# Phase 0A Status

**Completed:** 2026-09-01

## Completed statically

- candidate discovery and triage,
- deep source/document architecture review of the three finalists,
- static privacy/network-surface review,
- preliminary licensing/reuse review,
- subsystem reuse matrix,
- preliminary fork recommendation,
- narrowed Codex validation plan.

## Preliminary decision

Validate **AI-DnD first as the production fork candidate**.

Keep:
- **Open Dungeon** as the fallback fork and primary UI/media reference.
- **ai-adventure** as the state/replay/privacy architecture reference and third validation candidate.

## Still requires local/Codex work

- pin exact SHAs,
- clone/install/build,
- run actual tests,
- verify Ollama against the user's machine,
- runtime network capture,
- offline operation,
- AI-DnD strip-down experiment,
- Open Dungeon branch-retrofit impact experiment,
- ai-adventure Ollama/service-boundary experiment.

See `PHASE-0B-CODEX-HANDOFF.md`.

## Phase gate

Do not finalize `TECHNICAL-DESIGN.md` v1.0 or production `BUILD-MILESTONES.md` until Phase 0B results are reviewed.