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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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M7: a first-class imported knowledge library
A campaign can import local .txt and .md files as Canon, Reference or Inspiration, and the class is load-bearing rather than a label: it decides the words a passage is framed with in the prompt, the weight it carries when passages are ranked, and which budget it competes in when the context is tight. This is a separate subsystem, which is the Phase 0B decision (IMPORTED-KNOWLEDGE-DESIGN.md §73). Story Cards do not carry classification, provenance, content identity, chunking, an index or a lifecycle, and they were not promoted into something that does. Nothing here reads or writes one. The subsystem, in backend/app/knowledge/: classes the three classes, their weights, and the prompt framing chunking deterministic, heading-aware, 60-800 tokens, no overlap fts SQLite FTS5 with porter stemming; scoped and bounded in SQL importer validate, hash, store, chunk, index — in one transaction embeddings local Ollama vectors through the shared provider retrieval query construction, hybrid merge, rerank inject the budgeted cut and the rendered prompt sections Relevance admission is a separate stage from ranking, and that separation is the milestone's most expensive lesson. An independent review found the first implementation deciding relevance with a floor expressed as a share of the best candidate — which the best clears by construction — so a passage was admitted on every turn regardless of the scene. A query about tide tables and container tonnage retrieved all five sources of a fantasy campaign, narrator-only hidden Canon among them. So the pipeline is now: candidate generation -> admission -> ranking -> class weighting -> budget Admission reads raw, candidate-set-independent signals: the cosine the model returned, and how many distinct meaningful query terms a passage contains. Ranking reads normalized ones, because bm25 has no fixed range and cosine's zero is not zero. Normalization decides order among things that matched; it can never decide whether anything matched. Authority is applied after admission, so a class orders what matched and never rescues what did not. Retrieval may therefore return nothing, and on a scene unrelated to the library it does. The other decisions that each replaced an obvious wrong one: - The class multiplies relevance rather than adding to it. An additive bonus satisfies "Canon outranks Reference" and makes "do not include irrelevant Canon" impossible, because a large enough constant wins on its own. - The semantic floor is measured, not guessed: 113 production-path pairs against nomic-embed-text put targeted matches at 0.55-0.85 and off-topic pairs at 0.36-0.56, and 0.58 sits between them. Because it is a property of that model and not of cosine similarity, it is keyed to the model rather than applied to whatever is configured: an embedding model with no measured calibration in this build does not borrow the number. Semantic admission is skipped, the campaign retrieves lexically, and the reason is stated in the knowledge status and in the turn's provenance. Degrading to lexical keeps the library usable; lending the threshold to an unmeasured model is how the admitted-everything defect would return. - One lexical term is not evidence. Two distinct meaningful terms, or one that is neither a standing campaign entity nor a negligible share of the query. The stop list grew from 42 words to 261, all function words — no subject matter, because a stop list that removes subject matter stops finding "The Silver Key". - Lexical retrieval is a production path, not a fallback. It finds the proper nouns and invented terms a setting bible is made of, and the library is fully usable with no embedding model configured. Safety is structural rather than filtered. Imported text reaches the prompt whole, inside a section that says what it is, under a rule stating the authority order in words and refusing every instruction inside it. No endpoint accepts a filesystem path, so H08 has no mechanism to escape from. Nothing renders imported content as HTML, so a script tag is five visible characters and a remote image is never fetched. Import, chunking, indexing, retrieval and a turn open no socket at all; only embeddings do, through the endpoint allowlist the memory bank already uses. Provenance is the rendered text, not a foreign key: deleting a source cannot turn a historical turn's evidence into dangling ids. Schema: knowledge_sources, knowledge_chunks, knowledge_embeddings, and an FTS5 virtual table attached to knowledge_chunks as a DDL hook so it is created and dropped with the table it indexes. Migration 92. A pre-M7 database opens unchanged and needs no sources to play. Bundle: the source content and the reader's judgements about it travel; the passages, index rows and vectors are rebuilt on import, so a restored campaign is searchable immediately without a reindex step. One runtime dependency: python-multipart, Starlette's multipart parser. It is what makes the upload surface possible, and the upload surface is why no pathname is ever accepted. The test doubles were the reason the defect shipped, so they were corrected too. The retrieval stub scored unrelated text at 0.06-0.20 where the real model scores it at 0.43-0.44, and its docstring said it had deliberately removed the constant component that "would put a similarity floor under every pair" — which is exactly the property real models have. The stub now has that floor, one test fails if it is ever removed, and another reproduces the superseded rule and asserts it is still fooled by the same fixture. Run against the pre-corrective implementation, the new suite fails 13 of 18. Tests: 939 passed, 14 skipped (836/7 at M6). 110 new across seven files, one of which mocks nothing between itself and Ollama and re-measures the similarity separation on every run. 43/43 checks in a real Firefox, reproduced. Docker build clean. Four other defects found by review or by the browser run were fixed here rather than carried: an unreachable relevance constant that appeared to enforce something and did not; acceptance tests using the wrong fixture files, so G07's trap was never exercised; a bidirectional override surviving into displayed filenames; and, from the implementation pass, the Insights panel showing M5's two state sections as raw keys and the source inspector refetching on every keystroke. M7 was independently reviewed, which returned PASS WITH CORRECTIVE WORK REQUIRED. Both blocking findings are closed, and closeout resolved the embedding-model calibration boundary the corrective pass had left as debt. planning/reports/M7-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md carries the review, the corrective closeout and the closeout verification in sequence, none overwriting another. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017HdaXiFbscatQaLS7dJk6b |
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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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