Phase 3c is delivered in four slices so an interrupted phase never leaves
the runtime worse than it started: contract, lifecycle and voices,
automation, and measured master protection. Slice 2 replaces working
scaffolding, and slice 4 cannot close without user-observed measurement.
Record that split in the implementation plan.
This commit is slice 1, the contract. Format Specification section 16
adds automation tracks with three modes and four interpolation curves,
their placement in the shared resolution pipeline, the seven-state
lifecycle with its permitted transitions, the engine-owned internal
release gain, a per-node table for computing determinable one-shot
endings, voice ceilings with an eviction order that always releases
rather than hard-stops, the master protection contract, and unlock and
pause behavior for audio.
Automation reuses the modulation registry rather than introducing a
second answer to which properties vary over time, and a track is
declared inside the graph that owns its target, so section 14.4 stands:
automation does not widen the external surface of a node property. Close
the container gap the new fields opened by adding `automation` to the
graph object in 14.3 and `release` to the recipe object in 15.16.
Master protection is specified in shape and provisional in value.
Finite-sample handling is normative because a NaN in the output buffer
is unacceptable at any ceiling; the peak ceiling, numerical tolerance,
and release behavior await GC6 measurement.
No runtime change. There is no lifecycle state machine, no voice ceiling
is enforced, and `automation` and `release` are still rejected as
unknown fields. No sound has been heard from any build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FWPdCqKaaDnP9NC3JAwh6
Review Phase 3a before building on it, then implement Phase 3b.
The Phase 3a draft had four blocking defects: nodes were described as a
keyed map while every documented example carried an inline `id` field,
so under the strict unknown-field policy each minimal example would have
failed its own acceptance trace; no section said where a node lives; the
`audioMaxFrequency` ceiling was declared a semantic-stage error while
depending on a live AudioContext sample rate; and the sample-hold PRNG
child key that section 9.3 requires was undocumented. Close all four,
plus nine further gaps in noise seeding, spectral definitions, impulse
decay math, Nyquist handling, missing-field codes, LFO phase origin, the
units table, node-type staging, and a duplicated diagnostics table.
Add Format Specification section 15 for Phase 3b: nine processing and
routing node contracts, the component instance node, audio routing and
modulation with an explicit modulatable-property registry, twelve graph
legality rules, authoring limits, components with a component-scoped
`inputs.*` namespace, sound definitions and recipes, and buses.
Implement the subsystem in three modules. audio-contract.js holds the
declarative node, limit, and modulation tables every consumer reads.
audio-graph.js validates, expands components, and checks legality
without ever opening an AudioContext. audio-engine.js resolves node
fields once from the seeded stream, clamps frequencies to the live
device ceiling, realizes the graph through Web Audio, and owns the
runtime AudioSubsystem. Extend the schema, delegate the standalone
validator's audio checks to the shared module rather than carrying a
second implementation, and add a generic audio fixture.
Phase 3 is not accepted. Automation precedence, the lifecycle state
machine, unlock behavior, voice ceilings, and master protection are
Phase 3c. No sound has been heard from any build, so the audio
acceptance challenge, peak and finite-sample capture, and listening
observations remain open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FWPdCqKaaDnP9NC3JAwh6
- Record user evidence for directory fallback to complete GC1 (10/10 checks passed)
- Expand Format Specification 0.1 to Revision 0.2 with normative shared contracts
- Author JSON Schema Draft-07 at schema/xzbt-0.1.schema.json
- Implement zero-dependency semantic validator at tools/validate-exhibit.mjs
- Create 12-case conformance fixture suite and automated test runner (12/12 passing)
- Update implementation status, verification gates, and gap closure decisions
- Add devlog entry covering stall recovery and Phase 0 current state
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