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Claude 21d5de9fd4 chore: extract ServUO plugin to RunicGateway/servuo-plugins
The C# ServUO plugin (overlay/, patches/, deploy.ps1, tools/) has been
extracted with full history via git filter-repo into the new
RunicGateway/servuo-plugins repo. This repo is now the Rust sidecar only.

Rewrite the README to be sidecar-focused: related-repos table, build/run,
and a deployment/compatibility section describing the runtime protocol
relationship with the plugin. No source cross-references existed between the
two halves, so nothing else needed repointing.

Plugin repo: https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/servuo-plugins
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# uo-link — Rust sidecar
The **Rust sidecar** half of the Runic Gateway bridge. The ServUO shard dials out to this sidecar
over a loopback TCP socket (newline-delimited JSON); the sidecar owns the WebSocket + REST API the
website consumes, along with auth, buffering, and fan-out.
```
ServUO plugin (C#, net48) ──loopback TCP, newline-JSON──► Rust sidecar ──WebSocket/JSON──► website
(RunicGateway/servuo-plugins) >>> THIS REPO <<<
```
The shard never speaks WebSocket and exposes no port of its own — the sidecar is the only
network-facing component, which is what keeps the game unreachable from the internet.
## Related repos
| Repo | What |
|------|------|
| **this**`RunicGateway/link` | The Rust sidecar (`sidecar/`). |
| [RunicGateway/servuo-plugins](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/servuo-plugins) | The **C# ServUO plugin** — the shard side of the bridge (`overlay/`, `patches/`, `deploy.ps1`, test scaffolding). |
| [RunicGateway/docs](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/docs) | All project documentation — design docs, protocol spec, integration guide, research. |
## Layout
| Path | What |
|------|------|
| `sidecar/` | The Rust sidecar crate — terminates the loopback link to the shard, exposes WS + REST to the website. See [`sidecar/README.md`](sidecar/README.md). |
| `.gitea/workflows/release.yml` | Builds + releases the sidecar binary (Linux + Windows) on every merge to `main`. |
## Build & run
The sidecar is a standard cargo crate:
```bash
cd sidecar
cargo build --release # binary at target/release/uo-link-sidecar
cp sidecar.toml.example sidecar.toml # then edit
cargo run --release
```
`.gitea/workflows/release.yml` cross-compiles Linux + Windows binaries and cuts a Gitea release on
every merge to `main` (conventional-commit versioning). See [`sidecar/README.md`](sidecar/README.md)
for configuration and the wire protocol.
## Deployment & compatibility
The plugin ([RunicGateway/servuo-plugins](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/servuo-plugins))
and this sidecar are deployed **together** but built **independently**:
- The **plugin** is deployed as source into the ServUO server root and compiled by ServUO at boot —
no build artifact, no CI build.
- The **sidecar** is a standalone Rust binary released from this repo.
The only coupling is the **loopback JSON protocol** (the shard dials `127.0.0.1`). Compatibility is a
protocol concern, not a build-order one — keep the event/command catalog in sync across the two
repos. Canonical spec:
[PLAN.md](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/docs/src/branch/main/link/PLAN.md) §5/§7 and
[INTEGRATION.md](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/docs/src/branch/main/link/INTEGRATION.md).
Because a wedged or absent sidecar cannot stall the shard, either side can be deployed or restarted
independently.