Dependent acts are planned in their originating turn

• Status: Accepted (2026-09-26)
• Replaces: continues_turn

Context #

«Register Marta Bianchi and open a trip for her» asks for two acts, the second depending on a record the first creates. When creating the traveler needed a confirmation click, the runtime handled the rest with continues_turn: the click committed, the cases were read again, a model was asked to plan what was left, and the turn committed a second time. That path interpreted after a commit, needed a hint listing what was already done so the model would not plan it twice, and let the click's authority reach the acts of the second plan (ADR-017).

Decision #

1. Every act of a message is planned in the turn that carries it, dependent acts included.
2. An argument that refers to a record another act of the same turn creates takes that act as its value; the plan records the dependency, and the prerequisite's case id is minted at planning.
3. The reducer orders the turn:
   • a ready prerequisite commits before its dependents;
   • a prerequisite waiting on a card carries its dependents on that card as deferred acts, which run after the confirmed commands, under their own origin and policy;
   • a refused or declined prerequisite refuses its dependents with a notice.
4. No model runs after a commit except the narration tasks.

Consequences #

• continues_turn, the early settlement of a card, the second commit and the catalog's already_done are removed.
• A click turn that releases deferred acts makes no model call.
• A deferred act is validated again when it runs; a stale one is refused with a notice.

Alternatives considered #

1. Keep re-planning after the click. Interpretation after a commit is what ADR-014 forbids, and it needed patches to avoid repeating work.
2. Ask the user to repeat the second request. Loses what the user already said, which ADR-014 exists to avoid.

Enforcement #

• Reducer scenarios for each prerequisite outcome; a runtime scenario for a click that releases a deferred act with no model call.