Two new MCP-workflow rules earned the hard way during the A0 gate. Paid for by
condensing the enemy-slide history and the LANTERN direction bullet into the
gotchas archive, which also records the full A0-gate lessons.
Corrected while there: the direction bullet still said the engine fork was OPEN
and must be surfaced before world code. DR-053 closed that on 2026-08-07 —
PARKED, Unity stays.
39850 bytes, 1110 headroom.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CLAUDE.md — it is loaded every session, so its errors cost the most:
- M13: it still said "No world code until the world-model spike passes
its design review" while DR-049 has been `accepted` since 07-13 and the
roadmap says PASSED. A hard contradiction between the two authority
docs, with CLAUDE.md winning by being always-loaded — plausibly part of
why Phase 2 never started. Now points at the build spec, warns it needs
re-anchoring, and links the parked engine fork.
- Records the H2 hazard as a rule: a socket whose SparkId is missing from
the baked AbilityDatabase silently reads Damage/Range/Cooldown 0.
- L12: the asmdef table was stale on all four rows; also notes the fifth
compilation unit (Scripts/Editor has no asmdef) and that tests now
reference Authoring.
- M19: per-machine setup — the machine-loss recovery checklist — was
missing Blender + blendermcp (which the committed /art-dev skill
hard-requires) and ctx7, and claimed a ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} in
.mcp.json that isn't there.
- Structures / harvest / persistence / BefourStudios bullets rewritten:
they described deleted subsystems.
- Net-zero rule honoured: the additions pushed it to 41,057 (over the
40,960 hard limit), so two long art-pipeline bullets moved verbatim to
the gotchas archive under a dated heading. 39,661 now — inside the
file's own 39,936 soft ceiling.
- M14: DR-053 files the Bevy fork as PARKED. The guide was reachable from
NOTHING — one file, zero inbound links, and its gating instruction
lived only in machine-local memory, which CLAUDE.md explicitly forbids
as a sole home. It now has a committed home and inbound links.
- DR-054 records this purge, including the three files that were in the
delete set until their consumers were checked and turned out to be
load-bearing.
- M15: 13 superseded DRs re-statused with `superseded_by`. Only DR-002
carried the field before, though the project's own template prescribes
it.
- M19: Home.md stated three wrong facts (latest DR, latest session, date)
— refreshed. Pillars.md and Systems_Index.md now carry warning banners:
both assert things the purges falsified, and Systems_Index still claims
to be "the accurate map of what exists in code today".
- L11: the 4 genuinely-broken wikilinks fixed (typo'd DR filenames). Zero
broken vault-internal links now.
- Session log written — the last three commits before today had none,
breaking the protocol's own bookend rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 'Synty share one Generic skeleton' note was WRONG - the pipeline is
HUMANOID (CharactersAvatar isHuman, muscle-curve clips). Corrected + the
Blender clip recipe added; paid for by archiving Aim-controls, the URP
m_AssetVersion blocker, VolumeProfile persistence, HDRP-convert and the
HudTheme bullets (verbatim in the gotchas archive, 2026-07-06 section).
39,959 bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DR-046 (portal-gated rooms, class-at-base via shared ClassSwapUtil, per-run
prep spend, Health.Max GhostField, C3/C4/Spitter) + the session log. CLAUDE.md
folds the batch into the core-loop bullet and corrects the now-wrong
'Health.Max unreplicated' line; paid net-zero (40921 B) by archiving the
one-time Rukhanka-samples bullet + trims into the gotchas archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Teaches the deep, interlocking loop — especially the inverted win condition
(you win by CLEARING EXPEDITIONS, not by surviving base sieges; DR-042/DR-043).
- OnboardingSystem: client-only observe-only PresentationSystemGroup overlay
(own UIDocument @ sortingOrder 60), soft-gated 10-beat coach-mark sequence
with a world-space ▶ pointer; never mutates sim / never destroys a ghost.
- OnboardingStepMath: pure, unit-tested step machine (snapshot + IsSatisfied +
scheme-aware prompts + pointer kinds + persisted-mask helpers).
- HowToPlayPanel: tabbed reference card (Controls / The Loop / Build / Threats /
Win-Lose), reachable from the main menu and the pause overlay.
- Per-client client-local state in GameSettings (TutorialHints + OnboardingMask
bitmask, additive) — a Join client keeps its own; a host save-wipe never
re-teaches. Settings toggle + menu "Replay Tutorial".
- Dev "Force Each Launch" toggle (GameSettings.ForceOnboardingEachLaunch):
SettingsService.Boot wipes the mask + forces hints on in-memory every launch
so the tutorial always replays fresh.
- HudSystem suppresses its own location hint while onboarding is active
(single prompt voice), via OnboardingState + [UpdateAfter(OnboardingSystem)].
Validated green: 20/20 EditMode; Play smoke confirmed overlay render, clean
U+25B6 pointer glyph, no system sort-cycle, and the force-wipe end-to-end.
Docs: DR-043 + session log; reusable lesson archived in the build-gotchas note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DR-033 records the felt-spend design (shared Charge ammo, atomic soft-fail,
ledger-fed Fabricator, no-ordering-edge trade-off, global HUD cue, no SaveData
bump). CLAUDE.md adds the EB-2 ★ bullet net-zero (trimmed bullets archived to
the gotchas archive under a 2026-06-12 heading).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DR-026 records the architecture (data-driven catalog + replicated buffers + reuse of the StatModifier/RPC machinery), the Phase 0-4 roadmap, the 7 validated decisions, and the deliberate gameplay choices (personal-harvest pivot, automation asymmetry, session-only inventory). Adds the Build-section inventory pointer to CLAUDE.md net-zero (39923 bytes, >1KB headroom) by condensing the persistence/world/HUD bullets; trimmed wording archived to the gotchas archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Session log + DR-025 for the off-world natural-frontier world redo; mark PolygonNatureBiomes in-use in the Synty inventory; archive the long-form gotchas (PNB ring-mesh white-torus, edit-mode region-fog preview, EG-entity vs cosmetic, execute_code DeleteAsset block, shadow-cast hygiene). CLAUDE.md: net-zero art pointer to DR-025 (39882 B, under the 40KB budget).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CLAUDE.md was 42126 bytes (over its own 40960-byte context-load limit). Trimmed to 39437 (1523B headroom): kept the stack/assembly tables, all high-recurrence hazards, bootstrap/DOTS/testing/guardrails; condensed the verbose mega-bullets to their essence + existing [[DR-###]] pointers; collapsed the redundant Memory table into a link to [[Documentation_Protocol]].
Added a 'Maintaining this file (size budget)' section so future edits self-enforce the limit (size-check commands, archive-don't-delete rule, net-zero rule).
Appended a dated, byte-faithful verbatim snapshot of the pre-trim CLAUDE.md to Docs/Vault/_Meta/CLAUDE_Build_Gotchas_Archive.md (headings demoted to nest) so nothing is lost from the vault. Verified via a 4-auditor workflow: archive complete + integrity pass; 1 condensation distortion + 2 nuance losses caught and fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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