BleFieldCore and MagFieldCore had converged on the same class: same
time-aware EMA, same warm-up gate, same "deviation past a threshold is an
event" shape, differing only in constants and field names. Three copies of
the alpha derivation existed across the sensor libs.
lib/baseline.ts now owns it. Both wrappers keep their own public types
(`.rssi`, `.magnitude`) so nothing downstream changed — which is what let
all 26 existing tests pass completely unmodified against the refactor.
That was the point of doing it this way: if the tests had needed editing,
the refactor would have been changing behaviour rather than removing
duplication.
coldSpot.ts deliberately does NOT adopt this. It threads immutable state
through pure functions so a whole session's narrative can be replayed in a
test without a clock — a different and equally valid shape. Collapsing the
two would force one into a style that doesn't fit it, which is how
deduplication turns into damage.
355 frontend tests pass unchanged; i18n parity gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MOON INFLUENCE ON SUMMONING
Astronomy previously only decided whether a channel's familiar spirit
returned. It now shapes *who comes through*:
- Rarity skews with real moon illumination. At full moon the rare and
mythic weights roughly triple while common recedes, so a mythic
summoning becomes a reason to go out on the right night rather than a
flat lottery. Deliberately a skew and never a gate — every tier stays
reachable on every night, because someone who can only play midweek
should not be locked out of the good spirits.
- Hidden traits take a small moonlit nudge: power and volatility rise,
alignment drifts slightly darker. Capped at 0.12 and clamped to [0,1],
so a full moon intensifies what a spirit already is instead of
rewriting it. Deceptiveness is untouched — whether a spirit lies is its
own nature, not the sky's doing.
- The mint prompt is told the phase, and explicitly told the entity must
never mention or seem aware of it. It shapes who they are, not their
dialogue; a ghost remarking on the moonlight would break the illusion
instantly.
Tests assert the outcomes shift in practice (mythic rate over 4000 draws,
rare-tier counts across 300 fallback profiles), not merely that the code
runs. test_mint_prompt_never_receives_traits now allows `sky` while still
forbidding `traits`: moon phase is public, observable state anyone can look
up, hidden ground truth is not.
GEOMAGNETIC (app/geomagnetic.py)
Real NOAA SWPC planetary K-index, verified against the live endpoint —
which caught a real bug: I had written the parser against an
array-of-arrays shape, and the actual feed serves a list of objects
(`estimated_kp` float, `kp_index` int, `kp` a display string with a letter
suffix). Fixed, and the tests now use the real captured shape. Cached,
never blocking, and a failed refresh keeps serving the last real value —
an hour-old genuine measurement beats nothing, and geomagnetic conditions
do not change fast enough for that to mislead.
MAGNETOMETER WIRED
MagnetometerListener existed but was never connected. The EMF panel now
runs it alongside the motion listener where the hardware exists, so the
"EMF meter" measures actual magnetic field in µT rather than only
inferring disturbance from movement. Additive: the motion path is
untouched and remains the only option on iOS. Its field jitter also feeds
the entropy pool.
DEAD CODE
Removed .evp-scope and .radio-waterfall, orphaned when both panels moved to
the shared SpectrumScope. Audited every other flagged export first and left
them alone — they are used internally, and "not imported elsewhere" is not
the same as dead.
Adds docs/CHANNELS.md recording what each channel measures and, honestly,
what has actually been verified against hardware versus only written
carefully.
311 backend + 355 frontend tests pass; i18n parity gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three changes that together replace "deterministic hash decides everything"
with "the physical world genuinely participates".
PHYSICAL ENTROPY (app/entropy.py, lib/entropy.ts)
Contact was a database lookup: signature_from_anomalies() hashed the
anomaly pattern, so identical conditions always produced an identical
spirit. Now the client harvests real thermal/acoustic/RF noise from the
microphone and receiver noise floors — Von Neumann debiased, SHA-256
conditioned — and contributes it to every summon.
The client is untrusted by construction. A contribution is never a seed:
every draw is HMAC-SHA256(fresh server secret, client bytes || context).
Because fresh CSPRNG server bytes are always present, the output is
unpredictable and uniform no matter what the client sends — all-zeros, a
replayed value, or one chosen adversarially. The room can only ever ADD
unpredictability, never steer the result. Tests assert this directly:
400 replays of one contribution stay uniformly distributed.
A signature now identifies a *channel*, not a spirit. Whether the familiar
presence answers or something else picks up is a real draw
(RETURN_CHANCE). The Codex stays collectable; it is just no longer
guaranteed. test_same_signature_recontacts_same_entity became two tests —
one pinning the probability to prove re-contact works, one pinning it to
zero to prove something else can answer — because at 0.72 the original
would have passed ~72% of the time, which is worse than failing.
REAL ASTRONOMY (app/celestial.py)
Moon phase from the standard mean-synodic approximation, and true solar
midnight from the seeker's own longitude — the real witching hour for
where they are standing, not clock 3am. Computed, never fetched: an API
that can fail would mean the veil silently changes behaviour during
someone else's outage. Validated against published ephemeris dates (2024
full moons, 2025 new moons) rather than against its own output. A thinner
veil erodes the familiar presence's claim on a channel, so a full moon at
solar midnight makes strangers likelier. Only longitude is kept, never a
full coordinate; a denied location degrades to moon-only, silently.
GENERATION FROM NOTHING (SpiritService.manifest)
Not chat_stream with an empty question. The prompt contains no seeker
input at all — only measured room state, rendered as measurements
("deviation above the floor: 31.4") rather than interpretations
("terrifying spike"), so the horror comes from the entity instead of from
us. And the Ollama `seed` is derived from the physical entropy harvested
in that room, which fixes the token-sampling path: the room genuinely
selects the words. Change the noise, get different speech. Two rooms
cannot produce the same utterance.
Rendered as an intrusion rather than a reply — violet edge, full opacity
against the faded ambient murmurs, brief blur-in. The unsettling part is
that it is perfectly clear and completely unbidden.
Also fixes a hang I introduced: the two new summon tests consumed the
shared module-level per-IP budget, so test_summon_rate_limited_* blocked
forever on an entity frame that had been rate-limited away. They now scope
their own limiters.
264 backend + 355 frontend tests pass; i18n parity gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both measure genuine physics rather than dressing up a random number.
Bluetooth (lib/bluetooth.ts): BLE advertises in the 2.4GHz ISM band, and
the human body is mostly water, which absorbs 2.4GHz strongly — the same
physics that makes a microwave work and that degrades your wifi when
someone stands between you and the router. So RSSI genuinely drops when a
body crosses the path. That makes signal-strength variance a real,
physically-grounded movement signal. The module reports exactly that and
nothing more: it never claims a drop *is* a presence, only that the field
changed. Threshold is 6dB — above the 2-4dB of idle multipath wander, and
inside the 3-10dB a real body actually causes.
Magnetometer (lib/magnetometer.ts): the existing EMF mode infers field
disturbance from DeviceMotion/DeviceOrientation, which is a real
measurement but measures *movement*, not magnetism — a phone sitting still
beside a running motor reads nothing. This reads the actual magnetometer,
so the EMF meter measures what an EMF meter is supposed to. Real
ghost-hunting EMF meters are just magnetometers, and the spikes they pick
up come from mains wiring, motors and moving ferrous mass — all of which
this picks up, for the same real reasons. 3uT threshold clears the ~0.5-1uT
sensor noise while still catching household sources. Earth's constant
25-65uT background is explicitly what the rolling baseline exists to
subtract.
Both are additive: neither replaces the existing motion-based EMF, which
stays the fallback because it works on iOS where neither of these do
(no Web Bluetooth, no Generic Sensor API in any iOS browser). Both reuse
the time-aware EMA baseline shape from coldSpot.ts, since advertisement
and sensor intervals are irregular and a fixed per-sample alpha would
weight a burst and a long gap identically.
Web Bluetooth types are declared locally rather than pulling in
@types/web-bluetooth for three shapes — same approach lib/emf.ts already
takes with its non-standard sensor types.
Also renders unprompted 'manifest' utterances as an intrusion: violet edge,
full opacity (unlike the faded ambient/fragment murmurs), and a brief
blur-in. The unsettling part is that it is perfectly clear and completely
unbidden.
355 frontend tests pass (26 new); i18n parity gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces two ad-hoc canvases (a 256x110 fixed-size waterfall in the radio
panel, a bar-graph in the EVP panel) with one source-agnostic SpectrumScope
that renders any binned dB spectrum, plus sonification so anomalies can be
heard rather than watched.
Sources are real measured data only. The RTL-SDR path is genuine RF; the
EVP path is a genuine AnalyserNode FFT of the device microphone. The ESP32
deliberately does NOT feed this: its firmware reports four scalars
(temperature, pressure, evp level, presence) and has no spectrum at all,
and device_anomaly.frequency_for_sensor_type() invents a per-sensor-type
frequency for the fiction — neither is a real spectrum, so neither is
plotted as one.
SpectrumScope draws three layers because each answers a different question:
the live trace (what is happening now), a decaying peak-hold (what was
strongest recently, so a transient survives a glance away), and a waterfall
(what the last minute looked like, where a steady carrier separates from a
one-off burst). Anomaly markers flare at their frequency and fade over
~2.6s, so a spike already gone from the trace still says where to look.
Frames reach the scope through a ref, not a prop. Routing 60Hz frames
through React state re-renders the panel and the scope on every frame on
top of the rAF loop that actually draws — measurably the wrong call on a
phone. The EVP producer double-buffers into two fixed Float64Arrays so a
frame costs zero allocation.
spectrumSonify maps band position to pitch exponentially, so equal
fractions of the band are equal musical intervals (a linear Hz map crams
the bottom half into one indistinguishable octave), and magnitude to
gain via sqrt so faint hits stay audible. Pings are throttled to 90ms
because a busy band otherwise smears into a buzz that conveys nothing.
Every entry point no-ops rather than throwing when audio is unavailable —
a dead speaker must never take down the scope drawing the data.
Audio requires an explicit gesture (ListenToggle), because iOS keeps any
context created outside a touch handler permanently suspended.
Also exposes EvpListener.sampleRate/nyquistHz and labels the EVP axis from
the real hardware rate. The old code assumed 48kHz; Bluetooth headsets and
some Android inputs hand back 44.1k or 16k, which mislabelled the spectrum
by nearly an octave.
Mobile: DPR-aware canvases, ResizeObserver, 44px touch targets,
touch-action so dragging the scope pans the page, reduced-motion honoured,
crowded axis ticks dropped under 560px.
329 frontend tests pass (18 new); i18n en/es parity gate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
seance.tsx / JudgmentPanel.tsx: neither `ritual_complete` nor
`judgment_result` carries an entity id, and both were applied
unconditionally — so a response still in flight when the seeker summoned a
fresh entity landed on whatever entity happened to be current when it
arrived, leaking the *previous* entity's hidden traits into the new one's
revealed-traits UI. Both frames are now gated on our still waiting for one
(ritual.status === 'in_progress' / judgmentPending), which the 'entity'
case clears the moment a new presence arrives, so a late answer for the old
entity is dropped instead of misattributed.
JudgmentPanel also had `pending` in component-local state that only cleared
when judgmentResult became a *new* truthy object. If the entity changed
while judgmentResult was already null, the reset was a no-op (null === null)
and pending stayed stuck, permanently disabling all four verdict buttons.
It now reads the shared judgmentPending flag, which the reducer resets.
coldSpot.ts: severity was ungated by `warm` while isColdSpot/
isPressureAnomaly were correctly gated. ColdSpotPanel feeds severity
straight into the composite disturbance gauge with no boolean gate of its
own, so a freshly-paired device could show "disturbance rising" off its 2nd
reading — exactly what the minSamples warm-up exists to prevent.
PlanchetteBoard.tsx: the first GOODBYE deadline was a bare
randomBetween(120,300) compared against `t`, which is seconds since
performance.timeOrigin (page load), not since mount. Every later reschedule
correctly offsets from `t`. On a tab open >5min before the board mounted
(or any remount via navigation), t was already past the deadline and the
planchette snapped to GOODBYE on the first frame.
sdr.ts: close() and setFrequency() inside the sweep loop were not wrapped in
withTimeout despite the file's own header claiming every stalling USB call
is. A dongle going unresponsive mid-sweep or during teardown hung forever —
the same silent-hang symptom withTimeout was added to eliminate.
InventoryPanel.tsx: essence was decremented client-side using a possibly
stale fallback price and never reconciled. The server already returns the
real post-purchase balance in PurchaseOut; use it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real bug report: user selects their RTL-SDR dongle in the WebUSB picker,
"nothing happens" — no error, no sweep, no visible change at all.
Root cause: WebUSB's transferIn/controlTransfer calls have no built-in
timeout. readSamples()'s bulk transferIn (called every sweep step, twice —
once to discard PLL-settle samples, once for real) had nothing bounding
it, so if the dongle doesn't actually stream data for any reason (this
init sequence has never been verified against real hardware), that
promise just never settles — indistinguishable from the page being frozen,
forever, with no way for the UI to ever surface an error.
Added withTimeout(), applied to: the bulk IQ read (4s — the one most
likely to actually hang during sweeping) and the whole open()/init
sequence as one unit (15s, since it's ~20 sequential unverified register
pokes). Also stopped silently falling back to default
interface/endpoint values when the device's USB descriptor doesn't expose
a bulk-IN endpoint as expected — now logs a warning so a real endpoint
mismatch is at least visible in DevTools instead of only surfacing as a
downstream hang.
4 new unit tests for withTimeout(). 306/306 frontend tests pass.
Wander bounds were tied to the letter ring's radius, which sits inside
YES/NO's corner positions — widened to derive bounds directly from the
board's actual outermost fixed waypoints (YES/NO for the top/sides, the
number row for the bottom) so idle drift covers the whole interactive
board, corners included.
Added a periodic deliberate visit to GOODBYE: every 2-5 minutes
(randomized so multiple open tabs don't sync up), the planchette glides
down and rests there for 3-5 seconds with the same restrained glow used
for ambiently-brushed letters, then resumes normal wander. Purely a
visual beat — no session/game state changes, distinct from an actual
goodbye action.
The wander amplitude (w*0.16, h*0.14) was a fixed fraction of the canvas
with no relationship to the outer letter ring's actual radius
(min(w*0.4, h*0.52) — set in computeLayout's arc() calls), so idle drift
could never reach anywhere near the outer letters (A/M/N/Z, the arc tops).
Tied the wander radius directly to that same ring radius/squash factor
instead, so it genuinely roams the whole board.
Also added an ambient "letter brushing" effect: while idly wandering (not
actively spelling a real reply), a letter the planchette drifts near gets
a faint glow — visibly dimmer than the bright hover/dwell glow used for
real spelled letters, so a passing brush never reads as the spirit
actually saying something. Purely cosmetic, no game-state changes.
Real-time anomaly visualization for temperature/pressure readings on the
device-feed dashboard, folklore's two most iconic paranormal markers:
sudden cold spots and rapid barometric swings.
- lib/coldSpot.ts: pure, directly-testable rolling-baseline tracker
(time-aware EMA, since hardware doesn't report on a fixed schedule),
cold-spot and pressure-anomaly classifiers, and a composite
Atmospheric Disturbance Index that rewards correlated anomalies
(a lone signal caps at 50/100; only both deviating together can
reach 100) — modeled on evilMeter.ts's threaded-state pattern.
- components/ColdSpotPanel.tsx/.css: frost treatment + sparkline for
temperature, ripple treatment for pressure, and a crescent-arc
composite gauge (GhostLog's evil-meter gauge as the visual family
reference) that only appears once a device has reported both sensors.
- DevicesPage.tsx: owns per-device baseline state, feeds it from
`reading` frames, falls back to the existing generic row for any
non-numeric temperature/pressure value.
26 new coldSpot.test.ts cases (warm-up, genuine vs. fluctuation,
correlated-vs-solo index, gappy/out-of-order data) and 7 new
DevicesPage integration tests. Full suite: 302/302 passing, tsc clean,
i18n coverage clean (en/es).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolved conflicts in App.tsx/SeancePage.tsx (both F and H added new
routes/nav links, kept both) and i18n files (both added sibling top-level
keys — inventory + devices, fixed nesting after conflict markers removed).
Also fixed a real integration gap: DevicesPage.test.tsx's mock User object
predated Workstream F's unlocks/essence additions to the User type (the
two workstreams built in parallel isolation and couldn't see each other's
changes). 269/269 frontend tests pass, tsc clean.
Resolved conflict in types.ts: dropped the duplicate EntityTraits
definition (D and E both added it identically) and combined both
workstreams' new ServerFrame variants (tell/ritual_complete from D,
judgment_result from E). 223/223 frontend tests pass, tsc clean.
Adds /devices — pair an ESP32 sensor node (POST /api/device), reveal its
raw pairing token exactly once with a hard-to-miss "cannot be shown again"
warning (styled like a real API-key-reveal UI), then a live dashboard
subscribing to /ws/device-feed: the initial `devices` frame seeds paired
devices, and `reading` frames update one row per distinct sensor_type in
place. sensor_type/value/unit are rendered fully generically per the
contract (free-form, open-ended) — an unrecognized sensor_type renders
safely with no special-casing.
- frontend/src/lib/deviceFeed.ts: reconnecting WS client for
/ws/device-feed, mirroring VeilSocket's backoff shape (receive-only, no
outbox needed).
- frontend/src/pages/DevicesPage.{tsx,css}: pairing form + one-time token
reveal + live device-card grid. Leans into "hacker" terminal styling
(monospace readouts, terminal device cards) over the app's usual gothic
chrome, per the design spec, while keeping the existing dark/violet
palette tokens from App.css.
- Route + nav link wired into App.tsx / SeancePage.tsx.
- i18n: new `devices.*` / `nav.devices` keys in en.json + es.json; added a
coverage-check.mjs domain rule for the dynamic connection-state key,
mirroring the existing `seance.connection.` rule.
Tests: deviceFeed.test.ts (backoff/reconnect/frame delivery) and
DevicesPage.test.tsx (empty state, name validation, one-time token reveal
and dismissal, live frame updates in place without duplicating rows,
multi-device/multi-sensor rendering, and a mocked unrecognized sensor_type
that must not crash). Full suite: 154 passed (137 pre-existing + 17 new).
`npx tsc -b` and `npm run build` both clean.
Assumption (undocumented in spec): POST /api/device's JSON response shape
is inferred as `{id, name, token, last_seen_at}` since the Contract section
only describes the endpoint in prose. GET /api/device is intentionally not
called — the live dashboard is fully seeded by /ws/device-feed's initial
`devices` frame per the contract, so it's redundant for this page's scope.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
App-shell HUD (mounted in App.tsx alongside HauntingLayer, visible on
every screen) that shows ambient idle status until a séance is active,
then streams `tell` WS frames as terminal-style log lines with a
"hacker witch" crescent-arc evil-meter gauge (occult sigils/runes fused
with Transcript.tsx's monospace log vocabulary).
- lib/evilMeter.ts: pure function computing a malevolent<->benevolent
belief from the accumulated tell history — starts wide/uncertain,
narrows geometrically and shifts per tell (deterministic hash of the
tell text, since tells never leak ground truth), and snaps to
definitive certainty on a successful ritual_complete's
revealed.alignment. Fully unit tested (narrowing, ordering,
determinism, ritual override, idle/empty history).
- lib/ghostLogBus.ts: tiny typed event bus (mirrors lib/haunting.ts's
HauntBus) so the app-shell-level GhostLog can react to live séance
frames — SeanceProvider is only mounted inside the séance route, so a
shell-level sibling can't read its context directly.
- state/seance.tsx: publish entity/tell/ritual_complete onto the bus,
and session_end on provider teardown so the HUD falls back to idle
when the seeker leaves the séance page.
- lib/types.ts: add the `tell` and `ritual_complete` server frames from
the Character Depth spec's Contract section (only what this
workstream consumes).
- components/GhostLog.tsx/.css: the HUD itself, plus i18n keys in
en.json/es.json.
168/168 frontend tests pass (137 pre-existing + 20 evilMeter + 11
GhostLog); tsc -b and the i18n coverage pretest are clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Workstream F of the character-depth/ghost-log spec.
- InventoryPanel.tsx: essence balance, owned unlocks/items (terminal
listing + Codex-style rarity-glow borders on items), and a buy flow
for a small fixed unlock catalog (currently just "listening_tool",
the only key the contract names) with afford/can't-afford button
states. Prices are fetched from a best-guess /api/inventory/catalog
endpoint and fall back to a flagged "(est.)" price sourced from the
spec's own worked example when that endpoint isn't available yet —
the contract doesn't define a price-list REST shape.
- SigilDesigner.tsx + lib/sigil.ts: constrained geometric builder —
points snap to 24 fixed clock-face slots around a circle, capped at
12 to match the backend's payload limit, connected in placement
order. Five hand-drawn stroke-only rune glyphs (eye/crescent/key/
spiral/thorn) overlay the center. Point-cap enforcement, rune
selection and payload-shape building are pure functions in
lib/sigil.ts, unit-tested directly. Saves via POST
/api/inventory/sigils (path inferred; payload shape matches the
contract exactly: {"points": [[x,y],...], "rune": str}). Art
direction: the builder itself reads like a plotting/debug tool
(crosshair cursor, monospace coordinate HUD) while the rendered
lines + rune glow violet, consistent with GhostGlyph's conventions.
- lib/evp.ts: new evpThresholdDb(hasListeningTool) pure function and
EvpListener.start() now accepts { hasListeningTool } to lower the
EVP anomaly threshold (8dB -> 4dB) when the unlock is owned — wired
from useAuth().user.unlocks in SeancePage's EvpPanel, a real
gameplay effect on which faint signals register as anomalies.
- api.ts User type gains unlocks/essence per the contract's /auth/me
extension; new InventoryPage.tsx mounts both components behind auth
at /inventory, linked from the séance nav.
166/166 tests pass (137 pre-existing + 29 new), i18n coverage check
clean, tsc -b clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the Character Depth / Ghost Log spec's Workstream E:
- RitualPanel.tsx: a 4-step "focus the channel" hold-to-charge sequence
(align/breathe/trace/lock), sending ritual_step frames as the seeker
progresses. Success reveals the entity's true hidden traits; failure
reveals nothing. Sequencing/timing logic lives in the pure, unit-tested
lib/ritual.ts rather than inline in the component.
- JudgmentPanel.tsx: Trust/Banish/Cross Over/Test verdict buttons with
rune-style SVG icons, sending the judgment frame and rendering a
distinct treatment per judgment_result consequence — reward,
escalation (also spikes the ambient haunting), withdrawal, resisted,
neutral, and a calm glyph-fade farewell for crossed_over (deliberately
not the reward treatment, since it's a goodbye).
- lib/haunting.ts: IdleEscalator gains forceEscalate()/forcedUntil so a
judgment's "escalation" consequence can spike the ambient haunting
immediately instead of waiting on the 90s idle clock; exports a
sharedIdleEscalator singleton and a forceEscalate() free function.
HauntingLayer now paces itself off that shared instance instead of a
private one, so the forced spike actually reaches the running layer.
- state/seance.tsx: new ritual/judgmentResult state, a local_ritual_start
action, and reducer cases for the ritual_complete/judgment_result server
frames; SeanceContext exported for component testing; startRitual/
sendRitualStep/sendJudgment added to the provider API.
- lib/types.ts: EntityTraits/JudgmentVerdict/JudgmentConsequence types and
the new client/server WS frames, per the spec's Contract section.
- i18n: seance.ritual.* / seance.judgment.* keys in en.json and es.json.
Fast-forwarded this worktree's branch onto master first — it had been
created from a stale ancestor commit predating the frontend scaffold
entirely, with zero commits of its own ahead of that point.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Renaming: "Armory" read too militaristic for a séance app. Landed on "The
Reliquary" (not "The Threshold" — that name was already taken by the
landing-page back-link).
Spec addendum: added a visible essence currency (earned per summon, spent
on unlocks — distinct from the hidden favor score) and a fourth judgment
verdict, cross_over, for compassionately helping a genuinely benevolent
"stuck" spirit move on rather than just trusting or banishing it. Updates
workstreams B/C/E/F accordingly before any of them are dispatched.
First sub-project of the "make contact feel real" arc (spec:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-23-possession-presentation-design.md).
Direct Contact replies now feel like a spirit fighting through static to
hold the channel rather than a plain chat bubble:
- backend/app/possession.py: compute_stability(rarity, magnitude, rng) —
a 0.05-0.98 score per reply (rarer entity + stronger triggering anomaly =
cleaner signal), rng injectable for a later quantum-RNG source.
- ws.py sends stability on reply_start; audio synthesis for that reply gets
noise/bitcrush scaled by instability (1 - stability) via a new
instability param on synthesize_spirit_voice — effects.py itself is
untouched, only the params fed into it.
- frontend/src/lib/possession.ts: renderPossessedText — pure, deterministic
(tick-seeded, no Math.random) text corruption with self-correcting
glitch bursts, wired into Transcript.tsx's streaming reply display.
Stored transcript/reply text is unaffected — this is presentation only.
78/78 backend, 137/137 frontend tests passing.
The gap-g-readme merge commit (57a8914) staged this fix but never
re-staged it after editing, so the merge landed with the pre-fix content —
the working tree had the correction but git didn't. No functional change,
just closing the gap between what was intended and what was committed.
