wtclaude 42e6f3a0cb docs(installer): record Phase 3 — the patch tier as built
PLAN.md gains a "Phase 3 as built" section covering the decisions the plan had
left open, and §2.2, §2.2.1 and §7.0 are brought in line with what shipped:

* The engine is fully native. §2.2.1 wrote rung 1 as "apply verbatim with
  git apply", but §1 chose the release tarball so there would be no git on the
  shard host, and rung 2 needs a native applier anyway. Rung 1 keeps its
  stronger verdict and shares rung 2's write path. On the real files this is
  not academic — the shipped patches are CRLF and two of their three targets
  are LF, so git apply refuses patches the installer places correctly.

* §7.0 documents `patch_tier` in the overlay manifest. Which patches form one
  unit, which companion follows which, whether a core rebuild is needed and
  what declining costs are not derivable from a diff, so the release declares
  them and adding a patch regenerates metadata rather than an installer.

* §2.2 gains the pre-image cache and the widened patch cache, and §2.2.1 gains
  the second, per-feature level of the all-or-nothing rule.

INSTALL.md's illustrated tier output is replaced with the real thing, the
status banner now says `install` is complete, §3's path tables list
patches/originals/, and Appendix A2 names the line-ending trap that makes
git apply refuse a patch whose region is visibly untouched.

Refs: RunicGateway/installer#6, RunicGateway/servuo-plugins#10

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 19:57:42 -05:00

Runic Gateway — Documentation

Central documentation for the Runic Gateway platform. The docs here were extracted from the two code repositories (with full commit history preserved) so they live in one place, independent of either codebase.

Layout

website/    docs from the shard website (Node/Express + MariaDB + React/Vite)
link/       docs from the ServUO bridge (C# plugin + Rust sidecar + Node WS)
android/    docs from the native Android client (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose)
installer/  docs for the installer that deploys a shard's bridge components
ci/         cross-cutting CI/quality notes

website/

Doc What it covers
BACKEND_DESIGN.md API contract, DB schema, security model
HERO_EDITOR.md Hero canvas editor feature spec
WIKI_UPGRADE.md Wiki subsystem upgrade notes
SHARD_VISIBILITY.md Who sees which shard data — the admin-configurable audience framework
SPAWN_ATLAS.md The bestiary / spawn atlas: what the shard contains, parsed from its own ServUO tree
CLILOCS.md UO's id → name table: converting one from your client so items have names
UOFIDDLER.md Operator runbook — step-by-step extraction from your own UO client (cliloc table, creature art)
MARKETPLACE.md The player-vendor index: how it is gathered, what it costs, how to tune it
website-README.md Snapshot of the website repo's README (setup/run reference)
PROJECT_TREE.md Auto-generated snapshot of the repo's tracked file layout
Doc What it covers
INTEGRATION.md How the website integrates with the uo-link sidecar
PROTOCOL_2.md Protocol 2.0 / 2.1 design
v3.md Protocol 3.0 design — shard content/standings streams + the visibility framework
ADMIN_CONTROLS.md Staff write-plane (kick/ban/broadcast, page queue)
SHARD_PREREQS.md Shard-side prerequisites for the bridge
PLAN.md uo-link build plan
RESEARCH.md Research notes
link-README.md Snapshot of the link repo's README
PROJECT_TREE.md Auto-generated snapshot of the repo's tracked file layout

android/

Doc What it covers
PLAN.md Android client build plan / milestones
COVERAGE_PLAN.md Test-coverage rollout plan
APP_LINKS.md Android App Links / deep-link setup
theme-plan.md Theming plan
TRUSTED_DEVICES_APP_HANDOFF.md Trusted-devices app handoff notes
PROJECT_TREE.md Auto-generated snapshot of the repo's tracked file layout

installer/

Doc What it covers
INSTALL.md Operator guide — installing Runic Gateway on a ServUO shard, connecting it to the website, and diagnosing it. Includes the by-hand path, which works today
PLAN.md Installer design of record — phases, locked decisions, the bundle/compat-matrix model

Provenance

  • website/* was extracted from RunicGateway/website via git filter-repo.
  • link/* was extracted from RunicGateway/link via git filter-repo.

Commit history and authorship for each doc are preserved. The two source repos retain a short pointer to this repo in their own READMEs; the authoritative copy of each document now lives here.


License

Runic Gateway's documentation is free: licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later — see LICENSE.md.

Copyright (C) 2026 Runic Gateway

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. You may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Contributions are welcome — please read CONTRIBUTING.md (note the AI-usage disclosure requirement) and our Code of Conduct.

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