CAPABILITY_LEDGER.md

systems/CAPABILITY_LEDGER.md

CAPABILITY_LEDGER — what is standing on this machine, what is missing, what needs Josh

Authority. This is an ORIENTATION doc (DOC_MAP authority rank 6). It records **measured facts

about a machine**, never world canon. Where it touches canon it CITES canon and never restates it.

Canon's pipeline requirements live at _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/*.md §1 and §17 and the

docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/ dossiers; those win every conflict with this file.

Method (so any lane can re-derive, not re-trust). Every "STANDING" row below was verified by

running something on MILKS5090 on 2026-08-02 — a binary invoked, a port probed, a config file

read, a version string printed. No row is carried from a doc. Where a claim could not be reduced to

a command, it is labelled [UNPROVEN] and says what would prove it. The re-verify commands are in

§6.

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▶▶ PART 0 — THE JOSH LIST

Ranked by work unblocked per minute of Josh's time. Items 1-3 are tonight; everything below

the line is not blocking anything this week.

1. OpenTopography API key — free, 3 minutes, unblocks the most

Do this: go to portal.opentopography.org → create an account (email + password) → **My

Account** → request an API key → copy the key → send it to the lane, or set it yourself with:

setx OPENTOPOGRAPHY_API_KEY "<the-key>"

Why it is #1. Tools/terrain_fetch_preprocess.py:358 exits with

no OPENTOPOGRAPHY_API_KEY in env or registry and there is no key in this box's environment or in

HKCU:\Environment (checked both — the tool checks both, at :105 and :111). So **zero terrain

can be fetched on this machine right now.**

And it is worse than "future regions are blocked": _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md:63

cites measurements taken from Saved/Terrain/flores_island_heightmap_5611x1531.r16 and

flores_island_wc_crop.png. Saved/Terrain is a junction to E:\terrain, and **E:\terrain is

empty.** Those rasters were made on the old machine. The canon rows stand — they were honestly

derived — but the artifacts behind them cannot be re-derived on this box until the key exists.

What it costs: nothing. Free tier, non-academic = 50 API calls per 24 hours. The tool

already enforces exactly that ceiling itself (terrain_fetch_preprocess.py:139) and content-caches

every DEM so re-runs never re-hit the API.

2. Gaea Professional — $199, ~10 minutes, and it is genuinely required

Do this: quadspinner.com/compare → Professional, $199 → purchase → launch

C:\Program Files\QuadSpinner\Gaea 2\Gaea.exe → sign in / enter the licence → accept the EULA

(C:\Program Files\QuadSpinner\Gaea 2\EULA.txt).

This was verified on-box, not assumed, and it is the answer to the question canon left open.

docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/GEODATA_TERRAIN_CHAIN.md:533-535 explicitly records the

tier-gating of Gaea's CLI as UNCONFIRMED and says "get a direct answer from QuadSpinner before

assuming Indie suffices." That question is now closed, by two independent lines of evidence:

1. The vendor's own comparison table (quadspinner.com/compare, fetched 2026-08-02) carries a

row labelled "Automation" with checkmarks on Professional and Enterprise only — Community

and Indie are ✗. The adjacent "Expose Parameters" and "Variables and Expressions" rows split the

same way, which is the whole --vars / -v surface the CLI advertises.

2. The box agrees. Gaea 2.3.0.1 is installed and Gaea.Swarm.exe (the CLI) is present and

prints its full help at exit 0. Driven at a real graph it does this:

   Preparing Gaea Build Swarm 2.3.0.1...
   Loading devices...
       Activated AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 16-Core Processor...
   Opening Canyon River with Sea.terrain...

…and then exits 0 having written zero files. Two different example graphs, one of them

carrying 58 save/export markers. The edition record

%APPDATA%\QuadSpinner\Gaea\2.0\edition.dat is 2 bytes — a bare CRLF. No edition activated.

One alternative hypothesis was tested and eliminated: the free tier's cap is 1024×1024, so a

resolution gate would have let a --resolution 512 build through. It did not. The no-op is not

about resolution.

A second reason Professional is required that no doc in the repo has recorded yet.

GEODATA_TERRAIN_CHAIN.md:345-348 argues Indie is *nearly* enough because its 8,192 cap "lines up

almost exactly with UE Landscape's." That reasoning misses the row beside it: **tiled builds are

Not-Supported on Community and Indie**, and Professional unlocks them to 262,144². Region-page §17

requires "UE Landscape import tiles under World Partition at the 8,129-vertex actor cap"

(flores_island.md:107). A tiled Landscape import wants tiled builds. So even a hypothetical

hand-driven Indie workflow would be building the wrong shape.

Enterprise is $299 (+$100). It is NOT recommended — nothing in the researched chain needs what

it adds over Professional. Buy Professional.

3. HuggingFace account + read token — free, 5 minutes

Do this: huggingface.co → sign up → Settings → Access Tokens → New token → type: Read →

copy → send it to the lane or set it:

setx HF_TOKEN "<the-token>"

Why: the ruled Tier-1 install manifest

(docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/PIPELINE_STACK_SYNTHESIS_2026-07-29.md §2.1) is ~170-200 GB

of HuggingFace-hosted weights and the full roster is ~350-450 GB. HF_HOME and

HUGGINGFACE_HUB_CACHE are already set to D:\hf on this box, but no token exists anywhere —

no HF_TOKEN in either environment scope, no ~/.cache/huggingface/token. Anonymous pulls work

for public repos and are rate-limited; a read token makes an overnight 400 GB pull reliable rather

than lucky. A read token grants read only — it cannot spend money, publish, or modify anything.

4. Confirm the Epic account — ANSWERED 2026-08-13: Milkman3790

CLOSED. Read directly off the running Launcher: the account in the bottom-left corner is

Milkman3790, signed in. It is the correct one by construction rather than by choice -- the

Launch button reads Unreal Engine 5.8.1, so this account owns the engine install, which is

what makes MetaHuman cloud auto-rig and any Fab acquisition resolve into THIS project rather than

a different library. Fab sits in the Launcher left nav under Unreal Engine.

Josh asked whether it was josh.milks or joshua.milks90. It is neither. Recorded so the

question is never re-asked and so no lane tries to infer it from the two GUID folders under

%LOCALAPPDATA%\EpicGamesLauncher\Saved\UserVaultSettings\, which carry no readable name.

Nothing was needed from Josh -- it was already authenticated. This item said "probably already

done, verify don't redo", and that was right.

Two account records exist under

%LOCALAPPDATA%\EpicGamesLauncher\Saved\UserVaultSettings\ and UE 5.8.1 was installed through the

Launcher, which is not possible signed-out. So this is a confirm, not a task. Josh: open the

Epic Games Launcher and read the account name in the corner, and tell the lane which one it is.

It matters because §17 of every region page requires it:

"MetaHuman batch generation round-trips Epic's cloud for the named cast"

(flores_island.md:1728). That is confirmed on-box, not inferred — MetaHumanSDK's shipped

config names live Epic endpoints including mh-uemhc-autorig-service…on.epicgames.com/v1/autorigs

and mh-texture-synthesis-service…on.epicgames.com. Fab ships in-engine at

Engine/Plugins/Fab/Fab.uplugin. Both want the signed-in account.

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▶▶ PART 0b — DO NOT ASK JOSH THESE

*This section exists because of the failure this run was convened to fix: a session asked Josh to

re-decide the contents of the Flores concept-art board when docs/spine/CH_02.md:226 had already

listed them, typed and id'd. The following are settled in canon. A lane that re-opens one of them

is the defect.*

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PART 1 — WHAT IS ACTUALLY STANDING (measured 2026-08-02)

Machine. MILKS5090 — Ryzen 9 9950X3D (16C/32T), 128 GB, **RTX 5090 32 GB, driver 596.36,

CUDA 13.2**, idle 43 °C / 19 W. Verified nvidia-smi.

What is NOT here at all (verified absent, no wishful reading):

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PART 2 — CANON'S REQUIREMENTS, DIFFED AGAINST STANDING

2.1 Region-page Section 1 — the terrain chain

Canon (flores_island.md:103-108): COP30 via OpenTopography → GDAL/rasterio recipe → Gaea erosion

pass → UE Landscape import tiles under World Partition at the 8,129-vertex actor cap → ESA

WorldCover to material-layer weightmaps.

The one honest surprise: the terrain tool needs rasterio only — it imports

rasterio, rasterio.fill, rasterio.transform, rasterio.warp, numpy, requests

(terrain_fetch_preprocess.py:48-53). It never imports osgeo. No separate GDAL install is

required; rasterio's wheel bundles GDAL. Any plan budgeting a GDAL/conda install for this chain is

budgeting work that does not exist.

2.2 Region-page Section 17 — the engine chain

2.3 The generative floor — what the mesh actually demands

879 registry rows across 12 registries carry generation_status (counted live today):

Boss 281 · Character 164 · Creature 150 · Weapon 72 · Antagonist 64 · Vril_Site 42 · SFX 30 ·

Voice 23 · Familiar 22 · Scene_Spec 16 · Theme 14 · Equipment 1.

Against that demand the box today has image and music only. There is no path from any of those

879 rows to a mesh, a voice line, a video, or an animation — those four lanes have

zero weights installed. That is the honest shape of the gap: the dispatcher is armed (GATE 36) and

the queue is full, and four of six output modalities have nothing to dispatch to.

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PART 3 — GAP CLASSIFICATION

(a) I can install these myself — no Josh, no account, no money

**These are downloads of third-party software onto Josh's machine. They are named here with exact

commands and are NOT executed by this lane without the director's go.**

(b) Needs Josh — see PART 0. Summary: OpenTopography key · Gaea Pro $199 · HF token · Epic account confirm.

(c) Blocked on something else

The blocker that outranks every purchase on this page. harness/run_gates.py → the

build_readiness gate reports today:

- AssetGen:   BLOCKED-ON(per-asset morphology/asset_concept field (§4.1 prompt input);
                         asset_category / mesh_tags field (mesh-taggable material routing))
- Combat:     BLOCKED-ON(EG_ environment-grammar ids for the combat surfaces)
- Cinematic:  BLOCKED-ON(scene-index beat_ref binding; scene_type field; participant_refs field)
- Audio:      BLOCKED-ON(Section-10 machine cue table — the composition briefs are prose)

Read that carefully: none of those four are hardware, money, or an account. Buy Gaea, land the

OpenTopography key, pull all 450 GB of weights, and the AssetGen dispatcher still cannot emit a

prompt, because the field it would read from — the per-asset asset_concept / morphology input —

does not exist on the rows. This is authoring work inside the registries, it is entirely ours, it

needs zero GPU and zero spend, and it is the true head-of-chain for the 879-row generative queue.

It should be running in parallel with Josh's four items, not after them.

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PART 4 — STORAGE AND CAPACITY

4.1 Measured today

Junctions already correct: Humanity/Saved/Terrain → E:\terrain,

humanity-forgotten/.rag → D:\rag_store. Current occupancy: UE engine 31 GB · game project 7.7 GB

(4.8 GB Intermediate) · DDC 0.8 GB · ComfyUI weights 29.2 GB · canon repo 119 MB.

4.2 Projection — measured per-image cost, not a guess

Measured on today's real Z-Image output (8-bit PNG):

Canon rules 16-bit PNG for plates (CONCEPT_ART_PROGRAM.md:727), so a shipped 2048² plate is

roughly double the measured 8-bit figure — call it ~13 MB.

Verdict: storage is NOT a gate and Josh should buy nothing. The realistic band is

~1.5-2.5 TB over the life of the project; the pessimistic band with every full-res candidate

retained is ~4.5 TB. Against 14.31 TB free, the pessimistic case still leaves ~9 TB.

The one layout rule worth stating: candidate sweeps belong on E: (8 TB SATA, 100% free,

archive-class — sequential writes of finished PNGs do not want the Gen5). Keep D: for weights

and hot caches, and C: for the engine, DDC and repos. That is already how the box is

partitioned and how Gaea's Locations block is already pointed; nothing needs moving.

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PART 5 — TWO FINDINGS FOR THE DIRECTOR (not canon changes; I did not touch canon)

1. GEODATA_TERRAIN_CHAIN.md:533-535 can be closed. It carries "whether Gaea's CLI/automation

features are gated to Professional/Enterprise … is unconfirmed" as an open item. §0 item 2 above

closes it with the vendor table plus an on-box reproduction. A lane should retire that open item

and record the resolution; this ledger is not authorised to edit a pipeline_review doc.

2. Gaea's GPU is configured but not active in CLI runs. [UNPROVEN cause.]

Preferences.options lists AdaptiveCpp/GpuDiscrete/CUDA/NVIDIA/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 first

in Compute.Backends, and the device scan finds and passes the 5090 (Logs\Devices.txt:

"Compute test passed"). But every Swarm run logs Active Devices: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (Native)

only. This may be a consequence of the unlicensed state or a Swarm-specific device selection —

it cannot be disambiguated until item 2 is licensed. Re-check it in the first post-licence

run: if erosion for 69 regions runs CPU-only, the nightly terrain budget is wrong by a large

factor. This is the single most important thing to re-measure the moment Gaea activates.

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PART 6 — RE-VERIFY COMMANDS

nvidia-smi                                            # GPU, driver, VRAM
ollama list                                           # local LLM roster
netstat -ano | findstr LISTENING                      # 11434 = Ollama; 8188/8189 = ComfyUI
D:\comfyui\.venv-art\Scripts\python.exe -c "import torch;print(torch.__version__,torch.cuda.get_device_capability())"
python -c "import rasterio"                           # terrain chain gate
type "%APPDATA%\QuadSpinner\Gaea\2.0\edition.dat"     # 2 bytes = unlicensed
"C:\Program Files\QuadSpinner\Gaea 2\Gaea.Swarm.exe" --filename "<any .terrain>" --buildpath <dir> --resolution 512 --silent
                                                      # licensed => files appear; unlicensed => exit 0, nothing written
reg query HKCU\Environment /v OPENTOPOGRAPHY_API_KEY  # terrain key
dir E:\terrain                                        # empty = canon's cited rasters absent
python harness\run_gates.py                           # must exit 0

Generated by harness/site/structure_site.py — the URL path is the repo path. review root