# Turn 7 · model calls

The full recorded input, reasoning, tool calls and lifecycle of every model call placed on [turn 7](/games/game-14/turns/7.md), grouped by seat. Each call has its own anchor (`#d-<id>`). The same records are rows of [decisions.jsonl](/games/game-14/decisions.jsonl).

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## Model calls linked to this turn

Calls with an accepted-event join or a recorded refusal in this turn.

### bob-i27 {#d-bob-i27}

Seat: bob. Identity: recorded invocation. Prompt number: 27. Active turn: True.

Model input coverage: reconstructed message history plus historical system prompt and tool contract.

[System prompt](/games/game-14/harness/bob-system.txt) · [Tool schemas](/games/game-14/harness/bob-tools.json) · [This call in decisions.jsonl](/games/game-14/decisions.jsonl) · [Reconstructed full input in requests.jsonl](/games/game-14/requests.jsonl) (decision `bob-i27`)

**Linked accepted events**

- [Event #58](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e58) — exact submission ref
- [Event #59](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e59) — exact submission ref
- [Event #60](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e60) — exact submission ref

**Recorded submissions and refusals**

- message after #57: {"text": "Park cancelled, confirmed — executing your line: NY→Toronto, treat blue ×2 (clears the last NY-cluster city), then Toronto→Washington→Atlanta, ending at the station beside you for your yellow cure. Two things from the latest infect phases: Johannesburg ticked back to 3 yellow (live in the discard pool again) and Taipei went to 2 red. Jhb stays yours post-cure as planned — once yellow's cured, one treat clears it; until you reach it, it's roughly 5%/phase to fire and the chain is mild (worst case Lagos 2→3 re-arms, Khartoum/Kinshasa shallow). I'm 3/4 blue — one draw from curing at the station; if the draw runs dry we schedule the NY meet for your New York card. Riyadh shed noted, black margin still 7."} — {"applied": 58}. Board before: state `57` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `57` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)
- plan after #58: {"text": "YELLOW: alice holds FULL 5/5 set (Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/LA) — Mexico City park CANCELLED, bob keeps Mexico City as spare/fuel. Alice: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cures YELLOW at the station next turn. BOB: cleared NY to 1 blue; now Toronto treat ×2 → Washington → Atlanta, parks at the station. BLUE: bob 3/4 (Essen/Toronto/London), one draw from cure at Atlanta; backup = alice's New York(blue) via NY meet. POST-YELLOW CONTAINMENT: Johannesburg 3 yellow ARMED (alice's — 1 treat clears all once cured, on her Africa return); black cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers 8 cubes, supply 13 — bob takes the north (Moscow/Istanbul/Tehran), alice the Algiers side, handing bob her Algiers(black) at an Algiers meet (bob: Madrid→Algiers 2 moves); Seoul 3 red + Taipei 2 red deferred (cured color, cheap treats). BLACK collector: bob (Istanbul + Algiers-to-come, 9 in deck, margin 7). Blue/black draws all flow to bob; alice's NY card to bob when convenient."} — {"applied": 59}. Board before: state `57` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `57` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)
- command after #59: {"action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Toronto"}} — {"applied": 60}. Board before: state `57` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `60` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)

**Lifecycle evidence**

None recorded.

**Recorded input**

```text
ACTIVE TURN — it is your move.

STANDING TEAM PLAN (bob, pinned 1 of your turn(s) ago):
  YELLOW CURE PIPELINE (agreed): bob — NY cluster now (Washington→NY, treat blue ×2 → NY 1 left; Toronto 2 blue still open), then next turn NY→Washington→Atlanta→Chicago→Mexico City, PARKS in Mexico City holding the Mexico City yellow card. alice — clears Jhb's last 2 yellow when convenient, walks the lane (Kinshasa→Lagos→Sao Paulo→Bogota, treating the Sao Paulo–Lagos 2-cube cluster en route), then Bogota→Mexico City, shareTAKES bob's Mexico City (her 5th yellow: Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/MexicoCity; sheds Shanghai red at cap — KEEP NY blue + Riyadh black if possible), then MC→Chicago→Atlanta and cures YELLOW at the station. bob follows to Atlanta for blue/black station work. DEFERRED FIRES: Seoul 3 red (cured color, leave — reassess after epidemic #2); black 2-cube cities (Moscow/Algiers/Mumbai, supply 15) — bob's push after yellow lands; alice's Riyadh(black) → bob at a Riyadh meet or fuel, her call. COLLECTORS: alice = yellow (until cured, then she feeds bob blue/black); bob = blue + black (keep every blue/black draw; Essen + Istanbul held).
If the board has invalidated this plan or it is complete, replace it via
pin_plan — until then, your partner is assuming you are following it.
CONFLICT RULE: when your own read of the board — a signal, the DECISION
FRONTIER, a preview result — argues against this plan, do NOT silently
obey and do NOT silently deviate. CALL send_message naming the conflict
(the city and what you would do instead), then resolve it: your partner's
reply or a fresh pin_plan. A stale pin never outranks the live board.
⚠ PLAN COVERAGE: this plan says nothing about Johannesburg (3 yellow) — 3-cube city that matured after (or
were left out of) the pin. Fold one into your route, say who takes it,
or re-pin.

ACTION ECONOMY: you have 4 action(s) left this turn against 2 city(ies) at 3 cubes and 9 at 2. Unused actions are lost forever — passing or ending your turn now spends your scarcest resource (4/turn) on nothing. Unless you are a Quarantine Specialist holding a shield over a hot cluster, spend it: treat, or move toward the nearest hot city. A pointless move away and back is not action economy.

TRIAGE: the DECISION FRONTIER below prices this turn's rival plans
against each other. Pick a line or extend it; split targets with
teammates either way.

=== STATE ===
phase=playerActions turnOwner=bob  (actions left: 4)
you=bob role=scientist at=New York
cures: blue:none yellow:none black:none red:cured  outbreaks=1/8  infectionRate=2
stations: Atlanta
players: alice@Bogota(contingencyPlanner) hand=7 [New York(blue), Lagos(yellow), Santiago(yellow), Lima(yellow), Khartoum(yellow), Los Angeles(yellow), Algiers(black)]  bob@New York(scientist) hand=5 [Mexico City(yellow), Istanbul(black), Essen(blue), Toronto(blue), London(blue)]
supply: blue:17 yellow:16 black:13 red:19   decks: player=35 infection=40   player-discard: 2 blue, 1 black, 6 red
threats (cube counts, cluster membership, supply pressure, route cost from you, infect-discard — one row per city):
  Johannesburg: 3 yellow⚠ [in infect-discard] — 5 move(s): Madrid→Sao Paulo→Lagos→Kinshasa→Johannesburg — or 4 action(s): go to Mexico City (3 move(s)), then charter to Johannesburg (spends Mexico City(yellow)) — nearer teammate: alice, 4 move(s) vs your 5
  Seoul: 3 red⚠ [in infect-discard] — 5 move(s): Toronto→Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul — or 4 action(s): go to Mexico City (3 move(s)), then charter to Seoul (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Moscow: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Algiers: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats] — pre-empt (one draw from critical): 2 move(s): Madrid→Algiers
  Mumbai: 2 black
  Sao Paulo: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 2 move(s): Madrid→Sao Paulo — nearer teammate: alice, 1 move(s) vs your 2
  Taipei: 2 red [in infect-discard]
  Toronto: 2 blue — pre-empt (one draw from critical): 1 move(s): Toronto — or 1 action: direct flight (you hold Toronto — your 3/4 blue set — burning drops it to 2/4; 6 blue in deck, 1 held elsewhere; spend it only if this beats the cure)
  Tehran: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Lagos: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats]
  Istanbul: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  San Francisco: 1 blue
  Khartoum: 1 yellow
  Karachi: 1 black
  New York: 1 blue [in infect-discard]
  Washington: 1 blue
  London: 1 blue
  Madrid: 1 blue
  supply: black supply 13 left, 11 on board (no 3-cube black city yet)

=== SIGNALS ===
deck clock: 35 cards → 17 player-turn(s) of draws left; 3 cure(s) still needed → one cure every ~5 turn(s), team-wide
eradication: red: 5 cube(s) across 2 city(ies) → ~2 treat action(s) to eradicate
CARD STOCK — TEAM-WIDE, all seats' holdings (12 city cards per color; burned cards NEVER return — every hand-limit discard and every flight spends one):
  blue: 2 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 3, 6 in deck — margin 6 over the 4 needed
  black: 1 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 1, 9 in deck — margin 7 over the 4 needed
cure plan — TEAM-WIDE collector assignment (cures WIN the game; treating only buys time):
  blue: YOU collect (3/4) — keep EVERY blue card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s))
  yellow: alice has a FULL SET (5/5) — no further yellow card can advance this cure (every card face is unique); alice is 2 move(s) from station Atlanta to discoverCure
  black: YOU collect (1/4) — keep EVERY black card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s))
share rendezvous — TEAM-WIDE transfer routes (cards in the wrong hand + where to meet):
  alice hands you New York(blue): meet IN New York (the card's own city) — you 0 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +2 move(s) to cure
  alice hands you Algiers(black): meet IN Algiers (the card's own city) — you 2 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +3 action(s) (direct flight to Mexico City (spends Mexico City(yellow)), then 2 move(s) to Atlanta) to cure
⚠ CHEAPEST DEFUSES — cured-color cities still holding cubes. CURED ≠ CLEAR: they still outbreak until treated, and ONE treat clears the WHOLE city and refunds every cube (an uncured treat only knocks 3→2 and re-infects):
  Seoul (red, 3, imminent): 6 action(s) total = 5 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Toronto→Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul
  Taipei (red, 2): 6 action(s) total = 5 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Toronto→Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei

⚠ DECISION FRONTIER — 3 rival turn-plan(s); NONE dominates another.
NOT a ranking — a curve between the two ways to lose. DOWN trades cure-pipeline
actions for fewer expected outbreaks; UP reverses it. No line is best: pick the
end facing whichever clock is closer to killing you.
  clocks — outbreaks 1/8; deck ~17 turn(s), 3 cure(s) still needed
Priced nominees, not orders — pick one, extend it, or play something else.
These lines disagree about cost: 2 burn a card, 1 do not.
A burned card never returns — preview_plan prices both before you commit.
Blind spot: no cure line was priced this turn — that is a property of
candidate generation, not a verdict on curing. Price one yourself with
preview_plan before concluding the board says 'do not cure'.
  - break the Sao Paulo–Lagos yellow cluster at Sao Paulo — drive Madrid, drive Sao Paulo, treat yellow, treat yellow
     tempo: 1 action(s) further from the black cure (43 → 44 action(s) to land it) — you collect; clears 2 cube(s) | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires
  - defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg (yellow — fires on the next epidemic reshuffle) — drive Toronto, drive Chicago, drive Mexico City, charter to Johannesburg
     tempo: 5 action(s) further from the black cure (43 → 48 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear yellow at Johannesburg — worth ~5 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
     burns: yellow: alice's 5/5 set covers it — spare
  - sweep Seoul (red cured, 3 cubes, 1 treat clears all) — drive Toronto, drive Chicago, drive Mexico City, charter to Seoul
     tempo: 7 action(s) further from the blue cure (9 → 16 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear red at Seoul — worth ~6 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
     burns: yellow: alice's 5/5 set covers it — spare
  exchange "break the Sao Paulo–Lagos yellow cluster at Sao…" → "defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg": gives up 4 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0
  exchange "defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg" → "sweep Seoul": gives up 2 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0
  dominated: "break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black cluster at Algiers" — tempo -4 vs -1, risk 0.89 vs 0.89 — beaten by "break the Sao Paulo–Lagos yellow cluster at Sao…"

Your legal actions — this is the COMPLETE legal set; anything not named
here will be rejected. A `[n] {...}` line is literal: pass it verbatim to
submit_action.action. A grouped family gives a template plus the values
allowed in it: fill the template with one combination shown on a single
line and pass that.
  [0] {"tag":"pass"}
  [1] {"tag":"endActions"}
  driveFerry — 4 options; build {"tag":"driveFerry","to":<one to below>}
      to: "Toronto", "Washington", "London", "Madrid"
  directFlight — 5 options; build {"tag":"directFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "Mexico City", "Istanbul", "Essen", "Toronto", "London"
  [11] {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}

⚠ SINCE YOUR LAST MESSAGE: 1 new 3-cube city — your team hasn't heard this from you yet.
```

**Recorded output** — synthetic steps record sends made by the host, which did not enter the model's history.

Step 1 · {"synthetic": false, "servedModel": "ampersand-v0.1"}

reasoning: null

text: ""

toolCalls:

```json
{"tool": "send_message", "toolCallId": "call_385cdcb636b861fe86de097523ac1865", "ref": "bob:i27:call_385cdcb636b861fe86de097523ac1865", "input": {"text": "Park cancelled, confirmed — executing your line: NY→Toronto, treat blue ×2 (clears the last NY-cluster city), then Toronto→Washington→Atlanta, ending at the station beside you for your yellow cure. Two things from the latest infect phases: Johannesburg ticked back to 3 yellow (live in the discard pool again) and Taipei went to 2 red. Jhb stays yours post-cure as planned — once yellow's cured, one treat clears it; until you reach it, it's roughly 5%/phase to fire and the chain is mild (worst case Lagos 2→3 re-arms, Khartoum/Kinshasa shallow). I'm 3/4 blue — one draw from curing at the station; if the draw runs dry we schedule the NY meet for your New York card. Riyadh shed noted, black margin still 7."}, "output": {"sent": true, "note": "You have sent 1 of 5 messages available this turn."}}
{"tool": "pin_plan", "toolCallId": "call_08053eb3c61b2c22c2819077645e3260", "ref": "bob:i27:call_08053eb3c61b2c22c2819077645e3260", "input": {"text": "YELLOW: alice holds FULL 5/5 set (Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/LA) — Mexico City park CANCELLED, bob keeps Mexico City as spare/fuel. Alice: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cures YELLOW at the station next turn. BOB: cleared NY to 1 blue; now Toronto treat ×2 → Washington → Atlanta, parks at the station. BLUE: bob 3/4 (Essen/Toronto/London), one draw from cure at Atlanta; backup = alice's New York(blue) via NY meet. POST-YELLOW CONTAINMENT: Johannesburg 3 yellow ARMED (alice's — 1 treat clears all once cured, on her Africa return); black cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers 8 cubes, supply 13 — bob takes the north (Moscow/Istanbul/Tehran), alice the Algiers side, handing bob her Algiers(black) at an Algiers meet (bob: Madrid→Algiers 2 moves); Seoul 3 red + Taipei 2 red deferred (cured color, cheap treats). BLACK collector: bob (Istanbul + Algiers-to-come, 9 in deck, margin 7). Blue/black draws all flow to bob; alice's NY card to bob when convenient."}, "output": {"pinned": true, "note": "This replaces the standing team plan; both players will see it every turn until superseded. You have sent 2 of 5 messages available this turn."}}
{"tool": "submit_action", "toolCallId": "call_746de8a4a04367f872b928475a354639", "ref": "bob:i27:call_746de8a4a04367f872b928475a354639", "input": {"action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Toronto"}}, "output": {"submitted": true, "action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Toronto"}}}
```

### bob-i28 {#d-bob-i28}

Seat: bob. Identity: recorded invocation. Prompt number: 28. Active turn: True.

Model input coverage: reconstructed message history plus historical system prompt and tool contract.

[System prompt](/games/game-14/harness/bob-system.txt) · [Tool schemas](/games/game-14/harness/bob-tools.json) · [This call in decisions.jsonl](/games/game-14/decisions.jsonl) · [Reconstructed full input in requests.jsonl](/games/game-14/requests.jsonl) (decision `bob-i28`)

**Linked accepted events**

- [Event #61](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e61) — exact submission ref

**Recorded submissions and refusals**

- command after #60: {"action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}} — {"applied": 61}. Board before: state `60` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `61` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)

**Lifecycle evidence**

None recorded.

**Recorded input**

```text
ACTIVE TURN — it is your move.

STANDING TEAM PLAN (bob, pinned this turn):
  YELLOW: alice holds FULL 5/5 set (Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/LA) — Mexico City park CANCELLED, bob keeps Mexico City as spare/fuel. Alice: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cures YELLOW at the station next turn. BOB: cleared NY to 1 blue; now Toronto treat ×2 → Washington → Atlanta, parks at the station. BLUE: bob 3/4 (Essen/Toronto/London), one draw from cure at Atlanta; backup = alice's New York(blue) via NY meet. POST-YELLOW CONTAINMENT: Johannesburg 3 yellow ARMED (alice's — 1 treat clears all once cured, on her Africa return); black cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers 8 cubes, supply 13 — bob takes the north (Moscow/Istanbul/Tehran), alice the Algiers side, handing bob her Algiers(black) at an Algiers meet (bob: Madrid→Algiers 2 moves); Seoul 3 red + Taipei 2 red deferred (cured color, cheap treats). BLACK collector: bob (Istanbul + Algiers-to-come, 9 in deck, margin 7). Blue/black draws all flow to bob; alice's NY card to bob when convenient.
If the board has invalidated this plan or it is complete, replace it via
pin_plan — until then, your partner is assuming you are following it.
CONFLICT RULE: when your own read of the board — a signal, the DECISION
FRONTIER, a preview result — argues against this plan, do NOT silently
obey and do NOT silently deviate. CALL send_message naming the conflict
(the city and what you would do instead), then resolve it: your partner's
reply or a fresh pin_plan. A stale pin never outranks the live board.

ACTION ECONOMY: you have 3 action(s) left this turn against 2 city(ies) at 3 cubes and 9 at 2. Unused actions are lost forever — passing or ending your turn now spends your scarcest resource (4/turn) on nothing. Unless you are a Quarantine Specialist holding a shield over a hot cluster, spend it: treat, or move toward the nearest hot city. A pointless move away and back is not action economy.

TRIAGE: the DECISION FRONTIER below prices this turn's rival plans
against each other. Pick a line or extend it; split targets with
teammates either way.

=== STATE ===
phase=playerActions turnOwner=bob  (actions left: 3)
you=bob role=scientist at=Toronto
cures: blue:none yellow:none black:none red:cured  outbreaks=1/8  infectionRate=2
stations: Atlanta
players: alice@Bogota(contingencyPlanner) hand=7 [New York(blue), Lagos(yellow), Santiago(yellow), Lima(yellow), Khartoum(yellow), Los Angeles(yellow), Algiers(black)]  bob@Toronto(scientist) hand=5 [Mexico City(yellow), Istanbul(black), Essen(blue), Toronto(blue), London(blue)]
supply: blue:17 yellow:16 black:13 red:19   decks: player=35 infection=40   player-discard: 2 blue, 1 black, 6 red
threats (cube counts, cluster membership, supply pressure, route cost from you, infect-discard — one row per city):
  Johannesburg: 3 yellow⚠ [in infect-discard] — 6 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo→Lagos→Kinshasa→Johannesburg — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Johannesburg (spends Mexico City(yellow)) — nearer teammate: alice, 4 move(s) vs your 6
  Seoul: 3 red⚠ [in infect-discard] — 4 move(s): Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Seoul (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Moscow: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Algiers: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats] — pre-empt (one draw from critical): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Algiers
  Mumbai: 2 black
  Sao Paulo: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo — nearer teammate: alice, 1 move(s) vs your 3
  Taipei: 2 red [in infect-discard]
  Toronto: 2 blue — pre-empt (one draw from critical): you are HERE — treat it now
  Tehran: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Lagos: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats]
  Istanbul: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  San Francisco: 1 blue
  Khartoum: 1 yellow
  Karachi: 1 black
  New York: 1 blue [in infect-discard]
  Washington: 1 blue
  London: 1 blue
  Madrid: 1 blue
  supply: black supply 13 left, 11 on board (no 3-cube black city yet)

=== SIGNALS ===
deck clock: 35 cards → 17 player-turn(s) of draws left; 3 cure(s) still needed → one cure every ~5 turn(s), team-wide
eradication: red: 5 cube(s) across 2 city(ies) → ~2 treat action(s) to eradicate
CARD STOCK — TEAM-WIDE, all seats' holdings (12 city cards per color; burned cards NEVER return — every hand-limit discard and every flight spends one):
  blue: 2 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 3, 6 in deck — margin 6 over the 4 needed
  black: 1 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 1, 9 in deck — margin 7 over the 4 needed
cure plan — TEAM-WIDE collector assignment (cures WIN the game; treating only buys time):
  blue: YOU collect (3/4) — keep EVERY blue card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s))
  yellow: alice has a FULL SET (5/5) — no further yellow card can advance this cure (every card face is unique); alice is 2 move(s) from station Atlanta to discoverCure
  black: YOU collect (1/4) — keep EVERY black card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s)) — or 1 action(s): charter flight from Toronto straight to Atlanta (spends Toronto(blue)) (your 3/4 blue set — burning drops it to 2/4; 6 blue in deck, 1 held elsewhere; spend it only if this beats the cure)
share rendezvous — TEAM-WIDE transfer routes (cards in the wrong hand + where to meet):
  alice hands you New York(blue): meet IN New York (the card's own city) — you 1 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +2 move(s) to cure
  alice hands you Algiers(black): meet IN Algiers (the card's own city) — you 3 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +3 action(s) (direct flight to Mexico City (spends Mexico City(yellow)), then 2 move(s) to Atlanta) to cure
⚠ CHEAPEST DEFUSES — cured-color cities still holding cubes. CURED ≠ CLEAR: they still outbreak until treated, and ONE treat clears the WHOLE city and refunds every cube (an uncured treat only knocks 3→2 and re-infects):
  Seoul (red, 3, imminent): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul
  Taipei (red, 2): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei

⚠ DECISION FRONTIER — 3 rival turn-plan(s); NONE dominates another.
NOT a ranking — a curve between the two ways to lose. DOWN trades cure-pipeline
actions for fewer expected outbreaks; UP reverses it. No line is best: pick the
end facing whichever clock is closer to killing you.
  clocks — outbreaks 1/8; deck ~17 turn(s), 3 cure(s) still needed
Priced nominees, not orders — pick one, extend it, or play something else.
These lines disagree about cost: 2 burn a card, 1 do not.
A burned card never returns — preview_plan prices both before you commit.
Blind spot: no cure line was priced this turn — that is a property of
candidate generation, not a verdict on curing. Price one yourself with
preview_plan before concluding the board says 'do not cure'.
  - break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black cluster at Algiers — drive New York, drive Madrid, drive Algiers
     tempo: 1 action(s) closer to the black cure (44 → 43 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear black at Algiers — worth ~2 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
  - defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg (yellow — fires on the next epidemic reshuffle) — drive Chicago, drive Mexico City, charter to Johannesburg
     tempo: 4 action(s) further from the black cure (44 → 48 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear yellow at Johannesburg — worth ~5 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
     burns: yellow: alice's 5/5 set covers it — spare
  - sweep Seoul (red cured, 3 cubes, 1 treat clears all) — drive Chicago, drive Mexico City, charter to Seoul
     tempo: 6 action(s) further from the blue cure (10 → 16 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear red at Seoul — worth ~6 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
     burns: yellow: alice's 5/5 set covers it — spare
  exchange "break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black …" → "defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg": gives up 5 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0
  exchange "defuse the armed discard bomb at Johannesburg" → "sweep Seoul": gives up 2 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0
  dominated: "break the Sao Paulo–Lagos yellow cluster at Sao Paulo" — tempo -2 vs 1, risk 0.83 vs 0.83 — beaten by "break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black …"

Your legal actions — this is the COMPLETE legal set; anything not named
here will be rejected. A `[n] {...}` line is literal: pass it verbatim to
submit_action.action. A grouped family gives a template plus the values
allowed in it: fill the template with one combination shown on a single
line and pass that.
  [0] {"tag":"pass"}
  [1] {"tag":"endActions"}
  [2] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Chicago"}
  [3] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Washington"}
  [4] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"New York"}
  directFlight — 4 options; build {"tag":"directFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "Mexico City", "Istanbul", "Essen", "London"
  charterFlight — 47 options; build {"tag":"charterFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "San Francisco", "Chicago", "Atlanta", "Washington", "New York", "London", "Madrid", "Paris", "Essen", "Milan", "St. Petersburg", "Los Angeles", "Mexico City", "Miami", "Bogota", "Lima", "Santiago", "Buenos Aires", "Sao Paulo", "Lagos", "Kinshasa", "Johannesburg", "Khartoum", "Algiers", "Cairo", "Istanbul", "Moscow", "Tehran", "Baghdad", "Riyadh", "Karachi", "Mumbai", "Delhi", "Kolkata", "Chennai", "Beijing", "Shanghai", "Seoul", "Tokyo", "Osaka", "Taipei", "Hong Kong", "Bangkok", "Ho Chi Minh City", "Manila", "Jakarta", "Sydney"
  (buildStation also SPENDS Toronto(blue), the card for the city you are standing in — it is gone for good)
  [56] {"tag":"buildStation"}
  [57] {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
```

**Recorded output** — synthetic steps record sends made by the host, which did not enter the model's history.

Step 1 · {"synthetic": false, "servedModel": "ampersand-v0.1"}

reasoning: null

text: ""

toolCalls:

```json
{"tool": "submit_action", "toolCallId": "call_7dca2f6a18c325c58f7bdb8e76728042", "ref": "bob:i28:call_7dca2f6a18c325c58f7bdb8e76728042", "input": {"action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}}, "output": {"submitted": true, "action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}}}
```

### bob-i29 {#d-bob-i29}

Seat: bob. Identity: recorded invocation. Prompt number: 29. Active turn: True.

Model input coverage: reconstructed message history plus historical system prompt and tool contract.

[System prompt](/games/game-14/harness/bob-system.txt) · [Tool schemas](/games/game-14/harness/bob-tools.json) · [This call in decisions.jsonl](/games/game-14/decisions.jsonl) · [Reconstructed full input in requests.jsonl](/games/game-14/requests.jsonl) (decision `bob-i29`)

**Linked accepted events**

- [Event #62](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e62) — exact submission ref

**Recorded submissions and refusals**

- command after #61: {"action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}} — {"applied": 62}. Board before: state `61` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `62` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)

**Lifecycle evidence**

None recorded.

**Recorded input**

```text
ACTIVE TURN — it is your move.

STANDING TEAM PLAN (bob, pinned this turn):
  YELLOW: alice holds FULL 5/5 set (Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/LA) — Mexico City park CANCELLED, bob keeps Mexico City as spare/fuel. Alice: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cures YELLOW at the station next turn. BOB: cleared NY to 1 blue; now Toronto treat ×2 → Washington → Atlanta, parks at the station. BLUE: bob 3/4 (Essen/Toronto/London), one draw from cure at Atlanta; backup = alice's New York(blue) via NY meet. POST-YELLOW CONTAINMENT: Johannesburg 3 yellow ARMED (alice's — 1 treat clears all once cured, on her Africa return); black cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers 8 cubes, supply 13 — bob takes the north (Moscow/Istanbul/Tehran), alice the Algiers side, handing bob her Algiers(black) at an Algiers meet (bob: Madrid→Algiers 2 moves); Seoul 3 red + Taipei 2 red deferred (cured color, cheap treats). BLACK collector: bob (Istanbul + Algiers-to-come, 9 in deck, margin 7). Blue/black draws all flow to bob; alice's NY card to bob when convenient.
If the board has invalidated this plan or it is complete, replace it via
pin_plan — until then, your partner is assuming you are following it.
CONFLICT RULE: when your own read of the board — a signal, the DECISION
FRONTIER, a preview result — argues against this plan, do NOT silently
obey and do NOT silently deviate. CALL send_message naming the conflict
(the city and what you would do instead), then resolve it: your partner's
reply or a fresh pin_plan. A stale pin never outranks the live board.

ACTION ECONOMY: you have 2 action(s) left this turn against 2 city(ies) at 3 cubes and 8 at 2. Unused actions are lost forever — passing or ending your turn now spends your scarcest resource (4/turn) on nothing. Unless you are a Quarantine Specialist holding a shield over a hot cluster, spend it: treat, or move toward the nearest hot city. A pointless move away and back is not action economy.

TRIAGE: the DECISION FRONTIER below prices this turn's rival plans
against each other. Pick a line or extend it; split targets with
teammates either way.

=== STATE ===
phase=playerActions turnOwner=bob  (actions left: 2)
you=bob role=scientist at=Toronto
cures: blue:none yellow:none black:none red:cured  outbreaks=1/8  infectionRate=2
stations: Atlanta
players: alice@Bogota(contingencyPlanner) hand=7 [New York(blue), Lagos(yellow), Santiago(yellow), Lima(yellow), Khartoum(yellow), Los Angeles(yellow), Algiers(black)]  bob@Toronto(scientist) hand=5 [Mexico City(yellow), Istanbul(black), Essen(blue), Toronto(blue), London(blue)]
supply: blue:18 yellow:16 black:13 red:19   decks: player=35 infection=40   player-discard: 2 blue, 1 black, 6 red
threats (cube counts, cluster membership, supply pressure, route cost from you, infect-discard — one row per city):
  Johannesburg: 3 yellow⚠ [in infect-discard] — 6 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo→Lagos→Kinshasa→Johannesburg — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Johannesburg (spends Mexico City(yellow)) — nearer teammate: alice, 4 move(s) vs your 6
  Seoul: 3 red⚠ [in infect-discard] — 4 move(s): Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Seoul (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Moscow: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Algiers: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats] — pre-empt (one draw from critical): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Algiers
  Mumbai: 2 black
  Sao Paulo: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo — nearer teammate: alice, 1 move(s) vs your 3
  Taipei: 2 red [in infect-discard] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 4 move(s): Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Taipei (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Tehran: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Lagos: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats]
  Istanbul: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  San Francisco: 1 blue
  Khartoum: 1 yellow
  Toronto: 1 blue
  Karachi: 1 black
  New York: 1 blue [in infect-discard]
  Washington: 1 blue
  London: 1 blue
  Madrid: 1 blue
  supply: black supply 13 left, 11 on board (no 3-cube black city yet)

=== SIGNALS ===
deck clock: 35 cards → 17 player-turn(s) of draws left; 3 cure(s) still needed → one cure every ~5 turn(s), team-wide
eradication: red: 5 cube(s) across 2 city(ies) → ~2 treat action(s) to eradicate
CARD STOCK — TEAM-WIDE, all seats' holdings (12 city cards per color; burned cards NEVER return — every hand-limit discard and every flight spends one):
  blue: 2 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 3, 6 in deck — margin 6 over the 4 needed
  black: 1 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 1, 9 in deck — margin 7 over the 4 needed
cure plan — TEAM-WIDE collector assignment (cures WIN the game; treating only buys time):
  blue: YOU collect (3/4) — keep EVERY blue card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s))
  yellow: alice has a FULL SET (5/5) — no further yellow card can advance this cure (every card face is unique); alice is 2 move(s) from station Atlanta to discoverCure
  black: YOU collect (1/4) — keep EVERY black card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s)) — or 1 action(s): charter flight from Toronto straight to Atlanta (spends Toronto(blue)) (your 3/4 blue set — burning drops it to 2/4; 6 blue in deck, 1 held elsewhere; spend it only if this beats the cure)
share rendezvous — TEAM-WIDE transfer routes (cards in the wrong hand + where to meet):
  alice hands you New York(blue): meet IN New York (the card's own city) — you 1 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +2 move(s) to cure
  alice hands you Algiers(black): meet IN Algiers (the card's own city) — you 3 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +3 action(s) (direct flight to Mexico City (spends Mexico City(yellow)), then 2 move(s) to Atlanta) to cure
⚠ CHEAPEST DEFUSES — cured-color cities still holding cubes. CURED ≠ CLEAR: they still outbreak until treated, and ONE treat clears the WHOLE city and refunds every cube (an uncured treat only knocks 3→2 and re-infects):
  Seoul (red, 3, imminent): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul
  Taipei (red, 2): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei

⚠ DECISION FRONTIER — 2 rival turn-plan(s); NONE dominates another.
NOT a ranking — a curve between the two ways to lose. DOWN trades cure-pipeline
actions for fewer expected outbreaks; UP reverses it. No line is best: pick the
end facing whichever clock is closer to killing you.
  clocks — outbreaks 1/8; deck ~17 turn(s), 3 cure(s) still needed
Priced nominees, not orders — pick one, extend it, or play something else.
Blind spot: no cure line was priced this turn — that is a property of
candidate generation, not a verdict on curing. Price one yourself with
preview_plan before concluding the board says 'do not cure'.
  - break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black cluster at Algiers — drive New York, drive Madrid
     tempo: 1 action(s) closer to the black cure (44 → 43 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear black at Algiers — worth ~2 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
  - sweep Seoul (red cured, 3 cubes, 1 treat clears all) — drive Chicago, drive San Francisco
     tempo: 2 action(s) further from the blue cure (10 → 12 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear red at Seoul — worth ~6 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
  exchange "break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black …" → "sweep Seoul": gives up 3 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0

Your legal actions — this is the COMPLETE legal set; anything not named
here will be rejected. A `[n] {...}` line is literal: pass it verbatim to
submit_action.action. A grouped family gives a template plus the values
allowed in it: fill the template with one combination shown on a single
line and pass that.
  [0] {"tag":"pass"}
  [1] {"tag":"endActions"}
  [2] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Chicago"}
  [3] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Washington"}
  [4] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"New York"}
  directFlight — 4 options; build {"tag":"directFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "Mexico City", "Istanbul", "Essen", "London"
  charterFlight — 47 options; build {"tag":"charterFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "San Francisco", "Chicago", "Atlanta", "Washington", "New York", "London", "Madrid", "Paris", "Essen", "Milan", "St. Petersburg", "Los Angeles", "Mexico City", "Miami", "Bogota", "Lima", "Santiago", "Buenos Aires", "Sao Paulo", "Lagos", "Kinshasa", "Johannesburg", "Khartoum", "Algiers", "Cairo", "Istanbul", "Moscow", "Tehran", "Baghdad", "Riyadh", "Karachi", "Mumbai", "Delhi", "Kolkata", "Chennai", "Beijing", "Shanghai", "Seoul", "Tokyo", "Osaka", "Taipei", "Hong Kong", "Bangkok", "Ho Chi Minh City", "Manila", "Jakarta", "Sydney"
  (buildStation also SPENDS Toronto(blue), the card for the city you are standing in — it is gone for good)
  [56] {"tag":"buildStation"}
  [57] {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
```

**Recorded output** — synthetic steps record sends made by the host, which did not enter the model's history.

Step 1 · {"synthetic": false, "servedModel": "ampersand-v0.1"}

reasoning: null

text: ""

toolCalls:

```json
{"tool": "submit_action", "toolCallId": "call_6e3fad5b14348f04ca0c1ac64d205100", "ref": "bob:i29:call_6e3fad5b14348f04ca0c1ac64d205100", "input": {"action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}}, "output": {"submitted": true, "action": {"tag": "treatDisease", "color": "blue"}}}
```

### bob-i30 {#d-bob-i30}

Seat: bob. Identity: recorded invocation. Prompt number: 30. Active turn: True.

Model input coverage: reconstructed message history plus historical system prompt and tool contract.

[System prompt](/games/game-14/harness/bob-system.txt) · [Tool schemas](/games/game-14/harness/bob-tools.json) · [This call in decisions.jsonl](/games/game-14/decisions.jsonl) · [Reconstructed full input in requests.jsonl](/games/game-14/requests.jsonl) (decision `bob-i30`)

**Linked accepted events**

- [Event #63](/games/game-14/turns/7.md#e63) — exact submission ref

**Recorded submissions and refusals**

- command after #62: {"action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Washington"}} — {"applied": 63}. Board before: state `62` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl) · after: state `63` in [states.jsonl](/games/game-14/states.jsonl)

**Lifecycle evidence**

None recorded.

**Recorded input**

```text
ACTIVE TURN — it is your move.

STANDING TEAM PLAN (bob, pinned this turn):
  YELLOW: alice holds FULL 5/5 set (Lagos/Santiago/Lima/Khartoum/LA) — Mexico City park CANCELLED, bob keeps Mexico City as spare/fuel. Alice: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cures YELLOW at the station next turn. BOB: cleared NY to 1 blue; now Toronto treat ×2 → Washington → Atlanta, parks at the station. BLUE: bob 3/4 (Essen/Toronto/London), one draw from cure at Atlanta; backup = alice's New York(blue) via NY meet. POST-YELLOW CONTAINMENT: Johannesburg 3 yellow ARMED (alice's — 1 treat clears all once cured, on her Africa return); black cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers 8 cubes, supply 13 — bob takes the north (Moscow/Istanbul/Tehran), alice the Algiers side, handing bob her Algiers(black) at an Algiers meet (bob: Madrid→Algiers 2 moves); Seoul 3 red + Taipei 2 red deferred (cured color, cheap treats). BLACK collector: bob (Istanbul + Algiers-to-come, 9 in deck, margin 7). Blue/black draws all flow to bob; alice's NY card to bob when convenient.
If the board has invalidated this plan or it is complete, replace it via
pin_plan — until then, your partner is assuming you are following it.
CONFLICT RULE: when your own read of the board — a signal, the DECISION
FRONTIER, a preview result — argues against this plan, do NOT silently
obey and do NOT silently deviate. CALL send_message naming the conflict
(the city and what you would do instead), then resolve it: your partner's
reply or a fresh pin_plan. A stale pin never outranks the live board.

ACTION ECONOMY: you have 1 action(s) left this turn against 2 city(ies) at 3 cubes and 8 at 2. Unused actions are lost forever — passing or ending your turn now spends your scarcest resource (4/turn) on nothing. Unless you are a Quarantine Specialist holding a shield over a hot cluster, spend it: treat, or move toward the nearest hot city. A pointless move away and back is not action economy.

TRIAGE: the DECISION FRONTIER below prices this turn's rival plans
against each other. Pick a line or extend it; split targets with
teammates either way.

=== STATE ===
phase=playerActions turnOwner=bob  (actions left: 1)
you=bob role=scientist at=Toronto
cures: blue:none yellow:none black:none red:cured  outbreaks=1/8  infectionRate=2
stations: Atlanta
players: alice@Bogota(contingencyPlanner) hand=7 [New York(blue), Lagos(yellow), Santiago(yellow), Lima(yellow), Khartoum(yellow), Los Angeles(yellow), Algiers(black)]  bob@Toronto(scientist) hand=5 [Mexico City(yellow), Istanbul(black), Essen(blue), Toronto(blue), London(blue)]
supply: blue:19 yellow:16 black:13 red:19   decks: player=35 infection=40   player-discard: 2 blue, 1 black, 6 red
threats (cube counts, cluster membership, supply pressure, route cost from you, infect-discard — one row per city):
  Johannesburg: 3 yellow⚠ [in infect-discard] — 6 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo→Lagos→Kinshasa→Johannesburg — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Johannesburg (spends Mexico City(yellow)) — nearer teammate: alice, 4 move(s) vs your 6
  Seoul: 3 red⚠ [in infect-discard] — 4 move(s): Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Seoul (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Moscow: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Algiers: 2 black [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats] — pre-empt (one draw from critical): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Algiers
  Mumbai: 2 black
  Sao Paulo: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 3 move(s): New York→Madrid→Sao Paulo — nearer teammate: alice, 1 move(s) vs your 3
  Taipei: 2 red [in infect-discard] — pre-empt (re-infection risk after an epidemic): 4 move(s): Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei — or 3 action(s): go to Mexico City (2 move(s)), then charter to Taipei (spends Mexico City(yellow)) [red CURED: 1 treat clears ALL cubes here]
  Tehran: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  Lagos: 2 yellow [in infect-discard] [cluster Sao Paulo–Lagos: 4 cubes — matures to 3s costs 6+ treats]
  Istanbul: 2 black [in infect-discard] [cluster Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers: 8 cubes — matures to 3s costs 12+ treats]
  San Francisco: 1 blue
  Khartoum: 1 yellow
  Karachi: 1 black
  New York: 1 blue [in infect-discard]
  Washington: 1 blue
  London: 1 blue
  Madrid: 1 blue
  supply: black supply 13 left, 11 on board (no 3-cube black city yet)

=== SIGNALS ===
deck clock: 35 cards → 17 player-turn(s) of draws left; 3 cure(s) still needed → one cure every ~5 turn(s), team-wide
eradication: red: 5 cube(s) across 2 city(ies) → ~2 treat action(s) to eradicate
CARD STOCK — TEAM-WIDE, all seats' holdings (12 city cards per color; burned cards NEVER return — every hand-limit discard and every flight spends one):
  blue: 2 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 3, 6 in deck — margin 6 over the 4 needed
  black: 1 of 12 burned, held alice 1, bob 1, 9 in deck — margin 7 over the 4 needed
cure plan — TEAM-WIDE collector assignment (cures WIN the game; treating only buys time):
  blue: YOU collect (3/4) — keep EVERY blue card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s))
  yellow: alice has a FULL SET (5/5) — no further yellow card can advance this cure (every card face is unique); alice is 2 move(s) from station Atlanta to discoverCure
  black: YOU collect (1/4) — keep EVERY black card; nearest station Atlanta (2 move(s)) — or 1 action(s): charter flight from Toronto straight to Atlanta (spends Toronto(blue)) (your 3/4 blue set — burning drops it to 2/4; 6 blue in deck, 1 held elsewhere; spend it only if this beats the cure)
share rendezvous — TEAM-WIDE transfer routes (cards in the wrong hand + where to meet):
  alice hands you New York(blue): meet IN New York (the card's own city) — you 1 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +2 move(s) to cure
  alice hands you Algiers(black): meet IN Algiers (the card's own city) — you 3 move(s), alice 3 move(s); then bob to station Atlanta +3 action(s) (direct flight to Mexico City (spends Mexico City(yellow)), then 2 move(s) to Atlanta) to cure
⚠ CHEAPEST DEFUSES — cured-color cities still holding cubes. CURED ≠ CLEAR: they still outbreak until treated, and ONE treat clears the WHOLE city and refunds every cube (an uncured treat only knocks 3→2 and re-infects):
  Seoul (red, 3, imminent): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Tokyo→Seoul
  Taipei (red, 2): 5 action(s) total = 4 move(s) + 1 treat ⚠ more than a full turn (4) — multi-turn errand: Chicago→San Francisco→Manila→Taipei

⚠ DECISION FRONTIER — 2 rival turn-plan(s); NONE dominates another.
NOT a ranking — a curve between the two ways to lose. DOWN trades cure-pipeline
actions for fewer expected outbreaks; UP reverses it. No line is best: pick the
end facing whichever clock is closer to killing you.
  clocks — outbreaks 1/8; deck ~17 turn(s), 3 cure(s) still needed
Priced nominees, not orders — pick one, extend it, or play something else.
Blind spot: no cure line was priced this turn — that is a property of
candidate generation, not a verdict on curing. Price one yourself with
preview_plan before concluding the board says 'do not cure'.
  - break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black cluster at Algiers — drive New York
     tempo: 1 action(s) closer to the blue cure (10 → 9 action(s) to land it) — you collect | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear black at Algiers — worth ~2 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
  - sweep Seoul (red cured, 3 cubes, 1 treat clears all) — drive Chicago
     tempo: no cure progress — nearest is yellow, 3 action(s) to land it — alice collects | risk after: ~0.0 expected outbreak(s) over the next 2 infect phases + 2 armed discard bomb(s) (Seoul, Johannesburg): P(epidemic in window) ≈ 36%, and the reshuffle re-arms them ALL — ~2 chained outbreak(s) committed over the ~5 infect phase(s) after it, cancelable ONLY by treating them before it fires; en route to clear red at Seoul — worth ~6 cube(s)+chain when finished, but the clear lands AFTER this window: the next 2 infect phases face the board as-is
  exchange "break the Moscow–Tehran–Istanbul–Algiers black …" → "sweep Seoul": gives up 1 action(s) of cure progress to move risk ~0.0 expected outbreaks → ~0.0

Your legal actions — this is the COMPLETE legal set; anything not named
here will be rejected. A `[n] {...}` line is literal: pass it verbatim to
submit_action.action. A grouped family gives a template plus the values
allowed in it: fill the template with one combination shown on a single
line and pass that.
  [0] {"tag":"pass"}
  [1] {"tag":"endActions"}
  [2] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Chicago"}
  [3] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Washington"}
  [4] {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"New York"}
  directFlight — 4 options; build {"tag":"directFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "Mexico City", "Istanbul", "Essen", "London"
  charterFlight — 47 options; build {"tag":"charterFlight","to":<one to below>}
      to: "San Francisco", "Chicago", "Atlanta", "Washington", "New York", "London", "Madrid", "Paris", "Essen", "Milan", "St. Petersburg", "Los Angeles", "Mexico City", "Miami", "Bogota", "Lima", "Santiago", "Buenos Aires", "Sao Paulo", "Lagos", "Kinshasa", "Johannesburg", "Khartoum", "Algiers", "Cairo", "Istanbul", "Moscow", "Tehran", "Baghdad", "Riyadh", "Karachi", "Mumbai", "Delhi", "Kolkata", "Chennai", "Beijing", "Shanghai", "Seoul", "Tokyo", "Osaka", "Taipei", "Hong Kong", "Bangkok", "Ho Chi Minh City", "Manila", "Jakarta", "Sydney"
  (buildStation also SPENDS Toronto(blue), the card for the city you are standing in — it is gone for good)
  [56] {"tag":"buildStation"}
```

**Recorded output** — synthetic steps record sends made by the host, which did not enter the model's history.

Step 1 · {"synthetic": false, "servedModel": "ampersand-v0.1"}

reasoning: null

text: ""

toolCalls:

```json
{"tool": "submit_action", "toolCallId": "call_221b8aff90af613770407390482b3dc7", "ref": "bob:i30:call_221b8aff90af613770407390482b3dc7", "input": {"action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Washington"}}, "output": {"submitted": true, "action": {"tag": "driveFerry", "to": "Washington"}}}
```

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