merge: Campaign LA LA2 - probe and idle review-closed

# Conflicts:
#	docs/plans/2026-08-14-launcher-campaign.md
#	src/AcDream.Headless/Hosting/HeadlessSessionHost.cs

src/AcDream.Runtime/GameRuntimeCommands.cs

@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ public enum RuntimeSessionStartStatus
     Failed,
     Inactive,
     StaleGeneration,
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Campaign LA slice LA2: mirrors
+    /// <see cref="Session.LiveSessionStartStatus.ProbeComplete"/> — a probe
+    /// session connected, reported its roster, and gracefully disconnected
+    /// before EnterWorld. A SUCCESS outcome for the headless process host's
+    /// exit-code mapping, not a failure.
+    /// </summary>
+    ProbeComplete,
 }
 
 public readonly record struct RuntimeSessionStartResult(

src/AcDream.Runtime/Session/LiveSessionContracts.cs

@@ -13,7 +13,23 @@ public sealed record LiveSessionConnectOptions(
     int Port,
     string User,
     string Password,
-    LiveSessionCharacterSelector? Character = null);
+    LiveSessionCharacterSelector? Character = null,
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Campaign LA slice LA2: short-circuits
+    /// <see cref="LiveSessionController"/>'s connect transaction right after
+    /// the roster report (before <c>TrySelectCharacter</c>/
+    /// <c>ApplySelectedCharacter</c>/<c>EnterWorld</c>) — connect, receive
+    /// <c>CharacterList</c>, report the roster, gracefully disconnect via the
+    /// same <c>StopCore</c> teardown the <see cref="LiveSessionStartStatus.NoCharacters"/>
+    /// path already uses, and return
+    /// <see cref="LiveSessionStartStatus.ProbeComplete"/>. The pinned launch
+    /// contract (<c>docs/plans/2026-08-14-launcher-campaign.md</c> LA1's
+    /// <c>mode</c> field) requires a probe session to omit both
+    /// <see cref="Character"/> and its policy entirely, but the controller
+    /// itself does not enforce that pairing — the headless config loader
+    /// does, before a <see cref="LiveSessionConnectOptions"/> is ever built.
+    /// </summary>
+    bool Probe = false);
 
 public interface IRuntimeLiveSessionFramePhase
 {

src/AcDream.Runtime/Session/LiveSessionController.cs

@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ public enum LiveSessionStartStatus
     Connected,
     Deferred,
     Failed,
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Campaign LA slice LA2: a <see cref="LiveSessionConnectOptions.Probe"/>
+    /// session connected, received (and reported) the character roster, and
+    /// gracefully disconnected BEFORE selection/EnterWorld — deliberately a
+    /// SUCCESS variant of the <see cref="NoCharacters"/> early-exit shape
+    /// (same <c>StopCore</c> teardown), not a failure.
+    /// </summary>
+    ProbeComplete,
 }
 
 public readonly record struct LiveSessionOwnershipSnapshot(
@@ -647,6 +655,21 @@ public sealed class LiveSessionController
                     return new LiveSessionStartResult(LiveSessionStartStatus.Deferred);
             }
 
+            // Campaign LA slice LA2: the probe short-circuit lands here —
+            // only after a real CharacterList was returned and its roster was
+            // reported, before TrySelectCharacter ever runs. A missing
+            // CharacterList falls through to the existing NoCharacters
+            // non-success path below; connectivity by itself is not a
+            // successful character-roster probe. Non-probe callers continue
+            // through the unchanged selection/enter path.
+            if (options.Probe && characters is not null)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine(
+                    "live: probe complete — disconnecting before EnterWorld");
+                StopCore();
+                return new LiveSessionStartResult(LiveSessionStartStatus.ProbeComplete);
+            }
+
             if (characters is null
                 || !TrySelectCharacter(
                     characters,

src/AcDream.Runtime/Session/LiveSessionHost.cs

@@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ public sealed class LiveSessionHost : IRuntimeSessionCommands
                 RuntimeSessionStartStatus.Deferred,
             LiveSessionStartStatus.Failed =>
                 RuntimeSessionStartStatus.Failed,
+            LiveSessionStartStatus.ProbeComplete =>
+                RuntimeSessionStartStatus.ProbeComplete,
             _ => throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(
                 nameof(result),
                 result.Status,