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>
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.
