# Project State

## Project Reference

See: .planning/PROJECT.md (updated 2026-05-08)

**Core value:** Every idle mechanic must function as a metaphor that the player absorbs without being told. When economy and meaning conflict, meaning wins.
**Current focus:** Phase 1 — Foundations & Doctrine

## Current Position

Phase: 1 of 8 (Foundations & Doctrine)
Plan: 0 of 7 in current phase
Status: Planned — ready for `/gsd-execute-phase 1`
Last activity: 2026-05-08 — Phase 1 planning complete. RESEARCH.md → 7 plans across 3 waves → plan-checker found 4 blockers + 6 warnings → revision iteration 1 → VERIFICATION PASSED. Orchestrator authorized two judgment calls during revision: (1) implement CORE-04 localStorage fallback in Phase 1 (~30 LoC + 1 test) rather than defer (the literal requirement and ROADMAP success criterion #2 both call for it); (2) reclassify STRY-09 as vacuously satisfied in Phase 1 (no source code exists yet to externalize from).

Progress: [░░░░░░░░░░] 0%

## Performance Metrics

**Velocity:**
- Total plans completed: 0
- Average duration: —
- Total execution time: 0.0 hours

**By Phase:**

| Phase | Plans | Total | Avg/Plan |
|-------|-------|-------|----------|
| 1. Foundations & Doctrine | 0/7 | 0 | — |

**Recent Trend:**
- Last 5 plans: —
- Trend: — (no plans completed yet)

*Updated after each plan completion*

## Accumulated Context

### Decisions

Decisions are logged in PROJECT.md Key Decisions table.
Recent decisions affecting current work:

- Phase 1 will land all retrofit-hostile foundations (versioned saves, content/asset pipelines, sim/render firewall, anti-FOMO doctrine, Season 7 end-state design) before any feature code — research from all four researchers converged on this ordering.
- Phase 2 will ship Season 1 as a complete vertical slice that could *plausibly* ship as a free standalone prologue ahead of Seasons 2-7, defending against the 7-Season scope risk.
- Phases 4-7 deliver the remaining six Seasons in mechanic-introducing pairs (Season 2 alone with prestige, Seasons 3-4, Seasons 5-6, Season 7 alone) — at most one new mechanic per Season per the scope-defense doctrine.

### Pending Todos

None yet.

### Blockers/Concerns

Carry-forward banner concerns from research:
- **7-Season scope risk** is the project's biggest risk; defended by the standalone-Season-1 escape hatch (Phase 2) and the one-mechanic-per-Season cap.
- **Story ends but the loop doesn't** — Season 7 end-state design must land in Phase 1 (PIPE-05); finite Roothold ceiling enforced in Phase 4 (SEAS-04); credits/coda rest-state in Phase 7 (SEAS-10).
- **AI asset style drift** — provenance + curation + locked north-star reference set must land in Phase 1 (AEST-08, AEST-09, PIPE-03) before any production-volume asset generation in Phase 5+; visual regression testing in Phase 8 (PIPE-04).

## Deferred Items

Items acknowledged and carried forward from previous milestone close:

| Category | Item | Status | Deferred At |
|----------|------|--------|-------------|
| *(none)* | | | |

## Session Continuity

Last session: 2026-05-08
Stopped at: Phase 1 planning verified and ready for execution. Wave 1 = Plan 01 (scaffold + test infra). Wave 2 = Plans 02–06 (firewall, save layer, content pipeline, asset provenance, doctrine docs) in parallel; Plan 05 has a human-curate checkpoint (autonomous: false) for the 10–20 north-star reference set with Path A/B/C fallbacks. Wave 3 = Plan 07 (CI workflow).
Resume file: .planning/phases/01-foundations-and-doctrine/01-VALIDATION.md (per-task verification map populated; all 16 Phase-1 REQ-IDs covered)
Next action: `/gsd-execute-phase 1`