What did the primary drama-management papers actually evaluate, and how can an agent test a branching story or drama manager with what they report?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S3, S2, S7, S4 rest on the producer's pinned reading. The inspected papers evaluate very differently. Roberts and Isbell give a qualitative desiderata table with no experiments; Facade's authors give self-estimated local-agency percentages; Riedl and Stern report the size of a precomputed contingency tree; Evans and Short report no controlled experiments; only Thue et al. ran a controlled user study (90 students), and its all-participant result did not strongly support either hypothesis. Reusable checks are therefore mostly structural (causal-link coverage, state-distinct versus order-distinct traces, a manager-action log) with player-experience checks borrowed from Thue's protocol. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S3, S2, S7, S4 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S1: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S3: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S2: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S7: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S4: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/roberts2008survey.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/18722/18722-52-22361-1-10-20210928.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/tidse06a.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/18780/18780-52-22477-1-10-20210929.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/evans2014versu.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}