@oasys/oecs 0.5.4 → 0.6.0

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,12 +5,969 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
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-## [0.5.4] — 2026-07-31
+## [0.6.0] - 2026-09-08
 
-### Added — `cursor` and `cursorRead`, the accessor for a sweep by id
+### Changed (breaking). One vocabulary for the query connectives
+
+The connectives are `and`, `not` and `or`, one word each, everywhere they appear.
+
+| 0.5 | 0.6 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `query.without(...)` | `query.not(...)` |
+| `query.anyOf(...)` | `query.or(...)` |
+| `query.withSparse(...)` | `query.andSparse(...)` |
+| `query.withoutSparse(...)` | `query.notSparse(...)` |
+| `query.withRelation(...)` | `query.andRelation(...)` |
+| `query.withoutRelation(...)` | `query.notRelation(...)` |
+| `qb.with(...)`, the builder form | `qb.and(...)` |
+| `changed.without(...)`, `changed.anyOf(...)` | `changed.not(...)`, `changed.or(...)` |
+| `not(cond)`, the run condition | `runIfNot(cond)` |
+| `allOf(...conds)`, the run condition | `runIfAll(...conds)` |
+| `anyOf(...conds)`, the run condition | `runIfAny(...conds)` |
+
+`without`, `anyOf` and the four `with*` term verbs spelled the same three ideas in a second
+vocabulary. A sparse term and a relation term keep their own verbs. A sparse id and a relation id
+are both plain numbers at run time. No test tells them apart, so one `and` cannot
+route them. Each now puts the connective word first.
+
+The run condition combinators moved into the `runIf` family that `runIfAnyMatch` and
+`runIfResourceEq` already used. That frees the three bare words for the query engine.
+
+### Added. `Query.where(term)`, and the `and`, `or` and `not` combinators
+
+A chain asks one flat question of the component mask. An expression nests:
+
+```ts
+import { and, or, not } from "@oasys/oecs";
+
+const q = ecs.query(Tag).where(or(and(Pos, Vel), Frozen));
+```
+
+Each combinator takes a component definition as a leaf, and another expression as a node. It
+returns an `ArchetypeTerm`, which is `{ name, matches }`. A plugin supplies its own term on the
+same footing. The three words are functionally complete over archetype membership, so there is no
+fourth connective. An expression judges the dense component mask alone. Sparse membership and
+relation membership are per entity, outside the archetype, and stay on their own terms.
+
+The term runs one time per archetype, per query, at the rebuild the store's dirty epoch triggers.
+`forEach`, `forEachChunk` and `forEachEntity` walk the list the rebuild produced.
+
+**Added. `ECS_ERROR.QUERY_TERM_DENSE_PATH`.** `archetypeCount`, `archetypes` and `excludeWords`
+answer from the unfiltered archetype list. So a query that carries an archetype term refuses all
+three in a development build. The refusal used to borrow `SPARSE_QUERY_DENSE_PATH`, which named
+the wrong fault.
+
+**Added. The `ArchetypeExpr` type**, the operand of a combinator.
+
+### Changed (breaking). Four subsystems became plugins a world installs
+
+`new ECS()` no longer carries relations, events, snapshot and restore, or observers. Each is a
+plugin on its own subpath, installed at construction:
+
+```ts
+import { ECS } from "@oasys/oecs";
+import { relations } from "@oasys/oecs/relations";
+import { observers } from "@oasys/oecs/observers";
+
+const world = ECS.create({ plugins: [relations(), observers()] });
+world.relations.register();
+```
+
+`ECS.create` returns the world intersected with the facades its plugins contribute. A world that
+did not install a plugin has no member to reach for. So `ecs.relations` on a bare world is a
+compile error, and not a fault at run time. `new ECS()` still builds a world, and that world holds
+none of the four.
+
+The reason is that a class method cannot be removed by a bundler. While `ECS` declared `relations`
+and `snapshots`, every program carried the relation and snapshot code whether or not it named them.
+A plugin the construction site imports is a reference a bundler can follow, and one it can drop.
+A program that installs none of the four now ships far less code. `bench/` holds the measurement.
+
+Each plugin keeps its call sites unchanged. Only construction moves.
+
+- `@oasys/oecs/relations`, `relations()`, gives `ecs.relations` and the relation terms on a query.
+- `@oasys/oecs/events`, `events()`, gives `ecs.events`, `ctx.emit` and `ctx.readEvents`.
+- `@oasys/oecs/snapshots`, `snapshots()`, gives `ecs.snapshots.capture` and `.restore`.
+- `@oasys/oecs/observers`, `observers()`, gives `ecs.observe`.
+
+On npm, each plugin also has a `/dev` subpath. `@oasys/oecs/relations/dev` and the seven others,
+`@oasys/oecs/editor/dev` and `@oasys/oecs/solid/dev` among them, serve the build with the
+development guards on. JSR publishes no `/dev` subpath. A plugin binds to the core build it was
+made against. Take the plugin and the world from the same channel.
+
+`ecs.snapshots.stateHash()` and `ecs.snapshots.deterministic` stay on every world. They describe the
+world, not the plugin, and the determinism opt-in is still separate: `capture` and `restore`
+throw `DETERMINISM_DISABLED` on a world built without `{ deterministic: true }`, installed or not.
+
+In TypeScript, reaching for a plugin the world did not install is a compile error. In JavaScript
+nothing stops the call, so the world throws `ECS_ERROR.PLUGIN_NOT_INSTALLED`. The message names
+the API and the import that supplies it. The fix is at the construction site. On a bare world every
+member of `ecs.relations` and of `ecs.events` throws it. So do the call `ecs.observe(...)` and the
+four members `ecs.snapshots.capture`, `restore`, `captureSparse` and `restoreSparse`. The
+system-side seams throw it too. `ctx.emit`, `ctx.readEvents`, `ctx.addRelation`,
+`query.andRelation`, `query.hierarchy` and `query.forEachRelatedTo` are among them.
+
+Installing one plugin two times throws the new `ECS_ERROR.PLUGIN_ALREADY_INSTALLED`.
+
+The types `Plugin`, `PluginHost` and `PluginsOf` are exported from `@oasys/oecs`. A
+third-party plugin is typed the way the four built-in plugins are. `Plugin<X>` is what a
+factory such as `relations()` returns, and what a plugin list holds. Its `install` takes a
+`PluginHost` and returns `X`, the surface the world gains. `PluginsOf` is the surface a plugin
+list adds to the world.
+
+### Changed (breaking). `registerIsA` and `registerChildOf` ship on the relations entry
+
+The two built-in relation presets moved off the package root:
+
+```ts
+// before
+import { ECS, registerChildOf } from "@oasys/oecs";
+
+// after
+import { ECS } from "@oasys/oecs";
+import { relations, registerChildOf } from "@oasys/oecs/relations";
+
+const world = ECS.create({ plugins: [relations()] });
+const ChildOf = registerChildOf(world);
+```
+
+`BuiltinRelationOptions` moved with them. Each function calls
+`world.relations.register`, so it needs the plugin, and a bare world cannot call it. Exporting
+them from the root also pulled the relation code into every bundle. The plugin split set out to
+stop that.
+
+### Added. A change feed more than one plugin reads, and a richer plugin host
+
+The store's record of what changed is now a seam any plugin drains. `ChangeFeed` names it,
+`Store` implements it, and `PluginHost.changes` hands it out. A consumer asks for a grain with
+`configureObservation` or `configureSparseObservation`, keyed by its plugin name. It drains with
+`drainSet` or `drainSparseSet`. The store merges every consumer's ask by OR. So one consumer dropping
+a flag never takes that flag from another. Each drain is memoized on its run. A second consumer of
+one run gets the result the first one got. A consumer also takes each structural round through
+`addStructuralHook`, and the feed carries `forEachChangedArchetype`, `collectEnabledWith`, `isAlive`,
+`isDisabled` and `hasComponent`.
+
+`PluginHost` gains three members. `host.world` is the bare world. Take it to register a system,
+read a field, build a cursor or reach a resource. `host.changes` is the change feed.
+`host.onSettle(fn)` runs `fn` at the tail of every `update()`, after every system and every flush of
+the frame. Hooks run in install order. The `run` argument sits above every stamp the frame made.
+
+`Plugin` gains `requires`, the plugins this one reads through, by name. `ECS.create` walks
+the plugin list in order, so a dependency comes earlier in the list. A missing one throws
+`PLUGIN_NOT_INSTALLED` at construction, and the message names the plugin that asked.
+
+`ECS.create` now checks the facade a plugin returns. A key that names a member the world already
+carries throws the new `ECS_ERROR.PLUGIN_SURFACE_COLLISION`. `Object.assign` would overwrite that
+member without a word. The five reserved slots, `relations`, `events`, `observe`, `snapshots` and
+`workers`, are the exception. The check is development-only.
+
+Four types are exported from `@oasys/oecs`: `ChangeFeed`, `ObservationFlags`, `DrainResult` and
+`StructuralObserverEvents`. The new [plugins](docs/api/plugins.md) page documents the host,
+the rules and the feed for an author.
+
+### Added. The phase set is open
+
+`ecs.addPhase(name, { loop, before, after })` adds one slot to the schedule and gives back a
+`Phase` handle. A plugin owns its own slot that way. It no longer contends for insertion order
+inside a phase the application also writes to.
+
+`loop` is `"startup"`, `"fixed"` or `"update"`. It decides which drive runs the phase, and what
+delta time the phase receives. `before` and `after` order the new phase against the other phases of
+the same loop, built-in or added. A target in another loop expands to nothing. A phase that names
+no neighbour lands at the tail of its loop. Each loop's phases sort with Kahn's algorithm, and
+declaration order breaks a tie. The systems inside a phase already follow that rule. The order
+resolves at `addPhase`.
+
+A phase has an identity of object identity, and not of name, the rule `systemSet` follows. Two
+calls with one name make two phases. The handle belongs to the world that made it.
+
+The seven built-ins keep their `SCHEDULE` spelling and gain no handle. `addSystems` takes either
+spelling, so no call that you write today changes.
+
+`Phase`, `PhaseConfig`, `PhaseLoop`, `PhaseName` and `SchedulePhase` are exported from
+`@oasys/oecs`. Two error categories are new. `ECS_ERROR.UNKNOWN_PHASE` names a phase this world
+does not hold: a name no built-in spells, or a handle another world made.
+`ECS_ERROR.CIRCULAR_PHASE_DEPENDENCY` names a phase order with a cycle. Both throw in each build.
+A handle from another world would otherwise push systems into that world's list. A production
+build would then run them nowhere.
+
+A plugin adds a phase through `host.world.addPhase`.
+`src/core/ecs/__tests__/integration/phase.test.ts` locks the order against the built-ins a phase
+names, the identity rule, the three loops and both faults. See
+[schedule](docs/api/schedule.md).
+
+### Changed (breaking). A frame trace event carries a `PhaseName`
+
+`FrameTraceSink` and `FrameTraceEvent` widen `phase` from `SCHEDULE` to `PhaseName`, which is
+`SCHEDULE | (string & {})`. A phase from `addPhase` spells the name it was given, so the value set
+is open. A consumer that switches on `SCHEDULE.UPDATE` keeps working, and it now needs a default
+arm. A consumer that assigns `event.phase` to a `SCHEDULE` variable no longer compiles. On
+`FrameTraceSink`, `systemBegin`, `flushBegin`, `flushEnd` and `phaseBoundary` each take a
+`PhaseName`.
+
+### Changed. The frame loop reads a phase's plan from a field
+
+Each loop holds its phases as one sorted array, resolved at `addPhase`. Each phase holds its own
+sorted plan as a field. The drive loop walks the array and reads the field. It used to key a map by
+the phase string, once for each phase, in each frame. A schedule of short system bodies gets
+faster. That is the case where the scheduler's own work is most of the frame. `bench/` holds the
+comparison.
+
+### Changed (breaking for a plugin author). Every host hook point names what it hooks
+
+`PluginHost` named two plugins. It now carries nine members, and every one is open to any plugin:
+`store`, `world`, `changes`, `context`, `memory`, `onSettle`, `onPrewarm`, `onDispose` and
+`installRoute`.
+
+- `onPrewarm(fn)` contributes the access shapes that `startup()` folds into the archetype closure.
+  The observers plugin takes it, where it used to hand the world a registry.
+- `onDispose(fn)` runs when the world goes away. A plugin ends a thread, a timer or a socket there.
+- `memory` names where the world's bytes are: `backing`, `backingSource` and `storeBase`.
+- `installRoute(planner)` claims the body of the systems a plugin routes. It gives back the one
+  call that turns the route on and off. A world holds one route, so a second install throws
+  `PLUGIN_ALREADY_INSTALLED`.
+
+The renames that go with it: `WorkerHooks` is `SystemRoutePlanner`, `WorkerWorld` splits into
+`PluginMemory` and `RouteControl`, `ParallelRoute` is `RouteDispatch`,
+`SystemDescriptor.parallelPlan` is `routePlan`, and `Schedule.setWorkerPool` is `setRoute`. Of
+these, `PluginHost` alone was ever exported, so the published break reaches a plugin author and
+nobody else. An application that installs plugins sees nothing.
+
+Two rules changed with the rename. The world asks the planner about every system it registers.
+A planner answers `undefined` for one it does not claim. The old hook saw only a system
+carrying a `parallel` config. So a plugin now validates its own config for every candidate.
+`noteScan` moved onto `ChangeFeed`, where a consumer of the feed reaches it.
+
+The dispatch path is unchanged by construction. Registration is keyed and cold, and the world
+caches what it resolved into the field the dispatch already read. The emitted production dispatch
+loop is byte-identical once the rename is undone.
+
+`src/core/ecs/__tests__/integration/third_party_plugin.test.ts` writes a route outside the core.
+It claims one system body, runs a dispose hook, and holds the world to the second-route refusal. See
+[plugins](docs/api/plugins.md).
+
+### Removed (breaking for a plugin author). `installObservers` and `installWorkers`
+
+Both were named slots on `PluginHost`, one for each first-party plugin. The core named two plugins
+that way, and every other plugin went through the generic path. The generic hook points above
+replace them. A plugin outside this package now reaches the ground the first parties reach.
+
+The stated reason for the two slots was hot-path lookup cost. It holds for one read alone, the
+system dispatch route, and that read stays one typed slot. Every other read behind the two slots is
+cold.
+
+### Added. `solid()`, a plugin that writes one Solid signal per row off the change feed
+
+`@oasys/oecs/solid` now exports `solid()`, for `ECS.create({ plugins: [solid()] })`. A world that
+installs it carries `ecs.solid`, which projects ECS state into Solid signals. It reads the change
+feed and writes Solid, with nothing in between. The observers plugin is out of that path. This is
+the one path from ECS state into a UI.
+
+`ecs.solid` has three entry points, and each view carries `dispose()`. `component(def, project)`
+projects one dense component, and `cell(id)` is that row's value as one Solid signal. The first call
+for an id makes the signal, and every later call returns the same accessor. So bind it once for each
+row. A `keys()` signal beside it drives a keyed `<For>`. `fields(def, fields)` is sugar that
+publishes a fixed field list as a record, with an `eq` that compares those fields.
+`singleton(def, eid, fields)` publishes one entity's fields into a keyless Solid store, where a fixed
+key set earns the store's cost. A remove or a disable of the target resets them. `grain` is
+`"entity"`, the default, or `"column"`. `eq` is each cell's value equality, handed to Solid as the
+signal's `equals`, and it defaults to Solid's `===`. `seedExisting` publishes the current enabled
+members at creation, and defaults to true.
+
+The first design published into a Solid store keyed by entity id. `bench/foundations/p23-solid.mjs`
+measured that store's publish above the publish that ships, at every density. So a row became a
+signal before this release.
+
+Everything publishes at the settle point, the tail of `update()`. A structural event arrives mid-tick
+and records an entity id. Nothing reaches Solid inside the flush. The plugin then publishes
+inside one Solid `batch`. One `update()` is one Solid flush, whatever the number of views. An entity
+spawned and despawned in one tick never appears. A published value is the final value of the tick.
+Only a deferred structural operation reaches a view. The observers carry the same limit, because both
+read structural events from one flush.
+
+This plugin and the observers plugin are two consumers of one feed. Install both, in either
+order, and each one sees the same by-id write.
+
+What it refuses. Dense components only. A sparse definition throws a `TypeError` that names the call.
+No join. A view subscribes to one component, so a projection that reads a second component goes
+stale. An entity that leaves the component and rejoins inside one tick projects twice. The value is
+the final one. A cell carries the whole projected value, so a field read does not track that field
+alone. A projection must not return a function, which a Solid setter reads as an updater. A cell is
+kept for the life of the view.
+
+Measured against the path it replaces. `bench/foundations/p23-solid.mjs` times a whole tick on both
+paths with one effect per entity. Once the path is warm, the plugin is the cheaper of the two.
+That holds at every dense density the probe measures, and the gap widens with density. Its publish
+alone, with no subscriber, costs less as well. On a tick that moves one row or no row the older
+path measures lower.
+
+What is untested. Under the test runner, `solid-js` resolves to its server build. There a signal
+holds a value, consults no comparator and schedules no effect. The tests assert the value, and they
+assert that `eq` reaches the signal and then run it by hand. The suite renders no component. It
+proves nothing about a `<For>` re-render.
+
+`src/plugins/solid/__tests__/solid.test.ts` locks the seed, the by-id publish, and the spawn and
+the despawn. It locks the disable and the enable, the column grain, and one batch for each update.
+It locks the cell identity across a delete, and the `eq` the cell carries. It locks coexistence
+with observers, the singleton reset and the sparse refusal.
+
+### Removed (breaking). `ECS_ERROR.ENTITY_NOT_DISABLED`
+
+The code was declared in 0.4.0 and no path ever threw it. `enable` on a live entity is a no-op by
+contract, so the fault it named cannot occur. A handler that compares against it no longer compiles.
+Delete the branch.
+
+### Removed (breaking). The signals kernel, its ECS bridge, and the kernel-to-Solid adapter
+
+`@oasys/oecs/reactive` and `@oasys/oecs/reactive-sync` are gone. So are the adapter functions on
+`@oasys/oecs/solid`: `fromKernel`, `fromKernelMap`, `fromKernelStruct` and `fromKernelArray`.
+`@oasys/oecs/solid` now exports the `solid()` plugin alone.
+
+The `solid()` plugin is the one path from ECS state into a UI. It reads the change feed and writes
+Solid. The kernel and its mirror were a second path to the same place. They put two more graphs in
+between. `component`, `fields` and `singleton` replace `syncComponentToMap`, `syncFieldsToMap` and
+the two singleton bridges. `batchedUpdate` has no replacement, because a view publishes inside one
+Solid `batch` at the settle point of `update()`.
+
+There is **no React path in this release**, and no framework-free reactive path. A consumer that is
+not a Solid app polls the world. Take `ecs.getField`, a cursor, or a `changed()` query.
+`syncJoinToMap` also has no replacement. A view subscribes to one component, so take one view for
+each component and combine them where you read.
+
+### Changed. The host write seam drains at a phase the caller added
+
+`HostCommandSeamOptions.schedules` took `readonly SCHEDULE[]`, so a seam could drain at one of the
+seven built-ins only. It now takes `readonly SchedulePhase[]`, the same union `addSystems` takes, so
+a handle from `ecs.addPhase` works. A plugin drains at the slot it owns. It no longer contends for
+insertion order inside a phase the application also writes to. Every existing call still compiles,
+because a `SCHEDULE` member is a `SchedulePhase`.
+
+The recorder's refusal now reads the loop of a phase and not its name. A phase added with
+`loop: "fixed"` is refused the same way `SCHEDULE.FIXED_UPDATE` is, with
+`ECS_ERROR.INVALID_RECORDER_SCHEDULE`, and the message names the phase. The reason is unchanged. A
+fixed-loop drain sees the fixed timestep, and not the host update dt. So the replay would diverge.
+The seed-time bucket follows the loop too, so a phase of the startup loop records as startup.
+
+### Changed. A malformed event id and a malformed system id throw `ECSError`
+
+The two id minters refused a value that is not an integer >= 0 with an `AssertionError`. They now
+throw an `ECSError` carrying the new `ECS_ERROR.INVALID_EVENT_ID` and
+`ECS_ERROR.INVALID_SYSTEM_ID`. Both checks are development only, and the production build is
+unchanged. Neither minter is on a public entry, so only a `catch` that tested the assertion class
+sees the change.
+
+The reason is the bundle. `AssertionError` extends `AppError`. So a plugin bundle that reached it
+carried a second error class, and bound the base from the package. `ECSError` already resolves to
+the package root. The assertion class and its base now leave every plugin bundle, and
+`dist_artifact.test.ts` locks that.
+
+### Removed. `AppError` leaves `@oasys/oecs/internal`
+
+The base class was on the tooling entry because a development plugin bundle bound it there. No
+bundle reaches it now, so the entry drops it. `ECSError` and `isEcsError` are on the package root,
+and they are what a consumer catches.
+
+### Added. The store can start anywhere in its memory
+
+`memory.storeBase` places the store header at a caller-chosen byte offset. Every offset the store
+writes is now relative to that base. That covers the header, the column descriptors, the region
+table and the rings. `capacity` is the span from the base. The store writes nothing below the base.
+A wasm-backed world defaults to one page and refuses zero. A compiled module owns the low
+addresses of its own linear memory. A safe Zig or Rust build cannot read address 0. A caller
+places the base above the module's `__heap_base` and its run-time heap. `memoryPlan.storeBase`
+reports the value. `WASM_STORE_BASE_BYTES` is exported from `@oasys/oecs/internal`.
+
+`storeBaseAbove(exports, extraBytes)` reads a module's `__heap_base` export, adds the run-time heap
+the caller reserves, and rounds up to a whole page. So the base clears everything the module owns.
+
+A checked-in WebAssembly module, built with no toolchain, now reads a live store in the test suite.
+It agrees with the TypeScript side on the layout walk and the byte digest. It also agrees on an f32
+kernel and the deterministic state hash. The layout is a tested ABI, not a fixture that TypeScript
+compares with itself.
+
+### Added. One system across workers
+
+`workers()` from `@oasys/oecs/workers` is a plugin. `ECS.create({ plugins: [workers()] })` gives a
+world `ecs.workers`, which carries `attach(options)`, `pool` and `detach()`. The pool, the plan
+builder and the shim that reaches the node threads module ship in that subpath. So a world that
+never names it carries none of them. A JavaScript caller reading `world.workers.attach` on a bare
+world gets `ECS_ERROR.PLUGIN_NOT_INSTALLED`, and the message names the import. `AttachWorkersOptions`,
+`WorkerPool`, `WorkersPlugin` and `DEFAULT_JOIN_TIMEOUT_MS` are exported from the same subpath.
+`ParallelConfig`, `ParallelKernel` and `ParallelColumn` stay on the root, because they erase.
+
+`world.workers.attach({ count })` starts a persistent pool on the package's own worker entry,
+`@oasys/oecs/worker`. A system that carries a `parallel` config names a kernel a worker can load.
+That kernel is a compiled `WebAssembly.Module` export, or an export of a JavaScript module URL. The
+config also names the columns the kernel receives, in order. The schedule hands the pass to the
+pool inside the same access span a TypeScript body gets. It parks the host on `Atomics.wait`, and
+joins before the phase flush. No spawn, no despawn and no grow can overlap the workers. Nothing
+else runs on the main thread while it is parked. Every worker computes its own row range per
+archetype. It reads the descriptor row counts, its index and the worker count. So no plan crosses
+the wire, and the result is deterministic. The join stamps every matched archetype for each
+declared write.
+
+A parallel system declares only `reads`, `writes` and a dense query. Sparse, relation, resource,
+spawn, despawn and transition declarations, `exclusive`, and `backendHandle` are refused at
+registration with `ECS_ERROR.PARALLEL_ACCESS`. Those refusals ship with the plugin. So a world that
+installed no workers plugin validates no `parallel` config, builds no plan and runs the system's
+`fn`. Below `parallel.minRows`, and without an attached pool, the system runs its `fn`. A heap
+world cannot attach workers. A WASM kernel needs the wasm backing, because a `SharedArrayBuffer`
+cannot be imported as a module memory.
+
+The split pays only above a row count that depends on the machine, the kernel and the worker count.
+`parallel.minRows` carries a measured default that sits above every crossover the probes found. The
+probes cover both bodies, both kernel forms, both backings and every runtime tested. A world that
+never tunes it never pays a pooled frame the sequential frame would have won. It gives up the gain
+instead. A compute-bound kernel crosses far earlier and should set its own value. A caller's value
+always wins. `bench/` holds the measurements and the tuning method.
+
+With a bundler, pass `workerUrl` from the bundler's own URL import of the `@oasys/oecs/worker` entry, for
+Vite `import workerUrl from "@oasys/oecs/worker?worker&url"`. The default resolution finds the entry beside
+the package as it ships and not inside a bundle. A worker whose script does not load now fails
+`workers.attach` with `ECS_ERROR.WORKERS_ENTRY_UNREACHABLE`. It terminates the pool, instead of
+resolving with workers that never answer. The pool reaches the node threads module through
+`process.getBuiltinModule`. So a browser build sees no node builtin specifier, and prints no warning.
+
+`workers.attach` takes `joinTimeoutMs`, a safety net and not a budget. A worker that dies inside a pass
+can never report done, and the parked host would wait forever. On timeout the frame throws
+`PARALLEL_KERNEL_FAILED`. The pool enters a failed state in which every later frame runs `fn`.
+`detach` terminates the hung worker.
+
+At the join every worker adds one to a done word. The worker whose add completes the count
+wakes the host. So the host wakes once for a pass, whatever the worker count is. `bench/` holds
+the measurement beside a per-worker done word and a tree join, both of which cost more.
+
+### Added. A kernel module contract that holds for any toolchain
+
+Every worker of the pool instantiates one module over one memory. `docs/api/parallel.md` now states
+what that costs a module, and what a build has to do about it. The list is the one import, the
+export and its arity, and the store base. It also covers the stack, the data segment and the heap.
+It carries one build line for Zig, for Rust, for C through `zig cc` and for AssemblyScript.
+
+`registerSystem` refuses a `wasm` kernel module the pool cannot serve, with the new
+`ECS_ERROR.PARALLEL_KERNEL_MODULE`. An import other than `env.memory` is named in the message. A
+module that imports no memory is refused as well. It addresses a linear memory of its own,
+writes rows nothing reads, and reports success. An export name the module does not carry, and an
+export that is not a function, are the other two. Development builds only, at registration.
+
+A worker now checks the export's parameter count against the column count plus three. It fails the
+kernel load with both numbers when they disagree.
+
+Five modules are checked into the test suite. The four toolchains above built them, and so did a
+hand-written emitter that uses no toolchain. Each carries the same bodies. Each runs on the real
+pool across several workers. Each must leave the bytes the sequential TypeScript body leaves. Five
+more carry one fault each, so every refusal above has a real module behind it. The suite proves the
+contract on a machine with no compiler installed.
+
+### Added. Each worker instance owns its shadow stack, and `stackBytes` sizes it
+
+A worker gives each instance of a `wasm` kernel module its own shadow stack.
+
+An LLVM build, which is Zig, Rust, C and others, keeps a shadow stack in linear memory. It addresses
+that stack through the mutable global `__stack_pointer`. A wasm global is per-instance, and every
+instance starts at the address the linker chose. So every worker wrote its frames to the same bytes.
+A kernel could spill a local array, a struct passed by pointer, or the address of a local. It then
+read back what another worker wrote. The corruption was silent, and it needed no shared column. No
+probe before this one caught it. The earlier kernels held every value in a wasm local.
+
+The worker now carves one region for each worker out of `[__heap_base, storeBase)`. It moves
+`__stack_pointer` to the top of its own. The regions come off the top of that span, downward from
+the store base. So worker `i` gets its top at `storeBase - i * stackBytes`.
+
+`workers.attach({ stackBytes })` says how big one region is, and everything below the lowest region
+stays the module's heap. Reserve the module's peak run-time heap plus one stack for each worker with
+`storeBaseAbove`. Then pass the same `stackBytes` to the pool. Omit it and the pool divides the whole
+span, which leaves the module no heap. That is the default, and it suits a kernel that allocates
+nothing. The heap rule asks for that anyway.
+
+`stackBytes` must be an integer, a multiple of the frame alignment of 16, and at least one WASM page.
+A value outside that fails the attach with `WORKERS_COUNT_INVALID`. A span too small to hold one
+region for each worker fails the kernel load with `PARALLEL_KERNEL_FAILED`. The message names the
+span, the region, the worker count and the remedy. A module that exports no `__stack_pointer` is left
+alone. The docs say such a kernel may not use a stack. One worker needs no region, because one
+instance owns the linked stack alone.
+
+The assignment runs once for each kernel load, so a pass pays nothing for it.
+
+### Changed (breaking for a module that reads the layout). `SIM_ABI_VERSION` is 1
+
+A reader that carries version 0 measured every offset from buffer byte 0. A module that treated a
+`byte_off` as a buffer address must add the store base it receives through `setLayout`. Restore and
+resume accept a version 0 snapshot. Every version 0 store sat at byte 0, and its offsets read
+correctly as offsets from the header. So a snapshot the 0.5 line wrote still restores. Any other
+version is refused.
+
+The archetype descriptor header grows from 36 bytes to 40 and gains `entity_ids_off` at offset 36.
+The field is reserved for the archetype's row-to-entity table. The store writes zero, which says
+the archetype carries no such table. A walker steps to the next record by `40 + column_count * 16`.
+A reader that ignores the field reads every other field as before. A snapshot carries the
+descriptor bytes. So restore rewrites a version 0 region at the new width, before it reads anything
+else. The world's `stateHash` is unchanged, because it never folds a descriptor.
+
+### Changed. `ComputeBackend.run` takes `dt` and the tick
+
+`ComputeBackend.run(handle, deltaTime, tick)` replaces `run(handle)`. A backend that still declares
+`run(handle)` keeps compiling and keeps running, because the extra arguments are ignored. Only code
+that calls `run` itself sees the new shape. A module body needs `dt`, and
+neither `dt` nor the frame tick lives in the bytes. The schedule also publishes the descriptor row
+counts before every backend dispatch. So a module never reads a stale count. That covers a host
+spawn before `startup()`, and a spawn from a run condition.
+
+A caller-supplied `WebAssembly.Memory` may now carry `maxBytes`. The store needs a cap to promise
+its span, so the cap is `maxBytes` or the default ceiling.
+
+### Fixed
+
+A kernel that would not load rejected `workers.attach` and left its workers running. So a node
+process never exited on its own. The pool now ends the workers before the fault leaves.
+
+An `ECSError` built on an engine without `Error.captureStackTrace` was a `TypeError` with no
+category. The base class now checks for that V8 extension before it calls it. `error.name` read as
+one minified letter in the production build, because it came off the constructor. It is now the
+literal `ECSError`.
+
+The command, event and action rings copied slot payloads through a view built from buffer byte 0.
+At a nonzero base they wrote below the store. The rings now add the view offset.
+
+`wasmMemoryAllocator` predicted the JavaScriptCore write cost of a growable `SharedArrayBuffer`. A
+shared `WebAssembly.Memory` does not pay it. The comment now says so, and `bench/` holds the
+measurement.
+
+### Changed. The store's observation seam takes a consumer name
+
+`Store.configureObservation` and `Store.configureSparseObservation` take the consumer name first, and
+the store merges every consumer's record instead of holding one. The structural hook seam is now a
+list that every consumer joins. It was one dispatch bound to the observer registry. The registry is
+now one consumer among others, named `observers`.
+
+The observers plugin behaves as it did. It still owns the access-topological order, the radix
+entity order, the access span of each callback and `yieldExisting`.
+`src/core/ecs/__tests__/unit/change_feed.test.ts` locks the flag merge, the drain memo, and the
+install order of both hook lists.
+
+### Changed (breaking). The store no longer forwards to its collaborators
+
+Thirty methods on the internal `Store` forwarded one operation each to a collaborator, and carried
+no logic. A caller now names the owner: `store.relations.addRelation`, `store.events.emit`,
+`store.resources.get`, `store.snapshots.snapshot`. The forwarding hid which object held the state and
+widened the class for nothing.
+
+### Changed. The query terms travel as one record
+
+A query carries two kinds of term. A dense term sets a bit in the component mask and picks the
+archetypes. Every other term now rides in one `QueryTerms` record. Those terms are sparse
+membership, optional fetch, include-disabled, the `(R, *)` wildcard, hierarchy ordering, and an
+archetype term from `where`. `Query`'s constructor takes one parameter where it took seven. The
+three driver seams take one where they repeated four. A query that declares no such term shares
+one frozen record. Adding a term is one edit instead of five.
+
+### Changed. `Commands` and `SystemContext` moved to their own module
+
+`query.ts` held the read side and the write side of the system-facing interface. The write side is
+`system_context.ts` now. Every export is unchanged, and the barrel re-exports both.
+
+### Fixed. The build no longer splits the core entry into small chunks
+
+Declaring the plugin entries beside the core entries put them in one rollup graph. Rollup
+then split `index.js` into ten small shared chunks. Those splits are real module boundaries at run
+time. A measurement of `spawn` against the shipped artifact showed the cost. The plugins
+build in their own pass now, and the core chunk graph is unchanged.
+
+### Changed (breaking). A name that misdescribed its body now says what it does
+
+A name that promises one act and performs another sends a reader to the wrong conclusion without
+opening the body. An audit read every named function and method in `src/` against its body. Each
+name that failed is now the act it performs. The old names are removed and not aliased, because a
+name that stays reachable keeps teaching the wrong model.
+
+The public surface:
+
+| 0.5 | 0.6 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `query.eachChunk(cb)` | `query.forEachChunk(cb)` |
+| `query.forEachUntil(cb)` | `query.some(cb)` |
+| `ctx.read(key)` | `ctx.readEvents(key)` |
+| `ecs.onStoreLayoutPublished(fn)` | `ecs.subscribeLayout(fn)` |
+| `ecs.publishArchetypeRowCounts()` | `ecs.publishRowCounts()` |
+| `queue.pending` | `queue.pendingCount` |
+| `FrameTraceSink.systemStart` | `FrameTraceSink.systemBegin` |
+| `column.get(i)`, on `/primitives` | `column.getAt(i)` |
+| `column.ensureCapacity(n)`, on `/primitives` | `column.reserve(n)` |
+
+`ctx.read` moves because `cols.read(def)` in the same walk returns a column group, so one verb
+carried two shapes. `forEachUntil` returns whether a callback accepted, thus it is a predicate and
+now reads as one. `reserve` is the contract of `ColumnBacking`: guarantee room for the count, or
+throw. A heap column grows to keep it. A buffer-backed column cannot grow, so it throws, and each
+doc states which.
+
+On `@oasys/oecs/internal`, every `accessCheck.check*` method is now `assert*`, and
+`dispatchTrace.recordEmit` and `recordRead` are `recordEventEmit` and `recordEventRead`.
+
+Three rules now hold across the tree. One verb throws on a bad state, `assert`, and `validate`
+keeps only the helpers that return the value they test. One verb constructs, `create`. The
+underscore prefix marks a private or a protected class member and nothing else. So a member that
+another module reaches carries no prefix.
+
+### Changed (breaking). A field name now says what it holds
+
+The same audit read every field and every module-scope variable. A field whose name promised one
+content and held another is now the content it holds. The underscore prefix now marks a private
+or a protected member on a field. It does so exactly as it does on a method. A member that another
+module reaches carries no prefix, whatever its role.
+
+The public surface:
+
+| 0.5 | 0.6 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `query._defs` | `query.defs` |
+| `query._include` | `query.include` |
+| `query._id` | `query.id` |
+| `query._sparseInclude`, `query._sparseExclude` | `query.terms.sparseIncludes`, `query.terms.sparseExcludes` |
+| `query._optional` | `query.terms.optionalTerms` |
+| `query._includeDisabled` | `query.includesDisabled` |
+| `query._relationIncludes`, `query._relationExcludes` | `query.terms.relationIncludes`, `query.terms.relationExcludes` |
+| `query._hierarchy` | `query.terms.hierarchyTerm` |
+| `cols._arch`, `cols._tick`, on `ChunkColumns` | `cols.arch`, `cols.tick` |
+| `ecs._caches` | `ecs.caches` |
+| `bitset._words`, on `/primitives` | `bitset.words` |
+
+None of these is part of the documented API. Each is public because another module reads it, so the
+prefix claimed a privacy the member never had. Three of them could not drop the prefix alone.
+`Query` already carries an `optional`, an `includeDisabled` and a `hierarchy` method. Each
+of those three now names the thing it holds: a term list, a flag, a term. The terms that are not
+dense then moved into the one `terms` record described above. `includesDisabled` stayed on the
+query as its own copy.
+
+Inside the package the same rule moved about a hundred more members. `Archetype` publishes
+`flatColumns`, `bufs`, `accessorColumns`, `colOffset`, `fieldCount`, `columnIds` and `changedTick`
+without a prefix. `Store` publishes `tick`, `trace`, `anyDirtyTracked` and `queryDirtyEpoch`.
+Every private field of `Store`, `Schedule`, `ECS`, `AccessCheck`, `EventRegistry` and the editor now
+carries one. A table that holds one entry per entity reads as plural, so `Store.entityRow` is
+`_entityRows` and `Store.entityArchetype` is `_entityArchetypes`. `Schedule.setConditions` and
+`setOrdering` read as verbs and are `_conditionsBySet` and `_orderingBySet`. `EventRegistry.count`
+allocates the next event id and is `_nextEventId`. `DispatchTrace.buf` holds counts, not bytes, and
+is `_counts`.
+
+### Fixed. A fifth column type made every row move in the process slow
+
+Every structural row operation walked the columns of an archetype through one loop. That loop had
+one typed-array access site. The operations are the copy behind `addComponent` and
+`removeComponent`, the swap-remove behind `despawn`, and the swaps behind `disable` and `enable`.
+The site saw every column type that any archetype in the process used. V8 keeps one site fast for
+at most four typed-array classes. At the fifth type the site became megamorphic. Each element move
+then cost far more, in every archetype, and not only in the one that mixed the types. The library
+offers eight column types. Consider a schema with `f32` positions, an `i32` counter, a `u8` flag, a
+`u16` team and an `f64` timer. It reached the fifth type without notice.
+
+The structural operations now move bits through views whose class depends on the element width
+alone (`Uint8Array`, `Uint16Array`, `Uint32Array`, `Float64Array`). So the site sees at most four
+classes. A write of a number must convert to the column's type. So the value-writing paths use the
+true view, through one access site for each type. Those paths are `spawn` with a template, and
+`addComponent` with values. The cost of a row move is now flat across the number of column types.
+It is unchanged for a world that uses one type.
+
+### Changed. A sparse component is id-indexed, and `sparseCursor` is the fastest read by id
+
+A sparse component kept each entity's values in a small JavaScript array. A map keyed by entity
+index held those arrays. So a read by id paid a lookup and a pointer chase. It also stored a value
+as the number given, and not as the declared type. The store now keeps one typed array of the
+declared type for each field, indexed by entity index. A sparse set sits beside them for
+membership. A read by id is one load. An add or a remove is a bit and a write at the index. A value
+converts as the field's type converts, as a dense field does. An `i32` truncates, a `u8` wraps, an
+`f32` rounds.
+
+`sparseCursor` and `sparseCursorRead`, on `ecs` and on `ctx`, are the sparse form of `cursor`.
+`at` writes the entity index alone, and a field access is one load. So a sparse cursor is the read
+by id to use. Take it when a system touches many entities from a list of ids. In development, `at`
+throws for a dead entity or a non-member. In production it does not test. `ctx.sparseCursor` needs the
+component in `sparseWrites`, and `ctx.sparseCursorRead` in `sparseReads`.
+
+The columns of a store double to fit the highest member index. So the memory of a sparse component
+is proportional to that index, and not to the member count. The snapshot format is unchanged. The
+`indices` view of a store is now a typed view with a fixed length. The query driver walks the live
+member list, so a walk sees an edit made during it as before. That walk is `forEachEntity` over a
+sparse term. It now keeps the dense verdict of the last archetype it saw. So members of one
+archetype that sit together in the sparse list pay the mask test one time, not each.
+
+### Fixed. Every ref and cursor read paid for a property key that the optimizer could not fold
+
+The state of a ref or cursor was keyed by two symbols that other modules imported. The package
+build puts the accessor module and the store in different chunks. A key read through an import
+binding is not a constant to the optimizer. So every field access through a ref or a cursor was a
+generic keyed load. A symbol has no other way to be reached. So the state is now keyed by two
+reserved names, `__cols` and `__row`. Each site writes them as literals. Registration refuses those
+two names on a dense or a sparse component.
+
+Two more constants on the by-id paths are read through local copies, for the same reason. They are
+the entity index mask, and the entity-id bounds that `isAlive` compares against. The `switch`
+over column types in the value-write path compares against local copies of the tags. So it compiles
+to a jump table.
+
+The shape of the accessors is also settled when the module loads. A dense cursor reassigns its
+column array on every `at`. A ref or a sparse cursor never does. So the first dense `at` in a
+process changed a field of the shared shape from constant to mutable. Every optimized function
+that had read the field under the constant assumption was thrown away. It compiled again, slower.
+One throwaway object of each shape now reassigns both fields at load. So nothing compiles under the
+assumption, and nothing is thrown away.
+
+### Fixed. Systems made from one factory ran their hot loops much slower
+
+V8 decides what to inline from the feedback of a call site. Every system in a world could come from
+one function literal. A factory such as `makeMover(component)` does that, and so does a world with
+a single system. The scheduler's dispatch site then saw one target. The engine inlined the system
+body into the scheduler's own loop over the systems. That body carried its `eachChunk` callback and
+its hot loop. That inlined loop ran much slower than the same loop compiled on its own. A world
+whose systems came from two or more literals never hit this. So the factory case was slower than
+the plain case. Nothing in the user's code said why.
+
+Every system body now runs through one trampoline whose call site the module makes megamorphic
+when it loads. No system body is inlined into the scheduler, whatever the number of literals, and
+each is compiled on its own. A dispatch costs a little more, one time for each system in each phase.
+A system that does any work gains more than that cost.
+
+### Changed. The cost of a new archetype no longer grows with the number of archetypes
+
+A world discovers its archetypes as it runs, and each new one extends the column store. That extend
+took the in-place path, which moves no rows. But it still walked every archetype three times. One
+walk built a list of row counts that only the realloc path reads. One summed the descriptor bytes
+in use. One copied the archetype map. So the N-th archetype cost N steps, and a world with many
+archetypes paid for that at startup. The list is now built only when the realloc path runs. The
+store caches the descriptor bytes in use. The in-place extend appends to the archetype
+map, instead of copying it. The cost of a new archetype is now the cost of its own columns.
+
+### Fixed. A fifth component made every ref and cursor in the process slow
+
+A ref got one prototype for each (archetype, component) pair, and a cursor one for each component.
+An engine gives an object a distinct shape for each distinct prototype. So the read of the row
+inside each getter saw one shape for each component. That covers every component the program read
+through refs or cursors. At the fifth shape that read became megamorphic. Every field access
+through every ref and every cursor in the process became far slower. A world with five components,
+each with only `f64` fields, was enough.
+
+Every ref and every cursor now shares one prototype for the whole process. Each distinct field name
+gets one global id and one accessor on the prototype. The first component registration that uses
+the name installs them. An accessor holds the component's columns indexed by that id. So a field
+read costs the same two index operations it did before. The own state of an accessor is the two
+reserved names `__cols` and `__row`. Registration refuses both as field names, so no field can
+collide with it. A field the component does not have throws `FIELD_NOT_REGISTERED` under `DEV`,
+where it read a neighbouring column before.
+
+`for..in` over a ref or a cursor is no longer a way to list a component's fields. Use the schema.
+The shared prototype carries the field name of every component registered in the process. The
+two reserved names are own fields. So the walk reports all of them. `Object.keys` and the spread
+report the two reserved names alone, where they reported nothing before.
+
+Two components may give one field name different types. An `x` may be `f32` in one and `i32` in
+another. That name reads and writes correctly on both. Its accessor dispatches on the column's
+class. That costs one `switch` more than an accessor for a name with one type.
+
+### Changed (breaking). `memory` is two fields, and not one union of five arms
+
+`ECSOptions.memory` held two questions inside one key-discriminated union. The questions do not
+depend on each other: how big the world is, and what holds its bytes. A caller could answer only
+one of them. The `budget` arm and the `maxBytes` arm each selected the heap allocator themselves.
+So "a budget of 50,000 entities on a shared backing" was not something you could say. `maxBytes`
+had to appear three times, once for each backing arm, because the size axis had nowhere else to
+live.
+
+Sizing and backing are now two fields, and every pair of them is legal:
+
+```ts
+new ECS({ memory: { entities: 50_000 } });                    // size only
+new ECS({ memory: { backing: "shared" } });                   // storage only
+new ECS({ memory: { entities: 50_000, backing: "shared" } }); // both, this was a type error before
+new ECS({ memory: { entities: 50_000, maxBytes: 64 * MiB } });// size from one, ceiling from the other
+```
+
+Each removed arm throws `INVALID_MEMORY_OPTIONS` and names its new spelling. They are removed and
+not aliased. A sizing that the engine ignored in silence would build a world of the wrong
+size. It would show that much later, as a limit error far from its cause.
+
+| 0.5 | 0.6 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `{ budget: { entities: N } }` | `{ entities: N }` |
+| `{ heap: { maxBytes: X } }` | `{ maxBytes: X, backing: "heap" }` |
+| `{ shared: { maxBytes: X } }` | `{ maxBytes: X, backing: "shared" }` |
+| `{ wasm: W }` | `{ backing: { wasm: W } }` |
+| `{ allocator: A, capBytesHint: X }` | `{ maxBytes: X, backing: { allocator: A } }` |
+
+`maxBytes` and `columnCapacity` keep their names and their meaning. The types `EntityBudget` and
+`SharedMemoryArm` are removed. The three fields of a budget are now fields of `memory` itself. The
+shared backing is the string `"shared"`. The new type `MemoryBacking` names the backing axis.
+`ResolvedECSMemory.source` now names the backing alone, and the new field `sizing` names the size
+axis.
+
+### Fixed. A custom allocator with a limit below about 12.6 MiB could not build a world
+
+The `allocator` arm reserved the full identity space for the entity index, always, and ignored the
+limit that `capBytesHint` declared. The reservation happens when the store is built. So the index
+alone did not fit under a small limit. The world threw `STORE_CAP_EXCEEDED` before it existed.
+The error then blamed the caller for runaway entity growth, in a world that held no entities. Every
+other arm already sized the index from the limit.
+
+The reservation of the entity index now comes from `entities` first, then the byte limit, then the
+default. That holds for each backing equally.
+
+### Fixed. A declared number of entities now sizes the entity index on every backing
+
+Only the `budget` arm derived the index from the entity count, and that arm forced the heap backing.
+On each other backing the index was sized backwards from the byte limit. That reserves much more
+than a small world needs. A count now reaches the index whichever backing holds the bytes.
+
+### Added. `fixedSabAllocator`, a shared buffer that does not grow
+
+`fixedSabAllocator(maxBytes)`, from `@oasys/oecs/shared`, reserves one fixed `SharedArrayBuffer` at
+the limit. It is `heapArrayBufferAllocator` with a `SharedArrayBuffer`. So the bytes stay shareable
+with a worker or a WASM module, and the buffer never moves.
+
+It exists for a measured reason. JavaScriptCore has no fast store path for a TypedArray view over a
+growable `SharedArrayBuffer`. A column read costs what a fixed buffer costs. Every column write
+costs far more. The cost is for each access and not for each byte, so a small world pays it too.
+V8 shows no such difference. Safari and Bun are JavaScriptCore. A fixed buffer restores the fast
+store path on both engine families and gives up only the growth.
+
+`growableSabAllocator` and `wasmMemoryAllocator` now carry that warning in their own documentation.
+A shared `WebAssembly.Memory` gives a growable `SharedArrayBuffer` and can give nothing else. So the
+WASM backing should pay the same cost on JavaScriptCore. That last point is reasoning and not
+measurement, and it is marked as such.
+
+The default backing for `{ backing: "shared" }` is unchanged: it is still `growableSabAllocator`.
+
+### Fixed. The fixed-length rule for a column view is now stated and locked
+
+Each column view is built with an explicit `(byteOffset, length)`. A TypedArray built with no length
+argument tracks the length of its buffer. Measurement puts that shape far behind a fixed-length
+view on every engine tested. `createView` is the only place that builds a column view, but nothing
+said so and nothing tested a view's length. The rule is now in the `createView` documentation, and
+two tests hold it. One walks every column of every archetype. One proves that a view keeps its
+length when the buffer below it grows. The second matters most, because a length-tracking view
+survives the identity and data checks that were already there.
+
+### Added. `ECS_ERROR.INVALID_TEMPLATE`
+
+`spawn` and `spawnMany` take a template from `ecs.template(...)`. A component definition, a callable
+bundle, the pre-0.5 array of entries, or some other value reached the store instead. The store then
+failed with a `TypeError` about an internal field. That error named the wrong place, and it did not
+say what to do. A development build now throws `INVALID_TEMPLATE`. It names the value the caller
+gave, and it names the call to make in its place. `ecs.template` rejects the array of entries with
+the same code. The types already reject all four shapes, so this catches an untyped call site. Both
+checks are development only, and the production build is unchanged.
+
+### Added. `ECS_ERROR.SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_FAILED`, and `ECSRestoreError` is an `ECSError`
+
+`ecs.snapshots.restore` threw an `ECSRestoreError` that extended `Error` and carried no code. So a
+caller who sorts faults by `category` saw a restore failure fall through. `ECSRestoreError` now
+extends `ECSError` with the category `SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_FAILED`, and `isEcsError` answers true for
+it. The class, its name and the message are unchanged, so a `catch` by class or by `err.name`
+still holds. `StoreRestoreError` and `SparseRestoreError` stay plain `Error` classes. The
+module that declares them imports nothing, and `core/store` does not see the code enum.
+
+### Added. `InPlaceBufferAllocator` and `BufferAllocator` are type exports
+
+`memory: { backing: { allocator } }` takes an `InPlaceBufferAllocator`. The type was declared in
+`core/store` without a published entry that re-exports it. So a caller could not name the interface
+a custom allocator implements. The root and `@oasys/oecs/shared` now export both types.
+
+### Fixed. A write was reported on two frames when the writer ran before the reader
+
+`changed()` compared a per-frame tick with the last run of the reader. It took a stamp at or
+after that run. A frame tick cannot order a writer and a reader inside one frame. So a write by an
+earlier system was reported on that frame, and again on the next. Writer before reader is the usual
+order, so the usual order reported every write twice. The same tick missed a host write between
+frames at an archetype-level `onSet`. The observer's baseline was the next frame, which a host
+write never reached.
+
+The engine now keeps a change tick apart from the frame tick. It advances before each system run,
+and before each phase flush. It also advances before the `onSet` dispatch, and at the end of each
+update. A write stamps it, and a consumer reports a stamp above its own last run. One write is
+reported one time at each grain, whichever system runs first. A host write between frames reaches
+both grains on the next update. `ctx.ecsTick` still counts frames. A system no longer sees its own
+stamp on its next run. A writer that also read `changed()` on the same component fired on every
+frame. It now fires for the writes of other systems. It also fires for its own writes, inside the
+run that made them.
+
+`ecs.getCurrentTick()` is `ecs.getChangeTick()`, and the schedule's `runStartup`, `runUpdate` and
+`runFixedUpdate` no longer take a tick.
+
+### Fixed. A `ref` or `cursor` write never reached an entity-level `onSet`
+
+Only `setField`, `updateField` and `markChanged` recorded an entity for an `onSet` observer with
+entity granularity. The change detection page said a `ref` write was seen. The accessor
+setters write raw columns and cannot record. So `ctx.ref` records the entity when you create the
+ref. A mutable cursor records it on each `at`, on the context and on the host. Both are
+conservative, as the archetype stamp is. `refRead` and `cursorRead` record nothing. The entity
+level drain also no longer allocates a list on each frame.
+
+### Added. `cols.ticks(def)`, the row record for an entity-level `onSet`
+
+A raw column write in a chunk loop is invisible to the engine. So an `onSet` observer with entity
+granularity needed `ctx.markChanged` for each row. That is a call and a list push. The loop can now
+store the change tick into the row of `cols.ticks(def)`: `t[i] = cols.tick`. One typed-array store,
+which costs about what the write beside it costs. The column exists only while an entity-level
+`onSet` observer tracks the component, and the call throws `ROW_TICKS_NOT_TRACKED` otherwise.
+
+### Added. `ecs.trackRows(def)`, `cols.ticksRead(def)`, `cols.since` and `changed(def).forEachChunk`
+
+Change detection at the row grain as a pull. `ecs.trackRows(def)` keeps one change tick for each
+row of every archetype that holds `def`, stamped by every write path. A `ChangedQuery` now has
+`forEachChunk`. Inside it, `cols.ticksRead(def)` is the row tick column. `cols.since` is the
+change tick of the previous run of the system. So `t[i] > cols.since` picks the rows that changed
+since that run. An `onSet` observer with entity granularity turns the row ticks on as well.
+
+### Added. Change detection for a sparse component
+
+A sparse component had none. It now has the row grain. `ecs.trackRows(def)` keeps one change tick
+for each entity index in the sparse store. `setSparseField` and `at` on the mutable sparse cursor
+stamp it. An add zeroes it. `ctx.sparseChanged(def, entityId)` reads it as a pull, true for the
+run after a write. `observe(def, { granularity: "entity", onSet })` reads it as a push. That is the
+one observer shape a sparse component takes. It has no archetype, so no structural callback and no
+archetype grain. `observe` names that in its error. A mutable sparse cursor's `at` pays one load
+and one branch while the component keeps no row ticks.
+
+### Changed. A by-id record stops listing once the list outgrows a fraction of the live entities
+
+An entity-level `onSet` drain paid a push, three checks and a sort slot for each recorded entity.
+So a system that wrote most rows by id paid more than a scan of the rows would cost. Past a cap
+set from the live entity count at each drain, a frame switches to the scan. The by-id record then
+stamps the row and pushes nothing. The drain walks the plane of each archetype a writer stamped. A
+`markChanged` record stamps no archetype, so it is listed still, and dropped when a scan covers it.
+
+### Fixed. The observer drain took a slow path on JavaScriptCore
+
+The radix pass that orders a drain by entity index kept its scratch in a plain array. A length
+assignment grew that array. JavaScriptCore turns such an array into a sparse store, and each
+element store in the pass became a hash insert. The scratch is a typed array now, grown by
+doubling. That holds in the observer registry, and in the hierarchy walk of the relation service.
+V8 did not care either way.
+
+### Changed. The entity grain keeps a row tick, and not a dedup byte for each entity slot
+
+An entity-level `onSet` observer used to allocate one byte for each entity index slot of the world.
+It did that for each tracked component, whatever the live count. It now gives every archetype of
+the component one word of ticks for each row. That word rides the row plane through every move.
+The dirty list takes an entity one time per drain, by comparing that tick. A row carries its tick
+across a transition, so the compare holds for a move. It does not hold when the entity leaves the
+component and joins it again. The new row has no tick to carry. So the drain drops a repeated id
+after it orders the list. The drain fires a row a chunk loop recorded, with no liveness check. A
+row inside the enabled partition is alive, a member and enabled by construction. A row a
+by-id path recorded is still checked. In a frame where a chunk loop took `cols.ticks(def)`, the
+drain walks more rows. It walks each row of every archetype of the component that a writer stamped.
+So take the column only in a loop that stores into it.
+
+A tag keeps no row ticks. It has no field, so no write can record one, and `trackRows` on a tag
+does nothing.
+
+### Fixed. `observe()` on a sparse component named "component undefined"
+
+A sparse component and a relation have no observers and no change tick. `observe` now throws
+`OBSERVER_INVALID_CONFIG` and names the remedy.
+
+## [0.5.4] - 2026-07-31
+
+### Added. `cursor` and `cursorRead`, the accessor for a sweep by id
 
 `ecs.cursor(def)` and `ecs.cursorRead(def)`, with the two equivalents on `ctx`, give a single-entity
-accessor that you can **point again**. You create it one time, and then you aim it with
+accessor that you can **move again**. You create it one time, and then you move it with
 `at(entity)`.
 
 ```ts
@@ -44,9 +1001,9 @@ and the read-only name has the `Read` suffix. There is one constraint. A compone
 named `at` collides with the method of the cursor. Creation of the cursor rejects that component,
 and the message says so.
 
-See [refs and cursors](docs/api/refs.md#cursors--many-entities-by-id).
+See [refs and cursors](docs/api/refs.md#cursors-many-entities-by-id).
 
-### Added — `ECS_ERROR.ARCHETYPE_ROW_INVARIANT`
+### Added. `ECS_ERROR.ARCHETYPE_ROW_INVARIANT`
 
 This error reports that the row bookkeeping of an archetype does not agree with its backing columns.
 There are three causes. A reserve did not give the capacity that the engine asked for. A restore
@@ -56,7 +1013,7 @@ invariant, and not a mistake by the caller. That is what makes it different from
 `STORE_CAP_EXCEEDED`, which is the allocator that refuses a legitimate grow. Two development
 assertions that reported the general `COMPONENT_NOT_REGISTERED` now use it.
 
-### Changed — structural churn, system dispatch, and fragmented iteration
+### Changed. Structural churn, system dispatch, and fragmented iteration
 
 No signature changed on a function that exists, and no result changed. Each entry below is a change
 to the internal mechanism. What moved:
@@ -100,9 +1057,9 @@ to the internal mechanism. What moved:
   array is a property store, and V8 does not remove that store for an array that is already empty.
   This ran one time for each `update()` call, and most phases emit no event.
 
-### Changed — diagnostic vocabulary catch-up (the deferred snake_case remnants)
+### Changed. Diagnostic vocabulary catch-up (the deferred snake_case remnants)
 
-- **BREAKING (diagnostics):** `ECS.memoryPlan.source` now reports `"maxBytes"` instead of
+- **Breaking (diagnostics):** `ECS.memoryPlan.source` now reports `"maxBytes"` instead of
   `"max_bytes"` for the arm with the explicit byte cap. The name now agrees with the option key
   that it names. Every other arm already agreed: `budget`, `heap`, `shared`, `wasm`, `allocator`,
   and `default`.
@@ -111,7 +1068,7 @@ to the internal mechanism. What moved:
   `wasm.maximumPages`, `wasm.initialPages`, and `capBytesHint`), and not by the snake_case
   spellings from before 0.4.
 
-### Fixed — row-plane and schedule-slot correctness under the new caches
+### Fixed. Row-plane and schedule-slot correctness under the new caches
 
 - **A grow that throws no longer leaves the row plane on a buffer that the engine released.** The
   reserve grows the entity-id array on the heap before it asks the store to grow the columns. So
@@ -140,7 +1097,7 @@ to the internal mechanism. What moved:
   of the new system, and it gave no signal. The engine now recycles a slot only outside a running
   drive. Between drives the slots recycle as before, so the array stays bounded.
 
-### Note — the lookup of a field name stays as it is
+### Note. The lookup of a field name stays as it is
 
 `getField` resolves a field name through the `_fieldIndex[cid][field]` table. The engine builds that
 table with `Object.create(null)`, which puts it in dictionary mode. The investigation covered three
@@ -172,11 +1129,11 @@ investigation. To remove the lookup, the caller must hold the ordinal of the fie
   against a list of the files to exclude, and the local bench and oracle harnesses would have
   shipped as soon as git tracked them.
 
-## [0.5.3] — 2026-07-09
+## [0.5.3] - 2026-07-09
 
-### Fixed — heap columns are again on the fast element-access path of V8
+### Fixed. Heap columns are again on the fast element-access path of V8
 
-- The pure-TS **heap profile** (`heapArraybufferAllocator` — the default backing)
+- The pure-TS **heap profile** (`heapArraybufferAllocator`, the default backing)
   now reserves its store as a **fixed, non-resizable `ArrayBuffer`** at the full
   cap. Before this release it used a growable buffer, and it made that buffer
   larger with `.resize()`. V8 has no fast element-access path for a TypedArray
@@ -190,44 +1147,44 @@ investigation. To remove the lookup, the caller must hold the ordinal of the fie
   256 MiB default cap, which is equivalent to the old resizable buffer.
   Growth remains in place: the store relocates columns within the pre-reserved
   buffer, so the buffer identity never changes and every existing view stays
-  valid —
+  valid.
   `isInPlace: true` and the entity-index-hoist-across-grow invariant hold
   unchanged. The store keys its tail cursor off the header `capacity` (the
   logical high-water) rather than `buffer.byteLength` (now always the cap).
-- Only the heap backing changed. The `growable_sab` / `wasm_memory` backings
+- Only the heap backing changed. The `growable_sab` and `wasm_memory` backings
   keep their resizable buffers and page-rounded tail layout byte-for-byte
-  (their determinism/layout goldens are unchanged).
+  (their determinism and layout goldens are unchanged).
 
-## [0.5.2] — 2026-07-08
+## [0.5.2] - 2026-07-08
 
-### Added — a guards-on build and an explicit dev entry
+### Added. A guards-on build and an explicit dev entry
 
-- **`@oasys/oecs/dev`** — the same public API as `@oasys/oecs` with the `__DEV__`
-  guards left **on**, for a direct guards-on import (browser/CDN, quick debugging,
+- **`@oasys/oecs/dev`**, the same public API as `@oasys/oecs` with the `__DEV__`
+  guards left **on**, for a direct guards-on import (browser or CDN, quick debugging,
   or bundlers that don't auto-select conditions).
-- **`development` export condition** — dev-mode bundlers (`vite dev`,
+- **`development` export condition**, dev-mode bundlers (`vite dev`,
   `webpack --mode development`) now resolve `@oasys/oecs` (and every subpath) to a
-  guards-on build automatically; production-mode builds resolve to the stripped
+  guards-on build automatically. Production-mode builds resolve to the stripped
   build as before.
-- npm now ships a **dual build** (`scripts/build.mjs`): the default `*.js`/`*.cjs`
+- npm now ships a **dual build** (`scripts/build.mjs`): the default `*.js` and `*.cjs`
   are the stripped production artifacts (unchanged), alongside new guards-on
-  `*.development.js`/`*.development.cjs`.
+  `*.development.js` and `*.development.cjs`.
 - New guide: [Development guards & production builds](docs/PRODUCTION.md).
 
-### Changed — dev-guard default is now production on JSR/Deno
+### Changed. Dev-guard default is now production on JSR or Deno
 
-- Raw-source (JSR/Deno) consumers now default to `__DEV__ = false` (**production —
-  guards off, no per-frame tax**), matching npm's default. Previously the raw path
+- Raw-source (JSR and Deno) consumers now default to `__DEV__ = false` (production, with the
+  guards off and no cost in each frame), which matches the npm default. Previously the raw path
   defaulted to guards-on. To enable the guards while developing on Deno, set
   `globalThis.__DEV__ = true` **before the first import**. The `globalThis.__DEV__`
-  override is unchanged; only the default flipped. (`dev_flag.ts`)
+  override is unchanged. Only the default flipped. (`dev_flag.ts`)
 
-## [0.5.1] — 2026-07-06
+## [0.5.1] - 2026-07-06
 
-### Changed (breaking) — one attach grammar
+### Changed (breaking). One attach grammar
 
 `addComponents` and `template` now take the same callable-bundle varargs as `spawnBundle`
-and `ctx.commands.spawn` / `add`, replacing the `{ def, values }[]` entry-object array — one
+and `ctx.commands.spawn` and `add`, replacing the `{ def, values }[]` entry-object array, one
 grammar across every authoring surface:
 
 ```ts
@@ -243,17 +1200,17 @@ To migrate: drop the array brackets, wrap a valued entry in its def's call
 (`{ def: X, values: V }` → `X(V)`), and leave a bare entry bare (`{ def: X }` → `X`).
 
 - Each item is schema-checked against its **own** def via the `StrictBundles` mapped tuple
-  (`{ [K in keyof Items]: … }`) — a misspelled or cross-component field, including a
+  (`{ [K in keyof Items]: … }`), a misspelled or cross-component field, including a
   hand-written raw `{ def, values }` literal, is a compile error. `spawnBundle` gains this
   per-item checking (it previously had none).
-- `ctx.commands.spawn` / `ctx.commands.add` now schema-check their bundle values in
+- `ctx.commands.spawn` and `ctx.commands.add` now schema-check their bundle values in
   declared-access systems as well (the `DeclaredBundleOrDef` type distributes over the
-  declared add set); a permissive / `exclusive` context stays loose, as before.
-- The `TemplateEntry` / `TemplateEntries` public types are removed (they encoded the retired
-  entry-object grammar). The host command seam (`HostCommandQueue.spawn` — the record/replay
+  declared add set). A permissive context and an `exclusive` context stay loose, as before.
+- The `TemplateEntry` and `TemplateEntries` public types are removed (they encoded the retired
+  entry-object grammar). The host command seam (`HostCommandQueue.spawn`, the record and replay
   and editor-undo transport) deliberately keeps its entry-object + complete-values shape.
 
-### Changed — API vocabulary consistency
+### Changed. API vocabulary consistency
 
 Cheap alignments from a public-API vocabulary audit that followed the grammar unification:
 
@@ -262,101 +1219,101 @@ Cheap alignments from a public-API vocabulary audit that followed the grammar un
 - `HostCommandQueue.pending()` is now a `pending` getter (matching every other count accessor).
 - `ReadonlyEntityIdArray` → `ReadonlyEntityIDArray` (acronym casing, matching `EntityID`).
 - The entity-id parameter is now uniformly `entityId` across the core surface (ECS lifecycle,
-  host-command queue, `ObserverFn`); the `HostCommand` wire-format field stays `eid`.
+  host-command queue, `ObserverFn`). The `HostCommand` wire-format field stays `eid`.
 - Source-compatible widenings: `ecs.despawn`, `ecs.removeSystem`, and the `HostCommandQueue`
   mutators now return `this` for chaining.
 
-The `ref` / `refRead` argument order was reviewed and **deliberately kept** def-first
-(`ctx.ref(def, entityId)`): these are the outside-iteration members of the `cols.mut` /
+The `ref` and `refRead` argument order was reviewed and **deliberately kept** def-first
+(`ctx.ref(def, entityId)`): these are the outside-iteration members of the `cols.mut` and
 `cols.read` column-cursor family, so def-first is the cursor convention, not an inconsistency
-to fix — flipping it would align with `getField` while breaking alignment with `cols.mut`.
+to fix, flipping it would align with `getField` while breaking alignment with `cols.mut`.
 Documented as such (`refs.md`, `queries.md`) rather than flipped.
 
-### Changed (breaking) — host-write-seam verb grammar
+### Changed (breaking). Host-write-seam verb grammar
 
 The host-write-seam handles are namespaced command buffers, so they drop the component noun
-to match `ctx.commands.add` / `remove` — and their own already-bare
-`spawn`/`despawn`/`disable`/`enable`/`setField`:
+to match `ctx.commands.add` and `remove`, and their own already-bare
+`spawn`, `despawn`, `disable`, `enable` and `setField`:
 
-- `HostCommandQueue.addComponent` / `removeComponent` → `add` / `remove`.
-- `Editor` and `TransactionBuilder` `.addComponent` / `.removeComponent` → `add` / `remove`
+- `HostCommandQueue.addComponent` and `removeComponent` → `add` and `remove`.
+- `Editor` and `TransactionBuilder` `.addComponent` and `.removeComponent` → `add` and `remove`
   (the two surfaces are designed to match, so they move together).
 - The editor extension's entity-id parameters and its `FieldReader` type now read `entityId`,
   completing the core's `eid` → `entityId` pass.
 
-The wire-format `kind` discriminants (`"add_component"` / `"remove_component"`), the ring
-codecs, and the `HostCommand` record's `eid` field are unchanged — transport vocabulary.
+The wire-format `kind` discriminants (`"add_component"` and `"remove_component"`), the ring
+codecs, and the `HostCommand` record's `eid` field are unchanged, transport vocabulary.
 
-### Changed (breaking) — `ctx.getResource`
+### Changed (breaking). `ctx.getResource`
 
 The in-system resource getter is now `ctx.getResource(key)` (was the verb-less `ctx.resource(key)`),
-matching its flat-surface siblings `setResource` / `removeResource` / `hasResource` and the
-`getField` / `setField` / `hasComponent` convention. The rule is now explicit: the flat `ctx`
-surface verbs every accessor; the grouped `ecs.resources` facade drops the noun (`get` / `set` /
-`remove` / `has`) because its receiver already names it. `ConditionContext` (run-condition
+matching its flat-surface siblings `setResource`, `removeResource` and `hasResource` and the
+`getField`, `setField` and `hasComponent` convention. The rule is now explicit: the flat `ctx`
+surface verbs every accessor. The grouped `ecs.resources` facade drops the noun (`get`, `set`,
+`remove` and `has`) because its receiver already names it. `ConditionContext` (run-condition
 predicates) moves in lockstep.
 
 ### Fixed
 
-- The immediate host spawn family (`spawn` / `spawnBundle` / `spawnMany`) now throws in DEV
-  when called from inside a system body — redirecting to `ctx.commands.spawn` — like every
+- The immediate host spawn family (`spawn`, `spawnBundle` and `spawnMany`) now throws in DEV
+  when called from inside a system body, redirecting to `ctx.commands.spawn`, like every
   other immediate host structural mutator. Previously it was silently unguarded (the archetype
-  iteration guard does not cover the append path), a live mid-iteration footgun; its guard
+  iteration guard does not cover the append path), a live mid-iteration footgun. Its guard
   docstring's "one rule for every host mutator" claim is now true.
 - Added explicit public `QueryCache` cache-map type annotations so JSR publish passes
   slow-type validation and can generate package declarations cleanly.
 
-## [0.5.0] — 2026-07-06
+## [0.5.0] - 2026-07-06
 
-### Changed (breaking) — lifecycle & naming unification
+### Changed (breaking). Lifecycle & naming unification
 
-One vocabulary across host, commands, and access declarations; the receiver now implies the
-timing (host = immediate, `ctx.commands` = deferred). Hard renames, no deprecation aliases —
-see [docs/MIGRATION-0.4-to-0.5.md](docs/MIGRATION-0.4-to-0.5.md) for the complete
-rename/removal map:
+One vocabulary across host, commands, and access declarations. The receiver now implies the
+timing (host = immediate, `ctx.commands` = deferred). Hard renames, no deprecation aliases.
+See [docs/MIGRATION-0.4-to-0.5.md](docs/MIGRATION-0.4-to-0.5.md) for the complete map of the
+renames and the removals:
 
 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
 | --- | --- |
-| `ecs.createEntity()` / `ecs.createEntity(template, overrides?)` | `ecs.spawn()` / `ecs.spawn(template, overrides?)` |
+| `ecs.createEntity()` and `ecs.createEntity(template, overrides?)` | `ecs.spawn()` and `ecs.spawn(template, overrides?)` |
 | `ecs.createEntities(template, count)` | `ecs.spawnMany(template, count, overrides?)` |
-| `ecs.destroyEntity(e)` *(deferred)* | `ecs.despawn(e)` — **now immediate** |
+| `ecs.destroyEntity(e)` *(deferred)* | `ecs.despawn(e)`, **now immediate** |
 | `ctx.createEntity()` | `ctx.commands.spawn()` |
 | `ctx.destroyEntity(e)` | `ctx.commands.despawn(e)` |
 | `ctx.addComponent(e, def, values?)` | `ctx.commands.add(e, def, values)` or `ctx.commands.add(e, def({ … }))` |
 | `ctx.removeComponent(e, def)` | `ctx.commands.remove(e, def)` |
-| `ctx.disable(e)` / `ctx.enable(e)` | `ctx.commands.disable(e)` / `ctx.commands.enable(e)` |
-| `sourcesOf(def, tgt)` | `sourcesOf(tgt, def)` — matches `targetOf` / `targetsOf` |
+| `ctx.disable(e)` and `ctx.enable(e)` | `ctx.commands.disable(e)` and `ctx.commands.enable(e)` |
+| `sourcesOf(def, tgt)` | `sourcesOf(tgt, def)`, matches `targetOf` and `targetsOf` |
 | `query.count()` | `query.entityCount` (getter, beside `archetypeCount`) |
-| `WorldRestoreError` / `WORLD_SNAPSHOT_VERSION` | `ECSRestoreError` / `ECS_SNAPSHOT_VERSION` |
+| `WorldRestoreError` and `WORLD_SNAPSHOT_VERSION` | `ECSRestoreError` and `ECS_SNAPSHOT_VERSION` |
 
-- **Host `despawn` is immediate** — `ecs.despawn(e); ecs.isAlive(e)` is `false` on the next
+- **Host `despawn` is immediate**, `ecs.despawn(e); ecs.isAlive(e)` is `false` on the next
   line. This removes the inconsistency: host `addComponent` was immediate, but destroy was
   buffered.
-  **Observer note:** like every immediate op, host `despawn` fires no *structural* observers —
+  **Observer note:** like every immediate op, host `despawn` fires no *structural* observers.
   `onRemove` no longer sees host-despawned entities (it did at 0.4, when host destroy was
   deferred). Observer-driven consumers, including the `reactive-sync` map bridges, only see
   despawns that go through `ctx.commands.despawn` or the host-command seam. (`onSet` is
-  receiver-blind — derived change detection sees host `setField` writes as always.)
+  receiver-blind, derived change detection sees host `setField` writes as always.)
 - **Every immediate host structural mutator throws in dev when called from inside a system
-  body** — `despawn`, `addComponent`/`addComponents`, `removeComponent`/`removeComponents`,
-  `batchAddComponent`/`batchRemoveComponent`, `disable`/`enable` — each error pointing at its
+  body**, `despawn`, `addComponent` and `addComponents`, `removeComponent` and `removeComponents`,
+  `batchAddComponent` and `batchRemoveComponent`, `disable` and `enable`, each error pointing at its
   `ctx.commands` equivalent. Mid-system these ops can move rows a running query is walking and
-  are invisible to observers; previously only `despawn` was guarded wholesale (the others were
+  are invisible to observers. Previously only `despawn` was guarded wholesale (the others were
   caught only when they touched the archetype being iterated). Cross-world host mutation from
-  another world's system is unaffected — the guard is scoped to the mutated world.
-- **The bare deferred duplicates on `ctx` are removed** — `ctx.addComponent`,
+  another world's system is unaffected, the guard is scoped to the mutated world.
+- **The bare deferred duplicates on `ctx` are removed**, `ctx.addComponent`,
   `ctx.removeComponent`, `ctx.disable`, `ctx.enable` join the already-removed
-  `ctx.createEntity` / `ctx.destroyEntity`. `ctx.commands` is now the *only* deferred surface,
+  `ctx.createEntity` and `ctx.destroyEntity`. `ctx.commands` is now the *only* deferred surface,
   completing the receiver-implies-timing rule with zero exceptions. `ctx.commands.add` gains
   the explicit complete-values shape (`ctx.commands.add(e, Pos, { x: 0, y: 0 })`) the removed
   `ctx.addComponent` carried, so compile-checked complete attaches survive the move.
-  `ctx.isDisabled` stays (immediate read), as do the immediate sparse/relation ops.
-- **`sourcesOf` canonicalized to `(entity, def)`** on `ecs.relations` and `SystemContext` —
-  it was the one arg-order outlier on the relation surface.
-- **The package root is now a curated, explicit export list** — `export *` no longer flattens the
+  `ctx.isDisabled` stays (immediate read), as do the immediate sparse and relation ops.
+- **`sourcesOf` canonicalized to `(entity, def)`** on `ecs.relations` and `SystemContext`,
+  It was the one arg-order outlier on the relation surface.
+- **The package root is now a curated, explicit export list**, `export *` no longer flattens the
   whole core barrel, so future barrel additions cannot silently widen the public API. A checked-in
   public-API snapshot test makes any surface change an explicit diff in review.
-- **Internal/tooling symbols moved to `@oasys/oecs/internal`** (explicitly **unstable — no semver
+- **Internal and tooling symbols moved to `@oasys/oecs/internal`** (explicitly **unstable, no semver
   guarantees**): the packed-EntityID codec (`createEntityId`, `getEntityGeneration`, `MAX_INDEX`,
   `MAX_GENERATION`, `MAX_LIVE_GENERATION`, `RETIRED_GENERATION`, `MAX_ENTITY_ID`), the SAB
   command-ring transport (`HostCommandDispatcher`, `ring*Codec`, `HOST_COMMAND_PAYLOAD_BYTES`),
@@ -365,150 +1322,150 @@ rename/removal map:
 
 ### Added
 
-- **`addComponent` bundle overload** — `ecs.addComponent(e, Pos({ x: 1 }))` accepts a bundle
-  with the usual zero-fill semantics; the explicit `(e, def, values)` form stays
+- **`addComponent` bundle overload**, `ecs.addComponent(e, Pos({ x: 1 }))` accepts a bundle
+  with the usual zero-fill semantics. The explicit `(e, def, values)` form stays
   complete-values, so a typo'd or missing field is still a compile error.
-- **`spawnMany` typed template + shared overrides** — bulk spawn takes the same typed
+- **`spawnMany` typed template + shared overrides**, bulk spawn takes the same typed
   `Template<Defs>` as `spawn` plus one optional `TemplateOverrides<Defs>` object applied to
   every row (contiguous batches use one `fill` per overridden column).
-- **JSDoc `@example` on the core surface** — `registerComponent`, `spawn`, `addComponent`,
-  `query`, `registerSystem`, `startup`, `update`, `ctx.emit` / `ctx.read`,
+- **JSDoc `@example` on the core surface**, `registerComponent`, `spawn`, `addComponent`,
+  `query`, `registerSystem`, `startup`, `update`, `ctx.emit` and `ctx.read`,
   `events.register`, `resources.register` now carry hover-visible examples.
-- **Component debug names** — `registerComponent(schema, { name: "Pos" })` (and the sparse
+- **Component debug names**, `registerComponent(schema, { name: "Pos" })` (and the sparse
   sibling) records a diagnostic label, so access-violation and liveness errors read
   `'Pos' (component 5)` instead of leaving you to count registration order
   (`ComponentRegisterOptions`).
-- **Total probes + `tryGetField`** — `hasComponent` / `hasSparse` / `relations.has` now return
+- **Total probes + `tryGetField`**, `hasComponent`, `hasSparse` and `relations.has` now return
   `false` for a dead entity instead of dev-throwing (a "has" probe is exactly the call made to
-  avoid dead entities); `ecs.tryGetField(e, def, field)` returns `undefined` for a dead entity or
+  avoid dead entities). `ecs.tryGetField(e, def, field)` returns `undefined` for a dead entity or
   missing component, and `ctx.tryGetField` mirrors it inside systems (declared-read checked).
-- **Plural host mutators chain** — `addComponents`, `removeComponents`, `batchAddComponent`,
+- **Plural host mutators chain**, `addComponents`, `removeComponents`, `batchAddComponent`,
   `batchRemoveComponent` return `this` (previously `void`), matching their singular siblings.
-- **`Query.firstEntity()` / `Query.singleEntity()`** — singleton reads (player, camera) without a
-  hand-rolled `forEach` + capture; `singleEntity` dev-throws `QUERY_NOT_SINGLETON` on 0 or >1.
-- **Host-side `ecs.refRead(def, e)`** — whole-component read-only view, parity with
+- **`Query.firstEntity()` and `Query.singleEntity()`**, singleton reads (player, camera) without a
+  hand-rolled `forEach` + capture. `singleEntity` dev-throws `QUERY_NOT_SINGLETON` on 0 or >1.
+- **Host-side `ecs.refRead(def, e)`**, whole-component read-only view, parity with
   `ctx.refRead`.
-- **Run-condition combinators** — `not()` / `allOf()` / `anyOf()`, merging the operands' declared
+- **Run-condition combinators**, `not()`, `allOf()` and `anyOf()`, merging the operands' declared
   read surfaces.
-- **Editor change notification** — `editor.onChange(cb)` (fires on commit/undo/redo/clear) plus
-  `canUndo` / `canRedo` getters; no more per-frame `depths()` polling.
-- **`using` support** — `ObserverHandle` implements `Symbol.dispose`.
-- **Write-seam lifecycle** — `uninstallHostCommandSeam(world, queue)`,
+- **Editor change notification**, `editor.onChange(cb)` (fires on commit, undo, redo and clear) plus
+  `canUndo` and `canRedo` getters. No more per-frame `depths()` polling.
+- **`using` support**, `ObserverHandle` implements `Symbol.dispose`.
+- **Write-seam lifecycle**, `uninstallHostCommandSeam(world, queue)`,
   `HostCommandQueue.clear()`, `HostCommandDispatcher.off(opCode)`,
   `HostCommandRecorder.snapshotLog()` (stable deep copy).
-- **`VERSION`** export and a `"./package.json"` export; `engines: { node: ">=20" }` and a README
+- **`VERSION`** export and a `"./package.json"` export. `engines: { node: ">=20" }` and a README
   runtime note (resizable `ArrayBuffer`).
 - Root re-exports so failure modes are nameable without extra entry points:
-  `StoreRestoreError`, `SabUnavailableError`, `TypedArrayTag`; `/reactive` now exports `Eq` and
-  `shallow` (moved from `/reactive-sync`, which re-exports for compat); `signal()` gains the
-  zero-arg Solid-parity overload; `SingletonSyncOptions.eq`.
-- **`FrameStepper`** — optional host-side driver over the authoritative `ecs.update(dt)`:
-  `play()`/`pause()`/`toggle()` on `requestAnimationFrame` (injectable `requestFrame`/`cancelFrame`
-  for tests and non-browser hosts), explicit `step()`/`stepFrames()` for debuggers, editors, and
+  `StoreRestoreError`, `SabUnavailableError`, `TypedArrayTag`. `/reactive` now exports `Eq` and
+  `shallow` (moved from `/reactive-sync`, which re-exports for compat). `signal()` gains the
+  zero-arg Solid-parity overload. `SingletonSyncOptions.eq`.
+- **`FrameStepper`**, optional host-side driver over the authoritative `ecs.update(dt)`:
+  `play()`, `pause()` and `toggle()` on `requestAnimationFrame` (injectable `requestFrame` and `cancelFrame`
+  for tests and non-browser hosts), explicit `step()` and `stepFrames()` for debuggers, editors, and
   rollback playback, and a `maxDt` clamp (default 0.25 s) so a resumed background tab doesn't feed
   the whole suspension into the accumulator as one delta. Validation throws `INVALID_FRAME_STEP`.
-- **`ObserverConfig.name`** — diagnostic label surfaced as the frame trace's
-  `observer_fired.observer` field (the role a system's `name` plays); observe-only, never affects
+- **`ObserverConfig.name`**, diagnostic label surfaced as the frame trace's
+  `observer_fired.observer` field (the role a system's `name` plays). Observe-only, never affects
   `stateHash` or dispatch order. Unnamed observers fall back to `observer(<component debug name>)`
   when the component was registered with a name, else `observer(<cid>)`.
-- **`ECSOptions.onWarn`** — injectable sink for dev-mode engine diagnostics (currently the
+- **`ECSOptions.onWarn`**, injectable sink for dev-mode engine diagnostics (currently the
   schedule's dropped-ordering-edge warning and the `ECSOptions` unknown-key warning),
   defaulting to `console.warn`. Replaces the internal `src/log` singleton, which is deleted.
-- **Editor `fieldHandle` `read` thunk is optional** — defaults to `Editor.committedField`.
+- **Editor `fieldHandle` `read` thunk is optional**, defaults to `Editor.committedField`.
 
 ### Fixed
 
-- **Host iteration guard (`STRUCTURAL_DURING_ITERATION`)** — with host `despawn` now immediate,
-  a host-side `forEach`/`eachChunk` callback that despawned (or transitioned/toggled) an entity of
+- **Host iteration guard (`STRUCTURAL_DURING_ITERATION`)**, with host `despawn` now immediate,
+  a host-side `forEach` and `eachChunk` callback that despawned (or transitioned and toggled) an entity of
   the archetype it was visiting silently skipped entities via the row swap-remove. Row-removing
   ops on an archetype a live dense walk is standing in now throw in dev, *before* any mutation
   lands (the transition path checks ahead of the destination append, so no dual-residency
   half-state). Collect ids during the walk and mutate after it. Mutating archetypes the walk is
-  *not* currently visiting stays legal — the fresh-snapshot machinery still covers those.
-- **Cross-world despawn false positive** — `worldB.despawn(e)` from inside world A's system no
-  longer trips the in-system despawn guard (the accessCheck span is process-global; the guard now
+  *not* currently visiting stays legal, the fresh-snapshot machinery still covers those.
+- **Cross-world despawn false positive**, `worldB.despawn(e)` from inside world A's system no
+  longer trips the in-system despawn guard (the accessCheck span is process-global, the guard now
   also requires *this* world to be mid-schedule). Driving a second world from a system
-  mutates it host-style, which is safe — B is not iterating. Unnamed systems in the guard message
+  mutates it host-style, which is safe. B is not iterating. Unnamed systems in the guard message
   now render as `system_<id>` instead of `'?'`.
-- **Frame trace records every deferred command** — the removed bare `ctx.*` deferred
-  forms bypassed the `commandQueued` trace hook, so host-command-seam adds/removes/toggles (and
+- **Frame trace records every deferred command**, the removed bare `ctx.*` deferred
+  forms bypassed the `commandQueued` trace hook, so host-command-seam adds, removes and toggles (and
   any system using the bare forms) were invisible to an attached `FrameTraceSink` while their
-  spawns/despawns were visible. With `ctx.commands` as the only deferred surface every queued
+  spawns and despawns were visible. With `ctx.commands` as the only deferred surface every queued
   command is traced, and `ctx.commands.spawn` now also traces each bundle attach it queues
   (previously only the spawn itself).
-- **Stale deferred-attach docs** — `host_commands.ts` / the host-write-seam page claimed the
-  deferred add path does not zero-fill omitted fields (NaN readback); every attach path
+- **Stale deferred-attach docs**, `host_commands.ts` and the host-write-seam page claimed the
+  deferred add path does not zero-fill omitted fields (NaN readback). Every attach path
   zero-fills (`writeFields`'s `?? 0`). The complete-values requirement on
-  `SpawnEntry` is documented as what it is — explicit intent in a reified, replayable record —
-  and the observer docs now scope "immediate ops fire no observers" to *structural* observers
+  `SpawnEntry` is documented as what it is, explicit intent in a reified, replayable record.
+  The observer docs now scope "immediate ops fire no observers" to *structural* observers
   (`onSet` is derived change detection and sees host `setField` writes).
-- **`ecs.refRead` / `ctx.ref` / `ctx.refRead` on a missing component or tag def** — threw a raw
-  `TypeError` from the ref internals; now a dev `ECSError` (`COMPONENT_NOT_REGISTERED`) naming the
+- **`ecs.refRead`, `ctx.ref` and `ctx.refRead` on a missing component or tag def**, threw a raw
+  `TypeError` from the ref internals. Now a dev `ECSError` (`COMPONENT_NOT_REGISTERED`) naming the
   op and component, matching `getField`. Host `refRead`'s docstring now states the single-
   expression lifetime rule (any immediate structural mutation can row-swap under a held ref).
-- **Editor: aborted transactions no longer poison undo** — `transaction(tx => …)` staged its
+- **Editor: aborted transactions no longer poison undo**, `transaction(tx => …)` staged its
   `setField` shadow writes into the editor's shared map at build time, so a build callback that
   threw left phantom pending values behind and seeded the *next* edit's undo inverse with a value
   the world never held. Staging is now transaction-local and merges only on commit.
-- **Editor: `pendingField` self-resolves for dead slots** — a shadow entry for a despawned entity
-  (or removed component) echoed its stale value forever and leaked; the reconcile-on-read now
+- **Editor: `pendingField` self-resolves for dead slots**, a shadow entry for a despawned entity
+  (or removed component) echoed its stale value forever and leaked. The reconcile-on-read now
   prunes it and returns `undefined`.
-- **JSR/Deno consumers no longer break on the `__DEV__` global** — shipped source now reads a
+- **JSR or Deno consumers no longer break on the `__DEV__` global**, shipped source now reads a
   guarded `DEV` flag (`src/dev_flag.ts`) that constant-folds in the npm bundle and defaults to
   dev-on for raw-source consumers (`globalThis.__DEV__ = false` opts out).
-- **Error experience** — every `ENTITY_NOT_ALIVE` names the operation and decodes the packed id
-  (index + generation, with context); system access violations use the new `ACCESS_UNDECLARED`
-  category instead of overloading `*_NOT_REGISTERED`; resource/event "not registered" messages
-  name the key and hint the registration call; messages no longer reference pre-0.4 snake_case
+- **Error experience**, every `ENTITY_NOT_ALIVE` names the operation and decodes the packed id
+  (index + generation, with context). System access violations use the new `ACCESS_UNDECLARED`
+  category instead of overloading `*_NOT_REGISTERED`. Resource and event "not registered" messages
+  name the key and hint the registration call. Messages no longer reference pre-0.4 snake_case
   option names or private tracker issue numbers.
-- **Packaging** — per-entry `.d.cts` and explicit-extension declaration specifiers
+- **Packaging**, per-entry `.d.cts` and explicit-extension declaration specifiers
   (`attw --pack` fully green: node10/node16/bundler across all eight entry points, was
-  masquerading + resolution errors); `typesVersions` for `moduleResolution: node10` subpaths; npm
-  tarball ships `CHANGELOG.md`; `@internal` editor internals no longer leak into published types.
-- **Type-level closures** — `EventShape<S>` homomorphic bound (interface-declared event schemas
-  now accepted); `RelationOptions` is a union so `{ exclusive: true, multi: true }` is a compile
-  error; `ResourceKey`'s phantom is a unique symbol (no `.__phantom` in autocomplete);
-  `pairsOf` / `sourcesOfAny` return readonly tuples; `SystemConfig.fn` optional when
+  masquerading + resolution errors). `typesVersions` for `moduleResolution: node10` subpaths. Npm
+  tarball ships `CHANGELOG.md`. `@internal` editor internals no longer leak into published types.
+- **Type-level closures**, `EventShape<S>` homomorphic bound (interface-declared event schemas
+  now accepted). `RelationOptions` is a union so `{ exclusive: true, multi: true }` is a compile
+  error. `ResourceKey`'s phantom is a unique symbol (no `.__phantom` in autocomplete)
+  `pairsOf` and `sourcesOfAny` return readonly tuples. `SystemConfig.fn` optional when
   `backendHandle` is present.
-- Dev-mode diagnostics: ownerless `computed()` / `onCleanup()` warn (kernel); ECSOptions warns on
-  unknown keys; `runIfResourceEq` warns on object-valued `expected` (reference-identity `===`);
+- Dev-mode diagnostics: ownerless `computed()` and `onCleanup()` warn (kernel). ECSOptions warns on
+  unknown keys. `runIfResourceEq` warns on object-valued `expected` (reference-identity `===`)
   `runEveryNTicks` validation throws `ECSError` (`INVALID_RUN_CONDITION`).
-- **Docs standardized on the `ecs` receiver** — README, GETTING_STARTED, BEST_PRACTICES, the
+- **Docs standardized on the `ecs` receiver**. README, GETTING_STARTED, BEST_PRACTICES, the
   api reference, and every in-source JSDoc example now spell `const ecs = new ECS()`
   (with the `World*` names renamed to `ECS*`, "world" survives only as prose). The
   host-write-seam docs now explain *why* `queue.spawn` takes complete-value `spawnEntry`s
-  rather than zero-filling bundles: commands are a reified, replayable record — complete
-  values are explicit intent legible to replay, not a correctness need; the deferred add path
+  rather than zero-filling bundles: commands are a reified, replayable record, complete
+  values are explicit intent legible to replay, not a correctness need. The deferred add path
   zero-fills omitted fields.
 - **JSR publish no longer ships `__tests__` helper files** (`casing_codemod.ts`,
-  `test_helpers.ts` — including a `node:fs` import subject to JSR type-checking).
+  `test_helpers.ts`, including a `node:fs` import subject to JSR type-checking).
 
-### Changed (breaking) — type-level & facade surface
+### Changed (breaking). Type-level & facade surface
 
 - **Compile-time typestate across the system, query, relation, and key seams.** The config-form
-  `registerSystem` now infers your access declarations as literal types and hands `fn`/`onAdded` a
-  `SystemContext<DeclaredAccess<…>>` narrowed to exactly the declared surface — undeclared access
+  `registerSystem` now infers your access declarations as literal types and hands `fn` and `onAdded` a
+  `SystemContext<DeclaredAccess<…>>` narrowed to exactly the declared surface, undeclared access
   is a compile error naming the missing declaration, with the dev-mode runtime check remaining as
   the backstop for dynamic values. Query columns are typed by the query's terms
-  (`ChunkColumns<Defs>` / `ArchetypeView<Defs>`; `.and(...)` extends the term set), relation
-  handles carry their cardinality (`RelationDef<"exclusive">` vs `RelationDef<"multi">` — the
+  (`ChunkColumns<Defs>` and `ArchetypeView<Defs>`, `.and(...)` extends the term set), relation
+  handles carry their cardinality (`RelationDef<"exclusive">` vs `RelationDef<"multi">`, the
   exclusive-only traversal surfaces reject a multi handle at compile time), and
-  `ResourceKey`/`EventKey`/`EventDef` are invariant so a key can no longer widen through
+  `ResourceKey`, `EventKey` and `EventDef` are invariant so a key can no longer widen through
   `unknown`. A checked-in type battery (`typing_assertions.ts`) pins every rule.
 - **Grouped facades: `ecs.relations`, `ecs.events`, `ecs.resources`, `ecs.snapshots`.** Cohesive
-  secondary surfaces move off the flat namespace onto narrow typed facades —
+  secondary surfaces move off the flat namespace onto narrow typed facades:
   `ecs.relations.add(child, ChildOf, parent)`, `ecs.events.emit(Damage, {...})`,
   `ecs.resources.get(Time)`, `ecs.snapshots.capture()`. The facades mirror the typestate
   surface exactly (cardinality-stamped `relations.register`, exclusive-only traversal). Hot-path
-  API (component ops, queries, spawn/destroy, sparse ops) stays flat by design. Facade classes
-  are exported type-only; the runtime export list is unchanged.
+  API (component ops, queries, spawn and destroy, sparse ops) stays flat by design. Facade classes
+  are exported type-only. The runtime export list is unchanged.
 - **Value arguments are schema-checked at compile time across every attach seam.** Tag defs
-  reject value objects (`Frozen({ x: 1 })` no longer compiles — tags carry no data);
+  reject value objects (`Frozen({ x: 1 })` no longer compiles, tags carry no data)
   `addComponents` takes schema-checked entries (`TemplateEntries<Defs>`), so a misspelled or
-  cross-component field key is a compile error instead of a silent zero-fill; host-seam
+  cross-component field key is a compile error instead of a silent zero-fill. Host-seam
   `queue.spawn` entries (`SpawnEntries<Defs>`) are checked complete against each def's own
-  schema (`ValuesArg` / `CompleteFieldValues` exported); and `events.register` requires the
-  field list to cover the event schema (`EventFieldsCover`) — a partial list silently dropped
+  schema (`ValuesArg` and `CompleteFieldValues` exported), and `events.register` requires the
+  field list to cover the event schema (`EventFieldsCover`), a partial list silently dropped
   columns and read back `undefined` at runtime. Smaller closures in the same vein: `observe`
   accepts any `ComponentHandle`, `NoInfer` pins key-typed value params (`events.emit`,
   resources), and reactive-sync's `JoinReader.field` is constrained to the join's component
@@ -516,12 +1473,12 @@ rename/removal map:
 
 ### Removed (breaking)
 
-- The 29 flat forms the new facades replace (`registerRelation`/`addRelation`/`targetOf`/…,
-  `registerEvent`/`registerSignal`/`emit`/`read`, `registerResource`/`resource`/`setResource`/
-  `removeResource`/`hasResource`, `snapshot`/`restoreInto`/`snapshotSparse`/`restoreSparse`/
-  `stateHash`/`deterministic`, `relationCount`/`compactRelations`). Each maps 1:1 onto its
-  grouped replacement — `ecs.relations.add(...)`, `ecs.events.emit(...)`, `ecs.resources.get(...)`,
-  `ecs.snapshots.capture()` (was `snapshot()`) / `ecs.snapshots.restore(...)` (was
+- The 29 flat forms the new facades replace (`registerRelation`, `addRelation` and `targetOf`/…,
+  `registerEvent`, `registerSignal`, `emit` and `read`, `registerResource`, `resource` and `setResource`/
+  `removeResource` and `hasResource`, `snapshot`, `restoreInto`, `snapshotSparse` and `restoreSparse`/
+  `stateHash` and `deterministic`, `relationCount` and `compactRelations`). Each maps 1:1 onto its
+  grouped replacement, `ecs.relations.add(...)`, `ecs.events.emit(...)`, `ecs.resources.get(...)`,
+  `ecs.snapshots.capture()` (was `snapshot()`) and `ecs.snapshots.restore(...)` (was
   `restoreInto(...)`), `ecs.relations.count` (was `relationCount`), `ecs.relations.compact()`
   (was `compactRelations()`). System-side `ctx.*` and all `Store`-level methods are unchanged.
 
@@ -529,28 +1486,28 @@ rename/removal map:
 
 - **`Store` decomposed into seven focused collaborators** (RelationService, EventRegistry +
   ResourceRegistry, EntityAllocator, DeferredCommandBuffer, SnapshotService, ArchetypeGraph) with
-  `Store` as the coordinator; the hot-path extractions were A/B-benchmarked against
-  identical-code controls with no regression. The `ECS` facade's pure delegations now live in a
-  marker-delimited pass-through band whose logic-free invariant is enforced by an AST guard test.
+  `Store` as the coordinator. Each hot-path extraction was benchmarked against a control that
+  carries identical code, and none regressed. The `ECS` facade's pure delegations now live in a
+  marker-delimited pass-through band whose logic-free invariant is enforced by an ast guard test.
 - Typed per-consumer host seams (`ObserverHost`, `QueryHost`) replace underscore-convention
-  reach-through on `Store`; `QueryCache` now owns all 12 query-resolution cache maps.
+  reach-through on `Store`. `QueryCache` now owns all 12 query-resolution cache maps.
 - Store layer consolidation: one strategy-parameterized factory behind
-  `growableSabAllocator` / `heapArraybufferAllocator`; a typed `isColumnStoreInternal` guard
-  replaces six structural casts; grow/extend's ~200 duplicated lines moved to a shared
+  `growableSabAllocator` and `heapArraybufferAllocator`. A typed `isColumnStoreInternal` guard
+  replaces six structural casts. Grow and extend's ~200 duplicated lines moved to a shared
   `layout_ops.ts` (bit-identical layouts pinned by a golden differential test across the
   full allocator matrix).
-- `core/reactive` moved to `src/reactive` (the published `./reactive` subpath is unchanged);
+- `core/reactive` moved to `src/reactive` (the published `./reactive` subpath is unchanged)
   `__generated__/abi.ts` renamed to `vendored_abi/abi.ts` (it is a hand-maintained snapshot,
   not generated output).
-- Deleted orphaned duplicate `src/utils/{arrays,constants}.ts`; renamed the custom `TypeError`
-  (shadowed the ECMAScript global) to `AssertionError`; retired the 246-line casing codemod +
+- Deleted orphaned duplicate `src/utils/{arrays,constants}.ts`. Renamed the custom `TypeError`
+  (shadowed the ECMAScript global) to `AssertionError`. Retired the 246-line casing codemod +
   guard test (the 0.4 rename has converged).
 
-## [0.4.0] — 2026-06-24
+## [0.4.0] - 2026-06-24
 
-Major release. oecs is **re-derived from the upstream oasys engine ECS** — its modern descendant — and
+Major release. oecs is **re-derived from the upstream oasys engine ECS**, its modern descendant, and
 gains whole subsystems while staying pure-TS and zero-dependency by default. The public API moves to
-the engine's surface, so **every consumer touches breaking changes** — chiefly a global
+the engine's surface, so **every consumer touches breaking changes**, chiefly a global
 `snake_case` → `camelCase` rename. See [docs/MIGRATION-0.3-to-0.4.md](docs/MIGRATION-0.3-to-0.4.md).
 
 ### Changed (breaking)
@@ -559,127 +1516,127 @@ the engine's surface, so **every consumer touches breaking changes** — chiefly
   from `snake_case` (`create_entity` → `createEntity`, `add_component` → `addComponent`, `get_field` →
   `getField`, `is_alive` → `isAlive`, `register_system` → `registerSystem`, …). Types and handles stay
   PascalCase and SCREAMING_SNAKE constants are unchanged. A `vitest` casing guard prevents regressions.
-- **Renamed query/context verbs.** `QueryBuilder.every` → `with`; `query.not` → `without`;
-  `query.any_of` → `anyOf`; `query.for_each` → `forEach`; `archetype.get_column` → `getColumnRead`;
-  `event_key` / `signal_key` / `resource_key` → `eventKey` / `signalKey` / `resourceKey`;
-  `is_ecs_error` → `isEcsError`; `destroy_entity_deferred` → `destroyEntity` (still deferred).
+- **Renamed query and context verbs.** `QueryBuilder.every` → `with`. `query.not` → `without`
+  `query.any_of` → `anyOf`. `query.for_each` → `forEach`. `archetype.get_column` → `getColumnRead`
+  `event_key`, `signal_key` and `resource_key` → `eventKey`, `signalKey` and `resourceKey`
+  `is_ecs_error` → `isEcsError`. `destroy_entity_deferred` → `destroyEntity` (still deferred).
 - **Ref mutability flipped on the unsuffixed name.** `ctx.ref` is now the **mutable** default (was
-  read-only in 0.3); the read-only variant is `ctx.refRead` (was `ctx.ref_mut` for the mutable one).
+  read-only in 0.3). The read-only variant is `ctx.refRead` (was `ctx.ref_mut` for the mutable one).
   Same rule for columns: mutable `getColumn` (internal) vs read-only `getColumnRead`.
-- **`WorldOptions` → `ECSOptions`; `fixed_timestep` → `fixedTimestep`.**
-- **`initial_capacity` removed** — replaced by the `memory` surface (`memory: { budget }` /
-  `{ maxBytes }` / `{ columnCapacity }` pin / `{ shared }` / `{ wasm }` / `{ allocator }`). Passing the
+- **`WorldOptions` → `ECSOptions`. `fixed_timestep` → `fixedTimestep`.**
+- **`initial_capacity` removed**, replaced by the `memory` surface (`memory: { budget }`,
+  `{ maxBytes }`, the `{ columnCapacity }` pin, `{ shared }`, `{ wasm }` and `{ allocator }`). Passing the
   old option keys throws at construction, pointing at `memory`.
-- **Component-touching systems must declare `reads` / `writes`.** A new `__DEV__` access checker
-  (tree-shaken from production) validates every column / ref / field / resource access against a
+- **Component-touching systems must declare `reads` and `writes`.** A new `__DEV__` access checker
+  (tree-shaken from production) validates every column, ref, field and resource access against a
   system's declared surface. The bare `(ctx, dt)` and `(q, ctx, dt)` + query-builder `registerSystem`
-  overloads declare no access, so a system that touches ECS data through them throws in dev — move it
+  overloads declare no access, so a system that touches ECS data through them throws in dev, move it
   to the config form (`registerSystem({ reads, writes, fn })`). `exclusive: true` systems bypass the
   checker. A registration-time lint (`QUERY_ACCESS_UNDECLARED`) additionally checks any declared
   `queries ⊆ reads ∪ writes`.
-- **`removeComponents` takes an array, not varargs** (`removeComponents(e, [A, B])`);
-  `batchAddComponent` / `batchRemoveComponent` key on `ArchetypeID` instead of an `Archetype` object.
+- **`removeComponents` takes an array, not varargs** (`removeComponents(e, [A, B])`)
+  `batchAddComponent` and `batchRemoveComponent` key on `ArchetypeID` instead of an `Archetype` object.
 - **Event schema shape.** `eventKey`'s type parameter is now a field → value-type record
   (`eventKey<{ target: EntityID; amount: number }>("Damage")`) rather than a tuple of field names, so
-  branded fields round-trip through `emit` / `read`. `registerEvent(key, [...fieldNames])` unchanged
+  branded fields round-trip through `emit` and `read`. `registerEvent(key, [...fieldNames])` unchanged
   otherwise.
 
 ### Added
 
 - **Two storage profiles over one backing-neutral `ColumnStore`.** Default is pure-TS **heap** (a plain
-  resizable `ArrayBuffer`) — no `SharedArrayBuffer`, no cross-origin isolation. Opt-in
-  `@oasys/oecs/shared` (`memory: { shared: {} }`) uses a `SharedArrayBuffer` for worker offload / a WASM
-  compute backend. Same code path; identical state hash.
-- **Determinism** (opt-in `deterministic: true`): a state hash over column bytes + `snapshot()` /
-  `restoreInto()` (and `snapshotSparse` / `restoreSparse`), **backing-agnostic** — a heap world and a
-  shared world with identical history agree. `WorldRestoreError` / `SparseRestoreError` fail closed
+  resizable `ArrayBuffer`), no `SharedArrayBuffer`, no cross-origin isolation. Opt-in
+  `@oasys/oecs/shared` (`memory: { shared: {} }`) uses a `SharedArrayBuffer` for worker offload or a WASM
+  compute backend. Same code path. Identical state hash.
+- **Determinism** (opt-in `deterministic: true`): a state hash over column bytes plus `snapshot()` and
+  `restoreInto()` (and `snapshotSparse` and `restoreSparse`), **backing-agnostic**, a heap world and a
+  shared world with identical history agree. `WorldRestoreError` and `SparseRestoreError` fail closed
   before overwriting live backing.
-- **Observers** — `world.observe(def, { onAdd, onRemove, onSet, onDisable, onEnable })`, structural +
+- **Observers**, `world.observe(def, { onAdd, onRemove, onSet, onDisable, onEnable })`, structural +
   per-entity.
-- **Relations** — `(relation, target)` pairs, `ChildOf` / `IsA` presets (`registerChildOf` /
-  `registerIsA`), `(R,*)` / `(*,T)` wildcard queries (`withRelation`, `forEachRelatedTo`,
-  `ANY_RELATION`), hierarchy queries (`query.hierarchy`), traversal (`ancestorsOf` / `rootOf` /
+- **Relations**, `(relation, target)` pairs, `ChildOf` and `IsA` presets (`registerChildOf` and
+  `registerIsA`), `(R,*)` and `(*,T)` wildcard queries (`withRelation`, `forEachRelatedTo`,
+  `ANY_RELATION`), hierarchy queries (`query.hierarchy`), traversal (`ancestorsOf`, `rootOf` and
   `cascadeOf`), and on-delete cleanup policies.
-- **Sparse component storage** (`registerSparseComponent` / `addSparse` / `query.withSparse`),
-  **run conditions / system sets** (`systemSet` + `configureSet`; `runIfResourceEq` / `runEveryNTicks`
-  / `runIfAnyMatch`), **entity enable/disable** (row-partitioned; `disable` / `enable` /
+- **Sparse component storage** (`registerSparseComponent`, `addSparse` and `query.withSparse`),
+  **run conditions and system sets** (`systemSet` + `configureSet`, `runIfResourceEq`, `runEveryNTicks`
+  and `runIfAnyMatch`), **entity enable and disable** (row-partitioned. `disable`, `enable` and
   `includeDisabled`), and **templates** (`world.template([...])` + `createEntity(template, overrides)`
-  / `createEntities(template, count)` for zero-transition spawns).
-- **Typed host→ECS write seam** — `installHostCommandSeam(world)` + `applyHostCommand` + a
-  `HostCommandQueue` drained by a blessed `exclusive` apply system; a cross-thread ring transport
-  (`HostCommandDispatcher`); record/replay (`HostCommandRecorder`, `replayCommandLog`,
-  `serializeCommandLog`); and an undo/redo + field-handle layer at `@oasys/oecs/editor`.
-- **Frame trace** — `world.setTrace(sink)` + `FrameTraceRecorder` emit a structured per-frame event
-  stream (`__DEV__`-gated). **Compute backend seam** — `world.attachBackend(backend)` runs a system's
+  and `createEntities(template, count)` for zero-transition spawns).
+- **Typed host→ECS write seam**, `installHostCommandSeam(world)` + `applyHostCommand` + a
+  `HostCommandQueue` drained by a blessed `exclusive` apply system. A cross-thread ring transport
+  (`HostCommandDispatcher`). Record and replay (`HostCommandRecorder`, `replayCommandLog`,
+  `serializeCommandLog`), and an undo and redo + field-handle layer at `@oasys/oecs/editor`.
+- **Frame trace**, `world.setTrace(sink)` + `FrameTraceRecorder` emit a structured per-frame event
+  stream (`__DEV__`-gated). **Compute backend seam**, `world.attachBackend(backend)` runs a system's
   body on a compiled backend instead of its TS closure.
-- **Reactive UI seam (optional):** zero-dependency kernel at `@oasys/oecs/reactive`; ECS→reactive
-  bridge at `@oasys/oecs/reactive-sync` (publish-only-dirty, O(changed)); SolidJS adapter at
+- **Reactive UI seam (optional):** zero-dependency kernel at `@oasys/oecs/reactive`. ECS→reactive
+  bridge at `@oasys/oecs/reactive-sync` (publish-only-dirty, O(changed)). SolidJS adapter at
   `@oasys/oecs/solid` with `solid-js` as an **optional** peer dependency.
-- **`memory` sizing surface** on the constructor: `budget` (by expected `entities`) / `maxBytes` /
-  `columnCapacity` / `shared` / `wasm` / `allocator` arms; `resolveECSMemory(...)` exported to inspect
+- **`memory` sizing surface** on the constructor: `budget` (by expected `entities`), `maxBytes`,
+  `columnCapacity`, `shared`, `wasm` and `allocator` arms. `resolveECSMemory(...)` exported to inspect
   what an intent resolves to.
 - **Hot-path iteration ergonomics:**
-  - **`query.eachChunk((cols, count) => …)`** — the mutable per-archetype iterator. `cols.mut(def)` /
+  - **`query.eachChunk((cols, count) => …)`**, the mutable per-archetype iterator. `cols.mut(def)` and
     `cols.read(def)` resolve a whole component's field columns at once into a destructurable group
     (`const { x, y } = cols.mut(Pos)`), stamping the change tick once inside `mut` and handing back
     `count` (= `entityCount`). The only mutable column accessor reachable through iteration (the
-    `ArchetypeView` from `forEach` stays read-only). Honours `includeDisabled()`; dense-only like `forEach`.
-  - **`ctx.commands`** — a Bevy-`Commands`-style facade namespacing the **deferred** structural ops
-    (`spawn` / `add` / `remove` / `despawn` / `disable` / `enable`), unambiguously deferred vs the
+    `ArchetypeView` from `forEach` stays read-only). Honours `includeDisabled()`. Dense-only like `forEach`.
+  - **`ctx.commands`**, a Bevy-`Commands`-style facade namespacing the **deferred** structural ops
+    (`spawn`, `add`, `remove`, `despawn`, `disable` and `enable`), unambiguously deferred vs the
     immediate `world.addComponent`.
-  - **Callable bundles** — `bundle(def, values)` pairs a def with field values (omitted fields
-    zero-fill); `world.spawnBundle(...)` (immediate) and `ctx.commands.spawn` / `.add` (deferred)
-    accept a `bundle(...)` or a bare def (tag / all-zero), unifying the attach shapes.
-  - **`ctx.updateField` / `ctx.markChanged`**, and optional-component queries (`query.optional(...)` +
+  - **Callable bundles**, `bundle(def, values)` pairs a def with field values (omitted fields
+    zero-fill). `world.spawnBundle(...)` (immediate) and `ctx.commands.spawn` and `.add` (deferred)
+    accept a `bundle(...)` or a bare def (a tag, or all-zero values), unifying the attach shapes.
+  - **`ctx.updateField` and `ctx.markChanged`**, and optional-component queries (`query.optional(...)` +
     `getOptionalColumnRead`).
-- **Composable change-detection queries** — `query.changed(...)` returns a `ChangedQuery` that now
-  mirrors the dense query verbs (`and` / `without` / `anyOf` / `optional`), so
+- **Composable change-detection queries**, `query.changed(...)` returns a `ChangedQuery` that now
+  mirrors the dense query verbs (`and`, `without`, `anyOf` and `optional`), so
   `q.changed(Pos).without(Dead)` works (refining *after* `changed()`, previously a dead end).
-- **New public exports** — entity-ID codec (`createEntityId` / `getEntityIndex` / `getEntityGeneration`
-  + `MAX_*` bounds) for snapshot/replication decode; the error taxonomy (`ECSError`, `ECS_ERROR`,
-  `isEcsError`) for catch-and-branch; and `@oasys/oecs/primitives` (`BitSet`, `SparseSet`, `SparseMap`,
+- **New public exports**, entity-ID codec (`createEntityId`, `getEntityIndex` and `getEntityGeneration`
+  + `MAX_*` bounds) for snapshot and replication decode. The error taxonomy (`ECSError`, `ECS_ERROR`,
+  `isEcsError`) for catch-and-branch, and `@oasys/oecs/primitives` (`BitSet`, `SparseSet`, `SparseMap`,
   growable typed arrays, `BinaryHeap`, `topologicalSort`).
 
 ### Packaging
 
 - **Multi-entry build** → `dist/` emits ESM + CJS + `.d.ts` for every subpath (`.`, `/primitives`,
-  `/shared`, `/reactive`, `/reactive-sync`, `/editor`, `/solid`); `sideEffects:false` + tree-shaking
-  keep core consumers from pulling SAB / Solid. `solid-js` is an optional peer dependency. `jsr.json`
+  `/shared`, `/reactive`, `/reactive-sync`, `/editor`, `/solid`). `sideEffects:false` + tree-shaking
+  keep core consumers from pulling SAB or Solid. `solid-js` is an optional peer dependency. `jsr.json`
   exports updated.
 
-## [0.3.3] — 2026-04-30
+## [0.3.3] - 2026-04-30
 
 Release-process and packaging hygiene. No runtime changes.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- **JSR bundle slimmed.** `.github/` and `docs/` are now excluded from the published JSR package. Consumers download less; build/CI artefacts stay on GitHub.
+- **JSR bundle slimmed.** `.github/` and `docs/` are now excluded from the published JSR package. Consumers download less. Build and CI artefacts stay on GitHub.
 - **Tag-driven publish workflow.** `.github/workflows/publish.yml` now triggers on `v*` tag pushes instead of every push to `main`, and creates a GitHub Release alongside the JSR publish. Cuts a release by tagging.
 
-## [0.3.2] — 2026-04-30
+## [0.3.2] - 2026-04-30
 
 Documentation-only release. No runtime changes.
 
 ### Added
 
 - **Module overview on `src/index.ts`.** A `@module` block now renders as the JSR Overview tab.
-- **JSDoc on the full public surface.** `ECS` and its public methods, `Query` / `QueryBuilder` / `SystemContext` / `ChangedQuery`, all type aliases and interfaces, the event/resource key minters, and the `SCHEDULE` phases are now documented in-source.
+- **JSDoc on the full public surface.** `ECS` and its public methods, `Query`, `QueryBuilder`, `SystemContext` and `ChangedQuery`, all type aliases and interfaces, the event and resource key minters, and the `SCHEDULE` phases are now documented in-source.
 - **`@internal` tags on internal-but-public TS members** (e.g. `_resolve_query`, `Query._include`, `SystemContext.store`) so JSR hides them from the rendered docs.
 
-## [0.3.1] — 2026-04-23
+## [0.3.1] - 2026-04-23
 
-Performance-only patch release. Two targeted allocation-elimination changes on hot paths; no API changes; full 466-test suite unchanged.
+Performance-only patch release. Two targeted allocation-elimination changes on hot paths. No API changes. Full 466-test suite unchanged.
 
 ### Performance
 
-- **Cache multi-component transition maps on `Archetype`.** `add_components` / `remove_components` on already-populated entities previously allocated a fresh `Int16Array` per call via `build_transition_map`. A per-archetype `batch_transition_maps: Map<ArchetypeID, Int16Array>` now caches the map on first use. Single-component paths unchanged. Measured on the same workload: a higher throughput of `add_components` on an already-populated entity, a much smaller peak heap, and a much smaller peak RSS. ([#9](https://github.com/oasys-works/oecs/pull/9))
+- **Cache multi-component transition maps on `Archetype`.** `add_components` and `remove_components` on already-populated entities previously allocated a fresh `Int16Array` per call via `build_transition_map`. A per-archetype `batch_transition_maps: Map<ArchetypeID, Int16Array>` now caches the map on first use. Single-component paths unchanged. Measured on the same workload: a higher throughput of `add_components` on an already-populated entity, a much smaller peak heap, and a much smaller peak RSS. ([#9](https://github.com/oasys-works/oecs/pull/9))
 - **Per-Query composition cache for single-component composition shapes.** `q.and(X)`, `q.not(X)`, `q.any_of(X)`, and `q.changed(X)` previously allocated a BitSet copy, a defs slice (and, for `.changed`, a new `ChangedQuery`) on every call, even though the resolver already cached the resulting `Query` object. Single-component calls now short-circuit through a per-parent-`Query` Map and skip the allocation path entirely. Multi-component compositions fall through unchanged. Measured on a compose loop with four shapes: a much higher throughput, a much smaller peak heap, and almost no growth of RSS during the workload. ([#10](https://github.com/oasys-works/oecs/pull/10))
 
-## [0.3.0] — 2026-04-21
+## [0.3.0] - 2026-04-21
 
 A substantial release focused on change detection, stricter component-access
 typing, and a simpler key-based API for events and resources. Several public
-entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
+entry points change shape. See the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -687,45 +1644,45 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 
 - Frame-based tick counter on the world. `ECS` now holds a `_tick` that
   advances once per `update()`. Systems can see it via `ctx.world_tick`,
-  and each `SystemContext` receives `last_run_tick` — the tick at which that
+  and each `SystemContext` receives `last_run_tick`, the tick at which that
   system last executed.
 - Per-component change ticks on archetypes. Each archetype tracks
-  `_changed_tick[component_id]` — the tick at which any entity in that
+  `_changed_tick[component_id]`, the tick at which any entity in that
   archetype last had the component mutated. Maintained automatically by
   `write_fields`, `write_fields_positional`, `copy_shared_from`,
   `move_entity_from`, and `bulk_move_all_from`, all of which now accept a
   `tick` parameter.
-- `ChangedQuery<Defs>` — a new query variant, produced by `query.changed(...)`,
+- `ChangedQuery<Defs>`, a new query variant, produced by `query.changed(...)`,
   that restricts iteration to archetypes whose tracked components were
   modified after `last_run_tick`. Validates at construction that the named
   components are part of the parent query's include set.
 
 #### Readonly component views
 
-- `ReadonlyColumn<T>` and `ReadonlyUint32Array` — compile-time readonly views
+- `ReadonlyColumn<T>` and `ReadonlyUint32Array`, compile-time readonly views
   of typed-array columns. Returned by `archetype.get_column()` and the new
   `archetype.entity_ids` getter. Prevents accidental indexed writes at the
-  type level; zero runtime cost.
-- `ReadonlyComponentRef<S>` — readonly variant of `ComponentRef`. Returned by
+  type level. Zero runtime cost.
+- `ReadonlyComponentRef<S>`, readonly variant of `ComponentRef`. Returned by
   `query.ref(...)`. Use it when you only need to read component fields.
-- `archetype.get_column_mut(def, field, tick)` — explicit mutable column
+- `archetype.get_column_mut(def, field, tick)`, explicit mutable column
   accessor. Writes through `get_column_mut` update `_changed_tick`.
-- `query.ref_mut(...)` — mutable sibling of `ref()`. Returns a `ComponentRef`
+- `query.ref_mut(...)`, mutable sibling of `ref()`. Returns a `ComponentRef`
   and records the component as changed for the current tick.
 
 #### Key-based Event API
 
-- `EventKey<F>` — symbol-typed key that carries the event's field schema as
+- `EventKey<F>`, symbol-typed key that carries the event's field schema as
   a phantom type.
-- `event_key<F>(name)` / `signal_key(name)` — factories for module-scope
+- `event_key<F>(name)` and `signal_key(name)`, factories for module-scope
   event keys. `signal_key` is a convenience wrapper for zero-field events.
 
 #### Key-based Resource API
 
-- `ResourceKey<T>` — symbol-typed key carrying the resource's value type as
+- `ResourceKey<T>`, symbol-typed key carrying the resource's value type as
   a phantom type.
-- `resource_key<T>(name)` — factory for module-scope resource keys.
-- `world.has_resource(key)` — existence check.
+- `resource_key<T>(name)`, factory for module-scope resource keys.
+- `world.has_resource(key)`, existence check.
 - Resources are now plain key→value storage. `world.resource(key)` returns
   the stored `T` directly.
 
@@ -738,19 +1695,19 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 
 #### Assertions
 
-- `assert_non_null<T>(value, message?)` in `type_primitives/assertions` —
+- `assert_non_null<T>(value, message?)` in `type_primitives/assertions`, a
   dev-only (`__DEV__` guarded) assertion that narrows `T` to `NonNullable<T>`
   and throws a `TypeError` with contextual info on failure.
 
 #### New primitives
 
-- `BinaryHeap<T>` in `type_primitives/binary_heap` — generic array-backed
+- `BinaryHeap<T>` in `type_primitives/binary_heap`, generic array-backed
   heap with a user-supplied comparator. `push`, `pop`, `peek`, `clear`,
-  `size`. O(log n) push/pop, O(1) peek.
+  `size`. O(log n) push and pop, O(1) peek.
 - `topological_sort<T>(nodes, edges, tiebreaker, node_name?)` in
-  `type_primitives/topological_sort` — Kahn's algorithm with a
+  `type_primitives/topological_sort`. Kahn's algorithm with a
   `BinaryHeap`-backed ready queue for deterministic tie-breaking. Throws
-  `TypeError` on cycles; the schedule layer re-wraps as
+  `TypeError` on cycles. The schedule layer re-wraps as
   `ECSError(CIRCULAR_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCY)`.
 
 #### Public exports
@@ -764,7 +1721,7 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 - Query iteration is callback-based. `Query` no longer implements
   `[Symbol.iterator]`. Iterate with `query.for_each((archetype) => { ... })`.
 - `world.register_event`, `world.register_signal`, and `world.register_resource`
-  return `void` and take an `EventKey` / `ResourceKey` as their first argument.
+  return `void` and take an `EventKey` or a `ResourceKey` as their first argument.
 - `world.emit`, `world.read`, `world.resource`, and `world.set_resource`
   accept keys instead of definition objects. `world.resource(key)` returns
   the typed value `T` directly rather than a field-reader wrapper.
@@ -772,10 +1729,10 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
   `run_update(label, tick)`, and `run_fixed_update(label, tick)` require
   the current frame tick. `ECS.update()` wires this automatically.
 - System ordering now uses the shared `topological_sort` primitive. Observable
-  behavior is unchanged: `before`/`after` constraints respected,
+  behavior is unchanged: `before` and `after` constraints respected,
   `insertion_order` remains the tie-breaker, cycles surface as
   `ECSError(CIRCULAR_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCY)`.
-- Store/query wiring. The store keeps a reference to each active `Query` via
+- Store and query wiring. The store keeps a reference to each active `Query` via
   `update_query_ref` and calls `mark_non_empty_dirty` only when structural
   changes occur, avoiding spurious query rebuilds on stable frames.
 - Bit-manipulation and hash constants (`BITS_PER_WORD`, `BITS_PER_WORD_SHIFT`,
@@ -795,10 +1752,10 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 ### Removed
 
 - `ResourceChannel`, `ResourceDef<F>`, `ResourceReader<F>`, `ResourceID`,
-  `as_resource_id`, and the `__resource_schema` marker symbol — the entire
+  `as_resource_id`, and the `__resource_schema` marker symbol, the entire
   SoA column-based resource storage layer. Resources are now key→value.
-- `RESOURCE_ROW` constant — unused.
-- `EventDef<F>` — replaced by `EventKey<F>`.
+- `RESOURCE_ROW` constant, unused.
+- `EventDef<F>`, replaced by `EventKey<F>`.
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
@@ -814,7 +1771,7 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
    world.emit(DAMAGE, { amount: 5 });
    ```
 
-2. **Resource registration / access.**
+2. **Resource registration and access.**
    ```ts
    // before
    const clock = world.register_resource({ ms: "u32" } as const, { ms: 0 });
@@ -825,7 +1782,7 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
    world.register_resource(CLOCK, { ms: 0 });
    const ms = world.resource(CLOCK).ms;
    ```
-   `world.resource()` returns the stored value directly; the reader wrapper
+   `world.resource()` returns the stored value directly. The reader wrapper
    and the SoA column storage are gone.
 
 3. **Query iteration.**
@@ -838,7 +1795,7 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
    ```
 
 4. **Mutable vs readonly refs.** `query.ref(...)` now returns
-   `ReadonlyComponentRef`. Switch to `query.ref_mut(...)` when writing —
+   `ReadonlyComponentRef`. Switch to `query.ref_mut(...)` when you write, because
    this is also what enables change detection for that component.
 
 5. **Archetype column access.** `archetype.get_column(...)` returns a
@@ -851,4 +1808,4 @@ entry points change shape; see the migration notes under *Breaking changes*.
 
 ## [0.2.1] and earlier
 
-Prior releases — see git history.
+Prior releases, see git history.