- Scale and cap rare-creature and antagonist roster bonuses
- Protect developed MCs from identity-only displacement
- Promote exact MC-cast harm into strong rival evidence
- Verify connection attribution, roster stability, and performance
- Prioritize MCs, related cast, meaningful disasters, and exceptional events
- Show MC connections in the dossier when following related characters
- Promote rare creatures and recurring antagonists through bounded scoring
- Reduce roster churn and repetitive love/combat coverage
- Add performance telemetry, soak auditing, documentation, and harness coverage
- 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
- Introduce new narrative probes for episode grammar, ensemble balance, and prose redundancy
- Implement narrative presentation coverage tracking for better event visibility
- Update harness scenarios to include new narrative ingestion and persistence tests
- Refactor event emission to include narrative development IDs and presentations
- Expand InterestCandidate to support narrative presentation models and roles
- 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
- Update event catalog to include new decision intents for civilization founding
- Implement soft duel yield mechanics in InterestDirector for combat interactions
- Adjust scoring weights for soft duels and variety valve timings
- Refactor event reasoning to improve spell casting labels and decision handling
- Increment version to 0.28.33 in mod.json
