fparkan/docs/baseline/current-project-audit.md

Current Project Audit

Baseline command:

cargo xtask ci

Result on 2026-07-18:

• canonical pipeline passes locally with Rust 1.97.1: formatting, policy, shader provenance, workspace tests, clippy, docs and cargo deny are executed through cargo xtask ci;
• rust-toolchain.toml pins Rust 1.97.1 and installs only the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target; Linux and macOS target installation is not part of the default developer setup;
• internal path dependencies are version-pinned and the Windows-only winit graph enables only rwh_06, excluding Unix window-system dependencies;
• cargo deny runs without advisory exceptions in the supported Windows graph.

Native Vulkan evidence:

• Windows x86_64 local smoke passed again on 2026-07-18 with Rust 1.97.1, the system Vulkan loader 1.4.350, and an AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 Series;
• the smoke created a Win32 surface and swapchain, presented 300 frames, exercised a controlled resize (three observed resize events and two swapchain recreations), and shut down with zero validation warnings and errors;
• Windows is the sole supported runtime target for this project; Linux and macOS smoke gates are explicitly out of scope.

Scope labels:

• Stage 0 codebase gates: locally evidenced.
• Stage 0 Windows native runtime: locally evidenced.
• Linux/macOS runtime and cross-platform hosted CI: out of scope.

Current architecture contract

The standalone engine keeps binary formats, the resource graph, simulation, animation math and backend-neutral render commands independent from the GPU adapter. Windows presentation uses winit, raw-window-handle, ash-window and ash; only the Vulkan/FFI adapters may contain narrowly documented unsafe code. Raw Vulkan handles do not cross that boundary.

The baseline is Vulkan 1.1 with surface, Win32-surface and swapchain support, binary semaphores/fences and a classic render-pass path. Device capability is queried at runtime; dynamic rendering, descriptor indexing, synchronization2, timeline semaphores and extended dynamic state are optional capability-gated enhancements, not requirements. The canonical initial texture upload is RGBA8 UNORM. Headless builds remain independent of winit, Vulkan and a window system.

Current stage model

The active implementation plan has five dependency-ordered stages:

1. reproducible Windows/Vulkan foundation;
2. paths, VFS and lossless archives;
3. prototype graph and prepared CPU assets;
4. static Vulkan model/terrain viewer;
5. animation/FX runtime and transactional map/mission/world vertical slice.

Contract tests and failure tests precede implementation. Synthetic checks never read licensed roots; licensed corpus checks use absolute paths from the local manifest. Backend-neutral command capture precedes pixel comparison, and GPU addresses, allocator addresses and driver timing are excluded from deterministic state hashes.