RingBRP/tools/first-blood.mjs

/**
 * first-blood — who lands the first disabling blow, and what the fight does afterwards.
 *
 * check-lethality and check-focus record how a fight ENDS. Neither records how it TURNS,
 * and the four-player cut of CLEAN GROUND turns early: one hit that meets a limb's own
 * capacity disables it — 4 or 5 points either way here, `locationMaxHp` — and both sides
 * are made of limbs that small, so whoever lands it first costs the other 30 points off the skills that matter,
 * which thins the return fire, which
 * makes the next disable likelier. Nothing pulls the fight back toward the middle once it
 * has tipped, and that — not anything about round five — is where the scenario's bimodal
 * outcome comes from.
 *
 * R-266 measured that in a scratch harness and another session, correctly, would not put
 * it in a scenario: a figure nobody can re-derive is a claim. So the measurement is
 * recorded as an artifact and re-run on every build, the way check-focus does it, and
 * the reading tool and the guard are the same file so they cannot drift apart.
 *
 *   node tools/first-blood.mjs             read the configured fights
 *   node tools/first-blood.mjs --check     compare against the committed baseline
 *   node tools/first-blood.mjs --update    re-record it (after a deliberate change)
 *   node tools/first-blood.mjs --creature redcap --count 3 --runs 500
 *                                          an unrecorded fight, for reading only
 *
 * WHAT IS MEASURED. The first hit of the fight that disables a location, destroys one,
 * or drops a fighter — the three conditions the narration marks — and which side landed
 * it. Then the wipe rate on each side of that, which is what the first blow is worth.
 *
 * WHY TWO CONFIGURATIONS. The cut is the claim; six against six is the control. One
 * fighter is a quarter of the cut and a sixth of the line, so the same blow compounds
 * less, and the difference between the two swings is what makes this a property of the
 * cut rather than of the creature.
 */
import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
import path from "node:path";
import { NPCS } from "./content.mjs";
import { ROSTER } from "./roster.mjs";
import { runFight, seedFor, makeRng } from "./simulate.mjs";
import { castAndCut } from "./declared-cast.mjs";

const ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(new URL(import.meta.url).pathname.replace(/^\/([A-Za-z]:)/, "$1")), "..");
const BASELINE = path.join(ROOT, "tools", "first-blood-baseline.json");

const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
const opt = (n, d) => { const i = argv.indexOf(n); return i >= 0 ? argv[i + 1] : d; };
const UPDATE = argv.includes("--update");
const CHECK  = argv.includes("--check");

const RUNS  = Number(opt("--runs", 2000));
const SEEDS = [11, 4242, 90210];

/* CLEAN GROUND's own cast, not the frozen party of the other two guards: this measures a
   scenario's encounter, and the whole finding is about what four of these people can do.
   Read from the document by tools/scenario-cast.mjs, which check-attackers reads too. */
const { line: LINE, cut: CUT } = castAndCut("first-blood");

const CONFIGS = [
  { id: "cut",    label: "four of the roster vs three of the column", party: CUT,  creature: "quiet_neighbours_npc", count: 3 },
  { id: "column", label: "six of the roster vs six of the column",    party: LINE, creature: "quiet_neighbours_npc", count: 6 }
];

const roster = keys => keys.map(k => {
  const found = ROSTER.find(r => r.key === k || r.key === "pc_" + k);
  if (!found) { console.error(`first-blood: "${k}" is not on the duty roster`); process.exit(1); }
  return found;
});
const creature = key => {
  const spec = NPCS.find(n => n.key === key);
  if (!spec) { console.error(`first-blood: no creature keyed "${key}"`); process.exit(1); }
  return spec;
};
const mean = a => a.reduce((x, y) => x + y, 0) / a.length;
const r1 = n => Number(n.toFixed(1));

/** One sweep: who struck first, in what round, and how those fights ended. */
function sweep(party, foes, seed, runs) {
  const by = { party: { n: 0, wiped: 0, rounds: 0 }, column: { n: 0, wiped: 0, rounds: 0 } };
  let undecided = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < runs; i++) {
    let first = null, firstRound = 0, round = 0;
    const r = runFight(makeRng(seed + i * 2654435761), party, foes, { say: e => {
      if (e.kind === "round") round = e.round;
      if (first) return;
      if (e.kind === "hit" && (e.disabled || e.destroyed || e.defender.hp <= 0)) {
        first = e.defender.side === "enemy" ? "party" : "column";
        firstRound = round;
      }
    }});
    if (!first) { undecided++; continue; }
    const b = by[first];
    b.n++; b.rounds += firstRound;
    if (r.wiped) b.wiped++;
  }
  const decided = by.party.n + by.column.n;
  return {
    firstShare:   (100 * by.party.n) / Math.max(decided, 1),
    meanRound:    (by.party.rounds + by.column.rounds) / Math.max(decided, 1),
    wipeIfParty:  (100 * by.party.wiped)  / Math.max(by.party.n, 1),
    wipeIfColumn: (100 * by.column.wiped) / Math.max(by.column.n, 1),
    undecided
  };
}

/** The recorded measurement: three seeds, averaged, with the seed-to-seed spread kept. */
function measure(cfg, runs = RUNS) {
  const party = roster(cfg.party);
  const foes  = Array(cfg.count).fill(creature(cfg.creature));
  const each  = SEEDS.map(s => sweep(party, foes, seedFor(s, cfg.id), runs));
  const swings = each.map(e => e.wipeIfColumn - e.wipeIfParty);
  const shares = each.map(e => e.firstShare);
  return {
    party: cfg.party, creature: cfg.creature, count: cfg.count,
    firstShare:   r1(mean(shares)),
    meanRound:    r1(mean(each.map(e => e.meanRound))),
    wipeIfParty:  r1(mean(each.map(e => e.wipeIfParty))),
    wipeIfColumn: r1(mean(each.map(e => e.wipeIfColumn))),
    swing:        r1(mean(swings)),
    shareNoise:   r1(Math.max(...shares) - Math.min(...shares)),
    swingNoise:   r1(Math.max(...swings) - Math.min(...swings)),
    undecided:    each.reduce((n, e) => n + e.undecided, 0)
  };
}

/* An ad-hoc fight, for reading rather than recording. Nothing here reaches the baseline. */
if (!UPDATE && !CHECK && (argv.includes("--creature") || argv.includes("--party") || argv.includes("--count"))) {
  const cfg = {
    id: "ad-hoc", label: "an unrecorded fight",
    party: (opt("--party", CUT.join(","))).split(",").map(x => x.trim()).filter(Boolean),
    creature: opt("--creature", "quiet_neighbours_npc"),
    count: Number(opt("--count", 3))
  };
  const m = measure(cfg, RUNS);
  console.log(`\nfirst fighter out of the fight — ${RUNS} runs x ${SEEDS.length} seeds, unrecorded`);
  console.log(`${cfg.party.length} of the roster vs ${cfg.count} x ${creature(cfg.creature).name ?? cfg.creature}\n`);
  console.log(`  party strikes first in ${m.firstShare}% of fights (mean round ${m.meanRound})`);
  console.log(`  wipes: ${m.wipeIfParty}% when the party strikes first, ${m.wipeIfColumn}% when it does not `
    + `— a swing of ${m.swing}`);
  process.exit(0);
}

if (UPDATE) {
  const configs = {};
  for (const cfg of CONFIGS) configs[cfg.id] = { label: cfg.label, ...measure(cfg) };
  await writeFile(BASELINE, JSON.stringify({
    note: "Generated by tools/first-blood.mjs --update. Do not edit by hand.",
    runs: RUNS, seeds: SEEDS, configs
  }, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8");
  console.log(`first-blood: baseline recorded — ${CONFIGS.length} configurations, `
    + `${RUNS} runs x ${SEEDS.length} seeds`);
  process.exit(0);
}

if (!existsSync(BASELINE)) {
  console.error("first-blood: no baseline. Run with --update to record one.");
  process.exit(1);
}
const base = JSON.parse(await readFile(BASELINE, "utf8"));

if (!CHECK) {
  console.log(`\nfirst fighter out of the fight — ${base.runs} runs x ${base.seeds.length} seeds`);
  for (const [id, was] of Object.entries(base.configs)) {
    console.log(`\n  ${was.label}`);
    console.log(`    party strikes first in ${was.firstShare}% of fights (mean round ${was.meanRound})`);
    console.log(`    wipes: ${was.wipeIfParty}% when the party strikes first, ${was.wipeIfColumn}% when it does not `
      + `— a swing of ${was.swing}`);
  }
  console.log(`\n  recorded by tools/first-blood.mjs --update; re-checked on every build.\n`);
  process.exit(0);
}

/* ---- --check ------------------------------------------------------------------ */

if (base.runs !== RUNS || base.seeds?.join() !== SEEDS.join()) {
  console.error(`first-blood: FAILED — the baseline was recorded under different conditions `
    + `(${base.runs} runs, seeds ${base.seeds?.join(",")}). Re-record it with --update.`);
  process.exit(1);
}

/* Exact comparison is only honest if the measurement is exact. Prove it, don't assume. */
{
  const probe = CONFIGS[0];
  const a = JSON.stringify(measure(probe, 200));
  const b = JSON.stringify(measure(probe, 200));
  if (a !== b) {
    console.error("first-blood: FAILED — the simulation is not deterministic, so an exact "
      + `baseline cannot mean anything. ${probe.id} measured twice gave ${a} and ${b}.`);
    process.exit(1);
  }
}

const now = {}, problems = [];
for (const cfg of CONFIGS) {
  const was = base.configs[cfg.id];
  if (!was) { problems.push(`  ${cfg.id}: not in the baseline — re-record with --update`); continue; }
  if (was.party.join() !== cfg.party.join()) {
    const gone = was.party.filter(k => !cfg.party.includes(k));
    const added = cfg.party.filter(k => !was.party.includes(k));
    problems.push(`  ${cfg.id}: the scenario now casts different people — `
      + (gone.length  ? `no longer ${gone.join(", ")}` : "the same six, reordered")
      + (added.length ? `, now ${added.join(", ")}` : "")
      + `. The recorded swing describes the old cast; re-record with --update, do not revert the cast.`);
    continue;
  }
  if (was.creature !== cfg.creature || was.count !== cfg.count) {
    problems.push(`  ${cfg.id}: recorded against ${was.count} x ${was.creature}, now ${cfg.count} x ${cfg.creature}`);
    continue;
  }
  const m = now[cfg.id] = measure(cfg);
  for (const k of ["firstShare", "meanRound", "wipeIfParty", "wipeIfColumn", "swing"]) {
    if (m[k] !== was[k]) problems.push(`  ${cfg.id}: ${k} ${was[k]} -> ${m[k]}`);
  }
}
for (const id of Object.keys(base.configs)) {
  if (!CONFIGS.some(c => c.id === id)) problems.push(`  ${id}: gone from the tool — re-record with --update`);
}

if (problems.length) {
  console.error(`first-blood: FAILED — the fight no longer turns the way it was recorded`);
  problems.forEach(p => console.error(p));
  process.exit(1);
}

/* The claims, restated as tests rather than as prose. Only what a page would assert: the
   drift comparison above already catches every movement, and a guard that asserts more
   than the finding needs is a guard that fails on news rather than on error — R-261. */
const cut = now.cut, col = now.column;

if (Math.abs(cut.firstShare - 50) > 5) {
  console.error(`first-blood: FAILED — first blood is no longer near even in the cut `
    + `(${cut.firstShare}% to the party). The finding calls it a coin, and a coin that lands `
    + `one way ${cut.firstShare}% of the time is not one. Rewrite the finding, don't re-record.`);
  process.exit(1);
}
if (cut.swing <= col.swing + cut.swingNoise + col.swingNoise) {
  console.error(`first-blood: FAILED — the first blow is worth ${cut.swing} points in the cut and `
    + `${col.swing} in the six-a-side line, which is no longer a difference this sampling can see `
    + `(noise ${cut.swingNoise} and ${col.swingNoise}). The finding says the compounding is a `
    + `property of the cut; rewrite it rather than re-recording.`);
  process.exit(1);
}

console.log(`first-blood: OK — first blood lands round ${cut.meanRound} and is worth ${cut.swing} points `
  + `of wipe rate in the cut, ${col.swing} in the line`);