Pkg11c: lower variant and record fields into declared field identities on the native route, and bind match-arm binders

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Pkg11c. On the native route no v2 stage lowered a variant or record field: type C = A(Int) | B kept A(Int) as a preserved positional_variant_payload shell, records went to the graft's residual forest, and a match pattern kept only its constructor atom — A(x) => x lost x. This lands the field model in std and ONE stage that lowers declarations, constructions and eliminations through it, plus the resolver frame that binds the arm's binders.

Base and landing order

#11998 is OPEN, not merged. dbaf88c9adb is on session/gentle-tern-521, not on main, so this branch CARRIES #11998's commits rather than building on landed work. Landing order set by the manager: #11998 first, then this. If #11998 lands first, its commits collapse in the squash; confirm the diff against main then contains only this lane's work.

Two of the converted witness modules are #11998 authorship carried here — the coproduct rows — converted on this branch because the floor enforces the per-claim ceiling here and they breach it here. The module annotation says so, so this is not editing someone else's claims unannounced.

What this does NOT close — read this before the rung-drop row

An earlier revision of this body claimed this PR closes the standing HOLD on #11998 and retires variant_fields_unlowered_on_the_native_route. That claim is withdrawn and the row STANDS, narrowed to one residue.

Both halves of the trigger execute: the lowering (body_lower_type_variant, body_lower_record_type_decl, body_lower_pattern_lowered) and the resolver frame (resolve_match_node). What is not established is the trigger's own sentence — that a binder binds — because one reachable class still silently does not. resolve_pattern_node_is_constructor decides binder-versus-constructor by SHAPE, and a module container is a Conj whose every child is a Named edge, which is what a declared payload looks like to every shape test tried. Specimen in this tree, from review 70101: src/v2/std/symbol_index.dag:156 is Present { value: node } => inside v2.std.symbol_index, and lexical ascent reaches the MODULE v2.std.node. The binder gets no frame local and the arm body's node resolves to the module — Accepted, wrong value, no diagnostic.

Three shape discriminators have now been tried on that predicate — the bare connective, the construct tag, and declared-field coverage — each admitting a wider set than its author intended. The fact it needs is what the NAME DENOTES, which symbol_index_fill holds at insert time and the node does not carry. A fourth shape predicate is refused on principle; the declaration-kind repair is filed as its own subject and is the row's restoration trigger.

Evidence: the witnesses were reworked, and why

The floor's per-claim ceiling (72300 eval steps) refused 28 identities on this branch. This is not 28 badly-written claims — #11829 armed the receipt adjudicator at 01:58Z, and before that a refused floor could report SUCCESS. The witnesses were always over; the lane could not fail.

The remedy is DESIGN §3: supply the inputs at the boundary the claim discriminates at. Measured decomposition (eval steps are host-independent — the same probe reads 3814 on the amd64 runner and on an arm64 container, so these compare directly to the CI ceiling):

route	steps
dag_prepared_grammar() alone	3,814
+ tokenize	24,406
+ parse	42,796
+ normalize (the old text route)	72,716
supplied tokens → parse → normalize	51,729
fidelity claim (real tokenize, compared)	20,838

The first plan was falsified by its own measurement. I proposed supplying a prepared grammar; at 3,814 of a 72,716 route that saves 5% and fixes nothing. Supplying the TOKEN STREAM is the cut: flat and authorable where a parse tree is not, and it keeps parse AND normalize executing, so a claim whose subject includes parsing keeps its subject with no carve-out.

The pairing obligation is discharged by proven equality, not assertion. Each specimen owes a fidelity claim that its supplied stream EQUALS what the real tokenizer emits (v2.test.parse.supplied_token_stream_support, supplied_stream_matches_tokenize). Real tokenize, real parse and real normalize all still execute; delete the integration and the fidelity claim reddens. The stream generator is deliberately NOT committed and NOT shared: a generator cannot produce a wrong green, because every stream is checked per specimen against the real tokenizer in the floor. The generator is a convenience; the fidelity claim is the wall.

Result: variant_field_lowering 34 PASS / 0 FAIL, over-budget 28 → 10. Coproduct module 24 PASS / 0 FAIL, 7 → 4.

Two dispositions for what remains, and they are different in kind

Resolve-subject witnesses are ENROLLED, not declared. dag_language_model() alone costs 90,028 against a 72,300 ceiling — a claim that only calls it is already over. But enrolment removes eval steps, not merely CPU (required_floor_runner: eval_steps = measured − fill, and the gate compares that), so declaring these would have been debt over a remedy that exists. The model itself cannot be shared — run 35327371663 refused exactly that, ServeCacheValueNotPortable at .value.lm.canonical_symbols.member kind=Closure — so these take the seam floor_pure_producer_share already uses for resolve subjects: the resolved Outcome<Node> per subject, nullary, pure, over an inline source, no closure. Ten producers rostered WARM. Post-enrolment marginals are not measurable locally (claim_batch does not apply the roster); they come from the floor's [floor-shared-fill] ledger and are reported from it, not assumed.

Fn-body witnesses are DECLARED (normalize_fn_body_witnesses_over_the_floor_ceiling, 14 identities enumerated by name). Parse ALONE of a fn-bearing specimen is 61,931, so even supplying a parse tree leaves ~71,369 against 72,300 — the best case anyone can construct has a 931-step margin, and there is no boundary left to supply from. Separate rows because their TRIGGERS differ: one retires if the fn-body charge drops, the other does not, and a single row would be retired by a trigger fixing half its population.

One arm is deliberately weaker, and it does not stay

body_lower_postfix_call_suffix_args currently ACCEPTS an absent call-suffix interior as zero arguments. gunbc#12057 established that the real prepared-grammar parse of () emits seq(lparen, seq(<empty conj>, rparen)) — an empty interior, not an absent one — so that arm is unreachable from source, and accepting is a widen on an unreachable path.

It is there for one reason, stated rather than left to be found: three enrolled claims in that lane's module reach the door through a hand-built seq(lparen, rparen) and were failing on this branch. That fixture is corrected on their branch. The agreed order is theirs first, then this arm reverts to refusing — so main never carries the widen.

The asymmetry is the general rule, not a local preference: an unreachable REFUSAL costs nothing, an unreachable WIDEN bites when the grammar moves. When a case cannot be reached, refuse it, because the cost of being wrong differs by direction. Three separate defects in this slice were instances of the same conflation — an absent slot read as an unreadable one, no arguments read as unreadable arguments, and a probe that found nothing read as a probe that found something false — and each was a two-valued answer collapsing "could not look" into "looked and it is false".

Reviews

• Review 69960 APPROVED an earlier head. That approval does NOT carry — the evidence shape it approved has been rewritten since.
• 69994 (silent wrong answer: a value construct classified as a pattern constructor) — fixed, then superseded by the positive test.
• 70032 (unreadable argument list answered with an accepted zero-argument call) — fixed; both arms refuse with body_lowering_reason_call_args_unlowered and a CauseOwnership row. The postfix arm is unreachable today, measured by flipping it to a refusal and observing the zero-arg specimen lower at identical eval steps.
• 70101 (module-container binder): its specimen was never executed, and Pkg16: the pattern-binder classifier asks the symbol index what a name denotes (construction, no behavioural delta on this corpus; stacked on #12033) #12082's claim mab_binder_spelling_a_sibling_module_binds_the_arm later showed the binder binds. The harm is retracted (see the landing-order section below).
• 70275 (payload_is_nullary, a std predicate only a test called): deleted; the test checks the Conj shape inline.

Two of the brief's DONE criteria are UNMEASURABLE at any current head

The brief asks that content_hash parse and lower natively, and that the workload closure lose that file refusal with the counts re-run. Neither can be measured on any tree based on current main, and the cause is not in this diff:

V2-NATIVE REFUSAL cause=EmittedCompilerBuildFailed — status=101
stderr_tail=  4 + use crate::std_integer::UInt8;

The first such break was base16 UInt8, repaired by gunbc#12056 (merged 2026-09-22). Emitted-compiler builds now stop at the NEXT break, error[E0573]: expected type, found variant PointerWidth in src/std_integer.rs, which is on main without this diff. gunbc#12091 repairs it. These two criteria follow that landing and are not outstanding work in this PR; the rung drop's trigger names the same capability (the emitted compiler builds). Five dispatches were needed to establish this, each refusing for a different reason — GITHUB_SHA unset, a stale probe-root lock, HostBudgetUnreadable, an unbound cgroup, and finally main — and the fifth is the first to reach the real failure. None of them produced a number.

The floor needed a second declaration, and a rung-drop row is not it

A gunbc.rung_drop row declares the rung consequence. It does not stop the floor enforcing the eval-step budget — that is v2.workflow.floor_eval_step_cost_drop, whose members stay planned, executed and measured, with only the overrun reported as EvalStepsOverBudgetUnderDeclaredDrop instead of refusing. Both declarations are needed and they answer different questions; without the second this PR could not have gone green however well the row was written.

Two properties worth reading rather than assuming:

• Rostered by WHOLE QUALIFIED IDENTITY, because that module forbids prefix or module grain precisely so a list cannot silently cover witnesses added beside it later.
• The rung-drop row's population DERIVES from the roster rather than restating it — one authority, two readers, instead of two lists that drift.

Review 70149 is an argument for removing the bare-spelling fallback, not just a fixed import

03_resolve called declared_field_list while its import block omitted it, so the symbol resolved only through the corpus-wide bare-spelling fallback — the mechanism this same PR annotates as a bridge dissolving on gunbc#12009. A new fail-closed predicate's own dependency was being carried by the thing being retired. Every typecheck was green and silent about it, because a .dag import list does not bind. Fixed, but the instructive part is that the fallback can carry a dependency nobody declared and nothing complains.

No rung drop is taken: the declared population dissolved

An earlier revision of this PR declared fourteen fn-body witnesses over the eval-step ceiling and rostered them in floor_eval_step_cost_drop. That row is deleted and the roster is back to its pre-PR membership. Review 70176 was right that taking a debt row while the remedy sits in the same diff is what §5 forbids — and the argument was already written into the row's own trigger, which called shared-producer enrolment "a measured capability and not a hope" and said the same move "would DISSOLVE this row".

Every parse/normalize specimen is now a nullary shared pure producer rostered WARM in floor_pure_producer_share: 17 in variant_field_lowering, 24 in the coproduct module, beside the 10 already there for match_arm_binder_frame. Parse and normalize are attributed to preparation's fill; each claim is charged only its marginal assertions.

The coproduct module keeps separate parsed and normalized producers, deliberately: handing a normalized tree to a claim whose subject is parsing would delete what it establishes. A parse-subject claim reads the parsed producer and keeps parse in its subject.

Exact head

e15f571fcfe27ab98a7b39b731d0bf5790723a78 (git rev-parse HEAD at the time of writing). Figures in sections written earlier are attributed to the tree named there (b1c442732c1). Later commits change only annotations, the rung-drop row, its projection, and the removal of payload_is_nullary.

Known-red and not mine

unbound_statement_prefix_refuses_holds and data_record_fn_literal_field_is_not_retained_holds fail identically on main without this diff — verified independently by this lane and by gunbc#12062's author.

Integration with #12116 (XL-2 P4, occurrence-complete resolve): what was dropped, what survives

P4 is main's authority for how resolve walks and accumulates. The merge (e9c8ebd63b1) ports this PR's match resolution onto it and does not restore the pre-P4 accumulation.

Dropped: resolve_match_node, resolve_match_arm, resolve_pattern_node, resolve_pattern_field_target. They returned Outcome<Node>, stopped at the first Rejected, and threaded their own EdgeResolveAccMk accumulator.

Ported: resolve_match_node_walk, resolve_match_arm_walk, resolve_pattern_node_walk, resolve_pattern_field_target_walk, on P4's child_walk_init / child_walk_step / child_walk_node. Every independent refusal under a match (a misspelled tag in one arm, an unbound reference in another arm's body) is now its own chain in walk order, and the match is never accepted while a chain stands. The arm frame's binders are computed from the pattern's syntax plus the symbol index before the fold, so a refused pattern never leaves its body under an invented scope. Nothing here is P4's ObservationIncomplete case, whose one exception is a Bind's binder. resolve_node_walk is main's plus one arm: Match -> resolve_match_node_walk.

Unchanged: the binder classifier (resolve_pattern_binders, resolve_pattern_atom_names_constructor, resolve_pattern_node_is_constructor / _is_declared_payload).

Receipt for P4's and #12108's claims at e9c8ebd63b1 (run by neat-boar-16 on srv2: claim_batch rebuilt from that tree, systemd scope MemoryMax=14G, private TMPDIR). 47/47 PASS, 0 fail, exit 0. These modules are outside the required gate, so the floor does not plan them.

• P4: resolve/resolve_walk_population 7/7, native_census/whole_tree_census_resolve 9/9
• XL-2 P1: call arguments survive v2 body lowering and reach the resolve denominator #12108: namespace_xl0/call_argument_mention_survival 19/19, body_lowering_qualified_path 12/12

Integration with #12108 (call arguments): what was dropped, what survives

#12108 landed on main and is now the authority for call-argument lowering. The merge (32f8bcbba2c) adopts its path; nothing here routes call arguments beside it (§3).

Dropped as superseded by #12108:

• body_lower_call_arg_edge_optional, body_lower_arg_lowered, body_lower_arg_value_capture: my per-argument readers. XL-2 P1: call arguments survive v2 body lowering and reach the resolve denominator #12108's body_lower_call_arg_value decides named vs positional by shape and refuses what it can't read.
• body_lower_call_suffix_is_paren_list: my call-suffix detector. Main decides it by body_lower_postfix_call_suffix_args being Present, and both callers are back to main's form.
• The refusal cause body_lowering_reason_call_args_unlowered and its CauseOwnership row: XL-2 P1: call arguments survive v2 body lowering and reach the resolve denominator #12108's …_call_argument_list_shape_unread / …_call_argument_unread cover the same sites.
• My edits to body_lowering_qualified_path_test and namespace_xl0/call_argument_mention_survival_test: they only adapted those tests to my call path. Main's versions are taken whole, and they add a positional-argument twin.

Survives, with the reason:

• body_lower_value_lowered / body_lower_value_lowered_or_carried (+ …_lowered_behind_shells_optional, …_node_is_lowered_atom, …_value_is_function_value_shell): variant-field work still needs them for record-literal field initializers, match-arm bodies and if conditions. Call arguments no longer go through them. XL-2 P1: call arguments survive v2 body lowering and reach the resolve denominator #12108's per-argument read uses body_lower_operand_ref_optional, which narrows a sequence operand to its head (lowering_accessor_collapses_a_sequence_operand, its own trigger), so the two are not equivalent. Routing arguments through the full value reader is that failure mode's repair, not this PR's.
• body_lowering_reason_value_carried_unlowered: its trigger text now names field values, match-arm bodies and conditions, not call arguments.
• One comma-list walker, shared. All six consumers read dag_grammar_comma_list_expr: call arguments, field declarations, field patterns, field initializers, positional patterns and fn-type domains. XL-2 P1: call arguments survive v2 body lowering and reach the resolve denominator #12108's walk is factored out as body_lower_comma_list_items (+ _repeat_items, _child). It answers the raw item captures, and the caller passes in the shape refusal cause. Call arguments pass …_call_argument_list_shape_unread, unchanged, and then body_lower_call_arg_values lowers each item in order. My own walker is deleted. It had also silently answered Empty for an unreadable repeat element, a §5 widen, which goes with it. The field/pattern callers use body_lower_comma_list_items_optional, now a thin adapter (Rejected → Absent), and each already refuses on Absent under its own cause. One observable change to call arguments: if a list has a shape defect after an unreadable argument, the shape refusal now reports first (before, the argument did). Both are refusals.

Receipt for #12108's own claims on this integration (run by neat-boar-16 on srv2 at 59ca6392dd0; head 4cd4a45b243 adds only the healed docs/design-rung-drops.md +4, verified). These modules are outside the required gate and byte-identical to main, so the floor does not plan them, but the walker they depend on was refactored here. claim_batch built from that tree, under systemd-run --user --scope MemoryMax=14G, private TMPDIR:

• namespace_xl0/call_argument_mention_survival_test.dag: 19/19 PASS
• body_lowering_qualified_path_test.dag: 12/12 PASS

Floor at 59ca6392dd0: FloorClean, 493 planned and executed, 0 claims failed. variant_field_lowering 34, match_arm_binder_frame 7 and coproduct_leading_pipe 24 all planned-and-passed.

The generated docs/design-rung-drops.md keeps our side per its merge driver; heal regenerates it.

Landing order: pairing with #12082 WITHDRAWN (review 70260)

Review 70260 flagged a silent residue: the binder node in v2.std.symbol_index symbol_index_candidates_at was said to resolve to the MODULE v2.std.node. On that premise, #12033 was briefly paired with #12082. The premise was falsified by execution. nimble-boar-636 ran v2.test.claim.match_arm_binder_frame mab_binder_spelling_a_sibling_module_binds_the_arm (authored on #12082) against this PR's head bbc77204a49, and the binder binds. symbol_index_fill inserts no module path, and the global-bare Unbound arm refuses rather than falling back. The harm sentence came from review 70101's reading and I never executed it; it is retracted in the row and in the classifier note (9278606126a).

Decision (neat-boar-16): the pairing is dropped. #12033 lands on its own; #12082 follows as construction with no behavioural delta. The rung drop variant_fields_unlowered_on_the_native_route stays. Its loss is now stated as the native route being unobserved (the emitted compiler does not build). Its trigger names that capability: the emitted compiler builds and the specimen binder is observed binding there. The declaration-kind classifier does not satisfy it.

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Derivation read of the resolver scope semantics, as offered. The scope handling is correct. Two notes, and the first is a correction to advice I gave you.

1. My "for the arm BODY only" was wrong, and you were right to ignore it. Taken literally it would break: resolve_pattern_field_target resolves a non-wildcard field atom through resolve_node, so a binder in the pattern is resolved as an ordinary reference. Without the frame in scope while resolving the PATTERN, every binder would refuse as unbound. resolve_match_arm passing arm_ctx to resolve_pattern_node is necessary, not merely harmless. Flagging it so nobody later "fixes" it toward my wording — the frame has to cover the pattern and the body, and only the scrutinee and siblings are excluded.

That exclusion does hold structurally, not just by test: each arm builds arm_ctx from the outer ctx rather than from a sibling's, and the scrutinee is resolved by resolve_node(ctx, …) in resolve_match_node before any frame exists. Control 4 and the structure agree.

2. The scrutinee/arm split is sound but rests on a non-local invariant that isn't cited. resolve_match_node splits by POSITION (have_seen_first) over raw n.children, never inspecting the label. That is safe here, and I checked why rather than assuming: behavior_edges_conform requires PositionalEdges for Match, PositionalEdges is all_edges_positional, and v2.compiler.normalize gates on well_formed before a NormalizedTree is admitted — so by the time resolve runs, a Match node cannot carry a Named edge.

Worth an annotation anyway, because the neighbouring code argues the opposite. v2.std.node match_arm_children_conform_skip_first skips the first positional edge and carries a Named { name: _ } => acc arm, which reads as "Match tolerates Named edges". A future reader could reasonably conclude this positional read is unsafe — or, worse, could ADD a Named edge to Match on the strength of that arm and silently break this reader: the real scrutinee would shift into arm position and get a binder frame pushed from it, which is a silent rebind rather than a refusal. One line naming behavior_edges_conform's PositionalEdges as the guarantee would make that dependency visible from here.

Nothing blocking from me. The dissolution note on resolve_pattern_atom_names_constructor states the bridge and its fail-safe direction accurately, including the containment-path-plus-unique-alias residual — that residual is pre-existing on main and not something #12009 introduces or removes.

One thing worth keeping from your control design, which I've now hit three times in this package from the other side: making the outer x TEST CODE so the frame-less reading refuses on a different reason is what stops control 1 passing for the wrong reason. A control that would be green either way is worse than no control.

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Review 69930 (dashboard artifact /api/reviews/69930/artifacts/stdout.log), addressed at ebfb2c2: (1) mab_prelude deleted — it had no reader. (2) The cost-shape annotation on body_lower_value_lowered now names the instrument (the emitted driver's adjudicate per-file normalize_nanos rows, std.compiler_entry SourceRootEvalDriver absorbed by v2.compiler.compile native_test_context_absorb) and carries no transcribed numbers; the readings stay in this PR body under the same instrument's name. (3) Non-blocking item: the DeclaredField readers' production consumer is now named on the model (the follow-up PR: field projection off a receiver reading declared_field_named and refusing on Absent, plus the field-"0" join at construction typing), so the frontier is declared rather than implied. — sent from quick-bat-813