feat(runtime): perry/tui handles are ordinary objects (#10821 row 3) by proggeramlug · Pull Request #10915 · PerryTS/perry

proggeramlug · 2026-09-21T17:13:28Z

Row 3 of the honest-tags family tracker (HONEST_HANDLE_TAG_PLAN_2026-09-20.md), stacked on nothing — it branches from upstream/main at v0.5.1632. text (#10831) and timer (#10836) landed in train 248; this is the third family.

What was wrong

Every value perry/tui handed TypeScript was a small registry integer wearing POINTER_TAG. Three registries minted ids and three more kinds were plain constants, so six id spaces shared one encoding and they collided:

useApp()          -> 1     Text("hi")   -> 1     useRef(x), first  -> 1
useStdout()       -> 2     Box()        -> 2     useRef(y), second -> 2
useFocusManager() -> 3     Spacer()     -> 3
state(0), first   -> 0     <- POINTER_TAG | 0, a null pointer wearing the pointer tag

Measured on v0.5.1631, from a compiled program:

	before	after
`useApp() === Text("hi")`	`true`	`false`
`new Set([a, b, app, stdout, fm, state])`.size	2	6
`JSON.stringify(widget)` / `state` / `app`	`null`	`{}`
`typeof s.get` / `app.exit` / `so.columns` / `fm.focusNext`	`undefined` ×4	`function` ×4
`typeof widget`, `Object.keys`, brand	`object`, `[]`, `[object Object]`	unchanged

The first state(0) of a program was slot 0, so JS received POINTER_TAG | 0 — a null pointer wearing the pointer tag, which is the exact shape the honest-tag invariant exists to forbid. The pre-migration gate-A fixture had to retry when its constructed handle came back 0.

None of this was reachable through a type error: at run time the values are indistinguishable, because the encoding carries no provenance.

What it is now

Each kind is an ORDINARY object — GC_TYPE_OBJECT, real ShapeId, class id from the web-builtin block (0xFFFF_240B..0x2410), zero own keys — so the whole object surface matches node's own native classes with no per-kind arm anywhere.

The registry ids are unchanged and stay the module's internal currency. The widget tree, the Taffy layout pass, the paint pass and the hook slots all still speak ids; only the value crossing the #[no_mangle] boundary changed, through two helpers (widget_object out, widget_id in). A raw argument is not a GC root, so every consumer resolves at entry, before anything that can allocate and move it.
useApp() / useStdout() / useFocusManager() answer the same object on every call — ink's do, and perry's did too while they were constants. Per-realm singletons in rooted slots, not re-minted per call: the resource→object mapping at singleton scale.
useRef is stable across renders, so the hook slot owns its handle object. That is a GC pointer in a side table with two scanners over it, so both now go through one visit_hook_slot_roots whose match destructures every field — a forgotten edge is a compile error, not a scavenge crash.
Methods live on per-kind prototypes as well as the class_filter rows they already were. Before this they existed ONLY as static lowerings, so a handle reached through an untyped value answered undefined for all of them.
A foreign receiver is answered leniently (undefined), not thrown at. perry/tui is not WebIDL and node has no equivalent to copy a policy from; this is the choice that cannot turn a working program into a throwing one. It is never read as an id of the wrong kind — that is what the class-id brand prevents, and with six overlapping id spaces it had to.

Deleted by the representation: tui::is_known_handle and the three contains_handle probes it unioned. They answered "is this integer one of our registries' ids?" by taking three mutexes, and could not answer correctly because the spaces overlap.

Also here, because the third family is where it stopped being avoidable: the class ids move into perry-runtime/src/native_class_ids.rs. The worker-transfer guard had grown into a range spelled TEXT_ENCODER_CLASS_ID..=IMMEDIATE_CLASS_ID inside text.rs — a check about every family living in one family's file, widened by hand on each landing. The new module owns the whole 0xFFFF_24xx block, each family aliases its own id from it, and a const fn assertion (not a debug_assert, which is free in release) fails the build if two families ever claim one id or if an id wanders toward the ShapeId window — #10824 was a shipped aliasing bug.

Per-family checklist — all six rows

#	row	evidence
1	identity	`tui_handles_of_different_kinds_are_different_objects` (compiled program): `app === a` false, `Set` of six handles size 6, `Map` keyed on two widgets size 2 with the right values, `useApp() === useApp()` true. Unit: `distinct_widgets_are_distinct_objects`, `the_singletons_are_one_object_per_realm`, `a_handle_of_another_kind_never_resolves_as_this_one`.
2	node parity diff	`perry/tui` has no node equivalent, so the bar is the ordinary-object surface node gives all of its own native classes: `typeof` `object`, `Object.keys` / `getOwnPropertyNames` `[]`, `JSON.stringify` `{}`, brand `[object Object]`. All four asserted in `tui_handles_of_different_kinds_are_different_objects`; `JSON.stringify` moved `null` → `{}`, the other three were already right and are pinned so they stay. Stated plainly: this row cannot be a byte diff against node for this family.
3	worker transfer	the family joins `native_class_ids::is_native_backed_class_id` by taking the next ids, so `serialize_nanbox_for_thread`'s `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` arm refuses it by name instead of deep-copying it into a worker as an empty `{}`. `the_transfer_guard_covers_exactly_the_migrated_families` asserts both directions (every migrated id inside, every non-migrated class id outside — the second half is what a new family gets wrong).
4	resource release	this family owns no releasable external resource. The widget tree, the state slot vector and the hook slot vector are per-render / per-program tables that were never pruned and are not pruned now; nothing about the representation changes their lifetime. Stated rather than faked — a release test here would be the "check that cannot fail" shape. The `useRef` handle object is released with its slot, and is rooted from it.
5	gate A	the `tui` arm of `receiver_repr_family_fixtures_move_constructed_and_observed_old` is inverted to `assert_fixture_migrated` (observed_old stays 0), and the `is_known_handle` arm is deleted from `observe_pointer`.
6	gate B	`a_tui_handle_is_an_ordinary_object_outside_the_handle_band` — each kind's constructor result is not in the handle band, carries a `GcHeader` with `GC_TYPE_OBJECT`, has the kind's class id, zero own keys, and resolves back to its id. This is what covers the `class_filter`-lowered reads gate A cannot see, and this family lowers more of its surface statically than either previous one.

Verified locally (CI runners are unreliable; this is what I ran)

cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1, both arms (the mode matters — see below): baseline upstream/main 841b605c9 4197 passed, 0 failed; the stack tip dffb1e326 (this PR plus fix(runtime): the unresolved-namespace stub is an ordinary object, not a header-less static (#10821 row 4, fixes #10917) #10924, which is stacked on it) 4205 passed, 0 failed. The +8 are the tests the stack adds — 6 here, 2 in the other. No pre-existing failure, no new failure on either arm.
In the default parallel mode these runs are noisy and NOT attributable, which is why the earlier counts in this PR (4198 passed / 5 failed) should be ignored. Lane 16 has since quantified it: -p perry-runtime cannot attribute a regression in parallel mode, because memo-counter assertions share process-global state in one binary — pristine main fails 13, a change fails 14, and the failing sets differ in BOTH directions. Three lanes got 0, 11 and 13 failures on comparable trees the same night. Quote the single-threaded numbers above.
cargo test --release -p perry --test tui_handle_identity — 3 passed, 0 failed (350 s; each compiles and runs a real TS program).
Differential, both arms distinct binaries, both linking prebuilt archives (same runtime mode): a 38-line probe at /root/httui/t1.ts against v0.5.1631 (/root/wt-main247). 12 lines change, all listed in the table above; 26 unchanged, including every GC-survival line, state.get()/set(), the Map lookups and typeof.
No regression in the eight existing perry/tui programs: test_issue_358_* ×4, test_issue_402_*, test_issue_405_*, test_issue_679_* ×2 — byte-identical stdout on both arms, including the real ANSI cursor-positioning output of render(). Of the seven ink-compat programs, six are byte-identical; inkcompat_useref is an unbounded render loop killed by a 10 s timeout and its two outputs are identical over the 7506-byte common prefix (cmp -n), differing only in how many frames each arm reached.
Sabotage (tui_object returns the raw id — the unmigrated producer): 12 tests red, 54 green, with gate B reporting gate B: Widget handed back a small band id (0x1), gate A reporting Tui producer still returns a small band id (0x0) — note the 0x0, which is the tagged null — and a_handle_of_another_kind_never_resolves_as_this_one reporting two kinds must be two objects. Restored; git diff is empty and the sabotage string count is 0.
scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py — exit 0. scripts/addr_class_inventory.py — exit 0 (its 6 stale-baseline warnings are identical on v0.5.1631, so pre-existing). scripts/native_result_ledger.py — exit 0. scripts/check_file_size.sh — exit 0.
clippy --all-targets has ~12 pre-existing errors in unrelated files; not introduced here.

One thing this PR corrects in the root-holder manifest

The eight new slots take the researched-verdict form (covered_elsewhere + the scanner chain + a why) in holders, and the two Timeout/Immediate prototype slots move there from frontier with them. The frontier list means enumerated but scanned by nothing; those slots are scanned by object::scan_object_cache_roots_mut, so recording them as debt understated the gate's own coverage by ten holders. holders 419→421, frontier 411→409, gate still exit 0.

What this family retires from the receiver-kind probe cascade: nothing, and that is the point

Lane 13's attribution (#10502) prices the 13-probe cascade at ~400–800 instructions per degraded method call (≤ 2 per ordinary access — it is not a general tax). Counting honestly: perry/tui had no is_* probe in any read or dispatch funnel to begin with. There is not one reference to tui anywhere under object/ or value/; its whole surface was statically lowered through class_filter rows, so nothing in the cascade asks about it.

What this family contributes is the other, larger term: is_above_handle_band (14 sites), is_small_handle (4), is_plausible_heap_addr (4) and is_handle_band (2) across the four by-name read funnels, plus the 21 emitted icmp ugt recv, 1048575 guards, come out only when every small-integer row is done — and tui was one of them. The per-kind probes (is_proxy_id_band, is_registered_buffer, is_async_resource_handle, …) retire one family at a time; the band test is all-or-nothing.

Unchanged on purpose

The emitted small-handle guards and every addr_class band predicate stay exactly as they are. They come out after the last family has moved, not before.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- TUI widgets, state, refs, and utility handles now behave as standard JavaScript objects.
- Handles from different TUI APIs remain distinct and can be reliably used as Map and Set keys.
- TUI handle methods are available for dynamically accessed values.
- useRef values remain stable across renders, and app, stdout, and focus-manager handles preserve singleton identity.
Bug Fixes
- State handles now work correctly for the first state slot.
- Invalid or cross-kind handles no longer access unrelated TUI data.
- Handle identity and state are preserved after garbage collection.

Every value `perry/tui` handed TypeScript was a small registry integer wearing `POINTER_TAG` -- a number pretending to be a pointer. Three registries minted those ids and three more kinds were plain constants, so SIX id spaces shared one encoding and they collided: useApp() -> 1 Text("hi") -> 1 useRef(x), first -> 1 useStdout() -> 2 Box() -> 2 useRef(y), second -> 2 useFocusManager() -> 3 Spacer() -> 3 state(0), first -> 0 <- POINTER_TAG | 0, a null pointer wearing the pointer tag `useApp() === Text("hi")` was `true`. A `Map` or `Set` keyed on two different handles kept one entry. A `WeakMap` entry stored under a widget was readable through the App handle. And the first `state(0)` of a program was a tagged null -- the exact shape the honest-tag invariant exists to forbid. None of it was reachable through a type error, because the encoding carries no provenance: at run time the values are indistinguishable. Each kind is now an ORDINARY object: `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` with a real ShapeId, a class id from the web-builtin block (`0xFFFF_240B..0x2410`) and ZERO own keys. `typeof` is `"object"`, `Object.keys` is `[]`, `JSON.stringify` is `{}` where it was `null`, and two handles are two values. * The registry ids are UNCHANGED and stay the module's internal currency. The widget tree, the Taffy layout pass, the paint pass and the hook slots all still speak ids; only the value crossing the `#[no_mangle]` boundary changed, through two helpers (`widget_object` out, `widget_id` in). A raw argument is not a GC root, so every consumer resolves at entry, before anything that can allocate and move it. * `useApp()` / `useStdout()` / `useFocusManager()` answer the SAME object on every call -- ink's do, and perry's did too while they were constants -- so they are per-realm singletons in rooted slots rather than re-minted per call. That is the resource->object mapping at singleton scale. * `useRef` is likewise stable across renders, so the HOOK SLOT owns its handle object. That makes it a GC pointer in a side table with two scanners over it; both now go through one `visit_hook_slot_roots` whose `match` destructures every field, so a forgotten edge is a compile error rather than a scavenge crash. * `state.get()/.set()`, `ref.get()/.set()`, `app.exit()/.waitUntilExit()`, `stdout.write()/.columns()/.rows()` and `focusManager.focusNext()/ .focusPrevious()/.focus(id)` are real methods on a per-kind prototype as well as the statically lowered `class_filter` rows they already were. Before this they existed ONLY as static lowerings, so a handle reached through an untyped value answered `undefined` for every one of them. The prototypes are lazy per-realm singletons built in the runtime (the timer family's shape), not `populate_builtin_prototype_methods` entries, so unlike #10831 there is no `global-*` feature to make load-bearing -- `perry/tui` has none. * A foreign receiver is answered leniently with `undefined`, not thrown at. `perry/tui` is not WebIDL and has no node equivalent to copy a brand policy from, and this is the choice that cannot turn a working program into a throwing one. It is never READ as an id of the wrong kind: that is what the class-id brand prevents, and with six overlapping id spaces it had to. Deleted by the representation: `tui::is_known_handle` and the three `contains_handle` probes it unioned. They answered "is this integer one of our registries' ids?" by taking three mutexes, and could not answer correctly because the spaces overlap. A class-id load answers it with one load and no ambiguity. Also here, because the third family is where it stopped being avoidable: the class ids move into `perry-runtime/src/native_class_ids.rs`. The worker-transfer guard had grown into a range spelled `TEXT_ENCODER_CLASS_ID..=IMMEDIATE_CLASS_ID` INSIDE `text.rs` -- a check about every family living in one family's file, widened by hand per landing. The new module owns the whole `0xFFFF_24xx` block, each family aliases its own id from it, and a `const fn` assertion (not a `debug_assert`, which is free in release) fails the BUILD if two families ever claim one id or if an id wanders toward the `ShapeId` window -- #10824 was a shipped aliasing bug. Gate A: the `tui` arm of `receiver_repr_family_fixtures_move_constructed_and_observed_old` is inverted from "observed_old moves" to "stays 0", and its `observe_pointer` arm is deleted. Note what the pre-migration fixture had to do: retry when the constructed handle came back 0, because the first `state(0)` was a tagged null. Gate B: a producer-side assertion that each kind's constructor result is not in the handle band, carries zero own keys and resolves back to its id -- which is what covers the `class_filter`-lowered reads gate A cannot see. Three tests named the old representation and are re-baselined, all stated in the PR: `alloc_returns_sequential_handles` and `state_slots_survive_a_foreign_clear` asserted the handle WAS the slot index (`h0 == 0`, `h_next == h + 1`) and now assert that of the slot the handle carries, and `out_of_range_handle_returns_undefined` is renamed for what it now proves -- an arbitrary integer can no longer address a live slot at all. The emitted small-handle guards and every `addr_class` band predicate stay exactly as they are. They come out only after the last family has moved.

…ly; root-holder verdicts The three tests compile and run real TS programs, which is the only way to reach the statically lowered class_filter rows and the emitted IC-miss edge -- every by-name unit test in #10831 passed while the compiled program answered undefined, and this family lowers even more of its surface statically. The eight new GC root-holder entries take the RESEARCHED-verdict form (covered_elsewhere + the scanner chain) rather than the frontier ratchet, and the two Timeout/Immediate prototype slots move with them. The frontier means ENUMERATED BUT SCANNED BY NOTHING; these are scanned by object::scan_object_cache_roots_mut, so recording them as debt understated the gate own coverage by ten holders.

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The PR converts perry/tui handles from tagged registry integers to branded GC objects. It adds centralized native class IDs, validates handle kinds at runtime, updates widget and hook paths, preserves roots and singleton identity, and adds regression coverage.

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TUI handle migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Centralize native class identifiers `crates/perry-runtime/src/native_class_ids.rs`, `crates/perry-runtime/src/lib.rs`, `crates/perry-runtime/src/{event_target,text,timer,url}/...`, `crates/perry-runtime/src/thread.rs`	Runtime class IDs now use one registry. Native-backed transfer checks use the centralized range.
Implement branded TUI handle objects `crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/handle_object.rs`, `crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/{mod,state,hooks}.rs`	TUI state, ref, app, stdout, and focus-manager handles now use per-kind objects, prototypes, validated receivers, rooted singletons, and internal registry IDs.
Wrap and validate widget FFI handles `crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/{ffi,run}.rs`	Widget factories return branded objects. Widget consumers reject non-Widget handles instead of masking raw bits.
Update roots, diagnostics, and regression coverage `crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs`, `crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag/receiver_repr.rs`, `scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json`, `crates/perry/tests/tui_handle_identity.rs`, `changelog.d/honest-handle-tag-tui.md`	Root scanners, migration fixtures, root-holder records, changelog text, and tests now cover object identity, GC retention, prototype methods, and foreign receivers.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TypeScript
  participant TuiHooks
  participant TuiHandleObject
  participant TuiRegistry
  TypeScript->>TuiHooks: request TUI handle
  TuiHooks->>TuiHandleObject: create or retrieve branded object
  TuiHandleObject->>TuiRegistry: retain internal ID
  TypeScript->>TuiHandleObject: call prototype method
  TuiHandleObject->>TuiRegistry: validate kind and resolve ID

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crates/perry-runtime/src/native_class_ids.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/text.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/thread.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/timer.rs
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crates/perry-runtime/src/timer/tests_inline.rs
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crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/handle_object.rs
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crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/run.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/state.rs
crates/perry-runtime/src/tui/tree.rs
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coderabbitai · 2026-09-21T17:29:56Z

+    // #340/#341 GATE A: `tui` has migrated, so its arm is gone from here too.
+    // `tui::is_known_handle` survives for the ledger's own question ("does any
+    // small id still reach a funnel?") but is no longer consulted on this
+    // path: a tui handle is a heap object, and asking three registries whether
+    // an arbitrary heap address is one of their ids took three mutexes to
+    // answer "no".


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Correct the comment: tui::is_known_handle is deleted, not surviving.

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// `#340/`#341 GATE A: `tui` has migrated, so its arm is gone from here too. - // `tui::is_known_handle` survives for the ledger's own question ("does any - // small id still reach a funnel?") but is no longer consulted on this - // path: a tui handle is a heap object, and asking three registries whether - // an arbitrary heap address is one of their ids took three mutexes to - // answer "no". + // `tui::is_known_handle` is deleted with it: a tui handle is a heap object, + // and asking three registries whether an arbitrary heap address is one of + // their ids took three mutexes to answer "no" — and could not answer + // correctly, because the three id spaces overlap.

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// #340/#341 GATE A: `tui` has migrated, so its arm is gone from here too.

// `tui::is_known_handle` survives for the ledger's own question ("does any

// small id still reach a funnel?") but is no longer consulted on this

// path: a tui handle is a heap object, and asking three registries whether

// an arbitrary heap address is one of their ids took three mutexes to

// answer "no".

// #340/#341 GATE A: `tui` has migrated, so its arm is gone from here too.

// `tui::is_known_handle` is deleted with it: a tui handle is a heap object,

// and asking three registries whether an arbitrary heap address is one of

// their ids took three mutexes to answer "no" — and could not answer

// correctly, because the three id spaces overlap.

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proggeramlug · 2026-09-21T18:24:12Z

Acceptance-matrix verdict: no cell moves — as expected for step 1, and here is why

The ONE PATH acceptance matrix (OBJECT_MODEL_SINGLE_PATH_DESIGN_2026-09-20.md §C1.4) on this
PR: head 716b45c97 vs base = its merge-base 841b605c9 (v0.5.1632), which is the
commit the matrix's pinned baseline was measured on. 234 cells, field type num, marginal
instructions:u, min of 3, fitted 500k→5M, every cell output-identical to node, every cell
disassembled to confirm its access is inside the loop. No EXPECT.

Arms asserted by content, not cmp. Lane 14 has shown perry's output is not deterministic
(string-pool interning order), so a differing sha does not prove two arms are different
programs. The head binary instead carries its own commit: strings -a finds 716b45c97 in it
(2 occurrences), and no .rs source is newer than it. Link mode pinned on both arms:
nsym=17045 → 17084 (+39 symbols, +0.2%), the same mode — the delta is this PR's runtime code.

operation	max/min	median/node	verdict	Δ median vs base
read1	4.72×	8.62×	FAIL	+0.00
read4	7.18×	16.08×	FAIL	+0.00
overwrite	5.00×	5.29×	FAIL	+0.00
addkey	1.26×	24.55×	FAIL	+0.00
inherited	1.23×	34.63×	FAIL	+0.00
method	55.88×	371.45×	FAIL	+0.00
read1_hoisted	3.45×	5.49×	FAIL	+0.00
read4_hoisted	9.51×	16.60×	FAIL	+0.00
inherited_hoisted	1.27×	20.79×	FAIL	+0.00

Per-cell diff: 0 regressed, 0 voided, 0 diverged, 0 improved across all 234 cells.

Why nothing moves, and what would

This is the result the step-1 pricing on #10502 (comment 5764061024) predicts. The
receiver-kind probe cascade that making native handles ordinary objects is meant to shorten is
0–2 instructions on every non-method cell of this matrix and appears only in the two method
cells that fall off the compiled path (794 and 399 instructions). And this PR changes the
perry/tui handle family specifically — a receiver kind no matrix cell constructs. So there is
no cell here for it to move, by construction.

That makes this run a no-regression gate, not a measurement of the win. The place to see
step 1 pay off is a degraded method call on a receiver that previously ran the cascade —
method / param / cctor is the matrix's instance, where the cascade is ~794 of 2,183
instructions — once the handle families it probes for are ordinary objects too.

proggeramlug · 2026-09-22T04:48:28Z

Landed on main in merge train 254 (#10930, a022cf2e41, released as v0.5.1634) — your commits are on main verbatim; the train cherry-picked them rather than merging this branch, so GitHub cannot mark it merged. Closing as landed, not as rejected.

Two things were fixed in the train: the diff was never cargo fmted (it failed cargo fmt --all -- --check, a required lint step), and its changelog fragment was renamed to the PR-keyed changelog.d/10915-honest-handle-tag-tui.md.

I also verified the covered_elsewhere root-holder verdicts by hand rather than taking them from the JSON: tui::handle_object::scan_tui_handle_roots_mut really is reached from object::scan_object_cache_roots_mut, which gc/mod.rs registers via reg_scanner!, and the scanner is pure — it walks eight slots through the same tls_hot::HotKey accessor main already uses for the timer prototypes, with no allocation and no lazy realm materialisation.

The train was validated as one tree: all ratchets, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings, cargo audit (0 vulnerabilities), the 83-gate run_lint_gates.sh (only the known-red public baseline failing), 6,679 unit tests + 1,150 CLI tests + 8 acceptance tests with zero failures, both compiler-output regressions, the repsel census, and a 174-test gap sweep with no unexplained regressions. Artifacts were pinned by sha256 before the test phase and still matched after it.

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style: rustfmt the perry/tui and null-stub changes (#10915, #10924)

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fix(runtime): AsyncResource and AsyncHook are ordinary objects — JSON.stringify gave "" for a header-less Box (#10926, direct half) #10952

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Per-family checklist — all six rows

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One thing this PR corrects in the root-holder manifest

What this family retires from the receiver-kind probe cascade: nothing, and that is the point

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Acceptance-matrix verdict: no cell moves — as expected for step 1, and here is why

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