- 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
- Introduce new probes for cross-arc correlation and caption status banners
- Implement saga relation cache revision tracking
- Update harness scenarios to include new story and caption probes
- Refactor LifeSagaMemory to mark mutations for better state management
- Improve WatchCaption to handle status banners and hover previews effectively
- Prefer/MC/cast win moderate tip gaps; combat follow and ambient cut-in follow roster
- Dual-light rail when tip touches multiple MCs; record MC↔MC crossover memory
- Earn rivals only from rematches, kin, or war/plot opposition (not single kills)
- Add harness coverage for gap, cast, rival, cross-MC, and ambient cut paths
