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Use when editing the Tiny World Builder repo, especially tiny-world-builder.html, to preserve the static classic-script Three.js r185 app structure and local edit/reload workflow.

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Tiny World Single-File Workflow

Work mainly in tiny-world-builder.html; also update index.html, vendor/three/, publish.sh, checks, docs, or skills when a change affects those durable contracts.

Core rules:

  • Keep the builder app single-file at runtime: inline CSS, inline JS, no bundler, no npm runtime packages.
  • Root index.html is a static landing page entry point; the builder remains available at /tiny-world-builder and /tiny-world-builder.html.
  • random-island-preview.html is a standalone local-dev control shell for random-island reveal/card iteration. It embeds /tiny-world-builder?randomIslandPreview=1 so the visible island is the real Three.js game renderer, then talks to the app by postMessage to generate, load, and export reveal/game JSON. Production Netlify shares it through the private netlify/functions/random-island-preview.mjs route instead of copying the HTML as a public static file.
  • Do not touch tiny-world-builder BACKUP.html if present.
  • Preserve style: 2-space indent, semicolons, single-quoted strings, section comments like // -------- tools --------.
  • Mutate board state through setCell(x, z, opts), not direct world[x][z] writes outside initialization.
  • Keep Three.js pinned to r185 and self-hosted under vendor/three/; do not reintroduce CDN runtime scripts. The app consumes vendor/three/tinyworld-three.r185.min.js, a generated classic-global bundle made from three@0.185.0; regenerate it with npm run vendor:three after changing three or loader wiring.
  • If browser stack traces point at tiny-world-builder / dist/LandscapeEngine.js line numbers after source edits, run npm run build so dist/index.html, dist/tiny-world-builder.html, and dist/LandscapeEngine.js are regenerated before judging the runtime.
  • Cluso's in-page embed is allowed in LOCAL DEV ONLY, injected at runtime by tools/dev-server.js (never written into the committed HTML or dist/). The assets live under gitignored cluso/ and publish.sh excludes that dir, so tools/check.js / tools/smoke-static.js (which scan the shipped HTML) stay green. Do NOT add cluso/cluso-embed.{js,css} references to tiny-world-builder.html or any committed/shipped HTML — production must never load it. (Owner-approved override of the prior "no Cluso, even local" rule.)
  • Shared materials in M.* must not be mutated per instance; clone first for unique opacity/material behavior and dispose cloned materials in disposeGroup.

Validation:

  • Run npm test (syntax-checks the inline app script, parses world.schema.json, verifies embedded schema parity, checks local script/link assets, and runs the no-browser smoke guard).
  • For targeted parser checks, run perl -0ne 'print $1 if m#<script>\s*(.*?)\s*</script>#s' tiny-world-builder.html | node --check.
  • Prefer browser validation at http://localhost:3000/tiny-world-builder.
  • Check console errors after visual/UI changes.

Inline <script> gotcha (has burned us twice)

tools/check.js extracts the main app script with this regex:

html.match(/<script>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>\s*<\/body>/);

It greedily matches from the first plain <script> through to the last </script></body>. If you add another inline <script> block above the main app (e.g. a defaults bootstrap), it MUST carry an HTML attribute or check.js conflates the two scripts plus the literal </script><script> separator into one parse target and throws Unexpected token '<'.

<script id="my-bootstrap">...</script>   <!-- ✓ regex skips this -->
<script>...</script>                     <!-- ✗ becomes part of main app -->

Related durable systems

For persisted runtime state (defaults pipeline, audio, camera, panel positions, feature flags) see .codex/skills/tinyworld-runtime-state. For island layout, sponsor banner, plane/crop-duster flight paths see .codex/skills/tinyworld-island-and-planes.