Brings acdream's / and @ command parsing to parity with the complete
retail registry (130 registered verbs + 22 unregistered GetChannelID
fallback tags = 152 client-parsed verbs), per
docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-command-registry.md.
Parser semantics (retail OnChatCommand/DoCommand):
- : and ; rewrite to "@emote <rest>" before dispatch.
- Verb trailing-comma trim ("@f, hi" == "@f hi") applied at every
verb-lookup site in the catalog and the parser.
- @tell/aliases split the target on the FIRST COMMA, not the first
whitespace token, so multi-word names work ("@tell Aunt Agatha, hi").
- The 22 unregistered GM/faction channel tags (admin, sentinel,
celestialhand, ...) now broadcast for real via a new
RetailChannelTagTable + SendRawChannelCmd bypass, reusing the existing
BuildChatChannel wire builder.
Binding corrections:
- /g, /group, /party -> Fellowship (0x800), not General.
- /rp -> reply alias (retail's own help text confirms "@r or @rp"), not
Roleplay; /role (an acdream invention) deleted.
- /allegiance, /all -> the allegiance management command
(RetailClientCommandCatalog), not a channel verb.
- /house no longer swallows unrecognized subcommands with a local usage
error; they now correctly fall through to ACE.
- @mr/@pr pinned as permanently non-executable (retail registers them
with a null function pointer).
New verbs with real local execution: endurance, speaker, title (silent,
AP-182), chat, notell, join, leave, permit, hslist, index, clist, on,
off, alh/ah (+ "@allegiance hometown"/"ho"), "@allegiance info",
"@house abandon"; a missing-alias sweep across pkl/hou/message_types/
msgtypes/msg_types/rt/send/whisper/w/vassal/covassal/co-vassals/c/
fellows/group/party/guild/gu/cg/ct/clfg/crp/soc/o; the non-retail
inventions gen/cv/lookingforgroup/tr/role/h are deleted. New Core.Net
wire builders (IndexChannels, ListChannels, AddChannel, RemoveChannel,
RecallAllegianceHometown, AllegianceInfoRequest, ListAvailableHouses,
AddPlayerPermission, RemovePlayerPermission, AbandonHouse) are all
parameterless or single-field payloads cross-checked against ACE's
GameAction readers, not guessed.
Deferred (filed as #360/#361/#362, register rows TS-68/TS-69/TS-70):
the ~22 remaining allegiance/house subcommands + standalone @motd
(largest single item, needs its own slice per the doc), the three
still-inert pure-local commands (day/log/render), and the inbound
GameEvent responses for the new outbound requests. All correctly fall
through to ACE server-passthrough rather than being silently swallowed
or faking success.
RetailCommandRegistryConformanceTests pins the complete 152-verb
registry against production: every verb resolves through exactly one
production surface if Implemented, through none if HelpOnly/
ServerPassthrough, and two reverse-direction tests fail the build if
RetailClientCommandCatalog or ChatInputParser ever claims a verb
outside this registry again. Final tally: 138 Implemented / 5
ServerPassthrough / 9 HelpOnly = 152.
Release suite: 12,190 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (up from CH3's
11,964/4/0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three-tier rollout per the 2026-04-25 retail @help dump showing the
full ACE command surface. Tier 1 + most of Tier 2 in one commit.
TIER 1 - @ as / equivalent
ACE accepts both / and @ as verb prefixes (per its own help text:
"Note: You may substitute a forward slash (/) for the at symbol
(@)."). ChatInputParser now normalises @ to / for the verb-match
phase and re-enters parsing. Critical: for verbs we don't recognise
(@acehelp, @tele, @die, @version, @loc-on-server, @nonsense, ...),
the original @ is kept in the message text so ACE's CommandManager
intercepts the message server-side. If we substituted / there too,
ACE would treat it as plain Talk and broadcast it.
Result: @a hi / @tell Bob hi / @help / @clear / @reply / @retell
all route exactly like their / counterparts. @acehelp / @tele /
@version / @die etc. pass through to the server intact.
TIER 2 - client-only commands
- /retell <msg> (also @retell): resend to the last person you
tell'd. Mirrors retail @retell. ChatVM tracks
LastOutgoingTellTarget on each OnSelfSent(Tell, ...) entry —
SenderGuid==0 distinguishes outgoing echo from inbound whispers,
same way LastIncomingTellSender already worked. ChatInputParser
takes a new optional lastOutgoingTellTarget param.
- /framerate (also @framerate): prints "Framerate: 144.2 FPS"
into chat. Wired via a new ChatVM.FpsProvider Func<float>
callback set by GameWindow at construction (closes over
_lastFps). Falls back to "(provider unavailable)" if no
callback is wired (tests / pre-live).
- /loc (also @loc): prints "Location: (123.4, 567.8, 60.0)" into
chat. Wired via ChatVM.PositionProvider Func<Vector3> closing
over GetDebugPlayerPosition() in GameWindow. ACE has a server-
side @loc too; client wins here (instantaneous + uses the local
interpolated position).
ChatPanel.TryHandleClientCommand grew @ aliases for /help /clear
/framerate /loc and the new EqAny helper for case-insensitive
multi-string matching. Help text rewritten to reference the
/ <-> @ equivalence and point at @acehelp / @acecommands for ACE's
full command list.
TIER 3 - automatic (no code)
Most retail @-commands (@allegiance motd, @afk, @die, @lifestone,
@corpse, @marketplace, @pkarena, @emote/@emotes, @fillcomps,
@permit, @consent, @squelch, @unsquelch, @messagetypes, @age,
@birth, @day, @endurance, @pklite, @version, @filter, @unfilter,
@loadfile, @log, @marketplace, ...) are server-side ACE commands.
Tier 1's passthrough takes care of them automatically — they
arrive via Talk, ACE recognises the @ and intercepts, replies via
SystemChat (which our 0xF7E0 wiring renders as [System] lines).
DEFERRED
- @saveui / @loadui / @lockui: ImGui layout save/load, ~1 hr
standalone task. Filed for follow-up.
- @title <text>: rename chat window. ImGui window-id complications.
- Toggle-style @framerate (FPS overlay on/off): print-once is
simpler and matches retail's most-common usage.
30 new tests:
- ChatInputParserAtPrefixTests: 11 covering @-prefix recognition,
unknown-@ passthrough, /retell and @retell.
- ChatVMRetellAndProvidersTests: 8 covering LastOutgoingTellTarget
tracking, FpsProvider/PositionProvider callbacks, no-provider
fallback.
- ChatPanelInputTests: +3 (/framerate, @loc, @acehelp passthrough).
Solution total: 1063 green (243 Core.Net + 160 UI + 660 Core),
0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Erik