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Audited rather than appended. What had drifted, now corrected:

- ROADMAP's opening still described the project before this session: no
  word of the anti-cheat fixes, 468 tests, 23 smoke assertions, and a
  screenshot list half its current size. It now summarises the session,
  lists seven open items raised with the user and not yet decided (the
  boss-kill experience edge, the hub frame rate, aggro through corner
  cracks, the Warden-hall alcoves, one-tile arena doors, the Proving
  Grounds before release, hit feedback), and quotes current numbers.
  Its radius table still gave BULLET_INTEREST_RADIUS as the bullet cull
  at 2200; it is a 2900 ceiling over a per-bullet check.
- NETCODE described the flat bullet radius as the design, claimed the
  respawn lockout gates connected players (they are unbound on death),
  and called actor scoping "next stage". All corrected, and a new section
  covers what the handshake and server now refuse: duplicate sessions,
  reasons that now arrive, paced control messages, coalesced store
  writes, bounds-checked hot decoders.
- DECISIONS gains the audit's rules, the Proving Grounds' status, the
  tunnel and entrance rules, and the interface calls -- each flagged as
  the user's or as a judgement call.
- ARCHITECTURE's file map lacked the actor classes, the dev auth
  provider, the menu backdrop and any tools section.
- README told people to start a client with --name, which now only names
  bot characters, and its feature list predated fog, tunnels and carried
  health. CLAUDE.md gains three invariants (health on the record, one
  session per account, tools that host use scratch data); WORKFLOW gains
  the four traps this session fell into or nearly did.

Every doc was checked for unintended deletions against the session's
start, and every relative link resolves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**A CHASE boss has a dead band around its preferred distance.** The correction
is signed, so without one the sign flips every tick at the standoff and the boss
vibrates on the spot at the tick rate — a couple of pixels, and unmistakable.
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## The anti-cheat audit, and the rules it left behind
*(User asked for an audit for design flaws and cheats, then "fix these".)* Each
of these was found by reading the server's code paths and then proving the
problem with a probe before fixing it.
**One account, one session — and the newcomer is refused, not the incumbent.**
Two peers on one account each got a player built from the same character record,
so both held a copy of one bag and whichever wrote last won: drop the one potion
from both copies and two potions hit the floor. Refusing the second connection is
the only fix that closes it. The *new* peer is the one turned away because, with
an auth provider anyone can spoof, "kick whoever holds this account" would let
anyone disconnect anyone. A dropped player's linkdead body still holds the
account until its escape channel resolves, which is deliberate: reconnecting
during that second would put the character in the world twice.
**A rejection must reach the client.** `Net.reject_and_kick` defers the kick,
because an RPC only leaves on the frame's flush and kicking in the same call threw
the reason away — a protocol mismatch used to arrive as "server closed the
connection".
**Bullets are never born on the far side of geometry.** A muzzle offset is a
teleport the pool never sees. The player's shot falls back to the shooter's
centre when blocked (six Doubleshots used to put shots through a one-tile wall);
an enemy's shot is dropped (boss curtains were spawning through the arenas' own
pillars and barricades). A telegraphed burst is checked from its marker, not from
the boss.
**Bullet spawns are culled per bullet, not by a flat radius.** Each spawn event
carries the shooter's exact position, and the flat 2900-unit radius exceeded the
whole depth-1 map, so every firing enemy was located for every player.
`ServerRuntime._bullet_concerns` asks whether *this* bullet can reach ground the
player can see.
**No packet buys unbounded work.** Selecting a character you already hold is a
no-op; select and create are paced per peer (`CONTROL_COOLDOWN_TICKS`), and the
pacing logs once per burst, not once per packet. Item moves and experience grants
mark the store dirty and it is written once per tick at most.
**The hub has no escape channel.** Completing it there meant transferring into
the instance you were already in — teleport, full heal, map re-streamed.
**A player's drop is refused when the floor is full.** The cap evicts the oldest
item, which is right for a dungeon's own drops and was wrong for the hub, where it
let a player destroy whatever someone else had left there longest.
## Health, experience and a debug dungeon
**The Proving Grounds is a debugging tool and does not ship.** *(User.)* It pays
full experience for a boss with 8% of its health. Remove it from `Dungeons.ORDER`
and its `P` marker before a release — see the roadmap.
## Tunnels and what is in them
**Tunnels are 2 to 4 tiles wide, rolled per leg.** *(User: "a varied width with a
minimum of 2".)* A one-tile corridor in a bullet hell is a shooting gallery. The
width is per leg of each L, not varying along a leg; that was the simpler reading
and the user has not asked for the other. The arena is excluded from every carve —
an L that bent the wrong way used to slit 45% of arenas' west walls open.
**Now and then a tunnel has a group in it.** *(User: "rarely".)* A 10% chance per
leg of two or three of one kind; about one depth-1 run in three gets one. Never
within aggro range of the entrance, checked per member.
**Nothing can be watching the entrance when you arrive.** Room 0 was always left
empty for this, but only room 0 — and wider tunnels tripled how often a
neighbouring room could see the entrance (25 to 75 runs in 200). Enemies that
would be awake on arrival are skipped: about one in sixteen. Clearing everything
within aggro range would have removed nearly a third, which is a balance change
the user has not asked for.
## Interface
**Every key a prompt names is the one actually bound.** All actions are
rebindable; prompts go through `Settings.short_label()`.
**The boss bar waits until the boss has been seen.** The server sends the boss
through walls from 800 units, and the bar used to announce it to a player still in
the entrance room. It appears once the fog has lit the boss and stays for the
fight. A judgement call, flagged to the user as reversible.
**The controls hint fades six seconds into a dungeon** and stays in the hub. Also
a judgement call; one constant (`Hud.HINT_HOLD`).
**The connect screen asks for no name.** The field it had only named the
characters bots create; people name characters on the roster screen.
**Getting hit reddens the screen's edge, not the whole screen** — a full-screen
tint dimmed the bullets at the moment you were among them.