diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Gameplay/CapabilityPresentationBinder.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Gameplay/CapabilityPresentationBinder.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using UniRx;
+using UnityEngine;
+
+// Wires one CapabilityEvents source to whatever presenter components live on this object or its
+// children, subscribing each presenter only to the event kinds it implements (docs/headless-
+// playground-cut.md fork L: "presentation is chosen per item, independently of capability... one
+// presentation... can visualize any subset of an item's capabilities"). This binder has no knowledge
+// of FieldDriver or any other concrete presentation, and no knowledge of what publishes events --
+// today the FieldShieldTest scene calls Bind() directly; a real capability owner will do the same
+// later without this binder changing.
+public class CapabilityPresentationBinder : MonoBehaviour
+{
+    private readonly List<IDisposable> _subscriptions = new List<IDisposable>();
+    private Func<int, Transform> _grabTargetResolver;
+    private Func<int, Vector3> _grabInitialVelocityResolver;
+
+    // Subscribes every presenter interface implemented by components on this object or its children to
+    // the matching stream of `events`. `grabTargetResolver`/`grabInitialVelocityResolver` resolve a
+    // GrabEvent's plain target handle to the live Transform/velocity a grab presenter needs; the owner
+    // of `events` supplies them (the test scene today; the real pickup capability's caller later).
+    public void Bind(CapabilityEvents events, Func<int, Transform> grabTargetResolver = null,
+        Func<int, Vector3> grabInitialVelocityResolver = null)
+    {
+        Unbind();
+        if (events == null) return;
+
+        _grabTargetResolver = grabTargetResolver;
+        _grabInitialVelocityResolver = grabInitialVelocityResolver;
+
+        foreach (var presenter in GetComponentsInChildren<IAbsorbPresenter>(true))
+        {
+            var p = presenter;
+            _subscriptions.Add(events.Absorb.Subscribe(e => p.Absorb(e)));
+        }
+
+        foreach (var presenter in GetComponentsInChildren<IGrabPresenter>(true))
+        {
+            var p = presenter;
+            _subscriptions.Add(events.Grab.Subscribe(e =>
+            {
+                var target = _grabTargetResolver?.Invoke(e.TargetHandle);
+                var velocity = _grabInitialVelocityResolver?.Invoke(e.TargetHandle) ?? Vector3.zero;
+                p.Grab(e, target, velocity);
+            }));
+        }
+
+        foreach (var presenter in GetComponentsInChildren<IMeleePresenter>(true))
+        {
+            var p = presenter;
+            _subscriptions.Add(events.Melee.Subscribe(e => p.Melee(e)));
+        }
+
+        foreach (var presenter in GetComponentsInChildren<IThrustPresenter>(true))
+        {
+            var p = presenter;
+            _subscriptions.Add(events.Thrust.Subscribe(e => p.Thrust(e)));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void Unbind()
+    {
+        foreach (var s in _subscriptions) s.Dispose();
+        _subscriptions.Clear();
+        _grabTargetResolver = null;
+        _grabInitialVelocityResolver = null;
+    }
+
+    private void OnDisable() => Unbind();
+    private void OnDestroy() => Unbind();
+}
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diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Gameplay/CapabilityPresenters.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Gameplay/CapabilityPresenters.cs
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+using UnityEngine;
+
+// Presentation-side contract for the capability events in Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/CapabilityEvents.cs
+// (docs/headless-playground-cut.md fork L). A presentation implements whichever of these interfaces
+// match what it visualizes -- one presentation may implement all four (the field shield), or just one
+// (a dedicated melee-blade effect). CapabilityPresentationBinder is what actually wires a presenter's
+// method to the matching event stream; a presenter never talks to CapabilityEvents itself.
+public interface IAbsorbPresenter
+{
+    void Absorb(AbsorbEvent e);
+}
+
+// Grab needs a live Transform to animate, which the engine-free GrabEvent cannot carry (its
+// TargetHandle is a plain identity, not a Unity reference). The binder resolves the handle through a
+// delegate supplied by the event source's owner and hands the presenter the result, along with the
+// initial velocity the target was already moving with (also owner-supplied, for the same reason).
+public interface IGrabPresenter
+{
+    void Grab(GrabEvent e, Transform target, Vector3 initialVelocity);
+}
+
+public interface IMeleePresenter
+{
+    void Melee(MeleeEvent e);
+}
+
+public interface IThrustPresenter
+{
+    void Thrust(ThrustEvent e);
+}
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