Support public leader preparation with Harkonnen

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ open mode gates.
 
 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**Basic leaderless preparation with Harkonnen — 29 October. Prototyped /
+Partial.** Fresh classic Basic games with Harkonnen now use public native
+leader snapshots to open dead-leader preparation and qualify early notices.
+Controlled captives remain legal leaders. Harkonnen's own early notice stays
+at plan submission while it retains a concealed captive, avoiding an identity
+inference. Genuine public setup and shipments with staged leader history and
+conserved captive/card custody cover hidden retained and executed identities,
+Ghola and four minimal bot profiles. Eight related files pass 39 cases,
+including six new cases; type checking, lint and production build pass. The
+timing is provisional; broader faction/module combinations, the deferred
+Harkonnen notice and deployed acceptance remain open.
+[Scope](RULE_DECISIONS.md#basic-leaderless-battle-announcement--29-october-2026).
+
 **Basic group Fremen revival scheduling — 29 October. Prototyped / Partial.**
 During concurrent Basic Revival, automated group allies wait individually for
 a human Fremen's eligible, useful free-revival grant. Grant, targeted Karama
@@ -41,8 +54,8 @@ leader and conserved card state cover mixed and dead leaders, both combatants,
 Prescience, Ghola before and after readiness, sealed plans and all four legal
 bot profiles. Eight related files pass 59 cases, including 15 new runtime and
 control cases; type checking, lint and the production build pass. The ordering
-is provisional; Harkonnen's concealed captures, other factions and modules,
-and deployed acceptance remain open.
+is provisional; the Harkonnen follow-up above extends part of this scope.
+Other factions and modules and deployed acceptance remain open.
 [Scope](RULE_DECISIONS.md#basic-leaderless-battle-announcement--29-october-2026).
 
 **Basic market Ghola with printed Kull — 29 October. Prototyped / Partial.**

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ Great Maker rides share this destination check; Polar Sink remains clear.
 
 ## Basic leaderless battle announcement — 29 October 2026
 
+Fresh classic Basic games with Harkonnen also open the neutral dead-leader
+preparation using each native leader's public pre-capture snapshot. An
+announcement is made only when the public native discs are unavailable, so it
+does not identify a secretly captured leader. Harkonnen can use a controlled
+captive as a leader. While Harkonnen holds any concealed captive, its own early
+announcement remains deferred to sealing because different private captive
+identities may have different eligibility. These are provisional online
+timing and privacy boundaries; optional modules remain separate. Older open
+battles retain their original version.
+
 In fresh classic Basic games without Harkonnen, a publicly unavailable living
 leader pool containing at least one dead leader now opens a neutral pre-leader
 preparation for that combatant, independent of their private hand. An unaffected
@@ -90,6 +100,7 @@ a provisional interpretation rather than a specific publisher timing ruling.
 [Early runtime](../tests/basic-early-leaderless.test.ts),
 [dead-leader runtime](../tests/basic-early-leaderless-dead.test.ts),
 [dead-leader controls](../tests/basic-early-leaderless-dead-controls.test.tsx),
+[Harkonnen runtime](../tests/basic-early-leaderless-harkonnen.test.ts),
 [early controls](../tests/basic-early-leaderless-controls.test.tsx),
 [Voice cases](../tests/basic-early-leaderless-voice.test.ts),
 [seal-time runtime](../tests/basic-leaderless-announcement.test.ts) and