Preserve required UAC elevation for game_setup.cmd, game_start.cmd, and server_start.cmd through a fixed-role elevated launcher worker. The worker reloads and matches embedded catalog authority, verifies the exact script from a no-follow locked handle, resolves System32 cmd.exe, and transfers path locks into the command process.
Setup still waits for completion; game and server return after the verified handoff while their command process retains the locks. Unmanifested, changed, reparse-backed, markerless, and streamed-only scripts fail closed.
Test Plan:
- just test
- just clippy
- just frontend-test
- just build-fixture
- nine Linux-visible authority/parser/digest tests
- Windows-only lock-transfer test added but not run (no Windows target/runtime available)
- git diff --check
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