sots-re/findings/subsystems
lane-l4 7e6bda3699 L4: the AI's command block, read out of the running game
findings/subsystems/ai-order-capture.md -- two workloads on VM145, every submitted
TurnCommands block dumped at the batch applier, plus sixteen pass-attributed entry
probes on the task bodies and the emission gates.

Headline: our emission model reproduces both real blocks exactly, list for list and
element for element, and both turns land on the measured ModCount of 12. What it did
not have: a list-23 element on every AI turn (the first element ever observed in the
free half of the cost table, and it really is free), client-allocated ids travelling
inside the commands (design 18, fleet 34 -- neither in the input save), and build,
rates and population all naming the same home system.

Two predictions falsified, both usefully: the batch is n = playerCount = 8 with the
four monster factions holding untouched slots, not n = 4; and the fleet order names
the fleet the client has ALREADY created, not the one in the save.

AITRaid's pass-0 question stays open and now says why -- the task never ran on either
board, so the list-16 zero is 'never entered', not 'entered and silent'.

Rule 19: the ref-turn2 control passed byte-identical to the published oracle with all
seventeen detours installed. Separately, the turn-1 workload is NOT reproducible --
three runs, three autosaves, differing in exactly one field: the research target of
the AI player that owns nothing.

ghidra/addresses.d/lane-l4.json: 9 entries (8 IAITask::Execute bodies + the list-16
order method). Raw logs and the two divergent autosaves in verify/results/shim/aiorders/.
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.keep.md scaffold RE campaign: board, backlog, findings template, verify tree 2026-09-07 14:40:44 -04:00
ai-order-capture.md L4: the AI's command block, read out of the running game 2026-09-08 18:01:45 -04:00
ai-order-emission.md AI4: what an AI turn emits, and what each command costs in ModCount 2026-09-08 16:27:58 -04:00
ai-stepping-and-passes.md findings: lane AI3 -- the AI stepping order is save player order, and pass 0 writes nothing 2026-09-08 15:29:53 -04:00
ai-task-system.md lane AI2: the AI's task selection loop, the priority table, and the order-method -> TurnCommands map 2026-09-08 14:43:41 -04:00
ai-turn-logic.md lane H: five live probes, the oracle restored, and a harness perturbation bisected to one hook 2026-09-08 13:53:36 -04:00
battle-load-profile.md battle-load: profile filed, bug parked; sampler + resume recipe kept 2026-09-07 16:43:14 -04:00
data-model.md data-model: fix example section path (CRAIC, caught by vfs oracle) 2026-09-07 17:41:45 -04:00
data-parsers.md verify: mars data parsers proven 100% on 1595 files; catalogs; tech-tree graph 2026-09-07 15:22:55 -04:00
determinism-oracle.md L1: hive creation draws inside BeginProcessTurn -- lane Z's zero was the workload 2026-09-08 17:59:32 -04:00
eventlive-verification.md lane V: live verification of the event-posting model against an advance prediction 2026-09-08 05:59:22 -04:00
events.md lane EV: what a turn actually posts, and two corrections to events.md 2026-09-08 15:40:07 -04:00
formula-gaps.md lane PL: decompose the /Sim/players residual by mechanism; the bankruptcy protection factor is a float32 2026-09-08 16:36:45 -04:00
fpu-precision-sensitivity.md lane F: x87 precision sensitivity measured; STATE_CHECKSUM 3.5 closed 2026-09-08 05:07:53 -04:00
golden-trace-recapture.md lane X: x86 displacement xref scanner; pin sizeof(ObservedTech) and its append site 2026-09-08 04:44:18 -04:00
income-term.md lane C3: ComputeOutput on the turn path -- the money ComputeBudget actually sums 2026-09-08 14:50:50 -04:00
loader-prototypes.md lane S: std::string is 0x1c binary-wide; ObservedTech element fully mapped 2026-09-08 05:09:33 -04:00
money-chain-float-widths.md L5: the money chain's float widths, measured live at a boundary 2026-09-08 17:49:35 -04:00
movefleet-position-rounding.md lane M: MoveFleet position rounding closed; VM140 released; types 2-5 still uncovered 2026-09-08 03:51:39 -04:00
multiplayer-gamespy.md board: lane P2 nav classifier; type 2 is the Liir drive, a naming error not a gap 2026-09-08 12:45:27 -04:00
multiplayer-tier0-verified.md lane W2: VM housekeeping notes for the multiplayer recipe (SOTSUI2 left registered, SOTSB staged not registered, -ExecutionPolicy Bypass gotcha) 2026-09-08 15:26:42 -04:00
nvo-tshn-visible-owner.md board: lane L5 - reference pair non-deterministic; interest literals verified with a failing control; verified column held at 0 on principle 2026-09-08 17:55:47 -04:00
observedtech-append.md lane S: std::string is 0x1c binary-wide; ObservedTech element fully mapped 2026-09-08 05:09:33 -04:00
output-term.md lane C3: ComputeOutput on the turn path -- the money ComputeBudget actually sums 2026-09-08 14:50:50 -04:00
output-turn-path.md lane G3: civilian growth read and measured; out[6] is not a repair number 2026-09-08 15:53:08 -04:00
path-solver.md lane P2: the path solver read from the instruction stream, and OrderFleetMove's three failure bits 2026-09-08 12:43:34 -04:00
players-residual.md lane PL: decompose the /Sim/players residual by mechanism; the bankruptcy protection factor is a float32 2026-09-08 16:36:45 -04:00
population-growth.md lane G3: civilian growth read and measured; out[6] is not a repair number 2026-09-08 15:53:08 -04:00
rcex-explained.md lane W2: multiplayer Tier 0 played end to end with no server; ModCount/Frame/Status watchpoints; rcex explained 2026-09-08 15:23:52 -04:00
running-the-game.md verified: real saves parse; ServerPlayer/StarFleet/StarShip confirmed, ServerSystem conditional gaps listed; game-run recipe 2026-09-07 16:09:28 -04:00
setresearched-cascade.md lane U: the unlock cascade, implemented and live-verified 2026-09-08 06:57:37 -04:00
ship-construction.md findings: ship construction -- the build queue read byte for byte, and the missing destroyer is the AI's 2026-09-08 14:54:03 -04:00
snlv-measured.md board: lane L5 - reference pair non-deterministic; interest literals verified with a failing control; verified column held at 0 on principle 2026-09-08 17:55:47 -04:00
strategic-turn-internals.md lane T2: the treaty-turn stamp, and Player.Status's real writer 2026-09-08 14:52:44 -04:00
strings-and-config.md strings/config: battle-load smoking gun (affinity), lockstep sim, net map, Mods override 2026-09-07 14:58:36 -04:00
system-visibility-prediction.md lane E3: the prediction's outcome, leaf for leaf 2026-09-08 13:39:30 -04:00
system-visibility-record.md W3: NVO.TShn's writer trapped live, its gate named, and 158/158 on the corpus 2026-09-08 16:41:09 -04:00
tech-effects.md b2 static findings: tech effects corrections, full g_TechIdNames dump; contract 176->211 2026-09-08 00:01:04 -04:00
treaty-turn-stamp.md lane T2: re-measure H02 on main 2fd0852 (C3 + B6 merged) -- same +26 / +14 / +12x3, 0 regressed, so the phase is orthogonal to both 2026-09-08 15:04:36 -04:00
turn1-to-turn2-nondeterminism.md L5: the money chain's float widths, measured live at a boundary 2026-09-08 17:49:35 -04:00
ui-screen-map.md board: lane P2 nav classifier; type 2 is the Liir drive, a naming error not a gap 2026-09-08 12:45:27 -04:00
unlock-cascade.md lane K: StrategyServer::OnAllCombatDone_Tail mapped, 36 phases from the instruction stream 2026-09-08 08:47:08 -04:00