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jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 5 6949f800dc docs(governance): D-262 — the wiki generator flow has one canonical map
The relationship between wiki/, the generators, systems.db and the runtime is
a directed graph with two edges running opposite to the obvious direction and
one running backwards into its own producer. Prose renders that badly: every
document that has described it states a single ownership direction and is
therefore wrong about part of the tree. D-262 makes the diagram the source of
truth and points CLAUDE.md, Skill(wiki), project-structure.md and
wiki/GOVERNANCE.md at it.

The correction that matters most: body pages were described everywhere as
machine-owned and reverted on sync. They are not. scaffold_bodies.py writes
one once and never overwrites it, and import_economics then reads that
frontmatter directly as input — so a hand-edit is not reverted, it is obeyed,
and silently changes world generation. Worse than being overwritten, and the
actual reason GOVERNANCE.md forbids the edit.

New: tooling/check-dataflow-graph.py, wired into the Makefile and the pre-push
hook. It asserts every repo path named in a hand-authored diagram still
resolves — and its docstring states plainly what it cannot do: verify that an
edge still MEANS what it says. If wiki_sync.py stopped writing body pages
tomorrow, every path would still exist and the check would still pass. Edge
semantics stay a human check against the tool's source, so nobody reads a green
gate as a verified map.

Verified by breaking it: pointing one label at a moved path fails with exit 1
naming that path; restoring it passes. Building the checker also caught two
real vaguenesses in the diagram — "GJ-*/index.md" and "bodies/{id}/index.md"
were written without their wiki/star-systems/ prefix, which is precisely the
ambiguity this map exists to remove. Generated star-map .d2 files are excluded
by name; their correctness belongs to their generator under D-223.

Also files Q-124 + T-1246 (tooling): whether the 123 Python files under
tooling/ should become one Rust CLI of pql's calibre. The friction is real and
mostly not about the language — the permission gate prefix-matches whole
command strings and a blanket Bash(python3 *) grant is forbidden, so each tool
prompts near-individually, while a single binary is one allowlist entry. The
record requires pricing the cheap alternative (a Python dispatcher entrypoint)
before recommending Rust, and flags the hard constraint: import_economics is
stamped by source SHA, so any port must keep that contract intact through the
transition rather than disabled during it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 01:56:12 +02:00
jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 5 34e5d7b636 docs(meta): body pages are obeyed, not reverted — correcting the wiki skill again
Jeroen asked whether I had read the python that writes the frontmatter. I had not — only grepped it. Reading body_definition_parser.py and scaffold_bodies.py properly overturned what I had written twice today.

scaffold_bodies.py NEVER OVERWRITES ('Only creates files that don't exist yet... existing body index.md files are skipped'), and the generator reads that frontmatter directly. So a hand-edited body page is not reverted, it is OBEYED, and it silently changes world generation — worse than being overwritten, and the actual reason GOVERNANCE.md forbids it. System pages behave the opposite way: wiki_sync.py re-renders their READ-ONLY blocks, so edits there ARE reverted. Three cases, not two.

It also explains T-1244's whole measurement: body_definition_parser resolves each field override > direct read > derived > inferred > SEEDED RANDOM. Continuous axes vary because they fall to the random tier; categorical axes are concentrated because they are read from the bodies table. The variance question belongs to the atlas CLI catalog, not the wiki.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 00:53:00 +02:00
jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 5 0dc68dc1b8 docs(meta): fork-for-sidequests rule + wiki skill corrections from the cold test
The cold test worked as an experiment: a fresh agent with Skill(wiki) cited it first, refused to hand-edit body frontmatter, knew the corp regen-db stamp trap, and knew corp_specialization is missing from its own template. It also found four things the skill had wrong or missing, all verified before folding in: body frontmatter is a MIDDLE layer (atlas CLI -> systems.db -> scaffold writes the page -> import_economics reads it back), not the origin GOVERNANCE.md implies; the four empty categories are Q-118, an open scope question rather than an invitation; some bodies are visual-regression goldens and nothing in wiki/ says so; and status is editorial, not an import gate. Also: check current state before editing, since the test's own task described a change that was already true.

T-1244 corrected in the same pass — tectonics is derived from planet_class via a lookup (body_definition_parser.py:563), so the measured 68% 'low' is a projection of the class distribution, not an authoring choice. The ticket's question changed accordingly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 00:46:04 +02:00
jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 5 c25af8d753 docs(meta): make the wiki seed reachable — blind-prediction experiment and its fix
An experiment, at Jeroen's request: predict how the wiki seed data is structured
WITHOUT reading it, seal the prediction, then score it. The prediction is
a1addf7e2, committed before wiki/ was opened so it could not be retrofitted.

The score, against a rule fixed in advance:

RIGHT — markdown + YAML frontmatter, TOML for economics tables, the body path
shape, more trees than the three I had seen.

WRONG — "a source, never an output". That holds for 253 pages and is backwards
for 3,262: star-systems/ is GENERATED from systems.db by tooling/db/wiki_sync.py,
its <!-- READ-ONLY --> blocks are renders, and body frontmatter IS the body
definition rather than a description of one. Also wrong: "probably no schema
docs" — there are 17 templates, ten authoring guides, economics/schema.md and a
GOVERNANCE.md that states the ownership models plainly.

ABSENT (the expensive bucket) — the two ownership models running in OPPOSITE
directions; the GTTR prose channel; terrain.npz/globe.png; that stations and
districts have NO wiki directories; that `description` frontmatter exists so
agents can filter before loading; and the scale, 11,864 files.

ROOT CAUSE, and it is not missing documentation. The wiki documents itself well.
It was unreachable: wiki/ appears in NEITHER CLAUDE.md's Project Structure block
NOR .claude/rules/project-structure.md, the annotated tree whose entire job is
orienting an agent. The largest tree in the repo — the seed for the whole Reach —
was invisible from both files a session reads first. Every item in the absent
bucket follows from that one omission. The proof is this session: it spent three
days fixing Ferrath's terrain rendering and never once saw
wiki/star-systems/GJ-820B/bodies/GJ820Bc/index.md, the file that defines Ferrath.

Fixed here: wiki/ enters both structure documents with the ownership split stated
where it will be read, and Skill(wiki) carries the traps — never hand-edit a
READ-ONLY block or body frontmatter, stations have no directories, the id is
spelled two ways, editing corp PROSE stales systems.db, and absent variance is
often deliberate rather than a gap.

That last point cost two false findings in one measurement and is worth the
warning: chemosynthetic:false on every body is a namespace reservation for
dextro-DNA-style biochemistry once geology and nature spawn to the 1x1m pixel,
and enabled:false on ~65% is staged rollout — clean planet types first, generator
scripts for the rest after. Both read as defects without the roadmap.

Also measured, since the seed's job is to supply variance: continuous axes are
rich (unique seed per body, 460-716 distinct values across orbit/tilt/ice/land)
while the categoricals that gate morphology are concentrated (68% tectonics low,
51% planet_class frozen). Filed as T-1244 with the design question stated first —
whether the distribution is intended — rather than as a defect.

Method caveat recorded in the findings: the aggregator reads scalar frontmatter
only, and atmosphere_color's "100% null" was a parser artefact, not a finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 00:31:06 +02:00