Generalize rate_limit.py into a reusable named-limit dependency

Adds rate_limit(name, max_hits=, window_seconds=) as a factory for FastAPI
dependencies, generalizing the auth_rate_limit pattern for future endpoints
(chat send, message report) without touching auth_rate_limit's own behavior.
Reuses SlidingWindowLimiter for counting and the existing 429 + Retry-After
response, and respects RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED the same way auth_rate_limit does.
reset_all() now clears every registered limiter (auth's plus any named ones),
so the conftest autouse fixture keeps working for sibling tasks automatically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y2FESCaMXeJpC9gSctiEeD

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+# Runs the full checkpoint suite (migrations, backend pytest, Godot smoke
+# tests, multiplayer, fresh-clone boot) on every push and PR.
+#
+# Runs on a `host`-label act_runner on the AGP box: Docker, ~/godot/godot,
+# and Python 3 are already there. Deliberately uses no JavaScript actions
+# (actions/checkout etc.) so the host needs no Node install -- checkout is a
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+
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+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+
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+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          rm -rf repo && mkdir repo && cd repo
+          git init -q
+          git remote add origin "http://x:${{ github.token }}@localhost:3000/${{ github.repository }}.git"
+          git fetch -q --depth 1 origin "${{ github.sha }}"
+          git checkout -q FETCH_HEAD
+
+      - name: Python env
+        working-directory: repo
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          python3 -m venv .venv
+          .venv/bin/pip install --quiet --upgrade pip
+          .venv/bin/pip install --quiet -r backend/requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Checkpoint suite
+        working-directory: repo
+        run: .venv/bin/python scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py --postgres-port 25690 --backend-port 18690

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+gltf/naming_version=2
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assets/avatars/pants_cargo_01.glb.import

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+
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+importer_version=1
+type="PackedScene"
+uid="uid://yo204q1m6hs3"
+path="res://.godot/imported/pants_cargo_01.glb-00f3e3b72fd692344cbb8bfd2b8449f9.scn"
+
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+
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+dest_files=["res://.godot/imported/pants_cargo_01.glb-00f3e3b72fd692344cbb8bfd2b8449f9.scn"]
+
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+nodes/root_scale=1.0
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+nodes/use_node_type_suffixes=true
+meshes/ensure_tangents=true
+meshes/generate_lods=true
+meshes/create_shadow_meshes=true
+meshes/light_baking=1
+meshes/lightmap_texel_size=0.2
+meshes/force_disable_compression=false
+skins/use_named_skins=true
+animation/import=true
+animation/fps=30
+animation/trimming=false
+animation/remove_immutable_tracks=true
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assets/avatars/right_foot_boot_01.glb.import

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+importer_version=1
+type="PackedScene"
+uid="uid://30ij0eapm6ti"
+path="res://.godot/imported/right_foot_boot_01.glb-ffff27e561e5632596b7ba89fee5b5ea.scn"
+
+[deps]
+
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+dest_files=["res://.godot/imported/right_foot_boot_01.glb-ffff27e561e5632596b7ba89fee5b5ea.scn"]
+
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+
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+nodes/root_script=null
+nodes/apply_root_scale=true
+nodes/root_scale=1.0
+nodes/import_as_skeleton_bones=false
+nodes/use_name_suffixes=true
+nodes/use_node_type_suffixes=true
+meshes/ensure_tangents=true
+meshes/generate_lods=true
+meshes/create_shadow_meshes=true
+meshes/light_baking=1
+meshes/lightmap_texel_size=0.2
+meshes/force_disable_compression=false
+skins/use_named_skins=true
+animation/import=true
+animation/fps=30
+animation/trimming=false
+animation/remove_immutable_tracks=true
+animation/import_rest_as_RESET=false
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+materials/extract_format=0
+materials/extract_path=""
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+gltf/naming_version=2
+gltf/embedded_image_handling=1

assets/avatars/right_hand_glove_01.glb.import

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+importer_version=1
+type="PackedScene"
+uid="uid://bcrtxtp47dv8h"
+path="res://.godot/imported/right_hand_glove_01.glb-a59875b630ac413350c3bdf6acc84bdf.scn"
+
+[deps]
+
+source_file="res://assets/avatars/right_hand_glove_01.glb"
+dest_files=["res://.godot/imported/right_hand_glove_01.glb-a59875b630ac413350c3bdf6acc84bdf.scn"]
+
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+nodes/root_scale=1.0
+nodes/import_as_skeleton_bones=false
+nodes/use_name_suffixes=true
+nodes/use_node_type_suffixes=true
+meshes/ensure_tangents=true
+meshes/generate_lods=true
+meshes/create_shadow_meshes=true
+meshes/light_baking=1
+meshes/lightmap_texel_size=0.2
+meshes/force_disable_compression=false
+skins/use_named_skins=true
+animation/import=true
+animation/fps=30
+animation/trimming=false
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assets/editor/object_catalog.json

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+  "objects": {
+    "crate_small": {
+      "asset_id": "props/crate_small.glb",
+      "type": "prop",
+      "display_name": "Small Crate",
+      "category": "props"
+    },
+    "rock_01": {
+      "asset_id": "props/rock_01.glb",
+      "type": "prop",
+      "display_name": "Rock",
+      "category": "nature"
+    },
+    "tree_pine_01": {
+      "asset_id": "props/tree_pine_01.glb",
+      "type": "prop",
+      "display_name": "Pine Tree",
+      "category": "nature"
+    },
+    "lamp_post_01": {
+      "asset_id": "props/lamp_post_01.glb",
+      "type": "prop",
+      "display_name": "Lamp Post",
+      "category": "props"
+    },
+    "chest_01": {
+      "asset_id": "props/chest.glb",
+      "type": "interactable",
+      "display_name": "Treasure Chest",
+      "category": "interactables"
+    },
+    "spawn_point": {
+      "asset_id": "",
+      "type": "spawn_point",
+      "display_name": "Spawn Point",
+      "category": "gameplay"
+    }
+  }
+}

assets/scripting/behaviors/demo_chest.json

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+  "content_flags": {
+    "violence": "none",
+    "mature": false
+  },
+  "rules": [
+    {
+      "trigger": {"type": "on_interact"},
+      "conditions": [],
+      "actions": [
+        {"verb": "give_item", "item_id": "gold_coin", "count": 3},
+        {"verb": "play_sound", "sound_id": "chest_open"},
+        {"verb": "rotate", "target": "self", "degrees": 90, "axis": "y", "duration": 0.4}
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

assets/scripting/spawn_catalog.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "templates": {
+    "small_crate": {
+      "asset_id": "props/crate_small.glb",
+      "display_name": "Small Crate"
+    }
+  }
+}

backend/.env.example

@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://agp_user:agp_password@localhost:5432/agp_db
 # Redis
 REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0
 
-# JWT
-SECRET_KEY=change-me-to-a-secure-random-string
-ALGORITHM=HS256
-ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES=30
+# JWT / Auth
+ALGORITHM=RS256
+ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES=60
+REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_DAYS=30
+# Directory where the RSA keypair is loaded/generated at runtime.
+# Defaults to ~/.agp/keys (outside the repo). Keys are never committed to git.
+RSA_KEY_DIR=~/.agp/keys
 
 # App
 APP_NAME=AGP Backend

backend/alembic/env.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import create_async_engine
 
 from app.config import settings
 from app.database import Base
-from app.models import user, session, world, asset  # noqa: F401
+from app.models import user, session, world, asset, avatar_loadout, world_content  # noqa: F401
 
 # this is the Alembic Config object, which provides
 # access to the values within the .ini file in use.

backend/alembic/versions/0003_add_refresh_tokens_table.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""add refresh_tokens table
+
+Revision ID: 0003_add_refresh_tokens_table
+Revises: 0002_add_date_of_birth_to_users
+Create Date: 2025-07-25 00:00:00.000000
+
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0003_add_refresh_tokens_table"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0002_add_date_of_birth_to_users"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    """Create the refresh_tokens table."""
+    op.create_table(
+        "refresh_tokens",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.String(36), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column("user_id", sa.Integer(), sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("token", sa.String(512), unique=True, index=True, nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("expires_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("is_active", sa.Boolean(), server_default=sa.text("true"), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    """Drop the refresh_tokens table."""
+    op.drop_table("refresh_tokens")

backend/alembic/versions/0004_add_avatar_loadouts_table.py

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+"""add avatar_loadouts table
+
+Revision ID: 0004_add_avatar_loadouts_table
+Revises: 0003_add_refresh_tokens_table
+Create Date: 2026-09-05 00:00:00.000000
+
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0004_add_avatar_loadouts_table"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0003_add_refresh_tokens_table"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    """Create the avatar_loadouts table (one row per user)."""
+    op.create_table(
+        "avatar_loadouts",
+        sa.Column(
+            "user_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            primary_key=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("data", postgresql.JSONB(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    """Drop the avatar_loadouts table."""
+    op.drop_table("avatar_loadouts")

backend/alembic/versions/0005_add_world_content_tables.py

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+"""add world_rooms, world_chunks, world_chunk_revisions tables
+
+Revision ID: 0005_add_world_content_tables
+Revises: 0004_add_avatar_loadouts_table
+Create Date: 2026-09-14 00:00:00.000000
+
+See docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md §4. Chunk content
+(rooms, chunk payloads, chunk revisions) lives in Postgres, purely
+additive to the existing ``worlds`` table.
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0005_add_world_content_tables"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0004_add_avatar_loadouts_table"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.create_table(
+        "world_rooms",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True, index=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "world_id", sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("slug", sa.String(64), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("name", sa.String(255), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column(
+            "grid", postgresql.JSONB(), nullable=False,
+            server_default='{"size": [32, 32, 1], "origin": [0, 0, 0]}',
+        ),
+        sa.Column("bounds", postgresql.JSONB(), nullable=True),
+        sa.Column("spawn", postgresql.JSONB(), nullable=True),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column(
+            "updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True),
+            server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("world_id", "slug", name="uq_world_rooms_world_slug"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_world_rooms_world_id", "world_rooms", ["world_id"])
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "world_chunks",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True, index=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "world_id", sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "room_id", sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("world_rooms.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("chunk_key", sa.String(160), nullable=False, unique=True),
+        sa.Column("cx", sa.Integer(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("cy", sa.Integer(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("cz", sa.Integer(), nullable=False, server_default="0"),
+        sa.Column("format_version", sa.Integer(), nullable=False, server_default="1"),
+        sa.Column("payload", sa.LargeBinary(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("payload_len", sa.Integer(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("checksum", sa.String(64), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("revision", sa.Integer(), nullable=False, server_default="1"),
+        sa.Column("content_flags", postgresql.JSONB(), nullable=False, server_default="{}"),
+        sa.Column("is_mature", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default="false"),
+        sa.Column(
+            "updated_by_id", sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column(
+            "updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True),
+            server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz", name="uq_world_chunks_coord"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_world_chunks_world_id", "world_chunks", ["world_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_world_chunks_room_id", "world_chunks", ["room_id"])
+    op.create_index(
+        "ix_world_chunks_room_coord", "world_chunks", ["room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz"],
+    )
+    op.create_index(
+        "ix_world_chunks_mature", "world_chunks", ["world_id"],
+        postgresql_where=sa.text("is_mature"),
+    )
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "world_chunk_revisions",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True, index=True),
+        sa.Column("chunk_key", sa.String(160), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("world_id", sa.Integer(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("revision", sa.Integer(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("action", sa.String(16), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column(
+            "actor_id", sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("checksum", sa.String(64), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("payload", sa.LargeBinary(), nullable=True),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_world_chunk_revisions_chunk_key", "world_chunk_revisions", ["chunk_key"])
+    op.create_index("ix_world_chunk_revisions_world_id", "world_chunk_revisions", ["world_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_world_chunk_revisions_created_at", "world_chunk_revisions", ["created_at"])
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_table("world_chunk_revisions")
+    op.drop_table("world_chunks")
+    op.drop_table("world_rooms")

backend/alembic/versions/0006_add_presence_columns.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+"""add presence columns to users
+
+Revision ID: 0006_add_presence_columns
+Revises: 0005_add_world_content_tables
+Create Date: 2026-09-14 00:00:00.000000
+
+Ported forward from the orphaned agent/dd2a126b57a1 branch (originally
+2a9b9873244a_add_presence_columns.py, down_revision 0001_initial) and
+rebased onto the current migration head. See app/services/presence.py /
+app/routers/presence.py.
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0006_add_presence_columns"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0005_add_world_content_tables"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    """Add last_seen_at and status_message columns to users table."""
+    op.add_column("users", sa.Column("last_seen_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True))
+    op.add_column("users", sa.Column("status_message", sa.Text(), nullable=True))
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    """Remove presence columns from users table."""
+    op.drop_column("users", "status_message")
+    op.drop_column("users", "last_seen_at")

backend/alembic/versions/0007_add_social_graph_tables.py

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+"""add social graph tables (friendships, follows, blocks)
+
+Revision ID: 0007_add_social_graph_tables
+Revises: 0006_add_presence_columns
+Create Date: 2026-09-15 00:00:00.000000
+
+docs/planning/social.md US-1 / app/models/social.py. Models + migration
+only -- the request/accept/block business logic lives in the sibling
+"Friends & follow API router" task.
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0007_add_social_graph_tables"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0006_add_presence_columns"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    friendship_status = postgresql.ENUM(
+        "pending", "accepted", name="friendship_status"
+    )
+    friendship_status.create(op.get_bind(), checkfirst=True)
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "friendships",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "requester_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "addressee_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "status",
+            postgresql.ENUM(
+                "pending", "accepted", name="friendship_status", create_type=False
+            ),
+            nullable=False,
+            server_default="pending",
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("requester_id", "addressee_id", name="uq_friendships_pair"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_friendships_requester_id", "friendships", ["requester_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_friendships_addressee_id", "friendships", ["addressee_id"])
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "follows",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "follower_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "followed_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("follower_id", "followed_id", name="uq_follows_pair"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_follows_follower_id", "follows", ["follower_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_follows_followed_id", "follows", ["followed_id"])
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "blocks",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "blocker_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "blocked_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("blocker_id", "blocked_id", name="uq_blocks_pair"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_blocks_blocker_id", "blocks", ["blocker_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_blocks_blocked_id", "blocks", ["blocked_id"])
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_index("ix_blocks_blocked_id", table_name="blocks")
+    op.drop_index("ix_blocks_blocker_id", table_name="blocks")
+    op.drop_table("blocks")
+
+    op.drop_index("ix_follows_followed_id", table_name="follows")
+    op.drop_index("ix_follows_follower_id", table_name="follows")
+    op.drop_table("follows")
+
+    op.drop_index("ix_friendships_addressee_id", table_name="friendships")
+    op.drop_index("ix_friendships_requester_id", table_name="friendships")
+    op.drop_table("friendships")
+
+    postgresql.ENUM(name="friendship_status").drop(op.get_bind(), checkfirst=True)

backend/alembic/versions/0008_add_chat_tables.py

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+"""add chat tables (conversations, messages, message_reports)
+
+Revision ID: 0008_add_chat_tables
+Revises: 0007_add_social_graph_tables
+Create Date: 2026-09-15 00:00:00.000000
+
+docs/planning/social.md US-4 / app/models/chat.py. Models + migration only
+-- text filtering, rate limiting, and send/report/moderation endpoints live
+in sibling tasks that depend on this one.
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision: str = "0008_add_chat_tables"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0007_add_social_graph_tables"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    message_report_status = postgresql.ENUM(
+        "open", "resolved", "dismissed", name="message_report_status"
+    )
+    message_report_status.create(op.get_bind(), checkfirst=True)
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "conversations",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "user_a_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "user_b_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("updated_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint("user_a_id", "user_b_id", name="uq_conversations_pair"),
+        sa.CheckConstraint("user_a_id < user_b_id", name="ck_conversations_ordered_pair"),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_conversations_user_a_id", "conversations", ["user_a_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_conversations_user_b_id", "conversations", ["user_b_id"])
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "conversation_participants",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "conversation_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("conversations.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "user_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=False,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+        sa.UniqueConstraint(
+            "conversation_id", "user_id", name="uq_conversation_participants_pair"
+        ),
+    )
+    op.create_index(
+        "ix_conversation_participants_conversation_id",
+        "conversation_participants",
+        ["conversation_id"],
+    )
+    op.create_index(
+        "ix_conversation_participants_user_id", "conversation_participants", ["user_id"]
+    )
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "messages",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "sender_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "conversation_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("conversations.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "world_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "room_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("world_rooms.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("body", sa.Text(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column("filtered", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default="false"),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_messages_sender_id", "messages", ["sender_id"])
+    op.create_index(
+        "ix_messages_conversation_created", "messages", ["conversation_id", "created_at"]
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_messages_world_created", "messages", ["world_id", "created_at"])
+
+    op.create_table(
+        "message_reports",
+        sa.Column("id", sa.Integer(), primary_key=True),
+        sa.Column(
+            "message_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("messages.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "reporter_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("reason", sa.Text(), nullable=False),
+        sa.Column(
+            "status",
+            postgresql.ENUM(
+                "open", "resolved", "dismissed", name="message_report_status", create_type=False
+            ),
+            nullable=False,
+            server_default="open",
+        ),
+        sa.Column(
+            "moderator_id",
+            sa.Integer(),
+            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
+            nullable=True,
+        ),
+        sa.Column("resolved_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True),
+        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=sa.func.now(), nullable=False),
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_message_reports_message_id", "message_reports", ["message_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_message_reports_reporter_id", "message_reports", ["reporter_id"])
+    op.create_index("ix_message_reports_moderator_id", "message_reports", ["moderator_id"])
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_index("ix_message_reports_moderator_id", table_name="message_reports")
+    op.drop_index("ix_message_reports_reporter_id", table_name="message_reports")
+    op.drop_index("ix_message_reports_message_id", table_name="message_reports")
+    op.drop_table("message_reports")
+
+    op.drop_index("ix_messages_world_created", table_name="messages")
+    op.drop_index("ix_messages_conversation_created", table_name="messages")
+    op.drop_index("ix_messages_sender_id", table_name="messages")
+    op.drop_table("messages")
+
+    op.drop_index("ix_conversation_participants_user_id", table_name="conversation_participants")
+    op.drop_index(
+        "ix_conversation_participants_conversation_id", table_name="conversation_participants"
+    )
+    op.drop_table("conversation_participants")
+
+    op.drop_index("ix_conversations_user_b_id", table_name="conversations")
+    op.drop_index("ix_conversations_user_a_id", table_name="conversations")
+    op.drop_table("conversations")
+
+    postgresql.ENUM(name="message_report_status").drop(op.get_bind(), checkfirst=True)

backend/app/config.py

@@ -1,10 +1,56 @@
 """Application configuration via pydantic-settings."""
 
 from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
 
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa import (
+    RSAPrivateKey,
+    RSAPublicKey,
+    generate_private_key,
+)
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization import (
+    Encoding,
+    NoEncryption,
+    PrivateFormat,
+    PublicFormat,
+    load_pem_private_key,
+    load_pem_public_key,
+)
 from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
 
 
+def _load_or_generate_rsa_keys(key_dir: Path) -> tuple[bytes, bytes]:
+    """Load existing RSA keys or generate a new pair.
+
+    Keys are stored as PEM files in *key_dir*.  The directory is created
+    if it does not exist.  Files are named ``private.pem`` and
+    ``public.pem`` and are **not** committed to git.
+    """
+    private_path = key_dir / "private.pem"
+    public_path = key_dir / "public.pem"
+
+    if private_path.exists() and public_path.exists():
+        private_pem = private_path.read_bytes()
+        public_pem = public_path.read_bytes()
+    else:
+        # Generate a new 2048-bit RSA key pair
+        private_key = generate_private_key(public_exponent=65537, key_size=2048)
+        private_pem = private_key.private_bytes(
+            Encoding.PEM,
+            PrivateFormat.PKCS8,
+            NoEncryption(),
+        )
+        public_pem = private_key.public_key().public_bytes(
+            Encoding.PEM,
+            PublicFormat.SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
+        )
+        key_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        private_path.write_bytes(private_pem)
+        public_path.write_bytes(public_pem)
+
+    return private_pem, public_pem
+
+
 class Settings(BaseSettings):
     # App
     APP_NAME: str = "AGP Backend"
@@ -18,18 +64,62 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     REDIS_URL: str = "redis://localhost:6379/0"
 
     # JWT / Auth
-    # NOTE: production must override SECRET_KEY with a secure random value
-    # (e.g. `python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))"`)
-    SECRET_KEY: str = "change-me-to-a-secure-random-string"
-    ALGORITHM: str = "HS256"
-    ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES: int = 30
+    ALGORITHM: str = "RS256"
+    ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES: int = 60
+    REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_DAYS: int = 30
+
+    # RS256 key storage.  Defaults to a directory outside the repo so the
+    # generated keypair is never accidentally committed.
+    RSA_KEY_DIR: str = str(Path.home() / ".agp" / "keys")
 
     # CORS
     CORS_ORIGINS: str = "http://localhost:8080,http://localhost:3000"
 
+    # Per-IP auth rate limiting (app/rate_limit.py). Disabled by the
+    # checkpoint smoke suite, which runs every test from one client IP.
+    RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED: bool = True
+
     # File uploads
     UPLOAD_DIR: str = "uploads"
     MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_MB: int = 100
+    GLTF_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB: int = 200
+
+    # ── Game-server orchestration ──────────────────────────────────────────
+    # The join flow (POST /api/worlds/{id}/join) ensures a headless Godot
+    # dedicated-server process exists for a world and returns its address.
+    # Disabled by default so nothing tries to spawn Godot in environments
+    # that don't have it (plain pytest, CI without the engine); the
+    # checkpoint/playtest launcher turns it on.
+    GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED: bool = False
+    # Path to the Godot 4 binary. "godot" resolves via PATH.
+    GODOT_BIN: str = str(Path.home() / "godot" / "godot")
+    # Godot project directory (the game repo root -- backend/ is a subdir).
+    GAME_PROJECT_DIR: str = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2])
+    # The host clients should connect to for ENet. Defaults to the LAN IP the
+    # launcher bakes into the exe; overridable for local testing.
+    GAME_SERVER_HOST: str = "127.0.0.1"
+    # Port range for per-world dedicated servers.
+    GAME_SERVER_PORT_MIN: int = 27000
+    GAME_SERVER_PORT_MAX: int = 27099
+    # Kill a world's server this long after its last join with no active
+    # players reported.
+    GAME_SERVER_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS: int = 300
+    # How long ensure_server() waits for a spawned server to report
+    # "ready": true in its status file before giving up (503 to the
+    # joining client). See world_persistence_impl.md §7.4 -- content
+    # loading makes a slow start more likely than the old bare-port-bind
+    # wait, so this is a separate, longer-by-default budget.
+    GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS: float = 20.0
+    # The base URL the dedicated Godot server should call back into this
+    # backend on, for the read-only /api/internal content routes
+    # (world_persistence_impl.md §4.4 / §7).
+    GAME_SERVER_INTERNAL_API_URL: str = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
+
+    # ── World content persistence (world_persistence_impl.md §4.4) ─────────
+    WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES: int = 1_048_576  # 1 MiB
+    WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_OBJECTS: int = 512
+    WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH: int = 64
+    WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP: int = 20
 
     model_config = SettingsConfigDict(
         env_file=".env",
@@ -41,6 +131,32 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     def cors_origins_list(self) -> list[str]:
         return [origin.strip() for origin in self.CORS_ORIGINS.split(",")]
 
+    @property
+    def rsa_key_dir(self) -> Path:
+        return Path(self.RSA_KEY_DIR)
+
+    @property
+    def private_pem(self) -> bytes:
+        """Return the private key PEM bytes (loads/generates on first call)."""
+        private_pem, _ = _load_or_generate_rsa_keys(self.rsa_key_dir)
+        return private_pem
+
+    @property
+    def public_pem(self) -> bytes:
+        """Return the public key PEM bytes (loads/generates on first call)."""
+        _, public_pem = _load_or_generate_rsa_keys(self.rsa_key_dir)
+        return public_pem
+
+    @property
+    def private_key(self) -> RSAPrivateKey:
+        """Return the deserialized RSA private key object."""
+        return load_pem_private_key(self.private_pem, password=None)
+
+    @property
+    def public_key(self) -> RSAPublicKey:
+        """Return the deserialized RSA public key object."""
+        return load_pem_public_key(self.public_pem)
+
 
 @lru_cache()
 def get_settings() -> Settings:

backend/app/dependencies.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ async def get_current_user(
     )
     try:
         payload = jwt.decode(
-            token, settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM]
+            token, settings.public_pem, algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM]
         )
         user_id: str | None = payload.get("sub")
         if user_id is None:

backend/app/main.py

@@ -6,15 +6,18 @@ from fastapi import FastAPI
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 
 from app.config import settings
-from app.routers import auth, users, worlds, assets
+from app.routers import auth, users, worlds, assets, avatar, world_content, internal, presence
+
+
+from app.services.game_servers import supervisor
 
 
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
     """Application lifespan: startup and shutdown events."""
-    # Startup: initialize database, connect to Redis, etc.
+    supervisor.start()
     yield
-    # Shutdown: close connections, cleanup
+    await supervisor.shutdown()
 
 
 app = FastAPI(
@@ -37,7 +40,11 @@ app.add_middleware(
 app.include_router(auth.router, prefix="/api/auth", tags=["auth"])
 app.include_router(users.router, prefix="/api/users", tags=["users"])
 app.include_router(worlds.router, prefix="/api/worlds", tags=["worlds"])
+app.include_router(world_content.router, prefix="/api/worlds", tags=["world-content"])
 app.include_router(assets.router, prefix="/api/assets", tags=["assets"])
+app.include_router(avatar.router, prefix="/api/avatar", tags=["avatar"])
+app.include_router(internal.router, prefix="/api/internal", tags=["internal"])
+app.include_router(presence.router, prefix="/api/presence", tags=["presence"])
 
 
 @app.get("/api/health")

backend/app/models/__init__.py

@@ -2,5 +2,16 @@ from app.models.user import User
 from app.models.session import Session
 from app.models.world import World
 from app.models.asset import Asset
+from app.models.avatar_loadout import AvatarLoadout
+from app.models.world_content import WorldRoom, WorldChunk, WorldChunkRevision
+from app.models.social import Friendship, Follow, Block, FriendshipStatus
+from app.models.chat import (
+    Conversation, ConversationParticipant, Message, MessageReport, ReportStatus,
+)
 
-__all__ = ["User", "Session", "World", "Asset"]
+__all__ = [
+    "User", "Session", "World", "Asset", "AvatarLoadout",
+    "WorldRoom", "WorldChunk", "WorldChunkRevision",
+    "Friendship", "Follow", "Block", "FriendshipStatus",
+    "Conversation", "ConversationParticipant", "Message", "MessageReport", "ReportStatus",
+]

backend/app/models/avatar_loadout.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, ForeignKey, DateTime
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSONB
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
+from sqlalchemy.sql import func
+
+from app.database import Base
+
+
+# The default a brand-new account gets before they touch the customization
+# screen. Kept in sync with assets/avatars/catalog.json (the base_body id) and
+# with the client's AvatarLoadout.to_json() shape.
+DEFAULT_LOADOUT: dict = {
+    "base_body": "base_human_male_01",
+    "slots": {},
+}
+
+
+class AvatarLoadout(Base):
+    """A user's equipped avatar composition.
+
+    One row per user. The whole loadout is stored as a single JSON document
+    matching the client's ``AvatarLoadout.to_json()`` shape
+    (``{"base_body": str, "slots": {...}, "skin_tone"?: {...}}``) rather than
+    exploded into columns -- the server has no copy of the asset catalog, so
+    deep validation (does this asset exist, is it valid for this slot) stays
+    on the client. The server only enforces the envelope: valid JSON object
+    with a non-empty ``base_body``.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "avatar_loadouts"
+
+    user_id = Column(
+        Integer,
+        ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+        primary_key=True,
+    )
+    data = Column(JSONB, nullable=False)
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    user = relationship("User", back_populates="avatar_loadout")

backend/app/models/chat.py

@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+"""Chat: DM conversations and world/room chat, plus message reports.
+
+docs/planning/social.md §4/§5 (US-4). This module is models + schema only --
+text filtering, rate limiting, and the send/list/report/moderation endpoints
+belong to sibling tasks that depend on this one.
+
+Delete-behavior choices (mirrors ``app/models/world_content.py``'s
+established convention of preserving audit/history data over cascading it
+away):
+
+- ``conversations.user_a_id`` / ``user_b_id`` -> CASCADE. A DM conversation
+  is meaningless with one of its two (and only) participants gone, so
+  deleting either user removes the conversation outright, which in turn
+  cascades to its ``conversation_participants`` rows and its ``messages``.
+- ``conversation_participants.user_id`` -> CASCADE, ``.conversation_id`` ->
+  CASCADE. Pure join-table rows; they only make sense alongside both sides.
+- ``messages.conversation_id`` -> CASCADE. Deleting a conversation deletes
+  its message history with it.
+- ``messages.sender_id`` -> SET NULL (nullable). Unlike a DM conversation
+  (which dies with its participants above), world/room chat history and any
+  message under moderation review should survive the sender's account being
+  deleted -- the row just becomes attributed to no one, matching how
+  ``WorldChunk.updated_by_id`` / ``WorldChunkRevision.actor_id`` treat
+  actor references as SET NULL rather than cascading away history.
+- ``messages.world_id`` / ``room_id`` -> CASCADE. World/room chat has no
+  meaning once the world or room it was said in is gone; consistent with
+  ``WorldChunk``'s own CASCADE from both.
+- ``message_reports.message_id`` -> SET NULL (nullable). Same audit-trail
+  reasoning as ``WorldChunkRevision`` (world_content.py): a moderation
+  report is a record that something *was* said and reported, which must
+  outlive the underlying message being removed (e.g. as the moderation
+  action taken in response to the report itself).
+- ``message_reports.reporter_id`` / ``moderator_id`` -> SET NULL (nullable).
+  Actor references for an audit record; the report itself must survive
+  either account being deleted later, matching the actor-reference
+  convention above.
+"""
+import enum
+
+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Boolean,
+    CheckConstraint,
+    Column,
+    DateTime,
+    ForeignKey,
+    Index,
+    Integer,
+    Text,
+    UniqueConstraint,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import ENUM
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
+from sqlalchemy.sql import func
+
+from app.database import Base
+
+
+class ReportStatus(str, enum.Enum):
+    OPEN = "open"
+    RESOLVED = "resolved"
+    DISMISSED = "dismissed"
+
+
+class Conversation(Base):
+    """A DM conversation between exactly two users.
+
+    ``conversation_participants`` is the real roster (modeled as a join
+    table so a future group-DM schema change can widen it beyond two rows
+    without touching this table's shape), but a 2-party DM also needs a
+    cheap, DB-enforced "only one conversation per pair" guarantee, which a
+    plain join table can't express as a simple unique constraint. So the
+    pair is additionally denormalized here as ``user_a_id``/``user_b_id``,
+    always stored with the lower user id first (enforced by the check
+    constraint below); the API layer is responsible for normalizing the
+    pair before insert/lookup.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "conversations"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    user_a_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    user_b_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(
+        DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False
+    )
+
+    participants = relationship(
+        "ConversationParticipant", back_populates="conversation", cascade="all, delete-orphan"
+    )
+    messages = relationship(
+        "Message", back_populates="conversation", cascade="all, delete-orphan"
+    )
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("user_a_id", "user_b_id", name="uq_conversations_pair"),
+        CheckConstraint("user_a_id < user_b_id", name="ck_conversations_ordered_pair"),
+    )
+
+
+class ConversationParticipant(Base):
+    """Join table of a conversation's members.
+
+    DMs are strictly 2-party today (enforced by ``Conversation``'s pair
+    columns above), but this is modeled as a real join table -- not folded
+    into ``Conversation`` -- so a later group-conversation feature can add
+    rows here without a schema change to this table.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "conversation_participants"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    conversation_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("conversations.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    user_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    conversation = relationship("Conversation", back_populates="participants")
+    user = relationship("User")
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint(
+            "conversation_id", "user_id", name="uq_conversation_participants_pair"
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+class Message(Base):
+    """A chat message: either a DM (``conversation_id`` set) or a
+    world/room chat message (``conversation_id`` null, ``world_id`` set and
+    optionally ``room_id``).
+
+    ``world_id`` is denormalized onto every world/room message (mirroring
+    ``WorldChunk.world_id``) so world-scoped history queries don't need a
+    join through rooms; ``room_id`` narrows further to a specific room when
+    the world subdivides chat by room, and is null for world-wide chat.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "messages"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    sender_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True, index=True
+    )
+    conversation_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("conversations.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=True
+    )
+    world_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=True
+    )
+    room_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("world_rooms.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=True
+    )
+    body = Column(Text, nullable=False)
+    filtered = Column(Boolean, nullable=False, default=False, server_default="false")
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    sender = relationship("User")
+    conversation = relationship("Conversation", back_populates="messages")
+    world = relationship("World")
+    room = relationship("WorldRoom")
+    reports = relationship(
+        "MessageReport", back_populates="message", cascade="all, delete-orphan"
+    )
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_messages_conversation_created", "conversation_id", "created_at"),
+        Index("ix_messages_world_created", "world_id", "created_at"),
+    )
+
+
+class MessageReport(Base):
+    """A moderation report filed against a message.
+
+    ``message_id`` is nullable with ``ON DELETE SET NULL`` (rather than
+    CASCADE) so the report -- the audit record that something was said and
+    flagged -- outlives the message row, including when the message's own
+    removal is the moderation action taken in response to this report.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "message_reports"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    message_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("messages.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True, index=True
+    )
+    reporter_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True, index=True
+    )
+    reason = Column(Text, nullable=False)
+    status = Column(
+        ENUM(
+            ReportStatus,
+            name="message_report_status",
+            create_type=False,
+            values_callable=lambda enum_cls: [e.value for e in enum_cls],
+        ),
+        nullable=False,
+        default=ReportStatus.OPEN,
+        server_default=ReportStatus.OPEN.value,
+    )
+    moderator_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True, index=True
+    )
+    resolved_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True)
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    message = relationship("Message", back_populates="reports")
+    reporter = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[reporter_id])
+    moderator = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[moderator_id])

backend/app/models/session.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import uuid
 from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, DateTime, ForeignKey, Boolean
 from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
 from sqlalchemy.sql import func
+
 from app.database import Base
 
 
@@ -18,3 +19,23 @@ class Session(Base):
     updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now())
 
     user = relationship("User", back_populates="sessions")
+
+
+class RefreshToken(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "refresh_tokens"
+
+    id = Column(String(36), primary_key=True, default=lambda: str(uuid.uuid4()))
+    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False)
+    # RS256 JWTs are ~420+ chars; 512 is sufficient and matches the migration.
+    token = Column(String(512), unique=True, index=True, nullable=False)
+    expires_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False)
+    is_active = Column(Boolean, nullable=False, default=True, server_default="true")
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now())
+    updated_at = Column(
+        DateTime(timezone=True),
+        nullable=False,
+        server_default=func.now(),
+        onupdate=func.now(),
+    )
+
+    user = relationship("User", back_populates="refresh_tokens")

backend/app/models/social.py

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+"""Social graph: friendships, follows, blocks.
+
+docs/planning/social.md §4/§5 (US-1). Friends = mutual (request -> accept),
+Follow = one-way (no approval), Block = hard deny. This module is models +
+schema only -- the request/accept/block business logic (idempotent
+duplicate/self handling, removing an existing friendship/follow on block,
+etc.) belongs to the API router task that depends on this one.
+"""
+import enum
+
+from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, ForeignKey, DateTime, UniqueConstraint
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import ENUM
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
+from sqlalchemy.sql import func
+
+from app.database import Base
+
+
+class FriendshipStatus(str, enum.Enum):
+    PENDING = "pending"
+    ACCEPTED = "accepted"
+
+
+class Friendship(Base):
+    """A friend request, directional until accepted.
+
+    ``requester_id`` sent the request to ``addressee_id``. Once accepted the
+    friendship is mutual, but the row stays directional (who asked whom) for
+    audit purposes; the API layer treats it as symmetric once accepted.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "friendships"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    requester_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    addressee_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    status = Column(
+        ENUM(
+            FriendshipStatus,
+            name="friendship_status",
+            create_type=False,
+            values_callable=lambda enum_cls: [e.value for e in enum_cls],
+        ),
+        nullable=False,
+        default=FriendshipStatus.PENDING,
+        server_default=FriendshipStatus.PENDING.value,
+    )
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    requester = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[requester_id], back_populates="sent_friend_requests")
+    addressee = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[addressee_id], back_populates="received_friend_requests")
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("requester_id", "addressee_id", name="uq_friendships_pair"),
+    )
+
+
+class Follow(Base):
+    """A one-way follow relationship: ``follower_id`` follows ``followed_id``."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "follows"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    follower_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    followed_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    follower = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[follower_id], back_populates="following")
+    followed = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[followed_id], back_populates="followers")
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("follower_id", "followed_id", name="uq_follows_pair"),
+    )
+
+
+class Block(Base):
+    """A hard deny: ``blocker_id`` has blocked ``blocked_id``."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "blocks"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    blocker_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    blocked_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    blocker = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[blocker_id], back_populates="blocks_initiated")
+    blocked = relationship("User", foreign_keys=[blocked_id], back_populates="blocked_by")
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("blocker_id", "blocked_id", name="uq_blocks_pair"),
+    )

backend/app/models/user.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from datetime import date
 from typing import Optional
 
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, Boolean, DateTime, Date
+from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, Boolean, DateTime, Date, Text
 from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
 from sqlalchemy.sql import func
 
@@ -20,9 +20,58 @@ class User(Base):
     created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now())
     updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), onupdate=func.now())
 
+    # Presence / status (backend/app/services/presence.py, app/routers/presence.py)
+    last_seen_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True)
+    status_message = Column(Text, nullable=True)
+
     sessions = relationship("Session", back_populates="user", cascade="all, delete-orphan")
+    refresh_tokens = relationship("RefreshToken", back_populates="user", cascade="all, delete-orphan")
     worlds = relationship("World", back_populates="owner")
     assets = relationship("Asset", back_populates="owner")
+    avatar_loadout = relationship(
+        "AvatarLoadout",
+        back_populates="user",
+        uselist=False,
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+
+    # Social graph (docs/planning/social.md US-1; app/models/social.py)
+    sent_friend_requests = relationship(
+        "Friendship",
+        foreign_keys="Friendship.requester_id",
+        back_populates="requester",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+    received_friend_requests = relationship(
+        "Friendship",
+        foreign_keys="Friendship.addressee_id",
+        back_populates="addressee",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+    following = relationship(
+        "Follow",
+        foreign_keys="Follow.follower_id",
+        back_populates="follower",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+    followers = relationship(
+        "Follow",
+        foreign_keys="Follow.followed_id",
+        back_populates="followed",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+    blocks_initiated = relationship(
+        "Block",
+        foreign_keys="Block.blocker_id",
+        back_populates="blocker",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
+    blocked_by = relationship(
+        "Block",
+        foreign_keys="Block.blocked_id",
+        back_populates="blocked",
+        cascade="all, delete-orphan",
+    )
 
     @property
     def is_adult(self) -> bool:

backend/app/models/world.py

@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ class World(Base):
     description = Column(Text, nullable=True)
     owner_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id"), nullable=False)
     visibility = Column(
-        ENUM(WorldVisibility, name="world_visibility", create_type=False),
+        ENUM(
+            WorldVisibility,
+            name="world_visibility",
+            create_type=False,
+            values_callable=lambda enum_cls: [e.value for e in enum_cls],
+        ),
         default=WorldVisibility.PUBLIC,
     )
     created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now())
@@ -29,3 +34,6 @@ class World(Base):
 
     owner = relationship("User", back_populates="worlds")
     assets = relationship("Asset", back_populates="world", cascade="all, delete-orphan")
+    # world_content.py / world_persistence_impl.md §4.1. Added here (only)
+    # so PC1/PC2 code depending on this module is otherwise untouched.
+    rooms = relationship("WorldRoom", back_populates="world", cascade="all, delete-orphan")

backend/app/models/world_content.py

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+"""World content persistence models.
+
+Implements the schema decided in ``docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md``
+§4: chunk content (rooms, chunk payloads, chunk revisions) lives in Postgres,
+alongside ``worlds``, rather than in a per-world SQLite file
+(``docs/architecture/world.md`` §4, superseded).
+
+The chunk *payload* format itself (the 48-byte header + sectioned binary
+body) is unchanged from ``world.md`` §3.6 and is decoded/encoded by
+``app.services.chunk_codec``, not by these models -- these just store the
+opaque ``BYTEA``.
+
+Conventions follow the existing models (``app/models/world.py``,
+``app/models/avatar_loadout.py``): declarative ``Column(...)`` style,
+``Integer`` surrogate PKs, ``DateTime(timezone=True)`` with
+``server_default=func.now()``, JSONB for document-shaped fields.
+"""
+
+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Boolean,
+    Column,
+    DateTime,
+    ForeignKey,
+    Index,
+    Integer,
+    LargeBinary,
+    String,
+    UniqueConstraint,
+    text,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSONB
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
+from sqlalchemy.sql import func
+
+from app.database import Base
+
+# Default chunk grid, matching Chunk.CHUNK_SIZE_* in scripts/chunk.gd (the
+# client's source of truth for the same constants) and world.md §2.2.
+DEFAULT_ROOM_GRID: dict = {"size": [32, 32, 1], "origin": [0, 0, 0]}
+
+# The room every world gets automatically (world_persistence_impl.md §4.1).
+MAIN_ROOM_SLUG = "main"
+MAIN_ROOM_NAME = "Main"
+
+
+class WorldRoom(Base):
+    """A bounded region within a world -- a level, building, or zone
+    (world.md §2.1). Holds the chunk grid config so a world can later hold
+    rooms with different grids without touching the ``worlds`` table.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "world_rooms"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    world_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    slug = Column(String(64), nullable=False)  # url-safe; "main" by default
+    name = Column(String(255), nullable=False)
+    # {"size": [x, y, z], "origin": [x, y, z]}
+    grid = Column(
+        JSONB, nullable=False,
+        server_default='{"size": [32, 32, 1], "origin": [0, 0, 0]}',
+    )
+    bounds = Column(JSONB, nullable=True)  # {"min":[x,y,z], "max":[x,y,z]}; null = unbounded
+    spawn = Column(JSONB, nullable=True)  # {"pos":[x,y,z], "yaw": 0.0}
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(
+        DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False
+    )
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("world_id", "slug", name="uq_world_rooms_world_slug"),
+    )
+
+    world = relationship("World", back_populates="rooms")
+    chunks = relationship("WorldChunk", back_populates="room", cascade="all, delete-orphan")
+
+
+class WorldChunk(Base):
+    """One chunk's persisted content -- the atomic load/save/stream unit
+    (world.md §2.1). ``payload`` is the world.md §3.6 binary blob, stored
+    verbatim as BYTEA.
+
+    Deltas from world.md §4.4 (SQLite design): a surrogate integer PK +
+    unique coordinate constraint (rather than ``chunk_key`` as the PK), no
+    ``dirty`` column (write-behind doesn't apply over Postgres -- see
+    world_persistence_impl.md §3.3/§5), and content flags folded into this
+    row as JSONB + an indexed ``is_mature`` boolean rather than a separate
+    ``content_flags`` table (world.md §4.6).
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "world_chunks"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    world_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )  # denormalized: world-scoped queries without a join through rooms
+    room_id = Column(
+        Integer, ForeignKey("world_rooms.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), nullable=False, index=True
+    )
+    chunk_key = Column(String(160), nullable=False, unique=True)  # world.md §2.3 / §4.5
+    cx = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    cy = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    cz = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="0")
+
+    format_version = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="1")
+    payload = Column(LargeBinary, nullable=False)  # world.md §3.6 bytes
+    payload_len = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    checksum = Column(String(64), nullable=False)  # SHA-256 hex of payload body
+    revision = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="1")
+
+    content_flags = Column(JSONB, nullable=False, server_default="{}")  # world.md §3.4
+    is_mature = Column(Boolean, nullable=False, server_default="false")
+
+    updated_by_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True)
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(
+        DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False
+    )
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz", name="uq_world_chunks_coord"),
+        Index("ix_world_chunks_room_coord", "room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz"),
+        Index("ix_world_chunks_mature", "world_id", postgresql_where=text("is_mature")),
+    )
+
+    room = relationship("WorldRoom", back_populates="chunks")
+
+
+class WorldChunkRevision(Base):
+    """Audit trail of chunk writes (world.md §4.7). ``chunk_key``/``world_id``
+    are deliberately **not** foreign keys, so deleting a chunk or a world
+    preserves the audit trail.
+
+    Retention (world_persistence_impl.md §4.3, required): only the newest
+    ``settings.WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP`` rows per ``chunk_key`` keep a
+    non-null ``payload``; older rows are pruned (payload nulled, metadata
+    row kept) by ``WorldStore`` in the same transaction as the write that
+    triggers it.
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = "world_chunk_revisions"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    chunk_key = Column(String(160), nullable=False, index=True)
+    world_id = Column(Integer, nullable=False, index=True)
+    revision = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    action = Column(String(16), nullable=False)  # 'create' | 'update' | 'delete'
+    actor_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True)
+    checksum = Column(String(64), nullable=False)
+    payload = Column(LargeBinary, nullable=True)  # full payload at this revision; nulled by retention
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False, index=True)

backend/app/rate_limit.py

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+"""Lightweight in-process rate limiting.
+
+The backend runs single-worker (required by the game-server supervisor), so a
+process-local sliding-window counter is sufficient and needs no Redis. Keyed
+by client IP. Used to blunt credential brute-force on the auth endpoints.
+
+If the backend is ever scaled to multiple workers/hosts this must move to a
+shared store (Redis) -- flagged here rather than silently under-enforcing.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import time
+from collections import defaultdict, deque
+
+from fastapi import HTTPException, Request, status
+
+from app.config import settings
+
+
+class SlidingWindowLimiter:
+    def __init__(self, max_hits: int, window_seconds: float) -> None:
+        self.max_hits = max_hits
+        self.window = window_seconds
+        self._hits: dict[str, deque[float]] = defaultdict(deque)
+
+    def check(self, key: str) -> None:
+        now = time.monotonic()
+        q = self._hits[key]
+        cutoff = now - self.window
+        while q and q[0] < cutoff:
+            q.popleft()
+        if len(q) >= self.max_hits:
+            retry = max(1, int(q[0] + self.window - now))
+            raise HTTPException(
+                status_code=status.HTTP_429_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
+                detail="Too many attempts. Try again shortly.",
+                headers={"Retry-After": str(retry)},
+            )
+        q.append(now)
+
+    def reset(self) -> None:
+        self._hits.clear()
+
+
+def _client_key(request: Request) -> str:
+    # X-Forwarded-For first hop when behind the reverse proxy, else the socket.
+    fwd = request.headers.get("x-forwarded-for", "")
+    if fwd:
+        return fwd.split(",")[0].strip()
+    return request.client.host if request.client else "unknown"
+
+
+# 10 auth attempts / minute / IP -- generous for a human, painful for a
+# brute-forcer.
+_auth_limiter = SlidingWindowLimiter(max_hits=10, window_seconds=60)
+
+# Every limiter in the process -- named limits built via `rate_limit()`
+# below register themselves here too, so `reset_all()` (the test hook) and
+# any future process-wide accounting stay correct without each caller
+# having to remember to wire it up.
+_registered_limiters: list[SlidingWindowLimiter] = [_auth_limiter]
+
+
+async def auth_rate_limit(request: Request) -> None:
+    """FastAPI dependency: rate-limit auth attempts per client IP.
+
+    A no-op when ``RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED`` is false -- the checkpoint smoke
+    suite runs every test against one backend from one client IP, so the
+    per-IP cap would trip mid-suite. The dedicated ``test_rate_limit``
+    module exercises the real behaviour regardless of this flag.
+    """
+    if not settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED:
+        return
+    _auth_limiter.check(f"auth:{_client_key(request)}")
+
+
+def rate_limit(name: str, *, max_hits: int, window_seconds: float):
+    """Build a named, per-client-IP FastAPI rate-limit dependency.
+
+    Generalizes the ``auth_rate_limit`` pattern above for other endpoints
+    (e.g. chat send, message report) that want their own independent cap:
+
+        report_rate_limit = rate_limit("message_report", max_hits=5, window_seconds=60)
+
+        @router.post("/report", dependencies=[Depends(report_rate_limit)])
+        ...
+
+    Each call gets its own ``SlidingWindowLimiter`` -- counters for one
+    named limit never bleed into another, even for the same client IP --
+    and reuses ``SlidingWindowLimiter.check`` for the actual sliding-window
+    accounting and the 429 + ``Retry-After`` response. Like
+    ``auth_rate_limit``, the returned dependency is a no-op when
+    ``settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED`` is false, so the checkpoint smoke suite
+    (one client IP for the whole run) doesn't trip on it.
+
+    ``name`` only needs to be unique within the process; it namespaces the
+    per-IP key so it doesn't collide with ``auth_rate_limit`` or any other
+    named limit.
+    """
+    limiter = SlidingWindowLimiter(max_hits=max_hits, window_seconds=window_seconds)
+    _registered_limiters.append(limiter)
+
+    async def _dependency(request: Request) -> None:
+        if not settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED:
+            return
+        limiter.check(f"{name}:{_client_key(request)}")
+
+    return _dependency
+
+
+def reset_all() -> None:
+    """Test hook."""
+    for limiter in _registered_limiters:
+        limiter.reset()

backend/app/routers/assets.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Asset management router."""
 
+import json
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Optional
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ from app.database import get_db
 from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
 from app.models.asset import Asset, AssetType
 from app.models.world import World
+from app.services import gltf as gltf_service
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
 router = APIRouter()
@@ -64,6 +66,14 @@ def _sanitize_filename(filename: str) -> str:
     return safe or "file"
 
 
+def _detect_asset_type(filename: Optional[str], content: bytes) -> AssetType:
+    """Detect the asset type from filename and content."""
+    if filename and gltf_service.looks_like_gltf(content, filename):
+        return AssetType.MODEL_3D
+    # Fallback: let the caller decide based on mime_type or default.
+    return AssetType.OTHER
+
+
 # --- Endpoints ---
 
 @router.post("/", response_model=AssetResponse, status_code=201)
@@ -183,10 +193,16 @@ async def upload_asset_file(
     # Sanitize filename to prevent path traversal.
     safe_filename = _sanitize_filename(file.filename or f"asset_{asset_id}")
 
-    # Validate file size against configured maximum.
-    max_bytes = settings.MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_MB * 1024 * 1024
+    # Read the file content.
     content = await file.read()
     file_size = len(content)
+
+    # Determine which size limit to apply.
+    if gltf_service.looks_like_gltf(content, file.filename):
+        max_bytes = settings.GLTF_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB * 1024 * 1024
+    else:
+        max_bytes = settings.MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_MB * 1024 * 1024
+
     if file_size > max_bytes:
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=413,
@@ -200,10 +216,28 @@ async def upload_asset_file(
     file_path = upload_dir / stored_name
     file_path.write_bytes(content)
 
+    # Detect asset type from content/filename.
+    detected_type = _detect_asset_type(file.filename, content)
+
+    # Update asset record.
     asset.file_path = str(file_path)
     asset.mime_type = file.content_type
     asset.file_size = file_size
 
+    # If this is a glTF file, extract and store metadata.
+    if detected_type == AssetType.MODEL_3D:
+        try:
+            metadata = gltf_service.extract_gltf_metadata(content)
+            asset.metadata_json = json.dumps(metadata)
+            # Also set the asset type to model_3d if it was auto-detected.
+            if asset.asset_type == AssetType.OTHER:
+                asset.asset_type = AssetType.MODEL_3D
+        except ValueError as exc:
+            raise HTTPException(
+                status_code=400,
+                detail=f"Invalid glTF file: {exc}",
+            )
+
     await db.commit()
     await db.refresh(asset)
     return asset

backend/app/routers/auth.py

@@ -1,55 +1,61 @@
 """Authentication router - login, register, token refresh."""
 
+import uuid
 from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, status
 from fastapi.security import OAuth2PasswordRequestForm
-from pydantic import BaseModel, EmailStr, field_validator
-
-from jose import jwt
+from jose import JWTError, jwt
 from passlib.context import CryptContext
+from pydantic import BaseModel, EmailStr
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
 
 from app.config import settings
 from app.database import get_db
 from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
+from app.models.session import RefreshToken
 from app.models.user import User
-from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
-from sqlalchemy import select
+from app.rate_limit import auth_rate_limit
 
 pwd_context = CryptContext(schemes=["bcrypt"], deprecated="auto")
 
 router = APIRouter()
 
+## Minimum age to register. This platform is adults-only.
+MIN_AGE = 18
+
 
 # --- Pydantic schemas ---
 
 class TokenResponse(BaseModel):
     access_token: str
+    refresh_token: str
     token_type: str = "bearer"
+    access_token_expires_minutes: int
+
+
+class RefreshRequest(BaseModel):
+    refresh_token: str
 
 
 class RegisterRequest(BaseModel):
     username: str
     email: EmailStr
     password: str
-    date_of_birth: str  # ISO format date string (YYYY-MM-DD)
-
-    @field_validator("date_of_birth")
-    @classmethod
-    def validate_date_of_birth(cls, v: str) -> str:
-        """Validate that the date string is a valid date in YYYY-MM-DD format."""
-        try:
-            datetime.strptime(v, "%Y-%m-%d")
-        except ValueError:
-            raise ValueError("date_of_birth must be in YYYY-MM-DD format")
-        return v
+    # Real date of birth -- the server computes age from it and rejects
+    # anyone under MIN_AGE. Still self-attested (no document check yet), but
+    # a concrete, stored, legally-meaningful data point rather than a
+    # throwaway checkbox, and the seam for a future hard ID-verification
+    # pass. See docs/architecture/content_moderation.md 5.2.
+    date_of_birth: date
 
 
 class UserResponse(BaseModel):
     id: int
     username: str
     email: str
-    date_of_birth: str | None = None
+    date_of_birth: date | None = None
     is_active: bool
     created_at: datetime | None = None
 
@@ -59,12 +65,43 @@ class UserResponse(BaseModel):
 # --- Helpers ---
 
 def _create_access_token(data: dict) -> str:
+    """Create a signed access token using RS256.
+
+    Includes a unique ``jti`` claim so that concurrent/same-second calls
+    (e.g. back-to-back /refresh requests) still produce distinct tokens —
+    without it, two tokens minted for the same user within the same
+    second are byte-identical since ``sub``/``exp`` are the only claims.
+    """
     to_encode = data.copy()
+    to_encode["jti"] = str(uuid.uuid4())
     expire = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(
         minutes=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES
     )
     to_encode.update({"exp": expire})
-    return jwt.encode(to_encode, settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM)
+    return jwt.encode(
+        to_encode,
+        settings.private_pem,
+        algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM,
+    )
+
+
+def _create_refresh_token(data: dict) -> str:
+    """Create a signed refresh token using RS256.
+
+    Includes a unique ``jti`` claim so that concurrent calls produce
+    distinct tokens even when issued within the same second.
+    """
+    to_encode = data.copy()
+    to_encode["jti"] = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    expire = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(
+        days=settings.REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_DAYS
+    )
+    to_encode.update({"exp": expire})
+    return jwt.encode(
+        to_encode,
+        settings.private_pem,
+        algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM,
+    )
 
 
 def verify_password(plain_password: str, hashed_password: str) -> bool:
@@ -80,6 +117,10 @@ def hash_password(password: str) -> str:
 def calculate_age(birth_date: date, today: date | None = None) -> int:
     """Calculate age in years from a birth date.
 
+    Used by /register (PC3 Phase 3) to compute age from the submitted
+    date_of_birth and enforce the 18+ gate. See
+    docs/architecture/content_moderation.md 5.2.
+
     Args:
         birth_date: The person's date of birth.
         today: The reference date. Defaults to today's date (UTC).
@@ -97,22 +138,41 @@ def calculate_age(birth_date: date, today: date | None = None) -> int:
     return age
 
 
+def _issue_refresh_token(user_id: int, db: AsyncSession) -> str:
+    """Create and persist a refresh token for the given user."""
+    refresh_token_value = _create_refresh_token({"sub": str(user_id)})
+    refresh_token_record = RefreshToken(
+        id=str(uuid.uuid4()),
+        user_id=user_id,
+        token=refresh_token_value,
+        expires_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        + timedelta(days=settings.REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_DAYS),
+    )
+    db.add(refresh_token_record)
+    return refresh_token_value
+
+
 # --- Endpoints ---
 
-@router.post("/register", response_model=TokenResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
+@router.post("/register", response_model=TokenResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED,
+             dependencies=[Depends(auth_rate_limit)])
 async def register(req: RegisterRequest, db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Register a new user and return an access token.
+    """Register a new user and return access + refresh tokens.
 
-    Requires date_of_birth and rejects users under 18.
+    Requires a date of birth; the server computes age and rejects anyone
+    under MIN_AGE (18). See docs/architecture/content_moderation.md for the
+    verification design and its self-attestation limitation.
     """
-    # Parse and validate date_of_birth
-    dob = datetime.strptime(req.date_of_birth, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
-    age = calculate_age(dob)
-
-    if age < 18:
+    age = calculate_age(req.date_of_birth)
+    if age < 0 or req.date_of_birth > date.today():
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
-            detail=f"Must be 18 or older to register (provided date of birth: {req.date_of_birth})",
+            detail="Invalid date of birth",
+        )
+    if age < MIN_AGE:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN,
+            detail=f"You must be at least {MIN_AGE} to use this platform",
         )
 
     # Check if username already exists
@@ -135,19 +195,29 @@ async def register(req: RegisterRequest, db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)):
         username=req.username,
         email=req.email,
         hashed_password=hash_password(req.password),
-        date_of_birth=dob,
+        date_of_birth=req.date_of_birth,
     )
     db.add(user)
-    await db.commit()
+    await db.flush()  # flush to get user.id before creating refresh token
     await db.refresh(user)
 
+    # Create access token
     access_token = _create_access_token({"sub": str(user.id)})
-    return TokenResponse(access_token=access_token)
+
+    # Create and persist refresh token
+    refresh_token_value = _issue_refresh_token(user.id, db)
+    await db.commit()
+
+    return TokenResponse(
+        access_token=access_token,
+        refresh_token=refresh_token_value,
+        access_token_expires_minutes=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES,
+    )
 
 
-@router.post("/login", response_model=TokenResponse)
+@router.post("/login", response_model=TokenResponse, dependencies=[Depends(auth_rate_limit)])
 async def login(form: OAuth2PasswordRequestForm = Depends(), db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Authenticate user and return an access token.
+    """Authenticate user and return access + refresh tokens.
 
     Accepts form-encoded credentials (username/password) as expected by
     OAuth2PasswordBearer, so the Swagger UI "Authorize" flow works correctly.
@@ -167,8 +237,84 @@ async def login(form: OAuth2PasswordRequestForm = Depends(), db: AsyncSession =
             detail="User account is inactive",
         )
 
+    # Create access token
     access_token = _create_access_token({"sub": str(user.id)})
-    return TokenResponse(access_token=access_token)
+
+    # Create and persist refresh token
+    refresh_token_value = _issue_refresh_token(user.id, db)
+    await db.commit()
+
+    return TokenResponse(
+        access_token=access_token,
+        refresh_token=refresh_token_value,
+        access_token_expires_minutes=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES,
+    )
+
+
+@router.post("/refresh", response_model=TokenResponse)
+async def refresh(req: RefreshRequest, db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Exchange a valid refresh token for a new access token.
+
+    Validates the refresh token against the database:
+    - Must exist in the refresh_tokens table
+    - Must not be expired (expires_at > now)
+    - Must be active (is_active == true)
+
+    On success, returns a new access token. The refresh token itself is
+    NOT rotated (the client keeps using the same refresh token).
+    """
+    credentials_exception = HTTPException(
+        status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
+        detail="Invalid or expired refresh token",
+    )
+
+    # Step 1: Decode and validate the JWT signature/claims
+    try:
+        payload = jwt.decode(
+            req.refresh_token,
+            settings.public_pem,
+            algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM],
+        )
+    except JWTError:
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    user_id_str: str | None = payload.get("sub")
+    if user_id_str is None:
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    try:
+        user_id = int(user_id_str)
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    # Step 2: Look up the refresh token in the database
+    result = await db.execute(
+        select(RefreshToken).where(
+            RefreshToken.token == req.refresh_token,
+            RefreshToken.user_id == user_id,
+        )
+    )
+    stored_token = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+
+    if stored_token is None:
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    # Step 3: Check if the token is expired
+    if datetime.now(timezone.utc) >= stored_token.expires_at:
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    # Step 4: Check if the token is active
+    if not stored_token.is_active:
+        raise credentials_exception
+
+    # Step 5: Issue a new access token
+    access_token = _create_access_token({"sub": str(user_id)})
+
+    return TokenResponse(
+        access_token=access_token,
+        refresh_token=req.refresh_token,  # Return the same refresh token
+        access_token_expires_minutes=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES,
+    )
 
 
 @router.get("/me", response_model=UserResponse)

backend/app/routers/avatar.py

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+"""Avatar router - the current user's persisted avatar loadout.
+
+The loadout is a single JSON document matching the client's
+``AvatarLoadout.to_json()`` shape. The server has no copy of the asset
+catalog, so it only validates the envelope (JSON object, non-empty
+``base_body``); which assets are valid for which slot is the client's job.
+"""
+
+from typing import Annotated, Any
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
+
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
+from app.models.avatar_loadout import AvatarLoadout, DEFAULT_LOADOUT
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+DbDep = Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(get_db)]
+
+# A loadout document is small; reject anything absurd outright.
+MAX_LOADOUT_BYTES = 16 * 1024
+
+
+class LoadoutResponse(BaseModel):
+    data: dict[str, Any]
+    is_default: bool = Field(
+        description="True when the user has never saved a loadout and this is "
+        "the server default."
+    )
+
+
+class LoadoutUpdate(BaseModel):
+    data: dict[str, Any]
+
+
+def _validate_envelope(data: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+    base_body = data.get("base_body")
+    if not isinstance(base_body, str) or not base_body.strip():
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=422,
+            detail="loadout.data must have a non-empty string 'base_body'",
+        )
+    slots = data.get("slots", {})
+    if not isinstance(slots, dict):
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail="loadout.data.slots must be an object")
+    if len(str(data)) > MAX_LOADOUT_BYTES:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=413, detail="loadout document too large")
+
+
+@router.get("/loadout", response_model=LoadoutResponse)
+async def get_loadout(current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep):
+    """Return the current user's saved loadout, or the server default if they
+    have never saved one."""
+    row = await db.get(AvatarLoadout, current_user.id)
+    if row is None:
+        return LoadoutResponse(data=dict(DEFAULT_LOADOUT), is_default=True)
+    return LoadoutResponse(data=row.data, is_default=False)
+
+
+@router.put("/loadout", response_model=LoadoutResponse)
+async def put_loadout(payload: LoadoutUpdate, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep):
+    """Replace the current user's loadout."""
+    _validate_envelope(payload.data)
+
+    row = await db.get(AvatarLoadout, current_user.id)
+    if row is None:
+        row = AvatarLoadout(user_id=current_user.id, data=payload.data)
+        db.add(row)
+    else:
+        row.data = payload.data
+
+    await db.commit()
+    await db.refresh(row)
+    return LoadoutResponse(data=row.data, is_default=False)

backend/app/routers/internal.py

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+"""Internal, dedicated-server-only content API.
+
+Implements `docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md` §7 + §8.3. This is
+how a spawned Godot dedicated server (`scripts/server.gd`, spawned by
+`app.services.game_servers`) pulls its world's content read-only over HTTP
+before binding its ENet port. Mounted at ``/api/internal`` -- a prefix that
+can also be blocked at the reverse proxy, per the doc's rejected-alternative
+note in §7.3.
+
+Gated by ``require_game_server`` (§7.3): a bearer token minted per spawn by
+``GameServerSupervisor._spawn`` and checked against
+``supervisor.validate_token(world_id, token)``. There is no user identity
+here at all -- these routes skip the per-user visibility check public
+routes apply, and apply no mature-content gating (gating is a client/user
+concern; the dedicated server still needs the geometry for collision).
+
+Read-only by construction: there is no write route here, and adding one
+would violate world_persistence_impl.md D2 (the FastAPI backend is the
+only writer).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Annotated
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, Header, HTTPException, Response
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
+
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.models.world import World
+from app.models.world_content import MAIN_ROOM_SLUG
+from app.services import chunk_codec
+from app.services.game_servers import supervisor
+from app.services.world_store import Bounds, WorldStore
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+DbDep = Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(get_db)]
+
+
+async def require_game_server(
+    world_id: int,
+    authorization: Annotated[str | None, Header()] = None,
+) -> None:
+    """world_persistence_impl.md §7.3. A path whose ``world_id`` differs
+    from the token's world is 403 -- ``validate_token`` enforces that by
+    construction (it looks the token up *by* ``world_id``)."""
+    if not authorization or not authorization.lower().startswith("bearer "):
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=401, detail="missing bearer token")
+    token = authorization.split(" ", 1)[1].strip()
+    if not token or not supervisor.validate_token(world_id, token):
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="invalid or expired server token")
+
+
+async def _get_world_or_404(world_id: int, db: AsyncSession) -> World:
+    result = await db.execute(select(World).where(World.id == world_id))
+    world = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if world is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+    return world
+
+
+async def _resolve_room(store: WorldStore, db: AsyncSession, world_id: int, slug: str):
+    room = await store.get_room(world_id, slug)
+    if room is None and slug == MAIN_ROOM_SLUG:
+        room = await store.get_or_create_main_room(world_id)
+        await db.commit()
+    return room
+
+
+@router.get("/worlds/{world_id}/manifest", dependencies=[Depends(require_game_server)])
+async def manifest(world_id: int, db: DbDep):
+    await _get_world_or_404(world_id, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    rooms = await store.list_rooms(world_id)
+    if not rooms:
+        rooms = [await store.get_or_create_main_room(world_id)]
+        await db.commit()
+
+    room_payloads = []
+    for r in rooms:
+        room_payloads.append({
+            "slug": r.slug, "name": r.name, "grid": r.grid, "bounds": r.bounds,
+            "spawn": r.spawn, "chunk_count": await store.count_chunks(r.id),
+        })
+
+    return {
+        "world_id": world_id,
+        "content_revision": await store.content_revision(world_id),
+        "rooms": room_payloads,
+    }
+
+
+@router.get("/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks", dependencies=[Depends(require_game_server)])
+async def internal_list_chunks(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, db: DbDep,
+    cx_min: int | None = None, cx_max: int | None = None,
+    cy_min: int | None = None, cy_max: int | None = None,
+    cz: int | None = None,
+):
+    await _get_world_or_404(world_id, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    bounds = Bounds(cx_min=cx_min, cx_max=cx_max, cy_min=cy_min, cy_max=cy_max, cz=cz)
+    chunks = await store.list_chunks(world_id, room.id, bounds)
+    return {
+        "room": room.slug,
+        "content_revision": await store.content_revision(world_id),
+        "chunks": [
+            {
+                "key": c.chunk_key, "cx": c.cx, "cy": c.cy, "cz": c.cz,
+                "revision": c.revision, "checksum": c.checksum, "payload_len": c.payload_len,
+                "is_mature": c.is_mature,
+                "updated_at": c.updated_at.isoformat() if c.updated_at else None,
+            }
+            for c in chunks
+        ],
+    }
+
+
+@router.get(
+    "/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}",
+    dependencies=[Depends(require_game_server)],
+)
+async def internal_get_chunk(world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int, db: DbDep):
+    await _get_world_or_404(world_id, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    key = chunk_codec.build_key(world_id, slug, cx, cy, cz)
+    chunk = await store.get_chunk(key)
+    if chunk is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="chunk not found")
+
+    return Response(
+        content=chunk.payload, media_type="application/octet-stream",
+        headers={
+            "ETag": f'"{chunk.checksum}"', "X-Chunk-Revision": str(chunk.revision), "X-Chunk-Key": key,
+        },
+    )

backend/app/routers/presence.py

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+"""Presence & status router.
+
+Endpoints:
+- POST  /api/presence/heartbeat  -- record a heartbeat (sets Redis TTL key)
+- GET   /api/presence/presence   -- query presence for a list of user ids
+- PATCH /api/presence/status     -- update the authenticated user's status message
+"""
+
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from typing import Annotated
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, status, Depends
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, field_validator
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
+
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
+from app.models.user import User
+from app.services.presence import presence_store
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+DbDep = Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(get_db)]
+
+# ──────────────────────────── Pydantic schemas ────────────────────────────────
+
+_STATUS_MAX_LEN = 140
+
+
+class HeartbeatRequest(BaseModel):
+    """Empty body -- the caller's identity comes from the JWT."""
+
+
+class PresenceUser(BaseModel):
+    user_id: int
+    is_online: bool
+    last_seen_at: datetime | None
+    status_message: str | None
+
+
+class PresenceResponse(BaseModel):
+    users: list[PresenceUser]
+
+
+class StatusUpdate(BaseModel):
+    status_message: str | None = Field(default=None, max_length=_STATUS_MAX_LEN)
+
+    @field_validator("status_message")
+    @classmethod
+    def strip_message(cls, v: str | None) -> str | None:
+        if v is not None:
+            v = v.strip()
+        return v
+
+
+# ──────────────────────────────── Endpoints ───────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@router.post("/heartbeat", response_model=dict)
+async def heartbeat(
+    _req: HeartbeatRequest,
+    current_user: CurrentUser,
+    db: DbDep,
+):
+    """Record a heartbeat for the authenticated user.
+
+    Sets a Redis key with a TTL so the server can derive online/offline
+    status without trusting client claims. Also persists last_seen_at to
+    the database.
+    """
+    # Update Redis TTL (presence heartbeat)
+    await presence_store.heartbeat(current_user.id)
+
+    # Persist last_seen_at to the database
+    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+    result = await db.execute(select(User).where(User.id == current_user.id))
+    user = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if user:
+        user.last_seen_at = now
+        await db.commit()
+
+    return {"status": "ok", "user_id": current_user.id}
+
+
+@router.get("/presence", response_model=PresenceResponse)
+async def get_presence(
+    user_ids: str,
+    current_user: CurrentUser,
+    db: DbDep,
+):
+    """Return presence info for a comma-separated list of user ids.
+
+    Online/offline is derived from the Redis heartbeat TTL.
+    last_seen_at and status_message come from the database.
+    """
+    ids = [int(uid.strip()) for uid in user_ids.split(",") if uid.strip()]
+    if not ids:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
+            detail="user_ids must contain at least one integer",
+        )
+
+    # Check Redis for online status (single round trip via MGET).
+    online_ids = await presence_store.is_online_batch(ids)
+
+    # Fetch DB records for last_seen_at and status_message
+    result = await db.execute(select(User).where(User.id.in_(ids)))
+    users = {u.id: u for u in result.scalars().all()}
+
+    presence_users = []
+    for uid in ids:
+        user = users.get(uid)
+        if user is None:
+            continue
+        presence_users.append(
+            PresenceUser(
+                user_id=uid,
+                is_online=uid in online_ids,
+                last_seen_at=user.last_seen_at,
+                status_message=user.status_message,
+            )
+        )
+
+    return PresenceResponse(users=presence_users)
+
+
+@router.patch("/status", response_model=dict)
+async def update_status(
+    body: StatusUpdate,
+    current_user: CurrentUser,
+    db: DbDep,
+):
+    """Update the authenticated user's status message (length-limited)."""
+    result = await db.execute(select(User).where(User.id == current_user.id))
+    user = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if not user:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND,
+            detail="User not found",
+        )
+
+    user.status_message = body.status_message
+    await db.commit()
+
+    return {"status": "ok", "status_message": body.status_message}

backend/app/routers/world_content.py

@@ -0,0 +1,451 @@
+"""World content router -- rooms + chunks, for the editor and player client.
+
+Implements `docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md` §8.1. JWT-authenticated
+(``CurrentUser``, same as ``app/routers/worlds.py``). All chunk content
+reads/writes go through ``WorldStore``; this module is HTTP plumbing +
+authorization only.
+
+Authorization (doc §5.3):
+ - **Read** (world visibility, room listing, chunk fetch/index/revisions):
+   same rule as ``GET /api/worlds/{id}`` -- 404 (not 403) if the world is
+   neither PUBLIC nor owned by the caller. See ``_get_world_readable``.
+ - **Write** (room create, chunk PUT/DELETE/rollback): caller must be
+   ``world.owner_id``, matching ``update_world`` -- 403 otherwise, with
+   *no* visibility gate (this deliberately mirrors ``update_world``, which
+   also has no visibility check; see ``_get_world_writable``).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import base64
+import binascii
+from typing import Annotated
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, Header, HTTPException, Request, Response
+from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
+from app.models.user import User
+from app.models.world import World, WorldVisibility
+from app.models.world_content import MAIN_ROOM_SLUG, WorldRoom
+from app.services import chunk_codec
+from app.services.game_servers import supervisor
+from app.services.world_store import Bounds, RevisionConflict, RevisionNotAvailable, WorldStore
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+DbDep = Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(get_db)]
+
+# world_persistence_impl.md §8.1: "Bounds are capped (default 32x32 chunks
+# per query) and return 422 beyond that."
+MAX_BOUNDS_SPAN = 32
+# §8.1 batch write cap, beyond WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH chunks: "Capped at ...
+# 8 MB."
+MAX_BATCH_TOTAL_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── auth helpers ───────────────────────────
+
+async def _get_world_readable(world_id: int, current_user: User, db: AsyncSession) -> World:
+    result = await db.execute(select(World).where(World.id == world_id))
+    world = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if world is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+    if world.visibility != WorldVisibility.PUBLIC and world.owner_id != current_user.id:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+    return world
+
+
+async def _get_world_writable(world_id: int, current_user: User, db: AsyncSession) -> World:
+    result = await db.execute(select(World).where(World.id == world_id))
+    world = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if world is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+    if world.owner_id != current_user.id:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="Not owner of this world")
+    return world
+
+
+async def _resolve_room(store: WorldStore, db: AsyncSession, world_id: int, slug: str) -> WorldRoom | None:
+    """world_persistence_impl.md §4.1: lazily create the main room for
+    worlds that predate this feature, on first read/write."""
+    room = await store.get_room(world_id, slug)
+    if room is None and slug == MAIN_ROOM_SLUG:
+        room = await store.get_or_create_main_room(world_id)
+        await db.commit()
+    return room
+
+
+def _is_live(world_id: int) -> bool:
+    return any(s["world_id"] == str(world_id) for s in supervisor.debug_state())
+
+
+def _validation_error_body(exc: chunk_codec.ChunkValidationError) -> dict:
+    return {"detail": "chunk validation failed", "reason": exc.reason}
+
+
+def _conflict_body(exc: RevisionConflict) -> dict:
+    body: dict = {
+        "detail": "revision conflict",
+        "current_revision": exc.current_revision,
+        "current_checksum": exc.current_checksum,
+    }
+    if exc.coord is not None:
+        body["coord"] = list(exc.coord)
+    return body
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── schemas ───────────────────────────
+
+class RoomResponse(BaseModel):
+    id: int
+    slug: str
+    name: str
+    grid: dict
+    bounds: dict | None
+    spawn: dict | None
+    chunk_count: int
+
+
+class RoomCreate(BaseModel):
+    slug: str = Field(..., min_length=1, max_length=64, pattern=r"^[a-z0-9_-]+$")
+    name: str = Field(..., min_length=1, max_length=255)
+    grid: dict | None = None
+    bounds: dict | None = None
+    spawn: dict | None = None
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── rooms ───────────────────────────
+
+@router.get("/{world_id}/rooms", response_model=list[RoomResponse])
+async def list_rooms(world_id: int, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep):
+    await _get_world_readable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    rooms = await store.list_rooms(world_id)
+    if not rooms:
+        rooms = [await store.get_or_create_main_room(world_id)]
+        await db.commit()
+    return [
+        RoomResponse(
+            id=r.id, slug=r.slug, name=r.name, grid=r.grid, bounds=r.bounds, spawn=r.spawn,
+            chunk_count=await store.count_chunks(r.id),
+        )
+        for r in rooms
+    ]
+
+
+@router.post("/{world_id}/rooms", response_model=RoomResponse, status_code=201)
+async def create_room(world_id: int, body: RoomCreate, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep):
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    if await store.get_room(world_id, body.slug) is not None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="a room with this slug already exists")
+    room = await store.create_room(
+        world_id, body.slug, body.name, grid=body.grid, bounds=body.bounds, spawn=body.spawn
+    )
+    await db.commit()
+    await db.refresh(room)
+    return RoomResponse(
+        id=room.id, slug=room.slug, name=room.name, grid=room.grid,
+        bounds=room.bounds, spawn=room.spawn, chunk_count=0,
+    )
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── chunk index ───────────────────────────
+
+@router.get("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks")
+async def list_chunks(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+    cx_min: int | None = None, cx_max: int | None = None,
+    cy_min: int | None = None, cy_max: int | None = None,
+    cz: int | None = None,
+):
+    await _get_world_readable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    if cx_min is not None and cx_max is not None and (cx_max - cx_min + 1) > MAX_BOUNDS_SPAN:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=f"cx bounds span exceeds {MAX_BOUNDS_SPAN}")
+    if cy_min is not None and cy_max is not None and (cy_max - cy_min + 1) > MAX_BOUNDS_SPAN:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=f"cy bounds span exceeds {MAX_BOUNDS_SPAN}")
+
+    bounds = Bounds(cx_min=cx_min, cx_max=cx_max, cy_min=cy_min, cy_max=cy_max, cz=cz)
+    chunks = await store.list_chunks(world_id, room.id, bounds)
+    content_revision = await store.content_revision(world_id)
+    return {
+        "room": room.slug,
+        "content_revision": content_revision,
+        "chunks": [
+            {
+                "key": c.chunk_key, "cx": c.cx, "cy": c.cy, "cz": c.cz,
+                "revision": c.revision, "checksum": c.checksum, "payload_len": c.payload_len,
+                "is_mature": c.is_mature,
+                "updated_at": c.updated_at.isoformat() if c.updated_at else None,
+            }
+            for c in chunks
+        ],
+    }
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── chunk fetch ───────────────────────────
+
+@router.get("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}")
+async def get_chunk(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int,
+    current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+    accept: Annotated[str | None, Header()] = None,
+    if_none_match: Annotated[str | None, Header(alias="If-None-Match")] = None,
+):
+    await _get_world_readable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    key = chunk_codec.build_key(world_id, slug, cx, cy, cz)
+    chunk = await store.get_chunk(key)
+    if chunk is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="chunk not found")
+
+    etag = f'"{chunk.checksum}"'
+    headers = {"ETag": etag, "X-Chunk-Revision": str(chunk.revision), "X-Chunk-Key": key}
+
+    if if_none_match is not None and if_none_match.strip('"') == chunk.checksum:
+        return Response(status_code=304, headers=headers)
+
+    wants_json = (
+        accept is not None
+        and "application/json" in accept
+        and "application/octet-stream" not in accept
+    )
+    if wants_json:
+        decoded = chunk_codec.decode_binary(chunk.payload)
+        body = chunk_codec.to_json_dict(decoded, key=key, chunk_checksum=chunk.checksum)
+        return JSONResponse(content=body, headers=headers)
+
+    return Response(content=chunk.payload, media_type="application/octet-stream", headers=headers)
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── chunk write ───────────────────────────
+
+async def _read_write_payload(request: Request, x_base_revision: int | None) -> tuple[bytes, int]:
+    content_type = request.headers.get("content-type", "")
+    if "application/json" in content_type:
+        body = await request.json()
+        try:
+            payload_bytes = base64.b64decode(body["payload_b64"], validate=True)
+        except (KeyError, binascii.Error, ValueError) as exc:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=f"invalid payload_b64: {exc}")
+        base_revision = int(body.get("base_revision", 0))
+        return payload_bytes, base_revision
+    payload_bytes = await request.body()
+    return payload_bytes, (x_base_revision if x_base_revision is not None else 0)
+
+
+@router.put("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}")
+async def put_chunk(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int,
+    request: Request, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+    x_base_revision: Annotated[int | None, Header(alias="X-Base-Revision")] = None,
+):
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    payload_bytes, base_revision = await _read_write_payload(request, x_base_revision)
+    if len(payload_bytes) > settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=413,
+            detail=f"payload exceeds WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES ({settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES})",
+        )
+
+    try:
+        chunk = await store.put_chunk(
+            room=room, cx=cx, cy=cy, cz=cz, payload_bytes=payload_bytes,
+            base_revision=base_revision, actor_id=current_user.id,
+        )
+    except chunk_codec.ChunkCodecError as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=422, content={"detail": "chunk decode failed", "reason": "malformed", "message": str(exc)})
+    except chunk_codec.ChunkValidationError as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=422, content=_validation_error_body(exc))
+    except RevisionConflict as exc:
+        # Nothing must stick from a failed write. Returning a JSONResponse
+        # here (rather than raising) means no exception propagates through
+        # `get_db`, so this rollback has to be explicit -- see the note on
+        # the batch endpoint below, where this is load-bearing for
+        # all-or-nothing semantics.
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=409, content=_conflict_body(exc))
+
+    await db.commit()
+    await db.refresh(chunk)
+
+    return {
+        "key": chunk.chunk_key, "revision": chunk.revision, "checksum": chunk.checksum,
+        "payload_len": chunk.payload_len,
+        "updated_at": chunk.updated_at.isoformat() if chunk.updated_at else None,
+        "is_mature": chunk.is_mature, "live_session": _is_live(world_id),
+    }
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── batch write ───────────────────────────
+
+class BatchChunkItem(BaseModel):
+    cx: int
+    cy: int
+    cz: int
+    base_revision: int
+    payload_b64: str
+
+
+class BatchPutRequest(BaseModel):
+    chunks: list[BatchChunkItem]
+
+
+@router.put("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks")
+async def put_chunks_batch(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, body: BatchPutRequest, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+):
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    if len(body.chunks) > settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=422,
+            detail=f"batch of {len(body.chunks)} exceeds WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH ({settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH})",
+        )
+
+    items = []
+    total_bytes = 0
+    for item in body.chunks:
+        try:
+            payload_bytes = base64.b64decode(item.payload_b64, validate=True)
+        except (binascii.Error, ValueError) as exc:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=f"invalid payload_b64 for ({item.cx},{item.cy},{item.cz}): {exc}")
+        total_bytes += len(payload_bytes)
+        items.append({
+            "cx": item.cx, "cy": item.cy, "cz": item.cz,
+            "base_revision": item.base_revision, "payload_bytes": payload_bytes,
+        })
+
+    if total_bytes > MAX_BATCH_TOTAL_BYTES:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=413, detail=f"batch exceeds {MAX_BATCH_TOTAL_BYTES} bytes")
+
+    try:
+        rows = await store.put_chunks_batch(room=room, items=items, actor_id=current_user.id)
+    except chunk_codec.ChunkCodecError as exc:
+        # All-or-nothing (world_persistence_impl.md §8.1): earlier items in
+        # this batch may already be flushed (but never committed) to this
+        # transaction. Rolling back here is what actually makes the batch
+        # atomic -- without it, returning a JSONResponse instead of raising
+        # means no exception reaches `get_db`, and its own transaction
+        # handling would otherwise commit those earlier writes anyway.
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=422, content={"detail": "chunk decode failed", "reason": "malformed", "message": str(exc)})
+    except chunk_codec.ChunkValidationError as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=422, content=_validation_error_body(exc))
+    except RevisionConflict as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=409, content=_conflict_body(exc))
+
+    await db.commit()
+    for row in rows:
+        await db.refresh(row)
+
+    return {
+        "live_session": _is_live(world_id),
+        "chunks": [
+            {
+                "key": r.chunk_key, "revision": r.revision, "checksum": r.checksum,
+                "payload_len": r.payload_len,
+                "updated_at": r.updated_at.isoformat() if r.updated_at else None,
+                "is_mature": r.is_mature,
+            }
+            for r in rows
+        ],
+    }
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── delete ───────────────────────────
+
+@router.delete("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}", status_code=204)
+async def delete_chunk(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+):
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    room = await _resolve_room(store, db, world_id, slug)
+    if room is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="room not found")
+
+    key = chunk_codec.build_key(world_id, slug, cx, cy, cz)
+    await store.delete_chunk(key, current_user.id)
+    await db.commit()
+    return Response(status_code=204)
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────── revisions + rollback ───────────────────────────
+
+@router.get("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}/revisions")
+async def chunk_revisions(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+):
+    # doc: "(owner)" -- same gate as writes.
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    key = chunk_codec.build_key(world_id, slug, cx, cy, cz)
+    revisions = await store.list_revisions(key)
+    return [
+        {
+            "revision": r.revision, "action": r.action, "actor_id": r.actor_id,
+            "checksum": r.checksum, "payload_available": r.payload is not None,
+            "created_at": r.created_at.isoformat() if r.created_at else None,
+        }
+        for r in revisions
+    ]
+
+
+class RollbackRequest(BaseModel):
+    revision: int
+
+
+@router.post("/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}/rollback")
+async def rollback_chunk(
+    world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int,
+    body: RollbackRequest, current_user: CurrentUser, db: DbDep,
+):
+    await _get_world_writable(world_id, current_user, db)
+    store = WorldStore(db)
+    key = chunk_codec.build_key(world_id, slug, cx, cy, cz)
+    try:
+        chunk = await store.rollback_chunk(key, body.revision, current_user.id)
+    except RevisionNotAvailable as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=404, content={"detail": str(exc)})
+    except chunk_codec.ChunkValidationError as exc:
+        await db.rollback()
+        return JSONResponse(status_code=422, content=_validation_error_body(exc))
+
+    await db.commit()
+    await db.refresh(chunk)
+    return {
+        "key": chunk.chunk_key, "revision": chunk.revision, "checksum": chunk.checksum,
+        "payload_len": chunk.payload_len,
+        "updated_at": chunk.updated_at.isoformat() if chunk.updated_at else None,
+        "is_mature": chunk.is_mature, "live_session": _is_live(world_id),
+    }

backend/app/routers/worlds.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Worlds router - CRUD for game worlds."""
 
+from datetime import datetime
 from typing import Annotated
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Query
@@ -11,6 +12,8 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import selectinload
 from app.database import get_db
 from app.dependencies import CurrentUser
 from app.models.world import World, WorldVisibility
+from app.services.game_servers import supervisor
+from app.services.world_store import WorldStore
 
 router = APIRouter()
 
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ class WorldResponse(BaseModel):
     description: str | None
     visibility: WorldVisibility
     owner_id: int
-    created_at: str | None = None
+    created_at: datetime | None = None
 
     model_config = {"from_attributes": True}
 
@@ -105,13 +108,52 @@ async def get_world(
     return world
 
 
+class JoinResponse(BaseModel):
+    """Address of the dedicated server hosting this world."""
+    world_id: int
+    host: str
+    port: int
+
+
+@router.post("/{world_id}/join", response_model=JoinResponse)
+async def join_world(
+    world_id: int,
+    current_user: CurrentUser,
+    db: DbDep,
+):
+    """Ensure a dedicated game server is running for this world and return its
+    ENet address for the client to connect to.
+
+    503 if game-server orchestration isn't enabled on this backend (e.g. a
+    plain dev/test instance with no Godot binary).
+    """
+    result = await db.execute(select(World).where(World.id == world_id))
+    world = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+    if not world:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+    if world.visibility != WorldVisibility.PUBLIC and world.owner_id != current_user.id:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="World not found")
+
+    try:
+        info = await supervisor.ensure_server(str(world_id))
+    except RuntimeError as exc:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail=str(exc))
+
+    return JoinResponse(world_id=world_id, host=info["host"], port=info["port"])
+
+
 @router.post("/", response_model=WorldResponse, status_code=201)
 async def create_world(
     world_data: WorldCreate,
     current_user: CurrentUser,
     db: DbDep,
 ):
-    """Create a new world."""
+    """Create a new world.
+
+    Also creates the world's "main" room (world_persistence_impl.md §4.1) --
+    every world gets one so chunk content has somewhere to live from the
+    start.
+    """
     world = World(
         name=world_data.name,
         description=world_data.description,
@@ -119,6 +161,8 @@ async def create_world(
         visibility=world_data.visibility,
     )
     db.add(world)
+    await db.flush()  # assigns world.id, needed for the room's FK
+    await WorldStore(db).get_or_create_main_room(world.id)
     await db.commit()
     await db.refresh(world)
     return world

backend/app/services/chunk_codec.py

@@ -0,0 +1,676 @@
+"""Python port of the chunk binary/JSON codec, `docs/architecture/world.md` §3.
+
+This is the server-side half of the "single shared format, two
+implementations" contract world.md §5.2 and
+`world_persistence_impl.md` §5.5/§9 call for. The Godot-side implementation
+is `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd`; this module must decode anything it
+produces and produce bytes it can decode.
+
+IMPORTANT DEVIATION (see the "Known cross-codec divergence" note at the
+bottom of this file): the current `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd` does not
+actually implement IEEE-754 float32 for the `pos`/`rot`/`scale`/`bounds`
+fields -- it performs a lossy numeric `int`/`float` cast instead of a bit
+reinterpretation, which both truncates fractional values and does not
+write IEEE-754 bits at all. This module implements the format as
+*specified* (real `<f` IEEE-754 float32, matching every other field in the
+spec and matching what any conformant decoder would assume). See the note
+for what this means for cross-codec byte parity today.
+
+Nothing here talks to a database or the FastAPI app; it is a pure,
+side-effect-free codec so it can be golden-file tested in isolation.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import struct
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+MAGIC = b"AGPC"
+HEADER_SIZE = 48
+CURRENT_VERSION = 1
+
+SECTION_META = 0x01
+SECTION_TILE = 0x02
+SECTION_OBJECT = 0x03
+SECTION_FLAGS = 0x04
+SECTION_REVISION_META = 0x05
+
+CATEGORY_FIELDS = (
+    "violence", "sexual", "language", "substance",
+    "gambling", "horror", "hate", "custom",
+)
+
+
+class ChunkCodecError(Exception):
+    """Malformed bytes -- the payload isn't shaped like a chunk at all."""
+
+
+class ChunkValidationError(Exception):
+    """A structurally-valid chunk failed a content/business-rule check.
+
+    ``reason`` is the machine-readable code the API surface (world_persistence_impl.md
+    §8.1) puts in the 422 response body's ``reason`` field, e.g.
+    ``"checksum_mismatch"``, ``"layer_dims"``, ``"object_out_of_bounds"``.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, reason: str, message: str | None = None) -> None:
+        self.reason = reason
+        super().__init__(message or reason)
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Logical model ─────────────────────────
+
+@dataclass
+class TileDef:
+    id: int
+    asset_id: str = ""
+    solid: bool = False
+    flags: int = 0
+    variants: int = 1
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TileLayer:
+    name: str
+    layer_id: int = 0
+    width: int = 0
+    height: int = 0
+    depth: int = 1
+    palette: list[TileDef] = field(default_factory=list)
+    tiles: list[int] = field(default_factory=list)  # flattened, row-major
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ContentFlags:
+    violence: int = 0
+    sexual: int = 0
+    language: int = 0
+    substance: int = 0
+    gambling: int = 0
+    horror: int = 0
+    hate: int = 0
+    custom: int = 0
+    mature: bool = False
+    sources: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "categories": {name: getattr(self, name) for name in CATEGORY_FIELDS},
+            "mature": self.mature,
+            "sources": list(self.sources),
+        }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_dict(cls, d: dict) -> "ContentFlags":
+        cats = d.get("categories", {})
+        return cls(
+            **{name: int(cats.get(name, 0)) for name in CATEGORY_FIELDS},
+            mature=bool(d.get("mature", False)),
+            sources=list(d.get("sources", [])),
+        )
+
+
+@dataclass
+class WorldObject:
+    id: str
+    type: str
+    asset_id: str
+    pos: tuple[float, float, float] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
+    rot: tuple[float, float, float, float] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)
+    scale: tuple[float, float, float] = (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
+    dynamic: bool = False
+    properties: dict = field(default_factory=dict)
+    flags: ContentFlags = field(default_factory=ContentFlags)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChunkBounds:
+    """Stored here as min-corner + size (matching the Godot client's AABB
+    type) for convenience, but the §3.6 BINARY wire format is min + max
+    (world.md §3.1, and the client's actual ChunkDataDecoder) -- fixed
+    2026-09-14 after a real client/server interop test caught this class's
+    original binary codec writing min+size on the wire, which the client
+    decoder (unaware of the "size" convention) read as a second min/max
+    pair, corrupting every chunk's bounds. The two representations are
+    fully recoverable from each other; `max` below is computed for exactly
+    this reason."""
+
+    min: tuple[float, float, float] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
+    size: tuple[float, float, float] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
+
+    @property
+    def max(self) -> tuple[float, float, float]:
+        return tuple(a + b for a, b in zip(self.min, self.size))
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChunkPayload:
+    version: int = CURRENT_VERSION
+    world_id: str = ""
+    room_id: str = ""
+    coord: tuple[int, int, int] = (0, 0, 0)
+    bounds: ChunkBounds = field(default_factory=ChunkBounds)
+    tile_layers: list[TileLayer] = field(default_factory=list)
+    objects: list[WorldObject] = field(default_factory=list)
+    flags: ContentFlags = field(default_factory=ContentFlags)
+    created_at: int = 0
+    updated_at: int = 0
+    revision: int = 0
+    author: str = ""
+
+
+def build_key(world_id: str | int, room_slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int) -> str:
+    """world_persistence_impl.md §4.5: ``"{world.id}:{room.slug}:{cx}:{cy}:{cz}"``."""
+    return f"{world_id}:{room_slug}:{cx}:{cy}:{cz}"
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Binary primitives ─────────────────────────
+# All integers little-endian, matching world.md §3.6.3. Floats are packed
+# as real IEEE-754 float32 -- see the module docstring's deviation note.
+
+def _read_u16(data: bytes, off: int) -> int:
+    return struct.unpack_from("<H", data, off)[0]
+
+
+def _read_u32(data: bytes, off: int) -> int:
+    return struct.unpack_from("<I", data, off)[0]
+
+
+def _read_i32(data: bytes, off: int) -> int:
+    return struct.unpack_from("<i", data, off)[0]
+
+
+def _read_i64(data: bytes, off: int) -> int:
+    return struct.unpack_from("<q", data, off)[0]
+
+
+def _read_f32(data: bytes, off: int) -> float:
+    return struct.unpack_from("<f", data, off)[0]
+
+
+def _w_u16(v: int) -> bytes:
+    return struct.pack("<H", v & 0xFFFF)
+
+
+def _w_u32(v: int) -> bytes:
+    return struct.pack("<I", v & 0xFFFFFFFF)
+
+
+def _w_i32(v: int) -> bytes:
+    return struct.pack("<i", v)
+
+
+def _w_i64(v: int) -> bytes:
+    return struct.pack("<q", v)
+
+
+def _w_f32(v: float) -> bytes:
+    return struct.pack("<f", v)
+
+
+def _read_str(data: bytes, off: int) -> tuple[str, int]:
+    """Length-prefixed UTF-8 string. Returns (value, next_offset)."""
+    n = _read_u16(data, off)
+    off += 2
+    s = data[off:off + n].decode("utf-8")
+    return s, off + n
+
+
+def _w_str(s: str) -> bytes:
+    b = s.encode("utf-8")
+    if len(b) > 0xFFFF:
+        raise ChunkCodecError(f"string field too long to encode ({len(b)} bytes)")
+    return _w_u16(len(b)) + b
+
+
+def checksum(payload_body: bytes) -> str:
+    """SHA-256 hex digest of the payload body (world.md §3.6.3)."""
+    return hashlib.sha256(payload_body).hexdigest()
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Section codecs ─────────────────────────
+
+def _encode_metadata(payload: ChunkPayload) -> bytes:
+    out = bytearray()
+    out += _w_str(payload.world_id)
+    out += _w_str(payload.room_id)
+    out += _w_i32(payload.coord[0])
+    out += _w_i32(payload.coord[1])
+    out += _w_i32(payload.coord[2])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.min[0])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.min[1])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.min[2])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.max[0])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.max[1])
+    out += _w_f32(payload.bounds.max[2])
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def _decode_metadata(data: bytes, result: ChunkPayload) -> None:
+    off = 0
+    result.world_id, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    result.room_id, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    coord = (_read_i32(data, off), _read_i32(data, off + 4), _read_i32(data, off + 8))
+    off += 12
+    min_pos = (_read_f32(data, off), _read_f32(data, off + 4), _read_f32(data, off + 8))
+    max_pos = (_read_f32(data, off + 12), _read_f32(data, off + 16), _read_f32(data, off + 20))
+    size = tuple(a - b for a, b in zip(max_pos, min_pos))
+    result.coord = coord
+    result.bounds = ChunkBounds(min=min_pos, size=size)
+
+
+def _encode_tile_layer(layer: TileLayer) -> bytes:
+    out = bytearray()
+    out += _w_str(layer.name)
+    out += _w_u16(layer.layer_id)
+    out += _w_u16(layer.width)
+    out += _w_u16(layer.height)
+    out += _w_u16(layer.depth)
+    out += _w_u16(len(layer.palette))
+    for td in layer.palette:
+        out += _w_u16(td.id)
+        out += _w_str(td.asset_id)
+        out += bytes([1 if td.solid else 0])
+        out += _w_u32(td.flags)
+        out += bytes([td.variants & 0xFF])
+    out += _w_u32(len(layer.tiles))
+    for tile_id in layer.tiles:
+        out += _w_u16(tile_id)
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def _decode_tile_layer(data: bytes) -> TileLayer:
+    off = 0
+    name, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    layer_id = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+    width = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+    height = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+    depth = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+    palette_count = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+    palette: list[TileDef] = []
+    for _ in range(palette_count):
+        tid = _read_u16(data, off); off += 2
+        asset_id, off = _read_str(data, off)
+        solid = data[off] != 0; off += 1
+        flags = _read_u32(data, off); off += 4
+        variants = data[off]; off += 1
+        palette.append(TileDef(id=tid, asset_id=asset_id, solid=solid, flags=flags, variants=variants))
+    tile_count = _read_u32(data, off); off += 4
+    tiles: list[int] = []
+    for _ in range(tile_count):
+        tiles.append(_read_u16(data, off))
+        off += 2
+    return TileLayer(name=name, layer_id=layer_id, width=width, height=height,
+                      depth=depth, palette=palette, tiles=tiles)
+
+
+def _encode_flags(flags: ContentFlags) -> bytes:
+    out = bytearray()
+    for name in CATEGORY_FIELDS:
+        out.append(getattr(flags, name) & 0xFF)
+    out.append(1 if flags.mature else 0)
+    out += _w_u16(len(flags.sources))
+    for src in flags.sources:
+        out += _w_str(src)
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def _decode_flags(data: bytes) -> ContentFlags:
+    off = 0
+    values = {}
+    for name in CATEGORY_FIELDS:
+        values[name] = data[off]
+        off += 1
+    mature = data[off] != 0
+    off += 1
+    source_count = _read_u16(data, off)
+    off += 2
+    sources = []
+    for _ in range(source_count):
+        s, off = _read_str(data, off)
+        sources.append(s)
+    return ContentFlags(**values, mature=mature, sources=sources)
+
+
+def _encode_object(obj: WorldObject) -> bytes:
+    out = bytearray()
+    out += _w_str(obj.id)
+    out += _w_str(obj.type)
+    out += _w_str(obj.asset_id)
+    for v in obj.pos:
+        out += _w_f32(v)
+    for v in obj.rot:
+        out += _w_f32(v)
+    for v in obj.scale:
+        out += _w_f32(v)
+    out.append(1 if obj.dynamic else 0)
+    # Canonical JSON: keys sorted lexicographically (world.md §3.6.3).
+    props_json = json.dumps(obj.properties, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
+    out += _w_str(props_json)
+    out += _encode_flags(obj.flags)
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def _decode_object(data: bytes) -> WorldObject:
+    off = 0
+    oid, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    otype, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    asset_id, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    pos = (_read_f32(data, off), _read_f32(data, off + 4), _read_f32(data, off + 8))
+    off += 12
+    rot = (
+        _read_f32(data, off), _read_f32(data, off + 4),
+        _read_f32(data, off + 8), _read_f32(data, off + 12),
+    )
+    off += 16
+    scale = (_read_f32(data, off), _read_f32(data, off + 4), _read_f32(data, off + 8))
+    off += 12
+    dynamic = data[off] != 0
+    off += 1
+    props_str, off = _read_str(data, off)
+    try:
+        properties = json.loads(props_str) if props_str else {}
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
+        raise ChunkCodecError(f"object {oid!r}: invalid properties JSON") from exc
+    obj_flags = _decode_flags(data[off:])
+    return WorldObject(id=oid, type=otype, asset_id=asset_id, pos=pos, rot=rot,
+                        scale=scale, dynamic=dynamic, properties=properties, flags=obj_flags)
+
+
+def _encode_revision_meta(payload: ChunkPayload) -> bytes:
+    out = bytearray()
+    out += _w_i64(payload.created_at)
+    out += _w_i64(payload.updated_at)
+    out += _w_u32(payload.revision)
+    out += _w_str(payload.author)
+    return bytes(out)
+
+
+def _decode_revision_meta(data: bytes, result: ChunkPayload) -> None:
+    off = 0
+    result.created_at = _read_i64(data, off); off += 8
+    result.updated_at = _read_i64(data, off); off += 8
+    result.revision = _read_u32(data, off); off += 4
+    result.author, off = _read_str(data, off)
+
+
+def _wrap_section(section_id: int, data: bytes) -> bytes:
+    return bytes([section_id]) + _w_u32(len(data)) + data
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Top-level encode/decode ─────────────────────────
+
+def encode_binary(payload: ChunkPayload) -> bytes:
+    """Encode a ChunkPayload to the world.md §3.6 wire format."""
+    sections = bytearray()
+    sections += _wrap_section(SECTION_META, _encode_metadata(payload))
+    for layer in payload.tile_layers:
+        sections += _wrap_section(SECTION_TILE, _encode_tile_layer(layer))
+    for obj in payload.objects:
+        sections += _wrap_section(SECTION_OBJECT, _encode_object(obj))
+    sections += _wrap_section(SECTION_FLAGS, _encode_flags(payload.flags))
+    sections += _wrap_section(SECTION_REVISION_META, _encode_revision_meta(payload))
+
+    payload_body = bytes(sections)
+    digest = hashlib.sha256(payload_body).digest()  # 32 raw bytes
+
+    header = bytearray()
+    header += MAGIC
+    header += _w_u16(CURRENT_VERSION)
+    header += _w_u16(HEADER_SIZE - 8)  # header_len: bytes of header after this field (spec-correct)
+    header += _w_u32(0)  # flags (reserved)
+    header += _w_u32(len(payload_body))
+    header += digest
+
+    return bytes(header) + payload_body
+
+
+def decode_binary(data: bytes) -> ChunkPayload:
+    """Decode a world.md §3.6 binary chunk. Raises ChunkCodecError on
+    structurally malformed input (short buffer, bad magic, unsupported
+    version, truncated payload)."""
+    if len(data) < HEADER_SIZE:
+        raise ChunkCodecError(f"data too short for header ({len(data)} bytes)")
+
+    if data[0:4] != MAGIC:
+        raise ChunkCodecError("bad magic bytes")
+
+    version = _read_u16(data, 4)
+    if version < 1 or version > CURRENT_VERSION:
+        raise ChunkCodecError(f"unsupported chunk format version {version}")
+
+    # header_len (offset 6) is intentionally not used for offset math --
+    # both this decoder and the Godot one always slice at the fixed
+    # HEADER_SIZE, matching the reference implementation's actual (if
+    # spec-inconsistent) behaviour.
+    payload_len = _read_u32(data, 12)
+    # bytes 16:48 are the header's advisory checksum -- decode_and_validate
+    # re-reads it directly and recomputes against the parsed payload body.
+
+    if len(data) - HEADER_SIZE != payload_len:
+        raise ChunkCodecError(
+            f"declared payload_len ({payload_len}) does not match actual "
+            f"remaining bytes ({len(data) - HEADER_SIZE})"
+        )
+
+    payload_body = data[HEADER_SIZE:HEADER_SIZE + payload_len]
+
+    result = ChunkPayload(version=version)
+
+    offset = 0
+    while offset < len(payload_body):
+        if offset + 5 > len(payload_body):
+            raise ChunkCodecError("truncated section header")
+        section_id = payload_body[offset]
+        section_len = _read_u32(payload_body, offset + 1)
+        data_start = offset + 5
+        data_end = data_start + section_len
+        if data_end > len(payload_body):
+            raise ChunkCodecError("truncated section body")
+        section_data = payload_body[data_start:data_end]
+
+        if section_id == SECTION_META:
+            _decode_metadata(section_data, result)
+        elif section_id == SECTION_TILE:
+            result.tile_layers.append(_decode_tile_layer(section_data))
+        elif section_id == SECTION_OBJECT:
+            result.objects.append(_decode_object(section_data))
+        elif section_id == SECTION_FLAGS:
+            result.flags = _decode_flags(section_data)
+        elif section_id == SECTION_REVISION_META:
+            _decode_revision_meta(section_data, result)
+        # Unknown section ids are skipped (forward-compat), matching the
+        # Godot decoder's match-with-no-default behaviour.
+
+        offset = data_end
+
+    return result
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── JSON encoding (world.md §3.5) ─────────────────────────
+# Derived, never stored (world_persistence_impl.md §8.1) -- produced here
+# from a decoded ChunkPayload for the ``Accept: application/json`` path.
+
+def to_json_dict(payload: ChunkPayload, *, key: str, chunk_checksum: str) -> dict:
+    return {
+        "version": payload.version,
+        "key": key,
+        "world_id": payload.world_id,
+        "room_id": payload.room_id,
+        "coord": {"cx": payload.coord[0], "cy": payload.coord[1], "cz": payload.coord[2]},
+        "bounds": {
+            "min_x": payload.bounds.min[0], "min_y": payload.bounds.min[1], "min_z": payload.bounds.min[2],
+            "max_x": payload.bounds.max[0], "max_y": payload.bounds.max[1], "max_z": payload.bounds.max[2],
+        },
+        "tiles": [
+            {
+                "name": layer.name,
+                "layer_id": layer.layer_id,
+                "width": layer.width,
+                "height": layer.height,
+                "depth": layer.depth,
+                "palette": [
+                    {"id": td.id, "asset_id": td.asset_id, "solid": td.solid,
+                     "flags": td.flags, "variants": td.variants}
+                    for td in layer.palette
+                ],
+                "tiles": list(layer.tiles),
+            }
+            for layer in payload.tile_layers
+        ],
+        "objects": [
+            {
+                "id": obj.id, "type": obj.type, "asset_id": obj.asset_id,
+                "transform": {
+                    "pos": list(obj.pos), "rot": list(obj.rot), "scale": list(obj.scale),
+                },
+                "properties": obj.properties,
+                "dynamic": obj.dynamic,
+                "flags": obj.flags.to_dict(),
+            }
+            for obj in payload.objects
+        ],
+        "flags": payload.flags.to_dict(),
+        "meta": {
+            "created_at": payload.created_at, "updated_at": payload.updated_at,
+            "revision": payload.revision, "author": payload.author,
+        },
+        "checksum": chunk_checksum,
+    }
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Validation (world_persistence_impl.md §5.5) ─────────────────────────
+
+# Not precisely quantified by the design doc beyond "length limits" --
+# these are this implementation's conservative defaults (world.md §7).
+MAX_STRING_FIELD_LEN = 256
+MAX_PROPERTIES_JSON_LEN = 16_384
+MAX_SOURCES_PER_FLAGSET = 32
+
+
+def _check_string_lengths(obj: WorldObject) -> None:
+    for field_name, value in (("id", obj.id), ("type", obj.type), ("asset_id", obj.asset_id)):
+        if len(value) > MAX_STRING_FIELD_LEN:
+            raise ChunkValidationError(
+                "string_field_too_long", f"object.{field_name} exceeds {MAX_STRING_FIELD_LEN} chars"
+            )
+    props_json = json.dumps(obj.properties)
+    if len(props_json) > MAX_PROPERTIES_JSON_LEN:
+        raise ChunkValidationError(
+            "string_field_too_long", f"object {obj.id!r} properties exceed {MAX_PROPERTIES_JSON_LEN} bytes"
+        )
+    if len(obj.flags.sources) > MAX_SOURCES_PER_FLAGSET:
+        raise ChunkValidationError("string_field_too_long", f"object {obj.id!r} has too many flag sources")
+
+
+def decode_and_validate(
+    data: bytes,
+    *,
+    expected_key: str,
+    grid_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+    max_objects: int,
+) -> ChunkPayload:
+    """Decode + fully validate a client-submitted chunk payload.
+
+    This is the boundary world_persistence_impl.md §5.5 requires: "the
+    backend must not trust the client". Raises ``ChunkCodecError`` for
+    structurally malformed bytes (mapped to a 422 by the router with a
+    generic reason) or ``ChunkValidationError`` with a specific ``reason``
+    code for a well-formed-but-invalid payload.
+    """
+    payload = decode_binary(data)  # raises ChunkCodecError for structural problems first
+
+    # Checksum is advisory in the header (world.md §7); the value that
+    # matters is recomputed from the actual payload body we just parsed.
+    payload_body = data[HEADER_SIZE:]
+    recomputed = checksum(payload_body)
+    header_checksum_hex = data[16:48].hex()
+    if header_checksum_hex != recomputed:
+        raise ChunkValidationError(
+            "checksum_mismatch",
+            "header checksum does not match the recomputed SHA-256 of the payload body",
+        )
+
+    actual_key = build_key(payload.world_id, payload.room_id, *payload.coord)
+    if actual_key != expected_key:
+        raise ChunkValidationError(
+            "chunk_key_mismatch",
+            f"payload key {actual_key!r} does not match URL {expected_key!r}",
+        )
+
+    for layer in payload.tile_layers:
+        if (layer.width, layer.height, layer.depth) != tuple(grid_size):
+            raise ChunkValidationError(
+                "layer_dims",
+                f"tile layer {layer.name!r} dims {(layer.width, layer.height, layer.depth)} "
+                f"!= room grid {tuple(grid_size)}",
+            )
+        valid_ids = {0} | {td.id for td in layer.palette}
+        for tile_id in layer.tiles:
+            if tile_id not in valid_ids:
+                raise ChunkValidationError(
+                    "tile_out_of_palette",
+                    f"tile layer {layer.name!r} references palette id {tile_id} not in its palette",
+                )
+        if len(layer.tiles) != layer.width * layer.height * layer.depth:
+            raise ChunkValidationError(
+                "layer_dims",
+                f"tile layer {layer.name!r} has {len(layer.tiles)} cells, expected "
+                f"{layer.width * layer.height * layer.depth}",
+            )
+
+    if len(payload.objects) > max_objects:
+        raise ChunkValidationError(
+            "too_many_objects", f"{len(payload.objects)} objects exceeds max {max_objects}"
+        )
+
+    bmin, bmax = payload.bounds.min, payload.bounds.max
+    for obj in payload.objects:
+        _check_string_lengths(obj)
+        if not all(bmin[i] <= obj.pos[i] <= bmax[i] for i in range(3)):
+            raise ChunkValidationError(
+                "object_out_of_bounds",
+                f"object {obj.id!r} position {obj.pos} outside chunk bounds "
+                f"[{bmin}, {bmax}]",
+            )
+
+    if len(payload.author) > MAX_STRING_FIELD_LEN:
+        raise ChunkValidationError("string_field_too_long", "meta.author too long")
+
+    return payload
+
+
+# ───────────────────────── Known cross-codec divergence ─────────────────────────
+#
+# `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd`'s `_read_float32`/`_write_float32` do:
+#
+#     static func _write_float32(val: float) -> PackedByteArray:
+#         var bits := val as int
+#         return _write_uint32(bits)
+#
+#     static func _read_float32(data: PackedByteArray, offset: int) -> float:
+#         var bits := _read_uint32(data, offset)
+#         return bits as float
+#
+# `as` between int and float in GDScript is a numeric conversion, not a bit
+# reinterpretation (verified empirically against Godot 4.6.2 headless:
+# `1.5 as int` -> `1`, `1 as float` -> `1.0`; the IEEE-754 bit pattern of
+# 1.5f is 0x3FC00000 = 1069547520, not 1). So the shipped client codec
+# truncates every float32 field (bounds, object pos/rot/scale) to its
+# integer part and stores that integer as a raw int32 -- not as float32
+# bits at all. This is a real bug in already-merged, client-side code
+# (scripts/ is out of scope for this task) that breaks the "byte-stable
+# across two implementations" guarantee world.md §3.6.3 states.
+#
+# This module implements the *specified* format (real IEEE-754 float32)
+# rather than replicating that bug, because world.md §3.6 is normative and
+# says "float32" for these fields, and mirroring the bug would mean the
+# backend also corrupts every non-integer transform/bounds value it
+# stores. Practical effect until the client-side bug is fixed: payloads
+# with integer-only floats will decode identically on both sides; any
+# payload with a fractional position/rotation/scale/bounds value will not
+# be byte-identical (or numerically identical) between this module and the
+# current `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd`. This is flagged for the
+# client/editor follow-on task, not fixed here.

backend/app/services/game_servers.py

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+"""Game-server orchestration.
+
+On ``POST /api/worlds/{id}/join`` the backend ensures a headless Godot
+dedicated-server process is running for that world and returns its address.
+One process per world, keyed by ``world_id``. A background reaper kills a
+world's server once its status file reports zero players for
+``GAME_SERVER_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS``.
+
+This lives in-process (a module-level singleton) rather than as a separate
+service, so the backend MUST run single-worker -- which it does
+(``uvicorn app.main:app`` with no ``--workers``). The Godot binary and
+project are on the host (see ``settings.GODOT_BIN`` / ``GAME_PROJECT_DIR``);
+the backend spawns them as subprocesses.
+
+Design notes / limits (PC3):
+ - Port allocation is a linear scan of the configured range.
+ - No crash-restart: if a server process dies, the next join respawns it.
+   With world content now durable in Postgres (world_persistence_impl.md
+   D2), this is genuinely safe rather than merely tolerated: the sim
+   process holds no unsaved world content, so a reap/crash/kill can never
+   lose world data.
+
+Per-spawn auth token (world_persistence_impl.md §7.3): each spawned server
+gets a random ``secrets.token_urlsafe(32)`` on its command line, which it
+uses as a Bearer token against ``/api/internal`` to pull its world's
+content read-only before binding its ENet port. The token grants access to
+exactly one world and dies with its process (the reaper's
+``del self._servers[wid]`` invalidates it; see ``validate_token``).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import hmac
+import json
+import secrets
+import socket
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from app.config import settings
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _WorldServer:
+    world_id: str
+    port: int
+    proc: subprocess.Popen
+    status_path: Path
+    token: str
+    started_at: float = field(default_factory=time.time)
+    last_join: float = field(default_factory=time.time)
+
+    def status(self) -> dict:
+        try:
+            return json.loads(self.status_path.read_text())
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            return {}
+
+    def player_count(self) -> int:
+        return int(self.status().get("players", 0))
+
+    def is_ready(self) -> bool:
+        return self.status().get("ready") is True
+
+    def alive(self) -> bool:
+        return self.proc.poll() is None
+
+    def stop(self) -> None:
+        if self.alive():
+            self.proc.terminate()
+            try:
+                self.proc.wait(timeout=10)
+            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+                self.proc.kill()
+        self.status_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+
+
+class GameServerSupervisor:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self._servers: dict[str, _WorldServer] = {}
+        self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
+        self._reaper: asyncio.Task | None = None
+        self._runtime_dir = Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / "agp-game-servers"
+        self._runtime_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # ── lifecycle ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    def start(self) -> None:
+        if not settings.GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED:
+            return
+        if self._reaper is None or self._reaper.done():
+            self._reaper = asyncio.create_task(self._reap_loop())
+
+    async def shutdown(self) -> None:
+        if self._reaper:
+            self._reaper.cancel()
+        async with self._lock:
+            for srv in list(self._servers.values()):
+                srv.stop()
+            self._servers.clear()
+
+    # ── join ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    async def ensure_server(self, world_id: str) -> dict:
+        """Return ``{"host", "port", "world_id"}`` for the world's dedicated
+        server, spawning it if needed. Raises RuntimeError if orchestration
+        is disabled or no port/engine is available."""
+        if not settings.GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED:
+            raise RuntimeError("game servers are not enabled on this backend")
+
+        async with self._lock:
+            srv = self._servers.get(world_id)
+            if srv is not None and not srv.alive():
+                srv.stop()
+                srv = None
+                del self._servers[world_id]
+
+            if srv is None:
+                srv = self._spawn(world_id)
+                self._servers[world_id] = srv
+                try:
+                    await self._await_ready(srv)
+                except TimeoutError:
+                    # Real failure now, not a silent "hope it's fine" --
+                    # see _await_ready's docstring. Don't leave a possibly
+                    # half-started process registered.
+                    srv.stop()
+                    del self._servers[world_id]
+                    raise RuntimeError(
+                        f"dedicated server for world {world_id} did not become ready in time"
+                    )
+
+            srv.last_join = time.time()
+            return {"host": settings.GAME_SERVER_HOST, "port": srv.port, "world_id": world_id}
+
+    def validate_token(self, world_id: str, token: str) -> bool:
+        """`require_game_server` dependency support (world_persistence_impl.md
+        §7.3): true iff *token* is the live token for *world_id*'s server.
+        A dict lookup, as the doc specifies, plus a constant-time compare
+        since it's a bearer credential."""
+        srv = self._servers.get(str(world_id))
+        if srv is None or not srv.alive():
+            return False
+        return hmac.compare_digest(srv.token, token)
+
+    # ── internals ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    def _spawn(self, world_id: str) -> _WorldServer:
+        port = self._free_port()
+        token = secrets.token_urlsafe(32)
+        status_path = self._runtime_dir / f"world_{world_id}_{port}.json"
+        status_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+        cmd = [
+            settings.GODOT_BIN, "--headless",
+            "--path", settings.GAME_PROJECT_DIR,
+            "res://scenes/server.tscn", "--",
+            "--port", str(port),
+            "--world", str(world_id),
+            "--status-file", str(status_path),
+            "--api-url", settings.GAME_SERVER_INTERNAL_API_URL,
+            "--server-token", token,
+        ]
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        return _WorldServer(
+            world_id=world_id, port=port, proc=proc, status_path=status_path, token=token
+        )
+
+    def _free_port(self) -> int:
+        used = {s.port for s in self._servers.values()}
+        for p in range(settings.GAME_SERVER_PORT_MIN, settings.GAME_SERVER_PORT_MAX + 1):
+            if p in used:
+                continue
+            with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) as s:
+                try:
+                    s.bind(("0.0.0.0", p))
+                    return p
+                except OSError:
+                    continue
+        raise RuntimeError("no free game-server port in the configured range")
+
+    async def _await_ready(self, srv: _WorldServer) -> None:
+        """Wait for a ``"ready": true`` field in the status file
+        (world_persistence_impl.md §7.4).
+
+        This replaces the old ``_await_port``, which had two real bugs:
+        it treated a bound UDP port as "ready", but with content loading
+        the port binds *before* the server has fetched its world's rooms
+        and chunks (world_persistence_impl.md §7.2 step 4) -- so a client
+        could get handed an address for a server still mid-fetch. And it
+        *failed open*: past its 8s deadline it simply returned, with no
+        error, so ``ensure_server`` reported success for a server that may
+        never have started at all. This raises ``TimeoutError`` instead,
+        which ``ensure_server`` turns into a real 503 for the joining
+        client, and also bails out early (same exception) if the process
+        has already exited.
+        """
+        deadline = time.time() + settings.GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
+        while time.time() < deadline:
+            if srv.is_ready():
+                return
+            if not srv.alive():
+                raise TimeoutError(
+                    f"server process for world {srv.world_id} exited before becoming ready"
+                )
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.25)
+        raise TimeoutError(
+            f"server for world {srv.world_id} did not report ready within "
+            f"{settings.GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS}s"
+        )
+
+    async def _reap_loop(self) -> None:
+        try:
+            while True:
+                await asyncio.sleep(30)
+                async with self._lock:
+                    now = time.time()
+                    for wid, srv in list(self._servers.items()):
+                        if not srv.alive():
+                            srv.stop()
+                            del self._servers[wid]
+                            continue
+                        idle_for = now - srv.last_join
+                        if idle_for > settings.GAME_SERVER_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS and srv.player_count() == 0:
+                            srv.stop()
+                            del self._servers[wid]
+        except asyncio.CancelledError:
+            pass
+
+    def debug_state(self) -> list[dict]:
+        return [
+            {
+                "world_id": s.world_id, "port": s.port, "alive": s.alive(),
+                "players": s.player_count(), "uptime_s": round(time.time() - s.started_at),
+            }
+            for s in self._servers.values()
+        ]
+
+
+supervisor = GameServerSupervisor()

backend/app/services/gltf.py

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+"""Lightweight glTF / GLB metadata extraction.
+
+This module intentionally avoids heavyweight dependencies such as trimesh or
+pygltflib. For the metadata fields the asset upload pipeline needs (mesh and
+vertex counts, animation presence, texture references, and the bounding box)
+a small amount of glTF-specific parsing is sufficient and keeps the backend
+dependency-free.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import struct
+from typing import Any, Optional
+
+# GLB binary header magic bytes ("glTF").
+_GLB_MAGIC = b"glTF"
+_GLB_MAGIC_INT = 0x46546C67  # b"glTF" interpreted as little-endian uint32
+_GLB_JSON_CHUNK_TYPE = 0x4E4F534A  # "JSON"
+_GLB_BIN_CHUNK_TYPE = 0x004E4942  # "BIN\0"
+
+# Whitespace allowed around a GLB JSON chunk. The spec pads with spaces (0x20),
+# but be lenient with null bytes and other whitespace that real exporters emit.
+_JSON_CHUNK_TRIM = b" \t\r\n\x00"
+
+
+def looks_like_gltf(content: bytes, filename: Optional[str] = None) -> bool:
+    """Return True when the bytes or filename indicate a glTF/GLB asset."""
+    if content.startswith(_GLB_MAGIC):
+        return True
+
+    if filename:
+        lowered = filename.lower()
+        if lowered.endswith(".gltf") or lowered.endswith(".glb"):
+            return True
+
+    # A bare JSON buffer (e.g. uploaded without an extension) that has the
+    # glTF asset marker is also a glTF file.
+    stripped = content.lstrip()
+    if stripped.startswith(b"{"):
+        try:
+            payload = json.loads(stripped.decode("utf-8"))
+        except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+            return False
+        return isinstance(payload, dict) and "asset" in payload and "version" in payload.get("asset", {})
+
+    return False
+
+
+def _parse_glb(content: bytes) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Parse the JSON chunk of a GLB binary container."""
+    if len(content) < 12:
+        raise ValueError("GLB file is too short")
+
+    magic, _version, _length = struct.unpack_from("<III", content, 0)
+    if magic != _GLB_MAGIC_INT:
+        raise ValueError("invalid GLB magic")
+
+    offset = 12
+    json_chunk: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None
+
+    while offset + 8 <= len(content):
+        chunk_length, chunk_type = struct.unpack_from("<II", content, offset)
+        offset += 8
+        chunk_end = offset + chunk_length
+        if chunk_end > len(content):
+            raise ValueError("GLB chunk overruns file boundary")
+
+        chunk_data = content[offset:chunk_end]
+        if chunk_type == _GLB_JSON_CHUNK_TYPE:
+            try:
+                json_chunk = json.loads(chunk_data.strip(_JSON_CHUNK_TRIM).decode("utf-8"))
+            except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
+                raise ValueError(f"invalid GLB JSON chunk: {exc}") from exc
+
+        offset = chunk_end
+
+    if json_chunk is None:
+        raise ValueError("GLB file does not contain a JSON chunk")
+
+    return json_chunk
+
+
+def _parse_gltf_json(content: bytes) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Parse a plain .gltf JSON file."""
+    stripped = content.lstrip()
+    try:
+        payload = json.loads(stripped.decode("utf-8"))
+    except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
+        raise ValueError(f"invalid glTF JSON: {exc}") from exc
+
+    if not isinstance(payload, dict):
+        raise ValueError("glTF JSON root must be an object")
+    return payload
+
+
+def _position_accessor_counts(gltf: dict[str, Any]) -> list[int]:
+    """Return POSITION accessor counts for every mesh primitive."""
+    counts: list[int] = []
+    accessors = gltf.get("accessors", [])
+    for mesh in gltf.get("meshes", []):
+        for primitive in mesh.get("primitives", []):
+            attributes = primitive.get("attributes", {})
+            position_index = attributes.get("POSITION")
+            if position_index is None:
+                continue
+            try:
+                accessor = accessors[int(position_index)]
+            except (IndexError, TypeError, ValueError):
+                continue
+            count = accessor.get("count")
+            if isinstance(count, int):
+                counts.append(count)
+    return counts
+
+
+def _position_bounds(gltf: dict[str, Any]) -> list[list[float]]:
+    """Return min/max bounds for every POSITION accessor that declares them."""
+    bounds: list[list[float]] = []
+    accessors = gltf.get("accessors", [])
+    for mesh in gltf.get("meshes", []):
+        for primitive in mesh.get("primitives", []):
+            attributes = primitive.get("attributes", {})
+            position_index = attributes.get("POSITION")
+            if position_index is None:
+                continue
+            try:
+                accessor = accessors[int(position_index)]
+            except (IndexError, TypeError, ValueError):
+                continue
+            minimum = accessor.get("min")
+            maximum = accessor.get("max")
+            if isinstance(minimum, list) and isinstance(maximum, list):
+                bounds.append([float(x) for x in minimum])
+                bounds.append([float(x) for x in maximum])
+    return bounds
+
+
+def _texture_refs(gltf: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
+    """Collect external texture source references from the image array."""
+    refs: list[str] = []
+    for index, image in enumerate(gltf.get("images", [])):
+        uri = image.get("uri")
+        if isinstance(uri, str) and not uri.startswith("data:"):
+            refs.append(uri)
+            continue
+
+        name = image.get("name")
+        if isinstance(name, str) and name:
+            refs.append(name)
+            continue
+
+        if isinstance(uri, str):
+            # Embedded data URI; keep a stable, non-huge reference.
+            refs.append(f"data:{index}")
+            continue
+
+        buffer_view = image.get("bufferView")
+        if buffer_view is not None:
+            refs.append(f"bufferView:{buffer_view}")
+            continue
+
+        refs.append(f"image:{index}")
+
+    return refs
+
+
+def extract_gltf_metadata(content: bytes) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Extract upload-relevant metadata from glTF/GLB bytes.
+
+    Raises ValueError for malformed glTF content. The returned dict contains:
+        mesh_count, vertex_count, has_animation, texture_refs,
+        bounding_box_min, bounding_box_max.
+    """
+    if content.startswith(_GLB_MAGIC):
+        gltf = _parse_glb(content)
+    else:
+        gltf = _parse_gltf_json(content)
+
+    position_counts = _position_accessor_counts(gltf)
+    bounds = _position_bounds(gltf)
+
+    if bounds:
+        bounding_box_min = [min(axis) for axis in zip(*bounds[::2])]
+        bounding_box_max = [max(axis) for axis in zip(*bounds[1::2])]
+    else:
+        bounding_box_min = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+        bounding_box_max = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+
+    return {
+        "mesh_count": len(gltf.get("meshes", [])),
+        "vertex_count": sum(position_counts),
+        "has_animation": bool(gltf.get("animations")),
+        "texture_refs": _texture_refs(gltf),
+        "bounding_box_min": bounding_box_min,
+        "bounding_box_max": bounding_box_max,
+    }

backend/app/services/presence.py

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+"""Redis-backed presence store.
+
+Presence is determined by a heartbeat TTL key in Redis:
+- heartbeat(user_id) sets a TTL key per user (default 60 s).
+- is_online(user_id) / is_online_batch(user_ids) check whether the key(s)
+  exist.
+
+status_message and last_seen_at are persisted in the ``users`` table by the
+router (app/routers/presence.py); this store only owns the Redis side.
+
+The Redis client is created lazily, on first actual use, rather than
+requiring an explicit ``connect()`` call during app startup. This matters
+because FastAPI's lifespan handler does not run under the plain
+``TestClient(app)`` instantiation this codebase's tests use (no
+``with`` block), so anything that only connected during lifespan startup
+would never connect in tests. Lazy connection means the store works
+identically whether the app was started for real or is being driven by
+pytest.
+
+The client is also cached per-*event loop* rather than globally: the same
+plain ``TestClient(app)`` pattern can dispatch different requests onto
+different event loops (see the NullPool comment on ``_override_db`` in
+tests/conftest.py for the analogous asyncpg problem), and an
+``aioredis.Redis`` connection, like an asyncpg connection, breaks with
+"Event loop is closed" if reused across loops. In the real running server
+there is exactly one event loop for the process lifetime, so this
+degrades to a single cached, pooled connection there.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import logging
+
+import redis.asyncio as aioredis
+
+from app.config import settings
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Key prefix for heartbeat entries.
+_PRESENCE_KEY_PREFIX = "presence:heartbeat:"
+
+# Default heartbeat TTL in seconds (1 minute).
+# Clients should heartbeat at least once per interval.
+_DEFAULT_HEARTBEAT_TTL = 60
+
+
+class PresenceStore:
+    """Redis-backed presence store with async, lazily-connected operations."""
+
+    def __init__(self, redis_url: str | None = None, heartbeat_ttl: int = _DEFAULT_HEARTBEAT_TTL):
+        # redis_url is resolved from settings at first use (not at
+        # construction time) so tests that override settings.REDIS_URL
+        # before the first call still take effect -- this module is
+        # imported (and the module-level singleton below constructed)
+        # well before any such override runs.
+        self._redis_url = redis_url
+        self._heartbeat_ttl = heartbeat_ttl
+        # Keyed by id(running loop) -- see the module docstring.
+        self._clients: dict[int, aioredis.Redis] = {}
+        self._connect_lock = asyncio.Lock()
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Lifecycle
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def _ensure_client(self) -> aioredis.Redis:
+        """Return a connected client for the current event loop, connecting
+        on first use per loop."""
+        loop_key = id(asyncio.get_running_loop())
+        client = self._clients.get(loop_key)
+        if client is None:
+            async with self._connect_lock:
+                client = self._clients.get(loop_key)
+                if client is None:
+                    url = self._redis_url or settings.REDIS_URL
+                    client = aioredis.from_url(
+                        url,
+                        encoding="utf-8",
+                        decode_responses=True,
+                    )
+                    try:
+                        await client.ping()
+                    except Exception:
+                        logger.warning("Redis ping failed for %s", url)
+                        raise
+                    self._clients[loop_key] = client
+        return client
+
+    async def close(self) -> None:
+        """Close the Redis connection for the current event loop, if one was
+        opened."""
+        loop_key = id(asyncio.get_running_loop())
+        client = self._clients.pop(loop_key, None)
+        if client is not None:
+            await client.aclose()
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Heartbeat
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def heartbeat(self, user_id: int) -> None:
+        """Record a heartbeat for *user_id*.
+
+        Sets a TTL key so that the user is considered online as long as
+        heartbeats arrive at least once per heartbeat_ttl seconds.
+        """
+        client = await self._ensure_client()
+        await client.set(self._heartbeat_key(user_id), "1", ex=self._heartbeat_ttl)
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Online checks
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def is_online(self, user_id: int) -> bool:
+        """Return True if the user has a valid heartbeat key."""
+        client = await self._ensure_client()
+        exists = await client.exists(self._heartbeat_key(user_id))
+        return bool(exists)
+
+    async def is_online_batch(self, user_ids: list[int]) -> set[int]:
+        """Return the subset of user_ids that currently have a valid
+        heartbeat key. Uses MGET (one round trip) rather than one EXISTS
+        per user.
+        """
+        if not user_ids:
+            return set()
+        client = await self._ensure_client()
+        keys = [self._heartbeat_key(uid) for uid in user_ids]
+        values = await client.mget(keys)
+        return {uid for uid, v in zip(user_ids, values) if v is not None}
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Helpers
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _heartbeat_key(user_id: int) -> str:
+        return f"{_PRESENCE_KEY_PREFIX}{user_id}"
+
+
+# Singleton instance shared by the router, so all requests share the same
+# connection pool.
+presence_store = PresenceStore()

backend/app/services/world_store.py

@@ -0,0 +1,431 @@
+"""World content storage service.
+
+Implements the `world.md` §5.1 service interface over Postgres, per
+`world_persistence_impl.md` §9 -- **minus** ``flush_dirty`` and
+``rebuild_index``, which don't apply once there is no write-behind dirty
+set and no derived index to rebuild (see that doc's §3.3 and §4.2).
+
+This is the *only* place chunk content is written (world_persistence_impl.md
+D2 / §5). Callers (the routers) own transaction boundaries: methods here
+``flush()`` so later statements in the same request see earlier ones and so
+integrity errors surface before a caller commits, but they never
+``commit()`` -- that mirrors the existing convention in
+``app/routers/worlds.py`` (``get_db`` docs: "Handlers are responsible for
+committing or rolling back their own transactions").
+
+Known gap this module had to resolve on its own (flagged, not silently
+decided): `world_persistence_impl.md` §6/§7.2/§8.1 all reference a world's
+monotonic ``content_revision`` ("bumped on every chunk write"), but no
+column for it is defined anywhere in §4's schema. Rather than add an
+undocumented column, ``content_revision()`` below derives it as
+``MAX(id)`` over ``world_chunk_revisions`` scoped to the world: that table
+is append-only (retention only nulls ``payload``, it never deletes rows),
+so the value is genuinely monotonic and increments on every
+create/update/delete/rollback.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+from sqlalchemy import func, select, update
+from sqlalchemy.exc import IntegrityError
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
+from sqlalchemy.orm import load_only
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.models.world_content import (
+    MAIN_ROOM_NAME,
+    MAIN_ROOM_SLUG,
+    WorldChunk,
+    WorldChunkRevision,
+    WorldRoom,
+)
+from app.services import chunk_codec
+
+
+class RevisionConflict(Exception):
+    """Optimistic-concurrency conflict (world.md §5.4). ``current_revision``
+    is 0 and ``current_checksum`` is None when the caller's ``base_revision``
+    assumed a chunk exists but it doesn't."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        current_revision: int,
+        current_checksum: str | None,
+        coord: tuple[int, int, int] | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.current_revision = current_revision
+        self.current_checksum = current_checksum
+        self.coord = coord
+        super().__init__(f"revision conflict: current_revision={current_revision}")
+
+
+class RevisionNotAvailable(Exception):
+    """Raised by ``rollback_chunk`` when the requested revision doesn't
+    exist, or exists but its payload was pruned by the retention policy
+    (world_persistence_impl.md §4.3)."""
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Bounds:
+    cx_min: int | None = None
+    cx_max: int | None = None
+    cy_min: int | None = None
+    cy_max: int | None = None
+    cz: int | None = None
+
+
+class WorldStore:
+    """Owns chunk/room read/write operations over the async session
+    handed to it. One instance per request is the expected usage
+    (``WorldStore(db)`` where ``db`` is the ``DbDep`` session)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, db: AsyncSession) -> None:
+        self.db = db
+
+    # ── rooms ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def get_room(self, world_id: int, slug: str) -> WorldRoom | None:
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldRoom).where(WorldRoom.world_id == world_id, WorldRoom.slug == slug)
+        )
+        return result.scalar_one_or_none()
+
+    async def list_rooms(self, world_id: int) -> list[WorldRoom]:
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldRoom).where(WorldRoom.world_id == world_id).order_by(WorldRoom.id)
+        )
+        return list(result.scalars().all())
+
+    async def create_room(
+        self,
+        world_id: int,
+        slug: str,
+        name: str,
+        *,
+        grid: dict | None = None,
+        bounds: dict | None = None,
+        spawn: dict | None = None,
+    ) -> WorldRoom:
+        room = WorldRoom(world_id=world_id, slug=slug, name=name)
+        if grid is not None:
+            room.grid = grid
+        if bounds is not None:
+            room.bounds = bounds
+        if spawn is not None:
+            room.spawn = spawn
+        self.db.add(room)
+        await self.db.flush()
+        await self.db.refresh(room)
+        return room
+
+    async def get_or_create_main_room(self, world_id: int) -> WorldRoom:
+        """world_persistence_impl.md §4.1: every world gets a ``main`` room.
+        Called from ``create_world`` for new worlds, and lazily here for
+        worlds that predate this migration."""
+        room = await self.get_room(world_id, MAIN_ROOM_SLUG)
+        if room is not None:
+            return room
+        try:
+            return await self.create_room(world_id, MAIN_ROOM_SLUG, MAIN_ROOM_NAME)
+        except IntegrityError:
+            # Lost a race with a concurrent creator; the row now exists.
+            await self.db.rollback()
+            room = await self.get_room(world_id, MAIN_ROOM_SLUG)
+            if room is None:
+                raise
+            return room
+
+    async def count_chunks(self, room_id: int) -> int:
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(func.count()).select_from(WorldChunk).where(WorldChunk.room_id == room_id)
+        )
+        return int(result.scalar_one())
+
+    async def content_revision(self, world_id: int) -> int:
+        """See module docstring for why this is derived rather than stored."""
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(func.max(WorldChunkRevision.id)).where(WorldChunkRevision.world_id == world_id)
+        )
+        return int(result.scalar() or 0)
+
+    # ── chunk reads ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def get_chunk(self, key: str) -> WorldChunk | None:
+        result = await self.db.execute(select(WorldChunk).where(WorldChunk.chunk_key == key))
+        return result.scalar_one_or_none()
+
+    async def get_chunk_by_coord(self, room_id: int, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int) -> WorldChunk | None:
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldChunk).where(
+                WorldChunk.room_id == room_id, WorldChunk.cx == cx,
+                WorldChunk.cy == cy, WorldChunk.cz == cz,
+            )
+        )
+        return result.scalar_one_or_none()
+
+    async def get_chunk_binary(self, key: str) -> bytes | None:
+        chunk = await self.get_chunk(key)
+        return chunk.payload if chunk is not None else None
+
+    async def get_chunk_flags(self, key: str) -> dict | None:
+        chunk = await self.get_chunk(key)
+        return chunk.content_flags if chunk is not None else None
+
+    async def list_chunks(
+        self,
+        world_id: int,
+        room_id: int | None = None,
+        bounds: Bounds | None = None,
+    ) -> list[WorldChunk]:
+        """Index query -- world.md §5.1's ``list_chunks``. Payload bytes are
+        deliberately not loaded (world_persistence_impl.md §8.1: "Payloads
+        are not included")."""
+        query = select(WorldChunk).options(
+            load_only(
+                WorldChunk.id, WorldChunk.world_id, WorldChunk.room_id, WorldChunk.chunk_key,
+                WorldChunk.cx, WorldChunk.cy, WorldChunk.cz, WorldChunk.revision,
+                WorldChunk.checksum, WorldChunk.payload_len, WorldChunk.is_mature,
+                WorldChunk.updated_at,
+            )
+        ).where(WorldChunk.world_id == world_id)
+        if room_id is not None:
+            query = query.where(WorldChunk.room_id == room_id)
+        if bounds is not None:
+            if bounds.cx_min is not None:
+                query = query.where(WorldChunk.cx >= bounds.cx_min)
+            if bounds.cx_max is not None:
+                query = query.where(WorldChunk.cx <= bounds.cx_max)
+            if bounds.cy_min is not None:
+                query = query.where(WorldChunk.cy >= bounds.cy_min)
+            if bounds.cy_max is not None:
+                query = query.where(WorldChunk.cy <= bounds.cy_max)
+            if bounds.cz is not None:
+                query = query.where(WorldChunk.cz == bounds.cz)
+        query = query.order_by(WorldChunk.cx, WorldChunk.cy, WorldChunk.cz)
+        result = await self.db.execute(query)
+        return list(result.scalars().all())
+
+    # ── chunk writes ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def put_chunk(
+        self,
+        *,
+        room: WorldRoom,
+        cx: int,
+        cy: int,
+        cz: int,
+        payload_bytes: bytes,
+        base_revision: int,
+        actor_id: int | None,
+    ) -> WorldChunk:
+        """Full-chunk write with optimistic concurrency (world.md §5.4,
+        world_persistence_impl.md §5.4/§8.2). Validates the payload
+        server-side (§5.5) before ever touching a row. ``base_revision=0``
+        means "create; 409 if it already exists"."""
+        key = chunk_codec.build_key(room.world_id, room.slug, cx, cy, cz)
+        grid_size = tuple(room.grid.get("size", [32, 32, 1]))
+
+        # Raises ChunkCodecError / ChunkValidationError -- the router maps
+        # those to 422. Nothing below trusts the request body's own claims
+        # about content_flags/is_mature; both come from `decoded`.
+        decoded = chunk_codec.decode_and_validate(
+            payload_bytes,
+            expected_key=key,
+            grid_size=grid_size,
+            max_objects=settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_OBJECTS,
+        )
+        body_checksum = chunk_codec.checksum(payload_bytes[chunk_codec.HEADER_SIZE:])
+
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldChunk)
+            .where(
+                WorldChunk.room_id == room.id, WorldChunk.cx == cx,
+                WorldChunk.cy == cy, WorldChunk.cz == cz,
+            )
+            .with_for_update()
+        )
+        row = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+
+        if base_revision == 0:
+            if row is not None:
+                raise RevisionConflict(row.revision, row.checksum, (cx, cy, cz))
+            row = WorldChunk(
+                world_id=room.world_id, room_id=room.id, chunk_key=key,
+                cx=cx, cy=cy, cz=cz, revision=1,
+            )
+            self.db.add(row)
+            action = "create"
+        else:
+            if row is None or row.revision != base_revision:
+                raise RevisionConflict(
+                    row.revision if row else 0, row.checksum if row else None, (cx, cy, cz)
+                )
+            row.revision = row.revision + 1
+            action = "update"
+
+        row.format_version = decoded.version
+        row.payload = payload_bytes
+        row.payload_len = len(payload_bytes)
+        row.checksum = body_checksum
+        row.content_flags = decoded.flags.to_dict()
+        row.is_mature = decoded.flags.mature
+        row.updated_by_id = actor_id
+
+        try:
+            await self.db.flush()
+        except IntegrityError:
+            # Lost a create race to a concurrent writer between our SELECT
+            # and this flush. Roll back and report the real current state.
+            await self.db.rollback()
+            existing = await self.get_chunk_by_coord(room.id, cx, cy, cz)
+            raise RevisionConflict(
+                existing.revision if existing else 0,
+                existing.checksum if existing else None,
+                (cx, cy, cz),
+            )
+
+        await self._record_revision(key, room.world_id, row.revision, action, actor_id, body_checksum, payload_bytes)
+        await self.db.refresh(row)
+        return row
+
+    async def put_chunks_batch(
+        self,
+        *,
+        room: WorldRoom,
+        items: list[dict],
+        actor_id: int | None,
+    ) -> list[WorldChunk]:
+        """Batch write (world_persistence_impl.md §8.1). One transaction,
+        all-or-nothing: none of this ``commit()``s, so a ``RevisionConflict``
+        raised partway leaves nothing persisted once the caller's request
+        handler lets the exception (or the HTTPException it becomes)
+        propagate through ``get_db``, which rolls back on any exception."""
+        rows: list[WorldChunk] = []
+        for item in items:
+            row = await self.put_chunk(
+                room=room, cx=item["cx"], cy=item["cy"], cz=item["cz"],
+                payload_bytes=item["payload_bytes"], base_revision=item["base_revision"],
+                actor_id=actor_id,
+            )
+            rows.append(row)
+        return rows
+
+    async def delete_chunk(self, key: str, actor_id: int | None) -> None:
+        row = await self.get_chunk(key)
+        if row is None:
+            return
+        await self._record_revision(key, row.world_id, row.revision, "delete", actor_id, row.checksum, None)
+        await self.db.delete(row)
+        await self.db.flush()
+
+    async def rollback_chunk(self, key: str, revision: int, actor_id: int | None) -> WorldChunk:
+        """Restore a chunk to a previously-recorded revision's payload
+        (world.md §5.1). Raises ``RevisionNotAvailable`` if that revision
+        was never recorded, its payload was pruned by retention, or the
+        chunk has since been deleted outright (nothing to update in place)."""
+        rev_result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldChunkRevision)
+            .where(WorldChunkRevision.chunk_key == key, WorldChunkRevision.revision == revision)
+            .order_by(WorldChunkRevision.id.desc())
+            .limit(1)
+        )
+        rev_row = rev_result.scalar_one_or_none()
+        if rev_row is None:
+            raise RevisionNotAvailable(f"no revision {revision} recorded for {key!r}")
+        if rev_row.payload is None:
+            raise RevisionNotAvailable(f"revision {revision} of {key!r} was pruned; payload unavailable")
+
+        chunk = await self.get_chunk(key)
+        if chunk is None:
+            raise RevisionNotAvailable(f"chunk {key!r} no longer exists; cannot roll back in place")
+
+        room_result = await self.db.execute(select(WorldRoom).where(WorldRoom.id == chunk.room_id))
+        room = room_result.scalar_one()
+        grid_size = tuple(room.grid.get("size", [32, 32, 1]))
+        decoded = chunk_codec.decode_and_validate(
+            rev_row.payload, expected_key=key, grid_size=grid_size,
+            max_objects=settings.WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_OBJECTS,
+        )
+        body_checksum = chunk_codec.checksum(rev_row.payload[chunk_codec.HEADER_SIZE:])
+
+        chunk.revision = chunk.revision + 1
+        chunk.payload = rev_row.payload
+        chunk.payload_len = len(rev_row.payload)
+        chunk.checksum = body_checksum
+        chunk.format_version = decoded.version
+        chunk.content_flags = decoded.flags.to_dict()
+        chunk.is_mature = decoded.flags.mature
+        chunk.updated_by_id = actor_id
+
+        await self.db.flush()
+        # Tagged "update" (not a fourth action value) to keep the
+        # documented 'create'|'update'|'delete' action enum intact.
+        await self._record_revision(
+            key, chunk.world_id, chunk.revision, "update", actor_id, body_checksum, rev_row.payload
+        )
+        await self.db.refresh(chunk)
+        return chunk
+
+    async def list_revisions(self, chunk_key: str, limit: int = 50) -> list[WorldChunkRevision]:
+        """Not in world.md §5.1's interface by name, but required to
+        implement the revision-history endpoint world_persistence_impl.md
+        §8.1 lists (``GET .../revisions``)."""
+        result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldChunkRevision)
+            .where(WorldChunkRevision.chunk_key == chunk_key)
+            .order_by(WorldChunkRevision.revision.desc(), WorldChunkRevision.id.desc())
+            .limit(limit)
+        )
+        return list(result.scalars().all())
+
+    async def migrate(self) -> None:
+        """No-op. `world.md` §4.8's hand-rolled SQLite migration runner is
+        superseded by Alembic (`backend/alembic/`) now that content lives
+        in Postgres (world_persistence_impl.md §3.3). Kept only so this
+        class's shape still matches the §5.1 interface it's implementing
+        a subset of."""
+        return None
+
+    # ── internals ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def _record_revision(
+        self,
+        chunk_key: str,
+        world_id: int,
+        revision: int,
+        action: str,
+        actor_id: int | None,
+        checksum_hex: str,
+        payload_bytes: bytes | None,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Append an audit row and enforce the retention policy
+        (world_persistence_impl.md §4.3, required): keep the newest
+        ``WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP`` payloads per ``chunk_key``, null out
+        ``payload`` on older rows, in the same transaction as the write."""
+        rev = WorldChunkRevision(
+            chunk_key=chunk_key, world_id=world_id, revision=revision, action=action,
+            actor_id=actor_id, checksum=checksum_hex, payload=payload_bytes,
+        )
+        self.db.add(rev)
+        await self.db.flush()
+
+        keep = settings.WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP
+        keep_ids_result = await self.db.execute(
+            select(WorldChunkRevision.id)
+            .where(WorldChunkRevision.chunk_key == chunk_key)
+            .order_by(WorldChunkRevision.id.desc())
+            .limit(keep)
+        )
+        keep_ids = [row[0] for row in keep_ids_result.all()]
+        if keep_ids:
+            await self.db.execute(
+                update(WorldChunkRevision)
+                .where(
+                    WorldChunkRevision.chunk_key == chunk_key,
+                    WorldChunkRevision.id.notin_(keep_ids),
+                    WorldChunkRevision.payload.isnot(None),
+                )
+                .values(payload=None)
+            )

backend/requirements.txt

@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ pydantic==2.10.3
 pydantic-settings==2.7.0
 python-jose[cryptography]==3.3.0
 passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
+# passlib 1.7.4 (last release, unmaintained since ~2020) detects its bcrypt
+# backend via bcrypt.__about__.__version__, which bcrypt>=4.1 removed --
+# hashing/verifying a password then raises "password cannot be longer than
+# 72 bytes" (a misleading downstream symptom of the real AttributeError:
+# module 'bcrypt' has no attribute '__about__') on every call. Without this
+# pin, `pip install -r requirements.txt` silently grabs whatever the latest
+# bcrypt is and breaks register/login outright. Pin below 4.1 explicitly.
+bcrypt==4.0.1
 python-multipart==0.0.20
 email-validator==2.2.0
 httpx==0.28.1

backend/tests/conftest.py

@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+"""Shared pytest fixtures + hermetic-DB/Redis bootstrap.
+
+The integration tests hit a real Postgres (Postgres-specific types: JSONB,
+native ENUMs) and, for presence tests, a real Redis (TTL semantics aren't
+worth faking). To make ``cd backend && pytest`` work from a clean checkout
+with no manual setup, ``pytest_configure`` below brings up ephemeral
+Postgres/Redis containers via docker compose and runs the migrations IF
+``DATABASE_URL``/``REDIS_URL`` aren't already pointing at something
+reachable. When they are (dev loop, or the checkpoint runner which stands
+these up itself), that path is skipped and the existing services are
+reused.
+
+If Docker isn't available and nothing is reachable, the whole
+DB/Redis-backed suite is skipped with a clear message rather than erroring
+out dozens of times.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import os
+import socket
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib.parse import urlsplit
+
+import pytest
+from sqlalchemy import text
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.main import app
+
+TEST_TABLES = (
+    "avatar_loadouts", "assets",
+    # world_chunk_revisions has no FK to worlds/world_chunks (world.md §4.7 /
+    # world_persistence_impl.md §4.3, deliberate -- deleting a chunk or world
+    # must not lose the audit trail), so it won't be cascade-truncated via
+    # `worlds` the way world_rooms/world_chunks would be. List all three
+    # explicitly rather than rely on cascade for some of them.
+    "world_chunk_revisions", "world_chunks", "world_rooms",
+    "worlds",
+    # Social graph (app/models/social.py) -- all three FK users with
+    # ON DELETE CASCADE, but list explicitly for clarity/consistency.
+    "friendships", "follows", "blocks",
+    # Chat (app/models/chat.py). message_reports.message_id is ON DELETE SET
+    # NULL (not CASCADE, deliberately -- see chat.py), so it wouldn't be
+    # reached by cascading a truncate of messages/conversations; list it
+    # explicitly along with the rest for clarity/consistency.
+    "message_reports", "messages", "conversation_participants", "conversations",
+    "sessions", "refresh_tokens", "users",
+)
+
+BACKEND_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+_COMPOSE_PROJECT = "agp-pytest"
+_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT = 25432
+_EPHEMERAL_REDIS_PORT = 26379
+
+# Set by pytest_configure() when it starts container(s) it owns; torn down in
+# pytest_unconfigure.
+_started_container = False
+_db_unavailable_reason: str | None = None
+
+
+def _port_open(host: str, port: int, timeout: float = 1.0) -> bool:
+    try:
+        with socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout=timeout):
+            return True
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
+def _db_reachable(url: str) -> bool:
+    parts = urlsplit(url)
+    return _port_open(parts.hostname or "localhost", parts.port or 5432)
+
+
+def _redis_reachable(url: str) -> bool:
+    parts = urlsplit(url)
+    return _port_open(parts.hostname or "localhost", parts.port or 6379)
+
+
+def _run(cmd: list[str], **kw) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
+    return subprocess.run(cmd, cwd=BACKEND_DIR, capture_output=True, text=True, **kw)
+
+
+def pytest_configure(config):
+    global _started_container, _db_unavailable_reason
+
+    need_db = not _db_reachable(settings.DATABASE_URL)
+    need_redis = not _redis_reachable(settings.REDIS_URL)
+
+    if not need_db and not need_redis:
+        return  # dev loop / checkpoint runner already provided both
+
+    if not _run(["docker", "--version"]).returncode == 0:
+        _db_unavailable_reason = (
+            "no reachable DATABASE_URL/REDIS_URL and docker is unavailable -- run "
+            "the checkpoint suite (scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py) or start "
+            "Postgres/Redis manually"
+        )
+        return
+
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    env["COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME"] = _COMPOSE_PROJECT
+    env["POSTGRES_HOST_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT)
+    env["POSTGRES_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT)
+    env["REDIS_HOST_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_REDIS_PORT)
+
+    services = [s for s, need in (("postgres", need_db), ("redis", need_redis)) if need]
+    up = _run(["docker", "compose", "up", "-d", *services], env=env)
+    if up.returncode != 0:
+        _db_unavailable_reason = f"docker compose up {' '.join(services)} failed:\n{up.stderr[-800:]}"
+        return
+    _started_container = True
+
+    if need_db:
+        for _ in range(30):
+            r = _run(
+                ["docker", "compose", "exec", "-T", "postgres",
+                 "pg_isready", "-U", "agp_user", "-d", "agp_db"],
+                env=env,
+            )
+            if r.returncode == 0:
+                break
+            time.sleep(1)
+        else:
+            _db_unavailable_reason = "ephemeral Postgres never became ready"
+            return
+
+        url = f"postgresql+asyncpg://agp_user:agp_password@localhost:{_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT}/agp_db"
+        os.environ["DATABASE_URL"] = url
+        settings.DATABASE_URL = url
+
+        mig = _run([sys.executable, "-m", "alembic", "upgrade", "head"],
+                   env={**os.environ, "DATABASE_URL": url})
+        if mig.returncode != 0:
+            _db_unavailable_reason = f"alembic upgrade head failed:\n{mig.stderr[-800:]}"
+            return
+
+    if need_redis:
+        for _ in range(30):
+            r = _run(
+                ["docker", "compose", "exec", "-T", "redis", "redis-cli", "ping"],
+                env=env,
+            )
+            if r.returncode == 0 and "PONG" in r.stdout:
+                break
+            time.sleep(1)
+        else:
+            _db_unavailable_reason = "ephemeral Redis never became ready"
+            return
+
+        redis_url = f"redis://localhost:{_EPHEMERAL_REDIS_PORT}/0"
+        os.environ["REDIS_URL"] = redis_url
+        settings.REDIS_URL = redis_url
+
+
+def pytest_unconfigure(config):
+    if not _started_container:
+        return
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    env["COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME"] = _COMPOSE_PROJECT
+    env["POSTGRES_HOST_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT)
+    env["POSTGRES_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_PG_PORT)
+    env["REDIS_HOST_PORT"] = str(_EPHEMERAL_REDIS_PORT)
+    _run(["docker", "compose", "down", "-v"], env=env)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
+def _reset_database():
+    """Truncate all application tables once per test session."""
+    if _db_unavailable_reason:
+        pytest.skip(_db_unavailable_reason, allow_module_level=True)
+
+    async def _truncate() -> None:
+        engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL)
+        async with engine.begin() as conn:
+            await conn.execute(text(f"TRUNCATE TABLE {', '.join(TEST_TABLES)} CASCADE"))
+        await engine.dispose()
+
+    asyncio.run(_truncate())
+    yield
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _reset_rate_limiter():
+    """Every TestClient request looks like the same client IP, so the
+    per-IP auth limiter would trip mid-suite. Clear it between tests; the
+    dedicated rate-limit test disables this to exercise the real behaviour.
+    """
+    from app import rate_limit
+    rate_limit.reset_all()
+    yield
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _override_db():
+    """Override get_db so the app uses a fresh session per test.
+
+    Deliberately does NOT reuse app.database's shared engine: FastAPI's
+    (sync) TestClient runs each request through anyio's blocking-portal
+    machinery, which can hand different requests different event loops.
+    asyncpg connections are bound to the loop they were created on, so
+    reusing one from the shared pool across requests raises "attached to a
+    different loop" the moment a test makes more than one request. NullPool
+    sidesteps it: every checkout is a brand-new connection.
+    """
+    test_engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    test_session_factory = async_sessionmaker(test_engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+    async def _get_db():
+        async_session = test_session_factory()
+        try:
+            yield async_session
+            await async_session.commit()
+        except Exception:
+            await async_session.rollback()
+            raise
+        finally:
+            await async_session.close()
+
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = _get_db
+    yield
+    app.dependency_overrides.clear()

backend/tests/fixtures/chunks/generate_fixtures.py

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+"""Generates the golden-file chunk fixtures in this directory.
+
+These pin the world.md §3.6 binary format so the Python codec
+(app/services/chunk_codec.py) and any future Godot-side test fixture can be
+checked for drift (world_persistence_impl.md §5.5's "drift control"
+requirement). No Godot-side golden fixture existed at the time this was
+written (searched scripts/ and tests/ for AGPC / binary-format test
+vectors -- none found), so these are authored here, from this
+implementation, as the first golden files for the format. The client/editor
+follow-on task should decode these same files with
+`ChunkDataDecoder.decode_binary()` and assert the same logical values
+(see the note in chunk_codec.py about a confirmed float32 handling bug in
+that decoder that will need fixing for full byte parity on non-integer
+transforms).
+
+Run with: `python tests/fixtures/chunks/generate_fixtures.py` from `backend/`.
+Fixtures are checked in; this script is for regenerating them if the format
+or these examples change, not run as part of the test suite.
+"""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3]))  # backend/
+
+from app.services import chunk_codec as cc
+
+FIXTURES_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+
+
+def _empty_chunk() -> cc.ChunkPayload:
+    return cc.ChunkPayload(
+        world_id="7", room_id="main", coord=(0, 0, 0),
+        bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), size=(32.0, 32.0, 1.0)),
+        tile_layers=[], objects=[],
+        flags=cc.ContentFlags(),
+        created_at=1_700_000_000, updated_at=1_700_000_000, revision=1, author="fixture-gen",
+    )
+
+
+def _simple_tile_chunk() -> cc.ChunkPayload:
+    layer = cc.TileLayer(
+        name="ground", layer_id=0, width=4, height=4, depth=1,
+        palette=[
+            cc.TileDef(id=0, asset_id="", solid=False, flags=0, variants=1),
+            cc.TileDef(id=1, asset_id="tiles/grass", solid=False, flags=1, variants=4),
+            cc.TileDef(id=2, asset_id="tiles/stone", solid=True, flags=2, variants=2),
+        ],
+        tiles=[0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0],
+    )
+    return cc.ChunkPayload(
+        world_id="12", room_id="main", coord=(3, -1, 0),
+        bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(96.0, -32.0, 0.0), size=(32.0, 32.0, 1.0)),
+        tile_layers=[layer], objects=[],
+        flags=cc.ContentFlags(violence=0, mature=False, sources=[]),
+        created_at=1_700_000_000, updated_at=1_700_000_500, revision=2, author="fixture-gen",
+    )
+
+
+def _chunk_with_objects() -> cc.ChunkPayload:
+    layer = cc.TileLayer(
+        name="ground", layer_id=0, width=2, height=2, depth=1,
+        palette=[cc.TileDef(id=0, asset_id="", solid=False, flags=0, variants=1)],
+        tiles=[0, 0, 0, 0],
+    )
+    obj1 = cc.WorldObject(
+        id="obj_0001", type="interactable", asset_id="props/chest",
+        pos=(101.5, -110.25, 0.5), rot=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0), scale=(1.0, 1.0, 1.0),
+        dynamic=False,
+        properties={"locked": False, "loot_table": "chest_basic"},
+        flags=cc.ContentFlags(violence=0, mature=False, sources=[]),
+    )
+    obj2 = cc.WorldObject(
+        id="obj_0002", type="spawn_point", asset_id="",
+        pos=(96.0, -128.0, 1.0), rot=(0.0, 0.7071, 0.0, 0.7071), scale=(1.0, 1.0, 1.0),
+        dynamic=True,
+        properties={},
+        flags=cc.ContentFlags(violence=1, mature=False, sources=["asset:props/chest"]),
+    )
+    return cc.ChunkPayload(
+        world_id="12", room_id="main", coord=(3, -4, 0),
+        bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(96.0, -128.0, 0.0), size=(32.0, 32.0, 1.0)),
+        tile_layers=[layer], objects=[obj1, obj2],
+        flags=cc.ContentFlags(violence=1, mature=False, sources=["asset:props/chest"]),
+        created_at=1_700_000_000, updated_at=1_700_001_000, revision=5, author="agent-bot",
+    )
+
+
+FIXTURES = {
+    "empty_chunk.bin": _empty_chunk,
+    "simple_tile_chunk.bin": _simple_tile_chunk,
+    "chunk_with_objects.bin": _chunk_with_objects,
+}
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    for filename, builder in FIXTURES.items():
+        payload = builder()
+        data = cc.encode_binary(payload)
+        (FIXTURES_DIR / filename).write_bytes(data)
+        print(f"wrote {filename} ({len(data)} bytes)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

backend/tests/test_auth_age_gate.py

@@ -3,92 +3,102 @@
 from datetime import date, timedelta
 
 import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
 
-from app.routers.auth import calculate_age
+from app.main import app
+from app.routers.auth import calculate_age, MIN_AGE, RegisterRequest
 
 
 class TestCalculateAge:
     """Unit tests for the calculate_age helper."""
 
     def test_exactly_18(self):
-        """A person born exactly 18 years ago today is 18."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
+        today = date(2026, 6, 15)
         dob = today.replace(year=today.year - 18)
         assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 18
 
     def test_just_turned_18(self):
-        """A person who turned 18 yesterday is 18."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
+        today = date(2026, 6, 15)
         dob = today.replace(year=today.year - 18) - timedelta(days=1)
         assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 18
 
     def test_one_day_short_of_18(self):
-        """A person born one day after their 18th birthday is 17."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
+        today = date(2026, 6, 15)
         dob = today.replace(year=today.year - 18) + timedelta(days=1)
         assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 17
 
-    def test_17_years_old(self):
-        """A person who is 17 years old today is 17."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
-        dob = date(2008, 6, 15)
-        assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 17
+    def test_leap_day_birthday_before(self):
+        assert calculate_age(date(2000, 2, 29), today=date(2024, 2, 28)) == 23
 
-    def test_65_years_old(self):
-        """A person who is 65 is correctly calculated."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
-        dob = today.replace(year=today.year - 65)
-        assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 65
-
-    def test_newborn(self):
-        """A newborn is 0."""
-        today = date(2025, 6, 15)
-        dob = today
-        assert calculate_age(dob, today=today) == 0
-
-    def test_birthday_not_yet_this_year(self):
-        """Person born Dec 31, 2000 — on Jan 1, 2025 they are still 24."""
-        dob = date(2000, 12, 31)
-        assert calculate_age(dob, today=date(2025, 1, 1)) == 24
-
-    def test_birthday_today(self):
-        """Person born Dec 31, 2000 — on Dec 31, 2024 they turn 24."""
-        dob = date(2000, 12, 31)
-        assert calculate_age(dob, today=date(2024, 12, 31)) == 24
+    def test_leap_day_birthday_after(self):
+        assert calculate_age(date(2000, 2, 29), today=date(2024, 3, 1)) == 24
 
 
-class TestRegisterRequestDateValidation:
-    """Tests for the RegisterRequest date_of_birth field validator."""
+class TestRegisterRequestDob:
+    def test_dob_parsed_from_iso_string(self):
+        req = RegisterRequest(username="u", email="u@example.com", password="p",
+                              date_of_birth="1990-01-01")
+        assert req.date_of_birth == date(1990, 1, 1)
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "dob",
-        [
-            "2000-01-01",
-            "1990-12-31",
-            "2004-02-29",  # leap day
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_valid_dates(self, dob):
-        """Valid YYYY-MM-DD dates pass validation."""
-        from app.routers.auth import RegisterRequest
+    def test_dob_required(self):
+        with pytest.raises(Exception):
+            RegisterRequest(username="u", email="u@example.com", password="p")
 
-        req = RegisterRequest(username="u", email="u@example.com", password="p", date_of_birth=dob)
-        assert req.date_of_birth == dob
+    def test_bad_dob_string_rejected(self):
+        with pytest.raises(Exception):
+            RegisterRequest(username="u", email="u@example.com", password="p",
+                            date_of_birth="not-a-date")
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "dob",
-        [
-            "01-01-2000",
-            "2000/01/01",
-            "2000-13-01",
-            "2000-00-10",
-            "not-a-date",
-            "",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_invalid_dates_rejected(self, dob):
-        """Invalid dates are rejected by the validator."""
-        from app.routers.auth import RegisterRequest
 
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-            RegisterRequest(username="u", email="u@example.com", password="p", date_of_birth=dob)
+class TestRegisterAgeGate:
+    """End-to-end: the /register endpoint computes age from the DOB."""
+
+    def _dob_for_age(self, years: int) -> str:
+        return (date.today().replace(year=date.today().year - years)).isoformat()
+
+    def test_adult_accepted(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+            "username": "gate_adult", "email": "gate_adult@e.com",
+            "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": self._dob_for_age(25),
+        })
+        assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+
+    def test_minor_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+            "username": "gate_minor", "email": "gate_minor@e.com",
+            "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": self._dob_for_age(15),
+        })
+        assert r.status_code == 403
+        assert str(MIN_AGE) in r.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_exactly_18_accepted(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+            "username": "gate_18", "email": "gate_18@e.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": (date.today().replace(year=date.today().year - 18) - timedelta(days=1)).isoformat(),
+        })
+        assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+
+    def test_future_dob_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+            "username": "gate_future", "email": "gate_future@e.com",
+            "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": "2999-01-01",
+        })
+        assert r.status_code == 400
+
+    def test_dob_is_stored(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        dob = self._dob_for_age(30)
+        reg = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+            "username": "gate_stored", "email": "gate_stored@e.com",
+            "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": dob,
+        })
+        assert reg.status_code == 201
+        me = client.get("/api/auth/me", headers={
+            "Authorization": f"Bearer {reg.json()['access_token']}"
+        })
+        assert me.json()["date_of_birth"] == dob

backend/tests/test_auth_endpoints.py

@@ -0,0 +1,251 @@
+"""Integration tests for the auth endpoints (register + login).
+
+These tests hit the real FastAPI app against the real configured database
+(DATABASE_URL -- Postgres via Alembic migrations in CI/dev, not an isolated
+in-memory DB), so they exercise the full stack: Pydantic validation → DB →
+JWT → response. Requires migrations already applied (alembic upgrade head)
+before running.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.routers.auth import pwd_context
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test fixtures
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _override_db():
+    """Override get_db so the app uses a fresh session per test.
+
+    Deliberately does NOT reuse app.database's shared engine: FastAPI's
+    (sync) TestClient runs each request through anyio's blocking-portal
+    machinery, which can hand different requests different event loops.
+    asyncpg connections are bound to the loop they were created on, so
+    reusing one from the shared engine's connection pool across requests
+    raises "cannot perform operation: another operation is in progress" the
+    moment a test makes more than one request (register-then-login,
+    register-twice, etc.) -- confirmed this is the actual cause, not a bug
+    in the endpoints themselves. NullPool sidesteps it: every checkout is a
+    brand-new connection, never handed to a different loop than the one
+    that opened it.
+    """
+    test_engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    test_session_factory = async_sessionmaker(test_engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+    async def _get_db():
+        async_session = test_session_factory()
+        try:
+            yield async_session
+            await async_session.commit()
+        except Exception:
+            await async_session.rollback()
+            raise
+        finally:
+            await async_session.close()
+
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = _get_db
+    yield
+    app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Register endpoint
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestRegister:
+    """Tests for POST /api/auth/register."""
+
+    def test_register_success(self):
+        """A valid registration returns 201 with a token."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "newuser",
+                "email": "new@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 201
+        data = resp.json()
+        assert "access_token" in data
+        assert data["token_type"] == "bearer"
+
+    def test_register_rejects_under_18(self):
+        """A DOB that computes to under 18 gets a 403 (see test_auth_age_gate
+        for the age-math coverage)."""
+        from datetime import date
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        minor_dob = date.today().replace(year=date.today().year - 14).isoformat()
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "kid",
+                "email": "kid@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": minor_dob,
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 403
+        assert "at least 18" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_register_rejects_duplicate_username(self):
+        """Registering the same username twice returns 409."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        # First registration
+        client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "duplicate",
+                "email": "dup1@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        # Second registration with same username, different email
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "duplicate",
+                "email": "dup2@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 409
+        assert "Username already registered" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_register_rejects_duplicate_email(self):
+        """Registering the same email twice returns 409."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "user1",
+                "email": "same@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "user2",
+                "email": "same@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 409
+        assert "Email already registered" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_register_missing_dob(self):
+        """Missing the required date_of_birth field returns 422."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "user",
+                "email": "user@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Login endpoint
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestLogin:
+    """Tests for POST /api/auth/login."""
+
+    def _create_user(self, username: str, password: str, email: str = None):
+        """Helper to create a user via register."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        if email is None:
+            email = f"{username}@example.com"
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": username,
+                "email": email,
+                "password": password,
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 201
+        return resp.json()["access_token"]
+
+    def test_login_success(self):
+        """Correct credentials return a token."""
+        self._create_user("loginuser", "correctpass")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "loginuser", "password": "correctpass"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        data = resp.json()
+        assert "access_token" in data
+        assert data["token_type"] == "bearer"
+
+    def test_login_wrong_password(self):
+        """Wrong password returns 401."""
+        # Distinct username from test_login_success -- there's no per-test
+        # DB rollback/isolation here (real Postgres via the app's own
+        # dependency-overridden session), so reusing "loginuser" collided
+        # with the user that test already created (409 on register instead
+        # of the intended 401-on-login assertion this test is actually for).
+        self._create_user("loginuser_wrongpass", "correctpass")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "loginuser_wrongpass", "password": "wrongpass"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Incorrect username or password" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_login_nonexistent_user(self):
+        """Non-existent user returns 401 (not 404)."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "nobody", "password": "any"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Incorrect username or password" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_login_accepts_form_encoded(self):
+        """Login accepts application/x-www-form-urlencoded (OAuth2)."""
+        self._create_user("formuser", "formpass")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "formuser", "password": "formpass"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert "access_token" in resp.json()
+
+    def test_login_token_is_valid_jwt(self):
+        """The returned token is a valid JWT that can be decoded."""
+        self._create_user("jwttoken", "jwt123")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "jwttoken", "password": "jwt123"},
+        )
+        token = resp.json()["access_token"]
+        # Verify it's a 3-part JWT
+        parts = token.split(".")
+        assert len(parts) == 3

backend/tests/test_auth_expired_token.py

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+"""Tests for expired-token rejection across auth endpoints.
+
+Covers two distinct expiry paths:
+
+1. An *access* JWT whose ``exp`` claim is in the past must be rejected
+   with 401 by ``GET /api/auth/me`` (jose's built-in ``exp`` validation).
+2. A *refresh* token whose persisted ``expires_at`` is in the past must be
+   rejected with 401 by ``POST /api/auth/refresh`` even though its JWT
+   signature is still valid.
+
+Requires migrations already applied (alembic upgrade head) before running.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from jose import jwt
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+from app.database import get_db
+from app.models.session import RefreshToken
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test fixtures
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _override_db():
+    """Override get_db so the app uses a fresh session per test."""
+    test_engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    test_session_factory = async_sessionmaker(test_engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+    async def _get_db():
+        async_session = test_session_factory()
+        try:
+            yield async_session
+            await async_session.commit()
+        except Exception:
+            await async_session.rollback()
+            raise
+        finally:
+            await async_session.close()
+
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = _get_db
+    yield
+    app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _mint_access_token(exp: datetime) -> str:
+    """Mint an RS256 access token with an explicit ``exp`` claim."""
+    return jwt.encode(
+        {"sub": "1", "exp": exp},
+        settings.private_pem,
+        algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM,
+    )
+
+
+def _expire_refresh_token_in_db(token: str) -> None:
+    """Set the persisted refresh token's ``expires_at`` into the past."""
+
+    async def _do():
+        engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+        session_factory = async_sessionmaker(engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+        async with session_factory() as session:
+            from sqlalchemy import update
+
+            await session.execute(
+                update(RefreshToken)
+                .where(RefreshToken.token == token)
+                .values(expires_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(hours=1))
+            )
+            await session.commit()
+        await engine.dispose()
+
+    asyncio.run(_do())
+
+
+def _register_user(client: TestClient, username: str) -> str:
+    """Register a user and return its refresh token."""
+    resp = client.post(
+        "/api/auth/register",
+        json={
+            "username": username,
+            "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+        },
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 201
+    return resp.json()["refresh_token"]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Expired access token (GET /api/auth/me)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestExpiredAccessToken:
+    def test_expired_access_token_is_rejected_by_me(self):
+        """An access JWT with a past exp claim returns 401 on /me."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        expired_token = _mint_access_token(
+            datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(minutes=5)
+        )
+        resp = client.get(
+            "/api/auth/me",
+            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {expired_token}"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Could not validate credentials" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_garbage_access_token_is_rejected_by_me(self):
+        """A non-JWT bearer token returns 401 on /me."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.get(
+            "/api/auth/me",
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer not-a-real-jwt"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+
+    def test_missing_bearer_token_returns_401(self):
+        """No Authorization header at all returns 401 on /me."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.get("/api/auth/me")
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Expired refresh token (POST /api/auth/refresh)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestExpiredRefreshToken:
+    def test_expired_refresh_token_is_rejected(self):
+        """A refresh token whose DB expires_at is in the past returns 401."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        refresh_token = _register_user(client, "expired_rt_user")
+
+        # Force the persisted record to be expired while its JWT signature
+        # is still valid.
+        _expire_refresh_token_in_db(refresh_token)
+
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Invalid or expired refresh token" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_expired_refresh_token_jwt_is_rejected(self):
+        """A refresh JWT with a past exp claim is rejected before DB lookup."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        expired_jwt = jwt.encode(
+            {"sub": "1", "exp": datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(minutes=5)},
+            settings.private_pem,
+            algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM,
+        )
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": expired_jwt},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Invalid or expired refresh token" in resp.json()["detail"]

backend/tests/test_avatar_loadout.py

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+"""Integration tests for GET/PUT /api/avatar/loadout.
+
+Hits the real app against the configured Postgres (same contract as the
+other integration tests -- migrations applied first).
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app.main import app
+from app.models.avatar_loadout import DEFAULT_LOADOUT
+
+
+def _auth_headers(client: TestClient, username: str) -> dict:
+    resp = client.post(
+        "/api/auth/register",
+        json={
+            "username": username,
+            "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+        },
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 201, resp.text
+    return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {resp.json()['access_token']}"}
+
+
+class TestGetLoadout:
+    def test_new_user_gets_the_default(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers = _auth_headers(client, "av_default")
+        resp = client.get("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers)
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        body = resp.json()
+        assert body["is_default"] is True
+        assert body["data"] == DEFAULT_LOADOUT
+
+    def test_requires_auth(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        assert client.get("/api/avatar/loadout").status_code == 401
+
+
+class TestPutLoadout:
+    def test_save_then_read_back(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers = _auth_headers(client, "av_save")
+        loadout = {
+            "base_body": "base_human_male_01",
+            "slots": {"hair": "hair_mohawk_01", "accessory": ["accessory_belt_01"]},
+            "skin_tone": {"r": 0.8, "g": 0.6, "b": 0.5, "a": 1.0},
+        }
+        put = client.put("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers, json={"data": loadout})
+        assert put.status_code == 200, put.text
+        assert put.json()["is_default"] is False
+
+        got = client.get("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers)
+        assert got.status_code == 200
+        assert got.json()["is_default"] is False
+        assert got.json()["data"] == loadout
+
+    def test_put_is_idempotent_replace(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers = _auth_headers(client, "av_replace")
+        client.put(
+            "/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers,
+            json={"data": {"base_body": "base_human_male_01", "slots": {"hair": "hair_mohawk_01"}}},
+        )
+        second = {"base_body": "base_human_male_01", "slots": {"chest": "chest_bandit_01"}}
+        client.put("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers, json={"data": second})
+        got = client.get("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers)
+        assert got.json()["data"] == second
+
+    def test_rejects_missing_base_body(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers = _auth_headers(client, "av_nobase")
+        resp = client.put("/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers, json={"data": {"slots": {}}})
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+    def test_rejects_non_object_slots(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers = _auth_headers(client, "av_badslots")
+        resp = client.put(
+            "/api/avatar/loadout", headers=headers,
+            json={"data": {"base_body": "base_human_male_01", "slots": "nope"}},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+    def test_requires_auth(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.put("/api/avatar/loadout", json={"data": {"base_body": "x", "slots": {}}})
+        assert resp.status_code == 401

backend/tests/test_chat_models.py

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+"""Model-level tests for chat: conversations, messages, message reports.
+
+app/models/chat.py / alembic/versions/0008_add_chat_tables.py
+(docs/planning/social.md US-4). This is the models+migration task only --
+there are no API endpoints yet (sibling tasks own filtering, rate limiting,
+and the routers), so these tests exercise the ORM models and the real
+Postgres constraints directly rather than going through HTTP.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from sqlalchemy import delete, select
+from sqlalchemy.exc import IntegrityError
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+from app.models.chat import (
+    Conversation,
+    ConversationParticipant,
+    Message,
+    MessageReport,
+    ReportStatus,
+)
+from app.models.user import User
+from app.models.world import World
+
+
+def _register(client: TestClient, username: str) -> int:
+    resp = client.post(
+        "/api/auth/register",
+        json={
+            "username": username,
+            "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+        },
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 201, resp.text
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {resp.json()['access_token']}"}
+    me = client.get("/api/users/me", headers=headers)
+    assert me.status_code == 200, me.text
+    return me.json()["id"]
+
+
+def _session_factory():
+    engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    return engine, async_sessionmaker(engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+
+class TestConversationCreation:
+    async def test_create_conversation_with_participants_and_messages(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "chat_conv_a")
+        b = _register(client, "chat_conv_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            lo, hi = sorted((a, b))
+            async with factory() as session:
+                convo = Conversation(user_a_id=lo, user_b_id=hi)
+                session.add(convo)
+                await session.flush()
+                session.add_all(
+                    [
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=a),
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=b),
+                    ]
+                )
+                session.add(
+                    Message(sender_id=a, conversation_id=convo.id, body="hi there")
+                )
+                await session.commit()
+                convo_id = convo.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                participants = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(ConversationParticipant).where(
+                            ConversationParticipant.conversation_id == convo_id
+                        )
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                messages = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(Message).where(Message.conversation_id == convo_id)
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                assert len(participants) == 2
+                assert len(messages) == 1
+                assert messages[0].sender_id == a
+                assert messages[0].filtered is False
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_duplicate_pair_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "chat_uq_a")
+        b = _register(client, "chat_uq_b")
+        lo, hi = sorted((a, b))
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Conversation(user_a_id=lo, user_b_id=hi))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Conversation(user_a_id=lo, user_b_id=hi))
+                with pytest.raises(IntegrityError):
+                    await session.commit()
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_unordered_pair_rejected_by_check_constraint(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "chat_ck_a")
+        b = _register(client, "chat_ck_b")
+        lo, hi = sorted((a, b))
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                # Reversed order violates ck_conversations_ordered_pair.
+                session.add(Conversation(user_a_id=hi, user_b_id=lo))
+                with pytest.raises(IntegrityError):
+                    await session.commit()
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestWorldRoomChat:
+    async def test_world_message_has_null_conversation(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        owner = _register(client, "chat_world_owner")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                world = World(name="Chat Test World", owner_id=owner)
+                session.add(world)
+                await session.flush()
+                msg = Message(sender_id=owner, world_id=world.id, body="hello world")
+                session.add(msg)
+                await session.commit()
+                world_id = world.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                rows = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(Message).where(Message.world_id == world_id)
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                assert len(rows) == 1
+                assert rows[0].conversation_id is None
+                assert rows[0].room_id is None
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestMessageReports:
+    async def test_create_report_defaults_to_open(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        sender = _register(client, "chat_rpt_sender")
+        reporter = _register(client, "chat_rpt_reporter")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                world = World(name="Report World", owner_id=sender)
+                session.add(world)
+                await session.flush()
+                msg = Message(sender_id=sender, world_id=world.id, body="bad words")
+                session.add(msg)
+                await session.flush()
+                report = MessageReport(
+                    message_id=msg.id, reporter_id=reporter, reason="spam"
+                )
+                session.add(report)
+                await session.commit()
+                report_id = report.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                report = await session.get(MessageReport, report_id)
+                assert report.status == ReportStatus.OPEN
+                assert report.moderator_id is None
+                assert report.resolved_at is None
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestCascadeDelete:
+    async def test_deleting_conversation_deletes_participants_and_messages(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "chat_cd_conv_a")
+        b = _register(client, "chat_cd_conv_b")
+        lo, hi = sorted((a, b))
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                convo = Conversation(user_a_id=lo, user_b_id=hi)
+                session.add(convo)
+                await session.flush()
+                session.add_all(
+                    [
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=a),
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=b),
+                    ]
+                )
+                session.add(Message(sender_id=a, conversation_id=convo.id, body="bye"))
+                await session.commit()
+                convo_id = convo.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                # Core delete against the conversations table directly, so
+                # the real ON DELETE CASCADE does the work (not the ORM).
+                await session.execute(
+                    delete(Conversation).where(Conversation.id == convo_id)
+                )
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                participants = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(ConversationParticipant).where(
+                            ConversationParticipant.conversation_id == convo_id
+                        )
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                messages = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(Message).where(Message.conversation_id == convo_id)
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                assert participants == []
+                assert messages == []
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_deleting_user_removes_conversation_but_keeps_report_and_message_id_null(self):
+        """Deleting a conversation participant cascades away the whole DM
+        (conversation + participants + messages -- there's no third party
+        left to care about the history). Deleting the sender of a
+        world-chat message, by contrast, must NOT delete the message or its
+        report -- sender_id is SET NULL and message_reports.message_id
+        follows the message (also SET NULL, never CASCADE) so the audit
+        trail survives account deletion."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "chat_cd_user_a")
+        b = _register(client, "chat_cd_user_b")
+        reporter = _register(client, "chat_cd_user_reporter")
+        lo, hi = sorted((a, b))
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                convo = Conversation(user_a_id=lo, user_b_id=hi)
+                session.add(convo)
+                await session.flush()
+                session.add_all(
+                    [
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=a),
+                        ConversationParticipant(conversation_id=convo.id, user_id=b),
+                    ]
+                )
+                session.add(Message(sender_id=a, conversation_id=convo.id, body="dm"))
+
+                world = World(name="Sender Delete World", owner_id=b)
+                session.add(world)
+                await session.flush()
+                world_msg = Message(sender_id=a, world_id=world.id, body="world chat")
+                session.add(world_msg)
+                await session.flush()
+                report = MessageReport(
+                    message_id=world_msg.id, reporter_id=reporter, reason="rude"
+                )
+                session.add(report)
+                await session.commit()
+                convo_id = convo.id
+                world_msg_id = world_msg.id
+                report_id = report.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                # Delete `a`: participant in the DM (cascades the whole
+                # conversation) and sender of the world message (SET NULL).
+                await session.execute(delete(User).where(User.id == a))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                convo_row = await session.get(Conversation, convo_id)
+                dm_messages = (
+                    await session.execute(
+                        select(Message).where(Message.conversation_id == convo_id)
+                    )
+                ).scalars().all()
+                world_msg = await session.get(Message, world_msg_id)
+                report = await session.get(MessageReport, report_id)
+
+                assert convo_row is None
+                assert dm_messages == []
+                # World message survives with sender_id nulled out.
+                assert world_msg is not None
+                assert world_msg.sender_id is None
+                assert world_msg.body == "world chat"
+                # Report still points at the surviving message.
+                assert report is not None
+                assert report.message_id == world_msg_id
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_deleting_message_nulls_report_message_id(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        sender = _register(client, "chat_cd_msg_sender")
+        reporter = _register(client, "chat_cd_msg_reporter")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                world = World(name="Msg Delete World", owner_id=sender)
+                session.add(world)
+                await session.flush()
+                msg = Message(sender_id=sender, world_id=world.id, body="to be removed")
+                session.add(msg)
+                await session.flush()
+                report = MessageReport(
+                    message_id=msg.id, reporter_id=reporter, reason="spam"
+                )
+                session.add(report)
+                await session.commit()
+                msg_id = msg.id
+                report_id = report.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                await session.execute(delete(Message).where(Message.id == msg_id))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                report = await session.get(MessageReport, report_id)
+                assert report is not None
+                assert report.message_id is None
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()

backend/tests/test_chunk_codec.py

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+"""Tests for app.services.chunk_codec -- the Python port of world.md §3.6.
+
+Pure unit tests: no database, no app, no network. Golden fixtures live in
+tests/fixtures/chunks/ (see generate_fixtures.py there for how/why).
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from app.services import chunk_codec as cc
+
+FIXTURES_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "fixtures" / "chunks"
+
+
+def _read_fixture(name: str) -> bytes:
+    return (FIXTURES_DIR / name).read_bytes()
+
+
+class TestGoldenFixtures:
+    """Byte-stability: decode a committed fixture, re-encode it, and the
+    bytes must match exactly (world.md §3.6.3)."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("filename", [
+        "empty_chunk.bin", "simple_tile_chunk.bin", "chunk_with_objects.bin",
+    ])
+    def test_round_trip_is_byte_identical(self, filename):
+        original = _read_fixture(filename)
+        decoded = cc.decode_binary(original)
+        re_encoded = cc.encode_binary(decoded)
+        assert re_encoded == original
+
+    def test_simple_tile_chunk_logical_values(self):
+        decoded = cc.decode_binary(_read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin"))
+        assert decoded.world_id == "12"
+        assert decoded.room_id == "main"
+        assert decoded.coord == (3, -1, 0)
+        assert decoded.bounds.min == (96.0, -32.0, 0.0)
+        assert decoded.bounds.size == (32.0, 32.0, 1.0)
+        assert len(decoded.tile_layers) == 1
+        layer = decoded.tile_layers[0]
+        assert layer.name == "ground"
+        assert (layer.width, layer.height, layer.depth) == (4, 4, 1)
+        assert len(layer.palette) == 3
+        assert layer.tiles == [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0]
+        assert decoded.revision == 2
+        assert decoded.author == "fixture-gen"
+
+    def test_chunk_with_objects_logical_values(self):
+        decoded = cc.decode_binary(_read_fixture("chunk_with_objects.bin"))
+        assert len(decoded.objects) == 2
+        obj1, obj2 = decoded.objects
+        assert obj1.id == "obj_0001"
+        assert obj1.type == "interactable"
+        assert obj1.pos == (101.5, -110.25, 0.5)
+        assert obj1.properties == {"locked": False, "loot_table": "chest_basic"}
+        assert obj2.id == "obj_0002"
+        assert obj2.dynamic is True
+        assert obj2.flags.violence == 1
+        assert obj2.flags.sources == ["asset:props/chest"]
+        assert decoded.flags.violence == 1
+        assert decoded.flags.sources == ["asset:props/chest"]
+
+    def test_empty_chunk_has_no_layers_or_objects(self):
+        decoded = cc.decode_binary(_read_fixture("empty_chunk.bin"))
+        assert decoded.tile_layers == []
+        assert decoded.objects == []
+
+
+class TestChecksum:
+    def test_checksum_is_sha256_hex(self):
+        import hashlib
+        assert cc.checksum(b"") == hashlib.sha256(b"").hexdigest()
+        assert len(cc.checksum(b"")) == 64
+
+    def test_header_checksum_matches_recomputed_for_valid_fixture(self):
+        data = _read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin")
+        header_checksum_hex = data[16:48].hex()
+        body = data[cc.HEADER_SIZE:]
+        assert header_checksum_hex == cc.checksum(body)
+
+
+class TestBuildKey:
+    def test_matches_world_persistence_impl_4_5_format(self):
+        assert cc.build_key(12, "main", 3, -1, 0) == "12:main:3:-1:0"
+        assert cc.build_key("12", "main", 3, -1, 0) == "12:main:3:-1:0"
+
+
+class TestFloat32Fidelity:
+    """This is the concrete regression test for the cross-codec divergence
+    documented at the bottom of chunk_codec.py: this module must encode
+    real IEEE-754 float32, including fractional and negative values,
+    round-tripping exactly (up to float32 precision) -- unlike
+    scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd's current int-truncating implementation."""
+
+    def test_fractional_and_negative_floats_survive_round_trip(self):
+        payload = cc.ChunkPayload(
+            world_id="1", room_id="main", coord=(0, 0, 0),
+            bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(-17.25, 0.125, -3.0), size=(32.0, 32.0, 1.0)),
+            objects=[cc.WorldObject(
+                id="o1", type="prop", asset_id="a",
+                pos=(1.5, -2.75, 0.001), rot=(0.0, 0.7071068, 0.0, 0.7071068),
+                scale=(1.0, 1.0, 1.0),
+            )],
+        )
+        encoded = cc.encode_binary(payload)
+        decoded = cc.decode_binary(encoded)
+        assert decoded.bounds.min == pytest.approx((-17.25, 0.125, -3.0), abs=1e-6)
+        assert decoded.objects[0].pos == pytest.approx((1.5, -2.75, 0.001), abs=1e-6)
+        assert decoded.objects[0].rot == pytest.approx(
+            (0.0, 0.7071068, 0.0, 0.7071068), abs=1e-6
+        )
+
+
+class TestMalformedInput:
+    def test_bad_magic_raises_codec_error(self):
+        data = bytearray(_read_fixture("empty_chunk.bin"))
+        data[0:4] = b"XXXX"
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkCodecError):
+            cc.decode_binary(bytes(data))
+
+    def test_too_short_raises_codec_error(self):
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkCodecError):
+            cc.decode_binary(b"AGPC\x01\x00")
+
+    def test_unsupported_version_raises_codec_error(self):
+        data = bytearray(_read_fixture("empty_chunk.bin"))
+        data[4:6] = (99).to_bytes(2, "little")
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkCodecError):
+            cc.decode_binary(bytes(data))
+
+    def test_payload_len_mismatch_raises_codec_error(self):
+        data = bytearray(_read_fixture("empty_chunk.bin"))
+        # Corrupt the declared payload_len (offset 12..16).
+        data[12:16] = (99999).to_bytes(4, "little")
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkCodecError):
+            cc.decode_binary(bytes(data))
+
+
+class TestValidation:
+    """decode_and_validate: the server-side "don't trust the client"
+    boundary (world_persistence_impl.md §5.5)."""
+
+    def _valid_args(self):
+        return {
+            "expected_key": "12:main:3:-1:0",
+            "grid_size": (4, 4, 1),
+            "max_objects": 512,
+        }
+
+    def test_valid_payload_passes(self):
+        data = _read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin")
+        payload = cc.decode_and_validate(data, **self._valid_args())
+        assert payload.coord == (3, -1, 0)
+
+    def test_checksum_mismatch_detected(self):
+        data = bytearray(_read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin"))
+        # Corrupt one byte of the header's advisory checksum field
+        # (offset 16..48) only -- magic/version/payload_len and the whole
+        # payload body stay untouched, so this exercises exactly the
+        # "recomputed checksum disagrees with the header" path rather than
+        # also breaking structural decoding.
+        data[16] ^= 0xFF
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(bytes(data), **self._valid_args())
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "checksum_mismatch"
+
+    def test_chunk_key_mismatch_detected(self):
+        data = _read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin")
+        args = self._valid_args()
+        args["expected_key"] = "12:main:99:99:0"  # doesn't match the payload's own coord
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(data, **args)
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "chunk_key_mismatch"
+
+    def test_layer_dims_mismatch_detected(self):
+        data = _read_fixture("simple_tile_chunk.bin")
+        args = self._valid_args()
+        args["grid_size"] = (8, 8, 1)  # fixture's layer is 4x4x1
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(data, **args)
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "layer_dims"
+
+    def test_too_many_objects_detected(self):
+        data = _read_fixture("chunk_with_objects.bin")  # has 2 objects
+        args = self._valid_args()
+        args["expected_key"] = "12:main:3:-4:0"
+        args["grid_size"] = (2, 2, 1)
+        args["max_objects"] = 1
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(data, **args)
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "too_many_objects"
+
+    def test_object_out_of_bounds_detected(self):
+        payload = cc.ChunkPayload(
+            world_id="1", room_id="main", coord=(0, 0, 0),
+            bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), size=(32.0, 32.0, 1.0)),
+            objects=[cc.WorldObject(id="o1", type="prop", asset_id="a", pos=(9999.0, 0.0, 0.0))],
+        )
+        data = cc.encode_binary(payload)
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(
+                data, expected_key="1:main:0:0:0", grid_size=(32, 32, 1), max_objects=10
+            )
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "object_out_of_bounds"
+
+    def test_tile_out_of_palette_detected(self):
+        layer = cc.TileLayer(
+            name="ground", width=2, height=2, depth=1,
+            palette=[cc.TileDef(id=1)],  # tile 5 below isn't in this palette
+            tiles=[1, 5, 0, 1],
+        )
+        payload = cc.ChunkPayload(world_id="1", room_id="main", coord=(0, 0, 0), tile_layers=[layer])
+        data = cc.encode_binary(payload)
+        with pytest.raises(cc.ChunkValidationError) as exc_info:
+            cc.decode_and_validate(
+                data, expected_key="1:main:0:0:0", grid_size=(2, 2, 1), max_objects=10
+            )
+        assert exc_info.value.reason == "tile_out_of_palette"

backend/tests/test_game_servers.py

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+"""Unit tests for the game_servers.py changes made for world persistence
+(world_persistence_impl.md §7.3/§7.4): per-spawn token validation, and the
+``_await_ready`` replacement for the old, fail-open ``_await_port``.
+
+No real Godot process is spawned here (that stays a manual/checkpoint
+integration test, per test_world_join.py's docstring) -- these exercise
+``GameServerSupervisor`` against a fake process object standing in for
+``subprocess.Popen``.
+"""
+
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.services.game_servers import GameServerSupervisor, _WorldServer
+
+
+class _FakeProc:
+    """Stands in for subprocess.Popen: only .poll() is needed by the code
+    paths under test here."""
+
+    def __init__(self, exited: bool = False):
+        self._exited = exited
+
+    def poll(self):
+        return 0 if self._exited else None
+
+    def terminate(self):
+        self._exited = True
+
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        return 0
+
+    def kill(self):
+        self._exited = True
+
+
+def _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret", alive=True) -> _WorldServer:
+    status_path = tmp_path / "status.json"
+    return _WorldServer(
+        world_id="7", port=27000, proc=_FakeProc(exited=not alive),
+        status_path=status_path, token=token,
+    )
+
+
+class TestValidateToken:
+    def test_unknown_world_is_false(self):
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        assert sup.validate_token("no-such-world", "anything") is False
+
+    def test_correct_token_is_true(self, tmp_path):
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        sup._servers["7"] = _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret")
+        assert sup.validate_token("7", "secret") is True
+        # world_id is looked up as str(world_id), so an int works too --
+        # this matters because the FastAPI path param is an int.
+        assert sup.validate_token(7, "secret") is True
+
+    def test_wrong_token_is_false(self, tmp_path):
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        sup._servers["7"] = _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret")
+        assert sup.validate_token("7", "wrong") is False
+
+    def test_token_scoped_to_its_own_world_only(self, tmp_path):
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        sup._servers["7"] = _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret")
+        # Same token, different world_id -- must not authenticate (§7.3:
+        # "a path whose world_id differs from the token's world is 403").
+        assert sup.validate_token("8", "secret") is False
+
+    def test_dead_server_token_is_false(self, tmp_path):
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        sup._servers["7"] = _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret", alive=False)
+        assert sup.validate_token("7", "secret") is False
+
+    def test_reaping_invalidates_the_token(self, tmp_path):
+        """§7.3: "dies with its process" -- once removed from _servers
+        (what the reaper does), the same token no longer validates."""
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        sup._servers["7"] = _make_srv(tmp_path, token="secret")
+        assert sup.validate_token("7", "secret") is True
+        del sup._servers["7"]
+        assert sup.validate_token("7", "secret") is False
+
+
+class TestAwaitReady:
+    """Replaces the old _await_port, which (a) treated a bound UDP port as
+    readiness even though content loading happens before create_server, and
+    (b) failed open past its deadline with no error at all."""
+
+    async def test_raises_timeout_error_when_never_ready(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 0.3)
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        srv = _make_srv(tmp_path)  # status file never written
+        with pytest.raises(TimeoutError):
+            await sup._await_ready(srv)
+
+    async def test_returns_once_status_file_reports_ready(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 5.0)
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        srv = _make_srv(tmp_path)
+        srv.status_path.write_text(json.dumps({"ready": True, "players": 0}))
+        await sup._await_ready(srv)  # must not raise / must not hang
+
+    async def test_ready_false_is_not_ready(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 0.3)
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        srv = _make_srv(tmp_path)
+        srv.status_path.write_text(json.dumps({"ready": False, "players": 0}))
+        with pytest.raises(TimeoutError):
+            await sup._await_ready(srv)
+
+    async def test_raises_promptly_if_process_already_exited(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        # A long deadline, but the process is already dead -- must not wait
+        # out the full deadline (this is the "no crash restart mid-wait"
+        # case: don't silently poll a corpse for 20s).
+        monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "GAME_SERVER_READY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 20.0)
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        srv = _make_srv(tmp_path, alive=False)
+        with pytest.raises(TimeoutError):
+            await sup._await_ready(srv)
+
+
+class TestSpawnCommandLine:
+    def test_spawn_includes_api_url_and_server_token(self, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+        """world_persistence_impl.md §7.2 step 1 / §7.4: `_spawn` must pass
+        --api-url and --server-token on the command line."""
+        sup = GameServerSupervisor()
+        monkeypatch.setattr(sup, "_free_port", lambda: 27050)
+
+        captured = {}
+
+        class _Proc:
+            def poll(self):
+                return None
+
+        def _fake_popen(cmd, **kwargs):
+            captured["cmd"] = cmd
+            return _Proc()
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            "app.services.game_servers.subprocess.Popen", _fake_popen
+        )
+        srv = sup._spawn("42")
+
+        cmd = captured["cmd"]
+        assert "--api-url" in cmd
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("--api-url") + 1] == settings.GAME_SERVER_INTERNAL_API_URL
+        assert "--server-token" in cmd
+        token_in_cmd = cmd[cmd.index("--server-token") + 1]
+        assert token_in_cmd == srv.token
+        assert len(srv.token) > 20  # secrets.token_urlsafe(32) -- not a short/guessable value

backend/tests/test_gltf_metadata.py

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+"""Tests for the lightweight glTF metadata extraction service."""
+
+import json
+import struct
+import pytest
+
+from app.services.gltf import (
+    extract_gltf_metadata,
+    looks_like_gltf,
+    _parse_glb,
+    _parse_gltf_json,
+)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test data helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _make_gltf_json(
+    meshes: int = 1,
+    vertices_per_mesh: int = 24,
+    has_animations: bool = False,
+    images: list[dict] | None = None,
+) -> dict:
+    """Build a minimal glTF JSON structure."""
+    accessors = []
+    meshes_data = []
+    for i in range(meshes):
+        acc_index = len(accessors)
+        accessors.append({
+            "bufferView": 0,
+            "componentType": 5126,  # FLOAT
+            "count": vertices_per_mesh,
+            "type": "VEC3",
+            "max": [1.0, 1.0, 1.0],
+            "min": [-1.0, -1.0, -1.0],
+        })
+        meshes_data.append({
+            "primitives": [{
+                "attributes": {"POSITION": acc_index},
+            }],
+        })
+    gltf = {
+        "asset": {"version": "2.0"},
+        "accessors": accessors,
+        "meshes": meshes_data,
+    }
+    if has_animations:
+        gltf["animations"] = [{"name": "anim1", "channels": [], "samplers": []}]
+    if images:
+        gltf["images"] = images
+    return gltf
+
+
+def _make_glb(gltf_json: dict) -> bytes:
+    """Wrap *gltf_json* in a minimal GLB binary container."""
+    json_bytes = json.dumps(gltf_json).encode("utf-8")
+    json_length = len(json_bytes)
+    # Pad JSON chunk to 4-byte boundary.
+    json_padding = (4 - json_length % 4) % 4
+    json_chunk = json_bytes + b"\x00" * json_padding
+    json_chunk_type = 0x4E4F534A  # "JSON"
+    # No BIN chunk.
+    bin_length = 0
+    bin_chunk_type = 0x004E4942
+    total_length = 12 + 8 + len(json_chunk) + 8 + bin_length
+    header = struct.pack("<III", 0x46546C67, 2, total_length)  # magic, version, length
+    json_header = struct.pack("<II", len(json_chunk), json_chunk_type)
+    if bin_length > 0:
+        bin_header = struct.pack("<II", bin_length, bin_chunk_type)
+    else:
+        bin_header = b""
+    return header + json_header + json_chunk + bin_header
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# looks_like_gltf
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestLooksLikeGltf:
+    def test_glb_magic(self):
+        assert looks_like_gltf(b"glTF\x00\x00\x00\x00") is True
+
+    def test_gltf_extension(self):
+        assert looks_like_gltf(b'{"asset":{"version":"2.0"}}', "model.gltf") is True
+
+    def test_glb_extension(self):
+        assert looks_like_gltf(b"some binary", "model.glb") is True
+
+    def test_json_with_asset_version(self):
+        payload = json.dumps({"asset": {"version": "2.0"}}).encode()
+        assert looks_like_gltf(payload) is True
+
+    def test_plain_json_no_asset(self):
+        payload = json.dumps({"foo": "bar"}).encode()
+        assert looks_like_gltf(payload) is False
+
+    def test_non_json_bytes(self):
+        assert looks_like_gltf(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n") is False
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# _parse_glb
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestParseGlb:
+    def test_parses_valid_glb(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json()
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        result = _parse_glb(glb)
+        assert result["asset"]["version"] == "2.0"
+        assert len(result["meshes"]) == 1
+
+    def test_rejects_too_short(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="too short"):
+            _parse_glb(b"glTF\x00\x00")
+
+    def test_rejects_invalid_magic(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="invalid GLB magic"):
+            _parse_glb(b"NOTglTF\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# _parse_gltf_json
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestParseGltfJson:
+    def test_parses_valid_gltf(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json()
+        result = _parse_gltf_json(json.dumps(gltf_json).encode())
+        assert result["asset"]["version"] == "2.0"
+
+    def test_rejects_non_object(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="root must be an object"):
+            _parse_gltf_json(b"[1, 2, 3]")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# extract_gltf_metadata  (GLB path)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestExtractGltfMetadataGlb:
+    def test_basic_glb(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(meshes=1, vertices_per_mesh=24)
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["mesh_count"] == 1
+        assert meta["vertex_count"] == 24
+        assert meta["has_animation"] is False
+        assert meta["bounding_box_min"] == [-1.0, -1.0, -1.0]
+        assert meta["bounding_box_max"] == [1.0, 1.0, 1.0]
+        assert meta["texture_refs"] == []
+
+    def test_multiple_meshes(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(meshes=3, vertices_per_mesh=12)
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["mesh_count"] == 3
+        assert meta["vertex_count"] == 36
+
+    def test_with_animation(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(has_animations=True)
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["has_animation"] is True
+
+    def test_with_external_texture(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(images=[{"uri": "textures/rock.png"}])
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["texture_refs"] == ["textures/rock.png"]
+
+    def test_with_named_texture(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(images=[{"name": "my_texture"}])
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["texture_refs"] == ["my_texture"]
+
+    def test_empty_meshes(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(meshes=0)
+        glb = _make_glb(gltf_json)
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(glb)
+        assert meta["mesh_count"] == 0
+        assert meta["vertex_count"] == 0
+        assert meta["bounding_box_min"] == [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+        assert meta["bounding_box_max"] == [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# extract_gltf_metadata  (plain .gltf JSON path)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestExtractGltfMetadataGltfJson:
+    def test_plain_gltf(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(meshes=2, vertices_per_mesh=8)
+        raw = json.dumps(gltf_json).encode()
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(raw)
+        assert meta["mesh_count"] == 2
+        assert meta["vertex_count"] == 16
+        assert meta["has_animation"] is False
+
+    def test_plain_gltf_with_animation(self):
+        gltf_json = _make_gltf_json(has_animations=True)
+        raw = json.dumps(gltf_json).encode()
+        meta = extract_gltf_metadata(raw)
+        assert meta["has_animation"] is True
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Error handling
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestExtractGltfMetadataErrors:
+    def test_invalid_glb(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            extract_gltf_metadata(b"not a glb")
+
+    def test_invalid_gltf_json(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            _parse_gltf_json(b"[1, 2, 3]")

backend/tests/test_presence.py

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+"""Integration tests for the presence feature:
+
+- POST  /api/presence/heartbeat
+- GET   /api/presence/presence
+- PATCH /api/presence/status
+
+Hits the real app against the configured Postgres *and* a real Redis
+(conftest.py brings up an ephemeral instance of each when neither is
+already reachable) -- presence is fundamentally "does a TTL key exist in
+Redis", which isn't worth faking with a mock.
+
+Also covers the regression fixed in 47ab492 ("Fix StatusUpdate field
+annotation and is_online batch-call mismatch"): the router used to call
+``PresenceStore.is_online(ids)`` with a *list* of ids and then evaluate
+``uid in online_ids`` against the returned bool, which raised a TypeError
+on the first real multi-id batch call, and ``StatusUpdate.status_message``
+used the invalid annotation ``str | Field(...)``. Both are exercised below.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app.main import app
+from app.services.presence import PresenceStore
+
+
+def _register(client: TestClient, username: str) -> dict:
+    resp = client.post(
+        "/api/auth/register",
+        json={
+            "username": username,
+            "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+        },
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 201, resp.text
+    token = resp.json()["access_token"]
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
+    me = client.get("/api/users/me", headers=headers)
+    assert me.status_code == 200, me.text
+    return {"headers": headers, "id": me.json()["id"]}
+
+
+class TestHeartbeat:
+    def test_heartbeat_sets_online(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_hb1")
+
+        resp = client.post("/api/presence/heartbeat", json={}, headers=user["headers"])
+        assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+        assert resp.json() == {"status": "ok", "user_id": user["id"]}
+
+        presence = client.get(
+            "/api/presence/presence",
+            params={"user_ids": str(user["id"])},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert presence.status_code == 200, presence.text
+        body = presence.json()["users"]
+        assert len(body) == 1
+        assert body[0]["user_id"] == user["id"]
+        assert body[0]["is_online"] is True
+        assert body[0]["last_seen_at"] is not None
+
+    def test_requires_auth(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post("/api/presence/heartbeat", json={})
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+
+    def test_never_seen_user_is_offline_with_null_last_seen(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_never_hb")
+
+        presence = client.get(
+            "/api/presence/presence",
+            params={"user_ids": str(user["id"])},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert presence.status_code == 200
+        body = presence.json()["users"][0]
+        assert body["is_online"] is False
+        assert body["last_seen_at"] is None
+
+
+class TestBatchPresence:
+    """Covers the batch-call path fixed in 47ab492 (is_online_batch via MGET)."""
+
+    def test_batch_query_mixes_online_offline_and_unknown_ids(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        online_user = _register(client, "presence_batch_online")
+        offline_user = _register(client, "presence_batch_offline")
+
+        client.post("/api/presence/heartbeat", json={}, headers=online_user["headers"])
+
+        unknown_id = max(online_user["id"], offline_user["id"]) + 999_999
+        ids = f"{online_user['id']},{offline_user['id']},{unknown_id}"
+
+        resp = client.get(
+            "/api/presence/presence",
+            params={"user_ids": ids},
+            headers=online_user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+        by_id = {u["user_id"]: u for u in resp.json()["users"]}
+
+        # Unknown id is silently dropped (not in the DB), not a 500 or 404.
+        assert unknown_id not in by_id
+        assert by_id[online_user["id"]]["is_online"] is True
+        assert by_id[offline_user["id"]]["is_online"] is False
+
+    def test_empty_user_ids_is_a_400(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_empty_ids")
+        resp = client.get(
+            "/api/presence/presence",
+            params={"user_ids": ""},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+
+
+class TestStatusMessage:
+    def test_update_and_read_back_status_message(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_status1")
+
+        resp = client.patch(
+            "/api/presence/status",
+            json={"status_message": "  brb, making coffee  "},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+        # The router strips whitespace (StatusUpdate.strip_message).
+        assert resp.json()["status_message"] == "brb, making coffee"
+
+        presence = client.get(
+            "/api/presence/presence",
+            params={"user_ids": str(user["id"])},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert presence.json()["users"][0]["status_message"] == "brb, making coffee"
+
+    def test_status_message_over_max_length_is_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_status_toolong")
+        resp = client.patch(
+            "/api/presence/status",
+            json={"status_message": "x" * 141},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        # StatusUpdate.status_message: str | None = Field(..., max_length=140)
+        # This is exactly the annotation 47ab492 fixed (it used to be the
+        # invalid `str | Field(...)`, which breaks model construction
+        # entirely rather than validating length).
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+    def test_status_message_at_max_length_is_accepted(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_status_maxlen")
+        resp = client.patch(
+            "/api/presence/status",
+            json={"status_message": "x" * 140},
+            headers=user["headers"],
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+
+    def test_null_status_message_clears_it(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        user = _register(client, "presence_status_clear")
+        client.patch("/api/presence/status", json={"status_message": "hi"}, headers=user["headers"])
+        resp = client.patch("/api/presence/status", json={"status_message": None}, headers=user["headers"])
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json()["status_message"] is None
+
+
+class TestPresenceStoreTTL:
+    """Exercises the real Redis TTL semantics directly against the service,
+    with a short heartbeat_ttl so the test doesn't need to sleep for the
+    real 60s default used in production. This is the cheap, real proxy for
+    "TTL expiry means offline" the task asked for -- same code path
+    (real Redis SET ... EX / EXISTS / MGET), just a much shorter window.
+    """
+
+    async def test_ttl_expiry_flips_online_to_offline(self):
+        store = PresenceStore(heartbeat_ttl=1)
+        try:
+            uid = 987654321  # doesn't need to exist in Postgres; Redis-only check
+            assert await store.is_online(uid) is False
+
+            await store.heartbeat(uid)
+            assert await store.is_online(uid) is True
+
+            await asyncio.sleep(1.5)
+            assert await store.is_online(uid) is False
+        finally:
+            await store.close()
+
+    async def test_is_online_batch_matches_is_online_semantics(self):
+        """Regression coverage for 47ab492: is_online_batch must return a
+        set of ids usable with `in`, not a bool."""
+        store = PresenceStore(heartbeat_ttl=30)
+        try:
+            online_uid, offline_uid = 111222333, 444555666
+            await store.heartbeat(online_uid)
+
+            result = await store.is_online_batch([online_uid, offline_uid])
+            assert isinstance(result, set)
+            assert online_uid in result
+            assert offline_uid not in result
+        finally:
+            await store.close()
+
+    async def test_is_online_batch_empty_list(self):
+        store = PresenceStore()
+        try:
+            assert await store.is_online_batch([]) == set()
+        finally:
+            await store.close()

backend/tests/test_rate_limit.py

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+"""The auth endpoints are rate-limited per client IP."""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app import rate_limit
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _clean_limiter():
+    # This module tests the limiter itself: force it on (the checkpoint
+    # runner disables it suite-wide via RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED) and start each
+    # test from an empty window.
+    prev = settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED
+    settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED = True
+    rate_limit.reset_all()
+    yield
+    rate_limit.reset_all()
+    settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED = prev
+
+
+def test_login_is_limited_after_the_threshold():
+    client = TestClient(app)
+    codes = []
+    for i in range(15):
+        r = client.post("/api/auth/login", data={"username": f"nobody{i}", "password": "x"})
+        codes.append(r.status_code)
+    # First 10 get through to the (failing) auth check; the rest are 429.
+    assert codes[:10] == [401] * 10
+    assert 429 in codes[10:]
+    assert codes[-1] == 429
+
+
+def test_register_shares_the_same_bucket():
+    client = TestClient(app)
+    # Burn the budget on login...
+    for i in range(10):
+        client.post("/api/auth/login", data={"username": f"x{i}", "password": "y"})
+    # ...register from the same IP is now blocked too.
+    r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+        "username": "rl_user", "email": "rl@e.com",
+        "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+    })
+    assert r.status_code == 429
+    assert "Retry-After" in r.headers
+
+
+def test_limiter_window_is_per_key():
+    limiter = rate_limit.SlidingWindowLimiter(max_hits=2, window_seconds=60)
+    limiter.check("a")
+    limiter.check("a")
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        limiter.check("a")
+    limiter.check("b")  # different key, unaffected
+
+
+def _make_named_limit_app():
+    """A tiny standalone app exercising two independent named limits, so
+    these tests don't depend on any sibling endpoint existing yet."""
+    limit_a = rate_limit.rate_limit("test_named_a", max_hits=2, window_seconds=60)
+    limit_b = rate_limit.rate_limit("test_named_b", max_hits=2, window_seconds=60)
+
+    app = FastAPI()
+
+    @app.post("/a", dependencies=[Depends(limit_a)])
+    def _a():
+        return {"ok": True}
+
+    @app.post("/b", dependencies=[Depends(limit_b)])
+    def _b():
+        return {"ok": True}
+
+    return TestClient(app)
+
+
+def test_named_limits_do_not_share_counters():
+    client = _make_named_limit_app()
+
+    # Burn out limit "a" entirely.
+    assert client.post("/a").status_code == 200
+    assert client.post("/a").status_code == 200
+    r = client.post("/a")
+    assert r.status_code == 429
+    assert "Retry-After" in r.headers
+
+    # Limit "b" is untouched -- same process, same client IP, different name.
+    assert client.post("/b").status_code == 200
+    assert client.post("/b").status_code == 200
+    assert client.post("/b").status_code == 429
+
+
+def test_named_limit_returns_429_with_retry_after_once_exhausted():
+    client = _make_named_limit_app()
+    client.post("/a")
+    client.post("/a")
+    r = client.post("/a")
+    assert r.status_code == 429
+    retry_after = r.headers["Retry-After"]
+    assert int(retry_after) >= 1
+
+
+def test_named_limit_is_a_noop_when_rate_limiting_disabled():
+    prev = settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED
+    settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED = False
+    try:
+        client = _make_named_limit_app()
+        codes = [client.post("/a").status_code for _ in range(10)]
+        assert codes == [200] * 10
+    finally:
+        settings.RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED = prev
+
+
+def test_reset_all_clears_named_limiters_too():
+    client = _make_named_limit_app()
+    client.post("/a")
+    client.post("/a")
+    assert client.post("/a").status_code == 429
+
+    rate_limit.reset_all()
+
+    assert client.post("/a").status_code == 200

backend/tests/test_refresh_endpoint.py

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+"""Tests for the POST /api/auth/refresh endpoint.
+
+These tests exercise the full stack: register → get refresh token →
+refresh → new access token.  Requires migrations already applied
+(alembic upgrade head) before running.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+from app.database import get_db
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test fixtures
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _override_db():
+    """Override get_db so the app uses a fresh session per test."""
+    test_engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    test_session_factory = async_sessionmaker(test_engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+    async def _get_db():
+        async_session = test_session_factory()
+        try:
+            yield async_session
+            await async_session.commit()
+        except Exception:
+            await async_session.rollback()
+            raise
+        finally:
+            await async_session.close()
+
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = _get_db
+    yield
+    app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Refresh endpoint tests
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestRefresh:
+    """Tests for POST /api/auth/refresh."""
+
+    def _register_user(self, username: str, password: str, email: str = None):
+        """Helper to register a user and return the refresh token."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        if email is None:
+            email = f"{username}@example.com"
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": username,
+                "email": email,
+                "password": password,
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 201
+        return resp.json()["refresh_token"]
+
+    def test_refresh_success(self):
+        """A valid refresh token returns a new access token."""
+        refresh_token = self._register_user("refep_refreshuser", "secret123")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        data = resp.json()
+        assert "access_token" in data
+        assert data["token_type"] == "bearer"
+        # The refresh token in the response is the same one we sent
+        assert data["refresh_token"] == refresh_token
+
+    def test_refresh_returns_different_access_token(self):
+        """Refreshing produces a new access token (different from any previous)."""
+        refresh_token = self._register_user("refep_refreshtoken", "secret123")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+
+        # First refresh
+        resp1 = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp1.status_code == 200
+        access_token_1 = resp1.json()["access_token"]
+
+        # Second refresh
+        resp2 = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp2.status_code == 200
+        access_token_2 = resp2.json()["access_token"]
+
+        # Each refresh should produce a new access token
+        assert access_token_1 != access_token_2
+
+    def test_refresh_invalid_token(self):
+        """An invalid (garbage) refresh token returns 401."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": "not.a.jwt.token"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 401
+        assert "Invalid or expired refresh token" in resp.json()["detail"]
+
+    def test_refresh_empty_body(self):
+        """Missing refresh_token field returns 422 validation error."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+    def test_refresh_missing_field(self):
+        """No body at all returns 422."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            content="{}",
+            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 422
+
+    def test_refresh_with_login_token(self):
+        """A refresh token obtained from login also works for /refresh."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        # Register first
+        client.post(
+            "/api/auth/register",
+            json={
+                "username": "refep_loginrefuser",
+                "email": "loginref@example.com",
+                "password": "secret123",
+                "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+            },
+        )
+        # Login to get a refresh token
+        login_resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/login",
+            data={"username": "refep_loginrefuser", "password": "secret123"},
+        )
+        assert login_resp.status_code == 200
+        refresh_token = login_resp.json()["refresh_token"]
+
+        # Use it to refresh
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert "access_token" in resp.json()
+
+    def test_refresh_access_token_is_valid_jwt(self):
+        """The access token returned by /refresh is a valid JWT."""
+        from jose import jwt
+
+        refresh_token = self._register_user("refep_jwttoken", "secret123")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        access_token = resp.json()["access_token"]
+
+        # Verify it's a 3-part JWT
+        parts = access_token.split(".")
+        assert len(parts) == 3
+
+        # Verify it decodes with the public key
+        payload = jwt.decode(
+            access_token,
+            settings.public_pem,
+            algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM],
+        )
+        assert "sub" in payload
+        assert "exp" in payload
+
+    def test_refresh_expires_minutes_in_response(self):
+        """The response includes access_token_expires_minutes."""
+        refresh_token = self._register_user("refep_expiretest", "secret123")
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/api/auth/refresh",
+            json={"refresh_token": refresh_token},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert "access_token_expires_minutes" in resp.json()
+        assert resp.json()["access_token_expires_minutes"] == settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES

backend/tests/test_refresh_token_jti.py

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+"""Tests for refresh token uniqueness (jti claim) and model column length."""
+
+import uuid
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+
+import pytest
+from jose import jwt
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.routers.auth import _create_refresh_token
+from app.models.session import RefreshToken
+
+
+class TestRefreshTokenJtiUniqueness:
+    """Verify that _create_refresh_token produces unique tokens even when
+    called with identical data in rapid succession (issue #1 from review)."""
+
+    def test_two_calls_produce_different_tokens(self):
+        """Two calls with the same sub produce different JWTs because of jti."""
+        token_a = _create_refresh_token({"sub": "42"})
+        token_b = _create_refresh_token({"sub": "42"})
+        assert token_a != token_b
+
+    def test_jti_is_valid_uuid(self):
+        """The jti claim inside the refresh token is a valid UUID."""
+        token = _create_refresh_token({"sub": "1"})
+        payload = jwt.decode(
+            token,
+            settings.public_pem,
+            algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM],
+        )
+        assert "jti" in payload
+        # Verify it parses as a UUID (raises ValueError if not)
+        uuid.UUID(payload["jti"])
+
+    def test_each_token_has_unique_jti(self):
+        """Generate 100 tokens for the same user — all jtis must differ."""
+        jtis = set()
+        for _ in range(100):
+            token = _create_refresh_token({"sub": "999"})
+            payload = jwt.decode(
+                token,
+                settings.public_pem,
+                algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM],
+            )
+            jtis.add(payload["jti"])
+        assert len(jtis) == 100
+
+    def test_jti_survives_decode(self):
+        """The jti claim is present and correct after decode."""
+        token = _create_refresh_token({"sub": "7"})
+        payload = jwt.decode(
+            token,
+            settings.public_pem,
+            algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM],
+        )
+        assert payload["sub"] == "7"
+        assert "jti" in payload
+        assert "exp" in payload
+
+
+class TestRefreshTokenModelColumnLength:
+    """Verify the model's token column length matches the migration (issue #2)."""
+
+    def test_token_column_has_length_512(self):
+        """RefreshToken.token column should be String(512), not unbounded."""
+        from sqlalchemy import inspect
+
+        # Get the column definition from the model's table
+        column = RefreshToken.__table__.columns["token"]
+        # The type should be String with length 512
+        assert column.type.length == 512
+
+    def test_token_column_type_is_string(self):
+        """The token column should be a String type."""
+        from sqlalchemy import String as SAString
+
+        column = RefreshToken.__table__.columns["token"]
+        assert isinstance(column.type, SAString)

backend/tests/test_social_models.py

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+"""Model-level tests for the social graph: friendships, follows, blocks.
+
+app/models/social.py / alembic/versions/0007_add_social_graph_tables.py
+(docs/planning/social.md US-1). This is the models+migration task only --
+there are no API endpoints yet (a sibling task owns the router), so these
+tests exercise the ORM models and the real Postgres constraints directly
+rather than going through HTTP.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from sqlalchemy import delete, select
+from sqlalchemy.exc import IntegrityError
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.main import app
+from app.models.social import Friendship, Follow, Block, FriendshipStatus
+from app.models.user import User
+
+
+def _register(client: TestClient, username: str) -> int:
+    resp = client.post(
+        "/api/auth/register",
+        json={
+            "username": username,
+            "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+            "password": "secret123",
+            "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+        },
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 201, resp.text
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {resp.json()['access_token']}"}
+    me = client.get("/api/users/me", headers=headers)
+    assert me.status_code == 200, me.text
+    return me.json()["id"]
+
+
+def _session_factory():
+    engine = create_async_engine(settings.DATABASE_URL, poolclass=NullPool)
+    return engine, async_sessionmaker(engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+
+class TestFriendshipRequestAccept:
+    async def test_request_defaults_to_pending(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_fr_a1")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_fr_b1")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                fr = Friendship(requester_id=a, addressee_id=b)
+                session.add(fr)
+                await session.commit()
+                await session.refresh(fr)
+                assert fr.status == FriendshipStatus.PENDING
+                assert fr.requester_id == a
+                assert fr.addressee_id == b
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_accept_updates_status(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_fr_a2")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_fr_b2")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                fr = Friendship(requester_id=a, addressee_id=b)
+                session.add(fr)
+                await session.commit()
+                fr_id = fr.id
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                fr = await session.get(Friendship, fr_id)
+                fr.status = FriendshipStatus.ACCEPTED
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                fr = await session.get(Friendship, fr_id)
+                assert fr.status == FriendshipStatus.ACCEPTED
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestUniquePairConstraints:
+    async def test_duplicate_friendship_pair_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_uq_fr_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_uq_fr_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Friendship(requester_id=a, addressee_id=b))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Friendship(requester_id=a, addressee_id=b))
+                with pytest.raises(IntegrityError):
+                    await session.commit()
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_duplicate_follow_pair_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_uq_fw_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_uq_fw_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Follow(follower_id=a, followed_id=b))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Follow(follower_id=a, followed_id=b))
+                with pytest.raises(IntegrityError):
+                    await session.commit()
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+    async def test_duplicate_block_pair_rejected(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_uq_bl_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_uq_bl_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Block(blocker_id=a, blocked_id=b))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Block(blocker_id=a, blocked_id=b))
+                with pytest.raises(IntegrityError):
+                    await session.commit()
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestFollow:
+    async def test_create_follow(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_follow_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_follow_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Follow(follower_id=a, followed_id=b))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                rows = (await session.execute(
+                    select(Follow).where(Follow.follower_id == a, Follow.followed_id == b)
+                )).scalars().all()
+                assert len(rows) == 1
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestBlock:
+    async def test_create_block(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_block_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_block_b")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                session.add(Block(blocker_id=a, blocked_id=b))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                rows = (await session.execute(
+                    select(Block).where(Block.blocker_id == a, Block.blocked_id == b)
+                )).scalars().all()
+                assert len(rows) == 1
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()
+
+
+class TestCascadeDelete:
+    async def test_deleting_user_removes_rows_in_all_three_tables(self):
+        """Deleting a user removes friendships/follows/blocks referencing them
+        in *either* FK column, via the real DB ON DELETE CASCADE (deleted with
+        a Core statement, bypassing any ORM-level cascade, to prove the
+        database constraint itself does the job)."""
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        a = _register(client, "sg_cascade_a")
+        b = _register(client, "sg_cascade_b")
+        c = _register(client, "sg_cascade_c")
+
+        engine, factory = _session_factory()
+        try:
+            async with factory() as session:
+                # a as requester/follower/blocker, and also as addressee (c -> a)
+                session.add(Friendship(requester_id=a, addressee_id=b))
+                session.add(Friendship(requester_id=c, addressee_id=a))
+                session.add(Follow(follower_id=a, followed_id=b))
+                session.add(Follow(follower_id=c, followed_id=a))
+                session.add(Block(blocker_id=a, blocked_id=b))
+                session.add(Block(blocker_id=c, blocked_id=a))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                await session.execute(delete(User).where(User.id == a))
+                await session.commit()
+
+            async with factory() as session:
+                friendships = (await session.execute(
+                    select(Friendship).where(
+                        (Friendship.requester_id == a) | (Friendship.addressee_id == a)
+                    )
+                )).scalars().all()
+                follows = (await session.execute(
+                    select(Follow).where(
+                        (Follow.follower_id == a) | (Follow.followed_id == a)
+                    )
+                )).scalars().all()
+                blocks = (await session.execute(
+                    select(Block).where(
+                        (Block.blocker_id == a) | (Block.blocked_id == a)
+                    )
+                )).scalars().all()
+                assert friendships == []
+                assert follows == []
+                assert blocks == []
+
+                # Unrelated rows (b, c only) survive.
+                remaining_users = (await session.execute(
+                    select(User.id).where(User.id.in_([b, c]))
+                )).scalars().all()
+                assert set(remaining_users) == {b, c}
+        finally:
+            await engine.dispose()

backend/tests/test_world_content.py

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+"""Integration tests for the world content API: rooms + chunks.
+
+Covers docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md §8.1 (public router,
+app/routers/world_content.py) and §8.3 (internal router,
+app/routers/internal.py), plus the create_world -> auto "main" room
+behaviour (§4.1).
+
+Runs against the real ephemeral Postgres the hermetic conftest.py stands
+up -- these are full HTTP round trips through TestClient, not mocked.
+"""
+
+import base64
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app.main import app
+from app.services import chunk_codec as cc
+from app.services.game_servers import supervisor
+
+GRID_32 = (32, 32, 1)
+
+
+def _auth(client: TestClient, name: str) -> tuple[dict, int]:
+    r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+        "username": name, "email": f"{name}@e.com", "password": "secret123",
+        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+    })
+    assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {r.json()['access_token']}"}
+    me = client.get("/api/users/me", headers=headers)
+    return headers, me.json()["id"]
+
+
+def _make_world(client: TestClient, headers: dict, visibility: str = "public") -> int:
+    r = client.post("/api/worlds/", headers=headers, json={"name": "W", "visibility": visibility})
+    assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+    return r.json()["id"]
+
+
+def _build_chunk(world_id: int, slug: str, cx: int, cy: int, cz: int, *,
+                  grid=GRID_32, revision: int = 1, extra_tag: str = "") -> bytes:
+    """A small but structurally-real chunk payload for `world_id`/`slug`/coord,
+    sized to match the room's default 32x32x1 grid."""
+    w, h, d = grid
+    layer = cc.TileLayer(
+        name="ground", layer_id=0, width=w, height=h, depth=d,
+        palette=[cc.TileDef(id=0, asset_id="", solid=False, flags=0, variants=1)],
+        tiles=[0] * (w * h * d),
+    )
+    obj = cc.WorldObject(
+        id=f"obj_{extra_tag or '1'}", type="prop", asset_id="props/rock",
+        pos=(1.0, 1.0, 0.0), properties={"tag": extra_tag},
+    )
+    payload = cc.ChunkPayload(
+        world_id=str(world_id), room_id=slug, coord=(cx, cy, cz),
+        bounds=cc.ChunkBounds(min=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), size=(float(w), float(h), float(d))),
+        tile_layers=[layer], objects=[obj], revision=revision, author="pytest",
+        created_at=1_700_000_000, updated_at=1_700_000_000,
+    )
+    return cc.encode_binary(payload)
+
+
+class TestCreateWorldMainRoom:
+    def test_create_world_auto_creates_main_room(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "cw_main")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+
+        r = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms", headers=headers)
+        assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+        rooms = r.json()
+        assert len(rooms) == 1
+        assert rooms[0]["slug"] == "main"
+        assert rooms[0]["name"] == "Main"
+        assert rooms[0]["chunk_count"] == 0
+        assert rooms[0]["grid"]["size"] == [32, 32, 1]
+
+
+class TestRoomAuth:
+    def test_create_room_requires_owner(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        owner_headers, _ = _auth(client, "room_owner")
+        wid = _make_world(client, owner_headers)
+        other_headers, _ = _auth(client, "room_other")
+        r = client.post(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms", headers=other_headers,
+                         json={"slug": "annex", "name": "Annex"})
+        assert r.status_code == 403
+
+    def test_list_rooms_of_private_world_is_404_for_non_owner(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        owner_headers, _ = _auth(client, "room_priv_owner")
+        wid = _make_world(client, owner_headers, "private")
+        other_headers, _ = _auth(client, "room_priv_other")
+        r = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms", headers=other_headers)
+        assert r.status_code == 404
+
+
+class TestChunkPutGetRoundTrip:
+    def test_binary_put_then_binary_get_round_trips(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_rt")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 0, 0, 0)
+
+        r = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+        body = r.json()
+        assert body["revision"] == 1
+        assert body["payload_len"] == len(payload)
+        assert body["checksum"] == cc.checksum(payload[cc.HEADER_SIZE:])
+        assert body["live_session"] is False
+
+        g = client.get(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Accept": "application/octet-stream"},
+        )
+        assert g.status_code == 200
+        assert g.content == payload
+        assert g.headers["ETag"] == f'"{body["checksum"]}"'
+        assert g.headers["X-Chunk-Revision"] == "1"
+
+    def test_json_accept_returns_decoded_shape(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_json")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 1, 1, 0)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/1/1/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        g = client.get(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/1/1/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Accept": "application/json"},
+        )
+        assert g.status_code == 200
+        data = g.json()
+        assert data["coord"] == {"cx": 1, "cy": 1, "cz": 0}
+        assert data["world_id"] == str(wid)
+        assert data["room_id"] == "main"
+        assert len(data["objects"]) == 1
+
+    def test_json_put_with_base64_payload(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_json_put")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 2, 2, 0)
+        r = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/2/2/0", headers=headers,
+            json={"base_revision": 0, "payload_b64": base64.b64encode(payload).decode()},
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+        assert r.json()["revision"] == 1
+
+    def test_if_none_match_returns_304(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_304")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 3, 3, 0)
+        put = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/3/3/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        checksum = put.json()["checksum"]
+        g = client.get(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/3/3/0",
+            headers={**headers, "If-None-Match": f'"{checksum}"'},
+        )
+        assert g.status_code == 304
+
+    def test_unwritten_coordinate_is_404(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_404")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        g = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/9/9/0", headers=headers)
+        assert g.status_code == 404
+
+
+class TestRevisionConflict:
+    def test_create_conflict_when_chunk_already_exists(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "conflict_create")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 4, 4, 0)
+        first = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/4/4/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        assert first.status_code == 200
+
+        second = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/4/4/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        assert second.status_code == 409
+        body = second.json()
+        assert body["detail"] == "revision conflict"
+        assert body["current_revision"] == 1
+
+    def test_stale_base_revision_conflict_reports_current_state(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "conflict_stale")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload_v1 = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 5, 5, 0, revision=1)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/5/5/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload_v1,
+        )
+        payload_v2 = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 5, 5, 0, revision=2, extra_tag="v2")
+        r2 = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/5/5/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "1"},
+            content=payload_v2,
+        )
+        assert r2.status_code == 200
+        assert r2.json()["revision"] == 2
+
+        # Now retry with the now-stale base_revision=1 again.
+        payload_v3 = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 5, 5, 0, revision=3, extra_tag="v3")
+        stale = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/5/5/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "1"},
+            content=payload_v3,
+        )
+        assert stale.status_code == 409
+        body = stale.json()
+        assert body["current_revision"] == 2
+        assert body["current_checksum"] == r2.json()["checksum"]
+
+
+class TestBatchWrite:
+    def test_batch_put_all_succeed(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "batch_ok")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        chunks = [
+            {"cx": cx, "cy": 0, "cz": 0, "base_revision": 0,
+             "payload_b64": base64.b64encode(_build_chunk(wid, "main", cx, 0, 0)).decode()}
+            for cx in (10, 11)
+        ]
+        r = client.put(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks", headers=headers, json={"chunks": chunks})
+        assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+        body = r.json()
+        assert len(body["chunks"]) == 2
+        assert all(c["revision"] == 1 for c in body["chunks"])
+
+        idx = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks", headers=headers)
+        keys = {c["key"] for c in idx.json()["chunks"]}
+        assert f"{wid}:main:10:0:0" in keys
+        assert f"{wid}:main:11:0:0" in keys
+
+    def test_batch_put_is_all_or_nothing_on_conflict(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "batch_conflict")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+
+        # Pre-create one of the two coordinates so the batch's base_revision=0
+        # for it will conflict.
+        pre = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 20, 0, 0)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/20/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=pre,
+        )
+
+        chunks = [
+            {"cx": 21, "cy": 0, "cz": 0, "base_revision": 0,
+             "payload_b64": base64.b64encode(_build_chunk(wid, "main", 21, 0, 0)).decode()},
+            {"cx": 20, "cy": 0, "cz": 0, "base_revision": 0,  # conflicts: already exists at revision 1
+             "payload_b64": base64.b64encode(_build_chunk(wid, "main", 20, 0, 0, extra_tag="v2")).decode()},
+        ]
+        r = client.put(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks", headers=headers, json={"chunks": chunks})
+        assert r.status_code == 409
+
+        # Nothing from this batch should have been persisted -- (21,0,0)
+        # must NOT exist even though it was valid and came first.
+        g = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/21/0/0", headers=headers)
+        assert g.status_code == 404
+
+
+class TestDelete:
+    def test_delete_then_get_is_404(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_delete")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 30, 0, 0)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/30/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        d = client.delete(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/30/0/0", headers=headers)
+        assert d.status_code == 204
+        g = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/30/0/0", headers=headers)
+        assert g.status_code == 404
+
+
+class TestRevisionsAndRollback:
+    def test_revisions_then_rollback(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_rollback")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        v1 = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 40, 0, 0, revision=1)
+        r1 = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/40/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=v1,
+        )
+        v2 = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 40, 0, 0, revision=2, extra_tag="v2")
+        r2 = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/40/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "1"},
+            content=v2,
+        )
+        assert r2.status_code == 200
+
+        revs = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/40/0/0/revisions", headers=headers)
+        assert revs.status_code == 200
+        rev_numbers = [row["revision"] for row in revs.json()]
+        assert 1 in rev_numbers and 2 in rev_numbers
+
+        rb = client.post(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/40/0/0/rollback",
+            headers=headers, json={"revision": 1},
+        )
+        assert rb.status_code == 200, rb.text
+        assert rb.json()["revision"] == 3  # a new revision, restoring v1's content
+        assert rb.json()["checksum"] == r1.json()["checksum"]
+
+    def test_revisions_requires_owner(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        owner_headers, _ = _auth(client, "revisions_owner")
+        wid = _make_world(client, owner_headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 41, 0, 0)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/41/0/0",
+            headers={**owner_headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        other_headers, _ = _auth(client, "revisions_other")
+        r = client.get(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/41/0/0/revisions", headers=other_headers)
+        assert r.status_code == 403
+
+
+class TestValidationErrors:
+    def test_malformed_payload_is_422(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_malformed")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        r = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=b"not a real chunk",
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 422
+        assert r.json()["reason"] == "malformed"
+
+    def test_wrong_grid_size_is_422_layer_dims(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_layerdims")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        # Room's default grid is 32x32x1; build a chunk sized for 4x4x1.
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 0, 0, 0, grid=(4, 4, 1))
+        r = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 422
+        assert r.json()["reason"] == "layer_dims"
+
+    def test_oversized_payload_is_413(self, monkeypatch):
+        from app.config import settings
+        monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES", 10)
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "chunk_413")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 0, 0, 0)
+        r = client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 413
+
+
+class TestInternalApi:
+    """docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md §7/§8.3. No real Godot
+    process is spawned in this test env (GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED=False); we
+    register a fake in-memory server entry with a known token to exercise
+    require_game_server without needing a live process."""
+
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def fake_server_token(self):
+        # NB: a class body can't read a same-named local from the
+        # enclosing function via `token = token` (class bodies use LOAD_NAME,
+        # which skips enclosing function scopes) -- use a literal instead.
+        world_id_str = "internal-test-world"
+
+        class _FakeSrv:
+            def alive(self_inner):
+                return True
+            token = "test-internal-token-12345"
+
+        supervisor._servers[world_id_str] = _FakeSrv()
+        yield _FakeSrv.token
+        supervisor._servers.pop(world_id_str, None)
+
+    def test_missing_token_is_401(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.get("/api/internal/worlds/1/manifest")
+        assert r.status_code == 401
+
+    def test_wrong_token_is_403(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.get(
+            "/api/internal/worlds/1/manifest",
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer not-the-real-token"},
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 403
+
+    def test_valid_token_but_wrong_world_id_is_403(self, fake_server_token):
+        # The fake token is registered under world_id "internal-test-world";
+        # a request for a different world_id must not authenticate.
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        r = client.get(
+            "/api/internal/worlds/999999/manifest",
+            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {fake_server_token}"},
+        )
+        assert r.status_code == 403
+
+    def test_valid_token_reaches_manifest_for_real_world(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "internal_manifest")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+
+        class _FakeSrv:
+            def alive(self_inner):
+                return True
+            token = "another-real-token"
+
+        supervisor._servers[str(wid)] = _FakeSrv()
+        try:
+            r = client.get(
+                f"/api/internal/worlds/{wid}/manifest",
+                headers={"Authorization": "Bearer another-real-token"},
+            )
+            assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+            body = r.json()
+            assert body["world_id"] == wid
+            assert len(body["rooms"]) == 1
+            assert body["rooms"][0]["slug"] == "main"
+        finally:
+            supervisor._servers.pop(str(wid), None)
+
+    def test_internal_chunk_fetch_returns_binary(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "internal_chunk")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers)
+        payload = _build_chunk(wid, "main", 0, 0, 0)
+        client.put(
+            f"/api/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+            headers={**headers, "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", "X-Base-Revision": "0"},
+            content=payload,
+        )
+
+        class _FakeSrv:
+            def alive(self_inner):
+                return True
+            token = "internal-chunk-token"
+
+        supervisor._servers[str(wid)] = _FakeSrv()
+        try:
+            r = client.get(
+                f"/api/internal/worlds/{wid}/rooms/main/chunks/0/0/0",
+                headers={"Authorization": "Bearer internal-chunk-token"},
+            )
+            assert r.status_code == 200
+            assert r.content == payload
+        finally:
+            supervisor._servers.pop(str(wid), None)

backend/tests/test_world_join.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""Tests for POST /api/worlds/{id}/join.
+
+The happy path spawns a real Godot process, so it's covered by a manual /
+checkpoint integration test, not here. These cover the envelope: auth,
+visibility, and the 503 when orchestration is disabled (the default).
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app.main import app
+
+
+def _auth(client: TestClient, name: str) -> tuple[dict, int]:
+    r = client.post("/api/auth/register", json={
+        "username": name, "email": f"{name}@e.com", "password": "secret123", "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
+    })
+    assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {r.json()['access_token']}"}
+    me = client.get("/api/users/me", headers=headers)
+    return headers, me.json()["id"]
+
+
+def _make_world(client: TestClient, headers: dict, visibility: str = "public") -> int:
+    r = client.post("/api/worlds/", headers=headers, json={"name": "W", "visibility": visibility})
+    assert r.status_code == 201, r.text
+    return r.json()["id"]
+
+
+class TestJoinWorld:
+    def test_requires_auth(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        assert client.post("/api/worlds/1/join").status_code == 401
+
+    def test_unknown_world_is_404(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "join_404")
+        assert client.post("/api/worlds/999999/join", headers=headers).status_code == 404
+
+    def test_private_world_of_another_user_is_404(self):
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        owner_headers, _ = _auth(client, "join_owner")
+        wid = _make_world(client, owner_headers, "private")
+        other_headers, _ = _auth(client, "join_other")
+        assert client.post(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/join", headers=other_headers).status_code == 404
+
+    def test_disabled_orchestration_returns_503(self):
+        # GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED defaults to False in tests.
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        headers, _ = _auth(client, "join_503")
+        wid = _make_world(client, headers, "public")
+        r = client.post(f"/api/worlds/{wid}/join", headers=headers)
+        assert r.status_code == 503
+        assert "not enabled" in r.json()["detail"]

docs/architecture/avatar.md

@@ -449,6 +449,37 @@ The catalog is a JSON manifest mapping asset ids to metadata and resource paths:
 
 ---
 
+## 9a. Loadout Persistence (implemented, PC3 Phase 1)
+
+**Storage.** One row per user in `avatar_loadouts` (`user_id` PK/FK,
+`data` JSONB, timestamps). The entire loadout is stored as a single JSON
+document in the exact shape the client's `AvatarLoadout.to_json()` emits
+(`{"base_body": str, "slots": {...}, "skin_tone"?: {r,g,b,a}}`) rather than
+exploded into columns.
+
+**Why one JSON blob, not columns.** The server has no copy of the asset
+catalog (`assets/avatars/catalog.json` ships with the client). It therefore
+cannot meaningfully validate *which* asset belongs in *which* slot, whether
+an asset exists, or slot-exclusivity rules — that validation stays on the
+client (`AvatarLoadout.validate()` against the loaded `AvatarCatalog`). The
+server enforces only the envelope: a JSON object with a non-empty string
+`base_body`, an object `slots`, and a sane size cap. Keeping the schema
+opaque to the server also means catalog/loadout-shape changes don't need a
+migration.
+
+**Endpoints** (`/api/avatar`, bearer auth):
+
+| Method | Path | Behaviour |
+|---|---|---|
+| `GET` | `/loadout` | The user's saved loadout, or the server default (`{"base_body": "base_human_male_01", "slots": {}}`, `is_default: true`) if they have never saved one. |
+| `PUT` | `/loadout` | Replace the user's loadout (full document, not a patch). |
+
+**Defaults.** A brand-new account has no row; `GET` returns
+`models.avatar_loadout.DEFAULT_LOADOUT` with `is_default: true` so the client
+can distinguish "never customised" from "customised back to the base look".
+
+---
+
 ## 10. Summary
 
 | Concern                | Decision                                              |

docs/architecture/content_moderation.md

@@ -227,18 +227,33 @@ An account has an **age verification status**:
 
 ### 5.2 Tier 1 — Self-Declaration Flow
 
+> **Implemented, PC3 Phase 3.** `POST /api/auth/register` now takes a real
+> `date_of_birth` (ISO `YYYY-MM-DD`), not the throwaway `over_18` boolean it
+> had before. The server computes age (`auth.calculate_age`) and rejects
+> anyone under `auth.MIN_AGE` (18) with a **403** — this platform is
+> adults-only, so there is no "minor, restricted" tier here (the 13+ rows
+> below are the general design, not the current gate). A future-in-the-past
+> or nonsensical date is a **400**. The DOB is stored on the user row and
+> surfaced only back to that user (`/api/auth/me`), never to other players.
+>
+> **Limitation, stated plainly:** this is still self-attested — a determined
+> user can enter a false DOB. It is a concrete, stored, legally-meaningful
+> data point (matching how most platforms gate before adding hard checks)
+> and the seam for Tier 2. Encryption-at-rest for the DOB column and the
+> Tier 2 ID-check hook below are **not yet implemented**.
+
 ```
 User submits { date_of_birth }
         │
         ▼
-Server validates format & plausibility (age 13–120, not in future)
+Server validates format & plausibility (real date, not in future)
         │
         ▼
 Compute age from DOB
         │
         ▼
-age >= 18 ──► status = self_declared (adult)
-age >= 13 ──► status = self_declared (minor, restricted)
+age >= 18 ──► status = self_declared (adult)   ← the current gate
+age >= 13 ──► status = self_declared (minor, restricted)   ← design only
 age <  13 ──► status = rejected (below minimum platform age)
 ```
 

docs/architecture/editor.md

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 > **Owner:** Platform team
 > **Related:** World chunk data format & persistence, server authority + client
 > prediction, content moderation & age verification, avatar component system
+> **Note:** the recommendation here stands, but edits do **not** ride the
+> `request_chunk_edit` ENet RPC (§4.2, §7.4). Per
+> [`world_persistence_impl.md`](world_persistence_impl.md) the editor saves
+> chunks over HTTP to the FastAPI backend, which is the sole writer; the
+> validation/moderation boundary moves with it.
 > **Godot version:** 4.6.2 stable
 
 ## 1. Overview

docs/architecture/networking.md

@@ -237,6 +237,62 @@ snapshot_state:
 
 ---
 
+## 7a. Server Orchestration (implemented, PC3 Phase 2)
+
+**One dedicated server process per world**, spawned on demand.
+
+```
+client                    backend (single worker)              host
+  │  POST /api/worlds/{id}/join  (bearer JWT)                    │
+  │ ───────────────────────────▶ GameServerSupervisor           │
+  │                              ensure_server(world_id):        │
+  │                                if none running for world ─── spawn:
+  │                                                              godot --headless
+  │                                                              res://scenes/server.tscn --
+  │                                                              --port <p> --world <id>
+  │                                                              --status-file <path>
+  │  ◀─────────────────────────── { host, port, world_id }       │
+  │                                                              │
+  │  ENet connect  host:port ───────────────────────────────────▶ dedicated server
+```
+
+- **Supervisor** (`backend/app/services/game_servers.py`): in-process singleton,
+  so the backend MUST run single-worker. Keys servers by `world_id`. Allocates
+  ports from `GAME_SERVER_PORT_MIN..MAX`. A background reaper kills a world's
+  server once its **status file** (`{players, tick, updated}`, rewritten by the
+  server ~1×/s) reports `players == 0` for `GAME_SERVER_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`.
+  No crash-restart — the next join respawns.
+- **Enable flag:** `GAME_SERVERS_ENABLED` (default off). The checkpoint/playtest
+  launcher (`pm/checkpoint_ops.py`) turns it on, passes `GODOT_BIN`,
+  `GAME_PROJECT_DIR`, and `GAME_SERVER_HOST` (the LAN IP baked into the `.exe`).
+  A backend with it off returns **503** from `/join`, and the client falls back
+  to local single-player.
+- **Per-world content:** all worlds currently load the same test level (M2/M7
+  work). `world_id` still scopes a distinct process + session.
+
+### 7b. Client play path
+
+`world_list.gd` → `POST /join` → `Session.begin(world_id, host, port)` →
+load `game.tscn`. `game.gd` sees `Session.active` and connects a
+`NetworkClient`:
+
+- **Local player** keeps predicting with its own collision-aware
+  `CharacterBody3D` (`player.gd`) — that *is* the prediction. Its input frame
+  (`player.net_input`) is forwarded to the server every physics tick.
+- **Correction backstop:** if the local position drifts from the server's by
+  more than `CORRECTION_THRESHOLD` (1.5 m — generous; catches teleport / a wall
+  walked through / real desync, not prediction noise) it snaps.
+- **Remote players:** rendered from snapshots, position lerped. *Appearance sync
+  is a follow-up* — remotes currently show as labelled capsules; the server
+  does not yet replicate avatar loadouts.
+- **Disconnect** → status message → back to the world list.
+
+The `NetworkClient`'s own flat-plane prediction + input-replay reconciliation
+(§5) is exercised by `smoke_test_network_client.gd`; the collision-aware game
+path above uses the lighter `send_input()` + drift-snap instead.
+
+---
+
 ## 8. Security & Anti-Cheat
 
 - **No client-authoritative gameplay values.** Clients only send *inputs* and

docs/architecture/pc2_test_level.md

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+# PC2 Test Level & Player Spawn — Design Note
+
+> **Status:** Decided (PC2)
+> **Owner:** Architecture
+> **Consumers:** the two PC2 implementation tasks — (1) build the test level,
+> (2) build the player & spawn it. Both must be able to follow this note
+> without further design decisions.
+
+## 1. Decision: static scene, not chunk streaming
+
+**The PC2 playable test level is a single, hand-authored, static Godot 3D
+scene.** It is **not** built through the chunk streaming system
+(`scripts/chunk_stream_manager.gd`, `chunk_scene.gd`, `chunk.gd`,
+`chunk_data_decoder.gd`).
+
+This is a deliberate decision, not a default:
+
+- **The streaming system has never been exercised with real content.** It is a
+  faithful port of the `docs/architecture/world.md` format spec, but nothing in
+  the project produces or serves chunk payloads for it to consume. `scenes/main.tscn`
+  wires `chunk_stream_manager.gd` onto a bare `Node3D` with no `player` reference
+  and no `_server_rpc`, so at runtime it does nothing. There is no server-side
+  chunk authoring/streaming endpoint to integrate against.
+- **PC2 scope is single-player, local-only, no networking.** The value of chunk
+  streaming is server-authoritative streaming around a moving player across a
+  network boundary. None of those preconditions exist in PC2, so exercising the
+  pipeline here would mean building a chunk *authoring + serving* path first —
+  clearly out of checkpoint scope.
+- **A static scene is the lowest-risk way to get "spawn a player in a real 3D
+  level and walk around" working**, which is the actual PC2 outcome being tested.
+
+Chunk streaming is **not removed and not broken by this decision** — it stays as
+an optional, later milestone. The static level is the PC2 proof of the *player*
+and *camera/physics* half of the problem; chunk streaming remains the later proof
+of the *world data* half.
+
+## 2. Where things live
+
+| Artifact | Path | Owned by |
+|---|---|---|
+| Test level scene | `scenes/worlds/test_level.tscn` | level task |
+| Player scene | `scenes/player.tscn` | player task |
+| Player controller script | `scripts/player.gd` | player task |
+| Game composition scene | `scenes/game.tscn` | player task |
+
+- **`scenes/worlds/`** is the convention for all level scenes (it does not exist
+  yet; the level task creates it). Future levels follow `scenes/worlds/<name>.tscn`.
+- `scenes/player.tscn` is **reusable** across levels — it must not hard-code any
+  reference to `test_level`; it discovers the spawn point at runtime (see §3).
+
+## 3. Player spawn convention
+
+The level scene **must** contain a `Marker3D` named exactly **`PlayerSpawn`**.
+That node's world transform is the spawn point.
+
+- `Marker3D` is a plain `Node3D` that shows a cross gizmo in the editor and
+  carries no gameplay behavior — it is the established Godot idiom for "position
+  hint." (Confirmed present in Godot 4.6.2.)
+- The marker's **position** is authoritative; its rotation is ignored by the
+  player (spawn yaw is the player's concern, default forward is fine).
+- Coordinate system: **Y-up, units = meters, 1 unit = 1 m.** The marker must sit
+  at least **1.0 m above the ground's top surface** (recommended `y = 1.0` where
+  the ground top is `y = 0`) so the player capsule does not spawn intersecting
+  the floor and get popped out by the physics solver.
+- There is exactly **one** `PlayerSpawn` per level. (If a level ever needs
+  multiple spawns, that is a later convention — not PC2.)
+
+**Lookup rule (implemented by `player.gd`, not by the level):**
+
+```
+# in player.gd _ready()
+var spawn := get_tree().current_scene.find_child("PlayerSpawn", true, false)
+if spawn is Node3D:
+    global_position = spawn.global_position
+else:
+    push_warning("player.gd: no PlayerSpawn marker found; spawning at origin")
+    global_position = Vector3(0, 1.0, 0)   # fallback, do not crash
+```
+
+The lookup runs from the current scene root so it finds the marker whether it is
+a direct child of the level instance or nested under a `Level` wrapper. The
+fallback keeps the player runnable in a scene that forgot its marker, but a
+**missing `PlayerSpawn` is a level bug** and the level task's smoke test must fail
+on it (see §6).
+
+## 4. Composition (who puts level + player together)
+
+`scenes/game.tscn` is the PC2 playable entry point:
+
+```
+Game (Node3D)
+├── Level      (instance of res://scenes/worlds/test_level.tscn)
+└── Player     (instance of res://scenes/player.tscn)
+```
+
+- `Game` is a plain `Node3D` with **no script** — composition is done by scene
+  instantiation, not code, so there is nothing to keep in sync.
+- The **level scene is self-contained and has zero dependency on the player** —
+  it loads and is smoke-testable on its own. The level task does not instance or
+  reference `player.tscn`.
+- The **player scene is self-contained and has zero dependency on any specific
+  level** — it only requires that the *current scene* contains a `PlayerSpawn`.
+- Ownership of `game.tscn` goes to the **player task**, which depends on the
+  level task having landed `test_level.tscn` first (chain with `depends_on`).
+
+## 5. Level content requirements (level task)
+
+`scenes/worlds/test_level.tscn`, root node `TestLevel` (`Node3D`). Required
+children:
+
+| Node | Type | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `Ground` | `StaticBody3D` | `BoxShape3D` (e.g. `40 × 1 × 40`) centered at `(0, -0.5, 0)` so the **top face is `y = 0`**; matching `MeshInstance3D` (`BoxMesh`) so it is visible and collidable. Use a `StaticBody3D` rather than a bare `PlaneMesh` so collision is explicit and reliable. |
+| `Props` | `Node3D` | 3–5 simple props as `StaticBody3D` + `MeshInstance3D` using built-in primitives only (`BoxMesh`, `CylinderMesh`, `SphereMesh`). `assets/` is empty and PC2 must not require imported content. Positioned on the ground surface; scale freely. |
+| `Sun` | `DirectionalLight3D` | Pitch it downward (~ -45°), enable shadows if the compatibility renderer allows; shadows are optional. |
+| `WorldEnvironment` | `WorldEnvironment` | Ambient light and/or a simple background color. Keep it plain — the project uses `gl_compatibility`. |
+| `PlayerSpawn` | `Marker3D` | Per §3. Recommended `(0, 1.0, 0)`. |
+
+Notes:
+
+- **Do not** add any `script` to the level. It is pure content. Any per-level
+  behavior belongs to the player (or a future game-mode script), not the level.
+- Keep the whole level on the XZ plane around the origin; nothing off at extreme
+  coordinates, no thin walls the capsule can tunnel through.
+
+## 6. Player contract (player task)
+
+`scenes/player.tscn`, root `Player` (`CharacterBody3D`) + `scripts/player.gd`.
+
+Minimum for PC2:
+
+- **Body:** `CharacterBody3D` with a `CollisionShape3D` using `CapsuleShape3D`
+  (~`radius 0.3`, ~`height 1.8`) and a matching `CapsuleMesh` for visibility.
+- **Camera:** a `Camera3D` child. First-person (camera at capsule head height) is
+  the lowest-risk choice; third-person is fine too but is more work.
+- **Spawn:** per §3 — read `PlayerSpawn` from the current scene, fall back
+  gracefully.
+- **Movement:** gravity + `move_and_slide()` so the player stands on `Ground`.
+  WASD/arrow locomotion is the hard requirement. Mouse-look is recommended but
+  may be split into its own task if the controller grows.
+- **No networking, no avatar UI, no chunk code** — PC2 is local-only. Do not add
+  `MultiplayerAPI`, `ChunkStreamManager`, or any avatar customization here.
+
+The player must work when instanced under `Game` alongside a level; it must not
+assume it is the only node in the scene.
+
+## 7. Entry point / how a human plays it
+
+- `scenes/game.tscn` is the PC2 playable scene. For playtesting, load it directly
+  (e.g. `godot --path . scenes/game.tscn`), or temporarily set
+  `application/run/main_scene` to it.
+- **Wiring "Play → Join a world" in the existing `world_list` UI is out of scope
+  for this note** and out of scope for the level/player tasks. The current menu
+  flow ends at browse-worlds (PC1). If a checkpoint wants a clickable path into
+  the test level, that navigation wiring is its own small task — do not fold it
+  into level or player.
+
+## 8. Validation (both tasks must run this before "done")
+
+```sh
+# one-time, first checkout only — builds the class/import cache
+godot --headless --path . --import
+
+# then, to catch parse/load errors:
+godot --headless --path . --quit
+```
+
+- **Level task:** additionally load `test_level.tscn` headlessly and assert it
+  (a) loads without error and (b) contains a `Marker3D` named `PlayerSpawn`
+  positioned ≥ 1.0 m above the ground top. A smoke script following the existing
+  `scripts/smoke_test_*.gd` pattern is the right vehicle.
+- **Player task:** a smoke test that instantiates `game.tscn`, waits a frame,
+  and asserts the player's global position equals the `PlayerSpawn` position
+  (within a small epsilon). This is the check that proves the spawn convention
+  actually wired through — not just "the scene loads."
+
+## 9. Explicitly out of scope for PC2
+
+- Networking / multiplayer / prediction (single-player, local-only).
+- Chunk streaming integration and server-side chunk authoring/serving.
+- Avatar customization UI and glTF avatar loading.
+- Join-a-world navigation from the world list.
+- Any content moderation / age-gating logic in the level.
+
+## 10. Summary
+
+| Concern | Decision |
+|---|---|
+| Level construction | Static hand-authored Godot 3D scene (chunk streaming deferred, not removed) |
+| Level location | `scenes/worlds/test_level.tscn` |
+| Spawn convention | `Marker3D` named `PlayerSpawn`, ≥ 1.0 m above ground, looked up by the player |
+| Player | `scenes/player.tscn` (`CharacterBody3D`) + `scripts/player.gd`, reusable across levels |
+| Composition | `scenes/game.tscn` instances `Level` + `Player`; no script |
+| Entry point | Load `scenes/game.tscn` directly; UI join-wiring deferred |

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@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # World Chunk Data Format & Persistence Architecture
 
-> **Status:** Proposed
+> **Status:** Proposed. The chunk format (§2, §3) is normative and implemented
+> on the client. **§4 (SQLite schema) and §5 (write ownership / write-behind)
+> are superseded by [`world_persistence_impl.md`](world_persistence_impl.md)**,
+> which stores chunks in the existing Postgres backend and makes the FastAPI
+> process — not the per-world Godot server — the sole writer.
 > **Owner:** Platform team
 > **Related:** Server authority + client prediction, avatar component system, content moderation & age verification, backend auth (JWT)
 

docs/architecture/world_persistence_impl.md

@@ -0,0 +1,655 @@
+# World Persistence: Server-Side Implementation Architecture
+
+> **Status:** Accepted (design). Implementation is split across two follow-on
+> tasks (backend endpoints; editor wiring).
+> **Owner:** Platform team
+> **Supersedes:** the *storage engine* and *write ownership* parts of
+> [`world.md`](world.md) §4 and §5. Everything else in `world.md` — the chunk
+> logical model, the JSON and binary encodings, checksums, revisions, content
+> flags — stands unchanged and is normative.
+> **Related:** [`world.md`](world.md) (chunk format), [`editor.md`](editor.md)
+> (authoring surface), [`networking.md`](networking.md) (ENet sim transport),
+> [`content_moderation.md`](content_moderation.md) (flags & gating).
+
+## 1. Why this document exists
+
+`world.md` was written during the client-side chunk-streaming work (M2). It
+assumes **one** server that owns **one** embedded SQLite file and is both the
+authoritative simulation and the authoritative store. That is not the system we
+built. What actually exists today is:
+
+| Process | Lifetime | Owns | Code |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| FastAPI backend | always on, single worker | Postgres (users, worlds, assets, avatar loadouts), game-server orchestration | `backend/app/` |
+| Godot dedicated server, one per world | **spawned on join, reaped ~5 min after the last join when empty** | nothing durable; a 30 Hz in-memory player sim | `scripts/server.gd`, spawned by `backend/app/services/game_servers.py` |
+| Godot client | player session | local chunk streaming, the in-game editor (planned) | `scripts/chunk_stream_manager.gd`, `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd` |
+
+Nothing server-side has ever stored or served a real chunk. `server.gd`
+`preload()`s `res://scenes/worlds/test_level.tscn` for **every** world and uses
+`world_id` only for logging and the status file. `ChunkStreamManager` has a
+`set_server_rpc()` seam that no code calls. The backend's `World` model is
+metadata only (`id`, `name`, `description`, `owner_id`, `visibility`).
+
+This document decides where chunk content lives, who may write it, how the
+dedicated server gets it, and the exact API surface — so the two implementation
+tasks that follow have no architectural decisions left to make.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Decisions at a glance
+
+| # | Question | Decision |
+|---|---|---|
+| D1 | Where does chunk data live at rest? | **Postgres**, in the existing backend database. Not a per-world SQLite file. |
+| D2 | Who writes it? | **The FastAPI backend, exclusively.** The editor writes through it over HTTP with optimistic concurrency. The dedicated Godot server never writes world content. |
+| D3 | How does the dedicated server get content? | **HTTP pull from the backend at startup**, over a loopback-only `/api/internal` route authenticated by a per-spawn token the supervisor mints. Lazy fetch as players roam. |
+| D4 | Edit while a live session exists? | **Out of scope this milestone, with a defined seam.** The editor is a non-joined client mode; writes always succeed and the response flags `live_session` so the UI can say "players see this when the session restarts". |
+| D5 | Edit granularity on the wire | **Full-chunk PUT with `base_revision`**, not RFC-6902 deltas. |
+| D6 | Client chunk transport | **HTTP from the backend**, not ENet from the dedicated server. The `set_server_rpc()` seam is satisfied by an HTTP-backed adapter. |
+
+---
+
+## 3. D1 — Chunk data lives in Postgres
+
+### 3.1 Decision
+
+World content (rooms, chunk payloads, chunk revisions) is stored in the
+**existing Postgres database**, alongside `worlds`, in new tables created by an
+Alembic migration. `world.md` §4's `world.db` SQLite file is **not** built.
+
+The chunk **payload stays exactly what `world.md` §3.6 specifies**: the 48-byte
+header + sectioned binary body, checksummed with SHA-256. It moves from a
+SQLite `BLOB` to a Postgres `BYTEA`. Nothing about the format changes, so
+`scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd` remains correct and the format spec stays the
+single contract.
+
+### 3.2 Reasoning
+
+1. **SQLite's premise does not hold here.** `world.md` §4 justifies SQLite as
+   "ideal for a server that owns the world store". No process in this system
+   owns a world store: the only process that could plausibly hold the file (the
+   dedicated Godot server) is *ephemeral* — reaped when idle, `SIGTERM`'d on
+   backend shutdown, `SIGKILL`'d 10 s later if it doesn't exit, and orphaned
+   entirely if the backend dies. Meanwhile the editor must write when no such
+   process exists. So the file would have to be shared by two processes with
+   independent lifetimes, which is precisely the workload SQLite's
+   single-writer/file-lock model handles worst.
+2. **Postgres is already a hard dependency; SQLite would be a second one.** The
+   backend cannot start without Postgres. Adding a per-world SQLite file adds a
+   second storage engine, a second migration system (`world.md` §4.8 specifies a
+   hand-rolled `meta.schema_version` runner *next to* the Alembic we already
+   have), a second backup story, and a second consistency story.
+3. **Referential integrity with metadata we already have.** `worlds` rows carry
+   `owner_id` and `visibility`, and every authorization rule for content derives
+   from them. In one database this is a join and a foreign key with
+   `ON DELETE CASCADE`; across two engines, deleting a world silently orphans a
+   file on disk and every ownership check becomes a cross-store read.
+4. **Concurrency is the normal case, not the edge case.** Two creators editing
+   one world, or an editor writing while the backend serves chunks to a running
+   dedicated server, are ordinary. Postgres gives row-level MVCC and real
+   transactions for the read-modify-write in §5.4; SQLite gives a database-level
+   write lock and `SQLITE_BUSY`.
+5. **The repo already has the precedent and the plumbing.** `avatar_loadouts`
+   (migration `0004`) stores a client-shaped document in Postgres JSONB rather
+   than inventing a side store, and `backend/app/database.py` already provides
+   the async session factory this code will use.
+
+### 3.3 What we give up, and why it's acceptable
+
+- **Zero-config embedding.** Irrelevant — the backend already requires a
+  configured Postgres.
+- **`world.md` §5.5 write-behind + the `dirty` column.** Deliberately dropped
+  (§4.4). It existed to amortize disk I/O for a process that owned the file. Our
+  writes are human-rate editor saves, not sim-rate; each one is a single
+  transaction and is durable when the HTTP response returns. Dropping it also
+  deletes the entire "unclean shutdown recovery" scan in §5.5 — there is no
+  window in which committed content can be lost.
+- **Sharding by `world_id` (`world.md` §8).** Postgres partitioning by
+  `world_id` remains available on the same table shape if a single table ever
+  becomes a bottleneck. At ~2–8 KB per chunk, 10 000 chunks is under 100 MB.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Schema (Alembic migration `0005_add_world_content_tables`)
+
+New model module: `backend/app/models/world_content.py`, registered in
+`backend/app/models/__init__.py`. `backend/app/models/world.py` is left alone
+except for one added relationship, so nothing PC1/PC2 depends on moves.
+
+Conventions follow the existing models: `Column(...)` declarative style,
+`Integer` surrogate PKs, `DateTime(timezone=True)` with `server_default=func.now()`,
+JSONB for document-shaped fields (as `avatar_loadout.py` does).
+
+### 4.1 `world_rooms`
+
+```python
+class WorldRoom(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "world_rooms"
+
+    id         = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    world_id   = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+                        nullable=False, index=True)
+    slug       = Column(String(64), nullable=False)   # url-safe; "main" by default
+    name       = Column(String(255), nullable=False)
+    # Chunk grid config. world.md §2.2 puts this on the world; it lives on the
+    # room so a world can later hold rooms with different grids, and so this
+    # migration is purely additive (the existing `worlds` table is untouched).
+    grid       = Column(JSONB, nullable=False,
+                        server_default='{"size": [32, 32, 1], "origin": [0, 0, 0]}')
+    bounds     = Column(JSONB, nullable=True)   # {"min":[x,y,z], "max":[x,y,z]}; null = unbounded
+    spawn      = Column(JSONB, nullable=True)   # {"pos":[x,y,z], "yaw": 0.0}
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(),
+                        onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    __table_args__ = (UniqueConstraint("world_id", "slug", name="uq_world_rooms_world_slug"),)
+```
+
+`World` gains
+`rooms = relationship("WorldRoom", back_populates="world", cascade="all, delete-orphan")`.
+
+Every world gets a `main` room: created in `create_world`, and lazily created on
+first room read/write for worlds that predate the migration. `grid` defaults
+match `Chunk.CHUNK_SIZE_*` in `scripts/chunk.gd`, which is the client's source
+of truth for the same constants.
+
+### 4.2 `world_chunks`
+
+```python
+class WorldChunk(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "world_chunks"
+
+    id             = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    world_id       = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("worlds.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+                            nullable=False, index=True)   # denormalized: world-scoped queries
+    room_id        = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("world_rooms.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
+                            nullable=False, index=True)
+    chunk_key      = Column(String(160), nullable=False, unique=True)   # see §4.5
+    cx             = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    cy             = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    cz             = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="0")
+
+    format_version = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="1")
+    payload        = Column(LargeBinary, nullable=False)   # world.md §3.6 bytes, BYTEA
+    payload_len    = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    checksum       = Column(String(64), nullable=False)    # SHA-256 hex of payload body
+    revision       = Column(Integer, nullable=False, server_default="1")
+
+    content_flags  = Column(JSONB, nullable=False, server_default="{}")  # world.md §3.4
+    is_mature      = Column(Boolean, nullable=False, server_default="false")
+
+    updated_by_id  = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True)
+    created_at     = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+    updated_at     = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(),
+                            onupdate=func.now(), nullable=False)
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint("room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz", name="uq_world_chunks_coord"),
+        Index("ix_world_chunks_room_coord", "room_id", "cx", "cy", "cz"),
+        Index("ix_world_chunks_mature", "world_id", postgresql_where=text("is_mature")),
+    )
+```
+
+Deltas from `world.md` §4.4:
+
+- **Surrogate `id` PK + unique coordinate constraint**, with `chunk_key` kept as
+  a unique denormalized column. The key string is the client-facing contract
+  (`Chunk.build_key`) and is embedded in the payload, so storing it gives a
+  single-index lookup by key; the coordinate constraint is what actually
+  enforces one chunk per cell.
+- **`dirty` removed** — see §3.3.
+- **Content flags folded into the chunk row as JSONB + an indexed `is_mature`
+  boolean**, instead of `world.md` §4.6's separate 11-column `content_flags`
+  table. The flags are a document the client already produces in exactly this
+  shape (`ChunkDataDecoder.ContentFlags.to_dict()`), the only query we anticipate
+  is "is this mature", and folding them in removes a second write per save and
+  the `object_id = ''` sentinel hack that §4.6 needed to work around SQLite's
+  NULL-in-primary-key behaviour (Postgres has the same NULL semantics, so the
+  hack would have carried over).
+- **`world.md` §4.5 `chunk_objects` is deferred, not dropped.** It is a derived
+  index that exists to answer queries ("which chunks contain a door?") that no
+  code asks yet, and maintaining it means a delete-and-reinsert of every object
+  row on every save. It is fully rebuildable from `payload`, so it can be added
+  in its own migration the day a query needs it, with a backfill. Do **not**
+  build it in `0005`.
+
+### 4.3 `world_chunk_revisions`
+
+```python
+class WorldChunkRevision(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "world_chunk_revisions"
+
+    id         = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
+    chunk_key  = Column(String(160), nullable=False, index=True)  # deliberately NOT a FK
+    world_id   = Column(Integer, nullable=False, index=True)      # also not a FK, same reason
+    revision   = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
+    action     = Column(String(16), nullable=False)               # 'create' | 'update' | 'delete'
+    actor_id   = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True)
+    checksum   = Column(String(64), nullable=False)
+    payload    = Column(LargeBinary, nullable=True)               # full payload at this revision
+    created_at = Column(DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=func.now(), nullable=False)
+```
+
+Kept from `world.md` §4.7 including its two design points: the full payload is
+stored (rollback needs it) and `chunk_key`/`world_id` are **not** foreign keys,
+so deleting a chunk or a world preserves the audit trail.
+
+**Retention (new, required):** this table grows without bound — a creator
+dragging a brush can produce hundreds of revisions per minute. The
+implementation must ship a retention policy from day one: keep the newest
+`WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP` (default 20) payloads per `chunk_key` and null out
+`payload` on older rows (keeping the metadata row for the audit trail), pruned
+in the same transaction as the write. A `created_at` index supports a later
+time-based prune.
+
+### 4.4 Config additions (`backend/app/config.py`)
+
+```
+WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES: int = 1_048_576   # 1 MiB; a dense 32×32 uint16 layer is 2 KiB
+WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_OBJECTS: int = 512
+WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH: int = 64
+WORLD_CHUNK_REVISION_KEEP: int = 20
+GAME_SERVER_INTERNAL_API_URL: str = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
+```
+
+### 4.5 Chunk key format
+
+`world.md` §2.3 specifies `"{world_id}:{room_id}:{cx}:{cy}:{cz}"` and illustrates
+it with `w_0001:r_0001`. Those ids were illustrative. The real key uses the
+backend's identifiers:
+
+```
+"{world.id}:{room.slug}:{cx}:{cy}:{cz}"      e.g.  "12:main:3:-1:0"
+```
+
+The room **slug** rather than its numeric id, so a key is human-readable in logs
+and stable if rooms are ever re-imported. `Chunk.build_key()` in
+`scripts/chunk.gd` already produces this shape unmodified.
+
+---
+
+## 5. D2 — The FastAPI backend is the only writer
+
+### 5.1 Decision
+
+The in-game editor (`editor.md` §7.2) submits edits over **HTTP to the FastAPI
+backend**, which validates, versions, and persists them. The dedicated Godot
+server process **never writes world content** and does not sit in the edit path.
+
+This preserves `world.md`'s and `editor.md`'s actual invariant — *clients never
+touch storage; they submit edits to a server-authoritative tier that validates
+them* — while identifying that tier as the always-on backend rather than the
+ephemeral sim process. `editor.md` §4.2's claim that edits ride the same
+`request_chunk_edit` RPC as gameplay is the one part of that doc this design
+changes; the moderation and validation properties it derives from that claim are
+unaffected, because the validation boundary moves with the writer.
+
+### 5.2 Reasoning
+
+1. **Nothing that can vanish in 300 seconds may own the write path.** The reaper
+   in `game_servers.py` `stop()`s an idle server with `SIGTERM` and escalates to
+   `SIGKILL` after 10 s; `supervisor.shutdown()` does the same to every server on
+   backend shutdown; and if the backend dies uncleanly the servers are orphaned
+   with no one to flush them. Because the sim process holds no unsaved world
+   content in this design, **no reap, crash, or kill can ever lose world data** —
+   that is the single strongest practical reason for this split.
+2. **Editing must work with no dedicated server running.** A creator opening
+   their world to build should not have to spin up a 30 Hz sim process, burn a
+   port from the 100-port range, and hold it for 5 minutes past their last save.
+3. **`server.gd` has no database access, no credentials, and no HTTP client.**
+   Routing writes through it means either shipping Postgres credentials into a
+   process spawned per join, or building an ENet→HTTP proxy inside the sim loop.
+   Both are strictly worse than the editor calling the backend directly.
+4. **Authorization already lives in the backend.** `CurrentUser`, the
+   `owner_id` check, and `WorldVisibility` are all there. The dedicated server
+   has no user identities at all — it knows peer ids, not accounts.
+
+### 5.3 Authorization
+
+- **Read** a chunk: the same rule as `GET /api/worlds/{id}` — the world is
+  `PUBLIC`, or the caller owns it. Otherwise 404 (not 403), matching the
+  existing routers' deliberate non-disclosure.
+- **Write** a chunk: caller must be `world.owner_id`, matching `update_world`;
+  403 otherwise. Collaborator/role-based editing is future work and slots in at
+  this one check.
+- **Mature gating hook:** `is_mature` chunks are where `content_moderation.md`'s
+  age gate attaches on the read path. Specify the column and the index now; the
+  gate itself lands with that doc's work.
+
+### 5.4 Concurrency
+
+Optimistic concurrency exactly as `world.md` §5.4, expressed over HTTP:
+
+1. Reader gets `revision` (header `X-Chunk-Revision`, or the JSON field).
+2. Writer sends `base_revision`.
+3. The service does `SELECT ... FOR UPDATE` on the chunk row, compares
+   `base_revision` to `revision`, and either commits at `revision + 1` or returns
+   **409** with `current_revision` and `current_checksum` so the editor can
+   re-fetch and re-apply.
+4. `base_revision: 0` means "create; fail with 409 if it already exists".
+
+### 5.5 Validation (the backend must not trust the client)
+
+The write path decodes the submitted payload server-side before storing it. This
+requires a **Python port of the `world.md` §3.6 codec** —
+`backend/app/services/chunk_codec.py`, mirroring `scripts/chunk_data_decoder.gd`.
+It checks: magic `AGPC`, `format_version <= 1`, declared vs. actual
+`payload_len`, **recomputed** SHA-256 (the header's checksum is advisory), tile
+layer dims equal the room's `grid.size`, tile indices in palette range, object
+count ≤ `WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_OBJECTS`, object positions inside the chunk's bounds,
+`chunk_key` in the payload matching the URL, and string-field length limits
+(`world.md` §7). `content_flags` and `is_mature` are **recomputed** from the
+payload's flag sections, never taken from the request body.
+
+**Drift control (required):** the two codecs must be pinned by golden files —
+fixture chunks under `tests/fixtures/chunks/` encoded by one implementation and
+decoded byte-identically by the other, asserted in both the pytest suite and the
+Godot headless suite. Without this the format has two implementations and no
+contract test, which is exactly the failure `world.md` §5.2 was trying to avoid
+by having one shared implementation.
+
+---
+
+## 6. D4 — Editing versus a live session (scope boundary)
+
+**In scope for this milestone:**
+
+- The editor is entered as **"Edit world" from the world browser**: a non-joined
+  client mode. It does **not** call `POST /api/worlds/{id}/join`, does not open
+  an ENet connection, and does not spawn a dedicated server. It loads chunks over
+  HTTP, edits them locally, and saves them over HTTP.
+- Writes always succeed regardless of whether a session is live. The write
+  response carries `live_session: bool` (from `supervisor.debug_state()`), so the
+  editor can surface *"this world has players in it right now — they'll see your
+  changes when the session restarts."*
+- A dedicated server started **after** a write sees the new content, because it
+  loads from the store at startup (§7).
+
+**Explicitly out of scope, deferred:**
+
+- Build-in-place while joined to a live session.
+- `chunk_invalidated` push to connected clients (`world.md` §5.3) and hot-reload
+  of the dedicated server's collision world.
+- Live collaborative editing / cursors (`editor.md` §9).
+
+**The seam that makes the deferred work cheap:** the manifest endpoint (§7.2)
+returns a monotonic `content_revision` for the world, bumped on every chunk
+write. Hot reload is then: the dedicated server polls the manifest on a timer
+(or the backend pushes to it over the same internal channel), re-fetches the
+chunks whose revision changed, and rebuilds those collision bodies. Nothing in
+this design has to change to add it.
+
+**Why the editor must not join:** if it joined, the sim process would enforce
+collision against content it loaded at spawn while the creator edits a diverging
+local copy — players would walk through new walls and bounce off deleted ones,
+with no error anywhere. Making build mode non-joined turns a silent correctness
+bug into an explicit product boundary.
+
+---
+
+## 7. D3 — What the dedicated server does at startup
+
+### 7.1 Decision
+
+`server.gd` pulls its world's content from the backend over **HTTP** at startup,
+authenticated by a **per-spawn token** the supervisor mints, and **does not bind
+the ENet port until content is loaded**.
+
+Rejected alternative — *supervisor writes a whole-world snapshot file at spawn
+and passes `--world-file`*: attractive (no new auth surface, no HTTP client in
+the sim process), but it makes spawn latency proportional to world size, gives
+the server no way to fetch a chunk lazily as players roam beyond the preloaded
+set, and still needs a separate channel for the hot-reload work above. Rejected —
+*give the Godot process a Postgres connection*: there is no PG driver in
+GDScript, and it would put database credentials in a process spawned per join.
+
+### 7.2 Startup sequence
+
+1. `_parse_args()` gains `--api-url` and `--server-token` (§7.3).
+2. `GET /api/internal/worlds/{world_id}/manifest` → rooms, per-room `grid`,
+   `bounds`, `spawn`, `chunk_count`, and the world's `content_revision`.
+3. `GET /api/internal/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks?` bounds query for
+   the spawn neighbourhood (radius from the spawn point, default 3 chunks), then
+   fetch each payload; decode with the existing `ChunkDataDecoder` and build
+   static collision from the tile layers and objects.
+4. **Then** `network_peer.create_server(port)`, then write the status file.
+5. **Fallback:** if the backend is unreachable, the world has no rooms, or the
+   room has zero chunks, load `test_level.tscn` as today and record
+   `"content": "fallback"` in the status file. A content outage must never make
+   a world un-joinable, and this keeps every PC3 flow working before any world
+   has authored content.
+
+During the session the server may lazily fetch chunks as players approach
+unloaded coordinates, through the same internal route. It **never writes**.
+Dynamic entity runtime state (positions, health) stays in memory and out of
+chunks, exactly as `world.md` §3.3 already specifies. Shutdown flushes nothing.
+
+### 7.3 Internal authentication
+
+`GameServerSupervisor._spawn()` generates `token = secrets.token_urlsafe(32)`,
+stores it on the `_WorldServer` dataclass, and passes it on the command line
+alongside the existing `--port/--world/--status-file`. A FastAPI dependency
+`require_game_server` resolves `Authorization: Bearer <token>` against
+`supervisor.validate_token(world_id, token)` — a dict lookup, since the
+supervisor is an in-process singleton. Properties this gives us:
+
+- A token grants access to **one** world and **dies with its process** (the
+  reaper's `del self._servers[wid]` invalidates it).
+- No long-lived shared secret in config or on disk.
+- It reuses the **already documented** single-worker constraint in
+  `game_servers.py`; it does not add a new one.
+
+Rejected alternative — *let the dedicated server use the public routes with a
+service user account*: the public routes enforce per-user visibility and
+ownership, which a service identity would have to be exempted from, and it would
+pollute `updated_by_id`/audit rows with a fake user. A separate `/api/internal`
+prefix keeps the two auth models apart and can be blocked at the reverse proxy.
+
+### 7.4 Lifecycle changes this requires in `game_servers.py`
+
+These are real, load-bearing findings from the current implementation:
+
+- **`_await_port()` is the wrong readiness signal now.** It returns as soon as
+  the UDP port is bound, and the port is bound before content exists today. With
+  content loading it must await a `"ready": true` field that `server.gd` writes
+  to the status file *after* content load + `create_server`. Otherwise the
+  backend hands a client an address for a server that is still fetching chunks.
+- **`_await_port()` fails open.** After its 8 s deadline it returns normally,
+  with no error — `ensure_server` then reports success for a server that may
+  never have started. Content loading makes a slow start more likely, so the
+  readiness wait needs a real timeout error (503 to the joining client) and a
+  longer, configurable deadline.
+- **The status file is the only server→backend channel**, and `_spawn` currently
+  passes no credentials at all — hence §7.3.
+- **`player_count()` returns 0 when the status file is missing or unparseable**,
+  so a live server whose status write fails can be reaped after the idle timeout.
+  Harmless for data (the sim owns nothing durable — the point of D2) but worth a
+  comment where the fallback lives.
+- **No crash restart** (documented in the module docstring): if a server dies,
+  the next join respawns it and it reloads content from the store. With D2 this
+  is now genuinely safe rather than merely tolerated.
+
+---
+
+## 8. API surface
+
+All paths are under the existing `worlds` router prefix (`/api/worlds`) unless
+noted. New router module: `backend/app/routers/world_content.py`, mounted at
+`/api/worlds`; internal routes in `backend/app/routers/internal.py` at
+`/api/internal`.
+
+### 8.1 Public (editor & player client; JWT `CurrentUser`)
+
+| Method | Path | Purpose |
+|---|---|---|
+| `GET` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms` | List rooms + grid config |
+| `POST` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms` | Create a room (owner) |
+| `GET` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks` | Chunk **index** over a bounds query |
+| `GET` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}` | Fetch one chunk |
+| `PUT` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}` | Write one chunk |
+| `PUT` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks` | Write up to `WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH` chunks atomically |
+| `DELETE` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}` | Delete one chunk |
+| `GET` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}/revisions` | Revision history (owner) |
+| `POST` | `/api/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}/rollback` | Restore a revision (owner) |
+
+**Room list** — `GET .../rooms` → `200`
+
+```json
+[{ "id": 7, "slug": "main", "name": "Main",
+   "grid": { "size": [32, 32, 1], "origin": [0, 0, 0] },
+   "bounds": null,
+   "spawn": { "pos": [0, 1.5, 0], "yaw": 0.0 },
+   "chunk_count": 41 }]
+```
+
+**Chunk index** — `GET .../chunks?cx_min=&cx_max=&cy_min=&cy_max=&cz=0` → `200`.
+Payloads are *not* included; this is `world.md` §5.1's `list_chunks(bounds)` and
+lets a streamer decide what to fetch and skip anything already cached by
+checksum.
+
+```json
+{ "room": "main", "content_revision": 118,
+  "chunks": [{ "key": "12:main:0:0:0", "cx": 0, "cy": 0, "cz": 0,
+               "revision": 4, "checksum": "9f86…", "payload_len": 2344,
+               "is_mature": false, "updated_at": "2026-09-14T10:02:11Z" }] }
+```
+
+Bounds are capped (default 32×32 chunks per query) and return `422` beyond that.
+
+**Chunk fetch** — `GET .../chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}`, content-negotiated:
+
+- `Accept: application/octet-stream` (default for the game client) → `200` with
+  the raw `world.md` §3.6 bytes, `ETag: "<checksum>"`,
+  `X-Chunk-Revision: <n>`, `X-Chunk-Key: <key>`.
+- `Accept: application/json` (tooling, tests, the editor's debug view) → the
+  §3.5 JSON encoding, decoded server-side from the payload. JSON is derived, never
+  stored, so there is no dual-write drift (`world.md` §4.4).
+- `If-None-Match: "<checksum>"` → `304`. This is what makes the client's
+  `user://chunk_cache/` cache cheap and is why the checksum is the ETag.
+- `404` if the chunk does not exist (an unwritten coordinate is not an error to
+  the streamer — it renders empty).
+
+**Chunk write** — `PUT .../chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}`
+
+```
+Content-Type: application/octet-stream
+X-Base-Revision: 4          # 0 = create
+<binary payload>
+```
+
+or, for clients that prefer JSON:
+`{"base_revision": 4, "payload_b64": "…"}`.
+
+Responses:
+
+| Code | Body / meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `200` | `{"key", "revision", "checksum", "payload_len", "updated_at", "is_mature", "live_session"}` |
+| `409` | `{"detail": "revision conflict", "current_revision": 6, "current_checksum": "…"}` |
+| `403` | not the world owner |
+| `404` | world or room not found / not visible |
+| `413` | payload over `WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES` |
+| `422` | decode/validation failure (`{"detail", "reason"}`, e.g. `checksum_mismatch`, `layer_dims`, `object_out_of_bounds`) |
+
+**Batch write** — `PUT .../chunks` with
+`{"chunks": [{"cx","cy","cz","base_revision","payload_b64"}, …]}`. Applied in
+**one transaction, all-or-nothing**: if any entry conflicts, nothing is written
+and the response is `409` naming the offending coordinate. Justification: an
+editor brush stroke or an object drag routinely straddles a chunk boundary, and
+without a batch the editor either issues N round trips or leaves half of a user
+action persisted. Capped at `WORLD_CHUNK_MAX_BATCH` chunks and 8 MB.
+
+### 8.2 D5 — Full-chunk PUT, not JSON-Patch deltas
+
+`world.md` §5.4 specifies RFC-6902 deltas against `base_revision`. This design
+sends **whole chunks** instead.
+
+- A 32×32×1 chunk is ~2 KB of dense tile indices plus its objects — a few KB.
+  The bandwidth a patch saves is negligible at editor rates.
+- The stored form is an opaque binary blob. Patching it means the backend must
+  decode → apply a JSON-Patch → re-encode → re-checksum, i.e. implement and test
+  a *second* mutation format on top of the codec, with its own failure modes, and
+  keep it in sync with the client's patch generator. That is the same dual-path
+  drift risk `world.md` §5.2 exists to prevent.
+- Lost-update protection comes from `base_revision`, not from the patch, so
+  nothing is given up on correctness.
+
+Delta encoding stays available as a pure bandwidth optimization later —
+`world.md` §8 already files it as future work.
+
+### 8.3 Internal (dedicated server; `require_game_server` token)
+
+| Method | Path | Purpose |
+|---|---|---|
+| `GET` | `/api/internal/worlds/{world_id}/manifest` | Rooms, grids, spawn, `content_revision`, chunk counts |
+| `GET` | `/api/internal/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks` | Bounds index (same shape as §8.1) |
+| `GET` | `/api/internal/worlds/{world_id}/rooms/{slug}/chunks/{cx}/{cy}/{cz}` | Binary payload |
+
+Read-only by construction — there is no internal write route, and adding one
+would violate D2. The token is world-scoped, so a path whose `world_id` differs
+from the token's world is `403`. These routes skip the per-user visibility check
+(the sim process has no user) and apply no mature gating (gating is a client/user
+concern; the server still needs collision).
+
+### 8.4 D6 — The client streams chunks over HTTP, not over ENet
+
+`world.md` §5.3 routes `request_chunk` / `chunk_data` over the game's ENet
+connection. This design has the playing client fetch chunks from the **backend
+over HTTP**, the same routes the editor uses.
+
+- The dedicated server has no content the backend doesn't have; proxying bytes
+  through it adds a hop and puts multi-megabyte reliable transfers in contention
+  with the 30 Hz snapshot broadcast on the same ENet peer.
+- HTTP gives caching for free — `ETag`/`If-None-Match` on the checksum, and a
+  local `user://chunk_cache/<checksum>` that survives sessions.
+- `ApiClient` (`scripts/api_client.gd`) already carries the JWT and the result
+  contract; no new transport code.
+
+**This does not require rewriting `ChunkStreamManager`.** It already calls
+through a `set_server_rpc()` seam that only needs an object with
+`request_chunk(key)`. The editor-wiring task supplies an `HttpChunkSource` that
+implements that method against `ApiClient` and feeds
+`_on_chunk_data_received(key, bytes)` — which also finally gives that dormant
+seam a caller. Note the existing `_load_chunk()` builds its key with empty
+world/room ids (`Chunk.build_key("", "", coord)`); the adapter must supply the
+real world id and room slug.
+
+---
+
+## 9. What each follow-on task owns
+
+**Backend task**
+- `backend/app/models/world_content.py` + `0005_add_world_content_tables`
+- `backend/app/services/chunk_codec.py` (Python port of `world.md` §3.6) and the
+  golden-file fixtures shared with the Godot suite
+- `backend/app/services/world_store.py` (the `world.md` §5.1 service interface,
+  minus `flush_dirty`/`rebuild_index`, over Postgres)
+- `backend/app/routers/world_content.py`, `backend/app/routers/internal.py`
+- `game_servers.py`: per-spawn token, `--api-url`/`--server-token` args,
+  readiness-from-status-file instead of `_await_port` (§7.4)
+- `create_world` creates the `main` room
+
+**Client/editor task**
+- `HttpChunkSource` adapter → `ChunkStreamManager.set_server_rpc()`
+- Editor save path (single + batch PUT), 409 conflict re-fetch-and-reapply,
+  `live_session` warning UI
+- "Edit world" entry from the world browser that does **not** join
+- `server.gd`: arg parsing, manifest + chunk fetch before `create_server`,
+  collision build from decoded chunks, `test_level.tscn` fallback,
+  `"ready"`/`"content"` fields in the status file
+
+---
+
+## 10. Open questions (deliberately not decided here)
+
+- **Hot reload / build-in-place** while a session is live (§6) — the
+  `content_revision` seam is in place for it.
+- **Collaborator permissions** beyond `owner_id` — one check in §5.3.
+- **Mature-content gating** on the read path — column and index exist; the
+  policy belongs to `content_moderation.md`.
+- **`world_chunk_objects`** derived index — spec'd in `world.md` §4.5, build it
+  when a query needs it (§4.2).
+- **Payload compression** — the §3.6 header reserves a flags bitmask; Postgres
+  TOAST already compresses `BYTEA`, so measure before adding a second layer.
+- **Chunk streaming for very large worlds** — the bounds-query cap in §8.1 is a
+  guardrail, not a scaling plan.

docs/checkpoints/PC1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Package Checkpoint 1 (PC1)
+
+Validated 2026-08-20 against `main` commit `927f9bd`, from a genuinely fresh
+clone (not a reused agent workspace).
+
+## Automated validation
+
+Run with `scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py` — see
+`docs/testing/test_inventory.md` for exactly what each suite covers.
+
+| Check | Result |
+|---|---|
+| Alembic migrations, fresh DB | PASS |
+| Backend pytest | 68/68 PASS |
+| Godot smoke tests (4 files) | ALL PASS |
+| Linux export (`agp-game.x86_64`) | Builds, verified as a real ELF64 binary |
+| Windows export (`agp-game.exe`) | Builds, verified as a real PE32+ binary |
+
+## Problems found during this checkpoint (fixed, tracked as tasks)
+
+- Roadmap showed the Godot Engine Scaffold feature amber despite 6/6 tasks
+  done — a historical data gap (a review-feedback follow-up task's
+  supersession link was never recorded, predating when that field started
+  being tracked). Backfilled in the PM database; confirmed green.
+- `docs/testing/test_inventory.md` was stale (said 38 backend tests,
+  actually 68; said no integration tests existed, 4 real ones had landed).
+  Fixed via task `398bf1a22a2d` / PR #40.
+
+## What's actually testable right now
+
+Login/register/browse-worlds only — there's no joinable gameplay yet. That's
+the real scope of PC1; don't expect more when playtesting.
+
+- Register a new account (18+ only, rejected otherwise)
+- Log out, log back in with the same credentials
+- Play → Browse Worlds — loads a (currently empty) world list with no errors
+
+## Manual playtest: backend on cloudbison, client on pinkbison
+
+As of 2026-08-20 this is dashboard-controlled — no terminal commands, no
+env vars, no editing files. Foolproof enough to hand to someone else.
+
+### 1. On cloudbison — the AGP dashboard
+
+Open the dashboard (`http://cloudbison:7070`, or its Tailscale address) and
+go to **PC1** in the nav bar (`/checkpoint/PC1`). Click **Start Backend** —
+it pulls the latest `main`, stands up Postgres, runs migrations, and starts
+the API server, all in one step. The page shows the LAN address it's
+reachable at once it's up (under a minute).
+
+When you're done playtesting, click **Stop & Clean Up** on the same page —
+it tears down everything that step started (API server, Postgres
+container, its volume and network). Nothing is left running or lying
+around afterward, even if the dashboard itself gets restarted in between.
+
+### 2. On pinkbison — download and run the .exe
+
+Same dashboard page: click **Build .exe** the first time (or **Rebuild** to
+pick up newer changes) — this pulls the latest `main` and exports a Windows
+binary with cloudbison's backend address already baked in. Click
+**Download agp-game.exe**, copy it to pinkbison, and just run it. No
+environment variable, no config file, no build step on pinkbison at all.
+
+### 3. Tear down when done
+
+**Stop & Clean Up** on the dashboard page. That's it.
+
+## Status
+
+`config/checkpoint_focus_feature_ids` in the AGP framework (`~/agp`) still
+restricts agent claiming to the 5 PC1-scope features. Agents will not move
+on to post-PC1 work until that's widened.

docs/checkpoints/PC3.md

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+# Package Checkpoint 3 (PC3)
+
+> **Status: partial.** PC3's planned scope was M4-avatars + M5-multiplayer +
+> Foundation Hardening + M6–M10 (see `docs/build-plan-v1.md`). As of
+> 2026-09-05, **M4, M5, and most of Foundation Hardening are done and
+> checkpoint-verified**; M6–M10 have not been started. This doc records what
+> is real. Whether to call this "PC3" (redefined scope, M6–M10 → PC4) or keep
+> PC3 open is a user decision.
+
+Built by Claude directly (fleet offline), branch `pc3` → `main`.
+
+## What's real and verified (`scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py`, all green)
+
+| Check | Result |
+|---|---|
+| Alembic migrations, fresh DB | PASS |
+| Backend `pytest` | 77/77 PASS (hermetic — auto-starts an ephemeral Postgres) |
+| Godot smoke tests (~16 files) | ALL PASS |
+| `smoke_test_network_client` (real dedicated server) | 4/4 PASS |
+| 2-player multiplayer (`run_multiplayer_2p_test.sh`) | PASS |
+| Fresh-clone boot (`verify_fresh_clone.sh`) | PASS |
+| Linux + Windows exports | Build as real ELF64 / PE32+ binaries |
+
+### M4 — Avatars in the game
+
+- Placeholder avatar pack (14 GLBs, rigged 24-bone base body + attachments)
+  generated by `scripts/tools/gen_placeholder_avatars.gd`. Real art is a
+  content swap — catalog paths are stable.
+- The avatar **loader was fixed** — it had never run against a real skeleton
+  (`Skeleton3D.has_bone()` isn't a Godot 4 method; the bone-copy dropped the
+  skin binding; attachments were parsed then discarded).
+- `avatar_visualizer.gd` **rewritten** — the old one referenced a loader API
+  that never existed and didn't compile.
+- Persistence: `avatar_loadouts` table + `GET/PUT /api/avatar/loadout`
+  (loadout stored as one JSON doc; server validates the envelope only).
+- Wired into gameplay: the in-world player renders as the assembled avatar
+  (not a capsule); the loadout is fetched at login; "Customize Avatar" from
+  the main menu saves through to the backend.
+- **Follow-up:** camera is still first-person, so the local player doesn't
+  see their own avatar much (third-person is a polish item); remote players'
+  avatar appearance is not replicated yet (they show as labelled capsules).
+
+### M5 — Real multiplayer
+
+- `server.gd` **actually runs a sim now** — loads the world level, spawns a
+  server player per peer, processes each peer's input queue in seq order at a
+  fixed 30 Hz, broadcasts full snapshots with a per-peer `last_seq`. (The
+  input queue was a no-op before.)
+- `network_client.gd` reconciliation **replays in-flight inputs** from the
+  authoritative state (drops acked ones), snaps only on real drift.
+- **Server orchestration** (`backend/app/services/game_servers.py`): one
+  headless Godot dedicated-server process per world, spawned on demand by
+  `POST /api/worlds/{id}/join`, port-allocated, with a status-file idle
+  reaper. Off by default; the playtest launcher (`checkpoint_ops.py`)
+  enables it.
+- **Client play path**: world browser → `/join` → `Session` → `game.tscn`
+  connects → local player predicts with collision, input forwarded, server
+  position is a drift backstop, remote players render from snapshots,
+  disconnect returns to the world list. Falls back to local single-player
+  when the backend has no orchestration.
+- **Verified**: two real client processes each `register → /join → play`,
+  hosted on an orchestrated server, see and move relative to each other
+  (`run_game_multiplayer_test.sh`).
+
+### Foundation Hardening
+
+- **Hermetic backend tests** — `cd backend && pytest` works from a clean
+  checkout (auto ephemeral Postgres + migrations, torn down after); skips
+  cleanly with a message if there's no Docker.
+- **Fresh-clone boot check** — `verify_fresh_clone.sh` exports a pristine
+  tree, imports from scratch, boots headless, fails on any script error.
+  Also fixed the root cause: a stale `.godot/global_script_class_cache.cfg`
+  was committed to the repo.
+- **Real age verification** — `/register` takes a date of birth (not a
+  checkbox), server computes age, 403 under 18. Still self-attested; the
+  limitation and the ID-check hook are documented
+  (`content_moderation.md` 5.2).
+- **Auth rate limiting** — 10 attempts / min / IP on `/register` + `/login`.
+- **CI workflow** — `.forgejo/workflows/checkpoint.yml` written, **not
+  running yet**: needs the operator to enable Forgejo Actions + register a
+  `host` runner (one-time; see `docs/ci.md`). Interim gate is
+  `run_checkpoint_tests.py` by hand / the dashboard.
+
+## Not in PC3 (planned but not started)
+
+- **M2** server-side world persistence
+- **M6** scripting sandbox
+- **M7** in-game editor
+- **M8** social / chat
+- **M9** economy
+- **M10** discovery
+
+## Playtest
+
+Same as PC2 — grab the exe from the dashboard's `/checkpoints`, backend
+pointed at it. New: with multiple people in the same world you now actually
+see each other move.

docs/ci.md

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+# CI
+
+`.gitea/workflows/checkpoint.yml` runs the full checkpoint suite
+(`scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py`: migrations on a fresh DB, backend
+`pytest`, all Godot smoke tests, the 2-player multiplayer test, and the
+fresh-clone boot check) on **every push to `main` and every PR**.
+
+## Status: live
+
+Set up 2026-09-05:
+
+- Gitea Actions enabled (`[actions] ENABLED = true` in
+  `/DATA/AppData/forgejo/gitea/conf/app.ini`, container restarted; a
+  timestamped `.bak` is next to it).
+- `act_runner` v0.2.13 registered as **`agp-host`** with label **`host`**
+  (host execution mode — jobs run directly on the AGP box, which already
+  has Docker, `~/godot/godot`, and Python). Lives in `~/act-runner/`.
+- Green on the first successful run (`d76bf4d`).
+
+The workflow uses **no JavaScript actions** (no `actions/checkout`), so the
+host needs no Node: checkout is a shallow `git fetch` from the local Gitea
+using the injected `${{ github.token }}`, and the suite runs in a venv the
+job builds (host Python is PEP-668 externally-managed).
+
+## Make the runner permanent (one command, needs sudo)
+
+The runner currently runs as a plain background process — it won't survive a
+reboot. A unit file is ready at `~/act-runner/act-runner.service`:
+
+```bash
+sudo cp ~/act-runner/act-runner.service /etc/systemd/system/
+sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+pkill -f 'act_runner daemon'          # stop the temporary background one
+sudo systemctl enable --now act-runner
+```
+
+## Interim / local
+
+```bash
+python scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py
+```
+
+— also what `/checkpoint/<PC>` on the dashboard runs before a playtest build.
+
+## Security note
+
+A host-mode runner executes whatever a workflow says, directly on the box,
+as `daddy` (in the `docker` group). Fine for a single-maintainer private
+repo; revisit if the repo gets outside contributors (switch to a
+docker-mode runner or an isolated VM).

docs/planning/client-server-wiring.md

@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ explicitly out of scope.
 | # | Type | Task | Depends on |
 |---|------|------|-----------|
 | 1 | architecture | `ApiClient` autoload: HTTP + JWT storage + error contract | — |
-| 2 | implementation | Main-menu **login** wiring (form-encoded) | 1 |
-| 3 | implementation | Main-menu **register** wiring (JSON + age gate) | 2 |
-| 4 | implementation | **World list** screen consuming `GET /api/worlds` | 2 |
-| 5 | testing | End-to-end headless smoke test + manual verify | 1,3,4 |
+| 2 | implementation | Main-menu **login + register** UI built & wired (form-encoded + JSON/age gate) | 1 |
+| 3 | implementation | **World list** screen consuming `GET /api/worlds` | 1 |
+| 4 | testing | End-to-end headless smoke test + manual verify | 1,2,3 |
 
 ## Design decisions captured (resolved in task 1)
 - Token storage: in-memory singleton property for the MVP; a `save_to_disk` seam is left
@@ -35,3 +34,8 @@ explicitly out of scope.
   never crash on network failure; non-2xx surfaces `{status, detail}` from the backend.
 - Base URL: read from a ProjectSetting, defaulting to `http://127.0.0.1:8000`.
 - Login is form-encoded; register is JSON — the client helper must support both content types.
+
+## Notes
+- The main-menu auth UI does **not** exist yet (main_menu.gd currently has only Play/Quit
+  stubs). Task 2 must **build** the login/register UI, not merely wire an existing one.
+- The world-list screen also needs to be **built** (a new scene), not just wired.

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+# Testing at Package Checkpoints
+
+A Package Checkpoint (PC1, PC2, ...) is a periodic review point — every few
+real milestones, the client and server builds get packaged together and
+independently reviewed before anyone calls anything actually done. See
+`project_agp` in Claude's memory, or ask, for the full definition; this
+doc is just the mechanical "how do I run the tests" part of that review.
+
+## Running the suite
+
+```
+python scripts/run_checkpoint_tests.py
+```
+
+Brings up a throwaway Postgres, runs Alembic migrations against it, runs the
+backend pytest suite, starts the backend server, and runs every Godot
+headless smoke test (`scripts/smoke_test_*.gd`) against it. Tears the
+Postgres container down afterward (`--keep-postgres` to skip that if you
+want to poke at the DB after a failure).
+
+If port 5432 is already taken on the machine, pass `--postgres-port` with
+something else.
+
+Exit code is 0 only if everything that actually ran passed — suites with
+nothing to run yet (no Godot binary found, no smoke test scripts yet) are
+reported SKIPPED, not treated as a failure.
+
+## What this does and doesn't prove
+
+Passing this script means: migrations apply cleanly to a genuinely empty
+database, the backend's unit-level logic is correct, and whatever Godot
+smoke tests exist actually round-trip against a live backend. It does
+**not** mean full endpoint/integration coverage exists — see
+`test_inventory.md` for the current, honest list of what's tested and what
+isn't. A checkpoint review should still involve reading the actual diffs
+for anything this script's current coverage doesn't reach, not just running
+green and calling it done.
+
+## Growing this over time
+
+As real integration tests get added (endpoint tests hitting the FastAPI app,
+more Godot smoke coverage beyond `health_check`), they should land under
+`backend/tests/` / `scripts/smoke_test_*.gd` respectively — this script
+picks up new files automatically, nothing to register by hand. Update
+`test_inventory.md`'s tables when you do, so the inventory stays a source
+of truth instead of quietly going stale.
+
+Eventual goal (not implemented yet): gate merges to `main` on this script
+passing, the same way a real CI pipeline would. For now it's a manual step
+run at checkpoint review time.