feat: asset usage audit plugin

Editor tool for the LA and 3D departments: which assets each level uses,
which are used nowhere, and export of a chosen set.

Three modules. AssetUsageAuditCore holds the whole analysis and links no
UI and no editor-only asset pipeline, so it stays runnable from a
commandlet; AssetUsageAuditEditor holds the Slate panel and everything
that needs UnrealEd or AssetTools; AssetUsageAuditTests holds 152 specs.

Load-bearing decisions, each of which produces a wrong answer if undone:

- Dependency queries are always Package + NoRequirements, never Hard. The
  map-to-external-actor edges the OFPA gatherer emits carry Game|Build
  without Hard, so a Hard query drops all 16117 external actor packages
  in this project. There is deliberately no Hard constant in the code.
- Crossing into another map is allowed only from a level or its external
  actor package. Without that rule WP_Main reported 18136 assets, of
  which 9994 belonged to L_MainLevel, reached through the GameMode.
- The verdict has five states, never a bool. The registry cannot see
  FMOD events, DataTable rows or string-built paths; those are Unknown,
  and the tool never proposes a deletion.
- Copying .uasset files does not preserve references - they are stored as
  full package paths. Only the Migrate layout produces something Unreal
  can open; the others write a manifest so the graph can be rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/AssetUsageAuditTests.Build.cs

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+using UnrealBuildTool;
+
+public class AssetUsageAuditTests : ModuleRules
+{
+    public AssetUsageAuditTests(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
+    {
+        PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs;
+
+        PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[]
+        {
+            "Core",
+            "CoreUObject",
+            "Engine"
+        });
+
+        PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[]
+        {
+            "AssetRegistry",
+            "AssetUsageAuditCore",
+            "Json",
+            "Projects"
+        });
+    }
+}

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/AssetUsageAuditTests.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "Modules/ModuleManager.h"
+
+IMPLEMENT_MODULE(FDefaultModuleImpl, AssetUsageAuditTests)

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetDependencyClosure.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetDependencyClosure.h"
+
+#include "AssetUsageAuditTypes.h"
+#include "AssetUsagePaths.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/ARFilter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Engine/StaticMesh.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * The dependency closure behind "export a mesh and get its materials too".
+ *
+ * Runs against the real registry, because the thing worth testing is whether the traversal finds
+ * the edges the engine actually stores - a mock would only prove that a BFS visits nodes.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetDependencyClosureSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.DependencyClosure",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A /Game static mesh that actually references something, so the closure has work to do.
+     *
+     * Picking the first mesh found is not enough: a mesh with no material assigned would make the
+     * "brings materials along" test pass vacuously.
+     */
+    static FName FindMeshWithDependencies(int32& OutDirectCount)
+    {
+        FARFilter Filter;
+        Filter.ClassPaths.Add(UStaticMesh::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName());
+        Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+        Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+        Filter.bRecursiveClasses = true;
+        Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+
+        FName Best = NAME_None;
+        int32 BestCount = 0;
+
+        Registry.EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Registry, &Best, &BestCount](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+        {
+            TArray<FName> Dependencies;
+            Registry.GetDependencies(
+                AssetData.PackageName,
+                Dependencies,
+                AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+            int32 GameDependencies = 0;
+            for (FName Dependency : Dependencies)
+            {
+                if (Dependency.ToString().StartsWith(TEXT("/Game/")))
+                {
+                    ++GameDependencies;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (GameDependencies > BestCount)
+            {
+                BestCount = GameDependencies;
+                Best = AssetData.PackageName;
+            }
+
+            // Two /Game dependencies is enough to be a meaningful subject; stop hunting.
+            return BestCount < 2;
+        });
+
+        OutDirectCount = BestCount;
+        return Best;
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetDependencyClosureSpec)
+
+void AssetDependencyClosureSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Degenerate input", [this]()
+    {
+        It("returns nothing for no seeds", [this]()
+        {
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), {}, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("empty"), Result.Num(), 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no seeds counted"), Stats.SeedCount, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("drops a malformed seed instead of passing it on", [this]()
+        {
+            // A name that is not a long package name has no file and no dependencies. Keeping it
+            // would push the failure down into the exporter, which would report it as missing.
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(
+                ReadyRegistry(), { FName(TEXT("NotAPackage")), FName() }, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("nothing kept"), Result.Num(), 0);
+        });
+
+        It("keeps a seed that has no dependencies at all", [this]()
+        {
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(
+                ReadyRegistry(), { FName(TEXT("/Game/NoSuchAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest")) }, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the seed survives"), Result.Num(), 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("counted as a seed"), Stats.SeedCount, 1);
+        });
+
+        It("de-duplicates a seed listed twice", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Same(TEXT("/Game/NoSuchAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Same, Same, Same }, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("once"), Result.Num(), 1);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Walking real dependencies", [this]()
+    {
+        It("brings a mesh's materials and textures along", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 DirectCount = 0;
+            const FName Mesh = FindMeshWithDependencies(DirectCount);
+
+            if (Mesh.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game static mesh with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Using '%s' with %d direct /Game dependencies."), *Mesh.ToString(), DirectCount));
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, {}, Stats);
+
+            // This is the whole point of the feature: exporting the seed alone produces a file that
+            // opens with no material.
+            TestTrue(TEXT("more than the seed came back"), Result.Num() > 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the seed is first"), Result[0], Mesh);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("stats agree with the array"), Stats.TotalCount, Result.Num());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("walked at least one hop"), Stats.DeepestHop >= 1);
+        });
+
+        It("leaves engine content out by default", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 DirectCount = 0;
+            const FName Mesh = FindMeshWithDependencies(DirectCount);
+
+            if (Mesh.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game static mesh with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, {}, Stats);
+
+            // The destination project ships /Engine itself; copying it there is at best redundant
+            // and at worst overwrites engine files.
+            for (FName Package : Result)
+            {
+                const FString AsString = Package.ToString();
+                TestFalse(*FString::Printf(TEXT("no engine package: %s"), *AsString), AsString.StartsWith(TEXT("/Engine/")));
+                TestFalse(*FString::Printf(TEXT("no script package: %s"), *AsString), AsString.StartsWith(TEXT("/Script/")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("respects the exclusion list for dependencies but not for seeds", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 DirectCount = 0;
+            const FName Mesh = FindMeshWithDependencies(DirectCount);
+
+            if (Mesh.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game static mesh with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // Excluding all of /Game must still return the ticked asset: the user asked for that
+            // file by name. It is the traversal behind it that the exclusion list bounds.
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FOptions Options;
+            Options.ExcludePackagePaths.Add(TEXT("/Game"));
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("only the seed survives"), Result.Num(), 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("and it is the seed"), Result[0], Mesh);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("exclusions were counted"), Stats.SkippedExcluded > 0);
+        });
+
+        It("stops at the requested depth", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 DirectCount = 0;
+            const FName Mesh = FindMeshWithDependencies(DirectCount);
+
+            if (Mesh.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game static mesh with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FOptions Options;
+            Options.MaxDepth = 1;
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Limited = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("never went past one hop"), Stats.DeepestHop <= 1);
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats FullStats;
+            const TArray<FName> Full = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, {}, FullStats);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the limit removed something or the graph was one hop deep"),
+                Limited.Num() <= Full.Num());
+        });
+
+        It("does not follow a map that an ordinary asset merely mentions", [this]()
+        {
+            // The defect this guards against: exporting WP_Main pulled in the whole of L_MainLevel
+            // through BP_FirstPersonGameMode -> PDA_MenuSystemConfig, 9994 packages belonging to a
+            // different location. FLevelUsageResolver already refused that crossing; the closure
+            // did not, so the two disagreed about the same graph.
+            IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+
+            FARFilter Filter;
+            Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+            Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+            Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+            const FTopLevelAssetPath WorldClass = UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName();
+
+            FName Culprit = NAME_None;
+            FName ReferencedMap = NAME_None;
+
+            Registry.EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+            {
+                // The source must not itself be a level or an external actor package, or the
+                // crossing would be structural and legitimately followed.
+                if (AssetData.AssetClassPath == WorldClass
+                    || AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(AssetData.PackageName))
+                {
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                TArray<FName> Dependencies;
+                Registry.GetDependencies(
+                    AssetData.PackageName,
+                    Dependencies,
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+                for (FName Dependency : Dependencies)
+                {
+                    TArray<FAssetData> InPackage;
+                    Registry.GetAssetsByPackageName(Dependency, InPackage, true);
+
+                    for (const FAssetData& Inner : InPackage)
+                    {
+                        if (Inner.AssetClassPath == WorldClass)
+                        {
+                            Culprit = AssetData.PackageName;
+                            ReferencedMap = Dependency;
+                            return false;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                return true;
+            });
+
+            if (Culprit.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No non-level asset referencing a map was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("'%s' references the map '%s'."), *Culprit.ToString(), *ReferencedMap.ToString()));
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Culprit }, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("the foreign map is not in the closure"), Result.Contains(ReferencedMap));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("and the refusal was counted"), Stats.ForeignLevelsSkipped > 0);
+        });
+
+        It("still expands a level that was ticked directly", [this]()
+        {
+            // The rule bounds foreign maps, not the seed. Someone who ticks a location is asking
+            // for its contents - that is the task this tool exists for.
+            IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+
+            FARFilter Filter;
+            Filter.ClassPaths.Add(UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName());
+            Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+            Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+            Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+            FName Level = NAME_None;
+
+            Registry.EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Registry, &Level](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+            {
+                TArray<FName> Dependencies;
+                Registry.GetDependencies(
+                    AssetData.PackageName,
+                    Dependencies,
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+                for (FName Dependency : Dependencies)
+                {
+                    if (Dependency.ToString().StartsWith(TEXT("/Game/")))
+                    {
+                        Level = AssetData.PackageName;
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                return true;
+            });
+
+            if (Level.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game level with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Level }, {}, Stats);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the level brought its content"), Result.Num() > 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the level is the seed"), Result[0], Level);
+        });
+
+        It("stops when the progress callback asks it to", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 DirectCount = 0;
+            const FName Mesh = FindMeshWithDependencies(DirectCount);
+
+            if (Mesh.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game static mesh with dependencies was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FOptions Options;
+            Options.OnProgress = [](int32, int32) { return false; };
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<FName> Result = AssetDependencyClosure::Gather(ReadyRegistry(), { Mesh }, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("flagged as stopped"), Stats.bStoppedEarly);
+
+            // A cancelled walk still returns the seeds, so a caller that ignores the flag exports
+            // what was ticked rather than nothing at all.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("seeds survive cancellation"), Result.Num(), 1);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetExchangeExport.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageExporter.h"
+
+#include "AssetRegistry/ARFilter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Engine/StaticMesh.h"
+#include "Engine/Texture2D.h"
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * The second export mode: convert assets to interchange formats instead of copying .uasset files.
+ *
+ * Format selection is a pure function over a class path and a map, so it is tested directly. The
+ * conversion itself needs a loaded UObject and a registered UExporter, so those cases run against
+ * real project content and warn rather than fail when the content is not there.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExchangeExportSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ExchangeExport",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /** First /Game asset of the given class, as an export item. Sorted for reproducibility. */
+    static bool FindItemOfClass(UClass* Class, FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem& OutItem)
+    {
+        FARFilter Filter;
+        Filter.ClassPaths.Add(Class->GetClassPathName());
+        Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+        Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+        Filter.bRecursiveClasses = true;
+        Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+        TArray<FAssetData> Found;
+
+        ReadyRegistry().EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Found](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+        {
+            Found.Add(AssetData);
+            return Found.Num() < 64;
+        });
+
+        if (Found.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Found.Sort([](const FAssetData& A, const FAssetData& B)
+        {
+            return A.PackageName.LexicalLess(B.PackageName);
+        });
+
+        OutItem.PackageName = Found[0].PackageName;
+        OutItem.AssetName = Found[0].AssetName;
+        OutItem.ClassPath = Found[0].AssetClassPath;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    int32 CountFilesInScratch(const TCHAR* Wildcard = TEXT("*.*")) const
+    {
+        TArray<FString> Found;
+        IFileManager::Get().FindFilesRecursive(Found, *ScratchDir, Wildcard, true, false);
+        return Found.Num();
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExchangeExportSpec)
+
+void AssetExchangeExportSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("FindFormatForClass", [this]()
+    {
+        It("matches a class named directly in the map", [this]()
+        {
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Map = { { TEXT("StaticMesh"), TEXT("fbx") } };
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("direct hit"),
+                FAssetUsageExporter::FindFormatForClass(FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine"), TEXT("StaticMesh")), Map),
+                FString(TEXT("fbx")));
+        });
+
+        It("returns nothing for a class with no entry", [this]()
+        {
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Map = { { TEXT("StaticMesh"), TEXT("fbx") } };
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("no format"),
+                FAssetUsageExporter::FindFormatForClass(
+                    FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine"), TEXT("Blueprint")), Map).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("returns nothing for an invalid class path rather than guessing", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("no format"),
+                FAssetUsageExporter::FindFormatForClass(FTopLevelAssetPath(), FAssetUsageExporter::GetDefaultFormatByClass()).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("inherits a format from a base class", [this]()
+        {
+            // One "Texture" entry has to cover Texture2D, or every texture subclass needs its own
+            // line in the settings. Requires the class to be findable, which Engine classes are.
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Map = { { TEXT("Texture"), TEXT("png") } };
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Texture2D inherits from Texture"),
+                FAssetUsageExporter::FindFormatForClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName(), Map),
+                FString(TEXT("png")));
+        });
+
+        It("prefers the exact entry over an inherited one", [this]()
+        {
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Map = {
+                { TEXT("Texture"),   TEXT("hdr") },
+                { TEXT("Texture2D"), TEXT("png") }
+            };
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("exact wins"),
+                FAssetUsageExporter::FindFormatForClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName(), Map),
+                FString(TEXT("png")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("The default format map", [this]()
+    {
+        It("covers the asset types artists actually export", [this]()
+        {
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Defaults = FAssetUsageExporter::GetDefaultFormatByClass();
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("static meshes as fbx"), Defaults.FindRef(TEXT("StaticMesh")), FString(TEXT("fbx")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("textures as png"), Defaults.FindRef(TEXT("Texture2D")), FString(TEXT("png")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("sounds as wav"), Defaults.FindRef(TEXT("SoundWave")), FString(TEXT("wav")));
+        });
+
+        It("leaves out Blueprint, which has no interchange format", [this]()
+        {
+            // A Blueprint entry would promise a conversion the engine cannot perform. Skipping it
+            // with a counted reason is honest; producing a .t3d text dump labelled "exported" is not.
+            const TMap<FString, FString> Defaults = FAssetUsageExporter::GetDefaultFormatByClass();
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("no Blueprint entry"), Defaults.Contains(TEXT("Blueprint")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Converting without a usable target", [this]()
+    {
+        It("fails cleanly when no target directory is given", [this]()
+        {
+            AddExpectedError(TEXT("Conversion aborted: no target directory was given"), EAutomationExpectedErrorFlags::Contains, 1);
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            Item.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Whatever"));
+            Item.AssetName = FName(TEXT("Whatever"));
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("wrote nothing"), Result.FilesWritten, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("counts an asset with no configured format without loading it", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("NoFormat"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            Item.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/NoSuchAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            Item.AssetName = FName(TEXT("NoSuchAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            Item.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine"), TEXT("Blueprint"));
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("skipped for want of a format"), Result.SkippedNoFormat, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("never attempted a load"), Result.SkippedNotLoaded, 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no errors"), Result.Errors.Num(), 0);
+
+            RemoveScratchDir();
+        });
+
+        It("stops when the progress callback asks it to", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ConvertCancel"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            int32 Calls = 0;
+            Options.OnProgress = [&Calls](int32, int32) { ++Calls; return false; };
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            Item.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/A_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            Item.AssetName = FName(TEXT("A_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item, Item }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("flagged as cancelled"), Result.bCancelled);
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not reported successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("stopped at the first item"), Calls, 1);
+
+            RemoveScratchDir();
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Converting real project content", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("writes a PNG for a texture", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            if (!FindItemOfClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass(), Item))
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No Texture2D found under /Game; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Converting '%s'."), *Item.PackageName.ToString()));
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ConvertTexture"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("succeeded"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one file written"), Result.FilesWritten, 1);
+
+            const FString Expected = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Item.AssetName.ToString() + TEXT(".png"));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the png exists"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*Expected));
+
+            // An exporter can create the file and write nothing into it; a zero-byte PNG would pass
+            // an existence check and be useless to whoever opens the folder.
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the png is not empty"), IFileManager::Get().FileSize(*Expected) > 0);
+        });
+
+        It("writes an FBX for a static mesh", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            if (!FindItemOfClass(UStaticMesh::StaticClass(), Item))
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No StaticMesh found under /Game; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Converting '%s'."), *Item.PackageName.ToString()));
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ConvertMesh"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("succeeded"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one file written"), Result.FilesWritten, 1);
+
+            const FString Expected = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Item.AssetName.ToString() + TEXT(".fbx"));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the fbx exists"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*Expected));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the fbx is not empty"), IFileManager::Get().FileSize(*Expected) > 0);
+        });
+
+        It("indexes the second conversion of the same asset", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportItem Item;
+            if (!FindItemOfClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass(), Item))
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No Texture2D found under /Game; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ConvertIndex"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.CollisionPolicy = EExportCollisionPolicy::Index;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FExchangeResult Second =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportConvertedAssets({ Item }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("second run renamed"), Second.FilesRenamed, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("two files on disk"), CountFilesInScratch(TEXT("*.png")), 2);
+
+            const FString Indexed = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Item.AssetName.ToString() + TEXT("_1.png"));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("_1 present"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*Indexed));
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetExportLayout.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetExportLayout.h"
+
+#include "AssetDependencyClosure.h"
+#include "AssetUsageExporter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/ARFilter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Engine/StaticMesh.h"
+#include "Engine/Texture2D.h"
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * Where exported files land.
+ *
+ * The grouping logic is pure enough to test on invented package names; the type-folder lookup and
+ * the end-to-end copy need real content and say so when it is missing.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportLayoutSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ExportLayout",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /** A closure with a made-up seed and dependencies, for testing grouping alone. */
+    static AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure MakeClosure(const TCHAR* Seed, std::initializer_list<const TCHAR*> Dependencies)
+    {
+        AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure Closure;
+        Closure.Seed = FName(Seed);
+        Closure.Packages.Add(Closure.Seed);
+
+        for (const TCHAR* Dependency : Dependencies)
+        {
+            Closure.Packages.Add(FName(Dependency));
+        }
+
+        return Closure;
+    }
+
+    /** First /Game asset of a class, or NAME_None. */
+    static FName FindPackageOfClass(UClass* Class)
+    {
+        FARFilter Filter;
+        Filter.ClassPaths.Add(Class->GetClassPathName());
+        Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+        Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+        Filter.bRecursiveClasses = true;
+        Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+        TArray<FName> Found;
+
+        ReadyRegistry().EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Found](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+        {
+            Found.Add(AssetData.PackageName);
+            return Found.Num() < 64;
+        });
+
+        if (Found.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            return NAME_None;
+        }
+
+        Found.Sort(FNameLexicalLess());
+        return Found[0];
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportLayoutSpec)
+
+void AssetExportLayoutSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Flat and mirrored layouts", [this]()
+    {
+        It("collapses every closure into a single unnamed group", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure> Closures = {
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/A"), { TEXT("/Game/Shared") }),
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/B"), { TEXT("/Game/Shared") })
+            };
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::Flat;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closures, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one group"), Groups.Num(), 1);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("writing into the target itself"), Groups[0].RelativeDir.IsEmpty());
+
+            // The shared dependency appears once: a flat folder cannot hold it twice, and pretending
+            // otherwise would make the file count disagree with what gets written.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("three distinct packages"), Groups[0].Packages.Num(), 3);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("stats agree"), Stats.FilePlacements, 3);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("distinct count matches"), Stats.DistinctPackages, 3);
+        });
+
+        It("treats MirrorTree the same at this level", [this]()
+        {
+            // Mirroring is the exporter's job, applied per file inside whichever folder a group
+            // names. The layout planner has nothing extra to do for it.
+            const TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure> Closures = {
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/A"), { TEXT("/Game/Shared") })
+            };
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::MirrorTree;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closures, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one group"), Groups.Num(), 1);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("no subfolder from the planner"), Groups[0].RelativeDir.IsEmpty());
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Folder per asset", [this]()
+    {
+        It("gives each seed its own folder named after the asset", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure> Closures = {
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/Art/SM_Rock"), {}),
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/Art/SM_Tree"), {})
+            };
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::FolderPerAsset;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closures, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one group per seed"), Groups.Num(), 2);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("named after the asset, not the path"), Groups[0].RelativeDir, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("second folder"), Groups[1].RelativeDir, FString(TEXT("SM_Tree")));
+        });
+
+        It("copies a shared dependency into every folder that needs it", [this]()
+        {
+            // The defining property of this layout: each folder must be self-contained, so a texture
+            // used by two meshes is written twice. Deduplicating it would leave the second folder
+            // opening with missing content.
+            const TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure> Closures = {
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/Art/SM_Rock"), { TEXT("/Game/Art/T_Shared") }),
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/Art/SM_Tree"), { TEXT("/Game/Art/T_Shared") })
+            };
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::FolderPerAsset;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closures, Options, Stats);
+
+            int32 SharedPlacements = 0;
+            for (const AssetExportLayout::FGroup& Group : Groups)
+            {
+                SharedPlacements += Group.Packages.Contains(FName(TEXT("/Game/Art/T_Shared"))) ? 1 : 0;
+            }
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the texture lands in both folders"), SharedPlacements, 2);
+
+            // Three distinct packages, four files written. This gap is what the export dialog has
+            // to show, and the stats have to keep the two numbers apart to make that possible.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("distinct packages"), Stats.DistinctPackages, 3);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("file placements"), Stats.FilePlacements, 4);
+        });
+
+        It("makes folder names unique when two assets share a short name", [this]()
+        {
+            // /Game/A/SM_Rock and /Game/B/SM_Rock are different assets with the same name. Without
+            // a suffix they would share one folder and interleave their dependencies.
+            const TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure> Closures = {
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/A/SM_Rock"), {}),
+                MakeClosure(TEXT("/Game/B/SM_Rock"), {})
+            };
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::FolderPerAsset;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closures, Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("two groups"), Groups.Num(), 2);
+            TestNotEqual(TEXT("folders differ"), Groups[0].RelativeDir, Groups[1].RelativeDir);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the rename was counted"), Stats.RenamedFolders, 1);
+        });
+
+        It("keeps the seed at the root of its own folder when grouping by type", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName MeshPackage = FindPackageOfClass(UStaticMesh::StaticClass());
+            if (MeshPackage.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game StaticMesh found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure Closure;
+            Closure.Seed = MeshPackage;
+            Closure.Packages.Add(MeshPackage);
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FOptions Options;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::FolderPerAsset;
+            Options.bGroupDependenciesByType = true;
+
+            AssetExportLayout::FStats Stats;
+            const TArray<AssetExportLayout::FGroup> Groups =
+                AssetExportLayout::BuildGroups(ReadyRegistry(), Closure.Packages.IsEmpty()
+                    ? TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure>()
+                    : TArray<AssetDependencyClosure::FSeedClosure>{ Closure },
+                    Options, Stats);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one group"), Groups.Num(), 1);
+
+            // The seed is the subject of its folder. Filing it under StaticMesh/ beside its own
+            // dependencies would bury the thing the folder is named after.
+            const FString Expected = FPackageName::GetShortName(MeshPackage.ToString());
+            TestEqual(TEXT("seed sits at the folder root"), Groups[0].RelativeDir, Expected);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Type folders", [this]()
+    {
+        It("names folders after the type presets, not invented labels", [this]()
+        {
+            const TMap<FTopLevelAssetPath, FString> FolderByClass = AssetExportLayout::BuildTypeFolderMap(ReadyRegistry());
+
+            const FString* TextureFolder = FolderByClass.Find(UTexture2D::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName());
+
+            if (!TextureFolder)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("Texture2D missing from the type folder map; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // The Types filter in the panel shows "Texture"; the folder a user gets must match the
+            // word they filtered by, or the two halves of the tool disagree.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Texture2D lands under Texture"), *TextureFolder, FString(TEXT("Texture")));
+        });
+
+        It("returns Other rather than an empty name for an unmapped package", [this]()
+        {
+            // An empty folder name would silently write into the parent folder and look like the
+            // grouping had failed rather than like a type nobody mapped.
+            const TMap<FTopLevelAssetPath, FString> FolderByClass = AssetExportLayout::BuildTypeFolderMap(ReadyRegistry());
+
+            const FString Folder = AssetExportLayout::TypeFolderForPackage(
+                ReadyRegistry(), FName(TEXT("/Game/NoSuchPackage_AssetUsageAuditTest")), FolderByClass);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("falls back to Other"), Folder, FString(TEXT("Other")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Groups reaching the exporter", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("writes each group into its own subfolder", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindPackageOfClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass());
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game Texture2D found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LayoutGroups"));
+
+            // The same package in two groups: it must be written twice, once per folder, and
+            // neither copy renamed - they do not collide because they are in different folders.
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportGroup First;
+            First.RelativeDir = TEXT("FolderOne");
+            First.Packages.Add(Package);
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportGroup Second;
+            Second.RelativeDir = TEXT("FolderTwo");
+            Second.Packages.Add(Package);
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageGroups({ First, Second }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("succeeded"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("copied once per group"), Result.FilesCopied, 2);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("nothing renamed"), Result.FilesRenamed, 0);
+
+            const FString FileName = FPaths::GetCleanFilename(FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("first folder"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, TEXT("FolderOne"), FileName)));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("second folder"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, TEXT("FolderTwo"), FileName)));
+        });
+
+        It("still writes into the target when a group has no subfolder", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindPackageOfClass(UTexture2D::StaticClass());
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No /Game Texture2D found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LayoutRoot"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FExportGroup Group;
+            Group.Packages.Add(Package);
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageGroups({ Group }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one file"), Result.FilesCopied, 1);
+
+            const FString FileName = FPaths::GetCleanFilename(FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("straight into the target"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, FileName)));
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetExportManifest.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetExportManifest.h"
+
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Dom/JsonObject.h"
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/FileHelper.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+#include "Serialization/JsonReader.h"
+#include "Serialization/JsonSerializer.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportManifestSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ExportManifest",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /** Parse the manifest the writer just produced. Null when it is missing or malformed. */
+    TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> ReadManifest() const
+    {
+        FString Text;
+        if (!FFileHelper::LoadFileToString(Text, *FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, AssetExportManifest::FileName)))
+        {
+            return nullptr;
+        }
+
+        TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root;
+        const TSharedRef<TJsonReader<>> Reader = TJsonReaderFactory<>::Create(Text);
+
+        return FJsonSerializer::Deserialize(Reader, Root) ? Root : nullptr;
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportManifestSpec)
+
+void AssetExportManifestSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Refusing to write a misleading manifest", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("fails when the exporter recorded nothing", [this]()
+        {
+            // The usual cause is a caller that forgot bRecordWrittenFiles. An empty manifest beside
+            // a folder full of assets would be believed by whatever reads it next.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ManifestEmpty"));
+
+            AddExpectedError(TEXT("the exporter recorded no files"), EAutomationExpectedErrorFlags::Contains, 1);
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            const AssetExportManifest::FResult Result =
+                AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), {}, Options);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("says why"), !Result.ErrorMessage.IsEmpty());
+            TestFalse(TEXT("wrote no file"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(
+                *FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, AssetExportManifest::FileName)));
+        });
+
+        It("fails when no target directory is given", [this]()
+        {
+            AddExpectedError(TEXT("no target directory"), EAutomationExpectedErrorFlags::Contains, 1);
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+
+            TArray<FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile> Written;
+            Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef().PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Whatever"));
+
+            const AssetExportManifest::FResult Result =
+                AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), Written, Options);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+        });
+
+        It("refuses under the Migrate layout", [this]()
+        {
+            // Migrate keeps package paths intact, so there is nothing to restore. A manifest there
+            // would imply the references had been broken.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ManifestMigrate"));
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::Migrate;
+
+            TArray<FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile> Written;
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile& Entry = Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+            Entry.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Whatever"));
+            Entry.RelativePath = TEXT("Whatever.uasset");
+
+            const AssetExportManifest::FResult Result =
+                AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), Written, Options);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestFalse(TEXT("wrote no file"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(
+                *FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, AssetExportManifest::FileName)));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("The manifest it writes", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("is valid JSON carrying the schema version and the layout", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ManifestBasic"));
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.Layout = EExportLayout::FolderPerAsset;
+            Options.CollisionPolicy = EExportCollisionPolicy::Index;
+
+            TArray<FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile> Written;
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile& Entry = Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+            Entry.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/SomeAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            Entry.RelativePath = TEXT("SomeAsset/SomeAsset.uasset");
+
+            const AssetExportManifest::FResult Result =
+                AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), Written, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root = ReadManifest();
+            TestTrue(TEXT("parses as JSON"), Root.IsValid());
+
+            if (!Root.IsValid())
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("schema version"),
+                static_cast<int32>(Root->GetNumberField(TEXT("schemaVersion"))),
+                AssetExportManifest::SchemaVersion);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("records the layout"), Root->GetStringField(TEXT("layout")), FString(TEXT("FolderPerAsset")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("records the naming policy"), Root->GetStringField(TEXT("collisionPolicy")), FString(TEXT("Index")));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("has an assets array"), Root->HasField(TEXT("assets")));
+        });
+
+        It("records the path that was actually written, not the intended one", [this]()
+        {
+            // The case the manifest exists for: the collision policy renamed the file, so a manifest
+            // built from the package name alone would point at a file that is not there.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ManifestRenamed"));
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+
+            TArray<FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile> Written;
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile& Entry = Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+            Entry.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/SM_Rock_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            Entry.RelativePath = TEXT("SM_Rock_AssetUsageAuditTest_2.uasset");
+
+            AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), Written, Options);
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root = ReadManifest();
+            TestTrue(TEXT("parses"), Root.IsValid());
+
+            if (!Root.IsValid())
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TArray<TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>>* Assets = nullptr;
+            TestTrue(TEXT("has assets"), Root->TryGetArrayField(TEXT("assets"), Assets));
+
+            if (!Assets || Assets->Num() != 1)
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("expected exactly one asset entry"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> First = (*Assets)[0]->AsObject();
+            TestEqual(TEXT("original package name"), First->GetStringField(TEXT("package")),
+                FString(TEXT("/Game/SM_Rock_AssetUsageAuditTest")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the renamed file"), First->GetStringField(TEXT("file")),
+                FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_AssetUsageAuditTest_2.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("separates the assets that were ticked from those pulled in", [this]()
+        {
+            // "Restore what I exported" and "restore everything in this folder" are different
+            // requests, and only the manifest can tell them apart after the fact.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("ManifestSeeds"));
+
+            const FName SeedPackage(TEXT("/Game/Seed_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            const FName DependencyPackage(TEXT("/Game/Dependency_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+
+            AssetExportManifest::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.SeedPackages = { SeedPackage };
+
+            TArray<FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile> Written;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile& SeedEntry = Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+            SeedEntry.PackageName = SeedPackage;
+            SeedEntry.RelativePath = TEXT("Seed.uasset");
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FWrittenFile& DependencyEntry = Written.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+            DependencyEntry.PackageName = DependencyPackage;
+            DependencyEntry.RelativePath = TEXT("Dependency.uasset");
+
+            AssetExportManifest::Write(ReadyRegistry(), Written, Options);
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root = ReadManifest();
+            if (!Root.IsValid())
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("manifest did not parse"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TArray<TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>>* Assets = nullptr;
+            Root->TryGetArrayField(TEXT("assets"), Assets);
+
+            if (!Assets || Assets->Num() != 2)
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("expected two asset entries"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            int32 SeedCount = 0;
+            for (const TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>& Value : *Assets)
+            {
+                if (Value->AsObject()->GetBoolField(TEXT("seed")))
+                {
+                    ++SeedCount;
+                }
+            }
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("exactly one entry is a seed"), SeedCount, 1);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetExportNaming.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetExportNaming.h"
+#include "AssetUsageAuditTypes.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+namespace
+{
+    /** Builds an Exists predicate over a fixed set of filenames, so no filesystem is involved. */
+    struct FFakeFolder
+    {
+        TSet<FString> Files;
+
+        explicit FFakeFolder(std::initializer_list<const TCHAR*> InFiles)
+        {
+            for (const TCHAR* File : InFiles)
+            {
+                Files.Add(FString(File));
+            }
+        }
+
+        bool Contains(const FString& FileName) const
+        {
+            return Files.Contains(FileName);
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportNamingSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ExportNaming",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetExportNamingSpec)
+
+void AssetExportNamingSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("SplitTrailingIndex", [this]()
+    {
+        It("reports no index for a plain name", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, (int32)INDEX_NONE);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("PadWidth"), PadWidth, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("splits a single-digit trailing index", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock_7"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, 7);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("PadWidth"), PadWidth, 1);
+        });
+
+        It("preserves zero padding width", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock_007"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, 7);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("PadWidth"), PadWidth, 3);
+        });
+
+        It("treats a non-numeric suffix as part of the name", [this]()
+        {
+            // The trap this whole function exists for: _v3 must not be read as an index,
+            // and the _02 in the middle must not be touched.
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock_02_v3"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_02_v3")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, (int32)INDEX_NONE);
+        });
+
+        It("splits a mid-name numeric group only when it is trailing", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock_02"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, 2);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("PadWidth"), PadWidth, 2);
+        });
+
+        It("treats an empty suffix as no index", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("SM_Rock_"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, (int32)INDEX_NONE);
+        });
+
+        It("does not treat a leading underscore as a separator", [this]()
+        {
+            FString Stem;
+            int32 Index = 0;
+            int32 PadWidth = 0;
+            AssetExportNaming::SplitTrailingIndex(TEXT("_1"), Stem, Index, PadWidth);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stem"), Stem, FString(TEXT("_1")));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Index"), Index, (int32)INDEX_NONE);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("ComposeIndexedName", [this]()
+    {
+        It("returns the bare stem for INDEX_NONE", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Composed"), AssetExportNaming::ComposeIndexedName(TEXT("Foo"), INDEX_NONE, 0), FString(TEXT("Foo")));
+        });
+
+        It("appends an unpadded index", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Composed"), AssetExportNaming::ComposeIndexedName(TEXT("Foo"), 1, 1), FString(TEXT("Foo_1")));
+        });
+
+        It("restores zero padding", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Composed"), AssetExportNaming::ComposeIndexedName(TEXT("Foo"), 8, 3), FString(TEXT("Foo_008")));
+        });
+
+        It("widens rather than truncates when the number outgrows the padding", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Composed"), AssetExportNaming::ComposeIndexedName(TEXT("Foo"), 100, 2), FString(TEXT("Foo_100")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("ResolveCollision under Overwrite", [this]()
+    {
+        It("returns the desired name even when it is taken", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Overwrite,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("ResolveCollision under Index", [this]()
+    {
+        It("returns the desired name when the folder is empty", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({});
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("appends _1 on the first collision", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_1.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("advances to _2 when _1 is also taken", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"), TEXT("SM_Rock_1.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_2.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("increments an existing index instead of appending a second one", [this]()
+        {
+            // The explicit requirement: Foo_7 must become Foo_8, never Foo_7_1.
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock_7.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock_7.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_8.uasset")));
+            TestFalse(TEXT("Must not contain a doubled index"), Result.Contains(TEXT("_7_")));
+        });
+
+        It("keeps zero padding when incrementing", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock_007.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock_007.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_008.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("widens padding when the increment carries", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock_99.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock_99.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_100.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("does not mistake a version suffix for an index", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock_02_v3.uasset") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock_02_v3.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_02_v3_1.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("preserves the extension", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock.fbx") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.fbx"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_1.fbx")));
+        });
+
+        It("handles a name with no extension", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("SM_Rock") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_1")));
+        });
+
+        It("skips over a gap-free run of taken indices", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({
+                TEXT("T_Wall.png"), TEXT("T_Wall_1.png"), TEXT("T_Wall_2.png"), TEXT("T_Wall_3.png") });
+            const FString Result = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("T_Wall.png"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Result"), Result, FString(TEXT("T_Wall_4.png")));
+        });
+
+        It("is idempotent for a name that does not collide", [this]()
+        {
+            const FFakeFolder Folder({ TEXT("Other.uasset") });
+            const auto Predicate = [&Folder](const FString& Name) { return Folder.Contains(Name); };
+
+            const FString First = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"), EExportCollisionPolicy::Index, Predicate);
+            const FString Second = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(First, EExportCollisionPolicy::Index, Predicate);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Stable"), Second, First);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif  // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsageExporter.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageExporter.h"
+#include "AssetExportNaming.h"
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/FileHelper.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageExporterSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.Exporter",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    /** Create a throwaway folder under Saved/ so a failed run never touches project content. */
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    void WriteStubFile(const FString& FileName)
+    {
+        FFileHelper::SaveStringToFile(TEXT("stub"), *FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, FileName));
+    }
+
+    bool FileExistsInScratch(const FString& FileName) const
+    {
+        return IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, FileName));
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageExporterSpec)
+
+void AssetUsageExporterSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("ResolvePackageFilePath", [this]()
+    {
+        It("returns empty for a package that does not exist", [this]()
+        {
+            const FString Path = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/ThisPackageDoesNotExist_AssetUsageAuditTest")));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("no file for a missing package"), Path.IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("returns empty for a script package rather than inventing a path", [this]()
+        {
+            // Script packages are code. Handing back a plausible path would make the exporter
+            // report a copy it never performed.
+            const FString Path = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(FName(TEXT("/Script/Engine")));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("no file for a script package"), Path.IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("returns empty for a malformed package name", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("empty name"), FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(FName()).IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("not a long package name"), FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(FName(TEXT("NotAPackage"))).IsEmpty());
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("ExportPackageFiles", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]()
+        {
+            RemoveScratchDir();
+        });
+
+        It("fails cleanly when no target directory is given", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory.Reset();
+
+            // The exporter logs this at Error level on purpose - it is a setup mistake the user
+            // must see in the Output Log. The automation framework treats any logged Error during
+            // a test as a failure, so the expected message has to be declared.
+            AddExpectedError(TEXT("Export aborted: no target directory was given"), EAutomationExpectedErrorFlags::Contains, 1);
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ FName(TEXT("/Game/Whatever")) }, Options);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("reports why"), Result.Errors.Num() > 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("copied nothing"), Result.FilesCopied, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("creates the target directory when it is missing", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("CreatesDir"));
+
+            const FString Nested = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, TEXT("Nested/Deeper"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = Nested;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({}, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("directory created"), IFileManager::Get().DirectoryExists(*Nested));
+        });
+
+        It("counts a package with no file on disk without calling it an error", [this]()
+        {
+            // A script package or an unsaved asset is an ordinary outcome, not a failure. Folding
+            // it into Errors would bury real copy failures in noise.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MissingOnDisk"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result = FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles(
+                { FName(TEXT("/Game/NoSuchAsset_AssetUsageAuditTest")) }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("counted as missing"), Result.FilesMissingOnDisk, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no errors"), Result.Errors.Num(), 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("nothing copied"), Result.FilesCopied, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("reports progress with a total that matches the request", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("Progress"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            int32 SeenTotal = INDEX_NONE;
+            int32 Calls = 0;
+
+            Options.OnProgress = [&SeenTotal, &Calls](int32 Done, int32 Total)
+            {
+                SeenTotal = Total;
+                ++Calls;
+                return true;
+            };
+
+            const TArray<FName> Packages = {
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/A_AssetUsageAuditTest")),
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/B_AssetUsageAuditTest")),
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/C_AssetUsageAuditTest"))
+            };
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles(Packages, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("total matches"), SeenTotal, 3);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one call per package"), Calls, 3);
+        });
+
+        It("stops when the progress callback asks it to", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("Cancel"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            int32 Calls = 0;
+            Options.OnProgress = [&Calls](int32, int32)
+            {
+                ++Calls;
+                return false;  // cancel immediately
+            };
+
+            const TArray<FName> Packages = {
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/A_AssetUsageAuditTest")),
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/B_AssetUsageAuditTest")),
+                FName(TEXT("/Game/C_AssetUsageAuditTest"))
+            };
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result = FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles(Packages, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("flagged as cancelled"), Result.bCancelled);
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not reported successful"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("stopped at the first item"), Calls, 1);
+        });
+
+        It("de-duplicates a package listed twice", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("Dedup"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            int32 Calls = 0;
+            Options.OnProgress = [&Calls](int32, int32) { ++Calls; return true; };
+
+            const FName Same(TEXT("/Game/Duplicate_AssetUsageAuditTest"));
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Same, Same, Same }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("processed once"), Calls, 1);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Collision policy as the exporter applies it", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]()
+        {
+            RemoveScratchDir();
+        });
+
+        It("picks an indexed name against real files on disk", [this]()
+        {
+            // The exporter feeds a filesystem predicate into ResolveCollision. This checks the two
+            // sides agree: a file that exists on disk must be treated as taken.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("Collision"));
+
+            WriteStubFile(TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"));
+            WriteStubFile(TEXT("SM_Rock_1.uasset"));
+
+            IFileManager& FileManager = IFileManager::Get();
+            const FString Dir = ScratchDir;
+
+            const FString Resolved = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&FileManager, &Dir](const FString& Candidate)
+                {
+                    return FileManager.FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(Dir, Candidate));
+                });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("skips both taken names"), Resolved, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock_2.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("keeps the original name when the folder is empty", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("NoCollision"));
+
+            IFileManager& FileManager = IFileManager::Get();
+            const FString Dir = ScratchDir;
+
+            const FString Resolved = AssetExportNaming::ResolveCollision(
+                TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset"),
+                EExportCollisionPolicy::Index,
+                [&FileManager, &Dir](const FString& Candidate)
+                {
+                    return FileManager.FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(Dir, Candidate));
+                });
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("unchanged"), Resolved, FString(TEXT("SM_Rock.uasset")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("FResult::Summarise", [this]()
+    {
+        It("always states how many files were copied", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result;
+            Result.FilesCopied = 7;
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("mentions the count"), Result.Summarise().Contains(TEXT("7 copied")));
+        });
+
+        It("mentions renames, overwrites and cancellation when they happened", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result;
+            Result.FilesCopied = 3;
+            Result.FilesRenamed = 2;
+            Result.FilesOverwritten = 1;
+            Result.bCancelled = true;
+
+            const FString Summary = Result.Summarise();
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("renames"), Summary.Contains(TEXT("renamed")));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("overwrites"), Summary.Contains(TEXT("overwritten")));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("cancellation"), Summary.Contains(TEXT("cancelled")));
+        });
+
+        It("stays quiet about categories that did not occur", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result;
+            Result.FilesCopied = 1;
+
+            const FString Summary = Result.Summarise();
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("no rename noise"), Summary.Contains(TEXT("renamed")));
+            TestFalse(TEXT("no failure noise"), Summary.Contains(TEXT("failed")));
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsageExporterLive.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageExporter.h"
+
+#include "AssetRegistry/ARFilter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Engine/Level.h"
+#include "Engine/World.h"
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/PackageName.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+#include "Misc/SecureHash.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * Exporter tests against the project's real content.
+ *
+ * The sibling spec (AssetUsageAudit.Exporter) covers the exporter's logic with names that
+ * deliberately do not exist, so it proves the bookkeeping and nothing else: until this file existed
+ * the exporter had never copied a single real .uasset. The interesting failures - a Perforce
+ * read-only source, an OFPA level whose external actors live under a stale duplicate folder, a
+ * package whose file extension is .umap rather than .uasset - only appear on real files.
+ *
+ * Everything here discovers its subject from the Asset Registry rather than hardcoding a path, so
+ * the spec keeps working after content moves, and warns instead of failing on a clone that has no
+ * suitable asset.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageExporterLiveSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ExporterLive",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A partially scanned registry answers "no such asset" indistinguishably from "no such asset
+     * exists", which would turn a real failure into a silent skip.
+     */
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /** Files on disk under a package's file, or 0 when the package has no file. */
+    static int64 FileSizeOf(FName PackageName)
+    {
+        const FString Path = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(PackageName);
+        return Path.IsEmpty() ? 0 : IFileManager::Get().FileSize(*Path);
+    }
+
+    static FString HashOf(const FString& FilePath)
+    {
+        FMD5Hash Hash = FMD5Hash::HashFile(*FilePath);
+        return Hash.IsValid() ? LexToString(Hash) : FString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Any ordinary /Game asset that has a file on disk.
+     *
+     * Excludes levels (a .umap drags external actors in), OFPA packages, and redirectors. Sorted so
+     * two runs on the same content pick the same asset and a failure is reproducible.
+     */
+    static FName FindOrdinaryAssetPackage()
+    {
+        FARFilter Filter;
+        Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+        Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+        Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+        TArray<FName> Candidates;
+
+        ReadyRegistry().EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Candidates](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+        {
+            // Compare class paths rather than calling GetClass(): GetClass() resolves the UClass and
+            // returns null for anything not loaded, which would let levels through.
+            if (AssetData.IsRedirector() || AssetData.AssetClassPath == UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName())
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            const FString PackageName = AssetData.PackageName.ToString();
+            if (PackageName.Contains(TEXT("__External")))
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            Candidates.Add(AssetData.PackageName);
+
+            // A few hundred is plenty to sort; enumerating all 80k just to pick one is waste.
+            return Candidates.Num() < 512;
+        });
+
+        if (Candidates.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            return NAME_None;
+        }
+
+        Candidates.Sort(FNameLexicalLess());
+
+        for (FName Candidate : Candidates)
+        {
+            if (!FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Candidate).IsEmpty())
+            {
+                return Candidate;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return NAME_None;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * How many .uasset files live under a level's registered external roots.
+     *
+     * Uses the plural GetExternalActorsPaths / GetExternalObjectsPaths rather than a hand-built
+     * "__ExternalActors__/..." string. This project contains a stale duplicate of exactly that
+     * shape - Content/__ExternalActors__/levelinterior_station alongside the live
+     * Content/__ExternalActors__/Interior_station/levelinterior_station - so a string-built path
+     * would silently count the wrong folder.
+     */
+    static int32 CountExternalPackages(FName LevelPackage)
+    {
+        const FString LevelPackageStr = LevelPackage.ToString();
+
+        TArray<FString> Roots = ULevel::GetExternalActorsPaths(LevelPackageStr);
+        Roots.Append(ULevel::GetExternalObjectsPaths(LevelPackageStr));
+
+        // The returned roots overlap: measured on this project, summing the per-root file counts
+        // gives exactly twice the number of packages that exist. Deduplicate by absolute file path
+        // rather than by package name, so this stays an independent filesystem measurement instead
+        // of a restatement of the exporter's own bookkeeping.
+        TSet<FString> UniqueFiles;
+
+        for (const FString& Root : Roots)
+        {
+            FString RootDir;
+            if (!FPackageName::TryConvertLongPackageNameToFilename(Root, RootDir))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            TArray<FString> Found;
+            IFileManager::Get().FindFilesRecursive(Found, *RootDir, TEXT("*.uasset"), true, false);
+
+            for (const FString& File : Found)
+            {
+                UniqueFiles.Add(FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(File));
+            }
+        }
+
+        return UniqueFiles.Num();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The OFPA level with the fewest external actors.
+     *
+     * Smallest on purpose: WP_Main owns roughly 16000 external packages and copying those in a test
+     * would move gigabytes. Search stops as soon as something small enough turns up.
+     */
+    static FName FindSmallestOfpaLevel(int32& OutExternalCount)
+    {
+        FARFilter Filter;
+        Filter.ClassPaths.Add(UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName());
+        Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+        Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+        Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+        FName Best = NAME_None;
+        int32 BestCount = MAX_int32;
+
+        ReadyRegistry().EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&Best, &BestCount](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+        {
+            const int32 Count = CountExternalPackages(AssetData.PackageName);
+            if (Count > 0 && Count < BestCount)
+            {
+                BestCount = Count;
+                Best = AssetData.PackageName;
+            }
+
+            // Good enough to prove the expansion works without a long copy.
+            return BestCount > 40;
+        });
+
+        OutExternalCount = (Best.IsNone()) ? 0 : BestCount;
+        return Best;
+    }
+
+    int32 CountFilesInScratch() const
+    {
+        TArray<FString> Found;
+        IFileManager::Get().FindFilesRecursive(Found, *ScratchDir, TEXT("*.*"), true, false);
+        return Found.Num();
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageExporterLiveSpec)
+
+void AssetUsageExporterLiveSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Copying a real asset", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("reproduces the source file byte for byte", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindOrdinaryAssetPackage();
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No ordinary /Game asset with a file on disk was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveCopy"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("succeeded"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one file copied"), Result.FilesCopied, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("nothing missing"), Result.FilesMissingOnDisk, 0);
+
+            const FString SourcePath = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package);
+            const FString DestPath = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, FPaths::GetCleanFilename(SourcePath));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("destination exists"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*DestPath));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("same size"), IFileManager::Get().FileSize(*DestPath), FileSizeOf(Package));
+            TestEqual(TEXT("same content"), HashOf(DestPath), HashOf(SourcePath));
+        });
+
+        It("leaves the exported file writable even when the source is read-only", [this]()
+        {
+            // This project is Perforce-primary, so unopened files are read-only on disk and Windows
+            // CopyFile carries the attribute across. A read-only export folder is useless to an
+            // artist and breaks the exporter's own Overwrite policy on the next run.
+            const FName Package = FindOrdinaryAssetPackage();
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No ordinary /Game asset with a file on disk was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveReadOnly"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+
+            const FString DestPath = FPaths::Combine(
+                ScratchDir, FPaths::GetCleanFilename(FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package)));
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("destination is writable"), IFileManager::Get().IsReadOnly(*DestPath));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Collision policy on real files", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("writes a second copy beside the first under the Index policy", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindOrdinaryAssetPackage();
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No ordinary /Game asset with a file on disk was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveIndex"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.CollisionPolicy = EExportCollisionPolicy::Index;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Second =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Third =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("second run renamed"), Second.FilesRenamed, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("third run renamed"), Third.FilesRenamed, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("three files on disk"), CountFilesInScratch(), 3);
+
+            const FString SourcePath = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package);
+            const FString Base = FPaths::GetBaseFilename(SourcePath);
+            const FString Ext = FPaths::GetExtension(SourcePath, true);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("_1 present"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Base + TEXT("_1") + Ext)));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("_2 present"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Base + TEXT("_2") + Ext)));
+        });
+
+        It("replaces the previous file under the Overwrite policy", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindOrdinaryAssetPackage();
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No ordinary /Game asset with a file on disk was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveOverwrite"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.CollisionPolicy = EExportCollisionPolicy::Overwrite;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Second =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("second run succeeded"), Second.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("counted as an overwrite"), Second.FilesOverwritten, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("nothing renamed"), Second.FilesRenamed, 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("still one file"), CountFilesInScratch(), 1);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Mirroring the package tree", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("places the file under its /Game path when flattening is off", [this]()
+        {
+            const FName Package = FindOrdinaryAssetPackage();
+            if (Package.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No ordinary /Game asset with a file on disk was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveTree"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bFlatten = false;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Package }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one file copied"), Result.FilesCopied, 1);
+
+            FString Relative = FPaths::GetPath(Package.ToString());
+            Relative.RemoveFromStart(TEXT("/"));
+
+            const FString SourcePath = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Package);
+            const FString Expected = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, Relative, FPaths::GetCleanFilename(SourcePath));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("mirrored path exists"), IFileManager::Get().FileExists(*Expected));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Exporting an OFPA level", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("brings every external actor package along with the map", [this]()
+        {
+            // The whole point of the tool: an OFPA map copied on its own opens empty, because its
+            // actors are separate packages joined to it by a soft dependency edge.
+            int32 ExpectedExternal = 0;
+            const FName Level = FindSmallestOfpaLevel(ExpectedExternal);
+
+            if (Level.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No level with external actor packages was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Using level '%s' with %d external packages."), *Level.ToString(), ExpectedExternal));
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveOfpa"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bFlatten = false;  // keep the tree: external actor names are GUID-ish and long
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = true;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Level }, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("succeeded"), Result.bSuccess);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("expanded to every external package"), Result.ExternalPackagesCopied, ExpectedExternal);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("copied the map plus its externals"), Result.FilesCopied, ExpectedExternal + 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("files on disk match"), CountFilesInScratch(), ExpectedExternal + 1);
+
+            const FString MapPath = FAssetUsageExporter::ResolvePackageFilePath(Level);
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the map itself is a .umap"), MapPath.EndsWith(TEXT(".umap")));
+        });
+
+        It("copies only the map when external packages are switched off", [this]()
+        {
+            int32 ExpectedExternal = 0;
+            const FName Level = FindSmallestOfpaLevel(ExpectedExternal);
+
+            if (Level.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No level with external actor packages was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("LiveOfpaOff"));
+
+            FAssetUsageExporter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.TargetDirectory = ScratchDir;
+            Options.bIncludeExternalPackages = false;
+
+            const FAssetUsageExporter::FResult Result =
+                FAssetUsageExporter::ExportPackageFiles({ Level }, Options);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("just the map"), Result.FilesCopied, 1);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no externals expanded"), Result.ExternalPackagesCopied, 0);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsageGraphFidelity.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageGraph.h"
+
+#include "AssetUsageAuditTypes.h"
+#include "AssetUsagePaths.h"
+#include "LevelUsageResolver.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/ARFilter.h"
+#include "AssetRegistry/IAssetRegistry.h"
+#include "Engine/World.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * Does the graph agree with the Asset Registry it was built from?
+ *
+ * This is the automated form of the plan's "open Reference Viewer on ten assets and compare the
+ * edges by eye". Reference Viewer is a drawing of IAssetRegistry::GetDependencies, so comparing
+ * against the registry directly checks the same thing, on hundreds of assets instead of ten, and
+ * keeps checking it after every future change.
+ *
+ * What it cannot check: whether the registry itself is right. A reference the registry never
+ * recorded - an FMOD event resolved by string, a path built by concatenation - is invisible here
+ * exactly as it is invisible in Reference Viewer. That limitation is the Unknown verdict's whole
+ * reason for existing, and no test can close it.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageGraphFidelitySpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.GraphFidelity",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    static IAssetRegistry& ReadyRegistry()
+    {
+        IAssetRegistry& Registry = IAssetRegistry::GetChecked();
+        if (Registry.IsLoadingAssets())
+        {
+            Registry.WaitForCompletion();
+        }
+        return Registry;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Build the graph the way the audit does.
+     *
+     * Restricted to a subtree so the spec costs a fraction of a second rather than sweeping 80k
+     * packages; the invariants under test are per-edge and do not depend on scale.
+     */
+    static void BuildGraph(FAssetUsageGraph& OutGraph, const TCHAR* Root = TEXT("/Game"))
+    {
+        FAssetUsageGraphBuildOptions Options;
+        Options.IncludePackagePaths.Add(Root);
+
+        OutGraph.Build(ReadyRegistry(), Options);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A stable sample of graph indices.
+     *
+     * Sampling by raw index is not reproducible: node indices are assigned in Asset Registry
+     * enumeration order, which varies between runs even though the graph itself does not. Measured
+     * on this project the graph is identical run to run - 84505 packages, 370722 edges - while an
+     * index-strided sample compared 3879, 3847 and 3870 targets on three consecutive runs, because
+     * index 97 was a different package each time.
+     *
+     * Sorting by package name first makes the sample the same every run, so a failure here can be
+     * reproduced and a pass actually means something.
+     */
+    static TArray<int32> StableSample(const FAssetUsageGraph& Graph, int32 Stride = 97)
+    {
+        TArray<FName> Names;
+        Names.Reserve(Graph.Num());
+
+        for (int32 Index = 0; Index < Graph.Num(); ++Index)
+        {
+            Names.Add(Graph.GetNode(Index).PackageName);
+        }
+
+        Names.Sort(FNameLexicalLess());
+
+        TArray<int32> Sample;
+        Sample.Reserve(Names.Num() / FMath::Max(1, Stride) + 1);
+
+        for (int32 Position = 0; Position < Names.Num(); Position += Stride)
+        {
+            const int32 Index = Graph.FindPackageIndex(Names[Position]);
+            if (Index != INDEX_NONE)
+            {
+                Sample.Add(Index);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return Sample;
+    }
+
+    /** Raw registry dependencies for a package, using the tool's mandated query. */
+    static TSet<FName> RegistryDependencies(FName PackageName)
+    {
+        TArray<FName> Dependencies;
+        ReadyRegistry().GetDependencies(
+            PackageName,
+            Dependencies,
+            AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+            AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+        return TSet<FName>(Dependencies);
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageGraphFidelitySpec)
+
+void AssetUsageGraphFidelitySpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Edges against the registry", [this]()
+    {
+        It("stores every /Game dependency the registry reports", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageGraph Graph;
+            BuildGraph(Graph);
+
+            if (Graph.Num() == 0)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("The graph came back empty; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // A sample rather than all 84k: this compares against a live registry call per package,
+            // and the point is to catch a systematic edge-handling mistake, which shows up on the
+            // first dozen or not at all.
+            int32 Checked = 0;
+            int32 Missing = 0;
+            FString FirstMissing;
+
+            for (int32 Index : StableSample(Graph))
+            {
+                const FAssetUsageNode& Node = Graph.GetNode(Index);
+                const TSet<FName> Expected = RegistryDependencies(Node.PackageName);
+
+                TSet<FName> InGraph;
+                for (const FAssetUsageEdge& Edge : Graph.GetDependencies(Index))
+                {
+                    if (Graph.IsValidIndex(Edge.TargetIndex))
+                    {
+                        InGraph.Add(Graph.GetNode(Edge.TargetIndex).PackageName);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                for (FName Dependency : Expected)
+                {
+                    // The graph only holds packages inside the swept roots, so a dependency it
+                    // legitimately does not know about is not a defect. Anything under /Game is.
+                    if (!Dependency.ToString().StartsWith(TEXT("/Game/")))
+                    {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
+                    if (!InGraph.Contains(Dependency))
+                    {
+                        ++Missing;
+                        if (FirstMissing.IsEmpty())
+                        {
+                            FirstMissing = FString::Printf(TEXT("%s -> %s"),
+                                *Node.PackageName.ToString(), *Dependency.ToString());
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                ++Checked;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Compared %d packages against the registry."), Checked));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("something was actually compared"), Checked > 0);
+            TestEqual(*FString::Printf(TEXT("no /Game edge is missing (first: %s)"), *FirstMissing), Missing, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("invents no edge the registry does not report", [this]()
+        {
+            // The opposite direction, and the more dangerous one: a fabricated edge would make an
+            // unused asset look used, which is the failure mode this tool must never have.
+            FAssetUsageGraph Graph;
+            BuildGraph(Graph);
+
+            if (Graph.Num() == 0)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("The graph came back empty; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            int32 Extra = 0;
+            FString FirstExtra;
+
+            for (int32 Index : StableSample(Graph))
+            {
+                const FAssetUsageNode& Node = Graph.GetNode(Index);
+                const TSet<FName> Expected = RegistryDependencies(Node.PackageName);
+
+                for (const FAssetUsageEdge& Edge : Graph.GetDependencies(Index))
+                {
+                    if (!Graph.IsValidIndex(Edge.TargetIndex))
+                    {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
+                    const FName Target = Graph.GetNode(Edge.TargetIndex).PackageName;
+                    if (!Expected.Contains(Target))
+                    {
+                        ++Extra;
+                        if (FirstExtra.IsEmpty())
+                        {
+                            FirstExtra = FString::Printf(TEXT("%s -> %s"),
+                                *Node.PackageName.ToString(), *Target.ToString());
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            TestEqual(*FString::Printf(TEXT("no invented edge (first: %s)"), *FirstExtra), Extra, 0);
+        });
+
+        It("agrees with the registry on which edges are hard", [this]()
+        {
+            // Hard versus soft is a report column, and the columns are what someone decides on.
+            // A mislabelled edge is worse than a missing one: it reads as information.
+            FAssetUsageGraph Graph;
+            BuildGraph(Graph);
+
+            if (Graph.Num() == 0)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("The graph came back empty; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+
+            // Compare per TARGET, not per edge. The registry may report the same target twice under
+            // different property masks - a hard reference and a soft one to the same package - and
+            // the graph faithfully keeps both. Asking "is this edge hard" against a set that only
+            // answers "is any edge to this target hard" then flags the soft twin as a mismatch.
+            //
+            // An earlier version of this spec did exactly that and failed intermittently: whether a
+            // package with such a pair fell into the sample depended on the sample, so the same code
+            // passed or failed run to run. The defect was here, not in the graph.
+            int32 Compared = 0;
+            int32 Disagreements = 0;
+            TArray<FString> Details;
+
+            for (int32 Index : StableSample(Graph))
+            {
+                const FAssetUsageNode& Node = Graph.GetNode(Index);
+
+                TArray<FName> HardOnly;
+                Registry.GetDependencies(
+                    Node.PackageName,
+                    HardOnly,
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                    UE::AssetRegistry::FDependencyQuery(UE::AssetRegistry::EDependencyQuery::Hard));
+
+                const TSet<FName> RegistryHardTargets(HardOnly);
+
+                // Targets the graph considers hard by at least one edge - the same question the
+                // registry's hard-only query answers.
+                TSet<FName> GraphHardTargets;
+                TSet<FName> GraphAllTargets;
+
+                for (const FAssetUsageEdge& Edge : Graph.GetDependencies(Index))
+                {
+                    if (!Graph.IsValidIndex(Edge.TargetIndex))
+                    {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
+                    const FName Target = Graph.GetNode(Edge.TargetIndex).PackageName;
+                    GraphAllTargets.Add(Target);
+
+                    if (Edge.IsHard())
+                    {
+                        GraphHardTargets.Add(Target);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                for (FName Target : GraphAllTargets)
+                {
+                    const bool bGraphSaysHard = GraphHardTargets.Contains(Target);
+                    const bool bRegistrySaysHard = RegistryHardTargets.Contains(Target);
+
+                    if (bGraphSaysHard != bRegistrySaysHard)
+                    {
+                        ++Disagreements;
+
+                        if (Details.Num() < 5)
+                        {
+                            Details.Add(FString::Printf(
+                                TEXT("%s -> %s: graph says %s, registry says %s"),
+                                *Node.PackageName.ToString(),
+                                *Target.ToString(),
+                                bGraphSaysHard ? TEXT("hard") : TEXT("not hard"),
+                                bRegistrySaysHard ? TEXT("hard") : TEXT("not hard")));
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    ++Compared;
+                }
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Compared the hard flag on %d dependency targets."), Compared));
+
+            for (const FString& Detail : Details)
+            {
+                AddInfo(Detail);
+            }
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("something was actually compared"), Compared > 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("hard flags match the registry"), Disagreements, 0);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("The OFPA invariant, stated as a measurement", [this]()
+    {
+        It("finds external actor packages that a hard-only query would lose", [this]()
+        {
+            // The regression this guards is silent: a Hard-only query still returns a plausible
+            // graph, just without any One File Per Actor package in it. Rather than trusting the
+            // comment, measure the difference the query makes.
+            IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+
+            FARFilter Filter;
+            Filter.ClassPaths.Add(UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName());
+            Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+            Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+            Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+            FName LevelWithExternals = NAME_None;
+            int32 ExternalsUnderCorrectQuery = 0;
+
+            Registry.EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+            {
+                TArray<FName> All;
+                Registry.GetDependencies(
+                    AssetData.PackageName,
+                    All,
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+                int32 Externals = 0;
+                for (FName Dependency : All)
+                {
+                    if (AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(Dependency))
+                    {
+                        ++Externals;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (Externals > 0)
+                {
+                    LevelWithExternals = AssetData.PackageName;
+                    ExternalsUnderCorrectQuery = Externals;
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                return true;
+            });
+
+            if (LevelWithExternals.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No level with external actor packages was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            TArray<FName> HardOnly;
+            Registry.GetDependencies(
+                LevelWithExternals,
+                HardOnly,
+                AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                UE::AssetRegistry::FDependencyQuery(UE::AssetRegistry::EDependencyQuery::Hard));
+
+            int32 ExternalsUnderHardQuery = 0;
+            for (FName Dependency : HardOnly)
+            {
+                if (AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(Dependency))
+                {
+                    ++ExternalsUnderHardQuery;
+                }
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(
+                TEXT("'%s': %d external packages with the tool's query, %d with a Hard-only query."),
+                *LevelWithExternals.ToString(), ExternalsUnderCorrectQuery, ExternalsUnderHardQuery));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the tool's query finds external packages"), ExternalsUnderCorrectQuery > 0);
+
+            // The engine emits these edges as Game|Build without Hard. If this ever becomes
+            // non-zero the engine has changed and the surrounding comments need revisiting.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("a Hard-only query finds none of them"), ExternalsUnderHardQuery, 0);
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Sublevels and their parent map", [this]()
+    {
+        It("attributes a sublevel's assets to the parent map as well", [this]()
+        {
+            // Plan item 4. A streaming sublevel is reached from the parent's own package, which is
+            // a structural crossing, so the parent's sweep should see through it. Asserted rather
+            // than assumed: the map-boundary rule refuses most crossings, and getting it slightly
+            // wrong would silently drop every sublevel's contents from the parent.
+            IAssetRegistry& Registry = ReadyRegistry();
+            const FTopLevelAssetPath WorldClass = UWorld::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName();
+
+            FARFilter Filter;
+            Filter.ClassPaths.Add(WorldClass);
+            Filter.PackagePaths.Add(FName(TEXT("/Game")));
+            Filter.bRecursivePaths = true;
+            Filter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;
+
+            FName Parent = NAME_None;
+            FName Sublevel = NAME_None;
+
+            Registry.EnumerateAssets(Filter, [&](const FAssetData& AssetData)
+            {
+                TArray<FName> Dependencies;
+                Registry.GetDependencies(
+                    AssetData.PackageName,
+                    Dependencies,
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                    AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+                for (FName Dependency : Dependencies)
+                {
+                    TArray<FAssetData> InPackage;
+                    Registry.GetAssetsByPackageName(Dependency, InPackage, true);
+
+                    for (const FAssetData& Inner : InPackage)
+                    {
+                        if (Inner.AssetClassPath == WorldClass && Dependency != AssetData.PackageName)
+                        {
+                            Parent = AssetData.PackageName;
+                            Sublevel = Dependency;
+                            return false;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                return true;
+            });
+
+            if (Parent.IsNone())
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("No map referencing another map directly was found; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("Parent '%s' references '%s'."), *Parent.ToString(), *Sublevel.ToString()));
+
+            FAssetUsageGraph Graph;
+            BuildGraph(Graph);
+
+            const int32 SublevelIndex = Graph.FindPackageIndex(Sublevel);
+            if (SublevelIndex == INDEX_NONE)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("The sublevel is outside the built graph; skipping."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            FLevelUsageResolver Resolver(Graph, Registry);
+
+            FLevelUsageResolveOptions Options;
+            Options.LevelPackages = { Parent };
+            Options.bRecordRoutes = false;
+
+            const FLevelUsageResult Result = Resolver.Resolve(Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("the parent's sweep reaches the sublevel"), Result.IsReachableFromAnyLevel(SublevelIndex));
+
+            // Reaching the sublevel package is necessary but not sufficient - a foreign map is also
+            // "reached", just not expanded. What matters is that its contents came too.
+            TArray<FName> SublevelDependencies;
+            Registry.GetDependencies(
+                Sublevel,
+                SublevelDependencies,
+                AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalCategory(),
+                AssetUsageAudit::MakeTraversalQuery());
+
+            int32 ContentsChecked = 0;
+            int32 ContentsReached = 0;
+
+            for (FName Dependency : SublevelDependencies)
+            {
+                const int32 Index = Graph.FindPackageIndex(Dependency);
+                if (Index == INDEX_NONE)
+                {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                ++ContentsChecked;
+                if (Result.IsReachableFromAnyLevel(Index))
+                {
+                    ++ContentsReached;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (ContentsChecked == 0)
+            {
+                AddWarning(TEXT("The sublevel has no dependencies inside the graph; nothing to check."));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            AddInfo(FString::Printf(TEXT("%d of %d sublevel dependencies reached from the parent."),
+                ContentsReached, ContentsChecked));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("the parent sees the sublevel's contents"), ContentsReached, ContentsChecked);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsagePaths.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsagePaths.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsagePathsSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.Paths",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsagePathsSpec)
+
+void AssetUsagePathsSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("IsExternalPackage", [this]()
+    {
+        It("detects an OFPA external actor package", [this]()
+        {
+            // Real shape from this project: /Game/__ExternalActors__/Space/Maps/WP_Main/8/AB/<22 chars>
+            TestTrue(TEXT("external actor"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(FName(TEXT("/Game/__ExternalActors__/Space/Maps/WP_Main/8/AB/QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXC"))));
+        });
+
+        It("detects an external objects package", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("external object"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(FName(TEXT("/Game/__ExternalObjects__/Space/Maps/L_3i_Hub/1/2A/ABC"))));
+        });
+
+        It("does not flag an ordinary content package", [this]()
+        {
+            TestFalse(TEXT("ordinary asset"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock"))));
+        });
+
+        It("does not flag a level that merely lives next to external actors", [this]()
+        {
+            TestFalse(TEXT("the level itself is not external"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsExternalPackage(FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/WP_Main"))));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("IsScriptPackage", [this]()
+    {
+        It("flags /Script packages", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("script"), AssetUsagePaths::IsScriptPackage(FName(TEXT("/Script/Space"))));
+        });
+
+        It("does not flag content that starts with the same letters", [this]()
+        {
+            TestFalse(TEXT("not script"), AssetUsagePaths::IsScriptPackage(FName(TEXT("/Scripted/Foo"))));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("NormalizeExclusionPrefix", [this]()
+    {
+        It("converts content-relative form to package form", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Content/3rdParty"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("Content/3rdParty")), FString(TEXT("/Game/3rdParty")));
+        });
+
+        It("strips a trailing slash", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("trailing slash"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("Content/3rdParty/")), FString(TEXT("/Game/3rdParty")));
+        });
+
+        It("leaves package form untouched", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("already package form"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("/Game/Zombie")), FString(TEXT("/Game/Zombie")));
+        });
+
+        It("maps bare Content to the game root", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("bare Content"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("Content")), FString(TEXT("/Game")));
+        });
+
+        It("normalizes backslashes pasted from Explorer", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("backslashes"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("Content\\3rdParty\\Fab")), FString(TEXT("/Game/3rdParty/Fab")));
+        });
+
+        It("returns empty for an empty or slash-only prefix", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("empty"), AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("")).IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("slashes only"), AssetUsagePaths::NormalizeExclusionPrefix(TEXT("///")).IsEmpty());
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("IsPathExcluded", [this]()
+    {
+        It("excludes a package under the prefix", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Excluded = { TEXT("Content/3rdParty") };
+            TestTrue(TEXT("under prefix"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsPathExcluded(FName(TEXT("/Game/3rdParty/Galaxy/SM_Star")), Excluded));
+        });
+
+        It("does not exclude a sibling folder sharing a name prefix", [this]()
+        {
+            // The bug this guards: a naive StartsWith would exclude /Game/ArtSource when the user
+            // only asked to exclude /Game/Art.
+            const TArray<FString> Excluded = { TEXT("/Game/Art") };
+            TestFalse(TEXT("ArtSource must survive"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsPathExcluded(FName(TEXT("/Game/ArtSource/SM_Rock")), Excluded));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("Art itself is excluded"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsPathExcluded(FName(TEXT("/Game/Art/SM_Rock")), Excluded));
+        });
+
+        It("matches case-insensitively", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Excluded = { TEXT("content/ZOMBIE") };
+            TestTrue(TEXT("case insensitive"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsPathExcluded(FName(TEXT("/Game/Zombie/SK_Walker")), Excluded));
+        });
+
+        It("returns false for an empty exclusion list", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Excluded;
+            TestFalse(TEXT("nothing excluded"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::IsPathExcluded(FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock")), Excluded));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("ToProjectRelativePath", [this]()
+    {
+        It("converts an asset package", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("asset"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::ToProjectRelativePath(FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock")), false),
+                FString(TEXT("Content/Space/Art/SM_Rock.uasset")));
+        });
+
+        It("uses the umap extension for levels", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("level"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::ToProjectRelativePath(FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/WP_Main")), true),
+                FString(TEXT("Content/Space/Maps/WP_Main.umap")));
+        });
+
+        It("returns empty for script and engine packages rather than inventing a path", [this]()
+        {
+            TestTrue(TEXT("script"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::ToProjectRelativePath(FName(TEXT("/Script/Space")), false).IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("engine"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::ToProjectRelativePath(FName(TEXT("/Engine/BasicShapes/Cube")), false).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("converts an external actor package, which is still under /Game", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("external actor"),
+                AssetUsagePaths::ToProjectRelativePath(FName(TEXT("/Game/__ExternalActors__/Space/Maps/WP_Main/8/AB/ABC")), false),
+                FString(TEXT("Content/__ExternalActors__/Space/Maps/WP_Main/8/AB/ABC.uasset")));
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsageReportWriter.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageReportWriter.h"
+#include "AssetUsageAuditor.h"
+#include "AssetUsageAuditTypes.h"
+#include "Dom/JsonObject.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Serialization/JsonReader.h"
+#include "Serialization/JsonSerializer.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+namespace
+{
+    FAssetUsageAuditResult MakeSampleResult()
+    {
+        FAssetUsageAuditResult Result;
+
+        Result.Header.GeneratedAt = FDateTime(2026, 9, 2, 12, 0, 0);
+        Result.Header.ProjectName = TEXT("Space");
+        Result.Header.EngineVersion = TEXT("5.6.1");
+        Result.Header.ToolVersion = TEXT("0.1");
+        Result.Header.LevelsScanned = 2;
+        Result.Header.AssetsScanned = 3;
+        Result.Header.AppliedFilters.Add(TEXT("Types: StaticMesh"));
+
+        FAssetUsageRow& Used = Result.Rows.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+        Used.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock"));
+        Used.AssetName = FName(TEXT("SM_Rock"));
+        Used.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine.StaticMesh"));
+        Used.PathFromProjectRoot = TEXT("Content/Space/Art/SM_Rock.uasset");
+        Used.Verdict = EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedOnLevel;
+        Used.Levels = { FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/WP_Main")), FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/L_3i_Hub")) };
+        Used.HardReferenceCount = 3;
+        Used.SoftReferenceCount = 1;
+        Used.Provenance = EAssetUsageProvenance::HardReference | EAssetUsageProvenance::ExternalActor;
+        Used.Route = TEXT("WP_Main -> BP_Rock -> SM_Rock");
+
+        FAssetUsageRow& Unused = Result.Rows.AddDefaulted_GetRef();
+        Unused.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Orphan"));
+        Unused.AssetName = FName(TEXT("SM_Orphan"));
+        Unused.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine.StaticMesh"));
+        Unused.PathFromProjectRoot = TEXT("Content/Space/Art/SM_Orphan.uasset");
+        Unused.Verdict = EAssetUsageVerdict::Unreferenced;
+
+        return Result;
+    }
+}
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageReportWriterSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.ReportWriter",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageReportWriterSpec)
+
+void AssetUsageReportWriterSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("EscapeCsvField", [this]()
+    {
+        It("leaves a plain field untouched", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("plain"), FAssetUsageReportWriter::EscapeCsvField(TEXT("SM_Rock"), TEXT(';')), FString(TEXT("SM_Rock")));
+        });
+
+        It("quotes a field containing the delimiter", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("delimiter"),
+                FAssetUsageReportWriter::EscapeCsvField(TEXT("A;B"), TEXT(';')), FString(TEXT("\"A;B\"")));
+        });
+
+        It("does not quote a field containing a different delimiter", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("other delimiter"),
+                FAssetUsageReportWriter::EscapeCsvField(TEXT("A,B"), TEXT(';')), FString(TEXT("A,B")));
+        });
+
+        It("doubles embedded quotes", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("quotes"),
+                FAssetUsageReportWriter::EscapeCsvField(TEXT("say \"hi\""), TEXT(';')), FString(TEXT("\"say \"\"hi\"\"\"")));
+        });
+
+        It("quotes a field containing a newline", [this]()
+        {
+            // Route strings are built from node titles, and Blueprint node titles really do
+            // contain newlines. An unquoted one would split the row and corrupt the whole file.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("newline"),
+                FAssetUsageReportWriter::EscapeCsvField(TEXT("A\nB"), TEXT(';')), FString(TEXT("\"A\nB\"")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("BuildCsv", [this]()
+    {
+        It("emits one header row and one row per asset", [this]()
+        {
+            const FAssetUsageAuditResult Sample = MakeSampleResult();
+            FAssetUsageReportWriter::FOptions Options;
+
+            const FString Csv = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildCsv(Sample, Options);
+
+            TArray<FString> Lines;
+            Csv.ParseIntoArrayLines(Lines);
+
+            const int32 CommentLines = Lines.FilterByPredicate([](const FString& Line) { return Line.StartsWith(TEXT("#")); }).Num();
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("has comment header"), CommentLines > 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("comments + header + 2 rows"), Lines.Num(), CommentLines + 1 + 2);
+        });
+
+        It("records the filters that produced the report", [this]()
+        {
+            const FAssetUsageAuditResult Sample = MakeSampleResult();
+            const FString Csv = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildCsv(Sample, FAssetUsageReportWriter::FOptions());
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("filter recorded"), Csv.Contains(TEXT("# Filter: Types: StaticMesh")));
+        });
+
+        It("joins multiple levels into one cell with the configured separator", [this]()
+        {
+            const FAssetUsageAuditResult Sample = MakeSampleResult();
+            FAssetUsageReportWriter::FOptions Options;
+            Options.CsvMultiValueSeparator = TEXT("|");
+
+            const FString Csv = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildCsv(Sample, Options);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("levels joined"),
+                Csv.Contains(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/WP_Main|/Game/Space/Maps/L_3i_Hub")));
+        });
+
+        It("carries the verdict verbatim", [this]()
+        {
+            const FString Csv = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildCsv(MakeSampleResult(), FAssetUsageReportWriter::FOptions());
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("UsedOnLevel present"), Csv.Contains(TEXT("UsedOnLevel")));
+            TestTrue(TEXT("Unreferenced present"), Csv.Contains(TEXT("Unreferenced")));
+        });
+
+        It("warns in the header that Unknown does not mean unused", [this]()
+        {
+            // The single most dangerous misreading of this report. It must be stated in the file
+            // itself, because the file outlives the UI that explained it.
+            const FString Csv = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildCsv(MakeSampleResult(), FAssetUsageReportWriter::FOptions());
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("warning present"), Csv.Contains(TEXT("does NOT mean unused")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("BuildJson", [this]()
+    {
+        It("produces valid, parseable JSON", [this]()
+        {
+            const FString Json = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildJson(MakeSampleResult());
+
+            TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root;
+            const TSharedRef<TJsonReader<>> Reader = TJsonReaderFactory<>::Create(Json);
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("parses"), FJsonSerializer::Deserialize(Reader, Root) && Root.IsValid());
+        });
+
+        It("carries the header, verdict counts and one entry per asset", [this]()
+        {
+            const FString Json = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildJson(MakeSampleResult());
+
+            TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root;
+            const TSharedRef<TJsonReader<>> Reader = TJsonReaderFactory<>::Create(Json);
+            if (!FJsonSerializer::Deserialize(Reader, Root) || !Root.IsValid())
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("JSON did not parse"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject>* Header = nullptr;
+            TestTrue(TEXT("header object"), Root->TryGetObjectField(TEXT("header"), Header));
+            if (Header)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("project"), (*Header)->GetStringField(TEXT("project")), FString(TEXT("Space")));
+                TestEqual(TEXT("levelsScanned"), (*Header)->GetIntegerField(TEXT("levelsScanned")), 2);
+            }
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject>* Counts = nullptr;
+            TestTrue(TEXT("verdictCounts object"), Root->TryGetObjectField(TEXT("verdictCounts"), Counts));
+            if (Counts)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("usedOnLevel"), (*Counts)->GetIntegerField(TEXT("usedOnLevel")), 1);
+                TestEqual(TEXT("unreferenced"), (*Counts)->GetIntegerField(TEXT("unreferenced")), 1);
+            }
+
+            const TArray<TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>>* Assets = nullptr;
+            TestTrue(TEXT("assets array"), Root->TryGetArrayField(TEXT("assets"), Assets));
+            if (Assets)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("two assets"), Assets->Num(), 2);
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("keeps the level list nested rather than flattened to a string", [this]()
+        {
+            // The whole point of shipping JSON alongside CSV: a consumer should not have to
+            // re-split a delimited cell to learn which levels use an asset.
+            const FString Json = FAssetUsageReportWriter::BuildJson(MakeSampleResult());
+
+            TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> Root;
+            const TSharedRef<TJsonReader<>> Reader = TJsonReaderFactory<>::Create(Json);
+            if (!FJsonSerializer::Deserialize(Reader, Root) || !Root.IsValid())
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("JSON did not parse"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TArray<TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>>* Assets = nullptr;
+            if (!Root->TryGetArrayField(TEXT("assets"), Assets) || Assets->Num() == 0)
+            {
+                AddError(TEXT("assets array missing"));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> First = (*Assets)[0]->AsObject();
+            const TArray<TSharedPtr<FJsonValue>>* Levels = nullptr;
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("levels is an array"), First->TryGetArrayField(TEXT("levels"), Levels));
+            if (Levels)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("two levels"), Levels->Num(), 2);
+            }
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/AssetUsageVerdict.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsageAuditor.h"
+#include "AssetUsageGraph.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageVerdictSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.Verdict",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(AssetUsageVerdictSpec)
+
+void AssetUsageVerdictSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("ClassifyVerdict", [this]()
+    {
+        It("reports UsedOnLevel when a level reaches the asset", [this]()
+        {
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(
+                /*bReachableFromLevel=*/true,
+                /*bHasReferencers=*/true,
+                /*bFoundInConfigOrSource=*/false,
+                /*bIsBlindSpot=*/false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedOnLevel);
+        });
+
+        It("reports UsedOnLevel even when the asset is also named in config", [this]()
+        {
+            // Level reachability is the strongest signal and must win. Otherwise a mesh that is
+            // both placed on a level and mentioned in an ini would be filed under the weaker
+            // config verdict and vanish from a per-level report.
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(true, true, true, false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedOnLevel);
+        });
+
+        It("reports UsedByAssetsOnly when referenced but no level reaches it", [this]()
+        {
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(false, true, false, false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedByAssetsOnly);
+        });
+
+        It("reports ReferencedFromConfigOrSource when only a text literal names it", [this]()
+        {
+            // This is the BP_FirstPersonGameMode case: no asset references it, only
+            // Config/DefaultEngine.ini does. Reporting it Unreferenced would be a real defect.
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(false, false, true, false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::ReferencedFromConfigOrSource);
+        });
+
+        It("prefers the config verdict over UsedByAssetsOnly when both apply", [this]()
+        {
+            // Config provenance is more actionable than "some asset points at it" - it tells the
+            // user the reference is invisible to the registry and where to look for it.
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(false, true, true, false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::ReferencedFromConfigOrSource);
+        });
+
+        It("reports Unreferenced only when nothing at all points at it", [this]()
+        {
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(false, false, false, false);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::Unreferenced);
+        });
+
+        It("never reports Unreferenced for a registry blind spot", [this]()
+        {
+            // An FMOD asset with zero referencers tells us nothing, because FMOD resolves events
+            // by string path outside the UObject graph. Unknown is the honest answer, and the one
+            // that stops someone deleting the audio bank.
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(false, false, false, true);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::Unknown);
+            TestNotEqual(TEXT("Must not be Unreferenced"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::Unreferenced);
+        });
+
+        It("still reports UsedOnLevel for a blind-spot asset that a level does reach", [this]()
+        {
+            // A positive result is trustworthy even for a blind spot: we found a real edge.
+            // Only the absence of evidence is uninformative.
+            const EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict = FAssetUsageAuditor::ClassifyVerdict(true, false, false, true);
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("Verdict"), Verdict, EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedOnLevel);
+        });
+
+        It("produces a distinct string for every verdict", [this]()
+        {
+            // The report is parsed by other tools; two verdicts sharing a label would silently
+            // merge distinct populations.
+            TSet<FString> Seen;
+            const TArray<EAssetUsageVerdict> All = {
+                EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedOnLevel,
+                EAssetUsageVerdict::UsedByAssetsOnly,
+                EAssetUsageVerdict::ReferencedFromConfigOrSource,
+                EAssetUsageVerdict::Unreferenced,
+                EAssetUsageVerdict::Unknown
+            };
+
+            for (EAssetUsageVerdict Verdict : All)
+            {
+                const FString Label = LexToString(Verdict);
+                TestFalse(FString::Printf(TEXT("Label '%s' must be unique"), *Label), Seen.Contains(Label));
+                TestFalse(TEXT("Label must not be empty"), Label.IsEmpty());
+                Seen.Add(Label);
+            }
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("IsRegistryBlindSpot", [this]()
+    {
+        It("flags FMOD assets", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageNode Node;
+            Node.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/FMOD/Events/Explosion"));
+            Node.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/FMODStudio.FMODEvent"));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("FMOD asset is a blind spot"), FAssetUsageAuditor::IsRegistryBlindSpot(Node));
+        });
+
+        It("flags DataTables, whose rows the registry cannot attribute", [this]()
+        {
+            // A level depends on the whole table, so every row looks used even when none is.
+            FAssetUsageNode Node;
+            Node.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Data/DT_Weapons"));
+            Node.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine.DataTable"));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("DataTable is a blind spot"), FAssetUsageAuditor::IsRegistryBlindSpot(Node));
+        });
+
+        It("does not flag an ordinary static mesh", [this]()
+        {
+            FAssetUsageNode Node;
+            Node.PackageName = FName(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock"));
+            Node.ClassPath = FTopLevelAssetPath(TEXT("/Script/Engine.StaticMesh"));
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("StaticMesh is not a blind spot"), FAssetUsageAuditor::IsRegistryBlindSpot(Node));
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/IndirectReferenceScanner.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "IndirectReferenceScanner.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(IndirectReferenceScannerSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.IndirectReferences",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    TArray<FString> Extract(const TCHAR* Line)
+    {
+        TArray<FString> Result;
+        FIndirectReferenceScanner::ExtractGamePathsFromLine(Line, Result);
+        return Result;
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(IndirectReferenceScannerSpec)
+
+void IndirectReferenceScannerSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("ExtractGamePathsFromLine", [this]()
+    {
+        // These four lines are copied from this project's Config/DefaultEngine.ini. They are the
+        // whole reason this scanner exists: nothing in Content references them, so without this
+        // pass the project's GameMode and GameInstance are reported as unused assets.
+        It("finds the GameMode from DefaultEngine.ini and strips the _C class suffix", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(
+                TEXT("GlobalDefaultGameMode=/Game/Space/Core/GameModes/BP_FirstPersonGameMode.BP_FirstPersonGameMode_C"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Space/Core/GameModes/BP_FirstPersonGameMode")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("finds the GameInstance from MenuSystemPro", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(
+                TEXT("GameInstanceClass=/Game/MenuSystemPro/Blueprints/GameFramework/BP_MenuSystemGameInstance.BP_MenuSystemGameInstance_C"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0],
+                    FString(TEXT("/Game/MenuSystemPro/Blueprints/GameFramework/BP_MenuSystemGameInstance")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("finds a map reference with an object suffix", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(TEXT("EditorStartupMap=/Game/Space/Maps/Gyms/Gyms_Geoda.Gyms_Geoda"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/Gyms/Gyms_Geoda")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("finds a bare package path with no object suffix", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(TEXT("GameDefaultMap=/Game/Space/Maps/RefinedMenuMap"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Space/Maps/RefinedMenuMap")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("strips surrounding quotes and parentheses from an ini struct value", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(TEXT("+DirectoriesToAlwaysCook=(Path=\"/Game/Space/Art\")"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("handles a C++ literal wrapped in TEXT()", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(
+                TEXT("static const FSoftObjectPath Path(TEXT(\"/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock\"));"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("one hit"), Found.Num(), 1);
+            if (Found.Num() == 1)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("package"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Space/Art/SM_Rock")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("finds several distinct paths on one line", [this]()
+        {
+            const TArray<FString> Found = Extract(
+                TEXT("Redirect=(From=\"/Game/Old/SM_A\", To=\"/Game/New/SM_B\")"));
+
+            TestEqual(TEXT("two hits"), Found.Num(), 2);
+            if (Found.Num() == 2)
+            {
+                TestEqual(TEXT("first"), Found[0], FString(TEXT("/Game/Old/SM_A")));
+                TestEqual(TEXT("second"), Found[1], FString(TEXT("/Game/New/SM_B")));
+            }
+        });
+
+        It("returns nothing for a line with no /Game path", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no hits"), Extract(TEXT("bDynamicLevelStreaming=False")).Num(), 0);
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no hits"), Extract(TEXT("")).Num(), 0);
+        });
+
+        It("ignores a bare /Game root with no asset under it", [this]()
+        {
+            // "/Game" alone is a mount point, not a reference. Recording it would mark the entire
+            // project as referenced-from-config and make the verdict column meaningless.
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no hits"), Extract(TEXT("PackagePath=/Game")).Num(), 0);
+        });
+
+        It("does not match a path that merely contains the word Game", [this]()
+        {
+            TestEqual(TEXT("no hits"), Extract(TEXT("Path=/MiniGames2/Foo/SM_Bar")).Num(), 0);
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS

Source/AssetUsageAuditTests/Private/MigrateDestination.spec.cpp

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+// NextGenium 2026. Asset Usage Audit.
+
+#include "AssetUsagePaths.h"
+
+#include "HAL/FileManager.h"
+#include "Misc/App.h"
+#include "Misc/AutomationTest.h"
+#include "Misc/FileHelper.h"
+#include "Misc/Paths.h"
+
+#if WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS
+
+/**
+ * The Migrate destination check.
+ *
+ * Exists because the engine validates the destination only after MigratePackages has been called,
+ * and reports the refusal to the Output Log alone - so a bad folder presented as a button that did
+ * nothing at all. These specs pin the two rules to real folders on disk rather than to a reading of
+ * the engine source.
+ */
+BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(MigrateDestinationSpec,
+    "AssetUsageAudit.MigrateDestination",
+    EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext | EAutomationTestFlags::EngineFilter)
+
+    FString ScratchDir;
+
+    void MakeScratchDir(const TCHAR* Suffix)
+    {
+        ScratchDir = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(
+            FPaths::Combine(FPaths::ProjectSavedDir(), TEXT("AssetUsageAuditTests"), Suffix));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ScratchDir, true);
+    }
+
+    void RemoveScratchDir()
+    {
+        if (!ScratchDir.IsEmpty())
+        {
+            IFileManager::Get().DeleteDirectory(*ScratchDir, false, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Build <Scratch>/<ProjectName>/Content plus a marker file beside it. */
+    FString MakeFakeProject(const TCHAR* MarkerFileName)
+    {
+        const FString ProjectRoot = FPaths::Combine(ScratchDir, TEXT("FakeProject"));
+        const FString ContentDir = FPaths::Combine(ProjectRoot, TEXT("Content"));
+
+        IFileManager::Get().MakeDirectory(*ContentDir, true);
+
+        if (MarkerFileName)
+        {
+            FFileHelper::SaveStringToFile(TEXT("{}"), *FPaths::Combine(ProjectRoot, MarkerFileName));
+        }
+
+        return ContentDir;
+    }
+
+END_DEFINE_SPEC(MigrateDestinationSpec)
+
+void MigrateDestinationSpec::Define()
+{
+    Describe("Rejecting a destination Migrate would refuse", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("rejects an empty path", [this]()
+        {
+            TestFalse(TEXT("has a reason"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(FString()).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("rejects a folder that is not called Content", [this]()
+        {
+            // The project's own Saved/AssetUsageAudit is the default for every other layout, so
+            // this is the exact path a user arrives with after switching to Migrate.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateNotContent"));
+
+            const FString Reason = AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ScratchDir);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("rejected"), Reason.IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("says the folder must be Content"), Reason.Contains(TEXT("Content")));
+        });
+
+        It("rejects a Content folder with no project or plugin beside it", [this]()
+        {
+            // Passes the name check and still aborts: Migrate derives the destination mount point
+            // from what sits next to the Content folder.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateOrphanContent"));
+
+            const FString ContentDir = MakeFakeProject(nullptr);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("rejected"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("rejects a Content folder whose parent holds several plugins", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateManyPlugins"));
+
+            const FString ContentDir = MakeFakeProject(TEXT("First.uplugin"));
+            FFileHelper::SaveStringToFile(TEXT("{}"),
+                *FPaths::Combine(FPaths::GetPath(ContentDir), TEXT("Second.uplugin")));
+
+            const FString Reason = AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir);
+
+            TestFalse(TEXT("rejected"), Reason.IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("explains the ambiguity"), Reason.Contains(TEXT("several")));
+        });
+    });
+
+    Describe("Accepting a destination Migrate would use", [this]()
+    {
+        AfterEach([this]() { RemoveScratchDir(); });
+
+        It("accepts a Content folder next to a .uproject", [this]()
+        {
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateGoodProject"));
+
+            const FString ContentDir = MakeFakeProject(TEXT("FakeProject.uproject"));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("accepted"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("accepts a Content folder next to exactly one .uplugin", [this]()
+        {
+            // Plugin content is a legitimate migrate target; the engine derives the mount point
+            // from the plugin name.
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateGoodPlugin"));
+
+            const FString ContentDir = MakeFakeProject(TEXT("Only.uplugin"));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("accepted"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("accepts a trailing slash and backslashes alike", [this]()
+        {
+            // A path pasted from Explorer arrives with backslashes; one typed by hand often ends
+            // in a slash. Neither should read as "not a Content folder".
+            MakeScratchDir(TEXT("MigrateSlashes"));
+
+            const FString ContentDir = MakeFakeProject(TEXT("FakeProject.uproject"));
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("trailing slash"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir + TEXT("/")).IsEmpty());
+            TestTrue(TEXT("backslashes"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ContentDir.Replace(TEXT("/"), TEXT("\\"))).IsEmpty());
+        });
+
+        It("accepts this project's own Content folder", [this]()
+        {
+            // The strongest available check that the rule matches reality: the running project is
+            // a real, valid migrate target by construction.
+            const FString ProjectContent = FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(FPaths::ProjectContentDir());
+
+            TestTrue(TEXT("accepted"), AssetUsagePaths::ValidateMigrateDestination(ProjectContent).IsEmpty());
+        });
+    });
+}
+
+#endif // WITH_DEV_AUTOMATION_TESTS