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@@ -226,3 +226,75 @@ freeze · capability disappears after a sentinel freeze — **all resolve to the
 The active-sentinel implementation is **not** removed. It is the else-branch of the
 switch and the universal default for unpatched clients, unsupported builds, failed
 patches, unknown launchers, and late capabilities. The clean path is purely additive.
+
+---
+
+## 13. Session binding (hardening — supersedes the per-IP prototype)
+
+**History.** The first implementation keyed the backend capability/store-mode by
+**source IP alone** (§7 as originally written). That was rejected before deployment:
+two FIFA processes that share a source IP — concurrent, or a relaunch — would share
+the key, so an *unverified* process could inherit a *verified* one's `clean-v1`
+topology and crash on the empty-My-Packs resolver. Source IP is now **auxiliary only**
+(logging, a fail-closed sid/ip sanity check, and the pending hand-off key). This
+history is retained deliberately; do not treat per-IP as the design.
+
+**Authoritative key = the per-login UTAS session id (`X-UT-SID`).** `/ut/auth` now
+mints a fresh unique SID per login (was a shared constant `OPENFUT-SID-…0001`); the
+client echoes it on every later call, and it is **live-confirmed present on real
+`/store/purchasegroup` requests**. The SID uniquely identifies one FIFA process/login:
+a relaunch re-auths → new SID; two concurrent logins → two SIDs. The legacy constant
+is still accepted by the retired security-question gate only, and is **never** used to
+grant `clean-v1`. A store request whose SID was opened on a different source IP is
+fail-closed to sentinel (sid/ip sanity check).
+
+**Why not persona alone:** the backend is single-account, so `personaId` cannot
+distinguish two sessions, and a relaunch keeps the same persona — persona alone would
+leak a prior session's mode. Persona is used only (with IP) to key the pending hand-off.
+
+### State machine (per session, keyed by SID)
+```
+Capability : Unknown | ResolverV1
+StoreMode  : Unfrozen | Sentinel | CleanV1
+
+/ut/auth (new SID)         : Capability=Unknown, StoreMode=Unfrozen, record {ip,persona}
+                             + consume any pending (ip,persona)  -> Capability=ResolverV1
+capability registered      : bind to the one live Unfrozen/Unbound session for (ip,persona)
+                             -> Capability=ResolverV1 ; else stage single-use pending ;
+                             else (a session exists but is frozen/ambiguous) -> ignored-late
+first /store/purchasegroup : Unfrozen + ResolverV1 -> freeze CleanV1
+                             Unfrozen + otherwise   -> freeze Sentinel   (consume pending first)
+late capability            : StoreMode already frozen -> unchanged (ignored-late, not staged)
+capability lost/cleared    : after a CleanV1 freeze -> stays CleanV1 (mode is cached)
+session idle > TTL / reaped: session discarded (a later store with that SID -> Sentinel)
+```
+
+### Registration order + pending hand-off
+The verified capability is known only after the FIFA process exists, CardsDLL is
+loaded, and autopatch confirms the JG bytes — which may land before or after
+`/ut/auth`, but reliably before the user opens the Store. The launcher cannot know
+the SID, so its registration is matched to a session by (source_ip, persona) as a
+**single-use, short-TTL pending** (`FIFA17_PENDING_TTL = 120s`) that is consumed by
+exactly one session, at whichever of these happens first for that session: its
+`/ut/auth` (pending predates login), the registration itself (session already live —
+bound directly), or its first store request (lazy). If the Store is reached before a
+capability binds, the session freezes **Sentinel** (fail-closed); a later capability
+does not change it.
+
+### Session cleanup (Task 10)
+- **creation:** at `/ut/auth`.
+- **last activity:** bumped on every `/store/purchasegroup` for the session.
+- **freeze:** first `/store/purchasegroup`.
+- **expiry:** lazy sweep on every session op removes sessions idle for
+  `FIFA17_SESSION_TTL = 3600s` and pendings older than `FIFA17_PENDING_TTL`. Explicit
+  Blaze/UTAS teardown is not reliably observable at this handler, so a conservative
+  activity-based TTL is used instead. Reaping only removes *expired* entries and never
+  affects another live session from the same IP/persona (keyed by distinct SIDs).
+
+### Residual limitation (documented, fail-closed)
+FIFA carries no launcher-controllable per-process token, so two **simultaneous** logins
+from the **same (ip, persona)** cannot be disambiguated at the instant a capability is
+registered while *both* are Unfrozen/Unbound. That ambiguous case resolves to
+`ignored-late` → **both freeze Sentinel** (safe: an unverified process is never granted
+clean). The normal one-launcher-per-FIFA and sequential-relaunch flows bind correctly
+(proven by matrix K/L/M). This is a UX conservativeness, never a safety hole.