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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 db7b309e3d v1.1 closeout: accept integrated release validation
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Release validation of candidate 87a4032, not a work package. No product code
changed, no requirement or acceptance test changed, no schema or bundle format
changed, and nothing is tagged or merged by it.

V1.1 RELEASE VALIDATION: PASS

What was run, on this candidate:

- v1 contract: 82 REQUIRED tests — 81 PASS, H09 NOT APPLICABLE, 0 waived,
  0 weakened, 0 reclassified.
- Suites: backend 1,723 passed / 17 skipped / 0 failed / 0 xfailed; frontend
  175 passed; lint 0 errors (15 documented warnings); production build clean.
- Docker: docker build --no-cache; the image's SPA is file-for-file identical
  to the local build (16 files, same combined sha256).
- Offline: 23/23 against the candidate image with no network and a fresh volume.
- Browser: 101 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped (M11 38, WP-C 53, WP-E 10) over
  trusted-LAN HTTPS with a private CA; every narrator turn "fits".
- Long run: 102 accepted turns at a verified 16,384 window with memory on,
  3 process restarts, M01-M04 pass, 0 post-turn failures, 0 database locks.
- A1: every turn "fits"; the ten largest prompts re-counted against the server
  keep the documented reserve, smallest margin 879 tokens against v1's 23-42.
- A2: release-gate leak count 0 across 105 stored replies.
- Identity: 0 signals and 0 stored protocol shapes, with memory on; the
  scripted detector still fires on an injected defect.
- Recovery: 16/16 on the long run's own bundle, into a database and directory
  that never existed.
- Upgrade: a campaign built and played by the v1.0.0 application compares
  identical on all 15 census fields, schema parity at user_version 94, and both
  bundle directions import.
- Release smoke: 15/15 from the shipped image — loopback only, private CA
  verified, public endpoint refused, a real turn, restart, persistence, and
  Firefox rendering the reopened campaign.

Carried residuals, stated rather than summarised away:

- WP-B: deterministic independent-memory recovery PASS; reference-model
  independent-memory recovery FAIL at memory creation — the owner-accepted
  limitation, unchanged and not a new regression.
- The mid-reply instruction echo A2's trailing cleanup does not remove is still
  reproducible on the stored WP-B.1 fixture (1 of 105), and did not recur in
  release evidence.
- The doubled full stop in the memory-search scene text.
- K1 ("Correct" on an Important Facts row is refused) is classified v1.2
  backlog, reproduced and not fixed during validation.

Three harness corrections were made during validation — the identity diagnostic
did not enable memory, the smoke test needed hostname resolution inside the
container, and the first upgrade campaign was too short to write memories. All
harness-only; each corrected harness repeated its own check, and no product
evidence became stale.

Docs: README, V1.1-PLAN, planning/README and VERSION now say v1.0.0 remains the
released version, that v1.1 is implemented and validated, and that no v1.1.0 tag
exists. WP-E's report records OWNER SCREENSHOT APPROVAL: APPROVED, sourced to
the owner's brief. New harness tools: v11_upgrade_check.py, v11_release_smoke.py.

Still the owner's to do: sign the release commit, update main, tag v1.1.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VvegagkhuCZoFPdv4M1egY
2026-09-16 07:12:23 -04:00
JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 144406cd48 M11: what the server will actually read
The release-validation milestone, and the thing it had to settle first was
whether any of the earlier evidence meant what it said. M8 measured a deployment
enforcing a 4,096-token input window while the application budgeted 16,384.
Every request returned 200. What Ollama does with the excess is drop the oldest
tokens, and the oldest tokens here are the system block — the narrator's rules
and the campaign canon. A hundred-turn certification against that server would
have looked perfect and proved nothing, which is why this milestone could not
begin with a hundred turns.

So the application asks now. Ollama's window is a property of how a model was
loaded rather than of the request — sending num_ctx is accepted, ignored, and
worse, reloads the model at the server's own default — so the only honest move
is to find out and then tell the truth about it. /api/ps reports what a resident
model is being served with, /api/show what an unloaded one will load with, both
on the same host inference already uses, through the same endpoint policy and
the same TLS trust store. A verified window is a ceiling on the budget; an
unverified one leaves the budget alone and is recorded as unverified in the
turn's own provenance, so an old turn can be asked afterwards whether it was
built against a checked window. There is no third behaviour, and in particular
no hard-coded 4,096: a number the server did not say would be right on one
machine and wrong on the next.

The proof that this is doing something is a campaign whose canon sits at the
front of the prompt, 120 turns of history, and a 4,096-token window. The canon
is still there afterwards and the oldest history is gone. The same campaign
built the old way produces a prompt more than twice the window — the defect,
reproduced, so the fix is measured against it rather than asserted.

Two defects the validation found on its own, and they are the same defect twice:
something was true and nobody was told. A manual state correction of four
changes with one bad reference applied three, returned 201, and said nothing —
while recording the refusal on the audit row nobody reads. It came to light
because the identity diagnostic's own fixture was refused that way and the whole
run proceeded on a campaign with no scene, which would have read as a model
failure. And the narration-length setting moved no number: brief, medium and
long each became one English sentence, while the numeric hint the model actually
reads was derived from the global reply cap and said the same thing for all
three. Both now say what they did.

The other two post-M8 findings are closed as well. The tab said AI D&D, which no
document had ever claimed it did not; it says Interactive Story now, with the
open campaign first, and the name is the owner's decision rather than a
find-and-replace to something narrower than the engine. After an Undo the reader
could not tell where they had landed; the control row now ends with
"Moment 11 · later story ahead", from the server's own answer, in the word the
transcript already uses, with none of head, branch or depth anywhere near it.

The identity diagnostic exists and the root cause does not. That campaign was
destroyed, so no cause can be established — what M11 owes the finding is
something that can classify the next occurrence, and a diagnostic that makes only
the judgements a program can honestly make: duplicate keys, shared names,
protagonist drift, state and context disagreeing. Whether prose misattributed a
line is left to a person reading it beside its prompt, because a regex cannot
read dialogue and one that pretended to would produce exactly the confident wrong
answer this finding is about. Its detectors are proved to fire against a planted
second Alice.

Two entities may still share a display name. That was checked first, as the
finding asked, and left permitted: a mother and a daughter, or a stranger giving
a false name, are ordinary fiction, and refusing them to guard against a model
mistake would refuse the wrong thing. What was missing was that it happened
silently. It is reported now.

Evidence, not inference: a hundred accepted turns against a real narrator with
genuine process restarts; a real browser against the built SPA; a container with
no network at all; a campaign moved into a data directory that never existed.
Each was discarded and re-run whenever the product changed under it, and the runs
that were thrown away are listed in the report with the reason, along with ten
defects in the harnesses themselves — because a harness that has only ever
agreed with itself is not evidence, and two of M8's five harness defects were
masking real ones.

No dependency was added, removed or upgraded. No acceptance test was retired,
relaxed or reclassified. M11 is implemented and verified; it is not accepted, and
there is no release tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qyn3oRd4D6pi72nKBG725B
2026-09-07 14:01:20 -04:00