Six disciplines measured the whole walk — how far it travelled, how far
out it reached, how many nodes it touched. None of them measured a single
link, and that is its own game: a node reached over a chain of short hops
scores far, not long, while one huge jump between two relays scores
nothing today.
Longest leg (🏹) takes the greatest distance the walk crossed in one hop,
both ends positioned. The measurement rides the loop that already sums
the circuit, so it costs nothing extra, and it carries the ids of the two
ends it spanned — our own end left null — so the record card can name the
link on THE path widget, ★ at home like every other route we draw. A
record set before the discipline existed simply has no leg lane.
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A record walk must now be a trail — never the same link twice in the
same direction (the reverse crossing stays legal, so target boomerangs
still qualify). Repeating a stretch would let its score be farmed, so
walk_scores disqualifies such walks from every board at once; the
composer shows a yellow "not a trail" note while one is being built,
and Trace gates it behind an amber Cancel/Trace confirm. Matching
non-trail records were purged from the local database (one-off; the
rule never shipped, so no migration).
The inline "new record" note becomes a floating dialog once a run
settles (one per run, Close default, Trophy case on the left). Choosing
Trophy case resolves the whole trace session first, and the trophy
case's own Trace this path no longer reopens the browser behind the
trace screen — both directions unwind to the main menu instead of
piling up states to Esc through.
Committing the path composer also parks the action cursor on Trace, so
compose-then-Enter walks the new route; Esc leaves the cursor put.
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A walk is any trace — it starts and ends at our node (a Trace path route
directly, a Trace target boomerang just the same) — so every walk home can
be measured and scored. services/records.py owns that scoring: measure a
walk once (distance, reach, node counts, weakest link, enclosed area) and
offer it to every one of six disciplines it places in — Longest distance,
Farthest node, Most nodes, No revisits, Weakest link, Biggest loop.
walk_from_trace turns a reply into its re-walkable spec, canonical route,
and stats in one call.
Records persist per (category, hash width) in the discovered_paths table
(schema v11) — the 64-byte path field makes each width its own game — kept
top-5 with spec-dedupe and worst-first pruning, stamped with the app
version. Disciplines carry plain descriptive names; their ids stay stable
database keys so stored records survive the naming.
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