Support immediate payments in public deals

docs/BRIBE_CONTROLS.md

@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ Chat messages and verbal promises do not themselves transfer spice. Emperor
 gifts to allies remain a separate power.
 
 The separate [public deal record](PUBLIC_DEALS.md) can capture a two-to-six-human
-offer, unanimous acceptance and mutual release. Its written terms do not automatically
-transfer spice or enforce future promises; use this native action to pay.
+offer, unanimous acceptance and mutual release. Its optional immediate payment
+uses this native action on final acceptance; written terms do not automatically
+transfer spice or enforce future promises.
 
 The server derives the owner's limits from existing uncommitted spice, excluding
 sealed bids, paid support, Banker spending and other reserved costs. Existing

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ open mode gates.
 
 
 ## Current checkpoint and work
+**Immediate deal payments — 28 October. Prototyped / Partial.** A public deal can
+include a gross spice payment between signatories. Final unanimous acceptance
+invokes the native bribe action atomically, including its timing, funds, escrow
+and Bureaucrat behavior; failure leaves the offer unaccepted. Earlier records
+retain their shape. Nine related unit files pass 71 cases, including a native
+Bureaucrat continuation; three isolated HTTP cases cover authenticated consent,
+payment, replay and continued play. Future promises, arbitrary prose enforcement,
+AI negotiation and deployed acceptance remain open. An isolated browser room
+also exercised a two-spice offer, acceptance, payer debit and deferred receipt.
+[Scope](PUBLIC_DEALS.md).
+
 **Multiparty public deals — 28 October. Prototyped / Partial.** Two to six human
 seats can record public terms; every recipient must accept, any may decline and
 all parties must agree to release. Existing two-party records and actions retain
@@ -29,9 +40,9 @@ control is covered by a focused component test. [Scope](PUBLIC_DEALS.md).
 
 **Public deal records — 28 October. Prototyped / Partial.** Two nonallied human
 seats can record an offer, acceptance or decline, withdrawal and mutual release,
-including while a native decision is pending. Public terms rely on players to
-honor them; the record does not enforce prose, determine impossibility or pay
-spice. Seven related unit files pass 43 cases; an isolated authenticated HTTP
+including while a native decision is pending. Public prose relies on players to
+honor it; the original text-only record does not enforce terms, determine
+impossibility or pay spice. Seven related unit files pass 43 cases; an isolated authenticated HTTP
 case covers public visibility, consent, release and resumed play. AI negotiation,
 automatic enforcement and deployed acceptance remain open; the multiparty
 follow-up above expands this original two-seat checkpoint.

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 28 October 2026 — Immediate public-deal payments
+
+Two to six human signatories can include an immediate gross spice bribe in a
+public agreement. The final acceptance executes the already-consenting payer's
+native bribe in the same action; failure preserves the outstanding offer. Its
+usual timing, spending limits, deferred receipt and Bureaucrat continuation
+apply. Nine related unit files pass 71 cases; three isolated authenticated HTTP
+cases cover consent, payment and replay. Future obligations, arbitrary prose,
+AI negotiation and deployed acceptance remain open. An isolated browser room
+also confirmed a two-spice debit and deferred recipient receipt.
+[Scope](PUBLIC_DEALS.md).
+
 ## 28 October 2026 — Multiparty public deals
 
 Two to six human seats can agree to public terms. Every recipient must accept,

docs/PUBLIC_DEALS.md

@@ -22,10 +22,27 @@ released if participants subsequently become allies. Records remain active
 until unanimously released, even after the players consider terms fulfilled.
 Their text is public to the whole table.
 
-The record itself moves no spice and creates no automatically enforced game
+An optional structured immediate bribe names a payer, recipient and gross spice
+amount, all visible before anyone consents. Both must be distinct signatories.
+On the final acceptance the engine invokes the ordinary bribe action as the
+already-consenting payer, atomically with that acceptance. The payer loses the
+gross amount immediately; a Bureaucrat may divert two spice before the
+recipient's remaining share reaches deferred Mentat supply. No funds are
+reserved during an offer. If timing, available funds, another binding rule or
+the payer's AI control makes payment unavailable, final acceptance fails without
+recording that vote or debiting spice. A pending native Bureaucrat decision
+continues normally; later release of the deal does not reverse a paid bribe.
+Nine related unit files pass 71 cases, including a native Bureaucrat diversion
+and unavailable-payment rollback. Three isolated HTTP cases include an earlier
+consenting payer, final approval by another participant and replay rejection.
+An isolated browser room also exercised a two-spice offer and acceptance,
+showing the payer's debit and recipient's deferred balance. Its roster did not
+include a Bureaucrat.
+
+Free-text terms alone move no spice and create no automatically enforced game
 action. Players remain responsible for honoring valid terms, and an impossible
 part is void under the rules. Existing [bribe controls](BRIBE_CONTROLS.md)
-make actual eligible payments into the recipient's deferred Mentat supply.
+also make actual eligible payments into the recipient's deferred Mentat supply.
 Automatic interpretation, enforcement and impossibility handling,
 AI negotiation and complete multiplayer/deployed acceptance remain
 open. The text interface is an online convention, not a publisher ruling.

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ The publisher's 2019 rulebook permits public nonallied deals, requires their
 legal terms to be honored, voids impossible parts and permits mutual release.
 Written records allow two to six human seats to consent and mutually release;
 pairwise nonalliance at offer and acceptance is a conservative provisional
-interpretation, not an explicit publisher ruling on multiparty offers. Prose
-and impossibility are player-managed, and spice still requires the native bribe
-action. AI negotiation and automatic enforcement remain open. [Scope](PUBLIC_DEALS.md).
+interpretation, not an explicit publisher ruling on multiparty offers. A typed
+immediate spice payment executes the native bribe action only after all parties
+consent. Prose and impossibility remain player-managed; AI negotiation and
+enforcement of future promises remain open. [Scope](PUBLIC_DEALS.md).
 
 ## Truthtrance and Basic Ixian auction knowledge — 28 October 2026