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Four things derived this session superseded what the plan said twenty-four hours earlier,
and the docs are corrected where each one died:
**Licensing needs no server.** Polar's customer-portal endpoints authenticate on the key
itself plus the public organization_id; the org access token is only needed to create
products. Channel binding rides in `conditions: {channel_id}`, re-checked on every
validate — so the "claim page" (a hosted OAuth flow that wrote the UC id onto the key)
and the key database it implied are deleted. Device management, key rotation and
subscription auto-revocation are Polar's; four states, one lease, no callback endpoint.
**Signing is deferred until two subscribers.** It never removes the day-one SmartScreen
warning (EV's instant-bypass died in 2024), so buying it before revenue buys only the
publisher line. Renamed to Azure Artifact Signing, $9.99/mo Basic, and it requires a
paid Azure subscription. Year-one fixed cost drops from ~$135 to ~$15.
**The Store account is free.** Microsoft waived the $19 individual fee and removed the
$99 company fee in May 2026, which makes the Store the only zero-cost route to a
Microsoft-signed install — the free answer to SmartScreen, noted beside the paid one.
**Support is a filter, not a promise.** Email, best effort, no SLA, refunds on request
without argument; no training service, no helpdesk. A repeated question becomes a
training video on @llamacasty, which is content and monetization instead of a ticket.
GitHub issues on the releases repo are the deliberate friction.
Also settled: binaries live in a second Gitea repo (`llamacasty-releases`) push-mirrored
to a public GitHub repo — issues and assets public, code private, one publish direction
(a git mirror carries refs, not GitHub Release assets); `@llamacasty` is
standard-verified with intermediate features, so live streaming, >15 min uploads and
custom thumbnails work today and no SIM or ID is needed; and OAuth comes out of Testing
mode by publishing the app (100-user lifetime cap, no 7-day token death).
TASKS.md now opens with the four-day surge slice — artifact shape, output gate,
entitlement seam, real-machine day — because those are what the first public release
waits on. HANDOFF.md rewritten. MyMistakes.md gains the Polar recipe and the
"verify means three different things" entry. MARCOM.md gains the support→content loop
and the surface roles.
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# docs/ai — index
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Subsystems split out of [`ai.md`](../../ai.md) so a session pays only for the subsystem its task
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touches. `ai.md` is now a **router** (what the product is, the architecture table, where truth
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lives) and `AGENTS.md` carries the invariants that hold across all of them, so no rule is
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reachable only from a file you forgot to open.
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Read the file whose row matches the task. There is no required reading order.
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| [`frame-pipeline.md`](frame-pipeline.md) | Render budget & measurement (`FrameCadence`, per-element composite timing, scene dump), `SceneCompositor` design + `StripPool`, and `FramePump` from scene snapshot to encoder (pacing, pool/paste caches, backpressure, teardown, health stats) | Touching the compositor, the render loop, per-frame cost, `Services/Encoder/*`, or debugging dropped/juddering frames |
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| [`capture.md`](capture.md) | The locked Background layer (screen/game/window capture, WinRT GraphicsCapture interop), the webcam seam + `CameraManager` sessions, MediaPipe background effects, and the vertical 9:16 tier's per-scene camera placement | Touching any frame source, the Background row, camera acquisition/conflicts, background effects, or vertical-tier camera geometry |
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| [`output.md`](output.md) | The bundled `ffmpeg.exe` and the encoder subprocess (args, probe order, seams), local recording (REC/ON-AIR, filenames, private-broadcast close-out), and the WASAPI capture → filter → mix → named-pipe audio chain (TRAX, sync offset, ducking, limiter) | Touching ffmpeg args/bundling, encoder or recording behaviour, REC/ON-AIR, the audio mix and its meters, or loudness/sync problems |
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| [`environment.md`](environment.md) | LAN hosts/IPs/SSH and the Gitea push recipe, the Windows `dotnet.exe` build + run commands, the test suite map, and the hermetic real-`MainWindow` test rule | Before building, running, adding a test, or reaching any box on the LAN |
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| [`product.md`](product.md) | Brand/naming split, AI transparency, the licensing prohibitions, the freemium posture, auth/account assumptions, and packaging behaviour | Branding, naming, packaging, or a legal/third-party obligation |
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| [`commercial.md`](commercial.md) | The live commercial policy: model and prices, the output-profile cap (stream **and** recording), Polar entitlement via `conditions` (no server, no claim page), the channels (releases repo → winget → Steam → Store), signing (deferred), the Founding 200 promo, costs, **support policy**, anti-piracy posture | Any question about money or support: pricing, licence keys, what free gets, how it ships, what a sale costs |
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| [`youtube-api.md`](youtube-api.md) | Go-live ordering + the broadcast-binding fix, the private-only lock, health parsing, end-stream pre-flight, Test mode, and chat-insert shape | Touching go-live, broadcast lifecycle, health polling, streaming close-out, or the chat service |
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| [`overlays.md`](overlays.md) | The social bar, the native alert box (six animations, alert clip, ticker) and the chat box conventions — everything composited over the frame | Adding or changing anything drawn on top of the output |
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| [`decisions.md`](decisions.md) | Retired paths with cause of death: the paid-tier history and pricing, the free-forever era, Store IAP, the Store ordering, rejected monetization and anti-piracy ideas, and the permanent out-of-product list | You are about to re-open a decision that was already settled |
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| [`ui-surface.md`](ui-surface.md) | The control surface, scene strip, preview rail, hotkeys, broadcast drawer, toasts, transitions, brand logo, launch geometry, and the theme/properties-panel conventions | Changing anything the creator sees: layout, controls, theming, properties panel |
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## Split-out yet to come
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Nothing — `ai.md` is now a router with the always-read invariants; the subsystem detail lives here.
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