fix(engine): stop orphaning the proliferate frame on a counter replacement (#7384)

[mike-theDude]

Fixes #7384.

Model: claude-opus-5[1m]
Tier: Frontier

What was wrong

WaitingFor::ProliferateChoice's handler called apply_proliferate before taking the proliferate frame off the resolution stack, and returned early when that call paused:

if !effects::proliferate::apply_proliferate(state, p, &targets, &mut events) {
    return Ok(ActionResult { ... });          // early return
}
let pending = state.take_active_proliferate_frame()?...;   // never reached

apply_proliferate pauses whenever a counter-placement replacement raises a CR 616.1 ordering choice — two simultaneously-applicable AddCounter replacements, Hardened Scales + Doubling Season being the common pairing. When that choice is answered, engine_replacement.rs drains the counter-additions queue, which pops only its own frame. Nothing popped the Proliferate frame or resumed the proliferate.

So a direct-choice frame was stranded on the resolution stack for the rest of the game, and ResolutionStack::validate then failed every later frame transition against it. The reported panic is a tutor (SearchLibrary with a trailing Shuffle) parking its tail through prepend_to_pending_continuation:

PromptMismatch { frame: Proliferate, waiting_for: "SearchChoice" }

The panic lands arbitrarily far from the cause, which is why the report reads as a search bug. Between the orphaning and the panic the game keeps running on a corrupt stack, and the diagnostic tag is ai-getAction-panic because AI lookahead re-applies actions against that state.

Two corroborating signals that this was the intended-but-unwired path: GameState::replace_active_proliferate_frame is documented as the re-park for exactly this situation and had zero production callers, and PendingCounterPostAction had resume variants for amass, token creation, copy tokens, meld and zone delivery — and none for proliferate.

What changed

The frame is taken before any counter is applied, so no path can strand it, and the actions the effect still owes ride a new PendingCounterPostAction::ContinueProliferateActions on the counter-additions completion — the mechanism the other suspended-work families already use.

proliferate::continue_proliferate_actions becomes the single authority for per-action ordering (publish the action that just finished → drive the next → one terminal EffectResolved), shared by the synchronous and resumed paths.

Two further defects on the same seam are fixed with it:

• CR 701.34a — remaining proliferate actions were dropped, so "proliferate twice" (Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus) performed once.
• CR 122.1 — Effect::ProliferateTarget (Skyship Plunderer) shares apply_proliferate, whose completion hardcoded EffectKind::Proliferate with a PlayerActionKind::Proliferate and an ObjectId(0) source. On the paused path the forced-target form therefore published a proliferate keyword action its own doc comment forbids — firing "whenever you proliferate" triggers off a card that never proliferates — plus a duplicate EffectResolved. The completion is now typed data supplied by each caller.

It also hardens the seam that made the corruption representable: merge_pending_counter_completion_after_nested_pause would push a CounterAdditions frame on top of a direct-choice owner installed by a paused post-action, burying it. It now installs the completion as that owner's parent. Non-direct-choice pauses keep their historical path unchanged, so the append_pending_counter_post_actions target is unaffected.

Anchored on

• crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs:18174 — insert_ability_continuation_parent_of_active, the existing ResolvedFrameTransition::InsertParentOfActive wrapper; insert_counter_additions_parent_of_active (:18511) mirrors it exactly, same transition, same error mapping.
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/counters.rs:574 → crates/engine/src/game/effects/amass.rs:69 — ContinueAmassAfterTokenCreation / continue_amass_after_token_creation, the existing "post-action that continues a suspended operation across a counter pause and may itself pause" pattern; ContinueProliferateActions / continue_proliferate_actions follows the same naming, dispatch shape and bool contract.
• crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs:5303 — PendingEffectResolved::with_post_actions_without_effect, the existing constructor for a Suppress/no-player-action completion, used instead of a hand-rolled literal.

Scope notes

• Engine-only. No parser, frontend, transport, card-data or AI-behavior surface.
• The add-engine-variant gate verdicts (Stage 1 DOES_NOT_EXIST / Stage 2 EXTEND_OK / Stage 3 WITHIN_SECTION) and the serde compatibility analysis are recorded on the variant doc-comment.
• PendingCounterPostAction reaches persisted state via PendingEffectResolved::post_actions on the RESOLUTION_STATE_WIRE_VERSION = 2 wire. A new externally-tagged variant is backward compatible but not forward compatible — the same one-way contract MarkMonstrous, MarkRenowned and EmitCommittedCopyTokenEntry shipped under, so the wire version is deliberately not bumped.
• The CR 603.5 prompt-census pin moves :12773 -> :12796 for pure line movement: six above-producer hunks summing to +23, producer sha256-identical to main's and still 134 lines into begin_pending_trigger_target_selection.

Deliberately out of scope

• drive_single_proliferate_action still pushes the frame and assigns state.waiting_for separately rather than going through install_direct_choice_frame, the atomic owner+prompt installer. Migrating that — and the CoinFlipKeep and MutateMerge families with it — would make this whole bug class structurally unrepresentable, but it is a distinct refactor across three families.
• continue_proliferate_actions returns bool rather than a typed outcome, because it is returned directly from the pre-existing apply_pending_counter_post_action -> bool dispatcher; converting would mean rewriting ~18 match arms inside a bug fix.
• CR 701.34b (Two-Headed Giant shared poison) is unaddressed: collect_proliferate_eligible offers both teammates independently. Pre-existing, and noted rather than silently passed over because this change edits that function's module.

Verification

Tilt was down for this run and pipeline worktrees are not Tilt-watched regardless, so all checks were run directly in the worktree.

cargo fmt --all -- --check                                  clean
cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings   exit 0
cargo test -p phase-engine                                  19094 lib + 4985 integration + 30 other, 0 failed
cargo check --workspace --all-targets                       exit 0
cargo test -p phase-ai                                      green

CI gate scripts, all run against base 56ae3956e:

scripts/check-resolution-frame-boundaries.sh                PASS
scripts/check-engine-authorities.sh                         PASS   (Gate B/D + 52 unit rows)
scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh                         PASS   (Gate A, below)
scripts/check-prelowered-ratchet.sh                         PASS
scripts/check-test-card-data-load.sh                        PASS
scripts/check-skill-doc.sh                                  PASS
scripts/check-interaction-bindings.sh --check               PASS
scripts/draw_replacement_census.py --corpus --check         exit 2 — BLOCKED, see below

draw_replacement_census.py --corpus refuses to run without data/card-data.json, which is gitignored and absent from this worktree. The result is invariant under this diff: scripts/ and data/ are untouched, the diff contains zero draw_scope / ReplacementEvent::Draw references, and PendingCounterPostAction is runtime resolution state that never reaches card-data.json. The source-side counterpart passes. CI's card-data job runs this against a freshly generated corpus.

cargo coverage and cargo semantic-audit were likewise not run: both read the same absent export, and both audit per-card parse fidelity — there is no parser or card-data surface in this change.

Revert-probe. The regression tests were run against pre-fix source and fail there with:

invalid embedded Proliferate frame: a direct-choice owner is buried below another resolution frame

so they are discriminating rather than vacuous.

New coverage: three integration rows (doubled-proliferate stack cleanliness with an exact counter total and a per-action event census; the reported tutor panic; the ProliferateTarget paused path asserting zero proliferate keyword actions and exactly one correctly-attributed EffectResolved) plus three unit rows covering all three branches of the completion re-park.

Gate A

Scope is crates/engine/src/parser, which this change does not touch — the PASS below records that nothing was in scope, not that this diff was combinator-audited.

Gate G PASS (router/grant architecture: strict router vs permissive grant boundary intact)
Gate A PASS head=8377f2489ed90aa122b6ec5923af3df387502f94 base=56ae3956e81a272c630bd9098cb29969ff2a8038

Final review-impl

Final review-impl PASS head=8377f2489ed90aa122b6ec5923af3df387502f94

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved proliferate actions that pause while counters are placed or replaced.
  • Ensured doubled actions resume correctly and counter additions resolve in the proper order.
  • Preserved prompts and targeted proliferate results during paused resolutions.
  • Prevented unnecessary completion events and fixed follow-up actions after paused resolutions.
  • Improved handling of zero-counter proliferate actions.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for paused proliferate actions, counter replacements, completion events, and zero-counter scenarios.

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Walkthrough

The change preserves proliferate continuations when counter replacements open direct-choice prompts. It adds completion metadata and stack transitions, updates engine wiring, and adds regression coverage for resumed actions, event identity, counter totals, and tutor continuations.

Changes

Proliferate counter-resolution flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Continuation contracts and stack transitions crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs	Pending completions detect no-op work, represent proliferate continuation, and insert counter additions below the active frame.
Direct-choice-aware counter parking crates/engine/src/game/effects/counters.rs	Counter completions are dropped, inserted beneath prompts, or retained as placeholder frames according to the active stack state.
Proliferate completion and application crates/engine/src/game/effects/proliferate.rs	Proliferate application accepts caller-supplied completion metadata and finalizes only after remaining actions finish. Targeted effects retain their effect identity.
Engine completion wiring crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine_tests.rs	The engine captures frames and target pins before counter application and routes continuation through PendingEffectResolved.
Paused replacement regression coverage crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_7384_proliferate_counter_replacement_frame.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/proliferate_zero_counter.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs	Tests cover replacement prompts, resumed proliferate actions, tutor continuation, targeted completion events, and explicit completion metadata.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7164f

The change fixes proliferate continuation and stack corruption with broad passing checks. Merge is reasonable with owner awareness that one regression test’s explanation of the doubling mechanism should be corrected or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GameEngine
  participant apply_proliferate
  participant CounterResolution
  participant ResolutionStack
  participant continue_proliferate_actions
  GameEngine->>apply_proliferate: apply counters with completion metadata
  apply_proliferate->>CounterResolution: resolve counter replacements
  CounterResolution->>ResolutionStack: park completion beneath direct-choice prompt
  ResolutionStack->>continue_proliferate_actions: dispatch continuation
  continue_proliferate_actions->>GameEngine: resume remaining actions or emit final resolution

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Possibly related PRs

• phase-rs/phase#7327: Both changes modify player-action completion and continuation handling.
• phase-rs/phase#7332: Both changes route paused effects through resolution-stack continuation frames.

Suggested labels: needs-maintainer, test

Suggested reviewers: matthewevans

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the engine fix for orphaned Proliferate frames during counter replacement.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue [#7384] by preserving Proliferate continuations and installing counter completions under active choice owners.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All code and tests support the linked engine issue and its required Proliferate frame and completion handling.
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- Around line 222-232: Strengthen the regression assertions in
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- Around line 320-324: Update the annotation for Effect::ProliferateTarget to
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Maintainer hold — fresh verification is running. I applied the two current-head review corrections (exact completion-source assertions and the verified CR 701.34a distinction) and ported this branch over current main at 5256cdbc3a7f84f38371f76a6c1ecda67a774207.

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113-114: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the CR 701.34a attribution.

CR 701.34a defines what one proliferate action does. It does not double proliferate actions. Tekuthal’s replacement effect causes the doubled action count. (media.wizards.com)

State Tekuthal’s replacement effect as the cause. Retain CR 701.34a for the definition of each proliferate action.

As per path instructions, rules-touching code must use a verified CR citation whose rule body describes the code.

Proposed correction

-    // CR 701.34a: the proliferate replacement doubles the action count, so the
+    // Tekuthal's replacement effect doubles the proliferate action count. CR
+    // 701.34a defines each resulting proliferate action, so the

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Maintainer hold — current-head verification is pending. I pushed maintainer fixup 8061e217651cf7bf2dbb0817d12f0d084b559e36: it removes the unused test import that made the prior Rust jobs fail and corrects the Tekuthal/CR 701.34a attribution in the regression assertion.

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Maintainer hold on 7164fa519731f7d462e92cc04b2fde44d2577ebd: I corrected the inherited CR annotation above resolve_target. CR 608.2c governs following this ability's direct counter instruction and CR 122.1 supplies the counter context; Effect::ProliferateTarget is not the CR 701.34a proliferate keyword action.

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