The second live gate run exposed a real environmental hazard: this shared
ACE dev instance has a THIRD player character online (+Je, guid
0x50000001), and after @teleallto it ended up nearer to the Leader bot than
the actual Recruit bot (+Horan, 0x5000000B). RuntimeFriendlyTargetQuery.
FindClosestOtherPlayer — "nearest ANY other player" — picked +Je, and the
fellowship recruit sent to it obviously never completed (confirmed live:
WaitRecruited/WaitForRecruit both timed out, both bots quarantined and
gracefully logged out cleanly).
RuntimeFriendlyTargetQuery.FindPlayerByName resolves the nearest player
whose streamed name matches exactly, with 3 new conformance tests
(preferring the named player over a closer stranger, returning null when
absent, and case-sensitivity/hidden/no-draw/self rejection).
FellowshipAllegianceGateCoordinator (AcDream.Headless.Policies) is a small
same-process, no-locking (single update thread) carrier for the Recruit
bot's own discovered character name — set by its own HeadlessSessionHost
the instant CharacterList selection resolves it, which IS D8's "discover it
live" mechanism, not a hard-coded value. Constructed once per
HeadlessProcessHost and threaded through HeadlessBotPolicyFactory.Create
into the Leader policy, which now name-matches instead of taking whichever
player entity happens to be closest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first live two-bot run exposed a real gap: retail always confirms an
incoming allegiance swear to the PATRON (0x0274 Character.ConfirmationRequest,
type 1) before ACE sends 0x0020/0x01C8 to either party
(docs/research/2026-08-11-fa-allegiance-wire.md §3.3) — and unlike
fellowship's FellowshipAutoAcceptRequests (which ACE honors server-side,
never even sending a confirmation), there is no auto-accept character option
for allegiance. HeadlessSessionHost wired OnConfirmationRequest to null, so
a headless bot silently dropped every incoming confirmation and the swear
never completed — both bots timed out waiting for TotalVassals/patron to
seed, confirmed live against ACE (both quarantined cleanly with graceful
per-character logout, proving the self-terminating design and existing
graceful-shutdown path both work correctly; this was an FA6 capability gap,
not an FA1-FA5 wire/state defect).
HeadlessSessionHost now latches the single outstanding confirmation
(matching retail's own one-dialog-at-a-time shape) and exposes
PendingConfirmation/RespondToConfirmation, cleared on every reconnect since
a stale context id would be meaningless post-reconnect. The gate's Leader
policy polls and blind-accepts any pending confirmation on every tick before
its own stage switch — the v1 substitute for a human clicking Accept, safe
because the gate's two sessions are its own known bots.
HeadlessBotPolicyFactory.Create takes two new optional delegate parameters
(default null, so cannot break other policy ids); the Leader gate policy
requires them non-null via a defensive constructor check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
two-bot gate
Adds the infrastructure docs/plans/2026-08-11-fellowship-allegiance-campaign.md
D8 and docs/research/2026-08-11-fa-acdream-seams.md §6.2 call for:
- HeadlessBotPolicyDescriptor gains an optional typed Role
(HeadlessBotPolicyRole.Leader/Recruit) so two sessions selecting the SAME
policy id run different scripts — fellowship leader/allegiance patron vs
fellowship recruit/allegiance vassal.
- HeadlessBotPolicyFactory.Create widens from Create(string id) to
Create(HeadlessBotPolicyDescriptor, GameRuntime) — the gate policies need
RuntimeFriendlyTargetQuery, which (like its RuntimeHostileTargetQuery
sibling) takes the concrete GameRuntime rather than the narrower
IGameRuntimeView a policy's own Tick receives (IRuntimeEntityView's
snapshot carries no name/PWD-bitfield). The single call site
(HeadlessSessionHost.cs) already has the constructed runtime in scope, so
no new constructor parameter or cross-session coordinator was needed.
- FellowshipAllegianceLeaderBotPolicy / FellowshipAllegianceRecruitBotPolicy:
a full stage-machine pair covering proximity (retail's admin @teleallto —
"teleport everyone online to me" — needs no cross-session name sharing,
unlike @teleto <name>; D8's proximity requirement is load-bearing, recruit
fails without it), fellowship create+recruit, the D4 0x00A6 panel-open
declaration with a vitals-presence assertion, the decisive two-session
assertions (the RECRUIT bot's own RuntimeFellowshipState/
RuntimeAllegianceState flipping — not the Leader's local echo), a
mid-flow reconnect on both bots proving FA2's reset-and-reseed semantics
over the real wire, and teardown (disband / break) with matching
decisive-clear assertions.
Every pre-FA6 policy (idle, lifecycle-smoke, observer-movement,
portal-route-smoke, jump-probe) is unaffected; the widened factory
signature is the only touch point.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 2: retail's portal-space "In Portal Space..." notice is the SpewBox
(ECM_UI::SendNotice_DisplayStringInfo(0x1A,...) -> AddTextToScroll(str,
0x1A, 1, 0), hardcoded to the SpewBox per the decomp), not a dedicated
centered overlay. PortalWaitNoticeController and its lease are deleted;
PortalTunnelPresentation's per-rotation-segment cadence now writes
straight into RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText(ClientLocal) -- the
SpewBox's own dedupe-at-index-0 handles the repetition exactly as
retail's does. Register row AP-184 records the surface fix and the AP-178
scope extension.
Items 4+5: /help text was partially fabricated -- the user caught the
"/help death" meta-message. Generalized
tools/pdb-extract/sweep_weenie_strings.py to decode narrow
PStringBase<char> literals (the ClientCommunicationSystem::Help* family's
shape) alongside its original UTF-16LE support, then swept every
HelpXxxGroup function's exact byte extent against the PDB-paired
acclient.exe. 4 of 7 group topics (death/status/text/allegiances) are now
complete verbatim listings; the other 3 (channels/chatting/commands) keep
an honest UNVERIFIED note citing HelpStupidChannelHack @0x0056f290 (a
genuinely undecodable BN-mislabeled-fragment mechanism) instead of the
old fabricated sentinel. 7 of ~35 channel one-liners are also now
verbatim. ISSUES.md #364 tracks the remainder;
RetailCommandHelpTableTests.cs pins every result byte-exact.
Item 1: jump-in-air refusal still silent live is NOT reproduced and NOT
speculatively fixed. Exhaustive static re-audit found the mechanism
correct by construction (single-writer OnWalkable, exactly-once-per-frame
Update()/Capture(), no interfering edge-history resets). A live headless
repro (new jump-probe bot policy, real ACE connect) was blocked --
probeaccount2 has no character, and the graphical client already owned
testaccount this session so the task's own fallback rule forbade using
it. Two temporary probes are left behind ACDREAM_PROBE_JUMP=1 (blocked
entirely in Headless by the existing multi-session static-state guard --
graphical-only for the next round).
Item 3 confirmed fixed, no regression. Item 6 (resize: no diagonal
cursors, cannot grow Y from bottom-right) folded into CH6a's existing
scope.
Full Release suite: 12,267 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (up from
12,221/4/0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
