ADR 0099: He can look at his own play

Status: accepted (2026-08-15). Narrows ADR 0057 (the mouth's tool surface) and uses ADR 0068 (the play journal) as the store, never as the thing the mouth reads. ADR 0123 adds continuous interpreted experience; this pull seam remains for raw pixels. ADR 0126 extends the bounded story across sittings and makes the latest stopped journey explicitly recallable.

Context

The talking half in Discord voice and the playing half that holds the GBA are one character. People in the call can watch the activity surface. The mouth receives a first-person game-side experience update after every settled turn and a briefing that he is at the controls, but neither carries pixels. pokeagent_observe stays digest-only: "frame bytes stay on the rendered-surface media plane." observe_share returns a short chronological JPEG sequence from someone else's Discord share.

Without a direct read seam, a screen description invents pixels or pays a full captain turn for a lookup. Dumping the journal into the realtime session breaks ADR 0057's context bound and repeats the ADR 0074 defect: monologues written for the next button sound like telemetry when spoken.

Decision

He may pull two things, and only those two:

1. Glance. One still of the live framebuffer, captured when he asks. look_at_screen is a read-only tool on the realtime session. It GETs /v1/embodiment/sessions/live/still and seeds an input_image item. It presses nothing. The captain's pokeagent_observe includes the same still when one exists, matching observe_share.
2. Story. A bounded card projected from the play journal: turns taken, latest settled-turn time, current objective, maps, last eight speakWanted effects. A returned card means the run remains attached; the timestamp does not claim the next decision is stalled. Never monologue, notes, or the raw JSONL. pokeagent_recall is a captain tool; /v1/embodiment/sessions/live/story is the same card; the voice briefing includes it when he is playing. The mouth reaches the story through ask_clankie or the briefing, not by opening the log.

ask_clankie remains the only privileged tool. Room audio still cannot press a button, write memory, or start play.

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Consequences

• Looking at his own screen is the same kind of act as looking at a share: bounded pixels on demand, said in his own words. His screen is one current still; a share includes up to four 1 fps samples for coarse motion.
• Reconstructing a run is a projection, not a log client.
• Frames are still not on the digest activity snapshot. That contract stays hash-only so a present-tense card cannot grow a picture.