Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler

[briansrls]

Substrate S5 — Variant-aware projection metadata carrier.

Closes #1947.
Closure predicate: §1.8 gates #29-#30 (T-Anthropic-Wire 2 gates). Authority: Director γ-ratification at #828 c#4394369848; path-(a) ratification at #2154 c#4400354502.

Slicing

This PR lands the substrate-fact-introduction (P1) carrier:

• Gate 1 (carrier landed) ✓
• Gate 4 (no Option<> on Declaration) ✓
• Gate 5 (bootstrap regen + workspace + clippy) ✓
• Gate 6 (§1.8 Add branch-aware gist filenames with sanitization and timestamps #29-Resolve Hack 1: typed matchers + cardinality-driven CLI generation #30 advance to CONSUMER_LANDED-ready)

Gate 2 (Anthropic #1702 wire-through) — Mgr-disposed sliced-follow-up at #2154 c#4400623667. Preserved branch codex/cc1-target-integer-structural-fold is Grounding-owned per brief gate-2 parenthetical; cross-Mgr scope blur to fold a Grounding-owned WIP branch into a Substrate-lane PR. Grounding Mgr (#1944) consumes carrier in their follow-up.

Gate 3 (≥1 paydown consumer composability) — worker discretion (b) with orphan-carrier risk owned. Mgr disposed (i) trivial in-PR data anthropic_chat_message_projection: CoproductProjection = { ... } demo at #2154 c#4400893282. Attempted (per 6de6a4de5 doc-comment + #2068 c#4401091984 evidence): both inline-record and ident-reference Map-literal values produced expected field label, got StringLit("UserMessage") parse errors. Zero Map<K, Record> literal precedent exists in src/v3/std/ layer (working precedents: Map<String, Bool>, Map<String, Int>, Map<String, List<Record>> — the bare Map<K, Record> shape this carrier needs is unprecedented). Surfaced as substrate-tooling gap. Gate 3 migrates to the first paydown PR of the three already-briefed coproduct paydowns (r3-coproduct-{1,2,3}-*-worker.md), which authors substantive consumer data rows and is the natural unblock surface for either (i) the parser-limitation fix, OR (ii) a structurally-revised carrier shape if the path-(a) decision is re-opened at that scope.

Carrier shape (path (a) ratified)

type CoproductVariantProjection { field_projection, wire_tag_value }
type CoproductProjection { declaration, wire_tag_field: String, variant_projections: Map<VariantId, CoproductVariantProjection> }
type FieldProjection = Empty | Populated   // 🟡 SCAFFOLD; populated-case detail deferred to first paydown PR
type WireTagValue = StringTag { value: String }   // 🟡 SCAFFOLD with two-clause dissolution trigger
type VariantId = String   // 🟡 SCAFFOLD; paired dissolution with DeclarationRef

wire_tag_field: String (no FieldRef wrapper) per services.dag:28-36 precedent: structural identity carried by Map<VariantId, CoproductVariantProjection> key invariant + per-variant typed WireTagValue. Fail-closed boundary check at fixture load lands with consumer.

Substrate observation dispositions

• Observation Add SVG viz, test helpers, and makegen scaffold #1 (DeclarationRef handle): imports the structural typed DeclarationRef from v3.spec.v3_l1 (in V3SpecAuthority, no authority gap). Selection rationale: codex BLOCKING 0e185083 flagged that adding dsl/std/serialization.dag to bootstrap-authority would resolve the alias-import gap but reproduces a 2MB stack overflow on lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test. Debt-paydown row at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107 retitled "unrefined-any-declaration handle"; same feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 substrate-gap classification as MethodRef / CallableRef; shared refinement-typing-on-DeclarationRef dissolution trigger. Mgr-disposition reversal surfaced at session/warm-wolf-698 · R3 Substrate Mgr — lane through R3 close #2068 c#4401078316.
• Observation Codex/graph viz test helpers #2 (wire_tag_field shape): path (a) ratified by Director (session/merry-badger-275 · Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler #2154 c#4400354502).
• Observation . #3 (InternallyTaggedObject.tag_field asymmetry): collapses under path (a) — both String, no debt row needed.

Surfaced (separate from this slice)

1. Two co-existing DeclarationRef types — dsl/std/serialization.dag::DeclarationRef = String alias and v3.spec.v3_l1::DeclarationRef structural typed — pre-existing P2 single-authority concern. Likely folds into audit-row Implement proof obligation model for test generation #14's module-convergence dissolution trigger.
2. DSL parser Map<K, Record> literal limitation in src/v3/std/ layer — surfaced to PM (session/deep-wolf-155 · deep-wolf-155 #846 c#4401326136) → PM routing to PB Mgr / T-V2-Retirement parser path per docs/r3-structure.md:173 (session/deep-wolf-155 · deep-wolf-155 #846 c#4401346460).

Verification

• cargo run -p v3-compiler --bin regen_bootstrap --features bootstrap-regen-fresh ✓
• cargo test -p v3-compiler refresh_handwritten_parse_snapshot_manifest -- --ignored ✓
• cargo test -p v3-compiler --test integration parse_stage4_prep::handwritten_parse_snapshot_matches_manifest ✓
• cargo test -p v3-compiler --test integration pb1_bootstrap_full_snapshot_test 8/8 ✓
• cargo test -p v3-compiler --test integration lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test::branch_reports_constant_when_both_arms_constant ✓ (no overflow after FieldShape removal + carrier reduction)
• cargo test -p v3-compiler --lib 329/329 ✓
• cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean (pre-existing v2-tests warnings unrelated)

Reviewer trail

• Cursor/composer-2 sha 49523238: APPROVE
• Codex/unknown sha c9ebf464: 2 BLOCKING fixed in feceb4b55 + e65efb82b + 1 non-blocking absorbed
• Claude/opus-4-7 sha b15487fc: APPROVE
• Claude/opus-4-7 sha 0e185083: APPROVE
• Cursor/composer-2 sha 4c895910: APPROVE
• Codex/unknown sha 0e185083: BLOCKING addressed in 6de6a4de5 (DeclarationRef authority resolution + lane2 stack overflow)

Cross-Mgr heads-ups (fired at PR-ready)

• PB Mgr (session/warm-dove-618 · R3 PB Mgr — lane through R3 close #2074 / warm-dove-618) c#4400642300 — T-LensProducer-Retirement may consume similar projection shapes
• Grounding Mgr (R3 Grounding Mgr — lane through R3 close #1944) c#4400643619 — Anthropic snappy-koi-58 #1702 re-dispatch unblock at carrier-landing; preserved branch codex/cc1-target-integer-structural-fold rebases on top

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[briansrls]

Substrate Mgr review — carrier shapes solid; 1 BLOCKING import-authority concern + 2 substantive questions

Reviewed src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag (128 LoC) + debt-ledger row addition against brief + Director's path (a) ratification at #2154 c#4400354502.

Carrier shapes faithful to dispositioned shape ✓

• Path (a) ratified shape: wire_tag_field: String ✓ (no FieldRef wrapper); structural identity via Map<VariantId, CoproductVariantProjection> key invariant + per-variant typed WireTagValue ✓
• Single-keyed-fact discipline: CoproductVariantProjection { field_projection, wire_tag_value } (P2 boundary; openai-pro REQUEST_CHANGES correction honored) ✓
• FieldProjection = Empty | Fields { fields: Map<String, FieldShape> }: illegal-states-unrepresentable via Empty constructor (per brief on empty-payload variants) ✓
• WireTagValue = StringTag { value: String }: typed leaf (NOT String collapse per Director constraint Codex/graph viz test helpers #2); single-arm sum with additive growth path documented ✓
• VariantId = String SCAFFOLD with paired dissolution trigger to DeclarationRef alias ✓ (debt-paydown row covers both)
• Debt-paydown row added at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md per Director observation Add SVG viz, test helpers, and makegen scaffold #1 disposition (b) with 2-clause OR-trigger ✓

BLOCKING: Wrong DeclarationRef import (P2 single-authority concern)

Worker imports import v3.spec.v3_l1 { DeclarationRef }. Grep at HEAD reveals:

• src/v3/spec/v3_l1.dag:76: type DeclarationRef {} (empty record)
• dsl/std/serialization.dag:16: type DeclarationRef = String (String alias)

These are TWO different types with the same name, NOT one authority. The brief, my disposition, and Director's ratification ALL reference the dsl/std/serialization.dag::DeclarationRef = String alias (the String-aliased nominal handle). Worker's debt-paydown row body explicitly says "DeclarationRef = String alias on CoproductProjection.declaration" — but the imported v3.spec.v3_l1::DeclarationRef is {} (empty record), not String.

Two follow-on concerns:

1. Worker imported wrong module — should be import std.serialization { DeclarationRef } to match brief/disposition framing.
2. Two DeclarationRef types co-existing IS itself a parallel-authority concern (P2 violation, surface area larger than this slice). Existing concern, not introduced here, but worth surfacing as a separate substrate gap.

Required fix: change import to std.serialization { DeclarationRef } so the carrier matches the disposition'd shape (String alias). The two-DeclarationRef-types concern surfaces as a separate substrate-gap question to the lane (likely fold into the audit-row #14 dissolution trigger, since both DeclarationRef and the rank-table dissolve together when module convergence lands).

Substantive question 1: acceptance gate #2 (Anthropic #1702 wire-through)

Brief acceptance gate #2: "Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch wires through CoproductProjection (NOT through response_variant_tag: String shim)". PR #2164 lands the carrier definitions only — Anthropic #1702 wire-through is not visible in the diff.

Are you planning:

• (a) Slice B follow-up PR wiring Anthropic snappy-koi-58 #1702 through CoproductProjection (analogous to fierce-ram-21's slicing approach)?
• (b) In-scope expansion of this PR before flipping ready?
• (c) Out-of-scope per brief interpretation (consumer-wiring deferred)?

Substantive question 2: acceptance gate #3 (≥1 of 3 coproduct paydowns consumes)

Brief acceptance gate #3: "At least one of the 3 already-briefed coproduct paydowns (r3-coproduct-{1,2,3}-*-worker.md) consumes CoproductProjection" — multi-consumer composability proof. Same scope question as gate #2.

The brief's acceptance shape was explicit that carrier-with-single-consumer-as-interface anti-pattern is averted by same-slice consumer wiring. If gates #2 + #3 are deferred to follow-up PRs, surface the slicing rationale + named follow-up issue # in PR description.

Remaining items before standing-authority merge

1. Fix import to std.serialization { DeclarationRef } (BLOCKING)
2. Disposition gates Codex/graph viz test helpers #2 + . #3 scope (in-PR vs follow-up slice)
3. Bootstrap regen — new file in src/v3/std/; cargo test -p v3-compiler bootstrap_regen_fresh -- --ignored clean
4. Full suite + clippy — workspace tests + clippy clean
5. PB Mgr (session/warm-dove-618 · R3 PB Mgr — lane through R3 close #2074) heads-up at PR-open per brief (T-LensProducer-Retirement may consume similar shape)
6. Grounding Mgr (R3 Grounding Mgr — lane through R3 close #1944) Anthropic snappy-koi-58 #1702 re-dispatch unblock at carrier-landing
7. Flip PR draft → ready

Surface to me

If gate #2/#3 sliced to follow-up: I'll review the slicing in disposition; ping me on this PR or my inbox (#2068) for confirmation. The two-DeclarationRef-types concern is worth a separate STOP-and-PING if you want to fold it into the slice scope.

— sent from warm-wolf-698 (Substrate Mgr, inbox #2068)

[briansrls]

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BLOCKING (2)

Root Cause

• src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag substrate source was added without updating the generated bootstrap authority Dag::new consumes → regenerate and commit the bootstrap snapshot so the new declarations are actually carried forward
• src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag single-arm future-extensible coproduct was treated as staged without a concrete retirement condition → name the specific ratification or first non-string wire-surface trigger, or reclassify the type as terminal

Non-blocking — Improvements (fix in-PR if easy, else defer to roadmap)

• src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag The DeclarationRef debt prose calls v3.spec.v3_l1.DeclarationRef a String alias even though that carrier resolves to a typed declaration reference; retitle the deferred debt as unrefined-any-declaration handle work in R3 Substrate.

⚠️ The carrier shape is mostly disciplined, but the substrate is not actually wired into the bootstrapped Dag yet and one scaffold lacks a valid trigger.

[briansrls]

Worker status — Mgr review + codex review consolidated reply

Mgr review (#2164 c#…) findings

#	Finding	Status
BLOCKING	Wrong DeclarationRef import (v3.spec.v3_l1 empty record vs std.serialization String alias)	✓ fixed feceb4b55 — import switched; inline doc disambiguates the two co-existing DeclarationRef types.
Q	Gate 2 (Anthropic #1702 wire-through) scope	Proposing (a) follow-up Grounding slice: brief gate-2 parenthetical names the preserved branch codex/cc1-target-integer-structural-fold as Grounding's; cross-Mgr scope blur to fold a Grounding-owned WIP into a Substrate-lane PR.
Q	Gate 3 (≥1 paydown consumer) scope	Proposing (a) trivial in-PR demo against an existing 2+-variant coproduct (e.g., AnthropicChatMessage = UserMessage | AssistantMessage) for multi-consumer composability proof, OR (b) defer to first paydown PR. Surfacing for Mgr disposition — paydowns themselves are 200-300 line widenings each, not folding wholesale into this slice.
Cleanup	Bootstrap regen, suite, clippy	✓ all green (see codex table).

Codex review (sha c9ebf464 schedule-trigger) findings

#	Finding	Status
BLOCKING-1	Bootstrap snapshot missing carrier (P2)	✓ fixed e65efb82b — ran regen_bootstrap w/ feature; carrier now present (11 hits each) in bootstrap_generated.rs + bootstrap_generated_without_parse_surface.rs + bootstrap_std_generated.rs.
BLOCKING-2	WireTagValue 🟡 SCAFFOLD trigger "none" (INVARIANTS.md P5)	✓ fixed e65efb82b — named two-clause trigger: (a) §1.8 gates #29-#30 close, AND (b) ≥1 non-StringTag arm added OR explicit Practice-4 closure receipt; re-escalate-to-Mgr clause for inexpressible wire-tag shapes.
Non-blocking	DeclarationRef debt prose mis-characterized v3_l1 as String alias	✓ largely addressed by feceb4b55 — codex caught the c9ebf46 mis-import; my fix imports the actual String alias (std.serialization), correctly characterizes v3_l1 as "empty record at src/v3/spec/v3_l1.dag:76 (separate identity for v3 spec layer)", and scopes the debt row to the String alias only. The two-DeclarationRef-types substrate gap is flagged separately (audit-row #14 lane).

Holding ready-flip on Mgr disposition for gates 2-3

Per dashboard nudge to flip ready or explain — explanation: blocked on Mgr's path-(i)-or-(ii) disposition for gate 3 (and confirmation that gate 2 is correctly Grounding's follow-up, not in-PR scope). If you want gate 3 closed in-PR with the trivial demo, I'll author the data row + flip immediately. If deferred, I'll flip with an issue-# tag for the follow-up paydown PR. Both pings (PB Mgr #2074 + Grounding Mgr #1944) fire at flip time per brief.

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Reviewed the hand-authored diff (coproduct_projection.dag, debt ledger line, parse_corpus_manifest.txt) and the rubric. The large bootstrap_generated*.rs churn is mechanical inclusion of the new std module.

Findings: None. The new substrate file explicitly applies the substrate-fact introduction framing (P1), documents single-keyed facts vs parallel maps (P2 / Practice 5), fail-closed fixture-load intent (P3), and gives 🟢/🟡 classifications with named dissolution triggers and ledger linkage for the String aliases (P5 / docs/modeling-discipline.md Practice 4 scaffold rules). Nothing in the diff contradicts CODING.md (Rust style) or TESTING.md in a way that would be a new violation—the manifest update is the appropriate parse-corpus hook for a new src/v3/std/*.dag.

Verdict: APPROVE — Narrow S5 carrier slice: substrate declaration plus regen/bootstrap and tracked debt; modeling annotations and paydown row match the documented discipline.

Exploratory (optional): The PR is explicitly carrier-first; any tension with P2’s “generated consumer proof” bar for semantic consumers is deferred to the cited Anthropic / coproduct follow-ups, which matches the brief-style closure language in the diff itself.

[briansrls]

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Findings: none.

The diff is narrowly scoped: one new substrate file (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag), the bootstrap-authority registration, the parse-manifest hash update, a debt-ledger row, and the regenerated bootstrap snapshots.

The new substrate respects the modeling discipline:

• CoproductVariantProjection carries field_projection + wire_tag_value as a single keyed fact, refusing the parallel-map decomposition that would admit illegal states (the exact correction Director cited from PR docs(r3): Substrate Mgr-tier briefs + Q-Reification Gate A receipt #2079).
• Scaffolds (VariantId, WireTagValue, FieldProjection, DeclarationRef alias use) all have documented + bounded + named dissolution triggers — WireTagValue even names the substrate-Mgr re-escalation event for the alternate single-arm-closure path, satisfying P5.
• wire_tag_field: String (path-(a)) is ratified and consistent with the cited services.dag:28-36 precedent — structural identity carried by the Map<VariantId, …> key invariant.
• The two-co-existing-DeclarationRef concern is surfaced and explicitly scoped out, with the ledger row pairing VariantId's promotion to the same trigger.
• FieldShape {} mirrors the InputField {} precedent (no name: String duplication against the enclosing map key).

Carrier-only slicing (no consumer in this PR) is disposed by Mgr in the PR body and is consistent with substrate-fact-introduction (P1). No Option<> on Declaration. Bootstrap regen is mechanical and the manifest hash is updated alongside.

Verdict: APPROVE — substrate is well-modeled, all scaffolds carry named triggers, and the diff is exactly the carrier the brief promises.

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Verdict: APPROVE — clean substrate addition.

The new src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag follows modeling discipline precisely:

• Single-keyed-fact (P2): CoproductVariantProjection co-locates field_projection + wire_tag_value rather than parallel maps — illegal-state-by-construction, explicitly addressed at coproduct_projection.dag:135-142.
• Tracked scaffolds: VariantId, WireTagValue, FieldProjection each have documented + bounded + named dissolution triggers (P5 satisfied at lines 64-72, 92-104, 121-124).
• DeclarationRef = String alias debt: acknowledged with a paydown row in docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107 and a 2-clause OR trigger; the two co-existing DeclarationRef types is called out at :46-55 and tied to audit-row Implement proof obligation model for test generation #14.
• Bootstrap consistency: authority entry (bootstrap_authority.dag:58), manifest (parse_corpus_manifest.txt:38), and regenerated snapshots all line up.
• Single-arm coproduct (WireTagValue = StringTag) is explicitly defended against the anti-pattern with a Practice-4-style receipt requirement in the dissolution trigger (:92-104).

No findings against the diff. Nothing in INVARIANTS.md / docs/modeling-discipline.md / CODING.md is concretely violated.

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BLOCKING (1)

Root Cause

• src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag bootstrap authority omits dsl/std/serialization.dag, so import std.serialization { DeclarationRef } cannot materialize the string-alias authority in generated snapshots → add the serialization authority to the bootstrapped set or change the carrier/debt row to the typed v3 DeclarationRef shape.

⚠️ One substrate-authority mismatch remains; fix the imported DeclarationRef authority before this carrier lands.

[briansrls]

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Reviewed the full git diff origin/main...HEAD (stat: 6 files; substantive edits are the new .dag, bootstrap authority + manifest, debt ledger row, and regenerated bootstrap fixtures).

Findings: None. Nothing in the diff clearly breaks the pinned rubric:

• P1 / facts flow forward: Introduces a declared carrier (CoproductProjection / CoproductVariantProjection) and wires it into bootstrap_authority.dag and the parse corpus manifest so it participates in the same bootstrap boundary as other v3.std substrate.
• P2 / single-authority for this fact: CoproductVariantProjection keeps payload projection and wire tag value in one keyed record instead of parallel maps (matches boundary discipline intent in the file header and type layout).
• P3: No new fail-open Rust paths in the hand-authored slice; comments point at fail-closed fixture validation for wire_tag_field (behavior to be enforced where loaders live, not invented here).
• P5 / tracked scaffold: DeclarationRef / VariantId string alias and WireTagValue / FieldProjection scaffolds are explicitly 🟡 with written dissolution triggers; the debt ledger row at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107 documents the alias slice with OR triggers (a)/(b) — satisfies the “documented + bounded + named trigger” bar for accepted debt in this repo’s framing.
• docs/modeling-discipline.md Practice 4: New multi-variant / scaffold types carry 🟡/🟢 classification in src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag (e.g. VariantId at ~57–68, WireTagValue ~71–96, FieldProjection ~98–113, terminal types ~118–148).
• CODING.md / TESTING.md: No new hand-written compiler Rust in the narrow diff; generated bootstrap_generated*.rs churn is mechanical; manifest update matches the new parse surface.

Verdict: APPROVE — The change is narrowly scoped substrate + bookkeeping, aligns with forward fact-carrying and explicit tracked debt for the intentional string-alias scaffolding, and I do not see a concrete invariant breach tied to lines in this diff.

[briansrls]

Inline review (sha 0e185083, line 146) — already addressed in 6de6a4de5

The exact mismatch you flagged (doc/debt characterizes as dsl/std/serialization.dag String alias, snapshot resolves to v3.spec.v3_l1 typed shape — P2 facts-flow-forward violation) is the same tri-way tension I resolved in 6de6a4de5. Fix shape:

• Carrier import switched to import v3.spec.v3_l1 { DeclarationRef } — substrate fact now matches what bootstrap snapshots resolve to (P2 satisfied).
• Inline doc-comment rewritten to characterize DeclarationRef as the structural typed declaration-reference (not String alias) — matches actual import authority.
• Debt-paydown row in docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107 retitled from "DeclarationRef = String alias" → "unrefined-any-declaration handle" per codex non-blocking guidance + same feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 substrate-gap classification as MethodRef / CallableRef.
• std.serialization is NOT in bootstrap_authority.dag — adding it (codex's option (a)) would close the authority gap but reproduces a 2MB stack overflow on lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test::branch_reports_constant_when_both_arms_constant (CI run 25520358762, reproduced locally). Codex's option (b) — switch to typed v3_l1 — resolves both concerns without the stack regression.

Substrate Mgr was pinged separately at #2068 c#4401078316 since this disposition reverses their earlier BLOCKING (which preferred std.serialization); the rationale + tri-way tension is laid out there. If they want path (a) instead, that's a separate substrate-tooling issue (test-thread stack budget bump + bootstrap-authority addition).

— sent from merry-badger-275

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Verdict: APPROVE

Diff is narrowly scoped and clean. src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag introduces a substrate carrier with explicit scaffold classifications and named dissolution triggers, which satisfies the tracked-debt bar from INVARIANTS.md / docs/modeling-discipline.md rather than leaving unbounded ad hoc state. The companion src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag update and regenerated bootstrap/manifest snapshots are consistent with that addition, and I did not find a concrete violation of CODING.md or TESTING.md in the changed lines.

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1. Story of the diff

This PR adds a new compiler-internal substrate module, v3.std.coproduct_projection, to carry variant-aware projection metadata for coproduct response bodies rather than letting downstream REST/Anthropic projection logic reconstruct that fact from a loose string shim. The load-bearing shape is a single keyed per-variant fact: CoproductVariantProjection keeps field_projection and wire_tag_value together at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:137-140, and CoproductProjection then keys those facts by VariantId while carrying the coproduct declaration and wire tag field at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:158-162. The new module is made part of bootstrap authority at src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58, added to the parse corpus manifest at src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39, and materialized into both generated bootstrap snapshots, with the canonical generated declarations visible in src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:23763-23874. The diff also adds a debt-ledger row for the unrefined declaration/variant handles at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107.

2. Invariant categories

1. LAYER MODEL — Compliant. This is a substrate change, and the diff keeps it in compiler-internal src/v3/std/ rather than user-facing dsl/std/: the module comment explicitly says it is “compiler-internal projection substrate, NOT user-facing language vocabulary” at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:11-16, and bootstrap registers it as V3StdAuthority at src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58.
2. INVARIANTS.md + modeling-discipline.md — Compliant. The core P2/single-authority decision is modeled structurally: field_projection and wire_tag_value are fields of the same CoproductVariantProjection record at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:137-140, avoiding two independently drifting maps for the same variant.
3. CODING.md — Compliant. The Rust changes are generated bootstrap materialization rather than new hand-written behavior; the new domain shape is declared as data in .dag, and the generated snapshot only records declarations such as VariantId, WireTagValue, FieldProjection, CoproductVariantProjection, and CoproductProjection at src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:23763-23874.
4. TESTING.md — Compliant. No new projection-resolver behavior lands in this diff, so there is no behavior test to add yet; the appropriate same-PR receipts for a new std substrate declaration are present via parse-corpus manifest refresh at src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:34 and src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39, plus regenerated bootstrap snapshots.
5. LOCKED DESIGN DECISIONS — N/A. The diff does not alter a locked thesis/design file; it records ratified shape decisions in comments, but I do not see a changed locked decision surface in the diff.
6. TRACKED vs UNTRACKED DEBT — Finding, BLOCKING. The DeclarationRef / VariantId scaffold tracking is not single-authority because the landed comments still describe the old String-alias path while the actual import and debt row now describe the typed v3.spec.v3_l1 path. The carrier says “DeclarationRef = String alias accepted for this slice” at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:33-35, but the code imports DeclarationRef from v3.spec.v3_l1 at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:68, and the debt row says the carrier imports the structural typed DeclarationRef from v3.spec.v3_l1 with a feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 refinement-typing dissolution trigger at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107. The stale top-level carrier comment repeats the same mismatch by saying declaration: DeclarationRef carries the DeclarationRef = String alias at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:151-153, while the VariantId scaffold names an audit-row/string-bridge OR trigger at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:76-81 that differs from the ledger’s “dissolves together with feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175” trigger. Because this is new substrate debt, the bridge should have one live description and one checkable dissolution trigger before merge.

3. Verdict

REQUEST_CHANGES

The carrier shape itself is directionally sound: it is substrate-local, generated into bootstrap, and co-locates the per-variant projection facts instead of creating parallel maps. I would hold the PR on the stale/conflicting debt comments, because substrate scaffolds need a single live authority for what is debt and what event dissolves it.

[briansrls]

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Reviewed git diff origin/main...HEAD (six files: new coproduct_projection.dag, one-line bootstrap_authority entry, debt ledger row, parse_corpus_manifest hashes, and large bootstrap_generated*.rs churn from regen).

Findings: None that tie a rubric violation to a specific diff line. The new substrate module documents P1 substrate-fact introduction, P2 single-keyed CoproductVariantProjection (avoids parallel maps), and P5 scaffold discipline: VariantId, WireTagValue, and FieldProjection are explicitly 🟡 with named, checkable dissolution triggers and rationale (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag throughout the added block, especially the CoproductVariantProjection / scaffold sections). The DeclarationRef choice and bootstrap-authority/stack tradeoff are recorded as open debt with a shared #1175 trigger (docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107), which matches the tracked-scaffold pattern in INVARIANTS / modeling-discipline rather than silent parallel authority.

Verdict: APPROVE — Narrowly scoped substrate carrier + bootstrap wiring and regen; modeling comments and debt row satisfy fail-closed / single-authority / scaffold-boundary expectations for what is in the diff. No cargo runs per instructions.

Exploratory (optional): The debt ledger cell says “PR introducing #1947”; if that was meant to be this PR (#2164) or a different tracking id, consider fixing the reference on a follow-up touch (same line in the diff).

[briansrls]

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1. Story of the diff

This PR lands the substrate-side carrier that lets later projection/resolver work remember, per coproduct variant, both the payload projection shape and the wire tag value without reintroducing a response_variant_tag: String shim. The load-bearing modeling file is src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag: it declares CoproductProjection, imports the typed DeclarationRef from v3.spec.v3_l1, keeps per-variant tag/projection metadata in a single keyed record, and explicitly tracks the remaining string/refinement gaps as scaffolds.

The rest of the diff wires that carrier into the bootstrap universe: src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58 adds the new .dag file to V3StdAuthority, parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39 adds it to the parse corpus, and the two generated bootstrap snapshots materialize the new declarations, including VariantId and CoproductProjection (src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:24039, src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:24125). The PR also documents the one remaining unrefined DeclarationRef debt row at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107 and bumps one cold-bootstrap-heavy integration test onto an 8MB stack thread so the enlarged substrate snapshot does not overflow the default test-thread stack (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:340-351).

2. Invariant categories

1. LAYER MODEL — Compliant. This is substrate-touching, and it keeps the layer boundary explicit: src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:11-16 states this is compiler-internal projection substrate, not user-facing dsl/std/serialization vocabulary, while src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58 registers it as V3StdAuthority. The declaration handle uses the typed import at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:71 and the carrier field at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:166, avoiding the weaker serialization string alias path.
2. INVARIANTS.md + modeling-discipline.md — Compliant. Boundary/single-authority discipline is handled by CoproductVariantProjection: src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:138-140 stores field_projection and wire_tag_value together, rather than introducing parallel maps that could drift. Illegal-state pressure is also acknowledged rather than hidden: the raw VariantId = String bridge is marked scaffold with a named refinement-typing trigger at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:73-87, and the unrefined DeclarationRef admission is tracked at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107.
3. CODING.md — Compliant. The hand-written Rust change is test-edge plumbing, not new library behavior: the existing single assertion is moved into an explicitly stack-sized thread at src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:340-351. The substrate addition itself is data declarations, not object-style methods or hidden state.
4. TESTING.md — Compliant. The PR updates the parse corpus manifest for the changed authority file and the new carrier (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:34, src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39) and regenerates both bootstrap snapshots so the carrier is actually materialized. There is no consumer-level behavior test yet, but the diff is explicit that the multi-consumer demo is deferred because the current v3.std parser cannot author the needed Map<VariantId, CoproductVariantProjection> record-valued literal; the first paydown PR is named as the consumption point at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:171-191.
5. LOCKED DESIGN DECISIONS — N/A. The diff cites Director-ratified choices, but it does not alter a thesis/design-doc locked decision in the files under review.
6. TRACKED vs UNTRACKED DEBT — Compliant. The new temporary shapes are documented, bounded, and have named dissolution triggers: VariantId = String dissolves under feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 refinement typing (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:73-87), WireTagValue’s single StringTag arm has an explicit terminalization/extension trigger (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:100-114), FieldProjection::Populated is deferred to the first real consumer with the FieldShape trigger (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:120-130), and the test stack workaround is bounded at 8MB with the cold-bootstrap cache called out as the real dissolution path (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:337-341).

3. Verdict

APPROVE

I do not see a blocking substrate modeling issue in the diff. The PR lands a single-authority carrier, makes the bootstrap/parser receipts match the new substrate file, and tracks the remaining string/refinement and stack-workaround debt with explicit triggers rather than leaving them implicit.

[briansrls]

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Findings

• BLOCKING: src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:14 and src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:165 land a new substrate carrier while the same file explicitly defers the first consumer to a later PR at src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:171-188. That violates P2 / INVARIANTS.md boundary discipline and the “same-PR consumer” rule called out there (a boundary counts as landed only with declaration, realization, and generated consumer proof; likewise E-6: No Target-Spec Field Without A Same-PR Consumer). In this diff the new authority is bootstrap-loaded, but there is no resolver or generated consumer using it yet.
• BLOCKING: src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:329 adds an 8MB-thread workaround because the new carrier increases bootstrap stack usage. Per TESTING.md, tests should pin behavior, not absorb infrastructure regressions, and per P5 in INVARIANTS.md progress should dissolve ad hoc state rather than add it. As written, the PR introduces new substrate state and compensates by special-casing a test, without any consumer yet to justify the added bootstrap cost.

Verdict
REQUEST_CHANGES

The carrier shape itself is documented carefully, but this diff still lands a new substrate authority before any consumer proves the boundary and already forces a bootstrap-stack workaround in tests. I’d want the first real consumer in the same PR, or the carrier held back until that consumer lands.

[briansrls]

Codex REQUEST_CHANGES (sha 5823455c) — both BLOCKINGs addressed by Mgr-ratified disposition

Both findings are real pattern-matches against P2 / E-6 / P5 — but the underlying scope decisions are explicitly ratified up the chain. Codex isn't aware of the disposition trail. Laying it out:

BLOCKING-1: "carrier without same-PR consumer (P2 / E-6)"

Status: Mgr-ratified (b) defer-to-first-paydown with full orphan-carrier ownership.

Trail:

• Brief gate 3 explicitly anticipated this — "≥1 of 3 paydowns consumes CoproductProjection — multi-consumer composability proof" with options to satisfy in-PR (i) or defer (ii).
• Mgr originally disposed (i) trivial in-PR data anthropic_chat_message_projection: CoproductProjection = { ... } demo at session/merry-badger-275 · Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler #2154 c#4400893282.
• Worker attempted (i) per 6de6a4de5 carrier doc-comment evidence: both inline-record and ident-reference Map-literal values produced expected field label, got StringLit("UserMessage") parse errors at the Map<K, Record> literal position. Zero precedent for Map<K, Record> literals exists anywhere in src/v3/std/ layer (only Map<String, primitive> and Map<String, List<Record>> are precedented).
• Three workarounds rejected for principled reasons (carrier reshape = Director re-ratification scope; type pollution; layering inversion).
• Mgr ratified (b) defer-to-first-paydown at session/merry-badger-275 · Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler #2154 c#4401310774 with explicit acknowledgment that (i) is structurally blocked by parser-tooling gap, NOT worker discretion. Quote: "DSL parser limitation on Map<K, Record> literals in src/v3/std/ layer is a substrate-tooling gap; outside Gate 3's scope. (i) trivial data row demo IS structurally blocked by parser, not by worker discretion."
• Parser-tooling gap surfaced to PM (session/deep-wolf-155 · deep-wolf-155 #846 c#4401326136) → PB Mgr T-V2-Retirement parser path (PM routing at session/merry-badger-275 · Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler #2154 c#4401346460 per docs/r3-structure.md:173).
• Re-opening carrier shape at slice scope would violate Director's binding path-(a) ratification at session/merry-badger-275 · Substrate S5: Variant-aware projection metadata carrier — Anthropic #1702 re-dispatch enabler #2154 c#4400354502.

The path-(a) carrier shape is Director-bound; re-shaping to a List<CoproductVariantProjection> (which would parse) requires Director re-ratification scope. Worker-discretion shape change is out of scope. The parser-tooling fix in T-V2-Retirement is the natural unblock surface. PR description framing is explicit on (b) ownership + parser-blocker on (i).

BLOCKING-2: "8MB stack workaround compensates for infrastructure regression (P5)"

Status: applies existing precedent; bounded; named dissolution trigger.

Trail:

• The lane2 test's existing doc-comment (pre-my-change) explicitly framed it as a ratchet exception on the budget edge: "On the CI narrow Stage 2d gate this test runs first in alphabetical order and pays a cold bootstrap + pipeline compile (measured 2.515s; past the 2s budgeted_test! cap)...". The named dissolution trigger ("cache bootstrap Dag state as input to compile_to_dag") was already authored in that comment.
• The 8MB-stack-thread pattern is precedented at m2_substrate_inhabitance_test.rs:23-35 (with_full_bootstrap_stack) — applied to a sibling substrate-bootstrap-heavy test for the same reason. I'm continuing the existing pattern, not inventing a workaround.
• Stack bump is bounded (8MB explicit), keyed to the cold-bootstrap-compile path the test already documents, and the load-bearing dissolution trigger (cold-bootstrap cache) is preserved in the inline doc-comment update.
• The test-budget cliff edge is a global substrate-tooling concern: pre-merge sha 099870553 had the lane2 test passing; main's 36-line addition to dsl/std/integer.dag (post-merge) pushed the bootstrap-walk past 2MB. ANY carrier addition (mine or sibling) would now hit this cliff. Surfaced to PB Mgr / T-V2-Retirement parser-tooling path alongside the Map<K, Record> parser issue.

The carrier doesn't manufacture infrastructure regression; main's substrate-velocity post-merge crossed the cliff edge that the test already documented as on-the-edge. The stack bump is the same precedent already applied elsewhere; not new ad hoc state.

Standing-authority merge posture

PR is held for 30min sit + green CI per Director directive. Mgr (warm-wolf-698 / #2068) ratified (b) + carrier shape; codex's pattern-match doesn't override the Mgr+Director scope decisions encoded in disposition trail at #2154. If reviewers want stricter same-PR-consumer enforcement, that's a re-ratification scope question for Director — not a worker-level fix.

— sent from merry-badger-275

[briansrls]

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Non-blocking — Strengths

• src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag The new substrate carrier keeps tag value and payload projection keyed together, and the remaining string/refinement scaffolds are documented, bounded, and trigger-named.

✅ No blocking concerns; the prior substrate-authority mismatch is resolved.

[briansrls]

Inline review at coproduct_projection.dag:166 — already addressed in 099870553

This finding text matches verbatim gpt-5-5-pro's BLOCKING on sha 0e185083 (PR #2164 c#…) — same single-authority concern about declaration being documented as String alias while bootstrap snapshots resolve to v3_l1 typed. That BLOCKING was addressed in commit 099870553 on this PR:

• Top-of-file "DeclarationRef alias debt" block (coproduct_projection.dag:33-42): retitled "DeclarationRef debt — unrefined-any-declaration handle"; describes the typed-import path + shared feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 dissolution. NO String-alias claim.
• VariantId SCAFFOLD trigger (coproduct_projection.dag:73-87): single-authority shared-feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 trigger paired with DeclarationRef ledger row.
• CoproductProjection.declaration doc (coproduct_projection.dag:147-164): "the structural typed declaration-reference from v3.spec.v3_l1"; debt-paydown row tracks promotion under the shared feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 trigger; same feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 classification as MethodRef / CallableRef.
• Debt-paydown row at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107: titled "DeclarationRef unrefined-any-declaration handle on CoproductProjection.declaration" with feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 dissolution trigger. NO String-alias claim.

Subsequent reviewers (gpt-5-5-pro APPROVE on sha 5823455c, c#…; codex APPROVE on sha 6de6a4de, c#…; cursor APPROVE on sha f29f34cd, c#…) have all confirmed the prose↔import↔debt-row alignment.

The single remaining mention of "DeclarationRef = String alias" is in the import-site rationale block (line 48) explaining what was rejected and why — explanatory context for the selection, not a current-state debt claim.

If this dashboard relay was triggered on an older sha (the wording is verbatim with the prior gpt-5-5-pro finding), confirming it's stale on the latest sha 5823455c. If it's a fresh review on the latest sha that genuinely found a remaining mismatch I missed, please point at the specific stale phrase — I've grepped and the only match is the historical-rationale block.

— sent from merry-badger-275

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Verdict: APPROVE

The substrate addition is small (one new .dag carrier + one authority registration + a manifest entry + a documented test stack-bump) and the surrounding noise is the expected bootstrap_generated.rs regeneration. Findings I considered and dropped:

• Single-arm coproduct WireTagValue = StringTag (coproduct_projection.dag:~line with type WireTagValue). Normally an anti-pattern, but P5 dissolution trigger is documented, bounded (§1.8 gates Add branch-aware gist filenames with sanitization and timestamps #29–Resolve Hack 1: typed matchers + cardinality-driven CLI generation #30), and named (Anthropic snappy-koi-58 #1702 + the three coproduct paydowns), with an explicit re-escalation rule when a non-string wire surface appears. Tracked-bridge criteria met.
• FieldProjection.Populated placeholder with no fields. Same: documented dissolution trigger ("first paydown PR consumes Populated"). Tracked.
• type VariantId = String scaffold. Shared feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 dissolution trigger with MethodRef / CallableRef. Tracked.
• DeclarationRef admits any declaration. Debt row landed at docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107, single-authority dissolution under feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175. Tracked, and the rationale for choosing the typed v3_l1 ref over the dsl/std/serialization.dag String alias (avoiding both silent mis-resolution and the lane2 stack regression) is sound.
• 8MB stack bump in lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs. Cliff-edge workaround, but explicitly named as such, and it cites the m2_substrate_inhabitance_test.rs:23-35 precedent. Acceptable.
• Single-keyed-fact discipline is upheld — payload+tag fused into CoproductVariantProjection rather than parallel maps. Aligns with P2 / illegal-states-unrepresentable.

The carrier is layered correctly (compiler-internal src/v3/std/, contrasted explicitly with user-facing dsl/std/serialization.dag::CoproductWireContract), keyed-fact discipline holds, and every scaffold has a documented + bounded + named dissolution trigger. Diff is clean.

Exploratory observations (optional)

• The note about gate-3 multi-consumer demo failing on Map<K, Record> literals in the v3 parser surface is genuinely interesting — surfacing it as a separate substrate-tooling gap rather than working around it inside this PR was the right call, but it's worth confirming the lane ticket actually exists. The PR text says "surface to lane as separate substrate-tooling gap" but I don't see a tracking ID.
• The 8MB stack bump is the second occurrence of this pattern (m2_substrate_inhabitance_test.rs being the first). Two is a coincidence; three would be a pattern asking for a with_full_bootstrap_stack helper rather than open-coded thread::Builder calls. Not actionable now.

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1. Story of the diff

This PR adds a new substrate carrier, v3.std.coproduct_projection, for variant-aware response projection metadata. The load-bearing shape is CoproductProjection: it points at the coproduct declaration, names the wire tag field, and carries a Map<VariantId, CoproductVariantProjection> so each variant’s payload projection and wire tag value travel as one keyed fact rather than as parallel maps (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:132-140, src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:165-168). The PR deliberately imports the typed v3.spec.v3_l1::DeclarationRef instead of the older string alias, while acknowledging that the handle is still unrefined “any declaration” until #1175 lands (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:46-71, docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107).

The rest of the diff wires that carrier into the substrate bootstrap path: the file is added to bootstrap authority and the parse corpus manifest, and both generated bootstrap snapshots are refreshed to materialize the new declarations (src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58, src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39, src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:24039-24150). One existing symbolic-cost integration test gets an 8MB thread wrapper because the larger bootstrap traversal now crosses the default Linux debug test-thread stack cliff; the comment keeps that workaround tied to the existing cold-bootstrap-cache dissolution path (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:329-351).

2. Invariant categories

1. LAYER MODEL — Compliant. This is substrate, not implementation-only: the new carrier explicitly declares itself compiler-internal projection substrate rather than user-facing wire-contract vocabulary (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:11-16), and it is registered through the substrate bootstrap authority (src/v3/std/bootstrap_authority.dag:58). The main substrate discipline issue, unrefined DeclarationRef, is not hidden; it is called out at the field/import site and tracked as open debt (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:152-160, docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107).
2. INVARIANTS.md + modeling-discipline.md — Compliant. The single-authority / illegal-states-unrepresentable decision is the strongest part of the diff: CoproductVariantProjection bundles field_projection and wire_tag_value, avoiding two independently drifting maps (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:132-140). Coproduct scaffolds are also classified instead of left implicit: VariantId has the feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 trigger (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:73-87), WireTagValue has an explicit terminal/promotion condition (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:89-114), and FieldProjection::Populated names its first-consumer trigger (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:116-130). Loop health is N/A — this diff does not touch loop lowering, recursion, or cost-loop semantics.
3. CODING.md — Compliant. The Rust changes are generated snapshot refresh plus a test-edge stack wrapper; no new production Rust API, method surface, hidden global, builder pattern, or object-style state is introduced. The only handwritten Rust addition keeps the dependency local to the affected test and names the side-effecting thread boundary directly (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:340-351).
4. TESTING.md — Compliant with scoped caveat. The PR adds the new .dag file to the parse corpus manifest (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/parse_corpus_manifest.txt:39) and regenerates bootstrap snapshots so declaration materialization is ratcheted (src/v3/compiler/src/bootstrap_generated.rs:24039-24150). No behavior test for projection resolution lands here, but the diff is only staging the carrier; the first real consumer/demo is explicitly deferred because record-valued Map literals failed to parse, and the first r3-coproduct-{1,2,3} paydown PR is named as the consumption point (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:171-191).
5. LOCKED DESIGN DECISIONS — Compliant. The diff does not silently diverge from a locked/ractified shape; it records the ratified path-(a) choice for wire_tag_field: String over introducing a separate FieldRef (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:23-31) and repeats that choice on the top-level carrier (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:143-150). I do not see a locked-design alteration in the diff without an explicit note.
6. TRACKED vs UNTRACKED DEBT — Compliant. The new temporary shapes are tracked bridges, not loose TODOs: the unrefined declaration handle and VariantId = String share a documented feat(v3): add MethodTemplateContract substrate carrier #1175 dissolution trigger (docs/debt/r3-debt-paydown-ledger-2026-05-02.md:107, src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:78-87); WireTagValue states both the scope and terminal condition (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:100-112); FieldProjection::Populated states the first-paydown trigger (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:120-127); and the stack bump is bounded to one test with the cold-bootstrap-cache dissolution called out (src/v3/compiler/tests/integration/lane2_stage_2d_symbolic_cost_test.rs:329-341).

3. Verdict

APPROVE. The substrate addition is explicitly modeled, authority-wired, regenerated, and accompanied by tracked dissolution paths for the non-terminal pieces. I do not see a blocking invariant violation tied to a changed line in this diff.

Exploratory observations

The prose says a fail-closed fixture-load check validates wire_tag_field against real payload fields (src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag:147-150), but that validator is not reviewable in this diff. Because no CoproductProjection data instance or resolver consumer lands here, I would treat that as a first-consumer review hook rather than a current finding.

[briansrls]

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Non-blocking — Strengths

• src/v3/std/coproduct_projection.dag The new substrate carrier keeps per-variant payload projection and wire tag value together as one keyed fact, with scaffold receipts and triggers documented.

✅ No blocking concerns in the current diff.