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+# Phase R handoff — fresh-session entry point (2026-07-03)
+
+**Read this first, then the plan of record**
+(`docs/plans/2026-07-02-retail-motion-animation-rewrite.md`). This session
+ran the R2→R4 arc of the Phase R mandate; the fresh session picks up at
+**R4-V4 smoke verification → R4-V5**.
+
+## The mandate (user, standing)
+
+Total overhaul of movement + animation as a VERBATIM retail port — all
+movement, inbound and outbound, all animation, for players/NPCs/monsters.
+No guessing, no approximations, no bandaids. The user cancelled the /loop
+self-scheduling near the end of this session — **work continues on user
+prompts, not self-scheduled wakeups**, but the drive-autonomously rules in
+CLAUDE.md still apply within a turn.
+
+## State at handoff (worktree `vigorous-joliot-f0c3ad`, branch `claude/vigorous-joliot-f0c3ad`)
+
+- Tree: CLEAN at `7016b26c` (only `v4-smoke.log` untracked — session
+  scratch, delete freely). Full suite green: **3,948 tests**
+  (385 Net + 425 UI + 713 App + 2,425 Core, +4 pre-existing skips).
+- **R1 ✅ R2 ✅ R3 ✅ shipped** (trail + commit SHAs recorded in the plan
+  doc's stage entries). **R4: V0–V4 shipped, V5+V6 remain.**
+- A smoke client was launched with the V4 build (`ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION=1`,
+  log `v4-smoke.log` in the worktree root, UTF-16) — **the user had NOT yet
+  reported an NPC-behavior verdict at handoff time.** First order of
+  business: get that verdict (or relaunch and ask). Watch items: NPC
+  chase/wander legs, turn-to-face, melee-range stop distance (arrival is
+  now retail cylinder distance — the old max() gate is gone).
+
+## What just landed (this session, newest first)
+
+| Commit | What |
+|---|---|
+| `7016b26c` | **R4-V4** remote cutover: per-remote MoveToManager; RemoteMoveToDriver + PlanMoveToStart DELETED; P4 TargetTracker adapter; retail unpack_movement dispatch (head-interrupt every UM; mt 6–9 never touch the interpreted funnel) |
+| `a144e873` | **R4-V3** wire: mt 8/9 parsing (TurnToPathData), raw bitfield surfaced, mt-0 sticky trailer |
+| `addc8e97` | **R4-V2** the verbatim MoveToManager (33 members, 101 tests; seams listed in its final report — ctor takes the interp + 14 providers; the identity-quaternion TDD catch) |
+| `e0d2492c` | **R4-V1** command-selection family (GetCommand + CanCharge fast-path; MoveToMath incl. the Ghidra-confirmed heading_diff mirror) |
+| `386b1ce5` | **R4-V0** pins P1–P7 (see below) |
+| `988304e1` | R4 research base (`docs/research/2026-07-03-r4-moveto/` — decomp, ACE cross-ref, port plan) |
+| `30115d96` | **W6b fix** — the "press W and stop instantly" live regression (see gotchas) |
+| `fb7beb70`…`8eff3978` | R3 W0–W7 + R2 Q0–Q6 (see the plan doc's stage trails) |
+
+## NEXT: R4-V5 — LOCAL PLAYER cutover (the delicate one)
+
+Spec: `docs/research/2026-07-03-r4-moveto/r4-port-plan.md` §3 V5.
+**ONE commit, GameWindow + PlayerMovementController, do NOT fan out**
+(feedback_dont_parallelize_coupled_plan_slices). Shape:
+
+- The player gets a MoveToManager bound like remotes (the
+  EnsureRemoteMotionBindings block at GameWindow is the reference wiring;
+  the player's Motion/seams already exist from R3 — DefaultSink is bound,
+  `_playerController.Motion` exposed).
+- **B.6 auto-walk DELETED**: `DriveServerAutoWalk` + `BeginServerAutoWalk`
+  + the `_autoWalk*` fields + the local mt-6 branch in GameWindow
+  (`BeginServerAutoWalk` call site) + the two relocated constants
+  (`AutoWalkArrivalEpsilon`, `AutoWalkTurnRateFor` — marked V5-scope in the
+  controller).
+- **P1 pin applies here**: port the missing tail of retail's
+  `CPhysics::SetObjectMovement` gate — DROP any 0xF74C event whose wire
+  `IsAutonomous` byte is set when guid == local player (parsed at
+  `UpdateMotion.cs` isAutonomous, relayed by WorldSession, consumed
+  NOWHERE yet). That's what makes retail's unconditional head-interrupt
+  safe against ACE's mt-0 echo. `V0-pins.md` P1 has the full adjudication +
+  the LoseControlToServer note. This RETIRES the informal
+  "don't cancel on non-MoveTo" comment block in the local UM branch.
+- TS-36 retires (InterruptCurrentMovement bound for the player);
+  AD-26 retires; AD-27/AP-23 re-anchor.
+- Movement keys auto-cancel a server MoveTo (retail: the CommandInterpreter
+  DoMotion's cancel bit → interrupt → CancelMoveTo — the edge-driven W6
+  input already calls DoMotion with ctor-default params whose CancelMoveTo
+  is TRUE, so this may fall out for free — verify, don't assume).
+- Tests: the V2 harness pattern for the player-side bind; the W6
+  edge-driven regression suite (`W6EdgeDrivenMovementTests.cs`) is the
+  template for controller-level tests with a real sink.
+- Then **V6**: register/roadmap/plan/memory sweep (V6 spec in the plan).
+  After V6, R4 is done → R5 (MovementSystem facade + StickyManager +
+  ConstraintManager + TargetManager full port), R6 (per-tick
+  UpdateObjectInternal order — retires the 300ms stop window, PlanFromVelocity
+  AP-80, ObservedOmega AP-76, AP-75/AP-77 velocity adaptations), R7
+  (outbound cadence TS-33), R8 (audit + final visual pass).
+
+## Pending user verifications (visual passes)
+
+1. **V4 smoke verdict** (see above — NPC movement).
+2. **R2+R3 combined visual pass** (task #9): jump instant-Falling engage,
+   walk-off-ledge momentum (NEW behavior), running-in-circles blend, stop
+   settle, strafe pacing (EXPECTED-DIFF: #45's 1.248× factor retired —
+   local now matches remotes), retail-observer view (no rubber-band).
+   Partially confirmed ("works a lot better now") after the W6b fix.
+
+## Load-bearing gotchas from this session (do not relearn these)
+
+1. **BN hoisted-register artifact class** (caused the W6b live bug): the
+   pseudo-C renders pre-call register caches as post-call field reads.
+   `ApplyInterpretedMovement` must ENTRY-CACHE the axis values — the style
+   dispatch's `ApplyMotion(style)` resets forward to Ready (verbatim,
+   raw 0051ea6c) and retail self-heals via the cached fwd re-apply. The
+   183-case suite can NOT catch sink-result-dependent bugs: its
+   RecordingSink's bool return doesn't mirror the real
+   MotionTableDispatchSink (style dispatches return TRUE → the resetting
+   state-write runs). Regression suite: `W6EdgeDrivenMovementTests.cs`.
+2. **The dispatch RESULT gates queue+state writes** (W5 discovery):
+   `IInterpretedMotionSink.ApplyMotion/StopMotion` return bool for this
+   reason — documented on the interface.
+3. **Retail's echo discriminator is the wire autonomous byte** (V0 P1):
+   not a workaround — `CPhysics::SetObjectMovement` 0x00509690's final
+   branch. Port it in V5, don't invent gating.
+4. **MoveToManager entry points never drain pending_actions** — re-issues
+   MUST route through `PerformMovement` (V2 finding, tested).
+5. **`default(Quaternion)` is zero, not identity** — heading math reads
+   90° off a zero quat (V2 TDD catch; `IdentityPosition` constant).
+6. **fail_progress_count is WRITE-ONLY in retail** — there is no MoveTo
+   give-up threshold; do not invent one.
+7. **Delegation pattern that works**: sonnet implementers against
+   committed pinned specs (research → pins with adversarial verify →
+   implement → orchestrator independently verifies scope + suite +
+   spot-checks against the raw decomp → commit). GameWindow/controller
+   coupled surgery stays with the orchestrator. Workflow tool for
+   research fan-outs (r3/r4 extraction + pin workflows are the templates).
+8. **py (not python) exists on this box**; logs from Tee-Object are
+   UTF-16; heredocs with quotes inside python strings break — write
+   scripts to the scratchpad with the Write tool and run `py file.py`.
+9. **Ghidra MCP** (port 8080/8081, needs the user to open patchmem.gpr):
+   used live this session for heading_diff/get_desired_heading
+   (`ghidra-confirmations.md`). Ask the user to open it when a BN garble
+   blocks a pin.
+10. **ACE session care**: graceful client close (CloseMainWindow) or ACE
+    holds the session ~3 min (exit 29 on relaunch). Don't kill clients
+    the user launched — ask.
+
+## Key file map (R4 additions)
+
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/Motion/MoveToManager.cs` + `MoveToNode.cs` —
+  the V2 port (seams doc'd on the ctor).
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/Motion/MoveToMath.cs` — heading/cylinder math
+  + `OriginToWorld` (relocated from the deleted RemoteMoveToDriver).
+- `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/Motion/MovementParameters.cs` — `GetCommand` /
+  `FromWire` / `FromWireTurnTo` / `GetDesiredHeading` / `TowardsAndAway`.
+- `docs/research/2026-07-03-r4-moveto/` — decomp + ACE cross-ref +
+  port plan + `V0-pins.md` + `ghidra-confirmations.md`.
+- GameWindow: `EnsureRemoteMotionBindings` (the full per-remote wiring
+  reference), the remote UM dispatch (mt 6–9 vs mt-0 funnel), the
+  per-tick tracker+UseTime block.