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19 changes: 17 additions & 2 deletions specs/002-nuclear-option-ip-pool/contracts/nuclear-option-remote-command.md
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Where the live capture covers a command, that observed behavior is marked **VERIFIED**. Where the capture did not reach a command (no player was connected to test player-list hydration, no error scenarios were exhaustively probed), it remains **UNVERIFIED**.

**Second live capture (2026-10-11, T019, no player connected)**: run against a server from the repo template on kubelab, over TCP 7779 from inside the game container (4-byte LE length prefix + JSON; response 4-byte LE status + 4-byte LE body length + body). Observed:

| Command | Status | Body | Server log |
|---|---|---|---|
| `get-player-list` | 2000 | `{"Players":[]}` | none notable |
| `send-chat-message "hello from gameplane"` | 2000 | empty | `Error running send-chat-message on main thread: System.NullReferenceException` in `RunSendChatMessage` |
| `banlist-add 76561198000000001` | 2000 | empty | `Adding … to list`; appends to `ban_list.txt` only if the file already exists (see `modules/nuclear-option/specs.md` §4) |
| `banlist-remove 76561198000000001` | 2000 | empty | `Removed … from list`; removes the line from `ban_list.txt` if the file exists |
| `kick-player 76561198000000002` (not connected) | 2000 | empty | `RunKickPlayer failed to find user …, but adding them to kicked list so they can not rejoin` |
| `set-next-mission BuiltIn Escalation 3600` | 2000 | empty | none |
| `set-next-mission Bogus Nope 10` | 2000 | empty | none |
| unknown command name | 4004 | empty | none |

Consequences: (1) status 2000 does not mean the action worked: `send-chat-message` returned 2000 while the server threw a `NullReferenceException` (cause unknown; it may be only the no-player case, and chat with a player connected was **not observed**); (2) `kick-player` for an ID that is not connected still puts the ID on the kicked list. Per-entry `get-player-list` shape with a player, and the `kick-player`/`send-chat-message` effects on a connected client, remain **UNVERIFIED** (no client available).

### 1. `update-ready`

**Purpose**: Notifies the server that a component is ready, likely to progress a startup sequence.
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"faction": "Boscali"
}
```
However, **this per-entry schema remains UNVERIFIED**. The wrapper key `"Players"` (capital P) is confirmed; the per-entry contents are not. A real join test with a connected player is required to confirm the exact field set.
However, **this per-entry schema remains UNVERIFIED**. The wrapper key `"Players"` (capital P) is confirmed (re-confirmed 2026-10-11, status 2000, `{"Players":[]}`, 14 bytes); the per-entry contents are not. Not observed on 2026-10-11 either: no game client was available to connect a player, and the join test is withdrawn (spec FR-004 amendment). The exact field set stays UNVERIFIED until a player connects.

**RESOLVED — display names are hydrated outside this protocol**: Spec 002 FR-007 and User Story 3 AC1 promise a player list with display names in the dashboard. Those requirements **stand as written and are not amended**. This protocol cannot supply display names, and it is not being extended to do so: the resolution is a Steam Web API display-name lookup performed in the **API server** (`api/internal/...`), layered on top of the wire response. The question is closed; no further spec-owner decision is pending.

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**CRITICAL CONTRADICTION**: The contract previously assumed a single mission-name argument. Live observation on 2026-08-22 shows the server rejects a single-argument invocation with error status **4005**: `{"message":"Expected Arguments [string Group, string Name, float MaxTime]"}`. The signature is **three arguments** (group, name, duration), as now listed above. Any client implementation must provide all three.

**Response**: Status 2000, body: **UNVERIFIED — response body shape not specified upstream; confirm against a live server**.
**Response**: Status 2000, **body is empty** (VERIFIED 2026-10-11: `set-next-mission BuiltIn Escalation 3600` returned status 2000, bodylen 0). The same empty 2000 came back for a nonexistent group and name (`Bogus Nope 10`), so the server does not validate the mission against its mission list at command time. A rejected mission, if any, shows only in the server log; the response cannot confirm the mission exists.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the conclusion to the observed response.

Both requests returned the same empty 2000 response. This does not establish that the server skips validation. The server could reject or ignore an unknown mission without exposing that result. State only that the response cannot confirm whether the requested mission exists.

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Review comment at
@specs/002-nuclear-option-ip-pool/contracts/nuclear-option-remote-command.md at
line 386:
Revise the `set-next-mission` conclusion to state only that the identical empty
2000 responses cannot confirm whether the requested mission exists. Do not infer
from these responses that the server skips validation or describe how it handles
an unknown mission.

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