Merge pull request 'chore: remove a stray empty file committed by #70' (#71) from fix/stray-file into edge

Reviewed-on: #71

ci/core-ref.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-  "$comment": "The core this module is proved against. MODULE_API.md §5.3: the frozen-manifest job clones RunicGateway/website at this exact ref, drops this module in as modules/rust and runs CORE's own routeManifest.js — nothing else can answer whether the URLs the module claims are the URLs it actually serves, because a mount prefix is a string in server/index.js and a documented path is a string in a JSON file, and whether those name the same URL is a fact about a running core. It also answers the blind spot phase 1 had to check by hand: core mounts several routes at the TIER ROOT (/status, /version), which the loader's collision probe cannot see, so /rust being free is asserted here by a core rather than by a reading. Pinned rather than tracking a branch on purpose: core moves for reasons that have nothing to do with this module, and a bump is then a deliberate commit saying which core the module was last proved against, instead of an unexplained red X on someone else's PR. Bump it, regenerate routes.manifest.json, and commit both together. This module needs MODULE_API 1.10.0 (module.json's coreApi is ^1.10.0), which the Event System cutover put on `main` — so unlike Module-uo, which spent the Event System window pinned to `edge`, this repo starts pinned to `main` and should stay there unless it comes to depend on a contract member that has not shipped yet. **2026-09-27, protocol 13 step 2:** this module calls ctx.events.expired (MODULE_API 1.11.0, PLAN_FIXES D183), so coreApi is ^1.11.0. It was pinned to website#209's branch head while that PR was open — a 1.10.0 core refuses to load it — and is back on `main` at the sha #209 merged as. **2026-10-12, protocol 14 (PLAN_REDESIGNS §2):** this module registers an event template and declares param durations, a lease value example and option notes (MODULE_API 1.13.0), so coreApi is ^1.13.0. It was pinned to website#212's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #212 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-12, PLAN_REDESIGNS §12 (permission rewards):** this module declares a param with multiple: true (MODULE_API 1.14.0), so coreApi is ^1.14.0. It was pinned to website#213's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #213 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-15, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.4 (Dangerous Treasures):** the Start a Dangerous Treasures event step answers DT's warm-up with retryAfterMs (MODULE_API 1.15.0, D371), so coreApi is ^1.15.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#215 merged as. **2026-10-19, Steam sign-in (PLAN_REDESIGNS §15, D392/D396):** this module registers onIdentityLinking and onIdentityLinked (MODULE_API 1.17.0), so coreApi is ^1.17.0. Pinned to the head of website feat/steam-signin while that PR is open — a 1.16.0 core refuses to load it — and is now on `edge` at the sha website#218 merged as. That is `edge`, not `main`, because #218 went into `edge` for the in-progress cutover. **2026-10-22, the cutover (PLAN_LAST_FIXES stage 6):** website#220 put `edge` on `main`, so this is back on `main` at the sha #220 merged as. That tree adds the last fixes' core half (website#219, no MODULE_API bump), whose only route changes are core's own event routes, so routes.manifest.json does not change. **2026-10-26, the public demo (DEMO_MODE.md §3.4, §3.5, DM18):** this module declares demoLocks, reads ctx.demoMode, registers onDemoSeed (MODULE_API 1.18.0) and gives its two console-command actions demoRefuses (1.19.0), so coreApi is ^1.19.0. It was pinned to the head of website feature/demo-step-refusal (website#224) while that PR was open — a 1.18.0 core never asks demoRefuses — and is back on `main` at the sha #224 merged as (the same tree, so routes.manifest.json does not change).",
+  "$comment": "The core this module is proved against. MODULE_API.md §5.3: the frozen-manifest job clones RunicGateway/website at this exact ref, drops this module in as modules/rust and runs CORE's own routeManifest.js — nothing else can answer whether the URLs the module claims are the URLs it actually serves, because a mount prefix is a string in server/index.js and a documented path is a string in a JSON file, and whether those name the same URL is a fact about a running core. It also answers the blind spot phase 1 had to check by hand: core mounts several routes at the TIER ROOT (/status, /version), which the loader's collision probe cannot see, so /rust being free is asserted here by a core rather than by a reading. Pinned rather than tracking a branch on purpose: core moves for reasons that have nothing to do with this module, and a bump is then a deliberate commit saying which core the module was last proved against, instead of an unexplained red X on someone else's PR. Bump it, regenerate routes.manifest.json, and commit both together. This module needs MODULE_API 1.10.0 (module.json's coreApi is ^1.10.0), which the Event System cutover put on `main` — so unlike Module-uo, which spent the Event System window pinned to `edge`, this repo starts pinned to `main` and should stay there unless it comes to depend on a contract member that has not shipped yet. **2026-09-27, protocol 13 step 2:** this module calls ctx.events.expired (MODULE_API 1.11.0, PLAN_FIXES D183), so coreApi is ^1.11.0. It was pinned to website#209's branch head while that PR was open — a 1.10.0 core refuses to load it — and is back on `main` at the sha #209 merged as. **2026-10-12, protocol 14 (PLAN_REDESIGNS §2):** this module registers an event template and declares param durations, a lease value example and option notes (MODULE_API 1.13.0), so coreApi is ^1.13.0. It was pinned to website#212's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #212 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-12, PLAN_REDESIGNS §12 (permission rewards):** this module declares a param with multiple: true (MODULE_API 1.14.0), so coreApi is ^1.14.0. It was pinned to website#213's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #213 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-15, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.4 (Dangerous Treasures):** the Start a Dangerous Treasures event step answers DT's warm-up with retryAfterMs (MODULE_API 1.15.0, D371), so coreApi is ^1.15.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#215 merged as. **2026-10-19, Steam sign-in (PLAN_REDESIGNS §15, D392/D396):** this module registers onIdentityLinking and onIdentityLinked (MODULE_API 1.17.0), so coreApi is ^1.17.0. Pinned to the head of website feat/steam-signin while that PR is open — a 1.16.0 core refuses to load it — and is now on `edge` at the sha website#218 merged as. That is `edge`, not `main`, because #218 went into `edge` for the in-progress cutover. **2026-10-22, the cutover (PLAN_LAST_FIXES stage 6):** website#220 put `edge` on `main`, so this is back on `main` at the sha #220 merged as. That tree adds the last fixes' core half (website#219, no MODULE_API bump), whose only route changes are core's own event routes, so routes.manifest.json does not change. **2026-10-26, the public demo (DEMO_MODE.md §3.4, §3.5, DM18):** this module declares demoLocks, reads ctx.demoMode, registers onDemoSeed (MODULE_API 1.18.0) and gives its two console-command actions demoRefuses (1.19.0), so coreApi is ^1.19.0. It was pinned to the head of website feature/demo-step-refusal (website#224) while that PR was open — a 1.18.0 core never asks demoRefuses — and is back on `main` at the sha #224 merged as (the same tree, so routes.manifest.json does not change). **2026-10-30, account deletion (ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4):** this module registers onUserDeleting (MODULE_API 1.20.0), so coreApi is ^1.20.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#232 merged as.",
   "repo": "https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/website.git",
-  "ref": "69998ec54854d46681def92985a2b299ee3582a6",
+  "ref": "7bd93b8bb0da734a642587f256d10c523ca39bea",
-  "refName": "website main @ website#224 merge, MODULE_API 1.19.0"
+  "refName": "website main @ website#232 merge, MODULE_API 1.20.0"
 }

engagement-triggers.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "_comment": "Generated freeze of module-rust's engagement contract (docs/modules/rust/PLAN.md §25). Regenerate with `npm run engagement:manifest` in server/. A renamed variable, a changed type or a widened ceiling breaks stored templates and rules, so the diff here is the review signal.",
-  "coreApi": "^1.19.0",
+  "coreApi": "^1.20.0",
   "triggers": [
     {
       "id": "rust.base.destroyed",

module.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "id": "rust",
   "name": "Rust",
   "version": "0.1.0",
-  "coreApi": "^1.19.0",
+  "coreApi": "^1.20.0",
   "server": "server/index.js",
   "client": { "entry": "client/dist/entry.js" },
   "schema": "server/db/schema.sql",
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   "capabilities": ["rust", "servers", "killfeed", "leaderboard", "presence", "wipes", "identity", "map"],
   "demoLocks": [
     { "method": "PUT", "path": "/admin/rust/servers/:id" },
-    { "method": "DELETE", "path": "/admin/rust/servers/:id" }
+    { "method": "DELETE", "path": "/admin/rust/servers/:id" },
+    { "method": "DELETE", "path": "/player/rust/links/:steamId" }
   ]
 }

server/demo.js

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 // ── The public demo's module-side locks (DEMO_MODE.md §3.4, §3.5) ──────────
 //
-// Core locks this module's two link routes by `demoLocks` in module.json. What a
+// Core locks this module's two rig-link routes and the player's Steam unlink by
-// route list cannot express lives here, behind `ctx.demoMode` (MODULE_API
+// `demoLocks` in module.json. What a route list cannot express lives here, behind
-// 1.18.0), and every handler that enforces one of these asks this file:
+// `ctx.demoMode` (MODULE_API 1.18.0), and every handler that enforces one of these
+// asks this file:
 //
+//   the staff Steam unlink on Admin → Users (step-5 walk, W4): it serves under
+//     core's users mount, which a module's demoLocks may not name, so its handler
+//     refuses instead. The demo player's seeded link stays put either way;
 //   the console-command deny list (§3.4, DM11): the commands that would break
 //     the rig for every visitor until the next wipe. Asked at save, through
 //     core's `demoRefuses` hook (1.19.0, DM18), and again at run;

server/demoSeed.js

@@ -9,18 +9,44 @@
 //            .env, so the token is never in the repo
 //   links    demo-player's stand-in Steam id (DM6), so the player screens have
 //            somebody to show
+//   npcs     the NPC faction table and profiles of the demo default set (DM26)
+//   chat     a BetterChat style per group (DM26)
 //
 //   { "servers": [{ "id": "main", "name": "Demo", "sidecarBaseUrl": "$env:RUST_SIDECAR_URL",
 //                   "sidecarToken": "$env:RUST_SIDECAR_TOKEN" }],
-//     "links":   [{ "username": "demo-player", "steamId": "7656119…", "serverId": "main" }] }
+//     "links":   [{ "username": "demo-player", "steamId": "7656119…", "serverId": "main" }],
+//     "npcs":    { "factions": [{ "a": "bandits", "b": "guards", "relation": "allied" }],
+//                  "profiles": [{ "name": "bandit", "servers": ["main"], "body": { … } }] },
+//     "chat":    [{ "serverId": "main", "group": "vip", "style": { "Title": "[VIP]", … } }] }
+//
+// **Why NPCs and chat come from here, not the rig's baseline (DM26).** The rig is
+// restored before the site is wiped, and a fresh site imports what it finds
+// (§7.1). That holds for permissions, but not for these two. The restored rig's
+// RunicNPC says it is already managed, by the site before this one, so the new
+// site adopts nothing (D244) and its first push empties the profiles. The import
+// never adopts a group's chat style. So the site holds them from the start and
+// pushes them, and the placements in the baseline spawn again.
+//
+// A chat style names a group the rig's import has not brought in yet, because
+// the seed runs first. The group is created for that server, and the import
+// then adopts the rig's title, rank and permissions into it. A style lists only
+// the fields that differ from BetterChat's defaults.
 //
 // **It runs on every seed, so it upserts.** Core seeds content on a database's
-// first run only, but calls this every time. Everything is checked before
+// first run only, but calls this every time. The section's shape is checked
-// anything is written, and a problem throws, which fails the seed.
+// before anything is written, and a problem throws, which fails the seed. A
+// profile is checked by the NPC model as it is saved, as the admin page saves
+// one, so a profile the model refuses fails the seed too.
 
 const linksDb = require('./model/links/links.db')
 const servers = require('./model/servers/servers.model')
 const serversDb = require('./model/servers/servers.db')
+const npcs = require('./model/npcs/npcs.model')
+const npcsDb = require('./model/npcs/npcs.db')
+const npcShape = require('./model/npcs/npcProfile')
+const permApply = require('./model/permissions/permissions.apply')
+const permDb = require('./model/permissions/permissions.db')
+const chatStyle = require('./model/permissions/chatStyle')
 const sidecar = require('./sidecarClient')
 const core = require('./core')
 
@@ -28,6 +54,13 @@ const log = core.logger('demo')
 
 const SERVER_ID = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,63}$/
 const STEAM_ID = /^7656119\d{10}$/
+// Oxide group names as the permission model keeps them: trimmed and lower-cased.
+const GROUP_NAME = /^[a-z0-9_.-]{1,64}$/
+
+/** BetterChat's defaults for the group, with the fixture's fields over them. */
+function fullStyle(group, style) {
+  return { ...chatStyle.defaults(String(group || '')), ...(style && typeof style === 'object' ? style : {}) }
+}
 
 /** Every problem with the section, as sentences. Empty when it is good to write. */
 function checkSection(data, accounts = {}) {
@@ -35,11 +68,41 @@ function checkSection(data, accounts = {}) {
   if (!data || typeof data !== 'object' || Array.isArray(data)) return ['modules.rust must be an object']
 
   const list = (key) => (data[key] === undefined ? [] : data[key])
-  for (const key of ['servers', 'links']) {
+  for (const key of ['servers', 'links', 'chat']) {
     if (data[key] !== undefined && !Array.isArray(data[key])) problems.push(`modules.rust.${key} must be an array`)
   }
+  const n = data.npcs
+  if (n !== undefined) {
+    if (!n || typeof n !== 'object' || Array.isArray(n)) problems.push('modules.rust.npcs must be an object')
+    else {
+      if (n.factions !== undefined && !Array.isArray(n.factions)) problems.push('modules.rust.npcs.factions must be an array')
+      if (n.profiles !== undefined && !Array.isArray(n.profiles)) problems.push('modules.rust.npcs.profiles must be an array')
+    }
+  }
   if (problems.length) return problems
 
+  if (n && n.factions !== undefined) {
+    const checked = npcShape.checkFactions(n.factions)
+    if (!checked.ok) problems.push(`modules.rust.npcs.${checked.error}`)
+  }
+  ;((n && n.profiles) || []).forEach((p, i) => {
+    const at = `modules.rust.npcs.profiles[${i}]`
+    if (!p || typeof p !== 'object') return problems.push(`${at} must be an object`)
+    if (!npcShape.NAME_RULE.test(String(p.name || ''))) problems.push(`${at}.name must be 1 to 40 of a-z, 0-9, _ and -`)
+    if (!p.body || typeof p.body !== 'object' || Array.isArray(p.body)) problems.push(`${at}.body must be an object`)
+    return undefined
+  })
+
+  list('chat').forEach((c, i) => {
+    const at = `modules.rust.chat[${i}]`
+    if (!c || typeof c !== 'object') return problems.push(`${at} must be an object`)
+    if (!SERVER_ID.test(String(c.serverId || ''))) problems.push(`${at}.serverId must be a server id`)
+    if (!GROUP_NAME.test(String(c.group || ''))) problems.push(`${at}.group must be a group name`)
+    const checked = chatStyle.validateStyle(fullStyle(c.group, c.style))
+    if (!checked.ok) problems.push(`${at}.style: ${checked.errors.join(' ')}`)
+    return undefined
+  })
+
   list('servers').forEach((s, i) => {
     const at = `modules.rust.servers[${i}]`
     if (!s || typeof s !== 'object') return problems.push(`${at} must be an object`)
@@ -92,6 +155,36 @@ async function onDemoSeed(data, { accounts = {} } = {}) {
     await linksDb.insert({ steamId, userId, name: l.name || null, serverId: l.serverId || null })
     log.info('demo link ready', { username: l.username })
   }
+
+  // After the servers: a profile is refused for a server the site does not have.
+  const n = data.npcs || {}
+  if (n.factions !== undefined) {
+    await npcs.setFactions(n.factions)
+    log.info('demo NPC factions ready', { pairs: n.factions.length })
+  }
+  if (n.profiles && n.profiles.length) {
+    const existing = await npcsDb.listProfiles()
+    for (const p of n.profiles) {
+      const input = { name: p.name, body: p.body, servers: p.servers, allServers: p.allServers, killsScope: p.killsScope }
+      const same = existing.find((e) => e.name === p.name && !e.replaced)
+      if (same) await npcs.update(same.id, input)
+      else await npcs.create(input)
+      log.info('demo NPC profile ready', { profile: p.name })
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (const c of data.chat || []) {
+    const name = String(c.group)
+    let group = await permApply.groupOn(name, c.serverId)
+    if (!group) {
+      const id = await permDb.insertGroup({ name, title: name })
+      await permDb.setGroupServers(id, { allServers: false, servers: [c.serverId] })
+      group = { id }
+    }
+    await permDb.setGroupChat(group.id, chatStyle.validateStyle(fullStyle(name, c.style)).fields)
+    await permDb.markDirty(c.serverId)
+    log.info('demo chat style ready', { server: c.serverId, group: name })
+  }
 }
 
 module.exports = { checkSection, onDemoSeed }

server/index.js

@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ module.exports = function register(ctx, api) {
   api.onIdentityLinking(links.checkSteamSignin)
   api.onIdentityLinked(links.linkFromSteamSignin)
 
+  // Account deletion (MODULE_API 1.20.0; ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4, AD10). Core
+  // asks before the users row goes: every Steam id the account holds is unlinked
+  // through the player's own unlink, and the permission sync is marked dirty so
+  // the withdrawn grants reach the game on the next tick. It cannot stop the
+  // deletion, and never waits on a game.
+  api.onUserDeleting(links.unlinkForDeletion)
+
   // The public demo's seed (MODULE_API 1.18.0, DM15): the rig's server row and
   // demo-player's Steam link, written by this module from its part of the
   // fixture. Called only by `npm run seed:demo` on a DEMO_MODE deployment. The

server/model/links/links.model.js

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 const core = require('../../core')
 const db = require('./links.db')
 const engagement = require('../../engagement/emit')
+const permissionsDb = require('../permissions/permissions.db')
 const servers = require('../servers/servers.model')
 const serversDb = require('../servers/servers.db')
 const sidecar = require('../../sidecarClient')
@@ -351,6 +352,47 @@ async function linkFromSteamSignin({ userId, provider, subject, displayName }) {
   engagement.linked({ userId, steamId, name: displayName || null })
 }
 
+// ── The website account is being deleted (MODULE_API 1.20.0) ──────────────
+//
+// ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4. Core asks before the users row goes, while the
+// person's links can still be read (AD10). The cascade on `rust_account_links`
+// would remove the rows anyway; calling the real unlink keeps what a cascade
+// skips — the `rust.account.unlink` entry staff read and the prompt Teams
+// re-sync — so the game sees exactly what a player's own unlink produces.
+
+/**
+ * Core's `api.onUserDeleting`: unlink every Steam id this account holds.
+ *
+ * The same `unlinkOwned` the player's Rust page calls, one link at a time, each
+ * logged as `rust.account.unlink` with `reason: 'account deleted'`. Then every
+ * server's permission sync is marked dirty: the desired set reaches a grant's
+ * Steam id through the link, so with the links gone the grants have already
+ * left it, and the next tick pushes the withdrawal instead of waiting for the
+ * digest check.
+ *
+ * Nothing here waits on a game. The link is the site's own record and the plugin
+ * keeps none (the header above), so there is never pending work: what this does
+ * not finish, the cascade does.
+ */
+async function unlinkForDeletion({ userId, deletedBy }) {
+  const held = await db.listForUser(userId)
+  let removed = 0
+  for (const row of held) {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
+    if (await unlinkOwned(row.steamId, userId)) {
+      removed += 1
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
+      await core.activity.log({
+        userId,
+        action: 'rust.account.unlink',
+        detail: { steamId: row.steamId, reason: 'account deleted', deletedBy },
+      })
+    }
+  }
+  if (removed > 0) await permissionsDb.markDirty(null)
+  log.info('rust links removed before an account was deleted', { userId, deletedBy, removed })
+}
+
 /** The admin panel's read: every link this user holds, with per-server totals. */
 async function forAdmin(userId) {
   const links = await db.listForUserWithPlayer(userId)
@@ -393,5 +435,6 @@ module.exports = {
   unlinkFromGame,
   checkSteamSignin,
   linkFromSteamSignin,
+  unlinkForDeletion,
   forAdmin,
 }

server/router/admin/usersRust.controller.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 const crypto = require('node:crypto')
 
 const core = require('../../core')
+const demo = require('../../demo')
 
 const backpacks = require('../../model/backpacks/backpacks.model')
 const economics = require('../../model/economics/economics.model')
@@ -54,6 +55,10 @@ async function removeLink(req, res) {
   const { steamId } = req.params
   const userId = req.params.id
 
+  // On the demo the player's own unlink is locked by demoLocks; this route serves
+  // under core's users mount, which a module may not lock by route, so it asks here.
+  if (demo.isDemo()) return demo.refuse(res)
+
   try {
     const removed = await links.unlinkOwned(steamId, userId)
 

server/test/_fakes.js

@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ function fakeApi() {
     onIdentityLinked(fn) { once('onIdentityLinked'); record.hooks.onIdentityLinked = fn },
     // MODULE_API 1.18.0 (the public demo's seed, DM15).
     onDemoSeed(fn) { once('onDemoSeed'); record.hooks.onDemoSeed = fn },
+    // MODULE_API 1.20.0 (account deletion, ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4).
+    onUserDeleting(fn) { once('onUserDeleting'); record.hooks.onUserDeleting = fn },
   }
   api.record = record
   return api

server/test/demo.test.js

@@ -375,13 +375,116 @@ test('a re-seed leaves a link the right owner holds, and moves one held by someo
   assert.deepEqual(writes, ['DELETE', 'INSERT'])
 })
 
+// ── NPCs and chat styles from the seed (DM26) ──────────────────────────────
+
+const NPC_SECTION = {
+  npcs: {
+    factions: [{ a: 'bandits', b: 'guards', relation: 'allied' }],
+    profiles: [
+      { name: 'bandit', servers: ['main'], body: { kits: ['rnpc_raider'], role: 'roamer' } },
+      { name: 'guard', servers: ['main'], body: { kits: ['rnpc_campguard'], role: 'sentry' } },
+    ],
+  },
+  chat: [
+    { serverId: 'main', group: 'vip', style: { Title: '[VIP]', TitleColor: '#ffaa00' } },
+    { serverId: 'main', group: 'moderator', style: { Title: '[MOD]' } },
+  ],
+}
+
+/** Stubs the models the seed writes NPCs and chat styles through; returns the calls. */
+function stubSeedModels({ profiles = [], groups = {} } = {}) {
+  const calls = []
+  const npcs = require('../model/npcs/npcs.model')
+  const npcsDb = require('../model/npcs/npcs.db')
+  const apply = require('../model/permissions/permissions.apply')
+  const permDb = require('../model/permissions/permissions.db')
+  npcs.setFactions = async (f) => calls.push(['setFactions', f])
+  npcs.create = async (input) => calls.push(['create', input.name, input.servers])
+  npcs.update = async (id, input) => calls.push(['update', id, input.name])
+  npcsDb.listProfiles = async () => profiles
+  apply.groupOn = async (name) => groups[name] || null
+  permDb.insertGroup = async ({ name }) => {
+    calls.push(['insertGroup', name])
+    return 50
+  }
+  permDb.setGroupServers = async (id, s) => calls.push(['setGroupServers', id, s.servers])
+  permDb.setGroupChat = async (id, style) => calls.push(['setGroupChat', id, style.Title, style.TitleColor, Object.keys(style).length])
+  permDb.markDirty = async (scope) => calls.push(['markDirty', scope])
+  return calls
+}
+
+test('the NPC and chat parts of the seed section are checked before anything is written', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const seed = require('../demoSeed')
+  assert.deepEqual(seed.checkSection(NPC_SECTION, {}), [])
+  const problems = seed.checkSection({
+    npcs: { factions: [{ a: 'scientists', b: 'animals', relation: 'hostile' }], profiles: [{ name: 'Bad Name', body: [] }] },
+    chat: [{ serverId: 'Main', group: '', style: { Title: '[VIP]', Nope: 1 } }],
+  }, {})
+  assert.equal(problems.length, 6, problems.join(' | '))
+  assert.deepEqual(seed.checkSection({ npcs: [] }, {}), ['modules.rust.npcs must be an object'])
+  const calls = stubSeedModels()
+  await assert.rejects(seed.onDemoSeed({ chat: [{ serverId: 'main', group: 'vip', style: { Priority: 'x' } }] }, { accounts: {} }), /style/)
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, [])
+})
+
+test('the seed sets the faction table, saves each profile, and styles each group', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const calls = stubSeedModels({ profiles: [{ id: 7, name: 'bandit', replaced: false }], groups: { vip: { id: 13 } } })
+  await require('../demoSeed').onDemoSeed(NPC_SECTION, { accounts: {} })
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, [
+    ['setFactions', NPC_SECTION.npcs.factions],
+    ['update', 7, 'bandit'], // already there: updated, not created twice
+    ['create', 'guard', ['main']],
+    ['setGroupChat', 13, '[VIP]', '#ffaa00', 12], // all twelve fields, the defaults filled in
+    ['markDirty', 'main'],
+    ['insertGroup', 'moderator'], // the rig's import has not brought it in yet
+    ['setGroupServers', 50, ['main']],
+    ['setGroupChat', 50, '[MOD]', '#55aaff', 12],
+    ['markDirty', 'main'],
+  ])
+})
+
 // ── The manifest (§3.2) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-test('module.json locks the two link routes and needs a core that asks demoRefuses', () => {
+test('module.json locks the two rig-link routes and the player Steam unlink, and needs a core that asks demoRefuses', () => {
   const manifest = require('../../module.json')
   assert.deepEqual(manifest.demoLocks, [
     { method: 'PUT', path: '/admin/rust/servers/:id' },
     { method: 'DELETE', path: '/admin/rust/servers/:id' },
+    { method: 'DELETE', path: '/player/rust/links/:steamId' },
   ])
-  assert.equal(manifest.coreApi, '^1.19.0')
+  // A floor, not an exact value: later contract members raise it (1.20.0 for
+  // account deletion), and what this test holds is that it never drops below the
+  // core that asks demoRefuses.
+  const [major, minor] = manifest.coreApi.replace(/^\^/, '').split('.').map(Number)
+  assert.ok(major === 1 && minor >= 19, `coreApi ${manifest.coreApi} is at least ^1.19.0`)
+})
+
+// ── The staff Steam unlink (W4) ────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('staff cannot sever a Steam link on the demo, and the link is never touched', async () => {
+  for (const demoMode of [true, false]) {
+    withCore({ demo: demoMode })
+    const links = require('../model/links/links.model')
+    const asked = []
+    links.unlinkOwned = async (steamId, userId) => {
+      asked.push([steamId, userId])
+      return true
+    }
+    const res = fakeRes()
+    await require('../router/admin/usersRust.controller').removeLink(
+      { params: { id: '3', steamId: '76561190000000001' }, user: { id: 1 } },
+      res,
+    )
+    if (demoMode) {
+      assert.equal(res.statusCode, 403)
+      assert.equal(res.body.code, 'DEMO_LOCKED')
+      assert.deepEqual(asked, [])
+    } else {
+      assert.equal(res.statusCode, 200)
+      assert.deepEqual(res.body, { unlinked: true })
+      assert.deepEqual(asked, [['76561190000000001', '3']])
+    }
+  }
 })

server/test/entry.test.js

@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ test('registers both identity hooks, so a Steam sign-in link is a Rust link (D39
   assert.strictEqual(api.record.hooks.onIdentityLinked, links.linkFromSteamSignin)
 })
 
+test('registers the account-deletion hook, so a deleted account is unlinked first (AD10)', () => {
+  const { api } = register()
+  const links = require('../model/links/links.model')
+  assert.strictEqual(api.record.hooks.onUserDeleting, links.unlinkForDeletion)
+})
+
 test('the manifest declares what the loader requires', () => {
   assert.match(manifest.id, /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]{1,31}$/)
   assert.match(manifest.version, /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/)

server/test/links.test.js

@@ -472,6 +472,42 @@ test('the linked hook writes nothing for a link that is already there, or for an
   assert.equal(ctx.teams.reconcile.calls.length, 0)
 })
 
+// ── The website account is being deleted (MODULE_API 1.20.0, AD10) ─────────
+
+test('a deleted account loses every Steam link through the player’s own unlink, each logged', async () => {
+  const { ctx, queries } = withCore({ select: [[{ steamId: '7656', userId: 4 }, { steamId: STEAM, userId: 4 }]] })
+  const links = require('../model/links/links.model')
+
+  await links.unlinkForDeletion({ userId: 4, deletedBy: 'self' })
+
+  // The same statement `unlinkOwned` uses, scoped by user, once per link.
+  const dels = queries.filter((q) => q.sql.trim().toUpperCase().startsWith('DELETE'))
+  assert.deepEqual(dels.map((q) => q.params), [['7656', 4], [STEAM, 4]])
+
+  // What a cascade would skip: one entry per link, and the Teams re-sync.
+  assert.deepEqual(ctx.activity.log.calls.map((c) => c[0]), [
+    { userId: 4, action: 'rust.account.unlink', detail: { steamId: '7656', reason: 'account deleted', deletedBy: 'self' } },
+    { userId: 4, action: 'rust.account.unlink', detail: { steamId: STEAM, reason: 'account deleted', deletedBy: 'self' } },
+  ])
+  assert.equal(ctx.teams.reconcile.calls.length, 2)
+
+  // Every server is marked dirty, so the withdrawn grants go on the next tick.
+  const dirty = queries.filter((q) => /UPDATE rust_perm_sync SET dirty = 1/.test(q.sql))
+  assert.equal(dirty.length, 1)
+  assert.ok(!/WHERE/.test(dirty[0].sql), 'the whole fleet, not one server')
+})
+
+test('an account with no Steam link deletes without touching the game or the sync', async () => {
+  const { ctx, queries } = withCore({ select: [[]] })
+  const links = require('../model/links/links.model')
+
+  await links.unlinkForDeletion({ userId: 4, deletedBy: 'staff' })
+
+  assert.equal(queries.filter((q) => !q.sql.trim().toUpperCase().startsWith('SELECT')).length, 0)
+  assert.equal(ctx.activity.log.calls.length, 0)
+  assert.equal(ctx.teams.reconcile.calls.length, 0)
+})
+
 test('a /link that lands between core’s check and the hook keeps its link; the hook does not throw', async () => {
   const dup = Object.assign(new Error('dup'), { code: 'ER_DUP_ENTRY' })
   const { ctx } = withCore({ select: [[]], onInsert: () => Promise.reject(dup) })