Recognize group allies in bribes and deals

game/reference.ts

@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'The recipient keeps paid spice separately until the next Mentat opening. A payment after the current opening waits for next turn’s opening. Your incoming bribes are shown separately from your spendable supply; they cannot fund bids, shipments or another bribe yet.',
       'You may pay out of turn when no decision or response is pending, including during Mentat after opening collection. You cannot bribe yourself or your ally, or while Inflation shows Double. Emperor gifts to allies use their own power controls.',
       'Your payment limit excludes reserved spending and preserves binding Truthtrance answers. If an alliance, pending decision or available supply changes, recheck the recipient and amount. A rejected payment does not change the game.',
+      'In the unexposed Basic group prototype, both group allies are excluded from ordinary bribes and nonallied deals. Existing agreements remain recorded and can be released; a deferred bribe to a newly allied recipient stays pending while it is unavailable, subject to its original deadline.',
       'A qualifying Bureaucrat may divert two spice to the Bank without reducing the payer’s cost. The remainder stays deferred. Unsupported combinations remain unavailable and do not imply an official rule prohibition.',
       'In Public deals, propose written terms to one or more human seats. Every pair of participants must be nonallied when the offer is made and accepted, a provisional interpretation. Every recipient must accept; any recipient can decline, and the proposer can withdraw the outstanding offer. Any party may request release; all must agree. The record remains active until mutually released, even when players consider it fulfilled.',
       'A deal may include one immediate spice payment between two participants. The last acceptance invokes the normal bribe action: the payer loses the gross amount immediately, Bureaucrat may divert two, and the recipient collects the remaining share at the next Mentat opening. Nothing is reserved before acceptance, and an unavailable payment leaves the offer open.',
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       { area: 'Player controls', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal proposals, responses and mutual release, named bribe recipient, amount, explicit payment, deferred incoming supply and current availability guidance.', evidence: ['components/public-deals.tsx', 'components/bribes.tsx'] },
       { area: 'AI', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Passive receipt/collection and existing Bureaucrat responses work. Strategic bribe initiation and negotiation wait for feature completion.' },
       { area: 'Documentation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, player-managed terms, payment, escrow, restrictions and remaining boundaries are recorded.', evidence: ['docs/PUBLIC_DEALS.md', 'docs/BRIBE_CONTROLS.md', 'docs/MENTAT_BRIBES.md'] },
-      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, release, immediate and deferred native payments, authenticated visibility and legal bot continuation have focused coverage, including multiparty and legacy records. Original late Mentat/next-turn receipt journeys supplement existing bribe projection, budgets and Bureaucrat coverage. Full integrated acceptance remains open.', evidence: ['tests/public-deals.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-payment-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-truthtrance.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-charity.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-income.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/public-deals-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-payment-http.test.ts', 'tests/mentat-bribes-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/bribe-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/bribe-controls-http.test.ts'] },
+      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, release, immediate and deferred native payments, authenticated visibility and legal bot continuation have focused coverage, including staged group and legacy records. Original late Mentat/next-turn receipt journeys supplement existing bribe projection, budgets and Bureaucrat coverage. Full integrated acceptance remains open.', evidence: ['tests/coalition-bribe-deals.test.ts', 'tests/coalition-bribe-truth.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-payment-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-truthtrance.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-charity.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-income.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-deferred-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/public-deals-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-payment-http.test.ts', 'tests/mentat-bribes-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/bribe-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/bribe-controls-http.test.ts'] },
     ],
   },
   {