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First track of the alpha-release program. Four deliverables: exact BuildChatColorLookupTable colors, working side channels vs ACE, retail's on-screen interface text, complete / and @ command registry. Model split per user direction: Opus research, Fable planning, Sonnet implementation, dual-lens Opus review per slice. Slices finalize when the four research lanes land. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Campaign CH — chat & interface-text retail parity
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**Status:** ACTIVE 2026-08-09 — research lanes running; slices finalize when
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they land.
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**Why now:** first track of the alpha-release program (chat is the most
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visible daily surface for the friend-alpha). User-directed 2026-08-09.
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## Scope
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Four deliverables, one campaign:
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1. **Exact chat colors.** The 2026-06-16 cdb session pinned the retail
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`RGBAColor` constants (0x81c4a8+), but only 4 of ~13 kinds were mapped
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with confidence; the type→color lookup table
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(`ChatInterface::BuildChatColorLookupTable @ 0x4f31c0`) was never
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decompiled. This campaign pins the COMPLETE table and conforms
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`ChatWindowController.RetailChatColor` to it.
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2. **Working side channels vs local ACE.** Turbine rooms (General / Trade /
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LFG / Roleplay / Society) and the legacy family (/f /a /m /p /v /cv),
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inbound and outbound. The 26-day-old "ACE doesn't run a TurbineChat
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server" claim is under verification — the research lane reads current
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ACE source rather than trusting it.
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3. **Retail's on-screen interface text.** The transient yellow
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top-of-viewport messages (jump-while-airborne being the canonical
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example) that retail does NOT put in the chat window. Routing table
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(on-screen vs chat vs both), presentation (color/duration/fade as far
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as acclient-side data allows — the draw itself lives in keystone.dll),
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and the client-raised local errors.
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4. **Complete `/` and `@` command registry.** Every command the retail
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client parses, audited against `RetailClientCommandCatalog` (the
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2026-07-13 family port is the baseline, not a restart). Missing
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commands implemented; non-retail verbs remain ACE server-passthrough
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per the command ownership rule (2026-07-13).
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**Out of scope:** retail's secondary/floating chat windows and per-window
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filter masks (post-alpha polish unless a slice lands it for free); chat
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color user-configurability (we ship retail defaults); TurbineChat server
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emulation (ACE-side).
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## Method
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Per CLAUDE.md: grep `docs/research/named-retail/` first; cdb only where
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static decomp is insufficient; cross-check ACE + holtburger; conformance
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tests pin every table (colors, routing, command catalog); divergence
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register rows land in the same commits; build + full Release suite green
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per commit.
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**Model split (user-directed 2026-08-09):** research on Opus; planning by
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the main loop (Fable); implementation slices on Sonnet; every slice gets a
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dual-lens Opus review — retail faithfulness AND architecture — before its
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gate.
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## Research lanes (all Opus, parallel, read-only)
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| Lane | Output doc | Question |
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| R1 command registry | `docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-command-registry.md` | Complete retail verb/alias/handler table + acdream audit |
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| R2 interface text | `docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-interface-text.md` | What draws the yellow text, the routing table, client-raised errors |
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| R3 color table | `docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-color-table.md` | Full BuildChatColorLookupTable decompile + wire→type→color trace |
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| R4 side channels | `docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-side-channels-vs-ace.md` | Per-family defect diagnosis vs current ACE source |
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## Slices (provisional — finalized when research lands)
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Ordering rationale: colors first (small, immediately visible, zero wire
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risk), then interface text (new presentation subsystem), then side
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channels (wire work, needs the connected gate), then command breadth,
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then closeout. Slices touching shared chat files run serially — one
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implementer per slice against a pinned contract (per
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`feedback_dont_parallelize_coupled_plan_slices`).
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- **CH1 — exact color table.** Conformance test pins every enum entry to
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its retail RGBA; `RetailChatColor` corrected; register rows for any kind
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we cannot yet receive on the wire.
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- **CH2 — on-screen interface text.** New presentation owner (App layer,
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retained-UI or TextRenderer HUD path per research recommendation);
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routing per retail's table; client-raised local errors ported at their
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retail raise sites; keystone-owned presentation unknowns get register
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rows.
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- **CH3 — side channels.** Fix list from R4; connected two-way gate
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against local ACE (send + receive per family); self-echo semantics per
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`ChatChannelInfo.IsSelfEchoChannel`.
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- **CH4 — command registry completion.** Catalog conformance test pins
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acdream's table against the retail registry enumeration; missing
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commands implemented family-by-family.
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- **CH5 — closeout.** Register sweep, ledger flip, ISSUES updates,
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in-client test script for the user gate.
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## Gates
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- Per slice: `dotnet build` green, full Release suite green, conformance
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tests, register rows same-commit, Opus dual review resolved.
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- Campaign: user in-client gate — colors side-by-side vs the retail
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client, each side channel spoken + heard, on-screen text provoked live
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(jump in air), command spot-checks. Test script delivered at CH5.
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## Ledger
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| Slice | Commit | Suite | Review | User gate |
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| R1–R4 research | — | — | — | — |
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| CH1 colors | — | — | — | — |
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| CH2 interface text | — | — | — | — |
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| CH3 side channels | — | — | — | — |
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| CH4 commands | — | — | — | — |
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| CH5 closeout | — | — | — | — |
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