Protocol 3.0 §5 (docs/link/v3.md). The shard publishes one world.ruleset frame
per connect describing how it is configured; the sidecar folds it into a
singleton row and serves it back.
Store-backed rather than an RPC, for the same reason /guilds and /houses are
(PROTOCOL_2.md §12.2): a rules page that goes blank while the shard restarts is
worse than one that is briefly stale. `{"ruleset": null}` distinguishes "the
shard has never published one" — an old plugin, or Bridge.RulesetEnabled=false —
from a published ruleset, which the website renders differently.
`rev` (the shard's FNV-1a of the body) is kept alongside the JSON so a reader can
tell "same ruleset, re-sent on reconnect" from "the operator changed something"
without diffing.
PROTOCOL_VERSION stays 2. The 2→3 bump is a hard operator-visible cutover and
happens exactly once, at the end of v3 (§4), not per phase.
Smoke-tested against a fake shard on loopback: frame ingested, GET /ruleset
returns it with plugin_connected=false (outage path), and the route sits behind
the gate (409 on a version mismatch, 401 unauthenticated). cargo build + clippy
clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
