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M3's review recommended planning changes and, following the M2 pattern,
reported rather than applied them. This applies them, and adds the ADR the
review asked for.

ADR 012 records the architecture rather than the requirement. ADR 005
already says that going backward must preserve abandoned history and that
the user sees Undo/Redo/Retry rather than branch management; it names a
movable active head as the direction and stops. What M3 settled is the
shape: the head is stored rather than derived, every read of the story is
capped at it in one place, one mechanism moves it, the state of a position
comes off the node rather than from a replay, the first write below a
moved-back head is the divergence, and whether Redo exists is decided by
the lineage rather than by a flag that could be stale. The last of those
is the property worth keeping — a flag can be wrong and make the story
wrong; a lineage cannot.

Two semantics are ratified in STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS.md, both of them
reversals or narrowings that a reader would otherwise take for bugs. Undo
now crosses fork points and continues to the campaign opening, because
refusing at the fork was a consequence of deleting rows the parent line
was also reading, and nothing is deleted any more. And the system refuses
to switch which take is live while a later story is off screen, because
doing it quietly would leave retained history continuing from words the
story no longer says.

A new §14A covers editing in place. §14-15 describe the finished
behaviour — the edit becomes authoritative, the state it implies is
re-evaluated, a new continuation is created, the original is retained —
and that requirement is intact and explicitly not weakened here. It is
also not built, because re-evaluating state from prose a user typed needs
M5's extraction pass. §14A says what exists in the meantime and why
refusing is the minimum that holds the invariant rather than the
destination.

TECHNICAL-DESIGN.md gains §8.7 and §9.1, recording the implemented model
and the bundle behaviour as fact in the way §5.2 records M1 and M2. §10.4
gains a constraint that is easy to lose: the snapshot half of the hybrid
state model is a requirement, not an optimization. Head movement is a row
lookup plus a restore, which is why Undo, Redo and Save Point restore cost
the same at any distance into a campaign; a state model recoverable only
by replaying from the opening would make all three proportional to
campaign length, on exactly the long campaigns this product is for.

DATA-MODEL.md records the head as stored on the campaign rather than
derived from its newest turn — two campaigns holding identical turns can
be read at different places, and nothing about the turns can tell them
apart — and the branch disposition as implemented: the depth a divergent
write left the branch at, deliberately advisory, and carried through
export because every row of an abandoned line is exported either way.

BUILD-MILESTONES.md marks M3 complete and states the one condition still
open. M4 is told a Save Point is a durable pointer and that restoring one
is head movement with a bounds check, not a restore system: a second
mover is the specific failure to avoid, because the two paths would
silently disagree about what restore means. M5 gets three constraints —
keep state efficiently recoverable, move the test instrumentation rather
than the assertions when the world-state protocol goes, and finish the
narrator edit §14A defers.

V1-ACCEPTANCE-TESTS.md clarifies ownership without lowering a bar. D10
keeps all three pass conditions and is explicitly recorded as *not*
satisfied at the end of M3; what changed is that the document now says
which milestone delivers which condition. D03's result is recorded as a
full pass rather than the partial the text allowed for, I07 gains the
pre-M3 bundle clause, and L01 gains the note that resolves its apparent
conflict with A05 — a failed turn does advance the head by one, onto the
player's retained input, and that is A05 working rather than L01 failing.

README.md described a different application: a hosted demo, guest
accounts, cloud providers, Postgres, a Render blueprint, an analytics
dashboard, a QuickJS scripting engine, and 549 tests. M2 removed all of
that and the README was never updated — a gap M2's own debt table missed.
It now describes what this fork is, including the endpoint policy and the
TLS behaviour, and the numbers in it are the current ones.

M3's report is included here as its own evidence record: no separate
baseline report was produced, so it carries the raw counts and runtime
observations as well as the review, and §W records this closeout.

SPECIFICATION.md and SECURITY-THREAT-MODEL.md are unchanged. M3 altered no
product requirement and touched no path in the threat model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QF5TcoB86QADgjHz1GZe8u
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Planning Package Version

Package: Adventure Storyteller Planning Package v2.3
Revision date: 2026-09-03
Status: Phase 0 complete; architecture selected; Milestones M1, M2 and M3 implemented and accepted; M4 is next to brief.

v2.3 — Post-M3 Closeout (2026-09-03)

M3 replaced destructive Undo with a stored active head. Its review is reports/M3-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md, which is also M3's primary evidence record — no separate baseline report was produced — and whose §W records this closeout.

In summary:

  • the architecture is recorded as ADR 012 — Active-Head Non-Destructive History: the head is stored rather than derived, every read of the story is capped at it in one place, one mechanism moves it, state comes from the node rather than from a replay, the first write below a moved-back head is the divergence, and Redo is decided by the lineage rather than by a flag. ADR 005 is unchanged: it states the product requirement, and ADR 012 states the architecture chosen to implement it,
  • two history semantics are ratified in STORY-BRANCH-SEMANTICS.md: Undo crosses fork points to the campaign opening (§5), and the system refuses to switch which take is live while a later story is off screen (§10),
  • a new §14A records the interim in-place-editing rule — refuse when story descends from the turn and is not on screen — and states explicitly that §14-15's full narrator-edit requirement stands and is completed in M5,
  • TECHNICAL-DESIGN.md gains §8.7 and §9.1 recording the implemented model and bundle behaviour as fact, and a constraint on §10.4: the snapshot half of the hybrid state model is a requirement, because head movement must not become proportional to campaign length,
  • DATA-MODEL.md records the head as campaign-stored, the branch disposition as implemented and deliberately advisory, and the export as carrying a chosen position rather than a derived one,
  • BUILD-MILESTONES.md marks M3 complete, states the one outstanding condition (the browser smoke test), tells M4 to reuse M3's head movement rather than build a second restore path, and gives M5 three constraints,
  • V1-ACCEPTANCE-TESTS.md records D03's full pass, states D10's milestone ownership without weakening any pass condition, adds I07's pre-M3 bundle clause, and resolves the apparent L01/A05 conflict,
  • README.md is corrected to describe the current local-only single-user application rather than the upstream hosted one.

SPECIFICATION.md and SECURITY-THREAT-MODEL.md are unchanged: M3 altered no product requirement and touched no path in the threat model.

v2.2 — Post-M2 Closeout (2026-09-03)

M2 removed the hosted, cloud, account and scripting surface and added the inference endpoint policy. Its review recommended six planning changes and reported rather than applied them; all six are applied in this revision, listed in README.md § Post-M2 corrections applied, with the evidence in reports/M2-BASELINE-REPORT.md and reports/M2-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md.

In summary:

  • the inference endpoint policy is recorded as implemented — an address allowlist of explicit local-network CIDRs, every resolved address checked, enforced when settings are saved and again before every outbound request, with TLS verification never traded against it (new ADR 011, SECURITY-THREAT-MODEL.md §10A),
  • its two residual limits are stated rather than mitigated: a hostile host already on the trusted LAN, and the DNS-rebinding interval between the policy's resolution and the client's connection,
  • TECHNICAL-DESIGN.md §5.1 items 3 and 4 are resolved, and a new §5.2 records the M1/M2 production architecture as fact,
  • a wiring rule is added (§18.1): removing a setting requires testing a real consumer path, and adding one requires proving it reaches its component — M2 shipped two defects behind a 604-test green suite because the tests at that boundary were mocks,
  • BUILD-MILESTONES.md records M2 complete, warns M5 that eight rollback tests use the world-state engine as instrumentation rather than as architecture, and requires M6 to make background memory failure observable,
  • the security acceptance contract is strengthened: H10 now names the wildcard-origin and /api 404 conditions, and new H12 covers inference endpoint enforcement including the database-edited-behind-the-API case.

SPECIFICATION.md is unchanged: M2 altered no product requirement. Nothing in the architecture selected in v2 was reversed.

v2.1 — Post-M1 Corrections (2026-09-02)

M1 implementation evidence contradicted or under-specified parts of v2. The corrections are recorded in the documents themselves and listed in README.md § Post-M1 corrections applied; the evidence behind them is in reports/M1-BASELINE-REPORT.md and reports/M1-IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md.

In summary:

  • a trusted-LAN Ollama may be HTTPS with a privately issued certificate; clients verify against the operating system's CA store, with full certificate and hostname verification and no bypass option (ADR 002, TECHNICAL-DESIGN.md §5, A06),
  • offline claims require a fresh cache and no route out to be evidence at all, and vendored runtime artifacts should be integrity-verifiable (ADR 004),
  • A05's invariant is about accepted history; the user's submitted text is deliberately retained on a failed turn,
  • A06 requires a real second machine and an HTTPS endpoint; a plain-HTTP LAN test is no longer sufficient evidence,
  • the standard test environment records CPU/GPU/RAM, because cold model load on a CPU-only host exceeded the inherited 120 s client timeout,
  • BUILD-MILESTONES.md records M1 as complete and reframes M2's endpoint work as narrowing an existing capability rather than inventing it,
  • SECURITY-THREAT-MODEL.md §53 distinguishes inbound TLS (still deferred) from outbound certificate verification (required, done in M1).

Nothing in the architecture selected in v2 was reversed.

v2 — Post Phase 0B Revision (2026-09-01)

This v2 package supersedes the earlier planning package produced before the final Phase 0B review and the trusted-LAN Ollama deployment clarification.

Key v2 changes include:

  • AI-DnD selected as the production base at the pinned Phase 0B commit.
  • Non-destructive head-cursor Undo/Redo design selected.
  • Explicit typed/absolute narrative-state events selected for production state handling.
  • Imported knowledge separated from AI-DnD Story Cards.
  • Trusted-LAN Ollama inference supported in v1 while the storyteller UI/API remains loopback-bound by default.
  • Offline first-use dependencies and runtime remote assets identified as M1 hardening work.
  • Production implementation divided into milestones M1-M11.

Historical Phase 0 prompts/reports are retained as evidence and should not be treated as current implementation instructions unless a current milestone prompt explicitly refers to them.