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+# Handoff: inbound animation + position — verbatim retail port
+
+Date: 2026-07-02
+Branch: `claude/vigorous-joliot-f0c3ad` (clean; prior arc all committed through `d34721fa`)
+Mode for the new session: **/investigate first (report-only), then port on approval.**
+
+## What just shipped (context — the OUTBOUND / LOCAL half is done)
+
+This session made acdream's *outbound* wire and *local-player* motion
+retail-faithful, verified against live ACE + user/retail-observer sign-off:
+
+- **L.1b** `2c8620ea` — dual `IMotionCommandCatalog` (AceModern runtime /
+  Retail2013 conformance, full `command_ids[0x198]` extraction).
+- **L.2b** `78e163a4` + sign-off `f271a49e` — outbound wire parity (D1
+  default-difference `RawMotionState::Pack`, D3 contact/longjump byte, D4
+  `JumpPack`).
+- **D6** `4ed27836` (pseudocode) + `0f099bb6` (D6.2a) + `47407506` (sign-off) +
+  `d34721fa` (D6.2b) — ported `CMotionInterp::adjust_motion` /
+  `apply_run_to_command` / `apply_raw_movement` / `get_state_velocity` and
+  unified the local player's velocity + turn + jump + wire onto one
+  input-built `RawMotionState` at `forward_speed=1.0`. Backward/strafe-left no
+  longer zero; strafe retail-exact; turn omega from interpreted `turn_speed`.
+- **Key wire finding:** ACE **recomputes** the broadcast run speed from run
+  skill (echo-test confirmed) and auto-upgrades `WalkForward+HoldKey.Run →
+  RunForward`. The wire sends raw `forward_speed=1.0`. (Crib:
+  `claude-memory/project_retail_motion_outbound.md`.)
+
+**That was OUTBOUND + LOCAL. This handoff is the INBOUND / REMOTE half.**
+
+## The goal
+
+Port retail's **incoming (inbound) handling of animation + position VERBATIM**
+into acdream — but **surgically**, targeted at where acdream deviates (not a
+blind wholesale sequencer rewrite; a rushed sequencer swap has "broken
+everything" in a past session — integrate carefully). Strict standard: no
+approximations; retail decomp / ACE / DAT as oracles; parity tests before
+behavior changes.
+
+## The symptom (the acceptance oracle — user's live observation)
+
+Watching a **remote player** (inbound motion) in acdream:
+
+- Overall "works OK" but **not polished**. Some **sliding** and some
+  **position errors once the entity stops**.
+- **The worst offender:** transitioning **walk↔run WITHOUT stopping** — the
+  motion **interpreter reacts too slowly**, and this **throws all animation +
+  position off afterward**, compounding as the entity keeps **running around +
+  turning**. The error accumulates through subsequent motion.
+
+Fixing the walk↔run-transition responsiveness (and the resulting animation +
+position desync) IS the acceptance test.
+
+## Root-cause hypothesis (UNCONFIRMED — verify in the investigation first)
+
+acdream's motion sequencer does not implement retail's motion-**transition**
+state machine. Retail's `CMotionInterp` doesn't just swap the animation cycle
+on a motion change — it **appends** the new motion to a `CSequence` and
+transitions through it with `pending_motions` / `MotionDone` bookkeeping. If
+acdream applies a walk↔run change abruptly/late (snap `SetCycle`) instead of
+sequencing it, the animation cycle and the dead-reckoned position drift apart
+and the error accumulates. The 2026-06-04 deep-dive already ranked missing
+`pending_motions` / `MotionDone` as **HIGH**.
+
+## Pre-paid research to leverage (READ THESE)
+
+1. **`docs/research/2026-06-04-animation-sequencer-deep-dive.md`** — START
+   HERE. Retail `CMotionInterp` + `CSequence` + hook-dispatch state graph + 8
+   ranked divergences (missing `pending_motions`/`MotionDone` HIGH; frame-swap
+   class; link→cycle boundary). **Verify its findings against the CURRENT code
+   — the L.1 animation work may have closed some gaps since 2026-06-04; do not
+   trust its line numbers.**
+2. `docs/research/2026-06-26-movement-animation-retail-parity-audit.md` — the
+   inbound divergences: **D7** (animation split from retail motion flow), **D8**
+   (force-walk / `MoveToManager` approximate), **D9** (inbound `TurnToObject`/
+   `TurnToHeading` types 8/9 dropped — CONFIRMED live: `mt=0x09` arrives and
+   just `SetCycle(Ready)` instead of turning), **D10** (spawn-time MoveTo weak),
+   **D11** (sequence/autonomy parsed then discarded), **D12** (jump/contact
+   gates simplified).
+3. `docs/research/2026-07-01-d6-motion-interp-pseudocode.md` — the OUTBOUND/local
+   `CMotionInterp` port already done; inbound uses the SAME machinery
+   (`get_state_velocity`, `adjust_motion`, `apply_raw_movement` now exist in
+   `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/MotionInterpreter.cs`).
+
+## Decomp anchors (the oracle; grep `docs/research/named-retail/acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt`)
+
+- `CMotionInterp::apply_current_movement` (~line 305713 — sequences style /
+  forward-falling / sidestep / turn / actions), `DoInterpretedMotion` (~305575),
+  `CMotionTable::GetObjectSequence` (~298636).
+- `CSequence` append/advance/update (~lines 301622, 301777, 301839, 302425).
+- The 2026-06-04 deep-dive has the full CMotionInterp/CSequence address list.
+- `acclient.h` for the structs; Ghidra HTTP bridge at `http://127.0.0.1:8081`
+  (decompile-by-address) if it's up.
+
+## Where the inbound code lives (starting points to map)
+
+- `src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs` — inbound remote-entity motion:
+  `OnLiveMotionUpdated`, the remote `SetCycle` / `ObservedOmega` seeding
+  (~4815-4856), dead-reckoned position + omega application (~9750-9865), the
+  `[SETCYCLE]`/`[SCFAST]`/`[SCFULL]`/`[OMEGA_DIAG]`/`[VEL_DIAG]`/`[SEQSTATE]`/
+  `[UPCYCLE]` diagnostics.
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/AnimationSequencer.cs` — the cycle/action sequencer.
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/MotionInterpreter.cs` — interpreted state (now has
+  the D6 `adjust_motion`/`apply_raw_movement`/`get_state_velocity`).
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/RemoteMoveToDriver.cs` — remote MoveTo + `TurnRateFor`.
+- `src/AcDream.Core.Net/Messages/UpdateMotion.cs`, `UpdatePosition.cs`,
+  `MoveToState.cs` — inbound parsing.
+
+## The plan for the new session
+
+1. **/investigate (report-only):** produce a ranked **deviation map** —
+   where acdream's inbound animation + position handling deviates from retail's
+   `CMotionInterp`/`CSequence`, **anchored on the walk↔run transition-lag
+   symptom** (not a whole-system rewrite). Parallel research agents are a good
+   fit. Optionally corroborate with a live capture (below). Deliver the report
+   + recommended verbatim-port slices; get explicit approval before edits.
+2. **Port (after approval):** verbatim-port the deviating retail mechanisms —
+   most likely the `CSequence` motion-queue / transition + `pending_motions` /
+   `MotionDone`, and the inbound position/dead-reckoning where it deviates.
+   Tests-first (parity tests before behavior). **Integrate the sequencer
+   SURGICALLY** — change the minimum; do not replace the whole transform/cycle
+   pipeline at once.
+3. **Verify:** the walk↔run transition is smooth and no cascading
+   animation/position desync — user visual + retail-observer side-by-side.
+
+## Live-capture setup (structured testing)
+
+- acdream = **OBSERVER** (login as `+Acdream`); the **other player driven from a
+  retail client** (retail packets = ground truth, so any render artifact is a
+  pure acdream inbound bug).
+- Launch env (PowerShell): the standard live vars +
+  `ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION=1` + `ACDREAM_REMOTE_VEL_DIAG=1` (heavy; dumps
+  `[UM_RAW]`/`[SETCYCLE]`/`[OMEGA_DIAG]`/`[VEL_DIAG]`/`[SEQSTATE]`/`[UPCYCLE]` so
+  you can correlate each inbound packet with what acdream renders).
+- Structured protocol, one motion at a time: walk-straight (start→stop),
+  run-straight, turn-in-place, curved path, idle, **walk↔run toggle
+  (the key one)**, abrupt-stop-from-run.
+- NOTE: `+Acdream` had `run=15225` (GM-buffed) this session → absolute speeds
+  unrepresentative; judge **relative** behavior + transitions.
+
+## Housekeeping
+
+- **Close the running observer acdream client before the new session rebuilds**
+  (it locks `AcDream.App.exe`; `dotnet build` fails with the DLL-copy lock
+  otherwise — the user closes it, we do NOT kill it).
+- A background research agent (mapping acdream's inbound animation handling) was
+  in-flight when this session stopped — orphaned; the new session re-does the
+  mapping cleanly.
+
+## Discipline reminders
+
+- The user's side-by-side retail observations are **axioms** (retail-oracle);
+  once a mechanism plan exists, artifacts become acceptance tests, not new
+  investigations (no whack-a-mole).
+- Report-only until fixes approved. Decomp-verbatim. Tests-first.
+- Every deviation the port introduces/retires updates
+  `docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md` in the same commit.