- Prefer/MC/cast win moderate tip gaps; combat follow and ambient cut-in follow roster
- Dual-light rail when tip touches multiple MCs; record MC↔MC crossover memory
- Earn rivals only from rematches, kin, or war/plot opposition (not single kills)
- Add harness coverage for gap, cast, rival, cross-MC, and ambient cut paths
- Add Dossier/Saga tabs, Design A panel, and hover preview with read-pause
- Persist observed saga facts across roster churn; pin subject without stale fallback
- Restore Saga after Open Lore; hide redundant Kind · Climax spine under matching tips
- Densify dossier header/chips and keep the cast rail as stable top chrome
- Extend harness coverage for hover restore, empty pick, Evidence, and Lore return
- Open war/disaster/outbreak crisis overlays with epilogue_crisis closers
- Keep Duel pairs hot only on owned cast; park sleep/freeze; drop ambient scrap pins
- Require a fallen theater partner for survivor aftermath; let king_killed cut mid-fight
- Gate crisis, combat cold, king cut-in, and living-partner aftermath in harness
- Introduce theater lead management to maintain focus during combat
- Add new steps for combat scenarios involving spectacle creatures
- Update InterestCandidate to track theater lead and combat participation
- Refactor InterestDirector to improve focus handling across maintain ticks
- Increment version to 0.28.18 in mod.json
- Add new command for isolating combat pairs to prevent ambient escalation
- Enhance combat event logging and participant tracking
- Optimize combat focus handling based on participant count
- Update harness scenarios to validate new combat interactions
- Increment version to 0.26.7 in mod.json
