Offer Emperor gifts before allied auction payment

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**Emperor gift before Advanced allied auction settlement — 29 October.
+Prototyped / Partial.** A uniform opportunity precedes supported allied winning
+lots with or without a buyer's Karama, preserving the committed funding split
+through gift, cancellation and original payment. Actual auction journeys,
+rendered controls and the normal bot scheduler pass; the related 39-case
+batch, TypeScript, lint and production build pass. The private-balance-safe
+prototype still requires Continue at zero spice, so the no-confirmation goal
+for forced automatic actions remains open, as do other auction and timing
+parents and deployed acceptance.
+[Scope](EMPEROR_ALLIANCE_TIMING.md#advanced-allied-auction-payment--29-october-2026).
+
 **Emperor gift during Advanced Guild timing — 29 October. Prototyped /
 Partial.** A clean classic Advanced Guild timing decision now permits the
 Emperor's allied spice gift, with the original decision intact through the