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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR
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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR
The four hand-written references brought up to the game as it actually runs,
ahead of the next testing round, plus a Quickstart to hand a tester who has never
played. They had not been touched since v0.6.2 — a month and two minor versions —
and each now says at the top which build it describes.
ONE LIVE BUG CAME OUT OF THE PASS. mainlineDescription told players "Cars may be
sorted into any new order here" on the Interchange. It is the printed capability
and has never been implemented: nothing reads sortsCars to permit a sort, and its
one live use is marking the card an Extra may be made up on, because it is the
Mainline card with a yard. That sentence is not only documentation — view.ts
renders it as a Mainline card's `what`, so it is what a player reads on the
board, and the generated reference printed a "Sorts cars: yes" column beside it.
A card advertising a button that does not exist sends a player hunting for it and
then concluding the game is broken.
What the documents had wrong, all of it verified against the code rather than
read for tone: the victory model in the Rules book (firstToTarget /
highestAfterDays and the target-bearing length presets stopped existing in
2026-08 — it is a free days count and a combined floor of 3 x players x days);
"there is no lobby, no server, no multiplayer"; crossing time in mph rather than
regions; Extras launched automatically eastbound; the Uncontrolled Siding listed
as a passing card; industry track length taken from the box count; and a
"Sister Trains" optional rule that never existed. The Home deck's counts table
came out under TODO #15a — Jesse's own ruling that counts move with balance —
and it had been wrong for a month, which is the argument made twice.
The Home and Mainline deck references are restructured to explain how a deck is
USED and to defer every per-card table to rules/as-built.md. Duplicating it by
hand is precisely the drift #15a was raised about: as-built needed no correction
beyond the Interchange, because build:cards regenerates it and a test fails when
the checked-in file disagrees. Everything hand-maintained around it had drifted;
it had not.
docs/design.md, the index everything starts from, said v0.4.3, "what is not: the
server", and 493 tests. It now also lists the player-facing references, which it
never has, so the Quickstart is findable at all.
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
