chore(ci): inspect structured Windows baseline spawn failures

The JSON reporter retains original errors in failureMessages but suppresses captured console output. Use unmodified baseline source and require both exact spawn failures before checking the candidate.

Co-authored-by: Kaoru0822 <208281322+kaoru0822-kitauji@users.noreply.github.com>

.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md

@@ -217,7 +217,12 @@ facets remain unknown; live IDA results are not replayed from snapshots.
 
 With `REA_KUNA_COMMAND` configured, `provider_id: "kuna"` answers procedure
 lists, lookups, pseudocode, assembly and `analyze_function` from Kuna's cached
-whole-program export; it has no cross-references, callers or CFG. A cold first
+whole-program export. Callers/callees use a separate body-free graph shared by
+the session; `xrefs` returns exact-address incoming sites and filters forwarding
+aliases. These queries and inventory lookups do not trigger a C export. Indirect
+targets remain unknown and can make relationship coverage partial. Reference
+caches expire on close; a fresh CLI process repeats the native reference walk.
+Typed references, CFG, raw-memory tools and annotations remain unsupported. A cold first
 answer can come from a single-function run (its limitations say so); assembly
 waits for the export. For pseudocode and assembly, `raw_result.source` names the
 cached `.c`/`.asm` file and byte span, which you may search directly instead of

.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/references/javascript-applications.md

@@ -94,6 +94,36 @@ recorded observations, identity, hashes, exports and source ranges; it does not
 include every child syntax observation, related edge or original source file.
 An absent item fact is not evidence of absence from the whole application.
 
+For canonical identities and retained source-range counts, use a typed reference
+page instead of reading every full item:
+
+```json
+{
+  "source": {
+    "kind": "retained-evidence",
+    "evidence_id": "ev_ACTUAL_PARENT_ID"
+  },
+  "view": {
+    "kind": "javascript",
+    "collection": "modules",
+    "projection": "references",
+    "where": { "path": "main.js", "kind": "javascript-module" },
+    "offset": 0,
+    "limit": 16
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Filters match exact retained strings; omit a filter to include all values, use
+`path: null` for unavailable paths, and `path: ""` for a recorded empty path.
+Rows preserve canonical `identity` and distinct observation support states in
+`basis`. `retained_source_range_count` counts retained source-range observations,
+not runtime imports or unique reference sites. Use a row's `node_id` with the item
+view above for exact locations and full supporting observations. Follow
+`coverage.next_offset`; page exhaustion describes matching retained rows only.
+Check `source_coverage` for source selection, partial/unknown graph coverage and
+unknown counts before drawing a negative conclusion.
+
 ## Trace only the remaining question
 
 Use `trace_application_feature` on the parent application Evidence for one

docs/browser-scenario-contract.md

@@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ distinction: it closes and deletes provider-owned profiles, but only disconnects
 from an external CDP browser. Real-browser verification checks both outcomes and
 confirms that an attached external browser remains alive.
 
+`environment.locale` sets Intl formatting in both modes. Launch also sets
+`navigator.language`, `navigator.languages`, and the request `Accept-Language`.
+Connect preserves the caller's page and request languages; every attached
+capture identifies this locale limitation, including retained partial
+observations. Use launch mode when the application must select the requested
+language through navigator values or request headers. Artifact completeness
+covers the selected observations, not equivalence of launch and connect
+language environments.
+
 HTTP(S) URLs may include ordinary query values and fragments directly. Use
 ordered structured query entries when a value needs to reference a declared
 environment-backed secret. Form, storage, and cookie values are either literal

docs/ghidra-nativeaot.md

@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ Pass a returned MethodTable address to `inspect_native_data_type`. A direct PE
 query also derives the snapshot metadata from the authenticated Ghidra session
 handshake, so it does not require a preceding load-image call. In a persistent
 MCP session, load-image followed by type inspection reuses that same derivation.
+The bridge resolves the caller's address spelling once; metadata lookup uses
+its canonical default-space identity. Bare hexadecimal, prefixed hexadecimal,
+and encoded default-space selectors therefore select the same MethodTable.
+Other address spaces and unresolved identities are not matched by offset alone.
+Metadata already supplied by the engine is retained without reading or deriving
+an additional source snapshot.
 The database result remains `unavailable` when Ghidra has no DataType at that
 address; its `metadata_recovery.source` is `read-only-derived-overlay` and
 carries related type, interface, slot, and target observations. Generated

docs/ghidra-provider.md

@@ -193,7 +193,11 @@ these tools before compilation. Keeping this matrix separate lets Linux
 host/provider acceptance run with only the host compiler.
 
 `npm run verify:ghidra:windows` checks source-owned native x86-64 PE applications;
-`-- --x86` selects x86 and `-- --dll` selects DLLs, and the flags can be combined.
+`-- --x86`, `-- --arm`, or `-- --arm64` selects another target architecture;
+`-- --dll` selects DLLs. Choose one architecture and optionally combine it with
+`--dll`. These static fixtures contain source-owned encoded instructions; they
+are not compiler-produced programs. See the [Windows verification scope](windows-ghidra-p0.md#native-authority-and-target-identity)
+for real-provider coverage and exclusions.
 These lanes check all 26 read-only operations, target/snapshot/import SHA-256 linkage,
 and project, endpoint, process, and runtime cleanup. The independent native
 lane checks DACLs, handle admission, cancellation, and Job Object lifecycle.

docs/installation.md

@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ and `set_addresses_names` name a function entry or any other mapped address
 session metadata edits leave executable bytes unchanged and are discarded on close. GUI controls
 require Hopper; Windows P0 remains read-only.
 
-Windows P0 admits native x86 and x86-64 PE applications and DLLs, plus explicitly
+Windows P0 admits native x86, x86-64, ARMNT (Thumb-2) and ARM64 PE applications and DLLs, plus explicitly
 selected [raw NMOS 6502 images](raw-binary.md#nmos-6502) with a caller-supplied
 entry at file offset 0, on fixed local NTFS volumes. Other raw CPU families remain
 unsupported on Windows.

docs/javascript-application-workflows.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ are `inspect_analysis_view`, `trace_application_feature`,
 `trace_javascript_semantics`, `compare_application_versions`,
 `compare_source_to_bundle`, and `compare_javascript_export_shapes`; their CLI
 equivalents use the same names with hyphens. `inspect_analysis_view` projects a
-summary, module page, or one module from already completed application
+summary, module page, typed module references, or one module from already completed application
 Evidence; it does not walk relationships.
 
 `inspect_analysis_view` also projects retained `inspect_binary_layout`
@@ -40,6 +40,46 @@ combine its fields with the fact's location. Semantic trace results include the
 canonical context subset referenced by their returned facts, so those facts
 remain self-contained in the response.
 
+## Retained module facts
+
+For canonical identities and retained source-range counts, query the existing
+`inspect_analysis_view` tool with a typed module-reference projection:
+
+```json
+{
+  "source": {
+    "kind": "retained-evidence",
+    "evidence_id": "ev_ACTUAL_PARENT_ID"
+  },
+  "view": {
+    "kind": "javascript",
+    "collection": "modules",
+    "projection": "references",
+    "where": { "path": "main.js", "kind": "javascript-module" },
+    "offset": 0,
+    "limit": 16
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Replace the parent ID with the actual analysis summary's `parent_evidence_id`.
+Filters match exact retained paths and kinds. Omission includes all values;
+`path: null` selects an unavailable path and `path: ""` selects a recorded empty
+path. Multiple identities can share a path. The default offset is 0 and limit
+is 64; follow `coverage.next_offset` for later matching rows in retained order.
+
+Each row contains its `node_id`, kind, path, canonical identity, retained
+source-range observation count, and distinct supporting authority/state/confidence
+combinations in `basis`. These counts do not prove unique reference sites or
+runtime loading. Use the existing module item view with the row's `node_id` for
+exact source ranges and complete observations. The result retains parent/query
+Evidence identity, artifact identity, limitations and unknowns. `source_coverage`
+keeps selected/unselected sources, graph coverage and unknown counts separate
+from page exhaustion; an exhausted or empty page cannot prove absence from an
+incompletely analyzed application. CLI `inspect-analysis-view` reads the same
+request from a JSON file; portable input uses `source.kind: "inline"` with the
+complete parent Evidence.
+
 ## Feature tracing
 
 Select one literal seed kind: node ID, route, string, API, IPC channel, module,

docs/kuna-provider.md

@@ -18,34 +18,37 @@ Select it explicitly with `--provider kuna`, MCP's `open_binary.provider_id: "ku
 | `REA_KUNA_COMMAND`            | none (required)                                                                                                                         | Absolute path of the `kuna` executable.                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `REA_KUNA_CACHE_DIR`          | `~/Library/Caches/rea/kuna` (macOS), `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/rea/kuna` (Linux; `~/.cache/rea/kuna` when `XDG_CACHE_HOME` is unset or relative) | Absolute directory REA owns for project exports. Kuna's own spec cache also lives here, not in your Kuna cache.                                                                          |
 | `REA_KUNA_CACHE_MAX_BYTES`    | 4 GiB                                                                                                                                   | Size cap; least recently used exports are evicted above it.                                                                                                                              |
-| `REA_KUNA_PROJECT_TIMEOUT_MS` | 30 minutes                                                                                                                              | Deadline for one project export.                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `REA_KUNA_TIMEOUT_MS`         | 120 s                                                                                                                                   | Deadline for one single-function decompile.                                                                                                                                              |
+| `REA_KUNA_PROJECT_TIMEOUT_MS` | 30 minutes                                                                                                                              | Deadline for whole-program inventory/export, reference and string scans.                                                                                                                 |
+| `REA_KUNA_TIMEOUT_MS`         | 120 s                                                                                                                                   | Deadline for one single-function decompile, and for the inventory run REA makes when the export ends without one.                                                                        |
 | `REA_KUNA_JOBS`               | 1                                                                                                                                       | `decompile-project --jobs`. 1 is Kuna's reference answer; more jobs finish sooner but lose callee-first prototypes, and change about 40–60% of function bodies on the measured binaries. |
 
 Windows is not supported yet. Supported targets are ELF and thin Mach-O executables for x86-64, AArch64 and ARM; PE and universal Mach-O are rejected with a typed reason.
 
 ## What Kuna answers
 
-| Tool                                                        | Source                                                                                                                    |
-| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `list_procedures`, `search_procedures`, `procedure_address` | Kuna's callable inventory (`kuna functions --json`), including import slots it does not decompile                         |
-| `address_name`                                              | Function entries, then the data labels Kuna's export assigns                                                              |
-| `procedure_pseudo_code`, `batch_decompile`                  | The project export, or a single-function run while the export builds                                                      |
-| `procedure_assembly`                                        | The project export's labeled listing                                                                                      |
-| `analyze_function`                                          | Pseudocode and assembly from the export; callers, callees, references, comments, strings and CFG are declared unavailable |
+| Tool                                                        | Source                                                                                                                           |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `list_procedures`, `search_procedures`, `procedure_address` | Kuna's callable inventory (`kuna functions --json`), including import slots it does not decompile                                |
+| `address_name`                                              | Function entries, then the data labels Kuna's export assigns                                                                     |
+| `procedure_pseudo_code`, `batch_decompile`                  | The project export, or a single-function run while the export builds                                                             |
+| `procedure_assembly`                                        | The project export's labeled listing                                                                                             |
+| `procedure_callers`, `procedure_callees`                    | Call-kind edges from a lazy, body-free Kuna graph; synthetic import nodes are accepted by address                                |
+| `list_strings`, `search_strings`                            | Typed string candidates from one cached, reference-free scan; exact-address, literal and ECMAScript regex selection              |
+| `xrefs`                                                     | Exact-address incoming reference sites, with forwarding aliases filtered explicitly                                              |
+| `analyze_function`                                          | Pseudocode and assembly from the export, plus call relationships; typed references, comments, strings and CFG remain unavailable |
 
-Cross-references, callers, callees and basic blocks are not available from this provider. Use another provider when you need them.
+Typed procedure references, basic blocks, raw-memory tools, annotations and type recovery are not available from this provider. Use another provider for those operations.
 
 ## How answers are produced
 
-The first analysis request in a session looks for this target's export in the cache. `list_documents` reads the selected path without initializing analysis. The export is keyed by the target's SHA-256, the Kuna executable's SHA-256, its version and `--jobs`.
+The first text or assembly request in a session looks for this target's export in the cache. `list_documents` reads the selected path without initializing analysis. Inventory, function lookup, string queries, call relationships and xrefs do not start a C export. A data-name lookup starts it only when the address is absent from the function inventory. The export is keyed by the target's SHA-256, the Kuna executable's SHA-256, its version and `--jobs`.
 
-- **Warm cache:** analysis reads reuse the verified export. A fresh server verifies its file digests; that cost scales with export size.
+- **Warm cache:** analysis reads reuse the verified export. A fresh server verifies its file digests once, even for concurrent first requests; that cost scales with export size.
 - **Cold cache:**
   - REA starts `kuna decompile-project` in the background on a private copy of the target.
-  - Meanwhile, pseudocode comes from one `kuna decompile --addr` run, and listings from `kuna functions --json`.
-  - Requests for the same function share one run; it stops when its last waiting request is cancelled. Each run analyzes the whole image again in its own process, so one REA process runs at most as many at once as the host has cores beyond `REA_KUNA_JOBS` (at least one). Further requests wait in order, and a waiting request is answered from the export if it finishes first.
-  - Assembly and data names wait for the export; progress notifications report the wait every ten seconds.
+  - Meanwhile, pseudocode comes from one `kuna decompile --addr` run. Name and address lookups, and listings, use the inventory the export takes with `kuna functions --json` before it decompiles. The session runs `kuna functions` itself, under `REA_KUNA_TIMEOUT_MS`, only when no export is building (an inventory-only request does not start one) or the export ends without an inventory.
+  - Requests for the same function share one run; it stops when its last waiting request is cancelled. Each run analyzes the whole image again in its own process, so one REA process runs at most as many at once as the host has cores beyond `REA_KUNA_JOBS` (at least one). Further requests wait in order, and a waiting request is answered from the export if it finishes first. A run whose stop REA cannot prove keeps its slot until `close_binary` proves it stopped.
+  - Assembly and data names wait for the export; progress notifications report the wait every ten seconds. A session does not rebuild a failed export: requests that need it fail with `retryable: false`, the export's failure, its captured Kuna output and what to change before reopening the target. A setting such as `REA_KUNA_PROJECT_TIMEOUT_MS` or `REA_KUNA_JOBS` is read when REA starts, so changing it also needs a restart. Pseudocode keeps using single-function runs.
   - A single-function answer says so in its limitations. It lacks the export's whole-program prototypes, so a later request can return different text for the same function.
 
 Pseudocode, assembly, `analyze_function` and data-name answers record where their text came from in `raw_result.source`: `single-function`, or `project-export` with the cache directory. `procedure_pseudo_code` and `procedure_assembly` answers from the export also name the file, byte span and the file's SHA-256. Combined `analyze_function` answers retain both facet records in `raw_result.source.files`, each with its file, digest and byte span. Both texts come from one export; losing that project retries the complete report. Listings and procedure lookups carry no `raw_result`. Agents can open or search the export's `.c` and `.asm` there directly when that is cheaper than calling a tool per function. Text read that way is target-derived, like any decompiler output, but it bypasses the untrusted-content marker that REA's tool results carry.
@@ -54,10 +57,30 @@ The background export belongs to the session. `close_binary`, or the end of a CL
 
 The assembly label index is scanned once per export reader. Cancelling a request stops its wait without interrupting other readers; closing the session aborts and drains the shared scan before releasing its files.
 
-Regex procedure search uses ECMAScript Unicode matching in a cancellable worker with a five-second matching deadline. Literal matching remains the default. Cancellation or a matching deadline leaves the session available.
+Regex procedure and string search uses ECMAScript Unicode matching in a cancellable worker with a five-second matching deadline. Literal matching remains the default. Cancellation or a matching deadline leaves the session available.
 
 Single-function subprocess output and each cached source facet share a 16 MiB buffered-text capacity. Cached spans are checked before allocation; larger text remains in the local export and the error identifies the file and range. `analyze_function` initially returns the complete dossier, which can still be large; later retained views do not remove that first transfer. Prefer the individual text tools for a focused question.
 
+## Strings
+
+`list_strings` and `search_strings` share one lazy `kuna strings --json --encoding all --min-length 5 --termination any --no-xrefs` scan of the digest-checked private input. Skipping references avoids program lifting, a call graph and a C export. REA validates the input, scan policy, every row and the total before caching any facts. Encoding, character count, byte length and terminator facts must agree; supplementary UTF-8 characters count as Unicode scalars. Malformed or oversized output is an error, not an empty search. JSON admits at most 16 MiB before parsing. String scans use the whole-program `REA_KUNA_PROJECT_TIMEOUT_MS` deadline; `REA_KUNA_TIMEOUT_MS` applies to single-function decompilation. The parsed inventory belongs to one selected target/executable profile and expires on session close; deterministic output-buffer failures are retained until close, while other failures are not cached.
+
+Results keep exact u64 virtual addresses, decoded text, native encoding, terminator status and byte length including any terminator. Kuna scans mapped sections or segments for runs of at least five characters; unterminated fragments can include instruction bytes. `all` includes ASCII, UTF-8 and the engine's Latin-range UTF-16LE reading. Other text, including short strings, non-Latin wide text and UTF-16BE, can remain undiscovered. An empty result does not prove absence.
+
+Use `search_strings` for the matching rows or `list_strings` with an exact address for that location. Literal and regex matching run in REA, preserving the existing case and ECMAScript Unicode semantics instead of substituting Kuna's different regex dialect. Procedure and string regex queries share one worker slot per session. Input projections are materialized only after admission, so queued queries retain no per-query inventory arrays. Close cancels and drains matching. Native metadata queries also share one admission slot, including references; a failed stop retains admission until cleanup is proven.
+
+`raw_result.strings` reports the source JSON digest/size, scanned scope, extraction policy, complete inventory count and selected count without copying unrequested text into the answer. Omit the address from `list_strings` to retrieve the complete inventory as Evidence; normal session retention and bundle export apply, including transport-capacity errors for oversized inline replies. These operations preserve their complete-result contracts and do not add paging. Function-referenced string facets in `analyze_function` remain unavailable; call `xrefs` explicitly when references to one returned string are needed.
+
+## Calls and references
+
+The first call query runs `kuna decompile-graph --functions ''`, admitting no C or assembly bodies. One validated graph and forward/reverse indexes serve later call queries and existing `get_call_graph` / `trace_call_path` workflows. Numeric u64 addresses are parsed from their original JSON tokens. Only `call` edges become callers/callees; jumps and data references retain their distinct meaning. Graph counts, edge endpoints and ordering are validated before any relationship is returned. A forwarding address may be an instruction inside a function, so it is retained separately and never promoted to a function node or call edge. Reported indirect calls make affected relationship coverage partial; no target is invented for them.
+
+`xrefs` runs native `xrefs --to ADDRESS --json` on demand. Kuna unifies forwarding aliases and suppresses edges internal to their class; REA filters to the requested address and records the excluded-row count. Duplicate source sites appear once. An empty result cannot establish the absence of references. Addresses are explicit u64 values or exact, unambiguous procedure names; Kuna has no cursor.
+
+Graph JSON admits at most 32 MiB before parsing; xref JSON at most 16 MiB. A large image can exceed the graph budget: an arm64 Firefox `XUL` (404k functions) does, while a 14 MB Sublime Text binary produced 31.8 MB. Output beyond a buffer is reported as a `memory` resource constraint with `retryable: false`, because the same target and executable produce the same output. The session remembers a graph that overflowed, so later call queries fail at once instead of repeating the whole-program walk. The graph is cached for the selected target and executable profile within one session. Xref reuse is an LRU charged by source bytes plus metadata, limited to 16 MiB and 128 entries; at most eight distinct native xref queries may be pending. Reference commands run one at a time per session and share the provider's foreground budget with single-function decompiles. An unproven process stop retains its admission slots until cleanup succeeds. Concurrent callers share work, individual cancellation releases only that waiter, and the last departing waiter cancels its producer and receives any unproven cleanup. Session close aborts and drains producers, releases parsed caches and retries any retained process/file cleanup.
+
+Evidence includes only selected addresses or dossier neighbors, the producing JSON's SHA-256/byte count, coverage and relevant function facts; unrequested program-wide JSON and instruction text are omitted. Reference caches are in memory and expire on close: a fresh CLI process or MCP server rebuilds them. A first call query therefore costs a whole-program reference walk even when a C export is warm. These operations do not establish full Ghidra/IDA feature parity.
+
 ## Provenance and limitations
 
 - Addresses and bytes are Kuna's observations of the image. Procedure entries and extents are its derivations: extents are upper bounds clipped at the next entry, and Kuna can split one function at an entry its own analysis infers. Pseudocode is its reconstruction, never original source.

docs/managed-code-analysis.md

@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ install it or its toolchain. The [NativeAOT guide](ghidra-nativeaot.md) defines
 these routes, their layout/host restrictions, derived-memory provenance, and
 verification coverage.
 
-REA's experimental Windows Ghidra boundary admits native x86 and x86-64 PE
+REA's experimental Windows Ghidra boundary admits native x86, x86-64, ARMNT (Thumb-2) and ARM64 PE
 applications and DLLs for static analysis. For x64 PE NativeAOT, the read-only
 parser also runs there; the [NativeAOT guide](ghidra-nativeaot.md) lists what a
 Windows host covers.

docs/mcp-contracts.md

@@ -497,7 +497,10 @@ declared by their tools. Artifact extraction materializes the selected regular
 files into a fresh REA-chosen temporary directory and reports its path.
 
 `analyze_javascript_application` reads the supplied local directory or ASAR path
-and returns its result and Evidence inline.
+and returns its result and Evidence inline. Its owned analysis worker and private
+temporary source files are declared as `launchesProcess` and `writesFilesystem`,
+including for a single JavaScript source. This internal analysis does not execute
+the supplied application code.
 
 ## Ghidra first-query deadlines and recovery
 

docs/mcp-prompts.md

@@ -111,8 +111,12 @@ list does not establish that the target has no procedures.
 Suggestions are Unicode-normalized, case-insensitive prefix matches. The server
 deduplicates them and sorts by code point for deterministic results. Procedure
 completion derives candidates from the complete inventory, so a name is offered
-only when it identifies one address in that inventory. Completion returns all
-matching values; it does not expose paging controls.
+only when it identifies one address in that inventory. A completion reply
+carries at most 100 values, the MCP limit. `total` counts every match and
+`hasMore` is `true` when values were omitted. Completion has no paging
+controls. A longer prefix reaches an omitted value only when it excludes other
+matches; matching uses normalized, case-insensitive forms, so a value can stay
+unreachable when more than 100 matches share its normalized prefix.
 
 ## Lifecycle and safety
 

docs/native-investigation.md

@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ is present. A denied trace reports the `debugger-attach-denied` reason.
 Install a Ghidra 12.1.x release and the 64-bit full JDK it declares, then configure REA to
 use them. Ghidra analysis supports Linux x64/arm64 and macOS x64/arm64; each installation requires
 the matching native decompiler. Experimental Windows x64 P0 admits native
-x86 and x86-64 PE applications and DLLs, plus explicitly selected
+x86, x86-64, ARMNT (Thumb-2) and ARM64 PE applications and DLLs, plus explicitly selected
 [raw NMOS 6502 images](raw-binary.md#nmos-6502) with a caller-supplied load address,
 on fixed local NTFS volumes. Other raw CPU families remain unsupported on Windows.
 The boundary uses bundled Job Object ownership, protected runtime DACLs, and

docs/reconstruction-coverage.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Reconstruction coverage
+
+`rea evaluate-reconstruction-coverage coverage.json --json` evaluates an inline
+coverage workspace and its selected `boundary_id`. MCP exposes the same input
+through `evaluate_reconstruction_coverage`. Results contain a status, reasons,
+recommended probes and Evidence references; the supplied bundle retains the
+complete records.
+
+Evidence IDs and bundle manifests must authenticate before evaluation. A valid
+record can still be insufficient proof: a passing verifier summary cannot
+promote inferred Evidence into a replay observation. That case returns
+`unknown`, while a missing or tampered record remains an input error.
+
+## Comparable verifier Evidence
+
+At least one record explicitly cited by the latest verifier observation must
+support the declared contract authority:
+
+| Contract authority  | Evidence source                           | Confidence              |
+| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
+| `shipped-artifact`  | `shipped-artifact`                        | `observed` or `derived` |
+| `controlled-replay` | `controlled-replay`                       | `observed`              |
+| `live-observation`  | `controlled-replay` or `external-service` | `observed`              |
+| `external`          | `external-service`                        | `observed`              |
+
+Contextual references can accompany qualifying proof. An unrelated observed
+record elsewhere in the bundle cannot repair a result that cites only
+inference. Older observed results cannot replace the newest weak result.
+Equivalent observations at the same instant can share qualifying proof from
+one of those observations; conflicting tied assessments remain unknown.
+
+## Package and integration proof
+
+Build, clean-install and runtime-routing claims require observed runtime
+Evidence (`controlled-replay` or `external-service`). Package-content and
+authority-independence audits can also use observed or derived
+`shipped-artifact` Evidence. Each proof must cite its qualifying records and
+cover the selected boundary's artifact digests. An inference alone establishes
+neither a passing nor a failed package workflow.
+
+The evaluator preserves Evidence provenance and returns an actionable unknown
+when qualification is unavailable. It does not change the cited records to
+make their authority match a caller's declaration.

docs/reconstruction-obligation-ledgers.md

@@ -323,3 +323,6 @@ disposition but does not silently count it as verified.
 The tool returns every obligation inline. Its `ledger_id` and `closure_digest`
 identify the complete result, including summaries, reports, ownership and
 dependency graphs, Evidence links, and limitations.
+
+For named boundaries with explicit verifier contracts and package-proof kinds,
+see [reconstruction coverage](reconstruction-coverage.md).

docs/reverse-engineering-tools.md

@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ can run.
 
 `inspect_with_objdump` and `rea inspect-with-objdump` capture stdout and stderr as inline Evidence. Artifact inspection Evidence records SHA-256 digests before and after the provider call and whether those observed digests differ; this cannot prove the exact bytes consumed if the artifact changes during execution. Choose one artifact operation: `file_headers`, `section_headers`, `symbols`, `relocations`, `dwarf`, `disassemble`, or `disassemble_all`. `disassemble` maps to `-d`; `disassemble_all` maps to `-D` and has different symbol-boundary semantics. The pathless `inspect_with_objdump {"operation":"architectures"}` MCP call or `rea list-objdump-architectures` CLI command maps to `-i` and produces subjectless provider-capability Evidence describing BFD targets compiled into the installed binary, not a guarantee that a target is supported.
 
-For DWARF, REA does not follow local debug links by default. Set `follow_debug_links` to `true` to pass `-WK`; external debug-file identities are not bound to Evidence when following links is enabled. The CLI option is `--follow-debug-links true`. REA clears `DEBUGINFOD_URLS` in the objdump child environment to disable debuginfod network access on GNU binutils versions that do not support `-WE`. The complete raw output is authoritative; REA does not normalize it into a version-independent disassembly schema.
+For DWARF, REA does not follow local debug links by default. Set `follow_debug_links` to `true` to pass `-WK`; external debug-file identities are not bound to Evidence when following links is enabled. The CLI flag is `--follow-debug-links`; `--no-follow-debug-links` or `--follow-debug-links=false` keeps the default. A separate `true` or `false` word after the flag is not its value. REA clears `DEBUGINFOD_URLS` in the objdump child environment to disable debuginfod network access on GNU binutils versions that do not support `-WE`. The complete raw output is authoritative; REA does not normalize it into a version-independent disassembly schema.
 
 ```sh
 rea inspect-with-objdump ./program disassemble
-rea inspect-with-objdump ./program dwarf --follow-debug-links false
+rea inspect-with-objdump ./program dwarf
+rea inspect-with-objdump ./program dwarf --follow-debug-links
 ```
 
 Captured stdout and stderr are retained up to a 16 MiB combined limit; `output_truncated` marks output beyond that limit.

docs/testing.md

@@ -821,7 +821,10 @@ The initial Linux x64 IDA Free 9.4 run used native MCP 1.1.2 with a local naviga
 
 `npm run verify:kuna` requires a caller-supplied `kuna` in `REA_KUNA_COMMAND`
 and a host C compiler (`REA_CC`, default `cc`) with `strip` and `nm`. It builds a
-source-owned fixture with symbols and stripped, then verifies through MCP that
+source-owned fixture with non-inlined calls, with symbols and stripped, then verifies through MCP that
+callers, callees and exact incoming xrefs agree with those calls, graph/path
+composition reaches the callee, reference-only queries leave project/staging
+entries unchanged, repeated relationships reuse the graph, and
 the first cold pseudocode answer comes from a single-function run or an export
 that already finished, assembly waits for and serves from that export, and
 pseudocode and both dossier facets match their recorded file spans and digests,
@@ -834,7 +837,8 @@ caller-built functions through Ghidra (it refuses to run without `--targets` and
 `--functions`, an empty matrix, or names missing from every supplied target) and
 reports latency, sampled process-tree CPU and peak memory, UTF-8 response size,
 and goto and warning-marker counts. Those counts are not a correctness judgement,
-and model tokens are not measured. `--report PATH` writes the JSON report.
+and model tokens are not measured. Reference timings and response sizes are
+reported separately; reference caches expire when the server closes. `--report PATH` writes the JSON report.
 
 The first matrix run used Kuna 1.833 and Ghidra 12.1.4 with JDK 21 on macOS
 arm64. It covered zlib 1.3.2 `minigzip`, coreutils 9.9 `sort` and the sqlite

docs/verification/javascript-analysis-effects-2026-10-15.json

@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+{
+  "base_revision": "e598b4656ad90d59ede2d10454a0ac34f3813558",
+  "scope": "Canonical effect metadata only; real static Obsidian reads, no target execution",
+  "baseline_source_sha256": {
+    "src/contracts/toolEffects.ts": "39505b5f1501768515229a37ff67e8a1a512faedfb6669aee7a690a2ac3ac633",
+    "src/javascript/analysis/JavaScriptAnalysisWorker.ts": "49ea4e6344060fae3529ffe6e14bfadc534132067cfa5c370263dc7476375be0",
+    "scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs": "9d5f0b8b35ed2ebb4591f9dc3baea0fc116a0c3fd7d8e5ce30ec476c84671ed1"
+  },
+  "final_source_sha256": {
+    "src/contracts/toolEffects.ts": "feb66f1b71c4a6849d1730227c9c74e4efbb67b4537d75fd41ce9ff615c25753",
+    "src/javascript/analysis/JavaScriptAnalysisWorker.ts": "49ea4e6344060fae3529ffe6e14bfadc534132067cfa5c370263dc7476375be0",
+    "scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs": "9d5f0b8b35ed2ebb4591f9dc3baea0fc116a0c3fd7d8e5ce30ec476c84671ed1",
+    "tests/boundary/mcp/electronMcp.test.ts": "e483bec8512cfeafa7f951c8faf25e1aecd6e6987ea74aead14230501912928d",
+    "tests/boundary/mcp/toolSchemaValidity.test.ts": "ab6d9ba37035a6ff9279b820aa8660c50a3ef9f31d25f838c0ba40929148e89c"
+  },
+  "cohorts": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "metadata": {
+        "tool": "analyze_javascript_application",
+        "advertised_annotations": {
+          "readOnlyHint": false,
+          "destructiveHint": false,
+          "idempotentHint": true,
+          "openWorldHint": false
+        },
+        "session_effects": ["mutatesSession", "idempotent"],
+        "session_annotations": ["idempotent"],
+        "catalog_tool_count": 207
+      },
+      "metadata_probe_resources": {
+        "elapsed_seconds": 10.711,
+        "cpu_seconds": 10.503415,
+        "peak_cgroup_bytes": 842891264,
+        "payload_cleanup_verified": true,
+        "events_at_payload_exit": {
+          "memory.events": {
+            "low": 0,
+            "high": 0,
+            "max": 0,
+            "oom": 0,
+            "oom_kill": 0,
+            "oom_group_kill": 0
+          },
+          "pids.events": {
+            "max": 0
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "real_workflow": {
+        "artifact": {
+          "path": "/tmp/rea-codemode-experiment-20261015/artifacts/obsidian-1.14.4.asar",
+          "sha256": "146ef8470d8cbb4a6db209bdc19bf2bad13350444186c0fd93c31087b142b92f"
+        },
+        "parent_evidence_id": "ev_73ef06e3b9b944f54c5257f7960279127d8518d2a73cd8618bd045dbe44e6b5a",
+        "samples": [
+          {
+            "round": 0,
+            "mode": "references",
+            "elapsed_ms": 109.19401700000162,
+            "calls": 1,
+            "structured_reply_bytes": 22158,
+            "facts_sha256": "d3be5e91d2ec3fd9a95851cfbbdef9c168bb4c7153f78810b8b235e005401299",
+            "matching_modules": 23,
+            "coverage": {
+              "status": "page",
+              "examined": 23,
+              "total": 23,
+              "next_offset": null,
+              "exhausted": true
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "token_costs": {
+          "tokenizer": "cl100k_base",
+          "tiktoken_version": "0.12.0",
+          "costs": {
+            "references": {
+              "selected_catalog": 7977,
+              "full_catalog": 195522,
+              "common_request": 53,
+              "common_summary": 2675,
+              "requests": 102,
+              "structured_replies": 5741,
+              "selected_catalog_task_total": 16548,
+              "full_catalog_task_total": 204093
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "cli_parity": {
+          "evidence_id": "ev_b3586dfdf7d4f01157f8f2978326aaa7103987110f2df4fa5bf3331ff2898749",
+          "facts_sha256": "d3be5e91d2ec3fd9a95851cfbbdef9c168bb4c7153f78810b8b235e005401299",
+          "exact_cli_mcp_view_parity": true
+        }
+      },
+      "real_workflow_resources": {
+        "elapsed_seconds": 30.47,
+        "cpu_seconds": 29.939807,
+        "peak_cgroup_bytes": 1551282176,
+        "payload_cleanup_verified": true,
+        "events_at_payload_exit": {
+          "memory.events": {
+            "low": 0,
+            "high": 0,
+            "max": 0,
+            "oom": 0,
+            "oom_kill": 0,
+            "oom_group_kill": 0
+          },
+          "pids.events": {
+            "max": 0
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "final": {
+      "metadata": {
+        "tool": "analyze_javascript_application",
+        "advertised_annotations": {
+          "readOnlyHint": false,
+          "destructiveHint": false,
+          "idempotentHint": true,
+          "openWorldHint": true
+        },
+        "session_effects": [
+          "mutatesSession",
+          "writesFilesystem",
+          "launchesProcess",
+          "idempotent"
+        ],
+        "session_annotations": ["idempotent", "open_world"],
+        "catalog_tool_count": 207
+      },
+      "metadata_probe_resources": {
+        "elapsed_seconds": 10.909,
+        "cpu_seconds": 10.664997,
+        "peak_cgroup_bytes": 853958656,
+        "payload_cleanup_verified": true,
+        "events_at_payload_exit": {
+          "memory.events": {
+            "low": 0,
+            "high": 0,
+            "max": 0,
+            "oom": 0,
+            "oom_kill": 0,
+            "oom_group_kill": 0
+          },
+          "pids.events": {
+            "max": 0
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "real_workflow": {
+        "artifact": {
+          "path": "/tmp/rea-codemode-experiment-20261015/artifacts/obsidian-1.14.4.asar",
+          "sha256": "146ef8470d8cbb4a6db209bdc19bf2bad13350444186c0fd93c31087b142b92f"
+        },
+        "parent_evidence_id": "ev_73ef06e3b9b944f54c5257f7960279127d8518d2a73cd8618bd045dbe44e6b5a",
+        "samples": [
+          {
+            "round": 0,
+            "mode": "references",
+            "elapsed_ms": 110.17946600000141,
+            "calls": 1,
+            "structured_reply_bytes": 22158,
+            "facts_sha256": "d3be5e91d2ec3fd9a95851cfbbdef9c168bb4c7153f78810b8b235e005401299",
+            "matching_modules": 23,
+            "coverage": {
+              "status": "page",
+              "examined": 23,
+              "total": 23,
+              "next_offset": null,
+              "exhausted": true
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "token_costs": {
+          "tokenizer": "cl100k_base",
+          "tiktoken_version": "0.12.0",
+          "costs": {
+            "references": {
+              "selected_catalog": 7977,
+              "full_catalog": 195522,
+              "common_request": 53,
+              "common_summary": 2675,
+              "requests": 102,
+              "structured_replies": 5741,
+              "selected_catalog_task_total": 16548,
+              "full_catalog_task_total": 204093
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "cli_parity": {
+          "evidence_id": "ev_b3586dfdf7d4f01157f8f2978326aaa7103987110f2df4fa5bf3331ff2898749",
+          "facts_sha256": "d3be5e91d2ec3fd9a95851cfbbdef9c168bb4c7153f78810b8b235e005401299",
+          "exact_cli_mcp_view_parity": true
+        }
+      },
+      "real_workflow_resources": {
+        "elapsed_seconds": 31.059,
+        "cpu_seconds": 30.663163,
+        "peak_cgroup_bytes": 1584574464,
+        "payload_cleanup_verified": true,
+        "events_at_payload_exit": {
+          "memory.events": {
+            "low": 0,
+            "high": 0,
+            "max": 0,
+            "oom": 0,
+            "oom_kill": 0,
+            "oom_group_kill": 0
+          },
+          "pids.events": {
+            "max": 0
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "conditions": "Separate fresh MCP sessions, uncontrolled warm filesystem/build and shared-host scheduling. One CPU, 8 GiB hard cap, 6 GiB early stop, no swap. Resource counters are at payload exit with the observer alive, not final whole-scope counters; memory includes charged file cache, not summed RSS. Whole real-verifier resources include analysis, export, CLI parity and tokenizer; metadata probe resources are separate. Static BPE uses name/description/inputSchema catalog projections plus requests/structured replies, excludes annotations, metadata-probe calls, rendering/replay/reasoning/final-answer/model usage. No performance improvement or equivalence bound established by one before/after pair.",
+  "regressions": {
+    "baseline": "20 executed: 2 expected metadata failures, 18 passed",
+    "final": "27 passed after the test ownership cleanup across canonical effects and MCP/catalog boundaries",
+    "interim_correction": "26 passed before metadata assertions were split into their own target-free case to satisfy function-size lint"
+  },
+  "selected_input": {
+    "input_path": "/tmp/rea-codemode-experiment-20261015/artifacts/obsidian-1.14.4.asar",
+    "detail": "summary",
+    "source_paths": ["package.json", "main.js"]
+  },
+  "selected_view": {
+    "kind": "javascript",
+    "collection": "modules",
+    "projection": "references",
+    "where": {
+      "path": "main.js",
+      "kind": "javascript-module"
+    }
+  },
+  "observer_sources_sha256": {
+    "resource-run.py": "7728862171415e7dee2c11af2ead2b9a54265fccaf82a7113956d36b29065e33",
+    "resource_payload.py": "6f089e645459eba80c5d73e39c21606c78173a44daf49fabc3b88c4631ce51c6"
+  },
+  "runtime": {
+    "platform": "Linux x64",
+    "node": "24.18.0",
+    "npm": "11.16.0",
+    "tiktoken": "0.12.0"
+  }
+}

docs/verification/javascript-analysis-effects-2026-10-15.md

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+# JavaScript analysis effect metadata verification
+
+Tracks #3867 under #4027. The canonical effect record omitted existing internal
+worker launches and source staging. `CapabilityInventory` and SDK registration
+already consume that owner directly; no adapter override is required. The
+[worker](../../src/javascript/analysis/JavaScriptAnalysisWorker.ts) creates a
+private runtime root, stages `.source` files and launches an owned REA worker.
+These are source-derived facts; the analyzed application code is not executed.
+
+## Executed results
+
+Public stdio MCP before/after:
+
+| Surface                      | Before                         | After                                      |
+| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
+| `tools/list` `openWorldHint` | `false`                        | `true`                                     |
+| `binary_session` effects     | `mutatesSession`, `idempotent` | also `writesFilesystem`, `launchesProcess` |
+| Session annotation flags     | `idempotent`                   | also `open_world`                          |
+| Advertised tools             | 207                            | 207                                        |
+
+Regression assertions failed on the original contract: **2 failed,
+18 passed**. After correction and separating the target-free metadata case, **27 passed** across canonical effects, public
+Electron/JavaScript MCP and SDK-converted catalog validity. The tests retain the
+non-destructive, idempotent hints and exact session effects; no foreign target
+execution is declared.
+
+The existing real verifier analyzed official Obsidian 1.14.4 with `package.json`
+and `main.js` selected, then read the typed module references and verified exact
+public CLI/MCP parity. Both revisions returned the same parent/view Evidence
+identities and 23-row fact digest. Query replies remained 22,158 bytes and the
+selected-schema task remained 16,548 `cl100k_base` BPE tokens (204,093 with the full
+name/description/inputSchema catalog projection). These are static counts, not
+model billing; annotations, the separate metadata probe, host rendering/replay,
+reasoning and final answers are outside this projection. No hosted agent was run.
+
+| Complete real verifier |        Before |         After |
+| ---------------------- | ------------: | ------------: |
+| Elapsed seconds        |        30.470 |        31.059 |
+| CPU seconds            |     29.939807 |     30.663163 |
+| Peak cgroup bytes      | 1,551,282,176 | 1,584,574,464 |
+
+The scope includes shared analysis, temporary export, CLI parity and tokenizer.
+The metadata-only probe separately used 10.711/10.909 s wall,
+10.503415/10.664997 s CPU and 842,891,264/853,958,656 B peak cgroup memory.
+All scopes used one CPU, an 8 GiB hard cap, 6 GiB early stop and no swap; cleanup
+was verified with no OOM. Memory includes charged file cache, not summed RSS.
+Counters were observed at payload exit while the observer remained alive.
+Fresh MCP sessions do not establish an OS-cold cache. Shared-host scheduling and
+filesystem/build warmness were uncontrolled; one pair establishes neither a
+performance improvement nor an equivalence bound. Linux x64 static ASAR analysis
+was executed; live Electron and other platforms were not exercised locally.
+[Compact records and source hashes](javascript-analysis-effects-2026-10-15.json)
+preserve these distinctions without archiving the downloadable application.
+
+## Reproduce
+
+Use pinned Node/npm, `npm ci`, then `npm run build:cached`. Run the following as
+an ES module from the checkout root (`node --input-type=module < probe.mjs`):
+
+```javascript
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
+import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
+import { toolAvailabilityInventory } from "./dist/contracts/toolOutputSchemaPrimitives.js";
+import { closeVerifierResources } from "./scripts/lib/verifier-cleanup.mjs";
+
+const client = new Client({
+  name: "javascript-effect-verification",
+  version: "1",
+});
+const transport = new StdioClientTransport({
+  command: process.execPath,
+  args: ["scripts/rea.mjs", "mcp"],
+  stderr: "pipe",
+});
+let primaryError;
+try {
+  await client.connect(transport);
+  transport.stderr?.resume();
+  const { tools } = await client.listTools();
+  const tool = tools.find(
+    ({ name }) => name === "analyze_javascript_application",
+  );
+  assert.ok(tool);
+  const response = await client.callTool({
+    name: "binary_session",
+    arguments: {},
+  });
+  assert.notEqual(response.isError, true);
+  const inventory = toolAvailabilityInventory.parse(
+    response.structuredContent?.result?.tool_availability,
+  );
+  const group = inventory.groups.find(({ names }) => names.includes(tool.name));
+  assert.ok(group);
+  console.log(
+    JSON.stringify({
+      tool: tool.name,
+      advertised_annotations: tool.annotations,
+      session_effects: group.effects,
+      session_annotations: group.annotations,
+      catalog_tool_count: tools.length,
+    }),
+  );
+} catch (cause) {
+  primaryError = cause;
+  throw cause;
+} finally {
+  await closeVerifierResources(
+    [() => client.close(), () => transport.close()],
+    primaryError,
+  );
+}
+```
+
+For the real workflow, follow the artifact acquisition/digest instructions in
+[module-reference verification](javascript-module-references-2026-10-15.md).
+Run its existing command with `--mode references --rounds 1 --cli-parity` and the
+same selected source paths and tokenizer. That verifier is unchanged by this
+fix. The preserved 8 GiB cgroup observer and its source hashes are documented in
+the same guide. The machine-readable records separate metadata-probe resources
+from the complete real-workflow resources.

docs/verification/javascript-module-references-2026-10-15.json

@@ -0,0 +1,691 @@
+{
+  "base_revision": "c9f9b83c6f5878f1d5b102ab206a2ce214749258",
+  "source_sha256": {
+    "scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs": "9d5f0b8b35ed2ebb4591f9dc3baea0fc116a0c3fd7d8e5ce30ec476c84671ed1",
+    "src/contracts/analysisViewToolContracts.ts": "f7c64b3472e7ec1090f9d47ede864b8c9630d506d896454a800747f2c90a8960",
+    "src/domain/analysisView/analysisView.ts": "854b03988791c19642b01d17813b379b51d8edc10d2190a3c236c9a1b2feb365",
+    "src/domain/analysisView/javascriptApplicationView.ts": "f2c41ad15fdc9f891412c9161a832b60baf3dae55e3c4d60159098d07f7d1ef1",
+    "src/domain/analysisView/javascriptModuleReferences.ts": "34c7a7ff466e9c49d43f1b11b72f878041de61a1bc09086ec190a5833b454806",
+    "scripts/fixtures/tokenizer-family-wrapper.py": "2e9b7092ee539ae1c6a477492f05bb6007d4612dadfff9b90051d621de43049b"
+  },
+  "verification": {
+    "scope": "Completed module-fact reads from identical retained Evidence; no hosted-model performance claim",
+    "artifact": {
+      "path": "/tmp/rea-codemode-experiment-20261015/artifacts/obsidian-1.14.4.asar",
+      "sha256": "146ef8470d8cbb4a6db209bdc19bf2bad13350444186c0fd93c31087b142b92f"
+    },
+    "parent_evidence_id": "ev_73ef06e3b9b944f54c5257f7960279127d8518d2a73cd8618bd045dbe44e6b5a",
+    "source_selection": {
+      "requested_paths": ["package.json", "main.js"],
+      "unselected_files": 36
+    },
+    "source_coverage": {
+      "application": {
+        "status": "partial",
+        "truncated": false,
+        "omitted_count": null,
+        "limits": []
+      },
+      "semantic": {
+        "status": "partial",
+        "truncated": false,
+        "omitted_nodes": null,
+        "omitted_relations": null,
+        "limits": [],
+        "families": [
+          {
+            "family": "boundary",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 14,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "call-flow",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 845,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 1278
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "child-process",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 0,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "closure",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 1187,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "configuration",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 0,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "data-flow",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 9388,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 1135
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "event",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 127,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 89
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "object-flow",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 1462,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 2292
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "promise-ownership",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 80,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 98
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "request",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 0,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "resource-lifecycle",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 4,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          },
+          {
+            "family": "timer",
+            "status": "partial",
+            "retained_relations": 8,
+            "omitted_relations": null,
+            "unknown_count": 31
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "application_unknowns": 36,
+      "semantic_unknowns": 5109
+    },
+    "where": {
+      "path": "main.js",
+      "kind": "javascript-module"
+    },
+    "preparation_ms": 20978.249922,
+    "samples": [
+      {
+        "round": 0,
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+      "outcome": "parity passed; superseded measurement, not pooled with final samples"
+    },
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+      "outcome": "All facts/costs and CLI/MCP parity passed. Superseded execution source after adding a tokenizer deadline; retained separately, not pooled."
+    },
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+    }
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+      "scenario": "Real Obsidian references plus CLI parity, then a deliberately stalled tokenizer",
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+      "observed_error_code": "ETIMEDOUT",
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+      },
+      "scope": "Robustness check; no efficiency credit",
+      "limitation": "Immediate child only; did not test detached descendants and is superseded by the owned-family check."
+    }
+  ],
+  "tokenizer_timeout_verification": {
+    "artifact_sha256": "146ef8470d8cbb4a6db209bdc19bf2bad13350444186c0fd93c31087b142b92f",
+    "scenario": "Real Obsidian references and CLI parity, then an owned tokenizer wrapper with a detached SIGTERM-ignoring helper",
+    "fixture": "scripts/fixtures/tokenizer-family-wrapper.py",
+    "fixture_sha256": "2e9b7092ee539ae1c6a477492f05bb6007d4612dadfff9b90051d621de43049b",
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+    "remaining_owned_temporary_files": 0,
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+      "group": 2871108,
+      "parent": 2871107,
+      "run_id": "rea-module-token-f139b74a-dd83-498b-b663-e765104159ec",
+      "detached": true,
+      "ignores_sigterm": true
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+      },
+      "pids.events": {
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+    "scope": "Robustness check; no efficiency credit. PIDs are observations; signaling authority comes from the shared process owner."
+  }
+}

docs/verification/javascript-module-references-2026-10-15.md

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+# Retained JavaScript module-reference verification
+
+Tracks #4092 under #4027 and the decision in #4091. This verifies an existing
+tool's data projection, without a code-mode host or SDK. [Machine-readable
+results](javascript-module-references-2026-10-15.json) pin the base revision,
+executed source hashes, samples, tokenizer and resource observations.
+
+## Real application and question
+
+Official Obsidian 1.14.4 ASAR, 27,477,966 bytes, SHA-256
+`146ef8470d8cbb4a6db209bdc19bf2bad13350444186c0fd93c31087b142b92f`.
+The [official gzip](https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/download/v1.14.4/obsidian-1.14.4.asar.gz)
+has SHA-256 `d1ed428c363968774f0f3906e67d8a53a058ece0b6cdd924b07865977b2ada21`.
+Select `package.json` and `main.js`; the other 36 inventoried files remain
+explicitly unselected. No target code is executed.
+
+Question: retrieve every retained `javascript-module` identity at exact path
+`main.js`, its retained source-range observation count, and distinct support
+states. Compare the existing module page plus full item reads with one filtered
+typed reference view. All six completed query samples use one identical retained
+parent. All 23 selected rows, identities, counts and support states match. Public
+CLI inline input and MCP retained input produce the exact same view and Evidence
+ID. This establishes producer-fact consistency, not independent extractor
+correctness or proof of runtime loading.
+
+## Completed read costs
+
+| Measurement                                                   | Existing page + items | Typed reference view |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------: | -------------------: |
+| Calls per query task                                          |                    24 |                    1 |
+| Structured reply bytes                                        |               325,201 |               22,158 |
+| First query in its arm, after preparation                     |             363.03 ms |             14.90 ms |
+| Subsequent same-session query times                           |    232.75 / 235.17 ms |     12.95 / 10.57 ms |
+| Request + structured-reply BPE tokens                         |                74,597 |                5,843 |
+| With selected tool catalog + shared bootstrap request/summary |                85,302 |               16,548 |
+| With complete tool catalog + shared bootstrap request/summary |               272,771 |              204,017 |
+
+Order alternates: existing/reference, reference/existing, existing/reference.
+Times include verifier-side fact normalization and equality checks; byte/token
+accounting follows the timed reads. The initial artifact analysis and summary
+took 20.978 seconds and is shared preparation, not a query-speed improvement.
+The retained source remains partial; unknown counts and source selection are
+preserved independently of exhausted pages. No query cache was introduced.
+
+Tokens are `cl100k_base` counts with tiktoken 0.12.0 over serialized values, not
+hosted-model usage. Catalog projections contain name/description/inputSchema;
+both workflows use the same post-change catalog. Each request/reply is counted
+once. Output schemas, host-specific rendering/replay, reasoning, final answers,
+agent success rates and model latency are unmeasured. This is a completed
+data-retrieval comparison; it does not establish a whole-agent speedup or a
+before/after catalog-size improvement. Legacy item reads are serial; a concurrent
+legacy baseline was not measured. Selected discovery includes both the
+analysis and view tool schemas. Builds/filesystem are warm or uncontrolled,
+so the first query is not an OS-cold analysis measurement. Shared-host scheduling
+was uncontrolled: an earlier successful probe had substantially higher wall/CPU
+times. Its samples are retained separately; neither run establishes a portable
+latency guarantee.
+
+The complete final verifier scope used 35.797 seconds elapsed, 35.197 seconds
+CPU and 1,938,313,216 bytes peak cgroup memory. This includes shared analysis,
+both query arms, temporary export, CLI parity and tokenization; CPU/memory were
+not isolated by arm. Cgroup memory includes charged file cache and is not summed
+process RSS. The whole scope had one CPU, an 8 GiB hard memory cap, 6 GiB early
+stop and no swap. Payload cleanup was verified; no OOM/capacity event occurred.
+An earlier full-response transport failure and interim probes are recorded
+separately in the JSON and earn no performance credit.
+
+A review follow-up exercised a stalled tokenizer after real Obsidian reference
+reads and CLI parity. The committed POSIX fault fixture forks a helper into a
+separate process group, ignores SIGTERM and stalls. With a caller-selected
+2,000 ms deadline, the shared owned-command supervisor reported
+`OwnedCommandFailure` with reason `timeout` and no cleanup failure. The verifier
+failed as expected, its complete owned scope was cleaned, and its selected
+temporary root was empty. The separate robustness run used 55.080 s wall /
+45.246 s CPU / 1,563,475,968 B peak cgroup memory, with cleanup verified and no
+OOM. It earns no efficiency credit. An earlier 20 ms immediate-child timeout
+probe did not establish descendant cleanup; it remains a separate prior attempt.
+The detached-helper scenario was executed on Linux, not Windows or macOS.
+
+A deterministic CI regression also asserts two retained
+observations at the same source range, excludes an unavailable location, and
+checks agreement with the full item view; the count deliberately measures
+observations rather than unique source sites.
+
+## Reproduce
+
+Use the pinned Node/npm toolchain and `npm ci`, then `npm run build:cached`.
+Download/decompress the versioned application outside the checkout and check its
+digest. Run with an operator-selected absolute artifact path:
+
+```bash
+node scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs \
+  --artifact /absolute/path/obsidian-1.14.4.asar \
+  --source-path package.json --source-path main.js \
+  --path main.js --kind javascript-module --rounds 3 --cli-parity \
+  --tokenizer-python /absolute/path/to/tiktoken-venv/bin/python
+```
+
+The optional Python interpreter needs tiktoken 0.12.0; omit that flag to skip
+token accounting. It has a 60-second wall-time deadline, configurable with the
+positive integer `--tokenizer-timeout-ms`. The tokenizer uses the existing
+owned-command supervisor, with native identity checks and inherited run-token
+sweeping for descendants. Inputs and temporary Evidence use the existing private
+runtime root. Cleanup attempts preserve the primary error; incomplete command
+cleanup retains its owner and private files for recovery. `--mode legacy` or
+`--mode references` runs one arm. Fresh runs
+reanalyze the artifact and can produce different parent identities/resource
+coverage; the verifier requires equal facts within its paired run. The measured
+run additionally used the preserved [8 GiB cgroup observer](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/b3bdabab694af1f9801eff7caf75001b92314a58/experiments/analysis-efficiency/resource-run.py)
+and its adjacent `resource_payload.py`; observer hashes are in the JSON.
+No application, complete bundle, raw observations or ambient environment is
+archived. Temporary exported/inline Evidence files are removed after successful
+owned-command cleanup.
+
+For the Linux descendant-timeout check, create an operator-selected private
+directory and set `REA_TOKENIZER_PROBE_RECORD` to a file within it. Run the same
+real-artifact command with `--mode references --rounds 1`, replace the tokenizer
+with the absolute path to `scripts/fixtures/tokenizer-family-wrapper.py`, and add
+`--tokenizer-timeout-ms 2000`. Expect a timeout failure. The explicit marker
+confirms the detached helper started; the resource observer must separately
+verify the complete owned scope is empty, and the selected temporary root must
+contain no verifier files. The recorded PID is an observation, not authority to
+signal that process.

docs/windows-ghidra-p0.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ additional permission flag or degraded mode is required.
 - Node.js 22.x (>=22.19), 24.x (>=24.11), or 26+;
 - an operator-installed Ghidra 12.1.x distribution (verified with 12.1.4);
 - a 64-bit full JDK inside that installation's declared Java range (JDK 21 or newer, with no maximum, for current 12.1 releases);
-- an explicit native, non-managed x86 or x86-64 PE application/DLL, or a
+- an explicit native, non-managed x86, x86-64, ARMNT (Thumb-2) or ARM64 PE application/DLL, or a
   [raw NMOS 6502 image](raw-binary.md#nmos-6502) with a caller-supplied entry; and
 - the 26 read-only Ghidra inventory, memory, and function-analysis operations.
 
@@ -135,9 +135,55 @@ and artifact SHA-256 before loading the package-owned addon. Native failure
 reasons remain distinct from a valid installation and an unsupported target.
 
 PE header classification and SHA-256 come from the same open file. The Windows
-provider admits native x86 and x86-64 PE applications and DLLs and rejects unsupported roles,
+provider admits native x86, x86-64, ARMNT (Thumb-2) and ARM64 PE applications and DLLs and rejects unsupported roles,
 architectures, managed images, and malformed headers. The original selected
-source coordinate is preserved for native admission.
+source coordinate is preserved for native admission. The original COFF machine is
+retained separately from the normalized CPU family. ARM admission requires the
+observed ARMNT machine 0x01C4; ARM64 requires 0xAA64. Legacy ARM (0x01C0), Thumb
+(0x01C2), and unavailable machine facts do not select this Windows lane.
+Without a caller-selected processor override, Ghidra's PE loader
+selects the language from the PE machine field: ARM (`IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_ARMNT`)
+imports as `ARM:LE:32:v8` (Thumb), ARM64 (`IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_ARM64`) as
+`AARCH64:LE:64:v8A`. Explicit language/compiler selections remain caller choices
+in the analysis profile and are recorded as explicit imports. The source
+fixture verifier compares the complete observed language ID, not just its CPU
+family prefix. ARM/ARM64 admission is a bounded extension of the x86/x64
+lane. `npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --arm` or `-- --arm64`, optionally
+combined with `--dll`, selects encoded Thumb or ARM64 PE fixtures on a Windows
+x64 host. The packaged verifier accepts the same flags. These fixtures are not
+compiler-produced programs. ARM64EC (machine 0xA641) and ARM64X are not admitted;
+this target support does not establish Windows-on-Arm host support.
+
+Real Windows x64 verification with Ghidra 12.1.4 and JDK 21 completed the ARM64
+application and ARMNT/Thumb DLL fixtures' 26 read-only operations, constant-return
+decompilation, byte searches, CLI/MCP file-offset parity, source identity, and
+owned cleanup. The DLL fixture also verifies the exported caller/callee
+relationship. The x86/x64 compact-reference value-flow battery does not cover
+ARM or ARM64 instructions. ARM64 EXE file-offset verification includes ambiguous
+mappings; the single-section ARM32 DLL cannot exercise that case.
+
+The runs used two logical CPUs, 512 MiB Node/JVM heaps, a 900-second startup
+budget, and an explicit `REA_GHIDRA_DISABLED_ANALYZERS=WindowsResourceReference`
+test configuration. Default-analyzer runs exceeded the selected startup budget;
+resource-reference analysis and default-configuration completion are not
+established by these results. A Microsoft-signed Coreinfo ARM64 application also
+completed focused MCP decompilation, repeated readback, source-mapped memory
+reads, unchanged-input and cleanup checks. On this constrained host the first
+function query, including cold analysis, took about 434 seconds; its identical
+same-session read took about 23 ms and returned about 4.6 KiB of Evidence. These
+are individual observations, not general latency guarantees. Public ARM32
+DLL verification also completed against Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 ARM
+`msvcr120.dll`, including decompilation of its exported `abs`, repeated readback,
+source-mapped bytes, unchanged-input and cleanup checks. Its first function
+query took about 601 seconds; the same-session repeat took about 11 ms and
+returned about 4.8 KiB of Evidence. After preserving original COFF machines in the
+admission/profile, a further real Windows check rejected legacy ARM/Thumb and
+retained ARMNT/ARM64 admission. A rebuilt-candidate MSVCR120 query completed
+in about 407 seconds with a 15 ms repeat (4,830 bytes of Evidence), unchanged
+input and complete cleanup. That retry selected an 1,800-second startup budget
+after an additional 900-second attempt timed out. The resource bounds were
+unchanged; these observations do not establish a speedup. Configured processor
+selection is covered by profile tests, not these real-provider runs.
 
 Admission opens and checks every path component without following a reparse
 point. It retains handles, verifies local NTFS semantics, and observes volume
@@ -200,6 +246,8 @@ npm run verify:ghidra:windows
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --x86
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --dll
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --x86 --dll
+npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --arm64
+npm run verify:ghidra:windows -- --arm64 --dll
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows:package -- --x86
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows:package -- --dll
 npm run verify:ghidra:windows:package -- --x86 --dll

package.json

@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@
     "verify:javascript-runtime": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/javascript/runtime-observation.mjs",
     "verify:javascript:digests": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/javascript/digests.mjs",
     "verify:javascript:output": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/javascript/output.mjs",
+    "verify:javascript:module-references": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs",
     "verify:application-workflows": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/javascript/application-workflows.mjs",
     "verify:managed": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/managed/conformance.mjs",
     "verify:firmware": "npm run build:cached && node scripts/verify/firmware/analysis.mjs",

scripts/ci/scopes.mjs

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ export const SCOPES = {
     "src/domain/javascript/javascriptRuntimeStaticCandidates.ts",
     "tests/boundary/filesystem/webScriptManifestPaths.test.ts",
     "tests/boundary/process/ProcessEvidence.host.test.ts",
+    "tests/boundary/process/packageNpmInvocation.test.ts",
     "tests/boundary/process/windowsOutputCapture.test.ts",
     "tests/acceptance/webModuleCli.test.ts",
     "tests/acceptance/webSourceLocationCli.test.ts",

scripts/create-ghidra-windows-fixture.mjs

@@ -3,42 +3,52 @@ import { dirname, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { writeWindowsGhidraByteSearchFixture } from "./lib/ghidra-windows-byte-search.mjs";
 
+import {
+  WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES,
+  windowsGhidraFixtureOptions,
+} from "./lib/ghidra-windows-fixture-options.mjs";
+
 const root = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..");
 // Source-owned static fixtures: no compiler, target loading or execution.
-for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
+for (const architecture of WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES) {
   for (const dll of [false, true]) {
     const x86 = architecture === "x86";
-    const output = resolve(
-      root,
-      "build",
-      "fixtures",
-      `rea-ghidra-windows${x86 ? "-x86" : ""}.${dll ? "dll" : "exe"}`,
-    );
+    const arm = architecture === "arm";
+    const arm64 = architecture === "arm64";
+    const fixture = windowsGhidraFixtureOptions([
+      ...(architecture === "x86_64" ? [] : [`--${architecture}`]),
+      ...(dll ? ["--dll"] : []),
+    ]);
+    const pe32 = fixture.pe32;
+    const output = resolve(root, "build", "fixtures", fixture.filename);
     const bytes = Buffer.alloc(dll ? 1024 : 1536);
     const peOffset = 0x80;
     const optionalHeader = peOffset + 24;
-    const optionalHeaderSize = x86 ? 0xe0 : 0xf0;
+    const optionalHeaderSize = pe32 ? 0xe0 : 0xf0;
     const sectionTable = optionalHeader + optionalHeaderSize;
-    const directories = optionalHeader + (x86 ? 96 : 112);
+    const directories = optionalHeader + (pe32 ? 96 : 112);
 
     bytes.write("MZ", 0, "ascii");
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(peOffset, 0x3c);
     bytes.write("PE\0\0", peOffset, "binary");
-    bytes.writeUInt16LE(x86 ? 0x14c : 0x8664, peOffset + 4);
+    // The fixture descriptor owns COFF machine, width and function coordinates.
+    bytes.writeUInt16LE(fixture.machine, peOffset + 4);
     bytes.writeUInt16LE(dll ? 1 : 2, peOffset + 6);
     bytes.writeUInt16LE(optionalHeaderSize, peOffset + 20);
     bytes.writeUInt16LE(
-      (x86 ? 0x102 : 0x22) | (dll ? 0x2000 : 0),
+      (pe32 ? 0x102 : 0x22) | (dll ? 0x2000 : 0),
       peOffset + 22,
     );
 
-    bytes.writeUInt16LE(x86 ? 0x10b : 0x20b, optionalHeader);
+    // ARM64 PE uses the PE32+ optional header (magic 0x20b), like x86-64.
+    bytes.writeUInt16LE(pe32 ? 0x10b : 0x20b, optionalHeader);
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x200, optionalHeader + 4);
     if (!dll) bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x200, optionalHeader + 8);
-    bytes.writeUInt32LE(dll ? 0 : 0x1000, optionalHeader + 16);
+    bytes.writeUInt32LE(dll ? 0 : arm ? 0x1001 : 0x1000, optionalHeader + 16);
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1000, optionalHeader + 20);
-    if (x86) bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x400000, optionalHeader + 28);
-    else bytes.writeBigUInt64LE(0x1_4000_0000n, optionalHeader + 24);
+    if (pe32)
+      bytes.writeUInt32LE(Number(fixture.imageBase), optionalHeader + 28);
+    else bytes.writeBigUInt64LE(fixture.imageBase, optionalHeader + 24);
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1000, optionalHeader + 32);
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x200, optionalHeader + 36);
     bytes.writeUInt16LE(6, optionalHeader + 40);
@@ -46,8 +56,8 @@ for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(dll ? 0x2000 : 0x3000, optionalHeader + 56);
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x200, optionalHeader + 60);
     bytes.writeUInt16LE(3, optionalHeader + 68);
-    bytes.writeUInt16LE(x86 ? 0x8140 : 0x8160, optionalHeader + 70);
-    if (x86) {
+    bytes.writeUInt16LE(pe32 ? 0x8140 : 0x8160, optionalHeader + 70);
+    if (pe32) {
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x10_0000, optionalHeader + 72);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1000, optionalHeader + 76);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x10_0000, optionalHeader + 80);
@@ -69,18 +79,52 @@ for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
     bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x6000_0020, sectionTable + 36);
 
     // EXE entry returns zero. DLL caller adds one to the callee's 42.
-    bytes.set(
-      dll
-        ? [0xe8, 0x0b, 0, 0, 0, 0x83, 0xc0, 1, 0xc3]
-        : [0xe8, 0x0b, 0, 0, 0, 0xe8, 0x16, 0, 0, 0, 0x31, 0xc0, 0xc3],
-      0x200,
-    );
-    bytes.set(
-      x86 && !dll
-        ? [0xb8, 0x2a, 0, 0, 0, 0xe8, 0x66, 0, 0, 0, 0xc3]
-        : [0xb8, 0x2a, 0, 0, 0, 0xc3],
-      0x210,
-    );
+    if (arm) {
+      // ARMNT uses Thumb instructions and low-bit-tagged PE entry/export RVAs.
+      // PUSH keeps SP aligned and preserves LR across BL from 0x1002 to 0x1020.
+      bytes.set(
+        [
+          0x10,
+          0xb5,
+          0x00,
+          0xf0,
+          0x0d,
+          0xf8,
+          dll ? 0x01 : 0x00,
+          dll ? 0x30 : 0x20,
+          0x10,
+          0xbd,
+        ],
+        0x200,
+      );
+      bytes.set([0x2a, 0x20, 0x70, 0x47], 0x220);
+    } else if (arm64) {
+      // Preserve the caller's frame/link registers across BL. The callee
+      // starts at RVA 0x1020, outside the five-instruction caller.
+      const instructions = [
+        0xa9bf7bfd, // STP X29, X30, [SP, #-16]!
+        0x94000007, // BL +0x1c from RVA 0x1004 to RVA 0x1020
+        dll ? 0x11000400 : 0x52800000, // ADD W0,W0,#1 / MOV W0,#0
+        0xa8c17bfd, // LDP X29, X30, [SP], #16
+        0xd65f03c0, // RET
+      ];
+      for (const [index, instruction] of instructions.entries())
+        bytes.writeUInt32LE(instruction, 0x200 + index * 4);
+      bytes.set([0x40, 0x05, 0x80, 0x52, 0xc0, 0x03, 0x5f, 0xd6], 0x220);
+    } else {
+      bytes.set(
+        dll
+          ? [0xe8, 0x0b, 0, 0, 0, 0x83, 0xc0, 1, 0xc3]
+          : [0xe8, 0x0b, 0, 0, 0, 0xe8, 0x16, 0, 0, 0, 0x31, 0xc0, 0xc3],
+        0x200,
+      );
+      bytes.set(
+        x86 && !dll
+          ? [0xb8, 0x2a, 0, 0, 0, 0xe8, 0x66, 0, 0, 0, 0xc3]
+          : [0xb8, 0x2a, 0, 0, 0, 0xc3],
+        0x210,
+      );
+    }
 
     if (x86 && !dll) {
       // A statically analyzed Borland-style SEH registration whose handler
@@ -149,19 +193,31 @@ for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
             "ffd7", // CALL EDI: unknown target.
             "c3",
           ]
-        : [
-            "488d15d90f0000", // LEA RDX, [RIP + displacement]: DATA.
-            "8b05d30f0000", // MOV EAX, [RIP + displacement]: READ.
-            "8905d10f0000", // MOV [RIP + displacement], EAX: WRITE.
-            "488d15d60f0000", // Indexed base, unknown RCX.
-            "85db", // TEST EBX, EBX: two candidate bases.
-            "7407", // JZ over the alternate base.
-            "488d15d30f0000", // LEA RDX, alternate base.
-            "c6040a01", // MOV byte [RDX + RCX], 1.
-            "41ffd0", // CALL R8: unknown target.
-            "c3",
-          ];
-      bytes.set(Buffer.from(referenceInstructions.join(""), "hex"), 0x220);
+        : arm
+          ? ["7047"] // Thumb return; x86 reference-flow controls do not apply.
+          : arm64
+            ? [
+                "010000b0", // ADRP X1, .data page (RVA 0x2000): DATA.
+                "200040b9", // LDR W0, [X1]: READ.
+                "200000b9", // STR W0, [X1]: WRITE.
+                "c0035fd6", // RET.
+              ]
+            : [
+                "488d15d90f0000", // LEA RDX, [RIP + displacement]: DATA.
+                "8b05d30f0000", // MOV EAX, [RIP + displacement]: READ.
+                "8905d10f0000", // MOV [RIP + displacement], EAX: WRITE.
+                "488d15d60f0000", // Indexed base, unknown RCX.
+                "85db", // TEST EBX, EBX: two candidate bases.
+                "7407", // JZ over the alternate base.
+                "488d15d30f0000", // LEA RDX, alternate base.
+                "c6040a01", // MOV byte [RDX + RCX], 1.
+                "41ffd0", // CALL R8: unknown target.
+                "c3",
+              ];
+      bytes.set(
+        Buffer.from(referenceInstructions.join(""), "hex"),
+        arm || arm64 ? 0x230 : 0x220,
+      );
     }
 
     if (dll) {
@@ -176,8 +232,8 @@ for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1080, exports + 28);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1088, exports + 32);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1090, exports + 36);
-      bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1000, 0x280);
-      bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1010, 0x284);
+      bytes.writeUInt32LE(arm ? 0x1001 : 0x1000, 0x280);
+      bytes.writeUInt32LE(fixture.calleeRva + (arm ? 1 : 0), 0x284);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1120, 0x288);
       bytes.writeUInt32LE(0x1140, 0x28c);
       bytes.writeUInt16LE(0, 0x290);
@@ -191,6 +247,6 @@ for (const architecture of ["x86_64", "x86"]) {
 
     await mkdir(dirname(output), { recursive: true });
     await writeFile(output, bytes);
-    if (!x86 && !dll) process.stdout.write(`${output}\n`);
+    if (architecture === "x86_64" && !dll) process.stdout.write(`${output}\n`);
   }
 }

scripts/fixtures/browser-verifier-site.mjs

@@ -12,13 +12,22 @@ export async function startBrowserVerifierSite() {
       return;
     }
     const requestUrl = new URL(request.url ?? "/", "http://127.0.0.1");
+    if (requestUrl.pathname === "/scenario-request-language") {
+      response.setHeader("content-type", "application/json");
+      response.setHeader("cache-control", "no-store");
+      response.end(JSON.stringify(request.headers["accept-language"] ?? null));
+      return;
+    }
     if (requestUrl.pathname === "/scenario-environment") {
       const requestedRun = requestUrl.searchParams.get("run");
       const run = ["A", "B", "C"].includes(requestedRun)
         ? requestedRun
         : "default";
       response.setHeader("content-type", "text/html");
-      response.end(`<!doctype html><html><body data-run="${run}"><pre id="environment"></pre>
+      const requestLanguage = encodeURIComponent(
+        JSON.stringify(request.headers["accept-language"] ?? null),
+      );
+      response.end(`<!doctype html><html><body data-run="${run}" data-request-language="${requestLanguage}"><pre id="environment"></pre><pre id="language"></pre>
         <button id="refresh-environment">Refresh environment</button><script>
         const refresh = () => document.querySelector('#environment').textContent = JSON.stringify({
           timezone: Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone,
@@ -26,6 +35,10 @@ export async function startBrowserVerifierSite() {
           dpr: devicePixelRatio, width: innerWidth, height: innerHeight
         });
         document.querySelector('#refresh-environment').onclick = refresh;
+        document.querySelector('#language').textContent = JSON.stringify({
+          language: navigator.language, languages: [...navigator.languages],
+          request_language: JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(document.body.dataset.requestLanguage))
+        });
         window.releaseScenario = () => {
           const release = document.createElement('span');
           release.id = 'release-' + document.body.dataset.run;

scripts/fixtures/tokenizer-family-wrapper.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""POSIX fault fixture for the optional module-reference token counter.
+
+Use as --tokenizer-python with an explicit REA_TOKENIZER_PROBE_RECORD path.
+It deliberately ignores the counter arguments, forks a detached helper that
+ignores SIGTERM, and stalls. The production owned-command supervisor must
+terminate the verified family. Recorded PIDs are observations, not authority
+to signal a process; verification also checks the owned scope after exit.
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+import signal
+import time
+
+
+def main():
+    record = Path(os.environ["REA_TOKENIZER_PROBE_RECORD"])
+    child = os.fork()
+    if child == 0:
+        os.setsid()
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_IGN)
+        record.write_text(json.dumps({
+            "pid": os.getpid(),
+            "group": os.getpgrp(),
+            "parent": os.getppid(),
+            "run_id": os.environ.get("REA_PROCESS_RUN_ID"),
+            "detached": True,
+            "ignores_sigterm": True,
+        }) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    time.sleep(30)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/lib/browser-scenario-environment-e2e.mjs

@@ -97,8 +97,32 @@ const assertCapture = (capture, values = expected) => {
   }
 };
 
+const assertCallerLanguage = (capture, baseline) => {
+  assert.ok(
+    capture.limitations.some((value) =>
+      value.includes("Attached locale fr-FR applies to Intl formatting only"),
+    ),
+    "Attached capture must identify its page/request language limitation",
+  );
+  for (const step of capture.steps) {
+    const text = step.artifacts.dom.value.text;
+    const observed = /<pre id="language">([^<]+)<\/pre>/u.exec(text);
+    assert.ok(
+      observed,
+      "DOM omitted the navigator/request language observations",
+    );
+    assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(observed[1]), baseline);
+  }
+};
+
 /** Verify actual attached-page emulation and restoration across scenario outcomes. */
 export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
+  const languageExpression = `(async () => JSON.stringify({
+    language: navigator.language, languages: [...navigator.languages],
+    request_language: await (await fetch(
+      ${JSON.stringify(`${origin}/scenario-request-language`)}, { cache: "no-store" }
+    )).json()
+  }))()`;
   const targets = await (await fetch(`${endpoint}/json/list`)).json();
   const target = targets.find(({ id }) => id === targetId);
   assert.ok(target, "External fixture target is missing");
@@ -106,10 +130,11 @@ export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
     target.webSocketDebuggerUrl,
     "capture_browser_scenario",
   );
-  const readEnvironment = async () => {
+  const readEnvironment = async (expressionToRead = expression) => {
     const value = await connection.send("Runtime.evaluate", {
-      expression,
+      expression: expressionToRead,
       returnByValue: true,
+      awaitPromise: true,
     });
     assert.equal(value.result.type, "string");
     return JSON.parse(value.result.value);
@@ -118,6 +143,7 @@ export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
   let verificationError;
   try {
     const baseline = await readEnvironment();
+    const callerLanguage = await readEnvironment(languageExpression);
     const scenario = environmentScenario({
       endpoint,
       targetId,
@@ -126,10 +152,16 @@ export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
     });
     const assertRestored = async () => {
       assert.deepEqual(await readEnvironment(), baseline);
+      assert.deepEqual(
+        await readEnvironment(languageExpression),
+        callerLanguage,
+      );
       const remaining = await (await fetch(`${endpoint}/json/list`)).json();
       assert.ok(remaining.some(({ id }) => id === targetId));
     };
-    assertCapture((await runScenarioCli(scenario)).normalized_result);
+    const cliCapture = (await runScenarioCli(scenario)).normalized_result;
+    assertCapture(cliCapture);
+    assertCallerLanguage(cliCapture, callerLanguage);
     await assertRestored();
     const transport = new StdioClientTransport({
       command: process.execPath,
@@ -147,15 +179,15 @@ export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
         ({ name }) => name === "capture_browser_scenario",
       );
       assert.ok(definition, "Scenario tool is absent from the current catalog");
-      assertCapture(
-        requireMcpEvidenceResult(
-          await client.callTool(
-            { name: "capture_browser_scenario", arguments: scenario },
-            { toolDefinition: definition },
-          ),
-          "capture_browser_scenario",
+      const mcpCapture = requireMcpEvidenceResult(
+        await client.callTool(
+          { name: "capture_browser_scenario", arguments: scenario },
+          { toolDefinition: definition },
         ),
+        "capture_browser_scenario",
       );
+      assertCapture(mcpCapture);
+      assertCallerLanguage(mcpCapture, callerLanguage);
       await verifyConcurrentMcpCapture({
         client,
         definition,
@@ -201,6 +233,8 @@ export async function verifyScenarioEnvironment(endpoint, targetId, origin) {
       stdio_mcp: true,
       observed: expected,
       restored: baseline,
+      caller_language_preserved: callerLanguage,
+      attached_locale_limitation: true,
       initialization_failure_cleanup: true,
       action_failure_cleanup: true,
       cancellation_cleanup: true,

scripts/lib/browser-scenario-storage-e2e.mjs

@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ const verifyCancelledStorage = async (
   const pending = provider.captureScenario(cancelledScenario, {
     signal: controller.signal,
   });
+  let failure;
   try {
     await waitForNewDocument(
       observer,
@@ -645,19 +646,23 @@ const verifyCancelledStorage = async (
     });
     controller.abort(new Error("cancel storage seed scenario"));
     const result = await pending;
-    assert.ok(
-      !result.ok ||
+    if (result.ok)
+      assert.ok(
         result.value.steps.some(({ status }) => status === "cancelled"),
-      "Cancellation unexpectedly completed every scenario step",
-    );
+        "Cancellation unexpectedly completed every scenario step",
+      );
+    else assert.equal(result.error._tag, "AnalysisCancelledError");
     const targets = await (await fetch(`${endpoint}/json/list`)).json();
     assert.ok(
       targets.some(({ id }) => id === targetId),
       "Cancelled connect-mode storage cleanup closed the external target",
     );
+  } catch (cause) {
+    failure = cause;
+    throw cause;
   } finally {
-    controller.abort();
-    await provider.close();
+    controller.abort(new Error("cancel failed storage verification"));
+    await closeVerifierResources([() => provider.close()], failure);
   }
 };
 

scripts/lib/ghidra-windows-byte-search.mjs

@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@ export function writeWindowsGhidraByteSearchFixture(bytes) {
 export async function verifyWindowsGhidraByteSearch({
   invoke,
   sourceBytes,
-  architecture,
+  imageBase,
   sourceOwnedFixture = true,
   fallbackAddress,
   fallbackFileOffset,
   runCliPage,
 }) {
-  const imageBase = architecture === "x86" ? 0x400000n : 0x140000000n;
   const query = sourceOwnedFixture
     ? {
         pattern: WINDOWS_GHIDRA_BYTE_SEARCH_FIXTURE.pattern,

scripts/lib/ghidra-windows-fixture-options.d.mts

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+export const WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES: readonly [
+  "x86_64",
+  "x86",
+  "arm",
+  "arm64",
+];
+export const WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_FLAGS: readonly string[];
+
+/** Select one architecture without interpreting positional paths as flags. */
+export function windowsGhidraFixtureOptions(arguments_: readonly string[]): {
+  architecture: (typeof WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES)[number];
+  dll: boolean;
+  pe32: boolean;
+  imageBase: bigint;
+  calleeRva: number;
+  machine: number;
+  filename: string;
+  languageId: string;
+  callerAddress: string;
+  calleeAddress: string;
+};

scripts/lib/ghidra-windows-fixture-options.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/** Source-owned PE fixtures; these are encoded bytes, not compiled programs. */
+/** @type {readonly ["x86_64", "x86", "arm", "arm64"]} */
+export const WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES = Object.freeze([
+  "x86_64",
+  "x86",
+  "arm",
+  "arm64",
+]);
+
+export const WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_FLAGS = Object.freeze([
+  "--x86",
+  "--arm",
+  "--arm64",
+  "--dll",
+]);
+
+/** Select one architecture without interpreting positional paths as flags. */
+/** @param {readonly string[]} arguments_ */
+export const windowsGhidraFixtureOptions = (arguments_) => {
+  const selected = WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_ARCHITECTURES.filter(
+    (architecture) =>
+      architecture !== "x86_64" && arguments_.includes(`--${architecture}`),
+  );
+  if (selected.length > 1)
+    throw new Error("Choose one Windows PE fixture architecture.");
+  const architecture = selected[0] ?? "x86_64";
+  const dll = arguments_.includes("--dll");
+  const pe32 = architecture === "x86" || architecture === "arm";
+  const imageBase = pe32 ? 0x400000n : 0x140000000n;
+  const calleeRva = architecture.startsWith("arm") ? 0x1020 : 0x1010;
+  return {
+    architecture,
+    dll,
+    pe32,
+    imageBase,
+    calleeRva,
+    machine: { x86: 0x14c, x86_64: 0x8664, arm: 0x1c4, arm64: 0xaa64 }[
+      architecture
+    ],
+    filename: `rea-ghidra-windows${architecture === "x86_64" ? "" : `-${architecture}`}.${dll ? "dll" : "exe"}`,
+    languageId:
+      architecture === "arm"
+        ? "ARM:LE:32:v8"
+        : architecture === "arm64"
+          ? "AARCH64:LE:64:v8A"
+          : `x86:LE:${pe32 ? 32 : 64}:default`,
+    callerAddress: `0x${(imageBase + 0x1000n).toString(16)}`,
+    calleeAddress: `0x${(imageBase + BigInt(calleeRva)).toString(16)}`,
+  };
+};

scripts/lib/kuna-native-reference-verifier.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { realpath } from "node:fs/promises";
+
+import { runKunaCommand } from "../../dist/kuna/KunaCommand.js";
+import { inspectKunaInstallation } from "../../dist/kuna/KunaInstallation.js";
+import { KUNA_XREF_OUTPUT_BYTES } from "../../dist/kuna/KunaReferenceFiles.js";
+
+/** Independent projection of native exact-target rows, bypassing REA's parser. */
+export const nativeKunaIncomingSites = async ({
+  executable,
+  cacheRoot,
+  workspace,
+  binary,
+  address,
+  retain,
+}) => {
+  const installed = await inspectKunaInstallation({
+    REA_KUNA_COMMAND: executable,
+    REA_KUNA_CACHE_DIR: cacheRoot,
+  });
+  assert.ok(installed.ok, "Native reference oracle could not inspect Kuna");
+  const input = await realpath(binary);
+  const timeoutMs = installed.value.configuration.functionTimeoutMs;
+  const outcome = await runKunaCommand({
+    installation: installed.value,
+    arguments: ["xrefs", input, "--to", address, "--json"],
+    workspace,
+    operation: "verify:kuna-native-xrefs",
+    timeoutMs,
+    reportedTimeoutMs: timeoutMs,
+    outputBytes: KUNA_XREF_OUTPUT_BYTES,
+    signal: new AbortController().signal,
+  });
+  if (outcome.kind === "retained") retain(outcome);
+  if (outcome.kind !== "ok") throw outcome.error;
+  const document = JSON.parse(outcome.snapshot.stdout.text);
+  assert.equal(document.binary, input);
+  assert.equal(document.direction, "to");
+  assert.equal(document.target.address_hex, address);
+  assert.equal(document.count, document.xrefs.length);
+  const sites = document.xrefs
+    .filter((row) => row.to_address_hex === address)
+    .map((row) => row.from_address_hex);
+  assert.ok(sites.every((site) => /^0x[0-9a-f]+$/u.test(site)));
+  return [...new Set(sites)].sort();
+};

scripts/lib/kuna-reference-verifier.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { readdir } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { combineFunctionRelationshipCoverage } from "../../dist/domain/functionCallCoverage.js";
+
+const entries = async (path) => {
+  try {
+    return (await readdir(path)).sort();
+  } catch (cause) {
+    if (cause.code === "ENOENT") return [];
+    throw cause;
+  }
+};
+
+/** Verify selected public reference answers without requesting source text. */
+export const verifyKunaReferences = async ({
+  call,
+  cacheRoot,
+  name,
+  address,
+  expectedCaller,
+  nativeIncoming,
+}) => {
+  const before = await Promise.all([
+    entries(join(cacheRoot, "projects")),
+    entries(join(cacheRoot, "staging")),
+  ]);
+  const callers = await call("procedure_callers", { procedure: address });
+  const callees = await call("procedure_callees", { procedure: address });
+  const incoming = await call("xrefs", { address });
+  for (const [label, result] of [
+    ["callers", callers],
+    ["callees", callees],
+    ["xrefs", incoming],
+  ]) {
+    assert.ok(
+      Array.isArray(result.value),
+      `${name} ${label} omitted its address list`,
+    );
+    assert.equal(
+      new Set(result.value).size,
+      result.value.length,
+      `${label} repeats an address`,
+    );
+    assert.ok(
+      result.value.every((value) =>
+        /^0x(?:0|[1-9a-f][0-9a-f]{0,15})$/u.test(value),
+      ),
+      `${label} returned a noncanonical u64 address`,
+    );
+    assert.equal(result.structured.provider.id, "kuna");
+    const source = result.structured.raw_result.references;
+    assert.match(source.sha256, /^[0-9a-f]{64}$/u);
+    assert.ok(source.bytes > 0);
+  }
+  let composed;
+  if (expectedCaller !== undefined) {
+    assert.ok(
+      callers.value.includes(expectedCaller),
+      `${name} lost its source-owned caller`,
+    );
+    assert.ok(
+      incoming.value.length > 0,
+      `${name} lost its source-owned call site`,
+    );
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      [...incoming.value].sort(),
+      await nativeIncoming(address),
+      `${name} incoming references differ from exact-target native sites`,
+    );
+    const graph = await call("get_call_graph", {
+      address: expectedCaller,
+      direction: "forward",
+    });
+    assert.ok(graph.value.graph["0"][0].calls.includes(address));
+    const path = await call("trace_call_path", {
+      start: expectedCaller,
+      goal: address,
+      direction: "forward",
+    });
+    assert.equal(path.value.goal_status, "reached");
+    composed = { graph_ms: graph.ms, path_ms: path.ms };
+  }
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    await Promise.all([
+      entries(join(cacheRoot, "projects")),
+      entries(join(cacheRoot, "staging")),
+    ]),
+    before,
+    "A reference-only workflow started a C project export",
+  );
+  const repeated = await call("procedure_callees", { procedure: address });
+  assert.deepEqual(repeated.value, callees.value);
+  return {
+    callers: callers.value.length,
+    callees: callees.value.length,
+    xrefs: incoming.value.length,
+    first_graph_ms: callers.ms,
+    warm_graph_ms: repeated.ms,
+    xrefs_ms: incoming.ms,
+    response_bytes: callers.bytes + callees.bytes + incoming.bytes,
+    relationship_coverage: combineFunctionRelationshipCoverage(
+      callers.structured.relationship_coverage,
+      callees.structured.relationship_coverage,
+    ),
+    ...composed,
+  };
+};

scripts/lib/kuna-string-verifier.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { readdir, realpath } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { runKunaCommand } from "../../dist/kuna/KunaCommand.js";
+import { inspectKunaInstallation } from "../../dist/kuna/KunaInstallation.js";
+
+const entries = (path) =>
+  readdir(path).catch((cause) => {
+    if (cause.code === "ENOENT") return [];
+    throw cause;
+  });
+
+/** Independent native oracle; uses source hex fields rather than JS numeric addresses. */
+export const nativeKunaStrings = async ({
+  executable,
+  cacheRoot,
+  workspace,
+  binary,
+  retain,
+}) => {
+  const installed = await inspectKunaInstallation({
+    REA_KUNA_COMMAND: executable,
+    REA_KUNA_CACHE_DIR: cacheRoot,
+  });
+  assert.ok(installed.ok, "Native string oracle could not inspect Kuna");
+  const input = await realpath(binary);
+  const outcome = await runKunaCommand({
+    installation: installed.value,
+    arguments: [
+      "strings",
+      input,
+      "--json",
+      "--encoding",
+      "all",
+      "--min-length",
+      "5",
+      "--termination",
+      "any",
+      "--no-xrefs",
+    ],
+    workspace,
+    operation: "verify:kuna-native-strings",
+    timeoutMs: installed.value.configuration.projectTimeoutMs,
+    reportedTimeoutMs: installed.value.configuration.projectTimeoutMs,
+    outputBytes: 16 * 1024 * 1024,
+    signal: new AbortController().signal,
+  });
+  if (outcome.kind === "retained") retain(outcome);
+  if (outcome.kind !== "ok") throw outcome.error;
+  const document = JSON.parse(outcome.snapshot.stdout.text);
+  assert.equal(document.binary, input);
+  assert.equal(document.count, document.strings.length);
+  assert.equal(document.xrefs, false);
+  return document.strings
+    .map((row) => ({
+      address: row.address_hex,
+      value: row.text,
+      string: {
+        encoding: row.encoding,
+        encoding_status: "observed",
+        termination: row.nul_terminated ? "present_or_not_required" : "missing",
+        byte_length: row.byte_length,
+      },
+    }))
+    .sort((left, right) => {
+      const a = BigInt(left.address),
+        b = BigInt(right.address);
+      return a < b
+        ? -1
+        : a > b
+          ? 1
+          : left.string.encoding.localeCompare(right.string.encoding, "en");
+    });
+};
+
+/** Verify focused/complete string operations before any procedure analysis starts. */
+export const verifyKunaStrings = async ({
+  call,
+  cacheRoot,
+  nativeStrings,
+  expectedStrings = [],
+}) => {
+  const expected = await nativeStrings();
+  if (expectedStrings.length > 0)
+    assert.ok(
+      expected.length > 0,
+      "Source-owned string fixture did not exercise a positive result",
+    );
+  const pattern =
+    expected.find(({ value }) => value.length >= 8 && value.length <= 100)
+      ?.value ??
+    expected[0]?.value ??
+    "REA-empty-string-inventory";
+  const selected = expected.filter(({ value }) =>
+    value.toLowerCase().includes(pattern.toLowerCase()),
+  );
+  const before = await Promise.all([
+    entries(join(cacheRoot, "projects")),
+    entries(join(cacheRoot, "staging")),
+  ]);
+  const cold = await call("search_strings", { pattern });
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    cold.value,
+    selected,
+    "String search differs from native scan",
+  );
+  const source = cold.structured.raw_result.strings;
+  assert.equal(source.inventory_count, expected.length);
+  assert.equal(source.selected_count, selected.length);
+  assert.equal(source.xrefs, false);
+  assert.match(source.sha256, /^[0-9a-f]{64}$/u);
+  assert.ok(source.bytes > 0);
+  assert.equal(cold.structured.provider.id, "kuna");
+  assert.ok(cold.structured.evidence_id);
+  const complete = await call("list_strings");
+  assert.deepEqual(complete.value, expected);
+  for (const value of expectedStrings)
+    assert.ok(
+      complete.value.some((row) => row.value === value),
+      `Required string ${JSON.stringify(value)} was not recovered`,
+    );
+  assert.equal(complete.structured.raw_result.strings.sha256, source.sha256);
+  const repeated = await call("search_strings", { pattern });
+  assert.deepEqual(repeated.value, selected);
+  let exact;
+  if (selected.length > 0) {
+    const address = selected[0].address;
+    exact = await call("list_strings", { address });
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      exact.value,
+      expected.filter((item) => item.address === address),
+    );
+  }
+  const regex = await call("search_strings", {
+    pattern: "^.{5,12}$",
+    mode: "regex",
+    case_sensitive: true,
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    regex.value,
+    expected.filter(({ value }) => /^.{5,12}$/u.test(value)),
+  );
+  const missing = await call("search_strings", {
+    pattern: "\u0000REA-negative-string-query\u0000",
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(missing.value, []);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    await Promise.all([
+      entries(join(cacheRoot, "projects")),
+      entries(join(cacheRoot, "staging")),
+    ]),
+    before,
+    "String reads started a project export",
+  );
+  return {
+    inventory_count: expected.length,
+    selected_count: selected.length,
+    cold_scan_ms: cold.ms,
+    warm_search_ms: repeated.ms,
+    exact_address_ms: exact?.ms ?? null,
+    cold_response_bytes: cold.bytes,
+    complete_response_bytes: complete.bytes,
+    regex_response_bytes: regex.bytes,
+  };
+};

scripts/lib/real-ghidra-target-admission.mjs

@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ async function verifySourceReadFailures({
     ...(permissionDenied ? ["permission"] : []),
   ];
   for (const scenario of scenarios) {
+    // Same-target reopen may admit restored bytes through retained-client health.
+    // Each rejection needs a cold client, without an existing private snapshot.
+    await call("close_binary");
     await call("open_binary", { path: source, provider_id: "ghidra" });
     const before = await call("binary_session");
     if (scenario === "permission") await chmod(source, 0);

scripts/lib/verify-package-core.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
 import { lstat } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import { Ajv2020 } from "ajv/dist/2020.js";
 
@@ -17,6 +18,25 @@ const loadMcpVerifierResults = () => import("./mcp-verifier-results.mjs");
 /** Promisified child_process execution helper. */
 export const exec = promisify(execFile);
 
+/** Run npm through its JavaScript entry point so Windows command scripts are not required. */
+export const execNpm = (arguments_, options = {}) => {
+  const environment = options.env ?? process.env;
+  const selectedEntry = environment.npm_execpath;
+  if (
+    selectedEntry !== undefined &&
+    (typeof selectedEntry !== "string" || selectedEntry.length === 0)
+  )
+    throw new Error("npm_execpath must name the selected npm CLI entry point");
+  const entry =
+    selectedEntry ??
+    (process.platform === "win32"
+      ? join(dirname(process.execPath), "node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js")
+      : undefined);
+  return entry === undefined
+    ? exec("npm", arguments_, options)
+    : exec(process.execPath, [entry, ...arguments_], options);
+};
+
 /** Run a command and return its stdout. */
 export const run = async (command, args, env) =>
   (await exec(command, args, { env })).stdout;

scripts/lib/wabt-verifier-timeouts.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// A single inspection can include native admission plus several WABT commands.
+// The aggregate verifier covers seven complete fixtures and their failure paths.
+export const WABT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS = 4 * 60_000;
+export const WABT_WORKFLOW_TIMEOUT_MS = 15 * 60_000;

scripts/verify-package-install.mjs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { rm } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 
-import { exec, json, run } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import { exec, execNpm, json, run } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
 
 /** Install the packed CLI globally with and without optional dependencies and verify PTY degradation. */
 export async function verifyPackageInstall({
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ export async function verifyPackageInstall({
   workspace,
   environment,
 }) {
-  await exec(
-    "npm",
+  await execNpm(
     [
       "install",
       "--global",
@@ -53,8 +52,7 @@ export async function verifyPackageInstall({
       `packaged PTY backend failed without lifecycle scripts: ${JSON.stringify(processCaptureCapability)}`,
     );
   const noOptionalPrefix = join(workspace, "prefix-no-optional");
-  await exec(
-    "npm",
+  await execNpm(
     [
       "install",
       "--global",
@@ -108,7 +106,7 @@ export async function verifyPackageInstall({
 const verifyInstalledPackageCanRepack = async (prefix, environment) => {
   const installedPackageRoot = join(prefix, "lib/node_modules/rea-agents");
   const repackedTarball = (
-    await exec("npm", ["pack", "--silent"], {
+    await execNpm(["pack", "--silent"], {
       cwd: installedPackageRoot,
       env: environment,
     })

scripts/verify-package-pack.mjs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { CATALOG_IDENTITY } from "../dist/catalogIdentity.js";
 
-import { exec } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import { exec, execNpm } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
 import { verifyPackedBridge } from "./verify-packed-bridge.mjs";
 
 /** Create a tarball and assert production packaging constraints. */
@@ -12,13 +12,9 @@ export async function verifyPackagePack({ root, workspace }) {
   const tarball = join(
     packDirectory,
     (
-      await exec(
-        "npm",
-        ["pack", "--silent", "--pack-destination", packDirectory],
-        {
-          cwd: root,
-        },
-      )
+      await execNpm(["pack", "--silent", "--pack-destination", packDirectory], {
+        cwd: root,
+      })
     ).stdout.trim(),
   );
   const packedFiles = (await exec("tar", ["-tf", tarball])).stdout.split("\n");

scripts/verify-packaged-ghidra-windows.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
+import {
+  WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_FLAGS,
+  windowsGhidraFixtureOptions,
+} from "./lib/ghidra-windows-fixture-options.mjs";
 
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import {
@@ -24,6 +28,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 
 import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
 import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
+import { execNpm } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
 
 if (process.platform !== "win32" || process.arch !== "x64")
   throw new Error(
@@ -33,11 +38,11 @@ const exec = promisify(execFile);
 const arguments_ = process.argv.slice(2);
 const internalWorkspace = arguments_[0] === "--internal-workspace";
 const fixtureArguments = internalWorkspace ? arguments_.slice(2) : arguments_;
-const x86Fixture = fixtureArguments.includes("--x86");
-const dllFixture = fixtureArguments.includes("--dll");
+const fixture = windowsGhidraFixtureOptions(fixtureArguments);
+const dllFixture = fixture.dll;
 const [packageRootArgument, targetArgument, reportArgument] =
   fixtureArguments.filter(
-    (argument) => argument !== "--x86" && argument !== "--dll",
+    (argument) => !WINDOWS_GHIDRA_FIXTURE_FLAGS.includes(argument),
   );
 // Windows locks the loaded package-owned addon until the verifier exits.
 // Keep installation cleanup in a parent that never loads that addon.
@@ -78,15 +83,10 @@ let packageRoot = resolve(packageRootArgument ?? ".");
 // package roots support an already-installed artifact without a second install.
 if (packageRootArgument === undefined) {
   try {
-    const npmEntry =
-      process.env.npm_execpath ??
-      join(dirname(process.execPath), "node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js");
     const packed = JSON.parse(
       (
-        await exec(
-          process.execPath,
+        await execNpm(
           [
-            npmEntry,
             "pack",
             "--json",
             "--ignore-scripts",
@@ -103,10 +103,8 @@ if (packageRootArgument === undefined) {
       "The package lane must produce one artifact.",
     );
     const prefix = join(workspace, "installed");
-    await exec(
-      process.execPath,
+    await execNpm(
       [
-        npmEntry,
         "install",
         "--prefix",
         prefix,
@@ -125,10 +123,7 @@ if (packageRootArgument === undefined) {
     });
   }
 }
-const target = resolve(
-  targetArgument ??
-    `build/fixtures/rea-ghidra-windows${x86Fixture ? "-x86" : ""}.${dllFixture ? "dll" : "exe"}`,
-);
+const target = resolve(targetArgument ?? `build/fixtures/${fixture.filename}`);
 let TOOL_CONTRACTS, native, token, sha256;
 let parsedTarget;
 try {
@@ -160,10 +155,7 @@ try {
   assert.equal(parsedTarget.value.format, "pe");
   assert.equal(parsedTarget.value.managed, false);
   if (targetArgument === undefined) {
-    assert.equal(
-      parsedTarget.value.architecture,
-      x86Fixture ? "x86" : "x86_64",
-    );
+    assert.equal(parsedTarget.value.architecture, fixture.architecture);
     assert.equal(
       parsedTarget.value.executableRole,
       dllFixture ? "shared-library" : "application",
@@ -321,13 +313,13 @@ try {
     const procedures = await call("list_procedures", {});
     assert.ok(procedures.length > 0);
     if (targetArgument === undefined) {
-      const calleeAddress = x86Fixture ? "0x401010" : "0x140001010";
+      const calleeAddress = fixture.calleeAddress;
       const calleeCode = await call("procedure_pseudo_code", {
         procedure: calleeAddress,
       });
       assert.match(calleeCode, /\b(?:42|0x2a)\b/iu);
       if (dllFixture) {
-        const callerAddress = x86Fixture ? "0x401000" : "0x140001000";
+        const callerAddress = fixture.callerAddress;
         assert.ok(
           (
             await call("procedure_callees", { procedure: callerAddress })
@@ -379,7 +371,7 @@ try {
     report.byteSearch = await verifyWindowsGhidraByteSearch({
       invoke: call,
       sourceBytes,
-      architecture: parsedTarget.value.architecture,
+      imageBase: fixture.imageBase,
       sourceOwnedFixture: targetArgument === undefined,
       fallbackAddress: procedure.address,
       fallbackFileOffset: mapping.file_offset,

scripts/verify-packaged-wasm-artifact.mjs

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { PrivateRuntimeRoot } from "../dist/process/PrivateRuntimeRoot.js";
-import { exec } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import { exec, execNpm } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import { WABT_WORKFLOW_TIMEOUT_MS } from "./lib/wabt-verifier-timeouts.mjs";
 import { verifyPackagePack } from "./verify-package-pack.mjs";
 
 const root = await PrivateRuntimeRoot.create({
@@ -23,8 +24,7 @@ try {
     XDG_CONFIG_HOME: join(home, ".config"),
     XDG_CACHE_HOME: join(home, ".cache"),
   };
-  await exec(
-    "npm",
+  await execNpm(
     [
       "install",
       "--global",
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ try {
   const verified = await exec(
     process.execPath,
     ["scripts/verify-wasm-artifact.mjs", entrypoint, "--require-tools"],
-    { env: environment, timeout: 180_000, maxBuffer: 4 * 1024 * 1024 },
+    {
+      env: environment,
+      timeout: WABT_WORKFLOW_TIMEOUT_MS,
+      maxBuffer: 4 * 1024 * 1024,
+    },
   );
   process.stdout.write(verified.stdout);
 } finally {

scripts/verify-real-ghidra-mips.mjs

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
 import { parseBinaryTarget } from "../dist/application/BinaryTargetResolver.js";
 import {
   inspectMipsReadelf,
+  expectedMipsElfProfile,
   inspectLegacyMipsReadelf,
   assertMipsLoadedImage,
   assertMipsProbe,
@@ -120,6 +121,17 @@ async function verifySoftFloat(call, symbols, byteOrder) {
     );
   return { storage: boundaries };
 }
+function assertIncompleteMipsInspection(error) {
+  assert.equal(error.code, "capability_unavailable");
+  assert.equal(error.details.selection_reason, "target_unsupported");
+  const rejection = error.details.rejections.find(
+    (candidate) => candidate.provider_id === "ghidra",
+  );
+  assert.equal(rejection?.code, "architecture_unsupported");
+  assert.match(rejection.reason, /ABI declaration inspection is incomplete/u);
+  assert.match(rejection.reason, /section header table/u);
+}
+
 const reports = [];
 let primaryFailure;
 try {
@@ -475,28 +487,9 @@ try {
         JSON.parse(await readFile(snapshotPath, "utf8")),
       );
       assert.equal(snapshot.target.architecture, "mips");
-      const abi = independent.mips.abiFlags;
       assert.deepEqual(
         snapshot.binding.analysis_profile.parameters.mips_elf,
-        {
-          elf_class: independent.mips.elfClass,
-          byte_order: independent.mips.byteOrder,
-          type: independent.mips.type,
-          flags: independent.mips.flags,
-          abi_flags: {
-            version: abi.version,
-            isa_level: abi.isaLevel,
-            isa_revision: abi.isaRevision,
-            gpr_size: abi.gprSize,
-            cpr1_size: abi.cpr1Size,
-            cpr2_size: abi.cpr2Size,
-            fp_abi: abi.fpAbi,
-            isa_extension: abi.isaExtension,
-            ases: abi.ases,
-            flags1: abi.flags1,
-            flags2: abi.flags2,
-          },
-        },
+        expectedMipsElfProfile(independent.mips),
         "Snapshot profile did not retain the independently inspected ELF/ABI declaration",
       );
       assert.equal(
@@ -617,7 +610,8 @@ try {
       // PSP keeps its independent Allegrex/A-B-A checks; carved PSP is not verified.
       let carved;
       if (!psp) {
-        // Carved firmware keeps all program headers/load bytes but loses sections.
+        // A program-header ABI record survives carving, but GNU declarations in
+        // uncaptured section headers remain unknown: both adapters must refuse.
         const read16 = (offset) =>
           byteOrder === "little"
             ? sourceBytes.readUInt16LE(offset)
@@ -655,79 +649,50 @@ try {
           carvedResolved.value.mips.limitations.join(" "),
           /section header table/u,
         );
-        const carvedTarget = await call("open_binary", {
-          path: carvedPath,
-          provider_id: "ghidra",
-        });
-        assert.equal(carvedTarget.sha256, carvedSha256);
-        const carvedImage = await call("inspect_native_load_image");
-        assertMipsLoadedImage(
-          carvedImage.observations,
-          byteOrder,
-          carvedSha256,
-        );
-        const carvedProcedures = await call("list_procedures");
-        assert.ok(
-          carvedProcedures.some(
-            (p) =>
-              BigInt(p.address) === BigInt(independent.symbols.rea_mips_entry),
+        const carvedError = requireMcpToolError(
+          await client.callTool(
+            {
+              name: "open_binary",
+              arguments: { path: carvedPath, provider_id: "ghidra" },
+            },
+            { timeout: 60000 },
           ),
         );
-        const carvedDossier = functionDossierSchema.parse(
-          await call("analyze_function", {
-            procedure: independent.symbols.rea_mips_entry,
-          }),
-        );
-        assert.ok(carvedDossier.pseudocode.trim().length > 0);
-        const carvedSnapshotPath = join(
-          workspace,
-          `${byteOrder}-${floatAbi}-carved.snapshot.json`,
-        );
-        await call("close_binary", { snapshot_path: carvedSnapshotPath });
-        const carvedSnapshot = parseAnalysisSnapshot(
-          JSON.parse(await readFile(carvedSnapshotPath, "utf8")),
-        );
-        assert.equal(carvedSnapshot.target.sha256, carvedSha256);
+        assertIncompleteMipsInspection(carvedError);
+        let carvedCliError;
+        try {
+          await execute(
+            process.execPath,
+            [
+              entrypoint,
+              "function",
+              carvedPath,
+              independent.symbols.rea_mips_entry,
+              "--provider",
+              "ghidra",
+              "--json",
+            ],
+            { env, timeout: 60000, maxBuffer: 1024 * 1024 },
+          );
+        } catch (cause) {
+          carvedCliError = cause;
+        }
         assert.ok(
-          carvedSnapshot.evidence_bundle.records.some((record) =>
-            parseEvidence(record).limitations.some((item) =>
-              item.includes("section header table"),
-            ),
-          ),
-        );
-        const carvedCli = await execute(
-          process.execPath,
-          [
-            entrypoint,
-            "function",
-            carvedPath,
-            independent.symbols.rea_mips_entry,
-            "--provider",
-            "ghidra",
-            "--json",
-          ],
-          { env, timeout: 240000, maxBuffer: 16 * 1024 * 1024 },
-        );
-        const carvedEvidence = parseEvidence(JSON.parse(carvedCli.stdout));
-        assert.equal(carvedEvidence.subject?.digest.sha256, carvedSha256);
-        assert.ok(
-          carvedEvidence.limitations.some((item) =>
-            item.includes("section header table"),
-          ),
-        );
-        assert.equal(
-          functionDossierSchema.parse(carvedEvidence.normalized_result)
-            .procedure.address,
-          carvedDossier.procedure.address,
+          carvedCliError &&
+            Number.isInteger(carvedCliError.code) &&
+            carvedCliError.code !== 0,
+          "Expected an incomplete-ABI refusal, not a timeout or success",
         );
+        assertIncompleteMipsInspection(JSON.parse(carvedCliError.stdout));
         assert.deepEqual(await readFile(carvedPath), carvedBytes);
         carved = {
           sha256: carvedSha256,
           source_bytes: carvedBytes.length,
           section_header_offset: sectionOffset,
-          effective_language: carvedImage.observations.language_id,
+          status: "expected-incomplete-abi-refusal",
           limitations: carvedResolved.value.mips.limitations,
-          procedures: carvedProcedures.length,
+          cli_exit: carvedCliError.code,
+          mcp_error: carvedError,
         };
       }
       reports.push({

scripts/verify-real-ghidra-windows.mjs

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
+import { windowsGhidraFixtureOptions } from "./lib/ghidra-windows-fixture-options.mjs";
 
 import { access, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { isAbsolute, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 
+import { parseConfig } from "../dist/config/parseConfig.js";
 import { resolveGhidraAnalysisProfile } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraAnalysisProfile.js";
 import { GhidraClient } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraClient.js";
 import {
@@ -20,7 +22,10 @@ import { inspectGhidraInstallation } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraInstallation.js"
 import { SUPPORTED_GHIDRA_VERSION } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraInstallationPolicy.js";
 import { GhidraHeadlessLauncher } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraLauncher.js";
 import { GHIDRA_PROVIDER_IDENTITY } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraProviderCapabilities.js";
-import { windowsP0Capabilities } from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraProviderCapabilities.js";
+import {
+  WINDOWS_P0_NATIVE_PE_ARCHITECTURES,
+  windowsP0Capabilities,
+} from "../dist/ghidra/GhidraProviderCapabilities.js";
 import {
   GHIDRA_MUTATING_OPERATIONS,
   GHIDRA_SESSION_CAPABILITIES,
@@ -71,15 +76,11 @@ if (
   );
 
 const root = resolve(fileURLToPath(new URL("..", import.meta.url)));
-const architecture = process.argv.includes("--x86") ? "x86" : "x86_64";
-const dllFixture = process.argv.includes("--dll");
+const fixture = windowsGhidraFixtureOptions(process.argv.slice(2));
+const architecture = fixture.architecture;
+const dllFixture = fixture.dll;
 const role = dllFixture ? "shared-library" : "application";
-const targetPath = resolve(
-  root,
-  "build",
-  "fixtures",
-  `rea-ghidra-windows${architecture === "x86" ? "-x86" : ""}.${dllFixture ? "dll" : "exe"}`,
-);
+const targetPath = resolve(root, "build", "fixtures", fixture.filename);
 const target = await parseBinaryTarget(targetPath);
 if (
   !target.ok ||
@@ -91,10 +92,15 @@ if (
   throw new Error(
     `Controlled Windows fixture failed admission: ${JSON.stringify(target)}`,
   );
+const configuration = parseConfig(process.env);
+if (!configuration.ok) throw configuration.error;
 const profile = await resolveGhidraAnalysisProfile(
   target.value,
   GHIDRA_PROVIDER_IDENTITY,
   installation,
+  undefined,
+  undefined,
+  configuration.value.ghidraDisabledAnalyzers,
 );
 if (!profile.ok || profile.value.profile === null)
   throw new Error("Windows Ghidra profile could not be committed");
@@ -113,6 +119,9 @@ const client = new GhidraClient({
       new URL("../bridge/ghidra/ReaGhidraBridge.java", import.meta.url),
     ),
     platform: "win32",
+    ...(configuration.value.ghidraDisabledAnalyzers === undefined
+      ? {}
+      : { disabledAnalyzers: configuration.value.ghidraDisabledAnalyzers }),
   }),
   targetPath: target.value.path,
   targetSha256: target.value.sha256,
@@ -134,8 +143,8 @@ try {
     target.value.sha256,
     profile.value.profile.digest,
   );
-  const languagePrefix = architecture === "x86" ? "x86:LE:32:" : "x86:LE:64:";
-  if (!started.value.target.language_id.startsWith(languagePrefix))
+  const languageId = fixture.languageId;
+  if (started.value.target.language_id !== languageId)
     throw new Error("Windows fixture imported with the wrong Ghidra language");
   coordinates = client.diagnostics();
   assertRuntimeCoordinates(coordinates, target.value.sha256);
@@ -161,7 +170,7 @@ try {
   );
   if (procedure === undefined)
     throw new Error("Windows Ghidra fixture exposed no local procedure");
-  const calleeAddress = architecture === "x86" ? 0x401010n : 0x140001010n;
+  const calleeAddress = BigInt(fixture.calleeAddress);
   const callee = procedures.find(
     (item) => BigInt(item.address) === calleeAddress,
   );
@@ -175,7 +184,7 @@ try {
       "Windows fixture decompilation lost its known return value",
     );
   if (dllFixture) {
-    const callerAddress = architecture === "x86" ? "0x401000" : "0x140001000";
+    const callerAddress = fixture.callerAddress;
     const callees = await functionOperation("procedure_callees", {
       procedure: callerAddress,
     });
@@ -223,7 +232,7 @@ try {
   const byteSearch = await verifyWindowsGhidraByteSearch({
     invoke: inventory,
     sourceBytes,
-    architecture,
+    imageBase: fixture.imageBase,
   });
 
   for (const operation of [
@@ -268,12 +277,16 @@ try {
 
   // The reference controls occupy the EXE fixture's additional function.
   // DLL fixtures retain their independent exported-caller/return controls.
-  const compactReferences = dllFixture
-    ? null
-    : await verifyGhidraCompactReferences(
-        functionOperation,
-        architecture === "x86",
-      );
+  // ARM/ARM64 fixtures verify function entry, decompiler readback and the
+  // exported caller/callee relationship; the x86/x64 compact-reference
+  // value-flow battery has no ARM/ARM64 instruction encoding in this fixture.
+  const compactReferences =
+    dllFixture || architecture === "arm" || architecture === "arm64"
+      ? null
+      : await verifyGhidraCompactReferences(
+          functionOperation,
+          architecture === "x86",
+        );
   const borlandSeh =
     architecture === "x86" && !dllFixture
       ? await verifyGhidraBorlandSeh(functionObservationOperation, true)
@@ -300,10 +313,11 @@ try {
       protected_dacl: true,
       handle_admission: true,
     },
+    supported_target_architectures: [...WINDOWS_P0_NATIVE_PE_ARCHITECTURES],
     limitations: [
       "approved-non-sensitive-fixtures-only",
       "windows-x64-local-ntfs-only",
-      "native-x86-and-x86-64-pe-applications-and-dlls-only",
+      "native-pe-applications-and-dlls-only",
       "no-gui-or-mutation-authority",
     ],
   };
@@ -323,11 +337,24 @@ try {
 }
 if (report === undefined)
   throw new Error("Windows Ghidra report was not produced");
-report.file_offsets = await verifyGhidraFileOffsets(
-  targetPath,
-  resolve(root, "scripts", "rea.mjs"),
-  architecture === "x86" ? "0x401010" : "0x140001010",
-);
+try {
+  report.file_offsets = await verifyGhidraFileOffsets(
+    targetPath,
+    resolve(root, "scripts", "rea.mjs"),
+    fixture.calleeAddress,
+  );
+} catch (cause) {
+  // Preserve completed real-provider facts if a separate adapter proof fails.
+  process.stdout.write(
+    `${JSON.stringify({
+      ...report,
+      ok: false,
+      primary_verification: "complete",
+      file_offsets: { status: "incomplete", failure_code: cause.code ?? null },
+    })}\n`,
+  );
+  throw cause;
+}
 process.stdout.write(
   `${JSON.stringify({ verifier_run: await completeVerifierRun(verifierRun), ...report })}\n`,
 );

scripts/verify-real-kuna.mjs

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
 import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
 import { execFileOutput } from "../dist/process/ExecFileOutput.js";
 import { requireMcpOperationResult } from "./lib/mcp-verifier-results.mjs";
+import { verifyKunaReferences } from "./lib/kuna-reference-verifier.mjs";
+import {
+  nativeKunaStrings,
+  verifyKunaStrings,
+} from "./lib/kuna-string-verifier.mjs";
+import { nativeKunaIncomingSites } from "./lib/kuna-native-reference-verifier.mjs";
 import {
   assertVerifierCleanupComplete,
   completeVerifierRun,
@@ -69,18 +75,27 @@ const cacheRoot = join(workspace, "cache");
 // A server retains its workspace until both provider and transport cleanup
 // have positively completed, even if later lineage observation is empty.
 const pendingServers = new Set();
+// Unproven native-oracle stops retain their supervisors and this workspace.
+const retainedNative = new Set();
 let kunaVersion;
 
 const FIXTURE_SOURCE = String.raw`
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+static const char rea_kuna_utf8[] __attribute__((used)) = "＿φ( °-°)/ REA unicode marker";
+/* The leading NUL unit ends any UTF-16 run that bytes before this array would
+   start: the UTF-8 marker's last byte and NUL decode as the unit 'r', so on
+   layouts where it precedes this array Kuna reports "rREA wide marker". */
+static const unsigned short rea_kuna_wide[] __attribute__((used)) = {
+  0,'R','E','A',' ','w','i','d','e',' ','m','a','r','k','e','r',0
+};
 #include <string.h>
-unsigned rea_checksum(const unsigned char *p, size_t n) {
+__attribute__((noinline)) unsigned rea_checksum(const unsigned char *p, size_t n) {
   unsigned h = 2166136261u;
   for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) h = (h ^ p[i]) * 16777619u;
   return h;
 }
-int rea_classify(int c) {
+__attribute__((noinline)) int rea_classify(int c) {
   switch (c) {
   case 'a': return 1; case 'e': return 2; case 'i': return 3;
   case 'o': return 4; case 'u': return 5; default: return c > 'z' ? -1 : 0;
@@ -252,7 +267,12 @@ const quality = (text) => ({
 });
 
 /** Verify Kuna on one binary and measure its cold and warm answers. */
-const verifyKuna = async (path, functions) => {
+const verifyKuna = async (
+  path,
+  functions,
+  expectedCaller,
+  expectedStrings = [],
+) => {
   const sha256 = createHash("sha256")
     .update(await readFile(path))
     .digest("hex");
@@ -260,12 +280,43 @@ const verifyKuna = async (path, functions) => {
   const answers = [];
   let coldFailure;
   try {
+    answers.push({
+      strings: await verifyKunaStrings({
+        call: cold.call,
+        cacheRoot,
+        expectedStrings,
+        nativeStrings: () =>
+          nativeKunaStrings({
+            executable: kuna,
+            cacheRoot,
+            workspace,
+            binary: path,
+            retain: (owner) => retainedNative.add(owner),
+          }),
+      }),
+    });
     const listed = await cold.call("list_procedures");
     for (const [name, address] of functions) {
       assert.ok(
         listed.value.some((entry) => entry.address === address),
         `${name} at ${address} is missing from Kuna's procedure list for ${path}`,
       );
+      const references = await verifyKunaReferences({
+        call: cold.call,
+        cacheRoot,
+        name,
+        address,
+        expectedCaller,
+        nativeIncoming: (targetAddress) =>
+          nativeKunaIncomingSites({
+            executable: kuna,
+            cacheRoot,
+            workspace,
+            binary: path,
+            address: targetAddress,
+            retain: (outcome) => retainedNative.add(outcome),
+          }),
+      });
       const pseudocode = await cold.call("procedure_pseudo_code", {
         procedure: address,
       });
@@ -305,6 +356,11 @@ const verifyKuna = async (path, functions) => {
       const dossier = await cold.call("analyze_function", {
         procedure: address,
       });
+      assert.deepEqual(
+        dossier.structured.relationship_coverage,
+        references.relationship_coverage,
+        "Function dossier lost the directional call coverage",
+      );
       const combined = dossier.structured.raw_result.source;
       assert.equal(combined.kind, "project-export");
       assert.deepEqual(
@@ -335,6 +391,7 @@ const verifyKuna = async (path, functions) => {
         response_bytes: exported.bytes,
         dossier_response_bytes: dossier.bytes,
         ...quality(exported.value),
+        references,
       });
     }
   } catch (cause) {
@@ -466,12 +523,18 @@ try {
   const fixtureFunctions = await symbolAddresses(built, [
     "rea_checksum",
     "rea_classify",
+    "main",
   ]);
-  assert.equal(fixtureFunctions.size, 2, "Fixture symbols were not found");
+  assert.equal(fixtureFunctions.size, 3, "Fixture symbols were not found");
+  const fixtureMain = fixtureFunctions.get("main");
+  fixtureFunctions.delete("main");
   for (const binary of [built, stripped])
     results.push({
       binary: binary.slice(workspace.length + 1),
-      kuna: await verifyKuna(binary, [...fixtureFunctions]),
+      kuna: await verifyKuna(binary, [...fixtureFunctions], fixtureMain, [
+        "＿φ( °-°)/ REA unicode marker",
+        "REA wide marker",
+      ]),
     });
 
   // Caller-built matrix.
@@ -482,8 +545,17 @@ try {
   failures.push(cause);
 }
 // Failure paths need the same process evidence as successful verification.
+for (const retained of [...retainedNative]) {
+  try {
+    const stopped = await retained.owner?.stop();
+    if (stopped !== undefined && stopped.status !== "incomplete")
+      retainedNative.delete(retained);
+  } catch (cause) {
+    failures.push(cause);
+  }
+}
 const lifecycle = await completeVerifierRun(run);
-let cleanupComplete = pendingServers.size === 0;
+let cleanupComplete = pendingServers.size === 0 && retainedNative.size === 0;
 try {
   assertVerifierCleanupComplete(lifecycle.process_lineage);
 } catch (cause) {

scripts/verify-repository-skill.mjs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { cp, mkdir, readFile, readdir } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { dirname, join, relative } from "node:path";
 
-import { exec, pathExists } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import { exec, execNpm, pathExists } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
 
 /** Exercise Skills' default root discovery without ignored build outputs. */
 export async function verifyRepositorySkill({ root, workspace }) {
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ export async function verifyRepositorySkill({ root, workspace }) {
   await mkdir(consumer, { recursive: true });
   await mkdir(home, { recursive: true });
   const skillsVersion = "1.7.2";
-  await exec(
-    "npm",
+  await execNpm(
     [
       "exec",
       "--yes",

scripts/verify-wasm-artifact.mjs

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   requireMcpToolError,
 } from "./lib/mcp-verifier-results.mjs";
 import { createVerifierRun, completeVerifierRun } from "./lib/verifier-run.mjs";
+import { WABT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS } from "./lib/wabt-verifier-timeouts.mjs";
 
 const directory = process.env.REA_WABT_BIN_DIRECTORY;
 if (!isAbsolute(directory ?? "")) {
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ try {
   throw cause;
 }
 const client = new Client({ name: "wabt-artifact-verifier", version: "1" });
+const callTool = (request) =>
+  client.callTool(request, { timeout: WABT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS });
 const transport = new StdioClientTransport({
   command: process.execPath,
   args: [entrypoint, "mcp"],
@@ -128,7 +131,7 @@ try {
                 TMP: childTempRoot,
                 TEMP: childTempRoot,
               },
-              timeout: 120_000,
+              timeout: WABT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS,
               maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024,
             },
           )
@@ -238,7 +241,7 @@ try {
     const cliValue = await inspectCli(input);
     assert.equal(cliValue.category, undefined, JSON.stringify(cliValue));
     const cli = parseEvidence(cliValue);
-    const reply = await client.callTool({
+    const reply = await callTool({
       name: "inspect_wasm_artifact",
       arguments: input,
     });
@@ -332,7 +335,7 @@ try {
         },
       );
     }
-    const bundleReply = await client.callTool({
+    const bundleReply = await callTool({
       name: "get_evidence_bundle",
       arguments: {},
     });
@@ -362,7 +365,7 @@ try {
         JSON.stringify(cliError),
       );
       const error = requireMcpToolError(
-        await client.callTool({
+        await callTool({
           name: "inspect_wasm_artifact",
           arguments: invalidInput,
         }),
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ try {
       assert.equal(error.category, "invalid_input");
       const partial = error.details.partial_observation;
       assert.equal(partial.kind, "retained-evidence");
-      const failedBundleReply = await client.callTool({
+      const failedBundleReply = await callTool({
         name: "get_evidence_bundle",
         arguments: {},
       });

scripts/verify-windows-package.mjs

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
 import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
 
-import { verifyCompleteToolCatalog } from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
+import {
+  execNpm,
+  verifyCompleteToolCatalog,
+} from "./lib/verify-package-core.mjs";
 import { verifyPackageUpdate } from "./verify-package-update.mjs";
 import { completeVerifierRun, createVerifierRun } from "./lib/verifier-run.mjs";
 
@@ -32,9 +35,9 @@ let report;
 try {
   const packed = JSON.parse(
     (
-      await npm(
+      await execNpm(
         ["pack", "--json", "--silent", "--pack-destination", workspace],
-        root,
+        { cwd: root, windowsHide: true },
       )
     ).stdout,
   );
@@ -63,9 +66,9 @@ try {
 
   const tarball = join(workspace, packageResult.filename);
   await access(tarball);
-  await npm(
+  await execNpm(
     ["install", "--no-package-lock", "--no-save", "--prefix", prefix, tarball],
-    workspace,
+    { cwd: workspace, windowsHide: true },
   );
   const entry = join(
     prefix,
@@ -209,9 +212,9 @@ try {
       throw new Error(`Packaged uninstall did not remove ${id}`);
 
   if (process.platform !== "win32")
-    await npm(
+    await execNpm(
       ["install", "--global", "--ignore-scripts", "--prefix", prefix, tarball],
-      workspace,
+      { cwd: workspace, windowsHide: true },
     );
   const update = await verifyPackageUpdate({
     prefix,
@@ -241,16 +244,3 @@ try {
 process.stdout.write(
   `${JSON.stringify({ verifier_run: await completeVerifierRun(verifierRun), ...report })}\n`,
 );
-
-function npm(arguments_, cwd) {
-  const npmExecPath = process.env.npm_execpath;
-  return npmExecPath === undefined
-    ? exec(process.platform === "win32" ? "npm.cmd" : "npm", arguments_, {
-        cwd,
-        windowsHide: true,
-      })
-    : exec(process.execPath, [npmExecPath, ...arguments_], {
-        cwd,
-        windowsHide: true,
-      });
-}

scripts/verify/javascript/module-references.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,415 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { performance } from "node:perf_hooks";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { parseArgs } from "node:util";
+import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
+import { StdioClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client/stdio";
+import { artifactCliEvidence } from "../../lib/artifact-e2e.mjs";
+import { closeVerifierResources } from "../../lib/verifier-cleanup.mjs";
+import { PrivateRuntimeRoot } from "../../../dist/process/PrivateRuntimeRoot.js";
+import {
+  OwnedCommandFailure,
+  runOwnedCommand,
+} from "../../../dist/process/OwnedCommand.js";
+
+const { values } = parseArgs({
+  options: {
+    artifact: { type: "string" },
+    "source-path": { type: "string", multiple: true },
+    path: { type: "string" },
+    kind: { type: "string" },
+    rounds: { type: "string", default: "3" },
+    mode: { type: "string", default: "parity" },
+    "cli-parity": { type: "boolean", default: false },
+    "tokenizer-python": { type: "string" },
+    "tokenizer-timeout-ms": { type: "string", default: "60000" },
+  },
+  strict: true,
+});
+assert.ok(values.artifact?.startsWith("/"), "--artifact must be absolute");
+assert.ok(["parity", "legacy", "references"].includes(values.mode));
+const rounds = Number(values.rounds);
+assert.ok(Number.isSafeInteger(rounds) && rounds > 0);
+const tokenizerTimeoutMs = Number(values["tokenizer-timeout-ms"]);
+assert.ok(
+  Number.isSafeInteger(tokenizerTimeoutMs) && tokenizerTimeoutMs > 0,
+  "--tokenizer-timeout-ms must be a positive safe integer",
+);
+const where = {
+  ...(values.path === undefined ? {} : { path: values.path }),
+  ...(values.kind === undefined ? {} : { kind: values.kind }),
+};
+const transport = new StdioClientTransport({
+  command: process.execPath,
+  args: [fileURLToPath(new URL("../../rea.mjs", import.meta.url)), "mcp"],
+  env: {
+    PATH: process.env.PATH ?? "/usr/bin:/bin",
+    REA_LOG_LEVEL: "silent",
+    REA_ANALYSIS_PROVIDER: "auto",
+  },
+  stderr: "pipe",
+});
+const client = new Client({
+  name: "javascript-module-reference-verifier",
+  version: "1",
+});
+const serialize = (value) => JSON.stringify(value);
+const bytes = (value) => Buffer.byteLength(serialize(value));
+const digest = (value) =>
+  createHash("sha256").update(serialize(value)).digest("hex");
+const support = (observations) => [
+  ...new Map(
+    observations.map(({ evidence }) => {
+      const basis = {
+        authority: evidence.authority,
+        state: evidence.state,
+        confidence: evidence.confidence,
+      };
+      return [serialize(basis), basis];
+    }),
+  ).values(),
+];
+const normalize = (rows) =>
+  rows.map((row) => ({
+    ...row,
+    basis: [...row.basis].sort((a, b) =>
+      serialize(a).localeCompare(serialize(b)),
+    ),
+  }));
+let temporary;
+let primaryError;
+let retainTemporary = false;
+try {
+  await client.connect(transport);
+  transport.stderr?.resume();
+  const tools = (await client.listTools()).tools;
+  const relevant = tools.filter(({ name }) =>
+    ["analyze_javascript_application", "inspect_analysis_view"].includes(name),
+  );
+  assert.equal(relevant.length, 2);
+  const call = async (name, args, transcript) => {
+    const response = await client.callTool(
+      { name, arguments: args },
+      { timeout: 360_000 },
+    );
+    if (response.isError) throw new Error(serialize(response));
+    const evidence = response.structuredContent;
+    assert.ok(evidence?.evidence_id && evidence.normalized_result);
+    transcript?.push({
+      request: { name, arguments: args },
+      response: evidence,
+    });
+    return evidence;
+  };
+  const preparationStart = performance.now();
+  const preparationRequest = {
+    input_path: values.artifact,
+    detail: "summary",
+    ...(values["source-path"] === undefined
+      ? {}
+      : { source_paths: values["source-path"] }),
+  };
+  const summary = await call(
+    "analyze_javascript_application",
+    preparationRequest,
+  );
+  const source = {
+    kind: "retained-evidence",
+    evidence_id: summary.normalized_result.parent_evidence_id,
+  };
+  const preparationMs = performance.now() - preparationStart;
+  const samples = [];
+  const costInputs = {};
+  let canonical;
+  for (let round = 0; round < rounds; round += 1) {
+    const modes =
+      values.mode === "parity"
+        ? round % 2 === 0
+          ? ["legacy", "references"]
+          : ["references", "legacy"]
+        : [values.mode];
+    for (const mode of modes) {
+      const transcript = [];
+      const started = performance.now();
+      let rows;
+      let coverage;
+      if (mode === "legacy") {
+        const page = await call(
+          "inspect_analysis_view",
+          {
+            source,
+            view: {
+              kind: "page",
+              collection: "modules",
+              offset: 0,
+              limit: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+            },
+          },
+          transcript,
+        );
+        assert.equal(page.normalized_result.coverage.exhausted, true);
+        rows = [];
+        for (const row of page.normalized_result.items) {
+          if (where.path !== undefined && row.path !== where.path) continue;
+          if (where.kind !== undefined && row.kind !== where.kind) continue;
+          const itemEvidence = await call(
+            "inspect_analysis_view",
+            {
+              source,
+              view: {
+                kind: "item",
+                collection: "modules",
+                selector: { node_id: row.node_id },
+              },
+            },
+            transcript,
+          );
+          const item = itemEvidence.normalized_result.item;
+          rows.push({
+            node_id: item.node_id,
+            kind: item.kind,
+            path: item.path,
+            identity: item.identity,
+            retained_source_range_count: item.source_ranges.length,
+            basis: support(item.observations),
+          });
+        }
+        coverage = page.normalized_result.coverage;
+      } else {
+        const references = await call(
+          "inspect_analysis_view",
+          {
+            source,
+            view: {
+              kind: "javascript",
+              collection: "modules",
+              projection: "references",
+              where,
+              offset: 0,
+              limit: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+            },
+          },
+          transcript,
+        );
+        const result = references.normalized_result;
+        rows = result.rows;
+        coverage = result.coverage;
+        assert.equal(coverage.exhausted, true);
+        assert.deepEqual(
+          result.source_coverage.application,
+          summary.normalized_result.summary.coverage.application,
+        );
+        assert.deepEqual(
+          result.source_coverage.source_selection,
+          summary.normalized_result.summary.source_selection,
+        );
+        assert.equal(
+          result.source_coverage.semantic.status,
+          summary.normalized_result.summary.coverage.semantic.status,
+        );
+        assert.equal(
+          result.source_coverage.application_unknown_count,
+          summary.normalized_result.summary.coverage.application_unknowns,
+        );
+        assert.equal(
+          result.source_coverage.semantic_unknown_count,
+          summary.normalized_result.summary.coverage.semantic_unknowns,
+        );
+      }
+      assert.ok(
+        rows.length > 0,
+        "No matching modules; select a representative nonempty task",
+      );
+      const normalized = normalize(rows);
+      canonical ??= normalized;
+      assert.deepEqual(
+        normalized,
+        canonical,
+        "Module facts changed across workflows/rounds",
+      );
+      samples.push({
+        round,
+        mode,
+        elapsed_ms: performance.now() - started,
+        calls: transcript.length,
+        structured_reply_bytes: transcript.reduce(
+          (total, entry) => total + bytes(entry.response),
+          0,
+        ),
+        facts_sha256: digest(normalized),
+        matching_modules: rows.length,
+        coverage,
+      });
+      costInputs[mode] ??= {
+        catalog: relevant.map(({ name, description, inputSchema }) => ({
+          name,
+          description,
+          inputSchema,
+        })),
+        full_catalog: tools.map(({ name, description, inputSchema }) => ({
+          name,
+          description,
+          inputSchema,
+        })),
+        common_summary: summary,
+        common_request: {
+          name: "analyze_javascript_application",
+          arguments: preparationRequest,
+        },
+        transcript,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  let cliParity = null;
+  if (values["cli-parity"]) {
+    temporary = await PrivateRuntimeRoot.create({
+      prefix: "rea-module-reference-verifier-",
+    });
+    const bundlePath = join(temporary.path, "bundle.json");
+    const exported = await client.callTool({
+      name: "export_evidence_bundle",
+      arguments: { path: bundlePath },
+    });
+    if (exported.isError) throw new Error(serialize(exported));
+    const bundle = JSON.parse(await readFile(bundlePath, "utf8"));
+    const parent = bundle.records.find(
+      ({ evidence_id }) => evidence_id === source.evidence_id,
+    );
+    assert.ok(parent, "Export omitted the retained analysis parent");
+    const request = join(temporary.path, "view.json");
+    await writeFile(
+      request,
+      serialize({
+        source: { kind: "inline", evidence: parent },
+        view: {
+          kind: "javascript",
+          collection: "modules",
+          projection: "references",
+          where,
+          offset: 0,
+          limit: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+        },
+      }),
+    );
+    const cli = await artifactCliEvidence("inspect-analysis-view", request);
+    assert.deepEqual(normalize(cli.normalized_result.rows), canonical);
+    assert.equal(cli.normalized_result.parent_evidence_id, parent.evidence_id);
+    const retained = await call("inspect_analysis_view", {
+      source,
+      view: cli.normalized_result.view,
+    });
+    assert.deepEqual(cli.normalized_result, retained.normalized_result);
+    assert.equal(cli.evidence_id, retained.evidence_id);
+    cliParity = {
+      evidence_id: cli.evidence_id,
+      facts_sha256: digest(canonical),
+      exact_cli_mcp_view_parity: true,
+    };
+  }
+  let tokenCosts = null;
+  if (values["tokenizer-python"]) {
+    temporary ??= await PrivateRuntimeRoot.create({
+      prefix: "rea-module-reference-verifier-",
+    });
+    const input = join(temporary.path, "token-input.json");
+    await writeFile(input, serialize(costInputs));
+    let result;
+    try {
+      result = await runOwnedCommand(
+        {
+          command: values["tokenizer-python"],
+          arguments: [
+            "-c",
+            `
+import json, sys, tiktoken
+with open(sys.argv[1], encoding='utf-8') as source:
+    data=json.load(source)
+enc=tiktoken.get_encoding('cl100k_base')
+def count(value):
+    return len(enc.encode(json.dumps(value,ensure_ascii=False,separators=(',',':')),disallowed_special=()))
+out={}
+for mode, task in data.items():
+    replies=sum(count(entry['response']) for entry in task['transcript'])
+    requests=sum(count(entry['request']) for entry in task['transcript'])
+    common=count(task['common_summary'])
+    common_request=count(task['common_request'])
+    selected=count(task['catalog'])
+    full=count(task['full_catalog'])
+    out[mode]=dict(selected_catalog=selected,full_catalog=full,common_request=common_request,common_summary=common,requests=requests,structured_replies=replies,selected_catalog_task_total=selected+common_request+common+requests+replies,full_catalog_task_total=full+common_request+common+requests+replies)
+print(json.dumps(dict(tokenizer='cl100k_base',tiktoken_version=tiktoken.__version__,costs=out)))
+`,
+            input,
+          ],
+          cwd: temporary.path,
+          runId: `rea-module-token-${randomUUID()}`,
+          // An interpreter wrapper may exec another command. The shared owner
+          // still verifies native identities and the exact inherited run token.
+          expectedCommand: null,
+          sweepTokenOwnedProcesses: true,
+        },
+        { timeoutMs: tokenizerTimeoutMs, diagnosticBytes: 1024 * 1024 },
+      );
+    } catch (cause) {
+      // An incomplete cleanup carries its supervisor and identity resources in
+      // the error. Preserve its private files for that owner instead of erasing
+      // recovery data while a command may still be using it.
+      retainTemporary =
+        cause instanceof OwnedCommandFailure &&
+        cause.cleanupOwner !== undefined;
+      throw new Error(
+        "Token accounting failed; inspect the owned-command outcome and cleanup status.",
+        { cause },
+      );
+    }
+    assert.notEqual(
+      result.stdout.invalidUtf8,
+      true,
+      "Tokenizer output must be UTF-8 JSON",
+    );
+    tokenCosts = JSON.parse(result.stdout.text);
+  }
+  process.stdout.write(
+    `${serialize({
+      scope:
+        "Completed module-fact reads from identical retained Evidence; no hosted-model performance claim",
+      artifact: {
+        path: values.artifact,
+        sha256: summary.normalized_result.artifact.sha256,
+      },
+      parent_evidence_id: source.evidence_id,
+      source_selection: summary.normalized_result.summary.source_selection,
+      source_coverage: summary.normalized_result.summary.coverage,
+      where,
+      preparation_ms: preparationMs,
+      samples,
+      token_costs: tokenCosts,
+      cli_parity: cliParity,
+      conditions:
+        "First query is after shared artifact analysis; subsequent queries share one MCP session. Legacy item reads are serial; a concurrent legacy baseline is unmeasured. Filesystem/build warmness uncontrolled. Token costs count one post-change catalog, preparation request/summary and each request/structured reply once; client rendering, replay, reasoning, final answer and model latency are unmeasured. Preparation and parity/tokenization overhead are outside per-query elapsed times; external family-resource receipts include the complete verifier and children.",
+    })}\n`,
+  );
+} catch (cause) {
+  primaryError = cause;
+  throw cause;
+} finally {
+  await closeVerifierResources(
+    [
+      () => client.close(),
+      () => transport.close(),
+      async () => {
+        if (temporary === undefined) return;
+        if (retainTemporary)
+          throw new Error(
+            `Command cleanup is incomplete; retaining its private input/Evidence files at ${temporary.path}.`,
+          );
+        await temporary.close();
+      },
+    ],
+    primaryError,
+  );
+}

src/application/BinaryTargetResolver.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   stat,
   type FileHandle,
 } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { extname, isAbsolute, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { extname } from "node:path";
 
 import { BinaryTargetError } from "../domain/configurationErrors.js";
 import {
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ import {
   type ExecutableMetadata,
 } from "../domain/binaryTarget.js";
 import type { PeCodeViewRecord } from "../domain/binaryTargetTypes.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 const XML_PLIST_PROBE_CHUNK_BYTES = 64 * 1024;
 
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ export const parseBinaryTarget = async (
   const cwd = options.cwd ?? process.cwd();
   const hostArchitecture = options.hostArchitecture ?? process.arch;
   const { targetKind, formatHint, signal, architecture, entryPoint } = options;
-  const candidate = isAbsolute(input) ? input : resolve(cwd, input);
+  const candidate = absoluteCallerPath(input, { cwd });
   try {
     throwIfTargetResolutionCancelled(signal);
     await access(candidate, constants.R_OK);

src/application/reverse/ReverseEngineeringService.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import { createReadStream } from "node:fs";
 import { stat as statPath } from "node:fs/promises";
 import type { Stats } from "node:fs";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 
 import {
   AnalysisAccessDeniedError,
@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ import {
   runOwnedCommand,
 } from "../../process/OwnedCommand.js";
 import type { ProviderProcessSupervisor } from "../../process/ProviderProcess.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 export type ReverseEngineeringOperation =
   | "inspect_with_objdump"
@@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ export class ReverseEngineeringService {
     if (signal?.aborted) return err(new AnalysisCancelledError(operation));
     const cleanup = await this.retryCleanup(operation);
     if (!cleanup.ok) return cleanup;
-    const absolutePath = path === undefined ? undefined : resolve(path);
+    const absolutePath =
+      path === undefined ? undefined : absoluteCallerPath(path);
     let digest: string | undefined;
     try {
       if (absolutePath !== undefined)

src/artifacts/SafeOutputTree.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   realpath,
   type FileHandle,
 } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { basename, dirname, isAbsolute, join, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { basename, dirname, isAbsolute, join } from "node:path";
 import type { Readable } from "node:stream";
 import { OwnedFileHandle } from "../filesystem/OwnedFileHandle.js";
 import { streamChunkToBuffer } from "./StreamBytes.js";
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import {
   destinationCaseCollisionMessage,
   normalizeArtifactPath,
 } from "./ArtifactPaths.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 import { ArtifactReaderFailure } from "./ArtifactReader.js";
 import { SafeOutputTreeCreationFailure } from "./SafeOutputTreeCreationFailure.js";
 import { hashOutputFile } from "./SafeOutputTreeReadback.js";
@@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ export class SafeOutputTree {
         "path",
         "Extraction output root must be absolute",
       );
-    const requested = resolve(outputRoot);
+    // Path syntax follows the host; `platform` selects only the name policy.
+    const requested = absoluteCallerPath(outputRoot);
     const name = basename(requested);
     if (name === "." || name === "..")
       throw new ArtifactReaderFailure("path", "Invalid extraction output root");

src/artifacts/apple/AppleAssetCatalogAnalysis.test.ts

@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ describe("Apple asset catalog application workflow", () => {
     const bundle = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-asset-catalog-absent-");
     await mkdir(join(bundle, "Contents", "Resources"), { recursive: true });
     await writeFile(join(bundle, "Contents", "Resources", "icon.icns"), "");
+    // Names that merely end in Assets.car are ordinary resources.
+    await mkdir(join(bundle, "Contents", "Resources", "NotAssets.car"));
+    await writeFile(join(bundle, "Contents", "Resources", "OldAssets.car"), "");
     const result = await analyzeAppleAssetCatalogs({
       environment: {},
       bundlePath: bundle,

src/artifacts/apple/AppleAssetCatalogAnalysis.ts

@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ const collectAssetCatalogs = async (input: {
   let totalMetadataBytes = 0;
   try {
     for await (const entry of reader.entries(input.signal)) {
-      if (!entry.path.endsWith("Assets.car")) continue;
+      // Reader paths are `/`-separated; only an entry named exactly
+      // Assets.car is a compiled catalog, not e.g. NotAssets.car.
+      if (entry.path.split("/").at(-1) !== "Assets.car") continue;
       if (entry.kind !== "file") {
         uninspected.push(`${entry.path} (${entry.kind})`);
         continue;

src/artifacts/apple/InterfaceBuilderAnalysis.ts

@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ export const analyzeInterfaceBuilderBundle = async (input: {
       recordOmittedArchive(entry.path, "max_documents");
     unreportedOmittedArchives += selection.unreportedOmitted;
     for (const entry of selection.selected) {
+      // Plist representation reserved for this document before decoding.
+      let plistReservation = 0;
       try {
         const remainingInputBytes =
           MAX_AGGREGATE_INPUT_BYTES - aggregateInputBytes;
@@ -132,6 +134,7 @@ export const analyzeInterfaceBuilderBundle = async (input: {
             decodedReservation.estimatedBytes,
             "plist representation exceeds the aggregate Interface Builder decode budget",
           );
+          plistReservation = decodedReservation.estimatedBytes;
           binaryPrototypeKeyObserved =
             decodedReservation.binaryPrototypeKeyObserved;
         }
@@ -165,6 +168,9 @@ export const analyzeInterfaceBuilderBundle = async (input: {
       } catch (cause: unknown) {
         if (input.signal?.aborted === true) throw cause;
         if (cause instanceof InterfaceBuilderDecodeBudgetExceeded) {
+          // A document rejected while decoding, e.g. beyond the shared depth
+          // limit, retains no representation; later documents keep its share.
+          decodeBudget.release(plistReservation);
           omitted += 1;
           recordOmittedArchive(entry.path, cause.reason);
           continue;
@@ -700,6 +706,24 @@ const readEntry = async (
   return Buffer.concat(chunks, length);
 };
 
+/**
+ * The shared parser bounds plist value nesting before its recursive decode and
+ * reports the limit as a RangeError; that is an omitted archive, not a
+ * malformed one.
+ */
+const parseXmlWithinDecodeBudget = (text: string) => {
+  try {
+    return parseXmlPropertyList(text);
+  } catch (cause: unknown) {
+    if (cause instanceof RangeError)
+      throw new InterfaceBuilderDecodeBudgetExceeded(
+        "aggregate_decode_budget_exhausted",
+        cause.message,
+      );
+    throw cause;
+  }
+};
+
 /** Project decoded plist data and dates while retaining omitted-key coverage. */
 const decodePlist = (
   bytes: Buffer,
@@ -716,7 +740,7 @@ const decodePlist = (
         value: parseBinary(bytes),
         omittedPrototypeKeys: binaryPrototypeKeyObserved ? null : 0,
       }
-    : parseXmlPropertyList(xmlText ?? decodeXmlPlistText(bytes));
+    : parseXmlWithinDecodeBudget(xmlText ?? decodeXmlPlistText(bytes));
   const projected = projectPlistValue(value);
   return {
     value: projected.value,

src/artifacts/apple/InterfaceBuilderDecodeBudget.ts

@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ export class InterfaceBuilderDecodeBudget {
     this.#remainingBytes -= bytes;
   }
 
+  /** Return a reservation whose representation was rejected and not retained. */
+  release(bytes: number): void {
+    this.#remainingBytes = Math.min(
+      this.#initialBytes,
+      this.#remainingBytes + bytes,
+    );
+  }
+
   /** Reserve an upper bound for one JSON-serialized string occurrence. */
   reserveJsonStringOccurrence(value: string): void {
     // JSON escaping uses at most six ASCII bytes per UTF-16 code unit, plus
@@ -117,7 +125,8 @@ const estimateXmlPlistExpansion = (
   const xml = xmlText ?? decodeXmlPlistText(bytes);
   const decodedSourceBytes = xml.length * 2;
   let elementCount = 0;
-  let xmlDepth = 0;
+  // Value nesting is bounded by the shared plist parser, which counts plist
+  // value depth; raw element depth would also count the envelope and keys.
   for (const token of xmlPreflightTokens(xml)) {
     if (token.doctype) {
       // Only a declaration outside opaque text can introduce an internal
@@ -130,15 +139,6 @@ const estimateXmlPlistExpansion = (
       continue;
     }
     elementCount += 1;
-    if (token.closing) xmlDepth -= 1;
-    else if (!token.selfClosing) {
-      xmlDepth += 1;
-      if (xmlDepth > 128)
-        throw new InterfaceBuilderDecodeBudgetExceeded(
-          "aggregate_decode_budget_exhausted",
-          "XML plist nesting exceeds the aggregate Interface Builder decode budget",
-        );
-    }
     if (decodedSourceBytes * 2 + elementCount * 128 > maxBytes)
       return maxBytes + 1;
   }
@@ -179,13 +179,7 @@ function* xmlPreflightTokens(xml: string) {
     }
     if (end === xml.length) return;
     cursor = end + 1;
-    if (doctype || element)
-      yield {
-        doctype,
-        internalSubset,
-        closing: xml[start + 1] === "/",
-        selfClosing: xml[end - 1] === "/",
-      };
+    if (doctype || element) yield { doctype, internalSubset };
   }
 }
 

src/artifacts/inventory/ArtifactGraphConstruction.test.ts

@@ -121,6 +121,43 @@ describe("source-map artifact relationships", () => {
       );
     },
   );
+
+  it("keeps a directory named like a source map contained by its parent", () => {
+    const archive = createOccurrence(entry("app", "directory"), "app", null);
+    archive.artifact_id = contentId("1");
+    const script = createOccurrence(
+      entry("app/main.js", "file"),
+      "app/main.js",
+      archive.occurrence_id,
+    );
+    script.artifact_id = contentId("2");
+    const directory = createOccurrence(
+      entry("app/main.js.map", "directory"),
+      "app/main.js.map",
+      archive.occurrence_id,
+    );
+    directory.artifact_id = contentId("3");
+
+    const { edges, limitations } = createArtifactEdges(contentId("4"), [
+      archive,
+      script,
+      directory,
+    ]);
+
+    expect(directory).toMatchObject({
+      artifact_kind: "container",
+      artifact_format: "directory",
+    });
+    expect(
+      edges.find(
+        ({ occurrence_id }) => occurrence_id === directory.occurrence_id,
+      ),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      relation: "contains",
+      parent_artifact_id: contentId("1"),
+    });
+    expect(limitations).toEqual([]);
+  });
 });
 
 const fat = (wide = false): Buffer =>

src/artifacts/inventory/ArtifactGraphConstruction.ts

@@ -295,7 +295,9 @@ export const createArtifactEdges = (
   const edges: ArtifactEdge[] = [];
   const limitations: string[] = [];
   for (const occurrence of occurrences) {
-    const isSourceMap = occurrence.logical_path.toLowerCase().endsWith(".map");
+    // Use the occurrence's own classification: a directory named `x.map` is
+    // a container, not a source map of its sibling.
+    const isSourceMap = occurrence.artifact_kind === "source-map";
     const sourcePath = isSourceMap
       ? occurrence.logical_path.slice(0, -".map".length)
       : undefined;
@@ -337,8 +339,10 @@ export const createArtifactEdges = (
       relation:
         occurrence.entry_kind === "slice"
           ? ("slice-of" as const)
-          : isSourceMap && mappedSource === undefined
-            ? ("contains" as const)
+          : isSourceMap
+            ? mappedSource === undefined
+              ? ("contains" as const)
+              : ("maps-source" as const)
             : relationFor(occurrence.logical_path),
       occurrence_id: occurrence.occurrence_id,
     };
@@ -587,11 +591,8 @@ const classifyFatArtifact = (
   return identity.state === "mach-o" ? "mach-o-universal" : "unknown";
 };
 
-const relationFor = (path: string): ArtifactEdge["relation"] => {
-  const lower = path.toLowerCase();
-  if (lower.endsWith(".map")) return "maps-source";
-  if (lower.includes(".framework/")) return "embeds";
-  return "contains";
-};
+/** Relation of a non-source-map occurrence to its parent. */
+const relationFor = (path: string): ArtifactEdge["relation"] =>
+  path.toLowerCase().includes(".framework/") ? "embeds" : "contains";
 
 const depth = (path: string): number => path.split("/").length;

src/browser/BrowserScenarioPartialObservation.ts

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ const browserScenarioLimitations = (
     ...(session.mode === "connect"
       ? [
           "CDP attachment cannot recover pre-attach events or guarantee launch-time context options.",
+          `Attached locale ${scenario.environment.locale} applies to Intl formatting only; navigator.language(s) and Accept-Language remain caller-controlled. Use launch mode for matching page and request languages.`,
         ]
       : []),
   ];

src/browser/CdpConnection.ts

@@ -254,10 +254,20 @@ export class CdpConnection {
     if (pending === undefined) return;
     const hasResult = "result" in message;
     const hasError = "error" in message;
+    // Chromium cannot route a rejection through a flat session after that
+    // session disappears. Its browser-level reply omits sessionId, but the
+    // connection-global command id still binds this exact terminal error.
+    const detachedSessionError =
+      pending.sessionId !== undefined &&
+      !("sessionId" in message) &&
+      hasError &&
+      isRecord(message.error) &&
+      message.error.code === -32_001 &&
+      message.error.message === "Session with given id not found.";
     if (
       (pending.sessionId === undefined
         ? "sessionId" in message
-        : message.sessionId !== pending.sessionId) ||
+        : message.sessionId !== pending.sessionId && !detachedSessionError) ||
       hasResult === hasError
     ) {
       this.#failPending("protocol_error");

src/browser/PlaywrightBrowserScenarioProvider.test.ts

@@ -730,3 +730,49 @@ it("keeps failed event finalization failed across cleanup retries", async () =>
   expect(finishEvents).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   expect(closeBrowser).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
 });
+
+it.each(["launch", "connect"] as const)(
+  "reports locale coverage in %s success and retained operation/cleanup failures",
+  async (mode) => {
+    const input = scenario({ mode });
+    input.environment.locale = "fr-FR";
+    for (const failures of [
+      {},
+      {
+        capture: {
+          call: 1,
+          error: new AnalysisCancelledError("capture_browser_scenario"),
+        },
+      },
+      { close: new Error("fixture cleanup interrupted") },
+    ]) {
+      const session = new FakeSession(mode, failures);
+      const provider = new PlaywrightBrowserScenarioProvider(
+        async () => session,
+      );
+      const result = await provider.captureScenario(input);
+      expect(result.ok).toBe(!("capture" in failures || "close" in failures));
+      const expected = {
+        limitations:
+          mode === "connect"
+            ? expect.arrayContaining([
+                "Attached locale fr-FR applies to Intl formatting only; navigator.language(s) and Accept-Language remain caller-controlled. Use launch mode for matching page and request languages.",
+              ])
+            : expect.not.arrayContaining([
+                expect.stringContaining("Attached locale"),
+              ]),
+      };
+      if (result.ok) expect(result.value).toMatchObject(expected);
+      else
+        expect(projectAnalysisError(result.error)).toMatchObject({
+          details: {
+            partial_observation: {
+              kind: "browser-scenario-observation",
+              capture: expected,
+            },
+          },
+        });
+      expect(session.closeCalls).toBe(1);
+    }
+  },
+);

src/browser/PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 
 import { z } from "zod";
-import type { Page } from "playwright-core";
+import type { Frame, Page } from "playwright-core";
 
 import { browserObservationEndpointSchema } from "../domain/browserObservation.js";
 import { BrowserObservationError } from "../domain/browserObservationError.js";
@@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ import {
 import { withPlaywrightExecutionBoundary } from "./PlaywrightExecutionBoundary.js";
 
 const OPERATION = "capture_browser_scenario" as const;
+// Restoration performs several sequential CDP mutations before the transport's
+// own bounded close. A single round-trip deadline is too short for the complete
+// chain on a loaded Windows browser, while retries must still stay bounded.
+const POLICY_CLEANUP_CONFIRMATION_TIMEOUT_MS = 5_000;
 const scriptResponse = z.object({ identifier: z.string() });
+const restorationResponse = z.object({
+  result: z.object({ value: z.literal("policy_owned").nullable() }),
+});
 const attachedEvent = z.object({
   sessionId: z.string(),
   targetInfo: z.object({ type: z.string() }),
@@ -23,6 +30,8 @@ const attachedEvent = z.object({
 const detachedEvent = z.object({ sessionId: z.string() });
 type PolicyTarget = {
   readonly id: string;
+  readonly detached: Promise<void>;
+  readonly markDetached: () => void;
   ready: Promise<void>;
   identifier?: string;
 };
@@ -41,6 +50,7 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
   #closed = false;
   #released = false;
   #detached = false;
+  #loadingStopped = false;
   #removeListener: (() => void) | undefined;
   #setup = new AbortController();
 
@@ -101,6 +111,7 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
         if (targetInfo.type === "iframe") this.addTarget(sessionId);
       } else if (event.method === "Target.detachedFromTarget") {
         const id = detachedEvent.parse(event.params).sessionId;
+        this.#targets.get(id)?.markDetached();
         this.#targets.delete(id);
         if (id === this.#session?.sessionId) this.#detached = true;
       }
@@ -119,7 +130,17 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
   }
 
   private addTarget(id: string): void {
-    const target: PolicyTarget = { id, ready: Promise.resolve() };
+    this.#targets.get(id)?.markDetached();
+    let markDetached: () => void = () => undefined;
+    const detached = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      markDetached = resolve;
+    });
+    const target: PolicyTarget = {
+      id,
+      detached,
+      markDetached,
+      ready: Promise.resolve(),
+    };
     this.#targets.set(id, target);
     const ready = this.initializeTarget(target);
     target.ready = ready;
@@ -187,15 +208,7 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
   private async settle(): Promise<void> {
     for (;;) {
       const targets = [...this.#targets.values()];
-      await Promise.all(
-        targets.map(async (target) => {
-          try {
-            await target.ready;
-          } catch (cause: unknown) {
-            if (this.#targets.get(target.id) === target) throw cause;
-          }
-        }),
-      );
+      await Promise.all(targets.map((target) => this.settleTarget(target)));
       if (
         targets.length === this.#targets.size &&
         targets.every((target) => this.#targets.get(target.id) === target)
@@ -204,6 +217,71 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
     }
   }
 
+  private async settleTarget(target: PolicyTarget): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      await Promise.race([target.ready, target.detached]);
+    } catch (cause: unknown) {
+      if (this.#targets.get(target.id) === target) throw cause;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async settleTargetForRestore(target: PolicyTarget): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      await Promise.race([target.ready, target.detached]);
+    } catch {
+      // Setup already reports its own failure. Cleanup must continue from the
+      // side effects that were acquired before it failed, such as an init
+      // script whose identifier was returned before auto-attach was rejected.
+    }
+  }
+
+  private restorationScript(): string {
+    return `(() => {
+      const restore = globalThis[${this.restoreKey}];
+      if (typeof restore === "function" && restore(${this.secret}) === true) return null;
+      const register = globalThis.ServiceWorkerContainer?.prototype.register;
+      return typeof register === "function" && Object.hasOwn(register, Symbol.for(${this.marker}))
+        ? "policy_owned"
+        : null;
+    })()`;
+  }
+
+  private async restoreMainFrame(id: string): Promise<void> {
+    const { result } = restorationResponse.parse(
+      await this.send(id, "Runtime.evaluate", {
+        expression: this.restorationScript(),
+        returnByValue: true,
+      }),
+    );
+    if (result.value === "policy_owned")
+      throw new Error(
+        "service-worker policy restoration could not be confirmed",
+      );
+  }
+
+  private async restorePlaywrightFrame(frame: Frame): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      const failure = await frame.evaluate(this.restorationScript());
+      if (failure === "policy_owned")
+        throw new Error(
+          "service-worker policy restoration could not be confirmed",
+        );
+      if (failure !== null)
+        throw new BrowserObservationError(OPERATION, "protocol_error");
+    } catch (cause: unknown) {
+      if (!this.page.isClosed() && !frame.isDetached()) throw cause;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async stopMainFrame(frame: Frame): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      await frame.evaluate("globalThis.stop()");
+      this.#loadingStopped = true;
+    } catch (cause: unknown) {
+      if (!this.page.isClosed() && !frame.isDetached()) throw cause;
+    }
+  }
+
   async assertBlocked(): Promise<void> {
     if (this.#session !== undefined) await this.settle();
     for (const frame of this.page.frames()) {
@@ -246,7 +324,10 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
         if (this.#restoration === restoration) this.#restoration = undefined;
       },
     );
-    return withPlaywrightExecutionBoundary(() => restoration, 1_000);
+    return withPlaywrightExecutionBoundary(
+      () => restoration,
+      POLICY_CLEANUP_CONFIRMATION_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    );
   }
 
   private async restore(stopLoading: boolean): Promise<void> {
@@ -255,13 +336,20 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
     const session = this.#session;
     if (session === undefined) return;
     if (!this.page.isClosed()) {
+      const mainFrame = this.page.mainFrame();
       // This owner exists even with empty storage seeds. Stopped navigation is
       // independent of storage and restoration never waits for a load event.
-      if (stopLoading && !this.#detached && session.sessionId !== undefined)
-        await this.send(session.sessionId, "Page.stopLoading");
+      if (stopLoading && !this.#loadingStopped) {
+        if (!this.#detached && session.sessionId !== undefined) {
+          await this.send(session.sessionId, "Page.stopLoading");
+          this.#loadingStopped = true;
+        } else {
+          await this.stopMainFrame(mainFrame);
+        }
+      }
       await Promise.all(
-        [...this.#targets.values()].map(({ ready }) =>
-          ready.catch(() => undefined),
+        [...this.#targets.values()].map((target) =>
+          this.settleTargetForRestore(target),
         ),
       );
       for (const target of this.#targets.values()) {
@@ -280,19 +368,20 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers {
       }
       // Future documents cannot install our wrapper after the removals above.
       // A realm lost to navigation is not assumed restored: retain and retry.
+      if (!this.#detached && session.sessionId !== undefined) {
+        await this.restoreMainFrame(session.sessionId);
+      } else {
+        await this.restorePlaywrightFrame(mainFrame);
+      }
       for (const frame of this.page.frames()) {
+        // The owned CDP session evaluates the selected main realm directly,
+        // without Playwright waiting on an in-flight document transition.
+        if (frame === mainFrame) continue;
         if (frame.isDetached()) continue;
-        try {
-          await frame.evaluate(`(() => {
-            const restore = globalThis[${this.restoreKey}];
-            if (typeof restore === "function" && restore(${this.secret}) === true) return;
-            const register = globalThis.ServiceWorkerContainer?.prototype.register;
-            if (typeof register === "function" && Object.hasOwn(register, Symbol.for(${this.marker})))
-              throw new Error("service-worker policy restoration could not be confirmed");
-          })()`);
-        } catch (cause: unknown) {
-          if (!frame.isDetached()) throw cause;
-        }
+        // An empty URL has no committed document realm to restore. Future
+        // documents cannot install the wrapper after the script removals.
+        if (frame.url().length === 0) continue;
+        await this.restorePlaywrightFrame(frame);
       }
     }
     // Detaching the exact owned session also releases its iframe auto-attach.

src/browser/PlaywrightScenarioSession.test.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
   policySend: vi.fn(),
   policyTransportClose: vi.fn(),
   policyEvent: undefined as
-    | ((event: { method: string; params: unknown }) => void)
+    | ((event: { method: string; params: unknown; sessionId?: string }) => void)
     | undefined,
 }));
 
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ const fixture = () => {
     addInitScript: vi.fn(async (_script: unknown) => undefined),
     context: () => context,
     frames: () => [page],
+    mainFrame: () => page,
     isDetached: () => false,
     isClosed: (): boolean => false,
     waitForLoadState: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
@@ -152,20 +153,27 @@ const fixture = () => {
   mocks.storage = {
     initialize: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
     settle: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
-    close: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+    close: vi.fn(async (stopLoading = false) => ({
+      loadingStopped: stopLoading,
+    })),
   };
   return { cleanup, page, storage: mocks.storage };
 };
 
+const policyResponse = (method: string): unknown =>
+  method === "Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument"
+    ? { identifier: "owned-policy-script" }
+    : method === "Runtime.evaluate"
+      ? { result: { value: null } }
+      : {};
+
 beforeEach(() => {
   vi.clearAllMocks();
   mocks.policySend.mockReset();
   mocks.policyTransportClose.mockReset();
   mocks.policyEvent = undefined;
   mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) =>
-    method === "Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument"
-      ? { identifier: "owned-policy-script" }
-      : {},
+    policyResponse(method),
   );
   mocks.policyTransportClose.mockResolvedValue(undefined);
 });
@@ -197,6 +205,292 @@ it("stops attached navigation without storage and retries rejected policy cleanu
   expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
 });
 
+it("assigns attached navigation stopping to the storage owner once", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, storage } = fixture();
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
+
+  await expect(session.close(true)).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(storage?.close).toHaveBeenCalledWith(true);
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([method]) => method === "Page.stopLoading",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(0);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("transfers attached navigation stopping after storage cleanup fails", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, storage } = fixture();
+  const storageFailure = new Error("storage stop unconfirmed");
+  storage?.close.mockRejectedValueOnce(storageFailure);
+  const policyFailure = new Error("policy stop unconfirmed");
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
+  mocks.policySend.mockRejectedValueOnce(policyFailure);
+
+  await expect(session.close(true)).rejects.toMatchObject({
+    errors: [policyFailure, storageFailure],
+  });
+  expect(cleanup.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(storage?.close).toHaveBeenCalledWith(true);
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([method]) => method === "Page.stopLoading",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(2);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("transfers a late stop request after storage has already released", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, storage } = fixture();
+  const cancellation = new AbortController();
+  storage?.close.mockResolvedValue({ loadingStopped: false });
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(
+    attached,
+    {},
+    {
+      signal: cancellation.signal,
+    },
+  );
+  const restorationFailure = new Error("registration restoration failed");
+  let failRestoration = true;
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) => {
+    if (method === "Runtime.evaluate" && failRestoration) {
+      failRestoration = false;
+      throw restorationFailure;
+    }
+    return policyResponse(method);
+  });
+
+  await expect(session.close(false)).rejects.toBe(restorationFailure);
+  expect(cleanup.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  cancellation.abort();
+  await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(storage?.close.mock.calls).toEqual([[false], [true]]);
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([method]) => method === "Page.stopLoading",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(1);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("retains transferred navigation stopping after setup cleanup fails", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, storage } = fixture();
+  const cancellation = new AbortController();
+  const setupFailure = new Error("storage initialization failed");
+  storage?.initialize.mockImplementationOnce(async () => {
+    cancellation.abort();
+    throw setupFailure;
+  });
+  storage?.close.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("storage stop unconfirmed"));
+  const policyFailure = new Error("policy stop unconfirmed");
+  let failPolicyStop = true;
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) => {
+    if (method === "Page.stopLoading" && failPolicyStop) {
+      failPolicyStop = false;
+      throw policyFailure;
+    }
+    return policyResponse(method);
+  });
+  let retainedCleanup: (() => Promise<unknown>) | undefined;
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+  });
+
+  await expect(
+    PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(
+      attached,
+      {},
+      {
+        signal: cancellation.signal,
+        retainCleanup: (close) => {
+          retainedCleanup = close;
+        },
+      },
+    ),
+  ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(AggregateError);
+  expect(cleanup.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  if (retainedCleanup === undefined)
+    throw new Error("failed cleanup was not retained");
+  await expect(retainedCleanup()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([method]) => method === "Page.stopLoading",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(2);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("allows the bounded policy cleanup chain to cross one second", async () => {
+  const { cleanup } = fixture();
+  mocks.storage = undefined;
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+    storage: {},
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
+  let releaseStop: () => void = () => undefined;
+  let stopStarted: () => void = () => undefined;
+  const stopped = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    releaseStop = resolve;
+  });
+  const started = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    stopStarted = resolve;
+  });
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) => {
+    if (method === "Page.stopLoading") {
+      stopStarted();
+      await stopped;
+    }
+    return policyResponse(method);
+  });
+
+  vi.useFakeTimers();
+  try {
+    let settled = false;
+    const closing = session.close(true).then(
+      () => {
+        settled = true;
+        return { ok: true as const };
+      },
+      (cause: unknown) => {
+        settled = true;
+        return { ok: false as const, cause };
+      },
+    );
+    await started;
+    await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(1_100);
+    expect(settled).toBe(false);
+    releaseStop();
+    await expect(closing).resolves.toEqual({ ok: true });
+  } finally {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  }
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("does not await policy initialization after its child target detaches", async () => {
+  const { cleanup } = fixture();
+  mocks.storage = undefined;
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+    storage: {},
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
+  let childStarted: () => void = () => undefined;
+  let releaseChild: () => void = () => undefined;
+  const started = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    childStarted = resolve;
+  });
+  const held = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    releaseChild = resolve;
+  });
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(
+    async (method: string, _params: unknown, target: string) => {
+      if (method === "Page.enable" && target === "child-session") {
+        childStarted();
+        await held;
+      }
+      return policyResponse(method);
+    },
+  );
+  mocks.policyEvent?.({
+    method: "Target.attachedToTarget",
+    params: {
+      sessionId: "child-session",
+      targetInfo: { type: "iframe" },
+    },
+    sessionId: "policy-session",
+  });
+  await started;
+  const closing = session.close();
+  mocks.policyEvent?.({
+    method: "Target.detachedFromTarget",
+    params: { sessionId: "child-session" },
+  });
+  try {
+    await expect(closing).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  } finally {
+    releaseChild();
+  }
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
+it("skips policy restoration for a child without a committed document", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, page } = fixture();
+  mocks.storage = undefined;
+  const pendingChild = {
+    url: () => "",
+    isDetached: () => false,
+    evaluate: vi.fn(() => new Promise(() => undefined)),
+  };
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(
+    browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+      ...scenario,
+      browser: {
+        mode: "connect",
+        cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+        target_id: "target",
+      },
+      environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+      storage: {},
+    }),
+    {},
+    {},
+  );
+  page.frames = () => [page, pendingChild as unknown as typeof page];
+
+  await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(pendingChild.evaluate).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
 it("rejects an init script accepted by CDP when the live realm is unprotected", async () => {
   const { page, cleanup } = fixture();
   page.evaluate
@@ -229,6 +523,40 @@ it("rejects an init script accepted by CDP when the live realm is unprotected",
   expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
 });
 
+it("restores an owned policy script after later setup fails", async () => {
+  const { cleanup } = fixture();
+  const setupFailure = new Error("auto-attach rejected");
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) => {
+    if (method === "Target.setAutoAttach") throw setupFailure;
+    return policyResponse(method);
+  });
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+  });
+
+  await expect(PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {})).rejects.toBe(
+    setupFailure,
+  );
+  expect(mocks.policySend).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+    "Page.removeScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument",
+    { identifier: "owned-policy-script" },
+    "policy-session",
+  );
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.some(
+      ([method]) => method === "Runtime.evaluate",
+    ),
+  ).toBe(true);
+  expect(mocks.policyTransportClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
 it("retains an owned script identifier after rejected removal", async () => {
   const { cleanup } = fixture();
   const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
@@ -283,6 +611,7 @@ it.each(["closed page", "detached target"])(
   "releases its policy transport after a %s",
   async (terminal) => {
     const { page } = fixture();
+    mocks.storage = undefined;
     const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
       ...scenario,
       browser: {
@@ -291,6 +620,7 @@ it.each(["closed page", "detached target"])(
         target_id: "target",
       },
       environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+      storage: {},
     });
     const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
     if (terminal === "closed page") page.isClosed = () => true;
@@ -299,16 +629,61 @@ it.each(["closed page", "detached target"])(
         method: "Target.detachedFromTarget",
         params: { sessionId: "policy-session" },
       });
-    await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+    await expect(session.close(true)).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
     expect(
       mocks.policySend.mock.calls.some(
         ([method]) => method === "Target.detachFromTarget",
       ),
     ).toBe(false);
     expect(mocks.policyTransportClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    if (terminal === "detached target") {
+      expect(page.evaluate).toHaveBeenCalledWith("globalThis.stop()");
+      expect(page.evaluate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        expect.stringContaining("policy_owned"),
+      );
+    }
   },
 );
 
+it("retains a detached policy connection until the main realm is restored", async () => {
+  const { cleanup, page } = fixture();
+  mocks.storage = undefined;
+  const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
+    ...scenario,
+    browser: {
+      mode: "connect",
+      cdp_endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
+      target_id: "target",
+    },
+    environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+    storage: {},
+  });
+  const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
+  mocks.policyEvent?.({
+    method: "Target.detachedFromTarget",
+    params: { sessionId: "policy-session" },
+  });
+  page.evaluate
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce(undefined)
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce("policy_owned")
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce(null);
+
+  await expect(session.close(true)).rejects.toThrow(
+    "service-worker policy restoration could not be confirmed",
+  );
+  expect(cleanup.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  expect(mocks.policyTransportClose).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(page.evaluate).toHaveBeenCalledWith("globalThis.stop()");
+  expect(
+    page.evaluate.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([script]) => script === "globalThis.stop()",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(1);
+  expect(mocks.policyTransportClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+});
+
 it("uses browser disconnect as terminal storage release after detach failure", async () => {
   const { cleanup, storage } = fixture();
   const detachFailure = new Error("CDP detach rejected");
@@ -379,7 +754,8 @@ it("blocks new attached service-worker registration without removing existing re
 });
 
 it("retains the attached connection when registration restoration fails", async () => {
-  const { cleanup, page } = fixture();
+  const { cleanup } = fixture();
+  mocks.storage = undefined;
   const attached = browserScenarioSchema.parse({
     ...scenario,
     browser: {
@@ -388,13 +764,26 @@ it("retains the attached connection when registration restoration fails", async
       target_id: "target",
     },
     environment: { service_workers: "block" },
+    storage: {},
   });
   const session = await PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(attached, {}, {});
   const failure = new Error("registration restoration failed");
-  page.evaluate.mockRejectedValueOnce(failure);
-  await expect(session.close()).rejects.toBe(failure);
+  let failRestoration = true;
+  mocks.policySend.mockImplementation(async (method: string) => {
+    if (method === "Runtime.evaluate" && failRestoration) {
+      failRestoration = false;
+      throw failure;
+    }
+    return policyResponse(method);
+  });
+  await expect(session.close(true)).rejects.toBe(failure);
   expect(cleanup.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
+  expect(
+    mocks.policySend.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([method]) => method === "Page.stopLoading",
+    ),
+  ).toHaveLength(1);
   expect(cleanup.close).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   await expect(session.close()).resolves.toBe("disconnected-external");
 });
@@ -456,7 +845,7 @@ it("waits for a pending registration installation before cancelled cleanup", asy
       await installed;
       return { identifier: "owned-policy-script" };
     }
-    return {};
+    return policyResponse(method);
   });
   const cancellation = new AbortController();
   const opening = PlaywrightScenarioSession.open(
@@ -482,9 +871,12 @@ it("waits for a pending registration installation before cancelled cleanup", asy
   expect(page.evaluate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   releaseInstallation();
   await outcome;
-  expect(page.evaluate.mock.calls.at(-1)?.[0]).toContain(
-    "policy restoration could not be confirmed",
-  );
+  const restoration = mocks.policySend.mock.calls.find(
+    ([method]) => method === "Runtime.evaluate",
+  )?.[1];
+  expect(restoration).toMatchObject({
+    expression: expect.stringContaining("policy_owned"),
+  });
   expect(mocks.policySend).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
     "Page.stopLoading",
     {},

src/browser/PlaywrightScenarioSession.ts

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioSession implements BrowserScenarioSessionPort {
   private readonly serviceWorkers: PlaywrightScenarioServiceWorkers | undefined;
   private readonly signal: AbortSignal | undefined;
   #storageReleased = false;
+  #policyStopsLoading = false;
 
   private constructor(
     private readonly opened: OpenedScenarioBrowser,
@@ -260,19 +261,29 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioSession implements BrowserScenarioSessionPort {
       });
     } catch (cause: unknown) {
       let storageReleased = false;
+      const storageStopsLoading =
+        storage !== undefined && options.signal?.aborted === true;
+      let policyStopsLoading = !storageStopsLoading;
       const cleanup = async () => {
         let storageFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
         let policyFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
         let browserFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
         if (!storageReleased) {
           try {
-            await storage?.close(options.signal?.aborted === true);
+            const result = await storage?.close(storageStopsLoading);
+            if (storageStopsLoading && result?.loadingStopped !== true)
+              policyStopsLoading = true;
           } catch (failure: unknown) {
             storageFailure = { cause: failure };
+            // Ownership transfers only after the storage attempt is no longer
+            // in flight. Its failure does not establish that navigation stop
+            // succeeded, so the policy owner must confirm it before release.
+            policyStopsLoading = true;
           }
         }
         try {
-          if (!opened.cleanup.browserClosed) await serviceWorkers?.close(true);
+          if (!opened.cleanup.browserClosed)
+            await serviceWorkers?.close(policyStopsLoading);
         } catch (failure: unknown) {
           policyFailure = { cause: failure };
         }
@@ -394,16 +405,21 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioSession implements BrowserScenarioSessionPort {
     let storageFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
     let policyFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
     let browserFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
+    if (stopLoading && this.storage === undefined)
+      this.#policyStopsLoading = true;
     if (!this.#storageReleased) {
       try {
-        await this.storage?.close(stopLoading);
+        const result = await this.storage?.close(stopLoading);
+        if (stopLoading && result?.loadingStopped !== true)
+          this.#policyStopsLoading = true;
       } catch (failure: unknown) {
         storageFailure = { cause: failure };
+        if (stopLoading) this.#policyStopsLoading = true;
       }
     }
     try {
       if (!this.opened.cleanup.browserClosed)
-        await this.serviceWorkers?.close(stopLoading);
+        await this.serviceWorkers?.close(this.#policyStopsLoading);
     } catch (failure: unknown) {
       policyFailure = { cause: failure };
     }

src/browser/PlaywrightScenarioStorage.test.ts

@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ class FakeCdp extends EventEmitter {
     this.calls.push({ method, params });
     if (method === this.holdMethod) {
       const response =
-        method === "Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument"
-          ? { identifier: "late-script" }
-          : method === "Debugger.setBreakpointByUrl"
-            ? { breakpointId: "late-breakpoint" }
-            : method === "Storage.getStorageKey"
-              ? { storageKey: this.storageKey }
-              : {};
+        method === "Target.getTargetInfo"
+          ? { targetInfo: { targetId: "root-target" } }
+          : method === "Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument"
+            ? { identifier: "late-script" }
+            : method === "Debugger.setBreakpointByUrl"
+              ? { breakpointId: "late-breakpoint" }
+              : method === "Storage.getStorageKey"
+                ? { storageKey: this.storageKey }
+                : {};
       return new Promise((resolve) => {
         this.heldReply = () => resolve(response);
       });
@@ -273,16 +275,61 @@ it("retries the owning CDP detach after a failed attempt", async () => {
   const owner = await createInitializedStorage(contextApi, page);
   cdp.failDetachCount = 1;
 
-  await expect(owner?.close()).rejects.toMatchObject({
+  await expect(owner?.close(true)).rejects.toMatchObject({
     _tag: "BrowserObservationError",
     reason: "cleanup_failed",
   });
   expect(cdp.detachCalls).toBe(1);
   expect(cdp.listenerCount("Debugger.paused")).toBe(1);
 
-  await owner?.close();
+  await expect(owner?.close(true)).resolves.toEqual({
+    loadingStopped: true,
+  });
   expect(cdp.detachCalls).toBe(2);
   expect(cdp.listenerCount("Debugger.paused")).toBe(0);
+  expect(
+    cdp.calls.filter(({ method }) => method === "Page.stopLoading"),
+  ).toHaveLength(1);
+});
+
+it("reports an unconfirmed stop when root initialization is still pending", async () => {
+  const cdp = new FakeCdp();
+  cdp.holdMethod = "Target.getTargetInfo";
+  const { page, contextApi } = fixture(cdp);
+  const input = scenario();
+  const owner = await PlaywrightScenarioStorage.create(
+    { context: contextApi as never, page: page as never },
+    input,
+    BrowserScenarioSecrets.resolve(input, {})!,
+  );
+  expect(owner).toBeDefined();
+  const initialization = owner?.initialize(page as never, contextApi as never);
+  await waitForCall(cdp, "Target.getTargetInfo");
+
+  const closing = owner?.close(true);
+  cdp.releaseHeldReply();
+  await expect(initialization).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+  await expect(closing).resolves.toEqual({ loadingStopped: false });
+  expect(
+    cdp.calls.filter(({ method }) => method === "Page.stopLoading"),
+  ).toHaveLength(0);
+  expect(cdp.detachCalls).toBe(1);
+});
+
+it("reports and retains a confirmed navigation stop", async () => {
+  const cdp = new FakeCdp();
+  const { page, contextApi } = fixture(cdp);
+  const owner = await createInitializedStorage(contextApi, page);
+
+  await expect(owner?.close(true)).resolves.toEqual({
+    loadingStopped: true,
+  });
+  await expect(owner?.close(true)).resolves.toEqual({
+    loadingStopped: true,
+  });
+  expect(
+    cdp.calls.filter(({ method }) => method === "Page.stopLoading"),
+  ).toHaveLength(1);
 });
 
 it("does not create storage instrumentation when there are no storage seeds", async () => {

src/browser/PlaywrightScenarioStorage.ts

@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ type StorageInstallationOptions = {
   readonly retainCleanup?: (close: () => Promise<unknown>) => void;
 };
 type StoragePage = { readonly context: BrowserContext; readonly page: Page };
+export type PlaywrightScenarioStorageCleanup = {
+  readonly loadingStopped: boolean;
+};
 
 /** Owns pre-script storage seeding and its CDP instrumentation for one scenario. */
 export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
@@ -123,8 +126,9 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
   #generation = 0;
   #closed = false;
   #cleanupCompleted = false;
+  #loadingStopped = false;
   #failure: BrowserObservationError | undefined;
-  #closePromise: Promise<void> | undefined;
+  #closePromise: Promise<PlaywrightScenarioStorageCleanup> | undefined;
   #detachPromise: Promise<void> | undefined;
   #rootInitialization: Promise<void> | undefined;
   #work: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve();
@@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
     const rootInfo = targetInfoResponse.parse(
       await this.cdp.send("Target.getTargetInfo"),
     );
+    if (this.#closed) return;
     const root = this.createTarget(
       undefined,
       rootInfo.targetInfo.targetId,
@@ -210,7 +215,6 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
         this.cdp.send(method as Parameters<CDPSession["send"]>[0], params),
     );
     this.#targets.set("", root);
-    if (this.#closed) return;
     this.listen(page, context);
     const ready = this.initializeTarget(root);
     root.ready = ready;
@@ -591,8 +595,9 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
     }
   }
 
-  close(stopLoading = false): Promise<void> {
-    if (this.#cleanupCompleted) return Promise.resolve();
+  close(stopLoading = false): Promise<PlaywrightScenarioStorageCleanup> {
+    if (this.#cleanupCompleted)
+      return Promise.resolve({ loadingStopped: this.#loadingStopped });
     if (this.#closePromise !== undefined) return this.#closePromise;
     const closing = this.closeResources(stopLoading).catch((cause: unknown) => {
       throw new BrowserObservationError(
@@ -614,17 +619,21 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
     return closing;
   }
 
-  private async closeResources(stopLoading: boolean): Promise<void> {
+  private async closeResources(
+    stopLoading: boolean,
+  ): Promise<PlaywrightScenarioStorageCleanup> {
     this.#closed = true;
     let stopLoadingFailure: { readonly cause: unknown } | undefined;
-    if (stopLoading) {
+    if (stopLoading && !this.#loadingStopped) {
       try {
         const root = this.#targets.get("");
-        if (root !== undefined)
+        if (root !== undefined) {
           await withPlaywrightExecutionBoundary(
             () => root.send("Page.stopLoading"),
             STORAGE_CLEANUP_TIMEOUT_MS,
           );
+          this.#loadingStopped = true;
+        }
       } catch (cause: unknown) {
         stopLoadingFailure = { cause };
       }
@@ -674,5 +683,6 @@ export class PlaywrightScenarioStorage {
     this.#replies.clear();
     this.#cleanupCompleted = true;
     if (stopLoadingFailure !== undefined) throw stopLoadingFailure.cause;
+    return { loadingStopped: this.#loadingStopped };
   }
 }

src/cli/binaryDiagnosticsCommands.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import {
   createRecordedCrashService,
   createBinaryLayoutService,
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
 import { inspectPeResourcesInputSchema } from "../domain/native/peResources.js";
 import { projectAnalysisError } from "../domain/analysisErrorProjection.js";
 import { finishAnalysisCommand } from "./finishAnalysisCommand.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Inspect operator-selected files through the same shared workflow as MCP. */
 export const registerBinaryDiagnosticsCommands = (
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export const registerBinaryDiagnosticsCommands = (
               () =>
                 pe.inspect(
                   {
-                    path: resolve(args.path),
+                    path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
                     max_file_bytes: options.maxFileBytes,
                     max_entries: options.maxEntries,
                   },
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export const registerBinaryDiagnosticsCommands = (
       withCommandCancellation((signal) =>
         logCliCommand(logger, CLI_COMMANDS.inspectBinaryLayout, async () => {
           const result = await service.inspectAndClose(
-            { path: resolve(args.path) },
+            { path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path) },
             { signal },
           );
           return result.ok ? result.value : projectAnalysisError(result.error);
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export const registerBinaryDiagnosticsCommands = (
         logCliCommand(logger, CLI_COMMANDS.inspectRecordedCrash, async () => {
           const result = await recorded.inspectAndClose(
             {
-              path: resolve(args.path),
+              path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
               include_debugger_context: options.debuggerContext,
             },
             { signal },

src/cli/captureCommands.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { inspectPacketFieldsInputSchema } from "../domain/captures/packetFields.js";
 import { z } from "incur";
 import type { PacketCaptureService } from "../application/captures/PacketCaptureService.js";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { createPacketCaptureService } from "../composition/captures.js";
 import {
   packetCaptureOptionsSchema,
@@ -14,6 +13,7 @@ import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
 import { finishAnalysisCommand } from "./finishAnalysisCommand.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 export const registerCaptureCommands = (
   cli: CliInstance,
   logger: Logger,
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ export const registerCaptureCommands = (
                 {
                   ...options,
                   ...(all_matches ? { match_limit: null } : {}),
-                  path: resolve(args.path),
+                  path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
                 },
                 { signal },
               ),

src/cli/coreBinaryCommands.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
 import { stat } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 
 import { resolveCliAnalysisSelector } from "./analysisSelector.js";
 import type { DirectAnalysis } from "../composition/directAnalysis.js";
@@ -16,6 +15,7 @@ import { runCliJavaScriptApplicationAnalysis } from "./javascriptApplicationAnal
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
 import { javascriptApplicationOptions } from "../cliObservationOptions.js";
 import { AnalysisInputError } from "../domain/analysisErrorCore.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Register provider-neutral binary overview and procedure CLI commands. */
 export const registerCoreBinaryCommands = (
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ const registerOverviewCommands = (
           logCliCommand(logger, "analyze", () =>
             runCliJavaScriptApplicationAnalysis(
               {
-                input_path: resolve(args.path),
+                input_path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
                 integrity_policy:
                   options.integrityPolicy ?? defaultIntegrityPolicy,
                 ...(options.sourcePath === undefined

src/cli/evmCommands.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { evmInterfaceModule } from "../composition/evm.js";
 import { logCliCommand } from "../cliLogging.js";
 import { projectAnalysisError } from "../domain/analysisErrorProjection.js";
 import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Resolve operator paths and preserve explicit encoding through the shared workflow. */
 export const registerEvmCommands = (
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ export const registerEvmCommands = (
             evmInterfaceModule.cliCommand,
             async () => {
               const result = await service.inspect(
-                { path: resolve(args.path), encoding: args.encoding },
+                {
+                  path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
+                  encoding: args.encoding,
+                },
                 { signal },
               );
               return result.ok

src/cli/firmwareCommands.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { FirmwareAnalysisService } from "../application/firmware/FirmwareAnalysisService.js";
 import { createFirmwareAnalysisProvider } from "../composition/firmware.js";
 import { CLI_COMMANDS } from "../cliCommandNames.js";
@@ -11,6 +10,7 @@ import type { FirmwareOperation } from "../domain/firmware/firmwareAnalysis.js";
 import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** One-shot firmware CLI commands backed by the same workflows as MCP. */
 export const registerFirmwareCommands = (
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export const registerFirmwareCommands = (
         CLI_COMMANDS.inspectFirmwareRegions,
         "inspect_firmware_regions",
         // CLI paths are operator-relative; resolve before shared validation.
-        { path: resolve(args.path) },
+        { path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path) },
       ),
   });
   cli.command(CLI_COMMANDS.extractFirmware, {
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ export const registerFirmwareCommands = (
     }),
     run: ({ args, options }) =>
       execute(CLI_COMMANDS.extractFirmware, "extract_firmware", {
-        path: resolve(args.path),
-        output_directory: resolve(args.outputDirectory),
+        path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
+        output_directory: absoluteCallerPath(args.outputDirectory),
         ...(options.offset === undefined && options.length === undefined
           ? {}
           : { range: { offset: options.offset, length: options.length } }),

src/cli/goCommands.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { createGoBinaryService } from "../composition/go.js";
 import { CLI_COMMANDS } from "../cliCommandNames.js";
 import { logCliCommand } from "../cliLogging.js";
@@ -7,6 +6,7 @@ import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
 import { finishAnalysisCommand } from "./finishAnalysisCommand.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Resolve caller paths and inspect static build metadata through the shared workflow. */
 export const registerGoCommands = (cli: CliInstance, logger: Logger): void => {
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ export const registerGoCommands = (cli: CliInstance, logger: Logger): void => {
           CLI_COMMANDS.inspectGoBinary,
           async () =>
             finishAnalysisCommand(
-              () => service.inspect({ path: resolve(args.path) }, { signal }),
+              () =>
+                service.inspect(
+                  { path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path) },
+                  { signal },
+                ),
               service,
               "go-build-info",
               "inspect_go_binary",

src/cli/rustCommands.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { createRustBinaryService } from "../composition/rust.js";
 import { CLI_COMMANDS } from "../cliCommandNames.js";
 import { logCliCommand } from "../cliLogging.js";
@@ -7,6 +6,7 @@ import { projectAnalysisError } from "../domain/analysisErrorProjection.js";
 import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Resolve caller paths and inspect embedded Rust dependencies through the shared workflow. */
 export const registerRustCommands = (
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export const registerRustCommands = (
       withCommandCancellation((signal) =>
         logCliCommand(logger, CLI_COMMANDS.inspectRustBinary, async () => {
           const result = await service.inspect(
-            { path: resolve(args.path) },
+            { path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path) },
             { signal },
           );
           return result.ok ? result.value : projectAnalysisError(result.error);

src/cli/signalCommands.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { inspectSignalDecodersInputSchema } from "../domain/signals/signalDecoders.js";
 import { z } from "incur";
 import type { SignalRecordingService } from "../application/signals/SignalRecordingService.js";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { createSignalRecordingService } from "../composition/signals.js";
 import {
   signalRecordingOptionsSchema,
@@ -14,6 +13,7 @@ import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
 import { finishAnalysisCommand } from "./finishAnalysisCommand.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 export const registerSignalCommands = (
   cli: CliInstance,
   logger: Logger,
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export const registerSignalCommands = (
                 {
                   ...options,
                   ...(all_lines ? { line_limit: null } : {}),
-                  path: resolve(args.path),
+                  path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
                 },
                 { signal },
               ),

src/cli/sqliteCommands.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { createSqliteDatabaseService } from "../composition/sqlite.js";
 import { CLI_COMMANDS } from "../cliCommandNames.js";
 import { logCliCommand } from "../cliLogging.js";
@@ -9,6 +8,7 @@ import { projectAnalysisError } from "../domain/analysisErrorProjection.js";
 import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Resolve an operator-selected SQLite snapshot through the shared inspection workflow. */
 export const registerSqliteCommands = (
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export const registerSqliteCommands = (
           const inspection = await service
             .inspect(
               {
-                path: resolve(args.path),
+                path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
                 ...(options.table === undefined
                   ? {}
                   : { table: options.table }),

src/cli/wasmCommands.ts

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ import { compareWasmInterfaces } from "../application/wasm/WasmInterfaceComparis
 import { parseCliJsonInput } from "../cliJsonInput.js";
 import { CLI_COMMANDS } from "../cliCommandNames.js";
 import { z } from "incur";
-import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { wasmArtifactModule } from "../composition/wasm.js";
 import { logCliCommand } from "../cliLogging.js";
 import { projectAnalysisError } from "../domain/analysisErrorProjection.js";
 import type { Logger } from "pino";
 import type { CliInstance } from "./types.js";
 import { withCommandCancellation } from "./commandCancellation.js";
+import { absoluteCallerPath } from "../filesystem/callerPath.js";
 
 /** Resolve all caller-selected artifact paths through the shared workflow. */
 export const registerWasmCommands = (
@@ -64,10 +64,12 @@ export const registerWasmCommands = (
             async () => {
               const result = await service.inspect(
                 {
-                  path: resolve(args.path),
-                  glue_paths: options.glue_paths?.map((path) => resolve(path)),
+                  path: absoluteCallerPath(args.path),
+                  glue_paths: options.glue_paths?.map((path) =>
+                    absoluteCallerPath(path),
+                  ),
                   candidate_paths: options.candidate_paths?.map((path) =>
-                    resolve(path),
+                    absoluteCallerPath(path),
                   ),
                 },
                 { signal },

src/contracts/analysisViewToolContracts.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const ANALYSIS_VIEW_TOOL_CONTRACTS = [
     ...toolContractMetadata("inspect_analysis_view"),
     kind: "application",
     description:
-      'Inspect selected views of completed binary-layout, JavaScript application, native analyze_function, inspect_artifact, inventory_artifact, inspect_wasm_artifact, inspect_macho, decode_interface_builder, inspect_evm_interface, inspect_managed_artifact, inspect_managed_members, inspect_android_package, inspect_dart_aot or inspect_web_network_capture Evidence without repeating analysis. Historical capture summaries return identity and counts without bodies or archive inventories. Capture views page retained records: view {kind: "capture", detail: "preview" | "complete", offset: 0, limit: 20}; preview selects recorded headline fields and binary descriptors, complete returns exact records with all sidecars. Offsets follow the selected parent record order, preserving original producer ordinals. Paging never reopens the source or reruns the decoder. For inspect_pcap_capture parents, kind pcap pages endpoints, dns-queries, tls-sni, protocols, http-uris or unattributed-addresses. Select an exact query for dns-addresses, or a tshark/capinfos stream for UTF-16 diagnostics text. Page totals count retained facts; source coverage remains explicit. Qlog summaries keep profile/scope and counts; kind qlog pages traces, streams, loss-declarations, incomplete-records, contributions, ranges or final-sizes. Except traces, select trace_index; stream-specific facets also require exact stream_id and direction. Facts retain all-recorded-events-before-selection scope, and interval overlap or endpoint loss declarations do not prove retransmission or network loss. The api-surface view groups retained HAR requests by method, origin and format-rule path template; templated segments are inferences. It reads no headers or bodies and reports no query values. For a retained record use source: {kind: "retained-evidence", evidence_id: "<parent_evidence_id>"}. Use normalized_result.parent_evidence_id from a summary receipt. Source kind is required. Portable source uses {kind: "inline", evidence: <complete Evidence>}. For layout, JavaScript, inventory, WASM, Mach-O, Interface Builder, EVM, managed artifact, Android package and Dart AOT sources, request a summary with view: {kind: "summary"}; summary is a view kind and has no facet. The WASM summary gives validation, counts, WAT digest/length, tool profile and execution/network states without reading WAT text. Select a layout mitigations/linkage facet, one section/symbol/module, or a stable page. Module pages include assets, bundled and source modules; use node_id for ambiguous or unavailable paths. Inventory uses view: {kind: "inventory", collection: "occurrences", logical_paths: ["package.json"], offset: 0, limit: 64}. Inventory views page nodes, occurrences, edges or integrity contradictions; occurrence logical_paths matches exact recorded strings (omitted means all available, [] means none). source_complete distinguishes complete inventories from partial source records; page exhaustion does not prove absence in a partial source. WASM views use kind wasm and facet sections/imports/exports/candidates/glue/wat/headers/details/tool_profile; text facets use UTF-16 code units and source forms remain exact. Mach-O views use kind macho and facet entrypoints/architectures/build_metadata/load_commands/dependencies/imports/exports/segments/provenance; source_exhaustive false means unreturned rows may exist. Interface Builder views use kind interface-builder and collection documents/nodes/edges/coverage; nodes and edges accept an exact document relative_path. EVM summary returns all inferred interface candidates, carrier/decoded identities and explicit unknowns without hex or duplicate stdout. EVM views use kind evm and facet functions/bytecode_hex/stdout/stderr; function pages preserve the original candidate rows, and text offsets/limits count UTF-16 code units (hex has two characters per decoded byte). Exhausting candidate pages does not establish global interface completeness. Managed artifact summaries preserve complete identity/classification, metadata status, module/MVID, frameworks, coverage and limitations without unrelated inventories. Managed pages use kind managed and collection references/resources/attributes, retaining source coverage and build-local token scope; page exhaustion does not establish complete metadata. Managed member summaries keep identity, selection with unmatched names, coverage and per-collection counts; managed-members pages use collection types/exported_types/fields/methods/member_refs/call_edges/field_accesses/user_strings and carry the source selection and coverage. Android package summaries retain all declarations, engine identity and counts without decoded manifest text. Android manifest pages use kind android, facet manifest, offset and limit in UTF-16 code units; source_status preserves partial decoded coverage even when the retained text page is exhausted. Dart AOT summary preserves target/ABI/library identity, snapshot headers and pool lower bounds. StringLine truncated
+      'Inspect selected views of completed binary-layout, JavaScript application, native analyze_function, inspect_artifact, inventory_artifact, inspect_wasm_artifact, inspect_macho, decode_interface_builder, inspect_evm_interface, inspect_managed_artifact, inspect_managed_members, inspect_android_package, inspect_dart_aot or inspect_web_network_capture Evidence without repeating analysis. Historical capture summaries return identity and counts without bodies or archive inventories. Capture views page retained records: view {kind: "capture", detail: "preview" | "complete", offset: 0, limit: 20}; preview selects recorded headline fields and binary descriptors, complete returns exact records with all sidecars. Offsets follow the selected parent record order, preserving original producer ordinals. Paging never reopens the source or reruns the decoder. For inspect_pcap_capture parents, kind pcap pages endpoints, dns-queries, tls-sni, protocols, http-uris or unattributed-addresses. Select an exact query for dns-addresses, or a tshark/capinfos stream for UTF-16 diagnostics text. Page totals count retained facts; source coverage remains explicit. Qlog summaries keep profile/scope and counts; kind qlog pages traces, streams, loss-declarations, incomplete-records, contributions, ranges or final-sizes. Except traces, select trace_index; stream-specific facets also require exact stream_id and direction. Facts retain all-recorded-events-before-selection scope, and interval overlap or endpoint loss declarations do not prove retransmission or network loss. The api-surface view groups retained HAR requests by method, origin and format-rule path template; templated segments are inferences. It reads no headers or bodies and reports no query values. For a retained record use source: {kind: "retained-evidence", evidence_id: "<parent_evidence_id>"}. Use normalized_result.parent_evidence_id from a summary receipt. Source kind is required. Portable source uses {kind: "inline", evidence: <complete Evidence>}. For layout, JavaScript, inventory, WASM, Mach-O, Interface Builder, EVM, managed artifact, Android package and Dart AOT sources, request a summary with view: {kind: "summary"}; summary is a view kind and has no facet. The WASM summary gives validation, counts, WAT digest/length, tool profile and execution/network states without reading WAT text. Select a layout mitigations/linkage facet, one section/symbol/module, or a stable page. Module pages include assets, bundled and source modules; use node_id for ambiguous or unavailable paths. Typed module references use view {kind: "javascript", collection: "modules", projection: "references", where: {path: "main.js", kind: "javascript-module"}, offset: 0, limit: 64}; where matches exact retained strings (null selects unavailable paths). Rows include canonical identity, retained source-range count and observation support states. Source coverage and selection remain explicit; exhausting matching rows does not prove runtime loading or complete analysis. Inventory uses view: {kind: "inventory", collection: "occurrences", logical_paths: ["package.json"], offset: 0, limit: 64}. Inventory views page nodes, occurrences, edges or integrity contradictions; occurrence logical_paths matches exact recorded strings (omitted means all available, [] means none). source_complete distinguishes complete inventories from partial source records; page exhaustion does not prove absence in a partial source. WASM views use kind wasm and facet sections/imports/exports/candidates/glue/wat/headers/details/tool_profile; text facets use UTF-16 code units and source forms remain exact. Mach-O views use kind macho and facet entrypoints/architectures/build_metadata/load_commands/dependencies/imports/exports/segments/provenance; source_exhaustive false means unreturned rows may exist. Interface Builder views use kind interface-builder and collection documents/nodes/edges/coverage; nodes and edges accept an exact document relative_path. EVM summary returns all inferred interface candidates, carrier/decoded identities and explicit unknowns without hex or duplicate stdout. EVM views use kind evm and facet functions/bytecode_hex/stdout/stderr; function pages preserve the original candidate rows, and text offsets/limits count UTF-16 code units (hex has two characters per decoded byte). Exhausting candidate pages does not establish global interface completeness. Managed artifact summaries preserve complete identity/classification, metadata status, module/MVID, frameworks, coverage and limitations without unrelated inventories. Managed pages use kind managed and collection references/resources/attributes, retaining source coverage and build-local token scope; page exhaustion does not establish complete metadata. Managed member summaries keep identity, selection with unmatched names, coverage and per-collection counts; managed-members pages use collection types/exported_types/fields/methods/member_refs/call_edges/field_acLine truncated
     inputSchema: inspectAnalysisViewInputSchema,
     outputSchema: evidenceResultOf(analysisViewResultSchema),
     examples: [
@@ -94,6 +94,24 @@ export const ANALYSIS_VIEW_TOOL_CONTRACTS = [
           },
         },
       },
+      {
+        title:
+          "Read typed module reference facts from retained application Evidence",
+        input: {
+          source: {
+            kind: "retained-evidence",
+            evidence_id: RETAINED_EXAMPLE_ID,
+          },
+          view: {
+            kind: "javascript",
+            collection: "modules",
+            projection: "references",
+            where: { path: "main.js", kind: "javascript-module" },
+            offset: 0,
+            limit: 64,
+          },
+        },
+      },
     ],
   },
 ] as const satisfies readonly ToolContract[];

src/contracts/officialToolContracts.ts

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ export const OFFICIAL_TOOL_CONTRACTS = [
   ),
   official(
     "list_strings",
-    "List every provider-defined string object, or filter to one address, as address/value pairs with encoding, terminator status, and byte length when available. Hopper reads complete typed objects and retains its original display text as provider_value; long literals may span adjacent unterminated objects.",
+    "List every provider-reported string object or candidate, or filter to one address, as address/value pairs with encoding, terminator status, and byte length when available. Hopper reads complete typed objects and retains its original display text as provider_value; long literals may span adjacent unterminated objects. Kuna scans mapped printable sequences of at least five characters, including unterminated fragments; references are not computed.",
     z.object({ document, address: optionalAddress }),
   ),
   official(
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ export const OFFICIAL_TOOL_CONTRACTS = [
   ),
   official(
     "search_strings",
-    "Search every provider-defined string object using literal matching by default or regex when requested. Results are deterministic and complete over those defined objects, not every text sequence in artifact bytes. Ghidra may omit packed or undefined literals, including Rust strings; an empty result does not prove text is absent. If an address is known, read_bytes and xrefs inspect its bytes and references. Hopper retains typed byte decoding, native display, and explicit decoding unknowns. Adjacent long-literal fragments match independently. Hopper regex mode uses ECMAScript Unicode syntax in a cancellable worker; a matching deadline leaves its API usable.",
+    "Search every provider-reported string object or candidate using literal matching by default or regex when requested. Results are deterministic and complete over that provider inventory, not every text sequence in artifact bytes. Kuna scans mapped sequences of at least five characters, including unterminated fragments, without computing references. Ghidra may omit packed or undefined literals, including Rust strings; an empty result does not prove text is absent. If an address is known, read_bytes and xrefs inspect its bytes and references. Hopper retains typed byte decoding, native display, and explicit decoding unknowns. Adjacent long-literal fragments match independently. Hopper regex mode uses ECMAScript Unicode syntax in a cancellable worker; a matching deadline leaves its API usable.",
     z.object(analysisSearchInput),
   ),
   official(

src/contracts/toolEffects.ts

@@ -647,7 +647,11 @@ export const TOOL_EFFECTS: Readonly<Record<string, ToolEffects>> = {
   }),
   list_javascript_runtime_targets: browserEvidence,
   observe_javascript_runtime: browserEvidence,
-  analyze_javascript_application: evidence,
+  analyze_javascript_application: effects({
+    mutatesSession: true,
+    writesFilesystem: true,
+    launchesProcess: true,
+  }),
   inspect_electron_fuses: evidence,
   export_web_scripts: effects({
     mutatesSession: true,

src/domain/analysisView/analysisView.test.ts

@@ -481,6 +481,240 @@ it("projects JavaScript summary and preserves selected module observations", ()
   });
 });
 
+it("projects typed module facts without source bodies and keeps source coverage independent of paging", () => {
+  const analysis = analysisViewJavaScriptAnalysisWithSource();
+  const parent = javascriptParent(analysis);
+  const input = inspectAnalysisViewInputSchema.parse({
+    source: { kind: "retained-evidence", evidence_id: parent.evidenceId },
+    view: {
+      kind: "javascript",
+      collection: "modules",
+      projection: "references",
+      where: { path: "renderer.js" },
+      limit: 1,
+    },
+  });
+  const projected = projectAnalysisView(parent, input.view);
+  if (!projected.ok) throw projected.error;
+  if (projected.value.kind !== "javascript")
+    throw new Error("expected JavaScript view");
+  const node = analysis.graph.nodes[0];
+  if (!node) throw new Error("missing module");
+  expect(projected.value.rows).toEqual([
+    {
+      node_id: node.node_id,
+      kind: node.kind,
+      path: "renderer.js",
+      identity: node.identity,
+      retained_source_range_count: 0,
+      basis: [
+        { authority: "artifact-bytes", state: "observed", confidence: "exact" },
+      ],
+    },
+  ]);
+  expect(projected.value.coverage).toMatchObject({ total: 1, exhausted: true });
+  expect(projected.value.source_coverage).toMatchObject({
+    application: analysis.graph.coverage,
+    semantic: { status: analysis.semantic_graph.coverage.status },
+  });
+  expect(JSON.stringify(projected.value.rows)).not.toMatch(
+    /secret|should not leak|observations/,
+  );
+  const row = projected.value.rows[0];
+  if (!row) throw new Error("missing reference");
+  const retainedIdentity = structuredClone(node.identity);
+  if (row.identity.strategy !== "content-digest")
+    throw new Error("expected digest identity");
+  row.identity.sha256 = "e".repeat(64);
+  expect(node.identity).toEqual(retainedIdentity);
+  const empty = projectAnalysisView(parent, {
+    ...input.view,
+    kind: "javascript",
+    collection: "modules",
+    projection: "references",
+    where: { kind: "javascript-module" },
+    offset: 0,
+    limit: 1,
+  });
+  if (!empty.ok) throw empty.error;
+  expect(empty.value).toMatchObject({
+    rows: [],
+    coverage: { total: 0, exhausted: true },
+  });
+});
+
+it("counts retained range observations including repeats and skips unavailable locations", () => {
+  const analysis = analysisViewJavaScriptAnalysis();
+  const original = analysis.graph.nodes[0];
+  const observed = original?.observations[0];
+  if (!original || !observed) throw new Error("missing module observation");
+  const range = {
+    kind: "source-range",
+    source: "renderer.js",
+    start: { line: 1, column: 0 },
+    end: { line: 1, column: 8 },
+  };
+  const node = createJavaScriptApplicationNode({
+    kind: original.kind,
+    identity: original.identity,
+    observations: [
+      ...["first retained observation", "second retained observation"].map(
+        (label) => ({
+          label,
+          properties: {},
+          evidence: {
+            ...observed.evidence,
+            location: { available: true, value: range },
+          },
+        }),
+      ),
+      {
+        label: "unavailable location",
+        properties: {},
+        evidence: {
+          ...observed.evidence,
+          authority: "unknown",
+          state: "unavailable",
+          confidence: "unknown",
+          location: {
+            available: false,
+            reason: "not-observed",
+            detail: "Location was not recorded.",
+          },
+          limitations: ["Location was not recorded."],
+        },
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+  const { graph_id: _graphId, ...application } = analysis.graph;
+  const graph = createJavaScriptApplicationGraph({
+    ...application,
+    nodes: [node],
+    root_node_ids: [node.node_id],
+  });
+  const parent = javascriptParent(
+    analysisViewBindJavaScriptGraphs(analysis, graph),
+  );
+  const references = projectAnalysisView(parent, {
+    kind: "javascript",
+    collection: "modules",
+    projection: "references",
+    where: {},
+    offset: 0,
+    limit: 1,
+  });
+  const item = projectAnalysisView(parent, {
+    kind: "item",
+    collection: "modules",
+    selector: { node_id: node.node_id },
+  });
+  if (!references.ok) throw references.error;
+  if (!item.ok) throw item.error;
+  expect(references.value).toMatchObject({
+    rows: [{ node_id: node.node_id, retained_source_range_count: 2 }],
+  });
+  expect(item.value).toMatchObject({ item: { source_ranges: [range, range] } });
+});
+
+it("validates typed module selectors without coercing null or empty paths", () => {
+  const source = {
+    kind: "retained-evidence",
+    evidence_id: javascriptParent().evidenceId,
+  };
+  const view = {
+    kind: "javascript",
+    collection: "modules",
+    projection: "references",
+  };
+  for (const path of [null, "", "renderer.js"])
+    expect(
+      inspectAnalysisViewInputSchema.safeParse({
+        source,
+        view: { ...view, where: { path } },
+      }).success,
+    ).toBe(true);
+  for (const where of [
+    { path: 1 },
+    { kind: "electron-main" },
+    { glob: "*.js" },
+  ])
+    expect(
+      inspectAnalysisViewInputSchema.safeParse({
+        source,
+        view: { ...view, where },
+      }).success,
+    ).toBe(false);
+  expect(
+    projectAnalysisView(layoutParent(), {
+      ...view,
+      kind: "javascript",
+      collection: "modules",
+      projection: "references",
+      where: {},
+      offset: 0,
+      limit: 1,
+    }).ok,
+  ).toBe(false);
+});
+
+it("keeps mixed observation support distinct instead of promoting a module to observed", () => {
+  const analysis = analysisViewJavaScriptAnalysis();
+  const original = analysis.graph.nodes[0];
+  const observed = original?.observations[0];
+  if (!original || !observed) throw new Error("missing module observation");
+  const inferred = {
+    ...observed.evidence,
+    authority: "static-relationship-inference" as const,
+    state: "inferred" as const,
+    confidence: "low" as const,
+    limitations: ["Static candidate; runtime loading is unknown."],
+  };
+  const node = createJavaScriptApplicationNode({
+    kind: original.kind,
+    identity: original.identity,
+    observations: [
+      {
+        label: observed.label,
+        properties: observed.properties,
+        evidence: observed.evidence,
+      },
+      { label: "candidate one", properties: {}, evidence: inferred },
+      { label: "candidate two", properties: {}, evidence: inferred },
+    ],
+  });
+  const { graph_id: _graphId, ...application } = analysis.graph;
+  const graph = createJavaScriptApplicationGraph({
+    ...application,
+    nodes: [node],
+    root_node_ids: [node.node_id],
+  });
+  const result = projectAnalysisView(
+    javascriptParent(analysisViewBindJavaScriptGraphs(analysis, graph)),
+    {
+      kind: "javascript",
+      collection: "modules",
+      projection: "references",
+      where: {},
+      offset: 0,
+      limit: 1,
+    },
+  );
+  if (!result.ok) throw result.error;
+  if (result.value.kind !== "javascript")
+    throw new Error("expected references");
+  expect(result.value.rows[0]?.basis).toHaveLength(2);
+  expect(result.value.rows[0]?.basis).toEqual(
+    expect.arrayContaining([
+      { authority: "artifact-bytes", state: "observed", confidence: "exact" },
+      {
+        authority: "static-relationship-inference",
+        state: "inferred",
+        confidence: "low",
+      },
+    ]),
+  );
+});
+
 it("rejects ambiguous JavaScript module paths with candidate node ids", () => {
   const analysis = analysisViewJavaScriptAnalysis();
   const first = analysis.graph.nodes[0];
@@ -535,6 +769,28 @@ it("rejects ambiguous JavaScript module paths with candidate node ids", () => {
       },
     ],
   });
+  const view = {
+    kind: "javascript",
+    collection: "modules",
+    projection: "references",
+    where: { path: "renderer.js" },
+    offset: 0,
+    limit: 1,
+  } as const;
+  const ids: string[] = [];
+  for (const offset of [0, 1, 2, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER]) {
+    const page = projectAnalysisView(parent, { ...view, offset });
+    if (!page.ok) throw page.error;
+    if (page.value.kind !== "javascript")
+      throw new Error("expected references");
+    ids.push(...page.value.rows.map(({ node_id }) => node_id));
+    expect(page.value.coverage).toMatchObject({
+      total: 2,
+      next_offset: offset === 0 ? 1 : null,
+      exhausted: offset !== 0,
+    });
+  }
+  expect(ids).toEqual(graph.nodes.map(({ node_id }) => node_id));
 });
 
 it("pages actual modules, including unknown and empty paths, without unrelated roles", () => {
@@ -644,6 +900,24 @@ it("pages actual modules, including unknown and empty paths, without unrelated r
     collection: "modules",
     selector: { path: "" },
   });
+  for (const [path, kind] of [
+    [null, "javascript-module"],
+    ["", "source-module"],
+  ] as const) {
+    const references = projectAnalysisView(parent, {
+      kind: "javascript",
+      collection: "modules",
+      projection: "references",
+      where: { path },
+      offset: 0,
+      limit: 1,
+    });
+    if (!references.ok) throw references.error;
+    expect(references.value).toMatchObject({
+      rows: [{ path, kind }],
+      coverage: { total: 1, exhausted: true },
+    });
+  }
   expect(emptyPath.ok).toBe(true);
   const role = nodes.find((node) => node.kind === "electron-renderer");
   if (role === undefined) throw new Error("missing role");
@@ -875,6 +1149,22 @@ it.each(["partial", "unknown"] as const)(
     });
     for (const view of [
       { kind: "page", collection: "modules", offset: 0, limit: 10 },
+      {
+        kind: "javascript",
+        collection: "modules",
+        projection: "references",
+        where: {},
+        offset: 0,
+        limit: 10,
+      },
+      {
+        kind: "javascript",
+        collection: "modules",
+        projection: "references",
+        where: { path: "not-retained.js" },
+        offset: 0,
+        limit: 10,
+      },
       {
         kind: "item",
         collection: "modules",
@@ -884,6 +1174,12 @@ it.each(["partial", "unknown"] as const)(
       const result = projectAnalysisView(parent, view);
       if (!result.ok) throw result.error;
       expect(result.value.coverage.exhausted).toBe(true);
+      if (result.value.kind === "javascript")
+        expect(result.value.source_coverage).toMatchObject({
+          application: { status, omitted_count: null },
+          semantic: { status: "unknown" },
+          application_unknown_count: 1,
+        });
       expect(result.value.unknowns).toEqual([
         "1 application graph unknowns remain in the parent Evidence.",
         ...messages.slice(0, 65),

src/domain/analysisView/analysisView.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 import { z } from "zod";
+import {
+  javascriptModuleReferencesRequestSchema,
+  javascriptModuleReferenceSchema,
+  javascriptModuleSourceCoverageSchema,
+} from "./javascriptModuleReferences.js";
 import { javaScriptSourceSelectionSchema } from "../javascript/javascriptSourceSelection.js";
 
 import {
@@ -216,6 +221,7 @@ export const analysisViewRequestSchema = z.discriminatedUnion("kind", [
   facetViewSchema,
   itemViewSchema,
   pageViewSchema,
+  javascriptModuleReferencesRequestSchema,
   nativeViewSchema,
   inventoryViewSchema,
   wasmViewRequestSchema,
@@ -379,6 +385,16 @@ export const javascriptApplicationSummaryViewResultSchema = z.strictObject({
   parent_operation: z.literal("analyze_javascript_application"),
 });
 
+/** Typed reference page; full item observations remain available separately. */
+export const javascriptModuleReferencesViewResultSchema = z.strictObject({
+  ...viewResultBase,
+  kind: z.literal("javascript"),
+  view: javascriptModuleReferencesRequestSchema,
+  parent_operation: z.literal("analyze_javascript_application"),
+  rows: z.array(javascriptModuleReferenceSchema),
+  source_coverage: javascriptModuleSourceCoverageSchema,
+});
+
 /** Exact summary carrier for artifact inspection's optional delivery contract. */
 export const artifactInventorySummaryViewResultSchema = z.strictObject({
   ...summaryViewResultBase,
@@ -527,6 +543,7 @@ export const analysisViewResultSchema = z.discriminatedUnion("kind", [
     items: z.array(jsonValueSchema),
     ...viewResultBase,
   }),
+  javascriptModuleReferencesViewResultSchema,
   z.strictObject({
     kind: z.literal("native"),
     view: nativeViewSchema,
@@ -647,6 +664,10 @@ export type UnsignedAnalysisView =
   | Omit<Extract<AnalysisViewResult, { readonly kind: "facet" }>, "view_digest">
   | Omit<Extract<AnalysisViewResult, { readonly kind: "item" }>, "view_digest">
   | Omit<Extract<AnalysisViewResult, { readonly kind: "page" }>, "view_digest">
+  | Omit<
+      Extract<AnalysisViewResult, { readonly kind: "javascript" }>,
+      "view_digest"
+    >
   | Omit<
       Extract<AnalysisViewResult, { readonly kind: "native" }>,
       "view_digest"

src/domain/analysisView/javascriptApplicationView.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { jsonObjectSchema, type JsonValue } from "../jsonValue.js";
 import type { JavaScriptApplicationAnalysisResult } from "../javascript/javascriptApplicationAnalysis.js";
 import type { ApplicationNode } from "../javascript/javascriptApplicationGraphSchemas.js";
 import { err, ok, type Result } from "../result.js";
+import type { JavaScriptModuleReference } from "./javascriptModuleReferences.js";
 import {
   boundedViewMessages,
   completeWithinViewCoverage as completeCoverage,
@@ -50,20 +51,52 @@ export const javascriptModulePath = (node: ApplicationNode): string | null => {
   return null;
 };
 
-const moduleEntries = (
-  nodes: readonly ApplicationNode[],
-): readonly {
-  readonly node: ApplicationNode;
+interface ModuleEntry {
+  readonly node: ApplicationNode & {
+    readonly kind: JavaScriptModuleReference["kind"];
+  };
   readonly path: string | null;
-}[] =>
-  nodes
-    .filter(
-      (node) =>
-        node.kind === "javascript-asset" ||
-        node.kind === "javascript-module" ||
-        node.kind === "source-module",
-    )
-    .map((node) => ({ node, path: javascriptModulePath(node) }));
+}
+
+const isModuleNode = (node: ApplicationNode): node is ModuleEntry["node"] =>
+  node.kind === "javascript-asset" ||
+  node.kind === "javascript-module" ||
+  node.kind === "source-module";
+
+/** One owner for the module kinds and path semantics of every module view. */
+function* moduleEntries(
+  nodes: readonly ApplicationNode[],
+): Generator<ModuleEntry> {
+  for (const node of nodes) {
+    if (isModuleNode(node)) yield { node, path: javascriptModulePath(node) };
+  }
+}
+
+/** Scan retained order once; materialize only the requested matching page. */
+const modulePage = (
+  nodes: readonly ApplicationNode[],
+  view: {
+    readonly offset: number;
+    readonly limit: number;
+    readonly where?: Extract<
+      AnalysisViewRequest,
+      { kind: "javascript" }
+    >["where"];
+  },
+): { entries: ModuleEntry[]; total: number } => {
+  const entries: ModuleEntry[] = [];
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const entry of moduleEntries(nodes)) {
+    if (view.where?.kind !== undefined && entry.node.kind !== view.where.kind)
+      continue;
+    if (view.where?.path !== undefined && entry.path !== view.where.path)
+      continue;
+    if (total >= view.offset && entries.length < view.limit)
+      entries.push(entry);
+    total += 1;
+  }
+  return { entries, total };
+};
 
 const exportNames = (node: ApplicationNode): readonly string[] => {
   const names = new Set<string>();
@@ -128,6 +161,35 @@ const moduleItem = (node: ApplicationNode): JsonValue => ({
   })),
 });
 
+const moduleReference = ({
+  node,
+  path,
+}: ModuleEntry): JavaScriptModuleReference => {
+  let ranges = 0;
+  const support = new Map<string, JavaScriptModuleReference["basis"][number]>();
+  for (const { evidence } of node.observations) {
+    if (
+      evidence.location.available &&
+      evidence.location.value.kind === "source-range"
+    )
+      ranges += 1;
+    const { authority, state, confidence } = evidence;
+    support.set(`${authority}:${state}:${confidence}`, {
+      authority,
+      state,
+      confidence,
+    });
+  }
+  return {
+    node_id: node.node_id,
+    kind: node.kind,
+    path,
+    identity: node.identity,
+    retained_source_range_count: ranges,
+    basis: [...support.values()],
+  };
+};
+
 const applicationUnknownCount = (
   analysis: JavaScriptApplicationAnalysisResult,
 ): number =>
@@ -190,7 +252,7 @@ const parentFields = (
 };
 
 const selectModule = (
-  modules: ReturnType<typeof moduleEntries>,
+  modules: readonly ModuleEntry[],
   selector: Extract<AnalysisViewRequest, { readonly kind: "item" }>["selector"],
 ): Result<ApplicationNode, AnalysisError> => {
   if ("node_id" in selector) {
@@ -249,15 +311,45 @@ export const projectJavaScriptApplicationView = (
   analysis: JavaScriptApplicationAnalysisResult,
   view: Exclude<AnalysisViewRequest, { kind: "api-surface" }>,
 ): Result<UnsignedAnalysisView, AnalysisError> => {
-  if (view.kind !== "summary" && view.kind !== "item" && view.kind !== "page")
+  if (
+    view.kind !== "summary" &&
+    view.kind !== "item" &&
+    view.kind !== "page" &&
+    view.kind !== "javascript"
+  )
     return err(
       jsIncompatible(
-        "JavaScript application Evidence supports summary, module item or module page views.",
+        "JavaScript application Evidence supports summary, module item, module page or typed JavaScript reference views.",
       ),
     );
   const shared = parentFields(parent, analysis);
-  const modules = moduleEntries(analysis.graph.nodes);
-  if (view.kind === "summary")
+  if (view.kind === "javascript") {
+    const { entries, total } = modulePage(analysis.graph.nodes, view);
+    const rows = entries.map(moduleReference);
+    const { families: _families, ...semantic } =
+      analysis.semantic_graph.coverage;
+    return ok({
+      ...shared,
+      kind: "javascript",
+      view,
+      rows,
+      source_coverage: {
+        ...(analysis.source_selection === undefined
+          ? {}
+          : { source_selection: analysis.source_selection }),
+        application: analysis.graph.coverage,
+        semantic,
+        application_unknown_count: applicationUnknownCount(analysis),
+        semantic_unknown_count: analysis.semantic_graph.unknowns.length,
+      },
+      coverage: pageCoverage(view.offset, rows.length, total),
+    });
+  }
+  if (view.kind === "summary") {
+    const moduleCount = analysis.graph.nodes.reduce(
+      (count, node) => count + Number(isModuleNode(node)),
+      0,
+    );
     return ok({
       kind: "summary",
       view,
@@ -288,9 +380,10 @@ export const projectJavaScriptApplicationView = (
         }),
         limitation_count: analysis.limitations.length,
       },
-      coverage: completeCoverage(modules.length, analysis.graph.nodes.length),
+      coverage: completeCoverage(moduleCount, analysis.graph.nodes.length),
       ...shared,
     });
+  }
   if (view.kind === "item") {
     if (view.collection !== "modules")
       return err(
@@ -298,6 +391,7 @@ export const projectJavaScriptApplicationView = (
           "Section and symbol collections apply to inspect_binary_layout Evidence.",
         ),
       );
+    const modules = [...moduleEntries(analysis.graph.nodes)];
     const selected = selectModule(modules, view.selector);
     if (!selected.ok) return selected;
     return ok({
@@ -314,18 +408,17 @@ export const projectJavaScriptApplicationView = (
         "Section and symbol collections apply to inspect_binary_layout Evidence.",
       ),
     );
-  const items = modules
-    .slice(view.offset, view.offset + view.limit)
-    .map(({ node, path }) => ({
-      node_id: node.node_id,
-      kind: node.kind,
-      path,
-    }));
+  const { entries, total } = modulePage(analysis.graph.nodes, view);
+  const items = entries.map(({ node, path }) => ({
+    node_id: node.node_id,
+    kind: node.kind,
+    path,
+  }));
   return ok({
     kind: "page",
     view,
     items,
-    coverage: pageCoverage(view.offset, items.length, modules.length),
+    coverage: pageCoverage(view.offset, items.length, total),
     ...shared,
   });
 };

src/domain/analysisView/javascriptModuleReferences.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { z } from "zod";
+import { prefixedDigestSchema } from "../digests.js";
+import {
+  applicationCoverageSchema,
+  applicationGraphEvidenceSchema,
+  applicationNodeIdentitySchema,
+} from "../javascript/javascriptApplicationEvidenceSchemas.js";
+import { javaScriptSemanticGraphInputSchema } from "../javascript/javascriptSemanticGraphSchemas.js";
+import { javaScriptSourceSelectionSchema } from "../javascript/javascriptSourceSelection.js";
+
+const moduleKindSchema = z.enum([
+  "javascript-asset",
+  "javascript-module",
+  "source-module",
+]);
+
+/** Exact filters over retained owner facts; paths are not filesystem lookups. */
+export const javascriptModuleReferencesRequestSchema = z.strictObject({
+  kind: z.literal("javascript"),
+  collection: z.literal("modules"),
+  projection: z.literal("references"),
+  where: z
+    .strictObject({
+      path: z.string().nullable().optional(),
+      kind: moduleKindSchema.optional(),
+    })
+    .default({}),
+  offset: z.number().int().nonnegative().default(0),
+  limit: z.number().int().positive().default(64),
+});
+
+/** Unique support states, without promoting mixed observations to one fact. */
+const basisSchema = z.strictObject({
+  authority: applicationGraphEvidenceSchema.shape.authority,
+  state: applicationGraphEvidenceSchema.shape.state,
+  confidence: applicationGraphEvidenceSchema.shape.confidence,
+});
+
+/** Reusable facts rather than task-specific dependency interpretations. */
+export const javascriptModuleReferenceSchema = z.strictObject({
+  node_id: prefixedDigestSchema("jag_node"),
+  kind: moduleKindSchema,
+  path: z.string().nullable(),
+  identity: applicationNodeIdentitySchema,
+  retained_source_range_count: z.number().int().nonnegative(),
+  basis: z.array(basisSchema).min(1),
+});
+
+export const javascriptModuleSourceCoverageSchema = z.strictObject({
+  source_selection: javaScriptSourceSelectionSchema.exactOptional(),
+  application: applicationCoverageSchema,
+  semantic: javaScriptSemanticGraphInputSchema.shape.coverage.omit({
+    families: true,
+  }),
+  application_unknown_count: z.number().int().nonnegative(),
+  semantic_unknown_count: z.number().int().nonnegative(),
+});
+
+export type JavaScriptModuleReference = z.infer<
+  typeof javascriptModuleReferenceSchema
+>;

src/domain/apple/interfaceBuilderGraph.test.ts

@@ -156,6 +156,90 @@ describe("compiled Interface Builder graph projection", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("keyed archive objects with unresolved classes", () => {
+  it("keeps an archived object whose class reference cannot be resolved", () => {
+    const parsed = parseInterfaceBuilderRecords({
+      $archiver: "NSKeyedArchiver",
+      $version: 100000,
+      $objects: [
+        "$null",
+        { $class: { UID: 99 }, label: "Unresolved object" },
+        { $classname: "UIView", $classes: ["UIView", "NSObject"] },
+        { $class: { UID: 2 }, "NS.string": "ok" },
+        "plain scalar",
+      ],
+      $top: { root: { UID: 3 } },
+    });
+    // The class descriptor and the scalar are not archived objects.
+    expect(parsed.objects).toMatchObject([
+      {
+        id: "1",
+        kind: "other",
+        class_name: null,
+        name: "Unresolved object",
+        attributes: { label: "Unresolved object", $class: { UID: 99 } },
+      },
+      { id: "3", kind: "view", class_name: "UIView" },
+    ]);
+    expect(parsed.objects[1]?.attributes).not.toHaveProperty("$class");
+    expect(parsed.objectCount).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps an unresolved hierarchy root's label and coverage in the graph", () => {
+    const result = buildInterfaceBuilderAnalysis({
+      targetSha256: hash,
+      toolVersion: "test",
+      documents: [
+        {
+          relativePath: "Main.nib",
+          archiveSha256: hash,
+          documentKind: "nib",
+          raw: {
+            $archiver: "NSKeyedArchiver",
+            $version: 100000,
+            $objects: [
+              "$null",
+              { $class: { UID: 99 }, label: "Unresolved object" },
+              { $classname: "UIView", $classes: ["UIView", "NSObject"] },
+              { $class: { UID: 2 }, "NS.string": "ok" },
+            ],
+            $top: { root: { UID: 1 } },
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+      limits: interfaceBuilderLimitsSchema.parse({}),
+    });
+    const objectNodes = result.graph.nodes.filter(
+      ({ attributes }) => attributes.interface_builder_object_id !== undefined,
+    );
+    expect(objectNodes).toMatchObject([
+      {
+        kind: "unknown",
+        name: "Unresolved object",
+        attributes: { interface_builder_object_id: "1", class_name: null },
+      },
+      { kind: "view", attributes: { interface_builder_object_id: "3" } },
+    ]);
+    expect(result.documents[0]?.object_count).toBe(2);
+    expect(
+      result.graph.edges.some(
+        ({ relation, to, resolution }) =>
+          relation === "contains" &&
+          to === objectNodes[0]?.id &&
+          resolution === "observed",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.graph.coverage).toContainEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        facet: "objects:Main.nib",
+        status: "complete",
+        examined: 2,
+        omitted: 0,
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+});
+
 describe("Interface Builder parser bounds", () => {
   it("reports connections discarded by the parser's hard ceiling", () => {
     const connections = Array.from({ length: 40_001 }, (_, index) => ({

src/domain/apple/interfaceBuilderKeyedArchive.ts

@@ -327,11 +327,16 @@ const parseKeyedArchive = (
     if (index === 0) continue;
     const resolved = record(resolve(raw));
     const className = firstString(resolved.className);
-    if (className === null) continue;
+    // An archived object names its class with its own `$class` reference;
+    // when that reference cannot be resolved the object is still observed,
+    // with an unknown class. Scalars and class descriptors are not objects.
+    if (className === null && !Object.hasOwn(record(raw), "$class")) continue;
     objectCount += 1;
     const fields = Object.fromEntries(
       Object.entries(resolved).filter(([key]) => key !== "className"),
     );
+    // Keep the unresolvable class reference itself, e.g. a dangling UID.
+    if (className === null) fields.$class = record(raw).$class;
     const authoredId = firstString(fields.objectID, fields["object-id"]);
     const objectId =
       authoredId ??
@@ -357,6 +362,7 @@ const parseKeyedArchive = (
         }),
       );
     if (
+      className !== null &&
       /(?:Outlet|Connection|Segue|ActionConnection|ControlConnector)/iu.test(
         className,
       )

src/domain/artifactComparison.ts

@@ -483,16 +483,19 @@ const summarize = (
     contradiction: 0,
   };
   for (const change of changes) counts[change.classification] += 1;
+  // Change rows are keyed by logical path, and one unknown row for a duplicate
+  // path stands for every left occurrence on it. Only occurrences on paths
+  // without a left-side change are affirmatively unchanged.
+  const changedPaths = new Set(
+    changes
+      .filter(({ classification }) => classification !== "added")
+      .map(({ logical_path: path }) => path),
+  );
   return {
     unchanged: covered
-      ? Math.max(
-          0,
-          left.occurrences.length -
-            counts.removed -
-            counts.changed -
-            counts.contradiction -
-            counts.unknown,
-        )
+      ? left.occurrences.filter(
+          ({ logical_path: path }) => !changedPaths.has(path),
+        ).length
       : 0,
     ...counts,
     unknown: covered

src/domain/binaryTarget.ts

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ export type ExecutableMetadata =
     }
   | {
       readonly format: "pe";
+      /** Original unsigned COFF machine, before CPU-family normalization. */
+      readonly peMachine: number;
       readonly architecture: HeaderArchitecture;
       readonly availableArchitectures: readonly HeaderArchitecture[];
       readonly executableRole:
@@ -318,6 +320,7 @@ export const parsePeRecord = (
   const characteristics = record.readUInt16LE(22);
   return ok({
     format: "pe",
+    peMachine: machineType,
     architecture,
     availableArchitectures: [architecture],
     executableRole:

src/domain/binaryTargetTypes.ts

@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ export type BinaryTarget =
     })
   | (ExecutableTarget & {
       readonly format: "pe";
+      /** Original COFF machine; undefined means this header fact is unavailable. */
+      readonly peMachine?: number;
       /** Provider-neutral PE image role observed from COFF characteristics. */
       readonly executableRole:
         | "application"

src/domain/browserScenarioValues.ts

@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ export const browserScenarioEnvironmentSchema = z
       .string()
       .min(2)
       .regex(/^[A-Za-z0-9]+(?:-[A-Za-z0-9]+)*$/u)
-      .default("en-US"),
+      .default("en-US")
+      .describe(
+        "Formatting locale. Launch also sets navigator.language(s) and Accept-Language; connect retains the caller's page and request languages and reports this limitation.",
+      ),
     timezone: z
       .string()
       .min(1)

src/domain/propertyListKeys.test.ts

@@ -99,6 +99,40 @@ it("preserves OpenStep dictionary and array autodetection", () => {
   });
 });
 
+it("counts OpenStep __proto__ keys the decoder silently drops", () => {
+  // Unquoted, quoted, escape-spelled, and object-valued keys all decode to
+  // __proto__; values, other keys, and `\137` (decoded as "137") do not.
+  const result = parseXmlPropertyList(
+    '{ __proto__ = a; "__proto__" = b; "\\_\\_proto__" = c; ' +
+      'nested = { "__proto__" = { polluted = yes; }; }; ' +
+      'kept = __proto__; list = (__proto__); "\\137_proto__" = d; }',
+  );
+  expect(result).toEqual({
+    value: {
+      nested: {},
+      kept: "__proto__",
+      list: ["__proto__"],
+      "137_proto__": "d",
+    },
+    omittedPrototypeKeys: 4,
+  });
+  const nested = (result.value as { nested: object }).nested;
+  expect(Object.getPrototypeOf(nested)).toBe(Object.prototype);
+});
+
+it("counts OpenStep compound keys that coerce to __proto__", () => {
+  // `obj[key]` coerces an array key to its comma-joined string.
+  expect(
+    parseXmlPropertyList(
+      '{ (__proto__) = a; (("__proto__")) = b; ("__pro", "to__") = c; ' +
+        "list = (__proto__); }",
+    ),
+  ).toEqual({
+    value: { "__pro,to__": "c", list: ["__proto__"] },
+    omittedPrototypeKeys: 2,
+  });
+});
+
 /** The single-member chain of a nested dictionary, down to its deepest value. */
 const deepestValue = (value: unknown): unknown => {
   let cursor = value;

src/domain/propertyListKeys.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
   type Document,
   type Node,
 } from "@xmldom/xmldom";
-import { parse } from "plist";
+import { parse, parseOpenStep } from "plist";
 
 import { MAX_PLIST_DEPTH } from "./apple/plistValue.js";
 
@@ -95,8 +95,14 @@ export const parseXmlPropertyList = (
   // by app Info.plist resolution. Only XML needs the key-element substitution.
   const first = text.trimStart()[0];
   if (first === "{" || first === "(") {
-    assertOpenStepDepthWithinLimit(text);
-    return omitPrototypeKeys(parse(text));
+    // The pinned decoder assigns a `__proto__` key to the object prototype, so
+    // the entry is gone before the decoded value can be counted. Count keys in
+    // the source instead; the rebuild still drops any prototype it replaced.
+    const prototypeKeys = scanOpenStep(text);
+    return {
+      value: omitPrototypeKeys(parse(text)).value,
+      omittedPrototypeKeys: prototypeKeys,
+    };
   }
   // Normalize only the literal line endings the pinned decoder normalizes.
   // Preserve character references in the source: serializing a DOM would turn
@@ -117,6 +123,8 @@ export const parseXmlPropertyList = (
 interface OpenStepContainer {
   end: string;
   next: "key" | "equals" | "value" | "separator" | "after-value";
+  /** Source offset of a container that is itself a dictionary key. */
+  keyStart?: number;
 }
 
 /** Consume only the punctuation expected between the pinned decoder's values. */
@@ -143,8 +151,12 @@ const admitsOpenStepCloser = (
   parent.next !== "equals" &&
   !(parent.end === "}" && parent.next === "value");
 
-/** Bound OpenStep value nesting before the pinned decoder recursively reads it. */
-const assertOpenStepDepthWithinLimit = (text: string): void => {
+/**
+ * Bound OpenStep value nesting before the pinned decoder recursively reads it,
+ * and count the dictionary keys that decode to `__proto__`.
+ */
+const scanOpenStep = (text: string): number => {
+  let prototypeKeys = 0;
   const containers: OpenStepContainer[] = [];
   const completeValue = (): void => {
     const parent = containers.at(-1);
@@ -174,16 +186,21 @@ const assertOpenStepDepthWithinLimit = (text: string): void => {
     // Stop at the first impossible token: only the pinned decoder owns syntax
     // diagnostics. A later deep suffix cannot change that failure into a limit.
     if (character === "}" || character === ")") {
-      if (!admitsOpenStepCloser(parent, character)) return;
-      containers.pop();
+      if (!admitsOpenStepCloser(parent, character)) return prototypeKeys;
+      const closed = containers.pop();
+      if (
+        closed?.keyStart !== undefined &&
+        isOpenStepPrototypeKey(text.slice(closed.keyStart, cursor + 1))
+      )
+        prototypeKeys += 1;
       // parseOpenStep returns the first root value without reading trailing text.
-      if (containers.length === 0) return;
+      if (containers.length === 0) return prototypeKeys;
       completeValue();
       cursor += 1;
       continue;
     }
     const separator = consumeOpenStepSeparator(parent, character);
-    if (separator === "invalid") return;
+    if (separator === "invalid") return prototypeKeys;
     if (separator === "consumed") {
       cursor += 1;
       continue;
@@ -193,16 +210,39 @@ const assertOpenStepDepthWithinLimit = (text: string): void => {
       containers.push({
         end: character === "{" ? "}" : ")",
         next: character === "{" ? "key" : "value",
+        // A compound key is coerced to a string, e.g. `(__proto__)`.
+        ...(parent?.next === "key" ? { keyStart: cursor } : {}),
       });
       cursor += 1;
       continue;
     }
     const end = skipOpenStepScalar(text, cursor);
-    if (end === cursor) return;
-    if (parent?.next !== "key") assertDepth();
+    if (end === cursor) return prototypeKeys;
+    if (parent?.next === "key") {
+      if (isOpenStepPrototypeKey(text.slice(cursor, end))) prototypeKeys += 1;
+    } else assertDepth();
     cursor = end;
     completeValue();
   }
+  return prototypeKeys;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Whether one OpenStep key, scalar or compound, becomes the property name
+ * `__proto__` when the decoder assigns `obj[key]`. Plain strings compare
+ * directly; any other key is decoded by the pinned decoder itself and
+ * coerced to a property name the same way that assignment does.
+ */
+const isOpenStepPrototypeKey = (token: string): boolean => {
+  if (!/^["({<]/u.test(token)) return token === PROTOTYPE_KEY;
+  if (token.startsWith('"') && !token.includes("\\"))
+    return token === `"${PROTOTYPE_KEY}"`;
+  try {
+    return String(parseOpenStep(token)) === PROTOTYPE_KEY;
+  } catch {
+    // An unterminated token is the decoder's syntax error to report.
+    return false;
+  }
 };
 
 /** Skip grammar trivia without interpreting delimiter examples inside comments. */

src/domain/reconstructionCoverage.fixture.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ const EVIDENCE_RECORDS = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"].map((character) =>
       operation: `fixture-${character}`,
       parameters: {},
       result: { character },
+      confidence: "observed",
+      authority:
+        character === "3" || character === "4"
+          ? "controlled-replay"
+          : "shipped-artifact",
     },
   ),
 );

src/domain/reconstructionCoverage.test.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,29 @@ import {
 
 const digest = (character: string): string => character.repeat(64);
 
+it("preserves duplicate coverage owners instead of overwriting them in shared indexes", () => {
+  const workspace = completeReconstructionCoverageData();
+  const owner = workspace.owners[0];
+  if (owner === undefined) throw new Error("Expected fixture owner");
+  const result = evaluateReconstructionClosure(
+    {
+      ...workspace,
+      owners: [owner, owner],
+    },
+    "replacement.cli",
+    RECONSTRUCTION_COVERAGE_NOW,
+  );
+  expect(result).toMatchObject({
+    status: "partial",
+    reasons: expect.arrayContaining([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        code: "owner-duplicate",
+        subject_id: "cli.help",
+      }),
+    ]),
+  });
+});
+
 describe("reconstruction coverage closure", () => {
   it("returns ready only when ownership, verification, package, and authority closure pass", () => {
     const workspace = completeReconstructionCoverageData();

src/domain/reconstructionCoverage.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ import {
   compositeKey,
 } from "./unicodeCodePointOrder.js";
 
-import { evidenceBundleSchema, parseEvidenceBundle } from "./evidenceBundle.js";
+import {
+  authenticateParsedEvidenceBundle,
+  evidenceBundleSchema,
+} from "./evidenceBundle.js";
+import type { Evidence } from "./evidence.js";
 import {
   evaluateReconstructionClaims,
   evaluateReconstructionPackageProofs,
@@ -188,13 +192,37 @@ export type ReconstructionVerifierContract = z.infer<
   typeof verifierContractSchema
 >;
 
+/** Owned coverage snapshot and its authenticated, unique lookup facts. */
+export interface ParsedReconstructionCoverage {
+  readonly coverage: ReconstructionCoverageData;
+  readonly evidenceById: ReadonlyMap<string, Evidence>;
+  readonly artifacts: ReadonlyMap<
+    string,
+    ReconstructionCoverageData["artifacts"][number]
+  >;
+  readonly surfaces: ReadonlyMap<
+    string,
+    ReconstructionCoverageData["surfaces"][number]
+  >;
+  readonly claims: ReadonlyMap<
+    string,
+    ReconstructionCoverageData["claims"][number]
+  >;
+  readonly ownersBySurface: ReadonlyMap<
+    string,
+    readonly ReconstructionCoverageData["owners"][number][]
+  >;
+}
+
 /** Parse inline coverage data and validate every evidence and authority link. */
 export const createReconstructionCoverageData = (
   input: unknown,
-): ReconstructionCoverageData => {
+): ReconstructionCoverageData => parseCoverageData(input).coverage;
+
+/** Retain authenticated Evidence facts alongside the validated coverage snapshot. */
+const parseCoverageData = (input: unknown): ParsedReconstructionCoverage => {
   const coverage = reconstructionCoverageDataSchema.parse(input);
-  validateCoverageReferences(coverage);
-  return coverage;
+  return { coverage, ...validateCoverageReferences(coverage) };
 };
 
 const closureReasonSchema = z.strictObject({
@@ -252,7 +280,6 @@ export type ReconstructionClosureResult = z.infer<
   typeof reconstructionClosureResultSchema
 >;
 
-type CoverageData = z.infer<typeof reconstructionCoverageDataSchema>;
 type ClosureReason = z.infer<typeof closureReasonSchema>;
 
 /** Build a verifier contract whose digest prevents retrospective coverage edits. */
@@ -272,15 +299,15 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionClosure = (
   boundaryId: string,
   nowEpochMs: number,
 ): ReconstructionClosureResult => {
-  const coverage = createReconstructionCoverageData(coverageInput);
-  const boundary = coverage.boundaries.find(
+  const parsed = parseCoverageData(coverageInput);
+  const boundary = parsed.coverage.boundaries.find(
     ({ boundary_id: id }) => id === boundaryId,
   );
   if (boundary === undefined)
     throw new TypeError(`Unknown reconstruction boundary: ${boundaryId}`);
   const nowInstant = offsetDateTimeInstantFromEpochMilliseconds(nowEpochMs);
   const context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext = {
-    coverage,
+    ...parsed,
     boundary,
     nowEpochMs,
     nowInstant,
@@ -306,21 +333,25 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionClosure = (
   });
 };
 
-const validateCoverageReferences = (workspace: CoverageData): void => {
-  const evidenceBundle = parseEvidenceBundle(workspace.evidence_bundle);
-  const evidenceIds = new Set(
-    evidenceBundle.records.map(({ evidence_id: id }) => id),
+const validateCoverageReferences = (
+  workspace: ReconstructionCoverageData,
+): Omit<ParsedReconstructionCoverage, "coverage"> => {
+  const evidenceBundle = authenticateParsedEvidenceBundle(
+    workspace.evidence_bundle,
+  );
+  const evidenceById = new Map(
+    evidenceBundle.records.map((record) => [record.evidence_id, record]),
   );
   const unknownIds = new Set(
     evidenceBundle.unknowns.map(({ unknown_id: id }) => id),
   );
-  const artifacts = assertUnique(workspace.artifacts, "artifact_id");
-  const surfaces = assertUnique(workspace.surfaces, "surface_id");
-  const claims = assertUnique(workspace.claims, "claim_id");
-  const contracts = assertUnique(workspace.verifier_contracts, "verifier_id");
-  assertUnique(workspace.contradictions, "contradiction_id");
-  assertUnique(workspace.package_proofs, "proof_id");
-  assertUnique(workspace.boundaries, "boundary_id");
+  const artifacts = indexUnique(workspace.artifacts, "artifact_id");
+  const surfaces = indexUnique(workspace.surfaces, "surface_id");
+  const claims = indexUnique(workspace.claims, "claim_id");
+  const contracts = indexUnique(workspace.verifier_contracts, "verifier_id");
+  indexUnique(workspace.contradictions, "contradiction_id");
+  indexUnique(workspace.package_proofs, "proof_id");
+  indexUnique(workspace.boundaries, "boundary_id");
   for (const contract of workspace.verifier_contracts) {
     const { contract_sha256: contractSha256, ...base } = contract;
     if (contractSha256 !== digest(verifierContractBaseSchema.parse(base)))
@@ -331,9 +362,17 @@ const validateCoverageReferences = (workspace: CoverageData): void => {
   for (const surface of workspace.surfaces)
     if (!artifacts.has(surface.artifact_id))
       throw new TypeError(`Surface artifact is missing: ${surface.surface_id}`);
-  for (const owner of workspace.owners)
+  const ownersBySurface = new Map<
+    string,
+    ReconstructionCoverageData["owners"][number][]
+  >();
+  for (const owner of workspace.owners) {
     if (!surfaces.has(owner.surface_id))
       throw new TypeError(`Owner surface is missing: ${owner.surface_id}`);
+    const owners = ownersBySurface.get(owner.surface_id);
+    if (owners === undefined) ownersBySurface.set(owner.surface_id, [owner]);
+    else owners.push(owner);
+  }
   for (const claim of workspace.claims)
     if (claim.surface_ids.some((id) => !surfaces.has(id)))
       throw new TypeError(`Claim surface is missing: ${claim.claim_id}`);
@@ -353,7 +392,7 @@ const validateCoverageReferences = (workspace: CoverageData): void => {
     ...workspace.package_proofs.flatMap(({ evidence_ids: ids }) => ids),
   ];
   const danglingEvidence = referencedEvidenceIds.find(
-    (id) => !evidenceIds.has(id),
+    (id) => !evidenceById.has(id),
   );
   if (danglingEvidence !== undefined)
     throw new TypeError(
@@ -366,16 +405,20 @@ const validateCoverageReferences = (workspace: CoverageData): void => {
     throw new TypeError(
       `Coverage workspace residual unknown is missing: ${danglingUnknown}`,
     );
+  return { evidenceById, artifacts, surfaces, claims, ownersBySurface };
 };
 
-const assertUnique = <Item extends Record<Key, string>, Key extends keyof Item>(
+const indexUnique = <Item extends Record<Key, string>, Key extends keyof Item>(
   items: readonly Item[],
   key: Key,
-): Set<string> => {
-  const values = items.map((item) => item[key]);
-  if (new Set(values).size !== values.length)
-    throw new TypeError(`Duplicate reconstruction coverage ${String(key)}`);
-  return new Set(values);
+): ReadonlyMap<string, Item> => {
+  const values = new Map<string, Item>();
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (values.has(item[key]))
+      throw new TypeError(`Duplicate reconstruction coverage ${String(key)}`);
+    values.set(item[key], item);
+  }
+  return values;
 };
 
 const closureStatus = (

src/domain/reconstructionCoverageEvaluation.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ import type {
   ReconstructionClosureResult,
   ReconstructionCoverageData,
   ReconstructionVerifierContract,
+  ParsedReconstructionCoverage,
 } from "./reconstructionCoverage.js";
+import {
+  packageProofHasComparableEvidence,
+  verifierHasComparableEvidence,
+} from "./reconstructionCoverageEvidence.js";
 import {
   compareOffsetDateTimeInstants,
   offsetDateTimeInstantFromEpochMilliseconds,
@@ -35,8 +40,7 @@ const probeOperation = (code: ClosureReason["code"]): string => {
 
 type Boundary = ReconstructionCoverageData["boundaries"][number];
 type ClosureReason = ReconstructionClosureResult["reasons"][number];
-export interface ReconstructionEvaluationContext {
-  readonly coverage: ReconstructionCoverageData;
+export interface ReconstructionEvaluationContext extends ParsedReconstructionCoverage {
   readonly boundary: Boundary;
   readonly nowEpochMs: number;
   readonly nowInstant: OffsetDateTimeInstant;
@@ -47,9 +51,8 @@ export interface ReconstructionEvaluationContext {
 export const evaluateReconstructionSurfaces = (
   context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
 ): void => {
-  const surfaces = indexUnique(context.coverage.surfaces, "surface_id");
   for (const surfaceId of context.boundary.required_surface_ids) {
-    const surface = surfaces.get(surfaceId);
+    const surface = context.surfaces.get(surfaceId);
     if (surface === undefined) {
       addReason(
         context,
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionSurfaces = (
     }
     addEvidence(context, surface.evidence_ids);
     for (const dependencyId of surface.dependency_surface_ids)
-      if (!surfaces.has(dependencyId))
+      if (!context.surfaces.has(dependencyId))
         addReason(
           context,
           "dependency-surface-missing",
@@ -76,9 +79,7 @@ const evaluateOwner = (
   context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
   surfaceId: string,
 ): void => {
-  const owners = context.coverage.owners.filter(
-    ({ surface_id: id }) => id === surfaceId,
-  );
+  const owners = context.ownersBySurface.get(surfaceId) ?? [];
   if (owners.length === 0) {
     addReason(
       context,
@@ -150,10 +151,9 @@ const evaluateOwner = (
 export const evaluateReconstructionClaims = (
   context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
 ): void => {
-  const claims = indexUnique(context.coverage.claims, "claim_id");
-  const indexes = createVerifierIndexes(context.coverage);
+  const indexes = createVerifierIndexes(context);
   for (const claimId of context.boundary.required_claim_ids) {
-    const claim = claims.get(claimId);
+    const claim = context.claims.get(claimId);
     if (claim === undefined) {
       addReason(
         context,
@@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ interface VerifierIndexes {
 }
 
 const createVerifierIndexes = (
-  coverage: ReconstructionCoverageData,
+  context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
 ): VerifierIndexes => {
+  const { coverage } = context;
   const contractsByClaim = new Map<string, ReconstructionVerifierContract[]>();
   for (const contract of coverage.verifier_contracts)
     for (const claimId of new Set(contract.claim_ids)) {
@@ -224,16 +225,6 @@ const createVerifierIndexes = (
       contractsByClaim.set(claimId, contracts);
     }
 
-  const ownersBySurface = new Map<
-    string,
-    ReconstructionCoverageData["owners"][number][]
-  >();
-  for (const owner of coverage.owners) {
-    const owners = ownersBySurface.get(owner.surface_id) ?? [];
-    owners.push(owner);
-    ownersBySurface.set(owner.surface_id, owners);
-  }
-
   return {
     contractsByClaim,
     latestResultsByVerifier: latestVerifierObservationsByVerifier(
@@ -247,9 +238,9 @@ const createVerifierIndexes = (
         ownership.disposition === "implemented" ? [ownership.owner_sha256] : [],
       ),
     ),
-    surfaces: indexUnique(coverage.surfaces, "surface_id"),
-    artifacts: indexUnique(coverage.artifacts, "artifact_id"),
-    ownersBySurface,
+    surfaces: context.surfaces,
+    artifacts: context.artifacts,
+    ownersBySurface: context.ownersBySurface,
   };
 };
 
@@ -277,10 +268,9 @@ const evaluateVerifierResult = (
   );
   const latest = latestResults[0];
   if (latest === undefined) return;
-  const { result } = latest;
   if (
     !latestResults.every((candidate) =>
-      sameVerifierAssessment(result, candidate.result),
+      sameVerifierAssessment(latest.result, candidate.result),
     )
   ) {
     addReason(
@@ -291,7 +281,20 @@ const evaluateVerifierResult = (
     );
     return;
   }
-  if (!verifierResultIsCompatible(claim, contract, result, indexes)) {
+  const comparable = latestResults.find(({ result }) =>
+    verifierHasComparableEvidence(result, contract, context.evidenceById),
+  );
+  if (comparable === undefined) {
+    addReason(
+      context,
+      "verifier-result-incompatible",
+      claim.claim_id,
+      `Latest verifier observation has no cited Evidence with comparable ${contract.authority} authority and confidence.`,
+    );
+    return;
+  }
+  const { result } = comparable;
+  if (!verifierResultMatchesContract(claim, contract, result, indexes)) {
     addReason(
       context,
       "verifier-result-incompatible",
@@ -302,10 +305,10 @@ const evaluateVerifierResult = (
   }
   const cutoffEpochMs = context.nowEpochMs - contract.max_age_ms;
   if (
-    compareOffsetDateTimeInstants(latest.instant, context.nowInstant) > 0 ||
+    compareOffsetDateTimeInstants(comparable.instant, context.nowInstant) > 0 ||
     (cutoffEpochMs >= -Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER &&
       compareOffsetDateTimeInstants(
-        latest.instant,
+        comparable.instant,
         offsetDateTimeInstantFromEpochMilliseconds(cutoffEpochMs),
       ) < 0)
   ) {
@@ -333,7 +336,7 @@ const evaluateVerifierResult = (
     );
 };
 
-const verifierResultIsCompatible = (
+const verifierResultMatchesContract = (
   claim: ReconstructionCoverageData["claims"][number],
   contract: ReconstructionVerifierContract,
   result: ReconstructionCoverageData["verifier_results"][number],
@@ -415,20 +418,13 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionCoverageRisks = (
 export const evaluateReconstructionPackageProofs = (
   context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
 ): void => {
-  const surfaces = new Map(
-    context.coverage.surfaces.map((surface) => [surface.surface_id, surface]),
-  );
-  const artifacts = new Map(
-    context.coverage.artifacts.map((artifact) => [
-      artifact.artifact_id,
-      artifact,
-    ]),
-  );
   const requiredArtifactDigests = context.boundary.required_surface_ids.flatMap(
     (surfaceId) => {
-      const surface = surfaces.get(surfaceId);
+      const surface = context.surfaces.get(surfaceId);
       const artifact =
-        surface === undefined ? undefined : artifacts.get(surface.artifact_id);
+        surface === undefined
+          ? undefined
+          : context.artifacts.get(surface.artifact_id);
       return artifact === undefined ? [] : [artifact.artifact_sha256];
     },
   );
@@ -436,30 +432,42 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionPackageProofs = (
     const proofs = context.coverage.package_proofs.filter(
       (proof) => proof.kind === kind,
     );
+    const applicable = (
+      proof: ReconstructionCoverageData["package_proofs"][number],
+    ): boolean =>
+      requiredArtifactDigests.every((digest) =>
+        proof.artifact_sha256s.includes(digest),
+      ) && packageProofHasComparableEvidence(proof, context.evidenceById);
     const passing = proofs.find(
-      ({ artifact_sha256s: digests, status }) =>
-        status === "pass" &&
-        requiredArtifactDigests.every((digest) => digests.includes(digest)),
+      (proof) => proof.status === "pass" && applicable(proof),
     );
     if (passing !== undefined) {
       addEvidence(context, passing.evidence_ids);
       continue;
     }
-    if (proofs.some(({ status }) => status === "fail"))
+    const failing = proofs.find(
+      (proof) => proof.status === "fail" && applicable(proof),
+    );
+    if (failing !== undefined) {
+      addEvidence(context, failing.evidence_ids);
       addReason(
         context,
         "package-proof-failed",
         kind,
         "Required package or integration proof failed.",
       );
-    else if (proofs.length > 0)
+    } else if (proofs.length > 0) {
+      addEvidence(
+        context,
+        proofs.flatMap(({ evidence_ids }) => evidence_ids),
+      );
       addReason(
         context,
         "package-proof-unknown",
         kind,
-        "Required package or integration proof is not passing.",
+        "Required package or integration proof has no qualifying passing Evidence.",
       );
-    else
+    } else
       addReason(
         context,
         "package-proof-missing",
@@ -469,11 +477,6 @@ export const evaluateReconstructionPackageProofs = (
   }
 };
 
-const indexUnique = <Item extends Record<Key, string>, Key extends keyof Item>(
-  items: readonly Item[],
-  key: Key,
-): ReadonlyMap<string, Item> => new Map(items.map((item) => [item[key], item]));
-
 const addReason = (
   context: ReconstructionEvaluationContext,
   code: ClosureReason["code"],

src/domain/reconstructionCoverageEvidence.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+import { expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { createEvidence, type Evidence } from "./evidence.js";
+import { createEvidenceBundle } from "./evidenceBundle.js";
+import {
+  completeReconstructionCoverageFixture,
+  RECONSTRUCTION_COVERAGE_NOW,
+} from "./reconstructionCoverage.fixture.js";
+import {
+  createReconstructionCoverageData,
+  createReconstructionVerifierContract,
+  evaluateReconstructionClosure,
+  type ReconstructionCoverageData,
+} from "./reconstructionCoverage.js";
+
+const proof = (
+  authority: Evidence["authority"],
+  confidence: Evidence["confidence"],
+) =>
+  createEvidence(
+    undefined,
+    { id: "proof-test", name: "Proof fixture", version: "1" },
+    {
+      operation: "verify",
+      parameters: {},
+      authority,
+      confidence,
+      result:
+        confidence === "observed" ||
+        (authority === "shipped-artifact" && confidence === "derived")
+          ? { status: "pass" }
+          : { status: "unknown", note: "No replay was performed" },
+    },
+  );
+
+const withProofs = (records: readonly Evidence[]) => {
+  const { workspace, result } = completeReconstructionCoverageFixture();
+  return createReconstructionCoverageData({
+    ...workspace,
+    evidence_bundle: createEvidenceBundle([
+      ...workspace.evidence_bundle.records,
+      ...records,
+    ]),
+    verifier_results: [
+      {
+        ...result,
+        evidence_ids: records.map(({ evidence_id }) => evidence_id),
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+};
+
+const withPackageProof = (
+  kind: ReconstructionCoverageData["package_proofs"][number]["kind"],
+  record: Evidence,
+  status: ReconstructionCoverageData["package_proofs"][number]["status"] = "pass",
+) => {
+  const { workspace } = completeReconstructionCoverageFixture();
+  return createReconstructionCoverageData({
+    ...workspace,
+    evidence_bundle: createEvidenceBundle([
+      ...workspace.evidence_bundle.records,
+      record,
+    ]),
+    package_proofs: [
+      {
+        proof_id: "selected",
+        kind,
+        status,
+        artifact_sha256s: ["1".repeat(64)],
+        evidence_ids: [record.evidence_id],
+      },
+    ],
+    boundaries: workspace.boundaries.map((boundary) => ({
+      ...boundary,
+      required_package_proof_kinds: [kind],
+    })),
+  });
+};
+
+const evaluate = (coverage: ReconstructionCoverageData) =>
+  evaluateReconstructionClosure(
+    coverage,
+    "replacement.cli",
+    RECONSTRUCTION_COVERAGE_NOW,
+  );
+
+it.each([
+  ["analyst-inference", "inferred"],
+  ["analyst-inference", "derived"],
+  ["analyst-inference", "observed"],
+  ["controlled-replay", "inferred"],
+  ["controlled-replay", "derived"],
+  ["shipped-artifact", "observed"],
+  ["external-service", "observed"],
+  ["historical-reference", "observed"],
+] as const)(
+  "does not promote %s/%s into observed controlled replay",
+  (authority, confidence) => {
+    const record = proof(authority, confidence);
+    const coverage = withProofs([record]);
+    const result = evaluate(coverage);
+    expect(result).toMatchObject({
+      status: "unknown",
+      reasons: [
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          code: "verifier-result-incompatible",
+          subject_id: "claim.cli.help",
+        }),
+      ],
+      evidence_ids: expect.arrayContaining([record.evidence_id]),
+      recommended_probes: [
+        expect.objectContaining({ operation: "run_reconstruction_verifier" }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(
+      coverage.evidence_bundle.records.find(
+        ({ evidence_id }) => evidence_id === record.evidence_id,
+      ),
+    ).toEqual(record);
+    expect(result.reasons[0]?.detail).toContain(
+      "controlled-replay authority and confidence",
+    );
+  },
+);
+
+it("accepts cited observed replay alongside contextual inference without borrowing uncited proof", () => {
+  const weak = proof("analyst-inference", "inferred");
+  const observed = proof("controlled-replay", "observed");
+  expect(evaluate(withProofs([weak, observed]))).toMatchObject({
+    status: "ready",
+    evidence_ids: expect.arrayContaining([
+      weak.evidence_id,
+      observed.evidence_id,
+    ]),
+  });
+  expect(evaluate(withProofs([weak])).status).toBe("unknown");
+});
+
+it("does not fall back to older observed proof when the latest result only cites inference", () => {
+  const record = proof("analyst-inference", "inferred");
+  const coverage = withProofs([record]);
+  const { result: previous } = completeReconstructionCoverageFixture();
+  const latest = coverage.verifier_results[0];
+  if (latest === undefined) throw new Error("Expected verifier result");
+  const result = evaluate(
+    createReconstructionCoverageData({
+      ...coverage,
+      verifier_results: [
+        previous,
+        { ...latest, observed_at: "2026-07-16T11:30:00.000Z" },
+      ],
+    }),
+  );
+  expect(result.status).toBe("unknown");
+  expect(result.evidence_ids).not.toContain(previous.evidence_ids[0]);
+});
+
+it.each([
+  ["shipped-artifact", "shipped-artifact", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["shipped-artifact", "shipped-artifact", "derived", "ready"],
+  ["shipped-artifact", "shipped-artifact", "inferred", "unknown"],
+  ["live-observation", "external-service", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["live-observation", "controlled-replay", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["external", "external-service", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["external", "controlled-replay", "observed", "unknown"],
+] as const)(
+  "checks %s authority against actual %s/%s Evidence",
+  (required, authority, confidence, status) => {
+    const coverage = withProofs([proof(authority, confidence)]);
+    const original = coverage.verifier_contracts[0];
+    const result = coverage.verifier_results[0];
+    if (original === undefined || result === undefined)
+      throw new Error("Expected verifier contract");
+    const { contract_sha256: _digest, ...input } = original;
+    const contract = createReconstructionVerifierContract({
+      ...input,
+      authority: required,
+    });
+    const changed = createReconstructionCoverageData({
+      ...coverage,
+      claims: coverage.claims.map((claim) => ({
+        ...claim,
+        required_authority: required,
+      })),
+      verifier_contracts: [contract],
+      verifier_results: [
+        { ...result, contract_sha256: contract.contract_sha256 },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(evaluate(changed).status).toBe(status);
+  },
+);
+
+it.each([
+  "build",
+  "clean-install",
+  "package-contents",
+  "runtime-routing",
+  "authority-independence",
+] as const)("keeps %s unknown when only inferred Evidence is cited", (kind) => {
+  const record = proof("analyst-inference", "inferred");
+  const coverage = withPackageProof(kind, record);
+  expect(evaluate(coverage)).toMatchObject({
+    status: "unknown",
+    reasons: [
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        code: "package-proof-unknown",
+        subject_id: kind,
+      }),
+    ],
+    evidence_ids: expect.arrayContaining([record.evidence_id]),
+  });
+});
+
+it.each([
+  ["build", "shipped-artifact", "observed", "unknown"],
+  ["build", "external-service", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["runtime-routing", "controlled-replay", "observed", "ready"],
+  ["clean-install", "controlled-replay", "derived", "unknown"],
+  ["package-contents", "shipped-artifact", "derived", "ready"],
+  ["authority-independence", "shipped-artifact", "derived", "ready"],
+] as const)(
+  "checks %s proof at the actual %s/%s boundary",
+  (kind, authority, confidence, status) => {
+    expect(
+      evaluate(withPackageProof(kind, proof(authority, confidence))).status,
+    ).toBe(status);
+  },
+);
+
+it("distinguishes observed package failure from an inferred failure claim", () => {
+  const inference = proof("analyst-inference", "inferred");
+  expect(evaluate(withPackageProof("build", inference, "fail"))).toMatchObject({
+    status: "unknown",
+    evidence_ids: expect.arrayContaining([inference.evidence_id]),
+  });
+  const observed = proof("controlled-replay", "observed");
+  expect(evaluate(withPackageProof("build", observed, "fail"))).toMatchObject({
+    status: "failed",
+    reasons: [expect.objectContaining({ code: "package-proof-failed" })],
+    evidence_ids: expect.arrayContaining([observed.evidence_id]),
+  });
+});

src/domain/reconstructionCoverageEvidence.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import type { Evidence } from "./evidence.js";
+import type {
+  ReconstructionCoverageData,
+  ReconstructionVerifierContract,
+} from "./reconstructionCoverage.js";
+
+type Authority = ReconstructionVerifierContract["authority"];
+type PackageProof = ReconstructionCoverageData["package_proofs"][number];
+type VerifierResult = ReconstructionCoverageData["verifier_results"][number];
+
+const evidenceAuthorities: Readonly<
+  Record<Authority, readonly Evidence["authority"][]>
+> = {
+  "shipped-artifact": ["shipped-artifact"],
+  "controlled-replay": ["controlled-replay"],
+  "live-observation": ["controlled-replay", "external-service"],
+  external: ["external-service"],
+};
+
+const packageAuthorities: Readonly<
+  Record<PackageProof["kind"], readonly Authority[]>
+> = {
+  build: ["live-observation"],
+  "clean-install": ["live-observation"],
+  "package-contents": ["shipped-artifact", "live-observation"],
+  "runtime-routing": ["live-observation"],
+  "authority-independence": ["shipped-artifact", "live-observation"],
+};
+
+/** Qualify only the Evidence cited by this verifier observation. */
+export const verifierHasComparableEvidence = (
+  result: VerifierResult,
+  contract: ReconstructionVerifierContract,
+  records: ReadonlyMap<string, Evidence>,
+): boolean =>
+  hasComparableEvidence(result.evidence_ids, [contract.authority], records);
+
+/** Runtime package claims need observations; static package audits can be derived. */
+export const packageProofHasComparableEvidence = (
+  proof: PackageProof,
+  records: ReadonlyMap<string, Evidence>,
+): boolean =>
+  hasComparableEvidence(
+    proof.evidence_ids,
+    packageAuthorities[proof.kind],
+    records,
+  );
+
+const hasComparableEvidence = (
+  evidenceIds: readonly string[],
+  requirements: readonly Authority[],
+  records: ReadonlyMap<string, Evidence>,
+): boolean =>
+  evidenceIds.some((id) => {
+    const evidence = records.get(id);
+    if (evidence === undefined) return false;
+    return requirements.some(
+      (required) =>
+        evidenceAuthorities[required].includes(evidence.authority) &&
+        (evidence.confidence === "observed" ||
+          (required === "shipped-artifact" &&
+            evidence.confidence === "derived")),
+    );
+  });

src/domain/symbolAnalysis.test.ts

@@ -136,4 +136,34 @@ describe("Swift alias ambiguity", () => {
     ]);
     expect(result.categories.other?.items).toEqual([]);
   });
+
+  it.each([undefined, "classes"] as const)(
+    "keeps a decoded alias category beside an undecoded Swift alias (filter %s)",
+    (category) => {
+      const result = categorizeSwiftTypes(
+        [{ address: "0x1", name: "main::Service::init" }],
+        category === undefined ? {} : { category },
+        [
+          { address: "0x1", name: "_$s4main7ServiceCMa" },
+          { address: "0x1", name: "_$s4main04PairVMa" },
+        ],
+      );
+      expect(result).toMatchObject({
+        total: 1,
+        categories: {
+          classes: {
+            count: 1,
+            items: [
+              {
+                name: "main::Service::init",
+                mangled_names: ["_$s4main7ServiceCMa", "_$s4main04PairVMa"],
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+          other: { count: 0 },
+        },
+        unclassified: [],
+      });
+    },
+  );
 });

src/domain/symbolAnalysis.ts

@@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ export const categorizeSwiftTypes = (
       ![entry.name, ...mangledNames].some((name) => name.includes(pattern))
     )
       continue;
-    // Only decoded names vote. Unresolved aliases remain evidence without
-    // erasing category evidence from a name the decoder did recognize.
-    const kinds = new Set(
-      mangledNames
-        .filter((name) => classifySwiftSymbol(name) !== undefined)
-        .map((name) => classifySwiftSymbol(name)?.category ?? null),
-    );
+    // Only decoded categories vote. A Swift-looking alias whose category is
+    // not decoded remains evidence without erasing a decoded category.
+    const kinds = new Set<SwiftTypeCategory>();
+    for (const name of mangledNames) {
+      const decoded = classifySwiftSymbol(name)?.category;
+      if (decoded !== undefined && decoded !== null) kinds.add(decoded);
+    }
     const category = kinds.size === 1 ? ([...kinds][0] ?? null) : null;
     const item = {
       address: entry.address,
@@ -133,9 +133,7 @@ export const categorizeSwiftTypes = (
       unclassified.push({
         ...item,
         reason:
-          kinds.size > 1 && !kinds.has(null)
-            ? "conflicting_categories"
-            : "category_not_decoded",
+          kinds.size > 1 ? "conflicting_categories" : "category_not_decoded",
       });
     }
     const bucket = category ?? "other";

src/filesystem/callerPath.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { posix, win32 } from "node:path";
+
+/**
+ * Make a caller-selected local path absolute without changing which file it
+ * names. POSIX resolves `..` after following the preceding symlink, so lexical
+ * normalization of `link/../file` can select a different file. On POSIX, only
+ * interior `.` segments and repeated separators are removed, which never
+ * change the named file; every `..` is kept for the filesystem to resolve, and
+ * a trailing `/` or `/.` keeps its directory requirement as one trailing `/`.
+ * A relative `cwd` is made absolute the same way. Win32 resolves `..`
+ * lexically, so normalizing there is exact.
+ */
+export const absoluteCallerPath = (
+  path: string,
+  {
+    cwd = process.cwd(),
+    platform = process.platform,
+  }: { readonly cwd?: string; readonly platform?: NodeJS.Platform } = {},
+): string => {
+  if (platform === "win32") return win32.resolve(cwd, path);
+  if (!posix.isAbsolute(path)) {
+    const base = posix.isAbsolute(cwd)
+      ? cwd
+      : absoluteCallerPath(cwd, { platform });
+    return absoluteCallerPath(`${base}/${path}`, { platform });
+  }
+  const segments = path
+    .split("/")
+    .filter((segment) => segment !== "" && segment !== ".");
+  const directory = /\/\.?$/u.test(path) && segments.length > 0;
+  return `/${segments.join("/")}${directory ? "/" : ""}`;
+};