@hviana/sema 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

package/dist/src/mind/reasoning.js

@@ -3,15 +3,32 @@
 //   reason       — extend an answer forward across facts (multi-hop)
 //   fuseAttention — fuse independent points of attention (multi-topic)
 import { rItem, rNode } from "./trace.js";
-import { bytesEqual, indexOf } from "../bytes.js";
-import { resolve } from "./primitives.js";
-import { hubBound } from "./traverse.js";
+import { bytesEqual, indexOf, latin1 } from "../bytes.js";
+import { read, resolve } from "./primitives.js";
+import { countClusters } from "./attention.js";
+import { guidedFirst, hubBound, namedContinuations, offsetCanon, } from "./traverse.js";
+import { unspoken, windowIndex } from "./evidence.js";
 import { containsSpan, follow, haloSiblings, project } from "./match.js";
 import { joinWithBridge, pivotInto } from "./resonance.js";
-import { admissible, advance } from "./derivation.js";
-import { closure, restates, unaccountedBytes, } from "./derivation.js";
+import { closed, closeOver, restates, unaccountedBytes, } from "./derivation.js";
 import { STEP } from "./graph-search.js";
-/** Extend a grounded answer forward across facts (multi-hop reasoning).
+/** What one ADMITTED transition did to the question, published on the meter:
+ *  the bytes its witnesses CARRIED and the remainder the move DRAINED.  The two
+ *  transitions that go through the law — the walk's steps and the fusion —
+ *  report through this one function, so the two counters have one spelling.
+ *  Write-only (meter.ts contract 1). */
+function meterTransition(ctx, before, after, witnesses) {
+    if (!ctx.meter)
+        return;
+    for (const w of witnesses) {
+        if (w.window)
+            ctx.meter.reasonCarriedBytes += w.window[1] - w.window[0];
+    }
+    ctx.meter.closureDrainedBytes += unaccountedBytes(before.remainder) -
+        unaccountedBytes(after.remainder);
+}
+/** Extend a grounded answer forward across facts (multi-hop reasoning) — the
+ *  WALK, run as one layer of the closure engine ({@link walkLayer}).
  *  Pivots on the longest unconsumed learnt context each answer contains,
  *  then follows the pivot's continuation to the next fact.  **The chain ends
  *  when it STOPS, never when a count runs out**: every exit is a refusal (no
@@ -26,28 +43,24 @@ import { STEP } from "./graph-search.js";
  *  when it declared one — see the pivot's own containment rule.  `pre` is the
  *  response's shared pre-computation — the post-grounding stages read the
  *  same container the mechanisms did. */
-export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
-    const answer = d0.product;
-    /** The query material the GROUNDING left uncovered — the state's own
-     *  remainder.  Only the reasoner's OWN extensions are judged against it; a
-     *  mechanism carrying its own `used` set owns its shape. */
-    const uncovered = d0.remainder;
-    // Echo guard: a query that is ITSELF a learnt continuation (some context's
-    // answer) is being asked back at the system — hopping forward from it would
-    // chain through the very fact that produced it and echo the conversation
-    // back.  The grounded answer alone is the honest read-out.  Deliberately a
-    // broad structural gate; pinned by test/31-audit.
-    const qId = pre.queryResolved;
-    if (qId !== null && ctx.store.prevCount(qId) > 0) {
-        // THE ECHO GUARD, NAMED — the audit's point 1 could not attribute two real
-        // walks that stopped with no note at all, and this is where one of them went:
-        // the query IS a learnt continuation, so the reasoner returns the grounded
-        // read-out and never offers anything.  Without this note the walk looks like
-        // an unexplained stop; with it, "no note" can only mean the offer was never
-        // asked.  No decision changes: the guard returns exactly where it did.
-        ctx.trace?.step("echoGuard", [rItem(query, "query")], [], "the query is itself a learnt continuation — answering the grounded read-out without walking");
-        return d0;
-    }
+export function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
+    return closeOver(d0, query, ctx.space.maxGroup, [
+        walkLayer(ctx, query, preConsumed, pre, voiced),
+    ]);
+}
+/** The multi-hop walk as a {@link ClosureLayer}: it OFFERS a forward absorb or a
+ *  pivot, the law admits.  Its preamble — the two guards that say the question
+ *  was already answered by the query's own position in the graph, and the
+ *  pre-consumption of what the grounding spoke for — runs on the FIRST offer,
+ *  against the state the engine hands it; a guard that fires makes that first
+ *  offer `null`, so the walk ends where it begins and reports nothing more. */
+export function walkLayer(ctx, query, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
+    /** The preamble ran (on the first offer), and whether a guard stopped it. */
+    let begun = false;
+    let stopped = false;
+    let groundedId = null;
+    let groundedPrev = null;
+    let startedFrom = new Uint8Array(0);
     // Consume a node and its neighbours for pivot-cycle prevention — CAPPED at
     // the hub bound, via the store's LIMITed edge reads: a common continuation's
     // reverse fan-in (and a hub context's forward fan-out) is corpus-sized, and
@@ -56,59 +69,14 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
     // read order); a pivot suppressed only by a beyond-cap neighbour may now
     // fire — the same visibility trade chooseNext documents.
     const bound = hubBound(ctx);
-    // ANSWERED DIRECTLY — the echo guard's other half, and the same principle:
-    // the QUERY's own position in the graph, not the answer's content, says the
-    // read-out is complete.  Above: the query is itself a learnt CONTINUATION.
-    // Here: the query is a learnt CONTEXT and the grounded answer is one of ITS
-    // OWN continuations.  Either way the question was answered directly and there
-    // is nothing left to chain for.
-    //
-    // Every stopping condition in the loop below judges the ANSWER (`consumed` /
-    // the law's `restates` / `bytesEqual`); none asks whether the QUESTION was
-    // satisfied.  So a single-hop question whose answer happens to name another
-    // learnt context extends past a correct answer and REPLACES it:
-    //
-    //   asked  "<subj> father"
-    //   hop 1  "The father of <subj> is Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau."   <- correct
-    //   pivot  "Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau"                <- a learnt context too
-    //   got    "The date of death of Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau is 12 June 1516."
-    //
-    // Any store holding a bare-entity context alongside a relation fact has that
-    // shape; it is not exotic.
-    //
-    // Checked ONCE, before the loop, and ahead of BOTH extension branches:
-    // `absorbForward` extends the answer too, and nothing about the defect is
-    // specific to pivoting, so a guard between them would gate one arbitrary half
-    // of the same step.  Hop 0 is also the only hop at which the question can be
-    // answered directly at all — after a hop, `cur` is no longer the query's own
-    // continuation, so re-testing per hop could only cost reads.
-    //
-    // Read from the ANSWER's side (`prevFirst`) rather than the query's
-    // (`nextFirst`).  Same relation, but a CONTEXT's fan-out is hub-sized while
-    // this is one answer's establishing-context fan-in.  Both the resolve and the
-    // reverse read are exactly what hop 0 of the loop below would perform, so
-    // they are computed ONCE here and handed down (`groundedId`, `groundedPrev`)
-    // — the guard then costs nothing when it does not fire.  Stated because the
-    // naive placement does NOT: `resolve` re-folds the answer bytes on every call
-    // (no memo) and `prevFirst` is a direct read (no memo), so a guard that
-    // recomputed them would add one fold plus one √N-bounded read per ask.
-    // The √N cap carries the file-wide visibility trade, and fails SAFE in the
-    // direction that matters: a missed guard costs an over-extended answer, never
-    // a suppressed chain.
-    //
-    // A genuine multi-hop query is not a deposited context at all ("What is the
-    // capital of the country of Eiffel Tower?" resolves to nothing), so this can
-    // never gate a real chain.
-    const groundedId = resolve(ctx, answer);
-    const groundedPrev = groundedId === null
-        ? null
-        : ctx.store.prevFirst(groundedId, bound);
-    if (qId !== null && groundedPrev !== null && groundedPrev.includes(qId)) {
-        return d0;
-    }
     const consumed = new Set();
+    /** The windows each product of this derivation holds — what of the question
+     *  the derivation has already restated, so a later step is NAMED only by
+     *  question material none of them said. */
+    const spoken = [];
+    const speak = (product) => spoken.push(windowIndex(offsetCanon(ctx, product), ctx.space.maxGroup));
     /** `prev` lets a caller hand in an already-read reverse-edge list — hop 0
-     *  reuses the guard's, above, instead of re-reading it. */
+     *  reuses the guard's, below, instead of re-reading it. */
     const consumeNode = (id, prev) => {
         if (id === null)
             return;
@@ -123,31 +91,104 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
         for (const n of ctx.store.nextFirst(id, bound))
             consumed.add(n);
     };
-    // Pre-consume whatever the grounding stage already spoke for.  The halo
-    // sweep is one ANN query per node — cap it at haloQueryK sweeps (cover
-    // grounding can pre-consume one node per recognised site, O(query length));
-    // nodes past the cap are still consumed directly, they just skip the
-    // synonym expansion.
-    const preconsume = async () => {
-        let haloSweeps = 0;
-        for (const id of preConsumed) {
-            consumeNode(id);
-            if (haloSweeps >= ctx.cfg.haloQueryK)
-                continue;
-            const h = ctx.store.halo(id);
-            if (!h)
-                continue;
-            haloSweeps++;
-            for (const sib of await haloSiblings(ctx, id, h))
-                consumeNode(sib.id);
+    /** THE PREAMBLE — true when the walk may proceed. */
+    const begin = async (d0) => {
+        const answer = d0.product;
+        startedFrom = answer;
+        speak(answer);
+        // Echo guard: a query that is ITSELF a learnt continuation (some context's
+        // answer) is being asked back at the system — hopping forward from it would
+        // chain through the very fact that produced it and echo the conversation
+        // back.  The grounded answer alone is the honest read-out.  Deliberately a
+        // broad structural gate; pinned by test/31-audit.
+        const qId = pre.queryResolved;
+        if (qId !== null && ctx.store.prevCount(qId) > 0) {
+            // THE ECHO GUARD, NAMED — the audit's point 1 could not attribute two real
+            // walks that stopped with no note at all, and this is where one of them went:
+            // the query IS a learnt continuation, so the reasoner returns the grounded
+            // read-out and never offers anything.  Without this note the walk looks like
+            // an unexplained stop; with it, "no note" can only mean the offer was never
+            // asked.  No decision changes: the guard returns exactly where it did.
+            ctx.trace?.step("echoGuard", [rItem(query, "query")], [], "the query is itself a learnt continuation — answering the grounded read-out without walking");
+            return false;
+        }
+        // ANSWERED DIRECTLY — the echo guard's other half, and the same principle:
+        // the QUERY's own position in the graph, not the answer's content, says the
+        // read-out is complete.  Above: the query is itself a learnt CONTINUATION.
+        // Here: the query is a learnt CONTEXT and the grounded answer is one of ITS
+        // OWN continuations.  Either way the question was answered directly and there
+        // is nothing left to chain for.
+        //
+        // Every stopping condition in the loop below judges the ANSWER (`consumed` /
+        // the law's `restates` / `bytesEqual`); none asks whether the QUESTION was
+        // satisfied.  So a single-hop question whose answer happens to name another
+        // learnt context extends past a correct answer and REPLACES it:
+        //
+        //   asked  "<subj> father"
+        //   hop 1  "The father of <subj> is Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau."   <- correct
+        //   pivot  "Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau"                <- a learnt context too
+        //   got    "The date of death of Ernest I of Anhalt-Dessau is 12 June 1516."
+        //
+        // Any store holding a bare-entity context alongside a relation fact has that
+        // shape; it is not exotic.
+        //
+        // Checked ONCE, before the loop, and ahead of BOTH extension branches:
+        // `absorbForward` extends the answer too, and nothing about the defect is
+        // specific to pivoting, so a guard between them would gate one arbitrary half
+        // of the same step.  Hop 0 is also the only hop at which the question can be
+        // answered directly at all — after a hop, `cur` is no longer the query's own
+        // continuation, so re-testing per hop could only cost reads.
+        //
+        // Read from the ANSWER's side (`prevFirst`) rather than the query's
+        // (`nextFirst`).  Same relation, but a CONTEXT's fan-out is hub-sized while
+        // this is one answer's establishing-context fan-in.  Both the resolve and the
+        // reverse read are exactly what hop 0 of the loop below would perform, so
+        // they are computed ONCE here and handed down (`groundedId`, `groundedPrev`)
+        // — the guard then costs nothing when it does not fire.  Stated because the
+        // naive placement does NOT: `resolve` re-folds the answer bytes on every call
+        // (no memo) and `prevFirst` is a direct read (no memo), so a guard that
+        // recomputed them would add one fold plus one √N-bounded read per ask.
+        // The √N cap carries the file-wide visibility trade, and fails SAFE in the
+        // direction that matters: a missed guard costs an over-extended answer, never
+        // a suppressed chain.
+        //
+        // A genuine multi-hop query is not a deposited context at all ("What is the
+        // capital of the country of Eiffel Tower?" resolves to nothing), so this can
+        // never gate a real chain.
+        groundedId = resolve(ctx, answer);
+        groundedPrev = groundedId === null
+            ? null
+            : ctx.store.prevFirst(groundedId, bound);
+        if (qId !== null && groundedPrev !== null && groundedPrev.includes(qId)) {
+            return false;
         }
+        // Pre-consume whatever the grounding stage already spoke for.  The halo
+        // sweep is one ANN query per node — cap it at haloQueryK sweeps (cover
+        // grounding can pre-consume one node per recognised site, O(query length));
+        // nodes past the cap are still consumed directly, they just skip the
+        // synonym expansion.
+        const preconsume = async () => {
+            let haloSweeps = 0;
+            for (const id of preConsumed) {
+                consumeNode(id);
+                if (haloSweeps >= ctx.cfg.haloQueryK)
+                    continue;
+                const h = ctx.store.halo(id);
+                if (!h)
+                    continue;
+                haloSweeps++;
+                for (const sib of await haloSiblings(ctx, id, h))
+                    consumeNode(sib.id);
+            }
+        };
+        if (ctx.meter) {
+            await ctx.meter.time("reason.preconsumeHalos", preconsume);
+        }
+        else {
+            await preconsume();
+        }
+        return true;
     };
-    if (ctx.meter) {
-        await ctx.meter.time("reason.preconsumeHalos", preconsume);
-    }
-    else {
-        await preconsume();
-    }
     // ── THE WALK, AS THE LAW'S ───────────────────────────────────────────
     //
     // This function no longer decides whether a step may be taken: it OFFERS a
@@ -170,7 +211,6 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
     // 30 s); and raising it from 12 to 200 changed neither the answer nor
     // `pivotSteps` on the chain fixtures.
     const qv = pre.guide; // the response-wide guide IS the query's gist
-    const W = ctx.space.maxGroup;
     // WHOSE EXTENSION IS THIS?  `voiced` is what the mechanism WITHHELD (the
     // pipeline sends the used anchors' CONTINUATIONS, not their bytes), so a
     // non-empty `voiced` means exactly what that note says: the grounding came
@@ -181,7 +221,6 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
     // expresses as the identity species of progress — `moves` — declared by the
     // reporter and never inferred from the mechanism's name.
     const producerOwnsShape = voiced.length > 0;
-    const startedFrom = answer;
     let hop = 0;
     let t;
     // WHAT THE OFFERED STEP WOULD BE.  The law decides, so the accepted step is
@@ -190,6 +229,13 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
     // admitted.
     let pending = null;
     const offer = async (d) => {
+        if (!begun) {
+            begun = true;
+            if (!(await begin(d))) {
+                stopped = true;
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
         if (ctx.meter)
             ctx.meter.offerRuns += 1;
         const cur = d.product;
@@ -289,25 +335,49 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
             ctx.trace?.step("pivotCandidateRefused", [rItem(cur, "answer")], [], `${why} — refused`);
             return null;
         }
+        // THE STEP THE QUESTION ASKS FOR.  The hop `follow` took is NAMED when one
+        // of its establishing contexts is witnessed by what of the question no
+        // product has restated yet, plus the pivot itself (traverse.ts,
+        // `namedContinuations`): `Where was the place of death of the director of
+        // film Beat Girl?` names `Edmond T. Gréville place of death` once the first
+        // hop has restated `director` and `Beat Girl` — and `Who is the father of
+        // Frederick II?` names nothing past `Peter III of Aragon`, because `father`
+        // was restated by the hop that reached him.  A named step MOVES to structure
+        // the question asked for, so it is admitted on that ground; an unnamed one
+        // must carry the question's remainder as before, and from a CLOSED
+        // derivation — nothing left owed — it is not offered at all: the question
+        // asks for no further step, and the law would otherwise admit any.
+        const asked = ctx._edgeAsked;
+        let named = false;
+        if (asked !== null) {
+            const unsaid = {
+                bytes: asked.bytes,
+                index: unspoken(asked.index, spoken),
+            };
+            const names = namedContinuations(ctx, pivot, unsaid);
+            const hop = guidedFirst(ctx, pivot);
+            named = names !== null && hop !== undefined && names.includes(hop);
+        }
+        if (!named && !producerOwnsShape && closed(d)) {
+            ctx.trace?.step("pivotUnasked", [rItem(cur, "answer"), rNode(ctx, pivot, "pivot")], [rItem(fc, "withheld")], "the derivation owes nothing and the question names no further step — not offered");
+            return null;
+        }
         pending = { kind: "pivot", cur, pivot, fc };
-        // Offered with the identity species ONLY when the grounding declared what it
-        // speaks for; otherwise the law requires this step to carry question
-        // material the grounding left unaccounted, which is the drift the extension
-        // tests pin — refused by the law's own measure, not by a private window
-        // test.
+        // Offered with the identity species when the grounding declared what it
+        // speaks for, or when the question names the step; otherwise the law
+        // requires this step to carry question material the grounding left
+        // unaccounted, which is the drift the extension tests pin — refused by the
+        // law's own measure, not by a private window test.
         return {
             product: fc,
             contains: true,
-            reaches: producerOwnsShape,
+            reaches: producerOwnsShape || named,
             cost: STEP,
         };
     };
-    const closed_ = await closure(d0, query, W, offer, (before, after, witnesses) => {
-        if (ctx.meter) {
-            ctx.meter.reasonCarriedBytes += witnesses.reduce((n, w) => n + (w.window ? w.window[1] - w.window[0] : 0), 0);
-            ctx.meter.closureDrainedBytes += unaccountedBytes(before.remainder) -
-                unaccountedBytes(after.remainder);
-        }
+    const onTaken = (before, after, witnesses) => {
+        meterTransition(ctx, before, after, witnesses);
+        speak(after.product);
         const p = pending;
         pending = null;
         if (p === null)
@@ -321,7 +391,8 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
                 ctx.meter.pivotSteps++;
             ctx.trace?.step("pivotStep", [rItem(p.cur, "answer"), rNode(ctx, p.pivot, "pivot")], [rItem(p.fc, "answer", resolve(ctx, p.fc) ?? undefined)], "pivot on the shared span this answer contains, then step forward across that fact");
         }
-    }, (at) => {
+    };
+    const onRefused = (at) => {
         // THE LAW REFUSED — counted where it happened, before the bookkeeping
         // below decides whether there is a step to report.
         if (ctx.meter)
@@ -340,48 +411,115 @@ export async function reason(ctx, query, d0, preConsumed, pre, voiced = []) {
         const left = unaccountedBytes(at.remainder);
         ctx.trace?.step("pivotRefused", [rItem(p.cur, "answer"), rItem(query, "query")], at.remainder.map(([a, b]) => rItem(query.subarray(a, b), "uncovered")), `the step carries none of the question material the grounding left ` +
             `unaccounted (${left} byte(s) in ${at.remainder.length} span(s)) — refused`);
-    });
+    };
     // THE WALK'S OWN ENDING, NAMED — the audit's point 1.  Every stop INSIDE the
     // offer now has a note, but a walk can also end without the offer ever being
     // asked, or after a step the law took and then found nothing to follow: those
     // ended as "no note at all", indistinguishable from a mechanism that never ran.
     // Two endings cover every remaining case, and together they make a silent stop
     // impossible — which is what the `Offer` contract needs, because `null` is read
-    // as exhaustion and exhaustion must be a statement, not an absence.
-    t ??= ctx.trace?.enter("reason", [rItem(startedFrom, "grounded")]);
-    if (closed_.remainder.length === 0) {
-        ctx.trace?.step("walkClosed", [rItem(closed_.product, "answer")], [], "the derivation is closed — nothing is left unaccounted for");
+    // as exhaustion and exhaustion must be a statement, not an absence.  A walk a
+    // guard stopped reports nothing here: the guard already said why (or, for the
+    // answered-directly guard, the answer IS the read-out), exactly as before the
+    // walk became a layer.
+    const onEnd = (d0, closed_) => {
+        if (stopped)
+            return;
+        t ??= ctx.trace?.enter("reason", [rItem(startedFrom, "grounded")]);
+        if (closed_.remainder.length === 0) {
+            ctx.trace?.step("walkClosed", [rItem(closed_.product, "answer")], [], "the derivation is closed — nothing is left unaccounted for");
+        }
+        else {
+            ctx.trace?.step("walkEndedWithoutOffer", [rItem(closed_.product, "answer")], closed_.remainder.map(([a, b]) => rItem(query.subarray(a, b), "uncovered")), `the walk ended with ${unaccountedBytes(closed_.remainder)} byte(s) unaccounted and no further offer — no structural continuation`);
+        }
+        // INSTRUMENTATION ONLY — the extension's two facts, untraced (meter.ts
+        // contract 1: a counter never reaches a decision).  They are what a caller
+        // needs to PRICE the extension instead of taking it unconditionally, and both
+        // are now read off the state the law advanced rather than accumulated beside
+        // it: the work it did is the cost it accumulated, and the material it carried
+        // is the accounting the law's witnesses added.
+        const steps = closed_.cost - d0.cost;
+        if (ctx.meter) {
+            ctx.meter.reasonSteps += steps;
+            // The accounting the law's witnesses added, summed by the law's own function
+            // over the tail of the state's list — and computed ONLY when a meter is
+            // attached: this used to slice and MAP a fresh array on every response, for a
+            // counter that usually does not exist.  One allocation, under the meter.
+            ctx.meter.reasonAccountedBytes += unaccountedBytes(closed_.accounted.slice(d0.accounted.length));
+        }
+        t?.done([rItem(closed_.product, "answer", resolve(ctx, closed_.product) ?? undefined)], 
+        // A FIXPOINT: no further step was offered, or the law refused the one that
+        // was.  There is no allowance to exhaust, so the note is true by
+        // construction.
+        "the multi-hop chain's fixpoint");
+    };
+    return { name: "reason", offer, onTaken, onRefused, onEnd };
+}
+/** In how many separate PLACES of the query a stored context shares content at
+ *  window scale — the query's W-byte windows the context's bytes contain,
+ *  clustered by {@link countClusters} at the same quantum.  Below one window
+ *  byte identity is chance (identityBar), so only whole windows count.
+ *
+ *  It is the dispersion question asked of the CONTEXT rather than of the votes
+ *  that happened to land on it.  A region votes once, for its top anchor, so
+ *  where a root's votes come from is a lossy witness of where its context and
+ *  the query agree — measured on test/24's gap-3.1 fixture: the second topic's
+ *  second cluster was the region `ace and `, in the OTHER topic's words,
+ *  voting through a 2-byte sub-window anchor `e ` (attention.ts
+ *  canonicalChunkId); once that stopped voting, the genuine topic read as one
+ *  cluster.  Its context still shares the system prompt AND its own wording
+ *  with the query — two places, the two test/37 documents — while a
+ *  coincidental echo (one closing phrase byte-identical to an unrelated
+ *  conversation's end, test/37) shares one. */
+function sharedPlaces(context, query, quantum) {
+    if (context.length < quantum || query.length < quantum)
+        return 0;
+    const windows = new Set();
+    for (let o = 0; o + quantum <= context.length; o++) {
+        windows.add(latin1(context.subarray(o, o + quantum)));
     }
-    else {
-        ctx.trace?.step("walkEndedWithoutOffer", [rItem(closed_.product, "answer")], closed_.remainder.map(([a, b]) => rItem(query.subarray(a, b), "uncovered")), `the walk ended with ${unaccountedBytes(closed_.remainder)} byte(s) unaccounted and no further offer — no structural continuation`);
+    const spans = [];
+    for (let o = 0; o + quantum <= query.length; o++) {
+        if (windows.has(latin1(query.subarray(o, o + quantum)))) {
+            spans.push([o, o + quantum]);
+        }
     }
-    // INSTRUMENTATION ONLY — the extension's two facts, untraced (meter.ts
-    // contract 1: a counter never reaches a decision).  They are what a caller
-    // needs to PRICE the extension instead of taking it unconditionally, and both
-    // are now read off the state the law advanced rather than accumulated beside
-    // it: the work it did is the cost it accumulated, and the material it carried
-    // is the accounting the law's witnesses added.
-    const steps = closed_.cost - d0.cost;
-    if (ctx.meter) {
-        ctx.meter.reasonSteps += steps;
-        // The accounting the law's witnesses added, summed by the law's own function
-        // over the tail of the state's list — and computed ONLY when a meter is
-        // attached: this used to slice and MAP a fresh array on every response, for a
-        // counter that usually does not exist.  One allocation, under the meter.
-        ctx.meter.reasonAccountedBytes += unaccountedBytes(closed_.accounted.slice(d0.accounted.length));
+    return countClusters(spans, quantum);
+}
+/** Whether any query byte lies at least `quantum` away from every span — the
+ *  only place a root independent of those spans could stand.  The spans,
+ *  widened by the quantum on each side, either cover [0, len) or leave a gap. */
+function roomBeyond(len, spans, quantum) {
+    if (spans.length === 0)
+        return len > 0;
+    const widened = spans
+        .map(([s, e]) => [s - quantum, e + quantum])
+        .sort((a, b) => a[0] - b[0]);
+    let reach = 0; // every byte below `reach` is within a quantum of a span
+    for (const [s, e] of widened) {
+        if (s > reach)
+            return true;
+        reach = Math.max(reach, e);
+        if (reach >= len)
+            return false;
     }
-    t?.done([rItem(closed_.product, "answer", resolve(ctx, closed_.product) ?? undefined)], 
-    // A FIXPOINT: no further step was offered, or the law refused the one that
-    // was.  There is no allowance to exhaust, so the note is true by
-    // construction.
-    "the multi-hop chain's fixpoint");
-    return closed_;
+    return reach < len;
 }
 /** Fuse independent points of attention into one answer (multi-topic).
  *  When the consensus climb finds more than one dominant point, each
  *  independent point grounds its own answer; they are bridged together
  *  by any learnt connector the graph holds between them. */
-export async function fuseAttention(ctx, query, state, pre, 
+export function fuseAttention(ctx, query, state, pre, unclimbed = false, primarySpans = []) {
+    return closeOver(state, query, ctx.space.maxGroup, [
+        fusionLayer(ctx, query, pre, unclimbed, primarySpans),
+    ]);
+}
+/** Fusion as a {@link ClosureLayer}: ONE transition, offered once — the fused
+ *  product of the independent points of attention, or nothing.  The law admits
+ *  it (`reaches`: the fusion composed structure this derivation had not stood
+ *  on); the layer's own structural gates below decide whether there is a
+ *  fusion to offer at all. */
+export function fusionLayer(ctx, query, pre, 
 /** True when `primary` never touched the consensus climb at all — e.g. a
  *  pure ALU computation, which has no anchor of its own.  commitVotes
  *  ALWAYS admits the dominant root regardless of its vote (attention.ts:
@@ -396,191 +534,212 @@ unclimbed = false,
  *  fuseAttention just reads a position from it.  Empty or absent preserves
  *  the original behaviour exactly. */
 primarySpans = []) {
-    // THE STATE, NOT BARE BYTES: fusion is one more transition of the derivation
-    // the walk returned, so it reads that state's product and hands back a state.
-    // Its own structural gates stay here — this is the layer that can resolve
-    // those witnesses, and the law never re-derives one.
-    const primary = state.product;
-    // When the answer is structurally drawn from the query itself
-    // (extraction), it already spans all the query's pieces — fusion
-    // would only add noise from unrelated stored contexts.  The gate is
-    // STRICT containment (resolved node in the query's tree, or a contiguous
-    // byte run): the old sparse-subsequence test was trivially satisfied by
-    // short answers over long queries, silently starving multi-topic queries
-    // of fusion.
-    if (containsSpan(ctx, query, primary))
-        return state;
-    // The committed points of attention ARE the shared climb's roots (same
-    // query, same k, same DF mode) — read them from Precomputed instead of
-    // re-climbing, so even a traced response pays for the climb once.
-    const forest = (await pre.attention()).roots;
-    // A LONE root is ordinarily primary's own source — nothing to fuse.  But
-    // when primary is unclimbed, the lone root was never checked against
-    // anything: it is admitted by commitVotes unconditionally, so it may be
-    // genuine consensus (Attention.breadth dominates — most of the query's
-    // OWN regions corroborate it) or a coincidental echo (breadth does not
-    // dominate — see test/35-attention-confidence).  breadth is the SCALE-
-    // INVARIANT read of exactly this question: the raw IDF vote cannot serve
-    // here, since it is an absolute ln(N)-scaled quantity (a genuine root on
-    // a large store can score BELOW its own floor while a coincidental echo
-    // on a small one scores comfortably above its own, smaller, floor).
-    //
-    // Breadth alone is not enough when primary is a pure COMPUTATION.  The ALU
-    // answers "2+2 equals what?" with 4, and the store's own arithmetic table
-    // then supplies a lone root — an exemplar like "1+2" — whose breadth
-    // dominates because it is corroborated by the computation's OWN bytes.
-    // Fusing it projected that exemplar's continuation and the bridge voiced
-    // "4+3" (test/11 seed 99).  A second point of attention must stand on
-    // evidence that is structurally SEPARATE from primary's: at least one
-    // perceptual quantum of query between them, the same separation
-    // countClusters uses to tell independent evidence neighbourhoods apart.
-    // Not a score, and not a tuned bar — the fold's own quantum.
-    //
-    // With no primarySpans (the caller did not resolve them) every span
-    // vacuously qualifies, preserving the original behaviour exactly.
-    const quantum = ctx.space.maxGroup;
-    const independentOfPrimary = (root) => primarySpans.every(([s, e]) => {
-        const gap = root.end <= s
-            ? s - root.end
-            : e <= root.start
-                ? root.start - e
-                : 0;
-        return gap >= quantum;
-    });
-    const lonePromotes = unclimbed && forest.length === 1 &&
-        forest[0].breadth > 0.5 && independentOfPrimary(forest[0]);
-    if (forest.length === 0 || (forest.length <= 1 && !lonePromotes)) {
-        return state;
-    }
-    // WHERE THE QUERY ASKED FOR IT.  The sort below orders the fused pieces by
-    // query position, which is the whole point of the `start` field: a
-    // multi-topic answer should read in the order the question posed its
-    // topics.  Every ROOT carries its own start.  `primary` did not — it was
-    // given forest[0].start, the FIRST attention root's position, which is
-    // primary's own source only when primary happens to come from that root.
-    // When it does not, primary is sorted to a position it never occupied.
-    //
-    // Observed live: "What is the capital of France? And what is 2 + 2?"
-    // answered "4The capital city of France is Paris." — the ALU result, whose
-    // evidence is the "2 + 2" span near the END of the query, inherited the
-    // France root's start of 0 and sorted ahead of the France answer.  Both
-    // pieces were right; only the order was.
-    //
-    // primary's own position is the earliest query byte its grounding stands
-    // on.  `accounted` is the cost-ladder read of that and is authoritative
-    // when non-empty; when it is empty the grounding is a pure COMPUTATION,
-    // whose evidence is its computed span — the same cost-ladder-vs-coverage
-    // distinction think() already draws for the fusion remainder ("`accounted`
-    // alone undercounts this ... cover prices its computed spans at near-zero
-    // and deliberately leaves them out"), read here for position instead of
-    // for coverage.  With neither, nothing is known and the old behaviour
-    // (forest[0].start) stands.
-    const primaryStart = primarySpans.length > 0
-        ? primarySpans.reduce((m, [s]) => Math.min(m, s), Infinity)
-        : forest[0].start;
-    const pieces = [
-        { start: primaryStart, bytes: primary },
-    ];
-    const qv = pre.guide; // once, not per root
-    const rest = lonePromotes ? forest : forest.slice(1);
-    const t = ctx.trace?.enter("fuseAttention", [
-        rItem(primary, "primary"),
-        ...rest.map((r) => rNode(ctx, r.anchor, "point", r.vote)),
-    ]);
-    for (const root of rest) {
-        // DISPERSION: this root's contributing regions are confined to a
-        // single cluster (see Attention.clusters) — one local neighbourhood of
-        // the query, not several separate places.  Raw region count already
-        // failed to discriminate a coincidental match from a genuine further
-        // topic (test/24 gap 3.1 vs test/35's echo); dispersion is a different
-        // question — not how MUCH evidence, but how many separate PLACES in the
-        // query corroborate it — and a coincidental match is structurally
-        // confined to one cluster no matter how strongly it resonates.
+    let offered = false;
+    const offer = async (state) => {
+        if (offered)
+            return null;
+        offered = true;
+        // THE STATE, NOT BARE BYTES: fusion is one more transition of the derivation
+        // the walk returned, so it reads that state's product and hands back a state.
+        // Its own structural gates stay here — this is the layer that can resolve
+        // those witnesses, and the law never re-derives one.
+        const primary = state.product;
+        // When the answer is structurally drawn from the query itself
+        // (extraction), it already spans all the query's pieces — fusion
+        // would only add noise from unrelated stored contexts.  The gate is
+        // STRICT containment (resolved node in the query's tree, or a contiguous
+        // byte run): the old sparse-subsequence test was trivially satisfied by
+        // short answers over long queries, silently starving multi-topic queries
+        // of fusion.
+        if (containsSpan(ctx, query, primary))
+            return null;
+        // A SECOND POINT OF ATTENTION MUST STAND ON EVIDENCE STRUCTURALLY SEPARATE
+        // FROM PRIMARY'S: at least one perceptual quantum of query between them,
+        // the same separation countClusters uses to tell independent evidence
+        // neighbourhoods apart.  Not a score, and not a tuned bar — the fold's own
+        // quantum.  A root standing on primary's own evidence is primary's topic
+        // read again, never a further one, so it is not fused (measured on the
+        // 31.7M-node store: an exact dialogue turn grounded whole, `[0,79]`, paid a
+        // 3.7 s consensus climb whose only root lay inside that span).
+        //
+        // With no primarySpans (the caller did not resolve them) every span
+        // vacuously qualifies, preserving the original behaviour exactly.
+        const quantum = ctx.space.maxGroup;
+        const independentOfPrimary = (root) => primarySpans.every(([s, e]) => {
+            const gap = root.end <= s
+                ? s - root.end
+                : e <= root.start
+                    ? root.start - e
+                    : 0;
+            return gap >= quantum;
+        });
+        // Decided BEFORE the climb when it is already decided: a root spans at
+        // least one query byte, so where every byte lies within a quantum of
+        // primary's evidence no root can be independent, and there is nothing the
+        // climb could hand this layer.
+        if (!roomBeyond(query.length, primarySpans, quantum))
+            return null;
+        // The committed points of attention ARE the shared climb's roots (same
+        // query, same k, same DF mode) — read them from Precomputed instead of
+        // re-climbing, so even a traced response pays for the climb once.
+        const forest = (await pre.attention()).roots;
+        // A LONE root is ordinarily primary's own source — nothing to fuse.  But
+        // when primary is unclimbed, the lone root was never checked against
+        // anything: it is admitted by commitVotes unconditionally, so it may be
+        // genuine consensus (Attention.breadth dominates — most of the query's
+        // OWN regions corroborate it) or a coincidental echo (breadth does not
+        // dominate — see test/35-attention-confidence).  breadth is the SCALE-
+        // INVARIANT read of exactly this question: the raw IDF vote cannot serve
+        // here, since it is an absolute ln(N)-scaled quantity (a genuine root on
+        // a large store can score BELOW its own floor while a coincidental echo
+        // on a small one scores comfortably above its own, smaller, floor).
+        //
+        // Breadth alone is not enough when primary is a pure COMPUTATION.  The ALU
+        // answers "2+2 equals what?" with 4, and the store's own arithmetic table
+        // then supplies a lone root — an exemplar like "1+2" — whose breadth
+        // dominates because it is corroborated by the computation's OWN bytes.
+        // Fusing it projected that exemplar's continuation and the bridge voiced
+        // "4+3" (test/11 seed 99) — the separation above is what refuses it.
+        const lonePromotes = unclimbed && forest.length === 1 &&
+            forest[0].breadth > 0.5 && independentOfPrimary(forest[0]);
+        if (forest.length === 0 || (forest.length <= 1 && !lonePromotes)) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        // WHERE THE QUERY ASKED FOR IT.  The sort below orders the fused pieces by
+        // query position, which is the whole point of the `start` field: a
+        // multi-topic answer should read in the order the question posed its
+        // topics.  Every ROOT carries its own start.  `primary` did not — it was
+        // given forest[0].start, the FIRST attention root's position, which is
+        // primary's own source only when primary happens to come from that root.
+        // When it does not, primary is sorted to a position it never occupied.
+        //
+        // Observed live: "What is the capital of France? And what is 2 + 2?"
+        // answered "4The capital city of France is Paris." — the ALU result, whose
+        // evidence is the "2 + 2" span near the END of the query, inherited the
+        // France root's start of 0 and sorted ahead of the France answer.  Both
+        // pieces were right; only the order was.
         //
-        // EXCEPTION: crossRegionVotes' own joint conclusions (a query naming
-        // two attributes that were only ever learnt TOGETHER — test/34's own
-        // binding corpus) are inherently ONE fused context and are pooled from
-        // a single synthetic region, so they always read as one cluster even
-        // though they already, by construction, account for both original
-        // mentions.  `breadth` (dominates — the same > half-the-query bar used
-        // everywhere else) still correctly recognises these: a genuine joint
-        // binding explains the MAJORITY of the query's regions on its own,
-        // which a coincidental echo never does (verified: test/35's echo tops
-        // out at 0.40).  So a root is trusted when EITHER measure alone
-        // indicates real signal — excluded only when BOTH are weak.  Cheap and
-        // synchronous — checked before the async already-answered walk below.
-        if (root.clusters < 2 && root.breadth <= 0.5) {
-            ctx.trace?.step("singleCluster", [rNode(ctx, root.anchor, "point", root.vote)], [], "this point's evidence is confined to one local neighbourhood of the query — not trusted as an independent topic");
-            continue;
+        // primary's own position is the earliest query byte its grounding stands
+        // on.  `accounted` is the cost-ladder read of that and is authoritative
+        // when non-empty; when it is empty the grounding is a pure COMPUTATION,
+        // whose evidence is its computed span — the same cost-ladder-vs-coverage
+        // distinction think() already draws for the fusion remainder ("`accounted`
+        // alone undercounts this ... cover prices its computed spans at near-zero
+        // and deliberately leaves them out"), read here for position instead of
+        // for coverage.  With neither, nothing is known and the old behaviour
+        // (forest[0].start) stands.
+        const primaryStart = primarySpans.length > 0
+            ? primarySpans.reduce((m, [s]) => Math.min(m, s), Infinity)
+            : forest[0].start;
+        const pieces = [
+            { start: primaryStart, bytes: primary },
+        ];
+        const qv = pre.guide; // once, not per root
+        const rest = (lonePromotes ? forest : forest.slice(1)).filter(independentOfPrimary);
+        if (rest.length === 0)
+            return null;
+        const t = ctx.trace?.enter("fuseAttention", [
+            rItem(primary, "primary"),
+            ...rest.map((r) => rNode(ctx, r.anchor, "point", r.vote)),
+        ]);
+        for (const root of rest) {
+            // DISPERSION: this root's contributing regions are confined to a
+            // single cluster (see Attention.clusters) — one local neighbourhood of
+            // the query, not several separate places.  Raw region count already
+            // failed to discriminate a coincidental match from a genuine further
+            // topic (test/24 gap 3.1 vs test/35's echo); dispersion is a different
+            // question — not how MUCH evidence, but how many separate PLACES in the
+            // query corroborate it — and a coincidental match is structurally
+            // confined to one cluster no matter how strongly it resonates.
+            //
+            // EXCEPTION: crossRegionVotes' own joint conclusions (a query naming
+            // two attributes that were only ever learnt TOGETHER — test/34's own
+            // binding corpus) are inherently ONE fused context and are pooled from
+            // a single synthetic region, so they always read as one cluster even
+            // though they already, by construction, account for both original
+            // mentions.  `breadth` (dominates — the same > half-the-query bar used
+            // everywhere else) still correctly recognises these: a genuine joint
+            // binding explains the MAJORITY of the query's regions on its own,
+            // which a coincidental echo never does (verified: test/35's echo tops
+            // out at 0.40).  So a root is trusted when EITHER measure alone
+            // indicates real signal — excluded only when BOTH are weak.  Cheap and
+            // synchronous — checked before the async already-answered walk below.
+            if (root.clusters < 2 && root.breadth <= 0.5 &&
+                sharedPlaces(read(ctx, root.anchor), query, quantum) < 2) {
+                ctx.trace?.step("singleCluster", [rNode(ctx, root.anchor, "point", root.vote)], [], "this point's evidence is confined to one local neighbourhood of the query — not trusted as an independent topic");
+                continue;
+            }
+            // ALREADY ANSWERED: this root's own learnt continuation — the same
+            // content-addressed walk reason()'s echo guard already trusts
+            // (`ctx.store.prevCount(qId) > 0`), here applied per-candidate instead
+            // of to the whole query — is VERBATIM present later in the query.  A
+            // query that embeds both an exchange's ask and its own already-given
+            // reply (a conversation's turn plus its own prior answer, concatenated
+            // raw by addTurn — or any caller pasting a transcript into one
+            // respond() call; the check is Mind-bookkeeping-free, so it treats both
+            // identically) has already spoken this root's answer — fusing it in
+            // again would only restate it.  Deliberately NOT a magnitude measure:
+            // it fires on exact content-addressed recurrence, not on how strongly
+            // the root resonates.
+            const cont = await follow(ctx, root.anchor, qv);
+            if (cont !== null && cont.length > 0 &&
+                // The law's positional reading: the caller knows the material it is
+                // looking for lies AT OR AFTER this root, which is the witness; the law
+                // owns the containment test itself.  The `cont.length > 0` guard stays
+                // here because an EMPTY continuation indexes at every offset — the law
+                // has no opinion about whether "nothing" counts as said.
+                restates(query, cont, 0, { from: root.end })) {
+                ctx.trace?.step("alreadyAnswered", [rNode(ctx, root.anchor, "point", root.vote)], [rItem(cont, "continuation")], "this point's own learnt continuation already appears later in the query — already answered, not fused");
+                continue;
+            }
+            const g = await project(ctx, root.anchor, qv);
+            if (g === null || g.length === 0)
+                continue;
+            if (pieces.some((p) => indexOf(p.bytes, g, 0) >= 0))
+                continue;
+            pieces.push({ start: root.start, bytes: g });
         }
-        // ALREADY ANSWERED: this root's own learnt continuation — the same
-        // content-addressed walk reason()'s echo guard already trusts
-        // (`ctx.store.prevCount(qId) > 0`), here applied per-candidate instead
-        // of to the whole query — is VERBATIM present later in the query.  A
-        // query that embeds both an exchange's ask and its own already-given
-        // reply (a conversation's turn plus its own prior answer, concatenated
-        // raw by addTurn — or any caller pasting a transcript into one
-        // respond() call; the check is Mind-bookkeeping-free, so it treats both
-        // identically) has already spoken this root's answer — fusing it in
-        // again would only restate it.  Deliberately NOT a magnitude measure:
-        // it fires on exact content-addressed recurrence, not on how strongly
-        // the root resonates.
-        const cont = await follow(ctx, root.anchor, qv);
-        if (cont !== null && cont.length > 0 &&
-            // The law's positional reading: the caller knows the material it is
-            // looking for lies AT OR AFTER this root, which is the witness; the law
-            // owns the containment test itself.  The `cont.length > 0` guard stays
-            // here because an EMPTY continuation indexes at every offset — the law
-            // has no opinion about whether "nothing" counts as said.
-            restates(query, cont, 0, { from: root.end })) {
-            ctx.trace?.step("alreadyAnswered", [rNode(ctx, root.anchor, "point", root.vote)], [rItem(cont, "continuation")], "this point's own learnt continuation already appears later in the query — already answered, not fused");
-            continue;
+        if (pieces.length === 1) {
+            t?.done([rItem(primary, "answer")], "no further independent point grounded");
+            return null;
         }
-        const g = await project(ctx, root.anchor, qv);
-        if (g === null || g.length === 0)
-            continue;
-        if (pieces.some((p) => indexOf(p.bytes, g, 0) >= 0))
-            continue;
-        pieces.push({ start: root.start, bytes: g });
-    }
-    if (pieces.length === 1) {
-        t?.done([rItem(primary, "answer")], "no further independent point grounded");
-        return state;
-    }
-    pieces.sort((a, b) => a.start - b.start);
-    let out = pieces[0].bytes;
-    for (let i = 1; i < pieces.length; i++) {
-        // An approximate-resonance miss (or a genuinely unlearnt junction) joins
-        // the pieces bare — joinWithBridge surfaces it as a bridgeMiss step.
-        out = await joinWithBridge(ctx, out, pieces[i].bytes);
-    }
-    t?.done([rItem(out, "answer", resolve(ctx, out) ?? undefined)], `fused ${pieces.length} independent points of attention into one answer`);
-    // THE FACT IS THE FUSED ANSWER, not the call: every early return above hands
-    // back `primary` untouched.  Untraced on purpose (meter.ts contract 1).
-    if (ctx.meter)
-        ctx.meter.fuseRuns++;
-    // A FUSION IS A TRANSITION, and the only one in the engine that can splice the
-    // QUESTION'S OWN material into the product.  So it is OFFERED to the law rather
-    // than built by hand: the law reads the window the fused product holds — the
-    // same reading the carries admission uses, one definition — accounts for the
-    // span it carried, and lets the question's remainder drain on EVIDENCE.  A
-    // fusion that carries nothing consumes nothing, because the reading finds no
-    // window; and `reaches` is declared only when the fusion composed another root,
-    // which is structure this derivation had not stood on.
-    const fusedT = {
-        product: out,
-        contains: true,
-        reaches: rest.length > 0,
-        cost: STEP,
+        pieces.sort((a, b) => a.start - b.start);
+        let out = pieces[0].bytes;
+        for (let i = 1; i < pieces.length; i++) {
+            // An approximate-resonance miss (or a genuinely unlearnt junction) joins
+            // the pieces bare — joinWithBridge surfaces it as a bridgeMiss step.
+            out = await joinWithBridge(ctx, out, pieces[i].bytes);
+        }
+        t?.done([rItem(out, "answer", resolve(ctx, out) ?? undefined)], `fused ${pieces.length} independent points of attention into one answer`);
+        // THE FACT IS THE FUSED ANSWER, not the call: every early return above hands
+        // back `primary` untouched.  Untraced on purpose (meter.ts contract 1).
+        if (ctx.meter)
+            ctx.meter.fuseRuns++;
+        // A FUSION IS A TRANSITION, and the only one in the engine that can splice the
+        // QUESTION'S OWN material into the product.  So it is OFFERED to the law rather
+        // than built by hand: the law reads the window the fused product holds — the
+        // same reading the carries admission uses, one definition — accounts for the
+        // span it carried, and lets the question's remainder drain on EVIDENCE.  A
+        // fusion that carries nothing consumes nothing, because the reading finds no
+        // window; and `reaches` is declared only when the fusion composed another root,
+        // which is structure this derivation had not stood on.
+        //
+        // THE LAW'S REFUSAL IS FINAL.  The only state it refuses a fusion against is a
+        // supplied fixed point (`reaches` is always declared here), and the engine
+        // enters no layer for one — so there is no hand-built fallback: a fusion the
+        // law refuses is not taken (measured: no response in the suite reaches the
+        // refusal).
+        const fusedT = {
+            product: out,
+            contains: true,
+            reaches: rest.length > 0,
+            cost: STEP,
+        };
+        return fusedT;
+    };
+    return {
+        name: "fuse",
+        offer,
+        onTaken: (before, after, witnesses) => meterTransition(ctx, before, after, witnesses),
     };
-    const fusedWitness = admissible(state, fusedT, query, ctx.space.maxGroup);
-    if (fusedWitness === null)
-        return { ...state, product: out };
-    const fused = advance(state, fusedT, fusedWitness);
-    if (ctx.meter) {
-        ctx.meter.reasonCarriedBytes += fusedWitness.reduce((n, w) => n + (w.window ? w.window[1] - w.window[0] : 0), 0);
-        ctx.meter.closureDrainedBytes += unaccountedBytes(state.remainder) -
-            unaccountedBytes(fused.remainder);
-    }
-    return fused;
 }