Remove false agency and the splices from the adaptations register

[mmacy]

Summary

docs/adaptations.md is the last hand-written page #72 names. It held every em dash and semicolon left in the documentation, 167 and 159 of them, and read as one long splice: entries of three and four spliced clauses where the register needed one fact per sentence. It also had the agency defect in its own dialect, where the dice belong to the things being ruled about: gems rolled the value table, a trap rolled its 2-in-6, a door rolled no die, a fall rolled nothing, a gate rolled each round, and a magic item rolled its own save.

332 punctuation replacements and 58 changes of wording, across 113 of the page's 119 paragraphs, in two commits: the pass itself and the corrections review asked for, which are the third table below. 34 of the wording changes apply the agency and carry rules from #72; 24 apply the house prose rules.

Three things particular to this page are intact, and I checked each mechanically rather than by eye:

• The "Locked by" tails. All 110 are byte-identical, checked by extracting every Locked by … sentence from both revisions and comparing the sorted lists.
• The headings. Identical, checked the same way, because the packet forbids heading changes. Nothing links to them: every reference to this page in src/ and in the other docs is prose ("the adaptations register") or a link to the page root, and a search for an anchored link to adaptations.md#… finds none.
• Every backticked identifier. The multiset of backticked spans is unchanged: nothing added, nothing removed. Where a list separator sat between two of them (`affected_1_3`/`affected_4_5`), only the separator changed.

The line count is unchanged at 459, so every line number below is the same before and after. The literal carry family stays throughout: on this page a carrier is a party member holding loot, and the treasure-distribution entry is built on that sense.

Verification

• uv run mkdocs build --strict passes, before the corrections and again after them.
• uv run pytest tests/test_docs_gates.py tests/test_docs_examples.py tests/test_docs_site.py -q: 376 passed, 73 skipped, before the corrections and again after them.
• The three invariants re-checked mechanically after the corrections: the 110 Locked by tails byte-identical, the 113 headings byte-identical, and the multiset of backticked spans unchanged.
• The full gate: ruff format --check (160 files already formatted), ruff check (all checks passed), pyright (0 errors), uv run pytest -q (2935 passed, 146 skipped, 2 xfailed).
• No CHANGELOG.md entry: prose corrections are not behavior changes.

Review table

Two tables, because a row per punctuation mark would bury the changes you have to check. The first holds every change of wording, which is what to read. The second lists the punctuation work paragraph by paragraph, since each mark is a mechanical substitution the diff shows in full.

Changes of wording

This table is not exhaustive. Thirteen further wording changes are listed under it, and the rest of the work is punctuation, in the second table.

File and line	Before	After	Reason
docs/adaptations.md:3	This page is the single register for the places where that isn't enough:	Every place where that isn't enough is recorded here, as one of two kinds of entry:	The page describing itself. The authority claim survives in the new subject.
docs/adaptations.md:5	This register doubles as the project's evidence ledger … Those citations refer to the repository — they are provenance for the curious, not links on this site	The register doubles as … Those citations point into the repository. They are provenance, not links on this site	"For the curious" is filler, and the em dash spliced two sentences.
docs/adaptations.md:27	"For every two points by which an ability score is reduced, one point may be added" — the SRD doesn't say whether	The SRD says "For every two points by which an ability score is reduced, one point may be added", and doesn't say whether	The quotation was the subject of a sentence the SRD is the subject of.
docs/adaptations.md:31	a consequence chosen, not overlooked (an appositive after an em-dash pair)	That consequence is chosen, not overlooked.	The appositive had no verb and hung off a 40-word sentence.
docs/adaptations.md:35	under both tracking modes	under basic and detailed tracking alike	The quantifier never named its two members.
docs/adaptations.md:79	Gate → roll (+ STR for melee) → doublings (brace, charge, back-stab) → minimum 1 → reductions (floored, never below 1).	The gate resolves first, then the damage roll (plus STR for melee), then the doublings (brace, charge, back-stab), then the minimum of 1, then the reductions (floored, never below 1).	An arrow chain in prose. The order is unchanged.
docs/adaptations.md:103	The three dual-listed gear items carry pinned damage-source semantics	The three dual-listed gear items have pinned damage-source semantics	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:143	1d6 per full 10 feet fallen; a 9-foot fall rolls nothing	The engine rolls 1d6 per full 10 feet fallen, and nothing at all for a fall under 10 feet	A fall does not roll. falling_damage's docstring in core/combat.py: "a fall under 10 feet, which takes no dice and no draw".
docs/adaptations.md:155	1hp and the hydra's 8-hp-per-HD forms roll nothing	The engine rolls nothing for 1hp and for the hydra's 8-hp-per-HD forms	A stat-block form does not roll.
docs/adaptations.md:159	one sentence of nine semicolon-joined conventions	four sentences, same nine conventions in the same order	Clause stacking at its worst on the page.
docs/adaptations.md:175	Rules_of_Magic.md carries identical content	Rules_of_Magic.md has identical content	Metaphorical carry: a file contains text.
docs/adaptations.md:183	divine copies never carry a reversed flag	divine copies never have a reversed flag	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:187	Cause wounds touch attacks roll a melee attack only in combat	Cause wounds touch attacks take a melee attack roll only in combat	An attack does not roll itself.
docs/adaptations.md:195	a drained character may hold a book over capacity and simply cannot add more	and cannot add more	Minimizer.
docs/adaptations.md:227	Spell morale modifiers ride check_morale's existing modifier argument	Spell morale modifiers use check_morale's existing modifier argument	Modifiers do not ride an argument.
docs/adaptations.md:235	item instances carry no ids	item instances have no ids	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:275	One 2d6 turn roll compares per candidate type against its cell	The engine compares one 2d6 turn roll per candidate type against its cell	A roll does not compare anything.
docs/adaptations.md:283	the two hydra cells carry variant_dice	the two hydra cells have variant_dice	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:287	a core → data → crawl transitive import	a transitive import from core through data into crawl	An arrow chain in prose.
docs/adaptations.md:307	so silence is genuinely ambiguous	so silence is ambiguous	Stock word.
docs/adaptations.md:311	the player-facing exploration.trap.safe emits only for a known trap	the engine emits the player-facing exploration.trap.safe only for a known trap	An event does not emit itself.
docs/adaptations.md:311	while a found treasure trap still rolls its 2-in-6 on every TakeTreasure	while the engine still rolls a found treasure trap's 2-in-6 on every TakeTreasure	A trap does not roll. Springing, which is a physical event, stays the trap's own verb throughout.
docs/adaptations.md:311	a door or an area edge rolls no die, so there is nothing to report	the engine rolls no die for a door or an area edge, so there is nothing to report	Same defect, same paragraph.
docs/adaptations.md:311	A trap needs a living victim: a party with no one left rolls no spring die	A spring needs a living victim, so the engine rolls no spring die for a party with no one left	A trap cannot need anything, and a party does not roll the spring die.
docs/adaptations.md:317	Each item prefers a carrier whose class may use it	Each item goes to a carrier whose class may use it	An item has no preferences. The fallback in the next sentence is untouched.
docs/adaptations.md:318	Pieces deal richest-first, each to whoever currently holds the least by value	The engine deals pieces richest-first, each to whoever currently holds the least by value	Pieces do not deal themselves out. _distribute_haul in crawl/exploration.py does.
docs/adaptations.md:319	the one place where a fair share and a mobile party want the same thing	the one place where a fair share and a mobile party come to the same thing	Neither a share nor a party wants anything here.
docs/adaptations.md:327	A light-kind expiry surfaces to players as exploration.light.expired appended by the session	When a light-kind effect expires the session appends exploration.light.expired for players	"Surfaces" as a verb, and an expiry that cannot append anything. The session was already named as the appender.
docs/adaptations.md:327	the escape params ride the effect	the escape params sit on the effect	Params do not ride.
docs/adaptations.md:339	monsters whose treasure ref carries letters	monsters whose treasure ref has letters	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:339	the AC penalty rides attack_penalty_of_attackers +2	the AC penalty applied through attack_penalty_of_attackers +2	A penalty does not ride an argument.
docs/adaptations.md:347	the kernel validators reject, the machine surfaces them	the kernel validators reject and the machine reports them	"Surfaces" as a verb.
docs/adaptations.md:355	individually turned members of a mixed group simply don't act	individually turned members of a mixed group don't act	Minimizer.
docs/adaptations.md:355	a per_round_chance_in_six gate rolls each round	the engine rolls a per_round_chance_in_six gate each round	A data field does not roll.
docs/adaptations.md:359	neither view carries the seed	neither view includes the seed	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:367	Gems roll the d20 value table per stone and jewellery rolls 3d6 × 100 gp per piece	The engine rolls the d20 value table per gem and 3d6 × 100 gp per piece of jewellery	Gems and jewellery do not roll.
docs/adaptations.md:391	everything else carries manual-tagged prose	everything else ships manual-tagged prose	Metaphorical carry.
docs/adaptations.md:407	the curse is no disease and carries no condition	the curse is no disease and attaches no condition	Metaphorical carry, and "attaches" is the effects engine's own verb.
docs/adaptations.md:415	the wearer's own +1 rides the equipped-item channel	the wearer's own +1 goes through the equipped-item channel	A bonus does not ride a channel.
docs/adaptations.md:419	Use-time item resolution … rides the "magic" stream	Use-time item resolution … draws from the "magic" stream	Same defect. "Draws from" is what the RNG streams reference calls it.
docs/adaptations.md:423	so its kit shield rides carried, unwielded	so the kit shield is carried rather than wielded	A shield does not ride. The literal carrying stays.
docs/adaptations.md:431	All services are always available in the 1.0 marker town	Every service is available in the 1.0 marker town	Absolute qualifier doubled up.
docs/adaptations.md:439	The Phase 1–2 flags … are SRD optional rules	The Phase 1 and 2 flags … are SRD optional rules	An en dash between two phase numbers.
docs/adaptations.md:455	each carried magic item rolls against the owner's save value	the engine rolls each carried magic item against the owner's save value	An item does not roll its own save, even though the flag is named for that save.
docs/adaptations.md:23, :207, :223, :271, :287, :327, :335, :451	numeric ranges written 1–2, 6th–10th, 3–8, 7–9, 4–5, 1–3, 20'–120', 2–3	1-2, 6th-10th, 3-8, 7-9, 4-5, 1-3, 20-120', 2-3	En dashes in ranges. Every value is unchanged.

Thirteen further wording changes, which the table above does not list one by one. Each is a clause the punctuation work had to re-say, and none changes what the entry claims:

• docs/adaptations.md:263 - "magically augmented STR above 18 in 4 rounds" had elided its verb across a semicolon; it now reads "escapes in 4 rounds".
• docs/adaptations.md:295 - "except construction tricks, dwarf-only with a zero baseline" became a sentence, "Construction tricks are the exception, dwarf-only with a zero baseline, because the SRD grants that perception to dwarves alone".
• docs/adaptations.md:335 - "on a rectangular room exactly that room's extent … down a straight corridor the whole passage" supplies the two elided verbs, and "a caller-supplied distance — every referee spawn — is never capped" becomes "a caller-supplied distance, which is every referee spawn, is never capped".
• docs/adaptations.md:327 - "require light — searching and listening alone also work on the actor's own infravision" becomes "require light, while searching and listening alone also work on the actor's own infravision".
• docs/adaptations.md:391 - "the sparse basic column compiles as printed" becomes "with the sparse basic column compiled as printed", inside the parenthesis.
• docs/adaptations.md:247 - "when the recorded level exceeds the dispelling caster's, it survives" becomes "the effect survives". "It" had the level, the caster and the effect to choose from.
• docs/adaptations.md:359 - "and cause — poison when … — feeding" becomes a parenthesis, and "neither view carries the seed (it lives only in the save)" becomes "neither view includes the seed, which lives only in the save".
• Slash pairs spelled out, where the slash stood for "or" or "and" in the page's own voice and not in a quotation: :119 death/poison, :159 leader/chieftain, :163 combat.attack.hit / combat.attack.missed, :175 **Duration:**/**Range:**, :179 once-a-day/after-uninterrupted-sleep/one-hour, :331 torch/lantern, :367 gem/jewellery, :391 category/tag, :407 affected_1_3/affected_4_5/affected_6_plus.

Corrections after review

File and line	The first pass had	It now reads	Reason
docs/adaptations.md:135	"Magical healing is ineffective**,** natural healing is ten times slower"	"Magical healing is ineffective**;** natural healing is ten times slower"	Inside a quotation. The semicolon is srd/Mummy.md's.
docs/adaptations.md:207	"three missiles at 6th**-10th level, five missiles at 11th-**15th level"	"…6th**–10th … 11th–**15th…"	Inside a quotation.
docs/adaptations.md:331	RAW's "referee may increase or decrease"	RAW's "referee may increase**/**decrease"	Inside a quotation.
docs/adaptations.md:343, :451	"2**-**3 characters in a 10' passage"	"2**–**3 characters in a 10' passage"	Inside a quotation, in both entries that quote it.
docs/adaptations.md:451	leaves the rest to judgement : "The referee should judge	leaves the rest to judgement**. The SRD's own words: "The referee should judge**	The em-dash replacement had left a space before the colon.
docs/adaptations.md:391	as ability-derived template sets) rather than string-matched prose	as ability-derived template sets), never string-matched prose	A prohibition, not a contrast.
docs/adaptations.md:399	at query time rather than as ledger effects	at query time**, never as** ledger effects	Same.
docs/adaptations.md:411	a rejection (items.device.inert) rather than a silent no-op	a rejection (items.device.inert), never a silent no-op	Same. Nine plain "X, not Y" contrasts keep "rather than".
docs/adaptations.md:367	structured magic clauses (any, a named category, or a pool, then a count or count dice, then exclusions, then + 1 potion-style extras)	structured magic clauses. A clause's parts are any, a named category, or a pool, a count or count dice, exclusions, and + 1 potion-style extras	The grammar's semicolon list named four parts and stated no order between them; "then" asserted one.
docs/adaptations.md:367	TreasureRef letters resolve by SRD section, where parenthetical letters are lair treasure, extra_gp joins the hoard, …	resolve by SRD section, and parenthetical letters are lair treasure**.** extra_gp joins the hoard, …	"Where" subordinated four independent pins to the letter resolution.
docs/adaptations.md:339	treasure for monsters whose treasure ref has letters, the intelligence proxy, override-correctable per encounter, and food otherwise	treasure for monsters whose treasure ref has letters (the intelligence proxy, override-correctable per encounter) and food for everything else	The bait contrast had flattened into a comma list.
docs/adaptations.md:311	springs the trap (the classic reading, where RAW says only "attempted once per trap")	springs the trap, which is the classic reading**. RAW says only "attempted once per trap".**	"Where" read as RAW supporting the classic reading. RAW is silent.
docs/adaptations.md:335	(pinned), and releases turned effects when it ends	(pinned). An encounter releases turned effects when it ends	"And releases" could attach to the relative clause rather than to the encounter.
docs/adaptations.md:335	the printed 20-120' band	the printed 20'-120' band	The lower bound lost its foot mark.
docs/adaptations.md:275	(minimum 1**,** fixed bonuses dropped, the sleep convention)	(minimum 1 and fixed bonuses dropped, the sleep convention)	The gloss read as a third item in the list.
docs/adaptations.md:307	rolled regardless of occupants, because undead make no noise and silence is therefore ambiguous	rolled regardless of occupants**. Undead make no noise, so silence is ambiguous**	The noiselessness is why silence proves nothing, not why the roll happens regardless of occupants.
docs/adaptations.md:317	Each item goes to a carrier whose class may use it	The engine prefers a carrier whose class may use the item	"Goes to" is stronger than _hand_item, which sorts a usable class first and falls back. The preference is the engine's, which keeps the actor real.
docs/adaptations.md:283	so the printed HD dice roll once on the wandering stream and select the template	so the engine rolls the printed HD dice once on the wandering stream and selects the template	Dice as the subject, which the same pass had fixed everywhere else.

The punctuation, paragraph by paragraph

166 em dashes, 151 semicolons, and 15 en dashes, replaced by a full stop, a colon, a comma, or parentheses according to what each was doing. The marks inside quotation marks are not here: house punctuation stops at a quotation mark, so the ones the SRD prints stay as printed. Where a mark joined two independent clauses the sentence splits, where it set off an aside the aside goes in parentheses or commas, and where what followed explained or listed, a colon. No fact was added or dropped in any of them. Twelve of the em dashes sat in an "X, not Y" or "never Y" construction: three of those were prohibitions and keep "never" (:391, :399, :411), and the other nine are plain contrasts that now read "X rather than Y".

Line	Marks replaced
docs/adaptations.md:3	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:5	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:11	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:23	2 en dashes
docs/adaptations.md:27	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:31	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:35	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:39	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:51	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:55	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:59	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:67	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:71	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:75	2 em dashes, 5 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:79	wording only
docs/adaptations.md:83	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:87	3 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:91	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:95	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:99	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:103	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:107	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:111	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:115	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:119	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:123	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:127	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:131	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:135	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:139	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:143	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:147	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:151	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:155	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:159	8 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:163	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:167	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:171	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:175	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:179	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:183	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:187	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:191	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:195	1 em dash, 2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:199	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:203	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:207	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:211	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:215	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:219	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:223	2 semicolons, 3 en dashes
docs/adaptations.md:227	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:231	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:235	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:239	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:243	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:247	2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:251	2 em dashes, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:255	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:259	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:263	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:267	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:271	1 em dash, 1 semicolon, 1 en dash
docs/adaptations.md:275	1 em dash, 5 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:279	3 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:283	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:287	1 semicolon, 2 en dashes
docs/adaptations.md:291	3 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:295	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:299	2 em dashes, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:303	2 em dashes, 5 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:307	2 em dashes, 2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:311	8 em dashes, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:315	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:317	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:318	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:319	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:320	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:321	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:323	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:327	3 em dashes, 4 semicolons, 2 en dashes
docs/adaptations.md:331	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:335	8 em dashes, 8 semicolons, 4 en dashes
docs/adaptations.md:339	6 em dashes, 4 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:343	3 em dashes, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:347	5 em dashes, 5 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:351	3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:355	1 em dash, 6 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:359	3 em dashes, 5 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:363	2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:367	3 em dashes, 7 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:371	3 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:375	3 em dashes, 2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:379	1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:383	3 em dashes, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:387	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:391	2 em dashes, 4 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:395	2 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:399	2 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:403	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:407	3 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:411	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:415	1 em dash
docs/adaptations.md:419	2 em dashes, 2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:423	3 em dashes, 2 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:427	1 em dash, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:431	3 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:435	1 em dash, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:439	1 semicolon, 1 en dash
docs/adaptations.md:443	1 em dash, 3 semicolons
docs/adaptations.md:451	3 em dashes
docs/adaptations.md:455	3 em dashes, 1 semicolon
docs/adaptations.md:459	1 em dash

Open questions

1. House punctuation stops at a quotation mark. Quoted text is this page's evidence, so it keeps the marks the source prints: the semicolon in srd/Mummy.md's "Magical healing is ineffective; natural healing is ten times slower" (:135), the en dashes in "6th–10th" and "11th–15th" (:207), the slash in RAW's "referee may increase/decrease" (:331), and the en dash in "2–3 characters in a 10' passage" in both entries that quote it (:343, :451). The first pass had house-styled all five inside the quotation marks, and the corrections commit puts them back.

2. Eight marks survive, all in headings. No heading changed, because the packet forbids it. Nothing in the repository links to an anchor on this page, so you can rename any of these without touching src/. What stays: an em dash in "### The holy damage key is admitted through any gate on undead targets — and only there" (:89), and semicolons in "### Torch and burning oil deal fire damage; holy water carries the holy key" (:101), "### Poison failure is death, with optional onset; riders leave the damage unaffected" (:117), "### Asleep grants auto-hit and dies-to-a-blade; dozing is a caller modifier" (:137), "### Arcane casters fix normal/reversed at memorization; divine casters choose at cast" (:181), "### Starting books hold exactly capacity; book capacity is per level; books never auto-shrink" (:193, two), and "### Lightning bolt kills destroy equipment; disintegrate kills permanently and destroys carried gear" (:209).

3. Two headings carry defects of their own, and stay for the same reason. :9 reads "### Multi-prime-requisite XP tiers carry no penalties", which is the metaphorical carry in a heading, and :101 has "holy water carries the holy key". Both stay only because the packet forbids heading changes; nothing links to either anchor.

4. A numeric surface count in a heading. :389, "### The magic item catalog: 164 templates, a wired census, and manual prose". AGENTS.md rules numeric surface counts out of prose, and this is the kind that drifts when the catalog grows. It is a heading, so it stays here.

5. Numeric counts in the body, left alone deliberately. :175 ("the compiler census (106 pages, 34 + 72 list entries)"), :51 ("the twenty Other Languages"), :415 ("MAX_RINGS_WORN = 2"). These count fixed SRD input or a constant rather than a project surface, and on an evidence ledger the numbers are the evidence.

6. "Carrier" and the carry family, kept throughout. On this page the literal sense is the subject matter: :315 quotes RAW on what "any character can carry", :317-:323 are built on carriers as party members holding loot, :191 quotes Cleric.md on carrying a holy symbol, and :35, :39, :303, :375, :383, :387, :455 all mean physical carrying. Only the five metaphorical uses changed.

7. The SRD and the dice stay actors. :335 ("RAW rolls 2d6 × 10' only 'if there is uncertainty'") and the pervasive "the die shows", "the roll compares" idioms where a person or the engine is plainly behind them. This is the call osr-editor#65 made and #138 followed.

8. Effects act. "the effect attaches", "expiry applies the listed damage", "a darkness-family effect suppresses the whole party's light". The effects engine is software resolving them, and the docs treat an effect as the mechanism rather than as authored content. Left alone.

9. Contractions and "you" stay at effectively zero, the two fingerprints still outside the house range. The page is a register of rulings that never addresses a reader, and adding second person would be a rewrite rather than an edit in place.

10. Sentence length is still above the house median at the 90th percentile. Splitting the splices brought the median to 18 words, and the long tail is what remains: entries like :311 and :343 state a dozen related pins in one paragraph. Cutting them further would restructure the register, which the edit-in-place instruction rules out.

Undefined jargon found

Location and term only. Nothing here was changed. This page is written for a reader who already has the SRD open, so the list is short by design.

• the odometer, and thirds-of-feet - docs/adaptations.md:299.
• the simulation floor - docs/adaptations.md:303.
• the no-leak doctrine - docs/adaptations.md:307, :311.
• game territory, as the phrase for what the library deliberately leaves out - docs/adaptations.md:355, :367, :431.
• registered, used as a standalone marker for "recorded as a known gap" - docs/adaptations.md:259, :327, :367, :431, :435.
• the marker town - docs/adaptations.md:431.
• packed-variant pages - docs/adaptations.md:159, :283.
• the wandering-re-roll precedent - docs/adaptations.md:367.
• work-item-4 list - docs/adaptations.md:391.

Vocabulary decisions for the owner

1. "Carrier", the specification's word. Unchanged, as in #138 and #141. On this page it is also the literal word for a party member holding loot, which is exactly the collision docs/spec.md:207 and :209 leave open. Nothing here forces the decision either way.

2. "Carries" in two headings. :9 and :101. I left them because the packet forbids heading changes, not because anything depends on their anchors: nothing links to them, so renaming them is a one-file change whenever you want it.

3. "Pinned" as the register's own verb. "Pinned:", "pinned as", "all pinned" appear throughout, and the page defines the term in its opening sentence. Left alone, and worth keeping.

4. "Surfaces" as a verb. Removed in the two places it appeared here (:327, :347), for "appends" and "reports". Both replacements are verbs the same entries already use.

5. "Game territory". The page's phrase for a decision the library declines to make. It is undefined but consistent, and renaming it would touch a dozen entries.

Cross-repository effects

1. The gate docstring, still open. src/osrlib/crawl/gates.py:108 reads "so a door that swings shut needs another key", and "needs" is on #72's own list. This page does not contain that sentence, so nothing here fixes it. It reaches osr-editor through the generated types and that editor's gate condition builder help text until osrlib's docstrings are corrected and osr-editor's osrlib pin moves.

2. No cross-project surface runs through this page's headings. I said otherwise when I opened this, and it was wrong: every reference from src/ is prose or a link to the page root, and no file in the repository links to an anchor here. The headings are byte-identical anyway, and the mkdocs strict build passes.

3. Nothing else propagates. No schema, no code identifier, no generated page, and no test name changed, so osr-forge and osr-editor see nothing from this pull request.

4. #72's Markdown half is complete with this. docs/index.md, docs/getting-started/, docs/guides/, docs/front-ends/, docs/reference/rng-streams.md, and now docs/adaptations.md. docs/reference/rejection-codes.md and docs/reference/message-codes.md are generated at build time and have no file to edit. The docstring half of #72 is untouched and still open.

Part of #72.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmCezTw8hKKujkaEZ3YGAs