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A game could freeze permanently after Mycoloth's devour trigger — a live prompt no
action could clear, and no legal move for any seat. Reported on Discord
(thread 1537641754298290226), with game states captured at turns 15 and 20.

Root cause

A PostReplacement resolution frame was left stranded with DrainStatus::Dispatching.

Cleanup addressed that entry positionally, probing only the top two frames. It
returned None whenever the continuation had raised two or more frames, and could
alias a sibling frame when it did match. A stranded Dispatching resident makes
resolution_completion_can_settle false forever, and every deferred-trigger drain is
gated behind that predicate, so parked triggers could never reach the stack
(CR 603.3b).

This is the second half of a two-defect stack

#7475 made turns::process_phase_triggers drain the parked queue at a phase boundary.
That drain is gated behind triggers::can_drain_deferred_triggers, whose first
condition is resolution_completion_can_settle. Removing the strand is the
precondition for it
— without this fix the queue could not drain no matter how many
boundaries offered it the chance. The captured turn-20 state needs both halves to come
to rest.

The fix

U1 — ownerless-strand recovery. sweep_ownerless_post_replacement_strand retires a
resident whose dispatch is no longer live, called at the entry of
apply_action_boundary_core — before let boundary_snapshot = state.clone();, so the
repair survives a rejected action rather than being rolled back with it. A
thread-local LiveDispatchGuard reports whether a dispatch is on the call stack, so the
sweep can never reach into live parked work.

U2 — identity-addressed dispatch. PostReplacementFrameId replaces positional
addressing, threaded through the v2 wire round trip. This is what makes the lookup
immune to both failure modes above.

U3 — a loosened adjacency invariant. The paired post-replacement/multi-draw
invariant now admits a transient FrameGate::DirectChoice frame above the paused pair.
CR 614.11a requires all actions a replacement demands to be completed, if possible,
before the draw sequence resumes; when one of those actions is a player's choice, the
game must rest on that choice with the draw parked beneath it (CR 608.2c for the
single-draw case, CR 121.2 as the multi-draw companion). The rejection of a genuinely
buried pair is unchanged, and the shipped buried-pair preservation witness passes
unmodified — this narrows the invariant rather than gutting it.

Verification

Measured on the authored base (76751548f, whose companion half is now upstream as
#7475):

gate result
cargo fmt -p phase-engine -- --check 0
cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings 0, test targets reached
cargo test -p phase-engine --lib 19272 passed / 0 failed
cargo test -p phase-engine --test integration 5066 passed / 0 failed

The turn-20 capture rests at waiting_for=Priority { player: 1 }, deferred=[],
stack_len=2, against the pre-fix wedge of
waiting_for=DeclareAttackers{player:1, valid_attacker_ids:[]}, deferred=[157,199],
stack.len()=0.

Every regression row in mycoloth_devour_drain_strand.rs was watched red under a patch
that reverts the unit it discriminates, and green under the shipped fix — no row is
admitted on a green alone.

Two assertions were strengthened after review: A4 paired its
deferred_triggers.is_empty() check with an exact triggers_reaching_the_stack
equality (emptiness alone is equally satisfied by a queue that was discarded,
which is a CR 603.3b violation the row would otherwise have passed), and H4
replaced a three-way {stack, deferred, pending order} disjunction with the
observed destination — the disjunction accepted a trigger that fired and then
parked forever, which is the exact failure this PR repairs. H4 was run to confirm
the pinned destination is stack rather than assumed.

Frame-boundary guard: one sanctioned identity-addressed search

scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh forbade every search of
ResolutionStack::frames, on the rationale that the stack permits only top
access or a captured adjacent-pair boundary. U2's whole point is addressing a
frame that is not at a known position — positional addressing was the bug — so
the guard and the fix genuinely conflicted. Resolved by making identity
addressing a first-class access mode rather than by carving out an exception:

  • post_replacement_frame_index is now the single search over frames, and
    the usize no longer escapes: two payload accessors
    (post_replacement_frame / post_replacement_frame_mut) sit on top of it, and
    the three operations take the payload. That removed three duplicated
    frames.get_mut(index) + match + unreachable!() blocks.
  • The shape mirrors DrawSequenceStack::frame_mut / active_if / pop, which
    is the same access mode on a sibling frame stack — so this conforms to a
    convention the codebase already has rather than inventing a third one.
  • The guard now exempts exactly that one function, anchored by name through the
    script's own function_span() idiom (already used for four other allowlists).
    The rule is "one search, there", not "any search that looks identity-shaped",
    and each half of that is checked rather than left to the reader: the
    accessor must be defined exactly once (function_span takes the first textual
    match, so a second definition would silently pick between them), its span must
    hold exactly one search, and that search must select on
    frame_id() == Some(id). A span-only exemption would have enforced the weaker
    "searches only there" while the script header claimed the stronger "one search,
    there" — raised in review and closed in 033d3b0. The removal patterns are not
    exempted inside the accessor at all; it reads frames and never restructures
    it. Because function_span() raises when its target is missing, renaming or
    deleting the accessor fails the guard loudly instead of silently widening it.
  • Each of those conditions was watched go red on an out-of-tree replica before
    being accepted — second search inside the accessor, non-identity predicate,
    duplicate definition, and the pre-existing outside-the-accessor case — with the
    replica confirmed green on either side of every run.
  • The exemption's soundness rests on ids never being reissued and unstamped
    frames never matching. Both are already pinned by rows in this PR
    (h6a_legacy_id_less_post_replacement_frames_restore_unstamped;
    v2_reader_recovers_discard_allocator_and_rejects_duplicate_frame_ids), and
    the accessor's doc names them so the dependency is visible.

Worth doing separately: frames is a private field, but Rust privacy is
module-scoped and resolution.rs is ~6.5k lines, so "private" buys nothing —
which is why a grep guard exists at all. Extracting ResolutionStack into
types/resolution/stack.rs would make single-authority compiler-enforced and
retire this rule. Too large for a bug fix; flagged rather than attempted.

Rebase note

This branch was authored on a local base that never reached the remote. Rebasing onto
b2071a7f41 re-reds the line-exact CR 603.5 prompt census in game/engine.rs, which
pins producers by coordinate. Per that census's own protocol, neither side's pins were
taken — the merged tree was re-measured, and each pin is predicted by main's coordinate
plus this branch's own cumulative insertion:

pin main insertion above predicted measured
effects/mod.rs ×3 6923 / 7000 / 10238 +79 7002 / 7079 / 10317 7002 / 7079 / 10317
scoped_library_search.rs 452 0 452 452
engine.rs 12856 +56 12912 12912

Total 41 and partition 5/8/28 read identically on both sides, all five producer lines
are sha256-identical at their new coordinates, and the row's drift control (offset 134
from begin_pending_trigger_target_selection) is intact. Additivity holding on every
pin while the partition is unchanged is the evidence the rebase minted and displaced
nothing.

Known follow-ups, deliberately not in scope

  • U3 admits by frame shape, not provenance — no frame family carries a producer
    back-reference, so validate cannot check one. Four independent bounds are verified
    present and the admitted shape cannot exist at a resting state.
  • pause_post_replacement_dispatch is identity-addressed but
    finish_active_paused_post_replacement_dispatch is still positional. No concrete
    mis-retire was constructible.
  • ~165 live CR 615.5 citations remain crate-wide, at least two in game_state.rs
    repeating the unlicensed dispatch-liveness claim this change removed from
    engine_replacement.rs. The two files are inconsistent until a dedicated pass.

…iggers can drain

A game could freeze permanently after Mycoloth's devour trigger, with a live
prompt no action could clear and no legal move for any seat (Discord thread
1537641754298290226).

A `PostReplacement` resolution frame was left stranded with
`DrainStatus::Dispatching`. Cleanup addressed its entry positionally, probing
only the top two frames, so it returned `None` whenever the continuation
raised two or more frames, and could alias a sibling frame when it did match.
A stranded `Dispatching` resident makes `resolution_completion_can_settle`
false forever, and every deferred-trigger drain is gated behind that
predicate, so parked triggers could never reach the stack (CR 603.3b).

This is the second half of a two-defect stack. #7475 made
`turns::process_phase_triggers` drain the parked queue at a phase boundary;
that drain is gated behind `triggers::can_drain_deferred_triggers`, whose
first condition is `resolution_completion_can_settle`. Removing the strand is
the precondition for it — without this fix the queue could not drain no matter
how many boundaries offered it the chance.

- `game/effects/mod.rs`, `game/engine.rs`, `game/engine_replacement.rs`:
  `sweep_ownerless_post_replacement_strand` retires a resident whose dispatch
  is no longer live, called at the entry of `apply_action_boundary_core`. A
  thread-local `LiveDispatchGuard` reports whether a dispatch is on the call
  stack, so the sweep cannot reach into live parked work.
- `types/game_state.rs`, `types/resolution.rs`: post-replacement dispatch is
  addressed by identity (`PostReplacementFrameId`) rather than by position,
  threaded through the v2 wire round trip.
- `types/resolution.rs`: the paired post-replacement/multi-draw adjacency
  invariant now admits a transient direct-choice frame above the paused pair.
  CR 614.11a requires all actions required by a replacement to be completed
  before the draw sequence resumes; when one of those actions is a player's
  choice, the game must rest on that choice with the draw parked beneath it.
  The rejection of a genuinely buried pair is unchanged.
- `game/engine.rs`: the CR 603.5 prompt census pins are re-measured for this
  base. The set is unchanged (total 41, partition 5/8/28 on both sides) and
  every pin composes additively from main's coordinate plus this branch's own
  insertion, which is the set-preservation evidence.

Verified against game states captured from the report at turns 15 and 20.
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The change adds stable post-replacement frame identities, live-dispatch tracking, and ownerless Dispatching drain recovery. It integrates sweeping at resolution and action boundaries, then adds unit and integration coverage for Devour and draw-replacement scenarios.

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Post-replacement recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stable frame identity and dispatch operations
crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs, crates/engine/src/types/resolution.rs
Post-replacement frames use stable IDs for dispatch ownership, cleanup, validation, serialization, and restoration.
Live dispatch lifecycle
crates/engine/src/game/engine_replacement.rs, crates/engine/src/types/resolution.rs
RAII liveness tracking distinguishes active dispatches from stranded Dispatching frames. Cleanup targets exact frame identities.
Ownerless-strand recovery
crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs, scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh
Resolution resumption and action boundaries retire ownerless Dispatching residents while preserving live and paused work.
Runtime regression coverage
crates/engine/src/game/triggers_devour_runtime_tests.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/mycoloth_devour_drain_strand.rs
Tests cover Devour trigger draining, frame cleanup, rejected actions, captured wedges, and Zur’s Weirding draw replacement.

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The new validation can accept a non-identity frame lookup, allowing positional resolution-stack assumptions to re-enter and potentially recreate the stalled-dispatch freeze this change addresses. Strengthen the check before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ActionBoundary
  participant GameState
  participant ResolutionStack
  participant DispatchLiveness
  ActionBoundary->>GameState: sweep ownerless post-replacement strands
  GameState->>DispatchLiveness: check live dispatch
  GameState->>ResolutionStack: retire ownerless Dispatching resident
  ResolutionStack-->>ActionBoundary: return repaired resolution state
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crates/engine/src/game/triggers_devour_runtime_tests.rs (1)

727-742: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Express has_dispatching_drain through post_replacement_drain_statuses.

Both helpers serialize state.resolution_stack and walk the same frames / data.drains JSON shape. Two independent readers of one wire shape can drift; post_replacement_drain_statuses already handles the externally tagged DrainStatus::Ready(_) object form, has_dispatching_drain does not.

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 fn has_dispatching_drain(state: &GameState) -> bool {
-    let value =
-        serde_json::to_value(&state.resolution_stack).expect("the resolution stack serializes");
-    value["frames"].as_array().is_some_and(|frames| {
-        frames.iter().any(|frame| {
-            frame["type"] == "PostReplacement"
-                && frame["data"]["drains"].as_array().is_some_and(|drains| {
-                    drains.iter().any(|drain| drain["status"] == "Dispatching")
-                })
-        })
-    })
+    post_replacement_drain_statuses(state)
+        .iter()
+        .any(|frame| frame.iter().any(|status| status == "Dispatching"))
 }

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers_devour_runtime_tests.rs` around lines 727 -
742, Replace the direct JSON traversal in has_dispatching_drain with the
existing post_replacement_drain_statuses helper, then determine whether any
returned status is Dispatching. Remove the duplicate frames/data.drains reader
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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/mycoloth_devour_drain_strand.rs`:
- Around line 443-453: Strengthen both assertions with reach guards: in
crates/engine/tests/integration/mycoloth_devour_drain_strand.rs:443-453, pair
the deferred_triggers emptiness check with an equality assertion on
triggers_reaching_the_stack(&state), matching the turn-15 A2 coverage; in
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers_devour_runtime_tests.rs`:
- Around line 727-742: Replace the direct JSON traversal in
has_dispatching_drain with the existing post_replacement_drain_statuses helper,
then determine whether any returned status is Dispatching. Remove the duplicate
frames/data.drains reader while preserving the helper’s current boolean behavior
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`scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh` forbade every search of
`ResolutionStack::frames`, on the rationale that the stack permits only top
access or a captured adjacent-pair boundary. Identity addressing is the whole
point of the `PostReplacementFrameId` change — positional addressing was the
bug — so the guard and the fix genuinely conflicted.

Resolved by widening the access model rather than carving out an exception:

- `post_replacement_frame_index` is now the SINGLE search over `frames`, and
  the `usize` no longer escapes it. Two payload accessors
  (`post_replacement_frame` / `post_replacement_frame_mut`) sit on top, and the
  three operations take the payload — removing three duplicated
  `frames.get_mut(index)` + `match` + `unreachable!()` blocks.
- The shape mirrors `DrawSequenceStack::frame_mut` / `active_if` / `pop`, the
  same access mode on a sibling frame stack, so this follows a convention the
  codebase already has rather than inventing a third one.
- The guard exempts exactly that one function, anchored by name through the
  script's own `function_span()` idiom (already used for four other allowlists).
  The rule is "one search, there", not "any search that looks identity-shaped":
  a second call site cannot acquire a search by copying the expression, and
  because `function_span()` raises when its target is missing, renaming or
  deleting the accessor fails the guard loudly instead of silently widening it.
- The exemption's soundness rests on ids never being reissued and unstamped
  frames never matching. Both are already pinned by rows in this branch
  (`h6a_legacy_id_less_post_replacement_frames_restore_unstamped`,
  `v2_reader_recovers_discard_allocator_and_rejects_duplicate_frame_ids`); the
  accessor's doc names them so the dependency is visible rather than assumed.

Also strengthens two assertions raised in review:

- A4 paired its `deferred_triggers.is_empty()` check with an exact
  `triggers_reaching_the_stack` equality. Emptiness alone is equally satisfied
  by a queue that was DISCARDED, which is a CR 603.3b violation the row would
  otherwise have passed.
- H4 replaced a three-way `{stack, deferred, pending order}` disjunction with
  the observed destination. The disjunction accepted a trigger that fired and
  then parked forever — the exact failure this branch repairs. Run to confirm
  the pinned destination is `stack` rather than assumed.

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Comment thread scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh Outdated
…y claimed

The frame-boundary guard exempted the whole span of
`post_replacement_frame_index` from the `frames`-search ban. That enforces
"searches only there", while both the script header and the accessor's doc
comment claim the stronger "one search, there". A guarantee stated in prose but
absent from the check is worse than an undocumented one, because it stops the
next reader looking.

Three properties are now checked rather than assumed:

- exactly one `fn post_replacement_frame_index` is defined. `function_span`
  takes the first textual match, so a second definition would silently decide
  which one is exempt;
- its span holds exactly one search, so the exemption cannot be widened from
  the inside by adding a second search beside the first;
- that search selects on `frame_id() == Some(id)`, so what is exempted is an
  identity lookup rather than a positional probe wearing the accessor's name.

The removal patterns (`remove`/`swap_remove`/`retain`/`drain`/`truncate`/
`clear`) are no longer exempted inside the accessor either. They were exempt
only as a side effect of both patterns sharing one span list; the accessor reads
`frames` and never restructures it, so that exemption was never earned.

Each condition was watched go red on an out-of-tree replica of the tree before
being accepted, with the replica green on either side of every run:

| control | result |
|---|---|
| second search inside the accessor | red: "found 2" |
| predicate changed to non-identity | red: "must select frames by identity" |
| duplicate accessor definition | red: "found 2" definitions |
| search outside the accessor (regression) | red, as before |

The duplicate-definition control also confirms the failure is closed rather than
open: the decoy takes the exemption and the real search is then reported.

The accessor's doc comment is corrected to say the count is enforced, since its
previous claim that "a second search anywhere in this file still fails the
guard" was false for a second search inside that body.
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…t supports

Raised in review. `frame_vec.rs` documented FOUR minting methods in two places
while the implementation and the guard both define FIVE — `top`, `below`,
`above`, `by_id`, and `slot_at_captured_depth`.

The miscount is the smaller half. The module doc also claimed that a `usize`
obtained by scanning has "no way to spend it: every accessor takes a
`FrameSlot`, and no constructor accepts a `usize`". That is false, and false in
the direction that flatters the design: `slot_at_captured_depth` accepts exactly
such a `usize`. The parent commit's message carries the same overclaim.

The accurate statement, which is what both places now say: a positional scan
still compiles, and the only thing that will accept its `usize` is
`slot_at_captured_depth`, whose argument is contractually a stack length
recorded before a child producer ran. Positional addressing therefore cannot be
reached by accident or by ordinary-looking code, and the single deliberate route
names itself at the call site. Weaker than "nothing accepts a `usize`", stronger
than a grep rule, and worth stating exactly — a doc that overstates its
guarantee stops the next reader from checking it, which is the same defect this
branch fixed in the guard's own prose on #7485.

`frame_at_offset` is now named in the module doc too, with the reason it is not
a widening: it takes a `usize` but returns a frame and never a slot.

Documentation only; no code changed. `cargo fmt -- --check` 0, guard PASS.
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… rule (phase-rs#7489)

* refactor(engine): make resolution-frame addressing a type, not a grep rule

`ResolutionStack` permits three ways to reach a frame: the top, a frame
adjacent to one you already hold, and the frame a `PostReplacementFrameId`
names. Anything else is a positional guess about a structural relationship the
stack does not guarantee — which is the class of bug phase-rs#7485 fixed, where cleanup
probed the top two frames and returned `None` once the continuation had raised
two.

That rule was enforced by `scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh`
grepping `resolution.rs` for `frames.iter().position(..)` and
`frames.remove(..)`. A grep was the only option available: `frames` was private,
but Rust privacy is module-scoped and the module is 7,000 lines, so "private"
bought nothing against the code sitting beside it.

This replaces the rule with a type. `FrameVec` (230 lines,
`types/resolution/frame_vec.rs`) owns the backing `Vec`, and every accessor
takes an opaque `FrameSlot` whose field is private to that module. Slots come
only from `top`, `below`, `above`, `by_id`, and the documented captured-depth
door. A positional scan still compiles and can no longer be spent: it yields a
`usize`, and nothing accepts one.

Verified by probe rather than asserted. A method scanning for a `MultiDraw`
frame and feeding the result to the accessors fails to compile with exactly the
two errors the design predicts:

    error[E0599]: no method named `remove` found for struct `FrameVec`
    error[E0308]: mismatched types
                  --- ^^^^^^^ expected `FrameSlot`, found `usize`

The tree was restored byte-identical after that probe (sha256 checked both
sides).

What the 30 converted call sites showed is that the code already obeyed the
rule; it just said so in `usize` arithmetic. Every index came from
`len().checked_sub(N)` for N in 1..=3, or from the identity lookup — so the
conversion reads as documentation: `let continuation = self.frames.top()?;
let discard = self.frames.below(continuation)?;` in place of two `checked_sub`
calls whose meaning had to be recovered by counting.

Two things are deliberately NOT closed:

- `slot_at_captured_depth` is the one `usize` door. An effect records
  `resolution_stack.len()`, runs a child producer, and hands the length back so
  the owner can be parked beneath the child stack that producer raised. That is
  not a search, and closing it means giving the captured depth its own type at
  roughly thirty-five origins across `game/effects/`, `game/casting_costs.rs`
  and their neighbours — a separate change with a far wider blast radius. The
  door is named so misuse reads as misuse at the call site.
- `frame_at_offset` returns a frame and never a slot, because `validate` must
  traverse the whole stack to check a whole-stack invariant. Reading is not the
  hazard; addressing for mutation is.

The guard keeps its legacy-wire-key rules untouched and loses the two
frame-boundary scans. In their place is one structural check that the design
itself is intact: `FrameSlot` must be mintable only by the five documented
methods, since a sixth would reopen positional addressing with no compiler
error to show for it. Both directions were watched go red out of tree — a new
minting method, and a renamed existing one — with the replica green either side.

Gates on the committed tree: `cargo fmt -- --check` 0, `cargo clippy
--all-targets -- -D warnings` 0, `--lib` 19340 passed / 0 failed, `--test
integration` 5106 passed / 0 failed.

* docs(engine): correct the FrameSlot minting count and the guarantee it supports

Raised in review. `frame_vec.rs` documented FOUR minting methods in two places
while the implementation and the guard both define FIVE — `top`, `below`,
`above`, `by_id`, and `slot_at_captured_depth`.

The miscount is the smaller half. The module doc also claimed that a `usize`
obtained by scanning has "no way to spend it: every accessor takes a
`FrameSlot`, and no constructor accepts a `usize`". That is false, and false in
the direction that flatters the design: `slot_at_captured_depth` accepts exactly
such a `usize`. The parent commit's message carries the same overclaim.

The accurate statement, which is what both places now say: a positional scan
still compiles, and the only thing that will accept its `usize` is
`slot_at_captured_depth`, whose argument is contractually a stack length
recorded before a child producer ran. Positional addressing therefore cannot be
reached by accident or by ordinary-looking code, and the single deliberate route
names itself at the call site. Weaker than "nothing accepts a `usize`", stronger
than a grep rule, and worth stating exactly — a doc that overstates its
guarantee stops the next reader from checking it, which is the same defect this
branch fixed in the guard's own prose on phase-rs#7485.

`frame_at_offset` is now named in the module doc too, with the reason it is not
a widening: it takes a `usize` but returns a frame and never a slot.

Documentation only; no code changed. `cargo fmt -- --check` 0, guard PASS.

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Co-authored-by: matthewevans <matthewevans@users.noreply.github.com>
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