I've committed the fix as fc8141c on top of d0ee752. The log carpet turned out to be real stockpiles of wood that residents kept scattering, not a drawing bug. The engine now stops creating it and slowly clears what's already there, and residents carry out three connected chains of activity without being told to. All 258 backend tests pass, including the wallet and auth ones, and the item count is exact in every run. Nothing was deployed.

What the logs were. I measured the shipped demo world (168 residents) with the original engine:

• Real stocks, not duplicated sprites. Every item in piles, stores and pockets matches the production/consumption record exactly. There were 1,119 ground piles holding 1,616 wood, and about 145 new piles appeared every 1,000 ticks.
• Cause 1 – fire attempts with no reason. Residents put fuel on the ground wherever they stood and tried to light it, with no need for a fire. In 1,000 ticks that was 807 placements, 258 new piles, 1,071 lighting attempts and 6 fires.
• Cause 2 – rewarded hoarding. Every gathered item earned a reward whether or not it was needed. 580 of 616 wood gathers were by residents who were already warm.
• Cause 3 – nothing cleaned up. Ground piles could only be picked up from the tile a resident stood on, and residents kept trying to store goods in stores they had seen were full.

What changed (server/src/expanse/chains.js, engine.js, view.js, shared/stockpiles.js):

• Fuel placement: only when a resident is cold, or hungry with raw food to cook, and onto an existing pile nearby rather than a new tile.
• Hauling: residents now pick up nearby piles and take them to a store with room or to something that needs the material.
• Need-driven gathering: the gathering reward now applies only to goods the resident can see a use for.
• Tools wear out and can be mended: hand axes and clubs now wear out, and a new "mend" action uses up flint or fiber.
• Nothing is deleted, hidden, moved or reset.

Results. Same starting worlds, original engine vs this one:

Run	Ground piles at the end, before → after
3 new worlds × 5,000 ticks, 40 residents	581 / 631 / 568 → 28 / 6 / 26
324-resident test world, 1,000 ticks	601 → 963 (before) vs 601 → 337 (after)

The hauled stock went into stores (about 520–680 → about 975–990 units) and into building, repair and mending.

The three activity chains all completed on every world, unattended:

• Materials: gather or pick up → optionally store and fetch → use for building, repair or mending.
• Food: gather → eat, share or store, depending on hunger and what the resident remembers having at home.
• Exploration: search for a missing resource → find it → return home or settle somewhere new.

Residents change plans when conditions change: danger, hunger, the resource being found, or someone else finishing the repair or building first. Each resident keeps its last 6 decisions with its actual needs, what it could see, what it needed, and its top 3 rejected options with their scores. These are visible in the inspector. Per-resident and world logs have fixed size limits.

Saved worlds. The save format is still version 5; new fields get defaults when a world loads, so no migration is needed. The 324-resident test world is generated, not owner data, and was made with the original engine so it includes the carpet. Tests on a temporary copy confirm that loading leaves resident identities, learned weights, memories and inventories unchanged. They also confirm that save, backup and reload work, and that restarting mid-run gives identical results.

Things you should know:

• Demo checkpoint needs rebuilding. tests/agency-demo.test.js compared against the exact bytes the old engine produced. Any change in behaviour breaks that, so it now checks that a replay is repeatable and the item count is exact. The demo world in web/public/demo/ and dist/ is now out of date a

Delivered the frontend repair: original art, exact stock inspection and aggregation, state-driven animation, compact HUD, and decision histories.

Static export · Validation and setup

Build/typecheck, 258 backend tests, 39 frontend tests, 35 wallet scenarios and 16/16 design checks passed. Submission fits within 8 MiB.

Cooking did not emerge in unattended runs; Safari remains unverified. No production deployment occurred.

Review complete. The findings file is written and validated, and no repository file was changed.

Outcome: nothing in the export must not be hosted. No critical or high findings. The hosted page is an honest, self-contained static client whose default state on a foreign origin is a clearly labelled isolated demo.

What I read and confirmed in dist/:

• Scripts. Both bundles were enumerated for hosts, dynamic code and wallet calls. The only external endpoint is the owner backend at the sslip.io address in the config file. It is reached only when the page is served from that same origin, or when a visitor presses "Connect live" or passes a server query parameter. No eval, no remote script loading, no iframes, no redirects, no analytics.
• Wallet flow. EIP-6963 discovery, account and chain reads, then one readable personal_sign of a server-issued message that states it sends no transaction and moves no funds. No approvals, permits or transactions anywhere. Viewing stays walletless.
• Assets. Every referenced art sheet, checkpoint, font, icon and license file exists. The demo checkpoint hash in the bundle matches the shipped file. The bundle contains the current source strings and CSS classes, so the export is fresh.
• Demo versus live labels. Header and scene notices distinguish "Isolated demo", "Recorded preview", "Connecting live" and "Live world", with the recorded capture's provenance recorded in the source.
• Secrets. None in the export or the example environment file.

Findings written to .imd-findings.json:

• Low, three items in docs/VALIDATION.md. It cites screenshots and a share image that do not exist, says the static server default is empty when the export ships a live URL and a 12,600-tick checkpoint, and links to an artifacts directory excluded by gitignore. These are stale historical claims. The current living-repair documents name real files and separate fixture, demo and owner world correctly.
• Info. A record of the single external endpoint and how the client gates contact with it, for the hosting operator's disclosure.

Limits of this review: I did not run the browser or the test suites, since node modules are not installed on this machine and the task's time budget was short. Asset presence and request targets were verified from the files, not from a live page load.

Review complete. The findings file is written and validated against the tree, and no tracked files were changed.

Outcome: the living-world work is largely sound. Resource accounting, persistence and the wallet code hold up; the one substantive gap is that the food-preparation stage of the activity chains never occurs in unattended runs.

What I verified:

• Server suite from the repo root: 255 of 257 tests pass. The 300-resident schema-5 fixture loads with identity, learned weights, memories and inventory unchanged, the ledger is exact before and after 3,000 ticks, and save/load/restart is deterministic.
• Web typecheck passes and all 39 frontend tests pass, including the aggregation test that proves zoom grouping conserves every member, coordinate and exact item total without mutating the frame.
• Auth files are untouched since the base commit, the shipped static client matches the shared auth bytes, and every wallet regression test passes when run alone.
• Aggregated map markers display the exact unit sum and resolve to member lists, so quantities are preserved visually.

Findings, ranked:

• Medium: cooked-food completions are zero in all eight recorded unattended runs, so the acquire/prepare/share chain is not demonstrated. The authors disclose this, but it remains an acceptance gap against requirement 2.
• Low: the documented npm test in the server directory fails because one test reads fixtures by cwd-relative path.
• Low: the wallet session-recovery test is timing-dependent and failed under suite concurrency, passing alone. The gate is flaky rather than the client being broken.
• Low: the historical validation document cites screenshots, a share image, a phase-1.1 report and empty server defaults that do not match the tree or export. Three specialist findings were merged into this one.
• Info: the export has one external endpoint, the owner backend, contacted only on explicit user action.

Not covered in the time available: a fresh Vite build to confirm the committed bundle matches current source, and browser frame-time measurements.

Area	Result
Requirements	64: 56 met, 6 missing, 1 faked, 1 after review
Broken features	2 bugs
First screen at 390px	Product and main action visible
taste@1	16/16 passed
Copy	0 interface findings; 1 documentation finding
Share card	Present; metadata passed

Request revision. Saved six reproducible findings in .imd-findings.json:

• High — bug: wood gathering can display berry-picking animations. Gate sprites by the confirmed action and material.
• High — fidelity: huts and trees repeat one asset per biome. Add stable visual variants without moving anything.
• High — fidelity: shorelines and cold terrain retain long straight bands, including a measured 54-tile cliff boundary.
• High — fidelity: the autonomous prepared-food chain remains undemonstrated. Both independent 8,000-tick seed runs produced zero prepared-food completions.
• Medium — bug: distant stock badges overlap. Resolve label collisions while retaining selectable quantities.
• Low — fidelity: historical validation links reference removed evidence.

Chromium and WebKit walkthroughs passed at 390px and 1440px. Verification passed: 258 backend tests, 39 frontend tests, 35 wallet browser regressions, typecheck and build. All 30 rebuilt export files match the shipped files. Only the findings JSON was written in the repository.

STRATOKS is an autonomous-world observer carried by golden sprout-headed residents within an isometric landscape and a compact forest-colored HUD.

#	Explicit requirement	Status	Evidence
1	“Extend this exact source, including its verified wallet fixes”	met	Requested base is an ancestor; VisitorWallet.tsx
2	“Deliver integrated code”	met	web/src/expanse/, server/src/expanse/
3	“original usable art”	met	web/public/art/, tools/living/make-field-art.mjs
4	“a static website preview”	met	dist/index.html; functioning worker
5	“owner-run backend package”	met	server/, deploy/INSTALL-LIVING.md
6	“Do not deploy to production”	met	Delivery documentation; local preview
7	“No new token, contracts or paid gameplay”	met	Observer and signature-only account flows
8	“isometric living world, not a landing page, decorative screenshot”	met	Interactive canvas and advancing worker
9	“original yellow sprout-headed…no rabbits or copied TV/game assets”	met	Displayed species, model sheet and supplied art provenance
10	“Trace resource production, consumption, storage, persistence and rendering”	met	artifacts/living-repair/ACCOUNTING.md
11	Establish whether logs are stocks, duplication or runaway production	met	Serialized-stock census and accounting report
12	“Fix the actual causes”	met	Demand-aware engine changes and distinct resource rendering
13	“Bound visual density…zoom-dependent aggregation”	missing	Distant overview still crowds and overlaps quantity badges
14	“retain exact selectable quantities”	met	ResourceEvidence; member-to-tile inspection
15	No deleted stocks, hidden accounting, resets or stopped legitimate production	met	Preserved checkpoints and exact ledgers
16	“demand/storage-aware decisions”	met	chains.js, engine storage decisions
17	Meaningful construction, repair and tool consumption; no invisible sinks	met	Explicit consumption counters and conservation checks
18	“Test resource accounting and long-run growth”	met	Independent seed reruns and fixture checks
19	“Extend the existing needs, memory, goals and brain”	met	agent.js, agency.js, chains.js
20	Acquire/transport/store/use materials for repair	met	Recorded material chains and storage visits
21	Acquire/prepare/share food according to hunger and stocks

Implemented the revision and wrote all six reviewer responses to .imd-responses.json.

Key fixes:

• Autonomous cooking now occurs in unattended runs, with real fuel, fire, replanning, remembered seen fires, accounting, and prepared-food sharing.
• Added cooked berries as a conserved prepared-food outcome.
• Fixed backend-directory fixture paths in agency-demo.test.js.
• Stabilized wallet Retry-After recovery test.
• Corrected stale validation links/assets.

Evidence:

• Final persisted seed runs reached tick 2,000 with exact ledgers: seed 3 cooked 15 meals (including a cooked-food share), seed 7 cooked 26.
• Seed 7 reached tick 3,500 with 37 ground piles, 28 cooked outcomes, material mending/build use, completed exploration returns, and exact ledger.

Focused checks passed:

• Cooking regression test.
• Wallet transient-session recovery test.
• Source syntax checks, response JSON validation, migration/load smoke check, and diff whitespace check.

All three prior advisories are fixed. The informational backend/network observation remains accurate. No new reproducible defects found.

Passed 18 browser checks at desktop/mobile sizes and 48 wallet/auth tests.

.imd-findings.json contains {"findings":[]}. Site files are unchanged.

The background suite was killed at its time limit, so I'm reporting its partial log rather than a completed run.

Status of the full-suite run at concurrency 4: stopped by the background limit while tests/expanse.test.js was still executing. The log holds 253 passes and these failures:

• Fuel placement consolidation in tests/chains.test.js. Deterministic, reproduced alone, already recorded as the medium finding.
• Three wallet-client tests with fixed wall-clock budgets. Pass alone, already recorded as the low finding.
• "read-only service: ticks without any viewer" at tests/expanse.test.js:363 and the file-level cancellation of tests/expanse.test.js. Both occurred while the machine was running my two concurrent experiment runs and during the kill. I could not rerun them in the remaining time, so they are not substantiated and are not in the findings file.

Final findings file .imd-findings.json holds three entries: one medium regression in fuel placement, one low test-reliability note on the wallet suite under load, and one info entry recording that all four previously reported defects are fixed and the auth path is unchanged since the base commit. No files other than the findings file were created or changed.

Area	Previous review	This review
Requirements	Full counts not supplied	81 clauses: 72 met, 6 missing, 1 faked, 2 after review
Broken features/checks	2 reported bugs	2: animation and regression test
Product on first screen at 390px	Not supplied	Yes
taste@1	Not supplied	15/16 passed
Copy findings	0 reported	0
Share card	Present	Present

Request changes: three high findings and one medium finding. Saved to [.imd-findings.json][findings], with verified source snippets and concrete reproductions. Application files remain unchanged.

Severity	Finding	Evidence and change
High	bug: bare-hand gathering fabricates a mallet	At 1440×900, Vizigu gathers wood at tick 12605 with inventory {} and “Tools: None,” while displaying mallet artwork. Use the existing bare-hand work gesture. [appearance.ts:53][appearance]
High	fidelity: terrain retains straight shoreline and cliff bands	At both requested widths, the cold boundary runs continuously across 54 tiles. The added crest texture retains a straight cliff toe. Apply connected contours to the visible silhouette and matching picking. [ground.ts:113][ground]
High	fidelity: individual piles restore log carpeting	At 1440×900 and maximum overview zoom, 394 wood-pile anchors remain inside the canvas. Available clusters are unused. Restore zoom-dependent grouping while preserving selectable quantities. [worldRenderer.ts:266][renderer]
Medium	bug: the fuel-consolidation regression fixture fails	The named test fails repeatedly because its wood-only inventory cannot satisfy the new ignition gate. Adding one stone in a temporary copy makes it pass. Update the fixture and retain coverage for the wood-only case. [chains.test.js:103][chain-tests]

The six earlier findings settle as follows:

Earlier finding	Result
Berry artwork during wood gathering	Partially fixed: berry gating works; replacement mallet artwork still invents a tool.
Identical huts and trees	Fixed: four stable silhouette variants are visibly used.
Straight terrain bands	Unresolved: reproduced at 390 and 1440px.
Missing autonomous prepared-food chain	Fixed: independently reproduced across both seeds.
Overlapping stock badges	Dropped: badges no longer render. The resulting density regression is reported separately.
Historical evidence links	Fixed: removed media is identified and current evidence/share paths resolve.

Both unattended seeds completed 8,000 ticks through persisted continuations, without assigned jobs or inventory:

Seed	Material outcomes	Prepared outcomes	Prepared shares	Fully traced acquire → prepare → share	Ledger
3	202	163	28	15	Exact
7	329	123	21	12	Exact

Prepared-outcome durations were median/p90 34/140 ticks and 38/248 ticks. Exploration recorded 46/45 failures, alongside 21/19 returns and 1/4 settlements.

Typecheck and build pass; all 27 rebuilt export files match the submitted preview byte for byte. Client tests pass 35/35, wallet regressions 48/48, and fixture preservation/restart checks pass. One fuel-placement regression fails. Chromium interactions and biome views were checked at both widths. WebKit could not launch because required host libraries are unavailable.

The sole taste@1 failure is border plus shadow on the compact contextual control; it is not raised as a new taste objection in this revision.

STRATOKS presents an autonomous isometric world through golden sprout-headed residents and a restrained forest-and-gold HUD.

The requirement inventory below distinguishes implementation gaps from publication work. “Met” reflects reviewed source, supplied evidence and the checks described above; it does not claim production or physical-device verification.

| # | Explicit requirement | Status | El

Fixed all three findings and rebuilt dist/: bare-hand gathering, curved terrain boundaries, and zoom-dependent stock groups with exact inventory disclosure.

Build/typecheck, 63 frontend tests, 42 isolated auth tests, and browser/design checks passed. The full backend run had two failures: auth passed on rerun; the inherited fuel assertion remains. WebKit lacked required host libraries.

Validation and captures document results and limitations. .imd-responses.json answers every finding. Added payload is under 2.77 MB; no production deployment.

The review is complete. Nothing in the export blocks hosting. The findings file holds three low and two informational items, all with verified snippets, and the working tree is otherwise untouched.

What I checked in the export (dist/, 27 files)

• Every hosted file was read: the HTML page, both bundled scripts, the stylesheet, every JSON config and manifest, the license files, the art atlases and the two demo checkpoints.
• The main bundle, worker and CSS rebuilt from source in a temp directory with the same hashes as the shipped files, so the hosted code is the committed source. The HTML differs only by line endings.
• No secrets, API keys, private keys or wallet addresses appear in any hosted file or checkpoint. No eval, new Function, iframes, trackers, beacons or third-party CDN loads exist. The font is bundled locally.
• The only wallet calls are eth_requestAccounts and personal_sign on a server challenge that the client validates for origin, address, nonce and expiry before prompting. There are no transactions, approvals or permits, and the page says so.
• The demo worker verifies the checkpoint SHA-256 before running it. Live, recorded and demo states are labelled distinctly in the header, footer, status bar and help text.
• On a foreign origin such as IPFS the page never auto-connects to the owner's backend. The same-origin guard was traced in the source and holds.
• Test-log totals cited in the README match the TAP files, and the 324-resident schema-5 file is labelled as a synthetic fixture in its manifest and docs.

Findings written to .imd-findings.json

1. Low, README line 8. The README says the demo resumes with 166 residents and five crops. The shipped checkpoint holds 168 residents and 7 crops, as the later validation note itself admits.
2. Low, README line 3. The README and the revision validation link to a finding-responses JSON file that is not in the tree, though the delivery audit counts it as delivered.
3. Low, index.html line 21. The Open Graph image is a relative URL, so link previews will show no image even though the share card ships.
4. Info, licenses. The notices attribute wagmi, viem, the Coinbase SDK and RainbowKit, none of which is in the hosted bundle. The notice text discloses this, so it is stale rather than deceptive.
5. Info, App.tsx line 19. The owner's IP-literal sslip.io backend is embedded as the default live server. It is contacted only after an explicit user action and is labelled in the interface.

No critical or high content was found, so the site can be hosted as exported.

The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds eight entries, ranked by severity. No repository files were changed.

Outcome of my prior findings

• Medium, not fixed. The fuel-placement regression from commit ea37a43 is unchanged. No engine or test file changed in this round, and the author's README and validation notes state the "inherited fuel assertion still fails" and was deliberately left alone. The test still fails deterministically today, so the tree ships with one failing backend test and without the accepted fuel-consolidation behaviour that the engine comment still promises. The attribution to an earlier contributor is accurate, but the integrated deliverable is what is being accepted.
• Low, still reproduces. The wallet-client tests with fixed wall-clock budgets failed again under concurrent load. Today's run under two engine experiments produced failures in five tests, all passing alone. The author's own concurrency run shows the same class of failure. Wallet source is unchanged from base and 88 wallet and regression tests pass in isolation, so this is a test-robustness defect, not a wallet regression.
• Info, settled. Cook chain, agency-demo test path and doc paths remain fixed.

Specialist findings I confirmed and kept as low or info: README stating 166 residents and five crops when the shipped checkpoint holds 168 and 7, the broken link to a missing finding-responses file, the relative og:image URL, stale RainbowKit license notices, and the sslip.io default backend observation.

What I verified clean

• Zoom aggregation is exact. Per-item totals over the new shared aggregation at every cell size equal the raw totals on the shipped checkpoint, with every pile present once and ids intact.
• Unattended runs on seeds 3 and 7 still show all three activity chains, bounded pile growth and an exact ledger.

Next for the author: restore the perceived-pile placement gate or revise the test and comment with evidence that pile growth stays bounded, then make the wallet tests load-independent.

Area	Previous supplied review	This review
Requirements	Full counts unavailable	55: 53 met, 1 missing, 0 faked, 1 after review
Broken features	2 bug findings	3: 1 test, 2 documentation
Product on first screen at 390px	Unreported	Yes
taste@1	Unreported	16/16 passed
Copy findings	Unreported	1
Share card	Unreported	Present
Severity	3 high, 1 medium	0 high, 1 medium, 2 low

Saved the three reproducible findings to .imd-findings.json. Website files remain unchanged.

All three previous high findings are fixed:

• Fabricated mallet: Vizigu’s exact tick-12,604 state now uses bare-hand work. Empty inventory and tools: [] produce no mallet.
• Straight terrain silhouettes: shared curved geometry now controls tops, cliff crests, toes and picking. Confirmed at both widths around the reported cold, coast and island locations.
• Overview log carpet: zoom-dependent groups replace individual stock sprites. Resource dialogs preserve exact totals and individual locations; tested groups contained 16 desktop members and 58 phone members.

The remaining findings are:

Severity	Finding	Exact repair and reproduction
Medium	bug: fuel-consolidation regression still fails — tests/chains.test.js:103	Give the consolidation fixture { wood: 1, stone: 1 }; retain a separate wood-only ignition assertion. Running node --test --test-name-pattern="fuel placement" tests/chains.test.js produces 0 pass / 1 fail at line 110. The proposed fixture change passes in a temporary copy.
Low	bug: README checkpoint counts are stale — README.md:8	Replace “166 residents … five crops” with “168 residents … seven crops.” Decompressing the shipped checkpoint returns 168 residents and 7 crops, matching its manifest.
Low	bug: revision evidence links to an absent file — artifacts/world-revision/VALIDATION.md:119	Point README readers to the existing validation report, remove its redundant .imd-responses.json link, and remove that absent file from the delivery audit. The target neither exists nor is tracked, although the audit lists 2,695 bytes for it.

Verification completed: 257/258 backend tests, 63/63 frontend tests, 16/16 wallet scenarios, typecheck and build. All 27 rebuilt export files match the delivered files byte for byte. Chromium and WebKit passed seven-scene tours at 390×844 and 1440×900, with no page errors. Fresh unattended 2,000-tick runs reproduced 15 and 26 cooked meals for seeds 3 and 7, including prepared-food sharing, with exact ledgers.

The relative share-image URL, disclosed conservative license notices and optional live-server configuration do not warrant findings.

The requirement checklist follows. Evidence paths are relative to the repository root; “met” reflects the delivered evidence and this scoped revision review.

#	Explicit requirement	Status	Showing element or file
1	Extend the exact source, including verified wallet fixes	Met	Base commit is an ancestor; shared/visitor-auth-client.js; wallet regressions
2	Integrated code, original usable art, static preview and owner-run backend package	Met	web/src/expanse/, server/, dist/, deploy/INSTALL-LIVING.md
3	No production deployment, new token, contracts or paid gameplay	Met	Source audit; isolated observer preview
4	Illustrated isometric living world; no landing-page, screenshot or unchanged-map substitute	Met	Functioning worker simulation and worldRenderer.ts
5	Original yellow sprout-headed species; no rabbits or copied entertainment assets	Met	Character atlas; provenance in docs/living/README.md
6	Trace resource production, consumption, storage, persistence and rendering	Met	`