docs(meta): D-226 T-1124 SS5 entry revision — fixed planetary map + rectangle-cursor click-through (Jeroen, companion hands-on)

The regional-map entry changes from zoom-threshold LOD swap to
explicit click-through: the planetary heightmap view becomes FIXED
(pan/zoom removed together with its replacement in T-1138, never
before); hovering shows a rectangle cursor representing the
regional-mode bounds; click descends centered on the click point's
derived DistrictPos. DISTRICT_WINDOW_MIN_ZOOM retired before ever
being built; D-013's zoom-owns-descent superseded for this seam only
(click owns descent). In-mode behavior unchanged (pan-only refetch,
debounce, cache, border-fade). Morph transition explicitly deferred.
Open at T-1138: the rectangle is an affordance, not to scale — n=64
is ~131 km = a few px on a planetary canvas; resolve the honest
representation in the screen design. T-1138 description updated;
T-1140 filed for the two companion UI defects fixed alongside.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **What renders during the wait** (the "invisible re-fetch"): the previous composite, panned to its new screen position, with a **border-fade to the underlying whole-body heightmap** (already resident, coarser `district_grid`/`region_grid` data — real data seen through, not a placeholder) at the newly-exposed edge; **no black, no spinner** unless the wait exceeds a ~0.5 s grace window (reusing the existing `_gen_pending_indicator`, not a new mechanism). Because §4's cache is D-227-valid indefinitely, a pan back toward a recently-cached window composites from cache with zero wait — the genuine-miss `Pending`/re-poll path (D-225's existing loop) becomes the minority case, not the default.
- **Overlay/legend reuse against §2–§4.** The base layer is **morphology, lightness-modulated by `elev_q`** (one `0.7 + 0.3*(elev_q/100)` multiply per cell — relief read without a second draw call, the T-1112 "shape=identity, cheap second channel=magnitude" instinct as hue=type / lightness=elevation), reusing the T-1123 probe's 17-entry `MORPHOLOGY_RGB` hues verbatim; it is always-on once the LOD threshold is crossed (it *is* this screen's `terrain` layer), so it takes no toggle id. Three switchable overlays get new `gen_dw_temp` / `gen_dw_moisture` / `gen_dw_veg` `OVERLAY_DEFS` ids (`group: "toggle"`, the `gen_l1_*` multi-toggle-over-one-base precedent): **temperature** reuses T-1118's region-grid ramp *exactly* (same `i16` deci-°C domain + `REGION_TEMP_NONE_DC` sentinel disposition — one colorizer across both zoom levels, §2's consistency ruling); **moisture** reuses the existing `SUB_BIOME_COLORS` dry-sand→wet-teal endpoints; **vegetation** is a green-family ramp with **`Marine = 6` rendered transparent** (lets the morphology water-blue show through — `Marine` is `derive_vegetation`'s bookkeeping answer for already-`OpenOcean`/`Lake` districts, not new player information; a second blue would fight or duplicate the morphology read — this is the exhaustive disposition §3 mandates). **Glaciation is a modifier, not a toggle**: an ice-tint wash gated on `glaciation_grade >= Light` (alpha scaling with grade) composited over whichever layer shows — the `aliveness_probe::apply_ice_tint` approach ported to the player composite; it keeps sea-ice (tint over `OpenOcean` navy → whitened blue) visually distinct from open ocean and from ice-capped land (tint over alpine grey → near-white) by alpha-compositing over different bases rather than three drifting hard-coded colors. Legend: one `GENERATION_LEGEND` entry per new id (existing data-driven `atlas_legend_panel.gd` table, no new panel class); the morphology base folds its 17 zones into ~5 family rows (water / coastal-transition / plains-river / upland / volcanic) with the full mapping in the city-click sidebar, mirroring T-1112's "not everything earns permanent screen space" discipline. Implant chrome discipline (D-169/D-170): `ImplantHeader` carries a location label (the nearest settlement's name when the window is over/near one, else a coordinate/region label — the window is not settlement-anchored, per the entry clause above) + extent-in-real-units subtitle (e.g. "4.1 × 4.1 km · 2.0 km/cell") + one optional flavor line; the map-data palettes stay **out of** the theme's semantic accent roles (especially `ACCENT_ACTIVE` gold, which the settlement marker owns and must not compete with); no scanline/glitch dressing (the implant is confident working tech — a signal-quality state, if ever needed, rides `_gen_pending_indicator`, not cosmetic noise). Full color/ramp/compositing/legibility rationale and the n=32↔n=64 on-screen-scale math live in Araminta's companion T-1124 sections (visual encoding / implant aesthetic / legibility constraints), not re-derived here.
**Amended 2026-07-21 (T-1124 §5 entry revision — Jeroen, first companion hands-on):** the regional-map **entry mechanic changes from zoom-threshold LOD swap to explicit click-through**. Jeroen's ruling after using `make atlas`: the planetary pixel-scaling pan/zoom "is only messing with the pixels of the map and the interaction is weird" — (a) the **planetary heightmap view becomes FIXED** (no drag-pan / wheel-zoom of the planetary canvas; the current pan/zoom ships until T-1138 replaces it, then is removed *in the same change* as the replacement so close inspection is never stranded); (b) **entry is a click-through**: hovering the planetary heightmap shows a **rectangle cursor** representing the regional-mode bounds, and clicking descends into the regional map centered on the click point's derived `DistrictPos` — §5's float-on-center/first-window rules carry over with "pan center" read as "click point". `DISTRICT_WINDOW_MIN_ZOOM` is retired before ever being built (the T-1138 zoom-headroom note is moot); the §5 cross-reference reading of D-013 ("the zoom gesture owns spatial descent") is superseded **for this seam only** — click owns descent. Everything *inside* the regional mode stands unchanged (§4 pan-only refetch, debounce, float-on-center, D-227 cache, border-fade). A **morphing transition** between map modes is explicitly deferred (Jeroen: nice, too ambitious for now) — the descent may cut. **Open at T-1138:** the rectangle cursor is an affordance, not to scale — an n=64 window (~131 km) is a few pixels on a planetary canvas; the screen design must resolve the honest representation (rectangle at true extent with a zoom-in cut on click, or a not-to-scale reticle with the real extent labeled beside it) without implying the regional view covers more planet than it does.
- **Rationale:** Reusing the real UI — rather than a parallel offline renderer or dumped files — means the debug/review surface never diverges from what ships, and a dropped artifact can't go stale. Agent-navigability converts qualitative "does the synthesis look natural?" review from a manual eyeball pass into an automatable sweep that flags the few outliers for a human. The harness rides seams that already exist (`TickRate::Paused`, the paused-allowlist, `gameplay_occluded`, the bridge framing, the `run-visual` capture primitive) — a naming-and-contract exercise, not a new subsystem.
- **New surface:** server pause-gating (run-conditions on the world phases keyed to a pause command); client `AtlasAgentInterface` (`observe`/`act`, Control-tree walker) + its local transport; the generation overlay rendering + selector + legend; interactive capture wired to `run-visual`.
- **Implementation:** Phase 4 (epic T-750), built bottom-up — auto-pause substrate, T-969 proxy (D-225), T-960 viewer, agent channel, agent capture. Geography is the first consumer.