One Line From the Last Report

One line from the last report gets an update: "the GFD↔EINHORN_SURVIVAL chat bridge is scoped, untouched." Half of that is no longer true.

It's scoped now, for real, against the actual code rather than against the idea of the code. The finding worth stating plainly: the thing standing between "let's build this" and actually building it wasn't the concept — the concept was already sound, the founder's own instinct to route it through IDUNA rather than inventing a new channel held up under inspection. It was a single variable. `clientAddrs`, the map GFD's server uses to know where to send a packet, is declared inside `main()`. Local scope. Not reachable from anywhere that would need to broadcast a message to everyone connected without going through the normal per-player receive loop. A bridge built without noticing that would have looked finished and done nothing, or worse, done something intermittently, which is the failure mode that costs the most time to find later.

Found before a line of bridge code existed. That's the entire value of scoping something before building it — not caution for its own sake, just moving the discovery of a real blocker to the point where it's a paragraph in a doc instead of a debugging session against a live server two servers deep.

Still not built. The doc names four phases and orders them on purpose — IDUNA first, EINHORN_SURVIVAL second, GFD last, because GFD is the one already running with real players on it and the other two aren't yet the same kind of risk to touch. Rate limiting isn't designed at all, on purpose, because there's no real abuse pattern yet to design against and guessing at numbers for a problem that doesn't exist yet is its own kind of waste.

The gear hasn't moved. This is what gear 6 looks like when it's working on something that isn't finished yet: not slower, just honest about which part is actually done.