- Introduce bounded happiness probe to improve event diagnostics
- Update happiness drain logic to limit processed occurrences per tick
- Enhance telemetry for happiness processing times and maximum items
- Refactor narrative development to include new home-related events
- Improve narrative thread handling for home establishment and recovery
- Introduce new probes for combat lifecycle, scheduler bounds, and exposure
- Implement narrative scheduler health probe in harness scenarios
- Update InterestCandidate to include approved presentation details
- Refactor EventPresentability to manage candidate approval and caching
- Improve IdleHitchProbe to track performance metrics during narrative events
- Route confirmed life events into evidence-based threads, consequences, and Legacy chapters
- Schedule episode shots with critical interrupts, replay guards, and a combat budget
- Admit emerging main characters through story momentum instead of spectacle
- Remove causal heat, hard-arc memory writes, and synthetic epilogue continuity
- Expand narrative harness coverage, soak auditing, and product documentation
