study_version: "0.4"

study:
  id: "salvageist-owner-delivery-pilot"
  title: "Salvageist Owner-Led Delivery Pilot"
  status: "operational"
  type: "operational_trial"
  independence: "same_director"
  generated_at: "2026-09-25T15:03:30Z"
  maintainer_review: "pending"
  protocol_basis: "Retrospective owner-requested audit; questions selected after development."
  method_snapshot: "Installed task skill 0.7.0; earlier per-turn versions were not recorded."

source:
  repository: "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist.git"
  branch: "codex/ui-readability-polish"
  revision: "2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956"
  working_tree_dirty: true
  working_tree_path_count: 2
  formal_source: "Start-of-audit committed source and dated reports; two pre-existing unstaged files protected."
  rehearsal_copy: null
  pre_snapshot: null
  post_snapshot: null
  protected_paths:
    - "docs/presentation-overview.svg"
    - "Assets/Settings/UniversalRenderPipelineGlobalSettings.asset"
  mutation_boundary: "Authorized game/STAGE documentation corrections; no gameplay, tuning or publication change."

project_profile:
  engine: "Unity 6000.6.3f1 / URP 17.6, release WebGL with native jobs and Burst contacts"
  languages: ["C#", "UXML", "USS", "JavaScript", "Unity serialized assets"]
  architecture_styles:
    - "Concrete Unity run and feature owners"
    - "Authored configuration and native UI Toolkit"
    - "Shared engine-independent numeric crowd kernel"
    - "Run-owned compiled contact adapter"
  tracked_path_count: 2082
  commit_count: 46
  map_profile: "compact"
  map_adopted: false
  map_profile_meaning: "Descriptive study granularity only; no STAGE map contract adopted."

research_questions:
  - "Which production-consumer and ownership practices helped deliver owner-directed changes?"
  - "Where did broad testing, data orientation and documentation fail to answer the real claim?"
  - "What knowledge needed to move from the conversation into canonical project guidance?"
  - "Which conditional method improvements are supported without adding routine ceremony?"

product_experience:
  material: true
  gate: "not_tested"
  hypothesis:
    provenance: "retrospective"
    authored_at: "2026-09-25T15:03:30Z"
    player_fantasy: "Rebuild a machine swarm from defeated enemy patrols."
    core_verbs: ["Steer the whole army", "Choose fights", "Commit to local reclamation"]
    intended_experience: ["Low micro", "Meaningful positioning", "Growth through salvage"]
    first_minute: "Move five Scouts, recognize dangerous patrols and choose a small fight."
    short_loop: "Approach, fight automatically, defeat a patrol, reclaim at risk, reposition."
    success: "Sustain and grow the swarm; no victory or extraction ending."
    failure: "The final allied death ends the run."
    stop_conditions:
      - "New progression and ending ideas remain parked unless the owner reopens them."
      - "Do not infer product acceptance or performance gains from mechanical test passes."
  human_playtest:
    status: "not_run"
    reviewer: null
    reviewed_at: null
    source_revision: null
    basis: null
    dimensions:
      comprehension: "not_tested"
      usability: "not_tested"
      engagement: "not_tested"
      desire_to_continue: "not_tested"
    findings: []
    decision: null

operations:
  - name: "Shared core and direct-boot development routes"
    status: "passed"
    provenance: "local"
    scope: ["numeric core", "Unity scenarios", "native headless", "architecture"]
    source_revision: "18d8d4d702a7806070fa4fe9ad31a32f7696bb88"
    declared_toolchain: "Unity 6000.3.6f1 and .NET shared-source runner"
    effective_toolchain: "Production scenario, numeric and native-player receipts in the game report"
    evidence:
      - "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist/blob/2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956/docs/data-oriented-workflow.md"
    notes: "Correctness/operability passed; capacity performance regressed. Not a whole-game pure simulation."
  - name: "Matched release-Web crowd comparison"
    status: "passed"
    provenance: "local"
    scope: ["release Web", "same-device repeated comparison", "crowd motor"]
    source_revision: "a8a92a282e35461dfe507f60043d7aefd24563c4"
    declared_toolchain: "Unity 6000.3.6f1, IL2CPP/WebAssembly, fixed-step benchmark"
    effective_toolchain: "M3 Pro, Chromium, 1600x900, three final candidate/control rechecks"
    evidence:
      - "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist/blob/2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956/docs/web-performance-2026-09-25.md"
    notes: "Retains failed candidates and workload checks; no universal FPS or mobile claim."
  - name: "Unity 6.6 and compiled Web contacts"
    status: "passed"
    provenance: "local"
    scope: ["engine migration", "actual Burst execution", "rendered Web comparison"]
    source_revision: "c0a7453f43cba15b0f238431b8621de86cec67d1"
    declared_toolchain: "Unity 6000.6.3f1, Release managed-code variant, Burst contact job"
    effective_toolchain: "M3 Pro, Chromium 153, 2560x1440, three valid runs per engine"
    evidence:
      - "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist/blob/2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956/docs/unity-6-6-web-jobs.md"
    notes: "Combined engine/backend result, not isolated Burst attribution or whole-game parallelism."
  - name: "Cold first-combat regression and mechanical gate"
    status: "passed"
    provenance: "local"
    scope: ["cold first death", "Unity shader setup", "complete correctness gate"]
    source_revision: "9cbf1bbc7db19f67649f8b8bbd20a3434b9b951d"
    declared_toolchain: "Unity 6000.6.3f1 release-optimized threaded Web"
    effective_toolchain: "Chromium 153, 2560x1440, serial baseline/candidate/control recheck"
    evidence:
      - "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist/blob/2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956/docs/first-combat-stutter.md"
    notes: "Work shifted to startup; final-patrol cost remains. No fresh timing run for this study."
  - name: "Ordinary custom-domain deployment"
    status: "passed"
    provenance: "hosted"
    scope: ["artifact identity", "live browser smoke", "hosting isolation", "private symbols"]
    source_revision: "9cbf1bbc7db19f67649f8b8bbd20a3434b9b951d"
    declared_toolchain: "Ordinary Unity Web release and guarded Cloudflare host"
    effective_toolchain: "Live custom domain, HTTP hashes, Chromium diagnostics and Sentry release association"
    evidence:
      - "https://github.com/chifunt/salvageist/blob/2dedbbaeef6ee399d8617d43bc1d0a1b950c8956/docs/web-release.md"
    notes: "Pre-audit receipt; no redeployment, synthetic production incident or plan change for this study."

measures:
  map_sections_covered: []
  unresolved_reference_count: 0
  target_unchanged: false
  stable_refresh: null
  semantic_artifact_sha256: null
  retrospective_change_rows: 9
  human_active_minutes: null
  time_to_fair_inspection_minutes: null
  stage_maintenance_minutes: null
  independent_handoff_probe: false

findings:
  supports:
    - "Target-build comparisons prevented the shared-core migration being misreported as a performance win."
    - "Project-native Scenario Lab and one-call batches serve designer iteration and agent operation."
    - "Protected tuning and revision-bound releases retain important owner decisions across changes."
  challenges:
    - "Passing suites did not prevent repeated player-found clearance and cold-event defects."
    - "Substantial docs still contained stale current balance, lifecycle and deployment instructions."
    - "Repeated testing was audibly disruptive until output protection covered the full runner lifetime."
    - "Human attention, correction cost and method maintenance were not measured consistently."
  proposals:
    - "Separate cold and warmed performance claims; record actual optimized-backend execution."
    - "Use direct scenarios for iteration while preserving input and fresh-scene lifecycle tests."
    - "Audit current docs against saved source and disclose machine-local evidence during handoff."
    - "Record future changes prospectively without a parallel measurement service."

limitations:
  - "Same director and agent context; no independent adoption or controlled treatment effect."
  - "No formal revision-bound product playtest; informal owner play and positive feedback are qualified observations."
  - "Questions and hypothesis were reconstructed retrospectively, not preregistered."
  - "Raw receipts remain in ignored local game folders; source reports retain summaries and coordinates."
  - "Private source locators require access and the relevant commits to be pushed separately; no source publication is claimed."
  - "No independent agent recovery, fresh browser benchmark or deployment for this retrospective."
  - "The authorized game documentation correction is not a read-only target-immutability study."