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  "title": "Recursive Competitive Improvement — Cinder Dominion evidence snapshot",
  "version": "1.0",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-10-26",
  "author": "redazul",
  "study_type": "Retrospective observational case study, selected runtime-v6 through runtime-v12 sequence",
  "verification": "Saved JSON reports were inspected and counts recalculated. No game tests or performance experiments were rerun for this paper.",
  "selection": "A contiguous runtime sequence selected for its environment-to-gameplay handoffs and documented regressions. It is not a random sample of projects or a complete interaction log.",
  "attribution": "Contributor labels are agent/application labels. Only identifiers explicitly recorded in project history are reproduced; unknown model identities remain null. No claim of a controlled heterogeneous-model experiment.",
  "limitations": [
    "One project, changing tasks and tests, human direction and unequal budgets.",
    "Test counts are not comparable quality scores.",
    "Separate performance sessions are not a continuous speed trajectory; background GPU use was uncontrolled.",
    "Later reports identified HUD and material fallback defects in runtime-v10; frame time does not establish rendering-equivalent improvement.",
    "No token-cost, model-selection calibration, context-ablation or independent blind-rating experiment.",
    "Public aggregate records support inspection, not full reproduction without the local project assets."
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      "contributor": "Codex",
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      "model_status": "unknown",
      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Create stable resource targets, stations and a machine-readable handoff.",
      "outcome": "31 targets and 68 standing anchors recorded; gameplay remained to be implemented.",
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      "model_status": "verified",
      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Turn prepared environment contracts into gathering, crafting and trading.",
      "outcome": "Playable loop; forging and a readable inventory interface remained incomplete.",
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      "contributor": "Codex",
      "model": null,
      "model_status": "unknown",
      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Complete forging, deliberate recipe selection and cancellable batch crafting.",
      "outcome": "Ten recipes and screen-space HUD; progress remained session-local.",
      "entry_sha256": "ca6858cefd1c74569848f306cd73930d51a65ded75b815c3d0c60e0f06305645"
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      "contributor": "Cursor",
      "model": null,
      "model_status": "unknown",
      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Improve route readability and habitat presentation around the economy loop.",
      "outcome": "Added route dressing; the saved comparison recorded lower FPS.",
      "entry_sha256": "43b46b8a578c4784c72ec99633228b67dac7baf14ad39c6da8f3fc7df7664fd5"
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      "model_status": "verified",
      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Rebuild costly dressing with instances and extend the east-mine route.",
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      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
      "selected_task": "Restore the crafting HUD and replace planar foliage with grounded geometry.",
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      "model_attribution_basis": "Project history; not independently verified for this publication",
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