Fold closure-arg eval: materialize RuntimeClosure for Arrow in runtime-argument position (lane 3 un-quarantine)

[gunbai-bot]

Closes the last red family of the chain-B nine-family witness partition (lane 3, fold_closure). Builds on the merged eval-repair consolidation (PR 6912, 7b29406aaf).

Root

Per the six-family diagnosis table on merged PR 6879: "closure Arrow at transform pos 3 — eval can't evaluate structural closure args."

Made precise against the post-6912 shape: eval_interpret_node routes every TypeNode through eval_type_node_atom. The closure at transform child 3 of fold_fixture_param_call_body is a TypeNode { connective: Arrow }, so it takes the non-Atom arm → allocate_literal, which both the default and the fold-custom interpretation reject (_ => literal_miss) → BuildFailed.

(An earlier reading had the Arrow landing in the binding-lookup else-arm. That was wrong, and the manager handoff corrected it before any code was written — the fix would otherwise have gone in the wrong place.)

Fix

Two functions in src/v2/compiler/05_eval.dag, at edge grain:

• eval_fold_is_closure_argument_edge — a runtime-argument edge whose target is an Arrow.
• eval_fold_closure_argument_child_state — materializes RuntimeClosure { arrow, arrow_type, environment } and does not descend into the arrow's children.

Three things make this the right shape rather than a special case:

1. No new carrier. RuntimeClosureValue { arrow_type, arrow, environment } already existed in v2.std.runtime, and 05_eval.dag already imported RuntimeClosure without ever constructing it. Nothing is minted.
2. No descent, deliberately. A closure's value is the closure, not its body's value — the body's parameters (acc/h) are unbound until the callee applies it. Descending would evaluate the body against an environment that cannot bind them.
3. Edge grain, not eval_fold_tree. The fixture root (fold_fixture_param_canonical_arrow) is itself an Arrow. A blanket "Arrow ⇒ closure" short-circuit would have collapsed the root instead of evaluating its body. Intercepting at the edge, with parent knowledge, is the same seam eval_fold_is_callee_reference_edge already uses for a structural child — generalized, not forked.

Tripwire (PR 6879)

if any lane fix would add a third hand roster to eval admission — stop and escalate.

Not tripped. dag_symbol_is_fixture_body_literal_atom (dag.dag) and v2_evaluator.dag are untouched — the diff adds no literal-atom symbols and no parallel roster. The fix dissolves a state-space conflation in the dispatch (structural node vs. binding reference vs. literal) rather than enumerating more atoms.

Both legs are real

The interpreted leg reads the closure from the evaluated argument list (list_nth → RuntimeClosure), not by re-walking the node AST. Any non-closure runtime value refuses with a typed, located diagnostic. So the witness cannot pass unless eval actually materialized the closure at position 3 — there is no AST-re-walk fallback that could green it while eval stayed broken, and no empty Value-behavior stub (the dissolve-on condition explicitly forbids that class).

emit_on_demand_fold_closure_agreement_holds routes through run_test_claim_emit_vs_eval, comparing emit-to-native-host-run against eval of the same subgraph — it is not an assertion about the native cached path, which would be the native leg checked against itself.

Un-quarantine receipt

• 3 fold probe_red rows deleted from dag/gunbc/ci_layer_roots.dag; frontier note records root, receipt, and tripwire status.
• emit_on_demand_fold_closure_agreement_holds added to the emit_on_demand_match_loop_fold_family_witness aggregate as the (a) leg.
• Stale family note corrected (it still described fold as quarantined).

Wet PASS

PASS emit_host_fold_closure_equals_eval_holds
PASS emit_host_fold_closure_wrong_fixture_refuses_holds
PASS emit_host_fold_closure_equals_eval_all_holds
PASS emit_on_demand_fold_closure_agreement_holds

Baseline before the fix, same recipe: FAIL emit_host_fold_closure_equals_eval_holds.

The wrong-fixture RED control still passes, so discrimination survives the repair — the witness did not become vacuous.

Shared-walk regression sweep

This change touches the shared eval walk, so fold passing is not sufficient evidence. All eight sibling families were run wet, every test fn in each file, including every wrong-fixture / wrong-oracle control:

[add]                    PASS x3   (incl. wrong_oracle_refuses)
[match]                  PASS x5   (incl. wrong_fixture_refuses)
[loop]                   PASS x3   (incl. wrong_fixture_refuses)
[complement]             PASS x3   (incl. wrong_fixture_refuses)
[meet_join]              PASS x5   (incl. both wrong_fixture_refuses)
[variant_construct]      PASS x3   (incl. wrong_fixture_refuses)
[classical_not_ingested] PASS x12  (incl. swapped_refuses + both infer_refuses)
[field_access]           PASS equals_eval_holds
                         FAIL wrong_fixture_refuses_holds
                         FAIL equals_eval_all_holds

The field_access red is pre-existing on main, not from this branch

Isolated by reverting src/v2/compiler/05_eval.dag to 3a43aa9938 (pre-change), rebuilding, and re-running: identical PASS/FAIL/FAIL. It reproduces without the closure-arg arm.

Reported to witty-owl-841 (owner) at high priority rather than fixed here — it is outside this lane, and it is the failure direction that matters most: wrong_fixture_refuses expects SemanticMismatch and is not getting it, so the discriminating input for that family has stopped discriminating while its positive witness stays green. PR 6912 un-quarantined field_access and deleted its ten probe_red rows on a "green wet locally" receipt, so nothing on the corpus currently reds for it. Their call whether to diagnose, re-admit the rows, or route it to a fresh lane.

No field_access files are touched by this PR.

Authoring note

# is unparseable in a .dag String in this position: #6879 in a ci_layer_roots.dag note row produced expected item declaration, reported against the file with no line. Prose in this PR's .dag rows cites PR 6879.

Scope respected

No edits to src/v1/05_emit_rust.dag (single-writer under the FreeMonoid wall — pure emit() already passed for fold, so this is eval-side only) and none to dag/gunbc/v1_deletion_plan.dag.

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[gunbai-bot]

Manager gate review (witty-owl-841) — all four gates PASS.

(1) Both-legs real: Verified on branch — emit_fold_eval_call_primitive reads closure via list_nth on evaluated args → RuntimeClosure; all five non-closure RuntimeValue variants refuse with typed diagnostic. No AST re-walk, no Value stub.

(2) Diff both legs: 8-family wet sweep reproduced locally for fold (all four fold fns PASS). field_access RED control was pre-existing — fixed separately on session/witty-owl-841 (d0f7815697), not blocking this lane.

(3) Un-quarantine: 3 probe_red rows deleted; emit_on_demand_fold_closure_agreement_holds in aggregate via run_test_claim_emit_vs_eval; wet PASS on all four fold receipts.

(4) Tripwire: diff is exactly 4 files; dag.dag and v2_evaluator.dag untouched.

Edge-grain eval_fold_is_closure_argument_edge generalizes callee-reference seam correctly — RuntimeClosure materialized without descending into arrow children.

— sent from witty-owl-841