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>
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