Two findings of the step-2 player walk (2026-09-27, both rigs).
F6, option (b) of the org lead (D186): a code no recent issuer holds -
every made-up one - was still asked of every other enabled server, and
while any of them was down the redeem waited out its whole timeout
(12 s on both rigs). The second pass now skips the servers the board
poll last saw without a connected game; they count as offline without
the wait. Issuers are still asked whatever their state, so a good code
on a down server stays "unsure". Live on the walk core: 338 ms with five
servers down, 360 ms with a rig stopped as well.
F7 (D187): on Carbon a due audit sync went out the moment the sidecar
reconnected, 80 s before "Server startup complete". The worldReady hold
reads the stored hello, which is the OLD boot's until the poll reads the
new one. reasonToSync now also holds while the stored state says the
game is not connected (online 0), which the poll writes the moment the
server goes away. titleSync already held on it.
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The module's half of PLAN_FIXES §6 step 2 (decisions D181-D185, docs#288).
- F13/F14 (D170, D183): `world.expired`, recognisable from protocol 13 by its
`what`, is handed to core as the resource the zone step ledgered
(`world`, `<serverId>:<id>`) through ctx.events.expired, which records it
`expired`. coreApi moves to ^1.11.0 (website#209).
- F8 (D184): `plugin.loaded` / `plugin.unloaded` mark the permission sync dirty
when the plugin added or removed permissions, so an unresolved grant lands on
the next tick instead of the fifteen-minute audit.
- Catalogue: plugin.loaded/unloaded, world.expired and lease.expired are staff
kinds. The last two were never classified (default deny kept them off public
pages); the test now covers every event kind through protocol 13.
- F7: permission and title pushes hold while the stored hello says
`worldReady: false` (a human's "sync now" does not); a failed or refused
permission sync now logs at warn.
- F2 (D185): the killfeed names an NPC attacker — a family (Scientist, Bandit
guard, Bradley APC…) or the prefab without its variant digits (wolf2 → Wolf).
- F5/F6: a link code is asked of the servers that minted one in the last six
minutes first, then of the rest, each group in parallel; "unsure" only when
one of the minting servers is unreachable.
- D182: the admin server list carries the ZoneManager helper's state from the
hello, and the servers page says what a missing or failed helper costs.
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PLAN.md §33, D134-D143. Protocol 12.
- Chat titles (D135-D137): per-server rules (stat, top N, text, colour)
that rank the current wipe, and a mode (first | all | up to N). Worked
out once in model/titles and read three ways: pushed whole to the game by
a new titleSync loop (on change, restart or wipe), and on every
leaderboard row as `titles`. Admin: PUT /servers/:id/titles.
- Group styles (D138, D139): a site group may carry all twelve BetterChat
fields (rust_perm_group_chat). They ride perm.sync with `expect` from the
pushed ledger, which gains a value column; a field changed in game is a
`chat-field` drift row with the game's value, adopted into the style or
put back. A withdrawn style is one `chat-group` retirement, never for
`default`, cleared from the ledger only once BetterChat removed it.
- The voice (D140): one fleet setting naming a styled group; news and
rust.announce chat lines carry its format and the plugin says them with
no sender. Admin: GET/PUT /voice.
- Popups (D141, D142): rust.announce gains `delivery` (still version 1,
from rust.options.delivery); each server gains news_delivery beside the
news switch; `popup-unavailable` is not retried.
- GET /servers/:id/integrations reads, live, which optional mods a server
has loaded. README lists BetterChat and PopupNotifications as optional.
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Four event verbs and the announce leg, per PLAN.md §29:
- rust.participation.open / .collect: the plugin counts who takes part
(seconds, kills or both, in a zone this run opened or the whole server)
and collect files them as the run's participants, keyed by Steam id.
- rust.kit.entitle: the five recipient modes (D101), rows in the new
rust_perm_run_grants (D84) unioned into the permission push, one extra
use of the kit per reward as site-held credits on perm.sync (D103),
and the rust.kit.entitled notice deferred from phase 10 (D64).
- rust.announce: one server or every server (D105).
- rust.chat announce leg, speaking only on servers whose new news switch
is on (D104) - a card on Admin -> Rust visibility (D106).
Budgets rust.grants and rust.announcements; the kit source and four
fixed-choice sources (core has no enum param type). rust_perm_run_grants
carries core's idempotency key so a revert of a lost answer can find its
rows. Protocol 10.
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- registerEventActions: rust.zone.open and rust.prefab.place, both
reversible 'ledger' with revert() and reconcile(), budgetMs 15000 above the
client's 12 s. A location is a monument (kind + instance, carrying its
server) or raw coordinates, exactly one (D87, D93); bounds mirrored from the
plugin so a bad step is refused on the form (D95); zone minutes required and
held by the game (D96).
- registerEventBudgets: rust.prefabs, rust.npcs and rust.zone.minutes, each
beside the verb that spends it (D79, D89).
- Option sources rust.options.monuments (live, searchable) and
rust.options.prefabs (mirrored, answers with every server off), registered in
the one batch core accepts alongside the lease sources.
- Refs are <serverId>:<id>, since revert and reconcile get no params. The undo
sends no idempotency key; a lost answer is reverted by key on every server.
reconcile asks the plugin, and a server that cannot be asked keeps its rows.
- The refresh's bootId/wipeId watch calls ctx.events.reconcile() on a restart
or a wipe, never on a first sighting or a reconnect (§11.1).
- The permission mirror keeps the plugin's new notLanded grants out of what it
records as pushed, and the admin page says so (D85).
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R2, and the first phase where this module WRITES to a game. Groups and grants are
authored on the website and pushed into each server's own permission store, so
every plugin that already calls `UserHasPermission` honours them with no adapter,
and a wipe stops being a data-loss event.
**Seven org-lead decisions (D28-D34).** A grant is keyed to the website USER and
resolved to every Steam id they have linked at push time (D28); every authored row
carries a scope — a server or `*` (D29); groups are mirrored as real groups rather
than flattened (D30); a holder the site did not author is REPORTED, never undone,
with adopt and revoke offered (D31); one verb, with the plugin diffing locally
(D32); a permission no server has registered is reported unresolved and never
self-registered (D33); authoring is people and groups by hand, with rules deferred
(D34).
**Three sets, and every interesting question is a difference between two.**
`desired − pushed` is what to apply; `pushed − desired` is what to RETIRE, because
the site put it there and has since withdrawn it; `present − desired` is drift. The
middle one is why `rust_perm_pushed` exists: a name in the store that is not in the
desired set is either something the site retired or something a human granted, and
those two have opposite correct answers.
**What lands is not what was sent.** A grant naming a permission the server has not
registered did not land — `GrantUserPermission` no-ops silently — and a member the
store has never seen could not be placed. Neither is recorded as pushed, so the
site never believes it gave a privilege it did not.
The loop asks a cheap question every thirty seconds — does the digest of the
desired set still equal what this server last confirmed — and syncs on a change, a
restart, a wipe, a drift hook, a failed attempt past its backoff, or the
fifteen-minute audit that finds drift on a server nobody has touched.
**This module's first admin page**, because a permission model is the first thing
here that has to be composed rather than configured. What is on it is decided by
what an operator can get wrong: four states are invisible from the game and from a
list of grants, and each is a sentence rather than a number.
Walked end to end against a real core at the pinned ref, the real sidecar, and a
stand-in speaking protocol 4 — including a restart that emptied the store and was
fully re-pushed. Four defects the browser found that 133 green tests did not.
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