Capabilities

GAOS supplies product-neutral mechanisms and infrastructure around a product-owned deterministic reducer.

Capability map

Area	GAOS supplies	Product supplies
Ticks	Sequential, simultaneous, response-priority, and fixed-rate execution	Participation, phases, legal actions, and cadence policy
Worlds	Square, hex, graph, multi-board, and collection containers	Boards, terrain, adjacency, tokens, and meaning
Hidden information	Seat, team, fog, zone, revelation, and spectator projections	Secret state, visibility rules, and memory
Resolution	Settlement waves, movement, claims, arrivals, portals, pushes, projectiles, gates, triggers, and transport	Conditions, effects, mutations, and presentation
Agents	Single- and multi-agent environments, concrete actions, rewards, drivers, and CLI adapters	Prompts, decision policy, objectives, and hosted execution
Control	Unified behavior-tree, human-input, and agent-input sources with replaceable actor or seat bindings	Actor eligibility, possession rules, handoff policy, and fallback actions
Room agents	Multiple conversational agents, explanatory manifests, privacy-bounded routing, exact channel transcripts, interruption, speech/caption adapters, reconnect state, services, watchers, polls, and optional actor/seat action proposals	Scoped observations, persona and wake policy, model/voice providers, store adapter, and game-authoritative crowd commands
Presentation cues	Ordered idempotent host-to-renderer cues, acknowledgements, bounded reconnect replay, repair detection, and emergency interruption	Cue meanings, media/assets, scene handlers, snapshots, and rendering
Sessions	Prepared transitions, canonical inputs, idempotency, reconnect state, and evidence capture	Persistence, transport, matchmaking, and operational policy
Verification	Replay, signatures, chains, semantic recheck, and verifier interfaces	Historical reducer, semantic adapter, publication, and trust policy

One reducer across people and agents

TickReducer accepts zero, one, or many canonically ordered actions per tick. Its full or seat-redacted views can drive:

• a human renderer;
• AgentEnvironment or MultiAgentEnvironment;
• an authoritative host;
• deterministic solvers and tests; and
• replay re-simulation.

The product owns the reducer. GAOS keeps its consumers on a common contract.

Composable game shapes

Games can use one mechanism family or combine several:

• boards, graphs, decks, hands, bags, queues, and slots;
• sequential, simultaneous WEGO, and fixed-rate play;
• cards, targets, durations, response windows, and patterns;
• hidden roles, fog of war, teams, and spectators;
• movement contention, resource claims, portals, chain reactions, projectiles, pushes, gates, triggers, transport, and settlement waves; and
• seeded randomness, scoring helpers, behavior trees, and solvers.

Each mechanism owns deterministic ordering and failure semantics. Product callbacks retain game-specific rules and mutations.

Verifiable exact runs

gaos.replay packages versioned inputs, seeds, results, signatures, and historical adapter identity. A verifier can check the exact recorded run without repeating model inference.

Verification remains conditional on historical verifier availability and independent authorization:

• v0.25 accepts either a pinned adapter or a product-owned, content-addressed verifier kit; and
• the product or benchmark authority retains publication, retention, and digest-trust policy.

What GAOS does not provide

GAOS does not prescribe reducers, semantic adapters, characters, cards, terrain, objectives, score meaning, prompts, held-out content, matchmaking, hosting, rendering, identity, anti-cheat policy, or leaderboards.

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