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ADR 0083: Every room he thinks in is watchable

Status: accepted (James, 2026-08-09). Applies to pi lane logs. Amended by ADR 0107, which keeps the tree a one-shot turn writes so its tool calls survive the turn.

Context

Clankie speaks in operator conversations, Discord text channels, Discord voice rooms, and gameplay. The supervising seat needs a bounded, truthful view of the other rooms without reaching into pi's private session files.

Decision

LaneLog writes one append-only JSONL file per (lane, targetId) under the captain state directory. Each entry is one bounded heard or said record. Both the TUI lane view and Clankie's observe_room tool read that same log, so there is one canonical room history rather than a second session-stream projection.

ADR 0083: Every room he thinks in is watchable

GET /captain/v1/lanes is captain-authenticated and returns the bounded lane observations the captain port exposes. The route does not expose pi JSONL trees, continuation handles, provider credentials, or a write path.

Consequences

  • The operator can inspect every room from one seat.
  • Discord text stays one-shot at the model layer, but its lane log still has a durable past. The lane log is the bounded room view; the per-turn tree beside it is the full record of what he ran there.
  • Room observation is a bounded read of what is heard and said, not a dump of private model reasoning.
  • Rotation and replay belong to the append-only lane log, not to framework session ids.