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Shipment-only AND/OR questions now evaluate one eventual reserve shipment or skip as a whole. Yes to AND requires every leaf, Yes to OR requires one, and No negates the complete expression. Separate answered questions remain jointly binding. The completion search considers all destination branches and owned preparation paths. Release and fulfillment apply once to the aggregate promise, and legacy flat records retain their shape.

The two-condition browser builder, grouped question/history and respondent guidance, all four AI answer policies and saved continuation are connected. Nested expressions have explicit software size limits. Existing active-unused-shipment, Basic/no-Guild Advanced and module gates remain; mixed present/future predicates and unresolved rule questions are unchanged. Independent source, privacy and persistence review found no blocker.

Types, lint, 4815 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests pass with stable source. The first typecheck caught an omitted flat-only guidance consumer and a legacy test requiring type narrowing; grouped guidance and an actual promised-state regression fix them. SQLite Basic/Advanced tests verify private reauthentication, second-OR-branch fulfillment, zero-write rejected actions, legal No skip and duplicate CAS with one result.

Two fixed genuine Basic/Advanced mixed-profile games complete in 1534 accepted actions, 41 periodic private JSON restores and 0 rejected candidates. Each uses one scenario-directed compound question from an actual held Truthtrance at a real legal opportunity; AI supplies all responses and other actions. Exact card, force, typed-elite and post-setup traitor custody are checked. Initial private harness runs needed correct immutable setup configuration and full-game auction/Fedaykin inventory accounting; original failed traces remain private, and the final same-seed runs pass. The full sample tree is reconstructed exactly by replacing only the three later UI/test edits; all 219 game source files match the samples. No game logic changed after those runs.

Browser QA used genuine base initialization before conserved turn-two staging. The human asked twenty to Carthag OR four to Arrakeen; the AI answered Yes and shipped four to the second destination. Public grouped history survived refresh. All 6 accepted actions replay exactly, with one discarded Truthtrance, one fulfilled aggregate promise, private JSON views and original seat custody intact. This remains bounded prototype evidence, not complete Truthtrance or mode certification.

All 1004 opening games and original seat/recovery records are preserved (1038 rooms after checks), including all 1005 rooms present immediately before checks. SQLite integrity and foreign-key checks pass. The healthy server was reused without restart, reset or recurring automation.

Verified source tree: 1b24372fbe34e24db56e8f095c25744eeefb27581f2bc6cced2fb752f5bdcb94
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Truthtrance: compound shipment promises

14 September 2026. This extends the reserve-shipment prototype with shipment-only AND/OR questions. Public mode and publication gates remain unchanged.

Meaning and authority

The GF9 November 2020 FAQ, printed page 8 permits AND/OR questions and binds definite answers while compliance remains possible. Each condition here describes the same eventual reserve shipment in the active opportunity, using a destination and minimum physical force count. This does not promise two shipments or combine present facts with future actions.

AND is true only if every condition matches. OR is true if any condition matches. A No answer negates the whole expression: No to AND requires at least one false condition; No to OR requires every condition to be false. Skipping shipment makes all these positive shipment conditions false. Separately answered questions must all be honored together.

For example, Yes to “at least six to Carthag OR at least four to Arrakeen” permits either branch. No to that same question permits fewer than six to Carthag, fewer than four to Arrakeen, another destination or no shipment. AND with two different destinations cannot be fulfilled by a single shipment, so Yes is unavailable.

Connected prototype

The question form adds a second destination/count condition and an AND/OR choice. The shared engine expression supports grouping within software limits of sixteen leaves and four nested groups; the first visual builder exposes two conditions. Existing flat questions and saved promises retain their meaning. Public question/history text preserves grouping, while answer feasibility and suggested preparations stay private to the respondent.

The completion search considers every relevant destination, physical count and legal sector, with the same controlled preparations and funding as single promises. It evaluates the entire expression and all earlier promises together. Actual shipment, skipping, voluntary spending and opposing-effect release use the same evaluator. A fulfilled promise records the shipment event and survives later movement or casualties.

All four AI profiles rank the projected feasible answers using only public destination value and their own reserves. Strategic preference never determines whether an answer is possible. The existing complete continuation remains the fallback when a strategic shipment shortlist misses a legal route.

Evidence and remaining scope

Focused engine, controls, AI and authenticated SQLite cases cover whole-expression truth, alternative destinations, old saves, joint commitments, custody, private restoration and duplicate actions. Final results and source fingerprints belong to the private checkpoint report and Git message.

The isolated browser used genuine base setup before conserved turn-two staging. The human asked “twenty to Carthag OR four to Arrakeen.” The respondent's legal AI policy answered Yes, and the public grouped question/answer survived refresh. Its next AI action shipped four to Arrakeen, spent four spice and fulfilled the aggregate promise once. All six accepted actions replayed exactly; all private views, card/force custody and the original seat row were preserved. This is a targeted browser scenario, not a complete human game.

The existing active-unused-shipment scope remains: base Basic, and supported base Advanced games without Guild or optional modules. Earlier timing, mixed fact/future predicates, expansion shipment combinations and arbitrary prose remain unfinished. This prototype does not settle pending material rulings or certify complete Truthtrance.

The opening backup preserves 1,004 local rooms and their seat/recovery records. Reuse the healthy server and keep all subsequent games.