@asmlift/core 0.5.0 → 0.7.0

package/src/l3/scopebase.ts

@@ -1,22 +1,43 @@
-// L3 re-spelling lever: hoist a reused global base into a pointer local at the INNERMOST scope
-// that contains all of its uses.
+// L3 respell variation: name a reused global base in a pointer local placed by SCOPE rather than at
+// the function top. Two region rules ship, one pass and one collected index behind them:
 //
-// The lever earns its place: returning `null` from `hoistScopedBases` costs
-// kleod:UpdateHUDCounterDisplay its match, so the benchmark's zero-lost gate guards this file.
+//   `/scopebase`   ONE local for a key, at the innermost list holding all of its uses (else the
+//                  deepest cluster of two).
+//   `/regionbase`  ONE LOCAL PER REGION — a base the source spells inside N disjoint regions is N
+//                  locals. agbcc discriminates on how many distinct locals with disjoint live
+//                  ranges exist, NOT on where they are declared: the three-at-function-top spelling
+//                  and the three-block-scoped one assemble byte-identically. So there is no nested
+//                  declaration block here and none is needed — the locals are declared at function
+//                  top and only their ASSIGNMENTS are placed per region. That compiler fact is
+//                  PINNED rather than asserted: packages/cli/test/matching/decl-scope-variation.test.ts
+//                  compiles both spellings through the project's own agbcc and compares the object
+//                  bytes, and compiles a count-collapsed third spelling to show the COUNT is not
+//                  free either.
 //
-// `l3/basecse.ts` already hoists a reused leaf base — but always to the FUNCTION TOP, and only for
-// an `addr`/`const` base. Both limits are load-bearing here, and each costs a real row:
+// The variation earned its place on kleod's kl-eod-decomp rows: returning `null` from `hoistScopedBases`
+// cost kleod:UpdateHUDCounterDisplay its match. That row was retired on 2026-09-13 with its source,
+// so no current benchmark row is known to guard this file; re-measure by ablation on the current
+// rows before naming one.
 //
-//   PLACEMENT. A base used only inside one `if` arm, hoisted to the function top, is live across
-//   everything before that arm — a live range the original never had, which is the register-pressure
-//   failure basecse's own loop gate exists for. That argument is why the lever is scope-aware; it is
-//   NOT a claim about what the lever achieves, and no committed measurement separates the two
-//   placements (the one that did edited a reference source by hand and cannot be re-run). On
-//   kleod:UpdateHUDCounterDisplay the primary path declines outright (a later pass retired the phi
-//   it keyed on, so the base's uses span the function body), and the cluster fallback below is what
-//   recovers it.
-//   basecse's header already names the gap — "a loop-body base is left
-//   inline for a future scope-aware hoist" — and this is that hoist.
+// `l3/basecse.ts` already hoists a reused leaf base — at three positions now, of which two are in
+// the TOP-LEVEL statement list (the function top, or an init's first use where a roster row asks
+// `l3/hoist.ts` for that) — and only for an `addr`/`const` base. What is left to this file is one
+// half of the placement question and the whole of eligibility:
+//
+//   PLACEMENT — NARROWED, NOT OWNED. A base used only inside one `if` arm is live across everything
+//   before that arm under either of basecse's FLAT positions — a live range the original never had,
+//   which is the register-pressure failure basecse's own loop gate exists for. First-use placement
+//   narrows that range and does not close it: the init still lands ABOVE the `if`. `l3/hoist.ts`'s
+//   third placement, `scope`, now does close it for the run basecse places, so "into a nested list"
+//   is no longer this file's alone; what stays here is the base this file can SEE (below) and the
+//   COUNT question (`REGION_RULES`), which no placement answers. That argument is why the variation is
+//   scope-aware; it is NOT a claim about what the variation achieves, and no committed measurement
+//   separates basecse's two flat placements (the one that did edited a reference source by hand and
+//   cannot be re-run). On kleod:UpdateHUDCounterDisplay the primary path declines outright (a later
+//   pass retired the phi it keyed on, so the base's uses span the function body), and the cluster
+//   fallback below is what recovers it. basecse's header names a LOOP-BODY base as left inline for
+//   a future scope-aware hoist, and this is that hoist: `scope` cannot serve one, because every
+//   gate table paired with it keeps the `loop` rule that refuses the base outright.
 //
 //   ELIGIBILITY. With a symbol map that states an array's RANK, the access renders as the bare
 //   `gSym[0][i]`, whose base node is a `var` naming the global, not an `addr`. basecse's
@@ -28,39 +49,33 @@
 // shape. The decomp author's alternative is a no-op read-modify-write (`g[0][K] += 0;`) purely to
 // force that materialization; naming the base is the same codegen without the quirk.
 //
-// A LEVER, not a rewrite: emitted as an ADDITIONAL candidate (rank.ts `/scopebase`) with the
-// differ refereeing, so the un-hoisted spelling is always still in the list and this can never cost
-// a match.
+// A VARIATION, not a committed rewrite: both region rules are emitted as ADDITIONAL candidates (rank.ts
+// `/scopebase`, `/regionbase`) with the differ refereeing, so the un-hoisted spelling is always
+// still in the list and neither can cost a match.
 //
 // SEMANTICS ARE PRESERVED BY CONSTRUCTION. The hoisted value is a pure ADDRESS of a global — no
 // load, nothing observable, nothing that can fault — so evaluating it earlier in a scope that
 // DOMINATES every use is invisible. The rewritten accesses keep their own width/signedness, so
-// every stride is unchanged. Domination is the load-bearing half: `collect` and `rewriteStmt` must
-// walk the SAME tree, or an access the planner never placed gets repointed at a local whose
-// assignment does not reach it — compiling C that reads an uninitialized pointer, which neither
-// boundary contract catches (they check resolution and deref typing, not definite assignment).
+// every stride is unchanged. Domination is the load-bearing half, and it is CHECKED rather than
+// argued: `assertHoistsDominate` re-walks the emitted tree, because an access repointed at a local
+// whose assignment does not reach it compiles, scores, and can WIN, and no stage-boundary contract
+// sees it (they check resolution, deref typing, and whether a local is written ANYWHERE).
 //
-// ORDERING: `hoistReusedGlobalBases` (basecse) runs unconditionally in `structureChecked`, BEFORE
-// rank's levers see the tree. So this pass's `addr`/`const` input is only what basecse REFUSED —
-// loop uses and repeated-constant-offset uses — which is why it carries basecse's const-offset gate
-// rather than assuming those bases never arrive.
+// ORDERING: `hoistBaseLocals` (basecse) runs unconditionally in `structureChecked`, BEFORE
+// rank's variations see the tree. So this pass's `addr`/`const` input is what basecse's DEFAULT table
+// refused — EVERY gate in it, single-use bases as much as loop and repeated-constant-offset ones —
+// which is why `SCOPEBASE_GATES` re-states basecse's rules rather than assuming those bases never
+// arrive.
+import { assertHoistsDominate } from '../contracts';
 import { type IrType, T, scalarTypeForAccess } from '../ir/types';
 import type { Expr, SFn, Stmt } from './ast';
-import { mapExprChildren, stmtExprs } from './ast';
-import { nameAllocator } from './hoist';
+import { mapExprChildren, stmtExprs, stmtLists } from './ast';
+import { type Gate, ablateHeuristic, firstRejection } from './gates';
+import { nameAllocator, takenNames } from './hoist';
+import { addressableGlobals } from './storage';
 
-/** A base this lever may name: a leaf whose value is a fixed address.
- *
- *  `var` is included ONLY for a name in `SFn.globals`. That list is populated by `noteGlobal` alone
- *  (two call sites in structure.ts, both on the `bareArrayLead` path, which requires
- *  `shape === 'array'`) — so a `var` base here is always an ARRAY-declared global and `(T *)&gSym`
- *  is its start address under any declaration. The invariant is worth stating because it is what
- *  keeps a POINTER-shaped global out: for one of those, `(T *)&gPtr` names the pointer CELL rather
- *  than the object it points at, which would be silently the wrong address. A local `var` is
- *  excluded for the ordinary reason: it can be assigned between the hoist point and a use. */
+/** A base this variation may name: a leaf whose value is a fixed address. */
 type LeafBase = Extract<Expr, { k: 'addr' } | { k: 'const' } | { k: 'var' }>;
-const isLeaf = (e: Expr, globals: ReadonlySet<string>): e is LeafBase =>
-  e.k === 'addr' || e.k === 'const' || (e.k === 'var' && globals.has(e.name));
 
 /** THE identity of a base — what makes two accesses "the same address".
  *
@@ -68,25 +83,75 @@ const isLeaf = (e: Expr, globals: ReadonlySet<string>): e is LeafBase =>
  *  cell; keying on the NAME alone means a function that mixes them still sees one base. */
 const baseId = (b: LeafBase): string => (b.k === 'const' ? `c:${b.value}` : `n:${b.name}`);
 
-/** An access this lever may re-point, or null.
+/** One candidate ACCESS, as the eligibility rules see it. */
+export interface AccessCtx {
+  readonly base: LeafBase;
+  readonly lead: readonly Expr[] | undefined;
+  /** the names declared as GLOBALS in this function — a local or param of the same name is absent */
+  readonly addressable: ReadonlySet<string>;
+}
+
+/** Which accesses this variation may re-point. BOTH rules are SOUND: each one, removed, makes the
+ *  rewrite name DIFFERENT BYTES — C that compiles, type-checks and scores, which is the failure
+ *  mode nothing downstream catches.
  *
- *  REFUSES a non-zero `lead`. `lead` pins the leading subscripts of a multidimensional array, so
- *  `g[1][i]` is a whole ROW past `g[0][i]`. The hoisted local points at the START of the object, and
- *  the rewrite DROPS the lead — sound only when every leading subscript is 0. A non-zero lead would
- *  silently address the wrong row, which no contract checks: the tree stays well-typed and
- *  spellable, it just names different bytes. (Today `bareArrayLead` only ever emits zeros; this
- *  guard is what keeps that an implementation detail rather than a correctness dependency.) */
-function eligible(e: Expr, globals: ReadonlySet<string>): Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }> | null {
-  if (e.k !== 'index' || !isLeaf(e.base, globals)) {
+ *  `lead` pins the leading subscripts of a multidimensional array, so `g[1][i]` is a whole ROW past
+ *  `g[0][i]`; the hoisted local points at the START of the object and the rewrite DROPS the lead.
+ *  A subscript that is not the literal 0 — a recovered row index included — is therefore refused.
+ *
+ *  A `var` base is admitted ONLY for a name in `SFn.globals`. That list is populated by `noteGlobal`
+ *  alone — three call sites in structure.ts (`declaredSubscripts`' recovered subscripts, and
+ *  `bareArrayLead`'s rank-pinned form on each of the byte-address and element-index paths) — and
+ *  the guarantee is not the count but what they SHARE: all three are gated on
+ *  `structure/globalaccess.ts`'s `bareArrayElement`, which requires `shape === 'array'`. So a `var`
+ *  base here is always an ARRAY-declared global and `(T *)&gSym` is its start address under any
+ *  declaration, and a fourth spelling added there inherits that only by going through the same
+ *  gate. For a POINTER-shaped global `(T *)&gPtr` names the
+ *  pointer CELL rather than the object it points at; for a LOCAL it names a cell something may
+ *  assign between the hoist point and a use. */
+export const SCOPEBASE_ELIGIBILITY: readonly Gate<AccessCtx>[] = [
+  {
+    id: 'nonzero-lead',
+    why: 'the rewrite drops `lead`, so a non-zero one would name a different array row',
+    sound: true,
+    guardedBy: 'scopebase.test.ts: a NON-ZERO lead is refused',
+    rejects: (c) => (c.lead ?? []).some((n) => !(n.k === 'const' && n.value === 0)),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'shadowed-or-nonarray-base',
+    why: 'taking `&name` of a local or a pointer-shaped global names a different object',
+    sound: true,
+    guardedBy: 'addr-placement.test.ts: scopebase declines the shadowed name rather than take its address',
+    rejects: (c) => c.base.k === 'var' && !c.addressable.has(c.base.name),
+  },
+];
+
+/** An access this variation may re-point, or null. */
+function eligible(
+  e: Expr,
+  globals: ReadonlySet<string>,
+  rules: readonly Gate<AccessCtx>[],
+): Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }> | null {
+  if (e.k !== 'index') {
     return null;
   }
-  return (e.lead ?? []).every((n) => n === 0) ? e : null;
+  const b = e.base;
+  if (b.k !== 'addr' && b.k !== 'const' && b.k !== 'var') {
+    return null;
+  }
+  return firstRejection(rules, { base: b, lead: e.lead, addressable: globals }) === null ? e : null;
 }
 
 /** The (base, access-shape) key an access shares with its reuse siblings. Width and signedness are
  *  part of it because the hoisted local carries the access's pointer type — two widths through one
  *  base are two different locals, exactly as in basecse. */
-const keyOf = (n: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>): string => `${baseId(n.base as LeafBase)} ${n.width} ${n.signed}`;
+const keyOf = (n: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>): string => scopedBaseKey(n.base as LeafBase, n.width, n.signed);
+
+/** The same key, from a base a DIFFERENT pass is holding. `l3/basecse.ts` spells an `addr` base's
+ *  identity `a:name` where this one spells it `n:name` (it shares that spelling with the bare `var`
+ *  the rank-aware lift produces, which denotes the same cell), so a caller crossing between the two
+ *  translates through this rather than comparing strings that can never match. */
+export const scopedBaseKey = (b: LeafBase, width: number, signed: boolean): string => `${baseId(b)} ${width} ${signed}`;
 
 /** One use, located by its chain of enclosing statement LISTS (outermost first).
  *
@@ -96,42 +161,64 @@ const keyOf = (n: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>): string => `${baseId(n.base as
 interface Site {
   path: Stmt[][];
   loop: boolean[];
-  /** `idx[i]` is the index, within `path[i]`, of the statement this use sits under. Used to place
-   *  the hoist immediately before the FIRST statement that needs it rather than at the list head:
-   *  a call between the assignment and the first use is exactly what forces the pointer into a
-   *  CALLEE-SAVED register and adds the prologue push/pop the original avoided — the same failure,
-   *  one level smaller, that this module exists to fix. argbase.ts places by the same rule. */
+  /** The chain of statement indices leading to this use, read through `indexWithin` below — which
+   *  owns the off-by-one against `path`. Used to place the hoist immediately before the FIRST
+   *  statement that needs it rather than at the list head: a call between the assignment and the
+   *  first use is exactly what forces the pointer into a CALLEE-SAVED register and adds the
+   *  prologue push/pop the original avoided — the same failure, one level smaller, that this module
+   *  exists to fix. argbase.ts places by the same rule. */
   idx: number[];
   /** the use runs EVERY ITERATION of a loop whose body is not on `path` — a loop's own condition,
    *  or a `for`'s increment. No scope reachable from `path` runs at that cadence, so a key with any
    *  such use is refused outright rather than hoisted to a point that runs once. */
   perIteration: boolean;
+  /** the access node itself — what the rewrite repoints, so `collect` and the rewrite cannot
+   *  disagree about which uses a plan entry owns */
+  node: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>;
 }
 
-/** Set when the tree holds a shape `collect` and `rewriteStmt` would disagree about — see the
- *  `for`-part note below. The pass then declines outright. */
-let compound = false;
+/** WHERE, within the region statement list at `depth`, the statement holding this use sits.
+ *
+ *  THE OFF-BY-ONE HAS ONE HOME AND THIS IS IT. `collect` starts `path` EMPTY and pushes a statement
+ *  index for every list it descends, so `idx` carries one entry MORE than `path`: `idx[j + 1]` is
+ *  the index within `path[j]`. A region is `path[depth - 1]`, so its own index is `idx[depth]` —
+ *  and `idx[0]` for the depth-0 body region `perRegions` synthesizes, which is why `path` must NOT
+ *  be seeded with `sfn.body`: seeding it would shift this read for every key in every function. */
+const indexWithin = (u: Site, depth: number): number => u.idx[depth];
+
+/** Everything one `collect` run carries that the descent does not change. Bundled rather than
+ *  spelled as five more positional parameters, and the bundling is what makes the walk RE-ENTRANT:
+ *  every field, `compound` included, is built per call, so nothing one run decides can reach the
+ *  next. A refusal held in module scope would instead need a reset the caller cannot forget. */
+interface CollectState {
+  readonly globals: ReadonlySet<string>;
+  /** key → its uses and the access the local's type is taken from, in first-appearance order */
+  readonly out: Map<string, { uses: Site[]; sample: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }> }>;
+  readonly rules: readonly Gate<AccessCtx>[];
+  /** every eligible node already visited — meeting one twice is one object at two tree positions */
+  readonly seenNodes: Set<Expr>;
+  /** the KEYS that sharing refuses, filled here and read in `planScopedBases`, where the argument
+   *  for refusing per KEY rather than per function is written out */
+  readonly sharedKeys: Set<string>;
+  /** the tree holds a shape `collect` and `rewriteStmt` would disagree about — see the `for`-part
+   *  note below. The pass then declines outright. */
+  compound: boolean;
+}
 
 /** Walk every expression in the tree, recording each eligible access's key and its scope path. */
-function collect(
-  body: Stmt[],
-  globals: ReadonlySet<string>,
-  out: Map<string, { uses: Site[]; sample: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>; constOff: Map<number, number> }>,
-  path: Stmt[][],
-  loop: boolean[],
-  idxPath: number[],
-): void {
+function collect(body: Stmt[], path: Stmt[][], loop: boolean[], idxPath: number[], st: CollectState): void {
   let at = 0;
   const visit = (e: Expr, perIteration: boolean): void => {
-    const ix = eligible(e, globals);
+    const ix = eligible(e, st.globals, st.rules);
     if (ix) {
       const k = keyOf(ix);
-      const rec = out.get(k) ?? { uses: [], sample: ix, constOff: new Map<number, number>() };
-      rec.uses.push({ path, loop, perIteration, idx: [...idxPath, at] });
-      if (ix.idx.k === 'const') {
-        rec.constOff.set(ix.idx.value, (rec.constOff.get(ix.idx.value) ?? 0) + 1);
+      if (st.seenNodes.has(ix)) {
+        st.sharedKeys.add(k);
       }
-      out.set(k, rec);
+      st.seenNodes.add(ix);
+      const rec = st.out.get(k) ?? { uses: [], sample: ix };
+      rec.uses.push({ path, loop, perIteration, idx: [...idxPath, at], node: ix });
+      st.out.set(k, rec);
     }
     mapExprChildren(e, (c) => {
       visit(c, perIteration);
@@ -158,8 +245,8 @@ function collect(
       // rather than grow a second recursion this REFUSES the whole function — loud decline over a
       // silently unreachable definition. Delete this when `stmtLists` makes collect/rewrite share
       // one traversal.
-      if (childLists(s.init).length > 0 || childLists(s.inc).length > 0) {
-        compound = true;
+      if (stmtLists(s.init).length > 0 || stmtLists(s.inc).length > 0) {
+        st.compound = true;
       }
       // `init` and `inc` are STATEMENTS, so their expressions are reached by neither `stmtExprs`
       // nor `childLists` — yet `rewriteStmt` rewrites them. Collect and rewrite MUST see the same
@@ -169,46 +256,31 @@ function collect(
       stmtExprs(s.init).forEach((e) => visit(e, false));
       stmtExprs(s.inc).forEach((e) => visit(e, true));
     }
-    for (const child of childLists(s)) {
-      collect(child, globals, out, [...path, child], [...loop, isLoop], [...idxPath, i]);
+    for (const child of stmtLists(s)) {
+      collect(child, [...path, child], [...loop, isLoop], [...idxPath, i], st);
     }
   }
 }
 
-/** The nested statement LISTS of a statement — the scopes a hoist could land in.
- *
- *  Deliberately not `stmtChildren`, which flattens a `for`'s `init`/`inc` in with its body: those
- *  are single statements, not lists, and a hoist has nowhere legal to go in either (before the loop
- *  changes when it runs, inside the body repeats it). A `for`'s body IS a list and is included. */
-function childLists(s: Stmt): Stmt[][] {
-  switch (s.k) {
-    case 'if':
-      return [s.then, s.else];
-    case 'while':
-    case 'dowhile':
-    case 'for':
-      return [s.body];
-    case 'switch':
-      return [...s.cases.map((c) => c.body), ...(s.default ? [s.default] : [])];
-    // Exhaustive on purpose — no `default`. A future Stmt kind carrying a nested list must be a
-    // COMPILE error here, exactly as it is in `stmtChildren`: a silent `[]` would collect that
-    // kind's uses at the wrong scope while `rewriteStmt`, which IS exhaustive, still rewrote them.
-    case 'assign':
-    case 'store':
-    case 'exprstmt':
-    case 'return':
-    case 'break':
-    case 'continue':
-      return [];
-  }
-}
-
 /** The innermost statement list common to every use, or null when they span the function body.
  *
  *  Null is NOT a decline any more: the caller falls through to `deepestCluster`. Kept as a distinct
  *  answer because "one scope holds everything" is the better shape when it exists — every use is
  *  named, not just a cluster. The consolidation this file still owes would make both of these one
- *  selector parameter over a single collected index. */
+ *  selector parameter over a single collected index.
+ *
+ *  A THIRD ANSWER TO THE SAME QUESTION now exists and is booked here rather than left for a reader
+ *  to collide with: `l3/hoist.ts`'s `scopeSite` finds the innermost list holding every MENTION of a
+ *  minted local, top-down, with no cluster fallback. The two are not merged, and the reason is the
+ *  domain rather than the algorithm — this one partitions the ACCESSES of a base key it is about to
+ *  repoint, that one places a statement whose local already exists, so a shared implementation
+ *  would take the collected index this file owes anyway. THE ONE DIVERGENCE TO CARRY INTO THAT
+ *  EXTRACTION is the `for` reading `collect` records above: this pass counts a `for`'s `init` at
+ *  the enclosing cadence, `l3/basecse.ts`'s own census counts it in-loop, and only those two
+ *  readings are pinned (test/addr-placement.test.ts). `scopeSite` is a THIRD reader of the same
+ *  position and agrees with this pass — `init`/`inc` are statements no list holds, so a mention in
+ *  either stops the descent (test/sinkinit.test.ts) — but by its own route, and nothing checks that
+ *  the two keep agreeing. */
 function commonScope(uses: Site[]): { scope: Stmt[]; depth: number } | null {
   const first = uses[0].path;
   let depth = 0;
@@ -218,13 +290,20 @@ function commonScope(uses: Site[]): { scope: Stmt[]; depth: number } | null {
   return depth === 0 ? null : { scope: first[depth - 1], depth };
 }
 
-/** The DEEPEST statement list holding 2+ uses, with just those uses — the fallback when no single
- *  scope holds them all.
+/** `'whole'`'s fallback: the DEEPEST statement list holding 2+ uses, with just those uses.
  *
  *  Ties are broken by first appearance, so emission stays deterministic. Returning a SUBSET is the
  *  whole point: the uses outside the cluster keep their original spelling, which is exactly the
  *  mixed form the compiler produces when it materializes an address in one arm and re-derives it
- *  elsewhere. */
+ *  elsewhere.
+ *
+ *  DEEPEST with no size term, and that is a limitation rather than a model of the compiler: a scope
+ *  with four uses enclosing a nested scope with two names the TWO and leaves the four re-deriving
+ *  (pinned in test/scopebase.test.ts). Only ONE cluster is ever served here — serving all of them
+ *  is what `'per-region'` does, under its own admission table.
+ *
+ *  Its uses are RESIDUAL — a list's entry holds every use beneath it, not just its direct ones —
+ *  which is why `regionsOf` builds its partition itself rather than reusing this. */
 function deepestCluster(all: Site[]): { scope: Stmt[]; depth: number; uses: Site[] } | null {
   const byList = new Map<Stmt[], { depth: number; uses: Site[] }>();
   for (const u of all) {
@@ -243,117 +322,481 @@ function deepestCluster(all: Site[]): { scope: Stmt[]; depth: number; uses: Site
   return best;
 }
 
-/** Does any use sit inside a LOOP nested below the chosen scope?
+/** How a key's uses are cut into REGIONS — the one dimension this pass varies. Names a `REGION_RULES`
+ *  entry; it is the only field a production caller passes. */
+export type RegionSelector = 'whole' | 'per-region';
+
+interface Region {
+  scope: Stmt[];
+  depth: number;
+  uses: Site[];
+}
+
+/** `'whole'`'s partition: ONE region for the key — the innermost list holding every use, else the
+ *  deepest cluster of two. `body` is unused; the signature is the RULE's, so both partitions are
+ *  one type and the selector can be a value. */
+function wholeRegion(all: Site[], _body: Stmt[]): Region[] {
+  const at = commonScope(all);
+  if (at) {
+    return [{ scope: at.scope, depth: at.depth, uses: all }];
+  }
+  const cluster = deepestCluster(all);
+  return cluster ? [cluster] : [];
+}
+
+/** `'per-region'`'s partition: one region per INNERMOST ENCLOSING LIST, and every partition is
+ *  served. DIRECT uses only, and the FUNCTION BODY is a region like any other.
  *
- *  OVER-REFUSES in two shapes, deliberately: a `do { … } while (g[1]) ;` body head and a
- *  `for (…; …; i = g[5])` body head both DO run at the flagged cadence, so a hoist there would be
- *  legal. Refusing them costs a missed spelling and nothing else (bench: 0 lost, 0 gained), and the
- *  precise rule needs the loop-DEPTH model an extraction would bring. Otherwise:
- *  the hoist would be loop-invariant code motion to a point the original never had — the
- *  register-pressure failure `basecse.ts`'s own `inLoop` gate refuses, and the reason that gate
- *  exists. When EVERY use is inside the loop, the common scope IS the loop body: the assignment
- *  then runs per iteration exactly as the inline spelling did, and there is nothing to refuse. */
-function underNestedLoop(uses: Site[], depth: number): boolean {
-  return uses.some((u) => u.perIteration || u.loop.slice(depth).some(Boolean));
+ *  Not the residual-subtree rule (a list's entry holding every use beneath it, which is what
+ *  `deepestCluster` builds): under that rule the body region holds the arms' uses too, and the
+ *  loop and offset rules then judge a region on uses that are not in it. Not an ANTICHAIN of
+ *  scope-disjoint regions either — the body list encloses both arms and is served anyway. What
+ *  separates a region from the ones nested in it is only which uses are direct.
+ *
+ *  The synthetic depth-0 entry is why `collect`'s `path` is NOT seeded with `sfn.body` —
+ *  `indexWithin` owns that invariant and states what re-seeding would cost. */
+function perRegions(all: Site[], body: Stmt[]): Region[] {
+  const byList = new Map<Stmt[], Region>();
+  for (const u of all) {
+    const depth = u.path.length;
+    const scope = depth === 0 ? body : u.path[depth - 1];
+    const e = byList.get(scope) ?? { scope, depth, uses: [] };
+    e.uses.push(u);
+    byList.set(scope, e);
+  }
+  // insertion order — first appearance of each region, so emission stays deterministic
+  return [...byList.values()];
 }
 
-/**
- * The `/scopebase` re-spelling, or null when nothing qualifies (the caller then adds no candidate
- * rather than a duplicate of the primary).
- */
-export function hoistScopedBases(sfn: SFn): SFn | null {
-  compound = false;
-  // A name that is BOTH a declared global and a local/param is not safely a global here: `&g` would
-  // take the address of the LOCAL, silently a different object. Excluded rather than assumed apart.
-  const shadowed = new Set([...sfn.locals.map((l) => l.name), ...sfn.params.map((p) => p.name)]);
-  const globals = new Set((sfn.globals ?? []).map((g) => g.name).filter((n) => !shadowed.has(n)));
-  const found = new Map<
-    string,
-    { uses: Site[]; sample: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>; constOff: Map<number, number> }
-  >();
-  collect(sfn.body, globals, found, [], [], []);
-  if (compound) {
-    return null;
+/** Is some literal offset reached twice among these uses? Tallied from the SITES, so the answer is
+ *  scoped by whichever set the caller judges — the key's, or one region's. */
+function repeatsAConstOffset(uses: Site[]): boolean {
+  const seen = new Set<number>();
+  for (const u of uses) {
+    const i = u.node.idx;
+    if (i.k === 'const') {
+      if (seen.has(i.value)) {
+        return true;
+      }
+      seen.add(i.value);
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/** The two loop facts, split apart because they are two different rules with two different
+ *  arguments — see the gate table.
+ *
+ *  `perIteration` OVER-REFUSES in two shapes, deliberately: a `do { … } while (g[1]) ;` body head
+ *  and a `for (…; …; i = g[5])` body head both DO run at the flagged cadence, so a hoist there
+ *  would be legal. Refusing them costs a missed spelling and nothing else (bench: 0 lost, 0
+ *  gained), and the precise rule needs a loop-DEPTH model. When EVERY use is inside the loop the
+ *  scope IS the loop body: the assignment then runs per iteration exactly as the inline spelling
+ *  did, and `nestedLoop` is false — there is nothing to refuse. */
+const runsPerIteration = (uses: Site[]): boolean => uses.some((u) => u.perIteration);
+const underNestedLoop = (uses: Site[], depth: number): boolean => uses.some((u) => u.loop.slice(depth).some(Boolean));
+
+/** One candidate REGION, as the admission rules see it. */
+export interface RegionCtx {
+  /** how many uses the local would serve */
+  readonly uses: number;
+  /** some constant offset is reached twice through this base */
+  readonly repeatedConstOffset: boolean;
+  /** some use runs at a cadence no reachable scope has — a loop's own condition, a `for`'s inc */
+  readonly perIteration: boolean;
+  /** some use sits inside a loop nested BELOW the region */
+  readonly nestedLoop: boolean;
+  /** how many of this key's regions hold two or more direct uses */
+  readonly siblingRegions: number;
+}
+
+/** The rules judged over a POPULATION OF USES — the half the region rule re-reads. Split out
+ *  because that is what `perRegionReading` below renames, so a fourth counting rule is renamed by
+ *  construction instead of by remembering to extend a list of ids. */
+const COUNTING_RULES: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[] = [
+  {
+    id: 'single-use',
+    why: 'a base accessed once is as cheap to load again as to hold in a named local',
+    sound: false,
+    rejects: (c) => c.uses < 2,
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'repeated-const-offset',
+    why: 'a fixed offset read and then written is one scalar update, and the compiler loads its address again for it',
+    sound: false,
+    rejects: (c) => c.repeatedConstOffset,
+  },
+];
+
+/** The rules judged over the REGION's own loop facts, which every region rule reads the same way
+ *  (`RegionRule.judged` says why: no reachable scope answers for a use outside the region). */
+const LOOP_RULES: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[] = [
+  {
+    id: 'per-iteration-use',
+    why: 'no scope reachable from the use runs as often as a loop condition or a `for` increment',
+    sound: false,
+    rejects: (c) => c.perIteration,
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'nested-loop-use',
+    why: 'hoisting out of a nested loop is code motion to a point the original never had',
+    sound: false,
+    rejects: (c) => c.nestedLoop,
+  },
+];
+
+/** The admission rules. NONE is sound: a wrong decision here names the same address in a different
+ *  place, so it costs bytes and a match, never meaning — the eligibility table above is where
+ *  meaning is at stake, and `rank.ts` keeps the un-hoisted spelling beside every candidate.
+ *
+ *  `repeated-const-offset` and `nested-loop-use` are inherited from `BASECSE_GATES`, which learned
+ *  them by losing the ProcessHBlankWait match and by forcing a callee-saved register across a loop.
+ *  `per-iteration-use` is the half of the loop question basecse never faces: this pass places into
+ *  a NESTED list, and no reachable list runs at a loop condition's cadence.
+ *
+ *  `repeated-const-offset` is an EXTRAPOLATION on half this pass's input, and honestly so: the
+ *  evidence is a `const` MMIO address, and the `var` (array-global) half is input basecse never
+ *  saw. It also SLIPS on a fixed offset not spelled as a literal — two identical `g[i]` accesses
+ *  are not tallied. rank's `/livebase` takes the OPPOSITE side, ablating the same rule in
+ *  `LIVEBASE_GATES` for the poll shapes it mispredicts, and the differ arbitrates.
+ *
+ *  MEASURED REACH, so a reader prices these from evidence rather than from the table's existence.
+ *  Instrumented census over the klonoa corpus with no symbol map (469 `.s`, 257 lifting functions),
+ *  every rule evaluated on every admission context the pass builds. `any` counts the contexts a
+ *  rule rejects; `first` the ones where it is the DECIDING rejection, which is the only column that
+ *  prices it — `firstRejection` short-circuits, so a rule that is never first changes no decision.
+ *  `relaxed` re-asks `first` with the counting rules dropped, which is what separates a rule that
+ *  decides nothing from one MASKED by the two that precede it:
+ *
+ *      table   contexts    rule                            any     first   relaxed
+ *      SB        79880     single-use                    24268     24268         —
+ *                          repeated-const-offset         54120     54120         —
+ *                          per-iteration-use              8784         0      8784
+ *                          nested-loop-use                6560       656      4768
+ *      RB       512760     region-single-use            393153    393153         —
+ *                          region-repeated-const-offset  94857     94857         —
+ *                          per-iteration-use             32586         0     32586
+ *                          regions-degenerate           353352       846    331530
+ *
+ *  So `per-iteration-use` decides nothing on this corpus in either table, and ablating it moves no
+ *  gating row. It is kept, and the `relaxed` column is why: every context it rejects it would
+ *  decide, the moment a counting rule stopped rejecting first. Dropping a masked rule is a change
+ *  one corpus licenses; `nested-loop-use` left the region table on a proof that it CANNOT fire
+ *  there, which is a different standard and the one this file holds.
+ *
+ *  A SECOND POPULATION, AT A DIFFERENT GRAIN, agrees on the masked rule. Over the artifact's 404
+ *  agbcc rows — `decompile()`'s default structuring, map-LESS, one tree per row — read per KEY
+ *  through `planScopedBases(...).refusals` rather than per admission context: 201 keys reach the
+ *  tables. Under `'whole'` the deciding refusal is `repeated-const-offset` on 57 keys and
+ *  `single-use` on 52 (92 keys served); under `'per-region'` it is `region-single-use` on 133,
+ *  `region-repeated-const-offset` on 50 and `regions-degenerate` on 8 (10 served).
+ *  `per-iteration-use` is the deciding refusal for ZERO keys in either table, and `nested-loop-use`
+ *  for zero of the `'whole'` ones.
+ *
+ *  BOTH CENSUSES ARE MAP-LESS, and neither says anything about the arm the real tier runs on: under
+ *  a symbol map an absolute pool constant lifts to a `gaddr`, so the base population this pass is
+ *  handed is a different one. */
+export const SCOPEBASE_GATES: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[] = [...COUNTING_RULES, ...LOOP_RULES];
+
+/** A counting rule's PER-REGION reading. Same predicate, different POPULATION — under `'whole'` it
+ *  is judged over the KEY's uses (the cluster fallback serves a SUBSET of them, so the two really
+ *  do differ), under `'per-region'` over one region's direct uses. One id naming two predicates
+ *  makes `without(table, id)` two different ablations and a price table ambiguous about which
+ *  reading it priced, so the per-region reading gets its own id. */
+const perRegionReading = (g: Gate<RegionCtx>): Gate<RegionCtx> => ({
+  ...g,
+  id: `region-${g.id}`,
+  why: `counted over one region’s own uses: ${g.why}`,
+});
+
+/** `/regionbase`'s admission (rank.ts): the per-region readings of `SCOPEBASE_GATES`, MINUS the one
+ *  rule the region rule makes vacuous, plus the one that exists only once a key can hold MORE THAN
+ *  ONE local.
+ *
+ *  `nested-loop-use` CANNOT FIRE under `'per-region'` and is dropped rather than left in the table
+ *  reading as safety. `perRegions` sets a region's `depth` to `u.path.length`, and a region is
+ *  exactly the uses whose innermost enclosing list IS that region — so `u.loop.slice(depth)` is
+ *  the empty slice for every use it judges, and "a use under a loop BELOW the region" is a shape
+ *  the partition cannot produce. A use inside a nested loop is its own region, at its own depth.
+ *  Measured on the PREDICATE, not on table membership, since a rule the table no longer holds
+ *  cannot be censused through it: over the corpus census above, `underNestedLoop` is true on 0 of
+ *  512760 `'per-region'` contexts and on 6560 of 79880 `'whole'` ones, where the rule stays in
+ *  `SCOPEBASE_GATES` and is load-bearing.
+ *
+ *  `regions-degenerate` is a FAN SAVING, not a codegen model: it counts regions holding two or
+ *  more DIRECT uses, which is `single-use` applied region-wise and so is computable before any
+ *  gate runs. Its saving is USUALLY a duplicate — one such region is the function-top question
+ *  `basecse`/`/livebase`/`/scopebase` already answer — but not always, and this pass produces the
+ *  counterexample: one arm with three direct uses plus a nested loop holding a fourth is refused
+ *  under `'whole'` by `nested-loop-use` and here by this rule, and ablating it alone is the only
+ *  way to reach the hoist (test/regionbase.test.ts). A heuristic, and the differ referees what it
+ *  admits.
+ *
+ *  ONE RULE HERE IS PRICED BY A ROW; three are not. Ablating `region-single-use` moves
+ *  `synthetic:dmascope` — the variation's own row — while `region-repeated-const-offset`,
+ *  `per-iteration-use` and `regions-degenerate` each leave all five gating rows exactly where they
+ *  stand. NO SCORE PAIR IS QUOTED for that move: `dmascope` is MATCH in the committed artifact, so
+ *  a pair whose unablated endpoint is a nonmatch score describes a corpus state that no longer
+ *  exists. Re-run the ablation before writing one back. The OVER-SCOPING controls
+ *  (`synthetic:dmascope1`,
+ *  `synthetic:offhi_fused`) must stay MATCH but can price nothing here: censused on their own
+ *  disassembly, `dmascope1` enumerates 6 candidates with 0 carrying `/regionbase` and
+ *  `offhi_fused` 12 with 0. The other three are guarded by unit fixtures in test/regionbase.test.ts
+ *  and by the reach census above. */
+export const REGIONBASE_GATES: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[] = [
+  ...COUNTING_RULES.map(perRegionReading),
+  ...ablateHeuristic(LOOP_RULES, 'nested-loop-use'),
+  {
+    id: 'regions-degenerate',
+    why: 'a single region is the function-top local that the default hoist and `livebase` already offer',
+    sound: false,
+    rejects: (c) => c.siblingRegions < 2,
+  },
+];
+
+/** THE REGION RULE, as a value. A third rule is one entry here — a partition, a gate table, and
+ *  the population its counting rules are judged over — rather than three hand-edited branches in
+ *  three functions, which is the same doctrine `rank-variations.ts` states for its hoist roster ("one entry
+ *  here, one gate table, and that table's line in the gate-contract roster — not nine hand-edited
+ *  sites that can drift"). */
+export interface RegionRule {
+  readonly id: RegionSelector;
+  /** how a key's uses are cut into regions */
+  readonly partition: (all: Site[], body: Stmt[]) => Region[];
+  /** the admission table `hoistScopedBases` uses when no ablation is passed */
+  readonly gates: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[];
+  /** the uses the COUNTING rules (`uses`, `repeatedConstOffset`) are tallied over. The loop facts
+   *  are always the region's own — no reachable scope answers for a use outside it. */
+  readonly judged: (region: Region, key: Site[]) => Site[];
+}
+
+export const REGION_RULES: Record<RegionSelector, RegionRule> = {
+  // `'whole'` judges the count and the offset tally over the KEY and the loop facts over the
+  // chosen region — the scoping this pass has always used, and the cluster case is why: its region
+  // is a SUBSET of the key's uses.
+  whole: { id: 'whole', partition: wholeRegion, gates: SCOPEBASE_GATES, judged: (_r, key) => key },
+  // `'per-region'` judges every rule over the region's own direct uses — a REFINEMENT and not a
+  // relaxation: an offset repeated INSIDE one region is still repeated.
+  'per-region': { id: 'per-region', partition: perRegions, gates: REGIONBASE_GATES, judged: (r) => r.uses },
+};
+
+/** `regions` picks the region rule and is the only field a caller passes in production
+ *  (`'per-region'` is `/regionbase`). The other three are for ABLATION and INJECTION — the
+ *  differentials in test/scopebase.test.ts re-run the real pass with one rule dropped, and the
+ *  ownership contract below is shown load-bearing by a `rule` no production caller passes. All
+ *  three default to what the selector implies. */
+export interface ScopeBaseOpts {
+  readonly regions?: RegionSelector;
+  readonly eligibility?: readonly Gate<AccessCtx>[];
+  readonly gates?: readonly Gate<RegionCtx>[];
+  readonly rule?: RegionRule;
+}
+
+/** One admitted region, as the applier and a gating caller both read it. `uses` are the ACCESS
+ *  NODES the entry owns — the same set the counting rules were judged over, so the planner and the
+ *  rewrite cannot disagree about them. */
+export interface ScopedBaseEntry {
+  readonly scope: Stmt[];
+  readonly key: string;
+  readonly name: string;
+  readonly type: IrType;
+  readonly base: LeafBase;
+  /** index within `scope` the init is spliced at — the first statement that (transitively) uses it */
+  readonly before: number;
+  readonly uses: readonly Expr[];
+}
+
+/** What the pass DECIDED, before anything is applied. `applyScopedBasePlan` is the other half: a
+ *  caller that has to both COUNT what a key got and rewrite the tree (l3/homesplit.ts) plans once
+ *  and applies that same plan, rather than re-deriving the decision from the applied tree. */
+export interface ScopedBasePlan {
+  /** every eligible key `collect` found, in first-appearance order */
+  readonly keys: readonly string[];
+  readonly entries: readonly ScopedBaseEntry[];
+  /** access node → the local that replaces its base */
+  readonly repoint: ReadonlyMap<Expr, string>;
+  /** for a key NO region admitted, the id of the rule that refused it first — `'shared-node'` for
+   *  the pre-gate refusal `sharedKeys` makes. A key with an entry is absent. */
+  readonly refusals: ReadonlyMap<string, string>;
+  /** the tree holds the `for`-part shape collect and rewrite disagree about: the pass declines */
+  readonly compound: boolean;
+}
+
+/** THE OWNERSHIP CONTRACT, and it is deliberately not a `Gate`: it is a property of the whole plan,
+ *  decided after every `RegionCtx` has been judged, so there is no admission context to attach it
+ *  to — the same reason `sharedKeys` and `compound` are not gates either.
+ *
+ *  Two properties, one failure each, and NEITHER is a compile error downstream:
+ *
+ *    • an access node claimed by two entries. `repoint` is a `Map`, so the second `set` WINS and the
+ *      access is silently repointed at a local whose assignment need not dominate it — C that
+ *      compiles, scores, and names a different variable.
+ *    • a minted name that is not fresh. The applier appends `entries`' names to `sfn.locals`
+ *      wholesale, so a duplicate emits a duplicate declaration — and freshness is `takenNames`'
+ *      reading of it, which is what `nameAllocator` mints against: a name that only shadows a
+ *      PARAMETER, or a body assignment no declaration list carries, is a different variable rather
+ *      than a duplicate declaration, and that is the failure this contract exists for.
+ *
+ *  Both fire ZERO times under either shipped region rule (the partitions are node-disjoint, and
+ *  `nameAllocator` re-derives its taken names from the tree it is handed — including across the
+ *  rank.ts pipe, where the second pass sees the first's mints as taken). They are checks rather
+ *  than arguments because a future rule, or a merge of two independently-planned runs, breaks
+ *  either one without breaking a type. */
+export function assertPlanOwnership(
+  sfn: SFn,
+  entries: readonly { name: string; key: string; uses?: readonly Expr[] }[],
+): void {
+  const taken = takenNames(sfn);
+  const claimed = new Set<Expr>();
+  for (const e of entries) {
+    if (taken.has(e.name)) {
+      throw new Error(`scopebase: the plan mints \`${e.name}\`, a name the tree already carries (key ${e.key})`);
+    }
+    taken.add(e.name);
+    for (const u of e.uses ?? []) {
+      if (claimed.has(u)) {
+        throw new Error(`scopebase: an access is claimed by two plan entries (key ${e.key}, local ${e.name})`);
+      }
+      claimed.add(u);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** What the pass DECIDES for `sfn` under `opts`, with nothing applied. `applyScopedBasePlan` is the
+ *  applier and `hoistScopedBases` the two of them in order; a caller that gates a PAIRING on "how
+ *  many locals did this key get?" reads the plan and applies THAT one (l3/homesplit.ts). */
+export function planScopedBases(sfn: SFn, opts: ScopeBaseOpts = {}): ScopedBasePlan {
+  const rules = opts.eligibility ?? SCOPEBASE_ELIGIBILITY;
+  const rule = opts.rule ?? REGION_RULES[opts.regions ?? 'whole'];
+  const gates = opts.gates ?? rule.gates;
+  const globals = addressableGlobals(sfn);
+  const found = new Map<string, { uses: Site[]; sample: Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }> }>();
+  /** The KEYS whose tree holds one `index` OBJECT at two positions. The rewrite repoints by node
+   *  identity, so a shared node is one plan entry claiming two uses it need not dominate.
+   *
+   *  PER KEY, not per function, and the difference is not hypothetical. Nothing in the L3 contract
+   *  forbids the sharing — `l3/pollguard.ts` already emits it (`{ k: 'if', cond: s.cond, then: [s] }`
+   *  puts one `cond` object at two tree positions), and it is harmless today only because the shapes
+   *  are derived AFTER this variation in `rank.ts`, an ordering nothing pins. A whole-function decline
+   *  would make a future producer that shares one node silently delete every base this pass names —
+   *  including, until that row was retired (2026-09-13), `kleod:UpdateHUDCounterDisplay`'s match,
+   *  which returning `null` cost. Refusing the
+   *  key that actually shares costs that key's spelling and nothing else, and the differ still has
+   *  every other spelling in the list.
+   *
+   *  Not a `Gate`: it is decided during `collect`, before a `RegionCtx` exists. */
+  const sharedKeys = new Set<string>();
+  const st: CollectState = { globals, out: found, rules, seenNodes: new Set(), sharedKeys, compound: false };
+  collect(sfn.body, [], [], [], st);
+  if (st.compound) {
+    return { keys: [...found.keys()], entries: [], repoint: new Map(), refusals: new Map(), compound: true };
   }
 
   const fresh = nameAllocator(sfn);
-  // key → (scope list identity, local name)
-  const plan: { scope: Stmt[]; key: string; name: string; type: IrType; base: LeafBase; before: number }[] = [];
+  // one entry per (key, admitted region) — several for one key under `'per-region'`
+  const entries: ScopedBaseEntry[] = [];
+  // INSTRUMENTATION, with no production reader — the only thing that reads it is
+  // test/regionbase.test.ts's `…and a key it serves nowhere names the DECIDING rule rather than
+  // vanishing`. The caller that gates on this pass counts the ENTRIES a key got, and a decline
+  // tells it only `not split`. Recorded because the id separates a region that held too few uses
+  // from a shape the pass refuses outright, which is what a probe of this pass has to know.
+  // `firstRejection` short-circuits, so this is the DECIDING rule.
+  const refusals = new Map<string, string>();
   for (const [key, rec] of found) {
-    if (rec.uses.length < 2) {
-      continue; // one access re-materializes as cheaply as a named local
-    }
-    // A constant offset touched 2+ times is a SCALAR re-access at one fixed location (an MMIO
-    // read-modify-write, a repeated `*p`), which the compiler re-materializes rather than
-    // register-holds. basecse.ts learned this by LOSING the ProcessHBlankWait match to it. Inherited
-    // here rather than re-lost — but honestly: the evidence is a `const` MMIO address, and it
-    // applies cleanly only to the `addr`/`const` half of this pass's input, which is exactly what
-    // basecse refused and left behind. For the `var` (array-global) half basecse never ran, so this
-    // is an EXTRAPOLATION, not an inheritance. Conservative direction, so the cost is a missed
-    // hoist rather than a wrong one. It also SLIPS on a fixed offset not spelled as a literal —
-    // two identical `g[i]` accesses are not tallied — which basecse acknowledges in its own comment
-    // and which this pass is MORE exposed to, since it deliberately admits loop-body uses, exactly
-    // the input basecse's `inLoop` gate kept away from that hole.
-    if ([...rec.constOff.values()].some((n) => n >= 2)) {
+    if (sharedKeys.has(key)) {
+      refusals.set(key, 'shared-node'); // one node at two positions — see `sharedKeys`
       continue;
     }
-    let at = commonScope(rec.uses);
-    let uses = rec.uses;
-    if (!at) {
-      // The uses span the FUNCTION BODY, so no single scope holds them. Rather than decline, take a
-      // scope that holds two or more and name the base for THOSE only, leaving the rest as they
-      // were.
-      //
-      // The selection rule is DEEPEST, with no size term, and that is a real limitation rather than
-      // a model of the compiler: a scope with four uses enclosing a nested scope with two will name
-      // the TWO and leave the four re-deriving the address. Only ONE cluster is ever served, and
-      // when two siblings tie on depth the first-appearing wins — arbitrary, not principled.
-      // Largest-cluster-with-deepest-as-tie-break is the better rule; it is a behaviour change and
-      // belongs with the placement-selector consolidation, not bolted on here.
-      //
-      // NOTE this fires for an `addr`/`const` base too — nothing here tests the base kind. That is
-      // not a duplicate of basecse's hoist: basecse runs FIRST (see the ordering note in the file
-      // header), so any `addr`/`const` base reaching this pass is one basecse already REFUSED.
-      const cluster = deepestCluster(rec.uses);
-      if (!cluster) {
+    const regions = rule.partition(rec.uses, sfn.body);
+    const siblingRegions = regions.filter((r) => r.uses.length >= 2).length;
+    let served = false;
+    for (const r of regions) {
+      // WHICH USES the counting rules are tallied over is the RULE's answer, not a branch here —
+      // see `REGION_RULES`. Nothing here tests the base kind: an `addr`/`const` base reaching this
+      // pass is one basecse already REFUSED (see the ordering note in the file header).
+      const judged = rule.judged(r, rec.uses);
+      const refused = firstRejection(gates, {
+        uses: judged.length,
+        repeatedConstOffset: repeatsAConstOffset(judged),
+        perIteration: runsPerIteration(r.uses),
+        nestedLoop: underNestedLoop(r.uses, r.depth),
+        siblingRegions,
+      });
+      if (refused !== null) {
+        if (!refusals.has(key)) {
+          refusals.set(key, refused);
+        }
         continue;
       }
-      at = { scope: cluster.scope, depth: cluster.depth };
-      uses = cluster.uses;
+      const type = T.ptr(scalarTypeForAccess(rec.sample.width, rec.sample.signed));
+      // the earliest statement of the region list that (transitively) holds one of its uses —
+      // `indexWithin` carries the `idx`/`path` off-by-one this reads through.
+      const before = Math.min(...r.uses.map((u) => indexWithin(u, r.depth)));
+      served = true;
+      entries.push({
+        scope: r.scope,
+        key,
+        name: fresh(),
+        type,
+        base: rec.sample.base as LeafBase,
+        before,
+        uses: r.uses.map((u) => u.node),
+      });
     }
-    if (underNestedLoop(uses, at.depth)) {
-      continue;
+    if (served) {
+      refusals.delete(key);
     }
-    const type = T.ptr(scalarTypeForAccess(rec.sample.width, rec.sample.signed));
-    // the earliest statement of the scope list that (transitively) holds a use
-    // `path` starts EMPTY, so `idx` carries one entry more than `path`: idx[j+1] is the index
-    // within path[j]. The scope is path[depth-1], so its index is idx[depth].
-    const before = Math.min(...uses.map((u) => u.idx[at.depth]));
-    plan.push({ scope: at.scope, key, name: fresh(), type, base: rec.sample.base as LeafBase, before });
   }
-  if (plan.length === 0) {
+  assertPlanOwnership(sfn, entries);
+  // access node → the local that replaces its base. Built from the SITES a plan entry was judged
+  // on, so the set the planner counted and the set the rewrite repoints are the same set by
+  // construction rather than by a second predicate that could disagree.
+  const repoint = new Map<Expr, string>();
+  for (const e of entries) {
+    e.uses.forEach((u) => repoint.set(u, e.name));
+  }
+  return { keys: [...found.keys()], entries, repoint, refusals, compound: false };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The re-spelling `regions` asks for — `/scopebase` or `/regionbase` — or null when nothing
+ * qualifies (the caller then adds no candidate rather than a duplicate of the default).
+ */
+export const hoistScopedBases = (sfn: SFn, opts: ScopeBaseOpts = {}): SFn | null =>
+  applyScopedBasePlan(sfn, planScopedBases(sfn, opts));
+
+/**
+ * `plan` applied to the tree it was planned over — null when it decided nothing (the caller then
+ * adds no candidate rather than a duplicate of the default).
+ *
+ * IDENTITY-BOUND to that tree, and not by the type: `scope` is matched against statement LISTS and
+ * `repoint` against access NODES, both by reference. A plan from a DIFFERENT tree therefore splices
+ * nothing and repoints nothing while still declaring its locals; `assertLocalsWritten` (rank.ts's
+ * `respell`) is what makes that loud rather than a silently wrong candidate.
+ */
+export function applyScopedBasePlan(sfn: SFn, { entries: plan, repoint, compound: bad }: ScopedBasePlan): SFn | null {
+  if (bad || plan.length === 0) {
     return null;
   }
+  // THE TWO FIELDS MUST AGREE, and they arrive as independent data. `assertPlanOwnership` runs in
+  // the planner, so it cannot see an edit made between plan and apply — which is exactly the seam
+  // exporting this applier opened. A `repoint` naming a local no entry mints is neither declared
+  // nor assigned, and both boundary contracts pass it: `assertResolved` looks for absent names, not
+  // for unwritten ones. Checked here, where the two halves meet.
+  const minted = new Set(plan.map((p) => p.name));
+  for (const name of repoint.values()) {
+    if (!minted.has(name)) {
+      throw new Error(`scopebase: the plan repoints an access to \`${name}\`, which no entry mints`);
+    }
+  }
 
-  // A plan entry may own only a SUBSET of its key's uses (see deepestCluster), so repointing is
-  // scoped: a key becomes active when the rewrite enters its scope and inactive on the way out.
-  // Repointing by key alone would rewrite uses the hoist does not dominate.
-  // SAFE ONLY because `plan` holds at most one entry per key, so `delete` on the way out cannot
-  // discard an outer binding. Serving a second cluster for one key — the obvious next step — makes
-  // that false, and an inner delete would silently unbind the outer one for the rest of its scope:
-  // a use of an unassigned pointer, the defect class this module has already shipped twice. Switch
-  // to save/restore (or pass the bindings as an argument) before serving more than one cluster.
-  const active = new Map<string, string>();
   const point = (e: Expr): Expr => {
-    const ix = eligible(e, globals);
-    if (ix) {
-      const nm = active.get(keyOf(ix));
-      if (nm) {
-        // `lead` is DROPPED — the local already points at the object start, and `eligible` has
-        // established every leading subscript is 0.
-        const { lead: _drop, ...rest } = ix;
-        return { ...rest, base: { k: 'var', name: nm }, idx: point(ix.idx) };
-      }
+    const nm = repoint.get(e);
+    if (nm) {
+      // `lead` is DROPPED — the local already points at the object start, and `nonzero-lead` has
+      // established every leading subscript is 0.
+      const { lead: _drop, ...rest } = e as Extract<Expr, { k: 'index' }>;
+      return { ...rest, base: { k: 'var', name: nm }, idx: point(rest.idx) };
     }
     return mapExprChildren(e, point);
   };
@@ -363,28 +806,12 @@ export function hoistScopedBases(sfn: SFn): SFn | null {
   // fresh tree in one pass — a two-pass version would compare rebuilt lists that no longer match.
   const rewriteList = (list: Stmt[]): Stmt[] => {
     const here = plan.filter((p) => p.scope === list);
-    // SAVE/RESTORE, not set/delete. A plain delete on the way out is correct only while `plan`
-    // holds one entry per key; the moment a second cluster for one key is served, an inner exit
-    // would unbind an OUTER hoist for the rest of its scope — under-repointing silently. Restoring
-    // makes the nesting correct by construction instead of by an unguarded invariant.
-    const saved = here.map((p) => [p.key, active.get(p.key)] as const);
-    for (const p of here) {
-      active.set(p.key, p.name);
-    }
     const rewritten = list.map(rewriteStmt);
-    for (const [key, prev] of saved) {
-      if (prev === undefined) {
-        active.delete(key);
-      } else {
-        active.set(key, prev);
-      }
-    }
     // Insert each hoist immediately before the first statement that uses it. Descending by index so
     // earlier insertions do not shift the positions later ones were computed against. NOTE that two
     // hoists sharing a `before` come out REVERSED relative to `plan` order — the sort is stable and
     // descending, so both splice at the same index and the later one ends up first. Deterministic
-    // and semantically irrelevant, but it is not first-appearance order, which this comment used to
-    // claim.
+    // and semantically irrelevant, but it is not first-appearance order.
     for (const p of [...here].sort((a, b) => b.before - a.before)) {
       rewritten.splice(p.before, 0, {
         k: 'assign',
@@ -436,5 +863,7 @@ export function hoistScopedBases(sfn: SFn): SFn | null {
   // Declared from `plan`, one per hoist — NOT accumulated inside `rewriteList`, which would emit a
   // duplicate declaration (non-compiling C) if a `Stmt[]` were ever structurally shared by two tree
   // positions.
-  return { ...sfn, body, locals: [...sfn.locals, ...plan.map((p) => ({ name: p.name, type: p.type }))] };
+  const out = { ...sfn, body, locals: [...sfn.locals, ...plan.map((p) => ({ name: p.name, type: p.type }))] };
+  assertHoistsDominate(out, new Set(plan.map((p) => p.name)));
+  return out;
 }