Absence is not evidence: the seat wallet trusts only verdicts

The games-list reply pruned any wallet seat the server did not vouch
for — so one poll against a restarting (or wrong) server silently
deleted live credentials, the second seat-burning path this session's
server-squatting exposed. myGames now returns explicit verdicts:
a seat is voided only when its room EXISTS and refused that exact
token. Absent rooms earn no verdict and absent seats survive; the
wallet caps by age at fifty instead of by trust.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF

packages/server/src/index.ts

@@ -732,18 +732,26 @@ wss.on("connection", (socket) => {
           break;
         }
         case "myGames": {
-          // {seats: [{roomId, name, token}]} -> summaries for valid seats.
+          // {seats: [{roomId, name, token}]} -> summaries for valid seats,
+          // plus explicit verdicts on seats PROVEN dead: the room exists
+          // and refused this exact token. A room this server simply does
+          // not know earns no verdict — absence is not evidence (a
+          // restarting or wrong server knows nothing about anything).
           const seats = Array.isArray(msg.seats) ? msg.seats.slice(0, MAX_MYGAMES_SEATS) : [];
           const games = [];
+          const voided: string[] = [];
           for (const seat of seats) {
             if (typeof seat !== "object" || seat === null) continue;
             const room = getRoom(String(seat.roomId ?? ""));
             if (!room) continue;
             const name = String(seat.name ?? "");
-            if (!seatTokenValid(room, name, typeof seat.token === "string" ? seat.token : null)) continue;
+            if (!seatTokenValid(room, name, typeof seat.token === "string" ? seat.token : null)) {
+              voided.push(`${room.id}:${name}`);
+              continue;
+            }
             games.push(summarize(room, name));
           }
-          send(socket, { type: "games", games });
+          send(socket, { type: "games", games, voided });
           break;
         }
         default:

packages/web/src/net.svelte.ts

@@ -491,18 +491,18 @@ class Net {
             if (g.yourTurn && !was) this.notifyTurn(g);
             this.lastYourTurn.set(key, g.yourTurn);
           }
-          // A seat the server answered for but did not list is gone — the
+          // Prune ONLY seats the server proved dead: the room exists and
-          // room was deleted (or the seat's token voided). Quietly drop it
+          // refused this exact token. A seat merely ABSENT from the reply
-          // from the ledger rather than showing "unreachable" forever.
+          // stays — a restarting server, a stale restore, or the wrong
-          // (The server checks at most MAX_MYGAMES_SEATS = 50 per ask;
+          // backend all answer with ignorance, and treating ignorance as
-          // never prune blind past that cap.)
+          // deletion once cost a live player his seat mid-game. The
-          if (this.seats.length <= 50) {
+          // wallet is capped by age instead of by trust.
-            const listed = new Set((msg.games as GameSummary[]).map((g) => `${g.roomId}:${g.name}`));
+          const voided = new Set((msg.voided as string[] | undefined) ?? []);
-            const kept = this.seats.filter((s) => listed.has(`${s.roomId}:${s.name}`));
+          let kept = this.seats.filter((s) => !voided.has(`${s.roomId}:${s.name}`));
-            if (kept.length !== this.seats.length) {
+          if (kept.length > 50) kept = kept.slice(kept.length - 50);
-              this.seats = kept;
+          if (kept.length !== this.seats.length) {
-              saveSeats(this.seats);
+            this.seats = kept;
-            }
+            saveSeats(this.seats);
           }
           break;
         }