Building round 1's oracle exposed two defects in the round as written, both
mine, and both invisible until something tried to satisfy it.
The glyph set was chosen by subpath count. I wrote that 19 of the 37 bundled
outlines have more than one subpath and named gClef, fClef, timeSig8 and
accidentalFlat as the useful ones -- conflating multi-subpath with has-a-hole.
fClef is the counter-example: its three subpaths are a bowl and two SOLID,
disjoint dots, nested in nothing. Measured across all 37 by point-in-path,
exactly twelve carry a bounded hole; fClef, cClef, barlineFinal and every
repeat glyph carry none.
Round 1 now runs five glyphs in two classes testing two different properties.
Hole checks -- gClef, timeSig8, accidentalFlat and noteheadHalf, which is new
and earns its place by being frequently repeated and semantically consequential
(a filled counter renders half notes as quarter notes, a notation error rather
than an artifact). Disjoint-component check -- fClef alone, no background
requirement, instead requiring one ink point inside EACH of its three filled
subpaths, tagged with its subpath index. That second class catches a
tessellator that keeps only the largest contour, which would pass every hole
check ever written. Hard failure is now stated as either: a bounded hole
painted as ink, or a required filled subpath omitted.
The oracle's status model is now specified rather than inferred from an
absence. fClef passing with zero background points is a SATISFIED result under
its own requirement class; recording it only as background_satisfied = false
would make a correct outcome indistinguishable from a failed one.
The second defect was the criterion itself. Ruling A said epaint does not
implement even-odd/nonzero fill for paths with holes -- framing criterion 1
around the fill RULE. Bravura's contours are correctly oppositely wound
(signed ring areas gClef [8.702, -0.691, -1.803, -0.509]; fClef
[2.534, 0.153, 0.148], all positive, the same fact from the other side), so
even-odd and nonzero AGREE on every bundled hole. The rule is not load-bearing;
preserving every filled contour and every bounded counter is. The criterion is
amended to compound-path / inner-subpath fill correctness, with a more accurate
reason for excluding raw egui shapes than the one it replaces: PathShape is a
single point loop documenting "Fill is only supported for convex polygons", so
it cannot express compound-fill or subtractive-hole semantics -- a Shape::Vec
can group loops, but grouping paints them, it does not subtract a counter from
its enclosing contour.
Signed areas are recorded from the oracle's adaptive flattening rather than an
earlier coarse fixed-step measurement, with the note that magnitudes are
flattening-dependent and the SIGNS are the claim.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RSX4zSLgKvtiXaPjnMqLGz
Ruling A grants the architecture -- direct vector canvas over ResolvedLayoutIR,
viewport-culled, per-system damage -- and deliberately leaves the toolkit open
for this spike to decide under six recorded criteria. All three prerequisites
are discharged (W1 dd33b34, W2 24f8c80, W3 f639919), so the tranche opens.
The contract's problem is not what to build but how to keep the answer honest.
Six criteria across three candidate stacks is unbounded work with a dozen
places for the verdict to be decided by whoever writes the report. So the
structure is an elimination ladder, cheapest disqualifier first, with every
deciding number pinned before it is measured: the fixture ladder F1-F4 and its
musical-content recipe, the deciding rung, the equivalence band, the tie-break
and its three operationally defined axes, and the oracles -- committed, with
their commit recorded, before any candidate renders against them.
Five review rounds shaped it, and most of what they caught was mine.
Measurement. Timed work must be completed GPU work, not submission, or a
candidate that returns after enqueueing looks fast. One common configuration
across all candidates: offscreen, 1920x1080, identical MSAA and format,
--release --locked, both adapters with the integrated one deciding. Freehand
latency runs from scheduled event injection to completion of the first frame
containing that event, backlog included; timing from renderer pickup would let
a candidate buffer the trace, render late, drop nothing, and report fast update
work while lagging visibly.
Damage. The first draft compared raw PrimitiveIndices, which are positions in
flat arrays -- so a pitch change that preserves primitive count moves geometry
while every vector stays identical, and an inserted accidental renumbers
indices so untouched systems look changed. It is now fingerprints over
dereferenced primitives, unowned included. And byte equality alone lets a full
redraw masquerade as per-system damage, so the oracle is paired with a reuse
assertion over the scene cache, at every engraving-valid rung, before the
ranking round rather than inside it.
Outcomes. A check that ran and got the wrong answer is FAIL, not NOT RUN;
conflating them let a broken implementation buy an escalation instead of
recording negative evidence. Capability and timing are separate cells.
Eligibility is a disqualifying set tracked apart from criterion cells, so a
user waiver actually reaches the tie-break instead of leaving a decision with
no effect. Both no-winner paths are total: disqualification, and ranking-loss
wipeout when nobody renders the deciding rung.
Maintenance inputs are reproducible rather than selectable: upstreams pinned
per candidate before any figure is fetched, composites taking the worse value
per axis, maintainer identity machine-observable, the issue snapshot archived,
and unanswered issues contributing infinity rather than their current age --
which would otherwise score twenty ignored issues opened yesterday as
excellent responsiveness.
What the spike is not: the app. No command registry, no editing, no document
layer, no goldens. Ruling D creates epiphany-editor-app fresh after this
verdict. And it does not reopen Ruling A -- a finding that no candidate can
implement the granted architecture escalates as an amendment request and does
not silently promote the SVG path back.
Docs only; no code, no crate, no gate movement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RSX4zSLgKvtiXaPjnMqLGz
Levi Neuwirth