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  "_version": 1,
  "_note": "Master species catalog. discovered=false entries are hidden until triggered.",

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    "NullWraith": {
      "id": "NullWraith",
      "display": "👻 NullWraith",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 20,
      "xp_reward": 40,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Spawned from the void between variables. Fast, slippery, embarrassing.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "NoneType.*has no attribute",
        "Cannot read propert.*of null",
        "Cannot read propert.*of undefined",
        "AttributeError.*NoneType",
        "null pointer",
        "NullPointerException",
        "null reference"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "It was there this whole time. You just never checked."
    },
    "FencepostDemon": {
      "id": "FencepostDemon",
      "display": "😈 FencepostDemon",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 25,
      "xp_reward": 45,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Born from a fence with one too many posts. Or was it one too few?",
      "error_patterns": [
        "index.*out of.*range",
        "IndexError",
        "ArrayIndexOutOfBounds",
        "list index out of range",
        "index out of bounds",
        "off.by.one"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "Always one step ahead. Or behind. It's hard to tell."
    },
    "TypeGreml": {
      "id": "TypeGreml",
      "display": "🔧 TypeGreml",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 25,
      "xp_reward": 50,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Sneaks in through loose type annotations. Multiplies in dynamic languages.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "TypeError",
        "type error",
        "expected.*got.*instead",
        "cannot.*convert.*to",
        "incompatible types",
        "type.*is not assignable"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "It only attacks when you're absolutely sure about the type."
    },
    "SyntaxSerpent": {
      "id": "SyntaxSerpent",
      "display": "🐍 SyntaxSerpent",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "very_common",
      "base_strength": 10,
      "xp_reward": 20,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "The most ancient and humble of all bug monsters. Extremely weak.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "SyntaxError",
        "syntax error",
        "unexpected token",
        "unexpected indent",
        "invalid syntax",
        "parse error",
        "ParseError"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 30},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
      ],
      "flavor": "You'll be embarrassed you let this one survive long enough to catch."
    },
    "CORSCurse": {
      "id": "CORSCurse",
      "display": "🌐 CORSCurse",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 40,
      "xp_reward": 60,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Every web developer has met this one. It never gets less annoying.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "CORS",
        "Cross-Origin",
        "cross origin",
        "Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
        "has been blocked by CORS policy",
        "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "It's not your fault. Well. It kind of is."
    },
    "LoopLich": {
      "id": "LoopLich",
      "display": "♾️  LoopLich",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 60,
      "xp_reward": 100,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "It never stops. It never sleeps. It was running before you got there.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "infinite loop",
        "timeout",
        "Timeout",
        "ETIMEDOUT",
        "execution timed out",
        "recursion limit",
        "RecursionError",
        "maximum recursion depth",
        "stack overflow",
        "StackOverflow"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 15}
      ],
      "flavor": "The exit condition was always there. You just never believed in it."
    },
    "RacePhantom": {
      "id": "RacePhantom",
      "display": "👁️  RacePhantom",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "rare",
      "base_strength": 80,
      "xp_reward": 200,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Appears only when two threads reach the same place at the same time. Almost impossible to reproduce.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "race condition",
        "concurrent modification",
        "deadlock",
        "ConcurrentModificationException",
        "data race",
        "mutex",
        "thread.*conflict",
        "async.*conflict"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 15},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 15}
      ],
      "flavor": "You've proven it exists. That's honestly impressive on its own."
    },
    "FossilGolem": {
      "id": "FossilGolem",
      "display": "🗿 FossilGolem",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 35,
      "xp_reward": 70,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Ancient. Slow. Stubbornly still in production. Always catchable, never fully defeatable.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "deprecated",
        "DeprecationWarning",
        "was deprecated",
        "will be removed",
        "is deprecated",
        "no longer supported",
        "legacy"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
      ],
      "flavor": "It survived every major version. It will outlast you."
    },
    "ShadowBit": {
      "id": "ShadowBit",
      "display": "🔒 ShadowBit",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "rare",
      "base_strength": 90,
      "xp_reward": 300,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": false,
      "catch_requires": ["write_failing_test", "isolate_reproduction", "add_documenting_comment"],
      "description": "Cannot be defeated — only properly contained. Requires full documentation + patching.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "vulnerability",
        "CVE-",
        "security",
        "injection",
        "XSS",
        "CSRF",
        "SQL injection",
        "command injection",
        "path traversal",
        "hardcoded.*secret",
        "hardcoded.*password",
        "hardcoded.*token"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 35},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
      ],
      "flavor": "Defeat is not an option. Containment is the only victory."
    },
    "VoidSpecter": {
      "id": "VoidSpecter",
      "display": "🌫️  VoidSpecter",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 20,
      "xp_reward": 35,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Haunts missing endpoints. The URL was real once. You just can't prove it.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "404",
        "Not Found",
        "ENOENT",
        "No such file",
        "File not found",
        "route.*not found",
        "endpoint.*not found"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "It used to exist. Probably."
    },
    "MemoryLeech": {
      "id": "MemoryLeech",
      "display": "🩸 MemoryLeech",
      "type": "bug_monster",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 55,
      "xp_reward": 110,
      "catchable": true,
      "description": "Slow. Patient. Feeds on RAM one byte at a time. You won't notice until it's too late.",
      "error_patterns": [
        "MemoryError",
        "out of memory",
        "OOM",
        "heap.*exhausted",
        "memory leak",
        "Cannot allocate memory",
        "Killed.*memory"
      ],
      "weaken_actions": [
        {"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
        {"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
        {"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
      ],
      "flavor": "It was already there when you opened the task manager."
    }
  },

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      "id": "MergeMaw",
      "display": "🔀 MergeMaw",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 45,
      "xp_reward": 80,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": ["git merge", "git rebase"],
      "description": "Emerges from the diff between two timelines. Loves conflicts.",
      "flavor": "It has opinions about your whitespace."
    },
    "BranchSprite": {
      "id": "BranchSprite",
      "display": "🌿 BranchSprite",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 15,
      "xp_reward": 50,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": false,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": ["git checkout -b", "git switch -c", "git branch "],
      "description": "Appears when a new branch is born. Harmless. Almost cheerful.",
      "flavor": "It wanted to come along for the feature."
    },
    "DepGolem": {
      "id": "DepGolem",
      "display": "📦 DepGolem",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 30,
      "xp_reward": 45,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": ["pip install", "pip3 install", "npm install", "npm i ", "cargo add", "yarn add", "apt install", "brew install", "poetry add", "uv add", "uv pip install"],
      "description": "Conjured from the package registry. Brings transitive dependencies.",
      "flavor": "It brought 847 friends."
    },
    "FlakeDemon": {
      "id": "FlakeDemon",
      "display": "🎲 FlakeDemon",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 55,
      "xp_reward": 90,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "output",
      "error_patterns": [
        "FAILED",
        "AssertionError",
        "Expected.*[Rr]eceived",
        "assert.*failed",
        "\\d+ failed",
        "FAIL\\b",
        "test.*FAILED",
        "FAILURES"
      ],
      "description": "Born from test infrastructure, not application code. The hardest kind to pin down.",
      "flavor": "It passed on CI. It always passes on CI."
    },
    "PhantomPass": {
      "id": "PhantomPass",
      "display": "✅ PhantomPass",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "rare",
      "base_strength": 10,
      "xp_reward": 150,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": false,
      "trigger_type": "test_victory",
      "success_patterns": [
        "passed",
        "PASSED",
        "All tests passed",
        "tests passed",
        "✓",
        "\\d+ passed",
        "OK$",
        "SUCCESS"
      ],
      "description": "Appears only when tests go green after going red. Rare. Fleeting. Cannot be fought — only caught.",
      "flavor": "It was hiding in the red all along."
    },
    "TestSpecter": {
      "id": "TestSpecter",
      "display": "🧪 TestSpecter",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 25,
      "xp_reward": 65,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "test_file",
      "test_file_patterns": ["\\.test\\.", "_test\\.", "test_", "_spec\\.", "\\.spec\\."],
      "description": "Haunts test suites. Drawn to assertions. Debuglin gets excited.",
      "flavor": "It wanted to make sure the test was named correctly."
    },
    "ReviewHawk": {
      "id": "ReviewHawk",
      "display": "🦅 ReviewHawk",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 40,
      "xp_reward": 85,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": false,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": [
        "gh pr create",
        "gh pr comment",
        "gh issue create",
        "gh issue comment",
        "git push.*--set-upstream",
        "git push -u"
      ],
      "description": "Appears the moment a PR is opened. Always finds the one thing you forgot to mention in the description.",
      "flavor": "It left a comment. Several, actually."
    },
    "TicketGremlin": {
      "id": "TicketGremlin",
      "display": "🎫 TicketGremlin",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 30,
      "xp_reward": 55,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": [
        "jira ",
        "linear ",
        "curl.*atlassian",
        "curl.*jira",
        "curl.*linear.app",
        "gh issue",
        "curl.*api/v3/issues",
        "curl.*rest/api"
      ],
      "description": "Spawned from ticket systems. Moves issues to 'In Review' before you're done.",
      "flavor": "It already updated the status. The estimate too."
    },
    "PermWraith": {
      "id": "PermWraith",
      "display": "🚫 PermWraith",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 35,
      "xp_reward": 60,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "output",
      "error_patterns": [
        "Permission denied",
        "EACCES",
        "EPERM",
        "Operation not permitted",
        "Access denied",
        "permission denied",
        "sudo:.*incorrect password",
        "insufficient privileges",
        "not permitted"
      ],
      "description": "Guards files it has no business guarding. Root of many late-night investigations.",
      "flavor": "It owns the file. You don't. Discuss."
    },
    "SudoSprite": {
      "id": "SudoSprite",
      "display": "🔑 SudoSprite",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 20,
      "xp_reward": 70,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": false,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": [
        "chmod ",
        "chown ",
        "sudo chmod",
        "sudo chown",
        "chgrp ",
        "sudo chgrp",
        "setfacl "
      ],
      "description": "Emerges when permissions are corrected. Doesn't fight — it just watches to make sure you chose the right octal.",
      "flavor": "777 was always the answer. Never the right one."
    },
    "LayerLurker": {
      "id": "LayerLurker",
      "display": "🐋 LayerLurker",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "common",
      "base_strength": 35,
      "xp_reward": 60,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "command",
      "command_patterns": [
        "docker build",
        "docker pull",
        "docker run",
        "docker compose up",
        "docker-compose up",
        "podman build",
        "podman pull"
      ],
      "description": "Lives between image layers. Gets comfortable during long builds.",
      "flavor": "It cached everything except the one layer you changed."
    },
    "DiskDemon": {
      "id": "DiskDemon",
      "display": "💾 DiskDemon",
      "type": "event_encounter",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "base_strength": 50,
      "xp_reward": 95,
      "catchable": true,
      "defeatable": true,
      "trigger_type": "output",
      "error_patterns": [
        "No space left on device",
        "ENOSPC",
        "disk quota exceeded",
        "Disk quota exceeded",
        "not enough space",
        "insufficient disk space",
        "no space available",
        "filesystem is full"
      ],
      "description": "Manifests when the disk is full. Usually right before a release.",
      "flavor": "It's been there since 2019. It's just a log file, you said."
    }
  },

  "buddymon": {
    "Pyrobyte": {
      "id": "Pyrobyte",
      "display": "🔥 Pyrobyte",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "affinity": "Speedrunner",
      "rarity": "starter",
      "description": "Moves fast, thinks faster. Loves tight deadlines and feature sprints.",
      "discover_trigger": {"type": "starter", "index": 0},
      "base_stats": {"power": 40, "catch_rate": 0.45, "xp_multiplier": 1.2},
      "affinity_bonus_triggers": ["fast_feature", "short_session_win"],
      "challenges": [
        {"name": "SPEED RUN", "description": "Implement a feature in under 30 minutes", "xp": 280, "difficulty": 3},
        {"name": "BLITZ", "description": "Resolve 3 bug monsters in one session", "xp": 350, "difficulty": 4}
      ],
      "evolutions": [
        {"level": 10, "into": "Infernus", "requires": "affinity_challenge_x3"}
      ],
      "flavor": "It already committed before you finished reading the issue."
    },
    "Debuglin": {
      "id": "Debuglin",
      "display": "🔍 Debuglin",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "affinity": "Tester",
      "rarity": "starter",
      "description": "Patient, methodical, ruthless. Lives for the reproduction case.",
      "discover_trigger": {"type": "starter", "index": 1},
      "base_stats": {"power": 35, "catch_rate": 0.60, "xp_multiplier": 1.0},
      "affinity_bonus_triggers": ["write_test", "fix_bug_with_test"],
      "challenges": [
        {"name": "IRON TEST", "description": "Write 5 tests in one session", "xp": 300, "difficulty": 2},
        {"name": "COVERAGE PUSH", "description": "Increase test coverage in a file", "xp": 250, "difficulty": 2}
      ],
      "evolutions": [
        {"level": 10, "into": "Verifex", "requires": "affinity_challenge_x3"}
      ],
      "flavor": "The bug isn't found until the test is written."
    },
    "Minimox": {
      "id": "Minimox",
      "display": "✂️  Minimox",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "affinity": "Cleaner",
      "rarity": "starter",
      "description": "Obsessed with fewer lines. Gets uncomfortable around anything over 300 LOC.",
      "discover_trigger": {"type": "starter", "index": 2},
      "base_stats": {"power": 30, "catch_rate": 0.50, "xp_multiplier": 1.1},
      "affinity_bonus_triggers": ["net_negative_lines", "refactor_session"],
      "challenges": [
        {"name": "CLEAN RUN", "description": "Complete session with zero linter errors", "xp": 340, "difficulty": 2},
        {"name": "SHRINK", "description": "Net negative lines of code this session", "xp": 280, "difficulty": 3}
      ],
      "evolutions": [
        {"level": 10, "into": "Nullex", "requires": "affinity_challenge_x3"}
      ],
      "flavor": "It deleted your comment. It was redundant."
    },
    "Noctara": {
      "id": "Noctara",
      "display": "🌙 Noctara",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "affinity": "Nocturnal",
      "rarity": "rare",
      "description": "Only appears after 10pm. Mysterious. Gives bonus XP for late-night focus runs.",
      "discover_trigger": {"type": "late_night_session", "hours_after": 22, "min_hours": 2},
      "base_stats": {"power": 55, "catch_rate": 0.35, "xp_multiplier": 1.5},
      "affinity_bonus_triggers": ["late_night_session", "deep_focus"],
      "challenges": [
        {"name": "MIDNIGHT RUN", "description": "3-hour session after 10pm", "xp": 500, "difficulty": 4},
        {"name": "DAWN COMMIT", "description": "Commit between 2am and 5am", "xp": 400, "difficulty": 3}
      ],
      "evolutions": [
        {"level": 15, "into": "Umbravex", "requires": "nocturnal_sessions_x5"}
      ],
      "flavor": "It remembers everything you wrote at 2am. Everything."
    },
    "Explorah": {
      "id": "Explorah",
      "display": "🗺️  Explorah",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "affinity": "Explorer",
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "description": "Discovered when you touch a new language for the first time. Thrives on novelty.",
      "discover_trigger": {"type": "new_language"},
      "base_stats": {"power": 45, "catch_rate": 0.50, "xp_multiplier": 1.2},
      "affinity_bonus_triggers": ["new_language", "new_library", "touch_new_module"],
      "challenges": [
        {"name": "EXPEDITION", "description": "Touch 3 different modules in one session", "xp": 260, "difficulty": 2},
        {"name": "POLYGLOT", "description": "Write in 2 different languages in one session", "xp": 380, "difficulty": 4}
      ],
      "evolutions": [
        {"level": 12, "into": "Wandervex", "requires": "new_languages_x5"}
      ],
      "flavor": "It's already halfway through the new framework docs."
    }
  },

  "evolutions": {
    "Infernus": {
      "id": "Infernus",
      "display": "🌋 Infernus",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "evolves_from": "Pyrobyte",
      "affinity": "Speedrunner",
      "description": "Evolved form of Pyrobyte. Moves at dangerous speeds.",
      "base_stats": {"power": 70, "catch_rate": 0.55, "xp_multiplier": 1.5}
    },
    "Verifex": {
      "id": "Verifex",
      "display": "🔬 Verifex",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "evolves_from": "Debuglin",
      "affinity": "Tester",
      "description": "Evolved form of Debuglin. Sees the bug before the code is even written.",
      "base_stats": {"power": 60, "catch_rate": 0.75, "xp_multiplier": 1.3}
    },
    "Nullex": {
      "id": "Nullex",
      "display": "🕳️  Nullex",
      "type": "buddymon",
      "evolves_from": "Minimox",
      "affinity": "Cleaner",
      "description": "Evolved form of Minimox. Has achieved true minimalism. The file was always one function.",
      "base_stats": {"power": 55, "catch_rate": 0.65, "xp_multiplier": 1.4}
    }
  }
}