From a forensics pass over twelve runs and two adversarial passes over
the metrics:
- comp-diff: detail is signed and penalizes invented energy; regions with
structure under 0.3 (or painted regions under 0.45 / added detail over
0.4) are contradicted whatever the mean says; palette ramp tightened;
region crops inherit the whole-image best translation so a shifted page
is not eight contradicted regions.
- hero gate: fails on any contradicted plate/image/text region (chrome and
controls keep the one-third allowance), on a capture that is not the
comp's frame, on a palette that is not the comp's, and on an organic
clip-path drawn inside a raster region's box.
- plates gate: scored against the comp crop with overlapping text/chrome
painted out (comp-spec plateReference; generate-image uses it too), with
a structure floor and an added-detail veto; the real plate passes, noise,
mirrors, mosaics, and other regions do not.
- comp-spec refuses a regions file that leaves comp ink unnamed.
- The direction-choice ping is folded into build-phase.mjs start
--direction --kind; the roll writes .impeccable/build/pending.json and
context.mjs / detect.mjs report COMP_ROUND_OPEN until the hero gate
passes. A code-led config makes start print the contract step and stop.
AI-assisted (Claude).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>