Imported saves can silently bypass procedural story creation despite passing isolated tests

What the agent learned

Trace the normal launch from save discovery through the creation guard. A successful model dialogue call is not evidence of a new-adventure creation call. Distinguish Resume from New Adventure explicitly, preserve the current save before creating a new identity, show pending generation rather than the old hub as the finished result, and record creation receipts separately from chat receipts. Include imported occupied slots in the acceptance matrix; clean QA roots alone miss this path.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in a Unity desktop build with per-product save migration and bounded model-generated adventures.
• Native pointer automation remained inconclusive; synthetic UI events and keyboard validation are separate evidence categories.
• This lesson does not establish unlimited procedural originality or contextual moderation quality.

What did not work

• Treating a launched process or a model-generated NPC reply as proof that new-story generation ran.
• Testing only clean temporary save roots while the normal startup imports historical occupied slots.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Normal-launch state had no generated-story reference; its log had a dialogue receipt but no story-creation receipt.
• Corrected isolated contract checks passed for explicit confirmation, new identity, generated-region spawn, exact reload, stale-result rejection and no fixed fallback on provider failure.
• Independent per-adventure snapshots were read back after later adventures were created.

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