rust-carbon (id 18, 87fb1f67) is built on the same egg with FRAMEWORK=carbon,
a clean install rather than a converted one. Install 122s, boot 543s.
R19 is proven. The byte-identical RunicGateway.cs that runs on the Oxide rig,
with no conditional compilation in it at all, loaded on Carbon 2.0.259.0 and
behaved identically - same startup line, same no-stall retry against an absent
sidecar. That contract now holds on three platforms from one source file:
Windows/Mono, Linux/Oxide, Linux/Carbon.
R18's amendment is confirmed the best way it could have been. The plugin's own
config, written by the same Oxide-compat API on both rigs, landed at
oxide/config/RunicGateway.json on one and carbon/configs/RunicGateway.json on
the other. Had the R18 editor used a literal path it would not have found its
own plugin's config on half of all installs, and no test would have caught it.
One claim is REFUTED, and it was wrong about Oxide as well as Carbon. CARBON.md
said Oxide stores permissions as JSON and Carbon as Protobuf or SQLite. Both
rigs say otherwise: both store Protobuf, under IDENTICAL filenames
(oxide.users.data, oxide.groups.data), differing only in directory - Carbon
writes its own data into files named after Oxide. This strengthens R2's
API-only rule rather than weakening it: a file reader would have worked on both
rigs today and broken silently for the one operator who ran c.migrate_perms_sql.
Two things nobody had thought to claim, found by looking. Carbon auto-creates a
third default group, moderator, which R2's full-set push must tolerate or
report drift for ever. And c.plugins exposes per-plugin hook telemetry that is
most of section 6's fired-hook mechanism, free, and only on Carbon.
Also: a wrong console command is indistinguishable from success at the API.
Pterodactyl's command endpoint returns 204 either way and Carbon prints nothing
for an unknown command, so oxide.plugins on Carbon looks exactly like it
worked. Anything driving the console must read a log to know.
CARBON.md gains a scorecard (section 10) and drops its unproven banner.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
Three new decisions of record, and a new reference for the second modding
framework.
R19 - the bridge plugin is framework-agnostic from now, not ported later.
Carbon is not a fork of Oxide but a separate loader shipping an Oxide
compatibility layer, so one .cs in the Oxide.Plugins namespace serves both,
with #if CARBON only where the APIs genuinely differ. Three existing
decisions take an amendment and none is reversed: R18's config walk roots at
Interface.Oxide.ConfigDirectory rather than a literal oxide/config (Carbon
uses carbon/configs AND lets an operator relocate every directory from the
command line); R2's permission store is Protobuf or SQLite on Carbon, which
permanently closes the file-reading shortcut it never planned to take, while
the PermissionExists pre-check survives because Carbon's bool return is the
one thing we cannot read portably; R4's doctor asks which framework rather
than whether Oxide, and gets a weaker "current enough" claim because Carbon
ships rolling release tags.
R20 - a Pterodactyl egg is a third supported deployment path beside the
installer and the hand install, derived from the community "Rust Autowipe"
egg, which already carries a FRAMEWORK variable offering vanilla/carbon/oxide.
The sidecar runs inside the game's container, which is what lets D2 stand
unchanged: a container's 127.0.0.1 is genuinely private, so the game link
stays loopback and stays unauthenticated. Lands in phase 18 beside the
installer.
R21 - both rigs move to the Pterodactyl panel, because Oxide and Carbon
cannot coexist in one install and so a single server cannot prove R19. Also
retires the wipe-day maintenance that dominated section 4, and makes the rig
Linux where every prior finding came from Windows and Mono.
New: modules/rust/CARBON.md, the difference list - file layout, the
permission store, the c. commands, 30 Carbon-only hooks, and 13 uMod names
Carbon's catalogue omits (at least two of which look like renames). Sourced
from Carbon's own published metadata and source at main, and labelled
throughout as not yet proven on a live Carbon server.
One outstanding request, recorded in section 3: the panel token on disk is an
application key and Pterodactyl puts files, power and console on the client
API, so iteration needs a ptlc_ key only the account holder can mint.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
