Decision 0003: First-Class Companion Programs

Status

Accepted

Decision

Companion applications such as BEC, B3, Discord bridges, log watchers, and stats collectors should be modeled as managed companion programs rather than ad hoc customer-editable startup scripts.

Reasoning

Customers should not control privileged helper commands through editable startup files.
Companion processes need to be started, stopped, and restarted alongside the game server.
PID and log handling should be centralized.
The same design should work across Linux and Windows/Cygwin.

Alternatives Considered

keep _alsoRun.bat style helper files
use only pre_start scripts
rely on manual customer scripts

Why Those Were Not Chosen

They are not centrally managed.
They are hard to secure.
They are difficult to cleanly stop on server shutdown.

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