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@@ -54,6 +54,41 @@ It must not construct an App adapter, duplicate entity directory, duplicate
 object table, duplicate gameplay owner, second clock, second transit owner, or
 second session controller.
 
+### Canonical per-generation reset contract
+
+The audit found one production seam that must land before the direct host can
+prove reconnect honestly. `GameRuntime` owns every canonical per-session
+child, but the graphical `LiveSessionResetManifest` currently invokes those
+children one by one and interleaves them with App-only teardown. A no-window
+host that copied that list would create a second lifecycle definition and
+would not prove the Slice-K host can reuse the graphical runtime.
+
+J8 therefore adds one Runtime-owned, retryable generation-reset transaction.
+The exact public contract has these phases:
+
+1. reset the root's canonical transit, communication, inventory, action,
+   character, movement, object-table, and other per-generation state in the
+   existing accepted order;
+2. call `RuntimeEntityObjectLifetime.BeginSessionClear()` exactly once and
+   expose the returned exact-incarnation retirement set to one borrowed host
+   retirement boundary;
+3. let the graphical host retire App render/physics/animation projections and
+   drain their queued removals, while the no-window host immediately retires
+   the same canonical records without constructing projections;
+4. require `CompleteSessionClearIfConverged()` before clearing the canonical
+   player identity and permitting a new generation;
+5. retain every incomplete suffix after callback failure so the same reset can
+   be retried without replaying a completed retirement.
+
+The host boundary acknowledges projection retirement only. It owns no
+canonical dictionary, reset cursor, generation number, or cleanup order.
+App-only mouse capture, retained UI, camera, particle visibility, renderer,
+audio, input, and diagnostics remain outside the Runtime transaction. The
+graphical `LiveSessionResetManifest` invokes the Runtime transaction at its
+existing projection-safe point; `NoWindowGameRuntimeHost` invokes that same
+transaction with an immediate canonical-only acknowledgement. There is no
+test-only production injection API and no alternate reset manifest.
+
 The host applies already-decoded deterministic packets through the same Runtime
 owner APIs that the graphical session route uses. Core.Net parser correctness
 remains covered by Core.Net wire fixtures; J8 verifies ownership, ordering,
@@ -104,6 +139,13 @@ increasing within a generation and restart only when the generation changes.
 
 ### J8.1 — one direct root host
 
+- Add the Runtime-owned generation-reset transaction and its narrow borrowed
+  host-retirement acknowledgement.
+- Replace the child-by-child canonical portions of App's reset bindings with
+  that transaction while preserving every App-only stage and the current
+  projection-before-identity order.
+- Prove first reset, callback-fault retry, duplicate reset, and populated-root
+  reconnect converge without replaying completed entity retirement.
 - Add a reusable test-only `NoWindowGameRuntimeHost`.
 - Move the existing J5 direct-host scenario onto `host.Runtime` rather than
   separately constructing six owners.
@@ -114,8 +156,9 @@ increasing within a generation and restart only when the generation changes.
 - Prove the test assembly/process loads no App, UI, Silk.NET, OpenAL, Arch,
   ImGui, or renderer/audio/window type.
 
-Gate: the direct root host constructs, captures a checkpoint, and converges
-without a presentation assembly or duplicate owner.
+Gate: graphical and no-window session reset use the same Runtime transaction;
+the direct root host constructs, captures a checkpoint, resets a populated
+generation, and converges without a presentation assembly or duplicate owner.
 
 ### J8.2 — deterministic transport/content lifecycle
 
@@ -180,6 +223,10 @@ extracting gameplay again.
 - duplicate CreateObject and GUID reuse across reconnect;
 - observer throws during entity, inventory, chat, command, movement, or portal
   dispatch;
+- generation reset fails before host retirement, during one projection
+  retirement, during the drain acknowledgement, and after canonical
+  convergence but before identity clear;
+- reset retry does not replay an already retired canonical incarnation;
 - route creation succeeds but activation fails;
 - detach throws once, then succeeds;
 - portal cancellation before readiness, after readiness, and with each host