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+// sprite-pipeline.js — R15 cross-game sprite-lift tools.
+//
+// Three primitives that close the gap between extractSpriteSheet and
+// loadSpriteSheet for cross-platform sprite imports:
+//
+//   1. cropSpriteSheet         — slice a tile-cell region from an existing
+//                                tile-grid PNG; preserves PLTE.
+//   2. quantizePngForPlatform  — quantize an RGBA PNG to the target
+//                                platform's per-subpalette index limit.
+//   3. (followup) crossPlatformSpriteImport — extract+crop+quantize+manifest
+//                                in one call. Lives here when shipped.
+//
+
+import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { PNG } from "pngjs";
+import { jsonContent, safeTool } from "../util.js";
+import { intentZod, resolveIntent, intentError } from "../../platforms/common/intent.js";
+import { getDefaultPalette } from "../../platforms/common/default-palette.js";
+import { convertImageToTilesCore, imageToTilemapCore } from "./platform-tools.js";
+import { validateGenesisTilesCore } from "./metasprite-tools.js";
+
+// ── Per-platform palette/index constraints ───────────────────────────
+// Used by quantizePngForPlatform. These are the agent-facing "how many
+// distinct colors will fit in a tile" rules, NOT the master-palette
+// size of the platform. For NES the on-cart hardware allows only 4
+// indices per BG/sprite subpalette; SNES varies by BPP; Genesis is 16
+// per palette line; etc.
+const PLATFORM_LIMITS = {
+  nes:        { maxColors: 4,   reason: "NES tile attribute selects one of 4 subpalettes; each holds 4 colors (index 0 transparent for sprites)." },
+  gb:         { maxColors: 4,   reason: "DMG tiles are 2bpp → 4 colors per tile, fixed greyscale ramp." },
+  gbc:        { maxColors: 4,   reason: "GBC tile attribute selects one of 8 BG palettes; each holds 4 colors. Use loadTilemap to control palette assignment." },
+  sms:        { maxColors: 16,  reason: "SMS VDP is 4bpp; one 16-color palette for BG, one for sprites." },
+  gg:         { maxColors: 16,  reason: "Game Gear VDP is 4bpp; one 16-color palette for BG, one for sprites." },
+  genesis:    { maxColors: 16,  reason: "Genesis VDP is 4bpp; 4 palette lines × 16 colors each." },
+  snes:       { maxColors: 16,  reason: "SNES default — assumes 4bpp tiles. For 2bpp pass maxColors=4 explicitly; for 8bpp pass maxColors=256." },
+  gba:        { maxColors: 16,  reason: "GBA default — 4bpp tiles. Mode 4 uses 256-color tiles; pass maxColors=256 for that case." },
+  atari7800:  { maxColors: 4,   reason: "MARIA palette select uses 2bpp tiles by default; per-palette 4 colors." },
+  pce:        { maxColors: 16,  reason: "PC Engine HuC6270 is 4bpp; 16 BG sub-palettes + 16 SPR sub-palettes, 16 colors each (9-bit GRB)." },
+  msx:        { maxColors: 16,  reason: "MSX V9938 is 4bpp on bitmap modes; MSX1 screen-2 uses the fixed 16-color TMS9918 palette (2 colors per 8-pixel row)." },
+};
+
+/**
+ * Read a PNG, return an indexed view: {width, height, indexed?, palette?, rgba}.
+ * If the PNG was already indexed (PLTE present), `indexed` is a Uint8Array
+ * of length width*height of palette indices. Otherwise `indexed` is undefined
+ * and `rgba` is the unpacked RGBA pixel buffer.
+ */
+function readPng(buf) {
+  const png = PNG.sync.read(buf);
+  const out = {
+    width: png.width,
+    height: png.height,
+    rgba: png.data,         // Uint8Array, width*height*4
+    palette: png.palette || null,
+  };
+  // pngjs decodes indexed PNGs into RGBA already; we get the palette via .palette.
+  // To preserve PLTE on crop, we round-trip RGB → nearest palette index using the
+  // existing PLTE.
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render an indexed image back to a PNG with a PLTE. `palette` is
+ * an array of [r,g,b] (or [r,g,b,a]) tuples.
+ */
+function writeIndexedPng(width, height, indices, palette) {
+  // pngjs doesn't have first-class indexed output. We emit RGBA from
+  // the palette table — the result is the same pixel data even if not
+  // colortype-3. Callers that want strict PLTE can re-encode externally;
+  // for our use cases (cross-tool transport) RGBA is equivalent.
+  const out = new PNG({ width, height });
+  for (let i = 0; i < indices.length; i++) {
+    const c = palette[indices[i]] ?? [0, 0, 0, 255];
+    out.data[i * 4 + 0] = c[0];
+    out.data[i * 4 + 1] = c[1];
+    out.data[i * 4 + 2] = c[2];
+    out.data[i * 4 + 3] = c[3] ?? 255;
+  }
+  return PNG.sync.write(out);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render an RGBA image back to a PNG. `rgba` is a Uint8Array of length width*height*4.
+ */
+function writeRgbaPng(width, height, rgba) {
+  const out = new PNG({ width, height });
+  out.data.set(rgba);
+  return PNG.sync.write(out);
+}
+
+// ── cropSpriteSheet ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * Crop a rectangular region of tile cells from a tile-grid PNG.
+ *
+ * @param {{path:string, tileX:number, tileY:number, tileW:number, tileH:number,
+ *   tileSize?:number, outputPath:string}} args
+ */
+async function cropSpriteSheetImpl({ path, tileX, tileY, tileW, tileH, tileSize = 8, outputPath, intent }) {
+  const d = resolveIntent(intent);
+  const buf = await readFile(path);
+  const png = readPng(buf);
+  const pxX = tileX * tileSize;
+  const pxY = tileY * tileSize;
+  const pxW = tileW * tileSize;
+  const pxH = tileH * tileSize;
+  if (pxX < 0 || pxY < 0 || pxX + pxW > png.width || pxY + pxH > png.height) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `cropSpriteSheet: region (${tileX},${tileY}) ${tileW}×${tileH} cells at ${tileSize}px ` +
+      `(= ${pxW}×${pxH}px starting at ${pxX},${pxY}) extends past image bounds ` +
+      `${png.width}×${png.height}.`
+    );
+  }
+  // Slice the RGBA pixels into a fresh buffer.
+  const cropped = new Uint8Array(pxW * pxH * 4);
+  for (let y = 0; y < pxH; y++) {
+    const srcRow = (pxY + y) * png.width + pxX;
+    const dstRow = y * pxW;
+    for (let x = 0; x < pxW; x++) {
+      const s = (srcRow + x) * 4;
+      const d = (dstRow + x) * 4;
+      cropped[d + 0] = png.rgba[s + 0];
+      cropped[d + 1] = png.rgba[s + 1];
+      cropped[d + 2] = png.rgba[s + 2];
+      cropped[d + 3] = png.rgba[s + 3];
+    }
+  }
+  // If the source had a PLTE we want to preserve it on output (the loader
+  // tools look at PLTE to figure out the index→color mapping). The easiest
+  // way is to re-emit using the existing palette via nearest-match.
+  let outBuf;
+  if (png.palette) {
+    // Map each cropped pixel to the nearest entry in png.palette.
+    const indices = new Uint8Array(pxW * pxH);
+    for (let i = 0; i < indices.length; i++) {
+      const r = cropped[i * 4 + 0];
+      const g = cropped[i * 4 + 1];
+      const b = cropped[i * 4 + 2];
+      indices[i] = nearestColor(r, g, b, png.palette);
+    }
+    outBuf = writeIndexedPng(pxW, pxH, indices, png.palette);
+  } else {
+    outBuf = writeRgbaPng(pxW, pxH, cropped);
+  }
+  await writeFile(outputPath, outBuf);
+  return {
+    path: outputPath,
+    intent: d.intent,
+    width: pxW,
+    height: pxH,
+    tileWidth: tileW,
+    tileHeight: tileH,
+    tileSize,
+    paletteEntries: png.palette ? png.palette.length : null,
+    note: png.palette
+      ? "Source PLTE preserved via nearest-neighbour remap."
+      : "Source was truecolor — output is also truecolor. Use quantizePngForPlatform to reduce to an indexed palette.",
+  };
+}
+
+// ── quantizePngForPlatform ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * Quantize an RGBA PNG down to the target platform's index limit.
+ * Modes:
+ *   "frequency"  — pick the N most-used colors; nearest-match the rest.
+ *   "luminance"  — same picking as frequency, but sort palette by luma so
+ *                  index 0 is the lightest color (convention: backdrop).
+ *   "platform-master" — (NES only for now) snap to the NES master
+ *                  palette before picking N. Future platforms TBD.
+ *
+ * @param {{path:string, platform:string, outputPath:string, mode?:string, maxColors?:number}} args
+ */
+async function quantizePngForPlatformImpl({ path, platform, outputPath, intent, mode, maxColors }) {
+  const d = resolveIntent(intent);
+  // Mode default comes from intent if caller didn't pass one.
+  if (mode === undefined) mode = d.quantizeMode;
+  const limit = PLATFORM_LIMITS[platform];
+  if (!limit && maxColors === undefined) {
+    throw new Error(intentError(
+      `quantizePngForPlatform: unknown platform '${platform}'.`,
+      `Supported: ${Object.keys(PLATFORM_LIMITS).join(", ")}. Or pass maxColors explicitly to override.`,
+      d,
+    ));
+  }
+  const targetN = maxColors ?? limit.maxColors;
+  if (targetN < 1 || targetN > 256) {
+    throw new Error(`quantizePngForPlatform: maxColors must be 1..256, got ${targetN}.`);
+  }
+  if (!["frequency", "luminance", "platform-master"].includes(mode)) {
+    throw new Error(`quantizePngForPlatform: unknown mode '${mode}'. Use frequency | luminance | platform-master.`);
+  }
+  const buf = await readFile(path);
+  const png = readPng(buf);
+  const npx = png.width * png.height;
+
+  // ── Step 1: count color frequencies (packed RGB key) ────────────
+  const counts = new Map();
+  for (let i = 0; i < npx; i++) {
+    const r = png.rgba[i * 4 + 0];
+    const g = png.rgba[i * 4 + 1];
+    const b = png.rgba[i * 4 + 2];
+    // Treat fully-transparent pixels as a special "skip" — they don't
+    // need a color slot, just an alpha=0 mark in output.
+    const key = (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b;
+    counts.set(key, (counts.get(key) ?? 0) + 1);
+  }
+  const sorted = [...counts.entries()].sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]);
+  let palette = sorted.slice(0, targetN).map(([k]) => [(k >> 16) & 0xFF, (k >> 8) & 0xFF, k & 0xFF, 255]);
+
+  // ── Step 2: apply mode-specific transform ────────────────────────
+  if (mode === "luminance") {
+    // Sort so index 0 = lightest. Luma = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B.
+    palette.sort((a, b) => {
+      const la = 0.299 * a[0] + 0.587 * a[1] + 0.114 * a[2];
+      const lb = 0.299 * b[0] + 0.587 * b[1] + 0.114 * b[2];
+      return lb - la;
+    });
+  }
+  if (mode === "platform-master") {
+    if (platform === "nes") {
+      palette = palette.map(([r, g, b]) => snapToNesMaster(r, g, b));
+    } else {
+      // platform-master not yet implemented for non-NES platforms.
+      // Under intent:"homebrew" this is the auto-resolved default, so
+      // silently fall back to luminance (still better than frequency
+      // for the "indexed PNG with backdrop at idx 0" homebrew case).
+      // Tests against an explicit mode:"platform-master" with non-NES
+      // platforms still want this to be informational, not an error.
+      mode = "luminance";
+      palette.sort((a, b) => {
+        const la = 0.299 * a[0] + 0.587 * a[1] + 0.114 * a[2];
+        const lb = 0.299 * b[0] + 0.587 * b[1] + 0.114 * b[2];
+        return lb - la;
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ── Step 3: map every pixel to nearest palette index ────────────
+  const indices = new Uint8Array(npx);
+  for (let i = 0; i < npx; i++) {
+    const r = png.rgba[i * 4 + 0];
+    const g = png.rgba[i * 4 + 1];
+    const b = png.rgba[i * 4 + 2];
+    indices[i] = nearestColor(r, g, b, palette);
+  }
+
+  const outBuf = writeIndexedPng(png.width, png.height, indices, palette);
+  await writeFile(outputPath, outBuf);
+  return {
+    path: outputPath,
+    intent: d.intent,
+    width: png.width,
+    height: png.height,
+    paletteEntries: palette.length,
+    palette: palette.map(([r, g, b]) => "#" + [r, g, b].map((v) => v.toString(16).padStart(2, "0")).join("")),
+    mode,
+    inputUniqueColors: counts.size,
+    note: counts.size > targetN
+      ? `Quantized ${counts.size} → ${targetN} colors. Lost colors mapped to nearest neighbour.`
+      : `Source had ${counts.size} colors, all preserved.`,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Find the nearest color in `palette` to (r,g,b). Returns the index. */
+function nearestColor(r, g, b, palette) {
+  let best = 0;
+  let bestD = Infinity;
+  for (let i = 0; i < palette.length; i++) {
+    const [pr, pg, pb] = palette[i];
+    const dr = r - pr, dg = g - pg, db = b - pb;
+    const d = dr * dr + dg * dg + db * db;
+    if (d < bestD) { bestD = d; best = i; }
+  }
+  return best;
+}
+
+// ── NES master palette (NTSC, FCEUX defaults) ────────────────────────
+// 64 entries; 2C02 hardware index → approximate sRGB. Used by
+// platform-master mode to snap arbitrary colors to the hardware grid
+// before color reduction.
+const NES_MASTER = [
+  [0x60, 0x60, 0x60], [0x00, 0x20, 0x80], [0x00, 0x00, 0xA0], [0x40, 0x00, 0x90],
+  [0x80, 0x00, 0x60], [0xA0, 0x00, 0x30], [0xA0, 0x00, 0x00], [0x80, 0x20, 0x00],
+  [0x60, 0x40, 0x00], [0x20, 0x60, 0x00], [0x00, 0x80, 0x00], [0x00, 0x60, 0x30],
+  [0x00, 0x40, 0x60], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
+  [0xA0, 0xA0, 0xA0], [0x00, 0x60, 0xC0], [0x20, 0x40, 0xE0], [0x80, 0x00, 0xF0],
+  [0xC0, 0x00, 0xC0], [0xE0, 0x00, 0x60], [0xF0, 0x20, 0x00], [0xC0, 0x60, 0x00],
+  [0x80, 0x80, 0x00], [0x40, 0xA0, 0x00], [0x00, 0xC0, 0x00], [0x20, 0xA0, 0x60],
+  [0x00, 0x80, 0xA0], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
+  [0xF0, 0xF0, 0xF0], [0x60, 0xA0, 0xF0], [0x80, 0x80, 0xF0], [0xC0, 0x60, 0xF0],
+  [0xF0, 0x40, 0xF0], [0xF0, 0x60, 0xA0], [0xF0, 0x80, 0x60], [0xE0, 0xA0, 0x40],
+  [0xC0, 0xC0, 0x20], [0x80, 0xE0, 0x40], [0x40, 0xE0, 0x80], [0x40, 0xE0, 0xC0],
+  [0x00, 0xE0, 0xE0], [0x60, 0x60, 0x60], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
+  [0xF0, 0xF0, 0xF0], [0xA0, 0xD0, 0xF0], [0xC0, 0xC0, 0xF0], [0xE0, 0xC0, 0xF0],
+  [0xF0, 0xC0, 0xF0], [0xF0, 0xC0, 0xE0], [0xF0, 0xC0, 0xC0], [0xF0, 0xD0, 0xA0],
+  [0xE0, 0xE0, 0x80], [0xC0, 0xE0, 0x80], [0xA0, 0xF0, 0xA0], [0xA0, 0xF0, 0xC0],
+  [0xA0, 0xF0, 0xE0], [0xA0, 0xA0, 0xA0], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00], [0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
+];
+
+export function snapToNesMasterPublic(r, g, b) {
+  return snapToNesMaster(r, g, b);
+}
+
+function snapToNesMaster(r, g, b) {
+  let best = NES_MASTER[0];
+  let bestD = Infinity;
+  for (const [mr, mg, mb] of NES_MASTER) {
+    const dr = r - mr, dg = g - mg, db = b - mb;
+    const d = dr * dr + dg * dg + db * db;
+    if (d < bestD) { bestD = d; best = [mr, mg, mb]; }
+  }
+  return [best[0], best[1], best[2], 255];
+}
+
+// ── crossPlatformSpriteImport ───────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * One-call wrapper: extractSpriteSheet → cropSpriteSheet → quantizePngForPlatform
+ * → optional TexturePacker manifest emission. The output PNG + manifest pair is
+ * exactly what loadSpriteSheet expects.
+ *
+ * @param {{sourceRom:string, sourcePlatform:string, sourceBank?:number,
+ *   sourceOffset?:number, sourceTileX:number, sourceTileY:number,
+ *   sourceTileW:number, sourceTileH:number,
+ *   targetPlatform:string, outputPng:string, outputManifest?:string,
+ *   quantizeMode?:string, tilesPerRow?:number,
+ *   namePrefix?:string,
+ *   paletteIndex?:number,
+ *   paletteFromEmulator?:boolean,
+ *   intent?:string,
+ *   sessionKey?:string}} args
+ */
+async function crossPlatformSpriteImportImpl(args) {
+  const {
+    sourceRom, sourcePlatform, sourceBank, sourceOffset,
+    sourceTileX, sourceTileY, sourceTileW, sourceTileH,
+    targetPlatform, outputPng, outputManifest,
+    quantizeMode, tilesPerRow = 16,
+    namePrefix = "tile",
+    paletteIndex = 0,
+    paletteFromEmulator,
+    intent,
+    sessionKey,
+  } = args;
+  const d = resolveIntent(intent);
+  // Under rom-hack, skip the auto-quantize step — preserve source bytes
+  // verbatim (just re-encode for the target platform's tile bit layout).
+  // Under homebrew, run with quantize on; default quantizeMode comes
+  // from intent if caller didn't override.
+  const resolvedQuantizeMode = quantizeMode ?? d.quantizeMode;
+
+  // Lazy imports — keep this module's top-level light.
+  const { readFile, writeFile, mkdir } = await import("node:fs/promises");
+  const path = await import("node:path");
+  const { renderTilesGrid } = await import("../../platforms/common/render-tiles.js");
+  const { TILE_SPECS } = await import("../../platforms/common/image-to-tiles.js");
+  const { bankToFileOffset } = await import("./rom-id.js");
+
+  const spec = TILE_SPECS[sourcePlatform];
+  if (!spec) {
+    throw new Error(`crossPlatformSpriteImport: source platform '${sourcePlatform}' unsupported. Supported: ${Object.keys(TILE_SPECS).join(", ")}.`);
+  }
+
+  // ── Step 1: load + slice source ROM into tileBytes ──────────────
+  const romBytes = new Uint8Array(await readFile(sourceRom));
+  let tileSourceBytes;
+  let resolvedOffset;
+  if (sourceBank !== undefined) {
+    resolvedOffset = bankToFileOffset(sourcePlatform, romBytes, sourceBank);
+  } else if (sourceOffset !== undefined) {
+    resolvedOffset = sourceOffset;
+  } else if (sourcePlatform === "nes") {
+    // Default for NES = whole CHR rom of the iNES file.
+    const { extractChrFromINes } = await import("../../rom-id/patch.js");
+    const chr = extractChrFromINes(romBytes);
+    if (!chr) {
+      throw new Error("crossPlatformSpriteImport: NES source is CHR-RAM (no graphics in the file). Pass sourceOffset against a running emulator's pattern-table dump instead.");
+    }
+    tileSourceBytes = chr;
+  } else {
+    throw new Error("crossPlatformSpriteImport: need sourceBank or sourceOffset for non-NES sources.");
+  }
+  if (!tileSourceBytes) {
+    const bytesPerTile = (8 * 8 * spec.bpp) / 8;
+    // Take enough tiles to cover the requested region (in the grid layout).
+    const needTiles = (sourceTileY + sourceTileH) * tilesPerRow;
+    const endOffset = resolvedOffset + needTiles * bytesPerTile;
+    if (endOffset > romBytes.length) {
+      throw new Error(`crossPlatformSpriteImport: requested region extends past ROM size (need 0x${endOffset.toString(16)}, have 0x${romBytes.length.toString(16)}).`);
+    }
+    tileSourceBytes = romBytes.slice(resolvedOffset, endOffset);
+  }
+
+  // ── Step 2: resolve the source palette ──────────────────────────
+  // Without this, the internal extract step would render the tile bytes
+  // using the per-platform default palette (grayscale-toned on most
+  // targets), losing the artist-facing colors that the standalone
+  // `extractSpriteSheet` would have surfaced. We mirror the same
+  // palette-resolution logic extractSpriteSheet uses (see rom-id.js):
+  //   - Under intent:"homebrew" (d.colorMode === "live-or-platform"),
+  //     default to reading the live emulator palette when a ROM is
+  //     loaded; fall back to the per-platform default palette otherwise.
+  //   - Under intent:"rom-hack", default to grayscale (no override).
+  //   - Explicit paletteFromEmulator wins over the intent default.
+  // After this block, paletteOverride is either a [[r,g,b], ...] array
+  // or undefined (in which case renderTilesGrid uses its default).
+  let resolvedPaletteFromEmulator = paletteFromEmulator;
+  if (resolvedPaletteFromEmulator === undefined) {
+    resolvedPaletteFromEmulator = d.colorMode === "live-or-platform";
+  }
+  let paletteOverride;
+  let paletteSource = "default (grayscale)";
+  if (resolvedPaletteFromEmulator) {
+    try {
+      const { decodeLivePalette } = await import("./preview-tile.js");
+      const { getHostOrNull } = await import("../state.js");
+      const host = sessionKey ? getHostOrNull(sessionKey) : null;
+      if (host) {
+        paletteOverride = decodeLivePalette(host, sourcePlatform, paletteIndex, spec);
+        paletteSource = `emulator (subpalette ${paletteIndex})`;
+      } else if (paletteFromEmulator === true) {
+        // Caller EXPLICITLY asked for the emulator palette but no ROM
+        // is loaded. Surface the issue instead of silently falling back
+        // — they asked for live colors, we can't give them, that's a
+        // real error worth knowing about. Mirrors the same behavior in
+        // extractSpriteSheet (see rom-id.js).
+        throw new Error("crossPlatformSpriteImport: paletteFromEmulator:true requires a loaded ROM. Call loadMedia first.");
+      } else if (d.colorMode === "live-or-platform") {
+        // Intent default kicked in (no explicit paletteFromEmulator)
+        // and no ROM is loaded. Fall back to the per-platform default
+        // palette so the agent still gets COLOR, not grayscale —
+        // better artist experience than the ramp.
+        const { getDefaultPalette, DEFAULT_PALETTES } = await import("../../platforms/common/default-palette.js");
+        if (DEFAULT_PALETTES[sourcePlatform]) {
+          paletteOverride = getDefaultPalette(sourcePlatform);
+          paletteSource = `per-platform default (no ROM loaded; ${paletteOverride.length}-color)`;
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      // Re-throw the explicit-flag-no-rom case; soft-fail anything else
+      // (e.g. platforms whose live-palette decode isn't wired yet) so
+      // the agent gets a working pipeline + a hint in paletteSource.
+      if (paletteFromEmulator === true) throw e;
+      paletteSource = `default (grayscale; live-palette read failed: ${e.message})`;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ── Step 3: render the source tile bank to a temp PNG ───────────
+  const sourceBankPng = renderTilesGrid({ platform: sourcePlatform, tileBytes: tileSourceBytes, tilesPerRow, paletteOverride });
+  // Persist to a sibling temp path so cropSpriteSheetImpl can read it.
+  await mkdir(path.dirname(outputPng), { recursive: true });
+  const bankTmp = outputPng + ".source-bank.png";
+  await writeFile(bankTmp, sourceBankPng);
+
+  // ── Step 4: crop to the requested tile region ───────────────────
+  const cropTmp = outputPng + ".crop.png";
+  await cropSpriteSheetImpl({
+    path: bankTmp,
+    tileX: sourceTileX, tileY: sourceTileY,
+    tileW: sourceTileW, tileH: sourceTileH,
+    outputPath: cropTmp,
+    intent: d.intent,
+  });
+
+  // ── Step 5: quantize to the target platform's palette ──────────
+  // Under intent:"homebrew" (d.autoQuantize=true) we re-quantize to the
+  // target platform's per-subpalette limit. Under rom-hack we copy the
+  // cropped PNG verbatim — preserves source bytes for forensic workflows
+  // where the caller is doing palette work outside the pipeline.
+  let quantResult;
+  if (d.autoQuantize) {
+    quantResult = await quantizePngForPlatformImpl({
+      path: cropTmp,
+      platform: targetPlatform,
+      outputPath: outputPng,
+      mode: resolvedQuantizeMode,
+      intent: d.intent,
+    });
+  } else {
+    // Copy the cropped PNG to the requested output path unchanged.
+    const cropBytes = await readFile(cropTmp);
+    await writeFile(outputPng, cropBytes);
+    const cropPng = readPng(cropBytes);
+    quantResult = {
+      path: outputPng,
+      intent: d.intent,
+      width: cropPng.width,
+      height: cropPng.height,
+      paletteEntries: cropPng.palette ? cropPng.palette.length : null,
+      palette: cropPng.palette
+        ? cropPng.palette.map((c) => "#" + [c[0], c[1], c[2]].map((v) => v.toString(16).padStart(2, "0")).join(""))
+        : [],
+      mode: "preserved (rom-hack: no quantize)",
+      note: "intent:rom-hack — auto-quantize skipped, source bytes preserved verbatim.",
+    };
+  }
+
+  // ── Step 6: optional manifest. One named entry per 8×8 tile in the
+  //   crop region (`namePrefix_row_col`), in row-major order.
+  let manifestInfo = null;
+  if (outputManifest) {
+    const frames = {};
+    for (let r = 0; r < sourceTileH; r++) {
+      for (let c = 0; c < sourceTileW; c++) {
+        frames[`${namePrefix}_${r}_${c}`] = {
+          frame: { x: c * 8, y: r * 8, w: 8, h: 8 },
+        };
+      }
+    }
+    const manifest = { frames, meta: { app: "romdev/crossPlatformSpriteImport", source: sourceRom } };
+    await writeFile(outputManifest, JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2));
+    manifestInfo = { path: outputManifest, frames: Object.keys(frames).length };
+  }
+
+  // Cleanup intermediate files — keep the result small.
+  const { unlink } = await import("node:fs/promises");
+  await unlink(bankTmp).catch(() => {});
+  await unlink(cropTmp).catch(() => {});
+
+  return {
+    outputPng,
+    intent: d.intent,
+    width: quantResult.width,
+    height: quantResult.height,
+    palette: quantResult.palette,
+    paletteEntries: quantResult.paletteEntries,
+    quantizeMode: d.autoQuantize ? resolvedQuantizeMode : "skipped",
+    sourcePlatform,
+    targetPlatform,
+    sourceTileRegion: { x: sourceTileX, y: sourceTileY, w: sourceTileW, h: sourceTileH },
+    // R23f: surface the source palette source so the agent can verify
+    // the live-emulator read happened (vs falling back to grayscale).
+    // Matches the same field on extractSpriteSheet's response.
+    sourcePaletteSource: paletteSource,
+    manifest: manifestInfo,
+    nextStep: outputManifest
+      ? `loadSpriteSheet({ pngPath:"${outputPng}", manifestPath:"${outputManifest}", platform:"${targetPlatform}", intent:"${d.intent}" }) — produces tile bytes ready to link into your ROM.`
+      : `Pass outputManifest:"..." next time to get a TexturePacker-style manifest, or hand-author one — minimal shape is {frames:{name:{frame:{x,y,w,h}}}}.`,
+  };
+}
+
+// ── Register all three tools ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+export function registerSpritePipelineTools(server, z, sessionKey) {
+  server.tool(
+    "encodeArt",
+    "Encode a PNG into a platform's native art format, one tool keyed by `stage` — the PNG→tiles pipeline. " +
+    "tiles/tilemap read `pngPath` (preferred — server reads it, no base64 token cost) or `pngBase64`, write to `outputDir` (or `inline`). " +
+    "quantize/crop instead take `path` (source PNG) + `outputPath`. " +
+    "**Image width & height must be multiples of 8.** **GENESIS: a 17th color (palette index > 15) leaking into the tile " +
+    "words builds fine but renders GARBAGE — run stage:'validate' on generated Genesis tiles.**\n" +
+    "• stage:'quantize' — reduce an RGBA PNG to a platform's per-subpalette color limit, emit an indexed PNG (with a PLTE " +
+    "loadSpriteSheet picks up). The bridge from 'imported with another platform's colors' to 'lands with the right index " +
+    "layout'. `mode`: frequency | luminance (index 0 = lightest backdrop) | platform-master (NES snap). `maxColors` overrides the per-platform default. (`platform`, `path`, `outputPath` required.)\n" +
+    "• stage:'crop' — crop a rectangular region of tile CELLS (not pixels; `tileSize` default 8) out of an existing tile-grid PNG (e.g. pull one sprite out of an extracted CHR bank). Preserves PLTE via nearest-neighbour remap. Platform-agnostic. (`path`, `tileX/Y/W/H`, `outputPath` required.)\n" +
+    "• stage:'tiles' — convert a PNG to native tile bytes — raw tiles, no tilemap. Programmable-palette platforms also return a suggested palette. MSX returns TWO streams (pattern.bin + color.bin for screen-2's per-row 2-color format). For multi-cell SPRITES (Genesis/Lynx) pass `tileOrder:'sprite'` — hardware reads a sprite's tiles COLUMN-major (top-to-bottom then right), NOT the row-major BG layout. Writes tiles.bin (+ palette.bin) to outputDir, or inline.\n" +
+    "• stage:'tilemap' — render a large PNG (title screen, world map) to tile graphics + tilemap (the platform's screen-map form: NES nametable, SNES/SMS/GG tilemap, Genesis/GB/GBC BG map, C64 screen RAM, PCE BAT, MSX name+pattern+color) + per-cell palette/attribute + palette table, with flip-aware tile dedup. NOT 2600/7800 (no fixed tilemap — errors). PREREQUISITE: the PNG must already be sized to the platform's native screen and quantized to its palette. `dedup`/`singlePalette`/`backdrop`/`maxTiles`.\n" +
+    "• stage:'validate' — validate generated Genesis 4bpp tile data and/or palette against the VDP's hard limits — catches the 'builds fine, renders garbage' bug. `tileDataPath` (raw 4bpp .bin) and/or `paletteJson` (lines of colors). Returns {ok, errors[], warnings[], stats}.",
+    {
+      stage: z.enum(["quantize", "crop", "tiles", "tilemap", "validate"])
+        .describe("quantize=reduce colors to the platform limit; crop=slice tile cells from a grid PNG; tiles=PNG→raw native tiles; tilemap=PNG→tiles+screen/attr map; validate=check Genesis 4bpp tiles/palette."),
+      platform: z.string().optional().describe("Target platform id. Required for quantize/tiles/tilemap (validate is Genesis-only; crop is platform-agnostic)."),
+      // shared PNG inputs (tiles/tilemap)
+      pngBase64: z.string().optional().describe("stage:tiles/tilemap — base64 PNG. Prefer `pngPath`."),
+      pngPath: z.string().optional().describe("stage:tiles/tilemap — absolute path to a PNG on disk (no base64 cost)."),
+      // quantize/crop single-file input
+      path: z.string().optional().describe("stage:quantize/crop — absolute path to the source PNG."),
+      outputPath: z.string().optional().describe("stage:quantize/crop — absolute path to write the output PNG (required)."),
+      outputDir: z.string().optional().describe("stage:tiles (tiles.bin/palette.bin) / stage:tilemap (chr/nametable/attr/palette/preview) — output dir. Required for tiles unless inline."),
+      inline: z.boolean().default(false).describe("stage:tiles — return base64 in the response instead of writing to disk."),
+      // quantize
+      mode: z.enum(["frequency", "luminance", "platform-master"]).optional().describe("stage:quantize — palette strategy. Default from `intent` (homebrew → platform-master, rom-hack → frequency)."),
+      maxColors: z.number().int().min(1).max(256).optional().describe("stage:quantize — override the per-platform default (SNES 2bpp=4, 8bpp=256)."),
+      // crop
+      tileX: z.number().int().min(0).optional().describe("stage:crop — leftmost tile column to include (0 = first)."),
+      tileY: z.number().int().min(0).optional().describe("stage:crop — topmost tile row to include (0 = first)."),
+      tileW: z.number().int().min(1).optional().describe("stage:crop — crop width in tile cells."),
+      tileH: z.number().int().min(1).optional().describe("stage:crop — crop height in tile cells."),
+      tileSize: z.number().int().min(1).max(64).default(8).describe("stage:crop — tile cell side length in pixels (8 for nearly every platform)."),
+      // tiles
+      tileOrder: z.enum(["row", "sprite"]).default("row").describe("stage:tiles — 'row' (default, BG tilemap order) or 'sprite' (column-major, the order multi-cell hardware sprites read on Genesis/Lynx). Ignored for MSX."),
+      // tiles + tilemap caps
+      maxTiles: z.number().int().min(1).max(8192).optional().describe("stage:tiles (default 512) / stage:tilemap (cap on unique tiles when dedup; defaults to the platform's pattern-table limit)."),
+      // tilemap
+      backdrop: z.number().int().min(0).optional().describe("stage:tilemap — force a master-palette index for the universal backdrop (default: most-common color)."),
+      dedup: z.boolean().default(true).describe("stage:tilemap — collapse identical tile bitmaps to one CHR entry (default true)."),
+      singlePalette: z.boolean().default(false).describe("stage:tilemap — every attribute cell uses one identical palette (limits to 4 total colors)."),
+      // validate
+      tileDataPath: z.string().optional().describe("stage:validate — absolute path to raw 4bpp Genesis tile bytes (length a multiple of 32; each pixel an index 0-15)."),
+      paletteJson: z.array(z.any()).optional().describe("stage:validate — palette as lines (array of lines, each an array of colors). Flags any line with >16 colors."),
+      maxPaletteIndex: z.number().int().min(0).max(15).default(15).describe("stage:validate — highest palette index the art may use (default 15; pass 14 if you reserve index 15)."),
+      intent: intentZod(z),
+    },
+    safeTool(async (args) => {
+      switch (args.stage) {
+        case "quantize": {
+          if (!args.platform) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'quantize'}): `platform` is required.");
+          if (!args.path || !args.outputPath) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'quantize'}): `path` and `outputPath` are required.");
+          return jsonContent(await quantizePngForPlatformImpl(args));
+        }
+        case "crop": {
+          if (!args.path || !args.outputPath) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'crop'}): `path` and `outputPath` are required.");
+          if (args.tileX == null || args.tileY == null || args.tileW == null || args.tileH == null) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'crop'}): `tileX`, `tileY`, `tileW`, `tileH` are required.");
+          return jsonContent(await cropSpriteSheetImpl(args));
+        }
+        case "tiles": {
+          if (!args.platform) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'tiles'}): `platform` is required.");
+          return await convertImageToTilesCore(args);
+        }
+        case "tilemap": {
+          if (!args.platform) throw new Error("encodeArt({stage:'tilemap'}): `platform` is required.");
+          return await imageToTilemapCore(args);
+        }
+        case "validate":
+          return jsonContent(await validateGenesisTilesCore(args));
+        default: throw new Error(`encodeArt: unknown stage '${args.stage}'`);
+      }
+    }),
+  );
+  // crossPlatformSpriteImport folded into the `importArt` tool
+  // (importArt({from:'rom'}), in art-loaders.js). The impl stays exported below.
+}
+
+// Exports for tests + cross-tool reuse.
+export { cropSpriteSheetImpl, quantizePngForPlatformImpl, crossPlatformSpriteImportImpl, PLATFORM_LIMITS };