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Editor track — from seam probe to product editor: scope and plan

Status: T1 is split. T1a (visual golden harness) dispatches now, resolver-parallel; T1b (document layer) sequences after the resolver tranche, behind two named blockers (§Ruling B). Ruling C granted (casting-off sub-decision, decoded-pixel amendment, CI-artifact clarification — 2026-07-23). Ruling D granted conditionally (condition: the T1b contract specifies the document/session ownership API — over an unforgeable document-bound session type or lease token — before code). Ruling A granted as amended (explicit, 2026-07-23). Ruling B redrafted twice and re-scoped — not grantable until the graph-state-persistence and versioned-decode blockers resolve. T1a is dispatched under CONTRACT_EDITOR_T1A_GOLDENS.md. Prepared against main @ 2cf2dae; revised three times on 2026-07-23 against b0acacb after three source-level reviews (14 + 11 + 9 findings; every one dispositioned in §6). Every claim below was checked against the source; where a probe was run the file and line are given. The companion executable documents are spec/CONTRACT_EDITOR_T<N>_<TOPIC>.md, one per tranche, in the house style of CONTRACT_PUSH4B_RESOLVER.md.

This plan has two jobs. The near job is dispatching T1a safely in parallel with the Push-4b resolver tranche, and sequencing T1b honestly behind its blockers. The far job is §3, the architecture-risk map: the selected risks that shape the early rulings, each with its foreclosure guard — what the early tranches must not do, so that no later track finds its door welded shut by an early convenience. §3 is deliberately not a complete product roadmap (see its closing note).


1. The facts that shape this track

The editor's model is already built; only its shell is a demo. The editing architecture is layered exactly right for the ambition, and the layers have sharply different maturity:

layer where state
headless session (selection, minting, atomic apply, CRDT-correct undo) epiphany-editor-core (6.7k lines, 93 tests, conformance gate [7c]) solid
render→hit-test provenance contract epiphany-layout-ir/src/hittest.rs solid
SVG renderer (Bravura outlines, golden-locked) epiphany-render-svg solid
GUI shell epiphany-editor-gui — 598 lines, one main.rs, self-described "demo binary" (main.rs:21), version 0.0.0 disposable by design

MuseScore's engraving engine and UI are entangled; Epiphany's are separated by a tested seam. That separation is the asset this track must not squander: every editor capability lands headless in editor-core first, proven at the IR boundary, before any GUI wiring — the discipline that has already worked through six intents, undo/redo, and the pencil.

Fact 1 — the GUI is the only unverified surface in the repo. The rendering and interaction have never been visually verified (no display in the dev environment); only the ViewMap click-plane math is unit-tested (3 tests, main.rs:530). Everything below it is golden-locked or conformance-gated. But verification does not need a display: the crate already rasterizes headlessly via resvg (main.rs:160), so image snapshots of the rendered score are ordinary #[test]s.

Fact 2 — the interactive rendering path is a dead end; the data under it is not. Every edit re-renders the whole score to an SVG string, parses it with usvg, rasterizes with resvg, and uploads one texture (main.rs:247). That is O(score) per keystroke, and a single texture cannot survive real documents (GPU max-texture dimensions). But the Bravura outlines the renderer draws from are staff-space, y-up path data independent of SVG (outlines_generated.rs:1), and casting-off multi-system layout has landed (Phase 3 tranche 1, 0316160). One structural caveat, corrected from this plan's first draft: ResolvedLayoutIR carries pages → systems → staves → measures as structure, but its drawable primitives — glyphs, strokes, curves — are flat top-level arrays (resolved.rs:86-100), not owned by systems. Per-system damage therefore requires explicit primitive ownership added to the IR before T4 (§3.7), not inferred spatially (cross-system curves and boundary-straddling primitives make inference ambiguous). And the glyph assets are not yet a shared seam: the outline table is private to render-svg and stores SVG d strings (outline.rs:5), so a typed-path / shared-assets extraction is likewise T4-prerequisite work (§3.7).

Fact 3 — the editor has no document. The GUI opens a hard-coded testkit fixture (main.rs:197). Neither editor crate depends on epiphany-bundle (probed: no reference in either Cargo.toml). Meanwhile the bundle's own model says what a saved document is: "A block of operation envelopes (the canonical document)" (chunk.rs:19-20), and Bundle::create/open/commit plus operation-block read/write are public API (bundle.rs:184,265,606,488). The session side is ready to be wired: ops are minted under a replica identity (editor-core/src/lib.rs:305-333), with_identity guards on the authored history (lib.rs:392-398), and the applied/authored split is explicit (lib.rs:443).

Fact 4 — selection and input are one-object, click-only. The session's selection is Option<Selection> (lib.rs:304) — no range, no list, no caret. These are seam gaps, not GUI gaps, and they gate copy/paste, batch edits, and MuseScore-style note entry. They are named tranches below, not part of T1.

Fact 5 — a parallel tranche is in flight and freezes specific surfaces. CONTRACT_PUSH4B_RESOLVER.md reserves crates/epiphany-editor-gui/** for this track by name (line 27) and claims epiphany-core + its DECISIONS.md for itself; as of b0acacb that tranche is actively in progress in the working tree. Its gates pin, until it lands:

  • requirement counts at 212 / 282 / 282 (requirement_labels.rs:12-14) — so this track adds no .tex edits and no requirement labels;
  • the conformance suite at 8/8 (conformance_suite.rs:202) — so no new conformance gate is promoted mid-flight (ordinary #[test]s are fine; their gate is "0 failed", not a count);
  • zero golden churn — their tripwire for wire leakage; this track moves no golden while they fly.

Probed decoupling: ScoreTuningContext is referenced nowhere outside epiphany-core, so their field addition cannot break the editor crates. epiphany-bundle and epiphany-ops were never in the resolver's blast radius, but T1b's work in them waits regardless (§Ruling B blockers) — only T1a runs during the flight.

Fact 6 — the resolver tranche is building the editor's playback input. Its deliverable is (pitch-space position, tuning system, reference) → Hz. That is exactly what a playback tranche consumes. Playback is therefore sequenced after Push 4b rather than blocked on a tuning engine of its own; the seam is named here so it is a plan, not a rediscovery.

Fact 7 — CI already has the shape this track needs. The MSRV-pinned workspace jobs exclude epiphany-editor-gui; a separate pinned-stable editor-gui job tests it (ci.yml:99,109,131). T1a's goldens run inside that existing job with one additive CI change: an if: failure() artifact-upload step so failing goldens' actual/expected/diff images are reviewable after the run (Ruling C) — paths printed in assertions refer to the ephemeral runner and are local-reproduction aids only. No effect on the pinned counts or resolver safety. A future app crate mirrors the same exclusion + job pattern.

Fact 8 — every edit today re-materializes the world, and that is the deepest technical risk on the whole road. EditorSession::apply reduces the entire accumulated log onto the pristine open-time base on every edit (lib.rs:1033) and re-engraves the whole score. This is correct — it is the canonical reduction, which is why the session renders exactly what a peer would — and at probe scale it is fine. At orchestral scale it is the difference between an editor and a slideshow. The hard constraint on any fix: an incremental result MUST be byte-identical to the from-scratch canonical reduction — incrementality is an optimization of the determinism contract, never an alternative to it. The intended mechanism — a checkpoint plus the envelope tail — exists in outline only: today's canonical-base payload carries reducer bookkeeping, not graph values (Fact 10), so the checkpoint form is itself blocker-i work (§Ruling B). Incremental engraving (re-solving only damaged systems) has the same shape and the same determinism obligation. This is a named track (§3.1) with a named ladder position (T4b): performance budgets are staged — reduce, engrave, scene-build, paint measured separately — because an end-to-end latency number that mixes them cannot attribute blame (§Ruling A), and a renderer verdict is uninformative while reduction dominates.

Fact 9 — the specified model already anticipates the product; what is missing is engines and seam coverage, not vision. Probed: PartDefinition with per-part layout overrides, visibility overrides, and auto-cue sources is specified, and "Parts Are Projections, Not Storage" is normative — req:graph:part-content-projection (core_spec.tex:6380-6410). LyricLine is a modeled graph object with a typed id and codec discriminant (core/src/lib.rs:360,515,551). SetUserSystemBreak already exists as an operation — authored layout decisions are ops, in the canonical document, like everything else. The gap between Epiphany and a MuseScore-class product is not a missing data model; it is engines, editor intents over the modeled objects, and product surface (§3.7 is the verified registry). Model-completeness work is coordinated spec+core tranches in the Push-4b mold — consumed by this track, never invented inside it.

Fact 10 — the canonical model constrains persistence more than this plan's first two drafts assumed. Verified across both reviews:

  • The replicated operation set is a grow-only CRDT (req:semops:grow-only-operation-set, core_spec.tex:6924); an envelope leaves canonical state only through pruning whose replacement frontier strictly dominates the old one (core_spec.tex:11536).
  • Genesis is outside the operation set, deliberately (ratified Pass-12 decision): "there is no CreateCanvas/CreateInstrument" (binary_format.tex:2420), and CreateStaff's graph-aware reduction preconditions a live instrument (reduce.rs:3792). Reduction onto an empty score therefore cannot reach the staff/instance/voice chain notes require — the §Ruling-B genesis blocker.
  • The canonical_base role MUST stay schema-major 0 (MaterializedState); a higher-stamped base forces read-only (bundle.rs:857); the major-2 full-Score bytes are the acceleration-snapshot role (roundtrip.rs:339), whose SnapshotId is an acknowledged test-harness stand-in with no normative derivation (binary_format.tex:698). And MaterializedState serializes reducer bookkeeping — effects, existence, spellings, breaks, conflicts, pending — not the Region/Staff/Event/Instrument/Part graph values (reduce.rs:499, binary_format.tex:1695); pruning may then remove the covered operation blocks that carried those values (core_spec.tex:11553), and the acceleration snapshot cannot repair the loss (it is discardable and MUST be ignored or rebuilt on disagreement). After pruning, today's canonical roots cannot reconstruct an editor Score.
  • The format requires migrate-on-read for older canonical blocks (binary_format.tex:2453,2532), but decode_envelope takes no schema-major and decodes embedded values at current layouts (envdecode.rs:622); writes must stamp blocks via operation_block_versioned with the block's max payload major (bundle.rs:111) — the §Ruling-B versioned-decode blocker. Minimal stamping means a current writer legitimately emits major-0, -1, and -2 blocks according to their contained values (payload.rs:200), and the manifest carries no writer provenance — "written by the current writer" is unprovable from the file.
  • Manifest operation roots are deduplicated, deterministically ordered sets (manifest.rs:465) — committed history is a set, not a recoverable chronological prefix.
  • Extension edit-barrier injection is the bundle opener's job (lib.rs:453); the durable unsafe-edit tombstone encoding is deferred at the format level (core_spec.tex:11962 area); Bundle::commit auto-restores omitted unknown-extension declarations (bundle.rs:678).
  • FileStore::create truncates at open (store.rs:152) and tracks file length in memory (store.rs:141) — the atomic-commit protocol is crash-safe for one cooperating writer, not a concurrent-writer protocol, and a lock acquired after a truncating open is too late.
  • A failure at the commit-point flush is indeterminate: the bundle poisons itself read-only and requires reopening (bundle.rs:601,744) — neither a save success nor an ordinary failure. And after reopening, a readable generation is not thereby durable: the failed barrier was sync_all itself (store.rs:194), so only a fresh successful durability barrier settles the outcome.

Ruling B is drafted against these constraints, not around them.


2. The tranche ladder

Named in order. Each tranche gets its own contract, mutation-verified tests, and the full gate. Nothing here edits .tex — if a future tranche wants normative editor requirements, that is a separate spec-side decision made after the resolver tranche lands.

  • T1a — the visual golden harness (resolver-parallel; contract next). Ruling C, in editor-gui plus one additive CI artifact-upload step. Independent of every Ruling-B question; dispatches now.
  • T1b — the document layer (post-resolver; contract after its blockers resolve). Rulings B and D: EditorDocument + single-writer enforcement in epiphany-bundle. Its runway, in order: (1) the graph-state persistence decision — RESOLVED 2026-07-24 (spec/RULING_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md): the operation set absorbs genesis, and pruning is parked until the canonical base carries graph values. The lease/save/single-writer machinery does not depend on that tranche, and its parallel-safety is per-rung (spec/PLAN_GENESIS_OPS.md): G1 (CreateInstrument) needs no accept-set raise and never enters epiphany-bundle, so T1b's bundle work runs beside it; G2 spends the raise in bundle.rs, where T1b's single-writer enforcement also lands, so the two must not fly together (corrected 2026-07-24); (2) the versioned-decode disposition — the migrate-on-read API in epiphany-ops, preferred and eventually mandatory, or the enforceable current-layout restriction (§Ruling B, blocker ii); (3) the Ruling-D ownership API, specified in the contract before code.
  • T2 — selection model v2 (post-resolver). Range and list selection in editor-core (Selection becomes plural with an anchor), within(rect) wired to the GUI as rubber-band select; the batch intents selection makes meaningful (delete-range, transpose-range); copy/paste, whose clipboard format is a T2 ruling — a versioned fragment projection, not the Text Projection itself: the TP grammar defines only complete documents (text_projection.tex:957; textproj/src/lib.rs:24), so the fragment form must define closure over referenced objects, external references vs included dependencies, fresh-id remapping on paste, destination placement (region/voice/time), causal-context treatment, and partial-structure policy (ties, tuplets, beams, spanners). It may reuse TP leaf/value productions; paste mints fresh destination operations rather than importing source envelopes. Fragments are untrusted input: the ruling also specifies byte/count/depth limits and unknown-version rejection. Also: promotion of T1a's golden harness to a numbered conformance gate in testkit (the count moves here, deliberately).
  • T3 — note-entry caret. The input cursor as headless session state (position, advance-by-duration), the MuseScore-style entry loop — with the entry seam input-method-agnostic: a caret intent takes (pitch, duration) and does not care whether they came from typed letters, an on-screen keyboard, or step-time MIDI. Live MIDI entry is the primary input method for most working musicians, so the seam is designed and tested for it from the first commit; the device wiring itself (a midir-style listener minting caret intents) lands app-side, T3 if cheap, T4 otherwise. Real-time (played-against-a-click) entry, and the metronome it requires, are playback-era work (T5), not T3 — audio dependencies do not enter the workspace before T5's architecture exists. GUI wiring after the seam is proven.
  • T4 — the rendering tranche. The Ruling-A architecture built as the new app crate (Ruling D): direct vector canvas over ResolvedLayoutIR, viewport-culled, per-system damage against the IR's (by-then) explicit primitive ownership (§3.7); a command registry as the app's action architecture from day one (§3.5); the toolkit spike (§Ruling A) opens this tranche. Prerequisites from §3.7 land first: IR primitive ownership, the shared typed glyph-asset seam, and the text-run primitive decision.
  • T4b — incremental materialization + engraving (the app's exit criterion). Checkpointed-reducer-state-plus-tail reduction (the "snapshot-plus-tail" name is retired: today's canonical-base payload cannot rehydrate graph content — §Ruling B blocker i) and per-system re-solve, each gated by byte-equality against the from-scratch result (§3.1). Sequenced before the app claims parity and retires the demo, and before T5 — T4's staged budgets (Fact 8) tell us how much is needed; the app does not ship "at parity" while paying O(score) per keystroke.
  • T5 — playback seam. Consumes the Push-4b resolver's Hz (Fact 6); transport + audio sit app-side per the Chapter 1 core/product boundary. Scoped honestly as its own plan when reached; two scope decisions are already visible and named now: what SoundConfiguration's opaque bytes mean (patch references? synth state? — the answer shapes §3.5's plugin runtime), and MTS export (§3.3) so microtonal scores sound right outside Epiphany.

3. The architecture-risk map

The selected risks that shape the rulings — each with what gates it and its foreclosure guard. This is not a complete MuseScore-class roadmap: major product areas remain deliberately unmapped here — full notation-command coverage, score/instrument setup and templates, lyrics/text engraving, style/inspector systems, autosave/recovery, printing, packaging/distribution, plugin security & versioning. They are named so their absence is a decision; each gets mapped when its gating work exists.

3.1 Incremental materialization + incremental engraving

The Fact-8 risk. Two coupled halves: reduce from a checkpoint + envelope tail instead of from genesis — which needs a reducer-from-state-plus- frontier API in epiphany-ops and a checkpoint payload that can rehydrate both CRDT bookkeeping and graph content (today's MaterializedState cannot, Fact 10 — the checkpoint form is §Ruling-B blocker-i work), each its own tranche — and re-engrave only damaged systems. Both carry the byte-identity obligation — the conformance suite's role here is an equivalence gate (incremental vs from-scratch, byte-compared) before any incremental path is trusted. Fast open belongs to this track too: acceleration snapshots with a trusted validation story, a selection/retention policy (frontier coverage, reduction version, profile), and a normative SnapshotId — T1b deliberately writes none (Ruling B), so "fast open" is never claimed while cold-open still replays the log. Ladder position: T4b. Foreclosure guard: Ruling B keeps every saved document's full envelope log canonical and intact (grow-only), which is precisely what makes any future incremental result checkable against from-scratch truth. T4's damage unit is the system — the same unit incremental engraving will re-solve — so paint damage and engrave damage share a boundary instead of fighting over one.

3.2 Parts and multi-view (document ≠ session ≠ view)

Specified and normative (Fact 9): parts are projections with layout/visibility overrides. Architecturally this forces the split Ruling D now makes concrete: one document (bundle + canonical operation state), one session per editing replica (undo, selection, caret), many views (score + each part, page vs continuous — each its own engraving of the same graph, so solver + resolved layout ultimately belong at the view level). Gated on: a parts-materialization engine (spec+core tranche), and T4's view architecture. Foreclosure guard: T1b introduces EditorDocument and keeps save/bundle ownership OFF EditorSession's public shape (Ruling D condition); T4's canvas takes a ResolvedLayoutIR it is given rather than owning the pipeline, so N views are N canvases over one document.

3.3 Interchange: MusicXML, MIDI, MEI, and adoption

Nobody migrates to a notation editor that cannot read their existing scores. MusicXML import/export (and MIDI in/out) is adoption-critical for any "next MuseScore" claim, and it is absent from every current plan. It is its own future track — importers/exporters as separate crates behind seams, exactly the render-svg pattern, with import producing operations (a MusicXML file becomes a minted op log over a genesis, so an imported score is a first-class document with provenance, not a foreign object). Alongside MusicXML and MIDI: MEI, the academic/archival standard — a spec-driven, deterministic, microtonal platform's natural early adopters are exactly MEI's community — and MTS export (MIDI Tuning Standard), which the spec already names on the import side (core_spec.tex:3333).

A sequencing fact the tranche ladder hides: interchange is headless and parallelizable. An importer consumes epiphany-ops/-core/-textproj and never touches the editor ladder — a MusicXML→op-log converter can be built as its own parallel track well before T4/T5, gated on model coverage (§3.7) and the same genesis-persistence decision as T1b, not on the editor. And a partial importer (notes, rhythms, meters, keys) is already the evaluation gateway prospective users need; import completeness then tracks model completeness, honestly reported per element. Foreclosure guard: Ruling B's op-log-is-the-document semantics is precisely what makes import-as-minting possible. Named here so the product roadmap never treats it as an afterthought.

3.4 Collaboration — the differentiator MuseScore cannot retrofit

Stated precisely (this section's first draft overclaimed): the operation-set convergence substrate exists — canonical concurrent reduction converges byte-identically in any delivery order, and that substrate is what no incumbent can bolt on. What does not yet exist is the editing layer above it: the session's commit gate rejects any non-clean reduction (lib.rs:1033, reduce.rs:604) — a collaboration-hostile simplification, since real collaboration requires conflict-bearing documents to remain open and editable where safe; remote envelopes must apply without entering local undo history; canonical-base/frontier reconciliation, equivocation and unresolved-operation surfacing, and durable sync checkpoints with idempotent retry all need design. Undo across a sync boundary is the known hard edge: a committed op is never retracted by prefix-dropping (Fact 10, grow-only) — that is the undo-as-operation design (compensating operations), gated on this track. Foreclosure guard: Ruling B writes only applied units into documents — an envelope never reaches canonical state while its author considers it undone — and every session mints under a fresh replica with counters that can never collide (Ruling B identity rule). T1b's save semantics are the async-collab substrate; that is why they get a full ruling rather than an implementation detail. Ruling B's open-policy matrix keeps conflict-bearing documents openable (read-only, status surfaced) rather than rejected.

3.5 Command architecture, scripting, and Chapter-11 extensions

MuseScore has hundreds of commands, keybindable and scriptable; Chapter 11 already declares extension points and keeps the plugin runtime product-side. The seam's intent methods (delete_selection, insert_note_at, …) are the right primitives, but the app must not hardcode toolbar→method calls the way the demo does: T4 builds a command registry — every action a named, introspectable, keybindable command over seam intents — which is also the future scripting/plugin surface and the macro/repeat substrate. When the plugin runtime arrives, the anticipated substrate is WASM — language-agnostic, sandboxable, content-addressable like everything else in the platform — and the permission/isolation model ships with the first plugin, not after it: edit barriers already exist in the editor (editor-core/src/barriers.rs), and the runtime must honor them from day one. Foreclosure guard: T4 starts with the registry; nothing in T1T3 needs to change, because headless intents are exactly what commands wrap.

3.6 Accessibility, internationalization, and performance budgets

MuseScore 4 made screen-reader accessibility a headline feature; a successor cannot regress it, and it cannot be retrofitted onto a toolkit that lacks an accessibility tree — nor onto a canvas that has a tree but exposes nothing meaningful through it (§Ruling A criterion 4). Likewise the spec's Chapter 10 performance budgets exist as types with the reference suite deferred — editing latency should eventually be gated, not vibes-checked, and gated per stage (Fact 8: reduce / engrave / scene-build / paint), because an end-to-end number cannot attribute blame. Text-heavy surfaces assume translation from the start. And one differentiator worth naming: a Music Braille translator — no major notation tool has first-class Braille score output. Its input is the materialized Score (or a dedicated semantic projection of it), NOT the Text Projection: the TP serializes document identity and envelope history (text_projection.tex:957), and two different histories can materialize the same score — Braille output must not vary with edit history. The TP can be a transport; it is not the semantic source. Named as an accessibility-track deliverable, unscheduled. Foreclosure guard: accessibility semantics, text shaping, and staged latency are hard T4 spike criteria in Ruling A, not tiebreakers.

3.7 Model, engraving, and IR completeness — the verified registry

Fact 9's posture made concrete. Verified against source this pass; these are coordinated spec+core/IR tranches in the Push-4b mold — the editor ladder consumes them and never blocks on them — and the sequencing currency is the schema-major budget ("a major is a budget to spend deliberately", PLAN_PUSH4B_TUNING.md), not editor tranche numbers:

  • Genesis persistence (T1b blocker i, §Ruling B) — RULED 2026-07-24, tranche not yet dispatched. spec/RULING_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md: the operation set absorbs genesis, so this stops being "how is genesis-only data persisted" and becomes a normal operation-vocabulary tranche — three LWW settings setters and six entity mint families, one OperationEnvelopeBlock accept-set raise spent once, Pass-12 K8 reversed. Blocked on the identity disposition. The one registry item that did gate an editor tranche; the gate is now the tranche's execution, not the decision.
  • Articulations, dynamics, ornaments are empty wire types. ArticulationMark / DynamicMark / OrnamentMark are unit structs (event.rs:49-57) that already encode — giving them real payloads is a schema major, to be batched deliberately together with their engraving semantics (placement, collision, spacing impact), not dribbled out.
  • NoteheadShape is cited but defined nowhere — the spec's NoteDecisions carries the field (core_spec.tex:9603) but no enum definition exists in spec or Rust. Gates percussion (X, diamond), early music (void, rhombus), and contemporary heads.
  • Percussion is modeled but unmapped. UnpitchedEvent exists with UnpitchedMemberId(pub u32) opaque (event.rs:45,127); the member → staff-position → notehead-glyph → sound mapping that makes drums editable does not. Pairs naturally with the NoteheadShape tranche.
  • Grace notes: modeled, never engraved. GraceKind is carried by both pitched and unpitched events (event.rs:91,114,137); epiphany-engrave contains no reference to grace at all. Spacing/slur/stem consequences make this an engraving-track item.
  • Figured bass and tablature are absent from the spec entirely (verified: zero mentions). Chapter-scale model decisions, sequenced by product priority — named so their absence is a decision, not an oversight.
  • The version-aware envelope decoder (T1b blocker ii, §Ruling B): the migrate-on-read API in epiphany-ops the format already requires (Fact 10) — also a prerequisite for any importer/exporter that reads real documents (§3.3).
  • The layout-IR readiness tranche (T4 prerequisite): explicit per-system primitive ownership (or deterministic per-system primitive ranges) for the flat glyphs/strokes/curves arrays (Fact 2); a shared typed glyph-asset seam (the Bravura outline table is private to render-svg and stores SVG d strings — a canvas needs typed vector paths from a shared crate); and text-run primitives in the resolved IR — titles, lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks, instrument names — with shaping, fallback, and metrics consistent across canvas, SVG/PDF export, hit testing, and accessibility (Ruling A criterion). Ownership landed W1 (dd33b34); the glyph-asset seam landed W2 (24f8c80, the epiphany-glyphs crate). The text-run decision is RULED — spec/ANALYSIS_TEXT_RUN_PRIMITIVES.md, approved 2026-07-28: a fourth resolved primitive carrying the source string and the canonical shaped result, with a content-hashed face identity. Three consequences reach outside this bullet. (a) Three of the five categories named above — lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks — carry no text in the model at all, so they are blocked on a core-track schema major, not on the IR; v1 renders the text that exists (metadata, instrument/staff names, TextLineDefinition). (b) A live compliance gap: score text authored through operations is not NFC-validated, because the score-bearing payloads embed the core codec's deliberately non-folding bytes rather than the envelope's NFC-checked string reader — independent of this tranche, and core-track work. (c) The engraver gains a pinned shaper, and the .tex amendment adding the primitive is a layout-fingerprint change needing no bundle/wire schema-major move (it follows strokes and curves).
  • The engraving-quality track: the Standard-tier solver and real quality-metric computation (Chapter 9's nine axes) — repeatedly deferred, and the actual gate on "professional engraving" claims.
  • Graphic/aleatoric notation is NOT on this list — the model is already real (GraphicEvent, IndeterminateEvent implemented and encoded, codec.rs:44; EventOrderingDAG + time-brackets specified, core_spec.tex:2672,2719). What it lacks is product surface: drawing tools (a Ruling-A spike criterion) and editor intents. It is a differentiator waiting on the canvas, not on the spec.

4. Rulings

Ruling A — interactive rendering architecture — GRANTED 2026-07-23 (as amended)

The product canvas paints vectors directly from ResolvedLayoutIR; the SVG string path is demoted to export and goldens. Concretely: tessellate typed glyph paths and the IR's strokes/curves straight to the GPU surface; cull by viewport; re-tessellate only damaged systems — the same unit incremental engraving will later re-solve (§3.1), so paint damage and engrave damage share a boundary. The interactive path never serializes to an SVG string. The canvas consumes a ResolvedLayoutIR it is given (§3.2's guard), so part views and split views are more canvases, not more pipelines.

Prerequisites (before or at T4 open, from §3.7): IR per-system primitive ownership; the shared typed glyph-asset seam; the text-run primitive decision. These are IR/render tranches this ruling depends on, not work it smuggles in. All three are now discharged — W1 dd33b34, W2 24f8c80, W3 ruled 2026-07-28 (ANALYSIS_TEXT_RUN_PRIMITIVES.md). Criterion 3 below is restated by that ruling as five testable checks (§5 there): the engraver shapes, so the spike tests whether a candidate stack can faithfully consume a shaped result rather than whether it can shape correctly.

What this ruling does not pin: the toolkit/tessellation stack. The T4 spike decides it, bounded by these recorded criteria:

  1. Fill correctness: epaint's filled-path tessellator does not implement even-odd/nonzero fill for paths with holes — and glyphs have holes — so "just egui shapes" is likely out; the candidates are lyon-tessellated meshes inside egui, or a vector renderer (e.g. Vello) behind a window shell.
  2. Staged latency, not end-to-end latency: reduce / engrave / scene-build / paint measured separately on large multi-system fixtures against Chapter-10-style budgets (Fact 8). A toolkit verdict from an end-to-end number is uninformative while reduction or solving dominates; the spike measures the stages the toolkit actually owns. MEASURED 2026-07-28epiphany-testkit/benches/editor_pipeline.rs, gating the core's portion (envelope construction + reduction + layout, all three the requirement names) against req:perf:single-system-edit-latency (16.7 ms), on a session-shaped log — counters from 0 and each envelope carrying active_prior_context(), because a context-free log measures a different algorithm and understated reduce by ~3× in this bench's first version. At depth 100 / 1,000 / 3,000 / 5,000 / 10,000 on the ten-measure fixture: reduce 223 µs / 2.30 ms / 8.79 ms / 17.53 ms / 54.07 ms, engrave 268 / 314 / 327 / 317 / 260 µs, scene-build 133 / 165 / 152 / 151 / 123 µs, paint 2.21 / 2.86 / 2.80 / 2.78 / 1.36 ms (depth 4,000 measured clean but ungated at 12.99 ms core — a Pass row at 78% of budget flaps under load). Five consequences, all of which sharpen this criterion rather than satisfy it: (a) reduce is the only depth-scaling stage and is superlinear (~n^1.4; 10× the log costs ~23.5× the time), breaking the frame between 3,000 and 5,000 edits — 9.11 ms then 17.84 ms core, so the wall is ~4,500; (b) engrave is flat and small (260327 µs) and at depth 100 is the larger half of the core's portion, so "uninformative while reduction dominates" holds only past roughly depth 500; (c) paint dominates early and is overtaken by ~1,000 edits — 4.5× the core at depth 100, level at 1,000, far behind after; (d) scene-build is 35 µs of IR work plus ~130 µs of SVG serialization, so a direct-IR canvas avoids 2.34 ms at depth 100 = 83% of the full per-edit pipeline, 99.8% of the render path alone (both denominators stated; an unqualified "98%" was supported by neither); (e) the measured depth is document-lifetime, not per sessionRuling B (below) makes reopen full replay: stored envelopes load as a committed partition and materialization reduces committed + session operations together. Nothing resets the depth until the checkpoint/pruning machinery assigned to T4b can write a new canonical_base. There is no session-reset mitigation to lean on, and note entry mints one operation per note. Sequencing: T4 before T4b still stands — the canvas removes what dominates a document's first ~1,000 edits and is the architecture later tranches build on — but the two are no longer comfortably separated, and T4b's trigger is ~4,500 edits of accumulated history rather than the ~10,000 this bench's first, context-free version reported. The bench watches for it as an Xfail row at depth 5,000.
  3. Text pipeline (hard criterion): shaping, font fallback, bidi/complex scripts, and metrics consistent between interactive canvas, SVG/PDF export, hit testing, and the accessibility tree. A stack with no credible text story is disqualified regardless of vector performance.
  4. Accessibility semantics, not toolkit support (hard criterion): an accessibility tree (e.g., AccessKit) is necessary but not sufficient — the spike must demonstrate one score fragment exposing meaningful semantics through it: labeled notes/rests/measures, focus movement, navigation, selection state, and command activation. A toolkit can carry a tree while the custom canvas remains unusable to a screen reader; that outcome fails this criterion.
  5. Vision-critical interactions prototyped, not assumed: an overlay layer suitable for collaborative presence cursors (§3.4); freehand/shape input for graphic-region editing (§3.7); touch. These are what a wrong toolkit forecloses.
  6. The demo's egui pin is 0.29 (0.35 redesigned the App trait); whether the app crate starts on modern egui, iced, or a Vello surface is the spike's call under criteria 15.

SVG (render-svg) remains the export format, the golden format, and a correctness cross-check for the T4 canvas — as defined geometry/scene equivalence plus a bounded visual differential under a controlled backend, NOT pixel equality: a GPU tessellator legitimately differs from resvg in antialiasing and curve flattening while being geometrically correct. Pixel-exact comparison is reserved for Ruling C, where both sides are the same SVG/resvg pipeline.

Ruling E — the clipboard fragment projection — GRANTED 2026-07-23

A versioned s-expression fragment format, values-only, paste-as-minting. The T2 ruling the ladder reserved, now drafted:

  • Header and versioning: (epiphany-fragment (major minor patch)), starting (0 1 0). An unrecognized major is rejected, never partially parsed. The fragment format is application-level and versioned — it is NOT canonical wire format, opens no schema major, and may evolve.
  • Values, never identities. A fragment reuses the Text Projection's value/leaf productions (pitches, durations, spellings — the ratified textual forms) but NOT its document grammar: no document id, no envelopes, no causal contexts, no object ids. Content is per-event values plus a rational onset relative to the fragment origin, in per-voice lanes keyed by ordinal (not VoiceId). Paste mints fresh operations (InsertEvent + RespellPitch transactions, fresh ids from the session's minters) — the §3.3 import-as-minting principle at clipboard scale.
  • Closure, v1 (fail closed, report dropped): notes/rests with their per-event attachments copy; a slur copies iff both endpoints are inside the range, else it is dropped and reported; a partially-selected tuplet refuses the copy (the reducer's own refusal discipline); a tie cut by the range boundary is dropped and reported; derived state (decomposition, spellings that are merely inferred) is never copied — it re-derives.
  • Placement: paste_at(point, &grid) (pencil-style, via position_at) and paste_over_selection() (at the anchor member's onset, in its voice) — both with make-room overwrite semantics reusing make_room, and both atomic transactions (a refused member rolls back the whole paste).
  • Untrusted input: hard caps on bytes, event count, and nesting depth, each a named constant with a value-asserting rejection test; unknown version → clean error. Fragments arrive from the OS clipboard; they are input, not trusted state.

Granting this ruling unblocks T2's W4 packet (copy/paste); W1W3 do not depend on it.

Ruling B — the document layer and persistence semantics — REDRAFTED ×2 — blocker (i) RESOLVED 2026-07-24; blocker (ii) still open

(First draft withdrawn for violating the grow-only operation set. Second draft amended by the 2026-07-23 second review. Two blockers stood between this ruling and grant; both are outside the resolver-parallel blast radius, which is why T1b sequences after the resolver.)

Blocker (i) is RESOLVED — spec/RULING_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md, ratified 2026-07-24. The field-by-field table this blocker demanded was produced as spec/ANALYSIS_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md (nine uncovered surfaces, not the handful this text guessed at: canvas.layout_defaults, instruments, staff_groups, parts, tuning_context, spelling_precedence, analysis_layers, views, and StaffInstance.measures, plus identity). The ruling takes neither (a)-as-written nor (b): the operation set absorbs genesis — Pass-12 K8 is reversed, there is no genesis block, and a document is Score::empty(identity) plus its envelope log. Execution is a Push-4b-class coordinated tranche; the editor track consumes it. Two constraints carry forward into T1b: pruning may not be implemented until disposition C lands (a MaterializedState base cannot rebuild a score), and the identity cursor is ruled in that document's §3 (it stays on Score, byte-equality claims confine to MaterializedState, and from-empty reduction derives the counter). Execution is laddered in spec/PLAN_GENESIS_OPS.md; T1b's bundle work is parallel-safe with G1 but not with G2. The text below is kept as the record of what the blocker was.

Blocker (i) — canonical graph-state persistence, across genesis AND pruning. Two halves of one question. Genesis: "every piece of content enters as operations" is false for more than instruments — genesis is outside the operation set by ratified design (binary_format.tex:2420), CreateStaff preconditions a live instrument (reduce.rs:3792), and the Score root also carries staff groups, parts, tuning context, tempo map, analysis layers, and views (graph.rs:1693), for which the operation vocabulary (payload.rs:120) has incomplete or no construction coverage — resolving instruments alone could still leave parts, staff groups, custom tuning, analysis layers, and views unsavable. Pruning: the canonical-base payload is MaterializedState — reducer bookkeeping without graph values — while pruning may remove the covered blocks that carried those values (Fact 10): after pruning, canonical roots alone cannot reconstruct an editor Score, which also undermines any "base-plus-tail" reading of §3.1/T4b until the checkpoint payload can rehydrate graph content.

Before choosing "persist genesis" vs "add operations", the resolution requires a field-by-field table over the Score root: field; canonical default; existing create/modify/delete coverage; whether arbitrary imported values are representable; and whether the field belongs in genesis, the operation log, or derived state. Resolution, one of: (a) a coordinated spec/core/ops/format decision on canonical graph-state persistence (the recommended path — it also unblocks import, §3.3, and T4b's checkpoint); or (b) an explicitly scope-limited T1b (empty / metadata / region persistence only), with the full table named as the prerequisite for useful documents. The T1b contract opens with this disposition.

Blocker (ii) — versioned decode. Reopening any document whose blocks carry older schema majors requires migrate-on-read (binary_format.tex:2453,2532); decode_envelope is current-layout-only (envdecode.rs:622). A "written-by-the-current-writer" restriction is unenforceable: minimal stamping means a current writer legitimately emits major-0, -1, and -2 blocks by content (payload.rs:200), and the manifest carries no writer provenance — rejecting lower majors would reject T1b's own files. Resolution, preferred: the version-aware decoder/migration API in epiphany-ops (reads driven by each block's schema_version; its own tranche, §3.7), with mixed-major reopen tests, mandatory before general EditorDocument::open. The only honest interim restriction, if T1b proceeds first: T1b supports only envelope bytes decodable under current layouts; recognized historical layouts receive a distinct UnsupportedHistoricalEncoding error — enforceable, limited, and stated in the contract. Writes in every case stamp blocks via operation_block_versioned with the maximum payload major in the block (bundle.rs:111).

The ruling (as it stands, pending the blockers):

  • Ownership and the save protocol (the Ruling D condition): T1b introduces EditorDocument, owning the bundle handle, the committed operation set, the committed generation, read-only status, identity allocation, and extension + anomaly state. T1b grants one writable session lease per document, and the lease is unforgeable in the type system — a bare save(&mut EditorSession) is rejected as a design, because a probe-mode session, a session leased from another document, or a session based on a different committed generation could otherwise be persisted into the wrong bundle as a validly encoded but semantically unrelated document. The contract picks one concrete shape — WritableEditorSession<'doc>, a DocumentSession guard owning &mut EditorDocument, or a private lease token carrying document identity
    • committed generation that save validates — and specifies how the session materializes committed + local operations after promotion (an immutable shared reference to the committed set, or a coordinator; the document exclusively owns the mutable committed state either way). Save commits the leased session's staged units and, only after a successful commit and durability barrier, atomically promotes exactly those units from the session's undoable state into the immutable committed partition (lib.rs:312 ties every active envelope to an undo unit — promotion is a partition move, never a clear-while-active). Dirty state lives with the session/lease, not the document. The redo stack's fate at the save boundary is specified and tested in the contract (redo units reference unsaved envelopes by construction; the contract proves whether they remain valid or are cleared). A multi-session coordinator is §3.2's future, not T1b's.
  • Documents arise from genesis (as constrained by blocker i). The canonical document is the operation log reduced over the document's genesis; EditorDocument::create mints all post-genesis content as operations. Opening an arbitrary in-memory Score (the demo fixture path) remains supported as a probe mode and is not savable: a score whose construction is in neither genesis nor the log cannot be a canonical document. Any further construction gap discovered en route fails closed and is filed, not papered over.
  • Save appends; a successful save is an undo boundary. Save commits exactly the units staged at save time as new operation blocks. The post-save invariant (committed history is a set, manifest.rs:465 — a positional-prefix claim was withdrawn): committed_after = committed_before local_applied_at_save, and every promoted local unit leaves local undo without ever leaving canonical reachability (authoredapplied is a non-contiguous subsequence after forks, lib.rs:326). Undo never crosses a save: undoing a committed envelope requires a compensating operation (undo-as-operation, §3.4), never removal (Fact 10). No manifest re-referencing, no block repacking.
  • Commit outcomes are three-way, and reconciliation must prove durability, not visibility. Failure before the commit point: units remain unsaved and undoable. Success: units are promoted. Indeterminate commit-point flush (the bundle poisons itself read-only, bundle.rs:601,744): the failed barrier was sync_all itself (store.rs:194), so a generation readable after reopen may be kernel cache, not durable state. Reconciliation therefore: (1) reopen and identify the selected generation; (2) confirm whether the exact staged envelope set is reachable; (3) execute a fresh durability barrier and require it to succeed before reporting saved and promoting units; (4) if that barrier fails, remain in an indeterminate / recovery-required state — never declare saved or unsaved. The injected-fault tests distinguish "visible after reopen" from "confirmed durable".
  • No snapshots in T1b — of either role. The canonical_base role is written only by pruning (none in T1b). Acceleration snapshots are omitted entirely: as reviewed, validating one against full re-reduction on load delivers no fast open (replay stays on the cold path), using one before validation displays untrusted state, selection/retention among multiple snapshots is unspecified, and the SnapshotId stand-in must not be productized as a derivation. Reopen is full replay; fast open joins §3.1 when a real validation strategy exists.
  • Reopen preserves causal history. Opening a document loads the stored envelopes as an immutable committed partition of the session's operation set — a logical partition, not a chronological prefix (manifest roots are deduplicated sets, manifest.rs:465). Materialization reduces committed + session ops together, and the first new edit's causal context extends the stored frontier (an empty context would author an edit causally concurrent with the very state on screen; a claimed frontier without predecessors present would strand the edit pending — lib.rs:909,1021). No frontier is stored (T1b writes no base and no snapshots), so the frontier is derived exactly from committed membership, honoring the DVV model (causal.rs:1): the vector floor covers only the contiguous counter prefix per replica; operations beyond a gap become individual dots. Required frontier-builder test: committed {(r,0), (r,2)} → floor r:0 + dot (r,2), never floor r:2 — undo/forking makes counter gaps routine. Undo/redo operate strictly on session units. Full-log re-reduction cost at scale is Fact 8's known debt; the reducer-from-base-plus-frontier API is §3.1's tranche, not T1b's.
  • The open-policy matrix (every Bundle::is_read_only() cause propagated), with two distinct read-only outcomes: a PreservedDocument (metadata/bundle access only, NO materialized editor session — the UI must never imply the score was faithfully displayed) versus a read-only EditorDocument (canonical state understood and rendered; editing prohibited). Hard byte corruption → open error; unsupported canonical operation major → PreservedDocument (its operations cannot be decoded into a score); bundle / profile anomaly → preserved read-only at the strongest level honestly claimable; semantic conflict, pending dependency, or equivocation in reduction → read-only EditorDocument with surfaced status until collaboration support lands (§3.4) — never a rejection of a valid document; identical duplicate envelopes across blocks → accepted as set duplicates, not corruption.
  • Identity: fresh by default. Every session mints under a fresh random replica (the v0 getrandom convention). Resuming a prior replica is not offered in T1b: a max-counter scan cannot see orphaned blocks, older manifests, backups, or a concurrently open session on the same replica — durable resumption needs high-water storage with atomic counter-range reservation, covering operation and entity ids, deferred. Entity-id minting scans the committed partition + the session's authored log, preserving the never-re-mint guarantee (lib.rs:326) across reopen.
  • Single writer: lock before anything destructive. FileStore::create truncates at open (store.rs:152) — so creation uses create_new, and overwrite is open-without-truncate → acquire the exclusive advisory lock → validate overwrite authorization → truncate. Lock denied is a defined result (read-only open or error, per caller intent). Generation + file-UUID are revalidated immediately before commit, with a defined external-modification error (surfaced, never silently overwritten or retried) — scoped honestly to cooperating writers of the same file: an atomic path replacement is invisible to a held inode and is out of scope unless the contract adds path-identity revalidation. Tests drive two independently opened handles and prove the second cannot truncate or mutate the first's document. This is epiphany-bundle work.
  • Extensions fail closed. Barrier injection is the opener's job (lib.rs:453) and the durable tombstone encoding is deferred at the format level (Fact 10). T1b opens any bundle carrying extension declarations read-only; unsafe edits are refused on bundle-backed documents. Writable extension-bearing documents wait for the format tranche that supplies the tombstone channel — silently preserving invalidated extension data would violate a MUST.

Deferred, named so they are plans: undo-as-operation (§3.4); durable replica resumption; pruning (and with it any canonical_base writing); acceleration snapshots + fast open (§3.1); the reducer-from-base API (§3.1); the multi-session coordinator (§3.2).

Ruling C — the visual golden harness — GRANTED 2026-07-23 (as amended and clarified)

Golden images of the resvg-rasterized score, as ordinary #[test]s in epiphany-editor-gui, running in the existing editor-gui CI job — compared as decoded pixels, not encoded files. Design points:

  • What is locked: the rasterized pixmap of render() output in GlyphMode::PathOutline at a fixed px_per_staff_space — the exact surface the GUI displays. render-svg already golden-locks SVG bytes; this locks the raster step and the edit loop's visible result (fixture as opened; after a scripted pencil insert; after undo — each state one golden). This is verification of the score raster layer; egui widgets and overlays remain outside it (below).
  • Comparison contract (amended 2026-07-23): decode the committed PNG and compare dimensions plus raw RGBA bytes exactly — never the encoded PNG file, which would also lock encoder/compression behavior and can churn while every pixel is identical. On failure the test writes actual, expected, and diff images to the test-output directory and names their paths in the assertion message.
  • CI artifacts (clarified 2026-07-23): assertion-message paths refer to the ephemeral runner and are local-reproduction aids; the reviewable record is an if: failure() upload-artifact step added to the editor-gui job — the one additive CI change (Fact 7). No effect on pinned counts or resolver safety.
  • The goldens are also the render-determinism diff gate: any solver or renderer change that alters output pixels fails CI until the diff is reviewed and deliberately re-blessed — the editor-level analogue of the reduction-determinism criteria, and the review moment engraving changes deserve.
  • [granted 2026-07-23] the multi-system casting-off fixture is goldened in T1a — it is the layout path real documents take, and the larger re-bless surface is accepted deliberately: whenever engraving improves, the diff there is exactly the review moment the goldens exist to create. One casting-off golden alongside the single-staff edit-loop states.
  • Determinism basis: PathOutline mode uses no fonts, and resvg/tiny-skia are pure Rust with deterministic rasterization; CI and dev are both Linux. The project's re-bless discipline applies (never re-bless to make a test pass; a diff is a finding). If cross-platform drift ever appears, the fallback is a bounded per-pixel tolerance — recorded then, not pre-engineered now.
  • What is not covered, stated honestly: egui widget interaction (toolbar, overlay painting, event routing) — the selection overlay and click plane remain unit-tested via ViewMap. Widget-level harnessing (egui_kittest exists for newer egui; the pin is 0.29) is evaluated in T4 when the toolkit is chosen, not before.
  • Promotion: wiring these into the numbered conformance suite would move the 8/8 count the resolver contract pins — so promotion to a [9/9] gate is T2, explicitly.

Ruling D — crate strategy, CI, and ownership — GRANTED CONDITIONALLY 2026-07-23

The product GUI is a new crate (working name epiphany-editor-app), created at T4, not before; the demo stays as the seam probe until the app reaches parity, then is retired by explicit decision. T1T3 need no new crate: their work lands in editor-core (seam + document layer), epiphany-bundle (single-writer enforcement), and editor-gui (probe + goldens). When T4 creates the app crate it joins the MSRV-exclusion set and gets its own pinned-stable CI job, mirroring ci.yml:109's existing pattern; it is built around the §3.5 command registry from its first commit. The demo is never grown into the product.

Grant condition (held through all three reviews): the T1b contract specifies the document/session ownership APIEditorDocument owning bundle, committed state and generation, read-only status, identity, extension + anomaly state; the leased session owning undo, dirty state, selection/caret, solver/layout; save as a document method over an unforgeable document-bound session type or lease token (§Ruling B — a bare &mut EditorSession does not satisfy the condition), with the atomic post-commit-and-durability promotion protocol — before any implementation. The ruling is granted contingent on that API appearing in the contract and surviving its review.


5. Parallel-safety contract with the resolver tranche

While CONTRACT_PUSH4B_RESOLVER.md is in flight (it is, as of b0acacb — uncommitted resolver work sits in epiphany-core in this working tree), only T1a runs, and it:

  • touches only crates/epiphany-editor-gui/**, .github/workflows/ci.yml (the single additive if: failure() artifact-upload step in the editor-gui job), and spec/*.md additions — no epiphany-core, no .tex, no DECISIONS.md but this track's own future files;
  • adds no requirement labels (counts stay 212 / 282 / 282), promotes no conformance gate (suite stays 8/8); adds new editor-gui PNG baselines but modifies/re-blesses no existing golden and changes no fuzz digest — keeping the resolver's zero-churn tripwire unambiguous;
  • lands only green (cargo test --workspace clean at every landing) — the resolver's gate runs workspace-wide and must never be reddened from our side;
  • whoever lands second rebases; both contracts state the same frozen numbers, so a spurious count movement is detected by either side.

T1b's surfaces (editor-core, epiphany-bundle, epiphany-ops for the versioned decoder) wait for the resolver to land regardless of file overlap — its blockers, not just courtesy, set that order.


6. Review ledger

House-ratification style: one line per finding, disposition and location.

First review — 2026-07-23, 14 findings, all accepted

# finding (short) disposition
1 Saved envelopes cannot be re-referenced away (grow-only, :6924; pruning dominance, :11536) Ruling B redrafted: save = undo boundary; undo-as-op stays §3.4
2 Snapshot payload/role wrong; genesis gap (major-0 base, bundle.rs:857; accel role, roundtrip.rs:339) Ruling B redrafted: roles corrected; genesis question later became blocker i (second review)
3 Empty logs on reopen lose causal history (lib.rs:909,1021) Ruling B redrafted: committed partition; contexts extend stored frontier
4 Replica-resume can reuse ids Ruling B redrafted: fresh random replica default; resumption deferred behind durable reservation
5 Extension barriers/tombstones unhonorable in T1 (lib.rs:453, bundle.rs:678) Ruling B: extension-bearing bundles open read-only; fail closed
6 Active-prefix rewrite ignored forks + block granularity (lib.rs:326, block.rs:98) Dissolved by finding-1 redraft; saved-set-is-a-prefix invariant recorded
7 FileStore is not a concurrent-writer protocol (store.rs:141) Ruling B: lock + revalidation + two-handle tests; tightened again by second review #7
8 IR primitives are flat, not system-owned (resolved.rs:86-100); glyph seam private Fact 2 corrected; IR-readiness tranche in §3.7; Ruling A prerequisite
9 Rendering ruling omitted general text Ruling A criterion 3 (hard); text-run primitives in §3.7
10 Performance sequencing circular Fact 8 amended (staged budgets); T4b added as app exit criterion
11 Document/session/view asserted, not designed Ruling D grant condition; protocol specified by second review #4
12 Collaboration section overclaimed (lib.rs:1033) §3.4 narrowed + itemized remaining work
13 PNG goldens must compare decoded pixels Ruling C amended and granted
14 Status/roadmap wording Header restated per-ruling; §3 reframed as risk map

Second review — 2026-07-23, 11 findings, all accepted

# finding (short) disposition
1 Blocker: no usable document from empty genesis (no CreateInstrument, binary_format.tex:2420; live-instrument precondition, reduce.rs:3792) Ruling B blocker i; T1 split — T1a now, T1b post-resolver, contract opens with the genesis disposition
2 High: reopen needs version-aware envelope decode (envdecode.rs:622 vs binary_format.tex:2453,2532; bundle.rs:111) Ruling B blocker ii; migrate-on-read tranche named in §3.7, or honest current-major restriction
3 High: clipboard ruling named a format that does not exist (text_projection.tex:957) T2 entry redrafted: versioned fragment projection is a T2 ruling; paste mints fresh ops
4 High: save/dirty ownership protocol unanswered (lib.rs:312; roots are sets, manifest.rs:465) Ruling B + D condition: single writable session lease; save(&mut EditorSession); atomic post-commit promotion; dirty on session; "committed partition" language
5 Conflict-bearing documents need an open policy (reduce.rs:604) Ruling B open-policy matrix; all is_read_only() causes propagated
6 Acceleration snapshot delivers no fast open; SnapshotId stand-in must not be productized (binary_format.tex:698) Ruling B: T1b writes no snapshots; fast open joins §3.1
7 Lock must precede destructive open (store.rs:152); path replacement undetectable Ruling B single-writer bullet tightened: create_new, lock-then-truncate, scoped external-modification claim
8 Indeterminate commit-point flush (bundle.rs:601,744) Ruling B commit-outcome bullet: three-way protocol + reopen-and-reconcile + injected-fault tests
9 T4 must not claim pixel equality with resvg goldens Ruling A closing amended: geometry/scene equivalence + bounded visual differential
10 Golden diff files vanish in CI (ci.yml:109 uploads nothing) Ruling C + Fact 7: if: failure() artifact upload — the one additive CI change
11 Accessibility criterion must test semantics, not toolkit support Ruling A criterion 4 rewritten: score fragment with labels, focus, navigation, selection, activation

Third review — 2026-07-23, 9 findings, all accepted

# finding (short) disposition
1 High: blocker (i) scoped too narrowly — Score root carries staff groups, parts, tuning, analysis layers, views (graph.rs:1693) Blocker (i) widened to canonical graph-state persistence; field-by-field table required before choosing a resolution
2 High: MaterializedState cannot restore the graph after pruning (reduce.rs:499, core_spec.tex:11553) — undermines base-plus-tail Blocker (i) widened to cover pruning; T4b renamed to checkpointed-reducer-state-plus-tail; Fact 8/§3.1 caveated
3 High: "current-major-writer-only" fallback unenforceable under minimal stamping (payload.rs:200) Blocker (ii) rewritten: version-aware decoder mandatory before general open; interim = current-layout-decodable only, UnsupportedHistoricalEncoding for recognized historical layouts
4 High: save(&mut EditorSession) enforces neither lease nor document binding; prefix invariant wrong Ruling B ownership bullet rewritten: unforgeable document-bound session type/token; post-promotion materialization specified; invariant → committed_after = committed_before local_applied_at_save; Ruling D condition strengthened
5 Medium-high: reopen visibility ≠ durability after failed sync_all (store.rs:194) Commit-outcome bullet rewritten: fresh durability barrier required before promotion; tests distinguish visible from durable
6 Unsupported-major preservation ≠ an editor session Open matrix split: PreservedDocument vs read-only EditorDocument
7 No stored frontier; max-counter derivation invalid under gaps (causal.rs:1) Reopen bullet: frontier derived exactly from committed membership — contiguous floor + dots; {(r,0),(r,2)} test required
8 §5 "moves no golden" misleading — T1a adds baselines §5 reworded: adds new PNG baselines; re-blesses nothing existing
9 Braille must consume materialized semantics, not TP history; clipboard fragments are untrusted input §3.6 rewritten (materialized Score as input); T2 fragment ruling gains limits + unknown-version rejection

7. Next

Dispatch CONTRACT_EDITOR_T1A_GOLDENS.md now — Ruling C is granted, T1a's surfaces are resolver-safe (§5), and nothing in it waits on Ruling B. The T1b contract is drafted after the resolver lands, opening with, in order: the graph-state-persistence disposition with its field-by-field Score table (blocker i), the versioned-decode disposition (blocker ii), and the Ruling-D ownership API over an unforgeable document-bound session type — then Ruling B's grant is re-sought against that concrete contract. T2+ contracts are written only when their tranche opens; the §3 tracks get plans of their own when their gating work exists.