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+# Campaign CT — Character-panel retail parity (header identity, Titles page, resize/scrollbar, row alignment)
+
+**Status:** PLANNED 2026-08-24 (owner gate report after the CA5/chat rounds).
+**Execution model:** Fable plans and coordinates; Sonnet implements each
+slice; Opus runs the dual-lens review (retail-faithful + architectural)
+per slice, then a fix round. No pushes to gitea until the owner says so.
+**Register:** this campaign retires AP-109 (inert Titles page) when CT3+CT4
+land; every deviation a slice introduces adds its row in the same commit.
+
+## Owner report (2026-08-24, screenshots on file)
+
+1. Attribute/skill row **icons misaligned** vs retail.
+2. Retail keeps a **margin between the value column and the border** —
+   the gutter reserved for the list scrollbar that appears when the
+   window is resized shorter. We author no such margin and never show
+   the scrollbar on Attributes.
+3. The character window is **resizable in Y down to an authored
+   minimum** in retail; ours is not.
+4. Header identity block: retail shows the name, then
+   **"<Gender> <Heritage> <DisplayTitle>"** (e.g. "Female Aluvian War
+   Mage"), then **"Non-Player Killer" / "Player Killer" /
+   "Player Killer Lite"** in **pure white** — on Attributes AND Skills.
+   We show gender+heritage only, no PK line contract, color off.
+5. **Level number color** slightly off vs retail.
+6. **Titles tab is inert** (AP-109): retail lists all earned titles
+   (sorted), shows the current display title, and lets the player set
+   one ("Set as Display Title"); scrollbar with many titles; the
+   header identity line updates live when the display title changes.
+7. **All windows share retail's authored minimum-size behavior** —
+   resize clamps to the authored constraints everywhere.
+
+## Retail recon (verified 2026-08-24, this session)
+
+### Titles page — `gmCharacterTitleUI`
+- `PostInit @0x0049A610` binds: display-title text `0x1000052F`,
+  "Set as Display Title" button `0x10000535`, title ListBox
+  `0x10000532`. Registers notice handlers for the title-table /
+  add-title / set-display-title notices.
+- Rows carry the title id in attribute `0x1000008E`;
+  `AddTitleToList @0x0049A840` resolves the display string via
+  `CharacterTitleTable::GetCharacterTitleFromID` (DAT title-string
+  table — CT2 locates the DID) and inserts SORTED
+  (`FindSortedInsertPosition @0x0049A760`).
+- `UpdateButtons @0x0049A500`: the display button GHOSTS (state 0xd)
+  when the selected row's title id == `mDisplayTitle`; Normal (1)
+  otherwise. Selection change (msg 4/0x43) re-runs it.
+- Clicking `0x10000535` sends
+  `CM_Social::Event_SetDisplayCharacterTitle(titleId)`
+  (`ListenToElementMessage @0x0049A6D0`).
+- `gmStatManagementUI::RecvNotice_SetDisplayCharacterTitle @0x004EFD50`
+  → the stat panel refreshes its header when the display title changes.
+
+### Wire (ACE cross-checked)
+- Inbound `CharacterTitle` event `0x0029` (already in our
+  `GameEventType`): `u32 =1, u32 displayTitleId, u32 count,
+  count × u32 titleId` (`GameEventCharacterTitle.cs`).
+- Inbound `UpdateTitle` event `0x002B`: `u32 titleId,
+  u32 setAsDisplay` (`GameEventUpdateTitle.cs`).
+- Outbound `TitleSet` GameAction (`GameActionSetTitle.cs`):
+  `u32 titleId`. Retail sender: `CM_Social::Event_SetDisplayCharacterTitle`.
+
+### Header identity — `gmStatManagementUI::PostInit @0x004EFD90`
+Binds name `0x10000231`, heritage line `0x10000232`, PK line
+`0x10000233`, level `0x1000023B`, total XP `0x10000235`, XP-to-level
+`0x10000238` + meter `0x10000236`, luminance pair `0x100005C5/C6`, list
+box `0x1000023D`. The refresh (vtable slot, near
+`UpdateExperience @0x004F0A70`) composes the heritage line WITH the
+display title; the PK strings are exactly "Player Killer" /
+"Player Killer Lite" / "Non-Player Killer" (IsPK / IsPKLite —
+cross-anchor `CharExamineUI::SetAppraiseInfo @0x004B45F0`). CT5 reads
+the composing function verbatim before writing a line of C#.
+
+### Already in-tree
+- Tab/page ids wired (`TabTitlesId 0x10000538`, `TitlesPageId
+  0x10000539`); pages currently show retail-authored closed visuals.
+- Header labels partially bound (`StatHeaderLine` + `PkStatus` seams
+  exist in `CharacterStatController.Bind` — content contract wrong).
+- `GameEventType.CharacterTitle/UpdateTitle` enum entries exist; no
+  parser, no state owner, no outbound builder.
+- The character window registers with `DatConstraintSource` — authored
+  min/max plumbing exists in `RetailWindowFrame`; Y-resize for this
+  window and the list-scrollbar contract do not.
+
+## Slices
+
+**CT1 — DAT ground truth + pins.** Live-DAT probe of layout
+`0x2100002E`: attribute/skill row templates (icon x/y vs our hand-built
+rows), the value-column right margin, header element fonts/colors
+(level `0x1000023B` color — item 5), Titles-page elements
+(`0x1000052F/32/35` geometry, row template, scrollbar), window
+min/max constraints. Output: research doc + InstalledDat pins (the
+tooltip/scrollbar-pin pattern). No production changes.
+
+**CT2 — Runtime title ownership + wire.** Parse `0x0029`/`0x002B`;
+locate the DAT title-string table `GetCharacterTitleFromID` reads and
+port the lookup; `RuntimeCharacterState` owns the title set + display
+title (J4.3 owner; clears at generation reset); outbound `TitleSet`
+builder behind a typed Runtime command; ordered change events for UI
+and headless bots (#368 contract: hosts observe the same owner).
+Conformance tests against ACE's writer shapes.
+
+**CT3 — Titles page UI.** Bind the authored page through the standard
+GUI classes (`UiTemplateListBox`/`UiScrollbar`/`UiButton` — zero
+bespoke widgets): sorted rows via the ported title-table lookup,
+selection, ghost-when-current logic (state 0xd contract), display-title
+text, Set-as-Display round trip, scrollbar. Retires half of AP-109.
+
+**CT4 — Header identity block.** Retail composition: name; "<Gender>
+<Heritage> <DisplayTitle>"; PK status line — authored fonts/colors
+(pure white per probe), live refresh on display-title change and PK
+status, identical on Attributes AND Skills pages. Level color from the
+authored element. Retires the rest of AP-109's UI half.
+
+**CT5 — Row alignment + value gutter.** Reconcile our hand-built
+attribute/skill rows with the authored row templates from CT1: icon
+placement, name/value columns, the authored right margin that reserves
+the scrollbar gutter.
+
+**CT6 — Resize + scrollbar contract.** Character window Y-resizable to
+the authored minimum; the stat list shows its scrollbar when the
+resized viewport overflows (the full-track/disabled behavior from the
+2026-08-24 scrollbar work applies as-is); authored min/max constraint
+enforcement verified as the STANDARD path for every registered window
+(one shared mechanism in `RetailWindowFrame`/`RetailWindowManager`,
+no per-window special cases).
+
+**CT7 — Connected gate.** Test script
+(`docs/research/2026-08-24-campaign-ct-test-script.md`), owner drive:
+titles round trip against ACE (earn/set/display), header lines vs
+retail side-by-side, resize behavior, row alignment screenshots.
+
+## Review protocol
+
+Per slice: Sonnet implements → Opus dual-lens review (lens 1
+retail-faithfulness vs the cited decomp anchors; lens 2 architecture —
+GUI-class standardization, Runtime ownership boundaries, no
+controller-side state) → fix round → full hermetic suite green.
+Commits to the worktree branch as slices land; **no gitea push until
+the owner directs it**.