Nothing validated creature specs. check-kits validates postings and check-scenarios
validates prose; buildActor throws on an unknown skill or item key and is silent about
everything else, so species, marksmanship style, characteristic blocks, species-locked
talents and misspelt field names could all be wrong and still build, pack and play.
Every packed actor once shipped as species "hominid" and the whole cast was hit-located
as something the rules do not contain.
tools/creature-schema.mjs derives every allowed value from the catalogues rather than
retyping them: skills from SKILL_CATALOGUE, kit from the item catalogues, species from
SPECIES, stats from CHARACTERISTIC_DICE, and the two marksmanship styles out of the
language file. It reports every problem with a spec rather than dying on the first, and
names the nearest real key. It also reports fields buildActor never reads, because
"armours:" is not an error, it is an actor that silently equips nothing.
On its first run it found six baseline humans carrying vesh biology. "unblinking" is
cat: species, species: vesh, and its own rule text reads "A Vesh has no face to read".
Out of Step is reclassified as anomalous with a Coherence cost, which is what every
talent in that category has and what the Anchor who is three years older than his
birthday says always wanted to be; the other five are swapped to agency and field
talents that fit them.
Not fixed here: the root cause is upstream in postings.mjs, where twelve posting talent
pools still offer unblinking, distributed or quorum to any agent. Picking replacements
across those is a design decision, not a mechanical one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
