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64c0ec00b1 feat(asset-bridge): the body catalogue and slug to body id (Phase 3)
Two request families, and they run on opposite threads on purpose.

`assets.bodies` (BridgeBodies) answers the question only code inside ServUO
can: the atlas knows a creature by the class name in Spawns/*.xml, the client
knows it by a body id, and nothing in the tree declares the mapping. Construct
the type, read Body.BodyID, Delete(). That is world mutation, so it answers on
the CORE thread and is the one family here that does not take the asset
worker's slot -- and the batch is capped at 100 names, REFUSED rather than
truncated, because a truncated answer is indistinguishable from a complete one
from the website's side.

`assets.manifest` / `assets.fetch` (BridgeCatalog) are the catalogue, on the
worker. The manifest carries { key, sha256, bytes, width, height } and no
pixels, so an Update fetches only what moved; the fetch carries base64 PNG.
The scan keeps the bytes it hashed rather than decoding all 787 sprites twice.

Three things worth stating about the shapes:

- It pages on the WALL CLOCK as well as on bytes. The rows are ~90 bytes and
  the whole catalogue is one page by the byte budget, but building it means
  decoding hundreds of sprites against a 10 s reply timeout.
- `catalog` is derived from the client files (sizes, mtimes, both direction
  settings, EXTRACTOR_VERSION), not minted per build -- the cache is released
  when idle, and a fresh id per build would force a restart mid-import although
  nothing about the client moved.
- ARGB1555 is expanded to 32bpp here rather than handed to GDI+, because what
  it does with a one-bit alpha channel varies by platform and a black rectangle
  behind every sprite would pass any test that only checked the bytes decoded.

Nothing trusts the library's success. Every body goes through CheckEntry and
AnimationRecordSane before it is decoded, which is what keeps the 357 bodies
whose index entry reads `length 0` -- and which the decoder hands back the
PREVIOUS creature's bitmap for -- out of the catalogue.

Walked on a live shard: 787 rows in one 734 ms page; bodies 320, 607, 666 all
absent rather than wrong; 783 at direction 1 and 4 at direction 0; all 455 stock
creature classes resolved at ~190 ms per 100 with zero mobiles leaked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
2026-09-10 18:40:12 -05:00
73b07eed22 feat(asset-bridge): the cliloc table, decompressed on the shard (Phase 2)
The shard reads its own client's `Cliloc.enu` and serves it over the bridge, so
the operator stops installing UOFiddler, building a converter against its
`Ultima.dll`, and copying a 5 MB file to the web host every time they patch.

`BridgeCliloc.cs` is the one decoder protocol 8 writes rather than calls
(docs/link/v8.md §4, §9): a port of UOFiddler's `MythicDecompress` +
`MoveToFront` — Beerware, so clean to bring into a GPL-3.0-or-later tree —
rewritten against plain arrays, because the upstream is `Span<T>` /
`ArrayPool<T>` / `BinaryPrimitives` code and ServUO targets `net48`.

The algorithm is deliberately unchanged, including the parts that read oddly.
The three-region count/cursor/end table and the symbol-table shifts are
upstream's, because a tidier rewrite of somebody else's format decoder is a
chance to be subtly wrong in a way that produces plausible text. Two bounds
checks were added and they are the only behavioural difference: the upstream
indexes its payload unchecked, which is safe for a file the client wrote and is
not safe for a file this shard was handed.

Measured on a stock client: 4,989,921 bytes read, decompressed and parsed in
**290 ms**, yielding **67,496** non-blank rows in id order. That number is the
acceptance test — it is what UOFiddler's own DLL produced from this same client
through the converter this phase deletes, so an independent implementation
agrees to the row. Zero U+FFFD; the 696 non-ASCII rows carry correct curly
quotes; the longest row is a 12,149-character EULA, which is why the record
length is read unsigned.

Blanks never reach the wire — ~56,000 of the 123,490 entries are empty strings
the client reserves, and the website discards them at import anyway.

Also on this plane:

  * `assets.error` gains a `code`. Phase 1 chose between 403 and 400 by looking
    for the word "disabled" in an operator-facing sentence, which makes prose
    load-bearing; `DISABLED` / `NOT_FOUND` / `UNREADABLE` / `UNAVAILABLE` /
    `BAD_REQUEST` say it directly.
  * `Accept` and `Fail` are internal rather than private, because the asset
    plane's single slot and its refusal frame are shared by every family on it.

The cursor is a cliloc NUMBER, not an offset: the decoded table is cached for
five idle minutes and released after the last page, so it can be dropped and
rebuilt between two pages of one import, and an index would then silently mean
something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
2026-09-10 11:12:43 -05:00
c89e818dbf feat(asset-bridge): the transport, and the 357 wrong pictures it found
Asset Bridge phase 1 (docs/link/v8.md §16). Sidecar half: RunicGateway/link#41.
Docs half: RunicGateway/docs#236.

The transport for protocol 8, plus phase 0's validator promoted into the overlay
and extended to animations — which is where the interesting part is.

## 357 of the 1,144 "decodable" bodies are wrong pictures, on a STOCK client

Phase 0 measured the art path and left the animation half unbuilt. It has the same
defect, and it is worse: `GetAnimation` decodes through
`new MemoryStream(m_StreamBuffer, false)` — the whole shared buffer, not the
`length` bytes just read into it — so a truncated or absent record does not even hit
end-of-stream. It sails on into the previous animation's bytes.

Measured directly, because no count could tell:

| Decode body 320 (`lookup 22638982, length 0`) straight after… | Comes back |
|---|---|
| body 12, the dragon | the dragon, 176x167, identical hash |
| body 34, the wolf | the wolf's dimensions, 35x34 |
| body 400, the human male | the human, 27x63, identical hash |

The catalogue is **787 bodies, not 1,144**. Importing the other 357 would have written
duplicate creature portraits into the site showing whichever body the walk decoded
before them.

The record walk refused **0** real bodies on the stock client — the false-refusal
measurement §4.5 says the boundary depends on.

## And four of the twelve player bodies, not six

§5.2 listed the elf ghosts (607, 608) as decoding. Their index entry is `length 0`;
what came back was the elf female at her exact dimensions, because 606 is what the
walk decoded immediately before. Confirmed the same way — 607 after the dragon is
the dragon. Phase 4's UOP decoder now covers eight ids rather than six.

## What is here

- **`overlay/Scripts/Custom/Bridge/BridgeAssets.cs`** — the plane. Accepts on the Core
  thread, hands off to a dedicated asset worker, returns immediately. Three rules, all
  answering a specific failure:
  - **one slot**, second request answered `bridge.busy` (425). `Emit`'s queue is bounded
    in *lines*, so 10,000 queued 200 KB replies is 2 GB of shard memory; the bound that
    holds is flow control, on the side where the memory is.
  - **byte budgets** (`AssetBatchBytes`, 512 KiB) under the sidecar's new 1 MiB cap. The
    factor of two is load-bearing: a page always admits its first item, so it may
    overshoot by one, and the headroom is what makes that land on the wire.
  - **replies, never events** — no `reqId`, no answer. An uncorrelated frame is an event
    by definition, and §3.1 is why none of this may be one.
- **`PageBuilder`** — one paging envelope (`more`/`cursor`/`cut`) for all five families
  that will page, defined before the first one needs it. `cut` matters: "short page" has
  three meanings and only `end` means finished.
- **`assets.sources`** — stage 1 of the import gate, its first user.
- **`BridgeAssetValidator.cs`** — promoted from `tools/`, plus `ResolveAnimation` (the
  never-sweep-file-types rule as code, with no loop and no fallback),
  `AnimationRecordSane` and the frame walk.
- **`EXTRACTOR_VERSION`**, **`overlay.toml` protocol 7 → 8**, `AssetsEnabled`.

## Hashing had to come off the request path

§6's gate is (size, mtime) first, hash only when those differ. The first call has nothing
cached, so that still means hashing 1.06 GB — inside the sidecar's 10 s reply timeout it
does not fit. So hashes are computed on their own thread (deliberately not the single-slot
worker, which would answer every status poll `bridge.busy` for the whole pass) and the
reply carries `hashing`/`complete`.

Measured on the real rig: first call instant with `sha256: null`, second call **44 ms**
with every hash present.

## Verified on the wire, not just compiled

Real ServUO 57.4 + the real sidecar + the real client. `GET /assets/sources` → 200,
`X-UOLink-Version: 8`, `imaging: {ok: true}`, and §4.6's diagnostic firing on a live
client: `artDataFile: artlegacymul.uop`, with `art.mul` and `artidx.mul` both carrying
`shadowedBy`. Live events kept flowing through the new capped reader with no warnings.

Not exercised live: the disabled-plane 403 and the busy 425 (both unit-tested on the
sidecar side; the shard halves are a config read and a lock).

- [x] AI-assisted — Claude Code (Opus 5)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
2026-09-10 08:32:18 -05:00