v4 T-4.14: model extdeps/languages/ptx.dag — SIMT-as-5-behaviors (B2-OMNI + IN-B probe, no STOP)

[briansrls]

Summary

Fills src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag per TASKS.md T-4.14 + DECISIONS.md L-3. The file is a B2-OMNI + IN-B falsification probe for CUDA's SIMT execution model against the 5 L1 behaviors.

Probe outcome: no STOP. SIMT data-parallelism is modelable in the existing 5 behaviors; no 6th Parallel/Kernel behavior is needed. The IN-B mapping is the deliverable; the supporting classifiers + records are scoped to the irreducible SIMT coordinate set.

IN-B finding (the probe's deliverable, see modeling-notes section)

PTX concept	L1 behavior	Mechanism
.entry kernel	Transform	function (thread_coord, params) -> effects
Thread grid execution	Loop	bounded recursion over gridDim × blockDim; THESIS:18 parallelism-is-default reads schedule from dep graph
bar.sync / membar	Bind	sequencing synchronization point (scope is a Conj field, not a new behavior)
.reg/.shared/.global state space	effect-typed parameter	Conj field on RegisterScalar per THESIS:401 IN-B (intrinsic to type signature)
@p predicated execution	Branch	guarded Branch on a .pred carrier

The "tempting alternative" for each (a Parallel behavior, a Synchronize behavior, a StateSpaceTransfer behavior) is named + rejected with a structural argument in the modeling notes. No STOP fired.

Owned in this file

• Closed-Disj classifiers (each with full 🟢/🟡/🔴 + 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger per modeling-discipline.md §4 / §0-brief gate (b)):
  • StateSpace (8 — PTX memory hierarchy)
  • BarrierScope (3 — Cta/Gpu/System)
  • ThreadAxis (3 — X/Y/Z)
  • ThreadCoordSource (2 — ThreadInCta/CtaInGrid)
  • RegisterWidth (6 — Bits1/8/16/32/64/128)
  • RegisterScalarKind (5 — Bits/Unsigned/Signed/Float/Predicate)
• Conj records (no ledger): RegisterScalar, Dim3 (🟡 scaffold mirroring std/diagnostic.dag's Extent.ByteRange — dissolves when std/cardinality.dag refinement substrate lands), ThreadHierarchyShape, ThreadCoord, PtxCost

Owned elsewhere (deliberately NOT here)

• The bidirectional LanguageModel substrate shape (grammar productions, C5-fidelity disposition tags, ingest∘emit roundtrip carrier) — bundled work of T-4, where "the SHAPE is the work." This file's classifiers slot into the eventual PTX LanguageModel instance without revision.
• PTX scalar inhabitance (.u32 ↦ Semiring, .s32 ↦ OrderedRing, .f32 ↦ ApproximateField, .pred ↦ BooleanAlgebra) — downstream of std/integer.dag / std/machine.dag / std/float.dag / std/logic.dag (T-3 waves A1 + A3). Pre-substrate data instance-values here would foreclose those carriers' P2 single-authority.
• SIMT-as-effect-typed-Bind composition's carrier — owned by extdeps/coordination.dag (T-4.8). The IN-B finding here demonstrates structural fit; coordination.dag owns the carrier.

Housekeeping

• Stale Consumes: std/primitive.dag line (deleted PR v4: decompose std/primitive.dag into six concept-anchored scalar files #3152) revised to reflect actual imports (currently: none — file is closed-enum + Conj-record declarations only, Int is kernel-ambient).
• Status line updated from "scaffold — fill per TASKS.md T-4.14" to "T-4.14 modeled 2026-05-16 (gentle-deer-446); probe finding: NO 6th behavior surfaced".

Scope negative (named, not deferred)

Warp-level intrinsics (%warpid, %laneid, %smid), texture/surface references, async copies (cp.async), tensor cores (wmma/mma.sync), and vector-pack types (.f16x2, .f32x2) are deliberately not modeled at T-4.14 — they sit either inside the T-4 LanguageModel shape (grammar productions), inside per-release-pin cost detail (PtxCost), or inside the T-4.8 effect-typed-Bind substrate (warp-level coordination). Named in the modeling notes; not a deferral.

Test plan

• v2-compiler compile --source-root src/v4 --output-dir /tmp/v4-stage1-ptx --target dag → 0 diagnostics (63 modules indexed, 1 file emitted)
• No new files; closed file tree invariant honored
• No hand-Rust (never existed in this file)
• Five-pattern Practice-4 ledger on every coproduct (≥2-variant Disj), full 🟢/🟡/🔴 + Fact-placement / Variant-is-data / Algebraic-form / Dimensional / Parameterized-family-Practice-7 — precedent: node.dag (PR v4: cut work-direction meta-layer + node.dag Practice-4 ledgers (operator-ratified) #3160), algebra.dag FreeMonoid/Ordering (PR v4: Practice-4 5th-pattern ledgers on algebra.dag FreeMonoid/Ordering (binding §4 compliance) #3164)
• No data <name>: Algebra<Carrier> = … instance-values introduced pre-T-3 (P2 single-authority for downstream std/ carriers; named in "Owned elsewhere")
• No Result<T, Diagnostic> introduced (per the operator-pending value-or-Diagnostic carrier — Active Session Triggers 2026-05-16); the file declares carriers only, no pipeline ops

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[briansrls]

Addressed both findings from cursor/composer-2's BLOCKING review in commit 449dc40:

1. Owns list (line 39): ThreadHierarchy → ThreadHierarchyShape (matches the type actually declared at line 608).
2. STATE SPACE bullet (lines 148-154): rewrote the contradictory parenthetical. The bullet now correctly names StateSpace as the closed classifier declared below and RegisterScalar as the Conj record that attaches it to typed values — PtxCost is unrelated to the state-space-as-field carrier.

Re-verified: v2-compiler compile --source-root src/v4 --target dag → 0 diagnostics (63 modules indexed, 1 emitted). No type/structure changes; prose only.

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• Commit: 58d0ecb7 · Trigger: schedule
• Thinking: 282s wall

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BLOCKING (1)

Root Cause

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag unversioned PTX authority let the closed carriers be authored against an "8.x-ish" memory model → pin the exact NVIDIA PTX ISA release/URL first, then derive BarrierScope and related cluster hierarchy/state-space carriers from that release.

⚠️ The PTX model needs the spec/version pin and cluster-scope fidelity fixed before landing.

[briansrls]

Addressed codex BLOCKING (review on SHA 58d0ecb7 — predates the cluster fix; BarrierScope half already in HEAD via 448159f74). Two remaining pieces fixed in 7fd2b3472:

1. Version pin (root cause: unversioned PTX authority). Anchor pinned to PTX ISA Version 8.5 (CUDA Toolkit 12.5) with canonical URLs (HTML index + release PDF). Header now names the pin as the L-2 fidelity authority and explicitly states BarrierScope's .cluster, ThreadCoordSource's cluster hierarchy, and StateSpace's eight regions all derive from this release; any future-ISA change is a visible C1 edit.

2. ThreadCoordSource cluster hierarchy (root cause: related cluster carriers). 2-variant → 4-variant per PTX 8.5 §5.4 / §11:

   • ThreadInCta (%tid)
   • CtaInCluster (%cluster_ctaid)
   • ClusterInGrid (%clusterid)
   • CtaInGrid (%ctaid) — retained as the cluster-independent flat coordinate per 8.5

   Practice-4 ledger updated for 4-variant (variant-is-data: 4-valued; algebraic-form lattice Thread ⊑ Cta ⊑ Cluster ⊑ Grid; parameterized-family: irreducible 4-partition for the pinned ISA). C1 stop-signal raised to "5th hierarchy level". My earlier comment naming cluster as a "CUDA 9.0+ future edit" was wrong against the pinned 8.5; corrected to present-tense fidelity.

Re-verified: v2-compiler compile --source-root src/v4 --target dag → 0 diagnostics (63 modules, 1 emitted).

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BLOCKING (2)

Root Cause

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag PTX scalar kind and width were modeled as independent coordinates before the admissible product was encoded → split the scalar carrier by valid kind/width families or add a tracked scaffold with a concrete dissolution trigger.
• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag Cluster coordinate sources were added without adding the matching launch-shape cardinality facts → model explicit/default cluster shape alongside grid and block dimensions.

⚠️ The PTX scope/version pin and BarrierScope fix are good, but the new substrate still admits invalid scalar states and drops cluster cardinality facts.

[briansrls]

Already addressed in HEAD (7fd2b3472). The relayed finding reviewed an earlier SHA before the cluster expansion. Current code:

src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag:334-338
type BarrierScope
  = Cta
  | Cluster
  | Gpu
  | System

• Commit 448159f74 (2026-05-16T00:36): BarrierScope 3-variant → 4-variant, adds Cluster per PTX ISA 8.5 §8.5. Practice-4 ledger updated (4-radius / Cta ⊑ Cluster ⊑ Gpu ⊑ System lattice / 4-partition / 5th-scope = C1 stop).
• Commit 7fd2b3472 (2026-05-16T00:43): Anchor pinned to PTX ISA Version 8.5 explicitly with canonical URL (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/index.html + release PDF https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pdf/ptx_isa_8.5.pdf).

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[briansrls]

Addressed — commit a7960daa2. The finding was legitimately valid (not stale): the Conj-record RegisterScalar { kind, width, state_space } admitted illegal kind×width combinations pending a "future check" — exactly the v3 fail-open mode INVARIANTS P2 forbids, and contradicting rust.dag #3174's Disj-with-payloads precedent.

Refactored to mirror #3174's shape:

Dropped: RegisterWidth enum (parallel-rep of per-kind admissible sets).

Added (each with full 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger + // Spec: URL):

• BitsWidth = Bits8 | Bits16 | Bits32 | Bits64 | Bits128 (the 5 widths PTX admits for .b{n})
• IntegerWidth = Bits8 | Bits16 | Bits32 | Bits64 (4 widths PTX admits for typed .u{n} / .s{n})
• FloatWidth = Bits16 | Bits32 | Bits64 (3 widths PTX admits for typed .f{n})

Refactored: RegisterScalar from Conj record to 5-variant Disj-with-payloads:

type RegisterScalar
  = BitsScalar      { width: BitsWidth,    state_space: StateSpace }
  | UnsignedScalar  { width: IntegerWidth, state_space: StateSpace }
  | SignedScalar    { width: IntegerWidth, state_space: StateSpace }
  | FloatScalar     { width: FloatWidth,   state_space: StateSpace }
  | PredicateScalar { state_space: StateSpace }

Each variant carries EXACTLY its kind-admissible width sub-enum (or no width, for Predicate's intrinsic 1-bit). Illegal pairs (Predicate+Bits64, Float+Bits8, Unsigned+Bits128, Bits+Bits1, etc.) are now STRUCTURALLY UNREPRESENTABLE — not rejected by a check, not constructible.

5-pattern Practice-4 ledger added on RegisterScalar (Disj now needs one; prior Conj didn't). RegisterScalarKind re-framed as meta-classifier of the Disj variants. Header Owns list and Consumes block updated to match.

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[briansrls]

Addressed — commit 7eb66acc1. Finding was legitimately valid: ThreadHierarchyShape carried no carriers for %cluster_nctaid / %nclusterid — INVARIANTS P2 single-authority violated for the cluster half of the hierarchy (parallel inconsistency to the earlier ThreadCoordSource cluster expansion).

Refactored from Conj record to 2-variant Disj-with-payloads per PTX 8.5 §11's two launch shapes:

type ThreadHierarchyShape
  = FlatLaunch
      { grid_dim: Dim3, block_dim: Dim3 }
  | ClusterLaunch
      { cluster_grid_dim: Dim3
      , cluster_dim: Dim3
      , block_dim: Dim3 }

• FlatLaunch (legacy non-cluster): the flat-grid shape; never carries cluster dims.
• ClusterLaunch (PTX 7.8+, Hopper / CUDA 9.0): carries cluster_grid_dim (%nclusterid) and cluster_dim (%cluster_nctaid) in single authority.
• The flat %nctaid in cluster launches is RECONSTRUCTED from cluster_grid_dim × cluster_dim (P2 — single authority; no redundant grid_dim field on ClusterLaunch).
• "FlatLaunch with cluster_dim=(1,1,1)" is unrepresentable as a category-mistake.

5-pattern Practice-4 ledger added (Disj now needs one). // Spec: URL added to docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/index.html#thread-hierarchy.

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[briansrls]

Both BLOCKING findings already addressed in HEAD. The codex review reviewed SHA 63a50580 (the merge commit) — both refactors landed after that SHA.

Finding 1: scalar kind / width independent coordinates → admissibility split.
Addressed in commit a7960daa2 (HEAD~1). RegisterScalar refactored from Conj record to 5-variant Disj-with-payloads:

type RegisterScalar
  = BitsScalar      { width: BitsWidth,    state_space: StateSpace }
  | UnsignedScalar  { width: IntegerWidth, state_space: StateSpace }
  | SignedScalar    { width: IntegerWidth, state_space: StateSpace }
  | FloatScalar     { width: FloatWidth,   state_space: StateSpace }
  | PredicateScalar { state_space: StateSpace }

Three new per-kind admissible-width sub-enums (BitsWidth / IntegerWidth / FloatWidth) replace the over-permissive RegisterWidth. Illegal pairs (Predicate+Bits64, Float+Bits8, Unsigned+Bits128, Bits+Bits1) are now STRUCTURALLY UNREPRESENTABLE, not check-deferred. Each sub-enum carries a 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger and // Spec: URL. No tracked-scaffold needed — full admissibility is encoded.

Finding 2: cluster coordinate sources without launch-shape cardinality facts.
Addressed in commit 7eb66acc1 (HEAD). ThreadHierarchyShape refactored from Conj record to 2-variant Disj per PTX 8.5 §11's two launch shapes:

type ThreadHierarchyShape
  = FlatLaunch
      { grid_dim: Dim3, block_dim: Dim3 }
  | ClusterLaunch
      { cluster_grid_dim: Dim3
      , cluster_dim: Dim3
      , block_dim: Dim3 }

ClusterLaunch carries %nclusterid (cluster_grid_dim) and %cluster_nctaid (cluster_dim) in single authority; the flat %nctaid is reconstructed from cluster_grid_dim × cluster_dim (P2). "FlatLaunch with cluster_dim=(1,1,1)" is unrepresentable as a category-mistake. 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger added.

Both refactors verified: v2-compiler compile --source-root src/v4 --target dag → 0 diagnostics (63 modules, 1 emitted).

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BLOCKING (1)

Root Cause

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag Memory-space modeling stopped at the top-level region list while the PTX operand grammar adds subqualifier facts → add a structural subqualifier carrier for Param/Shared or a documented/bounded/triggered scaffold before memory-op consumers land.

Non-blocking — Strengths

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag The BarrierScope, RegisterScalar, and ThreadHierarchyShape refactors resolve the prior fidelity and illegal-state concerns without adding a sixth behavior.

⚠️ One substrate-level extdeps fidelity gap remains around PTX state-space subqualifiers.

[briansrls]

Addressed — commit df681e7bb. Finding was legitimately valid: StateSpace's flat 8-way enum collapsed PTX ISA 8.5 sub-qualifier facts that the spec's §5.1.7-8 / §6 memory-operand grammar distinguishes.

Refactored to Disj-with-mixed-arity-variants:

type StateSpace
  = Reg
  | SReg
  | Const
  | Global
  | Local
  | Param { scope: ParamScope }
  | Shared { scope: SharedScope }
  | Tex

Added (each with full 5-pattern ledger + // Spec: URL):

• ParamScope = ParamEntry | ParamFunc — .param::entry (kernel-entry parameter buffer) vs .param::func (function-call parameter buffer)
• SharedScope = SharedCta | SharedCluster — .shared::cta (CTA-scoped) vs .shared::cluster (cluster-distributed DSMEM, PTX 7.8+ / Hopper / CUDA 9.0; composes with BarrierScope.Cluster + ThreadHierarchyShape.ClusterLaunch)

Illegal combos like "Shared without scope" or "Global with param_scope set" are now STRUCTURALLY UNREPRESENTABLE — same Disj-with-payloads admissibility pattern as RegisterScalar's kind×admissible-width.

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[briansrls]

Already addressed in HEAD (df681e7bb). The codex review reviewed SHA 7eb66acc — the immediately-prior commit, before the StateSpace sub-qualifier refactor. The exact finding (memory-space sub-qualifier carrier for .param / .shared) is exactly what df681e7bb landed:

• type ParamScope = ParamEntry | ParamFunc (line 261) — .param::{entry,func} per PTX 8.5 §5.1.7
• type SharedScope = SharedCta | SharedCluster (line 319) — .shared::{cta,cluster} per PTX 8.5 §5.1.8 (DSMEM)
• type StateSpace (line 412) refactored to Disj-with-mixed-arity-variants: Param { scope: ParamScope } and Shared { scope: SharedScope } carry sub-qualifiers structurally; the other six remain nullary

Each new carrier has a full 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger and a // Spec: URL to the relevant PTX 8.5 spec section. Illegal combinations ("Shared without scope", "Global with param_scope") are structurally unrepresentable — same Disj-with-payloads pattern as RegisterScalar's kind × admissible-width.

The non-blocking strengths note (BarrierScope / RegisterScalar / ThreadHierarchyShape refactors land cleanly) confirms the earlier finding round closed.

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[briansrls]

Addressed — commit c71b41adb. codex/codex-default APPROVE_WITH_COMMENTS finding was legitimately valid: my IN-B modeling notes still described the OLD RegisterScalar shape ("Conj record with state_space: StateSpace") while the actual declaration is now a Disj-with-heterogeneous-payloads after the kind×width / kind×residence refactors. P2 single-authority metadata / Practice 5 violated within one authority surface.

Two locations updated to match the actually-declared carrier:

1. Header Owns "PTX value shapes" — was "Conj records: RegisterScalar, Dim3, ThreadHierarchyShape, ThreadCoord" (implied all four are Conj). Rewritten to differentiate: RegisterScalar (Disj-with-heterogeneous-payloads); Dim3 / ThreadCoord (Conj records); ThreadHierarchyShape (Disj FlatLaunch | ClusterLaunch).

2. IN-B mapping STATE-SPACE bullet (~line 168) — was "state_space: StateSpace field on RegisterScalar Conj record". Rewritten to spell out the actual carrier:

   • Typed variants (Bits/Unsigned/Signed/Float) carry state_space: RegisterStateSpace (the 7-variant typed-scalar-resident sub-classifier of StateSpace, excluding .tex per §5.1.10)
   • PredicateScalar is a bare variant with NO state_space field per §5.1.1 (predicates live only in virtual predicate registers)
   • Sub-qualified example updated to .shared::cta to reflect the Param/Shared sub-qualifier landing

The IN-B claim (state space as effect-typed parameter, THESIS:401) and the tempting-alternative rejection are preserved verbatim — only the carrier-shape description updated.

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BLOCKING (2)

Root Cause

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag launch shape was partitioned as flat vs cluster-dims-present instead of PTX's explicit/implicit cluster-level semantics → carry explicitness/default cluster dims structurally or document a bounded scope-negative trigger before consumers land.
• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag typed-scalar residence was derived as StateSpace minus Tex instead of separating predefined special-register carriers from load/store-addressable scalar state spaces → split .sreg into a SpecialRegister carrier or remove ResSReg from RegisterStateSpace.

Non-blocking — Strengths

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag The prior BarrierScope, RegisterScalar width, StateSpace subqualifier, and cluster-bound authority fixes are structurally much cleaner.

⚠️ Two substrate fidelity gaps remain before this PTX model should become the downstream authority.

[briansrls]

Already addressed in HEAD (c71b41adb). The relay reviewed an earlier SHA; the StateSpace sub-qualifier refactor landed in commit df681e7bb and the IN-B-prose-alignment in c71b41adb. Current code at line 426:

type StateSpace
  = Reg
  | SReg
  | Const
  | Global
  | Local
  | Param { scope: ParamScope }
  | Shared { scope: SharedScope }
  | Tex

With:

• type ParamScope = ParamEntry | ParamFunc (line 275) — .param::{entry,func} per PTX 8.5 §5.1.7
• type SharedScope = SharedCta | SharedCluster (line 333) — .shared::{cta,cluster} per PTX 8.5 §5.1.8 (DSMEM)

Each sub-qualifier carrier has a full 5-pattern Practice-4 ledger + // Spec: URL. Illegal combos ("Shared without scope", "Global with param_scope") are structurally unrepresentable. The IN-B mapping notes were also aligned in c71b41adb to reference the actual Disj-with-payloads carrier (post the sub-qualifier landing).

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Addressed — commit eb4e8820c. Finding was legitimately valid: ThreadHierarchyShape collapsed PTX 8.5's %is_explicit_cluster partition (implicit 1×1×1 default cluster vs explicit cluster decomposition).

Refactored from 2-variant to 3-variant per PTX 8.5 §11 + the %is_explicit_cluster intrinsic semantics:

type ThreadHierarchyShape
  = FlatLaunch              { grid_dim, block_dim }
  | ImplicitClusterLaunch   { grid_dim, block_dim }
  | ExplicitClusterLaunch   { cluster_grid_dim, cluster_dim, block_dim }

Three structurally distinct launch states:

• FlatLaunch: pre-cluster code (.target < sm_90); cluster intrinsics not readable; %is_explicit_cluster doesn't exist
• ImplicitClusterLaunch: cluster-capable kernel launched without explicit cluster dims; each CTA = its own implicit 1×1×1 cluster; %is_explicit_cluster reads 0; %cluster_nctaid reads degenerate (1,1,1); only flat (grid_dim, block_dim) carried since cluster decomposition is structurally degenerate
• ExplicitClusterLaunch: cluster-capable kernel with explicit cluster dims at launch site; %is_explicit_cluster reads 1; carries hierarchical cluster_grid_dim × cluster_dim × block_dim

Illegal states unrepresentable:

• "FlatLaunch with cluster dims" (flat carries no cluster fields)
• "ImplicitClusterLaunch with explicit cluster_dim" (implicit's 1×1×1 is structurally degenerate, no payload)
• "ExplicitClusterLaunch with is_explicit_cluster = false" (variant identity DETERMINES the intrinsic's reading, not a Bool field)
• "FlatLaunch with is_explicit_cluster = true" (the intrinsic doesn't exist at the pre-sm_90 target)

5-pattern Practice-4 ledger updated for 3-variant; header Owns + Spec URL refs updated.

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[briansrls]

Addressed — commit ef19c8f00. Finding was legitimately valid: PTX 8.5 §5.1.2 reserves .sreg for predefined special registers (%tid / %ctaid / %clusterid / %smid / %clock etc.) with spec-fixed types — user code cannot declare arbitrary typed scalars in .sreg.

Dropped ResSReg from RegisterStateSpace (now 6-variant):

type RegisterStateSpace
  = ResReg
  | ResConst
  | ResGlobal
  | ResLocal
  | ResParam { scope: ParamScope }
  | ResShared { scope: SharedScope }

Illegal states like FloatScalar { state_space: ResSReg } are now structurally unrepresentable. .sreg-resident intrinsics (%tid and friends) are modeled by the separate ThreadCoord carrier — intrinsic identity (source × axis) determines the type per spec, not a user-chosen kind × width.

type StateSpace (8-way) UNCHANGED — SReg remains a valid PTX state-space classifier; what's excluded is only its admissibility as user-declarable typed-scalar residence. Same admissibility-sub-enum pattern as BitsWidth / IntegerWidth / FloatWidth, and parallel to the earlier .tex exclusion from RegisterStateSpace.

Ledger expanded to document both exclusions (.tex per §5.1.10, .sreg per §5.1.2) explicitly as state-space-specific residence-admissibility reasons.

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[briansrls]

Both codex BLOCKING findings already addressed in HEAD (ef19c8f00). The codex review reviewed SHA 76dd2608 — a stale-window commit before both fixes landed.

Finding 1: launch-shape explicit/implicit cluster distinction.
Addressed in commit eb4e8820c. ThreadHierarchyShape refactored from 2-variant to 3-variant per PTX 8.5 §11 + the %is_explicit_cluster intrinsic:

type ThreadHierarchyShape
  = FlatLaunch              { grid_dim, block_dim }
  | ImplicitClusterLaunch   { grid_dim, block_dim }       -- %is_explicit_cluster = 0; implicit 1x1x1
  | ExplicitClusterLaunch   { cluster_grid_dim, cluster_dim, block_dim }  -- %is_explicit_cluster = 1

The implicit-vs-explicit cluster distinction is structurally enforced by variant identity (no Bool field; %is_explicit_cluster reading determined by variant). Full 5-pattern ledger updated for 3-variant.

Finding 2: .sreg as typed-scalar residence.
Addressed in commit ef19c8f00. ResSReg dropped from RegisterStateSpace (now 6-variant) per PTX 8.5 §5.1.2 — .sreg holds predefined special registers (%tid/%ctaid/%clusterid/%smid/%clock etc.) with spec-fixed types; user code cannot declare arbitrary typed scalars in .sreg. .sreg-resident intrinsics are modeled by the separate ThreadCoord carrier (intrinsic identity → spec-fixed type, not user-chosen kind × width). Illegal FloatScalar { state_space: ResSReg } now structurally unrepresentable.

The non-blocking strengths note (BarrierScope / RegisterScalar / cluster-bound / sub-qualifier refactors land cleanly) is confirmed by the prior approval pass.

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[briansrls]

Addressed both cursor non-blocking editorial findings — commit de062eb9c.

1. ThreadCoord field comment — listed only ThreadInCta/CtaInGrid (the pre-cluster-refactor pair); ThreadCoordSource is 4-variant now. Updated:

   - source  which hierarchy level — one of the four ThreadCoordSource
             variants per PTX ISA 8.5: ThreadInCta (%tid) / CtaInCluster
             (%cluster_ctaid) / ClusterInGrid (%clusterid) / CtaInGrid
             (%ctaid); warp / lane / SM are scope-negative for T-4.14
   

   Concrete-example list expanded to show CtaInCluster + ClusterInGrid forms.

2. THESIS.md line refs (from your earlier exploratory observation): the "parallelism is the default" line is at THESIS:19 (not 18), and the "intrinsic to the type signature, NOT an annotation layer" content sits in the bullet at THESIS:396-400. Updated 6 incidental refs (3× THESIS:18 → THESIS:19; 3× THESIS:401 → THESIS:396).

Both fixes editorial — no structural change to the model.

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Non-blocking — Strengths

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag The repaired shapes now encode the prior spec-fidelity issues structurally rather than relying on downstream checks.

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

• src/v4/extdeps/languages/ptx.dag The scalar-type prose still points future bf16 work at a RegisterScalar kind, but PTX 8.5 documents bf16 as an alternate instruction format carried in .b16, so defer a comment-only correction to the T-4.14/PTX cleanup lane: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.5.1/parallel-thread-execution/index.html#alternate-floating-point-data-formats

✅ No blocking concerns; the prior substrate fidelity findings are addressed.