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package/README.md

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+# @convai/embody
+
+**Give a Convai character a body.**
+
+[![npm](https://img.shields.io/badge/npm-0.1.0-blue)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@convai/embody)
+[![TypeScript](https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-first-3178C6)](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-green)](./LICENSE)
+
+Resolves ready-to-use 3D characters by `characterId` and drives them with
+lipsync, gaze, breathing and blink. Layered on
+[`@convai/web-sdk`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@convai/web-sdk).
+
+---
+
+> **Branch: `stg`** — this branch defaults to the staging backend, which has
+> its own character database. Use `main` or `prod` for production.
+>
+> **Status: early release (`0.1.0`).** The front-door API is still moving —
+> see [Roadmap](#roadmap).
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pnpm add @convai/embody three
+# React consumers also need:
+pnpm add @react-three/fiber react
+```
+
+`three` and `@convai/web-sdk` are peer dependencies. `react` and
+`@react-three/fiber` are optional peers — the `/core` path needs neither.
+
+## Quick start — React
+
+```tsx
+import { ConvaiCharacter } from '@convai/embody/react'
+import { httpResolver } from '@convai/embody'
+
+<ConvaiCharacter
+  resolver={httpResolver({ apiKey })}          // host defaults per release channel
+  characterId={characterId}
+  queue={client.blendshapeQueue}   // only while this character owns the turn
+/>
+```
+
+## Quick start — core (plain three.js)
+
+```ts
+import { createCharacter, httpResolver } from '@convai/embody'
+
+const character = await createCharacter({
+  resolver: httpResolver({ apiKey }),   // host defaults per release channel
+  characterId,
+})
+
+scene.add(character.root)
+character.camera = camera
+
+renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
+  character.update(clock.getDelta(), client?.blendshapeQueue)
+  renderer.render(scene, camera)
+})
+```
+
+`character.dispose()` releases the model, its materials and textures, the
+mixer, and the reduced-motion listener.
+
+## What it does
+
+Eight systems run in an explicit, ordered frame pipeline. The order is
+load-bearing, not incidental:
+
+| Stage | System | Why here |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0 normalize | unit normalizer | root scale must settle before anything reads world space |
+| 1 mixer | animation clips | drives the skeleton |
+| 2 gaze | `GazeSystem` | **overrides** the mixer's head rotation rather than blending with it |
+| 3 additive | `BreathingSystem` | added *after* the mixer so nothing accumulates |
+| 4 ik / 5 attach | *(reserved)* | foot lock and hair land here later |
+| 6 morph | lipsync → `EyeGazeSystem` → `BlinkSystem` | blink must run after lipsync to win the eyelid channels |
+
+- **Gaze** — head/neck solve about the rig's own axis basis, idle micro-drift,
+  occasional look-away shifts with dwell timing, turn banking, camera lock, and
+  a deviation pull-back that lets the clip's own head motion flow until it strays.
+- **Breathing** — asymmetric waveform, chest leading the waist, composed onto
+  whatever the mixer wrote.
+- **Blink** — asymmetric close/hold/reopen envelope, resting droop that wanders
+  rather than loops, partial and double blinks, lids following downward gaze.
+- **Eye gaze** — morph-only on `convai-mha-1`, which has no eye bones.
+- **`prefers-reduced-motion`** damps every additive layer and suppresses
+  look-away shifts, while leaving lipsync and clip playback untouched.
+
+## Rigs
+
+`convai-mha-1` (the UE MetaHuman rig) is the registered profile. `CC4_LEGACY`
+ships but is deliberately not registered. Bone and morph names are data on the
+profile, so a new rig is a value rather than a code change.
+
+## The resolver seam
+
+`CharacterResolver` is the plug point between this package and the asset
+backend. `httpResolver` talks to `GET /character/{id}/embodiment`, but anything
+returning a `CharacterBundle` works — the demo ships an offline fixture
+resolver for backend-free development.
+
+## Docs
+
+Design, plan and decision history live in [`docs/`](./docs):
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| [motion-design.md](./docs/motion-design.md) | the approved design — the binding authority |
+| [motion-implementation-plan.md](./docs/motion-implementation-plan.md) | the 12-task TDD plan |
+| [motion-decisions.md](./docs/motion-decisions.md) | 73 rulings, each with its cost if wrong |
+| [motion-execution-ledger.md](./docs/motion-execution-ledger.md) | the full execution record |
+
+## Release channels
+
+The backend host is a source constant, `DEFAULT_BASE_URL` in
+`src/resolve/resolver.ts`, pinned per release branch — the same shape
+`@convai/web-sdk` uses for its connect host.
+
+| Branch | Host | npm tag |
+|---|---|---|
+| `stable-release` | `https://api.convai.com` | `latest` |
+| `beta-release` | `https://api.convai.com` | `beta` |
+| `stg-release` | `https://api-stg.convai.com` | `stg` |
+
+Beta points at **production** — it is the first line of testing against real
+infrastructure, not a staging channel. Only `stg-release` targets staging,
+which has its own character database.
+
+`scripts/check-hosts.mjs` enforces this. Each channel build asserts the policy
+for the release it claims to be, so a staging artifact cannot be cut from
+prod-host source:
+
+```bash
+pnpm build:stg     # refuses unless DEFAULT_BASE_URL is the staging host
+pnpm build:beta    # refuses unless it is production
+pnpm build:prod    # refuses unless it is production
+pnpm check:hosts   # auto-detects the current branch
+```
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+pnpm install
+pnpm test         # 86 tests
+pnpm typecheck
+pnpm build        # emits dist/ with .d.ts
+pnpm verify       # hosts + typecheck + test + build
+pnpm dev          # the demo (see demo/verify.md)
+```
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- **Credential-first API.** `apiKey` / `authToken` + `characterId` should be
+  enough; the resolver should become optional and be constructed internally.
+  The default host now exists, so this is the remaining half.
+- **Retry on expired asset URLs** — re-resolve and retry once on a 403.
+- Foot lock, locomotion, hair physics, idle gestures.
+- Eye saccades and the speech lock.
+
+## License
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE).

package/dist/character/createCharacter.d.ts

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+/**
+ * createCharacter — the orchestrator. Resolve → load → wire → hand back a
+ * framework-free handle the app ticks once per frame.
+ */
+import * as THREE from 'three';
+import { type CharacterResolver, type CharacterBundle, type Representation } from '../resolve/resolver.js';
+import { type UnitNormalizer } from '../rig/units.js';
+import { AnimationController } from '../clips/animations.js';
+import { LipsyncSystem, type MouthTuning } from '../speech/lipsync.js';
+import { type CharacterDecorator } from '../decorate/types.js';
+import type { BlendshapeQueue } from '@convai/web-sdk/core';
+import { Pipeline } from './pipeline.js';
+import { type ResolvedRig } from '../rig/resolve.js';
+import { GazeSystem, type GazeConfig } from '../motion/gaze.js';
+import { type BreathingConfig } from '../motion/breathe.js';
+import { type EyeGazeConfig } from '../motion/eyeGaze.js';
+import { type BlinkConfig } from '../motion/blink.js';
+import { type ReducedMotion } from '../motion/reducedMotion.js';
+export interface CreateCharacterOptions {
+    resolver: CharacterResolver;
+    characterId: string;
+    /** Rig profiles this build understands, in preference order. */
+    supportedRigs?: string[];
+    targetHeight?: number;
+    groundY?: number;
+    mouth?: MouthTuning;
+    /** Tier-2 customization: run once after load, before first frame. */
+    decorators?: CharacterDecorator[];
+    /** Extra local clips (name → url), merged OVER manifest clips by name. */
+    animations?: Record<string, string>;
+    /** Stage 2 head/neck gaze tracking config. */
+    gaze?: GazeConfig;
+    /** Stage 6 eyelid/blink config. */
+    blink?: BlinkConfig;
+    /** Stage 3 additive chest/spine breathing config. */
+    breathing?: BreathingConfig;
+    /** Stage 6 morph-only eye-look config. */
+    eyeGaze?: EyeGazeConfig;
+    /**
+     * When `false`, register only the units (0), mixer (1) and lipsync (6)
+     * systems — no gaze, breathing, eye-look or blink. Default `true`.
+     */
+    motion?: boolean;
+}
+export interface CharacterHandle {
+    root: THREE.Object3D;
+    bundle: CharacterBundle;
+    representation: Representation;
+    animations: AnimationController;
+    lipsync: LipsyncSystem;
+    rig: ResolvedRig;
+    pipeline: Pipeline;
+    gaze: GazeSystem;
+    /** Set by the app once its camera exists; gaze tracking no-ops without one. */
+    camera?: THREE.Camera;
+    /** Tick every frame; pass the queue only when this character owns the turn. */
+    update(delta: number, queue?: BlendshapeQueue): void;
+    /** Stop the reduced-motion media-query watcher. Call on teardown. */
+    dispose(): void;
+}
+/**
+ * The registration block, factored out as its own seam so it can be tested
+ * without a GLB or a network resolver — it only needs objects of the right
+ * shape (the `Pick<...>` deps below are satisfied by trivial `{ update() {} }`
+ * stubs). `createCharacter` is the only production caller.
+ *
+ * Registration order in stage 6 is the contract: lipsync, then eye gaze,
+ * then blink — see the stage-6 comment below and `pipeline.ts`'s header.
+ */
+export declare function buildPipeline(deps: {
+    units: Pick<UnitNormalizer, 'update'>;
+    animations: Pick<AnimationController, 'update'>;
+    lipsync: Pick<LipsyncSystem, 'update'>;
+    rig: ResolvedRig;
+}, opts: Pick<CreateCharacterOptions, 'motion' | 'gaze' | 'breathing' | 'eyeGaze' | 'blink'>): {
+    pipeline: Pipeline;
+    gaze: GazeSystem;
+};
+/**
+ * The teardown block, factored out as its own seam (same rationale as
+ * `buildPipeline` above) so it can be tested without a GLB — real,
+ * lightweight `THREE.BufferGeometry`/`THREE.Material` instances are enough
+ * to prove every disposable is actually visited.
+ *
+ * RULING (2026-09-07 fix wave, "dispose() leaks the entire GLB"):
+ * `CharacterHandle.dispose()` used to release only the reduced-motion
+ * listener. `<primitive>` does not dispose on unmount, so every geometry,
+ * material and texture in the loaded GLB (31MB in the fixture used to
+ * measure this), plus the mixer's cached bindings, leaked on every
+ * `characterId` change. This traverses the whole scene graph exactly once,
+ * disposing every mesh's geometry and material(s) (array-aware) and every
+ * texture a material holds (deduped via a `Set`, since decorators or a
+ * shared-material GLB can point multiple meshes at the same texture),
+ * uncaches the root from the mixer, and detaches the root from its parent.
+ */
+export declare function disposeCharacter(deps: {
+    root: THREE.Object3D;
+    mixer: Pick<THREE.AnimationMixer, 'uncacheRoot'>;
+    reducedMotion: Pick<ReducedMotion, 'dispose'>;
+}): void;
+export declare function createCharacter(opts: CreateCharacterOptions): Promise<CharacterHandle>;

package/dist/character/createCharacter.js

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+import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/GLTFLoader.js';
+import { pickRepresentation } from '../resolve/resolver.js';
+import { createUnitNormalizer } from '../rig/units.js';
+import { AnimationController } from '../clips/animations.js';
+import { LipsyncSystem } from '../speech/lipsync.js';
+import { collectMaterials } from '../decorate/types.js';
+import { Pipeline } from './pipeline.js';
+import { CONVAI_MHA_1 } from '../rig/profile.js';
+import { resolveRig } from '../rig/resolve.js';
+import { GazeSystem } from '../motion/gaze.js';
+import { BreathingSystem } from '../motion/breathe.js';
+import { EyeGazeSystem } from '../motion/eyeGaze.js';
+import { BlinkSystem } from '../motion/blink.js';
+import { createReducedMotion } from '../motion/reducedMotion.js';
+/**
+ * The registration block, factored out as its own seam so it can be tested
+ * without a GLB or a network resolver — it only needs objects of the right
+ * shape (the `Pick<...>` deps below are satisfied by trivial `{ update() {} }`
+ * stubs). `createCharacter` is the only production caller.
+ *
+ * Registration order in stage 6 is the contract: lipsync, then eye gaze,
+ * then blink — see the stage-6 comment below and `pipeline.ts`'s header.
+ */
+export function buildPipeline(deps, opts) {
+    const { units, animations, lipsync } = deps;
+    const pipeline = new Pipeline();
+    // Stage 0 — root scale must settle before anything reads world space.
+    pipeline.add({ stage: 0, update: () => void units.update() });
+    // Stage 1 — clips drive the skeleton.
+    pipeline.add({ stage: 1, update: (dt) => animations.update(dt) });
+    const gaze = new GazeSystem(opts.gaze);
+    if (opts.motion !== false) {
+        pipeline.add(gaze); // 2 — overrides mixer
+        pipeline.add(new BreathingSystem(opts.breathing)); // 3 — additive
+    }
+    // Stage 6 — ORDER IS THE CONTRACT: lipsync, then eye gaze, then blink.
+    pipeline.add({ stage: 6, update: (dt, ctx) => lipsync.update(dt, ctx.queue) });
+    if (opts.motion !== false) {
+        pipeline.add(new EyeGazeSystem(gaze, opts.eyeGaze));
+        pipeline.add(new BlinkSystem(opts.blink, gaze));
+    }
+    return { pipeline, gaze };
+}
+/** Every material property that can hold a disposable `THREE.Texture`. */
+const TEXTURE_PROPS = [
+    'map', 'normalMap', 'roughnessMap', 'metalnessMap', 'emissiveMap',
+    'aoMap', 'bumpMap', 'displacementMap', 'alphaMap', 'envMap', 'lightMap',
+    'clearcoatMap', 'clearcoatNormalMap', 'clearcoatRoughnessMap',
+    'sheenColorMap', 'sheenRoughnessMap', 'specularMap', 'specularColorMap',
+    'specularIntensityMap', 'transmissionMap', 'thicknessMap',
+    'iridescenceMap', 'iridescenceThicknessMap', 'gradientMap',
+];
+/**
+ * The teardown block, factored out as its own seam (same rationale as
+ * `buildPipeline` above) so it can be tested without a GLB — real,
+ * lightweight `THREE.BufferGeometry`/`THREE.Material` instances are enough
+ * to prove every disposable is actually visited.
+ *
+ * RULING (2026-09-07 fix wave, "dispose() leaks the entire GLB"):
+ * `CharacterHandle.dispose()` used to release only the reduced-motion
+ * listener. `<primitive>` does not dispose on unmount, so every geometry,
+ * material and texture in the loaded GLB (31MB in the fixture used to
+ * measure this), plus the mixer's cached bindings, leaked on every
+ * `characterId` change. This traverses the whole scene graph exactly once,
+ * disposing every mesh's geometry and material(s) (array-aware) and every
+ * texture a material holds (deduped via a `Set`, since decorators or a
+ * shared-material GLB can point multiple meshes at the same texture),
+ * uncaches the root from the mixer, and detaches the root from its parent.
+ */
+export function disposeCharacter(deps) {
+    const { root, mixer, reducedMotion } = deps;
+    const disposedTextures = new Set();
+    root.traverse((o) => {
+        const mesh = o;
+        if (!mesh.isMesh)
+            return;
+        mesh.geometry?.dispose();
+        const materials = Array.isArray(mesh.material) ? mesh.material : [mesh.material];
+        for (const mat of materials) {
+            if (!mat)
+                continue;
+            const m = mat;
+            for (const prop of TEXTURE_PROPS) {
+                const tex = m[prop];
+                if (tex && !disposedTextures.has(tex)) {
+                    disposedTextures.add(tex);
+                    tex.dispose();
+                }
+            }
+            mat.dispose();
+        }
+    });
+    mixer.uncacheRoot(root);
+    root.parent?.remove(root);
+    reducedMotion.dispose();
+}
+export async function createCharacter(opts) {
+    const bundle = await opts.resolver.resolve(opts.characterId);
+    const rep = pickRepresentation(bundle, opts.supportedRigs ?? ['convai-mha-1']);
+    const loader = new GLTFLoader();
+    const modelUrl = rep.model[0].url;
+    // clip sources: manifest clips, with local overrides winning by name
+    const clipUrls = new Map();
+    for (const [name, c] of Object.entries(rep.clips ?? {}))
+        clipUrls.set(name, c.url);
+    for (const [name, url] of Object.entries(opts.animations ?? {}))
+        clipUrls.set(name, url);
+    const uniqueUrls = [...new Set(clipUrls.values())];
+    const [modelGltf, ...clipGltfs] = await Promise.all([
+        loader.loadAsync(modelUrl),
+        ...uniqueUrls.map((u) => loader.loadAsync(u)),
+    ]);
+    const root = modelGltf.scene;
+    // gather every clip whose name the manifest/overrides declared
+    const wanted = new Set(clipUrls.keys());
+    const clips = [];
+    for (const g of clipGltfs)
+        for (const a of g.animations)
+            if (wanted.has(a.name))
+                clips.push(a);
+    const animations = new AnimationController(root);
+    animations.register(clips);
+    const lipsync = new LipsyncSystem(opts.mouth);
+    lipsync.bind(root);
+    for (const d of opts.decorators ?? []) {
+        d({ root, bundle, representation: rep, materials: collectMaterials(root) });
+    }
+    const units = createUnitNormalizer(root, {
+        targetHeight: opts.targetHeight,
+        groundY: opts.groundY,
+    });
+    const rig = resolveRig(root, CONVAI_MHA_1);
+    const reduced = createReducedMotion();
+    const { pipeline, gaze } = buildPipeline({ units, animations, lipsync, rig }, { motion: opts.motion, gaze: opts.gaze, breathing: opts.breathing, eyeGaze: opts.eyeGaze, blink: opts.blink });
+    // Reused every frame — mutated in place rather than reallocated, so the
+    // per-frame path makes zero steady-state allocations for the frame context.
+    const frameCtx = {
+        root, rig,
+        camera: undefined,
+        queue: undefined,
+        speaking: false,
+        energy: 0,
+        reducedMotion: false,
+    };
+    const handle = {
+        root, bundle, representation: rep, animations, lipsync, rig, pipeline, gaze,
+        camera: undefined,
+        update(delta, queue) {
+            frameCtx.camera = handle.camera;
+            frameCtx.queue = queue;
+            // Produced in stage 6 last frame — deliberately one frame stale (see
+            // FrameContext's doc comment on `speaking`/`energy`).
+            frameCtx.speaking = lipsync.speaking;
+            frameCtx.energy = lipsync.energy;
+            frameCtx.reducedMotion = reduced.value;
+            pipeline.update(delta, frameCtx);
+        },
+        dispose() {
+            disposeCharacter({ root, mixer: animations.mixer, reducedMotion: reduced });
+        },
+    };
+    return handle;
+}