Add repeatable verification and establish fresh save checkpoint

Consolidate current readiness and existing rule decisions, preserve selective
subagents and automatic verified Git pushes, and record the efficiency pilot.
Add source-bound compact checks, private saved-game snapshots/online backups,
and bounded HTTP seat-restoration checks with 15 meaningful regressions.

At the user's explicit request, archive and clear 3,644 old local rooms and
related records while retaining schema/migrations; preserve future games from
a fresh empty baseline. Private backups and credentials are outside Git.

Validation: npm run check passes types, lint and all 4,177 offline tests.
Full report: 20260913-efficiency-check-3, 130.147 seconds; source fingerprint
344ce1d44475b0cd4ff10a915f28331cb4e2fcacbc7595636fbaa645c0568f64.
Two earlier broad attempts stopped at new type/lint errors before tests;
both were fixed. Independent review found cancellation falsely passing;
SIGINT/SIGTERM regressions and review confirm the fix. Documentation links,
example test selection, private backup integrity and empty baseline verified.
No app/build/dependency/HTTP implementation changed; no production build,
HTTP suite, browser acceptance or AI calibration claimed for this checkpoint.
The full game goal and existing release gates remain unfinished.

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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+# Current development status
+
+Updated 13 September 2026. This is the short navigation dashboard; detailed evidence remains in the linked records. **The complete twelve-faction goal is unfinished. Basic is playable; Advanced and unfinished expansion starts remain gated.** No completion or publication gate is opened by this document.
+
+## Evidence and source of truth
+
+- [Rules implementation checklist](../game/reference.ts): `RULE_TOPICS`, topic `implementation-checklist`, and each feature's implementation, controls, AI, documentation and verification entries. Coverage is per stated boundary, not an implicit whole-game certificate.
+- [Latest historical checkpoint](IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md): Guild Nexus Secret Ally, 10 September 2026 (checkpoint `06d0a66`), records types, lint, **4,162 offline tests**, production build and **40 HTTP/session tests** passing, two browser rooms and preserved opening saved games. These are recorded results, not checks rerun for this dashboard.
+- [Development guide](DEVELOPMENT.md) defines focused verification; [rule decisions](RULE_DECISIONS.md) locates settled contracts and pending interpretations. Read the newest checkpoint and relevant feature document before consulting older log entries.
+
+The user authorized a one-time local reset on 13 September: the 3,644 historical
+rooms were archived privately and cleared. [Fresh checkpoint and preservation
+policy](VERIFICATION_WORKFLOW.md#authorized-reset-13-september-2026) now apply to
+new games; historical room IDs are no longer active local fixtures.
+
+## Remaining readiness
+
+| Area | Established evidence | Remaining gate |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Basic core | Playable loop; shared setup, Fremen movement cancellation, structured Truthtrance spice/card facts and bounded reserve-shipment promises. | Ordinary Guild rate/transport cancellation; wider truthful questions/action commitments; integrated rules and human/AI acceptance. |
+| Six-faction Advanced | Genuine offline setup across 456 configurations; four-profile full-game simulations and JSON continuations. | Base gaps plus provisional special-Karama outcomes, remaining timing audits and authentic multiplayer/browser acceptance. Public starts remain disabled. |
+| Twelve factions and optional modules | Many bounded faction, card, Homeworld and Nexus slices have controls, bots and recovery evidence. | Every unfinished effect and interaction, occupation entitlement, Discoveries and complete combined games. Inventory or fixture coverage does not enable a module. |
+| AI difficulty | Four profiles consume private legal views; recorded Basic and Advanced studies complete. | Demonstrate a consistent Medium → Hard → Brutal strength ordering, improve strategic gaps, and repeat targeted studies after relevant policy/rule changes. |
+| Multiplayer | Versioned writes, saved seats, owner recovery kits, uncertain-request retry and voluntary own-seat AI control. | Intentional transfer, unprepared abandoned-seat recovery, unattended continuation and remaining network-failure acceptance. Preserve privacy and existing games. |
+| Player experience | Internal component inspectors and many desktop/phone feature journeys verified. | Complete end-to-end games, accessible controls, responsive layout, clear rules/errors and recovery across all supported combinations. |
+
+The [base/Advanced audit](BASE_ADVANCED_READINESS_20260907.md) includes historical missing-feature rows. Its follow-ups supersede the Fremen cancellation and BG setup findings; [genuine setup](ADVANCED_SETUP_TEST_SEAM.md) and the [Advanced study](AI_ADVANCED_SETUP_CALIBRATION_20260907.md) supersede the old Basic-then-flip testing concern. They do not settle the remaining rules.
+
+Likewise, the [Truthtrance readiness audit](TRUTHTRANCE_NONBATTLE_READINESS_20260907.md) predates [spice facts](TRUTHTRANCE_SPICE_FACTS.md), [card-count facts](TRUTHTRANCE_CARD_COUNT.md) and [Basic shipment promises](TRUTHTRANCE_SHIPMENT_PROMISES.md). Current `TruthFact` already includes these facts; do not rebuild them. Broader facts, earlier-phase promises, Advanced/expansion commitment scope and freeform interpretation remain incomplete.
+
+## Next milestone: core readiness
+
+1. Reconcile the remaining base-only gaps against current helpers, consumers and tests, using the existing [Guild cancellation contract](GUILD_RATE_KARAMA_RULES.md) and [special-Karama findings](BASE_ADVANCED_READINESS_20260907.md#explicit-unresolved-base-interpretations). Keep already-asked interpretations pending; tests are not rulings.
+2. First gameplay batch: ordinary Guild cancellation around an exact saved shipment intent. Keep discount, cross/return permission and income separate; preserve contributors, independent Karama rates and original typed forces. Establish the unresolved affordability/settlement contract before implementing those outcomes. Verify sufficient-funds paths, nested responses, rejected-action immutability, private controls, all four bots and saved continuations together.
+3. Close remaining core Truthtrance and Advanced timing gaps, then run genuine Basic/Advanced setup-to-finish multiplayer and browser acceptance before reconsidering mode gates. Expansion completion remains a subsequent part of the same overall goal.
+
+Consult [AI calibration](AI_CALIBRATION.md), [multiplayer audit](MULTIPLAYER_AUDIT.md), [autopilot](AUTOPILOT.md), [component inventory](COMPONENT_INVENTORY.md) and [visual playtest](VISUAL_PLAYTEST.md) for their measured scope and follow-ups. Use current code and later checkpoints to interpret historical results. Publication still requires the completion and integrated verification gates in [README](../README.md).