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M9: a campaign you can actually get back
A campaign could already be exported and imported. What could not survive the trip was everything that explains it: the state events behind the authoritative document, the prompt each turn was actually given, the passages it was shown, the summaries that carry long-story continuity, and which take belonged to which turn. An imported campaign could be read and could no longer say why it was what it was — and a manual correction, the one state change no narration explains, was indistinguishable from something the story had established. The bundle is now `ai-dnd-adventure-v3`, and the version is the design rather than a side effect. Everything added here could have been another optional key, the way persona, Save Points, narrative state and imported knowledge each were. That mechanism stops working at exactly this addition: a v2 file with no prompt provenance is ambiguous between "written before M9" and "written by M9 from a campaign that has none", and those are different facts about a campaign. A version number is how a recovery file states what it was capable of recording. v1 and v2 still import, and every seam from pre-active-head onward is tested for the rule that an older file is never reinterpreted under a newer assumption. Two categories became three. "Chosen travels, derived is recomputed" was enough until stored prompts had to be decided: they are derived, and they must travel anyway. The test that separates evidence from cache is not "could this be recomputed" but "would a recomputation answer the same question" — a rebuilt search index answers the same question, a rebuilt prompt says what the turn would be told *now*, which is the opposite of what the inspector is for. Also here: a real SQLite backup, through the online backup API rather than a file copy, taken while the application is running and verified before it is kept; story cards settled as compatibility-only legacy data and taken out of the narrator's prompt, because they were the untracked path around knowledge authority that IMPORTED-KNOWLEDGE-DESIGN §73 already forbade; and no schema change at all, proved against a database M8's own code wrote. Three defects, found by running the milestone's own tests rather than by reading them. Deleting a campaign leaked its FTS index rows, and SQLite then handed the freed ids to the next source imported into any campaign, which failed with an integrity error that Reindex could not repair — both ends are closed, and a database already carrying the damage now repairs itself. An imported node with no state snapshot was being stamped with the campaign's head state, so an Undo to turn 2 showed what the story knew at turn 20. And the snapshot relink did not persist at all, because it mutated a dict in place on a column SQLAlchemy tracks by assignment: it looked correct in memory and wrote the wrong ids to disk. Carrying per-turn prompts looked like it would halve the length of campaign that can be restored. Measured — and after compressing them inside the file — everything M9 added costs 12% of it: the import ceiling moves from about 318 turns to about 279, against a 100-turn certification target. The dominant cost is not M9's at all. The per-position narrative state document is 74% of a bundle, and v2 already carried it. Backend 1,102 passed / 14 skipped / 0 failed. Frontend 145 passed. Lint, production build and Docker build clean. Verified across two server processes with two data directories, and in a real browser against a real narrator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qyn3oRd4D6pi72nKBG725B |
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M8: the browser becomes the storyteller
The interface was AI-DnD's with this product's features bolted into it. The
navigation read Home · Adventures · Scenarios · Settings · AI Chat; starting a
story meant first picking a *world*, and making a world meant a JSON stat-schema
form, a story-card table and an art picker. The play screen had a Branches tab.
The input had three modes. Sixteen of the sixteen controls on a two-turn story
had no accessible name — they were single glyphs with a tooltip.
All of that was measured in a real browser before anything was changed, and the
measurements are in planning/reports/M8-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md §C. Almost
nothing underneath was wrong: the play loop, the history controls, the takes,
the Save Points, the state correction and the knowledge library all worked. What
was wrong was what a reader was asked to understand in order to use them.
So the shape now is one entry point and one screen:
Campaigns -> Campaign -> Story
State · Knowledge · Context · Save Points · Settings
Everything that is not the story lives in a panel that starts closed. The
top navigation bar is hidden on the story screen entirely, because on that one
screen the story is the interface.
Play is one natural-language field. An action and a piece of quoted dialogue are
both just what the reader wrote, and B01/B02 confirmed against a real narrator
that the model reads the quotes without being told which kind of turn it is.
What survives from the old Story mode is a Story direction toggle, which is not
a fourth mode: it changes who is being spoken to, not what kind of action is
taken, and the box is visibly marked while it is on.
Branch, fork, node, merge and head appear nowhere a reader can see them. The
branch panel and the tree overlay are gone from the browser. The mechanism is
untouched — takes, divergence, retained futures and Save Points all still work,
and their endpoints are still tested. This is a decision about what a reader is
asked to understand, not a reduction of what the product can do.
The two defects worth the space:
A player action is stored with AI Dungeon's "> You " prefix. That was right when
the Do mode asked for a bare verb phrase. With one field the spec tells the
reader to write "I enter the tavern", and the result was "> You I enter the
tavern." — in the transcript, in the replayed history, and therefore in the
narration, where a small model imitates it and writes "You I thank her". M8's
own design surfaced it, so M8 fixed it: the prefix is added only when the reader
has not already written a subject. The ">" marker, which is what actually
identifies a player turn in the prompt, is unchanged in every case.
And a stale `.input-bar { display: flex }` in play.css overrode the new
composer, because that sheet is imported after the new one. The direction row
and the input row laid out side by side and the box was unusably narrow. Found
by opening the product in a browser, not by reading the CSS — which is the
argument for having done that first.
Failures now have the taxonomy the spec asked for rather than one toast: model,
generation, state, knowledge, server, each with the thing to do about it. A
failed turn leaves the reader's words in the box and says so. The classification
reads backend strings, so it is a fallback ladder rather than a lookup — an
unrecognised message still classifies, still shows the server's own words and
still offers Retry.
`Settings.model` could be empty with nothing saying so until the first turn
failed with a provider error. The header now reports Ollama in five states, and
an unconfigured or missing model offers the models actually installed on the
endpoint, from the connection test that already knew them. Nothing is chosen
automatically: an endpoint's first model may be an embedding model, which cannot
narrate at all.
Narrator prose is rendered as safe Markdown — headings, emphasis, lists,
blockquotes, code. The safety is structural rather than filtered: every node is
a React element built from parsed text, and there is no dangerouslySetInnerHTML
in the file. A sanitizer is not needed to make markup safe if markup is never
produced from input. Link schemes are checked with the URL parser rather than a
pattern, because the bypasses are all in the parsing. A remote image is a
placeholder naming the blocked address; the knowledge and context panels
deliberately do not use this renderer at all, because they exist to show a
reader exactly what is in their file.
Backend, and only what the browser could not otherwise reach:
AdventureCreate.opening a start action could only come from a Scenario, so
every campaign made in the new setup flow opened on
a blank page. Same node, same code path.
canon_rules campaign_canon has been the highest authority in a
campaign since M5, read by the prompt builder and
the state validator, and had no API at all — a
fixture had to write it with SQL.
a 401 and a 429 message the last user-facing text describing a hosted
deployment. One told the reader to check an API key
that has not existed since M2.
No schema change and no migration: proved by building a database with a server
running the M7 commit's own code and opening it with this one.
The project had no frontend tests. It has 132 now, across ten files, running
in about six seconds — the enabled state of every history control, the take
selector, the confirmations, the panels, the five model states, the failure
taxonomy, the focus trap, accessibility, and that the reserved dictation control
never touches the microphone. Writing them found a real defect: the focus trap
filtered candidates with offsetParent, which is null inside the fixed-position
ancestor the dialog has and which jsdom never computes — it would have behaved
differently in the tests from the browser.
They do not replace the real-browser runs, and both kinds of evidence are in the
report. The browser suites drive the production build served by the real backend
with a real local narrator, including a genuine process restart.
A verification pass over all of it then found three more, each by driving the
product rather than reading it:
Stepping between alternate takes did nothing. The pager asked whether a take
lived on another line by comparing `target.branch_id !== action.branch_id`, and
`ActionOut` has never carried `branch_id` — so the comparison was permanently
`number !== undefined`, always true, and every step took the branch-switch path.
For two takes of an ordinary retry, which share a line until one is written
below, that meant switching to the line already being read: the same window came
back and nothing moved. D07 is a required v1 acceptance test. The fix needed no
new field — the variants list already carries every attempt's branch and marks
the live one.
The first regression test for that passed against the broken code, because its
fixture gave the action a `branch_id` the real payload never sends. That is the
exact failure M7's review was about, so the fixture was corrected, the tests were
re-run against the reverted code and failed for the right reason, and the
fixture now carries a docstring saying why the field must never come back.
And the knowledge panel pointed readers at an "embedding model" while the
setting is called "Model for meaning-based search" — a reader sent looking for a
field that does not exist by that name.
Campaign canon was measured rather than assumed. Editing it after play is a
configuration change: every turn already played keeps the canon it was actually
given, in its own context snapshot, and the accepted story, the state document
and the state audit log are byte-identical across an edit. It is not routed
through M5's state audit, because canon is not narrative state and doing so
would create the second representation the spec forbids. What the editor does
now is say so, once a campaign has moments.
`BROWSER-UX-SPEC.md` §38 asked for a "Show Hidden Story State" toggle. There is
no hidden story state — a secret lives in a narrator-only knowledge source and
never enters the state document. The section is rewritten to require what it
actually meant: ordinary surfaces must not carry narrator-only information,
advanced inspection must withhold it by default behind an explicit warned
choice, and no second store may be invented to give a toggle something to
reveal. The protection is stricter than before, not weaker.
Closeout. An independent review returned M8 IMPLEMENTATION: PASS subject to
evidence and documentation cleanup, and this commit carries that cleanup:
The report named two frontend bundles as the artifact behind its acceptance
evidence. The saved run logs settle it. index-Ii-lARp9.js, built at 18:53:02
from this tree, is the one final frozen artifact behind all 157 browser checks;
index-C6E5Uvtu.js is superseded — it predates the D09 fix and its acceptance
suite ended 54/55 on exactly that defect. No tracked file under backend/app or
frontend/src has a modification time after the freeze, so the whole final
campaign describes one build. §P sets the two side by side.
Finding 14 — the app budgets 16,384 prompt tokens while an Ollama that sees no
VRAM enforces 4,096 — is resolved operationally, with no application change.
The OpenAI-compatible endpoint this app speaks accepts num_ctx and ignores it,
and reloads the model at its own default, so a native call cannot prime it
either. A model derived with POST /api/create carries the parameter, is honoured
through the app's own OpenAI-compatible path, and appears in /v1/models — which
is the listing the Settings model picker already reads. Measured end to end.
The procedure is in DEVELOPMENT.md; nothing in the repository depends on any
particular derived model existing. Adding provider code to work around this was
declined deliberately: it would mean either a second native request path,
against ADR 011, or a parameter the endpoint provably ignores.
The §38 rewrite is ratified as a requirement clarification aligned with the
implemented architecture, and the spec gains the clause finding 3 was really
about: withheld material must be absent from the rendered DOM, not merely
collapsed in it.
The report's §U carries the M9 handoff — what a portable campaign has to include,
whether historical context snapshots belong in the bundle, what happens to
inherited story cards, and that a restored campaign may meet a different context
window than the one that wrote it. None of it is implemented here.
Final: backend 950 passed / 14 skipped; frontend 132 passed; lint, production
build and Docker build clean; 157 browser checks across six suites, zero
failures. M8 is implemented, verified, reviewed and accepted (2026-09-06).
M9 has not been started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017HdaXiFbscatQaLS7dJk6b
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M6: branch-safe context, summaries and long-term story memory
Aligns the inherited AI-DnD memory and context foundation with the history,
authority and state model M3-M5 established. Long stories now reach the narrator
through a bounded, lineage-safe, inspectable context rather than a growing
transcript.
This commit includes the corrective work that followed the independent review in
planning/reports/M6-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md. The first implementation reported
E03 as passing and it was not; the report records that history rather than
hiding it.
What was already correct, and was kept rather than rebuilt
Memory lineage. Memories already carried (branch_id, depth) and retrieval
already filtered through the capped-path clause; the ten-step negative control
was measured passing against
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M3: move the story's head instead of deleting its turns
Undo deleted. It removed the trailing AI action and the player action in front of it, pruned the memories covering them, and let the tip fall back to whatever survived. That made it the one operation in the application that destroyed accepted story, and it was why there was no Redo: the turns to move forward into no longer existed. Phase 0B demonstrated the head-cursor alternative in a disposable spike; this is that concept as production code. backend/app/head.py is the whole of it. Three questions that used to be one — where the story is being read, how far it is retained, and where it opens — are now three functions, and every caller that moves the head or asks about it goes through this module. The spike put the fork check in the write path and left Retry and Add-take on the old one; sharing the rules is what stops that divergence coming back. lineage.Path now caps every entry at the head, so hiding the retained future costs nothing at the call sites: the transcript, the context builder, attempts.preceding and memory retrieval already funnelled through path_of and narrow together. Path.uncapped() is the deliberate exception, and only Redo and the fork check may use it. The memory bank needs no pruning for the same reason — a memory carries the coordinate of the node its block ends on, so one derived past the head falls outside the capped clause and becomes retrievable again on Redo without having been deleted and re-embedded. Undo alone does not fork. Moving the head is not a decision to abandon anything, since the user may be reading or about to Redo; the first write below the head is where the story states which continuation it means. A head already at the tip forks nothing, so a story that is never undone forks exactly as often as it did before and the branch table does not fill up with one branch per turn. Redo follows the lineage rather than choosing among branches, which is what invalidates it after a divergence with no flag to set or clear. Migrations 78 and 79 give a branch superseded_at and superseded_depth. Nothing reads them to decide behaviour — Redo is decided by the lineage, so a stale or hand-edited value here cannot make the story wrong. They exist so the cleanup and discarded-history features left to a later version have something to select on, and so a divergence is observable in a test. Deleting an action no longer drags a moved-back head forward to the recomputed tip, which would have silently redone the story. can_undo and can_redo ride on AdventureOut and ActionPage because the client can work out neither for itself: the campaign opening may be off the top of the loaded window, and the retained future is never sent to it. This is a checkpoint, not the finished milestone. 601 backend tests pass. Five still assert the destructive contract — they count rows after an undo and expect the story to be shorter — and need rewriting against the new one; the world-state assertions inside them already pass. Export and import do not yet carry the head coordinate, so a bundle still reopens at the deepest node and can silently redo an undone story, which is the Phase 0B finding this milestone exists to close. The browser has no Redo control yet. None of the M3 acceptance coverage (D01-D10, E01-E04, I01-I03, I07, L01-L02) is written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QF5TcoB86QADgjHz1GZe8u |
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M2: cut the hosted product away from the local one
94 files, +1,395 -6,578. Three files are new; twenty-four are gone. The milestone is subtraction, and what is left is the single-user local storyteller the specification describes. Removed in full: campaign scripting and its QuickJS sandbox; multi-user accounts, guest sessions, login, registration and the shared demo key; the visitor-analytics tables, dashboard and page beacon; the access log of sign-ins, addresses and devices; per-IP and per-user rate limiting and quotas; Render deployment config; Postgres and psycopg; cloud inference providers, the API-key field and the key encryption that existed to store it; session-cookie signing. None of it was hidden behind a flag — the routes are gone and answer 404. Two things were kept that the brief allowed keeping. The `users` table and its foreign keys stay as an internal ownership detail, because rewriting them out means a migration across most of the schema to delete a column that costs nothing; nothing creates a second user and no request carries an identity. Five inert tables and four inert columns stay for the same reason, so an M1 campaign database opens unchanged. The one addition is app/endpoints.py, which decides where a story may be sent. Loopback, RFC1918, link-local, unique-local and CGNAT — an explicit allowlist of networks, not a guess at what `ipaddress` means by "private", which calls the documentation ranges private and IPv6 loopback reserved. Every address a hostname resolves to must be in it, so a split answer does not squeak through, and the rule runs both when the endpoint is saved and before every outbound request, because a name that resolved to the LAN this morning can resolve elsewhere this afternoon. Known cloud hosts are named in the refusal so the error says why rather than looking like broken DNS. TLS is never traded against it: M1's shared trust context is intact on all four clients and there is no way to skip verification. The hardcoded 120-second model timeout is now a setting. That was not theoretical — on this GPU-less four-core host a cold load of qwen2.5:3b-instruct took 648.9 seconds to produce the first turn, while turns 2 to 5 of the same campaign took 3.6 to 13.1. Connect stays short at 10s so a wrong address still fails fast; the read timeout defaults to 300s and is bounded at 3600, because "wait longer" must stay a number. Two defects found while testing and fixed here. An unknown /api path fell through the SPA catch-all and came back as HTML with status 200, so a client asking for JSON parsed a web page instead of learning the route was gone. And AIDND_CORS_ORIGINS accepted "*", which on an unauthenticated loopback API would hand every page on the Internet a write handle on the campaign database; it now refuses to start. Verified rather than assumed. Offline, on a network with no route out and no DNS: five turns, retry with both takes retained, restart with an identical transcript digest, a failed model call leaving the accepted AI-turn count untouched, and a capture with zero non-loopback unicast packets. Against a real second machine on the LAN over HTTPS with a private CA: four turns, restart, and a capture showing 289 packets to the approved host, 344 loopback, zero anywhere else, zero DNS queries. Cloud and public endpoints refused with their reasons; no API key settable; every removed route 404. 604 backend tests pass, down from 648 by the fifteen retired with the subsystems they tested and up by the twenty-nine added for the endpoint policy and the removed surface. The scripting tests were not deleted: eight files used a JavaScript counter as instrumentation for the state snapshot and rollback machinery, which M2 does not touch, so the counter moved to the world-state engine and those tests still assert what they always did. Frontend lint and build are clean; the image builds, and its wheel-building stage is gone with quickjs. No M3 work. Undo is still destructive and there is still no Redo. |
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Give the adventure a persona, so the protagonist has a name
The player had stats but no identity. `stat_schema.player` carried hp and
mana beside `npc.gwen.trust`, but where an NPC has a name and a
description the player had neither, so the block rendered as
`You: hp 100/100` and nothing in the prompt said who "you" was.
Three columns on `adventures`: name, pronouns, description. All
user-only, all optional, and an empty name means the app behaves exactly
as it did before — no backfill, no special case for an adventure that
predates the migration.
They are adventure columns rather than part of `stat_schema` for two
reasons. An adventure with no RPG layer still has a protagonist, and
that is the case this was added for. And `worldstate.schema._initials`
treats every dict inside a stat section as a stat definition, so a
persona placed there would be instantiated, rendered in the guide, and
handed an `initial` value as though it were one.
The paths do not change. `player.hp` stays `player.hp`; only the label
moves, to `Kaelen (player): hp 100/100`, the same way NPC lines already
print a display name beside the id. A path carrying the persona's name
would break the moment a player renamed their character, because
`_history_text` replays every past turn's stored delta into the prompt
and those blobs hold literal `player.hp` strings.
The section sits in the system block. Only the user can edit it, so it
never changes mid-story and stays inside the cached prefix. That is what
makes it free, and it is why the AI must not be able to move it — a
delta aimed at `persona.*` is already refused by `_resolve`, and there
is now a test holding that in place.
The modal that used to appear only for scenarios with `${Placeholder}`
tokens now always opens, and is where the character is named. Persona
and placeholders stay independent: a scenario asking for `${Name}` is
asking its own question. No scenario in the repo uses placeholders at
all, so the overlap is hypothetical.
Phase 2, which feeds the persona and the cast to the summarizer, is
written up in plan/18 and not started. That is where the memory-quality
problem actually gets fixed; this change is what gives it a name to use.
Not yet driven in a browser — plan/18 lists what to check by hand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NPyQN926gkZTAYfgugcaok
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Drop the eight legacy columns SP8 left behind
Migrations 66 to 73 drop `actions.index`, `variants`, `variant_index`, `variant_count`, `state_before`, and `world_state_before`, plus `adventures.memory_cursor` and `summary_cursor`. `index` is a keyword in SQLite, so migration 71 quotes it. Nothing outside the migrations read these. `models.py`, `schemas.py`, and `ACTION_LIST_COLUMNS` lose the same eight fields, `Adventure.actions` orders by `id`, and `attempts.renumber`, `context.history.max_action_index`, and `nodes.next_index` are deleted. Two changes keep the migration replayable on a `create_all` database: - `_split_variants_into_siblings` wrote through the live ORM table, so it stopped compiling once migration 66 removed five of its columns. It now writes through `_ACTIONS_AT_60`, a frozen `Table` with its own `MetaData`. - Five data passes read columns these migrations drop. Each now calls `_has_columns` and returns early when the columns are absent. `bootstrap` takes a `through` version so a migration test can stop at the schema it asserts on. 555 tests pass, up from 549. Eight of the new cases assert each column is gone after a real schema-45 database migrates all the way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0198qDK3gmgSo7EtQ4GTPqqK |
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Remove three kinds of duplication in the backend
Stage 2, items 1, 4, and 5 of `plan/17-refactor.md`. **One path resolver in `worldstate`.** `apply_delta` and `apply_override` routed `flags.<name>`, `milestones.<id>`, `world.<stat>`, `player.<stat>`, and `npc.<id>.<stat>` with parallel code, about 100 lines each. `_resolve` now says what a path points at and returns either a target or the rejection to report. Each function keeps its own write rule, because the rules genuinely differ: an override sets a number rather than adding to it, ignores `cooldown`, `max_delta_per_turn`, and the rule that a counter only counts up, and can un-set a milestone. A differential check ran both implementations over 3960 payloads: twenty paths, fourteen values, three starting states, plus every three-path combination. The results are identical except that 674 rejections from `apply_override` now carry a `fix` string. `apply_delta` already worded those, and the world-state editor renders them, so an override that names an unknown flag now explains itself the way a delta does. **`sse`, `SSE_HEADERS`, and `turn_error` move to `app/sse.py`.** Two routers stream, and `chat.py` had to import from `routers.adventures` to reach them. **`get_adventure_or_404` becomes the `current_adventure` dependency.** All 32 handlers repeated the call as their first statement. The ownership check now reads in the signature and runs before the body. FastAPI caches a dependency for one request, so the handler's `db` is the session the adventure came from. The generated OpenAPI document is byte-identical except on `rename_branch`, where `branch_id` is now listed before `adventure_id`, because that handler no longer names `adventure_id` itself. Parameter order in the document is cosmetic. Six tests in `test_state_revert.py` call `undo_turn` and `retry_action` directly rather than over HTTP. They pass the adventure they already hold instead of an id. 549 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014Dix4oGV3njgWRdu7P9t6r |
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Split the adventures router into a package
`backend/app/routers/adventures.py` held 2353 lines and 35 endpoints. It is now a package of 14 modules, the largest 443 lines. The split moves text rather than rewriting it. An AST comparison against the old file confirms all 86 definitions are identical, and the OpenAPI schema still lists the same 35 operations. Names a test replaces now live in `turns.py` only, and other modules reach them as `turns.<name>`. Rebinding a re-exported alias changes the alias and leaves every caller reading the original, so the package root does not re-export them. A patch aimed at the old target raises `AttributeError` instead of passing while doing nothing. Tests and the fixtures in `backend/tools/` say `adventures.turns.<name>`. The same rule keeps the turn lock working. One module owns `_active_turns`, so one lock guards one set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014Dix4oGV3njgWRdu7P9t6r |