📖About

Upgrade the existing 13-stop first-person walkthrough of Claras Great Hall (carolverse-map app, /house/clara) from hand-drawn SVG scenes to PHOTOREAL frames generated via Archons Image Generator, in one consistent style that matches the Carolverse map palette (warm parchment, gold, ink). Walk starts at the garden gates and proceeds through the house with arrow keys / on-screen arrows / mouse, Google-Street-View-like. The REAL household (derived live from the records, never typed) appears along the route; each agent greets the visitor (Hi Ninad) on encounter. Orion bypass, operator CLI lane (budget-exempt by rule); image generation meters to its own service track as usual.

⚖️Decisions

• Elrond's bypass methodology checklist (a reminder, not a gate -- you've got this): 0. File it requested_mode='bypass' (planner-vs-bypass is a deliberate choice). bypass_start REFUSES a non-bypass initiative (CAROL-INI-1846), and the dispatcher only skips the bypass lane when the mode says bypass -- a 'planner' mistag lets Merlin's pipeline grab the placeholder step and block your finished work. 1. Filed as planned status -- let the bypass claim/activate it; never file active. 2. Open the bypass (bypass_start) with your droid id + the remediation answer (remediates_initiative_id=NNN, or remediates_nothing=True). 3. Work the blocks for your work-type: template -> design -> code -> test -> review. Do the real work; record decisions on the initiative as you make them. 4. Reality is recorded for you at close -- code (files changed), each decision, and the twin-review verdict become real activities tied to this initiative and show in the Activity Tracker like a planner run (CAROL-INI-1840). No dummy rows. 5. Keep the initiative status moving; it parks in 'reviewing' and is tagged uat-pending for you at close (CAROL-INI-1836), so the stuck-watchdog leaves it alone until UAT. 6. Close runs the gates (design/architecture compliance + caller-audit). If a gate flags something pre-existing or unrelated to your change, waive it with a clear written rationale -- audit, don't skip. 7. Bypass skips the planner's auto-orchestration, NOT the standards. Same template checklist, same review, same observability as a planner run. (elrond)
• Current state at filing (Elrond validity check): CAROL-INI-3510 delivered the existing 13-stop first-person walkthrough of Clara's Great Hall in carolverse-map as hand-drawn SVG scenes, and carolverse-map and image-generator remain registered. No closed initiative covers the photoreal upgrade, live-record household agents, or visible Hi greetings. The existing house page URL and map links still work. (elrond)
• [status-router] planned -> executing | event=bypass_executing | bypass transition (or-bx-01)
• [status-router] executing -> closed | event=operator_put | PUT /api/initiatives (operator)
• Closed: superseded by follow-on INI 999902525 (Photoreal walkthrough of Claras Great Hall in the Carolverse Map) (elrond.initiative_author)
• [status-router] closed -> executing | event=operator_reopen | CAROL-INI-3623: reviewer no-show FAIL was an instrument error - the attempt row was missing at review time (locked initiatives DB at bypass_start). Attempt 2279 now open and bound to exec 1215; operator revives the executing bypass and re-runs the review. (orion)
• [rework-plan] reviewer rework (phase 3) added 4 step(s): Address: Every walkthrough stop renders a photoreal frame in one consistent styl; Address: The walk starts at the garden gates and traverses the whole house; forw; Address: Household agents shown along the route are derived live from the record; Address: The existing house page URL and its map links keep working and no other (ir-s1)
• [recovery] re-enqueue refused: queue_full — the watchdog could not restore a queue row for this initiative (elrond.handover_watchdog)
• [recovery] re-enqueue refused: queue_full — the watchdog could not restore a queue row for this initiative (elrond.handover_watchdog)
• [recovery] queue row revived in place — the execution had died leaving status=executing with no live queue row; the step-advance sweep relaunches the current step (CAROL-INI-2981) (elrond.handover_watchdog)
• [status-router] executing -> reviewing | event=uat_open | pipeline_uat uat_open (uat)
• Compliance waived by Orion (operator), audited not skipped: the core facet flagged shared/radagast_sudo.py as changed without operator approval. The change WAS operator-approved and went through the sanctioned core-install lane (requester orion; the lane's own gate returned approved and installed with a backup). The gap is an INSTRUMENT defect, measured: the gate resolves an execution to its initiative via executions.initiative_id, which is NULL on all 1210 bypass rows (each names its initiative in task_id instead), so it fails closed on every bypass. Filed as CAROL-INI-3624 with a criterion that the gate must prove it can both PASS an approved change and FAIL an unapproved one. (orion)
• UAT-1 (Ninad, 2026-08-03): the figures in the scenes are strangers - they do not match the agents as registered in Carolverse. Ruling: the pictures need NOT be photoreal; they should instead carry the Carolopedia sketch style, with each agent recognisably THE registered agent. (ninad)
• UAT-2 (Ninad, 2026-08-03): the walk only steps through the 13 fixed stops in a fixed order. Wanted: a Google-Maps-like freedom - turn, look up, look down, move forward and back. Ruling: this is a bigger change, so do it ONE viewpoint at a time starting with the entrance, adding as many new frames to the existing 13 as that needs. (ninad)
• [status-router] reviewing -> closed | event=operator_signoff | Auto-accepted (CAROL-INI-1859): Orion-initiated, >2 days in reviewing with no objection. (el-srac-01)

✅Success criteria

• Every walkthrough stop renders a photoreal frame in one consistent style whose palette matches the Carolverse map (warm parchment/gold/ink), verified by eye against the map. (must_have)
• The walk starts at the garden gates and traverses the whole house; forward/back works via on-screen arrows, keyboard arrow keys, and mouse click on the scene. (must_have)
• Household agents shown along the route are derived live from the records (never hard-typed), each with name and role, and greet the visitor on encounter with a visible Hi bubble. (must_have)
• The existing house page URL and its map links keep working and no other carolverse-map functionality regresses (app tests pass). (must_have)