Phase 1 of the scouting desk (docs/SCOUTING_DESK.md). Villains keyed by physical
descriptor when there's no name — a fuzzy key matched by embedding, venue-scoped,
gated on distinctiveness so a generic description never resolves to a wrong guess.
- schema: poker_players gains descriptors/descriptor_embedding/distinctiveness/
named (name stays populated with a descriptor label to avoid a NOT-NULL rebuild
on the live DB); new tables player_distinct_pairs + identity_queue.
- resolve_villain(ref, venue) → band name|high|ambiguous|generic|none; exact name
is deterministic, descriptors match by cosine, generic-only refuses to guess.
- create_descriptor_villain / add_descriptor / name_villain; merge_players
(repoints obs/reads, prefers a real name, re-embeds the union); mark_distinct +
are_distinct (rejected merges stay rejected); identity_queue file/list/resolve
with pending-dedup; scan_merge_candidates for the dream cycle (skips distinct
pairs and cross-venue).
11 tests. Full suite 141 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
