# Roadmap

Source of truth for scope is [`CLAUDE.md`](../CLAUDE.md). This tracks sequencing.

## POC — the one question (charter §17)

> **Does bounded AI dialogue feel alive, or does it feel like a chatbot in a costume?**

Test that before building anything else. ~30 minutes of play.

### POC scope

- One town, **two NPCs** with authored knowledge lists
- One dungeon: **three fights, one boss**
- **Two companions:** Cadwyn, Brannoc
- **Three playable classes:** Sellsword, Assassin, Priest
- Luck fully wired: generation, drift, one shrine, one cursed item
- Full proxy, full role split, full canon log
- Authored fallback text for every AI surface

### Out of scope (charter §17)

AI-generated story skeletons · multiplayer (never) · mobile · credits/payments/auth · companions leaving · positional combat · more than three classes.

## Sequencing — TBD

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  1. Proxy skeleton + role endpoints + Ollama routing + logging
  2. Canon log + one Narrator scene end-to-end (proves the loop)
  3. One bounded NPC conversation (proves §6 — the core experiment)
  4. Luck + Improviser + one shrine + one cursed item
  5. Combat (deterministic, seeded) + the dungeon
  6. Banter + humiliation log (proves the comedy loop)
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