fix(engine): give the Cipher encode offer a frame instead of clobbering the live prompt (#7470) - #7496
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…ng the live prompt (phase-rs#7470) CR 702.99a: "then you may exile this card encoded on a creature you control" is the spell's LAST instruction. The on-resolution hook set `state.waiting_for = CipherEncodeChoice` directly, with no frame behind it and without asking whether a prompt was already open. When the spell's own effects had paused for a player answer, that overwrote the live prompt and stranded its frame: the player was never asked the spell's own question, and the stack was left with an owner that no `WaitingFor` could ever match. Every later prompt then failed `ResolutionStack::validate` — issue phase-rs#7470 reached it via Thrasios (Scry 1), but the scry is incidental. The engine already answers "who owns the current prompt": the resolution stack. This adds the missing owner rather than a second mechanism beside it. `ResolutionFrame::CipherEncode` carries a typed `CipherEncodeStage`, mirroring `RepeatedOptionalPaymentFrame`, whose gate is likewise a direct choice only while it actually holds an offer: - `Parked` owns no prompt, so it can sit under the spell's open question without tripping the single-direct-choice-owner invariant. - `resume_resolution_frames` arms it — that dispatch is an exhaustive match, so a parked offer cannot be silently forgotten — which also puts the encode after the spell's other effects, as CR 702.99a requires. The guard is keyed to `waiting_for`, not to the shape of the top frame. An earlier revision tested `FrameGate::DirectChoice` and still clobbered the discard pause (Mental Vapors), whose prompt is owned by no frame at all; "is a question open" has exactly one answer in this engine and that is `waiting_for`. For the same reason the offer is pushed rather than inserted when the stack is empty: a live prompt does not imply an active child to sit under. Measured, two structurally different pauses, both by hand through the real cast pipeline (`SpellCast::resolve` auto-answers optional prompts, so a sequence measured through it proves nothing about what a player sees): | shape | before | after | |---|---|---| | optional (Hidden Strings) | `CipherEncodeChoice` only | `OptionalEffectChoice, ChooseOneOfBranch, OptionalEffectChoice, ChooseOneOfBranch, CipherEncodeChoice` | | discard (Mental Vapors) | `CipherEncodeChoice` only | `DiscardChoice, CipherEncodeChoice` | Counter-probe: with the parking guard forced off, both rows fail. The un-ciphered control row stays green either way by design — it pins that the pause machinery was never the defect — and its doc says so. CR 603.5 producer census: `:6923/:7000/:10238 ⇒ :6929/:7006/:10244`, the exact +6 of the new frame-resume arm above them; producers byte-identical, set unchanged, other two entries unmoved. Not covered: the 15 Cipher cards were not all driven end-to-end. Two carry an optional in their own text (Hidden Strings, Arcane Heist) and three more resolve a discard (Mental Vapors, Undercity Plague, Whispering Madness); Stolen Identity's copy-token pause is untested here. The fix is keyed to prompt ownership rather than to any card's text, so the remainder is a coverage gap, not a known exclusion. Also unfixed, and visible in the attached save from the report: a game that already crashed exports a state its own deserializer rejects ("resolving triggered entry has no firing carrier"). That is the damage this bug left behind, not a separate defect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…me-7470 # Conflicts: # crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCipher encode offers now use resolution frames. Offers preserve active prompt ownership, arm after preceding resolutions complete, revalidate legal hosts, and are consumed before zone movement. Tests cover protected stack placement, prompt ordering, and cleanup. ChangesCipher encode resolution flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds frame-based Cipher prompts to preserve the spell’s earlier choices, but merge readiness remains moderate because the regression test bypasses the production replacement-aware zone-change path and may not validate the real transition; unresolved gameplay risks also remain around hosts becoming legal during resolution and events being lost on decline. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CipherSpell
participant ResolutionStack
participant Effects
participant ChoiceHandler
CipherSpell->>ResolutionStack: Park PendingCipherEncode
ResolutionStack->>Effects: Dispatch CipherEncode frame
Effects->>ResolutionStack: Arm parked offer
ResolutionStack->>ChoiceHandler: Expose CipherEncodeChoice
ChoiceHandler->>ResolutionStack: Consume active encode frame
ChoiceHandler->>CipherSpell: Process encode choice
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/cipher.rs`:
- Around line 143-158: Update park_encode_offer and its caller
begin_encode_choice so a parked Cipher offer is inserted outside the complete
paused PostReplacement/MultiDraw pair, including when its permitted DirectChoice
owner is on top, rather than violating resolution-frame adjacency. Preserve the
live prompt and ensure insertion failure routes the card through the normal
decline/graveyard path instead of dropping pending while returning true; add
regression coverage for both stack shapes.
In `@crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs`:
- Around line 6678-6682: Update the call to take_active_cipher_encode_frame in
the Cipher choice flow to handle both Ok(None) and Err(UnexpectedTop) before
invoking handle_encode_choice. Preserve the no-frame case and convert an
UnexpectedTop failure through the existing EngineError::InvalidAction path,
returning the resulting error instead of ignoring the result.
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`@crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_7470_hidden_strings_optional_frame_leak.rs`:
- Around line 61-69: Extend the integration test around the existing
WaitingFor::CipherEncodeChoice handling to submit GameAction::CipherEncode with
creature: None after an outstanding child prompt, exercising the declined-offer
failure path through the normal production pipeline. Drive the scenario until
WaitingFor::Priority, then assert that the resolution_stack is empty; cover the
corresponding paths at the other referenced choice-handling locations without
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Request changes — the new Cipher frame can be silently lost on an already-valid paused draw/replacement stack.
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crates/engine/src/game/cipher.rs:150-157 promises the caller that the resolution now owes an answer and returns true; however, cipher.rs:197-206 discards that same PendingCipherEncode when insert_cipher_encode_parent_of_active returns an error. This is reachable from a valid stack, not unreachable: types/resolution.rs:3150-3175 expressly admits a paused PostReplacement + MultiDraw pair with its one DirectChoice owner above it. insert_parent_of_active inserts immediately below the top (types/resolution.rs:2917-2926), producing a Cipher frame inside that protected pair; validate then rejects it at types/resolution.rs:3177-3180. The caller has already retained the card off its normal resolution route, so this error path yields neither an encode prompt nor the ordinary decline/graveyard route.
Please model the placement through a typed stack/carrier authority that preserves the complete paused pair (or deliberately completes the offer through the decline path without replacing the live prompt); do not use a fallible structural insert and then drop pending. Add a production-pipeline regression for the paired boundary, including the permitted direct-choice-owner shape, and assert a completion or explicit decline outcome.
The same correction should make the encode-choice consumer prove it removed the active Cipher owner: engine_resolution_choices.rs:6678-6683 discards take_active_cipher_encode_frame()'s result. Cover decline (CipherEncode { creature: None }) as well as acceptance so the frame is consumed and the stack reaches its expected completed state.
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The current parse-diff artifact is bound to 15cac9295b920be04b1be01c01f01e3dba1bda73 and reports no card-parse changes; required CI is green. Those checks do not exercise this missing stack shape.
Recommendation: request changes. Please preserve the Cipher offer through every legal stack shape and add the paired-boundary and decline regressions before re-requesting review.
…me-7470 CR 603.5 prompt census: main's phase-rs#7498 shifted the three `effects/mod.rs` producers to :7003/:7080/:10318; this branch's frame-resume arm adds its own uniform +6 on top, measured at :7009/:7086/:10324. Producer digests unchanged (9869a19f28c791ee, 2bc316e3aa0297f8, 8df98486627bfe15); occurrence count 25 on both sides; the two control entries did not move.
…t it Review of phase-rs#7496 found the encode offer still reachable-droppable: parking it "below the top" lands inside a paused PostReplacement/MultiDraw pair, which `validate` admits under exactly one direct-choice owner (CR 614.11a + CR 121.6b), and the `is_err()` arm then dropped an offer whose card the caller had already retained off its normal resolution route. `ResolutionStack::park_beneath_live_prompt` answers where a prompt-less frame may sit from the stack's own shape and returns which position it used (`ParkedFramePlacement`: OnlyFrame / BelowActiveChild / OutsidePausedDrawPair). It reaches the pair by stepping down from the located top, never by searching for a frame kind, and it is infallible — the three placements are exhaustive over what can be beneath a live prompt. It travels through a new `ResolvedFrameTransition::ParkBeneathLivePrompt`, which records the operand and no position, so replay reaches the same stack by asking the stack again. With no structural guess left, a remaining `Err` can only mean the stack was already invalid, and the offer no longer vanishes there: it completes as a decline (CR 608.2n) so the card takes its ordinary graveyard route. The arm-now path installs through `install_direct_choice_frame`, so the frame and the prompt it may consume can no longer disagree, and the encode-choice consumer surfaces `take_active_cipher_encode_frame`'s error instead of discarding it. Measured, not assumed: a production-pipeline regression drives Last Thoughts ("Draw a card." + Cipher) under an opposing Zur's Weirding, so the spell's own draw is really replaced and the pair is really paused when the offer parks. Forcing placement back to `InsertParentOfActive` fails that row with prompts=["OpponentMayChoice", "UNBEKANNT: DeclareAttackers"] — the lost offer. Unit coverage pins all three placements including the admitted direct-choice-owner shape, and measures the alternative: the same frame via `insert_parent_of_active` there makes `validate` return `InvalidAdjacentPair`. Decline (`CipherEncode { creature: None }`) is covered end-to-end from the parked-then-armed path, asserting priority, an empty stack, and the card in its owner's graveyard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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You're right, and the reachability argument is the part I got wrong: I reasoned that inserting below the top leaves the top untouched, and concluded the error arm was unreachable. It is reachable exactly where you say — Placement is now the stack's decision, not the caller's. pub enum ParkedFramePlacement {
OnlyFrame, // nothing on the stack — a discard prompt owns no frame
BelowActiveChild, // the ordinary case
OutsidePausedDrawPair, // pair as the active operation, or pair under its direct-choice owner
}It reaches the pair by stepping down from the located top ( That leaves no structural guess to recover from. The remaining The consumer proves it. MeasurementPaired boundary, driven through the production pipeline rather than a hand-built stack: Last Thoughts ("Draw a card." + Cipher) under an opposing Zur's Weirding, so the spell's own draw is really replaced and its resolution really rests on the "may pay 2 life" offer with the pair parked beneath it.
That row is a counter-probe, not a prediction: with placement forced back to Unit coverage pins all three placements including the admitted direct-choice-owner shape, and measures the alternative rather than asserting it: the same frame inserted via Decline is covered end-to-end:
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196-199: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftBuild legal Cipher hosts when the offer arms.
creaturesis captured while the offer isParked, before the remaining spell effects resolve. A creature that those effects create cannot be selected for encoding. Capture legal hosts during theParkedtoArmedtransition, or derive them when handling the choice. Add an end-to-end test where the resolving Cipher spell creates a creature. Cipher is applied after the spell’s other effects. (magic.wizards.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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173-237: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the caller’s event buffer to fallback declines.
handle_encode_choiceappends zone-change events to its supplied buffer; it does not process triggers internally. Thread the liveeventsbuffer throughbegin_encode_choiceandpark_encode_offerinstead of passing&mut Vec::new()in both error branches.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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466-485: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the accepted encode actually attached to
host.The test accepts the offer with
creature: Some(host)and then checks only that the resolution stack is empty. An implementation that consumed the frame and dropped the card would satisfy every assertion. Add an assertion that Last Thoughts is exiled encoded onhost, in the same spirit as the graveyard assertion at Line 378-385 in the decline test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/cr733_resolved_frame_transition.rs`:
- Around line 515-524: Update the assertion comparing replayed and original
stacks to compare the complete ResolutionFrame vectors directly, rather than
mapping each frame through ResolutionFrame::kind. Preserve the existing
frames(&replayed) and frames(&state) sources so differences in stage, card_id,
creatures, and other frame fields are detected.
- Around line 446-465: Update the test fixture before calling
resolve_and_apply_frame_transition so state.waiting_for represents the live
direct-choice prompt owned by active_multi_draw_frame, matching the test’s
“beneath live prompt” scenario and exercising the prompt-owner branch of
park_beneath_live_prompt. Keep the existing parked CipherEncode frame and
production transition path unchanged.
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`@crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_7470_hidden_strings_optional_frame_leak.rs`:
- Around line 427-464: Update the prompt-handling loop around
runner.state().waiting_for so DecideOptionalEffect, CipherEncode, and
PassPriority action errors fail immediately with expect or an equivalent panic
rather than breaking after recording a prompt. Make the unexpected waiting_for
arm fail explicitly, following the established pattern used by the decline test,
while preserving the existing prompt tracking and reach-guard assertions.
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/cipher.rs`:
- Around line 173-237: Thread the caller’s live events buffer through
begin_encode_choice into park_encode_offer, add the required parameter to both
functions, and pass it to handle_encode_choice in both fallback error branches
instead of creating new empty vectors.
In `@crates/engine/src/types/resolution.rs`:
- Around line 196-199: Move legal Cipher-host collection from offer creation
while Parked to the Parked-to-Armed transition, or derive it when handling the
choice, so creatures created by the resolving spell’s other effects are
eligible; preserve live-board revalidation in handle_encode_choice and add an
end-to-end test covering a Cipher spell that creates a creature before encoding.
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- Around line 466-485: Add an assertion after the accepted encode flow in the
integration test to verify that Last Thoughts is exiled and encoded on host,
matching the corresponding graveyard assertion pattern in the decline test;
retain the existing resolution-stack assertion and use the test’s established
host/card state accessors.
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/cipher_tests.rs`:
- Line 270: Update the test setup around the direct super::zones::move_to_zone
call so the host move uses zone_pipeline::move_object with the appropriate
ZoneMoveRequest or an existing helper that invokes that pipeline. Preserve the
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Route the host move through the replacement-aware pipeline.
Line [270] calls super::zones::move_to_zone directly. This bypasses ProposedEvent::ZoneChange, replacement effects, and zone-change event processing. The test can therefore pass without exercising the production transition. Use zone_pipeline::move_object with the appropriate ZoneMoveRequest, or reuse an existing test helper that uses that pipeline. The production decline path in crates/engine/src/game/cipher.rs:285-317 already follows this contract.
As per path instructions: “Zone changes must route through the replacement-aware pipeline (ProposedEvent::ZoneChange), not a direct zones::move_to_zone, so replacements can apply.”
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/cipher_tests.rs` at line 270, Update the test setup
around the direct super::zones::move_to_zone call so the host move uses
zone_pipeline::move_object with the appropriate ZoneMoveRequest or an existing
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Reviewed current head 8bf33a37e5048fab493a5b8977367df8669a58e6. The parked Cipher frame preserves the live prompt, arms through the resolution-stack authority, and the current production-pipeline regressions cover optional, discard, protected paused-draw, acceptance, and decline paths. Required checks are green and the SHA-bound parse-diff reports no card-parse changes.
The current CodeRabbit fixture note at cipher_tests.rs:270 does not change the production zone-transition path: it establishes host absence before resume_resolution_frames; the behavior under review routes the Cipher decline through zone_pipeline::move_object and asserts its live event-buffer output.
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Fixes #7470.
CR 702.99a: "then you may exile this card encoded on a creature you control" is the spell's last instruction. The on-resolution hook set
state.waiting_for = CipherEncodeChoicedirectly — no frame behind it, and no check whether a prompt was already open. When the spell's own effects had paused for a player answer, that overwrote the live prompt and stranded its frame: the player was never asked the spell's own question, and the stack kept an owner noWaitingForcould match. Every later prompt then failedResolutionStack::validate. The report reached it through Thrasios (Scry 1); the scry is incidental.The engine already answers "who owns the current prompt" — the resolution stack. This adds the missing owner instead of a second mechanism beside it.
ResolutionFrame::CipherEncodecarries a typedCipherEncodeStage, mirroringRepeatedOptionalPaymentFrame, whose gate is likewise a direct choice only while it actually holds an offer:Parkedowns no prompt, so it can sit under the spell's open question without tripping the single-direct-choice-owner invariant.resume_resolution_framesarms it. That dispatch is an exhaustive match, so a parked offer cannot be silently forgotten — and arming there is what puts the encode after the spell's other effects.The guard is keyed to
waiting_for, not to the shape of the top frame. An earlier revision testedFrameGate::DirectChoiceand still clobbered the discard pause, whose prompt is owned by no frame at all.Where a parked frame goes is the stack's decision
Parking is not "insert below the top".
validaterequires a pausedPostReplacement/MultiDrawpair to stay immediately adjacent (CR 614.11a + CR 121.6b) and admits exactly one frame above it — the direct-choice owner holding the live prompt. Inserting below the top lands inside that pair, so a caller that guesses the position gets anErrit cannot recover from: by then it has already retained the card off its normal resolution route.ResolutionStack::park_beneath_live_prompttherefore answers from the stack's own shape and reports which position it used:It reaches the pair by stepping down from the located top, never by searching for a frame kind, and it is infallible: the three placements are exhaustive over what can sit beneath a live prompt. It travels through
ResolvedFrameTransition::ParkBeneathLivePrompt, which records the native operand and no position — the applier asks the stack, so replay stays exact.With no structural guess left, a remaining
Errcan only mean the stack was invalid before the offer existed, and the offer is no longer dropped there: it completes as a decline (CR 608.2n) so the card takes its ordinary graveyard route. The arm-now path installs throughinstall_direct_choice_frame, so the frame and the prompt it may consume cannot disagree, and the encode-choice consumer surfacestake_active_cipher_encode_frame's error instead of discarding it.Measurement
Prompt sequences are driven by hand through the real cast pipeline.
SpellCast::resolveauto-answers optional prompts (defaultDecline), so a sequence measured through it says nothing about what a player sees — these rows usecommit()and step manually.CipherEncodeChoiceonlyOptionalEffectChoice, ChooseOneOfBranch, OptionalEffectChoice, ChooseOneOfBranch, CipherEncodeChoiceCipherEncodeChoiceonlyDiscardChoice, CipherEncodeChoiceOpponentMayChoice, then the offer is goneOpponentMayChoice, CipherEncodeChoice, stack emptyThe third row is the paired boundary, driven through the production pipeline rather than a hand-built stack: a real cipher spell whose real draw is really replaced. It is a counter-probe, not a prediction — with placement forced back to
InsertParentOfActiveit fails with exactlyprompts=["OpponentMayChoice", "UNBEKANNT: DeclareAttackers"]. The other two rows fail with the parking guard forced off. The un-ciphered control row is green either way by design — it pins that the pause machinery was never the defect, and its doc says so rather than presenting it as evidence.Unit coverage pins all three placements including the admitted direct-choice-owner shape, and measures the alternative rather than asserting it: the same frame inserted via
insert_parent_of_activethere makesvalidatereturnInvalidAdjacentPair. A CR733 test journals the new transition and replays it to the same stack.Decline is covered end-to-end:
CipherEncode { creature: None }answered after the spell's own prompts (so from the parked-then-armed path), asserting priority, an empty resolution stack, and the card in its owner's graveyard.CR 603.5 producer census:
:7003/:7080/:10318 ⇒ :7009/:7086/:10324, the exact+6of the new frame-resume arm above them. Producers sha256-identical (9869a19f28c791ee,2bc316e3aa0297f8,8df98486627bfe15), occurrence count 25 on both sides, other two entries unmoved.cargo test -p phase-engine: lib + integration green. Clippy clean on default features.One observation, not touched
park_counter_completion_outside_active_direct_choice(effects/counters.rs, from #7403) has the same shape as the code this PR replaces:insert_counter_additions_parent_of_active→is_err()→ drop, with the same "unreachable from a valid stack" reasoning. The paired boundary reaches it too. Left alone — it is not this issue's path anda_completion_owing_nothing_behind_a_live_prompt_is_droppedcurrently pins the dropping behaviour — butpark_beneath_live_promptis a general authority, so migrating that caller is a small change if wanted.Not covered
resolving triggered entry has no firing carrier— aresolving_stack_entrywith no firing carrier). The save attached to Engine crash: paused child operation must retain its continuation as an immediate parent: P… #7470's sibling report shows exactly that. Not addressed here.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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