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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	517238a727	v0.8.1.0 — the car comes back empty, and the lobby lets you leave ... A second-digit bump, deliberately. 0.8.1 had been reserved for the seatless display table; that work is getting more thought, and this table pass over v0.8.0.17 earned the number on its own. Six reports: one was a rules question, one a wording complaint with a real bug underneath, four straightforward. A CAR CLEARED FROM A RED INBOUND BOX CAME BACK STILL LOADED. Reported as wording — "technically accurate but doesn't make any sense" — and the wording was the visible half. `inboundCleared` pushed `pooled(e.stock)` under a comment reading "a car back in a yard is back in the common supply, carrying nothing", and `pooled` does not do that: it strips the load's origin stamp and keeps `loaded` ON PURPOSE, because a train can retire at a Division Point with freight aboard. So the comment described an intention the call never carried out, and every car the Freight Agent cleared reached the Classification Yard carrying a load already delivered and already paid for. It bites hardest on coaches: `passengersDetrained` takes `coach && !loaded` out of the Division Yard and §2.2 refills that yard from Classification, so a cleared coach came back as stock that could never unload another passenger. Measured over five three-Day solitaire games: 18 loaded coaches in Classification against 6 empty. The red box is where a journey ENDS; clearing it sends the passengers out of the station, or the delivered load into the industry, and returns the CAR, empty. The option says that now instead of describing the counter that moves. SCOPED TO THE RED BOX ON PURPOSE. `retireTrain` also returns loaded cars and is left alone: that is what `pooled`'s own documentation describes, and a loaded car in a yard is pre-loaded cargo rather than dead stock — it can be made up and delivered, and a loaded coach can still detrain. Only the red box's contents had already finished their journey. GAMES IN PROGRESS DO RESUME, MEASURED RATHER THAN ARGUED. Yard contents change, so the worry was real. All twelve saves on the test server were pulled and replayed through `tryResumeSession` — the server's own boot check — against this build. Six resume, six refuse, and the six refusals are the SAME six, at the same moves, with the same codes, that 0.8.0.17 already logged. Nothing new was stranded. That pre-install replay is a better check than reading the next boot log, because it answers before the install rather than after. THE HISTORY SAID "Mainline card 7" and left the reader to remember what card 7 was — with two Plains dealt, which is why the slot is kept beside the name rather than replaced by it. A second fault sat one word to its left and nobody reported it: the name was built as `e.key.replace(/([A-Z])/g, ' $1')`, so `absSignals` printed as "abs Signals" while the action list directly above said "ABS Signals". `narrate` takes `mainlineAt` and `enhancementName` beside the `facilityAt` it already had, and `simpleCardName` is exported so the log reads the same table the buttons do. `mainlineModified` had both faults and is fixed with it. LEAVING A RUNNING GAME WAS A DEAD END. `enterSeating` hides the choice section and only the lobby's own two leave paths put it back; leaving a running game is a third route, so the lobby came back holding nothing but "Games you are in" with both doors on the page at display:none and no control able to reveal them. Reset in `runLobby`, which is the one function every route onto that screen goes through — which is exactly why the two paths that did it themselves missed a third. THE LOBBY'S ACTION BUTTONS CARRY THE BOARD'S AMBER. A list of the actions rather than `#lobby button`: the settings form under Create is a field of inputs, and amber on all of it would say everything is a move and so say nothing. A disabled Start game drops back to chrome. THE DEPARTMENT REFILL IS A RULE AND IS NOW WRITTEN DOWN. §6.2 — "if any of the Department decks is empty, draw a Home Office card and place it in the empty spot" — firing only when the draw actually empties the pile. Kept as implemented (Jesse's ruling) and stated in rules.md and home-deck.md, neither of which had ever mentioned it. A rule implemented from the prototype and never written down is a rule that surprises the table. 1016 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR	2026-09-22 21:20:52 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	b90c0413d2	v0.8.0.17 — four things the game knew and the screen did not say ... All four reported from a table on Day 1 of v0.8.0.16, and all the same shape. ABS SIGNALS COULD ONLY BE PLAYED ON ONE MAINLINE CARD, while its tooltip said "any Mainline card". The engine was never wrong: check accepts any node whose kind is mainline and legalActions filters by check, so all of them were legal. The failure was the LABEL — describeIntent named i.placement and never i.node, so every placement described itself as plain "play ABS Signals", and the action list drops duplicate labels. All but the lowest-index node were discarded before the menu saw them. This is the THIRD time that trap has fired and the file documents the other two three lines apart: a turnout's two rotations, and three Department discards. Same fix — name what distinguishes them. The card is also called what the card face calls it. prettyKey rendered absSignals as "Abs Signals" beside a tooltip saying ABS, an acronym no key-splitter can recover, so the authored names now win. Three of those names were transcribed in sentence case and were CORRECTED rather than adopted: the repository says "Yard Office" 36 times against "Yard office" twice. A lookup that imports its own source's typos is the drift it exists to prevent. NOTHING ON A MAINLINE CARD SHOWED WHAT WAS STANDING ON IT. Played, ABS left no mark and you found out by hovering — the same complaint the Heavy Grade wedge answered, and it matters more here because ABS decides whether a second train on that card is safe. It draws a signal mast with a lit lamp now; a signal is the literal object and needs no room for words, which is what lets it sit clear of a name as long as "Uncontrolled Siding" on a 152px cell. The Mainline modifiers draw as BRK, AIR and HLP. Realignment is deliberately not among them: reduce takes the `became` branch and changes node.card, so a realigned Trestle IS an Uncontrolled Siding afterwards. Asserted, so the absence reads as a finding. A FREIGHT AGENT TURN SAID A CAR MOVED WHEN NONE HAD. Three faults behind one line. It asserted an outcome, where §6.3 requires no action and the bot declines deliberately — unjamming a healthy box destroys a load that cost a whole action to stock. An idle Agent was then silent, which read as a dropped turn; a new freightAgentIdled event says so and why, reducing to nothing exactly like switchingEnded. And the work named a coordinate rather than the industry, though a `place` helper has existed for precisely that since the switching lines moved to it. "Loaded a loaded boxcar INTO the green Outbound box at the Freight House", with the direction in capitals because to-or-from was the question asked. THE LOG AND THE ACTION MENU SPELLED THE SAME SQUARE DIFFERENTLY. view.ts wrote (col,row) — X,Y, east/west then north/south — with a comment saying why; narrate.ts wrote the internal storage order with no comment at all. So the menu offered a move to "(1,-1)" and the log reported it at "(-1,1)", side by side. Pinned by a test that renders one square through BOTH describers and compares them to each other: a test written against either file alone would have passed. THE DOCUMENTATION IS REACHABLE FROM A RUNNING GAME, AND ALL OF IT IS PUBLISHED. v0.8.0.16 published the Quickstart and nothing it points at — its §8 links five documents by relative path and every one 404'd on the package, verified against the running container. The build publishes the full set, and the test reads the links OUT OF the guide rather than listing them. They are linked from the This Game card, where reference already lives, rather than the header that must not wrap; no mode awareness is needed, because solitaire and multiplayer are the same page on the same origin. THE REFERENCES DROPPED THE VERSION FROM THEIR NAMES. Four described v0.8.0.16 and had since the v0.8.0.15 audit; the v0.4.5 was the prototype edition they were first written against, kept only because 36 citations pointed at it — and it read as documentation five minor versions stale. They are quickstart.md, rules.md, home-deck.md, mainline-deck.md and components.md now, kept current with each release rather than published as editions. Two errors surfaced while checking them against this release, which is the argument for doing it: home-deck.md filed ABS Signals under Enhancements "played into your district" that "change what a square does" — it does neither, this release's bug written down — and mainline-deck.md, which lists everything playable onto a Mainline card, never mentioned it at all. 1010 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR	2026-09-21 05:53:52 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	dc31555625	v0.8.0.16 — the guide a tester can reach, and a flag that named the card instead of the gate ... v0.8.0.15 wrote a Quickstart for a tester who has never played and then left it in docs/, where a tester does not look — reachable only by somebody who already has the repository. Nobody handed the box had it. build-web.ts now copies it to dist/quickstart.md and the splash page offers it under the three doors, as a line rather than a fourth door: reading the guide is not a way to play, and giving it equal weight in that grid would say it is. COPIED, NEVER RE-WRITTEN. The Markdown document stays the one copy. A hand-written HTML twin drifts from it on the first edit, which is the failure #15a was raised about and precisely what the v0.8.0.15 pass spent itself undoing. It is served as PLAIN TEXT, which is honest rather than good — tables render as pipes and the links do not click. Rendering it into a styled page wants a small Markdown converter and is filed as TODO #109; build-web.ts's comment names that number rather than gesturing at "the next step", so the file and the worklist cannot drift the way the references just did. Two things had to be true and tsc checks neither, so both are tests. The href on the splash page and the filename the build writes are two strings with nothing connecting them: rename the document and the build quietly publishes nothing while the page keeps offering a link that 404s. And a .md file must not arrive as a download — the server's MIME fallback is application/octet-stream, which a browser saves instead of displaying, so the link would have handed a tester a file to save rather than a page to read. '.md' is in http.ts's table now, and the test reads that table out of the source rather than asserting on a copy of it, which would pass while the real one was wrong. VERIFIED AGAINST A RUNNING SERVER, not only compiled: 200, text/plain; charset=utf-8, the guide's own first lines, and the splash link resolving. THE sortsCars COMMENT. Asked after v0.8.0.15 whether everything now agreed, and the audit turned up one place that did not — the field's own doc comment named the card's printed text as though it were the flag's meaning. Nothing reads it to permit a sort; its two readers, resolveExtraStart in apply.ts and the enumeration in legal.ts, both ask whether this is the one Mainline card with a Yard Limit and therefore the one an Extra may be made up and started on. Comment only, and worth the bump because of where it is: it is what a developer reads before using the flag, and it is the likeliest source of the sentence v0.8.0.15 had to correct off the board. The name is kept for its link to the card face and the comment now says outright that the name is not the meaning. The five references and docs/design.md read v0.8.0.16. They describe this build because the audit re-checked them against it, not because the number was swept forward — a stamp bumped without a reading is worth less than none. 1001 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR	2026-09-21 01:28:51 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	a6657241de	v0.8.0.14 — the coaches that never come back, and a district that ends at its own sign ... Six reports from the Day 2-3 playtest of v0.8.0.13. GAMES IN PROGRESS DO NOT SURVIVE THIS ONE. Modifiers are now bounded by the Limits, which makes a once-legal move illegal, so a save holding one is refused at that move: whistle-6945.day3.stage10 stops at intent 528 of 539. Jesse's call, knowing it strands the game on the box. The file is untouched and v0.8.0.13 still finishes it. The Sparrow running empty and Tom unable to unload his passengers are the same shortage from opposite ends, and both are the rules working as printed. §9.2 boarding discards the emptied coach into the CLASSIFICATION yard, detraining draws a fresh empty out of the DIVISION yard, and §2.2 sends Classification back only when the Division Yard runs bare — so coaches move one way. Measured over the save: sixteen in the Division Yard at setup, zero from Day 2 Stage 8 to the end, fifteen piled in Classification, the Division Yard steady at 46-47 freight cars with no prospect of going bare. Jesse's ruling is Gitea#2's: the shortage stays and the game says so. A train made up short now reports what its card wanted and why none is coming (`makeUpShort` — `trainNeedingCars` answered null for "done" and for "cannot be done" alike, so the phase moved on in silence); the yard panel warns while the condition lasts; the Depot's blocked panel was right all along. The modifier outside the Limits was working as designed and the design was Jesse's own call, now reversed. What decided it is what the board shows — a card beyond your own sign, in territory §8.1 and §10 reason about. The case that motivated the exemption was checked on the reported move rather than argued away: the Power Plant sat at (-1,3) against a sign at column 3 and two spots inside were free, legal and adjacent. Switching filled the history with coordinates — a line per move, plus one per mandatory coupling. It is still LOGGED in full; what the panel draws is the line saying somebody switched, the first move, work at an INDUSTRY (named, not a coordinate), the Small Yard sort, and a closing summary. The suppressed lines are still WRITTEN, marked `trace`: dropping them outright was the first attempt and the step-queue suite caught it, because dwellForStep pays nothing for a step that said nothing, so the board stopped replaying switching at all. The last move rides in the closing line rather than being kept in place — nothing knows a move was the last until the turn is over, by which time the line has been streamed to every client and cannot be revised. Two things fell out of reading those lines: every move ended with a tutorial sentence the opener already gives, and the move count said "of 6" with the six hardcoded, which is wrong on a night Stage. Make-up lines name their train — they all read "the train being made up", so looking back for train 10 found nothing under that name — and "a empty tank" is now "an empty tank". The Small Yard's options read as the train they would build instead of `[1,2,3,0]`; the one Jesse wanted was the first of five and unreadable. Two of those five were junk: bringing the last car to the end is the identity and would have spent a Move, and a two-car reversal duplicated its only real option. Both are filtered by the resulting order, not by the case that made them. A Small Yard may now put cars AHEAD of the engine, which was Jesse's own open question. Two sources disagreed and the design notes won: the v0.4.5 card text says the sort puts the engine at the nose, implications.md says "any order, including cars ahead of the engine". `engineAt` is optional on the intent, so older saves replay to the same train. The menu did not multiply — the engine is a separate short list against the consist as it stands, eight options for a four-car train rather than twenty. §8.2 needed no new code: badlyMadeUp is deliberately direction-free, so a PUSHING train is fit to run and only a broken-backed one is held. The button warns by asking that predicate rather than copying it, and immediately earned itself — every one of train 10's eight options is refused, the one asked for at the table included, because that train carries a caboose and each sort moves it off the rear. That is the right answer rather than a gap: the train is already made up, so every offer would break it, and the labels say which is which. A made-up order is always on the menu for a train that needs one, because "bring car k to the tail" is enumerated for every car and the caboose is one of them. Labels read WEST TO EAST, with the engine drawn as the board's own ◀ / ▶ arrow. "Front to back" is not a direction a table can read — which end is the front depends on which way the train points — and board-svg has reversed east-facing consists since v0.8.0, so the button now describes the same train as the picture. The Freight Agent, Porter and Laborer groups now say what the role is for, where the role is chosen. Tom reached for the Freight Agent to detrain passengers, which is a Porter's action in the Cargo phase; both halves were working and neither was visible. TODO closes #107 (the nose sort) and gains #108 (the coach ratchet, with the measurement, to revisit on a second game's data). 999 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DmdqqCNoiqE7GBo6wthBnR	2026-09-17 20:49:31 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	ad277fb994	v0.8.0.13 — the board on screen is the board you can act on ... Nine reports from the Day 1-2 playtest of v0.8.0.12. One moved a car, one was a rule working correctly with nothing on screen to say so, and the rest are things the table could not see. The real bug: the Division Yard chips stayed lit and clickable while the board was catching up. `renderActions` puts the action list away while the queue is behind — a move offered against a position that has already moved on is a move made blind — but the make-up wiring sat outside that guard. A chip was clicked during a bot's make-up, a coach left the yard, and the train ended up with three cars: a real intent submitted against a board several moves stale. The chips now follow the queue like every other control, and the yard COUNTS are drawn from the shown board rather than the live game — they were the one panel still reporting a future the player had not been shown. The Office Area picker had a button per opponent and none for yourself, so the one player who could not reach their own district was the player waiting on everybody else. Your own seat is in the row now, and the row is ordered by SEAT, west to east as the Division map draws it, rather than by join order — sorted from the Frame's own `seat` on every render, so it rotates with Employee Rotation instead of having to be told. §5's handover of the Fedora rode on `actorChanged`, which is turn bookkeeping and which `record()` drops as noise, so the one moment it carried that a player needed went past in silence. It is its own event now, narrated and announced. The phase keeps its name: the Supervisor Shift refreshes every Laborer and Porter EVERY Stage and the Fedora moves only every third. A collision now names whose Office it was and who paid the 5 Revenue, which rode in a separate `revenueChanged`; a Mainline collision is phrased differently because §10 makes it the Superintendent's. Passengers, reported as a bug and ruled not one after replaying the save: the Depot's capacity and modifiers were fine, and §6.3 stocking wants a LOADED coach out of the Division Yard, which held none while six sat in Classification. The shortage stays — running out is part of the game, the same ruling Gitea#2 got — but the blocked panel says so now instead of the action being silently absent. Smaller: "working left" is "working eastward" in the make-up panel and the New Train tip, because the map runs west to east and the table does not; the history panel keeps 90 lines instead of 60 in the same 230px box. `git diff v0.8.0.12..v0.8.0.13 -- src/engine/` is NOT empty this time: `events.ts` declares `superintendentChanged` and `advance.ts` emits it. Both are additive — `check()`, `legal.ts` and every predicate are untouched, and events are derived by replaying a save rather than stored — so no once-legal move became illegal and games in progress resume. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DmdqqCNoiqE7GBo6wthBnR	2026-09-17 04:43:59 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	7c9ef8797d	v0.8.0.12 — put a player back in their seat after losing their browser storage ... Gitea#33. A session token is the only identity the game has, and it lives in exactly one place the player controls: their browser's localStorage, scoped to the origin they joined at. Lose it — a cleared profile, a private window, a different browser — and the seat is unreachable while the game runs on and the session sits intact on disk. Reported from the table: of two humans in one game the host reloaded straight back in, the joiner met an empty lobby. Diagnosed before it was fixed, and two server-side theories of mine were retracted on the evidence: no storage key changed in 0.8.0.11, nothing in the app deletes the secret or name, create and join both call persistSession, that game's sessions.json held both seats, and it resumed with 80 intents replayed. Both players used the same URL, so it was not a second origin either. The fix is a recovery link. An administrator mints a code for a named seat (admin-gated: deciding somebody lost a seat is a judgement no route can make); the player opens the link and the page trades the code for the token over a POST, then strips it from the address bar. The link never carries the token — lobby-and-sessions.md §1 says keep it out of URLs, and a recovery link is exactly what gets pasted into a chat. Single use, 30-minute expiry, held in memory because a restart dropping them is the right failure. server/claims.ts is a pure store, so single use, lazy expiry and one identical answer for unknown/spent/expired codes are tested rather than asserted. The admin game listing gained seatedPlayers — the seats a human holds a token for, read from the session map rather than guessed from player names — so the StartOS action can offer real players instead of bot chairs. No rule changed: `git diff v0.8.0.11..v0.8.0.12 -- src/engine/` is empty, so games in progress resume. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX	2026-09-16 20:16:24 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	9a9e50b3c6	v0.8.0.11 — sixteen fixes from the second multiplayer playtest ... Arrivals name whose Office they reached, and no longer tell every seat they can work the train. The turn chart follows the animation queue, so being five behind looks five behind across the whole screen rather than half of it. Pause sits beside Skip and preserves the dwell a held step still owed. A one-render look at another player's Office Area. The district summary counts the board being shown. LIMITS is printed beneath its card instead of through its border. The Mainline region divider is visible. Only Hilly mentions FAST/SLOW, because it is the only card that reads it. A passenger Modifier on a Whistle Post reports itself dormant rather than claiming the facility "only receives". An automatic phase says what the Division is doing instead of answering by negation. The version appears once in the header rather than twice on every .s9pk. Save files carry the join code, the Stage and the date. The New Train phase, reviewed before being changed: the make-up panel now says what the train STILL needs rather than only what its card calls for, explains that a player adds one car before the round passes on, marks the train being loaded on the Division map, and gives an addable car in the yard the same amber every other clickable thing on the page wears. Reasoning, measurements and the reports behind each are in CHANGELOG.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX	2026-09-16 16:06:01 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	072029b1f7	v0.8.0.8 — a played train does not come back; a discarded one does ... Jesse's ruling on the question v0.8.0.7 filed: once a regularly scheduled train has been played its number is on the timetable, so putting it back into a reshuffled deck to be played again makes no sense. The same card sitting in a discard pile was never played and its slot is still open, so it should come back. An Extra is a single run rather than a standing slot, so a played one is free to run again. The test is therefore WHERE the card is, not only what it is — which is worth writing down, because it is exactly the rule a later tidy-up would simplify into filtering by kind everywhere. And the duplicate that started it: trainScheduled was pushing a synthetic train-<number> into the Salvage Yard beside the real card cardPlayed had already put there — four scheduled trains left eight entries in a pile holding four cards. Nothing read it, it inflated the depth, it displayed as "a card", and it would have been swept into the draw deck to be drawn as an id with nothing behind it. Removed, which retires the phantom-id class rather than papering over it, so v0.8.0.7's cardName resolver for it goes too. Games in progress resume: no predicate changed its answer, and a draw is a draw whatever is on top. What differs is the Yard's depth, which was double-counting, and what a reshuffle recovers — and reshuffles are effectively unreachable, with zero seen across eight games driven to 4000 moves. Closes #23. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6	2026-09-10 07:19:47 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	d0e5091824	v0.8.0.7 — the Salvage Yard had nothing to say, and phases too little time to read ... The Salvage Yard was face up all along; its tile just read "a card". apply.ts pushes a synthetic train-<n> id on trainScheduled, nothing in s.cards matches it, and cardName fell through to its default — and since a train is scheduled several times a Day that id is on top most of the time. Measured before touching anything: the tile read "a card" from the opening frame through 60 pushes while its depth climbed from 2 to 8. cardName resolves it now, in sim/view.ts, because this is a name. The engine half is filed as Gitea#23 rather than fixed here. reshuffleIfDepleted sweeps the Salvage Yard back into the draw deck, so that synthetic id can be shuffled in and drawn into a hand as an id with no card behind it. Eight games driven to 4000 moves across eight seeds produced zero reshuffles, so it is latent; there are two defensible fixes and the choice turns on what the synthetic id is for, which is not a call to make while fixing a label. And phases scale with the speed control again, damped to a third of the rate. They were pinned in v0.8.0.3 because scaling them walled off a player's own turn; pinned turns out to be too short to read at 10x. Damped satisfies both: 1x unchanged, 10x lands exactly on the four-times guess. Bounded because phase beats cluster rather than accumulate — 1.0 per push on average, 4 at worst, so the wait after a move is ~2.4s typical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6	2026-09-10 06:58:09 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	3fca325699	v0.8.0.5 — the Home Office deck, and lighting the pile a move touched ... "Many operations still occurred too fast for me to see", at 10x — where an action already holds the screen for seven seconds. So it was never duration: a bot drawing a card changes one number in a panel nobody is watching, and the board sits unchanged. Raising the dwell was the wrong lever and it had been pulled three times. f.deck has carried the face-down count since the Frame existed and nothing drew it — the display gap test/display-gaps.test.ts sweeps for, surviving in the one panel that draws every other pile. It is a tile now, first in the row, face down, because that is the order a card travels and not knowing what is on top is the point. And the piles a move touched are lit for as long as that move is on screen. Derived from the frames either side of a step rather than sent, so nothing joins the protocol and the 0.8.1 board gets it free. What lights follows what is public, and was measured across four seeds rather than reasoned about: a Home Office draw lights the deck and never names the card; a Department draw lights that pile, and the deck too when it refills; a discard lights the Department it lands on; a played card lights the Salvage Yard. Switching and new trains light nothing here — they move the board, which the district panel already follows. A state rather than a flash: the timetable's fixed 1.5s animation would be over long before a seven-second pause. Not for your own moves. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6	2026-09-10 04:35:59 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	c10f52791e	v0.8.0.2 — the speed control that was only ever a URL parameter, and a Day-end ... contradiction Two things found by playing v0.8.0.1, neither in the mechanism itself. ?pace= never worked. index.html's doors are play.html?lobby and play.html?solitaire, so arriving through the splash replaces the query string and the play page only ever saw ?lobby — a whole game was played at 1x while believing it was at 7x. v0.8.0 shipped that parameter as the only way to change speed and the game's own front door destroyed it. There is a control on the play screen now, beside zoom, persisted per viewer; the doors carry pace through as well, so the URL lever is honest for handing two playtesters different speeds. PACE_LEVELS moved to sim/pacing.ts with DWELL and MAX_PACE — the tuning surface in one file, and testable. The committed default is unchanged: what it should be is a question for a game played at a speed that took effect. And the Day-end dialog said "0 today, 2 in all". advance.ts increments the Day and then zeroes collisionsToday, and noteDayEnd() fires when the Day goes up — so the dialog reporting the Day that just finished was drawn from the very frame in which that Day's count was reset. Reproduced on four of five seeds before changing anything. The count is captured at the rollover now; it is not derivable on the client, because in multiplayer the push announcing the new Day is the same push that carries the reset. And "today" was the wrong word regardless: it names the Day instead — "Collisions: 2 on Day 1, 2 in all". Unrelated to v0.8.0 — that one has been wrong since the dialog was built for Gitea#10, and needed somebody to play a Day with a collision in it and then read the summary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6	2026-09-09 20:08:39 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	ebd16983e2	v0.7.9.4 — Gitea#20 step 1, and a Red Flag you can see ... Step 1 of the common board done as its own release rather than as the first hour of 0.8.0, since both halves of it are worth having whether or not anything is ever published to a call. #95 — the public projection helpers. `projectDistrict(state, seat)`, `projectDivision(state)`, `projectSharedTable(state)`, `publicSnapshot(state)` and `currentActorOfState(state)`, with `snapshot()` REBUILT to compose from the same helpers rather than keeping a second copy of the shared table, so a player's frame and a spectator's cannot come to disagree about the clock, the phase, whose turn it is or the score. Behaviour-neutral; the 897 existing tests passing unchanged is the proof. The public view is composed UPWARD, never by calling `snapshot()` once per seat. That shortcut is the trap the plan names: `snapshot` assembles one player's view, so a public view made of player views builds every private field and then has to remember to strip it — and it defaults its viewer to player zero, so a careless spectator call would have served seat 0's hand. Districts are keyed by SEAT with the player resolved through `playerAtSeat`, because Employee Rotation moves players between districts and a board that treated seat and player index as interchangeable would relabel every district the first time anybody rotated. One plan finding is struck off rather than fixed: it warns a display reading `clock.currentActor` could highlight the wrong district during a decision. Measured over six seeds and 3,600 decision points, that field and `actingPlayer` never disagreed. `currentActorOfState` exists anyway, as one place for the next reader to ask. #91 — the redaction net, systematically. v0.7.9.2's two leaks were found by reading a plan, not by a test, which is the whole argument for this: a suite made of the leaks somebody happened to notice proves nothing about the next one. Serialise a seat's Frame, the PublicFrame a spectator gets and the narration they receive, then search all three for every opponent card id, every card name unique to one opponent's hand, the seed and any private decision or menu data — across a fresh game, a blind draw, mid-game, a pending decision, Employee Rotation before and after the seating moves, a reconnect push (a full Frame, and its own opportunity to leak) and a played-out game. And the allow-list, which is the plan's stated acceptance bar rather than the tests: every property of `publicSnapshot` is written down with its reason and compared on every run, so adding a field fails the suite until somebody has said out loud that a spectator may see it. Both v0.7.9.2 leaks were fields nobody had ever asked that question about. Proved by mutation rather than by passing: restoring the seed line fails 6 tests, restoring the blind-draw card name fails 1, adding a private field to the public projection fails 7, and making `players[]` carry hand contents instead of a count fails 5. Two false failures were worth the lesson. A card NAME is a type, not an identity — "right-hand curve" names a dozen cards and one is legitimately a cell label the moment anybody lays track, so searching for it fails on correct code, which is worse than not searching; a name is evidence only when every card bearing it is in the one hand. And a one-digit seed makes the seed check meaningless: seed 7 matched "Train 7". One item on the plan's list has no test because it has no referent — there is no secret objective in this game, `objectiveOf` deriving from `config.minCombinedRevenue` and the player's own Revenue, both public. #94 — a Red Flag standing at an Office's Limits is on the map. It is a token set out ON the board that holds the next train arriving from that side, and it was announced once in the log and drawn nowhere, so a train stops short three Stages later with its only explanation scrolled out of the panel. `DivisionView`'s office node carries `redFlag` and the map draws a staff and pennant AT THE END IT GUARDS — west on the left, east on the right — because which approach it covers is the whole of the information; a flag in the middle of the cell would say one is out and leave the reader to hover for the half that decides whether to run a train. The tooltip leads with it, ahead of everything that merely describes the cell. The third of these in a row after Gitea#21 and #22: when the engine gains something that changes what a train may do, the question to ask is where it is drawn, not whether it works. 909 tests pass, up from 897. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ss2y7FyhxkHjGj7xnUPCgY	2026-09-07 15:00:57 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	7ade60e21f	v0.7.9.1 — the engine was right twice; the screen was not ... Gitea#22: the Division map drew every westbound train in the wrong half of its Mainline card. `regionOfTransit` counts from the end a train entered, which is what the collision rules ask; the map wanted "which printed box, left to right" and used the same number, so an eastbound train came out right by luck and a westbound one came out mirrored. It cost a collision — Train 3 was cleared to follow T5 and ran into TX17, which the picture had drawn ahead of T5 rather than behind it. One mirror in `view.ts`, at the boundary the map is drawn from; the collision rules are untouched. Gitea#21: a second tank car would not come off at a refinery, and "Blocked — why nothing is moving" answered by describing the refinery's green box. The real answer was Train 3's printed rule — the Express works one freight car per location — so the refusal was correct and the panel sent the player to spend a Freight Agent action that could not have helped. No rule changed. The panel now names the budget, asking the reducer's own predicate so its words cannot drift from the rule. Both were replayed from the saves attached to the issues and verified in the exact position each report names. The map fix is proved by mutation: reverting the mirror fails two tests, and making the renderer ignore the region fails a third. Every existing region test ran eastbound, where the mirror is the identity, which is why the bug survived them. 891 tests pass, up from 884. Closes #21 Closes #22 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E3Qk7uresKCHksdZajXCLg	2026-09-07 11:41:23 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	e62ea54259	Four things the game counted and never said, and two it said wrong ... Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9. Prompted by Jesse asking the general question after two v0.7.9 fixes turned out to be the same shape: actingPlayer existed and the Frame threw it away, and collisionsToday / collisionsTotal rode the Frame for three releases with nothing drawing them. So what else is computed, serialised and sent to nobody? THE AUDIT, done rather than guessed. Every one of Frame's 59 top-level fields grepped for a read across the seven renderers, then the same for Tally's 26 members. 55 of 59 are read. Four are not. tally.unloadsBegun was visible rather than merely unused. §9.1 makes loading and unloading the same shape — begun, then carried through — and the results screen printed "Loads still in the pipeline" for one side and nothing for the other, reporting half of a symmetric mechanism. tally.cardsDiscarded was counted by the engine and listed beside "Cards drawn" and "Cards played" without it, though Gitea#9 made throwing a Timetabled train away a deliberate move — a player CHOICE the game counted and never reported. Both are reported now. viewerSeat and overHandLimit are deferred by Jesse. The second is the fullest version of the shape: engine computes it, view.ts puts it on the Frame, session.ts declares it on the Session interface AND implements it twice, and the only caller in the repo is its own test. Four layers of plumbing, no consumer. The decision when it comes is delete-or-document, not a patch. Fixing the two turned up a third thing: resultsHtml draws tallyHtml(report?.tally ?? f.tally), and report is f.official, so a finished game reports the tally frozen at the official ending rather than the live one. The first attempt at a test overrode f.tally alone, changed nothing on screen, and failed for a reason unrelated to the fix. A SHOUTED KEYWORD IS NOT A SENTENCE. `EXTRA X18 started…` attributed to a player rendered as `Player Solitaire eXTRA X18 started…`, and the same happened to TRAIN 1 MADE UP and COLLISION. `record` folds a narration's opening word into the middle of a sentence and did it with a flat charAt(0).toLowerCase(). It now folds only a sentence-cased word — ^[A-Z][a-z], a capital followed by a lower-case letter — which also leaves X22 Pee-Dee alone, where a naive uppercase test gets it wrong because '2'.toUpperCase() is '2'. It had been filed under Play Balance, where it has no business being, which is how it survived a session that had ruled balance work out of scope. A REPLAYED SAVE NOW NARRATES WHAT THE LIVE GAME NARRATED. fromSave's loop called record(game, result.events) with no actor, so every restored save, every undo (which rebuilds through fromSave) and the replay viewer stripped the "Player X" prefix off every attributed line. submit attributes and fromMultiplayerSave attributes; this was the one path of three that did not. One argument, with actor already computed on the line above. Why it survived: nothing ever compared a fromSave-built log against a LIVE-played one. The single log-comparing test compares undo's rebuilt log against another fromSave-built log — and undo itself rebuilds through fromSave — so the gap cancelled out on both sides. The suite was green with the bug in and green with it out. The new test plays a game, saves it, restores it and asserts the two logs are identical: the missing direction, not a new requirement. All three fixes were confirmed to go RED with the fix reverted before being called done. 884 tests pass, seventeen new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YTaNBL1jVxNqgFdjHkHoo3	2026-08-30 19:44:25 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	d267f89a82	The screen does what you tell it — three Display items, and a fourth declined ... Reviewed with Jesse out of TODO.md's Display section. Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9. #17 (hiding the Division map) was DECLINED, and the reason is that its premise had already died. Gitea#18 replaced the wrapped layout with a single row, and the reason to fold the map away was that it GREW — a horseshoe of three or a square of four pushed the board off the screen. One row is boardH = PAD * 2 + CH + 30: 150px, fixed, at every seat count. That is not worth a control, three states and a persisted preference. It was a sixth member of the drawing pass that got closed with Gitea#18 and stayed open only because it reads as a control question rather than a drawing one — recorded in TODO.md as an explicit decision, with the design that had already been worked out kept, and with the one thing that would justify reopening it: the map growing again. #16 THE OFFICE AREA'S AUTO-HIDE COULD NOT REACH EVERY STATE. One button cycling auto -> pinned -> auto, where the pin was `open ? 'closed' : 'open'` and `open` is what auto is doing AT THAT MOMENT. So the pin a press offered depended on the phase, and going from always-show to always-hide meant clicking back to auto, waiting for the phase to turn over, and clicking again. Three controls now, one per mode. The labels still say what pressing DOES, which was an earlier deliberate fix; what the cycle could not do was report the state it was in, and aria-pressed carries that now. They are addressed by id rather than queried off the container, and that is testability rather than style: the stub DOM the web suite runs against only models markup the page WROTE, so a child query finds nothing and the control would have shipped green and unexercised. The test presses always-show to always-hide directly — the transition the cycle could not make. #23 THE HISTORY READS NEWEST FIRST. Jesse: "the top line is the most recent and the further down you go, the older the entry." The phase headings now trail the lines they announce, ruled acceptable rather than overlooked: "stage changes will be beneath (prior to / older than) the following events. That is OK." Reading down is reading backwards. Grouping by phase and reversing the groups was offered and declined as more machinery than the complaint needs. replays.ts keeps its oldest-first log deliberately — it is paired with a frame stepper, where newest-first would fight the stepping. The slice(-60) cap is untouched and stays open. #28 THE SETTINGS MOVED INTO A CARD. The top line carried six things and now carries four: Revenue, the objective, the collision counts and the game code. The rest is a This Game card at the foot of the right-hand column, folded by default. Nothing new travels for it — configFromFrame already existed and main.ts already called it three times, so rulesListHtml(configFromFrame(f), ...) needed no refactor, and the card draws from the same renderer as the lobby's join preview so the two cannot drift. THE COLLISION COUNTS ARE NEW ON THE BOARD, NOT MOVED. The Frame has carried collisionsToday and collisionsTotal since v0.7.0 and nothing drew them, so the one victory condition that ends a game EARLY ran invisibly — the second time this release that the Frame had the answer and the view never asked (see #43's actingPlayer). They stay on the top line while the limits go in the card: a limit is agreed to once, "2 of 3 today" changes how you play the next Stage. One stub gap closed to get here: none of the five element factories in test/web.test.ts had setAttribute, so the first render threw and any control reporting state through ARIA was untestable. WHAT IS NOT VERIFIED: the layout. There is no browser on this box, so nothing has confirmed the segmented control, the card or the reversed panel look right on screen. The logic is tested; the appearance is not, and wants the next play session. 881 tests pass, fourteen new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YTaNBL1jVxNqgFdjHkHoo3	2026-08-30 18:16:08 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	bb1b661211	A game you come back to has not begun ... Reported by Jesse, 2026-08-30: "when you are continuing the saved game out of that screen, do not post a message that says 'The game has begun.' … it needs to say 'The game has resumed.'" A restored game draws exactly like a dealt one — mid-Day, mid-phase, with a log already several turns deep — and solitaire said nothing at all to tell the two apart. It flashes "The game has resumed — Day 3, Stage 7" now, on both ways back in: the setup screen's Continue saved game, and a bare reload that restores the save. THE SAME LINE WAS WRONG ON THE MULTIPLAYER SIDE, IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. noteFirstFrame guards on firstFrameSeen, which is per page-load — so re-entering a game this browser already held a seat in, by reloading mid-game or picking it out of the lobby's list, announced that the game had BEGUN to somebody who had been playing it for an hour. beginRemote carries whether this is a rejoin now, and the line reads "resumed" when it is. Both halves are pinned, including that a brand-new game does not claim to be a resume — an announcement that fires either way says nothing. Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9. 878 tests pass, eleven new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 16:10:17 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	a70b7f88f3	Say who the game is waiting on, and move the Fedora; replay in words ... Three items folded into the unshipped v0.7.9. WAITING ON (reported by Jesse from play). The status line said "nobody — the Division is running itself" while the game was stopped on the Superintendent. Frame.actor carried clock.currentActor, which is null for the whole Mainline Phase, so all three interruptions — §8.1's clearance ruling, Gitea#5's Yard Office offer, Gitea#19's Red Flag prompt — reported that nobody was holding it up. actingPlayer had the answer since the Gitea#5 refactor; the Frame threw it away. It carries actingPlayer now, plus a new `awaiting` field naming the question and the train: "waiting on Bob · a clearance ruling · Train 4". Naming the person alone is not enough when three different things can be pending. THE FEDORA (TODO #29) rides at the right-hand end of the phase row instead of a line of its own, and wraps under rather than squeezing the chips. THE DEVELOPER REPLAY (TODO #34) printed "loss — revenueFloor", the same defect Gitea#16 was filed about, still alive because nothing player-facing pointed at it. panels.ts's reasonSentence is exported and shared rather than reimplemented, fed the last recorded frame and stripped of markup. The drift test maps win/loss to won/lost so it still checks the two AGREE rather than that they are spelled alike. Also carries the previous, unsigned commit's work: the two setup screens worded the same section by section. 877 tests pass, ten new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 09:01:19 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	131538dc7c	Two setup screens, not three — the in-game dialog is deleted ... Jesse: "it should not go to a separate screen. We should reuse the Solitaire New Game Screen… in general we should reuse what we already have." #newgamedlg was a third copy of the same questions and the one that drifted: shown only to a solitaire player, it asked "Everyone loses if COMBINED Revenue…" and explained Employee Rotation in full multiplayer terms beside a control it had disabled. Both were on the list to re-word; deleting the screen removes the drift instead of restating it. New game opens the setup screen IN PLACE rather than navigating, so the live session stays in memory: the fields open on the rules actually being played (what the dialog was good for), and Continue Existing Saved Game puts the board back with no reload. render() calls save() every frame, so nothing is at risk either way. The two remaining screens now match below their headers — same three parameters in the same order, same seed note, same chair note. Solitaire shows Players at the table locked at 1 rather than omitting it: a fixed control says "same form, table of one", a missing one made it a different form sharing a rules block. Drift guard drops to two prefixes and now fails if any ng- id returns. Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9. 874 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 07:58:56 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	cf018b4a5f	A Heavy Grade shows which way it climbs ... Jesse: "heavy grade mainline card tooltip states climbs east, but card doesn't show it." The Frame has carried gradeUp all along and the tip has said it; the card drew nothing, so the one Mainline card whose orientation is set per game was the one you had to hover to read. A brown wedge in the lower right rising toward the climb, with a bone arrow lying along its slope, centred on the triangle's centroid. East is right on this map (Gitea#18), which is what lets a wedge be read without a compass. Four passes. Up the hypotenuse the arrow began at the wedge's thin corner, where there is no height, so its head read as clipped. Level, it was contained but did not read as climbing. At 30° — steeper than the wedge's own 22.5° — it had to be tucked into the fat half. Parallel to the slope is the shape that fits: the gap to the hypotenuse is then constant, so the arrow can sit centred. The wedge grew to 58x24 to pay for it, since a centred arrow has less room than an off-centre one. Sizes are a search result, clearing every edge by 2.88px. The first containment test bounded the arrow against the CARD, which it never left, while the wedge clipped it — a green check on a visibly broken glyph. It checks the TRIANGLE now with a 2px floor, plus parallelism derived from the wedge and centroid placement. Orientation is always set, measured not assumed: 400 seeds x 4 player counts, 535 grades placed, 0 without one, 276 east / 259 west. Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9. 874 tests pass, one new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 05:28:31 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	45cf521a40	configWith let the day count and the Revenue floor disagree ... minCombinedRevenue fell back to SOLO_CONFIG's constant — the floor for a FIVE-Day game — whatever days said. configWith({ days: 1 }) asked a one-Day game to clear 15, which a full five-Day game averages barely half of; configWith({ days: 10 }) asked for that same 15. It derives from the days it was given now. Not a live fault: createLocalSession is the only caller and the page always writes the floor itself, so no dealt game was ever wrong. Found by a throwaway probe that passed only days — which is how the next caller would reach for it. Unchanged at the default day count, since SOLO_CONFIG's floor is this same formula at DEFAULT_DAYS. Stays in the unshipped v0.7.9 per Jesse — no version bump for the next several fixes. 873 tests pass, three new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 01:51:11 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	e035dda5a3	The extension question was hidden behind the results screen (Gitea#11) ... Jesse, playing v0.7.8: "Solitaire game ended. I did not have an option to extend the game by a day." The engine and the Frame were right — checked before changing anything. A solitaire game at the end of its timetable reaches awaitingExtension with extensionVotes [null], and renderEnding writes "play one more Day" into #actions. It then opens #resultsdlg, which is MODAL, so those buttons were directly underneath a dialog whose only control was Close. The results dialog now carries the question itself, hidden unless a vote is pending: Play One More Day / End the Game Here, casting the same game.extend intent. The #actions buttons stay as the fallback once it is closed. TODO.md #35 recorded extended play as verified on phoenix.local — over the HTTP API, which renders no dialog. What was proven was that the server supports it, not that a player can reach it. Noted there. Rides along in the unshipped v0.7.9. 870 tests pass, one new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 01:26:03 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	f2c87b6871	v0.7.9 — solitaire setup screen feedback, and the dead settings it exposed ... Four pieces of feedback from Jesse on the solitaire setup screen. THE COLLISION LIMITS DID NOTHING IN SOLITAIRE. Asked to reword those entries to "the game ends immediately and results in a loss", which was unwriteable: advance.ts gated the §3.4 check on competitive/coop, and a solitaire game's mode is 'solitaire'. Both limits were offered as live settings, rode into the config, and never fired — the existing text was already false. The exclusion was never a stated rule and nothing recorded a reason for it. Jesse's ruling: the settings do what they say, so the gate is gone rather than the controls. Measured, not asserted — 200 standard developer-bot games: loss/collisionFloor 1 in 200, Days played 5.00 -> 4.98 mean with a minimum of 1, collisions per game unchanged at 0.14. Recorded in TODO.md under Play Balance, since full-length figures predate it. Extra start defaults to ownOffice: at one seat it is the same rule as anyOffice (apply.ts only rejects another seat's start), so this is a label fix with no gameplay effect. Also: collision wording on all three screens, Employee Rotation reads "not applicable for solitaire", and the save warning is legible at 14px on an amber panel with buttons that say Continue Existing Saved Game and Deal New Game. 869 tests pass, two new; one asserted the opposite of the ruling and says so where it was reversed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-30 01:01:11 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	193800a649	v0.7.8 — the setup screen was unreachable for anyone who had ever played ... Third report of the same symptom, this time with the build confirmed current on screen, which ruled out v0.7.7's caching fault and left the real cause exposed. v0.7.5 skipped the setup screen whenever load() found a save, reasoned as "a saved game is a game to resume". A browser that has ever played solitaire always has one, so the door could never reach the screen again — and the fresh private window that appeared to vindicate v0.7.7 simply had no save. Two real faults were stacked; the caching one is fixed and had been masking this. The door outranks a saved game now: ?solitaire is a request to set one up, while a bare reload still resumes (pinned by its own test). Since Deal clears the save, the screen carries #ss-resume and says what Deal costs, so the door cannot destroy a game in progress. Also, per Jesse, riding along rather than taking its own release: the splash footer now names both ways to play. 868 tests pass, four new. The reproduction was a failing test written before the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-29 23:47:44 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	af68aac78d	v0.7.7 — two releases shipped to a browser that never received them ... buildStamp()'s no-git fallback was the literal "nogit", and the .s9pk Dockerfile copies the tree in without .git — so git rev-parse fails on every packaged build. That string is also the cache-bust key every module URL carries, so v0.7.4, v0.7.5 and v0.7.6 all published ./web/main.js?v=nogit, byte-identical, and returning browsers refetched nothing. v0.7.5's setup screen and v0.7.6's door fix were both correct and neither arrived. The fallback is now the package version plus the build timestamp, always distinct. And serveStatic sent no Cache-Control at all, which is the other half — a cached play.html pins a player to the whole build it names. A request carrying ?v= is now immutable for a year; everything else is no-cache. ?v= rather than "not HTML" because build-web.ts tags the modules and nothing else. Neither half is sufficient alone. 864 tests pass, two new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-29 22:23:09 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	b4f09f05cb	v0.7.6 — the solitaire door could not reach solitaire ... Found by Jesse playing v0.7.5 on phoenix.local: a browser that had ever held a multiplayer seat could not reach the new solitaire setup screen at all. start() checked a browser-remembered multiplayer session before ever looking at solitaire's own state, and a bare ./play.html load could not tell "clicked Play solitaire" apart from "reloaded mid multiplayer game" — the same problem ?lobby already solved for the door on the other side, never applied to this one. The door now links to ./play.html?solitaire, and start() treats that, an explicit ?seed=, or the setup screen's own ?hand= (written by every Deal) as proof this navigation means solitaire — checked ahead of the remembered-session lookup rather than only below it. 862 tests pass, three new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-29 19:59:37 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5	3e961496b0	v0.7.5 — solitaire asks before it deals, the same way multiplayer already does ... A new #solitairesetup screen in play.html asks the full shared game-options block — type, starting hand, Extra start, revenue, victory conditions, optional rules — before a genuinely fresh visit deals a game. A saved game, an explicit ?seed=, or a URL a Deal already wrote all skip past it, same as ?lobby already skips the front doors on an invite link. The in-game dialog, the lobby and this screen now share one wireGameTypeBlock()/commitNewGame() pair instead of the dialog carrying its own copy of the questions. 859 tests pass. Not yet played in a browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX	2026-08-29 19:14:37 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	228027637b	The Yard Office is offered, reachable, and can be run into (Gitea#5) ... "Trains that are only freight (cabooses ok, no coaches allowed) that arrive in a player's area who has the yard office card get an extra ability… the game will offer that player the option… They can of course still choose to have the train go to the standard office." It was implemented, in a stripped form missing all three conditions: a qualifying train was TELEPORTED onto the Yard Office card. Nobody was asked, no route was computed — so the card's own printed "that can reach the yard office in one move" was unenforced — and because nothing was walked, nothing was ever met on the way. All three now hold: - OFFERED to whoever sits in the district, interrupting the Mainline Phase on the turn the train arrives. Declining is an ordinary arrival onto an A/D track. - REACHABILITY is the engine's own move walk. `exploreMoves` already means what the card means — any distance without changing direction, finishing on Operational Rail (§2.4, §A.1) — so using it is what makes code and card agree. Reversing is a separate Move, so a yard that can only be reached by backing up is correctly out of reach. - CARS ON THE LEAD COLLIDE. The walk does not treat standing cars as obstacles; it COUPLES them, because that is what a switching move does. An arriving train is not switching, so what it would have coupled is what it is about to hit — the same reading §8.3 already applies to the Running Track. `destination.couples` is therefore the fouling signal, and it needed no new machinery. Per Jesse's ruling (2026-08-29) the two failures his issue names are kept apart: no route means no offer, with the history saying why ("make sure this is logged in history — why can't move so user knows why they can't get to yard"); a route that exists but is fouled IS offered, and taking it crashes. A silent absence is indistinguishable from a broken feature, which is how the missing check survived. THE SHARED REFACTOR THIS NEEDED. `pendingDecision` was one question asked of one player — §8.1's clearance, always the Superintendent — and `currentActor` hardcoded that. It is a discriminated union now, with `decisionActor` as the single place that maps a question to whoever must answer it, and `clearanceRuling` generalised to `decisionAnswer`. Six copies of `pendingDecision !== null ? superintendent : currentActor` across the engine, the sim, the web client and the tests collapse into `actingPlayer`; they had already stopped being right the moment a second kind of question existed. Gitea#19 needs the same machinery and now only has to add a case. A BUG THE FIRST CUT WALKED INTO, worth recording because it is a trap the next interruption will meet too: the offer must be put BEFORE the train is taken off its Mainline card. `needsClearance` unwinds the whole phase and the driver re-enters from the top, so asking after the `transits` filter cost the train its place on the card and the answer had nowhere to land. §8.1 gets this right by asking before it commits, and the Yard Office now does the same. The developer bot declines: the Yard Office frees an A/D track, but the lead may be fouled and the bot cannot read its own yard well enough to tell (`TODO.md`, Bot Performance). Declining is always safe and keeps the harness comparable with every measurement taken before this rule existed. 851 tests pass. Closes #5 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb	2026-08-29 06:57:31 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	45580d8b61	v0.7.3 — a game that asks before it ends, and a results screen worth reading ... Two issues off the tracker, and they are halves of one thing: the end of a game. Neither ships on the 0.4.9 line — Jesse's call, that line may be complete and these are not fixes people mid-playtest need. EXTENDED PLAY (#11). The official result is settled at the original game length and never changes: in a five-Day game extended to eight, the winner is whoever led at the end of Day 5. Extending grants exactly one Day and the question is put again at the end of it — solitaire the player decides alone, multiplayer it is unanimous and one refusal ends it there. Only days-based endings offer it; a §3.4 collision breach is final, during an extended Day exactly as during the scheduled game. It could not be a client-side change. `check` refused every intent once `status` left `active`; the server never loads a `finished` game back into memory; and a save is `{ seed, config, history }` replayed through the engine, so a "continue" the history does not record did not happen. Hence a fourth status, `awaitingExtension`, and a `game.extend` intent. `config.days` never moves — `extraDays` counts the borrowed Days and `official` freezes the outcome, the standings and the statistics at the first ending. THE RESULTS SCREEN (#16). `GAME OVER — revenueFloor` was `outcome.reason`, an internal enum interpolated into the page at the one moment the game has the player's whole attention. Every reason now has a sentence with the game's own numbers in it. Around it: the result and winner, standings, the rules the game was dealt under, a per-player breakdown, and the railroad — trains through the Division and how many worked en route, loads made up and broken, passengers, cars switched, trains destroyed. It shares the Day-end dialog's blocks rather than reimplementing them, and stays reopenable so continuing does not cost you the results. Statistics are folded, not recorded: `state.tally` counts what the event stream says happened, hooked at `applyIntent` and `advance` because `reduce` never sees the phase driver's events — and those are the interesting ones. Nothing in the rules reads it, and it rides the Frame, so multiplayer gets the same numbers as solitaire from one implementation. THREE BUGS FOUND IN TESTING, all of which would have shipped: - a saved game containing a vote could not be resumed (NO_ACTOR). A history is a flat Intent[] with no seat recorded; the replay derives who acted from the turn order, which cannot work for an intent every seat may send in any order. `game.extend` carries its voter, checked against the authenticated seat. - an all-bot game hung on the question for ever. `driveBots` loops on `currentActor`, null the moment the game stops, so it cannot cast a vote, and the bot-vote driver returned early with no humans to follow. - the balance harness became unbounded — `test/sim.test.ts` went from under a second to never finishing. `randomBot` took another Day about half the time, so every seeded game ran to playGame's 50,000-turn cap. Fixed in the driver, not in a policy, so it holds for bots not yet written. All three have regression tests. 832 tests pass, against 793 before this change. NOT BUILT, and a correction. #16's own comment said `trainStoodStill` "is emitted per Stage, so a run of them is exactly the sat-on-a-siding streak". It is not: reading advance.ts, it fires once per game and only for a train whose profile sets `stopEarnsPoint` — the X18 Circus — with `stopPointClaimed` preventing a second. The streak was built, rendered "1 Stage at (0,0)", and was taken out again. There is no per-Stage "this train did not move" signal in the engine, so "longest an engine sat on a siding" needs one first; TODO.md #36 records what it would take, and the Circus set-up is reported instead. Badges remain the second pass #16 asks for (TODO.md #33), and because the statistics are derived rather than recorded, that pass can add any of them retroactively to games already played and saved. Extended play has not yet been played at a real table (TODO.md #35): the multiplayer vote has only been driven through `session.intent`, never through two browsers. Closes #11 Closes #16 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb	2026-08-29 04:23:26 -04:00
Jesse.Markowitz	2ab25e320c	v0.7.2 — a leg that is part of the row, the deck the sheet prints, regions not miles per hour, and a Division you read left to right ... Gitea#17 — a 45° leg is an end of the west-to-east row, so backing into a cut through a curve's south leg no longer couples it back to front. The same assumption left a crew's own cut standing when it pulled out through a leg, which is the "cars left behind" report we had failed to reproduce. Gitea#14 — every count is docs/Deck cards5.xlsx. Track halved, and the Q12 office doubling and Gap 12 industry tripling both come out with it: they were measured against a deck with twice the track, and keeping them at the sheet's track count wipes out the reefer chain entirely. 84 rows now match card for card; the ten Safety, Event and Inspection cards it adds are not built and are held out. Cards the sheet no longer lists are dealt zero copies rather than deleted, so their rules stay implemented. Gitea#15 — RAR reversed it: a rail may stop dead against its neighbour and the placement is legal. What must hold is that no train crosses the gap, which was already true and is now pinned against the reported board. Gitea#3 — the printed speeds are scenery. A card costs one Stage per printed region and where a train STARTS is what varies; Fast/Slow is read on Hilly alone. Entering a one-region card behind another is a collision now, which is what ABS exists to prevent, and ABS no longer holds trains silently. Gitea#18 — the Division draws as one row, west to east, with no office-area detail. East is finally always to the right. Closes #3 Closes #14 Closes #15 Closes #17 Closes #18	2026-08-26 15:20:56 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	441447648d	v0.7.1 — a caboose is not a load, a Day that says it ended, and a train you may throw away ... Four issues off the Gitea tracker, all of them things a player saw at the board. Reasoning for every item, and what was verified how: CHANGELOG.md. - Gitea#8: X22 Pee-Dee refused every caboose, including the one it was made up with, so setting it out stranded the train. All six cabooses are minted loaded because §2.2's "coloured is loaded, white is empty" doubles as a piece count in the supply table; one read of the flag took that literally. A caboose carries the crew, not freight, so it is never a load. - Gitea#10: a Day turns over inside the phases that run themselves, so it passes between one click and the next — and both transient signals fade before a player reading the board notices. A modal stops and waits, carrying the standings, the Days left and the combined target. Suppressed on the first frame, on Undo stepping back across a rollover, and on the Day the game ends. - Gitea#9, which SUPERSEDES Gitea#6 from three days ago: a Timetabled train may be tossed face-up to a Department slot, where a rival may pick it up — the second half of the ruling needed no code, since that is where every discard already goes. An Extra still may not. A New Game setting on this line (discardTimetabled, on by default), the plain rule on the 0.4.9 line. - Gitea#2 is not an engine bug: the rules are implemented exactly, and running the coach pool dry is Jesse's ruling to keep — "part of the strategy". What was wrong is that the game said nothing. A blocked platform now gives its reason, from the engine's own predicate, including how many coaches are stranded in Classification and what brings them back. The same four ship as v0.4.9g on the playtest line. Closes #2 Closes #8 Closes #9 Closes #10 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FLnYR4XtXQNamYJXGYT8oC	2026-08-25 10:46:22 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	06db36e5b5	v0.7.0 — four game types, a lobby you can read and leave, and a multiplayer game that makes a sound ... The multiplayer set-up, the lobby, the start of a game, and four signals a remote client had never been sent. Reasoning, the preset table and what was verified how: CHANGELOG.md. - Co-op, Competitive, Cutthroat, Solitaire and Custom, on both screens, from one shared block — they had drifted, and each was missing a question the other asked. - A player reads the whole rule set before taking a seat, may leave a lobby or a running game, and keeps a seat across a reload. The host may clear a chair. The browser remembers every game it is in, not just the last one. - The start of a game is drawn: a handoff beat, an announcement, the code and type in the header. - Sound, the timetable flash, announcements and the just-drawn badge now reach a remote client; justDrawn goes to the seat that drew it and nobody else. - Played on StartOS, which found the rest: an Extra belongs to the player who played it, the board never named the Superintendent, bot seats were reported as absent players, and rule section numbers are out of every string a player reads. Also carries the previous session's Heavy Grade documentation work — asked again, answer unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016JczK5i33ZNSf2PtzZqdhS	2026-08-23 05:46:42 -04:00
Jesse.Markowitz	7804756f11	v0.6.2 — an Extra starts where you put it, a train card is never discarded ... Three more from the v0.4.9e gameplay-testing round, filed as Gitea issues, plus two bugs found underneath them. Gitea#2 is diagnosed but NOT fixed: it needs a ruling, and the reasoning is in TODO.md under Play Balance. GITEA#4 — AN EXTRA STARTS WHERE THE PLAYER PUTS IT. Only one Division Point was ever offered, chosen by number parity. The number no longer decides an Extra's direction — the start does, which supersedes the recorded ruling that "the number decides, like everything else on the timetable". The two cannot both hold: an odd, westbound Extra placed at the WEST end would leave the Division on its first move having crossed nothing, and be paid for the run. Either end now runs the train away from itself; at an Interchange or a Control Point the player picks the direction. The Interchange start is a YARD, off the running line, which is what makes the Superintendent clause work: placing it can never force a collision, a guaranteed one holds it there for another Stage, and a potential one is the Superintendent's to rule on — exactly evaluateClearance's `blocked` and `ask`, so nothing new decides collisions. Where an Extra may start is now a house rule (divisionPointsOnly / ownOffice / anyOffice, defaulting to what the engine already did). The legacy `atSeat` intent field still replays as it always meant. FOUND UNDERNEATH IT: an Extra started away from a Division Point ran empty. isBeingMadeUp tested position alone, so the Control Point start has been shipping since it was added with a train that could never be given a consist. Found by playing it, not by the tests, which had only asserted where the tray landed. FOUND UNDERNEATH IT: collide left the wrecks on the card. Destroyed trains kept their Transit entries, and evaluateClearance counts every transit as an occupant, so one rear-end collision permanently poisoned that Mainline card for every later train. THE MAINLINE CARDS WERE ROLLED, NOT DEALT — drawn from the nine types with replacement, so a Division could hold two Interchanges and Plains carried the weight of a card printed once. "An Extra may start at the Interchange if one is on the board" only reads as a rule if the board holds at most one. Now dealt from the printed deck without replacement, verified over 1600 deals. This re-deals every seed: the published replays were re-recorded, and the saved games in docs/ are retired too — two of those were already dead before this release and nobody had noticed. GITEA#6 — A TRAIN CARD IS NEVER DISCARDED, Timetabled and Extra alike. The forced play needed no mechanism: nothing discardable plus a hand over the limit leaves exactly one legal way to end the turn, and playing a train is unconditionally legal, so the corner cannot trap anyone. The bot needed no rule either. 400/400 games finished, revenue unmoved, trains scheduled 1.2 -> 1.3. The player is told on the card and on the button. GITEA#7 — COACH COUNTS. 1/2 Crack Limited 3 -> 2, 5/6 The Sparrow 2 -> 3. A change to the cards, so Trains3.pdf and the transcription keep the original numbers with a footnote while content.ts and the Home Deck reference carry what the game plays. CONTENT.TS COMMENT PASS — no data changed, only comments. Four were factually wrong, including an office table naming counts doubled long ago and a pointer to a DEALT_DECK_SIZE that has never existed. Every Enhancement row cited its implementation by line number and every citation had rotted; they name functions now. Card counts came out of the comments, since they move with play balance; source-sheet figures and dated measurements stayed. TODO.md gains an item for a card reference generated from content.ts, in six sections, so the documentation cannot disagree with the game. 715 tests pass, tsc clean, site builds.	2026-08-22 19:51:40 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5	83a5450866	v0.6.1 — five of six playtest bugs: one button per train, and a load that has to go somewhere ... Gameplay testing on 0.4.9d returned six reports. Five are fixed; the sixth could not be reproduced and is written up in TODO.md with the two questions that would pin it down. TWO TRAINS AT ONE PLATFORM ANSWERED TO ONE BUTTON. `porter.board` and `porter.detrain` carried no tray, so there was one button per platform however many trains stood at it and the reducer filled the first empty coach on the A/D tracks. `check` and the reducer were not even asking the same question: `check` skipped a train whose card refuses passenger work and the reducer did not. Both intents now carry an optional `trayId`, one function resolves the train and the coach for check/execute/reduce alike, `legal.ts` offers one candidate per train, and the label names it. A LOAD COULD BE MADE AND BROKEN WITHOUT GOING ANYWHERE. A Freight House could unload the boxcar it had just loaded; a platform could detrain the passengers it had just boarded. Full Revenue at both ends for a movement that never happened. Jesse's rule: a load made anywhere in an Office Area may not be broken anywhere in that Office Area, ever — it has to be carried to another district. The load carries the seat that made it (`RollingStock.origin`), stripped by `pooled` at every yard push. Measured at -0.60 +/- 0.10 Revenue a game (t = -6.1) over 400 paired deals: 78 worse, 3 better, 319 unchanged — free Revenue coming off the board, not a nerf. THE GROCER'S WAREHOUSE SHIPPED AND THE REFINERY RECEIVED. Both were `flow: 'both'` on the reading that "Freight House" was a collective term for exactly those two, and therefore what §9.3 described. The engine has dealt a Freight House CARD since before v0.4.9, so §9.3 names it and the argument goes. The card set agrees: all three Refinery modifiers grant +1 outbound. Refinery outbound-only, Grocer's inbound-only, Freight House the one two-way industry — which leaves exactly the one same-district pairing the rule above refuses. NOT REPRODUCED: cars left behind when backing up over them. Five layouts tried, including cars spotted at an industry; every one couples the lot. Three are pinned in `apply.test.ts`. One way to create such cars was closed anyway — `flyingSwitch` wrote its cut past `carsOn`. Both published replays that had gone dead were re-recorded; a rules change retires a save, and `harness.test.ts` is what catches it. The same change ships as v0.4.9e on the 0.4.9 line, branched from the v0.4.9d commit — the engine files these fixes touch are identical across the two lines, so the patch applied cleanly both ways. Also carries the two "Queued 2026-08-22, from playing on StartOS" TODO items that were staged before this work started (Games in Progress readability, and getting back into a game after losing a browser). They are notes, and items 9-12 below them are numbered against them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011nbvwWMef8CuEP6t5cgkTv	2026-08-21 23:54:24 -04:00
Jesse.Markowitz	40f07b0710	v0.6.0 — saves survive a release, Employee Rotation is real, and the lobby ... asks what game you want Three queued items. The last matters most. A RELEASE NO LONGER DESTROYS EVERY GAME IN PROGRESS. Four consecutive releases killed every game on the box, one of them a release that changed only how the board is drawn. The reasoning behind the refusal was always right — a move legal under old rules may not be legal under new ones, and half-replaying a save is worse than refusing it. The TEST was wrong: it compared engineVersion for exact equality, and that stamp is the package version, which moves for a CSS fix. Whether a save still replays has an exact answer, so it is now asked directly. loadGame reads the file and judges nothing; tryResumeSession replays the intents and reports the first one the engine refuses. A save stamped with a version this server has never run resumes fine provided its moves replay — verified against a file hand-stamped 0.4.9-ancient. One that genuinely does not replay is still refused, but the log names the move rather than two version strings: "move 3 of 8 (localOps.choose) is rejected by the current rules with OPTION_ALREADY_CHOSEN". fromMultiplayerSave had to stop lying first. It has always stopped at the first unacceptable intent and done so in silence, which was survivable only because the version gate meant a doomed replay was never attempted. Now that the replay IS the check, it returns where it stopped and why. Deliberately not done: resuming a partly-replayable game at its last good move. That silently rewinds a game to a position nobody played to while every browser holding a later Frame carries on unaware. Refusing leaves the file intact, so putting the previous version back still recovers it. EMPLOYEE ROTATION IS IMPLEMENTED, SISTER TRAINS IS DELETED. Two of the four optional-rule flags were read by nothing at all. Employee Rotation is four lines in advance.ts, because the seat/player split (D9) exists for precisely this rule: seating is the only thing that moves, so Revenue, hands, the Superintendent and whose turn it is travel with the player, and the Office, district, grid and any trains standing in it stay with the chair. Inheriting the district you move into is the point of the rule, not a side effect. "Left" is seat + 1, matching playerLeftOf. Sister Trains is deleted rather than built: Q9 records that the Second Section card supersedes it, and that card exists, so the flag was a toggle for a rule the game no longer has. THE LOBBY ASKS WHAT GAME YOU WANT TO PLAY. Creating a game asked for a name, a mode and a table size; every other dial was hardcoded. A Game settings block now carries the same set the solitaire dialog does — seed, starting hand, the three revenue rates, Days, the combined-Revenue floor, both collision caps, the opponent-card toggle — plus the three surviving optional rules. Mode and table size set the defaults and everything stays editable. The seed is honoured, so a game can be reproduced or compared. Verified: 682 tests pass (679 + 3). The rotation tests were mutation-checked both ways — disabling the rotation and turning the table the wrong way each fail the suite. Live: a save stamped 0.4.9-ancient resumed, an injected illegal move was refused by name, and a create with every dial set to a non-default value came back out of game.json with all of them intact, including seed 777. Two of my own assertions were wrong on the way and the tests caught them: the Fedora legitimately passes at Stage 12 (§5) so it cannot be compared against its own earlier value, and dispatchUsedToday is cleared at every Day boundary so it cannot mark a district.	2026-08-21 21:45:34 -04:00
Jesse	62b6ed7e1b	v0.5.2 — the splash's multiplayer door opens, and knows whether it should ... The "Play multiplayer" door on index.html had sat disabled, labelled "Coming soon", since before the server existed — Phases 2 through 4 built a working lobby and nothing ever linked to it. Loading the site landed on the same solitaire splash whether a real multiplayer server was behind it or not, with no visible way in. Found packaging Phase 6 for StartOS. The door is now a live link to ./play.html?lobby, and main.ts's start() routes ?lobby straight to the lobby screen — the same showScreen('lobby'); runLobby(beginRemote) the in-game Multiplayer button already used — instead of dealing a solitaire game first. GET /api/health is new, and exists to be failed. The same dist/ ships both served by src/server/ and uploaded as flat files by deploy-web.ts, and the bundle is identical either way (D4), so the page cannot know from its own build which it is; every other route 404s an unknown path exactly as a static host does, so nothing distinguished them. The splash probes it on load and closes the door when nothing names itself in reply. The door starts open and only ever closes, deliberately: a wrong "no server" is the bug above again — invisible, and it strands a player who does have one — while a wrong "there is one" costs a click and a lobby that says it cannot connect. The reply must name itself rather than merely return 200, or a host answering every path with its index page would pass. Verified: tsc clean; 659 tests pass (656 + 3); /api/health exercised live against a running server — 200 with the right body, unauthenticated, while an unknown path and a wrong method both still 404, which is what makes the probe discriminate at all. The probe's own test was vacuous on the first attempt — both its "closes" cases reached close() through the .catch arm, so deleting the body-naming check outright still passed. Caught by mutating splash.ts and re-running; the test now covers all three closing routes and fails without the check.	2026-08-21 11:00:06 -04:00
Jesse	c3c5cbfeec	v0.5.0 — multiplayer Phases 2 and 3: a server that runs a game and survives being restarted ... Phases 0-1 shipped in v0.4.0 (seat/identity split, per-player turn state, the Session boundary). This lands Phase 2 (server core, one game, no lobby) and Phase 3 (persistence and resumption) per docs/architecture/multiplayer.md §12. Phases 4-6 (lobby/reconnection, the 22 opponent-directed cards, StartOS packaging) are still ahead. Phase 2: src/server/session.ts hosts a game in pure logic (no sockets) on top of game.ts's existing Game/submit/currentActor/actionMenu; it verifies seat === currentActor(game) itself before calling submit, since submit() trusts its caller and a server can't. src/server/http.ts and index.ts add POST /api/game, GET /api/stream (SSE, per-seat), POST /api/intent, and static serving of dist/. src/sim/frame-delta.ts is a purpose-built per-seat board delta for one live push at a time. Found and fixed along the way: actionMenu(game, seat) only used seat for the hand field, so a server computing every connected seat's Menu would have handed the acting player's legal moves to a waiting seat. Verified with a live end-to-end smoke test (2-player game, two SSE streams, a rejected intent from the wrong seat, an idempotent resend) plus test/server/session.test.ts and test/redaction.test.ts. Not verified: an actual browser (none available in this environment). Phase 3: src/server/persistence.ts writes game.json and turn-timings.json, atomic-rewrite-then- rename. game.ts gained fromMultiplayerSave, fixing a narration-attribution bug found while testing it (fromSave's replay loop drops the actor argument, invisible in solitaire, unreadable the moment there's more than one seat — fromSave itself still has this gap, deliberately untouched). Verified live: server killed and restarted mid-game, both seats reconnected exactly where they left off. Two rules bugs found while building this: the New Train phase never implemented its car-placement round (every car of every train was placed by the Superintendent alone, in every mode, all along — now reads the round position off tray.consist.length); and victory conditions are now one shared, configurable GameConfig set across solitaire/competitive/coop instead of a fixed length lookup and a dead firstToTarget condition. Also folds in the three fixes already released on the patch line as v0.4.9b/c/d: a switching train's crew badge failing to draw once it left the Office square, an unload that always took the westmost car regardless of which was picked, and a legal decision that could render with zero buttons. docs/testing/0.5.0-test-plan.md and three reported-bug save files (docs/station-master-seed*.json) included for reproducibility. tools/jitsi-harness/ deliberately left untracked — unrelated side-project work, not part of this release. 635 tests, 0 failures.	2026-08-20 23:50:38 -04:00
Jesse	f9c4d9fa92	v0.4.9d — three playtest bugs: a train that looked gone, an unload that ignored the pick, a hang that wasn't one ... Patched directly onto 0.4.9a rather than the in-progress 0.5.0 line. A switching train vanished from the board the moment it left the Office. `selectedTrain` in `officeSvg` (board-svg.ts), which gates whether a card draws a train's crew badge, was only ever assigned inside the `cell.adTracks !== null` branch — true for the Office card alone. A train standing anywhere else, which is everywhere it stands while actually being switched, drew no badge at all. Game state was never affected; confirmed against the reported save with the engine directly. Fix hoists the assignment out of the guard so it runs for any card with a train on it. Unloading always took the westmost car, whichever one was picked. `laborer.beginUnload` carried the player's chosen `carIndex`, and `check()` validated that specific car, but the `unloadBegan` event it produced carried only the car's type — the reducer that performs the swap re-derived the target with `industryTrack.cars.findIndex(c => c.loaded)`, which always answers the first loaded car in track order regardless of what was requested. Fix adds `carIndex` to the event and uses it directly. A legal decision could render with zero buttons, which looked exactly like a hang. The "where does this Extra start" decision is titled by `trainCardTitle`, beginning "Making up Extra X22…" — the same prefix `renderActions()` stripped from the action list on the assumption it only ever belonged to the separate yard-chip car-placement panel. With no tray yet being filled, that panel is null, so nothing rendered the Extra's decision either: a legal, correctly-computed option with no button anywhere on the page. Replaying the reported save found no engine deadlock at any step — the engine always had a move. Fix matches the exact title of the one group the yard-chip panel covers instead of a title-prefix regex. New tests for all three: a train parked on an ordinary facility card must draw its crew badge; three differently-typed loaded cars, unloading index 2, must leave indices 0 and 1 alone; the existing softlock regression test now mirrors the real render filter instead of only the raw menu, plus a deterministic test for the exact reported scenario. 590 tests, 0 failures.	2026-08-20 23:26:39 -04:00
JesseandClaude Sonnet 5	859817d173	v0.4.9 — X,Y coordinates, no-switching can still clear the mainline, Q3 corrected, a clearance bug, three sounds, and the box art ... A playtest review of seed 58228926 (day 6), plus one long-standing display complaint and the first real audio beyond a placeholder. - Coordinate labels read X,Y everywhere shown to a player, not the internal Y,X storage order. Display-only. - "No switching" now means may not add or drop cars, not "never touch it" — these trains can still be moved onto Secondary Track to clear the mainline. - Q3 corrected: Expedite governs WHERE a train may be left standing, not WHEN it leaves. The forced same-Stage departure is gone; a new fault costs 1 Revenue if an expedited train is left off the station when a Mainline Phase begins. Resolves "3/4 Express prints a rule it can never use" as a side effect. - evaluateClearance now checks every occupant on a Mainline card before offering a judgment call, instead of returning on whichever it found first — found while explaining a playtest report, fixed with a regression test. - Three new synthesised sounds: arrive, depart, crash. - The splash page shows the box art. Full detail, measurements and reasoning in CHANGELOG.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FvU99NEakShRMg3nN3fHAZ	2026-08-19 23:51:35 -04:00
JesseandClaude Sonnet 5	37b1e5b969	the Roster Pass: every train at the Office visible ... Builds "The Roster Pass" / "Two Trains, One Card" (station display for multiple trains at one Office). The Office is the one square where more than one train may legally stand at once (one per A/D track), and CellView.train had room for exactly one — a second train at a busy Station was counted in the old A/D pips and never drawn. CellView.train -> CellView.trains: TrainView[], seat-filtered and collecting every match rather than the first (fixes a latent cross-district leak in the process: trainOnCard never checked seat). The A/D pips are replaced with one roster chip per A/D track, always, free or occupied; clicking a chip sets selectedCrew, wiring the board and the action panel to the same value. standingWest moves from CrewTray to TrackCard: two trays sharing one Office card need one shared split, not one each, and there is no such thing as "west of one particular A/D track". No save migration — Save replays through the engine — and a stale value on an emptied card is inert because nothing reads a split with no train standing there. The Division map's Office cell is now sized by A/D capacity rather than occupancy, so it holds still as trains arrive and leave; chips lay into fixed slots instead of centre-spreading onto the Limits cards either side. 584 tests, 0 failures. Verified end-to-end against the built app and a direct render of a 4-train Terminal (screenshotted). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SAt2YCXgd5qCjBcF2x34aK	2026-08-19 17:32:17 -04:00
JesseandClaude Opus 5	461c4d9bac	v0.4.8 — the Limits bound the whole district, the nine spots really are nine, and an action points at its square ... Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YQAJ4dND7enLj54eLyiF2C	2026-08-19 13:38:06 -04:00
Jesse	9f3b92d08e	v0.4.7 — the switching game: track order, the cut on your own card, and four rules ... Eight play reports and one design that had been written up and not built. The through-line is switching: what a card can hold, which end of a train a cut comes off, which way a train meets cars standing on the line, and what the board and the log say about all of it. TRACK ORDER FOR STANDING CARS, AND THE CUT ON YOUR OWN CARD Two reports turned out to be one root cause. `TrackCard.standing` claimed "in track order (§A.3)" and had no defined orientation at all, while `CrewTray.consist` does (nose first, relative to facing) — so every transfer between them was a conversion nothing performed. §A.3 says what it should be: cars occupy the track "in the same order they originally held, left-to-right". Left-to-right is west-to-east, and that is now the defined orientation of `standing` and of an industry track through `carsOn`. It is the board's orientation, not the train's, so it does not change when a different train touches the card. - Setting out is batch-invariant. Four cars at once, four singles and two pairs parked three different orders, one of them physically impossible. Successive cuts off the same end stack up towards the engine, so the insertion point is the train's own place in the row. - Approaching a cut from either end now mirrors. `couples` is built nearest-first along the direction of travel and reverses onto the nose, so the farthest car met ends up nose-most — which is what makes a run-around worth its Move. - A train no longer drives through its own cut. The walk began at the neighbour of the start square and never read the start card, so a crew could set cars out and pull straight away from them. Coupling is mandatory (§A.4) and your own square is no exception; the cut counts against the four-car limit. Setting out off the end you are not leaving by still works. `CrewTray.standingWest` records where a train stands among the cars on its card — a train may set out off both ends on one square, so which side a cut is on is not recoverable from the array alone. On the board, the cut is drawn split at the train — west cars left, east cars right, engine in the gap — and each car's tooltip says whether it stands ahead of or behind the engine. The history says which end a cut came off, and a move's button separates "takes your own boxcar back off this card" from cars found standing on the line. Decided: taking your own cut back on the square you are standing on is UNDOING the drop. It is exempt from trains 3/4's per-location freight budget, X13's "drop but not pick up" and X22's "empties only", and it refunds the budget the drop spent. Otherwise a legal-looking drop becomes silently one-way. Measured, 200 paired seeds, developer bot: -0.55 revenue (t = -3.63), freight revenue 1.11 -> 0.56. That cost is the bot's, not the rule's — its trains run engine-first, so at a stub industry it sets a car out between itself and the only way out, and the correct play is §A.5's facing-point move, which is the cross-turn planning TODO.md already records as out of reach of any bot. Filtering self-recoupling moves out of its options took recoupling from 625 of 1,029 set-outs to 101 of 677, and all 101 that remain are that case. Read the number as a bot measurement, not a balance one. THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RULING NAMES THE TRAINS IT IS ABOUT Reported: the Superintendent could not tell which train he was clearing. The heading asks the question now — "may Train 6 follow Train 4 onto the same Mainline card?" — and the trains moved to the FRONT of each button, because the button splits its label at the first em-dash and showed only the head. AN INDUSTRY TRACK HOLDS FOUR CARS, LIKE EVERY OTHER CARD Reported at undo 188: "we wanted to drop two cars, but were only allowed to drop one." An industry track was built as long as its box count, so a one-box industry had room for one car. Box count is how much WORK an industry can hold, not how much RAIL it has. Ordinary track was the other exception, unbounded; both are gone and every card holds four. THE FREIGHT AGENT MAY STAGE A LOAD BEFORE THE CAR IS THERE §6.3 asks nothing of the industry track — the empty car belongs to §9.3's Load the car, which is the Laborer's action. The gate now lives only there, so cargo can wait on the dock while the car to ship it in is still being switched in. Nothing can jam: a load in a green box is waiting, not stuck. THE TRUCK DOCK UNLOADS, AND BRINGS NOBODY +1 inbound, no Laborer. It printed +1 outbound and +1 Laborer, which made it a longer-host-list copy of Forklifts. Beside Packing Sheds it now does nothing at all, and the hand tooltip says so before it is played. Also in this release, from the days before: Mainline card tooltips computed from the crossing rule; an Extra starts from the Division Point its number sends it to; a modifier's suppressed grant comes back when a Whistle Post is upgraded; the Oil Refinery and the Grocer's Warehouse ship as well as receive, per the card reference; and the dormant defences name the attack they answer. `.claude/` is now gitignored — it holds Claude Code's worktrees, i.e. a second checkout of this repository. 570 tests, typecheck clean. The three published replays were re-recorded twice — legality changed, so bot play changed. Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.	2026-08-19 12:12:30 -04:00
Jesse	08339effba	more info on train moves in history. train info added to tooltip on timetable and division map. support for multiple trains in area switching. more info on train7/8 wrt location of coach on initial train build.	2026-08-16 21:45:19 -04:00
Jesse	6655e20ea8	v0.4.4 — New Game dialog for the opening hand and the three revenue rates, Yard renamed Interchange, and two movement bugs behind a mirrored consist	2026-08-14 22:39:50 -04:00
Jesse	49f8504b05	v0.4.0 — multiplayer Phases 0 and 1: seat and player split apart, turn state per player, the page behind a Session, and eight seat/player mix-ups fixed with tests that fail without them	2026-08-13 14:06:02 -04:00
Jesse	1bf1e95058	v0.3.0 — playtest fixes, two new rules, and §7 enforced	2026-08-12 21:08:28 -04:00
JesseandClaude Opus 5	5d825b97d2	v0.1.0 — undo, the crew's reach on the board, workers on the card, and four engine bugs ... Fifteen items from two playtest sessions. Three that read as drawing faults were engine bugs: cars could be added to a train that was not being made up (50 offers in 8 games), the make-up panel merged two trains and could couple a car to the wrong one, and an Office upgrade silently deleted what a Modifier had added. A fourth was a sentinel inside a coordinate's own value range — a Mainline placement travelling as row -1, which is an ordinary district row. Trains are now drawn the way they stand: west on the left, nose toward the way the engine faces, on both the district card and the Division chip. Undo steps back through the game by replaying the save without its last intent. The switching walk keeps its rejections, so the board can say why a square is not offered. Laborers and Porters are on the card, and the rule that a district only grows outwards is finally written down. Versions start here: third digit for fixes, second for a feature set, 1.0 for a release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GgtkX8JnvKa8y2tuJ8aQf4	2026-08-08 05:23:17 -04:00
Jesse	f4c0f49604	More bug fixes. Show the timetable, and stop the arrival message contradicting itself. Fixed division point in labels. And highlighted discard as targets.	2026-08-05 23:08:03 -04:00
Jesse	543584a2ca	user card Hand becomes the action surface, the board shows the train, and a reverse stops turning it around, other bug fixes too.	2026-08-05 19:18:26 -04:00
Jesse	1c321d4cea	make turnout description more clear. fix curves from breaking running track.	2026-08-05 10:03:50 -04:00
Jesse	9c76b1a5e2	Track becomes a deck card, Departments become decks, and trains must be made up to leave, industry restrictions enforced, update display and add a new game button	2026-08-05 08:28:22 -04:00