@maka/maka-cli 5.211.0 → 5.212.0

package/bundle/typescript/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@maka/maka-cli",
-  "version": "5.211.0",
+  "version": "5.212.0",
   "type": "module",
   "summary": "A command line tool for scaffolding Meteor 3.x applications using either React.",
   "description": "A command line tool for scaffolding Meteor 3.x applications using React.",

package/bundle/typescript/src/commands/game/sideQuest/commands/download.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { Command } from './command.js';
+import { billAction } from '../utilities/action-cost.js';
 import { roomsInReach, gridVicinity } from '../utilities/grid-reach.js';
 import { hint } from '../utilities/hints.js';
 import { Category } from '../types/shared/item-enum.js';
@@ -38,11 +39,15 @@ import { fileReach, planeTintItemName } from '../utilities/planes.js';
  * else's sprite is not a shelf you may take from -- that is a hack, and
  * hack.ts owns it.
  *
- * DELIBERATELY NOT A TEST. Pulling a file you already have reach on is
- * not an opposed action in this engine -- `take` does not roll for it
- * either, and getting past whatever GUARDED the file is what the host
- * crack and the mark already charged for. Adding dice here would price
- * the same obstacle twice.
+ * DELIBERATELY NOT A TEST -- BUT IT IS AN ACTION. Pulling a file you
+ * already have reach on is not an opposed action in this engine --
+ * `take` does not roll for it either, and getting past whatever GUARDED
+ * the file is what the host crack and the mark already charged for.
+ * Adding dice here would price the same obstacle twice.
+ *
+ * The TIME is a separate bill, and it was going unpaid: copying a file
+ * is Edit File, a COMPLEX ACTION (p.239). See the billAction call in
+ * execute() for what that was costing in a fight.
  */
 export class DownloadCommand extends Command {
     static verb = 'download';
@@ -116,6 +121,27 @@ export class DownloadCommand extends Command {
         if (wc?.type === 'erase' && wc.item.toLowerCase() === item.name.toLowerCase()) {
             return `Pulling ${item.name} down changes nothing -- the desk keeps its own. ${hint(`"erase ${item.name}" is what makes it go away (Edit File, p.239).`)}`;
         }
+        // COPYING A FILE IS EDIT FILE, AND EDIT FILE IS A COMPLEX ACTION
+        // (p.239: "Edit File allows you to create, change, COPY, delete, or
+        // protect any kind of file"). The no-dice ruling above stands -- the
+        // host crack already charged for the obstacle -- but "not a test"
+        // was silently read as "not an action", and in a Combat Turn that is
+        // a different claim entirely. Found in jfjjTmJ7NYwDaFiyB's own
+        // bench: walking into a rating-3 host wakes Patrol IC, `search` is
+        // correctly refused ("a Matrix Search takes minutes ... a Combat
+        // Turn is three seconds") and `download` then emptied the archive
+        // for FREE with the ice mid-turn on the runner. That makes the fight
+        // the report asked for optional -- stroll in, take the paydata, and
+        // the ice never mattered.
+        //
+        // billAction is a no-op outside an encounter, so the quiet case --
+        // an empty host, a file loose on the grid -- is untouched: still one
+        // verb, no roll, no friction. It bills only where an action economy
+        // exists to bill against, and a refusal returns BEFORE the item
+        // moves, so a runner out of actions keeps both the file and the turn.
+        const bill = billAction(this.scene, actor, 'complex', 'Edit File (copy)');
+        if (bill)
+            return bill;
         // THE CONVERSION, identical to take.ts's. Same two fields, because a
         // file that came down by one verb and a file that came down by the
         // other must be the same object afterwards -- a chip you can `give`.

package/bundle/typescript/src/commands/game/sideQuest/engine-version.js

@@ -984,5 +984,30 @@
 //     that reads like an icon you could act on. It is dropped when it
 //     lands first. (1.69.0 fixed the same heading leaking into the
 //     distance bands; this is the other half.)
-export const ENGINE_VERSION = '1.71.0';
+// 1.72.0 (2026-09-16): COPYING A FILE IS AN ACTION, NOT JUST A VERB
+//   (jfjjTmJ7NYwDaFiyB, Ted: "the encrypted data chip was just laying
+//   there in the meat world...hardly a fun run for a decker that never
+//   needs to attack a host, get the data, download it, and get out").
+//   The generation half of that report shipped in 5.171.0 -- a
+//   data-shaped objective for a runner who can jack in is paydata on a
+//   host, refused at the skeleton. Building this item's bench on top of
+//   it is what exposed the rest: walk into a rating-3 host, Patrol IC
+//   opens a Combat Turn, "search" refuses itself correctly ("a Matrix
+//   Search takes minutes (p.241), and a Combat Turn is three seconds")
+//   -- and "download" then emptied the archive for FREE with the ice
+//   mid-turn on the runner. The fight the report asked for was
+//   optional: stroll in, take the paydata, the ice never mattered.
+//   Copying a file IS Edit File, and Edit File IS a Complex Action
+//   (p.239, RAG-checked: "Edit File allows you to create, change, COPY,
+//   delete, or protect any kind of file"). download.ts now bills one.
+//   The deliberate no-dice ruling it was built with stands untouched --
+//   the host crack already charged for the obstacle, and dice here would
+//   price it twice -- but "not a test" had been read as "not an action",
+//   and in a Combat Turn those are different claims. billAction is a
+//   no-op outside an encounter, so the quiet case (an empty host, a file
+//   loose on the grid) is exactly as it was: one verb, no roll, no
+//   friction. The refusal returns before the item moves, so a runner out
+//   of actions keeps both the file and the turn, and listing what is in
+//   reach ("download" bare) still costs nothing.
+export const ENGINE_VERSION = '1.72.0';
 //# sourceMappingURL=engine-version.js.map

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@maka/maka-cli",
-  "version": "5.211.0",
+  "version": "5.212.0",
   "type": "module",
   "summary": "A command line tool for scaffolding Meteor 3.x applications using either React.",
   "description": "A command line tool for scaffolding Meteor 3.x applications using React.",