test(ar): validate living-companion readability and placement on device

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Outcome

Collect direct physical-device evidence for the living-companion presentation delivered by PR #40, without making gameplay claims or changing the implementation under test.

Dependency

Blocked until PR #40 is approved and merged. Validate an exact build from the merged main commit and record its SHA, executable identity, device model, OS version, and protocol date.

Protocol scope

• Verify Lira is visible at normal outdoor brightness.
• Verify Idle, Follow, Investigate, Alert, and Celebrate are distinguishable without relying only on color.
• Verify placement succeeds on representative horizontal outdoor surfaces.
• Verify repeated companion replacement leaves one visible Lira and no old anchor.
• Verify Clear removes all visible entities.
• Verify interruption and background/reopen recovery do not duplicate or resurrect cleared entities.
• Verify Celebrate visibly completes and returns to Idle.
• Record thermal state and battery observations for the bounded run.
• Record tracking limitations, placement failures, lighting, surface, duration, and readability as observed.

Evidence rules

• Use OBSERVED only for behavior directly seen on the physical device.
• Use NOT_COMPUTABLE for any condition not exercised.
• Do not retain camera imagery, precise location, or other private sensor data.
• Do not infer or claim gameplay correctness from presentation validation.

Non-goals

• No production implementation changes in this issue.
• No movement, event-generation, Bond, persistence, receipt, or audio changes.
• No AI, dialogue, pathfinding, autonomous movement, or environmental inference.

Exit criteria

A dated physical receipt records each protocol item as pass, fail, or NOT_COMPUTABLE, with failures routed to a separate bounded repair issue.

[scrimshawlife-ctrl]

Dependency cleared: PR #40 merged into main as 4c6453958375eab4f7574b56aeb473d95ffc0f7f, and Issue #35 is closed completed.

Issue #41 is now authorized to execute from a fresh checkout of that exact merged main commit. Preserve the evidence-only scope: no implementation changes in this issue; route any failure to a separate bounded repair issue.

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Coordination update: Issue #47 is the canonical execution board specification. This item maps to Status: Ready, Lane: DEVICE, Workstream: Validation, Priority: P1, Risk: High. Only direct physical-device observations may be recorded as OBSERVED; unavailable evidence remains NOT_COMPUTABLE.

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Triage refresh (2026-07-20)

Status: Blocked — physical device access still required. No implementation work in this issue.

Evidence rules (unchanged)

• Only direct device observations may be OBSERVED
• Unobserved protocol rows remain NOT_COMPUTABLE
• Failures → separate bounded repair issue (no drive-by production edits here)

Build to validate (current main tip at triage)

• SHA: 86da7ad3c7f4445371064d489feff21ea689331f
• Recent AR presentation landings since original base: mesh mid-LOD (feat(ar): MeshDescriptor mid-LOD mesh + animation channels #116), skeletal puppet playback (feat(ar): joint-hierarchy skeletal AnimationLibrary playback #117), still quality (feat(art): complete Veil/Rupture still quality matrix #114), motion channels (feat(art): USDZ v1.1, motion channels, still quality pass #112)

Project fields

• Execution Status: Blocked
• Lane: DEVICE / Workstream: Validation / Priority: P1
• Evidence: NOT_COMPUTABLE until device run completes

Labels applied: ar, device, blocked, validation.

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Outdoor testing armed (2026-07-20)

Pre-device gate complete; human device walk is next.

Build to install

• SHA: 9f75aa02960d85d7cfff02bb16987d2bac48d00e (short 9f75aa0) — includes outdoor session packet PR
• Pre-merge prep validated against 8295da2 (make validate PASS; sim preflight automated PASS)

Operator packet

1. OUTDOOR_SESSION_PACKET.md — UI day/night + Pass E AR (test(ar): validate living-companion readability and placement on device #41)
2. Pending receipt scaffold: docs/design/receipts/OUTDOOR_QA_RECEIPT_*_PENDING.md
3. Sim preflight receipt: docs/design/receipts/SIM_PREFLIGHT_*_8295da2.md (sim-only; outdoor still NOT_COMPUTABLE)

Protocol order

make validate → (optional sim S1–S12) → install exact SHA → outdoor Pass A/E → night/reduced motion → sign receipt → comment here

Evidence rules (unchanged)

• OBSERVED only for direct device sight
• Unobserved rows stay NOT_COMPUTABLE
• FAIL → separate bounded defect issue (no sidewalk product edits)

Execution Status → Ready (DEVICE lane). Remove blocked when operator starts walk.