Juice of Sapho can change the remaining Battle-phase chooser order at clean boundaries. A chooser may occupy the physical defender slot and select the actual other combatant. Physical storm order, attackers, defenders and tie advantage remain intact. Full-roster phase priority survives aftermath, newly eligible Face Dancers and saved continuation. Controls and all four AI profiles consume the same projected choices. Independent review verified private options, public geometry, exact physical disposal, rejected-action immutability, phase expiry and boundary-bound saved chooser integrity. Actual Basic/Advanced Face Dance regressions verify later replacement priority. Authenticated SQLite tests cover duplicate concurrent card requests, private restore and battle completion. Chooser/aggressor separation and phase duration remain explicit implementation interpretations; the separate aggressor mode and unresolved timing stay gated. Reinforcements remains disabled pending the documented reserve-cost question. Types, lint, 4792 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests pass with unchanged source. Six fixed genuine Basic/Advanced faction samples finish in 3672 accepted actions and 97 periodic private JSON restores. They retain 82 rejected candidates at existing guarded arrival combinations; subsequent legal candidates finish. This is bounded playability evidence, not complete compliance or AI calibration. The browser used Sapho first from a later physical circle, chose Emperor, sealed and resolved a battle, then refreshed into its next choice. Emperor retained the tie win. All 9 accepted actions replay exactly using the recorded random battle event; physical custody, all private JSON views and the original seat row pass. A private harness initially needed random-event replay binding and SQLite-row prototype normalization; no production fix or game reset was required. After the reported outage, the server responded and the staged QA game restored exactly. All 970 opening games and their original seat/recovery records remain preserved (1004 after checks), including all 971 rooms present immediately before checks. SQLite integrity and foreign keys pass. No restart, database reset or recurring automation was needed. Verified source tree: b699f80600f8e297595a8e756edf367a607ddd99707474c03231e6479bd2f389
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Current development status
Updated 14 September 2026. The full twelve-faction goal is unfinished. Basic is playable; public Advanced and unfinished expansion/module starts remain gated. Prototypes do not open completion or publication gates.
Current checkpoint and work
Latest verified checkpoint: 0450156, Harass & Withdraw.
Types, lint, 4,776 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests passed.
Eight fixed Basic/Advanced six-seat samples finished in 9,956 actions with no
rejected candidates, three Harass withdrawals and 266 periodic save/restore
checks. Browser controls, private restoration and the final engine replay passed.
All 937 games present before verification and their original seat/recovery
records were preserved, with 970 rooms after HTTP checks.
Earlier evidence remains in the implementation history.
The connected Harass & Withdraw prototype supports either battle-card slot, private category inspections, exact undialed normal/elite returns, opponent-Traitor cancellation, mandatory disposal, controls and all four AI profiles. Physical allocation must be unique. Richese card combinations and additional optional modules stay gated. Withdrawal before explosion and card-specific discard precedence are explicitly labeled inferences. The Stone Burner timing question is pending; no user answer is assumed. Reinforcements remains unfinished. This does not open variant, mode or publication gates.
The existing server remained healthy after the reported power failures. Saved games and original recovery/entry/handover records survived; SQLite integrity and foreign-key checks passed, and refresh restored the test seat. No restart, database reset or recurring automation was needed. Exact verification, source fingerprints and delivery are recorded in the private report and Git message.
Current work: Sapho Battle-phase order connects first/last remaining battle choices without rewriting storm order or tie roles. The browser completed a reordered battle and restored its next choice; independent review and an actual Basic/Advanced Face Dance continuation passed. Reinforcements remains disabled while its reserve-cost question is pending; see the latest source review.
Authoritative navigation
- Rules checklist, topic
implementation-checklistand each feature's entries: track implementation, controls, AI, documentation and verification, plus Missing, Prototyped, Integrated, Verified and Polished stages. - Rule decision index: settled contracts, source precedence and pending material interpretations. Consult it before reopening research.
- Development guide and verification tools: architecture, focused checks, source-bound reports, reusable faction samples, private backup and saved-seat restoration.
- Implementation history: newest first. Historical evidence and outage records stay there and in feature documents; read bounded relevant sections and verify old absence claims against current code/tests.
- Efficiency pilot: the first three milestones are pushed; measurement limits remain explicit. Reuse tools and checks, without promising an unmeasured savings percentage.
Connected development capabilities
These links define bounded working behavior, not complete module certification.
| Area | Current connected work and evidence |
|---|---|
| Base/Advanced setup | Genuine setup, Advanced study, Fremen cancellation, Atreides full-plan audit. Earlier Basic-then-flip fixtures do not establish current setup coverage. |
| Expansion factions | Ixians/Tleilaxu and all seven faction selections: genuine setup, Ecaz six-force placement, separate optional card variants, private controls and saved per-lot Ixian/Richese decline. Actual special-lot exchange remains pending. |
| Leader Skills | Common lifecycle, known skilled capture, Mentat question preview, Bureaucrat payments, five battle disciplines, Planetologist, Suk Graduate, Rihani and other battle effects, Smuggler shipment and No-Field, Sandmaster routes, Banker spending, Diplomat defense. Remaining bands and combinations are explicit in those contracts. |
| Discoveries | Prototype: genuine setup, Great Maker, seven cards/eight tokens, inspection and stash rewards, nested sites, signed later free entry, carried Ornithopter, sole Cistern, bounded Jacurutu income, Testing Station and Shrine. Orgiz and contested/mixed cases remain pending. |
| Nexus/Homeworlds | Decision index links each integrated faction family, native/borrowed effects, physical custody, private choices, payments and transport. CHOAM Collection trade and Emperor extra revival are connected; CHOAM inspection and Emperor purchase remain pending. A source audit or helper alone is not a completed effect. |
| Truthtrance | Spice facts, card counts, hand inventory, recorded knowledge, and Basic/no-Guild Advanced reserve-shipment promises use authoritative private state. Earlier readiness audits do not supersede these follow-ups. |
| Other cards | Sapho runtime includes first among remaining unstarted movement turns after Advanced Guild has finished. Recruits connects clean Revival play; Harass & Withdraw connects the bounded battle return in the same independent three-card preview. Richese card contracts and the checklist identify other connected effects and explicit gaps. |
| Multiplayer | Saved rooms/seats, recovery, uncertain-request retry, own-seat AI, and voluntary seat handover have connected controls and recovery evidence. |
Remaining readiness
| Area | Remaining gate |
|---|---|
| Basic core | Ordinary Guild repricing/transport settlement, broader truthful commitments, unresolved special timing and integrated rules/human/AI acceptance. |
| Six-faction Advanced | Base gaps, provisional special-Karama outcomes, remaining timing audits and authentic multiplayer/browser acceptance. Setup matrices and complete samples do not open public starts. |
| Twelve factions and all optional modules | Every missing effect, remaining skill bands, Ecaz card variant, Kull Wahad, unfinished Richese cards, Terror effects, occupation entitlement, Nexus interactions, contested Discoveries and complete games across valid combinations. Detailed boundaries remain in the checklist/decision index. |
| AI | Legal continuation for every supported function and distinct Easy/Medium/Hard/Brutal strategy; consistent upper-level strength ordering remains unproven. Defer broad calibration until functional coverage warrants it. |
| Multiplayer | Broader disconnected/abandoned-seat recovery, unattended continuation and network-failure acceptance, while preserving authoritative versioning, custody, privacy and saves. |
| Components and experience | Full component inventory/text verification, all readable inspectors, original artwork, animation/sound/accessibility/mobile polish, complete internal guidance and end-to-end human play. |
AI calibration, multiplayer audit, component inventory and visual playtest record their measured scope. README retains publication gates.
Working sequence and preservation
Prototype every remaining function in dependency order, using existing controls, legal AI and the saved-state model. Continue independent functions while material rulings are pending. Then run integrated games, repair failures, deepen combination and recovery coverage, calibrate AI and polish. Keep focused checks for crashes, deadlocks, legality, custody and privacy; complete required broad checkpoint checks. Use selective subagents and independent review for complex rules/privacy/persistence. Commit and push verified checkpoints under “Push all from now on”, verify push success, and stop pursuit at 80% weekly usage consumed with the goal unfinished.
The user-authorized 13 September reset happened once; preserve all games created
since it. Keep .wrangler/state, credentials and private backup artifacts out of
Git. Reuse a healthy server; restart only for a relevant change or observed problem,
with a fresh backup, safe human-play boundary and verified restoration. No hourly
restart or recurring maintenance automation is installed; do not recreate one.