2.8.5 — Code Health & Integrity (in flight)

Not a feature release — the round where the machine turned its tools on itself.

At the time this museum was generated, 2.8.5 had not shipped: the app's changelog still marks its work [Unreleased]. The room is real, though — this is where the project stopped adding and started auditing. The planning folder is dominated by AUDIT_* files rather than feature specs: save integrity, the karma engine, the import guard, the registry leak, a whole health batch, plus deep refactors that split ui-core, the API layer, and the render layer into readable pieces.

Three threads stand out. Integrity — a save-integrity pass and a layered verification of what happens when the AI's state update fails to apply (the answer, newly enforced: tell the user, never silently keep the story and drop the change). Honesty about tooling — the duplicate PowerShell test runner was deleted here, but only after an independent audit ran both runners at the base commit and proved no coverage was lost (see the graveyard). Fallout 3 parity — the FO3 Pip-Boy skin, karma data, and perk/spine audits push the second game toward first-class status.

The test count reached 3453 — the highest point on the growth chart — largely by strengthening existing coverage rather than bolting on features. This is the release whose lesson is the museum's own: the dangerous failure isn't a broken build, it's something that still runs and looks right while being quietly wrong.

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