Connect printed Diplomat defenses and Ecaz Tanked Duke Cunning

docs/DIPLOMAT_DEFENSE.md

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 # Diplomat copied-defense prototype
 
 13 September 2026. **Prototyped**, with **Partial** rules coverage. This connects
-the Diplomat's normal band for canonical base Shield and Snooper defenses only.
-The lower [retreat prototype](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#bounded-diplomat-retreat-interpretation)
-is now connected separately; combined modules and other defense cards remain
+the Diplomat's normal band for the canonical printed defenses that the opponent
+actually used: Shield, Snooper, Shield Snooper, defensive Weirding Way,
+defensive Chemistry and Portable Snooper sealed in the defense slot. The lower
+[retreat prototype](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#bounded-diplomat-retreat-interpretation)
+is now connected separately; combined modules and other defense sources remain
 unfinished. Public Leader Skills starts and publication remain gated.
 
 ## Source and interpretation
@@ -19,15 +21,36 @@ selected for battle, if applicable. Page 12 limits a captured skill to its
 lower band. The archived component photograph and transcript are retained in
 the local source archive described by [the common source contract](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md).
 
-The connected base interpretation therefore accepts one actual Worthless card
+The connected interpretation therefore accepts one actual Worthless card
 from either plan slot, or offers a choice when both slots contain Worthless
 cards. An actual defense makes the skill unavailable. The opponent must have
-played a canonical base Shield or Snooper; an empty defense supplies nothing to
-copy. The copied role protects exactly like that base defense without changing
-the Worthless card's identity or either revealed plan. This lets the selected
-native Diplomat protect itself: copied protection is resolved first, then the
-common surviving-trainer rule is evaluated. If the copied type does not stop
-the weapon, removing the dead trainer's skill does not change that outcome.
+played one of the canonical printed defenses; an empty, unsupported or forged
+face supplies nothing to copy. Canonical identity is matched by physical ID with
+printed kind, name and effect, so a tampered card cannot inherit a role by
+claiming a printed name.
+
+The copied role is the role the opponent actually used in the defense slot, and
+each printed distinction survives: a Shield Snooper protects against both
+projectile and poison weapons and still counts as a Shield for the lasgun
+explosion; a defensive Weirding Way stops a projectile weapon but is **not** a
+Shield and triggers no explosion; Chemistry stops Poison Tooth, which a Snooper
+copy does not; a Portable Snooper sealed in the defense slot copies only its
+poison-defense role. The shared battle-card role helpers supply
+these distinctions rather than a binary Shield/Snooper substitution.
+
+**First-version interpretation.** Copying the opponent's already-used defensive
+role does not copy its activation, its late-play opportunity or its own-slot
+prerequisite. Two consequences are explicit implementation inferences. A
+defensive Weirding Way keeps its printed requirement that another weapon or
+Worthless card occupy the weapon slot of the plan it was played in, so the
+opponent's real plan weapon is validated before any copy is offered; our own
+plan needs no weapon to receive that copied role. A copied Portable Snooper does
+not gain the original card's after-reveal play, which the prototype already
+excludes for every late defense. The copied role protects exactly like that
+defense without changing the Worthless card's identity or either revealed plan,
+and the copied defense is resolved first so that the common surviving-trainer
+rule is evaluated afterwards. If the copied type does not stop the weapon,
+removing the dead trainer's skill does not change that outcome.
 
 Two timing and cleanup rules are explicit implementation inferences. The
 optional public choice occurs after both plans reveal and before traitor calls,
@@ -43,15 +66,21 @@ specific discard instruction overrides in this prototype.
 ## Connected behavior
 
 New supported battles carry a version marker and an independent event-bound
-receipt. After reveal, the server derives the eligible physical Worthless IDs,
+receipt. The marker also records which copied sources that battle admits: a
+newly stamped battle admits every canonical printed defense above, while an
+already-open older battle keeps its original canonical base Shield and Snooper
+sources only, so widening the quote cannot invent a retroactive choice for a
+pending plan that never had one. After reveal, the server derives the eligible
+physical Worthless IDs,
 opposing defense and live native assignment from current custody. Choosing one
 records its copied kind; declining records that choice. Either result preserves
 the original plans and leaves every card in its hand until battle resolution.
 Legacy battles without the new marker keep their existing continuation and do
 not gain a retroactive Diplomat opportunity.
 
-The copied base role feeds ordinary weapon survival and existing Poison or
-Projectile Defense skill checks. The physical Worthless identity remains
+The copied printed role feeds ordinary weapon survival and existing Poison or
+Projectile Defense skill checks through the shared battle-card role helpers.
+The physical Worthless identity remains
 available to checks such as Warmaster. Only the chosen Worthless receives the
 mandatory skill discard; a second played Worthless follows ordinary winner or
 loser cleanup. The receipt is revalidated before views, normalization and
@@ -60,13 +89,24 @@ card faces and unique physical custody.
 
 The decision and its already-revealed card IDs are public. Internal frame,
 signature and binding fields are not projected. Before joint reveal, ordinary
-sealed-plan and hand privacy remain unchanged. Human controls name the copied
-defense and each eligible Worthless card, and allow an explicit decline. All
+sealed-plan and hand privacy remain unchanged. Human controls name the opposing
+card, the actual copied role and each eligible Worthless card, allow an explicit
+decline, and state the first-version interpretation above when the copied role
+is a hybrid or otherwise not a plain Shield or Snooper. All
 four AI profiles use the public revealed cards and shared legality; no opposing
 hand or pre-reveal plan is inspected.
 
 ## Evidence and remaining scope
 
+8 October native Ix/Richese skill-battle smokes prove hybrid protection
+against Poison Blade, Weirding against projectile and non-exploding lasgun,
+Chemistry against activated Tooth, additional Ix Snooper and sealed Portable.
+Each selected physical Worthless is discarded once. A capability1 battle
+finishes without a retroactive hybrid offer or missing-receipt rejection;
+new battles receive capability2. In Chromium, the live owned hybrid control
+reaches native leader survival and one disposal after actual traitor actions.
+This is isolated native engine/control proof, not deployed acceptance.
+
 Sixteen focused checks were observed before the broad checkpoint run. They
 cover the pure base quote, Basic and Advanced battles, either Worthless slot,
 two-card choice, same-disc survival, Shield explosion composition, captured
@@ -89,9 +129,11 @@ checkpoint commit and private source-bound report.
 
 The bounded [lower retreat](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#bounded-diplomat-retreat-interpretation)
 now follows a documented conservative strength and outcome order; this does not
-settle a publisher priority ruling. Shield Snooper, Chemistry, defensive
-Weirding Way, Portable Snooper, Carthag-added protection and any future copied
-or modified defense still need a separate contract for whether generic roles or
-named exceptions are inherited. Homeworlds, Nexus, Discoveries, Stronghold
-Cards, Tech Tokens and other combined modules remain guarded. These limits
-preserve the existing public gates.
+settle a publisher priority ruling. Carthag-added protection, mirror and
+numeric or Stronghold strength modifiers, late Portable Snooper play, and any
+future copied or modified defense still need a separate contract for whether
+generic roles or named exceptions are inherited; the copied role never imports
+a modifier, an activation or a late-play window. Canonical additional Ix Shield
+and Snooper faces use those same printed roles in new battles. Homeworlds, Nexus,
+Discoveries, Stronghold Cards, Tech Tokens and other combined modules remain
+guarded. These limits preserve the existing public gates.