Built the playable game, source, documentation, and dist/ export. Bundle: 1.14 MB.

Passed: build, typecheck, 22 unit tests, 48 browser checks, and 16 design checks.

README · Validation

Full delivery remains incomplete: no public repository or PR was created. IMD refused direct job publication and states that the platform hosts the export after submission; no public URL is verified yet.

Not delivered: artifacts/DATA_SOURCES.md, artifacts/DELIVERY.md, artifacts/GAME_GUIDE.md, artifacts/PULL_REQUEST.md, artifacts/THIRD_PARTY.md, artifacts/browser-results.json, artifacts/bundle-check.json, artifacts/contrast-results.json and 9 more. Under artifacts/, only this step's named outputs leave the machine.

I found two high and three medium issues. The site itself is in good shape: the board and seed satchel are on the first screen at 390, and all 16 checks of the layout and design probe (taste@1) pass. The two highs are a puzzle requirement that is faked and missing testing evidence. Both should reopen the build. All five findings are in .imd-findings.json, and I changed no other files.

What I couldn't check

• WebKit (Safari): it would not launch here because system libraries are missing, so I ran the main interaction in Chromium only.
• Live API: api.squeekchain.com/v1/core answers this machine with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403). I tested the LIVE state by feeding the page the repo's sample response (test/fixtures/core.json). The block is outside the build's control, so it isn't a finding.

Requirements

1. "Fetch verified settled Squeek block height from /v1/core": met, src/data.ts:70
2. "Reproducible 5x5 forest puzzles using the verified block height…": faked, src/storage.ts:45 (high finding)
3. "Select different seeds and plant them… on a grid": met, src/App.tsx:173, :158
4. "Each seed type has clear placement rules and environmental effects": met, src/game.ts:9-13
5. "Meaningful positioning puzzles with limited moves": met (6 plantings, src/game.ts:14). Every grove is the same layout turned or flipped (medium finding).
6. "Local game points based on actual player choices": met, src/game.ts:51
7. "New confirmed block milestones unlock new puzzles": met, src/storage.ts:37-40
8. "Allow replaying previously unlocked puzzles": met, Grove journal at src/App.tsx:189
9. "Fully playable on mobile": met (390 screenshot; layout and tap-target checks pass)
10. "Store timestamped verified block-height snapshots locally": met, src/storage.ts:34. Earlier visits get pushed out by a long session (medium finding).
11. "Display actual growth since the player's previous recorded visit": met, src/App.tsx:185
12. "Never invent missing historical measurements": met, src/storage.ts:39
13. "One tree every 60 settled blocks, a new grove every 1,200": met, src/data.ts:68
14. "Use documented public APIs. Validate responses": met, validateCore in src/data.ts:25
15. "Show LIVE, STALE, OFFLINE, or PRACTICE status": met, src/App.tsx:134, :192
16. "Offline practice must be explicitly labelled": met, src/App.tsx:179
17. "No wallet connection, gambling, token rewards…": met, footer at src/App.tsx:199
18. "Dark pixel forest, fireflies, trees, moonlight, emerald palette": met, src/components/Forest.tsx (moon visible at 1440)
19. "Substantial new source code": met, src/
20. "Public code repository and linked Pull Request": after review
21. "Publish a working playable site on IMD": after review
22. "README, game instructions, data-source documentation": met, README.md and the Field guide dialog
23. "Testing evidence": missing. README.md:68 links artifacts/validation.md, which doesn't exist (high finding).
24. "Test gameplay, scoring, persistence, mobile, API failure states": the test code exists (test/*.test.ts, scripts/validate-browser.mjs), but no results are recorded (see 23).
25. "Creator attribution to @AhoteSpirit and the original source": met, src/App.tsx:199 and README.md:5
26. "Not an official product; no guaranteed Genesis approval": met, src/App.tsx:199

The idea: a 5×5 moonlit grove puzzle where settled Squeek blocks unlock new groves and grow a pixel forest behind the board. The single visual device is the pixel forest itself, and nothing competes with it.

Findings

• High – fidelity: the same block milestone gives different grids depending

I fixed all five findings; each reproduced first. Every check passes after the final rebuild: npm test 27/27, typecheck, build, the export check, 28/28 browser checks in Chromium and 16/16 design-probe checks. Answers to each finding are in .imd-responses.json. Nothing is committed yet.

The two high findings:

• Same milestone gave different puzzles: puzzles are now built only from the milestone number and the deployment identity, which every visitor shares (src/storage.ts:51). The height and hashes that unlocked a grove are still kept, but only as a record of when it unlocked. I added the reviewer's case as a test: two fresh visitors arriving at heights 1201 and 1255 now get the same board for "Block milestone 1,200".
• Testing evidence link was dead: the cause was that this workspace's .git/info/exclude ignores artifacts/, so nothing written there reaches Git. The record now lives in docs/VALIDATION.md. It has the commands run, each test suite, all 28 browser checks, the widths covered, the API failure states, the design review and the limitations. I also added docs/GAME_GUIDE.md and docs/DATA_SOURCES.md, and fixed the other dead artifacts/ links in README.md and DESIGN.md.

The three medium findings:

• Same layout every time: each grove's ponds, old tree, spirits and rocks are now placed from the seed. A solver checks every layout and keeps it only if the best route takes 4–6 plantings, and the hint follows that route. Across 2,000 seeds, every layout was different, and none of 4,000 seeds needed the old fixed template. A separate test confirms the stored route is the shortest one.
• Win button quietly switched to practice: after a verified win it now says "Try a practice grove". If the journal has an unplayed verified grove, "Open next verified grove" comes first. Practice wins still say "Play another grove".
• Polling pushed out earlier visits: only one snapshot is recorded per page load; the 30-second poll updates it in place. The first browser run caught a bug in my own change here, which I fixed before the passing run.

Limitations:

• WebKit didn't run, because the machine lacks its system libraries. The 12-second timeout path wasn't exercised in the browser. A frontier moving backward is covered by unit tests only.
• In the headless browser, the ✦ after the title and the ⌁ shade marker show as empty boxes because no installed font has them. This predates this revision and I left it alone. Both are decorative, and I haven't checked them on real phones.
• Groves saved before this change will now show the new layout under the same ID. Saved plantings that don't fit the new layout are dropped on load. A best score earned on the old layout is kept.

Not delivered: artifacts/validation.md. Under artifacts/, only this step's named outputs leave the machine.

All six findings from last round are fixed, and I found nothing new I could reproduce, so .imd-findings.json is {"findings":[]}. I changed no files in the repository.

What happened to each finding

• [high] One block milestone gave different grids to different players: fixed. archivedPuzzle (src/storage.ts:51) now seeds the puzzle only from the milestone, the deployment identity and the grove's id. I recorded snapshots at heights 1201 and 1255 with different hashes. Both gave the same id (verified-v1:…:1200) and the same terrain and spirit cells.
• [high] The README linked testing evidence that wasn't in the repository: fixed. docs/VALIDATION.md is now committed, and README.md:68 links to it. It records the unit tests (27/27), the Chromium browser run (28/28), the API failure states tested, and what didn't run (WebKit, and the 12-second timeout in the browser).
• [medium] Every grove was one layout rotated or mirrored: fixed. makePuzzle now places ponds, the old tree, spirits and rocks from the seeded random generator, and keeps a layout only if a full search finds a solution. I generated 500 puzzles:
  • 484 had distinct pond and old-tree positions.
  • All 500 stored solutions passed the placement rules step by step and woke every spirit.
  • Solutions needed 4 plantings (426), 5 (70) or 6 (4).
• [medium] Winning a verified grove quietly switched to practice: fixed. In src/App.tsx, after a verified win the button now reads "Try a practice grove". If an unplayed verified grove exists, "Open next verified grove" comes first. Practice wins still show "Play another grove". The built dist/ contains these labels.
• [medium] Polling every 30 seconds pushed earlier visits out of memory: fixed. recordSnapshot(..., replaceLast) updates the current visit instead of adding a new one, and the app sets that flag after the first recorded check in each page load. I recorded one earlier visit, then a new visit plus 150 polls. Memory held 2 snapshots, the earlier one unchanged.

I ran the design probe at 320, 390 and 1440 wide, with Playwright installed outside the repository, and all 16 checks passed. The 390 screenshot shows the title, LIVE status, a 5×5 generated grid and the seed buttons on the first screen. I did not run WebKit, as the builder also notes.

Requirements

• "Fetch verified settled Squeek block height": met, fetchCore and validateCore in src/data.ts
• "reproducible 5x5 forest puzzles using the verified block height": met, src/storage.ts:51 and src/game.ts makePuzzle
• "select different seeds and plant them strategically": met, seed satchel in src/App.tsx
• "clear placement rules and environmental effects": met, the seed rule panel and placementError
• "meaningful positioning puzzles with limited moves": met, generated layouts checked by the solver, 6-planting limit
• "points based on actual player choices": met, score()
• "New confirmed block milestones unlock new puzzles": met, recordSnapshot archive
• "Allow replaying previously unlocked puzzles": met, Grove journal "Replay grove"
• "fully playable on mobile": met, 390 screenshot and probe layout and touch-target checks pass
• "Store timestamped verified block-height snapshots locally": met, recordSnapshot
• "growth since the player's previous recorded visit": met, the "Since your previous recorded visit" panel
• "Never invent missing historical measurements": met, only observed milestones are unlocked
• "one additional visual tree every 60 … a new grove