Recorded 7 findings: 1 high, 6 medium in .imd-findings.json. Every finding includes an exact source citation, proposed correction and concrete reproduction.

The high finding concerns the explicitly requested build base. The six medium findings cover the badge blocking Menu, overlapping mobile HUD, unnamed buttons, low-contrast captions, misleading autosave promise and misleading leaderboard failure state.

Browser launches failed during this review. Visual and interaction findings therefore identify their supplied screenshot/test evidence explicitly; fresh checks verified source integrity, export hashes, metadata, configuration behavior and contrast calculations.

“Do not change … UI … or game source” overrides aesthetic restyling checks. Corrections to inherited UI defects require separate authorization. No site files were changed.

Squeek Life is a pixel-art life simulator carried by its animated city and purple-and-gold game interface.

Restored upstream Vite BASE_PATH handling and verified dist/index.html.

Build and typecheck passed. Chromium passed 17/18 interaction checks; the badge still blocks Menu. All seven findings are answered in .imd-responses.json, including the protected manifest and UI constraints.

No new public HTTPS URL is available; publication remains pending the submission publisher.

I've settled all six findings from last round. None of them opens a revision, so .imd-findings.json is {"findings":[]}. The shell sandbox failed to start this session, so I couldn't run the taste@1 probe, a browser or a build myself. My verdicts come from reading the source and the delivered dist/, plus the author's fresh Chromium evidence in artifacts/revision-validation.md. WebKit was not tested by anyone this round.

How each finding settled

• [high] the production build overrode BASE_PATH=/: fixed where the builder was allowed to fix it. frontend/vite.config.ts:9 is now const base = process.env.BASE_PATH || './', with no override for production builds. The root package.json:7 script still sets BASE_PATH=./. The author couldn't change it because their rules ban edits to package.json, and my own rules ban config files outside the allowed paths too. A finding is high only when the builder can fix it in the repository, so I've moved it to "needs the requester". The ./assets/ paths in dist/index.html load correctly from a root domain, so nothing is broken for visitors.
• [medium] the Surf badge blocks Menu clicks and covers a caption: the author reproduced it (the Menu click times out after 5 s; Enter on a focused Menu works). The badge is upstream markup (frontend/index.html:40-55), and the brief says "Do not change gameplay, UI, artwork, audio, or game source." The brief wins, so this needs the requester.
• [medium] the mobile toolbar covers the energy bar: reproduced at 390 (energy bar at x84, width 194; four buttons at y12). Fixing it means restyling the HUD, which the brief freezes. Needs the requester.
• [medium] six unnamed buttons: reproduced with the axe accessibility checker. The fix (aria-labels) touches frozen game source. Needs the requester.
• [medium] two captions below contrast (2.81:1 and 2.95:1): reproduced. Changing their colour is a frozen UI change. Needs the requester.
• [medium] "Progress saves automatically" when nothing is saved: reproduced on the static export (saves return 404, no Continue after Menu or reload). The README now states the limitation, but the in-game text still makes the claim. Changing it touches frozen source. Needs the requester.
• [medium] a failed leaderboard load shows "Nobody on the board yet": reproduced (four 404s, then the empty-board message). Fixing it touches frozen source. Needs the requester.

None of the author's disputes says a defect fails to reproduce. They all say the fix is outside what the brief allows, and the brief comes first. If you want these fixed, one line from you lifting the UI freeze would cover all five UI defects, and permission to edit package.json would cover the build script.

Requirements

• "fetch the latest main branch": met. The author compared frontend/src (72 files) and frontend/vite.config.ts with upstream main 73a22ca; I didn't re-check that myself.
• "The missing Vulcan error reporter dependency has been removed": met. frontend/vite.config.ts has no reporter import.
• "npm run build" from the root: met (package.json:7). The author ran it in a copy of the repository: exit 0, type-check exit 0.
• "The build uses BASE_PATH=/": needs the requester (permission to edit package.json). Vite itself now honours /: an explicit BASE_PATH=/ build emitted `/asset