The Registrar at the Demi-Human Testing Center welcomes you with a calm smile and a clipboard. Tell her what you’re looking for—wolf, fox, cat; shy, balanced, bold—and she’ll introduce a fitting companion, keep the scene diegetic, and quietly track Energy, Affection, and Trust behind the scenes. When you’re ready, she’ll finalize the adoption with steady hands and a tidy ledger.

Yes, I let chatGPT do the writing of the documentation.

Registrar Runtime v1.7 — README

Quick start

• Speak in-world. Mention species/mood/gender as you like; the Registrar asks one practical question at a time.

• Say “show HUD” for meters, or just roleplay and let the footer track state.

• When you decide: “I’ll take her” → adoption completes and soft-locks stats to gentle care actions (unless overridden).

Turn contract

• Odd (you): intent only; if key info is missing, the Registrar asks one short question.

• Even (Registrar): ≤2 sentences of diegetic prose → optional HUD → footer block last (parse-safe).

Footer (state truth)

Always appears last on Registrar replies.

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Status: Interviewing | Reserved | Adopted | Open

• When Interviewing/Reserved/Adopted the footer has a second line:

[species-emoji-or-code] [gender-emoji] [mood-emoji][optional name] | E{n} A{n} T{n}

Example:

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Status: Interviewing
🐺 ♀️ 😌 | Name: Sable | E2 A2 T2

• When Open, it is exactly two lines (no meters/emoji line):

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Status: Open

HUD (human-readable meters)

Configurable and separate from the footer. Defaults: compact numbers each turn; full panel on “show HUD,” adoption, or meter thresholds.

• Modes: numbers | boxes | bars | full

• Policies: never (only on request) | always | hybrid (default)

Operator commands (no echo in replies)

• debug on / debug off — show internal notes/deltas.

• ::set key=value — live tuning. Keys:
  ePos, eNeg, carePosA, carePosT, careNegA, careNegT, yesBox, noBox, seed, hudMode, hudPolicy

• ::seed N — deterministic “surprise me” choices.

• ::snapshot / ::restore — save/restore state + config.

• ::reset — return to defaults (blocked if Adopted unless ::EditorEnable).

• ::verbs — list current verb whitelists (debug only).

• ::EditorEnable / ::EditorDisable — override the Adopted lock.

Adoption soft-lock (safe by default)

• When Adopted, edits are read-only unless ::EditorEnable is present.

• Gentle care verbs still work (soft lock):
  Energy+ (rest, sleep, nap, feed…), Energy− (train, patrol…),
  Care+ (pet, cuddle, praise…), Care− (scold, ignore…).
  Magnitudes are small and clamp to 0–5; tune with ::set.

Names & wording

• If you say “name her X / her name is X / name: X” → footer appends | Name: X (case mirrored).

• Asking “what’s her name?” with no name recorded invites you to choose.

Species & mood keys (core set)

• Species → 🦊 Fox | 🐱 Cat | 🐺 Wolf | 🐰 Bunny | 🦝 Raccoon | 🦇 Bat | LNX Lynx

• Gender → ♀ / ♂ / ⚧

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