The composer could invent, measure and show strates. What did not exist was
an ARTEFACT a season could ship. Now it does.
VF_ComposeSeason: generate N candidates -> measure -> reject failures ->
select a descent sequence -> emit a JSON manifest + a review page.
⭐ THE PROPERTY THAT MATTERS: round-trip bit-identity. The manifest was
loaded, every selected stack rebuilt, and 393,216 density samples compared
BIT-IDENTICALLY. Re-composing the same seed yields byte-identical JSON.
A manifest that cannot reproduce its own world is worthless, and that is
the one thing that could not be assumed. Floats serialise as readable
values PLUS exact IEEE bits, so a season survives a text round trip.
Test season: 24 generated, 19 survived the hard gates, 6 selected.
18 not selected -- 4 vacuous, 1 primordial-law failure, 13 policy
non-selections. 4 grounded, 2 outliers. EVERY selected slot passes the
primordial law, asserted per slot rather than sampled.
Selection policy is explicit, named and PROVISIONAL, because Jahni has not
defined "good" yet and said so: "it'll be easier once i'm able to see the
strates candidates." So no quality score was invented and presented as
settled. The knobs are 75/25 grounded-to-outlier (outlier axis = distance
from corpus centroid), adjacent-similarity threshold .20 with penalty 1.0,
new-archetype bonus .10, new-recipe bonus .05, boss cadence every 5th
non-terminal slot. All of them are his to turn.
The veto is a review page in DESCENT ORDER -- the season read top to bottom
the way it is played, not the survivor/outlier ordering the candidate sheet
uses. Reuses VoxelStratePreview rather than a second renderer.
Saved/VoxelForge/SeasonTest/season_0000_seed_9320/season_manifest.json
.../review/index.html
⚠️ FIVE GAPS CODEX RAISED, recorded not buried:
1. §4's Tier A is strates PLUS passages; only the strate spine is persisted.
Manager-generated passage geometry and content placement are not.
2. Authored fixed strates keep scalar vectors + asset paths, not every
asset-level passage/biome/disturbance/content field.
3. Boss slots are MARKERS, not arena or content guarantees.
4. WorldRadiusVoxels == 0 is enforced as specced but contradicts a
production bounded world -- Jahni's call, still unset by design.
5. Bit identity is proven for the same build and platform. A frozen season
spanning engine versions needs an explicit schema contract. Real risk,
since seasons freeze generation for months.
Build clean, 28 succeeded / 0 failed, verified by me.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VJiTcTSDNkKBtnNdiBtdaU
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