# Status / handoff (lead). Newest at the bottom. Three lines per entry. ## 2026-09-07 15:05 · session restart, Phase 3 start Merged: materials branch (library v1: concrete family, columns, dome membrane, water, foliage cards, ground, backdrop) into main at 4364e98. All five asset .blends now on main. In flight: nothing (all worktrees idle; arch/env/light/orn branches fast-forwarded to main before dispatch). Next: rebuild master.blend with the library, view hero, arbitrate dome (QA-01-1), dispatch wave 1 (architecture + environment). ## 2026-09-07 15:15 · wave 1 dispatched Merged: 8ac4870 (rules, status, dome arbitration). master.blend rebuilding with the materials library in the background (hero Cycles render to renders/previews/qa/p3mat_*). In flight: ARCH fix agent (branch architecture, Opus: QA-01-1 dome, maiden sockets to box base, greek-key frieze sockets, bevels/rustication, 14/15/16); ENV fix agent (branch environment, Opus: QA-01-2, 3 geometry, 6, 7, 8, 19). Next: judge the materials hero from master; when a wave-1 agent reports, merge and dispatch wave 2 (ornament: QA-01-10/11/13/18; lighting: QA-01-9/12/20); then QA round 2 on Opus. ## 2026-09-07 15:20 · master rebuilt with materials; hero judged Merged: master.blend rebuilt (28 library materials, 28 placeholders remapped); Cycles hero at renders/previews/qa/roundp3mat_01_lagoon_hero_cycles.png, composite renders/qa_comparisons/p3mat_cam01_vs_ref169.png. Lead read: concrete/columns/water direction right. Sunlit attic (178,134,89) vs ref 169 (212,167,103): 17 % dark, less golden; reflection centre (86,70,54) vs (129,95,57): 35 % dark; sky flat grey-blue; dome absent (ARCH), shore slabs + blob trees (ENV) in flight. Next: lighting agent (wave 2) owns exposure/warmth/sky (QA-01-12) with these numbers; re-judge water after ENV closes the lagoon volume; hero camera may need re-framing once the dome rises (apex now at 5 % from top). ## 2026-09-07 15:35 · cap raised to 4; wave 2 dispatched alongside wave 1 Merged: mission.md audit (checklist reports viewability + deliverables each round); CLAUDE.md concurrency cap 2 -> 4 (user). In flight: ARCH (architecture), ENV (environment) from wave 1; ORN fix agent (branch ornament, Opus: QA-01-10/11 unit + array helper/13/18); MAT fix agent (branch materials, Opus: QA-01-3 water shader, stone luminance/warmth vs ref 169, QA-01-20 dome, leaf translucency, pine needles). Next: merge each branch as it reports, rebuild master, then lighting (QA-01-9/12) and QA round 2 on Opus. ## 2026-09-07 15:58 · architecture merged (cf419b4) Merged: ARCH fix round: dome rise 9.4 m / drum 5.1 m / apex 52.8 (apex +1.8 % vs ref 169, -1.7 % vs ref 085; drum 51 px above attic), maiden sockets at box base, 126 frieze_run sockets (98 greek_key) + meander geometry, 3 cm bevels on 249 objects, rustication, octagonal coffers, stair cheek walls; 12 boxes kept (decision in arch_notes). Composite renders/qa_comparisons/arch_06_phase3_sheet.png, lead accepts. In flight: ENV (environment), ORN (ornament), MAT (materials); LIGHT dispatched now (branch lighting, Opus: QA-01-9 probes, QA-01-12 exposure/warmth/haze, QA-01-20 dome check). Next: merge ENV/ORN/MAT as they report, rebuild master (hide ARCH_*_meander_* if ORN units are arrayed), re-frame hero cam for the taller dome, QA round 2. Note for QA: qa_silhouette's r>b+0.06 sky mask misses the pale dome; use arch_silhouette.py flatten / arch_inspect.py --alpha. ## 2026-09-07 16:45 · environment merged (1bc0491); Blender hygiene rule Merged: ENV fix round: 1461 shrub objects from leaf cards, closed lagoon volume (0 open edges), tree screens (sky through bays N 1.7 % / S 9.5 %), cam03 clear, hall facade with green door, 1273 rip-rap boulders, satellite paths. LOD1 7.67 M tris. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/env_fix_round_sheet.png. In flight: ORN, MAT, LIGHT; ENV asked for a follow-up (peninsula planting band 9-18 m back from the water; cam02 stays where it is, decision: the reference cluster and OSM shoreline leave no room). MAT asked for MAT_leaf_pine, MAT_shrub_light/_dry, MAT_backdrop_roof/_skylight/_door_green. Next: user reported swapping from idle Blender processes: scripts/blender_watchdog.sh added, rule in CLAUDE.md, loop running in the lead session; all agents notified. Then merge ORN/MAT/LIGHT, rebuild master, QA round 2. ## 2026-09-07 17:30 · ornament merged (a1bdcc5) Merged: ORN fix round: attic panels 15/13/13 figures, 62-64 % coverage; ORN_greek_key (0.60 m) / ORN_rosette_band (1.20 m) units + orn_lib.array_unit_along_run (tested on 128 sockets, 1.8 mm error); ORN_corner_scroll; maidens hunched with arms on the rim; capital variants distinct. Composite renders/previews/ornament/qa01_ornament_fixes.png. In flight: MAT (adds instance_seed attribute wiring + 6 materials), LIGHT, ENV follow-up (peninsula planting). Next (lead, build_master.py): route finial sockets by subtype (volute_scroll -> ORN_corner_scroll), array rosette_band/greek_key on frieze_run sockets and hide ARCH_*_meander_*; then rebuild master, QA round 2. ## 2026-09-07 16:35 · master rebuilt (ARCH+ENV+ORN+MAT v1); hero cam widened Merged: master.blend 154 MB, 5725 objects, LOD1 14.45 M tris (up from 8.5 M: shrubs 2.8 M at all LODs + bevels; QA to report viewport performance). Eevee hero renders/previews/qa/roundp3cam_01_lagoon_hero.png: apex 2 % from top (too tight), shoreline 66 %. Hero cam now lens 20 / shift 0.06 (expected apex ~10 %, shoreline ~66 %). In flight: MAT (water, stone warmth, seed wiring, 6 new materials), LIGHT (probes, exposure, haze), ENV follow-up (peninsula planting). Watchdog v2 running (v1 killed its own shell; fixed to match the Blender binary only). Next: merge the three, rebuild master, dispatch QA round 2 (Opus) with the silhouette-tool caveat and the viewport numbers. ## 2026-09-07 17:05 · lighting merged (63b4329) Merged: LIGHT fix round: two irradiance volumes + plaza bounce disk (ceiling 60,46,26 in Eevee; Cycles truth showed the vault is light-starved, ref 083 is ceiling-exposed), exposure bias 1.10, sky saturation node, aerosol 1.6, mist 700 m warm haze; sunlit attic 0.86 of ref 169 (was 0.70), sky within 5 %. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/light_r07_qa0112_hero.png. Pipeline: probes must be baked in master after assembly: scripts/lead_build.sh = build_master.py + light_probes.py --bake --save. Dome membrane 46 % too dark / 9.5 deg cool vs concrete (albedo) -> materials agent. In flight: MAT, ENV follow-up. Next: merge both, scripts/lead_build.sh, QA round 2 on Opus. ## 2026-09-07 17:20 · environment follow-up merged Merged: peninsula planting band (319 bushes, 6 low trees; vegetation cover in the podium-to-water strip 16 -> 26 %), env_lib.mat_or remaps to MAT_leaf_pine / MAT_shrub_light / MAT_shrub_dry as soon as they exist; ENV LOD1 8.39 M tris. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/env_peninsula_band.png. In flight: MAT only. Next: merge MAT, scripts/lead_build.sh, QA round 2 on Opus. ## 2026-09-07 17:45 · materials merged; all round-1 owners done Merged: MAT fix round: water (distance-filtered ripples, murk, reflection 108,80,48 vs ref 129,95,57; near water blue-green), concrete +20-25 % albedo (attic hue within 4.8 deg, 14 % under in luminance, asks lighting for +1 EV), dome membrane cream (0.905,0.72,0.44), leaf normal+translucency maps, MAT_leaf_pine/shrub_light/shrub_dry/backdrop_*, efflorescence, instance_seed hashed into PFA_instance (20 % spread over 6 capitals). Library 35 materials. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/materials_r2_water_stone.png. In flight: none. Building master via scripts/lead_build.sh (assemble + probe bake), then QA round 2 (Opus). Open for after QA: exposure (materials says +1 EV, lighting says ~+0.15; decide from the QA hero numbers), LOD1 tri count ~15 M. ## 2026-09-07 17:50 · master built with probes; QA round 2 dispatched Merged: master.blend rebuilt by scripts/lead_build.sh (6043 objects, LOD1 15.18 M tris, 31 library materials remapped, both irradiance volumes baked in 7.6 s). In flight: QA round 2 (Opus, main checkout, commits only docs/qa_round_02.md, quality_checklist.md, scripts/qa_*.py, renders). Lead does not commit on main until QA reports. Next: gate report to the user (one composite, score deltas per view, open defects); then Phase 4 polish round 1 by owner from the QA-02 list; exposure decision from QA's numbers. ## 2026-09-07 18:30 · QA round 2 in (0f68d6a): gate NOT passed, hero 2.17 -> 2.94 QA-02 blockers: 1 dome absent from cam05 (arch), 2 blotchy olive stone / per-instance hue (mat), 3 no edge wear or algae band (mat), 4 exposure +0.9 EV (light). Majors 5-12: cam03 framing (lead), lagoon flanks dark + cyan near field (env+mat), colonnades 37-52 % dark and buried in trees (env), haze greys cam06 (light), relief reads as decal (orn), corner figures/scrolls (orn), flythrough path missing from master (lead/light), vault soffits dark (light). Full list docs/qa_round_02.md; composite renders/qa_comparisons/round02_gate.png. Lead read agrees with QA (strict, keep on Opus). Viewport: opens 1.8 s, LOD1 15.2 M tris, Eevee 33-55 s/cam (2-7x slower than r01), Cycles hero 446 s: performance is a defect to assign (env shrubs LOD-less, arch bevels). Next: gate report to the user, then Phase 4 polish round 1: lead (cam03, exposure -2.39, flythrough path into master), then mat + light first, arch + env + orn second, 4 at a time. ## 2026-09-07 18:45 · Phase 4 polish round 1 dispatched (4 agents) In flight: MAT (QA-02-2 stone blotch/olive, -3 edge wear + algae band, -6 water shader), LIGHT (QA-02-4 exposure +0.9 EV, -11 flythrough objects into lighting.blend, -8 haze, -12 soffits), ARCH (QA-02-1 dome from cam05, bevel/LOD perf), ENV (QA-02-7 wings buried/dark, -6 lagoon flanks, shrub LODs perf). ORN (QA-02-9 relief as decal, -10 corner figures/scrolls) queued for the next free slot. Lead: QA-02-5 cam03 re-station (qa_cameras.py) now. Gate report sent to the user with round02_gate.png. Next: merge as they report, lead_build.sh, QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 19:30 · architecture polish merged Merged: ARCH p4r1: QA-02-1 shown to be cam05's station (ref 063 fit: 115 m, 40 mm), no geometry change; coffer depth 0.20; bevels off in viewport (-20 % ARCH viewport tris); arch_perf.py shows ARCH is 8 % of LOD1 / 6 % of LOD0. cam05 re-stationed by the lead, cam03 with QA. In flight: MAT, LIGHT, ENV, QA (cam03). ORN queued. Eevee LOD1 render set for previews -> QA to add to qa_render_round. Next: verify cam05 by render; merge the rest; lead_build.sh; QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 19:45 · cam05 verified, ornament polish dispatched Merged: cam05 at (28.1, 111.8, 1.5)/40 mm shows the dome + drum above the attic like ref 063 (renders/qa_comparisons/lead_cam05_restation.png); QA re-tests QA-02-1 at that station in round 3. In flight: MAT, LIGHT, ENV, ORN (QA-02-9 relief depth, -10 corner figures), QA (cam03 calibration + LOD1 Eevee pass in qa_render_round). Next: merge as they report; lead_build.sh; QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 20:15 · cam03 station from QA applied; Eevee previews at LOD1 Merged: cam03 = (81.0, 12.04, 1.7), target (0,0,9.2), 18 mm (south-wing walk centreline, rotunda between columns 026/028; QA composite renders/qa_comparisons/qa_cam03_restation.png). qa_render_round --eevee now renders LOD1 (50.1 M -> 15.2 M visible tris). QA-02-1 downgraded to major (cap still reads ~half the photo's depth from cam05; re-measure in round 3). In flight: MAT, LIGHT, ENV, ORN. Next: merge as they report; lead_build.sh; QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 20:40 · environment polish merged (9a68bc1) Merged: ENV p4r1: wings de-shadowed (entablature 78 % lit from 31/4 %; wing luminance 0.75/0.82 of ref at +0.9 EV), sky through bays N 23 % / S 30 %, lagoon shelf bed + shore eucalyptus moved (flank 0.28 -> 0.89 of ref), shrub LODs (ENV LOD1 4.84 M, master LOD1 11.6 M), houses with pitched roofs. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/env_r3_sheet.png. In flight: MAT, LIGHT, ORN. Open for materials: near-water cyan hue (sat 0.46 vs ref 0.11), hall wall texture (MAT_backdrop_building flat cream). Next: merge the three; lead_build.sh; QA round 3 (re-time Eevee on a quiet machine). ## 2026-09-07 21:20 · ornament polish merged (b509ce8) Merged: ORN p4r1: attic panels re-grounded (p10 depth 0.168 -> 0.022 m, sun-blocked 0.3 -> 6.6 %, 20-22 figures in three depth registers), corner figures slimmed with side cascades, corner scrolls as a real pair enclosing ARCH's volutes, colonnade capital LOD0 80k -> 48k (-3.6 M tris in master). Sheet renders/previews/ornament/orn3_qa02_9_10_sheet.png. In flight: MAT, LIGHT. Not done by ORN: capital leaf and keystone depth (next round if QA still flags). Next: merge MAT + LIGHT; lead_build.sh; QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 22:10 · materials polish merged (e550acc) Merged: MAT p4r1: blotch/olive fixed (warped cells, streak tint no longer green, per-instance hue spread 35 -> 1.2 deg, value spread 19 %), edge radius 0.10 m, ledge run-off streaks, algae on by default + damp zone on lawn/soil/gravel at the waterline, lagoon no longer a light sink (flank +4 % vs ref), backdrop stucco detail. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/mat_r3_stone_water.png. Open: sunlit stone still pale/low-chroma vs ref 169 (R-B spread 81 vs 127) — illuminant/exposure, with lighting; hall opening is an unfilled hole in ENV's hall geometry (next ENV round); near-water saturation target disputed (QA 0.43 vs ENV 0.11 on different crops) — QA to fix one crop in round 3. In flight: LIGHT. Next: merge LIGHT; lead_build.sh; QA round 3. ## 2026-09-07 22:30 · CHECKPOINT (user closing the machine) Merged into main: all Phase 4 polish round 1 branches except lighting (architecture, environment, ornament, materials). cam03/cam05 re-stationed, Eevee previews at LOD1. master.blend on disk is from 16:42 (pre-polish); rebuild with scripts/lead_build.sh before QA round 3. In flight at checkpoint: LIGHT p4r1 on branch lighting (13 commits ahead of main; QA-02-4 exposure +0.9 EV, -11 flythrough objects, -8 haze, -12 soffits, plus the chroma request: warmer sun / less blue fill, R-B spread >= 110). Told to commit and stop; see its last commit message and docs/lighting_notes.md for state. Resume: merge lighting (`git merge lighting`), run scripts/lead_build.sh, dispatch QA round 3 (Opus; re-time Eevee on a quiet machine, fix one near-water crop for the saturation dispute, re-test QA-02-1 at the new cam05), then polish round 2 by owner. Open non-QA items: hall opening is a hole in ENV geometry; capital leaf / keystone depth (ORN); FAR_RADIUS 130 -> 105 (ENV perf). ## 2026-09-07 22:40 · lighting polish merged; checkpoint complete Merged: LIGHT p4r1 (d62402d): exposure +0.9 EV closed (attic 177.6 vs ref 179.4), flythrough objects now built by light_build.py and present in lighting.blend/master, shaped mist (far-shore sat 0.30), 8 soffit emitters (Cycles 0.48, Eevee 0.36), chroma pass: SKY_STRENGTH 1.0, AgX High Contrast, SKY_GLOSSY_BOOST 3.0, EXPOSURE_BIAS 1.75 (attic R-B 97, target 110). Caveats from lighting for round 3: its knob sweep ran at 960x540/32 spp and reads ~16 lum / ~20 R-B optimistic vs 1920x1080; interior FILL 7600 / VAULT_FILL 2400 want ~halving after the sky was halved (cam04 soffit/sky 0.80 now); aerial grey-olive is scene colour (env+materials), not haze. Resume: scripts/lead_build.sh, then QA round 3 (Opus). All worktrees clean, all branches merged, no Blender running. Nothing in flight. ## 2026-09-07 · session resumed (lead on Fable 5.1) State verified: main 99c8250, five worktrees clean, all branches merged, no Blender running. Stray untracked session.txt (terminal dump) left alone. In flight: scripts/lead_build.sh (master rebuild + probe bake, log renders/logs/lead_build_r3.log). Next: QA round 3 (Fable 5.1 xhigh per the user; folds in lighting's two caveats: chroma re-measure at 1920x1080, interior fills ~halved), then polish round 2 by owner. ## 2026-09-07 · master rebuilt; QA round 3 + lighting r09 dispatched Merged: master.blend rebuilt by lead_build.sh (9041 objects, LOD1 11.62 M tris, 34 library materials remapped, both probes baked). In flight: QA round 3 (Fable 5.1 xhigh, main checkout; commits only qa docs/scripts/renders; touches renders/previews/qa/round03_RENDERS_DONE when renders finish). LIGHT r09 on branch lighting (Opus; chroma re-sweep at 1920x1080 for attic R-B >= 110, interior fills ~halved vs ref 083); waits on the QA marker before its first Blender run. Next: gate report to the user from round03_gate.png; polish round 2 by owner from the QA-03 list (mat, env, orn, arch), code review (Opus, no Blender) of each branch before merge; lead_build.sh; QA round 4. ## 2026-09-07 · QA round 3 in (03eed9c): gate NOT passed, hero 2.94 -> 3.28; lighting r09 merged (8a9ab71) QA-03: blockers 1 watchdog killed GPU renders (lead, fixed 7c164d5: centisecond cputime), 2 chroma at 1920x1080 (light+mat), 3 interior fills 2x (light), 4 hero 1:1 clean CAD: no flutes/streaks/recess dirt (mat+arch). Majors 5 cam05 clips apex, 6 cam02 station (lead, both re-stationed b/ 8a9ab71), 7 near-water sat, 8 coffers flat, 9 cam03 shaft, 10 north wing, 11 cam06 backdrop. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round03_gate.png. Merged: LIGHT r09 after Opus code review (merge with two latent nits in light_r09_sweep.py, no blockers): the AgX look was defined twice and master rendered at Base Contrast; now once in light_presets (High Contrast); attic R-B 97 -> 120 at 1920x1080, fills 1140/3960 W at 45 deg (Cycles soffit/coffer 0.54/0.38 vs ref 0.58/0.39; Eevee ignores the spread, viewport dome ~3x bright, open for lighting next round). In flight (4 builders, Opus): MAT r4 (QA-03-2 albedo hue, -4/-02-3 wear, -7 water, -9/-15), ARCH p4r2 (flutes, base profile, coffer depth), ENV r4 (cam06 backdrop, north wing, cam05 conifers, shrubs, cam03 ground, hall hole), ORN r4 (capital tiers, rosettes, keystones). Next: code review + merge each, lead_build.sh, QA round 4 (Fable xhigh). Lead items still open: QA-03-16 4K timing, QA-03-17 saved-file preset. ## 2026-09-07 · lead items between waves Done: cam05 35 mm (apex in frame, verified renders/previews/lead/*05_south_lawn_restation_r3.png); cam02 station: QA's (-40,15) is under a tree crown and every 40-60 m plaza/NW station puts the colonnade in front of the rotunda (8 candidates rendered), so cam02 stays at (-45,52) and QA round 4 gets the station search with its probe tool; build_master now saves the final Cycles preset (QA-03-17, verify on next lead_build). Still open for the lead: QA-03-16 4K timing test (run on a quiet GPU after this wave, not during QA timings). In flight: MAT, ARCH, ENV, ORN (see previous entry). Next: code review + merge each as it reports; lead_build.sh; QA round 4. ## 2026-09-07 · architecture p4r2 merged (28f0caf) Merged after Opus review + fixes: flute hollows as semicircular arcs at equal arc angles (both LODs, 24 flutes), Attic base profile (plinth/torus/scotia/torus/apophyge), coffers 0.20 x width with three-register reveals, vault coffer gaps opened (70 mm rib) with a clearance clamp in L.plate; vault coffers were LOD0-only and hidden in every QA render (root of QA-03-8 on the vaults), now render at every LOD. ARCH LOD1 0.99 -> 1.10 M (master ~11.73 M). Review: docs/reviews/arch_p4r2_review.md. Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/arch_p4r2_sheet.png. Hand-offs: ORN rim rosette sockets down 0.23 m (room face), ring-1 rosette sockets up 0.02 m (box floor); MAT flute-phase dirt on MAT_column_rose, rib grime on MAT_plaster_ceiling (both sent). In flight: MAT, ENV, ORN. Next: review + merge those; lead_build.sh; QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r4 (0478083) and MAT r4 (de62414) reported, both in Opus code review ENV: env_city.py Marina/Presidio field (913 lots, 97 Presidio buildings, roads/paths; cam06 horizon std-dev 15.5 -> 30.5, dome/far-shore 1.15 -> 1.45:1), north-wing trees moved behind the wing, cam05 silhouette foliage 5.1 %, shrubs 2.5:1 / sd 62 %, cam03 ground bands, hall aperture sealed; ENV LOD1 4.80 M. Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/env_r4_sheet.png. MAT: attic hue 32.8 -> 37.7 (ref 40.3), dome 29.8 -> 36.6, cavity/rib-grime/flute-relief inputs, streaks 0.31 m, edge 0.20 m; sat 0.44 vs 0.59 and R-B 102 vs 136 shown unreachable from albedo (two experiments < 0.02 sat), shade hue 42.5 vs ref 29.5, columns still 1.62x -> all to lighting r10. Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/mat_r4_sheet.png. In flight: ORN r4; reviews of ENV and MAT. Next: merge both, lead_build.sh, dispatch LIGHT r10 (sat/R-B via sky fill, shade hue, columns, horizon haze QA-03-12, Eevee vault spread, cam06 mist) while ORN finishes; then QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · MAT r4 (be94cbb) and ENV r4 merged after review; master rebuild Reviews: MAT one fix (mat_scene_check --ev 0.9 -> 0.0, applied by the lead), note that water DID change (chop/murk) and QA-03-7 must be judged from the crop pair. ENV no blockers; carried to ENV r5: _frame_box/coverage apply cam01 shift_y without the 16/9 aspect factor (~50 px), env_city azimuth helper has opposite handedness to the project (rename), clear() sampled only at quad centroids, build_all needs lagoon_field. Carried to MAT r5: MAT_backdrop_asphalt and MAT_backdrop_roof_tile (far field ships on placeholders), MAT_backdrop_forest too bright/yellow in sun. Next: lead_build.sh now (ORN still in flight), dispatch LIGHT r10 from docs/briefs/lighting_r10.md, merge ORN when reviewed, rebuild again, QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · master rebuilt (8751 objects, LOD1 11.69 M); LIGHT r10 dispatched; ORN r4 reported (e90abec) QA-03-17 closed: saved master carries GPU / 768 adaptive / OIDN / AgX High Contrast / CAM_flythrough_path. ORN r4: capitals were buried inside the bell (kalathos re-profiled, leaves on a spine, tips 0.40 m proud, rotunda LOD0 100k -> 64k), rosettes 0.21 m relief in 3 variants, keystone voussoir 0.30 m proud, `cavity` point attribute for materials. Blocking find: all 24 SOCKET_rosette_ceiling point +Y outward, rosettes buried in masonry -> architecture agent fixing socket frames now. In flight: ORN code review, ARCH socket fix, LIGHT r10 (docs/briefs/lighting_r10.md). Next: merge ORN + ARCH fix, rebuild master, QA round 4 (Fable xhigh) while lighting finishes. ## 2026-09-08 · architecture socket fix merged (786966a); ornament review fixes in flight Merged: rosette sockets re-framed: 16 band sockets on the vertical inner face of the base ring (r 14.18 m plane, z 23.19, +Y = face normal inward), 8 coffer-floor sockets facing down; scripts/arch_socket_check.py verifies all 24. Socket contract decision logged in docs/reviews/orn_r4_review.md. In flight: ORN r4 review fixes (scallop phase, keystone plate, sockets.md rewrite), LIGHT r10. Next: merge ORN, lead_build.sh, QA round 4 (Fable xhigh; cam02 station search included), then MAT r5 (cavity attribute + AO in the capital shader, backdrop asphalt/roof tile, backdrop forest) and ENV r5 (shift_y aspect, azimuth helper, clear() corners). ## 2026-09-08 · ornament r4 merged (479f3f6); master rebuilt; MAT r5 + ENV r5 dispatched Merged: ORN r4 after review + fixes (scallop phase, keystone plate, sockets.md contract, cavity contract in notes). Master rebuilt (log renders/logs/lead_build_r4b.log). In flight (3 Blender agents): LIGHT r10 (chroma via sky fill, columns, horizon haze, Eevee vault, 4K timing), MAT r5 (cavity/AO into ornament shaders, backdrop asphalt/roof tile/forest, rib grime check), ENV r5 (review fixes, north-wing band re-measure). Next: review + merge all three, lead_build.sh, QA round 4 (Fable xhigh; cam02 station search included). ## 2026-09-08 · MAT r5 reported (5c360d4), in review MAT r5: ORN_NORMAL/ORN_AO nodes now match build_master (bakes plug into 27 per-asset materials on 307 instances), PFA_concrete reads ORN `cavity` (capital bell lum 152 -> 138, leaf tiers 8 -> 10), MAT_backdrop_asphalt / roof_tile added, MAT_backdrop_forest -55 % albedo (cam06 canopy moved only 5 %: 88 % of a far canopy pixel is atmosphere -> lighting), coffer ribs share the panel material so rib grime cannot separate them (ARCH: own material name for the rib plate). Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/mat_r5_sheet.png. In flight: MAT r5 review, LIGHT r10, ENV r5. Carried: ORN bake cavity at 15-20 % of the diagonal and on all meshes; ARCH rib plate material name. ## 2026-09-08 · MAT r5 merged (c0a3b0b) after review (MERGE) Note for future rounds: RENDER_LOD is 0 and only LOD1 sources carry the ORN bakes, so at render time the recess channel is the `cavity` attribute alone (the ORN_NORMAL/ORN_AO path shows only in LOD1 previews). MAT_backdrop_asphalt / roof_tile reach master only once ENV objects use those names (ENV r5 told). In flight: LIGHT r10, ENV r5. Next: review + merge both, lead_build.sh, QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r5 reported (9c4b940), in review ENV r5: shift_y aspect fixed (0.06 = 0.107 of frame height), city_az rename, clear() corners, build_all arg; north-wing band on the merged master 0.92/0.73 -> 0.95/0.76 of ref (both panels inside 25 %) by thinning the redwood screen's front rows; cam05 silhouette foliage 4.0 %; backdrop asphalt/roof tile names already in use, zero library warnings; ENV LOD1 4.60 M. Hand-off to lighting: the wing's own shaded stone is 16 points of the band's dark fraction. Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/env_r5_sheet.png. In flight: ENV r5 review, LIGHT r10. Next: merge both, lead_build.sh, QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r5 merged (8d2c7e0) after review + fixes Review: x1_exit did not move trees; the cam05 band under the corrected shift_y swept three hand-placed trees out of frame. Fix: hand-placed groups (peninsula bed, user-image spires) are pinned on both bands (never moved/dropped); band cleared by E1 screen crowns 18.5-23 -> 17-21 m: north-wing band 0.95 raw / 0.76 aligned, sky through bays 17.0 % (photo 16.5). Review file docs/reviews/env_r5_review.md. In flight: LIGHT r10 (rig shipped on branch, cff3af4: attic sat 0.549 / R-B 120.8 / lum 180.9, columns 1.29x, near-water sat 0.270, Eevee-only vault cutoff; 4K timing test running, 60-min cap). Next: review + merge lighting, lead_build.sh, QA round 4. ## 2026-09-08 · LIGHT r10 reported (dae44ac), in review; QA round 4 brief written LIGHT r10: exposure was 0.5 EV hot (AgX shoulder kills chroma): EXPOSURE_BIAS 1.75 -> 1.25 with sky camera/glossy boosts x1.41 to keep the sky and lagoon; attic sat 0.441 -> 0.549 (ref 0.588), R-B 102 -> 121 (ref 136), lum 181 (0.95), columns 1.59x -> 1.29x, near-water sat 0.270 = ref, Eevee vault fixed by an engine-conditional cutoff_distance (was mis-diagnosed as spread in r09). Open: shade hue 42.9 vs 29.5 (materials: blue reflectance in shadow), near-water hue 209 vs 192 (env: upwelling green), sky_left/top 0.92 vs 1.17 (partly framing), cam06 1.22:1 (mist cannot raise it), 4K timing test stalled twice in the tail (compositor suspected; FINAL_SAMPLES 768 unvalidated at 4K). Next: merge lighting after review, lead_build.sh, QA round 4 from docs/briefs/qa_round_04.md (Fable xhigh). ## 2026-09-08 · LIGHT r10 merged (2b6940e) + review fixes (b85eab3); master rebuilding; QA round 4 dispatched Review fixes by the lead: energy_W seeded once (no compounding x8 on repeated Eevee calls), engine id match ("EEVEE" in engine), safe restore on failure; build_master ends with apply_viewport_eevee so the saved Eevee state carries the vault override (Cycles presets restore the physical energy from energy_W). Review file findings 4-8 (worktree-unsafe absolute paths in light_r10_measure/sheet, name literal, sweep import guard, meta provenance) carried to lighting r11. In flight: lead_build.sh (log renders/logs/lead_build_r4c.log), QA round 4 (Fable xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_04.md; commits only qa docs/scripts/renders; lead does not commit on main until it reports). Next: gate report to the user, polish round 3 by owner from QA-04. ## 2026-09-08 · QA round 4 in (f4b4b33, 465ae52): gate NOT passed; hero 3.28 -> 3.28, cam02 +0.33, cam04 +0.31, cam06 +0.22, cam05 +0.06, cam03 -0.12 Closed: QA-03-1 watchdog, -2 attic chroma (hue 38.9 / sat 0.554 / R-B 122), -4 flutes, -8 coffers + rosettes, -13 conifers, -15 capitals, -17 saved preset; Eevee 11-24 s/cam. cam02 re-stationed by QA to (70.5, 25.6, 1.1)/24 mm (SSE shore path; NE ref-062 station unreproducible on this build, QA-04-11). 4K: compositor exonerated (177 s at 16 spp); 768-spp frame still unproven. QA-04 blockers: 1 Eevee vault black (light), 2 shade collapsed/yellow-green after the -0.5 EV (light), 3 stone still clean CAD at 1:1, third round (mat). Majors: 4 hero shoreline bare quay (env), 5 columns 1.27x (light+mat), 6 wings 0.63/0.66 of ref (light+env), 7 Cycles coffer 0.26 + no rib/panel difference (light+mat, ARCH rib material name), 8 near-water hue 209 / reflection grey (env+mat). Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round04_gate.png. Dispatching polish round 3: LIGHT r11, MAT r6, ENV r6, ARCH mini (rib material name, QA-04-11 measurement). Lead: cam05 target z 21.5 (QA-04-10). ## 2026-09-08 · architecture mini-round merged (083937b) after review (MERGE) Rib plates (ARCH_rotunda_ceiling_ribs + 8 vault coffer plates) carry MAT_plaster_ceiling_rib (placeholder until MAT r6 ships it; colour added to common.PLACEHOLDER_COLORS). Ref 062 fit: D 91.7 m / 42.4 mm, dome cap needs D > 76 m: no proportion change (decisions.md). Flag for ENV r7: OSM NE shoreline likely short (fitted station in water while the photo's foreground is garden). In flight: LIGHT r11, MAT r6, ENV r6. Next: review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 5. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r6 reported (8995384), in review ENV r6: shore cap is now a sight line to the Greek-key course from the lagoon cameras (shrubs p90 2.83 m, tallest 3.59 m, podium base hidden 78 %, key band visible 93.6 % from cam05), 3 willows at ref 169 positions, north wing band 1.00 of ref (foliage 74.6 -> 37.8 %), cam06 8 roof colours / 13 footprints, cam02 shore edge. Probe shows the near-water teal is MAT_water_lagoon, not the bed (0.00 % change from a magenta bed at grazing angles) -> materials told; new name MAT_lagoon_bed for materials. Note: qa_round_04 (e) has the wing compass labels swapped (frame-left = south wing). ENV LOD1 4.66 M. In flight: ENV review, LIGHT r11, MAT r6. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 5. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r6 merged (8995384); review follow-up in flight Review (docs/reviews/env_r6_review.md): visual result stands; four maintenance fixes sent back (hand-copied camera stations in the sight-line cap, bed classified as architecture, loose verts on ENV_lagoon_bed, global 4 m shrub ceiling). In flight: ENV follow-up, LIGHT r11, MAT r6. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 5. ## 2026-09-08 · ENV r6 follow-up merged (3c3ad97): stations now read from qa_cameras.py, bed compacted, numbers unchanged (LOD1 4.66 M) In flight: LIGHT r11 (branch shows Eevee vault x6/21 m: coffer gap 0.227 -> 0.062; Cycles coffer 0.261 -> 0.387), MAT r6 (macro grunge maps, waterline, MAT_lagoon_bed, water teal, ribs). Next: review + merge both, lead_build.sh, QA round 5. ## 2026-09-08 · MAT r6 reported (e7adc25), in review MAT r6: cause of "clean CAD" was texture scale (the only photo input was a 2.5 m tile sampled 40x below its texel size); three macro grunge maps (0.3-3 m, CC0 ambientCG, mat_make_grunge.py) drive albedo value + roughness at 3-5.5 m tiles; overhang AO probe for cornice run-off; damp/algae waterline zone; patches; MAT_plaster_ceiling_rib (ref 083) + in-coffer gradient; MAT_lagoon_bed; shore foliage x1.4; columns hue 26.8 (pass), lum 119. Attic std 0.476 -> 0.598 of ref (bar 0.60), entablature 0.51 unchanged (hand-off ARCH: cornice projection / dentil depth), near-water hue 204 (hand-off lighting: horizon sky). Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/mat_r6_sheet.png. In flight: MAT review, LIGHT r11. Next: merge both, lead_build.sh, QA round 5. Carried to ARCH r4: entablature cornice/dentil depth (QA-04-3 second half). ## 2026-09-08 · LIGHT r11 reported (822e92d), in review LIGHT r11: QA-04-1 root cause = probe bake on the Eevee cutoff rig (bake now forces the physical rig; EEVEE_VAULT x6/21 m: Eevee coffer 0.034 -> 0.325 vs Cycles 0.387); QA-04-7 closed (FILL 3648 W, VAULT_FILL 3564 W: Cycles coffer 0.387); QA-04-2 shade hue reassigned to materials with three measured levers, SHADE_FILL rig shipped at 0 W; sun angle confirmed against ref 169's shadow structure (-3 px); viewport preset raytracing on / light_threshold 0.01 (decisions.md). Sheet renders/previews/lighting/light_r11_sheet.png. In flight: MAT r6 review, LIGHT r11 review. Next: merge both, scripts/lead_build.sh (mandatory: build then bake), QA round 5 (Fable xhigh; re-base cam03's shade test on a golden-hour reference). ## 2026-09-08 · MAT r6 merged (e7adc25) after review (MERGE, non-blocking findings) Follow-ups sent to materials: gate mat_make_grunge's network fetch behind --fetch; drop the water sheen (its own table: -1 deg hue for a further-from-ref stone reflection); note ao_up probe (+25 % secondary rays on concrete) if the 4K budget blows; Macro darkens mean albedo ~5 % (do not re-tune base colour to chase it). In flight: LIGHT r11 review fixes, MAT follow-up. Next: merge both, scripts/lead_build.sh, QA round 5. ## 2026-09-08 · polish round 3 fully merged (LIGHT r11 a72aee4, MAT r6 4336a12, ENV r6 3c3ad97, ARCH 083937b); master rebuilding; QA round 5 dispatched Lighting review fixes: bake sequence proven (engine + rig restored via try/finally), no 0 W shade suns, viewport RT off (measured), 127 MB of intermediate previews dropped. Master: scripts/lead_build.sh (log renders/logs/lead_build_r5.log). In flight: QA round 5 (Fable xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_05.md; lead does not commit on main until it reports). Next: gate report with trend; decide continue-polish vs approach change for the concrete; carried for ARCH r4: entablature cornice/dentil depth; ENV r7: OSM NE shoreline check. ## 2026-09-08 · QA round 5 in (6c109ef): gate NOT passed; hero 3.28 (third flat round), cam02 2.78, cam03 1.75 (-0.25), cam04 2.56, cam05 2.78, cam06 2.50 Closed: shoreline, columns hue, cam05 apex, north wing, Eevee vault not black, attic std 0.66. Blockers: QA-05-1 shade crushed (cam03 0.063 of sunlit; light), -2 hero stone now a dark isotropic dirt decal (attic lum 166, sat 0.64-0.84, anisotropy 0.64 vs 4.07; mat), -3 Cycles coffer 0.21 (merge regression, light+mat). Majors: -4 water hue 209 / reflection sat 0.11, -5 south wing 0.63, -6 entablature cornice/dentil shadows (arch). Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round05_gate.png. QA's 4K 768-spp timing render in progress (pid 90755, log renders/logs/qa_round05_4k.log); QA appends the result and commits when it exits. Dispatched (waiting on the 4K pid before their first Blender run): LIGHT r12 (shade window first, sunlit budget relaxed, coffer combination), ARCH r4 (cornice/dentil projection), ENV r7 (south wing, shore shrubs sun reach, cam03 ground, cam06 streets, NE shoreline). MAT r7 follows after LIGHT r12 merges (decisions.md: sequential lighting -> materials). Next: reviews, merges, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-08 · CHECKPOINT (user closing the machine) — part 1: state of record **Merged into main (all reviewed):** lighting r09-r11, architecture p4r2 + socket fixes + rib material, materials r4-r6 (+follow-ups), environment r4-r6 (+follow-ups), ornament r4. Lead items done: watchdog fix, cam02/cam05 stations, saved preset, lighting/materials review fixes. master.blend on disk = lead_build.sh after round 3 (9175 objects, LOD1 11.01 M, probes baked on the physical rig) = what QA round 5 scored. **Scores by round (average per camera; target >= 4 every row, hero >= 4.5):** | cam | r02 | r03 | r04 | r05 | trend | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 01 hero | 2.94 | 3.28 | 3.28 | 3.28 | stuck three rounds | | 02 NE 3/4 | 2.11 | 2.33 | 2.67 | 2.78 | slow up | | 03 colonnade | 1.94 | 2.13 | 2.00 | 1.75 | declining (shade crushed) | | 04 ceiling | 2.31 | 2.13 | 2.44 | 2.56 | slow up | | 05 S lawn | 2.11 | 2.67 | 2.72 | 2.78 | flat | | 06 aerial | 2.17 | 2.17 | 2.39 | 2.50 | slow up | Round-05 report docs/qa_round_05.md (6c109ef), composite renders/qa_comparisons/round05_gate.png. Blockers: QA-05-1 shade crushed (lighting), QA-05-2 hero stone a dark isotropic dirt decal (materials overshoot), QA-05-3 Cycles coffer 0.21 (merge regression). Majors: -4 water hue/reflection, -5 south wing, -6 entablature cornice/dentil shadows. **Decision log (docs/decisions.md, 2026-09-08):** shade deficit is structural (diffuse sky x0.8 vs camera sky x2.1 / lagoon x5.25), lighting r12 fixes the shade window first with the sunlit-saturation budget withdrawn; lighting and materials run sequentially on the merged master (materials r7 after lighting r12); geometry owners in parallel; if the hero does not move at round 6, texture-projection from reference photos for the concrete. Also: no rotunda proportion change (ref 062 fit 92 m / 42 mm), cam02 on the SSE shore path, rosette socket contract, viewport RT off / light_threshold 0.01, watchdog centisecond rule. ## 2026-09-08 · CHECKPOINT — part 2: in-flight agents at stop, processes killed **4K timing (QA-03-16): killed at checkpoint** after 94 min with no frame (768 spp adaptive, cap 5400 s); QA's note is in docs/qa_round_05.md (66c7570). **Needs re-running**: QA recommends 4K at 128 spp fixed, adaptive off, outer wall-clock guard, before retrying 768. In flight at checkpoint (each told to commit and stop; all three worktrees clean, no Blender run started by any of them because they were gated on the 4K pid): - LIGHT r12, branch lighting (last bec0172): brief docs/briefs and the r12 section in docs/lighting_notes.md (§21: QA-05-7 accepted-deviation note done; shade-window work planned, not yet rendered). Resume: read notes §21 and the "lighting r12" dispatch text in this file's previous entry; measure on the lead's master. - ARCH r4, branch architecture (last c3d94c2): QA-05-6 cornice/dentil derivations and the drum-ring re-measurement written in docs/arch_notes.md "round 4"; geometry change not yet built/rendered. - ENV r7, branch environment (last 19b4514): measurement + code complete for south wing / shore / cam03 ground / cam06 streets / NE shoreline, no Blender run yet. Not started: MAT r7 (after LIGHT r12 merges; macro amplitude/anisotropy down, attic lum back to 178-201, coffer gradient with lighting's fill, water hue/reflection, cam05 distance amplitude). **Resume procedure:** git status in each worktree (should be clean); dispatch fresh agents on branches lighting / architecture / environment pointing at their notes' checkpoint sections; they rebuild + render, code review (Opus) each, merge lighting first, then dispatch MAT r7 on the rebuilt master; scripts/lead_build.sh (build + probe bake, never build_master alone); QA round 6 (Fable xhigh; brief pattern docs/briefs/qa_round_05.md); if the hero is still 3.28, start the photo-projection pass for the concrete (decisions.md). Watchdog: `scripts/blender_watchdog.sh --loop` (restart it; not running now). No Blender processes running at checkpoint. Addendum from ENV r7's checkpoint report (19b4514): QA-05-5 south wing is LIGHTING's, not planting: the south face is raked at cos 0.318 vs the north's 0.991 under ref 169's own sun (az 118.3, el 7); fitting lum = A + k*cos to both wings gives this build A 61.7 / k 76.5 vs the photo A 97.9 / k 48.4, i.e. the sky term is 36 lum short (same root cause as QA-05-1). QA-05-10 shore band is a uniform 1.5-1.9x level deficit, not occlusion. The OSM NE shoreline is NOT short (satellite z18 agrees; renders/qa_comparisons/env_r7_shoreline.png). ENV's round-7 code (cam03 paving, walk level -0.60, edge planting, shore sun samples, cam06 road pad) is written and committed but not yet built or rendered; its chain scripts live in ENV's scratchpad and must be re-created from env_build.py on resume. ## 2026-09-09 · RESUME (new session): worktrees clean, no Blender running; rules updated; polish round 4 dispatched User rules recorded in CLAUDE.md: QA critic Opus xhigh every round (Fable once, final gate), definition of done (hero >= 4.0 or two rounds < +0.1 after photo-projection -> Phase 5), lighting/materials never concurrent, watchdog by registered max duration (scripts/blender_run.sh + rewritten scripts/blender_watchdog.sh), briefs in docs/briefs/process.md + _r.md. In flight: LIGHT r12 (docs/briefs/lighting_r12.md), ARCH r4 (architecture_r4.md), ENV r7 (environment_r7.md), all fresh Opus agents on their branches. Next: code review each, merge lighting first, MAT r7 on the rebuilt master, lead_build.sh, QA round 6 (Opus xhigh); photo-projection pass for the concrete if the hero is still ~3.28. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r4 reported (78f0e81), in review ARCH r4: cornice/dentil profile rebuilt; QA box 900 262 1020 296 texture std 33.5 -> 47.6 (0.73 of ref, pass), row std 20.9 -> 32.4 (< 35; the model's cornice sits 1.04 m higher than ref 169's under QA's alignment, on the model's own band 43.1 pass); silhouette 0.000 % change, sockets 434 unchanged, ARCH tris -0.4 %. Hand-off ORN: 24 rotunda frieze_run sockets moved -0.25 m z / +0.10 m outward. Drum ring: -2.5 m radius needed for ref 062, reported only (no change). UV answer: all ARCH meshes carry one world-metre triplanar UVMap; a projection needs a second layer, object list in the report / docs/arch_notes.md round 4. In flight: ARCH review, LIGHT r12, ENV r7. Next: merge arch, then lighting; MAT r7. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r4 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; docs/reviews/arch_r4_review.md) Lead fixes: notes profile table corrected to r4b; 128 spp re-measure identical to the builder's crop (QA box row 32.5 / tex 47.6; model's own cornice box 43.3 / 54.7). Carried to ARCH r5: stale comment, silhouette artifact, hard-coded QA alignment, measure-script threshold text. Open lead question: the model's cornice sits 1.04 m higher than ref 169's under QA's alignment (stack question, no change made). ORN note: rotunda frieze band is now 0.90 m tall; sockets carry run_length only. In flight: LIGHT r12, ENV r7. Next: lighting review + merge, MAT r7 dispatch, then ENV merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r7 reported (99c544c), in review ENV r7: LOD1 4.62 M; cam03 ground std 14.1 -> 27.8 (walk 16.7 % of box); shore band null (+12 pp sun reach, band 71.7 -> 71.7: needs +43.9 lum from sky/materials, not planting); cam06 ground 13.8 -> 23.4 %, asphalt 2.47 -> 4.08 %; south wing untouched as briefed. Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/env_r7_sheet.png. Hand-offs: lighting (cam06 mist +58 lum flattens the horizon, wing sky term 36 lum short, shore +43.9 lum), materials (MAT_paving_stone / _worn missing; shore level without saturation), arch (COLONNADE_WALK_Z tracks COLONNADE_GROUND_Z). In flight: ENV review, LIGHT r12. Next: merge lighting, MAT r7. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r7 review: MERGE WITH FIXES (docs/reviews/env_r7_review.md); fix agent dispatched Fix now: north/cam05 bands pin only P/C so 7 hand-placed trees were swept and 3 dropped (round-5 lesson again); COLONNADE_WALK_Z / PAVE_CENTRE hand-copied instead of imported from arch_params; two claims quote one box for two boxes; stale verge comment. Carry: paving fallback rationale, sample-count comment, absolute MAIN path, 3 previews > 5 MB, mixed baselines. In flight: ENV r7 fixes (fresh agent, branch environment), LIGHT r12. Next: merge lighting, MAT r7, merge env, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r12 reported (d5e6850), in review LIGHT r12: diffuse sky x2.5 with an anti-sun/horizon blue tint, sun blue 0, FILL 10214 W. Hero shaded attic hue 43.1 -> 35.4 / sat 0.82 -> 0.41 / lum 117 (all pass); Cycles coffer 0.21 -> 0.438 (ref 0.437), Eevee gap 0.094; south wing 86 -> 94 (0.86 raw); north 0.97; sunlit attic lum 178.0 / sat 0.525 / R-B 112.5; columns 1.14x. cam03 shaft/sunlit 0.066: proven unreachable (box occluded from sky and anti-sun hemisphere; lead to re-base). QA-05-7 sky ratio 0.921 vs 0.922 on matched pixels (close as measured-equal). Regression handed to materials: near-water sat 0.28 -> 0.42 (murk chroma -1/3). In flight: LIGHT review, ENV fixes. Next: merge lighting, MAT r7 on the rebuilt master. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r7 merged (f426672) after review fixes; ENV r8 (short) dispatched Fixes: pin tuple on all bands (moved 0 / dropped 0), arch_params imported, one box per claim, paths via common, 24 MB previews dropped; r7 panels had been rendered on main's stale master, re-rendered on the worktree master with parity proven (0.3 lum). Shore band 71.7 -> 79.6 (not null; 36 short). LOD1 4.76 M. Regression: pinning restores the A/A2 cluster in the north band (137.5 -> 91.9, 0.63 of ref). Decision: pin stays, cluster re-derived from ref 169 (docs/briefs/environment_r8.md). In flight: LIGHT r12 review, ENV r8. Next: merge lighting, MAT r7. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r12 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; docs/reviews/light_r12_review.md); MAT r7 dispatched Lead fixes: Eevee hero frame on the r12 rig: sky/lagoon identical to Cycles (208.2 / 0.52), no cast; Eevee misses the diffuse shade term (shaded attic 42.2 / 0.77 vs Cycles 35.4 / 0.41): carried to LIGHT r13 with meta provenance, water sheet cell, SUN_BLUE_MULT 0 and importance-map notes. hue_tol 8 -> 6. In flight: MAT r7 (docs/briefs/materials_r7.md, Opus xhigh, on the merged master with the r12 rig), ENV r8. Next: reviews, merges, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r8 reported (fa04322), in review ENV r8: A2 trees were inside the wing's arc (courtyard side) and the A conifers on the peninsula shore; re-solved to COL_ARC_R + 8 m and the grove past the north arch at 120-135 m. North band 91.9 -> 133.1 (0.91 of ref 145.9), foliage 72.5 -> 38.5 %, mass right edge x 0.715 (ref 0.735), clearer moved 0 / dropped 0; south band +5.4 %, shore / cam03 / cam05 / cam06 within 3 %. Measured on its master (9706 objects, LIGHT r11 rig; geometry numbers). Carry: mass 0.025 of frame short in height (shadow_relief ordering, round 9 if wanted). Sheet renders/qa_comparisons/env_r8_sheet.png. In flight: ENV r8 review, MAT r7. Next: merge env, MAT review + merge, LIGHT r13 (docs/briefs/lighting_r13.md), lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r8 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; docs/reviews/env_r8_review.md) Lead fixes: ref profile widened (mass 0.62-0.735 confirmed, solve accepted as delivered), station from qa_cameras, top-z note. Carries to ENV r9: shadow_relief relocates hand-placed trees (moved 16), mass 0.025 short in height, stale comments. In flight: MAT r7. Next: MAT review + merge, LIGHT r13, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r7 reported (02b60a8), in review MAT r7 (on the r12 rig, 9706 objects, Cycles 64 spp): attic lum 180.3 pass, sat 0.474 (window 0.53-0.62, fail: the albedo blue that would fix it regresses the shade hue), std ratio 0.74 pass, anisotropy 0.35 -> 0.40 (target 2.0: 2/3 of the miss is QA's box catching the render's cornice because the attic frame sits ~0.65 m high vs ref 169); shaded attic 30.9 / 0.373 pass; coffer 0.450 pass; near-water sat 0.324 / hue 213.6 (murk is gain-linear; hue floor 209.6 from the water); reflection sat 0.043 (regressed, needs a hue term in QA's test); paving materials shipped (env must assign); shore band 91.7. Photo-projection answer: window-coordinate lookup or UVProject, photo as a mean-1 ratio, 3 masks, ~120 lines; precondition: architecture freezes the hero-facing stack (attic frame 0.65 m / cornice 1.04 m offsets agree). In flight: MAT review. Next: merge, LIGHT r13, lead_build.sh, QA round 6 (add: stack offset per course). ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r7 review: MERGE WITH FIXES (docs/reviews/mat_r7_review.md); fix agent dispatched Numbers reproduce. Fix now: sheen case never rendered (Sheen Weight still 0; reflection 0.26 -> 0.04), notes describe a superseded water build (gain 0.55 vs shipped 0.15), aerial lagoon untested at the shipped gain (one cam06), ARCH hand-off overstated (cornice explains 45 % of the row std, not 2/3; 13 px = 1.03 m not 0.65), shore item reported pass on a self-chosen window (not delivered), reflection box never probed. In flight: MAT r7 fixes (fresh agent). Next: merge materials, env rebuild for paving, LIGHT r13, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r7 merged (59f44a2) after review fixes Fixes: sheen swept 6 cases and abandoned (every weight passing sat 0.25 does so at hue 213 = blue; QA's reflection test needs an R-B >= 0 term); water notes match the shipped gain 0.15 / transmission 0.18; cam06 lagoon Eevee 1.09x of round 5, Cycles 0.82x (dim, not black); ARCH hand-off restated (cornice 45 % of row std, 13 px = 1.03 m; direction failure mostly materials': authored per-panel streak maps proposed); shore not delivered (+0.6 of +43.9, sat rose); reflection box is 100 % water at 22 m. Near-water sat 0.303 (in window). Next: env rebuild for MAT_paving_stone (lead, one command), LIGHT r13 (docs/briefs/lighting_r13.md), lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV rebuilt for paving (lead, one command) and merged; LIGHT r13 dispatched env_build.py on the merged library: walk 845 slabs on MAT_paving_stone / _worn (9 % worn), tree relief and LOD1 4,756,102 identical to r8. In flight: LIGHT r13 (Eevee shade term, cam06 mist, wings/shore, carries). Next: LIGHT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 6 (Opus xhigh). ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r13 reported (3991518), in review LIGHT r13: probe capture evaluated the diffuse branch as a camera ray (fixed) but the hero's Eevee shade is screen-traced GI, so an Eevee-only LIGHT_shade_fill (55 W/m2, el 5, blue derived from the stone's reflectance) ships on the EEVEE_VAULT pattern: Eevee shaded attic 93.3 / 38.2 / 0.650 -> 119.0 / 35.0 / 0.381 vs Cycles 114.3 / 30.9 / 0.374 (pass); Cycles hero bit-identical. cam06 mist cap 0.50 -> 0.25, extinction 5.0: crop std 33.8 -> 38.1, 2 lines composited. Sky-term headroom on the wings: zero (sunlit R-B 103 / sat 0.475 already under floors on the r7 master). 9709 objects. Hand-offs: materials +0.025 sat / +6.9 R-B on the sunlit attic; env shore 91.5 of 115.6. In flight: LIGHT review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 6. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r13 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; docs/reviews/light_r13_review.md); master rebuilding Lead fixes: common.configure_cycles hides the Eevee-only vault/shade rigs on every Cycles path (finding 1); measure HOLD = sky boxes; carries 2, 5-11 to r14. Polish round 4 fully merged: ARCH r4, LIGHT r12+r13, MAT r7, ENV r7+r8 (+paving rebuild). scripts/lead_build.sh now runs through blender_run.sh. In flight: scripts/lead_build.sh (log renders/logs/lead_build_r6.log). Next: QA round 6 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_06.md), gate report to the user. ## 2026-09-09 · master rebuilt (lead_build.sh, 9709 objects, LOD1 11.11 M, probes baked on the diffuse world); QA round 6 dispatched In flight: QA round 6 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_06.md; commits only qa docs/scripts/renders; lead does not commit on main until it reports). Next: gate report with composite, score deltas, open defects; decide photo-projection pass vs Phase 5 per the definition of done. ## 2026-09-09 · no-idling rule added to CLAUDE.md; QA round 6 rendering; three no-render slot agents dispatched Four agents running: QA round 6 (GPU), ARCH r5 (UVProj layer for the projection pass, course-row table, r4 carries), LIGHT r14 prep (flythrough path rebuilt + ray-cast clearance table, r13 carries, docs/tech_notes.md delivery section), ORN r5 (rotunda frieze band asset for the 24 sockets + ORN_COLL entry, attic relief report, LOD2 budget). None renders or writes master. Next: QA gate report to the user; reviews + merges of the three slot branches; go/no-go on docs/briefs/materials_r8_projection.md. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r5 reported (db35484), in review ARCH r5 (no render): UVProj layer on 33 hero-facing objects (cam01 frame position, round-trip 0.00 px, named-point checks 0.78 / 0.00 / 0.02 px, UVProj_valid attribute, tris and sockets unchanged); course-row table for cam01 (attic top 158, frame 173-246, corona 251-254, dentil bed 276, frieze 280-292, architrave bottom 308); r4 carries done, silhouette re-measured without a render (within 1 px). 5.2 gotchas: matrix_world stale for hidden objects, use matrix_basis; BVHTree instead of Object.ray_cast. In flight: ARCH r5 review, QA round 6, LIGHT r14 prep, ORN r5. Next: merge arch r5 after review; QA gate. ## 2026-09-09 · QA round 6 in (6343ccd): gate NOT passed; hero 3.22 (-0.06; 3.28 with proportion held = fourth flat round), cam02 2.72, cam03 2.12 (+0.38), cam04 2.75 (+0.19), cam05 2.78, cam06 2.28 (-0.22) Closed: hero shade colour, Cycles coffers, cornice/dentil texture std, cam03 shade on the re-based box (0.384), cam05 stone std, north wing. Blockers: QA-06-1 hero stack does not register (+0.07 to +2.31 m by course; attic storey 0.70 and capital 0.65 of ref: architecture, and the projection pass cannot register until it is closed), QA-06-2 the r12 diffuse tint floods cam02/03/05/06 shade blue-violet (roofs hue 37 -> 253: lighting), QA-06-3 water fails everywhere (reflection R-B +2.5 vs +69, cam05 lagoon sat 0.12: materials). Majors: -4 anisotropy 0.41, -5 sunlit chroma (sat 0.473, R-B 103), -6 capitals 24 px vs 37 (ornament), -7 cam03 lagoon-side row, -8 coffer sat 0.91, -9 entablature row std 36.5, -13 Eevee pass +81 %. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round06_gate.png. Polish round 5 (decisions.md): ARCH r6 closes the stack first (then re-runs UVProj), LIGHT r14 fixes the violet flood + reflection warmth, then MAT r8 = water blocker + photo-projection on the registered stack. Definition of done clock starts at the round after MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r5 reported (70dc10d), in review ORN r5 (no render): 24 rotunda frieze_run sockets are host=rotunda subtype=rinceau (8 fronts 5.913 m, 16 returns 2.999 m); new ORN_frieze_rinceau / _return v1-3 with LODs inside budget, proud <= 125 mm under the 160 mm architrave-crown cap, sunk 15 mm; needs the ORN_COLL guard in build_master.py (lead) and a normal/AO bake (was --no-bake). Attic panel depth already 1.6x nominal; the deficit is undercut, not depth; deeper relief blows all three tier budgets (not built). All three attic panels' LOD2 brought to 2400 tris. In flight: ORN review, ARCH r5 review, LIGHT r14 prep. Next: merges; ARCH r6 (stack), LIGHT r14 (violet flood), MAT r8 (water + projection). ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r5 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES); ARCH r6 dispatched (register the stack) Fix-now (arch_uvproj not called by the build) carried into ARCH r6 item 0. In flight: ARCH r6 (docs/briefs/architecture_r6.md, Cycles crops only), ORN r5 review, LIGHT r14 prep. Next: LIGHT r14 after prep merges; MAT r8 after LIGHT r14 + ARCH r6. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r14 prep reported (4fa11be), in review Flythrough rebuilt: cam01 hold -> lagoon crossing -> cam02 station -> one colonnade bay -> gallery centreline at z 1.15 -> arch -> ceiling look-up; 250.1 m, 1224 frames @ 24 fps (51 s; 720 impossible at walking pace); check script: clearance 1.70 m outside / 1.42 in the gallery (2.80 m clear width), speed 5.6 / 9.2, holds 3.5 / 4.2 s. r13 carries done except 8 (needs an Eevee frame). docs/tech_notes.md "Opening and rendering master.blend" written. Hand-offs: env shrub pitto1_1107 overhangs the walk; cam06 std gate to be restated as a ratio. In flight: LIGHT prep review, ORN r5 review, ARCH r6. Next: merge, LIGHT r14 (violet flood). ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r5 review: MERGE WITH FIXES (docs/reviews/orn_r5_review.md); fixes split by owner Blockers routed to ARCH r6 (message sent): the 24 rotunda frieze_run sockets carry no host/subtype (the lead's build_master guard never fires) and their frame is wrong (+X anti-parallel to run_dir on fronts, +Y into the block on returns). ORN fix agent: cap is 100 mm (architrave crown d 0.44), RIN_MAX_PROUD 0.09, stats fail loudly on run mismatch, lod2fix into orn_build; the normal/AO bake waits for a GPU round. ENV r9 (no render) dispatched: walk clearance shrub, r7/r8 carries, cam06 gate definition. In flight: ARCH r6, LIGHT prep review, ORN r5 fix, ENV r9. Next: merges; LIGHT r14. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r14 prep merged (MERGE WITH FIXES; fix-nows carried into LIGHT r14 item 0); build_master sets the flythrough frame range; LIGHT r14 dispatched In flight: ARCH r6, LIGHT r14 (docs/briefs/lighting_r14.md), ORN r5 fixes, ENV r9. Next: reviews, merges, MAT r8 (water + projection) after LIGHT r14 and ARCH r6. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r5 merged (5703665) after fixes RIN_MAX_PROUD 0.09: clearance +10.5 to +13.3 mm on all six variants, tris unchanged; orn_r5_stats is a gate (run mismatch, clearance, budgets); LOD2 budget enforced in orn_lib.enforce_lod2_budget; `orn_build.py -- --bake-pending` lists 6 LOD1 normal-map bakes for a GPU round. Instancing waits for ARCH r6's socket stamp/frame. In flight: ARCH r6, LIGHT r14, ENV r9. Next: reviews + merges, ORN bake (GPU round), MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r6 reported (2361006), in review Stack registered on ref 169: every course within 5 rows (0.37 m; was up to 31), attic storey 101 vs 100 rows; ENTABLATURE_Z0 27.40 -> 25.96 (3.22 m entablature), CAPITAL_H 2.6 -> 3.0, COL_SHAFT_H 16.3 -> 14.46, ATTIC_H 7.1 -> 9.12 with a real crown corona soffit; silhouette 0.6 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.35 %; tris +0.012 %; UVProj now a mandatory post-step of arch_build (re-checked 0.84 / 0.00 / 0.02 px); rotunda frieze_run sockets stamped host/subtype and re-framed (arch_socket_check ALL OK on 126). Socket deltas for ornament: capital_rotunda -1.84 m and 3.0 m tall, frieze_run -1.55 m and band 0.81 m, attic_panel -2.07 m and panel_height 5.27, attic_figure -2.02 m. In flight: ARCH r6 review, LIGHT r14, ENV r9. Next: merge arch; ORN r6 refit (capitals 3.0 m, rinceau 0.81 band, attic panels 5.27 m; no render) then the ORN bake; MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r6 review: MERGE WITH FIXES (docs/reviews/arch_r6_review.md); fix agent dispatched (no render) Fix now: stamp capital_height on capital_rotunda sockets (0.40 m void under the architrave until ornament rebuilds), band_height on the rotunda frieze_run sockets, re-run the ref 062 fit (it reads ATTIC_Z0, which moved), commit the qa_stack_offset log, sheet table from data. Carries: uvproj tri guard dead in-build, SystemExit ordering, entablature sub-courses scaled not photo-anchored, socket check exit code, 6.4 MB intermediate. In flight: ARCH r6 fixes, LIGHT r14, ENV r9. Next: merge arch, ORN r6 refit, MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r9 reported (e0b383f), in review ENV r9 (no render): walk clearance 0.03 -> 1.71 m to geometry, 0 samples inside the 2.80 m clear width (the OSM roof polygon fell inside the modelled arc; new env_lib.gallery_clear from arch_params, enforced everywhere); shadow_relief no longer relocates pinned trees (corrections baked into PLAN); trees 131, LOD1 4.71 M, band clearer moved 0 / dropped 0; wing shadow 21.2 % vs the 22 % cap (margin 0.8 pt, needs a render check); cam06 gate = std composited / un-composited >= 0.60 (lighting r13 ships 0.637). In flight: ENV review, LIGHT r14, ARCH r6 fixes, ORN r6. Next: merges, MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r6 merged (2b1c716) after fixes; ref 062 conflict logged (decisions.md) Socket props stamped and asserted (capital_height 3.0, band_height 0.81, panel_height 5.27; 434 sockets ALL OK); registration log committed (+1/-1/+1/-3/0/+5/+1/+1 rows); ref 062 wants ATTIC_Z0 30.20 vs 29.18 (hero wins; QA may re-fit cam02). In flight: LIGHT r14, ORN r6 (re-merges main for the socket props), ENV r9 review. Next: LIGHT r14 review + merge, then MAT r8 (water + projection on the registered stack). ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r9 review: MERGE WITH FIXES (docs/reviews/env_r9_review.md); fix agent dispatched (no render) Fix now: the onto-land spiral snap runs after the gallery gate and moves 6 hand-placed trees up to 5.6 m (PLAN still not the shipped coordinate); pinned-moved counter is a tautology; 137 -> 131 is six refused screen redwoods, not dropped PLAN trees; MASS_X comment; cam06 0.637 must be computed by --c06ratio on lighting's frames. Carries: PLAN --verify mode, wing-shadow probe below its quantum (QA confirms on a render), eye-band gate. In flight: ENV fixes, LIGHT r14, ORN r6. Next: merges, MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r6 reported (90b183e), in review ORN r6: capitals 2.6 -> 3.0 m (hero px 34.7-35.5 -> 40.0-40.9 vs ref 38-44), rinceau band 0.81 (clearance 10-11.5 mm), attic panels 5.28 (relief p90 0.376 m; undercut is the limit, not depth); LOD1 budget for attic panels raised 24 k -> 36 k (+95 k tris in the master's LOD1); enforce_tri_budget on LOD1 and LOD2; normal-map bakes done (0 pending), AO missing on 32 LOD1s. Proposal: archivolt_run socket type + modillion/egg subtypes for the bed-mould (hand-off to ARCH). Gate exits 0 on the merged architecture.blend. No render sheet (GPU held). In flight: ORN review, LIGHT r14, ENV fixes. Next: merges, MAT r8; QA round 7 checks the capital luminance alternation on a render. ## 2026-09-09 · ENV r9 merged (c61cc32) after fixes land_snap runs before the gates and never moves pinned trees (build fails naming a wet PLAN coordinate); 79 hand-placed trees at 0.000 m from PLAN; --verify and --land gates; c06 ratio computed 0.636; walk clearance 1.71 m, LOD1 4,705,602, 131 trees, wings 21.2 % shadow (QA confirms on a render). In flight: LIGHT r14, ORN r6 review, ARCH r7. Next: LIGHT review + merge, MAT r8, then lead_build.sh and QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r6 merged (8342aa5) after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; lead fixed the gate's stamp-set fallback) Carries to ORN r7: capital scaled in Z only (acanthus tiers stretched), attic figures crowd 17 % laterally (X positions not scaled), rinceau normal map baked before the Z squash, hard-coded RES_X/SENSOR, 84 MB blend committed twice; QA-06-6's luminance half needs a render (QA round 7). In flight: LIGHT r14, ARCH r7. Next: LIGHT review + merge, MAT r8, lead_build.sh, QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r7 reported (676897d), in review Capital re-laid for H 3.0 (tiers 0.03-0.33 / 0.30-0.60 H, volutes 0.66-0.89 H, abacus 0.10 H vs ref_002; verified by a Blender-free layout solver), attic figure x scaled by PANEL_K, course error 26 -> <= 4.2 mm, rinceau normal normalised, constants from qa_cameras; gate exit 0. Pending: LOD1 bakes for capital_rotunda + attic_panel (rebuilt --no-bake under the GPU rule) — the lead runs `orn_build.py -- --bake-pending` in the next GPU window before the master rebuild; inner/colonnade capitals 17-25 mm over their course (one rebuild). In flight: ORN review, LIGHT r14, ARCH r7. Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN bake, MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r7 merged (676897d) after review (MERGE WITH FIXES) Carried to ORN r8: --verify must parse ARCH_R6 and the two formulas from orn_build.py and loop over CAPITAL_STYLE (v2 volute top 0.904 H above the 0.900 abacus seat; v3 upper extent 0.310 H / r_tip 1.51 R outside the ref window), ref_002 measurement not reproducible, back-row integer cliff, bake_pending exit code. BLOCKER before the next master build: capital_rotunda v1-3 and attic_panel v1-3 LOD1 maps are empty (rebuilt --no-bake); the lead runs `orn_build.py --only attic_panel,capital_rotunda` (with bake) in the next GPU window. In flight: LIGHT r14, ARCH r7. Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN bake, MAT r8, lead_build.sh, QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r7 reported (9d6f8ee), in review 8 archivolt_run sockets (outer arches; origin at the springing, +X up along the arc tangent, +Y outward; arc 6.55 m, run 20.58 m, band 0.22; check 8/8 OK), docs/sockets.md updated. Sub-courses on ref 085: corona / egg pitch / modillion pitch within 3 %; modillion height 0.638 vs 0.45 (+42 %) and an unmodelled 0.58 m Greek-key band: they do not fit in CORNICE_H 1.37; option A (cornice 1.79, frieze 0.61 -> rinceau refit) costed, not built. Ref 062 on the new stack: az 37 / D 88.6 / 41.5 mm, attic base +0.83 m unfittable, station in the lagoon (hand-off to QA for cam02). Decision: option A deferred until QA round 7 scores the entablature on the registered stack. In flight: ARCH r7 review, LIGHT r14, ORN r8. Next: merges, LIGHT review, ORN bake, MAT r8. ## 2026-09-09 · ARCH r7 merged (9d6f8ee + lead corrections) Archivolt sockets in (band along local +Z: ornament note), sub-course scale marked as assumed (N = 11), ref 062 reproducible from land at az 17 / D 83.4 (QA may re-station cam02 there). In flight: LIGHT r14, ORN r8. Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN bake, MAT r8, lead_build.sh, QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · BUDGET PLAN (user): ~32 % weekly limit left, Phase 5 needs ~10, gate within ~20 Sequence: LIGHT r14 (running) -> review/merge -> lead runs the ORN bake (`orn_build.py --only attic_panel,capital_rotunda`, with bake) -> MAT r8 = water blocker + coffer albedo only (brief re-scoped) -> review/merge -> lead_build.sh -> QA round 7 -> gate report to the user with the composite -> STOP for a clean restart (lead context 384k). If hero < 3.6 after round 7: MAT r9 = photo-projection pass next, no other knob round. Entablature re-split deferred unless QA shows it in the hero. ORN r8 (verify tool, no render) merges if it lands in time, else stays on its branch. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r8 reported (2410e95) — held on branch `ornament`, not merged this session (budget) Verify tool parses all presets/styles from orn_build.py, v2/v3 presets fixed (volute top 0.891 H, v3 r_tip 1.389 R), capital_rotunda rebuilt --no-bake, ref_002 crop committed (H 358 px). Held because merging before the bake would drop the capital maps again; next session: review (docs/briefs/review.md), merge, then `orn_build.py --only capital_rotunda` with bake, then a master rebuild. capital_inner / capital_colonnade v3 still carry the r7 style. In flight: LIGHT r14. Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN bake on main's r7 asset, MAT r8 (water), lead_build.sh, QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r14 reported (cac6ee1), in review; ORN bake running (lead) LIGHT r14: the r13 sky is a sky colour (grey card hue 215-219); the flood was quantity on up-facing surfaces. Sharpness exponents on the tint discriminators (horizon p6, anti-sun p3, b 40) + LIGHT_shade_fill live in Cycles (70 W/m2, el 2, blue): hero shaded attic 116.4 / 33.6 / 0.410 (hold), cam06 roofs hue 241 -> 316 (over-corrected warm), plaza / trees 33 / 32, cam05 water band hue 350 -> 40 sat 0.47, cam03 walk 222 -> 204; sky boxes bit-identical; Eevee five-camera pass 361.6 -> 229.9 s (shade lamp shadows 0.20 m/texel, jitter off). Water hand-off: the mirror of the building must be 2.3x brighter (52 -> ~120 lum) with the sky term held to land the reflection box at lum 172 / R-B +69. cam03 outer row responds (0.082 -> 0.138), r15 item. Flythrough: 1.57 m outside / 1.42 gallery at step 4 on the 1.35 gate. In flight: LIGHT review, ORN bake. Next: merge lighting, MAT r8 (water), lead_build.sh, QA round 7, gate report, stop. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r14 merged (cac6ee1 + lead corrections); MAT r8 (water only) dispatched Carries to LIGHT r15: sweep defaults, commit measure stdout, docstrings, cam06 roofs / cam02 pier over-warm, cam03 outer row. In flight: MAT r8 (docs/briefs/materials_r8_projection.md RE-SCOPE section: water blocker + coffer albedo; re-measure the building/sky split itself). Next: MAT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 7, gate report, stop. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r8 reported (6e7d799), in review MAT r8 (water only, 9681 objects): the mirror ray from the reflection box lands 25 % on a willow, 30 % on the backdrop through the arch, 12.5 % ARCH; fix = Bump Distance ramped by depth (WATER_BUMP_DIST 0.03 -> 0.17 over 14-24 m). Reflection box R-B +8 -> +37 (pass), hue 36.5 (pass), lum 105.6 (window 124-208 fail; frontier ~110 at R-B >= 30); near-water sat 0.301 pass, hue 228 (lighting's r14 sky moved it 214 -> 228); cam05 lagoon sat 0.47 pass; cam06 lagoon Cycles 132 (1.4x) pass; coffer sat 0.97 -> 0.50 pass. Two knobs withdrawn; 6 Cycles + 3 Eevee frames (over the 3+1 cap). Hand-offs: QA to check the hero camera height (2.90 m over water vs ref 169's near-total mirror at 87-89 deg incidence); environment (willow occludes the rotunda's mirror); lighting r15 (near-water hue / ripple R-B moved by the r14 sky). Next: review, merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 7. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r8 merged (6e7d799 + lead corrections); polish round 5 fully merged; master rebuilding for QA round 7 Merged this round: ARCH r6+r7, LIGHT r14 (+prep), MAT r8, ENV r9, ORN r6+r7 (+lead bake); ORN r8 held on branch. In flight: scripts/lead_build.sh (log renders/logs/lead_build_r7.log). Next: QA round 7 (docs/briefs/qa_round_07.md), gate report, STOP. ## 2026-09-09 · master rebuilt (9681 objects, LOD1 11.38 M, 24 rinceau instanced, frame range 1-1224, probes baked); QA round 7 dispatched In flight: QA round 7 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_07.md items 1-5). Next: gate report with composite; if hero < 3.6 -> MAT r9 photo-projection next session; STOP after the report (lead restart). ## 2026-09-09 · QA round 7 in (b978165): gate NOT passed; hero 3.22 -> 3.44 (+0.22), cam02 3.06 (+0.33), cam03 2.25 (+0.12), cam04 2.88 (+0.12), cam05 3.00 (+0.22), cam06 2.50 (+0.22) Closed: QA-06-1 stack (all courses within 5 rows, spread 0.67 m), QA-06-2 violet flood, cam03 re-based box 0.516, capitals 35 px, cam06 gate 0.631, wing shadow on a render (south 57 % vs ref 54, north 36 vs 39), Eevee pass 146 s. Blockers: QA-07-1 open lagoon 1.24x bright / blue (lighting horizon then materials), QA-07-2 sunlit stone chroma sat 0.437 / R-B 99 (materials; projection expected to carry it). Majors: -3 mirror 0.55 of direct stone (materials), -4 archivolt/bed-mould blank (ornament; 8 sockets, no asset), -5 cam03 28 % black, -6 cam06 street lines composited 0, -7 hero shade level 134 (lighting). Hero camera height: photo 2.6 m vs built 2.90 m (not moved). cam02 fitted station handed over for round 8. Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round07_gate.png. ## 2026-09-09 · CHECKPOINT (lead stopping for a clean restart; user's budget plan) **Merged into main (all reviewed):** ARCH r4-r7, LIGHT r12-r14 (+prep), MAT r7-r8, ENV r7-r9, ORN r5-r7 (+lead bake). master.blend on disk = lead_build.sh after polish round 5 (9681 objects, LOD1 11.38 M, probes baked, flythrough 1-1224) = what QA round 7 scored. All five worktrees clean. **Held on branch, not merged:** ORN r8 (2410e95; verify tool + v2/v3 capital presets, capital rebuilt --no-bake): next session review it (docs/briefs/review.md), merge, run `orn_build.py --only capital_rotunda` WITH bake, before the next master build. **Scores (avg per camera):** r05 3.28 / 2.78 / 1.75 / 2.56 / 2.78 / 2.50 -> r06 3.22 / 2.72 / 2.12 / 2.75 / 2.78 / 2.28 -> r07 **3.44 / 3.06 / 2.25 / 2.88 / 3.00 / 2.50**. Definition of done (CLAUDE.md): hero >= 4.0, or two rounds < +0.1 after the projection pass. Budget plan (user): ~32 % weekly left at the plan, Phase 5 needs ~10, gate within ~20; this session spent polish round 5 + QA round 7. **Resume procedure (next session):** (1) `git status` in every worktree (clean), `pgrep -fl "MacOS/Blender"` (none), restart `scripts/blender_watchdog.sh --loop`. (2) Apply cam02's fitted station in scripts/qa_cameras.py (decisions.md 2026-09-09 last entry) — lead, < 20 lines. (3) ORN r8 review + merge + bake (above). (4) LIGHT r15 (short brief to write: QA-07-1 lagoon horizon hue/level with the water untouched, QA-07-7 hero shade level 134 -> 103-127 keeping hue 32 / sat 0.31, QA-07-5 cam03 lagoon-side row via the SSW shade lamp, r14 carries; one sweep, Opus high). (5) MAT r9 = photo-projection pass (docs/briefs/materials_r8_projection.md item B + constraints 1-6, plus QA-07-3 mirror level and QA-07-2 sunlit chroma; Opus xhigh) after LIGHT r15 merges. (6) Reviews, merges, lead_build.sh, QA round 8 (Opus xhigh, brief pattern docs/briefs/qa_round_07.md; item: projection seams from cam02/cam05 are blockers). (7) Apply the definition of done; then docs/phase5_checklist.md. Watchdog not running at checkpoint; no Blender processes running. ## 2026-09-09 · Session restart (lead): stations moved, silhouette re-registered, LIGHT r15 + ORN r8 review dispatched cam01 z 1.6 -> 1.3 (2.6 m over the water, QA round 07 item 5); cam02 to the ref-062 NNE fit (-79.8, 24.4, 1.55) -> (0, 0, 23.5) 40 mm (65ef92c). Registration on one Eevee hero frame upscaled to 1920: align scale 1.3108, apex delta 0.53 %H; stack band 880-1040: crown 164 vs ref 168, panel bottom 255 vs 265 (widest, 6 rows), corona 280 vs 278, architrave 319 vs 324, abacus 333 vs 333 — all inside the +-8 row acceptance; the tool's auto-walk (median +0.52 m) mis-pairs edges on the Eevee frame, the panel round08pre_stack_offset.png is the evidence. In flight: LIGHT r15 (docs/briefs/lighting_r15.md, Opus high), ORN r8 code review (no Blender), Phase 5 prep on branch phase5 (no render). Next: LIGHT review + merge, MAT r9 projection (Opus xhigh), ORN r8 merge + capital bake, lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · ORN r8 merged after review (MERGE WITH FIXES; main's baked ornament.blend kept, notes' pending-bake bullet corrected) Pending before the next master build: `orn_build.py --only capital_rotunda` WITH bake in the GPU gap after LIGHT r15 (attic_panel is baked on main). Carries for a later ornament round: two ref_002 pixel scales in the notes, source_ns() brace counter, --verify skips the two 1.8 m capitals. In flight: LIGHT r15, Phase 5 prep (branch phase5). Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN bake, MAT r9. ## 2026-09-09 · Phase 5 prep reported (branch phase5, c9afc7f), in review scripts/phase5_deliver.sh (checklist steps 2-6 through blender_run.sh, step 5 picks spp/res from step 4's wall time), phase5_hero.py, phase5_flythrough.py, tech_notes "Opening and rendering (Phase 5)". Held on branch until the gate; review docs/reviews/phase5_r1_review.md. In flight: LIGHT r15, phase5 review. Next: LIGHT review + merge, ORN capital bake, MAT r9. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r15 reported (aec2d77), in review; ORN capital bake running (lead) LIGHT r15: the lagoon flood was LIGHT_shade_fill (3 blue lamps at el 2), not the sky: 3 lamps -> 1 (NNE) + SKY_GLOSSY_BOOST 5.25 -> 4.20; near water 144.7/h228 -> 107.7/h209.4 (level pass, hue 9.4 deg out = materials' body colour), flank 188 -> 145.2/h210 pass, reflection R-B +39.9 pass, sky boxes identical, cam05 band Cycles 108.4 pass; Eevee fast GI OFF: cam03 under-lum-10 18.5 -> 4.6 %, outer row 0.189 pass, cam06 roofs hue 33, Eevee pass 196.4 s. Unresolved: hero shaded attic 136.4 (130.8 with the fill off; the shaded albedo is ~12 % hot vs sunlit -> MAT r9), cam02 pier hue 260 (lead: hero holds, minor). cam02 water box retired (no water at the NNE station). Decision: QA-07-7 goes to materials as a shaded-albedo item; QA-07-11 stays minor. Next: LIGHT review + merge, MAT r9 dispatch (brief updated with the hand-offs), lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · LIGHT r15 merged (aec2d77 + lead corrections); MAT r9 dispatched Review caveat carried: the "sky rotation moves water hue 0.1 deg" claim was measured at the null hue (sweep bug, fixed); the 9.4 deg hand-off rests on the lamp isolation alone. Carries to a later lighting round: apply_shade_for_engine docstring, §25.3 AFTER column mixes fast-GI states, Eevee hero attic hue 36.5 vs window 35.5, light_r15_sheet.py hard-coded path. In flight: MAT r9 (docs/briefs/materials_r9.md, Opus xhigh). Next: MAT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · Phase 5 prep agent 2 dispatched (user's instruction; branch phase5, Opus high, no renders) Scope: scripts/phase5_cleanup.py (orphan purge, optional texture pack, LOD defaults, JSON report, re-open under 60 s on a delivery copy), docs/flythrough_plan.md (shot list, clearance gate, test-animation timing), wired into phase5_deliver.sh as step 1b. Tests only on a scratchpad copy of master.blend, no render. In flight: MAT r9 (rendering), Phase 5 prep 2. Next: MAT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · Phase 5 prep 2 reported (branch phase5, 82bb218); held on branch, review pending at the gate phase5_cleanup.py tested on a scratchpad copy: 0 orphans, 9681 objects, LOD1 visible / LOD0+LOD2 hidden, stations unchanged, 160.9 MB, re-open 0.78 s; pack not run (87 external images, 116 MB, would give 277 MB). Deliver driver step 1b works on master_delivery.blend (gitignored). Flythrough findings (path unchanged): speed step at the hold boundaries (frames 85, 1105-1129, ~3.2 m/s2 vs ACCEL 2.5), the clearance check links ARCH+ENV only (ORN never tested; gallery 1.42 m is 0.02 over the bound), frames 398-408 in no leg; peak pan 14 deg/s, no station inside geometry. In flight: MAT r9. Next: MAT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8; phase5 r2 review before its merge in Phase 5. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r9 reported (d748c99), in review Projection shipped (world-position sampling, identical to UVProj to 0.0002 px; ratio map LF+0.5 MF, 1.17 MB): attic std ratio 0.65 / aniso 4.16 pass, seam test no resolvable edge on cam01/02/05. Sunlit chroma sat 0.461 (window 0.53-0.62) FAIL: measured AgX transfer at lum 188 passes only 0.19-0.24 % display blue per 1 % scene blue, so QA-07-2 is unreachable through albedo (needs a look or sun change). Shaded attic 132.9 FAIL (needs -24 % albedo, 2.4x what the photo supports). Water: reflection 110.3 (0.58 of sunlit) FAIL, R-B +43.7 pass; near water hue 208.5 FAIL (third lever measured; the pixel is 95 % mirror = the sky's hue), lum/sat pass; ripples, flank, cam05 pass. Option table: WATER_GLOSS_MIX 0.25 -> 0.45 gives refl 116 / near water 125 / sat 0.20; 0.75 gives refl 124 but near water 134 / sat 0.16 and cam05 over 117. Lead's call at merge: WATER_GLOSS_MIX 0.45 (hero mirror closer, near-water lum in window, sat 0.02 under). QA-07-2 stays open as a colour-management finding for the gate. In flight: MAT review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r9 review in (MERGE WITH FIXES); MAT r9b dispatched before the master rebuild Review: the ratio map is a display-space AgX quotient applied to linear albedo (delivers ~1/3 of its correction); the AgX chart ran at look None while the project ships 'AgX - High Contrast'; "QA-07-2 unreachable" not shown; phtest.py uncommitted. Decision: fix now (docs/briefs/materials_r9b.md: linear-space ratio, transfer at the shipped look, shaded-sat ceiling as the binding constraint, gloss mix 0.45) so QA round 8 scores a correctly scaled projection; one Cycles hero frame. Budget: r9b + QA round 8 + Phase 5 fit; a round 9 does not, so round 8 is the gate round unless the hero lands within reach of 4.0. In flight: MAT r9b. Next: quick re-review of the r9b diff, merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8. ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r9b reported (da7f829), delta review running Linear-space ratio map (LF luminance raised to 1/t_eff at the shipped look; MF exempt; soft roll-off 1.55 up / 2.20 down): Photo 0 -> 1 now moves the shaded attic -11.96 % vs the -8.47 % ask (r9: -3.9 %). Hero Cycles: shaded attic 127.9 (1.4 over the window), sunlit sat 0.463 / R-B +105 (still short; the shaded hue window binds at tint exponent 1.25 — QA-07-2 cannot close through albedo without breaking the shade; Punchy is worse than the shipped look), std ratio 0.64 / aniso 4.84 pass, gloss mix 0.45: reflection 116.3 (0.61 of sunlit), near water 125.3 / sat 0.200, ripples -22.5, flank 162.7. Unmeasured: cam05 band at gloss 0.45 (~118 vs 117 ceiling), seam test not re-run (QA round 8 item 2 covers it). f = 1.09 pedestal left in place (lead: keep). In flight: mat_r9b review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 8 (gate round). ## 2026-09-09 · MAT r9 + r9b merged (eb3d40b); polish round 6 fully merged; master rebuilding for QA round 8 Merged this round: stations (cam01 2.6 m, cam02 NNE), LIGHT r15, ORN r8 + capital bake, MAT r9 + r9b. Carries: MAT r10 albedo clamp per channel (drum red can exceed 1.0 at +55 %), 4 % hard clip at 2.0, Eevee water gloss as tint only; LIGHT carries in light_r15_review. In flight: scripts/lead_build.sh (log renders/logs/lead_build_r8.log). Next: QA round 8 (docs/briefs/qa_round_08.md), gate report. ## 2026-09-09 · master rebuilt (9679 objects, LOD1 11.38 M, probes baked, 23:01); QA round 8 dispatched (gate round) In flight: QA round 8 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_08.md). Next: gate report to the user with the composite; apply the definition of done (hero >= 4.0, or the budget rule: round 8 is the gate round unless the hero lands within reach of 4.0); then Phase 5 (branch phase5 second review + merge, docs/phase5_checklist.md). ## 2026-09-09 · phase5 r2 review in (MERGE WITH FIXES; the 16-bit ordering fixed on the branch by the lead); branch ready to merge at the gate Carries into Phase 5 (lead runs them by hand): step 5 side-by-side + measure numbers, step 6 LOD0 clearance check with ORN linked, cleanup exit code on a failed preset / 1.5 GB. In flight: QA round 8. Next: gate report, definition of done, Phase 5. ## 2026-09-09 · QA round 8 in (2a755a3): gate NOT passed; hero 3.44 -> 3.67 (+0.22), cam02 3.06 -> 2.69 (-0.37, the 40 mm lens clipped the dome), cam03 2.25 -> 2.56, cam04 2.88 -> 2.81, cam05 3.00 -> 3.06, cam06 2.50 -> 2.67 Projection registered with no seam (std ratio 0.673, aniso 5.02 / 8.23); shaded attic 127.8 with the photo's chroma; cam03 black 12.6 %, far-shore lines 3. Blockers: QA-08-1 cam02 lens (lead: 27 mm applied, 2f-commit above), QA-08-2 cam02 face indigo (lighting), QA-08-3 sunlit chroma sat 0.462 / R-B 105 (the sun, not the albedo). Majors: archivolt blank (not dispatched), mirror 0.61, cam05 band 133.6 (the gloss-mix trade, held for the hero), cam03 walk hue 92, coffer rim/field. Frame range 1-2616 (cam02's station moved the flythrough route: lighting r16 re-plans to ~50 s). Composite renders/qa_comparisons/round08_gate.png. Rule: hero < 4.0 after round 8 -> ONE more round (LIGHT r16 only: sun chroma, cam02 face, cam03 hue, flythrough), lead_build.sh, QA round 9, then Phase 5 regardless. In flight: LIGHT r16. Next: review + merge, rebuild, QA round 9. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r16 reported (355f3d6), in review Sun-side diffuse tint socket + tint b 40 -> 70: sunlit attic sat 0.464 -> 0.489 / R-B 105.7 -> 111.4 (window 0.53 / 120 FAIL; the sun has no blue left and AgX High Contrast caps the box near sat 0.49 at the reference luminance: a colour-management call, not lighting); shaded attic hue/sat hold, lum 127.7 (1.2 over); reflection R-B +50.5; cam02 pier / frieze hue 28 PASS at 27 mm, soffit / right shafts 260-301 FAIL (untried lever: the warm interior fills, cam04's hold); cam03 walk hue 89 unchanged (hand-off to environment: grass bounce + walk albedo). Flythrough: 1224 frames / 51.0 s / 251 m, range 1-1224, cam02 pinned off qa_cameras (ne_apron), exact kinematics 2.52 m/s2, ORN linked in the check (138 origin-parked prototypes excluded), one shrub hit re-routed, clearance 1.57 / 1.43 m, all gates PASS on master.blend. Decision (lead): QA-08-3 closes as "capped by the shipped view transform"; no look change before Phase 5 (every window of rounds 3-8 is measured under AgX High Contrast). In flight: LIGHT r16 review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 9 (final polish round), Phase 5. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r16 merged (a25b2ce + lead corrections); master rebuilt (9679 objects, frames 1-1224, probes baked); QA round 9 dispatched (final polish round); phase5 branch merged In flight: QA round 9 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_09.md). Next: gate report with the composite, then Phase 5 regardless (docs/phase5_checklist.md via scripts/phase5_deliver.sh; Fable final gate judgement once). ## 2026-09-10 · QA round 9 in (9d3f28d): hero 3.67 -> 3.67 (+0.00, clock 1 of 2), cam02 2.69 -> 2.94; gate NOT passed; PHASE 5 STARTS (user's rule) Known-issues list for delivery: docs/qa_round_09.md (QA-09-1..13 + QA-03-16). Lead's final gate judgement in docs/decisions.md. In flight: scripts/phase5_deliver.sh (all steps, packed delivery copy; log renders/logs/phase5_driver.log and phase5_.log). Next: deliverables list, tech notes, final status entry. ## 2026-09-10 · Phase 5 driver run 1: steps 1b-5 done, step 6 cut by the watchdog at 7200 s (511 / 612 frames); chain relaunched detached Delivery copy master_delivery.blend: packed (89 images, 117 MB), 277.7 MB, reopen 0.86 s, 0 orphans, 9679 objects. Eevee six-camera pass 159 s. 4K hero 128 spp fixed adaptive-off: 1432.6 s wall, peak RSS 6.2 GB (renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png). Driver auto-picked 2560x1440 @ 128 (648.5 s) + upscale; lead overrides: native 3840x2160 at 384 spp (~72 min est.) as the final. Flythrough test: 14 s/frame at 640x360 (Eevee, LOD1), resumed at frame 1023 with --frame-start, then ffmpeg at 12 fps. In flight (detached, log renders/logs/phase5_chain.log): flythrough remainder -> ffmpeg -> 384 spp final. Next: side-by-side + measures on the 384 spp frame, deliverables list, tech notes, final status entry. ## 2026-09-10 · Phase 5: final 4K hero done (f549088); flythrough test frames 1-1021 re-rendering Final: renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160.png = native 4K, 384 spp fixed, adaptive off, OIDN, 4186.5 s wall (the 128 spp probe took 1432.6 s; 768 spp would be ~2.3 h, not taken). Side-by-side renders/qa_comparisons/final_hero_vs_ref169.png (apex 0.44 %H). Boxes on the final: sunlit attic 187.1 / sat 0.488 / R-B +110, shaded attic 126.7 / hue 35.0 / sat 0.447 (in window), reflection 114.4 / hue 41.4 / R-B +52, near water 124.0 / hue 207.6, flank 159.8 / 209.6. Flythrough: the first resume wiped frames 1-1021 (script cleared its output dir; fixed with --fresh / --frame-end, 3669a14); re-render running detached (renders/logs/phase5_chain2.log), then ffmpeg to renders/final/flythrough_test_640.mp4 (612 frames at 12 fps = 51 s). docs/delivery.md written. In flight: chain 2. Next: verify the mp4 (612 frames), commit it, final status entry, report to the user. ## 2026-09-10 · USER DEFECT in the v1 hero: main arch filled. v1 archived (renders/final/v1, c7d6995); every render from now to renders/final/v2/ Ray cast from cam01 along the bay axis (renders/logs/lead_raycast3.log): rays at z 18 / 20 hit ARCH_rotunda_vault_coffers_00 [ARCH_rotunda, arch_build.py:696 build_vault_coffers, assets/architecture.blend] 2 m past the face at z 18.2 / 20.2 (soffit 23.6). Face check: 67 triangles of 7-11 m2 with normals along the bay axis inside the opening (304 m2) = the rib plate's bridge triangles bent onto the arc as chords. Same on all 8 bays (bay 07 = cam02's "blue soffit"). Not a placeholder, not a metric fill; a round-1 tessellation bug. Lighting r15/r16 measured cam02's shade_soffit box on these chords: that box moves when they go (lighting re-bases after ARCH). Name sweep: hits are ARCH_rotunda_inner_block_* (real piers) and ENV_backdrop_fill_* (city blocks), both now exempt on record. Gate checks added to CLAUDE.md / qa.md / quality_checklist (f994cb7). Flythrough chain 2 killed (re-render after the fix). In flight: ARCH r8 (docs/briefs/architecture_r8.md). Next: ARCH review + merge, LIGHT r17 (cam02 soffit re-base + warm interior fill), rebuild, QA round 10 hero-only with the tile review, v2 4K. ## 2026-09-10 · ARCH r8 reported (3a358ca), in review Root cause: arch_lib.plate's cap triangulation spans the outline; vertices were then bent onto the barrel -> chords. Fix: bisect_grid before the mapping (arc step 0.22, depth step 0.90; ceiling ribs 1.00). All 8 bays: worst deviation 6.25 -> 0.381 m, faces > 1 m2 79 -> 0; ray tests clear at z 16-22 on bays 00 and 07; tris +5.2 %. The "slab" was the far bay's chords through the rotunda. cam03 column 028: fluted (24 flutes, 86 mm), capital instanced 77 deg above the frame; reads plain because it is near-black (lum 3.7) -> lighting. Tiles: arch fixed on cam01/02/03; remaining non-ARCH defects seen: violet shaded shafts + speckle on sunlit ones (lighting), flat leaf cards / faceted birds / black foliage clumps (environment), checkerboard colonnade paving (materials), untextured near-white dome cap (materials). In flight: ARCH review. Next: merge, LIGHT r17 (cam02 soffit re-base, warm interior fill, cam03 near column level), rebuild, QA round 10 hero-only with tiles, v2 4K + flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · ARCH r8 merged (3a358ca + lead correction); LIGHT r17 dispatched Carries: LOD1 +12.6 % tris (1.25 M on ARCH; re-check open time at Phase 5), cam03 px width hand-derived, ceiling ribs not rendered (cam04). In flight: LIGHT r17 (docs/briefs/lighting_r17.md). Next: LIGHT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 10 hero-only with the tile review, v2 4K, flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r17 reported (5dfdbf3), in review Same box / same rig / ARCH r8 geometry: cam02 pier 268 -> 270 (violet stays: the az-25 blue shade lamp seen down its axis from cam02; both discriminators break the hero -> frontier, nothing shipped), r16 shade_arch box was on a shaft cluster (retired); hero reflection R-B +50.5 -> +32.2 from the geometry alone (the open arch now mirrors sky + vault; lead: accepted). Soffits: new soffit_l / soffit_r boxes hue 36 / 34, sat 0.34 / 0.32, rib-field contrast 111 / 115 PASS via the interior fill colour (1,0.86,0.68) -> (1,0.95,0.88), cam04 coffer ratio 0.386 hold. cam03: new LIGHT_gallery_fill (16 warm up-facing strips, 1200 W Cycles / 0 Eevee, level set by ref 128: near column 0.305 vs photo 0.292): p95 20 -> 89, flutes 33 lum, frame < 10 lum 39.9 -> 6.6 %, outer row 0.289. Speckle on sunlit shafts = shaft albedo texture frequency (materials hand-off); walk albedo ~2x light (env/materials). Hero holds identical except reflection. Flythrough gate PASS. In flight: LIGHT r17 review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 10 (hero-only, tiles), v2 4K on PASS, flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r17 merged (5dfdbf3 + lead docstring fix); master rebuilt for QA round 10 Review carries: the probe bake now includes the gallery strips at 1200 W (the bake deliberately uses the Cycles rig; Eevee cam03 in QA round 10 shows the effect, Phase 5 re-checks the Eevee pass time), the committed AFTER frames are the 2000 W sweep while 1200 W shipped, ref 128's 0.292 not measured by a committed script, uncommitted sweep logs, +43 MB tracked PNGs. In flight: QA round 10 (docs/briefs/qa_round_10.md, hero-only + tiles). Next: on PASS the v2 4K (384 spp) + side-by-sides vs ref 169 and v1, flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · QA round 10 in (22cd0b2): tile review FAIL; hero 3.67 -> 3.56 on the 100 % re-score (like-for-like +0.00); arch opening real (14/14 rays, sky through the arch) Blockers: QA-10-1 icosphere gulls 7.5 m from the hero camera (lead: floating gulls removed in env_build.py b058e45, environment.blend rebuilding), QA-10-2 vault field 103 lum vs ref 45 (2.3x) + magenta jamb (LIGHT r18 dispatched). Majors for the known-issues list: archivolt absent, coffers as punched holes, side-bay vaults flat plates, column stripes, dome cap untextured, cam02 violet face + gold-on-indigo soffit, ENV_backdrop_hall boxes, cam03 chequer paving + flat olive near column. Name sweep: LIGHT_shade_fill_00 exempt by name. Reflection column 115.8 -> 131.5 (clears the floor) with R-B +32. In flight: LIGHT r18, env rebuild (lead). Next: LIGHT review + merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 10b tile re-check (hero only), v2 4K on PASS, flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r18 reported (fc01eb8) + lead's shade-fill-off (f40d0e7), in review r18: the hero's "vault field" box is the central ceiling seen through the arch (= cam04's coffer surface); VAULT_FILL bay weights [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1] -> field 103.1 -> 61.1 (window 45-65) with cam02 soffits held (hue 36 / 34, sat 0.34 / 0.33, field hue 26.5 / 12.9), hero entablature 132.9 -> 120.9, cam04 coffer ratio 0.386 -> 0.347 (0.003 under). Magenta jamb = LIGHT_shade_fill_00 (B +28 on the jamb); landing it (lamp off) costs the hero shaded-attic hue (35 -> ~41) and sat (> 0.50). LEAD'S CALL: lamp off (energy 49 -> 0); the arch reading right at 100 % outranks the two shade windows; cam02's pier lands too (r16: w 0 -> pier hue 23). Moved numbers to be confirmed by QA round 10b. In flight: LIGHT r18 review. Next: merge, lead_build.sh, QA round 10b (hero tiles re-check), v2 4K on PASS, flythrough re-render. ## 2026-09-10 · LIGHT r18 + shade-fill-off merged (a765b9d); master rebuilt (probes re-baked); QA round 10b dispatched In flight: QA round 10b (hero tiles re-check, docs/briefs/qa_round_10b.md). Next: on PASS the v2 chain (delivery copy, 4K 384 spp to renders/final/v2, flythrough --fresh, ffmpeg), then the v1 | v2 | ref 169 composite (scripts/qa_v1v2_sheet.py) and the report; on FAIL fix the named tile defect first. ## 2026-09-10 · QA round 10b in (88498ab): tile review PASS; hero 3.56 -> 3.61; sweep 0 hits, rays 14/14 QA-10-2 boxes: vault field 60.6 (45-65), jamb hue 25.0 / R-B +36 PASS. Moved holds (shade fill off): shaded attic 122.1 / hue 41.2 / sat 0.628 (hue + sat FAIL), sunlit attic sat 0.518 (toward ref), reflection 128.6 / +34.4, entablature 0.83x ref, building sat 1.22x ref (QA-10b-1 major: shade reads mustard; the one cheap lever left = a low-energy NEUTRAL shade fill or a shade-side saturation pull on the concrete), cam03 near column 0.192 of sunlit (was 0.305; QA-10-17 worse), cam02 pier warm (44.9) with one shaft cluster still magenta. In flight: v2 chain (renders/logs/v2_chain.log): packed delivery copy -> 4K 384 spp -> flythrough --fresh -> ffmpeg. Next: v1 | v2 | ref composite (scripts/qa_v1v2_sheet.py), side-by-side vs ref 169, delivery notes v2, report. ## 2026-09-10 · v2 4K hero done (renders/final/v2/hero_cam01_3840x2160.png, 384 spp, 4207.8 s); side-by-sides + delivery notes committed Lead's six-tile pass: arch open (coffered barrel, far arch, sky); no blocker; known issues as docs/delivery.md. In flight: flythrough --fresh (612 frames) then ffmpeg to renders/final/v2/flythrough_test_640.mp4 (renders/logs/v2_chain.log). Next: commit the mp4, final status entry, report to the user with renders/final/v2/v1_v2_ref169.png. ## 2026-09-10 · PHASE 5 v2 DELIVERED (final status entry of this session) Deliverables (docs/delivery.md): master.blend (a765b9d build, 9695 objects, LOD1 11.52 M, opens 0.75 s) + assets/*.blend; master_delivery.blend (packed, 277 MB, gitignored; `PFA_PACK=1 scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 1b` rebuilds it); renders/final/v2/hero_cam01_3840x2160.png (384 spp, 4207.8 s); renders/final/v2/final_hero_vs_ref169.png and v1_v2_ref169.png; renders/final/v2/flythrough_test_640.mp4 (612 frames, 51 s, 6970 s wall at 11.4 s/frame Eevee 640x360); v1 kept under renders/final/v1. QA: round 10b PASS (hero 3.61), known issues in docs/qa_round_10b.md + docs/delivery.md. Gate checks in CLAUDE.md. All worktrees clean; no Blender running; watchdog loop still running (pid in renders/logs/watchdog.log). Next session, if any: QA-10b-1 neutral shade fill (lighting), coffer depth + archivolt band (architecture + ornament), shoreline (environment); every gate with the name sweep + six-tile review + ray test. ## 2026-09-15 · PHASE 6 session 1 (lead): docs read, toolchain installed, inventory run, addendum drafted, Gate 0 brief written; waiting for the user's approval of the addendum before dispatch Inventory (export/inventory.py, 29 s): the stated export set is 30.5 M placed tris (ORN instances 22.9 M, ENV LOD1 4.8 M, ARCH 2.85 M) vs the 3 M budget -> Gate 1 is decimation (plan §2). Look read from the file: AgX High Contrast, exposure -2.833 -> LUT in the viewer. Tools: gltfpack 1.2 + toktx 4.4.2 in tools/ (not in Homebrew), scripts/chrome_run.sh (raw headless screenshot lingers 60-90 s: puppeteer route). In flight: nothing (no Blender, no Chrome running; watchdog loop pid 46808 still up). Next: user approves docs/briefs/phase6_addendum_draft.md -> append to CLAUDE.md, dispatch Gate 0 (docs/briefs/phase6_gate0.md: bake engineer on phase6-bake, viewer engineer on phase6-viewer), fill plan §4 from the timings, status + burn. ## 2026-09-15 · Addendum approved (4 changes applied, CLAUDE.md a0a7156); Gate 0 dispatched In flight: bake engineer (Opus xhigh, branch phase6-bake: export/ scripts, bakes, LUT, sky, manifest, Cycles slice frame) and viewer engineer (Opus high, branch phase6-viewer: web/ Vite+three, station math, LUT pass, screenshot tool). GPU: bake engineer owns it; Chrome only when export/out/bake_queue/status.json is idle. Next: Gate 0 reports -> lead checks the pair image + numbers, fills plan §4, logs the three ORN options in decisions.md for the user's choice, status + burn, stop and report. ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 0 bake report in (phase6-bake 536fc15): all 7 steps; review dispatched; viewer engineer finishing the pair image Lightmap 2K 128 spp OIDN: column 306 s, capital 221 s, ground 461 s (plan §4 filled); LUT 65^3 proven 0.072/255; equirects sun az error 0.03 deg; gate0.glb 57 MB (16 column placements + capital + pedestal, 62 k tris); ORN options (a) 29.5 h / 4.3 GB, (b) 2.7 h / 357 MB, (c) 3.3 h / 451 MB -> decisions.md, user chooses. GPU idle (status.json). In flight: code review of phase6-bake (Opus, read-only) -> docs/reviews/phase6_bake_gate0_review.md; viewer engineer (phase6-viewer) taking the cam01 screenshot + pair sheet. Next: review verdict, lead looks at renders/web/gate0_pair.png (960 px), merge both branches, tech_notes, burn, report. ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 0 viewer report in (phase6-viewer ef6a270): column bbox delta 0 px, sky +2.5/255, GPU cost 0.2 ms at 1280x720 for 62 k tris; lead viewed renders/web/gate0_pair.png (960 px): registration and sky match, 15 borrowed-lightmap columns dark (expected until Gate 3), lit column 0.76-0.85 of Cycles = the missing compositor haze (Gate 4 item; manifest gets a compositor block) In flight: code reviews of phase6-bake and phase6-viewer (Opus, read-only). Next: merge both with fixes, tech_notes "Phase 6" (three Blender 5.2 findings), Gate 0 verdict to the user, ORN + trees decisions from the user, burn. ## 2026-09-15 · Both Gate 0 reviews in (MERGE WITH FIXES: bake 10 findings, viewer 12 incl. one latent blocker); fixes running Bake fixes done (290b574): lightmap_scale = pi in the manifest, ground hi-twin excluded (461 -> 300 s, Gate 3 queue projection 5.9 h), NoColorSpace step, clipped count on the source EXR, manifest reset, sync without --delete; carries in export/README.md. Open question the two reviewers split on: is the column's 0.76x a missing pi or the missing compositor haze -> a no-compositor Cycles frame + a two-scale viewer test settles it. In flight: bake engineer (no-compositor frame, sky.rotation_deg), viewer engineer (findings 1-6, lightmap_scale + sky rotation from the manifest, then the pi parity test, pair sheet vs the no-compositor frame). Next: merge both, tech_notes, Gate 0 verdict, burn. ## 2026-09-15 · GATE 0 PASSED (lead's read; user signs off) — both branches merged into main (70bfe73); session 1 closes Viewer vs no-compositor Cycles at cam01: bbox delta 0 px, sky 1.011, lit column 0.922 / 0.985 with lightmap_scale = pi (the contract); vs the composited frame 0.897 / 0.952 = the missing compositor (Gate 4). GPU cost 0.1-0.3 ms at 1280x720 for 62 k tris; gate0.glb 58.8 MB (mostly 2K textures); web/dist 2.0 MB. Tech notes "Phase 6" written; carries in export/README.md + web/README.md. Burn this session (docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py, list rates, nominal): $77.94 = Opus 65 (bake xhigh, viewer high, two reviews) + Fable 13 (lead), 2.0 h wall, 4 agents. No Blender/Chrome running, watchdog state dir empty, both worktrees clean. Next session: user's three decisions (ORN option, trees option, material round yes/no) -> Gate 1 brief for an export engineer (export set, per-asset budgets docs/briefs/phase6_budget.md, decimation, ORN normal bakes, name sweep on export_set.json) + QA critic silhouette/normal check at six stations; keep the uncommitted docs/environment_notes.md edit (two tree heights, pre-session) for the user to confirm. ## 2026-09-15 · User decided (ORN c, impostors + thinned near trees, one material round); Gate 1 + MAT r10 dispatched Briefs: docs/briefs/phase6_gate1_export.md (Opus high, branch phase6-export), phase6_gate1_viewer.md (Opus high, phase6-viewer r2), materials_r10.md (Opus xhigh, branch materials; dome cap + coffer only, lighting frozen). GPU sharing: queue jobs and builder frames start only with no other live registered Blender pid; Chrome only with status.json idle + no Blender. Next: reports -> reviews -> merge MAT r10 -> regenerate master_delivery.blend (PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b) -> QA critic Gate 1 (silhouette/normal at six stations, tiles, name sweep) -> Gate 2 brief. ## 2026-09-15 · Viewer r2 reported (phase6-viewer 02ccbf3): multi-glb + instancing + progressive loading done; six-station capture blocked on the glbs (ORN bake queue 2/33 at 12:45, ~250 s per job) Manifest v2 read cleanly: 2 743 570 placed tris (ARCH 0.84 M / ORN 1.10 M / ENV 0.79 M), 154 batches, 127 far trees, 7 stations. FloatType LUT cut the ground-band error 17.1 -> 3.1 of 255. Hand-off to export: rgbm_range missing in v2's texture schema (sent). In flight: export engineer (queue + glbs), MAT r10 (rendering), viewer r2 code review. Next: when glbs + idle -> lead runs web/tools/gate1.sh (one command) -> Gate 1 QA critic; MAT r10 review + merge -> regenerate master_delivery.blend. ## 2026-09-15 · Viewer r2 merged (d08dd9a, review fixes incl. the per_class blocker and the double-render perf bug); capture waits for the glbs In flight: export engineer (ORN queue + four glbs), MAT r10. Next: glbs + idle -> lead runs `web/tools/gate1.sh` -> QA critic Gate 1; MAT r10 review/merge -> regenerate master_delivery.blend. ## 2026-09-15 · MAT r10 reported (materials e1a4964), in review; lead viewed both crops Dome cap: lum 187.6 -> 205.4 (pass), hue pass, sat 0.352 / col-sd 5.4 fail — the box is 1/3 drum cornice (sat 0.92 = QA-10b-1, lighting) and a control render bounds the box at 207 lum; the membrane now shows 28 panels + ridges + wide streaks (crop: reads as the photo's cap, cornice still yellow). Coffer: field sat 0.422 / rim 0.454 (both in window, ratio = ref). Holds within tolerance; jamb hue 23.8 (QA-10-2 floor 25, flagged). Deviations: 2 heroes + 3 cam04; ran concurrent with the ORN queue (one job at a time). In flight: mat_r10 review, export engineer (queue 4/33 at 12:56). Next: merge MAT r10 -> lead_build.sh + regenerate master_delivery.blend (after the queue is idle: the queue reads the delivery file) -> gate1.sh capture -> QA critic Gate 1. ## 2026-09-15 · MAT r10 merged into main (e0980f5); master rebuild + delivery regeneration queued behind the ORN bake queue In flight: export engineer (queue). Next: queue idle -> lead_build.sh -> PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> gate1.sh capture -> QA round 11 (docs/briefs/qa_round_11.md). ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 1 export reported (phase6-export e88da10): 2 736 570 placed tris (ARCH 0.84 / ORN 1.10 / ENV 0.79 M), 140 batches in the hero frustum, name sweep 0 hits, ORN queue 33/33 in 5 766 s; four glbs 187 MB (orn.glb 155 MB); texture projection 1 343 MB vs 1 200 budget (levers named) Lead ran web/tools/gate1.sh: six stations captured, 1440p GPU cost 2.1 ms median (60 fps vsync-capped), 201.8 MB loaded in 2.6 s. Hero pair sheet viewed at 960 px: silhouette registered, far-tree billboards as flat quads by design, grey materials. In flight: QA round 11 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_11.md), phase6-export code review, master rebuild + delivery regeneration with MAT r10 (renders/logs/lead_build_r11.log, phase5_r11_1b.log). Next: merge export on review, Gate 1 verdict, Gate 2 brief (PBR bakes on the regenerated delivery file), burn, stop. ## 2026-09-15 · master.blend rebuilt with MAT r10 (9691 objects, probes 5.4 s) and master_delivery.blend regenerated (280.3 MB, reopen 0.83 s, 89 packed); Gate 2 bake brief drafted (docs/briefs/phase6_gate2_bake.md) In flight: QA round 11, phase6-export review. Next: export merge, Gate 1 verdict, dispatch Gate 2 (bake engineer r2) + a viewer Gate 2 round, burn, stop. ## 2026-09-15 · QA round 11 in (1bc08bb): GATE 1 FAIL — two export blockers; budget / perf / name sweep / silhouette PASS Blockers: env.gltf texCoord -1 on the ten backdrop materials (probe texture on UV-less meshes) drops 151 737 ENV tris at every station; the three voxel-remeshed attic panels read torn. Rows out of parity: cam06 Silhouette -1.0 (the missing backdrop), cam02/cam05 Ornament -1.0 (the panels). Station averages 3.50 / 3.00 / 2.60 / 3.00 / 2.90 / 2.80. Silhouette vs the Cycles hero: scale 1.0000, apex delta 0.00 %H. New QA rule: no metric rests on a placeholder (far-tree quads cover 16-34 % of frames) -> re-capture with ?billboards=0. Viewer got the channel clamp (1a47122). In flight: export engineer (five review fixes + B1 texCoord + B2 attic panels via the LOD1 base, three re-bakes). Next: re-pack -> lead re-captures (billboards off) -> QA round 11b tile re-check -> merge export -> Gate 2 dispatch. ## 2026-09-15 · Export fixes in (ec4832b: sRGB tags, status sync, slot gutters 248/256, manifest flags, B1 backdrop texCoord asserted, B2 attic panels from the LOD1 mesh at 7 999 tris, dev 51-59 mm); phase6-export merged (8bfd907); lead re-captured with billboards off (1440p GPU 1.5 ms hero); QA round 11b dispatched In flight: QA 11b (tile re-check + re-score). Next: on PASS dispatch Gate 2 (docs/briefs/phase6_gate2_bake.md, bake engineer r2) + write the viewer Gate 2 brief; burn; stop. ## 2026-09-15 · QA 11b (850209e): B1 + B2 FIXED, all rows within 0.5 (provisional) but GATE 1 FAIL: the export's own 127 opaque ENV_treeboard_* stand-ins in env.glb cover 16-26 % of the frames (44.5 % of the arch opening); cam04 ceiling sliver (QA-11-9) open Lead: viewer ?treeboards=0 hides the boards by material name (gltfpack -mi drops node names; b58240b), re-captured with both placeholder sets hidden (127 hidden, hero frame changed over 341 k px). Export engineer asked for: sweep pattern board|impostor|billboard with the exemption on record, QA-11-9 sliver, boards tagged in the glb. In flight: QA 11c (re-check on the clean capture), export fixes. Next: Gate 1 verdict -> Gate 2 dispatch. ## 2026-09-15 · Export 2c1c7fe merged (4190b62; boards cut, cam04 rib group as modelled at 160 828 tris, scene 2 841 396); sweep pattern updated; capture 4 taken; QA 11c dispatched; Gate 2 viewer brief written In flight: QA 11c. Next: on PASS dispatch Gate 2 bake (phase6_gate2_bake.md) then the viewer Gate 2 round (phase6_gate2_viewer.md) once manifest v3 exists; burn; stop. ## 2026-09-15 · QA 11c (9ef4fd7): boards proven out (0 % coverage), QA-11-9 FIXED, arch ray test PASS, budget/perf PASS — GATE 1 FAIL on QA-11c-1: 1379 ENV_shrub_*_LOD2 nodes exported with no transform (drawn at the origin; site planting absent, Scale cues -1.0 at five stations) Lead: viewer reads lightmap_encoding.rgbm_range (QA-11c-3). Export engineer fixing the ENV node transforms with writer assertions (env.glb only). Next: re-capture -> QA 11d -> Gate 2. ## 2026-09-15 · Export a9b2d3d merged (77eafe8): shrubs placed from their LOD1 siblings (the delivery file keeps LOD0/LOD2 ENV stubs at the origin — tech_notes), writer assertions + verify_glb; capture 5 taken; QA 11d dispatched Next: on PASS dispatch Gate 2 bake + viewer rounds; burn; stop. ## 2026-09-15 · GATE 1 PASSED (QA 11d, 57addb8; decisions.md). Gate 2 dispatched: bake engineer r2 (PBR bakes, docs/briefs/phase6_gate2_bake.md) + viewer r3 (docs/briefs/phase6_gate2_viewer.md) Session burn so far (usage_from_transcripts, nominal): 253.40 opus-5 223, fable-5-1 30 . In flight: Gate 2 bake (GPU queue), viewer r3 (waits for manifest v3). Next: reviews, merges, Gate 2 capture + QA round 12 (PBR alone, direct lighting), then Gate 3 brief. ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 2 bake done (a9794e8): 60 jobs / 182 maps / 3 245 s of bakes, KTX2 274.5 MB, resident projection 1 166 MB of 1 200; verification on the Gate 0 slice worst 2.78 % (inside 3 %); manifest v3 synced In flight: phase6-bake Gate 2 code review; export engineer (backdrop UV1 into env.glb, -vp 16); viewer r3 (PBR wiring + capture, GPU free). Next: review + merges, Gate 2 capture, QA round 12 (PBR alone, direct lighting), Gate 3 brief (lightmaps + impostors + probe), burn, stop. ## 2026-09-15 · Viewer r3 reported (phase6-viewer 875d7d9): PBR wired (55/65 materials, 531 MB of ASTC), 1440p GPU 0.3-1.9 ms, hero pair ratio 1.141 (direct mode, no lightmaps), QA-11d-1 regional batches (cam04 tris -15.6 %); resident 1 395 MB at 1440p incl. 437 MB render targets (textures 921 of the 1 200 budget) Hand-offs: nine of ten backdrop material bakes reach nothing until env.glb is re-exported with UV1 (export, in progress); direct-mode diffuse needs a camera-branch PMREM (Gate 3 bake adds it). One Chrome slip (10 s during a bake, killed). In flight: bake Gate 2 review, viewer r3 review, export hand-off. Next: merges, gate2 pair sheets, QA round 12. ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 2 reviews in: bake MERGE WITH FIXES (queue own-pid exemption, metallic albedos via emission, ORN size rule), viewer r3 MERGE WITH FIXES (PMREM double-counted in resident memory: real 1 294 MB at 1440p; check_manifest_files unwired; pair sheets gitignore); export hand-offs merged (4f85205: backdrop UV1 in env.glb, -vpf) Found by the viewer review: gltfpack merged the ten backdrop materials into one, so nine Gate 2 backdrop sets attach to nothing -> export re-packs env.glb with -km; bake flips uv1_in_glb for the ten. In flight: bake fixes, export -km, viewer fixes then the Gate 2 re-capture. Next: merges, QA round 12. ## 2026-09-15 · Gate 2 fully merged (bake c1bdb5a, export 9712f80, viewer dfe8609): all 60 material sets attach incl. the ten backdrop groups; hero pair ratio 1.090 in direct mode, 267 draws, GPU 1.7 ms, resident 1 334 MB at 1440p (textures 921 of 1 200); QA round 12 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_12.md) Next: Gate 2 verdict -> Gate 3 bake (docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_bake.md) + Gate 4 viewer brief; burn; stop. ## 2026-09-15 · QA round 12 (1a8a2ab): GATE 2 FAIL on one row (cam05 Material realism -1.0): QA-12-1 — 7 of 12 ARCH/ground sets ship no normal map (the material bump is in neither map; pier-face grain 0.27x of Phase 5) and the two colonnade UV1 atlases have 0.16 coverage. Right: whole-building sat 1.02x of the photo (QA-10b-1 closed by the bake), backdrop + pedestals textured (QA-11c-2 closed), ORN relief real on all 33 Dispatched: export re-lays the two colonnade UV1 atlases (>= 0.40), bake bakes bump -> tangent normals for all twelve ARCH/ground groups + re-bakes the two re-laid groups. Carry: QA-12-4 one texture per shared mesh (Repetition -0.5 everywhere) goes to Gate 3's per-instance slot; the report's 921 MB vs the capture's 855.6 MB texture figure to reconcile. Next: re-capture, QA 12b, Gate 3. ## 2026-09-15 · Atlas split merged (2aed50f): 52 UV1 groups, hero stone coverage 0.056 -> 0.191, colonnade 0.040 -> 0.28 (instanced) + 0.11 (merged mass, geometric cap), +2 atlases; bake engineer re-baking the eleven groups + bump-derived normals for every ARCH/ground set In flight: bake queue (QA-12-1). Next: lead re-captures (gate2.sh), QA 12b, Gate 3 dispatch. ## 2026-09-15 · Bake QA-12-1 pass merged (8a3d06a): 19/19 ARCH/ground re-baked on the split atlases (2 229 s), normals on every set, colonnade texel 9.4 -> 1.07 cm; grain moved to materials.detail (5 tiling sets, 20 MB) — viewer r3 wiring it now, then the Gate 2 re-capture and its own measurement of the QA-12-1 boxes Next: QA 12b -> Gate 3 dispatch (docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_bake.md) -> burn -> stop. ## 2026-09-15 · Viewer detail layer merged (5eb698e); BLOCKER found by its empty-map guard: all 15 shipped detail maps are all-zero PNGs/KTX2 -> bake engineer re-exporting with on-disk verification + mean_linear per map. Synthetic-noise proof of the layer: cam05 pier std 22.9 -> 25.7 (Phase 5 38.3), cam01 wall hp9 6.0 -> 8.7, attic unmoved Resident 1 400 MB at 1440p (textures 920 after the 19 normals; detail adds 20 MB as KTX2). Next: real maps -> viewer re-capture + boxes -> QA 12b -> Gate 3. ## 2026-09-15 · Detail layer live (viewer f8b1986 merged): works, but the shipped maps' contrast is 3-6 % and mips filter it -> QA-12-1 boxes move ~1 % (cam05 pier std 22.9 vs Phase 5 38.3; gain 6-10 would reach it, refused as a knob). Bake engineer re-deriving the detail normals at the Bump's real slope (Distance 0.015 m at 2-3 mm/texel) and tagging the albedo KTX2 sRGB Resident 1 338 MB at 1440p (tex 987 incl. 67 MB of detail PNGs; KTX2 saves 47). Next: viewer re-measure -> QA 12b (with lighting attribution: the Phase 5 box std includes shade) -> Gate 3. ## 2026-09-15 · Detail re-derivation merged (4c763c9): honest slope from 8-bit height sources (normal std 0.024 / 0.019), albedo contrast +35 %, colour spaces verified on disk; decision: the remaining cam05 amplitude is shading/occlusion (Gate 3). Viewer taking the final Gate 2 capture with the KTX2 detail set; QA 12b brief written (docs/briefs/qa_round_12b.md) Next: QA 12b -> Gate 3 dispatch -> burn -> stop. ## 2026-09-15 · Final Gate 2 capture merged (viewer 9dcdc1e / 3be52fb): KTX2 detail set (33.6 MB), colour spaces right (cam05 box mean 144.8 vs Phase 5 145.4), QA-12-1 boxes moved < 1.5 % (material share exhausted); resident 1 305 MB at 1080p / 1 434 at 1440p; QA 12b dispatched Next: Gate 2 verdict -> Gate 3 bake dispatch -> burn -> stop. ## 2026-09-15 · GATE 2 PASSED (QA 12b, 19412e4; decisions.md). Gate 3 bake dispatched (docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_bake.md: lightmaps, ORN/ARCH slot atlases, impostors, hero probe; ~6 h detached queue) Session burn (usage_from_transcripts, nominal): 455.69 opus-5 409, fable-5-1 46 . Next session: Gate 3 report -> review -> merge -> Gate 4 viewer (docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_viewer.md) -> QA round 13 (lightmaps alone) -> Gate 4 QA rounds toward the 6a definition of done. ## 2026-09-15 · CHECKPOINT — lead context 528k (rule: clean restart past 350k); Gate 3 bake queue running detached State: main at d7ef352 + this entry; all worktrees clean; Gate 0-2 merged; Gate 3 bake engineer (fresh agent this session) launched the detached queue from .claude/worktrees/phase6-bake (export/bake_queue.sh; status.json copied to MAIN export/out/bake_queue/status.json). A restart kills the agent, not the queue. Resume procedure: (1) `pgrep -fl "bake_queue|MacOS/Blender"`, read export/out/bake_queue/status.json (running -> leave it; idle -> check done == total and the per-job records); (2) if the queue died, re-launch it from the bake worktree (it resumes, skipping done jobs); (3) dispatch a FRESH Gate 3 bake agent (docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_bake.md) to finish/verify from the records, write manifest v4, sync, report; code review; merge; (4) Gate 4 viewer (docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_viewer.md), QA round 13 (lightmaps alone) then the Gate 4 rounds; (5) burn per session via docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py. Today's burn: $455.69 nominal (Opus 409, Fable 46). ## 2026-09-16 · Gate 3 bake COMPLETE overnight (phase6-bake 08901f1, unmerged, unreviewed): 65/65 jobs in 6 h 30 m, manifest v4 synced (432 MB), resident Gate 3 251 MB (total 1 055 MB carried / 1 204 vs the measured viewer baseline) Blocker for export: Gate 1's UV2 is margin-dominated on 7 assets (S colonnade 0.0095 of its map = 33 cm/texel); the bake engineer re-unwrapped them in its own blend (4.6-17 cm/texel) and wrote export/out/gate3/lightmap_uv2.npz — env/arch glbs must be re-exported with that UV2 (and COLOR_0 for the 14 vertex-irradiance meshes) before the viewer applies them (uv2_in_glb false meanwhile). Impostors: 16 atlases (46 far trees mapped to LOD1 prototypes), probe culled below the water, sky.diffuse exported for QA-12b-1. Open for QA 13: cam04 plaster shell in front of the coffer mesh (bakes 4.9 % non-zero), a broadleaf tree inside a city block (Phase 5 placement), near-tree shadows lighter (thinned cards). Tech-note traps: OPEN_EXR_MULTILAYER needs media_type MULTI_LAYER_IMAGE and use_exr_interleave; plan §1's "gallery fill 0 W in Cycles" is wrong (1200 W, Cycles-only). NOT dispatched (lead context past the restart rule): the phase6-bake Gate 3 code review, the export UV2/COLOR_0 re-export, the Gate 4 viewer round, QA round 13. Next session starts with the review. ## 2026-09-16 · Session 2 (lead): Gate 3 bake review + export UV2/COLOR_0 re-export + Gate 4 viewer round dispatched GPU idle (queue 65/65, no Blender pids). Dispatched in parallel: code reviewer (Opus, read-only) on phase6-bake 08901f1 -> docs/reviews/phase6_bake_gate3_review.md; export engineer (Opus high, phase6-export) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_export.md (Gate 3 UV2 as TEXCOORD_1 on the seven relaid assets, COLOR_0 on the 14 near trees, hand-off json, no manifest edit); viewer engineer (Opus high, phase6-viewer) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_viewer.md with item 1 (baked lighting) captured first as the QA-13 input. Next: merge the bake after review fixes (manifest flags flipped from the export hand-off), QA round 13 (lightmaps alone) on the viewer's baked capture, then the Gate 4 rounds. ## 2026-09-16 · Gate 3 bake review in (79ee07b): MERGE WITH FIXES (5 fix now, 9 carry); bake fix agent dispatched Fix now: impostor centre/bbox measured from the bbox bottom not the trunk base (willows), normal+depth encode formula misdocumented, vertex_irradiance.npz is uint8 gamma-2 (README promised float32 linear) with one shared range (rel_p99 0.244) -> per-mesh float32, impostor normal+depth declared rgba8 but packed UASTC. Export engineer told to do UV2 first and hold COLOR_0 for the corrected npz; viewer engineer told the three impostor fields change. Next: merge phase6-bake after the fixes (manifest flags flipped from the export hand-off json), then QA 13 on the viewer's baked capture. ## 2026-09-16 · Export Gate 3 hand-off in (phase6-export 095f855): UV2 relay in arch/ground.glb; BLOCKER found — gltfpack stripped TEXCOORD_1 from every glb since Gate 1 Fixed with -kv on arch + ground (verify_glb PASS, +1.74 MB, hand-off json written with uv2_all_meshes: 33 arch/ground true, 33 orn false); COLOR_0 held for the float32 npz. Lead decided (decisions.md): orn strips its cavity COLOR_0 and packs with -kv; vertex irradiance = gamma-2 per-mesh range, FLOAT_COLOR, env.glb -vc 16. Export engineer resumed for orn now, COLOR_0 after the bake fix lands; bake fix agent told to carry the per-mesh range from the hand-off json; viewer told arch/ground now carry UV2. Next: bake fix report -> export COLOR_0 -> merge bake + export -> QA 13 on the viewer's baked capture. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake review fixes in (phase6-bake ac63e44) and MERGED (b0ddafe): 5/5 fix-now closed without a re-bake Willows re-datumed from the trunk base (+22.8 % / +6.4 %), depth formula corrected, vertex irradiance float32 linear (rel_p99 0.244 -> 0 on all 14), normal+depth labelled UASTC, tech notes + README v4 aligned; manifest flags flipped from the export hand-off (16/16 own maps uv2_in_glb true, slots false until orn.glb, vertex in_glb false until COLOR_0). Export engineer resumed for orn -kv + COLOR_0; viewer told the renamed impostor keys. Next: on the export report, lead runs `python3 export/manifest_v4.py` + `export/sync_main.sh` and merges phase6-export; viewer takes the baked capture; QA 13. ## 2026-09-16 · CHECKPOINT (user leaving; session 2 closes) — bake merged, export mid-COLOR_0, viewer baked capture taken, QA 13 not dispatched State: main at 78de4f0 + this entry (phase6-bake merged at b0ddafe with all review fixes). phase6-export at f603c14+: orn.glb re-packed with -kv and the cavity COLOR_0 stripped, synced (uv2_relay_status.json: 66/66 meshes uv2_in_glb true); the near-tree COLOR_0 encode into env.glb (gamma-2 per-mesh range, FLOAT_COLOR, -vc 16) was IN PROGRESS and uncommitted when the session closed — the agent was told to commit WIP; check `git -C .claude/worktrees/phase6-export status` and its last commit message first. phase6-viewer at 396bd4b+: Gate 4 item 1 (baked lighting: own maps, 988 slots, sky.diffuse) done and a six-station baked capture committed ("round-13") — it may predate orn.glb's UV2 landing (ORN slot lightmaps missing in it if so); items 2-7 not started. Both agents told to commit WIP and stop. Resume procedure (fresh agents, briefs on file): (1) `pgrep -fl "MacOS/Blender|chrome"` must be empty; read the two worktrees' last commits. (2) Export: dispatch a fresh export engineer (Opus high) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_export.md item (2) only, from the WIP commit: COLOR_0 for the 14 trees from the float32 npz, relay json vertex block, verify_glb, sync; then the LEAD runs `python3 export/manifest_v4.py && export/sync_main.sh` from the main checkout (flips slots + vertex_irradiance flags), code review of phase6-export (docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_review.md), merge. (3) Viewer: fresh viewer engineer (Opus high) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_viewer.md from the WIP commit: re-sync assets, re-take the six-station baked capture with orn UV2 + COLOR_0 live (post off), then items 2-7. (4) QA round 13 (Opus xhigh) on docs/briefs/qa_round_13.md against that capture; then the Gate 4 rounds. (5) Burn: run `python3 docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py` at the start of the next session for today's total (not captured at this close). Addendum (after the checkpoint): export WIP committed at 784bfe6 (tree clean; item (2) COLOR_0 never started: env.glb unchanged, relay vertex block empty). Lead re-ran manifest_v4.py + sync: lightmaps.slots.uv2_in_glb now TRUE (orn UV2 live), vertex_irradiance.in_glb false. Resume step (2) stands as written. Addendum 2: viewer WIP committed at d76bee0 (tree clean, no Chrome). CORRECTION to the checkpoint: renders/web/round13_cam01..06.png were captured BEFORE the -kv re-pack landed — they are the Gate 2 look, NOT a baked capture; QA 13 must not score them. Open blocker (viewer-owned, first task of resume step 3): with the lightmaps attached the hero reads mean luma 117.5 vs the Cycles hero's 140.0 and the colonnade wall bands dark/blue; gamma2 117.5 / linear 109.9 / rgbm8 120.0 / V-flip 117.3 — no decode or orientation reaches 140, so a lightmap-only debug pass must check that the glb's TEXCOORD_1 islands land where the bake put them (compare a solid-colour UV2 test map, or bake-side vs glb-side island centroids per mesh) before any capture. Second finding for the export engineer (resume step 2): gltfpack merged away one node of each colonnade colbase plinth/torus pair, so 114 of the 988 slot placements have no mesh of their own — test `-kn` on arch (or exclude those meshes from the merge) and re-verify placements == 988. Item 1 otherwise verified end-to-end (16/16 own maps usable, 15 attach, 438/988 slots attach, position join error <= 0.089 m, npm test green); items 2-7 not started. ## 2026-09-16 · Session 3 (lead): resume from the CHECKPOINT; burn logged; export COLOR_0 + viewer lightmap debug dispatched Burn (docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py, list rates): session 6460c313 (15th 07:49 -> 16th 06:48, incl. the overnight bake) $586.08 total (was $455.69 at the 15th checkpoint, so ~$130 accrued on the 16th); session 2 today (c47a8492) $46.70 (Opus 42, Fable 5). Phase 6 to date ≈ $635 nominal over two days. State: no Blender / headless Chrome pids; main 8ea8021; phase6-export 784bfe6 clean (COLOR_0 never started); phase6-viewer d76bee0 clean (item 1 done, hero luma 117.5 vs 140 open). Dispatched in parallel: export engineer (Opus high) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_export.md "Resume r2"; viewer engineer (Opus high) on docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_viewer.md "Round 5 resume" (lightmap-only UV2 debug first, then the baked capture after the export merge, then items 2-7). Next: export report -> lead runs manifest_v4.py + sync_main.sh, code review (docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_review.md), merge -> viewer re-syncs and captures -> QA 13 (docs/briefs/qa_round_13.md). ## 2026-09-16 · Export Gate 3 r2 in (phase6-export 6798563): COLOR_0 on the 14 trees, 988 placements by material split; manifest v4 flags flipped; code review dispatched Export report: Blender 5.2's glTF exporter inserts a fake constant-white u8 COLOR_0 when the material references no colour attribute (real data pushed to COLOR_1) — first run shipped all-white; gltf_gate1.py now drops the fake and renumbers (also explains orn's old COLOR_0/COLOR_1 note). COLOR_0 gamma-2 per-mesh range, 16-bit, round-trip p99 <= 0.7 %. `-kn` rejected (+537 draw calls); a same-named material copy on the second mesh of each gltfpack merge-colliding pair keeps them instanced: arch 27 -> 29 draw calls, +3.6 kB, placements 552 + 436 = 988. verify_glb PASS, name sweep 0 to explain, env +1.15 MB. Lead ran manifest_v4.py + sync_main.sh: 16/16 own maps uv2_in_glb true, slots true, vertex_irradiance in_glb true (14). Code reviewer (Opus, read-only) on main..phase6-export -> docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_review.md. Viewer engineer still on step 0 (lightmap UV2 debug). Next: merge on the review, message the viewer to re-sync + capture round13b, QA 13. ## 2026-09-16 · Export Gate 3 review in (c0120b2): MERGE WITH FIXES (3 fix now, 8 carry, Gate 1's 5 fix-now all closed); export engineer resumed for the fixes Fix now: gate3_relay_check.py hard-codes the MAIN path (PFA_MAIN_ROOT ignored); encoder reads MAIN's out/gate3 while the checker prefers a local one; the material-split guard is one-directional and relies on -km, which orn/ground do not get. Budget doc's Gate 1 byte table now carries a Gate 3 r2 addendum (arch 4.61 MB / 29 draw calls, env 36.95 MB). Next: merge phase6-export on the fix report; viewer step 0 finding pending, then round13b capture; QA 13. ## 2026-09-16 · phase6-export MERGED (584a79d) with the 3 review fixes (ed00a62); glbs unchanged since the sync, relay check PASS from main Fixes: PFA_MAIN_ROOT honoured in gate3_relay_check.py, checker and encoder read the same out/gate3, clear FAIL on a missing npz; material-split guard bidirectional (-km required and dup_names >= split; only arch is split today). 8 carries stay in docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_review.md. In flight: viewer engineer (phase6-viewer) on step 0 then round13b. Next: QA 13 on round13b. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer round 5 in (phase6-viewer 0b08a6b): lightmap blocker was UV quantisation (viewer-owned, fixed, hero 134.3/140), round13b captured (988/988 slots), water + walk done, impostors not started Baked beats direct at all six stations (cam01 136.0 vs 146.3 vs Cycles 140.0). Open: vertex irradiance not applied (per-mesh range vs -mi instancing -> export re-encodes at one global range), mist numbers missing from the manifest (export adds compositor.mist), stations 3/5/6 lack Cycles references (lead rendering round13_03/05/06_cycles, blender_run 2400 s, log renders/logs/qa_r13_cycles_refs.log), perf 38.8-60.2 fps at 1440p but GPU cost 0.6-2.4 ms (CPU/compositor-bound, item 6 open). Decisions in docs/decisions.md. Dispatched: QA 13 (Opus xhigh) on round13b from the viewer worktree; code reviewer on d76bee0..0b08a6b -> docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r5_review.md; export engineer resumed (global range + mist); viewer engineer continues with item 2 impostors, then item 6 (no perf numbers while the GPU renders). Next: QA 13 verdict; merge phase6-viewer after review; env.glb re-sync -> viewer hooks vertex irradiance + mist; Gate 4 capture. ## 2026-09-16 · Export r3 in (phase6-export 05967b5): global COLOR_0 range 43.32 (worst 16-bit rel_p99 0.92 %, gate 2 %), mist read from master_delivery (start 20 m, depth 2000 m, LINEAR); env.glb synced manifest_v4.py's new keys (lightmaps.vertex_irradiance.range, compositor.mist) need main's gate2 outputs, so they land after the merge; review of ed00a62..05967b5 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_r3_review.md. Viewer engineer told the numbers and key names. Cycles refs for 03/05/06 still rendering (pid 28283). Next: merge export r3 -> run manifest_v4.py + sync from main -> message viewer; QA 13 verdict; viewer review verdict. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer round 5 review in (882b908): MERGE WITH FIXES (3 one-line fix now, 9 carry); UV dequant fix proved sound (transform read from the glb, applied once, idempotent) Fix now: hero_boxes.py hard-coded MAIN path; empty `?post=` enables the whole chain incl. the placeholder mist; two gate3_test.mjs checks became tautologies. Carries incl. ~58 MB full-res PNGs under renders/web against the 960 px rule — viewer told to commit 960 px copies only and drop the one-shot A/B frames. Gate 2 carries 5 (export-owned), 10, 11 still open. Next: viewer fixes land with the item 2 (impostor) report -> merge phase6-viewer; export r3 review -> merge; QA 13 verdict; Cycles refs. ## 2026-09-16 · Export r3 review in (ba27a1a): MERGE WITH FIXES (2 fix now, 7 carry); export engineer resumed Fix now: checks validate carried-over glbs against regenerated .gltf (fail on stale glb, re-pack or prove equality); manifest_v4.py reads mist_settings.json local-only (resolve local-then-MAIN; the file is in MAIN today). Carry for the viewer's item 4: compositor.mist omits the airlight cap/k, so a plain linear fog would be ~5x off near the camera — the viewer must read the compositor block's mapping, not just start/depth. Next: merge export r3 on the fix report, manifest_v4.py + sync from main, message viewer; QA 13; viewer item 2 + fixes -> merge; Cycles refs (still rendering). ## 2026-09-16 · phase6-export r3 MERGED (14eadad) with the 2 review fixes (77063c6): re-pack of all four glbs byte-identical, stale-glb pins in both checkers, mist path local-then-MAIN Lead ran manifest_v4.py + sync from main: lightmaps.vertex_irradiance.range = 43.3198 (global), compositor.mist populated (start 20 m, depth 2000 m, LINEAR). Viewer engineer told; export side has nothing open except 5+7+8 carries in docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3*_review.md. In flight: QA 13 (round13b), viewer item 2 + 3 fixes, Cycles refs 03/05/06 (pid 28283). Next: QA 13 verdict; merge phase6-viewer on its report; Gate 4 capture. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer item 2 in (phase6-viewer 08e9262, fixes 827a563): 127 far-tree impostors live (16 draw calls, 16/16 atlases), placeholders gone; NEW defect: MAT_leaf_* have no alphaMode -> opaque leaf cards (export-owned) Impostor atlases are KTXorientation rd while the manifest counts rows from the bottom (drew the back sides deep blue until V-flipped; measured codes [0.253 0.291 0.487] -> [0.425 0.430 0.281]). cam01 luma 136.0 -> 127.3 (Cycles 140.0; the impostors read paler/flatter than Cycles foliage, inherent at 85 px frames drawn at ~40 px), cam02 110.9 -> 107.0 (Cycles 102.1). Vertex irradiance live (global range). renders/web tracked 102 -> 74 MB, .gitignore refuses full-res captures. Lead: export engineer resumed for alphaMode MASK on the leaf materials (cutoff read from master_delivery, not guessed); reviewer on 0b08a6b..08e9262 -> docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r5b_review.md; viewer continues with compositor.mist mapping then the manifest range source. Cycles refs: cam03 saved (~19 min); the lead's first run was stopped by hand at 22 min (would have hit its 2400 s watchdog mid-cam05) and cams 05/06 relaunched with 3000 s (pid 31668, renders/logs/qa_r13_cycles_refs_b.log). Next: QA 13 verdict; merge phase6-viewer on the r5b review; env.glb leaf fix -> re-sync; Gate 4 capture. ## 2026-09-16 · QA round 13 in (f8c9002): LIGHTMAPS ACCEPTED, one re-bake (ARCH_rotunda_plaster_ceiling_merged, QA-13-2); hero 135.99 vs 139.98 (0.971x), MAE down at all six stations Scores 01 3.39 · 02 2.69 · 03 2.69 · 04 2.31 · 05 2.89 · 06 2.33 (all inside the 0.5 window; 04/06 below the 2.5 floor). New QA-13-1: saturated blue bays on the N-colonnade (23 % of the band B > R+20, bit-identical with lightmaps off -> a surface lit by neither path; viewer/export to identify). QA-12b-1 olive cast not closed and worse at cam02 (19.7 %); sunlit-attic sat hold broke (0.89x). No seam, slot bleed, blockiness, banding or double shadow at 100 %. Budget/perf PASS (1 678 MB at 1440p, GPU 2.3 ms). Lead: refs 02/04 chained after 05/06 (QA: the round-09 cam02 reference predates the shade-fill-off; only station 1 had a reference from the baked lighting); rebake brief written (docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_rebake_ceiling.md), bake agent dispatched when the GPU frees; viewer engineer told to identify QA-13-1 and decompose the olive pixel. Next: r5b review -> merge viewer; env.glb leaf fix; rebake; Gate 4 capture + QA 14 against the new references. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake agent dispatched (phase6-bake, docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_rebake_ceiling.md): CPU prep now, the Cycles bake held until the lead's reference renders finish Agents live: viewer (mist/range hookup, QA-13-1 + olive diagnosis), export (leaf alphaMode MASK), bake (ceiling relay), reviewer (viewer r5b). GPU: refs 05/06 rendering, 02/04 chained (logs renders/logs/qa_r13_cycles_refs_b/_c.log). Next: merge viewer on r5b; env.glb leaf fix re-sync; bake go-signal when qa_render_round exits; Gate 4 capture + QA 14 vs round13_0N_cycles references. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer diagnoses in (phase6-viewer 1b7ad84; mist + range hookups 8628736): QA-13-1 = backdrop blocks under the diffuse PMREM (viewer fixes via the direct path); QA-12b-1 mechanism disputed, re-measure with post on + bake-scene check Viewer told: backdrop/unpatched surfaces onto the direct path; re-measure olive at cam02/06 with ?post=all. Bake agent told: read-only check of the bake scene's bounce materials, gallery fills, world, bounces. Tooling: __pfaPick pixel raycast (note: three's Raycaster does not skip invisible objects). renders/web tracked 44.9 MB. Waiting: r5b review -> merge viewer; export leaf fix; refs 05/06 then 02/04; bake step 1. Next: bake go-signal at GPU free; Gate 4 capture + QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · Export leaf alpha in (phase6-export 35865b8): 8 env card materials alphaMode MASK @ 0.5 (read from master_delivery: alpha_threshold under HASHED; the leaf materials route through a node group, which is why the defect survived), synced verify_glb asserts MASK/BLEND + effective cutoff on every alpha-carrying base colour texture; the stale-glb pin now forces a full re-pack (toktx 258 s) whenever the glTFs regenerate. Review of 77063c6..35865b8 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3_r4_review.md; viewer told to re-sync and confirm cam02. Next: merge export r4 on review; r5b review -> merge viewer; refs; bake step 1; Gate 4 capture + QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer r5b review in (18f2e19/6f75281): MERGE WITH FIXES (3 fix now, 9 carry); impostor V flip confirmed correct; barycentric weights swapped (real blend bug) Fix now routed to the viewer: swapped upper-triangle weights (re-capture cam01/02 after), silent NaN fallbacks in the impostor manifest block, stale README lines; PFA_DEV_SHARE_GPU logged in decisions.md. Refs: 05 saved, 06 rendering, 02/04 chained. Next: viewer fixes + measurements -> merge phase6-viewer; export r4 review -> merge; bake step 1; GPU-free signal; Gate 4 capture + QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · Cycles references 03/05/06 done (renders/previews/qa/round13_0N_*_cycles.png, 1920x1080 128 spp, compositor on; 05+06 in 950 s); 02/04 rendering (pid 34504, max 3000 s) GPU still busy until 02/04 finish (~30 min); bake go-signal and the viewer's --perf after that. ## 2026-09-16 · phase6-viewer MERGED (0458150, through 8d76e7d: r5b fixes d4a9b57 + measurements); QA-13-1 direct-path fix withdrawn on evidence, probe irradiance authorised for unlit-mapped surfaces Measurements: band B > R+20 17.6 % -> 15.5 % with post (target ≤ 3.9 %); olive cam02 46.5 -> 32.2 % with post (viewer mask), cam06 21.2 %. Leaf cards cut out after the alphaMode re-sync but stay blue (same sky-only path). Impostor rotational pop still unswept (re-check on the corrected-weights re-capture). Waiting: export r4 review -> merge; bake step 1 + scene check; refs 02/04 (pid 34504) -> GPU-free signal to bake and viewer. Next: probe irradiance measurement; ceiling bake; Gate 4 capture + QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · Export r4 review in (677b792): MERGE WITH FIXES — the alpha cutoff was read from the inert alpha_threshold; the real cut is mat_build's map_range chain (cypress 0.45, pine 0.42, others 0.5); export engineer resumed Fix: read_alpha walks the Mix Shader -> Map Range chain in master_delivery.blend, gltf_gate1 cross-checks against it, verify_glb checks non-default cutoffs survive gltfpack; the silent png_has_alpha None skip becomes a failure. Merge of phase6-export r4 waits on this fix. GPU: 02/04 refs rendering (pid 34504). Waiting: bake step 1 + scene check; viewer probe irradiance. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake step 1 in (phase6-bake d0c2c28): ceiling defect = 100 % inverted normals (UV2 fine, 60.6 % of the map, 1.53 cm/texel); flipped-winding re-bake ready, held for the GPU. Bake scene audit: identical to the Cycles rig (QA-12b-1 not in the bake scene) Lead queued a light-path branch test (debug world: camera red / glossy blue / diffuse green; bake vs 160x90 render) after the ceiling bake to test whether bake rays miss the sky's warm diffuse-branch tint. Waiting: export cutoff fix -> merge; refs 02/04 (pid 34504) -> GPU-free to bake first, then the viewer's --perf; viewer probe irradiance. ## 2026-09-16 · QA-13-1 closed (phase6-viewer c79b7b6, probe irradiance): band 0.2 %, cam02 foliage hue 220° -> 41° (amber-brown vs Cycles olive: held for the branch test); refs repointed (cam06 real 0.71x) Viewer: commit repointed refs, prepare the one-command Gate 4 capture, sweep impostor rotational pop; --perf still held. GPU: refs 02/04 at ~7 min (pid 34504); then bake (ceiling + branch test), then viewer --perf, then Gate 4 capture + QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake staged (phase6-bake 7ed1bdb): ceiling bake + sky-branch probe (debug world R=camera / G=diffuse / B=glossy; bake vs render) held for the GPU; precedent found — Phase 5's Eevee probe capture had the same camera-branch defect and light_probes.bake fixes it with make_sky_world(split_rays=False) sky.diffuse is confirmed the tinted branch (bake_lm.py isolates Is Diffuse Ray). If the probe confirms, the fix is a full Gate 3 lightmap re-bake with the corrected world (65 jobs, 6 h 30 m overnight last time); the bake engineer prepares the queue but does not start it — lead decides the overnight slot. Gate 4 capture + QA 14 proceed on the current maps for everything except QA-12b-1. GPU: refs 02/04 (pid 34504, ~9 min). Waiting: export cutoff fix; viewer capture prep + pop sweep. ## 2026-09-16 · phase6-export r4 MERGED (cb4de91, through 0ba4cb8): cutoffs from the real Mix Shader -> Map Range chain (cypress 0.45, pine 0.42 in the glb as float32), png_has_alpha raises on unknown formats; verify_glb PASS from main Export side closed for Gate 4 (carries in docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate3*_review.md). Viewer told to re-sync. GPU: refs cam04 rendering (pid 34504). ## 2026-09-16 · Staged for the GPU: bake (ceiling as staged, then the sky-branch probe; corrected 47-job queue prepared behind PFA_BAKE_DIFFUSE_WORLD=1, ~6 h 15 m, NOT started) and viewer (gate4.sh one-command delivery capture; impostor rotational pop PASS, 61 frames at 1°, max/median 1.21x) Viewer 3a84e3f/2e28ade: refs repointed + "QA notes — read before scoring" in web/README.md (cam06 0.71x real, probe override, foliage held). Bake 6a0ec47: only the 47 bake-target jobs are affected by the branch (sky/probe/impostor jobs already correct). Next: cam04 ref -> GPU-free to bake -> probe verdict -> encode/pack -> manifest + sync -> viewer --perf + Gate 4 capture -> QA 14; overnight re-bake decision on the probe numbers. ## 2026-09-16 · Cycles references complete: round13_02..06 on main (compositor on, 128 spp). GPU handed to the bake engineer (ceiling bake -> sky-branch probe -> encode/pack) Viewer's --perf and Gate 4 capture follow the bake report. QA 14 (docs/briefs/qa_round_14.md) after the capture. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer ready for the GPU (phase6-viewer bbe1d7b): refs 2-6 repointed (cam02 1.10x, cam04 0.95x on round13b; cam02 1.01x with the Gate 4 look), item 6 frame-breakdown instrumentation, 173 tests green Order on the bake's GPU-done signal: re-sync -> --perf + --breakdown -> gate4.sh capture -> QA 14. Bake engineer running the ceiling bake + sky-branch probe now. ## 2026-09-16 · Item 6 measured (phase6-viewer 184d785): 31-34 fps at stations 1-3/5/6, 45 at 4; vsync quantisation (Reflector 6-9 ms + bloom 8 ms push a 17 ms frame past one interval). Lead: half-res bloom + half-res Reflector, box-checked (<= 0.03x) Resident 1 678 MB (tex 1 172, RT 444). Viewer applies the levers now (GPU free; bake on CPU encode/pack); Gate 4 capture after the manifest signal. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake r2 in (phase6-bake 73d5bb0, synced): ceiling map fixed (0.72 -> 16.76 max, 30.7 % non-zero); sky-branch hypothesis REFUTED (bake [0,1,0] = diffuse branch); NO overnight re-bake Lead ran manifest_v4.py + sync: ceiling range 16.755 in the manifest (the stale 0.721 would have decoded the new map 23x too dark). Reviewer dispatched on main..phase6-bake -> docs/reviews/phase6_bake_gate3_r2_review.md. Viewer: re-sync, probe-as-specular A/B for QA-12b-1 (ship only if G > R drops and boxes hold), then gate4.sh -> "round14". Next: merge bake on review; QA 14 on round14; QA-12b-1 remaining candidates per decisions.md. ## 2026-09-16 · Bake r2 review in (8c7b616): MERGE WITH FIXES (3 fix now: env-arming parse, README/tech_notes docs, stale worktree manifest; 9 carry); bake engineer resumed Merge of phase6-bake follows the fix commit. Viewer: half-res levers, probe-as-specular A/B, then round14. ## 2026-09-16 · phase6-bake r2 MERGED with the 3 review fixes (88a9d6b): env_armed() strict parse, README + tech_notes "Bake-side traps", stale worktree manifest removed. MAIN manifest ceiling range 16.755 confirmed All three Phase 6 branches merged and in sync with main. Waiting on the viewer: half-res levers + probe-as-specular A/B -> round14 capture -> QA 14. ## 2026-09-16 · round14 CAPTURED (phase6-viewer 1cc73fd; A/Bs b12670a): Gate 4 look on the re-baked ceiling. Whole-frame vs reference: 01 0.92x · 02 1.01x · 03 1.67x · 04 1.11x · 05 1.04x · 06 0.75x; post-off control 0.85/0.97/1.80/1.12/0.98/0.43 Not shipped: half-res bloom/Reflector (only ~4 of the ~12 ms needed; the Reflector's cost is its second scene traversal at 314 draws, not fill; each lever also moved a box: water R-B 0.943x, sunlit attic std 1.035x) and probe-as-specular (G > R cam02 21.7 -> 17.2 % but cam01 boxes moved 1.2-1.5x). Perf everything on: 28.9 ms (34.6 fps), 1 678 MB. Walk: 24 probes, zero in the lagoon. Artefacts: renders/web/round14_cam01..06.png (untracked full-res, 960 px copies tracked), pair sheets, tiles/round14/, round14_perf.json, round14_walk.json, 960/round14_loading_screen.jpg — all in the phase6-viewer worktree. Dispatched: QA 14 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_14.md) on round14; viewer engineer on the Reflector draw set (item 6). Open: cam03 1.67x, cam06 0.75x, QA-12b-1, 45 fps. ## 2026-09-16 · Item 6 closed as measured (phase6-viewer 7007645): reflset=orn default (−2 ms, boxes hold); 45 fps needs both the Reflector and bloom off -> default keeps the look, `?quality=fast` preset added for the user's choice QA 14 running. Waiting: QA verdict; viewer's fast-preset table. ## 2026-09-16 · Fast preset measured (phase6-viewer 2d267ba): look 30.6-45.5 fps vs fast 36.4-49.3 fps at 1440p; 30/32 cam01 boxes within 0.03x (water R-B 0.953x worse, sunlit attic std 1.035x better). Neither reaches 45 fps except station 4. Default = look Waiting: QA 14 verdict. Then: merge phase6-viewer; Gate 4 decision; burn log. ## 2026-09-16 · QA 14 in (cc14323): ONE MORE ROUND, no blocker; all 6a parity criteria PASS (thin: 03/06 at 2.56), 45 fps not met. Lead: one bounded round 15 (water, bloom, cam06/cam03, minors) then QA 15 + Fable final Viewer round 6 brief: docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_r6_viewer.md. Reviewer dispatched on phase6-viewer 8d76e7d..2d267ba (probe irradiance, refs, fast preset, reflset) -> docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r6_review.md, merge after. ## 2026-09-16 · Viewer pre-merge review (5d034d6): MERGE BLOCKED — probe cube never uploaded (black envMap); QA-13-1 closure withdrawn pending re-measure; 6 further fix-now (capture fails on page errors, orbit/pick layers, slot-atlas fallback, quality case, README notes) Viewer told to stop round 6 work, fix, re-run the probe A/Bs with the real cube, report, then resume the round 6 brief and capture round15. phase6-viewer stays unmerged until the re-review. QA 15 brief on file (docs/briefs/qa_round_15.md). ## 2026-09-16 · Probe fixes + re-measure in (phase6-viewer 1e9d2be, 82d44c5): all 7 fix-now closed; QA-13-1 still closed (0.29 %); probe worsens cam02 olive (41.7 %); foliage cyan -> vertex irradiance for shrubs/reeds dispatched (bake -> export -> viewer); water rebuild authorised Viewer continues round 6 items 1-4 (water rebuild first), round15 capture after the foliage env.glb lands; no interim merge (re-review after round 15). Bake engineer: vertex jobs for the card meshes (Chrome paused during the bake window). Export engineer: env re-export with the new COLOR_0 set after the bake. Lead context 300k: CHECKPOINT below if the session must restart. ## 2026-09-16 · CHECKPOINT (session 3, lead context ~300k; written while round 15 is in flight so a restart can resume) State of record: main at fcaf606 + this entry. MERGED this session: phase6-export (r2 584a79d, r3 14eadad, r4 cb4de91 — UV2 relay, COLOR_0 global range, 988 placements, mist, leaf alphaMode with true cutoffs), phase6-bake (r2 267c69e — ceiling flipped-winding re-bake, sky-branch probe refuted, unarmed corrected-world switch), phase6-viewer through 8d76e7d (0458150 — UV dequantisation, impostors, mist, walk, items 1-3+5). UNMERGED: phase6-viewer 8d76e7d..HEAD (probe irradiance, refs, presets, reflset, 7 review fixes at 1e9d2be, round 6 water work) — pre-merge review 5d034d6 said MERGE BLOCKED before the fixes; a re-review is required before merging. Cycles references round13_02..06 on main. QA 13 (f8c9002) LIGHTMAPS ACCEPTED; QA 14 (cc14323) ONE MORE ROUND, all 6a parity criteria PASS (thin), 45 fps not met (34.6 fps; decisions.md: default keeps the look, ?quality=fast documented). In flight at this checkpoint: viewer engineer on docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_r6_viewer.md (water rebuild -> bloom -> cam06/cam03 -> minors -> round15 capture after the foliage env.glb lands); bake engineer on vertex irradiance for the shrub/reed/card meshes (short GPU job; Chrome pauses during it); export engineer to re-export env.glb with the new COLOR_0 set after that bake (not yet told — resume step 2). Resume procedure (fresh agents; briefs on file): (1) `pgrep -fl "MacOS/Blender|chrome"` empty; read the three worktrees' last commits and `git status`. (2) If the vertex npz for the card meshes is in MAIN export/out/gate3 (check compose.json/the relay json and the bake branch's last commit): dispatch a fresh export engineer on docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_export.md with a new "Resume r5" addendum = re-export env.glb with COLOR_0 for the new mesh set (same global-range gamma-2 encode, relay json vertex block extended), verify_glb, sync; lead runs `python3 export/manifest_v4.py && export/sync_main.sh`; merge phase6-bake and phase6-export after a read-only review each. (3) Viewer: fresh engineer from the worktree HEAD on the round 6 brief's remaining items, then round15 capture (gate4.sh, name "round15"). (4) Code review of phase6-viewer 8d76e7d..HEAD (docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r7_review.md) -> merge. (5) QA 15 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_15.md) on round15. (6) The single Fable final judgement of 6a (lead: six-station 100 % tile pass on round15 + the QA 15 report), then close 6a in docs/decisions.md and docs/delivery.md (Phase 6 section), log burn (`python3 docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py`). (7) 6b (web deployment) is a new plan: docs/briefs/phase6_plan.md Gate 5; user names the iPhone. Burn so far today (list rates): session 6460c313 $586.08 (overnight bake, spanned the 15th/16th), session 2 $46.70, session 3 (87d95e57) $209.06 to 15:26 (Opus 191, Fable 18; 12 subagents) — re-run the script at the next start for the final figure. Phase 6 to date ≈ $845 nominal. ## 2026-09-16 · SESSION 3 CLOSES (user closing the machine; lead context 317k). Stop state — supersedes the checkpoint's "in flight" line All three agents told to commit WIP and stop. At the stop check: no Blender running; phase6-bake clean at fcaf606 (main merged in, the shrub/reed vertex-irradiance job NOT started — nothing baked, nothing to resume mid-way; re-dispatch it fresh from the message text recorded in decisions.md "Probe re-measured on the real cube" + the checkpoint's step 2); phase6-export clean at 0ba4cb8 (fully merged, nothing open); phase6-viewer at 82d44c5 + a WIP commit of the water rebuild (two files; read its commit message for the exact state: every new water term is opt-in, the default reproduces round14). One headless Chrome (the viewer's) was alive at the check; if `pgrep -fl chrome` still shows a `--headless` Chrome at the next start, kill it. Next session = the checkpoint's Resume procedure steps (1)-(7) above, with these corrections: step (2) begins with a FRESH bake engineer running the vertex-irradiance job (brief text: decisions.md entry + checkpoint), then the export re-export; step (3) the fresh viewer engineer starts from the WIP commit on the round 6 brief item 1 (water: anisotropic ripple + horizon-stretched lobe, judged on a 100 % tile), then items 2-5; the pre-merge review 5d034d6's seven fix-now items are closed at 1e9d2be (verify in the re-review). Run the burn script first and log it. Addendum at close: bake engineer stopped at 67f4e90, nothing baked; the shrub/reed job needs the granularity decision — taken in decisions.md: PER PLACEMENT (1 379 RGB values, new manifest block lightmaps.instance_irradiance, viewer per-instance attribute). Next session dispatches the fresh bake engineer with that entry; resume command in its report: `git merge main && python3 export/gate3_env_cards.py` in the bake worktree. Final at close: viewer WIP committed at 2dab197 (tree clean, no Chrome): anisotropic crests + grazing lobe ON by default (rowHF 0.97 -> 4.60, streaks 0.72 -> 2.23; level/hue/sat still failing; `?watergraze=0` reverts to round14); the water now receives the compositor airlight. Its one next step, for the fresh viewer engineer: raise the murk to the reference sheet's MAT_water_lagoon value (muddy bottom 0.12/0.10/0.06 under 1.5 m of 0.04/0.07/0.04 absorption — current murk ~5x too dark, ~10x too saturated), then the lead judges renders/web/960/qa14_1_openwater_100pct.png before items 2-5. Bake 67f4e90 clean, export 0ba4cb8 clean, main 60e5022 + this line. No Blender, no Chrome. Safe to close. ## 2026-09-16 · SESSION 4 OPENS (lead, Fable). Burn logged; resume from the stop state Burn (list rates, `docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py`): session 3 (87d95e57) final $217.93 (Opus 199, Fable 19; 12 subagents); Phase 6 to date $850.71 nominal (586.08 + 46.70 + 217.93); project grand total $2,350.13. Start check: no Blender, no headless Chrome; bake 67f4e90 clean, export 0ba4cb8 clean, viewer 2dab197 clean (WIP already committed), main 12f3084. Briefs written: docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_bake_instance_irradiance.md (fresh bake engineer, per-placement irradiance), the "Resume" addendum in docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_r6_viewer.md (fresh viewer engineer: murk from the reference sheet, then the open-water tile for the lead's judgement), "Resume r5" in docs/briefs/phase6_gate3_export.md (export, after the bake). Dispatching bake (Opus xhigh) and viewer (Opus high) now; export waits for the bake report; then review + merge of phase6-viewer, QA 15, the Fable final judgement of 6a. Dispatched (session 4, in flight): bake engineer on docs/briefs/phase6_gate4_bake_instance_irradiance.md (phase6-bake); viewer engineer on the Resume section of phase6_gate4_r6_viewer.md, item 1a-1b only, stops for the lead's tile judgement (phase6-viewer); code reviewer on phase6-viewer 8d76e7d..2dab197 -> docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r7_review.md (main). Export r5 waits for the bake report. Review r7 (f778a31): MERGE AFTER FIXES, all seven r6 fix-now items closed; two water fix-now items forwarded to the viewer engineer inside item 1; reflset=orn default authorised (decisions.md). A delta review of commits after 2dab197 is still needed before the merge. Viewer 58fa59e: item 1a-1b done (derived murk, review fix-nows folded in); lead judged the open-water tile (decisions.md "Water tile judged"): new water is the default, one bounded ripple/reflSat pass, then items 2-5 and the round15 capture. Bake engineer still running the instance-irradiance job. Bake aaab677 (phase6-bake): per-placement shrub/reed irradiance DONE — 1 379 placements, 28 meshes, 2 597 s GPU (1.88 s/placement, 4 chunks + a probe), keyed by object name, range_global 18.40, 7 enclosed placements legitimately zero; deviation: cards baked with an opaque stand-in material (cut-outs return 0 at transparent verts), rgb = mean over lit verts + cov. Synced to MAIN export/out/gate3/instance_irradiance.json. status.json idle. Dispatched: export engineer on "Resume r5" (phase6-export, manifest block + verify_glb); reviewer on phase6-bake fcaf606..aaab677 -> docs/reviews/phase6_bake_gate4_instance_review.md. Viewer engineer on the bounded ripple pass then items 2-5. Next: merge bake + export after reviews, lead runs manifest_v4 + sync, viewer item 1c. Bake review 7d59c5f: MERGE AFTER FIXES — the opaque/shadow-off override biased values +64 % and made them job-split dependent; names unrecoverable in the glb. Decision (decisions.md "Shrub/reed bake re-run"): re-bake with a shadow-ray-only override on every card, join by location; bake engineer resumed on it (~45 min GPU, status.json running); export engineer told to join by nearest translation and re-run when the JSON lands. Viewer codes during the bake. Export r5 4f19d01 (phase6-export): join by transform done — 28/28 meshes, 1 379/1 379 rows over 25 instanced nodes, axis swap (x,y,z)->(x,z,-y) asserted at 0.6 mm, tol 0.03 m / worst residual 5.7 mm / margin 69x; gltfpack merged three .001 meshes into their base node (nodes 10/16/21 hold 46/102/76 rows) so the manifest block carries per-node ordered (mesh,count) segments; env.glb untouched; manifest +106 kB (lead runs manifest_v4 after the re-baked JSON lands). Reviewer dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase6_export_gate4_r5_review.md. Export review 72c470f: MERGE WITH FIXES (segments repeat a mesh inside a node -> per-segment offset needed; instance_order.json must be tied to its inputs; the env.gltf name-join harness could ship silently). Export engineer resumed on the three fix-nows. Bake re-run still on the GPU. Export e0b32b6: all 11 review findings closed (segments [mesh,count,offset], join pinned by sha256 of the irradiance JSON + glb bytes, harness opt-in, 10/10 selftest); the join ran on the production loc path: 1 379/1 379, 28/28, 25 nodes, residual 5.9 mm, margin 55x. Ready to merge; the chain re-runs after the re-baked values land. 2026-09-17 · Bake f9feec3 MERGED into main (70f2418): shadow-ray override partition-independent (delta 0), old values up to 2x too bright, trees' COLOR_0 re-baked (coverage 0.20 -> 0.76). Export engineer resumed: COLOR_0 re-encode, re-dump rows, re-join, sync; then the lead runs manifest_v4 + sync and merges phase6-export. Viewer engineer still on the ripple pass / items 2-5. Export 7cd0bbf MERGED (0f7e3ba); lead ran manifest_v4 + sync_main: export/out/gate3/manifest.json carries lightmaps.instance_irradiance (1 379 / 28 / 25 nodes, range 17.22), env.glb 38 119 568 B with the trees' re-encoded COLOR_0 (range 44.257). Viewer engineer told: item 1c after the ripple pass, then items 2-5 and the round15 capture. Bake and export trees are fully merged; only phase6-viewer is open. Viewer 43b1e0a (phase6-viewer): round 7 complete — procedural 8-octave ripple (rowHF 6.92, row/col 3.71 vs ref 13.23/3.24; reflSat 0.66 was the warm drain, now 1.0: reflected-building lum 1.01x, hue within 3.3°), item 1c instance irradiance consumed (1 379/1 379, cam02 tree level 0.99x, cyan gone, hue 57.7 vs 102.4 = albedo, reported to bake/export as post-6a), bloom threshold 2x (capital-row std 0.85x, attic sat 0.88x), walk margin 0.15 m, loading 639/639 MB, round15 captured (luma 01 0.897x, 02 1.030x, 03 1.804x, 04 1.118x, 05 1.001x, 06 0.993x; MAE falls or holds on all six; 28.2 ms median at 1440p = 35.5 fps). Dispatched: delta review 2dab197..43b1e0a -> docs/reviews/phase6_viewer_gate4_r7b_review.md; QA 15 (Opus xhigh) on docs/briefs/qa_round_15.md against the round15 capture in the viewer worktree. Next: merge phase6-viewer after the review, then the Fable final judgement of 6a. Delta review r7b (089d172): MERGE AFTER FIXES — two one-line failure-path guards (ERR_ABORTED only for HEAD probes; the missing-node throw), sent to the viewer engineer; merge follows. Lead's own 100 % tile pass on round15 done (scratchpad notes; goes into the final judgement). QA 15 in flight. phase6-viewer b14ce27 MERGED into main (3710d14): all three Phase 6 branches are merged; trees clean. QA 15 still writing (docs/qa_round_15.md untracked in MAIN = the critic's working copy). Next: QA 15 report, then the Fable final judgement of 6a, then close 6a in decisions.md + delivery.md and log the burn. QA 15 (212ca27): 6a PARITY REACHED — 01 3.72 / 02 3.00 / 03 2.56 / 04 2.88 / 05 2.94 / 06 2.83 (all within 0.5 of Phase 5, none below 2.5, MAE down at all six); 45 fps not met (35.5). FINAL JUDGEMENT (Fable, decisions.md "FINAL JUDGEMENT OF 6a"): 6a CLOSED at parity; residuals are foliage and backdrop, not the building; delivery.md Phase 6a section written with the known-issues list. State of record: main = this commit; phase6-bake f9feec3, phase6-export 7cd0bbf, phase6-viewer b14ce27 all merged; no Blender, no Chrome. Open for the user: default preset (full look 35.5 fps vs ?quality=fast, to be measured on this build), and the iPhone for 6b Gate 5. Next: 6b (web deployment) per docs/briefs/phase6_plan.md Gate 5 — a new plan, not started. Burn (list rates): session 4 (5b1d192d) $117.15 to the script's last row (Opus 108, Fable 9; 8 subagents); Phase 6 to date ≈ $968 nominal; project grand total $2,466.24. User check of the delivered viewer: the bare URL showed the Gate 0 slice (dev defaults) — fixed on main 5e1fffa (defaults = QA'd look), verified in headless Brave at the user's window size; node_modules reinstalled in MAIN (the worktrees link to it); static server for the user on http://127.0.0.1:5173/ (scratchpad serve_dist.mjs, pid in lsof). User's second finding: foliage at close range (cam02) — impostor blob near the camera, flat leaf cards, LOD2 shrub cards; a 6c foliage pass proposed, awaiting the user's decision together with the default preset and the iPhone. 2026-09-17 · 6c FOLIAGE PASS opens (user: foliage first, full look default). Briefs: docs/briefs/phase6c_foliage.md (plan), phase6c_bake.md, phase6c_export.md, phase6c_viewer.md. Dispatching bake (impostor diagnosis then far-tree AO/irradiance), export (far-tree LOD2 glb, 2K leaf textures, shrub LOD1 + hue), viewer (leaf shader, runtime LOD, round16). iPhone still open for 6b. 6c export: far-tree LOD2 set landed in export/out/gate3/trees_far (commit 21e31d9) — topology.json + trees_far_lod2.blend (16 prototypes, 7 992-8 243 tris, 127 placements); env_trees.glb 2 193 472 B in out/gate1. 6c bake f41ba19: impostor diagnosis done — blue is the isolated bake's open sky (decisions.md); no re-bake; per-placement modulation decided (viewer told; bake item 2 adds E_bake per prototype). Bake engineer STOPPED, waiting for the export's far-tree LOD2 line in this file; export told to fix sync_main.sh's status.json overwrite. Viewer on C1/C2 + impostor modulation. ## 2026-09-17 · SESSION 4 CLOSES (user closing the machine). Stop state — resume from here State of record: main = this commit. 6a CLOSED at parity (decisions.md "FINAL JUDGEMENT OF 6a"; delivery.md Phase 6a). 6c foliage pass IN PROGRESS, all three agents stopped clean, no Blender, no Chrome, no static server: - phase6-bake b99dec1: impostor diagnosis done (blue = isolated bake's open sky; no re-bake); README spec trees.far_mesh.lighting written. ITEM 2 NOT STARTED: 16 vertex-AO jobs + 127-placement irradiance + 16 E_bake values on the export's LOD2 topology (export/out/gate3/trees_far/ is in MAIN now), through bake_queue.sh --gate3. Brief: docs/briefs/phase6c_bake.md item 2 + decisions.md "Impostor blue cast". - phase6-export d553a5a: A/D/E DONE and synced to MAIN (env_trees.glb 16 prototypes x 127 placements; env_shrubs.glb LOD1 25 meshes / 1 376 placements; materials.foliage KTX2; sync_main.sh no longer copies status.json). Three findings decided in decisions.md "6c export findings" — NEXT for export: bake the TINTED albedo per shrub/reed material (the raw PNG shipped untinted), drop the 2K upsample from the manifest, then after the bake's vertex_ao.npz: `blender_run.sh 900 -- --background master_delivery.blend --python export/trees_far.py && export/gltf_pack.sh --trees`. - phase6-viewer 063c100: C1 leaf shader (bent normals, translucency, alpha-to-coverage) and C2 near-tree switch at 40 m + impostor E_placement/E_bake modulation (chroma mode) DONE and on by default; C3 written, idle until the LOD1 set is in the manifest; round16 captured (MAE within noise of round 15, 28.6 ms, bare-URL boot verified). NEXT: consume trees.far_mesh (lazy env_trees.glb, AO x instance RGB x leaf shader, iNear on the 127, ?impmod=full) once the bake lands and the lead has run manifest_v4. - Lead's next steps in order: (1) `python3 export/manifest_v4.py && export/sync_main.sh` in MAIN (adds trees.far_mesh, shrubs.lod1, materials.foliage, instance_irradiance.lod1); (2) fresh bake engineer on item 2 (GPU; Chrome pauses); (3) fresh export engineer on the tinted albedo + 2K removal + COLOR_0 attach after the AO; (4) manifest_v4 again; (5) fresh viewer engineer on the far-tree consumer + C3 + round16b capture; (6) reviews of all three branches (docs/reviews/phase6c_*), merges; (7) QA 16 (Opus xhigh; brief to write from docs/briefs/qa_round_15.md with the 6c acceptance in phase6c_foliage.md); (8) lead 100 % tile judgement at stations 1/2/5; then 6b (deployment) — the user still has to name the iPhone. Burn (list rates): session 4 (5b1d192d) $176.52 to 06:17 UTC (Opus 152, Fable 24; 11 subagents) — re-run at the next start for the final figure; Phase 6 to date ≈ $1,027; project grand total $2,525.61. ## 2026-09-17 · SESSION 5 OPENS (lead, Fable). Burn logged; resume from the session-4 stop state Burn (list rates, `docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py`): session 4 (5b1d192d) final $179.50 (Opus 154, Fable 25; 11 subagents); Phase 6 to date $1,030.21 nominal (586.08 + 46.70 + 217.93 + 179.50); project grand total $2,529.52. Start check: no Blender, no headless Chrome; bake b99dec1 clean, export d553a5a clean, viewer 063c100 clean apart from 18 untracked round16 sidecars (viewer r2 commits them); main 9071cc5; MAIN's bake_queue/status.json idle. Step (1) done with a correction: manifest_v4 with the 6c writers lives on the unmerged phase6-export branch (main's copy has none), so the lead ran the branch's manifest_v4.py rooted at MAIN (exec with __file__ = MAIN/export/manifest_v4.py; no file copied into main) after the export worktree's sync_main.sh: MAIN export/out/gate3/manifest.json (2 131 667 B) now carries trees.far_mesh, shrubs.lod1, materials.foliage; trees.far_mesh.lighting is null until the bake lands. Briefs written: docs/briefs/phase6c_bake_r2.md, phase6c_export_r2.md, phase6c_viewer_r2.md. Dispatching all three now (bake GPU; export CPU; viewer code, Chrome paused on status.json). Dispatched (session 5): bake r2 (Opus xhigh, phase6-bake; item 2 + E_bake; GPU), export r2 (Opus high, phase6-export; tinted albedo, 2K removal, COLOR_0 attach after the AO; CPU), viewer r2 (Opus high, phase6-viewer; far-tree consumer, C3 live, materials.foliage, round16b after the bake), and three read-only reviewers on the finished round-1 ranges (main..b99dec1, main..d553a5a, main..063c100 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_{bake,export,viewer}_r1_review.md). Written while they run: docs/briefs/qa_round_16.md (QA 16), docs/briefs/phase6b_plan.md (6b draft; user decisions listed). Next: delta reviews of the r2 commits, merges, manifest_v4 again, QA 16, lead tiles at 1/2/5. Reviews r1 in (committed with this entry): bake MERGE WITH FIXES (gpu_lock crash expiry, E_bake reducer/body/raw, one-placement validation before the 16 jobs — decision in decisions.md), export MERGE WITH FIXES (tautological placement asserts, modelled leaf area, contiguous card thinning, colour-space asserts), viewer SEND BACK (non-complementary dissolve + 4 fix-nows). All fix-nows sent to the three running round-2 engineers; delta reviews of the round-2 commits follow before the merges. Export engineer is in its wait loop for the bake's npz (items 1-2 done or in progress). Bake r2 3f2dc91 DONE (phase6-bake clean, GPU idle): gpu_lock/bake_queue crash-safe; 36 jobs 764 s; vertex_ao.npz + instance_irradiance.json (schema /2, E_bake+cov) in MAIN trees_far/; one-placement validation PASS on hue (decisions.md) -> raw ratio ships. Defect found: trees_far.py places every far tree ~300 m off (anchor not subtracted) — sent to the export engineer with the schema-/2 assert change; viewer told the ratio rules and to verify placements in round16b. Delta reviewer dispatched on b99dec1..3f2dc91 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_bake_r2_review.md; merge follows. Bake delta review r2 (docs/reviews/phase6c_bake_r2_review.md, committed here): MERGE WITH FIXES — the bake anchored the LOD2 meshes at the object's world translation while the export anchors at the bbox XY centre (up to 3.4 m apart on six prototypes), so E_placement was measured off-position; decision: the export's anchor is the one of record (written into topology.json), the bake re-runs its four irradiance jobs (562 s) on it while holding the GPU lock; plus gpu_lock check must read MAIN's copy, `proto` into the diffuse-world kinds, loose-vert stats, the ratio block states strength 1.0. Two floating LOD2 prototypes (cypress_column_s2, redwood_s13, bbox min z 3.6-4.4 m) sent to the export engineer. Bake and export engineers resumed; viewer still waiting on the lock + COLOR_0. Export r2 ebdf4e5 (phase6-export): tinted albedo, 2K dropped, anchor published to topology.json (bake unblocked), COLOR_0 promoted from the exporter's constant-white layer (decisions.md), manifest_v4 lighting block writer, verify_glb PASS. Lead decision: topology rev 2 (vertex-group decimate fix for the two floating prototypes + stride) -> export re-runs trees_far.py, bake re-runs 16 AO jobs on rev 2 after its four irradiance jobs, export attaches and packs. Lock still held by the bake. Viewer waiting. Bake r2b 9844bc0 DONE, lock released, no Blender: anchor read from topology.json, 127/127 placed-bbox cross-check 0.08 mm, four irradiance jobs re-run on the export's anchor (575 s; E_placement R 0.137-4.908, 0 dark), 16 AO jobs on topology rev 2 (44 s; means 0.240-0.505, occluded 1.9-19.8 %), ratio re-validated (hue 205.5 -> 73.1 vs 52.2, 86.4 %), ratio block ships strength 1.0. Final delta reviewer dispatched on 3f2dc91..9844bc0 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_bake_r2b_review.md; merge follows. Export attaching the rev-2 AO now; viewer told to wait for the rev-2 glb + the lighting block in the manifest. Export r2 80730f5 COMPLETE (phase6-export clean, no Blender): topology rev 2 (all 16 bbox_min.z - base_z within 0.05 m, control no regression; Decimate group = everything above base_z + 1 m by membership; lowest cards force-kept), leaf area measured 0.234-0.782, rev-2 AO attached (COLOR_0 32/32, COLOR_1 gone, range 1.0), env_trees.glb 3 699 324 B, verify_glb PASS, the rev gate refused the stale rev-1 npz for real. Lead re-ran manifest_v4 rooted at MAIN: trees.far_mesh.lighting present (raw values, 127 placements, 16 E_bake), foliage 1K only. Viewer's wait loop may now fire (round16b). Delta reviewer dispatched on d553a5a..80730f5 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_export_r2_review.md. Merge order: bake 9844bc0 first (its r2b review is in flight), then export, then viewer after its capture + delta review. Bake r2b review (docs/reviews/phase6c_bake_r2b_review.md, committed here): MERGE WITH FIXES, all text-only (stale anchor prose in the hand-off JSON, pre-fix ratio figures, README item 37 wording, one anchor-stability assert); bake engineer resumed for a CPU compose re-run; merge right after, taking the export's sync_main.sh at the conflict. Export r2 review in flight; viewer capturing round16b. phase6-bake 784808e MERGED into main (15ac4a0): 6c bake work complete (impostor diagnosis, gpu_lock crash-safe, vertex AO rev 2, 127 E_placement on the export's anchor, 16 E_bake, ratio strength 1.0). The seven 6c_*.log copies the engineer had put in MAIN were byte-identical to the branch's and were moved aside for the merge. Next: export merge after docs/reviews/phase6c_export_r2_review.md (in flight; take the export's sync_main.sh line), then the viewer's round16b report -> delta review -> merge -> QA 16. Export r2 review (docs/reviews/phase6c_export_r2_review.md, committed here): MERGE WITH FIXES — the manifest's impostor block lacks the ratio constants, materials.foliage reports 0 files (foliage_tex.json clobbered the pack record), shrub_lod1's new assert never ran. Export engineer resumed: merges main (resolves sync_main.sh + README with the bake), the three fixes, syncs only once the viewer's Chrome is gone; then the lead re-runs manifest_v4 and merges export. Viewer round16b capture in progress. phase6-export f73ac6d MERGED into main (merge commit above this entry's commit): 6c export work complete (env_trees.glb rev 2 with COLOR_0, env_shrubs.glb LOD1, tinted foliage 1K KTX2, manifest v4 writers with the ratio constants). Lead re-ran manifest_v4 from main's own copy: impostor block carries strength 1.0 / clamp 4.0 / zero_channel_fallback 1.0, materials.foliage 22 files 13 001 325 B, shrub_lod1.json has placement_check (worst 0.0 mm). Both glbs byte-identical to what round16b was captured on. Only phase6-viewer remains open: its report -> delta review (main..HEAD) -> merge -> QA 16. Viewer r2 1dc121d DONE (phase6-viewer clean, no Chrome, npm test 207/207): dissolve partition exact, far trees 254/254 lit + placed (gate 0.73 m), impmod full default, fartreemesh 12 m (decisions.md), shrub LOD1 1 376/1 376, foliage textures consumed, round16b captured (stations 30.1/33.5/32.7/22.7/31.8/33.5 ms; MAE down or flat on all six, station 2 23.13 -> 20.08; resident 1 717 MB; bare URL boots the full look). Delta reviewer dispatched on 063c100..1dc121d -> docs/reviews/phase6c_viewer_r2_review.md; then merge, QA 16 on main, lead tiles at 1/2/5. Viewer r2 review (docs/reviews/phase6c_viewer_r2_review.md, committed here): MERGE WITH FIXES — test root path, 30.6 MB of full-res A/B PNGs tracked (git rm + ignore), README switch table incomplete, ratio constants hardcoded instead of read from the manifest. Viewer engineer resumed for the four fixes (no recapture); merge and QA 16 follow. Lead's tile judgement of round16b is in decisions.md: second 6c round needed (tree interior shading, shrub paleness, station-2 fill tree). phase6-viewer 9e4cb2c MERGED into main (b661489): all three 6c branches merged; trees clean; no Blender, no Chrome. QA 16 (Opus xhigh) dispatched on docs/briefs/qa_round_16.md against the round16b capture on main (full-res tiles read from the viewer worktree). While it runs: a Sonnet research pass fills the 6b hosting cost table in docs/briefs/phase6b_plan.md. Next: QA 16 verdict -> 6c round-2 briefs (owners from the boxes) -> dispatch; then 6b decisions to the user (iPhone, host, tier-0 look). QA 16 (8cf34ec): ONE MORE ROUND (stated acceptance passes; tiles fail: balloon crowns, shrubs 1.34-1.70x bright, walk-in = cut-outs; memory 1 800.6 MB). Briefs written: docs/briefs/phase6c_export_r3.md (DiffCol albedo check on the GPU behind gpu_lock, walk-up LOD1 glb) and phase6c_viewer_r3.md (crown interior term, shrub level/edges, walk-up consumer, round16c). Dispatching both now (last 6c round). Then QA 17 + lead tiles, then 6b. Export r3 edaa437 DONE (phase6-export clean, lock idle, no Blender): albedo verdict LIGHTING (decisions.md), env_trees_lod1.glb 7 642 344 B, manifest writer for trees.walkup_mesh. Lead re-ran manifest_v4 rooted at MAIN: trees.walkup_mesh present (127 placements, 15 m). Delta reviewer dispatched on main..edaa437 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_export_r3_review.md; merge follows. Viewer r3 in flight (its shrub item now acts on the lighting verdict; its walk-up item can proceed). Export r3 review (docs/reviews/phase6c_export_r3_review.md, committed here): MERGE (carries: the albedo verdict is measured at 2/5 and inferred for 1/3; the shipped side is a recomputation, not the KTX2; uv_area_fraction meaningless; a verify_glb substring check; .bin intermediates synced). phase6-export edaa437 MERGED into main; manifest_v4 re-run from main. Open: viewer r3 (in flight) -> delta review -> merge -> QA 17 -> lead tiles -> 6b. Viewer r3 33903b8 DONE (phase6-viewer clean, no Chrome): crowns to target (enclosure term), shrubs 0.88-1.36x (cardenv 0.3), walk-up consumed, round16c captured (29.7/33.5/33.2/21.3/31.5/34.0 ms; MAE down at all foliage stations; resident 1 931 MB). Lead's 100 % tiles at 1/2/5: clear improvement, residuals listed in decisions.md. Delta reviewer dispatched on main..33903b8 -> docs/reviews/phase6c_viewer_r3_review.md; then merge, QA 17 (docs/briefs/qa_round_17.md), close 6c, 6b. Correction: the round16b memory figure is 1 800.6 MB, not 1 717 (fixed in decisions.md; this file's earlier line stands as written). Viewer r3 review (docs/reviews/phase6c_viewer_r3_review.md, committed here): MERGE WITH FIXES — the LOD1 shrub environment lobe was scaled twice (0.09 vs the LOD2 cards' 0.3), the README's MAE-delta row was not from the files (station 5 +0.28, worse), the box numbers had no committed artefact. Viewer engineer resumed: fix + recapture round16c (same tag) + regenerated numbers; then merge, QA 17, close 6c. Lead's round16c tile judgement stands subject to the recapture (the LOD1 shrubs will get lighter, not darker). phase6-viewer a1bf41d MERGED into main (e8fe4b5): 6c round 2 complete on main (LOD1 shrub env lobe fixed, round16c recaptured: shrubs 0.88-1.53x, crowns at target, walk-up live, resident 1 931 MB; MAE vs round 15 down or flat at all six, station 5 +0.28 vs round16b). Frame time: two throttled passes disagree by up to 3.9 ms — a Sonnet agent takes one cold 1440p pass on the merged build (renders/web/round16c_cold_perf.json) in parallel with QA 17 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_17.md), both dispatched. Next: QA 17 verdict -> close 6c in decisions.md + delivery.md (residuals with owners) -> burn -> 6b hand-off to the user (iPhone, host, tier-0 look). ## 2026-09-17 · SESSION 5 CLOSES (user closing the machine). Stop state — resume from here State of record: main = this commit (plus any WIP commits the two stopping agents land after it: check `git log -3`). All three 6c branches are MERGED: phase6-bake 784808e, phase6-export edaa437, phase6-viewer a1bf41d. 6c round 2 of 2 is captured on main as round16c (LOD1 shrub fix included). MAIN export/out/gate3/manifest.json carries trees.far_mesh (+lighting), trees.walkup_mesh, shrubs.lod1, materials.foliage (regenerate with `python3 export/manifest_v4.py` from main if in doubt). In flight at the stop and told to commit WIP and stop: QA 17 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_17.md; its working file docs/qa_round_17.md may be a WIP commit or absent) and a Sonnet perf A/B (renders/web/perfab_{r15look,6c,r15look2}_perf.json, partial or absent). Perf facts so far: cold pass renders/web/round16c_cold_perf.json = +4.2/+4.8/+2.2/-0.4/+1.8/+1.9 ms vs round 15 (different day; the A/B is the callable number). Memory of record 1 931.4 MB. Lead's next steps in order: (1) start checks (`pgrep -fl "MacOS/Blender|headless"` empty, trees clean, lock idle), burn script, log; (2) if docs/qa_round_17.md has no verdict: fresh QA critic resumes from the WIP file per docs/briefs/qa_round_17.md (Opus xhigh, no Chrome); if the perf A/B is incomplete, a Sonnet agent finishes the three passes (same message text as decisions/status record: round-15 look vs 6c look vs round-15 look, gate4 perf settings, chrome_run.sh); (3) close 6c in docs/decisions.md ("6c CLOSED" per the two-round rule whatever QA 17 scores; the lead's round16c tile judgement is already logged) and docs/delivery.md (a Phase 6c section: what changed, measured numbers, residuals with owners from QA 17 + the lead's list: shrub card structure = export LOD1 density, lavender far impostors at the horizon = viewer modulation, reed scale = export, blotchy dark crowns = viewer clamp, MAT_reeds albedo +49 % on 0.6 % of pixels, memory 1.61x budget); (4) 6b: present docs/briefs/phase6b_plan.md + phase6b_hosting.md to the user for the three decisions (iPhone model; host — lead recommends Cloudflare Pages + R2; whether the 50 MB tier-0 first look may be lower-resolution), then write the Gate 5 briefs (phase6b-export: tiers + mobile manifest; phase6b-viewer: progressive loading + tier switch + deploy script) and dispatch. Burn (list rates): session 5 (4133edbe) $257.86 to 10:54 UTC (Opus 239, Fable 18, Sonnet 2; 18 subagents) — re-run at the next start for the final figure; Phase 6 to date ≈ $1,288; project grand total ≈ $2,786. Addendum at close: the perf A/B agent stopped before launching any pass (no perfab files, no Chrome). Lead decision for the next session's A/B "round-15 look" query = the README's six tree switches (?leafnormal=0&leaftrn=0&leafsoft=0&treemesh=inf&imp2k=0&impmod=0) plus crownint=0&cardint=0&foliagebias=0&walkupmesh=0&impint=0&cardenv=1&shrubenv=1&shrublod=0 (LOD2 cards only), with the round-3 defaults otherwise; the 6c look = the bare delivery query. Three passes A/B/C back to back, gate4 perf settings. Final at close: QA 17 COMPLETE (47a2f7e, not WIP): 6c CLOSED WITH RESIDUALS — 01 3.78 / 02 3.25 (+0.25 vs r15) / 03 2.63 / 04 2.88 / 05 2.94 / 06 2.83; crowns at target, shrubs 0.91-1.47x, walk-in closed; +3 ms gate fails at stations 1/2 on the cold pass (pending the A/B); residuals with owners in docs/qa_round_17.md §7. Next session's step (2) reduces to the perf A/B only; step (3) uses §7 as the delivery residual list. No Blender, no Chrome, main clean. Safe to close. ## 2026-09-17 · SESSION 6 OPENS (lead, Fable 5.1) Start checks PASS: no Blender/headless pids, main clean at 1f47e60, phase6-bake 784808e / phase6-export edaa437 / phase6-viewer a1bf41d, bake lock idle (33/33, released 11:41). Burn: session 5 (4133edbe) final $259.54 (Opus 239, Fable 18, Sonnet 2); Phase 6 to date ≈ $1,290 (sessions 8-13); project grand total ≈ $2,789. Dispatched: Sonnet perf A/B per docs/briefs/perf_ab_6c.md (three 1440p passes A/B/C, round-15 look vs 6c look vs round-15 look, outputs renders/web/perfab_*_perf.json + docs/perf_ab_6c.md; no commit, lead commits). Next: close 6c in decisions.md + delivery.md while it runs (no GPU), then present the 6b briefs to the user. Perf A/B DONE (Sonnet, docs/perf_ab_6c.md, renders/web/perfab_{r15look,6c,r15look2}_perf.json): 6c look vs round-15 look same session +1.75/-0.75/+3.10/-0.10/+0.90/+0.85 ms (drift 0.0-2.1); the +3 ms gate passes at 1/2/4/5/6, on the line at 3 (walk-up tris); the cold-pass +4 ms at 1/2 was machine drift. Resident 1 931.4 vs 1 788.0 MB. 6c CLOSED in docs/decisions.md and docs/delivery.md (Phase 6c section: what changed, measured, residuals with owners, the A/B). Next: the user's three 6b decisions (iPhone model; host; tier-0 look), then the Gate 5 briefs (phase6b-export, phase6b-viewer) and dispatch. No Blender, no Chrome, GPU idle. ## 2026-09-18 · 6b GATE 5 DISPATCHED (lead) User's decisions logged (decisions.md "2026-09-18 · 6b"): iPhone 16 Pro; Cloudflare Pages free tier (25 MiB/file cap, R2 only for oversize files, `.pages.dev` staging; user runs `npx wrangler login` when asked); low-res tier-0 look allowed. Worktrees phase6b-export and phase6b-viewer created from main at 441594b. In flight: export engineer (Opus high, docs/briefs/phase6b_export.md: visibility ray-cast, tiers.py -> export/out/gate5/manifest.json v5, mobile manifest, ETC1S, every file <= 25 MiB) and viewer engineer (Opus high, docs/briefs/phase6b_viewer.md: progressive tiers with hot-swap, tier switch + WebGL probe, web/deploy.sh dry-run, gate5.sh). GPU: viewer owns Chrome; export is CPU-only Blender; screenshot.mjs refuses while Blender is alive, so the viewer works around it. Next: on each report, code review (Opus, read-only) -> merge; tell the viewer when gate5 tiers are in MAIN; ask the user for `npx wrangler login` when deploy.sh dry-run passes; then the staging deploy, QA Gate 5 (docs/briefs/qa_round_18.md, Opus xhigh) against the URL, the user's Safari + iPhone checks. User set-up done before leaving: `npx wrangler login` succeeded (pages:write scope, no Pages project yet; token on this Mac), the Cloudflare plugin installed per developers.cloudflare.com/agent-setup, remote control on. Owed from the user on return: Safari hero screenshot + iPhone 16 Pro walk against the staging URL. Export Gate 5 DONE (phase6b-export 67c990e, report docs/briefs/phase6b_export_report.md on the branch): desktop t0 43.3 MB / 228 files, t1 488.3, t2 69.4 (601 MB total); mobile t0 40.7 MB, total 61.9 MB, resident est. 274 MB; 0 files > 25 MiB; groups packed -tr; ORN Gate 1 normals dropped (pbr.js overwrites); probe moved to tier 1 (lead asked the viewer to test tier-0 unlit surfaces); synced to MAIN export/out/gate5 (0 missing). Reviewer dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase6b_export_r1_review.md. Viewer engineer told to switch from the stub to the real manifests. Export review r1 (docs/reviews/phase6b_export_r1_review.md): MERGE WITH FIXES, no blockers — tier 0 omits the boot overhead (~3.2 MB: manifest + basis), the probe is in tier 1 (first frame sky-lit only), --tier0-div default mismatch, the desktop run deletes the mobile groups. Lead decision: the probe returns to tier 0; the 50 MB budget is transfer bytes incl. boot overhead; export engineer resumed with the four fixes and re-sync. Viewer engineer still building against the current MAIN gate5 (will re-sync after the fixes). Viewer Gate 5 r1 DONE (phase6b-viewer 271bde9): progressive tiers with hot-swap, ?tiers=, ?tier=desktop|mobile with a GL/UA probe (mobile 832x1801, 153 draws, 16.6 ms), streaming free once resident (stub parity MAE 0.0006), deploy.sh --dry-run 730 files / 646 MB / 0 over 25 MiB, gate5.sh writes the QA-18 file set, screenshot.mjs --net. On the real gate5 manifest it found: instance_irradiance keyed to env.glb node indices (broken by the groups; shrubs on the probe), tier 0 really 74.8 MB on the wire (detail maps untiered + manifest), 41 glb-referenced textures with no upgrade from tex_lo, the split +100 draws / +400 MB resident, probe-in-tier-1 visibly blue at tier 0 (moved back). Fix pass in flight: export (review fixes 1-4 + instance_irradiance per group, tier the detail sets, prototype instances in one group, uv2_relay_status, tier 0 <= 50 MB on the wire incl. boot overhead); viewer (texture dedupe across groups, hot-swap for glb-referenced textures), then re-captures after the re-sync. Then: viewer review, merge both, lead deploys to Cloudflare Pages, gate5.sh against the URL, QA 18. Viewer fix pass DONE (phase6b-viewer f92c42f): one GPU upload per URL (resident at the hero 2 217 -> 1 807.5 MB, 124 MB under round16c; wire 919 -> 622 MB), hot-swap for glb-referenced textures with a boot-log assertion, detail maps now wait for their tier (tier 0 on the wire 46.0 MB, first frame 1.5 s). Exposed: the group glbs embed 37-42 textures (blob: urls, never upgradable) -> export must pack groups with external references (sent as amendment b); probe back in tier 0 will add 6.3 MB, export finds the room. Viewer stands by for the re-sync. Export fix pass DONE (phase6b-export 01905e5, synced to MAIN): first frame 49.49 MB transfer with the probe in tier 0 (normals ETC1S q32, 28 placeholder maps of <= 0.0022 % hero coverage to tier 1), groups embed nothing (URIs to gate1 full-res, lowres path+full), one group per prototype (hero = the Gate 3 node set), instance_irradiance.groups 1 376/1 379, deploy set 588 files / 598.4 MB across gate0-3+5, mobile 61.4 MB / est. 306 MB resident. Delta reviewer dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase6b_export_r2_review.md. Viewer re-capturing on the re-synced manifests. Export r2 delta review (docs/reviews/phase6b_export_r2_review.md): MERGE WITH FIXES, none blocking; recomputed 588+341 transfer values with 0 mismatches, first frame 49 491 825 B desktop / 47.5 MB mobile, 0 embedded images in the 11 groups, join keys sound. Three small fixes sent back (fixed-point resync always runs; -17.6 % not -20.8 %; drop the lo copy of the 28 trimmed keys). Carry: arch.glb/ground.glb embed 15/4 Gate 1 stand-in images (overwritten by pbr.js). Merge after the fix report. phase6b-export 0d2b923 MERGED into main: first frame 49 490 942 B desktop / 47 516 395 B mobile, tier 1 490.4 MB, trimmed keys dropped from lowres, fixed-point resync always runs, MAIN export/out/gate5 re-synced (57.9 MB). Waiting on the viewer's re-capture report -> viewer review -> merge -> deploy. Viewer Gate 5 r2 (phase6b-viewer fb650fb, captures against the 18:18 manifest): parity vs round16c MAE/255 0.023/0.033/0.020/0.031/0.057/0.262, luma 1.000 at 1-5; hero 335 draws (329); tier 0 50.4 MB on the wire, first frame 1.61 s, whole stream 591 MB in 8.6 s; 0 stand-ins after tier 2; 1440p 32.8/35.7/35.3/22.3/32.3/34.1 ms (drift-bounded), resident 1 861 MB (-70); dry-run 729 files / 642 MB / 0 over 25 MiB. Lead judged the pop pair: accepted. Blockers sent back: station 6 parity (viewer diagnoses), tier 0 over 50 MB by 0.4 MB (export trims to <= 49.5 MB with a header allowance, names every published file in files[], water ripple maps to tier 0 if < 1 MB). Station 6 resolved: the viewer's MAE is in 8-bit LEVELS (0.262/255), 30-350x tighter than QA 17's bare-URL parity; the same build on v4 reproduces round16c to 0.0005; the residual is the export's three missing `.001` env placements (1 523 vs 1 526 instances) -> added to the export's current pass. Viewer review dispatched on phase6b-viewer de4dd87 -> docs/reviews/phase6b_viewer_r1_review.md. Export trimming tier 0 to <= 49.5 MB with a header allowance. phase6b-export 939eb53 MERGED (wire pass): first frame 49 316 003 B desktop / 47 556 566 B mobile with a measured 162 B/request header allowance; files[] = complete deploy set (699 desktop entries, unpublished 0); build the publish dir from manifest.json only (tiers.deploy_from); water ripple is procedural (nothing to move); ENV placements all present (three .001 cards merged into a plain node, probe-lit). Lead-verified against MAIN instead of a third review (decisions.md). Waiting on the viewer review, then merge + deploy. Viewer review r1 (docs/reviews/phase6b_viewer_r1_review.md): MERGE WITH FIXES — viewer code clean on every flagged point (cache refcount, canonical URLs, no down-swap, mobile probe, 30/30 tier tests); two blockers in deploy.sh (dead pipefail guard; manifests pinned immutable), five fix-now (per-tier try/catch, dangling else, stale README, the 50.4 MB unit, 22.5 MB of full-res PNGs committed). Sent back with the deploy_from rule and a --net re-measure on the merged manifest. Then: merge, deploy, gate5.sh on the URL, QA 18. Deploy target changed (lead, live test): wrangler 4.135 delegates `pages` commands to Workers static assets and refuses without an assets dir; deploy.sh switches to an assets-only Worker (`wrangler.jsonc` name pfa-walkthrough, `wrangler deploy`), staging URL https://pfa-walkthrough..workers.dev; same limits, asset requests free. Sent to the viewer engineer with the review fixes. No Pages project was created. phase6b-viewer aea3e2c MERGED (900a846). DEPLOYED: https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev (Workers static assets, 694 files uploaded in 181 s, log renders/logs/6b_deploy_1.log; HTTP/2 + Brotli verified). Wire figure on the local dev server 50.24 MB decimal (HTTP/1.1 headers ~3 kB x 320 requests; asset bytes 49.65 MB) — the figure of record is the staging URL's. Defect: `_headers` rules concatenate on Workers assets (manifest carries immutable + 60 s) -> viewer fixing with the detach syntax, redeploy after the capture. Carry: no Range support on Workers assets (loaders fetch whole files). Gate 5 capture running against the URL (renders/logs/6b_gate5_capture_1.log) -> QA 18 next. Gate 5 capture on the URL (renders/web/gate5_*): bytes before the first frame 46 814 308 B (46.8 MB decimal, 320 requests) — the 50 MB definition of done PASSES on the staging URL; time to first frame 8.1 s, all tiers 74.5 s, 581 MB total over 622 requests; six desktop stations written (hero 335 draws), perf + mobile passes running. Header fix c11c450 merged (076f1f8); redeploy after the capture, then QA 18 (docs/briefs/qa_round_18.md, URL filled in). Capture complete (gate5 + gate5m, 960 px copies committed); redeployed with the header fix (renders/logs/6b_deploy_2.log, 8 s): `/` max-age=300, plan JSONs max-age=60, bake files immutable — verified live. URL perf medians 31.7/38.0/37.7/25.1/34.2/34.2 ms, resident 1 861 MB (vs A/B pass B 29.7/30.4/33.5/22.0/29.8/32.3; taken right after a 30-min capture on the Air, throttling likely; a cold re-measure follows if QA flags it). QA 18 dispatched (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_18.md). Cold 1440p perf on the URL (renders/web/gate5cold_perf.json, machine idle 15 min): 30.8/37.2/37.9/24.3/33.2/34.3 ms, resident 1 861 MB — not throttling; vs A/B pass B (29.7/30.4/33.5/22.0/29.8/32.3) the tiered build costs ~+1/+7/+4/+2/+3/+2 ms, stations 2-3 outside the +3 ms line. Viewer engineer put on the diagnosis (draws/tris/gpu_cost per station vs the v4 build, same session) while QA 18 scores. delivery.md Phase 6b drafted (9d79a8a). Perf diagnosis (viewer e1401d5, merged): same-session gate5-vs-v4 at stations 2/3 = -0.1 / +2.0 ms (inside +3); the URL gap vs pass B is drift (v4 itself +5.0 ms today). Structural carry: two groups per class duplicate materials/programs (141 vs 94 programs). Decision: no change (decisions.md). Waiting on QA 18. QA 18 (9fbece9): ONE FIX ROUND. PASS: payload 46.81 MB before the first frame on the URL; desktop parity (luma 0.998-1.002, 0 of 25 boxes > 3 %), scores carry 3.78/3.25/2.63/2.88/2.94/2.83; 36 tiles no defect new to the deployment; headers; name sweep 0; perf not throttled (no re-measure), resident 1 861 MB. BLOCKER: `?tier=mobile` 404s on the seven groups/m_*.glb — mobile-only files are in no deploy plan (desktop plan asserted complete). Finding 2: loading-bar denominator wrong (29.2 planned vs 46.9 fetched). Fix round dispatched: viewer (deploy.sh unions both plans + asserts; tier0 denominator), export (mobile-only files named in manifest.json, deploy_from corrected). Then redeploy, mobile re-capture (tag gate5b), QA 18b. Owed from the user: Safari hero screenshot, iPhone 16 Pro walk (after the fix). Fix round MERGED: export 04fa387 (149 mobile-only rows in the desktop plan, tier "mobile"), viewer cc316e3 (publish set = union of both plans + verify_publish 1 051 paths / 0 missing; mobile texture redirect: mobile resident 1 453 -> 500 MB, total 61.5 MB; tier denominators from the manifest in use). Redeployed (renders/logs/6b_deploy_3.log, 9 files new, all 7 m_* groups serve 200). gate5b capture running on the URL (renders/logs/6b_gate5b_capture.log) -> QA 18b (the closing round). gate5b capture on the URL (e15b730): desktop first frame 46 808 904 B (unchanged), mobile first frame 46 737 694 B, mobile 142-180 draws / 1.5-1.9 M tris per station, resident 499.7 MB, total 61.7 MB, no page errors; desktop perf 31.2/35.6/38.9/25.5/34.5/36.5 ms (post-capture, drift caveat). QA 18b dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_18b.md) — the closing 6b round. Lead's look at gate5bm_cam01: the mobile frame fills only ~70 % x 70 % of the 1170x2532 canvas (the 1.5 Mpx cap shrinks the canvas, not the pixel ratio). Viewer fixing (setPixelRatio, canvas at full CSS size); then redeploy + mobile-only recapture `gate5c`; QA 18b told to score mobile on gate5c and do the desktop/payload parts on gate5b now (one round). Canvas fix MERGED (viewer a7eee7e -> 13a673c: updateStyle true, buffer 832x1801 at ratio 0.71 inside a full 1170x2532 canvas, 0 % black; pixel picks in buffer pixels; desktop MAE 0.0004 = noise). Redeployed (renders/logs/6b_deploy_4.log, 2 files). gate5c mobile-only recapture running on the URL (renders/logs/6b_gate5c_mobile.log) -> QA 18b scores mobile on it. Viewer's note: at 1170x2532 the horizontal sensor fit makes a tall frame with the building small and centred — a station/sensor-fit choice, not a bug (lead: accepted for 6b, logged as a residual). QA 18b (98ab252): 6b DONE WITH RESIDUALS — mobile whole scene at six stations, 500 MB resident, 46.7 MB first frame, 0 errors, first mobile scores 2.9/3.0/2.3/2.7/2.5/2.4; desktop bit-identical, 46.81 MB payload. Residual 1: mobile water reflects nothing (viewer). Closed in decisions.md and delivery.md per the 6b stopping rule. ## 2026-09-18 · SESSION 6 CLOSES — PHASE 6b DELIVERED. Stop state State of record: main = this commit. Live: https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev (deploy 4, renders/logs/6b_deploy_4.log; redeploy with web/deploy.sh; wrangler login is on this Mac). Branches phase6b-export (04fa387) and phase6b-viewer (a7eee7e) fully merged. No Blender, no Chrome, GPU idle, bake lock idle. Owed from the user on return: macOS Safari hero screenshot and an iPhone 16 Pro 30 s walk on the URL (put them under renders/web/user/ and note in delivery.md); decide whether the mobile-water residual (decisions.md 6b close, item 1) gets a follow-on phase. Burn (list rates): session 6 (3ada03f9) $195.47 to 17:48 UTC (Opus 175, Fable 20; 8 subagents) — re-run at the next start; Phase 6 to date ≈ $1,486; project grand total ≈ $2,985. POST-CLOSE (user's iPhone showed the test scene on the bare URL): default manifest path was /assets/gate3 (unpublished, 404) -> fixed to gate5 (1c4b0f5), redeployed (deploy 5), bare URL verified headlessly at the hero (building present, 6 glbs). Gate rule added to quality_checklist.md (bare URL on the deployed host). Still owed from the user: Safari hero screenshot, iPhone walk — reload the page first (index cached 300 s). User's iPhone 16 Pro screenshot (iOS Safari, 5G, bare URL, portrait) shows the mobile tier drawing the hero scene: filed as evidence in delivery.md; residuals visible (no water reflection, portrait framing) + cosmetic HUD float formatting (viewer carry). Owed: 30 s walk recording, Mac Safari screenshot. 6d (lead fix, d40a125, deploy 6): mobile reflection set 'both' — rotunda reflects on the phone (local captures 1/5/6 judged by the lead; +110 draws/station; phone fps from the user's recording); HUD float formatted; phase6b worktrees removed. Live site updated. Owed from the user: iPhone 30 s walk recording (also judges the reflection's cost), Mac Safari hero screenshot. Nothing else scheduled. Evidence closed by the lead: mobile walk on the URL (24 probes, lowest ground -0.75 vs water -1.3, 0 errors, renders/web/6dm_walk.json); WebKit 26.6 hero at 1920x1080 (Playwright WebKit; Safari.app capture blocked: no screen-recording grant, safaridriver needs a password) = the Chrome look; both filed in delivery.md. Optional confirmations from the user: a Safari.app screenshot, a phone walk recording (frame rate with the 6d reflection). ## 2026-09-18 · SESSION 6 FINAL STOP STATE — PROJECT DELIVERED THROUGH 6d main = this commit, clean; no Blender, no Chrome; live site deploy 6 at https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev. Open decision for the user only: whether the 4.0 hero target (Phase 5 / 6c backlog in Blender + export) is still the goal; nothing else is scheduled. Burn (list rates): session 6 (3ada03f9) 207.54 opus-5 175, fable-5-1 32 — Phase 6 to date ≈ ,290 + this session; project grand total ≈ ,789 + this session. ## 2026-09-19 · SESSION 7 (same lead session continues) — PHASE 7 approved: foliage look User approved the lead's recommendation after two live-site screenshots (desktop far trees jagged/black-cored; iPhone close-up impostors flat). Scope in decisions.md "PHASE 7 APPROVED"; brief docs/briefs/phase7_viewer.md; branch phase7-viewer dispatched (Opus high). Shrub density (export) deferred. Then: review -> merge -> deploy -> captures (desktop 6, mobile 6 + close orbit) -> QA 19. Phase 7 viewer r1 (phase7-viewer ca558ae): A impostor edge (premul 12-tap + a2c; halo and hard-edge shares down at 1/2/5), B crown floor 0.35 (hero crown p10 0.56x -> 0.89x of Cycles; station 5 stays 0.976x — cannot reach 1.00 by this lever), C treemesh 80 adopted (free), fartreemesh inert in the shipped manifest, walk-up 60 m passes +3 ms but over-brightens the fill tree (new item: walk-up mesh lighting), D mobile near meshes (resident 689.7 MB with the LOD1 walk-up set). Lead: hero pair accepted; mobile orbit NOT accepted (crowns still shapeless blobs) — sent back with walkupMesh 0 (562 MB) and a diagnosis (impostor beyond 25 m vs leaf cards mushed by a2c at ratio 0.71). Reviewer dispatched on ca558ae -> docs/reviews/phase7_viewer_r1_review.md. Phase 7 mobile fix (8ff3dd3): the orbit crowns were far-tree cards at 37-40 m (the far-tree mesh radius was 10 m; treeMesh governs only the 18 near trees, nearest 128 m away) -> new tier field farTreeMesh 45 on mobile, walkupMesh 0 (LOD2 set carries vertex AO, no over-brightening); resident 561.9 MB, station 1 340 draws / 4.17 M tris; a2c hypothesis ruled out by test. Lead viewed the crown tile (blob -> leaves, branches, sky): ACCEPTED. Merge after the review verdict (delta 8ff3dd3 is device.js + one line, lead-verified). Phase 7 MERGED (91f08b4 -> cbffc9a; adopted defaults in decisions.md) and DEPLOYED (deploy 7, renders/logs/7_deploy_7.log). gate7 capture running on the URL (desktop 6 + net + perf + mobile 6, then the mobile close orbit at 80 m / headings 253, 215 -> renders/web/gate7_orbit_*.png). Next: 960 px copies, QA 19 (docs/briefs/qa_round_19.md, tag gate7). gate7 captured on the URL (0a5cf52): desktop first frame 46 811 106 B (unchanged), perf 31.6/37.3/38.9/26.3/35.9/36.5 ms post-capture, resident 1 861.3 MB; mobile total 65.8 MB; close orbit at 80 m / 253°, 215°. QA 19 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_19.md, tag gate7) — the closing Phase 7 round. Worktree phase7-viewer removed. QA 19 (6253d32): PHASE 7 DONE WITH RESIDUALS — both user defects closed on desktop tiles and on the phone; hero crown p10 0.894x; station 5 3.06; mobile 3.2/3.3/2.3/2.7/2.8/2.4, 561.9 MB; perf inside +3 ms; payload 46.81 MB. Residuals with owners in decisions.md and delivery.md (far-tree atlas alpha, shrub density, floor overshoot, mobile card scale). Closed. ## 2026-09-19 · SESSION 7 STOP STATE — PHASE 7 DELIVERED main = this commit, clean; no Blender, no Chrome; live site deploy 7 at https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev. Nothing scheduled. Next candidates, all export/Blender: far-tree atlas alpha at the crown top, shrub card density, LOD2 leaf-card scale — each a Blender/export round plus one QA round; the user decides. Burn (list rates): session 6+7 (3ada03f9) 252.41 opus-5 207, fable-5-1 45; Phase 6+7 to date ≈ ,290 + this session; project grand total ≈ ,789 + this session. ## 2026-09-19 · PHASE 8 (five art items) dispatched User approved all five (decisions.md "PHASE 8 APPROVED"). In flight: 8a ENV builder on phase8-env (Blender, owns the GPU: denser LOD1 shrub/reed cards, previews at 1/2/3/5, box numbers); 8b bake analysis on phase8-bake (CPU: atlas alpha diagnosis + costed fix, stops for the lead); 8c export analysis on phase8-export (CPU: cam03 texel density + costed fix, stops for the lead). Next: lead decides 8b/8c on the analyses; on 8a's blend: lead rebuilds master + master_delivery (scripts/lead_build.sh, PFA_PACK=1 scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 1b), export shrub LOD1 + tiers + sync, deploy, QA 20. Then 8d backdrop (ENV), 8e mobile card scale/tint; phase closes with the comparison sheet (viewer hero gate7 vs final; Cycles 4K hero v2 vs a new render; reference). 8b analysis MERGED (6072db3): the far-tree opacity = frame resolution (1K texel = 9 screen px at station 2) + the viewer's binary alpha cut; the 2K atlases were baked but stripped by tiers.py since 6b. Decision (decisions.md "8b decision"): export restores the 2K keys in tier 1 (1K = tier-0 stand-in; queued to the export engineer after its 8c analysis) + viewer samples alpha as coverage (phase8-viewer dispatched, docs/briefs/phase8b_viewer.md). Four agents in flight: 8a env (GPU), 8c export analysis (CPU), 8b viewer (Chrome when Blender idle), none on the bake queue. 8a r1 (phase8-env 496d880): clump emitter, LOD1 1.83x; finding: the stations draw LOD2 shrubs, so LOD2 is the lever. Lead: LOD2 clumped + densified (+105 k placed, budget exception logged) — builder applying. Next on its commit: merge env -> scripts/lead_build.sh -> PFA_PACK=1 scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> export ENV re-export + shrub LOD1 + 2K atlas keys + tiers (phase8-export) -> deploy -> QA 20. 8a r2 (phase8-env 5509624): LOD2 clumped + densified (unique 3 920 -> 6 948, placed +102 152; LOD0 unchanged; LOD1 1.83x); lead viewed the hero-band crop: fuller, smaller varied leaves. Reviewer dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_env_r1_review.md; merge + master rebuild on the verdict. Still running: 8c analysis, 8b viewer. phase8-env MERGED (62b18b4; review MERGE WITH FIXES = report numbers, corrected in decisions.md). Master rebuild + master_delivery running (scripts/lead_build.sh then PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b; logs renders/logs/p8_lead_build.log, p8_phase5_1b.log) — Blender owns the GPU until they finish; the 8b viewer's captures wait. Next on 1b: export engineer re-exports ENV (env groups, shrub LOD1, irradiance join) + 2K atlas keys + tiers, then deploy, then QA 20. Master + master_delivery REBUILT from the merged environment (renders/logs/p8_lead_build.log, p8_phase5_1b.log; master_delivery.blend 13:01, 281 MB). ENV re-export brief docs/briefs/phase8a_export.md queued to the export engineer after its 8c analysis and the 2K atlas keys (same branch). Blender idle: the 8b viewer may capture. 8b viewer A DONE (phase8-viewer b10e27f): `?impcov=` alpha as coverage (ramp per atlas texel, raw-coverage share 0.15 — share 1 hit the metric but halftoned the tiles); crossings/100 px cam02 2.92 -> 6.82 (Cycles 7.76), cam01 5.73 -> 6.55 (11.73); boxes hold; Phase 7 restorable byte-for-byte. B (2K atlases) blocked on the export's 2K keys. Lead viewed the crown tile: opens at the edge, still a mass vs Cycles at 1K — decide the band-atlas stretch after B. Waiting on the export queue (8c analysis -> 2K keys -> ENV re-export). Export: 8c analysis DONE (4a9125b: blur = 12.4x magnification, banding = objxy detail projection; fix = detailproj dominant, free) and 8b 2K albedo keys DONE (b4ef4af, MAIN re-synced, tier 0 byte-identical, tier 1 +9.72 MB); ENV re-export (8a) running. Viewer engineer given B (2K measurement) + 8c-A (detailproj default + cam03 tile + six-station regression). Note: the auto-mode classifier refused some export/out writes as "Modify Shared Resources" before the sync went through; if the 8a re-export is blocked the agent stops and the lead runs the sync. 8a export: triangle gate PASS (f5263dd; LOD2 6 948 / LOD1 31 268 by mesh datablock; 3 LOD1 objects carry LOD2 meshes, the known skips). Full Gate 1 export running in the phase8-export worktree (Blender up to 40 min; writes the worktree's export/out, not MAIN). Risk named: a full gate1 re-packs UV1 atlases that every bake is pinned to — the engineer diffs arch/orn/ground glbs + UV1 against MAIN before any sync and stops if they differ (re-bakes are out of scope). Viewer told to hold Chrome. Export chain gate: UV1 pin held; blocker = ENV budget constant (near trees 20 -> 15) -> lead chose option (b) CLASS_BUDGET['ENV'] 902 000; chain re-running to sync (+ the tiers_test stand-in pairing fix). Viewer 4ac6c02: 2K atlases live (crossings 7.65/6.98/8.54; crown still a mass at 100 %), detailproj dominant default (cam03 smear -> grain), six-station regression clean; now running the LOD2-far-mesh-at-all-distances A/B before any band-atlas decision. Viewer f0ad577: LOD2 far-mesh A/B — free but a faceted skeleton at 100 m; nothing adopted. Lead decision: BAND ATLAS (docs/briefs/phase8b_band_atlas.md; contract for bake/export/viewer). Viewer starts the sampling path now against a synthetic fixture; the bake starts when the 8a export sync frees the GPU; export adds the block after its sync. 8a ENV re-export DONE (phase8-export ee28efe; MAIN gate1/gate3/gate5 synced): budget 902 000, near 20 / far 127 byte-identical, arch/orn/ground glbs unchanged to the byte, ENV placed 894 974, env_t0 2.17 MB, irradiance 1 379/1 379 + 1 376/1 376, first frame 49 384 865 / 47 624 807, tiers_test green. Findings: gate5 reads MAIN (sync gate1+gate3 before tiers), glb.per_class was stale since QA-12-1 (now refreshed from gate1), budget_doc had its own CLASS_BUDGET copy. In flight: export review (phase8_export_r1), viewer review of f0ad577 (phase8_viewer_r1), band-atlas bake (phase8-bake, bake queue owns the GPU), viewer band sampling path. Next: merge export + viewer -> deploy -> gate8 capture -> QA 20 (shrubs, columns, 2K crowns); band atlas after. phase8-export MERGED (79cc24d; review r1 MERGE WITH FIXES: px fix for the resident estimate queued to the band pass). Viewer review r1 (docs/reviews/phase8_viewer_r1_review.md): MERGE WITH FIXES, no blockers (item 1 moot after the export merge; test assertion + README citation sent back). Viewer band path ready (6219ef8, synthetic fixture, tests). Band bake running on phase8-bake. Next: viewer fix commit -> merge -> deploy 8 -> gate8 capture -> QA 20. phase8-viewer da748f6 MERGED (f5cca8d). DEPLOY 8 live (renders/logs/8_deploy_8.log; 732 files, 23 uploaded): dense LOD2 shrubs, 2K crowns + coverage, detailproj dominant, band path inert. Band bake: queue idle 16/16 (report pending). gate8 capture running on the URL (renders/logs/8_gate8_capture.log). QA 20 brief written (docs/briefs/qa_round_20.md). phase8-env worktree removed. Next: 960 copies -> QA 20; bake report -> export band block -> viewer sweep -> deploy 9 -> QA 21. Band bake DONE (phase8-bake a220e93, merged): 16 atlases 4096x1024 (pitch 341 / inner 325 / gutter 8, rows from the bottom, azimuth 0 = compass 180°), 8.79 MB KTX2, 67 MB resident, 573 s GPU; the band frame shows branches and sky where 2K is a mass (~4.0 vs 2.8 crossings at station 2). Export adding `impostors.band` + px fix (phase8-export); viewer told the contract facts, waits for the sync. gate8 captured (59fe023: first frame 46 872 821 B, perf 32.8/37.7/42.0/26.2/33.7/36.6, resident 1 863 MB) -> QA 20 dispatched. Next: export sync -> viewer real-atlas pass -> deploy 9 -> gate9 -> QA 21 (band). Export band block DONE and MERGED (phase8-export b9d9531): impostors.band verbatim from band.json, 16 atlases at tier 1 (+8.79 MB, 320 files), tier 0 byte-identical, first frame 49 393 776 / 47 629 409, resident estimate 1 249 MB (px fix applied), mobile byte-identical, tests green; bug fixed: keep_albedo_2k was derived from a set the band emptied (would have dropped albedo_2k + the band block). Lead-verified against MAIN (band block present, unpublished 0) instead of a reviewer round. Viewer told to run the real-atlas pass. QA 20 still scoring deploy 8. Viewer band pass DONE (phase8-viewer 9b829a6): band ADOPTED as default, share 0.10; crossings cam01/02/05 11.97 / 7.35 / 11.67 (Cycles 11.73 / 7.76 / 15.89; 2K was 7.99 / 6.97 / 8.53); boxes hold/improve; station-2 crown has limbs and sky; hero 200 % dot texture gone; frame cost none measurable; willows clip 1.6 % of body texels (no flat highlight visible; 10-min re-bake if it shows). OPEN CHECK: README resident 3 553 MB vs 1 861 in earlier rounds — same for 2K and band, likely a counter change; reviewer asked to explain. Review r2 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_viewer_r2_review.md; then merge -> deploy 9 -> gate9 capture -> stop state (QA 21 next session). QA 20 (1a4f401): 8c CLOSED; 8a NOT CLOSED (leaf share moved at 1/8 boxes; needs re-scoping beyond card density) + BUG: env_shrubs.glb LOD1 walk-in set drawn in full at all stations (+1.12 M tris/frame; viewer/export); 8b part 1 improved but a dot grid at 100 % on 2K crowns at share 0.15 (band pass uses 0.10 — QA 21 checks); resident() omits impostor atlases (~67 MB). Scores 3.78/3.25/2.75/2.88/3.06/2.89. Waiting on the band review -> merge -> deploy 9 -> gate9 -> stop state. phase8-viewer 100d959 MERGED (3e3f3b7; review r2 fixes: band range read per prototype, perf-table resident 1 862.9 MB). DEPLOY 9 live (renders/logs/8_deploy_9.log, 764 files / 678 MB): band atlas default. gate9 capture running (renders/logs/8_gate9_capture.log) — committed by the lead when it lands, else by the next session. Worktrees phase8-* removed (branches kept). ## 2026-09-19 · SESSION 7 STOP STATE — mid-Phase 8; resume from docs/briefs/phase8_next_session.md Live: deploy 9 at https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev. main = this commit (+ the gate9 capture commit if it landed). No Blender, no Chrome after the capture, bake queue idle. Closed: 8c. Improved, not closed: 8b (band live, QA 21 owed), 8a (re-scope). Open: 8d, 8e, the walk-in shrub-set bug, resident counter, comparison sheet. Burn (list rates): sessions 6-7 (3ada03f9) 449.05 opus-5 377, fable-5-1 71; Phase 6-8 to date ≈ ,290 + this session; project grand total ≈ ,789 + this session. ## 2026-09-19 · SESSION 8 START — Phase 8 resumed from docs/briefs/phase8_next_session.md main clean at 7300fa4; no Blender, no Chrome; bake queue idle (16/16, band). Burn at start (list rates, docs/usage/usage_from_transcripts.py): session 7 (3ada03f9) closed at 462.95 USD (opus-5 377, fable-5-1 85); this session (a87300f7) 1.17 at start. Dispatched: QA 21 on gate9 (Opus xhigh, CPU, docs/briefs/qa_round_21.md); viewer fix round on phase8b-viewer (Opus high, Chrome only, docs/briefs/phase8b_viewer_fix.md: walk-in shrub set, resident counter, cam02 tint); 8a re-scope analysis on phase8a-rescope (Opus high, CPU, docs/briefs/phase8a_rescope.md). Next: QA 21 verdict to the user; review + merge the viewer fixes -> deploy 10 -> capture -> QA 22; 8a decision on the analysis. 8d Part 0 (CPU analysis) dispatched on phase8d-env (docs/briefs/phase8d_backdrop.md); four agents in flight: QA 21, viewer fix (Chrome), 8a re-scope (CPU), 8d analysis (CPU); no Blender anywhere until the viewer agent releases Chrome. Next: QA 21 verdict -> user; viewer fix review -> merge -> deploy 10; 8a and 8d decisions on the analyses. QA 21 (f264b69): 8b CLOSED. Scores 3.89/3.31/2.75/2.88/3.12/2.95 (+0.11 hero); dot grid gone; willow re-bake not needed; payload 46.9/46.8 MB; perf faster than gate8 everywhere; new residual: 1-2 px dotted rim on far-crown silhouettes at 2 and 5 (viewer, not blocking). Logged in decisions.md. Still in flight: viewer fix (Chrome), 8a re-scope, 8d analysis. 8a re-scope analysis MERGED (phase8a-rescope 9707e98 -> main): gap = flat warm card shading, not card count. Decision: option B viewer-only relight `?cardsun=` (docs/briefs/phase8a_viewer_relight.md), sequenced after the viewer fix round; leaf-green share demoted to report. 8d analysis DONE (phase8d-env 7553f31): decision R1+R2, R3 deferred (decisions.md "8d decision"); frozen MAT_backdrop_* change under the Phase 8 approval, reported to the user; build starts when Blender is free. 8e Part 0 (CPU) dispatched on phase8e-export. In flight: viewer fix (Chrome), 8e analysis. 8e analysis DONE (phase8e-export ff852f8): mip merge + MASK = 17-28 px blades; decision k = 2.0 (willow 1.5) export-only UV scale + gltf sampler REPEAT patch (decisions.md "8e decision"); the one-line viewer wrap-mode dependency sent to the fix round as item (d). Sequence when Blender is free: 8e Part 1 (short export) -> 8d Part 1 (previews). Chrome sequence: fix round -> 8a relight -> deploy 10 -> gate10 -> QA 22. Viewer fix round DONE (phase8b-viewer a610c6b): (a) env_shrubs never had a distance cull — added (`?shrubcull=0` A/B), hero -1.41 M tris, cam06 -2.02 M; (b) resident counter rewritten (figure of record hero 1 814.2 MB, mobile 547.9; impostor atlases now billed); (c) cam02 tint NOT a viewer fault — the Cycles reference is bluer than the viewer; fix would be upstream (sky fill + rotunda lightmap re-bake, Phase 5 asset change, user's call); (d) trn map wrap follows the albedo sampler. Dispatched: reviewer (docs/reviews/phase8_viewer_r3_review.md), 8e Part 1 (Blender export), 8d Part 1 (Blender build). Relight (Chrome) after the Blender jobs finish and the fix round is merged. Review r3 (588f978): MERGE WITH FIXES, no blockers; fixes 1-2 sent back to the fix agent (code only, no Chrome); items 3-8 + r2 carries 4/5b/6 appended to the relight brief. Merge on the fix commit. Running: 8e Part 1 (Blender export), 8d Part 1 (Blender previews). phase8b-viewer MERGED (19e7e1a, fix commit 8144eab; npm test green). Worktree removed; phase8a-viewer created from main for the relight (docs/briefs/phase8a_viewer_relight.md) — dispatched in two stages: code + tests first (no Chrome), measurements when Blender is free. Running: 8e Part 1 (trees_far export in Blender), 8d Part 1. 8e Part 1 DONE (phase8e-export eed90be): kv 2.5 / ku 1.0, REPEAT samplers on env_trees.glb only, tier 0 byte-identical, synced to MAIN export/out (decisions.md "8e built"). Closing: tiers --no-pack manifest refresh (8e agent), the albedo needsUpdate line (relight agent). Next: review 8e -> merge; deploy 11 carries 8e + 8d together. 8e closing (26310cd): manifest refresh reverted (it would have re-measured boot overhead from an unshipped 15:08 bundle) — rides with the 8d export chain. 8e review dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_export_r2_review.md. Running: 8d Part 1 (Blender), relight stage 1 (code), 8e review. 8d Part 1 DONE (phase8d-env 0fd2d86): R1 seven MAT_backdrop_* reworked + new MAT_backdrop_lawn (34 others unchanged by hash); R2 hall belt 89 crowns / 6 900 tris (cap 6 986), backdrop 151 739 -> 158 639, pin window held. Lead viewed the composite: cam05 intercolumniations now dark tree mass, cam06 slabs hazed grey. Review dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_env_r2_review.md. Blender free: relight stage 2 (Chrome) may run. After review + relight: merge 8d -> lead_build.sh -> phase5_deliver 1b -> export chain (gate1 pin proof, gate2 backdrop re-bake, manifests incl. the 8e refresh, tiers) -> deploy 11. 8e review r2 (ac886d1): MERGE WITH FIXES, no blockers; deploy gate = the albedo needsUpdate line on phase8a-viewer. Reviewer's point: kv-only shrinks blade thickness, not width (QA 19's complaint) — 8e agent measuring kv 2.5 vs isotropic k 2 + lowered cutoff (CPU); any re-export waits for the Blender window with the 8d chain. Running: 8d review, relight stage 2 (Chrome), 8e fixes. 8d review r2 (57444c7): MERGE WITH FIXES; fixes 1-3 + grounding the floating belt crowns sent to the 8d agent (code now, blends in the Blender window). Export-chain brief written: docs/briefs/phase8d_export.md (rename follow-ups, stale bake job purge, budget_doc, 8e manifest refresh, water.js reflection question). HAZE_TINT far-field GI check in Cycles goes on the 4K-hero checklist. Running: relight stage 2 (Chrome), 8e width test (CPU), 8d fixes (CPU). 8e width test (911af2d): iso_cut adopted (decisions.md "8e decision 2"); re-export (1 min Blender) queued for the Blender window. Blender-window order: 8d mat_build + belt rebuild -> 8e re-export -> merge both -> lead_build.sh -> phase5_deliver 1b -> 8d export chain. Running: relight stage 2 (Chrome), 8d fixes (CPU). 8d fixes prepared (phase8d-env 5b40b96): hash-diff script incl. node_groups + image pixels, lawn premise fixed, cross-wind shadow gate, belt crowns grounded by underside and capped 4.3 m below the roof crest. Waiting for the Blender window (Chrome busy: relight stage 2). Window order unchanged: 8d rebuild (mat_build, env_build belt, hash log, one preview at cam05) -> 8e re-export -> merges -> lead_build -> 1b -> export chain. Relight DONE (phase8a-viewer fffb153): cardsun default adopted, level held, perf in noise; tiles say the shrub closure is the cards' magnified leaf texture -> 8a-3 export analysis dispatched to the 8e engineer (after its iso_cut re-export). Review r4 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_viewer_r4_review.md. Blender window OPEN: 8d rebuild + 8e re-export running. Next: merges (8a viewer, 8d env, 8e export) -> lead_build -> 1b -> 8d export chain (+ 8a-3 if decided) -> deploy 10 -> gate10 -> QA 22. phase8d-env MERGED (b348e92). Master rebuild RUNNING (scripts/lead_build.sh: build_master + probe bake; log renders/logs/p8d_lead_build.log) — Blender owns the GPU; no Chrome until it and step 1b finish. Then PFA_PACK=1 scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> export chain (docs/briefs/phase8d_export.md). Pending: 8e re-export report + 8a-3 analysis, relight review r4. 8e iso_cut EXPORTED + synced (phase8e-export 7b59637); 8a-3 analysis (24eb45e) -> decision k = 2 shrubs / 1.0 reeds, rides the 8d chain (decisions.md "8a-3 decision"; brief appended). Delta review of 911af2d..24eb45e dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_export_r3_review.md; merge 8e on its verdict. Master rebuild still running. Master REBUILT (renders/logs/p8d_lead_build.log: master.blend 164 MB, probes baked 7.9 s). Step 1b RUNNING (PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b; log renders/logs/p8d_phase5_1b.log). On 1b: merge 8e (on the r3 delta verdict) -> export chain agent (docs/briefs/phase8d_export.md incl. 8a-3) on phase8d-export. Pending: relight review r4, 8e delta review. master_delivery.blend REBUILT (19:56, 281 MB; renders/logs/p8d_phase5_1b.log). Blender idle. Waiting on the 8e delta review (then merge 8e -> export chain on phase8d-export) and the relight review r4 (then merge 8a viewer). Chrome stays off until the export chain's bake is done. Relight review r4 (47a3aec): DO NOT MERGE — build blocker (backticks in a GLSL literal) + fixes 3-6 sent back to the relight agent (CPU); merge on its fix commit. Finding 7 accepted in decisions.md. Note: the reviewer's amend rewrote 4966bd2 -> 655a91c (same tree). Waiting: 8e delta review, relight fix. phase8a-viewer MERGED (relight fix 913d023; lead re-ran npm test 510/0 and vite build). Retracted: the r2-6 band-third-frame pixel/frame-cost numbers (captures after f099e0c served the old bundle) — stands on spec; QA 22's regression pass vs gate9 covers it, plus one paired 1440p run at the gate10 capture. Waiting: 8e delta review -> merge -> export chain. phase8e-export MERGED (review r3 7e17b26, MERGE WITH FIXES; fixes ride the chain). Worktree phase8d-export created from main. Export chain dispatched to the export engineer (docs/briefs/phase8d_export.md + the r3 fixes + 8a-3 corrections). Bake queue will own the GPU; no Chrome until the chain reports. QA 22 brief drafted (docs/briefs/qa_round_22.md; tag filled at dispatch). Export chain running on phase8d-export (GPU). Then: deploy 10 -> gate10 capture (desktop, mobile, orbit) -> QA 22. Export chain DONE + synced (phase8d-export 1aa1abc; decisions.md "8d export chain DONE"). Lead fix 1efdf56 (water.js reflection keeps the far ground). Review r4 of the chain dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_export_r4_review.md; merge -> deploy 10 -> gate10 capture (desktop, mobile, orbit) -> QA 22. No Blender, no Chrome running. Chain review r4 (5cfe8c7): MERGE WITH FIXES, no blocker; fixes 1-4 (env.gltf MAT_leaf_* samplers to REPEAT so every root agrees; GATE1_BLEND_DIR default; --gate2 tex_ktx2 wipe; the manifest_v3 log) sent to the export engineer before deploy. Then: merge phase8d-export -> deploy 10 -> gate10 capture + orbit -> QA 22. phase8d-export MERGED (c247c15; r4 fixes 3118050: leaf samplers REPEAT in env.gltf, tier 0 unchanged, first frame 49 395 053 B). DEPLOY 10 RUNNING (web/deploy.sh --project pfa-walkthrough; log renders/logs/10_deploy_10.log). Then: PFA_TAG=gate10 web/tools/gate5.sh + web/tools/p7.sh orbit gate10_orbit -> 960 px copies -> QA 22 (docs/briefs/qa_round_22.md, tag gate10). No Blender running. DEPLOY 10 LIVE (renders/logs/10_deploy_10.log: 23 uploaded, 740 unchanged; version 52398b4f). gate10 capture + gate10_orbit RUNNING (Chrome; logs renders/logs/10_gate10_capture.log, 10_gate10_orbit.log) — no Blender until they finish. Then commit the 960 copies + sidecars and dispatch QA 22 with tag gate10. gate10 CAPTURED on the URL after deploy 10 (desktop 1-6, net, 1440p perf, mobile 1-6, orbit h02150/h02530; 960 px copies in renders/web/960/, sidecars committed; 0 page errors). QA 22 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_22.md, tag gate10). No Chrome, no Blender running. Orbit re-captured on the URL (e393b33). QA 22 RUNNING (tag gate10). GPU window used for the 8d HAZE_TINT Cycles check (1080p/32 spp hero + cam06, with/without the haze terms, on a scratch copy; docs/briefs/phase8d_haze_check.md) before the Phase 8 4K hero. Next on QA 22: verdict to the user; if all items close -> phase5_deliver.sh 5 (4K Cycles hero, 7200 s) -> comparison sheet -> delivery.md Phase 8 -> burn. Haze check MERGED (5c7100b; no fix). Phase 5 v2 hero renders preserved in renders/final/phase5_v2/ (gitignored). Phase 8 4K Cycles hero RUNNING: scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 4 (3840x2160, 128 spp fixed, adaptive off, like-for-like with v2; blender_run 7200 s; log renders/logs/phase5_4.log) -> writes renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png. GPU busy: no Chrome until it finishes. QA 22 still running (CPU). Comparison-sheet script dispatched (Sonnet, branch phase8-sheet: scripts/phase8_sheet.py -> renders/qa_comparisons/phase8_before_after_960.jpg + full-res tiles; re-run when the 4K hero lands). In flight: QA 22 (CPU), 4K hero (GPU), sheet script (CPU). QA 22 (234977b): 8e CLOSED, fix round VERIFIED, 8a closed at 1/5 (cam03 LOD1 set open -> 8a-4 export), 8d NOT CLOSED — blocker: faceted belt (hero 3.81, -0.08). 4K hero render KILLED (obsolete). Decisions logged. Belt r2 brief: docs/briefs/phase8d_belt_r2.md (ENV, Blender); 8a-4 LOD1 analysis to the export engineer (CPU); Cycles station references re-rendered after the belt fix for parity. phase8-sheet MERGED (lead-verified, mechanical script): `python3 scripts/phase8_sheet.py` (+ `--stations`) -> renders/qa_comparisons/phase8_before_after_960.jpg, phase8_stations/, phase8_tiles/ (gitignored); re-run after the Phase 8 4K hero exists. In flight: belt r2 (ENV, Blender), 8a-4 analysis (CPU). 8a-4 MERGED (16882b0): no export change; 8a CLOSED WITH RESIDUAL (cam03 bush interior = lighting carry). In flight: belt r2 (ENV, Blender). Next on its report: review -> merge -> lead_build -> 1b -> export chain (pin moves: far 127 -> 127+N) -> Cycles station refs -> deploy 11 -> gate11 (+ 2.5 m walk-up) -> QA 23. Belt r2 BUILT (phase8d-env 0748e42): 39 real far trees (12 baked prototypes: cypress 14 / eucalyptus 7 / pine 6 / columnar cypress 6 / redwood 6), icospheres removed; ENV placed 901 874 -> 895 052 expected (far 127 -> 166); lead viewed the sheet: crowns with sky gaps, no shards. Review r3 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_env_r3_review.md. Then: merge -> lead_build -> 1b -> export chain r2 (docs/briefs/phase8d_export_r2.md) + Cycles station refs -> deploy 11 -> gate11 -> QA 23. phase8d-env belt r2 MERGED (8167e42; review r3 8fb7fc5 MERGE WITH FIXES: report written by the lead, A/B/D carried). Master rebuild + 1b RUNNING (logs renders/logs/p8d2_lead_build.log, p8d2_phase5_1b.log). Then: export chain r2 (export engineer; pin moves: far 166, backdrop_forest re-bake, vertex AO for 3 new LOD2 meshes) and the six Cycles station references (ENV builder, 1080p/32 spp) -> deploy 11 -> gate11 -> QA 23. Master + master_delivery REBUILT with belt r2 (21:58; logs p8d2_*). Dispatched: export chain r2 on phase8d-export2 (worktree phase8d-export; Gate 1 CPU now, bake after the refs) and the six Cycles station references on phase8d-env (GPU, docs/briefs/phase8_cycles_refs.md). QA 23 brief ready (docs/briefs/qa_round_23.md). Then: merge export -> deploy 11 -> gate11 (+ orbit, + a mobile walk-up frame) -> QA 23 -> 4K hero -> sheet -> delivery.md -> burn. Export chain r2 DONE + synced (phase8d-export2 763f61c): pin 25/25 with the predicted moves (ENV placed 895 052, far 166, near 20 in order; arch/orn/ground byte-identical), prototype_map +3 resolved (no bake), vertex AO 16/16 existing, forest re-bake 5 s, tier 0 48 139 115, first frame 49 270 952. Review r5 dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase8_export_r5_review.md. Cycles refs still rendering (ENV builder). Then: merge -> deploy 11 -> gate11 (+orbit, +2.5 m walk-up orbit on a belt tree) -> QA 23. Chain r2 review r5 (af110d5): MERGE WITH FIXES, DO NOT DEPLOY — manifests written before the far glbs (127 placements vs 166 instances: the far-tree mesh layer would vanish on join failure) and instance_irradiance keyed by the shifted TREEFAR index. Fixes sent to the export engineer (re-key by location, 39 belt rows baked if < 15 min else stand-in, count asserts in manifest_v4 + verify_glb, re-run v2->v3->v4->tiers->verify). Cycles refs still rendering. Deploy 11 waits on the fix commit. Chain r2 blockers CLOSED (phase8d-export2 66aace8): belt irradiance BAKED (4 jobs, 13.0 min GPU, 166 placements), join re-keyed by world location, manifest counts 166/166/166, guards in manifest_v4 + verify_glb check 5, first frame 49 273 775, all verifies green. Delta review r6 dispatched (deploy verdict explicit). Cycles refs still rendering. phase8d-export2 MERGED (r6: deploy blocker = the 127 existing far-tree irradiance rows moved +48 % with the re-bake; accepted as a correction, decisions.md; QA 23 verifies). DEPLOY 11 starting (renders/logs/11_deploy_11.log). Cycles refs: ENV builder not yet reported; capture waits for no Blender. DEPLOY 11 LIVE (renders/logs/11_deploy_11.log: 8 uploaded, 755 unchanged; version 7f29cf9c; live manifest far placements 166). Cycles refs cam04-06 rendering (ENV builder). gate11 capture (+ orbit + 2.5 m belt-tree orbit) starts when no Blender runs; then QA 23. Cycles refs MERGED (3a3a2e4: renders/qa_comparisons/cycles_p8/, 960 copies + Phase 5 vs 8 composite; architecture MAE inside the 32 spp noise floor; the builder's queue had self-matched its own pgrep — re-run directly). gate11 capture RUNNING on the URL (stations, net, perf, mobile, orbit, + a 2.5 m mobile orbit on belt tree #19; logs renders/logs/11_gate11_*). Then commit + QA 23 (tag gate11). gate11 CAPTURED on the URL after deploy 11 (desktop 1-6, net, perf, mobile 1-6, orbit h02150/h02530, walk-up orbit on belt tree #19 at 2.5 m h00000/h00900; 0 page errors, no JOIN FAILED). QA 23 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_23.md, tag gate11; Cycles refs renders/qa_comparisons/cycles_p8/). QA 23 RUNNING (CPU). Phase 8 4K Cycles hero RUNNING (phase5_deliver.sh 4: 3840x2160, 128 spp fixed; log renders/logs/p8_phase5_4.log -> renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png; v2 preserved in renders/final/phase5_v2/). GPU busy: no Chrome. On both: sheet (`python3 scripts/phase8_sheet.py` + --stations), lead tile pass, delivery.md Phase 8 section, burn. QA 23 (8d775ae): ALL FIVE ART ITEMS CLOSED (8a with residual); hero 3.97 (+0.16). Blocker: far-tree irradiance re-bake brightness -> export re-key of the 127 rows to the 6c values (phase8d-export3, CPU), then deploy 12 + verification capture 1/2/5 + orbit + short QA 24. 4K hero still rendering (GPU). Then sheet, tile pass, delivery.md, burn. phase8d-export3 MERGED (2be3817; lead-verified: 6c source md5 11212fbc..., 127 rows source=6c + 39 belt rows source=8d-r2, chain guards green, first frame 49 273 819). DEPLOY 12 starting (renders/logs/12_deploy_12.log). Verification capture gate12 (1/2/5 + orbit + mobile) waits for the 4K hero render to release the GPU; then a short QA 24 (far-tree levels vs QA 21/23, 8e blade margin) closes the blocker. DEPLOY 12 LIVE (2 files; version 6513cf48). 4K hero still rendering. Next when Blender exits: gate12 capture (PFA_TAG=gate12 gate5.sh + orbit) -> QA 24 (docs/briefs/qa_round_24.md) ; sheet (`python3 scripts/phase8_sheet.py`, --stations) -> lead tile pass -> delivery.md Phase 8 -> burn. 4K HERO DONE (1 468 s; lead tile pass clean, decisions.md). gate12 capture RUNNING (Chrome). Then: commit capture -> QA 24 -> sheet (gate12) -> delivery.md Phase 8 -> burn -> stop state. gate12 CAPTURED + committed (aee019c; 0 page errors). QA 24 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_24.md). Comparison sheet generated with the real 4K hero and gate12 (scripts/phase8_sheet.py + --stations). Next: QA 24 verdict -> delivery.md Phase 8 -> burn -> stop state. ## 2026-09-20 · SESSION 8 STOP STATE — PHASE 8 CLOSED Live: deploy 12 at https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev. main = this commit, clean; no Blender, no Chrome; bake queue idle; no phase8 worktrees. QA 24 (b683412): all five art items closed, no open blocker, hero 4.01 / 3.30 / 2.83 / 2.88 / 3.28 / 3.07, mobile 3.40 at the hero. Deliverables in docs/delivery.md "Phase 8" (sheet renders/qa_comparisons/phase8_before_after_960.jpg + phase8_tiles/ + phase8_stations/; new 4K hero renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png, v2 preserved). Carried residuals listed there; nothing scheduled — the user opens the next phase, if any. Burn (list rates): session 8 (a87300f7) 377.08 USD ( opus-5 347, fable-5-1 29 ); session 7 final 474.88 (opus-5 377, fable-5-1 97). 2026-09-20 · Phase 9 approved by the user (all carried residuals); plan docs/briefs/phase9_next_session.md; nothing dispatched — the next session starts it. ## 2026-09-20 · SESSION 9 START — PHASE 9 (lead, Fable 5.1) Checks: no Blender/Chrome; main clean at b53906d; bake queue idle (109/109). Burn at start (list rates): session 8 (a87300f7) final 386.71 USD (opus-5 347, fable-5-1 39); session 9 (d073013c) 0.92. Next: item 1 lighting round (stations 3 + 2) — analysis first (QA-17 hero boxes before/after in Cycles), report to the user before the lighting change starts. 2026-09-20 08:20 · Dispatch: BEFORE refs rendering (lead, bg loop, cycles_p8/cam0N_1080_32spp.png; marker .p9_refs_done when done). Briefs committed (24d492c): phase9-light (Opus high, GPU after the marker), phase9-bake (Opus xhigh, CPU: chain pricing + cam03 decomposition), phase9-viewer (Opus high, CPU: dotted rim), phase9-export (Opus high, CPU: belt billboard rule). ENV aerial blocks waits for the bake analysis (cap 4). Next: review each report; grant the GPU to the lighting agent at the marker; schedule the re-bake chain from the bake analysis. 2026-09-20 08:31 · BEFORE refs done: renders/qa_comparisons/cycles_p8/cam01..06_1080_32spp.png (full size, 32 spp fixed, the Phase 8 master_delivery; housekeeping item 4 closed for the refs). Marker .p9_refs_done dropped: GPU handed to phase9-light. Phase 8 4K hero preserved in renders/final/phase8/. 2026-09-20 · phase9-viewer built (debdd0b): dotted rim = hardware alpha-to-coverage dither of fractional coverage; fix quantises pfaCov to the target's sample count (`?impq=`, default on); r2 carries 4/6, r1 carry 6 closed; 549 tests. Capture owed (GPU held by lighting). Review dispatched -> docs/reviews/phase9_viewer_r1_review.md. ## 2026-09-20 ~09:05 · SESSION 9 STOP STATE (laptop closing mid-flight; resume from here) In flight when the lid closed: phase9-light (sweep running on the GPU under the ORIGINAL brief — WRONG premise: LIGHT_shade_fill is 0 W since f40d0e7; the lever is SKY_DIFFUSE_TINT / the world diffuse sockets; the correction was never delivered — on restart re-brief a fresh lighting agent from docs/briefs/phase9_light.md + docs/briefs/phase9_bake_analysis_report.md A.0, kill any stale Blender first); phase9-export (belt rule, CPU, unreported); phase9-viewer (applying review r1 fixes 1-7 after debdd0b; capture owed). Done: BEFORE refs (cycles_p8, six stations); Phase 8 hero preserved (renders/final/phase8); briefs light/bake/viewer/export/env committed; phase9-bake analysis DONE at fbdbed9 (unreviewed, unmerged): full re-bake 7 h 24 m GPU or 3 h 39 m if a 316 s probe shows the slot atlases hold; cam03 fix = viewer-side specular gating by lightmap sky/sun visibility, zero GPU (needs a decisions entry + a viewer brief); viewer review r1 = MERGE AFTER FIXES (f576ec7). Next on restart: pgrep/kill stale Blender + caffeinate; review phase9-bake; decide cam03 viewer fix (decisions.md); merge viewer after fixes; fresh lighting agent with the corrected premise; then export merge, capture window, re-bake chain, ENV round (docs/briefs/phase9_env.md), close. 2026-09-20 · After the sleep: all three agents stalled (harness watchdog), no Blender left running. Branch heads: phase9-light fe12cf5 (the agent found on its own that the tint is the lever: tint fully off moves the hero only 4.2 deg of hue while cam02 gains 25 b*; a "world-patch shortcut" validated at MAE 0.0138 vs noise floor 2.91 — verify in its notes), phase9-export ebec214 (rule built, self-test unfinished, unreported), phase9-viewer 486518e (review fixes 1 and 5 committed; fixes 2-4, 6, 7 partly in the working tree: web/README.md and web/tools/p9v_rim.py modified, uncommitted), phase9-bake fbdbed9 (analysis, unreviewed). ## 2026-09-20 ~09:50 · SESSION 10 START (lead, Fable 5.1) Checks: no Blender/Chrome; main clean at 6052569; bake queue idle (109/109); caffeinate -dimsu running. Burn at start (list rates): session 8 (a87300f7) final 387.06 USD (opus-5 347, fable-5-1 39); session 9 (d073013c) final 56.26 (opus-5 49, fable-5-1 7); session 10 (e93f113b) 1.03. Plan (user, this session): bake review+merge -> cam03 decision + viewer shade brief -> viewer fixes r2 -> lighting (corrected premise) -> export merge (pack/deploy held) -> capture windows -> re-bake chain (probe first) -> QA gate on URL -> ENV round -> close. 2026-09-20 ~10:00 · Dispatched (fresh, Opus): code review of phase9-bake (-> docs/reviews/phase9_bake_r1_review.md); viewer r2 fixes 2-4,6,7 on phase9-viewer (CPU, docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_r2.md); lighting resumed on phase9-light with the corrected premise (GPU owner, docs/briefs/phase9_light_r2.md); export finish + report on phase9-export (CPU, docs/briefs/phase9_export.md). cam03 decision logged (decisions.md session 10); docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_shade.md written for the later shade agent (branch phase9-viewer-shade after the viewer and export merges). Next: merge bake on a clean review; re-review viewer -> merge; export review -> merge (pack/deploy held); lighting report -> user; then capture windows, re-bake chain. 2026-09-20 ~10:10 · phase9-sheet c05f775 (scripts/phase9_sheet.py, Sonnet, --check passes; AFTER = gate13 captures + the new 4K hero) done; review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_sheet_r1_review.md). Still running: bake review, viewer r2, lighting r2 (GPU), export finish. 2026-09-20 ~10:25 · MERGED phase9-bake (6e3fba2: analysis report + p9_shade_terms.py; review MERGE WITH FIXES, 3 fix-now applied by the lead: OPENEXR env, PFA_MAIN_ROOT, provenance note; 7 carries in docs/reviews/phase9_bake_r1_review.md) and phase9-sheet (79fb39f: scripts/phase9_sheet.py; 3 fix-now applied; carries: re-pick BOXES_960 for the Phase 9 defects before the gate). MUST NOT DELETE local baseline: renders/final/phase8/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png (33 MB, untracked, the only Phase 8 BEFORE copy once the Phase 9 hero overwrites renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png). In flight: viewer r2 (CPU), lighting r2 (GPU), export finish (CPU). Next: viewer re-review -> merge; export review -> merge; lighting report -> user. 2026-09-20 ~10:45 · phase9-viewer r2 done at 11cf875 (findings 2-4, 6, 7 closed; carries 8-14 as a README carry table; npm test 558/558; F7 fixed in wording, not made true — reasoned carve-out). Re-review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_viewer_r2_review.md). Owed at the next Chrome window: desktop 1-6 rim A/B, MAE at 1/3/4/6, ?tier=mobile 1-6, p8_atlas_probe viewer cam01. Still running: lighting r2 (GPU), export finish (CPU). 2026-09-20 ~11:05 · MERGED phase9-viewer (6230f2a; r2 review MERGE WITH FIXES, fix 1 applied; carries 2-3 -> shade brief). phase9-export done at d6d2545 (belt rule: walk-up 4 kept / 35 billboard-only, -1 047 151 tris at cam03; far 22/17; 13 pins by row index; suites 23/23, 10/10, npm 450/450; VIEWER HAND-OFF gates the ship: foliageLazy must set irr for billboard-only rows — added to docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_shade.md item 0). Export review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_export_r1_review.md); pack/deploy held for the re-bake chain. Lighting r2 still on the GPU. 2026-09-20 ~11:20 · Export review r1 (cc822a3): MERGE WITH FIXES — BLOCKER trees_far_set.py asserts 166 rows against the 149-row topology (next irradiance bake would die); FIX-NOW the "foliageLazy hand-off" claim does not hold per the reviewer (main.js re-lights all treesFar at build time). Export r2 fix agent dispatched (CPU). The shade brief's item 0 is provisional until the r2 verdict. Merge held. Lighting r2 still on the GPU. 2026-09-20 ~11:45 · Export r2 done at 76774ae: blocker closed (topology.json carries all 166 rows, billboard-only rows flagged has_mesh:false in EXP_TREEFAR_BILLBOARD_ONLY; shared check_topology contract; selftest 34/34); HAND-OFF: none required (main.js lights all treesFar at build time) — README/decisions/report/4c message rewritten; shade brief item 0 corrected. Re-review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_export_r2_review.md). Lighting r2 still on the GPU. 2026-09-20 ~12:00 · MERGED phase9-export (r2 review MERGE). Pack/deploy HELD for the re-bake chain. Sequencing note for the chain: export/trees_far.py (far set) must run BEFORE any trees_far_set.py bake (a leftover 149-row topology.json hard-fails at trees_far_set.py:110); the far-tree irradiance bake now covers all 166 rows. Open: r1 carries 3 and 5 (export/README.md carry section). Waiting on: lighting r2 report (GPU). 2026-09-20 ~12:10 · Dispatched viewer shade agent (branch phase9-viewer-shade from 3fe736a, CPU build only; captures wait for a granted Chrome window). In flight: lighting r2 (GPU), viewer shade (CPU). Merged so far this session: bake, sheet, viewer, export. Next: lighting report -> user; capture windows; re-bake chain. 2026-09-20 ~12:45 · Viewer shade build done at 7e12bcf on phase9-viewer-shade (constants from manifest_v4 match B.6 exactly: 2.196/3.432/11.256, 21.428; gate divides the texel by lightMapIntensity=π first; ?specgate=0 = Phase 8 shaders byte-identical; spec_gate_test 45 checks; npm 690/690; verify_glb gate5 PASS; nothing written into MAIN export/out). Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_viewer_shade_r1_review.md). Lead added --viewer to export/p9_shade_terms.py (07a7af3) for the flag captures. Capture windows 1 and 2 owed after the lighting agent frees the GPU (commands in the agent's report; window 1 = cam03 flags on the merged main viewer, window 2 = six stations after the gate). Lighting r2 still on the GPU. 2026-09-20 ~13:05 · MERGED phase9-viewer-shade (review MERGE, 6 carries). npm on MAIN's export/out is 673 (17 rows skip until manifest_v4.py runs in MAIN and writes the sky/sun constants — expected 690 then; not a regression). Owed: capture window 1 (cam03 flags, BEFORE the gate: use `?specgate=0` on the merged build, or the deploy-12 build) and window 2 (six stations with the gate); both wait for the GPU. Lighting r2 still on the GPU. 2026-09-20 ~14:35 · LIGHTING r19 REPORT (phase9-light 02784e3): shipped SKY_DIFFUSE_TINT (1,0.65,70)->(1,0.75,8), ANTISUN 1->0, diffuse sockets only (camera/glossy/LUT untouched -> only lightmaps re-bake). cam02 shafts b* -4.7/-18.2/-3.1 -> +11.3/+5.3/+8.8 (PASS x3, h_ab 62-80, R-B +10..+33); mean |b*-photo| 11.87 -> 7.16. HOLDS: hero 12/12, cam03 8/8, cam04 6/6, sky unmoved, chain vs BEFORE cam01 MAE 0.99 (floor 2.91). FAILED HOLDS: shade_frieze +23.3 (window 9.9-12.9), soffit_l/r h_ab 82.6 (>80) — proven structural by a fitted dose model (shafts' a* 2.5 vs photo 10.2: materials/ARCH). DECISION WITH THE USER before the re-bake chain. Meanwhile: light review dispatched; viewer capture agent dispatched with the free GPU (docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_capture.md: cam03 flags, six-station gate, rim). Re-bake probe HELD. ## 2026-09-21 ~07:00 · USER DECISION: ship lighting r19 (frieze/soffit overshoot = structural residual, decisions.md 2026-09-21). MERGED phase9-light (fed0138, review MERGE WITH FIXES, fix 1 applied) and phase9-viewer-capture (5a2fcd1: rim CLOSED 0.264->0.041 / 0.369->0.079; cam03 gate 1.93x->1.45x but parity outside shade broken at every station, cam05 regresses -> viewer shade r2, decisions.md). Master rebuild running in MAIN (lead_build_r12.log, phase5_1b_r12.log; marker renders/logs/.p9_master_rebuilt). Briefs: docs/briefs/phase9_rebake.md (bake engineer, after the rebuild), docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_shade_r2.md (CPU, now). MAIN's Phase 8 phase5_1b.log / phase5_cleanup.json renamed *.phase8.* (the lighting branch tracks the r19 ones). 2026-09-21 ~07:10 · Master rebuilt in MAIN (lead_build_r12 + phase5_1b_r12, rc 0, 0 missing textures; readback sky_diffuse_tint [1,0.75,8], antisun 0, no shade fill). Dispatched: BAKE ENGINEER on phase9-rebake (GPU owner: cycles_p9 refs -> A.2 probe -> chain -> pack chain, stop before deploy; docs/briefs/phase9_rebake.md) and VIEWER SHADE r2 on phase9-viewer-shade2 (CPU: per-normal SH9 skyVis, sunVis/dotNL; docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_shade_r2.md). Next: shade r2 review; the capture window between the bake queue and the pack; deploy 13; QA 25 (docs/briefs/qa_round_25.md); ENV round; close. 2026-09-21 ~07:45 · Rebake step 0 done (phase9-rebake b2b27a2: six cycles_p9 refs, hero MAE vs p8 0.99, cam02 3.35, cam03 0.79); step 1 (A.2 probe bake) on the GPU now. Shade r2 building on CPU. 2026-09-21 ~08:05 · LEAD STOPPED THE BAKE QUEUE (export/bake_queue.sh --gate3 stop, graceful): it was started at 07:17 with all 101 jobs (27 slots included) WITHOUT the A.2 probe verdict, and its resume rule skips every job whose Phase 8 record (export/out/gate3/bake/.json, Sep 15-16) exists — probe_hero, the rotunda concrete map, both colonnades, the slots — so the re-bake would have kept Phase 8 lightmaps under the new world. Bake engineer messaged: archive the Phase 8 records, probe first, log the verdict, restart. 2026-09-21 ~08:10 · CORRECTION: the 07:17 queue IS the A.2 probe — the bake engineer removed the Phase 8 records for exactly sky_diffuse, lm_ARCH_rotunda_dome_membrane_merged and slot_arch_inst_1_06 so the resume-skip bakes only those three (the other 98 skip). The lead's STOP file was removed before it took effect; no job lost. Probe verdict pending in the engineer's report. 2026-09-21 ~08:40 · PROBE VERDICT: FULL CHAIN (phase9-rebake 36e797a): own map p50 1.02 stops vs floor, slot atlas p50 0.18 stops = 1.8x the floor's top, blue 0.41-0.62x — both classes move. Chain armed and running (7968dcc: 87 jobs, ~7 h 24 m, queue total 105 incl. the 36 far-tree irradiance jobs; A.4 decision 3d7f5ed: re-bake all 166 far trees, p8d_irr_restore.py retired). GPU is the queue's until it finishes; no Chrome. In flight on CPU: viewer shade r2. Next: shade r2 review; after the queue: pack chain -> capture window -> deploy 13 -> QA 25. 2026-09-21 ~09:20 · Viewer shade r2 done at 764e9ab (phase9-viewer-shade2): skyVis normalised by a 40-lobe fit of the sky (SH9 written but not used: 1.23x overshoot on this near-horizon sky), sunVis divided by dotNL; unoccluded surface reads 1.0/1.0 at any normal; shade end unchanged; ?specgate=0 Phase 8 / =1 round 1; npm 771/771; +3.2 kB gz manifest. Finding: cam03 near_column's face gates to ~0 in both rounds, so its residual 1.45x is bake/material, not specular (re-measure after the re-bake). Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_viewer_shade_r2_review.md). NOTE for the lead's pack run: PFA_MAIN_ROOT must point at the tree whose manifest carries the constants. Queue still running. 2026-09-21 ~09:45 · MERGED phase9-viewer-shade2 (review MERGE WITH FIXES, fix 1 applied; 8 carries in docs/reviews/phase9_viewer_shade_r2_review.md). OPERATIONAL: MAIN's gate3 manifest has no sky.diffuse_lobes yet — the r2 gate is fully OFF until export/manifest_v4.py runs in MAIN (part of the pack chain after the queue; PFA_MAIN_ROOT must point at MAIN). Queue running. 2026-09-21 ~16:50 · Bake queue FINISHED 15:00 (105/105; 87 jobs this run, 455 min wall). The bake engineer had not resumed for step 3 (pack chain) by 16:47 — nudged by message; if it stays silent a fresh pack agent is dispatched. Then: capture window (shade r2 + belt counters) -> deploy 13 -> QA 25 -> ENV round -> close. 2026-09-21 ~17:20 · PACK CHAIN GREEN (phase9-rebake ba32ff6): 87 jobs 0 failures 455 min; 23 maps 0 clipped; env.glb re-exported (COLOR_0 range 44.26 -> 35.13), arch/orn/ground byte-identical; both gate5 manifests carry sky.open_irradiance_over_pi (2.197, 3.361, 5.825), sky.diffuse_lobes (40) and sun 21.428; first frame 49.30 MB desktop / 47.32 mobile; verify_glb, tiers_test, name_sweep, npm 771 PASS; web/dist built. Reviewer flags: manifest_v2 exposure assert widened 1e-6 -> 1e-3 EV (another owner's file), sync_main skipped (no-op in MAIN). Dispatched: rebake review + capture window 2 (docs/briefs/phase9_viewer_capture2.md, Chrome, GPU free). Then deploy 13 -> gate13 capture (web/tools/gate5.sh) -> QA 25. 2026-09-21 ~17:45 · Rebake review r1 (f5e004d): MERGE WITH FIXES — 3 fix-now (p9_geom_pin self-compare -> real score 28/30; ratio_check measured against an old-world ref -> re-run vs cycles_p9 cam02; manifest order fix into the README chain) sent back to the bake engineer (CPU). MAIN's stray manifest_v2.py copy discarded (identical to the branch). Merge after the fixes. Capture window 2 running (Chrome). 2026-09-21 ~18:05 · Capture 2 (phase9-viewer-capture2 299c65a, MERGED b4289c0): gate r2 ON via the packed manifest; cam03 p10 37.3 -> 13.3 (Cycles 6.1), near_column 1.44x R unchanged from r1 (not specular); cam05 p10 gated -5.9 % / ungated +6.8 % vs Cycles (neither inside ±3 %); counters 166/166, 131/149, 0 page errors. Parity vs cycles_p9 whole-frame 3.2-10.3 % (first absolute numbers, sky+water included) — QA 25 scores on the rubric/tiles. DECISION: deploy 13 with the gate ON (closer to Cycles), ?specgate=0 kept. DEPLOY 13 RUNNING (renders/logs/13_deploy_13.log). Then gate13 capture (PFA_TAG=gate13 web/tools/gate5.sh ) -> QA 25 (docs/briefs/qa_round_25.md, filled). Rebake merge waits on the bake engineer's 3 fixes. 2026-09-21 ~18:25 · DEPLOY 13 LIVE (version 201908ca; 70 new files, 693 unchanged; renders/logs/13_deploy_13.log). MERGED phase9-rebake (cdea182: review fix-now 1 p9_geom_pin real score 30/30 scored + 1 n/a, fix 3 ratio_check re-run vs cycles_p9 cam02 PASS hue 87.9 -> 67.9 deg toward 50.7, luminance_scale 1.5568, fix 5 README chain order; carries 2,4,6,7,8 open; merged without a second review — three small commits against named findings). gate13 capture RUNNING on the URL (renders/logs/13_gate13_capture.log). Next: commit the capture -> QA 25 -> ENV round -> close. 2026-09-21 ~19:00 · gate13 CAPTURED + committed (407052b stations, c1e5938 orbit; 0 page errors). Dispatched: QA 25 (Opus xhigh, docs/briefs/qa_round_25.md, CPU) and the ENV aerial-blocks round (Opus high, docs/briefs/phase9_env.md, Blender — GPU owner now; QA never uses the GPU). Next: QA 25 verdict -> user; ENV review/merge -> master rebuild -> backdrop export/deploy 14 -> QA; close (4K hero, Phase 9 sheet, delivery.md, burn). 2026-09-21 ~19:50 · QA 25 (a228268): PHASE 9 GATE PASSED — hero 4.05 (+0.04), 02 3.51 (+0.21), 03 3.08 (+0.25), 04 3.05 (+0.17), 05 3.24 (-0.04), 06 3.07 (0); mobile 3.44/3.59/2.77/2.87/3.00/2.62; name sweep 0 hits; belt frustum PASS; 0 page errors; payload 46.79/46.51 MB. Station 2 closed (mean |b*-photo| 10.34 -> 6.85); station 3 near_column 1.80x -> 1.38x, p10 37.5 -> 13.3 (Cycles 6.1, half the excess stands); rim closed. Residuals: far-crown deviation 7.5 -> 9.6 % at two boxes (QA 23 residual 1 partially re-opened; BAKE/EXPORT), cam05 p10 -5.9 % vs ±3 %, perf 22-37 fps not measured idle, violet column shafts = materials (viewer faithful). Reported to the user. ENV round running (GPU). Next: ENV -> review/merge -> rebuild -> backdrop export -> deploy 14 -> QA 26; close. 2026-09-21 ~20:40 · ENV round done (phase9-env f854f93): four tileable gain maps on UV0 for 1 291 backdrop meshes (cam06 hf +12-25 % Eevee, +27.6 % Cycles; photo still 4.3x = the R1 ceiling); named regression cam01/cam05 backdrop bands -1..3 % hf / +0.01 sat; ENV tri delta 0. Item 2: belt cover is OVER the photo (no crown added), shrub hard-edge is the belt behind them (positions md5-identical) -> BAKE/EXPORT. Export hand-off: the 4 PNGs as REPEAT Non-Color on TEXCOORD_0 multiplied over the baked atlas, no transform. Finding: scripts/build_master.py APPENDS (master has no libraries; before/after needs two lead_build runs). Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase9_env_r1_review.md). Next: merge -> rebuild master -> 4K hero (GPU) + backdrop export/viewer round (CPU) -> deploy 14 -> QA 26 -> close. 2026-09-21 ~21:20 · ENV review r1: MERGE WITH FIXES (4 fix-now: bd_rooftile not tileable (8 m tile vs 0.33/0.30 m courses -> hard line every 8 m), UV0 insertion moves the baked backdrop atlas to TEXCOORD_1 in env.glb (export/viewer must follow — added to docs/briefs/phase9_backdrop_export.md), env_p9_uv0 deletes layer 0 unconditionally, belt() after the __main__ guard; 5 carries). Fixes 1/3/4 sent back to the ENV agent (GPU free for the rebuild). Finding confirmed: scripts/build_master.py APPENDS (lead_build.sh passes no --link); CLAUDE.md's "assembles master.blend by linking" is stale — for the user to amend. Merge after the fixes; then rebuild master -> 4K hero + backdrop export round. 2026-09-21 ~21:50 · MERGED phase9-env (acfe4f8; fixes 1/3/4 applied: rooftile 8.10x7.92 m wraps, uv0 no longer deletes layers, belt() reproducible; cam06 hf +11.6/+24.3/+20.3 % on the shipped tile). Master rebuild r13 RUNNING in MAIN (marker renders/logs/.p9_master_rebuilt2). Dispatched: backdrop export/viewer round (phase9-backdrop-export, CPU first, Gate 1 export after the marker + no Blender). Next when the rebuild ends: 4K hero (phase5_deliver 4, GPU) -> Phase 9 sheet -> then backdrop chain -> capture -> deploy 14 -> QA 26 -> delivery.md -> burn. 2026-09-21 ~22:00 · Master rebuild r13 DONE (rc 0, 0 missing textures; master_delivery.blend carries r19 lighting + ENV R3). 4K HERO RENDERING (scripts/phase5_deliver.sh 4, 128 spp fixed, GPU; log renders/logs/phase5_4_r13_hero.log; Phase 8 hero preserved in renders/final/phase8/). Backdrop export agent on CPU, its Gate 1 export waits for the hero to release Blender. Next: hero tile pass (lead) -> scripts/phase9_sheet.py -> backdrop chain -> capture -> deploy 14 -> QA 26 -> delivery.md Phase 9 -> burn. 2026-09-21 ~22:45 · 4K HERO DONE (1 453 s, 128 spp fixed; renders/final/hero_cam01_3840x2160_128spp.png; lead tile pass clean, one note: thin dark band above the right colonnade entablature -> QA 26). Phase 9 sheet generated (scripts/phase9_sheet.py + --stations, AFTER = gate13; re-run with --after-gate gate14 after the backdrop deploy). delivery.md hero fields filled. Backdrop export round running (its Gate 1 export may start now: no Blender). Next: backdrop report -> review -> merge -> capture -> deploy 14 -> QA 26 -> sheet re-run -> delivery.md final -> burn. 2026-09-21 ~23:20 · Backdrop export/viewer round done (phase9-backdrop-export 28c618b): 4 tile KTX2 598 kB desktop / 92 kB mobile (tier 1); env.glb TEXCOORD_0 = tile UV, TEXCOORD_1 = baked atlas (gltf_gate1 appends "UVBake", pbr.js reads set.texCoord, env packed with -vtf); six other glbs byte-identical; first frame 49.39 / 47.45 MB; npm 819, verify_glb/tiers_test/name_sweep PASS; ?bdtiles=0 A/B; hf table owed (no Chrome). Dispatched: review (docs/reviews/phase9_backdrop_export_r1_review.md) + capture window (round26_bdtiles_on/off, hf tables). Hand-off: a future Gate 2 backdrop re-bake must bake to "UVBake" (assert in gate2_common.smart_uv1). Next: merge -> deploy 14 -> gate14 capture -> QA 26 -> sheet --after-gate gate14 -> delivery.md final -> burn. 2026-09-21 ~23:45 · Backdrop review r1: SEND BACK (61311f0) — tiers.py PACK_FLAGS["env"] lacks -vtf, so the SHIPPED env groups quantise the baked-atlas UV to ~8 steps (the swap test looked at the gate1 intermediate). Capture window stopped (frames invalid, not committed). Export agent re-packing with -vtf + test pointed at the published groups + README correction; then re-review -> merge -> capture -> deploy 14 -> QA 26. 2026-09-22 ~00:10 · Backdrop review r1 fixes done (phase9-backdrop-export 2b2c551): -vtf in tiers.py PACK_FLAGS["env"], shipped env groups float UV / 0 transforms, test on the published groups (fails without the flag), verify_gate5 accessor check, README corrected; first frame 49.31 MB desktop / 47.68 mobile; npm 828. Dispatched: re-review (docs/reviews/phase9_backdrop_export_r2_review.md) + the capture window re-run (round26_bdtiles_on/off). Next: merge -> deploy 14 -> gate14 capture -> QA 26 -> sheet --after-gate gate14 -> delivery.md final -> burn -> stop state. 2026-09-22 ~00:40 · Backdrop capture re-run on the -vtf groups (phase9-backdrop-export 2e6d148): cam06 hf +16.0 / +36.7 / +37.2 % ON vs OFF (ENV Eevee +11.6 / +24.3 / +20.3), stations 3/4 unchanged (0.001 / 0 %), 1/2/5 only backdrop pixels and reflections move, ENV's cam01/cam05 regression does NOT reproduce in the viewer; gain-off build reproduces deploy 13 (city r1c3 luma 0.424 vs 0.423); 0 page errors; tiles read as facade/roof texture at 100 % (lead viewed the crop pair: window rows and storey lines where deploy 13 has flat slabs). Waiting on the r2 review, then merge -> deploy 14. 2026-09-22 ~01:00 · MERGED phase9-backdrop-export (0312909; r2 review MERGE WITH FIXES, fix 1 applied). DEPLOY 14 RUNNING (web build from main + web/deploy.sh; renders/logs/14_deploy_14.log). Next: gate14 capture (PFA_TAG=gate14 gate5.sh + orbit) -> QA 26 (docs/briefs/qa_round_26.md) -> phase9_sheet --after-gate gate14 -> delivery.md final -> burn -> stop state. 2026-09-22 ~01:20 · DEPLOY 14 LIVE (version ff3545be; 15 new files; renders/logs/14_deploy_14.log). gate14 capture RUNNING (stations + mobile + orbit; logs 14_gate14_capture.log / 14_gate14_orbit.log). Next: commit the capture -> QA 26 -> phase9_sheet --after-gate gate14 -> delivery.md final -> burn -> stop state. 2026-09-22 ~01:45 · gate14 CAPTURED + committed (2218a42; 0 page errors). QA 26 dispatched (docs/briefs/qa_round_26.md). Phase 9 sheet re-generated with AFTER = gate14 (+ stations). Next: QA 26 verdict -> user; delivery.md final (deploy 14 / QA 26 fields); burn; stop state. ## 2026-09-22 ~02:10 · SESSION 10 STOP STATE — PHASE 9 CLOSED QA 26 (bfda394): CLOSE CONFIRMED — 01 4.05 · 02 3.55 · 03 3.08 · 04 3.05 · 05 3.24 · 06 3.15 (mobile 3.44 / 3.63 / 2.77 / 2.87 / 3.00 / 2.70); cam06 tiles read as facade/roof, no lattice; 3/4 byte-close; 0 page errors; the 4K hero's dark band = a shaded colonnade-deck face in every renderer (ARCH/LIGHT residual). Live: deploy 14 at https://pfa-walkthrough.3d-render-blender-3rd-attempt-building.workers.dev (version ff3545be). main = this commit, clean; no Blender, no Chrome; bake queue idle; worktrees phase9-* can be removed. delivery.md Phase 9 final; decisions.md "PHASE 9 CLOSED"; sheet renders/qa_comparisons/phase9_before_after_960.jpg (AFTER = gate14). Open residuals (docs/delivery.md Phase 9): frieze/soffit over-warm + shaft a* (MATERIALS), cam03 near_column 1.4x (BAKE/MATERIALS), far-crown 9.6 % at two boxes (BAKE/EXPORT), cam05 shade −5.9 % gated (VIEWER), perf never measured idle, cycles_p9/cam06 stale vs ENV R3, colonnade-deck band (ARCH/LIGHT), CLAUDE.md "by linking" stale (user). Nothing scheduled: polish beyond this is a new phase. Burn (list rates): session 10 (e93f113b) 270.08 USD so far at 18:44 (opus-5 231, fable-5-1 39; the rest of the evening not yet in the transcript index); session 9 final 56.26; session 8 final 387.06. ## 2026-09-21 ~23:00 · Retrospective of Phase 6 delivered on branch analysis/retro (lead, Fable 5.1; read-only elsewhere) Merged nothing. Delivered: docs/phase6_story.html (self-contained, 1.9 MB), docs/retrospective_phase6.md, docs/usage/phase6_audit.py (+ .json/.md), make_phase6_story.py, and the `--turns` mode in usage_from_transcripts.py. Burn this session $19.92 nominal, no subagents. Next: the user reads the page and the audit; the ten CLAUDE.md proposals in the audit §8 wait for the user's decision; nothing in flight. ## 2026-09-23 · PUBLISHED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/dkhh10/palace-of-fine-arts-3d (lead, Fable 5.1) Merged analysis/retro into main (fast-forward). Added README, LICENSE (MIT, code), LICENSE-IMAGES.md (CC BY-SA 4.0), reference/photos/ATTRIBUTION.md (author + licence for all 209 Commons photos, fetched by fetch_attribution.py), the photo credit on docs/phase6_story.html; scrubbed the personal email from three fetch scripts; .claude/, .wrangler/ and renders/logs/*.jsonl ignored. Public copy = scripts/publish_github.sh (fresh bare clone, git-filter-repo: no .blend, no blob over 2 MB, author email -> GitHub noreply, email scrubbed from history; force-push all branches). The working repository keeps its full history. Big files (six .blend, master_delivery.blend, two 4K heroes, flythrough) are a GitHub Release, assets-v1. Re-publish after new commits by re-running the script. ## 2026-09-24 · APPROACH REVIEW (lead, Fable 5.1; user asked whether photo-to-3D ML beats the hand-built model) Delivered docs/approach_review_2026-09-24.md + docs/recon_probe/ (pycolmap probe: 114/159 photos register in 8 pieces; the usable model is 71 lagoon-side views of the rotunda over ~57 deg, no colonnade, no back). Verdict: whole-building photo-to-3D impossible from this set; recommend A (registered multi-view projection + monocular normals on the existing mesh) + B (tree band + water, no ML) now, C (site capture -> splat as ground truth / env layer) when the user can visit. NOT COMMITTED: git, brew and /usr/bin/python3 are blocked until `sudo xcodebuild -license` is accepted. Nothing in flight; awaiting the user's decisions (review §5). ## 2026-09-24 · PHASE 10 OPENED (lead, Fable 5.1; user: "go ahead" on the approach review) — decisions.md 2026-09-24 Round 1 dispatched: projection engineer (Opus xhigh, branch phase10-proj, docs/briefs/phase10_projection.md: SfM registration -> UVBake atlases -> multi-view delit projection into MAT_concrete_*/columns) and ENV (Opus high, branch phase10-env, docs/briefs/phase10_env.md: NE conifer mass + willow to ref 169, environment.blend only). Disjoint files; GPU shared by turns. Next: reviews -> merges -> materials round 2 (water) -> master rebuild -> QA 27 gate -> close Phase 10. Option C (site capture) waits on the user. Xcode licence accepted by the user; git works again (319bc9a committed the review). ## 2026-09-24 ~10:35 · CHECKPOINT (user away; lead continues autonomously in this session on the recommendations below) In flight: projection engineer on phase10-proj (docs/briefs/phase10_projection.md; SfM registration, UVBake, depth renders, MPS delighting, projection, 3 measurement renders — hours) and ENV on phase10-env (docs/briefs/phase10_env.md; conifer mass + willow — 1-2 h). Lead heartbeat every 60 min. Written, not dispatched: docs/briefs/phase10_water.md (round 2, after proj merges), docs/briefs/qa_round_27.md (gate after the rebuild). Decisions the next hours need, lead's recommendation in force unless the user says otherwise: (1) each report -> Opus read-only review -> merge when blockers = 0; (2) water round 2 dispatched only if the merged hero sheet shows the water as the weakest element, else skipped; (3) after both merges: scripts/lead_build.sh in MAIN, cycles_p10 six stations, QA 27; (4) close Phase 10 on the QA 27 verdict whatever the score. Open for the user: site visit (option C), budget cap (30 weekly points assumed). RESTART PROMPT (if this session dies): "Resume as lead from docs/status.md 2026-09-24 CHECKPOINT and git: pgrep/kill stale `MacOS/Blender --background`; check branches phase10-proj and phase10-env (git log, docs/briefs/phase10_*_report.md or the agent's notes); if a round is unfinished re-dispatch a fresh Opus agent on the same branch with the same brief and its checkpoint section; then review -> merge -> rebuild -> QA 27 -> close Phase 10 per decisions.md 2026-09-24." 2026-09-24 ~10:45 · SESSION STOPPED CLEANLY (user takes the laptop): both round-1 agents were told to commit and write a "## Checkpoint 2026-09-24" section (proj: docs/materials_notes.md; env: docs/briefs/phase10_env_report.md). Heartbeat loop stopped. On return: NEW session, paste the RESTART PROMPT above; the lead re-dispatches fresh Opus agents on phase10-proj / phase10-env from their checkpoint sections (never resume an old agent). Check `git -C .claude/worktrees/phase10-proj log --oneline -3` and the env worktree first; kill any stale `MacOS/Blender --background`. 2026-09-24 ~10:50 · ENV CHECKPOINTED at 91ef160 (phase10-env): 2 columnar cypresses added on the peninsula shore (65-72 m out; the 141 m cluster cannot reach the photo's crown row), willow denser, leaf cards larger; tri +6.4 / +8.3 / +1.9 % per LOD (LOD2 grew, note for review); after-renders and sheet NOT done — resume commands in docs/briefs/phase10_env_report.md Checkpoint. Projection agent still finishing its checkpoint (arch_uvbake.py running). 2026-09-24 ~11:00 · PROJECTION CHECKPOINTED at 8295181 (phase10-proj; no .blend saved): step 1 done (71-view model rebuilt at 1600 px); step 2 alignment NOT solved (scale ~16.75 m/unit, gravity from camera right vectors; the octagon's eight faces score within 2 % so the fit picked the wrong face — resume from the face-0 candidate, yaw 189, cameras at az ~82, else 6 hand-picked column-axis points in ref_022); step 3 arch_uvbake.py dry-run clean but density 19-36 texels/m vs 200 target (thousands of tiny islands on the dentil/egg/modillion courses — unwrap those by azimuth/height or give them their own atlas). Steps 4-10 not started. Hand-off to ARCH: arch_build.py must run arch_uvbake.py as a post-step like arch_uvproj.py. Checkpoint section: docs/materials_notes.md. BOTH AGENTS STOPPED; session closed cleanly; restart prompt above. ## 2026-09-24 · SESSION 12 RESUMED FROM CHECKPOINT (lead, Fable 5.1) No stale `--background` Blender (pid 5262 = the user's GUI Blender, 2 h, left alone). Both branches clean at their checkpoints (proj 8295181, env 91ef160). Re-dispatched fresh Opus agents: ENV (high) on phase10-env to finish the after-renders, boxes, sheet and report; projection engineer (xhigh) on phase10-proj from step 2 (sector-forced ICP, camera-side prior, hand picks fallback), step 3 density fix, then 4-10, ~5 h cap. Next: reviews (Opus read-only) -> merges -> lead_build.sh in MAIN -> cycles_p10 six stations -> QA 27 (docs/briefs/qa_round_27.md) -> close Phase 10. Water round 2 only if the merged hero sheet shows water as the weakest element. 2026-09-24 ~11:50 · ENV r1 DONE (phase10-env c1b5e434): NE crown-top passes (411 px vs ref 398), sky 45.8 % / dark 23.6 % vs ref 34.8 / 15.2 fail (foliage colour, not geometry); willow box fails (plan position, out of scope); tris +6.4/+8.3/+1.9 %; sheet env_p10_sheet.png viewed by the lead: direction right, foliage near-black. Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase10_env_r1_review.md). Foliage colour folded into the round-2 materials brief (phase10_water.md, after proj merges). 2026-09-24 ~12:15 · MERGED phase10-env (ea12906; review d4a0862 MERGE WITH FIXES: logs + census done by the lead, willow kept per decisions.md). Master in MAIN NOT rebuilt yet (waits for the projection merge; one rebuild). In flight: projection engineer on phase10-proj (step 2 cameras.json written at 08ebc82). Next: proj report -> review -> merge -> lead_build.sh -> round-2 materials (water + foliage colour) -> rebuild -> cycles_p10 -> QA 27. 2026-09-24 ~12:40 · Parallel fill (user asked for full steam): ENV r2 dispatched on phase10-env2 (docs/briefs/phase10_env_r2.md: hero-shore willow moved/scaled into ref 169's box, colour-independent index-pass metric) and an EARLY read-only review of phase10-proj steps 1-3 (docs/reviews/phase10_proj_r1_review_part1.md) so the final review is a delta. Materials r2 (water + foliage colour) stays serialized behind the projection merge (same file, decisions.md). Three agents live: proj (xhigh), env2 (high), reviewer. 2026-09-24 ~13:00 · Early proj review (767f9bc, PARTIAL steps 1-3, not mergeable yet): registration metric flat under a control shift (fix-now), step 2 not re-runnable, no impossible-camera gate, uvbake exits 0 on failure. Sent to the projection agent with the two decisions (density accepted, per-instance column variation required); it must fix the metric before projecting. The final review starts at ba87ab76. 2026-09-24 ~13:45 · ENV r2 DONE (phase10-env2 fd31fd1): the brief's premise was wrong (ref 169's willow is low and broad, crown top 5.1 m); the hero-shore willow moved to (4.4, 43.4) 5.4 m x1.7 wide -> box own-pixels 17.7 % / top row 607 vs ref 21.7 % / 604 (both pass); one added willow (b1f7c49) fills the podium slot the photo has; tris +0.9/+1.3/+0.5 % vs r1. Lead viewed the sheet: keep both. Follow-up sent to the same agent: move the (-2.6, 45.9) willow off the central arch opening (2,065 px covered). Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase10_env_r2_review.md). Proj agent still on the registration fix. 2026-09-24 ~14:20 · MERGED phase10-env2 (review 5701b41; fix-nows closed: w2 measured 0 px on the arch, census 36.7 m vs 37 m ring accepted). Master in MAIN still the pre-Phase-10 build (one rebuild after the proj merge). In flight: projection engineer rendering its fair before/after set (315d482). Next: proj report -> final review (from ba87ab76) -> merge + arch_build hook -> lead_build.sh -> materials r2 (water + foliage) -> rebuild -> cycles_p10 -> QA 27. 2026-09-24 ~15:10 · PROJ r1 DONE (phase10-proj 81f7983): 43/71 cameras, 0.71 px fit residual, coverage ~85 %, delighting 0.45x, two holds broken (shaded attic lum 129.1, column sat 0.658), visible effect on the column shafts only. Final review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase10_proj_r1_review.md, from ba87ab76). Retune folded into the round-2 materials brief. Next: merge + arch_build hook -> lead_build.sh -> materials r2 (water + foliage + retune) -> rebuild -> cycles_p10 -> QA 27. 2026-09-24 ~15:40 · Final proj review (a7037b5, MERGE WITH FIXES): registration still in-sample (held-out split test asked), 5 used cameras inside the lagoon polygon (land gate asked, steps 6-8 re-run if any drop), atlas-off before must also zero P10_unr9, evidence logs uncommitted, UVBake determinism unproven (two dry runs asked before the hook). Sent to the projection agent, ~90 min. Merge after its reply. 2026-09-24 ~16:30 · MERGED phase10-proj (e4116b8) + ARCH hook (verified). Projection SHELVED at weight 0 (held-out 20.4 px, 40/43 cameras behind the shore; decisions.md). Materials r2 dispatched on phase10-water (water + foliage colour + column tint at weight 0; docs/briefs/phase10_water.md). Then: review -> merge -> lead_build.sh in MAIN -> PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> scripts/p10_cycles_refs.sh -> QA 27 -> close. 2026-09-24 ~18:00 · MATERIALS r2 DONE (phase10-water 2baa190): water breakup and column tint on target, conifer luma on target (B/G not), reflection lum/hue and near-water sat short but closer; willow box 2 kept (decisions.md). Review dispatched (docs/reviews/phase10_water_r2_review.md). Next: merge -> lead_build.sh in MAIN -> PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> scripts/p10_cycles_refs.sh (7 renders, ~1 h) -> QA 27 -> close. 2026-09-24 ~18:40 · MERGED phase10-water (4e1feb9; review 71fd65e, notes corrected a608c93). All Phase 10 rounds merged. RUNNING in MAIN: lead_build.sh -> PFA_PACK=1 phase5_deliver.sh 1b -> p10_cycles_refs.sh (renders/logs/p10_chain.log; cycles_p10/, ~1-1.5 h GPU). Next: QA 27 (docs/briefs/qa_round_27.md, renders provided) -> delivery.md / decisions "PHASE 10 CLOSED" -> publish_github.sh -> burn.