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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

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/* The story screen: layout, transcript, composer.
*
* `BROWSER-UX-SPEC.md` §82-84 and §98. Three rules do most of the work here:
*
* §82 prose gets a readable measure and does not stretch across a wide
* monitor, whatever the window is doing;
* §83 no card chrome around every message — the story reads as prose, and a
* player turn is set apart by indentation and colour rather than a box;
* §84 no metadata on screen, so the controls on a turn stay invisible until
* the pointer or the keyboard reaches that turn.
*
* The transcript scrolls the page rather than an inner element. That keeps the
* browser's own find-in-page, scroll restoration and keyboard paging working,
* which an inner scroller quietly breaks.
*/
/* ---------- Layout ---------- */
.play {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
min-height: 100vh;
}
.play-header {
position: sticky;
top: 0;
z-index: 20;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: space-between;
gap: 16px;
padding: 10px 20px;
/* Opaque, not glass. The first browser pass had story text reading straight
through a translucent bar; a header the story shows through is not a
header. */
background: var(--bg-panel);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
}
.play-title { display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: 14px; min-width: 0; flex: 1; }
.play-title h1 {
margin: 0;
font-size: 1.02rem;
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.02em;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.play-title .back {
font-size: 0.78rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
white-space: nowrap;
}
.play-title .back:hover { color: var(--accent); }
.play-header-right {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 16px;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.panel-tabs { display: flex; gap: 2px; }
.panel-tabs button {
padding: 5px 11px;
font-size: 0.76rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: 5px;
}
.panel-tabs button:hover { color: var(--text); border-color: var(--border); }
.panel-tabs button.active {
color: var(--accent-bright);
border-color: var(--border-bright);
background: var(--bg-input);
}
.play-main { display: flex; flex: 1; align-items: flex-start; min-height: 0; }
.play-story {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
/* Fills the viewport below the header, so the composer sits at the bottom of
a short story rather than immediately under its last line. */
min-height: calc(100vh - 52px);
}
/* ---------- Transcript ---------- */
.story {
/* §82. The measure is the point: prose is read, not scanned, and 66ch is
about the width a line can be before the eye loses the next one. */
width: min(66ch, 100%);
margin: 0 auto;
/* The bottom padding clears the sticky composer. Enough to scroll the last
line clear of it, not so much that a short story opens on a void. */
padding: 36px 24px 40px;
flex: 1;
font-family: var(--font-story);
font-size: 1.14rem;
line-height: 1.72;
}
.story-empty { color: var(--text-dim); font-style: italic; }
.turn {
position: relative;
margin: 0 0 1.35em;
animation: turn-in 0.35s ease both;
}
@keyframes turn-in { from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(5px); } to { opacity: 1; } }
.turn-text > *:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
.turn-text > *:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
.turn-text p { margin: 0 0 0.75em; }
/* §83. A player turn is the reader's own voice: indented, lighter, in the
cooler of the two accents. No box, no avatar, no timestamp. */
.turn-player .turn-text {
padding-left: 1.1em;
border-left: 2px solid var(--player);
color: var(--player);
font-style: italic;
}
.turn-narrator .turn-text { color: var(--text); }
/* The opening beat gets the drop cap, and only that one. */
.turn-opening .turn-text > p:first-of-type::first-letter {
float: left;
font-family: var(--font-display);
font-size: 3.1em;
line-height: 0.82;
padding: 0.06em 0.09em 0 0;
color: var(--accent);
}
.scene-break {
margin: 1.8em 0;
text-align: center;
color: var(--border-bright);
font-size: 0.8rem;
letter-spacing: 0.5em;
}
.story .cursor {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 1px;
color: var(--accent);
animation: blink 1s steps(2) infinite;
}
@keyframes blink { 50% { opacity: 0; } }
.story .reasoning {
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.78rem;
}
.story .reasoning summary {
cursor: pointer;
color: var(--text-dim);
opacity: 0.7;
}
.story .reasoning summary:hover { opacity: 1; }
.story .reasoning .reasoning-text {
margin-top: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
border-left: 1px solid var(--border);
color: var(--text-dim);
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
/* §84. Controls stay out of the way until the turn is reached — but they are
real buttons in the tab order, so `:focus-within` has to reveal them or a
keyboard reader would be operating something they cannot see. */
.turn-tools {
display: flex;
gap: 4px;
margin-top: 6px;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
opacity: 0;
transition: opacity 0.15s;
}
.turn:hover .turn-tools,
.turn-tools:focus-within { opacity: 1; }
.turn-tools button {
padding: 2px 8px;
font-size: 0.71rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.turn-tools button:hover { color: var(--text); border-color: var(--border-bright); }
.turn-edit { margin: 0 0 1.35em; }
.turn-edit textarea {
width: 100%;
font-family: var(--font-story);
font-size: 1.1rem;
line-height: 1.6;
}
.edit-buttons { display: flex; gap: 8px; margin-top: 8px; }
.edit-hint {
margin: 8px 0 0;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.76rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
}
.story-earlier { margin-bottom: 1.6em; text-align: center; font-family: var(--font-ui); }
.story-earlier button {
padding: 4px 14px;
font-size: 0.76rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 14px;
}
.story-earlier button:hover { color: var(--accent-bright); border-color: var(--border-bright); }
.thinking {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.82rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
}
.thinking i {
width: 5px; height: 5px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: var(--accent);
animation: pulse 1.2s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.thinking i:nth-child(2) { animation-delay: 0.15s; }
.thinking i:nth-child(3) { animation-delay: 0.3s; }
@keyframes pulse { 0%, 100% { opacity: 0.25; } 50% { opacity: 1; } }
/* ---------- Markdown in story prose ---------- */
.md-heading { font-family: var(--font-display); margin: 1.1em 0 0.4em; }
.md-list { margin: 0 0 0.75em; padding-left: 1.4em; }
.md-quote {
margin: 0 0 0.75em;
padding-left: 0.9em;
border-left: 2px solid var(--border-bright);
color: var(--text-dim);
}
.md-code {
margin: 0 0 0.75em;
padding: 10px 12px;
overflow-x: auto;
font-size: 0.85rem;
background: var(--bg-input);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 5px;
}
.turn-text code {
padding: 1px 4px;
font-size: 0.88em;
background: var(--bg-input);
border-radius: 3px;
}
.md-link { text-decoration: underline dotted; text-underline-offset: 3px; }
/* §75: the address is shown, and nothing is fetched. */
.md-image-blocked,
.md-link-blocked {
display: inline-block;
padding: 1px 7px;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.76rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: var(--bg-input);
border: 1px dashed var(--border-bright);
border-radius: 4px;
}
/* ---------- Composer ---------- */
.composer {
position: sticky;
bottom: 0;
z-index: 15;
width: min(66ch, 100%);
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 10px 24px calc(16px + env(keyboard-inset-height, 0px));
background: linear-gradient(to top, var(--bg) 62%, transparent);
}
.story-controls { display: flex; gap: 6px; margin-bottom: 8px; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; }
/* M11: where the reader is in the story (post-M8 finding B). Pushed to the end
of the control row so it reads as a status rather than another button, and
quiet enough that it is not competing with the prose. */
.story-position {
margin: 0 0 0 auto;
font-size: 0.78rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
white-space: nowrap;
}
.story-position .moment { color: var(--text); }
.story-position .ahead { color: var(--accent); }
.story-controls button {
padding: 5px 13px;
font-size: 0.78rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: var(--bg-panel);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 5px;
}
.story-controls button:hover:not(:disabled) {
color: var(--accent-bright);
border-color: var(--border-bright);
}
.story-controls button:disabled { opacity: 0.35; cursor: default; }
.input-bar {
border: 1px solid var(--border-bright);
border-radius: 9px;
background: var(--bg-panel);
transition: border-color 0.15s, box-shadow 0.15s;
}
.input-bar:focus-within { border-color: var(--accent-dim); box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--accent-glow); }
/* §13: while direction is on, the box must not look like the story box. */
.input-bar.directing { border-color: var(--accent); background: rgba(212, 169, 78, 0.06); }
.input-row {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
padding: 7px 12px 0;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.74rem;
}
.direction-toggle { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; color: var(--text-dim); cursor: pointer; }
.direction-toggle input { margin: 0; }
.input-bar.directing .direction-toggle { color: var(--accent-bright); }
.direction-hint { color: var(--text-dim); font-style: italic; }
.input-main { display: flex; align-items: flex-end; gap: 8px; padding: 4px 10px 10px; }
.input-main textarea {
flex: 1;
/* forms.css gives every textarea a 70px floor, which is right for a form
field and wrong for a composer that starts at one line and grows with what
is typed. */
min-height: 0;
max-height: 9em;
padding: 6px 4px;
font-family: var(--font-story);
font-size: 1.05rem;
line-height: 1.55;
color: var(--text);
background: transparent;
border: none;
resize: none;
}
.input-main textarea:focus { outline: none; }
/* Reserved for a later version. Disabled, and visibly so. */
.dictate-reserved {
padding: 5px 9px;
font-size: 0.9rem;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: transparent;
border: 1px dashed var(--border);
border-radius: 6px;
opacity: 0.4;
cursor: not-allowed;
}
/* ---------- Failure ---------- */
.failure {
width: min(66ch, 100%);
margin: 0 auto 12px;
padding: 12px 16px;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 0.84rem;
background: var(--bg-panel);
border: 1px solid var(--danger);
border-left-width: 3px;
border-radius: 7px;
}
.failure-knowledge, .failure-state { border-color: var(--accent-dim); }
.failure-head { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; margin-bottom: 6px; }
.failure-head strong { flex: 1; }
.failure-icon { color: var(--danger); }
.failure-close {
padding: 0 5px;
color: var(--text-dim);
background: transparent;
border: none;
}
.failure-hint, .failure-kept { margin: 0 0 6px; color: var(--text-dim); line-height: 1.55; }
.failure-kept { font-style: italic; }
.failure details { margin-bottom: 6px; }
.failure summary { cursor: pointer; color: var(--text-dim); font-size: 0.78rem; }
.failure pre, .failure blockquote {
margin: 6px 0 0;
padding: 8px 10px;
max-height: 12em;
overflow: auto;
font-size: 0.76rem;
white-space: pre-wrap;
background: var(--bg-input);
border-radius: 5px;
}
.failure-actions { display: flex; gap: 8px; margin-top: 8px; }
/* The model-setup guidance, when it appears above the composer. Same measure as
the prose, so it reads as part of the column rather than a banner across it. */
.story-blocked {
width: min(66ch, 100%);
margin: 0 auto 12px;
padding: 0 24px;
}