AKUNUR 3.0.0-alpha.9 VALIDATION REPORT

Automated validation
- npm test: PASS
- smoke, parity, alpha.9 rules, result regression, analysis regression,
  tactical, strategic, symmetry, seed, replay continuation and browser module tests all pass.

Rule validation
- A supported Still Point passage resolves in one action.
- No normal action ends with a stone on the Still Point.
- The first completed passage awards the permanent marker.
- Before qualification, no corner claim, occupation, capture or recapture is legal.
- After qualification, every corner returns to the normal two-support rules.
- Marker state remains part of snapshots and the canonical position key.

Agent validation
- Tactical and Strategic value Still Point formation before any corner is controlled.
- Strategic v1.1 records ordinary Echo Point relations and streaks.
- A targeted regression confirms that repeated non-capturing Echo shuttling triggers
  an echo-churn retarget and selects a different action.

Analysis validation
- Ordinary Echo Point moves are reported separately from captures.
- Productive and non-productive Echo relation counts are retained.
- Per-game milestones include first corner, second corner, qualification order and
  first 2-2 corner-control decision.
- Saved replays retain exploration margins; resume-replay accepts or restores them.

Release smoke match
- Strategic vs Strategic completed in 104 decisions on seed alpha9-speed::game-1.
- Both players qualified before taking a corner.
- Black won 3-2.
- No repeated positions occurred and each player made one ordinary Echo Point move.

PDF and browser material
- Printable rules PDF identifies alpha.9 and was rendered successfully to four A4 pages.
- Rules tab states that the marker unlocks all corners.
- Browser module smoke test passes.

Known limitations
- Still Point transit creates a large legal-action branch and Strategic decisions remain
  slower than alpha.7. Static geometry is cached, but further agent-side transit pruning
  may be useful after playtesting confirms which destinations matter.
- Alpha.9 remains an experimental rules and analysis build.
