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+/**
+ * THE ADAPTER LOADER — the host half of `vgai.adapter.ts`.
+ *
+ * ARCHITECTURE-CORE §The editor protocol: every game supplies a SERVER — its
+ * adapter — and the editor is a universal CLIENT of it. This module is where a
+ * project's adapter becomes a live binding table:
+ *
+ *   1. the project has `vgai.adapter.ts` ⇒ **the project's own file wins,
+ *      always**. It is imported through the SAME door every other
+ *      project-owned module goes through (`project-module-url.ts`'s
+ *      `fsImportPath` — the ONE owner of `/@fs/` urls for project code, PD-3)
+ *      and its default export is parsed by `parseAdapterDefinition`, which
+ *      rejects an unknown key by name. This branch is FIRST because a game
+ *      supplies its own protocol server: a project that ships the declaration
+ *      has stated its table, and no host-side table may quietly outrank it —
+ *      not even when its ingest root id happens to match a registry key
+ *      (a user's `cuberun` folder is not ours);
+ *   2. the project is an INGEST GAME whose adapter the host's in-tree registry
+ *      holds, and it shipped none of its own ⇒ that module is the adapter.
+ *      Placement follows REALM (ARCHITECTURE-CORE §The editor protocol): a
+ *      vendored game's bytes are served verbatim, so its host-realm declaration
+ *      lives in `ingest/games/<id>/vgai.adapter.ts` and is imported through the
+ *      registry glob, never through the project's file routes. **This branch is
+ *      REACHABLE only because the step-1 probe can answer "no"**: the realm
+ *      rule keeps a vendored game's adapter out of its served bundle, but
+ *      "the file is not on disk" and "the probe says absent" were different
+ *      answers until `probeProjectFile` learned to recognize the SPA fallback
+ *      — a 200 serving `index.html` for every missing project-root path, on
+ *      both the dev server and the hosted surface. An existence check reading
+ *      `res.ok` is a constant TRUE here and makes this branch dead code, which
+ *      is exactly how every vendored game silently lost its scene table once.
+ *      **A binding taken from here is NEVER silent**:
+ *      the facet's `source` says `'registry'` and its `modulePath` names the
+ *      repo file, so `vgai status` reports whose declaration is running. A
+ *      project bound this way did not ship that table; the host did, and the
+ *      user is entitled to read that off the same door as everything else;
+ *   3. the project has NONE ⇒ it gets `nativeAdapter()`. **That absence IS the
+ *      declared native default, not a silent fallback**: the same binding table
+ *      the template ships explicitly, chosen because the project declared
+ *      nothing else — there is no third behavior for "no adapter".
+ *
+ * The ordering also settles the one folder that can answer BOTH probes: an
+ * in-tree ingest fixture keeps its manifest and its adapter side by side, so
+ * opening `ingest/games/<id>/` as a folder project reaches THE SAME FILE
+ * through the project door. One declaration, one winner, decided by a rule that
+ * does not ask which population the project belongs to.
+ *
+ * It is also the ONE sanctioned importer of `@editor/finders`
+ * (`packages/engine/test/finder-import-boundary.test.ts` is the tripwire). The
+ * engine never runs a finder nobody selected; the loader runs exactly the
+ * selections the adapter's table names, with the inputs gathered here.
+ *
+ * The resolved table is published as the `adapter` facet of `/__editor/state`
+ * (`command-listener.ts`'s `collectState`), which is the minimal proof-of-load
+ * client: `vgai status` / `vgai eval 'await editor.status()'` read which
+ * adapter loaded, its regions, and its scene table.
+ *
+ * The OBSERVATION table has one client and it is not the facet: the ingest
+ * mount's system-adapter assembly (`ingest/ingest-render-debug.ts`'s
+ * `wireIngestSystems`) projects the declarations onto the host's ordinary
+ * `SystemAdapters.debug` alongside the game's own contract projection, so
+ * `game.providers()` / `game.state()` reach an adapter declaration through the
+ * SAME door first-party content uses. The facet publishes only the statically
+ * readable half (ids, kinds, whether an answer is bound); the closures travel
+ * host-side through `adapter-observation.ts`, because a closure cannot be a
+ * wire shape.
+ *
+ * The scene table has TWO real clients (ARCHITECTURE-CORE §Editor). The EDIT
+ * TAB ROW is the first: `components/scene-documents.tsx` subscribes to this
+ * facet and projects `scenes` as workspace documents — every authorable scene
+ * a tab, the default open by default — and `command-listener.ts`'s `open` verb
+ * resolves one entry through the same pure decision table
+ * (`scene-document-plan.ts`). Play's `open()`, walking the table as live
+ * navigation, is the second and is a later rung.
+ */
+
+import type { EntrypointSource, FinderInput, ProjectComponentRef } from '@editor/finders';
+import {
+  type FinderResult,
+  type ProjectSourceFile,
+  registerContributedFinder,
+  runFinderSelection,
+} from '@editor/finders';
+import { fsImportPath } from '@volter/editor-sdk/session/project-module-url';
+import type {
+  AdapterDefinition,
+  AdapterRegion,
+  DocumentEntry,
+  ObservationDeclaration,
+  ObservationKind,
+} from '@volter/editor-project/adapter/adapter-module';
+import {
+  nativeAdapter,
+  parseAdapterDefinition,
+  regionsFromManifestRoots,
+  unmatchedRegionIncludeIds,
+} from '@volter/editor-project/adapter/adapter-module';
+import { declaredRoots, ingestRoots } from '@volter/editor-project/adapter/manifest-interpreter';
+import type { ResolvedGameManifest } from '@volter/editor-project/manifest/load';
+import { activeProjectKey } from './active-project';
+import { setAdapterEditorConfiguration } from './adapter-editor-config';
+import { setAdapterInputBinding, setAdapterObservations } from './adapter-observation';
+import { connectSourceFileEvents } from './asset-events';
+import {
+  listProjectComponents,
+  listProjectSourceFiles,
+  probeProjectFile,
+  readProjectTextFile,
+} from './editor-api';
+import { editorConsole } from './editor-console';
+import { fetchGameManifest } from './manifest-project';
+import { setPresentationRegions } from './presentation-surface';
+import { type ActiveProject, getCurrentProject, onProjectChange } from './project-manager';
+import { projectModuleChangeMatches, subscribeProjectModuleChange } from './project-module-changes';
+import { notifyProjectShapeChanged, registerDocumentKindsSupplier } from './project-shape';
+import { resolveRelativeSpecifier } from './resolve-relative-specifier';
+import { storyPrefabsFinder } from './stories/prefabs-finder';
+import {
+  contributedFinderModules,
+  documentContributionForKind,
+  refreshProjectToolContributions,
+  subscribeToolContributions,
+} from './tool-loader';
+
+/** The game's adapter module lives beside `vgai.project.json`, by contract. */
+export const ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME = 'vgai.adapter.ts';
+
+/** The resolved scene table — the adapter's declarations plus what its own
+ *  finder selections found. */
+export interface ResolvedDocumentTable {
+  readonly entries: readonly DocumentEntry[];
+  /** `null` = nothing settled a default, which stays a fact rather than a pick. */
+  readonly default: string | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One observation slot as it travels over `/__editor/state` — the statically
+ * readable half of an {@link ObservationDeclaration}, and nothing else.
+ *
+ * `answer` is a CLOSURE the host evaluates against the mounted game, so it
+ * cannot be serialized and is deliberately not here; `answered` carries the one
+ * fact its presence states. That split is the two-state rule made visible on
+ * the wire: `answered: false` reads as "declared, nothing binds it yet", which
+ * is a different answer from the slot not appearing at all. The closures
+ * themselves stay host-side in `adapter-observation.ts`, where the mount reads
+ * them.
+ */
+export interface ProjectObservationFacet {
+  readonly id: string;
+  readonly kind: ObservationKind;
+  /** Whether the declaration binds an `answer`. */
+  readonly answered: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface ProjectAdapterFacet {
+  /**
+   * WHOSE declaration is running — the one field that answers it, because
+   * "a module loaded" never did.
+   *
+   * - `project` — the project's own `vgai.adapter.ts` supplied the table.
+   * - `registry` — the HOST's in-tree ingest registry supplied it, matched on
+   *   this project's ingest root id. The project did not ship this
+   *   declaration; a reader must be able to see that without pattern-matching
+   *   a path, which is why it is a value here and not an inference from
+   *   {@link modulePath}.
+   * - `native` — the project declared none and got `nativeAdapter()`, the
+   *   declared native default.
+   */
+  readonly source: 'project' | 'registry' | 'native';
+  /**
+   * Where the loaded module came from, or `null` for the native default:
+   * project-relative for a project that owns its own file, and the REPO path
+   * (`packages/editor/src/ingest/games/<id>/vgai.adapter.ts`) for a registry
+   * binding, whose adapter is host-realm by the placement rule and therefore
+   * has no project-relative home to name.
+   */
+  readonly modulePath: string | null;
+  readonly editor?: Omit<NonNullable<AdapterDefinition['editor']>, 'Layout'> & {
+    readonly layout?: string;
+  };
+  readonly regions: readonly AdapterRegion[];
+  readonly scenes: ResolvedDocumentTable;
+  /** The observation table, wire-shaped. See {@link ProjectObservationFacet}. */
+  readonly observation: readonly ProjectObservationFacet[];
+  /** Finder diagnostics — what could not be answered, and why. Never swallowed. */
+  readonly notes: readonly string[];
+  /** True while a declared finder has no registration yet — a contribution's
+   *  finder before the contribution pass — so the table is NOT final. The
+   *  chrome treats the document kinds as unknown until this clears, rather
+   *  than concluding "no model" from a table the pass is about to fill. */
+  readonly documentsPending: boolean;
+  /**
+   * A load/parse failure — or a probe that could not answer — named. Non-null
+   * means the project's OWN adapter did not load, and what stood in is
+   * whatever {@link source} says: a registry binding, or the declared native
+   * default. Never swallowed, because the editor still opening on a broken
+   * `vgai.adapter.ts` is only acceptable while it SAYS the file is broken.
+   */
+  readonly error: string | null;
+}
+
+let _facet: ProjectAdapterFacet | null = null;
+/** The parsed declaration behind {@link _facet}, kept for
+ *  {@link projectAdapterDefinition}. `null` whenever no declaration FILE was
+ *  parsed — see that function for why the native default is not stored here. */
+let _definition: AdapterDefinition | null = null;
+let _owner = '__unscoped__';
+/** The load in flight, so a reader can wait for the answer instead of racing
+ *  it. See {@link projectAdapterDefinition}. */
+let _inFlight: Promise<void> | null = null;
+let _refreshEpoch = 0;
+const _listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+
+/** The loaded adapter table, or `null` before the first load completes —
+ *  "nobody looked yet" is deliberately distinct from "the project has none". */
+export function projectAdapterFacet(): ProjectAdapterFacet | null {
+  return _owner === activeProjectKey() ? _facet : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * THE PARSED DECLARATION, for the one consumer that needs the whole thing:
+ * `binding-resolver.ts`, which hands it to `resolveRootBinding` so it lands on
+ * `binding.project.definition`.
+ *
+ * Two deliberate properties:
+ *
+ * - It **awaits the load in flight**. A resolve that read module state
+ *   synchronously would answer `null` for a project whose adapter is still
+ *   loading — a project-switch-then-Play race — and `null` on that binding
+ *   means "this project declares no adapter", which would be a fabricated
+ *   fact. Waiting is what makes the `null` honest.
+ * - The **declared native default is `null` here**, not `nativeAdapter()`.
+ *   `binding.project.definition` answers "what did the PROJECT declare", so a
+ *   project that shipped no declaration file must read as `null`. Which table
+ *   actually stood in — project, registry, or native — is
+ *   {@link ProjectAdapterFacet.source}'s job, and that is where a consumer
+ *   asking the other question looks.
+ */
+export async function projectAdapterDefinition(): Promise<AdapterDefinition | null> {
+  if (_inFlight) await _inFlight;
+  return _owner === activeProjectKey() ? _definition : null;
+}
+
+/** Initial layout waits for the adapter declaration, not deferred finder contributions. */
+export function waitForProjectAdapter(): Promise<void> {
+  const ready = () => !getCurrentProject() || Boolean(projectAdapterFacet());
+  if (ready()) return Promise.resolve();
+  return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    const stop = subscribeProjectAdapter(() => {
+      if (ready()) {
+        stop();
+        resolve();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+export function subscribeProjectAdapter(fn: () => void): () => void {
+  _listeners.add(fn);
+  return () => _listeners.delete(fn);
+}
+
+function publish(
+  next: ProjectAdapterFacet | null,
+  observation: readonly ObservationDeclaration[] = [],
+  input: AdapterDefinition['input'] = undefined,
+  definition: AdapterDefinition | null = null,
+): void {
+  _owner = activeProjectKey();
+  _facet = next;
+  _definition = definition;
+  setAdapterEditorConfiguration(definition?.editor);
+  // The region table's OTHER reader, pushed rather than pulled: the capture and
+  // staleness sites ask "what is this project presented on" from inside the
+  // ingest mount and play-mode, and having them import this loader would drag
+  // its whole graph along. See `presentation-surface.ts`'s note — this stays the
+  // one place regions are decided.
+  setPresentationRegions(next?.regions ?? []);
+  // Same push, same reason, for the half of the observation table that cannot
+  // travel over the wire: the `answer` closures the ingest mount evaluates
+  // against the mounted game (`adapter-observation.ts`).
+  setAdapterObservations(observation);
+  setAdapterInputBinding(input ?? null);
+  for (const fn of _listeners) fn();
+  notifyProjectShapeChanged();
+}
+
+/** The wire half of one declaration — closures stripped, the fact of one kept. */
+function observationFacet(declaration: ObservationDeclaration): ProjectObservationFacet {
+  return {
+    id: declaration.id,
+    kind: declaration.kind,
+    answered: declaration.answer !== undefined,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Test seam: drop the loaded table, both halves of it. */
+export function __resetProjectAdapterForTest(): void {
+  _facet = null;
+  _definition = null;
+  _inFlight = null;
+  _refreshEpoch++;
+  setAdapterEditorConfiguration();
+  setAdapterObservations([]);
+  setAdapterInputBinding(null);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Import the project's own adapter module. Cache-busted like every other
+ * design-time project load, because a saved `vgai.adapter.ts` must be readable
+ * without restarting the editor.
+ *
+ * The url is built by `fsImportPath` (project-module-url.ts) and NOT by
+ * `projectEntryImportUrl`: a mount epoch exists to keep the roots of ONE mount
+ * on one module instance, and the adapter is not part of any mount — it is a
+ * binding table read WITHOUT booting the game. Taking an epoch here would
+ * inflate the mount-epoch census for a module no root shares.
+ */
+function editorConfigurationFacet(editor: NonNullable<AdapterDefinition['editor']>) {
+  const { Layout, ...configuration } = editor;
+  return {
+    ...configuration,
+    ...(Layout ? { layout: Layout.displayName ?? Layout.name ?? 'Project layout' } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+async function importAdapterModule(rootPath: string): Promise<unknown> {
+  // The server-less tier has no `/@fs/`. A storage-backed project's adapter
+  // loads through the same in-browser bundling door as every project module
+  // (fresh bundle per call — the cache-bust for free); a STAGED hosted
+  // example/ingest — reached only when the realm-correct probe found the
+  // file among its served bytes — bundles it from its own staged URL. Never
+  // the backend for those: it still holds some other project
+  // (`browserProjectStorageBacked`, the 2026-08-27 leak).
+  const url = `${fsImportPath(rootPath, ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME)}?t=${Date.now()}`;
+  return (await import(/* @vite-ignore */ url)) as unknown;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Map a component to its region by SURFACE. Exact, not heuristic: the manifest
+ * schema enforces at most ONE world root per medium (ARCHITECTURE-CORE
+ * §Roots), so a surface names at most one region.
+ */
+function regionForSurface(regions: readonly AdapterRegion[], surface: string): string | null {
+  return regions.find((region) => region.surface === surface)?.id ?? null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve one of an entrypoint's relative import specifiers against the paths
+ * the project's own component index reports. Extension/index resolution is a
+ * filesystem question and the finders are pure, so the host answers it here —
+ * from a real index, never by guessing an extension onto a path.
+ */
+function makeResolveModule(
+  components: readonly { readonly path: string }[],
+): (specifier: string, fromPath: string) => string | null {
+  const paths = new Set(components.map((component) => component.path));
+  return (specifier, fromPath) => resolveRelativeSpecifier(specifier, fromPath, paths);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The ingest game this project IS, or `null` — the key the in-tree adapter
+ * registry is looked up by.
+ *
+ * It is the manifest's own single `{ ingest }` root id, which is a DECLARATION
+ * read off the project (never a folder-name guess), and it is the same id
+ * `ingest/mount-ingest-root.ts` mounts by. Two ingest roots is not this
+ * module's error to report — that route already fails loudly on it
+ * (`reportTooManyIngestRoots`) — so here it simply names no game rather than
+ * picking one.
+ */
+function ingestGameIdOf(manifest: ResolvedGameManifest): string | null {
+  const declared = ingestRoots(manifest);
+  return declared.length === 1 ? declared[0]!.id : null;
+}
+
+/** What a table with no finder selections is resolved against. */
+const NO_FINDER_INPUT: FinderInput = { entrypoints: [], components: [] };
+
+async function gatherFinderInput(
+  manifest: ResolvedGameManifest,
+  regions: readonly AdapterRegion[],
+  definition: AdapterDefinition,
+): Promise<FinderInput> {
+  const entrypoints: EntrypointSource[] = [];
+  for (const root of declaredRoots(manifest)) {
+    if (!root.entry) continue;
+    entrypoints.push({
+      regionId: root.id,
+      path: root.entry,
+      source: await readProjectTextFile(root.entry),
+    });
+  }
+
+  let components: ProjectComponentRef[] = [];
+  const listing = await listProjectComponents().catch(
+    (error: unknown): Awaited<ReturnType<typeof listProjectComponents>> => ({
+      ok: false,
+      reason: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
+    }),
+  );
+  if (listing.ok) {
+    components = listing.entries.map((component) => ({
+      name: component.name,
+      path: component.path,
+      region: regionForSurface(regions, component.surface),
+    }));
+  } else {
+    // No component index (the route is unavailable): prefabs
+    // still resolve from their stories, they just carry no source path. That
+    // degrade is fine; being silent about it was not — a prefab missing its
+    // source path looked like the prefab, not like the index.
+    editorConsole.warn(
+      `Component index unavailable, so prefabs resolve without source paths: ${listing.reason}`,
+      'project',
+    );
+  }
+
+  // Every selection's `include` globs, read once: a contributed finder sees
+  // the project through these sources and nothing else.
+  const includes = new Set<string>();
+  for (const selection of definition.documents.find ?? []) {
+    for (const glob of (selection as { include?: readonly string[] }).include ?? [])
+      includes.add(glob);
+  }
+  const sources: ProjectSourceFile[] = [];
+  const files: string[] = [];
+  if (includes.size > 0) {
+    // Newest first: the table keeps this order, so "the one being worked on"
+    // is the first candidate when a fresh checkout has to pick a document.
+    const paths = await listProjectSourceFiles([...includes], { order: 'mtime' }).catch(
+      () => [] as string[],
+    );
+    for (const path of paths) {
+      files.push(path);
+      // A BINARY document is listed, never decoded. `@volter/editor-blender`'s finder
+      // includes `.blend` files, and reading one as text would hand a finder a
+      // string of replacement characters and call it a source. A NUL byte is
+      // the test because it is the one thing no text source contains, and it
+      // asks the bytes rather than a list of extensions the host would then
+      // own. COST, named rather than hidden: the bytes are fetched and decoded
+      // before the test can run, so a binary under a finder's globs is read
+      // once per adapter resolve. A selection that declared it wants paths
+      // only would close it; no shipped finder needs that yet.
+      const source = await readProjectTextFile(path);
+      if (source !== null && !source.includes('\0')) sources.push({ path, source });
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    entrypoints,
+    components,
+    sources,
+    files,
+    resolveModule: makeResolveModule(components),
+  };
+}
+
+export type { EntrypointSource, FinderInput, ProjectComponentRef };
+
+/**
+ * Assemble finder input from parts the caller already gathered. The live
+ * loader reads those parts off the editor session; the headless portfolio
+ * run reads them off disk. Both hand the SAME shape to
+ * {@link resolveDocumentTable}, which is the one fold.
+ */
+export function buildFinderInput(parts: {
+  readonly entrypoints: readonly EntrypointSource[];
+  readonly components?: readonly ProjectComponentRef[];
+}): FinderInput {
+  const components = parts.components ?? [];
+  return {
+    entrypoints: parts.entrypoints,
+    components,
+    resolveModule: makeResolveModule(components),
+  };
+}
+
+/** Run the adapter's own finder selections and fold them into one table. */
+export function resolveDocumentTable(
+  definition: AdapterDefinition,
+  input: FinderInput,
+): {
+  table: ResolvedDocumentTable;
+  notes: string[];
+  /** Selections whose finder is not registered (yet). */
+  unresolved: number;
+} {
+  const entries: DocumentEntry[] = [...(definition.documents.entries ?? [])];
+  const notes: string[] = [];
+  const settled: string[] = [];
+  let unresolved = 0;
+  for (const selection of definition.documents.find ?? []) {
+    let result: FinderResult;
+    try {
+      result = runFinderSelection(selection, input);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // A finder a CONTRIBUTION registers is not there until the contribution
+      // pass has run, which follows the first adapter load; the table is
+      // resolved again when it does (`subscribeToolContributions` below). A
+      // selection that stays unresolved is a standing note, never a throw.
+      notes.push(
+        `finder ${JSON.stringify(selection.finder)}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`,
+      );
+      unresolved += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    entries.push(...result.entries);
+    notes.push(...result.notes);
+    if (result.default !== undefined) settled.push(result.default);
+  }
+  // THE SESSION'S OWN MODEL DOCUMENT (ARCHITECTURE-CORE §The project model,
+  // "A model is Blender data"): `@volter/editor-blender`'s Model document opens a
+  // project's `.blend` files, which its `modelsFromBlendFiles` finder lists
+  // above. A project that declares the package but holds no `.blend` of its
+  // own still needs ONE — it is what `blender-start` presents into and what a
+  // first bpy call models in, saved to the session's default
+  // `models/model.blend` — so the standing `blender:runtime` entry stands
+  // exactly there: where that package's document is registered AND the table
+  // found no model of the project's own. Never as an entry no editor can
+  // open, and never as a second Model beside a real one.
+  if (
+    documentContributionForKind('model') !== undefined &&
+    !entries.some((entry) => entry.kind === 'model')
+  ) {
+    entries.push({
+      id: 'blender:runtime',
+      label: 'Model',
+      kind: 'model',
+      region: null,
+      authorable: true,
+      reach: { kind: 'root-mount' },
+    });
+  }
+  // The adapter's own declaration wins; otherwise a default stands only when
+  // exactly one finder settled one. Two candidates is a CHOICE, and the host
+  // does not make choices the game's author can state.
+  const fallback = settled.length === 1 ? settled[0]! : null;
+  return {
+    table: { entries, default: definition.documents.default ?? fallback },
+    notes,
+    unresolved,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Which adapter this project resolved to, and the provenance of the choice. */
+export interface ResolvedAdapterChoice {
+  readonly definition: AdapterDefinition;
+  readonly source: 'project' | 'registry' | 'native';
+  readonly modulePath: string | null;
+  readonly error: string | null;
+}
+
+/** The project's own `vgai.adapter.ts` probe, as data — the live loader and
+ *  the headless run answer this the same way, from different IO. */
+export type ProjectAdapterProbe =
+  | { readonly kind: 'present'; readonly module: unknown }
+  | { readonly kind: 'broken'; readonly error: string }
+  | { readonly kind: 'absent' }
+  | { readonly kind: 'unreachable'; readonly error: string };
+
+/**
+ * AN ADAPTER DEFINITION IS SOURCED, NOT GLOBBED — the door a LANE registers
+ * its host-realm declarations through, in the family of
+ * `workspace-document-restore.ts` (a kind owns its persisted state),
+ * `document-open-registry.ts` (a kind owns how it opens),
+ * `chrome-slot-registry.ts` (the host owns the place, a package owns what sits
+ * there) and `content-entry-source-registry.ts` (the host owns the Content
+ * scope, a package owns why a component is content).
+ *
+ * IT LIVES IN THIS FILE, not beside those, and the reason is the meter. Its
+ * only consumer is {@link resolveAdapterDefinition} below — the one place the
+ * three-way precedence lives — so a separate module is a host file traded for
+ * a host file: MEASURED, `main.tsx` stayed at 494 with the door split out and
+ * dropped to 493 with it here. A registry whose whole readership is one
+ * function belongs in that function's module.
+ *
+ * WHAT IT REPLACED. This module used to import `ingest/registry.ts` directly
+ * for branch 2, so the host's boot closure carried the ingest lane's
+ * `import.meta.glob` over `src/ingest/games/*` — every repo-vendored game's
+ * manifest and adapter module in every editor boot, a `models` build that
+ * mounts no unmodified game included. The lane that OWNS those declarations is
+ * `@vgai/game`, which already imports that registry from three of its own
+ * ingest modules; it registers here from `contributions/ingest.service.ts`.
+ *
+ * NOTHING REGISTERED IS A REAL ANSWER, AND IT IS A LOUD ONE — see
+ * {@link RegistryAdapterProbe}'s `unanswered`.
+ */
+export interface AdapterDefinitionSource {
+  /** The source's id, in its own vocabulary. Part of every teaching message. */
+  readonly id: string;
+  /** Which module registered it. Re-registering the same owner+id REPLACES,
+   *  so an HMR re-evaluation leaves one source, not two. */
+  readonly owner: string;
+  /** Ascending; ties keep registration order. */
+  readonly order?: number;
+  /** The repo path of the declaration this source holds for `rootId`, or
+   *  `null` when it holds none. Never throws — a source that cannot answer
+   *  says so by returning `null`. */
+  readonly modulePathFor: (rootId: string) => string | null;
+  /** Import that declaration. Only called when `modulePathFor` named a file;
+   *  a module that exists and throws is LEFT to throw, so the loader can name
+   *  the failure rather than swallow it. */
+  readonly importModule: (rootId: string) => Promise<unknown>;
+}
+
+const _adapterSources: AdapterDefinitionSource[] = [];
+
+/** Install a source. Returns the teardown. */
+export function registerAdapterDefinitionSource(source: AdapterDefinitionSource): () => void {
+  const stale = _adapterSources.findIndex(
+    (item) => item.owner === source.owner && item.id === source.id,
+  );
+  if (stale >= 0) _adapterSources.splice(stale, 1);
+  _adapterSources.push(source);
+  _adapterSources.sort((a, b) => (a.order ?? 0) - (b.order ?? 0));
+  return () => {
+    const at = _adapterSources.indexOf(source);
+    if (at >= 0) _adapterSources.splice(at, 1);
+  };
+}
+
+/** The first source that claims this root id, and the file it claims it
+ *  through — `null` when none does, which is NOT "this project has no
+ *  adapter" (see {@link RegistryAdapterProbe}). */
+function adapterDefinitionBinding(
+  rootId: string,
+): { readonly source: AdapterDefinitionSource; readonly modulePath: string } | null {
+  for (const source of _adapterSources) {
+    const modulePath = source.modulePathFor(rootId);
+    if (modulePath !== null) return { source, modulePath };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The SOURCED-declaration probe, as data (`adapter-definition-source-registry.ts`).
+ *
+ * `unanswered` is this half's `unreachable`, and it exists for the same reason
+ * the project half's does: a manifest that DECLARES an ingest root has stated
+ * which lane owns its declaration, so "no registered source holds one" is an
+ * unanswered question about the BUILD, never an absence in the project. It is
+ * the anti-shim rule's standing warning — the native default still stands in so
+ * the editor opens, and the failure is named rather than mounted quietly.
+ *
+ * `absent` remains the honest answer of the DISK half (`coverage/
+ * portfolio-resolve.ts`), which looks at the filesystem and can genuinely say
+ * the file is not there.
+ */
+export type RegistryAdapterProbe =
+  | { readonly kind: 'present'; readonly module: unknown; readonly path: string }
+  | { readonly kind: 'broken'; readonly path: string; readonly error: string }
+  | { readonly kind: 'unanswered'; readonly rootId: string; readonly sources: number }
+  | { readonly kind: 'absent' };
+
+function adapterModuleDefault(module_: unknown): unknown {
+  if (module_ !== null && typeof module_ === 'object' && 'default' in module_) {
+    return (module_ as { default: unknown }).default;
+  }
+  return module_;
+}
+
+/**
+ * THE THREE-WAY PRECEDENCE as a pure function over already-loaded modules.
+ * {@link resolveAdapterDefinition} is the live IO half; the headless portfolio
+ * run is the disk half. Neither may invent a fourth branch.
+ */
+export function selectAdapterDefinition(
+  project: ProjectAdapterProbe,
+  registry: RegistryAdapterProbe,
+): ResolvedAdapterChoice {
+  if (project.kind === 'present') {
+    try {
+      return {
+        definition: parseAdapterDefinition(adapterModuleDefault(project.module)),
+        source: 'project',
+        modulePath: ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME,
+        error: null,
+      };
+    } catch (err) {
+      return {
+        definition: nativeAdapter(),
+        source: 'native',
+        modulePath: null,
+        error: `${ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME} did not load — ${describe(err)}`,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  if (project.kind === 'broken') {
+    return {
+      definition: nativeAdapter(),
+      source: 'native',
+      modulePath: null,
+      error: `${ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME} did not load — ${project.error}`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  const unknown = project.kind === 'unreachable' ? project.error : null;
+
+  if (registry.kind === 'present') {
+    try {
+      return {
+        definition: parseAdapterDefinition(adapterModuleDefault(registry.module)),
+        source: 'registry',
+        modulePath: registry.path,
+        error: unknown,
+      };
+    } catch (err) {
+      return {
+        definition: nativeAdapter(),
+        source: 'native',
+        modulePath: null,
+        error: `${registry.path} did not load — ${describe(err)}`,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  if (registry.kind === 'broken') {
+    return {
+      definition: nativeAdapter(),
+      source: 'native',
+      modulePath: null,
+      error: `${registry.path} did not load — ${registry.error}`,
+    };
+  }
+  if (registry.kind === 'unanswered') {
+    return {
+      definition: nativeAdapter(),
+      source: 'native',
+      modulePath: null,
+      error:
+        `vgai.project.json declares the ingest root \`${registry.rootId}\`, and no registered ` +
+        `adapter-definition source holds a declaration for it ` +
+        `(${registry.sources} source${registry.sources === 1 ? '' : 's'} registered). The lane ` +
+        `that owns a vendored game's declaration is \`@vgai/game\`, which registers through ` +
+        `its \`ingest.service.ts\` contribution — so either this product does not compose that ` +
+        `package, ` +
+        `or its contribution pass did not load it. The declared native default is standing in, ` +
+        `which means this game's own scene table is NOT what the editor is showing.`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  return { definition: nativeAdapter(), source: 'native', modulePath: null, error: unknown };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Regions + scene table + observation from a chosen definition. The live
+ * loader and the headless run both land here — one fold, two IO fronts.
+ */
+export function projectAdapterTableFrom(
+  manifest: ResolvedGameManifest,
+  choice: ResolvedAdapterChoice,
+  finderInput: FinderInput,
+): ProjectAdapterFacet {
+  const { definition, source, modulePath, error } = choice;
+  const regions =
+    definition.regions === 'manifest-roots'
+      ? regionsFromManifestRoots(declaredRoots(manifest), definition.regionIncludes)
+      : [...definition.regions];
+  const unmatchedRegions = unmatchedRegionIncludeIds(
+    declaredRoots(manifest),
+    definition.regionIncludes,
+  );
+  const { table, notes, unresolved } = resolveDocumentTable(definition, finderInput);
+  return {
+    source,
+    modulePath,
+    regions,
+    scenes: table,
+    documentsPending: unresolved > 0,
+    ...(definition.editor ? { editor: editorConfigurationFacet(definition.editor) } : {}),
+    observation: definition.observation.map(observationFacet),
+    notes:
+      unmatchedRegions.length > 0
+        ? [
+            ...notes,
+            `adapter: regionIncludes names ${unmatchedRegions.map((id) => `\`${id}\``).join(', ')}, ` +
+              `which no root in vgai.project.json declares (roots: ${declaredRoots(manifest)
+                .map((root) => `\`${root.id}\``)
+                .join(', ')}) — those globs were merged onto nothing.`,
+          ]
+        : notes,
+    error,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * PICK THE ADAPTER — the three-way decision this module's header states, and
+ * the ONLY place the precedence lives.
+ *
+ * The project's OWN file is probed FIRST and outranks the registry, whatever id
+ * its ingest root declares.
+ *
+ * `probeProjectFile`, not `projectFileExists`, and that is the correctness of
+ * this function rather than a style preference: an existence probe that reads
+ * `res.ok` is a MEASURED CONSTANT TRUE here, because both shipped surfaces
+ * answer a missing project-root path with the editor's own `index.html` at 200
+ * (the dev server's SPA fallback; `docs/DEPLOY.md` §Surface 3 for hosted).
+ * Ordering a can't-say-no probe ahead of the registry made the registry branch
+ * unreachable — every vendored game lost its scene table to a fabricated
+ * "vgai.adapter.ts did not load". The probe now discriminates by CONTENT (an
+ * HTML document is the fallback, not the file) and reports "could not tell" as
+ * an answer of its own.
+ *
+ * Never throws: every failure comes back as a named `error` beside a table that
+ * still stands up, because an editor that dies on a project's config file
+ * cannot be used to fix that file.
+ */
+async function resolveAdapterDefinition(
+  project: ActiveProject,
+  manifest: ResolvedGameManifest,
+): Promise<ResolvedAdapterChoice> {
+  const ingestGameId = ingestGameIdOf(manifest);
+  const presence = await probeProjectFile(ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME);
+
+  if (presence === 'present') {
+    try {
+      const module_ = (await importAdapterModule(project.rootPath)) as { default?: unknown };
+      return selectAdapterDefinition({ kind: 'present', module: module_ }, { kind: 'absent' });
+    } catch (err) {
+      // NO fallback to the registry. The file is really there and it is really
+      // broken, and quietly running the host's table for a game whose author is
+      // staring at their own syntax error is exactly the silence the
+      // project-first rule exists to remove. The failure is named and the
+      // declared native default stands in, so the editor still opens.
+      return selectAdapterDefinition({ kind: 'broken', error: describe(err) }, { kind: 'absent' });
+    }
+  }
+
+  // `unreachable` is not an absence — it is an unanswered question, and saying
+  // so is the difference between "this project has no adapter" and "we could
+  // not find out". A table is published either way, because the editor has to
+  // open; which one stood in is what `source` says.
+  const projectProbe: ProjectAdapterProbe =
+    presence === 'unreachable'
+      ? {
+          kind: 'unreachable',
+          error:
+            `${ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME} could not be probed — the project's file routes did not ` +
+            `answer, so whether this project owns an adapter is UNKNOWN.`,
+        }
+      : { kind: 'absent' };
+
+  if (ingestGameId === null) return selectAdapterDefinition(projectProbe, { kind: 'absent' });
+
+  // THE MANIFEST ALREADY KNOWS THE LANE, so the host is not guessing. This
+  // project declares an ingest root and shipped no adapter of its own, which
+  // means its declaration lives in a SOURCE a package registers
+  // ({@link registerAdapterDefinitionSource}) — and contributions load behind
+  // the opening viewport frame (`project-tool-discovery.ts`), while this runs
+  // at editor init (`startProjectAdapterLoad`). A document whose owner has not
+  // loaded cannot resolve; saying so by WAITING is honest, where mounting the
+  // native default and re-mounting when the registration lands is a silent
+  // degrade followed by a correction (owner decision, WORK.md §The open-source
+  // launch, "THE GAP IS 2"). The wait is paid ONLY here: a project with no
+  // ingest root never reaches this line, and one whose source is already
+  // registered (any resolve after the first) short-circuits below.
+  let binding = adapterDefinitionBinding(ingestGameId);
+  if (binding === null) {
+    await waitForContributedAdapterSources(ingestGameId);
+    binding = adapterDefinitionBinding(ingestGameId);
+  }
+
+  if (binding === null) {
+    const unanswered = selectAdapterDefinition(projectProbe, {
+      kind: 'unanswered',
+      rootId: ingestGameId,
+      sources: _adapterSources.length,
+    });
+    // THE FACET IS NOT A DOOR THE USER READS. `error` reaches
+    // `/__editor/state` and `vgai status` prints it, but `vgai console` stayed
+    // SILENT while the editor showed a vendored game the native default's
+    // scene table — measured live, 2026-09-19, by removing the wait above and
+    // reading both doors. "Unresolved editor console is remaining work" is the
+    // contract every `vgai` verb enforces, so a standing warning that never
+    // enters that ledger is not standing. Warning weight, not error: the
+    // editor opens and is usable, and what is wrong is the BUILD's lane list.
+    if (unanswered.error) editorConsole.warn(unanswered.error, 'ingest');
+    return unanswered;
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const module_ = (await binding.source.importModule(ingestGameId)) as { default?: unknown };
+    return selectAdapterDefinition(projectProbe, {
+      kind: 'present',
+      module: module_,
+      path: binding.modulePath,
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    return selectAdapterDefinition(projectProbe, {
+      kind: 'broken',
+      path: binding.modulePath,
+      error: describe(err),
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * THE WAIT, AND ITS NARRATION — one contribution pass per project open.
+ *
+ * `refreshProjectToolContributions` resolves only once the NEWEST pass has
+ * installed (its own docblock, and the four callers that already treat it that
+ * way — `project-tool-discovery.ts`, `components/tool-documents.tsx`,
+ * `workspace-state-persistence.ts`, `editor-view-presentation.ts`). It is a
+ * known startup cost, not a hung fetch: the workspace restore takes the same
+ * await for the same reason and records it at ~9s on a cold `full` scaffold.
+ *
+ * LATCHED PER PROJECT, and that is correctness rather than thrift. The pass's
+ * completion fires `subscribeToolContributions`, whose hook below re-resolves
+ * the table when the FINDER set changed — so an unlatched await would start a
+ * fresh pass inside every re-resolve it caused, and the two would drive each
+ * other forever. One pass per project open; every later resolve reads the
+ * settled promise.
+ *
+ * AND IT SAYS SO ON SCREEN. `components/ProjectLayout.tsx` already holds the
+ * boot behind `waitForProjectAdapter()` with a `role="status"` line; while this
+ * promise is pending that line NAMES the mechanism instead of reading "Loading
+ * project layout…" for nine silent seconds. An action whose success can be
+ * invisible must narrate itself.
+ */
+let _sourceWaitOwner: string | null = null;
+let _sourceWait: Promise<void> | null = null;
+let _waitNarration: string | null = null;
+
+/** What the adapter load is waiting for, for the boot's own status line —
+ *  `null` whenever it is not waiting on anything a user should be told about. */
+export function projectAdapterWaitNarration(): string | null {
+  return _waitNarration;
+}
+
+function waitForContributedAdapterSources(rootId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const owner = activeProjectKey();
+  if (_sourceWaitOwner !== owner) {
+    _sourceWaitOwner = owner;
+    _sourceWait = null;
+  }
+  if (!_sourceWait) {
+    _waitNarration =
+      `Loading the ingest lane — this project declares the unmodified-game root ` +
+      `“${rootId}”, whose adapter declaration a package supplies.`;
+    for (const fn of _listeners) fn();
+    _sourceWait = refreshProjectToolContributions()
+      .catch(() => {})
+      .finally(() => {
+        _waitNarration = null;
+        for (const fn of _listeners) fn();
+      });
+  }
+  return _sourceWait;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Load the open project's adapter and publish the resolved table.
+ *
+ * Never throws, for the reason {@link resolveAdapterDefinition} records.
+ */
+/** The project's contributed finders, registered into this host's registry
+ *  before the table resolves (ARCHITECTURE-CORE §The project model). A
+ *  module that is not a finder is reported by path, never silently skipped. */
+let unregisterContributedFinders: Array<() => void> = [];
+let registeredFinderSignature = '';
+function registerProjectFinders(): void {
+  const modules = contributedFinderModules();
+  const signature = modules.map((m) => m.entryPath).join('|');
+  if (
+    signature === registeredFinderSignature &&
+    modules.every((m) => registeredModules.has(m.module as object))
+  )
+    return;
+  for (const off of unregisterContributedFinders) off();
+  unregisterContributedFinders = [];
+  registeredModules = new WeakSet();
+  for (const { entryPath, module } of modules) {
+    try {
+      unregisterContributedFinders.push(
+        registerContributedFinder((module as { finder?: unknown } | null)?.finder, entryPath),
+      );
+      registeredModules.add(module as object);
+    } catch (error) {
+      editorConsole.error(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error), 'project');
+    }
+  }
+  registeredFinderSignature = signature;
+}
+let registeredModules = new WeakSet<object>();
+
+// THE KIT'S OWN FINDER, registered once. `prefabsFromStories` is portable
+// CSF's — the kit's design-time state (ARCHITECTURE-CORE §The target shape) —
+// and it reads the story registry itself rather than taking a `FinderInput`
+// field, which is what keeps the finder contract free of one lane's data.
+// This file is the ONE sanctioned importer of the engine's finder namespace
+// (`@editor/finders`'s header states the rule), so the registration is
+// here rather than beside the rest of the lane in `stories/story-lane.ts`.
+registerContributedFinder(storyPrefabsFinder, 'packages/editor/src/stories/prefabs-finder.ts');
+
+// A contribution pass that changed the finder set re-resolves the table.
+subscribeToolContributions(() => {
+  const modules = contributedFinderModules();
+  const changed =
+    modules.map((m) => m.entryPath).join('|') !== registeredFinderSignature ||
+    !modules.every((m) => registeredModules.has(m.module as object));
+  if (changed && getCurrentProject()) void refreshProjectAdapter();
+});
+
+registerDocumentKindsSupplier(() =>
+  _facet && !_facet.documentsPending
+    ? [...new Set(_facet.scenes.entries.map((entry) => entry.kind))]
+    : null,
+);
+
+export function refreshProjectAdapter(): Promise<void> {
+  const run = loadAndPublishProjectAdapter(++_refreshEpoch, getCurrentProject());
+  _inFlight = run;
+  void run.then(() => {
+    if (_inFlight === run) _inFlight = null;
+  });
+  return run;
+}
+
+async function loadAndPublishProjectAdapter(
+  epoch: number,
+  project: ActiveProject | null,
+): Promise<void> {
+  // Declaration, story, and contribution refreshes can overlap. Only the
+  // latest pass for the still-active project may replace its document table.
+  const current = (): boolean => epoch === _refreshEpoch && getCurrentProject() === project;
+  if (!project) {
+    publish(null);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  let manifest: ResolvedGameManifest;
+  try {
+    manifest = await fetchGameManifest();
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (!current()) return;
+    publish({
+      source: 'native',
+      modulePath: null,
+      regions: [],
+      scenes: { entries: [], default: null },
+      observation: [],
+      notes: [],
+      documentsPending: false,
+      error: `adapter: the project's manifest did not load, so no region could be derived — ${describe(error)}`,
+    });
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (!current()) return;
+  const choice = await resolveAdapterDefinition(project, manifest);
+  if (!current()) return;
+  registerProjectFinders();
+
+  // Gathering finder input reads the project's own entrypoint sources and
+  // component index; a table with no finder SELECTIONS has nothing to feed, and
+  // an ingest game's sources are not the host's to read at all. Skipping is the
+  // honest read of the declaration, not an optimization dressed as one.
+  const regionsPreview =
+    choice.definition.regions === 'manifest-roots'
+      ? regionsFromManifestRoots(declaredRoots(manifest), choice.definition.regionIncludes)
+      : [...choice.definition.regions];
+  const input =
+    (choice.definition.documents.find ?? []).length > 0
+      ? await gatherFinderInput(manifest, regionsPreview, choice.definition)
+      : NO_FINDER_INPUT;
+  if (!current()) return;
+  const facet = projectAdapterTableFrom(manifest, choice, input);
+  // `native` is the DECLARED DEFAULT standing in for a project that shipped no
+  // declaration file, so it is not a declaration this project made — see
+  // `projectAdapterDefinition`.
+  publish(
+    facet,
+    choice.definition.observation,
+    choice.definition.input,
+    choice.source === 'native' ? null : choice.definition,
+  );
+}
+
+function describe(error: unknown): string {
+  return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+}
+
+/** Does a project-relative path fall under any declared finder's `include`? */
+function finderIncludesMatch(path: string): boolean {
+  // No parsed declaration in hand (the native default, or a load in flight):
+  // the globs are unknown, so a src change is treated as relevant rather than
+  // dropped — a stale table costs more than a spare resolve.
+  if (!_definition) return true;
+  const selections = (_definition.documents.find ?? []) as ReadonlyArray<{
+    include?: readonly string[];
+  }>;
+  for (const selection of selections) {
+    for (const glob of selection.include ?? []) {
+      if (globToRegExp(glob).test(path)) return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/** `src/models/**\/*.ts` → a RegExp over a project-relative path. `**` spans
+ *  directories, `*` stays inside one; everything else is literal. */
+function globToRegExp(glob: string): RegExp {
+  const DEEP = '__DEEP__';
+  const escaped = glob
+    .replace(/[.+^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')
+    .replace(/\*\*\//g, DEEP)
+    .replace(/\*/g, '[^/]*')
+    .split(DEEP)
+    .join('(?:.*/)?');
+  return new RegExp(`^${escaped}$`);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Load the adapter once at editor init and again on every project switch —
+ * the same lifecycle shape `project-story-discovery.ts` uses, for the same
+ * reason: the adapter is a PROJECT capability, not a side effect of mounting
+ * a particular root.
+ */
+export function startProjectAdapterLoad(): () => void {
+  void refreshProjectAdapter();
+  const changed = (path: string) => {
+    if (
+      projectModuleChangeMatches(path, ADAPTER_MODULE_FILENAME) ||
+      /(?:^|\/)src\/.+\.[jt]sx?$/.test(path)
+    ) {
+      void refreshProjectAdapter();
+    }
+  };
+  const stopModules = subscribeProjectModuleChange(changed);
+  const stopProject = onProjectChange(() => {
+    if (_owner !== activeProjectKey()) publish(null);
+    void refreshProjectAdapter();
+  });
+  // A finder's SOURCE changed on disk — a model module written, a page added.
+  // Nothing imports those files, so this is the only signal the table gets.
+  const stopSources = connectSourceFileEvents((path) => {
+    if (path === '' || finderIncludesMatch(path)) void refreshProjectAdapter();
+  });
+  return () => {
+    stopModules();
+    stopProject();
+    stopSources();
+  };
+}