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v0.8.0.9 — the bot plans its switching turn, stops wasting its draws, and the engine walks each route once
The developer bot, re-measured decision by decision against the bot before it, goes from about -0.3 revenue a game to about 4.8: - plans the whole switching turn before its first Move (sim/switch-planner.ts), +2.89 over 1600 paired seeds; closes TODO #53 - takes a face-up card only if it could play it, +1.52 over 1600 seeds - stops running Second Sections by accident in the New Train phase, +0.32 - lays track by what the district can do afterwards, +0.12 over 6400 seeds, run-arounds in 22 of 60 districts against 9 The engine is 2.8x faster with play proven identical: a route cache scoped to one unchanged position, applyIntent split into prepareIntent + commitEvents, and less allocation in exploreMoves. npm test now leaves out the bot simulations, which run as npm run test:sim. No rule changed; games in progress resume. Rejected candidates and the Second Section card question are in CHANGELOG.md and TODO.md (#104-#106). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX |
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v0.8.0 — the board replays what everyone else did, instead of arriving rearranged
TODO #13, #15 and #18 — Gitea#20 steps 2-4 pointed at a seated player's own screen. Every accepted intent, and every automatic phase that does anything, becomes an ordered presentation step. A bot's whole switching turn used to land in one push; now it arrives as a run of steps, the district panel follows whoever is acting, and a [N behind] … [Skip] row says how far the board is from the game. Solitaire runs the same path — one collector inside submit(), which both session kinds already funnel through — which is where its automatic phases finally get a visible beat. Dwell is assigned by kind: switching holds the screen, turn bookkeeping costs nothing, and the clock turning over earns the beat. Tunable per viewer without a rebuild, and off entirely at pace 0. Also: switching was the one class of action logging unattributed, and now names its train. Reasoning, measurements and the three things that turned out wrong are in CHANGELOG.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6 |
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v0.7.9.8 — the test command did not typecheck, and the plan had gone stale
Housekeeping before v0.8.0: the answer to "anything else that should be looked at first". One real hole, one stale document, and my own leavings. #102 — `npm test` passed green on a type error. `pretest` ran `scripts/build-web.ts`, which invokes `tsc --ignoreConfig` against three web entry points, so it saw only what those three transitively import and under a WEAKER configuration than tsconfig.json — no `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`, no `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `--types ''`. It never saw `src/server/` or a single file under `test/`. Demonstrated rather than argued: a planted `const DELIBERATE_TYPE_ERROR: number = 'not a number';` in src/server/session.ts gives `npm run typecheck` a TS2322 and `npm test` a clean `# fail 0`. `pretest` is `tsc --noEmit && node scripts/build-web.ts` now, and the same error exits 1 with the tests never running. This mattered THIS week rather than generally: v0.8.0 is steps 2-7 of the common board — display stream, credentials, persistence, Chromium supervisor — which is almost entirely src/server/, exactly the half the test command could not see. #103 — the plan had drifted from the code it is the source for. docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md was written 2026-08-27, still said "No implementation has been performed", and is what steps 2-7 get built from. Step 1 shipped across four releases since, so every "current code finding" under it described a fault that is now fixed — a document reading as present tense and nine days stale sends the next reader to fix things twice. Measured: its PublicFrame sketch lists four properties never built (protocolVersion, config, scoring, deckCounts) and omits 28 that exist, and the shape is the real difference — the implementation is FLAT where the plan grouped things into objects, so a renderer written from the sketch would not compile. The plan now says so at the top and at step 1, names src/sim/view.ts and the redaction allow-list as the authority, keeps the original sketch for its reasoning, and calls out `protocolVersion` as unbuilt rather than dropping it quietly — step 2 is the reconnecting display stream and is the first thing that would want one. One step-1 item is STRUCK OFF rather than built: "add the Red Flag holder to the public player projection". The premise does not hold here. `decks.redFlags` is written once, in setup.ts, from `optionalRules.emergencyToolbox`, and never again — `redFlag.play` emits `phaseEnded` and does not spend it — so every player holds one or none does, decided before the deal. A per-player `redFlagHeld` would be one already-public option copied N times, while telling every reader of the common board that it varies by player and might change mid-game. Worse than the absence. Pinned by test so it is not re-raised from the plan. Four dead imports removed, all mine: `HAND_LIMIT` left unused in apply.ts, view.ts and web/game.ts when 0.7.9.6 consolidated the three copies of the §6.2 test, and `actingPlayer` in web/game.ts, dead since 0.7.9.5 made `currentActor` delegate. Finding them re-measured #46: `tsc --noUnusedLocals` now reports 40, up from 29 on 2026-08-30. That entry's "without the flag this list simply regrows" is a measurement rather than a forecast now. The other 36 and the flag stay open. 946 tests pass, up from 943. No behaviour changes: three new tests pin an invariant, and the rest is a build command, dead imports and a document. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.7.9.7 — a device that said it was available all day after it was gone
The last item off 0.7.9.6's sweep, parked there as the one genuine maybe. It had a second half worth more than the first. #101 — Telegraph (+4), Telephone (+8) and Radio (+12) are "once a day, when dispatching facing trains, add +N to the other train's number". `enhancementText(key)` takes only the KEY, so the tooltip could not vary with anything: a spent Radio read "Once a day, add +12..." for the rest of the Day, advertising a bonus that was not there. That is `trainRules` before #100, in another corner of the same view. THE HALF THAT ACTUALLY SURPRISES. `spendDispatchBonus` reads `areaOf(s, s.clock.superintendent)` — the SUPERINTENDENT's own devices, not the train owner's — and the Fedora moves every STAGES_PER_SHIFT (3) Stages, four times a Day. So a player's Radio does nothing at all for three-quarters of the Day, and is spent automatically, without its owner being asked, during the quarter it is theirs. Neither half was anywhere on the board. The card now reads as one of three states — available and dispatching, unspent but idle while somebody else holds the Fedora, or spent until the next Day — and names the shift length, because "not now" without "for how long" is half an answer. A spent device is struck through on the board. Shown on EVERY district, not only the viewer's (Jesse's call): it is public, and a rival's spent Radio is what you want to know before forcing a meet. What counts as a device is `enhancementRule(key)?.dispatchBonus` rather than three keys written out in the view — the ladder lives in ENHANCEMENT_RULES and a fourth rung would otherwise be silently exempt. A STALE COMMENT CORRECTED, AND PINNED. `advance.ts` warned that indexing a SEAT-keyed area with the PLAYER holding the Fedora "is right only while seating is the identity map". It read as a live Employee Rotation bug and was not one: `areaOf(s, p)` IS `areaAtSeat(s, seatOf(s, p))`. A comment that sends the next reader chasing a bug that does not exist costs about what the bug would. Rewritten, and the claim is now a test — seating set to a real permutation, and the Superintendent's own district rather than the seat with the same index is the one that reads as dispatching. TWO THINGS MUTATION CAUGHT THAT PASSING DID NOT. A test asserted the ABSENCE of /spent|Fedora/ with the Fedora held, and a mutant with the `dispatchBonus` guard deleted PASSED it — the leaked text in that case says "Available today, and this district is dispatching", which contains neither word. A test that something was left alone has to compare it against what it should be, so it asserts equality with `enhancementText` now, in both Fedora states. And the replay wire format needed the field: cells pack positionally, so the flag is index 9 and reads `?? []`, the same tolerance `standingWest` uses — older recordings report no device spent, which is what they drew at the time, so every published replay is unchanged. 943 tests pass, up from 934. NOT VERIFIED AT A TABLE, like 0.7.9.6. #39 and #35 still stand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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v0.7.9.6 — three things the engine knew and the screen did not
Found by looking rather than by being told. Gitea#21, #22, #94 and #96 were four instances of one fault in a row — the engine gains something that changes what a train may do, and nothing draws it — and every one was found by a player hitting it. So instead of waiting for the fifth, every field of GameState and its nested types was enumerated, checked for a reader in sim/view.ts, src/web/ and sim/narrate.ts, and the survivors verified BY RUNNING THE ENGINE rather than by trusting the grep. Four fields had no reader. `movedThisPhase` lives and dies inside one `advance` call and is nobody's business. The other three are below. What was ruled out matters as much: `freightWorked`, `drawnThisTurn`, `freightAgentUsed`, `switchedSince` and `movesUsed` are invisible on purpose, their effect already showing as legality or as a complement already on the Frame. A field is not a display gap merely because nothing renders it. #98 — the Crew Tray pool. §7 scarcity is called an explicit mechanic and was explicit only in the engine. The blocked panel had one tray rule, keyed off the train due out this Stage, so a player who spent a card on an Extra or ordered a second section got an EMPTY panel while their train sat behind an exhausted pool — both having been announced once in the log in a line promising a future event that nothing then confirmed. The shared table carries the pool and the queue now, so the common board gets it too, and the panel reports all three with the count beside them. #99 — a train held at the Limits vanished off the board, and this one had shipped. The Interlocking stops an inbound train on the Limit Track rather than colliding with a full Office. `arriveAtOffice` removes the tray from the Mainline node's `transits` and the Interlocking branch pushes it onto `heldAtLimits` without assigning `tray.position` — and the map draws mainline nodes from `transits` and squares from `position.at === 'grid'`, so between the two it was drawn in NEITHER. It disappeared on arrival and reappeared in the Office some Stages later. Fixed in the view: the engine is right, and `position` is left alone deliberately so nothing treats the train as standing somewhere it could be switched from. #100 — the Campaign Train's speeches change its rules, and the card said the same thing before and after. Worse, the "EXPEDITED ... costs 1 Revenue" warning prints only under `rules.expedite`, so X17 became subject to a fault whose warning the game shows to every other expedited train and never to it. `trainRules` reads `speechMade` now and borrows `isExpedited` from advance.ts rather than restating the test. #45 — the 0.7.9 dead-field audit, finished, and the answer was different for each. `overHandLimit` is WIRED: its consumer existed all along and was inferring the hand limit from the ABSENCE of `draw.end` in the menu, which is sound only while `check` keeps refusing for exactly three reasons. `viewerSeat` is DOCUMENTED, with a condition — Gitea#20's board keys districts by seat, and the note says to delete it if step 2 ships without using it. The audit had missed a third limb. `game.mustPlayCard` was assigned on every submit and read by nothing: deleted. Chasing it turned up the thing worth fixing — the §6.2 hand-limit test existed in THREE places, all agreeing, which is the state #96's disagreement started from. One `overHandLimit(state, player)` in state.ts now, and the other two ask it. `Session.overHandLimit()` is deleted rather than kept: the Frame already carries the fact, so the method was a second path to it. 934 tests pass, up from 917. The 17 new ones were written red, and each fix checked by mutation: reverting `speechMade` fails 2, dropping the held-train projection fails 4, forgetting the tray queues fails 2. The empty blocked panel is reported beside its positive control, since an empty result from a broken function proves nothing. NOT VERIFIED AT A TABLE. Engine and view work, checked by tests and by running the engine. #39 and #35 still stand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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v0.7.9.5 — two answers to one question, and the copy nobody read
Both faults are in what 0.7.9.4 had just built, and both are the same shape: a second copy of an answer that agreed with the first until it didn't. #96 — the §3.3 vote has no actor, and the screen named one anyway. The vote is PARALLEL: every un-voted seat may vote at any moment, in any order, one refusal ends it, and `apply.ts` says where it accepts one that there is no actor to be. The turn chart named the last seat to move before the timetable ran out — no more claim on the vote than anybody else — directly above a tally correctly showing three seats outstanding. The cause is worth more than the symptom. `currentActor(game)` (`web/game.ts`) guarded on `status !== 'active'`; `currentActorOfState` (`sim/view.ts`), added the same day in #95 and the one the frame calls, did not, so it handed back whatever `clock.currentActor` was left holding. The view now carries the guard and `currentActor` delegates to it. That matters more than the tidiness: `currentActor` is what REFUSES an intent, so a screen answering differently tells the table to wait on a player the server would turn away. The fourth of this class after Gitea#21, #22 and #94 — but the first found by asking a view helper its question in a state the game is not `active` in, which is the generalisation and is cheaper than finding the fifth the same way. #97 — narration reaches a seat once, by one path. `Frame.lines` carried the whole log on every push to every seat, and nothing read it: `RemoteSession` accumulates from `push.lines` alone and its `lines()` returns that accumulator, so the log was serialised into every frame, grew all game, and was discarded on arrival while `linesSince` sent the same text correctly beside it. The duplicate was masking a bug rather than merely wasting bandwidth. `connect()` cleared `lastFrame` but not `sentLines`, so a reconnecting seat was told "nothing new since your last push" while the browser it answered had just reloaded from an EMPTY accumulator — the history panel came back blank, mid-game, with the server holding the whole log. So the two halves are one change, and the plan's instruction taken alone ("stop passing the full game log into `frameFor()`") would have deleted a real behaviour rather than a duplicate. Every remaining reader of `Frame.lines` was checked before the field was emptied: all of them are the solitaire and replay path, which builds Frames through `snapshot()` directly and never goes near a session. One test was wrong before the code was. The first draft of the reconnect test connected inside its own fixture, so both sides of the comparison were the empty array and it passed against the broken server. Each test now asserts its premise is non-empty before comparing. Also: `docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md` is committed. It was never added — not ignored, just missed — while TODO.md cites it twice as the plan for all of v0.8.0 and the last two releases were built from it, so a clone got a TODO pointing at a file that did not exist. 917 tests pass, up from 909. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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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 |
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v0.7.9.3 — the reference says what only the code knows, and saves get a rule
The generated card reference now carries the half TODO #15a said was the point of generating it: every Enhancement's `live` / `dormantSolo` / `unbuilt` status — whether its printed effect actually resolves yet — and the opponent-directed Action and Space-use cards, none of which is dealt in any deck. A transcription cannot carry either fact. Card counts are removed throughout, as ruled: they move with play balance so a document printing them is stale on the next retune. Where a count matters it is a yes/no "is this dealt at all", which is a fact about the design rather than the current tuning. #88 closes with it — it asked whether `card-reference.md`'s industry rows were stale, deliberately without rewriting them since Laborer counts are a balance decision. They are; nothing in the engine changed; that file is simply no longer where anyone looks. The balance question it guarded is #70. Save compatibility becomes a general rule in `README.md` § Design notes rather than a fact restated per version: a save is a list of moves and reopens by being re-played through the CURRENT rules, so any change that makes a once-legal move illegal stops an older one there — a deck change being the likeliest breaker. It fails safe every time. #40 generalised, #32's version-specific note dropped, #52 carries the ruling that versioned replays are a post-1.0 question. #94 opened: a Red Flag set out at an Office's Limits holds the next train from that side and is drawn nowhere. `DivisionView`'s office node has no `redFlag` field and `board-svg.ts` never mentions one, so after the single log line announcing it there is nothing on screen. Same class as Gitea#21 and #22, and already on the common board's step 1 list. No engine change. 897 tests pass, unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E3Qk7uresKCHksdZajXCLg |
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v0.7.9.2 — two things the table could hear that only one seat should
Both leaks were found while planning the common board (Gitea#20 step 1), and both are live multiplayer bugs with or without that display, so they are fixed now rather than with 0.8.0. `game.log` is one shared list and `linesSince(seat)` slices it with no per-seat filter, so every line reaches every player. It carried the SEED in the opening line of each multiplayer game — the whole future of the deal — and the NAME OF A CARD DRAWN BLIND from the face-down Home Office deck. Solitaire deliberately keeps both: a one-seat table has nobody to leak to, the seed is what a bug report quotes, and a player's own history naming their own draw is the record. A Department slot is face up and stays named. The drawer still learns their card through `justDrawn`, which already goes to that seat alone. Neither was found by a test. Every test in `redaction.test.ts` passes an empty log, so the whole of narration has sat outside the redaction net since the net was built. Both now have tests there; TODO #91 carries what is still owed and supersedes #78, which described a gap that had already been closed and never mentioned this one. `docs/rules/` had no current description of the game, and `content.ts` named `card-reference.md` as the file that carries what the cards say — a file whose own banner says not to use its numbers, describing the v0.4.5 deck where 3/4 is a Mail-Express with three coaches. Every file in that directory is a deliberate historical record, so none of them is rewritten. `as-built.md` is new and GENERATED from the same catalogues the engine instantiates from, with a test that re-runs the generator and fails when the checked-in file disagrees. A hand-written replacement would have drifted the same way, for the same reason. TODO.md: #32 closed — the playtest migration note did its job and the jump is made; the durable fact it carried is kept. #78 retired in favour of #91. The "play it at a table" section now records that 0.7.4-0.7.9 were test-run without change requests, and that more testing comes at the end of the 0.7.9 series. 897 tests pass, up from 891. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E3Qk7uresKCHksdZajXCLg |
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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 |
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TODO.md: work sections first, the argument moved to the back
The file had reached 2,441 lines and had to be read end to end to find out what was live. Restructured with Jesse. WHAT WAS WRONG was not the ordering. Eight subject sections sat under a 43-entry chronological queue that had come to duplicate them: the queue was where the priority lived, the sections were where the reasoning lived, so every live item existed in both and drifted between them. That is what let eight items be closed in one place and left open in the other last week, which reads as live work and is worse than no entry at all. One item per place now. THE SHAPE. A short overview; then "Every time", the process this project runs on — the version bump being Jesse's call, signed commits and tags, deploying from the right line, the wrapper release sequence, and the lesson that only a test failing before the fix proves a fix; then an index; then ten work sections in priority order, one per area, each holding every open item for that area. Play it at a table first, because the file itself calls it the largest gap in the project. Gitea#20 second, as v0.8.0. Then multiplayer operations, the screen, replays, rules, balance, the bot, code health, documentation. THE ARGUMENT MOVED TO THE BACK, NOT AWAY. An item in a work section is a few lines: what it is, what it blocks, what it would cost. The measurements, rulings and rejected approaches behind it are in a Reference section keyed by the same number, moved verbatim. All 61 open items have one. Then Done, which keeps every closed item because several are the only record of a ruling or a lesson. Checked mechanically rather than trusted: every lead and every body line over 40 characters from all 120 items of the old file was asserted present in the new one. Zero fragments lost. Two rendering bugs the move introduced were caught the same way — bodies that were list continuations indented 4 or 6 spaces render as CODE BLOCKS once they are no longer inside a list, and a wrapped lead splits mid sentence if a blank line is inserted before its continuation. THE NUMBERS ARE PERMANENT IDS. Items keep the number they were raised under for life, wherever they later move, because commit messages, Gitea comments and other items refer to them by number. Nothing was renumbered; previously unnumbered items took the next free numbers. Items that existed only as queue entries — 32, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42a — are proper items with checkboxes for the first time, which is why the open count reads 61 against last week's 54 without anything new being raised. Also carries the two items Jesse asked for while finishing 0.7.9. #44: how much history the panel holds should be configurable, with his three candidates left deliberately open — a StartOS action reaches only multiplayer, since solitaire has no server; per game puts a display preference into the ruleset and every save; per browser is where every other display preference already lives. The cap has no recorded reason anywhere, and the replay viewer already answers the same question in a different unit. #46: 29 unused declarations and no flag to catch them, with the argument that the flag matters more than the 29. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YTaNBL1jVxNqgFdjHkHoo3 |
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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 |
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31b942cc38 |
TODO.md had stopped tracking its own closures
Nothing was wrong with the ordering. What had gone wrong is that eight
items were done or superseded in one place and still open in another,
which reads as live work — worse than no entry at all. Found by
reviewing the file against the Gitea tracker and the git log, not by
reading it.
NEXT WAS 43 CHRONOLOGICAL ENTRIES, 26 OF THEM STRUCK THROUGH, and the
live work had stopped being visible in it. It is grouped by what each
item is WAITING ON now — blocked on a table, the screen, waiting on
something outside the code, unscheduled, standing practice — with the
closed entries moved to a Settled block at the end of the section.
EVERY NUMBER IS KEPT AS A STABLE ID. The rest of the file refers to
items by number ("decide with item 15", "same drawing pass as 19-21"),
so renumbering would have silently broken every cross-reference.
Numbers are ids, not positions, and the file now says so. The one
reference that pointed at a settled item (item 22, the dead centre of
the Division map) is rewritten to name the principle that outlived it
rather than the item.
EIGHT STALE ITEMS CLOSED. The Heavy Grade orientation was fixed in
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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 |
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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a02d1fcffe |
TODO: v0.7.4 is shipped and installed, and four features are unplayed
Records the close of the 2026-08-29 session. #38, done: Gitea#13, #5 and #19 in v0.7.4, wrapper 085b88b as 0.7.4:0, installed on phoenix.local. Each issue carries a comment naming its commit and what was ruled, per the standing instruction in #30 — auto-closing alone leaves no record of which release answered a report. #37 extended: the wrapper went 0.7.3 then 0.7.4 the same day, and the sequence is written down rather than rediscovered next time. Both tags signed and pushed. Three things the session leaves behind, and the first is the one that matters: #39 — NOTHING FROM v0.7.4 HAS BEEN PLAYED BY A HUMAN, and nor has extended play from v0.7.3 (#35). Four features shipped without a table between them. Two of them are interruptions that stop the Mainline Phase and put a question in front of somebody mid-thought, which is exactly what only play reveals. #40 — a save from before v0.7.4 may not replay, and nobody has been told. Same shape as #32 for the playtest line. It fails safe and WHISTLE-4086 did survive on phoenix, so "may not" rather than "will not". #41 — the bot still cannot use the half of Red Flags a human would: planting a flag on purpose to buy a Stage for switching. It takes the danger prompt unconditionally and still plays zero in 200 games. Also de-duplicates #35, where an earlier edit left the superseded paragraph appended to the rewritten one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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19a6a47ab6 |
v0.7.4 — Red Flags hold a train out of your Limits (Gitea#19)
"If played, asked FLAG EAST or FLAG WEST. That stops all trains from entering your limits from that direction (i.e. Flag East holds westbound trains). You can do this if you see a problem or wish to complete switching." REPLACES the old rule outright, per Jesse's call. Red Flags used to be played on a stopped train out on the Mainline and protected it from a rear-ender: offered 4,212 times and played 4 across 600 games, a mechanic nobody used, and ABS Signals already does that job better. The flag is now planted on one side of your own district and holds the next train arriving from that side. SPENT ON THE TRAIN IT STOPS. One card, one train, so there is no lifting action to build, nothing to forget, and a flag cannot quietly strangle the Division. The held train loses one Mainline Phase and comes in on the next — it buys a Stage to clear the lead, which is what "wish to complete switching" asks for. PLAYABLE OUT OF PHASE, which is the other half of the issue: when an arrival would certainly collide and the district's owner holds the card, the phase breaks in and asks. Offered ONLY to somebody holding one — a prompt with a single button is not a choice, and it would leak that a collision is coming. The danger is read from §8.3's own two triggers rather than restated, so the prompt cannot offer a flag against a collision that will not happen. Built on the decision union Gitea#5 introduced: this adds a `redFlag` case and nothing else structural. THE BOT STILL NEVER PLAYS IT, AND I MEASURED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. It now takes the out-of-phase prompt unconditionally — the engine has already established the danger, so there is nothing left to judge — and over 200 solitaire games `redFlagsSet` fires ZERO times. The prompt needs an arrival that would collide (0.14 per game, about one game in seven) to coincide with holding the card from a three-card hand out of 121. So the anomaly exemption in sim.test.ts stays, but its comment no longer claims the bot is unwilling: it is measuring deck luck. What is left to fix is the half of the card a human would use, planting a flag on purpose to buy switching time, and TODO.md now says that instead of the old finding. A BUG WORTH RECORDING, because the next interruption will meet it too: the flag was originally taken down in a `reduce` case, which never fires for an event advance.ts emits — the phase driver mutates state and then describes it. The flag stayed up and held every train that came. test/events.test.ts's unreduced-event registry is what makes that class of mistake visible, and `redFlagSpent` is on it deliberately now, with the reasoning. 858 tests pass. Closes #19 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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9ae8e9e09d |
TODO: extended play verified against the running server on phoenix.local
v0.7.3:0 is installed. #35 keeps its heading — nobody has played this at a table with humans — but the engine and server half is no longer merely compiled. Dealt a two-seat competitive game over the HTTP API with days: 1, played it to the end of its timetable, and watched it reach `awaitingExtension` with the official result frozen at config.days. Voted yes; the bot followed; the game returned to active with extraDays: 1 and the official outcome unchanged. Both test games were deleted afterwards. The carry-over claim was checked the same way rather than asserted. phoenix held five saves before the update, one resumable; after it the resume log is identical — same game, same 7 intents, same three refusals at the same move with the same code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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5865c3a6b7 |
TODO: the wrapper is on 0.7.3, and #13 is the harder reading after all
Three updates from the 2026-08-29 session, none of them code. #37, new and already done: the StartOS wrapper is bumped to 0.7.3 (`74aea24` in station-master-startos). Recorded with what was verified — check, prettier, pack — and what was not: it is not installed on a box and has not been played, which is #35 and still open. #13 is settled, and as the reading that costs more. Jesse: "I want to be able to watch other players and bots make their moves. It's not fun to do my turn and have magic happen in the background and then have to figure out what others did." The entry had explicitly left open which of two things was meant — a log-legibility problem or a new view — and it is the second. It is Gitea#20 step 4 pointed at a player's screen rather than the common board, and `docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md` already has the mechanism; what it does not have is the seated-player half, which that plan deliberately excludes. Jesse: "this relates to issue #20 and will require a lot more thinking." Marked to be designed with #20, not started alone. #7 is on hold: StartOS 0.4.0.2 is expected to improve action displays, and the diagnosis behind that item is that the action-result view collapses newlines — exactly the sort of thing a platform release fixes. Re-read the real output before designing around a limitation that may have been lifted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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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 |
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510e33bac7 | TODO: the wrapper is on 0.7.2, and the playtesters need telling their saves are dead | ||
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c4a08433ba | TODO: the release follow-ups, and the wrapper bump is waiting on a v0.7.2 tag | ||
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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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 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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603d38602c |
TODO: record the 0.4.9 divergence on the Local's coach
Checked while answering whether v0.7.0 needed porting to the playtest line: almost none of it does, but §A.4's coach ruling from v0.5.0 is a code difference that line never received — `!atOffice` on the coachStaysOnStationTrack check. Jesse's call is not to port it mid-playtest; written down so the divergence is a decision rather than a surprise, and so that line's README is not "corrected" into describing behaviour its build does not have. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016JczK5i33ZNSf2PtzZqdhS |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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v0.5.5 — a remembered session for a game that no longer exists
Reported after updating to v0.5.4: clicking Multiplayer went straight into a game with no lobby and no controls, and the board was blank. Three things lined up. start() enters a remembered session WITHOUT checking it still exists — that is what makes reconnection seamless, and it is why the lobby was skipped. The v0.5.4 update had refused to resume that game, its save being recorded under v0.5.3 and the engine-version check being exact (D7). And createRemoteSession had no onerror at all, so EventSource retried the resulting 404 forever in silence while frame stayed null and nothing rendered. The only escape was clearing site data, and nothing on screen said so. v0.5.3's Manage Game -> End had just widened the same dead end: it closes every watcher's stream, so a player whose game an administrator ended would sit frozen on a stale board indefinitely, for exactly the same reason. GET /api/session?token= is new: a cheap yes/no on whether a token still names a live game. EventSource fires error identically for a transient blip — the expected shape of a game idle for minutes (§9) — and for a 404 it will retry forever, and exposes no status code either way, so the client asks rather than guessing. Only a definite 404 closes the stream and reports the game gone; a flaky network still self-heals. The page then forgets the stored session, says why (ended by an administrator, or the service was updated, which does not carry games across), and drops into the lobby. Forgetting the token is what stops the next load repeating it. It also stops rendering nothing while it waits — "… connecting to the game" sits in the presence banner until the first push arrives, because a page showing nothing is indistinguishable from a broken one, which is what this looked like. Recorded but NOT fixed, in TODO.md: three releases in a row destroyed every game in progress, and v0.5.4's changes were rendering only. The refusal is right, but the test is exact equality against the PACKAGE version, which moves for reasons unrelated to the rules. Three options costed; the recommendation is to replay the save and refuse only if an intent actually rejects — the real question rather than a proxy for it, and a full replay measures ~100 ms. Verified live: /api/session answers 200 for a seated token, 404 once an administrator ends the game, 404 for a garbage token, and /api/stream 404s in the same state — which is the response EventSource had been retrying silently. 673 tests pass. |
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v0.5.4 — the map says whose railroad is whose
Six things found playing the StartOS build, all of them the game telling you what it already knew. The lobby's Start button did not look disabled when it was. The reported symptom was "it says it's waiting for a player but Start is enabled" — it wasn't: the note and the disabled assignment are two lines apart in the same block. The page had only `header button:disabled` and `#actions button:disabled`, and #lb-start is in neither, so a disabled button kept its normal face AND still lit up under the cursor from the generic button:hover. It advertised a click it would refuse. The rule is generic now. The game code was rendered as "— code TRESTLE-5109" in dim text beside a heading, reading like a reference number rather than the thing you have to send somebody. It is a labelled block at 22px with a Copy button, and a clipboard refusal says the code can be selected instead of failing silently. The blurb under it was also WRONG — it claimed the chairs were "in the order everyone joined", which stopped being true in v0.4.1 when the §4.4 D12 started deciding. It now says what actually happens. Every Office on the Division map was labelled with its tier, which every other player's Office also has, so four districts read identically and "where does Bob sit" had no answer on the one map showing where trains are. The owner's name takes the headline and the tier moves beside the A/D count. Amber marks whose move it is — the same "happening here" the action panel uses — and "(you)" is spelled out on the reader's own district, because colour alone cannot say which of four railroads is yours. Turn colour wins over the you-colour when both apply: whose turn it is changes every few seconds, which railroad is yours never does. Under the map, the chain in words with the roll behind it: "West to East: Alice (1) → Bot 2 (5) → Bot 1 (11)". state.openingRolls has been kept for exactly this since v0.4.1 and nothing had displayed it. It also answers "is the host always at the eastern end" outright — no. Alice there is the host, rolled lowest, and sits at the western end. Supporting: Frame gained viewer and viewerSeat. Every private field on it was already scoped to one player, but nothing said which player, so a page could draw a railroad without being able to say whose it was — harmless in solitaire, the first question at four seats. Frame also gained openingRolls. Bots are Bot 1 / Bot 2 rather than all Bot, since two of them are two different railroads. The standalone replay gets all of it: players, actor and viewer are not delta'd keys in compress, so they ride whole on every frame and replay.ts passes the same roster. Verified: 673 tests pass (668 + 5). The new ones were mutation-checked — removing the (you) suffix, never applying the turn mark, and reinstating the pre-v0.4.1 identity seating each fail the suite. The seating test deliberately asserts across six seeds that the eastern end is NOT always player 0, which is the claim it exists to defend. |
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v0.5.3 — a table you size yourself, and games an administrator can see and end
Both halves came out of playing the StartOS build. The wrapper's health
check and admin actions consume this; they land separately.
The host picks the table size (2-4) when creating a game, and the seats
array is built at that length once. Before, it GREW as people joined, so
the four rows on screen were partly fiction — a 2-player game just started
with a 2-long array, while a host who dropped a bot into a later chair
padded it with a null and silently disabled Start behind a one-line note.
A gap can no longer be written down rather than merely being refused.
That also avoided a trap. Compacting seats at Lobby.Start — the obvious
way to support a "closed" chair — would have shifted the player index that
every PlayerSession stamps at join time and that /api/stream and
/api/intent both route by, handing a player somebody else's railroad with
no error anywhere.
And it fixed a live balance bug: minCombinedRevenue is derived from the
player count, but the config was fixed at CREATE while the count wasn't
known until START, so the lobby guessed 4. Every 2-player game ran against
a floor of 60 instead of 30 — and missing the floor means everyone loses,
so a 2-player competitive game was set up to fail for a UI artifact rather
than a rule.
/api/health gained games:{active,lobby}, read from a new cheap summary()
on GameSession rather than exportSave(), which would copy every intent of
every game to answer a question about none of them. Three admin routes are
new behind an ADMIN_SECRET env var in an x-admin-secret header: GET
/api/games, GET /api/games/<id>/save, DELETE /api/games/<id>. Until now a
started game could not be ended by anyone — no route, no player action, no
resignation — so an abandoned game stayed active in the index and was
faithfully resumed on every boot, forever.
Three deliberate choices there: the admin secret is NOT the join secret,
which every player holds and which would therefore let anyone at the table
destroy anyone else's game; unset means the routes 404 exactly as any
unknown path does, with or without a header, so a server never given an
administrator doesn't advertise that it has one; and a delete returns the
deleted game's save, since the intents are the game (D5) — nothing is
destroyed without being handed to whoever destroyed it.
SavedGame gained an optional lastMoveAt (falling back to createdAt) so
"has this stalled?" survives a restart. Kept out of history for the same
reason the turn timings are: a replay must reproduce a game from decisions
alone, and wall-clock is not a decision.
index.ts logs "Resuming N saved games..." before the loop rather than one
line per game after it. Measured a full 4-player game at 100ms to replay,
and only unfinished games are replayed, so listening before loading would
have bought nothing for the cost of a "still loading" state everywhere.
Verified: 667 tests pass (662 + 5), and the new session tests were checked
against two mutations (lastMoveAt never advancing; resume dropping it) to
confirm they fail without the code. Live against a running server: health
counts tracking through the lobby->game transition, admin auth rejecting a
missing and a wrong secret, list/export/delete, the deleted game's files
and index entry actually gone from disk, a second delete 404ing, the admin
routes invisible when ADMIN_SECRET is unset, and a 3-player table refusing
a 4th player and a size of 5 refused at the door.
Also carries the TODO items raised on 2026-08-21: the lobby offering no
game parameters (the floor bug within it now fixed, the form still
missing), and the four optionalRules — of which only reducedVisibility and
emergencyToolbox are read by anything, while sisterTrains and
employeeRotation are declared, defaulted, and consulted nowhere.
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v0.5.1 — multiplayer Phase 4: lobby, sessions, reconnection
A real server existed since v0.5.0 but nobody could reach it without a hand-built ?seat=&secret= URL. This is what makes it a game you can actually create or join. The server now hosts more than one game: src/server/lobby.ts (new) is pure logic — creating, joining, bot seats, host transfer, starting — same split session.ts already draws for a running game. persistence.ts gained one directory per gameId plus a top-level index so index.ts resumes every saved game on boot. /api/stream and /api/intent now authenticate by session token instead of ?seat=&secret= — the token alone proves identity (lobby-and-sessions.md §1), so the join secret's job ends at the lobby door. Bots fill empty seats at Lobby.Start only, never take over a disconnected human (D8): session.ts gained driveBots(), playing developerBot forward through consecutive bot seats after every accepted intent. Disconnect keeps the seat and says so — Push gained an optional presence field, built entirely by http.ts and never routed through the engine, since a disconnect is transport news, not a GameEvent. Host rights pass to the earliest-joined remaining player if the host drops before start. Client: src/web/lobby.ts adds create/join forms and a live seating screen; localStorage replaces ?seat= for reconnecting straight back into a game already joined. A Multiplayer button sits beside New game; the New Game dialog itself is untouched. Found only by the live smoke test, not by typechecking: /api/intent read its token from the JSON body while the client sends it in the query string (matching /api/stream) — every intent failed "no such game" until caught by curl-level verification. Doc fix: multiplayer.md's D18 said the player cap was 6; lobby-and-sessions.md §2 says 2-4 with the reasoning and the test coverage to back it. The two had drifted apart. D18 now reads 2-4. Not verified: an actual browser walking through the lobby screens — none available in this environment, same limitation Phase 2's RemoteSession shipped under. 656 tests, 0 failures. tools/jitsi-harness/ deliberately left untracked — unrelated side-project work, not part of this release. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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. | ||
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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 | ||
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d1314066bd | v0.4.3 fixed load/unload bugs. empty cars must be staged prior to loading. rolling stock is now conserved. | ||
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393a669418 | v0.4.2 fixed passenger trains not stopping at office. changeed revenue for train completing run - 1 point to every player when train exits division | ||
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a7221dcf20 | v0.4.1 - bug fixes. initial d12 rolls determine what player in which seat. | ||
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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 | ||
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216006b091 | v0.3.1 — multiplayer groundwork: 13 engine tests covering 2-4 player games, a seat parameter on snapshot and actionMenu so a player sees their own railroad rather than seat 0's, and the 22 opponent-directed cards held out of every deck until they are built | ||
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1bf1e95058 | v0.3.0 — playtest fixes, two new rules, and §7 enforced |