sots-re/findings/control-flow
alex c504729341 lane S2: the standalone scaffold, and the measured distance to the byte-match
tools/standalone_report.py drives sots-engine's sots_turn over each
consecutive-turn save pair and diffs the result against the game's own
post-turn save with state_checksum.py, which localises to named leaves and
proves its own coverage by re-serialisation.

  turn1-state -> turn2-state   baseline 209 diverging, after 204, closed 5
  turn2-state -> turn3-state   baseline 108 diverging, after 103, closed 5
  regressed 0 on both

`regressed` is reported next to `closed` and never netted off. It earned its
place immediately: committing the phase-31 player-status restore turned two
agreeing leaves into disagreeing ones, because the phase writes 1 and the file
carries 4.

The stable-system stand-in feeding the colony pass is a labelled hypothesis and
it survived a changed workload -- the same 3 ntdev leaves closed on both pairs,
six agreements, zero disagreements.

Two things deliberately NOT implemented: the TShn/ltis counters (18 leaves, a
`+1` would close them, but "+1 across one observed turn" is a hypothesis, not a
reading), and the RNG state write-back (an advanced-but-incomplete generator is
wrong in a different way from an untouched one).

dashboard.py gains section 6, reading verify/results/standalone/status.json:
phases modelled/committed per driver, baseline vs after, closed vs regressed,
the subsystem breakdown of what still differs, and the RNG gap. Sections 6-8
renumbered to 7-9; the delta footer tracks the two new counts.
DASHBOARD_README.md documents every number.

findings/control-flow/standalone-scaffold.md has the ranked blocker list.
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combat-done-tail.md Z: the unnamed counter at S+0x8 is ModCount, and my players flag was my own error 2026-09-08 10:04:21 -04:00
combat-resolver.md lane J: the combat resolver, read from the instruction stream 2026-09-08 09:37:02 -04:00
inlined-draws.md lane I: the complete inlined-draw inventory, and the seven RNG entry points 2026-09-08 10:03:33 -04:00
standalone-scaffold.md lane S2: the standalone scaffold, and the measured distance to the byte-match 2026-09-08 10:35:56 -04:00
tail-rng-ledger.md Z: P9 held on every clause -- the node-line draw landed on turn 64 and cost one word 2026-09-08 10:24:05 -04:00
turn-driver.md lane K: StrategyServer::OnAllCombatDone_Tail mapped, 36 phases from the instruction stream 2026-09-08 08:47:08 -04:00
turn-spine.md tech effects (196-entry TechId table, OnTechResearched), 8 formula gaps answered, std::string settled 2026-09-07 22:05:49 -04:00