diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 71558c70..e2e80327 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ document in the same change; do not leave both claims standing.
   before trusting any measurement. Enforced by
   `LaunchOptionsDocumentationTests`: a flag without a row fails the build, and
   so does a row whose read site was deleted.
+- [`plugin-ui-markup.md`](plugin-ui-markup.md) is the SSOT for the plugin
+  markup vocabulary (elements, attributes, `{Binding}` rules) plus the
+  Decal/VirindiViewService-compatible DAT icon grammar (Slice B,
+  `plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md`) and the movable/
+  collapsible plugin shelf (Slice A of the same plan).
 - [`audit/`](audit/) contains completion and conformance audits.
 - [`reference/ace-commands.md`](reference/ace-commands.md) preserves the local
   ACE server's complete in-game command catalog and points to the authoritative
diff --git a/docs/plans/2026-04-24-ui-framework.md b/docs/plans/2026-04-24-ui-framework.md
index 0a82d8a8..2c103ca9 100644
--- a/docs/plans/2026-04-24-ui-framework.md
+++ b/docs/plans/2026-04-24-ui-framework.md
@@ -203,9 +203,18 @@ plugin. No-window hosts retain the plugin session but expose the no-op UI
 capability.
 
 The retained markup vocabulary includes panels, nested groups, labels,
-buttons, meters, tabs, lamp-style toggles, and scalar sliders. Controls bind to
-BCL-visible properties/actions on the plugin binding object; visible controls
-must correspond to real behavior, never placeholders that report success.
+buttons, meters, tabs, lamp-style toggles, scalar sliders, editable fields,
+dropdown menus, scrollable lists, and (Slice B,
+`docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md`) DAT icons — a standalone
+`<icon>` element plus icon-bearing extensions of `<button>` and `<list>` —
+resolved from a Decal/VirindiViewService-compatible icon-id grammar
+(`AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions.PluginIcons.Normalize`) against raw RenderSurface
+DIDs, retail's composited spell icon, or a live object's composited item icon.
+Controls bind to BCL-visible properties/actions on the plugin binding object;
+visible controls must correspond to real behavior, never placeholders that
+report success. Full grammar and binding rules: `docs/plugin-ui-markup.md`.
+The Slice A movable/collapsible plugin shelf (`plugin-shelf`, drag grip,
+Shift+Ctrl+F1 hide/show) is documented there too.
 
 The following was the original pre-D.2b proposal and remains historical
 context, not the shipped plugin contract:
diff --git a/docs/plugin-ui-markup.md b/docs/plugin-ui-markup.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6b540cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/plugin-ui-markup.md
@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
+# Plugin UI markup
+
+SSOT for `AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions.IUiRegistry`'s markup vocabulary — every
+element and attribute a plugin can put in the KSML-style XML it hands the host
+via `AddPanel`/`RegisterPanel`/`RegisterPanelContent`, the `{Binding}` rules
+those attributes follow, the DAT-icon grammar (Slice B), and the movable
+plugin shelf (Slice A). Both slices are recorded in
+[`plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md`](plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md);
+this page is the day-to-day reference for writing a panel, that plan is the
+design record.
+
+Plugins stay BCL-only: nothing in `AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions` references
+App/UI or Core.Items types. A plugin hands the host raw ids (spell ids,
+object guids, DAT indices); the host owns every texture, every composited
+icon, and the parser that turns markup into a live `UiElement` tree
+(`AcDream.App.UI.MarkupDocument`).
+
+## Registering a panel
+
+```csharp
+host.Ui.AddPanel(
+    new PluginPanelDescriptor("main", "MossTank")
+    {
+        IconText = "MT",           // fallback initials if IconSurfaceId is 0
+        IconSurfaceId = 7735,      // Decal-style bare index OR a full DID — both normalize
+        StartVisible = true,
+        ShowInSidePanel = true,
+    },
+    Path.Combine(pluginDirectory, "mosstank.xml"),
+    binding);
+```
+
+`RegisterPanel` (same signature, returns `IDisposable`) removes the window
+independently of the plugin's own lifetime. `RegisterPanelContent` takes an
+in-memory KSML string instead of a file path — the route `AcDream.Plugins.Smoke`
+uses for its icon-surface proof panel (`SmokeIconPanel.cs`), when a panel is
+small enough not to need its own shipped `.xml` asset.
+
+Every registered window gets a stable persisted key
+(`plugin:{pluginId}:{windowId}`), drag, resize (where the markup opts in),
+the global UI lock, and a button in the shared plugin shelf
+(`ShowInSidePanel = true`, the default). Hiding or minimizing a window never
+disables the plugin or pauses its `Tick`.
+
+## The `{Binding}` rule
+
+Every attribute that isn't a plain literal is either:
+
+- a **literal** — a number, color, or string typed directly in the markup, or
+- a **binding** — `{PropertyName}`, resolved once at `Build` time against the
+  binding object's public properties/`Action`/`Action<T>` members via
+  reflection, then **re-read every frame** through a `Func<T>` (or invoked
+  live for actions). A plugin updates its panel by assigning a property; it
+  never touches `UiElement` objects directly, and never from a thread other
+  than the one that calls `Tick`.
+
+A binding that resolves to the wrong CLR type, or names a property that
+doesn't exist, throws `FormatException` **at `Build`** — the same moment any
+other malformed attribute throws — never silently at draw time. A resolved
+binding that returns an out-of-range or default value (0, empty, null) at
+*runtime* draws nothing/looks empty; it never throws after the panel has
+loaded.
+
+## Elements
+
+| Element | Purpose | Key attributes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `panel` (root) | The window itself | `x y w h title resize visible` |
+| `group` | Transparent layout container | `x y w h background border visible` |
+| `label` | Static or bound text | `x y text color` |
+| `button` | Clickable rect + caption (+ Slice B icon) | `x y w h text color background border onclick icon iconkind` |
+| `icon` | Slice B: a standalone DAT icon | `x y w h did spell item tooltip` |
+| `meter` | Retail-style nine-slice bar | `x y w h fill cur max color anchor backleft/backtile/backright frontleft/fronttile/frontright` |
+| `tab` | Selectable tab button | `x y w h text selected onclick` |
+| `toggle` | Lamp-style checkbox | `x y w h text checked onclick color` |
+| `slider` | Horizontal scalar | `x y w h value onchange` |
+| `field` | Single-line editable text | `x y w h text maxlength clearonsubmit onchange onsubmit color background` |
+| `menu` | Dropdown selector | `x y w h items selected onchange rows rowheight openupward` |
+| `list` | Scrollable row list (+ Slice B icon column) | `x y w h items colors selected onchange rowheight icons iconkind` |
+
+Common to every element via `ApplyCommon`: `name`/`id` (a stable control
+name), `visible` (literal `true`/`false` or a bound `bool` property),
+`enabled` (same rule), and `tooltip` (a literal string or `{Binding}` shown
+through retail's own runtime tooltip popup).
+
+## The icon-id grammar (Slice B)
+
+Decal/VirindiViewService plugins (the reference usage this ported:
+MosswartMassacre's `HudPictureBox.Image` assignments, fed from Decal's
+`FileService.SpellTable`/`SkillTable` icon columns) hand out **bare portal.dat
+indices** — small integers, not full `0x06xxxxxx` RenderSurface DIDs. acdream's
+host normalizes every icon id through one function so both styles work
+everywhere an icon id is accepted:
+
+```csharp
+// AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions.PluginIcons
+static uint Normalize(uint idOrIndex);
+//   0                -> 0                (no icon)
+//   7735             -> 0x06001E37       (bare index -> RenderSurface DID)
+//   0x06002D14       -> 0x06002D14       (already a DID, unchanged)
+```
+
+The host applies `Normalize` at **every** `did`-shaped sink: the descriptor's
+`IconSurfaceId` (drawn on the plugin shelf button), and every `<icon did>` /
+`<button icon>` (`iconkind="did"`) / `<list icons>` (`iconkind="did"`) value —
+literal or bound, re-normalized every frame for a bound value. A plugin never
+needs to call `Normalize` itself; handing the host either a Decal-style index
+or a full DID produces the same drawn icon.
+
+Plugin-facing records that already carry full retail RenderSurface DIDs
+(`PluginSpellInfo.IconId`, `PluginSkillInfo.IconId`,
+`PluginInventoryItem.IconId`, `PluginWorldObject.IconId`) are **not**
+re-normalized — they are already in DID space, read straight from the
+client's SpellTable/SkillTable/object state. `Normalize` only matters at a
+markup `did` sink, where a plugin author might type a bare index by hand.
+
+## The three icon sources
+
+Every icon-bearing attribute (`<icon>`'s `did`/`spell`/`item`, `<button icon>`,
+`<list icons>`) resolves through one of three sources, selected by which
+attribute is set (`<icon>`) or by `iconkind` (`<button>`/`<list>`, default
+`"did"`):
+
+| Source | What it draws | Backing API |
+|---|---|---|
+| `did` | The raw RenderSurface art at that DID, nothing composited on top | `IMarkupIconResolver.ResolveDid` (a plain sprite resolve, after `PluginIcons.Normalize`) |
+| `spell` | Retail's **composited** spell icon: power-level backing + spell art + reversed/normal tint + self/fellow-targeted overlay | `IconComposer.GetSpellIcon` (retail `ClientMagicSystem::CompositeSpellIcon`) |
+| `item` | Retail's **composited** item icon for a *live* object id: type-default underlay + custom underlay + base icon + custom overlay + effect recolor | `IconComposer.GetIcon`, reading the id's fields from the same `ClientObjectTable` the inventory UI already uses |
+
+`did` accepts a literal (`did="7735"` decimal, or `did="0x06002D14"` hex) or a
+binding (`did="{IconDid}"`, a `uint` property re-read every frame). `spell`
+and `item` are almost always bindings (`spell="{SpellId}"`,
+`item="{ObjectId}"`) but accept the same literal grammar. Any of the three
+resolving to 0, or the resolver returning no texture, draws nothing — never a
+placeholder, never a throw.
+
+### `<icon>`
+
+```xml
+<icon x="8" y="8" w="32" h="32" did="7735" tooltip="Decal-style index"/>
+<icon x="48" y="8" w="32" h="32" did="0x06002D14"/>
+<icon x="88" y="8" w="32" h="32" spell="{SpellId}" tooltip="{SpellName}"/>
+```
+
+Exactly one of `did`/`spell`/`item` must be present — two sources on one
+`<icon>` throws `FormatException` at `Build`. `w`/`h` default to 32 (retail's
+standard icon size) when omitted. The sprite is drawn nearest-filtered,
+aspect-preserved, and centered inside the `w`×`h` box — a non-square source
+never stretches. A `tooltip` attribute makes the icon a real hit-test target
+(it is click-through otherwise, so it never steals clicks meant for something
+underneath it).
+
+### `<button icon="..." iconkind="did|spell|item">`
+
+```xml
+<button x="12" y="68" w="120" h="24" text="Report"
+        icon="0x06002D14" onclick="{Report}"/>
+```
+
+The icon draws flush left inside the button; the caption's centering region
+shifts right to make room. `text` may be empty for an icon-only button.
+`iconkind` defaults to `"did"`.
+
+### `<list icons="{IconIds}" iconkind="did|spell|item">`
+
+```xml
+<list x="12" y="100" w="256" h="108"
+      items="{SpellRows}" icons="{SpellIconIds}" iconkind="spell"
+      selected="{SelectedIndex}"/>
+```
+
+`icons` is an `IEnumerable<uint>` binding parallel to `items` — Decal's
+`IconColumn` convention: a leading square column, `RowHeight - 2` pixels wide,
+one icon per row. A row past the end of the icons list, or an id that
+resolves to nothing, draws no icon for that row (the text still draws, just
+without an icon). Omitting `icons` entirely keeps the list exactly as it was
+before Slice B (full-width text, no column).
+
+MosswartMassacre-style example — a list column fed straight from
+`PluginSpellInfo.IconId`:
+
+```csharp
+public IEnumerable<uint> SpellIconIds =>
+    host.Automation.Spells.KnownSelfBuffs.Select(s => s.IconId);
+public IEnumerable<string> SpellRows =>
+    host.Automation.Spells.KnownSelfBuffs.Select(s => s.Name);
+```
+
+```xml
+<list items="{SpellRows}" icons="{SpellIconIds}" iconkind="did" .../>
+```
+
+(`did`, not `spell`, here — `PluginSpellInfo.IconId` is the spell's own raw art
+tile; use `iconkind="spell"` only when the binding hands the host a **spell
+id** and wants retail's composited badge instead of the plain art.)
+
+## The plugin shelf (Slice A)
+
+The shelf (`AcDream.App.UI.PluginSidePanel`) is the right-edge strip of
+per-plugin-window buttons. It is a real retained window
+(`RetailWindowManager` key `plugin-shelf`), so it gets drag, the global UI
+lock, and persisted position/visibility/collapsed state for free, exactly
+like every other window.
+
+- **Drag**: a grip strip across its top (three short dashes) is the move
+  handle. Dragging elsewhere on the shelf (the buttons themselves, the
+  padding between them) does not move the window.
+- **Collapse**: a small `»`/`«` toggle at the grip's right end shrinks the
+  shelf to just the grip; button entries stay laid out underneath so
+  expanding is instant. Persists through the same window-state channel as
+  position/visibility.
+- **Hide/show**: `Shift+Ctrl+F1` (retail's plugin-manager chord,
+  `InputAction.TogglePluginManager` — acdream has no separate plugin manager,
+  so this is its honest home). Hiding the shelf never disables a plugin or
+  touches any individual plugin window's own visibility; a new plugin window
+  registering while the shelf is hidden does not un-hide it. If no plugin has
+  registered a shelf entry yet, the chord reports "No plugin windows are
+  registered." instead.
+- **Default dock**: with no saved layout, the shelf sits at the right screen
+  edge, top 116px — until the user drags it (or a saved layout restores a
+  different position), after which it stays put and growth preserves whatever
+  corner it's anchored from.
+
+## Testing conventions
+
+`MarkupDocumentTests`/`MarkupIconTests` build panels with a fake
+`resolve`/`IMarkupIconResolver` (`_ => (1u, 32, 32)` for sprites; a small
+in-test class recording which id/kind it was asked to resolve) rather than a
+live DAT — see `tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/`. `PluginSidePanelTests` exercises
+the shelf's drag/collapse/hide/persistence behavior against a bare `UiRoot`.
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Plugins/AppAutomationSurface.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Plugins/AppAutomationSurface.cs
index 8667bbbe..a4f87d0b 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Plugins/AppAutomationSurface.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Plugins/AppAutomationSurface.cs
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
     private MagicCatalog _magicCatalog = MagicCatalog.Empty;
     private IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, string> _skillNames =
         new Dictionary<uint, string>();
+    private IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, uint> _skillIcons =
+        new Dictionary<uint, uint>();
     private Func<int, string> _speciesName = static _ => string.Empty;
     private IChargenPaletteColorSource? _paletteColors;
     private Func<uint, uint, bool>? _equip;
@@ -381,6 +383,18 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
             _skillNames = skillNames;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Supply retail skill icon RenderSurface DIDs (SkillTable
+    /// <c>SkillBase.IconId</c>), read once alongside <see cref="BindSkillNames"/>
+    /// from the same portal.dat SkillTable pass.
+    /// </summary>
+    public void BindSkillIcons(IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, uint> skillIcons)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(skillIcons);
+        lock (_gate)
+            _skillIcons = skillIcons;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>Supply the immutable retail spell/component DAT catalog.</summary>
     public void BindMagicCatalog(MagicCatalog catalog)
     {
@@ -766,6 +780,7 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
         BaseRangeConstant = meta.BaseRangeConstant,
         BaseRangeModifier = meta.BaseRangeModifier,
         FormulaComponentIds = meta.FormulaComponents,
+        IconId = meta.IconId,
     };
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -929,10 +944,12 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
         {
             RuntimeCharacterState? character;
             IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, string> names;
+            IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, uint> icons;
             lock (_gate)
             {
                 character = _character;
                 names = _skillNames;
+                icons = _skillIcons;
             }
             if (character is null || names.Count == 0)
                 return Array.Empty<PluginSkillInfo>();
@@ -940,7 +957,8 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
             var built = new List<PluginSkillInfo>(names.Count);
             foreach (KeyValuePair<uint, string> pair in names)
             {
-                if (TryProjectSkill(character, pair.Key, pair.Value, out PluginSkillInfo skill))
+                uint iconId = icons.TryGetValue(pair.Key, out uint icon) ? icon : 0u;
+                if (TryProjectSkill(character, pair.Key, pair.Value, iconId, out PluginSkillInfo skill))
                     built.Add(skill);
             }
             built.Sort(static (a, b) => string.CompareOrdinal(a.Name, b.Name));
@@ -952,22 +970,25 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
     {
         RuntimeCharacterState? character;
         IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, string> names;
+        IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, uint> icons;
         lock (_gate)
         {
             character = _character;
             names = _skillNames;
+            icons = _skillIcons;
         }
         if (character is not null)
         {
             string name = names.TryGetValue(skillId, out string? n) ? n : string.Empty;
-            return TryProjectSkill(character, skillId, name, out skill);
+            uint iconId = icons.TryGetValue(skillId, out uint icon) ? icon : 0u;
+            return TryProjectSkill(character, skillId, name, iconId, out skill);
         }
         skill = default;
         return false;
     }
 
     private static bool TryProjectSkill(
-        RuntimeCharacterState character, uint skillId, string name,
+        RuntimeCharacterState character, uint skillId, string name, uint iconId,
         out PluginSkillInfo skill)
     {
         if (!character.View.TryGetSkill(skillId, out var snapshot))
@@ -984,6 +1005,7 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
             skillId, name, Training(snapshot.Status), currentLevel)
         {
             Base = baseLevel,
+            IconId = iconId,
         };
         return true;
     }
@@ -1867,6 +1889,7 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
                 ? item.AppraisedSpellIds.ToArray()
                 : Array.Empty<uint>(),
             ActiveSpellIds = activeSpells,
+            IconId = item?.IconId ?? 0u,
         };
     }
 
@@ -2376,6 +2399,7 @@ internal sealed class AppAutomationSurface
                 MaterialType = item.MaterialType ?? 0u,
                 ObjectClass = ClassifyObject(item),
                 Palettes = ProjectPalettes(runtime, item.ObjectId),
+                IconId = item.IconId,
             });
         }
         built.Sort(static (left, right) =>
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs
index 2c7cebb1..299a5c38 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs
@@ -1019,9 +1019,14 @@ public sealed class GameWindow :
         }
 
         var names = new Dictionary<uint, string>(skillTable.Skills.Count);
+        var icons = new Dictionary<uint, uint>(skillTable.Skills.Count);
         foreach (var entry in skillTable.Skills)
+        {
             names[(uint)entry.Key] = entry.Value.Name;
+            icons[(uint)entry.Key] = entry.Value.IconId;
+        }
         _automation.BindSkillNames(names);
+        _automation.BindSkillIcons(icons);
     }
 
     void IGameWindowContentEffectsAudioPublication.PublishPreparedAssetSource(
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/IMarkupIconResolver.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/IMarkupIconResolver.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73455359
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/IMarkupIconResolver.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+using AcDream.Core.Items;
+
+namespace AcDream.App.UI;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Host seam that lets plugin markup draw real DAT icons (Slice B,
+/// <c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>) without
+/// importing App/UI or Core.Items types across the plugin boundary.
+/// <see cref="MarkupDocument.Build"/> accepts an optional instance; when
+/// supplied, the <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c> element and the button/list icon
+/// extensions route every id through it. See <c>docs/plugin-ui-markup.md</c>
+/// for the full grammar.
+/// </summary>
+public interface IMarkupIconResolver
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolve a raw RenderSurface DID to (GL texture, width, height). The
+    /// caller (<see cref="MarkupDocument"/>) has already run the id through
+    /// <see cref="AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions.PluginIcons.Normalize"/>, so
+    /// implementations need not re-normalize. 0/unresolvable → <c>(0, 0, 0)</c>,
+    /// which draws nothing.
+    /// </summary>
+    (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveDid(uint did);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolve retail's composited spell icon (power-level backing + art +
+    /// reversed/normal tint + self/fellow overlay — <c>IconComposer.GetSpellIcon</c>,
+    /// retail <c>ClientMagicSystem::CompositeSpellIcon</c>).
+    /// </summary>
+    (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveSpell(uint spellId);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolve retail's composited item icon (type-default underlay + custom
+    /// underlay + base + custom overlay + effect recolor —
+    /// <c>IconComposer.GetIcon</c>) for a live object id, reading its icon
+    /// fields from the SAME <see cref="AcDream.Core.Items.ClientObjectTable"/>
+    /// the inventory UI already uses.
+    /// </summary>
+    (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveItem(uint objectId);
+}
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Production <see cref="IMarkupIconResolver"/>. Built once in
+/// <see cref="RetailUiRuntime.MountPlugins"/> from
+/// <see cref="RetailUiAssets.ResolveSprite"/>, <see cref="RetailUiAssets.Icons"/>
+/// (the one <see cref="IconComposer"/> every authored panel shares), and the
+/// live <see cref="ClientObjectTable"/> the inventory UI's own icon resolution
+/// already borrows (<c>ToolbarRuntimeBindings.Objects</c>/
+/// <c>MagicRuntimeBindings.Objects</c> — both <c>d.Inventory.Objects</c>, the
+/// same instance) — no second texture cache or object lookup is introduced.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class RetailMarkupIconResolver : IMarkupIconResolver
+{
+    private readonly Func<uint, (uint tex, int w, int h)> _resolveSprite;
+    private readonly IconComposer _icons;
+    private readonly ClientObjectTable _objects;
+
+    public RetailMarkupIconResolver(
+        Func<uint, (uint tex, int w, int h)> resolveSprite,
+        IconComposer icons,
+        ClientObjectTable objects)
+    {
+        _resolveSprite = resolveSprite ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(resolveSprite));
+        _icons = icons ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(icons));
+        _objects = objects ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(objects));
+    }
+
+    public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveDid(uint did) =>
+        did == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : _resolveSprite(did);
+
+    public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveSpell(uint spellId)
+    {
+        if (spellId == 0u) return (0u, 0, 0);
+        uint tex = _icons.GetSpellIcon(spellId);
+        return tex == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (tex, 32, 32);
+    }
+
+    public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveItem(uint objectId)
+    {
+        if (objectId == 0u) return (0u, 0, 0);
+        ClientObject? item = _objects.Get(objectId);
+        if (item is null || item.IconId == 0u) return (0u, 0, 0);
+        uint tex = _icons.GetIcon(
+            item.Type, item.IconId, item.IconUnderlayId, item.IconOverlayId, item.Effects);
+        return tex == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (tex, 32, 32);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/MarkupDocument.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/MarkupDocument.cs
index 17c72a01..fcd171b4 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/MarkupDocument.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/MarkupDocument.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Globalization;
 using System.Numerics;
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
+using AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions;
 
 namespace AcDream.App.UI;
 
@@ -29,9 +30,19 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
     /// their text through the same glyph path as authored panels; without it
     /// they fall back to the development bitmap font and look foreign.
     /// </param>
+    /// <param name="icons">
+    /// Slice B (<c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>):
+    /// resolves <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c>, <c>&lt;button icon&gt;</c>, and
+    /// <c>&lt;list icons&gt;</c> ids to drawable DAT icons. Null (the
+    /// default, and what every pre-Slice-B caller still passes) makes those
+    /// three surfaces resolve to nothing rather than throwing — a panel
+    /// authored against Slice B markup still loads under a host/test that
+    /// has not wired icon resolution.
+    /// </param>
     public static UiNineSlicePanel Build(
         string xml, object binding, Func<uint, (uint, int, int)> resolve,
-        ControlsIni? style = null, UiDatFont? datFont = null)
+        ControlsIni? style = null, UiDatFont? datFont = null,
+        IMarkupIconResolver? icons = null)
     {
         var root = XDocument.Parse(xml).Root ?? throw new FormatException("empty markup");
         if (root.Name.LocalName != "panel")
@@ -80,7 +91,7 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
         }
 
         foreach (var el in root.Elements())
-            AddElement(panel, el, binding, resolve, datFont);
+            AddElement(panel, el, binding, resolve, datFont, icons);
         return panel;
     }
 
@@ -89,7 +100,8 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
         XElement el,
         object binding,
         Func<uint, (uint, int, int)> resolve,
-        UiDatFont? datFont)
+        UiDatFont? datFont,
+        IMarkupIconResolver? icons)
     {
         switch (el.Name.LocalName)
         {
@@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
                 ApplyCommon(group, el, binding);
                 parent.AddChild(group);
                 foreach (XElement child in el.Elements())
-                    AddElement(group, child, binding, resolve, datFont);
+                    AddElement(group, child, binding, resolve, datFont, icons);
                 break;
 
             case "meter":
@@ -200,12 +212,60 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
                     if (el.Attribute("border") is not null)
                         button.BorderColor = Color(
                             (string?)el.Attribute("border"));
+                    // Slice B: <button icon="..." iconkind="did|spell|item">.
+                    string? buttonIcon = (string?)el.Attribute("icon");
+                    if (buttonIcon is not null)
+                    {
+                        Func<uint> buttonIconReader =
+                            BindUintLiteralOrBinding(buttonIcon, binding, "button icon");
+                        button.IconSource = BuildIconSource(
+                            (string?)el.Attribute("iconkind"),
+                            buttonIconReader,
+                            icons);
+                    }
                     ApplyCommon(button, el, binding);
                     if (onClick is not null)
                         button.Click += onClick;
                     parent.AddChild(button);
                     break;
 
+            case "icon":
+                {
+                    string? didAttr = (string?)el.Attribute("did");
+                    string? spellAttr = (string?)el.Attribute("spell");
+                    string? itemAttr = (string?)el.Attribute("item");
+                    int sourceCount = (didAttr is not null ? 1 : 0)
+                        + (spellAttr is not null ? 1 : 0)
+                        + (itemAttr is not null ? 1 : 0);
+                    if (sourceCount != 1)
+                    {
+                        throw new FormatException(
+                            "<icon> requires exactly one of did/spell/item");
+                    }
+
+                    string iconKind = didAttr is not null ? "did"
+                        : spellAttr is not null ? "spell"
+                        : "item";
+                    string iconExpression = didAttr ?? spellAttr ?? itemAttr!;
+                    Func<uint> iconReader = BindUintLiteralOrBinding(
+                        iconExpression, binding, $"icon {iconKind}");
+                    var icon = new UiMarkupIcon
+                    {
+                        Left = F(el, "x"),
+                        Top = F(el, "y"),
+                        Width = FOr(el, "w", 32f),
+                        Height = FOr(el, "h", 32f),
+                        IconSource = BuildIconSource(iconKind, iconReader, icons),
+                    };
+                    ApplyCommon(icon, el, binding);
+                    // A tooltip needs this element to be a real hit-test
+                    // target — see UiMarkupIcon's own doc comment.
+                    if (el.Attribute("tooltip") is not null)
+                        icon.ClickThrough = false;
+                    parent.AddChild(icon);
+                    break;
+                }
+
             case "tab":
                 string? tabClickName = (string?)el.Attribute("onclick");
                 Action? tabClick = BindAction(tabClickName, binding);
@@ -427,12 +487,109 @@ public static class MarkupDocument
                         "list selected"),
                     SelectionChanged = listChanged,
                 };
+                // Slice B: <list icons="{IconIds}" iconkind="did|spell|item">.
+                string? listIcons = (string?)el.Attribute("icons");
+                if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(listIcons))
+                {
+                    list.IconIdsSource = BindUintList(listIcons, binding, "list icons");
+                    list.IconResolve = BuildRowIconResolve(
+                        (string?)el.Attribute("iconkind"), icons);
+                }
                 ApplyCommon(list, el, binding);
                 parent.AddChild(list);
                 break;
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Builds the zero-argument icon resolver every markup icon sink (the
+    /// <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c> element and <c>&lt;button icon&gt;</c>) shares:
+    /// dispatch by <c>iconkind</c> (default <c>"did"</c>) to the matching
+    /// <see cref="IMarkupIconResolver"/> method, normalizing <c>did</c>
+    /// through <see cref="PluginIcons.Normalize"/>
+    /// (spell/item ids are never DAT RenderSurface DIDs, so they never pass
+    /// through it). Null <paramref name="icons"/> (no resolver wired) always
+    /// resolves to nothing rather than throwing.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static Func<(uint tex, int w, int h)> BuildIconSource(
+        string? iconKind, Func<uint> idReader, IMarkupIconResolver? icons)
+    {
+        if (icons is null)
+            return static () => (0u, 0, 0);
+        return (iconKind ?? "did") switch
+        {
+            "did" => () => icons.ResolveDid(
+                PluginIcons.Normalize(idReader())),
+            "spell" => () => icons.ResolveSpell(idReader()),
+            "item" => () => icons.ResolveItem(idReader()),
+            var other => throw new FormatException(
+                $"unknown iconkind \"{other}\" (expected did, spell, or item)"),
+        };
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Same dispatch as <see cref="BuildIconSource"/>, shaped for
+    /// <c>&lt;list icons&gt;</c>'s per-row resolve (the row's own icon id is
+    /// the argument rather than a captured reader).
+    /// </summary>
+    private static Func<uint, (uint tex, int w, int h)>? BuildRowIconResolve(
+        string? iconKind, IMarkupIconResolver? icons)
+    {
+        if (icons is null)
+            return null;
+        return (iconKind ?? "did") switch
+        {
+            "did" => id => icons.ResolveDid(
+                PluginIcons.Normalize(id)),
+            "spell" => icons.ResolveSpell,
+            "item" => icons.ResolveItem,
+            var other => throw new FormatException(
+                $"unknown iconkind \"{other}\" (expected did, spell, or item)"),
+        };
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolves a <c>did</c>/<c>spell</c>/<c>item</c> attribute to a live
+    /// <see cref="uint"/> reader: a <c>{Prop}</c> binding re-reads a
+    /// <see cref="uint"/> property every frame; a literal accepts hex
+    /// (<c>0x...</c>) or decimal, matching every other markup id attribute's
+    /// "malformed literal throws at Build" rule.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static Func<uint> BindUintLiteralOrBinding(
+        string expression, object binding, string context)
+    {
+        if (!IsBinding(expression))
+        {
+            uint literal = ParseUintLiteral(expression, context);
+            return () => literal;
+        }
+        PropertyInfo? property = binding.GetType().GetProperty(expression[1..^1]);
+        if (property is null || property.PropertyType != typeof(uint))
+        {
+            throw new FormatException(
+                $"{expression} did not resolve to a uint property on "
+                + binding.GetType().Name + $" ({context})");
+        }
+        return () => (uint)property.GetValue(binding)!;
+    }
+
+    private static uint ParseUintLiteral(string text, string context)
+    {
+        string trimmed = text.Trim();
+        if (trimmed.StartsWith("0x", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+        {
+            if (uint.TryParse(trimmed.AsSpan(2), NumberStyles.HexNumber,
+                    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out uint hex))
+                return hex;
+        }
+        else if (uint.TryParse(trimmed, NumberStyles.Integer,
+                     CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out uint dec))
+        {
+            return dec;
+        }
+        throw new FormatException($"{context}=\"{text}\" is not a valid uint literal");
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Resolves <c>{PropName}</c> to a live string reader, or returns the
     /// literal text unchanged. The indirection matters: binding to a
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/PluginSidePanel.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/PluginSidePanel.cs
index 38592867..90060320 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/PluginSidePanel.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/PluginSidePanel.cs
@@ -756,7 +756,12 @@ public sealed class PluginSidePanel : UiPanel, IDisposable, IRetainedWindowState
         {
             _handle = handle;
             _resolve = resolve;
-            _iconSurfaceId = descriptor.IconSurfaceId;
+            // Slice B (docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md item
+            // 6): normalize through the shared grammar so a Decal-style bare
+            // portal index (MosswartMassacre's convention) resolves the same
+            // way every markup icon sink does, instead of silently drawing
+            // nothing because it was never a RenderSurface DID to begin with.
+            _iconSurfaceId = PluginIcons.Normalize(descriptor.IconSurfaceId);
             _tooltip = string.Equals(descriptor.Title, ownerDisplayName,
                     StringComparison.Ordinal)
                 ? descriptor.Title
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/RetailUiRuntime.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/RetailUiRuntime.cs
index fc1f8687..e41fb297 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/RetailUiRuntime.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/RetailUiRuntime.cs
@@ -4712,6 +4712,18 @@ public sealed class RetailUiRuntime : IDisposable
     private void MountPlugins()
     {
         if (_bindings.Plugins is null) return;
+
+        // Slice B (docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md item
+        // 7): one resolver, shared by every plugin panel mounted this pass,
+        // built from the SAME sprite resolve, IconComposer, and
+        // ClientObjectTable the rest of the retained UI already uses — see
+        // RetailMarkupIconResolver's own doc comment for exactly which
+        // existing bindings field supplies the object table.
+        IMarkupIconResolver iconResolver = new RetailMarkupIconResolver(
+            _bindings.Assets.ResolveSprite,
+            _bindings.Assets.Icons,
+            _bindings.Toolbar.Objects);
+
         foreach (var panel in _bindings.Plugins.Drain())
         {
             try
@@ -4723,7 +4735,8 @@ public sealed class RetailUiRuntime : IDisposable
                     panel.Binding,
                     _bindings.Assets.ResolveSprite,
                     _bindings.Assets.Controls,
-                    _bindings.Assets.DefaultFont);
+                    _bindings.Assets.DefaultFont,
+                    iconResolver);
 
                 if (Host.WindowManager.TryGet(panel.WindowName, out _))
                 {
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupIcon.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupIcon.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99153030
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupIcon.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+using System.Numerics;
+
+namespace AcDream.App.UI;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Plugin markup's <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c> element (Slice B,
+/// <c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>). Draw-only: a
+/// plugin never receives the resolved GL texture, only the resolved-or-not
+/// outcome baked into <see cref="IconSource"/> by
+/// <see cref="MarkupDocument.Build"/>. Aspect is preserved and the sprite is
+/// centered inside the element's box, nearest-filtered (the same convention
+/// every other 32x32 DAT icon in the client draws with).
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class UiMarkupIcon : UiElement
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolves to (GL texture, native width, native height) each draw.
+    /// <c>tex == 0</c> (or a non-positive extent) draws nothing — never
+    /// throws, matching every other markup binding's "unresolvable at
+    /// runtime is silent" rule (only a malformed literal throws, at Build).
+    /// </summary>
+    public Func<(uint tex, int w, int h)> IconSource { get; set; } =
+        static () => (0u, 0, 0);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// <see langword="true"/> unless the element has an authored tooltip —
+    /// a tooltip needs this element to be a real hit-test target (see
+    /// <see cref="UiElement.ClickThrough"/>'s doc: a click-through element
+    /// never becomes the hovered element a tooltip attaches to).
+    /// <see cref="MarkupDocument"/> flips this to <see langword="false"/>
+    /// when <c>tooltip=</c> is present.
+    /// </summary>
+    public UiMarkupIcon() => ClickThrough = true;
+
+    protected override void OnDraw(UiRenderContext ctx)
+    {
+        (uint tex, int w, int h) = IconSource();
+        if (tex == 0u || w <= 0 || h <= 0 || Width <= 0f || Height <= 0f)
+            return;
+
+        float scale = MathF.Min(Width / w, Height / h);
+        float drawWidth = w * scale;
+        float drawHeight = h * scale;
+        float x = (Width - drawWidth) * 0.5f;
+        float y = (Height - drawHeight) * 0.5f;
+        ctx.DrawSprite(tex, x, y, drawWidth, drawHeight, 0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupList.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupList.cs
index 6e9d0125..d16334d0 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupList.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMarkupList.cs
@@ -14,6 +14,22 @@ public sealed class UiMarkupList : UiElement
         static () => Array.Empty<string>();
     public Func<IReadOnlyList<uint>> ItemColorsSource { get; set; } =
         static () => Array.Empty<uint>();
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Plugin markup's <c>&lt;list icons="..."&gt;</c> (Slice B,
+    /// <c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>): one icon
+    /// id per row, parallel to <see cref="ItemsSource"/>. Null (the default)
+    /// means no icon column at all — every list built without an <c>icons</c>
+    /// attribute behaves exactly as before. A row past the end of this list,
+    /// or an id that resolves to nothing, draws no icon (never a placeholder).
+    /// </summary>
+    public Func<IReadOnlyList<uint>>? IconIdsSource { get; set; }
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resolves one <see cref="IconIdsSource"/> entry to a drawable icon.
+    /// <see cref="MarkupDocument"/> builds this from the same
+    /// <see cref="IMarkupIconResolver"/> every other markup icon sink uses,
+    /// selected by the element's <c>iconkind</c> attribute.
+    /// </summary>
+    public Func<uint, (uint tex, int w, int h)>? IconResolve { get; set; }
     public Func<int> SelectedIndexSource { get; set; } = static () => -1;
     public Action<int>? SelectionChanged { get; set; }
     public UiDatFont? DatFont { get; set; }
@@ -32,6 +48,13 @@ public sealed class UiMarkupList : UiElement
     {
         IReadOnlyList<string> items = ItemsSource();
         IReadOnlyList<uint> itemColors = ItemColorsSource();
+        IReadOnlyList<uint>? iconIds = IconIdsSource?.Invoke();
+        // Decal's IconColumn: a leading square per row, RowHeight - 2 wide,
+        // reserved only while the list actually carries an icons= binding —
+        // an ordinary text-only list keeps its full-width text column.
+        float iconColumn = iconIds is not null
+            ? MathF.Max(0f, RowHeight - 2f)
+            : 0f;
         int visibleRows = VisibleRows;
         int selected = SelectedIndexSource();
         if (selected >= 0 && selected < items.Count)
@@ -51,16 +74,40 @@ public sealed class UiMarkupList : UiElement
             float y = (index - _topRow) * RowHeight;
             if (index == selected)
                 context.DrawFill(1f, y + 1f, Width - 2f, RowHeight - 1f, SelectedColor);
+
+            if (iconIds is not null && index < iconIds.Count && IconResolve is { } resolve)
+            {
+                uint iconId = iconIds[index];
+                if (iconId != 0u)
+                {
+                    (uint tex, int w, int h) = resolve(iconId);
+                    if (tex != 0u && w > 0 && h > 0)
+                    {
+                        float extent = MathF.Max(0f, iconColumn - 2f);
+                        float scale = MathF.Min(extent / w, extent / h);
+                        float drawWidth = w * scale;
+                        float drawHeight = h * scale;
+                        context.DrawSprite(
+                            tex,
+                            1f + (extent - drawWidth) * 0.5f,
+                            y + (RowHeight - drawHeight) * 0.5f,
+                            drawWidth, drawHeight,
+                            0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
             string text = items[index];
             Vector4 textColor = index < itemColors.Count
                 ? Rgb(itemColors[index])
                 : TextColor;
+            float textX = Padding + iconColumn;
             float textY = y + MathF.Max(0f,
                 (RowHeight - (DatFont?.LineHeight ?? 14f)) * 0.5f);
             if (DatFont is { } font)
-                context.DrawStringDat(font, text, Padding, textY, textColor, true);
+                context.DrawStringDat(font, text, textX, textY, textColor, true);
             else
-                context.DrawString(text, Padding, textY, textColor);
+                context.DrawString(text, textX, textY, textColor);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiPanel.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiPanel.cs
index 926eb1e8..a5b5a183 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiPanel.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiPanel.cs
@@ -176,6 +176,19 @@ public class UiSimpleButton : UiPanel
     /// <summary>Two-plane glyph outline, as retail draws interface text.</summary>
     public bool Outline { get; set; } = true;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Plugin markup's <c>&lt;button icon="..."&gt;</c> (Slice B,
+    /// <c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>). Null (the
+    /// default) draws no icon and behaves exactly as before — every existing
+    /// caller of this widget (the plugin shelf's own toggle/minimize buttons
+    /// included) leaves this unset. When set, the icon draws flush left and
+    /// the caption's centering region shifts right by the reserved icon
+    /// column, so an icon-and-text button never overlaps them; an empty
+    /// <see cref="Text"/>/<see cref="TextSource"/> with this set is a valid
+    /// icon-only button.
+    /// </summary>
+    public Func<(uint tex, int w, int h)>? IconSource { get; set; }
+
     public event System.Action? Click;
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -208,22 +221,50 @@ public class UiSimpleButton : UiPanel
     protected override void OnDraw(UiRenderContext ctx)
     {
         base.OnDraw(ctx);
+
+        // Slice B icon column: reserved only when an icon actually resolved
+        // this frame, so a bound id that goes to 0 (or the resolver returning
+        // no texture) collapses back to the un-iconed centering — never a
+        // permanent blank gap.
+        float iconColumn = 0f;
+        if (IconSource is { } iconSource)
+        {
+            (uint tex, int w, int h) = iconSource();
+            if (tex != 0u && w > 0 && h > 0)
+            {
+                float extent = MathF.Max(0f, MathF.Min(Width, Height) - 6f);
+                float scale = MathF.Min(extent / w, extent / h);
+                float drawWidth = w * scale;
+                float drawHeight = h * scale;
+                ctx.DrawSprite(
+                    tex,
+                    3f + (extent - drawWidth) * 0.5f,
+                    (Height - drawHeight) * 0.5f,
+                    drawWidth, drawHeight,
+                    0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
+                iconColumn = extent + 6f;
+            }
+        }
+
         string caption = TextSource?.Invoke() ?? Text;
         if (caption.Length == 0) return;
 
+        float captionAreaX = iconColumn;
+        float captionAreaWidth = MathF.Max(0f, Width - iconColumn);
         if (DatFont is { } dat)
         {
             float datW = dat.MeasureWidth(caption);
             ctx.DrawStringDat(
                 dat, caption,
-                (Width - datW) * 0.5f, (Height - dat.LineHeight) * 0.5f,
+                captionAreaX + (captionAreaWidth - datW) * 0.5f,
+                (Height - dat.LineHeight) * 0.5f,
                 TextColor, Outline);
             return;
         }
 
         if (ctx.DefaultFont is null) return;
         float textW = ctx.DefaultFont.MeasureWidth(caption);
-        float tx = (Width  - textW) * 0.5f;
+        float tx = captionAreaX + (captionAreaWidth - textW) * 0.5f;
         float ty = (Height - ctx.DefaultFont.LineHeight) * 0.5f;
         ctx.DrawString(caption, tx, ty, TextColor);
     }
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/Automation.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/Automation.cs
index dd7a11d3..894d062b 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/Automation.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/Automation.cs
@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ public readonly record struct PluginSpellInfo(
     /// </summary>
     public int? QualityOverride { get; init; }
     public int Quality => QualityOverride ?? Difficulty;
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Raw retail SpellTable (portal.dat <c>0x0E00000E</c>) icon RenderSurface
+    /// DID — Decal's <c>SpellTable.GetById(id).Icon</c>. This is the spell's
+    /// OWN art asset id, distinct from the composited icon a plugin markup
+    /// <c>&lt;icon spell="..."&gt;</c>/<c>iconkind="spell"</c> draws (which
+    /// layers power-level backing + tint + self/fellow overlay on top of it,
+    /// matching retail's <c>ClientMagicSystem::CompositeSpellIcon</c>) — a
+    /// plugin that wants the plain art tile rather than the composited badge
+    /// draws this id directly through <c>iconkind="did"</c>. 0 when unknown.
+    /// </summary>
+    public uint IconId { get; init; }
 }
 
 /// <summary>One enchantment currently in force on the local player.</summary>
@@ -115,6 +126,19 @@ public readonly record struct PluginSkillInfo(
 {
     /// <summary>Unenchanted retail skill level before vitae and spell mods.</summary>
     public uint Base { get; init; } = Current;
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail SkillTable (portal.dat <c>0x0E000004</c>) icon RenderSurface
+    /// DID — the <c>SkillBase.IconId</c> field (Chorizite.DatReaderWriter
+    /// <c>DatReaderWriter.Types.SkillBase</c>; verified via reflection over
+    /// the installed package, since the XML doc comments don't cover it: the
+    /// type carries public fields <c>Description</c>, <c>Name</c>,
+    /// <c>IconId</c> (uint), <c>TrainedCost</c>, <c>SpecializedCost</c>,
+    /// <c>Category</c>, <c>ChargenUse</c>, <c>MinLevel</c>, <c>Formula</c>,
+    /// <c>UpperBound</c>, <c>LowerBound</c>, <c>LearnMod</c> — no separate
+    /// XML-doc member exists because these are Pack/Unpack-generated public
+    /// fields, not properties). 0 when unknown.
+    /// </summary>
+    public uint IconId { get; init; }
 }
 
 /// <summary>One primary attribute. <paramref name="Kind"/> is 0..5.</summary>
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/ItemAutomation.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/ItemAutomation.cs
index 4709a50c..6d11415c 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/ItemAutomation.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/ItemAutomation.cs
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ public readonly record struct PluginInventoryItem(
     public PluginObjectClass ObjectClass { get; init; }
     public IReadOnlyList<PluginPaletteInfo> Palettes { get; init; } =
         Array.Empty<PluginPaletteInfo>();
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail <c>ClientObject.IconId</c> RenderSurface DID (base icon, before
+    /// the type-default underlay/custom-underlay/overlay/effect compositing
+    /// a plugin markup <c>iconkind="item"</c> draws through
+    /// <c>IconComposer.GetIcon</c>). 0 when unknown.
+    /// </summary>
+    public uint IconId { get; init; }
 }
 
 /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/PluginIcons.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/PluginIcons.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b673b847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/PluginIcons.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+namespace AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The one icon-id grammar every host icon sink normalizes through
+/// (descriptor <see cref="PluginPanelDescriptor.IconSurfaceId"/>, plugin
+/// markup's <c>&lt;icon did&gt;</c>, <c>&lt;button icon&gt;</c>, and
+/// <c>&lt;list icons&gt;</c>). Decal/VirindiViewService plugins (the
+/// reference usage: MosswartMassacre's <c>HudPictureBox.Image</c> assignments)
+/// hand out bare portal.dat indices — small integers below the
+/// <c>0x06xxxxxx</c> RenderSurface DID range, the same numbers Decal's
+/// <c>FileService.SpellTable</c>/<c>SkillTable</c> icon columns return. A
+/// host that draws those literally as RenderSurface DIDs resolves nothing.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// This grammar is deliberately host-side and applied at the SINK, not at
+/// every plugin-facing record: <see cref="PluginSpellInfo.IconId"/>,
+/// <see cref="PluginSkillInfo.IconId"/>, <see cref="PluginInventoryItem.IconId"/>
+/// and <see cref="PluginWorldObject.IconId"/> already carry full retail
+/// RenderSurface DIDs (read straight from the client's SpellTable/SkillTable/
+/// object state), so normalizing them again would be a no-op — but a plugin
+/// author who only has a Decal-style bare index (typed literally in markup,
+/// or echoed from an external metadata source) still needs the same
+/// conversion, which is exactly what happens at the markup <c>did</c> sink.
+/// </remarks>
+public static class PluginIcons
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The first RenderSurface DID range (portal.dat's <c>0x06000000</c>
+    /// block). Any value below this is treated as a bare index needing the
+    /// block prefix; any value at or above it is assumed to already be a
+    /// resolvable DID (RenderSurface or otherwise) and is returned unchanged.
+    /// </summary>
+    private const uint RenderSurfaceBlock = 0x06000000u;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Normalizes one plugin-supplied icon id: <c>0</c> stays <c>0</c> (no
+    /// icon); a bare index below <see cref="RenderSurfaceBlock"/> becomes
+    /// <c>0x06000000 + value</c> (Decal/VVS convention); anything else is
+    /// returned unchanged (already a full DID, of whatever DBTYPE the caller
+    /// intends — the host resolves it against the space its own sink
+    /// expects).
+    /// </summary>
+    public static uint Normalize(uint idOrIndex) =>
+        idOrIndex == 0u
+            ? 0u
+            : idOrIndex < RenderSurfaceBlock
+                ? RenderSurfaceBlock + idOrIndex
+                : idOrIndex;
+}
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/WorldObjectAutomation.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/WorldObjectAutomation.cs
index 46cdecac..1d9d86bd 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/WorldObjectAutomation.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions/WorldObjectAutomation.cs
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ public readonly record struct PluginWorldObject(
     public int ContainersCapacity { get; init; }
     public IReadOnlyList<uint> SpellIds { get; init; } = Array.Empty<uint>();
     public IReadOnlyList<uint> ActiveSpellIds { get; init; } = Array.Empty<uint>();
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail <c>ClientObject.IconId</c> RenderSurface DID (base icon, before
+    /// compositing). Same id a plugin markup <c>iconkind="item"</c> resolves
+    /// through <c>IconComposer.GetIcon</c>. 0 when unknown.
+    /// </summary>
+    public uint IconId { get; init; }
 }
 
 /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokeIconPanel.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokeIconPanel.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a0fddcac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokeIconPanel.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+using AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions;
+
+namespace AcDream.Plugins.Smoke;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Slice B proof panel (<c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>
+/// item 9): exercises every new plugin-markup icon surface in one place —
+/// registered from in-memory KSML via <see cref="IUiRegistry.RegisterPanelContent"/>
+/// (no plugin-side XML file), with the descriptor's own
+/// <see cref="PluginPanelDescriptor.IconSurfaceId"/> also set to the bare
+/// Decal-style index used below, so the shelf button and the panel's own
+/// <c>&lt;icon did="7735"&gt;</c> prove
+/// <see cref="PluginIcons.Normalize"/> the same way at both sinks.
+/// </summary>
+internal static class SmokeIconPanel
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A Decal/VirindiViewService-style bare portal.dat index (MosswartMassacre's
+    /// convention — see the plan's "Why" section) rather than a full
+    /// <c>0x06xxxxxx</c> RenderSurface DID. Deliberately used on BOTH the
+    /// descriptor and the first <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c> below to prove the host
+    /// normalizes it identically at each sink.
+    /// </summary>
+    public const uint BareIndexIconId = 7735u;
+
+    /// <summary>A literal, already-normalized RenderSurface DID.</summary>
+    private const uint LiteralDidIconId = 0x06002D14u;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail's Strength Other I — the plan's named fallback when the local
+    /// character has not learned any self-castable buff yet.
+    /// </summary>
+    private const uint FallbackSpellId = 1u;
+
+    public static readonly PluginPanelDescriptor Descriptor = new("icons", "Icon Smoke")
+    {
+        IconSurfaceId = BareIndexIconId,
+        StartVisible = false,
+        ShowInSidePanel = true,
+    };
+
+    public const string Markup = """
+        <panel x="60" y="60" w="280" h="220" title="Icon Smoke">
+          <icon x="12" y="28" w="32" h="32" did="7735" tooltip="bare Decal index"/>
+          <icon x="52" y="28" w="32" h="32" did="0x06002D14" tooltip="literal RenderSurface DID"/>
+          <icon x="92" y="28" w="32" h="32" spell="{SpellId}" tooltip="composited spell icon"/>
+          <button x="12" y="68" w="120" h="24" text="Report" icon="0x06002D14" onclick="{Report}"/>
+          <list x="12" y="100" w="256" h="108" items="{SpellRows}" icons="{SpellIconIds}"
+                iconkind="spell" selected="{SelectedIndex}"/>
+        </panel>
+        """;
+
+    /// <summary>Binding object for <see cref="Markup"/>. Reads live host state
+    /// on every frame the same way any BCL-only plugin binding would.</summary>
+    internal sealed class Binding
+    {
+        private readonly IPluginHost _host;
+
+        public Binding(IPluginHost host) => _host = host;
+
+        public int SelectedIndex { get; set; } = -1;
+
+        /// <summary>The first spell a plugin markup <c>&lt;icon spell=...&gt;</c>
+        /// draws — the character's first known self-buff, falling back to
+        /// <see cref="FallbackSpellId"/> (Strength Other I) when nothing is
+        /// learned yet (fresh character, or no live session).</summary>
+        public uint SpellId
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                IReadOnlyList<PluginSpellInfo> known = _host.Automation.Spells.KnownSelfBuffs;
+                return known.Count > 0 ? known[0].SpellId : FallbackSpellId;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Parallel icon-id column for <see cref="SpellRows"/>: the
+        /// first five known self-buffs' raw SpellTable icon DIDs.</summary>
+        public IEnumerable<uint> SpellIconIds
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                var ids = new List<uint>();
+                foreach (PluginSpellInfo spell in _host.Automation.Spells.KnownSelfBuffs)
+                {
+                    ids.Add(spell.IconId);
+                    if (ids.Count == 5)
+                        break;
+                }
+                return ids;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Row text for the first five known self-buffs, with each
+        /// spell's <see cref="PluginSpellInfo.IconId"/> printed alongside its
+        /// name so the icon column and the raw id are both visible in one
+        /// look.</summary>
+        public IEnumerable<string> SpellRows
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                var rows = new List<string>();
+                foreach (PluginSpellInfo spell in _host.Automation.Spells.KnownSelfBuffs)
+                {
+                    rows.Add($"{spell.Name} (icon 0x{spell.IconId:X8})");
+                    if (rows.Count == 5)
+                        break;
+                }
+                return rows;
+            }
+        }
+
+        public Action Report =>
+            () => _host.Log.Info(
+                $"smoke icon panel: SpellId={SpellId:X8}, {SpellRows.Count()} spellbook rows");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokePlugin.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokePlugin.cs
index d8248252..aec4db41 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokePlugin.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.Smoke/SmokePlugin.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ public sealed class SmokePlugin : IAcDreamPlugin
 {
     private IPluginHost? _host;
     private int _entitiesSeen;
+    private IDisposable? _iconPanel;
 
     public void Initialize(IPluginHost host)
     {
@@ -20,6 +21,14 @@ public sealed class SmokePlugin : IAcDreamPlugin
         {
             _host.Events.EntitySpawned += OnEntitySpawned;
             _host.Log.Info($"smoke plugin sees {_entitiesSeen} entities (replay count at subscribe)");
+
+            // Slice B proof panel (docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md
+            // item 9): in-memory KSML, no plugin-side XML file, exercising
+            // every new icon markup surface.
+            _iconPanel = _host.Ui.RegisterPanelContent(
+                SmokeIconPanel.Descriptor,
+                SmokeIconPanel.Markup,
+                new SmokeIconPanel.Binding(_host));
         }
     }
 
@@ -27,6 +36,8 @@ public sealed class SmokePlugin : IAcDreamPlugin
     {
         if (_host is not null)
             _host.Events.EntitySpawned -= OnEntitySpawned;
+        _iconPanel?.Dispose();
+        _iconPanel = null;
         _host?.Log.Info($"smoke plugin disabled (saw {_entitiesSeen} entities total)");
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/AppAutomationSurfaceIconInstalledDatTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/AppAutomationSurfaceIconInstalledDatTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e23dd3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/AppAutomationSurfaceIconInstalledDatTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+using AcDream.App.Plugins;
+using AcDream.App.Tests.Rendering;
+using AcDream.Content;
+using AcDream.Core.Spells;
+using AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions;
+using DatReaderWriter;
+using DatReaderWriter.Options;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AcDream.App.Tests.Plugins;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Slice B item 11 (<c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>):
+/// <see cref="PluginSpellInfo.IconId"/> must carry the REAL installed
+/// portal.dat SpellTable (<c>0x0E00000E</c>) icon field through
+/// <see cref="AppAutomationSurface"/> unchanged, not just a synthetic
+/// <see cref="SpellMetadata"/> fixture. Mirrors the
+/// <see cref="AcDream.App.Tests.Rendering.ChargenPreviewEntityBuilderTests"/>
+/// installed-DAT gate convention: <see cref="InstalledDatTestPath"/> +
+/// <c>[Trait("Lane", "InstalledDat")]</c>, <c>Assert.Fail</c> with the
+/// standard message when no DAT is configured (see docs/release-gate.md).
+/// </summary>
+[Trait("Lane", "InstalledDat")]
+public sealed class AppAutomationSurfaceIconInstalledDatTests
+{
+    /// <summary>Retail's Strength Other I — the same well-known spell id
+    /// SmokeIconPanel falls back to when the local character has learned
+    /// nothing yet.</summary>
+    private const uint KnownSpellId = 1u;
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void KnownSpell_IconId_MatchesTheInstalledSpellTablesIconFieldExactly()
+    {
+        string? datDir = InstalledDatTestPath.Resolve();
+        if (datDir is null)
+        {
+            Assert.Fail(
+                "Lane=InstalledDat requires an installed retail DAT directory; see docs/release-gate.md.");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        using var dats = new DatCollection(datDir, DatAccessType.Read);
+        using var adapter = new DatCollectionAdapter(dats);
+        MagicCatalog catalog = MagicCatalog.Load(adapter);
+
+        Assert.True(
+            catalog.SpellTable.TryGet(KnownSpellId, out SpellMetadata expected),
+            $"expected spell {KnownSpellId} (Strength Other I) to exist in the installed SpellTable");
+        // A real production install's SpellTable always has non-zero art for
+        // an ordinary named spell; a zero here would mean the projector
+        // silently dropped SpellBase.Icon rather than proving the pipeline.
+        Assert.NotEqual(0u, expected.IconId);
+
+        using var runtime = GameRuntimeTestFactory.Create();
+        runtime.CharacterOwner.InstallSpellMetadata(catalog.SpellTable);
+        runtime.CharacterOwner.Spellbook.OnSpellLearned(KnownSpellId);
+        using var surface = new AppAutomationSurface();
+        surface.Bind(runtime, runtime.CharacterOwner, runtime.ActionOwner.SpellCast);
+
+        Assert.True(surface.Spells.TryGet(KnownSpellId, out PluginSpellInfo info));
+        Assert.Equal(expected.IconId, info.IconId);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/PluginIconsTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/PluginIconsTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4d40584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Plugins/PluginIconsTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+using AcDream.Plugin.Abstractions;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AcDream.App.Tests.Plugins;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// <see cref="PluginIcons.Normalize"/> — the one grammar every host icon sink
+/// (descriptor <see cref="PluginPanelDescriptor.IconSurfaceId"/>, markup
+/// <c>&lt;icon did&gt;</c>/<c>&lt;button icon&gt;</c>/<c>&lt;list icons&gt;</c>)
+/// applies. See <c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>
+/// Slice B item 1.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class PluginIconsTests
+{
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(0u, 0u)]
+    [InlineData(7735u, 0x06001E37u)]           // Decal-style bare index -> RenderSurface DID
+    [InlineData(0x00FFFFFFu, 0x06FFFFFFu)]     // largest bare index -> still gets the block prefix
+    [InlineData(0x06002D14u, 0x06002D14u)]     // already a RenderSurface DID -> unchanged
+    [InlineData(0x0600FFFFu, 0x0600FFFFu)]     // already at/above the block -> unchanged
+    public void Normalize_MapsAccordingToTheGrammar(uint input, uint expected)
+    {
+        Assert.Equal(expected, PluginIcons.Normalize(input));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MarkupIconTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MarkupIconTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..037c844f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MarkupIconTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,452 @@
+using System.Numerics;
+using AcDream.App.Rendering;
+using AcDream.App.Rendering.Gpu;
+using AcDream.App.Tests.Rendering.Gpu;
+using AcDream.App.UI;
+using DatReaderWriter.Types;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AcDream.App.Tests.UI;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Slice B (<c>docs/plans/2026-09-06-plugin-shelf-and-dat-icons.md</c>):
+/// <c>&lt;icon&gt;</c>, <c>&lt;button icon&gt;</c>, and <c>&lt;list icons&gt;</c>
+/// markup, backed by a fake <see cref="IMarkupIconResolver"/> that records
+/// every call so the resolver-dispatch (did/spell/item, normalized vs raw)
+/// is directly assertable, plus draw-level pins (via the same
+/// <see cref="RecordingGpuDevice"/>/<see cref="TextRenderer"/> apparatus
+/// <c>UiAncestorClipTests</c>/<c>UiRenderContextDrawStringDatOutlineTests</c>
+/// use) for "draws nothing when unresolvable" and "button/list icon shifts
+/// the caption/text column".
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class MarkupIconTests
+{
+    private sealed class FakeIconResolver : IMarkupIconResolver
+    {
+        public readonly List<(string Method, uint Id)> Calls = new();
+        public uint DidTexture = 5u;
+        public uint SpellTexture = 6u;
+        public uint ItemTexture = 7u;
+
+        public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveDid(uint did)
+        {
+            Calls.Add(("did", did));
+            return did == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (DidTexture, 32, 32);
+        }
+
+        public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveSpell(uint spellId)
+        {
+            Calls.Add(("spell", spellId));
+            return spellId == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (SpellTexture, 32, 32);
+        }
+
+        public (uint tex, int w, int h) ResolveItem(uint objectId)
+        {
+            Calls.Add(("item", objectId));
+            return objectId == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (ItemTexture, 32, 32);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private sealed class IconBinding
+    {
+        public uint IconDid { get; set; } = 0x06001234u;
+        public uint SpellId { get; set; } = 42u;
+        public uint ObjectId { get; set; } = 0x50000001u;
+        public Action Go => () => { };
+    }
+
+    private static (uint, int, int) Sprite(uint id) => (1u, 32, 32);
+
+    // ── <icon>: source dispatch + the Build-time contract ────────────────────
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_LiteralBareIndex_NormalizesBeforeResolving()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"7735\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        (uint tex, int w, int h) = icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(resolver.DidTexture, tex);
+        Assert.Equal(32, w);
+        Assert.Equal(32, h);
+        Assert.Equal(("did", 0x06001E37u), resolver.Calls[^1]); // 0x06000000 + 7735
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_LiteralHexDid_AlreadyInRangeIsUnchangedByNormalize()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"0x06002D14\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(("did", 0x06002D14u), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_BoundDid_ReReadsTheBindingEveryFrame()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"{IconDid}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+        var binding = new IconBinding();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, binding, Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        icon.IconSource();
+        Assert.Equal(("did", binding.IconDid), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+
+        binding.IconDid = 0x06005678u;
+        icon.IconSource();
+        Assert.Equal(("did", 0x06005678u), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_Spell_RoutesToResolveSpellWithTheBoundIdUnnormalized()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" spell=\"{SpellId}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+        var binding = new IconBinding();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, binding, Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        (uint tex, _, _) = icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(resolver.SpellTexture, tex);
+        Assert.Equal(("spell", binding.SpellId), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_Item_RoutesToResolveItemWithTheBoundId()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" item=\"{ObjectId}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+        var binding = new IconBinding();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, binding, Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        (uint tex, _, _) = icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(resolver.ItemTexture, tex);
+        Assert.Equal(("item", binding.ObjectId), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_ZeroId_ResolvesToNothing()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"0\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        (uint tex, int w, int h) = icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(0u, tex);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_NoResolverWired_ResolvesToNothingRatherThanThrowing()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"7735\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+        (uint tex, int w, int h) = icon.IconSource();
+
+        Assert.Equal(0u, tex);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_TwoSources_ThrowsFormatExceptionAtBuild()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"7735\" spell=\"{SpellId}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        Assert.Throws<FormatException>(
+            () => MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new IconBinding(), Sprite, icons: new FakeIconResolver()));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_NoSources_ThrowsFormatExceptionAtBuild()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        Assert.Throws<FormatException>(
+            () => MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Icon_WidthHeightDefaultTo32WhenOmitted()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<icon x=\"0\" y=\"0\" did=\"1\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite);
+        var icon = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupIcon>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        Assert.Equal(32f, icon.Width);
+        Assert.Equal(32f, icon.Height);
+    }
+
+    // ── <button icon>: resolver dispatch + draw-level "text shifts right" ────
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ButtonIcon_DefaultsToDidKind_AndDrawsThroughTheResolver()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<button x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"60\" h=\"20\" text=\"Go\" icon=\"7735\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new IconBinding(), Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var button = Assert.IsType<UiSimpleButton>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        Assert.NotNull(button.IconSource);
+        (uint tex, _, _) = button.IconSource!();
+        Assert.Equal(resolver.DidTexture, tex);
+        Assert.Equal(("did", 0x06001E37u), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ButtonIcon_KindSpell_RoutesToResolveSpell()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<button x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"60\" h=\"20\" text=\"Buff\" " +
+            "icon=\"{SpellId}\" iconkind=\"spell\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+        var binding = new IconBinding();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, binding, Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var button = Assert.IsType<UiSimpleButton>(panel.Children[0]);
+        button.IconSource!();
+
+        Assert.Equal(("spell", binding.SpellId), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ButtonWithoutIconAttribute_HasNoIconSource()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"100\" h=\"60\">" +
+            "<button x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"60\" h=\"20\" text=\"Go\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new object(), Sprite);
+        var button = Assert.IsType<UiSimpleButton>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        Assert.Null(button.IconSource);
+    }
+
+    // ── <list icons>: resolver dispatch + column reservation ──────────────────
+
+    private sealed class ListIconBinding
+    {
+        public IReadOnlyList<string> Items { get; } = new[] { "First", "Second" };
+        // Row 0 resolves; row 1's id is 0 (unresolvable) — "missing entries
+        // draw no icon" per the plan.
+        public IReadOnlyList<uint> IconIds { get; } = new[] { 7735u, 0u };
+        public int Selected { get; set; } = -1;
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ListIcons_ReservesTheColumn_AndResolvesEachRowThroughTheSharedResolver()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"200\" h=\"100\">" +
+            "<list x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"180\" h=\"60\" rowheight=\"18\" " +
+            "items=\"{Items}\" icons=\"{IconIds}\" iconkind=\"did\" selected=\"{Selected}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+        var resolver = new FakeIconResolver();
+        var binding = new ListIconBinding();
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, binding, Sprite, icons: resolver);
+        var list = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupList>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        Assert.NotNull(list.IconIdsSource);
+        Assert.Equal(binding.IconIds, list.IconIdsSource!());
+        Assert.NotNull(list.IconResolve);
+
+        (uint tex, _, _) = list.IconResolve!(7735u);
+        Assert.Equal(resolver.DidTexture, tex);
+        Assert.Equal(("did", 0x06001E37u), resolver.Calls[^1]);
+
+        (uint missTex, _, _) = list.IconResolve!(0u);
+        Assert.Equal(0u, missTex);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ListWithoutIconsAttribute_HasNoIconColumn()
+    {
+        const string xml =
+            "<panel x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"200\" h=\"100\">" +
+            "<list x=\"0\" y=\"0\" w=\"180\" h=\"60\" items=\"{Items}\" selected=\"{Selected}\"/>" +
+            "</panel>";
+
+        var panel = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, new ListIconBinding(), Sprite);
+        var list = Assert.IsType<UiMarkupList>(panel.Children[0]);
+
+        Assert.Null(list.IconIdsSource);
+    }
+
+    // ── Draw-level: "draws nothing" / "shifts text" pinned against real quads ─
+
+    private sealed class NullGpuFrameSource : ICurrentGpuFrameSource
+    {
+        public IGpuFrame? CurrentFrame => null;
+    }
+
+    private static (TextRenderer renderer, UiRenderContext ctx) MakeContext(float w, float h)
+    {
+        var device = new RecordingGpuDevice();
+        var renderer = new TextRenderer(device, new NullGpuFrameSource(), "unused");
+        renderer.Begin(new Vector2(w, h));
+        var ctx = new UiRenderContext(renderer, new Vector2(w, h));
+        return (renderer, ctx);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void UiMarkupIcon_ResolvedTexture_DrawsASpriteAspectPreservedAndCentered()
+    {
+        // 32x16 source in a 32x32 box: scale = min(32/32, 32/16) = 1, so the
+        // drawn quad stays 32x16 (never stretched to fill the box) and is
+        // vertically centered: y = (32-16)/2 = 8.
+        var icon = new UiMarkupIcon
+        {
+            Width = 32f,
+            Height = 32f,
+            IconSource = () => (9u, 32, 16),
+        };
+        var (renderer, ctx) = MakeContext(200f, 200f);
+
+        icon.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctx);
+
+        var seg = Assert.Single(renderer.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 9u);
+        // First vertex = top-left (x,y); AppendQuad's V0..V5 layout, 8 floats/vertex.
+        Assert.Equal(0f, seg.Verts[0], 3);
+        Assert.Equal(8f, seg.Verts[1], 3);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void UiMarkupIcon_UnresolvedTexture_DrawsNothing()
+    {
+        var icon = new UiMarkupIcon
+        {
+            Width = 32f,
+            Height = 32f,
+            IconSource = () => (0u, 0, 0),
+        };
+        var (renderer, ctx) = MakeContext(200f, 200f);
+
+        icon.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctx);
+
+        Assert.Empty(renderer.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void UiSimpleButton_WithIcon_DrawsTheIconSprite_AndShiftsTheCaptionRight()
+    {
+        var glyphs = new Dictionary<char, FontCharDesc>
+        {
+            ['G'] = new FontCharDesc { Unicode = 'G', Width = 8, Height = 8 },
+        };
+        var font = new UiDatFont(
+            fgTex: 1u, fgW: 32, fgH: 32,
+            bgTex: 0, bgW: 0, bgH: 0,
+            lineHeight: 16f, baselineOffset: 12f,
+            glyphs);
+
+        var withoutIcon = new UiSimpleButton
+        {
+            Width = 60f, Height = 20f, Text = "G", DatFont = font, Outline = false,
+            BackgroundColor = default, BorderColor = default,
+        };
+        var withIcon = new UiSimpleButton
+        {
+            Width = 60f, Height = 20f, Text = "G", DatFont = font, Outline = false,
+            IconSource = () => (9u, 32, 32),
+            BackgroundColor = default, BorderColor = default,
+        };
+
+        var (rendererWithout, ctxWithout) = MakeContext(200f, 200f);
+        withoutIcon.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctxWithout);
+        var (rendererWith, ctxWith) = MakeContext(200f, 200f);
+        withIcon.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctxWith);
+
+        // The icon sprite itself drew.
+        Assert.Contains(rendererWith.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 9u);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(rendererWithout.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 9u);
+
+        // Both buttons draw exactly one glyph quad (font texture 1u); the
+        // icon-bearing button's caption starts strictly to the right of the
+        // icon-less button's, because its centering region was shifted by
+        // the reserved icon column.
+        var textWithout = Assert.Single(rendererWithout.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 1u);
+        var textWith = Assert.Single(rendererWith.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 1u);
+        Assert.True(
+            textWith.Verts[0] > textWithout.Verts[0],
+            $"expected the icon-bearing button's caption ({textWith.Verts[0]}) to start right of the icon-less caption ({textWithout.Verts[0]})");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void UiMarkupList_IconColumn_DrawsResolvedRowIcon_AndSkipsAMissingOne()
+    {
+        var list = new UiMarkupList
+        {
+            Width = 180f, Height = 60f, RowHeight = 18f,
+            ItemsSource = () => new[] { "First", "Second" },
+            IconIdsSource = () => new uint[] { 9u, 0u },
+            IconResolve = id => id == 0u ? (0u, 0, 0) : (id, 16, 16),
+            BackgroundColor = default, BorderColor = default,
+        };
+        var (renderer, ctx) = MakeContext(200f, 200f);
+
+        list.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctx);
+
+        // Row 0's icon (id 9u) drew; row 1 has no icon id (0u -> unresolvable)
+        // and therefore emits no sprite for that row's column.
+        Assert.Contains(renderer.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 9u);
+        var iconQuad = Assert.Single(renderer.DebugSpriteSegmentVerts, s => s.Texture == 9u);
+        // The icon column is RowHeight - 2 wide; the drawn quad's right edge
+        // (the second AppendQuad vertex's x, at float offset 8 — see
+        // UiRenderContextDrawStringDatOutlineTests.DecodeQuads for the same
+        // 8-floats/vertex, 6-vertices/quad layout) must sit entirely inside
+        // it, never overlapping where row text starts.
+        Assert.True(iconQuad.Verts[8] <= list.RowHeight - 2f + 0.01f);
+    }
+}