feat(world-hop): pace hops against an estimated per-IP hop allowance

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Problem

Jagex limits how many world hops and logins one IP can make. Going over the limit returns "Too many login attempts". #1937 added LoginLockout, which reacts to that screen by pausing all logins for 5–30 minutes. Nothing stopped scripts from using up the allowance in the first place. A shop script hopping every few seconds runs out in about an hour and then sits through the lockout. DreamBot handles this by tracking hops and slowing down before the limit is reached.

Change

HopBudget (in util/security) models the allowance as a token bucket:

• Defaults: 390 tokens, 93 regained per hour, 20 kept in reserve for logins. These are community estimates: 390 + 93 = 483 hops in the first hour, which is one hop every 7.45s, and about 4h11m to refill from empty. They are settings, and a real lockout sets the budget to zero so the estimate corrects itself.
• Counting: every HOPPING and LOGGING_IN transition spends a token, counted in MicrobotPlugin.onGameStateChanged and written off the client thread. Manual hops through the RuneLite World Hopper count too.
• Pacing: Microbot.hopToWorld waits for the next token once the allowance reaches the reserve, and shows "Hop limit - next hop in Xs" as the status. Stopping the script interrupts the wait and hopToWorld returns false. On the client thread or the Swing thread it returns false instead of blocking (ShootingStarPanel hops from Swing).
  • It waits rather than returning false because about half of the Hub scripts that hop ignore the return value: PestControl, Slayer, GiantMole, Mess, Thieving and others. They would carry on as if they had hopped.
• Shared state: the budget is saved in ~/.runelite/microbot-hop-budget.properties. The file is locked while being written and keyed by SOCKS proxy host (or direct), so it survives restarts and is shared by every client on the same IP. If the file can't be used, each client tracks hops on its own and logs one warning.
• Settings: a new "World hop limit" section in the Microbot settings: on/off (default on), allowance, regained per hour, reserve.
• Agent server: GET /login reports hopsAvailable and nextHopInMs.
• Docs: ARCHITECTURE.md and AGENT_SERVER.md are updated.

Logins are never held back; the reserve exists so re-logins after breaks and disconnects still go through.

F2P membership prompt blocks hopping

During the live test, an F2P account holding a bond got the chatbox prompt "Want your members-only features back?" (InterfaceID.F2PBondRedeem, group 269). While it was open the world switcher never loaded, and every hopToWorld failed with "World switcher did not load in time" until the prompt was closed by hand.

The new MembershipPromptEvent is a BlockingEvent, like BankJagexPopupEvent, that clicks Close on that prompt and on its sibling upsell prompts BondPrompt (group 20) and MembershipBenefitsPromptHop (group 805). The game cache confirms the layout of all three: chatbox height, two models, two text lines, then the button and close components.

First login after launch was not counted

The tracked previous game state starts as UNKNOWN, because MicrobotPlugin starts after the client has already reached the login screen. The first login after each launch went UNKNOWN → LOGGING_IN and was missed. Every LOGGING_IN now counts unless it comes straight from HOPPING or LOGGING_IN, so reconnects after a lost connection count too.

Known limitations

• A rejected login (wrong password, members world on an F2P account) never leaves the login screen state, so it isn't counted. Only logins that reach the server are counted. LoginLockout still covers runaway retry loops.
• Clients that don't run this code but share the IP can't be counted.

Testing

• :client:runUnitTests: 2,302 passed, 0 failed. New tests:
  • HopBudgetTest: refill, reserve floor, capacity cap, lockout, disabled mode, a clock going backwards, sharing the file between clients and proxy keys, a corrupt file, an unwritable file, and an interrupted thread.
  • MicrobotPluginHopCountTest: which game-state transitions spend a token.
  • MicrobotConfigTest: default settings.
  • MembershipPromptEventTest: finds each prompt's close button, ignores missing or hidden prompts, never touches the client thread when not logged in.
• Live test on an F2P account, with a runtime-deployed probe plugin calling Microbot.hopToWorld from its script thread. Settings were allowance 25, reserve 20:
  • Login: 25 → 24.
  • Hops 1–6 went through immediately; partial refill kept the count at 21 or above.
  • Hop 7 hit the reserve and waited 18.7s (the rest of a part-refilled token), then landed.
  • /login reported nextHopInMs during the wait.
  • Stopping the probe during a wait made hopToWorld return false within 40ms without hopping.
• Live, after the follow-up fixes: a fresh launch and login took the allowance from 390 to 389, and one hop took it from 389 to 388. Logins now count, and hops don't also go through LOGGING_IN, so nothing is double-counted. The membership prompt didn't come up again during this run, so its fix is verified by unit tests and the cache layout.
• The live test found a bug that is fixed here: interrupting a script made the file read fail with ClosedByInterruptException, so the budget fell back to the client's own count. The interrupt flag is now cleared around the file access and restored afterwards; a regression test covers it. Retested live after the fix.

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Walkthrough

The change adds configurable world-hop pacing backed by a token budget that refills over time and persists per network key. The plugin records qualifying world-hop and login transitions, and login lockouts reset the budget. World-hop calls wait for allowance on eligible threads and return false when waiting is not allowed or is interrupted. The login status response reports available hops and the wait time when pacing is enabled.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 658ab

Concurrent world hops can consume tokens reserved for logins. Make admission and token consumption atomic before merging, or explicitly accept the reduced reserve guarantee.

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- Around line 380-382: Update hop admission in the flow using awaitHopBudget to
atomically refill, check, and decrement the shared HopBudget before allowing a
hop. Coordinate HOPPING event accounting with that reservation so the admitted
hop is not charged again, preserve recordHop accounting for hops that bypass
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• docs/AGENT_SERVER.md
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• runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotPlugin.java
• runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/agentserver/handler/LoginHandler.java
• runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/security/HopBudget.java
• runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/security/LoginManager.java
• runelite-client/src/test/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotConfigTest.java
• runelite-client/src/test/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotPluginHopCountTest.java
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff ---'
git diff --unified=30 9b2f28b27413bc7c47f0a3575ff90cabc4d89324 658abbfefc7f4a99124642eef0e8f6a238e45d50 -- \
  runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/Microbot.java \
  runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/security/HopBudget.java \
  runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotPlugin.java
printf '%s\n' '--- current Microbot hop block ---'
nl -ba runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/Microbot.java | sed -n '340,430p'
printf '%s\n' '--- current HopBudget ---'
nl -ba runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/security/HopBudget.java | sed -n '1,280p'
printf '%s\n' '--- current game-state accounting ---'
nl -ba runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotPlugin.java | sed -n '300,400p'
printf '%s\n' '--- current hop callers and direct hop references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.java' -- 'Microbot.hopToWorld' runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/worldhopper || test "$?" -eq 1
rg -n -F --glob '*.java' -- 'quickHopTargetWorld' runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/worldhopper || test "$?" -eq 1

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Reserve hop tokens atomically before admitting a hop.

When the shared budget has exactly reserve + 1 tokens, concurrent clients can both see millisUntilHopAllowed() == 0 and pass awaitHopBudget() before either asynchronous recordHop() task runs. Their later recordHop() calls then subtract two tokens, reducing the persisted balance below the login reserve. The existing isHopping, cantHopWorld, and quickHopTargetWorld guards only coordinate one client instance and do not prevent this shared-file race.

Use an atomic refill/check/decrement operation in HopBudget at actual hop admission. Coordinate the corresponding HOPPING event accounting so the same hop is not charged twice. Preserve accounting for hops that do not use the admission operation, and release any reservation if later hop preparation fails.

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around lines 380 - 382:
Update hop admission in the flow using awaitHopBudget to atomically refill,
check, and decrement the shared HopBudget before allowing a hop. Coordinate
HOPPING event accounting with that reservation so the admitted hop is not
charged again, preserve recordHop accounting for hops that bypass admission, and
release the reservation if subsequent hop preparation fails.

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