Phase 7.1 Recruit Loadout And Level Contract

Equipment Rule

Each living Recruit owns zero or one equipped_item_id.
Item forms such as armament, guard, garb, charm and kit are eligibility and presentation families, not simultaneous body slots.
Equip is a replacement transaction: candidate enters the one active slot and the prior item, if any, returns to run inventory in the same receipt.
An item can interact with a neighbor's item or a shared event, but no effect may require its wearer to hold a second item.
Artifacts remain run-wide rules and never consume the Recruit's item slot.

Every Recruit stores its own level and xp.
Level range is 1..10; XP is earned only by the living deployed Recruit who qualifies under the economy authority.
Reserve and Fallen Recruits gain no battle XP.
Hiring, dismissal, death, promotion and run closure never transfer level or XP to another Recruit.
Promotion preserves that Recruit's level and XP; it does not create a shared Company level.

Offer, Roster, Recruit detail, Equipment, Party and Result surfaces identify level as text.
Recruit detail exposes exact current XP/next-level progress.
Equipment comparison shows exactly Current slot -> Candidate, the returned item and the behavior delta.
Empty slot, incompatible item and replacement states remain distinguishable without color.