acdream/docs/plans/2026-08-25-assess-window-parity-campaign.md

Campaign AS — assess/examination window retail parity (player targets)

Status: CLOSED — CONNECTED GATE PASSED 2026-08-25 ("fixed! gate pass!"). AS1–AS5 review-closed; the gate round harvested two findings, both resolved in-round: the extras-list "black rectangle" is retail's own authored scroll-less clipped listbox (no scrollbar authored on 0x10000335 — verified against the live DAT; wheel-scroll and resize reveal rows; AS-GF1 65f6f584 ruled it not-a-code-defect), and the paperdoll's absence narrowed to an intermittent FIRST-OPEN DELAY (#443, kept open) after the probe round proved the render layer healthy — the render pipeline was never broken by this campaign. Gate probes deleted at close per the probe-dies rule (recoverable via git show 65f6f584). Branch NOT pushed — the owner pushes on their word.

Owner report (2026-08-25, side-by-side screenshots, acdream vs retail, both assessing the player "Dww"): acdream's examination window on a PLAYER target is missing retail's identity block and body/config sections.

Missing vs retail:

1. Identity block under the title bar: gender + heritage ("Female Aluvian"), current display title ("War Mage"), PK status ("Non-Player Killer") — none of it rendered by acdream.
2. Per-bodypart armor levels: retail shows three grouped rows — "Head/Chest/Groin AL: x/y/z", "Bicep/Wrist/Hand AL: x/y/z", "Thigh/Shin/Foot AL: x/y/z". Absent in acdream.
3. Target-configurable extras: retail only shows what the assessed player configured to show (date of birth, age, number of deaths, chess rank, fishing skill, damage/crit ratings, …). acdream shows a "Dmg/CritDmg Rating:" line but not the rest of the family.
4. Allegiance/faction lines: allegiance name/patron/faction shown when the target has them. Absent in acdream.

Explicit owner rulings:

• The animated 3D paperdoll is an INTENTIONAL acdream deviation (register row AD-114, filed at AS2). Retail's examine preview clone is NOT a static tinted preview — it is INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATED, just decoupled from the live target: BasicCreatureExamineUI::Init @0x004AB9C0 clones the selected object via CPhysicsObj::makeObject @0x005144B0 (which runs MorphToExistingObject then play_script_internal(setup->default_script_id)), sets the clone's heading to 191.367905°, and CreatureMode::Render @0x004529D0 runs update_position on it every frame. acdream's deviation is that our preview mirrors the target's LIVE motion instead of playing its own private, decoupled cycle. Keep ours. (Retail's preview colors are also buggy on the owner's reference setup, so porting the decoupled clone would not even be a faithfulness win.)
• Retail comparison is the oracle for text composition; all strings come from DAT StringTables per the decomp — never hardcoded English literals.
• All UI work goes through the standard GUI classes (UiLabel / UiPanel / UiScrollablePanel / retail chrome) — no bespoke widgets, no quick fixes.

Execution model (set by owner)

• Fable plans and coordinates (this doc + slice contracts + synthesis).
• Sonnet implements each slice against a pinned contract.
• Opus runs the dual-lens review per slice — retail-faithfulness lens + architecture lens — followed by a fix round; slice is REVIEW-CLOSED only after the re-review accepts the fixes.
• Commit to the worktree branch (claude/windmill-seam-and-solid-polys) as slices land, full hermetic suite green each time (Lane!=InstalledDat&Lane!=PreparedPackage&Lane!=Live&Lane!=Manual&Lane!=Timing&Lane!=Windows&Lane!=Linux&Lane!=SystemFont&Purpose!=Diagnostic&Status!=KnownFailure).
• Do NOT push to gitea until the owner says so.
• Campaign stops when all slices are REVIEW-CLOSED and the connected-gate script is written and waiting on the owner's drive.

Ground truth sources

• docs/research/named-retail/acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt — the retail examination window class, line composition, StringTable keys, 0x00C9 client-side parse.
• references/ACE/ — what our live server actually sends per flag, and the target-option gating rules.
• references/Chorizite.ACProtocol/ — field-order cross-check.
• Campaign CT sealed verdicts (claude-memory/project_character_panel_campaign.md) — the heritage/title composition and PK bitfield rules already ported for the character panel; REUSE, do not re-derive.
• Research synthesis doc (AS1 output): docs/research/2026-08-25-campaign-as-ground-truth.md.

Slices (FINAL — re-cut at AS1: the 0x00C9 parse is already complete and

the appraisal profile is session-scoped UI presentation state flowing through the established router seam, so the skeleton's wire and runtime-owner slices are unnecessary; all work is App-side composition)

Oracle for every slice: docs/research/2026-08-25-campaign-as-ground-truth.md (AS1 synthesis) — its §2 line-composition tables, §3 wire truth, §4 gap ledger G1–G10, and §5 rulings R1–R8 are BINDING on implementers and reviewers. Deviating from a ruling requires a plan-doc amendment, not an implementer judgment call.

• AS1 — ground truth synthesis (DONE, Fable). Three research lenses merged; gap ledger G1–G10; rulings R1–R8.
• AS2 — header identity block (Sonnet). Fix the element mis-mapping in AppraisalUiController.ApplyCreature(character: true) per ground truth §2a: 0x10000150 ← composed gender+heritage (reuse CharacterIdentityText, including retail's heritage-id overrides and the creature fallback when heritage==0); 0x10000151 ← current display title via CharacterTitleResolver (Int 261, fallback String 5 Template); 0x10000152 ← PK line from the assessed ClientObject's PWD bits (PlayerKillerStatusBitfield, ruling R7); 0x1000053A ← String 47 AllegianceName gated on Int 30 ≥ 1, DELETING the invented "Assessment incomplete" literal. First-ever AppraisalView.Character controller tests (G10). Register: file the animated-paperdoll AD row (owner-ruled intentional deviation 2026-08-25) in this commit.
• AS3 — armor-level rows + extras-list plumbing (Sonnet). Plumb Parsed.ArmorLevels into the extras composer (signature change from bare PropertyBundle); emit the spacer + three grouped AL rows before the rating rows per ground truth §2b rows 3–7, including the *%d ≥9999 unenchantable rendering, retail's per-row rating gates (307|313|314 · 308|315|316 · 350|351), spacer discipline per ruling R4, and the * = Unenchantable legend per ruling R3 (unconditional, gate-verified). Ordering pinned by tests.
• AS4 — society/allegiance/fellowship + configurable extras (Sonnet). Ground truth §2b rows 1–2 and 8–14: the Society row with rank bands and the local-vs-target faction color rule; the Monarch/Patron/Followers cascade; Fellowship; Arrived in Dereth; Time in Dereth (locate or port ClientUISystem::DeltaTimeToString — grep for an existing port first); Chess Rank; Fishing Skill; Deaths ("Has never died" at ≤0); Titles Earned. Register: narrow AP-110 ("exhaustive character detail regions" clause retires) in this commit.
• AS5 — allegiance rank-title table (Sonnet). Port the 17-function heritage×gender AllegianceSystem::GetTitle @0x005B8DD0 table (census per AP-109's corrected 2026-08-25 text: 11 heritages → 17 functions, ~170 strings; Gearknight/Tumerok male-only reused, Lugian female-only reused, Penumbraen aliases Shadowbound, Olthoi excluded by the unsigned range check) + AllegianceData::GetFullName @0x005B6950; wire the examination title bar (rank from props.GetInt(0x1E), ruling R8) AND the character panel's name line (closing AP-109's rank-prefix residual). Register: NARROW AP-109 in this commit (CORRECTED at the AS5 review — retiring would have deleted a live open item: CT4's FormatXp GetNumberFormatA approximation sliver survives as the row's sole remaining item, so the row stays active-narrowed).
• AS6 — connected gate script (Fable). User-driven script docs/research/2026-08-25-campaign-as-test-script.md; two-client where needed (allegiance/fellowship/PK lines, deception-failure rendering); includes the R3 legend retail-side-by-side check and the owner's configurable-extras toggle matrix.

Slices AS2→AS3→AS4 are SERIAL (all touch AppraisalUiController / CreatureAppraisalRows — coupled-file rule); AS5 may run after AS4's review closes. Each slice: Sonnet implements → full hermetic suite green → commit → Opus dual-lens review (retail-faithfulness + architecture) → fix round → narrow re-review → REVIEW-CLOSED.

Ledger

Slice	State	Land / fix commits	Notes
AS1	DONE 2026-08-25	(docs commit)	3-agent research; ground-truth doc committed
AS2	REVIEW-CLOSED 2026-08-25	f8a22589 / cc5290af	port exact per dual-lens review; 6 findings (docs/test/refactor) fixed; +AD-114 (animated paperdoll), +AD-115 (title clear-vs-stale), PK bits promoted to PublicWeenieFlags; carried follow-up chip: 3 more Core PK-bit copies
AS3	REVIEW-CLOSED 2026-08-25	1616cd3d (no fix round)	APPROVE first pass — trio/legend/monster-path exact by offset-level decomp verification; R3 flattening theory disproven at source; ratings adjudication: pre-AS3 code already retail-exact. 5 NITs: 12 (legend-order comment), 11 (stronger refresh test) fold into AS4; 14/15 done in the close commit; 13 (geometry-keyed test helper) noted
AS4	REVIEW-CLOSED 2026-08-25	4ade9b04 / bf8f5b70 (docs-only fix)	port exact per dual-lens review (presence-gate adjudicated FOR the implementer at InqInt @0x005B3830; Time-in-Dereth = pre-existing RetailDurationText @0x00565E10 port, correct reuse); fix round was oracle-doc corrections + records only, NO code change. True full-solution hermetic count 15,528 (the commit's 15,410 was a mis-report). AS6 carry-note: the Society green/red colorIdx is MODEL-ONLY (ResolveColor no-op pending AP-110 FontInfo residual) — the gate script must NOT gate on row colors. Pre-existing parallel-load flake surfaced (shadow-caster zero-alloc pin) — #442, unrelated to AS4
AS5	REVIEW-CLOSED 2026-08-25	8f8c0c3a / 9f3e3263	the campaign's most rigorously verified slice: 170/170 title strings confirmed (164 mechanical diff, 6 PE byte-decoded from the PDB-paired binary), all 20 dispatch arms, all 17 bounds tests, both call sites re-derived; zero behavioral findings. Fix round = "retires AP-109" → "narrows" at 5 comment sites + the plan (the FormatXp sliver keeps the row active); re-review also flagged + this close fixed the last "retires" phrasing (AppraisalUiController.cs) and the CT plan's stale retirement intent
AS6	GATE PASSED 2026-08-25	script 87e98395; gate round 65f6f584 (AS-GF1) + probe-removal close commit	owner ran the gate live; two findings harvested and resolved in-round (extras clip = retail's authored scroll-less listbox, not a defect; paperdoll = #443 first-open delay, render layer proven healthy by probe); identity block, AL rows, allegiance/extras, and the rank-title title bar all owner-verified; probes stripped at close