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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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M5: genre-neutral authoritative narrative state, with review corrections
Replaces AI-DnD's RPG relative-delta world state with the genre-neutral typed
narrative state of ADR 010: explicit, absolute, allowlisted events proposed by
the model, validated by the application, applied to one authoritative document,
and snapshotted per position so restore stays a row read.
This commit includes the corrective pass that followed the independent review
in planning/reports/M5-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md. The invariant it exists to
hold is:
visible active transcript position == stored head == authoritative state
Narrator editing (D10, STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS §§14-15)
A narrator edit no longer rewrites a row. It returns to the state before the
turn, takes the reader's exact text as the accepted narration, re-derives the
state that text implies, and becomes a new active continuation — while the
original narration keeps its words, its live flag and its whole future as
retained history. At the tip the correction is another take; with story below
it, it forks. No new history machinery: this is the existing fork/take/head
path with the reader's text in place of a generated reply. The §14A refusal
is therefore gone for narrator turns, and remains only for player input.
Pre-M5 positions
Migration 88 backfills the empty narrative document onto every action written
before M5, and a missing snapshot now restores the empty document instead of
leaving the previous position's state standing. Restoring to an old Save
Point no longer leaves a later position's entities and facts on screen.
Narrator context
Replayed history carries prose only; the machine-readable block is no longer
reconstructed into past turns, where it contradicted the authoritative state
in the same prompt. A fact withdrawn by a manual correction is now named as
no longer true, with the reader's reason, rather than silently dropped.
Also
- state_changes joins the action-list bulk read, removing one query per row.
- Extraction takes only the application's own protocol payload: an ordinary
```json or ```python block in a story survives, and a mangled proposal
still does not reach the reader.
Planning: ADR 013 records the authoritative document shape; §§14-15/14A, D10,
C04 and BUILD-MILESTONES are updated to describe what exists. Debt is recorded
against M8 (scenario editor UX) and M9 (export of the audit trail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWU4gTfLYY6Qq9U7aa9Qw2
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M4: close out Save Points, with browser verification
Closes M4. The review's three findings are fixed, the durability rule the specification always implied is now enforced, and M3's and M4's browser behaviour has been verified in a real browser for the first time. B-1 -- the Save Point list was an N+1 that loaded whole Action rows, narration included, to answer "does a row exist here". It is now one bulk two-column coordinate query plus one lineage: 53 SELECTs for 25 Save Points became 5, and the count no longer grows with the list. The clause is an OR of exact (branch, depth) pairs rather than two IN lists, because the cross product would report a Save Point resolved on the strength of another one's depth existing on this one's branch. A test builds exactly that trap. B-2 -- reclassified during closeout from "missing warning" to a behaviour defect, and fixed as one. STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS §19 says a named checkpoint remains until explicitly deleted, and §28 already required future cleanup to retain checkpoint-referenced paths; a cascade that silently removed Save Points with a branch violated both, and a warning would only have documented the violation. A branch a Save Point names can no longer be deleted. The request is refused with the offending Save Points named, the user deletes them explicitly -- which deletes no story -- and the branch then goes. The scope is the subtree, because deleting a branch takes its descendants. Both delete controls disable and explain. Recorded as a new §19.1; models.py, TECHNICAL-DESIGN §8.8 and DATA-MODEL §8 had all recorded the cascade as the rule and now record the refusal. An earlier pass in this same closeout had kept the cascade and added a warning. That was the wrong fix and its tests were replaced rather than left standing, since they pinned the defect. B-3 -- the D11/L03 automation never left one process, so it could not distinguish durable state from a live Python object. It now spawns real server processes, kills the first, and reads the campaign back with the second. C-5 -- creating a Save Point takes the campaign's turn lock. "Save where I am" has to name one committed position, and the head is what a turn in flight is about to move. Rename and Delete deliberately do not take it. The architecture is untouched: a Save Point is still name + note + (branch, depth), and restore is still coordinate -> head.move_to_node -> head.move_to -> attempts.restore_state. No second restore path, no state copied into a checkpoint, no fork on restore. Browser verification -- the first in this project, and it covers both milestones. Firefox 154.0.1 through geckodriver over the W3C WebDriver protocol, driving the rendered DOM: 47/47 checks, twice, on independent databases, no console errors. M3's Undo/Redo enable states, transcript movement, Retry and the take pager, divergence retiring Redo; M4's whole Save Point lifecycle, both confirmations, and the new branch-delete refusal including its recovery. No dependency was added: the WebDriver client is stdlib HTTP. No application defect was found by the browser. Four failures occurred, all in the harness -- a wrong SPA route, a wait comparing transcript length when the empty-story placeholder is longer than the first turn, a fixture deleting the branch it was reading, and a reload assertion that sampled once instead of waiting. The last was checked against the app before being called a harness bug. Tests: 698 backend pass (was 680), 60 M4, 94 M3 history, 66 export/ migrations, 93 security/local-only. Frontend lint and build clean, Docker build clean, loopback binding unchanged. No assertion weakened, no skip added. Planning: STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS §19.1 is the only behavioural change and it strengthens §19. V1-ACCEPTANCE-TESTS records D11-D14, I04, L03 and the E-series, keeping automated, live-runtime and browser evidence distinct, and weakens no pass condition. DATA-MODEL records the coordinate with the retry measurement that settles it. BROWSER-UX-SPEC rules for Moment over Turn. BUILD-MILESTONES marks M4 COMPLETE, closes M3's browser condition, and lists what M5 inherits. VERSION adds v2.6. No new ADR: ADR 005 already decides that history is preserved rather than overwritten, and §19.1 is that decision applied to checkpoint-referenced history. M4 is closed. M5 may now be briefed; it has not been started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWU4gTfLYY6Qq9U7aa9Qw2 |
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M4: add durable named Save Points
A Save Point is a name for a story position, and restoring one is head movement. That is the whole architecture, and it is what ADR 012 and BUILD-MILESTONES' note on M4 asked for: M3 made the head a stored (branch, depth) and made arriving at one a row lookup plus a state restore, so a Save Point needs no restore machinery of its own. What the user gets: - Name the moment they are reading, keep playing, restart the app, and come back to it. Restoring moves the story back and deletes nothing: the later turns stay, Redo still walks forward into them, and writing something different is what starts a new line while the old one is kept. - Rename, delete, and a list, in a Save Points panel beside the branch panel, with a Save Point button next to Undo and Redo. Both confirmations say what is *not* destroyed, because that is the part the screen cannot show. - Save Points survive export and import. What was deliberately not built: - No second restore path. `head.move_to_node` is the only new movement: its depth half is M3's `head.move_to` unchanged, and its branch half is the single assignment `switch_branch` already makes. No head field is written in the checkpoint router, nothing reconstructs state, nothing prunes a memory, nothing copies or deletes a turn, and restore never forks — the first write below the restored head does, through `fork_if_behind_head`. - No automatic cleanup. A Save Point behind the head, or naming a line the story left, is doing its job (STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS §19). The one removal is a cascade: deleting a branch takes its Save Points, as it takes its memories, because the story they named went with it. - No new ADR. ADR 012 already decides the architecture, and a table is not a decision. The one call the planning package did not already make: restore moves the branch half of the head only when the coordinate is off the path being read. Doing it unconditionally would quietly hand back an abandoned continuation whenever a Save Point in a shared prefix was restored; never doing it would make a Save Point on a departed line unrestorable, which contradicts §19. TECHNICAL-DESIGN §8.8 records it. Schema: a `checkpoints` table holding a name, an optional note and a (branch, depth) coordinate — no copy of any story. `create_all` builds it as it did `memories` and `branches`; migration 80 adds the index. No backfill, because nobody had named a position before M4. The coordinate is deliberately not an action id: one coordinate holds every attempt at a turn and exactly one is live, so a coordinate follows a retry where a row id would pin a take the story no longer tells. Tests: 680 pass (638 before). 42 new in tests/test_save_points.py covering D11-D14, I04, L03, E-series lineage and memory isolation after restore and divergence, the edge cases, and an M3-database migration. One pre-existing fixture in test_tree_migration.py needed `checkpoints` added to its drop list — SQLite refuses to drop a table another table references. Not verified: the browser. No session has had a usable one, so the Save Point panel's DOM behaviour is unobserved — as M3's Redo control still is. The twenty-step sequence was driven over HTTP against a live server with a real process restart instead, and all seventeen checks pass. M4 is implemented, not accepted: no review has been written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWU4gTfLYY6Qq9U7aa9Qw2 |