User ruling 13 October 2026: the original faction keeps its existing Skill
assignment while its trained leader is captured. Reviving a different eligible
own leader is legal and simply draws no replacement card while that assignment
exists (selected reading of authorized supplied Advanced physical p21 "if you
have no Leader Skill Card"). Not a new publisher ruling; captor lower-band use,
card movement and death-return unchanged.
Remove the replacement-question veto that suppressed the entire ordinary/Ghola
revival: leaderSkillRevivalBlocked/requireLeaderSkillRevival, the gholaLeaders
early return, the view revival.leaders: [] filter and the beginRevival/Ghola/
Emperor-special-Karama call sites are gone. offerRevivedLeaderSkill is
unchanged and still suppresses a second assignment or draw.
Rewrote the two committed rejection assertions
(tests/advanced-native-skills.test.ts, tests/leader-skills-capture.test.ts) and
added native regressions covering ordinary paid, held-Ghola and Emperor special
Karama revival from a genuinely captured skilled state: exact cost, no draw or
offer, retained captive/card/controller and a conserved all14 deck.
Docs: RULE_DECISIONS, LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE, LEADER_SKILLS_RULES,
LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME, NEXUS_CARD_RULES, CURRENT_STATUS, IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS
and the game/reference.ts leader-skills topic.
New Leader Skills battles bind territory spice to the public plan reveal and automatically pay the controlling player once the selected Smuggler survives, including a loser or captive with no surviving forces. Cap collection at the original single pile and unmodified disc strength. Pending spice cannot fund a plan. Settlement before Sandmaster's after-win addition remains an explicitly documented timing inference; modified strength, multiple positive piles and other module combinations remain gated pending the existing rulings and integration.
Share pre-seal admission across server, controls and all four bot profiles. Expose the public Ecaz card-variant flag so its guard also works in private views. Normalize the selected Kwisatz value once for UI validation and submission. Fix AI selection of unavailable native face-up skilled discs. Show reveal-time pending guidance and an automatic collection notice/chronicle without a new confirmation. Keep unversioned saved battles on their existing behavior.
Bind saved receipts to the original battle, controller, leader, plans, posture and pile; project no internal binding frame. Void collection on leader death, opposing/mutual Traitors and explosion without restoring destroyed spice. Apply captured-leader settlement before normal custody cleanup. Existing room versioning prevents concurrent final votes from paying twice.
Twelve new engine/SQLite tests cover Basic/Advanced winners and losers, caps, empty piles, zero remaining forces, weapon/Traitor/explosion outcomes, captive survival/death custody, Sandmaster ordering, corrupted receipts, immutable pre-seal guards, legacy continuation, legal paths for four profiles and authenticated concurrent/restarted settlement. Independent review prompted the Ecaz gate and stale-Kwisatz corrections and found no further material defect in the bounded delta. A focused regression also identified the missing public Ecaz configuration field, now projected.
Types, lint, 4884 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed on the unchanged source fingerprint. Two genuine four-profile Leader Skills samples completed in 265 Basic and 211 Advanced actions with no rejected candidates and 14 JSON/private-view restorations; neither sampled game naturally exercised Smuggler collection, so focused and browser evidence establish that effect.
In isolated browser room YWV8AGKS, the Emperor selected Smuggler, sealed a zero dial, saw six pending spice without early credit, refreshed the pending decision and submitted no Traitor. After the opponent's production-engine final action, the browser showed the 6-8 loss, automatic six-spice collection, explanatory chronicle and restored balance 26 after another refresh. Opponent/setup staging was private and confined to the new QA room. Screenshot acceptance remains open. An initial private verification script compared SQLite null-prototype rows with parsed JSON too strictly; the transaction rolled back and the corrected content comparison passed.
After the reported outage the server was healthy and the previous private QA seat restored. All 1106 baseline rooms, 2314 seats and every original recovery, entry and handover row remain byte-for-byte unchanged; the HTTP/browser checks added 34 rooms and 71 seats. SQLite integrity and foreign keys pass. No restart, migration, database reset or automation was needed. No mode, module or publication gate is opened.
Verified source tree: dc55a36f7bfe108d6529b2e42add019d212648e6c17772b36e06fe73f9443265
New players can open Learn to play from the lobby or rules reference. Five lessons explain public/private information and turn phases, then offer three independent exercises for ordinary shipment budgets, a sealed battle plan and spice collection, followed by joining and recovering a real table. Shipping, combat and collection use existing production quotes rather than a separate simplified calculator. The fixed opposing plan is a teaching example, not an AI match.
Reuse the battle wheel and card inspectors, provide keyboard inputs, move focus to the current lesson heading and stack the layout on phones. Versioned browser-local choices preserve lesson position, shipment, defense/dial and reveal state. Whitelisted validation rejects corrupt saves and impossible committed shipments. SSR uses a stable hydration placeholder before reading browser storage; direct user handlers save choices and retain usable in-memory state on storage failure. No room, seat credential or multiplayer API is used.
Six new tests cover prices and affordability, every offered battle dial/defense, protected ties, weapon death, actual losses/bounty, collection limits and city capacity, saved-choice validation and internal rule links. Types, lint, 4872 offline tests and production build pass on the unchanged source fingerprint below. The first required check stopped on React setState-in-effect and semantic-status lint findings; these were fixed before the successful complete run. Independent review found no material defect in the examples or final hydration/save implementation.
Browser controls verified an unaffordable shipment, legal six-force shipment, card inspection, protected 8-8 aggressor victory, Snooper/projectile death and bounty, sealed refresh, city collection, lobby return/re-entry and newly changed choices after the hydration correction. At 390px the battle controls and lobby Learn link stayed within page bounds; the viewport override was reset. Screenshot capture timed out, so visual screenshot acceptance is still open. Storage-denial browser testing and the broader faction, movement, bidding, alliance, Advanced and expansion curriculum remain unfinished.
All 1106 current rooms, 2314 seats and all original recovery/entry/handover rows exactly match the fresh outage backup. SQLite integrity and foreign-key checks pass. The healthy server was reused; no restart, database migration/reset or maintenance automation was needed. HTTP integration and full-game samples were not rerun for this isolated teaching surface; server game behavior did not change.
A bounded independent primary-source review supports Smuggler's reveal-bound deferred survival receipt but found no exact ruling for modified leader strength. Record the one new user question and preserve the unanswered gate; lower collection remains missing. This does not enable any rules mode, expansion or publication gate.
Verified source tree: 99718ab49c4fec14820cbaf35f2e0f815e6424e910ee67c4daa1941afdeca2f0
Connect all fourteen physical skills and private setup to five card-role battle
modifiers, public posture, Harkonnen skilled capture, death return and optional
own-leader revival through controls, legal AI and persisted room actions.
Nine skill effects and combined-mode/publication acceptance remain unfinished.
Captured replacement entitlement and foreign ghola integration stay guarded.
Fresh publisher/designer research supports skilled-capture publicity through
its unique known physical card; this is recorded as a component inference.
Independent review found and fixed Voice/must-use-leader and invalid saved
assignment/offer cases. A pre-existing Discovery privacy assertion confused
card ID prefixes; the corrected deterministic physical-pair scenario was
independently reviewed. The first broad run was 4410/4411; corrected final
verification passes types/lint, all 4411 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests.
Final durations: check 149741ms, build 6659ms, integration 28274ms.
Source fingerprint: aef655ac1ebc0eb2f64294e13d3d27337167312cf8ab17568a166ee9c39f6a85.
Private final report: 20260913-leader-skills/checks-final/report.json.
Three seeded prototype games completed with no rejected bot candidates. Browser
setup/card inspection/refresh passed. Another user-reported power outage stopped
the server; backup and necessary restart restored the same private seat. All
292 games at restart and their original application records remain unchanged;
33 isolated HTTP-test rooms bring the current total to 325. No database reset.
Efficiency: one shared setup/lifecycle implementation supports five connected
role effects; selective existing agents handled catalog/UI/tests/research and
independent reviews. One repeated broad check was required by the reproduced
ID-prefix assertion failure. Aggregate goal counter rose from 65529766 to
67313673 through this checkpoint (1783907), including inherited context and
coordination; this is not a billing or savings estimate. Full goal remains active.
Allow a physical Sapho holder to go first among remaining unstarted combined
shipment/movement turns after earlier players have fully finished. Preserve
completed resources, cards, counters and physical order. Keep Advanced Guild
priority guarded until Guild leaves the remaining queue. Reuse private controls,
all four AI profiles and the existing action/CAS continuation.
Add four engine regressions and one independently authored SQLite recovery race;
upgrade the existing Sapho Advanced engine fixture to genuine Advanced setup.
Update player guidance and the rules decision register. Record the fourteen
Leader Skill cards and lifecycle as sourced future work, with unresolved edges.
No mode or publication gates are opened.
Validation: check (types, lint, 4,369 offline tests) and build passed. All 35 focused
Sapho tests passed; independent engine/persistence review found no blocker.
One initial focused Advanced test omitted the existing Guild shipment approval;
it was corrected to resolve that real decision before ending the turn.
No HTTP/auth/schema change; the HTTP suite was not repeated for this checkpoint.
Following the reported power outage, the existing localhost server was healthy,
SQLite integrity/foreign-key checks passed, and the saved QA seat restored the
same private hand, forces, resources and pending Storm decision after refresh.
All 291 opening room versions/state hashes and all application seat/recovery/
entry/handover records match the fresh backup. Cloudflare internal metadata
changed; application data did not. No restart or database reset was needed.
Source fingerprint: de0e0e52ef7b6888792a6e2ec5e8c4745da446ece843bf3092320e915d621266
Private report: /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20260913-sapho-completed-boundary-checks/report.json
Private backup/comparison: /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20260913-outage-sapho-before/
Check duration 146645 ms; build 6753 ms. Reported aggregate goal counter at this
milestone opening was 65037986 and before Git was 65524147 (486161 difference,
including outage recovery, parallel source research and coordination; not a
billing measurement or a savings claim).
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