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Six MCP tools cloned the whole game, mutated the clone, then wrote it back with
set_game. That is the exact pattern StateManager::update_game exists to prevent — its
doc comment spells it out, and src-tauri/CLAUDE.md §3 makes it a rule. Between the clone
and the write, anything the GUI did in the meantime is silently discarded.

An MCP agent and a player act concurrently by design, so this is reachable rather than
theoretical, and there is regression history behind the rule (fix/lost-update-races).

This is a correctness fix, not a performance one, though it removes six whole-Game
clones as a side effect. Independent of every other open PR.

Converted

scout_send, scout_youth_start, scout_youth_cancel, scout_youth_reassign,
jobs_apply, match_team_talk. The press-conference tool now appends its article through
update_game rather than writing back a game it had cloned before composing anything —
everything above that point only reads.

Why this was not a mechanical conversion

update_game is not transactional. A closure that mutates and then returns Err
leaves the mutation in place, whereas the old clone would have been thrown away. So a
blanket find-and-replace could introduce a bug on every error path. Each one was checked
against its ofm_core function:

Function Order
send_scout, start_youth_scouting, reassign_youth_scouting validate fully, then one mutation
apply_team_talk resolves the manager's team before the morale loop
apply_for_job reports outcome as a value; old code committed unconditionally
cancel_youth_scouting retains first, reports failure after

That last one is the interesting case. It looks unsafe and isn't: when it errors, the
retain matched nothing, so it removed nothing. There is a comment at the call site,
because the next reader will have the same doubt.

Two sites deliberately left alone

Both look like the same bug. Neither is, and both now say so in a comment:

  • game_select_team writes a new save to disk between the mutation and the store.
    Running that inside the closure would hold the game mutex across filesystem I/O, which
    src-tauri/CLAUDE.md forbids. It is career creation anyway — no other tool can be
    acting on a game that does not exist yet.
  • game_load_save is not clone-mutate-replace at all. The game came off disk, so
    there is no prior state to lose an update to. set_game is correct.

Verification

  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features mcp -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo test --workspace --features mcp — all suites green

The mcp feature is essential here: this code does not compile at all without it, so a
default-feature check would have proved nothing.

Three press-conference bugs the atomicity work surfaced

Restructuring match_press_conference into a single update_game put its whole body under
one reader for the first time, and three pre-existing defects were visible in it. None was
introduced here; all three are fixed, each in its own commit, each with a test verified to
fail against the unfixed code.

It reported the wrong match. The lookup scanned game.league, which mirrors one
competition — Game documents the field as legacy and states outright that it "misses cups
and isn't reliable". Win a cup final, hold a conference, and the article filed into the news
feed carried the previous league game's scoreline. It now scans game.competitions, the
source of truth every load path populates, which also removes a reader from a field whose
doc comment asks for no new ones.

It let you praise the opposition. A player_focus answer resolved its player id against
every player in the world, so "praise" aimed at the striker who had just knocked you out
lifted his morale by five. Ids on other questions went into the article's player list
unchecked. Named players must now be ones the user actually manages, rejected before the
first mutation — the squad id set is built once rather than rescanning ~9.7k players per
answer, since this runs with the game mutex held. The UI picker already offered only the
user's own squad; this is the backend enforcing the same rule against an agent that composes
the answers itself.

It claimed morale changes that never happened. Morale clamps at 100, so a squad already
there absorbs a "+3" whole — and the report still announced Squad morale: +3. This call is
the agent's only window onto morale, so it learned that praise works when nothing had
happened. The outcome now counts the players whose morale actually changed, against a
snapshot taken before the first mutation. Keying the claim to that count rather than to the
sign of the delta also covers the mirror case: deflect on a player question leaves the
squad delta at zero while still costing the named player a point, where "no change" would
have been equally wrong. The wording moved into format_outcome so the report itself is
under test — that is the layer the misstatement lived in.

Still open, deliberately

The Tauri command submit_press_conference (commands/live_match.rs) has the second and
third defects too, plus no once-per-day guard and client-supplied scores. That is a separate
concern and belongs on its own branch.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability and persistence for team talks, press conferences, scouting actions, and job offers.
    • Press conferences now correctly target the intended team and players and create related news updates.
    • Added validation for invalid managers, teams, incomplete matches, inactive game sessions, response limits, and duplicate same-day submissions.
    • Protected morale gains from overflow and included relevant match details in press conference results.

Six MCP tools cloned the whole game, mutated the clone, then wrote it back with
`set_game`. That is the exact pattern `StateManager::update_game` exists to
prevent, and its doc comment says so: between the clone and the write, anything
the GUI did is silently discarded. An MCP agent and a player act concurrently by
design, so this is reachable, not theoretical. There is regression history here
(`fix/lost-update-races`).

Converted: `scout_send`, `scout_youth_start`, `scout_youth_cancel`,
`scout_youth_reassign`, `jobs_apply`, and `match_team_talk`. The press-conference
tool now appends its article through `update_game` instead of writing back a
game it cloned before composing anything.

**`update_game` is not transactional** — a closure that mutates and then returns
`Err` leaves the mutation in place, where the old clone would have been thrown
away. So each conversion was checked against its `ofm_core` function rather than
done mechanically:

- `send_scout`, `start_youth_scouting`, `reassign_youth_scouting` validate
  fully before they touch anything.
- `apply_team_talk` resolves the manager's team before the loop that adjusts
  morale.
- `apply_for_job` reports its outcome as a value, and the old code committed
  unconditionally, so behaviour is identical.
- `cancel_youth_scouting` is the odd one out: it retains first and reports
  failure afterwards. Still safe in place — when it errors, the retain matched
  nothing and removed nothing. Called out in a comment where it happens.

**Two sites are deliberately left alone**, with comments saying why, because
both look like the same bug and are not:

- `game_select_team` writes a new save to disk between the mutation and the
  store. Running that inside the closure would hold the game mutex across
  filesystem I/O. It is career creation anyway — no other tool can be acting.
- `game_load_save` is not clone-mutate-replace at all. The game came off disk,
  so there is no prior state to lose an update to.

Clippy clean and full workspace suite green under CI's `--features mcp`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change routes team talks, scouting actions, and job applications through state_manager.update_game. It also adds validated press-conference processing with atomic persistence, morale and news updates, completed-match details, and regression tests.

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Game state and live match updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Atomic game mutation paths
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs, src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/scouting.rs, src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/season.rs, src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/game.rs
Team talks, scouting operations, and job applications now use state_manager.update_game. Comments document the retained clone-and-set paths for filesystem loading and career creation.
Press-conference validation and mutation
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs
Press-conference parsing, input limits, prerequisite validation, duplicate prevention, morale updates, news creation, and outcome formatting now use reusable private helpers and one state update.
Press-conference regression coverage
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs
Tests cover morale persistence and targeting, news creation, invalid prerequisites, duplicate prevention, overflow protection, inactive sessions, input limits, quote handling, and completed-match details.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 85243

The press-conference path now applies game changes atomically and restricts named players to the managed squad, but it still accepts oversized player IDs while holding the game lock, which can delay other game updates, and some responses bypass translation keys. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant match_press_conference
  participant StateManager
  participant apply_press_conference
  participant GameState

  match_press_conference->>StateManager: submit parsed and bounded answers
  StateManager->>apply_press_conference: validate prerequisites and resolve completed fixture
  apply_press_conference->>GameState: apply morale and news changes
  apply_press_conference-->>StateManager: return match metadata and morale outcome
  StateManager-->>match_press_conference: return formatted result
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Pull request overview

This PR updates several MCP server tools to use StateManager::update_game instead of the clone–mutate–set_game pattern, reducing lost-update races between concurrent GUI and MCP actions (and removing several full Game clones as a side effect).

Changes:

  • Converted multiple MCP tools to mutate the active game under the game mutex via update_game (jobs_apply, scouting tools, match_team_talk).
  • Added rationale comments for cases where update_game is intentionally not used (game_select_team, game_load_save) and for non-transactional update_game error-path considerations.
  • Adjusted press-conference behavior to append the generated news article via update_game (but see blocking issue noted in review comments: morale updates computed earlier in match_press_conference are no longer persisted).

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src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/season.rs Converts jobs_apply to update_game to avoid lost updates.
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/scouting.rs Converts multiple scouting mutations to update_game, with comments explaining error-path safety.
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs Converts match_team_talk to update_game; changes press-conference news append path (currently introduces a persistence bug for morale updates).
src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/game.rs Documents intentional exceptions where set_game remains correct/safer than update_game.

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Comment on lines +337 to +340
// Everything above only reads, to compose the article. Appending it is the
// single mutation, so it goes in on its own rather than writing back a whole
// game that was cloned before any of this ran.
ctx.state_manager.update_game(|game| game.news.push(article));
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Confirmed and fixed in 56558e9 — thank you, this was a real regression I introduced.

You were right on both counts: the morale changes were applied to the clone from require_game
and then dropped, and the ignored update_game result meant a session-less call reported success.

The whole conference now goes in under one lock. apply_press_conference(&mut Game, &[PressAnswer])
resolves the manager's team and the match being discussed before touching anything, then moves
individual morale, squad morale, and pushes the article — ordering that matters because
update_game cannot roll back a closure that returns Err.

Splitting it out of the tool wrapper also made it testable: the tool needs a Tauri AppHandle,
the function needs only a game. Seven tests cover it, each verified to fail against the behaviour
it pins — including one that reintroduces exactly this bug (morale dropped) and one that moves a
validation below a mutation.

I also re-audited the other three files in this PR with the same lens (a function that clones via
require_game and persists only a slice through update_game). match_press_conference was the
only one; match_team_talk and the scouting tools mutate in place, and game_select_team /
game_load_save keep set_game deliberately, as documented.

The previous commit moved the news article into `update_game` but left the
morale changes on the cloned game that is now discarded. A press conference
therefore filed its article and quietly reverted every mood it moved — both the
squad-wide change and the boost for a player named in a `player_focus` answer.

The whole conference is one act, so it goes in under one lock:
`apply_press_conference` takes `&mut Game`, resolves the manager's team and the
match being discussed before touching anything, and only then moves morale and
pushes the article. `update_game` cannot roll back a closure that returns `Err`,
so ordering the checks first is what keeps a rejected conference from leaving
morale moved with no article to explain it.

Splitting the work out of the tool wrapper also gives it a seam: the tool itself
needs a Tauri `AppHandle`, the function it now calls needs only a game. Seven
tests cover the two morale paths, the article, the reported match, and both
rejection paths — each verified to fail against the behaviour it pins.

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319-328: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict player_focus to the managed squad.

Line 326 accepts any game.players ID. An agent can target an opposition player and change that player’s morale. Validate that each focused player belongs to user_team_id before Line 297 starts mutations. Add a regression test for an opposition player ID.

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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs` around lines 319 - 328,
The player_focus mutation currently accepts opposition player IDs; validate the
selected player belongs to user_team_id before any mutations begin. Update the
player_focus handling around the existing game.players lookup so only
managed-squad players can receive morale changes, and add a regression test
covering an opposition player ID.
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Inline comments:
In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/game.rs`:
- Around line 116-119: Protect the game replacement in game_select_team with a
session-generation check or exclusive state-transition operation so set_game
cannot overwrite changes committed by update_game during save creation or disk
loading; keep filesystem I/O outside the game lock, and update the nearby
comments to document the exclusion mechanism and the condition that makes
clone-and-set safe to remove.

In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs`:
- Around line 234-237: Move apply_press_conference into
crate::commands::live_match as a shared internal function, and update both the
Tauri command and match_press_conference MCP tool to call it. Remove the
MCP-local implementation so press-conference behavior cannot diverge between
entry points.
- Around line 245-269: Replace the English user-facing responses in the
live-match flow, including the “No team assigned to manager” and “No completed
match found for your team” validation errors and the success response, with the
project’s translation keys and interpolation parameters. Update the relevant
response construction around the fixture lookup and lines 396–426 while
preserving existing control flow and response semantics.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs`:
- Around line 319-328: The player_focus mutation currently accepts opposition
player IDs; validate the selected player belongs to user_team_id before any
mutations begin. Update the player_focus handling around the existing
game.players lookup so only managed-squad players can receive morale changes,
and add a regression test covering an opposition player ID.
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Comment on lines +116 to +119
// Deliberately still clone-and-set rather than `update_game`: the new save
// is written to disk above, and doing that inside the closure would hold the
// game mutex across filesystem I/O. There is no concurrency exposure here
// anyway — this is career creation, before any other tool can act on a game.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize session replacement with concurrent game updates.

set_game can overwrite an update that completes while save creation or disk loading is in progress. For example, jobs_apply can commit through update_game after game_select_team reads its clone but before Line 121 replaces the game.

Use a session generation check or an exclusive state-transition operation at commit time. Do not hold the game lock during filesystem I/O. Update these comments to name the exclusion mechanism and the condition that permits removal of the clone-and-set path.

As per coding guidelines, comments for workarounds must explain the cause and what permits removal.

Also applies to: 145-146

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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/game.rs` around lines 116 - 119, Protect
the game replacement in game_select_team with a session-generation check or
exclusive state-transition operation so set_game cannot overwrite changes
committed by update_game during save creation or disk loading; keep filesystem
I/O outside the game lock, and update the nearby comments to document the
exclusion mechanism and the condition that makes clone-and-set safe to remove.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment thread src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs
Comment on lines 245 to +269
.ok_or("No team assigned to manager")?;
let user_team_name = game.teams.iter()
let user_team_name = game
.teams
.iter()
.find(|t| t.id == user_team_id)
.map(|t| t.name.clone())
.unwrap_or_else(|| user_team_id.clone());

// Find the most recent completed fixture involving the user's team
let last_match = game.league.as_ref()
.and_then(|league| league.fixtures.iter()
.filter(|f| f.result.is_some() && (f.home_team_id == user_team_id || f.away_team_id == user_team_id))
.max_by(|a, b| a.date.cmp(&b.date)))
.ok_or("No completed match found for your team")?;

let (home_team_name, away_team_name) = {
let home = game.teams.iter().find(|t| t.id == last_match.home_team_id).map(|t| t.name.clone()).unwrap_or_else(|| last_match.home_team_id.clone());
let away = game.teams.iter().find(|t| t.id == last_match.away_team_id).map(|t| t.name.clone()).unwrap_or_else(|| last_match.away_team_id.clone());
(home, away)
// Find the most recent completed fixture involving the user's team. Copied out of the league
// borrow here so the morale loops below can take `game` mutably.
let (home_team_id, away_team_id, home_score, away_score) = {
let last_match = game
.league
.as_ref()
.and_then(|league| {
league
.fixtures
.iter()
.filter(|f| {
f.result.is_some()
&& (f.home_team_id == user_team_id || f.away_team_id == user_team_id)
})
.max_by(|a, b| a.date.cmp(&b.date))
})
.ok_or("No completed match found for your team")?;
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Replace new English responses with translation keys.

Lines 245, 269, 397, and 419 emit English prose from Rust. This bypasses the 11 supported locales. Return translation keys and interpolation parameters for validation errors and the success response.

As per coding guidelines, “Every user-facing string must be translated into all 11 supported locales” and “Rust code must emit translation keys rather than English prose.”

Also applies to: 396-426

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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs` around lines 245 - 269,
Replace the English user-facing responses in the live-match flow, including the
“No team assigned to manager” and “No completed match found for your team”
validation errors and the success response, with the project’s translation keys
and interpolation parameters. Update the relevant response construction around
the fixture lookup and lines 396–426 while preserving existing control flow and
response semantics.

Source: Coding guidelines

sturdy-robot and others added 3 com 992E mits August 19, 2026 11:31
`morale_delta` is an `i16` accumulated once per answer and clamped only after
the loop, so roughly 10,900 positive answers overflow it. That was survivable
while the loop ran on a detached clone. It is not now that the loop runs inside
`update_game`: the panic fires with the game mutex held, `state.rs` locks with
`.lock().unwrap()`, and every later access to the active game panics on the
poisoned mutex. The session cannot be recovered, and some morale has already
moved by then.

In a release build, where overflow checks are off, it wraps negative and clamps
to -8 instead — thousands of positive answers produce a morale penalty.

Saturating arithmetic fixes both. The clamp to ±8 was already there, so the
saturation point is unreachable for any input that is not already nonsense.

The two deliberately-neutral responses get an empty arm rather than `+= 0`,
which would now read as an oversight beside its saturating neighbours.

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The article id is `press_conf_{date}`, and the push was unconditional. Calling
the tool twice in a game day therefore filed two articles sharing an id, and
re-applied the squad-wide morale delta.

Both halves are visible. `NewsTab` keys the list on `article.id` and resolves
the selected article with `find`, so the second article is not merely a
duplicate key — it can never be opened. And repeating the call a few times walks
every player in the squad to maximum morale, which is not something a press
conference should be able to do.

Every other generator of a date-derived article id already guards this way
(`turn/news.rs` does it in five places); the press conference was the one that
did not. The guard sits above the first mutation, because `update_game` cannot
roll back a closure that returns `Err`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The seven tests added with the press-conference fix all called
`apply_press_conference` directly, against a game they owned. None of them
touched a `StateManager` — so the mutation they exist to prevent still survived
them: make the tool clone the active game, run the helper on that detached
clone, and never write it back, and all seven still pass while the tool
persists nothing.

`press_conference_on` now owns the `update_game` call, taking a `&StateManager`
rather than the `Arc<McpContext>` the tool needs, which puts the write-back
within reach of a test. `the_conference_reaches_the_stored_game` drives it
through a real `StateManager` and reads the stored game back; it fails against
the detached-clone mutation.

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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs`:
- Around line 317-332: Validate the press-conference request’s answer count and
text size before calling press_conference_on, using protocol-sized limits and
rejecting oversized input before acquiring the game mutex. In the
press-conference processing flow, retain only the quote data required to build
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Follow-up review of this branch turned up three more things in the press-conference path, each
fixed in its own commit.

A i16 overflow could poison the game mutex (452b820). morale_delta is accumulated once
per answer and only clamped after the loop, so roughly 10,900 positive answers overflow it. That
was survivable while the loop ran on a detached clone; it is not now that the loop runs inside
update_game, because the panic fires with the mutex held and state.rs locks with
.lock().unwrap() — every later access to the active game panics on the poisoned mutex, after
some morale has already moved. In release builds, with overflow checks off, it wraps negative
and clamps to -8 instead, so thousands of positive answers produce a morale penalty. Now
saturating; the existing ±8 clamp puts the saturation point out of reach of any sane input.

Nothing stopped two press conferences in one game day (72642ce). The article id is
press_conf_{date} and the push was unconditional, so a repeat filed a second article sharing
the first one's id and re-applied the squad-wide morale delta. Both halves are visible: NewsTab
keys the list on article.id and resolves the selected article with find, so the second
article can never be opened, and repeating the call a few times walks the whole squad to maximum
morale. Every other generator of a date-derived article id already guards this way —
turn/news.rs does it in five places. The guard sits above the first mutation, since
update_game cannot roll back an Err.

The seven tests could not see the bug they were written for (16995ac). They all called
apply_press_conference directly against a game they owned, never touching a StateManager — so
making the tool run the helper on a detached clone and never write it back, which is exactly the
regression, passed all seven. press_conference_on now owns the update_game call and takes a
&StateManager rather than the Arc<McpContext> the tool needs, which puts the write-back within
reach of a test; the_conference_reaches_the_stored_game drives it through a real StateManager
and reads the stored game back.

Three further defects in this file are real but not fixed here, because each needs a product
decision rather than a bug fix, and all three predate this branch:

  1. A post-cup press conference reports the wrong match. The search is over game.league only,
    and application/live_match.rs:102 restores that mirror to the user's domestic league after
    a match. Finish a cup tie having last played a league game a week earlier and the conference
    reports the league result; a club with no completed domestic fixture gets "No completed match
    found for your team" despite having just played. Which competition a press conference should
    discuss is a design question.
  2. No semantic validation of answers. response_id is applied regardless of question_id,
    and player_id is resolved across all players — so a player_focus/praise answer naming an
    opposition player gives them +5 morale and tags them in the article. Restricting it changes
    behaviour agents may already rely on.
  3. The reported delta is nominal. A squad already at 100, or a team with no players, still
    reports Squad morale: +3.

Happy to file these as issues or fix them in a follow-up — say which you prefer.

sturdy-robot and others added 4 commits August 19, 2026 16:15
Saturating the accumulator stopped the overflow but left the request itself
unbounded, and the loop that walks it runs with the game mutex held. An agent
posting a million answers would stall every other game operation while they are
copied, then persist the whole pile into the article's player list, which is
written to the save.

`check_answer_limits` runs in the tool wrapper, before `press_conference_on`
takes the lock — the point is to refuse an oversized request without having
acquired it. At most 32 answers, each quote at most 500 characters, counted in
characters rather than bytes so a multi-byte quote is not penalised for its
encoding. The screen asks five questions, so neither limit is reachable in
normal play.

Only the first quote was ever rendered; the rest only chose singular or plural
wording. Collecting them all into a `Vec` was pointless work under the lock, so
that is now one `Option` and a counter.

Verified against six mutations: each limit removed, an off-by-one on the count,
bytes instead of characters, last-quote-wins, and a count that stops at one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The press conference found the match it covers by scanning , which
is a mirror of one competition —  documents it as legacy and says outright
that it "misses cups and isn't reliable". Win a cup final and the article filed
in the news feed carries the previous league game's scoreline.

Scan  instead, the source of truth every load path populates
via . This also drops a reader of a field whose own doc
comment asks for no new ones.

The shared test fixture was modelling a state production cannot reach — a game
with a legacy `league` and no competitions — so it now loads the way a real save
does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A `player_focus` answer resolved its player id against every player in the
world, so "praise" aimed at the striker who had just knocked you out lifted
*his* morale by five. Ids on other questions were no better off: they went
straight into the article's player list unchecked.

Reject any named player the user does not manage, before the first mutation —
the id set is built once from the squad rather than rescanning ~9.7k players per
answer, since this runs with the game mutex held.

The UI picker already offers only the user's own squad. This is the backend
enforcing the same rule against an agent that composes the answers itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… for

Morale clamps at 100, so a squad already there absorbs a "+3" whole — and the
report still announced "Squad morale: +3". This call is the agent's only window
onto morale, so it learned that praise works when nothing had happened.

Count the players whose morale actually changed, from a snapshot taken before
the first mutation, and report that alongside the delta. Keying the claim to the
count rather than the sign also covers the mirror case: `deflect` on a player
question leaves the squad delta at zero while still costing the named player a
point, where "no change" would have been equally wrong.

The wording moves into `format_outcome` so the report itself is under test —
that is the layer the misstatement lived in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three pre-existing press-conference defects fixed since the last pass (fb72c15..8524351), each with a test verified to fail against the unfixed code. Details in the updated PR description.

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@sturdy-robot I will review the follow-up press-conference changes and regression tests.

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466-517: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Limit player_id before update_game.

check_answer_limits limits only response_text. An agent can still submit arbitrarily long player_id values. apply_press_conference hashes these values and clones an invalid value while StateManager::update_game holds the game mutex. A request with up to 32 oversized identifiers can block game updates.

Reject oversized player identifiers before Line 519. Add boundary tests for the accepted and rejected sizes.

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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs` around lines 466 - 517,
Update check_answer_limits to validate each PressAnswer.player_id length before
press_conference_on calls StateManager::update_game, rejecting values above the
permitted identifier size while preserving the existing response-text and
answer-count limits. Add boundary tests covering the maximum accepted player_id
length and the first rejected length.
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In `@src-tauri/src/mcp_server/tools_impl/live_match.rs`:
- Around line 466-517: Update check_answer_limits to validate each
PressAnswer.player_id length before press_conference_on calls
StateManager::update_game, rejecting values above the permitted identifier size
while preserving the existing response-text and answer-count limits. Add
boundary tests covering the maximum accepted player_id length and the first
rejected length.

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