@ttsc/unplugin 0.28.3 → 0.28.5

package/lib/core/transform.js

@@ -9,8 +9,49 @@ var ttsc = require('ttsc');
 var pathIdentity = require('ttsc/path-identity');
 var tsconfigPaths = require('./tsconfigPaths.js');
 
-/** A bounded proof failure that stays authoritative until its inputs change. */
-class TtscUnstableGenerationError extends Error {
+/**
+ * A verdict about one generation that later deliveries replay instead of
+ * repeating the whole compile behind it.
+ *
+ * The two kinds are replayed on different evidence, and each carries its own: a
+ * pass verdict knows the pass it belongs to, and an unstable generation knows
+ * the recorded environment it was proven against.
+ */
+class TtscTerminalGenerationError extends Error {
+}
+/**
+ * The compile succeeded and produced no output for one requested module,
+ * because the program does not contain it.
+ *
+ * Not a terminal generation error, and deliberately not a build failure. It is
+ * a fact about one file, and the answer to it is to leave that file to the host
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1308). It is a distinct type rather than a message match so the
+ * decision travels as a type: `@ttsc/metro` used to recognise this case by
+ * searching the message text for "did not return output", which is how one
+ * product came to hold two different answers to one condition.
+ */
+class TtscMissingProgramOutputError extends Error {
+    /** The module the bundler asked for. */
+    file;
+    /** The project config whose program does not contain it. */
+    tsconfig;
+    constructor(file, tsconfig) {
+        super(`ttsc: ${file} is not part of the program described by ${tsconfig}, so it was left untransformed. Add it to that project's "include" if ttsc plugins should apply to it.`);
+        this.name = "TtscMissingProgramOutputError";
+        this.file = file;
+        this.tsconfig = tsconfig;
+    }
+}
+/**
+ * A bounded proof failure that stays authoritative until its inputs change.
+ *
+ * This is the adapter failing to _obtain_ a coherent snapshot — a race it lost
+ * — so a later attempt may well succeed with the same inputs. It is retried
+ * when its recorded environment moves, and a new delivery epoch grants it the
+ * one fresh attempt the per-pass cache clear used to give it
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1300).
+ */
+class TtscUnstableGenerationError extends TtscTerminalGenerationError {
     validation;
     constructor(message, validation) {
         super(message);
@@ -18,11 +59,58 @@ class TtscUnstableGenerationError extends Error {
         this.validation = validation;
     }
 }
+/**
+ * A compile this pass already attempted, whose envelope failed outright.
+ *
+ * The envelope cannot say whether the host reported diagnostics about the
+ * project or failed to run at all: an ordinary type error arrives as an
+ * `"exception"` carrying the compiler's own diagnostic text, exactly as a
+ * crashed host would. Sniffing that message to tell the two apart would be a
+ * guess, so the adapter uses the one boundary it genuinely owns. Inside a pass
+ * the answer is already settled, so every later module replays it instead of
+ * repeating a whole-project transform to reach the same verdict, which is what
+ * made a single broken save cost one compile per delivered module
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1303).
+ *
+ * The scope is exactly the pass. A host whose `buildStart` repeats drops the
+ * verdict at its next rebuild, so a transient host failure costs that one
+ * rebuild. A host with no pass boundary never retains one at all and keeps
+ * retrying on its very next delivery. Between them sits a host that opens
+ * exactly one pass for its whole process — Bun's runtime plugin, and a Vite dev
+ * server configured with `server.watch: null` — where the verdict lasts the
+ * session. That follows from what those hosts already publish about themselves,
+ * that their session is one immutable load session and the remedy for changed
+ * inputs is to restart, and it is the deliberate trade: without it, one type
+ * error costs such a session a whole-project compile per delivered module,
+ * which is the workload samchon/ttsc#970 is about.
+ *
+ * It carries the original error's message, stack and `cause` rather than
+ * replacing them, so what a bundler reports is what it reported before the
+ * verdict existed.
+ */
+class TtscPassVerdictError extends TtscTerminalGenerationError {
+    /** The delivery pass this verdict belongs to, and its whole scope. */
+    epoch;
+    constructor(original, epoch) {
+        super(original instanceof Error
+            ? original.message
+            : formatUnknownError(original), { cause: original });
+        if (original instanceof Error) {
+            this.name = original.name;
+            if (original.stack !== undefined)
+                this.stack = original.stack;
+        }
+        else {
+            this.name = "TtscPassVerdictError";
+        }
+        this.epoch = epoch;
+    }
+}
 /** 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. */
+/** 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;
@@ -42,10 +130,27 @@ const DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS = Object.freeze({
 const TRANSFORM_CACHE_FILESYSTEM = new WeakMap();
 const TRANSFORM_RESULT_FILESYSTEM = new WeakMap();
 /**
- * Caches whose owner has declared a real per-build lifecycle by calling
- * {@link beginTtscTransformBuild} before transforms begin.
+ * The current delivery epoch of each cache whose owner has declared a real
+ * per-pass lifecycle by calling {@link beginTtscTransformBuild}.
+ *
+ * A _delivery epoch_ is one bundler pass: the window inside which each module
+ * is requested at most once, so its first delivery may be settled against the
+ * state the pass started from. It is deliberately not the same fact as whether
+ * the generation is still valid, which the recorded snapshot answers.
+ * Conflating the two is what made every host with a repeating `buildStart` —
+ * webpack and Rspack watch, Rollup and Rolldown watch, `vite build --watch`,
+ * esbuild rebuild — discard a perfectly good whole-project compile on every
+ * edit (samchon/ttsc#1300).
+ *
+ * Absent from the map means persistent validation: a host with no pass boundary
+ * at all (a watching Vite dev server, Metro, the Turbopack loader), where every
+ * delivery proves the generation for itself.
  */
-const BUILD_SCOPED_TRANSFORM_CACHES = new WeakSet();
+const TRANSFORM_CACHE_EPOCHS = new WeakMap();
+/** The pass a delivery belongs to, or `undefined` under persistent validation. */
+function transformCacheEpoch(cache) {
+    return cache === undefined ? undefined : TRANSFORM_CACHE_EPOCHS.get(cache);
+}
 function createHostPathIdentityContext(filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
     return pathIdentity.createFilesystemPathIdentityContext({
         caseSensitive: filesystem.caseSensitive,
@@ -85,27 +190,37 @@ function resultFilesystem(result) {
     return (TRANSFORM_RESULT_FILESYSTEM.get(result) ?? DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS);
 }
 /**
- * Start a host build, clearing its prior generation and enabling constant-time
- * first delivery for modules compiled during this build.
+ * Open a new delivery pass, enabling constant-time first delivery for every
+ * module this pass asks for.
+ *
+ * This deliberately retains the cached generation. The pass boundary is a
+ * statement about _deliveries_ — each module is requested at most once inside
+ * it — not about whether the compiled program is still correct, which the
+ * generation's own recorded snapshot answers and which
+ * {@link matchesCachedSource} proves once at the pass's first delivery. Clearing
+ * here instead made a host whose `buildStart` repeats recompile the whole
+ * project on every rebuild even when no compiler input had changed
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1300). Use {@link resetTtscTransformCache} to actually discard a
+ * generation and its watchers.
  *
- * Hosts without a guaranteed build-start callback use persistent validation
- * unless they have another immutable lifecycle. Bun runtime setup, for example,
+ * Hosts without a guaranteed pass boundary use persistent validation unless
+ * they have another immutable lifecycle. Bun runtime setup, for example,
  * defines one process-scoped module-loading session.
  */
 function beginTtscTransformBuild(cache) {
-    clearTtscTransformCache(cache);
-    BUILD_SCOPED_TRANSFORM_CACHES.add(cache);
+    TRANSFORM_CACHE_EPOCHS.set(cache, (TRANSFORM_CACHE_EPOCHS.get(cache) ?? 0) + 1);
 }
 /**
- * Clear a cache and return it to persistent validation mode.
+ * Discard every generation, dispose its watchers, and return the cache to
+ * persistent validation mode.
  *
- * This is distinct from {@link beginTtscTransformBuild}: hosts such as Vite's
- * development server may invoke `buildStart` only once for a process that spans
- * many edits, so that callback cannot authorize build-scoped shortcuts.
+ * This is the unconditional lifecycle boundary, and it is distinct from
+ * {@link beginTtscTransformBuild}: a pass ending is not a reason to throw a
+ * proven compile away, while a session ending is.
  */
 function resetTtscTransformCache(cache) {
     clearTtscTransformCache(cache);
-    BUILD_SCOPED_TRANSFORM_CACHES.delete(cache);
+    TRANSFORM_CACHE_EPOCHS.delete(cache);
 }
 /** Dispose generation-owned filesystem resources before clearing a cache. */
 function clearTtscTransformCache(cache) {
@@ -161,15 +276,19 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
         tsconfig,
     });
     for (;;) {
+        // Read once per iteration, before the cache is consulted, so a delivery
+        // belongs to the pass that was current when it started examining the
+        // generation. A pass opened while this one awaits an in-flight compile is
+        // picked up by the next iteration, which is the one that runs when the
+        // entry it awaited turns out to have been superseded.
+        const epoch = transformCacheEpoch(cache);
         let transformed = cache?.get(key);
         if (transformed !== undefined) {
             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, {
+                // A terminal verdict is an answer about one observed environment, not an
+                // invitation for every later module to repeat the whole compile.
+                if (replaysTerminalGeneration(terminal, epoch, {
                     currentFile: file,
                     currentSource: source,
                     filesystem,
@@ -191,8 +310,7 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
             if (cache?.get(key) !== transformed) {
                 continue;
             }
-            const buildScoped = cache !== undefined && BUILD_SCOPED_TRANSFORM_CACHES.has(cache);
-            if (!buildScoped) {
+            if (epoch === undefined) {
                 await settleProjectMutationEvents(cached);
                 if (cache?.get(key) !== transformed) {
                     continue;
@@ -207,15 +325,33 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
                 projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
                 result: cached.result,
             }) &&
-                matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, buildScoped)) {
-                reportSuccessDiagnostics(cached.result);
+                matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, epoch)) {
+                reportSuccessDiagnostics(cached, epoch);
                 // A resolved `"exception"` / `"failure"` envelope makes this throw;
-                // that is a failed generation too, so evict before surfacing it.
-                const code = selectOrEvict(cache, key, transformed, {
-                    file,
-                    projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
-                    result: cached.result,
-                });
+                // that is a failed generation too, so it is retained for this pass or
+                // evicted outside one before being surfaced.
+                let code;
+                try {
+                    code = selectOrEvict(cache, key, transformed, epoch, {
+                        file,
+                        projectRoot: cached.projectRoot,
+                        result: cached.result,
+                        tsconfig: cached.tsconfig,
+                    });
+                }
+                catch (error) {
+                    if (!(error instanceof TtscMissingProgramOutputError)) {
+                        notifyFailedGenerationInputs(hooks, cached);
+                        throw error;
+                    }
+                    // The compile is fine and simply has nothing for this module, so the
+                    // module goes back to the host untransformed rather than failing the
+                    // build (samchon/ttsc#1308). It still counts as delivered in this
+                    // pass, and there is nothing to watch for a file with no output.
+                    reportMissingProgramOutput(cached, error, epoch);
+                    markCachedSourceServed(cached, file);
+                    return undefined;
+                }
                 notifyWatchInputs(hooks, cached, file);
                 markCachedSourceServed(cached, file);
                 return createTransformResult(source, code);
@@ -235,6 +371,10 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
                 compilerOptions: options.compilerOptions,
                 currentFile: file,
                 currentSource: source,
+                // Stamp the pass this compile was started for, not the one it happens
+                // to finish in: a boundary crossed mid-compile leaves the generation
+                // belonging to the earlier pass, so the next pass re-proves it.
+                deliveryEpoch: epoch,
                 filesystem,
                 plugins: options.plugins,
                 trackProjectMembership: cache !== undefined,
@@ -248,12 +388,25 @@ async function transformTtsc(id, source, options, aliases, cache, hooks) {
             continue;
         }
         const { projectRoot, result } = cached;
-        reportSuccessDiagnostics(result);
-        const code = selectOrEvict(cache, key, generation, {
-            file,
-            projectRoot,
-            result,
-        });
+        reportSuccessDiagnostics(cached, epoch);
+        let code;
+        try {
+            code = selectOrEvict(cache, key, generation, epoch, {
+                file,
+                projectRoot,
+                result,
+                tsconfig: cached.tsconfig,
+            });
+        }
+        catch (error) {
+            if (!(error instanceof TtscMissingProgramOutputError)) {
+                notifyFailedGenerationInputs(hooks, cached);
+                throw error;
+            }
+            reportMissingProgramOutput(cached, error, epoch);
+            markCachedSourceServed(cached, file);
+            return undefined;
+        }
         notifyWatchInputs(hooks, cached, file);
         markCachedSourceServed(cached, file);
         if (isVolatileFile(envelopeDerivation(cached), { file, projectRoot, result })) {
@@ -289,20 +442,107 @@ async function awaitOrEvict(cache, key, generation) {
     }
 }
 /**
- * Extract the transformed source, evicting the generation when the result is a
- * host `"exception"` or compiler `"failure"` (which makes
- * {@link selectTransformedSource} throw). Such a failed generation must not be
- * replayed to later callers of an unchanged module.
+ * Extract the transformed source, and decide what a throwing generation is.
+ *
+ * {@link selectTransformedSource} throws for two different reasons, and only one
+ * of them is about the generation. A host `"exception"` or a compiler
+ * `"failure"` means the compile produced nothing for anyone: inside a pass that
+ * verdict is retained and replayed, because evicting it made every remaining
+ * module repeat the whole-project transform only to reach the identical answer
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1303), and outside a pass it keeps being evicted so a
+ * long-lived worker retries on its very next delivery exactly as before.
+ *
+ * A `"success"` envelope that has no output for the module asking is the other
+ * reason, and it is a fact about that one file: an ordinary condition for a
+ * module the bundle reaches and the tsconfig program does not contain. It is
+ * neither retained nor evicted. The error reaches the caller, and the
+ * generation, which compiled perfectly well for every other module, stays.
  */
-function selectOrEvict(cache, key, generation, props) {
+function selectOrEvict(cache, key, generation, epoch, props) {
     try {
         return selectTransformedSource(props);
     }
     catch (error) {
-        evictGeneration(cache, key, generation);
+        const verdict = retainPassVerdict(cache, key, generation, epoch, props.result, error);
+        if (verdict !== undefined) {
+            throw verdict;
+        }
+        // A generation that compiled fine and simply has no output for the module
+        // asking is not a failed generation. Discarding it made every later module
+        // recompile the whole project to reach the same answer, which is the cost
+        // samchon/ttsc#1303 is about, for a bundle that merely reaches a file the
+        // tsconfig program does not contain.
+        if (props.result.type !== "success") {
+            evictGeneration(cache, key, generation);
+        }
         throw error;
     }
 }
+/**
+ * Retain the verdict of a compile this pass already attempted, or return
+ * `undefined` when nothing may be retained.
+ *
+ * Only inside a delivery pass. A pass is the window in which every delivery is
+ * settled against the state the pass started from, so an attempt it already
+ * made is part of that state and the remaining modules replay it rather than
+ * each repeating a whole-project transform to reach the same answer. Outside a
+ * pass there is no such window, and a long-lived worker must keep retrying on
+ * its very next delivery so a transient host failure never becomes permanent.
+ */
+function retainPassVerdict(cache, key, generation, epoch, result, error) {
+    // Only an envelope that failed outright is a statement about the generation.
+    // `selectTransformedSource` also throws for a file the compile simply has no
+    // output for, which is an ordinary condition for a module the bundle reaches
+    // but the tsconfig program does not contain, and which says nothing about the
+    // other modules. Retaining that would fail the whole pass, naming a file none
+    // of them asked about.
+    if (result.type === "success" ||
+        epoch === undefined ||
+        cache?.get(key) !== generation) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    const existing = TERMINAL_TRANSFORM_GENERATIONS.get(generation);
+    if (existing !== undefined) {
+        return existing;
+    }
+    const verdict = new TtscPassVerdictError(error, epoch);
+    TERMINAL_TRANSFORM_GENERATIONS.set(generation, verdict);
+    return verdict;
+}
+/**
+ * Whether a terminal verdict still answers for this delivery.
+ *
+ * Inside the pass that produced or confirmed it, it is replayed without
+ * re-probing anything: the pass settles every delivery against the state it
+ * started from, so re-walking the project once per module would spend exactly
+ * the cost this gate exists to remove.
+ *
+ * Across passes the two kinds part company. A pass verdict is dropped, because
+ * a new pass is the first boundary at which the host itself claims something
+ * may have changed, and the compile it stood for was never proven against a
+ * recorded environment. An unstable generation was, so it keeps its own rule:
+ * one fresh attempt per pass, and otherwise replayed until that recorded
+ * environment provably moves.
+ */
+function replaysTerminalGeneration(terminal, epoch, props) {
+    if (terminal instanceof TtscPassVerdictError) {
+        // A pass verdict has no recorded environment to re-confirm against, so the
+        // pass that produced it is its whole scope.
+        return epoch !== undefined && terminal.epoch === epoch;
+    }
+    if (!(terminal instanceof TtscUnstableGenerationError)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // An unstable generation does have one, and confirming it per delivery is the
+    // behaviour its own contract describes, so the pass does not cache that
+    // answer. A new pass still grants the fresh attempt the per-pass cache clear
+    // used to give it.
+    if (epoch !== undefined &&
+        terminal.validation.cached.deliveryEpoch !== epoch) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    return !failedGenerationEnvironmentChanged(terminal.validation, props);
+}
 /**
  * Delete a failed generation from the cache only when it is still the entry
  * stored under `key`. The identity check prevents an older failed generation's
@@ -546,6 +786,47 @@ function collectDeclaredIdentities(state, projectRoot, listed) {
  * transform scratch tree (see
  * {@link TtscCachedProjectTransform.scratchDirectory}).
  */
+/**
+ * Register the failed generation's own project inputs so the host can observe
+ * the fix.
+ *
+ * A successful delivery registers the derived watch inputs, which is how a
+ * type-only file that no bundler graph contains still invalidates the modules
+ * depending on it. A failed one used to register nothing: `selectWatchInputs`
+ * returns an empty list for an `"exception"` envelope, and the throw happens
+ * before `notifyWatchInputs` is reached at all. When the failing compile is the
+ * first of a watching session, that leaves no channel through which the fix can
+ * arrive: the user repairs a file the bundler does not track, nothing is
+ * invalidated, and the error stays on screen (samchon/ttsc#1312).
+ *
+ * The generation records the project walk even when the compile failed, so the
+ * files a fix would touch are exactly what it already holds. The cost is paid
+ * only on a failure, and only until the next compile succeeds and narrows the
+ * set back to the derived inputs.
+ */
+function notifyFailedGenerationInputs(hooks, cached) {
+    const addWatchFile = hooks?.addWatchFile;
+    if (addWatchFile === undefined) {
+        return;
+    }
+    for (const key of Object.keys(cached.inputHashes)) {
+        const input = path.resolve(cached.projectRoot, key);
+        if (isTransformScratchInput(input, cached.scratchDirectory)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        // No evidence argument, deliberately. `missing: false` would be a claim
+        // this path cannot back: a failed generation is replayed for the rest of
+        // its pass without re-proving its inputs, so the walk that recorded them
+        // may be older than the delivery, and one of them having been deleted is a
+        // live reason for that compile to have failed. Letting the adapter probe
+        // also routes an absent input to the missing-input poll, which is the only
+        // channel through which restoring it can invalidate anything: a bundler
+        // watch on a path that does not exist registers nothing, and no module
+        // graph carries a type-only input. It costs one `existsSync` per input,
+        // and only where the adapter reads evidence at all, which is Vite serve.
+        addWatchFile(input);
+    }
+}
 function notifyWatchInputs(hooks, cached, file) {
     const addWatchFile = hooks?.addWatchFile;
     if (addWatchFile === undefined) {
@@ -924,16 +1205,17 @@ function createTransformResult(source, code) {
  * state.
  *
  * Always compares the current module's in-memory source with the generation
- * snapshot. A cache whose owner called {@link beginTtscTransformBuild} can use
- * that comparison alone for a stable generation's first module delivery in the
- * current build. An incomplete generation may not take this shortcut: otherwise
- * a sibling output captured during a filesystem race could still be served
- * once. Later graph-bearing requests validate the file's derived input set and
- * project membership; graph-free envelopes conservatively re-hash the complete
- * project and out-of-walk snapshots. Any mismatch forces a complete
+ * snapshot. A cache with a delivery epoch can use that comparison alone for a
+ * stable generation's first delivery of each module in the current pass, once
+ * the pass's own first delivery has proven the whole generation still matches
+ * the filesystem. An incomplete generation may not take this shortcut:
+ * otherwise a sibling output captured during a filesystem race could still be
+ * served once. Later graph-bearing requests validate the file's derived input
+ * set and project membership; graph-free envelopes conservatively re-hash the
+ * complete project and out-of-walk snapshots. Any mismatch forces a complete
  * re-transform.
  */
-function matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, buildScoped) {
+function matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, epoch) {
     const identities = envelopeDerivation(cached).identityContext;
     const currentKey = toProjectKey(cached.projectRoot, file, identities);
     const identity = pathIdentityKey(file, identities);
@@ -943,10 +1225,24 @@ function matchesCachedSource(cached, file, source, buildScoped) {
     if (expected !== hashText(source)) {
         return false;
     }
-    if (buildScoped &&
-        cached.projectSnapshotComplete === true &&
-        !cached.servedFiles?.has(pathIdentityKey(file, identities))) {
-        return true;
+    if (epoch !== undefined && cached.projectSnapshotComplete === true) {
+        if (cached.deliveryEpoch !== epoch) {
+            // The pass's first delivery. The generation was settled against an
+            // earlier pass, so prove the whole of it once — every input the envelope
+            // declares, the directory membership, the universal host inputs, and the
+            // out-of-walk snapshot — before any of this pass's deliveries may be
+            // settled against it. That proof is what a per-pass recompile used to buy
+            // (samchon/ttsc#1300), at a walk instead of a compile.
+            if (!matchesCompleteInputSnapshot(cached, currentKey, source)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            cached.deliveryEpoch = epoch;
+            cached.servedFiles?.clear();
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (!cached.servedFiles?.has(identity)) {
+            return true;
+        }
     }
     if (cached.result.type !== "exception" &&
         cached.result.graph !== undefined &&
@@ -1654,7 +1950,12 @@ function matchesCompleteInputSnapshot(cached, currentKey, source) {
     const declaredInputs = declaredProjectInputKeys(state, cached);
     const current = collectProjectInputSnapshot(cached.projectRoot, state.identityContext, resultFilesystem(cached.result), cached.inputSignatures === undefined
         ? undefined
-        : { hashes: cached.inputHashes, signatures: cached.inputSignatures });
+        : { hashes: cached.inputHashes, signatures: cached.inputSignatures }, {
+        // Judge membership by the rule the compile ran under, and read only the
+        // inputs this comparison actually consults.
+        declaredKeys: declaredInputs,
+        policy: cached.membershipPolicy,
+    });
     if (!walkSnapshotComplete(current, declaredInputs)) {
         return false;
     }
@@ -1945,24 +2246,36 @@ function markCachedSourceServed(cached, file) {
  * slash path. Exported so hosts without a per-build boundary (`@ttsc/metro`)
  * can fold the identical input universe into their own cache fingerprints.
  */
-function collectProjectInputHashes(projectRoot, identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(), filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
-    return collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem)
-        .hashes;
+function collectProjectInputHashes(projectRoot, identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(), filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, policy) {
+    return collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem, undefined, {
+        policy,
+    }).hashes;
 }
 /** Hash project files and snapshot the directory topology in one walk. */
-function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, proven) {
+function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, proven, options) {
     const hashes = {};
     const fileSignatures = {};
     const provenSignatures = {};
     const unstableFiles = new Set();
     let attributed = true;
-    const walked = walkProjectInputs(projectRoot, filesystem);
+    const walked = walkProjectInputs(projectRoot, filesystem, options?.policy);
     const walkFailures = [...walked.failures];
     let complete = walked.complete;
     for (const file of walked.files) {
         try {
-            const before = inputMetadataEvidence(file, filesystem);
             const key = toProjectKey(projectRoot, file, identities);
+            // A caller validating a generation compares hashes over that
+            // generation's declared inputs alone (`sameHashes` takes the declared key
+            // set), so reading anything else is work whose result is never consulted.
+            // Skipping it is what keeps a directory full of emitted files from
+            // costing a read per file on the pass that first sees them
+            // (samchon/ttsc#1307). Capture passes supply no restriction and still
+            // record the whole walk.
+            if (options?.declaredKeys !== undefined &&
+                !options.declaredKeys.has(key)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            const before = inputMetadataEvidence(file, filesystem);
             // A file whose signature still equals the one captured around the read
             // that produced the recorded hash carries that content, so the whole
             // project does not have to be re-read to prove one delivery. A signature
@@ -2025,18 +2338,22 @@ function collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, filesystem = DEFAU
     };
 }
 /**
- * Enumerate every regular file under `root`, skipping well-known output and
- * tooling directories (see {@link isIgnoredProjectDirectory}).
+ * Enumerate every regular file under `root`, skipping the directories no
+ * configuration can name ({@link isIgnoredProjectDirectory}) and the ones the
+ * resolved configuration excludes ({@link isExcludedProjectDirectory}).
  *
  * Uses an iterative DFS instead of `fs.readdirSync` recursion to avoid
  * unbounded call-stack depth on deep project trees. The result is sorted so
  * that hash comparisons are deterministic across OS-level directory orderings.
  */
-function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
+function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, policy = tsconfigPaths.PERMISSIVE_PROJECT_MEMBERSHIP_POLICY) {
     let complete = true;
-    const directories = [];
     const failures = [];
     const files = [];
+    // Collected in one pass, then digested in a second. A directory's digest has
+    // to know whether each child directory can hold program inputs, and the walk
+    // learns that only after descending, so the two cannot be one pass.
+    const visited = [];
     const stack = [root];
     while (stack.length !== 0) {
         const current = stack.pop();
@@ -2068,33 +2385,99 @@ function walkProjectInputs(root, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
                 path: current,
             });
         }
-        directories.push({
+        const visit = {
+            childDirectories: [],
+            entries: [],
+            ownInput: false,
             path: current,
             // If membership moved during enumeration, force the next delivery to
             // replace this generation instead of blessing a torn directory/file
             // snapshot as stable.
-            signature: after !== undefined && before === after
-                ? after
+            stable: after !== undefined && before === after
+                ? undefined
                 : `unstable:${before}:${after ?? "missing"}`,
-        });
+        };
         for (const entry of entries) {
             if (isIgnoredProjectDirectory(entry.name)) {
                 continue;
             }
             const file = path.join(current, entry.name);
+            if (entry.isDirectory() && isExcludedProjectDirectory(file, policy)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            const possible = isPossibleProgramEntry(entry, policy);
+            visit.entries.push({
+                kind: [
+                    entry.isDirectory(),
+                    entry.isFile(),
+                    entry.isSymbolicLink(),
+                ].join(":"),
+                name: entry.name,
+                possible,
+            });
             if (entry.isDirectory()) {
+                visit.childDirectories.push(file);
                 stack.push(file);
             }
-            else if (entry.isFile()) {
+            else if (entry.isFile() && possible) {
+                // Only a file that could enter the program is hashed. A file that
+                // could not is either irrelevant to every generation, or it is one the
+                // compiler actually read, in which case the graph reports it and
+                // `isProjectWalkPath` now agrees it is out of the walk, so it is
+                // recorded and proven by the out-of-walk snapshot instead. Hashing an
+                // emitted tree here bought nothing and cost a read per file, including
+                // in `@ttsc/metro`, whose fingerprint re-keys every transformed file
+                // (samchon/ttsc#1307).
                 files.push(file);
+                visit.ownInput = true;
             }
         }
+        visited.push(visit);
+    }
+    // A directory matters to program membership only if its subtree can hold a
+    // program input. Propagate that up from the directories that hold one, so a
+    // bundler creating `out/` and filling it with JavaScript a project admitting
+    // none can never compile is not a membership change at any level: not in the
+    // directory itself, and not in the parent that now lists it
+    // (samchon/ttsc#1307).
+    const byPath = new Map(visited.map((visit) => [visit.path, visit]));
+    const relevant = new Set();
+    for (const visit of visited) {
+        if (!visit.ownInput) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let current = visit.path;
+        while (current !== undefined && !relevant.has(current)) {
+            relevant.add(current);
+            const parent = path.dirname(current);
+            current = parent === current || !byPath.has(parent) ? undefined : parent;
+        }
     }
+    const directories = visited.map((visit) => {
+        const membership = visit.entries
+            .filter((entry) => entry.possible &&
+            (!visit.childDirectories.includes(path.join(visit.path, entry.name)) ||
+                relevant.has(path.join(visit.path, entry.name))))
+            .map((entry) => `${entry.name}:${entry.kind}`);
+        return {
+            path: visit.path,
+            relevant: relevant.has(visit.path),
+            signature: visit.stable ??
+                hashText(membership.sort().join(String.fromCharCode(0))),
+        };
+    });
     directories.sort((left, right) => left.path.localeCompare(right.path));
     files.sort();
     return { complete, directories, failures, files };
 }
-/** Return a cheap identity for one directory's immediate membership. */
+/**
+ * Return a directory's metadata stamp, used to detect that its membership moved
+ * _while_ the walk was enumerating it, and to feed the observed-clock floor.
+ *
+ * This is the right instrument for that job and the wrong one for comparing two
+ * generations: it moves for ignored entries too. {@link walkProjectInputs}
+ * records the filtered membership digest for the comparison instead.
+ */
 function projectDirectorySignature(directory, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
     try {
         const stats = filesystem.statBigInt(directory);
@@ -2119,9 +2502,24 @@ function projectDirectorySignature(directory, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OP
 }
 /** Compare two deterministic project-directory membership snapshots. */
 function sameProjectDirectories(left, right) {
-    return (left.length === right.length &&
-        left.every((directory, index) => directory.path === right[index]?.path &&
-            directory.signature === right[index]?.signature));
+    // Compare only the directories that can hold program inputs, on either side.
+    // A directory irrelevant on both is not part of the program's membership at
+    // all, so its appearance, disappearance or churn says nothing: that is a
+    // bundler's output tree. One that gained or lost relevance is present in the
+    // comparison from the side where it counts, and so is caught.
+    const select = (snapshots) => new Map(snapshots
+        .filter((directory) => directory.relevant)
+        .map((directory) => [directory.path, directory]));
+    const leftRelevant = select(left);
+    const rightRelevant = select(right);
+    const paths = new Set([...leftRelevant.keys(), ...rightRelevant.keys()]);
+    for (const location of paths) {
+        if (leftRelevant.get(location)?.signature !==
+            rightRelevant.get(location)?.signature) {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    return true;
 }
 /**
  * Open one directory's change notification through the cache-owned watch seam,
@@ -2138,7 +2536,7 @@ function openDirectoryWatch(filesystem, directory, listener, onError) {
     return { close: () => watcher.close() };
 }
 /** Watch every walked directory for membership changes after generation. */
-async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
+async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, policy = tsconfigPaths.PERMISSIVE_PROJECT_MEMBERSHIP_POLICY) {
     const tracker = {
         changes: new Set(),
         changesOmitted: false,
@@ -2147,7 +2545,7 @@ async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FI
         membershipChanged: false,
     };
     if (process.platform === "win32" && filesystem.watch === undefined) {
-        await registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, directories.map((directory) => ({ directory: directory.path })), false, filesystem);
+        await registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, directories.map((directory) => ({ directory: directory.path })), false, filesystem, (location, filename) => reportsProgramMembership(path.join(location, filename), filename, policy, filesystem));
         return tracker;
     }
     const watchers = [];
@@ -2159,11 +2557,16 @@ async function createProjectMutationTracker(directories, filesystem = DEFAULT_FI
     for (const directory of directories) {
         try {
             watchers.push(openDirectoryWatch(filesystem, directory.path, (eventType, filename) => {
-                if (eventType === "rename") {
-                    recordProjectMutation(tracker, filename === null
-                        ? directory.path
-                        : path.join(directory.path, filename));
+                if (eventType !== "rename") {
+                    return;
+                }
+                if (filename !== null &&
+                    !reportsProgramMembership(path.join(directory.path, filename), filename, policy, filesystem)) {
+                    return;
                 }
+                recordProjectMutation(tracker, filename === null
+                    ? directory.path
+                    : path.join(directory.path, filename));
             }, () => {
                 tracker.failed = true;
             }));
@@ -2248,6 +2651,80 @@ async function createHostInputMutationTracker(inputs, filesystem, covered, event
     }
     return tracker;
 }
+/**
+ * Whether a path lies inside a directory the configuration excludes.
+ *
+ * Lexical, exactly like the walk and like {@link isProjectWalkPath}, and for the
+ * reason that predicate states: walk membership is lexical, so resolving a path
+ * to physical identity first would collapse two spellings the walk keeps apart
+ * and claim it covered a subtree it never followed. A junction whose target the
+ * walk hashes under its own name is exactly that, and canonicalizing here would
+ * suppress every event in it.
+ *
+ * `strictly` excludes an exact match, for the case where the excluded entry
+ * names a file rather than a directory: `exclude` accepts one, the walk applies
+ * exclusion to directories alone, so that file is still hashed and its events
+ * must keep counting.
+ */
+function insideExcludedProjectDirectory(location, policy, strictly) {
+    if (policy.excludedDirectories.length === 0) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    const resolved = path.resolve(location);
+    return policy.excludedDirectories.some((excluded) => {
+        const target = path.resolve(excluded);
+        if (strictly && target === resolved) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return pathIsWithin(resolved, target);
+    });
+}
+/**
+ * Whether one directory event can be a change to the program's membership.
+ *
+ * The live tracker has to answer the same question the membership digest does,
+ * or the two disagree about the same project: a bundler writing content-hashed
+ * output fires a rename per rebuild, and treating that as membership kept the
+ * cost samchon/ttsc#1307 removes on every host that has no build boundary,
+ * which is every host the narrow path exists for.
+ *
+ * A name that could be a program input counts, unless it sits under a directory
+ * the walk never descends into. A name that could not still counts when the
+ * path is now a directory, because the walk's watches were opened for the
+ * directories that existed when the generation was captured, so a directory
+ * created since is not watched and the sources that may appear in it would
+ * otherwise be invisible. A directory the configuration excludes is the
+ * exception: the walk cannot see inside it, so the tracker must not either, or
+ * emptying and recreating an `outDir` costs a compile per build. An event whose
+ * name the host did not report is unattributable and always counts.
+ */
+function reportsProgramMembership(location, filename, policy, filesystem) {
+    if (isPossibleProgramFileName(filename, policy)) {
+        // A name the program could admit. It still says nothing if it lies inside a
+        // directory the walk never descends into, because the digest cannot see
+        // there either and the tracker must not be the one side that reacts.
+        return !insideExcludedProjectDirectory(location, policy, true);
+    }
+    let directory;
+    try {
+        directory = filesystem.lstat(location).isDirectory();
+    }
+    catch {
+        // Gone again, or unreadable. Its name could not have been a program input,
+        // and a directory removed under this one reports its own contents leaving
+        // through the watch that was opened on it.
+        return false;
+    }
+    if (!directory) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // A directory counts, because it can hold sources and the tracker is not
+    // watching it yet, unless the configuration says the program does not contain
+    // it. Emptying and recreating an `outDir`, which is what `emptyOutDir` and
+    // `output.clean` do on every build, would otherwise void the generation once
+    // per build on every host that has no build boundary.
+    return !insideExcludedProjectDirectory(location, policy, false);
+}
 /** Record enough exact mutation evidence without retaining an event stream. */
 function recordProjectMutation(tracker, changed) {
     tracker.membershipChanged = true;
@@ -2268,8 +2745,21 @@ let windowsProjectMutationBroker;
  * temporary tree is deleted. Isolation turns that unrecoverable process abort
  * into an ordinary broker exit and a conservative cache miss in the host.
  */
-async function registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, locations, allEvents, filesystem) {
+async function registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, locations, allEvents, filesystem, 
+/**
+ * Optional filter for the project-directory tracker, whose events have to be
+ * narrowed to program membership exactly as the in-process watcher's are. The
+ * name-watching trackers pass none, since they already watch exact names.
+ */
+membership) {
     const broker = getWindowsProjectMutationBroker();
+    // The child watches canonical directories, and reports its events under that
+    // spelling. Everything else in the adapter speaks the walk's own spelling,
+    // which on Windows can be an 8.3 short form of the same directory, so keep
+    // the way back: a filter that compared the child's spelling against the
+    // configuration's would be comparing two names for one directory that share
+    // no common prefix (samchon/ttsc#1307).
+    const spellings = new Map();
     const normalized = locations.map((location) => {
         let directory;
         try {
@@ -2278,6 +2768,7 @@ async function registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, locations, allEven
         catch {
             directory = path.resolve(location.directory);
         }
+        spellings.set(directory, location.directory);
         return {
             directory,
             ...(location.names === undefined ? {} : { names: location.names }),
@@ -2291,7 +2782,12 @@ async function registerWindowsProjectMutationTracker(tracker, locations, allEven
     const ready = new Promise((resolve) => {
         resolveReady = resolve;
     });
-    broker.trackers.set(id, { ready: resolveReady, tracker });
+    broker.trackers.set(id, {
+        membership,
+        ready: resolveReady,
+        spellings,
+        tracker,
+    });
     tracker.drain = () => drainWindowsProjectMutationBroker(broker);
     tracker.close = () => {
         const active = broker.trackers.get(id);
@@ -2386,9 +2882,17 @@ function getWindowsProjectMutationBroker() {
             registration.ready();
         if (record.ready !== true && record.failed !== true) {
             if (typeof record.directory === "string") {
+                // The walk's spelling for this directory, which is what every
+                // comparison and every recorded witness downstream expects.
+                const reported = registration.spellings.get(record.directory) ?? record.directory;
+                if (typeof record.filename === "string" &&
+                    registration.membership !== undefined &&
+                    !registration.membership(reported, record.filename)) {
+                    return;
+                }
                 recordProjectMutation(registration.tracker, typeof record.filename === "string"
-                    ? path.join(record.directory, record.filename)
-                    : record.directory);
+                    ? path.join(reported, record.filename)
+                    : reported);
             }
             else {
                 registration.tracker.membershipChanged = true;
@@ -2567,7 +3071,7 @@ async function settleProjectMutationEvents(cached) {
  * Missing paths and files reached through symlinks or Windows junctions are
  * out-of-walk inputs that only the reference graph can prove relevant.
  */
-function isProjectWalkPath(root, file, _identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(), filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS) {
+function isProjectWalkPath(root, file, _identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(), filesystem = DEFAULT_FILESYSTEM_OPERATIONS, policy = tsconfigPaths.PERMISSIVE_PROJECT_MEMBERSHIP_POLICY) {
     // Walk membership is lexical. Resolving `file` to physical identity first
     // would turn `root/alias/value.ts` into `root/target/value.ts`, hide the
     // symlink segment from the lstat loop below, and falsely claim the project
@@ -2581,7 +3085,20 @@ function isProjectWalkPath(root, file, _identities = createHostPathIdentityConte
         return false;
     }
     const segments = relative.split(path.sep);
-    if (segments.some(isIgnoredProjectDirectory)) {
+    // The last segment is the file itself, which the walk names rather than
+    // descends into, so only the directory components decide walk membership.
+    if (segments.slice(0, -1).some(isIgnoredProjectDirectory)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if (isExcludedProjectDirectory(path.dirname(path.resolve(file)), policy)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // The walk hashes only files that could enter the program, so a path it does
+    // not hash is out of the walk by definition. Answering otherwise would leave
+    // a graph input the compiler really read in neither snapshot: absent from
+    // `inputHashes` because the walk skipped it, and absent from the out-of-walk
+    // snapshot because this predicate claimed the walk covered it.
+    if (!isPossibleProgramFileName(path.basename(file), policy)) {
         return false;
     }
     let current = resolvedRoot;
@@ -2769,7 +3286,7 @@ function selectExternalInputPaths(props) {
             isTransformScratchInput(absolute, props.scratchDirectory) ||
             seen.has(spelling) ||
             (!missingCandidate &&
-                isProjectWalkPath(props.projectRoot, absolute, identities, filesystem))) {
+                isProjectWalkPath(props.projectRoot, absolute, identities, filesystem, props.membershipPolicy))) {
             continue;
         }
         // Preserve distinct lexical aliases even when they currently select the
@@ -2932,21 +3449,44 @@ function insideProject(directory, projectRoot) {
  */
 const NOTIFIABLE_ABSENCE_DIRECTORY_LIMIT = 512;
 function isIgnoredProjectDirectory(name) {
-    return (name === ".git" ||
-        name === ".ttsc" ||
-        name === ".cache" ||
-        name === ".next" ||
-        name === ".nuxt" ||
-        name === ".svelte-kit" ||
-        name === ".turbo" ||
-        name === ".vite" ||
-        name === "build" ||
-        name === "coverage" ||
-        name === "dist" ||
-        name === "node_modules" ||
-        name === "out" ||
-        name === "temp" ||
-        name === "tmp");
+    // The residue of what used to be a fifteen-name list, kept to the three
+    // directories no tsconfig can name and no program can contain: the VCS
+    // store, the package manager's tree (TypeScript's own default `exclude`
+    // carries it too), and ttsc's own plugin cache. Everything else the old list
+    // guessed at, and guessing was wrong in both directions: a bundler writing
+    // to an unnamed directory changed project membership with its own output,
+    // while a real source directory named `build` or `temp` was dropped from the
+    // walk and its new files were never seen (samchon/ttsc#1307). Those are now
+    // decided by `ITtscProjectMembershipPolicy`, which reads the configuration
+    // that actually knows.
+    return name === ".git" || name === ".ttsc" || name === "node_modules";
+}
+/**
+ * Whether the resolved configuration keeps this directory out of the program.
+ *
+ * Compared by physical containment rather than by name, so `outDir: "./dist"`
+ * excludes that one directory instead of every directory called `dist` at every
+ * depth, which is the distinction the name list could not draw.
+ */
+function isExcludedProjectDirectory(directory, policy) {
+    return insideExcludedProjectDirectory(directory, policy, false);
+}
+/**
+ * Whether this entry could enter the program, and so whether its appearance or
+ * removal is a membership change.
+ *
+ * A directory always could, since it can hold sources. A file could only if it
+ * carries an extension the resolved configuration admits, which is what makes a
+ * bundle emitted beside the sources invisible to a project that compiles no
+ * JavaScript.
+ */
+function isPossibleProgramEntry(entry, policy) {
+    return entry.isFile() ? isPossibleProgramFileName(entry.name, policy) : true;
+}
+/** The same question for a bare file name, for callers holding no `Dirent`. */
+function isPossibleProgramFileName(name, policy) {
+    const lowered = name.toLowerCase();
+    return policy.inputExtensions.some((extension) => lowered.endsWith(extension));
 }
 /**
  * Compare two project-walk snapshots.
@@ -3300,7 +3840,7 @@ function failedGenerationEnvironmentChanged(validation, props) {
             expectedSourceHash !== currentSourceHash) {
             return true;
         }
-        const current = collectProjectInputSnapshot(validation.cached.projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem);
+        const current = collectProjectInputSnapshot(validation.cached.projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem, undefined, { policy: validation.cached.membershipPolicy });
         if (validation.projectWalkComplete !==
             walkSnapshotComplete(current, validation.declaredInputs) ||
             validation.projectWalkFailures !==
@@ -3400,9 +3940,14 @@ async function captureTransformGeneration(props) {
         const configured = createTransformTsconfig(props, scratchDirectory);
         const temporaryTsconfig = configured.path === props.tsconfig ? undefined : configured.path;
         const identities = createHostPathIdentityContext(props.filesystem);
-        const before = collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem);
+        // Read from the project's own tsconfig rather than the generated one: a
+        // relative `outDir` is anchored at the config that declares it, and the
+        // generated config lives in a system temp directory. The caller's
+        // compiler-options overlay still wins, since it wins for the compile too.
+        const membershipPolicy = tsconfigPaths.mergeMembershipPolicyOverlay(tsconfigPaths.readProjectMembershipPolicy(props.tsconfig), props.compilerOptions, projectRoot);
+        const before = collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem, undefined, { policy: membershipPolicy });
         tracker = props.trackProjectMembership
-            ? await createProjectMutationTracker(before.projectDirectories, props.filesystem)
+            ? await createProjectMutationTracker(before.projectDirectories, props.filesystem, membershipPolicy)
             : undefined;
         const result = withTransformScratchEnvironment(scratchDirectory, () => new ttsc.TtscCompiler({
             cwd: projectRoot,
@@ -3467,12 +4012,13 @@ async function captureTransformGeneration(props) {
                 : undefined;
         const externalInputPaths = selectExternalInputPaths({
             filesystem: props.filesystem,
+            membershipPolicy,
             projectRoot,
             result,
             scratchDirectory,
             temporaryTsconfig,
         });
-        const inputSnapshot = collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem);
+        const inputSnapshot = collectProjectInputSnapshot(projectRoot, identities, props.filesystem, undefined, { policy: membershipPolicy });
         // Whether the recorded snapshot describes one coherent state of the
         // project. A membership event during the compile taints it exactly like an
         // unstable walk pair; whether notifications can be *opened* is a separate
@@ -3507,6 +4053,12 @@ async function captureTransformGeneration(props) {
             delete inputSnapshot.provenSignatures[currentFileKey];
         }
         const cached = {
+            // The pass this compile was started for. Its snapshot describes the
+            // project as of this compile, so it is settled for this pass and any
+            // later pass must re-prove it.
+            ...(props.deliveryEpoch === undefined
+                ? {}
+                : { deliveryEpoch: props.deliveryEpoch }),
             // Capture the out-of-walk input hashes while the generation is fresh so
             // cache validation can re-check them; computed before dispose so the
             // scratch-tree exclusion is the only reason its disposed artifacts never
@@ -3516,7 +4068,9 @@ async function captureTransformGeneration(props) {
             externalInputPaths,
             inputHashes: inputSnapshot.hashes,
             inputSignatures: inputSnapshot.provenSignatures,
+            membershipPolicy,
             projectDirectories: inputSnapshot.projectDirectories,
+            tsconfig: props.tsconfig,
             projectSnapshotComplete: false,
             projectRoot,
             result,
@@ -3876,10 +4430,37 @@ function readPaths(value) {
 function createAliasPaths(aliases) {
     const paths = {};
     for (const alias of normalizeAliases(aliases)) {
-        if (typeof alias.find !== "string" || alias.find.length === 0) {
+        if (typeof alias.find !== "string") {
+            // Vite's array form accepts a `RegExp` find, and `{ find: /^~/ }` is a
+            // common way to spell a prefix alias. A tsconfig `paths` map has no
+            // regular-expression form, so there is nothing to translate it into
+            // (samchon/ttsc#1315). Reducing the simple prefix cases to a string is
+            // possible in principle and deliberately not done: telling `/^~/` from
+            // `/^~(?=\/)/` or `/^@app/` — which matches `@apple` too — means
+            // implementing enough of a regular-expression engine that a wrong
+            // reduction becomes likely, and a mistranslated alias resolves imports to
+            // the wrong file silently, which is worse than not forwarding it.
+            //
+            // Not reported, unlike the wildcard below, and that asymmetry is the
+            // whole point: Vite merges two `RegExp` aliases of its own into every
+            // resolved config, `/^\/?@vite\/env/` and `/^\/?@vite\/client/`. Measured
+            // on a bare project with no user aliases at all, `resolve.alias` has
+            // exactly those two entries under both `serve` and `build`, so a report
+            // on this form would fire twice for every Vite user in every build, name
+            // aliases they never wrote, and say nothing about their configuration.
+            // A diagnostic that cannot distinguish the user's input from the host's
+            // is noise, and noise is what teaches people to stop reading the channel
+            // the out-of-program report depends on. The documentation carries this
+            // form instead, in both README and guide.
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (alias.find.length === 0) {
             continue;
         }
         if (alias.find.includes("*")) {
+            // A `paths` key reads `*` as its own wildcard, so forwarding a `find`
+            // that already contains one cannot preserve the caller's meaning.
+            reportUntranslatableAlias(JSON.stringify(alias.find), 'a "paths" key already reads "*" as its own wildcard');
             continue;
         }
         const key = alias.find.replace(/\/+$/, "");
@@ -3894,9 +4475,50 @@ function createAliasPaths(aliases) {
     }
     return paths;
 }
+/**
+ * Alias descriptions already reported in this process.
+ *
+ * The message is about configuration rather than about a module:
+ * `resolve.alias` is resolved once and then consulted on every delivery, so
+ * reporting per delivery would repeat one statement about the config for every
+ * file in the bundle. Keyed by the description, so a Vite dev server that
+ * reloads its config reports again only when the alias itself changed.
+ */
+const REPORTED_UNTRANSLATABLE_ALIASES = new Set();
+/**
+ * Tell the user once that an alias they declared is not reaching the compile.
+ *
+ * A dropped alias is not silent in its consequence — the compile resolves
+ * through the tsconfig's own `paths`, and a module that resolves for the
+ * bundler but not for the compiler surfaces as the out-of-program report
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1308) — but that report names the module, not the alias, so the
+ * user cannot learn from it that a configuration they wrote was ignored.
+ *
+ * Only the wildcard form reaches here. Every entry it names was written by the
+ * user, because nothing injects one; the `RegExp` form is left to the
+ * documentation precisely because Vite does inject those, and
+ * {@link createAliasPaths} carries that measurement.
+ */
+function reportUntranslatableAlias(description, reason) {
+    if (REPORTED_UNTRANSLATABLE_ALIASES.has(description)) {
+        return;
+    }
+    REPORTED_UNTRANSLATABLE_ALIASES.add(description);
+    process.stderr.write(`ttsc: the Vite alias ${description} was not forwarded to the compile, because ${reason}. Declare it in your tsconfig's "paths" if ttsc must resolve through it.\n`);
+}
+/**
+ * Collect the host's declared aliases without deciding which of them can be
+ * expressed as `paths`.
+ *
+ * That decision belongs to {@link createAliasPaths} alone. It used to be split:
+ * this function's type guard required a string `find` and dropped Vite's
+ * `RegExp` form before `createAliasPaths` ever saw it, which left
+ * `createAliasPaths`'s own non-string branch unreachable and put the drop
+ * somewhere nothing could report it (samchon/ttsc#1315).
+ */
 function normalizeAliases(aliases) {
     if (Array.isArray(aliases)) {
-        return aliases.filter(isAlias);
+        return aliases.filter(isDeclaredAlias);
     }
     if (typeof aliases === "object" && aliases !== null) {
         return Object.entries(aliases)
@@ -3941,12 +4563,11 @@ function isRelativeSpecifier(value) {
         value.startsWith(".\\") ||
         value.startsWith("..\\"));
 }
-function isAlias(value) {
+function isDeclaredAlias(value) {
     return (typeof value === "object" &&
         value !== null &&
         "find" in value &&
         "replacement" in value &&
-        typeof value.find === "string" &&
         typeof value.replacement === "string");
 }
 /**
@@ -3979,19 +4600,57 @@ function selectTransformedSource(props) {
     if (source !== undefined) {
         return source;
     }
-    throw new Error(`ttsc transform did not return output for ${props.file}`);
+    throw new TtscMissingProgramOutputError(props.file, props.tsconfig);
 }
 /**
- * Forward non-fatal plugin diagnostics to stderr.
+ * Tell the user once that a module was left untransformed, and why.
+ *
+ * The condition is ordinary and the build continues, but it must never be
+ * silent: a file the program does not contain keeps whatever plugin syntax it
+ * carries, so a typia `assert<T>()` in it becomes a runtime failure rather than
+ * a build failure. One line per file per generation per pass, on the channel
+ * the generation's other non-fatal diagnostics already use, so a bundle that
+ * reaches many such files does not repeat itself per delivery.
+ */
+function reportMissingProgramOutput(cached, error, epoch) {
+    const reported = (cached.missingOutputReported ??= new Set());
+    if (cached.missingOutputEpoch !== epoch) {
+        cached.missingOutputEpoch = epoch;
+        reported.clear();
+    }
+    if (reported.has(error.file)) {
+        return;
+    }
+    reported.add(error.file);
+    process.stderr.write(`${error.message}
+`);
+}
+/**
+ * Forward non-fatal plugin diagnostics to stderr, once per generation per pass.
  *
  * A `success` result may still carry warnings or informational messages from
- * plugins. These are surfaced via stderr rather than throwing so the build
- * continues. Failures and exceptions are handled by the caller.
+ * plugins — `@ttsc/lint` reports every rule below error severity this way.
+ * These are surfaced via stderr rather than throwing so the build continues.
+ * Failures and exceptions are handled by the caller.
+ *
+ * They describe one compile of one program, so writing them per delivery
+ * printed the same warning once per module and scaled the noise with exactly
+ * the reuse the cache exists to provide (samchon/ttsc#1304). A pass that reuses
+ * a retained generation still surfaces them once, because a build's warnings
+ * are part of what that build reports; a host with no pass boundary surfaces
+ * them once per generation, which is the same rule with one pass.
  */
-function reportSuccessDiagnostics(result) {
+function reportSuccessDiagnostics(cached, epoch) {
+    const result = cached.result;
     if (result.type !== "success" || result.diagnostics === undefined) {
         return;
     }
+    if (cached.diagnosticsReported === true &&
+        cached.diagnosticsEpoch === epoch) {
+        return;
+    }
+    cached.diagnosticsReported = true;
+    cached.diagnosticsEpoch = epoch;
     const text = formatDiagnostics(result.diagnostics);
     if (text.length !== 0) {
         process.stderr.write(`${text}\n`);
@@ -4015,7 +4674,7 @@ function formatDiagnostics(diagnostics) {
         diag.line === undefined
             ? undefined
             : `${diag.line}:${diag.character ?? 1}`,
-        diag.messageText,
+        stripTerminalEscapes(diag.messageText),
     ]
         .filter((part) => part !== undefined && part !== "")
         .join(": "))
@@ -4023,15 +4682,38 @@ function formatDiagnostics(diagnostics) {
 }
 function formatUnknownError(error) {
     if (error instanceof Error) {
-        return error.message;
+        return stripTerminalEscapes(error.message);
     }
     if (typeof error === "object" &&
         error !== null &&
         "message" in error &&
         typeof error.message === "string") {
-        return error.message;
+        return stripTerminalEscapes(error.message);
     }
-    return String(error);
+    return stripTerminalEscapes(String(error));
+}
+/**
+ * Remove terminal colour and cursor sequences from text the adapter surfaces.
+ *
+ * An ordinary type error reaches the adapter as an `"exception"` envelope whose
+ * `error` is the host's own rendered output, colour and all, and the envelope
+ * carries no structured diagnostics to format instead. What the adapter hands
+ * back is not going to a terminal: it becomes the `Error` a bundler reports, so
+ * it lands in a Vite overlay, a webpack error report or a CI annotation, where
+ * the escapes render as literal noise around the file and line the reader needs
+ * (samchon/ttsc#1312).
+ *
+ * The colour originates in the host's rendering rather than in anything this
+ * adapter configures, so this is the adapter-side repair, applied to every
+ * message it surfaces rather than to one call site.
+ */
+function stripTerminalEscapes(text) {
+    // Built from a char code so no control byte lives in this source file, and
+    // written with `[[]` (a class holding one literal bracket) so the pattern
+    // needs no backslash escapes to survive the string it is assembled from.
+    const escape = String.fromCharCode(27);
+    const controlSequence = new RegExp(escape + "[[][0-9;?]*[ -/]*[@-~]", "g");
+    return text.replace(controlSequence, "");
 }
 /**
  * Locate the tsconfig that should govern the transform for `file`.