fix(client): restore retail interaction parity

Harden keyboard and camera routing, inventory and vendor interactions, chat/emotes, relog portal flow, and paperdoll rendering. Add retail research, connected gate coverage, and release-gate validation.

tools/run-release-gate.ps1

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
     Runs the complete portable Release gate with bounded child processes.
 
 .DESCRIPTION
-    Verifies that AcDream.slnx owns every project under src/, tests/, and tools/;
+    Verifies that AcDream.slnx owns every product project under src/, tests/,
+    and tools/ (deployment-only ACE server mods are intentionally separate);
     performs a locked restore; builds that complete supported graph; discovers
     every test project under tests/ that declares itself through
     Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk or IsTestProject; and then runs each test assembly in
@@ -199,7 +200,13 @@ function Get-SolutionProjects {
         foreach ($directoryName in @('src', 'tests', 'tools')) {
             Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath (Join-Path $repoRoot $directoryName) -Recurse -Filter '*.csproj' -File
         }
-    )
+    ) | Where-Object {
+        # tools/ace-mods projects compile against a separately installed ACE
+        # server and are deployed into that server, not shipped as part of the
+        # portable acdream product graph.
+        $relative = [IO.Path]::GetRelativePath($repoRoot, $_.FullName).Replace('\', '/')
+        -not $relative.StartsWith('tools/ace-mods/', [StringComparison]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+    }
     $solutionSet = [Collections.Generic.HashSet[string]]::new(
         [StringComparer]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)
     foreach ($project in $projects) {