g-man-tf2

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G-MAN TF2

High-Performance Team Fortress 2 Domain & Economy Suite for Go

"Professionals have standards."

G-MAN TF2 is the production-grade Team Fortress 2 domain module and economy engine built for the G-MAN automation framework. It bridges Valve Game Coordinator (GC) protocols, live SOCache inventory synchronization, and lossless metal arithmetic into a decoupled, thread-safe Go architecture.

🇺🇸 English • 🇷🇺 Русский • 📐 Parity Specification

go get github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2

⚡ Key Features

• Game Coordinator & SOCache Engine (pkg/tf2): Zero-allocation stream parsing of Valve GC Shared Object Cache updates (CMsgSOCacheSubscribed, SO_UPDATE, SO_DESTROY) with instant craft, smelt, and achievement dispatching.
• Trie-Accelerated Schema Engine (pkg/schema): Dual-index caching (Defindex + Normalized ASCII Trie) parsing official TF2 items_game.txt schemas with sub-millisecond lookups and ~10 MB heap footprint.
• Lossless Currency & Scrap Arithmetic (pkg/currency): Exact integer scrap arithmetic (currency.Scrap, currency.Currency) eliminating IEEE 754 floating-point rounding errors during multi-key trade valuations.
• Automated Smelting & Change-Making (pkg/crafting): Class-aware weapon pair combining (CombineWeapons), automated metal uncrafting/crafting, and instant change balancing during trade offer reviews.
• Native Multi-Service Integrations (pkg/services): High-throughput, typed clients built on aoni for backpack.tf, PriceDB (real-time WebSockets), Mannco.store, Crit.tf, Express-load, and Rep.tf.
• Decoupled Onion Trade Middlewares (pkg/trading): Composable trading pipeline components (StockLimitMiddleware, PricerMiddleware, AutoCounterMiddleware) for g-man offer evaluation.

⚔️ Go vs. Node.js: Why G-MAN TF2 Wins

Historically, Node.js libraries (tf2autobot, tf2-schema, tf2-currencies) have powered TF2 trade bots. In production at scale, JavaScript single-threading and V8 memory pressure create substantial operational bottlenecks:

Dimension	🤖 G-MAN TF2 (Go)	📦 Node.js (tf2autobot / tf2-schema)	Why it matters
Active Heap per Bot	~8 - 12 MB	~180 - 350 MB	Run 20x to 40x more TF2 bots on a single entry-level VPS without OOM kills.
Schema Initialization	<40 ms (Trie + Flat Index)	3.5 - 8.0 seconds (V8 JSON tree)	Instant bot boot times and immediate recovery from network reconnects.
Currency Math	Exact Integer Scrap (int)	float + bignumber.js workarounds	Zero rounding bugs or floating point drift when balancing 0.11 scrap change.
GC Latency	Sub-millisecond	Up to 150ms V8 GC pauses	Eliminates offer processing lag during high-frequency trade spikes.
Concurrency	Native CSP Goroutines	Single-threaded Event Loop	Multiple accounts, price webhooks, and GC sessions run simultaneously without blocking.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Initialize Steam Client with TF2 Plugins

package main

import (
	"context"
	"os"

	"github.com/lemon4ksan/foundation/async/logkit"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/steam"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/steam/auth"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/steam/sys/apps"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/steam/sys/directory"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/steam/sys/gc"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/storage/jsonfile"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/trading/web"

	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/backpack"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/schema"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/tf2"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	store, _ := jsonfile.New("storage.json")
	logger := logkit.New(logkit.DefaultConfig(logkit.LevelInfo))

	// 1. Initialize core Steam Client with TF2 domain modules
	client, err := steam.NewClient(steam.DefaultConfig(),
		steam.WithLogger(logger),
		steam.WithStorage(store),
		gc.WithModule(),
		apps.WithModule(),
		tf2.WithModule(),
		schema.WithModule(schema.DefaultConfig()),
		backpack.WithModule(),
		web.WithModule(web.DefaultConfig()),
	)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// 2. Access live backpack tracking synced over Game Coordinator
	bp := backpack.From(client)
	sub := client.Bus().Subscribe(&tf2.BackpackLoadedEvent{})
	go func() {
		for event := range sub.C() {
			if bpEvent, ok := event.(*tf2.BackpackLoadedEvent); ok {
				pure := bp.GetPureStock()
				logger.Info("TF2 Backpack synced!",
					logkit.Int("total_items", bpEvent.Count),
					logkit.Int("keys", pure.Keys),
					logkit.Float64("refined", pure.TotalRefined()),
				)
			}
		}
	}()

	if err := client.Run(); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// 3. Resolve CM and login
	dir := directory.New(client)
	server, _ := dir.GetOptimalCMServer(ctx)
	login := auth.NewLogOnDetails(os.Getenv("STEAM_USER"), os.Getenv("STEAM_PASS"))

	if err := client.ConnectAndLogin(ctx, server, login); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	client.Wait()
}

2. Lossless Metal & Currency Equations

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/currency"
)

func main() {
	// Parse float-based refined into exact integer scrap
	scrap := currency.ToScrap(45.33) // 408 Scrap

	// Convert back safely without precision loss
	ref := currency.ToRefined(scrap) // 45.33

	// Create multi-currency struct
	cur := currency.New(2, 45.33)
	fmt.Println(cur.String()) // "2 keys, 45.33 ref"
}

3. Register TF2 Onion-Trading Middlewares

package main

import (
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/foundation/async/logkit"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man/pkg/trading/engine"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/backpack"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/schema"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/services/pricedb"
	"github.com/lemon4ksan/g-man-tf2/pkg/trading"
)

func RegisterPipeline(
	tradeEngine *engine.Engine,
	bp *backpack.Backpack,
	priceMgr *pricedb.Manager,
	schemaMod *schema.Manager,
	logger logkit.Logger,
) {
	stockCfg := trading.StockConfig{
		MaxTotal:   3000,
		DefaultMax: 20,
		MaxPerSKU: map[string]int{
			"5021;6": 500, // Limit Mann Co. Supply Crate Keys to 500
		},
	}

	tradeEngine.Use(
		// 1. Enforce inventory maximums per SKU
		trading.StockLimitMiddleware(bp, stockCfg, logger),

		// 2. Validate trade prices against PriceDB real-time feeds
		trading.PricerMiddleware(priceMgr, schemaMod.Get, logger),
	)
}

📂 Package Architecture

pkg/
├── tf2/              # TF2 Game Coordinator driver & live SOCache storage
├── backpack/         # In-memory inventory projections & item reservation locks
├── crafting/         # Automated weapon combining and metal smelting recipes
├── schema/           # items_game schema parser with Trie & Defindex indexing
├── sku/              # Zero-allocation canonical SKU parser & string formatter
├── currency/         # Exact integer scrap math & key-metal currency equations
├── services/         # Native HTTP/WebSocket clients powered by aoni
│   ├── pricedb/      # PriceDB real-time pricing client & WebSocket stream
│   ├── bptf/         # backpack.tf API client & listing manager
│   ├── crit/         # Crit.tf storefront listing synchronizer
│   ├── mannco/       # Mannco.store API & WebSocket market stream
│   ├── express/      # Express-load fast inventory service client
│   └── rep/          # Rep.tf trust, feedback, and scammer verification
├── trading/          # Onion-style trading middlewares for g-man trade engine
└── reason/           # Standardized TF2 trade rejection & review reason codes

📦 Ecosystem

• g-man: Core Steam client SDK and multi-game automation runtime.
• g-man-cli: High-performance background daemon (g-mand) and TUI management CLI (gmanctl).
• aoni: High-performance network stack, HTTP/2, and WebSocket client engine.
• foundation: Zero-allocation concurrency, async logging (logkit), and data structures.

⚖️ Legal & License

Disclaimer: This software is not affiliated with, maintained by, or endorsed by Valve Corporation or any of its subsidiaries. Steam, Team Fortress 2, and all related Valve properties are registered trademarks of Valve Corporation.

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. See LICENSE for full details.