@ttsc/unplugin 0.28.1 → 0.28.3

package/lib/core/transform.mjs

@@ -7,6 +7,27 @@ import { TtscCompiler } from 'ttsc';
 import { createFilesystemPathIdentityContext } from 'ttsc/path-identity';
 import { absolutizePathsTarget, readEffectiveTsconfigPaths } from './tsconfigPaths.mjs';
 
+/** A bounded proof failure that stays authoritative until its inputs change. */
+class TtscUnstableGenerationError extends Error {
+    validation;
+    constructor(message, validation) {
+        super(message);
+        this.name = "TtscUnstableGenerationError";
+        this.validation = validation;
+    }
+}
+/** Proof witnesses retained beside a compiler result without extending its API. */
+const TRANSFORM_GENERATION_FAILURES = new WeakMap();
+/** Retry baselines retained only for attempts that could not be published. */
+const TRANSFORM_FAILED_GENERATION_VALIDATIONS = new WeakMap();
+/** Rejected cache promises whose unchanged terminal verdict may be replayed. */
+const TERMINAL_TRANSFORM_GENERATIONS = new WeakMap();
+/** Maximum witnesses printed and retained for each failed transform attempt. */
+const MAX_GENERATION_PROOF_FAILURES = 8;
+/** Maximum exact mutation paths kept after a tracker already proved a change. */
+const MAX_GENERATION_MUTATION_PATHS = 8;
+/** One retry absorbs a transient watch write without admitting an infinite loop. */
+const TRANSFORM_GENERATION_ATTEMPTS = 2;
 const DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS = Object.freeze({
     exists: fs.existsSync,
     lstat: (location) => fs.lstatSync(location, { bigint: true }),
@@ -140,8 +161,27 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
     for (;;) {
         let transformed = cache?.get(key);
         if (transformed !== undefined) {
-            // A rejected in-flight generation must not stay cached: evict it (only if
-            // it is still the current entry) so a later call re-runs the transform.
+            const terminal = TERMINAL_TRANSFORM_GENERATIONS.get(transformed);
+            if (terminal !== undefined) {
+                // A proof failure is a verdict about one observed environment, not an
+                // invitation for every later module to repeat the whole compile. Keep
+                // replaying it until a source/input probe or an explicit cache reset
+                // establishes that a new generation could differ.
+                if (!failedGenerationEnvironmentChanged(terminal.validation, {
+                    currentFile: file,
+                    currentSource: source,
+                    filesystem,
+                })) {
+                    throw terminal;
+                }
+                evictGeneration(cache, key, transformed);
+                if (cache?.get(key) !== undefined) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                transformed = undefined;
+            }
+        }
+        if (transformed !== undefined) {
             const cached = await awaitOrEvict(cache, key, transformed);
             TRANSFORM_RESULT_FILESYSTEM.set(cached.result, filesystem);
             // While this caller awaited the old Promise, another caller may have
@@ -221,20 +261,28 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
     }
 }
 /**
- * Await a cached generation, evicting it on rejection.
+ * Await a cached generation, retaining only terminal proof failures.
  *
  * The cache stores the in-flight transform Promise before it settles so
- * concurrent callers share one compilation. A rejected generation must not
- * remain the authoritative cached result, or a transient toolchain/host failure
- * becomes permanent for a long-lived worker. Eviction is identity-guarded so a
- * newer generation another caller installed under the same key survives.
+ * concurrent callers share one compilation. Ordinary compiler and host
+ * rejections are evicted so a transient failure cannot become permanent. A
+ * bounded stabilization failure is different: it already spent its retry and
+ * repeating it for every later module recreates the issue this gate prevents.
+ * It stays authoritative until its retained input baseline changes or the cache
+ * owner starts a new lifecycle.
  */
 async function awaitOrEvict(cache, key, generation) {
     try {
         return await generation;
     }
     catch (error) {
-        evictGeneration(cache, key, generation);
+        if (error instanceof TtscUnstableGenerationError &&
+            cache?.get(key) === generation) {
+            TERMINAL_TRANSFORM_GENERATIONS.set(generation, error);
+        }
+        else {
+            evictGeneration(cache, key, generation);
+        }
         throw error;
     }
 }
@@ -316,6 +364,7 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
         members: new Set(),
         speculative: new Set(),
         inputProofs: new Map(),
+        inputProofFailures: new Map(),
         inputProofConflicts: new Set(),
     };
     const graph = props.result.type === "exception" ? undefined : props.result.graph;
@@ -333,7 +382,11 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
                 .filter((target) => typeof target === "string" && target.length !== 0)
                 .map((target) => {
                 const absoluteTarget = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, target);
-                built.members.add(derivationIdentity(state, absoluteTarget));
+                const targetIdentity = derivationIdentity(state, absoluteTarget);
+                built.members.add(targetIdentity);
+                if (!built.spellings.has(targetIdentity)) {
+                    built.spellings.set(targetIdentity, absoluteTarget);
+                }
                 return absoluteTarget;
             }));
             built.edges.set(identity, entries);
@@ -341,7 +394,10 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
         built.globals.push(...selectListedFiles(props.projectRoot, graph.globals));
         built.configs.push(...selectListedFiles(props.projectRoot, graph.configs));
         for (const input of [...built.globals, ...built.configs]) {
-            built.members.add(derivationIdentity(state, input));
+            const identity = derivationIdentity(state, input);
+            built.members.add(identity);
+            if (!built.spellings.has(identity))
+                built.spellings.set(identity, input);
         }
         const candidateEntries = Object.entries(graph.candidates ?? {}).filter((entry) => Array.isArray(entry[1]));
         // Every candidate source is an importing file the compiler read, so fold
@@ -349,7 +405,12 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
         // candidate could be classified speculative before a later entry proves
         // the same path is a realized source.
         for (const [source] of candidateEntries) {
-            built.members.add(derivationIdentity(state, path.resolve(props.projectRoot, source)));
+            const absoluteSource = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, source);
+            const identity = derivationIdentity(state, absoluteSource);
+            built.members.add(identity);
+            if (!built.spellings.has(identity)) {
+                built.spellings.set(identity, absoluteSource);
+            }
         }
         const realized = new Set(built.members);
         for (const [source, candidates] of candidateEntries) {
@@ -367,6 +428,17 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
                 if (!realized.has(identity))
                     built.speculative.add(identity);
                 built.members.add(identity);
+                if (!built.spellings.has(identity)) {
+                    built.spellings.set(identity, path.resolve(props.projectRoot, candidate));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        const transformSources = new Set();
+        if (props.result.type === "success") {
+            for (const output of Object.keys(props.result.typescript)) {
+                if (!isDeclarationFile(output)) {
+                    transformSources.add(derivationIdentity(state, path.resolve(props.projectRoot, output)));
+                }
             }
         }
         for (const [input, hash] of Object.entries(graph.inputHashes ?? {})) {
@@ -386,8 +458,9 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
             }
             const absolute = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, input);
             const identity = derivationIdentity(state, absolute);
-            if (!built.members.has(identity))
+            if (!built.members.has(identity) && !transformSources.has(identity)) {
                 continue;
+            }
             const proof = {
                 hash,
                 path: absolute,
@@ -404,6 +477,23 @@ function envelopeGraphIndexes(state, props) {
                 built.inputProofs.set(identity, proof);
             }
         }
+        for (const [input, reason] of Object.entries(graph.inputProofFailures ?? {})) {
+            if (typeof reason !== "string" || !/^[a-z0-9-]{1,64}$/.test(reason)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            const absolute = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, input);
+            const identity = derivationIdentity(state, absolute);
+            if (!built.members.has(identity) && !transformSources.has(identity)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (built.inputProofs.has(identity)) {
+                built.inputProofs.delete(identity);
+                built.inputProofConflicts.add(identity);
+            }
+            if (!built.inputProofFailures.has(identity)) {
+                built.inputProofFailures.set(identity, reason);
+            }
+        }
     }
     state.graph = built;
     return built;
@@ -450,8 +540,9 @@ function collectDeclaredIdentities(state, projectRoot, listed) {
  * Envelope keys mirror the `typescript` keys (project-relative); values may be
  * project-relative or absolute. Every path is absolutized against the project
  * root and deduplicated; the file itself is dropped (the bundler already
- * watches the module it transforms), and so is the disposed temp-dir tsconfig
- * (see {@link TtscCachedProjectTransform.temporaryTsconfig}).
+ * watches the module it transforms), and so is every path in the disposed
+ * transform scratch tree (see
+ * {@link TtscCachedProjectTransform.scratchDirectory}).
  */
 function notifyWatchInputs(hooks, cached, file) {
     const addWatchFile = hooks?.addWatchFile;
@@ -464,6 +555,7 @@ function notifyWatchInputs(hooks, cached, file) {
         file,
         projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
         result: cached.result,
+        scratchDirectory: cached.scratchDirectory,
         temporaryTsconfig: cached.temporaryTsconfig,
     })) {
         // Hand the adapter the identity this generation already resolved and the
@@ -533,6 +625,7 @@ function deriveWatchInputs(state, props, fileIdentity) {
         const spelling = path.resolve(input);
         if (spelling === currentSpelling ||
             spelling === temporarySpelling ||
+            isTransformScratchInput(spelling, props.scratchDirectory) ||
             lexicalSeen.has(spelling)) {
             return;
         }
@@ -541,6 +634,8 @@ function deriveWatchInputs(state, props, fileIdentity) {
         output.push(input);
     };
     const appendPhysical = (input) => {
+        if (isTransformScratchInput(input, props.scratchDirectory))
+            return;
         const identity = derivationIdentity(state, input);
         if (excluded.has(identity) || physicalSeen.has(identity))
             return;
@@ -784,11 +879,22 @@ function stripQuery(id) {
     return query === -1 ? id : id.slice(0, query);
 }
 /**
- * Returns `true` for TypeScript declaration files (`.d.ts`, `.d.mts`,
- * `.d.cts`).
+ * Returns `true` for every declaration-file spelling TypeScript-Go accepts.
+ * Besides the standard `.d.ts`, `.d.mts`, and `.d.cts` forms, TypeScript-Go
+ * treats an arbitrary-extension source such as `styles.d.css.ts` as a
+ * declaration file too.
  */
 function isDeclarationFile(id) {
-    return id.endsWith(".d.ts") || id.endsWith(".d.mts") || id.endsWith(".d.cts");
+    // Module ids can cross process/platform boundaries (for example, a Windows
+    // id inspected by a POSIX host). TypeScript-Go normalizes both separators
+    // before taking the basename, so a `.d.` directory component must not turn
+    // an ordinary source into a declaration file.
+    const normalized = id.replaceAll("\\", "/");
+    const base = normalized.slice(normalized.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);
+    return (base.endsWith(".d.ts") ||
+        base.endsWith(".d.mts") ||
+        base.endsWith(".d.cts") ||
+        (base.endsWith(".ts") && base.includes(".d.")));
 }
 /**
  * Returns `true` when the caller has explicitly opted out of all plugins. An
@@ -828,7 +934,11 @@ function createTransformResult(source, code) {
 function matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, buildScoped) {
     const identities = envelopeDerivation(cached).identityContext;
     const currentKey = toProjectKey(cached.projectRoot, file, identities);
-    if (cached.inputHashes[currentKey] !== hashText(source)) {
+    const identity = pathIdentityKey(file, identities);
+    const expected = cached.sourceHashes?.[identity] ??
+        cached.inputHashes[currentKey] ??
+        cached.externalInputHashes?.[identity];
+    if (expected !== hashText(source)) {
         return false;
     }
     if (buildScoped &&
@@ -884,6 +994,7 @@ function matchesNarrowPersistentInputs(cached, file) {
         file,
         projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
         result: cached.result,
+        scratchDirectory: cached.scratchDirectory,
         temporaryTsconfig: cached.temporaryTsconfig,
     });
     for (const input of inputs) {
@@ -1102,6 +1213,7 @@ function isMissingPathError(error) {
 function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
     const filesystem = resultFilesystem(cached.result);
     const state = envelopeDerivation(cached);
+    const failures = createGenerationProofFailures();
     const validation = {
         entries: new Map(),
         covered: new Set(),
@@ -1111,6 +1223,7 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         filesystem,
         projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
         result: cached.result,
+        scratchDirectory: cached.scratchDirectory,
         temporaryTsconfig: cached.temporaryTsconfig,
     })) {
         const generationHashes = cached.result.type === "exception"
@@ -1126,8 +1239,14 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         let readable = false;
         if (expected === undefined) {
             const current = path.resolve(currentFile);
-            if (path.resolve(input) !== current)
-                return undefined;
+            if (path.resolve(input) !== current) {
+                recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                    domain: "host",
+                    kind: "content-proof-missing",
+                    path: input,
+                });
+                return { failures };
+            }
             // The current module may be supplied from an unsaved editor buffer. Its
             // generation snapshot is overlaid below from `currentSource`, so a disk
             // fingerprint would be both unavailable and the wrong authority. The
@@ -1137,7 +1256,12 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         else {
             const current = hostInputStateHash(input, filesystem);
             if (expected !== current) {
-                return undefined;
+                recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                    domain: "host",
+                    kind: "content-changed",
+                    path: input,
+                });
+                return { failures };
             }
             // A path both sides agree they could not read carries no bytes for a
             // signature to stand for. It still belongs in the manifest, so the
@@ -1148,16 +1272,35 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         if (generationRealpaths !== undefined) {
             if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(generationRealpaths, absoluteInput) ||
                 !sameHostInputRealpath(generationRealpaths[absoluteInput], hostInputRealpath(input, filesystem), state.identityContext)) {
-                return undefined;
+                recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                    domain: "host",
+                    kind: Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(generationRealpaths, absoluteInput)
+                        ? "realpath-changed"
+                        : "realpath-proof-missing",
+                    path: input,
+                });
+                return { failures };
             }
         }
         validation.covered.add(path.resolve(input));
         const before = inputMetadataEvidence(input, filesystem);
-        if (!matchesRecordedInput(cached, input))
-            return undefined;
+        if (!matchesRecordedInput(cached, input)) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "host",
+                kind: "snapshot-mismatch",
+                path: input,
+            });
+            return { failures };
+        }
         const after = inputMetadataSignature(input, filesystem);
-        if (before?.signature !== after)
-            return undefined;
+        if (before?.signature !== after) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "host",
+                kind: "changed-during-validation",
+                path: input,
+            });
+            return { failures };
+        }
         if (before !== undefined) {
             // Do not key this manifest by physical identity. A symlink/junction
             // spelling and its selected target deliberately share that identity,
@@ -1177,8 +1320,14 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         const probe = missingPathProbe(input, filesystem);
         if (probe.blocker !== undefined) {
             const signature = inputMetadataSignature(probe.blocker, filesystem);
-            if (signature === undefined)
-                return undefined;
+            if (signature === undefined) {
+                recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                    domain: "host",
+                    kind: "blocker-metadata-unavailable",
+                    path: probe.blocker,
+                });
+                return { failures };
+            }
             // A blocker proves a kind and an identity, not content: it is the
             // non-directory ancestor that makes everything below it unreachable, and
             // it cannot stop being that without its metadata moving. So it keeps a
@@ -1205,7 +1354,7 @@ function captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, currentFile) {
         names.add(normalizeHostInputName(probe.name, state.identityContext.caseSensitive(probe.directory)));
     }
     cached.hostInputValidation = validation;
-    return validation;
+    return { failures, validation };
 }
 /**
  * The recorded state of an input the generation read nothing from: absent, or
@@ -1510,7 +1659,9 @@ function matchesCompleteInputSnapshot(cached, currentKey, source) {
     if (!sameProjectDirectories(cached.projectDirectories, current.projectDirectories)) {
         return false;
     }
-    current.hashes[currentKey] = hashText(source);
+    if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(cached.inputHashes, currentKey)) {
+        current.hashes[currentKey] = hashText(source);
+    }
     if (!sameHashes(cached.inputHashes, current.hashes, declaredInputs)) {
         return false;
     }
@@ -1578,18 +1729,30 @@ function matchesExternalInputRealpaths(cached) {
 }
 /**
  * Capture external-input hashes without attaching post-compile state to an
- * earlier graph. Graph members must carry compiler-time proof and still match
- * it now; plugin-declared dependency-only paths retain the historical
- * post-compile snapshot because their own protocol does not claim generation
- * fingerprints.
+ * earlier graph. Graph members and out-of-walk transformed sources must carry
+ * compiler-time proof and still match it now; plugin-declared dependency-only
+ * paths retain the historical post-compile snapshot because their own protocol
+ * does not claim generation fingerprints.
  */
 function captureExternalInputSnapshot(cached, paths) {
     const state = envelopeDerivation(cached);
     const filesystem = resultFilesystem(cached.result);
     const graph = envelopeGraphIndexes(state, cached);
+    // A non-declaration transform output is a compiler-realized source even when
+    // a malformed or legacy graph omitted its node. Its output was computed from
+    // compiler-time bytes, so a post-compile host read cannot prove coherence.
+    const transformSources = new Set();
+    if (cached.result.type === "success") {
+        for (const output of Object.keys(cached.result.typescript)) {
+            if (!isDeclarationFile(output)) {
+                transformSources.add(derivationIdentity(state, path.resolve(cached.projectRoot, output)));
+            }
+        }
+    }
     const hashes = {};
     const realpaths = {};
     const signatures = {};
+    const failures = createGenerationProofFailures();
     let complete = true;
     // Sandwich every read between two metadata signatures. Only a signature that
     // survived its own read, and whose stamp's tick the filesystem's clock has
@@ -1607,21 +1770,47 @@ function captureExternalInputSnapshot(cached, paths) {
         // through to the recorded-state branch below, the same evidence a
         // plugin-declared dependency path carries. Its absence still invalidates
         // the generation when it appears, because `missing` is recorded state.
-        const speculativeOnly = graph.speculative.has(identity) &&
+        const realizedTransformSource = transformSources.has(identity);
+        const speculativeOnly = !realizedTransformSource &&
+            graph.speculative.has(identity) &&
             !graph.inputProofs.has(identity) &&
             !graph.inputProofConflicts.has(identity);
-        if (graph.members.has(identity) && !speculativeOnly) {
+        if ((realizedTransformSource || graph.members.has(identity)) &&
+            !speculativeOnly) {
             const proof = graph.inputProofs.get(identity);
             if (proof === undefined || graph.inputProofConflicts.has(identity)) {
                 complete = false;
+                recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                    domain: "external",
+                    kind: graph.inputProofConflicts.has(identity)
+                        ? "graph-proof-conflict"
+                        : "graph-proof-missing",
+                    detail: graph.inputProofFailures.get(identity),
+                    path: input,
+                });
                 continue;
             }
             const before = inputMetadataEvidence(input, filesystem);
             const currentHash = graphInputStateHash(input, filesystem);
+            const currentRealpath = hostInputRealpath(input, filesystem);
             const after = inputMetadataSignature(input, filesystem);
-            if (currentHash !== proof.hash ||
-                !sameHostInputRealpath(proof.realpath, hostInputRealpath(input, filesystem), state.identityContext)) {
+            const realpathMatches = sameHostInputRealpath(proof.realpath, currentRealpath, state.identityContext);
+            if (currentHash !== proof.hash || !realpathMatches) {
                 complete = false;
+                if (currentHash !== proof.hash) {
+                    recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                        domain: "external",
+                        kind: "graph-content-changed",
+                        path: input,
+                    });
+                }
+                if (!realpathMatches) {
+                    recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                        domain: "external",
+                        kind: "graph-realpath-changed",
+                        path: input,
+                    });
+                }
             }
             else if (currentHash !== null) {
                 // The recorded hash is the compiler's own proof, so a signature may
@@ -1641,27 +1830,30 @@ function captureExternalInputSnapshot(cached, paths) {
         if (hash !== null)
             record(input, before, after);
     }
-    return { complete, hashes, realpaths, signatures };
+    return { complete, failures, hashes, realpaths, signatures };
 }
-/** Verify every graph member still has the state read by the compiler. */
-function matchesCompilerGraphInputProofs(cached) {
+/** Explain every graph member that no longer matches the compiler's state. */
+function compilerGraphInputProofFailures(cached) {
+    const failures = createGenerationProofFailures();
     if (cached.result.type === "exception" ||
         cached.result.graph === undefined ||
         (cached.result.graph.inputHashes === undefined &&
-            cached.result.graph.inputRealpaths === undefined)) {
+            cached.result.graph.inputRealpaths === undefined &&
+            cached.result.graph.inputProofFailures === undefined)) {
         // Legacy sidecars remain compatible for ordinary in-project graphs. Their
         // out-of-walk members are still rejected by captureExternalInputSnapshot,
         // where a post-compile snapshot cannot prove the compiler's generation.
-        return true;
+        return failures;
     }
     const state = envelopeDerivation(cached);
     const filesystem = resultFilesystem(cached.result);
     const graph = envelopeGraphIndexes(state, cached);
-    if (graph.inputProofConflicts.size !== 0) {
-        return false;
-    }
     for (const identity of graph.members) {
         const proof = graph.inputProofs.get(identity);
+        const spelling = proof?.path ?? graph.spellings.get(identity) ?? cached.projectRoot;
+        if (isTransformScratchInput(spelling, cached.scratchDirectory)) {
+            continue;
+        }
         // A speculative candidate has no compile-time read to prove. Requiring one
         // would void every generation of every project whose resolution passes over
         // a higher-priority spelling, which is every project with a dependency
@@ -1670,13 +1862,41 @@ function matchesCompilerGraphInputProofs(cached) {
         if (proof === undefined && graph.speculative.has(identity)) {
             continue;
         }
-        if (proof === undefined ||
-            graphInputStateHash(proof.path, filesystem) !== proof.hash ||
-            !sameHostInputRealpath(proof.realpath, hostInputRealpath(proof.path, filesystem), state.identityContext)) {
-            return false;
+        if (graph.inputProofConflicts.has(identity)) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "graph",
+                kind: "proof-conflict",
+                detail: graph.inputProofFailures.get(identity),
+                path: spelling,
+            });
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (proof === undefined) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "graph",
+                kind: "proof-missing",
+                detail: graph.inputProofFailures.get(identity),
+                path: spelling,
+            });
+            continue;
+        }
+        const currentHash = graphInputStateHash(proof.path, filesystem);
+        if (currentHash !== proof.hash) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "graph",
+                kind: "content-changed",
+                path: proof.path,
+            });
+        }
+        if (!sameHostInputRealpath(proof.realpath, hostInputRealpath(proof.path, filesystem), state.identityContext)) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "graph",
+                kind: "realpath-changed",
+                path: proof.path,
+            });
         }
     }
-    return true;
+    return failures;
 }
 /** Compare one derived input with the snapshot that owned it at generation. */
 function matchesRecordedInput(cached, input) {
@@ -1735,6 +1955,7 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
     const unstableFiles = new Set();
     let attributed = true;
     const walked = walkProjectInputs(projectRoot, filesystem);
+    const walkFailures = [...walked.failures];
     let complete = walked.complete;
     for (const file of walked.files) {
         try {
@@ -1762,6 +1983,7 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
                 before.signature !== after) {
                 complete = false;
                 unstableFiles.add(key);
+                walkFailures.push({ kind: "file-changed-during-read", path: file });
             }
             else {
                 fileSignatures[key] = after;
@@ -1778,6 +2000,7 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
             // File watchers may observe a transform while another process is moving
             // or deleting files. The missing key invalidates older cache entries.
             complete = false;
+            walkFailures.push({ kind: "file-read-failed", path: file });
             try {
                 unstableFiles.add(toProjectKey(projectRoot, file, identities));
             }
@@ -1796,6 +2019,7 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
         projectDirectories: walked.directories,
         provenSignatures,
         unstableFiles,
+        walkFailures,
     };
 }
 /**
@@ -1809,6 +2033,7 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
 function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
     let complete = true;
     const directories = [];
+    const failures = [];
     const files = [];
     const stack = [root];
     while (stack.length !== 0) {
@@ -1816,6 +2041,10 @@ function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
         const before = projectDirectorySignature(current, filesystem);
         if (before === undefined) {
             complete = false;
+            failures.push({
+                kind: "directory-metadata-unavailable",
+                path: current,
+            });
             continue;
         }
         let entries;
@@ -1824,11 +2053,18 @@ function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
         }
         catch {
             complete = false;
+            failures.push({ kind: "directory-read-failed", path: current });
             continue;
         }
         const after = projectDirectorySignature(current, filesystem);
         if (after === undefined || before !== after) {
             complete = false;
+            failures.push({
+                kind: after === undefined
+                    ? "directory-metadata-unavailable"
+                    : "directory-changed-during-walk",
+                path: current,
+            });
         }
         directories.push({
             path: current,
@@ -1854,7 +2090,7 @@ function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
     }
     directories.sort((left, right) => left.path.localeCompare(right.path));
     files.sort();
-    return { complete, directories, files };
+    return { complete, directories, failures, files };
 }
 /** Return a cheap identity for one directory's immediate membership. */
 function projectDirectorySignature(directory, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
@@ -1902,6 +2138,8 @@ function openDirectoryWatch(filesystem, directory, listener, onError) {
 /** Watch every walked directory for membership changes after generation. */
 async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
     const tracker = {
+        changes: new Set(),
+        changesOmitted: false,
         close: () => undefined,
         failed: false,
         membershipChanged: false,
@@ -1918,9 +2156,12 @@ async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FI
     };
     for (const directory of directories) {
         try {
-            watchers.push(openDirectoryWatch(filesystem, directory.path, (eventType) => {
-                if (eventType === "rename")
-                    tracker.membershipChanged = true;
+            watchers.push(openDirectoryWatch(filesystem, directory.path, (eventType, filename) => {
+                if (eventType === "rename") {
+                    recordProjectMutation(tracker, filename === null
+                        ? directory.path
+                        : path.join(directory.path, filename));
+                }
             }, () => {
                 tracker.failed = true;
             }));
@@ -1956,6 +2197,8 @@ async function createHostInputMutationTracker(inputs, filesystem, covered, event
         names: [...location.names],
     }));
     const tracker = {
+        changes: new Set(),
+        changesOmitted: false,
         close: () => undefined,
         // Coverage is the caller's claim, and it is required rather than derived
         // from the input list: an input is watched by its exact name here, but only
@@ -1989,7 +2232,9 @@ async function createHostInputMutationTracker(inputs, filesystem, covered, event
                     ? null
                     : normalizeHostInputName(filename, caseSensitive);
                 if (reported === null || names.has(reported)) {
-                    tracker.membershipChanged = true;
+                    recordProjectMutation(tracker, filename === null
+                        ? location.directory
+                        : path.join(location.directory, filename));
                 }
             }, () => {
                 tracker.failed = true;
@@ -2001,6 +2246,18 @@ async function createHostInputMutationTracker(inputs, filesystem, covered, event
     }
     return tracker;
 }
+/** Record enough exact mutation evidence without retaining an event stream. */
+function recordProjectMutation(tracker, changed) {
+    tracker.membershipChanged = true;
+    if (tracker.changes.has(changed))
+        return;
+    if (tracker.changes.size < MAX_GENERATION_MUTATION_PATHS) {
+        tracker.changes.add(changed);
+    }
+    else {
+        tracker.changesOmitted = true;
+    }
+}
 let windowsProjectMutationBroker;
 /**
  * Register directory watches in an isolated Windows process.
@@ -2126,7 +2383,14 @@ function getWindowsProjectMutationBroker() {
         if (record.ready === true)
             registration.ready();
         if (record.ready !== true && record.failed !== true) {
-            registration.tracker.membershipChanged = true;
+            if (typeof record.directory === "string") {
+                recordProjectMutation(registration.tracker, typeof record.filename === "string"
+                    ? path.join(record.directory, record.filename)
+                    : record.directory);
+            }
+            else {
+                registration.tracker.membershipChanged = true;
+            }
         }
     });
     windowsProjectMutationBroker = broker;
@@ -2210,7 +2474,7 @@ const WINDOWS_WATCH_BROKER_SOURCE = [
     "      const names = location.names === undefined ? undefined : new Set(location.names.map((name) => name.toLowerCase()));",
     "      const watcher = fs.watch(location.directory, { persistent: false }, (event, filename) => {",
     "        const matches = names === undefined || filename === null || names.has(String(filename).toLowerCase());",
-    '        if (matches && (message.allEvents || event === "rename")) process.send?.({ id: message.id });',
+    '        if (matches && (message.allEvents || event === "rename")) process.send?.({ directory: location.directory, filename: filename === null ? null : String(filename), id: message.id });',
     "      });",
     '      watcher.on("error", () => process.send?.({ failed: true, id: message.id }));',
     "      watchers.push(watcher);",
@@ -2417,12 +2681,13 @@ function matchesCachedExternalInputs(cached) {
 }
 /**
  * Derive the absolute out-of-walk input set of a whole project transform: the
- * union of every reference-graph member (edge keys and targets, globals, the
- * config chain) and every plugin-reported dependency, minus everything the
- * project walk already hashes and the disposed temp-dir tsconfig. These are the
- * inputs {@link matchesCachedSource}'s walk cannot see. Resolution candidates
- * that are still missing remain in this set even under the project root: the
- * first walk cannot hash a file that has not been created yet.
+ * union of every transformed source key, reference-graph member (edge keys and
+ * targets, globals, the config chain), and plugin-reported dependency, minus
+ * everything the project walk already hashes and the disposed transform scratch
+ * tree. These are the inputs {@link matchesCachedSource}'s walk cannot see.
+ * Resolution candidates that are still missing remain in this set even under
+ * the project root: the first walk cannot hash a file that has not been created
+ * yet.
  *
  * A `dependenciesComplete` declaration deliberately does not narrow the stored
  * set: other files in the same whole-project result can still own the omitted
@@ -2439,6 +2704,10 @@ function selectExternalInputPaths(props) {
     const identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(filesystem);
     const resolutionCandidates = new Set();
     const graph = props.result.graph;
+    // Every transform output key names the source file whose transformed text it
+    // carries. Keep an out-of-walk source in the external snapshot instead of
+    // injecting it into the project-walk key universe (samchon/ttsc#252).
+    members.push(...Object.keys(props.result.typescript));
     if (graph !== undefined) {
         for (const [source, targets] of Object.entries(graph.edges ?? {})) {
             members.push(source);
@@ -2495,6 +2764,7 @@ function selectExternalInputPaths(props) {
         const identity = pathIdentityKey(absolute, identities);
         const missingCandidate = resolutionCandidates.has(identity) && !filesystem.exists(absolute);
         if (identity === excluded ||
+            isTransformScratchInput(absolute, props.scratchDirectory) ||
             seen.has(spelling) ||
             (!missingCandidate &&
                 isProjectWalkPath(props.projectRoot, absolute, identities, filesystem))) {
@@ -2558,6 +2828,7 @@ function selectNotifiableAbsentInputs(props) {
             const absolute = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, candidate);
             const spelling = path.resolve(absolute);
             if (seen.has(spelling) ||
+                isTransformScratchInput(absolute, props.scratchDirectory) ||
                 (excluded !== undefined &&
                     pathIdentityKey(absolute, identities) === excluded) ||
                 props.filesystem.exists(absolute)) {
@@ -2730,6 +3001,103 @@ function walkSnapshotComplete(snapshot, declared) {
     }
     return true;
 }
+/** Preserve exact project-walk and mutation witnesses for one failed attempt. */
+function recordProjectSnapshotFailures(failures, props) {
+    const recordWalk = (snapshot) => {
+        for (const failure of snapshot.walkFailures) {
+            if (failure.kind.startsWith("file-") && props.declared !== undefined) {
+                try {
+                    const key = toProjectKey(props.projectRoot, failure.path, props.identities);
+                    if (!props.declared.has(key))
+                        continue;
+                }
+                catch {
+                    // An unidentifiable failed input taints the complete project walk.
+                }
+            }
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind: failure.kind,
+                path: failure.path,
+            });
+        }
+    };
+    recordWalk(props.before);
+    recordWalk(props.snapshot);
+    const keys = props.declared ??
+        new Set([
+            ...Object.keys(props.before.hashes),
+            ...Object.keys(props.snapshot.hashes),
+        ]);
+    for (const key of keys) {
+        if (props.before.hashes[key] !== props.snapshot.hashes[key]) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind: "input-content-changed",
+                path: path.resolve(props.projectRoot, key),
+            });
+        }
+        if (props.before.fileSignatures[key] !== props.snapshot.fileSignatures[key]) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind: "input-metadata-changed",
+                path: path.resolve(props.projectRoot, key),
+            });
+        }
+    }
+    const leftDirectories = new Map(props.before.projectDirectories.map((entry) => [
+        entry.path,
+        entry.signature,
+    ]));
+    const rightDirectories = new Map(props.snapshot.projectDirectories.map((entry) => [
+        entry.path,
+        entry.signature,
+    ]));
+    for (const directory of new Set([
+        ...leftDirectories.keys(),
+        ...rightDirectories.keys(),
+    ])) {
+        if (leftDirectories.get(directory) !== rightDirectories.get(directory)) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind: "directory-membership-changed",
+                path: directory,
+            });
+        }
+    }
+    const recordTracker = (tracker, kind) => {
+        if (tracker?.membershipChanged !== true)
+            return;
+        if (tracker.changes.size === 0) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind,
+                path: props.projectRoot,
+            });
+            return;
+        }
+        for (const changed of tracker.changes) {
+            recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+                domain: "project",
+                kind,
+                path: changed,
+            });
+        }
+        if (tracker.changesOmitted) {
+            failures.omitted = Math.min(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, failures.omitted + 1);
+        }
+    };
+    recordTracker(props.tracker, "project-membership-event");
+    recordTracker(props.hostInputTracker, "host-input-event");
+    recordTracker(props.candidateTracker, "candidate-event");
+    if (failures.entries.length === 0) {
+        recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, {
+            domain: "project",
+            kind: "snapshot-incomplete",
+            path: props.projectRoot,
+        });
+    }
+}
 /** {@link selectDeclaredProjectInputKeys} memoized per envelope generation. */
 function declaredProjectInputKeys(state, cached) {
     if (state.declaredInputKeysBuilt !== true) {
@@ -2737,6 +3105,7 @@ function declaredProjectInputKeys(state, cached) {
             identities: state.identityContext,
             projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
             result: cached.result,
+            scratchDirectory: cached.scratchDirectory,
         });
         state.declaredInputKeysBuilt = true;
     }
@@ -2757,7 +3126,10 @@ function selectDeclaredProjectInputKeys(props) {
     const add = (entry) => {
         if (typeof entry !== "string" || entry.length === 0)
             return;
-        keys.add(toProjectKey(props.projectRoot, path.resolve(props.projectRoot, entry), props.identities));
+        const absolute = path.resolve(props.projectRoot, entry);
+        if (isTransformScratchInput(absolute, props.scratchDirectory))
+            return;
+        keys.add(toProjectKey(props.projectRoot, absolute, props.identities));
     };
     for (const [source, targets] of Object.entries(graph.edges ?? {})) {
         add(source);
@@ -2789,46 +3161,231 @@ function selectDeclaredProjectInputKeys(props) {
     }
     return keys;
 }
+/** Create an empty bounded witness collection for one transform attempt. */
+function createGenerationProofFailures() {
+    return { entries: [], omitted: 0, seen: new Set() };
+}
+/** Retain one unique proof witness without allowing diagnostics to grow freely. */
+function recordGenerationProofFailure(failures, failure) {
+    const key = JSON.stringify([
+        failure.domain,
+        failure.kind,
+        failure.path,
+        failure.detail,
+    ]);
+    if (failures.seen.has(key))
+        return;
+    if (failures.entries.length < MAX_GENERATION_PROOF_FAILURES) {
+        // `seen` follows the same bound as `entries`: retaining every discarded
+        // identity would make a bounded diagnostic an unbounded memory sink.
+        failures.seen.add(key);
+        failures.entries.push(failure);
+    }
+    else {
+        failures.omitted = Math.min(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, failures.omitted + 1);
+    }
+}
+/** Fold one bounded witness collection into another. */
+function mergeGenerationProofFailures(target, source) {
+    for (const failure of source.entries) {
+        recordGenerationProofFailure(target, failure);
+    }
+    target.omitted = Math.min(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, target.omitted + source.omitted);
+}
+/** Hash the declared-input-relevant failure shape without retaining it. */
+function projectWalkFailureFingerprint(snapshot, declared, projectRoot, identities) {
+    const relevantUnstableFiles = declared === undefined
+        ? [...snapshot.unstableFiles]
+        : [...snapshot.unstableFiles].filter((key) => declared.has(key));
+    const relevantFailures = snapshot.walkFailures.filter((failure) => {
+        if (!failure.kind.startsWith("file-"))
+            return true;
+        if (declared === undefined)
+            return true;
+        try {
+            return declared.has(toProjectKey(projectRoot, failure.path, identities));
+        }
+        catch {
+            return true;
+        }
+    });
+    return hashText(JSON.stringify({
+        complete: walkSnapshotComplete(snapshot, declared),
+        directoryComplete: snapshot.directoryComplete,
+        failures: relevantFailures
+            .map((failure) => `${failure.kind}\0${path.resolve(failure.path)}`)
+            .sort(),
+        unstableFiles: relevantUnstableFiles.sort(),
+    }));
+}
+/** Compact state of one exact out-of-walk input in a failed generation. */
+function failedGenerationInputState(input, filesystem) {
+    let directory = "not-directory";
+    try {
+        if (filesystem.stat(input).isDirectory()) {
+            directory = hashText(filesystem
+                .readdir(input)
+                .map((entry) => [
+                entry.name,
+                entry.isDirectory(),
+                entry.isFile(),
+                entry.isSymbolicLink(),
+            ].join(":"))
+                .sort()
+                .join("\0"));
+        }
+    }
+    catch {
+        directory = "unavailable";
+    }
+    return hashText(JSON.stringify([
+        inputMetadataSignature(input, filesystem) ?? "missing",
+        hostInputStateHash(input, filesystem) ?? MISSING_INPUT_STATE,
+        hostInputRealpath(input, filesystem),
+        directory,
+    ]));
+}
+/** Snapshot every input outside the project walk that could change a retry. */
+function captureFailedGenerationInputStates(cached, failures) {
+    const filesystem = resultFilesystem(cached.result);
+    const inputs = new Set((cached.externalInputPaths ?? []).map((input) => path.resolve(input)));
+    for (const input of selectPersistentHostInputs({
+        filesystem,
+        projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
+        result: cached.result,
+        scratchDirectory: cached.scratchDirectory,
+        temporaryTsconfig: cached.temporaryTsconfig,
+    })) {
+        inputs.add(path.resolve(input));
+    }
+    for (const failure of failures.entries) {
+        if (failure.path !== undefined)
+            inputs.add(path.resolve(failure.path));
+    }
+    return new Map([...inputs]
+        .sort()
+        .map((input) => [input, failedGenerationInputState(input, filesystem)]));
+}
+/** Capture source baselines for project and out-of-walk transform outputs. */
+function captureTransformSourceHashes(cached, currentFile, currentSourceHash) {
+    const filesystem = resultFilesystem(cached.result);
+    const identities = envelopeDerivation(cached).identityContext;
+    const hashes = {};
+    if (cached.result.type === "success") {
+        for (const output of Object.keys(cached.result.typescript)) {
+            const file = path.resolve(cached.projectRoot, output);
+            const hash = hostInputStateHash(file, filesystem);
+            if (hash !== null)
+                hashes[pathIdentityKey(file, identities)] = hash;
+        }
+    }
+    hashes[pathIdentityKey(currentFile, identities)] = currentSourceHash;
+    return hashes;
+}
 /**
- * Project roots already told they cannot reuse a compile, so a build reports
- * the condition once instead of once per module.
- */
-const REPORTED_UNREUSABLE_GENERATIONS = new Set();
-/**
- * Report, once per project root, that a generation cannot be reused.
+ * Whether a terminal proof failure's observed environment actually changed.
  *
- * Every module of the build then recompiles the whole project, so the condition
- * is the difference between one compile and one compile per module. It stayed
- * invisible for the whole life of samchon/ttsc#970: consumers saw only a build
- * that never finished, and each investigation had to rediscover the cause from
- * outside. A named reason turns the next occurrence into a bug report instead
- * of an archaeology session.
- */
-function reportUnreusableGeneration(cached, evidence) {
-    const missing = [
-        ...(evidence.walkStable ? [] : ["a stable project snapshot"]),
-        ...(evidence.graphProofs ? [] : ["compiler proofs for its graph inputs"]),
-        ...(evidence.externalInputs
-            ? []
-            : ["a complete out-of-walk input snapshot"]),
-        ...(evidence.universalInputs ? [] : ["a universal host-input manifest"]),
-    ];
-    const key = `${cached.projectRoot}\0${missing.join(",")}`;
-    if (REPORTED_UNREUSABLE_GENERATIONS.has(key)) {
-        return;
+ * This is deliberately a confirmation test: inability to re-probe retains the
+ * old verdict instead of turning every module request into another compile.
+ * Cache lifecycle reset remains the unconditional recovery boundary.
+ */
+function failedGenerationEnvironmentChanged(validation, props) {
+    try {
+        const identities = envelopeDerivation(validation.cached).identityContext;
+        const currentSourceHash = hashText(props.currentSource);
+        const expectedSourceHash = validation.cached.sourceHashes?.[pathIdentityKey(props.currentFile, identities)];
+        if (expectedSourceHash !== undefined &&
+            expectedSourceHash !== currentSourceHash) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        const current = collectProjectInputSnapshot(validation.cached.projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem);
+        if (validation.projectWalkComplete !==
+            walkSnapshotComplete(current, validation.declaredInputs) ||
+            validation.projectWalkFailures !==
+                projectWalkFailureFingerprint(current, validation.declaredInputs, validation.cached.projectRoot, identities) ||
+            !sameHashes(validation.projectInputHashes, current.hashes, validation.declaredInputs) ||
+            !sameProjectDirectories(validation.cached.projectDirectories ?? [], current.projectDirectories)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        for (const [input, recorded] of validation.inputStates) {
+            if (failedGenerationInputState(input, props.filesystem) !== recorded) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+    catch {
+        return false;
     }
-    REPORTED_UNREUSABLE_GENERATIONS.add(key);
-    process.stderr.write(`ttsc: the transform cache cannot reuse this project's compile, so every ` +
-        `module recompiles the whole project.\n` +
-        `  project: ${cached.projectRoot}\n` +
-        `  missing: ${missing.join("; ")}\n` +
-        `  Please report this at https://github.com/samchon/ttsc/issues with ` +
-        `this message.\n`);
+}
+/** Render one input without leaking source content or control characters. */
+function formatGenerationFailurePath(projectRoot, input) {
+    const absolute = path.resolve(input);
+    const relative = path.relative(projectRoot, absolute);
+    const display = relative === ""
+        ? "."
+        : relative !== ".." &&
+            !relative.startsWith(`..${path.sep}`) &&
+            !path.isAbsolute(relative)
+            ? relative
+            : absolute;
+    return JSON.stringify(display.split(path.sep).join("/"));
+}
+/** Build the terminal error shared by every waiter of an unstable generation. */
+function createUnstableGenerationError(projectRoot, attempts, validation) {
+    const lines = [
+        `ttsc: could not capture a reusable transform generation after ${attempts.length} attempts.`,
+        `  project: ${projectRoot}`,
+    ];
+    attempts.forEach((failures, index) => {
+        lines.push(`  attempt ${index + 1}:`);
+        if (failures.entries.length === 0) {
+            lines.push("    - project/generation-proof-incomplete");
+        }
+        for (const failure of failures.entries) {
+            const input = failure.path === undefined
+                ? ""
+                : `: ${formatGenerationFailurePath(projectRoot, failure.path)}`;
+            const detail = failure.detail === undefined
+                ? ""
+                : ` (producer: ${JSON.stringify(failure.detail)})`;
+            lines.push(`    - ${failure.domain}/${failure.kind}${input}${detail}`);
+        }
+        if (failures.omitted !== 0) {
+            lines.push(`    - ... ${failures.omitted} additional witness(es) omitted`);
+        }
+    });
+    lines.push("  Stop writes to the listed inputs before compilation, or fix the producer that omitted or contradicted the listed proof.");
+    return new TtscUnstableGenerationError(lines.join("\n"), validation);
 }
 function hashText(input) {
     return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(input).digest("hex");
 }
 async function transformProject(props) {
+    const attempts = [];
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < TRANSFORM_GENERATION_ATTEMPTS; attempt += 1) {
+        const cached = await captureTransformGeneration(props);
+        if (!props.trackProjectMembership ||
+            cached.result.type !== "success" ||
+            cached.projectSnapshotComplete === true) {
+            return cached;
+        }
+        attempts.push(TRANSFORM_GENERATION_FAILURES.get(cached.result) ??
+            createGenerationProofFailures());
+        if (attempt + 1 === TRANSFORM_GENERATION_ATTEMPTS) {
+            const validation = TRANSFORM_FAILED_GENERATION_VALIDATIONS.get(cached.result);
+            if (validation === undefined) {
+                disposeCachedTransform(cached);
+                throw new Error("ttsc: failed transform generation has no retry validation baseline");
+            }
+            throw createUnstableGenerationError(path.dirname(props.tsconfig), attempts, validation);
+        }
+        disposeCachedTransform(cached);
+    }
+    throw new Error("ttsc: transform generation retry loop did not terminate");
+}
+/** Capture one whole-project transform attempt and all of its reuse proofs. */
+async function captureTransformGeneration(props) {
     const projectRoot = path.dirname(props.tsconfig);
     const scratchDirectory = createTransformScratchDirectory(projectRoot, props.filesystem);
     let tracker;
@@ -2868,6 +3425,7 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
             filesystem: props.filesystem,
             projectRoot,
             result,
+            scratchDirectory,
             temporaryTsconfig,
         });
         // The generation's absent resolution candidates, which get a watcher of
@@ -2883,6 +3441,7 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
                 filesystem: props.filesystem,
                 projectRoot,
                 result,
+                scratchDirectory,
                 temporaryTsconfig,
             })
             : { candidates: [], watched: [] };
@@ -2908,6 +3467,7 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
             filesystem: props.filesystem,
             projectRoot,
             result,
+            scratchDirectory,
             temporaryTsconfig,
         });
         const inputSnapshot = collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem);
@@ -2920,6 +3480,7 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
             identities,
             projectRoot,
             result,
+            scratchDirectory,
         });
         const walkStable = walkSnapshotComplete(before, declaredInputs) &&
             walkSnapshotComplete(inputSnapshot, declaredInputs) &&
@@ -2935,14 +3496,19 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
         // Overlay the in-memory source only after proving the two on-disk snapshots
         // stable; an unsaved editor buffer must not look like a compile-time race.
         const currentFileKey = toProjectKey(projectRoot, props.currentFile, identities);
-        inputSnapshot.hashes[currentFileKey] = hashText(props.currentSource);
-        // That overlay makes this one key the only recorded hash a disk signature
-        // cannot stand for: the bytes it names came from the bundler, not the file.
-        delete inputSnapshot.provenSignatures[currentFileKey];
+        const currentSourceHash = hashText(props.currentSource);
+        const projectInputHashes = { ...inputSnapshot.hashes };
+        if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(inputSnapshot.hashes, currentFileKey)) {
+            inputSnapshot.hashes[currentFileKey] = currentSourceHash;
+            // That overlay makes this one key the only recorded hash a disk signature
+            // cannot stand for: the bytes it names came from the bundler, not the file.
+            delete inputSnapshot.provenSignatures[currentFileKey];
+        }
         const cached = {
             // Capture the out-of-walk input hashes while the generation is fresh so
             // cache validation can re-check them; computed before dispose so the
-            // exclusion of the temp-dir tsconfig is the only reason it never keys.
+            // scratch-tree exclusion is the only reason its disposed artifacts never
+            // key the persistent generation.
             externalInputHashes: {},
             externalInputRealpaths: {},
             externalInputPaths,
@@ -2952,12 +3518,14 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
             projectSnapshotComplete: false,
             projectRoot,
             result,
+            scratchDirectory,
             servedFiles: new Set(),
             // Remember the generated temp-dir tsconfig (disposed below) so watch
             // derivation can drop it from the envelope's config chain; a registered
             // but deleted file would invalidate every persistent-cache snapshot.
             ...(temporaryTsconfig === undefined ? {} : { temporaryTsconfig }),
         };
+        cached.sourceHashes = captureTransformSourceHashes(cached, props.currentFile, currentSourceHash);
         const externalInputSnapshot = captureExternalInputSnapshot(cached, externalInputPaths);
         cached.externalInputHashes = externalInputSnapshot.hashes;
         cached.externalInputRealpaths = externalInputSnapshot.realpaths;
@@ -2966,21 +3534,39 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
         // cannot be reused can say which evidence it lacked. The extra work runs
         // only on the failing path, where the alternative is recompiling the whole
         // project for every remaining module.
-        const graphProofs = matchesCompilerGraphInputProofs(cached);
-        const universalInputs = captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, props.currentFile) !==
-            undefined;
+        const failures = createGenerationProofFailures();
+        if (!walkStable) {
+            recordProjectSnapshotFailures(failures, {
+                before,
+                candidateTracker,
+                declared: declaredInputs,
+                hostInputTracker,
+                identities,
+                projectRoot,
+                snapshot: inputSnapshot,
+                tracker,
+            });
+        }
+        const graphFailures = compilerGraphInputProofFailures(cached);
+        mergeGenerationProofFailures(failures, graphFailures);
+        mergeGenerationProofFailures(failures, externalInputSnapshot.failures);
+        const universalInputCapture = captureUniversalHostInputValidation(cached, props.currentFile);
+        mergeGenerationProofFailures(failures, universalInputCapture.failures);
+        const graphProofs = graphFailures.entries.length === 0 && graphFailures.omitted === 0;
+        const universalInputs = universalInputCapture.validation !== undefined;
         const stableProjectSnapshot = walkStable &&
             graphProofs &&
             externalInputSnapshot.complete &&
             universalInputs;
-        // Only a caching host loses anything here: without a cache every delivery
-        // compiles by design, so an unprovable generation costs it nothing.
-        if (!stableProjectSnapshot && props.trackProjectMembership) {
-            reportUnreusableGeneration(cached, {
-                externalInputs: externalInputSnapshot.complete,
-                graphProofs,
-                universalInputs,
-                walkStable,
+        if (!stableProjectSnapshot) {
+            TRANSFORM_GENERATION_FAILURES.set(result, failures);
+            TRANSFORM_FAILED_GENERATION_VALIDATIONS.set(result, {
+                cached,
+                declaredInputs,
+                inputStates: captureFailedGenerationInputStates(cached, failures),
+                projectInputHashes,
+                projectWalkComplete: walkSnapshotComplete(inputSnapshot, declaredInputs),
+                projectWalkFailures: projectWalkFailureFingerprint(inputSnapshot, declaredInputs, projectRoot, identities),
             });
         }
         cached.projectSnapshotComplete = stableProjectSnapshot;
@@ -3031,16 +3617,23 @@ async function transformProject(props) {
         }
     }
 }
-/** Exclude the disposed overlay tsconfig from live host-input tracking. */
+/** Exclude disposed transform scratch from live host-input tracking. */
 function selectPersistentHostInputs(props) {
     if (props.result.type === "exception")
         return [];
     const inputs = selectListedFiles(props.projectRoot, props.result.hostInputs);
-    if (props.temporaryTsconfig === undefined)
+    if (props.scratchDirectory === undefined &&
+        props.temporaryTsconfig === undefined)
         return inputs;
     const identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(props.filesystem);
-    const temporary = pathIdentityKey(props.temporaryTsconfig, identities);
-    return inputs.filter((input) => pathIdentityKey(input, identities) !== temporary);
+    const temporary = props.temporaryTsconfig === undefined
+        ? undefined
+        : pathIdentityKey(props.temporaryTsconfig, identities);
+    return inputs.filter((input) => {
+        if (isTransformScratchInput(input, props.scratchDirectory))
+            return false;
+        return pathIdentityKey(input, identities) !== temporary;
+    });
 }
 function createTransformTsconfig(props, scratchDirectory) {
     const compilerOptions = normalizeCompilerOptionsForGeneratedTsconfig({
@@ -3131,6 +3724,11 @@ function pathIsWithin(child, parent) {
             !relative.startsWith(`..${path.sep}`) &&
             !path.isAbsolute(relative)));
 }
+/** Whether an input is owned by the disposable transform scratch tree. */
+function isTransformScratchInput(input, scratchDirectory) {
+    return (scratchDirectory !== undefined &&
+        pathIsWithin(path.resolve(input), path.resolve(scratchDirectory)));
+}
 /** Route all compiler/plugin scratch to one owned directory outside project. */
 function transformScratchEnvironment(directory) {
     return {