The web client now plays borealis (data/models.json), trained on the three-round
match and taking the 501-dim match view rather than a bare round. Only the actor
trunk is exported -- the critic exists to grade moves in training and never plays,
so the graph physically cannot leak the opponent's hand or the deck, which beats
promising not to call it.
The TypeScript match layer and observation mirror match.py and match_obs.py. They
have to agree to the bit: a mismatch throws nowhere, the ONNX policy just consumes
a wrong vector and plays worse for reasons nobody can see. So the port is not
trusted -- generate_match_parity_fixture.py emits 282 positions from real JAX play
(mid-round, both seats, past a roll-over, with a live carry) and the TS output is
checked against them to float32 round-off.
Match mode is a menu toggle. A seed fixes all three deals and the coin flips, so a
match stays a pure function of it. One-deal mode is unchanged from the player's
side; borealis simply sees it as round one at a carry of zero, a position it has
seen a great many times.
Two bugs found by driving the built app in a browser, both silent:
- The result card totalled the round, not the match. It read "-11 : 3" while the
match stood at -96 : 66 -- it would have named the wrong winner. It now headlines
the match total and breaks the round out beneath it.
- Game records were being rejected. The client's schema went to v2 (it now records
which model played; the old records stored the on-screen label, which stops
identifying anything once there are two models) while serve_web_with_logs.py
still only accepted v1, so every record would have 400'd into a console warning.
v1 stays accepted -- the 111 existing games are altair.
npm test and tsc were green through both. Hence web/.claude/skills/verify, which
records the recipe and the selectors so the next session drives the app instead of
re-deriving how.
.gitignore excluded the new model, which would have shipped a 404: the deploy
builds straight from the repo.
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The rival's policy now exposes a ranking, which drives both its own move and a
new HINT button: it highlights the card to play, where to put it, and where to
draw, with the model's confidence.
Undo and redo work per action rather than per turn — picking a card, choosing
its destination, and drawing are separate steps, as are the rival's moves — so a
finished game can be stepped back through from the result screen. The rival is
suspended while undone moves are pending, and PLAY FROM HERE resumes from the
reviewed position.
Cards now travel between zones instead of teleporting: a motion layer measures
each card's old and new position and animates the difference, flying cards out
of the deck face-down and flipping them over, and back into it on undo.
Also: the result screen gets a per-expedition score breakdown mirroring
human_play.py, and a rival card revealed by a discard-pile draw no longer
renders at full size in the card-back-sized rival hand row.
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Every game is now dealt from a seed carried in the URL as `?seed=`, shown in
the menu, and re-dealable by typing it in, so a deal can be shared or replayed.
Seeds are hashed into a mulberry32 stream, independent of the Python shuffle
bank.
Cards previously teleported between zones: the only motion in the client was
the hover lift and the legal-target pulse. Cards are keyed by card id, so a
card that just moved into a zone mounts there and now animates in, with the
motion disabled under prefers-reduced-motion.
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Placing a card locked the turn in: the chosen card left the hand and no
affordance reverted the placement, forcing the move through. Clicking the
chosen destination again or pressing Escape now steps the selection back.
A failing ONNX inference left the AI's turn unadvanced, permanently
stalling the game. The AI turn now falls back to the heuristic policy.
Other fixes: the score plaque no longer covers hand cards (plaques become
compact chips at narrow widths and hand spacing tracks the viewport),
opponent cards drawn from a discard pile render face up, long expedition
stacks stay inside their lane, undo no longer bumps the generation counter
on empty history, and small viewports scroll instead of clipping.
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