diff --git a/src/v2/compiler/body_lowering_fold.dag b/src/v2/compiler/body_lowering_fold.dag
index 7db7630f653..b82e9342e4d 100644
--- a/src/v2/compiler/body_lowering_fold.dag
+++ b/src/v2/compiler/body_lowering_fold.dag
@@ -10030,8 +10030,8 @@ fn body_lower_type_decl_record_name_optional(shell: Node) -> Optional<Symbol> {
 // v2.compiler.normalized_tree NormalizedTree type_declaration_kinds. One value per declaration: a record
 // and a refinement are authored alternatives, so the carrier has no state naming one declaration as
 // both. A record is what body_lower_type_decl_record_name_optional says; otherwise a where clause --
-// here still its dag_surface_where_refinement_clause production shell, the parse-level form of the arm
-// the by-body dispatch finds as a Named edge -- makes a refinement; anything else carries no kind, and
+// the same host body_lower_type_decl_by_body finds (body_lower_find_where_host_conj), not a second
+// walk that only recognises a production shell -- makes a refinement; anything else carries no kind, and
 // a plain Conj member without one is undecided downstream, never inferred.
 type DeclaredTypeKind
   = DeclaredRecord { name: Symbol }
@@ -10045,7 +10045,7 @@ fn body_lower_type_decl_declared_kind_optional(shell: Node) -> Optional<Declared
       match parse_production_captured_child_optional(node: shell) {
         Absent => Absent
         Present { value: captured } =>
-          match body_lower_find_production_shell_optional(root: captured, emitted: ^dag_surface_where_refinement_clause) {
+          match body_lower_find_where_host_conj(root: captured) {
             Absent => Absent
             Present { value: _ } =>
               match dag_surface_kw_then_ident_from_captured(captured: captured) {
diff --git a/src/v2/extdeps/languages/rust_test_fixtures.dag b/src/v2/extdeps/languages/rust_test_fixtures.dag
index d39a8ce8804..145d4033d05 100644
--- a/src/v2/extdeps/languages/rust_test_fixtures.dag
+++ b/src/v2/extdeps/languages/rust_test_fixtures.dag
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import std.algebra { Cons, Empty }
 import v2.std.live_tree { LiveTreeDisposition, SubstrateInputsOnly }
 
 import v2.extdeps.languages.dag { dag_bind_arrow_with_body_fixture }
+import v2.std.arrow_signature { declared_signature }
 
 import v2.extdeps.languages.rust {
   rust_add_declared_inhabitants_root,
@@ -3429,10 +3430,12 @@ fn rust_arrow_with_body_node(
   return_type_binding: Symbol,
   body: Node
 ) -> Node {
+  let domain = rust_nullary_arrow_domain_conj_node()
+  let signature = declared_signature(params: domain.children, source: domain)
   Node {
     kind: TypeNode { connective: Arrow },
     children: [
-      Edge { label: Positional, target: rust_nullary_arrow_domain_conj_node() },
+      signature.domain,
       Edge {
         label: Positional,
         target: rust_type_atom_node(identity: return_type_binding)
@@ -3441,6 +3444,7 @@ fn rust_arrow_with_body_node(
         label: Positional,
         target: rust_type_atom_node(identity: return_type_binding)
       },
+      signature.order,
       Edge { label: core_edge_label(marker: ArrowBodyEdge), target: body }
     ],
     occurrence_id: OccurrenceSynthetic
diff --git a/src/v2/test/claim/emit/produced_item_parameter_order_test.dag b/src/v2/test/claim/emit/produced_item_parameter_order_test.dag
index ac2a0986eb2..65d0d3e2194 100644
--- a/src/v2/test/claim/emit/produced_item_parameter_order_test.dag
+++ b/src/v2/test/claim/emit/produced_item_parameter_order_test.dag
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import v2.std.arrow_signature { ArrowParameterOrderMalformed, arrow_declared_par
 import v2.std.compilers.target_model { ProducedDeclSignatureSubject, arrow_domain_binder_names, produced_decl_subject_from_name_and_arrow }
 import v2.std.diagnostic { Accepted, Rejected, diagnostics_fatal_reason }
 import v2.std.live_tree { LiveTreeDisposition, SubstrateInputsOnly }
-import v2.std.node_query { binder_edge }
+import v2.std.node_query { binder_edge, declared_field_from_edge }
 import v2.std.node {
   Arrow,
   Atom,
@@ -97,20 +97,22 @@ fn ipo_without_order(arrow: Node) -> Node {
   }
 }
 
-// Each parameter as its label then its type atom, so the claim reads order AND the binding of each
-// label to its own type.
+// Each parameter as its label then its declared type atom, so the claim reads order AND the binding
+// of each label to its own type. The renderer’s param edges are binders (v2.std.node_query
+// binder_edge): the type lives on the binder, not as the edge target’s connective. Reading the
+// target as an Atom is the pre-XL-2 shape and would accept a renderer that dropped the type into
+// the edge target while refusing the production encoding.
 fn ipo_param_symbols(params: List<Edge>) -> List<Symbol> {
   fold(params, init: [], f: fn(acc, e) {
-    let name = match e.label {
-      StructuralLabel { label: _ } => ^ipo_structural
-      Authored { name: n } => n
-      Positional => ^ipo_positional
-    }
-    let ty = match e.target.kind {
-      TypeNode { connective: Atom { identity: t } } => t
-      _ => ^ipo_not_an_atom
+    match declared_field_from_edge(e: e) {
+      Present { value: field } =>
+        let ty = match field.type_node.kind {
+          TypeNode { connective: Atom { identity: t } } => t
+          _ => ^ipo_not_an_atom
+        }
+        concat(acc, [field.name, ty])
+      Absent => concat(acc, [^ipo_not_a_binder, ^ipo_not_an_atom])
     }
-    concat(acc, [name, ty])
   })
 }