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playerbots made its bot Accounts and Characters by itself. It wrote game_account rows and called Core's create_character from the auth root, so it needed two package-api: exempt lines. Nothing recorded which Accounts belonged to the Package, and turning the Package off later needs to find them.

This PR adds one Package API operation:

crate::package_account::create_package_character(ctx, package_name: &str, name: &str, race: u8, class: u8) -> Result<u64, String>

It creates a Character with no Session and returns its guid. I split the client creation path in auth.rs into check_new_character (guid range, NAME_IN_USE, INVALID_RACE_CLASS) and insert_new_character, so the client reducer and the Package operation run the same Refusals. The operation runs the checks before it touches an Account, so a Refusal writes nothing.

The Character goes on the first Account the Package owns that has room under the 10-Character cap. When all of them are full, Core makes a new Account without credentials, named <package>#<n>, and writes a row to the new private table game_package_account (account_id, package_name). I used a new Core table instead of a column on game_account for three reasons. A String column cannot carry a default, so it could not be END-appended. A new table is an additive auto-migrate on a populated Realm. And a Core table keeps the owner when the Package is disabled, which matches the decision to keep bot Accounts as dormant offline Characters.

Other changes:

  • package_account joins the listed roots in module/build.rs and docs/package-api.md. The doc, CHANGELOG and CONTEXT.md ("Package-owned Account") describe the operation and the owner.
  • debug_create_package_character drives the operation for the new durable test module/tests/package_account.rs. One case fills one Account, checks that the 11th Character opens a second owned Account, and checks that no Session appears. The other checks the NAME_IN_USE and Human Shaman Refusals and that neither one leaves an owned Account.
  • The installed-Package raw Character lookup budget for src/mod.rs drops from 4 to 2. The Account census and one re-read are gone from playerbots.
  • Gateway bindings regenerated with the danger-zones flags. The diff is the new table, its row type and the debug reducer.

Accounts that playerbots made before this change (PLAYERBOT000 and up) have no ownership row. New bots go on new owned Accounts, and the old ones keep their bots. Ticket 8 should cover those old Accounts if it needs them.

Paired with LyraCoreProject/packages#70. Merge Core first, then the packages PR at once.

Checks run locally: cargo fmt --all -- --check, workspace clippy with -D warnings, Module lib tests (1,748), package_api_lint (32) and Gateway tests pass. scripts/check-gateway-bindings.py reports all 1,173 binding files current. Both new durable tests pass against a 2.7.1 standalone. With the packages branch installed, the Module compiles and passes 1,868 lib tests, and a temporary budget of 1 fails on the two remaining playerbots lookups. The playerbots role and personality durable suites spawn bots through the new operation and pass. The one failure there needs a CI-only baseline wasm.

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  • New Features
    • Packages can create session-less characters on credential-free accounts. Characters are assigned to an existing package-owned account with room, or a new account is created when needed.
    • Character creation checks the name, race, and class; invalid requests are refused without creating an account.
    • Package account ownership remains recorded if a package is disabled.

…racters

A Package created its own Characters by writing a game_account row and
calling Core's create_character from the auth root, which the Package API
does not list.

package_account::create_package_character creates a Character with no
Session on an Account the Package owns. It shares the name, race and class
Refusals of client creation through check_new_character. When every owned
Account is full, it creates an Account without credentials and records the
owner in the new private game_package_account table. A Core table keeps
that record when the Package is disabled, and a new table publishes over a
populated Realm as an additive migration.

The installed-Package raw Character lookup budget drops from 4 to 2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds Package-owned Accounts for session-less Characters. It adds shared Character validation and insertion, a Package creation flow and debug reducer, gateway bindings, integration tests, and API and schema documentation.

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Package Character Creation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared Character validation and insertion
module/src/auth.rs, module/src/tripwires.rs
Character creation now uses shared validation and insertion helpers. The insertion helper checks the per-Account limit, applies appearance data, and returns the Character GUID.
Package-owned Account workflow
module/src/package_account.rs, module/src/debug/auth.rs, module/src/lib.rs, module/build.rs, module/src/tripwires.rs, module/tests/package_account.rs, CHANGELOG.md, CONTEXT.md, docs/package-api.md, docs/schema.md
The Package creation flow validates Character details, uses the first owned Account with room, or creates an Account without credentials and records ownership. An operator-only debug reducer exposes the flow. Integration tests and documentation cover the creation rules, ownership record, and Package API.
Gateway reducer and table bindings
gateway/src/stdb/bindings/package_account_type.rs, gateway/src/stdb/bindings/game_package_account_table.rs, gateway/src/stdb/bindings/debug_create_package_character_reducer.rs, gateway/src/stdb/bindings/mod.rs
Adds generated bindings for the PackageAccount table and debug reducer, including table updates, account ID lookup, reducer arguments, client-cache updates, and callbacks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant DebugReducer as debug_create_package_character
  participant PackageAccount as package_account::create_package_character
  participant Validation as auth::check_new_character
  participant Ownership as game_package_account
  participant Insertion as auth::insert_new_character
  Operator->>DebugReducer: Submit package and Character details
  DebugReducer->>PackageAccount: Forward package name, name, race, and class
  PackageAccount->>Validation: Check GUID range, name, and race/class
  PackageAccount->>Ownership: Find an owned Account with room
  PackageAccount->>Ownership: Record ownership when creating an Account
  PackageAccount->>Insertion: Insert Character on selected Account
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Creating Package Characters can fail permanently for a Package whose generated Account name is already taken, and only once its owned Accounts are full. The case is narrow and fixable by choosing the next free suffix. The rest of the change looks sound, so it is mergeable with that follow-up.

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Code review: two axes (Standards / Spec)

Reviewed origin/main...34f860b (1 commit). The spec is the PR description, because no issue is linked. I skipped the generated bindings except for a sanity check, and they are consistent.

Standards

No hard violations of CODING_STANDARDS.md or the CONTEXT.md Avoid words. Glossary terms (Refusal, Package-owned Account) are used correctly.

Documented standards

  • P2 module/src/tripwires.rs (the auth.rs budget entry): this line is rewritten but keeps "(issue fix(party): claim bot invites once #390)". It also keeps history-style prose ("now route through ... no longer count"). Rules broken: CODING_STANDARDS.md "Do not put issue numbers in code comments", the AGENTS.md boy scout rule, and unslop (say what is true now).
  • P3 docs/package-api.md "Package-owned Accounts": the guid range Refusal has no name, but the other two Refusals do. This is the "complete about failure modes" rule.
  • P3 auth.rs test character_creation_refuses_before_it_writes_anything: the source-text pin .trim_start_matches(...).starts_with("require_guid_range(ctx)?") is brittle, and the new multi-line comment extends the legacy comment density.

Baseline smells (judgement calls)

  • Duplicated Code / Feature Envy: owned_account_with_room builds a full Account { id: 0, salt: Vec::new(), verifier: Vec::new(), ... } literal, which mirrors the one in auth.rs. A pub(crate) constructor in auth.rs would keep Account invariants in one place.
  • Redundant work: create_package_character calls check_new_character, and insert_new_character then calls it again. The early call exists so a Refusal fires before an Account is created, which is a good reason, but nothing in the code states it.
  • Data Clumps: name, race, class travel together through three functions. insert_new_character now takes 6 params.
  • Primitive Obsession: package_name: &str is supplied by the caller. Any Package can claim or fill another Package's Accounts. The bare string is also the username stem.

Spec

(a) Missing or partial: none. Root list, docs, CHANGELOG, CONTEXT.md, table, both test cases and bindings are all present.

(c) Implemented but looks wrong

  • P1: Refusal order changed on the client path. Spec: "the client reducer and the Package operation run the same Refusals." Before: guid range → NAME_IN_USE → SERVER_LIMIT → INVALID_RACE_CLASS. Now INVALID_RACE_CLASS fires before SERVER_LIMIT, because check_new_character runs before the account_has_room check in insert_new_character. A full Account that sends an illegal pair now gets a different error code. This is small, but it is a client-visible change that the PR does not mention. Either keep the old order or state the change.
  • P1: <package>#<n> can collide and block the operation for good. Spec: "named <package>#<n>".
    • n = owned.len() is a count, not a free slot. If an ownership row is removed while its Account stays, the next name is already taken. try_insert then fails on every later call.
    • The comment "login names are uppercased alphanumerics" is true only at the Gateway (logon/mod.rs). provision_account in the Module does not normalise or validate, and it upserts. An Operator who provisions example#1 first blocks the Package. Provisioning an existing example#0 gives a no-login Account a login.
  • P2: a stale ownership row breaks the operation. If the game_account row is gone, account_has_room(dead_id) returns true, and insert_new_character fails with "no such account id" on every call. owned_account_with_room should skip or prune ownership rows that have no Account.
  • P3: "a Refusal writes nothing" is only true for the pre-checks. These failures come after the Account insert: no start position, grant_starter_item Err, and the unique-name retry. On those paths the function returns Err after it wrote the Account and the ownership row. A Package reducer that logs and swallows the Err keeps an empty owned Account. The next call reuses it, so this is harmless, but it is worth one doc line.

(b) Scope creep / ordering

  • P2: the tripwire budget drops from 4 to 2 here, but nothing in this diff needs it. Main stays green in-tree. A build with the current out-of-tree playerbots (4 lookups) fails the tripwire until packages#70 merges. That fits the "merge Core first, then packages at once" plan, but the window is real.
  • New Accounts hard-code alpha_test_tools: false rather than the enrollment default. This is reasonable, but the PR does not say so.

Checked and correct: the 10-cap uses the same account_has_room on both paths. The debug reducer is gated like its siblings (debug_reducers feature plus require_operator).


Summary: Standards has 3 documented items and 4 smells. The worst is the issue number kept in the rewritten tripwire comment. Spec has 0 missing, 2 scope items and 4 correctness items. The worst are the client Refusal order change and the <package>#<n> name collision that can block account creation for good.


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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the inventory heading match the new count.

Line 64 changes the recount comment to 287 tables. The heading at Line 57 still says "285 tables" and "128 public, 157 private". Update the heading so the document gives one count.

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// `#` keeps the name apart from every login name, which are uppercased alphanumerics.
let account = ctx
.db
.game_account()
.try_insert(Account {
id: 0,
username: format!("{package_name}#{}", owned.len()),
salt: Vec::new(),
verifier: Vec::new(),
identity: None,
banned: false,
alpha_test_tools: false,
})
.map_err(|error| format!("Package Account for {package_name} not created: {error}"))?;

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The Account username can collide, so creation fails permanently for that Package.

The username is format!("{package_name}#{}", owned.len()). The suffix comes from the current count of ownership rows, not from a monotonic counter. Two cases cause a collision:

  • An owned Account row is deleted while its game_account row stays. The count then drops below the highest suffix already used.
  • An Account with the name example#N already exists. For example, a Package created that Account earlier through the old auth path.

In both cases, try_insert fails on the #[unique] username constraint. Every later call returns the same name, so the Package cannot create more Characters after its owned Accounts are full. Retry with the next free suffix, or derive the suffix from a value that cannot repeat.

Proposed fix
-    let account = ctx
-        .db
-        .game_account()
-        .try_insert(Account {
-            id: 0,
-            username: format!("{package_name}#{}", owned.len()),
+    let mut suffix = owned.len();
+    let username = loop {
+        let candidate = format!("{package_name}#{suffix}");
+        if ctx.db.game_account().username().find(&candidate).is_none() {
+            break candidate;
+        }
+        suffix += 1;
+    };
+    let account = ctx
+        .db
+        .game_account()
+        .try_insert(Account {
+            id: 0,
+            username,
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// `#` keeps the name apart from every login name, which are uppercased alphanumerics.
let account = ctx
.db
.game_account()
.try_insert(Account {
id: 0,
username: format!("{package_name}#{}", owned.len()),
salt: Vec::new(),
verifier: Vec::new(),
identity: None,
banned: false,
alpha_test_tools: false,
})
.map_err(|error| format!("Package Account for {package_name} not created: {error}"))?;
// `#` keeps the name apart from every login name, which are uppercased alphanumerics.
let mut suffix = owned.len();
let username = loop {
let candidate = format!("{package_name}#{suffix}");
if ctx.db.game_account().username().find(&candidate).is_none() {
break candidate;
}
suffix += 1;
};
let account = ctx
.db
.game_account()
.try_insert(Account {
id: 0,
username,
salt: Vec::new(),
verifier: Vec::new(),
identity: None,
banned: false,
alpha_test_tools: false,
})
.map_err(|error| format!("Package Account for {package_name} not created: {error}"))?;
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Review comment at @module/src/package_account.rs around lines 56 - 69:
Update the username selection in the package-account creation flow before
`try_insert` so it skips any existing username and selects the next free suffix.
Preserve the `package_name#suffix` format and use the existing `game_account`
username lookup to avoid collisions.

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