Five things from the user's gate.
STOP NOW ACTUALLY LOGS OUT. The UI gave the client five seconds and then
killed it. That is not enough for a graphical client to send its logout, wait
for the server to acknowledge, and tear down a mapped 28 GB world — so Stop
routinely ended in a kill, which sends the server nothing, which is exactly
what leaves the account held. Thirty seconds now, with the kill still there as
a genuine last resort, and the status says "Logging out…".
THE SERVER-SIDE HOLD IS MODELLED INSTEAD OF DISCOVERED. A session that ends
without the host running its own teardown may leave the account logged in
server-side for minutes. Launching again inside that window does not queue or
retry — it fails with a bare "CharacterList not received", which reads as a
broken launcher rather than a busy server. The orchestrator now records whether
each session ended gracefully (the host reported its own exit AND exited zero —
a killed or crashed child can satisfy neither) and refuses that account for
three minutes afterwards, saying how many seconds are left. A graceful exit
never starts a hold.
READABLE TERMINAL TEXT. "Exited: connection-error (code 5)" becomes "Could not
reach the server — the server may hold this account for a few minutes";
"Exited: process-exit (code 0)" becomes "Exited gracefully — logged out
cleanly". Live sessions still show the host's own status line, which is the
most informative thing available while one is running.
COLUMN HEADERS on the sessions list — ACCOUNT / CHARACTER / STATUS / DETAIL,
sharing the row template's widths so they stay aligned.
LOGOUT LANDS ON THE CHARACTER SCREEN (LU10). The toolbar X was already wired
correctly: IndicatorBarController's EndCharacterSessionButtonId 0x100000FA runs
retail's EndCharacterSession, and LiveSessionController's logout transaction
already ends by resetting the world generation and calling
CharacterSelectionState.Begin. What was missing is where that lands: the
retained UI built its character-selection and character-creation bindings only
when NO character selector was supplied, so a launcher-started session logged
out into a client with no screen to return to. The selector decides how a
session STARTS; it must not decide whether the select screen EXISTS. Both
binding sets are now unconditional.
The composition test that pinned the old gate is updated to pin the new
contract — the retained UI must not branch on the selector at all — rather than
being deleted.
App 5380 passed, Launcher.Core 336, Launcher 76, Headless 169. Not pushed; the
user is testing locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make every App composition phase borrow one GameRuntime, retire the duplicate view/event adapters, and dispose the root only after its graphical borrowers release. This preserves synchronous UI commands while giving shutdown one exact ownership ledger.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Move the canonical WorldSession generation, connect/enter/tick/stop transaction, inbound subscription owner, and retryable teardown acknowledgements into AcDream.Runtime. Keep App as a borrowing graphical host with a single inertable command projection and no mirrored session state.
Validated by 79 Runtime tests, 3,776 App tests with three existing skips, the Release solution build, and 8,428 complete Release tests with five existing skips.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Move the live-session reset and routing graph, combat and diagnostic command targets, and the sole gameplay input subscriber into Phase 7 before frame publication. Add exact retryable ownership for late bindings so partial startup cannot strand session or component teardown edges.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Move streaming, live-session, hydration, local-player, combat, and teleport construction behind the typed Phase-7 boundary. Add exact-owner runtime bindings and focused spawn-claim classification so partial startup rolls back without retaining old session targets while preserving the accepted construction and frame dependencies.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
