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)

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
website-README.md	Snapshot of the website repo's README (setup/run reference)

link/

Doc	What it covers
INTEGRATION.md	How the website integrates with the uo-link sidecar
PROTOCOL_2.md	Protocol 2.0 / 2.1 design
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

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.

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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.