Get CI green, and make the AI's opponent belief fade the way it says it does

Phases 2-3: the AI answers what it reads

Phase 1: the AI gets a belief about its opponent

Archetype lookup: reject reserved keys instead of resolving to Object.prototype

Phase 2 (part 2): roster + persistent ladder wired into Quick Duel, archetype threaded end-to-end

Phase 2 (part 1): per-entrant archetype override (D3) and the competition ledger (D8)

Tier 1, step 2: make the type layer real (D1, D2, D4)

Make the AI controller owner-parametric: true two-sided self-play

Add a configurable population cap (200/250/300/Max) for both sides

Reactive opening checklist + an honest, configurable endgame clock

Let the player pick their side of asymmetric matchups (Oort, Nimbus)

Tier 1: worker target, war patience, and a seeded economic edge by difficulty

Move DIFFICULTY_OPTIONS into engine/aiDifficulty.js, add state.ai.difficulty

Remove dead allEntities export; test techtree's stale-id silent-drop

Add a player-picked AI Strategy (Aggressive/Economic/Force Parity) and Helium Bomb use

Implement Phase 1 of battle wreckage: kills leave minable wreck sites

Helium Bomb: a detonation also terraforms - the crater matures into ore

Two-owner scaffold: structural generalization (owner-generic, 1v1 byte-identical)

Odyssey freighters: a player-managed cargo hold (load/unload), shipped on a jump

Add JSDoc typedefs + // @ts-check for the core sim shapes (no build step)

Tier 5: group the AI controller's bookkeeping under state.ai (no behaviour change)

Odyssey: colony ships — start with a mobile ship, deploy it into a base

Add Odyssey open-world mode (Phase 1): endless single-planet foundation

Faction asymmetry — pick a side with its own passive identity

Tier 3: save / load — resume a game exactly where you left off

Tier 2: Tactical AI focus-fire + an AI-tactics setup toggle

Tier 1: seed the sim, attack-move/hotkeys, onboarding, rally-to-mine, tiebreak

AI army-retreat: pull a losing attack back so engagements trade

Combat: spread-targeting + target stickiness (anti-dogpile)

Tier 0: fix latent defects, add determinism/perf tests and CI

Configurable skirmish: AI speed, map size, and resource abundance

Give the AI its own fog of war — it must scout for intel too

Use Ctrl instead of Shift as the waypoint-queue modifier

Waypoint queueing: shift+right-click chains orders into a path

Tier 4 combat: Sentinel Turret and the Breacher siege unit

Tier 2: rally points, Refinery upgrades, AI archetypes, and sound

Tier 1: camera + zoom, fog of war, and a Skiff-countering unit

First playable slice: 1v1 skirmish vs scripted AI on Ferros Prime