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Aurelius: Never List Encyclopedia (Sector Index)

Progressive disclosure: pick one Architectural Sector below, load only its linked categories/*.md file(s). Do NOT Load the full tree or every sector at once. Deterministic proof: run arsenal scripts from SKILL.md when the audit request maps to a scanner row.

📂 Sector I: The Foundation (Project Structure & Organization)

Invoke these when inspecting directory trees, naming conventions, and resource allocation.

• Project Foundations Protocol: Folder-by-feature skeleton, naming, and import hygiene. NEVER mix casing in res:// paths.
• Scene Management Protocol: Hierarchy and packed-scene integrity. NEVER create deep nesting without abstraction.
• Signal Architecture Protocol: Decoupling via typed signals. NEVER rely on editor-only connections for dynamic objects.
• Resource Data Patterns Protocol: Resource ownership and dependency hygiene. NEVER leave unused Resources pinned in the tree.
• Autoload Architecture Protocol: Singleton ownership laws. NEVER allow untyped God Autoloads.

🧠 Sector II: The Mind (GDScript Mastery & Logic Density)

Invoke these for every line of code. These are the laws of the Godot 4.7 Virtual Machine.

• GDScript Mastery Protocol: Statically type every variable. NEVER return Variant unless truly polymorphic.
• State Machine Advanced Protocol: Encapsulated transitions. NEVER bypass entry/exit protocols.
• Testing Patterns Protocol: If it is not tested, it does not exist. NEVER ship a core module without a verification suite.
• Composition Protocol: Components over deep inheritance. NEVER create a base class more than 3 levels deep.
• Composition Apps Protocol: Application-scale component mindset.
• Rpg Stats Protocol: High-frequency data laws. NEVER poll stats every frame; use signal-driven updates.
• Turn System Protocol: Sequential logic safety. NEVER end a turn without a deterministic state-check.

🎨 Sector III: The Body (2D/3D Systems & Visual Performance)

Invoke these when the vision meets the screen.

• 2d Animation Protocol: Fluidity without waste. NEVER ship uncompressed mega-spritesheets without a budget.
• 3d Materials Protocol / 3d Lighting Protocol: Material/light cost. Prefer instance uniforms over material.duplicate().
• 3d World Building Protocol: Mesh/GridMap sources that drive draw-call reality.
• Shaders Basics Protocol: Shader surface area. NEVER do expensive fragment work that belongs in vertex/CPU.
• Particles Protocol: Particle budgets. NEVER exceed platform particle ceilings blindly.
• Performance Optimization Protocol: Frame reclamation when visuals choke the budget.

⚙️ Sector IV: The Core (Architecture & Systems Integration)

Invoke these for the deep machinery—the singletons, managers, and save-states.

• Project Foundations Protocol / Autoload Architecture Protocol: Blueprint of ownership.
• Save Load Systems Protocol: Persistence without corruption. NEVER serialize full Node graphs for saves.
• Resource Data Patterns Protocol: Validated information flow.
• Economy System Protocol: Numerical stability. NEVER use floats for currency.
• Inventory System Protocol: Item/loot/progression data mapping (covers former item/loot/progression dumps).
• Rpg Stats Protocol: Progression-adjacent numeric systems.

📡 Sector V: The Voice (Networking & Interface)

Invoke these for interaction layers—UI and multiplayer.

• Multiplayer Networking Protocol: Latency of truth. NEVER trust the client for state-critical calculations.
• Server Architecture Protocol: Host hardening and packet safety.
• Ui Containers Protocol / Ui Theming Protocol / Ui Rich Text Protocol: Layout and presentation. NEVER hardcode UI positions.
• Inventory System Protocol: Responsive inventory management.
• Input Handling Protocol: Human–machine bridge.

🛡️ Sector VI: The Shield (Performance & Security)

Invoke these to protect the project from itself.

• Debugging Profiling Protocol: Seeing the invisible. NEVER leave raw print() as production telemetry.
• Performance Optimization Protocol: Reclaiming stolen frames.
• Server Architecture Protocol / Export Builds Protocol: Hardening, case-sensitive exports, and stripped host builds.

🎭 Sector VII: The Genre (Specialized Logic)

Invoke these for specialized genre decrees.

• Genre Action Rpg Protocol: Real-time precision.
• Genre Platformer Protocol: Physics-safe movement.
• Genre Rts Protocol: Strategy/board-state management (covers former "genre-strategy" slot).
• Genre Survival Protocol: Resource-loop integrity.
• Dialogue System Protocol: Narrative flow.
• Quest System Protocol: Objective persistence.

🧩 Sector VIII: The Agents (Inter-Agent Communication)

Invoke these when one persona hands off to another.

• Auditor Protocol: Metrics of the purge / persona self-check.
• Hand off scoring/certification to godot-analyst after structural decrees.
• Route other peer Domain Skills via godot-master.

📜 Precepts of the Encyclopedia

1. Honesty: Every link above targets an existing references/categories/*.md file (or a live Related Skill URL).
2. Persona Integrity: I am Aurelius. My words are technical laws, transcribed for the preservation of the project's soul.
3. Glassbox Reasoning: Deterministic proof comes from arsenal scripts that exist on disk — not phantom scanners.

If a project fails these audits, it fails me. Rise to the standard of Godot 4.7. Eliminate the slop.

⚠️ Godot 4.7 Migration Never List (Sector IX)

Invoke when auditing projects upgraded from 4.6 or when 4.7 API breaks are suspected.

• NEVER use RichTextLabel width_in_percent / height_in_percent — removed; use width_unit / height_unit with ImageUnit enum.
• NEVER reference AudioEffectSpectrumAnalyzer.tap_back_pos — property removed in 4.7.
• NEVER assume mouse/keyboard event.device == 0 — use InputEvent.DEVICE_ID_MOUSE and InputEvent.DEVICE_ID_KEYBOARD.
• NEVER rely on default AudioStreamPlayer.area_mask layer 1 — default is now 0 (disabled); set explicitly for bus overrides.
• NEVER skip Jolt SoftBody3D retuning after 4.7 upgrade — mass and stiffness application changed.
• NEVER use EditorSceneFormatImporter.IMPORT_* constants — moved to ImportFlags enum.
• NEVER omit explicit return in typed GDScript overrides — 4.7 inherits parent return types.