D088 - The shader corpus is content-addressed

Status: assumed Date: 2026-08-19

Captured shaders are stored under a hash of their bytes, and the corpus is the regression suite for the translator.

Why: content identity makes a re-run add nothing and lets two titles be compared for what they share, so capture is cheap enough to leave on. Every captured shader with its analysis is a test case with a known previous result.

Rejected:

• Storing by capture order: duplicates on every run and no identity across titles.