diff --git a/.specstory/history/2026-02-18_23-39Z-character-migrator-workflow-integration.md b/.specstory/history/2026-02-18_23-39Z-character-migrator-workflow-integration.md
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--- a/.specstory/history/2026-02-18_23-39Z-character-migrator-workflow-integration.md
+++ b/.specstory/history/2026-02-18_23-39Z-character-migrator-workflow-integration.md
@@ -13884,3 +13884,572 @@ _**User**_
---
+_**Agent (model default, mode Agent)**_
+
+Thought Process
+
+The user says AnimLayers is still being detected improperly. They're suggesting I grep how the animation layers addon works. The addon might be installed in Blender's addons folder - I should search for it. Common locations would be:
+- C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\5.0\scripts\addons
+- Or a user addon path
+- The terminal mentioned "animation_layers_updater addon" - so there might be a folder like "animation_layers" or "animation_layers_updater"
+
+Let me search the user's system for the animation layers addon so we can see how it stores the "turn on" / layer state. I'll search in common Blender addon paths and also in the workspace.
+
+Tool use: **glob_file_search** • Searched codebase "undefined" • **16** results in **1** directory
+
+Directory: **C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0** (16 files)
+
+| File |
+|------|
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\Animation_Layers_updater_status.json` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\multikey.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\subscriptions.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\anim_layers.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\bake_ops.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\addon_updater_ops.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\addon_updater.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\__init__.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\animation_layers_updater\Animation_Layers_updater_status.json` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\subscriptions.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\__init__.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\anim_layers.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\bake_ops.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\multikey.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\addon_updater.py` |
+| `../C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\animation_layers_updater\backup\addon_updater_ops.py` |
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+
+
+Tool use: **ripgrep_raw_search**
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+```json
+{
+ "pattern": "turn_on|als\\.|animation.layer",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0",
+ "glob": "*.py",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "contextBefore": 0,
+ "contextAfter": 0,
+ "caseInsensitive": false
+}
+```
+Additional data:
+
+```json
+{
+ "isPruned": true,
+ "pattern": "turn_on|als\\.|animation.layer",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "totalFiles": 457,
+ "totalMatches": 2148,
+ "topFiles": [
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\typing_extensions.py",
+ "matchCount": 8
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\regex\\test_regex.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\regex\\regex.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\regex\\_regex_core.py",
+ "matchCount": 3
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\xsd_datetime.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\term.py",
+ "matchCount": 2
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\plugins\\parsers\\notation3.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\namespace\\_TIME.py",
+ "matchCount": 2
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\namespace\\_SH.py",
+ "matchCount": 3
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\namespace\\_SDO.py",
+ "matchCount": 8
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\namespace\\_PROV.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\rdflib\\namespace\\_OWL.py",
+ "matchCount": 5
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\dateutil\\rrule.py",
+ "matchCount": 5
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\jsonschema\\_keywords.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\test\\test_parallel.py",
+ "matchCount": 2
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\test\\test_module.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\test\\test_memmapping.py",
+ "matchCount": 2
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\externals\\loky\\backend\\resource_tracker.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\externals\\loky\\backend\\reduction.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\extensions\\.local\\lib\\python3.11\\site-packages\\joblib\\externals\\loky\\backend\\popen_loky_win32.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ }
+ ]
+}
+```
+Status: **completed**
+
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+Thought Process
+
+The grep hit a lot of unrelated files. Let me search specifically inside the Animation_Layers addon folder for turn_on, als, nla, layer state, etc.
+
+Tool use: **ripgrep_raw_search**
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+```json
+{
+ "pattern": "turn_on|als\\.|\\[.als|animation_data|nla_tracks",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers",
+ "glob": "*.py",
+ "caseInsensitive": false
+}
+```
+Additional data:
+
+```json
+{
+ "isPruned": true,
+ "pattern": "turn_on|als\\.|\\[.als|animation_data|nla_tracks",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "totalFiles": 10,
+ "totalMatches": 997,
+ "topFiles": [
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\subscriptions.py",
+ "matchCount": 70
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\multikey.py",
+ "matchCount": 13
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\bake_ops.py",
+ "matchCount": 105
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\anim_layers.py",
+ "matchCount": 310
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\__init__.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\animation_layers_updater\\backup\\__init__.py",
+ "matchCount": 1
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\animation_layers_updater\\backup\\subscriptions.py",
+ "matchCount": 70
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\animation_layers_updater\\backup\\multikey.py",
+ "matchCount": 13
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\animation_layers_updater\\backup\\bake_ops.py",
+ "matchCount": 105
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\animation_layers_updater\\backup\\anim_layers.py",
+ "matchCount": 309
+ }
+ ]
+}
+```
+Status: **completed**
+
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+
+Tool use: **read_file_v2** • Read file: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\anim_layers.py
+
+Thought Process
+
+I found it. The addon uses **obj.als.turn_on** - so `als` is an **RNA property** (a PropertyGroup on the object), not an id property. So we're checking `key in orig` (id props) but the addon stores it as **orig.als** which is a PropertyGroup with a **turn_on** attribute. So we need to check `getattr(orig, 'als', None)` and then `getattr(orig.als, 'turn_on', None)` or similar. Let me look at how they register the property.
+
+Tool use: **ripgrep_raw_search**
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+```json
+{
+ "pattern": "als\\.|Anim_Layers|PropertyGroup|BoolProperty.*turn_on",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers",
+ "glob": "*.py",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "contextBefore": 0,
+ "contextAfter": 0,
+ "caseInsensitive": false
+}
+```
+Additional data:
+
+```json
+{
+ "isPruned": true,
+ "pattern": "als\\.|Anim_Layers|PropertyGroup|BoolProperty.*turn_on",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "totalFiles": 3,
+ "totalMatches": 699,
+ "topFiles": [
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\subscriptions.py",
+ "matchCount": 54
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\multikey.py",
+ "matchCount": 2
+ },
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\anim_layers.py",
+ "matchCount": 24
+ }
+ ]
+}
+```
+Status: **completed**
+
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+
+Tool use: **read_file_v2** • Read file: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.0\portable\scripts\addons\Animation_Layers\__init__.py
+
+Thought Process
+
+Found it. In __init__.py:
+- **AnimLayersSettings** is a PropertyGroup with **turn_on: bpy.props.BoolProperty**
+- It's registered on the **Object** type as **als** (need to find where they register it)
+
+So the addon uses **obj.als** (RNA PropertyGroup on Object) with **obj.als.turn_on**. So we must check **getattr(orig, 'als', None)** and then **getattr(orig.als, 'turn_on', None)**. It's not in orig.keys() at all - it's an RNA property. Let me find where they register it on Object.
+
+Tool use: **ripgrep_raw_search**
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+```json
+{
+ "pattern": "als|Anim_Layers|register_class|Object\\.|bpy\\.types\\.Object",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\__init__.py",
+ "caseInsensitive": false
+}
+```
+Additional data:
+
+```json
+{
+ "isPruned": true,
+ "pattern": "als|Anim_Layers|register_class|Object\\.|bpy\\.types\\.Object",
+ "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\__init__.py",
+ "outputMode": "content",
+ "totalFiles": 1,
+ "totalMatches": 39,
+ "topFiles": [
+ {
+ "uri": "C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation\\Blender 5.0\\portable\\scripts\\addons\\Animation_Layers\\__init__.py",
+ "matchCount": 39
+ }
+ ]
+}
+```
+Status: **completed**
+
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+Thought Process
+
+Perfect. So:
+- **bpy.types.Object.als** = PointerProperty(type=AnimLayersSettings)
+- So **obj.als** is an RNA property (PropertyGroup) on the **Object**, and **obj.als.turn_on** is the boolean.
+
+So we need to:
+1. Detect Animation Layers by checking **getattr(orig, 'als', None)** and then **getattr(orig.als, 'turn_on', None)** - if the addon is loaded, every Object has .als; we consider "has Animation Layers" when orig has NLA tracks (we already have has_nla) OR when we want to report that we migrated the toggle. Actually the message is "Animation Layer attributes migrated" when we find als - so we need has_als to be True when **orig.als exists and we copied turn_on**. So detection should be: has_als = getattr(orig, 'als', None) is not None (and optionally orig.als.turn_on is True or we have nla - but actually we should consider "Animation Layers found" when the Object has the als property group, which it will if the addon is loaded). So simply: has_als = getattr(orig, 'als', None) is not None.
+
+2. Mirror: we need to copy **orig.als.turn_on** to **rep.als.turn_on** (and possibly other writable properties of the als group like layer_index). So in _mirror_als_turn_on we do:
+ - If getattr(orig, 'als', None) and getattr(rep, 'als', None):
+ rep.als.turn_on = orig.als.turn_on
+ And for detection: has_als = getattr(orig, 'als', None) is not None (and maybe rep has als too).
+Thought Process
+
+I had a typo in the replace - "except Exception:\n pass" vs "except Exception:\n pass" in the bone loop I wrote "except Exception:\n pass" but with wrong indentation (only 4 spaces before pass in one place). Let me do the replace in two smaller chunks: first _has_als_anywhere, then _mirror_als_turn_on.
+Tool use: **edit_file_v2** • Edit file: T:\Dynamic-Link-Manager\ops\migrator.py
+
+Tool use: **edit_file_v2** • Edit file: T:\Dynamic-Link-Manager\ops\migrator.py
+
+Thought Process
+
+Both edits applied. Adding RNA check to _debug_als_lookup so the debug output shows that obj.als exists when the addon is loaded.
+Tool use: **edit_file_v2** • Edit file: T:\Dynamic-Link-Manager\ops\migrator.py
+
+Thought Process
+
+Good. Let me verify there are no linter errors.
+
+Tool use: **read_lints**
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+```json
+{
+ "paths": [
+ "T:\\Dynamic-Link-Manager\\ops\\migrator.py"
+ ]
+}
+```
+Result:
+
+```json
+{
+ "linterErrorsByFile": [
+ {
+ "relativeWorkspacePath": "T:\\Dynamic-Link-Manager\\ops\\migrator.py"
+ }
+ ]
+}
+```
+Status: **completed**
+
+
+
+
+
+---
+
+Thought Process
+
+All good. Summarize for the user.
+