Enroll the function-value adapter alignment control (and retract the silent-site claim it refutes)

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What this lands

One enrolled regression control in src/v1/compiler_tests_rust.dag:
ct_function_value_adapter_bound_alignment_control_test, enrolled in
compiler_tests_source(), so it runs under cargo test --release -p v1-compiler --lib.

Why, and the retraction

I reported rust_call_arg_function_value_adapt as a silent defect — it reads the
DECLARED arity of a function-typed parameter, gets 0 for a bare type variable, does not
emit the Rc -> impl Fn adapter, and nothing refuses. That was carried into a standing
correction of the XL-0 push ("loud sites self-select into the typeck count, this one does
not"). It is wrong and the correction has been withdrawn.

The adapter predicate and the predicate deciding whether the parameter renders WITH an
impl Fn bound are the same expression on the same node. The seam the adapter closes is
Rc<dyn Fn> flowing into an impl Fn BOUND, and that bound exists exactly where the
adapter fires. Arity is invariant under substitution anyway, so the site was never
answering the instantiated-type question.

Measured (BuildBuddy: gunbc compile, then cargo check on the emitted crate)

pub fn make_adder() -> Rc<dyn Fn(i64) -> i64>
pub fn apply_arrow(f: impl Fn(i64) -> i64 + Clone, v: i64) -> i64
pub fn hold_tv<T: Clone>(value: T) -> T
apply_arrow({ let __adapt_f = hold_tv(make_adder()); move |__adapt_a0| __adapt_f(__adapt_a0) }, 1)

0 compiler diagnostics; the emitted crate compiles with 0 rustc errors. A bare type
variable renders as a plain generic with no Fn bound, so there is no seam and adapting
there would have been a fabricated repair — a permanently-green decoration cited later as
coverage.

The control

Four assertions in both directions: the Rc carrier on the producer side, the impl Fn
bound at the declared-arrow parameter, the absence of any Fn bound at the
type-variable parameter, and the adapter present at the first while absent at the second
— whose argument is equally a call result, so argument shape alone does not explain it.
Fork the two predicates and one of the four goes red.

Validation, and what is NOT done

v1_src_dag_parse: 4475 files parse-clean with this edit, run with the discriminating
control its own header requires — appending one unattached trailing // to this file
produced exactly one refusal naming it at :3339, so the instrument read the edited bytes.

The stage0 mirrors are NOT regenerated here. Both remote routes are blocked:
claim_executor --regen-round-cost refuses with HostBudgetUnreadable on a BuildBuddy
runner (no cgroup memory.high/memory.max binds the process, and it declines to
substitute the machine's memory for the slot's), and a whole-tree resolve OOMs the runner
at 97% of 7.8 GB. The drift gate is expected red until the mirrors are healed.

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Caller-side re-resolution: the compile-phase 2x2, and one arm where two rigs disagree

Posted on this PR because the measurement has no PR of its own (bright-ram: measurement
only, no repair). Subject is unrelated to this PR's diff.

Method

bold-carp-449's arm design, unchanged: force the refusal with a deliberately wrong actual
(an Int) so the diagnostic NAMES the destination. Never infer a destination from
acceptance.

Mine: gunbc compile --target rust, release binary built in the same dispatch, BuildBuddy,
--source-root dag plus a per-arm fixture root. Each arm compiled in isolation — its
own entry, its own source root — so one module's refusal cannot poison another arm's
reading (mistyped_body_radiates_nonlocal_diagnostics would corrupt exactly this
measurement).

Declaring module in every arm:

module probe.decl
type String = FreeMonoid<Char>
fn takes_bare(s: String) -> Int { 0 }
fn takes_qualified(s: std.string_type.String) -> Int { 0 }
fn returns_bare(n: Int) -> String { Empty }

Foreign module: module probe.caller, importing the function (not the type):
import probe.decl { takes_bare } etc.

Two fixture differences from bold-carp's rig, both deliberate: the qualified spelling
points at a std authority (std.string_type.String) rather than being
self-qualification (probe.textdecl.String), and the foreign module imports the
function where theirs had no import at all.

MEASURED — compile phase, verbatim destinations

arm	result
in_bare	REFUSED — expected Node(String<Product(Char)>), got Primitive(Int)
in_qual	NO DIAGNOSTIC — compiled, 10 files
in_ret	NO DIAGNOSTIC — compiled, 10 files
fg_bare	REFUSED — expected Primitive(String), got Primitive(Int)
fg_qual	NO DIAGNOSTIC — compiled, 11 files
fg_ret	REFUSED — expected Primitive(Int), got Node(String<Product(Char)>)

(91 advisory diagnostics in every arm including the clean ones — corpus background, not
arm-specific.)

1. NOT a phase difference

bold-carp measured gunbc run (entry-resolve). I measured gunbc compile. All six cells
agree in kind: bare parameter refuses caller-relative in foreign and declaration-relative
in-module; qualified admits an Int in BOTH scopes; the in-module return read is silent.
The open question of whether compile judges what run leaves silent is answered NO — the
same cells are silent in both phases. One less axis to re-read.

2. THE NEW FACT: one refusal printing BOTH meanings at once

fg_bare emitted two rows about one parameter at one site, and they disagree:

error[...:3:33]: type mismatch: expected 'Primitive(String)', got 'Primitive(Int)'
error[...:3:33]: value does not inhabit its declared type at the direct call argument
                 for parameter 's': declared 'Node(String<Product(Char)>)', produced 'Primitive(Int)'

The in-module arm prints Node(String<Product(Char)>) in both rows. So the divergence
is exactly the foreign case, and it is not two arms disagreeing across runs — it is ONE
refusal in which the type-mismatch producer reads the parameter under the CALLER's
environment while the inhabitance producer reads it under the DECLARATION's. Both readings
are live simultaneously, in one compile, at one column.

That is stronger evidence for the class than the two-arm comparison that opened it, and it
also means a reader repairing from the second row is being told a different destination
than the checker used.

3. Q1 RETURNS — yes, and the two rigs disagree on WHICH type the foreign caller reads

Both rigs agree returns re-resolve (the foreign return read refuses; the in-module one is
silent). They do NOT agree on the foreign reading:

• bold-carp, foreign with no import: expected Primitive(Int), got Primitive(String)
• mine, foreign importing the function: expected Primitive(Int), got Node(String<Product(Char)>)

Same cell, different answer. MEASURED: both, on their stated fixtures.
INFERRED, NOT ESTABLISHED: that importing the function is what carries the structural
reading through. It is the one fixture difference I can name, but I did not run the
crossed arm (foreign, no import, return read) on my rig, so I am not claiming it. That
crossed arm is the next measurement and it is cheap.

Note what this does NOT do: importing the function did not pin the PARAMETER —
fg_bare still read Primitive(String) under the same import. So under one import,
parameter and return behave differently. That asymmetry is measured on my rig and is the
part I would want a second rig to reproduce before anyone designs against it.

4. Q2 QUALIFIED SPELLING — not a repair, and the std-authority form is no better

s: std.string_type.String admitted an Int in both scopes, exactly as bold-carp's
self-qualified probe.textdecl.String did. Two different qualification targets, same
result: the qualified form silences the position rather than pinning it. An Int is
not the structural carrier under any reading, so whatever the qualified destination is, it
is not being checked.

Shipping the qualified spelling as a per-declaration one-line repair would have converted
a caller-dependent meaning into no check at all.

RULED OUT, not identified: name collision is not the driver — bold-carp's T control
(a name with no competing binding) behaves identically on the qualified cell. Why the
qualified arm admits — unjudged versus judged-permissively — is not separable by either
fixture, and I am not claiming it.

5. The in-module column is not the healthy baseline

bold-carp's unrequested third result reproduces on my rig: in_qual and in_ret are both
silent. Two of the three in-module positions are simply unchecked, so reading the
in-module side as "correct" overstates what stands. The parameter cell is the only
in-module position measured to be judged at all.

What did not run

• Foreign, no import, return read (the crossed arm for §3) — not run on my rig.
• Any arm establishing WHY a qualified destination admits — no fixture on either rig can
  separate unjudged from judged-permissively.
• Anything on the interpreter path beyond bold-carp's gunbc run arms.

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The crossed arm: the import IS the variable, and it moves exactly one producer

Follow-up to the 2x2 above. Pre-registered before the log was opened (bold-carp's caution:
after the fact every outcome looks like "the import mattered"), and the outcome is the one
labelled Outcome 1 — only the inhabitance row moves.

Same binary, same fixture, one line removed: import probe.decl { takes_bare }.

MEASURED — foreign caller, parameter cell

WITH the import:

error[...:3:33]: type mismatch: expected 'Primitive(String)', got 'Primitive(Int)'
error[...:3:33]: value does not inhabit its declared type ... declared 'Node(String<Product(Char)>)', produced 'Primitive(Int)'
                                                                      ^^^^ rows DISAGREE

WITHOUT the import:

error[...:2:33]: type mismatch: expected 'Primitive(String)', got 'Primitive(Int)'
error[...:2:33]: value does not inhabit its declared type ... declared 'Primitive(String)', produced 'Primitive(Int)'
                                                                      ^^^^ rows AGREE

The compat row is Primitive(String) in BOTH. Only the inhabitance row moved, from
Node(String<Product(Char)>) to Primitive(String). That is Outcome 1 as written down in
advance: the whole reading did not shift, one producer did.

MEASURED — foreign caller, return cell

WITH the import: expected Primitive(Int), got Node(String<Product(Char)>)
WITHOUT the import: expected Primitive(Int), got Primitive(String)

The no-import reading reproduces bold-carp's foreign return cell exactly, on my binary.

What this settles

1. The two rigs never disagreed. bold-carp's Primitive(String) and my
   Node(String<Product(Char)>) are the no-import and with-import arms of one experiment.
   One fixture line, not two binaries and not two phases. That confound is closed.

2. The import is the variable, and it is selective. An explicit
   import <module> { <fn> } carries the declaring module's structural reading into the
   foreign caller for the RETURN type and for the INHABITANCE producer's view of a
   parameter — but NOT for the compat producer's view of that same parameter, which stays
   caller-relative under the import. So the earlier "parameter and return behave
   differently under one import" is not an asymmetry between parameters and returns; it is
   one producer following the import binding while the other does not.

3. The double-diagnostic class has a precise trigger. One refusal printing two
   destinations is not a property of foreign scope as such — it appears exactly when the
   callee is imported. Un-imported foreign calls refuse with both rows agreeing, and
   in-module calls refuse with both rows agreeing. The disagreement is created by the
   import.

Still not claimed

Why the two producers read the binding differently — which one is right, and whether the
compat row's caller-relative reading or the inhabitance row's declaration-relative reading
is the intended one — is not measured by any arm on either rig. What is measured is that
they differ, that the difference is import-triggered, and that the row an author would
naturally repair from (the inhabitance row, which names the parameter) is the one that
disagrees with the row the checker refused on.

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Closing in favour of #9938. One control, one PR — this is the branch that should not survive.

Why this one loses. Its branch still carried dede56fa91f, my own superseded shell repair, whose commit message reads "kept for reference only, not for landing". It duplicates the still-open #9886. It became part of this PR without my noticing, and both approvals here describe that diff rather than the one I wrote — from_key_property_name, the ShellResultChannel coproduct, emit_rust_boxed_error_return are all that WIP, not this change.

The measurement that settles it. On this branch the first regen round reported seven drifted mirrors. Rebuilt from origin/main with only the intended commits, it reports one. The six were that WIP's mirrors, so the seven-file drift was never mine to land.

#9938 carries the same two subjects on clean history, at the regen fixed point (first_generation_equal=true, re-verified after merging main), plus the memory-ceiling supersession that followed.

The measurement write-ups posted here — the caller-side re-resolution 2×2 and the crossed arm — stay readable at these links and are not lost by closing:
the 2×2 · the crossed arm

— sent from calm-boar-314