fix(engine): a mandatory parent that did nothing creates no "when you do" reflexive (#7511)

[cuinhellcat]

Fixes #7511 (the mandatory half; the optional half landed in #7414, the parser half in #7528).

CR 603.12: a reflexive triggered ability triggers "based on whether the trigger event or events occurred earlier during the resolution" of its parent. The WhenYouDo arm of evaluate_condition covers the optional parent and the failed-payment class but returned true for every MANDATORY parent — Cemetery Desecrator with every graveyard empty still offered its mode choice; Vhal, Scholar of Mortality reanimated for free off zero removed study counters.

Design (the seam question left open on #7511, resolved as the smaller shape): the sub-walk call site in resolve_ability_chain is the one place holding the parent's own event slice, so the mandatory question is answered there — when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing reuses the two existing authorities (mandatory_parent_effect_performed for the event witness, effect_manages_own_outcome_flag for the coin-flip/clash/dig/behold exemption) instead of plumbing a new flag. Suppression routes through the ordinary condition-false path, so else branches and surviving sequential siblings keep their printed semantics. Effect kinds without an event witness stay "mandatory means yes" (the witness fn's default arm), keeping RollDie/BecomeCopy reflexives unconditional.

Class (card-data.json, reminder text stripped): 81 cards carry a mandatory instruction before "When you do" — all three Vhals, Minsc & Boo, Tip the Scales, Yannik, Venom, Cemetery Desecrator, … The d20 dragons are outcome-owning and exempt by design.

Evidence

• Flipped the third test of mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs: an impossible exile now creates NO reflexive (was pinned as the known gap); the two positive rows (exile performed + mode list still offered) stay green.
• Helper truth-table unit test: suppression iff mandatory ∧ no record ∧ witnessable kind ∧ no witness event; RollDie/BecomeCopy rows unconditional; the existing arm test's "mandatory means yes" row is unchanged and still pinned.
• Counter-probe: gate removed → exactly the flipped test falls (2 pass / 1 fail).
• Full suites: lib 19,471 + integration 5,291, 0 failures; clippy clean.

What the tests do NOT prove: the RemoveCounter (Vhal) shape is covered at the helper level only, not end-to-end (specialize setup); the end-to-end witness is the ChangeZone/exile shape.

Known remainder: a WhenYouDo carrier resumed from pending_continuation (gate on the carrier itself, no parent frame) is not covered — its parent paused for an interactive choice, so an action did occur there.

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• Bug Fixes

  • Mandatory actions that affect no items no longer incorrectly trigger reflexive follow-up effects.
  • Prevented unnecessary mode and target-selection prompts when a required action has no applicable result.
  • Preserved expected behavior for optional actions, recorded outcomes, witnessed events, and sequential effects.
  • Correctly handles counter-removal outcomes, enabling follow-up effects only after a successful removal.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for mandatory reflexive-effect gating, counter removal, event witnesses, and related edge cases.

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The change suppresses mandatory WhenYouDo reflexive conditions when the parent effect did nothing. It preserves false-branch and sibling processing, adds event-witness coverage, and updates source references.

Changes

Mandatory reflexive gating

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parent no-op detection and condition evaluation crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs	Checks mandatory-parent performance and event witnesses before resolving reflexive WhenYouDo conditions. Tests cover optional parents, outcome-owning effects, effects without witnesses, and non-WhenYouDo conditions. Source references reflect updated line positions.
Integration coverage for mandatory outcomes crates/engine/tests/integration/mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs	Adds counter-removal scenarios. Successful removal keeps the reflexive draw active. Unsuccessful mandatory removal produces no prompts and no draw.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e57a3

This localized engine change prevents reflexive triggers when a mandatory parent does nothing while preserving the existing exempt behavior; the supplied full suites and clippy results are clean, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: matthewevans, lgray, jacobwoodson

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crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs (1)

20585-20688: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test case for a non-WhenYouDo condition.

The production call site calls when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing for every sub.condition type, not only AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo. The function's matches!(condition, AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo) guard is what prevents the function from wrongly suppressing other condition types (for example, QuantityCheck) when a mandatory parent effect did nothing.

Add one row to the existing table-style test that passes a non-WhenYouDo condition (with the other four conjuncts satisfied) and asserts the function returns false. This closes the one branch the current test table does not exercise.

💡 Suggested test row

// The guard: a non-WhenYouDo condition must never be suppressed by this
// stage, even when every other conjunct would otherwise suppress it.
let quantity_check = AbilityCondition::QuantityCheck {
    lhs: QuantityExpr::Fixed { value: 0 },
    comparator: Comparator::EQ,
    rhs: QuantityExpr::Fixed { value: 0 },
};
assert!(
    !when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing(
        &quantity_check,
        &parent(false, false),
        &no_events
    ),
    "only AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo is this stage's business"
);

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs` around lines 20585 - 20688, Add a
table row in a_mandatory_parent_that_did_nothing_suppresses_its_reflexive using
a non-WhenYouDo condition such as QuantityCheck, with a mandatory unperformed
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs`:
- Around line 20585-20688: Add a table row in
a_mandatory_parent_that_did_nothing_suppresses_its_reflexive using a
non-WhenYouDo condition such as QuantityCheck, with a mandatory unperformed
parent and no events, and assert when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing
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Generated for head 3ca1b4e9b61c0d6ea09b72c4268ec0607d4f5f94.

Parse changes introduced by this PR

✓ No card-parse changes detected.

[matthewevans]

Changes requested — the RemoveCounter witness branch lacks a production-path regression.

🔴 Blocker

crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:6417-6419 makes the new mandatory-parent gate depend on a real GameEvent::CounterRemoved, but the runtime regression in crates/engine/tests/integration/mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs:143-169 exercises only the separate ChangeZone/ZoneChanged witness path. The added unit test at crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:20585-20688 constructs CounterRemoved directly, and the PR body explicitly says the Vhal/RemoveCounter shape is helper-only.

That leaves the actual resolver → event slice → resolve_chain_body path unpinned for a class the PR claims to fix. Please add a production-pipeline regression for a mandatory RemoveCounter ... When you do chain that proves zero counters suppresses the reflexive and an available counter preserves it. This must fail if the new event-witness gate is reverted or the counter event is not threaded into the parent slice.

✅ Clean

The existing Cemetery Desecrator scenario is a discriminating regression for the ChangeZone witness path, and the CR 603.12 citation is accurate.

Recommendation: add the RemoveCounter runtime pair, then request a fresh review on the resulting head.

[cuinhellcat]

Round 1 addressed — the RemoveCounter runtime pair is in (5075bc2).

• a_performed_counter_removal_keeps_its_reflexive / an_impossible_counter_removal_creates_no_reflexive (tests/integration/mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs) run a mandatory, self-referential remove a +1/+1 counter from it. When you do, draw a card. chain through the production resolver — the Vhal shape reduced to its building blocks ("specializes" has no engine trigger, so oracle-built cards pin the class).
• Probes, both directions: gate reverted → the suppression half fails with left: (1, Some(0)) right: (0, Some(0)); parent event slice cut to &[] at the sub-walk site → the witness half fails. Each probe leaves the other half green.
• CodeRabbit's guard row is in the unit table: a non-WhenYouDo condition passes through untouched.

Suites: 19,471 lib + 5,293 integration green, clippy clean.

[matthewevans]

Maintainer hold — current head e57a38fc76ce525722e548f01521d7d47772b8aa contains a mechanical maintainer port and needs fresh evidence.

The port resolves only the engine.rs test-census coordinates after current main shifted effects/mod.rs; the resolver and runtime-regression logic are unchanged. No contributor code change is requested. I will complete the final implementation review after required CI and a SHA-bound parse-diff receipt for this head settle, then make the approval/enqueue decision.

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Shard 2/4 diagnosis: the census pin test (the_cr_603_5_prompt_census_is_pinned…, engine.rs:18727). The merge from main added 2 lines above the three effects/mod.rs producers, so their pins need 7368→7370, 7445→7447, 11272→11274. Producer identity is unchanged — same five, scoped_library_search.rs:452 and engine.rs:13135 untouched.

Per the hold I have not pushed anything. Happy to push the three-number re-pin if you prefer — otherwise leaving the head to you.

[matthewevans]

Maintainer hold — current head 3ca1b4e9b61c0d6ea09b72c4268ec0607d4f5f94 refreshes the ported prompt-census coordinates and needs fresh evidence.

The prior current-head Rust shard exposed only the three stale effects/mod.rs location pins (7368/7445/11272 → 7370/7447/11274); no resolver or runtime-test behavior changed. No contributor code change is requested. I will finish the implementation review after required CI and a SHA-bound parse-diff receipt for this head settle.

[matthewevans]

Approved — current head 3ca1b4e9b61c0d6ea09b72c4268ec0607d4f5f94 passes the mandatory-reflexive quality gate.

The SHA-bound parse receipt reports no parse changes. The resolver checks the parent’s own event slice at the WhenYouDo sub-walk seam; the registered production regressions discriminate both the impossible/performed exile and RemoveCounter witness paths. CR 603.12 was verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.