TheLastGarden/.planning/STATE.md

gsd_state_version, milestone, milestone_name, status, stopped_at, last_updated, last_activity, progress

gsd_state_version	milestone	milestone_name	status	stopped_at	last_updated	last_activity	progress
1.0	v1.0	milestone	in_progress	Phase 2 context gathered. 02-CONTEXT.md captures 34 implementation decisions across 8 gray areas (geometry, time density, Lura's arc, letter composition, begin screen, journal, plant placeholders, settings UI scope). Locked: 4×4 grid, click+inline seed picker, 2–3 plants (1-from-start + fragment-count unlocks), infinite seeds, 2–5min growth band per plant, auto-harvest offline / manual active, 3 Lura gate visits gated by 1st/4th/8th harvest, authored Ink letter skeleton + slots, full-screen letter ≥5min absence, tasteful placeholder Begin (skip-on-return), full-screen Journal modal revealing after 1st harvest, Phaser-primitive plants with glow/pulse ready cue, save-management-only Settings. Phase 2's first commits: BigQty wrapper, Zustand store, tick scheduler. Save schema is a v1 *extension*, not a v1→v2 migration. Next: /gsd-plan-phase 2.	2026-05-09T00:50:00.000Z	2026-05-09	total_phases completed_phases total_plans completed_plans percent 8 1 7 7 12

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 02 — Season 1 Vertical Slice (Soil) — context gathered; ready for /gsd-plan-phase 2

Current Position

Phase: 02 (season-1-vertical-slice-soil) — context gathered Plans: 0 of TBD (planning is the next step) Status: 02-CONTEXT.md written with 34 decisions; ready for /gsd-plan-phase 2 Last activity: 2026-05-09 -- Phase 2 discuss-phase complete

Progress: [█░░░░░░░░░] 12%

Verification Results

Phase 1 Overall Verdict: PASSED

REQ-ID	Status
CORE-01	PASS — scaffold builds; <5s measurement is Phase 2
CORE-04	PASS — IDB + localStorage fallback; 4 tests green
CORE-05	PASS — navigator.storage.persist() all 4 scenarios
CORE-06	PASS — versioned envelope + CRC-32; tamper detection
CORE-07	PASS — forward-only migration chain; synthetic v0→v1
CORE-08	PASS — last-3 snapshot retention; 5-then-3 invariant
CORE-09	PASS — Base64 codec + 50MB DoS cap; round-trip test
CORE-10	PASS — ESLint boundaries rule + Vitest proof
PIPE-01	PASS — Vite-native loader; schema violation fails build
PIPE-03	PASS — asset provenance gate; refused-sample fixture
PIPE-05	PASS — both doctrine docs authored + doc-lint tests
PIPE-06	PASS — ci.yml; 53 tests on every push
AEST-08	PASS — ProvenanceSchema 6 fields; CI gate in place
AEST-09	PASS (IOU) — curation gate exists; human decision recorded
STRY-09	PASS (vacuous) — /content/ convention established
UX-13	PASS — anti-fomo-doctrine.md; review-enforced

Gates run: lint (exit 0), test (53/53 green, 12 files), validate:assets (2 assets valid), build (exit 0), compile:ink (exit 0), ci (exit 0).

Performance Metrics

Velocity:

• Total plans completed: 7 (1 partial — 01-05 Task 2 deferred via IOU)
• Average duration: ~5 min (Wave 1 baseline 6min; Wave 2 plans 4–8min; Plan 07 ~2min)
• Total execution time: ~30 min across all of Phase 1

By Phase:

Phase	Plans	Total	Avg/Plan
1. Foundations & Doctrine	7/7 (complete)	~30 min	~5 min

Recent Trend:

• Last 5 plans: [01-03 save-layer · 01-04 content-pipeline · 01-05 asset-provenance (partial) · 01-06 doctrine-docs · 01-07 ci-workflow — all green]
• Trend: ↘ (Wave 2/3 plans came in faster than Wave 1's scaffolding; YAML-only Plan 07 was the cheapest at ~2min)

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. COMPLETE.
• 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.
• Plan 01-01: scaffolded by hand (the official npm create @phaserjs/game@latest is interactive-only — --template react-ts --yes flags are silently ignored as of create-game v1.3.2); plan's documented fallback path was used. Vite 8 + TS 6 referenced-projects tsconfig layout adopted; build runs tsc -b && vite build so strict-TS gates every build. ESLint 9 installed → Plan 02 must use flat config (eslint.config.js), not legacy .eslintrc.*.
• Plan 01-01: pre-installed fake-indexeddb@^6 here so Plan 03 doesn't have to re-edit package.json. All Phase-1 dep versions match RESEARCH.md exactly within their ^ ranges.
• Plan 01-07: minimum-viable CI workflow (49 lines) running npm ci + npm run ci on push/PR to main; ubuntu-latest only, Node 22 only, no matrix per CONTEXT user pushback against ceremony. The workflow's role is to refuse merges that break local npm run ci, nothing more. New CI gates (Phase 2 e2e, Phase 8 visual regression) are added by editing package.json scripts.ci (or new dedicated workflow files), not by editing ci.yml — the workflow stays stable across all future phases.
• Plan 01-07: npm ci (lockfile-strict) chosen over npm install per RESEARCH § Security Domain; npm audit deferred to Phase 8. actions/setup-node@v4 with cache: 'npm' per RESEARCH CI Pitfall A — never cache node_modules/ directly.
• Plan 01-05 Task 2 (north-star images): Deferred via Path C per 01-05-IOU.md. User decision: "I don't really want to deal with creating the art for this." Two placeholder PNGs committed with valid provenance sidecars. Real north-star curation deferred to Phase 5 when production-volume asset generation begins.

Pending Todos

• Plan 01-05 Task 2 (human curation) — Phase 5 follow-up: 10-20 hand-curated AI generations committed to assets/north-stars/ with provenance sidecars. Non-blocking for Phase 2 (no production AI assets until Phase 5+). Recorded in 01-05-IOU.md with resolution path.

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 landed in Phase 1 (.planning/season-7-end-state.md, PIPE-05 ✓); finite Roothold ceiling enforcement deferred to Phase 4 (SEAS-04); credits/coda rest-state to Phase 7 (SEAS-10).
• AI asset style drift — provenance schema + CI gate + refused-sample fixture landed in Phase 1 (Plan 01-05 Task 1, PIPE-03 + AEST-08 ✓); locked 10–20-image north-star reference set deferred to Phase 5 per IOU (AEST-09 IOU); production-volume asset generation begins Phase 5+; visual regression testing in Phase 8 (PIPE-04).

Deferred Items

Items acknowledged and carried forward:

Category	Item	Status	Deferred At
AEST-09	10-20 real north-star reference images for visual regression baseline	IOU — Phase 5 follow-up	Phase 1 (01-05-IOU.md)

Session Continuity

Last session: 2026-05-09 Stopped at: Phase 2 context gathered — 02-CONTEXT.md and 02-DISCUSSION-LOG.md written, 8 gray areas discussed, 34 decisions captured. Phase 1 still verified complete; Phase 2 builds on its save layer + content pipeline + ESLint firewall + doctrine docs. Next action: /gsd-plan-phase 2 to plan the Season 1 Vertical Slice