ModernUO/dev-docs
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docs: update serialization docs and skills for generator v4 (#2588)
## Summary

Brings every serialization-related doc, skill, and the CLAUDE.md rule in line with generator **v4** (adopted in #2586/#2587). No code changes.

**Updated surface, everywhere it was referenced:**
- `[SerializableFieldSaveFlag(order)]` / `[SerializableFieldDefault(order)]` → `[SaveFlag(nameof(Should), nameof(Default))]` on the field (second method optional).
- `[TimerDrift]` + `[DeserializeTimerField(order)]` → `[DeserializeTimer(nameof(Method), wallClock)]` on the field, with the anchored-time semantics spelled out: drifting by default (downtime preserves the remaining delay, idle saves byte-stable), `wallClock: true` for absolute deadlines, restart method invoked **only when a timer was running** (no sentinel), and the timer `MigrateFrom` pattern (`XxxNext`/`XxxDelay`) for wire-format changes.
- New `[SerializableField]` documentation: the real signature (the documented `saveIf` parameter never existed) plus the setter hooks — `allowFieldChange` (`bool Method(ref T value)`: coerce/veto before assignment) and `fieldChanged` (`void Method(T oldValue, T newValue)` after) — with the generated pipeline and the SG3015/SG3018 guardrails.
- `[SerializableProperty]` guidance narrowed to its remaining purpose: custom getters and setter semantics the hooks cannot express.
- `[AnchoredDateTime]` documented alongside `[DeltaDateTime]` (now marked legacy, with the version-bump warning for converting between them).

**Files:** `dev-docs/serialization.md`, `dev-docs/timers.md`, `dev-docs/claude-skills/modernuo-serialization.md`, `dev-docs/claude-skills/modernuo-timers.md`, `dev-docs/runuo-migration-docs/02-serialization.md`, `dev-docs/runuo-migration-docs/03-timers.md`, and a condensed v4 addition to CLAUDE.md rule 9.

**Example refresh:** the skill's `BagOfSending` "custom properties" example was itself converted in #2587 — it is now quoted in its real post-conversion form as the canonical hooks example; the real-examples list points at `BaseWeapon.cs` for custom getters and `BaseLight.cs` for the drifting-timer + `MigrateFrom` pattern.

Verified by grep: zero references to the removed v3 attribute names remain anywhere in `dev-docs/` or `CLAUDE.md`.
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claude-skills docs: update serialization docs and skills for generator v4 (#2588) 2026-08-22 18:29:27 -07:00
runuo-migration-docs docs: update serialization docs and skills for generator v4 (#2588) 2026-08-22 18:29:27 -07:00
code-standards.md feat: Add zero-alloc interpolation handler to ValueStringBuilder, replace all StringBuilder usage (#2387) 2026-03-22 14:23:44 -07:00
commands-targeting.md chore: Adds AI instructions and SKILLs for ModernUO codebase (#2347) 2026-03-01 11:42:19 -08:00
configuration.md fix: Fixes Argon2 verify correctness and the password upgrade lockout (#2562) 2026-08-08 00:24:59 -07:00
content-patterns.md docs: Updates CLAUDE dev-docs/skills for serialization (#2372) 2026-03-15 01:05:03 -07:00
debugging-event-loop.md fix: stop the idle-sleep backoff tripping on healthy hosts (#2572) 2026-08-13 19:58:03 -07:00
era-expansion.md chore: Adds AI instructions and SKILLs for ModernUO codebase (#2347) 2026-03-01 11:42:19 -08:00
event-scheduler.md chore: Adds AI instructions and SKILLs for ModernUO codebase (#2347) 2026-03-01 11:42:19 -08:00
events.md chore: Adds AI instructions and SKILLs for ModernUO codebase (#2347) 2026-03-01 11:42:19 -08:00
gump-system.md docs(messages): document interpolation anti-patterns and :L format spec (#2441) 2026-05-03 18:23:50 -07:00
ip-bans-and-allowlists.md feat: make the blocklist and manual allowlist opt-in; cut the ban subsystem's on-loop cost (#2577) 2026-08-13 23:22:35 -07:00
networking-packets.md feat: make the blocklist and manual allowlist opt-in; cut the ban subsystem's on-loop cost (#2577) 2026-08-13 23:22:35 -07:00
pathfinding.md fix(pathfinding): stop opening every .swb twice at boot (#2548) 2026-07-25 13:07:20 -07:00
platform-prerequisites.md fix: Require only runtime packages on Linux, and check ICU and tzdata the way the runtime does (#2561) 2026-08-07 15:03:08 -07:00
property-lists.md fix(opl): refuse property list invalidation raised from inside GetProperties (#2555) 2026-07-28 21:29:03 -07:00
regions.md chore: Adds AI instructions and SKILLs for ModernUO codebase (#2347) 2026-03-01 11:42:19 -08:00
serialization.md docs: update serialization docs and skills for generator v4 (#2588) 2026-08-22 18:29:27 -07:00
server-lifecycle.md refactor(server): unify first-boot prompts into the ConfigurePrompts phase (#2477) 2026-06-08 05:18:46 -07:00
server-requirements.md fix: stop the idle-sleep backoff tripping on healthy hosts (#2572) 2026-08-13 19:58:03 -07:00
string-handling.md docs(messages): document interpolation anti-patterns and :L format spec (#2441) 2026-05-03 18:23:50 -07:00
t2a-crafting.md feat: Pre-Publish 14 Crafting (supersedes #2181, #2381) (#2476) 2026-06-07 20:27:22 -07:00
threading-model.md perf(login): run password hashing on a parked worker thread (#2566) 2026-08-09 00:13:34 -07:00
tick-counts.md perf: Sleep the event loop when idle. Fixes networking micro-stalls. Adds event loop instrumentation. (#2559) 2026-08-09 13:24:59 -07:00
timers.md docs: update serialization docs and skills for generator v4 (#2588) 2026-08-22 18:29:27 -07:00