Logging in to an account or realm with no characters lands on the empty character list. Until now the login cycle created a male Human Warrior on the server, named `WOW_CHAR` or "One", on every login that found an empty roster, a typed one included and again after Change Realm.
- **The reference.** The client builds `CMSG_CHAR_CREATE` in one place, `0x5aac50`, reached only from the glue binding `CreateCharacter` (`0x4719e0` → `0x4711d0` → `0x46b290` → `0x5aac50`), which stock `CharacterCreate.lua` calls only from `CharacterCreate_Okay`. With an empty roster, stock `CharacterSelect.lua`'s `UpdateCharacterList` disables Enter World and Delete and shows Create New Character, which benilla's select screen already does.
- **The change.** The create-if-empty step is gone from the per-realm cycle, and `NetConfig`, which existed only for it, goes with it. The create screen's own path is untouched.
- **Scripted runs.** `WOW_CHAR` must now be on the account: a driverless run whose `WOW_CHAR` is missing fails at select, as it already did on a non-empty roster, and a player's run shows the list. `docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` says so, and names `WOW_PROBE_CHARCREATE` as the explicit way to make one.
Checked: `an_empty_account_parks_at_select_without_creating_a_character` drives the real login cycle against a fake realmd (the server half of SRP6) and a fake world server answering an empty roster. It fails with the old step restored (the client sends `CMSG_CHAR_CREATE` on its own) and passes without it. Live against a local vmangos on a fresh account with no characters: before, the server gained a level-1 "One"; after, the client parks on the empty list and the account still holds no character. With a `WOW_CHAR` not on the account, a driverless run exits at select, and nothing is created. Gates and the smoke run green on macOS; no platform seam touched.
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The second read of `benilla-protocol`'s comments, the last step #41 asked for: that crate's comments were rewritten to the rule before second readers existed. Four readers compared every file's comments against their state before the rewrite and against the code as it is now.
Fixes#41.
- **Citations.** vmangos line citations are re-pointed to the pinned revision: off-by-a-few lines (`Pet.cpp`, `Guild.cpp`, `Petition.cpp`, `LootHandler.cpp`, `ChatHandler.cpp`), and paths the rewrite dropped where a bare file name is ambiguous (`Server/Packets/Spell.cpp` against `Spells/Spell.cpp`, the two `Item.cpp`, `Group.cpp` and `Chat.cpp`). The gossip-hello citation is `NPCHandler.cpp:347`.
- **Facts restored.** The move-time-skipped chain (`0x603b40` → `0x601560` → `0x61ab90`), the addon-message TAB surviving vmangos's chat sanitizer, the zone-under-attack sender, `SMSG_ADDON_INFO` answering the auth session's addon block, the officer-note permission gate, and `SMSG_ITEM_COOLDOWN` on equipping an item with an on-use spell (the old text said a proc).
- **Deviation labels.** A label now carries its reason, or goes when the behaviour is only unbuilt (the survey window, the group XP bonus, the NPC-text language garble).
- **Two examples.** `park_probe` and `login_refusal_probe` took a hard-coded local account; they now read `WOW_USER` and `WOW_PASS`.
- **Verification.** Every file strips to identical code apart from the two examples; `cargo fmt --check` is clean.
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Until now this repo was an export of a private tree, pushed as squashed snapshots. From here on
it is the working tree itself, and the private repo is archived.
The root holds AGENTS.md and the Rust and GitHub files only. Everything an agent needs to orient
is in docs/: METHOD.md (the rules and how the project is built, 123 lines, project method only),
MAP.md (generated from the code at every land) and CONTRIBUTING.md (what gets in and how a
change is judged). One skill, `probe`, holds the procedure for running the client unattended
against the local server.
Brought over because the project needs it: reference/ (the 1.12 name catalogues 34 source
files read; the export failed its own tests without them), the gate chain and the pool
(scripts/), the hooks that enforce the install rule and the worktree rule, the full .gitignore,
the `cargo play` alias, and the original wording of eleven source files the export had reworded.
Left out: the decision records (archived with the private repo), the export tooling, the
operator's Discord and triage loop, the lab-laptop scripts and the instruments nothing
references, which live outside the repo now. What read the records is gone from the tooling:
no corpus lint, no records index, no `reserve` verb, no number-collision check.
Three hooks are gone: fmt-at-commit and the file-size nudge were redundant with the gates, and
the assets/ui guard is now a test (`assets_ui_does_not_grow`) that fails for everyone, not only
for a Claude Code session. The remaining pool hooks stand down on a machine without a pool.
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