# BRIEFING — 2026-10-01T03:17:00Z

## Mission
Empirically verify combat feel, dodge roll i-frames, damage number pooling, and integration tests for Milestone 2 Iteration 2 Gate.

## 🔒 My Identity
- Archetype: empirical_challenger
- Roles: critic, specialist
- Working directory: c:\Projects\FreeExile\.agents\teamwork\challenger_m2_2_gen4
- Original parent: 8412af23-c7a8-41f5-aef2-b2a602fcfaf5
- Milestone: Milestone 2 Iteration 2 Gate
- Instance: 2 of 2 (Gate Challenger 2)

## 🔒 Key Constraints
- Review-only — do NOT modify implementation code directly
- Must run verification code yourself — do NOT trust worker's claims or logs
- If cannot reproduce a bug empirically, it does not count
- .agents/teamwork/ holds ONLY metadata (never source code, tests, or data)

## Current Parent
- Conversation ID: 8412af23-c7a8-41f5-aef2-b2a602fcfaf5
- Updated: 2026-10-01T03:17:00Z

## Review Scope
- **Files to review**:
  - `c:\Projects\FreeExile\.agents\teamwork\worker_m2_2_gen3\handoff.md`
  - `c:\Projects\FreeExile\tests\unit\test_challenger_m2_adversarial.py`
  - `c:\Projects\FreeExile\tests\unit\test_m2_animation_and_combat_feel.py`
  - `c:\Projects\FreeExile\tests\e2e\test_poe2_ui_animation_vfx_e2e.py`
  - Relevant client/server code for combat feel, dodge roll i-frames, damage number pooling
- **Interface contracts**: `c:\Projects\FreeExile\PROJECT.md`, `c:\Projects\FreeExile\.agents\teamwork\ORIGINAL_REQUEST.md`
- **Review criteria**: Empirical test pass rates, edge case behavior, i-frame duration (250ms), charge cooldown (4.0s), 64-slot ring buffer pooling

## Key Decisions Made
- Initialized empirical challenger briefing

## Artifact Index
- `DISPATCH.md` — Incoming dispatch message
- `BRIEFING.md` — Persistent agent memory
- `progress.md` — Liveness heartbeat and milestone tracking
- `handoff.md` — Final handoff report with empirical verification verdict

## Attack Surface
- **Hypotheses tested**: [TBD]
- **Vulnerabilities found**: [TBD]
- **Untested angles**: [TBD]

## Loaded Skills
- None explicitly assigned in dispatch