Discussion

Players can talk to each other after public game events: a nomination, a failed election, policy claims, and presidential powers. Discussion is off by default. Turn it on with one flag:

runner = GameRunner(agents, discussion_enabled=True)

Speaking order

During a DISCUSSION phase, alive players take turns in seat order, starting with the president. Before a presidential power, the order starts one seat after the president, so the president hears the table before acting. The table goes around twice by default. Set discussion_rounds to change that:

runner = GameRunner(agents, discussion_enabled=True, discussion_rounds=1)

The discussion in progress is in GameState.discussion, a Discussion with the context, the speaker order, and the current speaker and round.

Speaking

On their turn, a player's legal actions are a SpeakAction and a PassAction. To say something, fill in the message:

from dataclasses import replace

return replace(speak_action, message="I'm a liberal, I swear.")

Whitespace in a message is collapsed, and the message is cut to MAX_SPEECH_LENGTH (500) characters. An empty message counts as a pass.

The transcript

The full public transcript is kept as SpeechEvents in GameState.events. Each one is tagged with the DiscussionContext that triggered it, and a pass is recorded with text=None. See examples/discussion.py.

To keep prompts small, render_text shows speeches from only the last two discussions; older ones collapse into one line each. render_dict keeps every speech.

Discussion before a power

When policy claims unlock an investigation, special election, or execution, the discussion that follows is tagged BEFORE_INVESTIGATION, BEFORE_SPECIAL_ELECTION, or BEFORE_EXECUTION instead of AFTER_POLICY_CLAIMS, so the table can weigh in before the president acts. A policy peek involves no choice, so it keeps AFTER_POLICY_CLAIMS.