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Release v0.1.12 — nineteen bugs fixed across twelve integration PRs, each merged into release/v0.1.12 after its review round per the sprint's lean protocol, a green 13-cell CI wall at its final head, and a clean CodeRabbit ledger (every finding fixed or refuted with measurement, every thread answered, records posted on each PR).

Merge as a MERGE COMMIT, not a squash (the established release model): the close keywords ride the work commits in this branch's history and fire at this merge; the release workflow then detects the version bump on main, builds and tests the artifact, pauses at the pypi environment for maintainer approval, publishes, and tags at the merge SHA.

Closes on merge

Nineteen issues — the keywords ride the fixing commits, and are restated below as body footers so the closing set is verifiable on this PR before merge:

Closes #1268
Closes #1277
Closes #1281
Closes #1284
Closes #1285
Closes #1286
Closes #1287
Closes #1288
Closes #1290
Closes #1293
Closes #1294
Closes #1296
Closes #1299
Closes #1302
Closes #1304
Closes #1305
Closes #1306
Closes #1308
Closes #1309

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Per the sprint's budget ruling, the release diff (version + docs only) carries CodeRabbit review and the coordinator's verification rather than a separate adversarial round — every work PR in this branch carried its own posted record. The release commit's pre-commit chain ran the full suite, conformance, examples, corpus-canonical and examples-run locally, all green; this PR's wall re-proves the matrix.

Converged-not-merged: the merge to main and the pypi environment approval are the maintainer's.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added validation for examples, documentation counts, grammar alignment and corpus differences.
    • Added canonical JSON and Markdown behaviour across native and browser runtimes.
    • Added clearer ambiguous-import, reserved-name, state-resolution and exception-payload handling.
    • Added host-error diagnostics and the VERA_DEBUG_HOST_ERRORS option.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved module, generic, closure and effect-operation resolution.
    • Fixed JSON validation, Markdown rendering, state-family lookup and pair-pattern matching.
  • Documentation

    • Updated specifications, contributor guidance, known issues, roadmap and version 0.1.12 release notes.

aallan and others added 30 commits August 13, 2026 23:03
Two defects, one shape: a registry keyed by op NAME was answering a
question it does not know the answer to.

#1284 — a user-defined `fn get`/`fn put` called under a handler was
lowered to the host cell intrinsic. Three sites decided independently
whether a bare `get` meant the user's declaration or the operation: the
checker resolves user-fn-first (E201/E202 report the user's signature),
the declared-effect row withheld the intrinsic when `_fn_sigs` owned the
name, and the handler expression installed `get`/`put` unconditionally.
From check-green source that gave a silently wrong value, a module WASM
validation rejects, or a spurious [E602] naming a State operation the
program never contained. `vera.slots.bare_call_denotes_user_fn` now
states the checker's rule once; the bare-call dispatch, the three
bare-FnCall inference sites, and mono discovery consume it, each over
its own name table. The gate is on the DISPATCH, not the registries:
the registries record which cell a name reaches, which is true whatever
the program's declarations are called. Withholding an entry answered
both questions with one table — which is why the gate-only fix measured
during PR #1283's review produced a differently-broken module, and why
it also cost `State.put(5)` its cell in a program declaring `fn put`
(`unknown func: $vera.put`), now lowered as the checker always meant.

#1285 — `new(State<T>)` read the name-keyed `_effect_ops["get"]`, so
under a multi-`State` row it took whichever family registered first
while `old(State<T>)` was already family-keyed. The two sides of one
`ensures` clause read different cells: `ensures(new(State<Bool>) == …)`
under `effects(<State<Int>, State<Bool>>)` was check- and verify-green
and died at load, and where both cells share a width it loaded and
refuted a discharged postcondition at runtime. Codegen now carries a
family→getter registry built from the per-family CellNames the
registration site already computes, and `_translate_new_expr` keys on
`_state_effect_family` exactly as `_translate_old_expr` does.

Both fixes are proved RED first and by cross-component differential:
every expected value is read off the CHECKER's resolution, never off
what codegen emits, and each case records what it did before so none
can go vacuous. All 256 pre-existing conformance and example programs
emit byte-identical WAT (instrument mutation-validated: 39 files move
when the predicate is stubbed).

Two existing tests encoded the pre-fix codegen answer as their oracle
and are corrected: `user_get_under_handler` expected the cell's clone
where the checker names the function's, and the qualified-shadow test
asserted the loud link failure its own docstring called the wrong
semantics.

Spec §7.4 now states the declarations-first rule and §7.3.3 that a form
naming its type argument names its cell. Pinning both raises in
`_translate_new_expr`/`_translate_old_expr` surfaced a checker gap they
share — a contract may name a `State<T>` the row never declares — filed
as #1298 with a KNOWN_ISSUES row and a test holding today's E699.

Closes #1284
Closes #1285

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Adversarial-review follow-up on c56c55a.

S1 — `_collect_expr_effects`, the checker's `async(e)` commutativity
walk, asked `lookup_effect_op` BEFORE `_lookup_function_scoped`: the one
op-first consumer left, in the file the ownership predicate was added
to. A user function named after a built-in operation contributed the
OPERATION's parent effect instead of its own declared row, wrong in
both directions and both measured. A PURE `fn get`, in a program with
no State anywhere, drew `[W002] async argument performs State effects`.
A `fn get` performing IO, under a row naming `Http` first, drew NO
warning — the walk bound the name to `Http.get`, which is inside the
commutative whitelist, and withheld the warning the program is owed.
Now declarations-first through the same predicate, so the analysis
reasons about the row the checker actually bound, and the comment
claiming it resolves "like the call checker above" is true. Each
direction is pinned with its rename control (`gett` / `fetch`, correct
throughout, so the name is isolated as the cause) and with a control
that an unshadowed bare `get(())` under a `State<Int>` row still warns
— without which deleting the op lookup outright would pass every case.
The sole consumer of the walk is W002, so that is the whole blast
radius; all 256 pre-existing corpus programs stay byte-identical.

M2 — `bare_call_denotes_user_fn`'s residual-divergence paragraph
described a `where`-helper divergence that does not exist and omitted
the one that does. Measured: a local helper is registered as
`holder$where$get`, never bare, its holder's call sites are rewritten
with it, and a sibling function's bare `get` correctly reaches the
intrinsic (probe returns the cell's 42, the checker's answer). What is
real is #1299: `_fn_sigs` keys an import the call site cannot see under
its BARE name, so the predicate answers "user-owned" where the checker
resolved the operation — check-green source, silent wrong value on one
route and a load failure on the other. Rewritten to state that, with
the reference, and to say it is a property of the TABLE rather than of
the rule.

N2 — both consumer lists omitted `_handler_always_throws`'s
`throw_installed`, which asks the same question for `Exn`'s operation.
Added to `slots.py` and to `_bare_call_denotes_op`, along with the
`async` walk above.

KNOWN_ISSUES gains the #1299 row, one-to-one with the tracker.

Spec §7.4's declarations-first sentence stands unchanged: it states the
language rule the checker implements, and #1299 now tracks codegen's
violation of it — the rule in the spec, the gap in the row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Wording follow-up on bcd2943, whose replacement paragraph over-claimed
in the direction it was correcting.

It said the hoists move EVERY `where` helper out of the bare namespace,
so a helper shadows an operation name in its own body "and nowhere
else".  True under a NON-generic parent; false under a generic one,
which keeps a bare `_fn_sigs` key beside its clone-qualified one —
measured on `ch09_generic_where_helper.vera`, whose `helper` and `id`
are both keyed bare.  Weaponized: a `forall<T>` holder's helper named
`get` claims a SIBLING's bare `get(())` under a `State<Int>` row, and
the program fails to assemble with `unknown func: failed to find name
$get` and no E-code, from check-green source; the rename control
returns 4207, the checker's answer.

So it is a third #1299 route, not a counter-example to it, and the
docstring now says so.  It is also the LOUD one, for a reason the row
now records: the bare key exists in the signature TABLE while no bare
SYMBOL is ever emitted (the helper is only `holder$Bool$where$get`), so
the call dangles at WAT assembly instead of reaching a wrong function.
The two import routes remain the dangerous ones — silent wrong value
where the cells share a width, load failure where they do not.

The row's fix direction is corrected with it: module scope is not
enough, because a generic's `where` helper IS in the module and still
is not in a sibling's scope.  `_known_fns` has to carry the names
visible in the compiling declaration's LEXICAL scope.

Docs only — docstring prose in `slots.py` and `_bare_call_denotes_op`,
the KNOWN_ISSUES row, and the CHANGELOG caveat clause.  No executable
line changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
CodeRabbit round on PR #1300; all four findings addressed.

The resolution pin asserted `"expects 1 argument"` against a user `get`
of arity 1, and its comment claimed the message body distinguished the
two candidates.  It does not — the built-in `get(@Unit)` is arity 1 too,
so that clause discriminates nothing.  (The test was not actually
admitting an op-first resolver: measured, the operation path reports
E203 "Effect operation 'get'" where the function path reports E201, and
the E-code assertion already caught it.  The comment was wrong, not the
test.)  The fixture now takes TWO parameters and is called with three,
so all three ways the candidates differ are asserted — code, noun, and
arity — and the comment says which is which.  Mutation-validated:
forcing the checker op-first turns it red on `'E203' == 'E201'`.

WAT symbol assertions were prefix tests: `"call $get" in wat` also
accepts `call $getx` and `call $get$Int`, the latter being what a
monomorphized clone of a same-named generic emits — a false PASS in the
direction that matters, since these pin a dispatch target.  Replaced
with `wat_calls()` in `tests/codegen_helpers.py`, anchored on a
name-character boundary and matching the `return_call` spelling too.
Applied to every such site in the three files, including the three in
`test_new_state_family_1285.py` the review did not enumerate, so the
PR's own tests are consistent.  The helper is unit-checked against
`getx`, `get$Int`, `state_get_Int2` and `state_get_IntBox`.

`test_a_false_postcondition_still_traps` passed for ANY `WasmTrapError`,
including an `unreachable` from a GC or narrowing guard — which would
prove nothing about the postcondition it exists to establish.  Now
asserts `kind == "contract_violation"` (measured), mutation-validated.

`vera/README.md`'s one-line description of the predicate still said
`get`/`put` after `throw_installed` joined the consumers, the same
completeness gap already fixed in the two docstrings.

Test-only apart from that one README line; the compiler is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Give bare handler-op calls one owner, and new(State<T>) its family's getter
Spec §12.9.3 requires every non-IO operation to produce identical
results in both runtimes, and json_stringify did not: the reference
host called json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, allow_nan=False)
while the browser called bare JSON.stringify.  §9.7.1 now states the
resolution — the compact form, `,` and `:` unpadded, members in
insertion order, non-ASCII emitted literally, numbers rendered by
ECMAScript's Number::toString — and the reference host moves to it.

Measuring first showed the gap was wider than the issue's two axes.
json.dumps renders floats with repr, hard-wired inside json.encoder
and unreachable through any separator setting, and repr disagrees with
Number::toString on four independent boundaries: the fractional part
of an integral value, the exponential threshold at each end of the
range, and the spelling of the exponent — plus negative zero.  Fixing
only the reported symptom would have left 1e16, 1e-7, 0.000001 and
-0.0 diverging, so vera/wasm/json_serde.py gains format_json_number,
an implementation of ECMA-262 §6.1.6.1.20 that takes its
shortest-round-trip digits from repr and recomputes only their
placement.  String escaping is still delegated to json.dumps, which
already agrees with JSON.stringify byte for byte.

The reimplementation is checked differentially against the real
JSON.stringify over 2,000 doubles drawn from raw bit patterns, not
only against a hand-written boundary table: a table proves the cases
its author thought of, and those are the cases the code was written to
handle.  Five mutations of the placement logic were confirmed to turn
it red.

The third asymmetry #1293 folds in closes in the other direction: a
JNumber holding NaN or an infinity now fails on both hosts with the
same sentence, where the browser emitted "null" — swapping a value RFC
8259 cannot carry for a different, perfectly valid one no consumer
could tell from a genuine JNull.

Tests: the eleven Node-only tag assertions become parity assertions;
the two pinned-divergence strings collapse to single-truth ones; new
number-boundary, three-pass idempotence and two-sided failure cases
(must raise AND print nothing, so a host that emits "null" before
failing cannot read as a pass).  Three reference-host assertions that
tested json_stringify through string_length or `> 0` now pin the exact
text, since a length assertion survives every separator and
number-format change the canonical form is about.

Closes #1293

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
md_render in vera/browser/runtime.mjs preserved a paragraph's internal
soft line breaks and did not re-apply a container's prefix on output,
so it broke the round-trip property spec §9.7.3 states for it and, with
it, §12.9.3's identical-results requirement.  The scope was any
multi-line paragraph, not the list lazy continuation first observed,
and the render was not stable: re-rendering its own output moved
content out of its container, and on a blockquote wrapping a heading
and a fenced block the second render fragmented the fence into three
and lifted the code clean out of the quote, past recovery by any
subsequent parse.

Two defects underlay it, in two different phases, and neither alone
closes the issue.  The parser joined a paragraph's lines with "\n"
where vera/markdown.py joins with a space: §9.7.3's design note
excludes hard and soft line breaks from the ADT — "collapsed into
paragraph text" — so a break that survives into MdText is one no
renderer can tell from text the author wrote, and md_parse itself
returned different ADTs on the two hosts.  The renderer returned one
string and threaded the container prefix down as an argument, which a
container could only apply to the FIRST line of each child; it is now
line-based, mirroring _render_block, so every caller re-applies its own
prefix to every line it receives.  That is the property that makes the
render a fixed point.

A third mirror lands with them: a code span containing a backtick
renders with the longer `` … `` fence, which the reference renderer has
always done and neither parser can produce, so it was reachable only
from a constructed ADT.

Spec §9.7.3 states both rules rather than leaving them an
implementation detail each host had to rediscover.

Tests: the two pinned-divergence assertions collapse into parity
assertions, and the battery is three-layered — cross-host equality, the
expected string, and stability under re-render — because equality alone
passes two hosts that agree on a wrong answer and a single render
passes a renderer that drifts on the second pass.  The round-trip
property runs over a nineteen-case corpus: the eight the reference
renderer is already held to in tests/test_markdown.py, every one of
which is single-line or fence-only and therefore blind to exactly this
defect, plus the container and multi-line shapes the bug was about.
Three further cases render ADTs a Vera program built rather than
parsed.  Six mutations of the fix — one per facet — were each confirmed
to turn the battery red.

Docs: KNOWN_ISSUES drops both browser-parity rows, and §12.9.3,
§12.9.6, README, FAQ, TESTING, vera/README and the landing page stop
describing the two operations as tracked divergences.

Closes #1294

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The adversarial round found the REFERENCE renderer wrong, not just the
browser one.  _render_block's blockquote arm emitted no separator
between children, so MdBlockQuote([Para, Para]) — the shape md_parse
builds from `> a\n>\n> b` — rendered as two adjacent quoted lines and
read back as ONE paragraph.  Structure lost silently, on both hosts,
and the round-trip property spec §9.7.3 states did not hold for it; the
fixed-point sentence the previous commit added to §9.7.3 asserted it
away.  A quote with no children was the same defect one size down: it
rendered as no lines at all, so a `>` vanished on the round trip and
left the enclosing separator dangling (`---\n>` came back as `---`).
Both arms now mirror MdDocument's — a bare `>` between children, `>`
for an empty quote — in vera/markdown.py and its runtime.mjs mirror.

Two more mirrors land with them, both inside #1294's stated scope and
neither closed by the renderer fix:

  * The browser's blockquote READER required '> ' with the space where
    the reference accepts ^>\s?, and had no lazy-continuation branch at
    all.  `>no space` parsed as literal text and `> a\nb` pushed the
    second line out of the quote.  isBlockStart() mirrors
    _is_block_start so the lazy branch is bounded the same way.

  * A code span is fenced with one backtick more than its longest
    internal run rather than a fixed two, padded only when the content
    starts or ends with a backtick.  The old rule was right for one
    backtick and wrong for two: `` a``b `` closes on the run inside the
    content.  The browser's inline parser scanned for the next single
    backtick rather than a run of equal length, so it could not read
    that back either; it now counts runs.  A span needing three or more
    backticks is not representable at the start of a line, where that
    run is a block fence — measured and pinned rather than left as a
    gap.

Spec §9.7.3 states all four rules.

Measured on the review's 1,471-input adversarial corpus, before -> after:
md_render is a fixed point on every input on both hosts (65 and 54
unstable -> 0 and 0); cross-host render divergence 489 -> 34; cross-host
md_parse ADT divergence 586 -> 211.  On 4,850 blank-line sections of the
project's own documentation: render divergence 40 -> 11, reference round
trip unstable 1 -> 0.  Eleven mutations, one per facet, each confirmed
to turn the battery red — two of them survived the first attempt and the
tests they exposed as non-discriminating were fixed, not the mutations.

The surviving md_parse divergences are a separate defect with its own
measured class breakdown; KNOWN_ISSUES.md carries the row and the
successor issue is filed alongside this change.

Also folded in: the browser's json_stringify no longer falls back to
"null" when JSON.stringify returns undefined — unreachable from
readJson, but the same silent substitution #1293 removed one layer up;
and the non-finite parity test asserts the whole shared sentence, taken
from the reference implementation so the browser's hand-copied
duplicate is held against the original, plus that neither host printed
anything before failing.

Refs #1294

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The review round's two findings are filed, so KNOWN_ISSUES.md carries a
row for each and the prose that deferred to "a tracked bug" names it.

  * #1301 — md_parse diverges between the hosts on nine measured input
    classes.  The row already existed with a placeholder in the Issue
    column; it now links the issue.
  * #1302 — a non-finite JNumber reaching json_stringify surfaces as a
    61-line Python traceback rather than the 5-line formatted error a
    contract violation gets, because execute() classifies on the
    exception's type NAME and a ValueError from a host callback is not
    Trap or WasmtimeError.  New row.

Both rows sit at the head of the Bugs table, keeping its descending
order (1302, 1301, 1296, …).

The inline citation restores what the same sentences carried before
this branch removed #1293 and #1294 from them: spec §12.9.3, README,
FAQ, TESTING, vera/README and the landing page all name #1301 instead
of pointing at KNOWN_ISSUES generically.

Note for the tracker, not fixed here: #1298 and #1299 are open and
bug-labelled and have no Bugs-table row.  Both were filed after this
branch last touched the file and neither is this branch's work, so
writing rows for them would mean describing findings that were not
measured here.

Skip-changelog: issue references and a KNOWN_ISSUES row; the behaviour
they describe is already in the [Unreleased] bullets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Four wording corrections in the two spec chapters this branch touched,
each checked against the review's measurements rather than reasoned
from the code.

§12.9.3 claimed the parity suite covers md_parse "on every shape it
does agree on".  It does not: the corpus is 32 entries where the hosts
agree on 1,260 of 1,471 measured shapes.  That is the same overclaim
shape that let the blockquote separator bug sit unnoticed behind a
round-trip corpus with no multi-child container in it, so it now reads
as README.md already did — "the shapes they do agree on" — and the
trailing clause drops the matching claim that the divergent set cannot
widen unnoticed, which the same arithmetic refutes.  It says what is
true instead: a regression on a covered shape goes red.

§12.9.6 said the suite catches drift "across the whole shared surface",
which contradicts §12.9.3's md_parse carve-out one section earlier.
Qualified in place, naming what the corpus does not carry rather than
implying those shapes are pinned per host — they are not pinned at all.

§12.9.3's class list named seven of #1301's nine, and the two it left
out are both render-VISIBLE, so the list read as though everything
visible were a block marker.  Emphasis and strong scanning, and the
indentation a list-continuation line loses, are now named alongside
them, and the paragraph is reorganised so the invisible class is
separated from the visible ones instead of leading a flat list.

§9.7.3's code-span rule named the fence-width collision as the only
round-trip loss.  Two more are pre-existing and parity-clean, and both
were verified on both hosts before being written down: an empty span,
whose rendering reads back as literal text, and a span whose content
begins and ends with a space, which a parser strips unconditionally.
All three are stated after the fixed-point sentence they qualify, and
as "lost identically on every runtime" — the distinction that keeps
them out of §12.9.3's scope.

Skip-changelog: wording only, of behaviour the [Unreleased] bullets
already describe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Canonical key order (spec §9.7.1) is insertion order, and the browser
host was losing it.  It reached the WASM-side Map<String, Json> through
ordinary JS objects on both sides of the boundary — JSON.parse returns
one, writeJson enumerated it with Object.entries, readJson rebuilt one
key by key — and an ordinary object cannot carry insertion order,
because ES OrdinaryOwnPropertyKeys lists array-index keys first, in
ascending numeric order.  Measured host against host through the same
.wasm: {"2":1,"1":2} round-trips to itself natively and to
{"1":2,"2":1} in the browser, {"b":1,"3":2,"a":3} to
{"3":2,"b":1,"a":3}.

The same intermediate loses a field named __proto__ outright, which the
key-order investigation turned up beside it: obj["__proto__"] = v runs
Object.prototype's setter and creates no own property, so
{"__proto__":{"a":1}} came back {}.  Both losses are silent, and both
sat inside the property the #1293 entry claims to establish.

Objects are now a JS Map from parse through serialization.  json_parse
keeps JSON.parse as the accept/reject decision, so the Err domain and
its message are untouched, and rebuilds the tree with an
order-preserving re-scan that hands every leaf back to JSON.parse on
its own slice rather than decoding strings and numbers a second way.
json_stringify walks the result with a canonical emitter that mirrors
dumps_canonical, since JSON.stringify does not know about Map — leaf
rendering stays ECMAScript's, so the output form is unchanged for every
value that was already correct.

The new battery is seven key shapes an alphabetically-keyed object
cannot express, each as a round trip and a three-pass idempotence
check, plus a JObject the program builds with map_insert rather than
parsing.  The built one is what distinguishes the two halves: a round
trip alone cannot tell "both sides fixed" from "neither", because the
parse side's ascending-index order is a fixed point of the stringify
side's.  Reverting either half independently was confirmed to go red,
and the scanner was additionally fuzzed against JSON.parse over 40,000
generated documents — compact, pretty-printed, tab-indented and
whitespace-padded — with no divergence in structure, canonical output,
or self-round-trip.

The differential over random doubles in the same file gets the guard
its docstring already claimed: a bare zip stops at the shorter input,
so a truncated Node reply read as a shorter run of passes rather than
a failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Five documentation corrections from the review, each checked against a
measurement taken at this commit rather than reasoned from the text.

§9.7.3 stated the round-trip property md_parse(md_render(b)) == Ok(b)
without qualification, two paragraphs above the three code-span shapes
that break it.  The exceptions paragraph scopes the fixed-point
sentence it follows, not the property sentence at the top, so a reader
taking that one at face value gets a property that does not hold.
Scoped in place.  The same rule's `> ` code span carried a trailing
space the rendered page cannot show, which is the whole contrast with
the bare `>` beside it; written out as words instead.

§12.9.3 re-asserted "identical results across the shared surface" at
the end of the section, after the paragraph recording md_parse as the
one operation on that surface where the requirement is not met — the
two sentences contradict each other.  Qualified, along with the
opening sentence's forward pointer, and the md_render fixed-point
claim, which §9.7.3 now scopes to the shapes the subset can write.
README.md's equivalent sentence already carries its carve-out two
sentences later and is left alone.

The FAQ named two of #1301's nine divergence classes and read as
though that were the inventory; it now gives the count with the
largest class as the example.

KNOWN_ISSUES.md's real-document denominator was re-measured with the
review's own instrument at this commit: 329 of 4,853 blank-line
sections (the corpus is the repo's own Markdown, so editing the docs
moves it), and 211 of 1,471 adversarial inputs, unchanged.

TESTING.md's headline said ~152,000 lines of test code where its own
162 per-file rows sum to 154,010, and the test_codegen_json.py row did
not mention the canonical-serialization battery that file gained.

Skip-changelog: documentation wording and counts only, of behaviour
the [Unreleased] bullets already describe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Both were found while probing the JSON host bindings and neither is
this branch's to fix, so they join the Bugs table against their own
trackers rather than riding the parity work.

#1305: json_keys' result cannot be used from compiled Vera.  The
Some arm of its Option<Array<String>> binds a match binder whose local
codegen emits as (local $lN i32_pair) — the internal String (ptr, len)
spelling, not a WASM value type — so a ten-line program that passes
vera check fails WAT assembly.  Narrow, and the two controls say why:
array_length(map_keys(...)) compiles, so Array<String> alone is fine,
and json_get_array's Some(@array<Json>) binder compiles, so a binder
alone is fine.

#1306: json_parse's accept domain differs between the hosts.  The
reference host's json.loads admits NaN, Infinity and -Infinity by
default where the browser's JSON.parse refuses them, so the same module
bytes take the Ok arm natively and the Err arm in the browser — and
natively the value then reaches json_stringify, whose #1293 refusal
#1302 turns into a traceback.  No test covered it because every JSON
input in the parity battery is RFC-conformant.

The #1301 row is re-measured at this tree, which is what the rebase
onto the release tip made necessary: the corpus is the repository's own
Markdown, and group A's documentation edits added four sections to it,
so the denominator moved from 4,853 to 4,857 while the divergent count
held at 329.  The row now carries the revision it was measured at and
says the denominator moves with the documentation, so the next drift
reads as drift rather than as a stale number.  Its closing claim that
the parity suite pins "every shape" the two implementations agree on is
dropped in the same edit: the measurement in this branch refutes it —
a corpus of a few dozen entries against 1,260 agreeing shapes — and
spec §12.9.3 was already corrected for exactly that overclaim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
All three are reachable only from a value a program BUILDS, which is
why the round-trip corpus never found them: the parser cannot produce
the shape that breaks, so no amount of parse-derived testing reaches
it.  Each is fixed on both runtimes together, with the rule restated in
spec §9.7.3.

A code span whose content starts and ends with a space was eaten by the
parser's own strip.  _parse_inlines removes one such pair whenever the
fenced text is two characters or longer, so MdCode(" x ") rendered as
` x ` and read back as MdCode("x") — and MdCode(" `x` ") rendered to
exactly the same bytes as MdCode("`x`"), which made the loss
unrecoverable even by guessing.  The renderer now pads those spans the
way it already padded backtick-bounded ones, so the strip removes the
pad instead of the content.  §9.7.3 loses one of its three documented
round-trip losses as a result; the other two — a span needing three or
more backticks at line start, and an empty span — stay, because the
subset has no way to write either.

A list item with no blocks was dropped outright, though "- " is exactly
what the parser reads back as one.  In an ordered list dropping it also
renumbered every item after it, silently.  It now renders as its marker
plus the space both item patterns require; a bare "-" is a paragraph,
so the space is not decoration.

A container that renders to nothing — a list with no items, a table
with no rows — still drew the document's blank-line separator, so
MdDocument([MdList([]), p]) rendered "\nafter".  A blank line standing
for an absent block is one the next parse cannot attribute to anything,
and it cost the render its fixed-point property.  A zero-line child now
contributes no separator, in MdBlockQuote as well as MdDocument.

Held to a zero-regression bar over the 6,078-case Markdown corpus
(1,471 adversarial inputs plus every blank-line section of the
project's own documentation): on ADT agreement, render agreement, and
each host's own fixed-point property, the before/after transition
matrix shows no ok->broken movement in any cell.  The 22 constructed
shapes are additionally compared host against host directly, all
agreeing.

The nesting test's parse-side control is made to mean what it says.  It
asserted the native and browser fields against each other three lines
after asserting the two whole strings equal, so it could not fail;
each host is now held against the expected values instead, which a
mutation of the source's heading level confirms goes red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The browser section closed on "except for the two divergences above,
where each runtime's exact output is pinned separately", which
describes an arrangement that no longer exists and contradicts the
paragraph three lines above it.  Neither half survives: json_stringify
and md_render are single-truth parity assertions, so there is no
per-host pin to point at, and md_parse is not pinned per host at all —
the suite carries the shapes the two implementations agree on and the
rest is a tracked bug.

The replacement says what the batteries actually assert, including why
they assert the expected string and not only cross-host equality: two
hosts agreeing on a wrong answer would satisfy equality by itself.

Swept README.md, SKILL.md, TESTING.md and the spec chapters for other
survivors of the phrasing; the one other hit is "mutation-pinned
separately" in an unrelated TESTING.md row.

Skip-changelog: documentation wording only, of behaviour the
[Unreleased] bullets already describe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Looking for whether the canonical JSON serializers could ever be handed
an unpaired surrogate turned up a divergence one layer earlier, on the
way IN rather than out.  A JSON `\uD800` escape decodes to a string no
well-formed UTF-8 can hold, and the two hosts part company writing it
into WASM memory: TextEncoder substitutes U+FFFD and returns, while
_alloc_string's .encode("utf-8") raises.  The program prints a quietly
different string in the browser and dies with a Python traceback
natively, from Vera source that is plain ASCII.

The row records what the probe settled about the serializers too, since
that is the question someone will ask next: dumps_canonical does emit a
raw surrogate where the browser's walk escapes it, but the string
boundary eliminates surrogates before either walk can see one, so that
divergence is unreachable and this one is not.

Filed as #1308, and cross-linked both ways — to #1306, which asks the
same question about json_parse's domain from the NaN side, and to
#1302, whose raw-traceback path is what the native refusal surfaces
through.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Four documentation corrections from the review, all in the Markdown and
JSON parity prose the last two commits moved.

§9.7.3's two normative sentences were lowercase "should", which says
nothing under RFC 2119.  Checking the strength before uppercasing them
turned one into a correction rather than a keyword swap.  The fixed
point is unconditional — no case in the 6,078-entry parity corpus fails
it on either runtime, and a block with no text renders to no lines,
which re-renders to no lines — so it reads MUST with no carve-out.  The
round-trip property is not: its exception clause named the two
unwriteable code spans and stopped there, but an MdList with no items
and an MdTable with no rows also break it, because they render to no
lines and so re-parse to no block.  Naming both families is what makes
MUST honest, and the empty MdBlockQuote and the empty list ITEM are
called out as being inside the property, since each now has a form.
§9.7.2's "must satisfy |exp| <= 999999" is uppercased in the same pass;
it is the only other lowercase normative in §9.7.x, and the remaining
"may not be exact" is descriptive, not a permission.

The rules had no executable form, which is a gap the section could
afford less than most: every one of them is reachable only from a value
a program builds, so a reader has nowhere to look for what they
produce.  Two compiled, contract-verified examples now stand after the
exception paragraph — one for the container rules, one for the
code-span and empty-item rules — with the bytes each renders written
out beside it.

KNOWN_ISSUES' #1308 row showed the browser printing the six characters
of a � escape.  It prints the character; the canonical form emits
non-ASCII literally (§9.7.1), so the escape misreported the very output
the row is about.  The \uD800 escapes elsewhere in the row are correct
as written — the JSON input text really does contain those characters.

The FAQ said State, contracts, JSON and Markdown rendering "work
identically", which the two parsers have not for some time.  It now
separates the operations that carry a canonical form from the parsers
that do not, names json_parse's two tracked differences beside
md_parse's, and says plainly that well-formed JSON parses the same on
both.  The section's closing line is brought into agreement rather than
left describing md_parse alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
§9.7.2 already refused to inherit its accepted domain — "defined by this
grammar rather than inherited from whatever the host library parses" —
but the whitespace half was inherited anyway, from str.strip on one host
and String.prototype.trim on the other.  Those sets differ in both
directions, so the same .wasm parted the runtimes on six code points:
U+001C..U+001F and U+0085 were Some natively and None in the browser,
U+FEFF the other way round.  U+00A0 and the Unicode space separators
were accepted by both, for reasons neither specification names.

The set is now stated, and it is not a new one: the six code points
is_whitespace already names — tab, LF, VT, FF, CR, space.  That keeps
decimal_from_string consistent with the four other sites that test for
whitespace, whose shared helper carries a comment warning that
open-coded copies silently diverge.  This was the fifth site and it had
open-coded nothing at all, which is how it inherited two different
answers.  Nothing in tests, examples or the conformance corpus pads a
decimal with anything outside the stated set.

The U+FEFF half turned out not to be about trimming.  new
TextDecoder('utf-8') defaults to ignoreBOM: false, whose meaning is the
reverse of its name: it REMOVES a byte-order mark from the front of the
buffer.  Every Vera string reaching a host binding goes through that
decoder, so IO.print("\u{FEFF}x") printed x, json_parse accepted a
BOM-prefixed document the reference host refuses, and md_parse dropped
the character out of its text.  These bytes are a string payload, not a
document with an encoding signature, and safe_utf8_decode never
stripped one — so the decoder now passes it through.  Its own parity
battery covers the three families, each against the expected string as
well as across hosts, since two hosts both dropping the mark would
satisfy equality alone.

Held to the same zero-regression bar as the renderer work, because the
decoder feeds both parsers: over 6,065 shared corpus cases the
before/after transition matrix shows no ok->broken movement on ADT
agreement, render agreement, or either host's fixed-point property.

The FAQ said the runtime implements "all Vera host bindings", which the
paragraph two lines below contradicts.  It now names the boundary by
its shape — a filesystem, an accept loop, a database and a model
provider are outside what a page can host — and points at §12.9.3,
which lists each and why.

CHANGELOG records the exponent bound as what it is: |exp| <= 999999 is
unchanged in force and in value, and only its keyword moved, from a
lowercase "must" to the MUST it was always enforced as.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
§9.7.2 illustrated its exponent-bound point with
decimal_mul(decimal_from_string(...), decimal_from_string(...)), which
does not type-check: decimal_from_string yields Option<Decimal> and
decimal_mul takes two Decimals, so the expression is E202.  The gate
could not see it because it reads fenced blocks and this was inline
prose — the one block §9.7.x carries a skip annotation for is a
different, unrelated one.  It is now a real block that parses, checks
and verifies, unwrapping with a match in the section's style, and it
was RUN: it returns the 1E+1999998 the paragraph claims.  The spec's
validated count goes 89 -> 90.

TESTING.md's conformance-suite runbook still said "parametrized —
1,070 tests" where the table row says 1,080; group A's two new
conformance programs moved the row through the oracle and left the
prose behind, which is precisely the shape check_doc_counts.py cannot
gate.  Swept the file for the stale value and for any other per-file
count stated in prose rather than in the table: the only other numbers
that look like counts are grid dimensions and generation limits in the
stress-test descriptions.

vera/README.md called md_parse "the one shared operation still
divergent between the hosts", which stopped being true when json_parse's
two exceptions were tabled.  It now tells the same story the FAQ was
corrected to tell: the operations carrying a canonical form on one
side, the two parsers on the other, each parser's divergence named and
tracked, and the note that every well-formed JSON document parses the
same on both.

Skip-changelog: documentation only — a spec illustration that never
compiled, a stale count in a runbook, and a scope correction.  No
behaviour changes, and the [Unreleased] Decimal bullet already
describes everything §9.7.2 now promises.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Give the two runtimes one JSON form and one Markdown pipeline
Codegen was answering "whose declaration is this bare name?" over
`set(_fn_sigs.keys())` — every symbol the whole compilation absorbed —
where the checker answers it over a lexical scope.  One rule, two tables,
and only one of them a scope.

`_known_fns` keeps the flat registry for `_translate_call`'s guard rail,
which asks whether a RESOLVED target has an implementation and is flat by
nature.  A new `_scoped_fns` carries the names visible in the compiling
declaration's lexical scope, and that is what the #1284 ownership
predicate reads.  It is `_fn_sigs` narrowed — the comprehension iterates
the registry, so the change can only withdraw a name the flat table
wrongly claimed — to the namespace's own declarations, the public
in-filter names of the imports THAT namespace makes, the prelude, and the
`where` helpers of every enclosing function.  Every `$`-bearing key is
admitted unconditionally: `$` is outside LOWER_IDENT, so a mangled name is
never what a bare source call spells.

Three consumers ask that question.  Instantiation DISCOVERY
(`MonoContext.fn_names`) types a bare call to name the clone, and its
table is program-wide because the guard rail needs it complete, so
`idg(get(()))` beside an invisible `fn get` discovered `idg<Bool>` where
the checker had typed the cell.  Discovery now enters the namespace of the
declaration it walks — accumulating each function's own `where` helpers as
it descends, exactly as it already accumulates `forall` binders.  Behind
it the call-rewrite's clone-naming override, which beats the general
inference for #899's benefit, read the same flat return-type registry and
is gated on the same predicate.

BOTH sides enter that scope, from one shared derivation, at all TEN
walks between them — six on codegen's side and four on the verifier's:
seed, hoisted-clone rescan, clone worklist, the `where`-family discovery
LEAF, shadowed-sibling scan, and normal-closure chase.  An instrumented
audit over the whole conformance corpus plus the two module fixtures that
reach the shadowed walks reports every entry into the scoped region and
zero unscoped ones, which is how the count is known rather than counted.  Narrowing one and not the
other would leave a clone verified that nobody emits, and the two did NOT
agree when this was first written: the verifier built its tables after
`inject_prelude` and codegen before, so the entry namespace differed by
the five combinators on every module-using program, and the two keyed
clone origins differently, so one clone was walked in the entry's
namespace on one side and its module's on the other.  The prelude is now
an explicit input to the derivation rather than read off whichever
program the caller holds, the origin lookup goes through the walk that
handles `$where$` chains, and a shadowed clone — which reaches those
walks under its pre-rename name, in no origin registry — takes its path
from the caller.  `test_discovery_scopes_agree_between_the_two_sides`
compares the two per declaration rather than trusting a comment.

Module scope would not have been enough for any of it.  A `forall<T>`
parent's `where` helper keeps a bare `_fn_sigs` key beside its
clone-qualified one, and it IS in the module — only the lexical rule takes
it out of a sibling's scope while leaving it in its parent's, which the
emitted template body pins.

The same visibility walk answers #1281's question, so it is derived once:
which bare names a namespace could resolve to more than one module's
declaration.  E608 now reads the #1274 ownership classification and fires
only where the pair can really collide — either declaration not a
top-level generic, both owning the bare name, or some namespace able to
name both.  A qualified-only generic also stops injecting a bare
`_fn_sigs` or `_fn_ret_type_exprs` entry; that is defence in depth over
four per-NAME consumers rather than what closes the shape, and it is
pinned structurally, one cell per table.

Closes #1299
Closes #1281

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Six conformance programs for the two shapes that changed answer.

`ch08_module_generic_diamond` is the E608 diamond: `mid1` declares a
private `forall<T> fn gen` and `mid2` bare-calls the public `gen` of the
`base` both import.  Each door answers its own module's generic, 555 + 111,
where the pair used to be refused outright.

`ch07_invisible_import_op_name` is the scope one: a bare `get(())` under a
`State<Int>` row, beside an imported module's private `get`.  Spec §7.4
resolves it against the call site's scope, so it is the operation and the
cell's 42007 is the answer; the module's own `touch` is the control in the
same program, since its `get` IS in its scope and must keep reaching it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
CHANGELOG entries for both fixes; the #1284 bullet's closing caveat now
points at the fix below it rather than at an open issue.  KNOWN_ISSUES
loses the #1299 and #1281 rows.

ROADMAP gains #1304 under modules and ecosystem: spec §8.5 defines no
order between two imports that both supply a bare name, and the checker,
the verifier and codegen's reroute map each pick one from their own
injection order.  Measured, the three currently agree on the last import —
so E608's ambiguity gate is a conservatism about an undecided rule, not a
fix for a live wrong answer, and both the predicate and its test cell say
exactly that rather than overstating it.

Counts are oracle-derived: 222 conformance programs, 270 corpus programs,
10,654 tests across 166 files, with the two new test-file rows and the
conformance level table's three moves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Three instruments in the namespace matrices could go green while measuring
nothing, and CodeRabbit found all three.

`ModuleResolver.resolve_imports` records E011/E012 and returns what it
resolved rather than raising, and the shared driver never read
`resolver.errors` — so a misspelled module path dropped out silently.
Measured: writing `lib.vera` as `liib.vera` leaves the private-wildcard
cell answering 42007 with zero errors from every stage, which is the value
that cell asserts.  The driver now raises on resolution errors the same way
it already raises on type-check errors, and for the same reason: no caller
expects one, so it means the FIXTURE is broken.

Both diamond joins were commutative.  `door1(true) + door2(true) == 666`
is satisfied by the two doors exchanging answers — the #1281 defect itself
— and measured, a fixture with the two libraries' answers swapped still
produced 666.  Both sites now weight one contribution past the other's
magnitude, so the pair is recoverable from the total; swapped answers now
violate the program's own postcondition.

`_errors(diags, code)` never matched on the code: descriptions do not
carry it, so every match rode the "defined in both imported module"
substring, which E609 and E610 share verbatim with E608 — one format
string, three codes.  The driver now returns `(error_code, description)`
pairs and the filter matches the code, with a cell pinning that an ADT
collision no longer satisfies a function-collision assertion.

Two smaller instrument fixes ride along: WAT presence assertions move from
prefix substrings to exact membership in the emitted-symbol list (a new
`wat_fn_names` beside the existing boundary-safe helpers), since
`"(func $mod$mid1$gen$Bool" in wat` is satisfied by any longer clone name;
the absence assertions keep their unbounded substrings, which is the
conservative direction for absence.  And a fixture's body braces were
doubled through an f-string, emitting `{{ 1 }}` — a block nested in a
block, accepted only incidentally — while the `{{n}}` module-name
placeholders it also carries are load-bearing and stay.

Skip-changelog: test-instrument fixes and doc counts; no compiler change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
TESTING.md carried two free-form counts the oracle cannot see, both left
behind by the rebase: "224 conformance programs" in a table row's prose and
"1,080 tests" in the conformance-suite run instructions.  They are 226 and
1,130.  A sweep of the file's other free-form counts found the rest already
agreeing with their table rows; the two that do not name different
quantities (a past mutation measurement, and the slot-naming differential's
corpus size), so they stay.

ROADMAP's #1304 entry keeps its wording and gains its provenance.  Review
read the issue BODY, which records the older injection-order framing, and
asked for "selects the last import" — but that is refuted by the
measurement in the issue thread, and restoring it would make the roadmap
state something false: six consecutive `vera check` runs of one unchanged
file give different answers, and under a fixed PYTHONHASHSEED the winner
tracks module-name hash order rather than import position.  Issue bodies
are immutable by convention here and corrections ride comments, so the
entry now links the measurement comment directly.  The claim is also
tightened to what was measured: E608 refuses the shape at compile, so the
flap is observable only at `vera check`.

Counts re-derived from the oracle after both changes.

Skip-changelog: documentation counts and one roadmap citation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
CodeRabbit flagged the `wrap`/`probe` pair for carrying `no-untyped-def`
suppressions where explicit annotations would do.  Two of the premises
around that finding did not survive measurement, so the fix is a little
different from the suggested one.

The suppressions are not vestigial.  Neither gate type-checks tests --
the pre-commit hook and the CI job both run `mypy vera/`, and
`[tool.mypy]` declares no `files` key -- but pointing mypy at the file
directly reports three real `no-untyped-def` errors the moment the
comments come off.

Annotating is also not free.  A monkeypatch stand-in draws two
independent codes: `method-assign` for assigning to a method at all, and
`assignment` for a stand-in whose type does not match the target.  An
unannotated stand-in is implicitly `Any`, so only the first fires;
naming the type makes the mismatch visible and the second appears too.
Each annotation therefore has to be paired with the code it exposes, at
its own assignment line and only there -- `strict = true` implies
`warn_unused_ignores`, which rejects that second code on the `finally`
lines, where what is restored is the exact original.

`probe` keeps `Callable[..., Any]` rather than a precise signature: it
stands in for three different methods whose parameters it never
inspects, so "forwards whatever it was given" is the honest type.  A
`ParamSpec` would say the same thing at more cost and has no precedent
in the tree.

Pointed at the file, mypy goes from five errors to none and no
`no-untyped-def` suppression remains.  `mypy vera/` and the file's 56
tests are unchanged; the diff is annotations and comments only.

Skip-changelog: tests-only typing cleanup, no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
TESTING.md described the `test_wasi_target.py` differential as running
"all 156 run-level conformance programs under both targets".  The
manifest holds 166 run-level entries, so the figure was ten behind --
rebase-carried prose lagging the union of several branches, this one
included.

Correcting the number alone would still have overstated the guarantee.
`TestDualTargetConformance` parametrizes over every run-level program,
but two routes skip: an op in `_NONDETERMINISTIC_OPS` reached through
the compiled WAT's `vera` imports, and a `ValueError` out of
`execute_wasi_p2`.  Measured, that is 116 programs actually dual-tested
and 50 skipped -- 43 importing a host family outside `IO`/`Random`, 6
without a public zero-argument `main`, and 1 calling a nondeterministic
op.  A reader sizing the dual-target guarantee off the old sentence
would have been out by a factor of about 1.4, in the flattering
direction.

The row now carries both numbers with the skip breakdown.  The excluded
set is identified by the three properties that define it rather than by
a list of 50 filenames, which would be stale by the next conformance
program.

Swept the rest of the row while there: the 267/2,142 test and line
counts are gated and current, and the 500-arg argv stress, the 64 KiB
arena cap, and the 32-slot dispatch table each check out against the
tests and emitted WAT that assert them.  The conformance-suite total of
226 below it matches the manifest.

Skip-changelog: docs-only count correction, no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Ask the two namespace questions with two tables
…DT contention

Both are shapes spec §8.4.1 allows and codegen mishandled — the prelude's
data types are ordinary public declarations a program may name and shadow,
and the reserved namespace is the `Vera` prefix alone (E154).

ACTIVE (main-file) namespace.  `_prelude_decl_order` is not a namespace:
`_module_alias_scope` builds every module's index space as `{**prelude,
**module_own}`, so it is the base layer under all of them and its contents
are a fact about what `inject_prelude` laid down.  A main-file `type Option
= Int` is accepted and, being an alias rather than a `data`, does not
suppress the prelude's `data Option<T>` — so the guard fired on the prelude
stamp, `Option` was left out of the block entirely, and every later prelude
declaration shifted one place earlier because the counter never advanced.
Inside a module namespace the prelude's `Option` then reached
`AliasEnv.data_types` at `_BUILTIN_DECL_INDEX`, below `_PRELUDE_DECL_BASE`
and so ordered ahead of every other prelude declaration rather than among
them.  The prelude write is now unconditional; the active space still takes
the main file's stamp, so the shadow keeps winning its own namespace.
Pinned as an invariance — the same program with and without the shadowing
alias must stamp an identical prelude block.

every namespace the prelude's data types unconditionally, and the two halves
of that gap failed differently.  `_adt_members_in_scope` recovered global
infrastructure by SUBTRACTING what the namespaces declare from the
registered layouts, which is sound only while "declared by a namespace" and
"global infrastructure" are disjoint; §8.4.1 makes them overlap, so one
file's `data Json` removed `Json` from every OTHER namespace's member set.
The floor is now stated positively: `prelude_adt_names()` parses the
prelude's own data blocks with the same parser `inject_prelude` uses, and a
differential holds the two against each other.  Scoping the subtraction per
namespace instead is refuted by `test_adt_membership_scope_1253`, which it
re-opens.  And where a module declares one of the prelude's names with a
DIFFERENT SHAPE while the prelude is compiling its own, the two contend for
the one layout slot and the module's wins: the prelude's ADT was never
registered, its combinators hit `unknown constructor`, and every function
touching the type was dropped — all of it WARNINGS pointing into
`<prelude>`, so a check-green program compiled with exit 0 to a module
missing its exports.  That is now E621, an error at the module's
declaration in the module's own file, refused by the same Pass-1.9 severity
gate E608/E609/E610 use.

The rail reads the DECLARATIONS rather than the registered layouts, which
is what makes it cover all eight prelude data types: the layout harvest
skips a built-in name outright — the throwaway registrar holds `Option`,
`Result`, `Ordering` and `UrlParts` for every module whether it declares
them or not — so a layout-keyed rail saw `data Json` and never `data
Option`, four of the eight §8.4.1 and §11.16 describe.  It asks EVERY
declaring module rather than the first: contention is a property of each
declaration, and a first-wins lookup let a library that restates the
prelude's `Ordering` answer for a sibling declaring a different one, so
importing the restating module first hid the sibling's contention
completely — check-green, exit 0, the caller silently dropped — while the
reverse import order caught it.  Layout ownership stays first-wins in
`_adt_layout_owners`, which answers the declaration-index question; the
two questions are separate.  Contention itself is decided by SHAPE (same
constructors, same order, same field types, type parameters compared
positionally): a module that restates the prelude's type shares the one
layout, which is measured legal for all eight at the branch point and
stays legal here.  A name the prelude does not provide stays E609's, and
a control pins that.

Evidence and its limits.  The 8x2 acceptance battery — every prelude ADT
name, module-declares-alone and entry-also-uses — is now clean-green or a
single E621 in every cell, where the branch point had four cells of
E602/E620 cascade and eight zero-exit compiles with a function silently
missing.  It ships as a parameterized test — including two-declaring-module
cells in both import orders — so neither the four-of-eight coverage nor
the order-dependence can return silently.  `ch08_module_prelude_adt_contention_rejected` pins
the refusal at conformance level (the manifest gained an
`expected_error_stage` key: a compile-stage negative asserts the program
type-checks cleanly and is then refused with the declared code), paired
with `ch08_module_prelude_adt_name`, which imports the same module and
never names the type.  The conformance manifest's new `expected_error_stage` key is
admitted by every surface that describes the negative fixtures
(TESTING.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md), which until now all
said a negative fails `check`.  `ch08_prelude_adt_name_alias` pins that
the #1287 shape is accepted, verifies and runs; it cannot distinguish the fix, since
that defect is internal to the declaration-index block and inert at
emission, and its header says so — the unit cells carry that claim.

§8.4.1 and SKILL.md no longer say an entry-file declaration "serves the
whole program": it settles the pair it names — entry versus prelude — and
not a clash with a module that declares the same name, which is #1312 and
is recorded rather than fixed here.

The 264 pre-existing corpus programs emit byte-identical WAT and identical
check/verify diagnostics.  That is mostly no-regression evidence rather
than evidence of correctness — no corpus program has two modules declaring
one name, so nothing there exercises the every-declarer rule — but it is
not blind: `examples/vera/collections.vera` declares `public data
Option<T> { None, Some(T) }` and `examples/modules.vera` imports it, so a
rail that fired on the name rather than the shape refuses a shipped
example — `vera compile` on `examples/modules.vera` returns E621 under
that mutation, which `scripts/check_e602_clean.py` catches as a
COMPILE_ERROR (`check_examples.py` runs only `check` and `verify`, so it
does not).  What tests the rest is the
battery above and the mutation matrix behind it.

Closes #1287
Closes #1277

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Both were found while closing #1287 and #1277, both are pre-existing at
8e08ec9, and neither is fixed here.

the ADT's pointer width, so `type Option = Int;` with a `@Option` parameter
passes check and verify and then fails WebAssembly validation.  The row's
teeth are the silent arm: at matching widths (`type Ordering = Bool`)
validation raises nothing and the body reads a pointer as its aliased
value.

silently drop the caller when their shapes differ: check-green, exit 0,
warnings only, and the entry's `main` missing from the exports.  It is the
same one-layout-per-name defect as #1277 on a pair its E621 rail
structurally cannot see, since an entry-file declaration suppresses the
prelude's injection and the rail compares against the prelude's.  The fix
direction points at the shape predicate and the compile-stage negative
machinery this branch installed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
aallan and others added 6 commits August 15, 2026 01:28
Windows CI was red in all three cells for one reason, and it is the same
shape of defect the review found in the grammar gate.

`scripts/check_corpus_differential.py`'s `_first_error` stripped the
compiled program's path out of a diagnostic by matching `str(path)`,
which ties the strip to the host's separator.  A diagnostic carrying the
POSIX spelling on Windows went unstripped and its absolute path pushed
the message past the 160-character truncation.  Both spellings are
stripped now.  The parameter is a `PurePath` rather than a `Path`:
nothing there touches the filesystem, and the wider type lets a cell
render a Windows path on any host, so the case fails on macOS instead of
waiting for the Windows cell.  The canary cell asserted the POSIX shape
of a root the message renders with the host's separators; it asserts the
path it was given, which is the property it meant.

The grammar gate had the same shape with worse consequences.
`_span_end` read a `/` inside a regex character class as the closing
delimiter, so the chapter's `ANNOTATION_COMMENT` — which spells the
class `[^/*]` where `vera/grammar.lark` escapes it `[^\/*]` — was
truncated mid-pattern.  A truncated body is not a bare regex, and
`terminal_patterns` skips anything that is not, so that terminal was
never compared at all: the gate was green on it by never looking.  The
scanner now tracks classes, and a drifted `ANNOTATION_COMMENT` is caught
rather than skipped.

The rest of the review round, each verified against the code first:
the differential rejects a non-positive `--timeout`, which would expire
before any compile finished and report "no movers" over a corpus that
never compiled; it decodes compiler output leniently, a stray byte
having otherwise raised `UnicodeDecodeError` out of `subprocess.run`
past both handlers and aborted the whole run; it checks the base
revision out repository-locally rather than under a predictable shared
temporary path whose contents it puts on `PYTHONPATH`; and its
reproduction command names the working-tree file it actually compared.
`check_doc_counts.py` reads a pytest summary that omits a zero-count
category, and its two external calls join the script's own error
convention instead of ending the run on a traceback.
`check_examples_run.py` restricts the pinned set to the specs it
actually opened, so a spec whose file is missing stops drawing the
diagnosis for a file that does not exist.  `skipped_terminals` closes
its group at a blank line, so an unheaded block cannot inherit the
waiver.  And the chapter's `BLOCK_COMMENT` excludes both delimiters from
its character alternative: `{- {- -}` was derivable from a rule
describing a construct the implementation rejects as unterminated
(E020, measured).

One finding is refuted rather than fixed.  It reported that
`tests/test_grammar_alignment.py`'s alias assertion names a `func_call`
that exists in neither file, making the cell unfalsifiable.  It does
exist: `vera/grammar.lark:229` spells the first `fn_call` alternative
`-> func_call`, the extractor lists it among that rule's five aliases,
and the mutation that stops `rule_bodies` stripping aliases kills the
cell.  Its secondary point stands and is taken — an empty body would
have satisfied the assertion — so the cell now carries a positive
control and checks every alias on the rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The wall was red on all seven real cells with one failing test,
`TestParallelCollection::test_the_parallel_branch_is_the_one_being
_exercised`, and the cause is not the one the failure message named.

`collect` selects its branch on `if jobs <= 1`, reading the caller's
explicit argument; the cell passes `jobs=4`, so the parallel branch was
taken on CI exactly as it is here.  The only cpu-derived value in the
script is the `--jobs` CLI default, which the cell never reaches.  What
varied was `ThreadPoolExecutor`'s own scheduling: it creates a worker
only when no idle one is available, so a few trivial callables can be
drained by a single worker before `map` has finished submitting them.
Measured over 200 trials on this 12-core host the distinct-thread count
came out 2, 3 or 4 — never a fixed number — and with two items instead
of eight it is 1 here too, which reproduces the CI failure locally on a
machine with six times the cores.  `len(threads) > 1` was asserting a
scheduling lottery, and the cell inherited whichever way the host
happened to resolve it.

The assertion is now the property its own failure message already
claimed: the pool never runs work inline, so the calling thread must not
appear among the threads that ran a compile.  That holds for every
worker count — over a 20-cell sweep of jobs x item counts the
calling-thread predicate was true exactly when `jobs <= 1`, including
the four cells where a pool of 2, 3, 4 or 8 workers spawned exactly one
thread.  A complementary cell asserts the other direction, so the two
branches are told apart by one observation rather than by a count.

No new seam was needed: `collect` already takes `jobs`, and the CLI
already exposes `--jobs`.  Both directions are mutation-checked — the
pool-drop mutant this cell exists for still dies, and so does a mutant
that gives the sequential branch a pool.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The three Windows cells failed on
`TestUndecodableCompilerOutput::test_strict_decoding_is_what_would_have
_raised` with "DID NOT RAISE", and the decode was not what varied.  Both
of that cell's calls already named `encoding="utf-8"`, as do all five
`subprocess.run` calls in the script it guards; `check_explicit_encoding`
agrees.  So the codec was pinned on every platform and the byte reaching
it was not: what a child process puts on a pipe is the operating
system's business, and the cell was measuring that round-trip in order
to make a claim about decoding.

It now measures the decoding.  `io.TextIOWrapper` is not a stand-in for
what `subprocess.run` does — it is what `subprocess.run` does, since
`Popen` wraps each captured pipe in exactly that object with exactly the
`encoding` and `errors` it was handed.  Reading `b"\x97"` through one
raises on strict and yields the replacement character on `replace`, with
no child, no pipe and nothing platform-dependent left in the cell.

A second cell pins the fixture: the byte has to be undecodable in the
codec the script actually names.  `b"\x97"` is invalid UTF-8 but decodes
under cp1252 as an em dash, so a decode left to the platform default
would not have raised on Windows either — the byte is only a good
fixture while the codec is spelled out, which is the same reason the
script spells it out.  Swapping the fixture for a UTF-8-safe byte kills
the pair.

The guard on `compile_one` is unchanged and still held by
`test_the_compile_asks_for_lenient_decoding`, which pins the call's
kwargs: removing either `errors="replace"` or `encoding="utf-8"` from
the script goes red there.  These two cells are the demonstration of why
that guard matters, and making the twin itself exercise the call path
would mean spawning the child again, which is the shape being removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
TESTING.md's headline read "11,741 passed + 26 stress, 173 skipped".
The three numbers are disjoint and do sum to the collected total, but
two of them name a pytest *disposition* and the middle one names a
*marker*, which invites reading the 26 as stress tests that passed —
and on that reading the sentence's arithmetic is wrong.  It is now "26
stress-deselected", so every bucket names a disposition and the sum
reads as the partition it is.

The compound rather than a plain "deselected" because the reason is
worth keeping: the 26 are deselected by `addopts = "-m 'not stress'"`,
and a reader reconciling the line against their own `pytest tests/`
sees "26 deselected" and now knows which 26 without going to §Stress
Tests to find out.

The phrase was not the repo-wide convention it looked like.  Across the
tracked tree it had exactly one live citation — this line — plus the
oracle that parses it; it appears in neither CHANGELOG nor HISTORY, so
no immutable record is touched.  Swept together: the citation, the
`_TESTS_BREAKDOWN` pattern, both of `check_tests_breakdown`'s messages,
two docstrings, and the fixture builder in the tests.  The negative
fixture that proves the matches-nothing guard fires keeps its own
deliberately different wording.

The gate is unchanged in strength and still discriminating: each of the
three figures moved by one goes red on its own, and the old wording is
now caught by the matches-nothing guard rather than passing silently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Make the release body fit, and widen the gates to the drift they missed
Twelve work groups, closing the burndown that ran across refusal rails,
the JSON accept domain, throw-payload guards, branch-join
monomorphization, and the release and spec-drift gates.

Version 0.1.12 across the `check_version_sync.py` surface, with
`uv.lock` regenerated by `uv lock`.  The accumulated `[Unreleased]`
notes become `## [0.1.12] - 2026-08-15` with a fresh empty section above
them and the two compare links updated; every released section below is
byte-identical, 1,021,781 bytes of them.  One HISTORY row in the current
stage table.

ROADMAP gains the v0.1.13 burndown as an explicit queue rather than
leaving the next release's scope implicit in KNOWN_ISSUES: the fourteen
carried bugs in order of attack, the set checked equal to the Bugs
table's own.  CONTRIBUTING states the fenced-example convention — the
`check_*_examples` family replays every documentation fence through the
compiler, and `examples/` is type-checked, verified and run — which is
what the script registry actually does, parse being the floor and the
spec, landing page and PyPI readme going the whole pipeline.

The release notes are 85,730 characters: under the 120,000 budget, so
`release.py notes` publishes the section verbatim and the #1288
condenser stays out of the way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
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A — handler-op ownership #1300 #1284, #1285
D — browser parity #1303 #1293, #1294
B — module/namespace rails #1311 #1281, #1299
C — decl-order latents #1313 #1287, #1277
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H — branch-join monomorphization #1326 #1286
F — reserved-keyword enforcement #1324 #1296
G — release + spec-drift gates #1329 #1288, #1290

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191-192: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover production shape in the grammar-alignment check.

vera/grammar.lark matches the current effect_list, slot_ref, and result_ref productions. However, body_drift compares symbols and terminals only. It does not compare alternation, grouping, or repetition. Therefore, it would miss adding an empty alternative to effect_list, because both forms reference only effect_ref. Add an explicit shape check or regression test.

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In `@spec/10-grammar.md` around lines 191 - 192, Extend the grammar-alignment
check, especially body_drift, to compare production structure including
alternation, grouping, and repetition, not just referenced symbols and
terminals. Add a regression test for effect_list that fails when an empty
alternative is introduced while preserving the existing effect_ref
comma-separated shape.
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Inline comments:
In `@KNOWN_ISSUES.md`:
- Around line 11-23: Synchronize the Bugs table in KNOWN_ISSUES.md with all open
bug-labelled issues by adding entries for `#1268`, `#1277`, `#1281`, `#1284`, `#1285`,
`#1286`, `#1287`, `#1288`, `#1290`, `#1293`, `#1294`, `#1296`, `#1299`, `#1302`, `#1305`, `#1306`,
`#1308`, and `#1309`. Preserve the table format and ensure each issue appears
exactly once.

In `@scripts/check_corpus_differential.py`:
- Around line 539-557: Update the existing reuse validation around the current
git rev-parse check to also verify that dest has no tracked or untracked
working-tree changes, using a git status probe that fails closed. Reuse dest
only when the commit SHA, vera/__init__.py, and clean-tree checks all pass;
otherwise return the existing refusal message and preserve the script’s
non-deletion behavior.

In `@scripts/check_examples_run.py`:
- Around line 608-616: Update the sqlitedb environment setup in spec_env and its
callers so the DB fixture is copied into the per-run scratch directory before
constructing VERA_DB_URL, rather than referencing the committed file under
examples. Reuse the workdir already created by run_corpus and forwarded through
build_env, add the needed shutil standard-library import, and preserve the
existing SQLite URL format and database sentinel behavior.
- Around line 117-121: Update run_corpus() to stop checking for FALLBACK_NOTE,
since build_command() always supplies --fn spec.fn and cannot reach
auto_selected_entry. Replace the direct-string assertion with an end-to-end
check that verifies vera run reports the expected error when the explicit entry
point is missing or private, and remove the now-unused FALLBACK_NOTE constant.

In `@scripts/check_grammar_alignment.py`:
- Around line 568-573: Update _symbols to derive both rule-reference and
terminal-reference matches from the same _QUOTED.sub(" ", line) result,
preventing identifiers inside quoted literals from being classified as rules;
add a regression test covering a quoted literal that matches a declared rule
name.

In `@scripts/release.py`:
- Around line 207-213: Update the preamble in release_body to describe
condensation relative to the budget value that triggered it, rather than
claiming the notes exceed GitHub’s limit. Name or pass the budget through the
caller as needed, and preserve the existing note length and changelog link
details.

In `@spec/06-contracts.md`:
- Line 269: Update the “Two sites stay unguarded” sentence to include
tuple-construction components targeting `@Nat` as an additional E504 residual,
noting that codegen emits no Nat guard there; distinguish this from tuple
destructuring, which remains guarded.

In `@spec/09-standard-library.md`:
- Around line 2305-2307: Clarify the referent in the sentence beginning “Two
code-span shapes” by explicitly naming the round-trip property from the
preceding discussion, rather than using the ambiguous phrase “outside that.”
Preserve the fixed-point property’s unconditional “no exceptions” claim and the
existing explanation of the two code-span shapes.

In `@tests/test_ambiguous_import_refusal_1304.py`:
- Around line 146-158: Update _run_check_json to pass a finite timeout to
subprocess.run, preserving the existing command, environment, output capture,
and check=False behavior so non-terminating vera check executions raise
TimeoutExpired instead of hanging.

In `@tests/test_check_corpus_differential.py`:
- Around line 231-245: Extend coverage for compare with the mirror case where
the base map contains a program absent from the head map, asserting the intended
unreported and count behavior; if base-only entries are intentionally ignored,
explicitly assert that contract instead. Add the complementary test alongside
test_a_program_missing_from_one_side_is_reported_not_ignored and preserve the
existing head-surplus expectations.

In `@tests/test_check_doc_counts.py`:
- Around line 710-714: Strengthen
test_a_count_dropped_from_the_line_is_an_error_not_a_skip by asserting the error
identifies the missing “conformance programs” count, rather than only checking
the generic “could not find” text. Keep the existing single-error assertion so
the test verifies the per-figure validation branch in check_project_status.
- Around line 758-762: Strengthen test_each_category_is_gated by asserting the
three reported errors identify the correct families, no_main, and
nondeterministic categories, using the distinct inputs already supplied to
check_dual_target_row; do not rely only on len(errors), so swapped category
attribution is detected.

In `@tests/test_checker_effects.py`:
- Around line 969-972: Strengthen the W002 assertion in the affected test so it
verifies the warning description contains IO but excludes the operation’s parent
effect Http. Keep the existing W002 presence check and add a negative assertion
against Http to ensure the checker does not consult Http.get.

In `@tests/test_checker_modules.py`:
- Around line 2402-2412: Extend the control loop around parse_to_ast to include
a constructor declaration using the ordinary lowercase name helper, matching the
existing Holder { with(Int) } shape. Assert ParseError for that input so the
constructor rejection is demonstrated independently of the reserved name.
- Around line 2338-2345: Strengthen the suggestion validation in the test around
diag.fix so extracted suggestions are anchored to the documented replacement
wording or otherwise required to contain the offending name as an identifier
component. Ensure quoted prose cannot satisfy suggestions or bypass the existing
reserved-name and built-in checks, while preserving validation of concrete
replacement identifiers.

In `@tests/test_closure_boundary_widths_1255_1256_1269.py`:
- Around line 774-775: Update the payload-constant assertions in the affected
test to use boundary-safe regex matching for the complete WAT tokens, ensuring
i32.const 5 matches only that exact constant and i64.const 5 is rejected only
when that exact token appears.

In `@tests/test_codegen_alias_adt_name_width_1309.py`:
- Around line 385-390: Update the assertion using wat_fn_body for “twice” to
compare the complete function body, or narrow wat_fn_body’s returned content so
the comparison includes local declarations as well as the header. Ensure the
test validates equivalent emitted function bodies for control.wat and
aliased.wat.

In `@tests/test_conformance.py`:
- Around line 101-105: Update the JSON-handling assertion in the conformance
test to catch JSONDecodeError when parsing result.stdout, then fail with an
assertion message containing both result.stdout and result.stderr. Preserve the
existing diagnostic-code validation when decoding succeeds.

In `@tests/test_exn_throw_payload_1268.py`:
- Around line 561-564: Update the assertions in the test around
_verify(self._NESTED) to also select the float_to_int_domain obligation and
assert its expected tier3 status, while retaining the existing refine_bind and
tier3_runtime assertions.

In `@tests/test_grammar_alignment.py`:
- Around line 554-569: Update
TestBodyDrift.test_an_aliased_alternative_is_not_read_as_a_rule_reference to
assert that extract_lark_aliases returns the complete fn_call alias set:
func_call, constructor_call, nullary_constructor_expr, qualified_call, and
module_call. Keep ALLOWLIST limited to grammar-alignment waiver aliases, and
continue excluding every derived alias from the rule body.

In `@tests/test_module_generic_collision_1281.py`:
- Around line 403-431: Update _diamond_registries to use the checker-derived
artifact pipeline: call typecheck_with_artifacts with
collect_module_artifacts=True, retain its result, and pass expr_semantic_types,
expr_target_types, and module_artifacts into codegen_compile or the equivalent
CodeGenerator compilation API. Ensure the registration tables are populated from
the same artifacts used by production code generation.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/test_module_generic_collision_1281.py` around lines
433 - 471.

In `@tests/test_nat_narrowing_return_differential.py`:
- Around line 2766-2768: Update the emitted-function assertion near the existing
call-target assertion to use tests.codegen_helpers.wat_fn_names() and verify
exact membership of the expected put symbol, rather than searching result.wat
with a substring; include the emitted names in the assertion failure message.

In `@tests/test_prelude_adt_namespace_1277.py`:
- Around line 484-518: Extend the acceptance tests around
test_every_cell_is_clean_or_one_e621 to explicitly pin the §8.4.1 split: add
cases asserting always-compiled Option, Result, Ordering, and UrlParts report
E621 with no exports when demands=False, while demand-injected Json, HtmlNode,
Request, and Response report no diagnostics and export main. Add a partition
assertion ensuring these groups exactly cover _PRELUDE_ADTS without overlap.

In `@tests/test_release.py`:
- Around line 698-707: Update
test_the_release_workflow_passes_the_repository_to_the_notes_step to validate
the complete notes command rather than searching a fixed 400-character window.
Parse release.yml with the existing YAML test dependency, collect run commands
from workflow steps, select commands containing scripts/release.py notes, and
assert each selected command includes --repo; otherwise isolate the exact run
block by indentation without relying on proximity.

In `@tests/test_runtime_traps.py`:
- Around line 3243-3255: Remove
test_does_not_consult_the_contract_violation_channel because
_classify_host_error has no last_violation input and the assertions duplicate
test_uses_the_exception_message_as_the_description; retain the existing direct
exception-message coverage.

In `@vera/browser/runtime.mjs`:
- Around line 616-629: The browser list and paragraph parsing logic must accept
the same list markers as isBlockStart: unordered lists with + and ordered lists
with ). Update the relevant list and paragraph parser patterns while preserving
existing -/* and dot-ordered list behavior, so + item and 1) item become list
blocks during lazy blockquote continuation.

In `@vera/checker/modules.py`:
- Line 322: Update the clash iteration in the diagnostic-reporting flow to
traverse clashes by sorted name, preserving the documented deterministic
ordering of E155/E156/E157 reports regardless of mapping construction order.
- Around line 221-226: Update the constructor-registration loop in the module
import logic to also skip entries whose parent type is listed in
_ambiguous_import_type_names, in addition to the existing constructor-name
ambiguity check. Ensure constructors are only added to env.constructors when
their parent type remains available in env.data_types, preserving the intended
E156 behavior for ambiguous data types.

In `@vera/codegen/core.py`:
- Around line 2687-2701: In _type_expr_to_wasm_type, check self._adt_layouts for
a declared ADT before applying the built-in Array, Map, Set, Decimal, or Future
representations. Preserve the existing built-in handling only when no matching
declared ADT exists, so declared types named Array, Map, Set, or Decimal resolve
to i32.

In `@vera/codegen/modules.py`:
- Around line 956-962: Correct the docstring near _register_modules to remove
the claim that the ambiguity result is identical regardless of the prelude
argument. State that the first prelude-empty derivation must be consumed before
_register_modules, then replaced by the populated-prelude derivation, preserving
the existing two-call ordering and behavior.

In `@vera/prelude.py`:
- Around line 19-25: Update the Mapping import in vera/prelude.py to use
collections.abc instead of typing, while preserving the existing Mapping usage
and other imports.

In `@vera/README.md`:
- Around line 752-756: Add a documentation consistency check for the ERROR_CODES
figure in vera/errors.py, validating the documented total and breakdown of 160
entries, including 158 E codes and W001/W002, while preserving the existing
checks for the Test Suite figures.

In `@vera/wasm/calls_handlers.py`:
- Around line 2243-2248: In vera/wasm/calls_handlers.py lines 2243-2248, move
the cell.type_expr validation in _refined_exn_payload_type below the
refinement_binder_parts check so unrefined payloads return None while refined
payloads still fail closed. In vera/wasm/calls.py lines 596-601, verify the
declared-effect-row producer in vera/codegen/functions.py supplies type_expr
when constructing CellNames; update that construction if necessary so unhandled
throws in effects(&lt;Exn&lt;E&gt;&gt;) are retained.

In `@vera/wasm/context.py`:
- Around line 729-733: Update the docstring’s final consumer reference from
_handler_always_throws to the existing _handle_exn_always_throws method, leaving
the rest of the documentation unchanged.

In `@vera/wasm/json_serde.py`:
- Around line 244-246: Move the non-finite float name mapping out of the
canonical serialization section and place it with the accept-domain helpers used
by non_finite_number_message, or provide that section with its own equivalent
float-to-name helper. Ensure both the accept-domain check and the serialization
call site resolve names through an appropriately owned mapping without relying
on a private constant defined in the other section.

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- Around line 191-192: Extend the grammar-alignment check, especially
body_drift, to compare production structure including alternation, grouping, and
repetition, not just referenced symbols and terminals. Add a regression test for
effect_list that fails when an empty alternative is introduced while preserving
the existing effect_ref comma-separated shape.
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Four fixes and one refutation, each verified against the code first.

The base checkout is reused across runs, and the reuse branch proved
only that it sits at the right commit — never that its tree is clean.
An edit made under a persistent checkout survives to the next run and
silently becomes the base compiler; the canary cannot object, because it
proves which checkout was imported and a modified one is still that
checkout.  A dirty base makes "0 movers" mean nothing and can invent
movers out of the edit, which is the one failure this instrument must
not have — and the refusal message has always promised "a clean
checkout", so the probe makes the text true rather than adding a new
claim.  Four cells: a dirty tree refused, an untracked file refused, a
clean reuse still accepted, and a non-vacuity cell proving the dirty
tree is still at the right commit, so the pre-existing check would have
waved it through.

`condense_notes` triggers at the 120,000-character budget but its
preamble said the notes were "past GitHub's 125,000-character limit".
For a section between the two — the band this release very nearly landed
in at 85,730 — that sentence is a falsehood published verbatim in the
release body.  It now names the budget that actually fired and states
GitHub's limit as the separate fact it is, with a cell in the band.

`_symbols` blanked quoted literals for the terminal half only, so a Lark
literal spelling a lowercase word counted as a reference to a rule of
that name.  Latent — no literal collides with a rule name today — which
is why it needed unit cells rather than the shipped files.

`build_command` always passes `--fn`, so `vera run` refuses an
unresolvable entry point instead of falling back to the first export,
and the `FALLBACK_NOTE` check cannot fire through the live path.  The
real path now has an end-to-end cell, `--fn` being always passed has one
of its own, and the note check stays as the backstop for a
`build_command` that stops passing it, saying so.

Not taken: the `sqlitedb` fixture copy.  Measured, running the example
exactly as the gate does leaves no side file beside the fixture — the
database is `journal_mode=delete` and the example only reads, so no
journal or WAL is ever created.  The general SQLite fact is right; this
program does not trigger it.

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173-173: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the remaining json_parse divergence accurately.

The browser and native runtimes do not yet have matching json_parse behaviour for non-finite constants and lone-surrogate escapes. Do not state that they return one shared error message, and do not describe md_parse as the only remaining parser divergence.

  • FAQ.md#L173-L173: replace the shared-message claim with the accepted-domain guarantee and link the two tracked json_parse divergence issues.
  • README.md#L225-L225: list the tracked json_parse divergence beside the md_parse limitation.
  • vera/README.md#L603-L603: do not state that the battery compares complete Err messages for these cases until the two runtimes produce matching diagnostics.

Based on learnings: “json_parse differences for non-finite constants and lone-surrogate escapes are tracked in GitHub issues #1306 and #1308.”

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In `@FAQ.md` at line 173, Update FAQ.md line 173 to describe the accepted-domain
guarantee without claiming shared json_parse error messages, link issues `#1306`
and `#1308`, and identify json_parse as an additional parser divergence rather
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Eleven fixes from the release review, each verified against the code
before being taken; two refutations; one real finding deliberately not
fixed here.

The unreported check in the corpus differential was exercised in one
direction only.  It is a symmetric difference, so both directions are
one expression — but an implementation that iterated either map alone
passed every cell in the class while under-reporting the corpus.  Both
directions and the both-sides case are pinned now, and each one-sided
iteration kills a cell.

The clash-report loop iterates in import order while the docstring three
lines above promises sorted name order.  The order is deterministic —
measured stable across three hash seeds, and the producer documents
import order as a deliberate choice — so the review's nondeterminism
diagnosis is wrong, but the contract was false either way.  Sorting by
name makes it true and leaves each name's supplier list in the import
order that lets the report name the import completing the clash.

The rest are small and local: the `_handle_exn_always_throws` consumer
name, wrong in two docstrings rather than the one reported; `Mapping`
from `collections.abc`; token-anchored WAT constant assertions, where
`i64.const 5` also matched `i64.const 50`; a bounded wait on the
determinism suite's checker subprocess, an unbounded one reporting a
non-terminating resolution loop as a hung suite rather than as the
finding it is; the release-workflow gate matching the exact invocation
instead of a 400-character proximity window; two cells that counted
errors without attributing them; a conformance failure that surfaces the
CLI streams when no JSON envelope arrives; and the complete `fn_call`
alias set rather than one name of five.

Refuted: the fail-closed `type_expr` raise is unreachable, not
over-broad — an unrefined `throw` in a function declaring
`effects(<Exn<Int>>)` with no enclosing handle is check-green, compiles
with no diagnostic and runs, so the declared-effect-row producer threads
the field.  And an ambiguous data-type name whose constructors are
unambiguous produces a clean E156 at the import with no cascade, so the
constructor injection the review describes is unreachable by any
accepted program.

Not fixed here: a user `data Array` is check-green and compiles to a
module with no exports, because the built-in container widths are
consulted before the declared-ADT lookup.  Real, measured, and
pre-existing — v0.1.11 has the same order, and #1309 moved only the
alias branch above these.  Only `Array` misbehaves; `Map`, `Set` and
`Decimal` already answer the ADT pointer's own width.  The fix needs at
least three derivations agreeing and two are not enough, which is not a
change to land in a release commit on partial evidence.

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The `data Array` shadow is filed as #1331 and joins the record: a
KNOWN_ISSUES row worded from the measurement rather than the prediction
— check-green, then an E602 pair-scrutinee refusal takes the function
and its callers and the module ships with no exports; `Map`, `Set` and
`Decimal` inert because their built-in width already IS the ADT
pointer; pre-existing at v0.1.11; two of at least three derivations
corrected and the program still lost its exports.  The row records the
trap between them too, since it cost a round: the emitter mixin owns
`_adt_type_names`, not `_adt_layouts`, so a defensive `getattr` there
disables the shadow rule silently instead of failing.  The v0.1.13
queue carries it as the fifteenth, and the set-equality gate agrees.

`vera/README.md`'s `ERROR_CODES` sentence states three numbers and the
oracle read none of them, so the registry could gain a code on any PR
and the sentence would drift.  All three are gated now — the total, the
`E` count, and the claim that the remainder is exactly the two `W`
codes — with a reworded-sentence cell so the gate cannot switch itself
off.

The grammar gate's uncompared production shape was reported as a defect:
an empty alternative added to `effect_list` references no new symbol, so
`body_drift` stays silent.  That is true, and it is the boundary the
module docstring and TESTING.md already state — but stating is not
measuring, so it is pinned now, with a control proving the silence is
about shape and not about `effect_list`.  When someone extends the
comparison, the cell fails and the two documents get updated with it.

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Ten fixed, one refuted-and-replaced, each decided by measurement.

Spec and docs:

* **§6.4.3 named two unguarded @nat narrowing residuals; there are
  three.**  Probed: `Tuple(float_to_int(x), 5)` narrowing into a
  `@Tuple<Nat, Int>` records `nat_bind`/`tier3_unguarded` and an E504
  whose own text names the site ("tuple component"), and the emitted
  function carries no guard — in return position, at a call argument,
  and under a `let` alike.  The only guard is the one the CONSUMER
  emits when it destructures, so a tuple that is only returned or
  passed on is never checked.  `KNOWN_ISSUES.md`'s #754 row said that
  component was "runtime-guarded at the function boundary", which the
  same probe refutes (the concrete CONSTRUCTOR field is guarded; the
  tuple component is not), so the row moves from three unguarded sites
  to four.
* **§9's "outside that" names its property.**  The two code-span shapes
  are outside the ROUND-TRIP property, not the fixed point above — which
  the preceding paragraph declares exception-free.
* **`_collect_namespace_fn_names`'s docstring no longer claims the
  ambiguity half is prelude-independent.**  `namespace_fn_names`
  (vera/monomorphize.py) records the measurement that it is not: the
  combinators are overridable, so two dependencies exporting
  `option_map` are ambiguous under the empty prelude and not under the
  populated one.  The E608 rail reads the first, prelude-empty answer,
  so the two-call ordering is load-bearing — which the old wording
  invited a reader to undo.  Comment only; behaviour unchanged.

Tests, each strengthening validated by breaking what it guards:

* **W002's row is asserted exactly, not by membership** — the proposed
  `"Http" not in description` is untrue (every W002 names the
  commutative set as `(Http)`) and could not discriminate anyway, since
  `Http` is subtracted before the message is built.  The exactness form
  catches the union it was aimed at: mutating the walk to add `State`
  yields "performs IO, State" — red under exactness, green under
  membership.
* **The E153 fix suggestion is read from the clause that makes it.**
  The old sweep also collected the `{name}_value` example and `handle`,
  both boilerplate, so a deleted table entry stayed green; deleting the
  `data` and `where` hints now fails exactly those two cells.
* **The lowercase-constructor control completes the vacuity argument**
  (`Holder { helper(Int) }` is a ParseError; `Holder { Helper(Int) }`
  parses, so the rail under test really is the case rail).
* **The #1309 width battery compares the whole `$twice` body**, not its
  header — measured byte-identical to the fresh-name control in all 70
  cells, and strictly stronger (a body-only divergence passes a header
  comparison).
* **#1268's `tier3_runtime == 1` names its obligation**: the count is
  the `float_to_int_domain` one, the `tier3_unguarded` bind having
  discharged to no tier.
* **#1281's diamond fixture threads the checker's artifacts into
  codegen**, as `cmd_compile` does; the two registries are identical
  either way, so the cells measure what they did before.
* **The emitted-`put` assertion uses `wat_fn_names` exact membership.**
* **The prelude-ADT alone cells pin §8.4.1's injection split.**  The
  acceptance battery accepts either answer per cell by design; a rail
  keyed on demand would therefore keep the whole suite green, which a
  patched `_contends_with_prelude` confirms — only the new cell fails.

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`#1332` is the false Tier-1 the §6.4.3 probe turned up while the release
PR's unguarded-residual list was being corrected: a `@Nat` tuple
component's `nat_bind` is recorded `verified` at construction under
`requires(true)`, so `vera verify` exits clean, and `vera run` then traps
on `f(-1)` at the destructure guard that re-checks the component.  The
return-position control isolates it — the identical construction as a
function result is correctly `violated`/E503 — so the two paths reach
different verdicts for the same value.

* **`KNOWN_ISSUES.md`** gains its Bugs row, newest first, carrying the
  measurement and the isolation rather than a summary of the title.
* **`ROADMAP.md`**'s v0.1.13 queue carries sixteen and LEADS with it:
  every other open bug is loud, and a verifier reporting a proof it does
  not have is the one failure a reader cannot see.  The queue and the
  Bugs table are set-equal at sixteen; `--check-bug-issues` reports only
  the eighteen issues this PR fixes, which close on merge, and no row
  that is not an open bug.

* **`vera/wasm/json_serde.py`**: `_NON_FINITE_NAMES` moves above both
  sections that read it (PR review).  The accept-domain gate was
  resolving the name through a constant defined inside the canonical
  serialization section beside its private `_non_finite_message`, so the
  dependency was invisible to a reader working on either half and
  relocating either section would have broken the other — and the accept
  domain is separately hand-mirrored into `vera/browser/runtime.mjs`.
  Sharing the constant is right (one spelling for both halves, so they
  cannot drift); its placement was not.  Pure relocation: both call sites
  resolve identically, and the `repr` key is documented as deliberate,
  since a NaN is not equal to itself and cannot key a dict by value.

Skip-changelog: constant relocated within one module; no behaviour change.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff spec/10-grammar.md item (an injected empty alternative in effect_list passes body_drift silently): real as stated — and it is the boundary the gate itself declares, in check_grammar_alignment.py's own header ("what remains uncompared is the SHAPE of a right-hand side — alternation, grouping and repetition") and TESTING.md's gate row. Extending to full shape comparison is the large job #1290's Direction note argues against in favour of a single-sourced grammar. What WAS missing is that the limitation was claimed and never measured, so two cells now pin it: one asserting the silence on an injected empty alternative (the cell that fails the day someone extends the comparison, forcing both documents to update with it), and a control proving the limit is about shape, not about effect_list (an added SYMBOL in the same production is still caught).

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff FAQ.md item: refuted — the premise is stale. It rests on #1306 and #1308 being tracked divergences, but both are FIXED IN THIS RELEASE (the [0.1.12] CHANGELOG carries both entries, and neither has a Bugs-table row because both close at this PR's merge). FAQ:173 as shipped states exactly the accepted-domain guarantee the finding asks for — the constants and a lone-surrogate escape are Err at the parse on both hosts with one message — which is now true rather than an overclaim, and md_parse is correctly named as the one remaining divergence, linking #1301. Editing the passage as suggested would make the FAQ wrong.

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@aallan Thanks for the precise clarification.

The empty-alternative case is an intentional body_drift boundary. The new regression cell makes that boundary measurable. The control cell also confirms that body_drift still detects symbol-level production changes.

Full right-hand-side shape comparison remains outside this PR and belongs with the #1290 direction decision. No change is needed here.


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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- FAQ context ---'
rg -n -C 4 '1301|1306|1308|lone-surrogate|lone surrogate|non-finite|accepted-domain|accepted domain' FAQ.md || true

printf '%s\n' '--- CHANGELOG context ---'
rg -n -C 3 '1306|1308|JSON|surrogate|non-finite' CHANGELOG.md || true

printf '%s\n' '--- KNOWN_ISSUES context ---'
rg -n -C 2 '1301|1306|1308' KNOWN_ISSUES.md || true

printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant test declarations ---'
rg -n -C 2 'lone.?surrogate|non.?finite|1306|1308|cross.?runtime|native.*browser|browser.*native' \
  tests/test_browser.py tests/test_json_accept_domain_1306_1308.py || true

Length of output: 224921


@aallan Confirmed. I withdraw the FAQ finding.

FAQ.md Line 173 states the correct accepted-domain rule. The v0.1.12 changelog records the fixes for #1306 and #1308. KNOWN_ISSUES.md retains only #1301 for md_parse in this area. TestBrowserJsonAcceptDomainParity1306_1308 also asserts the same parse errors on both runtimes.


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Learning: In `aallan/vera` PR `#1303`, the browser-runtime FAQ must describe cross-runtime JSON and Markdown parity by operation: `json_stringify` and `md_render` produce specification-defined canonical forms on both runtimes; well-formed JSON input parses identically; `json_parse` differences for non-finite constants and lone-surrogate escapes are tracked in GitHub issues `#1306` and `#1308`; `md_parse` divergence classes are tracked in GitHub issue `#1301`.

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File: vera/browser/runtime.mjs:2886-2904
Timestamp: 2026-08-14T03:27:36.500Z
Learning: In `aallan/vera`, a lone UTF-16 surrogate cannot enter a Vera string on either host: a `"\u{D800}"` literal is rejected at compile time, and `string_from_char_code(55296)` returns `"\u0000"` on both hosts. At the WASM string boundary, `TextEncoder` replaces lone surrogates in the browser and the reference host rejects their encoding. Therefore, the canonical JSON string emitters cannot receive a lone surrogate through Vera values. The separate `json_parse` divergence for a lone-surrogate JSON escape is tracked in GitHub issue `#1308`.

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61-61: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate stale #1284 release entry.

This repeats the handler-ownership fix already documented at Line 48. It also says that #1299 remains a caveat, but Lines 50-54 state that this release fixes #1299. Keep one reconciled account before publishing the release notes.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 61, Remove the duplicate stale `#1284` changelog entry
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- Line 38: Qualify the static-soundness claim in the paragraph beginning
“Statically” to acknowledge the `#1332` exception: a declared tuple let binding
may be marked verified before a negative component reaches a later destructure
guard, so the universal claim that PROVEN narrowing sites cannot store negative
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- Around line 102-112: Update the JSON decode error handling in the conformance
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Four findings from the review of the round commits, each verified:
the KNOWN_ISSUES universal statically-proven claim gains its measured
1332 exception; the ROADMAP queue intro drops the every-other-bug-is-
loud clause its own 1312 row falsifies; the conformance decode-failure
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removed twin read "tracked as 1299".

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff CHANGELOG item (the duplicate handler-ownership bullet): real, fixed — and the discriminating detail mattered. The two bullets differed exactly where you pointed: the keeper reads "closed by #1299 below" (the reconciled account, written after the fix landed) while the removed twin read "tracked as #1299" (the stale pre-reconciliation version). One account remains and it agrees with the #1299 entry beneath it. The [0.1.12] section is pre-publication, so the edit precedes the notes ever shipping.

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@aallan Confirmed. The retained bullet has the reconciled status and agrees with the #1299 entry. Removing the stale bullet resolves the duplicate release-note account before publication.

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The review's last catch: the four-site E504 disclosure claim is scoped
with its 1332 exception (that path discloses nothing — the verifier
records the obligation proved), and the returned-tuple sentence now
separates the missing RUNTIME check from the static obligation the
return position still carries (the E503 control on the 1332 row).

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