alpha 10.0.1 — Keep the beat

Five repairs on the day 10.0.0 shipped, every one of them found by launching
stories rather than by reading code.

A character's beat is no longer thrown away because it arrived
incomplete. Chat 135 lost a reroll and two resumes to one turn: each
attempt omitted a required field or two, and each time an appraisal, a
sequence, a speech, a revised belief, a progressed intention, a relationship
delta, three mind models, a learned association and three memory operations
went in the bin with them. The repair pass, which said in its own reasoning
that it knew exactly which sections were missing, failed the same way.

The contract is unchanged: the schema still declares all fourteen fields
required and the card still teaches them. What changed is what happens to an
answer that does not carry them all, and the line is the owner's bar --
all a character fundamentally needs to do is remember, and know why it did
the things it did. Twelve fields are now simply allowed, filled empty and
reported nowhere: the eight learning lanes, because a character does not
revise a belief or move a relationship every time it speaks and an absent
lane says the event did not happen; plus demeanour, salience, floor control
and effects, which touch neither capacity. Four still fail first so the
repair gets its chance -- what the character did, and why -- and are filled
only when the alternative is discarding the beat, loudly. Replayed against
chat 135, the character keeps every sequence element, the belief, the memory
and the relationship, and loses the decision record alone.

Expression is an action and renders no matter how temporary. A player's
flush, look and stiffening tails reached nobody: the body hand rightly
declined to record a momentary reaction as a lasting condition, the verifier
read that silence as proof the act never happened, and perception dropped it
with a bare continue that recorded nothing. A thin ledger is a fact about
the ledger; only a requested patch the world does not show is evidence an act
failed. The audit still records the gap, and the drop now speaks.

A town plan cut off mid-structure is asked for once more. Reasoning off
is a request, not a guarantee: z-ai/glm-5.2:thinking ignored it, spent all
16,000 response tokens and returned 3,461 characters of plan cut off inside a
washroom. Over 99% of what was paid for was the trace. A cut-off object is
the one JSON failure more room fixes, and it was fatal; a malformed or
reasoning-only response is still refused at once, because neither is helped
by asking again.

A failed beat now says whether that was all of it. The evidence attached
to a validation failure is trimmed to 600 characters, which makes a response
that stopped early and one that merely continues past the window look
identical. Both end mid-object on the page. That cost two wrong diagnoses in
one afternoon, so the length and whether the object closed are now said out
loud.

And the belief card shows the shape it was only describing. Reinforce and
weaken are told to write target_belief as the empty string, and the only
worked example was a revise. A required field whose correct value is usually
empty, demonstrated nowhere, is one a model drops as redundant.

Known failures are unchanged from 10.0.0 and are listed there.