@hviana/sema 0.1.5 → 0.1.6

package/dist/src/store.js

@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ const CHAIN_DEPTH_CAP = 65_536;
  *  D·4 bytes (max ~4096), well under the argument limit; the key is far
  *  cheaper than the ANN query it deduplicates. */
 function vecKey(v) {
-  const bytes = new Uint8Array(v.buffer, v.byteOffset, v.byteLength);
-  // Chunked fromCharCode: one spread of D·4 args (16K at D=4096) flirts with
-  // engine argument limits and is slower than a few bounded calls.
-  let s = "";
-  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += 8192) {
-    s += String.fromCharCode(...bytes.subarray(i, i + 8192));
-  }
-  return s;
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array(v.buffer, v.byteOffset, v.byteLength);
+    // Chunked fromCharCode: one spread of D·4 args (16K at D=4096) flirts with
+    // engine argument limits and is slower than a few bounded calls.
+    let s = "";
+    for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += 8192) {
+        s += String.fromCharCode(...bytes.subarray(i, i + 8192));
+    }
+    return s;
 }
 /** Bounded map with LRU eviction and byte accounting.  On get the entry
  *  moves to the most-recent end; on set the least-recently-used entries are
@@ -71,138 +71,129 @@ function vecKey(v) {
  *  for uniform caches).  A miss only costs a little extra work later, never
  *  correctness. */
 export class BoundedMap {
-  maxBytes;
-  sizeOf;
-  evict;
-  m = new Map();
-  _bytes = 0;
-  // Persistent eviction cursor over the Map's insertion order. A fresh
-  // `keys()` iterator per eviction re-skips the growing prefix of holes that
-  // deletions leave in V8's ordered backing store (compacted only on rehash),
-  // making each eviction O(size) once the map first fills — the training-rate
-  // cliff at scale. A persistent iterator passes each hole exactly once
-  // (V8 map iterators stay valid under mutation): amortized O(1).
-  _cursor = null;
-  // "smallest" mode: oldest-entry candidates carried between evictions, fed
-  // from the cursor, so the LRU window never rescans from the front.
-  _candidates = [];
-  constructor(maxBytes, sizeOf = () => 1, evict = "lru") {
-    this.maxBytes = maxBytes;
-    this.sizeOf = sizeOf;
-    this.evict = evict;
-  }
-  /** Next key in insertion (≈ LRU) order, resuming where the last call left
-   *  off; wraps to the front when exhausted. Undefined only when empty. */
-  nextOldest() {
-    for (let wrapped = false;;) {
-      if (this._cursor === null) {
-        this._cursor = this.m.keys();
-      }
-      const n = this._cursor.next();
-      if (!n.done) {
-        return n.value;
-      }
-      this._cursor = null;
-      if (this.m.size === 0 || wrapped) {
-        return undefined;
-      }
-      wrapped = true;
-    }
-  }
-  get(k) {
-    const v = this.m.get(k);
-    if (v !== undefined) {
-      this.m.delete(k);
-      this.m.set(k, v);
-    }
-    return v;
-  }
-  /** Membership without touching LRU order — a pure peek, for callers that only
-   *  need "is this key present?" and must not promote it to most-recent. */
-  has(k) {
-    return this.m.has(k);
-  }
-  set(k, v) {
-    const old = this.m.get(k);
-    if (old !== undefined) {
-      this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(old);
-      this.m.delete(k);
-    }
-    this.m.set(k, v);
-    this._bytes += this.sizeOf(v);
-    while (this._bytes > this.maxBytes && this.m.size > 0) {
-      if (this.evict === "smallest") {
-        // Among the oldest LRU candidates, evict the cheapest to rebuild.
-        // Window grows logarithmically with cache size — wide enough to
-        // find a cheap victim without scanning the whole map. Candidates
-        // are pulled from the persistent cursor and carried between
-        // evictions, so the window never rescans the map from the front.
-        const WINDOW = Math.ceil(Math.log2(this.m.size + 1));
-        this._candidates = this._candidates.filter((k) => this.m.has(k));
-        while (this._candidates.length < WINDOW) {
-          const k = this.nextOldest();
-          if (k === undefined) {
-            break;
-          }
-          if (!this._candidates.includes(k)) {
-            this._candidates.push(k);
-          }
+    maxBytes;
+    sizeOf;
+    evict;
+    m = new Map();
+    _bytes = 0;
+    // Persistent eviction cursor over the Map's insertion order. A fresh
+    // `keys()` iterator per eviction re-skips the growing prefix of holes that
+    // deletions leave in V8's ordered backing store (compacted only on rehash),
+    // making each eviction O(size) once the map first fills — the training-rate
+    // cliff at scale. A persistent iterator passes each hole exactly once
+    // (V8 map iterators stay valid under mutation): amortized O(1).
+    _cursor = null;
+    // "smallest" mode: oldest-entry candidates carried between evictions, fed
+    // from the cursor, so the LRU window never rescans from the front.
+    _candidates = [];
+    constructor(maxBytes, sizeOf = () => 1, evict = "lru") {
+        this.maxBytes = maxBytes;
+        this.sizeOf = sizeOf;
+        this.evict = evict;
+    }
+    /** Next key in insertion (≈ LRU) order, resuming where the last call left
+     *  off; wraps to the front when exhausted. Undefined only when empty. */
+    nextOldest() {
+        for (let wrapped = false;;) {
+            if (this._cursor === null)
+                this._cursor = this.m.keys();
+            const n = this._cursor.next();
+            if (!n.done)
+                return n.value;
+            this._cursor = null;
+            if (this.m.size === 0 || wrapped)
+                return undefined;
+            wrapped = true;
         }
-        let bestI = -1;
-        let bestSz = Infinity;
-        for (let i = 0; i < this._candidates.length; i++) {
-          const sz = this.sizeOf(this.m.get(this._candidates[i]));
-          if (sz < bestSz) {
-            bestSz = sz;
-            bestI = i;
-          }
-        }
-        if (bestI < 0) {
-          break;
+    }
+    get(k) {
+        const v = this.m.get(k);
+        if (v !== undefined) {
+            this.m.delete(k);
+            this.m.set(k, v);
         }
-        const bestK = this._candidates[bestI];
-        this._candidates.splice(bestI, 1);
-        this._bytes -= bestSz;
-        this.m.delete(bestK);
-      } else {
-        const lru = this.nextOldest();
-        if (lru === undefined) {
-          break;
+        return v;
+    }
+    /** Membership without touching LRU order — a pure peek, for callers that only
+     *  need "is this key present?" and must not promote it to most-recent. */
+    has(k) {
+        return this.m.has(k);
+    }
+    set(k, v) {
+        const old = this.m.get(k);
+        if (old !== undefined) {
+            this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(old);
+            this.m.delete(k);
         }
-        const lruv = this.m.get(lru);
-        if (lruv === undefined) {
-          continue;
+        this.m.set(k, v);
+        this._bytes += this.sizeOf(v);
+        while (this._bytes > this.maxBytes && this.m.size > 0) {
+            if (this.evict === "smallest") {
+                // Among the oldest LRU candidates, evict the cheapest to rebuild.
+                // Window grows logarithmically with cache size — wide enough to
+                // find a cheap victim without scanning the whole map. Candidates
+                // are pulled from the persistent cursor and carried between
+                // evictions, so the window never rescans the map from the front.
+                const WINDOW = Math.ceil(Math.log2(this.m.size + 1));
+                this._candidates = this._candidates.filter((k) => this.m.has(k));
+                while (this._candidates.length < WINDOW) {
+                    const k = this.nextOldest();
+                    if (k === undefined)
+                        break;
+                    if (!this._candidates.includes(k))
+                        this._candidates.push(k);
+                }
+                let bestI = -1;
+                let bestSz = Infinity;
+                for (let i = 0; i < this._candidates.length; i++) {
+                    const sz = this.sizeOf(this.m.get(this._candidates[i]));
+                    if (sz < bestSz) {
+                        bestSz = sz;
+                        bestI = i;
+                    }
+                }
+                if (bestI < 0)
+                    break;
+                const bestK = this._candidates[bestI];
+                this._candidates.splice(bestI, 1);
+                this._bytes -= bestSz;
+                this.m.delete(bestK);
+            }
+            else {
+                const lru = this.nextOldest();
+                if (lru === undefined)
+                    break;
+                const lruv = this.m.get(lru);
+                if (lruv === undefined)
+                    continue;
+                this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(lruv);
+                this.m.delete(lru);
+            }
         }
-        this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(lruv);
-        this.m.delete(lru);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  get size() {
-    return this.m.size;
-  }
-  get bytes() {
-    return this._bytes;
-  }
-  /** Remove one entry (point invalidation), with byte accounting. */
-  delete(k) {
-    const v = this.m.get(k);
-    if (v === undefined) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(v);
-    this.m.delete(k);
-  }
-  /** Drop every entry (bulk invalidation) — O(1) amortised via fresh maps. */
-  clear() {
-    if (this.m.size === 0) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.m = new Map();
-    this._bytes = 0;
-    this._cursor = null;
-    this._candidates = [];
-  }
+    }
+    get size() {
+        return this.m.size;
+    }
+    get bytes() {
+        return this._bytes;
+    }
+    /** Remove one entry (point invalidation), with byte accounting. */
+    delete(k) {
+        const v = this.m.get(k);
+        if (v === undefined)
+            return;
+        this._bytes -= this.sizeOf(v);
+        this.m.delete(k);
+    }
+    /** Drop every entry (bulk invalidation) — O(1) amortised via fresh maps. */
+    clear() {
+        if (this.m.size === 0)
+            return;
+        this.m = new Map();
+        this._bytes = 0;
+        this._cursor = null;
+        this._candidates = [];
+    }
 }
 // ── Serialisation utilities (pure functions, no DB dependency) ───────────
 const _ZERO = new Uint8Array(0);
@@ -219,28 +210,26 @@ const _ZERO = new Uint8Array(0);
  *  exit mid-`ingest` whenever the event loop had nothing else alive (a bare
  *  top-level deposit loop) — the await simply never resolved. */
 function yieldToEventLoop() {
-  return new Promise((resolve) => {
-    const g = globalThis;
-    if (g.setImmediate) {
-      g.setImmediate(resolve);
-    } else {
-      g.setTimeout(resolve, 0);
-    }
-  });
+    return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        const g = globalThis;
+        if (g.setImmediate)
+            g.setImmediate(resolve);
+        else
+            g.setTimeout(resolve, 0);
+    });
 }
 /** Concatenate an array of byte arrays. */
 function concat(parts) {
-  let n = 0;
-  for (const p of parts) {
-    n += p.length;
-  }
-  const out = new Uint8Array(n);
-  let o = 0;
-  for (const p of parts) {
-    out.set(p, o);
-    o += p.length;
-  }
-  return out;
+    let n = 0;
+    for (const p of parts)
+        n += p.length;
+    const out = new Uint8Array(n);
+    let o = 0;
+    for (const p of parts) {
+        out.set(p, o);
+        o += p.length;
+    }
+    return out;
 }
 /** The byte string a FLAT branch spans — a branch whose kids are ALL implicit
  *  single-byte leaves (ids −256…−1) is fully determined by its bytes, one per
@@ -252,58 +241,55 @@ function concat(parts) {
  *  and content-addressed through the same leaf index instead of a second
  *  blob-duplicating kids index. */
 function flatKidsBytes(kids) {
-  const out = new Uint8Array(kids.length);
-  for (let i = 0; i < kids.length; i++) {
-    const k = kids[i];
-    if (k < -256 || k >= 0) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    out[i] = -(k + 1);
-  }
-  return out;
+    const out = new Uint8Array(kids.length);
+    for (let i = 0; i < kids.length; i++) {
+        const k = kids[i];
+        if (k < -256 || k >= 0)
+            return null;
+        out[i] = -(k + 1);
+    }
+    return out;
 }
 /** The implicit kid list of a flat branch — the inverse of
  *  {@link flatKidsBytes}. */
 export function flatBytesKids(bytes) {
-  const out = new Array(bytes.length);
-  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
-    out[i] = -(bytes[i] + 1);
-  }
-  return out;
+    const out = new Array(bytes.length);
+    for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++)
+        out[i] = -(bytes[i] + 1);
+    return out;
 }
 /** Pack a child-id list as little-endian int32s — 4 bytes per child, far more
  *  compact than a space-joined decimal string and trivial to read back. */
 export function packKids(kids) {
-  const out = new Int32Array(kids.length);
-  for (let i = 0; i < kids.length; i++) {
-    out[i] = kids[i];
-  }
-  return new Uint8Array(out.buffer);
+    const out = new Int32Array(kids.length);
+    for (let i = 0; i < kids.length; i++)
+        out[i] = kids[i];
+    return new Uint8Array(out.buffer);
 }
 export function unpackKids(blob) {
-  // The BLOB may be a view at a non-multiple-of-4 byteOffset, so copy before
-  // reinterpreting as int32.
-  const i32 = new Int32Array(blob.slice().buffer);
-  return Array.from(i32);
+    // The BLOB may be a view at a non-multiple-of-4 byteOffset, so copy before
+    // reinterpreting as int32.
+    const i32 = new Int32Array(blob.slice().buffer);
+    return Array.from(i32);
 }
 /** 32-bit FNV-1a of a byte blob — the integer content hash `idx_node_h` keys
  *  on. Collisions are resolved by verifying the stored blob, never trusted. */
 function hashOf(bytes) {
-  let h = 0x811c9dc5 >>> 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
-    h ^= bytes[i];
-    h = Math.imul(h, 0x01000193) >>> 0;
-  }
-  return h >>> 0;
+    let h = 0x811c9dc5 >>> 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
+        h ^= bytes[i];
+        h = Math.imul(h, 0x01000193) >>> 0;
+    }
+    return h >>> 0;
 }
 /** Fast content key (FNV-1a + length). No array spread onto the call stack. */
 function keyOf(bytes) {
-  return hashOf(bytes).toString(16) + ":" + bytes.length;
+    return hashOf(bytes).toString(16) + ":" + bytes.length;
 }
 /** Re-index a halo only when its mass is small or a power of two — O(log mass)
  *  writes per node instead of O(mass). */
 function geometricMass(mass) {
-  return mass <= 4 || (mass & (mass - 1)) === 0;
+    return mass <= 4 || (mass & (mass - 1)) === 0;
 }
 // Halo accumulators are stored 2-bit quantized: the exact float32 L2 norm
 // followed by D two-bit codes (sign + magnitude class) — 4 + D/4 bytes, 16×
@@ -328,47 +314,41 @@ const HALO_Q_THRESHOLD = 0.9816; // Lloyd-Max decision point, unit Gaussian
 const HALO_Q_LO = 0.4528; //          reconstruction level, inner cell
 const HALO_Q_HI = 1.5104; //          reconstruction level, outer cell
 function haloEncode(v) {
-  const D = v.length;
-  const out = new Uint8Array(4 + ((D + 3) >> 2));
-  let n2 = 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
-    n2 += v[i] * v[i];
-  }
-  const norm = Math.sqrt(n2);
-  new DataView(out.buffer).setFloat32(0, norm, true);
-  const bar = HALO_Q_THRESHOLD * (norm / Math.sqrt(D));
-  for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
-    const x = v[i];
-    // bit0: sign, bit1: |x| beyond the Gaussian decision threshold.
-    const code = (x > 0 ? 1 : 0) | ((x > bar || -x > bar) ? 2 : 0);
-    out[4 + (i >> 2)] |= code << ((i & 3) << 1);
-  }
-  return out;
+    const D = v.length;
+    const out = new Uint8Array(4 + ((D + 3) >> 2));
+    let n2 = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < D; i++)
+        n2 += v[i] * v[i];
+    const norm = Math.sqrt(n2);
+    new DataView(out.buffer).setFloat32(0, norm, true);
+    const bar = HALO_Q_THRESHOLD * (norm / Math.sqrt(D));
+    for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
+        const x = v[i];
+        // bit0: sign, bit1: |x| beyond the Gaussian decision threshold.
+        const code = (x > 0 ? 1 : 0) | ((x > bar || -x > bar) ? 2 : 0);
+        out[4 + (i >> 2)] |= code << ((i & 3) << 1);
+    }
+    return out;
 }
 function haloDecode(blob, D) {
-  const norm = new DataView(blob.buffer, blob.byteOffset, 4).getFloat32(
-    0,
-    true,
-  );
-  const out = new Float32Array(D);
-  if (norm === 0) {
+    const norm = new DataView(blob.buffer, blob.byteOffset, 4).getFloat32(0, true);
+    const out = new Float32Array(D);
+    if (norm === 0)
+        return out;
+    const sigma = norm / Math.sqrt(D);
+    let n2 = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
+        const code = (blob[4 + (i >> 2)] >> ((i & 3) << 1)) & 3;
+        const mag = (code & 2 ? HALO_Q_HI : HALO_Q_LO) * sigma;
+        const x = code & 1 ? mag : -mag;
+        out[i] = x;
+        n2 += x * x;
+    }
+    // Rescale to the exact stored norm so accumulation stays magnitude-true.
+    const s = norm / Math.sqrt(n2);
+    for (let i = 0; i < D; i++)
+        out[i] *= s;
     return out;
-  }
-  const sigma = norm / Math.sqrt(D);
-  let n2 = 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
-    const code = (blob[4 + (i >> 2)] >> ((i & 3) << 1)) & 3;
-    const mag = (code & 2 ? HALO_Q_HI : HALO_Q_LO) * sigma;
-    const x = code & 1 ? mag : -mag;
-    out[i] = x;
-    n2 += x * x;
-  }
-  // Rescale to the exact stored norm so accumulation stays magnitude-true.
-  const s = norm / Math.sqrt(n2);
-  for (let i = 0; i < D; i++) {
-    out[i] *= s;
-  }
-  return out;
 }
 // ── AbstractStore: template-method base with all domain logic ────────────
 /**
@@ -379,1381 +359,1243 @@ function haloDecode(blob, D) {
  * protected abstract methods that talk to the actual storage backend.
  */
 export class AbstractStore {
-  // ── Config ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  _D;
-  _maxGroup;
-  minHaloMass;
-  efSearch;
-  m;
-  efConstruction;
-  efConstructionInterior;
-  overfetch;
-  batchSize;
-  compactEveryNWrites;
-  // ── State ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** Branch node ids are a dense, monotonically-increasing integer sequence
-   *  (0,1,2,…). Single-byte leaves occupy the implicit negative range −256…−1.
-   *  They are NEVER deleted, so the count of minted branch ids IS the next id —
-   *  which doubles as the branch-node count and lets has() be an O(1) check.
-   *  Set by `_dbOpen()` from the stored node count; incremented by `mintId()`. */
-  _nextId = 0;
-  _writtenSinceCompact = 0;
-  closed = false;
-  /** Lifecycle guard — resolved once `_dbOpen()` completes. */
-  _ready = null;
-  // ── Caches ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** Exact-content dedup: content-key → node id. Intrinsic compression. */
-  _leafKey;
-  _branchKey;
-  /** Reconstructed-bytes read cache (regenerable), keyed by node id. */
-  _bytesCache;
-  /** contentLen memo — content is immutable, so entries never invalidate. */
-  _lenCache;
-  /** Node-record cache — avoids repeated persistence queries for shared DAG
-   *  nodes.  Each record is small (a few ints + short leaf buffer). */
-  _recCache;
-  /** Captured-but-not-yet-indexed gists. Sized in bytes (each is D·4); a deposit
-   *  links/pours a node right after interning it, so the working set is one
-   *  deposit's nodes — a small budget captures ~all of it, and an eviction only
-   *  means that node is reached by the DAG climb instead of by direct
-   *  resonance. */
-  _pendingGist;
-  /** EXACT halo accumulators for the session's live pours: full-precision in
-   *  memory, 2-bit on disk, so within-session accumulate-then-compare never
-   *  round-trips through the quantizer. Regenerable — a miss reads the durable
-   *  2-bit row. */
-  _haloExact;
-  /** NORMALIZED halo read cache — the decoded, normalized vector {@link halo}
-   *  returns, cached by id so repeat reads skip the per-call 2-bit decode and
-   *  normalize of a full D-element row (measured on a trained store: ~15K
-   *  halo() calls per deep query over ~50 distinct ids — all but the first
-   *  per id pure re-decode).  Point-invalidated by {@link pourHalo}, the one
-   *  halo mutation site.  Callers receive a COPY, so the cached vector is
-   *  never aliased.  Regenerable — a miss re-decodes the durable row. */
-  _haloNorm;
-  /** Interiors deliberately SKIPPED by indexSubtree (unique nodes with 1 parent
-   *  that bridge nothing).  Remembered so subsequent visits prune the subtree
-   *  without re-checking parent count.  LRU-bounded: an evicted entry is
-   *  re-checked on next visit — if it gained parents in the meantime, it will
-   *  be promoted to the index. */
-  _coveredIds;
-  /** Live content-index id set, LRU-bounded so a massive ingest never leaks
-   *  memory; an evicted entry is still indexed (the row is durable), so the
-   *  only cost of an eviction is a duplicate HNSW probe on next visit. */
-  _indexedIds;
-  // ── ANN read cache ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  // The index is read-only between writes, so the same (v,k) always returns
-  // the same neighbours.  Any index mutation (flush, delete, compact) drops
-  // the cache; the next miss recreates it.  Content-addressed (vecKey), not
-  // identity-addressed — same principle as perceiveMemo.
-  /** ANN read cache for {@link resonate} — keyed by vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
-   *  lazily initialised, dropped on any index mutation. */
-  _resonateCache = null;
-  /** ANN read cache for {@link resonateHalo} — same scheme. */
-  _resonateHaloCache = null;
-  // ── Write buffers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** Content (gist) index write buffer.  `ef` is the per-entry HNSW
-   *  construction budget: reach-only interiors carry the reduced
-   *  `efConstructionInterior`; dedup targets omit it (full budget). */
-  _contentBuffer = [];
-  /** Halo index write buffer — keyed by id so repeats within a batch coalesce. */
-  _haloBuffer = new Map();
-  /** Containment write buffer: child → new parents, merged on flush cadence. */
-  _containBuf = new Map();
-  /** Dedup-target candidates still in the write buffer (keyed by id).  Only
-   *  roots that have gained an edge/halo are targets; a fresh intermediate
-   *  branch is never folded onto. */
-  _nearDedupBuf = new Map();
-  /** Ids currently in `_contentBuffer` (not yet flushed) — O(1) membership. */
-  _bufferedIds = new Set();
-  // ── Transparent-chain cache ────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** {@link Store.chainRun} results, valid for the store's lifetime BETWEEN
-   *  writes: a chain is a pure function of the kid and edge tables, so any
-   *  write that could break a node's transparency (a fresh mint inserting kid
-   *  rows, a link inserting an edge) drops the whole cache — see the two
-   *  invalidation sites.  Regenerable; a miss re-walks. */
-  _chainMemo;
-  // ── Edge-source-count cache ────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** Distinct edge-source count — the store's DOCUMENT COUNT (how many
-   *  learnt contexts predict a continuation), the N of every
-   *  inverse-document-frequency read.  −1 until first asked for; from then
-   *  on maintained INCREMENTALLY by {@link link} (edges are never deleted),
-   *  so a read is O(1) — never a table scan on the recall path. */
-  _edgeSrcCount = -1;
-  // ── Constructor ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  constructor(config, D, maxGroup) {
-    this._D = D;
-    this._maxGroup = maxGroup;
-    this.minHaloMass = config.minHaloMass;
-    this.efSearch = config.efSearch;
-    this.m = config.m;
-    this.efConstruction = config.efConstruction;
-    this.efConstructionInterior = Math.max(
-      1,
-      Math.min(config.efConstructionInterior, config.efConstruction),
-    );
-    this.overfetch = config.overfetch;
-    this.batchSize = config.batchSize;
-    this.compactEveryNWrites = config.compactEveryNWrites;
-    this._leafKey = new BoundedMap(config.dedupCacheMax);
-    this._branchKey = new BoundedMap(config.dedupCacheMax);
-    this._bytesCache = new BoundedMap(
-      config.bytesCacheMax,
-      (v) => v.byteLength,
-      "smallest",
-    );
-    this._lenCache = new BoundedMap(config.bytesCacheMax, () => 16);
-    this._recCache = new BoundedMap(
-      config.recCacheBytes,
-      (r) => (r.leaf?.byteLength ?? 0) + (r.kids?.length ?? 0) * 4 + 12,
-    );
-    this._pendingGist = new BoundedMap(
-      config.pendingGistBytes,
-      (v) => v.byteLength,
-    );
-    this._haloExact = new BoundedMap(
-      config.haloCacheBytes,
-      (v) => v.byteLength,
-    );
-    this._haloNorm = new BoundedMap(config.haloCacheBytes, (v) => v.byteLength);
-    this._coveredIds = new BoundedMap(config.coveredIdsMax);
-    this._indexedIds = new BoundedMap(config.coveredIdsMax);
-    this._chainMemo = new BoundedMap(
-      config.chainCacheBytes,
-      (v) => v.length * 4 + 32,
-    );
-  }
-  // ── Public accessors ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  get D() {
-    return this._D;
-  }
-  /** Await the async initialisation performed by the concrete constructor. */
-  async _ensureReady() {
-    if (!this._ready) {
-      throw new Error("Store: not open");
-    }
-    await this._ready;
-  }
-  // ── Id management ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  has(id) {
-    // Byte leaves (negative ids) always exist.
-    if (id < 0) {
-      return id >= -256;
-    }
-    return Number.isInteger(id) && id >= 0 && id < this._nextId;
-  }
-  mintId() {
-    return this._nextId++;
-  }
-  nodeCount() {
-    return this._nextId;
-  }
-  async size() {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    return this._nextId;
-  }
-  // ── DAG traversal ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  get(id) {
-    // Byte leaves are implicit — fabricate from the id.
-    if (id < 0) {
-      return { id, leaf: new Uint8Array([-(id + 1)]), kids: null };
-    }
-    const hit = this._recCache.get(id);
-    if (hit !== undefined) {
-      return hit;
-    }
-    const rec = this._dbGetNode(id);
-    if (rec) {
-      this._recCache.set(id, rec);
-    }
-    return rec;
-  }
-  /** Reconstruct the bytes a node spans by traversing the DAG bottom-up.
-   *  Iterative post-order on an explicit stack — the call stack never sees the
-   *  tree depth, so even an adversarial chain of nodes stays safe. */
-  /** How many reads hit a MISSING node record this session (a dangling edge
-   *  or kid id).  Zero in a healthy store; a growing count means references
-   *  outlive their records — the read degrades safely to empty bytes, this
-   *  counter is what keeps that degradation observable. */
-  danglingReads = 0;
-  bytes(id) {
-    // Fast path.
-    const hit = this._bytesCache.get(id);
-    if (hit) {
-      return hit;
-    }
-    const stack = [id];
-    const cache = this._bytesCache;
-    while (stack.length > 0) {
-      const nid = stack[stack.length - 1]; // peek
-      // Already resolved by an earlier traversal.
-      if (cache.get(nid)) {
-        stack.pop();
-        continue;
-      }
-      const rec = this.get(nid);
-      if (!rec) {
-        // A DANGLING id (an edge or kid pointing at no record) reads as
-        // empty — safe (empty-bytes guards drop it from grounding) but a
-        // symptom of store corruption, so count it rather than stay silent.
-        // The cache makes the empty read permanent for the session; the
-        // counter survives as the visible trace.
-        this.danglingReads++;
-        cache.set(nid, _ZERO);
-        stack.pop();
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (rec.leaf) {
-        cache.set(nid, new Uint8Array(rec.leaf));
-        stack.pop();
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Branch — push any uncached children (reverse order so they resolve
-      // left-to-right).  If every child is already cached, concatenate now.
-      const kids = rec.kids ?? [];
-      let ready = true;
-      for (let i = kids.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-        if (!cache.get(kids[i])) {
-          stack.push(kids[i]);
-          ready = false;
+    // ── Config ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    _D;
+    _maxGroup;
+    minHaloMass;
+    efSearch;
+    overfetch;
+    batchSize;
+    compactEveryNWrites;
+    // ── State ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** Branch node ids are a dense, monotonically-increasing integer sequence
+     *  (0,1,2,…). Single-byte leaves occupy the implicit negative range −256…−1.
+     *  They are NEVER deleted, so the count of minted branch ids IS the next id —
+     *  which doubles as the branch-node count and lets has() be an O(1) check.
+     *  Set by `_dbOpen()` from the stored node count; incremented by `mintId()`. */
+    _nextId = 0;
+    _writtenSinceCompact = 0;
+    closed = false;
+    /** Lifecycle guard — resolved once `_dbOpen()` completes. */
+    _ready = null;
+    // ── Caches ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** Exact-content dedup: content-key → node id. Intrinsic compression. */
+    _leafKey;
+    _branchKey;
+    /** Reconstructed-bytes read cache (regenerable), keyed by node id. */
+    _bytesCache;
+    /** contentLen memo — content is immutable, so entries never invalidate. */
+    _lenCache;
+    /** Node-record cache — avoids repeated persistence queries for shared DAG
+     *  nodes.  Each record is small (a few ints + short leaf buffer). */
+    _recCache;
+    /** Captured-but-not-yet-indexed gists. Sized in bytes (each is D·4); a deposit
+     *  links/pours a node right after interning it, so the working set is one
+     *  deposit's nodes — a small budget captures ~all of it, and an eviction only
+     *  means that node is reached by the DAG climb instead of by direct
+     *  resonance. */
+    _pendingGist;
+    /** EXACT halo accumulators for the session's live pours: full-precision in
+     *  memory, 2-bit on disk, so within-session accumulate-then-compare never
+     *  round-trips through the quantizer. Regenerable — a miss reads the durable
+     *  2-bit row. */
+    _haloExact;
+    /** NORMALIZED halo read cache — the decoded, normalized vector {@link halo}
+     *  returns, cached by id so repeat reads skip the per-call 2-bit decode and
+     *  normalize of a full D-element row (measured on a trained store: ~15K
+     *  halo() calls per deep query over ~50 distinct ids — all but the first
+     *  per id pure re-decode).  Point-invalidated by {@link pourHalo}, the one
+     *  halo mutation site.  Callers receive a COPY, so the cached vector is
+     *  never aliased.  Regenerable — a miss re-decodes the durable row. */
+    _haloNorm;
+    /** Interiors deliberately SKIPPED by indexSubtree (unique nodes with 1 parent
+     *  that bridge nothing).  Remembered so subsequent visits prune the subtree
+     *  without re-checking parent count.  LRU-bounded: an evicted entry is
+     *  re-checked on next visit — if it gained parents in the meantime, it will
+     *  be promoted to the index. */
+    _coveredIds;
+    /** Live content-index id set, LRU-bounded so a massive ingest never leaks
+     *  memory; an evicted entry is still indexed (the row is durable), so the
+     *  only cost of an eviction is a duplicate index probe on next visit. */
+    _indexedIds;
+    // ── ANN read cache ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    // The index is read-only between writes, so the same (v,k) always returns
+    // the same neighbours.  Any index mutation (flush, delete, compact) drops
+    // the cache; the next miss recreates it.  Content-addressed (vecKey), not
+    // identity-addressed — same principle as perceiveMemo.
+    /** ANN read cache for {@link resonate} — keyed by vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
+     *  lazily initialised, dropped on any index mutation. */
+    _resonateCache = null;
+    /** ANN read cache for {@link resonateHalo} — same scheme. */
+    _resonateHaloCache = null;
+    // ── Write buffers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** Content (gist) index write buffer. */
+    _contentBuffer = [];
+    /** Halo index write buffer — keyed by id so repeats within a batch coalesce. */
+    _haloBuffer = new Map();
+    /** Containment write buffer: child → new parents, merged on flush cadence. */
+    _containBuf = new Map();
+    /** Dedup-target candidates still in the write buffer (keyed by id).  Only
+     *  roots that have gained an edge/halo are targets; a fresh intermediate
+     *  branch is never folded onto. */
+    _nearDedupBuf = new Map();
+    /** Ids currently in `_contentBuffer` (not yet flushed) — O(1) membership. */
+    _bufferedIds = new Set();
+    // ── Transparent-chain cache ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** {@link Store.chainRun} results, valid for the store's lifetime BETWEEN
+     *  writes: a chain is a pure function of the kid and edge tables, so any
+     *  write that could break a node's transparency (a fresh mint inserting kid
+     *  rows, a link inserting an edge) drops the whole cache — see the two
+     *  invalidation sites.  Regenerable; a miss re-walks. */
+    _chainMemo;
+    // ── Edge-source-count cache ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** Distinct edge-source count — the store's DOCUMENT COUNT (how many
+     *  learnt contexts predict a continuation), the N of every
+     *  inverse-document-frequency read.  −1 until first asked for; from then
+     *  on maintained INCREMENTALLY by {@link link} (edges are never deleted),
+     *  so a read is O(1) — never a table scan on the recall path. */
+    _edgeSrcCount = -1;
+    // ── Constructor ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    constructor(config, D, maxGroup) {
+        this._D = D;
+        this._maxGroup = maxGroup;
+        this.minHaloMass = config.minHaloMass;
+        this.efSearch = config.efSearch;
+        this.overfetch = config.overfetch;
+        this.batchSize = config.batchSize;
+        this.compactEveryNWrites = config.compactEveryNWrites;
+        this._leafKey = new BoundedMap(config.dedupCacheMax);
+        this._branchKey = new BoundedMap(config.dedupCacheMax);
+        this._bytesCache = new BoundedMap(config.bytesCacheMax, (v) => v.byteLength, "smallest");
+        this._lenCache = new BoundedMap(config.bytesCacheMax, () => 16);
+        this._recCache = new BoundedMap(config.recCacheBytes, (r) => (r.leaf?.byteLength ?? 0) + (r.kids?.length ?? 0) * 4 + 12);
+        this._pendingGist = new BoundedMap(config.pendingGistBytes, (v) => v.byteLength);
+        this._haloExact = new BoundedMap(config.haloCacheBytes, (v) => v.byteLength);
+        this._haloNorm = new BoundedMap(config.haloCacheBytes, (v) => v.byteLength);
+        this._coveredIds = new BoundedMap(config.coveredIdsMax);
+        this._indexedIds = new BoundedMap(config.coveredIdsMax);
+        this._chainMemo = new BoundedMap(config.chainCacheBytes, (v) => v.length * 4 + 32);
+    }
+    // ── Public accessors ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    get D() {
+        return this._D;
+    }
+    /** Await the async initialisation performed by the concrete constructor. */
+    async _ensureReady() {
+        if (!this._ready)
+            throw new Error("Store: not open");
+        await this._ready;
+    }
+    // ── Id management ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    has(id) {
+        // Byte leaves (negative ids) always exist.
+        if (id < 0)
+            return id >= -256;
+        return Number.isInteger(id) && id >= 0 && id < this._nextId;
+    }
+    mintId() {
+        return this._nextId++;
+    }
+    nodeCount() {
+        return this._nextId;
+    }
+    async size() {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        return this._nextId;
+    }
+    // ── DAG traversal ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    get(id) {
+        // Byte leaves are implicit — fabricate from the id.
+        if (id < 0) {
+            return { id, leaf: new Uint8Array([-(id + 1)]), kids: null };
         }
-      }
-      if (!ready) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      stack.pop();
-      const out = concat(kids.map((k) => cache.get(k)));
-      cache.set(nid, out);
-    }
-    return cache.get(id) ?? _ZERO;
-  }
-  /** First `maxLen` bytes of a node.  Walks only the leftmost branch,
-   *  stopping at `maxLen` — so a 1 MB document root costs the same as a
-   *  4-byte leaf.  Recursive, but tree depth is logarithmic.
-   *
-   *  IMMUTABILITY CONTRACT (applies to {@link bytes} too): returned arrays
-   *  may be shared with the byte cache and with other callers — treat them
-   *  as read-only.  Mutating one would corrupt every subsequent read. */
-  bytesPrefix(id, maxLen) {
-    if (maxLen <= 0) {
-      return _ZERO;
-    }
-    // A FULL read (the ALL sentinel) routes through bytes(), whose
-    // reconstruction enters the byte-budget cache.  Without this, the mind's
-    // read() — which always passes ALL — re-walked the DAG and re-concatenated
-    // on EVERY repeated read of an uncached branch, bypassing the cache that
-    // exists precisely for those reconstructions.
-    if (maxLen >= 0x7fffffff) {
-      return this.bytes(id);
-    }
-    // Full-cache hit: bytes() already reconstructed the whole node.
-    const full = this._bytesCache.get(id);
-    if (full) {
-      return full.length <= maxLen ? full : full.subarray(0, maxLen);
-    }
-    const rec = this.get(id);
-    if (!rec) {
-      return _ZERO;
-    }
-    if (rec.leaf) {
-      // Cache the (small) leaf bytes — cheap and reusable.  COPY before
-      // caching: rec.leaf is the node record's own buffer, and handing it
-      // out would let one mutating caller corrupt the record AND the cache
-      // (bytes() makes the same copy for the same reason).
-      const leaf = new Uint8Array(rec.leaf);
-      this._bytesCache.set(id, leaf);
-      return leaf.length <= maxLen ? leaf : leaf.subarray(0, maxLen);
-    }
-    // Branch — walk children left-to-right, stopping at maxLen.
-    const kids = rec.kids ?? [];
-    const parts = [];
-    let got = 0;
-    for (const k of kids) {
-      if (got >= maxLen) {
-        break;
-      }
-      const child = this.bytesPrefix(k, maxLen - got);
-      parts.push(child);
-      got += child.length;
-    }
-    return concat(parts);
-  }
-  contentLen(id, cap = Infinity) {
-    if (id < 0) {
-      return 1; // implicit single-byte leaf
-    }
-    const hit = this._lenCache.get(id);
-    if (hit !== undefined) {
-      return hit; // exact — valid under any cap
-    }
-    if (cap <= 0) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    const rec = this.get(id);
-    let n = 0;
-    let clamped = false;
-    if (rec) {
-      if (rec.leaf) {
-        n = rec.leaf.length;
-      } else if (rec.kids) {
-        for (const k of rec.kids) {
-          n += this.contentLen(k, cap - n);
-          if (n >= cap) {
-            clamped = true; // partial sum — a lower bound, not the length
-            break;
-          }
+        const hit = this._recCache.get(id);
+        if (hit !== undefined)
+            return hit;
+        const rec = this._dbGetNode(id);
+        if (rec)
+            this._recCache.set(id, rec);
+        return rec;
+    }
+    /** Reconstruct the bytes a node spans by traversing the DAG bottom-up.
+     *  Iterative post-order on an explicit stack — the call stack never sees the
+     *  tree depth, so even an adversarial chain of nodes stays safe. */
+    /** How many reads hit a MISSING node record this session (a dangling edge
+     *  or kid id).  Zero in a healthy store; a growing count means references
+     *  outlive their records — the read degrades safely to empty bytes, this
+     *  counter is what keeps that degradation observable. */
+    danglingReads = 0;
+    bytes(id) {
+        // Fast path.
+        const hit = this._bytesCache.get(id);
+        if (hit)
+            return hit;
+        const stack = [id];
+        const cache = this._bytesCache;
+        while (stack.length > 0) {
+            const nid = stack[stack.length - 1]; // peek
+            // Already resolved by an earlier traversal.
+            if (cache.get(nid)) {
+                stack.pop();
+                continue;
+            }
+            const rec = this.get(nid);
+            if (!rec) {
+                // A DANGLING id (an edge or kid pointing at no record) reads as
+                // empty — safe (empty-bytes guards drop it from grounding) but a
+                // symptom of store corruption, so count it rather than stay silent.
+                // The cache makes the empty read permanent for the session; the
+                // counter survives as the visible trace.
+                this.danglingReads++;
+                cache.set(nid, _ZERO);
+                stack.pop();
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (rec.leaf) {
+                cache.set(nid, new Uint8Array(rec.leaf));
+                stack.pop();
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Branch — push any uncached children (reverse order so they resolve
+            // left-to-right).  If every child is already cached, concatenate now.
+            const kids = rec.kids ?? [];
+            let ready = true;
+            for (let i = kids.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+                if (!cache.get(kids[i])) {
+                    stack.push(kids[i]);
+                    ready = false;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!ready)
+                continue;
+            stack.pop();
+            const out = concat(kids.map((k) => cache.get(k)));
+            cache.set(nid, out);
         }
-      }
-    }
-    if (!clamped) {
-      this._lenCache.set(id, n);
-    }
-    return n;
-  }
-  // ── Content-addressed lookup ───────────────────────────────────────────
-  findLeaf(bytes) {
-    if (bytes.length === 1) {
-      return -(bytes[0] + 1);
-    }
-    const key = keyOf(bytes);
-    const cached = this._leafKey.get(key);
-    if (cached !== undefined) {
-      return cached;
-    }
-    const id = this._dbFindLeaf(hashOf(bytes), bytes);
-    if (id !== null) {
-      this._leafKey.set(key, id);
-    }
-    return id;
-  }
-  findBranch(kids) {
-    const key = kids.join(",");
-    const cached = this._branchKey.get(key);
-    if (cached !== undefined) {
-      return cached;
-    }
-    const flat = flatKidsBytes(kids);
-    let id;
-    if (flat) {
-      id = this._dbFindBranchByLeaf(hashOf(flat), flat);
-    } else {
-      const packed = packKids(kids);
-      id = this._dbFindBranchByKids(hashOf(packed), packed);
-    }
-    if (id !== null && key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX) {
-      this._branchKey.set(key, id);
-    }
-    return id;
-  }
-  // ── Structural parents ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  parents(id) {
-    return this._dbGetParents(id);
-  }
-  parentsFirst(id, limit) {
-    return this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, limit);
-  }
-  hasParents(id) {
-    return this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, 1).length > 0;
-  }
-  chainRun(id) {
-    const hit = this._chainMemo.get(id);
-    if (hit !== undefined) {
-      return hit;
-    }
-    const run = this._chainWalk(id, CHAIN_DEPTH_CAP);
-    this._chainMemo.set(id, run);
-    return run;
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.chainRun}'s walk, node at a time through the existing
-   *  probes.  Adapters with a set-based query engine should override with a
-   *  single server-side descent (the SQLite adapter uses a recursive CTE). */
-  _chainWalk(id, cap) {
-    const run = [id];
-    let n = id;
-    while (run.length < cap) {
-      if (this.hasNext(n) || this.prevCount(n) > 0) {
-        break;
-      }
-      const ps = this._dbGetParentsFirst(n, 2);
-      if (ps.length !== 1) {
-        break;
-      }
-      n = ps[0];
-      run.push(n);
-    }
-    return run;
-  }
-  // ── Containment ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  addContainer(child, parent) {
-    let set = this._containBuf.get(child);
-    if (set === undefined) {
-      set = new Set();
-      this._containBuf.set(child, set);
-    }
-    set.add(parent);
-  }
-  hasContainers(child) {
-    if (this._dbContainExists(child)) {
-      return true;
-    }
-    const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
-    return buf !== undefined && buf.size > 0;
-  }
-  containersSlice(child, offset, limit) {
-    const out = this._dbGetContainParentsSlice(child, offset, limit);
-    if (out.length >= limit) {
-      return out;
-    }
-    // Buffered adds page in AFTER the stored ones.  A buffered parent that is
-    // also stored may repeat across the seam; page consumers dedup by id
-    // (they all carry seen-sets), so a repeat costs a skip, never an error.
-    const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
-    if (!buf || buf.size === 0) {
-      return out;
-    }
-    const storedCount = this._dbGetContainCount(child);
-    const bufStart = Math.max(0, offset - storedCount) +
-      Math.max(0, out.length - Math.max(0, storedCount - offset));
-    let i = 0;
-    for (const p of buf) {
-      if (out.length >= limit) {
-        break;
-      }
-      if (i++ < bufStart) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      out.push(p);
-    }
-    return out;
-  }
-  containers(child) {
-    const stored = this._dbGetContainParents(child);
-    const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
-    if (stored.length === 0) {
-      return buf ? [...buf] : [];
-    }
-    if (!buf) {
-      return stored;
-    }
-    const merged = new Set(stored);
-    for (const p of buf) {
-      merged.add(p);
-    }
-    return [...merged];
-  }
-  // ── Walk kids to collect implicit per-byte leaf ids ────────────────────
-  flatLeafIds(kids) {
-    const out = [];
-    const stack = [...kids].reverse();
-    while (stack.length > 0) {
-      const id = stack.pop();
-      if (id < 0) {
-        out.push(id);
-        continue;
-      }
-      const rec = this.get(id);
-      if (!rec) {
-        return null;
-      }
-      if (rec.leaf !== null) {
-        for (let i = 0; i < rec.leaf.length; i++) {
-          out.push(-(rec.leaf[i] + 1));
+        return cache.get(id) ?? _ZERO;
+    }
+    /** First `maxLen` bytes of a node.  Walks only the leftmost branch,
+     *  stopping at `maxLen` — so a 1 MB document root costs the same as a
+     *  4-byte leaf.  Recursive, but tree depth is logarithmic.
+     *
+     *  IMMUTABILITY CONTRACT (applies to {@link bytes} too): returned arrays
+     *  may be shared with the byte cache and with other callers — treat them
+     *  as read-only.  Mutating one would corrupt every subsequent read. */
+    bytesPrefix(id, maxLen) {
+        if (maxLen <= 0)
+            return _ZERO;
+        // A FULL read (the ALL sentinel) routes through bytes(), whose
+        // reconstruction enters the byte-budget cache.  Without this, the mind's
+        // read() — which always passes ALL — re-walked the DAG and re-concatenated
+        // on EVERY repeated read of an uncached branch, bypassing the cache that
+        // exists precisely for those reconstructions.
+        if (maxLen >= 0x7fffffff)
+            return this.bytes(id);
+        // Full-cache hit: bytes() already reconstructed the whole node.
+        const full = this._bytesCache.get(id);
+        if (full)
+            return full.length <= maxLen ? full : full.subarray(0, maxLen);
+        const rec = this.get(id);
+        if (!rec)
+            return _ZERO;
+        if (rec.leaf) {
+            // Cache the (small) leaf bytes — cheap and reusable.  COPY before
+            // caching: rec.leaf is the node record's own buffer, and handing it
+            // out would let one mutating caller corrupt the record AND the cache
+            // (bytes() makes the same copy for the same reason).
+            const leaf = new Uint8Array(rec.leaf);
+            this._bytesCache.set(id, leaf);
+            return leaf.length <= maxLen ? leaf : leaf.subarray(0, maxLen);
         }
-      } else if (rec.kids !== null) {
-        for (let i = rec.kids.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-          stack.push(rec.kids[i]);
+        // Branch — walk children left-to-right, stopping at maxLen.
+        const kids = rec.kids ?? [];
+        const parts = [];
+        let got = 0;
+        for (const k of kids) {
+            if (got >= maxLen)
+                break;
+            const child = this.bytesPrefix(k, maxLen - got);
+            parts.push(child);
+            got += child.length;
         }
-      }
-    }
-    return out;
-  }
-  /** On a dedup HIT, keep the node's gist available for lazy indexing —
-   *  EXACTLY when it is not already indexed.  Replaces the old id-range
-   *  "recency" heuristic (id ≥ nextId − cacheWindow), which conflated an LRU
-   *  entry COUNT with an id RANGE and permanently refused to index any node
-   *  that first became a resonance target long after it was minted (an early
-   *  interior later reused as an edge/halo-bearing deposit root was silently
-   *  unreachable by resonance).  The durable index itself is the arbiter:
-   *  one point query, cached in `_indexedIds` on a hit so repeats are O(1). */
-  captureIfUnindexed(id, gist) {
-    if (this._indexedIds.has(id) || this._pendingGist.has(id)) {
-      return;
-    }
-    if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
-      this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
-      return;
-    }
-    this._pendingGist.set(id, normalize(copy(gist)));
-    // A node that ALREADY bridges experiences but was never indexed (its 1→2
-    // transition fired while its gist was evicted, or in a pre-transition
-    // store) is promoted on this re-encounter — the recapture above is
-    // exactly what makes its gist available again.  Byte leaves (negative
-    // ids) never have kid rows, so skip their parent probe.
-    if (id >= 0) {
-      this.promoteBridge(id);
-    }
-  }
-  /** If `id` structurally bridges ≥2 experiences (the post-hoc compaction
-   *  criterion), promote its gist into the content index NOW — the exact
-   *  moment it becomes useful for multi-experience recall.  The 1→2 parent
-   *  transition fires on {@link _dbInsertKid} during mint, and nodes that
-   *  were already bridges but missed indexing (gist evicted, pre-transition
-   *  store) are recaptured in {@link captureIfUnindexed}.
-   *
-   *  A no-op when the node is already indexed or its gist is evicted from
-   *  the pending cache — a future re-encounter will retry. */
-  promoteBridge(id) {
-    // A LIMITed probe: this runs once per kid insert on the MINT hot path,
-    // and a shared child's full parent set grows with the corpus.
-    if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, 2).length < 2) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.indexGist(id, false);
-  }
-  // ── Core interning: dedup → near-dedup → mint ──────────────────────────
-  async intern(leaf, kids, gist) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    // 1. Exact dedup — equal content → one id, no vector work. Primary
-    //    compression mechanism, intrinsic to the store.
-    //
-    //    findLeaf/findBranch are the content-addressed lookups: in-memory cache
-    //    first, then a durable probe that repopulates the cache on a hit.
-    //    Using them here (rather than only the cache) makes dedup survive a cold
-    //    cache — a resumed/checkpointed training run, or one whose dedup cache
-    //    has evicted old keys, still recognises content already on disk and
-    //    reuses its id instead of minting a duplicate.
-    const hit = leaf !== null ? this.findLeaf(leaf) : this.findBranch(kids);
-    if (hit !== null) {
-      this.captureIfUnindexed(hit, gist);
-      return hit;
-    }
-    // 1b. Content-addressed lookup by leaf-id signature.  When the same byte
-    //     sequence was stored as a flat branch (via putBranch during deposit),
-    //     a branch node spanning those bytes reuses that id even when its tree
-    //     structure differs — pure content addressing, same bytes → same node.
-    if (kids !== null && kids.length >= 2) {
-      const leafIds = this.flatLeafIds(kids);
-      if (leafIds !== null) {
-        const flatHit = this.findBranch(leafIds);
-        if (flatHit !== null) {
-          this.captureIfUnindexed(flatHit, gist);
-          return flatHit;
+        return concat(parts);
+    }
+    contentLen(id, cap = Infinity) {
+        if (id < 0)
+            return 1; // implicit single-byte leaf
+        const hit = this._lenCache.get(id);
+        if (hit !== undefined)
+            return hit; // exact — valid under any cap
+        if (cap <= 0)
+            return 0;
+        const rec = this.get(id);
+        let n = 0;
+        let clamped = false;
+        if (rec) {
+            if (rec.leaf)
+                n = rec.leaf.length;
+            else if (rec.kids) {
+                for (const k of rec.kids) {
+                    n += this.contentLen(k, cap - n);
+                    if (n >= cap) {
+                        clamped = true; // partial sum — a lower bound, not the length
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
-      }
-    }
-    const cache = leaf !== null ? this._leafKey : this._branchKey;
-    const key = leaf !== null ? keyOf(leaf) : kids.join(",");
-    // 2. Near dedup — BRANCHES ONLY, against RESONANCE TARGETS only.
-    //    Leaves are single bytes: exact dedup already collapses every identical
-    //    leaf, and near-merging distinct leaves only corrupts bytes for no real
-    //    saving. Real near-dedup compression lives in subtree (branch) fusion.
-    //
-    //    There is deliberately NO HNSW probe of the FLUSHED index here. It used
-    //    to fire for EVERY new branch that the buffer scan didn't settle — i.e.
-    //    ~every interior branch, since interiors are never dedup targets —
-    //    making one ANN query per branch the dominant training cost (it dwarfed
-    //    perception and the index write). And it was not merely expensive but
-    //    WRONG: the 1-bit RaBitQ code can rank a byte-DISTINCT branch as the
-    //    nearest "target" of a fresh branch, so the fold collapsed two
-    //    byte-different subtrees onto one id and corrupted exact reconstruction
-    //    (02-roundtrip's random-byte streams). Real near-duplicate EXPERIENCES
-    //    are caught two cheaper, exact ways instead: identical content by the
-    //    exact-dedup hash-cons above, and a near-gist target still in the write
-    //    buffer by the scan below.
-    if (leaf === null) {
-      // Near-dedup PREFILTER — the scale-aware identity bar
-      // ({@link identityBar}) for THIS branch's own length, not the fixed
-      // estimator floor: under the linear fold a long branch crosses
-      // 1 − 1/√D while whole windows differ, and every such crossing paid a
-      // full differsByOneWindow byte reconstruction.  Same final semantics
-      // (the byte check below still decides identity); strictly fewer byte
-      // reads.  The scan runs FIRST: the branch length (Σ kids' contentLen —
-      // memoized bottom-up by the interning order itself, O(kids)) is only
-      // computed once a nearest candidate actually exists, so the hot
-      // no-candidate mint pays nothing.
-      let best = -1;
-      let bestId = null;
-      if (this._nearDedupBuf.size > 0) {
-        const g = normalize(copy(gist));
-        // Candidates are the buffered DEDUP TARGETS only — genuine whole
-        // experiences (edge/halo-bearing roots) not yet flushed.
-        for (const [id, vector] of this._nearDedupBuf) {
-          const s = dot(g, vector);
-          if (s > best) {
-            best = s;
-            bestId = id;
-          }
+        if (!clamped)
+            this._lenCache.set(id, n);
+        return n;
+    }
+    // ── Content-addressed lookup ───────────────────────────────────────────
+    findLeaf(bytes) {
+        if (bytes.length === 1)
+            return -(bytes[0] + 1);
+        const key = keyOf(bytes);
+        const cached = this._leafKey.get(key);
+        if (cached !== undefined)
+            return cached;
+        const id = this._dbFindLeaf(hashOf(bytes), bytes);
+        if (id !== null)
+            this._leafKey.set(key, id);
+        return id;
+    }
+    findBranch(kids) {
+        const key = kids.join(",");
+        const cached = this._branchKey.get(key);
+        if (cached !== undefined)
+            return cached;
+        const flat = flatKidsBytes(kids);
+        let id;
+        if (flat) {
+            id = this._dbFindBranchByLeaf(hashOf(flat), flat);
         }
-      }
-      let blen = 0;
-      if (bestId !== null) {
-        for (const k of kids) {
-          blen += this.contentLen(k);
+        else {
+            const packed = packKids(kids);
+            id = this._dbFindBranchByKids(hashOf(packed), packed);
         }
-      }
-      if (
-        bestId !== null &&
-        best >= identityBar(this.D, this._maxGroup, blen)
-      ) {
-        // Scale-aware acceptance.  The cosine bar alone is scale-BLIND
-        // against a scale-DEPENDENT quantity: the hierarchical fold dilutes
-        // a localized difference faster than linearly in form size, so for
-        // deep forms ANY fixed bar below 1 is crossed by exactly the one
-        // span that distinguishes two experiences.  No inversion of the
-        // deficit is trustworthy, so the bytes themselves decide: the two
-        // forms must be identical except for ONE local span of at most W
-        // bytes — the river window, the perception's own resolution quantum.
-        const W = this._maxGroup;
-        if (this.differsByOneWindow(kids, bestId, W)) {
-          if (key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX) {
-            cache.set(key, bestId);
-          }
-          return bestId;
+        if (id !== null && key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX) {
+            this._branchKey.set(key, id);
         }
-      }
-    }
-    // 3. Mint a fresh node. A FLAT branch (every kid an implicit single-byte
-    //    leaf) stores its BYTES in the leaf column with a zero-length kids blob
-    //    as the marker — the kid list is derived on read.
-    const id = this.mintId();
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    const flat = kids ? flatKidsBytes(kids) : null;
-    const packed = kids && !flat ? packKids(kids) : null;
-    this._dbInsertNode(
-      id,
-      leaf ?? flat,
-      packed ?? (flat ? _ZERO : null),
-      hashOf(leaf ?? flat ?? packed),
-    );
-    // Reverse structural edge: each distinct child → this parent. Lets the graph
-    // be climbed upward in index time, with no scan of the kids blobs.
-    //
-    // Populated NATURALLY here and only here — one write per child, in the SAME
-    // mint that creates the node, inside the SAME deferred transaction as the
-    // node row, so node and kid rows are always durable together.
-    //
-    // Implicit single-byte leaves get NO parent edge: a byte belongs to nearly
-    // every branch, so its parent set is the corpus-sized hub the climb's
-    // saturation guard discards unread.
-    if (kids) {
-      // Kid rows change parent counts — a child whose parent set grows from
-      // one is no longer transparent, so every cached chain that hopped
-      // through it is stale.  Which chains those are is unknowable without a
-      // reverse index, so the WHOLE cache drops (writes come in training
-      // bursts where the cache is cold anyway; queries rebuild it lazily).
-      this._chainMemo.clear();
-      for (const c of kids) {
-        if (c < 0 && c >= -256) {
-          continue;
+        return id;
+    }
+    // ── Structural parents ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    parents(id) {
+        return this._dbGetParents(id);
+    }
+    parentsFirst(id, limit) {
+        return this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, limit);
+    }
+    hasParents(id) {
+        return this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, 1).length > 0;
+    }
+    chainRun(id) {
+        const hit = this._chainMemo.get(id);
+        if (hit !== undefined)
+            return hit;
+        const run = this._chainWalk(id, CHAIN_DEPTH_CAP);
+        this._chainMemo.set(id, run);
+        return run;
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.chainRun}'s walk, node at a time through the existing
+     *  probes.  Adapters with a set-based query engine should override with a
+     *  single server-side descent (the SQLite adapter uses a recursive CTE). */
+    _chainWalk(id, cap) {
+        const run = [id];
+        let n = id;
+        while (run.length < cap) {
+            if (this.hasNext(n) || this.prevCount(n) > 0)
+                break;
+            const ps = this._dbGetParentsFirst(n, 2);
+            if (ps.length !== 1)
+                break;
+            n = ps[0];
+            run.push(n);
         }
-        this._dbInsertKid(c, id);
-        // The 1→2 parent TRANSITION happens here and only here (hash-cons
-        // means an existing branch never re-inserts kid rows, so parent sets
-        // grow exclusively through fresh mints): the child just became a
-        // structural bridge between experiences — the exact set post-hoc
-        // compaction keeps — so its gist enters the reach index NOW.
-        this.promoteBridge(c);
-      }
-    }
-    if (key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX) {
-      cache.set(key, id);
-    }
-    if (leaf) {
-      this._bytesCache.set(id, new Uint8Array(leaf));
-    } else if (flat) {
-      this._bytesCache.set(id, flat);
-    }
-    // Capture the gist; it is pushed into the content index lazily, the first
-    // time this node becomes a resonance target (link / pourHalo). A node that
-    // never does (a pure intermediate DAG node — ~99.5% of them) is never
-    // indexed: it costs one persistence row, no HNSW slot and no merge probe.
-    this._pendingGist.set(id, normalize(copy(gist)));
-    await this.maybeFlush();
-    return id;
-  }
-  /** Whether the byte content under `kids` and the byte content of `targetId`
-   *  are identical except for ONE local span of at most `W` bytes on each side
-   *  — the near dedup's byte-grain definition of a near-duplicate.  A
-   *  common-prefix / common-suffix trim: whatever remains after both trims is
-   *  the single differing span (substitution, insertion or deletion), and both
-   *  remainders must fit the budget.  Scattered differences leave a wide
-   *  middle and are rejected. */
-  differsByOneWindow(kids, targetId, W) {
-    const a = concat(
-      kids.map((k) => this.bytesPrefix(k, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER)),
-    );
-    const b = this.bytesPrefix(targetId, a.length + W + 1);
-    if (Math.abs(a.length - b.length) > W) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    const n = Math.min(a.length, b.length);
-    let i = 0;
-    while (i < n && a[i] === b[i]) {
-      i++;
-    }
-    let j = 0;
-    while (j < n - i && a[a.length - 1 - j] === b[b.length - 1 - j]) {
-      j++;
-    }
-    return a.length - i - j <= W && b.length - i - j <= W;
-  }
-  async putLeaf(bytes, gist) {
-    // Single bytes are implicit — no DB row and no eager index slot. The gist
-    // is captured like any other node's and promoted into the content index
-    // LAZILY, the first time the byte becomes a resonance target.
-    if (bytes.length === 1) {
-      const id = -(bytes[0] + 1);
-      this.captureIfUnindexed(id, gist);
-      return id;
-    }
-    return this.intern(new Uint8Array(bytes), null, gist);
-  }
-  async putBranch(kids, gist) {
-    return this.intern(null, kids, gist);
-  }
-  // ── Lazy content indexing ──────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** Promote a node's captured gist into the content (resonance) index, once.
-   *  Called the first time a node becomes a target — i.e. from `link` (it bears
-   *  or receives a continuation edge) or `pourHalo` (it gains distributional
-   *  company). Idempotent: a node already indexed, or whose gist has been evicted
-   *  from the bounded pending map, is a no-op.
-   *
-   *  `dedupTarget` marks the node a candidate the near dedup may fold a fresh
-   *  near-gist branch ONTO. Only a genuine target — an edge/halo-bearing ROOT —
-   *  is one; a climb-only interior is reach-indexed but never a dedup sink. */
-  indexGist(id, dedupTarget) {
-    if (dedupTarget && this._bufferedIds.has(id)) {
-      // Still buffered (indexed this batch, not yet flushed) — a live dedup
-      // candidate, recorded in O(1) with no scan of the content buffer.
-      const v = this._pendingGist.get(id);
-      if (v !== undefined) {
-        this._nearDedupBuf.set(id, v);
-      }
-    }
-    if (this._indexedIds.has(id)) {
-      return;
-    }
-    const v = this._pendingGist.get(id);
-    if (v === undefined) {
-      return;
-    }
-    // Already durably indexed by a previous session?  A node id names its
-    // content, and the gist is a pure function of the content, so the stored
-    // vector can only be identical — re-buffering it would spend an encode
-    // and an upsert on a guaranteed no-op.  One point query recognises this;
-    // it costs ~nothing for genuinely new nodes (a miss on a covering index).
-    // This is what makes a RESUMED training run replay already-deposited
-    // content at read speed instead of re-upserting the recent-id window.
-    if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
-      this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
-      return;
-    }
-    this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
-    // Reach-only interiors build with the reduced construction budget — the
-    // one deliberate speed-for-quality trade of ingestion (see
-    // {@link StoreConfig.efConstructionInterior}); targets keep the full one.
-    this._contentBuffer.push(
-      dedupTarget
-        ? { id, vector: v }
-        : { id, vector: v, ef: this.efConstructionInterior },
-    );
-    this._bufferedIds.add(id);
-    // A node indexed AS a dedup target enters the candidate set immediately.
-    if (dedupTarget) {
-      this._nearDedupBuf.set(id, v);
-    }
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.indexTarget} — the public hook for marking a deposit root a
-   *  resonance target, the one target `link`/`pourHalo` do not cover. A deposit
-   *  root is a genuine target (a whole experience), so it is a dedup target
-   *  too. */
-  indexTarget(id) {
-    this.indexGist(id, true);
-  }
-  /** Index a node and its interior forms as resonance targets.  A node that
-   *  gains an edge is a learnt EXPERIENCE, and the consensus climb
-   *  ({@link Mind.climbAttention}) answers a query naming only a PORTION of it by
-   *  resonating its SUB-REGIONS — branch nodes within the experience — and
-   *  climbing their parents back to it.
-   *
-   *  EVERY interior branch is indexed unconditionally, and this is
-   *  LOAD-BEARING: indexing only structural bridges (nodes with ≥2 parents,
-   *  the post-hoc compaction criterion) was tried and REJECTED by the test
-   *  suite — partial recall of an experience's interior slices, multi-topic
-   *  attention, and counterfactual anchoring all resonate to SINGLE-parent
-   *  interiors (13 tests fail without them).  Post-hoc structural compaction
-   *  ({@link compactContentIndex}) may still remove them, but that is a
-   *  storage/recall trade-off for archived stores, not a free optimisation.
-   *  The store's hash-cons bounds the index by the number of DISTINCT byte
-   *  patterns in the corpus — not by the number of deposits.
-   *
-   *  Only the ROOT is a DEDUP TARGET — the whole experience a fresh near-gist
-   *  branch may legitimately fold onto.  Interior nodes are REACH-ONLY: they
-   *  let a partial query resonate and climb, but a fresh branch must never
-   *  merge onto an interior node of another experience.
-   *
-   *  Iterative explicit-queue walk: the call stack never sees tree depth. */
-  indexSubtree(root) {
-    // The root is the whole experience — always index as a merge target.
-    this.indexGist(root, true);
-    const seen = new Set([root]);
-    const stack = [root];
-    while (stack.length > 0) {
-      const id = stack.pop();
-      const kids = this.get(id)?.kids;
-      if (!kids) {
-        continue; // leaf — never a resonance anchor
-      }
-      const isRoot = id === root;
-      // Already-indexed or already-skipped nodes PRUNE the walk — their
-      // subtrees were classified in a prior call.
-      if (!isRoot && (this._indexedIds.has(id) || this._coveredIds.has(id))) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      for (const k of kids) {
-        if (!seen.has(k)) {
-          seen.add(k);
-          stack.push(k);
+        return run;
+    }
+    // ── Containment ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    addContainer(child, parent) {
+        let set = this._containBuf.get(child);
+        if (set === undefined) {
+            set = new Set();
+            this._containBuf.set(child, set);
         }
-      }
-      if (isRoot) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      const g = this._pendingGist.get(id);
-      if (g === undefined) {
-        // Gist evicted from the bounded pending cache — the node can't be
-        // indexed now.  Mark as covered so subsequent visits prune here
-        // instead of re-walking the subtree (the gist won't return).
-        this._coveredIds.set(id, true);
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Index unconditionally — every interior node is a valid resonance
-      // anchor for partial-query recall.  The _indexedIds cache and the
-      // durable-index check in indexGist prevent duplicate indexing across
-      // multiple encounters of the same shared subtree.
-      this.indexGist(id, false);
-    }
-  }
-  // ── Soft resonance ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  async resonate(v, k) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    // Synchronous flush of any buffered index writes: the FIRST resonance
-    // after a large ingest pays that flush here, so it shows up in respond
-    // latency, not ingest latency — correct behaviour, skewed attribution;
-    // profile accordingly.
-    this.flushContent();
-    if (k <= 0) {
-      return [];
-    }
-    // ANN read cache — content-addressed so a fresh Float32Array with the
-    // same values still hits.  Lazy-init: null after any index write; the
-    // first miss after a flush recreates it.  When voteRegions resonates
-    // identical perceived sub-regions, only the first call descends the ANN.
-    const rk = vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
-    const cache = this._resonateCache;
-    if (cache) {
-      const hit = cache.get(rk);
-      if (hit !== undefined) {
-        return hit;
-      }
-    }
-    const results = this._vecContentQuery(
-      normalize(copy(v)),
-      k * this.overfetch,
-      this.efSearch,
-    );
-    const out = [];
-    for (const r of results) {
-      const id = r.id;
-      out.push({ id, score: 1 - r.distance });
-      if (out.length >= k) {
-        break;
-      }
-    }
-    const rc = this._resonateCache ??= new Map();
-    if (rc.size >= RESONATE_CACHE_MAX) {
-      rc.clear();
-    }
-    rc.set(rk, out);
-    return out;
-  }
-  indexedVectorCount() {
-    this.flushContent();
-    return this._vecContentSize();
-  }
-  lastResonateReads() {
-    return this._vecContentLastReads();
-  }
-  // ── Content index compaction ────────────────────────────────────────────
-  /** How many physical compaction attempts have failed this session.  Zero in
-   *  a healthy store; a growing count means tombstones are accumulating and
-   *  index query cost is drifting up (the first failure also warns once). */
-  compactFailures = 0;
-  /** Meta key holding the incremental scan watermark of
-   *  {@link compactContentIndex}: "minParents:maxInternalIdScanned".  KEEP
-   *  decisions are MONOTONE — parents, edges and halos only ever grow, so an
-   *  entry once kept can never become removable — and removed entries are
-   *  gone, so a pass only ever needs to examine entries indexed AFTER the
-   *  previous pass.  Internal ids are monotone and survive the index's
-   *  splice compaction; the watermark is reset whenever a PHYSICAL index
-   *  compaction runs (id reuse after a dropped top row would otherwise hide
-   *  new entries behind it). */
-  static COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY = "contentCompact.watermark";
-  /** {@link Store.compactContentIndex} */
-  async compactContentIndex(minParents = 2) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this.flush(); // commit any pending writes first
-    // Incremental scan: resume from the last pass's watermark when its
-    // minParents matches; a changed criterion forces a full rescan.
-    let after = 0;
-    {
-      const raw = this._dbGetMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
-      if (raw !== null) {
-        const sep = raw.indexOf(":");
-        const mp = Number(raw.slice(0, sep));
-        const wm = Number(raw.slice(sep + 1));
-        if (mp === minParents && Number.isFinite(wm) && wm > 0) {
-          after = wm;
+        set.add(parent);
+    }
+    hasContainers(child) {
+        if (this._dbContainExists(child))
+            return true;
+        const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
+        return buf !== undefined && buf.size > 0;
+    }
+    containersSlice(child, offset, limit) {
+        const out = this._dbGetContainParentsSlice(child, offset, limit);
+        if (out.length >= limit)
+            return out;
+        // Buffered adds page in AFTER the stored ones.  A buffered parent that is
+        // also stored may repeat across the seam; page consumers dedup by id
+        // (they all carry seen-sets), so a repeat costs a skip, never an error.
+        const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
+        if (!buf || buf.size === 0)
+            return out;
+        const storedCount = this._dbGetContainCount(child);
+        const bufStart = Math.max(0, offset - storedCount) +
+            Math.max(0, out.length - Math.max(0, storedCount - offset));
+        let i = 0;
+        for (const p of buf) {
+            if (out.length >= limit)
+                break;
+            if (i++ < bufStart)
+                continue;
+            out.push(p);
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+    containers(child) {
+        const stored = this._dbGetContainParents(child);
+        const buf = this._containBuf.get(child);
+        if (stored.length === 0)
+            return buf ? [...buf] : [];
+        if (!buf)
+            return stored;
+        const merged = new Set(stored);
+        for (const p of buf)
+            merged.add(p);
+        return [...merged];
+    }
+    // ── Walk kids to collect implicit per-byte leaf ids ────────────────────
+    flatLeafIds(kids) {
+        const out = [];
+        const stack = [...kids].reverse();
+        while (stack.length > 0) {
+            const id = stack.pop();
+            if (id < 0) {
+                out.push(id);
+                continue;
+            }
+            const rec = this.get(id);
+            if (!rec)
+                return null;
+            if (rec.leaf !== null) {
+                for (let i = 0; i < rec.leaf.length; i++)
+                    out.push(-(rec.leaf[i] + 1));
+            }
+            else if (rec.kids !== null) {
+                for (let i = rec.kids.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+                    stack.push(rec.kids[i]);
+            }
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+    /** On a dedup HIT, keep the node's gist available for lazy indexing —
+     *  EXACTLY when it is not already indexed.  Replaces the old id-range
+     *  "recency" heuristic (id ≥ nextId − cacheWindow), which conflated an LRU
+     *  entry COUNT with an id RANGE and permanently refused to index any node
+     *  that first became a resonance target long after it was minted (an early
+     *  interior later reused as an edge/halo-bearing deposit root was silently
+     *  unreachable by resonance).  The durable index itself is the arbiter:
+     *  one point query, cached in `_indexedIds` on a hit so repeats are O(1). */
+    captureIfUnindexed(id, gist) {
+        if (this._indexedIds.has(id) || this._pendingGist.has(id))
+            return;
+        if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
+            this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
+            return;
         }
-      }
-    }
-    // The keep criterion "has edges or a halo" as ONE sorted id set (edge
-    // sources ∪ edge targets ∪ halo rows), materialised by a single C-side
-    // scan.  A binary-search membership probe replaces the three per-entry
-    // point queries that made this stage minutes long on a trained store.
-    const targets = this._dbEdgeOrHaloIds();
-    const isTarget = (id) => {
-      let lo = 0, hi = targets.length - 1;
-      while (lo <= hi) {
-        const mid = (lo + hi) >> 1;
-        const v = targets[mid];
-        if (v === id) {
-          return true;
+        this._pendingGist.set(id, normalize(copy(gist)));
+        // A node that ALREADY bridges experiences but was never indexed (its 1→2
+        // transition fired while its gist was evicted, or in a pre-transition
+        // store) is promoted on this re-encounter — the recapture above is
+        // exactly what makes its gist available again.  Byte leaves (negative
+        // ids) never have kid rows, so skip their parent probe.
+        if (id >= 0)
+            this.promoteBridge(id);
+    }
+    /** If `id` structurally bridges ≥2 experiences (the post-hoc compaction
+     *  criterion), promote its gist into the content index NOW — the exact
+     *  moment it becomes useful for multi-experience recall.  The 1→2 parent
+     *  transition fires on {@link _dbInsertKid} during mint, and nodes that
+     *  were already bridges but missed indexing (gist evicted, pre-transition
+     *  store) are recaptured in {@link captureIfUnindexed}.
+     *
+     *  A no-op when the node is already indexed or its gist is evicted from
+     *  the pending cache — a future re-encounter will retry. */
+    promoteBridge(id) {
+        // A LIMITed probe: this runs once per kid insert on the MINT hot path,
+        // and a shared child's full parent set grows with the corpus.
+        if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, 2).length < 2)
+            return;
+        this.indexGist(id, false);
+    }
+    // ── Core interning: dedup → near-dedup → mint ──────────────────────────
+    async intern(leaf, kids, gist) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        // 1. Exact dedup — equal content → one id, no vector work. Primary
+        //    compression mechanism, intrinsic to the store.
+        //
+        //    findLeaf/findBranch are the content-addressed lookups: in-memory cache
+        //    first, then a durable probe that repopulates the cache on a hit.
+        //    Using them here (rather than only the cache) makes dedup survive a cold
+        //    cache — a resumed/checkpointed training run, or one whose dedup cache
+        //    has evicted old keys, still recognises content already on disk and
+        //    reuses its id instead of minting a duplicate.
+        const hit = leaf !== null ? this.findLeaf(leaf) : this.findBranch(kids);
+        if (hit !== null) {
+            this.captureIfUnindexed(hit, gist);
+            return hit;
         }
-        if (v < id) {
-          lo = mid + 1;
-        } else {
-          hi = mid - 1;
+        // 1b. Content-addressed lookup by leaf-id signature.  When the same byte
+        //     sequence was stored as a flat branch (via putBranch during deposit),
+        //     a branch node spanning those bytes reuses that id even when its tree
+        //     structure differs — pure content addressing, same bytes → same node.
+        if (kids !== null && kids.length >= 2) {
+            const leafIds = this.flatLeafIds(kids);
+            if (leafIds !== null) {
+                const flatHit = this.findBranch(leafIds);
+                if (flatHit !== null) {
+                    this.captureIfUnindexed(flatHit, gist);
+                    return flatHit;
+                }
+            }
         }
-      }
-      return false;
-    };
-    // Collect ids to remove: nodes that are structurally isolated (few
-    // parents), not edge-bearing, and not halo-bearing.  These nodes are
-    // unique to one experience tree — they bridge nothing and their index
-    // slots are wasted.  Multi-parent nodes are the structural bridges
-    // that let a partial query climb from one experience to another.
-    const toRemove = [];
-    let scanned = 0;
-    let watermark = after;
-    for (const { ext: id, internal } of this._vecContentEntriesSince(after)) {
-      // Yield a real event-loop turn on a fixed cadence: this scan runs over
-      // every unexamined indexed entry, and point probes alone pin the
-      // thread otherwise (the "frozen" symptom).
-      if (++scanned % 8192 === 0) {
-        await yieldToEventLoop();
-      }
-      watermark = internal;
-      if (isTarget(id)) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, minParents).length >= minParents) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      toRemove.push(id);
-    }
-    // Delete in batches — each batch is ONE vector-store transaction (one WAL
-    // commit), with an event-loop turn between batches.
-    const BATCH = 1000;
-    for (let i = 0; i < toRemove.length; i += BATCH) {
-      const batch = toRemove.slice(i, i + BATCH);
-      this._vecContentDeleteMany(batch);
-      // Purge the "already indexed" cache for removed ids: without this, a
-      // node that LATER becomes a resonance target again (gains an edge or
-      // halo) hits the stale cache entry in indexGist and is silently never
-      // re-indexed for the rest of the session.
-      for (const id of batch) {
-        this._indexedIds.delete(id);
-      }
-      await yieldToEventLoop();
-    }
-    // Persist the scan watermark so the next pass starts where this one
-    // ended (kept beside the criterion that produced it).
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    this._dbSetMeta(
-      AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY,
-      minParents + ":" + watermark,
-    );
-    this._dbCommitTx();
-    if (toRemove.length > 0) {
-      // Compact to physically reclaim space from tombstones.
-      try {
-        if (this._vecContentPhysicalSize() > this._vecContentSize() * 1.5) {
-          this._vecContentCompact();
-          // Physical compaction may free the top internal id for reuse —
-          // drop the watermark so the next pass rescans from the start.
-          this._dbBeginTx();
-          this._dbDeleteMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
-          this._dbCommitTx();
+        const cache = leaf !== null ? this._leafKey : this._branchKey;
+        const key = leaf !== null ? keyOf(leaf) : kids.join(",");
+        // 2. Near dedup — BRANCHES ONLY, against RESONANCE TARGETS only.
+        //    Leaves are single bytes: exact dedup already collapses every identical
+        //    leaf, and near-merging distinct leaves only corrupts bytes for no real
+        //    saving. Real near-dedup compression lives in subtree (branch) fusion.
+        //
+        //    There is deliberately NO ANN probe of the FLUSHED index here. It used
+        //    to fire for EVERY new branch that the buffer scan didn't settle — i.e.
+        //    ~every interior branch, since interiors are never dedup targets —
+        //    making one ANN query per branch the dominant training cost (it dwarfed
+        //    perception and the index write). And it was not merely expensive but
+        //    WRONG: the 1-bit RaBitQ code can rank a byte-DISTINCT branch as the
+        //    nearest "target" of a fresh branch, so the fold collapsed two
+        //    byte-different subtrees onto one id and corrupted exact reconstruction
+        //    (02-roundtrip's random-byte streams). Real near-duplicate EXPERIENCES
+        //    are caught two cheaper, exact ways instead: identical content by the
+        //    exact-dedup hash-cons above, and a near-gist target still in the write
+        //    buffer by the scan below.
+        if (leaf === null) {
+            // Near-dedup PREFILTER — the scale-aware identity bar
+            // ({@link identityBar}) for THIS branch's own length, not the fixed
+            // estimator floor: under the linear fold a long branch crosses
+            // 1 − 1/√D while whole windows differ, and every such crossing paid a
+            // full differsByOneWindow byte reconstruction.  Same final semantics
+            // (the byte check below still decides identity); strictly fewer byte
+            // reads.  The scan runs FIRST: the branch length (Σ kids' contentLen —
+            // memoized bottom-up by the interning order itself, O(kids)) is only
+            // computed once a nearest candidate actually exists, so the hot
+            // no-candidate mint pays nothing.
+            let best = -1;
+            let bestId = null;
+            if (this._nearDedupBuf.size > 0) {
+                const g = normalize(copy(gist));
+                // Candidates are the buffered DEDUP TARGETS only — genuine whole
+                // experiences (edge/halo-bearing roots) not yet flushed.
+                for (const [id, vector] of this._nearDedupBuf) {
+                    const s = dot(g, vector);
+                    if (s > best) {
+                        best = s;
+                        bestId = id;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            let blen = 0;
+            if (bestId !== null) {
+                for (const k of kids)
+                    blen += this.contentLen(k);
+            }
+            if (bestId !== null &&
+                best >= identityBar(this.D, this._maxGroup, blen)) {
+                // Scale-aware acceptance.  The cosine bar alone is scale-BLIND
+                // against a scale-DEPENDENT quantity: the hierarchical fold dilutes
+                // a localized difference faster than linearly in form size, so for
+                // deep forms ANY fixed bar below 1 is crossed by exactly the one
+                // span that distinguishes two experiences.  No inversion of the
+                // deficit is trustworthy, so the bytes themselves decide: the two
+                // forms must be identical except for ONE local span of at most W
+                // bytes — the river window, the perception's own resolution quantum.
+                const W = this._maxGroup;
+                if (this.differsByOneWindow(kids, bestId, W)) {
+                    if (key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX)
+                        cache.set(key, bestId);
+                    return bestId;
+                }
+            }
         }
-      } catch (e) {
-        // Best-effort, but never SILENT: a persistently failing compaction
-        // lets tombstones accumulate and query cost grow with no signal.
-        this.compactFailures++;
-        if (this.compactFailures === 1) {
-          console.warn(
-            "sema: content-index compaction failed (will keep " +
-              "counting in store.compactFailures):",
-            e,
-          );
+        // 3. Mint a fresh node. A FLAT branch (every kid an implicit single-byte
+        //    leaf) stores its BYTES in the leaf column with a zero-length kids blob
+        //    as the marker — the kid list is derived on read.
+        const id = this.mintId();
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        const flat = kids ? flatKidsBytes(kids) : null;
+        const packed = kids && !flat ? packKids(kids) : null;
+        this._dbInsertNode(id, leaf ?? flat, packed ?? (flat ? _ZERO : null), hashOf(leaf ?? flat ?? packed));
+        // Reverse structural edge: each distinct child → this parent. Lets the graph
+        // be climbed upward in index time, with no scan of the kids blobs.
+        //
+        // Populated NATURALLY here and only here — one write per child, in the SAME
+        // mint that creates the node, inside the SAME deferred transaction as the
+        // node row, so node and kid rows are always durable together.
+        //
+        // Implicit single-byte leaves get NO parent edge: a byte belongs to nearly
+        // every branch, so its parent set is the corpus-sized hub the climb's
+        // saturation guard discards unread.
+        if (kids) {
+            // Kid rows change parent counts — a child whose parent set grows from
+            // one is no longer transparent, so every cached chain that hopped
+            // through it is stale.  Which chains those are is unknowable without a
+            // reverse index, so the WHOLE cache drops (writes come in training
+            // bursts where the cache is cold anyway; queries rebuild it lazily).
+            this._chainMemo.clear();
+            for (const c of kids) {
+                if (c < 0 && c >= -256)
+                    continue;
+                this._dbInsertKid(c, id);
+                // The 1→2 parent TRANSITION happens here and only here (hash-cons
+                // means an existing branch never re-inserts kid rows, so parent sets
+                // grow exclusively through fresh mints): the child just became a
+                // structural bridge between experiences — the exact set post-hoc
+                // compaction keeps — so its gist enters the reach index NOW.
+                this.promoteBridge(c);
+            }
+        }
+        if (key.length <= DEDUP_KEY_MAX)
+            cache.set(key, id);
+        if (leaf)
+            this._bytesCache.set(id, new Uint8Array(leaf));
+        else if (flat)
+            this._bytesCache.set(id, flat);
+        // Capture the gist; it is pushed into the content index lazily, the first
+        // time this node becomes a resonance target (link / pourHalo). A node that
+        // never does (a pure intermediate DAG node — ~99.5% of them) is never
+        // indexed: it costs one persistence row, no vector-index slot and no merge probe.
+        this._pendingGist.set(id, normalize(copy(gist)));
+        await this.maybeFlush();
+        return id;
+    }
+    /** Whether the byte content under `kids` and the byte content of `targetId`
+     *  are identical except for ONE local span of at most `W` bytes on each side
+     *  — the near dedup's byte-grain definition of a near-duplicate.  A
+     *  common-prefix / common-suffix trim: whatever remains after both trims is
+     *  the single differing span (substitution, insertion or deletion), and both
+     *  remainders must fit the budget.  Scattered differences leave a wide
+     *  middle and are rejected. */
+    differsByOneWindow(kids, targetId, W) {
+        const a = concat(kids.map((k) => this.bytesPrefix(k, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER)));
+        const b = this.bytesPrefix(targetId, a.length + W + 1);
+        if (Math.abs(a.length - b.length) > W)
+            return false;
+        const n = Math.min(a.length, b.length);
+        let i = 0;
+        while (i < n && a[i] === b[i])
+            i++;
+        let j = 0;
+        while (j < n - i && a[a.length - 1 - j] === b[b.length - 1 - j])
+            j++;
+        return a.length - i - j <= W && b.length - i - j <= W;
+    }
+    async putLeaf(bytes, gist) {
+        // Single bytes are implicit — no DB row and no eager index slot. The gist
+        // is captured like any other node's and promoted into the content index
+        // LAZILY, the first time the byte becomes a resonance target.
+        if (bytes.length === 1) {
+            const id = -(bytes[0] + 1);
+            this.captureIfUnindexed(id, gist);
+            return id;
+        }
+        return this.intern(new Uint8Array(bytes), null, gist);
+    }
+    async putBranch(kids, gist) {
+        return this.intern(null, kids, gist);
+    }
+    // ── Lazy content indexing ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** Promote a node's captured gist into the content (resonance) index, once.
+     *  Called the first time a node becomes a target — i.e. from `link` (it bears
+     *  or receives a continuation edge) or `pourHalo` (it gains distributional
+     *  company). Idempotent: a node already indexed, or whose gist has been evicted
+     *  from the bounded pending map, is a no-op.
+     *
+     *  `dedupTarget` marks the node a candidate the near dedup may fold a fresh
+     *  near-gist branch ONTO. Only a genuine target — an edge/halo-bearing ROOT —
+     *  is one; a climb-only interior is reach-indexed but never a dedup sink. */
+    indexGist(id, dedupTarget) {
+        if (dedupTarget && this._bufferedIds.has(id)) {
+            // Still buffered (indexed this batch, not yet flushed) — a live dedup
+            // candidate, recorded in O(1) with no scan of the content buffer.
+            const v = this._pendingGist.get(id);
+            if (v !== undefined)
+                this._nearDedupBuf.set(id, v);
+        }
+        if (this._indexedIds.has(id))
+            return;
+        const v = this._pendingGist.get(id);
+        if (v === undefined)
+            return;
+        // Already durably indexed by a previous session?  A node id names its
+        // content, and the gist is a pure function of the content, so the stored
+        // vector can only be identical — re-buffering it would spend an encode
+        // and an upsert on a guaranteed no-op.  One point query recognises this;
+        // it costs ~nothing for genuinely new nodes (a miss on a covering index).
+        // This is what makes a RESUMED training run replay already-deposited
+        // content at read speed instead of re-upserting the recent-id window.
+        if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
+            this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
+            return;
         }
-      }
-      // Index mutations (delete, compact) invalidate the ANN read cache.
-      this._resonateCache = null;
-    }
-    return toRemove.length;
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.repairContentIndex} */
-  async repairContentIndex(regenerateGist, minParents = 2) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this.flush(); // commit any pending writes first
-    if (this._nextId === 0) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    let added = 0;
-    // A repairable node MUST carry edges or a halo, so the candidate set IS
-    // the edge/halo id set — corpus-of-experiences-sized (hundreds of
-    // thousands), not node-count-sized (tens of millions).  The old walk
-    // visited EVERY branch id ever minted with a parent probe each; driving
-    // from the target set visits only real candidates, in the same ascending
-    // id order (the set is sorted), so the result and its ordering are
-    // identical.  Byte leaves (negative ids) were never visited by the old
-    // walk and are skipped here too.
-    const targets = this._dbEdgeOrHaloIds();
-    let scanned = 0;
-    for (const id of targets) {
-      // Yield a real event-loop turn on a fixed cadence so the scan never
-      // pins the thread for its whole duration.
-      if (++scanned % 8192 === 0) {
-        await yieldToEventLoop();
-      }
-      if (id < 0) {
-        continue; // byte leaves: implicit, never repaired
-      }
-      // Already indexed in memory — skip.
-      if (this._indexedIds.has(id)) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Must be a structural bridge: ≥ minParents parents in the DAG.
-      // One LIMITed probe per candidate.
-      if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, minParents).length < minParents) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Already durably indexed by a previous session — record and skip.
-      // Probed AFTER the structural filters: candidates are few, so this
-      // point query runs rarely instead of once per node in the store.
-      if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
         this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Regenerate the gist from bytes.  The callback is async (the Mind's
-      // perception is synchronous, but the interface allows a disk-backed
-      // regenerator that yields).
-      const gist = await regenerateGist(id);
-      if (!gist) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Index it — same code path as indexGist, but the vector is injected
-      // directly rather than read from the (empty) pending-gist cache.
-      this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
-      this._contentBuffer.push({
-        id,
-        vector: gist,
-        ef: this.efConstructionInterior,
-      });
-      this._bufferedIds.add(id);
-      // Repaired nodes are reach-indexed, never dedup targets: their gist is
-      // regenerated (may differ numerically from the original) and they are
-      // interiors, not deposit roots.
-      added++;
-      // Flush periodically to bound the write-transaction size and yield to
-      // the event loop, same cadence compactContentIndex uses.
-      if (added % 1000 === 0) {
+        this._contentBuffer.push({ id, vector: v });
+        this._bufferedIds.add(id);
+        // A node indexed AS a dedup target enters the candidate set immediately.
+        if (dedupTarget)
+            this._nearDedupBuf.set(id, v);
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.indexTarget} — the public hook for marking a deposit root a
+     *  resonance target, the one target `link`/`pourHalo` do not cover. A deposit
+     *  root is a genuine target (a whole experience), so it is a dedup target
+     *  too. */
+    indexTarget(id) {
+        this.indexGist(id, true);
+    }
+    /** Index a node and its interior forms as resonance targets.  A node that
+     *  gains an edge is a learnt EXPERIENCE, and the consensus climb
+     *  ({@link Mind.climbAttention}) answers a query naming only a PORTION of it by
+     *  resonating its SUB-REGIONS — branch nodes within the experience — and
+     *  climbing their parents back to it.
+     *
+     *  EVERY interior branch is indexed unconditionally, and this is
+     *  LOAD-BEARING: indexing only structural bridges (nodes with ≥2 parents,
+     *  the post-hoc compaction criterion) was tried and REJECTED by the test
+     *  suite — partial recall of an experience's interior slices, multi-topic
+     *  attention, and counterfactual anchoring all resonate to SINGLE-parent
+     *  interiors (13 tests fail without them).  Post-hoc structural compaction
+     *  ({@link compactContentIndex}) may still remove them, but that is a
+     *  storage/recall trade-off for archived stores, not a free optimisation.
+     *  The store's hash-cons bounds the index by the number of DISTINCT byte
+     *  patterns in the corpus — not by the number of deposits.
+     *
+     *  Only the ROOT is a DEDUP TARGET — the whole experience a fresh near-gist
+     *  branch may legitimately fold onto.  Interior nodes are REACH-ONLY: they
+     *  let a partial query resonate and climb, but a fresh branch must never
+     *  merge onto an interior node of another experience.
+     *
+     *  Iterative explicit-queue walk: the call stack never sees tree depth. */
+    indexSubtree(root) {
+        // The root is the whole experience — always index as a merge target.
+        this.indexGist(root, true);
+        const seen = new Set([root]);
+        const stack = [root];
+        while (stack.length > 0) {
+            const id = stack.pop();
+            const kids = this.get(id)?.kids;
+            if (!kids)
+                continue; // leaf — never a resonance anchor
+            const isRoot = id === root;
+            // Already-indexed or already-skipped nodes PRUNE the walk — their
+            // subtrees were classified in a prior call.
+            if (!isRoot && (this._indexedIds.has(id) || this._coveredIds.has(id))) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            for (const k of kids) {
+                if (!seen.has(k)) {
+                    seen.add(k);
+                    stack.push(k);
+                }
+            }
+            if (isRoot)
+                continue;
+            const g = this._pendingGist.get(id);
+            if (g === undefined) {
+                // Gist evicted from the bounded pending cache — the node can't be
+                // indexed now.  Mark as covered so subsequent visits prune here
+                // instead of re-walking the subtree (the gist won't return).
+                this._coveredIds.set(id, true);
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Index unconditionally — every interior node is a valid resonance
+            // anchor for partial-query recall.  The _indexedIds cache and the
+            // durable-index check in indexGist prevent duplicate indexing across
+            // multiple encounters of the same shared subtree.
+            this.indexGist(id, false);
+        }
+    }
+    // ── Soft resonance ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    async resonate(v, k) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        // Synchronous flush of any buffered index writes: the FIRST resonance
+        // after a large ingest pays that flush here, so it shows up in respond
+        // latency, not ingest latency — correct behaviour, skewed attribution;
+        // profile accordingly.
+        this.flushContent();
+        if (k <= 0)
+            return [];
+        // ANN read cache — content-addressed so a fresh Float32Array with the
+        // same values still hits.  Lazy-init: null after any index write; the
+        // first miss after a flush recreates it.  When voteRegions resonates
+        // identical perceived sub-regions, only the first call descends the ANN.
+        const rk = vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
+        const cache = this._resonateCache;
+        if (cache) {
+            const hit = cache.get(rk);
+            if (hit !== undefined)
+                return hit;
+        }
+        const results = this._vecContentQuery(normalize(copy(v)), k * this.overfetch, this.efSearch);
+        const out = [];
+        for (const r of results) {
+            const id = r.id;
+            out.push({ id, score: 1 - r.distance });
+            if (out.length >= k)
+                break;
+        }
+        const rc = this._resonateCache ??= new Map();
+        if (rc.size >= RESONATE_CACHE_MAX)
+            rc.clear();
+        rc.set(rk, out);
+        return out;
+    }
+    indexedVectorCount() {
+        this.flushContent();
+        return this._vecContentSize();
+    }
+    lastResonateReads() {
+        return this._vecContentLastReads();
+    }
+    // ── Content index compaction ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    /** How many physical compaction attempts have failed this session.  Zero in
+     *  a healthy store; a growing count means tombstones are accumulating and
+     *  index query cost is drifting up (the first failure also warns once). */
+    compactFailures = 0;
+    /** Meta key holding the incremental scan watermark of
+     *  {@link compactContentIndex}: "minParents:maxInternalIdScanned".  KEEP
+     *  decisions are MONOTONE — parents, edges and halos only ever grow, so an
+     *  entry once kept can never become removable — and removed entries are
+     *  gone, so a pass only ever needs to examine entries indexed AFTER the
+     *  previous pass.  Internal ids are monotone and survive the index's
+     *  splice compaction; the watermark is reset whenever a PHYSICAL index
+     *  compaction runs (id reuse after a dropped top row would otherwise hide
+     *  new entries behind it). */
+    static COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY = "contentCompact.watermark";
+    /** {@link Store.compactContentIndex} */
+    async compactContentIndex(minParents = 2) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this.flush(); // commit any pending writes first
+        // Incremental scan: resume from the last pass's watermark when its
+        // minParents matches; a changed criterion forces a full rescan.
+        let after = 0;
+        {
+            const raw = this._dbGetMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
+            if (raw !== null) {
+                const sep = raw.indexOf(":");
+                const mp = Number(raw.slice(0, sep));
+                const wm = Number(raw.slice(sep + 1));
+                if (mp === minParents && Number.isFinite(wm) && wm > 0)
+                    after = wm;
+            }
+        }
+        // The keep criterion "has edges or a halo" as ONE sorted id set (edge
+        // sources ∪ edge targets ∪ halo rows), materialised by a single C-side
+        // scan.  A binary-search membership probe replaces the three per-entry
+        // point queries that made this stage minutes long on a trained store.
+        const targets = this._dbEdgeOrHaloIds();
+        const isTarget = (id) => {
+            let lo = 0, hi = targets.length - 1;
+            while (lo <= hi) {
+                const mid = (lo + hi) >> 1;
+                const v = targets[mid];
+                if (v === id)
+                    return true;
+                if (v < id)
+                    lo = mid + 1;
+                else
+                    hi = mid - 1;
+            }
+            return false;
+        };
+        // Collect ids to remove: nodes that are structurally isolated (few
+        // parents), not edge-bearing, and not halo-bearing.  These nodes are
+        // unique to one experience tree — they bridge nothing and their index
+        // slots are wasted.  Multi-parent nodes are the structural bridges
+        // that let a partial query climb from one experience to another.
+        const toRemove = [];
+        let scanned = 0;
+        let watermark = after;
+        for (const { ext: id, internal } of this._vecContentEntriesSince(after)) {
+            // Yield a real event-loop turn on a fixed cadence: this scan runs over
+            // every unexamined indexed entry, and point probes alone pin the
+            // thread otherwise (the "frozen" symptom).
+            if (++scanned % 8192 === 0)
+                await yieldToEventLoop();
+            watermark = internal;
+            if (isTarget(id))
+                continue;
+            if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, minParents).length >= minParents) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            toRemove.push(id);
+        }
+        // Delete in batches — each batch is ONE vector-store transaction (one WAL
+        // commit), with an event-loop turn between batches.
+        const BATCH = 1000;
+        for (let i = 0; i < toRemove.length; i += BATCH) {
+            const batch = toRemove.slice(i, i + BATCH);
+            this._vecContentDeleteMany(batch);
+            // Purge the "already indexed" cache for removed ids: without this, a
+            // node that LATER becomes a resonance target again (gains an edge or
+            // halo) hits the stale cache entry in indexGist and is silently never
+            // re-indexed for the rest of the session.
+            for (const id of batch)
+                this._indexedIds.delete(id);
+            await yieldToEventLoop();
+        }
+        // Persist the scan watermark so the next pass starts where this one
+        // ended (kept beside the criterion that produced it).
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        this._dbSetMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY, minParents + ":" + watermark);
+        this._dbCommitTx();
+        if (toRemove.length > 0) {
+            // Compact to physically reclaim space from tombstones.
+            try {
+                if (this._vecContentPhysicalSize() > this._vecContentSize() * 1.5) {
+                    this._vecContentCompact();
+                    // Physical compaction may free the top internal id for reuse —
+                    // drop the watermark so the next pass rescans from the start.
+                    this._dbBeginTx();
+                    this._dbDeleteMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
+                    this._dbCommitTx();
+                }
+            }
+            catch (e) {
+                // Best-effort, but never SILENT: a persistently failing compaction
+                // lets tombstones accumulate and query cost grow with no signal.
+                this.compactFailures++;
+                if (this.compactFailures === 1) {
+                    console.warn("sema: content-index compaction failed (will keep " +
+                        "counting in store.compactFailures):", e);
+                }
+            }
+            // Index mutations (delete, compact) invalidate the ANN read cache.
+            this._resonateCache = null;
+        }
+        return toRemove.length;
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.repairContentIndex} */
+    async repairContentIndex(regenerateGist, minParents = 2) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this.flush(); // commit any pending writes first
+        if (this._nextId === 0)
+            return 0;
+        let added = 0;
+        // A repairable node MUST carry edges or a halo, so the candidate set IS
+        // the edge/halo id set — corpus-of-experiences-sized (hundreds of
+        // thousands), not node-count-sized (tens of millions).  The old walk
+        // visited EVERY branch id ever minted with a parent probe each; driving
+        // from the target set visits only real candidates, in the same ascending
+        // id order (the set is sorted), so the result and its ordering are
+        // identical.  Byte leaves (negative ids) were never visited by the old
+        // walk and are skipped here too.
+        const targets = this._dbEdgeOrHaloIds();
+        let scanned = 0;
+        for (const id of targets) {
+            // Yield a real event-loop turn on a fixed cadence so the scan never
+            // pins the thread for its whole duration.
+            if (++scanned % 8192 === 0)
+                await yieldToEventLoop();
+            if (id < 0)
+                continue; // byte leaves: implicit, never repaired
+            // Already indexed in memory — skip.
+            if (this._indexedIds.has(id))
+                continue;
+            // Must be a structural bridge: ≥ minParents parents in the DAG.
+            // One LIMITed probe per candidate.
+            if (this._dbGetParentsFirst(id, minParents).length < minParents) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Already durably indexed by a previous session — record and skip.
+            // Probed AFTER the structural filters: candidates are few, so this
+            // point query runs rarely instead of once per node in the store.
+            if (this._vecContentHas(id)) {
+                this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Regenerate the gist from bytes.  The callback is async (the Mind's
+            // perception is synchronous, but the interface allows a disk-backed
+            // regenerator that yields).
+            const gist = await regenerateGist(id);
+            if (!gist)
+                continue;
+            // Index it — same code path as indexGist, but the vector is injected
+            // directly rather than read from the (empty) pending-gist cache.
+            this._indexedIds.set(id, true);
+            this._contentBuffer.push({ id, vector: gist });
+            this._bufferedIds.add(id);
+            // Repaired nodes are reach-indexed, never dedup targets: their gist is
+            // regenerated (may differ numerically from the original) and they are
+            // interiors, not deposit roots.
+            added++;
+            // Flush periodically to bound the write-transaction size and yield to
+            // the event loop, same cadence compactContentIndex uses.
+            if (added % 1000 === 0)
+                await this.maybeFlush();
+        }
+        // Final flush for the last partial batch.
+        if (added > 0)
+            await this.maybeFlush();
+        return added;
+    }
+    // ── Continuation edges ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    async link(from, to) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        // Both endpoints become learnt EXPERIENCES whose whole subtree is REACH-
+        // indexed, because the seat is symmetric — a query may name only a PORTION of
+        // either side and must still resonate to its interior and climb to the whole.
+        // Only each ROOT is a MERGE target; the interiors are reach-only.
+        this.indexSubtree(from);
+        this.indexSubtree(to);
+        // Flush the vectors indexSubtree just added to the buffer.
+        // This keeps the buffer bounded and yields to the event loop.
         await this.maybeFlush();
-      }
-    }
-    // Final flush for the last partial batch.
-    if (added > 0) {
-      await this.maybeFlush();
-    }
-    return added;
-  }
-  // ── Continuation edges ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  async link(from, to) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    // Both endpoints become learnt EXPERIENCES whose whole subtree is REACH-
-    // indexed, because the seat is symmetric — a query may name only a PORTION of
-    // either side and must still resonate to its interior and climb to the whole.
-    // Only each ROOT is a MERGE target; the interiors are reach-only.
-    this.indexSubtree(from);
-    this.indexSubtree(to);
-    // Flush the vectors indexSubtree just added to the buffer.
-    // This keeps the buffer bounded and yields to the event loop.
-    await this.maybeFlush();
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    // Keep the document count exact as it grows: a source gaining its FIRST
-    // edge is one new learnt context.  One indexed point probe, and only once
-    // the count has been materialised — before that, the lazy full count in
-    // {@link edgeSourceCount} will see this edge anyway.
-    if (this._edgeSrcCount >= 0 && !this._dbEdgeSrcExists(from)) {
-      this._edgeSrcCount++;
-    }
-    // An edge breaks the transparency of both endpoints — drop cached chains
-    // (same reasoning as the kid-row invalidation in put).
-    this._chainMemo.clear();
-    this._dbInsertEdge(from, to);
-  }
-  next(id) {
-    return this._dbGetNextEdges(id);
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.hasNext} — one indexed point probe, never a range read. */
-  hasNext(id) {
-    return this._dbEdgeSrcExists(id);
-  }
-  prev(id) {
-    return this._dbGetPrevEdges(id);
-  }
-  nextFirst(id, limit) {
-    return this._dbGetNextEdgesFirst(id, limit);
-  }
-  prevFirst(id, limit) {
-    return this._dbGetPrevEdgesFirst(id, limit);
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.prevCount}.  Subclasses with an indexed reverse-edge count
-   *  should override; this default materialises (correct, not optimal). */
-  prevCount(id) {
-    return this._dbGetPrevEdges(id).length;
-  }
-  edgeSourceCount() {
-    // Materialised once per session (edges written before this moment are
-    // covered by the full count), then kept exact incrementally by link().
-    // The old form re-ran a full COUNT(*) table scan on EVERY call just to
-    // detect staleness — O(edges) on the recall hot path, at every IDF read.
-    if (this._edgeSrcCount < 0) {
-      this._edgeSrcCount = this._dbEdgeDistinctSrcCount();
-    }
-    return this._edgeSrcCount;
-  }
-  // ── Halos ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  haloMass(id) {
-    const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
-    return r ? r.mass : 0;
-  }
-  halo(id) {
-    const cached = this._haloNorm.get(id);
-    if (cached !== undefined) {
-      return copy(cached);
-    }
-    const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
-    if (!r || r.mass < this.minHaloMass) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    const exact = this._haloExact.get(id);
-    const v = normalize(exact ? copy(exact) : haloDecode(r.vec, this.D));
-    this._haloNorm.set(id, v);
-    return copy(v);
-  }
-  /** {@link Store.hasHalo} — MUST mirror {@link halo}'s null condition
-   *  exactly (row present AND mass ≥ minHaloMass), minus the decode. */
-  hasHalo(id) {
-    const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
-    return r !== null && r.mass >= this.minHaloMass;
-  }
-  async pourHalo(id, add) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    // A node with a halo is a genuine resonance target — the consensus climb
-    // resonates a query region to it, and articulation reads its halo.
-    this.indexGist(id, true);
-    const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
-    const acc = this._haloExact.get(id) ??
-      (r ? haloDecode(r.vec, this.D) : new Float32Array(this.D));
-    addInto(acc, add);
-    this._haloExact.set(id, acc);
-    this._haloNorm.delete(id); // the normalized read cache is now stale
-    const mass = (r?.mass ?? 0) + 1;
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    this._dbUpsertHalo(id, haloEncode(acc), mass);
-    // Re-index on a geometric schedule only (the exact halo is persisted).
-    if (mass >= this.minHaloMass && geometricMass(mass)) {
-      this._haloBuffer.set(id, normalize(copy(acc)));
-      await this.maybeFlush();
-    }
-  }
-  async resonateHalo(v, k) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this.flushHalos();
-    if (k <= 0) {
-      return [];
-    }
-    // ANN read cache — same scheme as resonate's, but for the halo index.
-    const rk = vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
-    const cache = this._resonateHaloCache;
-    if (cache) {
-      const hit = cache.get(rk);
-      if (hit !== undefined) {
-        return hit;
-      }
-    }
-    const results = this._vecHaloQuery(
-      normalize(copy(v)),
-      k * this.overfetch,
-      this.efSearch,
-    );
-    const out = [];
-    for (const r of results) {
-      const id = r.id;
-      out.push({ id, score: 1 - r.distance });
-      if (out.length >= k) {
-        break;
-      }
-    }
-    const rhc = this._resonateHaloCache ??= new Map();
-    if (rhc.size >= RESONATE_CACHE_MAX) {
-      rhc.clear();
-    }
-    rhc.set(rk, out);
-    return out;
-  }
-  // ── Buffering, flushing, compaction ────────────────────────────────────
-  pending() {
-    return this._contentBuffer.length + this._haloBuffer.size;
-  }
-  flushContent() {
-    if (this._contentBuffer.length === 0) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    const batch = this._contentBuffer.splice(0);
-    // The merge scan only consults UNFLUSHED candidates, so clear them in
-    // lockstep with the content buffer they mirror.
-    this._nearDedupBuf.clear();
-    this._bufferedIds.clear();
-    this._vecContentUpsert(batch);
-    this._resonateCache = null;
-    return batch.length;
-  }
-  flushHalos() {
-    if (this._haloBuffer.size === 0) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    const batch = [...this._haloBuffer.entries()];
-    this._haloBuffer.clear();
-    this._vecHaloUpsert(batch.map(([id, vector]) => ({ id, vector })));
-    this._resonateHaloCache = null;
-    return batch.length;
-  }
-  /** Append the buffered containment pairs, inside the deferred transaction.
-   *  Pure appends: durable dedup lives in the adapter (the pair PK), so a
-   *  flush never reads a child's stored list back — the old packed-blob
-   *  read-merge-rewrite was O(fan-in) per touched child per flush, quadratic
-   *  over a long training run on a hot window. */
-  flushContain() {
-    if (this._containBuf.size === 0) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    for (const [child, set] of this._containBuf) {
-      this._dbAppendContain(child, [...set]);
-    }
-    this._containBuf.clear();
-  }
-  /** Flush all three buffers; compact vector indices on a write-volume cadence. */
-  flush() {
-    this.flushContain();
-    const written = this.flushContent() + this.flushHalos();
-    // Commit the deferred write transaction on the same cadence as the vector
-    // buffers, so node rows / edges / halos become durable in coalesced batches.
-    this._dbCommitTx();
-    if (written === 0) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this._writtenSinceCompact += written;
-    if (this._writtenSinceCompact >= this.compactEveryNWrites) {
-      this._writtenSinceCompact = 0;
-      try {
-        if (this._vecContentPhysicalSize() > this._vecContentSize() * 2) {
-          this._vecContentCompact();
-          // Physical compaction may free the top internal id for reuse —
-          // invalidate the incremental maintenance watermark.
-          this._dbBeginTx();
-          this._dbDeleteMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
-          this._dbCommitTx();
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        // Keep the document count exact as it grows: a source gaining its FIRST
+        // edge is one new learnt context.  One indexed point probe, and only once
+        // the count has been materialised — before that, the lazy full count in
+        // {@link edgeSourceCount} will see this edge anyway.
+        if (this._edgeSrcCount >= 0 && !this._dbEdgeSrcExists(from)) {
+            this._edgeSrcCount++;
+        }
+        // An edge breaks the transparency of both endpoints — drop cached chains
+        // (same reasoning as the kid-row invalidation in put).
+        this._chainMemo.clear();
+        this._dbInsertEdge(from, to);
+    }
+    next(id) {
+        return this._dbGetNextEdges(id);
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.hasNext} — one indexed point probe, never a range read. */
+    hasNext(id) {
+        return this._dbEdgeSrcExists(id);
+    }
+    prev(id) {
+        return this._dbGetPrevEdges(id);
+    }
+    nextFirst(id, limit) {
+        return this._dbGetNextEdgesFirst(id, limit);
+    }
+    prevFirst(id, limit) {
+        return this._dbGetPrevEdgesFirst(id, limit);
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.prevCount}.  Subclasses with an indexed reverse-edge count
+     *  should override; this default materialises (correct, not optimal). */
+    prevCount(id) {
+        return this._dbGetPrevEdges(id).length;
+    }
+    edgeSourceCount() {
+        // Materialised once per session (edges written before this moment are
+        // covered by the full count), then kept exact incrementally by link().
+        // The old form re-ran a full COUNT(*) table scan on EVERY call just to
+        // detect staleness — O(edges) on the recall hot path, at every IDF read.
+        if (this._edgeSrcCount < 0) {
+            this._edgeSrcCount = this._dbEdgeDistinctSrcCount();
+        }
+        return this._edgeSrcCount;
+    }
+    // ── Halos ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    haloMass(id) {
+        const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
+        return r ? r.mass : 0;
+    }
+    halo(id) {
+        const cached = this._haloNorm.get(id);
+        if (cached !== undefined)
+            return copy(cached);
+        const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
+        if (!r || r.mass < this.minHaloMass)
+            return null;
+        const exact = this._haloExact.get(id);
+        const v = normalize(exact ? copy(exact) : haloDecode(r.vec, this.D));
+        this._haloNorm.set(id, v);
+        return copy(v);
+    }
+    /** {@link Store.hasHalo} — MUST mirror {@link halo}'s null condition
+     *  exactly (row present AND mass ≥ minHaloMass), minus the decode. */
+    hasHalo(id) {
+        const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
+        return r !== null && r.mass >= this.minHaloMass;
+    }
+    async pourHalo(id, add) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        // A node with a halo is a genuine resonance target — the consensus climb
+        // resonates a query region to it, and articulation reads its halo.
+        this.indexGist(id, true);
+        const r = this._dbGetHalo(id);
+        const acc = this._haloExact.get(id) ??
+            (r ? haloDecode(r.vec, this.D) : new Float32Array(this.D));
+        addInto(acc, add);
+        this._haloExact.set(id, acc);
+        this._haloNorm.delete(id); // the normalized read cache is now stale
+        const mass = (r?.mass ?? 0) + 1;
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        this._dbUpsertHalo(id, haloEncode(acc), mass);
+        // Re-index on a geometric schedule only (the exact halo is persisted).
+        if (mass >= this.minHaloMass && geometricMass(mass)) {
+            this._haloBuffer.set(id, normalize(copy(acc)));
+            await this.maybeFlush();
+        }
+    }
+    async resonateHalo(v, k) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this.flushHalos();
+        if (k <= 0)
+            return [];
+        // ANN read cache — same scheme as resonate's, but for the halo index.
+        const rk = vecKey(v) + ":" + k;
+        const cache = this._resonateHaloCache;
+        if (cache) {
+            const hit = cache.get(rk);
+            if (hit !== undefined)
+                return hit;
         }
-        if (this._vecHaloPhysicalSize() > this._vecHaloSize() * 2) {
-          this._vecHaloCompact();
+        const results = this._vecHaloQuery(normalize(copy(v)), k * this.overfetch, this.efSearch);
+        const out = [];
+        for (const r of results) {
+            const id = r.id;
+            out.push({ id, score: 1 - r.distance });
+            if (out.length >= k)
+                break;
         }
-      } catch (e) {
-        // Best-effort, but never SILENT (same contract as the prune-path
-        // compaction above): a persistently failing compaction lets
-        // tombstones accumulate and query cost grow with no signal.
-        this.compactFailures++;
-        if (this.compactFailures === 1) {
-          console.warn(
-            "sema: vector-index compaction failed (will keep " +
-              "counting in store.compactFailures):",
-            e,
-          );
+        const rhc = this._resonateHaloCache ??= new Map();
+        if (rhc.size >= RESONATE_CACHE_MAX)
+            rhc.clear();
+        rhc.set(rk, out);
+        return out;
+    }
+    // ── Buffering, flushing, compaction ────────────────────────────────────
+    pending() {
+        return this._contentBuffer.length + this._haloBuffer.size;
+    }
+    flushContent() {
+        if (this._contentBuffer.length === 0)
+            return 0;
+        const batch = this._contentBuffer.splice(0);
+        // The merge scan only consults UNFLUSHED candidates, so clear them in
+        // lockstep with the content buffer they mirror.
+        this._nearDedupBuf.clear();
+        this._bufferedIds.clear();
+        this._vecContentUpsert(batch);
+        this._resonateCache = null;
+        return batch.length;
+    }
+    flushHalos() {
+        if (this._haloBuffer.size === 0)
+            return 0;
+        const batch = [...this._haloBuffer.entries()];
+        this._haloBuffer.clear();
+        this._vecHaloUpsert(batch.map(([id, vector]) => ({ id, vector })));
+        this._resonateHaloCache = null;
+        return batch.length;
+    }
+    /** Append the buffered containment pairs, inside the deferred transaction.
+     *  Pure appends: durable dedup lives in the adapter (the pair PK), so a
+     *  flush never reads a child's stored list back — the old packed-blob
+     *  read-merge-rewrite was O(fan-in) per touched child per flush, quadratic
+     *  over a long training run on a hot window. */
+    flushContain() {
+        if (this._containBuf.size === 0)
+            return;
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        for (const [child, set] of this._containBuf) {
+            this._dbAppendContain(child, [...set]);
         }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  async maybeFlush() {
-    if (this.pending() >= this.batchSize) {
-      this.flush();
-      // A flush is the one HEAVY, fully-synchronous unit of the ingest path.
-      // Every `await` elsewhere in ingestion resolves as a MICROTASK, which the
-      // engine drains to empty before it ever services a MACROTASK — so a deposit
-      // burst that only micro-awaits pins the single thread for its whole
-      // duration, starving timers, pending I/O and any overlapped work. Here —
-      // buffers empty, transaction committed, nothing mid-write — is the one
-      // safe point to hand the event loop a real turn.
-      await yieldToEventLoop();
-    }
-  }
-  // ── Meta ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  async setMeta(key, val) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    this._dbSetMeta(key, val);
-  }
-  async getMeta(key) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    return this._dbGetMeta(key);
-  }
-  async deleteMeta(key) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this._dbBeginTx();
-    this._dbDeleteMeta(key);
-  }
-  // ── Snapshot ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  async saveSnapshot(bytes) {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    this.flush(); // commits any open write transaction + vector buffers
-    this._dbSaveSnapshot(bytes);
-  }
-  async loadSnapshot() {
-    await this._ensureReady();
-    return this._dbLoadSnapshot();
-  }
-  // ── Lifecycle ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  commit() {
-    this.flush();
-  }
-  async close() {
-    if (this.closed) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.closed = true;
-    this.flush(); // commits any open write transaction + vector buffers
-    this._dbClose();
-  }
+        this._containBuf.clear();
+    }
+    /** Flush all three buffers; compact vector indices on a write-volume cadence. */
+    flush() {
+        this.flushContain();
+        const written = this.flushContent() + this.flushHalos();
+        // Commit the deferred write transaction on the same cadence as the vector
+        // buffers, so node rows / edges / halos become durable in coalesced batches.
+        this._dbCommitTx();
+        if (written === 0)
+            return;
+        this._writtenSinceCompact += written;
+        if (this._writtenSinceCompact >= this.compactEveryNWrites) {
+            this._writtenSinceCompact = 0;
+            try {
+                if (this._vecContentPhysicalSize() > this._vecContentSize() * 2) {
+                    this._vecContentCompact();
+                    // Physical compaction may free the top internal id for reuse —
+                    // invalidate the incremental maintenance watermark.
+                    this._dbBeginTx();
+                    this._dbDeleteMeta(AbstractStore.COMPACT_WATERMARK_KEY);
+                    this._dbCommitTx();
+                }
+                if (this._vecHaloPhysicalSize() > this._vecHaloSize() * 2) {
+                    this._vecHaloCompact();
+                }
+            }
+            catch (e) {
+                // Best-effort, but never SILENT (same contract as the prune-path
+                // compaction above): a persistently failing compaction lets
+                // tombstones accumulate and query cost grow with no signal.
+                this.compactFailures++;
+                if (this.compactFailures === 1) {
+                    console.warn("sema: vector-index compaction failed (will keep " +
+                        "counting in store.compactFailures):", e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    async maybeFlush() {
+        if (this.pending() >= this.batchSize) {
+            this.flush();
+            // A flush is the one HEAVY, fully-synchronous unit of the ingest path.
+            // Every `await` elsewhere in ingestion resolves as a MICROTASK, which the
+            // engine drains to empty before it ever services a MACROTASK — so a deposit
+            // burst that only micro-awaits pins the single thread for its whole
+            // duration, starving timers, pending I/O and any overlapped work. Here —
+            // buffers empty, transaction committed, nothing mid-write — is the one
+            // safe point to hand the event loop a real turn.
+            await yieldToEventLoop();
+        }
+    }
+    // ── Meta ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    async setMeta(key, val) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        this._dbSetMeta(key, val);
+    }
+    async getMeta(key) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        return this._dbGetMeta(key);
+    }
+    async deleteMeta(key) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this._dbBeginTx();
+        this._dbDeleteMeta(key);
+    }
+    // ── Snapshot ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    async saveSnapshot(bytes) {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        this.flush(); // commits any open write transaction + vector buffers
+        this._dbSaveSnapshot(bytes);
+    }
+    async loadSnapshot() {
+        await this._ensureReady();
+        return this._dbLoadSnapshot();
+    }
+    // ── Lifecycle ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    commit() {
+        this.flush();
+    }
+    async close() {
+        if (this.closed)
+            return;
+        this.closed = true;
+        this.flush(); // commits any open write transaction + vector buffers
+        this._dbClose();
+    }
 }