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+# Exploded: instructions for coding agents
+
+Real machines, built from code with their real numbers, taken apart in the browser. One self-contained page per
+machine and language (en, fr, es), a gallery, a Cloudflare Worker for the root. Read `README.md` first.
+These instructions hold for any agent (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex…); `CLAUDE.md` points here.
+
+## The teardown skill
+
+Every machine is built with the teardown skill. `SKILL_DIR` points to it: `~/.claude/skills/teardown` by default, or
+the copy the launcher put in the working tree (`./.skill`, ignored by git). Read `$SKILL_DIR/SKILL.md` entirely
+before starting, then the docs it points to.
+
+- Frame capture uses the skill's Playwright Chromium. Without a GPU (Linux VMs), WebGL runs on SwiftShader: slower,
+  same pixels. On macOS, if headless Chromium gets no WebGL context, set
+  `CHROMIUM="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"`.
+- `ffmpeg` and Python 3 are needed for the film and its score.
+
+## Adding a machine
+
+Each machine has a brief, `machines/<slug>/PROMPT.md`: follow it together with the skill. Then follow `README.md`,
+section "Adding a machine". In short:
+
+- `machines/<slug>/` holds `<p>-shared/` (model, geometry, console, tour, live page, i18n), `<p>-film/main.js`,
+  `<p>-live/main.js`, `check.mjs`, `REFERENCES.md`, `FILM.md`, `og.png` (1200 × 630). `<p>` is a short prefix.
+- Import the kit as `teardown-kit/…` (the build maps it to `kit/`).
+- Every word goes through an `i18n.js` built with `makeT()` from `shared/i18n.js`, in en, fr and es.
+- The live page calls `createChrome({slug, name, credit})` from `shared/chrome.js`.
+- `check.mjs` recomputes the machine's figures; add it to the `check` script of `package.json`.
+- Add the machine at the top of `MACHINES` in `scripts/machines.mjs` (newest first), with its title, line and
+  description in 3 languages; update the gallery's description there and the README's table.
+- The share card is rendered from the film with `{"lang":"en","clean":true}` (no console), see `machines/rope/FILM.md`.
+- Models to copy from: `machines/rope`, `machines/radial`, `machines/pepper` (the most recent).
+- Each machine has its own look: its own ground, light, materials, accent colour, console layout and type. Look at
+  the other machines' `og.png` first; a new machine must not look like any of them.
+
+## Do not
+
+- Modify `kit/`, `shared/`, `worker/` or another machine's folder. Machine-specific styling stays in the machine.
+- Track study material (photos, PDFs: `machines/<slug>/ref/`) or outputs (`teardown-out/`, `*.mp4`, `*.wav`): they
+  are gitignored on purpose.
+- Push to `main` or merge anything: `main` deploys to production. Work on your branch, `machine/<slug>`.
+- Copy, print or write any secret or token.
+
+## Done means
+
+1. `npm test` passes (every machine's figures, the root language test, the build; each page under 1 MB).
+2. The built page `dist/en/<slug>/index.html` runs in headless Chromium without console errors (the analytics beacon
+   and the favicon fail under `file://`, that is expected), in en, fr and es.
+3. The beats contact sheets (`--stills beats`) were looked at and pass the skill's review checklist; what you saw
+   was fixed.
+4. The film is recorded with its sound (`teardown-out/<slug>-en.mp4`), the share card `og.png` written with ffmpeg
+   `-map_metadata -1`.
+5. Everything committed on `machine/<slug>` and pushed, with a summary of the decisions and of what is estimated in
+   the last commit message. The owner opens the pull request.
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