A lexical binding holding a named function shadows the free function sharing its spelling, and the isolated multi-module compile fixture that measures it

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What this is

Two things in one PR, deliberately: the local-binding-shadow repair and the isolated multi-module compile fixture the repair's cross-module evidence needs. They land together because either one alone gives a bad intermediate — a harness with no consumer (coverage by illusion), or a repair with no way to enrol its cross-module refusal.

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1. The defect and the repair

A call site spelling a name held by BOTH a local binding and a module-level free function reached the free function whenever the local's value was a reference to a named top-level function. Where the two arities differ the call refuses loudly; where they agree it returns a plausible wrong value with no diagnostic at all — below floor (DESIGN §5), not a naming nuisance.

The axis was the value variant, not the binding form. eval_call's lexical gate matched Value::Closure only, so the law held for a local bound to a LAMBDA and failed for a local bound to a NAMED function, which evaluates to Value::Fn. Measured on a complete 3×2 grid (let / parameter / pattern × named-fn / lambda) by two lanes independently: three cells wrong, three right, and the column that separated them is the one the gate matched on.

The gate now names the concept — a lexical binding holding something callable — instead of one of its representations. The env re-lookup that sat BELOW ctx.lookup_fn is deleted rather than kept beside it: it was the lower-rung duplicate of the same decision.

The repair's reach is larger than the enrolment predicted — and it is two populations, not one number

13 enrolled expected-reds now PASS, across five unrelated modules. They divide into two groups that carry different weight, and reporting them as one number would overstate the evidence:

Ten were previously RUNTIME-ERRORING, not failing — test.claim.srv3_subsumption (6), test.claim.host_phase_status (2), v2.test.claim.staging (2), throwing atom_identity_hash requires exactly one string argument and cannot access field 'raw' on Int. A row that threw never ran its assertion, so it was never evidence of anything. Converting it to PASS is a real gain — ten claims move from threw, so never decided into passing — but it says only that the throw is gone, not that the repair is right. It is the loud face of the displacement: the free function was handed the wrong argument and the type check caught it.

Three were genuinely held-and-failing, and these are the informative ones — test.claim.interpreter_replacement_cut_witness_test (2) and v2.test.emit.produced_decl_support_preserved (1). Each ran its assertion, disagreed with the answer it got, and now agrees. The last is the ProducedDeclWired { render: render } shape that #8982 worked around by renaming the local while stating explicitly that the rename did not close the resolver precedence defect. This closes it.

None of the thirteen was authored as a shadow probe and none names the class; they were filed as ordinary reds against their own subjects, which is exactly what a silent wrong value looks like from the consumer's side.

Those 13 rows are removed from v2.workflow.floor_expected_red. The witnesses are not (DESIGN §4b(4)) — if the gate regresses, thirteen independent modules go red before the shadow fixture does.

And what went the other way: zero

A resolver precedence change can fix thirteen things and break others, so the opposite direction is counted explicitly rather than left to inference.

	main, pre-repair (32930900625)	this PR, green (32932137447)
planned / executed / terminal	11246	11260
passed	11093	11120
failed	0	0
stale_quarantine	0	0
known_red_held	32	30
known_red_runtime_errored	11	0
[floor-non-verdict] roster	11 identities	0 identities

failed=0 on both sides. That counter is exactly a witness not enrolled as expected-red that failed — a regression — so the answer to "how many previously-passing witnesses now fail" is zero, counted, not inferred.

The non-verdict population goes 11 → 0. Every enrolled claim that had stopped asserting now asserts and passes.

What is NOT claimed: the two planned figures differ by 14 because this PR adds witness identities, so passed is not a like-for-like subtraction and I have not decomposed the +27 delta at identity grain. The identity-grain evidence is the floor's own STALE-QUARANTINE lines, which named all 13 flipped identities explicitly.

Four v2.test.manual.bootstrap_footprint_anchor.* identities still runtime-error with the same atom_identity_hash message. This repair does not reach them; that file's own annotation documents the cause (a non-symbol atom reaching content_hash's atom fold). Named here as surviving and out of scope — folding them in would make this diff answer for two things.

Permanent arms

v2.test.claim.local_binding_shadow now carries Int sentinels rather than only Bools: the local answers n + 1, the shadowed module function answers a constant 900, same arity, same param and result types, both total. Three rows — the local wins at every binding form; a module function is still callable with no local binding (including at the shadowed spelling, which proves the free-function tier was narrowed rather than removed); and each sentinel is absent from the other's positions, so a result is evidence about a producer rather than a coincidence of arithmetic.

"Unrelated global renamed or removed" is answered by construction rather than by sampling one rename: the shadowing symbol is fixture-owned, so nothing outside the fixture's own files can supply, rename or delete it.

THE SILENT FACE IS NOT FULLY CLOSED BY THIS PR

Stated plainly, because a merged PR titled for a repair otherwise implies the class is closed, and it is not:

A local binding holding a NON-CALLABLE value still produces a plausible wrong value with no diagnostic. This PR does not close that. let shadow_sentinel = 5 followed by shadow_sentinel(1) evaluates to 900 — the module free function's answer — measured by execution. No refusal, no warning, a well-typed Int that is simply the wrong one.

Two rungs, not one. The CALLABLE case is closed by construction: the gate names the concept, so there is no representation of a callable lexical binding that falls past it. The NON-CALLABLE case is mitigatable and declared: it is enrolled, counted, and carries a next-rung trigger, which is strictly weaker than a wall and is not claimed to be one.

It is enrolled rather than left in prose. Same below-floor class, callable half repaired, this half untouched — enrolled as one expected-red row with a per-row reason and a next-rung trigger (a census of non-callable lexical bindings colliding with a builtin or module free function). It is not repaired here because refusing on ANY lexical binding widens the gate over an unmeasured corpus population, and a widening whose blast radius is unmeasured is the shape that swallows its own controls.

Its compile-side twin is already green, which is what makes it worth a row: a labeled call through that same non-callable binding refuses CallNamedArgOnFunctionValue — the SHAPE tier names the callee a function value even when the bound value is an Int — while DISPATCH walks past the binding to the peer. Two tiers, one binding, opposite answers. The repair made them agree for callable bindings.

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2. The multi-module compile fixture

tools.multi_module_compile_fixture + host builtin compile_dag_multi_module_fixture. A caller authors a manifest of .dag modules and an entry among them; the instrument compiles exactly those bytes through the v1 pipeline with no module index, no corpus roots, and no filesystem read.

It exists beside compile_dag_diagnostic_census rather than inside it because the census resolves its one synthetic module's imports against the live checkout, so a second module can never be authored and every question about the relationship between two modules is unaskable on it. Three consumers hit that wall independently: invalid fixtures relocated out of the corpus for want of it; an ambiguity arm measured and deleted for want of it; and DESIGN naming the missing multi-module compile fixture as the next-rung trigger for the acyclicity class.

Three arms, three owners — FixtureInstrumentRefused (harness), FixtureCompileRefused (subject), FixtureCompileCompleted. Execution provenance is structural: Completed is constructed at exactly one place, after the emit returned and after the blocking population was counted, so an unreached or killed compile has no spelling in which it renders as zero diagnostics.

The seven controls, all green by execution

Control 6 is written first deliberately — without it every other control can pass vacuously.

#	Control	Result
6	a killed or unreached compile cannot render as a clean one	three unformable manifests → FixtureInstrumentRefused
1	a valid two-module program compiles	zero diagnostics of ANY severity, emitted files present
2	an invalid cross-module program refuses with the INTENDED diagnostic	MissingExport, blocking
3	discovered module count equals the supplied manifest	2→2 and 3→3, count read from the RESOLVE stage, not the input list
4	no default corpus roots are loaded	an entry importing std.types without supplying it refuses UnresolvedImport
5	reusing a corpus module SPELLING does not bind the corpus declaration	a fixture module spelled std.logic exporting a symbol real std.logic lacks compiles clean
7	source and compiler digests travel with the result	same manifest → same digest; one-token edit → different; compiler digest stable and non-empty

The open design question, answered

Upstream asked, genuinely open: can a fixture be corpus-isolated at all under whole-corpus floor preparation, where the floor folds every witness through ONE prepared subject?

It can. That preparation governs how the WITNESS is compiled and is consulted by unrelated censuses; the nested compile never reads it. Controls 4 and 5 measure it from both sides — a corpus module not supplied is unreachable, and a corpus spelling that IS supplied binds the fixture's own declaration — so the pool is exactly the manifest, neither wider nor narrower. Both run on the floor, which is what makes this evidence rather than an argument.

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Notes

• One PR, and the fixture is the second commit rather than the first: the merge policy is squash-merge and says not to rebase to curate commits, so the history is flat at merge either way.
• compile_diagnostic_census_rows is factored out of the census and shared, so the two instruments cannot drift into two diagnostic vocabularies (§3).
• Registry rows added in src/v1/04_method.dag and gunbc.v1_interpreter_primitive_surface; both generated mirrors regenerated, required-regen reaches first_generation_equal=true.
• main merged in via a merge commit; the floor_expected_red chunk sequence is renumbered rather than left with a hole.

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The paired roster the removals orphaned

Removing the 13 stale expected-red rows orphaned rows in v2.workflow.floor_non_verdict — the roster of enrolled expected-reds that produce no verdict — and the floor refused with NonVerdictRowUnreachable count=11: rows that read as debt while being structurally incapable of being debt. They are deleted, not re-enrolled; re-enrolling would restore a falsehood to silence a wall.

The cascade was larger than the refusal named, because gunbc.floor_non_verdict_classification joins that roster exactly in both directions — so emptying it required repaying its two live arms. That produced the join the carrier had declared it could not make:

• closure_dependent_rows held nine ClosureDependentResolution rows whose attribution to this defect was explicitly inference, with no colliding name identified for the six srv3 rows or the two staging rows. Its unjoined_inference_note named its own instrument: fix the resolver and re-run, at which point recovery measures the join and non-recovery isolates a second cause with no ambiguity. All nine recovered. There is no second cause.
• unmeasured_rows held the two host_phase_status identities, classified StandingUnmeasured on an honest obstacle — their witness resolves from the pool, so no narrow closure arm existed to A/B against. Both recovered too. Recorded as the weaker true statement — a repair aimed elsewhere recovered them — and not as a retroactive reclassification.

Both arms stay declared with repayment receipts, following the idiom the file already established for closure_independent_rows: the causes remain constructible, and an emptied arm with its reason recorded is a different fact from an arm that never existed.

One witness row is deleted with the population it described — both_the_stale_and_the_unmeasured_classes_are_inhabited, which asserted the partition was non-empty. That was right while a debt existed and becomes an assertion that the debt must continue to exist once repaid, which would make the carrier unable to reach the empty terminal state its own header declares. Deleting a witness whose subject no longer exists is dissolution; editing one so it agrees with current behaviour would not be, and nothing here does that — the join, uniqueness, evidence-present and exact-partition rows are untouched and still gate.

An empty roster is the strictest state here, not the most permissive: cli_run's own polarity comment records that a non-enrolled identity blocks, so losing the roster can only red a run, never flatter one.

Follow-up, not opened here: if the two rosters are meant to be co-extensive by construction rather than by a check, one enrolment should imply the other so this state has no spelling at all.

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Reviewed at head 354c100d8. No blocking defect. This is the shape that was prescribed for it, and it satisfies the contract item-for-item rather than approximately.

The minimum fixture contract, checked against your witnesses. Seven controls were specified for a non-corpus multi-module compile surface. All seven are present, as named, executing witnesses:

required control	witness
a valid two-module program compiles	valid_two_module_program_compiles
a deliberately invalid cross-module program refuses with the intended diagnostic	invalid_cross_module_program_refuses_with_the_intended_diagnostic
discovered module count equals the supplied manifest	discovered_module_count_equals_the_supplied_manifest
no default corpus roots are loaded	no_default_corpus_roots_are_loaded
a corpus module spelling inside the fixture does not bind the corpus declaration	corpus_module_spelling_does_not_bind_the_corpus_declaration
a killed/unreached compile cannot render as zero diagnostics	unreached_compile_cannot_render_as_a_clean_one
source digest and compiler digest travel with the result	the_fixtures_source_and_compiler_digests_travel_with_the_result

I checked these as a list because a harness is exactly the artifact where "broadly satisfies the requirements" hides a missing control, and the missing one is never the easy one.

The outcome type earns the sixth row structurally, not by assertion.

type MultiModuleCompileFixtureOutcome
  = FixtureInstrumentRefused { cause }
  | FixtureCompileRefused    { ... }
  | FixtureCompileCompleted  { ... }

Instrument-failure, subject-refusal and completion are three distinct arms, so the compiler was never reached has no shared spelling with the compiler ran and found nothing. FixtureCompileCompleted { diagnostics: [] } and FixtureInstrumentRefused cannot be confused, and the witness pins it. That is the construction move rather than a diagnostic one — the bad state is unwritable, not merely detected.

You should know this is the class three other lanes hit tonight, from three unrelated subjects. Every emit_host_*_equals_eval witness folds its verdict to Bool (16 files, 70 arms measured on d311b1ceab), so a cargo that never spawned and a genuine emitter regression both render as returned Bool(false). A self-host behavioral receipt has a discriminating conjunct satisfied by the binary does not exist rather than the fault was detected. A document-load path collapsed a reader limitation into a malformed-document verdict. Your FixtureInstrumentRefused arm is the same distinction, made unwritable at a fourth site — and yours is the only one of the four that was built correctly the first time rather than repaired after a misattribution. It is recorded as instances 14–15 of the CI-attribution brief; this PR is the positive control.

The consumer half carries the controls that make the repair falsifiable, not just the happy path. local_callable_wins_over_the_same_named_module_function is the repair; a_module_function_is_still_callable_with_no_local_binding is the no-regression side; a_noncallable_local_binding_does_not_fall_through_to_the_module_function closes the fallthrough that made this silent; and each_sentinel_is_absent_from_the_other_positions is the discriminator that stops all three passing vacuously. That last one is the one most PRs omit.

On the floor_expected_red delta (+45/-37): removing rows that now pass is required by the stale-quarantine rule, and doing it in the same diff as the repair is correct — a repair that leaves its own expected-red rows standing makes the floor assert a falsehood. Worth stating explicitly in the PR body which identities moved and that they were verified passing rather than absent, since those two retire for different reasons.

One note, not blocking and not yours to fix: the build red on this PR at the time of review is the shared-rustup dispatcher class (gunbc#9281), not your change. Do not debug it in this diff.

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Follow-up at head 2bbff5270a. The paired-roster fix is correct and the open question about the two arms is answered by the module itself — no action needed.

Verified independently rather than on report: floor_non_verdict carries 0 enrolled rows at this head, and the eleven orphans are gone.

The question that was raised, fairly: the refusal offered two arms — enroll as expected-red or delete the row — and they are not equivalent. Delete is right for stale debt; enroll is right for a genuine red. All eleven took delete. If any of those eleven genuinely produces a non-verdict, has it just been left with nowhere to classify?

No, and the module says why in its own header:

CONFINED, by execution, every run: the OBSERVED population must equal the ROSTER exactly. An observed identity the roster does not carry refuses (unrostered debt); a rostered identity the run did not observe refuses (stale exemption). Together those pin O = R.

Both directions refuse. So a wrong deletion is not silence — if one of the eleven does produce a non-verdict, it is observed, it is not in the roster, and the floor refuses loudly on the next run as unrostered debt. The failure mode of the delete arm is a red check naming the identity, not an unclassified result quietly passing. That is what makes emptying the roster safe to do without first proving a negative about all eleven.

And the empty roster is not a coverage claim. O = R is re-established by execution every run, so an empty roster asserts no identity currently produces a non-verdict and that assertion is re-tested continuously rather than inherited.

A second reason delete was the better arm here, from the same header: the roster's one declared unconfined direction applies to enroll, not to delete —

NOT CONFINED: the roster itself. … an author whose change makes a NEW identity stop producing a verdict may add its row IN THE SAME CHANGE. Observed then equals roster, both arms pass, and the regression is admitted — LEGALISED BY THE ROSTER THAT EXISTS TO BOUND IT. The row becomes the permission.

Enrolling eleven rows to clear a refusal is exactly the shape that hazard describes. Deleting them takes the arm with no known hazard, and leaves the loud one available if the deletion was wrong. Choosing delete was right on both counts.

One thing worth carrying beyond this PR: the two red checks here were one failure. witnesses is the aggregator from the 2026-08-25 split — it needs build+floor with if: always(), and its only step restates the lane results. Counting causes from the check list gives two; counting from the job graph gives one. After that split, read the job graph.

Nothing outstanding from me. Build was green before the fix and the fix touches only the second roster.

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