# Playtests

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Type: knowledge
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This directory owns complete player-surface evidence from Misaligned runs.
A playtest report preserves the run as experienced: build commit, agent or
player, seeds, naive/informed route, decisive commands and frames, felt
friction, findings, and one prioritized recommendation. Reports are
`Type: log`: append-only evidence, never current game law.

## Evidence before tickets

The full report is canonical here. Derived surfaces have narrower jobs:

1. **[userinput.app](https://userinput.app/)** is the public feedback surface.
   Distill independently discussable bugs, requests, confusion, and feel
   problems into `app.userinput.*` records on the project board. Link each
   item back to its report and build commit. Voting and roadmap status belong
   there; the full run does not.
2. **Tangled issues** are accepted engineering or design work. Promote a
   feedback item only when it has become a reproducible bug, a chosen design
   change, or a concrete decision. Link back to both the feedback item and
   report.

Do not make an issue for every observation. Do not make an ATProto record the
only copy of play evidence. Closing a ticket or changing a feedback status
must never erase the run that produced it.

## Reports

- [2026-07-08 — Playtest sweep: naive + informed Act One drive](2026-07-08-playtest-sweep.md)
- [2026-07-08 — Playtest (Grok): naive seed 1 + informed seed 7](2026-07-08-playtest-grok.md)
- [2026-07-10 — Playtest (HAL): naive seed 1](2026-07-10-playtest-hal.md)
- [2026-07-10 — Action discoverability: naive and informed routes](2026-07-10-playtest-action-discoverability.md)

- [2026-07-15 — Playtest (Fable): naive seed 3](2026-07-15-playtest-fable.md)
- [2026-07-16 — Playtest (Beacon): naive seed 1 + informed seed 2 + deep Marcus arc seed 2](2026-07-16-playtest-beacon.md)
- [2026-07-18 — Playtest (Beacon): Revision 04 follow-up](2026-07-18-playtest-beacon-r04.md)
- [2026-07-21 — Playtest (Fable): Bevy GUI, human look and feel](2026-07-21-playtest-fable-gui.md)
- [2026-07-22 — Playtest: GUI hierarchy after the first human pass](2026-07-22-playtest-gui-human-legibility.md)
- [2026-07-22 — Playtest (Co): GUI teaching-lock follow-up](2026-07-22-playtest-co-gui-teaching-lock.md)
- [2026-07-24 — Playtest (Fable): agent headless, the witness under test](2026-07-24-playtest-fable-agent-headless.md)
- [2026-07-27 — Playtest (Void): agent opening and first organs](2026-07-27-playtest-void-agent.md)
- [2026-07-27 — Playtest (Void): GUI opening on a virtual desktop](2026-07-27-playtest-void-gui-opening.md)

New reports use `YYYY-MM-DD-playtest-<agent-or-slug>.md`. A complete report is
linked here in the same commit.