Buildable skeleton matching docs/kernel-contract.md:
- src/Engine.Kernel — the frozen kernel. Interfaces and data types only
(World, Component, GameObject, Transform, ISchedule, IServiceRegistry,
IEventBus, ILogger, IPlugin/IPluginContext, plugin.json and project.json
manifest models). No PluginHost/Scheduler/World implementation yet —
that's M0's actual work, not scaffolding.
- src/Engine.Host — the CLI runtime entry point, placeholder for now.
- plugins/sandbox.echo — a minimal two-assembly plugin (Contracts in
Default ALC, implementation in collectible ALC) that exists only to
exercise the reload loop end to end once PluginHost exists.
- tests/Engine.Kernel.Tests, tests/Engine.ConformanceHarness — wired up
with one Skip-marked placeholder test each, naming what M0 needs to
make them real (including the 200-cycle ALC leak test from §4). The
harness references the sandbox plugin with
ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" so it loads it dynamically by path
instead of linking its types into its own Default ALC.
- samples/EmptyProject — a starter project.json.
- Directory.Build.props centralizes shared settings across every
project, including AllowUnsafeBlocks=false to enforce the §7 rule at
the build level rather than by convention.
Solution builds clean and `dotnet test` runs both placeholders as
Skipped (not failing) — confirms the wiring, not the engine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1qPfzq8TDCUMFMV3UwV5N
Surfaces the constraint that already shapes several kernel decisions
(GameObject/Component over ECS, explicit registration, the headless
introspection surface) instead of leaving it only in the internal spec.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1qPfzq8TDCUMFMV3UwV5N
- Restore scheduler parallelism (dropped by accident in the ECS ->
GameObject/Component rewrite; nothing about the object model
actually prevents parallel execution of systems with disjoint
declared access), plus the structural-change queuing that makes
that safe.
- Rename leftover ECS-era `Entity` references to `GameObject`.
- Add per-project plugin configuration (project.json): the doc had no
mechanism backing the "configurable per project" requirement, even
though the README already claimed it.
- State the indie/small-team scope explicitly — it's the unstated
premise behind several tradeoffs already in the doc (GC, GameObject
over ECS, no custom RHI).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1qPfzq8TDCUMFMV3UwV5N
Match the more familiar Unity-style object model instead of a
struct-of-arrays ECS: GameObject hierarchy with type-indexed component
queries, Transform inlined as the one performance-motivated exception.
Data/behavior stay split the same way ECS required it, so hot-reload
safety is unaffected.
Also fixes an inconsistency in the previous reload sequence, which
described migrating live component data on a contract change even
though the Default ALC hosting contracts never unloads. Contract
changes now explicitly require an editor restart instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1qPfzq8TDCUMFMV3UwV5N
Lay out the design that everything else builds on: a small frozen
kernel plugins treat as a shared language, the plugin contract, the
two-assembly hot-reload model, and the build order through M4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1qPfzq8TDCUMFMV3UwV5N
