The last leg of the Asset Bridge (docs/link/v8.md §16, phase 9c). The cutover put
protocol 8 on `main` in every declaration site, which turned this repo red by
construction: `checkFacts.mjs` reads the protocol from `link`'s `main`.
Two checks were failing, and only one of them was expected.
**checkFacts (10)** — protocol 7 → 8 in all three reads (sidecar, overlay, bundle),
the bundle triple to 2026.09.15 / sidecar v2.3.0 / overlay v1.3.0, and the releases
to link v2.3.0, installer v0.2.0, Module-uo v1.3.0. `moduleApi` and the capability
list did not move: core's whole share of eight phases was a deletion.
**checkReference (9)** — nobody had planned for this one. `Bridge.cfg` grew nine keys
across phases 5, 6 and 7 and the reference page had gone on not mentioning them,
which is the failure mode that check exists for. They are listed as two new groups,
`Client assets` and `Spawn files`, because they are two separate consents.
## The prose the bridge changed
- **New page, Administration → Client files.** `Admin → Client files` is a screen an
operator has to press a button on and the site had no page for it. It carries the
rule nothing else states: **nothing here happens on a restart**, so a patched client
keeps serving the old artwork until somebody says so.
- **Protocol versions** said the most recent bump touched five repositories and named
`website`. Protocol 8 touched four and did not reach core — its absence is the
interesting half, and the page now says why. The store-migration paragraph gains 8,
which changed no line of the sidecar's store despite moving megabytes.
- **The bridge** said "two ways in". There are three: bulk reads go over the
request/reply path in pages, one in flight at a time, and the reason they must not
ride the event stream is structural rather than about speed.
- **Requirements** gains `libgdiplus` for Linux shard hosts, and the note that no game
client has to be installed for any of this — a ServUO shard cannot boot without one.
- **Troubleshooting** gains the failure mode that did not exist before: a bestiary with
no pictures, or items reading as numbers.
- **Maintenance** gains the button to press after patching a client, and **Verify the
whole stack** the `doctor` check that landed with it.
- The spawn atlas and the marketplace both carry artwork now, so both capability
descriptions say so, and `canonicalDocs` points at `link/v8.md`.
## Screenshots, retaken against the real thing
The atlas and marketplace shots predate the asset plane, so both were retaken on the
demo deployment against a real shard and a real sidecar, plus the new admin screen:
1,095 portraits imported in 2.1 s, 67,496 names in 1.4 s, 313 item pictures in 0.8 s.
Nothing here is a mock-up. The atlas shot moved 36px down its page because portraits
made the rows taller.
## One defect found on the way
`seedDemo.mjs` pinned the demo deployment at **protocol 4** with a comment explaining
a `module-uo` debt that has since been paid. Its default now comes from
`platform.json`, so the rig cannot drift two protocols behind the platform again.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
The org lead signed a character into the shard by hand — the step automation
could not reach — so shard-status and app-shard were retaken. The shard page
now reads 1 player online in Britain, and the app's card agrees.
Two things worth noticing in the retake. Presence reaches the public page as
counts and regions rather than names, which is the visibility framework working
unprompted. And the guild board's online column did not move: it refreshes only
when a guild's signature changes, which is the stale-roster defect wearing a
different hat.
A sixth defect, visible in the shipped phone capture: the app interpolates a
count into a fixed plural and says "1 players online". Raised, not fixed —
it wants a plurals resource in the app.
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D4 asked for screenshots of the review stack rather than placeholders. Seventeen
of them: eleven of the site in a browser, six of the app on a phone, all from one
demo deployment wired to a running ServUO shard over a real sidecar, captured on
one day (D42).
The deployment is branded "Runic Gateway Demo" rather than a real community (D43),
and the captures sit beside the claims they support — the homepage, /features/, and
five of the administration pages phase 7 could describe but not show (D44).
The rig is committed rather than remembered (D45):
scripts/seedDemo.mjs content, by driving the site's own API — never SQL,
because a row the product could not have produced is
a screenshot of a product that does not exist
src/data/screens.mjs every capture: route, viewport, scroll, alt, caption
scripts/captureScreens.mjs npm run screens:capture
scripts/checkScreens.mjs the ninth check script, in CI
Shard-side dressing is servuo-plugins' scaffolding (D46), never deployed.
The rig found five things nothing else had. One is fixed upstream — a fresh
module-uo install pinned wire protocol 3 against a sidecar speaking 4, released as
v1.0.2, which this repo's own facts check then caught in platform.json. Four are
raised as product observations and worked around in the rig: a renamed guild
member never reaches the site, a guild deleted while the shard is down is a ghost
row forever, "Houses in danger" cannot show a house that was already collapsing,
and the app's news list prints raw ISO timestamps.
Players online reads 0. Logging a character in needs a UO client driven by hand,
and that is where this stopped — PLAN.md §10 says exactly why, and how to retake
the two frames that would change.
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