@patterkit/model 0.19.0 → 0.21.0

package/dist/index.cjs

@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ __export(index_exports, {
   deriveRecordingFolders: () => deriveRecordingFolders,
   effectiveGameId: () => effectiveGameId,
   formatSpeakerLabel: () => formatSpeakerLabel,
-  gameIdify: () => gameIdify,
+  gameIdify: () => import_toolkit.gameIdify,
   isCaseOnlyPropertyName: () => import_expr.isCaseOnlyPropertyName,
   isContentlessBeat: () => isContentlessBeat,
   isDialogueScene: () => isDialogueScene,
-  isValidGameId: () => isValidGameId,
+  isValidGameId: () => import_toolkit.isValidGameId,
   isValidPropertyName: () => import_expr.isValidPropertyName,
   projectLayout: () => projectLayout,
   projectQualifiers: () => projectQualifiers,
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ __export(index_exports, {
   walkNodes: () => walkNodes
 });
 module.exports = __toCommonJS(index_exports);
+var import_toolkit = require("@wildwinter/toolkit");
 var import_expr = require("@wildwinter/expr");
 function walkNodes(nodes, visit) {
   for (const node of nodes) {
@@ -88,15 +89,9 @@ function isContentlessBeat(beat, hasText) {
   if (beat.tags && beat.tags.length > 0) return false;
   return beat.kind === "text" || !beat.character && !beat.direction;
 }
-function gameIdify(text) {
-  return text.toLowerCase().replace(/['’]/g, "").replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "-").replace(/-+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
-}
-function isValidGameId(gameId) {
-  return /^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?$/.test(gameId);
-}
 function effectiveGameId(entity) {
   const g = entity.gameId?.trim();
-  return g ? g : gameIdify(entity.name);
+  return g ? g : (0, import_toolkit.gameIdify)(entity.name);
 }
 function sceneAddressIndex(scenes) {
   const byAddress = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
@@ -205,7 +200,7 @@ function deriveRecordingFolders(audioRoot, statuses) {
   const root = audioRoot?.trim();
   return statuses.map((s, i) => {
     if (i === 0 || !root) return { name: s.name };
-    return { name: s.name, folder: `${root}/${gameIdify(s.name)}` };
+    return { name: s.name, folder: `${root}/${(0, import_toolkit.gameIdify)(s.name)}` };
   });
 }
 var DEFAULT_DOCUMENTATION_CLASSES = [
@@ -237,7 +232,7 @@ var HANDOFF_SCHEMA = "patter/handoff@0";
 var DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS = { open: "[", close: "]" };
 var DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER = "SFX";
 var SAVE_SCHEMA = "patter/save@0";
-var SAVE_VERSION = 3;
+var SAVE_VERSION = 4;
 var DEFAULT_LAYOUT = { flow: "scenes/", strings: "loc/", authoring: "authoring/", extensions: "extensions/" };
 function projectLayout(project) {
   return { ...DEFAULT_LAYOUT, ...project.layout };

package/dist/index.d.cts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { AstNode } from '@wildwinter/expr';
 export { RESERVED_PROPERTY_NAMES, isCaseOnlyPropertyName, isValidPropertyName, propertyNameify } from '@wildwinter/expr';
+export { gameIdify, isValidGameId } from '@wildwinter/toolkit';
 
 type ScalarValue = boolean | number | string | string[];
 /** Developer-defined host metadata (spec §17). Opaque to Patter. */
@@ -246,11 +247,6 @@ declare function walkNodes<N extends {
  * just `{ jump }` with zero beats - which is valid.
  */
 declare function isContentlessBeat(beat: Beat, hasText: boolean): boolean;
-/** Slugify a name into a hyphen-form game id: lowercase, drop apostrophes, runs of
- *  other punctuation -> a single hyphen, collapse repeats, no leading / trailing hyphen. */
-declare function gameIdify(text: string): string;
-/** A valid authored game id: lowercase alphanumerics + hyphens, no leading / trailing hyphen. */
-declare function isValidGameId(gameId: string): boolean;
 
 /** The effective address: the explicit `gameId` if pinned, else derived from `name`. */
 declare function effectiveGameId(entity: {
@@ -392,6 +388,11 @@ interface CastMember {
      *  (`{ vo: "Your thoughts" }`), where the project's speaker pattern shouldn't apply. Localised as the
      *  `speaker:<name>:<gameId>` string (`speakerLabelKey`). Absent for every pair that follows the pattern. */
     qualifierLabels?: Record<string, string>;
+    /** The character's colour in the editors (their cue, the play window, the readable script): a slot of the
+     *  family's curated palette, 0 to 11. Absent, the colour comes from a hash of the name, so a cast needs no
+     *  setup; renaming a character stamps the old name's slot here, so they keep their colour. Authoring only
+     *  (not shipped in the runtime bundle). */
+    colour?: number;
     gameData?: GameData;
 }
 /** A speaker qualifier (a screenplay's character extension): `V.O.`, `O.S.`, `RADIO`, or the project's own.
@@ -435,12 +436,12 @@ interface BundleQualifier {
     gameId: string;
     name: string;
 }
-/** The cast as it reaches a compiled bundle: the player-facing fields only. `notes`, `actor` and
- *  `gender` are authoring / production / translation context, and the compiler drops them, so a shipped
+/** The cast as it reaches a compiled bundle: the player-facing fields only. `notes`, `actor`,
+ *  `gender` and `colour` are authoring / production / translation context, and the compiler drops them, so a shipped
  *  game never carries a real person's name or a writer's private notes. The compiler copies the shipping
  *  fields across explicitly (an allow-list), which is what actually keeps a new authoring field out of
  *  the bundle; this type states the resulting contract for anyone reading a bundle. */
-type BundleCastMember = Omit<CastMember, "notes" | "actor" | "gender">;
+type BundleCastMember = Omit<CastMember, "notes" | "actor" | "gender" | "colour">;
 /** A node TYPE that can carry author-defined gameData fields (the gameData schema, project-level).
  *  Beat kinds map straight through: dialogue = `line`, text = `text`, game event = `gameEvent`.
  *  `option` is a choice's option: a group that is a direct child of a `choice` group, whose gameData the
@@ -700,11 +701,10 @@ interface ProjectFile {
     gameDataFields?: GameDataFields;
     /**
      * The Patter extensions this project takes, by id (ruled 2026-10-18: the project opts in), each pinned to a
-     * version, with its settings (the host fields its claims present, by setting name). The manifest itself
-     * sits in `extensions/<id>.extension.json`, and the data in `.patterextension` shards. Authoring config:
-     * the bundle carries each one's compiled declarations, values, and resolved settings
-     * (`BundleExtension.settings`), never this block itself. An extension named here whose manifest is missing
-     * is a warning, and its data is left untouched.
+     * version. The manifest itself sits in `extensions/<id>.extension.json`, and the data in `.patterextension`
+     * shards. Authoring config: the bundle carries each one's compiled declarations and values, never this
+     * block itself. An extension named here whose manifest is missing is a warning, and its data is left
+     * untouched.
      */
     extensions?: Record<string, ProjectExtension>;
     /** Ordered writing-status ladder (not-done -> done); default `DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES`. */
@@ -1092,6 +1092,13 @@ interface Bundle {
         default: string;
         included: string[];
     };
+    /** Where a flow opened without a scene starts: the project's authored start (scene id, and block id when
+     *  it names one). Absent when the project sets none, or names one that has gone: every runtime then starts
+     *  at the first scene. */
+    start?: {
+        scene: string;
+        block?: string;
+    };
     /** Player-facing cast only: the compiler strips notes / actor / gender (see `BundleCastMember`). */
     cast?: BundleCastMember[];
     /** The speaker qualifiers the content uses, in the project's order. Absent when no line has one, so a
@@ -1113,9 +1120,9 @@ interface Bundle {
     gameDataFields?: GameDataFields;
     /**
      * The extensions the project takes, by id: each one's version and its compiled declarations by node kind,
-     * every default resolved (what `extensionDecls` reads), the project node's own values, and its settings,
-     * resolved (what `extensionSettings` reads). A node's values sit on the node, under `extensions`. Absent
-     * when the project takes none, so a bundle without them is byte for byte what it was.
+     * every default resolved (what `extensionDecls` reads), and the project node's own values. A node's values
+     * sit on the node, under `extensions`. Absent when the project takes none, so a bundle without them is byte
+     * for byte what it was.
      */
     extensions?: Record<string, BundleExtension>;
     scenes: Record<string, CompiledScene>;
@@ -1155,7 +1162,7 @@ declare const DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS: CaptionDelimiters;
 declare const DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER = "SFX";
 declare const SAVE_SCHEMA = "patter/save@0";
 /** The `save.version` inside the envelope. Bumped only when a reader would MISREAD an older save. */
-declare const SAVE_VERSION = 3;
+declare const SAVE_VERSION = 4;
 /** The tagged envelope a host stores: `serializeState` writes it, `deserializeState` refuses anything else. */
 interface SaveEnvelope {
     schema: typeof SAVE_SCHEMA;
@@ -1182,8 +1189,11 @@ interface StackFrame {
      *  restore against an EDITED bundle re-finds the position by id. Absent when the frame sat at its
      *  container's end (no next child), or in an older save. */
     nextId?: string;
+    /** SNAPSHOT-ONLY: on a frame whose container is an option of a choice, that choice group's id, so a load
+     *  whose option has gone offers the choice again. Absent on every other frame, and in a version 3 save. */
+    choiceId?: string;
 }
-/** The prompt of a saved choice option: the choice text as a structured line/text beat. */
+/** A prompt as the choice showed it: a replayed prompt still to be spoken (`FlowCursor.pendingPrompt`). */
 interface SavedChoicePrompt {
     kind: "line" | "text";
     text: string;
@@ -1197,10 +1207,12 @@ interface SavedChoicePrompt {
     /** The prompt's resolved pause (line padding). Absent in a save written before it existed. */
     padAfter?: number;
 }
-/** One option of a pending choice, saved VERBATIM: re-deriving on load would re-evaluate conditions. */
+/** One option of a pending choice: which option, and whether it could be taken, saved VERBATIM, since
+ *  re-deriving on load would re-evaluate conditions. Its prompt is not saved: it is built again in the
+ *  language in use each time the choice is delivered. (A version 3 save's option also has a `prompt`,
+ *  which a load discards.) */
 interface SavedChoiceOption {
     id: string;
-    prompt?: SavedChoicePrompt;
     eligible: boolean;
     gameData?: GameData;
 }
@@ -1216,17 +1228,21 @@ interface FlowCursor {
     /** The continuation stack (call frames + the active block run), root first. */
     stack: StackFrame[];
     activeSnippetId: string | null;
-    beatIndex: number;
+    /** The id of the next beat the active snippet delivers, so a load against an edited bundle finds its
+     *  place by id. Absent when no snippet is active or the active one has delivered every beat. */
+    beatId?: string;
+    /** Version 3 only, read and never written: the index of the next beat in the active snippet. */
+    beatIndex?: number;
     /** Present (non-null) iff the flow is stopped at a choice. */
     pendingChoice: SavedChoice | null;
     /** The chosen option owning a prompt still to be replayed (a save taken between choose + advance).
      *  Optional / null in older saves -> no pending prompt. */
     pendingPromptOwnerId?: string | null;
-    /** The prompt still to be replayed, exactly as the choice SHOWED it (text and speaker fields, the same
-     *  shape as a saved option's `prompt`), so the replay after a load says what the player saw. Written only
-     *  alongside a `pendingPromptOwnerId` (the choose -> advance window, with `replayPromptOnChoose`), and
-     *  absent otherwise. A save without it (written before Patterplay 0.18.0) resolves the owner's prompt beat
-     *  when it is delivered, as before. */
+    /** The prompt still to be replayed, exactly as the choice SHOWED it (text and speaker fields), so the
+     *  replay after a load says what the player saw, in the language they saw it in: the one prompt a save
+     *  keeps as text. Written only alongside a `pendingPromptOwnerId` (the choose -> advance window, with
+     *  `replayPromptOnChoose`), and absent otherwise. A save without it (written before Patterplay 0.18.0)
+     *  resolves the owner's prompt beat when it is delivered, as before. */
     pendingPrompt?: SavedChoicePrompt;
     /** This flow's (non-shared) selector cursors, keyed by group id. */
     selectors: Record<string, SelectorSnapshot>;
@@ -1239,10 +1255,10 @@ interface FlowSnapshot {
     visits: Record<string, number>;
     cursor: FlowCursor;
 }
-/** A full resumable save-game (version 3): everything that is not a property, plus the registry's
+/** A full resumable save-game (version 4): everything that is not a property, plus the registry's
  *  values when the engine made its own registry. */
 interface SaveGame {
-    version: 3;
+    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION;
     /** The engine's own registry's values, keyed by registry key: present only when the engine made the
      *  registry itself (a standalone game). A game that passed a registry saves it once, beside this. */
     registry?: EngineSave;
@@ -1253,17 +1269,18 @@ interface SaveGame {
     /** Each live flow's snapshot, keyed by flow id. */
     flows: Record<string, FlowSnapshot>;
 }
-/** One flow's own property values, without its id: the sections a version 2 save carried per flow, and a
- *  `FlowState` carries now. */
+/** A version 3 save, still read: the same shape apart from the cursor (`beatIndex` for `beatId`, no
+ *  `choiceId` on its frames) and a pending choice's options (each with its prompt text, discarded). */
+interface SaveGameV3 extends Omit<SaveGame, "version"> {
+    version: 3;
+}
+/** One flow's own property values, without its id: what a `FlowState` carries beside its snapshot. */
 interface FlowValues {
     /** The NOT-shared `@patter` globals, under token "patter". */
     scopes: EngineSave;
     /** Per-scene NOT-shared `@scene` bags (scene id -> name -> value). */
     sceneBags: Record<string, Record<string, ScalarValue>>;
 }
-/** A version 2 flow snapshot, which carried the flow's property values itself. Still read. */
-interface FlowSnapshotV2 extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
-}
 /**
  * One flow taken out of an engine (`engine.captureFlow`) to be put back later (`engine.restoreFlow`), under the
  * same id or another: its snapshot as a save writes it, and its own property values without its id. Plain data
@@ -1271,19 +1288,8 @@ interface FlowSnapshotV2 extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
  * visit counts, shared selectors) is never in it, so restoring one rewinds nothing else.
  */
 interface FlowState extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
-    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION;
-}
-/** A version 2 save, from before the registry held the properties. Every runtime still reads it: its
- *  property sections move into the registry (under the keys in the header above) as it loads. */
-interface SaveGameV2 {
-    version: 2;
-    /** Shared `@patter` globals (owned scope "patter"). */
-    shared: EngineSave;
-    sharedVisits: Record<string, number>;
-    sharedSelectors: Record<string, SelectorSnapshot>;
-    /** Shared, scene-namespaced `@scene` bags (scene id -> name -> value). */
-    stageBags: Record<string, Record<string, ScalarValue>>;
-    flows: Record<string, FlowSnapshotV2>;
+    /** `SAVE_VERSION` when written; a version 3 state still restores. */
+    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION | 3;
 }
 /** Where a project keeps its shards unless its `layout` says otherwise, relative to the project root. */
 declare const DEFAULT_LAYOUT: {
@@ -1329,12 +1335,12 @@ declare const MANIFEST_EXTENSION = ".extension.json";
  *  folder, so a merge driver handed one shard's path can always find the manifest. */
 declare const EXTENSIONS_DIR = "extensions";
 /**
- * The extensions a project takes (`ProjectFile.extensions`), one each: the version it is pinned to and its
- * settings (the host fields its claims present, by setting name).
+ * The extensions a project takes (`ProjectFile.extensions`), one each: the version it is pinned to. An older
+ * pin may still carry `settings`, which named the host fields claims presented; claims and settings are gone
+ * from the extensions spec (2026-10-20), so they're ignored, and `patter validate` says so.
  */
 interface ProjectExtension {
     version: string;
-    settings?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 /**
  * One extension's data for one scene, or for the project (`scene: "@project"`).
@@ -1366,13 +1372,6 @@ interface BundleExtension {
     fields: Record<string, ExtensionFieldDecl[]>;
     /** The project node's values, raw, when it has any. */
     project?: Record<string, unknown>;
-    /**
-     * Every setting the manifest declares, by setting name, keys sorted: the project's value (`ProjectExtension.
-     * settings`), or else the setting's default (`@wildwinter/toolkit/extensions`' `settingValues`). A setting
-     * names a host field, so a game reads here which gameData field holds what the extension claims. Present
-     * only when the manifest declares settings.
-     */
-    settings?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 /**
  * A compiled extension field declaration (`@wildwinter/toolkit/extensions`' FieldDecl, less the editor's
@@ -1402,4 +1401,4 @@ interface ExtensionFieldDecl {
 /** A node's extension values in a bundle: extension id -> field -> value, raw. */
 type NodeExtensions = Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>;
 
-export { AUTHORING_SCHEMA, type AuthoringFile, type Beat, type Block, type Bundle, type BundleCastMember, type BundleExtension, type BundleQualifier, COMMON_GENDERS, type CaptionDelimiters, type CastMember, type Comment, type CommentMessage, type CommentRange, type CompiledBlock, type CompiledEffect, type CompiledGroup, type CompiledScene, type CompiledSnippet, type CoverageDriver, DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER, DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS, DEFAULT_DOCUMENTATION_CLASSES, DEFAULT_LAYOUT, DEFAULT_PAD_AFTER, DEFAULT_QUALIFIERS, DEFAULT_RECORDING_STATUSES, DEFAULT_SPEAKER_PATTERN, DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES, type DocLine, type DocumentationClass, EXTENSIONS_DIR, EXTENSION_SCHEMA, EXTENSION_SHARD, type EditRecord, type Effect, type EngineSave, type EstimatingConfig, type Expression, type ExtensionFieldDecl, type ExtensionShard, FLOW_SCHEMA, type FlowCursor, type FlowFile, type FlowNode, type FlowSnapshot, type FlowSnapshotV2, type FlowState, type FlowValues, type GameData, type GameDataField, type GameDataFieldType, type GameDataFields, type GameDataNodeKind, type GameEventBeat, type GrammaticalGender, type Group, HANDOFF_SCHEMA, type HandoffFile, type HandoffImport, type HandoffLine, type HandoffRow, type HostScopeDecl, type HostScopeRegistry, type HostScopeSpec, type Jump, type JumpTarget, type LineBeat, type LocaleFile, MANIFEST_EXTENSION, type NodeExtensions, PAD_AFTER_MAX, PAD_AFTER_MIN, PROJECT_EXTENSION_STEM, PROJECT_LOCALE_SCENE, PROJECT_SCHEMA, type ProjectDictionary, type ProjectExtension, type ProjectFile, type ProjectLayout, type PromptBeat, type PropertyDecl, type PropertyType, RERECORD_STATUS, RERECORD_STATUS_DECL, type RecordingFolder, type RecordingStatusDecl, SAVE_SCHEMA, SAVE_VERSION, SPEAKER_PATTERN_KEY, STRINGS_SCHEMA, type SaveEnvelope, type SaveGame, type SaveGameV2, type SavedChoice, type SavedChoiceOption, type SavedChoicePrompt, type ScalarValue, type Scene, type Selector, type SelectorExhaust, type SelectorOrder, type SelectorSnapshot, type SequenceOptions, type Snippet, type SpeakerQualifier, type StackFrame, type Suggestion, type SuggestionSource, type TextBeat, UNRESOLVED_KEY, type VcsKind, type WritingStatusDecl, castStringKey, deriveRecordingFolders, effectiveGameId, formatSpeakerLabel, gameIdify, isContentlessBeat, isDialogueScene, isValidGameId, projectLayout, projectQualifiers, qualifierStringKey, resolveSceneRef, sceneAddressIndex, speakerLabelKey, textIsAction, usedQualifiers, usedSpeakerPairs, walkNodes };
+export { AUTHORING_SCHEMA, type AuthoringFile, type Beat, type Block, type Bundle, type BundleCastMember, type BundleExtension, type BundleQualifier, COMMON_GENDERS, type CaptionDelimiters, type CastMember, type Comment, type CommentMessage, type CommentRange, type CompiledBlock, type CompiledEffect, type CompiledGroup, type CompiledScene, type CompiledSnippet, type CoverageDriver, DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER, DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS, DEFAULT_DOCUMENTATION_CLASSES, DEFAULT_LAYOUT, DEFAULT_PAD_AFTER, DEFAULT_QUALIFIERS, DEFAULT_RECORDING_STATUSES, DEFAULT_SPEAKER_PATTERN, DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES, type DocLine, type DocumentationClass, EXTENSIONS_DIR, EXTENSION_SCHEMA, EXTENSION_SHARD, type EditRecord, type Effect, type EngineSave, type EstimatingConfig, type Expression, type ExtensionFieldDecl, type ExtensionShard, FLOW_SCHEMA, type FlowCursor, type FlowFile, type FlowNode, type FlowSnapshot, type FlowState, type FlowValues, type GameData, type GameDataField, type GameDataFieldType, type GameDataFields, type GameDataNodeKind, type GameEventBeat, type GrammaticalGender, type Group, HANDOFF_SCHEMA, type HandoffFile, type HandoffImport, type HandoffLine, type HandoffRow, type HostScopeDecl, type HostScopeRegistry, type HostScopeSpec, type Jump, type JumpTarget, type LineBeat, type LocaleFile, MANIFEST_EXTENSION, type NodeExtensions, PAD_AFTER_MAX, PAD_AFTER_MIN, PROJECT_EXTENSION_STEM, PROJECT_LOCALE_SCENE, PROJECT_SCHEMA, type ProjectDictionary, type ProjectExtension, type ProjectFile, type ProjectLayout, type PromptBeat, type PropertyDecl, type PropertyType, RERECORD_STATUS, RERECORD_STATUS_DECL, type RecordingFolder, type RecordingStatusDecl, SAVE_SCHEMA, SAVE_VERSION, SPEAKER_PATTERN_KEY, STRINGS_SCHEMA, type SaveEnvelope, type SaveGame, type SaveGameV3, type SavedChoice, type SavedChoiceOption, type SavedChoicePrompt, type ScalarValue, type Scene, type Selector, type SelectorExhaust, type SelectorOrder, type SelectorSnapshot, type SequenceOptions, type Snippet, type SpeakerQualifier, type StackFrame, type Suggestion, type SuggestionSource, type TextBeat, UNRESOLVED_KEY, type VcsKind, type WritingStatusDecl, castStringKey, deriveRecordingFolders, effectiveGameId, formatSpeakerLabel, isContentlessBeat, isDialogueScene, projectLayout, projectQualifiers, qualifierStringKey, resolveSceneRef, sceneAddressIndex, speakerLabelKey, textIsAction, usedQualifiers, usedSpeakerPairs, walkNodes };

package/dist/index.d.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { AstNode } from '@wildwinter/expr';
 export { RESERVED_PROPERTY_NAMES, isCaseOnlyPropertyName, isValidPropertyName, propertyNameify } from '@wildwinter/expr';
+export { gameIdify, isValidGameId } from '@wildwinter/toolkit';
 
 type ScalarValue = boolean | number | string | string[];
 /** Developer-defined host metadata (spec §17). Opaque to Patter. */
@@ -246,11 +247,6 @@ declare function walkNodes<N extends {
  * just `{ jump }` with zero beats - which is valid.
  */
 declare function isContentlessBeat(beat: Beat, hasText: boolean): boolean;
-/** Slugify a name into a hyphen-form game id: lowercase, drop apostrophes, runs of
- *  other punctuation -> a single hyphen, collapse repeats, no leading / trailing hyphen. */
-declare function gameIdify(text: string): string;
-/** A valid authored game id: lowercase alphanumerics + hyphens, no leading / trailing hyphen. */
-declare function isValidGameId(gameId: string): boolean;
 
 /** The effective address: the explicit `gameId` if pinned, else derived from `name`. */
 declare function effectiveGameId(entity: {
@@ -392,6 +388,11 @@ interface CastMember {
      *  (`{ vo: "Your thoughts" }`), where the project's speaker pattern shouldn't apply. Localised as the
      *  `speaker:<name>:<gameId>` string (`speakerLabelKey`). Absent for every pair that follows the pattern. */
     qualifierLabels?: Record<string, string>;
+    /** The character's colour in the editors (their cue, the play window, the readable script): a slot of the
+     *  family's curated palette, 0 to 11. Absent, the colour comes from a hash of the name, so a cast needs no
+     *  setup; renaming a character stamps the old name's slot here, so they keep their colour. Authoring only
+     *  (not shipped in the runtime bundle). */
+    colour?: number;
     gameData?: GameData;
 }
 /** A speaker qualifier (a screenplay's character extension): `V.O.`, `O.S.`, `RADIO`, or the project's own.
@@ -435,12 +436,12 @@ interface BundleQualifier {
     gameId: string;
     name: string;
 }
-/** The cast as it reaches a compiled bundle: the player-facing fields only. `notes`, `actor` and
- *  `gender` are authoring / production / translation context, and the compiler drops them, so a shipped
+/** The cast as it reaches a compiled bundle: the player-facing fields only. `notes`, `actor`,
+ *  `gender` and `colour` are authoring / production / translation context, and the compiler drops them, so a shipped
  *  game never carries a real person's name or a writer's private notes. The compiler copies the shipping
  *  fields across explicitly (an allow-list), which is what actually keeps a new authoring field out of
  *  the bundle; this type states the resulting contract for anyone reading a bundle. */
-type BundleCastMember = Omit<CastMember, "notes" | "actor" | "gender">;
+type BundleCastMember = Omit<CastMember, "notes" | "actor" | "gender" | "colour">;
 /** A node TYPE that can carry author-defined gameData fields (the gameData schema, project-level).
  *  Beat kinds map straight through: dialogue = `line`, text = `text`, game event = `gameEvent`.
  *  `option` is a choice's option: a group that is a direct child of a `choice` group, whose gameData the
@@ -700,11 +701,10 @@ interface ProjectFile {
     gameDataFields?: GameDataFields;
     /**
      * The Patter extensions this project takes, by id (ruled 2026-10-18: the project opts in), each pinned to a
-     * version, with its settings (the host fields its claims present, by setting name). The manifest itself
-     * sits in `extensions/<id>.extension.json`, and the data in `.patterextension` shards. Authoring config:
-     * the bundle carries each one's compiled declarations, values, and resolved settings
-     * (`BundleExtension.settings`), never this block itself. An extension named here whose manifest is missing
-     * is a warning, and its data is left untouched.
+     * version. The manifest itself sits in `extensions/<id>.extension.json`, and the data in `.patterextension`
+     * shards. Authoring config: the bundle carries each one's compiled declarations and values, never this
+     * block itself. An extension named here whose manifest is missing is a warning, and its data is left
+     * untouched.
      */
     extensions?: Record<string, ProjectExtension>;
     /** Ordered writing-status ladder (not-done -> done); default `DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES`. */
@@ -1092,6 +1092,13 @@ interface Bundle {
         default: string;
         included: string[];
     };
+    /** Where a flow opened without a scene starts: the project's authored start (scene id, and block id when
+     *  it names one). Absent when the project sets none, or names one that has gone: every runtime then starts
+     *  at the first scene. */
+    start?: {
+        scene: string;
+        block?: string;
+    };
     /** Player-facing cast only: the compiler strips notes / actor / gender (see `BundleCastMember`). */
     cast?: BundleCastMember[];
     /** The speaker qualifiers the content uses, in the project's order. Absent when no line has one, so a
@@ -1113,9 +1120,9 @@ interface Bundle {
     gameDataFields?: GameDataFields;
     /**
      * The extensions the project takes, by id: each one's version and its compiled declarations by node kind,
-     * every default resolved (what `extensionDecls` reads), the project node's own values, and its settings,
-     * resolved (what `extensionSettings` reads). A node's values sit on the node, under `extensions`. Absent
-     * when the project takes none, so a bundle without them is byte for byte what it was.
+     * every default resolved (what `extensionDecls` reads), and the project node's own values. A node's values
+     * sit on the node, under `extensions`. Absent when the project takes none, so a bundle without them is byte
+     * for byte what it was.
      */
     extensions?: Record<string, BundleExtension>;
     scenes: Record<string, CompiledScene>;
@@ -1155,7 +1162,7 @@ declare const DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS: CaptionDelimiters;
 declare const DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER = "SFX";
 declare const SAVE_SCHEMA = "patter/save@0";
 /** The `save.version` inside the envelope. Bumped only when a reader would MISREAD an older save. */
-declare const SAVE_VERSION = 3;
+declare const SAVE_VERSION = 4;
 /** The tagged envelope a host stores: `serializeState` writes it, `deserializeState` refuses anything else. */
 interface SaveEnvelope {
     schema: typeof SAVE_SCHEMA;
@@ -1182,8 +1189,11 @@ interface StackFrame {
      *  restore against an EDITED bundle re-finds the position by id. Absent when the frame sat at its
      *  container's end (no next child), or in an older save. */
     nextId?: string;
+    /** SNAPSHOT-ONLY: on a frame whose container is an option of a choice, that choice group's id, so a load
+     *  whose option has gone offers the choice again. Absent on every other frame, and in a version 3 save. */
+    choiceId?: string;
 }
-/** The prompt of a saved choice option: the choice text as a structured line/text beat. */
+/** A prompt as the choice showed it: a replayed prompt still to be spoken (`FlowCursor.pendingPrompt`). */
 interface SavedChoicePrompt {
     kind: "line" | "text";
     text: string;
@@ -1197,10 +1207,12 @@ interface SavedChoicePrompt {
     /** The prompt's resolved pause (line padding). Absent in a save written before it existed. */
     padAfter?: number;
 }
-/** One option of a pending choice, saved VERBATIM: re-deriving on load would re-evaluate conditions. */
+/** One option of a pending choice: which option, and whether it could be taken, saved VERBATIM, since
+ *  re-deriving on load would re-evaluate conditions. Its prompt is not saved: it is built again in the
+ *  language in use each time the choice is delivered. (A version 3 save's option also has a `prompt`,
+ *  which a load discards.) */
 interface SavedChoiceOption {
     id: string;
-    prompt?: SavedChoicePrompt;
     eligible: boolean;
     gameData?: GameData;
 }
@@ -1216,17 +1228,21 @@ interface FlowCursor {
     /** The continuation stack (call frames + the active block run), root first. */
     stack: StackFrame[];
     activeSnippetId: string | null;
-    beatIndex: number;
+    /** The id of the next beat the active snippet delivers, so a load against an edited bundle finds its
+     *  place by id. Absent when no snippet is active or the active one has delivered every beat. */
+    beatId?: string;
+    /** Version 3 only, read and never written: the index of the next beat in the active snippet. */
+    beatIndex?: number;
     /** Present (non-null) iff the flow is stopped at a choice. */
     pendingChoice: SavedChoice | null;
     /** The chosen option owning a prompt still to be replayed (a save taken between choose + advance).
      *  Optional / null in older saves -> no pending prompt. */
     pendingPromptOwnerId?: string | null;
-    /** The prompt still to be replayed, exactly as the choice SHOWED it (text and speaker fields, the same
-     *  shape as a saved option's `prompt`), so the replay after a load says what the player saw. Written only
-     *  alongside a `pendingPromptOwnerId` (the choose -> advance window, with `replayPromptOnChoose`), and
-     *  absent otherwise. A save without it (written before Patterplay 0.18.0) resolves the owner's prompt beat
-     *  when it is delivered, as before. */
+    /** The prompt still to be replayed, exactly as the choice SHOWED it (text and speaker fields), so the
+     *  replay after a load says what the player saw, in the language they saw it in: the one prompt a save
+     *  keeps as text. Written only alongside a `pendingPromptOwnerId` (the choose -> advance window, with
+     *  `replayPromptOnChoose`), and absent otherwise. A save without it (written before Patterplay 0.18.0)
+     *  resolves the owner's prompt beat when it is delivered, as before. */
     pendingPrompt?: SavedChoicePrompt;
     /** This flow's (non-shared) selector cursors, keyed by group id. */
     selectors: Record<string, SelectorSnapshot>;
@@ -1239,10 +1255,10 @@ interface FlowSnapshot {
     visits: Record<string, number>;
     cursor: FlowCursor;
 }
-/** A full resumable save-game (version 3): everything that is not a property, plus the registry's
+/** A full resumable save-game (version 4): everything that is not a property, plus the registry's
  *  values when the engine made its own registry. */
 interface SaveGame {
-    version: 3;
+    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION;
     /** The engine's own registry's values, keyed by registry key: present only when the engine made the
      *  registry itself (a standalone game). A game that passed a registry saves it once, beside this. */
     registry?: EngineSave;
@@ -1253,17 +1269,18 @@ interface SaveGame {
     /** Each live flow's snapshot, keyed by flow id. */
     flows: Record<string, FlowSnapshot>;
 }
-/** One flow's own property values, without its id: the sections a version 2 save carried per flow, and a
- *  `FlowState` carries now. */
+/** A version 3 save, still read: the same shape apart from the cursor (`beatIndex` for `beatId`, no
+ *  `choiceId` on its frames) and a pending choice's options (each with its prompt text, discarded). */
+interface SaveGameV3 extends Omit<SaveGame, "version"> {
+    version: 3;
+}
+/** One flow's own property values, without its id: what a `FlowState` carries beside its snapshot. */
 interface FlowValues {
     /** The NOT-shared `@patter` globals, under token "patter". */
     scopes: EngineSave;
     /** Per-scene NOT-shared `@scene` bags (scene id -> name -> value). */
     sceneBags: Record<string, Record<string, ScalarValue>>;
 }
-/** A version 2 flow snapshot, which carried the flow's property values itself. Still read. */
-interface FlowSnapshotV2 extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
-}
 /**
  * One flow taken out of an engine (`engine.captureFlow`) to be put back later (`engine.restoreFlow`), under the
  * same id or another: its snapshot as a save writes it, and its own property values without its id. Plain data
@@ -1271,19 +1288,8 @@ interface FlowSnapshotV2 extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
  * visit counts, shared selectors) is never in it, so restoring one rewinds nothing else.
  */
 interface FlowState extends FlowSnapshot, FlowValues {
-    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION;
-}
-/** A version 2 save, from before the registry held the properties. Every runtime still reads it: its
- *  property sections move into the registry (under the keys in the header above) as it loads. */
-interface SaveGameV2 {
-    version: 2;
-    /** Shared `@patter` globals (owned scope "patter"). */
-    shared: EngineSave;
-    sharedVisits: Record<string, number>;
-    sharedSelectors: Record<string, SelectorSnapshot>;
-    /** Shared, scene-namespaced `@scene` bags (scene id -> name -> value). */
-    stageBags: Record<string, Record<string, ScalarValue>>;
-    flows: Record<string, FlowSnapshotV2>;
+    /** `SAVE_VERSION` when written; a version 3 state still restores. */
+    version: typeof SAVE_VERSION | 3;
 }
 /** Where a project keeps its shards unless its `layout` says otherwise, relative to the project root. */
 declare const DEFAULT_LAYOUT: {
@@ -1329,12 +1335,12 @@ declare const MANIFEST_EXTENSION = ".extension.json";
  *  folder, so a merge driver handed one shard's path can always find the manifest. */
 declare const EXTENSIONS_DIR = "extensions";
 /**
- * The extensions a project takes (`ProjectFile.extensions`), one each: the version it is pinned to and its
- * settings (the host fields its claims present, by setting name).
+ * The extensions a project takes (`ProjectFile.extensions`), one each: the version it is pinned to. An older
+ * pin may still carry `settings`, which named the host fields claims presented; claims and settings are gone
+ * from the extensions spec (2026-10-20), so they're ignored, and `patter validate` says so.
  */
 interface ProjectExtension {
     version: string;
-    settings?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 /**
  * One extension's data for one scene, or for the project (`scene: "@project"`).
@@ -1366,13 +1372,6 @@ interface BundleExtension {
     fields: Record<string, ExtensionFieldDecl[]>;
     /** The project node's values, raw, when it has any. */
     project?: Record<string, unknown>;
-    /**
-     * Every setting the manifest declares, by setting name, keys sorted: the project's value (`ProjectExtension.
-     * settings`), or else the setting's default (`@wildwinter/toolkit/extensions`' `settingValues`). A setting
-     * names a host field, so a game reads here which gameData field holds what the extension claims. Present
-     * only when the manifest declares settings.
-     */
-    settings?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 /**
  * A compiled extension field declaration (`@wildwinter/toolkit/extensions`' FieldDecl, less the editor's
@@ -1402,4 +1401,4 @@ interface ExtensionFieldDecl {
 /** A node's extension values in a bundle: extension id -> field -> value, raw. */
 type NodeExtensions = Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>;
 
-export { AUTHORING_SCHEMA, type AuthoringFile, type Beat, type Block, type Bundle, type BundleCastMember, type BundleExtension, type BundleQualifier, COMMON_GENDERS, type CaptionDelimiters, type CastMember, type Comment, type CommentMessage, type CommentRange, type CompiledBlock, type CompiledEffect, type CompiledGroup, type CompiledScene, type CompiledSnippet, type CoverageDriver, DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER, DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS, DEFAULT_DOCUMENTATION_CLASSES, DEFAULT_LAYOUT, DEFAULT_PAD_AFTER, DEFAULT_QUALIFIERS, DEFAULT_RECORDING_STATUSES, DEFAULT_SPEAKER_PATTERN, DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES, type DocLine, type DocumentationClass, EXTENSIONS_DIR, EXTENSION_SCHEMA, EXTENSION_SHARD, type EditRecord, type Effect, type EngineSave, type EstimatingConfig, type Expression, type ExtensionFieldDecl, type ExtensionShard, FLOW_SCHEMA, type FlowCursor, type FlowFile, type FlowNode, type FlowSnapshot, type FlowSnapshotV2, type FlowState, type FlowValues, type GameData, type GameDataField, type GameDataFieldType, type GameDataFields, type GameDataNodeKind, type GameEventBeat, type GrammaticalGender, type Group, HANDOFF_SCHEMA, type HandoffFile, type HandoffImport, type HandoffLine, type HandoffRow, type HostScopeDecl, type HostScopeRegistry, type HostScopeSpec, type Jump, type JumpTarget, type LineBeat, type LocaleFile, MANIFEST_EXTENSION, type NodeExtensions, PAD_AFTER_MAX, PAD_AFTER_MIN, PROJECT_EXTENSION_STEM, PROJECT_LOCALE_SCENE, PROJECT_SCHEMA, type ProjectDictionary, type ProjectExtension, type ProjectFile, type ProjectLayout, type PromptBeat, type PropertyDecl, type PropertyType, RERECORD_STATUS, RERECORD_STATUS_DECL, type RecordingFolder, type RecordingStatusDecl, SAVE_SCHEMA, SAVE_VERSION, SPEAKER_PATTERN_KEY, STRINGS_SCHEMA, type SaveEnvelope, type SaveGame, type SaveGameV2, type SavedChoice, type SavedChoiceOption, type SavedChoicePrompt, type ScalarValue, type Scene, type Selector, type SelectorExhaust, type SelectorOrder, type SelectorSnapshot, type SequenceOptions, type Snippet, type SpeakerQualifier, type StackFrame, type Suggestion, type SuggestionSource, type TextBeat, UNRESOLVED_KEY, type VcsKind, type WritingStatusDecl, castStringKey, deriveRecordingFolders, effectiveGameId, formatSpeakerLabel, gameIdify, isContentlessBeat, isDialogueScene, isValidGameId, projectLayout, projectQualifiers, qualifierStringKey, resolveSceneRef, sceneAddressIndex, speakerLabelKey, textIsAction, usedQualifiers, usedSpeakerPairs, walkNodes };
+export { AUTHORING_SCHEMA, type AuthoringFile, type Beat, type Block, type Bundle, type BundleCastMember, type BundleExtension, type BundleQualifier, COMMON_GENDERS, type CaptionDelimiters, type CastMember, type Comment, type CommentMessage, type CommentRange, type CompiledBlock, type CompiledEffect, type CompiledGroup, type CompiledScene, type CompiledSnippet, type CoverageDriver, DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER, DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS, DEFAULT_DOCUMENTATION_CLASSES, DEFAULT_LAYOUT, DEFAULT_PAD_AFTER, DEFAULT_QUALIFIERS, DEFAULT_RECORDING_STATUSES, DEFAULT_SPEAKER_PATTERN, DEFAULT_WRITING_STATUSES, type DocLine, type DocumentationClass, EXTENSIONS_DIR, EXTENSION_SCHEMA, EXTENSION_SHARD, type EditRecord, type Effect, type EngineSave, type EstimatingConfig, type Expression, type ExtensionFieldDecl, type ExtensionShard, FLOW_SCHEMA, type FlowCursor, type FlowFile, type FlowNode, type FlowSnapshot, type FlowState, type FlowValues, type GameData, type GameDataField, type GameDataFieldType, type GameDataFields, type GameDataNodeKind, type GameEventBeat, type GrammaticalGender, type Group, HANDOFF_SCHEMA, type HandoffFile, type HandoffImport, type HandoffLine, type HandoffRow, type HostScopeDecl, type HostScopeRegistry, type HostScopeSpec, type Jump, type JumpTarget, type LineBeat, type LocaleFile, MANIFEST_EXTENSION, type NodeExtensions, PAD_AFTER_MAX, PAD_AFTER_MIN, PROJECT_EXTENSION_STEM, PROJECT_LOCALE_SCENE, PROJECT_SCHEMA, type ProjectDictionary, type ProjectExtension, type ProjectFile, type ProjectLayout, type PromptBeat, type PropertyDecl, type PropertyType, RERECORD_STATUS, RERECORD_STATUS_DECL, type RecordingFolder, type RecordingStatusDecl, SAVE_SCHEMA, SAVE_VERSION, SPEAKER_PATTERN_KEY, STRINGS_SCHEMA, type SaveEnvelope, type SaveGame, type SaveGameV3, type SavedChoice, type SavedChoiceOption, type SavedChoicePrompt, type ScalarValue, type Scene, type Selector, type SelectorExhaust, type SelectorOrder, type SelectorSnapshot, type SequenceOptions, type Snippet, type SpeakerQualifier, type StackFrame, type Suggestion, type SuggestionSource, type TextBeat, UNRESOLVED_KEY, type VcsKind, type WritingStatusDecl, castStringKey, deriveRecordingFolders, effectiveGameId, formatSpeakerLabel, isContentlessBeat, isDialogueScene, projectLayout, projectQualifiers, qualifierStringKey, resolveSceneRef, sceneAddressIndex, speakerLabelKey, textIsAction, usedQualifiers, usedSpeakerPairs, walkNodes };

package/dist/index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // src/index.ts
+import { gameIdify, isValidGameId } from "@wildwinter/toolkit";
 import {
   propertyNameify,
   isValidPropertyName,
@@ -19,12 +20,6 @@ function isContentlessBeat(beat, hasText) {
   if (beat.tags && beat.tags.length > 0) return false;
   return beat.kind === "text" || !beat.character && !beat.direction;
 }
-function gameIdify(text) {
-  return text.toLowerCase().replace(/['’]/g, "").replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "-").replace(/-+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
-}
-function isValidGameId(gameId) {
-  return /^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?$/.test(gameId);
-}
 function effectiveGameId(entity) {
   const g = entity.gameId?.trim();
   return g ? g : gameIdify(entity.name);
@@ -168,7 +163,7 @@ var HANDOFF_SCHEMA = "patter/handoff@0";
 var DEFAULT_CAPTION_DELIMITERS = { open: "[", close: "]" };
 var DEFAULT_CAPTION_CHARACTER = "SFX";
 var SAVE_SCHEMA = "patter/save@0";
-var SAVE_VERSION = 3;
+var SAVE_VERSION = 4;
 var DEFAULT_LAYOUT = { flow: "scenes/", strings: "loc/", authoring: "authoring/", extensions: "extensions/" };
 function projectLayout(project) {
   return { ...DEFAULT_LAYOUT, ...project.layout };

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@patterkit/model",
-  "version": "0.19.0",
+  "version": "0.21.0",
   "description": "Patter data-model types: source (scene/block/group/snippet/beat/jump), project, locale, authoring. The shape source-of-truth.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "build": "tsup src/index.ts --format esm,cjs --dts --clean"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@wildwinter/expr": "^0.6.0"
+    "@wildwinter/expr": "^0.6.0",
+    "@wildwinter/toolkit": "^0.4.0"
   }
 }