestige seinen TV anime, realistic proportions, rough hand-inked lines, desaturated muted palette, heavy black shadow shapes, hard-edged cel shading, no glow, no bloom, subtle film grain". Plates for all four students plus the Janitor, Hall Monitor, Detention and the Vice Principal live in C:/Users/Operator/Downloads/HP-Trailer/cast-seinen/. An OVA-90s variant was A/B'd once (f1-3_palm-strike_ova.mov) and parked; seinen stands.

Prompt doctrine (the fix for "flat"). One generation = one 15-second scenario with five numbered shots separated by "Hard cut", each shot a different setup (wide / low angle / insert / slow-mo / wide aftermath), plus an explicit latitude line ("improvise the choreography between these beats… the fight can escalate however you like") and a "camera cutting between close and wide as it likes" clause inside the exchange shot. Plates are declared as "DESIGN SHEETS only: take identity, costume, colours and the rendering style from them, never their pose or framing", and every student "keeps their eyes on the opponent, never on the camera". Result: 6–8 distinct setups per clip, which is what Chris cuts in Final Cut. Sequences A–D (Ren/Janitor corridor, Yui/Monitor yard, Kaito/Detention classroom, Sora/Vice hallway) all landed this way; D is the reference clip.

Runway driving recipe (Seedance 2.5, Tools mode, Unlimited only, one at a time). New session URL …/ai-tools/generate?mode=tools&newSession=true&tool=video; upload refs through the hidden file input; the prompt editor is a contenteditable DIV that rejects form_input and, on this build, ignored execCommand('insertText') even on a visible tab — click it by ref, ctrl+a Delete, then type the whole prompt (2.7k chars types fine); Duration is a popover with a [role=slider] whose max (11) is "15 seconds" in Unlimited (30s greyed out); the "Free in Unlimited Mode" tooltip only renders after a real hover on the model button and then the cost button — read it from the DOM and refuse to click Generate without it. Queue wait is 25–50 minutes per clip. Status comes from Assets › Recent Generations ("Generating 0%"), not the session page, whose gallery often fails to render; retrieve by clicking the newest tile there, reading the <video> src (signed CloudFront .mov, JWT expires in hours) and curl-ing it into HP-Trailer/. The usage-policy filter refuses adult-boss-hits-teen beats; stage boss attacks as misses and floor damage, never reword to evade. The /policy/ text check on the Assets page is a false positive (the sidebar's "Privacy Policy" link) — match "usage policy".

Open: the Action Reel's STYLE LOCK and room continuity are still the old painterly text and the pre-September-4 rooms; the two-minute Shipaton video (explainer + these sequences + CINECAM gameplay) is not started.

Audio sourcing cue sheet — 2026-09-15

Chris requested a human sourcing handoff after the new synthesized combat cues sounded too cartoony. docs/AUDIO-CUE-SHEET.md and the default Cue Sheet tab in library.html map 304 cue/library entries at runtime revision 0c94f7a: 197 in-game roles, 42 available-unused entries, 56 missing proposals and nine reference groups. These are roles/pools, not unique sound counts. Production work is a separate field so an existing sound needing a better texture does not become a falsely missing event. The editable JSON includes timing targets, variation counts, material briefs, generation prompts, Envato search terms and code evidence. Filters download a text handoff with source/filename/notes fields.

Audit reconciled 720 existing media files, 42 shipped voice files (39 triggered, three Sora bosskill loaded but unused), 157 current voice audition files, 367 public clone takes, 27 music tracks and eight reactive boss accents. Source take counts overlap selected/cut runtime exports. 65 rejected private Sora clones remain excluded. The public library's old 25 synth captures and voice mashups are unchanged; 41 new versioned previews capture the actual current combat recipes in isolation. No game code, music, sim, configuration or APK was changed by this library pass.

The first sourcing pilots are Kuroinu arrival, Shirasagi arrival and Janitor arrival; the full backlog should not become a bulk purchase request. Existing Yui dash/hurt and Ren hurt clone pools should be auditioned before recasting. ElevenLabs was attempted with the existing local key: sandbox connection was refused, then the first connected Sound Effects request returned HTTP 401 missing_permissions. No audio returned; the remaining two cues were not sent. Do not infer a billing outcome from this. scripts/eleven-sfx.py preserves the three prompts, uses explicit cue IDs and stops at first failure without retry. No credential appears in the public files. Sound Effects permission is needed before another attempt; speech generation is not a substitute for SFX.

Verification: 1,176 Node tests passed, including cue classification, source mapping and recipe coverage. The Chrome library matrix checked 69 cases and 642 preview paths across desktop and phone portrait/landscape, with zero initial audio fetches, no browser errors, working filters/downloads and one preview playing at a time. Additional deep-link and missing-manifest checks passed 14 targeted checks (83 across both runs), recorded in the browser report. Reports stay outside the repo. The text renderer is on-demand and never generates audio. Editable library metadata has explicit no-store edge overrides; existing media retains its cache policy.

2026-09-15 (cont.) — 18 trailer sequences landed; doctrine v3/v4; Runway hidden-tab + API recipe

Chris's three rulings during the day, now baked into every prompt: (1) "give it ideas for the school rooms but not too much direction… let the video model decide a lot more" — prompts carry a MENU of locations ("a science lab, the library stacks, a gym… or anywhere else in a school, and you may move through more than one place across the cuts") and beats in order instead of numbered shots with fixed angles; (2) "boss deaths… never really become monsters" — every boss gets a TRUE FORM beat (it changes and GROWS, built from its own parts, the model designs it) and a spectacle death; a non-humanoid or final boss needs a concrete scale cue ("three or four times taller, the ceiling ripping open, the student tiny beneath it") or it will not grow — measured twice (I and J failed without it, I2, C2 and J2 succeeded with it); (3) Ren goes back to his ORIGINAL design (upswept red-tipped hair, crest blazer, white sneakers) — reference is the muted restyle plate HP-Trailer/ren-restyle/ren-restyle-1.png; the seinen redesign is retired for video.

Result: 18 fifteen-second Seedance 2.5 sequences in C:/Users/Operator/Downloads/HP-Trailer/ (A–K plus the v2 redo set B2–F2, I2, J2), each 6–8 distinct setups, indexed in INDEX-seq-clips.jpg. The model chose a different room almost every time (science lab, gym, library, auditorium, basement stairwell, principal's office, rooftop in rain, three-storey entrance hall). Reference clips for the cut: D2 (Sora/Vice, office), H (Ren/Janitor rooftop death), G and B2 (Monitor lamp-cluster form), C2 and I2 (Detention filling the auditorium), J2 (final boss swallowing the roof), K + H as the Ren/Janitor opening + finish pair.

Driving Runway with Chrome in the background (no more asking Chris to bring the tab forward): the prompt box is a Lexical editor — ed.__lexicalEditor.setEditorState(editor.parseEditorState(json)) with a root→paragraph→text node lands the prompt instantly while type/execCommand/ paste all fail on a hidden tab; the Duration popover opens on a JS click(), End on the [role=slider] = 15s; the "Free in Unlimited Mode" tooltip appears after synthetic pointerover/pointerenter/mouseover/mouseenter/pointermove on the model button then the cost button. Status and retrieval no longer touch the UI at all: the app's bearer token sits in localStorage RW_USER_TOKEN (use it only in-page, never echo it); GET api.runwayml.com/v1/assets_pending?privateInTeam=true&asTeamId=14615209 lists queued/running tasks (THROTTLED = queued, RUNNING + progressRatio), GET /v1/sessions/<id>/assets?asTeamId=… returns the finished clip's signed .mov URL for curl. Two gotchas: a tab hidden >5 min gets Chrome's intensive timer throttling, so keep in-page await sleep() to one short wait per call and probe in a separate call; and never stage a session while another clip is pending — Generate stays soft-disabled until a reload (refs are cleared by the reload, re-upload them). Queue wait was 25–30 min per clip all day, one at a time, all free.

Open: the two-minute Shipaton video (explainer + these sequences + CINECAM gameplay) is not started; the Action Reel page still carries the old style lock, numbered-shot prompts and pre-September-4 rooms.

2026-09-15 — Recorded battle cues and one boss prize (Codex)

Chris approved the Kuroinu, Shirasagi and Janitor auditions and asked to integrate, add more, celebrate boss loot, and stop awarding several power-ups per boss. Integrated all three plus newly generated Raiju, Kitsune and a rare-loot chime. Six mono cuts total 186,672 bytes, about 2.1 MiB PCM at 48 kHz. Runtime filenames, checksums and gains are in assets/sfx/combat/manifest.json; playback uses the existing directional SFX bus, voice cap, pause/mute cancellation and procedural fallback. Preloading shares the serialized decode queue; no event fetch/decode. Prompts and sanitized generation receipts are retained; masters stay ignored. The successful responses report character-cost 18/18/20 and 18/18/22 respectively (114 total provider units, not a dollar/credit invoice). The prior bad key and long-prompt rejections returned no audio. Nothing automatically retries failures.

A boss now rolls exactly one prize: 40% eligible signature, 35% weapon, 25% large heart. Disabled/already-awarded cards become weapons. Normal XP and coins stay; the guaranteed 25-HP heart, extra separate trophy, level orb and energy-cache rolls are removed. Existing saved level/energy rewards still collect. The old heart's phase RNG draw remains, and new choice/reveal metadata consumes no RNG. The large heart waits 1.8 sim seconds before magnetism; snapshots retain this hold and checkpoints release it. Card identities are spent only on a card roll.

The exorcism now carries any prize through its seal. One reveal cue (also at the final bell) accompanies a bounded, pooled light pillar, compact level-up rays, halo, sparks and local light pulse. Cards grow into view on the same timeline as weapons. No new camera shake, full-screen flash or mid-run reload. Pause freezes the pillar; reduced motion omits it and the flying particles. Three slots reuse the existing beam geometry/texture and their materials are disposed with View.

The library and generated cue-sheet guide now preview the actual six live cuts; older downloaded references are preserved. Chrome QA passed twelve prize scenes (desktop, portrait/landscape phone, reduced/low), including pause and retirement, and twelve native WebAudio sample/cancellation cases. Screenshots were reviewed; the initial pillar was thinned and softened to keep the prize readable. These are browser viewport checks, not a claim of physical iPhone/Safari testing. No APK build or publication requested or performed.

2026-09-15 — Dismiss loading after Continue Run warm-up

Continuing a live saved run cleared the preparation splash, then _openRun showed it again for final shader warm-up. Its completion resumed gameplay without hiding that splash. New runs with arrival intros disabled had the same issue. The shared gate now dismisses loading before invoking its callback, so arrival intros and resumed level-up screens can take over normally. Existing generation/state guards keep stale completions from hiding a newer loader.

Four regression cases cover successful/failed/missing warm-up and stale completion; all 1,184 tests pass. Real Chrome desktop and phone viewport checks used both actual graphics loading stages, started a run with intros disabled, saved it, and clicked Continue Run. Both times the loading splash was hidden and its loading class removed. No physical iPhone claim. Production publishes through the normal main/dist flow, preserving existing assets and APK.

2026-09-16 — PostHog: pageviews, web vitals, per-run frame rate

Chris wants traffic (how many, from where) ahead of running ads, plus performance. PostHog already had the named events; what it lacked was the one event its Web Analytics counts traffic from.

Gotchas.

2026-09-16 — Anime audio auditions and shortlist (Codex)

Refreshed against Claude's cbe8a18 analytics implementation and d241896 session correction: pageviews/Web Vitals, per-run frame/stall/device summaries, and the measured 5–9 minute PostHog Explore lag. Those changes are preserved; this pass changes no game runtime or analytics behavior.

Chris found the Janitor entrance too crash-like. Its original source brief explicitly requested a brutal steel slam. Marked it for replacement and made three gradual reveal alternatives: broom bristles, gathering air and rounded iron resonance. No audition has been promoted into gameplay yet.

Verification: focused cue/packaging tests, the full 1,224-test suite, production build, and 113 isolated Chrome library checks (731 referenced media paths, 390×844, 844×390 and 1280×900 layouts, selection/reload/export, media playback, missing manifests and blocked storage). Screenshots reviewed; desktop controls aligned after that review. This is browser viewport testing, not physical iPhone testing. Web publication follows the standing main/dist production flow.

2026-09-16 — Lab reconfigured for PUSH-ON POWER

Chris: "based on the recent card changes and other powerups I feel like we might be causing too-overpowered problems as the player pushes on." Reconfigured both loops so he can run them in another session with that as the standing question.

2026-09-17 — Push-on baseline read, and CARRY (rooms scale to the carried level)

Chris ran the pushon sweep (sim 1507447, n=16, four cells). Read against heuristic 10 it failed everywhere at competent skill: zero median near-misses at all 12 stages, minHP ≥ 50% at every non-FINAL stage after the first push, FINAL clears ≥ 85% in every further room, and levels 28→39→48→56 identical across fresh/full × cards off/on — so neither cards nor the kit is the engine; the carried LEVEL is. Verdict filed on #61 (tuning lever GRADES caps for Loop 2); mechanic #62 parked with options A/B/C. Chris: "Go with option A, rooms scale to carried level."

Built (sim + config + lab):

Measured (full kit, no cards, skill 0.8, standard-16):

cell wins gym FINAL library FINAL cafeteria FINAL
baseline 1507447 13/16 100% · minHP 60% 93% · 33% 93% · 24%
v1 hp + floor only 12/16 100% · 81% 92% · 27% 100% · 29% (levels ROSE 43/55/65)
v2 dmg 0.03/2.5, keep 0 1/16 86% · 51% 30% · 0% —
dmg 0.02/2.0, keep 0 4/16 100% · 55% wall —
dmg 0.015/1.8, keep 0 5/16 100% · 59% wall —
dmg 0.01/1.6, keep 0.5 8/16 93% · 81% 67% · 7% —
dmg 0.015/1.8, keep 0.5 (shipped) 7/16 93% · 79% 92% · 16% 58% · 2%

Lesson worth keeping: hp alone never threatens a level-40 build (damage is the channel that moves minHP), and lifting the graded share without withholding the depth xp bonus makes the loop feed on its own answer. Manifests 2026-09-17-claude-carry-A*-full-nocards.json. Cards-on and fresh-kit cells not re-run; Chris's pushon preset covers them.

2026-09-17 — Pre-launch four: telegraphs, Study Hall mercy, the free pull, the club's one question

Chris asked for ten pre-launch ideas and picked four: "4. Telegraph the threats, and 1. I want it winnable but without adding another level; then make a free pull every night via OneSignal push … then when returning to club, randomly ask how they liked 'something' (the boss, the round, etc.) for data, and send to PostHog."

2026-09-17 — Clutch: near-misses for novices

Chris: "now do the near-misses, give novices some drama." Built CLUTCH (config): the first hit in a period that leaves a solo student under 15% (or dead) is survived at 1 hp, the crowd is shoved off, 1.4s untouchable, and hp climbs back to 42% over 1.6s — the lab's near-miss by definition. Once per period, re-armed by graduate(); School Run crews keep their KO handoff instead; no rng; snapshot-safe; clutches on result(), the run record and run_ended. The moment: slow-mo, hit-stop, "CLUTCH — NOT TONIGHT", rings, burst, light. Verified in the pane (lethal hit survived at 1 hp, banner up, zero console errors).

Measured with the mercy preset (n=64): novice near-miss median 0 → 1 at every rung, 86% of rung-0 novice runs now have one. The flinch alone lifted the novice first night 20% → 36% and pushed the old rung 3 to 98%, so MERCY was re-laddered one notch softer (0.9/380, 0.8/480, 0.72/540): novice clears 36 / 52 / 59 / 78% across rungs, competent 63–64 of 64, competent near-miss mean ≤ 0.11 (they clutch about once in ten nights). Tables in MECHANICS. Eleven existing lethal-hit fixtures disarm the clutch explicitly (sim.clutchLeft = 0); one of them had to disarm inside the step because the runner's checkpoint re-arms it.

2026-09-19 — Impact pass, death dissolve, curse shimmer

Chris: an hour to push the rendered night "to the next level". Surveyed the seven rooms mid-run in headed Chrome first (scratchpad roomshots.mjs): the crowd is one flat navy body that pops out of existence, the frame is bloom + vignette. Shipped three view-only effects, sim rng untouched: (1) an impact pass in the bloom compositor — shockwave rings from the Domain cast, level-up, boss and heavy kills, a chromatic split on hurt and the big casts, film grain; (2) a death dissolve — the pooled body (and its ink outline) is re-issued from its last drawn matrix into a dying pool and burns through with a hot lip in its grade colour; (3) a curse shimmer on every pooled body — a fresnel rim in the body's tint and a crawling vein in the eye colour. Each measured at the 16.7 ms vsync with the effect at its worst case. Kill events now carry id/tier (payload only; the determinism canaries hold, 1229 tests green). Gotcha: a Playwright screenshot at 2× takes longer than a 0.7 s burn, so the burn captures freeze the dissolve clock (update(0) first to flush the pool, then step time).

Second landing the same hour: MOTES (src/motes.js) — dust drifting in the cone under every practical fixture with a breathing halo at the head and a thin scatter in indoor air, one instanced draw animated in the vertex shader; plus the clutch and the dash joined the impact language. Frame unchanged at vsync in four rooms. Gotcha: the environment-kit tests count every dispose() on the world's resources exactly once, and an InstancedMesh has its own — the module's dispose must call mesh.dispose() as well as the geometry's and the material's. The floors were already glossy (every room builds a PMREM reflection; the material envMapIntensity values were authored for it), so that item was dropped.

Menu audits: 1280 green after fixing the deck assertions the free-pull landing (48cb8c3, 2026-09-16) broke without updating — a second .deck-pull (the free pull) in the masthead, and the phone deck moved to collection/hand panels. The 667 audit still fails further down the deck section: its arrows/paging checks assume the single row, and the phone deck is a wrapping grid now. That audit rewrite belongs to the free-pull thread; not touched here beyond making the "side by side" check wrap-aware.

2026-09-19 — Moon beams, the hour's grade, rise on spawn, Domain haze

Chris: "Yes to all 4 next items." Landed the same afternoon, all view only: moon beams (sheared additive sheets from the gym's clerestory and the library's reading-hall and study-bay windows, over the moon patches those rooms already had — the floors were never the missing piece, the air above them was), a colour-temperature grade in the compositor driven by the night clock with the warm term tied to dawnMix alone, enemies rising through the floor with a hot floor line from the shimmer shader, and a heat-haze band around a standing Domain field. Gotchas: a beam sheet's pow(1 - v, 1.5) went NaN where perspective interpolation overshoots 1, and an additive blend renders NaN as an opaque black quad — only while the camera moved, so it looked like a teleport artefact; the DomainFx sync only opens a field whose timer is under its duration, so a scripted silkT above DOMAINS.silk.dur never shows; and a run of GL_INVALID_VALUE: glGetProgramiv seen once across a quit-and-restart did not reproduce with a probe on getProgramParameter, so the preload's readiness poll now skips a program whose handle is gone.

2026-09-19 — Boss entrance, hit tints, the shower

Chris: "go." Three more, view only: the modeled boss assembles from embers (the exorcism's surface burn run backwards over 1.5 s, then a wave and a split as it stands); a body's hit flash wears the colour of what hit it (the hit event now carries id/who/source/weapon colour — payload only, canaries hold); and the yard gets a shower on the world clock, with the open ground going to glass and drying back slowly. Gotchas: the yard already had rain, puddles, mist and splashes (yard-graphics.js), so the cue is an intensity on the existing rig plus a wet grade on the base materials, not a second weather system; and a tinted flash has to REPLACE the body colour for the frame — adding the tint to the old 1 + 7×flash went white under ACES for every colour.

2026-09-19 — Streaks, low health, lightning, the punch

Chris: "More, maybe?" Four more, view only: an anamorphic streak pass on the bloom, the low-health state in the compositor (edges drain, a red vignette beats), lightning during the yard's shower (key and sky spike, double flicker, the wet court glints), a camera punch on the Domain cast and a boss arrival, and the crowd's curse vein charging with the chain. Frame still at vsync with the extra pass. The warm-up test enumerates the post passes against their targets, so a new pass means updating that list (scene + bright, blur, streak, composite) — the check is there to catch exactly this, a pass the warm-up would otherwise leave to the first drawn frame.

2026-09-19 — Dawn bloom, dust kick, skyline parallax

Chris: "go." The dawn bloom (bloom opens, streak goes gold, a sun wash at the top of the frame, all on dawnMix so never mid-night), a dust puff and scuff under the dash, and the yard skyline riding a third with the camera plus a crawling cloud field. The first dawn cut washed the whole court gold — strength +55%, threshold −0.14, wash from mid-frame — and was cut to a third of that; the sunrise should feel like light arriving, not a filter.

2026-09-19 — Haze breath, per-room look, ember trails

Chris: "Yes, please!" The Domain haze breathes, each room owns its grain and vignette (View.ROOM_LOOK, boiler grittiest, gym cleanest), and graded bodies shed ember or violet sparks through the existing shard pool. Nineteen rendering effects across seven landings today, every one view-side, each measured at vsync in headed Chrome and shipped straight to production per the standing rule.

2026-09-19 — Menu motion: wipes, title presence, the loading room card, tallies

Chris: "let's take a look at render effects for the menus, loading screens, interstitials... how do we take these to the next level?" then "go" on a seven-item proposal; the first four landed (MECHANICS "Menu motion"). Gotchas: the menu audit had an assertion encoding the old "no wordmark on the menu" decision — reversed with Chris's go, the assertion now expects one; a wipe with a slow-start ease was invisible at the screenshot's moment, so the band uses a near-linear ease and the capture pauses the animation at fixed offsets (getAnimations(), currentTime) rather than trusting a timeout; the compositor's menu dim has to be released from the frame loop on the first run frame, not on the menu's close, or a resumed run stays dim. The 667 deck section still fails on the free-pull layout (unchanged).

2026-09-19 — Menu motion II: level-up tilt, holographic pulls, living backdrops

Chris: "go" on the last three of the menu proposal. All landed as CSS plus a pointer listener and a pick flourish in ui.js; every piece off under reduced motion. Gotcha for captures: the deck's paid pull button is disabled from the save's coins at build time, so a scripted pull has to set fragments before showDeck (and a level-up needs sim.xp = sim.xpNext then _levelUp(), there is no xpNext setter shortcut).

2026-09-19 — Menu motion III: sound, coin bump, blueprint draw-in, sliders, stats, roster lean

Chris: "Next pass on UI and menus, please; I won't be able to live player test for a while, so keep pushing." Six small pieces, all verified in headed Chrome with frozen animations (MECHANICS "Menu motion"). Gotcha: Animation.finish() throws on an infinite animation (the ink drift), so a capture that fast-forwards a screen's animations has to try/catch it.

2026-09-19 — Menu motion IV: the crew on the loading card, the pause breath, purchase flourishes

Chris: "go". Gotcha: a purchase button cannot carry its own flourish — the store, the skill sheet and the roster all repaint on a buy, so the clicked node is gone before the animation's first frame. A one-shot marker (_justBought) is consumed by whichever rebuilt button matches.

2026-09-19 — research.hallpass.cc: the design research compendium

Chris asked for a public companion site showing how the game was designed from the research: the Steam and Reddit harvests, the mechanics they led to, how close each complaint cluster is to solved, and the lab that measures it.

Built: research-site/ — build.mjs (a zero-dependency static generator), compendium.json (the hand-authored mechanic ↔ signal ↔ finding mapping, risk statuses and method notes), site.css, site.js, README.md. npm run research builds to research-site/dist/ (git-ignored); npm run research:ship deploys. Five pages: Overview, Mechanics (17 systems in three chapters, each with the research signal, a sourced quote, what shipped, what the lab measured and its I-numbers), Scoreboard (the ten August risk-tracker clusters, then → now, with an editorial progress estimate the page labels as such), Sources (method, the Steam atlas, all ten games, the Reddit atlas, all eight subs) and The Lab (gates, ten heuristics, lab-promoted dossiers, the full 227-row findings index with a filter).

Reads at build time, never at runtime: research/*.md, research/deep/*, research/reddit/*, ../_hallpass-archive/reports/INSIGHTS.md (findings index; empty if the archive is absent), the experiment manifest count, and docs/IDEAS.md headings marked "promoted by the playtest lab". Rebuild after a harvest, a promoted finding, or a mechanic change that dates a compendium.json entry.

Hosting: new Netlify site hallpass-research (7760fefe-a6fd-477d-8a2a-333f2efd9e79, team Web Royal), live at https://hallpass-research.netlify.app, custom domain research.hallpass.cc attached on Netlify. DNS step outstanding (Chris, Namecheap Advanced DNS): CNAME research hallpass-research.netlify.app. Certificate provisions itself once that resolves.

Decisions and gotchas:

2026-09-19 — Delivery: delta OTA and packed boss models

Chris asked how to cut the 100 MB+ Capacitor deploys. Measured the payload (music 81 of 135 MB); proposed streaming music with an offline cache, which Chris declined — the app has to play offline from the first launch — and chose delta OTA plus model compression. Landed both: --delta on the Capgo upload, and gltfpack (quantize + meshopt) over the boss GLBs, 15.9 → 5.4 MB, decoder wired into boss3d, all nine arts verified loading with clips in headed Chrome. The uncompressed set moved to the archive as the editable source. Music re-encode deferred (hash-locked pipeline).

Revision, same day. Chris: "the title font is hard to read, and it sounds very AI generated." Dropped CT Headstone and the last of the game's faces; the site now sets everything in Bricolage Grotesque from Google Fonts (variable width/optical size, headings at 800 wdth 90, sentence case, no uppercase display). Rewrote every line of copy in compendium.json and the generator's page text in a plain developer voice: descriptive titles ("Study Hall mercy and Clutch" rather than "Winnable without adding a tier"), concrete numbers, no slogans or "X, not Y" constructions, no "candid/honest" self-labelling. Status label "Continuous" became "Ongoing" and "Promise" became "Working practice" on the page (keys in the JSON are unchanged).

2026-09-19 — Music re-baked at 128k, boss score re-locked

Chris: "reencode first." All 27 masters present and hash-matched, so this went through bake-music.py, not a re-encode of the shipped files. Two guards bit and were kept: at 128k the wrap click on the short publisher loops and on three boss songs grew past the splice check, so the bake now walks a bitrate ladder per track (128 → 192 → 256) and the publisher loops stay at 256k. bake-boss-score.py then refused to reinterpret the Janitor/WOW pilot's events from the 192k file (the PILOT_EVENTS hash, doing its job); added --relock, which carries every track's events and only refreshes the hash locks, asserting the loop bounds are unchanged. 79.7 → 44.5 MB; app payload 123 → 88 MB. Verified by the node suite and both Chrome audio tests; a listening pass is Chris's.

Third pass, same day ("make it even more awesome"). The site went from five pages to sixty-one. New: a page per theme (53), reached from every theme name on the site, gathering the theme's numbers across all ten games and eight subs, its quotes, the exact regexes from the harvest scripts, the scoreboard cluster and the mechanics that answer it; a Timeline page (20 dated events, hand-authored in compendium.json) with a five-stop strip on the overview; a Voices page (173 deduplicated top-weighted reviews, filterable by side/game/theme); grouped-bar charts for the measured tables (mercy, Clutch, taper, carry) on the mechanics page; on the Lab page an experiments-per-day chart read from manifest filenames and a findings-by- source stacked bar; and a full checklist on the scoreboard page matching every praise, complaint and demand theme to the mechanics that respond, with gaps left showing (price-value has none). compendium.json grew themes (one-line definitions), timeline, per-mechanic charts and answers (extra themes an entry responds to). fmt() now tolerates thousands separators; the first build leaked NaN into 30 pages because the atlas tables carry them.

2026-09-19 — Light scatter, afterimage, ink, the floor mirror, the damage ghost

Chris: "make it like the most advanced threejs and webgpu system anyone's ever seen." Told him straight that WebGPU is a rewrite of every shader (node materials; no shared scene with WebGLRenderer) and not a push; landed the high-end reads instead — god rays, afterimage, manga ink, a real planar reflection in the gym, and the boss bar's damage ghost — each at vsync. Gotchas: a new post pass or target has to be added to the warm-up test's list and guarded in the resize test's double; the afterimage at 2.2/s decay was gone before a screenshot could catch it (now 1.5/s); and a planar mirror is nearly invisible from a steep top-down camera, which is worth knowing before spending on reflections.

2026-09-19 — Depth: contact shadows, depth of field, the room on the boss

Chris: "go" on the depth tier. The scene target resolves its depth (three handles the multisampled blit); contact shadows and a menu-time depth of field read it in the composite; a cube capture puts the room on the boss's surface. Gotchas: the boss dissolve hook is installed on the ink hull too, a basic material with no normal or view position — the reflection is injected only where the fragment shader declares vViewPosition; and a six-face cube capture in one frame was a 33 ms hitch, so it captures one face every other frame.

2026-09-19 — The pause wipe becomes an ink flood

Chris: the wipe on pause/resume "is a good start but there's something jarring about it that doesn't fit the rest of the aesthetic." Diagnosis: the menu band (a slanted slab with a cyan lead line and a swish) was slashing across live combat on the most-used tap. Over the live scene the transition is now the boss splash's grammar — dark bands flooding in from the top and bottom edges with a thin red rule, and a quiet paper tick. Menu-to-menu keeps the band. Captured mid-flood in headed Chrome (ink-pause-* in the archive).

2026-09-19 (later) — The yard got its ground back

Chris, mid-submission: "a lot of stuff was done to ground lighting, making the ground on the yard too dark." He was right, and it was one line of shader.

The contact shadows added that morning tested occlusion as the depth difference to a single neighbouring pixel, with nothing accounting for the surface's own slope. A ground plane seen from a tilted camera has roughly half its taps nearer for free, so the smoothstep saturated and the whole floor shaded as if a body stood on it. Not a contact shadow: a flat dimmer on the largest receding surface in every room. The yard's court is the largest of those and went to near black.

Fixed by summing OPPOSITE tap pairs instead of reading single neighbours. On a plane the two deltas cancel exactly at any angle, so a floor contributes nothing and only a real step pushes the sum positive. Four pairs, same eight taps, same cost.

Three failed measurements before the fix, worth recording so the next session does not repeat them.

  1. Toggling post uniforms at runtime and calling view.render() again: game.frame() already draws, so the extra render composited on top of an already-composited target and fed back. Luma climbed monotonically across the variant list regardless of what was set, and two provable no-ops measured 14 and 24.
  2. Cropping the same screen region across two builds: ordinary ?bot=1 runs are NOT reproducible, because the bot draws from the same Math.random stream as the view's FX. The two frames were different moments in different corners of the yard. This is exactly what CINECAM was built to solve and the reason it hands the bot its own stream.
  3. Seeding Math.random in the page before startRun: still diverged, for the same reason. Seeding the shared stream is not enough; the bot needs a separate one, plus a forced run seed and a reset botOut.

Driving the real cine-client.js from the headless rig is the right answer and needs two files served, cine-client.js and cine-ctx.js; both are dev-only and must never land in dist/. That attempt failed inside boot() and was abandoned for time. Any future claim about a lighting delta should come from a CINECAM take, not a bot run.

Also this session: the App Store listing filled and saved (name, subtitle, promotional text, description, keywords, support and marketing URLs), the privacy policy URL, and eight 6.5" screenshots uploaded. Apple confirmed it reuses the 6.5" set for every iPhone size. iOS 1.0 ships with ads off, so the description lost its rewarded-ad revive sentence and the nutrition label answers Tracking: No. No em dashes in anything that ships.

2026-09-19 — The yard went dark: the shower's baseline, found by bisect

Chris: "the darkness passes really fucked up the Yard level, you can barely see the ground and the puddles look like texture." In-page toggles (post off, depth off, passes off, lights read back) all said the scene itself was dark. A worktree bisect over the day's commits with a fixed capture and a court-luminance metric (sharp on the screenshot) pinned it: 52 → 22 at the shower commit (b0fd026); the AO commit cost a little more and Chris's own session had already corrected that one (4b9923d). Cause: wettable() snapshotted the ground's colour at build time, before applyGround's async photo load recoloured it, and wrote the dark pre-texture tint back every frame. Fix: the baseline is read the first time the ground gets wet, roughness scales the authored map, and everything is restored exactly on drying. Lesson for the log: a material that other code mutates later cannot be snapshotted at build time; and a bisect with a measured frame beat an hour of guessing. Leftover: G:\Skunkworks\hp-bisect (the bisect worktree's stray files) is safe to delete; git worktree prune after.

2026-09-20 — The crew names run down the card

Chris, with a trading-card reference: put the hero names vertically down the left side of each card on Choose Crew, "to add more room and make the card more dynamic".

Done in assets/menu.css, scoped to .screen-roster.roster-chooser so no other screen moves. The name leaves the bottom of the card, where it was competing with the kit slots for the widest part of the frame and pushing the portrait's focal point up, and rides a character-coloured band down the left edge in writing-mode: vertical-rl.

The band's width is one custom property, --namebar, on the card. Every element that has to clear it (the card's own left padding, the order badge, the locked price) reads from that variable, so the four breakpoints only need to restate --namebar and everything else follows. The locked price steps out of the band and sits along the bottom, because a price is the one thing that has to stay readable left to right.

Note for whoever runs the browser suites: npm run test:menus needs PLAYWRIGHT_MODULE pointed at the global install ($(npm root -g)/playwright/index.mjs), because Playwright is not a repo dependency and the test imports it by bare name. With that set, the suite still fails at menu-ui.browser.mjs:442 on the deck row's scroll arrows. Verified pre-existing by stashing the CSS and re-running: identical failure. Unrelated to this change, and not yet investigated.

2026-09-21 — Renderer polish while the iOS submission is in review

Chris asked for a review of the weekend graphics work and refinements to the weaker parts. Reviewed the post/world/View changes and captured all ten rooms with CINECAM. Findings and the next three visual auditions are in docs/GRAPHICS-REVIEW-2026-09-21.md.

Verification: 1,236 Node tests passed. New test/render-lighting.browser.mjs checks actual GPU pixels for all six cube directions, visible trails, expiry and menu clearing, prewarmed targets and stable resources across 80 bursts. Thirty desktop CINECAM captures (entry/two dashes in ten rooms), six portrait phone captures and three landscape/low/reduced-motion captures had no runtime or shader errors. Twelve baseline comparison snapshots matched sim time, position and kills. Chrome used RTX 3090/ANGLE; this is not a physical-iPhone Safari thermal/performance result. Captures stayed outside the repo.

Capture harness lesson: with rAF disabled, wait for sprites.loaded, not sprites.ready (deferred activation needs a warm draw). Use the CINECAM bot's separate random stream. Set renderer.info.autoReset=false and reset it once per whole frame if counting multi-pass draws; its default reports only the last pass. The shared Playwright runtime moved to C:/Users/Operator/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/dependencies/node/node_modules/playwright/index.mjs. Resolve it through the app dependency tool if that location changes again.

Web release only. No OTA, iOS sync/archive or APK build; retain the existing APK download. The working tree also contains other sessions' Android, voice-tool, watcher and Netlify edits; those are not part of this commit.

2026-09-21 — Softer lamp shafts and enemy attack cues

Chris asked to keep going with the graphics review. Continued with the lamp and enemy-detail auditions from docs/GRAPHICS-REVIEW-2026-09-21.md.

Verification: all 1,239 Node tests passed. GPU readback checks the shaft's visible body, end fade, opaque occlusion and one draw, alongside the previous reflection/echo regressions. CINECAM Yard/Library comparisons against 1976a13 match simulation time, position and kills in six snapshots. Initial Yard frame went from 592 to 588 draws; Library stayed at 305. These are workload counts, not FPS results. View-only idle/windup/recovery fixtures were reviewed at desktop and 844x390 phone sizes, including low graphics/reduced motion. No browser/shader errors; no claim of physical iPhone Safari performance. Captures remain outside the repo in the session's graphics-20260921b folders.

Web release only; preserve the existing APK download. No OTA, iOS sync, archive, tuner config or simulation changes. Other sessions' Android, voice-tool and Netlify edits are excluded.

2026-09-21 — UI motion: chapter cuts and technique decisions

Chris felt the new UI effects were a good start but lacked panache. Reviewed Fable's four menu-motion passes in actual Chrome captures before changing the shared transitions, pointer effects and level-up decision.

Before After Why
A 420 ms neon-edged band covers crew art; a 440 ms ink flood covers modal transitions. A 280 ms red/ivory accent strikes the header rule; title/panels settle in 200 ms with 28 ms card stagger. Stronger manga timing while artwork and controls stay visible.
Every mouse movement updates inherited variables on the entire UI; portraits and ghost words drift. Only the hovered revealed card gets local foil coordinates; opaque backdrops use stationary halftone. Concentrate response on the object being inspected and avoid root-wide style work.
Picking whitens the whole card and throws others down for 300 ms. A 180 ms blade crosses the icon, the icon reacts, and alternatives recede gently. Keep names/effects readable while clearly marking the decision.

Kept the physical pause buttons, wordmark, artwork, loading room/crew card, results stamp/tallies, purchases and card flip. Button hover uses a short edge accent instead of a long sweep. The paused arena stays at its original scale; HUD rows fade instead of sliding away. Chapter cuts only run for a new screen name, skip keyboard/gamepad navigation and respect reduced motion. Closing is immediate. Card picks guard double activation on all input paths; closing cancels the pending pick and the callback verifies screen ownership.

Verification: all 1,239 Node tests passed. test/ui-motion.browser.mjs checks actual mouse, emulated touch and keyboard activation at 1280x800, 390x844, 844x390 and reduced-motion desktop: reachability, no horizontal overflow, single selection, cancelled stale picks, same-screen repaint, local foil and pointer-leave reset. The existing pause/options suite passed all nine sizes from 320x568 to 1920x1080. Before/after and timed impact captures are outside the repo in the session's ui-motion-20260921/ folders. These are desktop Chrome phone profiles, not physical iPhone Safari measurements.

Next audition: give card acquisition a reveal tied to its hero/boss instead of the shared gold burst. This pass leaves that reveal treatment intact. Web release only; no native/OTA/APK change and no new media or dependencies.

2026-09-21 — Card acquisition signatures

Chris approved the next UI audition. Replaced the shared gold pull burst with short, authored marks and foil based on the card itself: red impact for Ren, cyan threads for Yui, type colours for general cards, and nine distinct boss signatures matching their existing attack palettes. The current card pool is unchanged. Boss marks appear when inspecting an earned ground card; teammate changes, same-screen repaints, save retries and discarded hand cards do not replay the ceremony. Purchases and card exchanges retain their actions.

Pulled cards flip in 540 ms with 90 ms stagger; the new effects use finite transform/opacity animations, no new assets, renderer passes or particle loop. Visual review caught heading overlap, chunky sparks and phone overflow; the final marks are confined to the illustration and edges, with finer sparks and readable names/rules. Keyboard/gamepad and reduced-motion pulls show the front immediately. Closing before the double-frame flip cancels its chime.

Verification: all 1,242 Node tests passed. The new card-reveal browser check passed desktop, portrait/landscape phones, 320px phone and reduced-motion desktop: single/triple pulls, all nine boss cards, effect expiry, unchanged hand state, exchange controls, keyboard and rapid close. Existing UI-motion and boss-card-drop browser suites also passed. Timed captures are outside the repo in the session's card-reveal-20260921/verified/ folder. These are Chrome phone profiles, not physical iPhone Safari measurements.

Web release only. Preserve the existing APK download; no OTA, native build, iOS sync/archive, simulation or tuner changes. Exclude the other session's voice tools, Android build files and Netlify working-tree edits.

2026-09-21 — Threadbreaker and the Janitor encounter

Chris approved the Ren–Yui combination and coordinated combat presentation, then the Janitor encounter. Tester feedback described bosses as larger ordinary enemies. The roster audit found nine bosses sharing six kits; docs/BOSS-ENCOUNTER-ROADMAP.md records a distinct proposed second move, response and recovery for each remaining boss, explicitly as backlog.

Fresh normal runs now use combat version 1. Yui's Binding Stitch exposes a two-second opportunity to tag Ren for Threadbreaker. The existing Tag control selects Ren and shows the link; the action spends Yui's captured snap once, with bounded knockback, cyan tension, a red strike and planted punch pose. There is no extra full hit or new control. The short impact sound, music duck and optional hit-stop share the action; ordinary tag effects do not stack, and boss death takes priority. Existing daily/saved runs keep version 0.

The Janitor alternates a rotating mop sweep with a committed straight rush. Live-state floor warnings show their footprints. An aimed, accepted Special or Threadbreaker can break his exposed sweep seal once, granting 2.2 seconds of stationary recovery. Rushes stop at scenery/boundaries and recover too. Existing reinforcements remain; no boss HP, spawn-count or tuning changes. Pooled effects use no extra texture assets or post-processing passes.

Review corrected duplicated tag effects, stale menu events, rush lean in the wrong coordinate frame, visual impact delayed by hit-stop, multiplied shard colors, and the generic Special toast overwriting the seal-break result. The cue sheet now lists the two new procedural sounds honestly, without claiming recorded auditions or voice exchanges. No library audio regenerated.

Verification: all 1,293 Node tests passed, including versioned replay/save round trips, room carry, input guards, damage ownership, seal qualification, actual collisions, cancellation, resource reuse and choreography arbitration. test/crew-janitor.browser.mjs passed desktop 1280x800, phone 390x844, landscape 844x390, small phone 320x568 and reduced-motion phone. It presses actual keyboard/touch controls, proves button reachability, link consumption, pause freeze, live seal cancellation and locked rush direction. Reviewed screenshots from each profile. CINE verification over 180 fixed frames returned zero drift. These are directed Chrome fixtures, not balance measurements or physical iPhone Safari performance evidence. Captures/report are outside the repo in the session visualization folder crew-janitor-20260921/verified/.

Web release only; preserve the existing APK. No native/OTA/iOS build, paid media generation, tuner config or playtest-loop changes. Other sessions' voice tools, Android build artifacts and Netlify working-tree edits remain excluded. An already committed watcher-page change (d06469b) precedes this work on main and is preserved.

2026-09-21 — Threadbreaker impact revision (Codex)

Chris found the Yui-to-Ren link too weak to recognize as a special move. Inspection found that tag-in invulnerability could blink Ren invisible at impact, and the camera push started early enough to decay before the snap. The new presentation keeps Ren visible for 240ms, drives his shoulder and torso through a held punch, snaps cyan threads into recoiling halves, and adds a broad red/ivory rupture with eight-ray marks on the struck enemies. Camera and sound now follow the 65ms snap. A brief Broaven Threadbreaker title and Yui + Ren credit identify the move under the HUD. Combat damage, target selection, invulnerability, movement and saved-run rules are unchanged.

The cue retains four sources but replaces three noise layers with a tonal pull, one 35ms filtered crack and two pitched impact layers. Native Chrome OfflineAudioContext checks covered 64 cases at 44.1/48kHz, including four noise seeds, cancellation, mute and zero SFX volume. Both peak and RMS were lower than the old cue, with no retained voice groups. This is not a fix or a reproduction of the separately reported periodic Mac speaker static; Chris will retest that later. No library audio was regenerated.

Verification: all 1,300 Node tests passed. Directed Chrome fixtures cover desktop 1280x800, phone 390x844, landscape 844x390, small phone 320x568 and reduced-motion phone, with real keyboard/touch activation, notice replacement, pause freeze and Janitor seal/rush checks. CINE's 180-frame replay had zero drift. The notice is frozen at its real 150ms animation frame for screenshots because fixed-step game frames and software-GPU capture use a different clock from UI expiration. These fixtures are not physical Mac/iPhone or balance evidence. FX resource checks found no geometry growth over 100 links. Reports/captures remain outside the repo in the session visualization folder threadbreaker-impact-20260921/; PCM comparisons are in threadbreaker-impact-audio/. Reduced motion retains the hit markers without camera motion, hit-stop, ring or flying shards.

Web-only change; preserve the existing APK. No native/OTA build, tuning or playtest-loop changes. Other sessions' Android, voice-tool, video and Netlify working-tree changes remain excluded.

Production build passed. The existing downloadable APK was restored to dist and its SHA-256 remains 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b. Automatic approval review rejected the combined explicit-file commit/push command for lack of task-specific publication authorization. The command did not execute: this revision remains uncommitted and has not been deployed, pending Chris's approval. No alternate publication route was attempted.

2026-09-22 voice auditions: hour-bell round

2026-09-22 the cast speaks: 168 lines, nine roles, in the locked voices

2026-09-22 (later) the lines get cut to length, and two bugs duration cannot see

Chris on the first pass: "the lines need to be a lot shorter and punchier... everything while they're running has to be like a snap, half a second to maybe one second, and no two-sentence joins." Only the lines that play over a card rather than over the fight may breathe.

2026-09-22 (later still) the dash is six Hups, and Kaito stops sounding asleep

2026-09-22 — Clubhouse preparation and visible crew unlocks (Codex)

Chris approved replacing the title's Deck entry with one Clubhouse containing Deck, Crew and Store. The title keeps its button count. Tab and student are remembered for this session; Deck retains its desktop fan and phone Collection/Hand panes. Card shopping moves into Store, with an in-Deck link. Crew exposes recruitment, the existing four-category character detail sheet, and all four permanent crew positions. Locked positions on Choose Crew open the exact requirement or purchase confirmation, then return with the captain and selected teammate order intact. School Run's borrowed second position is labelled separately from permanent ownership. Prices remain 2,500/7,500 Coins; position two still comes from any room Final. A stale slot confirmation cannot buy a different position. Native Store and Options share the same Patron products, localized prices, active-tier filtering and restore path.

Validation: all 1,324 Node tests passed; nine new controller/economy tests cover routing, remembered context, selection, earned prerequisites, costs, persistence and stale confirmation. The menu-performance check includes Clubhouse and proves hidden gameplay is not stepped/drawn. Six isolated Chrome profiles passed: 1280x800, 390x844, 844x390, 320x568, 568x320, and touch 1024x768. Checks use real clicks/taps and keyboard tab navigation, hit tests and 44px targets; they cover recruiting, inspecting training without spending, slot confirm/cancel/purchase and persisted save, free/single/triple Coin card pulls, School Run's temporary slot and return order, plus stubbed native offering prices/tier visibility. Zero page errors; visible art decoded successfully. The tiny-landscape run caught a redundant Manage Crew footer that squeezed the character cards: removed it because the capacity strip supplies the route. Final browser report/captures are outside the repo in the session visualization folder clubhouse-20260922/verified/. These are layout/functional fixtures, not physical-device performance, balance or live store purchase evidence. Production build passed; no simulation, tuner config, native SDK or APK build.

Read-only Higgsfield research is in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md. It prioritizes nine bespoke boss signature paintings (currently using encounter portraits), custom effect keyframes for Runway animation, material/decal sets, then shikigami and character reference sheets. Connected Web Royal balance was 813.35 credits, differing from Chris's approximate 2,000; expiry was not returned. Cost preflights and staged budgets are recorded. No generations, reference uploads or credit spending. Seedance excluded.

2026-09-22 — Higgsfield engine-art pilot (Codex)

Chris approved beginning production with engine graphics before cards and reported roughly 2,800 credits across two accounts. Only Web Royal is connected. Execution balance was 716.35 before jobs and 701.35 afterward: six successful image auditions cost 15 credits total. Four GPT Image 2.5 high/2K transparent jobs supplied two seal-break and two Janitor pressure candidates. Two 2K Nano Banana surface candidates cost two credits each; requested model was nano_banana_pro, returned metadata says nano_banana_2. Full job IDs, selection, budget and prompt/master locations are in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md. The earlier planning balance was 813.35; its intervening 97-credit difference predates these jobs. No second-account access/spend, Seedance, or card art.

Selected fractured ivory seal, bristle-edged jade pressure slash and painted Boiler enamel. Raw masters/receipts stay ignored in assets-src; six optimized 512/256px WebPs total 333,098 bytes. scripts/bake-engine-art.mjs reproduces the alpha gutters and repeat-edge correction. EngineArtFx uses two bounded instanced pools, existing safe-screen GPU preparation, old particle fallback, finite pause-aware tails and static reduced-motion confirmation. View wires only Janitor break/rush/wall recovery. Boiler jackets share one albedo; scalar maps, lighting, collision, floor and editor layout stay unchanged.

Validation: 1,338 Node tests pass, production/single-file build passes, diff review clean. Four actual Chrome GPU profiles (desktop 1280x800, phone 390x844, landscape 844x390, reduced-motion phone) passed transparent-corner checks on light/dark, 90 paused frames, 100 repeated cues without geometry/texture/program growth, View dispatch/fallback, material appearance and exactly-once disposal. Built-game desktop and iPhone-UA fixtures confirmed ready 512/256px pages, both active effects and zero runtime errors. Captures/reports are outside git in the session visualization folder higgsfield-engine-20260922/. These are rendering fixtures on Chrome/RTX 3090, not physical iPhone performance evidence. No sim/tuner changes, native build, OTA or new APK. The prior public APK is preserved byte-for-byte (SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b).

2026-09-23 — Hall Monitor and Pop Quiz attack artwork (Codex)

Chris requested more engine-art work. Generated three amber verdict-lance and three scorched-paper auditions using GPT Image 2.5 high/2K transparent. Cost preflight was 2.75 each; connected Web Royal balance fell from 701.35 to 684.85: 16.5 credits this batch, 31.5 across both engine batches. No second-account spend, Seedance, card generation or video generation. Selected Monitor B and Quiz A; complete job IDs/decisions are in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md, masters and receipts in ignored assets-src/higgsfield-boss-shots-20260923/.

Four exported 512/256px WebPs total 88,372 bytes, with true alpha and empty sampling gutters. Runtime uses two bounded instanced pages and the existing safe-screen upload/compile/first-draw gate. Late downloads retain the original effects until a safe screen; missing/saturated art preserves every contact core. View resets, pause/reduced-motion time, partial loading and exactly-once disposal are covered. The global 240-shot limit now uses the core count, as authored shots no longer increment the old halo pool. No sim, tuning, enemy models, room geometry, native SDK, OTA or new APK changes.

The first gameplay-size visual review caught the old flat yellow diamond and orange paper rectangle overpowering the new tails. Replaced only the warmed bodies with a faceted ivory/amber lance and scorched folded-paper kite. Their head triangles share each artwork mesh/material/draw; no extra pool or light. The bright contact core remains exactly where it was, with the old complete body/flame/halo preserved if an art page is unavailable.

Validation: 1,349 Node tests and production/single-file build pass. Final Chrome GPU matrix covers four profiles (desktop, phone portrait/landscape, reduced motion), 256 direction/background/direct/HDR cases and 486 legacy flame cases. Transparent direct corners remain unchanged; HDR has natural bloom spill without black tiles. First authored volley after warmup retains 9 geometries, 4 textures and 5 programs. Across 120 cycles of 600 submitted shots, the rendered cap stays 240 and GPU resource counts stay fixed. Late/ partial loading, saturation fallback, pause, clear/reentry and all 30 owned resource disposals pass. Six actual-game scale captures confirm loaded boss models, five matching authored shots and no runtime errors across desktop and phone orientations. Independent source review found no remaining blocker. Captures/report are outside git in the session visualization folder boss-projectile-art-20260923/. Chrome/RTX 3090 fixtures do not establish physical iPhone performance. The existing public APK is preserved unchanged.

2026-09-23 — Substitute and Group Project projectile artwork (Codex)

Continued the authorized engine-first art pass with three auditions per boss. Six GPT Image 2.5 high/2K transparent jobs cost 16.5 credits after a 2.75-each preflight. Connected Web Royal balance is 668.35 (684.85 before this batch), 48 credits spent across all three engine batches. No second-account access, Seedance, video or card generation. Full generation IDs/selections are in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md; originals/prompts/receipts stay ignored under assets-src/higgsfield-boss-shots-next-20260923/.

Selected Substitute A's split ivory/violet ghost paper and Project A's coral fragments. Four 512/256px runtime images total 96,168 bytes, with phones loading 25,552. The --next bake crops the original Project ring out of the texture; the segmented 3D head supplies one clear impact silhouette. Substitute's two folded strips leave an open slit. Heads and wakes share each instanced draw, with unchanged contact cores, global 240-shot limit and per-page 160/96 caps. New pages use the existing safe-screen activation path, fallback, pause, reduced-motion and disposal contract. No simulation, tuning, geometry of rooms, enemy models, SDK, OTA or new APK changes.

Independent review found an opaque leading crop edge in the Project wake. Feathered its first 128 source rows; leading alpha now peaks at 6/8 instead of 246/240 in desktop/phone exports. A new asset regression checks this join while requiring bright ceramic detail farther down the trail.

Validation: 1,352 Node tests and production/single-file build pass. The corrected exports passed four fresh Chrome profiles, 512 artwork direction/background/ direct/HDR pixel cases, and 12 gameplay-scale captures with all four boss models loaded. Existing 486 flame regression cases also pass. First authored draw retains 11 geometries/6 textures/5 programs after warmup. Across 120 cycles per profile of 600 submitted shots, rendering stays capped at 240 with no GPU resource growth. Reduced-motion pixels stay identical over time; all 38 owned resources dispose once. No runtime/shader errors. Captures and report are in the session visualization folder boss-projectile-art-next-20260923/, outside git. Phone viewport checks on Windows Chrome/RTX 3090 are not physical iPhone performance evidence. The prior public APK is preserved byte-for-byte.

2026-09-23 — Parent-Teacher Night and Vice Principal projectile artwork (Codex)

Completed the six projectile-boss art families under the continuing engine-first instruction. Six GPT Image 2.5 high/2K transparent auditions cost 16.5 credits at the verified 2.75-each price. Connected Web Royal balance is 651.85, down from 668.35; total engine production spend is 64.5 across four batches. No second-account spend, card art, video or Seedance. Full IDs/decisions are in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md, masters/receipts in ignored assets-src/higgsfield-boss-shots-final-20260923/.

Selected Parent A's rose/ivory paired streaks and Principal A's crimson pressure trails/shards. Their live heads are two continuous almond arches with an open center and a broad chipped obsidian blade. The --final bake removes painted heads and feathers the leading 128 source rows, preventing duplicate shapes and hard glow cuts. Four 512/256px files total 71,608 bytes; phones load 19,620. All six projectile identities together load 69,892 bytes on phones. Heads and trails share bounded instanced draws and safe-screen preparation; the previous four designs retain their geometry and color. No new attacks, simulation/tuning changes, room geometry, enemy models, SDK, OTA or APK changes.

Close-angle review caught a small Parent rim self-overlap in the shared transparent draw. Raising only the inner lip to the existing ridge height removed incorrect facet overpainting at eight headings under both camera pitches, without changing the aperture, color, bounds or triangle count and without another shader/pool/pass.

Validation: all 1,355 tests and the production/single-file build pass. Four fresh browser profiles pass 768 artwork pixel cases and 18 gameplay captures with the actual boss models loaded (66 normal screenshots); the existing 486 flame/HDR/MSAA regression cases pass too. The corrected Parent close-up matches the depth-reference render exactly facing east; west differs by at most one channel level in six pixels. First authored draw retains 13 geometries/8 textures/5 programs after warmup. Across 120 cycles per profile of 600 submitted shots, rendering stays capped at 240 without GPU resource growth. Reduced-motion pixels remain fixed; all 46 owned resources dispose once. No runtime/shader errors. Evidence is in the session visualization folder boss-projectile-art-final-20260923/, outside git. Phone viewports on Windows Chrome are not physical iPhone performance evidence. The prior public APK is preserved byte-for-byte for this web-only release.

2026-09-23 — Library oak and Hall locker enamel (Codex)

Continued the approved engine-first art plan with two school material families. Six 2K auditions requested as Nano Banana Pro returned completed metadata as Nano Banana 2. The 2-credit preflight and Web Royal balance 651.85 → 639.85 confirm 12 credits spent, 76.5 total across five batches. No second-account spend, cards, video or Seedance. Prompts, masters and receipts are in ignored assets-src/higgsfield-school-materials-20260923/; IDs and selection decisions are recorded in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md.

Selected Library C's flowing grain and Lockers C's restrained chips. The new bake-school-materials.mjs preserves prior mean albedo colors, limits contrast, neutralizes enamel for the original blue/teal tints and repairs wrap edges. 512/256px exports total 307,960 bytes, with 60,590 for both phone variants; each room requests only its own asset. Only Library oak/trim and locker doors change. Two locker-only material clones preserve books, chairs, vending and cabinets that shared the old blue/teal materials. No new geometry or draws.

The new surface-art loader stages decoded textures without touching live materials. View's existing safe-screen preparation uploads before activating, retaining procedural surfaces after slow/offline loads or a combat transition. Abandoned loads do not allocate after disposal. A separate review-only helper prepares showroom/editor surfaces, with one upload per frame and a bounded failure backoff. Existing room colors, linear relief maps, Domain hooks, floors, map data, simulation and native builds remain unchanged.

The GPU re-entry check exposed a pre-existing leak with authored art disabled: Library texture counts rose 46 → 47 → 48 → 49 → 50 → 51 over five revisits. Live WebGL tracing identified a disposed 256×512 room canvas being reuploaded through Three's renderer-owned shadow material sampler, not a missing PMREM or shadow-target disposal. Static opaque world casters now share one room-owned depth material, retired before the room's albedos. Explicit custom shadows, cutouts, transparency, displacement, skinned and morph meshes keep their existing paths. New lifecycle coverage checks shared ownership, disposal order, repeated teardown and the real clock cutout. The browser re-entry test passes with art inactive and active after the fix.

Final verification: 1,376 tests pass; production and standalone builds pass, with all four embedded/copied textures verified byte-for-byte. Browser checks cover desktop 1280×800 and iPhone-UA portrait 390×844/landscape 844×390: 15 matched room views, six actual loaded-Ren/View captures and 30 room rebuild cycles. All five-visit sequences have flat GPU counts; each generated texture disposes once and the trace shows no surviving room texture handles. Desktop plateaus are Library 151 geometries/46 textures/27 programs and Halls 163/41/23; mobile plateaus are Library 144/45/26 and Halls 160/40/22. The first draw after safe upload adds no resources. Additional Yard foliage, Gym reflection and Boiler machinery views pass without JS/shader errors. Evidence, including the original leak and fixed inactive-art baseline, is in the external session visualization folder school-material-art-20260923/. Phone profiles on Windows Chrome are not physical iPhone performance tests. The public APK remains byte-identical; this release is web-only.

2026-09-23 — Four hero primary-hit signatures

Continued the approved Higgsfield engine-first program for all four heroes. Twelve GPT Image 2.5 Flare high/2K transparent auditions cost 33 credits; connected Web Royal balance 596.85 -> 563.85, 109.5 total for the engine-art program. The intervening 43-credit change from the prior 639.85 reading predates these jobs and is not attributed to this work. No second account, video, Seedance or card art. Requests, provider results, originals and picks stay in ignored assets-src/higgsfield-hero-impacts-20260923/; job IDs and decisions are in HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md.

Selected Ren A's compressed crimson palm, Yui C's clean cyan needle/thread, Kaito B's angular violet knot and Sora B's folded gold paper fan. The new bake-hero-impact-art.mjs centers measured contact origins, rotates forward to the runtime UP axis, cleans near-invisible alpha specks and adds sampling gutters. Eight exports total 177,786 bytes: 127,488 desktop / 50,298 phone. They are included in web and standalone builds; neither loads 2K masters.

HeroImpactFx uses fixed instanced pools, projected strike headings, brief 0.16-0.22s contacts and localized critical accents. Desktop/phone live caps are 12/7, frame admission 4/2, refill rates 28/18 per second; Kaito also has a one-per-frame restriction and a per-target cooldown. Saturated artwork does not fall through to extra generic particles. Damage numbers and enemy hit tint still confirm contact. Pages stage until View's safe-screen upload, compile and invisible first draw; slow/offline pages and low graphics keep the existing fallback. Pause, reduced motion, reset and disposal are covered.

The audit found that source=weapon/wc=0 alone also includes domains, orbit ticks and untinted boss-weapon chains. A minimal presentation-only primary marker now identifies direct base contacts, using the original shot owner. It changes no damage, RNG, timing or saved state. Tests cover delayed shots after boss-weapon binding, team switching and restore, plus exclusion of recursive procs, domain damage, Shikigami, specials and Threadbreaker.

Verification: npm test passes all 1,396 tests; production and standalone builds pass and all eight exported/embedded asset bytes match their sources. Chrome GPU checks cover desktop, iPhone-UA portrait/landscape and reduced motion: 1,024 direct/HDR alpha and direction cases, 256,000 synthetic contact submissions, pause, expiry, fallback, teardown and late-load disposal. GPU resource counts remain flat; the first visible contact adds no resources after the real safe-screen preparation gate. Actual View/Sim captures show each loaded hero with normal, critical and crowded contacts. Evidence stays outside git in the session visualization folder hero-impact-art-20260923/. These are presentation/resource checks on Windows Chrome, not physical iPhone Safari performance or gameplay balance measurements. Existing user changes to scripts/cast-vo-page.py and videos/ were left out of this release. Web-only release; no APK rebuild, native sync or OTA upload.

2026-09-23 — Pool glaze and Science Wing resin

Continued the approved engine-first Higgsfield program with six school-material auditions. Requested Nano Banana Pro 2K; completed provider metadata reports Nano Banana 2, as with earlier surfaces. The 2-credit preflight and connected balance 563.85 -> 551.85 confirm 12 credits spent, 121.5 across seven engine batches. No second-account access, cards, video or Seedance. Full receipts, prompts, masters and selections remain in ignored assets-src/higgsfield-lab-pool-20260923/; job IDs are in the asset plan.

Selected Pool B's cloudy sea-glass glaze and Lab B's satin resin with faint reagent ghosts. The bake uses the actual runtime Pool 256/128px ten-cell pattern and doubles its existing raster, adding restrained color variation only inside the tile faces. Every original grout pixel and row orientation is retained, aligning with the unchanged bump/roughness maps. Lab resin is normalized to the existing dark-violet mean with restrained contrast and matching repeat edges, replacing the wood-like directional color bands. Four exports total 198,124 bytes, including just 39,782 for both phone maps.

Pool tile/coping materials share one new map; the Science Wing's existing epoxy fixtures share another. The separate Pool basin, water and walking deck, legacy green Lab, physical material settings, lighting, room geometry and collision remain intact. Kits now expose surfaceArt through the existing world safe-screen queue. Download completion stages only; preparation uploads before activation. Disposed/failed downloads retain the procedural behavior. Headless kit construction still works without asset resolution.

Verification: 1,412 tests pass; production and standalone builds pass, with all four copied/embedded textures matching source bytes. Matched Chrome GPU checks cover desktop and iPhone-UA portrait/landscape: 48 before/after images, including 12 actual View/Sim gameplay-scale captures, and 30 room reentries. Only the expected two Pool materials and one Lab material change albedo. Geometry/UV buffers, scalar maps, aggregate draw and triangle counts remain unchanged. First use adds no resources after safe preparation, repeated reentries stay flat, and teardown leaves no traced texture handles. No JS or shader errors. Evidence is outside git at the session visualization path lab-pool-art-20260923/{before,after}/. Phone emulation is not physical iPhone Safari performance evidence. Preserved unrelated cast-vo-page.py and videos/ work; this is a web-only release with the existing APK retained.

2026-09-23 — Shikigami summon entrances and protected APK download

Reconciled main/origin/live at 424cbc6, preserving the concurrent music commits b1abd2e and 424cbc6 and leaving untracked videos/ alone. The latest live web files matched the build, but hallpass-playtest.apk returned 404. Restored the previously published 142,855,616-byte APK (SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b) and redeployed 424cbc6 first. Its public length and ETag match the original.

Fixed the cause: web builds used to clear dist and optionally copy a local Gradle debug output. They now retain the existing download before clearing dist and restore exactly those bytes. An incidental native compile cannot replace it. Explicit --refresh-playtest-apk is documented only for a user-authorized APK release; a fresh checkout warns if it lacks the existing download. Six filesystem tests cover preservation, refresh and missing/error paths. Production build verification retained the real APK without a manual copy.

Continued the engine-first art program with eight GPT Image 2.5 Flare high/2K transparent auditions. Web Royal balance 551.85 -> 529.85 confirms 22 credits, 143.5 across the eight engine batches. Chose Ren B's split violet-black claws, Yui B's broad pearl feathers, Kaito A's angular thunder crown and Sora A's plain folded gold tails. All prompts/masters/receipts remain ignored under assets-src/higgsfield-shikigami-entry-20260923/; decisions and job IDs are in the asset plan. No second-account access, cards, video or Seedance.

ShikigamiEntryFx replaces only the generic entrance, using the event owner and actual navigation-adjusted spawn. A single short alpha aperture opens around the original animal and survives a character tag; existing models, attacks, exits, audio and simulation remain intact. Four preallocated pages use the safe-screen upload/compile/first-draw gate, low/offline fallback, pause/reduced-motion handling and room/death/title cleanup. Eight 512/256px exports total 274,944 bytes, including 74,932 for all four phone pages.

Verification: all 1,429 tests pass; production and standalone builds pass, with all eight copied/embedded images byte-identical to source. Browser GPU checks pass across desktop, iPhone-UA portrait/landscape and reduced motion: 64 light/dark direct/HDR alpha cases, 640 repeated entries, 160 reset/expiry cycles, stable GPU resources, one active draw and zero idle draws. The first HDR appearance is already prepared; active-play downloads cannot upload. Pause, owner after a real tag, spawn position, low/offline fallback and late disposal pass. 36 actual View/Sim captures are outside git at the session visualization path shikigami-entry-20260923/. These are Windows Chrome GPU and layout checks, not physical iPhone Safari performance results. No APK rebuild, native sync or OTA upload.

2026-09-23 — First boss-signature paintings

Continued the approved art program after eight engine batches with dedicated Clean Sweep, Marked Late and Answer Key action scenes. Preserved concurrent main commits 6ebda90 (Sora booth takes) and 0c55664 (contest material moved out of this repo). No audio, simulation, balance, card rules or save changes.

Nine 4:3 2K auditions requested nano_banana_pro; completed provider metadata reports nano_banana_2. Web Royal balance 529.85 -> 511.85 confirms 18 credits, 161.5 across the engine and card program. Selected Clean Sweep B's jade mop crescent, Marked Late C's amber spotlight and Answer Key C's crimson pen and paper burst. Prompts, receipts, originals and selections remain ignored under assets-src/higgsfield-signature-cards-20260923/. The asset plan records all nine jobs. The baker now accepts explicit --ids for hyphenated signatures, without rebaking existing cards. Six exports total 311,294 bytes.

Shared presentation routing now supplies all UI surfaces and 3D card drops. The three paintings retry matching portraits on failure; the other six signatures retain their portraits. Detached thumbnail decoding handles a failed first attempt, and standalone builds use embedded full art when no thumbnail is embedded. Paintings center-crop while portraits retain their existing positioning. Ground cards preserve source aspect within the same 1024x864 atlas and 256x144 tiles; decoded bitmaps close on every path, and only safe activation uploads to the GPU. No new geometry, pool slots or draws.

Verification: all 1,441 unit tests pass. Browser checks cover six art surfaces at desktop, phone landscape, phone portrait and 320px width, real pointer card replacement, painting/portrait/no-art and embedded fallback. Three real WebGL atlas cases verify exact crop pixels, dimensions and safe upload timing. Existing card UI and ground-drop regressions pass with no page errors. The UI harness now targets the paid pull button specifically because the separately added daily-free button also matches the old selector. Captures and reports are outside git under the session visualization path boss-card-art-20260923/. These are Windows Chrome GPU/layout checks, not physical iPhone Safari tests.

Production and standalone builds pass. All six copied exports and all three embedded full paintings match their source bytes. The existing audio.js duplicate buy() warning remains outside this art change. The published APK is preserved byte-for-byte (142,855,616 bytes; SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b). No APK build, native sync or OTA upload.

2026-09-23 — Complete boss-signature painting set

Completed the remaining six signatures: Stand-In, Final Warning, Stay After, Shared Credit, Watchful Eye and Office Hours. All nine now have dedicated action paintings on the deck, viewer, pause hand, pickup exchange, results, notices and pooled 3D drops. The six matching boss portraits remain available as fallback. Only the explicit art registry changed in runtime source; simulation, card rules, saves, layout, audio and balance remain untouched.

Eighteen auditions (three per signature) requested nano_banana_pro at 4:3 and 2K, with existing boss portraits and Knuckle Wraps as style reference. Provider result metadata reports nano_banana_2. Preflight was 2 credits per image; connected Web Royal balance 511.85 -> 475.85 confirms 36 credits, 197.5 across the engine and card program. The asset plan records all jobs, selected compositions and rejected alternatives. Unwanted comic lettering appeared in some auditions; none of those was selected. Raw art, prompts, receipts and crop proofs remain ignored under assets-src/higgsfield-signatures-complete-20260923/.

Twelve new exports total 587,654 bytes (353,670 full art / 233,984 thumbnails). All nine pairs together total 898,948 bytes. The first three paintings and thumbnails are hash-identical to the prior release. Final exports are 800x600 and 560x420, with centered 16:9 pickup crops reviewed visually. The existing atlas stays 1024x864 and the pool stays at nine; no new draws, shader variants or activation-time uploads are introduced by this registry expansion. Actual GPU tests confirm the existing single safe-activation upload.

Verification: all 1,441 tests pass. The browser art harness now checks all nine signatures on six UI surfaces at 1600x900, 852x393, 393x852 and 320x568. All-nine portrait/no-art/embedded fallback paths pass across those six surfaces. Three real WebGL atlas modes each verify nine exact tile crops, stable memory/program/pool counts, and unchanged upload version over 60 frames and subsequent slot reassignment. No page errors or unexpected image 404s. Screenshots/reports are outside git in the session visualization path boss-card-complete-20260923/. These are Chrome GPU and phone layout checks, not physical iPhone Safari performance tests.

Production and standalone builds pass; all 18 copied images and all nine embedded paintings match source bytes. The pre-existing audio.js duplicate buy() warning remains outside this art change. The original published APK is preserved byte-for-byte at 142,855,616 bytes, SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b. No new APK build, native sync or OTA upload.

2026-09-23 — Local combat clarity in the renderer

Added a presentation-only threat sampler and a soft compositor response around the hero. Nearby hostile trajectories ease bloom down by at most 35% and decorative trails/scatter/distortion by at most 75%. Scene lighting, hero colors, attack markers, damage flashes and the outer scene retain their normal treatment. This controls post-process overlap rather than removing authored particles from the scene. No paid generation or new art is needed.

The sampler checks at most 240 bullets, using the strongest close threat, relative player motion, collision radii, remaining life and Silk slowdown. Held Conductor ammunition and friendly shots do not drive it. Pressure follows simulation time, freezes during pause and clears for menus, demo, room/character/quality changes and finished runs; active After Hours works. Projection accounts for elevated floors, zoom and display aspect ratio. No simulation, RNG, save, balance, audio, tuner or map edits.

All 1,466 unit tests pass, including 25 new controller/View/Post tests. Two existing partial renderer fixtures were extended for the new state. Production and standalone web builds pass; the pre-existing duplicate audio.js buy() warning remains. GPU proof lives in test/combat-clarity.browser.mjs: fixed-source Post pixel comparisons plus actual four-hero Domain cast/field fixtures. No added draw passes, render targets, texture taps, shader variants or activation-time GPU resources. All 22 Post comparisons and 12 hero/profile fixtures pass at 1280x800, 390x844 and 844x390. Both controlled and settled-field comparisons report zero changed pixels outside the patch. Scene-only color/grade/hurt-flash comparisons are identical. Repeated pressure toggles retain GPU resources and draw counts; low graphics keeps clarity off. No page or shader errors. These Chrome desktop/phone-profile checks are not physical Safari timing measurements. Captures and report remain outside git in the session visualization folder combat-clarity-20260923/.

Fixture gotcha: Yard reflections update every two desktop / three phone renders. Settle the frozen reflection before comparing local compositor pixels. Reset iframe blink for visible hero comparisons. This did not require changing the authored scene or production reflection cadence.

Preserved the other session's 0cedd23 Kaito listening-page change. The existing published APK stays byte-identical at 142,855,616 bytes, SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b. No APK build, native sync, OTA upload or music/audio change.

2026-09-23 — Hero edge lighting and leaner particle submissions

Added a narrow, directional cel rim inside existing hero Toon materials. It follows each room's rim light, uses a small character tint, and protects bright face/cloth albedo. The four-band ramp, modeled heads, original bodies, black hulls, textures, animations and hurt response remain intact. Factory installation happens before crew warmup; low quality changes a uniform. World-space light transforms in the draw camera, so mirrors/capture cameras do not inherit the main camera's direction. Standalone previews default off. No new geometry, materials, lights, texture samples or render passes.

Compacted live base/HD flipbook instances without moving the stable CPU handles or changing blending order. Matrix/frame/opacity/cached linear tint pack together. Immediate stop uses the current GPU slot; expiry invalidates its previous slot before releasing, avoiding deletion of a new occupant. Sparse last-slot cases now submit one instance and update 84 attribute bytes, instead of 170/110 instances and 14,280/9,240 bytes. Pool capacities stay the same. This measures submitted work, not device FPS or VRAM reduction.

Flat rings, telegraph strips, sweep beams, palm sectors and the optional aim cone now use Three's double-sided single-pass path. They remain visible from both sides; their timing, footprints and color are unchanged.

All 1,487 unit tests pass, including 21 additional tests for material/rig ownership, prewarm, uniform direction, View held frames/quality, sparse base/HD pools, tint/follow/rotation/lifetime parity, stop/reuse and expiry. Production and standalone web builds pass. The existing audio.js duplicate buy() warning remains outside this renderer change.

Hero GPU proof covers all four loaded hybrid rigs in Boiler and Gym at gameplay and closeup cameras, across 1280x800, 390x844 and 844x390: 48 paired camera comparisons, with unchanged draw/resource counts and simulation. Controlled tests verify directional/camera reversal, unchanged front-center and exterior pixels, reduced white-surface lift, zero new saturated pixels, 120 uniform toggles without resource growth, and low-quality disable. Captures/report live outside git in the session visualization folder hero-lighting-20260923/. These are desktop Chrome phone profiles, not physical iPhone Safari performance measurements.

The particle GPU harness verifies all five flat effects from front/back: ten exact pixel matches with two draws reduced to one. Four sparse-pool cases (170/110 capacity, one/three survivors) match the previous sparse layout and an equivalent dense effect set pixel-for-pixel. Intercepted warmed bufferSubData calls confirm 84 bytes for one survivor versus the 14,280/9,240-byte old prefix, with no new buffer allocations and stable handles. Source is test/particle-submit.browser.mjs; report/contact sheets remain outside git under particle-submit-20260923/.

No paid generation, new dependencies, gameplay/config/map changes, audio edits, APK build, native sync or OTA upload. The existing APK is retained byte-for-byte: 142,855,616 bytes, SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

2026-09-23 — Grounded hero and crowd contact shadows

Replaced the hard-edged hero/enemy discs with a textureless radial feather inside the same Basic materials and circle geometry. The center retains its old opacity; the edge fades smoothly to zero. No additional mesh, draw pass, light, shadow map or texture. Existing depth/fog behavior and rig disposal remain intact, including the retained full-chibi/imported paths. Phone and low graphics retain this local grounding.

Fixed a concrete procedural/hybrid rig defect: idle bob could put the child shadow .003 below its floor, and walking lifted it with the body. The shadow now cancels the body bob and stays at terrain plus .012. Body motion, aura, outlines, hurt response and dash ghosts are unchanged.

Crowd contacts broaden and lose density with their body's rendered hover height, including the actual loaded boss root. Enemy rise and boss assembly gather their contact rather than dropping a full black disc before arrival; boss fallback uses the same assembly fade. A single fixed 700-float opacity attribute adds 2,800 bytes, updating only the live prefix. Round-clear retains that buffer while shrinking the captured transforms, and the next crowd sync rewrites the reused slots. No simulation, movement, collision radius, RNG, save or balance edits.

All 1,501 tests pass, including 14 new material/ownership and View tests. Coverage includes four heroes across idle extrema, running, dash, hit flicker, held frames and elevated floors; crowd hover/spawn, reordering, ghosts, empty/reused pools, boss fallback and round-clear. Production and standalone builds pass. The pre-existing duplicate audio.js buy() warning remains outside this renderer change.

GPU proof in test/contact-shadows.browser.mjs covers three profiles (1280x800, 390x844, 844x390): 24 loaded hybrid hero/room cases in Gym and Boiler, 48 paired gameplay/closeup views, three modeled-boss/crowd cases and three low-quality comparisons. Controlled samples retain center density, fade monotonically, leave exterior pixels identical and honor three different instance alphas in one draw. One hundred opacity changes per profile retain GPU resources. Actual View comparisons retain draw, geometry, texture and warmed-program counts and leave Sim snapshots unchanged, with no shader/page errors. Captures and consolidated report remain outside git under the session visualization folder contact-shadows-20260923/. These are Chrome desktop/phone-layout proofs, not physical iPhone Safari performance measurements.

Preserved the other session's 7b1e000 extraction update and 4d7b946 Kaito voice rotation. No paid generation, dependency, audio, tuner/map change, APK build, native sync or OTA upload. The existing published APK stays byte-identical at 142,855,616 bytes, SHA256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

September 23 — Janitor and Pop Quiz death signatures

Added two boss-specific painted death performances using four selected Higgsfield stills, animated in the renderer. Janitor water rises and drains; Pop Quiz sheets tear outward and fold into an ink seal. Both replace the shared four-clip recipe while retaining the existing body release, reward, 1.8-second timeline and audio-family contract. Other bosses remain unchanged. Three reusable slots and four instanced pages retain bounded resources; phone art totals 81,238 bytes. Black-matte removal, RGB preservation, clear padding, staged safe-screen uploads and latched fallbacks are covered by tests.

Six 2K Nano Banana Pro auditions cost 12 credits, verified balance 52.85 to 40.85 in the connected workspace. Returned metadata names nano_banana_2. Selected/rejected jobs and recipes are in docs/HIGGSFIELD-ASSET-PLAN.md and assets/fx/engine/boss-signatures.json. No video generation was submitted. Masters and exact prompts remain ignored in assets-src/boss-signatures/.

Validation: npm test 1,515/1,515; development build passes. Four source-only Chrome profiles (desktop, portrait, landscape, reduced motion) generated 80 comparison captures and repeated 320 mixed deaths with identical warmed geometry/texture/program counts, exact paused artwork pixels and no GL errors. Actual built-game phone-landscape coverage passed Janitor/Quiz deaths with live movement, actual boss bodies and weapons, and the held-bell/results flow. The old browser fixture now explicitly prepares staged assets, waits for the asynchronous run gate and uses the current single-prize loot selector. Reports/captures: TEMP/hallpass-boss-signatures and TEMP/hallpass-boss-exorcism-pilot; regeneration scripts live under test/. This does not claim physical Safari performance testing.

Preserved the concurrent VO commits and unrelated untracked cast-vo.html. No audio, sim, tuner, map, dependency, native/OTA or APK changes. Existing APK hash remains 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

September 23 — four shikigami attack signatures

Replaced the shared bite burst with owner-specific painted attacks: Kuroinu closing red fangs, Shirasagi a cyan feather spear, Raiju branching violet lightning, and Kitsune a gold paper fan slash. One staged atlas and one instanced draw serve six desktop/four phone fixed slots. Existing models, combat, damage, audio and summon timing are unchanged. Low/unavailable art keeps the generic fallback; hero tags preserve the attacking familiar's identity. Pause is exact, and stopped/dead/clear/demo/reset states retire it.

Four Higgsfield stills cost 8 credits, verified account balance 40.85 to 32.85. No videos or account changes. Exact prompts and originals are ignored under assets-src/shikigami-attacks; tracked provenance and deterministic bake include the explicit crop removing Raiju's unwanted generated outer border. Desktop atlas 187,812 bytes; phone atlas 68,130. Clear gutters and RGB alpha preservation prevent black matte or neighboring-tile bleed.

Verification: npm test 1,527/1,527. Independent renderer review found no issues. Real View with actual Sim-emitted attack events passed desktop, phone portrait, landscape and reduced motion: 80 captures, 1,920 repeated attacks, one active layer draw/zero idle draws, stable warmed GPU resources, exact paused pixels/attributes, owner-after-tag and lifecycle checks. Root reviewed representative art from all four familiars. Reports and PNGs remain outside git at TEMP/hallpass-shikigami-attacks. This is Chrome layout and resource evidence, not physical Safari performance testing.

Preserved unrelated cast-vo.html and concurrent work. No sim/config/map, dependency, native/OTA or APK changes. The existing APK SHA256 remains 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

September 23 — room grime cleansing and decal cut repairs

The shikigami pass shipped as cc6a17f; production version and both atlas hashes were verified live. Its production/standalone builds passed, and the existing APK hash stayed unchanged.

The next aftermath audit found that RoomReclaim's existing architectural sweep never reached asynchronously loaded floor grime. Selected burnmark, sludge, spill, dust and foodmess materials now register explicitly and erase alpha using the same spatial front as the room. Shared materials still clear at each pixel's own position. Late textures inherit settled state, reduced motion fades uniformly, and reset restores authored grime without changing texture identity or opacity. There are no new draws or resources.

Visual inspection found the original room-flavour decal sheet was 4x4 while its old bake assumed 4x3. All twelve named exports are corrected to explicit cells with grid-line exclusion and transparent sampling gutters. The source remains ignored; bake_decals_e in scripts/bake-art.py rebuilds just this set. No new generation or credit spend was needed for this pass.

Validation: npm test 1,536/1,536. Both independent code/art reviews found no issues. All twelve decal outputs regenerated byte-identically from the scoped baker, including the white-chalk key for math and tally strokes. A synthetic 4x4 sheet verified each selected cell independently. Root viewed the complete corrected contact sheet and before/mid/after room captures.

Real View browser coverage: Gym, Boiler and Roof across desktop, phone and reduced motion (nine cases, 48 screenshots, 360 clear/reset cycles). At phase .18 the normal near spill retained under 1% while the distant copy retained 100%; reduced motion retained 86.879% at both positions. Settled stains had zero visible pixels, protected decals retained exact pixels, pause/reset and late texture arrival passed, and sim snapshots stayed equal. GPU resources were stable; equal six-frame windows account for existing reflection cadence and confirm unchanged draw counts. Reports and captures are outside git at TEMP/hallpass-room-grime. Physical Safari is untested. No tuning, maps, audio, native/OTA or APK changes; cast-vo.html stays untouched.

September 23 — airborne relics for all four domains

Replaced the generic airborne domain particles with folded, world-oriented painted forms: Ren's crimson iron, Yui's cyan glass needles, Kaito's violet conductors and Sora's gold paper wings. Six desktop/four phone instances use one staged atlas draw in place of the old mote draw. Floors and ribbons are unchanged; the central 3.5 world units remain open. Reduced motion holds the forms still, and existing field age preserves phase through pause, tagging and saved-run restoration. Low graphics or missing/late art keeps the original fallback for the entire cast. Loading never performs GPU work during combat.

Four Higgsfield stills cost 8 credits; verified balance 32.85 to 24.85. Ren/Yui unexpectedly arrived on white; explicit connected matte removal and a Yui eye seed preserve ivory highlights and the open silhouette. All four cutouts were inspected on light/dark surfaces. Padded atlas: 85,360 bytes desktop, 32,452 phone. Exact prompts/originals stay ignored; the reproducible baker and provenance ship in the repo.

Also fixed both domain renderers suppressing active After Hours fields: After Hours retains won, so it must be distinguished from a stopped clear. Title attract mode now clears the cast, airborne field and room projection. No simulation or tuning behavior changed.

Validation: npm test 1,554/1,554; two independent reviews found no actionable issues. Full View browser proof passed desktop Gym, phone Library, landscape Roof and reduced-motion Lab. 112 staged PNGs cover all four heroes, with 64 domain-frame checks and 160 repeated casts. Warmed geometry, texture and program counts stayed exact; domain draws remain three, or two for Sora. Pause, tags, snapshot restore, low-quality transitions, After Hours, title, terminal states, 404 art, delayed activation and disposal all passed. Library phone samples use its authored start, not the origin furniture void. Frozen samples retain one initial Sora shot burst because only field age is staged. A 113th capture advances her real simulation 96 steps/1.6 seconds: 24 initial shots become four live, traveling up to 14.72 units, leaving her body visible. No production bloom change was warranted. Atlas regeneration also reproduced all three outputs byte-identically. Reports and captures live in TEMP/hallpass-domain-relics; the final all-profile report.json supersedes intermediate reports. This is desktop Chrome evidence, not physical Safari testing. Unrelated cast-vo.html remains untouched. No native/OTA/APK changes; the preserved APK SHA256 is 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

September 23 — projectile continuity in long runs

The domain relic pass shipped as 8bcda32; production version, bundle and both atlas hashes were verified live. The public APK retained its original hash.

This zero-credit pass fixes two existing presentation defects. Travelling combat lights incorrectly treated After Hours' retained won flag as a terminal state. They now follow/acquire projectiles in active After Hours, including restored saves, while ordinary clear/death/stopped states still fade out.

Boss ember and halo phase previously used the bullet's mutable array index. Removing a preceding shot moved an otherwise stationary Pop Quiz trail by 0.69–1.18 world units in the reproduction. A view-owned WeakMap now assigns a stable decorative seed per projectile; array compaction, reordering, skipping dead shots and ordinary hero-tag clears preserve it. Weak keys do not retain expired bullets, and a bounded counter prevents unbounded phase growth. No simulation fields/RNG, collision, trajectories, shader variants, resource pools, art downloads or render draws changed.

Validation: npm test 1,561/1,561. Independent review found no issues. Focused coverage includes actual Sim.continueAfterHours and snapshot restoration, same-object terminal fades, every boss style with authored/fallback artwork, normal/reduced motion, stable geometry/buffers and unchanged frozen sim data.

Source-only full View browser proof passed desktop, phone portrait, elevated Roof landscape and reduced motion: 16 PNGs, eight hero/boss lighting comparisons, 160 real After Hours transitions and 36 exact isolated trail pixel/matrix/color comparisons. Light identities/counts and warmed GPU resources stay fixed; no added draw passes or browser/WebGL errors. Roof height 3 is included. Root reviewed lit/unlit and phone/raised/reduced frames. The fixture uses actual prepareRun to finish asynchronous scenery, and zero-time sync keeps reflection cadence matched between comparison windows. Evidence lives outside git at TEMP/hallpass-after-hours-lighting/report.json. This is Chrome rendering evidence, not physical iPhone/Safari timing. Unrelated cast-vo.html remains untouched; no native/OTA/APK changes.

Next candidate: measure WeaponView's first unseen weapon-label drop against a cached repeat. _label paints a 512x128 canvas and creates/uploads its texture on demand; current warmup only stages equipment and sparkle programs. This is a plausible hitch source, not yet measured. If confirmed, prepare existing labels on a safe loading/menu frame with no new active draw or art spend.

September 23 — prepare weapon rewards before combat

The prior projectile-continuity pass shipped as 4f1a7b5 and was verified live. This zero-credit pass measured the proposed pickup hitch before changing it. Cold displays of all twelve weapons painted twelve canvases/24 text lines, uploaded twelve label textures and about 954 KB in 59 GL buffers, and linked fourteen programs. Removing/recreating a cached drop still linked a Sprite program every time because disposal evicted its last material owner.

WeaponView now joins the existing serialized safe-screen preparation queue. One detached sample per weapon prepares its unchanged label, model, beacon and sparkle resources behind loading/menu frames. The samples retain their materials to keep shader programs cached, but never join the live scene or add ongoing draws. Priming uses the real fog/output target with color/depth writes and clearing disabled. Preparation yields between weapons, retains partial progress, respects cancellation/deadlines, and invalidates after a graphics-target change or context restoration. The old synchronous compile inside View.sync is removed. Gameplay never paints a label. If preparation fails or expires, the physical reward remains available with a hidden label; unfinished physical-model buffers can still upload on first display.

Validation: npm test 1,573/1,573; independent production review found no blockers. Full View browser proof uses actual prepareRun/warmRun in desktop, phone and low graphics: 144 first/cached drops plus nine empty controls, with no drop-time canvas painting, texture upload, buffer allocation, shader creation or program linking and stable warmed geometry/texture/program counts. Thirty-six label rasters match the old painter exactly. Desktop additionally checks 24 invisible primes against real frozen canvas/HDR pixels, cancellation after three weapons then resumption, and a real context loss/restore followed by a strict no-GPU-allocation pickup. Sim snapshots stay equal; root reviewed desktop/phone captures. No browser/WebGL errors.

The preparation cost is moved, not eliminated: isolated instrumented passes took 0.23–1.84 seconds over multiple loading frames in the final run, with a cold driver slice as high as 109 ms in an earlier run. A cached repeat took 0.1 ms in the final run. Timing varies under machine load; these are Chrome resource/render checks, not physical iPhone/Safari performance claims. Geometry/texture totals match the old fully encountered cache; four additional retained shader programs prevent eviction/recompile. Reports/captures remain outside git at TEMP/hallpass-weapon-prep-before and TEMP/hallpass-weapon-prep-final (the latter supersedes intermediate after reports).

No artwork generation or credit spend; no tuning, map, sim, native, OTA or APK changes. Concurrent voice-audition commit f210b6a and untracked cast-vo.html are preserved. Pre-release public APK ETag remains "d172dab35da57ba487c06a511ca4d00a-ssl-df"; local preserved SHA256 is 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b.

Next candidate: inspect all nine boss-projectile styles at phone zoom against the pale Gym and dark Boiler floors. Improve any washed-out cores or oversized halos while preserving trajectories, danger cues and fixed resource pools.

September 23 — user redirects work to campus image experiments

Weapon preparation shipped as 5fecab1; live version/bundle and FX manifest matched the build. Hosted HTML differed only by Netlify's expected feedback form transform. Public APK ETag and preserved local SHA256 stayed unchanged.

The subsequent boss-projectile shading audition is PARKED, uncommitted and unreleased at the user's explicit switch to campus-map concepts. Its changes are in src/boss-projectiles.js with test/boss-projectile-readability.browser.mjs. Five head shadow palettes and a 288-byte static core color attribute improve facet contrast. Focused tests passed 22/22; before/after Gym/Boiler desktop and phone captures retain exact draw arrays, geometry/texture counts, and add one warmed shader program. No errors or resource growth over 120 repeated frames. Full npm test was NOT run for this audition. Reports/contact sheets remain in TEMP/hallpass-boss-readability-before and -after. Do not deploy it as part of the campus work, and preserve the unrelated untracked cast-vo.html.

Current direction is image experimentation only: an isometric/bird's-eye Kurohane High campus with distinctive school architecture and grounds, potentially offering a future toggle beside the retained blueprint. No map replacement, gameplay change or public release is authorized by this image request. Initial concept batch and spending are recorded in docs/CAMPUS-MAP-EXPERIMENTS.md. The heartbeat now follows this task and waits for design feedback after delivering the initial concepts.

The initial campus batch is complete: four 2K images (architectural miniature, graphic exterior, selective cutaway, portrait campus) generated through the established Higgsfield connection. Verified cost was 4 credits total with no retries, balance 24.85 -> 20.85. Originals, prompts and receipt are in Downloads/ HallPass-Campus-Concepts-2026-09-23; exact jobs/URLs/spend are recorded in the campus document and ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/. Visual review favors the cutaway for recognizable rooms, with the exterior concepts informing architecture. Generated floor plans are not yet canon-accurate; resolve that before implementation. No map/runtime change, build or deployment for this batch. Next action is user design feedback; automatic wakeups must not start another generation batch or resume the parked projectile audition meanwhile.

September 23 — campus retry as a physical architectural model

User rejected the initial illustrated/cartoon rendering and requested museum maquette / HO scale model styling, explicitly choosing image 02 as the retry reference. Generated three referenced material/lighting studies: painted HO, ivory/basswood, and illuminated HO, preserving that campus composition. All completed; verified cost 6.5 credits, balance 20.85 -> 14.35, no retries, account changes or purchases. Originals 05-07 and receipts delivered beside the first batch in Downloads/HallPass-Campus-Concepts-2026-09-23. Exact jobs, prompts and completion URLs are durably recorded in the campus document and ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/*-02.json. Model materials/grounds are clearer; 05 is strongest for the physical-model brief and 07 retains that with miniature illumination. User feedback is next; no further automatic generation or runtime implementation. Existing blueprint and parked source changes preserved. No build, tests or deployment needed for image-only work.

September 23 — near-overhead nighttime architectural model studies

User requested a substantially higher bird's-eye view, a more restrained drawing-room architectural model, and nighttime. Generated two 2K studies using initial image 02 for layout only, targeting high-angle intact roofs and near-overhead sectional rooms. Originals 08/09 plus prompts and receipt are in Downloads/HallPass-Campus-Concepts-2026-09-23. Completed without retries; balance verified 14.35 -> 8.85, 5.5 credits spent this pass. Durable jobs/URLs are in docs/CAMPUS-MAP-EXPERIMENTS.md and ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/ submission-03.json and completed-03.json. Visual review favors 09: exposed partitions and the higher camera read more clearly as an architectural model; 08 still retains too much of the earlier oblique angle. Exact blueprint topology remains future work. Await user feedback before another batch or any implementation. No runtime/map changes, tests, build or deployment; parked projectile and concurrent cast-vo changes preserved.

September 24 — blueprint survey with physical 3D room models

User shifted from a campus diorama to the current blueprint/survey with 3D models on top. Read current blueprint.js and index.html styling; locally rendered the actual SVG for inspection. Generated two source-informed text concepts preserving the exploded L floors, B1 inset, yard, gym and pool, with navy paper/pale blue linework as the exposed map substrate. No reference image was uploaded; a prepared media slot was left unused and unconfirmed. Completed outputs 10/11 and their prompts/receipts are delivered in Downloads/ HallPass-Campus-Concepts-2026-09-23. Verified cost 5.5 credits, balance 8.85 -> 3.35, no retries or account changes. Durable jobs/URLs are in the campus doc and ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/*-04.json. 10 is clearer for overview; 11 adds stronger material/depth. Both are exploratory, not exact layout assets. Await user design feedback; blueprint runtime and parked edits remain unchanged. No build, tests, commit or deployment for image-only work.

September 24 — blueprint/model optimization discussion

User likes hybrid concepts 10/11 but questions invented interior clutter and the underlying survey layout. Audited blueprint, current Room Run/School Run navigation and actual stage/renderer recipes. Recommend ten simplified stage miniatures with 2-3 real visual landmarks, a compact floor/grounds composition, and a shared map presentation with mode-correct progression states. The Yard oval and several blueprint filler classrooms do not match authored gameplay. Current expedition uses separate wing cards; preserve its route/save contract if unifying presentation. Proposal recorded in CAMPUS-MAP-EXPERIMENTS.md; not implemented or approved. No image generation, credit spend, runtime edits, tests or deployment. Next decision is whether to prototype the simplified map layout using actual game geometry; automatic wakeups should await direction.

September 24 — interactive campus study approved and verified

User approved the first simplified prototype. Added standalone campus-study.html with ten actual room-union footprints, responsive overview and four area views, inspectable room dialogs, keyboard navigation, and Room Run / School Run demonstration states. The three transparent miniatures reuse real Gym, Library and Boiler geometry/materials and 38 authored props; their transforms match gameplay and the images total 102.4 KiB. The other seven rooms intentionally remain footprint studies. No generation or credits spent.

The page runs without WebGL, save access or a perpetual animation loop. Existing blueprint, room definitions, gameplay and the parked projectile audition remain unchanged. Added an isolated build entry; no import from the game bundle. Independent review caught an inline dialog-art wrapper and browser checks caught a phone footer overflow; both fixed before release.

Verification: 1,583 tests passed; production build passed (campus bundle 35.8 KiB). Chrome desktop 1440x900, phone 393x852, short landscape 852x393 and tablet 1024x768 passed all ten pointer selections, ten keyboard selections, area views, modal/focus checks, ten preview clears/reset and failed-image outline fallback. No storage reads/writes, WebGL contexts or idle animation/repeating timer work. Room hit targets at least 44px; landscape permits ordinary document scrolling. Screenshots/report: TEMP/hallpass-campus-study. Miniature generation also proved alpha margins, opaque floor partitions and camera registration within 1e-5px.

Release is scoped to this study and its documentation. Use the isolated clean main checkout for shipping so uncommitted boss-projectile work stays excluded; preserve the current APK. Next: await user review of layout and actual-art detail before filling the other seven miniatures or replacing either gameplay map.

Release completed: f663e10 shipped through npm run ship from a clean main checkout (Netlify deploy 6ab4a9b2355b06bcad16aa01). Live https://hallpass.cc/campus-study.html verified at 04:41 UTC: version, study JS/CSS, all three images, registration JSON and game bundle hashes match the release. Live phone browser opens/closes Gym details with no errors. Existing game code is identical to prior live code after normalizing only the build ID; 1,467 existing binary assets match, including the original APK SHA-256 44d49d320e8caf19f2b4dae6981a760b8e865a55dc6d15677b880e1286203c3b. Public APK ETag stayed unchanged. Clean release also passed all 1,583 tests. Cloudflare purge was skipped because its environment credentials are absent; direct public asset/version checks still matched. Receipt in ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/prototype-release-f663e10.json. The pass is complete; automatic wakeups should remain quiet awaiting the user's prototype feedback. No additional models or generation are queued.

September 24 — original school blueprint with ten rendered rooms

User found the first study too disconnected and requested the actual gameplay blueprint with the recognizable rendered room art added. The standalone study now imports the unchanged BLUEPRINT SVG, preserving its exploded L-shaped floors, stair cores, courtyard, walkways and basement inset. All ten room miniatures are finished using existing game geometry/materials and 64 selected authored props. Transparent images total 243.1 KiB; the original Gym, Library and Boiler images remain byte-identical. No image generation or credits spent.

Models register uniformly to fixed blueprint destinations. Area controls crop the same sheet, keeping every room in place. Added zoom, mouse/touch pan, a Models comparison toggle and keyboard focus reveal. The Detention overview leaves the original through-corridor visible. Final checks fixed clipped phone captions and focus outside the browser window in short landscape. The study still has no game saves, WebGL renderer or perpetual animation loop.

Verification: all 1,585 tests passed; production build passed (69.3 KiB study bundle). Browser checks passed desktop 1440x900, phone 393x852, landscape 852x393 and tablet 1024x768: exact original SVG, ten decoded miniatures, ten pointer and keyboard selections per profile, zoom/pan, four fixed-sheet crops, ten route preview clears/reset and image-failure fallback. No browser errors, save access or ongoing timers/animation. Final phone and landscape reruns also passed. Reports/screenshots live in TEMP/hallpass-campus-blueprint*.

Release only this study, assets, tests and documentation from clean main. The gameplay blueprint, config, maps, playtest tree and parked projectile audition remain unchanged. Next: await user review of this merged concept before any gameplay-map integration or further image generation; automatic wakeups should remain quiet once release verification is recorded.

Released 2380a22 via npm run ship from isolated clean main (Netlify deploy 6ab4b132fa5c9f49cd85d9fa). At 05:13 UTC, all 16 live asset hashes matched the release, including HTML, JS/CSS, ten images, manifest, game bundle and version. Live desktop/phone checks passed with zero script/resource errors, storage access or WebGL; Models comparison and room dialogs work. All 1,585 tests also passed in the isolated checkout. Existing game bundle is byte-identical to the previous live build after normalizing only its build ID. Release inventory contains all 1,563 expected paths; 1,477 binary assets match local inputs. Public APK ETag and local SHA-256 stayed unchanged. Protected source and parked projectile edits match their pre-release hashes. Cloudflare purge was skipped for absent credentials; direct public assets still matched. Receipt: ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/prototype-release-2380a22.json. This pass is complete; await the user's visual feedback before more work.

September 24 — single-ink architectural map auditions

User considers realistic miniatures the wrong direction and asks for a Higgsfield-enhanced architectural blueprint, with less clutter/name overlap. Generated three distinct text-only concepts on the established account: engraved night survey, flat architectural plan, and cyanotype school print. All use one blue ink family, connected school levels/annexes, two identifying landmarks per room, no baked labels and an empty margin for live room details. The recommendation is the etched style of 12 with the overhead clarity of 13; 12/14 need framing correction where the Yard edge crops. These remain visual auditions rather than exact registered production assets.

Verified preflight was 1 credit per 2K medium image; all three completed without retries. Balance 3.35 -> 0.35, total spent 3. No account switch or purchase. Original PNGs and receipts are in Downloads/HallPass-Campus-Concepts-2026-09-24; durable prompts, jobs and URLs are in ignored campus-map-experiments submission- 05.json and completed-05.json. Full names/IDs and review in the campus doc. Only concept documentation changed; no runtime edits, tests, builds or deploy. Await user design choice. Automatic wakeups must not generate more or resume the parked projectile audition; available credits are below one image's price.

September 24 — quiet architectural plan becomes the playable map

User approved concept #2 for actual room selection, retaining survey detail and requesting separately animatable exploded elements. Integrated the exact approved image as one 189.6 KiB WebP, split by seven SVG clipping groups: roof, upper, ground, yard, gym, pool and basement. Each group exposes an independent wrapper and stagger index. Survey border, compass, floor labels, guides and title block remain vector decoration. No new generation or credits.

Moved room names/status into an accessible selector and a fixed details dock; kept numbered 44px-minimum map targets, room-specific art, period/tier choices, stars, Second Heart and the original Play callback. Added zoom/Fit, touch and mouse pan, keyboard focus reveal and a phone bottom sheet. First-entry fades settle once and skip reduced-motion/keyboard entry. No new renderer or idle animation loop. Image failure leaves room selection and Play usable. Protected config/maps/playtest, School Run frontier and original comparison study stay unchanged. The parked projectile audition is excluded from this release.

Initial verification: 1,590 tests pass. Real UI/CSS browser fixture passed desktop 1440x900, phone 393x852, narrow phone 320x568, landscape 852x393 and tablet 1024x768. Checks cover ten room targets/list choices, keyboard/gamepad, touch, periods/tiers, locked/cleared state, zoom/pan, delayed purchase callback cleanup, missing art and zero persistence/WebGL/idle animation in the fixture. Review also fixed zoom focus-list refresh and uncaptured pointer exit cleanup. Final scaled-label visual check, production-build smoke and release receipt follow below. Next: user review of this approved plan in the actual room selector before further visual treatment; no additional image batches.

Visual review found Chromium painting SVG survey text at unscaled positions despite correct DOM bounds when the HTML plan parent used CSS scale. Changed zoom to size the SVG viewport and room targets directly, leaving only parent translation. A real phone screenshot confirms labels now stay beside their floor/annex without ghost text over the Yard.

Released 6dd9418 to main and production through npm run ship from the clean isolated checkout; Netlify deployment 6ab5232ef3677726462fe566. Final suite: all 1,590 tests passed in that checkout, production build and single-file map embedding passed. The final five-profile browser report is TEMP/hallpass-quiet-blueprint-native-svg-final/report.json (27 screenshots). Real production-build and public-site checks both followed Start Game > New Run > Room Run > Ren > Next on desktop and phone; map decoding, seven layers, ten controls, unlocked/locked details, zoom/Fit and unchanged saves passed. No runtime/frame/same-origin asset errors. External analytics were blocked in isolated browser contexts. These are Chrome viewport checks, not hardware iPhone/Safari measurements.

At 13:20 UTC the public version and eight asset hashes matched the release; index.html matched after accounting for Netlify's observed feedback-form registration rewrite. All 1,563 prior root-dist paths remain; two blueprint assets bring the release to 1,565. Public APK ETag and its local SHA-256 stayed unchanged. Config/maps and the parked projectile file retain their initial hashes; no APK/native/OTA or additional generation work occurred. Build emits the existing duplicate audio buy warning. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent, but direct public bytes and fresh-browser smoke checks passed. Receipt: ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/quiet-release-6dd9418.json. Live screenshots/report: TEMP/hallpass-quiet-live-smoke/. This pass is complete; await user feedback, and do not resume the parked projectile audition or spend more image credits on automatic wakeups.

September 24 — blueprint selection and mobile framing

User approved the first four recommendations from a fresh live map review: more useful map space, compact room details, architectural room outlines and one readable name outside the drawing. The approved artwork is unchanged. Added ten registered vector perimeters, floor shortcuts and selected-room framing above the compact phone panel. Desktop overview uses the full width until selection. Hover only names a room; it does not open or move the dock. Explicit selection owns the label even if reframing moves another room under the mouse. Fit restores the school; dropdown selection from another floor always brings the selected room into view.

Room name/hour/state, the selected challenge and Play stay visible. Details expands existing records, art, periods, tiers and Second Heart. Its own scroll area keeps buttons reachable on short landscape screens. All floor targets fit the 320px phone width with at least 44px touch size. Artwork behind the toolbar is masked for readable controls. No sim, save or progression changes; School Run routing remains separate. No generated assets or credits spent.

Initial full suite: 1,592 tests passed. Browser review caught and fixed a cross-floor crop mismatch, a narrow clipped floor target, and an expanded landscape action row obscuring settings. Final browser/build/release receipts follow below. Protected source, the parked projectile audition and concurrent cast-vo work remain outside this scoped change.

Next candidate after user review: use this same architectural map for School Run's existing frontier rules. Do not start that migration or new art batches on unattended wakeups without direction.

Released 119733a on main through the clean release checkout and npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6ab546821cfaf1926d558030. All 1,592 tests passed again in that checkout. Production build and real Start Game > New Run > Room Run > Ren > Next smoke checks passed on desktop and phone, both before release and on the public site. All ten rooms, six floor shortcuts, option controls, cross-floor framing, keyboard/gamepad, touch, reduced motion, failed-art and cleanup behavior passed the five-profile Chrome fixture. The narrow phone's native swipe moved the details scroller 40px without changing the map. These are browser viewport checks, not physical iPhone/Safari measurements.

The consolidated browser report and 35 screenshots are in TEMP/hallpass-quiet-blueprint-compact-complete/; it records the separate desktop and final touch-profile runs. Built/live smoke reports are in TEMP/hallpass-blueprint-refinement-{built,live}/. No fixture storage access, WebGL, browser errors or continuing animation loops. At 15:50 UTC the public version and eight checked asset hashes matched; the public APK ETag and local SHA-256 were unchanged. Receipt: ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/ quiet-release-119733a.json. Cloudflare purge lacked credentials; direct live bytes and fresh browser checks passed. Config, maps and parked projectile hashes still match their pre-pass values. Concurrent cast-vo commits were preserved; its untracked HTML was neither staged nor deployed. No APK, native, OTA, image generation or credit spending occurred.

September 24 — landscape blueprint and restored survey UI

User found the overhead revision too tall and the removed labels/highlighting a usability regression. Reframed the same approved image as a shallow angled 1920x980 survey, fitting the menu's primary 1920x1080 display. A shared affine projection registers all seven artwork cuts, ten room perimeters, anchors, pointer polygons and floor crops. Thin vector slab faces restore depth. The 189.6 KiB source WebP remains byte-identical; no new credits or textures.

Restored ten persistent desktop name/hour/state labels in the margins, clickable without covering the drawing. Haunted rooms use muted red, cleared rooms green, sealed rooms dashed gray, and selection gold. Added a compact status legend and restored floor/wing/circulation annotations, dimension guides, compass and title block. Compact room selection/optional Details stay intact. Small selected-room crops use a clamped callout instead of margin labels that could fall behind the toolbar. No gameplay or save changes.

Initial full suite: 1,593 tests passed. Browser review caught overlapping invisible targets on the narrow phone: the Rooftop badge and its pin container could steal Second Floor taps. Rounded 44px badge targets and pointer-inert pin containers preserve all ten real room taps. A separate review caught and fixed the short-landscape Boiler Room label falling behind the toolbar. Final browser, production build and release verification follow below.

Protected config/maps/playtest and unrelated projectile/cast-vo work remain untouched. Next: user review of the horizontal composition and restored map information; do not start new image batches or resume the parked projectile audition on automatic wakeups.

Released 0ec2c67 on main through the isolated clean checkout and npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6ab54eb023ad24bbefe5e683. All 1,593 tests passed again against that exact release commit, followed by a production build and real menu-to-map checks on desktop and phone before and after publication. Public version and eight asset hashes matched at 16:24 UTC. Public APK ETag and local SHA-256 remain unchanged. All 1,405 recorded baseline deployment paths remain in the 1,565-file output. The existing duplicate-audio warning and absent Cloudflare-purge credentials remain; direct public bytes and fresh browser checks passed.

Seven viewport profiles cover 1920x1080, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1024x768, 852x393, 393x852 and 320x568. Wide/laptop sheet width is 89.2%/80.6% of the viewport. Ten rooms, six floor shortcuts, status colors, keyboard/gamepad, mouse/touch, detail scrolling, missing art and cleanup passed. The consolidated report explicitly records staged-run provenance, including fresh narrow and landscape/tablet checks after their respective fixes and an independent latest-source desktop sweep of 20 real center/nameplate clicks. No runtime errors, storage access, WebGL contexts or continuing map loops in the fixture. These are Chrome viewport checks, not physical iPhone/Safari measurements.

Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-quiet-blueprint-wide-complete/report.json with 51 screenshots and postfix-clicks.json; real-build/live smoke reports in TEMP/hallpass-blueprint-landscape-{built,live}/; public receipt in ignored assets-src/campus-map-experiments/quiet-release-0ec2c67.json. Config, maps, parked projectile and approved-image hashes retain their pre-pass values. No APK, native, OTA, generation or credit spending. This pass is complete.

September 27 — distinctive school bosses, readable attacks and a Yard breaker

User approved all four recommendations from the deployment review. The Reddit comparison was unavailable behind a human-verification screen; these changes come from Hall Pass's own code review, not claims about that competitor.

Fresh normal runs now opt into combat version 2; existing version 0/1 saves and dailies retain their previous rules. Group Project alternates spectral lanes then a checked-safe crossing; Parent-Teacher Night alternates locked gaze cones; Vice Principal announces three ordered strike seals before any blink. All have real stationary recovery. Fixed shapes drive both damage and warning drawing, cover is respected on rectangular and connected maps, and unsafe cramped commitments cancel. Existing Group/Vice six-grunt reinforcement is preserved; no new XP spawns, HP/speed buffs or attack RNG are introduced. Janitor, Binding Stitch and Threadbreaker remain available in version 2.

Warnings are one bounded instanced draw: a fixed outer danger edge, separate countdown, distinct source glyphs and cyan recovery. Exam Season receives the same truthful radius in all versions. Safe-screen compile and a transparent warm draw avoid first-warning GPU allocation. Spitter/Warden inflate/recoil; Brutes plant, lean and recover, keeping original faces and instancing. One non-blocking Yard electrical breaker rewards a deliberate 0.6s aim/fire hold with a one-use nearby curse stun; no boss stun, damage or bonus rewards.

Validation: 1,639 tests pass. Directed real-engine Chrome checks cover desktop 1440x900, phone landscape 852x393 and reduced motion, with actual mouse/touch pointer events for breaker interaction, loaded boss bodies, paused phase state, warning contrast over Ren's Domain and stable resources across 500 effect resets. Isolated shader checks additionally cover 390x844, six attack arrangements, 1,080 simultaneous Exam warnings, warmup and disposal. These are browser viewport checks, not physical iPhone performance or balance claims. Review caught/fixed a GLSL syntax error, partial-view test lifecycle calls, Vice countdown rewind, truncated Vice attack animation, and inactive sources incorrectly turning red. Evidence is in TEMP/hallpass-school-combat-review and TEMP/hallpass-combat-warning-review; the test harnesses are checked in.

Config, maps, playtest and the parked boss-projectile audition retain their original bytes. Unrelated cast-vo and Grub pilot work is not part of this release. Web release uses a clean main checkout; no native, OTA or APK work. Next candidate: apply the encounter template to Pop Quiz's Answer Sheet and Hall Monitor's Inspection Route after play feedback on these three fights.

Released combat commit 030ab07 from an isolated clean main checkout through npm run ship, Netlify deployment 6ab9bdb12dcca9ecae38901f. The exact clean checkout passed all 1,639 tests, production build and the final three-profile browser pass. Live 1.0.6+030ab07 version/bundle and three boss-model hashes match the release; HTML matches after Netlify's expected feedback-form rewrite. A fresh phone-size Chrome run on hallpass.cc confirms combat version 2, the warning pool and Yard fixture, with no runtime/GL errors. The public APK ETag and local SHA-256 match the pre-release values. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; direct public asset and fresh-browser verification succeeded. Final evidence: TEMP/hallpass-school-combat-final/report.json and TEMP/hallpass-school-live-report.json. No iOS/OTA/APK update was published.

September 28 — awakened techniques, reactive rooms and boss remixes

User approved the seven Emberfall-inspired improvements and requested thorough implementation. These are original Hall Pass systems using existing assets; no competitor code/assets, image generation or credits were used.

Fresh normal runs opt into combat version 3. Existing saves and dailies keep their prior rules. Four deliberate two-card recipes awaken original primaries: Ren clears up to three bullets in his palm arc, Yui's first needle briefly binds, Kaito plants a pulling orb, and Sora's volley turns back. Existing shot counts/base damage/lifetimes/RNG remain unchanged; actual utility changes need play feedback, so this is not a balance claim. Per-student eight-second clocks and first-use notices survive save/tag/room carry. The hand has one compact recipe link; full explanation stays inside the existing card inspection.

Below half health, Group Project adds a re-aimed crossing, Parent-Teacher Night a combined gaze and Vice Principal a reverse seal reprise. Full fresh warnings, safe escape checks and unchanged recovery make the extra beats readable. The threshold is sampled only when a sequence starts; v2 commitments never change.

All ten rooms have restrained floor air and characteristic loose debris; Boiler equipment emits source steam. Heavy attacks lift existing scraps. Bounded short-lived fracture/stitch/scorch/brush residue grounds big contacts. Friendly particles, domain artwork and new awakening marks thin locally as hostile shots approach, while actual threat markers remain untouched. New visual systems add at most four main-scene draws and zero new textures/lights/ postpasses; mobile/low caps, prewarm, reduced motion and cleanup are included.

All 1,688 tests pass. Checks cover snapshot lockstep, legacy versions, every recipe, cooldown/swap/room carry, boss remix commitments and warning geometry. Independent review found and fixed residue checking the wrong map field and old marks returning after same-sim After Hours. Tests now use real obstacles, quarter-turn footprints and terminal transitions. The old version-normalization test was updated to accept v3 while still rejecting unknown/string versions. The combined browser pass also caught atmosphere briefly surviving a title transition while demo warmup deferred sync; setDemo now clears combat-only artwork immediately, with a dedicated regression test.

Real Chrome component reviews cover landscape/portrait, all four awakening styles, Boiler/Library/Roof with actual worlds, protected warning pixel colors, pause freeze, quality changes, repeated impacts/resets and GPU cleanup. No shader/GL errors or growing resource counts. Deck recipe links/modals were operated at 1440x900, 852x393 touch and 390x844 touch. Evidence directories in TEMP: hallpass-{awakening-fx-review,awakening-ui,room-atmosphere-review, friendly-clarity}. These are directed Chrome viewport checks, not physical iPhone/Safari performance or completion-rate measurements. Final combined browser/build/release results are recorded below when complete.

The final combined real-engine run passed desktop 1440x900, landscape phone 852x393 and reduced-motion phone: 66 recorded cases, no JS/WebGL errors. Actual casts reached Game/View for every hero; Sora's returning shots retained their marks. All three below-half boss follow-ups, warning order, paused clocks, four warmed residue/glyph styles, 40 complete pool recycle cycles, Boiler replacement/disposal and immediate title cleanup passed. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-emberfall-integrated-final/report.json. The original 500-warning reset and real-pointer Yard breaker checks remain part of that harness.

Additional furnace-hall framing caught opaque black stripes only with desktop steam plus Post. Frozen component toggles isolated the new fog. A standalone real HDR/MSAA test reproduced 672 nonfinite half-float channel samples and 21,466 newly black pixels while GL still reported no error. Clamping the steam envelope and rejecting invalid alpha removed both across five animation times on desktop and phone. Regression: test/room-atmosphere-hdr.browser.mjs; evidence TEMP/hallpass-room-atmosphere-hdr-{before,after}. A separate full pass explicitly selected the mobile graphics path using a phone user-agent, rather than assuming touch emulation selected it: phone/reduced use 16 wisps, 10 source plumes and 38 scraps, with stable allocations. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-emberfall-integrated-mobile-budget/report.json (69 records).

Config, maps, playtest and parked projectile bytes are preserved. Unrelated cast-vo/Grub work is excluded. No native/OTA/APK work. Next: collect player feedback on the four recipe utilities and boss reprise escape windows before expanding the recipe catalog or applying this pattern to additional bosses.

Released 46c6906 on main through an isolated clean checkout and npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6aba7c3379cb073096601840, live build 1.0.6+46c6906. All 1,688 tests passed again in the exact release checkout, followed by the production build. All 1,565 existing deployment paths were preserved. Final integrated evidence, including the corrected steam and actual mobile graphics caps, is TEMP/hallpass-emberfall-integrated-verified/report.json: 84 records across desktop/mobile/reduced motion, no JS/GL errors and stable warmed resource counts. Physical iPhone/Safari and balance remain unmeasured.

Normal prepareRun/warmRun startup passed on the production build and public site in desktop and mobile graphics modes; all three new effects were warmed before play and a real Ren recipe cast reached its renderer. At 14:40 UTC, seven public file hashes matched (HTML after the expected Netlify form rewrite). Unversioned version/bundle/CSS URLs also matched. Public APK ETag and local SHA-256 were unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; direct public bytes and fresh browser checks passed. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-emberfall-{built,live}-report.json. Protected config/maps/parked projectile hashes retain their original values; other-session work remains uncommitted and unshipped. No native, OTA, APK, paid generation or credit spend.

2026-09-28 — Library Falling Stacks

Chris approved the next school-as-combat-tool slice. Added a one-use book cascade to the existing small reading-hall shelf, without editing the map or adding a collision object. Manual aim/fire held for 0.6s sends a 6x4.2-unit wave down its clear south aisle. It shoves ordinary curses through the normal radius-aware movement checks and interrupts attacks; bosses/ghosts are immune. No damage, extra enemies, rewards or RNG draws. Version 4 opts fresh normal runs in; previous saves/dailies keep their rules. Partial charge, active wave, shove and spent state survive JSON saves and school-room carry.

The aim target must sit at the front face (18.5,-2.85), not inside the shelf at (18.5,-4): targeting the collider center fails line of sight. Actual authored floor/nav checks verified the aisle and approaches. Creation omits the fixture if the editor later moves its shelf or blocks the aisle. Auto-fire with mouse hover was found to produce ordinary aim+fire signals; the new manualFire flag requires a held mouse button or aim-stick input specifically for this fixture. The old Yard breaker input contract is preserved.

Presentation uses three fixed instanced draws plus one near-only label, with smaller phone/reduced-motion pools, no lights/post passes/external art. Books and the leading edge follow the saved simulation front. An initial render made pages form a bright diagonal ribbon: complementary layout seeds were correlated. Independent placement axes, trailing leaves and dimmer parchment corrected it. A short positional wood/paper cue is documented in the public cue sheet without regenerating prior auditions. Effects warm behind the loading screen and clear on room/title/terminal transitions. Pause freezes state and cancels queued audio.

All 1,709 unit tests pass, including deliberate input, fixture targeting, no reward/RNG changes, wall-safe shove, elite interruption, snapshot lockstep, legacy behavior, pool budgets, finite shader inputs and audio cancellation. Independent simulation/integration review found no remaining blocking issue. Final browser and release receipts follow below. No balance or physical iPhone/Safari performance claim. Config/maps/playtest and unrelated projectile, Grub and cast-VO work are preserved. No native/OTA/APK or credit spend.

Next candidate: Hall Monitor's committed pass-check cone, baton rush and recoverable opening; leave that encounter for a separate reviewed pass.

Final integrated Chrome evidence: TEMP/hallpass-library-fixture-verified/ report.json, 36 records over desktop 1440x900, phone landscape 852x393, portrait 390x844 and reduced motion. Real mouse/right-stick PointerEvents, auto-fire hover rejection, pause/restore, near-before-far contact, boss/cover immunity, shove legality, terminal cleanup and stable recycled GPU resources pass. Full active HDR target readbacks contain zero nonfinite channels; no JS/GL errors. Reviewed the revised pages and enlarged phone cue at native capture size. Portrait retains the game's existing rotate-for-landscape guidance.

Released 989965b on main through the clean checkout's npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6aba89685e494569e24296a6, live 1.0.6+989965b. The exact checkout passed all 1,709 tests and the production build. Normal prepareRun/warmRun and real mouse/touch activation passed both on the built site and public production, with all four new/recent FX owners warmed and no JS/GL errors. All 1,565 existing deployment paths remain present. At 15:37 UTC, eight public files matched the release (HTML after Netlify's expected form rewrite); unversioned version/bundle/CSS/cue-sheet URLs also matched. APK SHA-256 and public ETag are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; public bytes were verified directly. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-stacks-{built,live} -report.json and hallpass-stacks-plain-assets.json. Other-session changes remain uncommitted and unshipped. Web only; no native, OTA, APK or paid generation.

2026-09-28 — Build clarity: evolution recipes and weapon tradeoffs

Chris approved the next Emberfall-inspired pass. Added small separate recipe links beneath relevant level-up choices. They preview the next rank's progress, open the actual prerequisites/effect in a focused inspector, and distinguish a completed recipe from choosing the evolution on a later draft. Existing rank definitions, random draws, simulation, saves and balance are unchanged. Already learned or unavailable recipes are excluded. No additional generated assets.

Both live and school-checkpoint boss-weapon comparisons now explain when the recipient's ready original-primary awakening will become inactive. This uses the run hand and saved combat version, including benched students and cooldowns; legacy runs, incomplete recipes, KO students and boss-to-boss swaps stay quiet. The warning remains above the actions, visible without scrolling the comparison.

The first full suite passed 1,719 tests; two additional controller tests then passed with the ten new recipe tests. Independent diff review found no blocking issue. Real Chrome source-UI checks passed at 1440x900, 852x393, 568x320 and 390x844: real click/tap, no accidental choice, frozen draft, projected ranks, Tab/Escape/focus restoration, all 18 technique titles, 96 weapon-warning cases, and reachable controls at least 44px high. Inspected screenshots in TEMP/hallpass-build-clarity-ui. The smallest landscape retains the existing vertically scrolling layout. Physical iPhone/Safari was not tested.

Release verification follows after the isolated main checkout's full suite, production build and real built/live controller checks. Preserve concurrent boss-projectile, Grub and cast-VO work. No config/maps/playtest edits, APK/native/ OTA work or credit spend. Next separate candidate: Hall Monitor's committed pass-check, baton rush and recovery opening.

Released 2e9351c from the isolated main checkout through npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6aba969bcfd6a135bcf52b23, live 1.0.6+2e9351c. The exact release passed all 1,721 unit tests and the production web build. Built and live Chrome checks at 1440x900 and 852x393 completed normal run startup, actual recipe opening/closing with an unchanged full sim snapshot, real upgrade selection, and live/checkpoint awakening warnings. Finished animations were inspected; no JS/GL errors. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-clarity-{built,live}-report.json and screenshots, plus the reproducible checked-in source-UI and controller tests.

All 1,565 previous deployment paths remain present. Public version, bundle, CSS and HTML (after Netlify's expected form rewrite) match the release, both versioned and unversioned URLs. APK SHA-256 and public ETag are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent, so public bytes were verified directly. Config/maps/parked-projectile hashes remain unchanged, and the other session's uncommitted files remain outside the release.

2026-09-28 — Hall Monitor: pass check and committed baton rush

Chris approved the next encounter pass. Fresh normal runs now use combat version 5. Hall Monitor keeps his existing spotlight hunt between sequences, but can plant for a 1.2s pass check, commit to a straight rush for up to 0.8s, then expose a harmless 1.6s recovery before 3s of hunting. The path locks at the tell and stops at walls without sliding. Triggering requires clear sight, a usable path and a reachable sideways dodge with reaction margin. One rush can deal only one normal-damage hit, with the latch preserved through saves.

The displayed capsule is the shared damage footprint, including rounded end caps and body radii. Amber warning, red active travel and cyan recovery use the existing instanced renderer, with contained inspection rays and an ID-pass marker. Tracking light/shots/wisps stop during the commitment. Existing walk and run clips plant during warning/recovery and run during the actual rush. Phase-filtered positional warning/impact cues reuse the existing sound bank. No extra spawns, RNG, stat buffs, textures, lights or render passes.

Independent audit found reachable base-Kaito sidesteps after 0.3s reaction in six authored Yard/Halls/Pool/Roof placements; obstructed Library/Yard/Gym placements deferred. It identified the possible double-contact penalty; the saved one-hit rule and a save-after-hit regression resolve it. All 42 final focused encounter/presentation/audio tests passed. The earlier full suite passed 1,746 tests before the last additional collision/hit regressions; the exact release suite and browser evidence follow below. Versions 0–4 and daily runs preserve their prior rules; restored new runs retain their path, phase and one-hit state. No config/maps/playtest edits or paid generation.

Preserve concurrent boss-projectile, Grub and cast-VO work; ship only reviewed files through the isolated main checkout. Web only; no APK/native/OTA release. Next separate candidate: Pop Quiz's aimed Answer Sheet volleys and reload opening, giving another original boss a distinct movement response.

Final source browser checks passed 30 records across desktop 1440x900, phone 852x393 and reduced motion. Real keyboard/stick input dodged the locked rush; pause, mid-rush snapshot restore, planted recovery, resumed spotlight and terminal cleanup passed with zero JS/GL errors. Repeated warning phases reused the same pools with no geometry/texture/program growth. HDR target readbacks contained zero nonfinite values. Desktop and phone screenshots were inspected at native size. Evidence: TEMP/hallpass-monitor-verified/report.json and its windup/rush/recovery/idle screenshots. Physical iPhone/Safari was not tested.

The exact isolated release passed all 1,747 tests and the production web build. Both built desktop/phone browser profiles completed normal prepareRun/warmRun with real animation frames, then verified the loaded planted model, maintained capsule, hidden spotlight and completely frozen paused sim/rig/warning state. All 1,565 existing public paths and the APK SHA-256 remain unchanged. Built evidence: TEMP/hallpass-monitor-built-report.json and corresponding screenshots.

Released 36f8649 on main through the isolated checkout's npm run ship; Netlify deployment 6aba9cc9da2d5771a9be0cbc, live 1.0.6+36f8649. The same normal-startup desktop/phone checks passed on public production with zero JS/frame/GL errors. Versioned and unversioned version/bundle/menu CSS match exact release hashes; HTML matches after Netlify's known feedback-form rewrite. Public APK ETag and local SHA-256 are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; public bytes were verified directly. Live evidence: TEMP/hallpass-monitor-live-report.json and corresponding screenshots. Config, maps and parked-projectile hashes are unchanged; all other-session files remain uncommitted and unshipped. This is a web release only.

2026-09-29 — Pre-submission menu polish pass

Chris: "almost there but unpolished — is it clean and does it fit?" Eleven capture → score → fix rounds, two independent Opus scorers per round, acting only on what both flagged. Scores moved from 4–6 to mostly 7–8.

Shipped 2026-09-29 as five web releases (535c478, 573ee36, f774b36, a85ae3d, d00eda9; live 1.0.6+d00eda9), rounds 12–17 continuing the same loop. Final scorer pair: 8 on Title, Run mode, Stages (portrait), Choose Crew, Store, Credits, Pause, Your Hand, Field Report, Deck reveal, Options Audio; 7–7.5 on Clubhouse Deck/Crew, Records, Win, Level-up, Student, Club Card; Death with revive 6–7. Remaining structural asks (not polish): owned cards before blanks in the Collection, one fewer tier on the death screen, landscape Crew name bars, Stages landscape survey plate. Specificity gotcha: the masthead rule `#ui > .screen.has-menuhead:not(.screen-pause) > .screenhead

2026-09-30 / 10-01 — Landscape pass, Store art, green menu tests, 1.0.7 prepared

2026-10-02 — Eleven v4 recast from the clip sheet

2026-10-06 — Compact autosaves and safe boss preparation

Chris approved the first two performance priorities: remove repeated save payloads and move boss preparation off active gameplay. No tuning, maps, spawn counts, graphics quality reductions, audio changes or native releases.

Evidence stays outside the repository at G:/Temp/hallpass-performance-20261006/ and the focused browser reports named below. The 180-second frozen-HEAD control used 24338cd, a fully equipped four-student crew, natural Chrome frames and real audio/autosaves. It had no JS/frame errors but severe frame tails; unrelated headless browser activity was independently consuming over ten CPU cores. Do not interpret these host timings as a controlled FPS improvement or physical-iPhone result.

Release preflight: live was 1.0.7+a6fb100. Public hallpass-playtest.apk already returned HTTP 404 and local dist had no APK; this pass must preserve that state rather than publish a different binary. cast-vo.html is unrelated untracked work and is excluded. Origin is git.hdp.llc; GitHub push is disabled.

Verification so far: the stable full suite passed 1,775 tests and the production build passed. The final ready-pool polling guard then passed all 39 View loading tests (240 idle polls perform zero shadow-discovery scene traversals). The independent browser harness passed source and built-bundle desktop/phone checks: ordinary startup, exact warmed-instance reuse, no new boss shaders at arrival, late GLB staging, visible fallback, resume during upload, safe recovery and actual low/high FX settings transitions. No GL or JavaScript errors. Desktop's existing cubemap adds one texture at arrival; phone arrival adds none. No boss cast-shadow pass was introduced. Source report/screenshots: G:/Temp/hallpass-boss-preparation-asDyJU/.

Final built-bundle browser report: G:/Temp/hallpass-boss-preparation-k3zZe9/; all per-draw GL checks are zero, with desktop/landscape-phone screenshots. The final source soak (hallpass-performance-20261006/candidate/) completed 600 wall seconds / 594.78 active seconds: all four equipped heroes, Janitor, Hall Monitor and Pop Quiz, 38 real crew-key attempts, two visible Keep Going clicks, and 123 run autosaves. No browser/game-frame errors. Autosave CPU work totaled 203.1ms, worst 3.6ms; compatibility checkpoint writes peaked at 1.3ms. Renderer resources ranged 134–140 textures, 287–383 geometries and 127–132 programs; final 137/381/132. JS heap ranged 40.4–85.6MB. Observed active frame p95/p99 16.9/39.9ms are diagnostic only under the host-load caveat above, not a controlled improvement claim. The soak naturally exercised Quiz and Midterm continuation gates; no clocks, cooldowns or spawn counts were forced. Its driver now handles a card offer via the visible Leave action.

The staged diff and production file inventory were reviewed: no existing dist paths removed, no protected-file changes, no unrelated work staged. Next performance candidate: a physical iPhone Safari/installed-app sustained trace using docs/IPHONE-PERFORMANCE.md, then reflection/pixel budgets guided by that evidence. Installed iOS has not received this web-only change.

Web release verified: game commit 1e30200, live 1.0.7+1e30200, Netlify deploy 6ac594f9cdbea7c8274a7103. npm run ship passed and uploaded five changed assets. Public version, bundle and menu CSS match the exact release hashes through both plain and versioned URLs. Public desktop and landscape phone-profile normal startup reached live gameplay with the Janitor spare ready and zero GL/JavaScript errors; screenshots and receipts are in hallpass-performance-20261006/live-*. No dist paths were removed. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent, so live bytes were checked directly. Public APK still returns its pre-existing 404; no APK, native package or OTA was built/published. cast-vo.html remains untracked and untouched.

2026-10-06 — isolate boss and floor reflection captures

Continued the performance pass with a measured rendering defect, without changing simulation, quality settings, resolution or artwork. Boss cube captures were entering the Yard/Gym/Roof planar hooks. That performed another whole-scene draw, consumed the main camera's cadence, overwrote its reflection texture/matrix and let Three's planar target restoration select cube face zero. Each planar hook now exits on a cube target before any cadence or state change; the cube samples the existing cached surface instead. No new targets, scene traversals or reflection passes. Cached room shadows already avoided redraws, so shadow behavior and boss cube timing remain unchanged.

The new constructor-level regression tests cover all six cube faces, retained target/face/mip/matrix/visibility, and main canvas/HDR cadence for the Gym, desktop/phone Yard and desktop/phone Roof. All ten pass on the candidate and all ten fail against the pre-change modules bundled from HEAD. The full suite passes 1,786 tests; production build passes. Browser evidence and release receipts are stored outside the repo in G:/Temp/hallpass-reflections-20261006/. The browser fixture measures real View/Boss3D/room draw counts and pixels; it is a controlled render regression, not a live combat or physical-iPhone FPS measurement.

Preflight: web 1.0.7+1e30200; public APK already HTTP 404 and no local dist APK, preserved. Unrelated cast-vo.html remains excluded, and the production file inventory retains all pre-existing paths. No native, APK or OTA work.

Final real-Chrome comparison passed all six room/device cases using the same frozen baseline and legal room spawn positions. Per twelve desktop main frames, Yard/Gym planar draws fell 9→6 and Roof 18→12; nested planar captures fell 3/3/6→0. Yard/Gym main captures now have uniform two-frame spacing instead of alternating one/three-frame gaps. All cube-only matrix/pixel changes and cube-face restore errors are gone. Phone counts remain Yard 4, Gym 0, Roof 6; boss cube captures remain 0. GPU allocations stayed stable across repeated cycles and identical between revisions. No JS/GL errors or new warnings; the existing ANGLE X4122 precision diagnostics are retained in both reports. Desktop/landscape-phone stills were visually reviewed. These pass-count reductions do not establish an FPS gain or physical iPhone performance.

Next candidate: measure particle/transparency screen coverage and render pixel budgets during crowded fights; retain effect identity and prefer evidence from the physical-iPhone recorder before changing mobile quality thresholds.

Web release verified: game commit 61fdafd, live 1.0.7+61fdafd, Netlify deploy 6ac59c2a268f3b955b4ee096. Ship passed; version, bundle and menu CSS match release hashes through plain and versioned public URLs. Fresh desktop and landscape-phone browser checks reached gameplay with a ready Janitor instance and zero GL/JS errors. No production file paths were removed; the public APK retains its pre-existing 404. Source config/maps hashes are unchanged, no playtest files changed, and cast-vo.html remains untracked. Installed iOS was not updated. The Cloudflare purge was skipped for absent credentials; public bytes were verified directly. Receipts: live-assets.json, live-browser.json, ship.log in the external folder above.

2026-10-06 — live-prefix projectile uploads and single-pass needles

Continued the phone/browser performance audit. Core sprite and shard/glow pools already use dense live-prefix uploads, while View._syncShots still dirtied whole reserved buffers for all nine primary-shot, bullet/halo and orbit meshes. It now reuses the established _uploadInstances helper, replacing pending ranges with the live prefix. Capacity, filtering, transforms, colors and draw order are unchanged; empty pools stay clean. The loaded Yui needle plane now uses one double-sided pass. Solid fallback geometry and volumetric effects retain their materials. No sim, balance, asset, resolution or quality changes.

Verification: 32 targeted/adjacent tests, full suite 1,790/1,790, production build and diff checks pass. New tests exercise actual production constructors, all nine capacities, hidden grow/shrink/empty/refill, untouched buffer tails, frozen simulation inputs, elevated transforms and Conductor color variants. The same tests against pre-change View produce the expected three failures; their visual/filter/transform assertion still passes.

The real-GL fixture at G:/Temp/hallpass-projectiles-20261006/ covers desktop and landscape-phone viewports with the actual needle artwork and its fallback. The old occupied pools upload 82,816 bytes per warmed frame. Identical live counts now upload 600 bytes (sparse), 3,608 (grow), 1,096 (shrink) and 2,192 (refill); empty remains zero. The textured needle batch submits one draw instead of two from above and below, and the full nine-pool fixture drops 10→9 draws. Fallback draws remain nine. All 28 frozen-before/after PNGs are pixel-identical after RGBA decoding; runtime full-upload/two-pass reference comparisons also match exactly. No buffer allocations, GPU resource growth, GL warnings or JS errors. This measures submitted work, not combat FPS or physical-iPhone performance. Baseline bundle hash is 82d68a85830cc82ff490f4d9ec9281b8433b0cb24ab8b1de7c586bf311b60f07; candidate 9a5b1849cfde13c8e5c24033b955cad39514041e516a7aa7f1ea6c681f233074.

Preflight: web 1.0.7+61fdafd; APK already HTTP 404 with none in dist. Preserve that state, unrelated cast-vo.html, and protected config/maps/playtest. No APK, native package or OTA release. Next candidate: profile avoidable transparent-area shading using existing art, or eliminate the redundant drawing-buffer resize before changing any mobile quality thresholds. The older particle-submit.browser.mjs sprite fixture also needs its historical 84-byte expectation updated for the newer clarity attribute (88 bytes total) before it can be used as current evidence.

Web release verified: game commit a703eee, live 1.0.7+a703eee, Netlify deploy 6ac5a0cc0a35fe3c7529c4bf. Ship passed; plain and versioned public version/bundle/menu CSS match release hashes. Fresh desktop and landscape-phone Chrome checks reached Yui gameplay with loaded single-pass needle artwork, the next boss prepared and zero GL/JS errors. Public APK remains the prior 404; no dist paths removed, no native/OTA delivery. Other edits remain untouched. Cloudflare purge lacked credentials, so live asset bytes were verified directly. Receipts/screenshots are live-* and ship.log in the external folder above.

2026-10-06 — one canvas reset per viewport change

Continued phone/browser optimization in View.resize. Three's setPixelRatio already calls setSize, so the previous pair reset canvas width/height twice per real viewport or effective-DPR change. Use setDrawingBufferSize to update both together, retaining CSS sizing and the existing Post/camera/number updates. Raw DPR changes above the active cap now skip resize work while preserving the latest requested DPR for later quality changes. Logical-size changes still reframe even when the physical pixel dimensions happen to match. No visual quality thresholds, assets, gameplay, RNG or balance changes.

The current Three renderer uses default UnsignedByte output and the separate Hall Pass Post pipeline; Three's internal HDR-output/XR sizing differences do not apply. Tests cover atomic dimensions, capped DPR changes, latest-DPR reuse, logical versus physical sizing, quality switches, adaptation and orientation. The focused performance suite passes 12/12; the full suite passes 1,792/1,792; production build and diff checks pass. Browser evidence and release receipts are kept outside the repo at G:/Temp/hallpass-resize-20261006/.

Preflight: live web 1.0.7+a703eee; public APK already 404 and absent in dist. Preserve that state and unrelated cast-vo.html; no APK/native/OTA work.

Next candidate: refresh test/particle-submit.browser.mjs for the current 88-byte sprite vertex payload (including the clarity attribute), then measure transparent-effect coverage in crowded combat before changing phone quality limits. Physical-iPhone frame-rate claims still require device recordings.

Real-Chrome comparison passed all four device/framing cases and 68 staged captures against frozen 0d88427 source: decoded RGBA images, logical and physical sizes, CSS, Post targets, camera matrices, spawn bounds, pointer-to- ground positions and resource counts match exactly. Each ordinary resize now writes native canvas width/height once each instead of twice. Capped raw-DPR changes write neither and skip Post/framing/number updates (previously one each). Already-unchanged and restored-context resizes remain free. Quality, adaptive steps, fractional dimensions, landscape/portrait and deliberate GL context restoration all pass, with zero graphics warnings or JS errors. This proves reduced resize work, not a combat-FPS or physical-iPhone gain. Frozen baseline SHA256: 807429b62f4c701de0b6b82d503319de6f1dbfacafb61a8b21b3e14dfb4c9128; candidate cddb4a88a62ee8ce5af0e58c56bbdfc803eccfcdaed506700daba856b1f6b884.

Full production-game startup also passed on fresh desktop and phone-profile Chrome contexts, including desktop resize, portrait/landscape rotation, native CSS canvas sizing, Post dimensions, camera aspect and dispatched pointer input. Yui's art loaded, the next boss was prepared, and both runs had zero GL/JS errors. Local desktop/phone stills reviewed; local-browser.json retains the checks. This is browser-profile verification, not physical iOS execution.

Web release verified: game commit 883da74, live 1.0.7+883da74, Netlify 6ac5a553bbcc2096b8a0b967. Production ship passed; plain and versioned public version/bundle/menu CSS match release hashes. Live desktop and phone-profile Chrome both reached gameplay with Yui's loaded art and the next boss prepared. Desktop resizing and phone portrait/landscape rotation retained correct canvas, CSS, Post and camera dimensions and pointer input, with zero GL/JS errors. All prior dist paths remain. The APK retains its pre-existing 404; no native or OTA delivery. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged; unrelated cast-vo.html remains untracked and unshipped. Cloudflare purge lacked credentials; public bytes were checked directly. Receipts are live-assets.json, live-browser.json, inventory.json and ship.log in the external folder above.

2026-10-06 — live-prefix boss-drop weapon silhouettes

Continued the rendering audit after viewport optimization. The general shot pools were already optimized, but WeaponView.sync still marked the matrix and four shader attributes for all 261 reserved instances dirty whenever any boss-drop weapon shot was active. It now caches those five attribute references and replaces pending ranges with the current live prefix. No geometry, shader, ordering, capacity, transforms, artwork, balance or simulation changes. Initial GPU allocation remains full capacity; at full occupancy upload volume is unchanged. Empty syncs do not newly dirty attributes.

Added three behavioral weapon tests covering hidden growth/shrink/empty/refill, retained buffers and untouched tails, all twelve weapons' accepted order, terrain/direction/shape/color/phase/progress, frozen inputs and the capacity cap. The old renderer fails the two upload tests while retaining its appearance checks. Focused/adjacent 28 tests, full suite 1,795/1,795, production build and diff checks pass. Source/test review found no regression concerns.

Also repaired the existing particle browser benchmark: its historical 84-byte expectation omitted the newer clarity flag. All five attributes now participate in both the packed and full-pool reference. The ten flat front/back cases and four sprite cases pass with exact pixels, stable resources and zero graphics errors. Current sparse sprite uploads are 88/264 bytes for 1/3 live instances; this repair confirms prior shipped behavior and is not a new performance gain. Evidence: G:/Temp/hallpass-particles-20261006b/, fixture SHA256 175b9a12884f67009e11757ddef3cc6682056ffec0f7f59fcc3bc4effdd4b641.

Preflight: live 1.0.7+883da74, public APK already HTTP404 and absent in dist. Preserve config/maps/playtest and unrelated cast-vo.html. No APK/native/OTA release. Current pass evidence/receipts: G:/Temp/hallpass-weapon-submit-20261006/.

Fresh local desktop and phone-profile Chrome checks reached gameplay, rotated and resized correctly, bound Shatter Thread through the actual pickup button, and cast a live projectile through the new five-attribute prefix path. Both reported one live silhouette, correct queued ranges and zero GL/JS errors. The screenshots were visually reviewed. This is a controlled browser check, not a physical-iPhone frame-rate measurement.

The real-GL WeaponView benchmark passes on desktop and landscape-phone browser profiles. Warmed occupied-pool traffic drops from 22,968 bytes per frame to 88 (one live), 3,168 (36), 264 (three), 1,056 (twelve), or 440 (five after hidden refill); a full 261 remains 22,968. All 38 frozen-before/after decoded images and live-attribute hashes are exact, including all twelve shader silhouettes. The same five GPU buffers, initial allocations, draw counts and resource counts are retained, with zero JS/GL warnings or errors. Settled empty/repeat draws upload zero. A hidden seven-shot update followed by empty still flushes its pending version once when shown (616 bytes instead of 22,968), then settles to zero; empty sync itself does not dirty anything. This is transfer evidence, not a measured combat-FPS or physical-iPhone gain. Browser stills reviewed. Baseline fixture SHA256: 5788a49cd8ad02b8870b82c39aca533700d44a35f5cd105dc2371c34ac6927a7; candidate be025c75b5afc28f797a064c2a4f859fb2daf285119502085304f50121f330a8.

Next candidate: measure screen coverage of transparent effects during a crowded encounter, then test conservative offscreen submission culling or tighter art bounds only if it reduces work without changing visible effects. Avoid adding static-attribute dirty tracking for minor byte savings without CPU evidence.

Web release verified: game commit a93b61a, live 1.0.7+a93b61a, Netlify 6ac5ac146ad9e45a983a2b2e. Ship passed; plain/versioned public version, bundle and menu CSS match release bytes. Live desktop and phone-profile Chrome reached normal gameplay, retained correct resize/rotation and pointer mapping, equipped Shatter Thread through the pickup button and rendered its live five-attribute projectile prefix with zero GL/JS errors. All existing dist paths remain; public APK retains its previous 404. No APK/native/OTA delivery. Protected files and unrelated cast-vo.html are preserved; the latter is unshipped. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent, so the public bytes were verified directly. Receipts: ship.log, live-assets.json, live-browser.json, inventory.json in the external pass folder above.

2026-10-06 — Cache fixed school-prop transforms

Continued the browser/iPhone optimization queue. The initial candidate was main-camera culling of transparent effects, but inspection showed that Yard and Gym mirrors and boss cube captures can still see those effects. That approach is parked rather than changing reflection coverage.

The focused change in src/world.js caches each fixed prop part's local matrix once, after all obstacle construction, offsets and reparenting. Editor pivots remain dynamic and world-matrix propagation remains enabled. This removes repeated position/rotation/scale composition during scene traversals without changing geometry, materials, lighting or reflection coverage. Animated room objects remain outside this boundary. Editor dragging moves the pivot; rotating and resizing rebuild props. Async prop art changes materials; late floor decals attach directly to the live world group.

Independent source/CPU review covered all ten current/enhanced desktop rooms and enhanced mobile rooms, with no animated prop-local transforms or render hooks found. Adjacent environment, domain-lighting, impact and lifecycle tests: 36/36 passing. Additional verification and release results are recorded below. Evidence is outside the repository: G:/Temp/hallpass-world-transforms-20261006/. Preflight live version 1.0.7+a93b61a; public APK already HTTP404 and absent from dist. Preserve that state, protected config/maps/playtest files and the unrelated untracked cast-vo.html. No APK/native/OTA work.

Added seven behavior tests covering forty actual room builds (all ten maps, current/enhanced graphics, desktop/phone), independent full-tree matrix composition, moved/rotated/scaled ancestors and editor pivots, late texture callbacks, Yard petals/parallax/domain light/quality and legacy Pool UV scrolling. They also count the actual native local-matrix update calls against an automatic-transform reference. Focused tests 7/7 and full suite 1,802/1,802 pass; production build and diff checks pass. Independent source/test review found no regression concern.

Old-code falsification is preserved in unit-baseline/: all forty profiles match the independent initial/late-art/moved-parent placement oracle, but the separate zero-work assertion fails on 3,664 local compositions summed across one unchanged traversal of each profile. The candidate removes that work. Diagnostic fixture SHA256: 0441b958fb3a93b75b427ad44debfc419aa99536958cf894138e0d32d59717c6. This is a CPU operation count, not a measured frame-rate improvement.

Next candidate: measure repeated transform work in fixed boundary walls and school architecture, then cache only the proven-static local transforms. Do not freeze moving skylines, lighting controllers or world-matrix propagation. Keep offscreen FX culling parked until every reflection camera is accounted for.

Actual View browser coverage: Yard, Gym, Roof and Halls on desktop and phone branches, with initial/editor-pivot/ancestor-translation/domain-impact-reclaim/ low-quality/restored-quality states. All 48 candidate versus automatic-matrix reference images are exact. Against the frozen old source, 47/48 are exact; the remaining Halls image differs in two RGBA channels by one step, matching the measured unchanged-source repeatability envelope (two channels, one step). All 48 world-matrix hashes, GPU resource counts, draws, triangles and main/planar pass counts match exactly. Fixed-part local compositions become zero; initial 12-frame sequences drop from desktop Yard/Gym/Roof/Halls 1,350/1,710/2,040/2,616 and phone 1,200/1,092/1,020/2,580. Geometry and world-matrix multiplication remain unchanged. These are operation counts, not FPS or physical-iPhone measurements.

The fixture resets temporal post history, retains real planar captures, and allows at most the measured two-channel/one-step pixel envelope. An artificial whole-world rotation/nonuniform-scale stress also showed baseline raster noise; its exact matrix propagation remains unit-tested, while browser coverage keeps ancestor translation and prop translation/rotation/nonuniform scale. Phone Roof holds its reflection between presentation ticks in the paused sequence; this fixture does not exercise boss cube captures. Cube safety is source-audited. No GL/JS errors; the pre-existing ANGLE X4122 constant-fold warning is retained in reports and narrowly filtered. All other graphics warnings fail. Frozen baseline fixture SHA256: ac64aa209f489ac1457b237203da42f2e6f7c6a671fa02440a31b0927658f098; candidate: 018ae3ec9d035b4a7de20b7e590ccb3c5893525d5db10599daf654a5c543e246.

Fresh local production desktop and phone-profile Chrome both reached normal Yui gameplay with all 75 Yard prop parts cached, live pivots/world propagation, loaded hero weapon art, ready next-boss preparation, correct resize/rotation and pointer mapping, and zero GL/JS errors. Screenshots were visually reviewed.

Web release verified: game commit 6102410, live 1.0.7+6102410, Netlify 6ac5bba80e515175f5d26177. Ship passed. Public plain/versioned version, bundle and menu CSS match release bytes. Fresh live desktop and phone-profile Chrome reached normal gameplay with cached fixed props, live pivots/world propagation, correct resize/rotation and pointer mapping, ready next-boss preparation and zero GL/JS errors. Local/live screenshots were reviewed. All 1,560 existing dist paths remain; unrelated cast-vo.html is unshipped. Public APK remains its previous 404. No APK/native/OTA release. Config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; public bytes were verified directly. Receipts: ship.log, validation.json, live-assets.json, live-browser.json and inventory.json in the external pass folder above.

2026-10-07 — Cache fixed campus and room architecture

Continued the browser/iPhone optimization pass from the fixed-prop cache. world.js now reuses the same local-matrix helper for the enhanced Yard campus, Gym/Library/Halls shells and the five non-Roof environment-kit shells. The helper is applied only after each builder has finished its local transforms. World-matrix propagation and ancestor movement remain enabled. Legacy dressing, grounds and generic addBox meshes are outside this change.

The audit found a real exception: Rooftop architecture owns the bell-tower minute/hour-hand groups; its hour callback rotates them. That entire shell remains dynamic. The other nine shells only change materials/visibility during review, quality, domain and time updates; moving dust, steam, mist and lighting have separate roots. No graphics, simulation, collision, balance or RNG changes.

Independent source/CPU audit counts unique additional cached nodes per scene traversal: Yard 50, Gym 46, Library 60, Halls 47, Cafeteria 32, Pool 55 desktop/45 phone, Detention 28, Boiler 19, Lab 31. Counts sum to 368 desktop/358 phone across nine separate room builds; they are not simultaneous scene totals or FPS gains. Every cached root contains only ordinary meshes/groups with no custom render hooks. Late art callbacks, review/quality/domain/hour updates retain local poses.

Evidence: G:/Temp/hallpass-architecture-20261007/; independent audit report G:/Temp/hallpass-architecture-audit-20261007/report.json. Preflight live version 1.0.7+6102410; public APK already HTTP404 and absent from dist. Protected config/maps/playtest and unrelated untracked cast-vo.html are preserved. No APK/native/OTA work. Production build passes; verification results follow.

Verification: focused transform tests 9/9; adjacent environment, lifecycle, domain-lighting and impact tests 36/36; full suite 1,804/1,804; production build and diff checks pass. The existing forty real room builds now include independently named architecture roots in the exact matrix oracle and cached-versus-automatic work counters. Two new device cases explicitly verify Roof clock movement, dawn uniforms, Pool normal scrolling and camera-dependent cutaways, Lab/Detention dust, Boiler steam and quality changes. Review found no source or unit-test regression concerns.

Real-browser baseline/candidate verification passes all 18 room/profile cases and 108 stages. Target local compositions fall from 228–900 per twelve-frame stage to zero, with exact world matrices, visibility, GPU resources, draws, triangles and scene/planar pass counts. Of 108 frozen-source images, 104 are pixel-exact; four differ in only one or two RGBA channels by one 8-bit level, within the unchanged-build measured two-channel/one-level envelope. No unexpected GL warnings or JavaScript errors; the known ANGLE X4122 shader constant-fold warning is retained. Baseline source SHA-256: 018ae3ec9d035b4a7de20b7e590ccb3c5893525d5db10599daf654a5c543e246; candidate: e4a14f545103a1f6646bb5af67076cb60c9411e155403647111f3359cff7b415. Receipts: validation.json, baseline/report.json, candidate/report.json.

Fresh local production-browser desktop/phone profiles reach a normal Yard run, prepare Janitor and load Yui's needle. All fifty campus nodes are cached while world propagation and editor pivots stay live. Canvas/post/camera dimensions and real pointer mapping survive desktop resizing and phone rotation; GL/JS errors remain zero. Local desktop/phone screenshots and a Pool review still were inspected. Evidence: local-browser.json and local screenshots. These are Chrome profile checks, not physical-iPhone measurements or FPS claims.

Next candidate: a bounded Gym prop-batching experiment. CPU inspection finds 80 eligible opaque prop meshes versus 29 exact geometry/material/state buckets on desktop (76 versus 27 on phone), including five sets of six shared bleacher components. These are theoretical submission opportunities, not measured draws or FPS. Preserve editor pivots/picks, per-instance visibility/culling, shadow and domain-material behavior before accepting any batching implementation. Source counts: G:/Temp/hallpass-architecture-audit-20261007/prop-buckets.json.

Release verified: code 36a04ce, public build 1.0.7+36a04ce, Netlify deploy 6ac5cbaf50af34ec03bcf98f. npm run ship passed. Public plain/versioned version, bundle and menu CSS match local release bytes. Fresh live desktop and phone-profile Chrome reach normal gameplay, with all fifty Yard campus nodes cached, live world propagation/editor pivots, ready Janitor preparation and Yui needle art. Resize/rotation and actual pointer mapping pass; GL/JS errors remain zero. Live desktop/phone screenshots were inspected. All 1,560 existing dist paths remain; unrelated cast-vo.html is unshipped. Public APK retains its preflight HTTP404 status. No APK/native/OTA release. Config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials were absent; public bytes were verified directly. Receipts: ship.log, live-assets.json, live-browser.json and inventory.json in the external pass folder above.

2026-10-07 — Gym prop batching measured and rejected

Profiled the actual live 1.0.7+36a04ce bundle before this experiment, with matching bundle SHA-256 f8a1921d9160ec87675ba9988e74528a3feaed17e5c96e3abd3b544f3a2259c6. Normal Gym startup, then paused presentation at center and four collision-clear edge positions, with twelve manual renders each: desktop main/planar prop draws total 270–540, phone 180–336. Grouping compatible opaque material draws offers a theoretical 3.7–15.2% reduction in total scene submissions. This is a draw-count opportunity, not measured frame-time improvement. Static shadows are cached during warm frames; a separately forced refresh renders 80 opaque Gym props on desktop and 76 on phone. Two transparent hoop parts stay separate.

Both Chrome profiles expose WEBGL_multi_draw; this does not establish iPhone Safari support. The candidate uses native Three BatchedMesh only when the extension is present, retaining per-object camera/shadow culling. Without it, Three emulates separate draws, so the original mesh path is retained instead. Ordinary InstancedMesh was not selected because six bleachers span both sides of the court and combined bounds would add off-screen triangles. Repacking its instance buffer in draw callbacks is also unsafe: Three uploads it earlier.

Candidate scope: enhanced Gym only, explicit View opt-in, default buildWorld and the editor unbatched. Material identity and authored geometry are retained; batch transforms include both editor pivots and each prop's inner facing. The experimental prop-transform browser fixture selected the unbatched fallback, while its new fixture checked gameplay batches. Artifacts: G:/Temp/hallpass-gym-batching-20261007/, including frozen live bundle/View fixture, live profile, per-pass raw draws and summary. No paid assets, APK, native package, OTA, config/maps or playtest changes.

Rejected after measurement, not shipped. Structural checks passed: exact source triangle sets, visibility and pass counts, geometry bytes/transforms, fallback/editor behavior and resource disposal. Focused Gym tests 10/10, adjacent tests 65/65, full suite 1,811/1,811 and production build passed on the candidate. However, 22/38 image comparisons exceeded the unchanged-source noise envelope (six RGBA channels by one level, calibrated on the frozen baseline before candidate results). Differences concentrated on thin bleacher treads and mat stitching. Stock BatchedMesh uses a different floating-point vertex/normal transform path; source/crop review supports subpixel rounding as the cause, but does not prove it is the only cause. The visual gate was not relaxed to accept the candidate.

More importantly, 48 alternating ABBA timing samples showed no benefit: median submission and GPU times were higher in all six profile/position cells. Desktop north GPU median 13.50 → 15.80 ms; phone-profile north 1.95 → 2.83 ms. All GPU queries were valid, none disjoint. Shared-host variance prevents a portable slowdown claim, but these results do not justify shipping on reduced draw counts alone. No physical-iPhone timing claim. See timing-summary.json, timing.json, validation.json and pixel-localization.json.

Preserved candidate files under rejected-source/ and the exact tracked-file patch in rejected.patch; reversed only this experiment's runtime/harness edits. Existing production renderer remains intact. Unrelated cast-vo.html is preserved. Next candidate: exact vertex indexing in Gym prop construction, to reduce duplicate geometry uploads/vertex work without changing mesh transforms, culling, shadows or requiring a browser extension.

2026-10-07 — Preserve native Gym prop indices

Following the rejected multi-draw experiment, audited the actual Gym factory's forced vertex flattening. Original desktop unique geometry buffers total 2,313,216 bytes, phone 872,448 bytes (cached resources counted once). Keeping primitive indices and synthesizing sequential indices for rounded parts preserves every expanded position/normal/UV bit and triangle order; the first CPU prototype saves 44.4%/57.5% respectively. Exact attribute deduplication could save more, but raised geometry construction medians from 21.82 to 96.60 ms desktop and 9.74 to 37.04 ms phone profile in a rotating Node benchmark. Primitive retention instead measured 19.70/7.75 ms. These are local Node measurements, not iPhone timing or FPS.

The runtime candidate only changes the Gym assembler: preserve native indices, and add sequential indices to rounded parts only inside mixed buckets. Entirely flat buckets stay unchanged, avoiding unnecessary index-buffer overhead. Mesh transforms, culling, material/shader paths, shadows, editor picking and gameplay remain on the established rendering path. No browser extension is required. Audit: G:/Temp/hallpass-gym-indexing-20261007/cpu-report.json; frozen source and browser evidence share that external pass folder. Final geometry storage, including native index buffers, is 1,258,928 bytes desktop (45.58% smaller) and 370,816 bytes phone (57.50% smaller). This is Gym prop storage, not total game memory. Native GPU buffer allocations independently confirm the counts.

Focused tests 5/5, full suite 1,806/1,806 and production build pass. The new regression test pins the original expanded triangle position/normal/UV bits (including signed zero), bounds, triangle order and resource shape. Frozen old source passes those appearance assertions but fails the indexing/storage assertions as expected. Independent source/test review found no issues. Browser comparison passes 30 stage/profile cases and 38 images: 34 exact, four desktop images differ by at most six color channels by one level, inside the unchanged-source noise envelope established before this candidate. All phone and cube images are exact. Visibility, submitted triangles, pass/draw counts and disposal match. No unexpected GL/JS errors.

Local production startup passes for Yui in Gym on desktop and phone layouts, including weapon art, boss prewarm, resize/rotation, pointer mapping and preserved architecture/prop transform caches. The first smoke fixture failed to unlock Gym in its fresh save; correcting the fixture's stage list allows the normal production startRun path, with no runtime bypass or source fix. Screenshots inspected. The initial 48-sample ABBA timing run had slightly higher phone medians. Inspection found fixed renderer creation order and overlapping canvases, so the follow-up used two fresh contexts with reversed creation, physical canvas placement, camera-position and source orders, and equal visible canvases. Its 96 samples (16/source/position) had no disjoint GPU queries or unexpected GL/JS errors. Combined adjacent-pair median submission / GPU changes: center -0.93% / -6.10%, north -2.09% / -0.86%, east -0.14% / +0.24%. The earlier consistent phone overhead did not reproduce, but individual replicates varied (east reversed sign). These held-scene Windows Chrome measurements neither prove an FPS improvement nor establish physical-iPhone performance. Retain all runs; timing-phone-long-summary.json gives each replicate, paired delta and range. Accept this as a verified storage/loading optimization, with timing uncertainty explicit.

Final alternating Node construction audit (final-check.json, 16 samples after three warm rounds) measured geometry medians 48.04 -> 37.44 ms desktop and 17.11 -> 10.44 ms phone branch. Compare within this run only: host timings vary substantially between runs. Source SHA-256: 2f1782c724600380fc085dbd146c75aa0e1b96a75ec51a315a93afdd2cd9dd2e. Production release verification follows the source checkpoint. Chris requested regular Git pushes so verified passes and their receipts remain checkpointed. Unrelated cast-vo.html, config/maps and playtest files are preserved.

Next candidate: audit the Library assembler's equivalent forced flattening, including all three cached bookcase variants and label UVs. Halls is second, with its number-atlas UV rewrite needing specific parity checks. Opportunities are source-inspected only; savings must be measured before extending this work.

Release receipt: source checkpoint 11ca987 pushed to main; the standing web-only ship command completed successfully. Public version is 1.0.7+11ca987, bundle SHA-256 9c2dfffb1b7c7fd388cdfa5d9b9a069061e2ee8efd45fb1b01a5fa531cfb1ad3. Plain and versioned version/bundle/menu-CSS URLs match the built bytes. Live desktop and phone-layout Chrome checks repeat normal Yui/Gym startup, Janitor prewarm, needle art, exact reduced buffer counts, resize/rotation and actual pointer mapping with zero GL/JS errors. Screenshots inspected. No physical iPhone/Safari claim. All 1,560 dist paths remain; cast-vo.html is unshipped. Public APK retains its preflight HTTP404 status; no APK/native/OTA work. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials are absent, so public asset bytes were verified directly. Receipts: ship.log, live-assets.json, live-browser.json and inventory.json in the external pass folder.

2026-10-07 — Preserve Library prop indices

Continued after verified Gym release 1.0.7+11ca987, source HEAD 601a3e5. The live bundle matches local dist SHA-256 9c2dfffb1b7c7fd388cdfa5d9b9a069061e2ee8efd45fb1b01a5fa531cfb1ad3. Frozen source, CPU measurements and browser evidence live outside the checkout at G:/Temp/hallpass-library-indexing-20261007/.

The Library assembler also flattened every indexed primitive before merging by material. The candidate preserves native indices and adds sequential indices only for nonindexed rounded geometry sharing a mixed bucket. Entirely flat buckets stay flat. Keep ordinary Mesh draws, transforms, materials, shadows, editor picking and ownership/disposal; no vertex welding or shader changes.

CPU audit across the actual map plus all three bookcase variants and extra editor table/catalog/pillar samples preserves every expanded Float32 position/normal/UV word, triangle order, bounding box/sphere and label texture hash. Actual-map unique geometry buffers (attributes plus indices) change from 8,474,112 to 6,668,016 bytes desktop (-21.31%) and from 2,145,408 to 1,550,152 bytes phone branch (-27.75%). These are Library prop allocations, not whole-game memory. Alternating construction benchmark, 16 samples after three warm rounds: median geometry 127.62 -> 99.12 ms desktop and 32.72 -> 23.85 ms phone branch; including kit/material setup, 155.26 -> 125.72 and 42.78 -> 34.17 ms. Windows Node host measurements are not iPhone/FPS claims.

Source audit found two existing lamp-pocket tests iterating consecutive position triples; their triangle traversal must resolve indices to retain the same meaningful clearance checks. Production consumers use ordinary Three mesh/raycast paths; labels retain their plane UVs and face rotations. Runtime source SHA-256: 785e157b325d5e7e2d0f9db016433df760dea4f5491c775c5461aabb0d639250. Focused tests pass 8/8; full suite passes 1,810/1,810 and production build passes. New golden tests cover actual-map and extra-editor samples on both profiles. Negative controls confirm the original source fails only the new storage checks after matching appearance, and deliberately altered label UVs, triangle order or sphere bounds fail the corresponding oracle. Indexed triangles deliberately spanning lamp pockets fail both corrected clearance tests; the old flat-only loops wrongly pass those fixtures.

Browser baseline was frozen before the source edit. Its repeat calibration had 29/30 images exact and one with two changed RGBA channels by one level; that fixed 2/1 threshold was recorded before the candidate run. Candidate passes all 42 frozen-image comparisons: 41 exact, desktop ancestor transform differs in one channel by one level. All phone and cube images are exact. Seven collision-clear camera positions submit all three bookcase label variants; domains, impact/reclaim, quality changes, ancestor transforms, forced shadow refresh and six cube faces preserve source triangle sets, native calls, pass counts, resources and disposal. Library has a static environment, not a planar reflector. Native GPU allocations match CPU buffer totals. Unexpected GL/JS errors: zero. Representative screenshots inspected; independent source/test/harness review has no findings.

Local production startup passes on desktop and phone layouts with normal Yui/Library entry, Janitor prewarm, needle art, resize/rotation and dispatched pointer mapping. Verified native buffer totals, 74/80 indexed geometries, ordinary prop pivots and all 60 cached architecture nodes. No GL/JS errors; screenshots inspected.

The first 192-sample timing comparison counterbalances two renderer contexts, source creation/canvas placement/camera order, with 16 samples/source/cell. All GPU queries are valid. Desktop medians favor the candidate; phone reading retains a possible small cost: paired +0.072 ms submission / +0.069 ms GPU (+4.08% / +5.01%, 10/16 pairs slower), reversing direction between replicates. See timing-paired.md for every range and replicate; do not infer FPS gains or dismiss the phone result from overlapping ranges. A final bounded phone probe swapped only geometry references within one frozen baseline View/material/ shader/scene, removing the separate-renderer difference. Candidate arrays are recreated through the same Three module to avoid geometry-ID cache collisions; expanded bytes, bounds, materials, transforms, native counts and pixels are checked outside measured renders. Independent methodology review is clear.

That final probe passes all invariants and all six swap images are exact. Its 96 GPU samples are valid, with zero disjoint results or unexpected GL/JS errors. Reading-room paired medians: first replicate +0.016 ms submission / -0.088 ms GPU (+1.62% / -4.25%); reversed replicate -0.175 / -0.104 ms (-6.68% / -4.75%). Combined reading -4.72% / -4.25%; seven submission and five GPU pairs are slower out of 16. The earlier reading cost did not persist when geometry alone changed in one renderer. Combined spawn submission still measures +2.87% with GPU -2.78%, and stacks -2.84% / -2.42%. Retain every sample/replicate in timing-single-renderer{,-summary}.json; mixed host submission timings are not a portable speedup or physical-iPhone claim. Accept the pass for its verified storage and construction benefit, with this bounded timing uncertainty explicit. Release verification follows the source checkpoint. Preserve unrelated cast-vo.html, config/maps and playtest files; no native/OTA/APK work.

Next candidate: Halls furniture uses the same forced primitive flattening. Audit its locker-number atlas UV edits and retained primitive bounds before changing it; do not assume Library savings or timings transfer to another room.

Release receipt: 18e9a29 pushed to main; the standing web-only ship command completed. Live public version 1.0.7+18e9a29, bundle SHA-256 ee4d665c262414e038a51510731da2cb73a6a5b23b53b904a76aeeb54edfae77. Plain and versioned version/bundle/menu-CSS URLs match the release bytes. Live desktop and phone-layout checks repeat normal Yui/Library startup, boss prewarm, weapon art, expected buffer counts, resize/rotation and actual pointer mapping with zero GL/JS errors; screenshots inspected. All 1,560 dist paths remain, with unrelated cast-vo.html excluded. APK status remains HTTP404; no native package or OTA released. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Cloudflare purge credentials remain absent; direct public-byte verification passes. Receipts: ship.log, live-assets.json, live-browser.json, inventory.json in the pass folder above. The final timing aggregation also received independent review with no findings; no physical-iPhone or FPS improvement is claimed.

2026-10-07 — Halls furniture indexing audition; full candidate deferred

Continue the measured optimization sequence and push reviewed checkpoints regularly, per Chris. Frozen main 5bab325; live preflight 1.0.7+18e9a29 matches local production bytes. Artifacts and raw failures are retained in G:/Temp/hallpass-halls-indexing-20261007/, outside the checkout.

The Halls audition retains native primitive indices through material merges. Only flat parts sharing an indexed bucket receive sequential indices. Custom plant leaves and other flat-only buckets stay flat. No welding, normals/UV rewrites, shader, culling, draw-count or gameplay changes. Actual-map furniture buffers, including index storage: desktop 4,283,904 -> 2,852,272 bytes (-33.42%); phone profile 2,702,592 -> 1,821,016 (-32.62%). Windows Node construction medians over 16 alternating samples after three warm rounds: geometry 51.03 -> 39.81 ms desktop, 38.10 -> 27.78 ms phone; including kit setup 68.96 -> 57.79 and 49.48 -> 39.17 ms. This is room-prop storage/construction, not total-game memory or physical-iPhone/FPS evidence.

Frozen unit oracles preserve expanded Float32 triangle attributes (including signed zero), order, Float64 bounds, number/sign atlas pixels and UVs, material and shadow state, room-aware furnishings, legacy facing, geometry sharing and disposal. Halls has two locker variants (x > 0), with x=0 boundary coverage; do not inherit Library's three-variant assumption. Deliberately changed atlas pixels/UVs, triangle order, leaf normals and bounds fail their oracles. Original source matches the appearance oracles and fails only the new storage checks. Focused tests pass 9/9; full suite 1,814/1,814 and production build pass.

Initial browser run preserves exact geometry, submitted sources, calls, resources and disposal across normal views, domains, impact/reclaim, quality, ancestor transforms, shadow refresh and six cube faces. All 46 frozen images fit the predeclared 3-channel/1-level pixel floor (44 exact). However, two candidate self-repeats exceed it: desktop grid 4 channels and storm 5 channels, each by one level. That failed report remains failed; the floor is not widened. One bounded desktop repeatability probe (eight held pairs per domain/source) reproduces 5-channel/1-level variation in both grid and storm on the frozen baseline; candidate maxima are 1/1 and 5/1, respectively, with all 32 before/after CPU render-state comparisons unchanged. This supports existing rendering noise rather than a candidate-only effect; it does not relabel the initial run passed. Separate same-renderer geometry swaps pass: all eight grid/storm comparisons and all 12 ordinary-camera comparisons are pixel-exact, with matching geometry, materials, transforms, culling bounds, draw statistics and resources. Candidate arrays are recreated using the frozen View's own Three module to avoid numeric geometry-ID collisions across separately bundled factories. Local production startup, boss prewarm, Yui weapon art, desktop/phone resize and real dispatched pointer mapping also pass, with expected buffers and zero GL/JS errors.

The bounded timing run retains all 192 valid, non-disjoint GPU samples across two reversed-order replicates per profile. Phone locker-view paired medians show a plausible cost: +0.09375 ms submission (+5.56%, 10/16 pairs slower) and +0.042943 ms GPU (+3.29%, 13/16 slower). GPU differences remain positive in both replicates and both within-replicate sample orders. Desktop lockers show +0.065625 ms submission / +0.072033 ms GPU, with more order sensitivity. Phone art GPU is -2.56%; vending is +0.99% with mixed replicate directions. CPU and GPU times are different measurements and must not be added. See timing-single-renderer.md and its raw/summary JSON for every range/replicate. Independent review verifies the aggregation and the scoped cost signal.

Decision: do not ship the full Halls candidate as a general performance win. Its measured memory/construction savings are real, but no memory-pressure bottleneck has been demonstrated to justify the locker-view cost. Preserve the candidate, tests and evidence outside the checkout; runtime edits remain uncommitted while evaluating one narrower hypothesis: keep locker construction on its original flat path and index the remaining props. That is not yet a measured fix. This checkpoint records the evidence; live remains 18e9a29.

After resolving Halls, next candidate: Yard furniture's primitive flattening. Its planter puts indexed stems and custom flat leaves in the same material bucket, requiring sequential indices for those leaves. Other leaf/rounded-only buckets should stay flat. The Yard factory is also the enhanced-room fallback in world.js; audit actual fallback reach across rooms before choosing scope or claiming Yard-only savings. No change or measured benefit for that candidate yet.

2026-10-07 — Bounded Halls follow-up rejected; proven source restored

One narrowed candidate keeps lockers on their original flat merge path while preserving native indices for the remaining Halls props. Source SHA-256: 2e78503ffe7d7b4628a02d31489af4ed8ec061a11e4eceb2bb101d4f89fdf266. Evidence: G:/Temp/hallpass-halls-indexing-20261007/locker-exclusion/. The original full-candidate artifacts and failed report remain intact.

Actual-map furniture buffers: desktop 4,283,904 -> 3,445,968 bytes (-19.56%); phone profile 2,702,592 -> 2,085,880 (-22.82%). All 16 unique locker geometries per fixture retain their original flat buffers. Golden tests keep the original appearance/bounds/label/material oracles, explicitly require unindexed lockers, and pass actual-map plus room-aware/legacy fixtures on both profiles. The rejected full-index candidate fails all four locker assertions. Do not reuse the earlier candidate's construction timings for this variant; no new construction speed claim is made. Focused tests pass 9/9, full suite passes 1,814/1,814, and the production build passes. A comment-only wording correction after the factory freeze produces a byte-identical candidate bundle.

The first narrowed broad-browser run passes the unchanged 3-channel/1-level pixel cap: all 34 held repeats exact; 45/46 frozen comparisons exact, with desktop impact/reclaim differing in three channels by one level. Source triangles, bounds, label pixels/UVs, submitted prop sets, shadows/cube passes, calls, resources and disposal stay unchanged. Actual native buffer allocations match the CPU totals; 96 desktop and 108 phone geometries are indexed.

The final bounded same-renderer run preserves all state/draw invariants, with 19/20 image pairs exact; desktop art differs by two channels at one level, within the unchanged cap. All eight domain pairs are exact. All 192 GPU queries are valid. However, phone submission and GPU paired medians remain positive in all three camera views in both reversed replicates. Combined GPU effects: lockers +0.034016 ms (+2.46%, 12/16 slower), art +0.033600 ms (+2.78%, 9/16), vending +0.060608 ms (+5.49%, 12/16). Corresponding submission effects: +0.028125, +0.031250 and +0.081250 ms. Independent review confirms the raw aggregation. This is host-specific evidence of a plausible rendering cost, not physical-iPhone/Safari evidence or a portable slowdown percentage.

Decision: reject this narrowed candidate too; no more variants or favorable timing retries for this pass. Restored only our Halls runtime and MECHANICS edits to their original Git content. Archived the exact rejected source and the two audition test files under locker-exclusion/rejected-* before removing those new test files from the checkout. The Halls source Git blob again equals HEAD (390c146789739384e7fece0688ebd3b1aef2c487). Restored full suite passes 1,810/1,810 and production build passes. Unrelated cast-vo.html, protected config/maps hashes and playtest files stay untouched. No runtime deployment, APK, native package or OTA update was performed. Public version still reads 1.0.7+18e9a29, bundle SHA-256 ee4d665c262414e038a51510731da2cb73a6a5b23b53b904a76aeeb54edfae77, and APK status remains HTTP404 (unchanged-live.json).

Next bounded candidate remains Yard, but start with a temporary geometry-only draw-cost probe and audit its cross-room fallback reach before a runtime edit. This Halls result demonstrates that fewer stored vertices alone cannot justify shipping the same indexing pattern into another room. Preserve this rejected audition rather than retrying it without a new bottleneck or different approach.

2026-10-07 — Enemy transform sharing; measured renderer follow-up

Chris requested regular Git checkpoints while optimization continues. Preserve the unrelated untracked cast-vo.html; stage only reviewed pass files. No APK, native package or OTA work is part of this pass.

Re-verified live 1.0.7+18e9a29 before edits; its bundle SHA-256 remains ee4d665c262414e038a51510731da2cb73a6a5b23b53b904a76aeeb54edfae77. The runtime at checkpoint 0452159 matches that deployed source. New diagnosis and evidence live in ../_hallpass-archive/reports/renderer-hotspots-20261007/ and ../_hallpass-archive/reports/enemy-matrix-sharing-20261007/; raw profiles and frozen fixtures are outside the game checkout in the matching archive browser-profiles/ directories.

Correction to the previous next-candidate note: the enhanced Yard factory is gated by env === 'yard' in world.js; it is not the fallback for the other nine rooms. The initial controlled Yard profile instead identifies repeated renderer material/program selection and additional reflection/cube passes as the largest CPU costs. Program counts remain stable, so this is not evidence of shader compilation. Reflection samples overlap renderer samples and must not be added. _syncEnemies is only 1.28–1.95% of sampled CPU at 100 enemies; this pass makes no large overall-FPS claim.

The bounded change shares each enemy pool's matrix attribute across its body, outline and eyes. Normal crowd sync writes and marks that matrix once, while body/eye colors, geometry, materials, instance counts and render order remain independent. The existing two-argument upload helper retains its behavior. All three meshes share a lifetime and must be disposed together; a comment and tests protect this assumption. Death dissolves and room-clear captures keep their independent copied transforms. The short room-clear animation retains its existing redundant CPU writes, which do not produce extra native buffers. Candidate src/view.js SHA-256: 952cf28b4e66c9ab8a76d7a10ae0b42c45c4f2ffacd1e3dd631ba77f96562b27.

Six new unit tests retain frozen original output goldens from 0452159 and cover desktop/phone poses, boss fallback, hidden/shrinking/empty/regrowing pools, upload ranges, independent colors and death/clear snapshots, plus joint disposal. The original source fails the sharing assertion as a negative control. Focused checks pass 30/30, full npm test passes 1,816/1,816, and the production build passes. All 1,560 previous distribution paths remain, with no cast-vo.html or APK in the payload.

Real-browser correctness passes on both desktop and phone branches in Chrome: all 40 baseline/candidate images are pixel-exact, with exact live matrices, colors, counts, IDs and main/cube/shadow draw statistics. The 300-enemy fixture measures 900 -> 300 matrix copies, 24 -> 8 native matrix uploads and 57,600 -> 19,200 uploaded bytes per frame. Unique matrix capacity falls from 216,192 to 72,064 bytes on both CPU and GPU, across 27 -> 9 native buffers. Normal View disposal deletes each unique matrix buffer exactly once. A separate minimal renderer using the actual pool meshes restores each unique attribute once after context loss, with exact state. This is not full-game context-recovery coverage: the untouched baseline's full View disposal after context restore emits invalid old-context resource deletions. That failed receipt is retained as baseline/restore-preflight-failure.json, not suppressed or attributed to sharing. Untouched-source held repeats established a two-channel/one-level noise bound before the candidate; the candidate comparisons need none of it. Checkpoint 841f550 contains the reviewed implementation and tests and is pushed to main. Bounded same-renderer timing uses two fresh reversed contexts per branch, 24 frames per sample (matching reflection cadence), 64 valid GPU queries and four exact swap-image gates. Enemy-sync paired medians are lower in all four contexts. Whole-render results are mixed: desktop submission is -1.25% in the first replicate and +10.77% in the second; pooled paired median is +0.07292 ms (+1.30%). Desktop GPU elapsed is +0.09792 ms (+1.59%) pooled, including a +11.25% slower second replicate. Phone-branch pooled submission is -0.19583 ms (-4.10%) and GPU elapsed -0.264 ms (-5.62%); both repeats favor the candidate. Raw pairs, methods and the slower desktop repeat are retained in timing.json, timing-summary.json and timing.md, independently reviewed.

Accept as a verified two-thirds reduction in matrix work and storage. Do not claim universal frame-rate improvement or proven absence of a driver-specific cost: desktop results are inconsistent with broad within-context variation, and this limited probe cannot establish a steady regression or rule one out. No favorable timing rerun was performed. All measurements are Chrome on the host GPU; the phone branch is not physical-iPhone/Safari evidence.

Normal production-bundle launch also passes on desktop and the phone branch: Yui starts in Yard, Janitor is prepared, all enemy matrix aliases and separate colors are correct, and 72,064 matrix bytes are retained. Desktop resizing 1600x900 <-> 1024x768 and phone rotation 852x393 <-> 393x852 preserve canvas, post-processing and camera dimensions plus real PointerEvent mapping. No JavaScript/GL errors; screenshots inspected after the entry banner clears. Receipts: local-browser.json and the matching archive screenshot directory. Release receipt follows once deployment is verified.

Release verification: npm run ship completed from main 62bc0f5; public build is 1.0.7+62bc0f5, Netlify deployment 6ac5ee1288707c891376e97f. Plain and versioned requests for version.json, bundle.js and menu.css all return HTTP200 and exact release bytes. Bundle SHA-256: 123894a5b07c873909d8292ae426b73625860a4c9d0cb51ff063abab008f58fb. Cloudflare purge was skipped because credentials are absent; exact public asset checks verify the actual served result. All 1,560 distribution paths remain; cast-vo.html and APK are absent. Public APK endpoint remains the preflight HTTP404. Fresh live desktop and phone-branch launches, resizing, pointer mapping, pool sharing and post-banner screenshots pass with zero JS/GL errors (live-assets.json, inventory.json, live-browser.json). Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Both code and verification checkpoints are pushed; unrelated cast-vo.html remains intact.

Next bounded candidate: suppress renderer setup for empty enemy triplets at their owning count writes, including dawn and RoundClear, while preserving warmRoom/warmRun buffer-discovery renders and later reactivation. Do not change the shared _instanced helper globally. This would chiefly help quiet scenes: 27 empty enemy meshes per world pass there, but only the three unused primitive boss meshes in the all-species busy fixture. Other FX pools account for much of the measured empty-pool work and need their own owner-specific audits.

2026-10-07 — Skip idle boss projectile setup without deferring first use

Continued from deployed 1.0.7+62bc0f5, with code-equivalent checkpoint 17a7ef5. Current owner attribution in ../_hallpass-archive/reports/empty-effect-pools-20261007/ found a stronger busy-scene target than quiet enemy pools: all 13 boss projectile meshes still enter renderer setup while empty. The measured conditional cost is 19.5 setup calls/frame on desktop and 17.33 on the phone branch in Yard; desktop boss cube captures raise this to 26. The synthetic busy fixture has no boss bullets, so these are idle-case counts, not average gameplay savings. They are not native draw calls or GPU triangles, which were already zero. The audit attributes Dissolve as another substantial owner for a future pass.

This change only hides empty BossProjectiles pools. Each final submitted count owns its visibility; active authored/fallback shots, capacities, matrix and color values, trail identities and upload ranges remain unchanged. Constructor, clear and empty-page activation also leave these meshes hidden. The owner temporarily reveals attached zero-count pools around the existing full-world discovery frame, preserving real fog, camera and output target. No opaque dummy instance or extra world render is added. Exact visibility is restored in finally, and failed draws retain the pending warmup request. Room/run loading, context restoration and low/HDR quality transitions rearm the discovery. Detached artwork is never published by this path; its existing transparent one-instance safe-screen prime now explicitly saves, enables and restores visibility before yielding or activation.

Reviewed source SHA-256: View 738f4bd1dd5930f662e7403c3f87af47c53f4ba73cbc266d42774369d8a3f84f, BossProjectiles 5d35c1be783d5e458c474dfe08c937d6e393359130c3a6d1f44466d2b0dd09ed. Focused unit checks pass 70/70. External negative controls fail when the visibility change, hidden-page prime, loading rearm or quality rearm is removed. The independent review found the quality boundary before release; it is now covered by actual setQuality/render tests. Final npm test passes 1,825/1,825 and the production build passes. No protected tuning/maps/playtest edits, artwork spending, APK, native package or OTA work.

Browser correctness evidence is in the companion archive directory reports/boss-projectile-visibility-20261007/. All 44 baseline/candidate images and all held-frame repeats are exact. Live transforms, colors, opacity, counts, native visible draws and resource totals match, covering all six authored identities, fallback, partial readiness, capacity overflow, expiry, clear/refill, quality changes and six cube faces. Idle boss setup falls from 19.5 to zero per desktop frame and 17.33 to zero on the phone branch. First authored and fallback shots allocate no new buffer, VAO, program, texture or buffer storage after startup or low/HDR discovery.

A second real View verifies its registered context-restored callback in an isolated scene with the actual 13 projectile meshes and Post disabled. The existing next world render recreates 77 buffers, 13 VAOs, six programs and eight textures; first authored and fallback shots then allocate nothing. CPU instance state stays exact. This is not full-game/Post restoration or post-loss object-disposal coverage. Normal full View disposal is checked separately. Independent source, unit and browser reviews found no remaining blocking issue. Timing, production smoke and release receipts follow below.

Code checkpoint 464588c is pushed to main. One bounded same-renderer timing experiment, independently recomputed from all 128 valid GPU-query samples, passes eight exact visibility-swap image gates. It toggles only visibility outside measured work, so it measures avoided renderer setup, not whole-frame performance; new sync assignments and the warmup flag check are excluded. Desktop paired submission medians improve by 0.1271 ms with empty boss pools and 0.0458 ms with authored Monitor shots. Phone-branch submission medians instead rise by 0.0396 ms and 0.0250 ms, respectively. Active-shot phone GPU elapsed rises by 0.1015 ms (+2.01%), with positive medians in both contexts (+0.0060 and +0.1703 ms). That possible cost remains explicit, not dismissed as noise. Empty-case phone results reverse sign between contexts; active-shot paired GPU differences range from -1.4445 to +1.1264 ms, with 9/16 pairs slower. GPU query intervals can include command-stream gaps, not just shader work.

Accept as a bounded removal of unnecessary empty renderer setup with exact visuals, unchanged native visible draws and retained first-use readiness. Net frame benefit and absence of a phone regression remain unproven; no FPS, physical-iPhone, Safari or thermal claim. Independent review supports this limited conclusion. No favorable rerun or tolerance change was performed. Raw pairs, methods and the slower phone results are retained in the companion boss-projectile-visibility-20261007/timing.json, timing-summary.json and timing.md reports.

Normal local production-bundle launch passes for desktop and phone branch: Yui starts in Yard, Janitor is prepared, all 13 empty boss pools are hidden and their initial discovery has finished. Existing shared enemy transforms retain 72,064 bytes and separate colors. Desktop resizing 1600x900 <-> 1024x768 and phone rotation 852x393 <-> 393x852 preserve canvas, post-processing, camera dimensions and real PointerEvent mapping. No JavaScript/GL errors; post-entry-banner screenshots inspected. Receipts are in empty-effect-pools-20261007/local-browser.json and its screenshot directory.

Next bounded candidate: attribute Dissolve's 16 empty enemy-death pools in a death-heavy busy fixture before changing visibility. The initial owner audit has no deaths, so its 24 desktop / 21.33 phone setup calls per frame establish an idle-case opportunity only. Any implementation must preserve first-death readiness, expiry, reset and reflection captures. Do not generalize this visibility policy to all pools without owner-specific lifecycle evidence.

Release verified: npm run ship completed from main f3c6735; public build is 1.0.7+f3c6735, Netlify deployment 6ac5f5fc2190f7096021ed4b. Plain and versioned requests for version.json, bundle.js and menu.css return HTTP200 and exact local release bytes. Bundle SHA-256: bf8f6a8c8258c663eba1af5e9cee0c8ced30345eeb348f26fdeb2208d541a5aa. Cloudflare purge was skipped because credentials are absent; public asset checks verify the served result. All 1,560 distribution paths remain, with no cast-vo.html or APK added. Public APK endpoint retains preflight HTTP404. Fresh live desktop and phone-branch launches, resizing, rotation and pointer mapping pass with zero JS/GL errors. All 13 idle boss pools are hidden after startup discovery; post-entry-banner screenshots inspected. Receipts: empty-effect-pools-20261007/ship.log, live-assets.json, inventory.json and live-browser.json. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Code and pre-release verification checkpoints are pushed; the unrelated untracked cast-vo.html is preserved and excluded from this release.

2026-10-07 — Transfer only changed enemy dissolve slots

Continued from live 1.0.7+f3c6735 and code-equivalent main checkpoint 471ccb5. The next owner audit started with empty Dissolve pools, but source inspection found a more direct active-combat target: any birth or expiry republished all five attributes for the entire remaining pool, although the shader's time uniform owns animation. Final expiry submitted a range with count zero; Three forwards that to WebGL2, where zero means the remaining source length, causing a full-capacity transfer instead of no transfer.

The scoped change tracks the first/last changed slot on spawn, oldest-slot replacement and actual compaction copies. Update still publishes body and ink counts together, but transfers only the changed surviving span. Tail-only expiry changes counts without marking attributes; no zero-length range is submitted. Existing pending ranges are preserved until the renderer consumes them, including updates or clear/refill without an intervening render. Spawn still changes CPU data only: uploading early would change what a cube capture sees before the normal View update. Time, random calls, birth-value precision, compaction order, capacities, shader code, visibility, warmup and draw order are unchanged. Empty-pool visibility is deferred; this pass is only about unnecessary data transfer during deaths.

Independent source review found no blocker. New desktop/phone unit coverage checks frozen original outputs, every attribute's pending range and version, append/recycle/compaction, tail/final expiry, skipped renders and clear/reuse. It replays pending uploads into separate shadow arrays to check that queued edits really survive. Focused tests pass 22/22. The frozen original passes both appearance goldens but fails all four upload-work checks as intended. Evidence lives in ../_hallpass-archive/reports/dissolve-pool-20261007/, including the frozen source, native audit and unit/ receipts. Further browser, full-suite and release results follow below.

The frozen-source native audit confirms 4,608 bytes per full-pool append or replacement on desktop, 2,304 on phone, versus 96 bytes of changed instance data. Tail-only expiry transfers 96 bytes; final-empty expiry transfers the whole capacity with all five native length arguments zero. There are no new Dissolve buffer allocations after warmup in three scripted 360-frame death schedules. These are conditional presentation fixtures using actual kill events and View updates, not a claim about typical gameplay death rates. Full npm test passes 1,831/1,831 and the production build passes. The code checkpoint is ready; browser comparison and timing remain release gates.

Browser correctness passes at the fixed exact-pixel limit: 36/36 image pairs (12 main states and six cube faces per branch) and all 24 held-frame repeats match. Both full/live CPU arrays and all 40 native GPU live attribute prefixes match, as do native draw sequences, render totals and whole-View resource deltas. Coverage includes all eight species, append/recycle, hole compaction, tail/final expiry, hidden updates, skipped renders, pending clear/refill and low/high quality. Representative desktop burst and phone compaction images were inspected. The production-defined original/candidate fixtures and full receipts are retained in baseline/ and candidate/; the reproducible harness is test/dissolve-updates.browser.mjs.

Native transfer reductions: appending the last slot or replacing one in a full pool is 4,608 -> 96 bytes on desktop and 2,304 -> 96 on phone. Tail expiry is 96 -> 0 bytes, final expiry 4,608/2,304 -> 0. The controlled 48-death sequence is 40,608 -> 8,352 bytes in either branch; its 310 native transfer calls are unchanged. Whole new bursts and pending clear/refill transfers stay equal. No new buffers, textures or buffer storage are allocated after preparation; quality transitions still create the same VAO/program variants in both builds (not an allocation-free quality-change claim). The earlier native diagnosis only tracked Dissolve's dynamic buffers: its mixed-wave whole-View geometry growth from 289 to 291 is retained, not hidden by the owner-specific receipt.

The bounded timing attempt is incomplete, not passed. Its separate same-renderer full spawn/update/render probe stopped before returning timing samples: the desktop recycle/expiry final-empty image differs at one blue channel, pixel (775,378), 47 -> 48. Active intermediate images, full CPU data, counts, draw totals and resources match; all eight dissolve counts are zero in that final image. The failed script and images remain in failed-exact-gate/. An unchanged-source A/A probe produced nine exact pairs, so this difference is unexplained, not an established noise floor. That probe matches the rendering sequence but omits the preceding clock/query calls; it is not an identical driver-timing control. No tolerance was widened and no favorable timing rerun was attempted. See timing.md, repeatability/ and validation.json. Do not claim a measured speedup, no frame-time regression, physical-iPhone benefit, or accepted timing from this pass.

Independent review supports release as verified transfer-work reduction: the 36 production-source images (including final expiry), native GPU live prefixes, original-array goldens and draw/resource parity remain exact. The isolated one-level empty-frame difference in the separate timing fixture does not establish a practical dissolve regression or invalidate those receipts; it remains a disclosed limit. Net frame-cost measurement is still open.

Normal local production launch also passes on desktop and phone branch: Yui in Yard, Janitor prepared, all eight dissolve count pairs and reset dirty bounds correct. Desktop resizing 1600x900 <-> 1024x768 and phone rotation 852x393 <-> 393x852 preserve physical/logical canvas, Post and camera dimensions and real pointer mapping. JS/GL errors are zero and post-banner screenshots were inspected. Full-suite/build/smoke receipts are under release/. Code checkpoint 1eacf8b is pushed; verification checkpoint and release follow.

Next candidate: measure retained native buffers/textures through repeated room preparation, entry and disposal on the current build, separating intentional warm caches from resources that grow each cycle. This targets long-session memory pressure rather than another small empty-pool toggle. Death-heavy occupancy now bounds that latter opportunity: Dissolve's remaining empty setup calls/frame are 4.29/3.72 (desktop/phone) for steady deaths, 13.16/11.56 for bursts and 10.82/9.53 for mixed waves, not the original no-death 24/21.33. These are scripted presentation schedules, not gameplay frequency estimates; occupancy-summary.json records the reduction from the native audit.

Release verified from main 8cb1bfb: public build 1.0.7+8cb1bfb, Netlify deployment 6ac5fde84d6f833eba736ea4. npm run ship passed. Plain and versioned requests for version.json, bundle.js and menu.css return HTTP200 with exact local release bytes. Bundle SHA-256: f4995cccf91eb7e552b6f0a9a752110d799a9f8f060e4c27fac6befc33adecd3. Cloudflare purge was skipped because credentials are absent; actual served asset hashes were verified. Distribution inventory remains 1,560 paths with none removed and no cast-vo.html/APK included. The public APK endpoint remains the preflight HTTP404. Fresh live desktop and phone-branch launches, resizing, rotation, pointer mapping and dissolve state checks pass with zero JS/GL errors; post-banner images inspected. Receipts are in release/ship.log, live-assets.json, inventory.json and live-browser.json. Source remains the reviewed eac63d3fdf5376b4204cac712f052521619e520f5e8a1fd1f330213d3d0bdcb1. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files are unchanged. Both code and verification checkpoints are pushed; unrelated cast-vo.html is intact.

2026-10-07 — Preserve replacement character loads after cancellation

Continued optimization from live 1.0.7+8cb1bfb / code-equivalent main 1b917de. Native resource accounting across three Yard/Halls/Library/Gym/Roof cycles, with all four crew members prepared and Ren active, finds identical second/third-cycle resource counts for each room on desktop and phone-branch Chrome. Buffer storage bytes also match. First-cycle program/VAO caches settle; this does not establish a persistent room-transition leak. The observer keeps strong native handles, so its creation/deletion inventory measures explicit resource cleanup, not actual retained VRAM or automatic garbage collection. No physical-iPhone, frame-time or FPS claim follows from this audit.

The CPU ownership audit did find a concrete cancellation race in character preloading. A dropped or already-claimed old parse can fail after a replacement preload begins. Its unconditional error cleanup deleted the replacement cache entry, forcing another parse on character selection and leaving the prepared replacement without its normal cancellation owner. Rejection cleanup now checks that the cached promise is still its own before removing it. Successful loading, original error propagation, retry, fallback and disposal remain intact.

Four new public-API regressions cover both stale-rejection races, current-error retry, and late successful cancellation. The frozen original fails exactly the two race cases and passes both controls. A separate probe changes from three parses/no reuse to two parses/exact replacement reuse. Focused tests pass 60/60; full npm test passes 1,835/1,835 and the production build passes. Independent source/test review found no blocker. Native cancellation-path proof and release verification follow below. Source SHA-256: 6176d60842140e4ab90f18305b8c2aade904b17c787107baafa1152c8f54954c. Evidence: ../_hallpass-archive/reports/room-lifecycle-20261007/ and its cancelled-rig/ and release/ directories. No gameplay/tuning or art changes.

Next bounded candidate: full-View teardown has an explicit cleanup deficit attributed to Dissolve instance attributes and the talisman outline, distinct from repeated-room growth. Confirm owner lifetimes and disposal behavior before patching it; do not interpret raw outstanding counters as a device-memory leak.

The bounded browser fault-injection proof passes with the actual Ren head GLB, real parser and View loading/texture/disposal methods. Deliberately delaying and rejecting the old parse reproduces the original's duplicate real parse on claim and leaves the replacement texture in View's warm-tracking Map after normal cleanup. The candidate consumes the exact prepared replacement; either caller cleanup or cancellation disposes its texture once, removes the tracking entry and invalidates the native texture. Both versions retain the original rejection error. This proves the conditional error path, not its frequency in production or a frame-rate gain. cancelled-browser/report.json preserves all four cases and source/asset hashes. An initial run stopped on the established ANGLE X4122 PMREM precision warning; that receipt is retained separately. Classifying only that exact known warning allowed the complete proof; no GL errors or failed case assertions were suppressed. Code checkpoint 6244347 is pushed to main.

Normal production-bundle launch passes on desktop and phone branch: Yui's hybrid rig attaches before the run, Janitor is prepared, and existing enemy, dissolve and empty boss-pool state checks remain valid. Resizing/rotation keep canvas, post-processing and camera dimensions aligned, with real PointerEvent mapping verified. No JS/GL errors; post-banner images inspected. Distribution inventory remains 1,560 paths, with no removed paths, cast-vo.html or APK. Receipts: release/local-browser.json, release/inventory.json. Protected config/maps hashes and playtest files remain unchanged. Web release follows.

Released and verified from main 19376ca: public build 1.0.7+19376ca, Netlify deployment 6ac603557f8c81c165d98c53. npm run ship passed. Plain and versioned version.json, bundle.js and menu.css match local release bytes over HTTP200. Bundle SHA-256: fc380495a87a618c91cb6338fbcc0304b140aa6beac462b5e5783c00978e0dfa. Cloudflare purge was skipped for missing credentials; served asset hashes were verified directly. Fresh live desktop/phone-branch launch, hybrid model, boss readiness, resize/rotation and pointer checks pass with zero JS/GL errors; post-banner images inspected. Inventory remains 1,560 paths and public APK retains its preflight HTTP404. No native package or OTA was produced. Receipts are under release/ship.log, live-assets.json, live-browser.json and inventory.json. Protected files are unchanged and unrelated cast-vo.html is preserved/excluded. Code and browser-verification checkpoints are pushed.

2026-10-07 — Reuse current transforms in planar reflections

Continued from live 1.0.7+19376ca and code-equivalent main 93c4b56. The previous teardown findings were checked against actual entrypoints: production creates one View at boot and does not call View.dispose during normal play, room changes or suspension. Those cleanup gaps remain deferred; they do not explain growing costs inside an ordinary session.

The renderer profile instead identified repeated transform work. Installed Three updates the scene before invoking a mirror's onBeforeRender hook, then Reflector's nested render repeats the scene traversal. The three existing Yard/Gym/Roof wrappers now temporarily disable only scene.matrixWorldAutoUpdate around that synchronous capture and restore its exact prior setting in finally. The reflected camera still updates. Main/cube passes, object animation, room and editor root movement, capture cadence, pixels and resources are intended to stay unchanged. Root-local caching was considered but not implemented: the scoped capture change preserves the movable-root contract directly. No renderer-library modification or lower reflection quality is involved.

Ten added unit cases exercise actual Reflector callbacks across five profiles, including moved scene/group/parent/child transforms, an independent composed matrix oracle, camera movement, initial true/false flags, facing-away returns and thrown captures. The frozen original passes the existing controls but fails all five automatic=true extra-traversal checks. Focused tests pass26/26; full npm test passes1,845/1,845 and the production build passes. Independent source/test review found no blocker. Unit artifacts are under ../_hallpass-archive/reports/planar-transform-reuse-20261007/unit/.

An exploratory frozen-source browser toggle produced54 exact image pairs across desktop/phone Yard, Gym and Roof, including moving ancestors and all six explicit cube faces. World/instance matrices, draws and resource counts match. Yard removes433 scene-subtree update visits per desktop frame and 288.67 per phone frame in that held fixture. Phone Roof's held state stops its tick-based reflection refresh, so that cell does not measure its active cadence benefit. Actual-source verification adds synchronized animation to cover that distinction before release. Browser artifacts are under ../_hallpass-archive/reports/world-transform-roots-20261007/; release checks use its release/ directory. No frame-time, FPS or physical-iPhone claim.

2026-10-08/09 — Finalist week: Capgo kept, 1.0.7 OTA, credits, iOS 1.0.7, Play Console

Hall Pass was named a Shipaton finalist (Chris, 2026-10-08).

2026-10-10 — Render work the picture never shows

Method: instrumented fixtures of the real production View (counts are deterministic; host timings on this shared machine are not), one headless browser at a time, then a pixel A/B: identical bot-driven 900-frame combat runs with each change off and on, hashing every Reflector target and the final frame every 60 frames, plus control runs (off vs off).

Idle survey before the pass (desktop/phone draws per frame): Yard 287/276, Roof 210/157, Gym 181/123, others 75–126. No per-frame shadow-map draws. Program re-selections were at most 12/frame (Yard), so three's getParameters/getProgram share in the 10-07 profile is not per-material churn.

Shipped:

  1. Reflection cull (54a48d7): planar captures hide meshes entirely behind the mirror. Combat draws/frame: Roof 234→210 desktop, 180→169 phone; Yard 300→285, 285→272; Gym 183→181.
  2. Single-pass flat transparents (54a48d7): Yard program checks 12→5 per frame and seven fewer draws.
  3. Empty pool skip (this commit): the Yard's idle main pass no longer processes 74 empty instanced pools. WebGL calls are unchanged (three already skipped their GL draw); one noisy comparison put desktop Yard at 4.96→3.49 ms host time per frame and Boiler 1.33→0.85, phone mixed (Yard 3.54→2.87, Library 1.56→1.92). Not a controlled timing claim.

Every reflection texture and every final frame matched in all deterministic cells. The Gym's and the Lab's desktop final frames are not deterministic run to run even with everything off (controls failed 2/4 and 2/2); their reflection textures matched. Any future pixel A/B there needs controls.

Found, not acted on:

Harnesses and results: ../_hallpass-archive/reports/render-skips-20261010/. That archive repo has only the disabled github remote, so it is not pushed anywhere at the moment.

2026-10-13 — The Hall Pass board (Relay)

Chris asked for "a Relay system in Trello under the Very Bad workspace, just like the other games have". The only game with one was Salty (wet), so Hall Pass now has the same setup:

2026-10-13 — Deck on landscape phones: Chris's redesign, judge rounds 28-44, paused

2026-10-13 — Tripo API: Detention rigged with four clips

Chris: "we now have Tripo API - would that help us improve the game?" then "Yes" to a one-boss trial. Detention's shipping mesh went to Tripo's API (import, rig, walk + slash + hurt + fall) for 240 credits including a wasted Mixamo-spec rig; the balance went 5,630 → 5,390. It had read 5,965 earlier in the same session before any call of ours, so something else is spending on this key too. Review page /boss-rig.html shows Meshy's rig beside Tripo's in the house look, with CLOSE and GAME cameras. Nothing in the game changed. Verdict and the step costs: docs/PIPELINE-3D.md, "Tripo API direct". Tooling: tools/tripo/tripo.py, scripts/tripo-boss.mjs.

2026-10-15 — Detention's new clips ship; the procedural score's boss stab fixed

Chris on 10-14: "keep the primary walk as the main one but also have an alternate walk he can switch to randomly; for the rest of the cases, it seems like the second version came out slightly better." Both bodies were built and shown side by side. The Tripo body bends his walk differently (skinning, not motion: the bones matched to the degree). On Claude's recommendation to keep his Meshy body, Chris said "let's keep going", so that shipped: alternate walk, cage-throw slash, hurt dip on crits and big hits, fall under the exorcism burn. Details: docs/MECHANICS.md "Detention's clips", docs/PIPELINE-3D.md "Tripo API direct". Higgsfield reads 0 credits on a free plan; the team workspace is gone from the list.

Also fixed: src/audio.js boss stab referenced ducked, which 47fba0c removed (10-10) when the duck moved onto duckGain. It threw on every boss beat of the procedural fallback score. Seen as a page error in a headless capture; the streamed songs were never affected.

2026-10-16 (overnight) — environment and effects pass

Chris: "Please work autonomously overnight improving the game focusing on environment and effects - better, more polished, more exciting, whatever you think." Tracked on the Hall Pass board card "Overnight: environment & effects polish" (https://trello.com/c/ExmUCsRl), one comment and before/after shot per shipped item. A read-only survey agent mapped the systems first; its findings drove the first half of the night. Each item was verified in the real game renderer (headless chrome-headless-shell, one browser at a time, frames driven manually), tested and shipped on its own:

Continued after the card closed, working down the survey's open items (new card https://trello.com/c/GePp1yXK):

A ten-room browser sweep with a boss in each room (400 frames, a blast scarring the floor) ran without a page error.

Tried and dropped: a glossier lab and hallway floor (the steep camera shows one hotspot, not reflections); pool ripples on hits (the water is a solid obstacle, nothing fights on it); restaging the Boiler enamel through surface-art (it would flip the shipped art for a sub-millisecond upload). A boss-arrival "brownout" (the lamps failing in a ring rolling out from the boss) was built, tested and reverted unshipped: measured with every practical light held at 20%, the Second Floor frame darkens about 4%; the moving ring changed about 1% of the image, inside the view's own noise. The picture is carried by moonlight, ambient and emissives, so light work in these rooms has to go through additive floor washes (as the Boiler's firelight now does), not the real lamps. Left alone on purpose: the Gym's upside-down HOME OF THE HAWKS faces its own baseline by design; the Second Floor keeps its no-floor-labels rule.

Gotchas: a fresh browser per capture spends a variable time behind the loading gate, so per-frame view timers are not reproducible across runs; capture "until" a condition instead of at a time. The capture tool sets s.stats.hp, not s.player.hp, for health. The capture scripts now live in the repo (74337c9, docs/BROWSER-RIGS.md).

More gotchas from the second half:

2026-10-17 — iOS 1.0.7 finally submitted

Why the iOS update never went out: build 8 (1.0.7) was uploaded and sat in TestFlight as "Ready to Submit", but no 1.0.7 App Store version was ever created, so nothing reached App Review; the store stayed on 1.0. Fixed from Chris's Mac Chrome: created version 1.0.7, What's New (landscape layout, room polish, performance, bug fixes; build 8 predates the 10-16 overnight effects), attached build 8, submitted. Status: Waiting for Review. Promotional Text on 1.0.7 was blank (optional); it was added afterwards with Chris's approval of the wording. Lesson: after an upload, check Distribution for a version in Prepare for Submission with the build attached; TestFlight "Ready to Submit" alone is not a submission. Released 2026-10-18: App Review approved 1.0.7; Chris released it by hand and App Store Connect shows "1.0.7 Ready for Distribution". The public lookup (itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6810716450) still said 1.0 right after; Apple allows up to 24 hours for a release to appear. The app bundle moved to 1.0.8 for the next OTA: Capgo already holds 1.0.7 (10-08) and never reuses a version, and build 8 embeds 1.0.7. The next native build must be above 1.0.8.

2026-10-17 (overnight) — effects, rigging, UI and environments

Chris (00:35): "run autonomous improvement loop overnight, please - focus on effects, rigging, UI, environments, etc." Tracked on the board card "Overnight 10-17: effects, rigging, UI, environments" (https://trello.com/c/Jis8USy4), one comment and picture per shipped item. Each was verified in the real renderer (chrome-headless-shell, one browser at a time, frames driven by hand), tested and shipped on its own:

A review pass (one subagent reading every commit) found four real defects, all fixed and tested in 665d62b:

A second review over the later commits found four more, fixed and tested in the next commit: a toast cutting a LEVEL UP left a notice queued behind it (an EXORCISED) waiting out the hold and expiring (it now goes up at once); regen restarted the health ghost's CSS transition every tick and froze it (now Web Animations on real hits only); a resumed run popped every pickup on the floor at once (existing ones now count as landed); and a School Run tag into a hurt teammate showed a fake damage chunk (a change of student is not a hit). It also confirmed _restoreRig, the lazy motes, the Rooftop bolts and the urgent dart clean. Known trade-off kept: on short landscape phones a toast under a wave, elite or EXORCISED banner stacks onto the student again, because those banners carry news a toast must not erase.

A ten-room sweep (each room with a boss, every student, the bot fighting 8 s, a bolt forced) ran without a page error on desktop and phone: heads turned, strikes fired and bolts struck in the eight rooms with windows or sky, none in the Pool and Boiler Room.

Tried and dropped: moth shadows in the Yard's lamp pools. The pools add too little light against the moonlit paving: even at twice the size and 85% shade the shadows read as dirt smudges, not moths (the module is in ../_hallpass-archive/overnight-2026-10-17/moths2/). Footstep dust was not built: the room atmosphere keeps a clear pocket around the student on purpose (combat clarity), and puffs at the feet would fill it.

Gotchas:

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