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-# recoil-host
+# Recoil Autohost
 
-WIP
+Starts [Recoil] engine dedicated game servers as-a-service over the [Tachyon] protocol.
+
+```mermaid
+---
+title: Whole system view
+---
+graph LR
+  subgraph player's machine
+    lobby --> engine
+  end
+
+  lobby-server <-- tachyon protocol --> autohost
+  lobby-server <-- tachyon protocol --> lobby
+
+  subgraph game server
+    autohost <-- engine autohost protocol --> engine-dedicated
+    engine-dedicated <-- engine protocol --> engine
+  end
+
+  style autohost stroke-width:2px,stroke-dasharray:4,stroke:#ee4444
+```
+
+## Overview
+
+This repo contain the Autohost service as defined in the [Tachyon] protocol
+definition. The service connects to the configured lobby server endpoint and
+allows lobby to start new battles. A single Autohost service can manage many
+battles in parallel. The autohost then facilitates communication between the
+running dedicated [Recoil] engine processes and lobby server (for example
+[Teiserver]): messages, commands, game updates.
+
+Currently the service implements fully the Tachyon Autohost endpoints but isn't
+yet fully ready for production deployments.
+
+## Usage
+
+Autohost takes a single JSON configuration file as argument and starts the
+operation:
+
+```shell
+npm install
+npm run start config.json | npx pino-pretty
+```
+
+A minimal configuration file looks like:
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore -->
+```json
+{
+  "hostname": "lobby-server.example.com",
+  "clientId": "autohost1",
+  "clientSecret": "pass1",
+}
+```
+
+To see all options take a look at schema in [`src/config.ts`](./src/config.ts).
+
+Autohost expects existence of `engines` folder that contains folder with
+different engine versions, for example:
+
+```console
+$ tree engines -L 1
+engines
+├── 105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0 BAR105
+└── local -> ../../spring/build-linux/install
+```
+
+During execution, autohost creates a new directory for each started battle
+under `instances` directory, for example `instances/5a7b1354-e3ff-4a98-946e-9bece3b869a3/`.
+
+## Development
+
+### Git hooks
+
+It is recommended to set up a simple [Git pre-commit hook](https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks)
+provided in the repo ([`pre-commit`](./pre-commit)) that runs automatic checks
+on changes in every new commit: formatting type-checking, tests, linting.
+
+```shell
+ln -s ../../pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit
+```
+
+### Testing with tachyon server fake
+
+This repository contains a minimal bare bones implementation of Tachyon lobby
+server: [`src/tachyonServer.fake.ts`](./src/tachyonServer.fake.ts) that can be
+used to test full end to end behavior of autohost without running real server.
+
+To start the service run
+
+```
+npm run start-tachyon-fake | npx pino-pretty
+```
+
+The service will listed for autohost on port 8084 and [`config.dev.json`](./config.dev.json)
+contains the config that will make autohost connect to it:
+
+```
+npm run start config.dev.json | npx pino-pretty
+```
+
+The fake prints all tachyon messages it receives and sends JSON messages it
+gets via HTTP to the connected autohost. See below example session to see how
+`autohost/subscribeUpdates` and `autohost/start` are send to first connected
+autohost.
+
+#### Example session
+
+1. Set up BAR checkout as described in the main game repository
+   https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason.
+2. Make sure you have "Quicksilver Remake 1.24" map installed.
+3. Fetch engine
+
+    ```shell
+    curl -L https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/releases/download/spring_bar_%7BBAR105%7D105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0/spring_bar_.BAR105.105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0_linux-64-minimal-portable.7z -o engine.7z
+    7z x engine.7z -o'engines/105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0 BAR105'
+    ```
+
+4. Start tachyon fake and autohost as described above.
+5. Subscribe to all updates from autohost.
+
+    ```shell
+    printf '{"since":%d}' $(date '+%s%6N') | curl --json @- http://127.0.0.1:8084/request/0/subscribeUpdates
+    ```
+
+6. Create a simple start script request in `start.json`:
+
+    <!-- prettier-ignore -->
+    ```json
+    {
+      "battleId": null,
+      "engineVersion": "105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0 BAR105",
+      "gameName": "Beyond All Reason $VERSION",
+      "mapName": "Quicksilver Remake 1.24",
+      "startPosType": "ingame",
+      "allyTeams": [{
+        "startBox": { "top": 0, "bottom": 0.3, "left": 0, "right": 1 },
+        "teams": [{
+          "faction": "Cortex",
+          "bots": [{
+            "aiShortName": "BARb",
+            "aiVersion": "stable",
+            "hostUserId": "11111"
+          }]
+        }]
+      }, {
+        "startBox": { "top": 0.7, "bottom": 1, "left": 0, "right": 1 },
+        "teams": [{
+          "faction": "Armada",
+          "players": [{
+            "userId": "11111",
+            "name": "Player",
+            "password": "password1"
+          }]
+        }]
+      }]
+    }
+    ```
+
+7. Start the engine dedicated in autohost:
+
+    ```shell
+    jq ".battleId = \"$(uuidgen -r)\"" start.json | curl --json @- http://127.0.0.1:8084/request/0/start
+    ```
+
+8. Join the game yourself, using the port that will be printed on the tachyon
+   server fake output and user name and password from `start.json`:
+
+    ```shell
+    ./engines/105.1.1-2590-gb9462a0\ BAR105/spring --isolation --write-dir "{absolute path to your data folder}""  spring://Player:password1@127.0.0.1:20001
+    ```
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Until [a fix](https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1876) gets
+> released in some of the future engine version, you have only 30s between
+> autohost starts the game and you connect to it.
+
+[Recoil]: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring
+[Tachyon]: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/tachyon
+[Teiserver]: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/teiserver