pi-fold 1.0.4 → 2.0.0

package/extensions/active-context.ts

@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@ import {
   denseOwnArrayValues,
   evidenceSha256,
   objectRefKey,
-  sha256Text,
   sha256Value,
   stableStringify,
 } from "./json.ts";
-import type { EvidenceRef } from "./json.ts";
 import {
   bytes,
   clone,
@@ -18,18 +16,15 @@ import {
 import {
   activeContextStatus,
   automaticPreparationId,
-  boundedOrientation,
   boundStatusPayload,
+  briefContractComplaint,
   commitPreparedFold,
-  consolidationSourceText,
   descendantIds,
   encodedFoldSource,
-  generatedBriefs,
   foldCandidatesDetail,
   foldTreeDetail,
   peekFoldSource,
   prepareFold,
-  preparedFoldError,
   projectActiveContext,
   projectionSlateCandidates,
   protectEvidence,
@@ -52,6 +47,7 @@ import {
   latestProviderContextMeasurement,
   orderedRoots,
   parseNativeCompactionCompletion,
+  exactMapped,
   parseNativeCompactionDecision,
   parseProviderContextMeasurementReceipt,
   persistenceProjection,
@@ -103,31 +99,19 @@ import {
   COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE,
   CONTEXT_RECEIPT_BLOCK_BYTES,
   DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW,
-  EPOCH_CONSOLIDATION_ROUNDS,
-  MAX_THRESHOLD_NOTICES,
-  THRESHOLD_NOTICE_SHARES,
   resolveGuidance,
   assertThresholdsServable,
   resolveThresholds,
   servingBudgetTokens,
   ESTIMATED_BYTES_PER_TOKEN,
   entryTypeNamespace,
-  MAX_BRIEF_BATCH_SPANS,
-  MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADE_QUEUE,
-  MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADES_IN_FLIGHT,
   MAX_FOLD_SPAN_CHARS,
   MAX_PINNED_SHARE,
   MAX_WEDGE_ABSORB_TOKENS,
-  OVERFLOW_RECOVERY_MAX_ATTEMPTS,
   PEEK_DEFAULT_MAX_BYTES,
   PEEK_MIN_SLICE_BYTES,
   PEEK_READ_ONLY_CONTEXT_ACTIONS,
   AUTO_FOLD_BLACKLIST_DEFAULT,
-  SURFACING_BRIEF_HIT,
-  SURFACING_CONTENT_HIT,
-  SURFACING_DIVERGENCE_MARGIN,
-  SURFACING_OUTCOME_WINDOW_ORDINALS,
-  SURFACING_SLATE_SIZE,
   USER_RESCUE_MAX_SOURCE_CHARS,
 } from "./lib/policy.ts";
 import type {
@@ -136,7 +120,6 @@ import type {
   ActiveContextState,
   ActiveContextThresholds,
   ActiveContextToolAction,
-  BriefProvenance,
   FoldCandidate,
   FoldKind,
   FoldRecordEntry,
@@ -148,16 +131,12 @@ import {
 import {
   contextReceipt,
   contextRiderText,
-  curationSignals,
-  lastCallText,
   markAwarenessText,
   receiptBlockText,
-  thresholdNoticeText,
   withReceipt,
 } from "./lib/curation.ts";
 import type {
   ContextReceipt,
-  CurationSignals,
 } from "./lib/curation.ts";
 import {
   addPendingMark,
@@ -165,7 +144,6 @@ import {
   commitPendingMarks,
   consolidationMarks,
   ephemeralPeekMarks,
-  epochCommitDue,
   estimatedTokens,
   foldMarkFor,
   ladderSelectionMark,
@@ -184,10 +162,7 @@ import {
   withPendingMarks,
 } from "./lib/scheduling.ts";
 import {
-  automaticToolBrief,
   candidateSpanChars,
-  deterministicChapterCandidateBrief,
-  deterministicConsolidationBrief,
   manualFoldCandidate,
   peekedSourceFoldIds,
   selectAutomaticToolBatch,
@@ -196,15 +171,6 @@ import {
   splitCandidateBySize,
 } from "./lib/selection.ts";
 import type { SpanCorrection } from "./lib/selection.ts";
-import {
-  issueSurfacing,
-  noteSurfacingAction,
-  resolveSurfacing,
-  selectSurfacingSlate,
-  surfacingLedger,
-  surfacingSilenced,
-  surfacingSlateText,
-} from "./lib/surfacing.ts";
 import {
   compareProjections,
   emptyLedger,
@@ -234,17 +200,8 @@ import {
   unansweredToolCalls,
 } from "./lib/rollback.ts";
 
-/**
- * How a projection's token reading was reached.
- *
- * "anchored": the provider's own count for the projection this one extends, plus a rate
- * estimate of the bytes appended after it. "rewritten": the current projection does not
- * begin with the measured one, so there is nothing to add a delta to and the whole
- * projection is estimated. "unmeasured": no accepted provider count yet.
- */
 export type ProjectionReadingBasis = "anchored" | "rewritten" | "unmeasured";
 
-// Test seam only; the package API is registerPiFold because package.json exports block deep imports.
 export * from "./lib/canonical.ts";
 export * from "./lib/curation.ts";
 export * from "./lib/folding.ts";
@@ -255,13 +212,8 @@ export * from "./lib/policy.ts";
 export * from "./lib/rollback.ts";
 export * from "./lib/scheduling.ts";
 export * from "./lib/selection.ts";
-export * from "./lib/surfacing.ts";
 export * from "./lib/transcript.ts";
 
-/**
- * The batched fold request: several {span, brief} pairs in one call, with the single
- * `ids` form still accepted because it is the shape a status action hands back.
- */
 export interface BatchedMarkRequest {
   ids: string[];
   brief?: string;
@@ -295,37 +247,14 @@ export function batchedMarkRequests(params: Record<string, unknown>): BatchedMar
 }
 
 export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
-  /**
-   * INTERNAL brief-generator seam, not a public option: `registerPiFold` refuses the
-   * name and builds the generator from `summarizer`. It stays a parameter because it
-   * is the runtime's only brief-generator interface.
-   */
-  summarizeContextSpan?: (request: Record<string, unknown>, ctx: unknown) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>>;
-  /**
-   * INTERNAL deployment-identity seam, not public options: the package entry refuses all
-   * five by name and the shipped identity is the one in `policy.ts`. They survive here
-   * because the neutrality gate has to register a synthetic brand to prove none of it
-   * reaches the defaults, and the experiment harness registers the pi-fold identity
-   * explicitly so its sealed runs keep their entry types.
-   */
   toolName?: string;
   toolLabel?: string;
   brandNoun?: string;
   entryTypePrefix?: string;
   commandNames?: { status?: string; fold?: string };
-  /**
-   * The auto-fold EXCEPTION list, empty by default: every completed tool batch folds
-   * unmarked, and this names the tools whose results must stay raw.
-   */
   blacklistAutoFoldTools?: ReadonlySet<string>;
-  /** The serving budget itself, ALREADY NET of the deployment's output reservation. */
   providerInputBudget?: number;
-  /**
-   * The thermostat, set whole or not at all. USER policy: no agent action reads it back
-   * as a mutable surface, and status reports the values without offering to change them.
-   */
   thresholds?: ActiveContextThresholds;
-  /** Both guidance surfaces, set together, defaulting on. */
   guidance?: Partial<ActiveContextGuidance>;
 }): {
   projectionCandidates: (ctx: any) => Array<Record<string, unknown>>;
@@ -335,11 +264,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   const brandNoun = options.brandNoun ?? DEFAULT_ACTIVE_CONTEXT_BRAND_NOUN;
   const entryTypePrefix = options.entryTypePrefix ?? DEFAULT_ACTIVE_CONTEXT_ENTRY_TYPE_PREFIX;
   const blacklistAutoFoldTools = options.blacklistAutoFoldTools ?? AUTO_FOLD_BLACKLIST_DEFAULT;
-  // Deleted options are REFUSED by name, never ignored. A deployment still passing one
-  // believes it asked for something, and silence would hand it the opposite behavior:
-  // `foldScheduling` chose between epoch and the deleted immediate scheduler,
-  // `foldPeekResults` opted peek results out of the foldable classification, and
-  // `toolActions` narrowed the action surface. All three are unconditional now.
   for (const removed of ["foldScheduling", "foldPeekResults", "toolActions"]) {
     if (Object.hasOwn(options, removed)) {
       throw new Error(`${removed} is no longer an option: epoch scheduling, peek foldability ` +
@@ -350,24 +274,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     throw new Error("blockingTools is no longer an option: a tool call never causes a rewrite of " +
       "its own, and the commit epoch is the only path that mutates the projection");
   }
-  // The per-request surfacing channel. `setProjectionProvider` was a second delivery
-  // path for the value this call already returns, and `setSuggestionSourceRegistrar`
-  // handed out registration into a carrier that no longer exists: the slate rode a
-  // per-request ephemeral tail, which moved the prefix on every single pass. The
-  // selector survives and returns at the commit boundary; the channel does not.
   for (const removed of ["setProjectionProvider", "setSuggestionSourceRegistrar"]) {
     if (Object.hasOwn(options, removed)) {
       throw new Error(`${removed} is no longer an option: projection candidates are returned by ` +
         "registration, and external suggestion sources have no carrier to render into");
     }
   }
-  // The renamed options are refused by their OLD names, each pointing at the new one.
-  // `readOnlyTools` and then `autoFoldableTools` were both ALLOW-lists, and the list runs
-  // the other way now, so neither may be forwarded silently: an allow-list read as a
-  // blacklist bars exactly the tools it meant to permit. `commandPrefix` derived two
-  // command names from a stem the full-name override then overrode anyway;
-  // `providerTotalWindow` was a gross window the runtime netted down with a GUESSED
-  // reservation, and the guess is what the reshape deleted.
   for (const inverted of ["readOnlyTools", "autoFoldableTools"]) {
     if (Object.hasOwn(options, inverted)) {
       throw new Error(`${inverted} is now blacklistAutoFoldTools, and the sense is INVERTED: ` +
@@ -388,9 +300,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       (!Number.isSafeInteger(options.providerInputBudget) || options.providerInputBudget <= 0)) {
     throw new Error("providerInputBudget must be a positive integer");
   }
-  // The deployment's own fact, and the only capacity knob: declaring it makes every
-  // ratio, fence and budget truthful, and leaving it out falls back to the provider
-  // descriptor and SAYS "descriptor" in the capacity accounting.
   const providerInputBudget = options.providerInputBudget ?? null;
   const readOnlyContextActions = PEEK_READ_ONLY_CONTEXT_ACTIONS;
   if (!toolName || !toolLabel || !brandNoun || !entryTypePrefix ||
@@ -406,8 +315,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       commandNames.status === commandNames.fold) {
     throw new Error("Active-context command names must be distinct kebab-case strings");
   }
-  // The thermostat, validated atomically before anything else reads a threshold, and
-  // then checked against the budget this deployment can actually serve.
   const thresholds = resolveThresholds(options.thresholds);
   assertThresholdsServable(thresholds, providerInputBudget ?? servingBudgetTokens(DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW));
   const guidance = resolveGuidance(options.guidance);
@@ -415,11 +322,8 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   const foldRecordEntryType = `${entryTypePrefix}-fold-record`;
   const milestoneProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-milestone`;
   const advisoryProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-advisory`;
-  const surfacingProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-surfacing`;
   const receiptProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-receipts`;
   const riderProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-rider`;
-  const lastCallProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-lastcall`;
-  const noticeProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-notice`;
   const curationProjectionType = `${entryTypePrefix}-curation`;
   const entryNamespace = entryTypeNamespace(entryTypePrefix);
   const providerMeasurementEntryType = `${entryNamespace}-provider-context-measurement`;
@@ -439,8 +343,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     persistenceDisposition: "none" | "record-only" | "state-committed";
   };
 
-  // Owns in-memory/durable state and wire/record bookkeeping; persistenceQueue serializes it.
-  // Once the state event succeeds, replay owns this exact state; RAM may not roll behind it.
   const persistence = {
     state: null as ActiveContextState | null,
     persisted: null as ActiveContextState | null,
@@ -450,7 +352,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     persistenceQueue: Promise.resolve<void>(undefined),
   };
 
-  // Owns preparation/ladder rollback, selection, and suspension; actionQueue serializes it.
   const ladder = {
     pendingManual: false,
     preparing: null as { id: string; controller: AbortController; promise: Promise<void> } | null,
@@ -461,102 +362,21 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     lastSelectionSourceIds: [] as string[],
     pendingContextNote: null as string | null,
     lastAutomaticAction: null as Record<string, unknown> | null,
-    /** What the last over-budget projection cost and whether the reduction saved it. */
     overBudgetReduction: null as Record<string, unknown> | null,
     automaticFailure: null as AutomaticFailureState | null,
-    failedPreparations: new Set<string>(),
     actionQueue: Promise.resolve<unknown>(undefined),
   };
 
-  /**
-   * THE BRIEF UPGRADE LANE.
-   *
-   * A fold brief is model-written from this campaign forward; the deterministic brief is
-   * what a failure leaves behind. The automatic ladder cannot wait for a generator: the
-   * commit path is synchronous with a measured projection and a fold deferred until a
-   * provider answers is a fold that does not happen. So the ladder commits deterministic,
-   * a generator runs between boundaries, and the brief it writes lands as an UPGRADE
-   * riding the next commit: the same law wedge absorption and the surfacing slate follow,
-   * mutations only inside a rewrite the session already paid for.
-   *
-   * Everything here is process-local. An upgrade lost to a reload is a brief that stays
-   * deterministic, which is exactly the failure the fallback exists for, and the state
-   * wire keeps one shape instead of carrying work in progress.
-   */
-  const upgrades = {
-    /**
-     * BATCHES of folds committed deterministic, each holding the exact source its briefs
-     * will cover. One batch is one generator call: a commit folds its spans together, so
-     * they are briefed together, and the spans of one batch orient each other. Sending them
-     * one at a time is what left the 2026-08-11 rep with 14 model briefs across 87 folds.
-     */
-    queue: [] as Array<{
-      members: Array<{ foldId: string; sourceSha256: string }>;
-      request: Record<string, unknown>;
-    }>,
-    /**
-     * Generator calls in flight, keyed by every fold each one briefs, bounded by a constant
-     * and cancel-safe on session change or shutdown. Keyed rather than counted because
-     * the queue has to know a fold is already being briefed.
-     */
-    running: new Map<string, { controller: AbortController; promise: Promise<void> }>(),
-    /** Written briefs waiting for a boundary. They never apply anywhere else. */
-    ready: [] as Array<{ foldId: string; sourceSha256: string; brief: string; provenance: BriefProvenance }>,
-    /** A generator that failed a fold does not get it back: one attempt, then deterministic stands. */
-    failed: new Set<string>(),
-    /**
-     * Parents whose turn has not come: a group is read at depth one, so a child still
-     * waiting on its own brief would be read through the sentence that brief is about to
-     * replace. They are retried at every boundary and never dropped, because the wait ends
-     * the moment the lane drains and a parent that was skipped once is a parent no
-     * generator ever writes.
-     */
-    deferred: new Set<string>(),
-    /** Failures since the last commit record carried them, so none of this is silent. */
-    failures: 0,
-    /**
-     * Briefs that took a second ask before they met the contract. Counted because the cure
-     * is the mechanism that lets the brief cap be a real limit rather than a truncation
-     * point, so how often it fires is how we learn whether the cap is set anywhere near
-     * right (Shane 2026-08-11).
-     */
-    cures: 0,
-    lastError: null as string | null,
-  };
-
-  // Owns provider receipts, anchors, and usage; providerMeasurementQueue serializes receipt writes.
   const measurements = {
     latestRatio: null as number | null,
     lastProviderMeasurement: null as ProviderContextMeasurement | null,
-    /** What the host/model descriptor last claimed, kept so the gap stays auditable. */
     descriptorWindow: null as number | null,
-    /** Serialized size of the projection this process last handed the host. */
     lastProjectedChars: null as number | null,
-    /**
-     * Ground truth for the transmission fence: recent pairings of a projection's size
-     * with the token count the provider reported for it. A fixed bytes-per-token
-     * constant is a guess about a tokenizer, and it is wrong by different amounts in
-     * different sessions -- measured 2026-08-06, 4.7 chars/token in rep11 and 7.0 in
-     * rep12 for the SAME workload. It also DRIFTS within one session: rep13 moved
-     * between 5.34 and 6.01 over its last twenty requests. Only the recent window
-     * counts, and the fence reads it pessimistically.
-     */
     projectionCalibrations: [] as Array<{ chars: number; tokens: number }>,
-    /** What the fence estimated for the projection it last handed the host. */
     lastProjectedEstimate: null as number | null,
-    /** Whether that estimate used a measured ratio rather than the bootstrap constant. */
     lastProjectedEstimateCalibrated: false,
-    /** How that reading was reached, so an audit can tell an anchor from a fallback. */
     lastProjectedEstimateBasis: "unmeasured" as ProjectionReadingBasis,
-    /** That projection's own size at one rate, the baseline a reduction is measured from. */
     lastProjectedSizeTokens: null as number | null,
-    /**
-     * The provider's own count for the last projection this process TRANSMITTED, held
-     * with that projection's serialized text so a later projection can be tested against
-     * it by construction. `head` is the serialization minus its closing bracket, which is
-     * what makes "the same projection with more appended after it" a byte-exact prefix
-     * test rather than a size comparison.
-     */
     projectionAnchor: null as {
       tokens: number;
       chars: number;
@@ -565,11 +385,8 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       sessionId: string;
       generation: number;
     } | null,
-    /** Signed estimator error against recent measurements, as a share of measured tokens. */
     estimatorErrors: [] as number[],
-    /** Growth in measured tokens between consecutive requests. */
     inflowSteps: [] as number[],
-    /** Growth steps the OUTPUT WALL reads. Separate from `inflowSteps` on purpose: see noteWallInflow. */
     wallInflowSteps: [] as number[],
     providerMeasurementQueue: Promise.resolve<void>(undefined),
     providerMeasurementReceipts: new Set<string>(),
@@ -578,142 +395,79 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     providerMeasurementAnchorByMessageSha: new Map<string, ProviderMeasurementAnchor>(),
   };
 
-  // Owns the projection/cache ledger. Nothing here is durable: it is telemetry about
-  // this process's own projections, rebuilt from scratch on every load.
   const instrumentation = {
     ledger: emptyLedger(),
     previousDigests: null as string[] | null,
-    /** The previous TRANSMITTED projection, for the byte-level prefix comparison. */
     previousText: null as string | null,
     lastChange: "append" as ProjectionChange,
-    /** Share of the PREVIOUS prompt the last projection kept, for miss attribution. */
     lastPreservedShare: null as number | null,
-    /** Events emitted since the last handoff, which is the attribution candidate set. */
     sinceHandoff: [] as Array<{ seq: number; kind: string }>,
-    /** Structural mutations emitted since the last handoff. The per-generation budget. */
     mutationsSinceHandoff: 0,
-    /** Provider responses this session, so event SPACING is readable from the stream. */
     requests: 0,
     lastMutationRequest: 0,
     lastMutationTokens: null as number | null,
+    // WHAT THE SESSION SPENDS DERIVING ITSELF, cumulative for the process.
+    //
+    // Every lifecycle event remaps the whole branch, so the cost of a turn is not the
+    // cost of one derivation: it is however many the handlers happen to run. Measuring
+    // it at the two entry points and carrying the running totals on the projection means
+    // a consumer differences consecutive projections for the per-request cost and reads
+    // the last one for the exact session total. That is a SUM. The alternative, taking
+    // one terminal derivation and multiplying by the request count, treats every early
+    // request as though the session were already at its final size, which is invalid
+    // precisely when growth is the thing under study.
+    //
+    // These are process counters, not state. A rollback does not return the CPU, so they
+    // do not roll back either.
+    derivations: 0,
+    deriveMs: 0,
+    derivationHits: 0,
   };
-  /**
-   * MECHANISM 1. The frozen surface.
-   *
-   * Between fold events the projection is byte-frozen: the only change a context action
-   * may cause is the append of its own tool result at the tail. Rep 17 measured every
-   * single context attempt landing as a projection REWRITE -- status 0.60-0.90 prefix
-   * identity, peek 0.96, the held gate down to 0.013 -- because the surface answered
-   * each one by re-rendering blocks the agent had already paid to cache. Provider prefix
-   * caches are positional, so each of those refreshes was a full or partial cache kill.
-   *
-   * `body` is the last rebuilt fold projection and `projection` is that body plus the
-   * carriers appended to it. While the rebuilt body still starts with `body` verbatim,
-   * nothing structural moved, so the previous projection is reused WHOLE and only the
-   * newly arrived raw messages are appended after it. A carrier whose key is already in
-   * the window is never re-rendered; a fold event, a reveal or an overflow recovery
-   * diverges the body and takes the sanctioned rewrite.
-   */
   const freeze = {
     body: null as unknown[] | null,
     bodyText: null as string | null,
     projection: null as unknown[] | null,
     keys: new Set<string>(),
-    /** True only while assembling a pass that reused the frozen projection. */
     active: false,
   };
-  /**
-   * A carrier may be built exactly once per freeze window. This is checked BEFORE the
-   * builder runs, because building a milestone spends its delivery budget and building
-   * a reminder advances the reminder cursor: a carrier that cannot land must not pay.
-   */
   const carrierAdmitted = (key: string): boolean => {
     if (freeze.active && freeze.keys.has(key)) return false;
     freeze.keys.add(key);
     return true;
   };
 
-  // Owns the guided-curation gate, the receipt ring, the context-event stream, and the
-  // overflow recovery lane. Nothing here is durable session STATE: it describes what
-  // this process did to the live window, and the durable copy is the appended
-  // instrumentation entry, which is what an external adjudicator reads.
   const curation = {
     receipts: [] as ContextReceipt[],
-    /** Every context-management tool call this session. */
     contextCalls: 0,
-    /** The last measurement the commit trigger took, reported by status. */
-    lastSignals: null as CurationSignals | null,
-    /**
-     * COMMIT REOPEN HYSTERESIS. The eligible foldable share measured just after the last
-     * triggered commit, or null when the trigger is free to fire. Measured 2026-08-07
-     * (rep 17): occupancy plateaued at 0.85-0.92 of the truthful budget for the final
-     * third of the run, and the trigger fired ten times over a window whose foldable mass
-     * had not changed. A plateau is not an event. The trigger re-arms only once occupancy
-     * falls back under it and crosses again, or once a reclaim floor of eligible mass is
-     * NEW. This outlived the announcement it was built beside: it bounds how often the
-     * runtime rewrites the projection, which is the whole cost model.
-     */
-    reopenBaselineShare: null as number | null,
-    /** Whether the output wall's crossing has already spent its one forced commit. */
     wallEpisodeOpen: false,
-    /**
-     * Where the armed last-call actually LANDED: the exposure it rendered and the
-     * ordinal of the pass that rendered it. In-memory on purpose: after a reload the
-     * carrier re-renders on the first projection, this re-arms, and the commit waits
-     * one more round rather than firing on a prompt nobody saw.
-     */
-    lastCallDelivery: null as { exposure: number; ordinal: number } | null,
-    /** Recovery attempts spent on the CURRENT inflow; reset by any accepted request. */
     recoveryAttempts: 0,
-    /** A provider rejection observed but not yet recovered from. */
     pendingRejection: null as { status: number; ordinal: number } | null,
     lastRecovery: null as Record<string, unknown> | null,
     instrumentationQueue: Promise.resolve<void>(undefined),
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The tree-rollback lane.
-   *
-   * Armed once per session against the pi surfaces it calls, because every one of them
-   * is an internal the extension contract does not promise. Disarmed, the lane is OFF
-   * and says so on the record: an overflow still emits `context.rollback` with
-   * `armed: false` and the reason, the user is notified, and the session behaves
-   * exactly as it did before this build -- the projection-budget fence aborts an
-   * over-budget request rather than half-performing a recovery.
-   */
   const rollback = {
     probes: null as ReturnType<typeof probeRollbackSurfaces> | null,
     armed: false,
-    /** pi's own overflow classifier, resolved from the host; null when unreachable. */
     classifier: null as ((message: unknown, contextWindow: number) => boolean) | null,
     classifierSource: null as string | null,
-    /** Ordinals of episodes handled, so the one-shot and the ledger agree. */
     attempts: 0,
     last: null as Record<string, unknown> | null,
-    /** An overflow seen at message_end and not yet claimed by the compaction event. */
     pendingOverflow: null as { at: number; entryId: string | null } | null,
   };
 
-  // Owns advisory arming and hard-fence delivery; durable effects use persistenceQueue.
   const advisory = {
     hardFenceNoticeKey: null as string | null,
     hardFenceReleaseSessionId: null as string | null,
     hardFenceReleasedProjectionKeys: new Set<string>(),
   };
 
-  // Owns native-compaction decisions and completion retry state; nativeReceiptQueue serializes it.
   const nativeCompaction = {
     lastThresholdDecision: null as Record<string, unknown> | null,
     pendingNativeReceipt: null as NativeCompactionCompletionReceipt | null,
     nativeReceiptQueue: Promise.resolve<void>(undefined),
   };
 
-  // Owns session generation, snapshots/reloads, and per-turn blocking-tool harvest state.
-  // Pi normally requests context serially, but retries, reloads, and host
-  // integrations can overlap callbacks. Serialize the entire authority →
-  // preparation → commit → projection transaction so a follower cannot
-  // observe a published measurement before the leader's durable receipt or
-  // return raw final-rung context while the leader is preparing a brief.
   const lifecycle = {
     generation: 0,
     shuttingDown: false,
@@ -750,16 +504,34 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     lifecycle.latestSnapshot ? markOrdinal(lifecycle.latestSnapshot) : 0;
 
   /**
-   * Emit one record into THE context event stream, in the ledger AND as a durable
-   * session entry. An in-memory ledger is invisible to an analyst reading session
-   * artifacts, and telemetry may never block or fail the action it describes.
-   */
-  /**
-   * Open a pass's mutation budget. ONE structural mutation per pass is the budget: the
-   * rep-15 defect was a second commit inside the SAME pass, after the first had already
-   * rebuilt the projection, so the counter is armed wherever a pass begins.
+   * ONE DERIVATION PER DISTINCT BRANCH, WITHIN ONE PASS.
+   *
+   * A lifecycle pass asks for the authoritative snapshot repeatedly: the fence asks, the
+   * ladder asks, the accounting asks, the status surface asks. Instrumented on a fixture,
+   * a single request cost up to TEN derivations, and a derivation remaps the entire
+   * branch. On sol-20260813-paired rep 2 one of those cost 18.5 seconds.
+   *
+   * The memo is deliberately the SMALLEST one that is airtight rather than the largest
+   * one that would pay. It lives for exactly one pass and is dropped at the start of the
+   * next, so nothing it holds can outlive the moment it was true. Within a pass the only
+   * way the branch changes is by APPENDING, which moves a length, so keying on the two
+   * lengths and the window catches every change that can occur. A cache that had to
+   * reason about entries being replaced underneath it would be the kind of guard this
+   * project does not keep; this one cannot face that question.
    */
-  const beginMutationPass = (): void => { instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff = 0; };
+  const derivationMemo = {
+    key: null as string | null,
+    snapshot: null as ActiveContextSnapshot | null,
+  };
+  const dropDerivationMemo = (): void => {
+    derivationMemo.key = null;
+    derivationMemo.snapshot = null;
+  };
+
+  const beginMutationPass = (): void => {
+    instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff = 0;
+    dropDerivationMemo();
+  };
 
   const emit = (kind: ContextEventKind, payload: Record<string, unknown> = {}): ContextEvent => {
     const record = recordContextEvent(instrumentation.ledger, kind, {
@@ -771,114 +543,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     instrumentation.sinceHandoff.push({ seq: record.seq, kind });
     const operation = curation.instrumentationQueue.then(async () => {
       try { await pi.appendEntry(contextEventEntryType, record); }
-      catch { /* Telemetry is never a lifecycle boundary. */ }
+      catch { }
     });
     curation.instrumentationQueue = operation.then(() => undefined, () => undefined);
     return record;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The generator, wrapped once so every brief it writes is on the record.
-   *
-   * Wrapping HERE rather than instrumenting the two call sites is deliberate. The inline
-   * path in `prepareFold` and the async upgrade lane both receive this function, so one
-   * wrapper covers both, no signature changes and no way to add a third caller that
-   * quietly escapes the ledger. It also covers a deployment's OWN summarizer, which is
-   * the case a call-site patch would have missed.
-   *
-   * A generator call is invisible everywhere else: it runs outside the session, so it
-   * lands in no provider ledger, and it runs off the turn, so it lands in no turn timing.
-   * Duration, queue wait and usage are therefore recorded here or nowhere.
-   *
-   * A failure is emitted and rethrown unchanged. This observes; it decides nothing, and
-   * the fallback to the deterministic brief stays exactly where it was.
-   */
-  const observedSummarize = options.summarizeContextSpan
-    ? async (request: Record<string, unknown>, summarizerCtx: unknown): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> => {
-      const startedAt = Date.now();
-      const queuedAt = typeof request.queuedAtMs === "number" ? request.queuedAtMs : null;
-      const spans = Array.isArray(request.spans)
-        ? request.spans as Array<Record<string, unknown>>
-        : null;
-      const sourceText = typeof request.sourceText === "string" ? request.sourceText : "";
-      // A span is a CONSOLIDATION when it is a group of folds, and an automatic fold
-      // otherwise. Both kinds are counted and both kinds' source is measured, because a
-      // call can carry a mix and the honest way to attribute its tokens across kinds is by
-      // the share of source each kind contributed, never by pretending the call was one
-      // kind (Shane 2026-08-11: track cures and tokens by fold type).
-      const groupSpan = (span: Record<string, unknown>): boolean =>
-        Number.isInteger(span.children) && (span.children as number) > 1;
-      const charsOf = (span: Record<string, unknown>): number =>
-        typeof span.sourceText === "string" ? span.sourceText.length : 0;
-      const kindCounts = spans
-        ? {
-          spans: spans.length,
-          group_spans: spans.filter(groupSpan).length,
-          leaf_spans: spans.filter((span) => !groupSpan(span)).length,
-          group_source_chars: spans.filter(groupSpan).reduce((sum, span) => sum + charsOf(span), 0),
-          leaf_source_chars: spans.filter((span) => !groupSpan(span))
-            .reduce((sum, span) => sum + charsOf(span), 0),
-          fold_ids: spans.map((span) => typeof span.candidateId === "string" ? span.candidateId : ""),
-        }
-        : {
-          spans: 1,
-          group_spans: groupSpan(request) ? 1 : 0,
-          leaf_spans: groupSpan(request) ? 0 : 1,
-          group_source_chars: groupSpan(request) ? sourceText.length : 0,
-          leaf_source_chars: groupSpan(request) ? 0 : sourceText.length,
-        };
-      const base = {
-        fold_id: typeof request.candidateId === "string" ? request.candidateId : "",
-        source_chars: spans ? spans.reduce((sum, span) => sum + charsOf(span), 0) : sourceText.length,
-        source_sha256: typeof request.sourceSha256 === "string" ? request.sourceSha256 : sha256Text(sourceText),
-        ...kindCounts,
-        // The second ask, not the first. How often this fires is how we learn whether the
-        // brief cap is anywhere near right, so it is a field rather than an inference.
-        cure: typeof request.cure === "string" && request.cure.length > 0,
-        ...(queuedAt === null ? {} : { queued_ms: Math.max(0, startedAt - queuedAt) }),
-      };
-      try {
-        const result = await options.summarizeContextSpan!(request, summarizerCtx);
-        const written = Array.isArray(result?.briefs)
-          ? (result.briefs as unknown[]).map((item) => typeof item === "string" ? item.trim() : "")
-          : [typeof result?.brief === "string" ? result.brief.trim() : ""];
-        emit("context.brief", {
-          ...base,
-          outcome: "ok",
-          duration_ms: Date.now() - startedAt,
-          provider: typeof result?.provider === "string" ? result.provider : "",
-          model: typeof result?.model === "string" ? result.model : "",
-          effort: typeof result?.effort === "string" ? result.effort : "",
-          brief_chars: written.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.length, 0),
-          // Per span, so a batch where one brief came back empty is visible as that rather
-          // than as a slightly short total.
-          brief_chars_each: written.map((item) => item.length),
-          brief_sha256: written.length === 1 && written[0] ? sha256Text(written[0]) : "",
-          // Absent when the provider reported none. Never defaulted: a call whose cost we
-          // do not know and a call that cost nothing are different facts.
-          usage: result?.usage && typeof result.usage === "object" ? clone(result.usage) : null,
-        });
-        return result;
-      } catch (error) {
-        const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
-        emit("context.brief", {
-          ...base,
-          // A timeout is not a refusal and not a provider fault, and telling them apart is
-          // the difference between raising the bound and changing the generator.
-          outcome: /exceeded \d+ms/.test(message) ? "timeout" : "error",
-          duration_ms: Date.now() - startedAt,
-          error: boundReceiptText(message, 240, "brief generator"),
-        });
-        throw error;
-      }
-    }
-    : undefined;
-
-  /**
-   * Actions of ours that move bytes at or before a prefix position. Receipts, gate
-   * notices and suggestions are appended after the whole projection, so they can only
-   * move the tail and are never a prefix cause.
-   */
   const PREFIX_MUTATING_KINDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
     "context.commit", "context.fold", "context.absorb", "context.split", "context.recovery",
   ]);
@@ -901,7 +571,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   };
 
   const safeNotify = (ctx: any, message: string, level: "info" | "warning" | "error"): void => {
-    try { ctx.ui?.notify?.(message, level); } catch { /* Presentation cannot block Pi lifecycle progress. */ }
+    try { ctx.ui?.notify?.(message, level); } catch { }
   };
 
   const contextSessionMatches = (ctx: any, sessionId: string): boolean => {
@@ -922,34 +592,14 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         : " · provider usage unmeasured";
       const suspended = ladder.automaticFailure ? " · automatic suspended" : "";
       ctx.ui?.setStatus?.(entryTypePrefix, `${toolName} folds: ${roots}${prepared}${usage}${suspended}`);
-    } catch { /* Status presentation is request-ephemeral and never a lifecycle boundary. */ }
+    } catch { }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The number every ratio, fence and budget is computed against. Declared, it is the
-   * deployment's own serving budget, already net of whatever output reservation it holds
-   * back; undeclared, it is the per-request max-input descriptor, which bakes in a full
-   * output reservation the deployment never asked for and so aborts requests inside real
-   * headroom. The descriptor is still read, and still reported, so the gap stays
-   * auditable rather than assumed.
-   */
   const budgetWindowFor = (ctx: any): number | null => {
-    // Remembered so the ctx-free callers (trigger, gate, reminders, advisory) report the
-    // same descriptor gap the fence does instead of re-reading a second source.
     measurements.descriptorWindow = contextWindowFor(ctx);
     return providerInputBudget ?? measurements.descriptorWindow;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * THE serving budget. One resolution, one formula, one value.
-   *
-   * Every consumer -- the curation trigger, the last-call gate, the sparse reminders,
-   * the transmission fence, the projection estimator and every instrumentation record --
-   * reads this. Measured 2026-08-06 (rep 15): the trigger and gate ran a whole run
-   * against a 272,000-token per-request DESCRIPTOR (budget 255,616) while the fence used
-   * the truthful 383,616, because the same arithmetic lived in three places. A second
-   * copy of this formula is the defect; there is now only one.
-   */
   const servingCapacity = (window: number | null): ReturnType<typeof capacityAccounting> =>
     capacityAccounting({
       window: window ?? lifecycle.latestSnapshot?.contextWindow ?? DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW,
@@ -961,7 +611,23 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   const currentCapacity = (ctx: any): ReturnType<typeof capacityAccounting> =>
     servingCapacity(budgetWindowFor(ctx));
 
-  const snapshotForEvent = (ctx: any, messages: unknown[]): ActiveContextSnapshot => mapActiveContext({
+  /**
+   * The one place a derivation is timed. Both entry points route through it, so the
+   * counters cannot drift from the work: a new call site that forgets to time itself
+   * would have to call `mapActiveContext` directly, which nothing outside these two
+   * functions does.
+   */
+  const timedDerivation = (derive: () => ActiveContextSnapshot): ActiveContextSnapshot => {
+    const started = Date.now();
+    try { return derive(); }
+    finally {
+      instrumentation.derivations += 1;
+      instrumentation.deriveMs += Date.now() - started;
+    }
+  };
+
+  const snapshotForEvent = (ctx: any, messages: unknown[]): ActiveContextSnapshot =>
+    timedDerivation(() => mapActiveContext({
     sessionId: ctx.sessionManager.getSessionId(),
     eventMessages: messages,
     contextEntries: ctx.sessionManager.buildContextEntries(),
@@ -973,27 +639,37 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     contextWindow: budgetWindowFor(ctx) ?? undefined,
     netBudget: providerInputBudget !== null,
     thresholds,
-  });
+  }));
 
   const authoritativeSnapshotFor = (ctx: any): ActiveContextSnapshot => {
     const sessionId = ctx.sessionManager.getSessionId();
     if (!lifecycle.latestSnapshot || lifecycle.latestSnapshot.sessionId !== sessionId) {
       throw new Error("A current same-session Pi context event is required");
     }
-    return mapActiveContext({
+    const entries = ctx.sessionManager.buildContextEntries();
+    const window = budgetWindowFor(ctx) ?? undefined;
+    const key = `${sessionId}:${entries.length}:${lifecycle.latestSnapshot.messages.length}:${window}`;
+    if (derivationMemo.snapshot && derivationMemo.key === key) {
+      instrumentation.derivationHits += 1;
+      return derivationMemo.snapshot;
+    }
+    const derived = timedDerivation(() => mapActiveContext({
       sessionId,
       eventMessages: lifecycle.latestSnapshot.messages,
-      contextEntries: ctx.sessionManager.buildContextEntries(),
+      contextEntries: entries,
       policy: lifecycle.latestSnapshot.policy,
       toolName,
       brandNoun,
       entryTypePrefix,
       blacklistAutoFoldTools,
       readOnlyContextActions,
-      contextWindow: budgetWindowFor(ctx) ?? undefined,
+      contextWindow: window,
       netBudget: providerInputBudget !== null,
       thresholds,
-    });
+    }));
+    derivationMemo.key = key;
+    derivationMemo.snapshot = derived;
+    return derived;
   };
 
   const providerMeasurementBranchIndex = (
@@ -1036,7 +712,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     lifecycle.generation += 1;
     lifecycle.shuttingDown = false;
     cancelPreparation();
-    cancelBriefUpgrades();
     lifecycle.latestSnapshot = null;
     lifecycle.latestSnapshotError = null;
     measurements.latestRatio = null;
@@ -1064,15 +739,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff = 0;
     curation.receipts = [];
     curation.contextCalls = 0;
-    curation.lastSignals = null;
-    curation.reopenBaselineShare = null;
     curation.recoveryAttempts = 0;
     curation.pendingRejection = null;
     curation.lastRecovery = null;
     ladder.lastAutomaticAction = null;
     ladder.automaticFailure = null;
     advisory.hardFenceNoticeKey = null;
-    ladder.failedPreparations.clear();
     measurements.providerMeasurementReceipts.clear();
     measurements.providerMeasurementRevisionByMessageSha.clear();
     measurements.providerMeasurementByMessageSha.clear();
@@ -1159,43 +831,29 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const operation = persistence.persistenceQueue.then(async () => {
       if (!persistence.state || !persistence.persisted) return;
       let next = clone(persistence.state);
-      // Which folds this write is TRYING to add, read before the projection can drop them.
       const persistedFoldIds = new Set(persistence.persisted.folds.map((fold) => fold.id));
       const arrivingFoldIds = next.folds.filter((fold) => !persistedFoldIds.has(fold.id)).map((fold) => fold.id);
       const foldsInMemory = next.folds.length;
+      let projectionSnapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot | null = null;
       if (ctx && lifecycle.latestSnapshot?.sessionId === next.sessionId) {
-        next = persistenceProjection(next, authoritativeSnapshotFor(ctx));
+        projectionSnapshot = authoritativeSnapshotFor(ctx);
+        next = persistenceProjection(next, projectionSnapshot);
       }
       next.folds = normalizeFoldsForPersistedRecords(next.folds, persistence.persistedFoldRecords);
       if (sameStateProjection(next, persistence.persisted)) {
-        // A COMMIT THAT VANISHES IS NOT A NO-OP.
-        //
-        // `persistenceProjection` keeps only folds whose refs still resolve against the
-        // snapshot, which is correct when evidence has genuinely left the branch. But when
-        // a write ARRIVES with new folds and projects down to something byte-equal to what
-        // is already durable, every one of those folds was dropped, and returning quietly
-        // here also resets `persistence.state` BACKWARDS to the persisted revision. The
-        // marks that produced them go back to pending, the same commit is attempted again
-        // on the next boundary, and it vanishes again.
-        //
-        // Measured, sol-20260812 rep 3: a band-top commit ran at revision 143 and folded
-        // 579,489 source chars into 85,463 of placeholder. Durable state never passed 134.
-        // None of its 11 folds reached a record, no receipt was written, occupancy climbed
-        // 237,682 -> 253,423 against a 251,520 budget unopposed, and the next request was
-        // refused. Nothing was reported, because a silent return is not a failure. Rep 2
-        // ran 15 commits on the same plan with no gap at all, so this is rare rather than
-        // systemic, which is exactly why it has to announce itself the first time.
-        //
-        // Raising it routes through the automatic-failure path, which restores the state
-        // this call was about to discard, suspends automatic folding and tells the user.
-        // Suspending is the safe direction: continuing to compute folds that are thrown
-        // away is what turned one dropped commit into a dead session.
         if (arrivingFoldIds.length) {
+          const lost = clone(persistence.state).folds.find((fold) => fold.id === arrivingFoldIds[0]);
+          const lostRefs = lost ? flattenFoldRefs(lost, persistence.state) : [];
+          const unresolved = projectionSnapshot
+            ? lostRefs.filter((ref) => !exactMapped(projectionSnapshot!, ref)).length
+            : null;
           throw new Error(
             `Active-context commit discarded at persistence: ${arrivingFoldIds.length} arriving fold(s) ` +
             `did not survive the persistence projection (${foldsInMemory} in memory, ` +
             `${next.folds.length} durable) at revision ${persistence.state.revision}; ` +
-            `first ${arrivingFoldIds[0]}`,
+            `first ${arrivingFoldIds[0]} with ${unresolved ?? "unknown"} of ${lostRefs.length} refs ` +
+            `unmapped against a ${projectionSnapshot?.mapped.length ?? 0}-message, ` +
+            `${projectionSnapshot?.branchObjects.length ?? 0}-object projection snapshot`,
           );
         }
         persistence.state = clone(persistence.persisted);
@@ -1295,7 +953,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         occurredAt: Date.now(),
       }, sessionId);
       await pi.appendEntry(providerMeasurementEntryType, receipt);
-      // The append is authoritative even if lifecycle attribution changes immediately after it.
       measurements.providerMeasurementReceipts.add(receiptKey);
       measurements.providerMeasurementRevisionByMessageSha.set(measurement.messageSha256, revision);
       measurements.providerMeasurementByMessageSha.set(measurement.messageSha256, receipt);
@@ -1510,10 +1167,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     let selection: Record<string, unknown> = { kind: lifecyclePhase };
     try {
       if (persistence.state && snapshot && ratio !== null) {
-        const selected = selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio, {
-          summarizerAvailable: Boolean(options.summarizeContextSpan),
-          failedPreparationIds: ladder.failedPreparations,
-        });
+        const selected = selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio);
         if (selected?.kind === "refold") {
           selection = { kind: "refold", foldId: selected.foldId };
         } else if (selected && "candidate" in selected) {
@@ -1558,6 +1212,25 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     ladder.boundaryFailure = message;
     cancelPreparation();
     if (persistence.state?.prepared) persistence.state = clearPrepared(persistence.state);
+    const firstFailure = !ladder.automaticFailure;
+    if (firstFailure || ladder.automaticFailure!.message !== message) {
+      emit("context.suspend", {
+        phase,
+        error: message,
+        error_name: error instanceof Error ? error.name : typeof error,
+        disposition: firstFailure ? persistenceDisposition : ladder.automaticFailure!.persistenceDisposition,
+        outcome: "suspended",
+        repeat: !firstFailure,
+        suppressed_callbacks: ladder.automaticFailure?.suppressedCallbacks ?? 0,
+        state_revision: persistence.state?.revision ?? null,
+        durable_revision: persistence.persisted?.revision ?? null,
+        folds_in_memory: persistence.state?.folds.length ?? null,
+        folds_durable: persistence.persisted?.folds.length ?? null,
+        fold_records_durable: persistence.persistedFoldRecords.size,
+        pending_marks: persistence.state?.pendingMarks?.length ?? 0,
+        key: firstFailure ? key : ladder.automaticFailure!.key,
+      });
+    }
     if (ladder.automaticFailure) {
       ladder.automaticFailure.suppressedCallbacks = Math.min(
         Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
@@ -1587,12 +1260,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const measuredRevision = measurements.lastProviderMeasurement
       ? measurements.providerMeasurementRevisionByMessageSha.get(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement.messageSha256)
       : undefined;
-    // A durable projection topology after the measured response gets exactly
-    // one provider attempt so its fold can be measured. Concurrent
-    // callbacks, retries, and same-session reloads may not repeatedly release
-    // that unmeasured projection. Non-structural state persistence does not
-    // spend this release. A failed automatic transaction never gets this
-    // escape, even if a record/state append preceded its projection failure.
     if (allowUnmeasuredRevisionRelease && !ladder.automaticFailure &&
         measuredRevision !== undefined && measurements.lastProviderMeasurement &&
         !durableProviderMeasurementMatches(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement)) {
@@ -1625,10 +1292,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         "error",
       );
     }
-    // Stock Pi exposes abort() in every extension event context. Calling it
-    // here aborts the signal passed to the provider stream after this context
-    // transform returns, so exact raw Pi messages remain canonical but are not
-    // transmitted as an overflowing request.
     if (typeof ctx.abort !== "function") {
       throw new Error(`Pi hard-fence abort capability is unavailable at ratio ${measurements.latestRatio}`);
     }
@@ -1636,40 +1299,18 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return true;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Bytes per token, measured rather than assumed.
-   *
-   * `ESTIMATED_BYTES_PER_TOKEN` is a constant over RAW text, and the fence weighs a
-   * SERIALIZED projection: roles, ids, custom types and JSON escaping all count toward
-   * the bytes and none of them reach the provider's tokenizer the same way. Measured
-   * 2026-08-06 on one workload: rep11 ran at 4.7 serialized chars per measured token
-   * and rep12 at 7.0. Against the fixed 4 that is a 76% over-estimate in rep12, which
-   * is exactly how a session whose real window was 49% full (187,805 tokens of a
-   * 400,000 window, ratio 0.47) had its request judged over a 383,616-token budget,
-   * reduced, judged over again, and finally ABORTED at stage 37 of 64.
-   *
-   * So the ratio is calibrated per session against ground truth: the size of a
-   * projection this process handed the host, paired with the token count the provider
-   * reported for it. Tiny early requests are ignored -- a 466-char first projection
-   * measured against a system prompt gives a meaningless 0.46 -- and the result is
-   * bounded, so a pathological pairing can neither disable the fence nor trip it.
-   */
   const PROJECTION_CALIBRATION_MIN_CHARS = 20_000;
   const PROJECTION_CALIBRATION_MIN_TOKENS = 5_000;
   const PROJECTION_CHARS_PER_TOKEN_FLOOR = 2;
   const PROJECTION_CHARS_PER_TOKEN_CEILING = 12;
-  /** How many recent pairings the ratio, the error window and the inflow window keep. */
   const PROJECTION_CALIBRATION_WINDOW = 6;
   const PROJECTION_ERROR_WINDOW = 8;
-  /** Margin floor, as a share of the window, before any error or inflow is measured. */
   const PROJECTION_MARGIN_FLOOR_SHARE = 0.05;
 
   const noteProjectionCalibration = (measurement: ProviderContextMeasurement): void => {
     const previous = measurements.lastProviderMeasurement;
     if (Number.isFinite(measurement.tokens) && previous && Number.isFinite(previous.tokens)) {
       const step = measurement.tokens - previous.tokens;
-      // Only GROWTH is an inflow step. A commit shrinks the window; that is the thing
-      // the margin has to survive, not a size the next request can be predicted from.
       if (step > 0) {
         measurements.inflowSteps.push(step);
         if (measurements.inflowSteps.length > PROJECTION_ERROR_WINDOW) measurements.inflowSteps.shift();
@@ -1678,11 +1319,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const chars = measurements.lastProjectedChars;
     if (chars === null || chars < PROJECTION_CALIBRATION_MIN_CHARS) return;
     if (!Number.isFinite(measurement.tokens) || measurement.tokens < PROJECTION_CALIBRATION_MIN_TOKENS) return;
-    // The signed error of the estimate we made for the projection this measurement
-    // describes. This is the only direct measure of how wrong the fence can be.
-    // Only a CALIBRATED estimate's error belongs in the window. The bootstrap constant
-    // is wrong by design -- 76% high in rep12 -- and letting that one reading set the
-    // margin would keep every later request permanently inside it.
     if (measurements.lastProjectedEstimate !== null && measurements.lastProjectedEstimateCalibrated &&
         measurement.tokens > 0) {
       measurements.estimatorErrors.push(
@@ -1696,17 +1332,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Recent, and pessimistic.
-   *
-   * A single latest pairing tracks drift but carries its noise; an average lags it.
-   * Near the top of the window neither is acceptable, because the error that matters is
-   * one-sided: a ratio that is too HIGH under-counts tokens and transmits a request the
-   * provider will reject. So the fence takes the smallest ratio in the recent window,
-   * which converges instantly in the dangerous direction and within a window in the
-   * cheap one. Measured 2026-08-06 (rep13): the ratio moved 5.34 to 6.01 and back
-   * across twenty requests while the window sat above 90% full.
-   */
   const projectionCharsPerToken = (): number => {
     const usable = measurements.projectionCalibrations.filter((entry) =>
       entry.tokens > 0 && Number.isFinite(entry.chars / entry.tokens) && entry.chars / entry.tokens > 0);
@@ -1718,40 +1343,14 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     );
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Bind the provider's count to the projection it counted.
-   *
-   * The anchor is the number the provider reported for a request this process actually
-   * TRANSMITTED, held with that projection's serialized bytes. Identity is carried three
-   * ways so a stale anchor cannot pass for a fresh one: the session it belongs to, the
-   * attribution generation (a model or thinking-level change is a different tokenizer, so
-   * its counts describe nothing here), and the projection text itself, which the reading
-   * re-checks byte for byte before adding anything to it.
-   */
   const noteProviderProjectionAnchor = (measurement: ProviderContextMeasurement): void => {
-    // ONE ANCHOR PER MEASURED RESPONSE. A pass that re-observes the same assistant
-    // message -- the retry after a provider rejection, or any pass the host runs without
-    // a new response -- would otherwise re-bind that count to a newer projection the
-    // provider never counted, and the count would silently describe the wrong bytes.
     if (measurements.projectionAnchor?.messageSha256 === measurement.messageSha256) return;
     const text = instrumentation.previousText;
-    // Only a TRANSMITTED projection can be anchored: an aborted pass built a projection
-    // the provider never saw, so no reported count describes it.
     if (!text || text.length < 2 || !text.endsWith("]") || !persistence.state) {
       measurements.projectionAnchor = null;
       return;
     }
     const chars = bytes(text);
-    // AND THE COUNT HAS TO FIT THE BYTES IT IS BOUND TO.
-    //
-    // An anchor is exact for the bytes it covers only if it actually describes them. A
-    // pairing that implies fewer serialized chars per token than any tokenizer produces
-    // is not describing this projection, and taken at face value it would put the fence
-    // under permanent pressure a projection of that size cannot explain. The calibration
-    // window already refuses such a ratio through the same floor; the anchor refuses it
-    // outright and falls back to the estimate. Only the FLOOR applies: a rate ABOVE the
-    // calibration ceiling is the signature-heavy composition this mechanism exists to
-    // read, and clamping it would throw away the measurement that motivated the build.
     if (!(measurement.tokens > 0) || chars / measurement.tokens < PROJECTION_CHARS_PER_TOKEN_FLOOR) {
       measurements.projectionAnchor = null;
       return;
@@ -1766,45 +1365,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     };
   };
 
-  /**
-   * THE OCCUPANCY READING: what the provider counted, plus only what arrived after it.
-   *
-   * A whole-projection estimate divides every byte in the window by one rate, and one
-   * rate does not fit the window's contents. Measured 2026-08-10 on the sealed rep-23
-   * run, byte exact against that run's own projection records: the estimate is unbiased
-   * at the pre-commit PEAKS (provider over estimate, mean 1.004 across six) and over-reads
-   * the post-fold TROUGHS by 22 to 35 percent (mean ratio 0.784 across six). It is a phase
-   * effect, not drift: encrypted reasoning-signature blobs on assistant messages grew from
-   * 14.6 to 51.3 percent of projection bytes over that run and price at a fitted 24.8 chars
-   * per token against 3.957 for ordinary content, so a projection's rate depends on what it
-   * is made of. The runtime therefore believed its floor climbed 0.298 to 0.490 of budget
-   * while the provider read 0.276 to 0.382: roughly 45 percent of the apparent floor rise
-   * was measurement error, five of six true troughs sat at or below the 0.35 minTarget, and
-   * the ladder was folding past its own floor without seeing it.
-   *
-   * So the rate is applied to the DELTA only. The provider's count for the projection this
-   * one extends is exact for every byte it covers, whatever those bytes are made of, and
-   * only the material appended since is estimated. Measured on the same run: mean absolute
-   * occupancy error across all requests falls from 8.38 to 3.08 percent, and inside every
-   * post-fold refill window it drops from the +9 to +27 percent band to under 4 percent from
-   * the second request onward.
-   *
-   * Two things this deliberately does NOT do. It does not move the commit trigger: at all
-   * twelve commit points of that run the delta since the last provider count was exactly
-   * zero, because the commit hook runs after the response and its usage record have landed.
-   * And it does not fix the one pass per cycle where the projection is REWRITTEN rather than
-   * appended, right after a commit: the anchor describes a projection this one does not
-   * begin with, so there is nothing to add a delta to and the whole-projection estimate
-   * stands, error and all (+27 to +35 percent, measured). That case is detected by
-   * construction, not by the sign of the delta: the current serialization must begin with
-   * the anchored one verbatim, up to the array separator.
-   *
-   * The anchor is the provider's TOTAL for that request, which includes the output tokens
-   * of the response the next projection appends and then prices again as bytes. That is one
-   * response's worth of double count, it runs HIGH rather than low, and it keeps a single
-   * definition of "the provider's number" across occupancy, the ratio and the calibration
-   * instead of a second one that only this reading would use.
-   */
   const projectedTokenReading = (projected: unknown[]): {
     tokens: number;
     basis: ProjectionReadingBasis;
@@ -1821,10 +1381,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         anchor.sessionId !== persistence.state?.sessionId) {
       return { tokens: estimate, basis: "unmeasured", chars, anchorTokens: null, deltaChars: null };
     }
-    // By construction: the anchored serialization minus its closing bracket must be a
-    // byte-exact prefix, and the byte after it must be the array separator or the close.
-    // A message that merely GREW in place fails this, because the anchored head ends with
-    // that message's own closing brace.
     const separator = text.length > anchor.head.length ? text[anchor.head.length] : "";
     if (!text.startsWith(anchor.head) || (separator !== "," && separator !== "]")) {
       return { tokens: estimate, basis: "rewritten", chars, anchorTokens: anchor.tokens, deltaChars: null };
@@ -1839,39 +1395,19 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     };
   };
 
-  /** The largest recent estimator error, as a share. Unmeasured sessions assume none. */
   const estimatorErrorShare = (): number => measurements.estimatorErrors.length
     ? Math.max(...measurements.estimatorErrors.map((error) => Math.abs(error)))
     : 0;
 
-  /** The largest recent growth step, which is what one more turn can add. */
   const expectedInflowTokens = (): number => measurements.inflowSteps.length
     ? Math.max(...measurements.inflowSteps)
     : 0;
 
-  /**
-   * THE OUTPUT WALL'S OWN FORWARD LOOK, AND WHY IT IS NOT THE ONE ABOVE.
-   *
-   * `inflowSteps` is filled by `noteProjectionCalibration`, which runs on the context pass.
-   * By then the message-end path has already advanced `lastProviderMeasurement` to the
-   * count being calibrated, so the difference is a measurement against itself and the step
-   * is zero. That window has therefore been empty in every session ever run, which means
-   * the transmission fence margin and the commit depth floor, both of which read it, have
-   * been running on their floor shares alone. Reviving it moves both, and both are
-   * calibrated against reps recorded while it was empty, so that is its own build with its
-   * own gates rather than a rider on this one.
-   *
-   * This window is filled where the previous count is still readable, and nothing but the
-   * wall reads it. When a count reaches only the context pass the window stays empty and
-   * the wall degrades to the condition it replaced, which is the safe direction.
-   */
   const WALL_INFLOW_WINDOW = 8;
   const noteWallInflow = (measurement: ProviderContextMeasurement): void => {
     const previous = measurements.lastProviderMeasurement;
     if (!previous || !Number.isFinite(measurement.tokens) || !Number.isFinite(previous.tokens)) return;
     const step = measurement.tokens - previous.tokens;
-    // Only GROWTH. A commit shrinks the window; that is what the wall has to survive, not
-    // a size the next request can be predicted from.
     if (step <= 0) return;
     measurements.wallInflowSteps.push(step);
     if (measurements.wallInflowSteps.length > WALL_INFLOW_WINDOW) measurements.wallInflowSteps.shift();
@@ -1881,64 +1417,18 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     ? Math.max(...measurements.wallInflowSteps)
     : 0;
 
-  /**
-   * The safety margin.
-   *
-   * A fence that fires AT the budget is a fence that fires after the wire: the request
-   * that kills the session is the one built after the last measurement, and it is never
-   * the one being weighed. Measured 2026-08-06 (rep13): the last measurement read
-   * 370,320 tokens against a 383,616 budget -- 13,296 of headroom against a median
-   * inflow of 13,865 and a maximum of 27,815 -- while the estimate for that request was
-   * 366,934, comfortably "under budget". The next request crossed the real limit and
-   * the provider rejected it. Every number in that sentence was known to the runtime.
-   *
-   * So the reduction threshold carries what the runtime knows it does not know: the
-   * worst recent estimator error applied to this estimate, plus one worst recent inflow
-   * step, never less than a floor share of the window.
-   */
   const projectionMarginTokens = (estimate: number, windowTokens: number): number => Math.ceil(Math.max(
     PROJECTION_MARGIN_FLOOR_SHARE * windowTokens,
     estimatorErrorShare() * estimate + expectedInflowTokens(),
   ));
 
-  /**
-   * The TRANSMISSION fence.
-   *
-   * `abortUnsafeHardContext` gates on `measurements.latestRatio`, which describes the
-   * request the provider ALREADY answered. It is a lagging indicator: between that
-   * response and the next request an excursion can add a hundred thousand tokens of
-   * tool results, and nothing in the fence looks at the projection actually about to
-   * be sent. Measured 2026-08-06 (rep 11): the last measurement read 359,625 tokens of
-   * a 400,000 window, ratio 0.937 against a 0.959 hard fence, so no abort fired -- and
-   * the projection that went out was 1,831,936 chars, about 458k estimated tokens, 1.2x
-   * the whole window. The provider rejected it twice and the run died. rep4 aborted
-   * correctly only because its 272k DESCRIPTOR window put the stale ratio over the
-   * fence by luck of arithmetic, not because anything measured the request.
-   *
-   * So the projection itself is measured here, against the truthful serving budget the
-   * capacity accounting already computes. Over budget, an emergency reduction runs at
-   * fence pressure -- where every guarded mark is waived -- and the rebuilt projection
-   * is measured again. If it still does not fit, the request is aborted BEFORE
-   * transmission, which is the whole point of having a fence.
-   */
   const projectionExceedsBudget = (projected: unknown[], ctx: any): {
-    /** Occupancy: what the provider counted, plus what was appended after it. */
     tokens: number;
-    /**
-     * This projection's OWN size, every byte of it at one rate. Occupancy answers "how
-     * full is the window"; a before-and-after comparison between two projections answers
-     * "did this pass make the request smaller", and those are different questions. A
-     * reduction is measured in size space on both sides, because the projection the pass
-     * rebuilds is a rewrite the anchor does not describe, and subtracting an anchored
-     * reading from an unanchored one reports a change that no folding caused.
-     */
     sizeTokens: number;
     basis: ProjectionReadingBasis;
     budgetTokens: number;
     marginTokens: number;
-    /** Past the wire: this request must not be transmitted at all. */
     over: boolean;
-    /** Inside the margin: still sendable, but the next one may not be. Reduce NOW. */
     crowded: boolean;
   } => {
     const capacity = currentCapacity(ctx);
@@ -1997,17 +1487,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     ctx.abort();
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Enforce the budget, and RECOVER rather than die.
-   *
-   * A provider context-overflow rejection mutates nothing durable: the assistant
-   * message never lands and this runtime rebuilds the projection from the branch on
-   * every request. So the terminal path is not an abort, it is a rollback: do not
-   * append the failed exchange, fold at fence pressure until the request fits, rebuild,
-   * and let Pi resend. Recovery is capped, and the cap is what makes it safe -- an
-   * inflow that still will not fit after maximal folding is a genuine impossibility,
-   * and that one fails LOUDLY exactly as before.
-   */
   const enforceProjectionBudget = async (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     projected: unknown[],
@@ -2015,44 +1494,28 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   ): Promise<{ projected: unknown[]; aborted: boolean }> => {
     let measured = projectionExceedsBudget(projected, ctx);
     const rejected = curation.pendingRejection !== null;
-    // CROWDED, not over, is the trigger for reducing: the request that kills a session
-    // is the one built after this one. A provider rejection outranks our own estimate:
-    // it is ground truth that the last request did not fit, whatever we measured.
     if (!measured.crowded && !rejected) return { projected, aborted: false };
-    // Crowded is a MARGIN PREDICTION, not an overflow. While a last-call round is
-    // genuinely OPEN, exposure rendered this pass or the agent's response still
-    // outstanding, the prediction waits for it: this request still fits and the
-    // round ends on the very next context pass. Once the round has elapsed the
-    // margin lane acts freely, because a stale exposure parked behind the reopen
-    // latch must never muzzle the one reducer that can still act (the 20k-window
-    // probe climbed from crowded to the wire in exactly that state). Genuine
-    // untransmissibility, an over-budget projection or a provider rejection, never
-    // waits: a request whose projection exceeds the provider input budget is rejected
-    // outright, so recovery must produce a window that fits. Economy does not outrank
-    // the one round.
-    const lastCall = persistence.state?.lastCall;
-    const delivery = curation.lastCallDelivery;
-    const roundOpen = Boolean(lastCall) && (!delivery || delivery.exposure !== lastCall.exposure ||
-      markOrdinal(snapshot) <= delivery.ordinal);
-    if (!measured.over && !rejected && roundOpen) {
-      return { projected, aborted: false };
-    }
-    // Why this fired, recorded from the measurement that TRIGGERED it rather than the
-    // one taken afterwards, which by then describes a projection that fits.
     const trigger = measured;
     let reduced = projected;
     let attempts = 0;
     let reducedAtLeastOnce = false;
-    // At the fence the only useful action is the fold that keeps the request
-    // transmissible, so every reduction runs with every guarded mark waived.
-    while (attempts < OVERFLOW_RECOVERY_MAX_ATTEMPTS && (measured.crowded || measured.over || rejected)) {
+    while (measured.crowded || measured.over || rejected) {
       attempts += 1;
-      curation.recoveryAttempts += 1;
+      // THE EMERGENCY IS THE REQUEST THAT WILL NOT FIT, and only that. A projection at
+      // the margin is ordinary work: the fence commits it because it is the pass holding
+      // the request, but it is not a recovery, it does not waive the current-turn guard,
+      // and it does not buy an exemption from the reclaim floor. Waiving at the margin
+      // spends the open turn's own evidence on headroom the boundary was about to buy.
+      const emergency = measured.over || rejected;
+      if (emergency) curation.recoveryAttempts += 1;
       let action: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
       try {
-        action = await attemptAutomaticRung(snapshot, 1, ctx, "projection-budget", {
-          waiverRatio: 1,
-        });
+        // The fence COMMITS. A mark moves no bytes, and the request it is holding is the
+        // one that will not fit, so marking here would spin the loop against an unchanged
+        // projection until it ran out of things to mark.
+        action = await attemptAutomaticCommit(
+          snapshot, ctx, "projection-budget", emergency ? 1 : measurements.latestRatio,
+        );
       } catch (error) {
         suspendAutomatic(error, "projection-budget", ctx);
         break;
@@ -2065,7 +1528,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
     if (reducedAtLeastOnce) {
       ladder.overBudgetReduction = {
-        // Size space on both sides: what this pass CHANGED, not how full the window is.
         estimatedTokensBefore: trigger.sizeTokens,
         estimatedTokensAfter: measured.sizeTokens,
         occupancyTokensAfter: measured.tokens,
@@ -2083,34 +1545,10 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
     if (rejected) {
       const overflowBefore = trigger.sizeTokens;
-      // RECOVERY IS A CHANGE, NOT AN OPINION.
-      //
-      // This read `!measured.over`: our own estimator answering the question the
-      // provider had just answered differently. A rejection is ground truth that the
-      // estimate was wrong, so the estimate cannot also be the evidence that the retry
-      // will work. And a rejection mutates nothing durable -- the rolled-back branch
-      // rebuilds the same projection -- so a pass that changed nothing hands the
-      // provider a byte-identical request and calls it a rescue. Measured 2026-08-10
-      // (luna-20260810 pifold rep 2): two rejections at stage 25, not one byte folded
-      // either time, both recorded recovered true, and the run died anyway.
-      //
-      // The baseline is the request that was actually REJECTED, which is the last
-      // projection this process built: it is written at the end of every pass that
-      // builds one, and this lane runs before the current pass overwrites it. Measuring
-      // against the projection handed to this function instead would credit only the
-      // recovery loop's own folds and miss the ordinary commit that already ran earlier
-      // in the same pass, which is the usual way a retried request gets smaller.
-      //
-      // Size space on both sides. Occupancy is anchored to the provider's count for the
-      // projection it measured, and the projection this lane rebuilds is a rewrite that
-      // anchor does not describe, so a rejected-minus-retried subtraction across the two
-      // bases reports a change no folding caused.
       const rejectedTokens = measurements.lastProjectedSizeTokens;
       const freedTokens = typeof rejectedTokens === "number"
         ? Math.max(0, rejectedTokens - measured.sizeTokens)
         : 0;
-      // Smaller than what the provider refused, AND inside the budget. Either half alone
-      // is a claim this runtime has already been wrong about once.
       const recovered = freedTokens > 0 && !measured.over;
       curation.lastRecovery = {
         status: curation.pendingRejection?.status ?? null,
@@ -2122,7 +1560,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       emit("context.recovery", {
         provider_status: curation.pendingRejection?.status ?? null,
         attempts,
-        max_attempts: OVERFLOW_RECOVERY_MAX_ATTEMPTS,
         tokens_before: overflowBefore,
         tokens_after: measured.sizeTokens,
         occupancy_tokens_after: measured.tokens,
@@ -2130,15 +1567,9 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         budget_tokens: measured.budgetTokens,
         margin_tokens: measured.marginTokens,
         recovered,
-        // What the verdict rests on, so a false claim cannot be read back as a true one:
-        // the size of the request the provider refused, and how much smaller this one is.
         rejected_tokens: typeof rejectedTokens === "number" ? rejectedTokens : null,
         freed_tokens: freedTokens,
-        // Whether the recovery loop itself folded, as distinct from the pass as a whole.
         loop_reduced: reducedAtLeastOnce,
-        // The join. `context.rollback` records what left the branch; this records what
-        // the retried pass folded to make the shorter window fit, and the two are one
-        // episode. Null when a rejection was recorded without a tree rollback.
         rollback_seq: typeof rollback.last?.seq === "number" ? rollback.last.seq : null,
       });
       const unchangedNote = "The provider rejected the last request and this pass made it no smaller, so the " +
@@ -2173,21 +1604,14 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
 
   const startPreparation = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, ratio: number | null, ctx: any): void => {
     if (lifecycle.shuttingDown || !persistence.state || ladder.automaticFailure || ratio === null || persistence.state.prepared || ladder.preparing ||
-        ratio < snapshot.policy.warmRatio ||
+        ratio < snapshot.policy.prepareRatio ||
         !measurements.lastProviderMeasurement || !durableProviderMeasurementMatches(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement)) return;
-    // Preparation is asynchronous but never jumps ahead of an immediately
-    // committable deterministic fold on the same measured projection.
-    const selection = selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio, {
-      summarizerAvailable: Boolean(options.summarizeContextSpan),
-      failedPreparationIds: ladder.failedPreparations,
-    });
+    const selection = selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio);
     ladder.lastSelectionKind = selection && "candidate" in selection ? selection.candidate.kind : null;
     ladder.lastSelectionSourceIds = selection && "candidate" in selection
       ? selection.candidate.sourceRefs.slice(0, 8).map((ref) => ref.entryId)
       : [];
     if (selection?.kind !== "chapter-prepare") return;
-    // Already bite-sized: the chapter selector never proposes a span past the cap, so a
-    // model brief is never spent on a fold nobody can read back cheaply.
     const candidate = selection.candidate;
     const id = automaticPreparationId(candidate, persistence.state);
     const controller = new AbortController();
@@ -2202,11 +1626,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       snapshot,
       state: capturedState,
       generation: capturedGeneration,
-      summarize: ladder.failedPreparations.has(id) ? undefined : observedSummarize,
-      onSummarizerFailure: (error) => {
-        ladder.lastPreparationError = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
-        ladder.failedPreparations.add(id);
-      },
       ctx,
       signal: controller.signal,
     }).then((preparedFold) => {
@@ -2225,7 +1644,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       if (controller.signal.aborted ||
           !sessionIdentityStillValid(ctx, snapshot.sessionId, capturedGeneration)) return;
       ladder.lastPreparationError = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
-      ladder.failedPreparations.add(id);
       suspendAutomatic(
         error,
         "chapter-prepare",
@@ -2238,18 +1656,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       if (ownsSlot && sessionIdentityStillValid(ctx, snapshot.sessionId, capturedGeneration)) updateStatus(ctx);
     });
   };
-  // Appended at the very TAIL, after the stable prefix, so a suggestion never
-  // invalidates a cached prefix and never becomes durable transcript.
-  /**
-   * The receipt block: what the runtime did to this window, as status rather than as
-   * advice. It is the only carrier this runtime builds.
-   *
-   * It is free because it is RETROSPECTIVE. A receipt exists only after a commit has
-   * already rewritten the projection, so it rides a cache break the runtime had to pay
-   * for regardless, and the freeze then closes over it so it is never paid for again.
-   * It is hard-bounded and its ring evicts the oldest entry, because a report about
-   * bloat that becomes bloat has argued against itself.
-   */
   const appendReceipts = (projected: unknown[], snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): unknown[] => {
     const content = receiptBlockText({ receipts: curation.receipts, toolName, brandNoun });
     if (!content) return projected;
@@ -2272,12 +1678,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return projected;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The rider rides the SAME admission as the receipt block: it renders from the
-   * persisted literal bytes, lands once per freeze cycle, and the freeze closes over
-   * it, so it can never diverge a prefix on its own. It is never regenerated: the
-   * bytes the epoch persisted are the bytes every re-render carries.
-   */
   const appendRider = (projected: unknown[], snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): unknown[] => {
     const rider = persistence.state?.rider;
     if (!rider) return projected;
@@ -2299,92 +1699,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return projected;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Threshold notices are APPEND-ONCE: each delivered notice is its own carrier with
-   * its own key, so a notice that fires mid-freeze lands at the tail as a pure append,
-   * the freeze closes over it, and it then persists in the window the way a tool
-   * result does. A freeze break re-renders every retained notice from its persisted
-   * literal bytes inside the rewrite that broke the freeze.
-   */
-  const appendNotices = (projected: unknown[], snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): unknown[] => {
-    const notices = persistence.state?.notices;
-    if (!notices?.ring.length) return projected;
-    for (const notice of notices.ring) {
-      if (!carrierAdmitted(`notice-${notice.share}-${notice.ordinal}`)) continue;
-      projected.push({
-        role: "custom",
-        customType: noticeProjectionType,
-        content: notice.text,
-        display: false,
-        details: {
-          source: activeContextSource(entryTypePrefix),
-          ephemeral: true,
-          share: notice.share,
-          noticeOrdinal: notice.ordinal,
-        },
-        timestamp: typeof ownValue(snapshot.messages.at(-1), "timestamp") === "number"
-          ? ownValue(snapshot.messages.at(-1), "timestamp")
-          : 0,
-      });
-    }
-    return projected;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * The pre-commit last-call rides the commit BOUNDARY: it is armed when the band-top
-   * trigger fires, appended at the tail (a pure append) for exactly one gated round,
-   * and the commit that consumes it clears the state, so the carrier's disappearance
-   * rides the rewrite that commit already pays for. Rendering records the delivery,
-   * which is what the one-round clock is measured from.
-   */
-  const appendLastCall = (projected: unknown[], snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): unknown[] => {
-    const lastCall = persistence.state?.lastCall;
-    if (!lastCall) return projected;
-    if (carrierAdmitted(`lastcall-${lastCall.exposure}`)) {
-      projected.push({
-        role: "custom",
-        customType: lastCallProjectionType,
-        content: lastCall.text,
-        display: false,
-        details: {
-          source: activeContextSource(entryTypePrefix),
-          ephemeral: true,
-          exposure: lastCall.exposure,
-        },
-        timestamp: typeof ownValue(snapshot.messages.at(-1), "timestamp") === "number"
-          ? ownValue(snapshot.messages.at(-1), "timestamp")
-          : 0,
-      });
-    }
-    if (curation.lastCallDelivery?.exposure !== lastCall.exposure) {
-      curation.lastCallDelivery = { exposure: lastCall.exposure, ordinal: markOrdinal(snapshot) };
-    }
-    return projected;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * Whatever this pass ended up sending becomes the frozen surface for the next one, in
-   * full. Nothing rides after the frozen region.
-   *
-   * The earlier build kept a live suggestion slate outside the freeze, reasoning that
-   * advice goes stale and that a re-rendered block "only diverges the prefix when its
-   * own content changes". That reasoning is wrong, and rep 21 measured the cost. A
-   * positional cache compares bytes from the start: this pass sends [frozen][slate] and
-   * the next sends [frozen][new messages][slate], so at the offset where the slate sat
-   * the next pass has new messages instead. The slate diverges the prefix EVERY pass
-   * whatever it says, because appending anything displaces it. There is no stable
-   * position at a moving tail.
-   *
-   * Measured on rep 21: a 1503-character slate against a 1.5M-character prompt, 99.86%
-   * of the projection preserved by our own accounting, and 16 full cache rebuilds
-   * costing 3.71M tokens -- 21.9% of every input token in the run. Prefix caching is a
-   * step function, not a gradient: mutation cost has no relation to mutation size.
-   *
-   * So the rule this build enforces: the runtime adds to the window only at a moment it
-   * is already rewriting the window, which means at a commit. A carrier landed there is
-   * free, because the break is already paid for, and it stays landed forever because
-   * the freeze closes over it.
-   */
   const holdFrozen = (projected: unknown[]): unknown[] => {
     freeze.projection = [...projected];
     freeze.active = false;
@@ -2395,13 +1709,9 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const body = projectActiveContext(snapshot, persistence.state!).filter((message) => {
       const customType = ownValue(message, "customType");
       return customType !== milestoneProjectionType && customType !== advisoryProjectionType &&
-        customType !== surfacingProjectionType && customType !== receiptProjectionType &&
-        customType !== riderProjectionType && customType !== curationProjectionType &&
-        customType !== lastCallProjectionType && customType !== noticeProjectionType;
+        customType !== receiptProjectionType &&
+        customType !== riderProjectionType && customType !== curationProjectionType;
     });
-    // The freeze test, stated as bytes rather than as intent: if the rebuilt body still
-    // OPENS with the frozen body verbatim, nothing structural moved and the previous
-    // projection is reused whole, with only what arrived since appended after it.
     const held = freeze.body?.length ?? 0;
     freeze.active = freeze.projection !== null && body.length >= held &&
       stableStringify(body.slice(0, held)) === freeze.bodyText;
@@ -2411,28 +1721,10 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     if (!freeze.active) freeze.keys.clear();
     freeze.body = body;
     freeze.bodyText = stableStringify(body);
-    // The one carrier left, and the only one that can ever be free: a statement of what
-    // the runtime just did. It is built only when a commit produced a receipt, it lands
-    // inside the freeze, and it is never rendered twice.
-    //
-    // Everything that used to stand here was ANTICIPATORY -- pressure milestones, the
-    // live advisory, curation reminders, the last-call notice. Anticipatory guidance has
-    // to arrive BEFORE the event it warns about, so it can never ride a break the
-    // runtime was already paying for; it has to create one. Anticipatory guidance and an
-    // append-only projection are mutually exclusive, and eleven runs say the warning
-    // bought nothing anyway: voluntary fold share was 0.00, and the three runs built
-    // specifically to invite curation produced 0, 1 and 0 voluntary folds.
     appendReceipts(projected, snapshot);
     appendRider(projected, snapshot);
-    appendNotices(projected, snapshot);
-    appendLastCall(projected, snapshot);
     return holdFrozen(projected);
   };
-  /**
-   * Classify the projection we are about to send against the one before it. A rewrite
-   * is ours; a pure append that the provider still re-reads is not, and conflating the
-   * two is what made a scheduling lever look responsible for 12 misses it never caused.
-   */
   const noteProjection = (projected: unknown[]): void => {
     const digests = messageDigests(projected);
     const comparison = compareProjections(instrumentation.previousDigests, digests);
@@ -2442,17 +1734,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const text = stableStringify(projected);
     const divergence = prefixDivergence(instrumentation.previousText, text);
     const previousChars = instrumentation.previousText?.length ?? 0;
-    // How much of the PREVIOUS prompt this projection still opens with. identicalShare
-    // measures the new projection instead, which grows every pass and would call a
-    // total rewrite "preserved" as soon as enough fresh content landed after it.
     instrumentation.lastPreservedShare = previousChars > 0
       ? divergence.identicalChars / previousChars
       : null;
     const charsPerToken = projectionCharsPerToken();
     const causes = instrumentation.sinceHandoff.filter((event) =>
       PREFIX_MUTATING_KINDS.has(event.kind));
-    // The reading this projection was judged by, with the pieces it was built from, so
-    // the anchored series is readable from the stream instead of reconstructed.
     const reading = projectedTokenReading(projected);
     emit("context.projection", {
       change: comparison.change,
@@ -2466,10 +1753,10 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       anchor_tokens: reading.anchorTokens,
       delta_chars: reading.deltaChars,
       chars_per_token: charsPerToken,
+      derivations: instrumentation.derivations,
+      derive_ms: Math.round(instrumentation.deriveMs),
+      derivation_hits: instrumentation.derivationHits,
     });
-    // Emission only. Which of these is a provider-side miss and which is a rewrite we
-    // caused is a join against provider-reported cacheRead, and that join is the
-    // analyst's, not this runtime's.
     emit("context.prefix", {
       change: comparison.change,
       divergent_char: divergence.index,
@@ -2484,8 +1771,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         : (causes.length ? causes.map((event) => event.kind).join(",") : "unattributed"),
       cause_event_seqs: causes.map((event) => event.seq).join(","),
       events_since_handoff: instrumentation.sinceHandoff.length,
-      // The request class, which falls straight out of the attribution and makes a run
-      // directly comparable to a production cache table. Not new measurement.
       request_class: divergence.index === null
         ? "steady-state"
         : (causes.some((event) => event.kind === "context.recovery")
@@ -2497,368 +1782,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff = 0;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Enqueue the folds this commit created with a deterministic brief.
-   *
-   * The request is built HERE, against the snapshot and the pre-commit state, because
-   * this is the last moment the fold's source is still exact active evidence: after the
-   * commit its span is a placeholder and the orientation either side of it is gone.
-   * These are the bytes `prepareFold` already hashed into the fold's identity, so the
-   * generator briefs the span that was folded and nothing else.
-   *
-   * A PARENT is queued too, and reads its children at depth one rather than through their
-   * briefs: `consolidationSourceText` opens each child and leaves the grandchildren folded,
-   * so the group is briefed from material instead of from a summary of summaries. The one
-   * thing it must not race is a child's own upgrade, so a parent whose children are still
-   * in this lane is deferred to the next boundary instead of reading briefs about to be
-   * replaced. Unlike a leaf, a parent's source keeps: its children are folds, and folds
-   * stay resolvable after the commit that nested them.
-   */
-  const queueBriefUpgrades = (
-    snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
-    stateBeforeCommit: ActiveContextState,
-    foldIds: readonly string[],
-  ): void => {
-    if (!observedSummarize || !persistence.state) return;
-    const queued = (id: string): boolean =>
-      upgrades.queue.some((entry) => entry.members.some((member) => member.foldId === id));
-    const pending = (id: string): boolean => upgrades.running.has(id) || queued(id) ||
-      upgrades.ready.some((entry) => entry.foldId === id) ||
-      upgrades.deferred.has(id);
-    // Gathered before any packing, because a batch is a property of the whole commit and
-    // not of the fold that happens to be read first.
-    const gathered: Array<{
-      foldId: string;
-      sourceSha256: string;
-      refs: EvidenceRef[];
-      span: Record<string, unknown>;
-      chars: number;
-      parent: boolean;
-    }> = [];
-    // Parents that waited are considered first and at every boundary, so the wait ends as
-    // soon as the children settle rather than whenever the ladder happens to build another.
-    for (const foldId of [...upgrades.deferred, ...foldIds]) {
-      const full = upgrades.queue.length >= MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADE_QUEUE;
-      if (upgrades.failed.has(foldId) || upgrades.running.has(foldId) || queued(foldId) ||
-          upgrades.ready.some((entry) => entry.foldId === foldId)) continue;
-      const fold = persistence.state.folds.find((item) => item.id === foldId);
-      // A supplied brief is agent judgment and outranks the generator; a model brief is
-      // already what this lane exists to produce. A fold that is no longer there is no
-      // longer owed anything, so a rolled-back parent leaves the wait rather than sitting
-      // in it.
-      if (!fold || foldProvenance(fold, persistence.state).kind !== "deterministic") {
-        upgrades.deferred.delete(foldId);
-        continue;
-      }
-      const parent = fold.parts.some((part) => part.kind === "fold");
-      // A parent waits rather than being shed: its children are folds, so its source is
-      // still there whenever the lane has room, and a group that loses its turn at a busy
-      // boundary would otherwise keep the index its children could not write. A leaf is the
-      // other way round. Its source is exact active evidence at this commit and a
-      // placeholder after it, so a full queue drops it here and the receipt says so.
-      if (parent && (full || childFoldIds(fold).some(pending))) {
-        upgrades.deferred.add(foldId);
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (full) continue;
-      upgrades.deferred.delete(foldId);
-      const refs = parent
-        ? flattenFoldRefs(fold, persistence.state)
-        : fold.parts.every((part) => part.kind === "raw")
-          ? fold.parts.map((part) => (part as { kind: "raw"; ref: EvidenceRef }).ref)
-          : null;
-      if (!refs) continue;
-      try {
-        // The parent reads the state that holds its children and their upgraded briefs;
-        // a leaf reads the state where its own span was still raw active evidence.
-        const sourceText = parent
-          ? consolidationSourceText(snapshot, persistence.state, fold.parts)
-          : encodedFoldSource(snapshot, stateBeforeCommit, fold.parts, fold.kind);
-        const chars = bytes(sourceText);
-        if (chars > snapshot.policy.maxSourceChars) continue;
-        gathered.push({
-          foldId,
-          sourceSha256: fold.sourceSha256,
-          refs,
-          chars,
-          parent,
-          span: {
-            candidateId: fold.id,
-            sourceRefs: clone(refs),
-            sourceText,
-            sourceSha256: sha256Text(sourceText),
-            // What the PAYLOAD holds, which is one entry per part: a consolidation can
-            // carry absorbed raw evidence beside its folded children, and the coverage
-            // rule counts the things the model is actually shown. Counting only the fold
-            // children told it to write fewer clauses than the payload has subjects.
-            children: parent ? fold.parts.length : 0,
-          },
-        });
-      } catch (error) {
-        // Evidence drift between the commit and this read leaves the deterministic brief
-        // standing, and the next commit record reports the attempt rather than hiding it.
-        upgrades.failed.add(foldId);
-        upgrades.failures += 1;
-        upgrades.lastError = boundReceiptText(
-          error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error), 240, "brief upgrade",
-        );
-      }
-    }
-    // Pack the commit's spans into as few calls as the source budget allows. Order is the
-    // order they were gathered, which is span order within the commit, so the numbered
-    // spans a batch shows the generator run the way the session did and one really is the
-    // orientation for the next.
-    for (let at = 0; at < gathered.length;) {
-      if (upgrades.queue.length >= MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADE_QUEUE) {
-        // No room for another call. A parent goes back to waiting, because its children are
-        // folds and its source will still be there whenever the lane frees up. A leaf
-        // cannot wait: its source is exact active evidence at THIS commit and a placeholder
-        // after it, so it keeps the deterministic brief it committed with.
-        for (const item of gathered.slice(at)) {
-          if (item.parent) upgrades.deferred.add(item.foldId);
-        }
-        break;
-      }
-      const members: typeof gathered = [];
-      let chars = 0;
-      while (at < gathered.length && members.length < MAX_BRIEF_BATCH_SPANS &&
-             (!members.length || chars + gathered[at].chars <= snapshot.policy.maxSourceChars)) {
-        chars += gathered[at].chars;
-        members.push(gathered[at]);
-        at += 1;
-      }
-      // Orientation is the run's, not each span's: where this batch of consecutive spans
-      // sits in the wider conversation. Taken from the ends rather than from the union,
-      // because a commit can fold spans with protected material still raw between them and
-      // the union of those refs is not one contiguous range.
-      const before = boundedOrientation(snapshot, members[0].refs);
-      const after = boundedOrientation(snapshot, members[members.length - 1].refs);
-      upgrades.queue.push({
-        members: members.map((item) => ({ foldId: item.foldId, sourceSha256: item.sourceSha256 })),
-        request: {
-          spans: members.map((item) => item.span),
-          beforeRefs: clone(before.beforeRefs),
-          beforeText: before.beforeText,
-          beforeSha256: sha256Text(before.beforeText),
-          afterRefs: clone(after.afterRefs),
-          afterText: after.afterText,
-          afterSha256: sha256Text(after.afterText),
-          maxBriefChars: snapshot.policy.maxBriefChars,
-          // Read by the observed wrapper and by nothing else, so a queue that backs up is
-          // visible as waiting rather than as a slow generator. The summarizer contract is
-          // on the RESULT, so an extra request field reaches it harmlessly.
-          queuedAtMs: Date.now(),
-        },
-      });
-    }
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * One generator call, between boundaries, cancel-safe. It writes nothing durable: a
-   * finished brief waits in `ready` for a commit to carry it, and an aborted or failed
-   * call leaves the fold exactly as it committed.
-   *
-   * Returns whether a call was started, which is what lets the drain below stop.
-   */
-  const startBriefUpgrade = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, ctx: any): boolean => {
-    const summarize = observedSummarize;
-    // In CALLS, not folds. `running` is keyed by every fold a call briefs so the queue can
-    // ask whether one is already being written, so its size is a fold count and reading it
-    // as the in-flight bound would stop the lane after a single batch.
-    const inFlight = new Set(upgrades.running.values()).size;
-    if (!summarize || lifecycle.shuttingDown || !upgrades.queue.length ||
-        inFlight >= MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADES_IN_FLIGHT) return false;
-    const entry = upgrades.queue.shift()!;
-    const controller = new AbortController();
-    const slot = { controller, promise: Promise.resolve() };
-    // Keyed by EVERY fold the call briefs, so the queue's "already being briefed" check and
-    // the in-flight bound both read one call as the one thing it is.
-    for (const member of entry.members) upgrades.running.set(member.foldId, slot);
-    const capturedSessionId = snapshot.sessionId;
-    const capturedGeneration = lifecycle.generation;
-    let timeout: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
-    slot.promise = (async () => {
-      const timed = new Promise<never>((_resolve, reject) => {
-        timeout = setTimeout(() => {
-          controller.abort();
-          reject(new Error(`Brief upgrade exceeded ${snapshot.policy.briefTimeoutMs}ms`));
-        }, snapshot.policy.briefTimeoutMs);
-      });
-      // The same contract `prepareFold` holds a generated brief to, through the same
-      // function: an upgrade with its own copy of the check would drift from the fold
-      // path's, and the cure a missed criterion earns belongs to both or to neither.
-      const generated = await Promise.race([
-        generatedBriefs({
-          summarize: (request, callCtx) => summarize({ ...request, signal: controller.signal }, callCtx),
-          request: entry.request,
-          spans: entry.request.spans as Array<Record<string, unknown>>,
-          ctx,
-          maxBriefChars: snapshot.policy.maxBriefChars,
-          toolName: snapshot.toolName,
-        }),
-        timed,
-      ]);
-      if (controller.signal.aborted ||
-          !sessionIdentityStillValid(ctx, capturedSessionId, capturedGeneration)) return;
-      // Per span, not per call. A batch is one request and many answers, so one span that
-      // could not be cured is one fold keeping its deterministic brief while its neighbours
-      // take theirs; the whole call failing on it would be the coverage problem batching
-      // exists to solve, wearing a different hat.
-      entry.members.forEach((member, at) => {
-        const written = generated.briefs[at];
-        if (!written) {
-          upgrades.failed.add(member.foldId);
-          upgrades.failures += 1;
-          upgrades.lastError = boundReceiptText(
-            `span ${at + 1} of ${entry.members.length}: ${generated.complaints[0] ?? "no brief"}`,
-            240, "brief upgrade",
-          );
-          return;
-        }
-        upgrades.ready.push({
-          foldId: member.foldId,
-          sourceSha256: member.sourceSha256,
-          brief: written.brief,
-          provenance: written.provenance,
-        });
-      });
-      upgrades.cures += generated.cured;
-    })().catch((error) => {
-      if (controller.signal.aborted) return;
-      // LOUD, and once, for every fold the call carried. They keep their deterministic
-      // briefs, the failure is counted onto the next commit record, and none of them is
-      // ever sent again: a generator that fails on a span fails on it again, and a retry
-      // loop would spend the session's provider calls proving that.
-      for (const member of entry.members) upgrades.failed.add(member.foldId);
-      upgrades.failures += 1;
-      upgrades.lastError = boundReceiptText(
-        error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error), 240, "brief upgrade",
-      );
-    }).finally(() => {
-      clearTimeout(timeout);
-      for (const member of entry.members) {
-        if (upgrades.running.get(member.foldId) === slot) upgrades.running.delete(member.foldId);
-      }
-      // A finished call starts the next one, so the drain rate is the generator's latency
-      // rather than however often a ladder pass happens to look. Still between
-      // boundaries: nothing here touches the projection, and the generation check is the
-      // same fence `cancelBriefUpgrades` is called behind, so a session that moved on
-      // cannot be restarted by a call that outlived it.
-      if (!lifecycle.shuttingDown && lifecycle.generation === capturedGeneration) {
-        resumeBriefUpgrades(snapshot, ctx);
-      }
-    });
-    return true;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * Fill the in-flight slots from the queue. The bound is a constant, not a pace: the
-   * lane starts everything it is allowed to start the moment there is work, because a
-   * fold whose brief is written late is a fold the session read deterministic in the
-   * meantime.
-   */
-  const startBriefUpgrades = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, ctx: any): void => {
-    while (startBriefUpgrade(snapshot, ctx)) { /* Bounded by the in-flight constant. */ }
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * Take up the waiting parents, then fill the slots.
-   *
-   * A deferred parent was waiting on the lane, so the lane finishing is the news, not the
-   * next commit. Boundaries are where briefs APPLY; hanging the retry on them too would
-   * leave a session that stops folding holding parents whose children were briefed long
-   * ago, and the last group the ladder built is exactly the one a session ends beside.
-   */
-  const resumeBriefUpgrades = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, ctx: any): void => {
-    if (upgrades.deferred.size && persistence.state) {
-      queueBriefUpgrades(snapshot, persistence.state, []);
-    }
-    startBriefUpgrades(snapshot, ctx);
-  };
-
-  const cancelBriefUpgrades = (): void => {
-    for (const slot of upgrades.running.values()) slot.controller.abort();
-    upgrades.running.clear();
-    upgrades.queue = [];
-    upgrades.ready = [];
-    upgrades.deferred.clear();
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * Apply finished upgrades INSIDE the commit's own mutation.
-   *
-   * Called between `commitPendingMarks` and the byte accounting, so an upgraded brief is
-   * part of what this commit is measured to have done rather than a rewrite nobody
-   * charged for. Nothing else may call this: an upgrade that finishes between boundaries
-   * waits, however long the wait is.
-   *
-   * Identity is revalidated the way `preparedFoldError` revalidates a prepared fold. A
-   * fold that was expanded, reclaimed, re-briefed by the agent, or rebuilt over a
-   * different span is a different object than the one the generator read, and its upgrade
-   * is DROPPED rather than deferred.
-   *
-   * It lands in the brief OVERRIDE map, the same channel the agent's own `rebrief` uses,
-   * and carries its generator beside the text. A fold record is content-addressed and
-   * immutable: rewriting one in place reports a conflicting durable fold at the next
-   * persist and suspends automatic management, which is precisely why the override map
-   * exists.
-   *
-   * EVERY finished brief lands, and there is no per-boundary cap. A prefix cache is
-   * invalidated from the FIRST byte that differs, so the commit's mutation point is the
-   * position of the earliest fold it upgrades and every later upgrade in the same commit
-   * sits inside a suffix that break already re-sent: the second and third upgrade on one
-   * boundary cost nothing the first did not already cost. Holding one back does not save
-   * that cost, it defers the same break to a later commit and pays it there on top of
-   * whatever that commit does. What bounds the count is the work that can be outstanding,
-   * MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADE_QUEUE waiting plus MAX_BRIEF_UPGRADES_IN_FLIGHT running, and the
-   * boundary that clears them.
-   */
-  const applyBriefUpgrades = (): string[] => {
-    if (!upgrades.ready.length || !persistence.state) return [];
-    const applied: string[] = [];
-    for (const entry of upgrades.ready) {
-      const state = persistence.state;
-      const fold = state.folds.find((item) => item.id === entry.foldId);
-      if (!fold || fold.sourceSha256 !== entry.sourceSha256 ||
-          foldProvenance(fold, state).kind !== "deterministic" ||
-          state.expanded.includes(fold.id) || state.briefs?.[fold.id] !== undefined) continue;
-      persistence.state = {
-        ...state,
-        briefs: {
-          ...(state.briefs ?? {}),
-          [fold.id]: { brief: entry.brief, provenance: clone(entry.provenance) },
-        },
-      };
-      applied.push(fold.id);
-    }
-    upgrades.ready = [];
-    return applied;
-  };
-
-  const commitDeterministicCandidate = async (
-    snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
-    candidate: FoldCandidate,
-    brief: string,
-  ): Promise<string> => {
-    const stateBeforeCommit = persistence.state!;
-    const preparedFold = await prepareFold({
-      candidate,
-      snapshot,
-      state: stateBeforeCommit,
-      generation: lifecycle.generation,
-      brief,
-      briefProvenance: "deterministic",
-    });
-    persistence.state = commitPreparedFold({
-      prepared: preparedFold,
-      snapshot,
-      state: stateBeforeCommit,
-      generation: lifecycle.generation,
-    });
-    queueBriefUpgrades(snapshot, stateBeforeCommit, [preparedFold.id]);
-    return preparedFold.id;
-  };
-
   const prepareAndCommitExplicit = async (input: {
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot;
     candidate: FoldCandidate;
@@ -2880,7 +1803,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       state: baseState,
       generation: generationAtStart,
       brief: input.brief,
-      summarize: observedSummarize,
       ctx: input.ctx,
       signal: input.signal,
     });
@@ -2900,18 +1822,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return { preparedFold, nextState };
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The one mutation of an epoch: every pending mark, plus the automatic additions
-   * a commit is allowed to make, applied through the same machinery as an immediate
-   * fold. Free additions come first (peek reads the agent already discarded), then
-   * the quota top-up that guarantees the commit is worth its rewrite.
-   */
-  /**
-   * One turn of inflow, as a share of the window: the least a commit at high occupancy
-   * has to free to be worth its rewrite. Measured inflow is used when the session has
-   * any -- rep13 ran at a median 13,865 and a maximum 27,815 tokens per request against
-   * a 400,000 window -- and the floor share stands in until then.
-   */
   const commitDepthFloorShare = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): number => {
     const window = snapshot.contextWindow;
     if (!Number.isFinite(window) || window <= 0) return COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE;
@@ -2924,89 +1834,18 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return occupancy !== null && occupancy >= snapshot.policy.refoldRatio;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * THE OUTPUT WALL.
-   *
-   * A declared serving budget has already netted out the reservation the answer needs,
-   * so the runtime treats the whole budget as spendable and fences only when it is
-   * spent. That fence is the input one, and the input is not what fails first. The host
-   * derives the answer's ceiling per request as its DESCRIPTOR window less its own
-   * estimate of the projection less a fixed safety margin, so filling the declared
-   * budget to the brim leaves the answer exactly the reservation and nothing else.
-   *
-   * Which is a fence that fires after the wire, the same defect the transmission fence
-   * was given a forward look to fix in rep 13. The commit trigger never got one.
-   * Measured 2026-08-12 (sol-20260812 rep 1): occupancy walked 218,713 -> 236,595 over
-   * twelve ordinals against a 251,520 budget with no commit, and the request built after
-   * the last measurement was served 16 output tokens and aborted. Every number was known
-   * to the runtime; nothing was weighing the request that had not been built yet.
-   *
-   * So the trigger carries what the transmission fence already carries: one worst recent
-   * inflow step. With no measured inflow this is exactly the old `used > budget`
-   * condition, which is the state it degrades to on a session's first turns.
-   */
   const outputWallDue = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): boolean => {
     const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
     if (capacity.usedTokens === null || !(capacity.budgetTokens > 0)) return false;
-    // THE EARLY ZONE ONLY, so this is strictly additive.
-    //
-    // Past the budget the pre-existing overflow paths already own the emergency: the
-    // commit-path exemption, the last-call gate and the fence all read `used > budget`
-    // and have since before this existed. A second trigger in that territory changes the
-    // cadence of sessions that were already being handled, and gate 107 measured what
-    // that costs: a fixture parked at 88,000 against an 83,616 budget put four generator
-    // calls in flight against a bound of two. So the wall speaks only where nothing spoke
-    // before, in the band one inflow step wide below the budget.
     if (capacity.usedTokens > capacity.budgetTokens) return false;
     return capacity.usedTokens + expectedWallInflowTokens() > capacity.budgetTokens;
   };
 
-  /**
-   * What the gated round did, measured against the arming snapshot. Pins and unpins
-   * are read from the stream itself (context.protect records after the exposure); the
-   * call and mark deltas are clamped at zero because contextCalls is process-local and
-   * a reload inside a round must not report a negative response.
-   */
-  const lastCallAttribution = (
-    lastCall: NonNullable<ActiveContextState["lastCall"]>,
-    agentMarksNow: number,
-  ): { responded: boolean; context_calls: number; marks_added: number; protects: number; unprotects: number } => {
-    const contextCalls = Math.max(0, curation.contextCalls - lastCall.contextCalls);
-    const protectRecords = instrumentation.ledger.events.filter((record) =>
-      record.seq > lastCall.exposure && record.kind === "context.protect");
-    const protects = protectRecords.filter((record) => record.protect === true).length;
-    return {
-      responded: contextCalls > 0,
-      context_calls: contextCalls,
-      marks_added: Math.max(0, agentMarksNow - lastCall.agentMarks),
-      protects,
-      unprotects: protectRecords.length - protects,
-    };
-  };
-
-  const clearLastCall = (): void => {
-    if (!persistence.state?.lastCall) return;
-    const next = { ...persistence.state };
-    delete next.lastCall;
-    persistence.state = next;
-    curation.lastCallDelivery = null;
-  };
-
   const runCommitEpoch = async (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     trigger: string,
     topUp: boolean,
-    /**
-     * Pressure the waiver is measured against. Defaults to the measured ratio; the
-     * over-budget reduction forces the fence so nothing survivable is held back.
-     */
     waiverRatio: number | null = measurements.latestRatio,
-    /**
-     * A user asked for this commit. It outranks the two ECONOMIC guards -- the reclaim
-     * floor and the one-mutation-per-handoff budget -- because those exist to spend the
-     * session's rewrites well and the user just said where to spend one. It outranks
-     * nothing else: freshness, pins, exactness and the provider fence are unchanged.
-     */
     userRequested = false,
   ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => {
     const ordinal = markOrdinal(snapshot);
@@ -3019,79 +1858,16 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       const addition = addPendingMark(state, mark);
       if (addition.added) { state = addition.state; peekAdded += 1; }
     }
-    // THE COUNT LAW RUNS AT EVERY COMMIT EPOCH, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE PROPOSES.
-    //
-    // The number of parents the eligible-root count owes is arithmetic, not a judgment
-    // about pressure, so it is not the top-up's to make and not the user commit's to
-    // skip: at any point the count allows k groups, k parents form. Running first is
-    // what makes the rest coherent -- the groups claim their children before the top-up
-    // reads the claim set, so nothing proposes a span over a fold a parent is taking.
     for (const mark of consolidationMarks({ snapshot, state, ordinal })) {
       const addition = addPendingMark(state, mark);
       if (addition.added) { state = addition.state; consolidationAdded += 1; }
     }
     const guarded = currentTurnRefKeys(snapshot);
-    // THE GUARD IS ADJUDICATED AT COMMIT, NEVER AT PROPOSAL.
-    //
-    // `guarded` is every tool result since the last terminal assistant message. When no
-    // turn has ever closed, `currentTurnBoundary` is -1 and that set is the WHOLE
-    // window. Handing it to `topUpMarks` as `excludeRefKeys` therefore proposed nothing
-    // at all on that shape, so `guardWaiverCount` below counted zero guarded marks and
-    // the waiver it exists to grant could never fire. Measured 2026-08-10
-    // (luna-20260810 pifold rep 2): 274,173 tokens of unmarked stale spans, zero marks
-    // proposed, zero commits, two provider rejections.
-    //
-    // So the top-up proposes freely and `commitPendingMarks({ guardCurrentTurn: true,
-    // guardWaiver })` decides. That is the only place the guard has ever had a waiver,
-    // and one adjudicator is why the starvation case is reachable at all.
-    //
-    // Wedge absorption keeps the exclusion (below): it grows a mark backward over a
-    // gap without any waiver of its own, so the guard there has no second chance.
-    // THE CLASS LAW IS UNCONDITIONAL.
-    //
-    // There was a fence-only snapshot here: at high occupancy it narrowed the fresh
-    // tail to a quarter and extended the automatic reach over the middle, so a reduction
-    // that had to make a rejected request sendable had mass to reach. That existed
-    // because the runtime had exactly one answer to a provider rejection, folding
-    // harder, and folding harder inside a positional region runs out of legal material.
-    // The rollback lane is the answer now: an overflow rolls the leaf back past the
-    // request that failed and the ordinary commit runs on the shorter window. So the
-    // law holds in EVERY snapshot at every occupancy -- membership decides what folds,
-    // the fresh tail never folds, pins are exempt -- and there is one set of rules to
-    // reason about instead of two.
-    // The thermostat. Firing at the trigger line and folding down to the target line is
-    // what makes event SPACING structural rather than hoped for.
     const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
     const usedTokens = capacity.usedTokens;
     const budgetTokens = capacity.budgetTokens;
-    // THE UNTRANSMISSIBILITY EXEMPTION, NARROWED.
-    //
-    // A request whose projection exceeds the provider input budget is rejected outright,
-    // so recovery must produce a window that fits. The hard fence, though, is a RATIO
-    // prediction. Standing near it is not the same as being unable to send, and treating
-    // the two alike handed the fence path a standing waiver from both economy guards. Measured 2026-08-07 (rep 17): fence-path
-    // window-pressure commits fired at eligible-freed shares as low as 0.018, under the
-    // 0.02 floor the guided path honors, and re-fired inside a single ordinal. So only
-    // two states outrank the economy: the overflow recovery lane, which runs because a
-    // request already did not fit, and an occupancy genuinely past the serving budget,
-    // where the next request aborts unless something moves. Everything else defers.
-    // The output wall deliberately does NOT join this list. It decides WHEN the one
-    // structural mutation of a handoff fires, not how many fire: exempting it here let a
-    // window parked one inflow step under the budget rebuild its prefix on every pass,
-    // which is the cost the mutation budget exists to refuse and what gate 58 caught.
     const overflowExempt = userRequested || curation.recoveryAttempts > 0 ||
       (usedTokens !== null && budgetTokens > 0 && usedTokens > budgetTokens);
-    // ONE STRUCTURAL MUTATION PER HANDOFF.
-    //
-    // Measured 2026-08-06 (rep 15): two context.commit records 50ms apart inside one
-    // ordinal, revisions 14 and 15 -- two REAL mutations, not a duplicated record. The
-    // pass had committed at the announced trigger, rebuilt the projection, found it
-    // still CROWDED (inside the fence margin, but transmissible), and committed again.
-    // The second commit bought margin the next pass would have bought anyway and cost a
-    // whole second prefix rewrite. So a second commit in the same handoff defers unless
-    // the request is genuinely untransmittable: a request whose projection exceeds the
-    // provider input budget is rejected outright, so recovery must produce a window that
-    // fits, and the fence and the recovery lane spend the budget to get one.
     if (instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff > 0 && !overflowExempt) {
       emit("context.commit", {
         trigger,
@@ -3103,20 +1879,10 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       });
       return null;
     }
-    // THE HYSTERESIS, AND THE WHOLE FREEING TARGET.
-    //
-    // How deep this event cuts is one subtraction on one denominator: what is used,
-    // less where the thermostat wants to land, over the serving budget. The separate
-    // 0.40 floor is gone -- it was a share of the WINDOW under a share of the BUDGET,
-    // so it never once bound (the hysteresis share at these thresholds bottoms out at
-    // 0.405 of window), and a floor that cannot fire is a number that only drifts.
     const freeingTarget = usedTokens === null || budgetTokens <= 0
       ? 0
       : Math.max(0, (usedTokens - thresholds.minTarget * budgetTokens) / budgetTokens);
     if (topUp) {
-      // Measuring top-up progress against ELIGIBLE mass is what keeps the pressure
-      // backstop working under a peek-heavy agent: pinned and retained marks are mass
-      // no commit can move, and counting them as progress stops the top-up dead.
       for (const mark of topUpMarks({
         snapshot,
         state,
@@ -3127,17 +1893,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         const addition = addPendingMark(state, mark);
         if (addition.added) { state = addition.state; topUpAdded += 1; }
       }
-      // DEPTH, inside the zones.
-      //
-      // Near the top of the window a commit that frees less than one turn of inflow
-      // does not reduce anything: it pays a full prefix rewrite, gives back less than
-      // the next stage adds, and the window ratchets UP through commit after commit.
-      // Measured 2026-08-06 (rep13): once the big stale mass was folded, six commits of
-      // two to four folds each carried the window from 340k to 370k and into a provider
-      // rejection, with the backstop firing the whole way. So a commit at or above the
-      // backstop that has not reached one inflow step tops up against everything
-      // ELIGIBLE instead of billing a rewrite for crumbs. Eligible is the operative
-      // word: this reaches harder inside what the class law admits, never outside it.
       const reachedShare = markAccounting(snapshot, state).eligibleFreedBudgetShare;
       const shallow = reachedShare < Math.max(commitDepthFloorShare(snapshot), freeingTarget);
       if (shallow && atOrAboveBackstop(snapshot, waiverRatio)) {
@@ -3153,9 +1908,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         }
       }
     }
-    // Boundary slivers ride along in the mutation this commit already pays for; they
-    // are never a mutation of their own, and a gap above the tiny token threshold is
-    // deliberate curation the absorber must not touch.
     const wedges = absorbWedgeMarks({
       snapshot,
       state,
@@ -3164,18 +1916,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     });
     state = wedges.state;
     const accounting = markAccounting(snapshot, state);
-    // A COMMIT PASS THAT FINDS NOTHING SAYS SO.
-    //
-    // This was a bare `return null`, and it is how the rep-2 starvation stayed invisible
-    // for 25 stages: the last call announced 274,173 tokens of unmarked stale spans, the
-    // pass that answered it proposed nothing, and the stream carried no record that a
-    // commit had even been attempted. Every other deferral on this path already names
-    // itself; this one is the same shape with the reason that matters, and it reports
-    // the remainder beside the emptiness so the contradiction -- mass on the table, no
-    // proposal -- is readable on one record instead of inferred across two.
-    //
-    // Stream record, not a `context.receipt`: receipts are window carriers, and a pass
-    // that changed nothing must not add bytes to the projection to announce it.
     if (!accounting.pending) {
       const remainder = unmarkedRemainder(snapshot, state, projectionCharsPerToken());
       emit("context.commit", {
@@ -3190,12 +1930,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       });
       return null;
     }
-    // The reclaim floor. One structural mutation per model call is the budget, so a
-    // commit that would free crumbs spends the whole budget on nothing: it defers and
-    // the marks accumulate. A request whose projection exceeds the provider input budget
-    // is rejected outright, so recovery must produce a window that fits: genuine overflow
-    // -- the recovery lane, or an occupancy already past the serving budget -- fires
-    // regardless of what it frees. Standing at the fence RATIO does not.
     if (!overflowExempt &&
         accounting.eligibleFreedBudgetShare < COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE) {
       persistence.state = state;
@@ -3213,19 +1947,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       return null;
     }
     const bytesBefore = bytes(projectActiveContext(snapshot, state));
-    // The guard protects an in-flight excursion, never at the cost of the session's
-    // ability to send a request at all: above the pressure backstop the oldest guarded
-    // marks are released. The guard is a protection with a WAIVER, which is why it
-    // survived the fence-snapshot deletion: one protection, one owner, one waiver.
     const guardWaiver = guardWaiverCount({
       snapshot,
       ratio: waiverRatio,
+      boundary: trigger === "compaction-boundary",
       guardedMarks: pendingMarks(state).filter((mark) =>
         markTouchesCurrentTurn(state, mark, guarded)).length,
-      // The starvation test asks the same question the commit will, against the same
-      // snapshot the commit adjudicates against: does this epoch have work that does
-      // not touch the open turn? Two snapshots gave two answers, and the one that
-      // decided the commit was not the one being asked. There is one snapshot now.
       otherApplicableMarks: pendingMarks(state).filter((mark) =>
         !markTouchesCurrentTurn(state, mark, guarded) &&
         markEligibility(snapshot, state, mark) === "eligible").length,
@@ -3238,17 +1965,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       guardCurrentTurn: true,
       guardWaiver,
     });
-    // THE EPOCH CLOSES ITS OWN COUNT.
-    //
-    // The folds this commit just landed are eligible roots the moment they exist, and
-    // the law is about the count, not about which pass noticed it. Leaving them for the
-    // next epoch is what let the pile stand between commits: measured 2026-08-10 (PT-3),
-    // a commit that landed 26 tool folds left 32 visible roots up until the next band
-    // crossing four cycles later. So the epoch re-reads its own count and parents what
-    // it just made, inside the rewrite it has already paid for. No waiver here: a parent
-    // this round cannot apply is held by the ordinary guard and waits, exactly like any
-    // other fold. It converges because a parent is excluded from the count it came from.
-    for (let round = 0; round < EPOCH_CONSOLIDATION_ROUNDS; round += 1) {
+    for (;;) {
       let closing = result.state;
       for (const mark of consolidationMarks({ snapshot, state: closing, ordinal })) {
         const addition = addPendingMark(closing, mark);
@@ -3263,9 +1980,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         guardCurrentTurn: true,
       });
       if (!closed.applied.length) break;
-      // A mark the guard RETAINED is still pending, so the closing round sees it again
-      // and reports it again; only the terminal refusals accumulate, and the last round
-      // is the truth about what is still held.
       result = {
         ...closed,
         applied: [...result.applied, ...closed.applied],
@@ -3274,20 +1988,8 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       };
     }
     persistence.state = result.state;
-    // The upgrade wedge: model briefs written since the last boundary replace their
-    // deterministic ones HERE, inside the mutation this commit already pays for, before
-    // anything measures what the commit did.
-    const upgradedFolds = applyBriefUpgrades();
-    const upgradeFailures = upgrades.failures;
-    const upgradeError = upgrades.lastError;
-    const upgradeCures = upgrades.cures;
-    upgrades.failures = 0;
-    upgrades.cures = 0;
-    upgrades.lastError = null;
     const bytesAfter = bytes(projectActiveContext(snapshot, persistence.state));
     const freedBytes = Math.max(0, bytesBefore - bytesAfter);
-    // The cost of the agent's pins, measured at the moment it matters: mass this
-    // commit could not touch because protect holds it.
     const pinHeld = protectedStaleMass(snapshot, result.state);
     const commitEvent = emit("context.commit", {
       trigger,
@@ -3295,19 +1997,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       reason: null,
       eligible_freed_share: accounting.eligibleFreedBudgetShare,
       reclaim_floor_share: COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE,
-      // The two first-class dials: how much ONE event reclaims, and how long since the
-      // last one. A trigger that frees too little re-fires immediately, and that shape
-      // is only visible with both numbers on the same record.
       target_freed_share: freeingTarget,
       hysteresis_target_share: freeingTarget,
       target_occupancy_share: thresholds.minTarget,
       shortfall_share: Math.max(0, freeingTarget - accounting.eligibleFreedBudgetShare),
       occupancy_tokens_before: usedTokens,
       budget_tokens: budgetTokens,
-      // The forward look, on the record beside the occupancy it was added to. A commit
-      // that fired because one more turn would have spent the answer's reservation reads
-      // differently from one that fired at the band top, and the difference is only
-      // legible with the allowance printed.
       expected_inflow_tokens: expectedWallInflowTokens(),
       output_wall: outputWallDue(snapshot),
       requests_since_previous: instrumentation.requests - instrumentation.lastMutationRequest,
@@ -3315,8 +2010,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         ? null
         : usedTokens - instrumentation.lastMutationTokens,
       applied_marks: result.applied.length,
-      // Refusal is TERMINAL only. A mark whose span was still fresh is deferred, not
-      // refused: it is held and folds at the first commit after the span ages out.
       refused_marks: result.refused.filter((mark) => !mark.retained).length,
       deferred_marks: result.retained.length,
       waived_marks: result.waived.length,
@@ -3328,28 +2021,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       consolidation_marks: consolidationAdded,
       closing_consolidation_marks: closingAdded,
       absorbed_wedges: wedges.absorbed.length,
-      // The upgrade is a mutation of a fold whose `context.fold` record was written at
-      // creation, so the stream would otherwise show a brief that silently changed. The
-      // count, the ids, and the failures ride the boundary that carried them.
-      brief_upgrades: upgradedFolds.length,
-      brief_upgrade_ids: upgradedFolds.join(","),
-      brief_upgrade_failures: upgradeFailures,
-      // Briefs that needed a second ask before they met the contract. Beside the failures
-      // rather than inside them: a cured brief is a brief that landed, and the two together
-      // are how the brief cap gets judged against something other than intuition.
-      brief_upgrade_cures: upgradeCures,
-      brief_upgrade_error: upgradeError,
-      // Everything still owed to a FOLD: queued, in flight, and (always zero once the
-      // wedge above ran) written but uncarried. In flight is counted because the lane
-      // holds several calls open and work nobody can see is work nobody bounds. Counted in
-      // folds rather than calls because a call now carries a whole commit's spans, and the
-      // question this answers is how many folds are still reading deterministic.
-      brief_upgrades_waiting: upgrades.ready.length + upgrades.running.size +
-        upgrades.queue.reduce((total, entry) => total + entry.members.length, 0),
-      // The same work in the unit the lane's two constants actually bound: calls, queued
-      // plus in flight. Reported beside the fold count so a backed-up lane cannot read as
-      // a busy one, or the reverse.
-      brief_upgrade_calls: upgrades.queue.length + new Set(upgrades.running.values()).size,
       freed_bytes: freedBytes,
       freed_tokens: estimatedTokens(freedBytes),
       rewrite_tokens: accounting.rewriteTokens,
@@ -3362,39 +2033,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     instrumentation.mutationsSinceHandoff += 1;
     instrumentation.lastMutationRequest = instrumentation.requests;
     instrumentation.lastMutationTokens = usedTokens;
-    // THE RESPONSE ATTRIBUTION. Whatever the gated round did, or that it did nothing,
-    // is linked to the exposure it answered, and the exposure is consumed by the
-    // commit whatever its trigger: a fence or user commit landing mid-round is still
-    // the commit boundary the last-call announced. The carrier's disappearance rides
-    // this commit's own rewrite.
-    if (persistence.state.lastCall) {
-      const lastCall = persistence.state.lastCall;
-      const attribution = lastCallAttribution(lastCall, accounting.agentMarks);
-      emit("context.response", {
-        exposure_seq: lastCall.exposure,
-        commit_seq: commitEvent.seq,
-        trigger,
-        outcome: attribution.responded ? "responded" : "silent",
-        ...attribution,
-      });
-      clearLastCall();
-    }
-    // A commit that drops occupancy back under a waypoint re-arms its notice: the next
-    // upward crossing is a new event and earns a new one. The estimate is the same one
-    // the receipt reports: measured occupancy before, less what this commit freed.
-    if (persistence.state.notices && usedTokens !== null && budgetTokens > 0) {
-      const postOccupancy = Math.max(0, usedTokens - estimatedTokens(freedBytes)) / budgetTokens;
-      const fired = persistence.state.notices.fired.filter((share) => postOccupancy >= share);
-      if (fired.length !== persistence.state.notices.fired.length) {
-        persistence.state = { ...persistence.state, notices: { ...persistence.state.notices, fired } };
-      }
-    }
-    // The rider: at most ONE action prompt per fold epoch, composed from post-commit
-    // numbers, persisted as literal bytes, delivered beside the receipt inside the
-    // rewrite this commit already paid for. The epoch key is the commit event's own
-    // stream sequence: strictly monotone, one per applied commit, so refold-only
-    // epochs get their rider too and no two epochs can ever share a key. The next
-    // epoch REPLACES the text; nothing stacks.
     const riderEpoch = commitEvent.seq;
     if (persistence.state.rider?.epoch !== riderEpoch) {
       const postAccounting = markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state);
@@ -3406,7 +2044,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       const riderText = contextRiderText({
         toolName,
         brandNoun,
-        suggestion: deliverSurfacing(snapshot, "rider"),
         pendingAgentMarks: postAccounting.agentMarks,
         eligibleMarks: postAccounting.eligibleMarks,
         freedTokens: postAccounting.freedTokens,
@@ -3432,17 +2069,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       const fold = persistence.state.folds.find((item) => item.id === applied.foldId);
       if (fold?.kind === "tool-result") foldedToolResults += 1;
       else foldedSpans += 1;
-      // A reclaimed peek copy names what it copied. Derived from the transcript rather
-      // than carried on the mark, so the pointer is the same whichever mechanism claimed
-      // the copy: the exposure's reclaim marking, the commit's, or the doorless ladder.
       const peekedSources = fold?.kind === "tool-result"
         ? peekedSourceFoldIds(snapshot, flattenFoldRefs(fold, persistence.state))
         : null;
       emit("context.fold", {
         commit_seq: commitEvent.seq,
         fold_id: applied.foldId,
-        // The MARK this fold came from. The stream is now the only account of what a
-        // commit applied, so it has to name both ends of that mapping.
         mark_id: applied.id,
         fold_kind: fold?.kind ?? applied.mark,
         origin: applied.origin,
@@ -3452,9 +2084,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         brief_provenance: fold ? foldProvenance(fold, persistence.state).kind : null,
       });
     }
-    // Queued AFTER the applications above, so no fold can be committed and upgraded on
-    // one boundary: the generator has not run yet, and the wait is the mechanism.
-    queueBriefUpgrades(snapshot, state, result.applied.map((applied) => applied.foldId));
     for (const wedge of wedges.absorbed) {
       emit("context.absorb", {
         commit_seq: commitEvent.seq,
@@ -3467,9 +2096,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         threshold_tokens: MAX_WEDGE_ABSORB_TOKENS,
       });
     }
-    // A bound-out top-up and a silently dropped agent mark are both invisible in an
-    // applied/refused list alone, so the epoch reports its own composition.
-    return {
+    const epoch = {
       trigger,
       applied: result.applied,
       refused: result.refused,
@@ -3479,13 +2106,9 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       peekMarks: peekAdded,
       topUpMarks: topUpAdded,
       consolidationMarks: consolidationAdded,
-      // Parents formed over the folds THIS commit landed. They were never in
-      // `pendingMarks`, so an epoch's arithmetic is applied = pending + closing.
       closingMarks: closingAdded,
       absorbedWedges: wedges.absorbed.length,
       absorbed: wedges.absorbed,
-      // What the commit actually folded, the way an agent counts it, so the receipt can
-      // report impact instead of an opaque mark total.
       foldedSpans,
       foldedToolResults,
       occupancyTokensBefore: usedTokens,
@@ -3516,125 +2139,18 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       requestsSincePreviousCommit: instrumentation.requests - instrumentation.lastMutationRequest,
       instrumentation: ledgerSummary(instrumentation.ledger),
     };
+    // The receipt is the LAST statement of the commit, and stays that way: harness gate
+    // 54 reads a commit that reported applied marks and delivered no receipt as one that
+    // threw partway and left its folds in the stream and nowhere else. The rung used to
+    // write it because the rung used to own the epoch; the boundary owns it now.
+    ladder.lastAutomaticAction = { kind: "epoch-commit", foldIds: [], sourceIds: [], epoch };
+    ladder.pendingContextNote =
+      `A commit epoch applied ${result.applied.length} pending mark(s) in one rewrite; ` +
+      "exact evidence remains expandable.";
+    noteAutomaticReceipt(snapshot, ladder.lastAutomaticAction, epoch);
+    return epoch;
   };
 
-  /** The two curation signals, measured against the ONE serving budget. */
-  const measuredCurationSignals = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): CurationSignals => {
-    const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
-    curation.lastSignals = curationSignals({
-      snapshot,
-      state: persistence.state!,
-      usedTokens: capacity.usedTokens,
-      budgetTokens: capacity.budgetTokens,
-      window: capacity.window,
-      charsPerToken: projectionCharsPerToken(),
-      eligibleFolds: markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state!).eligibleMarks,
-    });
-    return curation.lastSignals;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * The silent early commit. The two signals decide, the reclaim floor stops a commit
-   * that would free nothing, and the hysteresis stops a plateau from reading as a
-   * stream of events. What is gone is only the announcement in front of it.
-   */
-  /**
-   * THE trigger, with its one piece of hysteresis.
-   *
-   * Occupancy at or above maxTarget, and then the reopen latch: a window that is still
-   * full because the last commit could not reach the target is the SAME event, not a
-   * new one, so a second commit waits for at least a reclaim floor of genuinely new
-   * eligible mass. Without it a parked window fires a commit per pass and every one of
-   * them rebuilds the prefix for crumbs.
-   */
-  const commitTriggerDue = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, ratio: number | null): boolean => {
-    if (!persistence.state) return false;
-    // The output wall outranks the quiet-runtime line rather than sitting under it. A
-    // window one inflow step from spending the answer's whole reservation is past
-    // economising, and the band top is not the thing it is about to cross.
-    //
-    // ONE COMMIT PER CROSSING, NOT ONE PER PASS. The wall is a level, and a window that
-    // sits on it sits there for many passes: releasing the reopen latch on each of them
-    // fires a commit per pass, which is the prefix-rewrite churn the latch exists to
-    // prevent and which the quiet cadence is built around. Measured on gate 52's fixture:
-    // the first wall commit applied 44 marks and correctly retained all ten of the open
-    // turn, and the two that followed it applied nothing, rewrote the prefix anyway, and
-    // dragged the guard's starvation waiver in on a session that had just made progress.
-    // So the crossing is the event. While the wall stays due the ordinary hysteresis
-    // decides, which is what makes a second commit wait for genuinely new foldable mass.
-    const wall = outputWallDue(snapshot);
-    if (!wall) curation.wallEpisodeOpen = false;
-    if (!wall && !epochCommitDue(snapshot, ratio)) return false;
-    measuredCurationSignals(snapshot);
-    if (wall && !curation.wallEpisodeOpen) {
-      curation.wallEpisodeOpen = true;
-      curation.reopenBaselineShare = null;
-      return true;
-    }
-    // The latch is an ECONOMY rule, and the fence is not latched: a request whose
-    // projection exceeds the provider input budget is rejected outright, so recovery
-    // must produce a window that fits.
-    // A request that does not fit gets its commit whether or not the previous one left
-    // new eligible mass behind; holding it back would be spending the session's
-    // transmissibility to save a prefix rewrite.
-    if (typeof ratio === "number" && Number.isFinite(ratio) && ratio >= hardFenceRatio(snapshot)) {
-      curation.reopenBaselineShare = null;
-      return true;
-    }
-    if (curation.reopenBaselineShare !== null) {
-      const eligibleShare = markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state).eligibleFreedBudgetShare;
-      if (eligibleShare - curation.reopenBaselineShare < COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE) {
-        // A HOLD THAT SAYS SO.
-        //
-        // This was a bare `return false`, and it is the last silent deferral on the
-        // commit path: every other one names itself and reports its numbers. In
-        // sol-20260812 rep 1 the trigger was due for twelve straight ordinals while
-        // occupancy climbed to 94 percent of budget, and the stream carries no record of
-        // what held it, so the stall can be proven but not explained. Emitted on every
-        // held pass rather than once per episode: under-reporting is the defect being
-        // fixed, the record is a stream record that never reaches the projection, and
-        // the volume is bounded by passes above the band top.
-        const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
-        emit("context.commit", {
-          trigger: "band-top",
-          deferred: true,
-          reason: "reopen-latch",
-          applied_marks: 0,
-          eligible_freed_share: eligibleShare,
-          reopen_baseline_share: curation.reopenBaselineShare,
-          reclaim_floor_share: COMMIT_RECLAIM_FLOOR_SHARE,
-          occupancy_tokens: capacity.usedTokens,
-          expected_inflow_tokens: expectedWallInflowTokens(),
-          budget_tokens: capacity.budgetTokens,
-          window_tokens: snapshot.contextWindow,
-        });
-        return false;
-      }
-      curation.reopenBaselineShare = null;
-    }
-    return true;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * Condition (a) of the reopen hysteresis, evaluated on EVERY context pass. A window
-   * that fell back under the trigger has ended its cycle, and the next crossing is a
-   * fresh event. This cannot live inside the trigger: the quiet passes that matter are
-   * exactly the ones too far below it to evaluate it.
-   */
-  const clearCommitLatchBelowTrigger = (): void => {
-    if (curation.reopenBaselineShare === null) return;
-    const capacity = servingCapacity(lifecycle.latestSnapshot?.contextWindow ?? null);
-    if (capacity.usedTokens === null || capacity.budgetTokens <= 0) return;
-    if (capacity.usedTokens / capacity.budgetTokens < thresholds.maxTarget) {
-      curation.reopenBaselineShare = null;
-    }
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * One receipt per automatic context action, in the window and in the durable stream.
-   * Informatory, never exhortative: it says what happened, what it freed, and which
-   * verbs correct it. A mark that changed nothing is not an event and gets no receipt.
-   */
   const noteAutomaticReceipt = (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     action: Record<string, unknown>,
@@ -3657,7 +2173,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       foldsCommitted: epoch ? Number(epoch.appliedMarks ?? 0) : 0,
       foldsCreated: foldIds || (epoch ? Number(epoch.appliedMarks ?? 0) : 0),
       freedTokens,
-      // The impact, in the same unit the budget is stated in.
       occupancyBefore,
       occupancyAfter: occupancyBefore === null ? null : Math.max(0, occupancyBefore - freedTokens),
       spansFolded: epoch ? Number(epoch.foldedSpans ?? 0) : foldIds,
@@ -3671,234 +2186,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }));
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Threshold notices, evaluated on every pass the ladder runs on. One waypoint fires
-   * once per upward crossing of the measured occupancy; delivery is an append-once
-   * carrier plus its stream record, and re-arming belongs to the commit that drops
-   * occupancy back under the line. Default on; `guidance.thresholdNotices: false`
-   * registers the runtime with the waypoints silent.
-   */
-  const deliverThresholdNotices = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): boolean => {
-    if (!guidance.thresholdNotices || !persistence.state) return false;
-    const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
-    if (capacity.usedTokens === null || capacity.budgetTokens <= 0) return false;
-    const occupancy = capacity.usedTokens / capacity.budgetTokens;
-    const current = persistence.state.notices ?? { fired: [], ring: [] };
-    let fired = current.fired;
-    let ring = current.ring;
-    let changed = false;
-    for (const share of THRESHOLD_NOTICE_SHARES) {
-      if (occupancy < share || fired.includes(share)) continue;
-      const text = thresholdNoticeText({
-        share,
-        occupancyTokens: capacity.usedTokens,
-        budgetTokens: capacity.budgetTokens,
-        maxTarget: thresholds.maxTarget,
-        toolName,
-        brandNoun,
-      });
-      fired = [...fired, share];
-      ring = [...ring, { share, ordinal: markOrdinal(snapshot), text }];
-      if (ring.length > MAX_THRESHOLD_NOTICES) ring = ring.slice(ring.length - MAX_THRESHOLD_NOTICES);
-      changed = true;
-      emit("context.notice", {
-        share,
-        occupancy,
-        occupancy_tokens: capacity.usedTokens,
-        budget_tokens: capacity.budgetTokens,
-        max_target: thresholds.maxTarget,
-        chars: text.length,
-      });
-    }
-    if (changed) persistence.state = { ...persistence.state, notices: { fired, ring } };
-    return changed;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * The same selection, read rather than delivered: what the next carrier WOULD say,
-   * with the ledger that decides whether it says anything at all.
-   */
-  const statusSurfacing = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): Record<string, unknown> => {
-    const ledger = persistence.state ? surfacingLedger(persistence.state) : [];
-    if (!persistence.state) return { slate: [], line: null, ledger, silenced: [] };
-    const selection = selectSurfacingSlate({
-      state: persistence.state,
-      snapshot,
-      toolName,
-      ordinal: markOrdinal(snapshot),
-    });
-    return {
-      slate: selection.slate.map((suggestion) => ({
-        id: suggestion.id,
-        route: suggestion.route,
-        contentScore: suggestion.contentScore,
-        briefScore: suggestion.briefScore,
-        margin: suggestion.margin,
-        slot: suggestion.slot,
-      })),
-      line: surfacingSlateText({ slate: selection.slate, queryTerms: selection.queryTerms, brandNoun }),
-      considered: selection.considered,
-      divergent: selection.divergent,
-      suppressed: selection.suppressed,
-      intentTerms: selection.queryTerms.size,
-      contentHit: SURFACING_CONTENT_HIT,
-      briefHit: SURFACING_BRIEF_HIT,
-      divergenceMargin: SURFACING_DIVERGENCE_MARGIN,
-      slateSize: SURFACING_SLATE_SIZE,
-      silenced: [...surfacingSilenced(ledger)],
-      ledger,
-    };
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * THE SURFACING SLATE, delivered.
-   *
-   * The agent cannot peek a fold it does not know to want, so one line names the fold
-   * whose stored content matches the task in hand when its brief does not. Where it
-   * lands is the whole economics: only carriers that ride a rewrite the runtime is
-   * already paying for (the pre-commit last call and the post-commit rider) plus the
-   * on-demand status surface, which the agent asked for. The per-request ephemeral
-   * carrier stays dead; it cost 21.9% of every input token in rep 21 and nothing else
-   * about this build changes that verdict.
-   *
-   * One suggestion per delivery point, and most delivery points get none. Every
-   * delivery first resolves whatever offers have run out of window, so the ignore that
-   * silences a fold is recorded before the next selection reads the ledger.
-   */
-  const deliverSurfacing = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot, carrier: string): string | null => {
-    if (!persistence.state) return null;
-    const ordinal = markOrdinal(snapshot);
-    const resolved = resolveSurfacing({ state: persistence.state, snapshot, ordinal });
-    persistence.state = resolved.state;
-    for (const transition of resolved.transitions) {
-      emit("context.outcome", {
-        fold_id: transition.id,
-        from_outcome: transition.from,
-        outcome: transition.to,
-        outcome_ordinal: transition.ordinal,
-        window_ordinals: SURFACING_OUTCOME_WINDOW_ORDINALS,
-      });
-    }
-    const selection = selectSurfacingSlate({ state: persistence.state, snapshot, toolName, ordinal });
-    const suggestion = selection.slate[0];
-    if (!suggestion) return null;
-    const text = surfacingSlateText({
-      slate: selection.slate,
-      queryTerms: selection.queryTerms,
-      brandNoun,
-    });
-    if (!text) return null;
-    persistence.state = issueSurfacing(persistence.state, suggestion.id, ordinal);
-    emit("context.suggestion", {
-      carrier,
-      fold_id: suggestion.id,
-      content_score: suggestion.contentScore,
-      brief_score: suggestion.briefScore,
-      margin: suggestion.margin,
-      content_hit: SURFACING_CONTENT_HIT,
-      brief_hit: SURFACING_BRIEF_HIT,
-      divergence_margin: SURFACING_DIVERGENCE_MARGIN,
-      slot: suggestion.slot,
-      slate_size: SURFACING_SLATE_SIZE,
-      fold_depth: suggestion.depth,
-      considered: selection.considered,
-      divergent: selection.divergent,
-      suppressed: selection.suppressed,
-      intent_terms: selection.queryTerms.size,
-      chars: text.length,
-    });
-    return text;
-  };
-
-  /**
-   * THE PRE-COMMIT LAST-CALL GATE. When the band-top trigger fires, the commit defers
-   * exactly one gated round behind one exposure of the ruled prompt; then it proceeds
-   * with whatever marks exist. A request whose projection exceeds the provider input
-   * budget is rejected outright, so recovery must produce a window that fits: fence
-   * pressure, the recovery lane, or an occupancy already past the serving budget
-   * commit NOW, and the user
-   * command never reaches this gate because explicit intent is its own answer. The
-   * round is measured from DELIVERY: the commit proceeds only on a context pass whose
-   * ordinal is past the pass that rendered the exposure, which is exactly one agent
-   * response between prompt and rewrite.
-   */
-  const lastCallVerdict = (
-    snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
-    pressure: number | null,
-    phase: string,
-  ): "expose" | "hold" | "proceed" => {
-    const state = persistence.state!;
-    const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
-    const fenceLevel = typeof pressure === "number" && Number.isFinite(pressure) &&
-      pressure >= hardFenceRatio(snapshot);
-    // The output wall deliberately does NOT proceed here. It buys the crossing one inflow
-    // step of lead, and the gated round is what that lead is for: the agent still gets its
-    // one bounded turn to curate before a rewrite, which is a contract the wall has no
-    // business cancelling. If the round overruns and occupancy passes the budget outright,
-    // the condition below is what proceeds, on the pass that builds the next request.
-    const overBudget = capacity.usedTokens !== null && capacity.budgetTokens > 0 &&
-      capacity.usedTokens > capacity.budgetTokens;
-    if (fenceLevel || overBudget || curation.recoveryAttempts > 0 || curation.pendingRejection) {
-      return "proceed";
-    }
-    if (!state.lastCall) return "expose";
-    if (phase !== "context") return "hold";
-    const delivery = curation.lastCallDelivery;
-    if (!delivery || delivery.exposure !== state.lastCall.exposure) return "hold";
-    return markOrdinal(snapshot) > delivery.ordinal ? "proceed" : "hold";
-  };
-
-  const exposeLastCall = (snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot): void => {
-    if (!persistence.state) return;
-    // THE PEEK RECLAIM IS MARKED HERE, NOT ONLY AT THE COMMIT.
-    //
-    // A peek copy is reclaimed at the next commit by contract, and a contract the agent
-    // cannot see until after it executes is not one it can veto. The exposure is the one
-    // bounded round before the rewrite, so minting the reclaim marks now puts the pending
-    // disposal in front of the agent while a pin still changes the outcome: a pinned mark
-    // waits instead of applying, and lifting the pin hands the copy to a later commit.
-    const exposureOrdinal = markOrdinal(snapshot);
-    let peekReclaims = 0;
-    for (const mark of ephemeralPeekMarks({ snapshot, state: persistence.state, ordinal: exposureOrdinal })) {
-      const addition = addPendingMark(persistence.state, mark);
-      if (addition.added) { persistence.state = addition.state; peekReclaims += 1; }
-    }
-    const signals = measuredCurationSignals(snapshot);
-    const remainder = unmarkedRemainder(snapshot, persistence.state, projectionCharsPerToken());
-    const accounting = markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state);
-    const text = lastCallText({
-      signals,
-      unmarked: { spans: remainder.spans, tokens: remainder.tokens },
-      pendingMarks: accounting.pending,
-      peekReclaims,
-      suggestion: deliverSurfacing(snapshot, "lastcall"),
-      toolName,
-      brandNoun,
-    });
-    const record = emit("context.lastcall", {
-      occupancy: signals.occupancy,
-      max_target: thresholds.maxTarget,
-      occupancy_tokens: signals.occupancyTokens,
-      budget_tokens: signals.budgetTokens,
-      unmarked_stale_spans: remainder.spans,
-      unmarked_stale_tokens: remainder.tokens,
-      pending_marks: accounting.pending,
-      pending_agent_marks: accounting.agentMarks,
-      peek_marks: peekReclaims,
-      chars: text.length,
-    });
-    persistence.state = {
-      ...persistence.state,
-      lastCall: {
-        exposure: record.seq,
-        ordinal: markOrdinal(snapshot),
-        contextCalls: curation.contextCalls,
-        agentMarks: accounting.agentMarks,
-        text,
-      },
-    };
-  };
-
   const applyAutomaticRung = async (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     ratio: number,
@@ -3906,18 +2193,9 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       toolOnly?: boolean;
       waiverRatio?: number;
     } = {},
-    phase = "context",
   ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => {
     if (!persistence.state || ladder.automaticFailure || ladder.preparing) return null;
-    const rungSelectionOptions = {
-      toolOnly: rungOptions.toolOnly,
-      summarizerAvailable: Boolean(options.summarizeContextSpan),
-      failedPreparationIds: ladder.failedPreparations,
-    };
-    // The ladder decides but does not move bytes. Marks already pending are decisions
-    // already made: excluding the evidence they cover makes every eligible turn choose
-    // NEW stale content, so marks accumulate with stale growth instead of re-proposing
-    // one stale batch.
+    const rungSelectionOptions = { toolOnly: rungOptions.toolOnly };
     const markLadderSelection = (): Record<string, unknown> | null => {
       if (!persistence.state) return null;
       const decision = selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio, {
@@ -3948,246 +2226,25 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       };
       return ladder.lastAutomaticAction;
     };
-    let epoch: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
-    let inlineRungs = true;
-    // QUIET RUNTIME, AND THE ONE TRIGGER.
-    //
-    // A commit is an epoch transition: it rewrites the projection, every rewrite risks
-    // the whole prefix cache, so the cadence has to be the fewest commits that still
-    // keep the window inside its budget. Occupancy reaching maxTarget is the whole
-    // automatic condition. Below it the runtime is quiet and marks accumulate free;
-    // at it, one commit folds down toward minTarget, and the gap between the two lines
-    // is what makes the spacing of events structural rather than hoped for.
-    //
-    // Two other arms used to reach this line and both are deleted. The eligible-share
-    // arm fired 164 commits from ordinal 17 in rep 15 on marks that had not earned a
-    // rewrite, and it could fire below maxTarget, which is the quiet law it sat under.
-    // The stale-mass AND-condition guarded an ANNOUNCEMENT that no longer exists: a
-    // commit is never announced, so a commit with nothing eligible now applies nothing
-    // and reports it rather than being suppressed in advance.
-    //
-    // The trigger decides early and says nothing. Nothing warns that a commit is
-    // coming, because a warning has to arrive before the event it warns about and
-    // therefore has to break a prefix nothing else was breaking.
-    // Evaluated on EVERY pass the ladder runs on, which is where the pressure backstop
-    // always sat. Crossing the band top is a property of occupancy, not of which
-    // lifecycle hook happened to notice it, and a trigger that waits for the next
-    // projection pass is a window that keeps climbing while it waits.
-    const noticesChanged = deliverThresholdNotices(snapshot);
-    let lastCallChanged = false;
-    const commitDue = commitTriggerDue(snapshot, ratio);
-    if (commitDue) {
-      const verdict = lastCallVerdict(snapshot, rungOptions.waiverRatio ?? ratio, phase);
-      if (verdict === "expose") {
-        exposeLastCall(snapshot);
-        lastCallChanged = true;
-      } else if (verdict === "proceed") {
-        epoch = await runCommitEpoch(
-          snapshot,
-          "band-top",
-          true,
-          rungOptions.waiverRatio ?? ratio,
-        );
-        // Latch the eligible share this commit left behind, so the next crossing waits
-        // for genuinely new foldable mass rather than for the same window to still be
-        // full. The band top is a LINE, and a window parked on it is one event.
-        if (persistence.state) {
-          curation.reopenBaselineShare =
-            markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state).eligibleFreedBudgetShare;
-        }
-      }
-      // "hold": the exposure is out and the round is still the agent's. Marks keep
-      // accumulating below; nothing commits and nothing re-exposes.
-    } else if (persistence.state.lastCall) {
-      // The crossing died without its commit (a user rescue or expiry dropped
-      // occupancy back under the trigger), so the exposure lapses: attributed,
-      // cleared, and the next crossing is a fresh event with a fresh exposure.
-      const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
-      if (capacity.usedTokens !== null && capacity.budgetTokens > 0 &&
-          capacity.usedTokens / capacity.budgetTokens < thresholds.maxTarget) {
-        const lastCall = persistence.state.lastCall;
-        const attribution = lastCallAttribution(
-          lastCall,
-          markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state).agentMarks,
-        );
-        emit("context.response", {
-          exposure_seq: lastCall.exposure,
-          commit_seq: null,
-          trigger: null,
-          outcome: "lapsed",
-          ...attribution,
-        });
-        clearLastCall();
-        lastCallChanged = true;
-      }
-    }
-    // An inline rung is free only INSIDE a rewrite the epoch already paid for. Below
-    // the threshold no commit ran, and an epoch that applied NOTHING -- every mark
-    // held back by an open turn or by ineligibility -- paid for no rewrite either,
-    // so folding inline there is a fresh single-fold rewrite of its own. Measured
-    // 2026-08-06 (rep 10): the current-turn guard retained all nine marks every turn
-    // while the inline rung folded one batch per turn anyway, 52 single-fold
-    // rewrites that left the prefix cache share at zero. Below a paid rewrite the
-    // ladder MARKS, so the decisions batch into the first commit that can apply them.
-    inlineRungs = Boolean(epoch) && Number(epoch?.appliedMarks ?? 0) > 0;
-    if (!inlineRungs) {
-      const marked = markLadderSelection();
-      if (marked) {
-        if (epoch) ladder.lastAutomaticAction = { ...marked, epoch };
-        return ladder.lastAutomaticAction;
-      }
-      // A carrier change is durable state even when no mark and no epoch moved: the
-      // exposure and the notices must survive a reload, so the pass returns an action
-      // for the transaction to persist. Never a receipt: a carrier reports itself.
-      if (!epoch && (lastCallChanged || noticesChanged)) {
-        ladder.lastAutomaticAction = { kind: "carrier", foldIds: [], sourceIds: [], sourceBytesSaved: 0 };
-        return ladder.lastAutomaticAction;
-      }
-    }
-    // Evidence a pending mark already covers is not the inline rung's to fold: a mark
-    // the commit RETAINED (the open turn's own reads) would otherwise be folded here
-    // by the very pass that just protected it.
-    //
-    // The open turn's keys are excluded DIRECTLY, not just via the marks that claim
-    // them. Claiming is not protection: once a commit applies every pending mark the
-    // claim set is empty, and the inline rung then folds the open turn's oldest read
-    // with nothing left to stop it. That is the rep-8 shape, and byte freshness does
-    // not reach it -- the first read of a long excursion sits outside the fresh tail
-    // while the turn that gathered it is still running. It became reachable when the
-    // quiet cadence started landing a commit on the same context pass, which is what
-    // turns the inline rung on in the first place.
-    const selection = inlineRungs
-      ? selectAutomaticRung(snapshot, persistence.state, ratio, {
-        ...rungSelectionOptions,
-        claimed: new Set([
-          ...claimedRefKeys(persistence.state),
-          ...currentTurnRefKeys(snapshot),
-        ]),
-        claimedFoldIds: markedFoldIds(persistence.state),
-      })
-      : null;
-    // Above the commit threshold we are already inside the epoch's rewrite turn, so
-    // every rung applies inline: the extra rung costs at most one more invalidation
-    // in a turn that has already paid one. Restricting this to prepared chapters made
-    // the refold and consolidation rungs unreachable in epoch mode, which drove a
-    // session whose reducible bytes sit in expanded folds into the hard fence.
-    const applicable = selection;
-    if (!applicable || applicable.kind === "chapter-prepare") {
-      if (!epoch || !persistence.state) return null;
-      ladder.pendingContextNote =
-        `A commit epoch applied ${(epoch.applied as unknown[]).length} pending mark(s) in one rewrite; ` +
-        "exact evidence remains expandable.";
-      ladder.lastAutomaticAction = { kind: "epoch-commit", foldIds: [], sourceIds: [], epoch };
-      noteAutomaticReceipt(snapshot, ladder.lastAutomaticAction, epoch);
-      return ladder.lastAutomaticAction;
-    }
-    const projectedBytesBefore = bytes(projectActiveContext(snapshot, persistence.state));
-    let action: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
-    if (applicable.kind === "prepared-chapter" && persistence.state.prepared) {
-      const error = preparedFoldError({
-        prepared: persistence.state.prepared,
-        snapshot,
-        state: persistence.state,
-        generation: lifecycle.generation,
-        ratio,
-      });
-      if (error) {
-        persistence.state = clearPrepared(persistence.state);
-      } else {
-        const id = persistence.state.prepared.id;
-        const sourceIds = persistence.state.prepared.sourceRefs.map((ref) => ref.entryId);
-        persistence.state = commitPreparedFold({
-          prepared: persistence.state.prepared,
-          snapshot,
-          state: persistence.state,
-          generation: lifecycle.generation,
-        });
-        action = { kind: "chapter-fold", foldIds: [id], sourceIds };
-        ladder.pendingContextNote = `A coherent stale chapter was folded under ${id}; exact evidence remains expandable.`;
-      }
-    } else if (applicable.kind === "tool") {
-      cancelPreparation();
-      const tool = applicable.candidate;
-      const id = await commitDeterministicCandidate(snapshot, tool, automaticToolBrief(snapshot, tool));
-      action = {
-        kind: "tool-fold",
-        foldIds: [id],
-        sourceIds: tool.sourceRefs.map((ref) => ref.entryId),
-      };
-      ladder.pendingContextNote = `${tool.sourceRefs.length} stale completed read-only tool result(s) were folded.`;
-    } else if (applicable.kind === "refold") {
-      cancelPreparation();
-      persistence.state = setFoldProjectionState(persistence.state, applicable.foldId, "folded");
-      action = { kind: "refold", foldIds: [applicable.foldId] };
-      ladder.pendingContextNote = `Stale expanded fold ${applicable.foldId} returned to its identical placeholder.`;
-    } else if (applicable.kind === "consolidation") {
-      cancelPreparation();
-      const consolidation = applicable.candidate;
-      const id = await commitDeterministicCandidate(
-        snapshot,
-        consolidation,
-        deterministicConsolidationBrief(consolidation, persistence.state),
-      );
-      action = {
-        kind: "consolidation",
-        foldIds: [id],
-        sourceIds: consolidation.sourceRefs.map((ref) => ref.entryId),
-      };
-      ladder.pendingContextNote =
-        `Stale folded chapters were consolidated under ${id}; every child remains expandable.`;
-    } else if (applicable.kind === "chapter") {
-      const chapter = applicable.candidate;
-      // Bite-sized by construction: an oversized coherent chapter becomes sequential
-      // bounded folds, each with its own brief, split only at closed unit boundaries.
-      const spanChars = candidateSpanChars(snapshot, persistence.state, chapter);
-      const parts = splitCandidateBySize(snapshot, persistence.state, chapter);
-      const foldIds: string[] = [];
-      for (const part of parts) {
-        foldIds.push(await commitDeterministicCandidate(
-          snapshot,
-          part,
-          deterministicChapterCandidateBrief(snapshot, part),
-        ));
-      }
-      action = {
-        kind: "chapter-fold",
-        foldIds,
-        sourceIds: chapter.sourceRefs.map((ref) => ref.entryId),
-        ...(parts.length > 1 ? { splitFolds: parts.length, splitFromChars: spanChars } : {}),
-      };
-      if (parts.length > 1) {
-        emit("context.split", {
-          source: "ladder",
-          span_chars: spanChars,
-          parts: parts.length,
-          cap_chars: MAX_FOLD_SPAN_CHARS,
-          fold_ids: foldIds.join(","),
-        });
-      }
-      ladder.pendingContextNote = parts.length > 1
-        ? `A ${spanChars}-char stale chapter was folded as ${parts.length} bite-sized folds ` +
-          `(${foldIds.join(", ")}); exact evidence remains expandable.`
-        : `A coherent stale chapter was folded under ${foldIds[0]}; exact evidence remains expandable.`;
-    }
-    if ((!action && !epoch) || !persistence.state) return null;
-    const projectedBytesAfter = bytes(projectActiveContext(snapshot, persistence.state));
-    ladder.lastAutomaticAction = {
-      ...(action ?? { kind: "epoch-commit", foldIds: [], sourceIds: [] }),
-      ...(epoch ? { epoch } : {}),
-      sourceBytesSaved: Math.max(0, projectedBytesBefore - projectedBytesAfter),
-    };
-    noteAutomaticReceipt(snapshot, ladder.lastAutomaticAction, epoch);
-    return ladder.lastAutomaticAction;
+    // MARKING ONLY. Every mutation the rung used to perform inline -- a prepared chapter,
+    // a tool fold, a refold, a consolidation, a chapter split -- now travels as a pending
+    // mark and lands at the boundary, which is the one point the projection changes.
+    // WHAT the rung decides is unchanged; WHEN it takes effect is.
+    return markLadderSelection();
   };
-  const runAutomaticRungTransaction = async (
+  /**
+   * The one durable transaction. Whatever it wraps either lands with its state persisted
+   * or leaves the state it entered with, and a failure suspends folding by name rather
+   * than being retried quietly. Marking and committing both go through it, which is why
+   * a commit that vanishes at persistence (gate 122) and a suspension that says nothing
+   * (gate 123) are single properties rather than one per caller.
+   */
+  const runAutomaticTransaction = async (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     ratio: number,
     ctx: any,
     phase: string,
-    rungOptions: {
-      toolOnly?: boolean;
-      waiverRatio?: number;
-    } = {},
+    operation: () => Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null>,
   ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => {
     if (!persistence.state || !measurements.lastProviderMeasurement ||
         !durableProviderMeasurementMatches(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement)) return null;
@@ -4205,7 +2262,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const transientAtEntry = captureTransient();
     let action: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
     try {
-      action = await applyAutomaticRung(snapshot, ratio, rungOptions, phase);
+      action = await operation();
       if (action) await persist(ctx);
       if (action) ladder.boundaryFailure = null;
       return action;
@@ -4216,17 +2273,24 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         persistence.state = stateAtEntry;
         restoreTransient(transientAtEntry);
       }
-      suspendAutomatic(
-        error,
-        phase,
-        ctx,
-        key,
-        stateCommitted ? "state-committed" : recordOnly ? "record-only" : "none",
-      );
+      const disposition = stateCommitted ? "state-committed" : recordOnly ? "record-only" : "none";
+      suspendAutomatic(error, phase, ctx, key, disposition);
       updateStatus(ctx);
       return stateCommitted ? action : null;
     }
   };
+  const queueAutomatic = (
+    snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
+    ratio: number,
+    ctx: any,
+    phase: string,
+    operation: () => Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null>,
+  ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => {
+    const queued = ladder.actionQueue.then(() =>
+      runAutomaticTransaction(snapshot, ratio, ctx, phase, operation));
+    ladder.actionQueue = queued.catch(() => undefined);
+    return queued;
+  };
   const attemptAutomaticRung = (
     snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
     ratio: number,
@@ -4236,21 +2300,24 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       toolOnly?: boolean;
       waiverRatio?: number;
     } = {},
-  ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => {
-    const operation = ladder.actionQueue.then(async () => {
-      const action = await runAutomaticRungTransaction(snapshot, ratio, ctx, phase, rungOptions);
-      // Where the generator is started from a pass: after the transaction, so the calls
-      // sit BETWEEN boundaries. Folds queued by the commit this pass just made are
-      // briefed now and land on the next commit, which is the whole shape of the lane.
-      // Afterwards each finishing call starts the next, so this is the lane's ignition
-      // rather than its pace. Parents waiting on their children are taken up here too:
-      // a pass is the other place we know the lane may have room.
-      resumeBriefUpgrades(snapshot, ctx);
-      return action;
-    });
-    ladder.actionQueue = operation.catch(() => undefined);
-    return operation;
-  };
+  ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => queueAutomatic(
+    snapshot, ratio, ctx, phase, () => applyAutomaticRung(snapshot, ratio, rungOptions),
+  );
+  /**
+   * A COMMIT, THROUGH THE SAME TRANSACTION AND THE SAME QUEUE. Two callers reach it: the
+   * compaction boundary, which is the ordinary one, and the projection fence, which is
+   * the emergency one. The fence cannot wait for a boundary because the request it is
+   * holding does not fit, so it commits in place; that is the one exception, and it is
+   * the exception that already existed.
+   */
+  const attemptAutomaticCommit = (
+    snapshot: ActiveContextSnapshot,
+    ctx: any,
+    trigger: string,
+    waiverRatio: number | null,
+  ): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> => queueAutomatic(
+    snapshot, waiverRatio ?? 1, ctx, trigger, () => runCommitEpoch(snapshot, trigger, true, waiverRatio),
+  );
   const projectionCandidates = (ctx: any): Array<Record<string, unknown>> => {
     if (lifecycle.shuttingDown || !persistence.state) return [];
     try {
@@ -4259,12 +2326,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       return [];
     }
   };
-  // A same-session start/tree reload is a projection-generation mutation.
-  // Queue it behind every context authority → preparation → commit →
-  // projection transaction, then serialize the actual load with the action
-  // queue. Appending to actionQueue only after the context queue drains is
-  // deliberate: a running context may itself need actionQueue to commit its
-  // final-rung chapter, so capturing both queues up front would deadlock.
   const enqueueLifecycleLoad = async (ctx: any): Promise<void> => {
     const operation = lifecycle.contextQueue.then(() => {
       const loadOperation = ladder.actionQueue.then(async () => {
@@ -4290,11 +2351,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * State the resolved serving budget once, at startup, before anything reads it. A
-   * budget nobody can see in the stream is how rep 15 spent a whole run on a 272,000
-   * descriptor without a single record saying so.
-   */
   const recordResolvedCapacity = (ctx: any): void => {
     const capacity = currentCapacity(ctx);
     emit("context.capacity", {
@@ -4357,14 +2413,10 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   const attributionChanged = async (_event: unknown, ctx: any): Promise<void> => {
     lifecycle.generation += 1;
     cancelPreparation();
-    cancelBriefUpgrades();
     if (persistence.state?.prepared) persistence.state = clearPrepared(persistence.state);
     measurements.latestRatio = null;
     measurements.lastProviderMeasurement = null;
     measurements.wallInflowSteps.length = 0;
-    // A different model or thinking level is a different tokenizer, so counts taken
-    // under the old one describe nothing here. The generation the anchor carries would
-    // already refuse it; dropping it releases the projection text it held as well.
     measurements.projectionAnchor = null;
     nativeCompaction.lastThresholdDecision = null;
     updateStatus(ctx);
@@ -4393,7 +2445,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   const handleContext = async (event: { messages: unknown[] }, ctx: any) => {
     if (lifecycle.shuttingDown) return { messages: event.messages };
     beginMutationPass();
-    clearCommitLatchBelowTrigger();
     if (!persistence.state) persistence.state = emptyActiveContextState(ctx.sessionManager.getSessionId());
     lifecycle.latestSnapshot = null;
     lifecycle.latestSnapshotError = null;
@@ -4433,12 +2484,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         measurements.latestRatio = contextUsageRatio(observedMeasurement);
         if (durableProviderMeasurementMatches(observedMeasurement) && measurements.latestRatio !== null) {
           measurementStateChanged = accountAnchoredMeasurement(observedMeasurement);
-          // Calibrate BEFORE the new measurement becomes the previous one: the inflow
-          // step is the difference between them.
           noteProjectionCalibration(observedMeasurement);
-          // Anchor before this pass builds anything: `previousText` is still the
-          // projection the provider just counted, and the projection built below is the
-          // one that either extends it or does not.
           noteProviderProjectionAnchor(observedMeasurement);
           measurements.lastProviderMeasurement = observedMeasurement;
           startPreparation(snapshot, measurements.latestRatio, ctx);
@@ -4478,27 +2524,14 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         updateStatus(ctx);
         return { messages: event.messages };
       }
-      // A projection larger than the serving budget is never transmitted, whatever the
-      // last measured ratio says about the request before it.
       const budgeted = await enforceProjectionBudget(snapshot, projected, ctx);
       projected = budgeted.projected;
-      // Every projection this process BUILDS is a size reference for the calibration,
-      // including one the fence aborted. Recording only sent projections locks an
-      // already-large session out of calibrating at all: its first projection aborts
-      // under the uncalibrated constant, so nothing is ever sent, so nothing ever
-      // measures the ratio, so it aborts forever.
       const reading = projectedTokenReading(projected);
       measurements.lastProjectedChars = reading.chars;
       measurements.lastProjectedEstimate = reading.tokens;
       measurements.lastProjectedEstimateBasis = reading.basis;
       measurements.lastProjectedSizeTokens = Math.ceil(reading.chars / projectionCharsPerToken());
       measurements.lastProjectedEstimateCalibrated = measurements.projectionCalibrations.length > 0;
-      // An aborted request still returns the PROJECTION. Handing back the raw branch
-      // instead makes the aborted turn the largest message list the session ever
-      // produced -- the corpus, folds and all -- which is the exact inverse of what a
-      // fence is for, and it is what an abort looked like in rep12: 3,952,934 chars
-      // against a 1,322,385-char projection of the same session. It is not noted as a
-      // cache observation, because it was never sent.
       if (budgeted.aborted) {
         updateStatus(ctx);
         return { messages: projected };
@@ -4550,8 +2583,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         !durableProviderMeasurementMatches(measurement) ||
         measuredRatio === null) return;
     const measurementStateChanged = accountAnchoredMeasurement(measurement);
-    // The provider accepted a request: whatever the recovery lane spent belongs to an
-    // inflow that is now behind us, and the cap resets for the next one.
     curation.recoveryAttempts = 0;
     curation.pendingRejection = null;
     noteWallInflow(measurement);
@@ -4593,7 +2624,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         preservedShare: instrumentation.lastPreservedShare,
       });
       if (observation) {
-        // The join key: this is where the stream meets provider-side telemetry.
         emit("context.usage", {
           provider: ownValue(message, "provider") ?? null,
           model: ownValue(message, "model") ?? null,
@@ -4627,18 +2657,9 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       );
     } catch (error) {
       suspendAutomatic(error, "message-end", ctx);
-      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { /* The provider loop must keep running. */ }
+      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { }
     }
   });
-  /*
-   * There was an `after_provider_response` handler here that treated `status >= 400` as
-   * the rejection signal. It could never fire on the case it was written for. Every
-   * provider adapter calls `onResponse` exactly once and only AFTER the request promise
-   * resolves, so a 4xx rejects the promise and control never reaches that call at all
-   * (verified across all seven adapters in pi-ai 0.83.0). `pendingRejection` was
-   * therefore never set in production and the recovery branch of the projection budget
-   * never ran. It is set by the rollback lane now, from an event that does fire.
-   */
   pi.on("turn_end", async (_event: unknown, ctx: any) => {
     beginMutationPass();
     if (lifecycle.shuttingDown || !persistence.state || !persistence.persisted) return;
@@ -4662,7 +2683,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       }
       suspendAutomatic(error, "turn-end", ctx);
     }
-    try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { /* turn_end must never stall Pi. */ }
+    try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { }
   });
   pi.on("session_before_tree", (event: Record<string, unknown>) => {
     const preparation = ownValue(event, "preparation");
@@ -4670,15 +2691,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     return ownValue(preparation, "userWantsSummary") === true ? { cancel: true } : undefined;
   });
 
-  /**
-   * pi's own overflow classifier, borrowed rather than re-implemented.
-   *
-   * `isContextOverflow` owns the provider-message patterns AND the silent cases (usage
-   * past the window with a clean stop, the truncating `length` stop). Re-stating that
-   * pattern set here would drift on the first provider that reworded its 400. The
-   * bare specifier is tried first, for a deployment where pi-ai is hoisted; the second
-   * form reaches pi's own nested copy, which is where a default install puts it.
-   */
   const resolveOverflowClassifier = async (): Promise<void> => {
     if (rollback.classifier || rollback.classifierSource === "unresolved") return;
     const host = "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
@@ -4690,7 +2702,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       if (at >= 0) {
         specifiers.push(`${entry.slice(0, at + marker.length)}node_modules/@earendil-works/pi-ai/dist/compat.js`);
       }
-    } catch { /* An unresolvable host is the same answer as an unresolvable classifier. */ }
+    } catch { }
     for (const specifier of specifiers) {
       try {
         const module = await import(specifier) as Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -4699,7 +2711,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           rollback.classifierSource = specifier;
           return;
         }
-      } catch { /* Try the next form; the last failure is the answer. */ }
+      } catch { }
     }
     rollback.classifierSource = "unresolved";
   };
@@ -4719,10 +2731,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The disarmed answer, and the only one: say so on the record and leave the session
-   * behaving exactly as it did before the lane existed.
-   */
   const refuseRollback = (reason: string, trigger: string, ctx: any): void => {
     emit("context.rollback", {
       trigger,
@@ -4748,22 +2756,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     );
   };
 
-  /**
-   * The fallback trigger, and the honest limit of it.
-   *
-   * `session_before_compact` never fires for a deployment that turned auto-compaction
-   * off, so the primary trigger is deaf there. This is the second detector: pi's own
-   * classifier over the assistant message at `message_end`, which is where the error
-   * message first becomes visible. It records the episode and, if no compaction event
-   * claims it, reports it.
-   *
-   * It does NOT roll back, and the reason is mechanical rather than cautious. The
-   * pre-strip this lane depends on happens INSIDE `_checkCompaction`, which is exactly
-   * the code an auto-compaction-disabled deployment never reaches, so on this path
-   * agent state still carries the oversized window plus the error message. A bare
-   * `branch()` there would leave the tree and agent state disagreeing, which is the
-   * failure mode the whole design exists to avoid. Held, and reported as held.
-   */
   const noteOverflowAtMessageEnd = (message: unknown, ctx: any): void => {
     if (!rollback.classifier || !message || typeof message !== "object") return;
     const window = budgetWindowFor(ctx) ?? DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW;
@@ -4774,10 +2766,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     rollback.pendingOverflow = { at: currentOrdinal(), entryId: null };
   };
 
-  /**
-   * An overflow that no compaction event claimed: the auto-compaction-disabled shape.
-   * Loud, terminal, and never silent.
-   */
   const reportUnclaimedOverflow = (ctx: any): void => {
     if (!rollback.pendingOverflow) return;
     rollback.pendingOverflow = null;
@@ -4790,20 +2778,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     );
   };
 
-  /**
-   * ROLLBACK, COMMIT, REPLAY.
-   *
-   * pi has already stripped the trailing error message from agent state by the time
-   * this fires, so agent state IS the rolled-back window and all that remains is to
-   * move the session leaf to match. The label goes on FIRST, because a label appends at
-   * the current leaf and advances it, so applied after the branch it would mark the
-   * surviving path instead of the abandoned one.
-   *
-   * The commit deliberately does NOT happen here. The retried request runs its own
-   * `context` pass, and that pass folds and commits before the payload is built. A
-   * commit here would adjudicate a snapshot taken outside a projection pass and then be
-   * evaluated again by the retry, which is two mutations for one episode.
-   */
   const rebuiltMessageCount = (manager: Record<string, any>): number | null => {
     try {
       const rebuilt = manager.buildSessionContext?.();
@@ -4828,9 +2802,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       return;
     }
     const branchEntries = ownValue(event, "branchEntries");
-    // Copied, not aliased. `getBranch()` hands back the live array and the branch call
-    // below truncates it in place, so a handler holding the original reference watches
-    // the entries it is still reasoning about disappear underneath it.
     const entries = Array.isArray(branchEntries) ? [...branchEntries] : [];
     const errorEntry = findOverflowErrorEntry(entries);
     if (!errorEntry) {
@@ -4842,7 +2813,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     const sessionMessagesBefore = rebuiltMessageCount(manager);
     const abandoned = entries.slice(errorEntry.index);
     const rolledBackBytes = bytes(abandoned.flatMap((entry: any) => sessionEntryMessages(entry) ?? []));
-    // Lineage first. The abandoned path stays in the tree, and it says why it was left.
     try {
       manager.appendLabelChange(errorEntry.id, `${entryTypePrefix} overflow rollback`);
     } catch (error) {
@@ -4856,8 +2826,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       refuseRollback(`the branch failed (${String(error)})`, "session_before_compact", ctx);
       return;
     }
-    // The invariant, measured rather than assumed: the rolled-back window has to be
-    // exactly the failed entry shorter, or the retry sends something nobody built.
     const errorEntryMessages = (sessionEntryMessages(entries[errorEntry.index]) ?? []).length;
     const sessionMessagesAfter = rebuiltMessageCount(manager);
     const holds = sessionMessagesBefore === null || sessionMessagesAfter === null ||
@@ -4880,8 +2848,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       replayed: replaySkipReason === null,
       replaySkipReason,
     });
-    // Exactly ONE steered message. Steering drains one at a time at the top of the
-    // retried loop, so a second would be silently held to a turn that never comes.
     let replayed = false;
     if (replaySkipReason === null) {
       if (typeof pi.sendMessage !== "function") {
@@ -4926,18 +2892,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       noticeChars: notice.length,
       attemptOrdinal: rollback.attempts,
     };
-    // The tree moved, so the mapping is rebuilt from it. THEN the fold is armed for the
-    // retried pass, in that order: a reload clears the recovery flags, and arming before
-    // it would hand the retry a cleared one. The guards are waived in that pass because
-    // a request that already did not fit has nothing left to economize.
     load(ctx, true);
     curation.pendingRejection = { status: 400, ordinal: currentOrdinal() };
   };
 
-  pi.on("session_before_compact", (event: Record<string, unknown>, ctx: any) => {
+  pi.on("session_before_compact", async (event: Record<string, unknown>, ctx: any) => {
     const reason = ownValue(event, "reason");
-    // The overflow reason is a provider rejection pi is prepared to retry, and it is
-    // the rollback lane's trigger. Threshold and manual compaction are unchanged.
     if (reason === "overflow" && ownValue(event, "willRetry") === true) {
       nativeCompaction.lastThresholdDecision = {
         handled: true,
@@ -4948,7 +2908,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       };
       try { recoverFromOverflow(event, ctx); }
       catch (error) { suspendAutomatic(error, "overflow-rollback", ctx); }
-      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { /* Recovery must survive presentation failure. */ }
+      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { }
       return { cancel: true };
     }
     if (reason === "manual") {
@@ -4958,16 +2918,34 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         reason: "manual native compaction explicitly requested by the user",
         compactionReason: reason,
       };
-      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { /* Manual rescue must survive presentation failure. */ }
+      try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { }
       return undefined;
     }
+    let handoff: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
+    try {
+      const snapshot = authoritativeSnapshotFor(ctx);
+      handoff = await attemptAutomaticCommit(
+        snapshot, ctx, "compaction-boundary", measurements.latestRatio,
+      );
+    } catch (error) {
+      suspendAutomatic(error, "compaction-boundary", ctx);
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    // CANCELLED WHETHER OR NOT ANYTHING WAS HANDED OFF. Letting Pi compact when the
+    // boundary found nothing eligible is a silent fallback to a lossy summary, and
+    // losslessness is the whole claim: a crossing that reclaims nothing is a STARVED
+    // session, and the fence, the abort and the rollback lane already own that case and
+    // say so out loud. The decision record still names which of the two happened.
     nativeCompaction.lastThresholdDecision = {
       handled: true,
       retry: false,
-      reason: `blocked stock automatic compaction; ${contextBrand(brandNoun)} folding remains authoritative`,
+      reason: handoff
+        ? `${contextBrand(brandNoun)} handed the prefix off losslessly instead of compacting it`
+        : `${contextBrand(brandNoun)} blocked stock automatic compaction with nothing eligible to hand off`,
       compactionReason: reason,
       nativeCompactionCompleted: false,
     };
+    try { updateStatus(ctx); } catch { }
     return { cancel: true };
   });
   pi.on("agent_settled", async (_event: unknown, ctx: any) => {
@@ -4981,20 +2959,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       const snapshot = authoritativeSnapshotFor(ctx);
       startPreparation(snapshot, measurements.latestRatio, ctx);
     } catch {
-      // The next authoritative context event will retry mapping.
     }
     try { await recoverNativeReceipts(ctx); }
     catch (error) { safeNotify(ctx, `Native compaction receipt recovery remains pending: ${String(error)}`, "error"); }
     updateStatus(ctx);
   });
 
-  /**
-   * Admission control. A refusal that names no next action is denial, not governance,
-   * so every refusal carries at least one CONSTRUCTIBLE alternative: a bounded slice
-   * sized to the headroom we actually have, a child fold that is smaller by
-   * construction, and the commit that frees the room. The exact stored size of the
-   * target is known, so this is arithmetic, not a guess.
-   */
   const admit = (input: {
     action: "peek" | "expand";
     ctx: any;
@@ -5021,8 +2991,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       alternatives.push({ action: "peek", id: child });
     }
     if (!alternatives.length) {
-      // The floor: folding is always available, and it is the action that creates
-      // the room this read needs.
       alternatives.push({ action: "status", detail: "fold_candidates" });
     }
     throw new Error(
@@ -5062,8 +3030,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       }
       const statusOffset = boundedInteger(params.offset, 0, 0, 1_000_000, "offset");
       const statusLimit = boundedInteger(params.limit, 40, 1, 100, "limit");
-      // Paging is explicit and agent-driven: the full tree is reachable, it just
-      // stops riding along on every request that wanted a count.
       const paged = detail === "folds" || detail === "objects";
       const accounting = markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state);
       return toolPayload(boundStatusPayload({
@@ -5085,23 +3051,14 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         available: true,
         automatic: {
           pressureRatio: measurements.latestRatio,
-          // Status is a READ of the slate, never a delivery of one. `status` is a
-          // read-only context action and the tool-batch safety scan is built on
-          // read-only actions not writing durable state, so asking must not issue a
-          // suggestion, spend the precision budget, or move a suppression counter. An
-          // agent that asks gets the answer; only the push carriers are metered.
-          surfacing: statusSurfacing(snapshot),
           refoldRatio: snapshot.policy.refoldRatio,
           chapterPrepareRatio: snapshot.policy.prepareRatio,
           hardFenceRatio: hardFenceRatio(snapshot),
-          // The declared policy, reported. No action reads it back as a setting.
           thresholds: { ...snapshot.thresholds },
           zones: {
             freshBoundary: snapshot.freshBoundary,
             budgetTokens: snapshot.budgetTokens,
           },
-          // What THIS runtime withheld, which is nothing once the deployment declared an
-          // already-net budget. One number, from the same accounting the fence divides by.
           responseReserve: currentCapacity(ctx).outputReservation,
           windowSource: snapshot.windowSource,
           capacity: {
@@ -5130,13 +3087,11 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           overBudgetReduction: ladder.overBudgetReduction ? clone(ladder.overBudgetReduction) : null,
           curation: {
             occupancyThreshold: thresholds.maxTarget,
-            signals: curation.lastSignals ? { ...curation.lastSignals } : null,
             contextCalls: curation.contextCalls,
             receipts: curation.receipts.map((receipt) => ({ ...receipt })),
           },
           recovery: {
             attempts: curation.recoveryAttempts,
-            maxAttempts: OVERFLOW_RECOVERY_MAX_ATTEMPTS,
             pendingRejection: curation.pendingRejection ? { ...curation.pendingRejection } : null,
             last: curation.lastRecovery ? clone(curation.lastRecovery) : null,
             rollback: {
@@ -5152,9 +3107,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           projectionCharsPerToken: projectionCharsPerToken(),
           projectionEstimatorErrorShare: estimatorErrorShare(),
           projectionExpectedInflowTokens: expectedInflowTokens(),
-          // What the fence actually weighed, not a second arithmetic over the same bytes:
-          // once occupancy is anchored, re-deriving it here from chars alone would report
-          // a number no decision was made on.
           projectionMarginTokens: measurements.lastProjectedEstimate === null
             ? null
             : projectionMarginTokens(measurements.lastProjectedEstimate, currentCapacity(ctx).window),
@@ -5175,7 +3127,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
             ...ledgerSummary(instrumentation.ledger),
             projectionRecords: clone(instrumentation.ledger.records),
             cacheObservations: clone(instrumentation.ledger.observations),
-            // THE stream, as the durable entries carry it. One shape, one convention.
             events: clone(instrumentation.ledger.events),
           },
           peek: {
@@ -5188,32 +3139,20 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         },
         ...(detail === "fold_candidates" ? {
           candidates: foldCandidatesDetail(snapshot, persistence.state, measurements.latestRatio, {
-            summarizerAvailable: Boolean(options.summarizeContextSpan),
             generation: lifecycle.generation,
             measurementFresh: Boolean(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement &&
               durableProviderMeasurementMatches(measurements.lastProviderMeasurement)),
             automaticFailure: ladder.automaticFailure !== null,
             preparing: Boolean(ladder.preparing),
-            failedPreparationIds: ladder.failedPreparations,
           }),
         } : {}),
         ...(detail === "tree" ? { tree: foldTreeDetail(snapshot, persistence.state).slice(statusOffset) } : {}),
       }, typeof detail === "string" ? detail : null, statusOffset));
     }
-    // Peeking or expanding a surfaced fold is the ACTED label, joined to the offer that
-    // named it. It stays ephemeral: the ledger rides the next persisted state, never an
-    // entry of its own, and the used/ignored grades land when the window closes.
-    const noteSurfacingAccept = (id: string): void => {
-      if (!persistence.state) return;
-      persistence.state = noteSurfacingAction(persistence.state, id, markOrdinal(snapshot));
-    };
     if (action === "peek") {
       const id = String(params.id ?? "").trim();
       if (!id) throw new Error("peek requires id");
       const offset = boundedInteger(params.offset, 0, 0, 1_000_000_000, "offset");
-      // The DEFAULT is the bounded index view. Widening is an explicit argument, so
-      // the default path cannot overfill a window: measured 2026-08-06, 14 raw peek
-      // results held 1.9M characters, 82 percent of everything still unfolded.
       const sliceBytes = boundedInteger(
         params.bytes,
         PEEK_DEFAULT_MAX_BYTES,
@@ -5239,7 +3178,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         offset,
         toolName,
       }));
-      noteSurfacingAccept(id);
       return payload;
     }
     if (action === "rebrief") {
@@ -5262,15 +3200,11 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         brief,
         previousBrief: previous,
         durableRevision: persistence.state.revision,
-        activation: "the fold's placeholder, index rows and suggestions now carry your brief; " +
+        activation: "the fold's placeholder and index rows now carry your brief; " +
           "the exact source and its fold record are untouched.",
       });
     }
     if (action === "reboundary") {
-      // One verb, both directions. `ids` names the span you want to BE one fold: every
-      // fold overlapping it dissolves and the span is re-cut as one, which merges N
-      // adjacent folds when the span covers them and splits one fold when the span sits
-      // inside it. `id` alone is the plain dissolve, which returns a span to raw.
       if (params.ids !== undefined) {
         const requestedIds = stringIds(params.ids);
         const snapped = snapToFoldBoundaries(snapshot, persistence.state, requestedIds);
@@ -5297,10 +3231,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         const created: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = [];
         const correctedBriefs: Record<string, string> = {};
         for (const part of splitCandidateBySize(snapshot, persistence.state, recut)) {
-          // A re-cut that lands back on a span this session already folded meets its own
-          // immutable record. The record wins -- rewriting it would report a conflicting
-          // durable fold and suspend automatic management -- and the supplied brief
-          // becomes a correction beside it, which is what `rebrief` writes anyway.
           const durable = persistence.persistedFoldRecords.get(foldIdFor(part.kind, part.parts));
           const { preparedFold, nextState } = await prepareAndCommitExplicit({
             snapshot, candidate: part, brief: durable ? durable.fold.brief : supplied, ctx, signal,
@@ -5375,8 +3305,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     if (action === "expand" || action === "refold") {
       const id = String(params.id ?? "").trim();
       if (!id) throw new Error(`${action} requires id`);
-      // An expand with marks pending opens the commit epoch: the restore and the
-      // batch of folds then cost one rewrite between them instead of two.
       let epochApplied: unknown[] = [];
       if (action === "expand" && pendingMarks(persistence.state).length) {
         const result = await commitPendingMarks({
@@ -5397,7 +3325,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           requestedBytes: Math.max(0, expanding.sourceChars - expanding.placeholderChars),
           children: childFoldIds(expanding),
         });
-        noteSurfacingAccept(id);
       }
       let next = setFoldProjectionState(persistence.state, id, action === "expand" ? "expanded" : "folded");
       if (action === "expand") next = withExpandLease(next, id);
@@ -5426,9 +3353,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       const refsBefore = persistence.state.protected.length;
       const nextProtection = protectEvidence(snapshot, persistence.state, ids, action === "protect");
       if (action === "protect") {
-        // The pin ceiling: protect is a promise to hold bytes raw through every fold,
-        // and a promise with no mass bound can pin the window solid. The refusal is
-        // corrective, not denial: it names the cap and the release valve.
         const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
         const prospectiveShare = capacity.budgetTokens > 0
           ? estimatedTokens(explicitProtectedMass(snapshot, nextProtection).bytes) / capacity.budgetTokens
@@ -5482,9 +3406,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       });
     }
     if (action === "fold") {
-      // One call, several {span, brief} pairs. Marking is free and committing is not,
-      // so the shape that should be cheapest to express is the BATCH: an agent that
-      // must spend one call per span curates less than one that spends one call.
       const requested = batchedMarkRequests(params);
       const resolved: Array<{
         candidate: FoldCandidate;
@@ -5527,33 +3448,28 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         }
       }
       const corrections = resolved.flatMap((item) => item.corrections);
-      // Resolve every brief now, while the source is in hand, so the commit epoch
-      // itself stays deterministic and free of provider calls. A span that is not
-      // eligible YET cannot go through preparation at all, so it takes the
-      // deterministic brief: the mark is a decision, and refusing to record it
-      // because the span is momentarily fresh is exactly the drop being fixed.
       const marks: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = [];
       let staged = persistence.state;
       for (const item of resolved) {
         const { candidate } = item;
-        // ACCEPT AND HOLD. A span that is still fresh or protected is not a refusal:
-        // the mark is a standing decision, it is recorded now, and it folds at the
-        // first commit after the span ages out. Refusal is reserved for a mark that
-        // cannot be constructed at all.
-        // A REPEATED DECISION IS INERT. The fold id is derived from the span, so a
-        // span the ladder already prepared carries that exact id in the forest
-        // already, and preparing it a second time throws "Prepared fold already
-        // exists" out of the tool call. Under the old cadence commits were frequent
-        // enough to drain prepared folds before a second decision could land on one;
-        // the quiet runtime commits far less often, so the collision became reachable
-        // in ordinary use -- the ladder marks a span, the agent then folds the same
-        // span, and the agent's call fails. Marking is a standing decision about a
-        // span, and deciding the same thing twice has to be a no-op.
         const alreadyPrepared = staged.folds.some((fold) =>
           fold.id === foldIdFor(candidate.kind, candidate.parts));
         const deferred = refsProtected(candidate.sourceRefs, staged, snapshot) ||
           (candidate.kind === "tool-result" &&
             toolRefsProtected(candidate.sourceRefs, staged, snapshot));
+        const suppliedComplaint = item.brief === undefined
+          ? null
+          : briefContractComplaint(item.brief.trim(), snapshot.policy.maxBriefChars, snapshot.toolName);
+        if (suppliedComplaint !== null) {
+          marks.push({
+            id: foldIdFor(candidate.kind, candidate.parts),
+            kind: candidate.kind,
+            ok: false,
+            deferred: false,
+            reason: `Supplied brief rejected. ${suppliedComplaint}`,
+          });
+          continue;
+        }
         const briefed = !deferred && !alreadyPrepared
           ? await prepareFold({
             candidate,
@@ -5561,7 +3477,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
             state: staged,
             generation: lifecycle.generation,
             brief: item.brief,
-            summarize: observedSummarize,
             ctx,
             signal,
           })
@@ -5598,18 +3513,12 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       await persistManual(staged, action, ctx);
       updateStatus(ctx);
       const accounting = markAccounting(snapshot, persistence.state);
-      // MECHANISM 3. The projection is byte-frozen between fold events, so this reply
-      // is the only cache-free channel left: it carries the whole picture, not just
-      // an acknowledgement of the spans this call named.
       const held = pendingMarks(persistence.state).map((mark) => ({
         id: mark.id,
         kind: mark.kind,
         tokens: estimatedTokens(markFreedBytes(snapshot, persistence.state!, mark)),
       }));
       const remainder = unmarkedRemainder(snapshot, persistence.state, projectionCharsPerToken());
-      // The single-span shape is the head of the batched one: one call carrying one
-      // span answers exactly as it always did, and a batch adds fields rather than
-      // replacing them.
       const only = marks.length === 1 && marks[0].ok === true ? marks[0] : null;
       return toolPayload({
         version: 1,
@@ -5628,7 +3537,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           }
           : {}),
         marks,
-        // Never silently reinterpreted: a span the runtime moved says so, here.
         corrections,
         argumentsSha256: executionArgumentsSha256,
         durableRevision: persistence.state.revision,
@@ -5644,9 +3552,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
         unmarkedTokens: remainder.tokens,
         unmarkedShare: remainder.share,
         unmarkedCandidates: remainder.candidates,
-        // The acknowledgement rides the tool result, so it PERSISTS in context the way
-        // every tool result does. Default on;
-        // `guidance.actionResponses: false` returns the accounting without the prose.
         ...(guidance.actionResponses ? {
           awareness: markAwarenessText({ held, remainder, toolName, brandNoun }),
           activation: "accepted as pending marks; no context bytes moved, and nothing else in your " +
@@ -5660,14 +3565,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     }
     throw new Error(`Unknown ${toolName} action '${action}'`);
   };
-  /**
-   * Every context-management call, accepted AND refused, in the durable stream.
-   *
-   * A rejected call is the more informative of the two: an agent whose spans keep being
-   * refused looks identical, from fold records alone, to an agent that never tried to
-   * curate at all. The exact validation text is recorded verbatim, because "it failed"
-   * is not a finding and "ids must contain 1-64 values" is.
-   */
   const requestedMarkCount = (params: Record<string, unknown>): number => {
     const batched = denseOwnArrayValues(params?.marks);
     if (batched) return batched.length;
@@ -5683,23 +3580,17 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
   ): Promise<unknown> => {
     const operation = ladder.actionQueue.then(async () => {
       const action = String(params?.action ?? "");
-      // The gate's engagement signal, counted BEFORE the call can fail: an agent that
-      // reached for a context verb engaged, whether or not the span was valid.
       curation.contextCalls += 1;
       const attempt = (ok: boolean, error: string | null, corrections: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
         const record = emit("context.attempt", {
           action,
           ok,
           error,
-          // The join key against the worker's own tool-call log: one logical row per
-          // model-emitted invocation, matched by id and never by order or clock.
           tool_call_id: toolCallId,
           marks_requested: requestedMarkCount(params),
           corrections_applied: corrections.length,
           arguments_sha256: sha256Value(params ?? {}),
         });
-        // One record per correction, referencing its attempt: nothing nests, and a
-        // reader counting corrections never has to unpack an array to do it.
         for (const correction of corrections) {
           const from = denseOwnArrayValues(ownValue(correction, "from")) ?? [];
           const to = denseOwnArrayValues(ownValue(correction, "to")) ?? [];
@@ -5751,15 +3642,6 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
       if (!lifecycle.latestSnapshot) lifecycle.latestSnapshot = snapshot;
       const divider = args.indexOf(" -- ");
       const selector = (divider >= 0 ? args.slice(0, divider) : args).trim();
-      // THE USER COMMIT. One word, and the only commit verb any caller has: the model
-      // tool still has no commit action, because a verb the runtime is entitled to
-      // overrule is surface without function. A user is not overruled.
-      //
-      // Below maxTarget it applies the eligible marks in hand and stops -- no automatic
-      // top-up, because the user asked to bank the curation they made, not to have the
-      // runtime pick more. At or above maxTarget it is the ordinary event: the planner
-      // may top up toward minTarget. Neither path touches freshness, pins, exactness or
-      // the provider fence.
       if (selector === "commit") {
         const capacity = servingCapacity(snapshot.contextWindow);
         const occupancy = capacity.usedTokens !== null && capacity.budgetTokens > 0
@@ -5767,7 +3649,16 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
           : null;
         const topUp = occupancy !== null && occupancy >= thresholds.maxTarget;
         const committed = await runCommitEpoch(snapshot, "user-command", topUp, measurements.latestRatio, true);
-        try { await persist(ctx); } catch { /* The commit already reported its own outcome. */ }
+        // Until this lands the epoch's folds are in the event stream and nowhere else.
+        // Swallowing the failure here announced a commit that does not exist and left the
+        // session computing folds it would keep throwing away, which is the dead session
+        // gate 122 was built for, reached through the user's own command instead.
+        try { await persist(ctx); }
+        catch (error) {
+          suspendAutomatic(error, "user-command", ctx);
+          updateStatus(ctx);
+          throw error;
+        }
         updateStatus(ctx);
         safeNotify(
           ctx,
@@ -5826,7 +3717,7 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     ladder.actionQueue = operation.catch(() => undefined);
     try { await operation; }
     catch (error) {
-      safeNotify(ctx, `Context rescue failed: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error");
+      safeNotify(ctx, `Context command failed: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error");
     }
   };
 
@@ -5856,12 +3747,11 @@ export function registerActiveContext(pi: any, options: {
     lifecycle.generation += 1;
     lifecycle.shuttingDown = true;
     cancelPreparation();
-    cancelBriefUpgrades();
     persistence.state = null;
     persistence.persisted = null;
     lifecycle.latestSnapshot = null;
     curation.receipts = [];
-    try { ctx.ui?.setStatus?.(entryTypePrefix, undefined); } catch { /* Shutdown cannot be blocked by UI. */ }
+    try { ctx.ui?.setStatus?.(entryTypePrefix, undefined); } catch { }
   });
 
   return { projectionCandidates };