BridgeTownCrier handles inbound towncrier.add / towncrier.remove, pushing
website-published news into GlobalTownCrierEntryList so every town crier
announces it until it expires. Both run on the Core thread (required: AddEntry
mutates a shared list and the criers send packets). An id maps to the created
TownCrierEntry so a later remove can pull it, and re-adding an id replaces the
prior entry.
Caps are enforced before touching the shared list -- line count, line length,
active-entry count, duration -- as defense in depth on top of the loopback trust
boundary: a buggy or compromised sidecar still cannot flood the criers or pin a
message forever. Config: Bridge.TownCrierMax{Lines,LineLength,Active,DurationSec}.
Verified with a sending stub and a probe that logs the actual crier list. Replies
and game state agree: add n1 -> towncrier.ok and the entry appears with the exact
lines; add n2 (8 lines over the cap of 6) -> towncrier.error and never enters the
list; remove n1 -> towncrier.ok and the entry is gone; remove unknown ->
towncrier.error. Evidence in docs/PLAN.md §16.
Adds BridgeJson.GetStringList for JSON string arrays, tools/stub_sidecar_crier.ps1,
and tools/scaffolding/BridgeCrierProbe.cs. This closes the pure-plugin inbound
work; only the PlayerVendorSale core edit (Phase 7) remains on the ServUO side.
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BridgeAccountLink ties a game account to a website account. [link mints a
one-time, 5-minute code from an unambiguous alphabet (no O/0/I/1), holds it in a
Core-thread dict keyed to the account, and emits link.request. The website
relays the code back through the sidecar as link.confirm; the shard validates,
writes the WebsiteUserId account tag, and replies link.ok. A bad or expired code
gets link.error.
The tag persists to accounts.xml in ServUO's standard <tags> format, read by
LoadTags at boot, so a link survives restarts with no new persistence layer.
mob.login now carries webId when the account is linked, so the sidecar can
attribute a session to a site user without a lookup.
Safeguards: one-time codes; only the newest code per account is valid; per-account
30s rate limit against code spam; a 1-minute purge bounds the code table; the
websiteUserId is trusted only because the socket is loopback-only. The tag reaches
memory on confirm but disk only on the next save — a hard crash between loses it,
and the player just re-runs [link.
Verified end to end with a smart stub that reads the emitted code and confirms
it: link.request -> link.confirm -> link.ok, a bad code -> link.error, and the
tag observed in accounts.xml after a save. Evidence in docs/PLAN.md §15.
The [link command body is exposed as RequestLink(Mobile) so it can be driven in
tests without a client. Adds tools/stub_sidecar_link.ps1 and
tools/scaffolding/BridgeLinkProbe.cs.
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BridgeSeeder and BridgeProbe are not part of the bridge, but living under
overlay/Scripts/Custom/ meant deploy.ps1 would copy them onto any server we
deployed to. Move them to tools/scaffolding/, which nothing syncs.
overlay/Config/Bridge.cfg now carries the bridge's own settings (host, port,
queue cap, sweep intervals) rather than the scaffolding flags. Config.Get
returns false for a missing key, so a deployed server never runs the seeder or
probe even if their .cs files are present.
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ScriptCompiler.Compile() runs `dotnet build Scripts/Scripts.csproj -c Release`
with no Platform, so MSBuild defaults to AnyCPU. Scripts.csproj gated both
OutputPath and DefineConstants on Configuration|Platform == Release|x64, so
under the server's own build the DLL landed in Scripts/bin/Release/ (while the
core loads Scripts.dll from the base directory) and TRACE;NEWTIMERS;ServUO went
undefined (XmlSpawner compiled its non-ServUO branches).
Compile() also never checks the build's exit code before Assembly.LoadFrom, so
the failure was silent and the stale DLL reloaded. Runtime script compilation
had had no effect since 2026-05-30.
Condition both property groups on Configuration alone. Server.csproj is left
alone: nothing under Server/ uses those symbols, and giving it OutputPath=..\
would make the boot-time build try to overwrite the running ServUO.exe.
Verified end-to-end: a plain boot now logs "Core: Compiling scripts... / Build
succeeded." and loads 206208 items, 42771 mobiles.
Also adds the implementation plan, the measured performance budget, the test
scaffolding used to produce it (seeder + probe, both default-off), and the
record of shard repairs that had to precede any of this.
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