docs/testing/2026-08-30-hosted-firered-intro/README.md

Hosted FireRed intro on current Clankie (post-ADR 0145)

Date: 2026-08-30 America/Chicago

Run: embodiment-7c0493bc-d431-413c-b919-d15f5243c510

Hosted session: ses_d6d572aeec79f6b565c7185c83d7d023

Environment: live hosted pokemon-firered on local pokeagents start (unix socket, real mGBA)

Code: Clankie a7a2bf2, PokeAgents 37dc628. The Clankie service (pid 42709) and world host (pid 41839) were already running. Play-path source was not dirty at prompt time.

Driver: operator TUI prompt in Herdr pane w1C:pW (originLane: "operator"). Not the free-play-live script, not Discord voice.

Verdict

Pass. Eleven of eleven working-state assertions held. After retiring the local emulator, Clankie still joins a hosted PokeAgents FireRed body from the TUI, observes, acts, names himself CLANKIE, confirms it, and stops on request. Journal provenance is body: "world" on every causal stage. Lifecycle is claimed → running → stop_requested → stopping → stopped, consistent with the play-journal summary.

This does not re-prove the August 18 65-minute overworld campaign (Viridian, Parcel, battles). It proves the post-0145 join path still plays a real cartridge.

Assertions

All pass in evidence/13-assertions.json:

Check	Meaning
`clankie_ready`	`clankie status` → `ok` / `ready`
`services_healthy`	clankie, relay, discord-bridge, activity, tunnel healthy
`pokeagent_mmo_enabled`	`gameplay.pokeagentMmoEnabled` true
`world_credential_present`	broker id `pokeagent_mmo_world` present (secret not archived)
`join_venue_world`	journal header `venue: "world"`, `environmentId: "pokemon-firered"`
`provenance_world_only`	every turn `evidence.decision.provenance.body === "world"`
`named_clankie`	accepted `enter_text` `"CLANKIE"`
`confirmed_name`	accepted `select_menu_entry` `yes` on `intro-name-confirmation`
`orderly_stop`	summary `stopped` and lifecycle `embodiment.session.stopped`
`accepted_majority`	11 accepted / 1 adapter rejection, recovered next turn
`no_local_emulator_venue`	header venue is not local

Run outcome

Metric	Value
Wall time	2m 33.7s
Turns	12
Accepted	11 (91.7%)
Adapter rejections	1 (`semantic_state_unavailable` on the gender screen)
Named	`CLANKIE` (turn 8), confirmed Yes (turn 10)
Viewer frames	2,265 published, 179 dropped
Mean decision / action	6.0s / 4.0s
Terminal	`stopped`; lifecycle consistent
World occupancy	1/8 during play, 0/8 after stop

What the run exposed

One expected intro refusal: turn 5 called advance_dialog on the boy/girl screen, which has no decoded dialog. The harness said so (semantic_state_unavailable / “this screen carries no decoded state”). Turn 6 confirmed BOY with A. Recovery is recovered in the evaluator.

Coherence 0.2 is not a play-quality score for a 12-turn intro with no overworld tiles. Keep the milestones; do not collapse this run into that number.

Evidence flow

Debug log

Preflight: clankie status ready; doctor pokeagentMmoEnabled: true; broker listed pokeagent_mmo_world; pokeagents start showed kanto, mgba, firered+emerald, 0/8 bodies, socket ~/.pokeagent-mmo/world/host.sock.
herdr agent prompt refused (agent_not_ready / not an active named agent). The TUI is detected as agent clankie in herdr agent list but does not accept agent prompt. Typed the request with herdr pane run w1C:pW.
Join returned action: "joined" for pokemon-firered. World pane went to 1/8 bodies. Journal header schemaVersion: 3, venue: "world".
Turns 0–4 mashed A then advance_dialog through Oak. Turn 5 refused on the gender screen; turn 6 confirmed boy.
Turn 8 typed CLANKIE (37 inputs, confirmed). Turn 10 selected Yes. Turn 11 read Oak's rival intro. TUI: “Name confirmed as CLANKIE. Stopping.” then pokeagent_stop → action: "stopped".
After stop, clankie play status was session: null and the world returned to 0/8.
While this run was in flight, a sibling session dirtied unrelated Discord channel files in the Clankie worktree. Those paths are not on the play seam; the running service had already loaded a7a2bf2. PokeAgents had an unrelated dirty doc (docs/hosting-emerald-multiplayer.md).

Evidence index

File	What it proves
`00-clankie-status.json`	Service ready before play
`00-clankie-doctor.json`	MMO enabled; world credential id present; credential secrets omitted
`00-games.json`	`pokeagentMmoEnabled: true`
`01-play-journal.jsonl`	V3 journal, world venue, causal evidence, naming, stop
`02-lifecycle-events.jsonl`	claimed / running / stop_requested / stopping / stopped
`05-world-action-journal.jsonl`	Independent PokeAgents action record for `ses_d6d572ae…`
`08-evaluation-summary.json`	Evaluator aggregate; terminal consistent
`09-turn-timeline.tsv`	One row per turn
`10-capture-environment.json`	Git heads; dirty-tree caveat
`11-tui-recent.txt`	Operator TUI: join, observe still, stop, closing line
`12-world-host-tui.txt`	Host panel after stop (0/8)
`13-assertions.json`	Mechanical pass/fail
`screenshots/`	Bounded 240×160 frames, including Oak after name confirm
`activity/`	Live Activity UI (`http://127.0.0.1:4320`) during a follow-up hosted session
`blog-stills/`	Curated GBA frames for the post: Oak, name keyboard, grandson, bedroom, lab, Pallet Town
`manifest.json`	SHA-256 of every evidence file

ROM, save bytes, framebuffer bytes beyond the bounded PNGs, voice PCM, and credential secrets are excluded.

Re-run

Assumes pokeagents start and clankie are already up, MMO enabled, world credential in the broker.

# from a Herdr pane that can type into the Clankie TUI
herdr pane run <clankie-tui-pane> "Play FireRed in the PokeAgents hosted world. Join with pokeagent_join_mmo. Get through Oak intro, name yourself CLANKIE, confirm the name, then stop playing."

pnpm --filter @clankie/play gameplay:evaluate-journal -- \
  ~/.local/state/clankie/gba-play/<new-journal>.jsonl \
  --events ~/.clankie/events.jsonl

Browse this archive:

pnpm testing:view docs/testing/2026-08-30-hosted-firered-intro

Outcome

The hosted body is the live play path on today's Clankie. A TUI ask is enough to join FireRed, get through Oak's intro, write the name, and stop cleanly. Use this archive for the post-0145 “it still works” claim; keep the 2026-08-18 trial for the long-run / Speary story.