• face eye-ring 600/822 (73%) -> 7 families, largest 30% archetype 7 of 9 alien forms won ZERO draws -> 12 appear, largest 22% plan stalk+insectoid = 91% -> 6 plans
• None of it was new capability. The face test opened on `body.eyes >= 4` and eyes tops out at exactly 4, so the eye count — the weakest, saturating signal — took first refusal from five better ones.
• THE HORIZON IS NOT EMPTY. backdrop.js — 1,300 lines of tested city/farm shape grammar — was replaced by an empty Object3D and drew nothing.
• THE SOUNDFONT SWAP DUCKS. It stalled: zone ids are font-qualified so two fonts can coexist, which means every zone of an incoming sampled font is a cache miss

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; font-rotation, starcruise and backdrop gates pass. -> v56.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

27407e3 · colophon · source

• CALL IT ANALOG. The font key was `minimoog`; this is an analog-style subtractive voice, not a Model D, and naming it after a specific instrument claims something untrue.
• OPEN FULLY ZOOMED OUT. The first view has one job — show the whole journey — and the only way to be sure of that is to show the whole world.
• THE BASS WAS WALKING OVER THE MIX, and it is the widening's fault. Instruments that were never basses now sit in the bass chair, and the strip they inherited is written for a bass GUITAR: at lpf 5200 a bass…
• THE BASS WAS NOT ON THE BUSES AT ALL. "Never mud / bass stays centered" is right in principle and had been taken all the way to dry

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; all-sampled, segment-parity, strip-fuzz, font-rotation, explorer-ui and genre-viz pass. -> v54.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

454e284 · colophon · source

• THE BLOCKER WAS THAT ZONE IDS WERE NOT FONT-QUALIFIED. Every font reused the same `ins_<instr>_<n>` id pointing at a different file
• THE GENTLE PART NEEDED NOTHING NEW. Set the font, re-target, and the flip queue walks the voices over one at a time — one flip per two bars, HOLD_BARS apart, identity dims first.
• ONE THING WAS GENUINELY MISSING — state.samplerLib was in no flip. It is the map forceSampled resolves a voice through when the voice carries no sampler of its own, and while every state was built under one soundfont it never mattered.
• Also fixed, my own from earlier this round: warmSetFor's memo key stringified `one.instruments` to "[object Object]", so the key was really just genre+seed and the warm set never invalidated when the…

Verified: browser/font-rotation.test.js gates it — and NOT with handle.rms(). That is an instantaneous meter: the quietest bar of four identical rides came out 0.0025, 0.1617, 0.0264 and 0.1047, so no…

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — parked on the genre this change names

7764153 · colophon · source

• It now SPEAKS, through the platform's own synthesiser, with a "Speak it aloud" checkbox (default on, persisted) beside it.
• · the live-region path cleared and re-set inside ONE requestAnimationFrame. rAF runs before paint, so both mutations can coalesce into a single accessibility-tree update and an UNCHANGED snapshot gets…

Verified: browser/access-ui.test.js gates the whole contract with the synthesiser stubbed (headless Chromium has one that accepts speak() and makes no sound, which would pass vacuously): speaks once…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

c8a7074 · colophon · source

• registered in SAMPLERS 108 -> 123 reached by some state 102 -> 122 (only synth_drum, an unpitched GM drum patch, goes unused) overall effective 62.1 -> 95.0 bass distinct / effective 21/10.4 -> 43/35.9 pad…
• Checked: 825,424 pitched sampler notes across the catalogue, every one resolving to a real zone; every registered zone file present on disk; matrix 274/274.
• THE WARM-AHEAD WAS FETCHING THE WHOLE LIBRARY, and counting the bed budget is how that surfaced. A state's foundSources carries the ENTIRE candidate sampler library — measured 629 zone rows, ~105 MB
• BEDS 3.44 per track (max 6), 1.31 MB BBC reach 38.5% FOUND 3.98 per track, 1.51 MB (beds+breaks+chops+hits+vox) INSTRUMENT 23 zones per track, 3.21 MB (what the song can voice) a track's fetched media: 4.72 MB

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

069f7ba · colophon · source

• The list is now "what can HOLD DOWN THE BOTTOM", not "what is sold as a bass": a tuba is the bass of a brass band, a bari sax the bass of a ska horn line, a cello and a bassoon are bass instruments with other…
• bass distinct / effective 21 / 10.4 -> 41 / 25.4 pad distinct / effective 45 / 21.9 -> 54 / 35.3 library reached 102 of 108 -> 106 of 108 overall effective 62.1 -> 79.1 top 10 share of voices 35.5% -> 25.1%
• seed 1 22 distinct / effective 8.1 -> 40 / 30.8 (was yamaha_grand_piano on 31% of genres) seed 7 20 distinct / effective 6.0 -> 39 / 29.4 (was picked_bass on 40%)
• At one seed it now reads: citypop pizzicato strings, jazz upright, dub contrabass, ambient harp, disco church organ, neoclassical felt piano

▶ Play it: Mirrorball Tonnage → Requiem Appendix → Neon Fiscal Year — the three genres this change names, as one path

bf33eb0 · colophon · source

• all-sampled / segment-parity / vocoder spelled found/<id>.mp3. The engine names fetched media found/<id>.64.mp3 (the bitrate rides in the name because found/ is immutable-by-name) and a synthText source has NO…
• STARCRUISE-BARCADENCE WAS REAL. The descent is built to arrive at SURFACE_POSE at essentially zero velocity (0.0036 units on the last transit frame), and the landed camera's establish ease then ran a…
• Also, from the instrument analysis: the ⓘ read General MIDI catalog indices out loud. GM numbers its variants — "Synth Bass 2", "Synth Strings 1"

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. -> v49.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

95b800f · colophon · source

• THE IDENT TIER GETS ITS 45 MISSING BANKS. A genre whose form is dj/drop/vamp speaks a station ident over its own NameBank identity, but 45 of the 65 had no per-genre bank and fell back to GENERIC
• Two defects found while writing them. A band name may not also be a title or an album inside its own bank — the exact collision the ident code cut two frames over
• THE FLAT VOICE SHELVES ARE CAST, and the remaining drops turn out to be structural rather than a curation gap.
• THE PRECACHE HORIZON IS HALVED, 10 minutes -> 5 (HORIZON_MIN). Everything downstream is derived from it, so the fences, the moving horizon and resume are unchanged

Verified: gates/speech.test.js was red before this branch and is now green and doing more: its "no other genre grows a synthText source" law had been superseded by the IDENT tier (techno's form is…

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

075d2b1 · colophon · source

• "All the tracks are playing but only two show notes in the ⓘ." The live walk picks its section BY INDEX — secs[secIdx]; the name is only a label
• "crunch guitar says it is missing." Two defects, one of them not the reported one. The ring route kicked a sampler zone's decode on the first bar that SOUNDED it, so the transit form's metal solo
• The opening loop spawns on city pop instead of on the geometric middle of the chart, and climbs: candidates for each vertex must be at least as danceable as the spawn, the pick maximizes ENERGY less an…
• the pure-node starcruise probes needed a package-type MARKER, not a package-type decision: three "type": "module" files in app/, vendor/simplex-noise/ and vendor/three/, matching the one vendor/espeak-ng/…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. → v46.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Nichrome Panic — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

9fed970 · colophon · source

• FIRST, the radius was circular in a space that is not. drawMap fits each axis to the viewport independently (X = x*width/WORLD_W, Y = y*height/WORLD_H) and the world is ~10x taller than wide, so one world unit…
• SECOND, and this is what the gate caught: the previous commit claimed loop duration was unaffected because paceSpeed scales with the perimeter.
• So the shape changed instead of the size. The triangle now uses its two LOWER vertices rather than the top one, because the dropped vertex pointed straight up — the expensive direction.
• Screen legs 373/695/389 px against a 67px halo — a 239px clear gap where the nearest pair used to overlap. Perimeter 4432, under the 4523 that already walked cleanly.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; explorer-ui, share-url, full-boot, feed-links, genre-viz pass.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

c8b889b · colophon · source

• The multiplier and the result differ because the spread saturates — the two outer points snap to the nearest genre, so past a point a bigger radius just picks a different neighbour.
• Loop DURATION is unchanged, which is the reason this is safe to do: paceSpeed scales with the perimeter and loopDuration does not, so the traveler moves faster in world units and crosses more genres in the…
• The loop now opens on standbylightdrive and silkmist rather than lasertemple and doomdrone.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; explorer-ui, share-url, full-boot and feed-links all pass.

▶ Play it: Subduction Hymnal → Diode Vigil → Collimated Chapel — the three genres this change names, as one path

e642db2 · colophon · source

• Dead path citations across the tree: 48 -> 17. The four that survive in source are deliberate: two documented dead pointers, a HEAD-compatibility fallback that must name the old path to work, and one…
• WHAT I DID NOT DO. Roughly a hundred comments in app/ and engine/ narrate the past — "the live granular bed used to mint ~28 buffers", "on touchdown the landed camera used to SNAP".
• Removed instead: five dated attributions in test/ that narrate a reorg rather than explain a mechanism, and a stray jungle-s7.state.json at the repo root.
• The three starcruise pure-node probes are renamed .mjs and given a createRequire shim, which fixes the half-converted CJS/ESM mixing inside them.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

ccbf8f0 · colophon · source

• CLAUDE.md and ARCHITECTURE.md now document engine/genres-data.js and engine/registry-data.js, which held the entire genre catalogue and the sample registries while being mentioned nowhere.
• Descriptions ARE generated, and both files now say hand-editing them is forbidden. That is the failure that rotted genre-specs the first time.
• ARCHITECTURE's load order was wrong in content as well as in paths: it omitted two engine scripts and put an async counter inside the ordered chain.
• FIXED IN THE LEDGER — SOURCES.md pointed at engine/faust/voices/sf2.js. There is no such file — it is build/sf2.js, and the wrong path was introduced by this session's own doc pass, in the one file whose rows are legally…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

2afdfaf · colophon · source

• THE CYCLE. app/ carried two import cycles that worked only because ESM live-bindings resolve at call time.
• THREE SPLITS. starcruise.js 2,297 -> bridge/scene/camera/probes; starmap.js 910 -> viewport/layout/draw/gestures/viz-zoom behind an unchanged import surface
• THE PAGES. Six HTML files carried duplicated head and inline style; the CSS is extracted and the social head is consistent and gated.
• FIVE REGRESSIONS the sweep caught and fixed, each broken-then-green: three test/unit gates and one tools/build script had require paths one level off after the move, which no import checker sees because they…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. diagonal dominant: 274/274. meter green. Structure is all any of that proves; the ears are still owed.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

0a76d1b · colophon · source

• The visible symptom was a wall of 404s for found/<id>.mp3 — the pre-diet filenames, requested by the stale shell, against a server that now holds only found/<id>.64.mp3.
• This is what the comment on VERSION has always said to do.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

61a6994 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Diaphragm Muster → Titration Rapture → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

d09417e · colophon · source

• The found layer was diluted and rare. Bed/narration pools now expand wider and cap at 12 (break/chops deliberately untouched
• The hits coin was the real rarity: 70% of tracks carried no one-shot layer at all. Lifting each genre's authored probability through p -> 1-(1-p)^5 preserves the endpoints and the per-genre ordering while…
• The speech idents kept their tier but lost two of five forms. Read as text across all 2480 realized lines, the split was total: three forms are station idiom and score 100% plausible-or-filler
• The 274 descriptions are repaired in the generator as value-keyed tables, never per-genre overrides. 45% of them said "a light shuffle" because one swing bucket spanned .02-.08

▶ Play it: Milk Crate Scripture → Diaphragm Muster — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

dc447ca · colophon · source

• · WHERE THINGS STAND — what is done, what is left, and the fact that SEVEN COMMITS ARE UNDEPLOYED (stellate.app is running 76c905e) · the commit-by-commit ledger of what landed and what each one was · the new…
• And FOUR TRAPS, written down because every one of them looked like a confident result and was wrong: the homoglyph label match, the guessed WORLD_W projection, calling a correct intro a frozen viz and telling…
• Stage headers now say DONE where they are done, so nobody redoes Stage C. Stage F carries its own known-wrong list, since tonight moved the ground under it: CLAUDE.md still describes a 996 KB kernel with an…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13, doc-counts PASS.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

9b72aee · colophon · source

• That fixes the tic AND the deeper problem underneath it. The old blurbs were hand-written beside live data and drifted the way that always drifts
• em-dash punchlines 234 -> 0 lower-case openers 241 -> 0 length median 173 -> 114, max 378 -> 171 card-lie count 0 -> 0, now by construction
• A machine four at 124-140. Acid bass under an organ, with a pluck lead.
• "A breakbeat at 96-144" card:amen/break on 6 genres. checkCardClaims reads "breakbeat" as the SAMPLED amen; these kits are synthesized and carry no break role.

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Titration Rapture → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

85352d0 · colophon · source

• Proved rather than eyeballed: GENRES is byte-identical to HEAD ignoring case, and zero infos differ beyond capitalisation.
• gospel "hand-clap church gospel ~92bpm — Hammond organ and gospel piano, a massed choir…" — the em-dash is STRUCTURAL, introducing the instrumentation.
• Telling a poetic punchline from a structural separator is a judgement per string, not a pattern, and these are 274 user-visible strings.
• There is also a gate coupling worth stating: musicality's checkCardClaims parses `info` for instrument nouns, so rewriting prose can create or hide card-lies.

Verified: verify.sh otherwise green, card-lie 0, specs round-trip PASS.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Congregation Furnace → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

277d89e · colophon · source

• WHAT THE LANES DO. Replayed barVoiceEvents' exact windowing in node — no browser, no timing, no flake
• verse 2 {pad:16, bass:4, drums:59, sfx:1} — no melody events at all bridge {pad:16, bass:4, melody:10} — no drum events at all
• gospel's bridge genuinely drops the kit and verse 2 genuinely has no lead line. The viz drawing melody:0 and drums:0 there is the truth, not a bug.
• I ALSO COULD NOT REPRODUCE "doesn't update at all", and I twice mistook a too-short sample for a freeze: 24 samples over 19s of a 92bpm chordEvery-8 track is about three chord bars, so seeing two distinct…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13, comment-only proof clean.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics — parked on the genre this change names

465d377 · colophon · source

• So the derived tier is picked by a STRUCTURAL property rather than by me choosing forty-one names out of a hat. Genres whose FORM is a mix — dj, drop, vamp, the ones built to be beat-matched and talked over
• genres with speech 58 -> 99 of 274 bespoke cast 12 (unchanged; a bespoke voice always beats an ident) derived idents 41 (dj 20, drop 12, vamp 9)
• The VOICE is hashed from the genre name, not the track seed, so every station sounds like a different station and the same genre always gets the same announcer: house is a fast m2, jungle a mid m1, disco an f3.
• A REAL BUG CAUGHT ON THE WAY, and the reason the samples are worth printing: the first cut used `>>`, which is a SIGNED 32-bit shift, so any hash above 2^31 went negative and dragged the modulo with it.

Verified: determinism identical on repeat, no out-of-range voice anywhere, and house and jungle both synthesize live in a real browser with zero console errors.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Congregation Furnace → Stationary Weather — the three genres this change names, as one path

422eb07 · colophon · source

• Because it is all espeak, the engine can simply say it. A registry entry with synthText is synthesized by engine/speech.js at play time — what the transit PA already did.
• genres emitting live speech 12 -> 58 distinct live ids in play 1 -> 221
• THE BUG THAT MADE IT A NO-OP AT FIRST. Converting the registry changed nothing: still 12 genres, still one id.
• WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT CONVERTED — saytransit's station voices are not plain espeak. They are a three-voice harmonized robot choir — root, a fifth above, an octave below, rubberband-shifted and mixed time-aligned.

Verified: rather than assumed: determinism holds (same seed twice, identical), jungle gains nothing, and sp_paleo_rex — a CONVERTED id, not the organ

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity → Amen Monolith — the three genres this change names, as one path

700d9f9 · colophon · source

• `genre-tool.js export <genre> | --all` is the direction that was missing: it reads the LIVE anchor and emits the spec that would produce it.
• 274 specs, one per genre, uniform shape: name label info pos anchor mind 274 targets 274 perc 52 (only genres with a perc style)
• Three of those keys are NEW, and they are what closes the authorability gap the plan measured — the kernel reads 289 anchor paths, specs could express 184: mind the derived theory/pipes/rhythm axes, whose only…
• Four keys are dropped because nothing reads them: clips (GENRE_CLIPS is gone), materials, invented, damp. genre-specs/invented/ is flattened

Verified: genre-specs.test.js is what stops the rot returning: coverage, no orphans, required keys, no retired keys, trailing newline, and the one that matters

▶ Play it: Perforated Afterlife → Smoke Arithmetic → Titration Rapture — the three genres this change names, as one path

712cceb · colophon · source

• THE CAUSE. drawMap fits each axis to the viewport INDEPENDENTLY, so the world's own aspect is invisible in the render -- only the distribution in normalized space matters.
• It was never an area problem. At default zoom the rendered world is 12.5M px² and 400 labels want 2.7M of it.
• THE FACTOR I GOT WRONG FIRST, and it is the whole thing: drawMap grows type with zoom, fs = min(3, max(1, k^0.85)), so at the default k=2.8 the font is 2.4x, not 1x.
• tools/relayout-map.js relaxes label RECTANGLES until none overlap, each star on a weak spring to where it started, boxes inflated sqrt(400/274) so genres that do not exist yet still get a name.

Verified: verify.sh 12/12, matrix 274/274, explorer-ui PASS (was FAIL on the separation floor), pos-coverage 274/274, full-boot healthy.

▶ Play it: Non Euclidean Court → Teatime Anomaly → Kettle Eschaton — the three genres this change names, as one path

43ffe4d · colophon · source

• rsync's plain --delete only removes receiver files that are absent from the SOURCE. It deliberately PROTECTS anything matching an --exclude, on the theory that you may be excluding files you want left alone on…
• 154 engine/faust/node_modules the @grame cut that did not take 134 found/samples/*/zones.json extractor output nothing fetches ~600 tools/node_modules better-sqlite3, semver, tar-fs and friends -- build-time…
• Nothing outside those buckets is touched. MEDIA_MANIFEST appears in the deletion list and is irrelevant: it is not in the source tree, so plain --delete already removed it on every deploy, and the very next…
• This is the same failure shape as the found/midi leak that had to be scrubbed from the droplet by hand: an exclusion that everyone believed was removing something when it was only declining to send it.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

76c905e · colophon · source

• prove-browser.js is the single CommonJS script in that directory, so it becomes prove-browser.cjs (README and its own header updated). prove.js was already ESM and needed nothing.
• This closes a real hole rather than a cosmetic one: the artifact's DETERMINISM LAW -- same text twice must give byte-identical PCM from a fresh worker per call -- was documented in engine/speech.js and never…
• Browser path is untouched -- package.json type affects node resolution only, and the browser loads the glue by URL.
• speech.test: 5/5 ALL PASS, up from 4/5.

Verified: speech.test.js has been failing synth_determinism with "Cannot use 'import.meta' outside a module" -- and because tools/ship.sh gates on that test under `set -e`, the project's one deploy…

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

5f6aa3b · colophon · source

• engine/genre-kernel.js 193 KB -> 180 KB, 2,798 -> 2,554 lines tools/kernel-cli.js 260 lines
• The kernel now contains zero require("fs"), zero require("child_process") and zero execFileSync -- checked, not assumed.
• The extraction was mechanical but not blind: the block was brace-matched rather than sliced at a guessed line (the first attempt was off by one and its assertion caught it before anything was written), and its…
• Every documented invocation was repointed, since `node engine/genre-kernel.js track ...` now silently does nothing: CLAUDE.md, README.md, docs/SETUP.md, docs/GENRE-SPACE.md, three fetch recipes…

Verified: verify.sh 12/12, matrix --no-cache 274/274 diagonal dominant, kerneldata byte-identical, boot-smoke 16/16, full-boot healthy in a real browser, and `kernel-cli.js anchors` + `track jungle…

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

e62dada · colophon · source

• Twelve genres speak now, and the text is not invented for them: each one already carried the vocabulary in its own card.
• transitwave f3 165 the arrivals PA airtrafficdrone m3 190 flight levels and runway assignments towncrier m1 120 OYEZ, slow and grave auctioncore m2 260 the chant, and it is FAST dmvstep f2 150 now serving…
• The per-speaker variant/pitch/speed is the point: one voice at twelve texts would be one narrator in twelve hats.
• Every law the transit PA established is preserved, because they are what make this safe: text derives purely from (seed, genre) through NameBank, so ZERO rng draws on the resolve stream

Verified: not assumed: determinism (same seed twice, identical), jungle gains nothing, a 20% towncrier blend stays silent, and three of the new voices -- including the croak -- synthesize live in a…

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture → Oyez Oblivion → Heated Dry Eternity — the three genres this change names, as one path

4807f98 · colophon · source

• engine/genres-data.js 648 KB the 274 anchors engine/registry-data.js 131 KB SOURCES / SOURCE_POOLS / SAMPLES / VOXBANK / SAMPLERS / PERCBANK
• THE DATA MOVED AS SOURCE TEXT, NOT AS JSON. The obvious implementation is to load the kernel and JSON.stringify each object, and that is the one that loses: round-tripping normalizes -0 to 0, drops undefined…
• Classic scripts, not JSON-over-fetch, because app/access.js and app/starmap.js read the kernel synchronously at module top level -- the data has to exist the moment genre-kernel.js runs.
• Everything that reached into the kernel by path was repointed, not left to fail quietly later: genre-tool.js (including TERM.genres, whose terminator was the kernel section that used to follow the literal and…

Verified: rather than assumed, at every layer: kerneldata GENRES + 4 registries byte-identical vs HEAD, same order, 5 resolved tracks identical (the only reach into the module-private VOXBANK and…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

8508e00 · colophon · source

• The gate compares the WORKING TREE against HEAD, the way meter.test.js's head_byte_identity already does, so it is a no-op green today, the proof during the split, and self-healing on commit afterwards -- an…
• genre_order Object.keys(GENRES) drives matrix row order and the star layout. A pure reordering is invisible to a sorted hash and catastrophic downstream, so the order is compared as an ordered array and the…
• Wired into verify.sh as "kerneldata": 12/12 PASS.
• The split itself is the next commit. Nothing has moved yet.

Verified: it actually fails, rather than assuming: a one-digit cutoff change (1700 -> 1701, buried 547 KB into GENRES) is caught twice independently -- by the byte hash, which points straight at the…

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics — parked on the genre this change names

bebf85b · colophon · source

• Both go in the COMP pool, not the lead. Each card names its own hook -- a massed choir for gospel, a lyrical alto sax for yachtrock -- and those stay where they are
• gospel + bright_yamaha_grand (not felt/upright: gospel piano is percussive and forward, and it comps against the Hammond) yachtrock + clean_guitar (the card's own words)
• Capability, drawn: over 12 seeds the gospel comp resolves church_organ / rock_organ / strings / bright_yamaha_grand and yachtrock's rhodes_ep / electric_piano / strings / clean_guitar, each new instrument…
• This is a kernel change and therefore a matrix change, so it was gated as one rather than assumed: matrix --no-cache still prints diagonal dominant 274/274, and no column moved off its own row.

Verified: verify.sh 11/11, matrix --no-cache 274/274, musicality ALL GREEN (card-lie count 3 -> 0), meter byte-identity green.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Isobar Regatta — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

2a69608 · colophon · source

• musicality card-lie: the catalog reported 3 over-promises. One was the checker's fault. chamber's card says "NO piano and NO drums", and checkCardClaims scanned for instrument nouns with no notion of negation…
• Audited rather than assumed: across all 274 cards that strip suppresses exactly one claim, chamber's piano. No other genre's warnings move.
• starcruise-nav 1A/1C hardcoded 33 clusters against a clusterer that emits 34, so a healthy galaxy reported as a failure.
• STILL RED, and deliberately left for a human: card-lie is now 2, not 0. gospel's card promises "gospel piano" and yachtrock's promises "clean electric guitar", and neither pool contains the instrument -…

Verified: verify.sh 11/11, matrix --no-cache 274/274 diagonal dominant, starcruise-nav ALL PASS.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Isobar Regatta — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

d52b8ed · colophon · source

• Decision: keep the deploy, drop the promise. So this rewrites the policy header to say what actually happens -- the fetched media is served from the public web -- and rewrites the per-item promises into…
• What is deliberately NOT removed: the licence facts. Every ⚠, every "no licence chain", every NC/ND flag stays exactly where it was, and the header now says plainly that the terms still bind, that serving…
• Also added: a note for anyone forking, since the risk is a decision the repo owner made and does not travel with the code -- with a pointer at the rsync filter that is where a stricter policy would be enforced.
• One "never redistributed" survives, at the MIDI trove, because it is true: found/midi/ is excluded from the rsync and the corpus lives off-repo on the external drive.

Verified: doc-counts PASS.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

a649959 · colophon · source

• Landed, both rsync filters -- no app code moves. Measured with --dry-run --stats, old filters vs new: 526.18 MB / 9,591 files -> 497.88 MB / 9,303.
• zones.json + _gm-extract-summary.json: 134 files, 544 KB of extractor output that nothing fetches. The browser reads zone geometry from K.SAMPLERS, and faust/sf2.js says so outright.
• @grame narrowed 28 MB -> 194 KB. The web needs exactly one file of that tree, dist/esm/index.js, from which live.js / stream-worker.js / stem-worker.js import FaustWasmInstantiator and FaustMonoDspGenerator to…
• dx7-presets.json. The 671 KB in the plan is the raw size; the live server sends it gzipped at 74.7 KB.

Verified: verify.sh 11/11; deploy script syntax-checked and its filters dry-run verified to ship exactly dist/esm/index.js and no zones.json.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• Also in scope, all named in the plan: glyphs.js's 15-line ARCHAEOLOGY block; four test files still heading themselves "// faust/..." from before they moved into test/
• Deliberately kept: author metadata, the visible credits and the MIT line -- that is attribution, not narration. Citations of docs that still exist (TIMING-AUDIT, ENGINE-AUDIT)
• The tool needed fixing first. Its walker knew about strings but not regex literals, so a literal like /['"]/ flipped it into "inside a string" and it silently stopped stripping comments for the rest of the…
• Two failures predate this and are untouched, confirmed identical against a stashed clean tree: musicality.test's card-lie count (3 genre cards promise an instrument their recipe cannot realize) and…

Verified: comment-only.js is the tool for this pass: it strips comments and whitespace from both revisions and diffs what is left, so "I only edited comments" is checkable instead of merely claimed.

▶ Play it: Locust Arithmetic — parked on the genre this change names

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• engine/checks/ (5 files, 899 lines) — "zero CI reach". WRONG.
• tools/make-mix-page.js — "zero references". WRONG. genre-kernel.js:8942 and :8978 execFileSync it from the playlist and journey CLIs.
• tools/fetch-found-voice.sh — "dead". It is the committed recipe SOURCES.md cites as the provenance for the voice tier, which is the whole media policy: we ship the recipe, not the media.
• What was genuinely unreferenced, and is now gone (1,431 lines): seven probe-*.js with no citation anywhere, and the four starcruise screenshot scripts, which produce PNGs and assert nothing.

Verified: probe-reverb.js and friends — "unreferenced one-offs". Five .dsp source files and engine/faust/VOICES.md cite them by name as the tuning instruments for those DSPs.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

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▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• HOSTING.md said this was impossible, because loop points are absolute sample indices and 552 of the 614 zones loop.
• len — the decoded sample count, so a padded buffer can be spotted at all. sr — the zone FILE's rate.
• Two ordering bugs in the tool, found by review: it deleted each sampler's WAVs as that sampler finished but spliced the metadata once at the very end, so an interrupt left media gone with nothing describing…
• : the rename lives inside genre-kernel.js, which rides stale-while-revalidate, so without a bump a returning listener's first load after deploy would serve the WAV-era kernel and 404 every zone.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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• ROADMAP.md was a 2026-07-11 plan with 38 items already marked done, referencing four docs that were never written, and opening with a ground-truth block asserting 249 anchors while scolding other docs for…
• STARCRUISE-LIBS.md was an adoption plan for five libraries; two shipped and are recorded in vendor/*/VERSION.txt and NOTICE, and the other three never existed in this tree.
• Their citations are fixed rather than orphaned: ARCHITECTURE.md drops the KERNEL-MAP pointer, planet.js loses it from a code comment, TODO stops calling ROADMAP the place plans graduate to.
• STARCRUISE.md said "Status: SCAFFOLD (this commit)" and called five modules stubs rendering a placeholder scene. They are ~7,300 lines.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• It also contradicted the repo's headline rule in public — source is committed, audio is derived and gitignored
• The .gitignore comment that kept them tracked cited "playlist/ and mix/"; mix/ has not existed for some time.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• Adding it surfaced a latent race. The wait loop sized itself with `jobs -rp | wc -l`, which lists only jobs still RUNNING, so any suite finishing before the count was taken went unrecorded: the loop exited…
• Also adds doc-counts.test.js: the anchor count has been wrong in the docs three times over and drifts silently because nothing reads it.
• And corrects the header, which advertised four suites while the body forked ten, and pointed at scratch/.verify-cache when the cache is under engine/scratch/.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• Removes the submodule, .gitmodules and .mcp.json, and rewrites the places that explained them: CLAUDE.md loses the catalog section, README/SETUP lose the submodule init line, CONTRIBUTING loses the…
• The generator-verifier-feedback-loop idea stays — it is the thing this repo demonstrates, and it no longer needs a footnote pointing somewhere else.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• Renaming to .js fixes it with no server config: .js is mapped to text/javascript on every host, so this cannot regress on a reinstall, a new box, or the second site served off this same tree.
• This is the same failure the probe harness hit before it learned .mjs, which is the one place .mjs still needs to work: the harness serves the tree itself.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• The big territory watermarks on the star map now wear the same alien alphabet as the genre labels. Drawn only -- the __REGIONS debug hook still emits real names, because the headless gates match on them.
• .ab-foot wore a footer's top border after moving to the top of the About card; it gets a header's bottom rule instead.
• security.txt contact -> paul.ford@aboard.com.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity — a three-star constellation to watch the map work

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• Each pair is pushed apart along its own axis with the midpoint held -- the smallest move that clears the floor, and the one that least disturbs either star's relationship to everything else.
• Min pairwise is now 93.1 (flamenco/hexagonstampede) and the warning is gone.

▶ Play it: Bulrush Cyclotron → Benzene Cavalry → Clave Reactor — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• The PWA could not boot offline. sw.js passes cross-origin through and never caches it, so the service worker could hold the entire app and all its media and the instrument still would not start without a live…
• The page is COEP require-corp and neither host sends Cross-Origin-Resource- Policy, which is what Safari was reporting -- and it means Orbitron and VT323 were very likely not rendering in production at all.
• And a third party saw a request from every visitor, which undercuts the "no accounts, no cookies, no data" posture the security.txt advertises.
• vendor/preact, vendor/htm and vendor/fonts follow the pattern the other five vendored libraries already use: exact version, upstream LICENSE, a VERSION.txt saying why.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

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• Two changes. The delete becomes an amplitude ramp: full out to t=0.1, linear to silence by 0.5, events under a small floor dropped rather than scheduled as inaudible voices.
• And a bug the cliff was hiding: genreMeta.t is the raw blend position, not distance from the nearest anchor, so testing t alone killed the layer across the entire second half of every crossfade -- including…
• FOUND_FADE_T is a named constant because the width is an ears question; no gate can settle it.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — parked on the genre this change names

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• It now reads the same set live.js schedules from -- sch.found srcIds union the sampler zone srcIds -- via buildSchedule, and resolves them through the player's own local resolver rather than s.url, which is…
• Deliberately NOT keyed off state.foundSources: the resolved state declares the whole crate, not the draw set, which would pull ~625 files / 100MB per genre.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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