diff --git a/src/AcDream.Core/Selection/WorldPicker.cs b/src/AcDream.Core/Selection/WorldPicker.cs
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+using System.Numerics;
+using AcDream.Core.World;
+
+namespace AcDream.Core.Selection;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Mouse-to-entity picker. Pure static functions; no state, no DI.
+/// <list type="bullet">
+///   <item><see cref="BuildRay"/> turns a pixel + view/projection into a world-space ray.</item>
+///   <item><see cref="Pick"/> ray-sphere intersects against entity candidates and returns the nearest hit's ServerGuid.</item>
+/// </list>
+/// Used by <c>GameWindow.OnInputAction</c> to wire SelectLeft / SelectDblLeft / UseSelected to <c>InteractRequests.BuildUse</c>.
+/// </summary>
+public static class WorldPicker
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Unprojects a pixel coordinate to a world-space ray using the supplied
+    /// view + projection matrices (System.Numerics row-vector convention,
+    /// composed as view * projection — same as the rest of acdream's camera
+    /// pipeline; see GameWindow.cs:6445 FrustumPlanes.FromViewProjection).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>
+    /// (origin = world point on the near plane, direction = normalized
+    /// world-space ray direction). Returns (Vector3.Zero, Vector3.Zero)
+    /// if the view-projection composition is singular.
+    /// </returns>
+    public static (Vector3 Origin, Vector3 Direction) BuildRay(
+        float mouseX, float mouseY,
+        float viewportW, float viewportH,
+        Matrix4x4 view, Matrix4x4 projection)
+    {
+        // Pixel -> NDC. y flipped: top-left pixel maps to ndc.y = +1.
+        float ndcX = (2f * mouseX) / viewportW - 1f;
+        float ndcY = 1f - (2f * mouseY) / viewportH;
+
+        var vp = view * projection;
+        if (!Matrix4x4.Invert(vp, out var invVp))
+            return (Vector3.Zero, Vector3.Zero);
+
+        // Unproject near (ndc.z = -1) and far (ndc.z = +1) clip points.
+        var nearClip = new Vector4(ndcX, ndcY, -1f, 1f);
+        var farClip  = new Vector4(ndcX, ndcY, +1f, 1f);
+        var n4 = Vector4.Transform(nearClip, invVp);
+        var f4 = Vector4.Transform(farClip,  invVp);
+        if (n4.W == 0f || f4.W == 0f)
+            return (Vector3.Zero, Vector3.Zero);
+
+        var nearWorld = new Vector3(n4.X, n4.Y, n4.Z) / n4.W;
+        var farWorld  = new Vector3(f4.X, f4.Y, f4.Z) / f4.W;
+        var dir = farWorld - nearWorld;
+        if (dir.LengthSquared() < 1e-10f)
+            return (Vector3.Zero, Vector3.Zero);
+        return (nearWorld, Vector3.Normalize(dir));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Selection/WorldPickerTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Selection/WorldPickerTests.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Numerics;
+using AcDream.Core.Selection;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AcDream.Core.Tests.Selection;
+
+public class WorldPickerTests
+{
+    private const float Epsilon = 0.01f;
+
+    private static (Matrix4x4 View, Matrix4x4 Projection) MakeIdentityCamera()
+    {
+        var view = Matrix4x4.Identity;
+        var proj = Matrix4x4.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(
+            fieldOfView: MathF.PI / 3f,
+            aspectRatio: 16f / 9f,
+            nearPlaneDistance: 0.1f,
+            farPlaneDistance: 100f);
+        return (view, proj);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void BuildRay_CenterOfViewport_ReturnsForwardRay()
+    {
+        var (view, proj) = MakeIdentityCamera();
+        const float vpW = 1920f, vpH = 1080f;
+
+        var (_, direction) = WorldPicker.BuildRay(
+            mouseX: vpW / 2f, mouseY: vpH / 2f,
+            viewportW: vpW, viewportH: vpH,
+            view, proj);
+
+        // Right-handed perspective + identity view -> camera looks down -Z.
+        // Center pixel ray = (0, 0, -1) within float epsilon.
+        Assert.True(MathF.Abs(direction.X) < Epsilon, $"direction.X = {direction.X}");
+        Assert.True(MathF.Abs(direction.Y) < Epsilon, $"direction.Y = {direction.Y}");
+        Assert.True(direction.Z < -0.99f,             $"direction.Z = {direction.Z}");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void BuildRay_OffsetMouseRight_DeflectsRayPositiveX()
+    {
+        var (view, proj) = MakeIdentityCamera();
+        const float vpW = 1920f, vpH = 1080f;
+
+        var (_, direction) = WorldPicker.BuildRay(
+            mouseX: vpW * 0.75f, mouseY: vpH / 2f,
+            viewportW: vpW, viewportH: vpH,
+            view, proj);
+
+        Assert.True(direction.X > 0.1f, $"direction.X = {direction.X} (expected > 0.1)");
+    }
+}