@enricai/barnacle 1.12.44 → 1.12.46

package/dist/scripts/recon-generate.js

@@ -71,10 +71,12 @@ exports.resolveFoldPlan = resolveFoldPlan;
 exports.resolveApplicableFoldPlans = resolveApplicableFoldPlans;
 exports.buildContractChecklist = buildContractChecklist;
 exports.emitContractTs = emitContractTs;
+exports.unreferencedRequiredUrlFields = unreferencedRequiredUrlFields;
 exports.assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced = assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced;
 exports.emitConfigManifest = emitConfigManifest;
 exports.emitBrowserFlowTs = emitBrowserFlowTs;
 exports.emitIndexTs = emitIndexTs;
+exports.identifyNoiseCapturesForFields = identifyNoiseCapturesForFields;
 const node_fs_1 = require("node:fs");
 const node_path_1 = require("node:path");
 const ats_field_vocabulary_1 = require("../lib/ats-field-vocabulary");
@@ -966,6 +968,19 @@ function captureHostname(url) {
         return "";
     }
 }
+/**
+ * Same not-guaranteed-parseable caveat as {@link captureHostname}, for the
+ * path instead of the host — used to anchor {@link isStructurallyRelevantCapture}
+ * on a capture's URL structure.
+ */
+function capturePathname(url) {
+    try {
+        return new URL(url).pathname;
+    }
+    catch {
+        return "";
+    }
+}
 /**
  * `baseUrl` itself is what {@link registrableDomain}'s fallback would be
  * derived FROM, so at this point in generation the registrable-domain gate
@@ -1507,7 +1522,6 @@ function resolveManifestActionSequence(runRoot, captures) {
  * chatter and the emitted hot path.
  */
 function extractActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldReturnSpec = null, ownBackendHostnames = [], fallbackDomain = null) {
-    const matchesSubmit = compileSubmitMatcher(submitPatterns);
     const matchesFoldReturn = compileFoldReturnEndpointMatcher(foldReturnSpec);
     // Callers with no host-provenance data (the exported function's unit
     // tests) pass neither ownBackendHostnames nor fallbackDomain — in that
@@ -1515,7 +1529,21 @@ function extractActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldReturnSpec =
     // only applies once the caller has actually resolved a notion of "own
     // backend" to check against.
     const hasHostProvenance = ownBackendHostnames.length > 0 || fallbackDomain !== null;
-    return captures
+    // With host-provenance data AND a declared submitEndpointPattern, the
+    // endpoint match's job of isolating the submission is taken over by the
+    // structural-relevance narrowing pass below (anchored on that SAME
+    // pattern) instead of the per-capture endpoint regex test: a literal
+    // per-capture match can't admit an EARLIER multi-step chain capture (auth
+    // mint, paged listing, ...) whose URL never matches the terminal submit
+    // endpoint, only a LATER structurally-related one. `submitBodyPattern`
+    // stays enforced either way — it isn't what structural relevance reasons
+    // about. Absent host provenance, or absent a declared endpoint pattern,
+    // the per-capture endpoint match below is the only submit-isolation
+    // mechanism and stays unconditional (matches the "submit patterns isolate
+    // the submission from same-URL chrome" behavior).
+    const hasSubmitEndpointAnchor = hasHostProvenance && submitPatterns !== null && submitPatterns.endpoint !== null;
+    const matchesSubmit = compileSubmitMatcher(hasSubmitEndpointAnchor ? { endpoint: null, body: submitPatterns.body } : submitPatterns);
+    const hostGated = captures
         .map((capture, index) => ({ capture, index }))
         .filter(({ capture }) => {
         if (capture.method === "GET" && !matchesFoldReturn(capture))
@@ -1531,6 +1559,46 @@ function extractActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldReturnSpec =
             return false;
         return true;
     });
+    // Host-gating alone can't tell a genuinely related own-backend endpoint
+    // family apart from a same-host capture that shares nothing but the host
+    // (e.g. a marketing/promotions endpoint fired incidentally by a page load,
+    // admitted above because it too is a 2xx own-backend POST). Drop a
+    // structurally-isolated member of the pool first — a compound-path capture
+    // (e.g. `/site-banner`) sharing no token with anything else host-gated in,
+    // regardless of whether a submitEndpointPattern is declared. Guarded to
+    // pools of 3+: a real chain's own steps are usually plain single-word
+    // paths with no tokens of their own (never flagged, see
+    // isStructurallyIsolatedCapture), so this only ever removes a capture that
+    // is BOTH compound-path AND unrelated to every other admitted capture —
+    // but a 1-2 capture pool has no "everything else" to be isolated from, so
+    // skip it there rather than risk flagging a single-endpoint site's own
+    // hyphenated path.
+    const structurallyGated = hasHostProvenance && hostGated.length > 2
+        ? hostGated.filter(({ capture }, i) => {
+            const path = safeUrlPathname(capture.url);
+            const otherPaths = hostGated
+                .filter((_, j) => j !== i)
+                .map((h) => safeUrlPathname(h.capture.url));
+            return !(0, capture_filters_1.isStructurallyIsolatedCapture)(path, otherPaths);
+        })
+        : hostGated;
+    // Narrow further using structural relevance, anchored on whichever
+    // captures the flow's own declared `submitEndpointPattern` matches — the
+    // report's own preferred anchor, and the only signal here with no false
+    // positives by construction. No declared endpoint pattern gives no
+    // authoritative reference, so this pass is a no-op — mirroring
+    // compileSubmitMatcher's own null-pattern passthrough — rather than
+    // guessing at a reference set.
+    if (!hasSubmitEndpointAnchor)
+        return structurallyGated;
+    const endpointRx = new RegExp(submitPatterns.endpoint);
+    const referencePaths = structurallyGated
+        .filter(({ capture }) => endpointRx.test(capture.url))
+        .map(({ capture }) => safeUrlPathname(capture.url));
+    if (referencePaths.length === 0)
+        return structurallyGated;
+    return structurallyGated.filter(({ capture }) => endpointRx.test(capture.url) ||
+        (0, capture_filters_1.isStructurallyRelevantCapture)(safeUrlPathname(capture.url), referencePaths));
 }
 /**
  * GraphQL-aware analog of {@link extractActionSequence}: REST's URL/method
@@ -1555,6 +1623,18 @@ function extractActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldReturnSpec =
  * `resolveFoldPlan` with no primary capture to resolve `resultsPath`
  * against. Every other non-mutation capture is still dropped.
  *
+ * The fold-return matchers above only look at a capture's URL/response
+ * shape, not at whether it belongs to this flow's own endpoint family — a
+ * same-host marketing query can pass them purely by shape coincidence, the
+ * same gap {@link extractActionSequence} closes with
+ * {@link isStructurallyRelevantCapture}. So once host-provenance data is
+ * available, a non-mutation capture admitted only via the fold-return
+ * matchers is kept only when its path shares structural tokens with at
+ * least one admitted mutation's path — mutations are always genuine flow
+ * steps, so they anchor what "this flow's family" means. When no mutation
+ * was admitted there is nothing to anchor against, so the fold-return
+ * admissions above stand unnarrowed.
+ *
  * Exported for tests: this predicate decides what a generated GraphQL plugin
  * will send at a live site.
  */
@@ -1568,7 +1648,8 @@ function extractGraphQLActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldRetur
     // only applies once the caller has actually resolved a notion of "own
     // backend" to check against.
     const hasHostProvenance = ownBackendHostnames.length > 0 || fallbackDomain !== null;
-    return captures
+    const isMutation = (capture) => capture.query !== null && /^\s*mutation\b/.test(capture.query);
+    const admitted = captures
         .map((capture, index) => ({ capture, index }))
         .filter(({ capture }) => {
         if (capture.status < 200 || capture.status >= 300)
@@ -1580,10 +1661,19 @@ function extractGraphQLActionSequence(captures, submitPatterns = null, foldRetur
         if (hasHostProvenance &&
             !(0, capture_filters_1.isAllowedFixtureHost)(captureHostname(capture.url), ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain))
             return false;
-        if (capture.query !== null && /^\s*mutation\b/.test(capture.query))
+        if (isMutation(capture))
             return true;
         return matchesFoldReturn(capture) || matchesFoldReturnResults(capture);
     });
+    if (!hasHostProvenance)
+        return admitted;
+    const mutationPaths = admitted
+        .filter(({ capture }) => isMutation(capture))
+        .map(({ capture }) => capturePathname(capture.url));
+    if (mutationPaths.length === 0)
+        return admitted;
+    return admitted.filter(({ capture }) => isMutation(capture) ||
+        (0, capture_filters_1.isStructurallyRelevantCapture)(capturePathname(capture.url), mutationPaths));
 }
 /**
  * Identity of a capture's response shape for dedup purposes: the endpoint it
@@ -7078,19 +7168,46 @@ function emitContractTs(opts) {
     //
     // The captured request body (inputBody) is the SITE's internal request
     // shape (a vendor's ddoKey/formData, a GraphQL worklet's variables, …) — not
-    // what the real caller sends. The plugin's buildBarnacleFormData posts
-    // the standard candidate payload (ApplicantContactSchema's identity/
-    // address/resume fields + Email + job-targeting + a JSON Answers block) to
-    // every plugin's /run, so that — not a structural inference over
-    // inputBody — is the public contract every submission-flow plugin must
-    // declare, unconditionally (see recon-generate-payload-schema-mismatch.md
-    // fix option (a)). inputBody remains available to the plugin author as the
-    // internal request shape the site's own call needs to be built from; it no
-    // longer drives the public schema. A missing inputBody means this is a
-    // non-submission (query-type) flow, which keeps its own contract untouched.
-    const basePayloadSchemaExpr = inputBody
+    // necessarily the real caller's shape. ApplicantContactSchema (the job-
+    // application template: identity/address/resume fields + Email + a JSON
+    // Answers block) only belongs on flows that are actually job/benefits
+    // applications — selecting it purely because SOME body was captured picks
+    // it for unrelated submission flows too. usesApplicantContactSchema is the
+    // real-evidence gate: it requires the captured inputBody to itself carry
+    // one of ApplicantContactSchema's own field names (case-insensitively,
+    // checked at any depth via walkAllPrimitiveLeaves) before the template
+    // applies (see recon-generate-payload-schema-mismatch.md).
+    const applicantContactFieldNames = new Set([
+        "FirstName",
+        "LastName",
+        "Phone",
+        "AddressLine",
+        "City",
+        "State",
+        "PostalCode",
+        "Country",
+        "County",
+        "Resume",
+        "ResumeContentType",
+        "ResumeFilename",
+        "ResumeBase64",
+    ]);
+    const baseContractFieldNames = new Set(["Email", "ClickUrl", "Answers"]);
+    const applicantContactEvidenceFieldNamesLower = new Set([...applicantContactFieldNames, ...baseContractFieldNames].map((name) => name.toLowerCase()));
+    const usesApplicantContactSchema = inputBody != null &&
+        [...walkAllPrimitiveLeaves(inputBody)].some(({ path }) => path.some((segment) => applicantContactEvidenceFieldNamesLower.has(segment.toLowerCase())));
+    const isReservedByApplicantContactSchema = (name) => usesApplicantContactSchema && applicantContactFieldNames.has(name);
+    // A missing inputBody, or one with no ApplicantContactSchema evidence,
+    // means this is not a job-application submission flow. The former keeps
+    // its own read-flow `{ query }` contract untouched; the latter (a body WAS
+    // captured, it just isn't an application) gets a plain empty base instead
+    // — extend() below still layers on every genuinely-discovered field from
+    // the other sources unchanged.
+    const basePayloadSchemaExpr = usesApplicantContactSchema
         ? `ApplicantContactSchema`
-        : `z.object({\n  query: z.string().min(1),\n})`;
+        : inputBody
+            ? `z.object({})`
+            : `z.object({\n  query: z.string().min(1),\n})`;
     // Only the single-endpoint GraphQL read path (a real primary operation, no
     // multi-step flow) is a candidate for a paging signal — multiStepBody
     // already owns its own per-call semantics.
@@ -7153,34 +7270,12 @@ function emitContractTs(opts) {
     if (paginationSignal) {
         addExtendField("maxPages", "  maxPages: z.number().int().positive().optional(),");
     }
-    // The base extend's own keys — submission flows only.
-    if (inputBody) {
+    // The base extend's own keys — job-application submission flows only.
+    if (usesApplicantContactSchema) {
         addExtendField("Email", "  Email: z.email(),");
         addExtendField("ClickUrl", "  ClickUrl: z.string().min(1),");
         addExtendField("Answers", "  Answers: multipartJsonObject(z.record(z.string(), z.unknown())),");
     }
-    // ApplicantContactSchema's own merged identity/address/resume field names
-    // (see src/lib/application-identity.ts, application-address.ts,
-    // application-resume.ts, applicant-payload.ts) — reserved so no discovered/
-    // spliced source can redeclare (and silently shadow) a field the base
-    // ApplicantContactSchema already supplies. Only relevant for submission
-    // flows, where basePayloadSchemaExpr actually is ApplicantContactSchema.
-    const applicantContactFieldNames = new Set([
-        "FirstName",
-        "LastName",
-        "Phone",
-        "AddressLine",
-        "City",
-        "State",
-        "PostalCode",
-        "Country",
-        "County",
-        "Resume",
-        "ResumeContentType",
-        "ResumeFilename",
-        "ResumeBase64",
-    ]);
-    const isReservedByApplicantContactSchema = (name) => Boolean(inputBody) && applicantContactFieldNames.has(name);
     // A declared foldReturn.drillParamBindings names drill query params that
     // are caller-driven instead of frozen literals (see
     // recon-generate-foldreturn-cannot-bind-drill-query-param-to-caller-payload.md)
@@ -7201,9 +7296,10 @@ function emitContractTs(opts) {
         addExtendField(binding.payloadField, `  ${binding.payloadField}: ${zod},`);
     }
     // Multi-step flows that include a multipart upload need the binary asset
-    // on the payload. A query-type flow (no ApplicantContactSchema base) still
-    // needs these fields spelled out explicitly.
-    if (hasMultipartStep && !inputBody) {
+    // on the payload. A non-applicant flow (no ApplicantContactSchema base,
+    // whether or not a body was captured) still needs these fields spelled
+    // out explicitly.
+    if (hasMultipartStep && !usesApplicantContactSchema) {
         addExtendField("Resume", "  Resume: z.instanceof(Buffer),");
         addExtendField("ResumeContentType", "  ResumeContentType: z.string(),");
         addExtendField("ResumeFilename", "  ResumeFilename: z.string(),");
@@ -7345,9 +7441,8 @@ function emitContractTs(opts) {
     // comment above) — a GraphQL mutation that happens to declare an
     // unpopulated variable with a matching name (e.g. `$email`) must not
     // downgrade that required base field.
-    const baseContractFieldNames = new Set(["Email", "ClickUrl", "Answers"]);
     for (const [fieldName, line] of extendFields) {
-        if (inputBody && baseContractFieldNames.has(fieldName))
+        if (usesApplicantContactSchema && baseContractFieldNames.has(fieldName))
             continue;
         if (unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.some((name) => name.toLowerCase() === fieldName.toLowerCase())) {
             extendFields.set(fieldName, line.replace(/,\s*$/, ".optional(),"));
@@ -7356,23 +7451,25 @@ function emitContractTs(opts) {
     const mergedExtension = extendFields.size > 0 ? `.extend({\n${[...extendFields.values()].join("\n")}\n})` : "";
     const payloadSchemaExpr = `${basePayloadSchemaExpr}${mergedExtension}`;
     // basePayloadSchemaExpr's own Answers field always wraps in
-    // multipartJsonObject() for submission flows (inputBody set);
-    // multipartBoolean() is only imported when a boolean field was actually
-    // wrapped in it above (an additional-body-key or an inputBody field under
-    // multipartCoerce) — payloadNeedsMultipart alone doesn't imply that.
+    // multipartJsonObject() for job-application submission flows
+    // (usesApplicantContactSchema); multipartBoolean() is only imported when a
+    // boolean field was actually wrapped in it above (an additional-body-key
+    // or an inputBody field under multipartCoerce) — payloadNeedsMultipart
+    // alone doesn't imply that.
     // Named imports from the same module are combined into one import statement.
     const zodMultipartNamedImports = [
         ...(usesMultipartBoolean ? ["multipartBoolean"] : []),
-        ...(inputBody || (payloadNeedsMultipart && sortedStructuredEntries.length > 0)
+        ...(usesApplicantContactSchema || (payloadNeedsMultipart && sortedStructuredEntries.length > 0)
             ? ["multipartJsonObject"]
             : []),
     ];
     const multipartBoolImport = zodMultipartNamedImports.length > 0
         ? `import { ${zodMultipartNamedImports.join(", ")} } from "${ENGINE_PKG}/lib/zod-multipart";\n`
         : "";
-    // ApplicantContactSchema backs the default submission-flow payload schema
-    // (see basePayloadSchemaExpr above); only referenced when inputBody is set.
-    const applicantContactImport = inputBody
+    // ApplicantContactSchema backs the job-application submission-flow payload
+    // schema (see basePayloadSchemaExpr above); only referenced when
+    // usesApplicantContactSchema is true.
+    const applicantContactImport = usesApplicantContactSchema
         ? `import { ApplicantContactSchema } from "${ENGINE_PKG}/lib/applicant-payload";\n`
         : "";
     // Content-Type must be absent from multipart fetch calls so FormData can inject the boundary.
@@ -7773,17 +7870,17 @@ export const ${camel}Plugin: SitePlugin<${pascal}Payload, ${pascal}Response> = {
     bodySchema: ${pascal}PayloadSchema,
     responseSchema: ${pascal}ResponseSchema,
     defaultBaseUrl: ${JSON.stringify(baseUrl)},
-    ${payloadNeedsMultipart || inputBody
+    ${payloadNeedsMultipart || usesApplicantContactSchema || hasMultipartStep
         ? `// multipart is required whenever the flow itself uploads a file
-    // (hasMultipartStep), OR this is a submission flow (inputBody set) since
-    // basePayloadSchemaExpr always requires a real Resume Buffer via
-    // ApplicantContactSchema regardless of whether the recorded browser flow
-    // contained an upload step, OR the payload has a non-scalar
-    // discoveredStructuredKeys field (payloadNeedsMultipart), since the
-    // multipart wire format is what makes that field's JSON-stringified
-    // encoding parseable.
+    // (hasMultipartStep), OR this is a job-application submission flow
+    // (usesApplicantContactSchema) since basePayloadSchemaExpr requires a
+    // real Resume Buffer via ApplicantContactSchema regardless of whether
+    // the recorded browser flow contained an upload step, OR the payload
+    // has a non-scalar discoveredStructuredKeys field (payloadNeedsMultipart),
+    // since the multipart wire format is what makes that field's
+    // JSON-stringified encoding parseable.
     `
-        : ""}apiVersion: ${JSON.stringify(plugin_api_version_1.PLUGIN_API_VERSION)},${payloadNeedsMultipart || inputBody ? "\n    multipart: true," : ""}
+        : ""}apiVersion: ${JSON.stringify(plugin_api_version_1.PLUGIN_API_VERSION)},${payloadNeedsMultipart || usesApplicantContactSchema || hasMultipartStep ? "\n    multipart: true," : ""}
   },
 ${executeHttpMethodBlock}
   /** Browser fallback: Stagehand + Steel — invoked only when hot path fails. */
@@ -7792,7 +7889,7 @@ ${executeHttpMethodBlock}
     session: BrowserSession,
     context: SitePluginContext
   ): Promise<SitePluginResult<${pascal}Response>> {
-    const raw = await run${pascal}BrowserFlow(session.stagehand, ${inputBody ? "payload.ClickUrl" : "context.baseUrl"}, payload, session.sessionProxy ?? null);
+    const raw = await run${pascal}BrowserFlow(session.stagehand, ${usesApplicantContactSchema ? "payload.ClickUrl" : "context.baseUrl"}, payload, session.sessionProxy ?? null);
     return { data: raw as ${pascal}Response };
   },
 };
@@ -7813,14 +7910,23 @@ export { ${camel}Plugin as plugin };
  * defect 1) — this generalizes the check past ClickUrl so any future
  * required URL field regresses loudly instead of silently.
  */
-function assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced(contractCode, browserFlowCode) {
+/**
+ * The field-name computation {@link assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced} guards
+ * with. Exposed separately so a caller catching the guard's failure can
+ * re-derive the exact offending field names to drive a narrowed retry,
+ * instead of parsing them back out of the thrown error's message.
+ */
+function unreferencedRequiredUrlFields(contractCode, browserFlowCode) {
     const urlFieldLinePattern = /^\s*(\w*Url\w*):\s*z\.\w+\(.*$/gm;
     const emittedCode = `${contractCode}\n${browserFlowCode}`;
-    const unreferenced = [...contractCode.matchAll(urlFieldLinePattern)]
+    return [...contractCode.matchAll(urlFieldLinePattern)]
         .filter((match) => !match[0].includes(".optional("))
         .map((match) => match[1])
         .filter((name) => name !== undefined)
         .filter((name) => !emittedCode.includes(`payload.${name}`));
+}
+function assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced(contractCode, browserFlowCode) {
+    const unreferenced = unreferencedRequiredUrlFields(contractCode, browserFlowCode);
     if (unreferenced.length === 0)
         return;
     throw new Error(`recon-generate: required URL field(s) ${unreferenced.join(", ")} declared on the payload schema ` +
@@ -8314,6 +8420,124 @@ async function resolveFormSchema(specifier) {
     logger.info(`form-schema: ${specifier === load_form_schema_1.FORM_SCHEMA_NONE ? "none (no ATS form recovery)" : `custom keys from ${specifier}`}`);
     return formSchema;
 }
+/**
+ * The capture whose own response `assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced`'s
+ * scan actually describes: a submission flow returns
+ * {@link selectReturnAction}'s pick (the terminal/return call
+ * `executeHttp` hands back); a read flow returns `winningCapture`. This is
+ * the one capture the narrowing pass must never exclude — if an offending
+ * field's sole source turns out to be this capture, the field is genuinely
+ * required and the guard must still hard-fail.
+ */
+function resolvedPrimaryResponseCapture(result) {
+    if (!result.isSubmissionFlow)
+        return result.winningCapture;
+    return selectReturnAction(result.actionSteps)?.capture ?? null;
+}
+/** True when `capture`'s own top-level response JSON is the field's source —
+ * the same "does this capture's response carry the field" signal
+ * {@link assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced} implicitly relies on, applied per
+ * capture instead of to the merged emitted code. */
+function captureOwnsTopLevelField(capture, fieldName) {
+    const body = capture.responseBody;
+    if (typeof body !== "object" || body === null || Array.isArray(body))
+        return false;
+    return Object.hasOwn(body, fieldName);
+}
+/**
+ * Builds the "field(s) ... capture(s) ..." detail the intent requires a
+ * surviving hard-fail to name — {@link assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced}
+ * itself only knows field names (it never sees the resolved pool), so this
+ * is what turns that into an actionable "which capture" answer when the
+ * narrowing pass can't clear the violation.
+ */
+function describeOffendingFieldSources(fields, pool) {
+    return fields
+        .map((fieldName) => {
+        const sourceUrls = pool
+            .filter(({ capture }) => captureOwnsTopLevelField(capture, fieldName))
+            .map(({ capture }) => capture.url);
+        return sourceUrls.length > 0
+            ? `${fieldName} (from ${sourceUrls.join(", ")})`
+            : `${fieldName} (source capture not found in resolved pool)`;
+    })
+        .join(", ");
+}
+/**
+ * The narrowing pass's core relevance decision, isolated for direct
+ * testing: every capture in `resolvedPool` — other than `primaryCapture`,
+ * which must never be dropped — whose own top-level response JSON owns at
+ * least one of `offendingFields`. This is the actual "is this capture
+ * structurally part of the resolved chain or incidental noise" call;
+ * {@link healUnreferencedUrlFieldsOnce} only wires it into the regenerate
+ * retry loop.
+ *
+ * Exported for tests: this predicate decides which captures the required-
+ * URL-field guard's self-heal excludes before regenerating.
+ */
+function identifyNoiseCapturesForFields(offendingFields, resolvedPool, primaryCapture) {
+    const noiseCaptures = new Set();
+    for (const fieldName of offendingFields) {
+        for (const { capture } of resolvedPool) {
+            if (capture === primaryCapture)
+                continue;
+            if (captureOwnsTopLevelField(capture, fieldName))
+                noiseCaptures.add(capture);
+        }
+    }
+    return noiseCaptures;
+}
+/**
+ * When `assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced` would abort on the first pass,
+ * this identifies the capture(s) in the resolved pool that are the SOLE
+ * source of each offending field — excluding the resolved submit/primary
+ * capture, which must never be dropped — removes exactly those captures from
+ * the pool driving generation, and re-runs `generateFromCaptures` exactly
+ * once. Hard-fails (naming the field(s) and, when found, the offending
+ * capture URL(s)) if the violation survives the narrowed pool: either no
+ * noise capture explains it (so nothing was excluded and re-running would be
+ * a no-op), or the field's only source is the resolved primary capture
+ * itself, meaning the field is genuinely required.
+ */
+function healUnreferencedUrlFieldsOnce(allCaptures, firstAttempt, regenerate) {
+    const offending = unreferencedRequiredUrlFields(firstAttempt.contractCode, firstAttempt.browserFlow.code);
+    if (offending.length === 0)
+        return firstAttempt;
+    const primaryCapture = resolvedPrimaryResponseCapture(firstAttempt);
+    const noiseCaptures = identifyNoiseCapturesForFields(offending, firstAttempt.resolvedPool, primaryCapture);
+    if (noiseCaptures.size === 0) {
+        throw new Error(`recon-generate: required URL field(s) ${describeOffendingFieldSources(offending, firstAttempt.resolvedPool)} ` +
+            `declared on the payload schema but never referenced by the emitted contract or browser flow, and no ` +
+            `unrelated capture explains them — the field is genuinely required by the resolved submit/primary capture ` +
+            `itself; the flow would enter on the wrong page`);
+    }
+    logger.warn(`required URL field(s) ${offending.join(", ")} traced to ${noiseCaptures.size} unrelated capture(s) ` +
+        `(${[...noiseCaptures].map((c) => c.url).join(", ")}) not referenced or threaded by the resolved action ` +
+        `sequence — excluding them and re-generating once`);
+    // Excluded by INDEX into allCaptures, not by capture reference: a
+    // resolvedPool entry produced by the form-schema-fetch insertion (see
+    // generateFromCaptures' schemaFetchCleaned) wraps a shallow clone of its
+    // source capture (url stripped of cache-buster params), so that entry's
+    // `.capture` can never be `===` anything in allCaptures even though its
+    // `.index` still correctly names the source capture's position — every
+    // ActionCapture-producing extractor in this file threads `index` from the
+    // original captures array, so it survives the clone where the reference
+    // doesn't.
+    const noiseIndices = new Set(firstAttempt.resolvedPool.filter((a) => noiseCaptures.has(a.capture)).map((a) => a.index));
+    const narrowedCaptures = allCaptures.filter((_, i) => !noiseIndices.has(i));
+    const retried = regenerate(narrowedCaptures);
+    if (retried === null) {
+        throw new Error("recon-generate: narrowed retry unexpectedly resolved to the config-manifest branch");
+    }
+    const stillOffending = unreferencedRequiredUrlFields(retried.contractCode, retried.browserFlow.code);
+    if (stillOffending.length > 0) {
+        throw new Error(`recon-generate: required URL field(s) ${describeOffendingFieldSources(stillOffending, retried.resolvedPool)} ` +
+            `declared on the payload schema but never referenced by the emitted contract or browser flow, even after ` +
+            `excluding unrelated capture(s) (${[...noiseCaptures].map((c) => c.url).join(", ")}) — the flow would ` +
+            `enter on the wrong page`);
+    }
+    return retried;
+}
 async function main() {
     const args = process.argv.slice(2);
     let siteId = "";
@@ -8484,428 +8708,454 @@ async function main() {
     // isn't available to deriveBaseUrl yet -- see deriveBaseUrl's own doc
     // comment for how it copes when ownBackendHostnames is empty.
     const ownBackendHostnames = (0, recon_shared_1.readOwnBackendHostnames)(flowFile);
-    const baseUrl = deriveBaseUrl(captures, ownBackendHostnames);
-    // Gate on the flow's declared own-backend hosts (or the registrable-domain
-    // fallback of baseUrl) via the same predicate recon-http.ts applies at
-    // write time, so a stale aux/ directory from before that filter existed
-    // — or one written by a filter someone bypassed — can never smuggle a
-    // third party's JSON into a generated plugin's fixtures/. A file with no
-    // manifest entry is unverifiable provenance, not proven safe, so it is
-    // excluded rather than assumed to have passed the write-time filter.
-    const fallbackDomain = baseUrl.length > 0 ? (0, capture_filters_1.registrableDomain)(new URL(baseUrl).hostname) : null;
-    const auxFiles = auxManifest
-        .filter((entry) => {
-        const allowed = (0, capture_filters_1.isAllowedFixtureHost)(entry.hostname, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain);
-        if (!allowed) {
-            logger.warn(`excluding aux fixture '${entry.filename}' — host '${entry.hostname}' is not an own-backend host`);
-        }
-        return allowed;
-    })
-        .map((entry) => entry.filename)
-        .sort();
-    // A file on disk with no manifest entry predates the write-time provenance
-    // record (bugfix-002) or otherwise landed outside probeAuxiliaryEndpoints —
-    // its source host is unverifiable, so it is excluded, not assumed safe.
-    const manifestedFilenames = new Set(auxManifest.map((entry) => entry.filename));
-    const unmanifestedFiles = (() => {
-        try {
-            return (0, node_fs_1.readdirSync)(auxDir).filter((f) => f.endsWith(".json") && f !== "aux-manifest.json" && !manifestedFilenames.has(f));
-        }
-        catch {
-            return [];
-        }
-    })();
-    for (const f of unmanifestedFiles) {
-        logger.warn(`excluding aux fixture '${f}' — no aux-manifest.json entry, provenance unverifiable`);
-    }
-    const baseHeaders = deriveRequestHeaders(captures, replays, baseUrl, submitPatterns, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain);
-    const minTime = deriveMinTime(rateLimits);
-    const hasRateLimitProbeData = rateLimits.some((f) => f.safeRps !== null);
-    const safeRps = rateLimits.find((f) => f.safeRps !== null)?.safeRps ?? Math.floor(1000 / minTime);
-    const gql = isGraphQL(captures);
-    // Hoisted so both the primary-operation gate below and rawActionCaptures
-    // (further down) read the same computed sequence instead of calling the
-    // extractor twice. Computed unfiltered (submitPatterns: null) — a
-    // flow-declared submit pattern must truncate this sequence, not filter
-    // it, so every gate reading it sees the full host-gated chain.
-    const graphqlActionSequence = gql
-        ? extractGraphQLActionSequence(captures, null, foldReturnSpec, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain)
-        : [];
-    // A foldReturn-admitted read/drill capture (see extractGraphQLActionSequence's
-    // doc comment) can put 2+ entries in graphqlActionSequence with none of them
-    // an actual `mutation` — a GraphQL-primary query plus its drill-down, not a
-    // transactional multi-step submission. Only a real mutation makes this a
-    // submission flow; an admitted read/drill capture must not, on its own, null
-    // out primaryGraphQLOperation below or flip isSubmissionFlow further down.
-    const graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation = graphqlActionSequence.some((a) => a.capture.query !== null && /^\s*mutation\b/.test(a.capture.query));
-    const primaryGraphQLOperation = gql && !graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation
-        ? selectPrimaryGraphQLOperation(captures, flowSteps, vocabulary, process.env, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns)
-        : null;
-    if (primaryGraphQLOperation && primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.length > 0) {
-        const operationLabel = primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.operationName ?? "(anonymous)";
-        logger.warn(`WARN primary GraphQL operation '${operationLabel}' declares filter variable(s) ${primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.join(", ")} that are never populated in any capture — the generated executeHttp's payload field(s) for ${primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.join(", ")} have no wiring target and will replay the captured frozen value instead of the caller's input`);
-    }
-    // When there's no primaryGraphQLOperation winner but the flow is still
-    // GraphQL, the query/endpointPath/responseBody/operationName fallbacks
-    // must all trace back to the SAME capture (firstGraphQLCapture) rather
-    // than resolving independently — a non-GraphQL-shaped own-backend
-    // capture could otherwise win the endpoint/body fallback while an
-    // unrelated capture supplies the query text.
-    const fallbackGraphQLCapture = gql
-        ? firstGraphQLCapture(captures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns)
-        : null;
-    const gqlQuery = primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture.query ?? fallbackGraphQLCapture?.query ?? null;
-    const endpointPath = primaryGraphQLOperation?.endpointPath ??
-        (fallbackGraphQLCapture
-            ? safeUrlPathname(fallbackGraphQLCapture.url)
-            : firstEndpointPath(captures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns));
-    // Derived from the primary operation's own Phase-1 capture, never from
-    // replay array order -- a replay's body reflects whichever endpoint fired
-    // first, not necessarily the primary operation, and only exists once
-    // recon:http has run.
-    const winningCapture = primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture ??
-        fallbackGraphQLCapture ??
-        firstEndpointCapture(captures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns);
-    const responseBody = winningCapture?.responseBody ?? null;
-    // Every 2xx capture sharing the winning capture's operation identity, not
-    // just the one that happened to win selection -- a paginated/re-filtered
-    // re-fire of the same operation can omit a field the winning capture
-    // happened to have (or vice versa), and inferZodSchemaFromSamples needs
-    // that presence evidence across occurrences to mark the field .optional()
-    // instead of required from a single observation.
-    const responseBodySamples = gatherResponseBodySamples(winningCapture, primaryGraphQLOperation !== null || fallbackGraphQLCapture !== null, captures);
-    // Detect a multi-step submission flow (transactional sites like apply forms,
-    // checkout, etc.). When the action sequence has 2+ POSTs, switch the
-    // contract template to emit a state-threaded executeHttp.
-    //
-    // Selection precedence: (A) the authoritative submit-manifest recon-browser
-    // wrote from the verified submission; else (B/C) pattern/heuristic extraction.
-    // The manifest is the only signal that separates a submission POST from a
-    // page-chrome POST sharing its URL, so it normally wins when present — but
-    // a manifest built from a single flow-declared submit step cannot represent
-    // a wizard whose every section saves independently, so it is only trusted
-    // when it isn't a strict undercount of what the same captures' own
-    // heuristic extraction finds.
-    const unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures = gql
-        ? dedupRedundantSameOperationCaptures(graphqlActionSequence, primaryGraphQLOperation)
-        : collapseRedundantPatches(extractActionSequence(captures, null, foldReturnSpec, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain));
-    // A flow-declared submitEndpointPattern is authoritative: it may match only
-    // the final step's URL (the natural way to describe "the button that
-    // finishes the wizard") even though the earlier steps of the same chain
-    // (auth mint, paged listing, ...) are what state-threading depends on.
-    // Truncating at the last match — instead of filtering to matches only —
-    // keeps that whole chain; the gap between this and the unfiltered
-    // sequence is logged below for visibility, but the declared pattern is
-    // never overridden by the richer unfiltered sequence.
-    const patternedHeuristicActionCaptures = submitPatterns.endpoint === null && submitPatterns.body === null
-        ? unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures
-        : truncateActionSequenceAtSubmitPattern(unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures, submitPatterns);
-    const patternUndercounts = patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length < unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length;
-    if (patternUndercounts && requireSubmitEndpointMatch) {
-        // Distinct wording from the non-required case below: this pattern is never
-        // discarded, so a message that says "ignoring"/"undercount" would misstate
-        // what happened. The disagreement is still worth a warn-level surface —
-        // the flow author should know the declared pattern covers fewer captures
-        // than the unfiltered heuristic sequence finds.
-        logger.warn(`submission selection: declared submitEndpointPattern/submitBodyPattern (${patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) disagrees with the unfiltered heuristic action sequence (${unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)); using the declared pattern because requireSubmitEndpointMatch is set`);
-    }
-    else if (patternUndercounts) {
-        logger.info(`submission selection: ignoring submitEndpointPattern/submitBodyPattern (${patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) as an undercount of the unfiltered heuristic action sequence (${unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s))`);
-    }
-    const heuristicActionCaptures = patternedHeuristicActionCaptures;
-    const manifestActionCaptures = resolveManifestActionSequence(runRoot, captures);
-    const manifestUndercounts = manifestActionCaptures !== null &&
-        manifestActionCaptures.length < heuristicActionCaptures.length;
-    if (manifestActionCaptures !== null && manifestUndercounts) {
-        logger.info(`submission selection: ignoring submit-manifest.json (${manifestActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) as an undercount of the heuristic action sequence (${heuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s))`);
-    }
-    else if (manifestActionCaptures !== null) {
-        logger.info(`submission selection: using submit-manifest.json (${manifestActionCaptures.length} authoritative capture(s))`);
-    }
-    const rawActionCaptures = manifestActionCaptures !== null && !manifestUndercounts
-        ? manifestActionCaptures
-        : heuristicActionCaptures;
-    // Form-schema detection runs BEFORE state-indexing so the field-id/option-id
-    // UUIDs can be shielded from indexing — those UUIDs are stable schema
-    // anchors that T2/T3 substitution depends on remaining literal in body
-    // templates.
-    const { fieldNameMap, fieldOptionsMap, allSchemaUuids } = detectFormSchemaFieldNames(captures, formSchema);
-    // Shield ALL field-id/option-id UUIDs that appear in any schema response, not
-    // just the ones that detectFormSchemaFieldNames emits a payload name for.
-    // Some fields have names too long for the naming heuristic (>80 chars) and
-    // would be skipped by fieldNameMap; their field-ids still need shielding
-    // because they appear as anchors in the T2-substituted body templates.
-    const shieldedUuids = new Set(allSchemaUuids);
-    // Persona identity bindings + entry-URL job coordinates — the value→payload
-    // reconciliation the body emitter merges into its substitution map so nested
-    // applicant fields and job context reach the caller's data instead of the
-    // recon persona's. Both are site-agnostic: persona mapping comes from the
-    // consumer vocabulary, job coordinates from the entry URL's own query keys.
-    const personaBindings = harvestPersonaBindings(flowSteps, vocabulary, process.env);
-    const entryUrlParams = extractEntryUrlParams(captures[0]?.url ?? "");
-    // T4 — Phase B+C: detect a form-schema GET capture and insert it into the
-    // action sequence at the position observed during recon, so the existing
-    // state-threading machinery can produce its FormHistoryId / section UUIDs /
-    // etc. as state values for downstream POSTs. Strip cache-buster query
-    // params (recon timestamps) from the captured URL so the emitted runtime
-    // fetch uses a clean template. Sites without a schema-fetch capture
-    // (rawSchemaFetch === null) get unchanged behavior.
-    const rawSchemaFetch = gql || formSchema === null ? null : detectFormSchemaFetchCapture(captures, baseUrl, formSchema);
-    const schemaFetchCleaned = rawSchemaFetch
-        ? { ...rawSchemaFetch.capture, url: stripCacheBusterParams(rawSchemaFetch.capture.url) }
-        : null;
-    const actionCaptures = (() => {
-        if (rawActionCaptures.length === 0 || schemaFetchCleaned === null || rawSchemaFetch === null) {
-            return rawActionCaptures;
-        }
-        let insertAt = rawActionCaptures.length;
-        for (let i = 0; i < rawActionCaptures.length; i++) {
-            if (rawActionCaptures[i].index >= rawSchemaFetch.index) {
-                insertAt = i;
-                break;
+    /**
+     * Runs the capture-to-contract pipeline once for a given capture pool.
+     * Nested (not top-level) so `assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced`'s
+     * self-healing retry can invoke it a second time against a narrowed
+     * `activeCaptures` without duplicating ~500 lines of deterministic
+     * derivation logic. Returns null once the config-manifest branch has
+     * already written its output and there is nothing left for main() to do.
+     */
+    function generateFromCaptures(activeCaptures) {
+        const baseUrl = deriveBaseUrl(activeCaptures, ownBackendHostnames);
+        // Gate on the flow's declared own-backend hosts (or the registrable-domain
+        // fallback of baseUrl) via the same predicate recon-http.ts applies at
+        // write time, so a stale aux/ directory from before that filter existed
+        // — or one written by a filter someone bypassed — can never smuggle a
+        // third party's JSON into a generated plugin's fixtures/. A file with no
+        // manifest entry is unverifiable provenance, not proven safe, so it is
+        // excluded rather than assumed to have passed the write-time filter.
+        const fallbackDomain = baseUrl.length > 0 ? (0, capture_filters_1.registrableDomain)(new URL(baseUrl).hostname) : null;
+        const auxFiles = auxManifest
+            .filter((entry) => {
+            const allowed = (0, capture_filters_1.isAllowedFixtureHost)(entry.hostname, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain);
+            if (!allowed) {
+                logger.warn(`excluding aux fixture '${entry.filename}' — host '${entry.hostname}' is not an own-backend host`);
             }
-        }
-        return [
-            ...rawActionCaptures.slice(0, insertAt),
-            { capture: schemaFetchCleaned, index: rawSchemaFetch.index },
-            ...rawActionCaptures.slice(insertAt),
-        ];
-    })();
-    const actionCaptureIndices = new Set(actionCaptures.map((a) => a.index));
-    // Resolved off raw actionCaptures — fold-plan DETECTION depends only on
-    // each action's capture, so this runs before compileActionSteps/
-    // indexStateValues even exist — so a short numeric join value threaded
-    // through a dependent-drill-down chain hop still gets indexed as
-    // producible state (see collectDependentDrillDownChainValues).
-    const dependentDrillDownChainValues = actionCaptures.length > 1
-        ? collectDependentDrillDownChainValues(actionCaptures, foldReturnSpec)
-        : new Set();
-    const stateIndex = actionCaptures.length > 1
-        ? indexStateValues(captures, shieldedUuids, actionCaptureIndices, dependentDrillDownChainValues)
-        : new Map();
-    const actionSteps = actionCaptures.length > 1 ? compileActionSteps(actionCaptures, stateIndex) : [];
-    const isSubmissionFlow = actionSteps.length > 1 && (!gql || graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation);
-    // Diagnostic for the FAILURE-3 shape (a flowless recon capture): a "submission flow"
-    // whose every action capture is landing-phase is almost certainly page-chrome
-    // bootstrap (e.g. page-chrome `POST /widgets`) misread as an apply flow, not a walked
-    // wizard. Real wizard steps carry a step-slug phase; single-endpoint search runs
-    // are `length <= 1` and never reach here. We do not filter (that would delete the
-    // sole search POST of legitimate `--url`-only single-endpoint runs, which is also
-    // landing-phase) — we only surface the suspicious shape.
-    if (isSubmissionFlow && actionCaptures.every((a) => a.capture.phase === "home")) {
-        logger.warn(`WARN all ${actionCaptures.length} action captures are landing-phase (phase="home") — this may be page-chrome bootstrap misread as a submission flow, not a walked apply wizard; verify the recon --flow actually advanced the form`);
-    }
-    const inputBody = isSubmissionFlow
-        ? (() => {
+            return allowed;
+        })
+            .map((entry) => entry.filename)
+            .sort();
+        // A file on disk with no manifest entry predates the write-time provenance
+        // record (bugfix-002) or otherwise landed outside probeAuxiliaryEndpoints —
+        // its source host is unverifiable, so it is excluded, not assumed safe.
+        const manifestedFilenames = new Set(auxManifest.map((entry) => entry.filename));
+        const unmanifestedFiles = (() => {
             try {
-                const payloadAction = selectPayloadAction(actionSteps);
-                return JSON.parse(payloadAction?.capture.requestPostData ?? "null");
+                return (0, node_fs_1.readdirSync)(auxDir).filter((f) => f.endsWith(".json") && f !== "aux-manifest.json" && !manifestedFilenames.has(f));
             }
             catch {
-                return null;
+                return [];
+            }
+        })();
+        for (const f of unmanifestedFiles) {
+            logger.warn(`excluding aux fixture '${f}' — no aux-manifest.json entry, provenance unverifiable`);
+        }
+        const baseHeaders = deriveRequestHeaders(activeCaptures, replays, baseUrl, submitPatterns, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain);
+        const minTime = deriveMinTime(rateLimits);
+        const hasRateLimitProbeData = rateLimits.some((f) => f.safeRps !== null);
+        const safeRps = rateLimits.find((f) => f.safeRps !== null)?.safeRps ?? Math.floor(1000 / minTime);
+        const gql = isGraphQL(activeCaptures);
+        // Hoisted so both the primary-operation gate below and rawActionCaptures
+        // (further down) read the same computed sequence instead of calling the
+        // extractor twice. Computed unfiltered (submitPatterns: null) — a
+        // flow-declared submit pattern must truncate this sequence, not filter
+        // it, so every gate reading it sees the full host-gated chain.
+        const graphqlActionSequence = gql
+            ? extractGraphQLActionSequence(activeCaptures, null, foldReturnSpec, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain)
+            : [];
+        // A foldReturn-admitted read/drill capture (see extractGraphQLActionSequence's
+        // doc comment) can put 2+ entries in graphqlActionSequence with none of them
+        // an actual `mutation` — a GraphQL-primary query plus its drill-down, not a
+        // transactional multi-step submission. Only a real mutation makes this a
+        // submission flow; an admitted read/drill capture must not, on its own, null
+        // out primaryGraphQLOperation below or flip isSubmissionFlow further down.
+        const graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation = graphqlActionSequence.some((a) => a.capture.query !== null && /^\s*mutation\b/.test(a.capture.query));
+        const primaryGraphQLOperation = gql && !graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation
+            ? selectPrimaryGraphQLOperation(activeCaptures, flowSteps, vocabulary, process.env, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns)
+            : null;
+        if (primaryGraphQLOperation &&
+            primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.length > 0) {
+            const operationLabel = primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.operationName ?? "(anonymous)";
+            logger.warn(`WARN primary GraphQL operation '${operationLabel}' declares filter variable(s) ${primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.join(", ")} that are never populated in any capture — the generated executeHttp's payload field(s) for ${primaryGraphQLOperation.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables.join(", ")} have no wiring target and will replay the captured frozen value instead of the caller's input`);
+        }
+        // When there's no primaryGraphQLOperation winner but the flow is still
+        // GraphQL, the query/endpointPath/responseBody/operationName fallbacks
+        // must all trace back to the SAME capture (firstGraphQLCapture) rather
+        // than resolving independently — a non-GraphQL-shaped own-backend
+        // capture could otherwise win the endpoint/body fallback while an
+        // unrelated capture supplies the query text.
+        const fallbackGraphQLCapture = gql
+            ? firstGraphQLCapture(activeCaptures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns)
+            : null;
+        const gqlQuery = primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture.query ?? fallbackGraphQLCapture?.query ?? null;
+        const endpointPath = primaryGraphQLOperation?.endpointPath ??
+            (fallbackGraphQLCapture
+                ? safeUrlPathname(fallbackGraphQLCapture.url)
+                : firstEndpointPath(activeCaptures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns));
+        // Derived from the primary operation's own Phase-1 capture, never from
+        // replay array order -- a replay's body reflects whichever endpoint fired
+        // first, not necessarily the primary operation, and only exists once
+        // recon:http has run.
+        const winningCapture = primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture ??
+            fallbackGraphQLCapture ??
+            firstEndpointCapture(activeCaptures, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain, submitPatterns);
+        const responseBody = winningCapture?.responseBody ?? null;
+        // Every 2xx capture sharing the winning capture's operation identity, not
+        // just the one that happened to win selection -- a paginated/re-filtered
+        // re-fire of the same operation can omit a field the winning capture
+        // happened to have (or vice versa), and inferZodSchemaFromSamples needs
+        // that presence evidence across occurrences to mark the field .optional()
+        // instead of required from a single observation.
+        const responseBodySamples = gatherResponseBodySamples(winningCapture, primaryGraphQLOperation !== null || fallbackGraphQLCapture !== null, activeCaptures);
+        // Detect a multi-step submission flow (transactional sites like apply forms,
+        // checkout, etc.). When the action sequence has 2+ POSTs, switch the
+        // contract template to emit a state-threaded executeHttp.
+        //
+        // Selection precedence: (A) the authoritative submit-manifest recon-browser
+        // wrote from the verified submission; else (B/C) pattern/heuristic extraction.
+        // The manifest is the only signal that separates a submission POST from a
+        // page-chrome POST sharing its URL, so it normally wins when present — but
+        // a manifest built from a single flow-declared submit step cannot represent
+        // a wizard whose every section saves independently, so it is only trusted
+        // when it isn't a strict undercount of what the same activeCaptures' own
+        // heuristic extraction finds.
+        const unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures = gql
+            ? dedupRedundantSameOperationCaptures(graphqlActionSequence, primaryGraphQLOperation)
+            : collapseRedundantPatches(extractActionSequence(activeCaptures, null, foldReturnSpec, ownBackendHostnames, fallbackDomain));
+        // A flow-declared submitEndpointPattern is authoritative: it may match only
+        // the final step's URL (the natural way to describe "the button that
+        // finishes the wizard") even though the earlier steps of the same chain
+        // (auth mint, paged listing, ...) are what state-threading depends on.
+        // Truncating at the last match — instead of filtering to matches only —
+        // keeps that whole chain; the gap between this and the unfiltered
+        // sequence is logged below for visibility, but the declared pattern is
+        // never overridden by the richer unfiltered sequence.
+        const patternedHeuristicActionCaptures = submitPatterns.endpoint === null && submitPatterns.body === null
+            ? unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures
+            : truncateActionSequenceAtSubmitPattern(unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures, submitPatterns);
+        const patternUndercounts = patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length < unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length;
+        if (patternUndercounts && requireSubmitEndpointMatch) {
+            // Distinct wording from the non-required case below: this pattern is never
+            // discarded, so a message that says "ignoring"/"undercount" would misstate
+            // what happened. The disagreement is still worth a warn-level surface —
+            // the flow author should know the declared pattern covers fewer activeCaptures
+            // than the unfiltered heuristic sequence finds.
+            logger.warn(`submission selection: declared submitEndpointPattern/submitBodyPattern (${patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) disagrees with the unfiltered heuristic action sequence (${unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)); using the declared pattern because requireSubmitEndpointMatch is set`);
+        }
+        else if (patternUndercounts) {
+            logger.info(`submission selection: ignoring submitEndpointPattern/submitBodyPattern (${patternedHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) as an undercount of the unfiltered heuristic action sequence (${unfilteredHeuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s))`);
+        }
+        const heuristicActionCaptures = patternedHeuristicActionCaptures;
+        const manifestActionCaptures = resolveManifestActionSequence(runRoot, activeCaptures);
+        const manifestUndercounts = manifestActionCaptures !== null &&
+            manifestActionCaptures.length < heuristicActionCaptures.length;
+        if (manifestActionCaptures !== null && manifestUndercounts) {
+            logger.info(`submission selection: ignoring submit-manifest.json (${manifestActionCaptures.length} capture(s)) as an undercount of the heuristic action sequence (${heuristicActionCaptures.length} capture(s))`);
+        }
+        else if (manifestActionCaptures !== null) {
+            logger.info(`submission selection: using submit-manifest.json (${manifestActionCaptures.length} authoritative capture(s))`);
+        }
+        const rawActionCaptures = manifestActionCaptures !== null && !manifestUndercounts
+            ? manifestActionCaptures
+            : heuristicActionCaptures;
+        // Form-schema detection runs BEFORE state-indexing so the field-id/option-id
+        // UUIDs can be shielded from indexing — those UUIDs are stable schema
+        // anchors that T2/T3 substitution depends on remaining literal in body
+        // templates.
+        const { fieldNameMap, fieldOptionsMap, allSchemaUuids } = detectFormSchemaFieldNames(activeCaptures, formSchema);
+        // Shield ALL field-id/option-id UUIDs that appear in any schema response, not
+        // just the ones that detectFormSchemaFieldNames emits a payload name for.
+        // Some fields have names too long for the naming heuristic (>80 chars) and
+        // would be skipped by fieldNameMap; their field-ids still need shielding
+        // because they appear as anchors in the T2-substituted body templates.
+        const shieldedUuids = new Set(allSchemaUuids);
+        // Persona identity bindings + entry-URL job coordinates — the value→payload
+        // reconciliation the body emitter merges into its substitution map so nested
+        // applicant fields and job context reach the caller's data instead of the
+        // recon persona's. Both are site-agnostic: persona mapping comes from the
+        // consumer vocabulary, job coordinates from the entry URL's own query keys.
+        const personaBindings = harvestPersonaBindings(flowSteps, vocabulary, process.env);
+        const entryUrlParams = extractEntryUrlParams(activeCaptures[0]?.url ?? "");
+        // T4 — Phase B+C: detect a form-schema GET capture and insert it into the
+        // action sequence at the position observed during recon, so the existing
+        // state-threading machinery can produce its FormHistoryId / section UUIDs /
+        // etc. as state values for downstream POSTs. Strip cache-buster query
+        // params (recon timestamps) from the captured URL so the emitted runtime
+        // fetch uses a clean template. Sites without a schema-fetch capture
+        // (rawSchemaFetch === null) get unchanged behavior.
+        const rawSchemaFetch = gql || formSchema === null
+            ? null
+            : detectFormSchemaFetchCapture(activeCaptures, baseUrl, formSchema);
+        const schemaFetchCleaned = rawSchemaFetch
+            ? { ...rawSchemaFetch.capture, url: stripCacheBusterParams(rawSchemaFetch.capture.url) }
+            : null;
+        const actionCaptures = (() => {
+            if (rawActionCaptures.length === 0 ||
+                schemaFetchCleaned === null ||
+                rawSchemaFetch === null) {
+                return rawActionCaptures;
+            }
+            let insertAt = rawActionCaptures.length;
+            for (let i = 0; i < rawActionCaptures.length; i++) {
+                if (rawActionCaptures[i].index >= rawSchemaFetch.index) {
+                    insertAt = i;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            return [
+                ...rawActionCaptures.slice(0, insertAt),
+                { capture: schemaFetchCleaned, index: rawSchemaFetch.index },
+                ...rawActionCaptures.slice(insertAt),
+            ];
+        })();
+        const actionCaptureIndices = new Set(actionCaptures.map((a) => a.index));
+        // Resolved off raw actionCaptures — fold-plan DETECTION depends only on
+        // each action's capture, so this runs before compileActionSteps/
+        // indexStateValues even exist — so a short numeric join value threaded
+        // through a dependent-drill-down chain hop still gets indexed as
+        // producible state (see collectDependentDrillDownChainValues).
+        const dependentDrillDownChainValues = actionCaptures.length > 1
+            ? collectDependentDrillDownChainValues(actionCaptures, foldReturnSpec)
+            : new Set();
+        const stateIndex = actionCaptures.length > 1
+            ? indexStateValues(activeCaptures, shieldedUuids, actionCaptureIndices, dependentDrillDownChainValues)
+            : new Map();
+        const actionSteps = actionCaptures.length > 1 ? compileActionSteps(actionCaptures, stateIndex) : [];
+        const isSubmissionFlow = actionSteps.length > 1 && (!gql || graphqlActionSequenceHasMutation);
+        // Diagnostic for the FAILURE-3 shape (a flowless recon capture): a "submission flow"
+        // whose every action capture is landing-phase is almost certainly page-chrome
+        // bootstrap (e.g. page-chrome `POST /widgets`) misread as an apply flow, not a walked
+        // wizard. Real wizard steps carry a step-slug phase; single-endpoint search runs
+        // are `length <= 1` and never reach here. We do not filter (that would delete the
+        // sole search POST of legitimate `--url`-only single-endpoint runs, which is also
+        // landing-phase) — we only surface the suspicious shape.
+        if (isSubmissionFlow && actionCaptures.every((a) => a.capture.phase === "home")) {
+            logger.warn(`WARN all ${actionCaptures.length} action captures are landing-phase (phase="home") — this may be page-chrome bootstrap misread as a submission flow, not a walked apply wizard; verify the recon --flow actually advanced the form`);
+        }
+        const inputBody = isSubmissionFlow
+            ? (() => {
+                try {
+                    const payloadAction = selectPayloadAction(actionSteps);
+                    return JSON.parse(payloadAction?.capture.requestPostData ?? "null");
+                }
+                catch {
+                    return null;
+                }
+            })()
+            : undefined;
+        const errorSignals = detectErrorSignals(actionSteps);
+        const discoveredFormFields = new Set();
+        const discoveredOptionFields = new Set();
+        // Phase E: maps label-derived raw-option payload field name (e.g.
+        // "AreYouOverTheAgeOf18OptionId") → recon-observed option-id UUID. Used to
+        // emit `<Name>OptionId: z.string()` payload fields with TSDoc docs.
+        const discoveredRawOptionFields = new Map();
+        // Phase F: keys from additional action POST bodies (beyond inputBody/r0)
+        // that get parameterized. Recorded with their value type so the contract
+        // emitter can add them to the payload schema with appropriate Zod types.
+        const discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys = new Map();
+        // Mechanism A: reconcile flow SELECT steps to submitted option codes. The
+        // resolutions drive a wire-key-anchored body rewrite (label→code dropdowns);
+        // i18n-only dropdowns (labels all templated, e.g. gender) fall through to the
+        // existing raw-option channel so their frozen code is still parameterized.
+        const { resolutions: selectResolutions, rawCodeFields } = buildSelectOptionResolutions(flowSteps, activeCaptures, vocabulary, process.env);
+        for (const [semanticName, { code }] of rawCodeFields) {
+            const fieldName = `${semanticName}Code`;
+            if (!discoveredRawOptionFields.has(fieldName))
+                discoveredRawOptionFields.set(fieldName, code);
+        }
+        // Mechanism B: nested caller structures (experienceData/educationData
+        // history, opaque eventData) discovered during the body emit, surfaced to the
+        // contract's payload schema.
+        const discoveredStructuredKeys = new Map();
+        // G1+G2: partition baseHeaders into three buckets:
+        //   - static: values that don't reference baseUrl or tenant subdomain
+        //   - baseUrl-derived: values containing the recon's baseUrl as substring
+        //     (e.g. Origin, Referer) — emit per-call from payload.BaseUrl
+        //   - tenant-subdomain: values that EXACTLY equal the first subdomain
+        //     (e.g. API-ShortName: "addus") — emit per-call from a payload field
+        const staticBaseHeaders = {};
+        const baseUrlDerivedHeaders = new Map();
+        const tenantSubdomainHeaders = new Map();
+        const firstSubdomain = (() => {
+            try {
+                const host = new URL(baseUrl).hostname;
+                const firstDot = host.indexOf(".");
+                return firstDot === -1 ? host : host.slice(0, firstDot);
+            }
+            catch {
+                return "";
+            }
+        })();
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(baseHeaders)) {
+            if (firstSubdomain.length > 0 && v === firstSubdomain) {
+                tenantSubdomainHeaders.set(k, v);
+            }
+            else if (baseUrl.length > 0 && v.includes(baseUrl)) {
+                baseUrlDerivedHeaders.set(k, v);
+            }
+            else {
+                staticBaseHeaders[k] = v;
             }
-        })()
-        : undefined;
-    const errorSignals = detectErrorSignals(actionSteps);
-    const discoveredFormFields = new Set();
-    const discoveredOptionFields = new Set();
-    // Phase E: maps label-derived raw-option payload field name (e.g.
-    // "AreYouOverTheAgeOf18OptionId") → recon-observed option-id UUID. Used to
-    // emit `<Name>OptionId: z.string()` payload fields with TSDoc docs.
-    const discoveredRawOptionFields = new Map();
-    // Phase F: keys from additional action POST bodies (beyond inputBody/r0)
-    // that get parameterized. Recorded with their value type so the contract
-    // emitter can add them to the payload schema with appropriate Zod types.
-    const discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys = new Map();
-    // Mechanism A: reconcile flow SELECT steps to submitted option codes. The
-    // resolutions drive a wire-key-anchored body rewrite (label→code dropdowns);
-    // i18n-only dropdowns (labels all templated, e.g. gender) fall through to the
-    // existing raw-option channel so their frozen code is still parameterized.
-    const { resolutions: selectResolutions, rawCodeFields } = buildSelectOptionResolutions(flowSteps, captures, vocabulary, process.env);
-    for (const [semanticName, { code }] of rawCodeFields) {
-        const fieldName = `${semanticName}Code`;
-        if (!discoveredRawOptionFields.has(fieldName))
-            discoveredRawOptionFields.set(fieldName, code);
-    }
-    // Mechanism B: nested caller structures (experienceData/educationData
-    // history, opaque eventData) discovered during the body emit, surfaced to the
-    // contract's payload schema.
-    const discoveredStructuredKeys = new Map();
-    // G1+G2: partition baseHeaders into three buckets:
-    //   - static: values that don't reference baseUrl or tenant subdomain
-    //   - baseUrl-derived: values containing the recon's baseUrl as substring
-    //     (e.g. Origin, Referer) — emit per-call from payload.BaseUrl
-    //   - tenant-subdomain: values that EXACTLY equal the first subdomain
-    //     (e.g. API-ShortName: "addus") — emit per-call from a payload field
-    const staticBaseHeaders = {};
-    const baseUrlDerivedHeaders = new Map();
-    const tenantSubdomainHeaders = new Map();
-    const firstSubdomain = (() => {
-        try {
-            const host = new URL(baseUrl).hostname;
-            const firstDot = host.indexOf(".");
-            return firstDot === -1 ? host : host.slice(0, firstDot);
-        }
-        catch {
-            return "";
-        }
-    })();
-    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(baseHeaders)) {
-        if (firstSubdomain.length > 0 && v === firstSubdomain) {
-            tenantSubdomainHeaders.set(k, v);
         }
-        else if (baseUrl.length > 0 && v.includes(baseUrl)) {
-            baseUrlDerivedHeaders.set(k, v);
+        // Third branch (browser-flow-only): a multi-action flow (isSubmissionFlow)
+        // that crosses hosts mid-sequence (compileActionSteps' isCrossDomain — a
+        // captured redirect off the original domain, e.g. an auth bounce or a
+        // vendor-hosted submission step). A bare `fetch`-based executeHttp can't
+        // reliably replay that: cookies/CSRF/session state minted for one origin
+        // don't automatically carry to the next the way a real browser's redirect
+        // handling does, so synthesizing a same-shape HTTP sequence would silently
+        // drop the session boundary the recon actually walked. Per-step, this
+        // already surfaces as the "cross-domain redirect detected ... likely needs
+        // browser fallback for this step" TODO (see emitMultiStepExecuteHttp); at
+        // the whole-flow level the honest emit is no executeHttp at all — never a
+        // same-host multi-step body that quietly drops the hop, and never a
+        // downgrade to the single-endpoint `{query}` branch either, since that's a
+        // fabrication of its own kind for a flow that isn't a single-action
+        // query/search to begin with.
+        const browserFlowOnly = isSubmissionFlow && actionSteps.some((s) => s.isCrossDomain);
+        const multiStepBody = browserFlowOnly
+            ? undefined
+            : isSubmissionFlow
+                ? emitMultiStepExecuteHttp(actionSteps, inputBody, errorSignals, fieldNameMap, discoveredFormFields, fieldOptionsMap, discoveredOptionFields, discoveredRawOptionFields, discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys, baseUrl, baseUrlDerivedHeaders, tenantSubdomainHeaders, formSchema, personaBindings, entryUrlParams, shieldedUuids, selectResolutions, discoveredStructuredKeys, rawCodeFields, foldReturnSpec)
+                : undefined;
+        const hasMultipartStep = actionSteps.some((s) => s.isMultipart);
+        const headerBindings = collectHeaderBindings(actionSteps);
+        // Shape inference targets the SAME call executeHttp returns — see
+        // selectEffectiveResponseBody — so the two surfaces can't describe different calls.
+        const effectiveResponseBody = selectEffectiveResponseBody(isSubmissionFlow, actionSteps, responseBody, foldReturnSpec);
+        // A declared foldReturn that resolves to no plan is a silent no-op otherwise
+        // — the flow author gets the discarding selectReturnAction path with nothing
+        // in the output saying their declaration never applied. A multi-step
+        // (submission) flow applies its fold via emitMultiStepExecuteHttp's own
+        // resolveFoldPlan call, entirely independent of resolveApplicableFoldPlans
+        // (which exists only to gate emitContractTs's single-primary hot path, and
+        // unconditionally reports zero plans once multiStepBody is set) — so this
+        // diagnostic must consult the SAME resolution each path actually applies,
+        // or it falsely reports "no fold plan resolved" for every multi-step flow
+        // with a working foldReturn.
+        const effectiveFoldPlanCount = multiStepBody
+            ? resolveFoldPlan(actionSteps, foldReturnSpec).length
+            : resolveApplicableFoldPlans(actionSteps, foldReturnSpec, multiStepBody).length;
+        if (foldReturnSpec !== null && effectiveFoldPlanCount === 0) {
+            logger.warn(`flow declares foldReturn (endpointPattern: ${foldReturnSpec.endpointPattern}, resultsPath: ${foldReturnSpec.resultsPath}, joinFields: ${foldReturnSpec.joinFields.join(", ")}) but no fold plan resolved — no later capture matched the endpoint pattern, resultsPath resolved to no object array, or the matched drill-down is multipart; the drill-down's response will not be folded`);
+        }
+        logger.info(`generating plugin for ${siteId} (${gql ? "GraphQL" : browserFlowOnly ? `submission flow, ${actionSteps.length} steps, browser-flow-only (cross-domain hop detected)` : isSubmissionFlow ? `submission flow, ${actionSteps.length} steps` : "single-endpoint REST"}, baseUrl: ${baseUrl})`);
+        if (emit === "config") {
+            (0, node_fs_1.mkdirSync)(outDir, { recursive: true });
+            (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(manifestPath, emitConfigManifest({
+                siteId,
+                displayName,
+                baseUrl,
+                flowSteps,
+                vocabulary,
+                inputBody,
+                recoveredFields: [...discoveredFormFields, ...discoveredOptionFields],
+                isSubmissionFlow,
+                // A submission flow is the case where the `.ts` emit carries an
+                // executeHttp hot path; point the manifest at where the operator drops
+                // the compiled module rather than silently dropping the direct path.
+                // Not set for the browser-flow-only branch — there is no hot path to
+                // compile a module for.
+                httpModulePath: isSubmissionFlow && !browserFlowOnly ? `./${siteId}.http.js` : undefined,
+            }));
+            logger.info(`wrote ${manifestPath}`);
+            logger.info(`done — review ${manifestPath}, fill in response/extract schemas, then load via BARNACLE_PLUGINS or BARNACLE_PLUGINS_CONFIG_DIR (no compile step)`);
+            return null;
         }
-        else {
-            staticBaseHeaders[k] = v;
-        }
-    }
-    // Third branch (browser-flow-only): a multi-action flow (isSubmissionFlow)
-    // that crosses hosts mid-sequence (compileActionSteps' isCrossDomain — a
-    // captured redirect off the original domain, e.g. an auth bounce or a
-    // vendor-hosted submission step). A bare `fetch`-based executeHttp can't
-    // reliably replay that: cookies/CSRF/session state minted for one origin
-    // don't automatically carry to the next the way a real browser's redirect
-    // handling does, so synthesizing a same-shape HTTP sequence would silently
-    // drop the session boundary the recon actually walked. Per-step, this
-    // already surfaces as the "cross-domain redirect detected ... likely needs
-    // browser fallback for this step" TODO (see emitMultiStepExecuteHttp); at
-    // the whole-flow level the honest emit is no executeHttp at all — never a
-    // same-host multi-step body that quietly drops the hop, and never a
-    // downgrade to the single-endpoint `{query}` branch either, since that's a
-    // fabrication of its own kind for a flow that isn't a single-action
-    // query/search to begin with.
-    const browserFlowOnly = isSubmissionFlow && actionSteps.some((s) => s.isCrossDomain);
-    const multiStepBody = browserFlowOnly
-        ? undefined
-        : isSubmissionFlow
-            ? emitMultiStepExecuteHttp(actionSteps, inputBody, errorSignals, fieldNameMap, discoveredFormFields, fieldOptionsMap, discoveredOptionFields, discoveredRawOptionFields, discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys, baseUrl, baseUrlDerivedHeaders, tenantSubdomainHeaders, formSchema, personaBindings, entryUrlParams, shieldedUuids, selectResolutions, discoveredStructuredKeys, rawCodeFields, foldReturnSpec)
-            : undefined;
-    const hasMultipartStep = actionSteps.some((s) => s.isMultipart);
-    const headerBindings = collectHeaderBindings(actionSteps);
-    // Shape inference targets the SAME call executeHttp returns — see
-    // selectEffectiveResponseBody — so the two surfaces can't describe different calls.
-    const effectiveResponseBody = selectEffectiveResponseBody(isSubmissionFlow, actionSteps, responseBody, foldReturnSpec);
-    // A declared foldReturn that resolves to no plan is a silent no-op otherwise
-    // — the flow author gets the discarding selectReturnAction path with nothing
-    // in the output saying their declaration never applied. A multi-step
-    // (submission) flow applies its fold via emitMultiStepExecuteHttp's own
-    // resolveFoldPlan call, entirely independent of resolveApplicableFoldPlans
-    // (which exists only to gate emitContractTs's single-primary hot path, and
-    // unconditionally reports zero plans once multiStepBody is set) — so this
-    // diagnostic must consult the SAME resolution each path actually applies,
-    // or it falsely reports "no fold plan resolved" for every multi-step flow
-    // with a working foldReturn.
-    const effectiveFoldPlanCount = multiStepBody
-        ? resolveFoldPlan(actionSteps, foldReturnSpec).length
-        : resolveApplicableFoldPlans(actionSteps, foldReturnSpec, multiStepBody).length;
-    if (foldReturnSpec !== null && effectiveFoldPlanCount === 0) {
-        logger.warn(`flow declares foldReturn (endpointPattern: ${foldReturnSpec.endpointPattern}, resultsPath: ${foldReturnSpec.resultsPath}, joinFields: ${foldReturnSpec.joinFields.join(", ")}) but no fold plan resolved — no later capture matched the endpoint pattern, resultsPath resolved to no object array, or the matched drill-down is multipart; the drill-down's response will not be folded`);
-    }
-    logger.info(`generating plugin for ${siteId} (${gql ? "GraphQL" : browserFlowOnly ? `submission flow, ${actionSteps.length} steps, browser-flow-only (cross-domain hop detected)` : isSubmissionFlow ? `submission flow, ${actionSteps.length} steps` : "single-endpoint REST"}, baseUrl: ${baseUrl})`);
-    if (emit === "config") {
-        (0, node_fs_1.mkdirSync)(outDir, { recursive: true });
-        (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(manifestPath, emitConfigManifest({
+        (0, node_fs_1.mkdirSync)(`${outDir}/flows`, { recursive: true });
+        // Emit the browser flow first so the SAME payloadFieldNames set that drives
+        // its `payload.<field>` splices also extends the contract's payload schema —
+        // the two artifacts can't drift because one accumulator feeds both.
+        const browserFlow = emitBrowserFlowTs({
             siteId,
-            displayName,
+            pascal,
             baseUrl,
             flowSteps,
+            isSubmissionFlow,
+            hasMultipartStep,
             vocabulary,
+            frameSelector,
+        });
+        const contractOpts = {
+            siteId,
+            displayName,
+            pascal,
+            baseUrl,
+            // G1+G2: only the static headers (no baseUrl/tenant-subdomain references)
+            // get baked into BASE_HEADERS. The rest are emitted per-call from payload.
+            baseHeaders: isSubmissionFlow ? staticBaseHeaders : baseHeaders,
+            minTime,
+            safeRps,
+            hasRateLimitProbeData,
+            responseBody: effectiveResponseBody,
+            // selectEffectiveResponseBody already resolves a submission flow's own
+            // single terminal capture -- the multi-sample evidence gathered above
+            // describes the (possibly different) read-flow winning capture and
+            // doesn't apply once a submission flow has picked its own return call.
+            responseBodySamples: isSubmissionFlow ? [effectiveResponseBody] : responseBodySamples,
+            gql,
+            gqlQuery,
+            endpointPath,
+            gqlOperationName: primaryGraphQLOperation
+                ? (primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.operationName ??
+                    parsedOperationName(primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.query ?? ""))
+                : (fallbackGraphQLCapture?.operationName ??
+                    parsedOperationName(fallbackGraphQLCapture?.query ?? "")),
+            gqlVariables: primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture.variables ?? null,
+            allCaptures: activeCaptures,
+            auxFiles,
+            multiStepBody,
+            omitExecuteHttp: browserFlowOnly,
+            isSubmissionFlow,
             inputBody,
-            recoveredFields: [...discoveredFormFields, ...discoveredOptionFields],
+            hasMultipartStep,
+            actionSteps,
+            foldReturnSpec,
+            discoveredFormFields,
+            fieldOptionsMap,
+            discoveredOptionFields,
+            discoveredRawOptionFields,
+            discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys,
+            discoveredStructuredKeys,
+            payloadFieldNames: browserFlow.payloadFieldNames,
+            optionalPayloadFieldNames: browserFlow.optionalPayloadFieldNames,
+            headerBindings,
+            unpopulatedDeclaredVariables: primaryGraphQLOperation?.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables ?? [],
+        };
+        const contractCode = emitContractTs(contractOpts);
+        return {
+            contractCode,
+            contractOpts,
+            browserFlow,
+            auxFiles,
+            resolvedPool: actionCaptures,
             isSubmissionFlow,
-            // A submission flow is the case where the `.ts` emit carries an
-            // executeHttp hot path; point the manifest at where the operator drops
-            // the compiled module rather than silently dropping the direct path.
-            // Not set for the browser-flow-only branch — there is no hot path to
-            // compile a module for.
-            httpModulePath: isSubmissionFlow && !browserFlowOnly ? `./${siteId}.http.js` : undefined,
-        }));
-        logger.info(`wrote ${manifestPath}`);
-        logger.info(`done — review ${manifestPath}, fill in response/extract schemas, then load via BARNACLE_PLUGINS or BARNACLE_PLUGINS_CONFIG_DIR (no compile step)`);
-        return;
+            actionSteps,
+            winningCapture,
+        };
     }
-    (0, node_fs_1.mkdirSync)(`${outDir}/flows`, { recursive: true });
-    // Emit the browser flow first so the SAME payloadFieldNames set that drives
-    // its `payload.<field>` splices also extends the contract's payload schema —
-    // the two artifacts can't drift because one accumulator feeds both.
-    const browserFlow = emitBrowserFlowTs({
-        siteId,
-        pascal,
-        baseUrl,
-        flowSteps,
-        isSubmissionFlow,
-        hasMultipartStep,
-        vocabulary,
-        frameSelector,
-    });
-    const contractOpts = {
-        siteId,
-        displayName,
-        pascal,
-        baseUrl,
-        // G1+G2: only the static headers (no baseUrl/tenant-subdomain references)
-        // get baked into BASE_HEADERS. The rest are emitted per-call from payload.
-        baseHeaders: isSubmissionFlow ? staticBaseHeaders : baseHeaders,
-        minTime,
-        safeRps,
-        hasRateLimitProbeData,
-        responseBody: effectiveResponseBody,
-        // selectEffectiveResponseBody already resolves a submission flow's own
-        // single terminal capture -- the multi-sample evidence gathered above
-        // describes the (possibly different) read-flow winning capture and
-        // doesn't apply once a submission flow has picked its own return call.
-        responseBodySamples: isSubmissionFlow ? [effectiveResponseBody] : responseBodySamples,
-        gql,
-        gqlQuery,
-        endpointPath,
-        gqlOperationName: primaryGraphQLOperation
-            ? (primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.operationName ??
-                parsedOperationName(primaryGraphQLOperation.capture.query ?? ""))
-            : (fallbackGraphQLCapture?.operationName ??
-                parsedOperationName(fallbackGraphQLCapture?.query ?? "")),
-        gqlVariables: primaryGraphQLOperation?.capture.variables ?? null,
-        allCaptures: captures,
-        auxFiles,
-        multiStepBody,
-        omitExecuteHttp: browserFlowOnly,
-        isSubmissionFlow,
-        inputBody,
-        hasMultipartStep,
-        actionSteps,
-        foldReturnSpec,
-        discoveredFormFields,
-        fieldOptionsMap,
-        discoveredOptionFields,
-        discoveredRawOptionFields,
-        discoveredAdditionalBodyKeys,
-        discoveredStructuredKeys,
-        payloadFieldNames: browserFlow.payloadFieldNames,
-        optionalPayloadFieldNames: browserFlow.optionalPayloadFieldNames,
-        headerBindings,
-        unpopulatedDeclaredVariables: primaryGraphQLOperation?.unpopulatedDeclaredVariables ?? [],
-    };
-    const contractCode = emitContractTs(contractOpts);
-    // Fails loudly rather than shipping a flow that requires a URL field it
-    // never reads (see assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced doc comment).
-    assertRequiredUrlFieldsReferenced(contractCode, browserFlow.code);
-    (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(`${outDir}/contract.ts`, contractCode);
+    const result = generateFromCaptures(captures);
+    if (result === null)
+        return; // emit === "config": already written above.
+    const final = healUnreferencedUrlFieldsOnce(captures, result, generateFromCaptures);
+    (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(`${outDir}/contract.ts`, final.contractCode);
     logger.info(`wrote ${outDir}/contract.ts`);
     // Same opts fed to emitContractTs above, so this can never drift from what
     // the header used to embed.
-    const checklist = buildContractChecklist(contractOpts);
+    const checklist = buildContractChecklist(final.contractOpts);
     logger.info(`review checklist for ${outDir}/contract.ts:\n${checklist.map((item) => `  [ ] ${item}`).join("\n")}`);
-    (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(`${outDir}/flows/browser-flow.ts`, browserFlow.code);
+    (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(`${outDir}/flows/browser-flow.ts`, final.browserFlow.code);
     logger.info(`wrote ${outDir}/flows/browser-flow.ts`);
     (0, node_fs_1.writeFileSync)(`${outDir}/index.ts`, emitIndexTs({ siteId, pascal }));
     logger.info(`wrote ${outDir}/index.ts`);
-    if (auxFiles.length > 0) {
+    if (final.auxFiles.length > 0) {
         (0, node_fs_1.mkdirSync)(`${outDir}/fixtures`, { recursive: true });
-        for (const f of auxFiles) {
+        for (const f of final.auxFiles) {
             (0, node_fs_1.copyFileSync)((0, node_path_1.join)(auxDir, f), `${outDir}/fixtures/${f}`);
         }
-        logger.info(`copied ${auxFiles.length} fixture(s) to ${outDir}/fixtures/`);
+        logger.info(`copied ${final.auxFiles.length} fixture(s) to ${outDir}/fixtures/`);
     }
     logger.info(`done — review ${outDir}/, build the package, then point BARNACLE_PLUGINS at the compiled module (no core edits required): BARNACLE_PLUGINS=./dist/sites/${siteId}/index.js pnpm start`);
 }