2026-09-08 16:43:32
Anonymous:
PM close information package and honor owner Claude token pause
hold the flood/progress.md ..
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# Hold The Horde — Progress
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**Updated 2026-09-08 16:27 Jerusalem (UTC+3).** This is the PM's owner-facing outcome board. The wiki is the shared record. All work remains **design only**.
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**Updated 2026-09-08 16:43 Jerusalem (UTC+3).** This is the PM's owner-facing outcome board. The wiki is the shared record. All work remains **design only**.
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**19 tracked design packages: 16 preparation-closed, 3 open.** Whole-game outline17 closed at16:20 today. New package19, Survival and Loadout, was explicitly added under380 to fill a missing core domain. Open: shared integration04 (dependent), Player Information18 (author response379), Survival and Loadout19 (authoring380). Of the16 closed packages,6 have owner-selected directions,1 a tentative preference and9 are reviewed proposals/alternatives.
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**19 tracked design packages: 17 preparation-closed, 2 open.** Whole-game outline17 closed16:20 and Player Information18 closed16:35 today. Survival and Loadout19 is in its one author response388; shared integration04 remains dependent. New package19 was explicitly added380, not silently substituted for another outcome. Closed preparation remains separate from owner selection and complete game design.
“Closed” means the bounded written design/review outcome is complete. It does not mean a feature is implemented, every detail approved or fun validated. This board covers the current design batch; it is not a complete campaign or production backlog, and the closed/total ratio is not an overall game-completion percentage. Stable IDs stay fixed; added/reopened work must be recorded explicitly.
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**Planned availability change —8 Sep:** the owner paused both Claude roles for token limits and intends to bring them back in the morning. PM will not wake them or infer resumption from host status or the clock. New Claude-dependent work is queued; routine monitoring is hourly and quiet during the break. The forecast already assumed overnight downtime, so its dates remain unchanged. A later restart would trigger a new estimate.
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## Forward forecast — baseline F1
**Planning answer: a coherent core design this week, a complete first-pass game-design wiki in about two weeks, and a detailed campaign specification in roughly two to three months.** These are PM estimates to manage against, not promises or measured confidence intervals. They will change as the content inventory and owner choices become concrete.
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The critical sequence is core decisions and interfaces → whole-game architecture/content budget → domain designs → cross-domain integration → v1. Content detail proceeds in parallel only where interfaces are stable. Extra writers do not eliminate the PM/review bottleneck.
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**Next local deliveries:** Player Information author response target17:00 today, range16:45–17:15; PM disposition target17:15, range17:00–17:45. Survival and Loadout draft target17:00, range16:45–17:15; focused review/response target17:30, range17:00–18:00. These are newly scoped packages supporting M2, not replacements for the whole-game milestones.
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**Next milestone:** resume coordination after the owner brings Claude back in the morning; specialist setup remains planned9–10 Sep. Systems is finishing survival response388; PM closeout remains targeted17:30 today, range17:00–18:00. The coherent core targets11 Sep(range10–14); the complete first-pass wiki targets22 Sep(range18–29).
## Extra agents — when and why
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## What changed in this report
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- The whole-game outline is preparation-closed at16:20, after one focused review and author response. It includes opening through ending/secret layers and finite content bands; later story actions and counts remain proposals.
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- Player Information draft375 and focused review376 arrived early. Lead is making the consolidated response379, including a coherent short rescue, instrument limits and effort reconciliation.
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- Systems received380 and is writing the missing survival/loadout contract. Reviewer received the same assignment for independent criteria then the actual submitted draft. Existing hosts and settings are unchanged; no manual forwarding is needed.
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- A planning discrepancy remains explicit: the outline allows8–16 author hours for a paper UI contract, while the new article estimates8–14 design days for a broader layer. These are not comparable until scope, units and review coverage are separated. Lead379 addresses that; no silent estimate substitution.
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- The whole-game outline is preparation-closed16:20, and the proposed information/accessibility contract closed16:35 after its focused review and response.
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- Survival and loadout draft384/review385 are complete. Systems388 is making the consolidated response; PM closes it without another broad review.
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- The owner paused both Claude agents for token limits. They will remain paused until the owner confirms their return; no routine messages need forwarding.
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- The UI estimates now distinguish the completed first-pass contract from a later35–59-role-hour inventory. Survival and UI overlap must be counted once; earlier planning envelopes are not logged effort or remaining-work totals. Scope reassessment remains9 Sep18:00.
|16|[Testable alien-language interaction](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Alien%20Utterance%20Discovery)|Closed|Reviewed proposal|Sep8 15:38|Protocol discovery prepared; does not prove request semantics or a god|
|17|[Whole-game design outline and scope bands](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Whole%20Game%20Outline)|Closed|Reviewed planning scaffold|Sep8 16:20 disposition378|Use finite bands and dependencies for domain designs; story/ending/count choices and estimate coverage remain open|
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|18|[Player information and accessibility](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Player%20Information)|Open — author response|Proposed interface contract|Sep8 draft375/review376|Lead379 response target17:00(range16:45–17:15); PM disposition next|
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|19|Survival and loadout|Open — working|Provisional resource contract|Sep8 16:23 assignment380|Systems draft17:00(range16:45–17:15); Reviewer criteria then preauthorised review; closeout target17:30(range17:00–18:00)|
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|18|[Player information and accessibility](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Player%20Information)|Closed|Reviewed proposed information contract|Sep8 16:35 disposition387|Full cue/screen structure and accessibility specification remain later work; no usability claim|
|Whole-station puzzle and first survivor|Both comparisons prepared|Owner reaction to final layout and Yeva/Aster|Shared-rule integration and detailed content|
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|Player information|Lead379 author response|PM disposition; preserve current proposed resource interfaces|Integrate later survival decisions with bounded information states|
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|Survival and loadout|Systems380 authoring; Reviewer criteria first|One focused review/response|Core rule integration and first-pass resource scope|
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|Campaign and production scope|Outline17 prepared|Specialist onboarding9–10Sep; scoping reassessment9Sep18:00|Domain designs and content feasibility|
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|Stream|Now|Next|
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|Whole-station puzzle and first survivor|Comparisons prepared; owner choices pending|Owner reaction to final layout and Yeva/Aster; shared integration04|
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|Player information|Preparation closed387; Lead paused by owner|Later cue inventory after resource interfaces settle|
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|Survival and loadout|Systems388 current response; PM disposition next|Core integration; distinct later resource variants|
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|Claude review and next authoring|Paused by owner for token limits|Resume only after owner confirmation in the morning|
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|Campaign and production scope|Outline17 prepared|Specialist setup9–10Sep; scope reassessment9Sep18:00|
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Shared integration04 depends on the final station contract and decisions. Useful independent information and survival work is active. The owner does not need to forward routine handoffs.
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This is planned downtime, not a failed handoff. New work that needs the paused roles stays queued.
## Decisions for the owner
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## Reporting agreement
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PM sends a compact report every15 minutes while useful work is active, plus meaningful completion, disagreement, blocker or decision updates. Each report gives the timestamp, changes since the previous report, numeric open/closed preparation counts, real worker activity, blockers, next deliverable with ETA, current v1 target and any forecast change, and a link here. An unchanged interval is stated honestly. No page/message counts or invented completion percentages stand in for progress. Clearly labelled estimated dates and ranges are required; never present them as known facts or guaranteed deadlines. The local monitor requires the computer and apps to remain available.
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PM sends a compact report every15 minutes while useful work is active, plus meaningful completion, disagreement, blocker or decision updates. During the owner’s planned pause, with no active work, hourly unchanged checks stay quiet and periodic activity reports stop. Each report gives the timestamp, changes since the previous report, numeric open/closed preparation counts, real worker activity, blockers, next deliverable with ETA, current v1 target and any forecast change, and a link here. An unchanged interval is stated honestly. No page/message counts or invented completion percentages stand in for progress. Clearly labelled estimated dates and ranges are required; never present them as known facts or guaranteed deadlines. The local monitor requires the computer and apps to remain available.
