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+# Settings track handoff — retail Options panel campaign (fresh session)
+
+Written 2026-08-10 at the close of Campaign CH (chat parity, CLOSED
+USER-ACCEPTED the same day). The user pivoted the alpha program's settings
+track: the target is **retail's four-tab Options panel**, not merely a
+status-bar button over the existing F11 panel. The user supplied four
+retail screenshots (transcribed below — the fresh session cannot see
+them). Deep research REQUIRED before implementation, campaign-style.
+
+## What the user showed (retail screenshots, transcribed)
+
+The options button opens a tall panel with four tabs:
+**Gameplay Options | Character | Chat | Config**, with Apply / Reset /
+Defaults buttons at the bottom of (at least) the Character tab. Options
+render as LED-style dots (lit green = on) beside labels, grouped under
+gold section headers, with a scrollbar.
+
+### Tab 1 — "Gameplay Options" (button list, no LEDs)
+- Exit to Character Selection
+- Exit Game
+- Configure Keyboard
+- Use Mouse Turning Settings
+- In-Game Help Files
+- Urgent Assistance
+- Report Abuse
+
+### Tab 2 — "Character" (scrolling LED option list; three screenshots)
+**User Interface Behavior:** Keep Combat Targets in View · Salvage
+Multiple Materials at Once · Use Main Pack as Default for Picking Up
+Items.
+**User Interface Display:** Vivid Targeting Indicator · Display 3D
+Tooltips · Show Coordinates By the Radar · Side By Side Vitals · Display
+Spell Durations · Disable Most Weather Effects · Disable Distance Fog ·
+Always Daylight Outdoors · Disable House Restriction Effects · Use
+Crafting Chance of Success Dialog · Confirm Use of Rare Gems · Display
+Timestamps · Filter Language · Show Your Helm or Head Gear · Show Your
+Cloak.
+**Grouping:** Ignore Allegiance Requests · Ignore Fellowship Requests ·
+Show Allegiance Logons · Share Fellowship Experience and Luminance ·
+Share Fellowship Loot · Automatically Accept Fellowship Requests.
+**Other Players:** Accept Corpse Looting Permissions · Attempt to
+Deceive Other Players · Let Other Players Give You Items · Ignore All
+Trade Requests · Drag Item to Player Opens Trade · Allow Others to See
+Your Date of Birth · ...Your Age · ...Your Chess Rank · ...Your Fishing
+Skill · ...Your Number of Deaths · ...Your Number of Titles.
+**Character Behavior:** Run as Default Movement · Advanced Combat
+Interface · Auto Target · Automatically Repeat Attacks · Use Charge
+Attack · Lead Missile Targets · Use Fast Missiles.
+**Chat:** Stay in Chat Mode After Sending a Message · Listen to
+Allegiance Chat · Listen to General Chat · Listen to Trade Chat · Listen
+to LFG Chat · Listen to Roleplay Chat · Listen to Society Chat · Listen
+to PK death messages.
+
+### Tabs 3+4 — "Chat" and "Config"
+Not screenshotted. Research must derive their contents (Chat tab is
+plausibly the per-window text-type filter blocks + opacity the CH
+research already located in `gmChatOptionsUI`; Config is unknown —
+plausibly video/audio/mouse).
+
+## What already exists (do NOT re-derive)
+
+- **The chat digest** (`claude-memory/project_chat_digest.md`) — START
+  THERE. Campaign CH built most of the plumbing this campaign needs.
+- **Wire, already working:** `SetSingleCharacterOption (0x0005)` codec +
+  the six Hear-chat toggles (CH3); `RuntimeCharacterOptionsState`
+  (Options1/Options2 words, `SetOptionBit`, seeded from every
+  PlayerDescription); the membership-gate consumption of those bits.
+  ACE's `CharacterOption.cs` maps option id → bit; `CharacterOptions1.Default
+  = 0x50C4A54A` (verified; the register once carried a phantom mismatch —
+  see `docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-side-channels-vs-ace.md` corrections).
+- **Wire, known-missing:** the full-blob `SetCharacterOptions (0x01A1)`
+  builder was DELETED at CH3 (the old one was malformed:
+  `CharacterOptionDataFlag.CharacterOptions2 = 0x40` collides with
+  `CharacterOptions1.AllowGive`; ACE's real layout is in
+  `GameActionSetCharacterOptions.cs`). Retail's Apply button presumably
+  sends the blob — the REAL builder must be ported. The per-window
+  GameplayOptions blob (`0x1000008C`, elements `0x1000008B`) is stored by
+  ACE as an opaque byte[] it never parses — acdream owns that format
+  (research: `2026-08-09-chat-retail-window-shell.md` §4).
+- **Decomp beachheads:** `gmChatOptionsUI::InitOptions @0x0049FC60` (the
+  five per-window filter blocks, SetUserData ids 8/2/3/4/5, defaults);
+  opacity options `0x10000080/0x10000081` (`ChatInterface::SetOpacity
+  @0x004F3120` family — implemented in CH6c); `PlayerModule` option
+  accessors (`InqChatWindowOption 0x1000007F`, `SetHearGeneralChat
+  @0x005D35C0` writes options2 locally THEN notifies — the local-write
+  pattern CH3/CH4 ported). The options panel class family
+  (gmOptionsUI? gmGameplayOptionsUI? the tab host) is UNEXPLORED.
+- **UI machinery, fully proven by CH6:** LayoutDesc import (incl.
+  Resizebar grips, buttons, scrollbars, outline properties 0x21/0x22),
+  `RetailWindowManager`/`UiRoot`, fixture generation
+  (`RetailLayoutFixtureGenerator` — add layouts, commit fixtures, pin
+  conformance), the retained-controller pattern
+  (`ChatWindowController`/`FloatingChatWindowController` are the
+  templates), the settings persistence seams
+  (`RuntimeSettingsController`/`RuntimeSettingsTargets`, J4.4
+  generation-gated command path).
+- **The F11 panel** (`SettingsPanel`, UI.Abstractions) — the NON-retail
+  developer/client surface: audio sliders, quality presets, keybind
+  rebinding (modal capture), chat opacity sliders (CH6c), Hear-chat
+  toggles (CH3). The user's original ask ("client settings, different
+  from retail") coexists with the retail panel — how they split (retail
+  panel = retail options; Config tab or F11 = acdream client settings?)
+  is a DESIGN DECISION for the plan, made by Claude, reactable at the
+  gate.
+- **Keybinds:** `KeyBindings.RetailDefaults()` (the ONLY production
+  table — `AcdreamCurrentDefaults()` is dead; #358's lesson),
+  `InputDispatcher` modal capture, the F11 rebind UX. Retail's
+  "Configure Keyboard" screen is unexplored decomp territory.
+- **Status bar:** the retail toolbar exists (`RetailUiRuntime` mounts
+  it); the options BUTTON on it (which authored element, what it opens)
+  is unexplored.
+
+## Research questions for the campaign's Opus lanes
+
+1. **Panel structure:** which LayoutDesc(s) author the Options panel
+   (tab host + four tab pages)? The class family in the decomp
+   (grep gmOptionsUI / gmGameplayOptionsUI / gmCharacterOptionsUI /
+   gmConfigOptionsUI / the tab control); how Apply/Reset/Defaults work
+   (what each sends/restores, per tab or global); how the panel opens
+   (the status-bar button element + any keybind).
+2. **The Character tab's complete option map:** every row transcribed
+   above → its storage (CharacterOptions1 bit / CharacterOptions2 bit /
+   PlayerModule property id) → its wire (0x0005 single vs 0x01A1 blob) →
+   ACE's handling (which bits ACE honors server-side vs stores-only) →
+   acdream's current state (exists/ignored/missing). acclient.h +
+   `PlayerModule`/`CharacterOptionsMapper` decomp + ACE enums.
+3. **The Chat tab and Config tab contents** (no screenshots): derive
+   from the decomp/LayoutDescs what retail shows there.
+4. **The real 0x01A1 blob:** exact layout from ACE's reader + retail's
+   builder; when retail sends blob vs single-option.
+5. **Configure Keyboard:** retail's keymap UI + storage (the keymap
+   file/wire?) — and the design call on reusing acdream's existing
+   rebind UX vs porting retail's screen.
+6. **Gameplay Options tab actions:** Exit to Character Selection (ties
+   into the FUTURE pre-world flow — probably lands as Exit Game
+   initially with a register row), Urgent Assistance / Report Abuse
+   (server messages?), In-Game Help Files, Use Mouse Turning Settings.
+7. **Which options have live acdream consumers today** (timestamps →
+   chat; hear-chat → CH3 gate; run-as-default → movement; weather/fog/
+   daylight → sky pipeline; helm/cloak → appearance) vs options whose
+   subsystems don't exist yet (chess rank...) — the implement-vs-store
+   split per row.
+
+## Process (binding, from Campaign CH's five gate rounds)
+
+- Model split: Opus research lanes → Fable (main loop) plans →
+  Sonnet implements → dual-lens Opus review per slice, fixes applied;
+  REJECT verdicts get focused re-reviews.
+- Max 3-4 agents in parallel INCLUDING children; every agent prompt
+  carries an explicit no-subagent clause; ONE implementer at a time on
+  shared files; agents never launch the graphical client; the user runs
+  connected gates.
+- Ledger discipline: never blanket-replace "(this commit)" placeholders
+  (anchor every replacement); post-amend SHAs recorded by the
+  coordinator, not chased in the same commit.
+- User gates are AXIOMS; screenshots must be transcribed into docs
+  immediately (they don't survive sessions); honesty markers NEVER
+  appear in user-visible text; decomp claims byte-verified (BN pooled
+  strings, `sbb` idioms, and ~33-char previews are known artifact
+  classes — sweep push-imm32 literals from the PDB-paired binary at
+  `C:\Users\erikn\Downloads\acclient.exe`, `check_exe_pdb.py` MATCH
+  first).
+- `dotnet build` + FULL Release suite green per commit (baseline at
+  handoff: 12,610/4/0 at `bcc34ee3`; plus the in-flight polish commit
+  below). Register rows same-commit. CLAUDE.md campaign paragraph
+  updated at close (see `feedback_claude_md_staleness`).
+
+## In-flight at handoff
+
+A post-gate polish agent (round-5 review S1-S3: per-block outline pass,
+non-UiText outline plumbing, citation fix) was running when this handoff
+was written — check `git log` for `fix(ui): round-5 review polish` and
+collect/verify its landing first if absent.
+
+## Carried tail (do not lose)
+
+#360/#361 (command families), #366 (unseen-text indicator), #368
+(headless thread affinity — separate session exists), #369 (floaty send
+channel), AP-177 (SpewBox line lifetime), AP-190 (opacity ease),
+AP-191 (transcript tag colors).