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Phase 1.0BD: dormant exact SDL materializer policy

Status: REMOTE_BOUND_POLICY_COMPLETE_ADAPTER_SOURCE_ONLY

Date: 2026-07-29

RetroArch commit c003c503ff0b747bd161c75ad7329a62d3880da0 adds a pure policy for the missing SDL archive. It accepts only the BC-bound SDL commit, diagnostic patch and SDK file hashes, requires clean and absent output state, and returns one immutable Ninja/Release/SDL2-static plan affecting exactly the three reviewed PS5 SDL files.

The module has no process, network, clock, filesystem adapter or CLI. It cannot materialize or compile anything, and its plan excludes both RetroArch building and device actions. Static validation, identity mutations, prerequisite mutations and the complete existing host matrix pass.

The next phase may implement an injected host adapter and fake-adapter tests. It may not yet invoke CMake/Ninja, build SDL or RetroArch, or act on a PS5.