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+# Provider Access ABI
+
+**Status:** v1 — owner directive 2026-08-07, graph task `sdk-provider-access-abi`.
+
+One generalized port that lets a WASM module **control** imagery and terrain
+providers and **read the already-decoded bytes** those providers hold in
+memory — identical import names and signatures in the browser, in native
+WasmEdge, and in the Docker WasmEdge container.
+
+This is a *provider access* port, not a *Cesium* port and not an *OrbPro* port.
+Nothing in the guest ABI names an engine, a tile scheme, or a vendor. The same
+three imports serve a browser engine's live quadtree cache, a host-side tile
+store, and a deterministic test fixture.
+
+## Table of contents
+
+- [Doctrine](#doctrine)
+- [Capability](#capability)
+- [The import set](#the-import-set)
+- [Tile descriptor](#tile-descriptor)
+- [Acquire requests](#acquire-requests)
+- [Control operations](#control-operations)
+- [Error codes](#error-codes)
+- [Copy contract](#copy-contract)
+- [Runtime satisfaction](#runtime-satisfaction)
+- [Parity envelope](#parity-envelope)
+- [Guest usage](#guest-usage)
+
+## Doctrine
+
+Four rules govern every line below.
+
+1. **One port, two planes.** Control is metadata and rides the existing
+   `space_data_module_host` sync hostcall bridge as `provider.*` operations.
+   Data is bulk bytes and rides three dedicated imports that write straight
+   into guest linear memory. Control never carries pixels; data never carries
+   JSON.
+2. **No runtime detection in module code.** A module that reads terrain never
+   asks which runtime it is in. Every difference is absorbed in the SDK host
+   shims.
+3. **Present everywhere, honest everywhere.** The imports link in *every*
+   runtime. There is no lane where `space_data_provider.acquire` is missing —
+   a missing import is a link-time divergence, the worst class. When nothing
+   can serve a request the port returns a **value** (a negative error code),
+   never a trap, and the same code in every runtime.
+4. **Decoded or nothing, by default.** The port hands over buffers the provider
+   already decoded. It never re-fetches and never re-parses *unless the caller
+   explicitly raised its cost ceiling*. Every acquire carries a declared
+   [cost class](#cost-classes); the default ceiling admits only already-resident
+   bytes, and an adapter that would have to exceed it returns
+   `SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED` rather than quietly paying it.
+
+## Capability
+
+The port is gated by the existing coarse capability, with a scope:
+
+```json
+{
+  "capability": "scene_access",
+  "scope": "provider.v1",
+  "required": false,
+  "description": "Read and control imagery/terrain providers."
+}
+```
+
+`scene_access` is already in the SDK recommended capability vocabulary
+(`src/capabilities.js`) and already maps to the typed
+`CapabilityKind.SCENE_ACCESS` PLG enum (`src/manifest/normalize.js`). **This
+ABI introduces no new host capability** — it is a scope on an existing one,
+exactly as `gpu_compute` uses `scope: "webgpu.v1"`. No owner sign-off gate,
+no SDS enum change, no new generic hook.
+
+`required: false` is the recommended posture. A module whose analysis degrades
+gracefully without provider bytes must declare it optional and handle
+`SDM_PROVIDER_E_NO_PROVIDER` as a first-class outcome, because that is the
+answer it will get on a headless node with no tile store configured.
+
+## The import set
+
+Import module: **`space_data_provider`**. Three functions. Every parameter and
+every result is `i32`.
+
+```wat
+(import "space_data_provider" "acquire"
+        (func (param i32 i32 i32) (result i32)))
+(import "space_data_provider" "read"
+        (func (param i32 i32 i32 i32 i32) (result i32)))
+(import "space_data_provider" "release"
+        (func (param i32) (result i32)))
+```
+
+| function  | params                                             | result |
+| --------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------ |
+| `acquire` | `reqPtr, reqLen, descPtr`                           | handle `> 0`, or negative error code |
+| `read`    | `handle, plane, srcOffset, dstPtr, dstLen`          | bytes written `>= 0`, or negative error code |
+| `release` | `handle`                                            | `0`, or negative error code |
+
+Open, read, close. Three doors.
+
+**No `i64` appears anywhere in the boundary signature, and no `f64` either.**
+This is deliberate. The i64 legalization trap measured on this SDK — a
+64-bit-parameter import legalizes differently depending on how the host
+instantiates it, and the mismatch surfaces as a link failure or a silently
+truncated argument in exactly one runtime — is sidestepped by construction, not
+by convention. Every 64-bit quantity in this ABI (bounding rectangles, height
+extrema, sample coordinates) travels either inside the JSON acquire request or
+inside the descriptor struct in guest memory, where it is plain
+little-endian IEEE-754 the guest reads with a normal load. The boundary itself
+carries only pointers, lengths, indices and codes.
+
+- `acquire(reqPtr, reqLen, descPtr)` — `reqPtr/reqLen` is a UTF-8 JSON request
+  (see [Acquire requests](#acquire-requests)). `descPtr` is a guest pointer to
+  at least `SDM_PROVIDER_TILE_DESC_BYTES` (128) writable bytes; on success the
+  host fills it with the [tile descriptor](#tile-descriptor). The returned
+  handle pins the provider's decoded buffer on the host side until `release`.
+  The call blocks until the tile is resident (browser: `Atomics.wait` on the
+  SAB hostcall channel, the same mechanism `http` and `storage` already use;
+  WasmEdge: a blocking host call). `descPtr` is left untouched on failure.
+- `read(handle, plane, srcOffset, dstPtr, dstLen)` — copies at most `dstLen`
+  bytes of `plane`, starting at `srcOffset` bytes into that plane, into guest
+  memory at `dstPtr`. Returns the number of bytes written, which is
+  `min(dstLen, planeByteLength - srcOffset)` and may legally be less than
+  `dstLen` at the tail. Reading a plane in several chunks is supported and
+  yields exactly the same bytes as one whole-plane read.
+- `release(handle)` — unpins. Releasing an already-released handle returns
+  `SDM_PROVIDER_E_BAD_HANDLE`, in every runtime. Handles are per-instance and
+  per-thread-group; they are never valid across an instance restart.
+
+Error detail (a message, a name, the failing operation) is retrieved through
+the control plane with `provider.lastError`. It is deliberately not an extra
+import: strings are metadata and metadata rides the existing bridge.
+
+## Tile descriptor
+
+`SDM_PROVIDER_TILE_DESC_BYTES = 128`. Little-endian. `u32` fields are 4-byte
+aligned; `f64` fields start at offset 48 and are all 8-byte aligned, so a
+guest may read them with aligned loads on every target.
+
+| offset | type  | field             | meaning |
+| ------ | ----- | ----------------- | ------- |
+| 0      | u32   | `magic`           | `0x53445054` (`'SDPT'`) |
+| 4      | u32   | `version`         | `1` |
+| 8      | u32   | `kind`            | `1` terrain, `2` imagery |
+| 12     | u32   | `encoding`        | see below |
+| 16     | u32   | `width`           | elements per row |
+| 20     | u32   | `height`          | rows |
+| 24     | u32   | `planeCount`      | number of readable planes, `>= 1` |
+| 28     | u32   | `bytesPerElement` | of plane 0 |
+| 32     | u32   | `rowStrideBytes`  | of plane 0; `>= width * bytesPerElement` |
+| 36     | u32   | `byteLength`      | of plane 0 |
+| 40     | u32   | `flags`           | see below |
+| 44     | u32   | `level`           | source level, or `0xFFFFFFFF` for derived tiles |
+| 48     | f64   | `west`            | radians |
+| 56     | f64   | `south`           | radians |
+| 64     | f64   | `east`            | radians |
+| 72     | f64   | `north`           | radians |
+| 80     | f64   | `minValue`        | terrain: min height, metres. imagery: `0` |
+| 88     | f64   | `maxValue`        | terrain: max height, metres. imagery: `0` |
+| 96     | u32   | `tileX`           | source tile X, or `0xFFFFFFFF` |
+| 100    | u32   | `tileY`           | source tile Y, or `0xFFFFFFFF` |
+| 104    | u32   | `hostCopies`      | host→guest copies this acquire will cost per whole-plane read |
+| 108    | u32   | `sourceId`        | FNV-1a 32 of the provider id — stable, comparable across runtimes |
+| 112    | u32   | `costClass`       | what this acquire actually cost — see [Cost classes](#cost-classes) |
+| 116    | u32   | `strategy`        | how the level was chosen: `0` default, `1` grid-matched-level, `2` most-detailed, `3` fixed-level |
+| 120    | u32[2]| `reserved`        | zero |
+
+`encoding`:
+
+| value | name | element |
+| ----- | ---- | ------- |
+| 1  | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_HEIGHT_F32`  | `float` metres above the ellipsoid |
+| 2  | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_HEIGHT_F64`  | `double` metres above the ellipsoid |
+| 16 | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_RGBA8`       | 4 × `uint8_t` |
+| 17 | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_RGB8`        | 3 × `uint8_t` |
+| 18 | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_GRAY8`       | 1 × `uint8_t` |
+| 19 | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_GRAY16`      | 1 × `uint16_t` |
+| 20 | `SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_RGBA_F32`    | 4 × `float`, 0..1 |
+
+**Terrain heights are always delivered in metres**, as `f32` or `f64`. A
+provider's on-the-wire encoding — a 16-bit heightmap with
+`{heightScale, heightOffset, elementsPerHeight, stride, elementMultiplier,
+isBigEndian}` structure, or a quantized-mesh's zig-zag-encoded `u16`
+vertices — is the *provider's* business. The adapter dequantizes into metres
+exactly once and pins the result. Guests never see a scale/offset field
+because guests must never reimplement a provider's quantization; that is the
+single most likely place for two runtimes to disagree by one ULP, and the ABI
+removes the opportunity rather than documenting it.
+
+`flags`:
+
+| bit | name | meaning |
+| --- | ---- | ------- |
+| 0 | `SDM_PROVIDER_FLAG_INTERPOLATED` | values were interpolated from a coarser level than requested |
+| 1 | `SDM_PROVIDER_FLAG_STAGED`       | host had to stage a copy; `hostCopies` is `2` |
+| 2 | `SDM_PROVIDER_FLAG_PARTIAL`      | some elements have no data and hold the no-data sentinel |
+| 3 | `SDM_PROVIDER_FLAG_DERIVED`      | not a source tile (profile/region request) |
+| 4 | `SDM_PROVIDER_FLAG_FIXTURE`      | served by the deterministic fixture adapter |
+
+Bit 4 exists so a parity test can *prove* it compared fixture bytes against
+fixture bytes, rather than assuming it.
+
+### The no-data sentinel
+
+A terrain sample with no data is **not** absent, **not** `0`, and **not** NaN.
+It is an exact bit pattern:
+
+| encoding | sentinel | bits |
+| -------- | -------- | ---- |
+| `HEIGHT_F32` | `-FLT_MAX` | `0xFF7FFFFF` |
+| `HEIGHT_F64` | `-DBL_MAX` | `0xFFEFFFFFFFFFFFFF` |
+
+NaN is specifically rejected. WebAssembly does not canonicalize NaN payloads
+across all producing operations, so two runtimes can hold *different bits* for
+"a NaN" and a byte-identical-output assertion would fail on a value that is
+semantically equal. A sentinel with one exact encoding cannot do that.
+
+This also closes a real defect class in the existing engine seam, where "no
+data" is expressed as `Cartographic.height === undefined` — a JS-object-only
+state that a typed array cannot represent at all, and which therefore silently
+becomes `0` (sea level) the moment anyone packs those samples into a buffer.
+Sea level under a ridge is exactly the failure the RF terrain solver was filed
+for. The sentinel is defined here, in the ABI, so no consumer has to invent it.
+
+### Cost classes
+
+`costClass` states what an acquire actually cost. The acquire request carries
+`"maxCost"`, and an adapter that cannot serve within it returns
+`SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED`.
+
+| value | name | meaning |
+| ----- | ---- | ------- |
+| 0 | `SDM_PROVIDER_COST_RESIDENT`   | bytes already decoded and resident; pure memcpy |
+| 1 | `SDM_PROVIDER_COST_DEQUANTIZE` | resident, but dequantized to metres by the adapter |
+| 2 | `SDM_PROVIDER_COST_REDECODE`   | adapter re-decoded already-fetched source data |
+| 3 | `SDM_PROVIDER_COST_REFETCH`    | adapter went to the network |
+| 4 | `SDM_PROVIDER_COST_READBACK`   | adapter stalled the GPU to read a texture back |
+
+**`maxCost` defaults to `1`.** That default *is* the owner's "never re-fetch or
+re-parse" rule, enforced by the ABI rather than by discipline. A caller who
+genuinely wants the expensive path must raise the ceiling and thereby say so in
+its own source.
+
+Class 1 exists because it is unavoidable and honest: a quantized-mesh terrain
+tile holds `uint16` vertices and **no metre-space array exists anywhere** in
+the provider. The adapter dequantizes with the provider's own formula, once,
+into the pinned buffer. That is not a re-decode — nothing is re-parsed and
+nothing is re-fetched — but it is not free either, so it gets its own class
+instead of being hidden inside class 0.
+
+## Acquire requests
+
+The JSON request selects one of three shapes. All angles are **radians**.
+
+**`tile`** — one source tile, exactly as the provider decoded it. Zero
+resampling, zero interpolation.
+
+```json
+{"op":"tile","providerId":"terrain.fixture","level":9,"x":123,"y":45}
+```
+
+**`profile`** — heights along a path. The seam the RF terrain solver consumes:
+one call, one copy, `width = samples`, `height = 1`,
+`encoding = SDM_PROVIDER_ENC_HEIGHT_F64`.
+
+```json
+{"op":"profile","providerId":"terrain.fixture",
+ "start":[-1.9,0.65],"end":[-1.88,0.66],"samples":256,"level":"mostDetailed"}
+```
+
+or with explicit positions:
+
+```json
+{"op":"profile","providerId":"terrain.fixture",
+ "positions":[[-1.9,0.65],[-1.899,0.6501]]}
+```
+
+**Raster in.** A coverage field is commonly 512x512 = **262,144 positions**.
+Encoding those as JSON would be a multi-megabyte request string, parsed on
+every call — a worse cost than the read it is asking for, and it would make the
+control plane carry bulk data, which this ABI exists to prevent. So positions
+may instead be a pointer:
+
+```json
+{"op":"profile","providerId":"terrain.fixture",
+ "positionsPtr":1048576,"positionsCount":262144,"spacing":30}
+```
+
+The host reads interleaved f64 lon/lat pairs straight out of guest memory with
+ONE copy, symmetric with the way results come back. The request string stays
+under 200 bytes no matter how large the field is. A pointer or count outside
+linear memory is `SDM_PROVIDER_E_BOUNDS` — a value, never a trap and never a
+silent short read.
+
+**`spacing` beats `level`.** Any shape may carry `"spacing": <metres>` — the
+sample stride the caller intends to march at — and the port picks the coarsest
+level whose sample spacing is at or below it. This is the preferred form:
+a consumer knows its own stride, it does not know a provider's level scheme.
+Asking for `"mostDetailed"` everywhere is what makes a solve slow; asking for
+coarser than the march stride is what makes it wrong. Level selection lives in
+one shared helper (`providerLevelForSpacing`) used by every adapter, so the
+browser and a host tile store resolve the same spacing to the same level — two
+adapters doing their own arithmetic would sample different ground and lose byte
+parity for a reason no diff would show.
+
+The level actually used comes back in `descriptor.level`, always. A consumer
+that cannot see which level answered cannot tell a solve that resolved the
+ridges from one that interpolated them away.
+
+`level` is an integer, `"mostDetailed"`, or omitted (adapter's default). The
+sampled positions are great-circle-interpolated between `start` and `end` by
+the *host adapter*, using the adapter's native sampler, so that two runtimes
+sampling the same source agree byte-for-byte. A guest that interpolates its
+own positions and passes them explicitly gets exactly what it asked for.
+
+**`region`** — a rectangle resampled onto a `width × height` grid. What a
+viewshed, a coverage raster, or a cloud-mask lane wants.
+
+```json
+{"op":"region","providerId":"imagery.fixture",
+ "rectangle":[-1.91,0.64,-1.87,0.67],"width":256,"height":256,"level":9}
+```
+
+`region` on a terrain provider yields heights; on an imagery provider it
+yields pixels. The port does not care which — that is the whole point.
+
+Every shape accepts `"maxCost": N` (default `1`) and `"plane": "height" |
+"pixels" | N`.
+
+### Imagery is not terrain, and the ABI says so
+
+Terrain can honour `maxCost: 0..1` because a decoded terrain tile stays
+resident in the provider for as long as the tile is loaded. **Imagery cannot**,
+on the current engine tree: the CPU-side pixel buffer is released immediately
+after the texture is uploaded to the GPU, so for any tile the renderer has
+finished with, the decoded pixels are simply gone.
+
+The consequence is stated here rather than discovered later:
+
+- imagery `acquire` at the default `maxCost: 1` succeeds **only** for tiles
+  caught in the window between decode and upload, and returns
+  `SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED` otherwise;
+- imagery at `maxCost: 4` may be served by GPU readback — but those are the
+  *reprojected* pixels the renderer holds, not the source pixels, and the
+  descriptor says so via `FLAG_DERIVED`;
+- imagery at `maxCost: 3` re-fetches and re-decodes from the provider.
+
+An adapter that wants to offer resident imagery must tap the pixels *before*
+upload; that is an engine-side change and belongs to the engine owner, not to
+this ABI. Until it exists, **`SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED` is the correct and
+final answer for resident imagery pixels**, and it is the same answer in all
+three runtimes. The ABI does not promise imagery parity with terrain, because
+the engine cannot currently deliver it, and a port that promised it would be
+lying in exactly the way this SDK exists to prevent.
+
+## Control operations
+
+Ride the existing `space_data_module_host.call` bridge. No new imports.
+
+| operation | request | response |
+| --------- | ------- | -------- |
+| `provider.list` | `{"kind":"terrain"\|"imagery"\|null}` | `{"providers":[{id,kind,name,ready,minLevel,maxLevel,tileWidth,tileHeight,encoding,credit}]}` |
+| `provider.describe` | `{"id":"..."}` | the same record, plus adapter-specific `attributes` |
+| `provider.select` | `{"kind":"terrain","id":"..."}` | `{"selected":"..."}` |
+| `provider.configure` | `{"id":"...","settings":{...}}` | `{"applied":["alpha","show"],"rejected":[]}` |
+| `provider.availability` | `{"id":"...","level":9,"x":1,"y":2}` | `{"available":true}` |
+| `provider.prefetch` | `{"id":"...","rectangle":[w,s,e,n],"level":9}` | `{"requested":N,"pending":M,"supported":bool}` |
+| `provider.await` | `{"id":"...","rectangle":[...],"level":9,"timeoutMs":30000}` | `{"ready":true,"pending":0}` |
+| `provider.lastError` | `{}` | `{"code":-3,"name":"...","message":"...","operation":"..."}` |
+| `provider.stats` | `{}` | `{"acquires":N,"reads":N,"bytesCopied":N,"hostCopies":N,"pinned":N}` |
+
+`provider.list` returning `{"providers":[]}` is a **success**, not an error. A
+headless node with nothing configured is a legitimate, enumerable state; making
+it an error would mean the "nothing here" path differs from the "something
+here" path in shape, and modules would grow runtime-shaped branches. They
+return the same shape, so they don't.
+
+`provider.configure` is intentionally a key/value bag with an explicit
+`applied`/`rejected` split. Adapters apply what their underlying surface
+natively supports and *report* the rest as rejected. An adapter must never
+emulate a setting its provider does not have.
+
+`provider.stats.hostCopies` is what a copy-count assertion reads. It is
+maintained identically by every adapter.
+
+`provider.prefetch` carries `"supported"` because **region prefetch is a
+genuine engine LACK**, ruled by the engine owner: the browser engine loads
+tiles from camera position only, and its one region-shaped API loads
+*availability metadata*, not geometry. Rather than invent an engine API — which
+the native-API law forbids — the port reports `"supported": false` with
+`"requested": 0`. A host-side tile-store adapter, which has no camera and can
+simply fetch, reports `"supported": true`. This is a real capability difference
+and it is **declared in the response, not hidden**: a module reads one boolean
+and does not branch on runtime. Closing the gap is engine work, tracked
+separately as `orbpro-provider-access-port`.
+
+## Error codes
+
+Negative `i32`, returned from `acquire`, `read` and `release`. Identical value,
+identical meaning, identical trap class (none — these are values) in every
+runtime.
+
+| code | name | when |
+| ---- | ---- | ---- |
+| `-1`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_INVALID_REQUEST` | malformed JSON, unknown `op`, out-of-range field |
+| `-2`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NO_CAPABILITY`   | `scene_access`/`provider.v1` not granted |
+| `-3`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NO_PROVIDER`     | no provider with that id or kind |
+| `-4`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NOT_READY`       | provider exists but is not ready; `provider.await` first |
+| `-5`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NOT_AVAILABLE`   | no data at that level/x/y |
+| `-6`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_BOUNDS`          | pointer/length outside guest memory, or offset past the plane |
+| `-7`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_BAD_HANDLE`      | unknown or already-released handle |
+| `-8`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_BAD_PLANE`       | `plane >= planeCount` |
+| `-9`  | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED`     | adapter cannot serve this without re-fetch or re-decode |
+| `-10` | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_TIMEOUT`         | load did not complete in the adapter's budget |
+| `-11` | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_HOST`            | adapter threw; detail via `provider.lastError` |
+| `-12` | `SDM_PROVIDER_E_PORT_UNAVAILABLE`| no provider port bound in this runtime at all |
+
+`-9` is the honesty code. An adapter that *could* produce the answer by
+re-downloading a tile or re-decoding a PNG must return `-9` rather than pay a
+cost the caller did not ask for. A caller that wants the expensive path asks
+for it explicitly through `provider.prefetch` + `provider.await`.
+
+## Copy contract
+
+The owner's budget is **one copy host→wasm, zero re-decode**. The port meets it
+where the memory topology permits and reports honestly where it does not.
+`descriptor.hostCopies` and `provider.stats.hostCopies` are the measurement,
+readable from inside the guest, identical field in every runtime.
+
+| lane | copies for a whole-plane `read` | why |
+| ---- | ------------------------------- | --- |
+| WasmEdge native | **1** | host writes the pinned decoded buffer into linear memory |
+| WasmEdge in Docker | **1** | same host path |
+| Browser, wasi-threads guest | **1** | guest memory is a `SharedArrayBuffer`; the controlling thread that owns the provider caches writes into it directly at `dstPtr` |
+| Browser, sequential guest | **2** (`FLAG_STAGED`) | guest memory is not shared, so the controlling thread stages into the SAB and the worker performs the final copy |
+
+Zero of these paths encode the bytes into a hostcall envelope. That matters:
+the generic `space_data_module_host` envelope route costs **five** copies for a
+tile in the browser worker topology (provider array → envelope encode → SAB
+`data.set` → worker `new Uint8Array(length)` → bridge `lastResponseBytes` →
+`read_response` into linear memory). A 262 KB heightmap through the generic
+route is over a megabyte of memcpy per tile. That measured cost is the entire
+justification for three dedicated imports instead of one more `provider.*`
+operation on the existing bridge.
+
+The sequential-browser `2` is the **already-sanctioned browser-sequential
+throughput divergence** and nothing more. Bytes are identical, error codes are
+identical, `FLAG_STAGED` and `hostCopies` state the difference out loud, and a
+module that wants to assert `hostCopies == 1` can — it will simply be asserting
+that it is running threaded. It closes when `browser-worker-topology` lands.
+
+## Runtime satisfaction
+
+The imports are always present. What is bound behind them varies, and only in
+the SDK host shims.
+
+**Browser, engine present.** `createEngineProviderAdapter({ scene })` satisfies
+the port from the engine's live provider objects, through engine-native APIs
+only. It binds in two tiers, and which tier answered is visible to the guest in
+`descriptor.costClass`:
+
+- **Tier A — the engine's own `ProviderAccessPort`,** when the engine exposes
+  one. This is the `costClass 0/1` path: it walks the loaded tile cache and
+  hands over the decoded terrain data the engine already holds. Reaching into
+  a provider's private fields is *engine* work, not SDK work — those fields
+  rot on every upstream pin advance, and the engine's owner keeps them tested
+  inside the engine's own gates. The SDK calls the public port and nothing
+  else.
+- **Tier B — public engine API only,** when no port is present. Terrain is
+  served through the engine's exported most-detailed terrain sampler, which
+  re-requests and re-decodes: `costClass 2`. Under the default `maxCost: 1`
+  this tier therefore **refuses** with `SDM_PROVIDER_E_UNSUPPORTED`, and a
+  caller gets bytes only by explicitly raising its ceiling.
+
+Tier B works today against real provider objects with no engine change, which
+is what makes the port usable before the engine port lands; Tier A is what
+makes it cheap afterwards. Neither tier ever silently upgrades its cost.
+
+**WasmEdge, native or Docker.** There is no engine. The ruling, explicitly:
+
+> The server-side satisfaction is a **host-side tile-store adapter**, not a
+> refusal — and not an engine port. `createTileStoreProviderAdapter(...)`
+> serves the identical operations from tile sources reachable by the host,
+> using **only capabilities that already exist**: `filesystem` for a local
+> tileset directory, `http` for a remote tile service. It introduces no new
+> generic hook, so it needs no owner sign-off and no new connector. Where the
+> SDN node wants to expose its own curated terrain/imagery sources through
+> this port, that is a node-side *configuration* of this adapter — a `sdn`
+> escalation for wiring, never a change to this ABI.
+
+**Any runtime with nothing bound.** The port answers and does not lie:
+`provider.list` → `{"providers":[]}`; `acquire` → `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NO_PROVIDER`;
+with the capability withheld entirely, `SDM_PROVIDER_E_NO_CAPABILITY`; with no
+port installed by the host at all, `SDM_PROVIDER_E_PORT_UNAVAILABLE`. All three
+are values, none is a trap, and **all three are reachable in the browser too** —
+ask a browser adapter for a provider id that does not exist and you get `-3`,
+the same `-3`. The failure path is therefore parity-testable in every lane
+rather than being a WasmEdge-only special case, which is the difference between
+a mirror and an excuse.
+
+A module never branches on runtime. It branches on `-3`, and that branch is
+exercised in all three lanes.
+
+## Parity envelope
+
+**Inside the envelope** — byte-identical across browser, native WasmEdge and
+Docker WasmEdge, at any thread count:
+
+- every descriptor field for a given request against a given source
+- every byte of every plane read from the **fixture provider**
+- every error code, for every malformed and unsatisfiable request
+- `provider.list` / `describe` / `availability` shapes and ordering
+- the digest returned by the `provider-digest` demo module
+
+The fixture provider is a deterministic analytic source (a closed-form height
+field and a closed-form pixel field, both functions of tile coordinates only).
+It is bound in the browser as a real engine-shaped provider object and under
+WasmEdge as a fixture tile store, so both lanes exercise the *adapter* code
+paths rather than a shared shortcut. `FLAG_FIXTURE` proves which one answered.
+
+**Outside the envelope** — and this is stated so it is never mistaken for a
+defect: bytes from *live* network providers. Two runtimes reading a live
+world-terrain service are not obliged to hold the same tiles at the same
+instant, and asserting so would be false rigor. Their **ABI behaviour** —
+codes, descriptor shapes, plane counts, bounds handling, copy accounting — is
+fully inside the envelope.
+
+**Divergence in anything listed as inside the envelope is a P1 SDK defect.**
+Not a platform quirk. File, block, fix.
+
+## Consumer seam — terrain source
+
+The immediate consumer is the RF terrain solver, and the point of defining the
+terrain half first is that it must not ship a private terrain path.
+
+`src/host/terrainSourceSeam.js` defines the one JS interface both the engine
+port and the SDK adapters implement, plus
+`assertTerrainSourceConformance(source)` so a consumer can prove at wiring time
+that whatever it was handed is the real seam:
+
+```js
+{
+  id,                                   // stable provider id
+  costClass,                            // what readHeights will cost
+  readHeights(positions, out, opts) -> Promise<Float64Array>,   // bulk metres
+  readProfile(positions, opts) -> Promise<{                     // + provenance
+    heights, level, strategy, costClass, partial, interpolated
+  }>,
+  sampleCompat(provider, positions) -> Promise<Cartographic[]>, // legacy shape
+}
+```
+
+`opts` carries `spacing` (metres — the caller's march stride, preferred),
+`level`, `maxCost`, and `out`. One call carries a whole field: the solver's
+coverage rasters reach 512×512 = 262,144 points, and a per-point call cannot
+survive a boundary crossing at that count, which is why the seam is batched and
+in-place rather than scalar.
+
+`sampleCompat` is signature-compatible with the sampler the solver's injectable
+statics already hold, so the seam can be assigned on day one with no call-site
+change. `readHeights` is the real entry: contiguous metres, no per-sample JS
+object, no-data expressed as the sentinel rather than `undefined`.
+
+The cutover is therefore two recorded steps, not a rewrite:
+
+1. **Now** — the solver keeps its injectable statics and receives a
+   conforming seam through them. No private terrain path is introduced.
+2. **On engine-port landing** — the terrain source becomes an explicit
+   parameter on the analysis entry points (the pluggable-propagation law
+   applied to terrain) and call sites move from `sampleCompat` to
+   `readHeights`. Tracked as `orbpro-provider-access-port`.
+
+## Guest usage
+
+`templates/provider-access-module/include/space_data_provider_abi.h` declares
+the imports and the descriptor for `clang --target=wasm32-wasip1-threads`. The
+module is EH-free and compiles identically for every lane; there is exactly one
+`dist/isomorphic/module.wasm`.
+
+```c
+#include "space_data_provider_abi.h"
+
+sdm_provider_tile_desc_t desc;
+const char *req =
+    "{\"op\":\"profile\",\"providerId\":\"terrain.fixture\","
+    "\"start\":[-1.9,0.65],\"end\":[-1.88,0.66],\"samples\":256,\"maxCost\":1}";
+
+int32_t h = sdm_provider_acquire(req, (int32_t)strlen(req), &desc);
+if (h < 0) {
+  /* -3 here on a node with no terrain configured. Same branch, every lane. */
+  return handle_no_terrain(h);
+}
+double heights[256];
+int32_t n = sdm_provider_read(h, 0, 0, (int32_t)(uintptr_t)heights,
+                              (int32_t)sizeof heights);
+sdm_provider_release(h);
+```
+
+`desc.hostCopies` is `1` on WasmEdge and on a threaded browser guest, `2` on a
+sequential browser guest, and the 2048 bytes in `heights` are identical in all
+of them.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "space-data-module-sdk",
-  "version": "0.8.6",
+  "version": "0.8.8",
   "description": "Module SDK for building, validating, signing, and deploying WebAssembly modules on the Space Data Network.",
   "type": "module",
   "types": "./src/index.d.ts",
@@ -50,14 +50,22 @@
     "./http": "./src/http/index.js",
     "./host/browser-edge-shims": "./src/host/browserEdgeShims.js",
     "./host/wasi-shim": "./src/host/wasiShim.js",
-    "./host/isomorphic": "./src/host/isomorphicLoader.js",
-    "./testing/browser": "./src/testing/browserModuleHarness.js",
+    "./host/isomorphic": {
+      "browser": "./src/host/isomorphicLoaderBrowser.js",
+      "default": "./src/host/isomorphicLoader.js"
+    },
+    "./host/browser-module": "./src/host/browserModuleHarness.js",
+    "./host/worker-module": "./src/host/workerModuleHarness.js",
+    "./testing/browser": "./src/testing/browser.js",
     "./testing/module-flatbuffer-stream-pump": {
       "types": "./src/index.d.ts",
-      "default": "./src/testing/moduleFlatbufferStreamPump.js"
+      "default": "./src/host/moduleFlatbufferStreamPump.js"
     },
     "./testing": "./src/testing/index.js",
-    "./standards": "./src/standards/index.js",
+    "./standards": {
+      "browser": "./src/standards/browser.js",
+      "default": "./src/standards/index.js"
+    },
     "./utils/wasm-crypto": "./src/utils/wasmCrypto.js",
     "./schemas/*": "./schemas/*",
     "./compat": "./src/compat/index.js"
@@ -82,6 +90,7 @@
     "start:lab": "node ./lab/server.js",
     "check:nav": "node scripts/check-sdn-stack-nav.mjs module-sdk docs/index.html docs/styles.css",
     "check:compliance": "node ./bin/space-data-module.js check --repo-root .",
+    "check:generated-bindings": "node scripts/check-generated-bindings.mjs",
     "generate:vectors": "node ./examples/single-file-bundle/generate-vectors.mjs",
     "prepublishOnly": "npm test && npm run check:compliance"
   },
@@ -91,7 +100,7 @@
     "flatsql": "^0.4.2",
     "hd-wallet-wasm": "2.0.28",
     "sdn-emception": "1.0.0",
-    "spacedatastandards.org": "https://github.com/DigitalArsenal/spacedatastandards.org/archive/84f7d65ae07321d5314dedb0f5dce11a6e0919cd.tar.gz"
+    "spacedatastandards.org": "https://github.com/DigitalArsenal/spacedatastandards.org/archive/06deda5079204a46bd97a7ce6ac2868e991c6b8f.tar.gz"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "esbuild": "^0.28.0",