Generated oort cloud and asteroid belt generic globe images via Gemini.
Background-masked with flood-fill (shadow-preserving). Donor fill script
copies matching globe.png from same planet_class+body_type pool with
per-body hash selection, no repeats within a system. 629 bodies filled,
3240/3240 now have globe.png.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deterministic ±scatter on body radii seeded by body_id hash — no two
bodies share the same radius. Gas giants 40k-60k km, moons 200-2600 km,
rocky planets ±15% from class base. Oort/asteroid skip radius (NULL).
Sol system gets real planetary radii. body_radius_km exported to
star_map_data.json for client orbital diagram sizing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sprint-based workflow (38 sprints) replaced by kanban + milestones.
Milestones are many-to-many with tickets and can block each other.
New: /whats-next skill (dependency-driven batch selection with Si
refinement review), /pr-process skill (renamed from pr-push, adds
review comment pickup), clerk agent + pre-push hook for D-record
consistency checks.
Deleted: sprint CLI, sprint-start/sprint-plan/sprint-status skills,
team-scoped file restrictions. Si rewritten as refinement manager.
All 19 agent briefings updated from stale PROJECT_STATE.md reference
to live ticket milestone queries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Export pre-computed drainage basin boundaries from atlas_province_boundaries
into markers.json during generate_atlas. AtlasMarkerOverlay draws province
polylines with semi-transparent fill under the political_zones overlay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
gen_queue: add in_flight_count tracking for all work item types (not
just AnalyzeBody). Rewrite saturation test with AnalyzeBody items.
Fix priority_ordering test thread count to match new gate.
rng: collapse to single AtlasRng::new(seed) constructor — callers
own their seed transform.
import_province_boundaries: fix "savepoint" comment to "transaction".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New tables: atlas_body_heightmaps (D-202), atlas_city_names (D-207),
atlas_feature_names, atlas_province_boundaries (D-205), body_radius_km
column (D-204). Three new importers: heightmap BLOBs, city names from
wiki markers.json, province boundaries via D8 watershed analysis.
economic_role normalized to 7 canonical values (D-194). Stamp fix in
generate_atlas.py to hash all tracked source files. systems.db regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
gemma_naming.py now re-queries affected bodies when >40% suffix
clustering is detected. naming_core.py build_batch_prompt accepts
cultural_history param threading secondary corridor substyles into
the few-shot prompt for richer cross-cultural name blending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add gemma_naming.py and naming_core.py to generate_atlas source
tracking in check-systems-db-stamp. Mirror in pr-push watch list.
Prevents naming helper changes from bypassing stale-stamp detection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. decisions_sync.py: fix refs_created inflation (check rowcount),
remove dead IntegrityError except block
2. Extract SCHEMA_VERSION to shared tooling/schema_version.py —
both generators import from single source of truth
3. generate_atlas.py: narrow bare except to OperationalError +
"duplicate column" check
4. check-systems-db-stamp: add cross-generator schema_version
agreement assertion (defense-in-depth)
5. decision wrapper: add show + orphan-tickets to usage text
6. Add schema_version.py to all three source watch lists
(GENERATOR_SOURCES, IMPORT_ECONOMICS_SOURCES, generate_atlas
_write_stamp) — prevents silent staleness on version bump
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace SHA-1 hash in meta.schema_version with an orderable semver
string ("1.0.0"). SHA preserved in new schema_sha column for tamper
detection. Enables savegame migration lineage in Phase 5+ — saves can
record their schema version and determine which migrations to apply.
Updated both generators, check-systems-db-stamp validation (rejects
old SHA-hex values), schema DDL, and asset-pipeline docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New `tooling/db/decision orphan-tickets` subcommand scans tickets with
a decision_ref that doesn't match any row in the decisions table.
Surfaces silently orphaned tickets from typo'd or renumbered D-IDs.
Makefile target: `make decisions-orphan-tickets`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses five of seven subtasks from atlas-generator-refinement-notes:
- Cross-body dedup: corpus keyed by (corridor, feature_type) instead of
(system_id, feature_type), seeded from existing atlas_* rows so re-runs
don't collide with already-committed names. §1, §2.
- Empty-name fallback for mountain ranges when Gemma returns fewer names
than needed ({body_proper} Range {i+1}). §2.
- Suffix monotony detection: flags bodies where >40% of mountain names
share a trailing word (warning only — batch pipeline has no voice
access for auto-fix). §3. Follow-up in #886.
- Compass-direction ban: build_batch_prompt explicitly forbids
"Eastern/Northern/Western X" in few-shot instructions. §4.
- River vocabulary filter: is_valid_name rejects "X Flow" / "X Current"
when feature_type="river" — these are ocean terms bleeding through. §6.
- Infrastructure naming: deterministic post-pass assigns "{CityA}–{CityB}
{corridor_suffix}" to unnamed roads and railroads (Corridor/Road/Estrada/
Strasse/Track by corridor). §7.
Cultural-history prompt threading (§5) remains as existing corridor_substyles
refill mechanism; explicit cultural-history blurb deferred to #886.
naming_core bumped to v0.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses all blocking + minor items from PR #136 review.
Architectural change (T2/H3 — the review's main complaint):
generate_brands was previously a separate Rust binary that produced a TOML
artifact, with its stamp written "on behalf" by import_economics.py at the
end of its own run. Reviewers flagged the invisible coupling: two sources
of truth in a system designed to have one, and no way to tell from the
stamp that one "generator" was really a subroutine of the other.
import_economics now invokes tooling/generate-brands as the first step of
its main() flow, before opening its own DB connection. The TOML artefact
is still produced and still committed (useful for diff-review of brand
changes), but there's now one pipeline owner. The meta table carries two
rows (import_economics, generate_atlas) not three; the Rust binary's
source SHA folds into import_economics' stamp via IMPORT_ECONOMICS_SOURCES.
A MIGRATION_SQL DELETE cleans up pre-merge DBs that still have the
orphan generate_brands row.
Other review items addressed in-line:
H1 generate_atlas._write_stamp no longer commits — transaction ownership
stays with the caller (matches import_economics pattern). Stamp +
atlas data now commit atomically; a failed stamp rolls back the
atlas data rather than leaving a stamp-missing-data intermediate.
H2 _file_sha1 (in both import_economics, generate_atlas,
check-systems-db-stamp) raises FileNotFoundError on missing sources
instead of silently contributing an empty-bytes hash. A ghost-SHA
convergence could otherwise produce vacuous "fresh" passes.
H4 pre-push no-meta-table warning rephrased — was "run after next
regeneration", now "run now if this DB was generated by you".
T1 asset-pipeline.md determinism claim softened: the stamp is
deterministic (same source → same recorded SHA), the DB binary is
not (generated_at + SQLite rowids/freelist churn).
T3 asset-pipeline.md gains a "migration escape hatch" section naming
MIGRATION_SQL in import_economics.py as the only sanctioned path
for direct writes, and forbidding hand-run sqlite-exec / one-off
patch scripts / SQLite-GUI edits.
T4 Makefile regen-db now runs as a single shell with `set -e`. A
failure in one generator halts the pipeline immediately, preventing
the "stale data, fresh stamp" state where a later step stamped a
DB whose earlier step had failed. import_economics' exit code 2
(coverage gate warning) remains explicitly tolerated.
T5 pre-push stamp check now runs on a branch's first push too —
compares against origin/main instead of origin/$BRANCH, closing
the gap where a new branch could ship a stale DB via the first push.
T6 check-systems-db-stamp fails closed on unknown generator_names in
meta — a future branch adding a new generator without registering
it in GENERATOR_SOURCES will now be rejected, not silently skipped.
T7 /pr-push watch list gains a mutual cross-reference comment with
GENERATOR_SOURCES in check-systems-db-stamp, plus the missing
names.rs source file, so the two lists cannot silently drift.
Follow-up tickets created:
#887 T8 decisions-orphan-tickets CLI — surfaces tickets whose
decision_ref points at a non-existent D-record.
#888 T9 meta.schema_version monotonic semver — for savegame migration
lineage in Phase 5+ (SHA comparison can't be ordered).
Verified:
make regen-db end-to-end — OK
make check-systems-db — OK, 2 generator(s) up to date
STALE detection — OK, verified by touching generate_atlas.py
/pr-push watch list — OK, flags this branch's changed sources
decision show D-159 — OK, structured output with tickets + refs
Refs: #855#856#857#858#859 PR #136
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the decision-to-ticket coverage gap (#723). The `decisions-coverage`
Makefile target already reported per-decision counts; this adds the
single-decision drill-down via `tooling/db/decision show D-159`, returning
linked tickets, outbound refs, and inbound refs in one shot.
Schema unchanged — reverse link is a SELECT on tickets.decision_ref.
Refs: #723
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds systems.db regeneration discipline (#855) via a `meta` table (#856)
stamped by every generator, a pre-push hook that rejects stale DBs (#857),
and the top-level `make regen-db` / `make check-systems-db` targets that
drive the whole pipeline.
The stamp stores SHA-1 of generator source + schema, so the pre-push hook
can cheaply detect "you changed a generator but forgot to regen the DB"
before a binary merge conflict lands. Sprint 36 hit that class of conflict
on two branches touching systems.db simultaneously — this is the systemic
fix.
Regenerated systems.db is stamped; `make check-systems-db` passes.
Refs: #855#856#857
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- tooling/planet-gen/earth_blocklist.txt: document GJ0d (Earth body) as
blocklist-exempt so Brussels (and other Earth-canonical city names) are
not flagged on next sol_import.py run (R2 issue 1)
- wiki/star-systems/GJ-380/bodies/GJ380c/markers.json: rename Selet Basin
→ Subin Basin (Kumasi river namesake). Brings Akan register on GJ380c
to 3/29 features distributed across river, mountain, lake — credible
multi-generational trade corridor read instead of minimum-viable patch
(R2 issue 2)
- server/data/systems.db: atlas_oceans resynced for GJ380c
- docs/atlas/hand-refine-log.md:119: corrected stale log entry — Aldren
Pass was subsequently renamed Randalfoss to eliminate the cross-system
Aldren stem collision with GJ380c (R2 nit 3)
- tooling/planet-gen/refine_log_849.md: Groombridge cross-corridor
addendum updated to reflect 3/29 Akan register distribution
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parallel addition to the rebalance addendum already in the GJ 0 Sol
section — Paula's header-style entry at the summary level complements
the in-context detail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
price_tier was documented in D-189 §5 and present in brands.toml but
silently discarded on import — absent from schema, INSERT, and V-B06.
- Add price_tier TEXT column to brand_products CREATE TABLE
- Add COLUMN_MIGRATIONS entry for ALTER TABLE on existing DBs
- Add VALID_PRICE_TIERS constant (mass/premium/luxury/flagship/institutional)
- Include price_tier in product_rows tuple and INSERT OR REPLACE
- Add price_tier to V-B06 enum checks; skip NULL (nullable column)
- Backfill 4 pre-amendment anchor brands (8 entries): Calloway flagship/premium,
VGV luxury/premium, thrds luxury/premium, Bífröst flagship/luxury
V-B01..V-B06 all pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses 6 mechanical issues from PR review:
- ImplantAppManifest: drop dead display_name and icon_path fields.
default_key carries a TODO noting its future migration to a keybinds
manifest (input concern in app manifest is a layering violation,
tracked explicitly).
- default_mode wire format is now a String ("fullscreen" / "insert") for
mod-author discovery. ImplantRegistry parses via _MODE_MAP, caches the
resolved int in _resolved_modes, and exposes get_resolved_mode(app_path).
main.gd reads the resolved int directly instead of re-parsing.
- Extract client/ui/implant/widgets/system_index.gd (class_name SystemIndex,
static get_sorted_systems). Removes duplicated star_map_data.json loader +
sort lambda from atlas_app and economics overview_screen.
- ImplantApp.on_insert_deactivated() default auto-closes only when the app
is active in INSERT mode. FULLSCREEN apps no longer spuriously close on
insert state changes.
- tooling/db/sqlite-query and sqlite-exec: --help output goes to stderr
(exit 0). Keeps stdout reserved for JSON payloads so JSON-parsing
callers can't get silently corrupted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Finalizes #849 core-world atlas cohesion: GJ0d (Earth/Sol) markers.json
cleaned of erroneous data, refine_log updated with Sol body gap notes,
atlas_quality_analysis.py added for ongoing metric tracking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Names all 33 null-name auto-detected Sol features: Earth ocean + 3 rivers,
24 Luna mountain ranges (real IAU lunar mountain names), 4 Mars mountains,
1 Europa mountain. All using real-world geographic names. Cross-reference
arcs added on Mars (Hellas-, Chryse-) and Europa (Conamara-, Pwyll-).
Adds sol_name_fixes.py for reproducible Sol feature naming. Updates refine
log to mark Sol complete with full audit metrics for all 6 touched systems.
DB synced: GJ0d, GJ0d-1, GJ0e, GJ0f-2 (all Sol inhabited bodies).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds two reusable scripts for the core-world hand-refine pass:
- atlas_cohesion_audit.py: SQL analysis against atlas_* tables. Reports
empty names, lazy/generic outputs, cardinal direction density, earth-echo
concentration, same-body cross-feature stem duplicates, and cross-body
stem collisions within a system. Supports --system, --body, --db flags.
Baseline run ranked Ran and Tau Ceti as highest-priority targets.
- apply_name_fixes.py: Applies curated name replacement tables to
markers.json files (name fields only; geometry preserved). Supports
--dry-run. After running, caller syncs DB via generate_atlas.py --body.
- refine_log_849.md: Hand-refine log documenting each body touched, the
rationale per change, cross-reference arcs established, and systems
flagged as blocked or needing follow-up (Sol, Barnard's Star, Proxima).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both wrappers previously silently treated --help as a SQL comment and
returned empty result JSON. They now intercept --help/-h before
delegating to the Python connector and print proper usage text with
the correct JSON key names (affected_rows, not rows_affected).
ticket, sprint, and decision already supported --help — no change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix "Gemma 2 GGUF" in user-facing error message (line 2073)
- Fix gemma2.gguf in docstring usage example (line 32)
- Fix O(N) _is_duplicate: pre-build lowercase shadow sets for O(1) lookup
- Expand vestigial note to enumerate full ~750-line dead island boundaries
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hoshe:
- Mark --dump-prompts / name_feature() as vestigial with TODO note
- Fix --refresh help string: 200 → 1000 (matches actual default)
- Fix _RIVER_POOLS comment numbering: Pool 6 before Pool 5 → correct order
- Remove dead first-pass code in fix_fewshot_bleed.py
- _CAPTURE_FILE leak noted in vestigial TODO
Tyre:
- Fix stale "Gemma 2" strings in banner, argparse description, model help
- Note dead code for cleanup pass (name_feature ~700 lines)
Hoshe (prune):
- prune_atlas_features.py: named features sort before unnamed, preventing
silent discard of hand-authored names during pruning
naming_core:
- v0.2: few-shot blocklist, stricter is_valid_name (min 3 chars, no digits,
no brackets), prompt fragment rejection expanded
Miri clarification: the 261 "empty-string" files contain only roads (37)
and railroads (37) — infrastructure features never in naming scope. All
cities/rivers/oceans/mountains/POIs are clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the one-at-a-time Gemma 2 naming pipeline with a batch-oriented
Gemma 4 E2B pipeline. Key changes:
- naming_core.py: shared library with Levenshtein distinctiveness ranking,
batch prompt building, mood injection pool, name validation, and
adjacent-register refill logic
- Wiki-grounded register selection: per-system LLM call picks the cultural
register based on wiki/GTTR content instead of hash randomizer
- Batch naming: requests N*2 names per call, ranks by word-average
Levenshtein distance, fills quota from most-distinct candidates
- Mood pool: 13 emotional seeds randomized per-body for vocabulary
divergence (ambition, fear, isolation, defiance, etc.)
- Adjacent-register refill: when primary register exhausts, automatically
switches to next corridor substyle
- Inhabited-first body ordering: habitable worlds get first pick of
register vocabulary, barren moons get leftovers
- Process group cleanup: SIGTERM/SIGKILL the full distrobox chain on
subprocess refresh to prevent GPU zombie processes
- qa_naming.py: QA report, fix_fewshot_bleed.py: post-hoc fix script
- test_batch_naming.py, test_register_selection.py: test harnesses
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Individual dedup/blocklist/placeholder/empty rejections that recover
on the next attempt are now silent. Only the skipped: summary line
prints when all 5 attempts fail. Subprocess errors still print
immediately (those indicate a real problem).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bumped max_attempts from 3 to 5 — with per-system dedup and no stem
cap, the remaining dedup hits are mostly per-body collisions which
a couple extra attempts with rotated pools can escape.
Bumped --refresh default from 200 to 1000. Fewer subprocess restarts
= fewer model reloads via distrobox. KV-cache bleed risk is lower
now that the validation gauntlet is lighter.
Reverted the batch-prompt experiment — Gemma 2 2B drifts on
multi-line output; individual calls are more reliable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stem cap (--stem-cap 20) was rejecting valid names because common
feature-type vocabulary tokens like "ridge", "hill", "range" hit the
cap after ~200 bodies and blocked all subsequent names containing
them. With sub-style rotation already providing variety, the cap was
doing more harm than good. Removed entirely.
Cross-body dedup narrowed from (hop, corridor, feature_type) to
(system_id, feature_type). Two rivers in the same system can't share
a name; two rivers in different systems can. This matches how
settlers actually name things — they don't coordinate with other
star systems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace single-inflection corridor palettes with lists of sub-styles.
Each system picks one deterministically via hash(system_id), so all
bodies in the same system share a cultural register but neighbouring
systems get different registers.
Core corridor splits into 6 sub-styles (English rural, British
colonial, US rural, US cosmopolitan, classical/institutional,
Australian/NZ). North/south/east/west reach each get 5 sub-styles
covering their cultural spectrum. Deep frontier gets 3 (founder-name,
surveyor-descriptive, outpost-functional).
This multiplies Gemma's effective vocabulary per corridor by the
sub-style count, dramatically reducing dedup pressure. A 6-style
core corridor means each sub-style serves ~4 systems instead of 24,
so "The Ridge" exhausts after ~4 systems, not ~24.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When all 3 LLM attempts are rejected (dedup, blocklist, etc.),
name_feature now returns None instead of a deterministic palette
fallback. process_body leaves the name as null in markers.json.
The preserved path (_is_blank) treats null as unnamed, so a fill
round (re-running the script) picks up only the skipped features
with a fresh corpus — zero dedup pressure from the first pass. The
fill round can use a different seed, slower prompt, or a different
backend entirely (e.g. Haiku).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Changed dedup key from (corridor, feature_type) to
(hop, corridor, feature_type). Systems at the same gate-hop distance
in the same corridor are near neighbors and shouldn't share feature
names; systems at different hops can. This prevents corpus exhaustion
where Gemma's narrow range-name distribution ("The Ridge", "Blackwood
Range") collides after ~20 bodies and drives fallback rates toward
100%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retry rejection lines (dedup, blocklist, placeholder, stem_cap, empty,
error) now print unconditionally, not only under --verbose. The
fallback line also includes a tally of the rejection reasons that
exhausted all attempts, e.g.:
fallback: GJ144e-1/range_43 → 'Kirkwood Spine' [blocklist=2 dedup=1]
Diagnostic run on 20 bodies confirms dedup is the primary fallback
driver. Gemma converges on a narrow set of range names ("The Ridge",
"Blackwood Range", "The Spine") that collide across bodies in the
same corridor. Blocklist catches "Thames" and "The Great Divide"
correctly. Zero stem-cap or subprocess-error fallbacks observed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gfx1201 preflight check piped `strings` into grep, which fails
silently on a Bazzite host where binutils is not installed and
`strings` is not on PATH. `grep -a` reads the binary directly as
text, works everywhere grep exists, and produces the same result.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wraps gemma_naming.py with the validated overnight recipe: gfx1201
ROCm binary path, distrobox reach-build for libhipblas at runtime,
timestamped log under .tmp/.
Preflight checks: binary exists and is executable, model present,
reach-build container exists, binary strings contains gfx1201 kernels.
Fails fast on any missing prerequisite so a broken build can't waste
an overnight window. Script takes no arguments; anything passed is
rejected so a stray --help can't accidentally launch the pipeline.
Estimate ~4-6 h for ~26k features across 2394 bodies at 74 t/s on an
RX 9070. Safe to interrupt and resume — preserved path skips
already-named bodies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three additions unlocked by the gfx1201 ROCm debug session.
1. _find_sr_voice() resolves the default binary path to
~/Projects/settled-reach/binaries/sr-voice-rocm (persistent across
worktree lifetimes) with a legacy fallback to the main workdir's
cargo target dir. Matches #850's plan to ship platform binaries
outside the repo.
2. --distrobox <name> wraps the sr-voice subprocess in
`distrobox enter <name> --` when the built binary depends on libs
that only exist inside a dev container (libhipblas.so.2 on a
Bazzite host). Stdio JSONL protocol flows through unchanged.
3. --dump-prompts PATH captures the attempt-0 prompt for every
feature as JSONL without calling an LLM. Force --mock and
short-circuit name_feature to return a unique deterministic
placeholder. Used to feed the same prompt set to alternate
backends (Haiku agent, other models) for offline A/B comparison
of naming quality independent of the sampling backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related quality fixes observed mid-run on Sirius + ACB + Ran:
1) Cosmopolitan corridor palettes. The six corridor inflection labels
were single-culture dominant ("administrative English / Gateway-era",
"British / Australian / Irish", "Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese", etc).
Gemma 2 2B interpreted these as "produce ONLY in this register" and
every core body came out anglophone, every east_reach body came out
East Asian. The real Earth diaspora in the setting is cosmopolitan —
a British surveyor on an east_reach moon still names a river after
their aunt in Dorset. The labels now spell out the dominant register
AND explicitly invite cross-cultural variety so Gemma samples from
the full few-shot pool instead of collapsing to one culture.
2) Per-system gttr context (the big one). The gttr.md files under
wiki/star-systems/<slug>/gttr.md already carry a vivid one-sentence
characterisation of every system — "where the rules live", "forty
years old and still in the draft", "the most connected system in
the Reach", "grandparents owned the land". This is a far stronger
cultural signal than the corridor inflection alone.
New column `star_systems.gttr_hook` stores a pre-extracted 45-word
hook per system. `tooling/db/populate_gttr_hook.py` parses each
gttr.md, regex-matches the first `**NAME**` paragraph, normalises
whitespace, truncates softly at a word cap, and stores it. Covers
all 301 systems (full coverage). Idempotent, safe to re-run after
any wiki update. Explicit transaction wrapper.
gemma_naming.py loads the hook cache at startup via
`load_system_gttr_hooks` and threads `system_hook` plus the system
and body proper names through process_body → name_feature →
_build_prompt. The prompt now carries:
System: <proper_name>. Planet: <body_name>.
About the system: <gttr_hook>
Style: British. Answer: Cooper's Creek
Style: Dutch. Answer: Meijer Beek
...
Real-mode smoke on 10 cases across 4 contrasting systems shows the
hook is doing exactly what it should. Sample output on the same
body_id / local_id pairs:
Tau Ceti (cosmopolitan hub) → Oakham River, Riverwood, Bridle Way
Ran (old-family agricultural) → Hart's Well, Blackwood Ridge
ACB (Lattice Commission seat) → Greenhaven, Rudge Brook
Posto Avançado (PT frontier dead-end) → Rio Preto, Serra de Caxias, Cunha's Cove
Posto Avançado went from "likely-English under the old corridor-only
prompt" to actual Portuguese names with a real Brazilian place stem
(Caxias), because the hook explicitly mentions wave_5 Portuguese
founders and frontier dead-end context. The gttr cultural one-liner
is the single strongest lever available for per-system cohesion —
this was the mono-culture issue observed in the first run, now fixed.
Token cost: ~60-90 extra tokens per prompt (hook + ident line).
Inference slowdown: ~5-10% per call. Acceptable for the quality gain.
Also restores 10 markers.json files that were stale from the aborted
run just killed — they were all core bodies at hop 0-1 which benefit
most from the gttr-context upgrade, so re-running them with the new
prompt is worth the ~3 minutes of re-inference.
